The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-23 00:00:00

FUNERAL OF Ni; POLEON.

A Diorama was opened yeSt-erday at St. Jam&s•.strcet,
rn the building fornierly called the S. James's 153.7aar,
rug views of the funeral of the Emperor at the Hotel
,25 loYalidei. They are painted by four French gentle.
ten. painters to the Royal Academy of Music at Paris,
: nt' also to the Government, who employed them for
i ceremony of the funeral. Tne Diorama consists of
four representations—the Esplanade and the Court-
and of the Inralides, the Funeral Car, and the Int.rior
` the Chapel. The effect is very impressive. The
Chet assemblage of troops—the numerous dignitaries of
ul'ell and State—the eld worn-out warriors ranged
ea.l6 side—the King, at the heal of the Ministers,
:"ancitio -before the coffin—the Prince de Joinville
eBlgaing ttle sacred trust to his father—and the vast
ih;s4l m
speators assembled within the vicinity of
to magaifieent building, with its venerable dome
ti "ring above the gorgeous pageant, combined with
effect
ree‘lk•etions of :be man of the age—produce an
aect altogether of grerct. interest. The work in general
's well executed, but the light is defect' re, and the in-
t between each representation arc tediously long.
some impatience was evinced by the spectators on this
eoulll. • and the coed:
Ictors of the Diorama, therefore,
wouL,
iu consult their own i,,terest by shortening the time
°f the representation at leas: by one-half, and producing
o brighter light, like that use d in the dioramas at Re•
Zeiatis Park, With some alters: ions of this kind the
44itiou would become an object 4.4 general attraction.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS

L FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY.
( From the Globe.)
The County Courts Bill seems to have produced
' considerable consternation among the lawyers, who
view in its proposed facilities for the recovery of smell
debts a fearful diminution of those costs ef suit with
the accumulation of which their own ingenuity is dis-
pleyed, and their pecuniary advantage promoted.
Pamphlet?, large and small, denouncing the measure as
fraught with injury—not, of course, to themselves, but
to the public—are daily making their appearance ; and
it the measure could be endangered by a mere weight of
paper, many reams of which have been alrea:ly spoiled
in setting forth its supposed poxers of mischief to the
suitors it proposes to relieve, we should certainly enter-
tain small hope of seeing it rise irr_f net with life and
energy, from the mass. Happily for the safety of the
measure, the arguments employed against it are few and
feeble. With one exception, the writers have been
unable to keep their own secret but have disclosed the
real cause of their enmity to the Bill—the motive which
impelled them to rush into the arena with such deter-
mined zeal for the public interests. Their cra't, from
which they derive their wealth, is pieced in jeopardy.
For the purposes of securing justice to individuals in
their pecuniary trarnaetions with each other, it is essen-
tial that the means of coming at justice should be cheap,
expeditious, and certain ; and to accomplish this, the
tribunals ought to be near at hand, easy of aceges, and
equally open to the poor as to the rich. The mode of
process should be simple, and perfectly intelligible to the
meanest capacity, unclouded with mysteries • and un-
perplexed with forms. In short, the law, the instru-
ment of justice, should familiarize itself as the 'well-
known friend of every man ; and the consequence seems
natural that every man would be a friend to justice, and
to the law as its chief minister. Contrast this descrip-
tion, which the common sense of every man teaches
ought to be realized in the existing system of juris
prudence in every country, and especially in such an
empire as Britain, with that which actually exists, and
he will find that in every part the discrepancy is painfully
apparent. Hence those who have had to reek justice
through the necessary forms have never been heard to pro-
nounce eulogies on the Courts, hist have been the loudest
in denouncing the system. But the number of these
persons has been comparatively small. Each person has
sustained a peculiar, isolated interest, which is almost
detached from the sympathies of society. In a case of,
injury or oppression, resulting from the delay and ex-
pense, amounting to a denial of justice, the complaints
of the injured individual have been too feeble to excite
attention. The powerful interests opposed to an ame-
lioration of ,the system have deterred governments
which felt no sympathy with the. people from stir-
ring those powerful interests against themselves, by
proposing a change in the law ; hence the mischiefs have
been suffered to remain and to accutnulete, notwith-
standing the remonstrances, petition?, aid complaints
which have been addressed to the Legislature, and
urged upon the Executive, for an alteration in the
system. This Bill, for the more ready recovery of
small debts, is therefore not among time smallest of
the benefits which the present Administration has sought
to confer on the country, in the face of powerful oppo-
sition to improvement.
(From the Standard.)
That a law which eclemnly stigmatises poverty as
a crime, must make the mass less compassionate, can
scarcely be doubted. Unthinking men—and the mass
is composed of such—will too readily take the
evidence of the Legislature as conclusive against
the claims of their suffering fellow-creatures. It
is dangerous to supply men with arguments for
keeping their hands and their hearts shut ; we all have in
our own breasts too active and powerful an advocate on
the side of such arguments. Again, to treat any class
of our falow-creatures harshly is a good means of pro-
voking them to merit larch treatment. We hear much
now of the insolence of the poor which we did not
use to hear ; but insolence rarely extracts aim?. Add
to this the tendency of fear to render men selfish.
Hitherto the most bounteous almsgivers have not
been t'.e most afflueet, but the class of persons suf-
ficiently humble in rank to know and to appre•
elate the sufferings of their nighbours. Tire terrors
of the new law must harden such persons into avarice.
On the whole, the-efore, we should say there can
oe latle douft that the effect of the New Poor-law has
neon to diminish the amount given in alms by the gene-
rarty. On the other side we admit that the new
law has been a severe drain upon the generous end con-
siderate. Thousands of such we know discharge to the
aged and helpless a debt fairly due by the public. As
far as they are concerned, the law operates as a heavy
tax upon kindness of heart and Christian feeling.

