The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-25 00:00:00

LEGAL CHANGES.

We are authorised to state that Mr. Baron Rolfe
has been raised to the dignity of Vice-Chancellor, in
the room of the Vice- Chancellor of England, deceased.
This change from a puisine judgeship to the equity
court does not increase the Learned Baron's salary,
but it gives him higher rank. Besides, the duties of
a Vice- Chancellor are less onerous than those of a
common law judge, and the expenses of going two
circuits in the year, about 5001., will be saved. The
appointment will give universal satisfaction ; for the
Learned Baron's predilections and earlier studies were
given to the equity bar.

The vacancy in the Vice-Chancellorship, caused by
the recant resignation of Sir James Wigram, cannot
he filled ua without a❑ Act of Parliament, which, it
is expected, will be rendered necessary from the vast
accumulation of business now in the courts of
equity, chiefly arising from the increasing and whole-
some practice of filing claims i❑ matters where the
slow and expensive process of a bill was necessary.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Referrirg to a paragraph in your edition of
Monday, which states that in consequence of the re-
signation of Captain Plunkett, chairman of the Cale
donian Company, Mr. Fawcett, the largest holder in
the company, with four or five other extensive pro-
prietor., waited on Mr. Glyn, to ask the assistance of
the Londomapd North-Western Company in the pre-
sent difficult9es of the Caledonian, and that the
answer of Mr. Glyn to the application was that while
there exi,ted differences among the directors the
London and North-Western could not interfere, hut
if once the directors of the Caledonian were united
among themselves the London and North-Western
would render them all the assistance in their power.
I am instructed by Mr. Fawcett, who is at pre-
sent out of town, to request you to contradict the
statement so named.
Mr. Fawcett has had no communication with Mr.
Glyn since the event to which you refer, though he
entertains no doubt of the reediness of the North.
Western Company to aid in the retrieval; of Cale-
donian aflairs.--.1 am, Sir, yours, very respectfully,
pro T. T. Fawcett,
N. J. BISHOP.
12, Trump street, Oct. 24, 1850.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S HOUSE.

(THIS DAY.)

THE PATENT GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY—SIORDET ♦ND
OTHERS, V. SYMONDS AND WALLEIt.
Mr. GLAssE, on behalf of the Patent Galvanized Iron
Company (the sole interest in which is now vested in
Mr. Charles William Tupper and George Bowness
Carr), applied to his Lordship for an injunction to re-
strain the defendants, or either of them or their work-
men, servants, and agents, from exercising, using, or
putting in practice the plaintiff.' invention, and from
galvanizing any iron or copper according to the said
invention, and from selling any iron or copper, or arti-
cles of iron or coppi-r, which have been galvanized by
them according to the plaintiffs' invention, and from in
any manner infringing the patent of the plaintiffs.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated he knew all about the
patent, having been counsel in a case in which a Mr.
Pattrson was concerned in the Court of Common Pleas,
where a verdict was given for the plaintif4 certain ques-
tions being reserved.
Mr. GLASSE said that he believed that case was not
yet decided, and that he was happy to inform his Lord-
ship that, although in this case the plaintiff 3 had some
reason to complain of the defendants, he was bound to
say that the defendants had met them in a fair and
honourable spirit, and did not object to the injunction
being granted.

Kaentleman who appeared for Mr. Huddlestone on
behalf cf the defendants, stated that the defendants had
found they could rot resist the application, therefore no
objection would be made to the injunction beiug granted.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that, as the defendants
appeared and showed no cause, the injunction would
issue as prayel

It is difficult to understand the cause of the omis-
sion made by the Lord . Mayor of York, in not including
Lord Londesborough in hisinvitations to the grand banquet
given this day (Friday) in support of the Art Exhibition of
1851, which conduct has been for the last two or three days
the subject of general observation, both in Yorkshire and the
metropolis. Lord Londesborough was a contributor of 100/,
towards the support of that Exhibition, and, we are in-
formed, that he has ordered from Messrs. Widdowson and.
Veal, of the Strand, a piece of plate for the national compe-
tition at the cost of 1,500/. So far, his Lordship ought not
to have escaped the notice of the Lord Mayor of York; but
he could scarcely have overlooked the fact, that Lord
Londesborough, since his recent elevation to the Peerage,
has endeavoured to identify his interests with those of York-
shore, in which county he is now the largest landed
proprietor (of something near 50,00') acres), and with
estates reaching within eleven miles of the city of York,
tenanted by five hundred wealthy and respectable indivi-
duals, who cannot fail to feel deeply the slight thus offered
to their landlord.

His GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—NO vi-
sible improvement as yet appears to have taken place in the
health of the Noble Duke. Apparently he is in much the
same state as this time last week. The Right Hon. the
Earl of Lincoln still remains at Clamber with his noble father,
as well as the other members of his Grace's family. —.Derby
Reporter.
VISIT OF PRINCE ALBERT TO YORK.—TEe Lord
Mayor, accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, left Euston-
square station by special train yesterday morning, rat 9-35,
and arrived at York at 2-15—the entire distance having
therefore been performed in four hours forty minutes. The
journey to Rugby, :eighty. three miles, was accomp ished in
one hour forty-five minutes, including a loss of about five
minutes, occasioned by en ordinary train being a-bead of
the special train. The Lord and Lady Mayoress were, on
their arrival at York, received by the Mayor of that city,
and conducted to his residence. Prince Albert left this
morning by a special train in the Royal carriage provided
•
by the North-Western Company.

THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

We have received the Paris journals of yesterday.
The Moniteur publishes the following decrees of
the PRESIDENT of the Republic :
`• G.ineral of Division Schramm, President of the In-
fantry Committee. is named Minister of War, in the
room of General d'ilautpoul, whose resignation has been
accept( d."
" General of Division d'll tutpoul, representative of
the people, is named temporary Governor. General of
Algeria. in the room of General Charon, appointed to
other functions."

It is generally considered that the PRESIDENT,
whilst seeming to give way to General CHANGARNIER
in making these appointments, has completely outwitted
him ; General ScilltANlM is a man of determined
temper and disposition, who has high ideas of his own
dignity and importance, an apt pupil in the school of
Marshal BUGEAUD. He is no more likely to give
way to the exigencies Of CIIANGARNIER than did the
Marshal himself at Algiers; whilst General D'HAUT-
POUL will thoroughly Bonapartise the army of Al-
geria, and will thus secure aforce of 60,000 men for
LOUIS NAPOLEON to fall ha(k upon in the event of
necessity. At Algiers General D'ElAuTrouL will he
as independent of the Assembly as was Marshal Bu •
GEAUD of the Government cf Louis PHILIPPE.
General SCHRAMM, the new Minister of War, is
the son of a general officer who served with distinc-
tion in the wars of the Empire. Fie is himself pre -
sident of the infantry committee ; was Peer of France
under the last reign, and was chef du personnel de la
guerre when Marshal MaisoN was Minister of War,
in 1837.

These Ministerial changes are commented on in all
the journals, and are regarded by the Bourbonists as
a triumph.
The Union says—

" The fall of bl, d'Hautpoul is an event. His retire-
ment announces a retrograde movement; the policy
of adventure is checked. We will add that it is a
calculated retreat. It is evident that the whole Ca-
binet might have found itself compromised at the re-
assembling of Parliament, in consequence of the re•
views of Versailles. M. d'Hautpoul carries away
with him the responsibility of these disquieting
attempts, and of those unconstitutional cries which so
much moved the permanent Committee. Moreover,
d'Hautpoul is not so much sacrificed, and to a
certain point, he may think that he receives the reward
of his devotedness. The replacement of M. d'Hautpoul
must, moreover, be considered as a satisfaction given to
General Changarnier. The PreSident of the Republic
has, in this instance, yielded to the expression of public
opinion; we must congratulate him on it, but on
one condition;
it is that we may see no more of these
alternatives of an imprudent zeal, first encouraged and
then disavowed. General Schramm has not, so to speak,
any political antecedents; he passes for being an en-
lightened administrator. If this choice does not add
strength to the Ministry, it delivers it from the peril and
embarassment of appearing to he the accomplice of these
tumultuous scenes, which looked like the ft:grant pre-
ludes to a coup de main plotted by an agitating and
brawling party. May this return to moderation and
good sense be of long duration."
The Assemblie Nationale says

"This Ministerial modification will no doubt produce
a good effect on public opinion, and the idea which
has inspired it may contribute to render more easy the
relations of the two powers at the opening of the
session. If General d'llautpoul had had more firm-
ness in presence of the Elytee, the deplorable faults
which have created so much distrust would have
been avoided. General Schramm possesses a firm
mind and a conciliating character; he can render im-
portant services to the Government. But in what situa-
tion will we find the War Department? With the mania
of reconstructing everything M. d'flautpoul leaves chaos
after him. The new Minister will have a good deal to
do; the army expects a good deal from him : he will,
no doubt, be equal to his mission. The President has
given a pledge of conciliation to the moderate party.
General Schramm cannot abandon Government tradi-
tions, cannot be a political cassecou."
The Opinion Publique, the organ of the ultra-
Legitimatists, says :
"It is then a good thing in itself to have understood,
although a little lute, that the services rendered to the
country by the General Changarnier have made him a
position apart, which must be taken into account; that
between the champion of the military spirit and of dis-
cipline, and the Minister of War who had assumed the
grave responsibility of the scenes at the reviews, it was
the Minister of War who ought to be sacrificed; and
that it was opportune to give that satisfaction to the
Assembly before its meeting, in order to avoid expla-
nations, which could not fail to be painful to the Execu-
tive Government, and the eventuality of a conflict dan-
gerous for the country. Without doubt, the Executive
in so acting proves before France the moral power of
the situation of General Changarnier; it makes a con-
cession to public opinion and to the Legislative As-
wmbly, and retrogrades in the path in which it had
imprudently entered; but we should only see therein a
cause for congratulating it, it some journals accustomed
,o receive its confidence did not seek, we know in what
interest, to dissimulate the veritable hearing of the act,
and to cover a movement of prudent retreat by demon-
strations which appear to announce a return of the
offensive."
The Ordre, the organ of the Odilon Barrot party,

