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London, England, 1832-01-03 00:00:00

ELLIOTT'S LETTERS FROM THE NORTH
OP EUROPE.—The author tells us that his design in pub-
lishing this volume has been "to introduce to the notice
of his countrymen the beauties of nature in the almost un-
explored mountains of Norway ; a tract of country which
offers to the traveller a succession of richly-varied land-
scapes, rivalling those of the Alps and the Himala."
Mr. ELLIOTT visited Holland, Hamburg, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Finland, Russia, Prussia, and parts
of Germany,—tvery where, but particularly in Nor-
way, viewing the natives and their manners with the eye
of a practised observer, and furnishing us with pictures,
all possessing considerable interest. A view of that mag-
nificent structure, the Winter Palace, at St. Peteraburgh,
is prefixed to the volume.

THE STRIKE AT WALDRIDGE COLLIERY,
—lt is now some months since the differences between the
main body of the pitmen in the Great Northern Coal dis-
trict and their employers were adjusted in a manner which
induced some persons to expect that no further disturbances
either would or could arise between the parties. To this
opinion we never, ourselves, subscribed. We conceived
that the very mode in which the settlement, after the late
strike, was effected, contained, within itself, the germs
of future evil. The weakness and tergiversation of one
distinguished individual, in particular, was, above all
other things, calculated to produce the most mischievous
results ; inasmuch as its direct and obvious tendency was
to create a belief, in the minds of the pitmen, that they
were powerful beyond controul—that henceforward they bad
only to ask to have—only to command to be obeyed. And
such, unfortunately, has been the consequence. It is a
fact incapable of denial or concealment, that the pitmen
suppose they are omnipotent--that through the means of
their Unions and their delegates they may set their masters
at defiance, and crush them at their leisure. They have
been led to imagine this and much more ; and fancying,
also, that public opinion is enlisted on their side, they have
not scrupled to assume a bearing and a tone which indi-
cate a fixed resolution to push their schemes to a greater
extremity than ever. " Coming events," it is said, " cast
their shadows before ;" and if the information we have re-
ceived be correct, a new " strike" is in contemplation,
throughout the collieries,..Durharre Chronicle.

SlR,—The constant cant of indolent or inca-
pable official men of late years has been, that the
business of the country had so increased, that it
was impossible for the public functionaries to
execute it properly. They have repeated this
convenient argument so frequently and so per-
tinaciously, that the public have begun to go
along with them in it, and to be convinced that
it was hopeless to look for any thing in future,
but long arrears of business and vexatious de-
lays in every department of the State. And
this doctrine has been held with peculiar vehe-
mence, in reference to our courts of law ; and
among those, most of all when speaking of the
courts of equity.
During the whole time that Lord Eldon pos-
sessed the Seals, he and his friends held no
other language ; and in support of their asser-
tions they created a new equity court, that of
the Vice-Chancellor, to assist in liquidating the
arrears under which the Court of Chancery
groaned. In addition to this, several learned
persons were deputed to assist the Lord Chan-
cellor in hearing appeals in the House of
Lords. All these symptoms convinced the
public that the Lord Chancellor was over-
worked, and that no one man was able to fill
so laborious a situation. This was the argu-
ment used to quiet the ruined and heartbroken
suitors, who after 20 or 25 years of litigation,
saw themselves apparently as far from a final
conclusion as ever. Some persons, however,
were convinced that the case was desperate, and
that the equity business of the country was too
much for the equity Judges to get through. If
any man doubted upon the subject, their doubts
were set at rest by the answer of the present
Vice-Chancellor (Sir Lancelot Shadwell) to the
Chancery Commissioners. When asked whether
three Judges could despatch the business in
Chancery, or whether he thought any three men
could do it, he answered—" No, nor three
angels neither !"
Under these despairing circumstances, it is
peculiarly satisfactory to find that the abilities,
diligence, and decision of one man have been
able to overcome the difficulties which were so
long thought to be insurmountable, and to af-
ford speedy and satisfactory. justice to the long-
tormented suitors in equity. That man is Lord
IBrougham.
The proof of this assertion, and of the fact
that Lord Brougham has already got rid of all
the arrears both in the Court of Chancery and
in the House of Lords, is to be found in the
records of those Courts, from whence the fol-
lowing details upon the subject have been ex-
tracted. These have been as much as possible
divested of technical terms and legal expressions,
in order that " he who runs may read."
As the present Lord Chancellor has been
only one year in office, we will take, for the
sake of comparison, a similar period of the ad-
ministration of Lords Eldon and Lyndhurst,
and leave the reader to draw his own conclusion.

