The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-02 00:00:00

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)

SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March I—Magyar, from Youghall ; Hopewell,
from Portland ; Eleanor, from Sunderland ; Wonder,
steamer, from Jersey; Georges, from Cherbourg; Monarch,
steamer, from Guernsey; Anna, from Sunderland; Trium-
virate, from Newport.
Sailed—Celia, for Llanelly ; Havre, steamer, for Havre;
Courier, steamer, for Jersey; Dora, for Cardiff.

(BY SUBMARINE AND MAGNETIC TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Arrived, March I—Maria Augusta, from Bombay;
Monteagle, from Bombay.

Arrived,' March 2—Efvia, from Gergenti ; British Ban-
ner, from Colombo.

Sailed—Triton, steamer, for Calais; Berlin, steamer, for
Hamburg.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.
Anchored—Providence, from London, for St. Michael's ;
Arabella, from London, for Plymouth.
Passed (in tow)—Admiral P. Adelbert, from Calcutta,
for London.
Sailed—Excelsior, for London.

Although the payment of the Turkish dividend
was duly effected yesterday, it is plain that the regular pro-
vision of the funds was greatly jeopardised by mismanage-
ment. The bondholders are entitled to the produce of cer-
tain Customs' duties which the Government are bound to
remit every month, and if this engagement had been pro-
perly fulfilled it would have been impossible for the:pre-
sent payment to have been made dependent in any way on
the bills of M. Mires. It is to be hoped that steps will be
taken without delay to insure that the matter shall be on a
proper footing for the future.

-A
STRANGE TRIAL IN FRANCE.—The Marquis
Dubois de la Motte, who died in 1843, left by his will to a
female named Heree, who had been 30 years in his service
as cook, a chateau and grounds, about 10,000 f. a-year, his
library, and his late wife's diamonds, but subject to the
express condition that she should never marry, because, said
the will, 'at the age at which she has now arrived, marriage
cannot add to her happiness.' The son of the marquis at-
tempted to have the will set aside, on the ground that the tes-
tator was not right in his mind ; but the Courts declared it
valid, and the woman, accepting the condition imposed, en-
tered into possession of the bequest. She never thbught of
objecting to that condition until a few months back when
she notified to the De la Motto family her intention of
marrying a man who is clerk to the juge-de-pair of the
village of Janze, department of the Ile-et-Vilaine, at
the same time intimating that, if they made any
objection, she should institute legal proceedings to have
the interdiction to her marriage declared null and void,
on the ground that, under Art. 300 of the Code Napoleon,
it is contrary to public morality. The De la Motto family
did object, more, however, for the sake of the woman her-
self than ,for any other reason, she being 72 years of age,
and it being therefore impossible that the man who
wanted to marry her could have • any other object than to
get possession of her property. She accordingly yesterday
brought an action before the Civil Tribunal to be relieved
of the interdiction to marry for the reason she had men-
tioned. The matter was argued at some length, but the
Tribunal decided that, as at the time she entered into pos-
session of the bequest, she was of an age at which, if mar-
ried, there was little chance of her having a family, and as
the testator had reason to fear that the bequest, by raising
her to a position in society to which she was not accustomed
might make her the object of speculation, there was nothing
immoral in the stipulation against her marrying ; it said,
too, that she was free to marry if she liked, on renouncing
the legacy, It therefore dismissed the action with cost,"

PRUSSIA.

A Berlin letter, of the 26th ult., states that the
committee appointed to examine the bill imposing
taxes on real property has made such progress that
the Chamber of Deputies will be able to begin the
discussion next week. The bill will pass through
the Chamber with all despatch, in order that it
may be soon submitted to the Chamber of Nobles,
which has hitherto always rejected the proposed
reform. The Chamber of Deputies will not vote
the extraordinary expenses required for reorganis-
ing the army, unless the nobles consent to suppress
the exemption from taxation hitherto enjoyed by
landowners, so that the latter may contribute their
share of the public expenditure.