The Express. — London, England, 1848-02-18 00:00:00

lowest 31, the bighted 41; in 1832 the lowest was 21, the highest 4 ; in 1837 the lowest was 31, the highest 51; in 1839 the lowest was 31, the highest 61, being • difference of 21; g od in 1847 the lowest rate was 21, and the highest moan ally was 61; but with monist= it was in fact from Id to 20 per cent., and even at that rate in numerous instances solvent houses could not obtain advances. The bill bad also osessioned hoarding. In Liverpool alone he believed he Muld show that a million and • half bad been hoarded to meet con tingencies, and to enable merchants to meet their te, and to take up such bills as might come dishonoured, especially such as might be in the b ra ds of the Bank of England when the protesting of any bin w ee attended with some discredit upon the house& when names it bore. He was an advocate for freedom in d e g, perfect security being taken for convertibility. The question was not now, however, whether they were to maintain or abolish the monopoly of the Bank of E ngland; but be eontauded that they should make it efficient for the public good. So far as the act of 1844 carried out the prin ciple of convertibility embodied in the act of 1819, and oe guired payments to be made in metallic currency, based on • lilted price for gold, he concurred is it. He was aware that many argued that as the national debt was contacted in a paper currency it was unjust to require its re payment in gold ; but when the contracts for the loans were entered into it was stipulated by act of parliament that six ' months after the restoration of peace payments in specie should be resumed ; and had it been supposed that payment would be made in a depreciated currency, government would never have obtained the loans on the terms they did—per. baps not at all—and had that been the case this country would now probably be a French colony. He saw no great advantage that could result from a mixed standard of silver and gold. Silver would always buy gold, and gold was mach the more easy and portable medium for commercial transactions than silver. He thought there was extreme danger in allowing the growing commerce of this country to net se an issue of 14,000,0001. based on securities. It would be desirable, he thought, not to amend, but at once to repeal the act. (Hear, hear.) Mr. HUDSON regretted that this subject had not been brought forward at an earlier period. Nothing was more calculated to disappoint the country than the course pursued by the government in referring this important question to a committee. They had been asked if they were prepared to repeal the bill of 1819. That, however, was not the ques tion at issue. They were told by another meeker that railways caused the dimreseed state of thing& But the fact was, that the railway calls in Ja nuary, 1848, were larger than in January, 1847, and yet money now wee only at 3 per cent. If railways, then, had anything to do with it, why was not money as much in de mand now as it was last year? (Hear, bear.) They were told they were consuming the capital of the cottony ; but if they looked at the coffers of the Bank of Eogland now, they found them full even to repletion. The truth was, the im portation of corn wee entirely the cause of the crisis. That importation had now ceased, and therefore our stock of money remained undrained. No doubt the country had been in a desperate state last October. In Newcastle, for example, if something had not been done to prop up the 10=111'111u, it would have been necessary to introduce mili tary into the town. What they had principally to som_plain of was, that solvency at that time was not protected. lf the reason of their not affording such protection was the opera tion of this act, then, he said, repeal it. (Cheers.) defended the bill ? What commercial men in that home would get up and argue in its favour? Common ecia sent condemned it. No member of the government said that it was necessary. (Hear.) He hoped when the government next wanted money, the Bask would* only let them have so mach as they could alked in justice to other customers. It was notorious that the Beak kt the Chancellor of the Exchequer sweep away in one day a great part of their reserve, which obliged them to Mak the amount of their discounts afterwards. This was a very blameable measure. But he thought this was about the only act of the Bank to be complained oL The Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the other hand, had decidedly made very great mistakes, and it was now quite time that he made up his mind as to what he meant to do, and as to the princi ples en which he would act in future. For his own part, be (Mr. Hudson) thought the Bank ought to have almost un limited power of issue, always, of course, petunias the eco rertilrility of the note. Mr. MACGREGOR, representing a large and most im portant constituency, felt it to be his duty not to give • silent vote. He was compelled to consider that the Bank Chester Aet of 1944 was not an act adapted to the wants of • great commercial country. He believed it was as impossible for parliament to regulate the price of money as to regulate the expansion or contraction of the mercury in the barometer. He knew no parts of the world for which the act was calculated, except a village in Holland, where the population had not increased for the last 600yean, and where no young couples married until their fathers and mothers died. (Laughter.) It was necessary that parlia ment should speedily settle the subject. He believed the act of 1844 was one in which the country had no confi dence. For some time to come it might be of very little consequence whether the operation of that act was limited er not; but, at some future time, the measure would be assuredly of the greatest national importance. So much with regard to England. With respect to Scotland, he thought the operation of the act of 184.5 was universally complained of in that country. If it had not been for the Scotch Banking system the 4 prosperity of the British Idea would never hare risen to it present height. He condemned the alteration in foto. Mr. MASTERMAN trusted that the house world his right hon. friend's motion . He nett, in 1644, a insisted upon the government retaining a discretionary power, Ind experience had sines demonstrated the necessity of su ch a provision. Mr. HUME considered it essential that some distinct in quiry should be made es to the reason why these monetary panne were constantly recurring in this costany, in &manner quite unknown elsewhere. He had objected to the govern mast committee, because be foresaw that its appotntenent would be made the excuse for such an answer as that of the right hon. baronet to such • proposition as that now before the house. (Hear, hear.) The right hon. baronet had telkedof a foolish judge who first decided and then inquired. It appeared to him tha t the government, in the matter of the Bank Act suspension letter, had been precisely this foolish judge, for it was admitted that it had acted without any previous inquiry. lie had said on a former occasion that 150 millions had been lost by the recent operation of the Bank Act; but in point of fact, the actual loss sustained was quite incalculable. (Hear.) The conduct of the government in seek ing to evade a discussion of its measures in relation to the act of 1844, by referring the matter to • select committee, was most reprehensible. (Hear, hear.) The feeling of the house on the subject, however, seemed pretty clesr. Every gen tleman who had spoken that night on the subject, with the sole exception of the right hon. hart ., had declared that the measure of 1844 had wholly failed in its professed objects. (Hear, hear.) There seemed to be, in the house as well as out of it, a decided conviction that the act ought to be re pealed. It was out of the question to suppose that the country would submit to continue exposed to such jeopardy as that to which the act of '44 subjected it. (Hear.) Col. THOMPSON supported the motion. The act of 1844 was a measure for fending off all such demands for aid from traders as should pass beyond a certain rule which government considered to mark the limit of discretion. The question wee, whether this rule had been established as proving the preconceived discretion, or whether it was a rule which, as being indiscreet, should be set aside. He bad heard it said that the concoction made by the govern ment in October was • virtual concession of the fallacy of the set. He did not adopt this proposition as a necessary consequence, for the government might have been induced by other motives. Mr. MUNTZ reminded the house that there had been psalm before the one of last year, and that they could not be attributed to the Bank Act of 1844. In fact, when the oc currences of October 1847 were ascribed to the operation of the right hon. bart.'s (Sir IL Peel's) Banking Act, those who did so committed a gross blunder. The government certainly had no right to meddle with banks, either public or private; and as long as that interference existed he feared he should see continual crashes in the money market. The whole of the Cause, and the only cause, of the monetary panics was that the theory upon which the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the right honourable baronet opposite based their system was wrong. The theory to which he referred was that which supposed there was such a thing as a standard of value. There was no such standard ; and the sooner that false and erroneous system was abolished the better. If the bill of 1844 was repealed the evil would still remain in full force. Mr. LABOUCHEILE said that the right hon. gentleman Opposite had urged on the house not to allow itself to be drawn into • general argument upon the subject of his motion, as there was much danger, owing to the nature of the subject, that hon. members would stray from the immediate ques• ton before the hewer. He should endeavour to follow the right hon. gentleman's injunction in offering his reasons to the house for not giving its assent to the proposal. One thing had been universally admitted by nearly all the en—namely, that if the motion were agreed to, the ecision would reverse that which appointed • committee to inquire into the monetary question. (No, no.) He heard it doubted that such would be the virtual effect of the motion being carried, but he must again affirm that the fact had been candidly admitted by all who had spoken on the ma that evening. By the appointment of the committee the government had entered into an agreement with the monetary interests to consider maturely the laws which af fected the whole question, and he was not .prepared to say that after the subject had been fully examined the law might not be relaxed. The only effect which the motion would bare would be to lunette the public mind as to the results of the committee. Some hon. member had said that the law stood condemned by all, and by . the government in par ticular, by whom some of its provisions had been suspended. He must beg to deny the truth of that proposition. He denied that the suspension of the act for a temporary piupcse was con demnatory of the measure. There must exist a power of relaxing the laws upon great emergencies, but that did not teed to prove the law to be a bad one. He did not mesa to sty that it might not be found necessary to modify the law, but he must affirm that suspending it was not condemnation. He could not speak of the late panic without feeling great commiseration for those who bad suffered by it. But the act of 1814 was not accessory to that panic. Boatiog bad been raid about over.speculation having been ONO dee prin cipal causes, and blame had been cast upon these who said to ; but he must observe that he should feel torsi if, upon examining into the circumstances attaadlog l V:i. cells, those engaged in the importing trade were of having entered into rash speculations, wnl ell ed calmed much of the late distress. (Cries of Divide.") Mr. BERRIES would only offer • few words in reply t o the observations of the right hon. gentlema n . He had never before witnessed • debate the speakers on which, with some exceptions, were all on one side of the question. Amongst all parties there was a growing feeling that the aet of 1844 ought to be repealed. The only objection of any weight against his motion was that there was a committee sit ting on the subject up stairs, and that that house ought not to prejudge the question. Bat there were many topics which were not to come under the consideration of that committee ; and besides, he did not seek for the repeal of the net mf 1844 but for its suspension. (Near, hear) The first resotution was then agreed to. On the nand, that the house resolve itself into committee. The house divided—For the resolution that a committee of the whole house be appointed 122 Against it lB3-41 GROWTH OF COTTON IN INDIA. On the motion of Mr. BRIGHT, the following select committee was nominated on the growth of cotton in India , —Mr. Bright, Mr. C. Villiers, Viscount Jocelyn, Sir B. Colebroke, Viscount Mahon, Mr. 0. Thompson. Sir J. W. Hogg, Mr. J. B. Smith, Mr. W. Patten, Sir W. Clay, Mr. Lewis, Mr. Mowatt, Mr. elowden, Mr. M'Gregor, and Mr. Bolling. The house adjourned at a quarter to twelve o'clock. ELECTION COMMITTEES. LYME Rame.—The committee met at 2 o'clock. Daniel Channon, collector of the harbour dues at Lyme Regis, stated that he had always voted on the conservative side, and did so at the last election. He remembered speak ing to Mr. Wearing, the solicitor, a few days before the election. Mr. Wearing was acting for Mr. Abdy, and at his request he came to townust before the election, and sought out an elector named Up j ohn. He solicited Upjohn's vote for Mr. Abdy, but Upjohn refined to vote for Mr. Abdy unless Mr. Abdy procured him a situation as letter-carrier. He communicated this to Mr. Wearing, and at that gentle man's request he wrote to Upjohn. informing him that his wishes would be complied with.—The committee adjourned at 4 o'clock to this day. KINSALE. -The committee met at 11 o'clock, Mr. Bouverie in the chair.—Ann Ryan, daughter of Pat Ryan, barber, Kinsale, was the first witness called for the petitioner. She said she was in the habit of operating upon the chin ; and on tie morning of the election was sent for, between 4 and 5 o'clock in the morning, to go to Mr. Sisk's public houte, to shave some gentlemen. She proceeded there, when she " operated " upon the chins of no less than thirty five persons, not one of whom could sit or stand. Some were lying on straw in the yard, quite drunk, with bottles and drinking materials placed on boxes by their side, ethers were reposing on the kitchen floor, and a few on the drawing room carpet. " The gentlemen" were held by others while she shaved them ;but Dr. M'Lellan, a voter, was so drunk that it was utterly impossible " to hold him up, sitting, standing, or lying," so that he could be shaved ; and during the opera tion she could not avoid cutting him near the throat and cutting her own finger at the same time. A clergyman named Ryder was one of the 35, cad was as drank as any of them. Mr. Guinness, the sitting member, and Dr. Jago, his friend, were present, and assisted in bolding up the " gen tlemen "to be shaved. She was occupied from between four and Ave o'clock till nine in the morning, is the agreeable occupation of shaving the 36 electors who were to go up to the poll The examination of the witness excited soars of laughter. Other witnesses were called, who deposed to having been promised sums as high as 504 for their votes. The committee adjourned tabs day. T, - he Orpreoo. lir ~WM =hi thathlwr lialbs.Oesrm the baba kbada, kelea4oll.ol73lbalsthaMentleenslr M, era Ileabsaplea, win se ark up es lbe maths el the library. Tee ~MI demi mita eat Ithrsalee, to the lisoliterreabsa =thee, Clann ia l=Meng la, will be made aon the of the The malls Me NAY !brill Amorist, Bestaidn. sal the United +tae► will beard, ar on the mane at the 25th Nftwery. She math fa Vtha Ocri4Llsben, Maistre„ Oths„ and Gibraltar .01 be weds up at as of the V* The Eras Ise raw @lab Yes, Vas Dels h a n need, sal Now Marl wale seas Wiwis the anis et lbw Nth b e The malielir ** Ora mai Masks all made ap ea the Nth Febeerwy. X ll W NO^ tarthithi Ikraudle, Neena, Havana thadessa New Odors, Valli Celt,. lama" end Porto Pao, and mirth@ these Jaffa. @Ma Martha, Chores, hams. Nat Cast of Ilenth=sad et. Jasa-de. Ilisenena, will be moth wpm the aerning aat the dead Math. The seal tor tbre lee" the Neer Plate, Monte Me, Persia =illskia. Math; sat Nyasa Ayres, will be nab ap on the el the Nth With. Tea nsunber of STAMPS issued to the DAILY NEWS by the authorities of the Stamp-018os, during the year 1847, was: Frogs Jew. 1, to Dzo. 31, 3,447,009 Mb, we believe, is within tight_ per cent. of the number issued to the Horning Herald, Morning Chronicle, and Morning Poet, ALL PUT TOGETHER. In addition to the above, betted to the DAILY NEWS, Mamas° Paper, there were bated for the Evening Edition, THE axpasss, From J AN. 1, to Deo. 31 778,714 Which was men, we believe, than were lamed either to the Globe or Standani, Evening Papers. Ahnekommte • 1b7:.; I.4raw ~lag wen • ~M W•M Sonerloanws. In Valet an the Ist a Mut. or•rs. 