The Sun.
London, England, 1848-07-25 00:00:00

PRUSSIA.

The Committee on the Constitution have deter-
mined that the Houses ere to be convoked yearly by
the KING ; in the event of the death of the Sove-
reign they are to meet ten days at the latest after
his demise. From the death of the KING to the
swearing to the Constitution by his successor or the
Regent, the Ministers are collectively to execute the
royal power.

The KING will in future be not styled King of
PRUSSIA, but KING of the Prussians; and the ex-
pression " by the Grace of Gon" is to be used no
longer. The coins of the reign of FREDERIC 11. bear
the inscription " Frederica Borussorum Rex."

DENMARK
AND THE DUCHIES.
A letter fromAppenrade of the 20th says—
" To•day a prolongation of the armistice, for three
days' tranquillity (to the 23d), was agreed upon. It is
further stated, that there will be another prolongation
of the armistice for three days, if nothing positive has
been effected by the 23d.

"A document has been drawn up and communicated
to the members of the Stock Exchange, at Stettin,
showing the loss sustained by that town alone, from the
war with Denmark. The calculation is nearly as fol-
lows I—Value of goods on account of Stettin embargoed
at Copenhagen, 502,705 r.d.; value of goods i❑ 89 ships
detained in neutral ports. 1,273,000 r.d ; value of ships
embargoed or detained in neutral ports bulong:ng to
Stettin, 919,000 r.d.; freight loss, 81,000 r.d.; total,
2,777,000 r.d.; to which sum must be added loss of inte-
rest, wages, supply, &c., calculated at 54,000 r.d. per
month. A surmise may be formed from this calculation
of the immense loss to which Northern Gei.nany is sub-
jected, and apparently will for some time be subjected,
from this most inauspicious war."

ITALY.

LOMBARDY.

The Piedmontese Gazette of the 20th announces
that the Piedmontese troops arrived at Venice on the
14th, and were received with loud cheers by the
people. They were to take possession of the city in
the name of CHARLES ALBERT. The first battalion
that arrived was one of the regiment Savona : eight
more were expected from Ancona.
The Venetian papers publish a convention be-
tween Lieutenant MARSHAL WELDEN and the Pro-
visional Government of Venice for the exchange of
hostages.
In consequence of the arrival of Austrian
troops at Ferrara, the Prolegate of Bologna, Count
BIANCIIETTI, immediately formed a committee of
war for the organiastion and mobilization of a military
force.

The Opinion ,: of Turin states from Casalmag:oto
that, on the 13th, a body of I,OOD Austrians attacked
800 Tuscans and Lombardians at about four miles
from Riveli. The engagement was obstinate on both
sides ; the Duke of GENOA commanded the Italians.
The result was not known. Accounts from Rover-
bella, of the 16th, state that the operations before
Mantua and Verona are still in progress, and that the
cannon of the Austrians is heard every now and then
directed against the works of the besiegers. On the
15th a person cooling from the Venetian territory
asserted that he had seen several dead bodies drifted
along the Canal Bianco and the Adige. This would
be a sign of a battle having been fought near Veronr
The blockade of Mantua by the Piedmontese troops
is nevrly complete.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Esq., after a sojourn of
eight months in this country, took his departure for
America, o❑ Saturday last, from Liverpool, in the now
steamer Express.
A QUAKER EXPELLED FOR PAYING TITHES.—Mr.
Jelico, a Quaker, having, as agent for a number of per-
sons in Kilkenny and Tipperary, paid the tithe rent
charge to the various incumbents on the properties under
his control, has been expelled by the society. Mr. Jelico
caused application to bn made to the Court of Queen's
Bench last week for a mandamus to compel the Society
of Friends to restore him to their body. The Court
held that it had no jurisdiction.