At the beginning of Easter Term, 1826, just
twelve months before Lord Eldon resigned the
Seals, there were 121 appeals standing for hear-
ing in the Court of Chancery. At the beginning
of Easter Term, 1827, when Lord Eldon left
office, 39 only of these appeals had disappeared
from the paper ; and several of these, it is well
known, had been adjourned, while but a small
portion of them had been actually decided. At
the commencement of Michaelmas term, 1829,
twelve months before Lord Lyndhurst ceased to
be Chancellor, there were ninety-six hearings
and appeals standing for hearing in the Court of
Chancery. At Michaehnas term, 1830, thirty
only had disappeared from the paper, and not
more than one-third of this number had been
actually heard and decided.

When the Great Seal was delivered to Lord
Brougham on the 22d of November, 1830,
there was an arrear of 103 appeals in the Court
of Chancery ; all of which have since been dis-
posed of, together with 61 more, which have
accrued since, making a total of 164 appeals
heard and decided.

At the periods when Lords Eldon and Lynd-
hurst respectively left office, there were also ar-
rears of bankrupt petitions, lunatic petitions,
motions, &c. When Lord Brougham rose for
the long vocation on the 2d of September last,
there was no matter of any kind in the Court
of Chancery known to be pending and ripe for
hearing which had not been heard and also de-
cided.

With regard to the satisfaction given by the
decisions of Lord Brougham, it is merely ne-
cessary to state the fact, that up to the pre-
sent moment only one single appeal has been
lodged against them, and that one, it is thought,
will not be prosecuted.
In the House of Lords, in the last year of
Lord Eldon's Chancellorship, there were decided
52 causes. In the last year of Lord Lynd-

hurst;s,49 causes, and the Noble Lord has, since
he left office, decided nine more.
In the first year of Lord Brougham's Chan-
cellorship, there have been decided in the House
of Lords 91 causes ; and when the Parliament
was prorogued on the 20th of October last, it is
understood that not a cause which was ripe for
hearing remained either unheard or undecided,
with the exception of some few very old causes,
which will, probably, (from peculiar circum-
stances), never be brought to a hearing at all.
It may be urged, that, while the House of
Lords, during the last year of the Chancellorship
of Lord Eldon, sat for about seven months and
a half; and during that of Lord Lyndhurst, for
six months and a half; during the first year of
office of Lord Brougham it sat for eight months.
But this slight difference in the duration of the
different sessions is more than counterbalanced
when we recollect that Lord Brougham has almost
always, if not always, sat himself to hear appeals
in the House of Lords ; whereas the former Chan-
cellors have been very greatly aided by Deputy
Speakers, appointed for that express purpose.
In conclusion, it is only necessary to remark,
that in consequence of the diligence of Lord
Brougham, the Court of the Vice Chancellor
might at once be abolished, had it not been ren-
dered permanent by Act of Parliament. V•

The 32d Regiment of Foot has been sent to
Ireland ; they were marched to Bristol during the riots,
and have been quartered here since that period. The
cause assigned for their removal is their isitiroacy with the
lower orders... Morning Advertisers