'et uonow• ostuos. SI W. pun I t 69 Mil pot L T.YOIIWa.-411N.1. 31 W. gdYit Rt aft mood‘ 6W.MK L LONDON, FRIDA Y, FEB. 18. Tin debate of last night, whatever may be its nega tive consequences, will have at least one positive result —it will give additional strength to a conclusion already somewhat prevalent, that the fates have not decreed that Sir CHARLES WOOD shall obtain immor tality by his elucidations of the topie of currency. He may possibly be ordained to a brilliant destiny, but scarcely, we think, will he achieve any remarks. Me distinction as an expositor of the bullionist theory, or as an annotator on the currency canons of LOYD. It cannot be said that he is not fluent, but it would be a hardy assertion to say that he is convincing. He may possibly be a bold, bat we apprehend that his supporters on this question very often lament that he is an indiscreet champion ; and, although he has the habit—a habitof which those who differfrom him have no reason to complain—of insisting with oppressive emphasis upon arguments which cot more ways than we, and generally have their sharpest edge towards himself,i we are unable to say that his apparent gene rosity can be described either u frank or ingenuous. His haste overpowers his caution, and his exceeding confidence leads him into perpetu al dilemmas, out of which a retrograde movement is generally the sole mode of disentanglement. Mr. HERMES was probably not a very brilliant op ponent, but we shall be much deceived if in the esti mation of the country the solid texture of the speech of Mr. HERMES does not very decidedly outweigh the official smartness of Sir Cruathes WOOD'S rejoinder. The rhetoric of Mr. Heitnica might not be of the most dazzling description, but his facts were stubborn, and his reasons cogent; and if his cause had not the aid of eloquence, it certainly lacked no advantage which can be derived from a tone rendered earnest by conviction, and an apprehension really excited by tke perils it described. We can conceive no coarse more constitutional — no procedure more reasonable and temperate—than that suggested by Mr. HERRIES. He asked the house to enrolee formal opinion on the extraordinary policy which had called them together at an un wonted season of the year. As to the tenor of that opinion there can be no ques tion. The House of Commons participates in the unanimous belief of the country that the suspension of the Bank Charter Act in October was a measure justified by every consideration of po licy. Starting with so plain a case, the inference drawn by Mr. Reams Is as obvious as it is reason able. He simply says, " Yon confess without a dis sentient voice that the simple act of suspending this law was the means of averting a national catastrophe. Now it is quite possible that a similar exigency may again arise, and I propose that, now, while the at mosphere is clear and the public mind undisturbed, we remove from actual operation a law which has been, and which again may be, the cause of a moot deplorable crisis." To this very cogent and common-sense plea, Sir C. WOOD opposes an answer of four points. He ages, first, that the proposition is ill-timed, and the anxiety chimerical, in the face of so abundant a reserve in the banking division of the Bank of Eng land. He exhibits with considerable satisfaction the figures which will illuminate this evening's Gazette, and with all the conf idence of second-si g ht he bide us be of good cheer, and dissipate our fore bodings to the winds, since the directors have the command of 9,686,0001. of unemployed resources. In the second place, he sees no need for prevention, since cure is so readily at hand. Parliament, he argues, is sitting, and nothing so easy, if a tempest should occur, as to forge a special charm for its abatement. And even if parlia men t be not sitting, it will be easy to do again what has been done once, and a second time save the state by abrogating the statute which was to supersede all such adventitious devices of eel vation. He then conceives that there are reasons of policy and courtesy why the house should not inter kre with a subject already referred to a committees and, finally, he puts in a general plea of " not guilty." He is quite clear that the panic did not arise from diminution of circulation—nor from the misconduct of the Bank — a statement, by the way, directly at variance with his speech in November — but it arose from alarm excited by the low state of the Bank reserve; and it was cured by suspending THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 18, 1848. the law which re*Wed Itia leak to so small a m erry% and yet the Qum:mum or THE EXCHEQUER i fs quite certain that this suspended law had nothing whatever to tie w iin exciting the panic ! We exclaim with Alderman Titottrsott,—then what, in the name of goodness, did excite the panic? Where does the CHANCELLOR OP THE EXCHEQUER mean to find the exciting agency ? In the earth or the air, or the direction of the wind, or in the prevalence of some miraculous hallucination ? lle repeated last night with great complacency the statement he made in November. Parties went to him, and they said they did not want money ; they simply wanted the assurance that people with abundance of unimpeach able security in their hands should not be denied all reasonable accommodation. lie suspended the law, and gave them that assurance, and the panic was in stantly at an end. It is a most extraordinary circum stance that • man of an accurate and reasoning mind can permit himself to repeat these facts without deducing from them their palpable infereace—that the panic was calmed by the want of an assurance which the repeal of the Bank Act gave ; and yet the panic was not caused by the Bank Act. We again my, then by what was it caused ? It seems to us that no allegations can be more un satisfactory than those which affirm the impolicy of Mr. Humus' motion, because parliament is sitting and a committee has been appointed. Why is the House of Commons to be converted into an executive department, and the pmress of the public busi ness placed in jeopardy by the transference to the houses of legislature of discussions and responsibilities, which can only be conducted with advantage and resolved with safety by the members of the cabinet? Why is one of the most momentous public concerns of the time to be made an exception to the maxim, as forcible as it is old, which teaches that the best treatment of an admitted evil is the precaution which prevents its occurrence ? It is sat • small matter to place the stability of the cominerefig institutions of the country upon the problematical temper of a heterogeneous assembly, and still lam upon the problematical nerve or the doubtful car panty of a minister of the crown. There is one word to be said in conclusion. The debate of last night did not pass off without owns allusion to the favourite doctrine of the currency school, that when the Bank has got to the bottom of its reserve, and wants money, it may sell securities. By all means, say they, go into the market. Into what market ? Where was the market in the panic of 1825, or in October last ? These good people have not the remotest idea of the difficulty of selling that which nobody will buy; and with all deference we beg to suggest, when they exhort the Bank ruthlessly to sacrifice its secu rities in the teeth of a panic, they ought by the same rule to accuse of suicide a parched caravan in the desert, because it c:id not buy water which did not exist ; or a beleaguered and perishing city of folly, because it did not buy provisions which nobody could on Saturday evening last interred, mantes, and shrouding, his child, then live days disa. In Roscommon thbles are quite as bad, and in Mayo the local paper states—" Deaths from ttarvation scour by dosens." PROVINCIAL. WARWICKSHIRE. BANKRUPTCY OF THE OAK FARM IRON WORKS.— Intuits from Birmingham announce that a fiat in bankruptcy has been opened in the matter of the Oak Farm Iron Works: Full particulars respecting the stoppage of this concern have already appeared in this paper. The liabilities are some thing like 300,0001. Until within the last few days, it was hoped that the matter would have been arranged by the acceptance of a composition of 9s. 6d. in the pound ; but one or two of the creditors having shown themselves refractory, bankruptcy became inevitable. Even yet it is hoped that this ruinous alternative may be superseded. The 000011111 has been standing still for some time, and, as • coiregesum, a very lugs number of men ars thrown out of employ. TUE MURDER IN BIRMINGHAM.