The Express. — London, England, 1847-12-09 00:00:00

ppWIENN o ineres•e to the annther of the nneatters, and the otter tor • MOW& are council ant home of amemlip. After nth* mien disimetos, Mr. Rowe moved a resehdlea le the abet that Ike aunt dig not eon. eider It *this'll rt He present elm to n • agitate : e nt WM This the time did ease the wart wale Moe and beast .everatip. The Oilisslor el MAY, Alleiney- General, and the gweessnient t morelery. 11 glue mit • , ioel threaten emceed he eethass. die. n ad e is.. the that weeid human Ames In the t kir R Its. going Mt Jenne. supperled the ressinthm, 111.1". RCA% 1118firt. c.e = ad White aise WM, gth kit wee ear riid. Ho. ma the timbers pledge thardwe Sr the eon due pirdnee ratan MoMbers And wise le to dodos when the MI. - fie , a change Ire arrived? WLNI/WARD ISLANDS.—The only news of general interest from this group relates to the inquiry about to be instituted into the dispute between Judge Reddie and COlonel Torrent, late officer administering the government in St. Lucia We subjoin the announcement of the inquiry, si it appeared in the Barbados hfercury of Oct. 27, toge ther with the supplementary notices of the St. Lucia Palla dio* and Independent l'ress, the champion. of the hostile powers - • Lieut.-C.lonel Torrent late in command of the government of St. Lade, oh: se name as a sentleinan, and whose policy as a governor, mew be , arailier to our readers in this and all the colonies, and else where, at rived in the Packet. It will be remembered that this is the meatless , connected with the divot, between the Colonial-Aloe, Nieeel Reid, and St Lucia officials, the history of which Is known to to emote of this island, and to repeat it would be unnemmary. The hentenac - contmandine her Majesty's forme on this ens has rec.-,t et a comnicuticatioo from the Horse Guards, intl.. tw ang pit it bad been deemed necessary by Fat Grey to institute as itiquiry into the chairs preferred by Co. Intel Toren against Judge Meddle, sod cut cress; that • court of incline , dsould be appointed to be held at St. Lucia foe the purpose, which ein.ri was to be composed of a field odlcer in the command, to be ...mil. ind by the lieutenant-general, and of two high otliedal gen. tlemen in :he dell service of the government, to be nominated by Oct. Rein. Lieut.-Col. Hill, of the let West India Regiment, Mr. Anon.) -cenead Maly, of this island, and Chief Janice Sharpe, of it. Vincent. were, We understood yestenber, appointed tor the afore. mid purpoe; but we oteeme by the Gar of last night that Mr. Arriodei:. . de Attorney-General, and at Dement acting Chief Duties of lintedi I ;want and not Mr. Sharpe, is the civilian selected eon. jointly w,th the two ISM mentioned (Col. Hill and Mr. Sealy). The • wort nut he expected to assemble in about three weeks, so Cot. Hill Is likely to arrive in the colonial steamer early in the next month. Major Ja,fr is, tea regiment, will proceed to Tobago to assume the command of the Weep there. Cot. Torreos is at present a Visitor at Govismn lie Hem. To thi.. we me, Sent 'Acid communication of the above or- , ologotneto has been through the channel of the local govern- mmt, to Mr. Itealtle • ripen that Mr. Boddie has expressed the intes•Plled empll=geni -General of St. Vincent, Chas. D. l•telrtr. &sq., to in sionterneg his osse. Colonel Torres's may be exported to intro hem l• the worse of • wmk or ten days, on board of I.^r Majesty's ship flielL—Pa The atone extract from as a.o.d. Mercury, appears to carry j authority" mils tare. The Indhenntficas relegating the members of the Court of nisi nag hew heat lorriwed from a deepatth written in helm T he Twins had =to XT. Jenne Onwpa. The Globe dirbit dr hater lon, sad put la Mr. Adis Chief Junes Anthielli—ltarl am haring so ordered R. It reV a irde mm o s tirwo that Inenmeit °none Torrens was a visitor at Ye 37th of October, bat his reported eini li tra aka heity's skip Eadymior, is the invention of deed hhllmmdd the editor of the Poliodhon. LientenentAkethel TIMM and Lieutenant gay, private secretary to Gonesee u s, we boded hew rot, t clay morning by the cutter Valiant, ?Ma u = hg with cargo of roll Rah for Dominion. The we hear, nit taken Mr. Vau3han's cottage, at the Cocoa Nate, as his residence. • -Independent Press. :It court. Viscount Villiers hid an interview with the Right Hon. E. Strutt yesterday.—Lord Kinnair' d and Sir E. B ul wer Lytton had an interview yesterday with the right bon. gen tleman at the office of the Commissioners of Railways in the Board of Trade. The Host. F. Scott, M.P., and Mr. A. Boyd, trans wed InvMess yesterday at the Colontal.office. Lord J. Russell was better yesterday. Sir W. Clay transacted business at the Board of Trade p.sterday. Despatches were receivedyesterday at the Colonial ones from the governors of the West India colonies. PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL STEAM I NAVIGATION COMPANY. Yesterday the seventh annual meeting of propri etors of the above company was held at the chief office, St. Mary As , . Sir J. Pine took the chair, u Sr J. Campbell, late deputythairraan, declined officiating. Bir J. Putts, in taking the chair, expressed his regret at the refusal of Sir J. Campbell to act, but promised to fill his *ale to the beet of his ability.—Sir J. Cam , sett stated that before the ekes of the proceedings he would give his reasons In having daginra the chair. The Fneretory, Mr. Howarz, proceeded to read the 14th hslt-yearly repeat, which stated that : At the kat helt-yearly ems It was eletied that the dirderes at ded am neeengleted Weds AIMS ta dr mans el tles the =blregeteedthe additiond need et 1144101. , yid* emir the of sloeds of the treeteary, the emdriden are now Who. tbellerebeuld a special pang sesellbg aid be dot wpm deleedir la father of the fletede. TS le7 elm* beaderarry to debt des retuone why this ddletieldel demi, yr ad Ibilowed fp; the Mete of th e money neestrOrt rare rare orbital eel le the beard thebuilding Furter, et ebeeddeddiet bed to any =r fo vow aim ed metre the igkel r referred le, erldwq muddi we ed le regart, this, u ed. la Or ye mot period, se en* erldNenel NOM hes beta Nisi ea, dediaith ea the w I hill. 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Iles. raw sir re Irma globs rirdieled, miss, emalog le re brae etre deed, try see *re. irk riser re err waggly zeommal dist polhosa to pm. litiNo. Nejoreenawn weed, mod amether dorehoidt r seeemied, • dr mike that the report be atieomL Goa. Bathos was sorry that he could not mom in the Vatad the report. He most say that a ascot metre' itneellefectory document it bad never be We let to Won te. In the Beat New he aunt remark that, attreed to huger repel% thwe Ira shwa bees amiti fi r e &ri sies t the din art mmegleg itnetem et the , is the ionised the ampway. non wee mains like that ia akszotesent dewe emat. He wooll bare ranueat that the 93d of the ileed eiramieneam be tread to the amt. (The article, which ems them geed r was in lobelia* that the directors should Er= s sit e lLeral mieefimi reports of the receipts and kr Om twelve months previous, legs with the pai stsi t= amoral eon , dition of the eises .) He stashed that the repeat did not I contain this in The CH AIRM•N said that the isibematiou required was in another document, which he was ready to hand to the gal lant proprietor. Gen. Bathos resumed. He saw in the report allusion to the formation of branch lines in India. He believed it was th e fi e , i t er,,wietors had beard ail* matter. He should r . like to know if it had been ascertained whether them branch hoes were likely to be remunerative. It would appear that four branches were contemplated, requiring at least 100,00 W. additional capital. They were not informed where these new lines would go to, being merely told that the object