LUIT FOR AVNULLING THE WILL OF
THE DUKE OF BOURBON.
TUE PRINCES DE ROMAN V. THE DUKE D'AUMALE AND
THE BARONESS DE FEUCHERES.
SITTING OF THE 30th OF DECEMBER.
At the sitting of the Court the President an-
nounced that he had received from the Archbishop
oc Paris and Madame de Feucheres two letters re-
lative to what had occured at the last sitting of the
Court, which he had communicated to the advo-
cates. It was whispered that these letters referred
to the visit and the nosegay at Florence,—circum-
stances which the Archbishop denied, and which
Madame de Feucheres maintains to he true, adding
to her story some facts which the prelate could not
wr.ll have forgotten.
M. Lavaux, Madame de Feucheres' advocate, re-
sumed his address. In commencing he declared
that he would apply himself more particularly to all
that related to the criminal proceedings resorted to i
on the occasion of the death of the Prince of Conde,
and to the question, whether his death was to be
attributed to suicide or assassination. In the first
days which immediately succeeded the revolution of
July, said the advocate, two parties were unequivo-
cally developed in the little court of St. Leu : the
first, including the youngest officers of the Prince,
was headed by Messrs. de Prejean and de Belzunce,
and supported the most exaggerated opinions,—
emigration and war against revolutionists. These
were the measures which they unceasingly advocated.
The other party, more wise and prudent, per-
ceived that the advanced age, the position, and the
new habits of the Prince, would prevent him from
adopting any extreme determination : they were
disposed rather that the Prince should remain in
France and submit himself to the new Government.
It is easy to understand to what vexations, to what
unfortunate scenes, these internal divisions daily ex-
posed the Prince. He soon became a prey to the
melancholy which inclines to suicide. He was ad-
vised to change his name of Bourbon because it was
not popular. He consented to use only the name
of the Prince of Conde ; but he appeared deeply af-
fected at the circumstance. The Abbe Pellier, his
almoner, has declared that having proceeded to St.
Leu on Sunday the Ist of August, and related to
the Prince that St. Cloud had been pillaged, the
latter cried, " Oh, oh, they have pillaged it !" and
manifested the most extreme fear lest St. Leu should
be served in the same manner.
The ordinance of the Lieutenant-General of the
Kingdom, relative to the adoption of the national
colours, was a new cause of the trouble of the Prince.
On this occasion M. de Belzunce pretended that
the ordinance referred to the military persons alone,
and a warm altercation arose on the subject between
him and General Lambot, at which the Prince was
very much affected.
On the other hand, from a motive of prudence,
for which assuredly no one can blame Madame de
Feucheres, she exerted all her influence to induce
the Prince to abandon his hunting excursions, which
excited serious complaints out of doors. Thns the
Prince found himself in the centre of agitations; in
the midst of a little Court divided in opinion ; dis-
tracted between ancient recollections and new
affections ; and from that time his melancholy as-
sumed, as might be supposed, from day to day a
more grave character. Many witnesses have de-
posed to this; and Madame de St. Aulaire in par-
ticular has declared that on the 13th of August the
Prince, squeezing her hand, cried " Ah, my dear,
how can one live !"
On the 26th of August the Prince caused the
arms and ammunition, which by his order had been
brought into his chamber, to be removed from it.
The motive which be alleged for this proceeding
was the fear lest the Parisians should come to St.
Leu. " If they should find these arms in my cham-
ber," said he, " they would believe that I wished
to defend myself."
The same day the curate of St. Leu declares that
the Prince squeezed his hand with extraordinary af-
fection. " I believed," said he, " that it was on
account of his approaching departure for Chantilly,
but I have since thought that it was intended as a
farewell." On the 25th of August, the name-day
of the Prince (jour de la fete du Prince), still
more significant symptoms were exhibited. Ma-
dame de Chabannes says that he was dejected; the
Abbe Brian declares that he was more melancholy
than usual, and that the events of July had made a
powerful impression upon him. The Abbe further
states that the Prince said to him, raising his eyes
to heaven in a very peculiar manner, " Ah, M.
Brian, what events !"
The Abbe Pellier declares that having asked the
Prince whether he should see him again on the fol-
lowing Sunday at Chantilly, he replied, " Oh, I
am thinking of quire another matter." Messieurs
Lambot and de Surral also depose to his profound
melancholy.
The 26th of August, the last day of the Prince's
life, has naturally been the subject of attentive exa-
mination. It appears from the declarations of
Messieurs Lambot and Belzunce that the Duke de
Cosse Brissac spoke to him on this day of various
assassinations which had taken place in Paris, and by
so doing powerfully agitated the Duke of Bourbon.
That evening M. Lambot presented to him two do-
cuments to attest, and as it was growing dark he
observed to the Prince that his signature could be
affixed to them on the morrow. " No," said he,
" who knows what may happen ?" Messieurs Col-
fillet and de Belzunce depose that on retiring at night
. to his apartment, he perceived his attendants in his
ante-chamber, and took leave of them in a way
which was not usual with him. His attendants were
-t it.
Here M. Lavaux entered into a topographical
description of the interior of the chateau of St. Leu ;
a long corridor divides the first floor into two parts,
the door of the valet-de-chambre on duty opens into
this corridor, and opposite is that of the Prince's
apartment. The other persons attached to the
household of the Prince slept in rooms that opened
into the same corridor.
At eight o'olock Leconte left his chamber and
opened the door of the Prince's apartment, which
communicates with the corridor. On passing through
an anti-chamber, he arrived at the door of the
' Prince's bed-room. He knocked, there was com-
plete silence; he retired for about ten minutes, and
returned with Dr. Bonie; they both knocked again,
still the same silence. They went to seek M. de
, Laville Gonthier ; he was not to be found. They
then descended to the apartment of Madame de
Feucheres, who was fast asleep; she threw herself
from the bed, hurried on her dressing gown, ran to
the Prince's room, uttered loud cries, and finally
ordered the door to be broken open. The panel
soon yielded, the valet de chambre entered, and soon
uttered a fatal cry, " The Prince is dead !" He
opens one window, and discovers the unfortunate
Prince of Conde hanging from the sash-fastening of
another window. Dr. Bogie wished to cut him
down. " Do not touch him," exclaims Leconte,
" for people may suspect us, and we are all innocent."
But it is necessary to remark, that a chair which
was placed near the Prince's body was removed by
Dr. Bonie. The local authorities were immediately
assembled, and if truth can be fouud any where, it
will be in the proces-verbal of the Mayor of St.
Leu, the country where the Prince was so beloved.
The following is the substance of the first proses-
: verbal:—.
" 1, Gervais Tailleur,aMayor of St. Leu, assisted by In