—The coroner's inquest upon the body of Mary Ann Wallace, who was murdered In Birmingham, commence don Wednesday. The two excavators have been taken into custody, but one has since been discharged, and there seems to be no evidence against the other to fix hint as having had any concern in the murder. A short time prior to the perpetration of the deed the deceased was seen with a man an • bear skin dress (probably a " navvy," or other such person), but he has not been heard of. _ VERDICT OF MANI3LAC3GIITE; AGAINST A STEAM ENGIN. PROPRIETOR POE MIND AM VNOLPE BOILER. — The adjourned inquiry at Manchester on Wednesday was extended to include three more sufferers from the boiler ex plosion, who had died since Saturday, =skim altogether 12 persons killed. Mr. Rrey was still retained in custody by Mr. Chief Superintendent Beswiek, and wee represented by coun @el.—Junes Heap, one of the workmen who had been hurt by the explosion, stated that, at the time of the occurrence, be was working in a room over the boiler, and heard a loud hissing noise, much louder than the steam blowing off, and, at the same moment, the floor was carried from under him, and he fell into the story below under a vice-bench, which protected him from the superincumbent materials, and probably preserved his life, though it was some time be fore he oouldget liberated. He then sawthat all the workshop was in ruins, and the boiler had been forced from its original position. He saw the bodies of nearly all the deceased taken out. He saw " little Joe " amongst the latter, who had been the stoker, and it was sot he but Mr. Riley who attended to the boiler, and said there was enough water in it. An old man named Thomas had filled " little Joe's " place till a fortnight ago. A new grindstone had been put in gear that morning in place of another one, but he did not think it required much additional power.—Mr. J. Hartley, boiler maker, had been in business 30 years. Had seen Mr. Riley's boiler, and had lengthened it for that gentleman three years and a half ago. It was then an old boiler, and was only sof- &tient for a one honepower engine, the power he was then sing it for. The back pert of the boiler was this about rtes' middle; and where they had pieced it the plates wen only about a quarter of an inch thick. On plate, however, was three-eighths thick ; but he was sot sure whether it was at the extreme end of the bottom eget the aides. All the end plates were three eighths. H. lei added to it four plates, each three-eighths thick, composed a best Staffordshire iron, about three feet long. He put the strong plates in the part over the fire, and then considered it a ode boiler for the work to be done. It was then 9 feet by Übe. 9 inches, and would be nearly 5-horse power. Mr. limy was then putting up another cylinder larger than ha bed need before. The engine was high pressure. He bad impaired the boiler the last Whit-Sunday but one when there was a mock in the side fine at the end where it had now bunt, the old end, which was over a side flue, and where the flame bad to go round it. He pointed the crack out to Kr. Riley, and put a patch on, with fresh rivets is two other places where the old ones had sprung, over the same Hue, about six inches from the crack. The old part was too thin at the bottom to work with the new part, and he told Mr. Riley so, cautioning him not to put too much pressure on ; but that was not the part which had given way, though it was part of the same plate which had given way, being part of the old end of the boiler. They covered the crack, and left it water-tight. About three months since Mr. Riley called at their place, and said he thought of ordering a new boiler. Witness told him he had better do so. Mr. Riley said he had been screw-patching the boiler in question, and witneastald him it was a bad system to screw-patch the high pressure boilers. He said money was very bad to get hold of, but he was thinking of ordering a new one in about • month. When telling him of the screw-pinching witness told him that the boiler was very thin, and he would have a serious accident some time. The *crew-patch produced was not put on by witness. The piece of iron where the rent had occurred witness could ant see when be repaired the boiler, it being covered with brickwork. It was not the part he thought would have exploded, but two feet six inches from it —Cross-examima Was confident there was nothing in the shape of the boiler which rendered the lengthening of it improper. Thought the accident did not occur from want of water, but from the plate of the boiler being too thin by wear. Was of opinion, from examination of the boiler since the accident, it was not sufficient to carry Sib. pressure to the inch with the screw patch on. He believed the pres sure was about equal to 351 b. to the inch when he lengthened it, and wandered it ought to carry 501bs. Stronger plates to lengthen the boiler with thss I Isculd have ...kr...1 a.. otaer portion. Mr. Riley, and wife and amity, lived a few yards from where the boiler was.—Mr. R. Roberts, civil engineer, said he had examined the de m.lished steam boiler. It was a cylindrical boiler, with ends a little convex. After describing the number and situation of the iron plates forming it, he said the four bottom plates appeared to have been originally 1, arid the top plates inch thick. He had been told on the premises that the boiler had been lengthened about two years ago with plates 4 feet long, which appeared to be little worn ; but the seam joining the two 5 feet plates near the bottom of the boiler (15 inches frorn the lowest part and near the middle of the length) was worn into a hole extending backwards about 10 inches from the junction with the 4 feet plates. This hole appeared to have been patched with • piece of iron 151 inches long, 7 broad, and 4 of an inch in thickness, attached to the defective plates, not with rivets but with six bolts. The boiler plate under one ' of the bolts was about 1 and under another about 1 of an inch thick. The patch was, in his opinion, a most culpable piece of cobbling, especially for a high pressure boiler, as this was. Soon after his arrival he discovered that • piece of one of the worn through plates, 3 feet by 14 inches, was missing, and it was found in the ruins and now produced, presenting strong indications of having been exposed to • high tempe rature of heat when dry, there being deep cracks in it several inches in length. The undetached piece of this fragment had been patched to repair two large cracks, the one S and the other 9 inches in length, and the piece that had been mining had been torn off at about two inches from the last mentioned patch. The end of the boiler next the chimney was torn from the body through about I of its circum ference. The other end was torn completely off. The area of the safety-valve seat (which was mate of brass, and not likely to fasten the valve) was 11 square inches, which he thought rather too little. As the lever had not, been found , or the weight on it ascertained, he would not say at what pressure the boiler had been worked. Only three-horse power, he understood, was enough to turn the machinery, and there did not appear to have been • defi ciency of water, so that it appeared to him the explosion was solely attributable to the hole in the bottom of the boiler not having been properly repaired, as the plates (except the two defective sore referred to) appeared to have been strong enough to bear a pressure of 100 lbs. to the square inch. The large piece produced was one of those defective plates. —Some witnesses for the defence (workmen of Mr. Riley'i) stated that they had never heard complaints among the workmen of the boiler being unsafe. One of them, named John Lee, said he had been there throe months, and never knew of the boiler being out of repair, and had stopped during the last fortnight for nothing but through being oat of work.—Their evidence was contradicted by other erit nesses, who showed that the boiler had been under re pair only a few days before the accident —The jury were left alone about half-past 11 o'clock at night to consider the evidence, and, after a brief deliberation, found a verdict of "Manslaughter against Thomas Riley," the owner of the boiler. They accompanied their verdict with a written re commendation to the coroner, in the following words We, the Jury on this inquest. are of opinion that this sontlent could not have taken place if proper mamma bad been takes, and would recommend that the coroner should propose, either to the antborities of the town or the legialature, that proper inspectors be auL"OItIMI N tomr"lt2lieZrhe e r Wil en 4 a l l :611 ° 1=91 '11er mleb are of tt risk, and aro to examine se to th capability or au puttee employed as menus, and baring the management of boilers and engem. Cie Ti rane. OLViale.