was to enable the company to carry passengers at a moderate rate. It appeared to him that more in formation was necessary on this point. If they were to depend on the European passengers travelling coast wise (in India), the profit would be small, and he did not know whether native passenger traffic was contemplated. A smart trade in opium might, indeed, be carried on, but the report gave no information. The report then stated that the passenger fares had been reduced 10 per oent. He wished to know whether this reduction affected allpassen gers, or merely cadets ? (" Hear, hear, " and interruption ; several shareholders expressed their w ishes that the speaker would condense his observations as much as possible.) He wished also for fuller information under the heads postage and carrying the mail. He next came to the profit and loas account, to the credit of which he found the sum of 116,9561. Is. 6d. He saw that the directors proposed out of this to divide 8 per cent., and to appropriate 7 per cent. to the depreciation and insurance funds. He should like to know whether any separate account was kept of the depre ciation fund, where it was deposited, and to what purposes it was applied ? The next question he had to ask hod refer ence to the insurance fund, 108,6891. 91. 4d., to which the directors proposed to add 15,0001. from the profit and loss account. He wished distinctly to understand whether a separate deposit of this was kept in a particular place, and whether it was accumulating at compound interest. Then I it would be satisfactory to know where the ships were in sured, whether at Lloyd's. (Question, question.) He asked for the publication of accounts, but he was answered that such publication would not be convenient. (No, no.) Well, expedient ; it was all the same. (No, no, and laughter.) A SHAREHOLDER: Is the gallant proprietor going to make any motion ? (Hear, hear.) Gen. Bathos, in conclusion, said ho did not mean to make any motion ; he merely wished for en answer to the questions he had put. He did not see why the accounts should not be published, as were the Royal West India Mail and other companies'. The CHAIRS N said that the accounts were open to the inspection of the shareholders. If it was the wish of the court that they should be published, the directors had no obiection. (No, to.) Sir JOHN CAXPEELL mid that the COWES now adopted was similar to that taken at former annual meetings. The di rectors did not publish the accounts lest their so doing might be prejudicial to the interests of the shareholders, but they were open to the inspection of the proprietors. (Hear.) Mr. CARLETON (one of the managing directors) said that the board were unanimous in rejoicing that all these ques tions had been put, as they were desirous of affording the proprietors on all occasions every information in their power. he first l oint on which information had been called for was that conoerningffie branch lines. Mr. DENT—Which branch lines ? The proprietors have never been consulted respecting them. Mr. CARLETON said that if the directors had thought the giving of information on this point would be advantageous to the company, it would have been given; but there were questions connected with those lines which they did not think it politic to make public. There were competitors, and therefore it had not been thought expedient specifically to name the branch lines. He could only say that the branch lines were contemplated with a view of feeding the trunk lines, such as Southampton and Alexandria, Sues and Calcutta, &c. With re spect to the reduction in fares, he had to state that it affected not only cadets, but all other passengers. The re duction had given great satisfaction, and would be extended if it could be done consistently with the interests of the com pany. (Hear.) Mr. Dater : What is the charge for cadets ? Mr. Carleton: 1051. • it was formerly 1401.—Mr. Dent : Mr. Greene's ships take thera for 701.—The Chairman : I will find ships to do it at 501. . . . . . Mr. CARLIKON Another reduction not alluded to in the report was in the passage money from Ceylon to Calcutta, which had been reduced from one-third to one-half, thus offering a great advantage to officers whose health required a change of climate. The next point on which explanation was sand was postage as a source of revenue connected with goods and passengers. It was thought in an influential quarter that the postage should be s uffi cient for the convey ance of letters between England and India. Aa to the RUM of the directors not being in the report, they were in all the printed bill,. With reference to the question of insurance, the vast& were insured at Lloyd's, and the plan wee, to insure two-thirds of the property, lea.- ing one-third on risk, the balance saved going to the growth of the insurance fund. As to the accounts, they had left than to the auditors, with whom the book-keeper was put opensnunication, and they were thus open to the inspec tion of the shareholders. This had been the course since _ . . . Ciamseal Bwoos and other proprietors admitted that dug had always received every amistanar in examining the sesonate. . With respect to the slims credited to the insurance and depredation accounts, they were in bonds, in sash, and azabeigeer•bilh, and part, 13,6001., had bees invaded in the areetion of the new premises. Mr. DINT r Do the new premises belong*, the emputy ? Mr. Ca:rumor( : Tee, to the CORlpilly, SS d4eNmo pay ing 1,0001. a year rent out of their eseamhakm. The - tilde upon which the directors had acted was to psuriie for the building of any new vessel required by the is eta ship, out of the insurance and depreciation funds. They had done so, on the Ices of the Great Liverpool, building a new ship at an expense of 68,0001., without trenching on the capital of the company. Mr. Daisy wished for a statement of the amount of remit mention given to the managing directors. Mr. W =vox, M.P., said the hon. proprietor should here given notice of his question. The accounts wore open to him all it l .finwr said that without economy in the management, **company would not receive the support of government Or the public Mr. ANDERSON, M.P., as one of the managing directors, was willing to give every explanation. The company had its basis in the Peninsular Company, formed principally lc by Mr. Willcox and himself. They had then an amalgamation with the City of Dublin Company, represented by which brought them 300,0001. worth of property in ships. He would remind the court that at the time, he and Mr. Willcox gave up their private business, which was considerable, and that Mr. Carleton re li nquished the post of managing director in an established and flourish ing company. It was arranged that their remuneration should be first 24 per cent. out of the poet receipts, and 6 per cent. out of the nett profits, out of which they were to pay all expenses of the London establishment. This arrange. meat was made with a view of identifying their intermit' with those of the company. Mr. Dater.—l approve of this Mr. ANDIONON.—Now the MINIM of those emoluments had bees wan talked of, but op to 1816 it had only averaged 1,8601. pee eon for each wassilagg Mentor. Then In 1846 h2 i m bi reseiteded, in the hie et a tramadous opposi tion, in the government esnmen for India and Shaw en totem of 180,0001., the prides were increased es amok as to raise the average el annual remuneration to es& managing dingier bathe stun af2,8501.