The Sun.
London, England, 1869-12-10 00:00:00

Er.HE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, i DECEMBER 10, 1869

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BESLEY, Mayor.—A Common Council, holden
in the Chamber of the Guildhall of the City of Lon-
don, on Thursday, the 9th day of December, 1869.
Resolved unanimously—
" That a dutiful and loyal address bo presented by this
Court to Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen, to con-
gratulate her on the safe delivery of her Royal Highness
the Princess of Wales, and the birth of a Princess."
Resolved unanimously—
" That compliments of congritiulation be presented by
this Court to their Royal Highnesses the Prince and
Princess of Wales on the safe delivery of her Royal High-
ness and the birth of a Princess."

WOODTHORPE.

ROYAL E XCIIANGE ASSURANCE
OFFICE,
ROYAL EXCHANGE, LONDON.

24th Ncvember, 186 g.

The Court of Directors of the Corporation of the Royal Ex
change Assurance do hereby give Notice, that their Transfer
Books will be shut from TUESDAY, the lath of December next,
to TUESDAY, the 4th of January following; that the annual
General Court appointed by their Charter will be holden at
their Office, on the Royal Exchange, on WEDNESDAY. the
22d of December, at Twelve o'clock at Noon; and that a Divi-
dend will be considered of at the said Court.
ROBERT P. STEELE, Secretary.

THEATRE -ROYAL DRURY- L ANE.
,tole Lessee and Manager, Mr. F. B. chatterton.
Tine EVENING. at 7, BELLES OF THE KITCHEN. M 8,
FORMOSA : Messrs. Barrett, II Irving, David Fisher, Brittain,
Wright, John Rouse; Mrs Millington, 31 loses M. Brennan. Mac-
donald. and Katharine Rodgers. Conclude with BORROWED
PLUM LS

THEATRE-ROYAL, HAYMARKET.
'curs 14;vs211sa. at 7 o'clock, FAMILY JARS. A fter which,
EW MEN AND OLD ACR KS: Mr Buck-atone. Concluding
with A DAUGHTER TO MARRY.

THEATRE-ROYAL, ADELPHT.
THIS EVENING, at 7, TOE LONG STRIKE: Mr. Benjamin
Webster, Mr A. Stirling, Mr G. Belmore, Mr J. G. Taylor, Mr
liignold Nil- s Furtado, &c. Followed by LOST AT SEA: Mr
G. ttelmore, Mr A. Stirling, Mr Atkins, Mr W. Rignold, Mr C.
H. Stephenson, Miss R. Leclercq. and Mrs L. Murray.

GLOBE THEATRE-ROYAL.
THIS r.VENIII4, at 7, A HOUSEHOLD F kIRY. At 7.!5,
NOT sIICII A FOOL AS HE LOOKS: Mr H. J. Byron. And
'l' HE GOOSE WITH THE GOLDEN EGGS: Mr J. Clarke and
Mrs Stephens.

he has shown in the answer he sent to the firman,
some acknowledgment is due to the unwearied efforts
of the Ambassadors of the Western Powers. Had
it not been foLtheir seal and assiduity the desirable re-
sult would not have been attained, and Europe would
now be on the brink of a war. Complications
would have abounded, and embarrassments have
prevailed on all sides. The telegram announces that
the British Ambassador will proceed to England from
Egypt direct on leave, and this looks like a confirma-
tion of the happy intelligence. At any rate, there
is reason to hope for a respite from the vexa-
tious Eastern Question, and it is doubly gratifying
to think that our recollections of the opening of the
Suez Canal will not be marred by the interposition of
a war, which could effect no desirable object, while
it would most certainly have caused much inconveni-
ence, and been the prelude to further evils in the
ut u re.

It was easily foreseen by all who are familiar with
Parisian politic; that the validation of the elections
in the Cori s Legislatif would be no easy or rapidly
accomplished task. Thanks to the courage and abi-
lity of an Opposition, which is something more than
a name, the verification of the election of even official
candidates is no longer a mere matter of course. In-
quiries, protests, counter evidence, are brought for-
ward and supported by the eloquence and ingenuity
of able and energetic speakers. The Government is
made to feel, in some measure, the:check imposed by
a popular Parliament on the SOVEREIGN and his ad-
visers, even though the full dream of Parliamentary
Government can never be realised with a Chamber
partly composed of the nominees and representatives
of the Administration itself.