—Last evening Mr. Brooke appeared in the character of Richard the Third, in the tragedy of the name, nominally by Shakopeare, but really by Colley Cibber. It is surprising, at this time of day, when there prevails a due veneration for the memory of our immortal dramatist, and a regard for the purity of his text, that one of those gross corruptions of it, perpetrated at a period when dramatic taste was vitiated and false, should still be retained on our stage. It is truly sickening to listen to Each a mass of fair ties, dulness. and absurdity, the meanness and deformity of which is only the more offennve from the splendour and beauty with which it is mixed up. As to Mr. Brooke's perform ance of Richard, if we estimate its success by the crowded audience which it attracted, and the applaues which it re ceived, then we must regard this snorer as equal, at least, to that of any of his previous efforts. But, to our judgment, his representation of the character, though powerful and striking in parts, was, as a whole, by no means satisfactory. It is too boisterous and violent—it was all glazing colour without shade—all forticrimo without a piano. It was from beginning to end one unmixed, unsoftened, exhibition of rage. Richard was incemently in a pardon ; he stormed at every body about him ; and even in his musing soliloq uies be worked himself into a fury and stormed at himself. He uttered in this violent tons simple phrases—such as orders and directions—with which violence had nothing as when, is answer to the question put by the conductor of King Henry's funeral, if he should carry the body to Chert sey, he roared—" No—to Whiteners. I shall meet you there," in the OM, tone with " Off with his head. So much for Buckingham." An actor of ordinary physical strength would have been utterly exhausted by such unceasing no lanes of effort ; and his voice, which is naturally a tine one, became at length as unmusical as the rasping of a saw. But his energy was unflagging ; and the scene of Richard's ghastly horror in his teat was given with prodigious strength and appalling effect. His combat with Richmond, and dying agonies, were also represented with great power, but were too mach protracted, and more melodramatic than really tragic,. Mr. Brooks has certainly high powers, but he mast resat his tendency to numeration, and subdue and chasten his tow, before he out be regarded as a great tragedian. Abe Court. - Ths royal dinner party yesterday at Buckingham Pekoe included the Duke and Duchess of Saxe Coburg, Count Arthur ktensdorff, the Countess Grey, Earl de Grey, Madame is Bayonne and Is Waugenheini, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Lord Edward Howard, Lord George Lennox, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Sir Alexander Wood ford, and Baron Fritsch. Major Macdonald had an interview with the Right lion. H. Labouchere yesterday, at the office of the Board of Trade. A deputation, consisting of Baron de Goldsmid, Mr. J. Bailey, jun., M.P., Mr. Maynard, Mr. Randel. and Mr. Webster, had an interview with Viscount Morpeth yes terday, at the office of the Woods and Forests. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday, at their office in Whitehall place. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council eat yesterday and resumed the hearing elan appeal from Bengal —"Raja Burdahauth Roy r. Ram Tunnse Bose." The ass was again adjourned. COLONIAL COMPTROLLER OF CUSTOMS AND NATI. °Arlon LAws.—The importdutiea which have been hitherto levied under the British Possessions Act en goods imparted into the islands of St. Vincent, St. Lucia, and Prince Ed ward's Island, having been repealed, the lordsof the treasury have concurred in the suggestion of the commissioners of customs, that, for the performance of the various func tions which will still remain to be executed by oh. saloove: iro.oroetiv• At oh. enßootinn et Oh. ANA... named import duties, and notwithstanding their re peal. an officer with due authority from the commissioners shall be statoned is each colony, with the designation of comptroller of customs and navigation laws, and that it shall be the duty of this officer to attend to the due obser vance of all provisions of the imperial laws relating to the intercourse of foreign shipping ; to the importation of foreign goods; to the registry of British shipping; to the returns of vessels entering inwards and outwards, whether British or foreign; and to the issue of any requisite certificates of clearance, and of origin of produce, or otherwise, in order to the admission of goods either into the United Kingdom, Cr to other British possessions. INTERNATIONAL COPYRIOTIT RTTII OLDENBURO.— Tuesday's Gazette contains a treaty securing the copyright internationally of books, prints, music, &c., under the usual regulation', to the authors of each country. The customs duty on those articles, when originally published in this country, teprinted in Oldenburg, and imported into the United Kingdom, is to be 30s. per cwt. ; that on works ori ginating in the duchy, and imported into this country, to be Ifs. per cwt. On single prints and drawings one halfpenny sash, and when boundlid. per dozen. MILITARY FLOGOINO.—On Friday moning last, the whale of the troops in garrison at Woolwich were mustered in the Riding Scheel, under the command of the field-officer, for the purpose of seeing the sentence of a garrison court martial on Gunner and Driver Daniel Freel, Royal Artillery, carried into effect. The prisoner who is a recruit belong toil to the let battalion, was convicted of stealing one shilling, the property of a comrade, in one of the barrack rooms , and was sentenced to receive fifty lashes, which were carried into effect. The prisoner, who suffered severely, was afterwards removed to the Royal Ordnance Hospital. THE JEws.—Sir,—Under, the act for emancipating the Jews, the general impression seems to be that ministers do not intend to admit them to the rank and honour of the Privy Council. The bill now before parliament is silent on this subject. The oath taken by a member of the Privy Council is a very peculiar one, and it is understood that even if the bill does pass into a law, Baron Rothschild could not take his seat at the Privy Council Board. Surely this ought not to be left in doubt—W.B.—London, Feb. 1 3. IRELAND. DUBLIN, FEB. 16. There is no longer any doubt that the Rev. Mr. Nolan, of whose case I forwarded some particulars which have been already published, has been " sus pended." The official notification arrived to-day. The circumstances stated to have excited his wrath were the nailing of twenty-one several copies of eject mental affecting lands in his parish on one Sunday on the door of his church. Mr. Mason, who was acc&nitted yesterday of forgery on the Board of Works, owing to the slovenly manner in which the checks were managed, the habit being to fill them in blank, remains in custody, and will be tried for embezzlement. EXECUTION OF PATRICK RYAN (SMALL). ENNIS, WIDNICSDAT.—Yeatsrday, Patrick aiyan (Small), who, with John Hayes, was convicted of the murder of Mr. Watson, underwent the extreme penalty of the law. The whole of Monday night be spent in prayer, and early on Tuesday morning he walked with a fi rm step from the condemned cell ito the press-room, assisted by two Roman Catholic clergymen, where he was occupied in religious exercises up to the fatal moment. At half-past two o'clock the executioner entered the pressroom, for the purpose of pinioning the culprit, who mounted the stairs leading to the flat roof without the slightest assistance, and walked thence to the scaffold, where, when the hangman commenced ad justing the fatal noose, he for the tins time exhibited signs of weakness. In another second the culprit was launched off, and he died apparently without a struggle. ,He made no written declaration of gat or innocence. It is understood, however, that to the clergymen he fully admitted the justice of his sentence. TUN CONVICTS BOTLER AND HODRIGAN.—III conse quence of the difference of opinion among the judges as to the legality of certain evidence admitted in this case, an order was this day received by the sherriff com muting the sentences to transportation for life. THE Convicv Clown.—The execution of Crowe is fixed for Saturday. There are no grounds of hope that a com mutation will be made in his case. firers or inn Concrat.