MAURITIUS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 9, 9 December 1862, Page 2

MAURITIUS.

Madagascar. — The Coronation — f| September. — I have received news from A capital. The king was crowned on 9 23rd September. He placed the crJE upon his own head ; he was dressed inn British Field Marshall's uniform, tS was presented to him by the British fl vernment, which fitted him admirably, M is said to have been made in accordaEj with the measure of the king's peng| carefully taken some months ago, and m warded by Mr. Eilis to the Home Goveg ment. A threatened etiquette dispute B ween the French and English respeclSjj precedence was avoided by the manaK ment of the king. A fire broke out a m days before the Coronation, and was W tinguished before much damage was djs Major-General Johnston and the otg| Englishmen started for Tamatave sgg after the Coronation; but the FrenchS main for tbe ostensible reason of receiiM a splendid silk lamba in course of prep-Jg tion by the Queen, and intended as a s£[ sent to the Emperor of the French, pf the foreign visitors to the Capital are w to have been decorated with one or oH ofthe new Madagascar orders of ro«g Mr, Lambert has not received such grJ| and concessions as recently were repoijft to have been obtained by him. m

Wiehe and several other Englishmen said to have received grants or concessi of land. Mr. Soumagne, a trader h|

has been appointed French Vice Co|]g, at Tamatave. ||b: During the last few days the tben||i< meter in Tamative has averaged aVj|P: 70° in the shade at noon. — MawmZ Commercial Gasett. :;^ e

The Archbishop of Canterbury.— |j|e: death of this venerable prelate took p||a: on the morning of the 6th SeptemberSP his palace of Addington.,- Severe ilifl^ incapacitated him for duty daring thefS*j year, and latterly he was much reduce^po strength by a series of epileptic fisjfa spasms. Dr. Sumner was the eldest^!? of the vicar of Kenilworth, and was MP in 1780. fle was educated at Eton p^ Cambridge, took his bachelor's degr«||is 1802, was appointed assistant-mastephi Eton, and in the following year ent|l|h' holy orders and matrimony. In IBWW^ was made rector of Maple-Durham, viously to this nomination he had m^ some reputation as the author of " il|o stolical Preaching," and a '- Treatiss^o the Records of the Creation." Tit"* works were afterwaxds followed by "M l^ dences of Christianity." The fame ; i^| acquired led to further prouaotior|. mth 1828, the Duke of Wellington made Jpd

Bishop of Chester. Two years befor|sPU 3'ouoger brother had been appointeS^ 13 lhe see of Llanduff, which he hailf^' changed one year before for the hh 0 ( splendid bishopric of Winchester, vimto. be still holds. In 1843. Dr. SumnerlTl made Archbishop of Canterbury. ||* of Tories had given him the former appofl^ ment; the Whigs the latter. Since |§ w ] time many questions affecting the ch|f|ati have disturbed the public mind, iff oh archbishop took part in most of tllf** He opposed the Jewish Disabilities Bifjp-*---1818; supported the schismatics fromß^ Scotch church in 1849; proposed and||th ried the rejection of marriages with afflya ceased wife's sister in 1857; supportedllba Divorce Bill, but resisted the clause m%J mitting the re-marriage of divorced |l**j sons; opposed the revision of the Litiisjj, and finally on the passing of the Spa Bill in 1858, protested against it, so (slpo it recognised distinctions of caste, a|i*a it did not provide fbr the reading ofjjfr* 1 Bible in all Government schools, as itff" not put an end to all Government reclpas tion of idolatry, and as it did not re^lgto native converts admissable to all eraf if**' ments. Differences of opinion, and sij'f* 1 differences too, will exist as to his ffj^ public life, but his private life is sai^ia, have been unimpeachable. He was C&ik ried in 1803 to Mary Anne, daughte^w Captain Robertson of Edinburgh, axd44J tei had two sons, both of whom survive {••'^ v and two daughters, one of whom isM^S Mrs. Sumner died in 1829. [The fa *^ a , ofthe late Archbishop of Canterbury sts place on the 12th September. Extp -hs simplicity was the characteristic of 7 *** 1 closing scene of the primate's career,?- '*£ had been of his life. Dr. John Bird |S Jjj ncr is the third archbishop who is bf;: p C at Addington. He rests in that p.y te churchyard with his two immediate^? 7 w decessors, Dr, Howley and Dr. Ma?%- ,f Sutton.- "j — Home News. p *! A Royal Lawsuit.— The Civil T§|-« fial at Naples is at thia moment enfff tii in hearing a claim brought by the de#| «i •ants of King Murat and Queen Carff against the Minister of the Househ(|| the King of Itlay, and the Director c|| tv Sinking Fund of tbe Kingdom, for tip M covery of property confiscated in m xt Napoleon L, iv giving the thro|| •6< Naples to his brother Joseph in l*Boj| ** served lo himself an annual income ol " million out of the property of the cm and when, ia 1803, he put his broth|| ' bi law Mv rat in the place of Joseph, he || pi ferred to the former and his wife. Caff w Bonaparte, the half of that income, M . a donation, but in exchange for pS and other property which the Mur*|F~ mily possessed in Paris and "other pj| , *1 France. Certain estates in Italy wsw .-•« propriated to the payment of tbis iicjir *" and were administered as private pill *< belonging to the Royal family. KinjM d dinand L, on recovering the thT<l| ■'•»' Naples, although, he had by a <Ms* £1 the 14tU August 1&15, declared alll*. J 1 perty inviolable, afterwards dispell ■*•«] that belonging to the Murat family, || h a part to his own private domain, aw w | turning tbe rest to the State. The m *fi the Murata now demand restoration m " * property, which has considerably incjl hi in value, and which all became tiff "

property by the decree of Septembeil y< They also claim payment of the rm ceived on that property since 1815J1 it present claimants are four— the Pa $1 Louise Murat, daughter of King M*ujr~ p; Caroline Bonaparte, and three data la of her sister, the late Princess M ; w

Marat, Marchioness Pepoli. Th^ s •in descendants of the family residing: i# ct do not take part in the suit.— <?«/»# "Sf