IMPERIAL PARLIA MENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

Their Lordships assembled in their legislative capa-
city to-(iay shortly after one o'clock, in order that the
Royal Assent might be given by Commission to the
Bill which the Government have brought in, and carried
though both Houses, for the purpose of putting a stop
to the proceedings that have lately taken place in Ireland.
ROYAL COMMISSION.
Shortly after one o'clock, the Lord Chancellor, the
Earl of Minto, and Lord Campbell, robed as Lords Com-
missioners, entered the House, and took their seats be-
low the Throne ; the Commons were then summoned to
the bar, and the Royal assent was then given in the usual
form to

THE HABEAS CORPUS SUSPENSION (IRE-
LAND) BILL;
The London and Blackwall Railway (Connecting
Branch) Bill, and
The Edinburgh and Northern Railway (Boscobie,lielty-
head, and (xlencraig Branches) Bill.
The Lords Commissioners then bowed to each other
and retired, and the House resumed the hearing of ju-
dicial business.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock.
WINDSOR IMPROVEMENT BILL.
Colonel REID presented a petition from Windsor in
favour of this Bill. -
Lurd MORPETH stated, in reply to Colonel Salwey,
that the Bill was demanded by a majority of the inhabi-
tants of Windsor, and that it would be of great public
advantage.
Colonel SALWEY hoped the Noble Lord would not
proceed with the Bill in the thin state of the House. An
important public path, used from time immemorial,
would be closed, and much public inconvenience would
result from the passing of the Bill.
Lord MORPETH admitted that one of the public
paths would be closed, but in lieu of it, a large part of
the Home-park, hitherto shut up, would be thrown open
to the public.
Colonel REID contended that the people of Windsor
would be much convenienced by the Bill.
Colonel SALWEY went on to state that when the
great improvements made during the reign of George
the Third were effected, the path in question, which ran
directly under the walls of the Castle, and was, there-
fore, some inconvenience to the Crown, was diverted to
its present course. If it were closed,the people would not
be able to get to Hatchet so easy a a they did at present.
Ile moved that the Bill be read a second time this day
six months.
Mr. MART, rag a great admirer of Shakspere,
trusted the Noble Lord would not proceed so hastily
with the Bill.
As the amendment was not seconded it fell to the
ground.
The Bill was then read a second time.
POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES Nets 2) BILL.
Mr. BULLER proceeded to move the second read-
ing of this Bill. No anxiety for legislation at this
late period of the session had induced him,
he assured the House, to introduce four Bills at
this late period of the session.—(Hear, hear.) With
but half-a.year's experience in his office, he should not
have introduced these Bills, but he assured the House
that nothing but urgent necessity had induced him to do
so. An important Act passed last session expired in
October, and it would not be well to let it expire without
providing for the continuance of its principles, seeing
that they had worked well. He meant Mr.
Bodkin's Bill for the removal of the poor. In
1846, as the House would remember, an im-
portant Bill was passed with respect to the
removal of the poor ; but it could not be denied that it
had led to much shifting of burdens, yet its effect was
to equalise better than heretofore the division of the
support of the poor. The burdens were not borne in
many places with great forbearance. A Committee
some time ago was appointed, of which he: was the
chairman, and that Committee, though it considered
some details might be altered, yet they came to the
opinion that it was not expedient to alter the
principles of that Bill. They considered that
the area of these burdens should be enlarged.
The measure before the house embraced the principle of
a Bill introduced at the close of ,the last session by Mr.
Bodkin, whose absence he regretted. It would con-
tinue the principle with respect to the immoveable
poor, namely, making their support chargeable, not upon
the parish, but upon the union, and to continue the laws
respecting vagrancy upon the same footing as they now
stood. No matter was more difficult to deal with than
the question of vagrancy, but at the same time he
was prepared to say that great improvements might
be made. lie had indited a letter to the different boards
of guardians on the subject, instructing them to use a
wise discrimination, and to refuse relief where it was not
right to give it; and he was prepared to take the whole
responsibility upon himself. But there was another im-
portant matter in connexion with this, namely, the
charge of the relief of vagrants upon parishes. He found
that the parishes in which the workhouse, or in which the
residoace of the relieving-officer were situated, had a
great disproportion of the expenses thrown upon
them. Many parishes understood the tactics of
these things well, and contrived most ingeniously to
throw the burdens which they should bear upon their
neighbours' shoulders. In South Devon one parish
provided a house for the relieving officer which
was situated in another ; and the result was that
they got rid of much of the burden that would be other-
wise thrown upon them. He was fully persuaded that
the charge for tho maintenance of vagrants should be
made upon the union, because at present the overseers of