The scenes which have already taken place in the
Chamber of Deputies have been full of interest and
animation, and the discussion of Tuesday, in parti-
cular, was full of the most excited feeling. The sub-
ject under discussion was the election of M. J USTIN
DURAND for the First Circumscription of the East
Pyrenees, in which be was the successful rival of M.
EMMANUEL ARAGO. M. DURAND was the offici a
candidate, and laboured under the disadvantage
of the presence of his disappointed rival
in the Chamber Al. EMMANUEL ARAGO
having been returned within the last week
or two for one of the Paris divisions. The demand
made on behalf of the Opposition was certainly far

from unreasonable. A Parliamentary inquiry was
demanded, and had the scene been laid in England
instead of in France there can be little doubt that it
would have been accorded. If M. JULES SIMON was
prepared to substantiate one-half his charges the list
of accusations against the Government candidate was
formidable enough. Bribery, feasting, intimidation',
influence, all were tried, and tried with such success

that M. JUSTIN DURAND obtained 13,117 votes, M.
E3I3IANUEL ARAGO only 8,475.
The scenes at the election, if we are to accept the
evidence of M. ARAGO, who was present throughout
the whole of it, were startling enough. Bribery was
carried on in the most open fashion, and the rastells, or
banquets, where music and dancing were carried on,
formed a costly item of expense. The rastells were
severely commented upon in the Chamber, and fur-
nished matter for a very angry debate. The intimi-
dation was employed in the usual methods—em-
ployers threatened to discharge their workmen,
customers to withdraw their custom, and even the
dreaded word " Cayenne " was whispered by
the gendarmes. This is a sound of no empty

meaning in the Pyrenees, whence in 1851
867 were deported. Such, at least, is the testimony
of M. JULES SIMON, and it was left uncontradicted
save by the question put by the Marquis DE PIKE,
" Did not the Convention and the Directory trans-
port the people en masse ?" M. SIMON readily ad-
mitted a charge which was so easily proved, and
which could hurt no oue in these days, but called
down thunders of applause from the Left by the de-
claration that he denounced such measures equally
with those of 1851. Both alike were opposed to the
principl.s of eternal justice, and off.msivc to the
character of Frenchmen. Wholesale denials were,
of course, nturnel to all these accusations, but the
denials found no faith. The same unanswerable
request was made again and again by the disaffected
Give us a Ptirlia nentary inquiry, and theh the
rights of the c; se will be clearly shown, and your
election validated." So unscrupulous had been the

course of Ministerial action, that protest after pro-
tat, from different classes of the population, was
presented against the acceptance of the election by
the Chamber. But in spite of all this, in spite of
the evidence and
the arguments so abundantly forth-
coming, the official influence was too strong, and a
division showed 86 in favour of the institution of
an inquiry and 135 against it.
The fact of one seat, more or less, being obtained
by questionable means is unfortunately no very
rare or unparalleled one in any representative assem-
bly ; but it is more important and more serious that
the Government of the day should thus have power
to pervert the ends of justice, to stifle thought, to
hush up inquiry, and turn the very source of popular
strength and the guarantee of popular freedom into
an instrument of oppression and degradation. So
long as the system of official candidates is tolerated
in France, so long
will Parliamentary and Constitu-
tional Government be only a shadow, an illusion, and

a snare.

FUNERAL OF THE DUCHESS OF

AUMAL a

The funeral of the Duchess of Aumale took place
this morning. Mass was solemnised at Orleans
House, at ten o'clock, by Mgr. Weld, a Roman
Catholic prelate, in a drawing-room which was
fitted up as a chapelle ardente.
At the close of the mass the priests and choristers
left the chapel in procession, the boys carrying
lighted candles. Shortly_before eleven o'clock the
funeral cortege started. It consisted of a hearse
and six horses, and thirty mourning coaches,
twenty-eight of which were drawn by two and two
by four horses.
The first three carriages contained Mgrs. Weld
and Guelle, wihh the remainder of the clergy
and choristers. Then came the carriages con-
taining the Duke d'Aumale, Due de Guise,
Comte do Paris, Due de Chartres, Due de Ne-
mours, Due d'Alengon, Prince de Joinville, Due
de Parthierre, the Ambassadors of Austria,
Prussia, Bavaria, Brazil, Belgium, United States
Spain, Italy, Sze., Lord Clanricarde, Lord Gran-
ville, Lord Russell, M. Van de Weyer, Gen. Peel,
Marquess d'Azeglio, Sir E. Antrobus, Baron do
Cotto, Due Descagos, Comte de Porters, Comte
de Jarnac, Baroness and Baroness de le Roths-
child, Sir A. Panizzi, Comte Roger, Comte do
Bonill6, Comte de Grave, Comte de Bondy, Baron
Trigueti, &c. From Weybriclge station Gen. Dumas
was appointed to receive their Royal Highnesses
the Prince of Wales, Duke of Cambridge, Prince
Christian, and Prince 'Peck, who were to be pre-
sent at the chapel, her Majesty being represented,
it is understood, by Lord Charles Fitzroy. The
mournful cortege on quittiugTwickenham proceeded
by road to the Roman Catholic Chapel at IVey-
bridge, where the remains of the duchess were laid
to rest. The funeral arrangements were conducted
by Messrs. 'l'. and W. Banting, of St. James's-
street, Piccadilly.