—n0 doubt • very bonds reniantmWien, but the dine contemplated scar swim out of It which wield be of adnatage to the em pay; wad WM% it shoal* be reaelhatod that 4,000 dor% ere sJillh el the whole aphid, were held by their own ponemel esamosiene egad Inaba. With such a stake they was set the hot likely panne to look narrowly after the Weans of the ocumma. Re wield also remind the meetisgs that, not baba yang saga, it was necessary they theedi take steppe kigisg up a strong and efficient ezesaliva IhspWIIII wino tending to a reduction of =pima. Rs dhl bet si abis fr om any notion that the sae to of the directors were too large he Ilelibled i= 7 , llllo IS entitled to those emoluments manta IS say 6v kis addends. (Hear hear.) Mr. 11111 know, if an increase of capital was andemplated, whim the proprietors ware likely to be celled apes to contribute T—Mr. Casturrom said that no thingeimeld be done in that way without a special general Olga Maxwni.t moved that Sr J. Pixie, Capt. R. les _linens, and Mears. Melvill and Hunter, auditors, be irebed. After a somewhat lengthened discussion the .aim was unanimously agreed to. Najaf STRAITS moved the thanks of the court to the board of directors. Sir J. CANPEELL thought this the fitting moment to ex plain the cause of his retirement from the deputy chairman ship. The hon. baronet entered into a somewhat lengthened explanation, the substance of whisk woe, that on the death of Yr. P. M. Stewart, their late chairman, he (Sir J. Campbell) had thought that, after his long and SIMEON services, the vacant chair should have been offered to him The first in timation, however, which he received, was OR the dab of month, when two of his oo es one sad told bin that overturn had been made to l a d6tlagsiied end mambo of parliament. In this mater steps led been %hew to etiperoode him, without say emsithentlea he his His colleagues bad not some to comult Ida, but is him what bad been done to hie prejndies. (Hear, box) He had considered this conduct so disoosrbsow, that list sonsultation with his beet MUM* he concluded that the only sense left for him wee le reign the deputy chair manshi MU p. T a discussion, in the NOM of width the &radon =LI dichimed any labs/ea at a/fading Sir J. bbd sU . stated their bider to hoe beat that he did /Tab oehetka, theses won wi•l is. ne report end the reseludea fizteg • /Mead el per oat per annum woe also agreed to. Mr. Wuxcox said that the fogy temealning badness was = what had been the amapfars trameatiewe with Waitron In 18411, that gentleman had the took moo do draft with &beet 18 or 20 pereagen a mouth. It was quite clear that I * could not carry en the THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 9, 1847. communication to India. The company offered to take his stock off his hands and to allow him a guinea per passenger, which, at the present time, would &Mount to 1,8001. or 2,0001. a year Lieutenant Wagborn refused this, being un willing to be controlled by the company superintendent at Alexandria, and the company were o • sod to take the tran sit into their own hands. Corporate bodies, however had no enmities, and the directors now proposed to subscribe 5001. to the Waghorn testimonial. Some proprietors objecting to this proposal, its discussion was adjourned to a future day,— Thanks were then voted to Sir John Campbell and the board of directors, and the meeting separated. GREAT MORTALITY IN LONDON.—The report of the Registrar-General, issued yesterday, displays a very startling increase is the number of deaths in the metropolis. The mortality during the corresponding week of the previous five yearn averages 1,046 ; --during the week ending Dee. 4 no less than 2,454 deaths occurred—just fourteen hundred more than tie usual number! open a closer inspection of the return it appears that the mortality has chiefly arisen from diseases of the organs of respiration—from bronchitis and pneumonia. The average deaths at this season from these maladies have been, bronchitis 39 last week that disease destroyed M. From pneumonia, the average mortality is 109, last week it killed 306. The aged have suffered most *seemly from bronchitis; the young from pneumonia. Asthma has also been fatal to more than three times the ordinary number of sufferers by that disease. Taking into account all diseases of the lunge and of the organs of respiration, we find the total deaths in the seven days to be 994, the average being only 333. In the return of deaths from " old age," the ordinary average of the week is 6.5; last week the number wasl66. Disease of the heart has also been unusually fatal. The relative health of different district, is indicated by the following portion of the registrar's report: Average Death. Deaths. last wk. I West districts :—Kerglngton ; atelase i la= INanarer.agnare ; Westminster; St. hada; IL Jenne. North dtsrieni:-Bt. Marylebone; Bt. Paeans; Is lington ; Hackney; part etEdanantoa, vie., Hemp -422 Ottani districts : —St. Otis end St. George; Strand; ' Holborn; Clerkenwell ; St. Luke; East Leeriest; West Landau; Llty of London WI districts .-Bhoreditch , Bethaskgreen ; White. chapel ; St. Oeorgeln-the-East; EttepneL . Pop n la a r 232 South dtztrUrte : —St. Saviour; St. Glare; my; St. George, Southwark; Newingto• • Lent: beat; Wandsworth end aepluun; Camberwell; itotherbithe, Greenwich; Lewlaham ...... ... . 288 Totals 1,046 2,451 The provinces appeu also to be suffering severely from the prualsuat evil. -- - HOTEL AND TAVERN KEEPERS' PROVIDENT INSTI TUTION.—About sixty of the principal hotel and tavern keepers of the metropolis assembled yesterday at the Piazza Coffeehouse, Coventlarden, to assist in the celebration of the ninth anniversary of this institution. The Lord Mayor presided, supported by Mr. Sheriff Cubitt, M.P. The usual loyal touts having been disposed of, the secretary read the report, which showed that the first object of the institution, the grantingof temporary relief, had been accomplished, the subscriptions having amounted to the sum stipulated, namely 5,0001. The present recipients enjoyed annuities varying from 131. to 2.51. a year. The second object of the society, which was to be carried iota effect when 6,0001. more was subscribed, to grant permanent relief, the committee hoped wou➢d be, by means of this meeting and the exertions of tke friends of the institution, speedily accomplished. The present amount of funded capital was 5,1881. ; the amount in the hands of the treasurer, 151. ; making a total of 6,2031. ABOLITION OF CHRISTMAS-BOARS:Lent evening, a meeting of tradeemen was held at the Green Dragon, Fleet-street, for the purpnee of taking into consideration the propriety of adopting measures to secure the abolition of gi ring Christmas-boxes.-Be►eral tradesmen addressed the meeting, and complained of the burthen they were liable to at Christmas of allowing gratuities, and of the ill-will which frequently arms among the parties receiving them. Very general complaint wee made against the Poet-office authorities, who countenanced the solicitation of Christmas-boxes on the part of the general and district postmen.—A resolution in con formity with the objects of the meeting was adopted, and a committee appointed. PROPOSEI/ NRW PARLIAMENTARY BOROUGH.-- Last evening a public meeting of the inhabitants of Chet , sea, Kensington, Hammersmith, and Fulham, was held at I the large hail of the Swan Hotel, Walham-green, to take into consideration what has been recently prop osed for adopting the necessary measures for constituting the above four named parishes into a parliamentary borough.