The Express. — London, England, 1852-11-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS.—TursDAY, Nov- 16 . TIN LOC, CHANCILLOIL took his seat st 6 o'clock. _ MANNING THE NAVY. Lord BROUGHAM wished to put a questio• to the noble duke opposite, the First Lord of the Admiralty. Be believed that towards the close of last session a commission lernamittee was appointed to inquire respecting unworn ks meaning the navy. He now wished to ask whether any Mops had barn talieu by that COMOIIIiIOII or committee/ The question was one of the utmost importance a: the pre sent moment, for it related to tho effactive force mud condi tion of ear navy, aria if aay man, either in parliament or out of it, shoiskigrualimmoney when mosey could procure esemeett, thic man, he mast say, ought not to be listened to. (Beer, brat.) The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND said that he bad no difficulty whatever in answering the question of his WM* and burped friend. There was a committee, not • illesamisakiii. under the Board of Admiralty now sitting to inquire genera:ly into the state of the manning of the bevy, and embracing ever) thing connected with the conditina of our se lama. It bad been sitting tut several moths, but no report heart yet hero made. The committee wan composed of many most distinguished officers, in whose judgment the greatest confidence could be placed, sad who would ever kayo pronnuently in view the gaud of the *Mice. 110 es tlrely wined that the question was one of great tea pentane., Lord BROUGHAM said when be spoke of the ezpenve, he had in has eye the undoubted fact of the wages being so much better in either branches of the 04.1 service than is OW navy ; and not °my in our own merchaat service, bat k the Amerman vernier. (11,4 t, WM.) _ BILLS OF EXCHANGE AND hut.). 811.1.5 Oa Ow notion of tat tart of llaa•e, this 1111 was read • woad ties*. On the question that the standing orders Noe. 37 and 3A lee tu'l'inassi, in order to allow of the bill parent( through its remaining Inner*. Lord CA NIPIIELL said that he entirely approved of the bill, but hie object iu addressing the house was to remove some alarm whi:o appeared to be felt on this subject. It had ben suggi still that foreign drawers and endorsers Might he released Bona their liability if bills due on the 18th init. were not presented on that day. But that opinion was quite unfounded, because he apprehended that It was ■ maxisn of mercantile law that that which was to be done in each country was to be taken according to the law of that country. Now, the priceentraeut fur pajasent would be according to the law of England, and therefore the foreign drawer end endorser would be liable as much as if the bill ha I been pees. rated on the Lord no no did not inteuil to utter any oppoeition to the bill, 'sat be we. afraid that some inconvenience might arise. The object was to make bills due on the 18th pay able on e preceding day, and that might be dune without causing any inconvenience when the parties were British subjects, but in the ease of a foreign drawer who might have to look to a foreign endorser a difficulty would arise, for the remedy in that ease w ould have to be enforced in a foreign court, and as the of of the prevent bill was to alter the nature of the contract which had been made abroad the law of the foreign country would regulate the payrneut of the hill as between foreigners abroad. Be would suageit that it would be as well for all holders of bills due un the 18th, and which might not be presented on the 17th, to present them again on the 13th, because it bad been held that when there was a physical restraint upon the presentiment, such as riot., on the day when the bill was due, tb.• non-presentation was excused, if the bill was presented as soon as the physical restraint was withdrawn, at the earliest practicable moment. Such a measure as the present might be considered such a restraint on the present moment as would be encased. Lord CAMI'III..LL said that foreign endorsers would be liable to what might be good law in England at the tanner presentation. Lied TRURO said he referred only to foreign contracts. Lard BROUGHAM said that when two judges gave opinions not ezactly the sane, he hoped they wowed not eamaider thenvelves bound by the opinions which they might there express if the point woe over brought before them juilrially. The bill then paned through its remaining stages. FUNEKAL OF THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON. Lord REDESDALE brought up the report of the cot•- mittee appointed to consider the best mods in which the haw could smut at the funeral of the late Duke of Wel lington. The committee would sit again to-morrow (this depl. The clerk at the table then read the report, bat is so low • tone a. to be inaudible in the gallery. The Earl of DERBY said that there was one point eon meted with the report on which noble lords might wish to empress as opinion. He should, therefore, move the fol lowing resolution That the house be represented is the peetawaiow by the Lo.d Chancellor alone.' With respect es the delivery of the tickets at the Earl Marshal's Wise, every facility would be afforded. The re✓)lution was then agreed to. LAW REFORM. The LORD CHANCELUSW rose for the purpose of staling to their lordships what steps had be taken sines they Wet met is order to fury into isionities the bills that were passed in the tut nelson is regard to the Comet of Mammy, and other matters eoeneeted with that imet, sad she to state what were the further meanies vikit the gmenemeet proposed to lay before their Ismidignamil the ease house of parliament for earryise eat the whirl' the legislature bad in raw ors the of law reform. The bills which were psmN, WM, Me& ships were aware, wore three in anaphor es pegorthed the peoarediar is the Court of Chancery. one MR was she the hisiskedis of the riles of Master us Chimney, aid is troshasisi a new system relied a chamber 'yam with yes geed to those matters which sp to that time had bees prase mind by the Nesters is their owa chambers. The nest bill we for "the im grummet of the/uNiediellia of fortify," adthe third hal wu * dm ahem M NWT Re lief Act," which certainly bed Wools& gnat re lie I. the redsetios of solarise and the aboU. doe of what appeased to be smeller and ellesa. It bed bean meth thejeasties of peri e ass s ' l g ail ..alli atns ill op C a t g adlo the nt il inth Ilk but to leave Mint othrythleg t• be anted hole allewlia by orders to be made by the met vita the bib bed prat. Ite seal some their lordship% thesolbee. that the whets if kis emetics sad seem kal bees pehedpolly IN br • genies of legidellea, emetlotes with well smell= INA. wet the arborse et his learned Meows% in mid le wed, whet hod born eandored anewary te plee OA OM %these me of pediment. They IMPS seer Is tall epee ties, end he amid swore their IeedISINIM what le bed already ere, he thought they mad dad gemeylbleg whisk the waseery and parlismot in dew ; mi be =lst he MOO mom lie sett OM the Gebel. with antis meld he added la 0 . Ithm mold be soak es to mks the old peemb to be and lead to the imadmiso ef a sow Ze - e7i= that there was se semi lathy senatry is tibia wanness of =Torbe added w rapidly—he did ad mean with , whisk ohm all ts was to be Aspedetel la the obathimeeles of MAN ; but by " bade" be must I . used 'pied —speed as tea es was d emitheat with the met i morn del boredom. flat spe mil ass be Owes endue ' la the Cost el M he emory, sea lisped le to &mask before be eat dews, that the espesse amid /guile m es to maim list whisk it, et ems popli le itsepeellem sad : I L wsge. (Rear, MO Them was a sr* g width bed been remedied by some et the dim whisk ban honed by himself; it was sa elpest whisk be hod drape bed mesh at heart, sad hod ernsaymed le edgy Imo aosislles Is IM ; it was thie— mat Mew Medi bi • SUM* el liallades, es it were, vials the seset es lei as Mitest the emit (lieu, hear.) The holism ha eats of pailisseent to preveat melee hem saes Mime, hat I. the