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London, England, 1846-03-19 00:00:00

NEW ORDERS IN CHANCERY.

A series of orders relative to the drainage of waste
lands, comprised in twenty-one clauses, and signed by
the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, has
just been issued. The preamble to these orders recites
that, by virtue of an Act passed in the Bth and 9th
Victoria, to alter and amend an Act passed in the 3d
and 4th Victoria, to enable the owners of settled estates
to defray the expenses of draining the same by way of
mortgage, it was enacted that, for simplifying proceed-
ings, and rendering the same inexpensive, it should be
iawful for the Lord Chancellor and Mager of the Rolls
to make orders and provisions for facilitatimg the mode
of application to the Court, and of proceedings before
the Master or otherwise. Now, therefore, it is ordered
by the Lord Chancellor and Master of the Rolls, that
all applications made pursuant to such Act and proceed-
ings thereunder, shall be made and conducted as follows:
1. Any person entitled to land withim the meaning of
the said Act, may present to the Lord Chancellor or
Master of the Rolls, a petition in the form set forth,
and to this order annexed.
2. The petitioner in any such petition is to mark
the same with the name of one of the Vice-Chan-
cellors.
3. The Master of the Rolls, in the case of any such
petition preserted to him and the Vice Chancellor, with
whose name petition shall be marked, may, upon con-
sideration of petition, and without attendance of coun-
sel, solicitor, or petitioner thereon, if he shall so think
.fit, make an order on such petition to the effect set forth
in a form of order annexed, or to such other effect with
such variations as circumstances may require.
4. The Master, to whom reference may be made, to
require proof of doed, will, or other i'strument, under
which petitioner claims to be entitled to the land, and
other manner in which he claims title under the same,
but he is not otherwise to require proof of title to the
land.

5. The Master, if he think it necessary, for due prose-
cution of references, may direct petitioner to serve any
other person interested with notice of proceedings, and
person so served may attend proceedings as party thereto,
but if he shall decline to attend, Master may proceed in
his absence, and he is to state the same in his report.
6. Mager to be at liberty to apply to the judges by
whom order was made, for special directions or leave to
state special circumstances touching the matters referred
to him ; and if he receives directions or leave, to state
the same in report.
7. Proceedings upon reference to be conduetcd ac-
cording to general rules and orders of the Court of
Chancery, so far as consistent with these orders.
S. Master's report to be filed in Report-office.
9. Any person interested in land is, within fourteen
days of filing of report, to be at liberty to petition Lord
Chancellor in case reference was made by him, or Vice-
Chancellor or Master of Rolle, in case reference was
made, that report be reviewed.

10. If petition be presenttd, judge, by whom refer-
ence was made, to take into consideration, and if he
think fit may dispose thereof either by dismissing same
or refer the matter back to Master, with or without
special orders.

- 11. Judge considering petition that Master's report
may not be confirmed, may direct person interested to
attend, and may, if necessary, direct same to be argued
by counsel in open court, or otherwise.
12. If reference back to Master is made, proceedings
to be as an original reference.
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13. If no petition that report be received is presented,
person who obtained rep.,rt may, after fourteen days
from filing report, present petition for confirmation, and
leave to make proposed improvements, and petition may
be in form to order annexed.

14. On pre,,entation of last-mentioned petition, judge
by whom references were made to consider same, and to
dispose thereof by confirming report and giving per-
mission asked, or referring matter back to Master, or
dismissing petition, as justice of case may require.
15. On consideration of last-mentioned petition, judge
may require attendance of persons interested ; and, if
necessary, may direct matter to be argued by counsel.
16. Order confirming report may be in form to this
order, also annexed.

17. Master, by whom report made, may, upon pro-
duction of order confirming the same, and giving leave
to make improvements, deliver to party who has obtained
order, certificate in form specified.
18. Certificates to be made in duplicates, and copy to
be filed in Report-office, and other copy to party.
19. Upon application of party to whom certificates
granted, Master may inquire what sums of money have
bean bona fide expended in making permanent improve-
ments in laud, as mentioned and certified to be proper,
in report, and defra) ing expenses in said Act mentioned,
and upon what terms as to interest and repayment by
instalments, money was advanced, and Master having
duly inquired into matter, and being satisfied, may make
endorsement on certificate to effect and in form in this
order set forth.

20. Endorsement to be made in duplicate, and one
copy to be written on parties' certificate, and the other
to be filed and annexed to copy of certificate filed in
Report-otlice.

21. All orders by Master of the Rolls or Vice-Chan-
cellor subject to be discharged by Lord Chancellor on
petition.

EUGENE SUE.

