The Sun.
London, England, 1859-01-21 00:00:00

PRINCE NAPOLEON.

It may not be uninteresting at the present mo-
ment to give an outline of the life of Napoleon, now
about to be united to the Princess Clotilde of the
house of Savoy. Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul
Bonaparte was born on the 9th of September, 1822,
at Trieste, and is the second son of the ex-King
Jerome and of the Princess Frederick of Wurtem-
berg.
He was residing at Rome with his grandmother,
Mdme. Lmtitia Bonaparte when the insurrection of
the Romagna in which two of his cousins were com-
promised, obliged him in 1831 to emigrate to Flo-
rence ; in 1835 he left for Switzerland, remained for
two years in a school at Geneva, and in 1837 entered
the military school of Louisbourg (Wurtemberg).

His education being completed (1840), he refused
to bear arms for any country except France, and
the late Louis Philippe allowed him to return
temporarily to France with his father (1847).
On the day of the fall of the dynasty of July,
Prince Napoleon hastened to the Hotel de Ville
(24th of February), and two days after he wrote a
letter, which has since been published, in which he
offered his services to the Provisional Government,
declaring that the " duty of all good citizens was
to rally round the Republic."
He united himself in a more explicit manner to
the republican principle in his profession of faith to
the electors of Corsica, as candidate for the Assem-
bly. Being elected by 39,229 votes, he at first
sided in the Constituent Assembly with the Mode-
rate Republicans, and generally voted with the
Right for the proportional tax, two Chambers, the
institution of the Presidency, the Italian expedi.
tion, the proposition for the maintenance of capital
punishments, &c., and voted with the minority
against the banishment of the Orleans family..
On the 10th of February, 1849, he was appointed
Minister Plenipotentiary at Madrid, but was recalled
a short time after for having quitted his post with-
out authorisation, and was replaced by M. de Bour-
going. This act of severity made him a stronger
partisan in the democratic opposition, and during
the sitting of the Legislative Assembly, where he
still represented Corsica, he sat on the benche3 of
the Left, and supported several of their propositions
until the year 1851. At that period he more fre-
quently abstained from joining in the stormy dis-
cussions which took place at the close of the Assem-
bly, and soon after the coup d'etat withdrew into
private life. This retirement, however, was not of
long duration.

At the end of the year 1852, at the restoration of
the Empire, Prince Napoleon was eventually called
forward as an hereditary descendant (18th Dec.),
and in virtue of the Senatus Consultum of the
23d, he assumed the title of French Prince and had
by right a place in the Senate and in the Council
of State. At the same period he received the insig-
nia of Grand Cross of the Legion of Honour, and,
although he had not yet served in the army, the
rank of General of Division.

When war was declared against Russia, he re-
quested permission to share the perils of the army.
He embarked at Marseilles on the 10th April, and
commanded a division of infantry of reserve at the
battles of the Alma and Inkerman. A short time
after, the weakness of his health, and perhaps also
the publication of a pamphlet printed at Brussels.
and containing too free an opinion of the plan of
campaign adopted in the Crimea, caused him to be
recalled to France, where a mission more in confor-
mity with his enlightened tastes awaited him.
Being named President of the Imperial Commis-
sion of the Universal Exhibition of 1855, he fulfilled
this post with an active zeal and a firm will, which
were duly appreciated by the foreign juries and• all
the exhibitors. This will be best seen by the peru-
sal of a book written on the subject, bearing the
title of " Visites du. Prince Napoleon a l'Exposition
Universelle."
Since the birth of a direct heir to the Imperial
Crown, he has remained more aloof from public
affairs. In 1857 he, undertook a long voyage of dis-
covery in the north seas, an account of which was
published by M. Charles Edmond, entitled Voyages
dans les Mers du Nord a bord de la Corvette la
Reine Hortense. 1857.
Prince Napoleon has lately been placed at the
head of the newly-formed Ministry for Algeria and
the Colonies (24th of June, 1858.) He is now de-
dicating his attention to the material welfare of the
colony. Its agriculture, its railways, its industrial
interests, are all under consideration ; artd there is
every reason to believe that Algeria will lose the
military character of its colonisation, and become a
source of great wealth to the French nation.

DJEDDAH.—" Accounts," says a letter from Mar-
seilles, "have just been received from Djeddah to the 26th
ult. They confirm the fact of the arrest of the Caimakan,
the Cadi, the Mollah, the principal functionaries, and several
of the inhabitants of the town. These wretches have reci-
procally denounced each other. The Caimakan, who at the
moment of the massacre went to the Consulate under the
pretext of checking the disturbance, is discovered to have
been the principal instigator of the sanguinary catastrophe.
The inquiry, owing to the energy of M. Sabattier and M.
Emerat, and under the salutary impression of the presence
of the Du Chayla frigate, has been brought to an effectual
conclusion. Tho guilty parties will be conveyed to Con-
stantinople to take their trial. But what is better with
such people, and what win more clearly prove to them the
irresistible action of the Christian powers, is i he contribu-
tion of three millions of francs levied on the toy, 7n, to be used
Its reparation to the families of the victims of its fanatical
inhabitants."

LAW INTELLIGENCE. Jan. 20.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Sittings in Banco, at Westminster, before Lord
Chief Justice Campbell, Mr. Justice Wightman,
Mr. Justice Crompton, and Mr. Justice Hill.)
IN RE AN ATTORNEY AND HIS CLIENT.
_

Mr. Garth said he had been instructed by the
Incorporated Law Society to move for a rule, call-
ing upon an attorney of this court to show cause
why he should not be struck off the rolls, on the
ground of miscondact in the discharge of his duty
to a client. He was employed in August, 1857, by
a widow, at Plymouth, to pass a residuary account
of her late husband, at Somerset House, and to pay
the duty upon it. On the 18th of August she
saw the attorney, and asked him what would be the
amount of the duty, and was informed by him that
it would be £lB, and she accordingly gave him
that sum for the express purpose of paying the
duty. She subsequently, for several weeks after.
wards, frequently inquired of him what he was
doing in the matter, but did not receive any answer
from him ; and, in August, 1858, she consequently
applied to him to send back her papers and the
money she had given him. He sent back the
papers, but failed to send back the money, and with
the papers he sent a bill of costs, amounting to £4
15s. The costs were submitted to the taxing-
master, and he taxed them down to two guineas,
and compelled the attorney, as a consequence, to
pay the costs of taxation. An order of Court was
then obtained, directing him to pay the sum due
to the widow, and failing to do so, an attachment
was issued against him. He was taken in arrest,
and confined in the Castle of Exeter. He then
petitioned the Court for the Relief of Insolvent
Debtors, and admitted that he had received the £lB,
and appropriated it to his own use. He, however,
contended that the widow had no right to oppose
him, because the debt was undo£2o. The judge
was of a different opinion, and remanded him for
Isix months at the suit of the opposing creditor.
The Incorporated Law Society thought the case
was one that ought to be brought under the
notice of this court, and, impressed with that opi-
nion, instructed him (Mr. Garth) to apply to their
lordships for a rule.
Lord Campbell—Take a rule.
WHITEFIELD AND OTHERS V. THE SOUTH-EASTERN