The Express. — London, England, 1851-03-12 00:00:00

purpose of being translated into the learned and ailfuse dialect of what is called the constitution. Should it escape that danger, however, the repre eentatives of the nation will have in appropntde monnityllabbrs to say " aye" or " no" to this briefest of bills. We are not so sanguine as to hope that the speeches prefatory to these decisive ejaculations will be equally concise or to the purpose. We can ima gine the %al LA). and :armucsii of the pretexts which the farmers* friends will assign for not choosing to trust a greater number of them with the right of voting than thee think they can manage and control at feture elections. South Notts has thoroughly alarmed them. Their monopoly of produce was taken from them in 1816; and now their monopoly of power is in danger. In every county there is known to exist a malcontent mino rity of 501. tenants at will, and freeholders who have long desired to emancipate themselves from the inso lent thraldom of oligarchical compact and clique ; but who from their want of numerical strength have been compelled to accept the nomination system. Add to these in each shire a thousand or two, many of whom are likely to belong to the smaller towns nut returning members to parliament and we should SlMAdily MCC a change of tone and temptr iu the mode of conduct ing county elections. Personal qualities would no longer be thought mere " incidental advantages." The second and third class of the gentry would by derma look to the representation as a legitimate object of public ambition ; and learn to render them selves acceptable politically to the community amidst whom they live. The best man of county business, and the man who habitually showed that he under stood and sympithised in the farmer's condition, would be "called on to stand" where now nobody ever dreams of such a thing. Here such a man might get in; there he might fail. But in both cases the public interest would he served The bore possibility of such a contest or its instructive remembrance would soon work a change in the thoughts and ideas of the haute nob!. sm.. Airs of patronage would be laid aside for a worthier style of political bearing ; con- deseension would give place to conference, and the voice of command to the accents of counsel. But, above all, the extension of the elective fran chise to all holders of rated tenements, whether lands or houses, of the yearly value of 101., would create a public spirit in whole communities and through out extensive districts where it now has no existence. The only question on which the owners of counties have fur the last ten years allowed the occupiers to go through the unmeaning form of giving an estate vote has been protection. To keep it up, the occupiers of the soil were drawn out on parade in 111.11; and to get it bark, they were marshalled in like manner at the general election of I 17. So, likewise, if there were a dissolution to-morrow, the same exhibition would be attempted throughout the agricultural districts. All other questions, all real questions, all questions in which the industrious millions who live by agri culture are practically concerned—these are pooh as vu gar and ignorant notions by those who re hitherto kept the county representation as an heirkwan of the few great families. If any wilful or hartl-headeil elector ventures to put interrogatories about taxation, rent, tithe, or pour-rates, he is met with a civil rebuff fur his pains, or a well-bred stare. But the power to enforce a reply is wanting. The spirit that animates the town populations is not to be found. A choice between blue and yellow is to be made, perhaps, but not by the freeholders and 50/. tenants at will. They are too few to dare so to assert their independence. The county members arc no minees of the aristocracy, not representatives of the people. Such is the state of things which the House of Commons, not three weeks ago, declared by a majo rity of two to one. its earnest desire to amend. The proem! which Mr. LOCKI: KING pmposes to try for that purpose is simple enough. He asks that the principle of the town franchise should be applied to counties; and that every man occupying or pay ing rent fur a house or fur land worth UM per annum should be entitled to give a vote for mem bers of purliament. Can any one show any just cause or impediment why this should not lie dune? Will anybody pretend that the possession of the same amount of property in a suburban parish implies a less degree of worth or intelligence than in the cloudy regions of a manufacturing town ? Hoes the clearer atmosphere incapacitate the rural ten-pounder ? Or does his civic brother inhale political discrimioution and judgment from imperket sewers ? And