The Sun.
London, England, 1844-01-10 00:00:00

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THE RENCH LEGISLATIffig,
CHAMBER OF PEERS, Jig. a
At two o'clock Baron Pasquier, the Chancellor, took the
chair. Shortly afterwards the Duke de Broglie read to the
Chamber the foliowing draught of the address in reply to the
King's speech :
" Sire,—The words which your Majesty has pronounced
from the Throne have filled our hearts with joy. la receiving
them with respect we thank the King for the prosperity of the
country. Our loyal support will never be wanting to him.
May France display with confidence her fruitful activity, and
follow her peaceable la hours. May she acquire additiona 1
power and wealth among all nations; her future destinies
are secured ; tie empire o( the laws is established ; factions
have been overcome, and the power of the State, disdaining
their vain demonstrations, will keep a watchful eye over their
machinations.
" Order in the finances constitutes the strength and security
of Governments. The Chamber of Peers had more than once
demanded the re-establishment of a balance between the re-
ceipts and expenditure; and it applauds the success of the
efforts made to attain that end.
" Peace reigns abroad, and there is every prospect of its
duration. The relations between France and the foreign
Powers are on a benevolent footing; we congratulate sour
Majesty on that result. A sincere friendship unites you to the
Queen of Great Britain. A happy understanding has been
established between your Government and hers ; its presence
of the events now passing in Spain anti Greece that harmony
was desirable. Our policy with regard to those two countries
has ever been generous and disinterested ; it must not be
altered. We entertain for them a real affection; may they,
after so many convulsions, enjoy tranquillity and order ; may
Royalty find irs those friendly nations and its alliance with pub.
lie liberties a new principle of power and stability.
" The treaties concluded with the King of Sardinia, with
the republics of Venezuela and the Ecuador, and the negotia-
tions which your Majesty follows with other Powers, have for
their object to extend our commercial relations, to provide mar-
kets for the productions of our national industry, by preserving
to existing interests an equitable protection; it is a task wor-
thy of your enlightened solicitude. In order to appreciate
their results, we will wait. the communications which your
Government may be pleased to make to us.
" We shall attentively study the laws relative to works of
public utility. The law on secondary instruction shall be the
object of our meditations. The freedom of education is one of
the consequences of the charter; the tutelar intervention of the
State in public instruction is indispensable for society.
" Sire,—Your family is ours. France deems herself hippy
to count, like you, an additional child in that young Princess
whose presence adds to the consolations which God has se-
served to you. France views with pride, in the ranks of our
brave army of Algeria, one of your sons, giving and receiving
in turn the example of that undaunted ciurage Sand patience
which surmount the resistance of men and the obstables of
nature ; so many efforts will yield their fruit, and our domi-
nion in Algeria shall soon be general and tranquil. God has
blessed you, Sire, by giving to you children worthy of their
father and of the nation of which they are the noblest sup.
porters. Thus dynasties are consolidated and bonds of affec-
tion are formed between Royal races and nations. Plest'ed
faith and a mutual attachweent render the tie indissoluble ; the
King, on ascending the throne, promised to devote to us his
entire existence, to do everything to promote the glory and
welfare of France ' • France promised to be faithful to him. The
King has observed his oath—where is the Frenchman who could
forget or betray his allegiance?"
The Duke de Richelieu then entered into some explanations
respecting his late visit to the Duke de Bordeaux. He was,
he said, a Peer in MO; he took the oath at that time to the
new Government, and had never violated it. If he had gone
to London to pay his respects to an unfortunate Prince, he
merely considered that he was accomplishing a duty of honour,
and rejected with indignation all idea of having been influenced
by any criminal intention.
M. de Boissy next ascended the tribune, and read a manu-
script speech, in which he reviewed and condemned the do-
mestic and foreign policy of the Cabinet, but without being able
to captivate the attention of the Chamber. He spoke of the
right of search, and asked M. Guizot if he bad obtained satis-
faction for the violence offered to French fishermen by English
cruizers, who had fired upon them, and killed one of them,
without giving them any previous notice ? This sally excited
the merriment of the assembly.
