The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-17 00:00:00

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ELECTION FOR CORONER-(THISDA n

The election of a successor to the late W. Baker, Esq.,
to the office of coroner for East Middlesex, took place this
morning at the sessions-house, Clerkenwell.

The Sheriffs, Mr. Alderman Hale, and Deputy Conder
having arrived, and the necessary forms having been gone
through,

Mr. GEORGE OPFOR, of Hackney, came forward and
proposed Mr. Humphrey as a fit and proper person to fill
the vacant office.

Dr. GASKILL, of Chelsea, said it afforded him great plea•
sure to second the nomination.

Mr. Alderman and Sheriff HALE asked if there was any
other candidate to propose, and no response having been
made, he declared Mr. Humphreys duly elected.
Mr. HUMPHREYS was then sworn into office, and re-
turned thanks for his election.

After a few observations from Mr. O'Brien and Mr.
Dempsey, the proceedings terminated.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS .DAY.)

ROLLS COURT.

(Before the Master of the Rolls, Sir John Romilly.)
JUDGMENT.-TILLET V. CHARING..CROSS BRIDGE

COMPANY.

The plaintiff filed his bill for specific performance of an
agreement entered into by the defendants with him, to form
a new street from Charing-cross to the bridge, and erect
certain houses along the same of a particular description, as
should be fixed and settled by Mr. C. Lee on the one part and
Mr. R. Witherell, on the other, or their nominee, in case of
differences. The memorandum is dated July, 1853, and a
regular contract was subsequently entered into by the
parties in terms of their original agreement.

His Honour the Master of the Rolls, in delivering judg-
ment, said that he must hold the memorandum as part of
the contract, but on reading the contract, and looking to
the evidence in support of it, he could not decree specific
performance of the contract, in respect that the particular
description and character of the buildings had not been
fixed and determined by the referees or their nominee.
Whether it could yet be done was very questionable ; there
was nothing done and no nominee named, and he could not
decree specific performance of the agreement. His Honour,
on the authority of the case of Gregory, 18 Vessey, junior,
in 1793, and the case before Lord Eldon, of Miller and
Green, and the case of Darwin and Whitaker, held that the
agreement in this case could not be enforced. His Honour
dismissed the plaintiff's bill, but without costs, because a
contract had been entered into between the parties.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.

IMPUDENT ROBBERY.—Mary Sullivan was placed at the
bar before Mr. Hall, charged with stealing a decanter and
several other articles.

From the evidence of the prosecutrix it appeared that last
night, about 6 o'clock, the prisoner came to her shop, in Gil-
bert's-passage, Clare-market, and offered a decanter for
sale, which she instantly recognised as her property,
and which must have been stolen but a few
minutes before from her shop door. She told
Sullivan that she did not intend to buy the decanter,
as it was hers already, but she would stop her stealing. A
constable was then called, and she was given into custody.
A large pair of shears was also found in her possession,
stolen from the same shop.
The landlord of the public-house in Bear-yard said last
night the prisoner entered his tap-room and stole a large
iron tea-kettle from off the fire. It was full of boiling
water at the time. She afterwards came in front of the
bar with the property wrapped up in an old apron, and had
half a pint of beer. She had a short time previously been
refused credit for some gin, and he supposed that it was in
consequence of this that she had stolen the tea-kettle.
Several other cases of robbery having been clearly proved
against her,
Mr. Hall sent her for trial at the sessions.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 17, 1859.

P.ROG_RPSS. OF TYRANNY.

THE PHCENIX PROSECUTIONS.

