The Sun.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

DERBY.

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FRANCE.

The Legitimatist representatives met on Friday
night in the rue de Rivoli, but separated without
adopting any resolution. The minority (286) as-
sembled on Saturday evening in the Palace of the
Council of State, to agree on the attitude they should
assume in presence of the attacks of the majority on
Monday. An elector of Havre has written to M.
Thiers, who represents that department, severely con-
demning the part he has taken in the Assembly.
Count Ladislas Teleki has published an address to
the Polish refugees on the death of General Been.
The Siecle gives the following notice of the mem-
bers of the new Cabinet :
" The new transitory Ministers all belong, with the ex-
ception of M. Schneider, to the different administrations
which they are called on to direct. No one of them is a
member of the Assembly. Gen. Randon is a good officer,
who made his military fortune in Africa. He long managed
the subdivision of Bona with a perfect knowledge of the
great interests which France had to protect in Algeria. M.
Vaisse also acquired his administrative knowledge in
Algeria. He is the son of a highly respectable merchant
at Marseilles, and became on terms of intimacy with Ge-
neral Damremont when that officer commanded the Bth
military division. When General Damremont went to
Africa, where, it will be remembered, he met his glorious
death, M. Vaisse was appointed to the post of Secretary-
General to the Governor of Algiers. Since that time he
has not quitted the administrative career, and has been
brought from the Prefecteur of the Nord to be Minister
of the Interior. M. de Germiny is Receiver-General of the
Seine-lefirieure. We do not agree with him in all his doc-
trines of finance and economy; but we cannot forget that it
was he who, after the revolution of February, took the ini-
tiative in a grand and generous idea, that of reconstructing
the Quartier Martainville, at Rouen. M. Brenier is a
chef-de-division at the Foreign-office, who has given
proofs of zeal and of intelligence in the exercise of the
functions which he has long filled; but M. Brenier will,
doubtless, remain the chief of his division; that is what
we hope may be the case. M. de Royer owes his for-
tune to the deplorable day of the 13th June. He acted
as Avocat-General at the trial at Versailles, under the
orders of M. Baroche. When the latter became Mi-
nister of the Interior, he yielded his post of Procureur-
Gdaf:al to M. de Royer. Now M. Baroche, by his fall,
serves his old protege more effectually than he had served
him by his elevation on the 31st October, 1849. M. de
Royer was not the precursor of the justice of the people
on the 24th February, and that circumstance makes us
hope that he will observe some degree of impartiality in
the direction of his department. M. Levaillant is the
least renowned of our rear-admirals; it is, however, said
that he possesses administrative habits which will find a
ready employment at the Ministry of the Marine. M.
Giraud is an ex•professor of the faculty of Aix. M. de
Salvandy appointed him Inspector-General of Public In-
struction; he was then a Ministerial Deputy. M.
Schneider is a very active manufacturer, and is director
of the mines of Creusot. He was also a Deputy of the
majority under M. Guiz)t, and took a very active part in
the financial movement which marked the last years of
the reign of Louis Philippe. As to M. Magne, the only
one of the members of the old Cabinet who survives the
fall of his colleagues, he remains Minister of Public
Works. We receive these new names with all the im-
partiality:we can feel. We shall make it a duty to forget
the previous conduct of such of the new Ministers as have
already taken any part in the politics or the affairs of
France. We shall judge the men by their acts."

DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES.
The Copenhagen journals publish a royal order,
according to which the natives of the Duchy of
Schleswig who are discharged from the Holstein
army and return to their homes, are not to be sub-
j to any molestation or persecution of any kind
for having borne arms during the last two years
against the King of Denmark; but this amnesty does
not extend to the officers who before the 24th of
March, 1848, were i❑ the Danish service, and have
since that date been in the army of the insurrectionary
G-.)vern men t.

On the night of the 221, a Danish patrol ap-
proached so near the outworks of the fortress of
Rend,:burg that it was challenged, and no answer
being given to the wer du of the sentinel, he fired,
and a Dinhh hussar fell mortally wounded. The
Danish outposts are now not more ;ban two English
miles from Rendsburg, but the communication with
the town from the north is not interrupted.

The disbanding of the Holstein army is proceeding
rapidly.
The Lithograpkirte Correspondez states that the
Danish Government has declared its readiness to pro.
ceed on the principles of the Federal resolution of
September, 1846, and that it has admitted the expe-
diency of acknowledging the superiority of the Ger-
man Confederation with respect to the Duchy of
Holstein.

SKETCH OF A PLAN FOR ABOLISHING THE
LAWS OF PAROCHIAL SETTLEMENT, AND
FOR PROVIDING FOR THE RELIEF OF
THE POOR IN ENGLAND BY A GENERAL
RATE.
It is premised that, for the illustration of the following
plan, its provisions .hall be considered as commencing
their operation in January, 1852 :
I. That the Law of Parochial Settlement be
abolished.
2. That the poor be relieved in the union in which
they shall be.
3. That the ordering and relieving of the poor in a
union continue to be the care of the guardians of that
union, under the direction and control of the Poor-law
Board, as now.
4. That the relief of the poor be provided by a general
rate.