M. Eugene Sue, whose fictions are at present so po-
pular, was born at Paris on the 10th of December,
1804. The Empress Josephine and her son, Prince
Eugene Beauharnois, were his godfather and godmother.
The Sue family is very ancient, and has been established
for many years at Lacolme, near Cannes, in Provence.
It is still represented there by M. Sue, a retired officer
of high rank, and great-uncle to our author. The
majority of Eugene Sue's relatives have been physi-
cians of great celibrity. His great grandfather, Peter,
and his grandfather, Joseph, have left extensive ana-
tomical works ; and to them the French medical
school owes the introduction of the pathology of
Gaubius, which succeeded that of Boerhaave. Joseph
and Jean Joseph both graduated at the Edin-
burgh University, and make known to their countrymen,
in numerous translations, the works of the Scotch
school of medicine. Our author's father was chief phy-
sician to the Imperial Guard in the Russian campaign,
and has also published several popular works. Imme-
diately after the restoration, he became the King's phy-
sician, and lived in intimate friendship with the Empress
Josephine, Franklin, Massena, Moreau, and all the great
personages of the Consulate epoch. He made a gene-
rous bequest to the Academy of Fine Arts of a magni-
ficent collection of comparative anatomy, and objects of
natural history, formed in his own family by four gene-
rations of physicians, and which constitutes a gallery in
the Palace of the Fine Arts of great value. Eugene
Sue himself, according to the wishes of his father, en-
tered upon- the medical career. He was surgeon at-
tached to the military suite of the King ; then to the
staff of the army in Spain in 1823 ; and also in the
same campaign, to the seventh regiment of
artillery. He was present at the siege of Cadiz, at
the taking of Trocadero, and at that of Tarafa. In 1824
he quitted the land for the naval service. Ile made se-
veral voyages in the Atlantic ; and having traversed the
West Indies, he returned to the Mediterranean, visited
Greece, and in 1828 was present in the ship Bresliau at
the battle of Navarino. On returning from his campaign,
he renounced the navy and medicine, and took up his
abode at Paris, where, thetas to the handsome income
he enjoys as a paternal inheritance, he was enabled to
lead a life of brilliant happiness. His favourite occupation
at this time was painting, which he studied at his friend's
the celebrated Gudin. The idea of turning novel writer
was not thought of by Eugene Sue till 1830, when an old
comrade of the artillery happened, in conversation, to
remark that as "Cooper and Marryatt had made the sea
romance popular, he ought to write his recollections, and
create the maritime romance of the French." This
pleased our author. He quitted the painting-brush anti
took up the pen. His first work was "Kernock the
Pirate,' the success of which caused him to continue to
write, following the dictates of a lively and fertile fancy.
Thus appeared in succession numerous works, which
may he arranged in the following order:—Sea Romances,
Kernock the Pirate, Flick and Pluck, Attar Gull, the
Salamander, and the Watch Tower of Koatvere Mari-
time History—History of the French Marine under
Louis IV., and abridgement of the military marine
of every people. Historical Romances—Latreaumont,
Jean Cavalier, and Letorieres, the Commander
of Malta. Romances of Manners Arthur, La
Concaratcha, Dylcy tar, L'Hotel Lambert Ma-
&c., Philosophical and Political Romances
—The Mysteries of Paris, the Female Blue Beard,
and the Wandering Jew, a tale of the Jesuits. Dasamar
Latreumont, the Pretendress, and several others of great
effect, produced in concert with Messrs. Dinaux and Le-
gouve. M.Eugene Sue at present inhabits, in the heights
of the Faubourg St. Honore, a little mansion covered
with creeping plants and flowers, which overarch the
peristyle. A fountain plays in his most beautiful of
gardens, in the midst of rocks and sea plants, and a long
close gallery, walled in with sculpture and plants, leads
from the house to a little outer gate quite hidden under
an artificial rock. The inferior of the houses
composed of very small apartments, somewhat
confined, and rendered obscure by the flowers
hanging down the windows. The furniture is
crimson, with golden nails ; the sleeping apartment
alone, is lighter, and of a blue colour. There is scat-
tered about a little ofevery style—Gothic, Renaissance,
Fantastic, and French. The walls of the drawing room are
hid by works of art, painting, and sculpture, various cu-
riosities, family portraits, masterpieces, and works of
modern artists, his friends. Glorious names shine in
every part—Delcroix, Gudin, Isabey, Vernet, &c. A
drawing of Madame de Lamertine, and some verses
of the illustrious poet occupy a conspicuous place.
One picture in partiaular has a privileged situ-
ation upon canvass, in the midst of the co-
quetries of the drawing-room. It is an anchorite
of Isabey, of terrible effect, forming a remark-
able contrast in that little temple of luxury. The favourite
horses, dogs, &c. of M. Sue are the subjects of the ma-
jority of the remainder, painted either by himself or by
M. Alfred Dedreux. In all these we detect traits of
character, a passion for luxury and strong emotions,
with a reaction towards retirement and meditation, en
enlightened taste for the fine arts, and a love of animals
and plants. Among the many autl. ors who may be
termed successful, few have attained a popularity so ex-
tensive as Eugene Sue.—Correspondent of Glasgow
Examiner.
E.

INTELLIGENCE.—During the time of the mis-
sionary meeting held in Queen Anne's-street Church, on
Sabbath evening, the 7th instant, the news arrived of Sir R.
Peel's majority of 97 for free-trade. A gentleman, anxious
to learn the result of the division before he went to church,
waited the arrival of the post, and as soon as lie heard the
amount of the majority, he went to church, and banded to
another gentleman on a slip of paper the announcement of
Peel's majority. The card, during the time of the delivery
of a very excellent missionary address, was handed through
a considerable number of the congregation.—Fffeshire
Journal.