—We could hardly anticipate that Tipperary wield at once become peaceable, and settle down into perfect quietude. We ought not perhaps to be therefore unprepared for en outrage related to-day in the Nenagh Guardian, in which a person named Gleason, sus pected of giving information to the police, was set upon by night in his own house. He was list placed across the Are until hie head was severely burned, when, being saved by one of the party more humane than his fellows, he was struck with the butt of a pistol, knocked down, and, while in that position, his ear was nearly cut from his head. A case is oleo stated in which a shot was tired into a house in that county. A threatening notice has been served on Colonel Hogg, a near neighbour of the late unhappy Major Mahon. The accounts of the destitution prevalent in all the mouth and west are most afflicting. "openers,' says the NenagA Guardian, "is increasing every day ; the state of our town is most adlieting." And it adds that a poor man CLERICAL TIE VEX. Joel inttuaa. ILA., ARCHDEACON OP 3ItD• sonessest a maim tor the• Impreimme d indwell Weak whiff be. ft beak, les spew. by lard ids krimelL the wed pews in the Inelsei Semi idemb le IMO* their Inks Is es allideMmeanee, et le abet the serailless et is MI - le the ergs and woke el mikes haft the dirdlebie Wader hisdesiers and Amides eis Is sissy mossmsdrity eel la eases Ist. be serkely sense eat Ilesesb it hes a m Oak ears 'Sew the mellesimest k teal resees. Ms_ Seek be sr shine le remedy shuseeoei le make Onalhass so as to mar the kmbet kik awed availsbie, as ta pared,srthe poem s. iles et surd. rod relisnos edustinc The erksbes. mai yeas prevides thee teem rd after the Pt el Await. IS* ft dell be MM it kat Wolfe rind* lesrelery Male tor the ]seem Deprimuk kr the time big es impelst • semedslas it whi sks k milmettakeessyst losteri iffiroriffilsa, ecarebsioa te emit et the r d Wises" er same adrs ~ma sem smdei by the ems owed her Ihelikro loorwrorr of easels Mee thee kaki mars the eider eserall. dated the Whet Asst. 160 imisessmekissr ell kr the kileit. These mil be a s le Sweet sheds eekeered is en amount satesseries MK a year, amyl dkeesting lank est to mordspe el the trestess, est fmkembe into the mums ken width the Psi et the easel odic lewd' as the man ure k whisk they are apprephied. With this riew i. V . will be au. therlied eill dm poem nosed Misses. aid tern say repeeewidth they may think it desirable le emenein. 616 w 1.1 111 this be espeereeed propose to the louses any ahem kr the imp or of the shoot et ImpeSsi. and fee Wig hs lands or Sher property tor the hair appeirk hos e/ Ile kais; for its Woe with other sole* ; the op pointsmi er remend Manila* ile. ; and esti sheme.dapprowed or seiderhy el the trustee/. and by the whiter. if say, te Is testi fied Is woWai vskr Hair heeds remetelsiy. that be sped by all the ail ammisietemst, sal Sell has Sr see hail k kw as ft W lbesed put et the to eseel at deist by the *A &see of My sent, mar et sonsiairgti or ohm Wilmot meter dila est skeet 11•11 tees ImereNtsre rented ea ° The cammardssu heminer, see re to Is leathered to isterthre wilt the Mews bra el the sheik ear se key to to seems Ye emeeles sea they ash has srelle ttthm assurp, akel • mks te the d the pubit Simi kr two eased. ere Sees disLad ra selbel be the rimmeems. d Il MIMI c in lined as be by the singsleseif st parromest ea - Urn. le the ems seeds emeaseel Ma ke efteetles et pesos Saheb(` &Mee or Meeker Ma the ehereket Indeed the fleselory et Stele mory NOM se Impeeter a eessedasser Issida el die =est , Issposere=yed by the essmittee at ry swami au e shoo's. perms sideeisl i = the s sa kim he rs sion witeti repts kk e am rheek see _earl. Vecomus.—lmet k R., Wilk, dis. Benton h 5ll . wsh slams ; patron, the of Winchester ; scam by death el hoc C. Weerresisy, NAVAL. PORT/111017TE, Pl 3. 17. —Nautilus, 10, Lint. Shan, ogled Taraday.—Chaspise, la, Cora. Miler. as L crew, arid maim g roat papas la gala,. NOM IMP tar Mr Woe beiga—Para Illogurg.l7o, Capt. V. Varga, la big gar& gam rapidly Om baguadara. Qi Tassim Imam WKS aims& liars mplariala ma is dart byte gay affirm aad ISO ma. tat Ilan is MY gala she will lam warbled bag @raw holm dr la glad tie ara.—llippira, 16, la at yaw* Is Mak, Nal las USIEVISE.IOI/ gm Wag preperalory Is Pig oramiagrall.— Oda, adk.. apt the Ma. F. J. Pallora t fs wird gam ben tlia 11•1111110•1•111. The watt fir alsrles BM anal approaltwo at reenter ad Fly nn* boo lon nsolonti,ttad Pon noun la the wily iaet et whin nay wit ba toallooL Than boy, already entered at and Pt yam& on anon/ loan port ABOIIIIALIT. FM. 17.—Paowortotr.—W. C. P. Grant, to bowsaw and pasta--wrootora ornt—s. O. assiet to be surpos owl open tar ink or wsuoiod, arlatat.—Kanno o atanta B. Bay, to Itianbana ; B. Itinordics. to Powerfol.—indatant. Parrtneer J. Davis, to Pirow4.--inlinrso :It. 0. Coventry, to Pow:FM ; G. li. Cave, to Ordolona—Noval Cadet Vernon!. W. Sullivan, to PowertaL—Canenta J. L. conband to . MILITARY. ---- - 7 7 - Tne MILITIL.-1110 fOilOolog ClitAtllit, addressed to the colonels of the various regiments of militia, has teen issued b 7 the authorities Yob. 14, 184!.—T0 the Colonel of the billitia.-1 have the honour to request that you will fill up and re turn to me at year earliest convenience the enclosed form, declaring the balance of the contingent fund which remained In head on the lit January, have, go., F. Illsren. Balancer secturodated of the contingent feted of the Regiment of Militia, which remained unexpended on the Ist Januaryl44B , , E Datsat Signature of the 1 this day ti 1848. Colonel. Powremotnit, Fun. 17.—The principal building of the new rotatatices erecting in Brossiotrort, Fetterman's, show signs of its foundation having glvea way, and greet Aran are entertained that It will either till in or halo to oe pulled down. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'B.—Tausguitm LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CliAl3l.-14 to 1 agst Sir Arthur (t), OW I ages Tim EtITIEN To to I apt The Nigger (25 to 1 t ), 15 to 1 apt Aristides (1), 50 to I opt The Doctor (t). METEOPOLITAN HANDICAP.-9 to 1 agst Jericho (t), 15 to laps Marquis of Cooyagbaso, 20 to I opt TiaLtrap (t freely). Cl/MITER CUP.-25 tol Agit Jonathan Wild (1 0 6 7 c aft off), 25 to 1 apt War Eagle (t SO to I), 40 to 1 agst Swim (t and aft off), 40 to 1 apt Queen Mary (t to 1250.), LOW to 1 apt The Tartar (tend aft off), SO to 1 apt Pantomime and Chat (t). Not above a down bets lead, and not a word mid about the two favourites. DERBY.-11 to 1 agst Sunlit* (t 12 to 1), 12 to 1 agst Glendower (t to 10014, 16 to I apt Springy Jack (t 18 to I), 25 to 1 apt Loadstone (t 30 to 1),30 to I opt Amault, 33 to 1 gait Beath rough (t 33 to I), 35 to I yet Swim Boy (t),40 tot apt Hendee (t), 40 to I apt The Stinger (t), 45 to 1 apt The Sheriff, 1,000 to Si) apt (die Oelaltree (t), 50 to 1 apt Keratin (t and aft off), 50 to 1 apt Fern ft 1,000 W 15), 1,000 eves between Ethe Ochiltree and Whit. stone, 700 to 400 on Surplice apt Springy Jack (t). An evident bulk nation to lay against the first favourite sent him beck to II to 1, of fered earrestly, no one offering to invest under 12 to 1. dammlL Tba Stinger, Beverme, Kersuaq and Edie Octilltree alto gave way, sad the unit tieing nags wee Spangy Jack, Loadatone, to SEIM Boy. Very tittle Mignon was transacted. LIVERPOOL STEEPLE CHASES, SPRING CUP, ETC. siccerTANCES FOR Till GREAT 114TIONAL STEEPLE Gum -at. Leger, llst 1310 ; Cnandier, 1 3th; tvoleorliempew, I Ist 12Ib ; The Curate, list 1211 a ; Sauoepan, list alter Prated, list Illb ; Mathew, list;; Jerry, list : Father Ma th ew, Het 610; Pioneer, Ilst 6lb The Smacker, list 51 b ; Discount, llst4 lb ; The Shaver, I let 41h; Aehberry law list 31b; Cheroot, Het sib; The Nigger Ilst 21b; Caremlish, Ilst 21b; Aristides, llb ; Sir Arthur, ho t lib; Ithoodooz, list Sophia, it ; Latitat, I Ist ; Irish Bard, I let ; br g by Hectors, dam by Arcadia , Ilst ; Eagle, 13 1 b; Pioneer (h b). lOW 13lb; Paton, Wat ; Counaellor, Vat 12lb; salute, 10st 12Ib ; Repealer, lOst 12 lb ; Standard Guard, Hist 12111 ; Azel, 12113 ; Fortune Teller, lOst 1011 s; Tim WhiMer, 10M 1010; British Yeoman, 100 ; Young Lottery, lOst blb ; The 310; Election, lOst 710; Gipsy Queen, 10st 610 ; Doctor, lOst6lb; Emigrant, let 41b; Variety, 10M 410, Blue Bell, Itht 410 ; Iron Duke, lOst 310; Blue PM, 10et 3l b; Evergreen, 10st ; Sparta, lOet; Chat ham, 9st 131 b ; Naworth, get 81b; Royston Gower, Set 71b. ACCEPTANCES FOR LIVERPOOL SPRING ClP.—King fisher, list 71h; Ennui, Pat 510 ; S pe ctator, 7st 121 b; Peep-o'-daythoy, let 916 ; Ballinaftd, 7st 7lb ; Rob Eay, 7a 41b; Lady Lurewell, 7st alb; Sir Martin, Tat Ilb ; Brown Fly, fat 10lb ; Dipthong, fat Sib; Fern Hill, eat Sib; Liston, Got 31b. ENTRY FOR TEE EARL OP SEFION'e Ptsra.