—John Lockhart, Esq., presided, and in opening the proceedings remarked that it was impossible for the two members fer Middlesex adequately to represent that great count., cora -1 prising so many and so important local intereets, and 115,000 I souls with 11,000 voters. He contended that the repreaen- 1 tation of the country at the present time was most unfair. He found that Buckingham sent two members to parliament with 293 constituents, Chippenham sent two members to parliament with 278 constituents, Harwieh seat two mem bers with 188 constituents. On the other hand Gateshead sent one member with 622 constituents, Myths sent one member with 516 constituent., Cheltenham seat =ember with 2,108 constituents, and Huddersfield sent one member with 1,085 constituents. Tke chairman concluded by re commending that no means should be left untried to lop off from one of those small boroughs one of the existing mem bers, in order that the important and populous parishes of Chelsea, Fulham, Hammersmith, and Kensington , mightbe formed into a parliamentary borough„—Mr. Mahon, bar rister-at-law, proposed a resolution forming an association to carry out the principles advocated, and pl edg ing the meeting to give it their almost support.—The resolu tion was adopted. Several members were enrolled, and after the transaction of some routine business the meeting separated. MIL Lows Toe it's COLLECTION OP LIVTNO MAMMALS, BIRDS, AND REPTILES, were exhibited at the Horse Bazaar yesterday evening. There are; some rare spe cimens of animated nature among them • of which we may partielduise a Brazilian' thick-kneed buatezd, and three Boubare bustards, an African variety, well deserving to be introduced into this country, from their exquisite flavour, a new species of porcupine, the Matrix Cvvieri, a toucan; a ring-tailed porcupine, and several pairs of budgerrliegobs, or undulated paroqueta, moat beautiful little creatures. There are alas some very fine specimens of the urger paro guet tribe, and maccaws and cockatoos without number. - ITIE OLD LENTEN ENTERTAINMENT: The Irish members are beginning to abase England as badly as ever. This really looks as if they intended making appheation for another loan.—Pooch. DEATH or MR. LISTON, THE SUROEON.—This die , tinraished medical man died on Tuesday evening, at his renames, Clifford-street, Bond-street. The deceased was one of the court of examiners, and a member of the council of the Royal College of Surgeons ; he was also one of the sur geons and lecturer to the University College Hospital, where he was deservedly held in high repute by the numerous students of that institution. Mr. Liston had long been known as one of the first eurgeoos in England ; since the death or Bir Astley Cooper he had but one or two equals, and perhaps no supenor in rapidity, dexterity, and general skill as as operator. It will be remembered that his same came pro minently before the public in connexion with the unfortu nate duel between Col. Fawcett and Lieut. Munro, and more recently with the fatal case of Mr. Beaton and Lieut. Hawkey, at Portsmouth. Mr. Liston was the author of some valuable works on surrui, well known and appreciated by the profession, and was an the enjoyment of an extensive practice when death deprived the public of his valuable ser vices. His demise creates a vacancy in the medical staff of University College. -- - - A legacy of 23,0001. has been left to the Medical ent of University College, London, by the late Dr. rl e oW, E of Manchester. The Manchester Guardian of yester day, speaking of the will of the deceued physician, says The personalty is stated to be under 35,0001. If to this amount we add the value of the realty—viz., the property in Xing street, Manchester, which is probably worth 12 , 0001; that at and near Kendal, 2501. a-year, at twenty yearn' purchase, gives 5,0001.; his library will be worth little short of 6,0001.; and an examination amongst his papers shows that he, too, like the late Rev. 8. Smith, was a holder of Pennsylvanian bonds, to the extent probably, of 1,0001. ; also of Columbian bonds, to the amount of 25,000 dols. (nearly 5,0001.), and of other American bonds; but taking the whole of these bonds to be worth only 2,0001., that would give an aggregate amount of property, real and personal, at the time of his decease, of about, in round numbers, 60,0001. The aggre gate amount of the legacies and bequest' in money, is 16,8001. ; and deducting this from 35,0001., and adding 60003. for the library, it would appear to leave a residue of about 26,0001. for the medical department of the University College. -• STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS.--Sir,—On your leading article, newspaper stamps, Dee. 2, I observe that justice requires that the stamp duty should be as the gums twit of paper, and that every sheet should bear its own pro- portion of duty, and that the same duty upon a single and i double sheet, and then half duty upon a supplementary sheet, is a grove ant shameful injustice and oppression upon all newspapers, except such es the present Times, but the injustice isthe more flagrant and detestable against rival journals starting against it. The duty upon the Times is one halfpenny per sheet, upon other journals one penny per sheet. The bust proposal seems to be, that the duty of all newspapers should be reduced to one halfpenny per sheet. Petitions to this effect should be forthwith addressed to the House of Commons. At this crisis it may be impossible to effect any reduction of the stamp duty on advertisements. I have not the Stamp Aet, but l'believe even in this there is injustice, and that the duty is charged by the number of different subjects, and net by the number of liner. Now, if this be the feet, a more insolent fraud upon the people, and defiance of justice, amid hardly be perpetrated. Feeling a strong interest in the cause of the education of the people, and the advancement of freedom, I trouble you to rea d these remarks, and I am persuaded that to the gross ignor ance of the state of the law, and of the premiere of the revenue upon the people, is to be ascribed the multitude of wretched laws and t institutions which we power, and that nothing but a liberal press diffused amongst the people an by any means drag these monsters to the hiht of day. Sumnuesjus, sumeea sruurio.—J. L.—Carlisle, Dec.B. ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH IN THE UNITED ETATEB.— Tbe following is a table of the electric wires finished, in pro gress, and contemplated, as far as is known : Finished and working 3,00 In progress Contemplated 7,869 Ai many of these have two wires, the length of win may be Maly estimated u exceeding 11,000 e. —New Yon% Heisaid. VIOLENT GALES AND DISASTERS AT SEA. The severe gales which have prevailed along the meats since Saturday last, have been attended at sea with great loss of life, and destruction of property. The Eris, which left Southampton on the 3rd, with the Indian mail on board, and which, as we stated on Tuesday, put into Dartmouth in consequence of the storm, we learn was struck by a sea on the Port Beam, off Ushant, carrying away tilt) bulwark and paddle-box, and doing other damage, which obliged her to put back into Southampton yesterday morning. The mails and passengers will be transhipped on board the Pasha, which vessel will start this morning, unless the Admiralty give contrary orders. Accounts from Sheerness, dated Tuesday night, state that the fate of the Magnet (Rotterdam) steamer excites much interest. She was laden with a number of horned cattle, and nothing has been heard or seen of her sines Saturday morning. She left Rotterdam on Friday nearly about the same tune as the City of London steamer, which put into Harwich on Swarday, haring had a very narrow escap*f foundering. The Magnet was due in the Thames early on Sunday, and her non•arrival was the cause of much alarm. Fresh arrivals from Rotterdam were looked for with anxiety. The complete loss of the Northallerton, be longing to Stockton, is reported. At daybreak on Monday morning she was discovered off Winkerton, Rear Yar mouth. She had gone to pieces, and the coast was strewn with fragments of her cargo and wreck. Every soul on board of her perished, numbering probably ten, with the master, Mr. Claudia. None of the bodies have been found. On the Yorkshire