SUDBURY ELECTION COM-

MITTEE

(Continued from The Sun of yesterday.)
Mr. Sergeant WaANGHAM replied, and commented at some
length upon the discrepancy in the evidence of Acland, the
witness, examined that day, and the evid. nce of the witnesses
examined on Saturday. He contended that the election was
virtually at an end, when Mr. Purr rose to pro-
pose Mr. Bagshawe as a candidate, and, therefore,
he could not legally take any notice of that nomi-
nalion. It was admitted, on the other side, that pre-
viously to Mr. BagshaWe being put in nomination, the
Mayor had commenced his declaration, and that he was corn-
pe.led to desist solely from the interruption of Mr. Acland. If
that were so it was clear that all the proceedings had been
gone through, and that the Mayor had made up his mind, and
was about to announce the result. No nomination after that pe-
riod could be of any value, and [if, indeed, Alderman Purr had
proposed Mr. Bagshawe, why had he not remonstrated with
the Mayor on the impropriety of declaring Mr. Tomline duly
elected without taking a show of hands? Why had there been
no remonstrance on the part of the alleged seconder ? It was
unnecessary for him to dwell further on that part of the case,
in order to show the Committee that the Mayor could not
legally take cognizance of a nomination made under such cir-
cumstances. The Learned Ccunsel was proceeding in his ad-
dress when it was announced that the Speaker was at prayers,
and the Committee adjourned till to-morrow at Eleven &Clock.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS' COURT, MARCIE 22.

BING OF HANOVER V. SIR H. WHEATLEY AND OTHERS.
In this case the King of Hanover was the plaintiff,
and Sir Henry Wheatley and Thomas Wood (execu-
tors of his late Majesty King William the 4th), the
Attorney-General, as representing the beneficial into.
rest of the Crown in the property in dispute, and Prince
George of Cambridge were defendants. The case came
on upon a motion on behalf of the defendants for a
commission to Hanover to cross-examine Mrs. Char-
lotte Beckendorff, aged 80, and Miss Sophia Beekendoz ffe
her daughter, who had already been examined by a
Commission on behalf of the august plaintiff.
Mr. JAMES WIGRAM, who appeared for the defen-
dants, and in support of the motion, st ited that the
property in dispute might be described as certain jewels,
said to be worth 50,000/., which were worn by her Ma-
jesty Queen Charlotte, when living, and whirl, upon
her death, went into the custody or possession of
George IV. Upon the death of George IV. they weet
into the possession of William IV. ; upon the death of
King William, when the Crownsof England and Hanover
became separated, the question arose to which of these
Crowns the jewels belonged. The Learned Counsel
st ited that the executors, having put in their answer
admitting the possession of the jewels, the plaintiff ob-
tained a Commission for the examination of witnesses at
Hanover, in which. Commission the defendants might
have joined, but they did not at that time
think it necessary to do so. Circumstances, however,
have since come to their knowledge, which made them
desirous of cross-examining Madame and Miss Beckon-
dorff, who had been for many years Maids of Honour
to Queen Charlotte.
Sir CHARLES WETHERELL (with whom was Mr.
Pemberton), appeared for the King of Hanover, and
stated that, after making a few observations, he would
leave the case entirely in the hands of the Court.
When Queen Charlotte's will was made, the German
character and the British character of the House of
Hanover were both united and consolidated in
the person of her illustrious husband, George the
Third. They continued united and consolidated
in the persons of George the Fourth and William
the Fourth, and those events which had led to
the succession to the British throne of the au-
gust and illustrious individual who now filled it led to
the corresponding event of another representative of
that august family filling the throne of Hanover. Then
came the time when, the two successions being sepa-
rated, the separate representatives of the House of
Hanover in its German character (clearly in his opinion
upon the will of Queen Charlotte) became the inheritor
of that valuable bequest of jewels. He s:iid " clearly,
because it ape eared to him that the British language,
celebrated at ell times, when properly used, for its
distinctness, could furnish no terms of gift
more clear than those which were contained is the
will. Her Majesty, by her will, presented these
jewels, of the Na4.lc of 50,0001., which were given to
her by the Kin upon her marriage to her husband
George the Third, and proceeded—" but if the King
should not survive me, or if he should unfortunately not,
previous to his death, be restored to a sound state of
mind, then, and in that case only, I give and bequeath
the said jewels to the House of Hanover, to be settled
Ilion it, and considered as an heir loom in the direct
line' of succession of the house as established
ttl'e laws ande constituLion of the Hoene
of Haoover." [hose were the words upon
which the humble individual who was then
addressees the Court, but some of the Zest lawyers of
the realm hal statestatethat the nature of the bequest was
ddre ss noting 6.113.
too distinct to become 9 subject of serious consideration
or doubt. lie supposed aet the other side meant to say
King George the Third did net make a special present
of them to Queen Charlotte, and of course if the
Queen had not a title to them her bequeet would be per-
fectly inoperative. Those were matters, liNvevcr, that
and by. He could aeleure the
would have to be decided by
Court that those who represented the King of Hanoeer
had not only recommended but practised the most con-
stant,
i
stant, incessant, and laborious diligence n placing the
Crown officers, and those who represented the interests
of the Crown of Great Britain, in possession of every
[ thing which could fairly and completely elucidate the
_ question as to the fact of that illustrious and ever to be