one parish voted against the overseers of another,
in order that they might get rid of their respec-
tive burdens, and continual excitement and ill-teel-
ing were the natural results. The funds, out of
which the expense of carrying these principles
into effect would be defrayed, would bo raised by
an equal contribution by the proprietors of all the
rateable property in the union. In this state of
things the questions they had to consider were—first,
should there be one equal assessment? or, secondly, the
old system of averages? Since the passing of the old
Poor-law Act the management of the parishes was
placed in the hands of the collective unions. Ile had
provided in the Bill for the payment of any debts that
remained in respect of the building of workhouses by
the collective parishes. The expenses of the clerk of
the board of guardians and the medical officers were
as much in the pauperised as the unpauperised
parish. For instance, even the most inde-
pendent workman sought medicine and from the
parish surgeon, because his means did not enable him to
discharge it. The same remark applied to the other
officers of the workhouse—the necessity of such persons
in the one parish was as necessary as in the other eihifi
showed that the entire charge should be made upots,ti#:
union. Much intolerable fraud existed, neve sili,9loo
..'"
deavours to reduce the average. Great:
existed owing to the system of clearance Adtepte.
in many parishes, many of whom net.e.teßnX,}:v,
convenient to support the poor out of thet4ntes, TM Lae:
much easier course of sending them aw heedless
their fate. Many parishes, inufordrere4tVlitt
rages, raised private rates----
rt
thye
of the
entireth e
was for these reasons that he wished to p
way no doubt great frauds had been periPaecteraatieldt. It
orptrueogp
poor out o
matters upotn
'on. After duo consideration and careful inquiry, he
an equal proper
rl
footing,
rate ubpyo upon supporting
uhnadi determined upon embodying this principle in the
Bill. These principles were—the support of the
establishment, the irremoveablo poor, and of va-
grancy out of an equalized union-rate.--(hear.)
The Bill could not be taken into consideration without
reference being made to its general principle, that of
substituting union for parochial rating. The Honour-
able Member was hero interrupted by the appearance at
the bar of the House of
Sir Augustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod,
who informed the Speaker that a Commission of the
Lords had been appointed by her Majesty to give her
Royal Assent to several Bills agreed to by both Houses,
and stated that their Lordships requested the immediate
attendance of this House in the house of Peers.
The Speaker then left the Che;r and proceeded to the
House of Lords, followed by several Hon. Member:
On his return, he informed the House that the Lords
Commissioners had given the Royrl. Assent to severe'
B'lls (for which see Lord.' report).
(LEFT SITTING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals end give sei oral
judgments. The Peers present were the Lord Chan-
cellor, Lord Brougham, Lord CampLill, the Marquis of
Westminster, and the Bishop of Hereford.
ZABIIER 1. FARIVIEr.
Their Lordships gave judgment in this case, affirming
the decision of the Court below with costs.
THE GREAT NUN CASE.—FULTIAN Y. rdtARTIIY.
Their Lordships also gave judgment on this important
case, which our readers will recollect was argued before
them a short time since upon an a7peal
from the decision of the present Lord Chancel.or of
Ireland. The original suit was ;nstitated in the Court
of Chancery in Ireland, for the purpose of obtaining two
distributive shares of one of the appellants, Mal.a
M`Carthy, and of a respondent, her sister, Catherine
M'Carthy, in the personal estate of their father, de-
ceased, Alexander M'Carthy, of Cork, merchant. The
appellant, Maria, had, with th© approbation of her
father, in 1828, become a nun, end professed of the
order of St. Ursula, at Black Rock, Cork, when
her father paid to that community 1,000/. for her
admission and maintenance for life. Next year her
sister Catherine adopted th© same course, and nr'd a
similar large sum to the convent. The father s pro-
e-deesheoefivleodo,otohoa/t.
Hpeertyhaatd h iten
d e ae
ht l
der me
no, u natee amounted tiot uwpews
the I,OOOL given on his daughters' r -imission to the con-
vent was intended to be their portion, having renounced
by their vows the world and all right of succession to
wealth. The Catholic superiors of the convent, Cecilia
Fulham and Margaret Lynch, advised them to assert
their clrim to two entire ("stributivo shores of the
100,000/ in the liish Court of Chancery. This the
heir-at-law resisted for the family generrly. The two
sisters had executed deeds transier.ing the' shares to
the two supeliors of the convent, which there was reason
t 9 believe were not made without the pressure and com-
pulsion of their religious " vow of obedience" tmon
taking the veil, and the Lord Chancellor acting on that
impression, decreed " That the Court off e, 'Lug to direct
an issue at law to try whether the two deeds of
assignment in the proceedings mentioned, beating
date the 29th day of December, 1843, end the 13th
day of Match, 1844, were executed by the plaintiff,
Maria M`Carthy, and the respondent, Catherine
M`Carthy, as tree agents ; and the counsel at
the bar for the appellants declining to t'ike
such issue, they having iusistc.l that, without any well