At the present time Continental Europe seems to
be in complete subjection to military tyranny. Not
only are those free institutions overthrown which
enabled the people to check the assumption of
power, and by creating a European public opinion
gave to small States some influence over affairs,
but the material interests of mankind are every-
where sacrificed to the grandeur of potentates and
their jealousy of each other. Without any cause
of discord, at a time when railways and the course
of trade are every day bringing the Continental
nations together, when the desire of every people
is for quiet and freedom to pursue the acquisition
of wealth, the great empires of Europe are engaged
in adding to armaments which are already without
a parallel in history. Not only are the respective
populations burdened to provide conscripts by land
and sea, to build fortifications, to construct dockyards,
ships, and machinery, and to complete the prepara-
tions for ever-menacing campaigns, but the perpetual
disquiet caused by the apprehension of war blights
enterprise and prevents the growth of international
confidence. The nations of Europe see a large
portion of their earnings spent yearly in keep-
ing up armaments, the only use of which is to
hinder those earnings from being far greater than
they are. It is the old fable of the eagle slain by
an arrow winged with its own feather. The loss
occasioned by these immense armies is twofold,—
they are raised ostensibly to give security to the
State, and they cre rte the distrust which they are
intended to allay. France, is of course, the most
striking example of this political evil. Here we
hare a nation plunged deeper into debt every year,
in order—so its rulers would say—to be secure
against a European combination. No Government
existing in Paris during, the last 40 years has pro-
fessed any desire for guropean conquest, nor has
there been a mile of territory added to the French
limits at the expense of a neighbour. The same
amicable policy has been upheld by other States.
No Power in Europe has interfered with or insulted
or thwarted France; every change of Government
has been accepted; every advance indicative of
friendship has been courteously received. And vet
France keeps up 600,000 men and a first-rate fleet
for the purposes of defence ! The results of such a
policy are obvious. The world will not believe that

the French people make these sacrifices merely to
insure an independence which nobody threatens.
When, year after year, fleets and armies are the
constant objects of solicitude, when the levy of con-
scripts never fails, and the dockyards ring continu-
ally with the construction of new engines of war,
then Austria, Prussia, England, and the whole of
Central and Western Europe, are forced to be on
their guard also. Three millions of men are under
arms in a Continent where the most cynical poli-
tician would not dare to say he expected war.
But the strangest features of the situation is,
that the people which by common consent is held
responsible for the unquiet state of Europe proves
to be the most indisposed to war of any. Every
one who watched the French during the late hos-
tilities with Russia must have perceived that there
was no keen appetite for victories and bulletins.
They were, no ',doubt, satisfied with the result of
the campaign; but there was certainly little en-
thusiasm or love of military exploits for their own
sake. The Italian scheme, of the Emperor brings
out this feeling still more strongly. Public opinion
has never but once since 1851 pronounced itself I
boldly, unmistakeably, and effectively, and this is
against a war with an old enemy of France, in a
cause calculated to kindle the fancy of a military
people, and with a prospect of creating a confede-
ration of vassal States to the South of the Alps.
Every device has been used to stir up the desire for
conquest. The glory of overthrowing Austria,
braving the anger of the German Powers, and per-
, haps placino• a Bonaparte on an Italian throne, was
to be realised by one bold stroke. For this the
Emperor harangued in the provinces last autumn,
exhibited the strength of his fortifications to the
English Parliament, made his preparations in
silence, and threw off the mask with ostentation.
The efforts of the Imperialist press for the last two
months have been incessant, while any opposing
arguments have been forbidden by a special circu-
lar of M. Delangle. But all has been unavailing,
and the Court is now obliged to recognise that,
except a small band of adventurers, the whole
French nation is resolutely bent on peace.
This is a fact most creditable to the French
character, and most reassuring to Europe. It in-
dicates that a better spirit has come over a race
heretofore made restless and hopeless by a long
succession of political calamities. The men of this
age have lived down many evils, and seen the fal-
sification of many gloomy predictions ; but hardly
the most sanguine would have ventured three
months since to hope for the pacification of Europe
as the consequence of a moral change in the French
people. The cause of this change in the French
people are not difficult to trace. Their most no-
table quality is the ease with which they adapt
themselves to any pursuit. They worked our Par-
liamentary system for years, and at one time the
Chamber of Deputies was, for ability and influence
in the world, the rival of our own House of Com-
mons. The spirit with which even our national
amusements have been introduced into France,
though originally uncongenial to the people, shows
the versatility of their minds and tastes. But the
most important imitation of the English has been
in their habits of industry. Only since the acces-
sion of Louis Philippe to the throne can French
commercial prosperity be said to have come into
being. Before that time all was stagnation. The
maritime and colonising spirit of the old monarchy
had passed away, and the manufacturing and
trading of the present day had not begun. In-
deed, the progress within the last 15 years has
been immense. French exports have increased
at a greater rate than the English, and, even
with a reckless Government and constant alarms,
France is able to bear a taxation which
would have crushed her in the days of M.
Guizot's Ministry. The consequences of prolonged
peace and retrenchment would be so wonderful that
we can hardly venture to predict them. They
would probably in twenty years place France
among the first manufacturing nations. They
would develope her commercial marine, and endow
the country with lines of steamers like those of
England. They would link every Continental State
to France by lines of railway, and make Paris the
centre of European business as well as of civilisa-
tion and amusement. What, indeed, might not an
energetic and gifted people do with a territory
twice as large as Great Britain, and commanding
the German Ocean, the Atlantic, and the Mediter-
ranean.? As for soil and climate, France stands
almost alone in excellence. One of the most myste-
rious decrees of Providence is that so small a por-
tion of the earth's surface should be fitted for the
highest development of man. Russia is barred up
by its snows ; Spain and Italy are intolerable dur-
ing a great part of the year ; the whole tract of the
United States is exposed to extremes of temperature
which try the frame severely. France is just in the
latitude which combines every advantage with the
fewest defects. Under a bright sun and in a tempe-
rate air its people have attained the highest point
of civilisation, and they make their industry cor-
respondingly eminent. The artistic ability of France
is without a rival, and as the world becomes richer
there is an ever increasing market for articles of
taste. England may be distanced in the production
of cottons or hardware, but there seems no prospect
of the monopoly of art being wrested from our
neighbours. Then the wines of France are the wines
of the world, and form a branch of production
which must every year become more important.
Here are the elements of a prosperity beyond cal-
culation ; and it is to this supremacy in the arts of
peace that the French people may aspire if they
can compel their rulers to give up the barren and
inglorious part to which they have so long devoted
their country.—Tines.

