The Sun.
London, England, 1832-04-17 00:00:00

GERMAN PAPERS.

TURIN, Aram 2.—The reserve of the French Minis-
try in the debates repecting Algiers, must have convinced
you of the correctness of what I stated, that our Court
had made application at Constantinople and London, to
obtain the evacuation of North Africa by the French. I
am now able to add, that very serious negotiations are now
on foot on the subject, and that the French Cabinet spews
itself inclined to accede to the proposal' made to it for the
future organization of the Barbary States. It only wishes
to wait for a favourable moment to have an ostensible
motive for evacuating the country. This concession will,
doubtless, he very agreeable in London, and highly flatter-
ing to Lord Grey in having obtained by negotiation the
abandonment of a covenant made against the will of the
Duke of Wellington. At Paris, on the contrary, M.
Perier will be most vehemently attacked by the opposition
In all France there will be a great outcry against the renun-
ciation of a conquest so glorious and advantageous to France.
For the present the ministerial journals deny this, but
you may rest assured that the resolution is taken,
and that, perhaps, official documents may be soon pub-
lished. Our court has energetically protested against the
occupation of Ancona, and especially made a representation
at London, in order to induce all the Cabinets to take
steps in common at Paris, with a view to obtaining the
immediate evacuation of Ancona. For reasons not known
here, the English and Prussian Cabinets declined joining
in such a step, but are said to have declared that they
considered it unnecessary, as there was reason to hope the
object would be attained by negotiations in the usual way.
And it seems that the latest assurances of the French Ca-
binet on this point are satisfactory. The Austrian troops,
however, are so posted, that they rn :y, at the shortest
notice, act in Italy in all directions. The measures taken
by Count Raditzky are extremely judicious. All the
fortresses in Lombardy and in this kingdom are
completely repaired and supplied with ammunition
and provisions. Precautions are also taken by our
Government on several parts of the coast to frustrate
any attempt that might be made to effect a land-
ing. On the part of Austria, the whole coast of Dalma-
tia, and some islands in the Adriatic, are to be placed in
a state of defence.

CHA3IRERY, APRIL 4.-We have lately had a confir-
mation of the hope that our Government will advance
slowly and prudently in the improvement of our civil in-
stitutions. It would have been dangerous to give to our
couutry, which is agitated in consequence of events in
the south and the west, the freedom of the press, in the
French sense of the term. A step, however, has lately
been taken in this matter, which could never have been
thought of under the late King. All the printers and
booksellers here were called together, by order of the
Government, and informed that they should enjoy hence-
for;•ard entire liberty to print and publish, if they would
promise on their oaths not to publish any thing political,
religious, or literary, that by its alarming, exciting, or
offms,ve tendency, might give occasion for the displeasure
of the Government.

The old plan of defending Turin by the formation of a
great fortified camp, is again spoke❑ of.
BERLIN, MARCH 31.—There is a report here of an in-
tended marriage of the Princess Elizabeth, his Majesty's
niece, with the reigning Duke Prince William of Bruns-
wick : and the prospect of this new bond of union between
the families which have had so many alliances with each
other for centuries past, gives great satisfaction.
VIENNA, APRIL 6.—Five per Cent. Aletalliques, 87
13-16 ; Four per Cent 771 ; Bank Shares, 1,156.
.Allgemcitie Zeitung, April 11.
CASSELL, APRIL I..—We learn from good authority that
the Electoral Prince had at Wilhelinsbad only half an hour's
conversation with his august father; the object of his
journey, which related to the Countess Schotnberg, and her
being recognised as the consort of the Prince, was fully at-
tained.—Nuremburg Correspondent, April S.

