The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-03 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3.1841.

EDINBURt..,H, DEC.
CHAIR OF MUSIC.

The Senatus Aeademicus, at their monthly meeting on
SattirrOyi, postponed the .election of a Professor to the
Chair of yesterday. An adjourned meeting of
the Senatua w-as.aacOrdingly held at two. There were four
candidates proposed. Mr. Bishop was proposed by Pro-
fessor Christison ; seconded by Professor Jameson; Mr.
Donaldson by Professor G. J. Bell, seconded by Professor
Cheape; Mr. Wesley by Professor Brunton, seconded by
Professor Kelland; and Nr. Graham by Professor Na-
pier, seconded by Professor Hamilton. On the first di-
vision there were for Mr. Bishop 12, Mr. Donaldson 7,
Mr. Wesley 5, and Mr. Graham 2. On the second divi-
sion there were for Mr. Bishop 12, Mr. Donaldson 8, and
Mr. Wesley 6. On the final division there were for Mr.
Bishop 14, and Mr. Donaldson 8, the votes being as follow :
FOR MR. BtsuOr—Tiefessors Christison, Jameson,
Graham, Home, Traill, Pillans, Spalding, Henderson.
Syme, Low, Dnnbar, Munroe, Simpson, and Alison-14.
Fon Ma. DONALDSON.—Professors G. J. Bell, Cheape,
Chalmers, Ballingall, Welsh, Sir C. Bell, Forbes, and
Hamilton-8.
Mr. Bishop was then declared dul

ly elected. •
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TOWN COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS. -
Yesterday Baillie JOHNSTON gave notice that, at next
meeting, he intended to move " That it be remitted to
the Lord Provost's Committee to consider and deviio the

best means of counteracting the demoralizing practieeof
selling spirits and other intoxicating drinks on the
Sabbath-day throughout the city; to correspond with
the Sheriff of the county and Commissioners of Police
on the subject, and report." In doing so, he might
take the liberty of stating that this was just following
out a suggestion made by the Sheriff himself several
weeks ago, at a meeting of the Magistrates, Sheriff,
and Commissioners of Police, on the subject of Sunday
trading. He mentioned this because it had been said
that, in prosecuting Butters, the magistrates had attacked
the lesser evil and left the greater unnoticed. The fact
was, that for some time past the authorities had been
dealing in the most serious manner with the most serious
part of the charges; and he trusted that by next meet-
ing he should be able to bring under the notice of the
Council such facts as would call for the most serious
attention they, could give to them.
Mr. ROBERTSON said, that if Bailie Johnston had con •
tented himself with giving notice of his motion he (Mr.
R.) would not at present have said a word on the subject,
but as the Bailie had been allowed to address them, he
begged to say that as he considered this to be just the
commencement of a series of fanatical measures—as an
attempt to get up a hypocritical howl over the length
and breadth of Scotland, on the deSecration of the sab-
bath, he should give his most uncompromising opposi-
tion to the motion just brought forward. There was
not a country on the taco of the earth where the Sab-
bath was more reverenced than in Scotland, and in no
town more than in Edinburgh. He had observed, year
after year, .a marked improvement in the observance of the
Sabbath. If any one would just take the trouble to look
at the streets of Edinburgh on a summer afternoon, and
observe the profouria stillness which everywhere prevails,
he would be decidedly of opinion that there was no ne-
cessity for the enforcement of penal enactments, or the
imposition of any additional restrictions on the sub-
ject. Of course any obvious cause of offence, anything
to violate common decency, or any outrages upon public
feeling of that kind, he would be as anxious to put an
end to as any one ; but he should most decidedly oppose
all enactments which were directed against the poor.
While the interests of this class of the community
were constantly on the lips of a large number of indi-
viduals, it was a curious fact that the greatest part of the
legislation of the little Parliament here, as well as of the
great Parliament in London, went to abridge the little
comforts and luxuries which the poor enjoyed. He re-
peated that he was decidedly opposed to all penal legis-
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SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY. _

