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DESCRIPTION OF CRACO

loch, " is a small and nominally independent state of
Central Europe, formerly part of the kingdom of Poland ;
having N. and E. Poland; W. Prussi,,n Silesia ; and S.
Gallicia. Length, E. to W. forty-six miles; breadth,
varying from five to fifteen miles; area, 488 square miles.
Population (1837), 131,462, of whom 37,027 belong to the
city. The budget voted for the three years, from 1831 to
1841, fixed the annual revenue and expenditure at 4:45,300.
At the Congress of Vienna, in 1815, the territory was
created into an independent neutral republic, under the
protection of Russia, Austria, and Prussia..... But, since
1826, the city has been garrisoned by Austrian troops ;
and the government is substantially and in fact adminis-
tered by the resident agents of Austria, Russia, and
Prussia. And this, in truth, is the only result that could
have been anticipated. No doubt it would be desirable
(we do not know that) to have small independent states
like this scattered up and down the continent, to serve as
foci for the diffusion of political information (and rebel-
lion), is asylums to which persecuted individuals (and
traitors) might resort, and as depots for foreign produce.
But the circumstances that make the formation of such
states desirable," continues Mr. M'Culloch, "are quite
sufficient to hinder them from ever having any real ex-
istence. Is it to be imagined that the governments of
Russia, Prussia, and Austria, should be so inattentive to
their own interests (and security) as to permit a state like
Cracow, on the very borders of their territories, to become
an asylum for individuals obnoxious to them, (that is,
plotting the overthrow of their respective governmenta,)
and where the latter might prosecute their projects in
safety? To suppose such a thing would be tolerated is
absurd. How long should we permit a similar state to
exist on the confines of our Indian empire? And have
the Russians, Prussians, and Austrians less cause for
jealousy."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

In the Court of Common Fleas, Mr. Coltman delivered
judgement in the case Flight v. Gibbs. It was to the ef-
fect that Alderman Gibbs had not been legally elected
Churchwarden of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, in 1844.
On Tuesday, Lord Chancellor Cottenham did not at-
tend Court, in consequence of there being no more busi-
ness before him undisposed of. The same thing occurred
once in Lord Brougham's time, and once in Sir Thomas
More's time; but never, we believe, before or since.
However, the existence of three Vice Chancellors makes
the occurrence now nothing very wonderful.
In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Tuesday, the rule
for a criminal information against Mr. Busfeild Ferrand
was made absolute. It was obtained by Mr. Lewis, one
of the Poor-law Commissioners, for a libel in a•letter to
the Times newspaper, charging that gentleman with a
conspiracy to send a false report to Sir James Graham,
of proceedings in the Keighley Union, to upset Mr. Per-
rands statement in the House of Commons.
PRIVILEGE OF A MARRIED WOMAN.—In the Court
of Queen's Bench, on Thursday, an action to recover an
upholstery bill was tried, in which the defendant pleaded
that she was married, and that her husband was living,
althouglrshe had been long separated from him. To this
it was answered, that she represented herself to be a
widow when she obtained the goods. Lord Denman told
the jury the only question they had to try was, whether
or not the defendant was a married woman. The jury,
being satisfied that she was, found a verdict for the de-
fendant.

HAS A NUN CIVIL RIGHTS?—The following para-
graph makes reference to a law-suit pending in Ireland at
the present time :—" A curious question is now pending
before the Irish Chancellor, whether a nun can has e civil
rights, or whether she be not absolutely dead in the eye of
the law. The case is M'Carthy v. M'Carthy. All
parties are Roman Catholics ; and Sir Colman O'Lough-
lin, a Roman Catholic barrister, will argue in support of
the proposition which bars the enjoyment of the claim."
If our Protestant State gives a legal sanction to the
usages of the Church of Rome, then the deluded creature
whose case is in Chancery can have no more civil rights
than if she had been dead twenty years before. We be-
lieve a part of the ritual employed in nun making is a
kind of funeral service—a requiem over ore utterly dead
to the world, and separated from all its requirements, du-
ties, and sympathies. It is of the very nature of such a
condition that the novice should be prepared to make so
absolute a renunciation. But wl ether the State—Great
Britain, the land of Cranmers, and Ridleys, and Knoxes—
will legitimate the heartrending, unnatural rules of mo-
nachism, is another matter. It is surprising the question
should be mooted at all. What have our courts of law to
do with the senical—rather farcical—death of Romish
perverts in disposing of questions of property ?—Edin-
burgh Post.