The Sun.
London, England, 1857-09-04 00:00:00

ASSEERGHUR.

The following is a private letter from the fortre,s
of Asseerghur :
"The news from Mow and Indore is dreadful— offi-
cers killed, the Artillery and Europeans fled into the fart
of Mhow, where they were on the 4th, and cowl I bold
their own till the 14th, by which time the Bombay
column would be near at hand. It left Aurungabad only
on the 6tb, and cannot rtach Asseerghur before the 14:h
and Mhow not before the 18t,b, not in time to save the
garrison and all the Europeans in it. Col. Durand, the
resident, and C,l. Travers escaped from it on the road to
Mundleseer. Woodburn is gone sick to Poonab. 111,j )r
Follett is in command of the column till Col. Stewart,
who is appointed, arrives.
"July 10.

"No further news from Indore beyond the report that
more than one.half the European population there are
murdered. K. writes that Mundleseer has not risen, as
first reported ; a panic seized the place, and all lelt it.
The native officers of the Bheel corps got drunk and
quarrelled among themselves. The treasury had not been
plundered, and things are getting more settle I there. The
ladies that left it are likely to come here, and reside until
quiet is restored. Asseerghur, which was left so long un-
protected, has been reinforced at the Commandant's
(Cel. Le Mesurier'e) most urgent application, and now
they see in Bombay the necessity of keeping it a strong-
hold. We present a motley group of mercenaries for
the defaces of it—matchlock men, Candeish Bheel,, and
two companies of the 19;11 Regiment, and a detachment
of the 3J Nizyn Cavalry encamped below, with the
Sciodish Contingent, which the Cmnalandant turned
out of the fort as a precautionary measure, pitched .tear
the Pettalf, whose teeth he hopes to draw on the arrival
of the column. They are now quiet, but uneasy, and a
report is about that they are going to h. ls, suspecting
they will be disarmed.

"July 12.

" Yetterday in the afternoon, at five o'clock, the
Commandant disarmed the contingent. Toe affair went
off very quietly. The men behaved very well. There
was no hesitation on the part of a single man. By seven
o'clock the whole of their arms, accoutrements, and am-
munition were safely lodged in the fort. As these
fellows are now unable to d.) any harm the Commandant
has sent away the cavalry, and in a day or two will send
the Canieish Bheels al,p. With the two companies of
the 19th 11,giment and the matchlock men he can ea,ily
hold on until a few more companies of regular troop, can
be sent. Colonel Somerset's L'glit Brigade has (I. 'era
to march on Asseerghur to Mhow, but now that all is
quiet here and in the neighbourhood, the direct road to
to Mhow by the Siodwa Gli will be the shorter r.,ad.
The last ten days have been attended with no ordinary
anxiety to the Commandant. The act of removing the
contingent so summarily as he did has proved to be,
though hazardous, yet fortunate. Had he waited ano-
ther day the news of the occurrences at Mhow and
Indore would have reached theu, and they might have
said they bad rather not,' and preferred rather killing
us or kicking us out of the fart first.

"July 14.

"The Commandant has managed affa'ra here- e eel-
lently, and so be has b-'en told by authority from B yn-
bay. We have just heard of the arrival of Cul. Durand,
the Resident of Indere, at lloosungabad on the Bth inst.
Re was one of t.4e few that escaped from Indore. He is
an sous to hear of the movements of the Bombay column.
We all learn now what ha wishes to to done with the
contingent—where they are, to be seut. The C
roandant hopes to be able to get a 1 their wo-neu uff,
accompanied by their men, in a day or two.
" Jnl' 16

" A report has found its way into the Poonale Obserrer
that the contingent here had revolted, but without
foundation, for they were removed out of the fort on the
6.h, arid on the same day,their removal was rep rted
officially both at Poonah and B mabay. It was to lir,-
vent the posidbillty of a revolt that the Commandant
turned the fellows out so unceremoniously. He gave
them no time to think whether they should capture the
fort or remain quiet. Indore and illhow, places only
about 100 miles from Asseerghur, had risen ; and this
fortress was garrisoned by contingent troop-r, whose
head quarter wing had mutinied previously, and there
was no time to be lost in deciding what was to be done
to prevent the mutiny extending here.
" Yesterday we heard from Colonel Durand, at
Hoostrigabad, aeking 'what accommodation there was
here for ladies and families, as there were many with
him, and more coming. We can put up about eight or
ten families here, doubling up, the discomfort of which
they will have to endure until they can return to their
own stations, so that Asseerghur, which has been de-
serted for months, not having more than six persons
here, will have at least four times that number if all
the families come•