M. Guizot replied, that a French fisherman had been ac-
tually killed at Newfoundland by a shot fired by an English
officer ; that this unfortunate occurrence had given rise to a
long negotiation, and that the English Government, on
inquiring into the circumstances which had occasioned that
deplorable event, had found that the officer was to blame, and
had granted a pension to the family of the deceased.
M. de Veyrac presented the vindication of the 2,000 or
3,000 Frenchmen who had visited the Duke de Bordeaux,
amidst the murmurs of the assembly.
M. Guizot stated that the Government hadlor several years
kept a watchful eye over the move:nents of the Duke de Bor-
deaux ; that when theiyoung Prince had repaired to Vienna,
Dresden, and Berlin, where France had ambassadors, re-
monstrances had been made against his presence there,
which were immediately attended to by the Governments
of Austria, Saxony, and Prussia. When the Duke pro-
ceeded to England, M. Guizot was aware that in a
country enjoying liberty and publicity to such an extent
the Government had not the same means of repression
ns elsewhere. Ile, nevertheless, had addressed a note
to the English Government, by whom it was received in a
manner that responded to his expectation. The Queen
of England refused to receive the Duke, and thus gave him a
signal mark of her disapprobation of his visit and sojourn in
her dominions. Encouraged, however, by the toleration, they
experienced in that free country, the Legitimatists had in-
dulged in scandalous scenes, which excited the attention .f the
French Government. It again applied to the British Cabinet,
who protested its regret at not being armed with sufficient legal
means of repression, but at the same time it manifested its dis-
pleasure in unequivocal terms to the authors of those scenes,
and left nothing undone to convince them of its dissatisfaction
at their criminal proceedings. The speech of M. Guizot was
most favourably received by the assembly.
81.. de Boissy, who spoke next, compared the emigration of
M. Guizot to Ghent, in 1815, with the recent visit of the Le.
getimitists to 13elgrave-square, and pronounced the former to
be far more criminal, inasmuch as it had; taken place in time
of war, and on the eve of a battle that had proved so fatal to
his country. When he had concluded, the President announced
that the general discussion was closed, anti read the first para-
graph of the address, which was adopted without opposition.
The second paragraph was likewise voted, after a few words
from the Minister of Pittance, who assured the Chamber that
it was not a mere promise which the King's speeds held out,
but a positive assurance, that the receipts and expenditure
would he balanced in the budget of 11345.
• M. Segur Lamoignon having asked M. Guizot if he had
°Felled z negotiation with England for the revision of the right
of search ?
M. Guizot replied, that when lie deemed the moment op.
poi tune, he had directed the attention of the British Govern.
ment to that subject, and, after much difficulty, had succeedel
in inducing it to consent to a re-examination of the treaties of
1831 and 1833. The negotiations were still pending, but he
had every hope of bringing the matter to a satisfactory con.
elusion.
M Dubouchage asked M. Guizot if it was true that the
English had taken possession of the harbour of Diego Suarez,
on the coast of Madagascar?
M. Guizot replied, that no information on the subject had
reached his department or that of the Marine.
After a taw words of M. de Boissy, on the affair of the
Marabout slave-ship, the third paragraph was carried, with an
amendment in favour of Polish nationality.
The Chamber finally voted the address, by a majority of 115
votes against 14.

MURDER. OF LORD GRANTLEY'S
KEEPER.
CORONER'S INQUEST.—Yesterday an inquest (adjourned
from Monday) was held at the Jolly Farmer, Brumley, near
Guildford, before Mr. C. J. Woods, Coroner for Wust Surrey,
on view of the body of James Edwards, aged 48 years, prin-
cipal keeper to the Right lion. Lord Grantley.