waft half Z a llite, 2 hoed ee be braeght formed at e Mem. mins ese = de a ns. Their beithip = l se wider. sits =lito tide abet : that so appal hem a dune et lt the Omm of Obeasery absell be made otter Om yaw hem the eseisaM et mob eine or war. _ it the early eras of the Court of Clammy the etwelosent was to take pleas at Mee ; the is. Orniee, therefore, as to empsl a party to eine to that bout fee relief walla See pen aft- Melaka his dads. Sot parties had ernetwady bees allowed la the Omit if Obencery at thy period to come fee a mid of oarelthea% ism pro Pale, which they obtained es a stleeer et natal; and Yaw it Mus bemead that 16 oe 17 yeses Ad the de. me Ia the Coe. of Chascery parties Name sad appeirl to their lordships home. This we. aa evil of all nuts .is to be avoided. No hasty decides, sohurry tee away a ma's right of appeal, bet so door should be MA eyes he ossetant, initatiag sad lesg-aegleded litigation of Me Mae. This defect had sew bees eared by the seders for the heath of the pablie at huge. la = *au, nobody a to have the right °lapped is the NM of Chancery after lee years; sad, lit the nut dad, easy party era to enrol his deem or order wields eta mai. i. cihi wa sad after five years bad elapsed he was not at teleitallet MU, thaw by the special order of the Lard alba% fa a use of great nueseity • pity 1.1 1 11 . 1 be M de se, but generally all parties wall Mills the time limited. Therefore, by thi morn thins meld he • statute of Umitatios widths the am% se WI as litheat the court. Now, as to the blll he as mese et whom is Chancery. the mists ander dot mmiseChei Ahem sel64 esi the great aim had bees to Mass them Is number, and eery noseidtrably le thew And with regard to fees, they were sof sely but Yee is amosst, and the whole eyeless was preatly eimellimi. New, he meet explain the sabers of the7Wi is the Coast K Chaseary. He wished t• mill task leedallifge deentirn ad that of every sae is the may, Is as Mete ern Move of thole heads est of we the mob of Ms idl.llllMeatien eietia. were pel4 &ad the mem which he ern barth.r to ,swiss these earn the owing which hod bees elleeted. 9,11161. • year alA had Mee thrown on the hinds is eineelima by the Me im preversents, Worm parliament had gives sad brae lOW peosedea, sad at the mme time had -sated nue gam ; gad altbotteb the fees had bee sedeled, yet the ammo bad ti• se osodderably beseeend ; the saving to the Naito, betwesa the hes Impend het mar ✓ed the Pass which mold sew be im= sL uadie Os= Just Mead , mesa set he low than • peer. was to he issemstsd lim la ems meow% by • law lIIM, Waselt all tieV= 7 : s a i tie ". .t e ed it: Ihe l z,z7.l. ..1.1....,by *. edam t. mt is. k e sihaluistratim if earn be b ete p is is and not by tbe aim the cast the the property la the sesekeeght met I. be JIM by the mem try, but In the ohs. ris Mint la bane AIM IS se to • snort of jambe. awl te bath the elision of a GM hes Marianas ; bit It eseesats sere eye limi t GM elan to be guarded and Mgt is eider flop emit mimeo ebjeet 1 to the expenditure for that edea ioa in onset than if the same operation bed taken pines set of court, aadibere- fors the country could not be required tom them. • Them was, therefore, a very obvious distinction Is these two dm seriptions of expenditure. He mos , now haw their lorded ships' attientio• to the state of the two fends ia Nth" Court of Chancery. There were two Nude upet whish the court drew—one b called "the suitors'. (land. end the other is called " the suitors' ha feaVrtito miters' fund arose iu this way: vast caste of messy were in the court, and those sums which were not repaired to be invested by the parties the court bad been in the habit of investing from time to time, viz., that portion of unemployed cash which the suitor had not re quired to be invested. rhe suitor was mot liable to any Motivation in the (wide, but could demand the amroint of his cosh et soy time. There was now a sem of 2,200,0001. which hail been invested is this way, and that constituted the suitors' fund. That fund had hoes appropriated by parliament to the payment of salaries, compensation, and expenses, and it was now producing 111,0001. and • frau. Lion, which wee appropriated to the payment of the ex penses of the court in the administration of Justice. The sums thrown upon this fund by psalmist amounted to 43,3201., leavintr • surplus of 63,5231., which was directed by the Suitor.' to Chancery Relief Act of last session to be carried to the suitors' fee fund. The suitors' fee fund was • fund derived from duties imposed, fees payable by the suitors, and fines incurred by the authority ot per- Lament. Thu balance of 63,5231. came in aid of that fond, and the min this year to be ;provided for as charges on the fee-fund, would be 167,4601, which would leave an amount of 93,9271. to be levied this year by lees on suitors generally—the whole amount to be levied for the year ensuing on all the suitors. Although that was a large sore, yet it us, small in comparison with the actual amount of bovines,' done. The amount of bee bet year wee 133,8421., and the estimated amongst this would be 93,9271. Then there wee to be added a ems ors met of fees received by Alarm, which would nuke an anaaat of 44,4391., which would be the amiss Abbot is the year. But then the officers of the court used to furnish copies of Instruments, and charge • certain amount per folio, which produced a sum of ten thousand a year. The solicitors com plained of this, as taking away their own proper business ; and they said they could do it better if it was left to them. The solicitors were now to furnish copies themselves, and this was not • saving to the suitors, because they would have to pay their own solicitors. This cham= not impose d by the court in any manner w Taking this 10,000/. off the 44,4391., the wetnei saving would be 34,4391. for the coming you. Now, it wee necessary fur him to mate the particulars of the greet fund under the care, and which stood in the name, ot the Aecounteat-Gencral of the Court of Chancery. In the first plate, some arrangement had been made, end justly enough too, as regarded the officers, because they hod boon thelined to give every facility. Toe Accountott-Oesecore Aim hod been shut during the whole of the escotios, and We wee • greet hardship to those persons who had mall beim§ payable from funds in the Court of Chenomy. The Accountant-General had at this muscat dissitabg in his name a sum of 48,016,1111111, an moillioee eumot to be elder the jurisdiction and seta et the Conn of Oblatory ; but he had the satisfaction ef telling their tomiskips that there was no claim which might not be telly answered from that fund. During the last yob the ash sad stock which had been turned over enemata II The moth received by the court last yeer, eel iodiodX: deeds on stock, was 6,173,6761., end the tee The stock was of two kinds—stock or by the court, and stock sempted or transferred by theme& The stock purchased by the court last year eintombid to 2,181,2491., and that mid to 1,629,0091. ; melds( together 4,010,2661. 'rim sleet asespowl to the same assented to 11,382,6911., ed that tau (erred to 151, IW. Their lordship; would be wrack by the similarity ef the mmosints in the two eases. Patting ell the tralumstlem tegstbm the result was that the court bad set masa to bey um them 230,0001. worth of stook le most ail *loss • though the real arrempsmems areastsa le e l =r arro l e; millions. Two descriptions of penone were enraged in eso eying on those transactions—the broker and the jobber. The latter bought and sold stock all day long, and had the turn of the market sash way, pod that was his peat. The Aswastasefirarsall r having this vest sum of forty-eight Mem of disit t west every day on the bock Exchange, and beestil an Ihe reek required to be bought, and sold all that wan ossobed to be sold. In deal fag with this Lamm fart hi bard to be able to effect a Inn ann. The Warn! Ma UM seaddered by a coin- Millie ef the Mar , of Omar, who, le their second re- B&W itolln thb •oo sibeimemns :.