" July 21.
•' Colonel Durand and his wife arrived yestct day, and
are putting up with the Commandant. They escaped
from Indore with Ecarcely a thing w;th them. S;eyvart%
column is at Boorampoor to-day, and will be hero to
morrow. The whole of the G walior Contingent,
except five c)inpanies here, have mutinied, and of
the five here has also mutinied. Sad news recAved
to-Jay of the surrender of Sir H. Wheeler and Ce,..vo-
pore to the mutineers, and thi it murder afterwards.
The eaily arrival of Europeans will turn the bloody
tide of events against the rebels, and a fearful punish-
ment awaits them. The atrocities of the mutineer,
surpass the horrors of the French Revolution We
rejoice the Commandant has got the treacherous
scoundrels out of the fort, There will be plenty of
work for our moveable columns alter the rains in setting
the country.

"July 23
"Heard to-day from Bombay. The Coma an Icr-in-
Chief, Sir Henry Somerset, has already published a gene-
nil order, conveying to Col. La Mesurier, Commandant
at APsecrghur, his thanks for the prompt any decided
measures taken by him in relieving it from the charge
of the doubtful detachment of the contingent, who at
the time of the mutiny of the remainder of the corps
were hdling the fortress, and so mainly contributing
to the safety of that stronghcl.l. Three of the mutineers
already alluded to were shot at a quarter past 6 o'el ck
this morning by nine men of the 14th Dragoons. The
whole affair was well arranged. Tue contingent fr >ops
wore all on the ground, with Stewart's force. They
were all trembling, thanking their turn would soon fol-
low. Several desertions from the company that mutinied
have taken place. Some of them have been brought
back, and will be tried and fl,gged, perhaps put to hard
labour. Last night nine of them deserted, thinking, I
suppose, they were to be shot too.
"The mutineers of Delhi are fighting desperately, but,
thank God, their ammunition is failing them, and then
there will soon be an end of them. Their loss of life has
been very great, and till grand attack by us will leave
very few in Delhi alive. The tlrughter among them
will be awful.

"July 21.

" Stewart's column marched this morning at 2 o'clock,
en route to Mhow. C.l met Durand and wife, who have
been living with the .Commandant, accompanied the
force, and are guests of the staff naess. On the I,t or
21 of August the column will be at Mhow. aivelock
his been thrashing the fellows right well at Cawnpore.
Our way to DelLi is 1 ,oking cheerful. By the middle of
S.epternher you may expect to hear in England bett,er
news than the miti:e hive hi.heito taken, as out Euroy An
forces will then be well advanced to the seat of insurre,
tion. The contingent here have been directed to march
on the 27[11 en route to Mho w. They will be three dip,'
march in tear of Stewart's column. A detachment of 50
Irregular 11.45 e have been kept here fur duty.
as I told you before, his had nothing to do with this
general rise in the country. It is a use to re-establish
the state of things before the battle of Plassey, 100 years
ago—the Mahoniedan rule."

THE THROUGH BOOKING SYSTEM BETWEEN ENGLAND
AND AMERICA.—The Mowing document, the corr
translate in of which has been certified by Mr. J. R.
Crowe, her Majesty's C instil General for Norway, ha-
been received at the London office of the Grand Trunk
Railway Company of Canada :—" Chicago, July 20,
185'7.—We, the under,igned emigrant passengers from
Norway, by the ship Hub; Captain Svinson (from •Zt-i-
-',anger), do hereby pubhdy die are that, on our lauding
at Quebec, we were kindly and in the bait manner re•
ceived by the Grand Trunk Railway Company, and
therce conveyed through the country. We found the
j. urn y comfortable and speedy, and the contract with
us was in all respects str ctiy fulfillscl. We therefore
adviss all our friends at home, who desire to emigrate
hither, to thee themselves in the hands of the said cow.
pang, by whom they will be honourably. treated. The
company sent us au interpreter, by name Airagrist, of
whom we also certify that ho aided Us in all things, and
was most solicitous to render our journey agreeable. All
ottr luggage was in 'good order, and was correctly de.
q 3. Subscribed with our own hands on behalf
Of puotlyee sad othtv, T (tUrti follow 21 aigna!tuttp.)

BIANCONI'S CA.RS.