The further arguments on this part-beard case were
resumed and concluded to-day; and
The LORD CHANCELLOR intimated that their Lord-
ships would give judgment on the case on Thursday.

BANKRUPTCY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
IN RE BEADING.
This bankrupt was the proprietor of the Standard
Tavern and Albert Saloon, Shepherd and Shepherdess-
fields, Islington, and to-day came up to pass his last ex-
aminatior, which had been adjourned in consequence of
the accounts not being prepared on the last occasion.
Since the issuing the fiat the business has been carried
on under the management of ➢lr. Brading for the benefit
of creditors, under an order of the Court of Review, on
a petition for that purpose by the trade assignee, who
anticipated being able to pay off the mortgages, and
ultimately paying a dividend of 20s. in the pound.
The bankrupt passed without opposition.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
Ann Burns, a woman of the town, was placed at the
bar, before Mr. Bingham, charged with having stolen
from the person of Mr. Robert Cornvon, a gentleman
residing at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, a gold watch,
value 201.
The prosecutor said he was now stayino. at Anderton's
Hotel, but his real residence was at Newcastle-upon-
Tyne. About one o'clock this morning the prisoner
accosted him in the Haymarket. After some little con-
versation he consented to treat her to some wine,
after drinking which he went with her to a dark
place, where they stood some time. She then
suddenly called out " Here is somebody com-
ing" and ran away. He then put his hand
to his waistcoat pocket and missed his gold watch;
He pursued her, and accused her of the theft. She
said, " Oh, nonsense," and put her hand into his waist-
coat pocket and said " Here it is." He then found if
there. At that time a constable came up and he gays
her in charge.
Wells, C 1, said he took the prisoner into custody
about ten minutes after one this morning. He searched
the spot where the prosecutor and the prisoner had been
standing, and found the gold ring which had been cut
frost the watch.
The prisoner, in tears, denied the robbery, and
BEicaAm remanded her for a week.

MARKET NEWS.--(THIS DAY.)
COLONIAL
SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation con-
tinues heavy, and only 70 hogsheads have found buyers,
at prices fully is below those of this day week. There
have been no public sales of importance, owing to the
unwillingness of importers to realise in the present
unsettled state of the market. 150 cases Maroim, im-
ported in a foreign ship, have been disposed of
privately at 18s per cwt. The quantity of Bri-
tish Plantation landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 823 hhds 38 tierces 253 brls,
there were taken for home consumption 1,403 hhds 176
tierces, 404 barrels. The stock in the same place is
17,736 hhds 2,371 tierces, 4,310 barrels.
COFFEE.-667 bags 25 casks Plantation Ceylon were
chiefly disposed of by auction at steady rates, but 250
bags Native were withdrawn for want of buyers at pre-
vious prices.
Rum.—The quantity landed last week at the East
and West India Docks was 522 puns 135 hhds. There
were taken for home consumption 100 puns 10 hhds,
and exported 61 puns 82 hhds. The stock in the same
places is 17,182 puns 3,381 hhds.
RICE.-840 bags Penang at auction brought a further
advance of 3d per cwt, mid yellowish grain being dis-
posed of at 8s 6d to 9s per cwt.
SALTPETRE.--716 bags Bengal sold without material
alteration in value, 84t1 to 3d per cwt refraction, having
brought 24s to 26s 6d per cwt.
SPICES.-2,900 bags Black Pepper, and 330 bags
Pimento were offered by auction; the Pepper were only
about one-third realised at lid to 21d for ord to clean
sifted Sumatra, the remainder being withdrawn above
the market value. The Pimento were nearly all with-
drawn for want of buyers on previous terms.
TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 43s 3d for old, and 43s 6d for
new, per cwt on the spot, and Town 46s 6d.
TEA.—The market is quiet.