—t heel d h o at tli t e to srtem dt o: i A nt Airma s taa l" beard oisaZd be paid by • per I ideal only the beam ef oink required to he lesgkt or oche ash day 16141 be Maas ens sold, whereby leibrop as the nordader wedeln laved to the imam !Ids sessermadmiea bed sem hen carried any further. Neilibred hem that eummilltne es to the sp propriation of the swing. There was so mbomity what ever for the Ammatent-Gaseral to go ad bey and sell every day, or lag day, Wm the repel wee actually wanted br the oirsies. thsediew by ea rrange ant, by IMMildning the hide bademis ial i Zerlards to thy different bintbbli r emerldei m melell he hlai perfectly right aid whs. sad a woks of at least 12,0001. • year to the niter mkt mans. Bet he wadi sot thew i Ad Mang into the sowed bd. He that it &dap to the mine side. she net to C il le i t i d. In tablas a wha• year's rearodess it would only be mesesaxy to min ell these moo* ad dovetailing taiim e rerly in krommy t ee sell or bey moo MAW. or worth argil*. Mu that Mil be te ante a pirriMille wild moll be as MI rime as at me Tf , or arab deloolty ha ille wog t It might be aid. °law as pamolda the pipe yobs to be pia so ame by_lbeMereat pertir wird there b we Ma Inwnalin. bat when it as only made es we be rimaeldwl to met that la • red Miler beery mos* The Book of &PM seek the FM of e o vl o y e zier if bid imp ay lip ban eels* ad this it Aimee mop. lb to take that z...• sleek oelh el i ss Ace lbs a i t il trth every ens ma told that day. That would be fair ell I and it weal be attended with this farther eery Ma am were Mead to be Mookorell to COM mess according to ihe pin or a Om day. This NM seek of the an o'clock =Led be ailed for these troainetire ; end • very awe wrdl dna be saved to seam Them Dar arh El co ne _ ir. st a il • re wiper, ba t t ear 'r al ly= he MA ni The met sold limbo airlreatly with fhb MA of which it was Iholowilse; ellemdso wen Moira id *a latoreethad diebraimeappespisted athil. Winds yew =as, Ms, wren Mare, doe my asessispa ash he laid eat lgy the erest,oalre it was she swirl by Or parties to hs Amu* the wart Meld Me the Melt oil ther Immo% Ma twe • at ** sad of Mt peel* if dm the o the piny a t the be Masi buret of the Canino/at at the peso of the cloy. Ile mad to relieve the suitor la ,meter way._ An moot bed bees laid Minos the bore in 1661, ia M t aihe shape of • new b the . ra eisserteasiessrelm the meat at ad Ma im is Merest 'meats la Ms sem sr keit with br or, twenty-leo, m Sig yaws; also the emit la la mare en whisk livideade had ast hem elaird. lag of then ma, it right molly be L ei m amid aim be odd for. Ile peco e t e t is hat the Mauler Meld bo *ewe& toz Me aseseelo. est ellwilai eg q sigx bail law ohm los paw dant Mos with, end se rim these suns whisk la his grim right be dash with, and Invested without Wary to the bolareeted—the imeemat te be as armed Oat rez en messed should Mem • Nabs eeses the pry ia loneasd Mali Ilse blo feed with dl the refirmb am It. At pima these miss were Masa se es is ie. Met to the said had. What be was, that the Ohmeallor about have pewee te that the divi dend". her tire se Mee. Mead et Wag iniNsii, should M said to she earldom** ef juin me as so Wien the seam The lair Ma ef ten Mess ten Mare' lhoorod pad% te whir be had sallena, wee United whoa the Mai were at 70 ; they threfors had the benelt ef the diereses of peen lle yeneeed, elms that at the oremba ef a meta wasiber el rue id fed Meld be eralad. I. me WI barna that it woo ha nodes as be doolsimel teen rapidly, la lho ems el the wed, *ea ft wood sow be la dr Ord of , bat also Oat Iles tire mold nese whet the soft= is Cheaary meld have so es* whaler (as we umbsored the soles lid) to pay, la =with this Mk whisk ke add a sired hid, be ioneller it asorway to mew the perm an. The Ibio lakillia WNW when the asselidated lend meld be same fen eerie* el the &Min be salarin, be., to dish ft ass sew Vedas if this e5..4 were selleed to ry 11169 Wads% Mee wee se rears why the *we Meld not ho eallmmil Is *dr payment. The bill tee ellisielei them WM la X ll5l p , sheald bm allsolly by it en OM iho of the Mestere I/streamliner, la Obeassoy. Uourp6l44 aemsewad At pima ....... o w:411r as peas s ou = peseea soy ooe a /2 7 7 a F:li ms e s te i ng is t o o i iii Teel bu le . o w* sal to men WV At fees now aboose r 4 aro pailerou He wadi sow state Mt be to dit la eider se carry out the wishes of their ad 110 other his., as to lunation in Chancery. TM es. ormisat thifths it right that then Maki be • new mia. Mils* to Mesh ortor maim Mehl be WWI =srof lhe Visdaresolles, sad ewer lose Tito Abet ef Ihe prommll ma. ad the reams abed, einreasea *MI be he the sera die rem Ist thraldom be en i= pee disk peeper the tomedprime hi had Lot taro odd* As eisraides ib ibir the woddee si l ir a Mb. massy sr lasso of bar , .) Memori am hid of eoun a • rba reds. losise me l ids,, ese mar la orelber, _red the Mersa embeisa provalled. Meer, bear.) The sel ls and learned lord then fadarred 111 the mos of is Kr. pest ikult, a lunatic (se we milma the of while he Maid at basemodst d), bet ia so Walt Tee rise Ad they W ad room de liellery. Ile propeeed es Meld horsiligriaa *le the washing of throe coons, and the entriblithemet a ewe single rule for the courts of the whiff, muntry. Another seed 11111 which be timid leered' s, Wm connected with the patent le subblinting saw is lieu of fees. TM noble and lard thee aaisrsed to the suhjset of Messy gene. rah and amid that the difil:eity would be to rein:mi dis Me soma a having juriedietion, which it e n :. ...p.......* she op, sad to put the Mother 1 sham in disk an rinses Amid be A prowl{ put Waal aa wen ezercrexerci sed efit billa soil, the cismisiners. ad the deism ti Br m,-4he ides *gm the net called lowa ledimberfe IA kid appeisted eleven eamiriesees,—nre nellsal, 11111014W4—wboss duty it wee to Nem the asylum, te visit those nylons, and to look attar their management. In the nano of time, the existing acts had come to require several amendments. Those aines4seate were in progress, end, with the andeleser et the 'teak east and the meanie sionenrin Ld every ninon to believe that even obstacle whielifindilfitherto impelled the well-working of the coos s olos would be removed. The next subject to which luy would cell their lerdraips attention was liankruptay. The bill of 1849 codified the Moe ma that subject, cad - amended them in manylteepeeta, but Is star to work out the details of the mesas., certain rules and orders wen agoessary. Up to the beginning of the lest vacation then rules and orders. though they had beta prepared, bad aster been hexed; for they required the !approbation of the Lord Cheapener and of eight oommissioners. lie wee happy to ny that eight of those gentlemen hail at 1 at been got together, and with their assistance he had been able to issue the new orders. Ile would state what he had beard with groat eatiefee tion, that It was the intention of government to proceed with what wascallod a digest of the mintiest law. A com mission had sat on that subject for meson er eight year., which had predated valuable math& M legit se upon ; sad, after the isapeaditure et mew titemesile, the pan would be anxiou ■ that that many elmseii met be lost, try but that we should have en set of parliament comprieing a di gest of the criminal law. Looking at the great Mali of ineeerialmireedy wowed, it wee set propened to renew Ibet esesubeies. Me weight so that he we. se Mend to sioniedese M gesereL The noble and ham& lewd then proesedisti to chin., as far es we could gather, his opinion ward • illipst iet the civil law, there being groat inconve nines is • ins set of parliament, and he concluded by expressing • hap that in the projected bills be should hove the eielenmee dither noble and learned lords, who, though they stied set agree with them in everything, yet might feel disposed le melet. The subje •st had • greet deal to do with the adnalnietretioa of justice, and he trusted they would give their valuable