and Northumberland coast the shipping suffered severely. The entrance to the Tyue was the scene of several disasters. The wind blew fearfully from the N N E, and an immense sea was running over the bar. The Sylph of Dundee went on the Head Sand, and the crew were preserved by the life-boat. The St. Lucia, also of Dundee, and the Montreal of South Shields, in attempting to make the harbour, not upon the same sands, and were wrecked. The crews ware preserved. The Scotch traders at Sheerness reported many sad losses along the more northern portion of the coast, and upwards of forty fishing vessels are mining. At Berwick the storm , ppears to have effected much mu chief. Three visuals were lost in the district, the John Whale, belonging to Shields; the Tyne, bound to Port Dundas; and the Thomas, from Seaham to Dundee. In each instance the crews are stated to have been saved. From Milford we learn that the Circassian, bound to Swansea from Cuba, anchored in the Mumbles Roads, with a view of riding out the gale, but was parted from her moor ings, and was driven as►ore to the eastward of the harbour, when the master and five seamen perished. On Tuesday morning the storm continued to rage at Liverpool with unmitigated violence, and the greatest ap prehensions were manifeated as to the fate of the vessels about the coast. About ten o'clock it was reported that a brig was standing towards the mouth of the river Dec with signals of distress flying, and soon afterwards she drifted on shore, and has been ascertained to be the Mary, from St. John's, New Brunswick. In the course of the forenoon it was stated that a large vessel was lying onside the river, dismasted, and also a barque aground, with a lifeboat alongside of her, and a brig with signals of distress flying, standing to the westward. One of the Liverpool steam.tuga, with a life-boat, went out to the assistance of the vessel, but returned into port about twelve o'clock, without haying been able to render any servile. IRELAND. DUBLIN, Dec. 7. At the last meeting of the committee of the Labour Rale Act, in Clare, a letter from Lord I. Russell to Mr. J. O'Brien, M.P., was read, on the subject of unfinished public works. His lordship states that the primary object of advances under the Labour Rate Act was to save the people from starving, and the employment on the roads quite a secondary con sideration ; the latter having been sacrificed to the former and more important object, a system was esta blished whereby three millions were fed by treasury advances and subscriptions. If the public works have been abused, improvidence encouraged, idleness fostered, by the course which the government have pursued, the justification of the government lies in the extraordinary nature and wide extent of the evil. But, whatever fault may be found with the past, his lordship tells the Clare landlords to consult for the future. The owners and occupiers of property are henceforth responsible for the improvement of Ireland. His lordship's letter appears not to have found much favour with the committee. In relieving boards of guardians from duties which they were either unable or unwilling to fulfil, the poor law commissioners have hitherto been content with the simple act of dismissal, acoompanied with board, ve brief explanation. la the case of the Cavan they have gone into a more detailed enumera tion of reasons, and, for the first time, a sort of pro clamation, signed "13. S. N. Twisleton and N. Re dington," follows the letters dimissory of Mr. Stan ley- a formidable and terror-inspiring document it is in its qrave formality. The commissioners run up a heavy indictment against the Cavan board : First, that deaths by destitution, authenticated by the verdicts of coroners' juries, had taken place within the union without proper steps on the part of the board to avert them. Secondly, the contraction of heavy debts and uncollected rates. Thirdly, the appointment of relieving officers two months past, and little or nothing since done to en able them to enter on their duties—no depOts esta blished and no houses taken for the administration of relief by the officers. For all which and sundry other grave considerations thereunto moving Messrs. Twisleton and Redington, the Cavan board stands discharged. The administration of the law works gradually towards a stipendiary body, a result which the owners of property will yet have deeply to lament. Amid all the destitution and suffering of Mayo, murder has not been among its crimes. The peasantry are now passing through the tortures of clearance' and hunger, but, mach to their credit, the trial is patiently borne. One solitary instance of assaasina tion, in the person of Lord Lucan'a bailiff; was among the " current rumours," but it turns out entree. A sort of local tribune, Mr. Corry, passed into the sone of the alleged murder, and " found that statement to be a gross fabrication." He adds that "at no period within recollection has the process of wholesale ejse tion of tenantry been carried on with more ruthless avidity," and that on every side the eye is attracted by the blackened walls of roofless cottages, from which the wretched inhabitants are cast out even in this inclement season." He withholds names, lest he should be accused of pointing " public execration " to the moral destroyers. At the half-yearly meeting of the Hibernian Bank ing Company, yesterday, the nett profit of the year ending the lst of November was reported to be 19,6101. A dividend of 5 per cent. wee declared. The loaves on the year amount to between 5,0001. and 6,000/. The stoppage of payments by the Messrs. Winans and Co. is only to be temporary. There are ample funds to meet all the liabilities of the firm. There is to be a county meeting of Longford to morrow, to consider on the resolve of the govern ment to provide no food ; and what is of more practical consequence, to take steps for the immediate relief of the "actually starving." Work first— speeches and resolutions after. TER IRISH LORD is such better._ Chancellor Brady 13;oitW.--There was • severe gale from W.N.W. yes terday, which became very violent about half-past twelve p.m. Considerable apprehension prevailed for the safely of some Kingstown fishing boats, which were, however, brought in safe, chiefly through the exertions of the pilot boats and a trawler, manned by volunteers from Kiagetown. Last night there was a renewal of the atom, which came on with tremendous form tower& midnight. The London mail, rid Birkenhead, due at five yesterday afternoon, did not arrive until twelve o'clock to-day. The Liverpool mail due this morning, has not yet arrived. The weather has become calm but intensely cold, and sleet has fallen. SCOTLAND. EDLYBIIRON, Die. 7. Last night a destructive fire broke out in Greenock. Three rope-works, running the entire length of one street, had been consumed. At ten o'clock, when the last account left, the engines were playing upon an extensive flax-mill, but with little chance of being able to save it. No account of the origin of the fires has as yet transpired, but their progress was greatly accelerated by high wind, and the inflammable cha racter of the materials set on fire. Fm CMIIRCII Brrne.-81r lames Riddell'e factor mays *stiles were offered at Stigmas en the following condi tions, end declined. The datiroost front tho other tide hao not wnoar we Tic ; nwr-- A l et riff to the oremip deb Thlithid King. 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PROVINCIAL Imams Cannitoi&—Oa Today, at the Mail abaree aeon, so tom Aim do boo, d we nag* from orma it OW to timitzate= i =rltk eb• minima el 41111mami Th Loy ' land, Mid Joint So k, ot Oast Ma 1114 brims' several times; previously, were sentenced to three months' imprisonment each, for having the previous evening stolen two odd clogs from a shop in Oldham road, having gone in under pretence of purchasing a pair of clogs for one of the party.