EAT IVIC.A.IItHETS.
SMITHFIELD.—OId Meadow Hay, 31 to 31 1 ss; New
ditto, 21 8s to 31 8s; Old Clover, 4/ to 51; New ditto,
31 10* to 41 10s; and Straw, 11 4s to 11 lOs per load.
Supply moderate, and trade

Old3l
lOs;M e aodlodwl Clover,ay, 4311 t o
41
io
1451 s
;;
New ditto,NCU;ow uitEtoß 21,LA18DIs0.s—t ot
o 4l ss; and Straw, 11 Gs to 11 103
per load. Trade rather dull, at the above quotations.
WHITECHAPEL.—OId Meadow hay, 31 to 3/15s; New
ditto, 215 s to 318 s; Old Clover, 41 to 51 ; New ditto,
318 s to 41 lOs; and Straw, 1/ 4s to 1/ lOs per load.
,Sizpply good, and trade dull.

COAL MA11.117:-----_yzsTEItDAT.
•Carr's Hartley ......... 14s Gd Hetton
'Last' .Adairs Main...., 12s Od Jonassohns-
d
14s 6d
Holywell Main ........ 14 Gd Lanibten ...... .......
Aco-th'Potitop .... ..... I iss Qd Shotten
I,orikinal Tanfield ...... 118_0 Stewart's ~ • l6s 3d
(dheugh ...... 12s 6d Caradoc :. .. . 155 3tl
. oor .... ..... 14s Gd Hartlepool 165 Od
•.1,7 ; elk Moor Butes... 12S Od fleugh Hall
.
Townley .................. 13s 6d Kelloe 155 Od
Wylarn ..... . ......... .. 13s 3d South Hartlepool
Wall's End. &c. Thornley
Bewicke and Ca......, 14s 9d Adelaide Tees
Hedley. 14s 6dlTees ..
Barton .................. 14s 9d'West Cornforth
Riddell's ...... 14s 3d
........ . 14s 9dlHoward's W. ff. Neth. 14s 6(1
Eden Main 153 6dlPowell's Daffryn Stm. 20s 3d
Lambton Primrose
Belmont lss 6cl Ships at market... 72.
Haswell l6s 6d
P.

ATAL ACCIDENT NEAR PUTNEY-BRIDGE.
On
Sunday evening an accident, which, we regret to state,
has resulted in the loss of four lives, viz., two males and
two females, occurred on the river Thames, just above
Putney-bridge. It appears that about a quarter to nine
o'clock, the unfortunate individuals were observed com-
ing down the river in a skiff, on the Middlesex side of the
stream, and when nearly opposite the Steam-boat Pier,
close to Putney-bridge, it being nearly dark and raining
fast, the boat struck against' or came athwart the chains
by which a barge was moored, and instantly upset, and
the whole of the party were immersed in the water, and
almost immediately disappeared. The drags were most
promptly procured, and every exertion used to find the
bodies; but full twenty minutes elapsed before the
efforts were successful, and then the bodies of the two
men were recovered, and immediately conveyed to the
Swan, Fulham, where several surgeons were in atten-
dance, but life was then quite extinct. Up to last even-
ing the bodies of the females had not been found. From
one of the sculls being broken in the blade, it is thought
that that might have led to the accident.
JOHN MITCUEL.—Our readers and the people of
Ireland generally, will be pleased to hear some authentic
information regarding this sterling patriot. The ac-
counts that have appeared in the newspapers are,
upon the whole incorrect. We are prepared to state,
upon the authority of a letter received in this city to-
day from the Catholic chaplain of Bermuda, the Rev.
Mr. M'Leod, that Mr. Mitchel is not subjected to
the usual convict severity; his health continues pretty
good, though his spirits are not the best, and he
labours under asthmatic affection, to which he had been
naturally much subject at home. From the day he en-
tered the hulk at Bermuda to which he is consigned, the
Rev. Mr. M'Leod writes that every Catholic and Irish-
man have been removed from .t.—Limerick Re cr,ter.
p ,