In accordance with the standing orders of the
camp at Aldershott, it has just been notified to the
troops at that station that regiments of infantry
are to wear tunics at the morning parade.
On Wednesday the new pattern, or "Glengarry,'
cap was issued to the 4th Battalion )rifle Brigade,
at Aldtgal2Ott.

A DR

WILL,

The cause of Foster v. Douglas occupied the attention of
the Probate Court on Wednesday and Thursday. The
plaintiff propounds the will of the late Elizabeth Allen,
which, it was acknowledged, was made in a beershop. The
defendant pleaded that the document was obtained by undue
influence, and that the testatrix was of unsound mind.
several witnesses, neighbours of Mrs. Allen, said
that she was a woman of most intemperate
habits, and was more frequently inebriated than sober.
ghe would get joints of meat from the butchers and sell them
at a merely nominal price. One of the witnesses said " she
never had a comb in her hair ; " and another said that " she
had been a stranger to soap for years." All the windows
'of her house were broken, and cats and other domestic
animals made their entrance and exit at pleasure,
and left unmistakable signs of their having been there.
The will was made by the plaintiff who was almost
the universal legatee, and was stated to have been signed
at a beerhouse.—Dr. Hopewell, who attended her, said that
when sober—which was seldom—the testatrix possessed
sufficient capacity to make a will.—For the defence it was
urged that, by her intoxicated habits, the mind of Mrs.
Allen was so affected that she had not sufficient soundness
of mind to legally execute a will. It was also contended
that the snaking of the will was suspicious, as the person
who prepared it was deeply interested, and the document
was executed at a beerhouse, and shortly prior to her de-
mise the deceased denied having signed the will. After
some deliberation, the jury found that the will was duly
executed ; but that the testatrix was of unsound mind,
memory, and understanding at the time she signed the
will, and that she was unduly influenced in the making of
it.—Lord Penzance thereupon pronounced against the will,
and consequently the estate will be. divided, as if there was
an intestacy.

Dr. John Macfarlane, late Professor of the Prac-
tice of Medicine in the University of Glasgow, died on Tues-
day at his residence in Helensburgh, near Glasgow, at an

advanced age.

A notice of motion was given on Wednesday by a
Conservative guardian in a Dublin Poor-law union to call on

" the Prime Minister to grant a royal residence and a trien-
nial Parliament as the only legitimate remedies for the pau-

perism and wide-spread dissatisfaction which exist,"
Mr. Childers, accompanied by his private secretary,
Captain Seymour, C. 8., and Vice-Admiral Sir R. S. Robin-
son, K.C.8., Comptroller of the Navy, went down to Ports-
mouth by the first train from London on Wednesday
and was officially engaged throughout the day at the dock-
yard.

The English Independent this week discusses the
question, " Whether, in view of the appalling growth of
indifference to religion, the Free Churches ought not to
make some special effort to call the attention of the un-
godly vicious population to religious truth." The High
Church Mission has raised the subject of special services.

Two claims against the Lancashire and Yorkshire
Railway Company for compensation for injuries arising from
accidents were heard at the Manchester Assizes ot. Wednes-
day. In one case a bootmaker named Sheldon obtained a
verdict fer £l5O ; and in the other a travelling jeweller,
named Cohen, was awarded £7O damages.

The installation and enthronement of the new
Bishop of Carlisle, Dr. Harvey Goodwin, will take place in
Carlisle Cathedral next Wednesday afternoon. Ilithorto it
has been customary, except in the case of the late Dr. Wal-

_ • _
degrave, who was installed in propria persona, for the new
bishop to go through those ceremonials by proxy ; but Dr.
Goodwin will not only be present but will preach a serum
upon the occasion.

The Bishop of Llandaff publishes in the
!Western Mail :a letter relative to the position assumed by
Dr. Temple in view of his consecration to the see of Exeter

and his conneotion with the obnoxious and heretical volume
of " Essays and Reviews." The Bishop thinks that before
Dr. Temple's consecration, the Church has a tight to expect

that ho will make " such a declaration of his settlements as
will allay the existing agitation."

Miss Emily Faithful delivered a lecture in Liver-
pool on Wednesday on "The claims and position of women
with reference to their higher education." She argued that as
there was in the country two millions and a half of unmar-
ried women working for their own subsistence, it was highly
essential that the tone of female education should Le raised,
so that women might bo rendered capable of undertaking
those industrial occupations which would enable them to
obtain a respectable and independent livelihood.