In the section of Ecouon:Cc Science, at the meet-
ing of the British Associ ction in Dublin, Mr. C.
Bianconi reid the following communication on

Bianconi's Cars :

Referring to the synopsis of my e6tablitlynen',
submitted in a cDncise form to your association at
its session in Cork, in 1843, I now take the liberty
of submitting some further particulars, embracing
its origin, with its present condition, and the ex-
tent of its operations. My establi,hinent originatA
immediately after the peice of 1815, having then
had the advantage of a supply of first-class horses,
intended for the army, and rating in price fromt,-n

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to twenty pounds each, one of which drew a car and
six persons with ease 7 miles an hour. The demand
for such horses having ceased, the breeding of them
naturally diminished, and after some time, I found
it necessary to put two inferior horses to do the
work of one. Finding I thus had extra horse
power, I increased the size of the car, which hell
six passengers—three on each Bide—to one capable
of carrying eight, and in proportion as the breed of
horses improved I continued to increase the size
of the cars for summer work, and to ad I to the
number of horses in winter for the conveyaucs of
the same number of passengers, until I converted
the two-wheeled two-horse cars int ) lonr-
wheeled cars, drawn by two, thr te, or four
horses, according to the tr -ffic on the reseeeeive
roads and the wants of the puldic. This freedom
of communication has greatly added to the eleva-
tion of the lower classes ; for, in proportion as they
found that travelling by car, with a saving of time,
was cheaper then walking with a loss of it, they be-
gan to appreciate the value of speedy ct minunica-
tion, and hence have been, to an almost incalculable
extent, travellers by my cars, where mixing with the
better orders of soclety, their own mot al elev,tinn
has been of a decided character. As the CA t atlisli-
ment extended I was surprised and deligh e I at its
commercial and moral importance. I found, as soon
as I had opened coinmiteiscation with the interior,
the consumption of manufactured goods has greatly
increased. The corn petition of parties availing
themselves of the facilities of travelling was so
g, eat, that instead of buying at second hand, after
many profits, they were enabled to obt sin the sup-
plies nearer the manufacturer—in the more remote
parts of Ireland. Fer instance, on my opening the
communication from Tralee to Cahircivecn in the
south, Galway to Clifden in the west, and Militia
t ) Behnullet, in the northwest purchasers were
obliged to give Bd. or 9d. a yard for calico for
shirts subsequently sold for 3d. and 4d , thus en-
abling that portion of the population who could
previously badly afford only one shirt each, to
have two for a less price than was paid for one,
and in the same ratio other commedities came into
general use at reduced prices. The formation of my
first car, conveying passengers back to back, on
the principle of the outside car—now so much
used in Dublin—was admirably adapted to
its purposes, audit frequently happene I that, whilst
on one side were sitting some of the higher classes,
persons as opposite in position were seated on the
other. Not only was this unaccompanied with any
inconvenience, but its effects were salutary, as many
who had no status ware, by coining jute casual
communication with the educated classes, inspired
with the importance of, and respect for, social posi-
tion. The growth of railways necessarily affected
my establishment, and. diminished its operations,
by withdrawing from it 10 two-wheeled cars, tra-
' veiling daily 450 miles ; 22 four-wheeled cars, tra-
velling daily 1,620 miles; 5 coaches, travelling daily
376 miles—making a total falling off of 37 vehicles,
travelling daily 2,452 miles. Notwithstanding this
falling off, the consequent result of the extension of
railways, I still have over 900 horses, working 35
two-wheeled cars, travelling daily 1,752 in Ls ; 22
four-wheeled cars, travelling daily 1,500 miles ; 10
coaches, travelling daily 992 miles—making 67 con-
veyances travelling daily 4,244 miles, and extending
over portions of 22 counties, viz., Cork, Clare Car-
low, Cavan, Donegal, Fermanagh, Gal :say, King's,
Kilkenny, Kerry, Limerick, Longford, R iscomin on,
Leitrim, Mayo, Queen's County, Sligo, Tipperary,
Tyrone; Waterford, Wexford, and Westmeath.
Anxious to aid as we'l as I could the resources of
the countryi many of which lay so long unproduc-
tive, I tue I this establishment, as far as possible,
to effect so desirable an object. For instance, I
enabled fishermen oa the western c oast to avail
themselves of a rapid transit fir their fresh fish,
which, being a very perishable article, would be
c ,moiaraiively p•ofielsss unless its conveyance to
Dublin and other suitilie markets could be insured
within a given time, so that those engaged at the
fisheries at Clifdein We-tport, and oth,r places,
sending their pro lute by my conveyances in one
day could rely on its reaching its destination on the
following morning, additional horses and special
conveyances being provided and put on in the pro-
per seasons. The amount realised by this valuable
traffic is almost incredible, and has largely contri-
buted to the comfur% and independence now so hap-
piiy contrasting with the 1 imen able condition the
west of Ireland presented a few years since. I shall
conclude by two observations, which, I think, illus-
trate the increasing prosperity of the c ointry and
the progress of the people. First, al thee:4h the
population has so considerably deer( aced by end-
gration awl other causes, the proportion of travel-
lers by my convey'sere is greater—thus demonstrat-
ing that tee pe plc appreciates not only the money-
value of time, but also the advantages of an est ib-
lishment designed and worked f r stheir particelar
use and development, now 42 years in operation.
• Secondly, the peaceable and high moral bearing
of the Irish people, which can only be known and
duly appreciated by those who live amongst them,
and who have, as I have had, long anti co: start in-
tJru)ursa with them. I have therr'7fore been equally
surprisei and pained to observe inn portions of the
respectable press, both in England and Leland, re-
peated attacks on the morality of our population,
charging them with a proneness t o vio'ate the law anti
with a disregard of private property ; but as one fact
is worth a thousand assertions, I offer, in contradic-
tion of these statements this indisputable fact :—My
conveyances, many of theme LI rying very important
mai s, have been travelling during all hours of the
day at d night, often in lonely and unfreqta uteri.
places, and during the long period of forty-
two years that my establishment is now in exist-
ence, the slightest injury has never been done I.y
the people t ) my property, or that entrusted t ) my
care; and this fact gives me greater pleasure than
any pride I might feel in reflecting upon the other
rewards of my life's labour.
Mr. NEWMARCH observed that since the intro-
duction of railways, the (Inland for cars t ) convey
persons short distances had been greatly increased,
and as a consequence tl:e number of persons ein-
: ployed as drivers and cutlets was much greater
than before, as was also the extent of laud brought
under cultivation for the purpose of meeting an in-
ci eased demand fe r oats.
Mr. W. PARR asked Mr. Bi inconi whether, ac-
cording to his experience, the working of a horse
more than ten miles a d y for each dry in the week
would be injurious to it?
Mr. BIANCONI said be found by experience that
he could work a horse eight. miles a day, for six
days in the week, ninth better than six :Liles a clay
for seven days in the week ; so that by not work-
ing on Sundays he eff, etel a saving of 7 per cent.

