The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-16 00:00:00

FRIDAY EVENING, JUNE 16, 1848.

The Sub-Committee of Public Works has proposed
an amendment on the railway project as follows :
Art. I. Declares that the repurchase is of public uti-
lity. Art. 11. Authorises the Minister of Finance to
carry it into effcct. Art. 111. The repurchase will be on
' the following conditions, viz.:-Ist Class.—The rail-
ways of Paris to St. Germain, to Versailles (rive droite),
Versailles (rive gauche), Strasbourg to Bile, Paris to
Orleans and Corbeil, Rouen, Rouen and Havre, Paris to
frontier of Belgium with branches to St. Quentin, Calais,
and Dunkirk, Orleans to Bordeaux, Orleans and the
Centre. The shareholders of these lines shall be paid
after an average of the prices of the shares for twelve
months before the revolution of February, in stock, at
the average price of the same twelve months.-2d Class.
—The railways of 3lontereau to Troyes, Avignon .to
Marseilles, Amiens to Boulogne, Paris to Strasbourg,
Paris to Lyons, Tours to Nantes, The shareholders of
these lines shall bo paid on the same basis, except that
the average of the 18 months preceding the revolution
of February shall be taken. The shareholders who shall
not accept these terms shall be compelled to refer their
claims to arbitration, the amount awarded being always
payable in stock. The State to have immediate pos-
session.
in other respects the project is adopted.
The 5-sous banquet is postponed to the 14th July,
the anniversary of the taking of the Bastille.
It is stated in one of the journals that several of
the Paris friends of Louis NAPOLEON, whose counsel
is likely to have an influence on his mind, have re-
solved at a meeting, Which was
convened
for the
purpose, to advise him not to take his seat in the
National Assembly in the present excitement, but to
wait until the Constitution shall have been decreed.
The Executive Government, in order to satisfy
certain demands of trade and to develop labour in
Algeria, has made modifications in the import
duties on nankeen, loeking-glass, iron from the
metallurgic establishments of Algeria, and iodine.
And, in order to encourage the exportation of national
products, and thereby increase labour at home, the
Executive has further drcreed that, from the 15th
instant to the 31st December next, the premiums or
drawbacks established by existing laws shall be in-
creased 50 per cent., and that certain tissues and
thread shall on being exported receive a premium of
41 per cent.

The Committee formed to examine the Bill to re-
establish the practice of divorce has pronounced by

thirteen votes to four against the measure. The
whole Committee were unanimous in declaring
against the presentation of the Bill at present, on
the ground that the moment is inopportune. It
is supposed that the Government will withdraw the
Bill.

M. TITTERS has been elected also at Mayenne. The
following was the state of the poll at the close
Tineics
Ds LA BROISE
BEAUCHENE 5,864
CIIARTIER ..... •.. • • 3,120
BOLTER DESMORTIERS

Placards were yesterday posted all over Paris, re-
commending the election of M. CAUSSIDIERE as Pre-
sident of the Republic.
It will be seen from the report of the proceedings
in the National Assembly, that M. PASCAL DUPRAT
has given up the intention of putting the question of
which he had given notice to the Government, and the
Executive Committee not venturing to ask a vote o
confidence from the Assembly, is content to remain a
Government on sufferance. LAMARTINE and LEDRU
ROLLIN advocated the immediate resignation of the
Committee and the Ministers, but they were over-
ruled by GARNIER PAGES, ARAGO, and MARIE. It
is probable that they will be beat on some of their
financial measures, and will make the defeat the ex-
cuse for resigning.
It was reported that Lours NAPOLEON had arrived
in Paris, but he had not presented himself to the As-
sembly up to the hour the post left.
The Assembly met at half-past seven.
The order of the day was the interpellations to be
addressed to the Executive Committee.
M. Pascal Duprat ascended the tribune amidst marks
of borne surprise, as none of the members of the Execu-

Live Committee were present, and only ono Minister—
he for Foreign Affairs. " Gentlemen," said M. Pascal
Duprat, " the grave and important circumstances which
induced me yesterday to demand permission to ask for
some explanations from Government have become ex-
ceedingly modified—(Ah, ah!)—they in fact no longer
exist.—(Ah, eh!) In consequence, I have now to
declare that I renounce my intention of bringing for-
ward my interpellations."—(Loud laughter greeted this
declaration.)
M. Chabaud presented a proposition, declaring that
the export duties fixed by the Bill of June 2, 1839, shall
be abrogated.—To be developed hereafter.
The next order of the day was the discussion on the
Bill having for its object to declare the union of Algeria
to France.

successful :day for :us. About noon the enemy at-
tacked our outposts, and our men retired under a
heavy fire. I ordered my troops to take up a posi-
tion on the Duppeler heights; here the warm recep-
tion we gave the enemy arrested his advance. Be-
tween seven and eight I attacked him with my re-
serve. The village of Duppel was taken and re-taken,
but the enemy was obliged to withdraw his whole
line, and towards dark our troops occupied their posi-
tion of the morning."