A shocking accident happened on Wednesday on the
Stockbridge branch of the Great Western Railway, at
Cradley, three miles from Stourbridge. The fast train from
Birmingham to Worcester and Hereford was proceeding at
its usual speed through Cradley, shortly after five o'clock,
when it ran into a goods train with great violence. The
engine of the passenger train was thrown off the line, and
the first carriage was much damaged. Ono passenger was
killed, and also the stoker and guard. The other passengers
escaped with but little injury.
At the conclusion of their labours at the Maneester

Assizes on Wednesday the grand jury expressed to tho judge
their unanimous opinion that much unnecessary labour
devolved upon her Majesty's judges, and great expenses were
entailed on the country, by the trial of all cases of bur-

glary, however trivial, at assizes, and they recommended
such an alteration of the law as would enable magistrates
to send such cases for trial at either the sessions or the

assizes, according to their discretion. The learned judge
informed them that the matter 'would very shortly be consi-

dercd by the judicature committee, and he would take care
that their presentment was brougLt under the notice of the

proper authorities.

At the Warwick assizes on Wednesday, William
Woodward, 53, market gaidezer, was indicted for having
attempted to burn down a house at Solihull, near Birming-
ham, with intent to defraud the Alliance Insurance Com-
pany, of that town. It papeared that the prisoner,
on tho 13th of November last, strewed the floor of one of
the rooms with gorze, saturated it with paraffin, and
then put a large log of wood on the fire, one end of
which rested on the floor, where a quantity of pitch had
been placed. Calico had also been nailed in front of the
windows, and the skirting boards torn up. Prisoner left the
house about nine o'clock at night on the 13th of Novem-
ber last, and two hours afterwards the police noticed signs
of fire on the premises, but they were easily extinguished.
The prisoner, it was shown, had recently insured his furni-

turn with the Alliance Company for £l5O, but sold it by
auction before the Ere. The jury found the prisoner guilty,
and he was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude.

On Wednesday morning an inquest was held at
Birkenhead on the body of a boy eleven years old, who
died from lockjaw, resulting from having his right
thumb crushed by a crane. His thumb had been
amputated by the junior house surgeon of the Birkenhead
Hospital, Mr. Crean, who appeared at the inquest, and gave
his evidence in a very self-sufficient and unbecoming
manner. The coroner told him that he should have
consulted the head surgeon on the matter, and have
asked him to bo present at the occasion. Mr. Crean
was very indignant, and said it was not necessary to
have another medical officer in such a trilling case. The
Coroner expressed strong displeasure, and reproved
the surgeon for the manner in which ho spoke.
The jury endorsed his remarks, and returned a
verdict of accidental death, highly censuring the medical
officer of the hospital for not consulting his senior, and re-
questing that the hospital committee be informed of their
opinion that such operations should not undertaken by
the junior officer alone.

Yesterday evening the Ist Battalion 12th Regi-
ment left Aldershot Camp by detachments as
follows :—Headquarters and three companies, under
Colonel H. M. Hamilton, en route for Carlisle, to
relieve the 40th Regiment, ordered to Ireland ; four
companies, under Major M'Kay, for Fleetwood; and
three companies, under Captain Sillery, to Burnley.
The 35th Regiment also left camp yesterday even-
ing as follows :—headquarters and four companies,
under Col. Atkinson, to Bradford ; four companies,
under Major Tisdal, to Liverpool; and three com-
panies, under Captain Grant, to Fleetwood. The
35th relieves the 80th Regiment, which is ordered
to Ireland. Both regiments left the North Camp
station of the SouthlEastern Railway at 8 45 p.m.,
en route to their destination.
The detachment of Metropolitan Police, from
Chatham dockyard, to whom has been intrusted the
watching of the Upnor magazines, the former watch-
men having been superseded, aro ordered for the
future to be armed with revolvers.
Lieut. John R. Slade, Royal Artillery, late— of the
First Brigade, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, has been
appointel to the riding establishment at head-quar-
ters, Woolwich, vice Lieut. Henry B. Kinggeote,
transferred to the C Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery
stationed at Aldershott.
A Board of Examination, consisting of a field
officer from each infantry brigade at Aldershot, had
been ordered to assemble at 11 o'clock this morning
at the officers' mess-room, 2d Battalion 7th Fusiliers,
to examine and report upon the qualifications for
promotion of Lieuts. Daly and Guyon, 2d Battalion
7th Fusiliers ; Lieut. Gilbert, 2d Battalion 23d
Royal Welsh Fusiliers ; Lieut. Quirk and Ensign
Garfet, 67th Regiment; and Lieuts. Burrell and
tifuell, 4th Battalion Rifle Brigade.