The Sun.
London, England, 1861-06-08 00:00:00

7HE CASE OF M. MIRES.

M. Mires appeared on Thursday before the Tri-
bunal of Correctional Police, that day having been
fixed for his trial. He was very pale. His co-
accused, Solar, did not appear. After answering
the usual questions as to his name and profession,
his advocate, M. Matthieu, made a formal demand
that all his papers and private correspondence, which
had been seized, should be given up to him, that he
should be allowed to take copies of them, &c. M.
Mires, after his advocate had done speaking,
said :—" I place my defence under the protection
of the Tribunal. Since the first day of my arrest
I hive suffered from the measures of precaution
which have been taken against me, and from which
persons dear to me suffer likewise. I am subjected
to serious humiliations. lam not allowed to see
my wife or my daughter, except in the presence of
a turnkey! Order, I pray you, that these mea-
sures may cease." The President told M. Mires
that the Tribunal had no power to redress the
grievances he complained of, and it then decided
that the application of his advocate could not be en-
tertained. After some discussion, the trial was
postponed for a fortnight, and M. Mires was taken
back to prison in a cab.

DEATH OF ANOTHER CELEBRATED ITALIAN.—
Yesterday evening, says the Unita Italiana of the 4th,
died at Milan Baron G. H. Avesani. He was with Daniel
Manin, the most illustrious exile from Venetia, and shared
with Mania the honour of the revolution and of the defence
of Venice. Extensive politic Al and legal knowledge, and
a firmness beyond proof, distinguished this ardent Italian
patriot. He died at the age of 68, and devoted himself to
the redemption of his country to the last hour of his life.
DEATH OF MAJOR CHARLES NASMYTH.—AII
those who were proud to know themselves his fellow .citi-
zens will hear, with a regret keener even than that of his
countrymen generally, that Major Nasmyth, the gallant
defender of Silistria, expired on the 2d instant, at Pau, in
the Pyrenees. Major Nasmyth, a son of our well-known
and esteemed citizen, Mr. Nasmyth, Charlotte. square, was
in 1843 nominated a cadet of the late East India Company's
seminary at Addiscombe, and in 1845 passed an examina-
tion, and was appointed direct to the Bombay Artillery.
Having lost his health by service in Guzerat, he was sent in
1853 to England on sick certificate, whence he was recom-
mended to take change of air to the Mediterranean. After
a short at Malta he proceeded to Constantinople, and
thence to Omar Pasha's camp at Shumla. From Shumla he
visited the Dobrudscha after it was vacated by the Turks
supplying information to Lord Stratford de Redcliffe re-
garding the state of the country. Having reached Silistria
in the month of May, ere yet the siege had commenced, he
made his services available to the garrison, and for so doing
he received the approbation of both English and Turkish
Governments, the latter accompanied by medals for the
campaign of the Danube, siege of Silistria, and the order of
the Medjidie. The hardships, privations, and anxieties of
that period again shattered his health, and he was for some
time afterwards laid aside at Constantinople, having lost
all his personal property. In 1854 he was transferred from
the East India Company's service to the Royal army,
with which he served in the Crimea, and obtained the
medal with clasps for Alma, Inkermann, and Sebastopol.
From the Crimea he was invalided on account of bad health,
and returned to England. He was then appointed to the
Kilkenny district as an Assistant-Adjutant-General, after- i
wards Brigade-Major at the Curragh, and later Brigade-
Major and Deputy-Assistant-Adjutant-General in Dublin.
At the Curragh his health, however, had been further
damaged, and, not rallying in Dublin, he was transferred
to Australia ; but disease had taken too strong a hold upon
him, and he was invalided home in the end of 1859, when
he reached Pan, in the south of France, where he remained
until his death. It will be in the recollection of our
readers that the freedom of this city was in the most flat-
tering manner, after his gallant and successful defence of
Silistria, conferred upon Major Nasmyth; and all must
lament the early removal of one whose professional skill and
personal gallantry effected so early and important successes
in the Turkish campaign. It will be a consolation to his
friends to know that he faced the last enemy with the same
composure and courage which distinguished his whole
career, and with the resignation becoming a Christian.
Whatever consolation his respected father and the other
members of his family may derive under their bereavement
from the conviction that they have the sincerest sympa-
thies of the public, and especially of their fellow-citizens,
they may be assured of possessing in the fullest measure
Scotsman.
BANKRUPTCY OF NON-TRADERS.—Lord Chelms-
ford has given notice that he will move in Committee of the
whole house on the Bankruptcy Bill that a non .trader be
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Some minor distinctions have been made in the Lords'Com-
mittee between a trader and a non-trader. A proviso has
been inserted that a non-trader abroad already shall not be
deemed to remain abroad with intent to defeat or delay his
creditors (an act of bankruptcy) until the expiration of six
months after the passing of this bill. Lying in prison for
debt for 14 days is to be an act of bankruptcy in a trader, but
it must be for two months in the instance of a non-trader
(an execution against a person's goods is not by the Bill an
act of bankruptcy if he is not a trader). A non-trader is
also to be allowed longer time (two months, as against
seven days for a trader) before ajudgment-debtor summons
can be taken out against him on non-payment of money
ordered to be paid by a decree in equity; but the same ellstinction was already in the Bill in respect to judgment-
debtor summonses for judgment debts. Lastly, the power
given in the Bill to the Bankruptcy Court to refuse the
bankrupt's " order of discharge" or sentence him to a year's
imprisonment, if the Court shall be of opinion "that his
insolvency is attributa'ile to rash and hazardous specula-
tion or unjustifiable extravagance in living," has by the
Lords' Committee been limited to the case of traders,