Lieutenant-Colonel MORGENSTIERN was killed on
the sth, and General HEDEMANN reports the number
of his wounded as 199, brought into the hospital.
In the order of the day of the 6th, the Danish
commander says to his troops, " Soldiers, I thank
you. You have gloriously contended against the
enemy. At Flensburg you dispersed the insurgents;
at Schleswig you taught your enemy to respect you
by the courage and determination you displayed
against a superior force ; at Sundewitt you boldly
drove back the enemy; and yesterday you fought
like veteran soldiers, and his repeated attempts to
force you from your position were frustrated by your
resolution."

General \i'itANGEL's force, the Danish reports add,
amounted to about 7,000 men, to which must be
reckoned HALKETT'S division.

RUSSIA.

We translate the following from a letter which
appears in the Paris National of yesterday, and
which purports to have been written at St. Peters-

burgh :

"Every one here is expecting some great event, if
credit is to be attached to the reports in circulation, and
which there is every reason to believe are well founded.
The Emperor yesterday sent for the President of the
Senate, the principal dignitaries of the empire, the
bishop, and the ministers, and communicated to them a
project which he had in contemplation, for immediately
enfranchising all the peasants from personal servitude.
They would then be placed in the same condition as the
Poles, and the people in the provinces of the Baltic.
" The young Prince G - V--, who is very
popular at St. Petersburgh, warmly supported the
plan; but the hereditary Grand Duke, who was believed
to be of a weak and irresolute character, supported by his
' uncle the Grand Duke Michael and a great number of
important personages, insisted, with much firmness, on
things remaining as they now are, founding their argu-
ments on the danger which would arise from giving
freedom to men yet plunged in the lowest state of bar-
barism, and who have not yet received any of the advan-
tages of education; and that' on the eve of a probable
war any change of the kind would be impolitic. Not-
withstanding this opposition, orders were sent by the
Emperor to the civil and military authorities in the dif-
ferent provinces, to sound the feelings of the people on
the subject.
" Poland, although occupied by more than 200,000
troops, causes much uneasiness to the Government, and
it appears that it is resolved on to reconstruct that king-
dom. The question, however, is to know who shall be
placed on the throne. The Grand Duke Constantine,
the second son of the Emperor, has declared that be
would not accept it, and his name, moreover, reminds the
people of horrible atrocities.

- "The Emperor wishes to select his son-in-law, the
Duke de Leuchtenberg; but the principal Boyards, jea •
lous of the Duke (who is called amongst themselves M.
Beauharnais), warmly oppose it, and prefer the youngest
son of the Emperor, only now 17 years of age.
"All the Boyards understand with their master that
it is desirable to settle the affair of Poland as quickly
as possible, as it is the hot-bed of propagandism, the
ramifications of which penetrate by little and little into
the empire.
" When free on that side, the Russians may fall with
all their weight on the Danubian and Sclavonian pro-
vinces, which they have so long coveted.
"For some time past the Czar has spent whole days
and nights at his telegraph, the lines of which are
now established as far as Warsaw and the frontier of
Prussia."

ITALY.

NAPLES AND SICILY.

A body of '2,000 troops landed at Reggio on the
Bth. This insurgent population at Cossenza have
expelled the gena d'armes, who have returned to
Naples.

Advices from Sicily announce that the French Go-
vernment has acknowledged that of Sicily.
The American Commodore READ applied to the
Government for permission to winter in the harbour

of Syracuse. -
A deputation from the Sicilian Government had
been sent to Rome, who reported that they had
met with the most favourable reception from
the PorE, and that the Holy Father had expressed
his sympathy with the people, and advised them to
remember that they were making war not upon the
Neapolitan people, but on King FERDINAND.

proceeding or order of the Court relating to the trust
fund; thirdly, the amount of the stock, securities, or
money which he proposes to deposit or trarsfer, or to
pay into Court to the credit of the trust ; fourthly, a
short description of the trust, and of the instrument
creating it; fifthly, the name of the parties interested or
entitled to the fund to the best of the knowledge and
belief of the trustee ; sixthly, the submission of the
trustee to answer all such inquiries relatin,2; to the appli-
cation of the stock, securities, or money transferred, de-
posited, or paid in under the Act, as the Court may
think fit to make or direct.
" The Accountant-General, on production of an office
copy of the affidavit, is to give the necessary direction
for transfer, deposit, or payment, and to place the stock,
securities, or money to the account of the particular
trust, and such transfer, deposit, or payment is to be cer-
tified in the usual manner.

