The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-12 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDOr,!, TUESDAY EVENING, IVIARCII 12, 1861.

LA IV INTBLLIGENCE.—( This Day).

HOUSE OF LORDS-APPEALS.

Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, the Lord Bishop of
Carlisle, Lords Cranworth, Wensleydale, and Chelmsford.

AITKMAN V. AITKMAN.

The parties in this case are two brothers. This is an
appeal from a decision of the Court of Session in Scotland,
holding that, :at the time of the father's marriage in 1820, his
domicile was Scotch and not English. And the respondent,
born before the marriage, was thereby legitimate, accoi ding
to the law of Scotland, and entitled to take his father's
estates in Scotland, to the exclusion of the appellant, born
after the marriage. The Lord Chancellor said Captain
Robertson, afterwards Aitkman, the father of the appellant
anrrespondent, was a Scotchmaa by birth, and it. did not
appear in evidence that he ever lost his domicile of
origin, and acquired a foreign domicile, either Anglo-
Indian or English. If his domicile had been English at
the date of his marriage, the children born before the mar-
riage would not havo been legitimate according to the law
of England ; but his domicile at the time of his marriage
was Scotch, and the chi'dren born before the marriage are
legitimate by the law of Scotland.
Lord Cranworth and Lord Wensleydale delivered their
opinions, and entirely concurred with the Lord Chancellor.

Tho Lord Chancellor said his noble and learned friend
now absent (Lord Brougham), who heard with great atten-
tion the arguments on both sides, also entirely concurred.

The Lord Chancellor affirmed the decision of the Court
of Session, and dismissed the appeal.
The Attorney-General said, in order to save his client
(the respondent) the disagreeableness of recovering his costs
from his brother (the appellant), ho would not ask costs of
the appeal.
The Lord Chancellor hoped such good feeling never
would be interrupted, and that the parties would live in
harmony together.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Commissioner Fonblatique.)
IN RE GRIMES. •

This bankrupt was described as of the Queen's Arms,
Poplar, and of the Goat, Old-street, St. Luke's, publican,
and to-day came up upon his examination meeting.
Mr. Brough (counsel) appeared for the assignees.
The debts are set down as £1,770 ; the available assets
figure for £260, but there is property held by 'creditor!
which will, it is expected, realise a large amount over and
above the debts.
The examination was adjourned.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Evans.)
IN RE GROVES.-GROVE'S MUSIC HALL.

This bankrupt was described as of Grove's Music Hall,
Spread Eagle Tavern, Kingsland-road, and to-day came
up upon his examination meeting.
Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-street, appeared for the bank-
rupt, and there being no opposition, the bankrupt passed.

TDB UNION DISCOUNT COMPANY.

To-day was held a meeting for prooffi of debts in the
matter of the Union Discount Company.
Debts to some amount were proved, and an adjournment
taken till the 18th April next.

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

REPORTED SURRENDER OF
MESSINA.

A letter dated Naples says :LLate yesterday
evening we were surprised to hear that the Victor
Emmanuel had returned from Messina, conveying,
by her so doing, the intelligence that General Fer-
gola had thought well to -surrender. We may
suppose that Cialdiui's threat had conveyed with
it no inconsiderable amount of persuasion.

Yesterday, by one of the steamers of the Messa-
genies Imperiales, several officers of the Garibaldian
army left for Constantinople. They were mostly
Frenchmen. They affirm that they have been
sent there by Garibaldi. For my part, says the
correspondent of thelforning Post, I am incredulous,
but they stoutly assert it, and one of them, a cap-
tain showed me, a few minutes before starting,
letters addressed to him by a committee at Genoa,
in which orders were given to him to take that
destination. He added that he was charged with
a very important mission. Garibaldi has written
from Caprera to Major Bandi, who received four
wounds at Calatafimi, and the terms of his letter
certainly imply that there is at uesent something
in the wind, for paribaldi is not a man to write
expressions intended merely to mystify. To under-
derstand the folloiving letter it must be recollected
that Bandi is a Tuscan, and that the Dolfi to whom
reference is made is the radical baker, the object
of Lord Normanby's abhorrence, who wiells at will
the not very fierce democracy of Florence
" Caprera, 15th Feb., 1861.
"My dear Bandi,.—l have seen with pleasure
our :Dolfi, and I thank you for the good news
which you give me respecting the patriotic
enthusiasm of 'the Tuscan youth. Tell those gal-
lant youths that the time will soon arrive to behold
the cessation of the slavery of our brethren of
Venice and of Rome, and that assuredly none of us
Will be wanting at the Holy Gathering.—Yours,
" G. GARIBALDI."

At Naples there was fixed up, last Saturday, at
,he corners of the streets, the following proclama-

1011 :

" Neapolitans,—lt is a supreme necessity that
the public opinion in Italy should loudly manifest
itself in demanding. Rome as the capital of Italy.
Printed declarations, petitions, remonstrances, and
all other legal means must be set in action in order
that diplomacy—whether timorous or conniving—
that anti-national interests, that narrow and hurtful
systems, may no longer stand in the way of the
grand desire of Italy. These Southern provinces,
which were the first to wish for a country one and
indivisible, are bound not to stop short in their
object, and should give the example that neither
Sovereigns, nor Parliaments, nor Ministers are able
to withstand the moral force of public opinion."

declaring that the Congress had heard " with
disgust, and blamed strongly," the' words which he
had employed with respect to the rights of the
Queen. This gave rise to a long and confused
cussicrn, bid eventually M. Sagasta's explanation
was accepted, and the motion was Withdrawn. The
debate on Italy, which he had raised, was then ad-
journed. The journals contain no news ; but the
organs of the clerical and Legitimist parties—the
Esperanza, the I?egeneracion, and the Pensamiento
—make violent attacks on Prince Napoleon for his
recent speech in the Senate.