The Sun.
London, England, 1850-04-30 00:00:00

cies on the 19th of August at Glasgow, and " it was
no such thing."
Mr. YARDLEY—The contract will prove when it
was signed. Let me see it. The articles of agree-
ment were handed to the Magistrate, who ascertained
that the articles were dated on the 17th of August,
and the steward would be entitled to two days' more
wages.
Mr. Waddington—He has sworn falsely—he said
the 19th.

Mr. YARDLET—Nonsense, man ; it don't show
much common sense to catch the man up in that
manner. You exhibited more sense when you were
here the other day.
Mr. Waddington—l have got as much sense as
many other men have.
Mr. YARDLEY—Come, sir, don't be impertinent. I
will not suffer it.

Mr. Waddington—" I cannot go back to any slave-
holding state in America. If Ido my ship will be
scuttled, or the masts taken out." He then held a
short conversation with Mr. Pelham, and said " he
would not pay the wages up to the 20th of April, for
the man had not been regularly discharged ;" and the
solicitor said, " If he did not he would obtain a dis-
tress warrant and seize the ship." Mr. Waddington
then took up his papers, and as he was going away
said, " D—n it, I wish we were all slaves, seamen,
magistrates, and all."
An order for the paymentof 111. 14s. 61, after giv-
ing the captain credit for advances, was made.
SOUTHWARK.

Jane Butler was brought before Mr. Ingham for
re-examination, charged with stealing 50 sovereigns,
a 101. Bank of England note, and some ancient coins,
the property of Isaac Buckmaster, of Norris's-
building!, Snow's-field!, Southwark ; and Ann Gil-
lingham, a brothel-keeper, in Bluegate-fields, St.
George's-in-the-East, was charged with receiv-
ing a portion of the money, knowing it to have been
stolen.

Mr. INGHAM said that he should commit both the
prisoners for trial.
Butler was obliged to be carried out of court as she
was in such a debilitated condition.

FRANCE.

The following are publiihed by the National as the
votes of the army :

GARRISON OF CAROBS.
Sao ... ... 7 I Leclerc ... ... 5
ARRAS.
Sue ... ... 62 I Leclerc ... ... 12
DIJON.
Sue ... ... 52 I Leclerc ... ... 13
MONTMEDY.
Sue ... .....13 I Leclerc ... ... 1

Toe Napoleon publishes the decrees of the First
Consul after the 18th Brumaire with the following
introduction:—

The epoch at which the First Consul assumed the
direction of affairs resembles in many respects the present
period. It is not, then, entirely useless to examine the
manner in which France accepted his domination.
Nothing can better indicate that manner than the study
of the decrees and ordinances published since the day
when France entrusted him with power. They establish
the most remarkable analogy between those times and
the days we now live in."
A second article is entitled " Les Precedents."

" For new times," it says, " we must have new men,
who have nothing to do with The past, and who are
not dragging after them the weight of Ministerial or
Parliamentary precedents. Beyond that all is peril,
obstacle, impossibility. With the veterans of the
Monarchical regime we stumble at every step on
an act, on a speech, and instead of facing
the difficulties of the present we waste our time
in a stern debate on the past. On every side we re-
gard the past, while the present occupies all minds;
our eyes are always cast back, while France looks full
in front. Yet France spoke high in the election of the
10th of December. She entered resolutely on a new
line, and no one ought to hesitate to follow her who is
disengaged from the thraldom of precedents. Each epoch
supplies its men. The people, inspired by an admirable in-
stinct, have found in their President the man of the situ-
ation. The President, inspired in turn by a popular senti-
ment, has already found, and will again if ne2d be,
the men to co-operate with him in his patriotic en-
terpriae. History never repeats itself, but in the
succession of events which comprise the life of a people
there are analogies it is necessary to be acquainted
with in order to deduce the benefical consequences
they involve. The Consular period presents with our
time a certain resemblance which should not be lightly
treated when we call to mind the immense results al-
most instantaneously obtained by the powerful genius
who undertook the mission of saving France. Scarcely
was he in possession of power, when General Bona-
parte composed his Ministry. Who were his men ?
Cambaceres, the profound legist, who on the benches of
the Plain had let politics pass by without touching
them; Talleyrand, who shone for a moment under the
Constituante to vanish in presence of the revolution-
ary tempest. Feud& a Montagnard all but effaced
and little compromised, but whom he wanted in order
to become acquainted with men; Laplace, the illustrious
savant; Gardin, the modest financier, whose talents for
administration was his only merit; Berthier, his faithful
Chief of the Staff, &a. All these men, who have become
historical personages, were free from engagements of the
past; and we all know with what intelligence, what ar-
dour they seconled their glorious chief in his work, so
wonderfully carried on, of pacification and social re-or-
ganization."