The transactions yesterday afternoon were trivial in
amount and importance, and do not call for any intro-
ductory remarks ; the only Derby bets laid were 400 to
50 against Col. Peel's lot, 225 to 25 agst. Col. Auson's
Attila, 230 to 10 agst Meteor and Palinurus, 1,000 to 33
agst Mr. Maher's Ballinkeele, and 200 even between
Palinurus and Nessus. The highest offer agst. Col.
Peel's Chatham was 12 to 1.
THE OARS.—Mr. Wilson's Sister to Yorkshire Lad
was backed for a poney at 12 to 1, and 25 to 1 would
have been taken about Lord George Bentinck's Topsail.
Mr. Etwall has purchased Passion of Mr. Sadler, and
she is now in John Day's stable at Danebury.
A Steeple Chase Match for 2001. each was run yester-
day, neat Finchley, between Mr. Elmore's Gay Lad
(rode by Mason), and Mr. Anderson's Crockby (Mr.
M`Donough), and won cleverly by the former ; the dis-
tance was four miles.
COURSING.
NEWMARKET CHAMPION MEETING.
CONTINUED.—WEDNESDAY.
Chippenham Field.—First Ties for the Champion
Stakes.—Lord Stradbroke's Magdalen beat Mr. Gillett's
Ganymede, Mr. Eaton's 'Fantail beat Mr. Dobede's
Douglas, Mr. Tyson's Fairy beat Mr. Bryant's Ella,
Lord Eglinton's Waterloo beat Mr.Fyson'sFake-Away,
Mr. Gillett's .Garcia beat Captain Daintree's King Cole,,
Captain Daintree's Knob beat Lord Stradbroke's Merry-
man' Mr. Ilagge's The Toad beat Mr. Dobede's Finesse,
Mr. Neale's Go-To beat Lord Eglinton's Chester.
"The Draws" for Thursday—Go-To agst Magdalen,
Fantail agst Knob, Garcia agst Fairie, The Toad agst
Waterloo.
The Consolation Stakes—Mr. Edwards' Antoinette
beat Mr. Bagges' Telegraph, Mr. Caldecot's Delia beat
Mr. Fryer's Dante, Mr. Moody's Rowena beat Mr. Batt's
Crucifix. •
Newmarket Stakes—Mr. Gillett's Gambler beat Mr.
Nash's Charley Boy, Mr. Inskip's Isa beat Mr. Ed-
ward's Arsenic.

DEPTFOItD MEETING (CornNnEn)—WEDNESDAY.
First Ties for the Cup—Mr. Agg's Aid-de-Camp beat
Mr. Biggs' Benham, Mr. Etwall's Westmorland beat
Mr. Goodlake's Gracelius, Captain Wyndham's Whirl-
pool beat Mr. Locke's Commissioner Lynn, Mr. Good-
lake's Gruel beat Mr. Biggs' Beaumont.
The Derby—Mr. Goodlake's Lambourne beat Mr.
Locke's Count de Leon.
First Ties—Mr. Goodlake's Lamborne beat Mr. Et-
wall's Will Watch, Mr. Biggs' Broadside beat Mr.
Bowles' Bagdad, Mr. Etwall's Eton Boy beat Mr.
Heatheote's Highflyer.
The Oaks—First Ties—Mr. Etwall's Excuse-me ran a
bye (Belissima drawn), Mr. Bigg's Beata beat Mr. Agg's
A ithea, Mr. Bowles's Bassora beat Mr. Locke's Lady
Godiva.

The Sedgehill Stakes—Mr. Agg's Asp beat Mr. Bigg's
Billingsgate, Captain Wyndham's Camilla beat Mr.
Heathcote's Holiday.
The Fisherton Stakes—Mr. Bowles's Boscobel beat
Mr. Heathcote's Holywood, Mr. Agg's Airy beat Cap-
tain Wyndham's Widgeon, Mr. Goodla.k,e's Gratitude
beat Mr. Heathcote's Hue and Cry, Mr. Biggs's Bentley
beat Mr. Locke's Boswell.