SHAKING HANDS.—At a late duel, the par-
ties discharged their pistols without effect, whereupon one of
the seconds proposed that the combatants should shake hands.
To this the other second objected, as unnecessary, " for," said
he, " their hands have been shaking this half hour."—The Cab.
FIRE AT THE HOUSE OF LORDS.—At
about twelve o'clock on Sunday the inhabitants of Abingdon-
street were thrown into some alarm by perceiving a dense smoke
rise from the Royal entrance to the House of Lords, built by
the command of his late Majesty. But as ten, twenty, and
thirty minutes passed without any thing but smoke making
its appearance, the matter passed off in sundry jokes about the
Reform Bill having fired the House, the Lords having smothered
the Bill in the night, &c. The fact of the matter, however, was
this :—the Gothic passage forming the Royal entrance, when
not prepared for his Majesty's reception, is generally turned
into a receptacle for the old and partly worn matting used in
the different chambers and passages of the House of Lords,
which is laid up in it in rolls, as also its own matting, upon
the floor, which is of stone. There is a small German stove at
about the centre of the entrance; but no wood work nearer to
it than the large oaken folding doors at each extremity of the
passage. The matters, as the men are called whose duty it is
to lay down the matting, being employed that day in preparieg
the House for their Lordships' reception, early yesterday
morning, having occasion to go to their stoves, found the mat-
ting rather damp. One of them thereupon made a fire in the
stove; but leaving the door open (it is so believed), a coal fell
out upon the partly unrolled matting, which was laid too near
to the tire. The matting caught light, and is supposed to
have been smouldering some ten minutes or quarter of an hour
before it was discovered. Sir Thomas Tyrwhitt, the Usher of
the Black Rod, had his carriage at the door of the House, and
was on the point of driving out with a part of his family when
the discovery was made. Under his direction a plentiful quan-
tity of water was thrown upon the ignited materials, which
having been extinguished he drove away. Before church time
was over, nothing remained to indicate what had happened but
a strong smell. The detached and harbacandike nature of the
entrance prevented, when matters were at the worst, any one
fearing that the fire would communicate with :the body of the

BENCH-(THIS DAY.)

TODD V. TILE WATERMEN'S COMPANY.

This was an action, tried last term, against the Watermen%
Company for a false return to a mandamue. Tho man •
damus had been issued to show cause why they refused to
admit the plaintiff to the freedom of their Company, and
the defendants returned, that the plaintiff had not duly
merved seven years' apprenticeship. The plaintiff then
brought his action for a false return, and the Jury found a
verdict in his favour.

The Arroaltrv-GeNtaar., this day, moved for a rule
to show cause wby the verdict should not be set aside, and a
new trial had, under the following circumstance. On the
trial it appeared that the plaintiff's father was in a very
extensive business as a wharfinger, and that he had in his
employ, as a lighterman, a person named Coleman. It
would be a great object with Mr. Todd, sen. to be en-
ibled to work his own barges, and, not being a freeman of
the Watermen's Company himself, he apprenticed his son,
the plaintiff, to his servant (Coleman), in the year
1623. It was certainly proved that the plaintiff had
been very frequently employed in craft on the river,
and there was no doubt that he was capable of managing
craft. But it was also proved that he had been as
frequently employed in the capacity of clerk to his father,
and giving orders to his father's servants ; that Coleman
had upon one occasion been fined by the Watermen's
Company for an offence against their liege laws, in not
insisting on the plaintiff's residing with him, as his
master, and that in order to avoid a repetition of that
offence, Coleman then took a lodging, or nominally took
a lodging for the plaintiff in his father's house, although
Coleman would not swear on the trial that he had
ever paid any rent for the lodging. There was
in his, the Attorney-General's opinion, such evi-
dence, of a collusion, and also only a partial
service to Coleman, that the defendants ought to have had
a verdict. He thought, however, that the Jury looked to a
point to which they ought motto have directed their atten-
tion, and that was the plaintiff's capacity to manage craft
on the river. That view of the case was a very dangerous
and mischievous one, and one which would be attended
with great inconvenience to all the companies of the City
of London ; for there ought to be a clear and undivided
service of seven years, by a party claiming the freedom and
the privilege to carry on trade in the city.
_ _

Mr. Justice J. PARKE said he certainly left it to the
Jury to say whether the plaintiff was actually and sub-
stantially the apprentice of Coleman for seven whole years,
and not whether be was merely learning how to manage
craft.

The Court granted a rule Nisi.
MILLS v. HARRIS.

This was an action tried at the last Gloucester Assizes,
before Mr. Justice Littledale, to recover damages of the
defend int, for mismanaging a farm belonging to the
plaintiff.
On the motion of Mr. CAMPBELL, this morning, the
Court granted a rule for a new trial, on the ground that
the verdict was contrary to evidence.