—A lad, named Beckett, only eight years of age, was charged with haring stolen about a pound of cheese from a shop in Miller-street. He also had been several times im prisoned, and once whipped ; and was now remanded, in order that his parents might be sent for.—Daniel Kelly was charged with haring stolen a box containing about eight abilLngs from a shop in Huhne. Mrs. Stanton had observed a man peas and repass several times, and suspecting his intentions, she went into the shop, when the prisoner immediately ran round the counter, having previously *s eared the box containing the money, and attempted to escape, but he was pursued and given into custody. A lad named Giblin was charged with having stolen two half pounds of butter from a shop in Sackville-stmt. He was observed inside the counter by a man, and upon this man's going into the shop the lad knocked, as if he wished to be served, and afterwarda asked for some buttermilk. He was then about to leave the shop, when the butter was seen concealed under his jacket. Giblin confessed that be took the butter, but said that he was out of work, his father was dying, and the family in the greatest want; he was induced to commit the crime from distress, and be was sorry for having done so. The mother of the lad corroborated these statements, and as he appeared to have previously borne a good character, be was discharged,atter being cautioned as to his future conduct. EXEMPLARY CONDUCT OF THE PEOPLE.—IC la worthy of remark, that notwithstanding the distress which prevails in Bolton, and the great number ont of employment, the business of the police court is considerably diminished, On Monday there was not a single charge of felony at the borough court, nor yet a warrant cue. THE FLOODING OF THE COAL MINES.—The dims term created by the flooding of the coal mina at Wigan have, since Saturday last, been increased in a tenfold manner. There has been, however, no further loss of life. The pumping water out of the pit where the unfortunate col liers are immured continued with unabated activity up to Saturday afternoon; still the quantity of water in the shaft had not been much reduced from what it was on the previous Friday. On Saturday evening the rain again fell 1n torrents; and, about eleven o'clock, the water rose above the banks of the Douglas, and, despite all efforts to check it, again entered the hollow, with fearful violence. It reached Messrs. W. Lancaster and Co.'s pit at four o'clock on Sunday morning, when it rolled into the shaft in large quantities, and by noon had filled it on a level with the four-foot mine, the water being 130 yards deep. The noise then ceased, but the water con tinued to rise in the shaft, backed into Messrs. Preston's four-foot mine, which is a little higher, and Yes since filled all the mines and hollown in the neighbourhood, where no impediment or " fault " stands in the way of its progress. On Saturday night, during the whole of Sunday and Sunday night, great exertions were made to check the entrance of the water from the river into the hollows; piles were driven, a space three yards thick was puddled with clay to back up the piles, and at least seventy large bags of cotton were thrown into the hollows. Still, when the strength of the stream &baud, the water forced its way be neath the clay, and rolled into the mines during the whole of Sunday, and was not checked until early on Monday morning. By this time a second barrier of thick planks and piles, braced together, had been made in the field, to back up the puddling of clay; but again theheavy rains destroyed all. Before nine o'clock on Monday morning the stream had risen above its banks, the barriers were broken in, and the waters entered the mines in larger quantities than ever, end continued to do so during Monday and Monday night ; for, in the then state of the river, all hopes of 'topping it was abandoned. Many of the shafts at the coal-pits are filled on a level with the Douglas, and the water has, no doubt, backed into all the worlungs under the town and neighbour hood, and into all the crevices made in the rocks and other strata by the draining of the mines during the last century. On Monday great fears were entertained that the roofing of the hollows would give way in other places; policemen were stationed to prevent the people from passing be tween the river and the dam adjoining Mr. Park's for g e, and some cottages in the neighbourhood were abandoned by the tenants. The bed of the river, and most of the property adjacent, appears to be undermined, and in some places the river bottoms worn so thin that only a very few inches of slate or rock support the water, and keep it out of the mines. The coal-masters had a meeting at the Royal Hotel, on Monday, to consider on what steps to take for theirmutual benefit. It was determined to proceed again on Tuesday with the necessary repairs on the river bank, to examine and secure its foundation, and that all parties should set their engines and pumps in order, and work simultaneeualy and vigorously together until the mines were again cleared of water. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBRIDOIII, Die. B.—At a oongregation held this day, the gellowtng demo were reakered:—lLA.: B.Ontlag, at. John's ; I. 11.11wwww. Tetsitylt ‘ .. , : i o= e n . (grand emta)- 11 -A.: T. Tar, Qum% ; J. —At the ease stsgraga doodle Dllowlog grassiersed the mate : To mar Ow degree of Warm of Arts spa I. D. Moon, 8.A., by royal ressalsts,—Two =oris adept a sternorlal against the agralstmest of Dr. Is theses af Ilsrelord. end the other to appdat • spasm! to emigre Tram fa la esgedient to Inettrote as esesdastlea of all stsgula imestleg dem of Itsg's College), awoken togs* les =VD Doluellt flt, to draw up ars& • wham of ; esi abets repeat to the most* ea sr bike the second allirls haft iv" Wig. Win bah reiseted by the Caput, sres, Moot go behrothe amts. • NAVAL Foaramoarm, Dee. B.—Tbe Amaral of the late Admiral Ohm, took place this dewol Gee Ale*: Um coriere opened with * Maw of six guns, faslithed „, ... z ...llsudisa Artillery, fol. tommtly ths 32ad regiment end with their bands, rthe “Deed Ilw berteue, ea a got ferriage, drawn ands. ibliewed by the ahlef weemes. wet kw proem alma gad affissm,•mmel sdattry ; the woorel and admi ral. mold by linir diee-dreamp. dere the geweent. After the ranneelsereleebed bwa of en guns concluded the areerwr, width =t a d d =eamtd by upward., of genewa. A member of keen and mime were pattlally dowel, and ths lee et the ibig peahen. Ist public establishments, won MIMI half-maet Idhli &Meg the day. _ _ ADMILLIZT, Dia. B.—Arrournoorys.—Css. : W. F. limb. ii. pdsej=roos-symioloodost : T. IL Itsown, to s e m Kant cwt audit dap. Ilsotor : 1.. Leo, to H. 411dota 1 .1. MAO, thaed Master : H. B. AlloWW.l9 Moo Mot Aalloot : J. A. Burton, to Chem; W. Toift. to Noma ; W. 1. to Ottyx. Clerk's Ambling: A. Ld war to Cygnet. MILITARY. PORTSWOrTH, DEC. B.—The 76th regt. (reserve battalion) this day marched Into the deified. and embarked in the Shade remithas W., which non eemd lime to Spiraled, end put them on be the Belierophoo, wink& eld. v mai ilmaorrow, if the wind is ink _ _ Ms DIATH 01 , 81i °LEL= DALBILC took =ening at hi. elembers In the Albany. tie is tn 1713, se matt of the 4th dragoons, the einenerg d V he kid at the U.S al ids don, beans got that rennent Ilegniinten, 1642. neentiasse nen dated, lieu 111/ ; tentAteet., Oet.1218; eniL, INS tenor, On. 16614 Jen, eel. filer. lON ; ui, hoed, 1114. re Mot the~ ant at wee ghat Wine. ISM no revel nth thee* en. B ens ga t i r * vhdlit be iner bill eineelnkn, nnelig, the ah =deft the nonslan et MI, mil wee enpnel te the Tamen% ate Mimi 11911 i et Jely. Be well be tans" et UM k the Ire el Item. aid genneriell ate rt etOmpeOwey tenni& elan NO Jur. 22 1 16 61 1: neseravely emge at Inelaelen sod et flellmenn, May Oman Dann nee the ta i l l i g teg u 2e nflasej= in gez the vie sad bezinaan of peas Won and canoe 1n the eavelry. He was an erase disciple of lank Wis. SPORTING. BETTING AT MANCTIESTEIL—Trxma. WOLTIIETWILPTON STEEPLE CRAM —9 to 1 eget The Bwltabor (t). CHESTER. Cow.