•` The trustee having made the payment, transfer, or
deposit, is forthwith to give notice thereof to the several
persons named in his affidavit, if interested or entitled
to the fund,

" Such persons, or any of them, or the trustee, may
apply by petition, as occasion may require, respecting
the investment, payment out, or distribution of the fund
or of the dividends or interest thereof.
" The trustee is to be served with notice of any ap.
plication made to the Court with respect to the fund, or
the dividends or interest thereof, by parties interested
therein or entitled thereto.

" The parties interested in or entitled to the fund are
to be served with notice of any application made to the
Court by the trustee, with respect to the fund in Court,
or the interest or dividends thereof.
" No petition is to be set down to be heard until the
petitioner has first named a place where he may be
served with any petition or notice of any proceeding or
order of the Court relating to the trust fund.
" Petitions presented and affidavits filed under the
said Act are to be entitled in the matter of the Act 10th
and 11th Victoria, cap, 96, in the matter of the particular
trust."

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS _DAY.)
The Master of the Rolls was occupied the whole morn.
ing with motions and petitions, it being the last day o
Trinity Term. Nothing, however, came before his Lord.
ship during the morning calling for a special report.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice-Chancellor of ENGLAND.)
CHAMBERS V. SIG GERS.
The VICE. CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning
in this case, directing an issue to try whether the bill in
question in the cause was or was not in the possession
of the defendant Biggers, on the 14th of November last.
The COURT then proceeded to hear motions, it being
the last day of Trinity Term.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
GEE V. PEARCE—JUDGMENT.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning
in this case, dismissing the bill, but giving the plaintiff
liberty to bring an action if he should be so advised.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor WIG RAM.)
His HONOUR, after disposing of the case of Richardson
v. Corbett, which related to a question of costs, pro-
ceeded to hear motions, being the last day of Trinity
Term.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
IN RE KNAPP.
This bankrupt had carried on business as a banker al
Abingdon, and to-day was appointed for his last exami•
nation.

Mr. Johnson, the official assignee, said that another
adjournment must take place, as the bankrupt had not
yet satisfactorily accounted for the deficiency of 3,0001,
which bankrupt said existed when he joined his father
in the banking concern some years since.
After a short discussion, his HONOR said that the case
must be adjourned at the bankrupt's expence ; the ad-
journment must be until after the vacation in September.

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SECONDAIIIES'.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary POTTER.)
ICING V. SAUNDERSON.
This was an action to recover the sum of 391. odd.
The plaintiff is the landlord of a farm in Devonshire, and
defendant was his tenant. The demand was for grass,
fencing, &c., according to the custom of the country, and
for poor's-rates paid by plaintiff.
The value of the grass, &c. was proved, and also an
admission that defendant was to pay 401., but plaintiff,
by his particulars, admitted payment of 33/.
The SECONDARY held that plaintiff could only recover
for the difference, as although there was a count 'on an
account stated, there was no evidence—there was very
little doubt how the matter was, that the money had
been paid for the farm; but, legally, as only the value of
the grass was proved, the 33/. must be set against it.
The jury thereupon gave a verdict for 6/. 3s.
The other cases were withdrawn.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
A young man, named Phillips, was charged with
stealing a silver watch, the property of Mary Williams.
The prosecutrix said that, about eleven o'clock last
night she met the prisoner i❑ st. James's Park, and en-
tered into conversation with him. He told her that he
was a comedian, and had a right of admission to every
theatre in London. He proposed that they should go to
one of the theatres, and they went towards ono of the
gates of the park with that view. On the way he in-
formed her that he was a single man, and wished to get
married, and if she would eonsent he would marry her.
She agreed. They went to several public-houses. They
agreed to take a lodging, and they accordingly went to
a house in George-street, St. Giles's, where they re-
mained for a considerable time. When they were
about to go away, the prisoner took up her watch
from a table on which she bad laid it, and
said he wad going to see a friend, and he would like to
wear it. She endeavoured to get it back from him, but
he would not give it up, but left the place with it in his
hand. She followed him, and ha " led her about "
through all the narrow lanes in the neighbourhood till
four o'clock in the morning, when they met a policeman,
to whom she gave the prisoner i❑ charge. They had
met several men, to whom she would have spoken but
that the prisoner threatened to blow her brains out if she
did. The policeman found the watch upon him.
The prisoner said that the watch was his own property.
Mr. JARDINE remanded him, in order that evidence
on this point might be given on both sides, and that the
police might make inquiries about some trinkets and
duplicates that were found on the prisoner.