aseistanee, without which the labours of the pumafere of the measure might be ineffectual. Lord BRO OKAY expressed his gratitude to the noble and learned lord for the statement be had Mut made. Look ing et the great importance of the subject opened by his noble and learned friend, and not only opened, but to a great degree &named, by him—at their variety, at the diffi culty of some of them, and the importance of all of them, it would be quit* out of the question that he should even attempt,, if he could, to follow his noble and 1 d friend ova the great field which he had so ably and learnedly toughed upon. Suffice it to say that be reserved ha opinion, as their lordeldpe would, oa the various measures of his noble sad etell friend till they saw the bills. On none he onlietehted eneiderable doubt He could not conclude without en ease non his earnest hope that he should on mote scorns taken by criminal legis lation for the t tpmo of provesting bribery end corruption at elections. ht that could no: be done in either of the two ways is which it was usual to propose that it ahead be done, Oise by secret voting by ballot or by a I Owe ismer* d tkc esnetitnent body. As t r the ballot, he had, he woad set lay aa invincible, bat a great repug name to it. (Seer, hear.) Then as to the number of the eenatitsiste, though he was strongly of opinion that they sesta is many instances to extend the number yet it wren eft account of its tendency to prevent bribery. A few hundreds in the most numerous constituency were sufficient - to turn the scale, and they would be the persons moat likely to be bribed. He thought, therefore, that some ether messes,. which wen more effectual ought to be taken Is peeving that which had been a great curse to the isrentry. Then leminhip thee adjourned at ten oblates to 8 o'clock. HOUSE OF OOMMONB.—TUZSDAY, Nov. 16. The SriAult' took the chair shortly before 4 o'clock. Four members were sworn in ; amougst them were'Sir W. Molesworth nud:Mr. O'Brien. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Oniciara. !recoils Tax.—By Mr. A. HASTIE, from Alexander Mimi, as chairman of a meeting of the inhabi tants of Glasgow, praying to abolish all iodized taxation and substitute a general income tax. INTISNLTIONAL POSTAGIL-By Mr. CAIRNS, from the Chamber of Commerce, Belfast, in favour of a cheap inter national postage. . - CABE OP MR. H. R. NEWTON. Mr. HUMIi wished to ask whether any inquiry had been instituted into the complaints of Mr. H. R. Newton, who in June last was arrested in Verona, imprisoned and treated with great indienity, and all explanation then and that, refused, and whether any apology had been offered by the Austrian government. Lord STANLEY said that is the month of June last a I British subject named Newton had been arrested in Verona ' under eircumstenees of considerable hardship. The cir cumstances of the case were these. Mr. Newton was arrested by the authorities of Verona for, it was supposed, sketching the fortifications of the city. The city was at the time in a state of siege, and there was no reason to sap pow that he was treated with any peculiar severity or hard ship. He was taken to the guard-house, and his rooms and papers searched, but nothing whatever being found to im plicate him in any way he was ordered to be set at liberty. This order was given, but it was not obeyed, and Mr. Newton was not liberated till the following morning. Mr. Newton unfortunately did not state the case in the first instance to the British consul, but sought redress frsm the Austrian authorities. When he did not obtain redress frees them. he repraented the case to the British Consul. General. Meetly after this a complaint was made by Bir WOliem Istetos, the father it Mr. Newton, to the govern ment. In the 16th of July, immediately on the receipt of whisk r isquiry was set ea toot, and the come sent to Lord Weetheleshod. Al wee anal in these cases there wee a disetegeari la the aleeemiy sad a lengthened cor nmeal hawses the two governments. But, se rs ==las setresiseat had impressed their regret at the aleeemesmee, siessapaaied with a promise that is hawse cosy OM 111111111 he taken to prevent such ill treat ment hem etwanis, to was the opinion of this government the* wedges NOM mat be asked from Austria, under the THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1852. most unjust to the very respectable jury who tried the ease. Tree men met with a bloody and untimely death in consequence of the Galling oat of the soldiers on the ocea nicu of an election, which was an iincenstitutioual act. The government were responsible br this, and he must say that their whole conduct ever since, in respect to this affair, was most extraordinary. (Hear, hear.) Mr. NAHUM said that there could be no ohjeettos to the production of the evidence at the proper time ; but at present, r the matter was under tho consideration of the Court of Queen's Bench in Ireland, it was more convenient that it should nut be laid on the table of the house pearl log their judgment, whieli it wee likely would be pro nonaced in the course of a few dale. The motion was then withdrawn. COUNTY ELECTIONR. Lord R. OROSVENOIt, moved for leave to bring in a bill to reduce the number of polling days from two to one. It also proposed that the time between tho day of nomina tion and the day of polling should be reduced from two to one, and that the declaration should be made the day after the clove of the election. Mr. EWART spronded the motion. Mr. h. PALMER said he did not rise for the purpose of opposing the introduction of the bill, but u it was possible that a surprise might take place in consequence rata sudden and unexpected opposition springing up on the day of polling, he wished to guard himself against its being sup posed that he cons-need to tho proposition. Mr. lIUME said that the danger anticipated by the hon. gentleman might he obviated by the sheriff appointing a day sm which the farmers could attend. Mr. WALPOLE said that as the bill had last session been read a second time it would be uncourteous to the noble lord if the hoses were now to refuse leave to bring it in. . . _ Leave was then given to introduce the bill, and it was subsequently read • first time. Lord R. GROSVENOR said he should be able to show the house at the proper time that the changes which he preload were perfectly attainable. The motion wes then agreed to. Mr. THORN ELY moved the appointment of the follow ing members as the select committee on public petitions : Mr. Thorsen, Sir Robert Harry Inglis, Captain Jones, Mr. Brothert•n, Lord Alfred Hervey, Mr. Scott, Mr. Bonham Carter, Mr. Dunesn, Mr. Adderley, Mr. Owen Stanley, Mr. Whitmore, Mr. Portal, Mr. nickname, Mr. Moneell, and Mr. Whitbread. On the motion of Mr. Divert., copies were ordered of all correspondence Nieces the Admiralty and Mr. Scott Rumen on the subject of, and statement of, the ultimate terms and conditions cf the ails effected to the latter of her Majesty's screw steamer Greenock, since sold to the Royal Australian Steam Ship Company under the new name of Melbourne ; and, report of the surveyor of the Admiralty on the state of this ship ; also of any special one which may have been made imim•diately previous to her departure with her Majesty's mails fur the Australian colonies. ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS. Sir B. HALL moved fora return from the Reverend Walker King and the Reverend George King, Registrars of the Consistory Court of Rochester, setting forth the names of all persons who have been appointed or nominated to any office, or who hold any office in the Conaistory Court of Rochester ; the date of appointment or nomination ; the age of the person or persons at the time of such appoint. ment or nomination ; whether such person or persons per. form the duties of the office in person or not, or was then in or has sines taken holy orders ; and the name and title of the person makieg such appointment, together with the emoluments and income of the office, and the several sources from whence such emoluments' and income are derived ; and a similar return from George Resell, Registrar of the Arch. deacons' Court of Rochester, in relation to that court. The hen. member said he apprehended that no objection would be made to this motion; but, inasmuch es the dignity of the house was concerned, he felt it his duty to state the reasons which induced him to put the notice on the piper. On the 2nd odMay, 1860, that house resolved that an address should be pre seated to her Majesty, praying her Majesty to order that certain returns should be made in reference to the 'tele siastiwl courts; and he was informed by officers connected with the government of that day that thiy had the greatest difficulty in obtaining those returns front the officers of the courts, so much so that they were not in fact presented to that house till thirteen months after they had been ordered. An address was also presented to her Mstjesty on the 7th of August, 1850, praying fur further returns in reference to those courts. Ile was informed that great difficulty had been experienced in ebtaining some of those returns ; that from some of the courts no returns whatever had been made, and that the returns obtained were not presented till the 10th of May, 1862, nine months after the dote of the order. No returns having been made by the ecclesiastical courts of Rochester, he had no hesitation in submitting this motion to the house, in the hope that the order would in conrequence be complied with ; and if the parties did not chooee to make the re. quired returns, he should feel it his duty to take further steps in the matter. Without entering at all into the merits of the case as regarded this court, which he believed to be In bad as it possibly could be, he would now move for these returns. Mr. WALPOLE said a return had been laid on the table of the house, containing, as he was told, the fullest information. He could °ray aoeount for the mistake in this way. He was informed that a return was moved for by the hon. gentleman in 1849, and was presented to that house ; that the hon. gentleman never moved that it should be printed; and that if it were printed, he would get from it fuller information than was ever got from any similar return laid on the table of that house. if the hon. gentleman was not satisfied with the returns which had been given, he would be happy to assist him. Sir B. HALL said the right hon. gentleman was labour ing ander a mistake. lie was not in the house during any one day of the session of 1849, and he could not therefore have made any motion on the subject in that session. He moved for the returns in que.tion in subsequent years, and the odicen of the courts had made no return' whatever. Motion agreed to. THE FLOODS IN LEICESTERSHIRE. Mr. FItEWEN ruse to move, in pursuant of notice, " That the Postmaster-General he requested to order that the day mail bet, een London and Leicester should be con veyed by way of Peterborough, Stamford, and Melton Mow bray, until the line of rstlway between Leicester and Rugby (which has been stopped up in consequence of tho injury. one to it, caused by the late heavy rains) reopened.' His object in putting the motion on the paper was to call the attention of the government to the subject, in order that everything that was possible might be done to expedite the delivery of the mails. The SPEAKER was understood to say that the motion was informal, having reference only to a request. Mr. FRE WEN proposed to substitute first, " required " cad then •• direefti " " for requested ;" but ultimately the Ism Is which the motion °maimed was, " That it is the again Made bore," die. MA O. • HAMILTON said he was sure the house and thr Imbraileara himself would see that this was a mo ths uldebesabhast be adopted. (Hear, hear.) The Post ilion erslbeelise in teet made the gnatat possible ex it*. to the mails, as a proofof which he might asalies Hei be had jest received a communication from thew* the east that the day-mail from Leicester had ar rived that day without the delay of a single hour. (Hear.) The motion was then withdrawn. _COMMITTEE ON TILE AFFAIRS OP INDIA. that the 171;c7vameniit;Mon In dim Territories de shrift of $1 members—Mr. Herries, Mr. Climes Ear ef the Exchequer, Lord John Russell, Mr. Bariag, Sir Medea Wood, Mr. Ennio, Mr. Gladstone, Kr. Ruediger., M. Labomhere Sir James Graham, Mr. Alderman '1 Itempea, &r William Molesworth, Sir Robert Hruvy s,Vimenat Relays, Mr. Cobden, Mr. Harding& Mr. Mame Gibs's, Mr. Mire" Sir James Hogg, fir. Hams, _Mr. Baehr, Mr. Versa Smith, Mr. Robert Had =James Wlbi& Km apeman, Mr. Keogh, Mr. , Lord Stanley, Kr. Robert Clive, Mr. Edward Enterk_ead Viscount PalreseeMe. Mr Z. WILLOUGHBY whirl Is call the attention of the hew te the milieu si the name of the hon. member for Phelieseer (Sir T. H. , who had spent thirty ran in India, and was well ted with the subject to be imestsgated. Mr. MACGREGOR sail be bed intended to move the Wham of two or tins acmes, but he wee perfectly nth , id with the general seenquelelea of the emmittee. Mr. Ml= said, Mare the quethe we. put, be wished to newt Yet the new laseasee iambi be furnished with a espy Hie proceediaps of Hsieh swiss. Sir T. IL MADDOCK hoped the government would ae. cede to the bes. member's request. He would also suggest that mans et faits abeald be summoned to give evidence helm the marmites& was aware that • large proper. tioa Hama would be }minded by the prejudices of cam from maim, • ma but there were others who weeM het be; and be Maned voyage, there would be no difficulty is gesearing the attemiesse el many persons whore emi tter* would be meet Mamba la reference to all matters emelleMed with the bepplasse, the welfare, and the ma tannest of theism* ef - ladle ; points to which it was the pesemeset elety ef parliament te direct its attention. lir r . MUM la sek4 with regard to the suggestion thrown out by the hon. member for Montrose, he felt per fectly certain that the best course would be to lean the matter entirely in the hands of the committee. As regarded the suaestion of the hon. member who had just spoken for the first time, he must observe that it would be for the committee to determine what evidence it was most advhable to take. The motion was then agreed to. COMMITTEE ON PRINTING. Oa the motion of Mr. 0. A. HAIIILTON, the following member were appointed as the select committee on print ing Robert Harry Inglis, Mr. Striate, Sir John Young, Mr. (Morn Alexander Hamilton Mr. Greene, Mr. Muter, Mr. Beckett, Mr. Divan, Mr. (Jaskol', and Mr. Hume. Oa the order of the day leo going late mommitte• of eupply, H Mr. UME said he had aor le the govommeat the other eight that they should ill the lola ea estimeoll the probable expiate of the D of Weltiogteeee towerel. On referring to the journals be bad found that In was presented by Mr. Yansittast of the exponent Lerd Nelson's funeral and of Mr. Pitte femoral, an he thesant a similar course should hen bees porno& is the pee eat o.um. He was not denims to threw may &than In the way ; but he thought the penile cosh/ ee be relined Orem the extravagant notion whin be[ been entelteimol nth regard to the espenditure. Me ittitbisk that the department to which the matter bad bees estrusted should have been prepared to enable the Chancellor of the Itachequer to lay on the table an approximatentimate; and his only reason for not Booking a formal moths we that he thought the matter was one which would be eneolled at once. The CILtIiCRLLOR of Se EXCHEQUER NM be did BOARD OF CUSTOMS, Mr. W. WILLIAMS wished to ask the Chauvin.