CORK ASSIZES, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 16,

Baron Greene, in his charge to the Grand Jury
to-day, said, indictments were to be sent up to
them charging certain individuals with compass-
ing, imagining, devising, and intending to depose
the Queen of the 'royal honour and name of the
Imperial Crown of the United Kingdom. The
conspiracy of which it was alleged the persons
named in the indictment were members was de-
scribed, he said, in different parts of the indictment
in various ways. They were charged to be the
combination of a certain number of persons who
had entered into an association called the Phoenix
Society ; the main circumstances in the ease, that
the prisoners were alleged to be members of the
confederacy and combination, and had thereby
become guilty of the several conspiracies charged
in the indictment.
The Grand Jury returned two true bills at four
o'clock against Murty, Monaghan, Wm. O'Shea,
Denis O'Sullivan, Mortimer Downing, Daniel
McCartie, Jeremiah Donovan, Rossa, and Patrick
Donning for treason and felony.

ELECTION OF CHAPLAIN To ST. PANCRAS WORK-
HOUSE.—Yesterday a ballot took place for the election of a
chaplain to St. Pancras Workhouse, in the room of the
Rev. Thomas Pugh, resigned. The result was—the Rev.
'Hanly Ball, 6. Thq Lev. J. K. Jennings
was declared duly elected.
andJ. liihJeen Rev.ning s 53 votes; the Rev. Peter pzascott, 12;
The Head Mastership of the King's School,
Canterbury, has been conferred upon tho Rev. John
Mitchinson, M.A., of Pembroke College, Oxford.
The Anglesey has arrived from Melbourne with
24,699 ozs. of gold, valued at about £98,800. The Morning
Light is now 92 days out, with £54,800, and the Tornado
61 dam with 4116,700. •