-1,000 to 15 silt Sir Tstton Sykes, LW to 16 apt Newman. DEESY.-10 to 1 sgst Surplice, 12 to 1 eget Glendower, 16 t o 1 apt Optima Jack, 10 to 1 mg Amnon, 30 to I apt Stinger, 23 to I apt Betroths, 33 to I apt Beanbag . , 33 to 1 stet Oerene, 40 to 1 apt Scoolyst, 40 to 1 apt Me Octiltree. Eat intelttstnce. EQUITY COURTS. Behr* the Mader of the PAU& ATT*OOD o. W11.111.-BTOCIL-JOBEING TILL Mr. i,;;;;4p Jr 7.1,71:;;;;;;.. ported in this journal on the 2nd inst. and are shortly as follows: — Mr. John Attwood, the plaintiff, employed the defendant, Mr. Wells, who was a stock-jobber on the Lon don Exchange, to buy and sell stock for him by way of spe culation, daring the years 1845 and 1846, in the COUTO, of which Mr. Attwieod became indebted to the defendant in the sum of 40,0001. or thereabouts, for money lent to him, and alao in a balance of 1,4001. on the jobbing transactions. Mr. Attwood deposited Buenos Ayres Bonds, railway share., and other like securities with the defendant as a security for the money due on the loan accounts. The defendant, in April and May last, sold these securities and applied the proceeds towards payment of the money due on the loan account, and brought an action for the balance, which exceeded 2,0001. 'Mr. Attwood thereupon filed this bill to restrain the action, land he obtained an injunction for that purpose. The ' defendant having put in his answer to the bill, the plaintiff now showed cause on the merits disclosed by the answer why this Injunction should not be dissolved. The equity relied on by the plaintiff was, that in Jan. last he offered to pay the money due on the loan ae- I count, but the defendant refused to give up the securities without ha wu also paid what was due on the stock-jobbing amount, and for which the securities were not given. This we. denied by the answer, in which the defendant gave a very different account of the matter. There was also • question raised, whether, by the custom of the Stock Ex &inge, the defendant could legally sell the securities depo sited with him, without notice to the plaintiff, end formal demand of payment ; but this point was not decided, the Master of the Rolla being of opinion that, having regard to the statements in the answer. he ought not to interfere, and dissolved the injunction. Bekee the doodleadar diseases. DIMING V. Tlie Gillet NOZTILICIN RAILWAY CoK. PANT.—INJUNCTION TO BRITZLIN THI Dal=DU= FRAY TAKING Posszeatote Or LAND.—Mr. Bothell ea& Mr. Met a& moved oz parte Olt bolo& of tho lain w ho were the draws ol =Ulu property situate he , on the ids of the Odd Nord= holiway, to mai do ads dry hen neforlng mysa m i n o s lii=i ar ilhoaatig dr fir lee et their Isol. It neselletiese leg been twig on rear the diiih Ile eanpeay we= le the lama leselka, Ile_ phial& hoeing I.IOOL, and _ elopes,' Wefts oily 1.11001. d i e = rehoel of the iphiliii to wept file MI, the pee *era adios dat they Awn UM peeseenon nada ens powers et their eat The pidatiffs, without =4 .lll :sai 7 vod any further nodes, Elesereeed that although BO UMW/ het been pea, id se bud Ward Imo, es di- '1 '$ reeled by the act, and no woluation had taken place, the company had entered upon the plaintiff's' land with carts and other implements, and bad deposited bricks, and made pro vocations for commencing their works.—TheVice-Chanceacc granted the injunction. Before ilce-Chancenor Knight Brass. PIAILISOW O. GOULDEN.—TLTIISS.—LORD TINTERDSN'II At-r.—Theee were four tithe suits instituted by • vicar to recover certain small tithes in the townships of Titherington, Siddiogton Upton, and Fallibroome in the parish of Prat bury in La n cashire. ' The defendants relied upon the fact of the tithes having never been paid within the period pre scribed by Lord Tenterden's ast (2 & 3 Will. IV., c. 100). —Mr. Russell and Mr. Lloyd, for the plaintiff, contended :net this was a case in which nonpayment (although a no tative fact) must be proved by the party alleging it, and that the evidence was insufficient. They also contended that, according to Vice-Chancellor Wigram's decision in "Salkeld v. Johnson" (1 Here, 196), proof of users non-render of tithes during two incumbencies, and three years or a third, was only a sufficient defence in cases where, nefore the act, exemption from paying tithes might lure been lawfully pleaded ; es, when the lands had been abbey lands, within which class of cases the present wee not drought; and that the judgment of Vice-Chancellor Wigraro in the above case must be considered as binding, the court of law to which the Lord Chancellor had, upon the appeal, ..ent the question, being equally divided in opinion. Mr. Wigs am, Mr. Eagle, Mr. Bacon, and Mr. Lewin appeared for the several defendents.—The Vice-Chancellor said that he was prepared to decide in favour of the plaintiff as regarded the Atha of hay, if the plaintiff pressed for an immediste deci sion. As to potatoes end turnips, he would allow the case to 'Landover until the plaintiff obtained the decision of a Osurt of law in an action, under the statute of Edward VI. And as to %lament (which could not be the subject of the action) his Honour would have no difficulty in giving • deci sion in favour of the plaintiff, if he succeeded at law upon the question of the other tithes. The case then stood over :or the terms of the action to be arranged. COURT OV QUEEN'S BENCH. Bitting, is Banco. SATZBE V.DCFOI7I.—AIf ACTION FOR A SALARY DWI TO AN INSOLTENT DEBTOR WHO HAs FERMENTED A PRTITIO3 FOR Pandering UNDER THE 5 & 6 VICT., C. 116, NM Be EROUORT BY Till OrricAL ASSIONEE.—The plaintiff brought this action to recover a salary due to him. The defendant pleaded that the plaintiff was an insolvent debtor snd had presented to the Court of Bankruptcy a petition for protection from process, and that an official assignee had been nominated by the commissioners to act in the matter of the said petition. The plaintiff demurred to this plea. The first section of the 5 & 6 Viet., e. 116, after empowering an insolvent debtor not being a trader, or being a trader owing less than 3001., to present a petition for protection from pro cess, and authorising the commissioners of bankruptcy to grant such protection, enacts that " upon the presentation of any such petition all the estate and effects of the petitioner snall forthwith become vested in the official assignee, who shall be nominated by the commissioners acting in the matter of the said petition ; rind such official assignee shall and may forthwith take possession of so much thereof as can be reasonably obtained and possessed without emit ; and the said official assignee shall hold and stand pomessed of the same in like manner as official assignees hold and possess estates and effects under and by virtue of the statute relating to bank rupts." The question raised by the demurrer was, whether the right to bring the action for the plaintiff's salary vested by the operation of this section in the official assignee 'or remained in the insolvent. Mr. Hawkins, for the plain ! tiff, contended that the right to sue on a contract for salary did not pass b the section above recited to the offisial as ' signee.—Mr. Jones was heard in support of the plea.