FRACAS AT BUCKINGHAM
PALACE. •
(From a Correspondent of the Post.)
On Tuesday last a long investigation took place at
the Board of Green Cloth,- before the Lord Steward of
her Majesty's Household, when nearly twenty persons
of the Royal establishment were examined, touching an
affray between Mr. Norton,. the Deputy Comptroller of
her Majesty's Household, and Mr. Francatelli, chief
cook of the Royal kitchen.
It is well known that broils, jealousies, and ill-feeling,
to a great extent, have been existing in the Royal es-
tablishment ever since the appointments (at the instance
of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex) of the Hon.
Charles Augustus Murray to the office of Comptroller
of her Majesty's Household. That gentleman, imme-
diately on entering office, caused many old and valuable
servants of the Royal Household to be pensioned, or sent
to the right about, in order to make way for a large num-
ber of French servants, who now fill some of the prin-
cipal offices in the Royal establishment.
Mr. Norton, by his judicious management, has done.
much towards allaying the ill-feeling among the ser-
vants, which this injudicious change, naturally created,
and, by his straightforward, manly conduct, has gained
the respect of those over whom he has had control.
Francatelli, on 'the contrary, has kept his department in
continual broils, which have been the cause of many dis-
missals and numerous complaints to the Lord Steward.
On Monday last Francatelli took an opportunity of in-
sulting Mr. Norton in the resence of all the Pages and
about forty others, when high words ensued, which ended
in a policeman being sent for to take Francatelli into
custody-, but lie managed to make his escape before the
officer arrived. The result of the investigation was the
suspension of)Francatelli until the matter shall be laid
' before her Majesty and his. Royal Highness Prince Al-
bert, when there is no doubt such measures will be
adopted as may prevent a recurrence of such disgrace-
ful proceedings.

We find th--'-----e following account of a trial before
the Criminal Court of Martinique, in the journals of
that island :—" Gorce, an estate in the Commune of
Sainte Marie,' had for several years sustained great
losses from numbers of oxen and mules being killed by
poison secretly administered. At length a fine and
healthy young,
Bonneville
negros ascertained to have been
sent byhe same means. In Janu-
ary on Bonneterre, the wife
f
Madamefe
proprietor, having a cold, took a cup
sedative;
of drink given to her immediately
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she complained of burning heat in her throat and
stomach, and, after lingering in torture for some days,
died, and, us it was afterwards proved, from poison,
which had no doubt been surreptitiously infused into the
drink. Some time elapsed, when a conversation over-
heard between Modesto, a negro, and Tassianne, a negress,
excited a suspicion that they were privy, at least to these
atrocious murders. Modeste, on being arrested, con-
fessed that he had killed the young negro, by giving him
verdigris mixed with meal of Manioeli, and declared that
Madame Bonneville Bonneterre was in like manner poi-
soned by Tassianne. They were both brought to trial
and convicted. Tassianne was sentenced to hard labour
for life
, and Modeste to thu like punishment for Mat"
years." h _
Within the last t ree weeks P.
in o-- acme serious frauds
have been committed
-.e Post-office of Glasgow or
Edinburgh, by t-,,1 creaking open of letters containing
bills °I. tank -drafts, and the abstraction thereof.
• For several years past the cultivators of the vine-
yards in and near Meaursault, hi the Cote d'Or, have, in
turning up their grounds found Roman tiles, fragments
of marble sculpture, figures in bronze and terracotta,
a small statue of Mercury, rings, medals, and coins of
gold and silver, and other relics of Roman art, on which
M. Rossignol, Conservator of the Archives of ancient
Burgundy, is about to present a report to the Commission
d'Autiquites of the department.