say's
" If we had still severe principles of administration;
If it were not the present practice to confer the highest
functions of the state according to mere personal consi-
derations, we might examine the suitableness of the
choice which calls a disgraced Minister to direct our
African colony, solely because he has not succeeded in
another post, and that his presence iu Paris has become
inconvenient. But, under a Republic, it would be per-
haps an extreme license to allow oneself such au observa-
tion; we shall, therefore, not insist on it. Still less shall
we seek a serious political signification in the change
which has just taken place. Were we not informed about
a year since that always under a Republic the choice of
ministers was not an affair of state, and that in despite of
traditions, habits, Parliamentary exigencies, the twofold
responsibility inscribed in the Constitution, and the ne-
cessities created by a centralization unknown to any
other nation, ministers henceforth in France, as in the
Unitsd States, would only be the passive agents of the
['resident? The latter has not complained, that we
are aware of, at seeing his action thwarted, his will
slighted, and his personality eclipsed by General
d'Hautpoul; but what does it signify? This too faithful
and too eager servant has become an embarrassment;
he will console himself, in his government of Algeria,
with the idea that he is sacrificed gto the new combina-
tions of the Ely. e and to the enlightened councils of Dr.
ye -on."
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cutive power and the Parliamentary majority. All pre-
text for sad distrust should now disappear. The
Chamber will resume its labours on the 11th November
next under better auspices, and if there be a struggle it
will, at least,. be only the necessary one of good against
evil, of the friends and defenders of society against the
tplrit of faction and of anarchy."
The _National holds up the fate of General D'Haur-
roux, as a warning to his colleagues. It says—
.. whatever may be the appearances, it is not to the
r:vality of the commander of the army of Peri, that M.
d'Hautpoul has been immolated. Is it they to the interest
of the Elysipe? Has M. d'Hautpoul become suspected?
Does the camarilla which agitates itself around the
President of the Republic doubt of the blind,
absolute devotedness of the ex-Minister to the
projects of prorogation in spite of everything? We
know that the Etysea had beneath its hand a general
whose opinions, and especially certain antecedents
to which we may return, specially recommended to its
confidence. Thus, by the substitution of a devoted-
ness which is certain to one which had become doubt-
ful, two birds are killed with (no stone. In tho first
place, a gain is made by the exchange; in the second,
the Ely, appears to accord a satisfaction to General
Changarnicr. It is all profit as the reader sees. How-
ever this may be, M. bchramm has been nominated,
and M. d'Hautpoul leaves temporarily, says the Moniteur,
for the government of Algeria. What has occurred
appears to us a text for reflections, not very
satisfactory, to his old colleagues. Certainly the ex-
minister had a right to thick that he had sufficiently
made up for his incapacity by
.his acts of complaisance,
and yet he is constrained to quit the place. That seems
to prove that, if it be permitted to a man to be incapable,
it is not permitted when he is engaged
rin a certain path
to put limits to his devotedness. .I'he perseverance of
abnegation is also,
• t appears, a Ministerial virtue. There
are certain members of the Cabinet who would do well to
think on this. Let M. Parieu, for example, remember
M. d'Hautpoul."
General SCHRAMM, the new Minister at War, was
born at Arras, in the Pas de Calais, in December,
1789. He entered the military service. before he was
ten years old. He served his first campaign in the
sth corps of the grande armee under Marshal Oudi-
not, who proposed him for decoration after the battle
of Austerlitz. In the campaign of 1806-1807 he
distinguished himself as the aide-de-catnp of his
father at the siege of Dantzic, and was made captain
in the Jenne Garde after the capture of that city.
lie took part in the rapid and brilliant advance of the
EMPEROR on Madrid, in 1808 ; and passing subse-
quently 'with his regiment into Austria, was present at
the battles of Essling and Wa gram. He was pro-
moted to the rank of colonel in 1813, and distin-
guished himself by storming the village of Kaya, at
the battle of Lutz°n, where he was dangerously
wounded. At the battle of Dresden he was pro-
moted by Napoleon to the rank or general of brigade,
before he had completed his 24th year, and appointed
to the command of a brigade in thz..., division Mouton-
Duvernet of the 14th corps d'armee, under Marshal
St. Cyr, who was charged with covering
Dresden. Having re-entered France on July
1, 1814, General Schramm was only employed
during the last two years of the restoration. The
Emperor on his return from Elba appointed him,
May 29, 1815, to the command of the Maine•et-
Loire. From 1815 to 1828 Gereral Schramm held
no active employment ; but in the latter year he re-
ceived the command of the Ist division of the camp of
St. Omer. On the 6th of August, 1830, he was ap-
pointed to the command of the Bas-Rhin. In
September, 1831, he joined the Belgian expedition
as commander of the Ist brigade of infantry.
During the siege of Antwerp he commanded the
reserve of infantry. In 1839 he had the com-
mand of the 3d division of the army of Algeria,