824.] 



Art. 154. On complaints being prefer- 

 red, the emperor can snspend the judijes, 

 after giving tliem audience, and consulting 

 tlie council of stale. 



Art. 15.5, Jud;(es cannot be displaced, 

 except by a sentence. 



Art. 156. All judges of law and officers 

 of justice are responsible for the abuses of 

 power and transgressions committed in 

 the discharge of their duties. 



Art. 157. Judges may be prosecuted 

 for subornation, corruption, or extortion; 

 and the action may be instituted within a 

 year and a day, either by the person ag- 

 grieved iir by any other, the forms of pro- 

 cess established by law being observed. 



Art. 158. In order to the trying of 

 causes in the second and dernier resort, 

 there shall be established in the provinces 

 the tribunals necessary for public conve- 

 nience. 



Art. 159. In criminal cases the exami- 

 nations of tlip witnesses, and all the pro- 

 ceedings of the trial, shall be published 

 injmediatcly on the decision. 



Art. 160. In civil causes, or actions for 

 civil penalties, the parties may nominate 

 arbitrators. 



Art. 161. Without proof of rcconcilia- 

 tiou having been attempted, no prosecu- 

 tion can be commenced. 



Art. 162. For this purpose there sli:;H 

 be justices of the peace, who shall be 

 'elected at the same time and manner as 

 the members of the Chambeis. Their 

 powers and districts shall be regulated by 

 law. 



Art. 163. Besides the court which must 

 exist in the capital of the empire, as well 

 as in the provinces, there will also be a 

 court entitled the Supreme 'fiibunal of 

 Justice, at which will preside judges se- 



Jncldcnts m and near London. 



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lected from the other court«, according to 

 their seniority. 



Art. 164. The duties of this tribunal 

 will be, — 1. To permit or to refuse the 

 revision of causes in the way deiermined 

 by the law. 2. To inquire into the abuses 

 committed by its own officers, or those of 

 the other courts, persons connected witli 

 the diplomatic body, and the presidents of 

 the provinces. 3. To investigate and to 

 decide on disputes respecting the jurisdic- 

 tion and competency of the provincial 

 courts. 



Title VII.— 0/ the Administralion and 



Economy of I lie Piovhicen. 



Chapter I. — Of Ad minisi rations. 



Art. 165. In each province there shall 

 be a president, appointed by the emperor, 

 who will have the power of removing; him, 

 when such a measure may be deemed ex- 

 pedient for the welfare of the stale. 



Art. 166. The law will determine the 

 attiibutes and authority of these pre- 

 iiidents. 



Chapter II. — Of the Cuuvcils. 



Art. 167. In all the cities and towns 

 now existing, and in those which may 

 hereafter lie created, there shall be councils 

 formanaging the ecoiwimical andmunicipal 

 government of the said cities and towns. 



Art. 168. The councils shall be elected 

 and composed of the number of land- 

 holders which the law may determine; and 

 he who may obtain the greatest number 

 of votes shall he president. 



Art. 169. The functions of these coun- 

 cils, the formation of thiir ])o!ice, the ap- 

 plication of their rexeiiiies, and all their 

 useful attributes, shall be decreed by a 

 regulating law. 



The clause relative to the rights of citizens^ 

 in oiir next. 



INCIDENTS, MARRIAGES, and DEATHS, in and near LONDON, 

 With BiograpJiical Memoirs of disting-nished Characters recently deceased. 



CHRONOLOGY OF THE MONTH. 



JANUARY 24.— The Fox Club held 

 their anniversary meeting at Greillon's 

 Hotel, Albcmarle-strecl. The Duke of 

 .Sussex, and all the select pcisonal friends 

 of Mr. Fox, in London, were piti-ent. 



— . 'J'he Old IJailey sessions closed, 

 when sentence of death was passed on 

 thirteen prisoner* ; five were sentenced 

 to transportation for life ; one for four- 

 teen, and fifty-seven forscven years; cii;hty- 

 tive to various terms of imprisonment, and 

 minor piinislunents ; and two sentences 

 were respited. 



27. — The .Ship Owners' Society held 

 their annual meeting, at the City of Lon- 

 don 'I'avcrii, the Earl of Liverpool in tlie 

 chair. There were more than jOO perscnis 

 present; among tlieJn were Mr. (banning 

 and Mr. Hiikkissoik lioth addressed I he 

 iiieeLing at great leiigth,*aud lepoited the 



commerce of the country to be in a pros- 

 perous state. 



28. — The common-council resolved to 

 place ill their ciurit a marble bust of the 

 late patriotic Granville Sharp. 



31. — A Silver Cup, finely wrought, of a 

 large size, with an appropriate siijierscrip- 

 tion, presented to Mr. Cobbett, from the 

 proprietors of one-horse carts of Kensing- 

 ton and its vicinity, as a grateful testiinu« 

 ny for his exertions in reducing the turn- 

 pike tolls to the amount authorised by law. 



Feb. 3. — Parliament opened by com- 

 mission. 



4. — A forgery on the Bank of England, 

 to the amount of 26,0001. discovered. It 

 was committed in the consols. 



— . Intelligence received of a horrid' 

 massacre having taken place at Para, 

 Brazils. Two hiindied and fifiy-two per- 

 sons, cliielly blacks, confined in the bold 



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