* of the Rzobequer whether it was ths intention el the gesermart to bring in a hill to carry out the rasaressdatisa ef the eommitece appointed last oeision to inquire late the ear& tatioa and t of the timid of Crams. The CHAN° R of the RICHEQUHR mid be divested a espy et the report of the home to he seat to the cambiums, of canteens, desiring that the/ would report to him spa k. The/ did present a very eMbersto ripen, whisk wee eddy esseived last month. He bad very mesh esmidesed *iv report, and it was the intention of the unman is pia a Truest, minute on the take, ail t WLt hese these &saga which the government thought Owe is the praise adalaistratioa of the cue- Mee. end sass of these *eases wadi require legislative LAW OP MORTMAIN. Mr. HEADLAM wished to know if the government in tended to Mirada» la my bill ia ttheprosiest series with a view ivingtbe wof mortmain. Mr. W ALPOLE said that the report of the ommaittee en the law of mortamin, woo ia Emmy respects a veinal& ens. It aratidaid seamy suipashass, with a view Mes elteratios of the paean law. These wassatiess were on. der easideraties, hat the goserarsest kid sot ease to • decided ',lake up to the prawn monist. When they had dose so, he would esanualtate the result to the home. MINISTERS' MONEY. Mr. PAGAN gave notice that on this day . fortnight, he would move for teem to bring in • bill to abolish ministers' mone7 elan ATTENDANCE OP MEMBERS AT ST. PAUL'S. Sir C. WOOD brought up t h e report of the etranittee whisk issailloseul the positioa whisk members were to wean at ski peas fluent el the Duke of Welliagloa. The swot alibi that they _ammisted the kende of the he entble estliel. _sad Owl **is MIN Yr hense i with the Spreltessebadialhe Iseerelef hes firdeag Qum Mary; Oa seats were vasersail dew *ea red *Mk elves te the Imam. • that Nis. is ITS, the flesehra wee depasd to *sees4 of theimpas te prase* waseddies el asiesisses to Anse. The SOSSISIONIof *Oaks lbst it would he essaaleat ea this suemiss that the Speeker ass* MOM the *semis. es the part of the hems, tend Nast the issishles d the Mem sbeaU Waal lathe o•l6e drel sf Es. Nora, sad that tl a ti e ll i when be safest thews, shield take his pleas iy. The asaallise further Meted *at Ave Misdirect sesta beat reserved is kiat of tbe see* arse& The cannittes researseaded _ _ OM ark arialar 'Wig be (swabbed with a ticket with hie sow thwess. NA that the tickets should be diatri bated under the dismal= of the Speaker. Sir C. WOOD amid that than were a few other poiata which the cossolttee wished to see, sad they iateaded to eft 'gala toiaorrow. Leave was aeoordiagly 'mated. METROPOLITAN GRAVE-YARDB. Os theiartii/i - fi Lad D. trout, w - Way;ing raft= was ordered : Lite if the burial•grosads or gravelards which have been demi by virtue of the power. eestaised in the vet penal Earle. dm last smith of parliament, en titled "An Aet to mood the Laws concerning the Burial of the Dead is the Meempolis;" of the application' which have been made to the Secretary of State for the Some Do parttime to 1011•11111611111 the Ming of grave-pads, wrier the provisions el the ism act, and of UM 14108111iilni him for permission to mossi cometerim or ' within the tistriet delisd by the same act, i::4 11 1 1 % . ems permiseion km been granted, and is what termed ; and copy of all emeepoodence which bee takes plus be tween the Hoene-oMco and any parish er eempany with re meet to the closing of any graveyard or imanoliolood. or alb opening of any sew cemetery or hotiollitsuall. and of ell ',ideas laid before the Secretary of Slate br tbe Some Department insist:ion thereto. MURDER OF MB.. BURNS. The following return was ordered on the ..lace of Mr. Bunn, Copies of further papers. iscinding the emetoopenih. ono of Captain Mamie, R.N., relating to the murder el Mr. 1 Robert Berne, sad the capture of the esheeser Dolphin. LIBRARY COMMI ITEM On the motion of Sir R. H. Nous, the following mew ben were appointed as the Library Committee : Sir Robert Harry 'agile, Lord John Russell, Sir Churls Wood, Mr. Ooulburn. Mr. Chancellor of the Rcchequer, Mr. Attorney General, Sir James Ornhem, Mr. Pendants, Mr. Monektos Milnes, Mr. Robert Clive, Mr. Oledetone, Sir John Young, Mr. Monerieff, Mr. Macaulay, Mr. Sidney Herbert, and Lord Nara. SIX-MILS BRIDGE AFFAIR. Sir J. F. FITZGIBRALD, is moving for a report of the evidence given before the ourossr's inquest held at Sis-usile bridge, in the comely of Clare, In July last, said he was afraid the oesauet of the Attoraty and Solicitor-General for Ireltad moll alb* the future prospects of brines. kr- WM a bal of isdieineet at the nest assizes for the her morder of** Men who were shot at that plain. flit weelderei the esadoet of the low teem of the wows was not forget the intimation which was made by his hon. friend some time ago, but the fact was tl at the pressure of circum stances rendered it quite impoesib:e for him to lay an esti mate before the how... Mr. IiUME said when public money could not be so counted for, there must be something extraordinary behind. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER did not may that the public money could not be accounted for. (Hear, hear.) Public money expended in this manlier would have to be accounted fur to the last shilling—(hear, hear)—but be acid that, from the pressure of circum stances, it was impossible at that moment to lay an esti. mate on the table. On the motion that the clerk now proceed to read the orders of the day. Lord 1). STUART said be would take that opportunity of saying that he thought they had heard a most extraor dinary statement from the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and thrt that house had been treated in a very singular manner by the refusal of his honourable friend's request. (" No, no," from the ministerial benches). The whole country, he believed, was unanimous in wishing by every possible menus to testify respect fur the memory of the illustrious Duke of IVellington ; but he did not think that that respect womb' have b,, : n i n any degree diminished if the constrtutionul course had been pursued of stating to that house, which held the pirrse , strings of the country, the probable expense attending the solemnity of Thursday. Everything had been dune by prero gative. All the orders had been given, and all the ex penses incurred, and now the House of Commons, after being bamboosleri—(loud cries of " Oh, uh," amidst which the conclusion of the sentence was )et). - . ;;;Mr. CARTED. was surprised that after an interval of two months to consider the subji et the government could not say whether the expense would be 10,0001. or 100,0001., or, ae he had holrd it estimated, 210,0001. For whit pur pose had the government been wasting two months, if not that it might ask parliament for a sum not t oo l arge for the over-taxed people of this country to pay ? It was a some what invidious and ungracious task—(hear, hear)—to rise in the house for such a purpose; but he was bound to say that he felt on the previous night that ho had not done his duty to his own eon science in not standing up after the right hon. gen tleman opposite had poured out, in well-turned periods, a eulogy ow the late Duke of Wellington, that he did not resist what he felt to be a national folly fur he could only regard a national funeral as a national ' folly. (Loud cries of "Oh, oh.") The right hon. gentleman said the feel ings of the people could only Hod vent in a national pa geant. If so it would be tar better not to express them at all; and he must say it would be much more credibible to that house, and beneficial to the country, if the sum ex pended were applied to something more useful than the mere pageant, pride, and pomp of a public funeral. Ile thought all this wore the aspect of impiety—(oh, oh)—it was man paying almost idolatrous worship to the clay of his fellow-worm. As a member of that house ho had availed himself of his privilege of witnessing the lying-in state, but be confes , ed that the feeling produced in his mind was one of disgust. The honourable and learned member sat down amid renewed cries of Oh," and " Question ;" but no further notice was taken of his objections, and the resolution was at once put and carried previous to the Speaker's leaving the chair. APPOINTMENT OF MR. W. PATTEN AS CHAIR- MAN OF WAYS AND MEANY. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER rose and rid—l beg to move that Mr. Wilson Patten do take the chair. (Cheers from both sides.) Mr. HOME —I bog to say that I am not aware, from my experience, that there is any person in the house better qualified to do so. (Cheers.) 1 have much pleasure in second inn the motion. The motion was carried noes. con., and the house imme di►tely resolving itself into a committee of supply, Mr. W. Patten formally took his seat as chairman. The following paragraph in the Queen', speech having been read, " The advancement of the fine arta and of practical science will be readily recognised by you as worthy of the attention of a great and enlightened nation. I have di- reeted that a comprehensive scheme shall be laid before ' you, having in view the promotion of these objects, to wards which I invite your aid and co operation." The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved the usual formal resolution—" That a supply be granted to her Majesty." Mr. HUME apprehended that the present resolution meant nothing more than that the house was willing to grant a suppl to her litaievy. (Hear, hear.) TheCHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER would give due notice of the specific resolution it was proposed to found en the paragraph us her Majesty's speech which had been read. The resolution was then put and carried, and on the mo tion that it be reported, Col. BIBTHORP, referring to the funeral of the Duke, expressed his disappointment and that of an honourable body of men with whom he was associated, that no provision had been made for the attendance of a deputation of that im portant force, the militia—(" hear," and laughter)—with the deputations of the other branches of our army. The motion was put and carried, and the house having resumed, A number of colonial return" were ordered on the motion of Sir J. PLLINOTON. BUTTER AND CHEESE. Mr. EWART gave notice that on a future day (which be did not specify) he would move to repeal the duties on the import of butter and cheese. THE DEFICIENCY OF SILVER COIN. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON haring presented the usual re tarns of the Wats of Bank antes, Mr. HUMS wished to know whether any arrangements had been made to afford • sufficient supply of silver cur rency; the commercial sffaire of the country hid been thrown into very great difficulty by the want of energy exhibited by the Mint in this respect, and he hoped the government would consider it necessary to lay on the table • statement whether any, and what, steps had been taken to supply a want of which inch general complaints were made. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER must say that the greatest exertions had been made to supply that want. (Hear.) Ile did not believe any establishment in the country had displayed greater energy than the Mint had in supplying the demand for silver coin ; but it should be remembered that the Mint had had to meet unparalleled circumstancee—(hear, hear)—and if his bon. fnend (Mr. Hume) thought proper to bring this subject under the at tention of the house by a motion, he (the Chancellor of the Exchequer) would ha prepared to show that the officers of the department in question had done their duty. Cheers.) MR. VILLIERS'S FREE-TRADE MOTION. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—I do not know whether the hon. member for Wolverhampton is in the house ; but, if he is, I with to address • question to him ; and, if not, I will still put it, as probably some one of the friends of the bon. gentleman may be able to an swer me. The house will recollect that I ventured to en puss yesterday my belief that it would be convenient, both to the house and to the country, that the terms of the mo tion, of which the hove. member had given notice for Tues day next, should be laid on the table at eagerly • period r possible, and I certainly did upset that in the course of the sitting of yesterday we should have been favoured with them. (Cheers from the opposition.) Now, however, another day has elapsed without the terms in which that motion se to be brought forward being laid before ne. Now the house to-morrow meets only for a rings' sitting, and it is not usual to give such notices daring morning sittings. On Thursday the house will not sit at all, so that unless we are favoured with the tremor the hon. gentleman's motion to-night, we cannot have them before ?ridgy, which is scarcely sufficient time before the day upon which we shall be called upon to direr it. Under these circumstances I am quite sure the hon. gentleman, if he be present —or soar hon. friend of his if he be not—will now give the answer which I was not successful in obtaining yesterday, fee hon. gentlemen on either side must feel that the nature of such an important motion—l mean so far am its terms and expressions are con cerned—should not be kept in the background, but de clared as soon as possible. Mr. Vitamins was not in the house, and no hon. gentle man rising to answer for hiss, the subject at once dropped. THE APPOINTMENT OF A DEPUTY SPEAKER. On the motion for the adjournment of the house, Sir R. INGLIS, after expressing his approbation of the appointment of Mr. W. Patten aa chatrman of the com mittees of the house, drew attention to the difficulty in which (ho house would he placed in the event of the cora• pulsory absence of the Speaker from illness or otherwise, and thought it was desirable that some provision should be made ere the emergency came upon them for sup plying temporarily the place of Mr. Speaker should he un fortunately, by inner or other cause, tie prevented from attending. (Hear, hear.) ARTERIAL DRAINAGE, IRELAND.—THE AP POINTMENT OF MR. CUDITT. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON wished tooorrect a misrepresen tation of his answer to a question put yesterday by the member for Roscommon, the publication of which had given pain to the friends of one of the parties concerned. Ile had said that Mr. Cubitt had been appointed to the commission in consequence of the inner of Mr. Walker, notlisat he had been appointed in the room of Mr. Walker. Mr. Walker had not been removed, but Mr. Curti had been added to the °commission. The bum then adioozood at a quarter put 8 o'clock. ESCAPE AND RECAPTURE OP CONVICTS nom POHTSMOOTIL—Two convicts, at work with a gang outside the walla of the Portsmouth convict prison, succeeded in making their escape from their keeper on Monday lut. They proceeded in company down North-street, Forties, and thence into Hing-street, walking at an easy pace. Chase being given they took to their heels, and, crossing Queen-street, went down Hanover-street and up a short court, at the end of which they jumped over a well into the garden of Dr. Oarrington, and from that they got into the yard of • Mr. Lush, a brewer, all the while followed by live keepers and a host of people. Out of Mr. Lush's yard they got into another yard, a n d perceiving the door of a shed, occupied by •marine store dealer, to be they took refuge in it, as they thought, unobserved. The Occupier of the stare, however, saw the movement, arid quietly walked to theshed and locked them in. The con vict keepers shortly made their appearance, and the pri soners were delivered up. Mr. Taylor, the occupier of the shed, realises a reward of if. each by his capture. Ithe erPrefUL TO CORftIiSPONDENTEI. & Nixed Edition of . Tle Kapres,. ecestaieuie the snow weirdly. " Oustte," Is published every Tueads) Aid 1 1 id a y .y rkt . " 4 Iss wet. idsettleessesta intended for " The Es pre..,. Lot of, it,e n i ft must be eat:im t Office, 10, flour - nr-street, by Two o'clock us iy illy of twbue. rtiott WATEN. AT LONDON EAMON. Tuts DAT—Mornhar. 5b 44 Afternoon, GIL Obi. Toombauvr—licAsua. Is n.b. -Aftbrubbs. 1 11. 