FRENCH .A.YD ENGLI.II FISHER 3I 11T.

On Wednesday the Nor,h Shields magistrat, s
held a long inqui;yin the Town-hall into a charge
preferred by William Templeman, a Tyne fisher-
man, and his beat's crew, against Pierre Charles
Lohelelor, master of the French fishing lugger No.
274, of Boulogne, of having been guilty of an in-
fin,ction of the fishing regulvions hy fishing within
three miles of the N,..rthtunberland coast, and
damaging his (Templeunan',) ne's ; there was also
a second charge, of assault. Mr. Kewney, of the
town-clerk's office, prosecuted. As the reader is
aware, a great number of heavily manned luttgers
from the northern ports of France pursued the
herring fishery in the Nordi Sa. There is a cou-
vention with France prohihiting the fishermen of
either country from fishing within three milts of
their neighb iair's coast. The regulations are strictly
enforced upon the coast of France, but until this
season the British Admiralty has been very re-
gardless f the interests of their fishermen, and
down upon the north-east coast, .where our
men fish in small coble:z they have suffered
fearfully through -Cie French boats coming
within the presmib-d boundary and. sweeping
their nets away. On Saturday morning fat
Templeman's boat was fishing within a mile and a.
half of the Northumberland coast when th > defen-
dant shot within him and c irried away the greater
part of his rets, and u on the n en belongit,g to the
cohle geing alongside of the lugg r the Frenchmen
attempted to hide their number,-and one of th rn
trio Ito knock Templeman into the sea. The E kg-
lidrnen, however, secured the number, but up m
pulling away they were chased by five of the 1u2,.-
gor's crev in a bo it, who tried to &ilk them, and
fa,il;ng to do that, bring five to three, they heat
and ill-used them. Tempi-,man upon reaching
land sought out Lieutenant Simpson, who is Ili on
the coast with the Oter steam cruiser, who imm
diately went in search of the lugger, and captured it
off the Durham c)ast, bridging it and tl:e crew into
the Tyne. Tamplemae swore that he was in 10
fathoms water wh n the Frenchman shot iuscle of
him ; the Frenchmen swore that they were within
25 fathoms, but oven iu 25 fathoms they were
within three miles of the shore. The Bench, after
a very careful inquiry into the facts of the case,
adjudged that the defendant pay the pleintilf 281.
damage alai lose, or have his vessel dealt. 'd in port
four months,

EXTRAORDINARY TRIAL IN ALGERIA.