5. That yearly, in January, the Poor-law Board shall
order n general poor-rate of so much in the pound as
in the judgment of the Board will raise the sum neces-
sary for the relief of the poor in England for the whole
current year, upon all the lands, tenements, and here-
ditaments in England included in Schedule B of the In-
come-tax Act, according to the assessment made thereof
by the Commissioners of Income Tax.
6. That such order be published in the London Gazette,
and issued to the guardians of each union, who shall
thereupon make an order on the overseers of each parish
for payment of the proportionate amount of the general
rats—sub.,ect, in every rate after 1852, to the increase or
diminution hereafter provided.
7. That the cost of relieving the poor in each union
during the year ending the 31st of December, 1851, or
the average annual cost of such relief during any longer
period, it such longer period shall be deemed more
equitable—shall be the standard of the annual cost of
the poor of that union, and shall remain the standard
until varied as hereafter mentioned.
8. That in the year 1853, and in every succeeding
year, the sum to be collected in each union shall be as
much per cent., more or less, than the general rate, as
the cost of the relief of the poor in the previous year ex-
ceeded or fell short of the standard.
9. That the census of the population he taken every
seventh or fifth year; and that the standard of each
union, fixed as aforesaid, shall be proportionally varied
whenever the
population of the union shall have in-
creased or diminished be
the census of 1851. yond or below a certain ratio of

ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SHIP•BIT ILDIN G.—THE
Sins' COUNTESS OF &AFIELD. The public journals have
been filled during the past month or six weeks with the feats
of the
un, Oriental, American ship, of 1,060 tons, which, in her
last r carrying a cargo of about 1,100 tons, made the pas-
sage from Canton to London in 98 days. At the time of her
arrival her voyage was contrasted with that of the Reindeer,
an American clipper, of 328 tons, which sailed from China
about the same time, b
vr-leh, with her copper hanging lose
about her, and ca-rying 500 tons of cargo, was only beaten
the passage from Anjer ; and also with that of
five days in
the John Bunyan,
another Aberdeen ship, which, in the pre-
vious spring, when perhaps more favourably situated as e-
gards the monsoons, made the voyage from Shanghae--thrree
days' sail farther than Canton—in 99 days, and which,
though re-,istering only 470 tons, brought about 720 tons of
‘..„.z0,, We havejust learned of another voyage made by an
Aberdeen built ship, which, at all events, equals, if it does
not surpass' that of this same celebrated Oriental. The
Countess cfSeafield—built by an Aberdeen firm, and C
corn-
mantled by
tin Leask; an Aberdeen captain—left Woo-
sung, about 11,1Sa00 miles farther up the country than Canton,
on the Bth
of October last, and arrived in the London Docks
on Monday afternoon,voyage in 102 days from port to port. The Countess of Sea-
field, which belongs to our enterprising townsman, Bailie
Adamson, registers 320 tonsierdeenJourn al.
and: brings a cargo of over
700 tons of tea and silk.—A
We have in our employ a
AN OLD PRINTER.—
printer, 76 years of age, who commenced his apprenticeship
of seven years in the King's printing-(ace, London, in 1784
-__l;4 years ago. Re was a soldier under Sir John Moore, at
corunna, in Spain, in 1809 where he received a ball in the
-..\: Vit.% f .1,1311§18 present at the burial of el John, and
~,
-tu -minutest particulars of the scene. Ile was
.also e eof Wellington through his whole cam-
paign, Tild 10-et On*licle-bone by a grape-shot in the battle of
IVaterlO'o,., - 111$ Vld man, after all his hard service, is still
one of the.awifteg, itnd best compositors we have ever known,
and, though lance from the wounds, is still able at "early
dawn and. dewrepe,'' while younger
men are wasting the
golden hours iii, sensual pleasures or snoring them away in
bed, to rambler the fields and through the woods in search
of ad flogs, which he forms tempting bouquets for
the belle; oT the villase, or to gratify the wishes of some
favourite little girl. It speaks well for the heart of the old
soldier that the chlldreh aU love higa:-..Blackatona Chronicle, i
United iBtiste4

SMOKE CONSUMPTION.
TO THE EDITORS OF THE LIVERPOOL MERCURY.