It may be remarked with what minute attention
this process was drawn up ; but this not all. After
the proces- verbal was completed, M. de St. Aulare,
one of the witnesses present, addressed all the par-
ties assembled, and told them to listen to the reading
of it with the greatest attention, and to make their
objection if it appeared to them incorrect in any par-
ticular. The proces-verbal was read, and no person
in all the Prince's household objected to it. The
Juge de Paix also came, and, assisted by Dr. Bonie,
drew up a proc, s-verbal containing the same facts.
The King being informed of the circumstance,
communicated it to Messrs. de Semonville and Pas-
quier, who repaired to St. Leu, accompanied by Drs.
Nlarjolin, Marc, and Pasquier, and Messrs. Bernard,
Procureur-General, and Legonidec, Deputy Attor-
ney-General at the Cour Royale ; the three doctors,
in conjunction with the two first physicians, made a
post mortem examination, and after a description of
the state of the body, the details of which are already
known, they concluded as follows
" 1. Taking into consideration that there exits round
the neck a mark which indicates the pressure of a ligature
—that the nature of this mark leaves no doubt as to the
action of this ligature during lire—that the tongue,
swelled and livid, protruded from the mouth—that there
exists no other apparent cause to which death can be attri-
buted,—we think that it must have been produced by
strangulation.
" 2. Considering that, according to the report of the
Mayor of St. Leu, the bedchamber of his Royal Highness
was fastened inside by a bolt ; that the windows and the
shutters were also fastened inside; that no external or in-
ternal fracture was observed prior to entering the said
apartment ; that no disorder was perceived in the Prince's
dress; that there was no sign of violence or resistance on
the surface of his body ; that the mark observed on his
neck was very wide, oblique, and did not extend beyond
the level of the mastoidean apophyses, we are of opinion
that the strangulation was not effected by any other person.
With respect to the contusion we remarked upon the pos-
terior and upper portion of the right fore-arm, and the
very superficial excoriation& upon both legs, our opinion is
that these slight wounds were the effect of some friction of
the parts against the projecting edge of the chair near the
window, and against the wainscotting, in the last moments
of life.