—Jest, Lucy Ashton, Sampitoo, Administrator, Sylvan, Romance, Fits-Charles, b lb, Jerry out of Barbarism, Liston. Mn intelligens& ROUSE OF LORDS. FLEEING AND OTHERS v. NEWTON.-I . I7BLICATION or " Tax BLACK Lier."—INTIMDICT DIBSOLVID.—This ap pall against an interlocutor of the Court of Session in Scot land, prohibiting the publication of the "Scottish Mercan tile Society's Record," commonly called "The Black List" (as containing the names of parties failing to pay their bills and perform their mercantile engagements) was argued last week. The facts and material points in the case were on that occasion reported in this journal.—The Lord Chancellor now moved the judgment of the house, and after recapitulating the facts said the question involved was one of great importance, and he hoped that if such a question should arise again in the courts of I Scotland, the judges there would consider the practice of granting thou interdicts and the consequences of them. The present practice seemed hardly reconcilable with the spirit and object of the statute, which created jury trials in Sut land, or with the liberty of the press, such as was esta blished in this country. That statute (Id Geo. 111., c. 42) had appointed a jury as the proper tribunal for the trial of injuries to tne person, libel, or defamation, subject to which alone everyone enjoyed an unrestricted right of publication. If an injunction of this kind was permitted the jurisdic tion over these matters would be in effect taken from the jury, and the right of unrestricted publication would be gone. Hie lordship would not go into that point further. Assuming that the jurisdiction of the Court of Session, by way of interdict, or suspension, or injunction, was most ex tensive, he would say that, in this particular case, it had not been properly exercised. It was made lawful, by express provisions of Scotch acts of parliament, to register the cir cumstances of dishonoured bills. From the register the appellants collected the name of the persons whose bills were dishonoured, and had their list printed when this in terdict was issued against the publication of it. If the in tended publication had been a narrative or statement relat ing to the bills, the publication of which narrative the pur suer would have a right to punish by action or otherwise, he might, perhaps, have a right to apply to the court to pre vent the publication ; but whether, under such circum stances, he could do so or not, it was clear that, in this par ticular case, the jurisdiction of the court by way of inter. diet was sought to be applied to a matter the publication of which was perfectly lawful. His lordship thought that the jurisdiction of the court was wrongly exorcised, and he founded his opinion on the circumstance that the publication proposed was a publication of something which I had been made, by an act of parliament, public property. The acts of 1621, and of 23 Geo. 111., had the effect et giving to the protest required by the first of those standee to be made, the effect of a judgment of the Court cl Whether obtained in a contested litigation by the ant= of the court, or by the conduct of all parties, or by the of either of them, it was still a judgment to all intents end purposes, and was so reedgnised by the Lord Justice Clerk en a part of his observations on this case. The question came to this : was it unlawful to publish proceedings in a court of justice ? Nobody could say it was. The courts had again and again recognised the lawfulness of such a publica tion. But if the proceedings might be published, so might the result of them ; for the whole was supposed to be t h e result of a regular proceeding. The registration of theme names to bills and notes was in the nature of a publication, but it was specially . made for a purpose distinct from. that el giving effect to the rights of the ponies immediately interested. The acts which required the registration of dishonoured bills and notes, provided means for allowing the public to be made acquainted with the names of the parties registered. It was deemed necessary for the public good to do so, and it was necessary especially for those engaged in mercantile ' affairs, for whine security and nieces' - knowledge of this sort was deemed usentiaL The appellants had proposed a particular form of publication. What they did was only to do that by a common agent which each and every one of them was entitled to do for himself. They gave informa tion to the members of their association by means of a printed book, whereas bat for that each member would he at liberty to nuke a search at the Registry-office. On this view alone his lordship thought that the respondent had failed to establish any title to an order, which though only in name an interim interdict, had all the effect of an I ordinary injunction. The granting of each an interdict was in the discretion of the court. In the exercise of that discretion the court ought to have refused it. His lord ship, in conclusion, advised their loroships to reverse the order of the court below, and it was accordingly reversed. EQUITY COURTS. Beim Vitc-Chaacellac Knight Brace. IN THE MATTER OP AN ARBITRATION BETWEEN HAW LEY AND OTHERS AND THE WETS STATTORDSHITIE RAILWAY COMPANY.—AWARD 66T ABIDE.—This was motion on behalf of the North Staffordshire Railway Com pany to set aside an award, for irregularity in the proceed ings. His Honour went over the fscts at great length, and said that, upon the whole, he did not see how this award could stand ; it appeared bad upon the grounds which he had mentioned, without saying whether there were or were not any others sufficient in themselves for invali dating it ; and the result was that it must be set aside. Before Vice-Cherterilor wtgram. MOSLEY V. BAKES—REDEMPTION OF MOITGAOE TO BENEFIT BUILDING SocurrY.—His Honour delivered judgment in this cue The suit was for the redemp tion of certain premises mortgaged by the plaintiff to a benefit building society at Hinton, of which he we- a member. The society in question was established in 1814, under the provisions of the act 6 ISt 7 Will. IV.. c. 32, passed for the regulation of building societies, and hail foe its object, " to raise a fund to lend to the members such sums as they might from time to time require, to enable them to purchase freehold or lessehold property, to buy land for building purposes, and to assist them to complete unfinished houses, or to erect others." In 1845 the plain tiff, being in want of money for building peerages, became a member of the society, with the view of obtaining from it the money he required. By the rules of the society every member was required to pay a monthly sum of 10s. ley way of subscription, for the purposes of the sesociation ; and every member who purchased shuts in the association wee bound to provide a rotficient mortgage security areal property to be appreyed of by the director% and to be conveyed by indenture of mortgage to be settled by the solicitor of the society. Upon the purchase cf every such share the purchasing member was also to pay, in addl.- , tion to his monthly subscription, a further monthly sum of 4s. towards the redemption of the mortgage . By the 62nd rule it was provided that if any member should be desirous of redeeming the security which he had givers to the society, the directors should allow such member the profits of his share or shares made up to such time, and should make a deduction of such profits and the amount of subscriptions paid by each member from the full amount expressed to be secured by the mortgage ; and upon payment of the balance, together with all 6 les due in respect of the shares, the direc tors of the association were to deliver up the deeds relating to the mortgaged property. The mouldy payments by the membenwere by the rules directed to continue till the objects of the society were fully on smplished ; and the 102 ad ruse pro vided that when it should appear by the books of the association that the amount or value of 1201. for each share had been realised, then all arrears of subscriptions, fines, and other payments should become due immediately, ard payment thereof be enforced by the directors, who were thereupon fiaally to audit the account, and print and send the same to each member; and the association wag then to terminate. The plaintiff, to raise the money he required, subscribed for and became the registered owner of 121 shares in the nee eiatiou and, on the 11th April, 1 825, executed a mo rt g a g e deed witerebycertain freehold leasehold premises