Gentlemen,—The Mercury having favourably noticed
my plan of smoke consumption, I trouble you with an-
other letter on that subject, assuring you that you need
not be afraid of the assertions made by any parties that
smoke can neither be prevented nor consumed. This I
deny in tote ; and fearlessly challenge both Mr. Ferni-
hough and Mr. Godfrey to prove the assertions they
made in the Health Committee, as reported in your
paper of last Friday. The former gentleman said he
was " certain smoke could not be consumed." Allow me
to remind that gentleman, in the first place, that you
are scarcely certain of anything in this world; and in
the next place, that his certainty is against the opinion
of all men who know anything on the subject. The latter
gentleman, Mr. Godfrey, I met some little time back in
the Exchange News-room. He there stated, before
several gentlemen, that the Mayor of Liverpool and him-
self were of opinion that smoke could not be consumed.
I told him then it could, and I would undertake to fit
up an apparatus at his brewery, on the principle of " no
cure, no pay."
Now, I care not if these two gentlemen be Town-
Councillors, but again tell them they know nothing cf
the subject, or they wilfully misrepresented facts, in
order to evade the penalty which might be imposed. In
order to prove what I say, I hereby publicly challenge
to apply my apparatus to either of these gentlemen's
fire-places, and if it succeeds I only ask a fair remune-
ration; if not, I will remove the apparatus and pay all
expenses. I may add, that in every instance where I
have applied my apparatus I have made a written agree-
ment to that effect, and shall be glad to show them to
any gentleman who may take the trouble of calling
upon me. . _

In conclusion, I beg to assure Mr. Rushton, and the
magistrates of Liverpool, that smoke can be consumed.
and that I am willing at all times that my plan should
be tested on the above principle.
I may here add, that I have applied my apparatus to
the public baths, Paul-street, and that the Corporation
has paid me for it ! Thanking you for the trouble
you have always taken on this subject, I remain
yours, &c. JOSEPH WILLIAM.
Windsor Cottage, Liverpool, Jan. 22, 1851.

I see by a report in last Friday's paper, that Mr. Wm.
Beattie was fined for non-consumption of smoke, and he
makes use of the words, " ours is Joseph Williams's
plan, which has been so much lauded by the Mercury."
Now, gentlemen, a very plain answer can be given to this.
The following is a copy of agreement with Mr. Beattie:—
" Windsor Cottage, Liverpool, Sept. 10, 1846.
" I hereby agree to fit my smoke•consuming apparatus
to one fire-place in your works in Warwick-street, and
one fire-place in your works in Grafton-street, for the
sum of twenty pounds each fire- place, including appara-
tus, right of invention, and superintendence; you finding
brick-setter and his appurtenances.
" The money, forty pounds, to be paid at the end of
one month's trial, if successful; if not, I take the appa-
ratus away at my own cost, and no charge made.

"JOSEPH WILLIAMS.
" I hereby agree to the above.—WiLuest BEATTIE."
By the above, you find I agree to take all responsibility
upon myself. The agreement is dated 10th September,
1846, and Mr. Beattie paid me on the 28th November,
of the same 3 ear, after having had nearly three months'
trial.

The aparatus gave Mr. Beattie satisfaction, otherwise
he would not have paid me; but now, after a lapse of
upwards of four years, Mr. Beattie makes so uncalled-for
an assertion.—Yours, &c.,

JOSEPH Wuxisms.

LATE SCENE IN A LIVERPOOL

CHURCH.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
Six,—ln The Sun of the 23d is inserted a para-
graph from the Liverpool Chronicle, detailing the
extraordinary scene which took place in St. John's
Church, upon the Rev. Mr. Falloon's narrating the
anecdote containing Dr. Hooper's reply to the Pope's
delegate, who is stated to have said in reply to Dr.
Hooper's question, " that when the bread is broken in
the sacrifice of the Mass, the body of our Lurd is
broken."

I have no doubt the paragraph alluded to will go
the round of the papers, and be considered by many
as a stroke completely demolishing the doctrine of
Transubstantiation. But unfortunately for the Rev.
Mr. Falloon, and those who so unbecomingly clapped
their hands in exultation, the answer stated to have
been given to Dr. Hooper, by the priest, is contrary
to the teaching of the Roman Catholic Church, and I
feel confident, never came from the mouth of a
Catholic priest. No Catholic, for a moment, imagines
that, when the consecrated Host is broken in the
Mass, the body of our Lord is broken. He knows
such is not the case. And yet we are told that a conse-
crated minister of the altar told Dr. Hooper such
was the doctrine of the Church. He must either
have been an imaginary creation of Dr. Hooper's
brain, or, as a Catholic (whether priest or layman),
totally ignorant of the subject. And why should the
statement of an individual be brought forward
against a Church, when such statement is actually
contrary to her teaching ? The doctrine of the
Church is, " That in the venerable Sacrament of the
Eucharist, the whole Christ is contained under each
species, and under every part of each species, when
separated," consequently when the consecrated Host
is divided into two parts, and under each part the
whole Christ is contained (according to the teaching
of the Church) bow can his blessed body be broken ?
I write these tremendous truths with an appreciation
of perhaps their unfitness for the columns of a news-
paper ; but if we are to be condemned, let it be for
what we are, not for what we are supposed to be.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
January 24. A CATHOLIC.