9e. LONDON, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17. T m n du o ct on of ou l g l i o a no to ur i a: c le lm it e l l3 en tt r soil::;! VihetEntotelm conduct ti motion is a test of sincerity. The man whouthrn,, it will have diffieulty in abetting buy equivocating o r shuffling evasion of the full adoption of Frts• 'trade principles that Minister, may resort to. MRCP there will be a scrambling and sneaking among all who are disposed to play fast and loose with sound, in. dependent, liberal principles, to av o id ta ki ng the test. Ministers, it is believed, will do their witiost to facilitate evasion. They will not oppose, they will not even record a spoken protest against Mr. V/1,- 1.1E104'8 motion if they can possibly avoid it. They would have it to pass in silence, rem. con. If they abide by this resolution, it will not he easy to detect the waverer'', but something may be dune. Every absentee from :he die. mission may be noted, and culled upon to arrant satisfactorily for his absence. The views of the Prue Traders may be illustrated and enforeed is the greatest possible number of ways by the gootcbt possible number of speakers, in order to It Are ro excuse for the silence of believers in Protection, or any modification of it. When we have wily and unscrupulous antagonists, or questionabl e p od i ssors of friendship to deal with, no exertion ou g h t to Lt spared to make them show in their true eoleurs. It is of vital consequence that the House of c orn . mons, which has already affirmed in the abstratt the principle of Free Trade, should disclaim all mental reservations respecting the practical applieation of that doctrine. It is notorious that there is an unconverted Protectionist minority in the house. It is notorious that the. minority is the nucleus, the animating soul or living principle ot the ministerial party in the house. It is notorious that the fidelity of this minority has been sutured br promises on the part cal ministers to give them tome substitute—some " compensation" for lost Pracs:tion, if Protection itself cannot be restored. Sonie such declarution as that embraced in the motion of Mr. VILLIERS is required to cut away the ground from under the feet of Ministers and their paitisaus should any such double-dealing as has been indicated be attempted. The members of our House of Commons must, if possible, be brought to book OR their vote on Pro tection. " Free-trade" must be the word, without addition or reservation: all pribb:e praLble abut "in so far as consistent with the actual circum stances of society "—" compensation to suffering interests," &c., ought to be ruthlessly cut short. The time has come when they must be for or against Free Trade. Those self-scs.kers who now atlecet to agree with one party, and now with another, can no longer be tolerated. Of all the dishonest subterfuges, that of endeavour ing to restore a quasi-protection by some finuucial juggle, upon pretence of compensation, is the most shabby and discreditable. Mho is entitled to com pensation ? Who needs compensation ? Ministers, of course, will not speck out like honest men. They will not tell us in plain language who it is that they think entitled to compensation. They seek to entrap man by asking their assent to a sup posititious or hypothetical proposition : "If any person or class is entitled to compensation, be or it ought to be compensated." Wise men will have nothing to do with " its." Tell us who arc supposed to need or to be entitled to compensation, sod we will first inquire whether they are so. If they are not, there is no use in affirming an abstract proposi , don in which nobody has any practical interest. Though Ministers will not speak out it is well known that when they talk of compensation of laws by Free Trade, they have agriculturists, or, more cor rectly, one class of agriculturists in view. There are two sets of men among agriculturists who may bo described as industrials and annuitants. The industrials embrace the labourers, and the farmers who employ and risk their capital, or capital and labour. These two classes Lord DERBY admits have not suffered by Free Trade. Thule whom we have called annuitants are the owners of land who do not them selves employ it, but subsist upon an allowance made to them by those who do, for permission to tie their land. These form the glass who Lord Inane and his colleagueo would have us believe—though they do not venture to declare as touch in explicit terms—are in need of and entitled to compensation. Let us examine their case. The income of persons of this class consists of rent, or what is paid by farmers for the use of the soil they own. Now, rent is neither more nor less than a cer tain annuul return from land in excess of what is required to pay the average wages of unskilled labour, and the profits on stock, and a cer tain allowance for management to farmers. 117 an economical law there does exist natu rally such a surplus. But our rent-draining claw have not been satisfied with this natural sur plus, they have endeavoured to increase it by artifi cial arrangements. During the great European war which terminated in 1815, accidental and transitory circumstances had temporarily increased their rents. After the peace, rents necessarily had a tendency to return to their natural level. The corn-law Wail enacted by a landlord Parliament to prevent this — to keep rents up at the high, unnatural war level. The attempt was in a great measure unsuccessful. Even under the operation of the corn-law rents had come to be lower in 18.18 than they were in 1815. It does not, therefore, clearly aear that the reduction in rents which had taken place under, or which in common justice ought to have taken place under, the corn law can be attributed to its repeal. But, even though the repeal of the corn-law may have lowered rents, it does not follow that those who are in the receipt of rent are entitled to compensation. If rents were higher under the corn-law than they would have been without it, then the receivers of rent were in receipt of greater sums than, bad thine been left to take their natural course, they would have obtained. The excess in their receipts was either paid by farmers in the shape of excessive rents, or by consumers in general in the shape of increased prices. The landlord-made corn-law enabled landlords to appropriate more than their fair share of the production of the soil. if any compensation, therefore, is due, it is by, not the landlords. The repeal of the corn-law can only bring rents to their natural level. If rents arc lower since the corn-law has been repealed, then they wore too high while it existed. In common justice landlords ought to refund to their farmers or the consumers what they may have received in excess while the corn-law was in operation. Any chum whatever for compensation to the landlords ought to be met by a counter claim for restitution. The claim for compensation it is now obvious will not be advanced directly. That would be too much evoa for the modest assurance of Mr. DtsaseLL But if Mr. VILLIERS'S motion can be parried or evaded, then will an attempt be made to obtain a reduction of the taxation that presses upon landlords. To concede this would be worse than even to pal compensation that is nut due. Special exemptions from taxation, in favour of special classes, are u dangerous as they are unjust. l'he old noblesse of France were exempted from all the taxes paid by the non-noble classes, and the revolution was the conse quence. Even a partial exemption from taxation in favour of' our landowners would of necessity discontent and turbulence in the bosoms of all the rest of the community. To prevent this Mr. VIL LIERS'S motion ought to be affirmed, inasmuch as it declares once and for all that Free Trade is the only sound commercial policy, and that with the simple abolition of Protection the question is finally settled. leaving no room for after discussion or cavilling about compensation, partial exemption of certain classes from taxation, or the like. engender Is his "Curiosities of Literature," Mr. PtsitstEl I. senior, tells us: "Some authors have practised 'la gular impositions upon the public," and he then g.e on to quote the cue of VAAILLAS, the French historian,