A trial of extraordinary character, and likely to
be fraught with important consequences, has just
teen concluded in Algetia. So sparingly has public
attention been generally at'racted to the internal
affairs of that African colony that the Parisians
themselves appear taken by surprise at the parti-
culars revealed, and the subject has now for some
weeks been discussed with incredible and unceasing

nterest on the other side of the Channel. It is

now almost a twelvemonth ago—that is to say, it
was on the 12th of last SeptembEr—that a public

conveyance started in the middle of the night from
Tlemc,n for Oran, two towns at no great di,tance
from each other in the western districts of Algeria.

It was attacked on the road by armed men, exactly
as might have been the case iu Spain or Mexico,
and, among other casuslties, one of the passengers,
an Arab chief of consi,!eration, styled the Aga Ben
Abdallah was shot deed. His widow, who had
previously lost three other limzbancht, and all by
deaths equally violent, raised an Oriental clamour
at this climax of her woes, loaded her-elf with
chains, tore her garments and her hair, and pub'icly
demanded vengeance at the hands of the Govern-
ment. Alter some ineffectual inquiries the atrocity
was at length laid t r the charge of a French officer
—CaptaifiDoineau, who, wit-r some 18 Arab ;4 CC, ,m-
-plicei, was put to the bar at the Court of Assize at
Oran to answer for the crime. The proceedings
which eneued were singular in the extrenae. The
mixture elicit-d in the depositions of civilization and
barbarism, of Arab manners and French adminis-
tration, of military rule and civil procedure, presents
a picture so discordant in its tea ures as to be almost
bewildering. The first fact in the case, indeed—r hat of
a bonafide chief of the Desert—the real genuine Sheik
of the Beni Snous, having me • his de An, not on horse-
back or under a tent, but in the coupe of a dig oice,
is a suggestive specimen of the incidents which fol-
lowed. When we say that the principal witnesses
against the chief culprit were those who stood ac-
cused of the same crime, and that they perpetuaLy
contradicted themselves and each of her, we shall
have said enough to excite() ourselves from entering
upon the judicial portion of the narrative any fur-
ther than. to add that a conviction has been ob-
tained. Even the incidental disclosures produced
by the trial will not create quite so much astonish-
ment in England as they seem to have done in
France. It appeared in the evidence that the
military Boards of Administration in the colony, at
the head of one of which had been Doineau himself,
had exercised an authoritytranscending in its rigour
and its despotism even the recognised-severities of
martial law. Sumniary executions were ispok,-n of
as notorious transactions, and in certain districts of
the colony the military administrators pronounced
their decrees, even in matters of life and death,
without so much as the form of trial. We trust
we may assume that in no British dependency have
the abuses of 'colonial rule ever been pushed to such
a length as this ; but, as we are colonisers by in-
stinct, as we know what it is to maintain authority
in countries where life as well as government is to
be preserved only by daily vigilance, we can com-
prehend without difficulty the excesses to which
soldiers might be carried when charged with the
administration of a territory in which every man's
hand was against them, and that hand well armed.
Considering, in short, the character of the Arab
population, the position of the French colonists, and
the duties intrusted to the French army, we cannot
profess to be much surprised that the dependency,
when left to itself, without inquisitive supervision,
should have yielded such examples of government
as were related on this trial. The most notable
feature in the transaction we discover in a diffcreut
quarter.
It might have been not unnaturallysupposed that
in a country where the suppression of public in-
formation is readily practicable such proceedings as
these, involving so many unpleasant disclosures,
would not have been suffered to emerge very freely
into light. The result, in fact, has occasioned an
extraordinary amount of scandal, and the conduct
of the midtary Boards has been severely criticised,
not only in ordinary French circles, but in the
Cabinet itself. All these conditions, however,
have been frankly accepted by the Government of the
Emperor, and the whole case, with all its attendant
anecdotes, has been tried, canvassed, circulated, and
,scrlitinised with as much freedom and publicity as
could have been commanded among ourselves. At
Oran itself the interest created was remarkable.
Officers from all parts of the co'ony were attracted
to the trial, and the court was even attended one
day by visitors from an English ship of war which
had come to anchor off the town. In France the
public journals have seized upon the topic with an
avidity very intelligible,. and the details of the in-
vestigation have been placed wi hout reserve bef re
the country. What is of greater importance, this
publicity is working out its proper ends, and it is
understood that the trial will probably produce
a reform of the adiniuistration. throughout Al-