(Signed) " Marc, Marjolin, Pasquier, Legenidec,
Bernard (de Rennes), Vinet, Soret, de
Boa, Brunet, and Petit."

At the end of this proces-verbal is that of the
post-mortem examination, of which the following is
the conclusion :—" It clearly results from what has
been stated, that death was the effect of strangula-
tion ; and that this strangulation was not effected
by another's hand, and that it was produced by the
accumulation and the stagnation of black blood in
the brain-vessels, and still more in those of the
Wags."
The advocate then read the following depositions
of persons belonging to the house, in order to shew
that the Prince was extremely low and agitated on
the 26th of July, and that he seemed in an extraor-
dinary condition :
Madame Sophie Dawes, the Baroness de Feu-
' cheres, declared, " Since the events of last July, I
have remarked that the Prince had fallen into a deep
melancholy ; he has frequently declared that he
could not survive these events—that he had lived
too long,—and such like sombre declarations. He
also said that he could very well understand a matt
destroying himself, and that he had formed the de-
sign of making away with himself at the period of
the Hundred Days. I have to add, that on Tuesday
last, about three o'clock in the afternoon, I surprised
him writing a letter which he concealed on perceiv-
ing me, and would not afterwards permit me to see
it, saying that it was a matter too sad. Moreover, I
know that he had been, since the month of July, in
a constant state of alarm, frequently evincing a fear
that his chateau was about to be attacked."
General Lambot, the Prince's Aide-de-Camp,

deposed—
" In general the Prince appeared very much disturbed
by the mob meetings which he heard of as being held at
Paris, and much concerned about the fate of the King,
Louis Philip and his family-, and of France at large.
Since the events of July he totally abandoned the plea-
sures of the Chace, taking no exercise, and appearing al-
ways
self-absorbed and melancholy."
The Baron de Flassans, superintendent of the
equipage of the Prince, the Baron de Prejean, and
the Viscount de Belzunce, gentlemen of the bed-
chamber; and MM. Lecomte, Manoury, and Le-
clerc, his valets, also depose, that since the events
of July the Prince had been chagrined and dejected,
and that he was frequently affected by convulsive
motions.
But it will be said that the testimony of the pro-
fessional persons is doubtful—that the documentary
evidence is doubtful. Here, then, we come to a
circumstance miraculously in our favour—a writing
in the Prince's own hand.
According to a calculation formed from the state
of the body, and from the quantity which had been
burnt of a wax taper placed in the evening, accord-
ing to custom, in the chimney-place, the physicians
conclude that the Prince must have remained for
two hours after his attendants left him, before
he executed his design : numerous papers had been
burnt or destroyed by him in this interval, all
in the fire-place. On the day when the Attorney-
General commenced his functions, a servant, exa-
mining the papers cast into the fire-place, saw on some
scattered scraps the) words " King"—" die"—
harrn"—(" roi"—" mourir"—"pas de mad.")
He laid them before the Attorney-General, who im-
mediately directed that the fragments should be
united, and after some hours exercise of that patience
which justice alone can claim, two notes were re-
covered, the expressions of which are detailed lower
down in the letter of the Attorney-General to the
Keeper of the Seals. These two writings are in
the criminal registry; an attempt of an unworthy
kind has been made to distort them. By the base
passions which have been excited, they have been
represented to be placards intended to be stuck on