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the 17thnel inst , . BIRTHS.
Lieut at Cthvell-cottage, Exeter, the lady of
.- J. A Thompsor C. 8., of a daughter.
On the 20th inst., at I.lo'khern, the Countess of Leicester,
of a son and heir.

' 7RIED
On the 19th inst., at Sty.
James's. Church, Dover, Richard
Phelip-, of the Royal Artillery, to Charlotte Prences, eldest
daughter of the late Joseph De:afield, Esq., of 13ryunston-
square, London.
On the 20th inst., at St. George's Church, Hanover-square,
Viscount Duppl.n, eldest son of the Earl of liimaoul,
Lady Blanche Somerset, third daughter of the Duke of
Beat; rot t.
On the 20th ins..., at Wimbledon, Henry Oliver &mit,
Esq., to Ale,/ E';za, grand-daughter of John S:—.lo'ord, Esq.,
of Wimbledon.

DIED.
On the 21st inst., William J. Jacob, Esq., late princi gal of
the Acc:untant's office of the 13a^k of England, aged 7
On the 19th inst., aged 70, Mary, wife of U. R. Chadpell,
Esq., of Monchester.
lin the 20th inst., Maxi Alice, the beloved wife of Robert
Fowler, Esq., Lambi idge, Bath.
On the 21st ;rist., John F. Le Cointc Esq., of Upper 33E•(1-
ford-place

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being directed, the appellants were entitled to a decree
and it appearing to the Court that the deeds were not,
nor was either of them, executed by the appellant,
Maria M'Carthy, and the respondent, Catherine M'Car-
thy, as such free agents, but that, on the contrary, the
same were executed by them not of their free will, but
under the pressure and compulsion of the vow of obe-
dience' taken by them respectively on becoming pro-
fessed members' of the convent, and wherein they still
remained as such members, and under the obligation of
the vow, the Court declared that no relief ought to be
given by the Court founded on deeds so obtained, and
thereupon his Lordship did dismiss the appellants' bill,
with costs to be paid by the appellants Cecilia, Fulham
and Margaret Lynch, without prejudice to any other
suit which the appellant Maria M'Carthy, or the respon- •
dent Catherine M'Carthy might be advised to institute
as the next of kin of their father, Alexander M'Carthy,
deceased." From that decree the appellants appealed,
and upon that appeal their Lordships now gave judgment.
The Loaf) CHANCELLOR, after going at some length
into the case, stated his opinion to their Lordships to be,
that the suit in the court below was improperly framed,
inasmuch as two co-plaintiffs having inconsistent inte-
rests, could not join in a suit. He therefore re-
commended their Lordships to dismiss the bill
with costs generally, but without prejudice to
any party filing a new bill ; to reverse
the decree of the Lord Chancellor of Ireland so far as
it offered the direction of au issue, but to retain it so far
as it dismissed the bill of the plaintiff with costs.
Lord BROUGHAM and Lord CAMPAELL concurred
with the Lord Chancellor, and
The llousE ordered the decree of the Court below to
be reversed so far as it related to the issue, but retained
that part which dismissed the bill. The effect of this
discussion is to leave all parties in the position they
were before the bill was filed, but enable them to com-
mence their proceedings de novo, in an amended form.
THE PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW COLLEGE W. THE ♦TTOR-