if nut, how can the oppommts of so moderate and reasonable a proposition as this jus tify themselves in refusing to give it a remind reading ? It will la• within the recollection of those of reddens, who have attended to the course pursued by the Express on the subject of etelesiasticul anises and their reformation, that, in the last session of parliament. an act was pumas' to impose cure of souls on the future deans and canons, and minor eapitular clergy. of Munchester, and to reduce very considerably their stipends; and that in the prohn-ass, through parliament of another act to amend the constitution of the ecclesiasticsl commission, a clause was inserted prohibiting deans, to be thereafter ap pointed, from holding benefices not situated in their detanal cities or towns, and even them, where such benefices exceeded the value of iql. a year. The object of both these statutable provisions was clearly to abate to some extent ecclesiastical sinecures. and to compel cathedral clergy to render real services to the church for the very cotunderuble incomes it bestowed on them. The Manchester Maury Act did not go so far as to assign vote of souls to the existing dean, canons, and chaplains of the old parish or collegiate church: and therein it was eleurly defective. But its spirit joshed those ecelesiustical sinecurists to assume voluntarily those duties which the statute, out of that tender regard for existing interests, did not require for them. Neither dean nor canons have, however, made any effort to share in the postural art ices of the enormous parish of a hish they are the chief, and only well paid, ministers. Dean Bowtss is still in receipt of 2,0001. a year, and Canons Waal', SEW KANT, PARKINSON, and CLIF TON, of probably upwards of 1,0001. a year each from the property of the church in Manchester, without any cure of souls • and the minor canons, in I the enjoyment of some 700/. or 8001. a year, follow the bad example of their superiors; all being in what Mr. SIDNEY 111,KISKRT (MCC called a state of "sulky independence." having a dislike, quite ec clod:Wit-al, to their diocesan, Bishop Lee, who regards hard work as the equivalent for good pay. In all this there is nothing legally to complain of, "The law allows it, and the court awards it ! ' They have a right to be idle church dignitaries if they choose; and some of them do choose to be so. Others, however, who repudiate the cure of souls in Manches ter, assume it willingly enough elsewhere. There, for example, is Canon PausiNsost : first, he is in cumbent of the parish of St. Bees. in Cumberland. with some paltry 1001. a year ; and then he is Pre sident of the ('ollege of St. Bees, a peat that is sap wood in Manchester to rewind him for his exertions away from his canonry with Mg low than 2,1000/. a year. Th;n, there is Canon Currtet ; he has a living in Oxfordshire • Somerton by name, that adds 2do! . a year to the; canonry worth 1.000/. a year, and which is scrvcdby a relative. And. lastly, there is Minor Canon RE MINGTON, who, though pocketing some 7001. a year out of the church in Manchester. has not been heard of in that city 14 many a year. he concentrating all his faculties on the perpetnai curacy of Cortina, in Cheshire, though it only pays a bare 1001. a year. All thew were, however, sinecure+ and pluralities existing prior to the act of lust session. That statute, it was supposed, would effectually prevent any other of the callous from ussuming,after its enactutent,that cure of souls elsewhere which they rejected at home. This expectation has, however, been disappointed. For a week or two ago, the church laity of Man chester were surprised by a report that the Senior Canon, Mr. Wit tv, had limn appointed to a distant nt lite. Fora while they were incredulous. But at last an official announcement, " that the Rev. C. D. WRAY, f..rnicrly of Brasenose College, Oxford, ('anon of Manchester. has beat instituted to the rec tory 4.f South Buret. it, Norfolk," has dispelled their incredulity, and shown them that what v shrank from believing is literally the case. So thit out of the eight siscalled cathedral dignitaries, but in reality the eight parochial clergy, four are now pluralists, in addition to being sine emists ; sad the other four are sinecurists only. Whose state is the more gracious, is a bit of casuistry that it would require the ingenuity of PASCAL'S old friends—the Spanish Jesuits—to decide. For 40 years has Mr. Canon WRAY been a mem ber, with nothing more serious to do than occasional attendance at divine service, and an occasional ser mon, of the cathedral church of Manchester. For all that long period it has given him a very handsome income and a house to live in, which he has let out as a warehouse for nearly 300/. a