(feria.
We need not ascend the annals of France very far
to find a Government under which no such di-clo-
sures as these would pi obably have been permitted.
The Emperor, however, bas taken the responsibility
of the oecation with equal courage and wisdom. The
person inculpated by the researches of the police,
though an officer of high prof-s-ional character and
considerable position, was publicly arrested and pro-
secuted ; the trial was unreservedly open ; the in-
quiries of the Court were carried withont impedi-
ment into all the details of the colorrial ad ministration,
and the reality of the abuses alleged receives a
proof from the resolution -of the Government to
effect a reform. We are bound, indeed, to an-
knowledge that not even under our own constitu-
tion, with all its machinery fur detecting and •
denouncing wrong, could any nrse have been more
thoroughly sifted, more freely discussed, or more
unshrinkingly exposed than that which has just
terminated at Oran.
It maybe anticipated that such an example will
produce good fruit. There is no greater political
mistake than to assume that publicity is injurious,
and that the governed classes of a country should
be kept systematically in the dark. The old saying
that what is unknown is always great applies with
as much force to demerits as to merits. The actual
reputation of Algiers is not likely to be deprec'at-cl
by anything that has bQen disclosed, while it
may be reasonably assumed that reform will f Tow
on exposure. It was always probab'e tat in a
colony withdrawn to a great extent from coguisauce,
ruled almost as a matter of necessity upon-principles
mainly military, and still hell in some quarters at
the bayonet's p int, the law of the sword should
occasionally pledominate in an unwarrantable
degree. Men who hold their own lives by hourly
tenure are not likely to set a high value on the lives
of others, nor is it surprising that an authority des-
potic in its essential character should degenerate
into a vicious form of despotism. The French
officers who lived among Arabs and governed
Arabs as',best they could adopted, not, indeed,
justifiably, but in pursuance of known temptations,
an Arab code of jus:tice and an Arab form of proce-
dure. What was related of some of them on the
trial would, if related of Arab or any Oriental
authorities, have bee, regarded as perfectly na-
tural. The scandal of the French public has arisen
from the abrupt and jerring contrast produced by
the administration of Tlemben end the administra-
tion of Ririe when the two sp, cimeus were :wrought
unexpectedly toga' her. The evil was occasioned by
keeping the affairs of these communities so much
apart. Had the ey,s of Frenc'imen been always
directed to the colony, the abuses of 'its govern-
ment could never have assumed such a magnitude ;
and the publicity now g:verr to the subject is the
best pledge and security for effective reform.—
Times.

THE NEW LAW OF DIVORCE.—POWERS
CONF±RicED OW ASS Z JUDGES.

The ohject of the la?gislature in enabling the
Judges of Assize to entertain original applicaions
under this act, seems to be that of saving exp,?nse
to the parties iu bringing their witnesses to L-m-
-don from a distance. the power, however, is
confined to application for the restitution of con-
jugal right, and for judicial separation. The ap-
plication must he by petition to the Judge of
Assize at the assizes held for the county in which
the husbAnd and wife reside, or have last resided
together. Upon satisfactory evidence being laid
before him, he may make the decree prayed for ;
and when the application is made by the wife for
" judicial separation" he may mike any order for
ai.mony he may deem just. The act does not say
whether the petition is to be heard in open court,
or otherwise, but it is presumed that the s ime
course will be adopted upon petitions presented at
the assizes as the full Court will pursue where
p titinns are heard before them.
The Judge of Assize may delegate his authority
to any of her M ijehty's C. unsel or Sergeants
named in the Commission of AssizP, who, for the
purpose of deciding upon the matters of such peti-
tion, are vested with all the powers which the
Judge himself might exercise. This is a power
beyond that given to the full Court, and, it is
Presumed, will be exercised only in exceptional

cases.
All the other powers which may be ex r:lised by
the full Court, except receiving and hearing peti-
tions. fur the dissolufon of marriages, are also
vested in the Judge of Ass. ze, including the power
to make orders as to the custody, maintenance,
and education of chil iron.
All orders made under the powers 133 conferred
may, upon the application of the party obtaining
the same, be entered as an order of the full Com t,
and be enforced in the same ntannisr as if originally
made by the Court.—Advertiser: