, 1861-03-12
) ::LATERER ON EUROPE.
DETAILS or: 4 HR FOREIGN NEWS.
Blythe Bremen's maaf1s We have European
dates to February Goth, from which We com
pf1e the following: s,.

By the Bremen's mAt1s we have European
dates to February Goth, from which We com
pile the following: = ~.
:. GREAT BRITAIN, =. .>...
"A motion IN the House of Commons, On the
10th nltimo, ,tor more equality in assessing
and levying theincorne tax, was carried against
dred and thirty-one toone hundred and TWEEN
ty-seVen. The question Was II secondary i'm
portance. and involved no necessity OF resig-
nation Of ministers.
r. In the House of Commons, IN reply to 8
question put By Mr. Horsfall, whether any
ont the recommendations Of the Shipping
Committee Of last year, on the subject Of bel
ligerent rights at sea, Lord John Russell Ell
tered upon an explanation Of some length re-
garding the communications he had had with
the government Of the United States upon the
subject, when he Was interrupted by Mr.
Bright upon . point Of oFder,, and contented
himself with saying that it was d question af
feeting the whole maritime rights and inter
ests Of this country, r. -
- THEATLANTIu TELEGRAPH.
:; The London Etansiner says: = .>
England has already spent e2,Oo0, 600 In
experimenting npon oceanic cables; aud we
are decidedly Of opinion that North Atlantic
cable to bring the Old and New Worlds to-
gether By the route OF Scotland, the Faroe
Islands, Iceland; Greenland and Labrador, over.
seas infested by icebeEgs and along ice-bound
eoasts, is a hopeless project, that WILL not be
and onght not to be attempted.">"
: H.. TIE GREAT EASTERN.
The London Daily Nesnsays: -.
..s.tt!The Great Eastern is to leave England tbs
first week in March for Norfolk, Virginia,
where " e she has beenguaranteed.a cargo, chiefly
will amount to SIS, ,00Q.n ~
III: Train Of Boston had an interview with
the Right Hon. T. Miner Gibson, at the office
Of the Board OF Trade, aud submitted model
of street railway. -
- -: FRANCE.
TIE BoSARARTE-FATrEnsoH Gaze DECIDED.
: Judgment was delivered BY the tribunal Of
the Seine in the Bonaparte- Patterson case on
the 18th ult. The court declared that as the
object Of the demand made by MADAME Patter-
.son aud Jerome Bonaparte was the liquidation
and division Of the succession Of the: Prince
Jerome, and inasmnch as among the grounds
Of opposition to the demand is one that the
claim has been already judged By two decis-:
ions of the eonseiz de fauine, which proclaimed
the nullity Of the marriage of the 24th Of De-
cember, 1905, and its validity even as
regards property, therefore it is e1ps-
edient above all to examine the valid F..ty
o1 Ibis ground OF opposition, lna9' ,Duch
as iflt be well founded It would e. ahIi.h a
perenptory exception to the presert demand.
and it would no longer belong tr, the fr;bnnai
to examine the other grounds Of onnosition.
or to decide whether the m>1riaoe Is not mil
for having been contraeted In n c1andestine
manner, or whether I.adame Elizaheth Pal
tcIson could rely on taer good faith in The le-
gal acceptatfon Of the term. or what efficacy
should be attriht htated to the DEGREES Of The l1fh
ana SUN Ses.tose OF the year 13; and, IN fine,
WaeInef Tie possession ofa position claimed
oy ms. parties represented BY NJ Berger does
nots meet an energetic, fneessant and manifest
Contradiction in the simple fact Of the second
marriage contracted in 1907 by Prince Jerome
and the Princess Catherine Of Wuftembere,
on the faith of the legal non-existeuce Of the
first marriage and whether, consequently, IT, 4
title Of relative given to Jerome Patterspp bt
according to the hahitnal relations of life, mar
tlcularly when it must be recollected Jat K
admit clear right By blood Would, on tht
part Of the children born of the second mar
ria9e, be denial Of their own Legitimacy
The court then referred to the IS5Oth ant
1,S51st articles Of the Code Napoleon. and baY
ing recaptulated all the facts ofthe case as sta
| ted BY counsel, it declared that the demandt
Of Madame Patterson and her son Jerome Bo
napRrte are not admissible and must be reject
| ed, and ordered that the present tudgmen1
shall be mentioned On the margin Of the deei
dated the 10Th Of July, 1860, Containing de
claration OF the acceptance bY Jerome Bona
| psrte OF the succession Of Prince Jerome. Tht
Court further sentenced the claimant to pay
| the costs.