were con veyed and ass igned by him to the trustees of the assccistion, in consideration of 7501. The trusts of the mortgage deed were, if the plaintiff should from time to time duly pay, ob serve, and perform all the subscriptions, payments, redemp tion mam and regulations on his put to be paid, ob served, and performed according to the articles of the limo chides, in respect of the said 121 shares, to permit theplaintiff to held and enjoy the premises cum in the indenture; but if the plaintiff should r= months fail, neglect, or refuse to make and pay all or any of the subscription and redemption moneys, or to observe and perform any of theregulations of the association, or should neglect to keep the mortgaged premises in repair, or to pay the rent thereof, and to observe and perform the covenants contained in the leases thereof, or to insure the same against damage by fire, or in case the plaintiff should become bankrupt or insolvent, then in any or either of such eases it should be lawful for the trustees of the misocistion to appoint a receiver of the rents of the premises, and there out to pay, satisfy, and effect all the said purposes ; and if the rent should prove inadequate then the trustees were to sell the mortgage securities, and one of the money to arise from such collection of rents or sale first to retain all expenses in curred in or about the trusts of the indenture, and then to retain for the association all such sub scriptions and other payments as should be then or should thereafter become due and owing in re spect of ;such 'hares: by the plaintiff or his executors, calculating the probable duration of the said association ; it being thereby declared, that in ease such sale should take plasm all monies which should at any time afterwards be come due in respect of such shares should be considered as due at the time of such sale, and should be fully deducted and paid out of the moneys received anti raised under the powers of the indenture, and that the trustees or board of directors should calculate the amount. The indenture then provided that the surplus proceeds, if any, should be paid to the plaintiff. For some time after the execution of the mortgage deed the plaintiff continued regularly to make tho monthly payments for subscription and redemption money upon his shares, but upon those payments afterwards falling into anger various fines were inflicted. In September, 1846, the plaintiff became desirous of redeeming the said mortgage, but being unable to agree with the saiociation upon the terms of redemption the present bill was filed, praying that the necessary ac counts for that purpose might be taken, and that In taking such amounts the plaintiff might not be charged with any sums ror redemption moneys, ...it..., 1p thou issva•cy., rod mho. payments on the said shares, which should accrue after re demption. The principal question argued was, whether in taking the mortgage accounts the plaintiff was to be charged in respect of monthly subscriptions to the society up to the probable period of the dissolution of the association, or whether such payments were to be considered as ceasing from the time of redemption. The probable duration of Hee eissisler was estimated at about ten years from its rata blklement, and in settling the terms of the mortgag e the value of the plaintiff's shares had been fi xed at '6O/. per lan.—His Honour was of opinion that the accounts ought to be taken upon the footing of the mortgage deed, which clearly contemplated a continuation of the monthly subeeriptien up to the period of the dissolution of the society. That would clearly be the right of the defendants upon the deed standing alone, and there did not appear to be any. thing in the rules of the association to control the effect or the deed.—A question was then raised as to whether tbo plaintiff should be charged with the full amount of the sub scriptions to accrue due in future, or whether with the present value of such subscriptions only ?—tipon this point his Honour reserved his decision. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Nm Parra—Before Sir F. Pollock, CB., and a London Commies, BARRETT v. JOHNSON.—EFPECT OP DEVIATION IN A VOTAOR DESCRIBED IN • BILL OF LADINO.—This was an action brought to recover 181. 12a. under these cir cumstances. The plaintiff, a merchant, carrying on busi nein in London and at Madeira, shipped at the latter place a quantity of wise in the Justine, which belonged to the defendant, and NU at that time bound for India. By the bill of lading it appeared the wine was shipped on a voyage "from Madeira to Madras and London." The Justine pro ceeded direct to Madras, where ehe discharged part of her cargo, and went on to Moulmein, across the Bengal Bay, from which she took a cargo to Ceylon. She returned thence across the Bay of Rangoon, and after a voyage of 17 months she finally arrived in London in safety, with the plaintiff's wines. During the period the vessel lay at Rangoon, the plaintiff, who heard of her having been there, instituted inquiries respecting her, and was advised that the insurance he bad effected upon the wines was in peril, in consequence of the deviation from the voyage described in the bill of lading. lie, therefore, effected a second policy on the goods from Rangoon to London. After the arrival of the ship in London, and on the freight having been demanded, the plaintiff sought to set off the premium paid by him upon the second policy. The defen dant, however, insisted there bad been no deviation, and that the second policy was wholly unnecessary. Thereupon the full freight was paid, and the present action was brought to recover the premium upon the second policy. For the de fendant it was contended that there was no deviation, and that the plaintiff should be nonsuited.—The learned Judge was of opinion that there was a deviation. The bill of lading specified eimply a voyage " from Madeira to Madras and Landon." It appeared that there certainly bad been a very material deviation from the voyage described in the bill of lading, by which the defendant should be bound.—The jury st once returned a verdict for the plaintiff for the full sum demanded. And leave was reserved to move to enter a ver dict foe the defendant upon the objection taken. TILE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF ROCIIRSTF.R v. Log. —ln this case, the facts of which appeared in our publication of yesterday, a verdict wee returned for the defendant. The jury found that the plaintiffs were not owners of the port of Rochester, and that they were not entitled to toll except upon coal s imported into that port for the purpose of sale. SHERIFF'S COURT. Before Mr. t'ndersbeAß ßurchelL WILKIN PER mfr.—lbis was a writ of inquiry to assess damages in an action to recover 5841. odd the balance of • banking account. The plaintiffs, )(ears. Wilkin and Co., are bankers at Llanelly, in Carmarthienshire • and the defendant was a gentleman residing at Ihifferin. Mr. Morgan Williams, the manager of the bank, proved the case. The rate of interest charged upon the whole was rather over *even-and-a-half per cent., a rate at which the jury expressed some surprise. Mr. Morgan accounted for this by stating that during a considerable portion of last year the scarcity of money was such that even 9 and 10 per cent, were easily obtained. The jury:gave a verdict for the sum claimed, and interest at the rate of 5 per cent. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT. Before the Chief Commioriemer. In is J. W. COLLIIII.—ALLEOZD crams PRZTIEENCE. —Judgment wu given in this cue. The insolvent was a professional man, holding an engagement at Drury lane Theatre, and the opposition to his protecting order was on the ground of his haring been guilty of undue preference in disposing of a public-house business in Newcastle-street, to a favoured creditor—The Commissioner considered the ground of complaint as having been satisfactorily proved, and refused to name a day for the final order, the Com missioner. however, gave permisaion to apply for the court'. protection on some future occasion. LORD MAYOR'S COURT. Won the Recorder. WRENCH V. ROBARTS AND Co., Oairrisaras, M'Onsra DEVENDAST.—MONIES IN THE HANDS OF GLEXISHIER ARE TESTED IN THE REMITTERS DNTIL DEMANDED BY TUB PatactraL.—ln this cue, the question to be decided wu whether the moues remitted by a anuatry banker to a on don banker, to be placed to the credit of a third party, werlC4 legally Tested in the hankers whip remitted, or ia thou yrblt in law are what is termed the garnishees.—The gar pleaded they had not the money.—The plaintiff la an opi , • 7 ... / a II I