On Monday the jury proceeded with the Coroner to the club.
room to view the body, which presented a frightful spectacle,
there Lein.- upwards of a dozen wounds on each side of the
head, evidently inflicted by some blunt instrument, in all pro-
bability the butt-end of a gun.
After evidence had been adduced of the prisoner having beer,
missed on Saturday morning, and the finding of the body in a
heist called Lyne Ersh, belonging to Lord Grantley,
Charles Ilollington was sworn, and stated—l am inspector of
police at Guildford. On Saturday evening lad, between 9
and 10 o'clock, the prisoner James Elsley was brought to the
station-house at Guildford by Joseph Jenkins. On Sunday
afternoon the prisoner expressed a wish to see me. I went to
the station-house, and he appeared very uneasy in his mind,
and said he wished to speak to me. I cautioned him that
whatever he might say I should take down, and that it might
afterwards be used against him. On the following night,
about 7 o'clock, I understdod that the prisoner wished to see
me again. 1 accordingly went to him, and he made the fol-
lowing statement :

" On Friday evening I went home and took supper, but on
entering the door I saw my son eating some victuals. I said
to him, Where are you going Bill ?' He said, lam going
to the raffle; and, father, will you come down to take part of a
pint of beer James Sherlock is going to give me ?' I ate my
supper and took a pint of half-and-half. My son and me went
home together, and when we got indoors he asked my wife for
some victuals; she said, What do you mean by that ? You had
your victuals before you went out.' She cut bins a piece, and
gave it him, and as soon as he had undone his shoes he went to
bed. When he was gone, I said, How hard it is for us to be in
such distress, we have neither butter nor cheese, er sugar ;' and
whetber she had even tea I am uncertain, for when we had our
supper ,we had but a piece of bread each with a little tea, without
sugar and milk, and I had spent the last 2d. we had , so we were
destitute, and it hurt my feeling*; so I said to my wife, ' I
will go and get a bird or two, if I possibly can, for I can't
bear to see us in such distress.' I went and shot a brace of
birds, and I thought if I could get a sale for them it would get
a little tea and sugar. I was coming to the river when I met
the keeper, and he said, D—n you, I have got you now.' He
then put up a stiA and said, I)—n your eyes, I'll kill you,'
and he was going to strike me, but I pushed and threw him
down, and I said, 'We will fight, life for life.' I struck him
with the butt-end of a gun several times; the last time he fell
into the river. I then went away, and left him. On going,
home my wife said, Have you got anything ?' I said, ' Yes.
She then replied, I hope nothing will happen from this.' I
said something had already taken place."
A great number of other witnesses were examined, but their
testimony was merely a corroboration of the previous witnesses.
The CORONER. then summed up with great minuteness, and
the jury without the least hesitation returned a verdict of
" Wilful murder" against James Elsley.

'HE BOSCAWEN, 70 GuNs.—This fine vessel, after
being a considerable period on the stocks at Woolwich Dock.
yard, has been ordered to be completed, and is now nearly
ready for launching. A number of caulkers are employed
upon her, to complete that part of her works, as it is expected
she wit be launched in March next. The Boscawen is a
handsome three-decker, and, although not re such large dimen-
sions as the Trafalgar, is well worthy of being seen, as she is
the largest ship of war in an advanced state at Woolwich or
Deptford Dockyards at the present time. -The principal deck
is supported by 18 turned pillars of the best African teak,
which add greatly to the appearance of her stability The
Royal Albert of 120 guns will be the principal object of attrac.
tion at the Woolwich Dockyard after the launch of the Boa-
eawen. The greater part of the timbers of that magnificent
first-rate ship being now nearly converted into their proper
shape, will enable the workmen to proceed with her construe•
tion with the utmost dispatch, and she now begins to assume a
fine form and very beautiful outline; her side timbers are
erected. The " jornings" and the strength and stability of
the workmanship of this vessel, in the opinion of competent
judges, have never been excelled, if equalled, in the British
navy ; and her excellent proportions appt
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master shipwright who designed her, and under whose imme•
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