—Lord Denman said that he held clearly and undoubtingly the opinion that the right of action on which the plaintiff had I dimmed to sue had passed to the official assignee, and there fore that the action could not be maintained. The words of the statute which vested in the official assignee all the estate and effects of the petitioner, were positive and absolute, and were not restrained in their operation by the subsequent words, which directed the official assignee to take possession so much as could be reasonably obtained and pommies& 7;ithout suit. The introduction of these latter words was only to be accounted for by the unfortunate practice of the legislators in putting off till the month of August mea sures of extensive operation, then hurrying them forward, and in the hurry introducing unnecessa rily, as in this instance, into provisions that would otherwise be clear, words that created doubts and disputes where no doubts and disputes ought to be possible. The doubts which in this case had been raised, by the introduc tion of those unnecessary words, were completely set at rest by that provision of the section which put the case of an insolvent on the same footing, in respect to the transfer of his property to the official assignee, as other statutes had placed a bankrupt. The demurrer, therefore, must be over- Med.—The other judges concurred.—Judgment for the defendant. Nib Pans.—Betare Mr. hence Er le. JOENSON e. WYLD.—ACTION POE Use AND OCCUPA noN Or PREMIUM AND 8111•11-POWSL—The action was brought by Mr. W. J. Johnson, the proprietor of the Nassau Steam-preee, against Mr. Wyld, M.P., the lithographer and mapeeller at Charing-cross, to recover 4201. for the use and occupation of certain premises in Bt. Martin's-lane, and for the use of steam. power in working a lithographing machiae. The sum charged for the premises was 1751. a year, and for the use of the steam-power 1501. a year. Evidence was called to show that the premises were taken, and the ma chine placed on them, and the steam-power supplied, and agreements were read by one of the witnesses as to the terms on which they were let, but neither of them ware signed or executed by either party. It was also proved that the premises had been occupied from October, 1845 to Christmas previous to the making of the agreement for the hiring for three year.—For the defence it was stated that it had been agreed to set off 2391. due from the plaintiff to Mr. Wyld, against the sum due for the rent of the premises, and far the me of the steam power, together with several other sums amount. ing to 551., due from Mr. Wyld to the plaintiff. It was urged that these sums would be overtopped by the 2391. The agreement with regard to the premises, which bad been read, if it was snything was a lease, and by a recent act of parliament, with respect to contracts, 8 & 9 Vic , c. 106, and which extended the principle of the statute of frauds, requir ing such contracts to be in writing, it was necessary that it should be a deed perfectly executed. This document, which bad never been signed or executed, purported to be an agreement for the letting of the premises from Christmas 1845, for three years, and should have been a lease completely executed, and not being so, Mr. Wyld was not bound by it. He bad never made any final arrangement as to the terms, and was ready to pay the value of the occupation of the premises, which ware not worth 1751. a year, but about 751. With regard to the steam-power, the agreement as to what was to be paid for that was never signed, and Mr. Wyld did not assent to that agreement, nor did it bind either party to anything ; where as, by the statute of frauds, every contract for more than a year was required to be in writing and signed. The full yearly value of the steam-power was not more than 501. The rent of the premises at 751. a year, and of the steam power at 401., for the time (four months) they were severally occupied and used, added to the 551. ad mitted to be due from Mr. Wyld to the plaintiff, would not amount to the 2391. admitted to be due from the plaintiff to Mr. Wyld.—Witnemes were called to prove that the press was worked irreg ularly , because the steam-power was irregularly suppli ed, and caused the breaking of the machine ; that the machine worked well in premises in the Borough, where it was before it was taken to fit Martin's-lane, and ;the steam-power supplied there was 'efficient ; also, that there was not euffirient steam power to work the machines used by Mr. Johnson end Mr. Wyld at the same time, and consequently the machine of the latter was constantly stopped; also, that the charge for • two-horse steam-power (that required by the machine in question), including premiam, would be 901. a year; but if the power alone, without premises, were hired, 801, would be a good rental; also, that 7W. per annum was the utmost value of the premises, and that possession was given up in June, 1846, although the keys were net offered till De cember, 1846.—The learned judge, in summing up, left it to the jury to say what was to be paid for the premises from Christmas, 1845, down to December, 1146, without reference to the agreement to let for 1751. a year, as that was shut out by the technical objection; 2ndty , what fee the steam power for the same time ; and 3dly, how much for the occupation of the premises from October, 1845, to Christmas of that year. The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, da rariter the rent from Christmas, 1845, to December, i 51.; for the use of the steam power for the same time, 1501.; and for the occupation of the premises previous to Christmas, 1845, 401. ; which with 651. admitted made 4201.; deducting 2391., due by Johnson to Wyld, left a balance of 1811. COAST OF COMMON PLEAS. Sittings in Demo after term. 1411X157 O. H/CIUNAN.--QUESTION UPON THE GAMING Liana—This was an action brought to recover 201., money bed mid remind by the defendant to the use of the plain tiff. The ease wu tried before the Lord Chief Justice, at Weeldaster-hall, when • verdict was found for the plain t& A rule nisi wit afterwards obtained to show Clllll4 why that verdict should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered, on the ground that the learned judge had misdirected the jury. The facts of the cue were simply these :—The plaintiff and • man named Isaacs had made a wager of 201. a side upon a race to boron by two horses, and the plaintiff hail depcmted his share of the stakes with the defendant. Previously, however, to the day appointed for the race, the plainuff gave notice that he should withdraw from the bet, and accordingly the man ludas, having acted upon the original agreement, had "walked over the course," and claimed the amount of the wager. The plaintiff afterwards applied. to the defendant to return bin the money which had been deposited in his hands, but the defendant refused to return it to him, sad thereupon the action was brought.— On bokalf of the defendant it was untended that, according to the 18th section we the Bth mad 9th Vic., chap. 109, the seder yes not amiateleehis. The statute referred to enacted. that "efleßeaeMme whether by parol or in wr iting, by may et er iigba, shall be null and odd ; and no sok be bale& eimaintained in say court of law megelepihr the rommiry at any sum of money or valuable thing be wen tepee pea a yoga', which shall be deposited linisie te Made of any poses to shade the event upon which any were shall have bra made" The guestica now before the meet depended entirely bi sf s semersetion of this statute, sad the court, after =lllt Talfourd and Mr. PM= in favour of the 4 maintain ;h ie • 1 2, and Mr. fiesfiesist B ei Lles ime t Peril, eat . J oy ce on the diet that tke to seitaketir The (eerline ire; mbar, R ad taw peseisk Rea erne voltbis the peelisee dflhS 11111 esellea ell the set ; ressift. vittefits, 'swab. tics ismisatlous war raell—diat Or seam ma net visiNelmea Mrs ov ght vet to We bees wally *MAI VI abolition,