year. And only last year by his influence, one ,of the cathedral livings—St. Andrew's, Ancoats, was bestowed on his son, a young man. And now, when the legislature has put it in his way to be of service to Manchester by assuming a parish and the ewe of its souls, he accepts a living, worth, it is said, NOW. a year, in Norfolk, and sheds the city that for 40 year s has dealt so handsomely by him, and only last year with his also. This is not kind as courteous, or grateful, of Mr. Canon Wear. It is, we dare say, lawful. But it is not doing unto others as lie would they should do unto him. There may bean ecclesiastical fitness shout it ;hut it is not pretty conduct. There is more df Lord GUILDFORD than of BERNARD GILPIN in it. The working clergy of the city of Manchester are a body worse provided for than the clergy in the • most remote and thinly-peopled parts of the diocese. I Yet the gross value of the cathedral property is ' 34,000/. a year ; and the net revenues of the , cathedral clergy are not, in all probability, far off 10,0001., viz., 0,000/. a year for the dean and senior canons, and between 3,0001. and 4,000/. for the minor canons. And, in addition, there is a bishop I with 4,5001. a year, and an allowance of 3001. a year in lieu of " a palum." Bishop LEE is, however, an active, intelligent, and earnest man ; desirous to improve the condition of the working clergy, hut somewhat intolerant of ecclesiastical sinecurists, even in his own cathedral, zealous in his episcopal func tions, but deficient, perhaps, in that sunriter in nunlo which so greatly increases the value of the farther in re. But the consequence of his juxtaposition to his dean and canons is, that their position is uncomfort able, and that Canon Wieiv, as we have seen, runs away from Manchester and its bishop on the first opportunity, regardless of the scandal his flight to South Ituncton brings on the church. FRANCE. PARIS, TV/UMW!' EVENINO. The event of the day is an article in the Debats, which must be interpreted as a semi-official reply of the Orleans family to the pressing overtures lately made them by the legitimists to effect a junction of interests, or, as the phrase goes, a fusion. I have already indicates! to you the intrigues set on foot since ate manifesto of the Duke of Bordeaux, from Venice, to harness the Orleanist interest to the state coach of the Count of Chambord. The mingled im portunity and arrogance of the partisans of the elder brunch has at last drawn down a decided repulse from the exiles of Claremont. Berryer, notwith stauding his tact and moderation as fur as negotia tion is concerned, gave great offence to the Orleans party by his parliamentarymanreuvre for the defeat of M. Creton s motion. But the presumption andtemerity of the tone in which the ultra-legitimists called for an act of submission for the younger branch was far more revolting to the representatives of the claims of the monarchy of July. The article of the Debats sets this fusion question, of which I have all along pointed out the impracticability, finally at rest. The origin of the dispute between M. Thicrs and Changarmer is connected with this question, for the ex-commander-in-chief is now aware that 'fliers compromised him with the legitimists by hooking him in to vote for Creton's motion. _ _ . The Orleans family, it seems, have determines upon quitting Claremont for the Continent during the period of the Exhibition. The ex-Queen is to go to Brussels, the Duke of Nemours will visit his father-in. law, the Prince of Joinville will take a trip in Portugal or Scotland, and tho Duke of Aumale is bound for Naples. It is reported that General d'Hautpoul is to be re called from Algeria, and succeed in his governorship by General St. Arnaud. The proceedings of the Chamber to-day were com pletely devoid of importance. I understand that there is an attempt on foot, at tributed to a section of the club of the Rue des Pyrainides, to get up a party in the Assembly far adjourning the Chamber during the month of April, in order to canvass the question of the revision of the constitution in the; provinces, and to feel thoroughly the pulse of public opinion with regard to that measure. Lately the doctrine has been broached, in a clever pamphlet, by M. Edouard Laboulayc, that the artielewhich requires three-fourths of the votes of the Assembly is utterly incompatible with the fun damental principles of the constitution, and must be got rid of. Although the reported di ff erence between Thiers and Changarnier, the now potent failure of the pro ject of fusion, and the multiplied schisms which pre vail in all parties of the Assembly, all appear to con stitute a favourable opportunity for the formation of u definitive government, the project of bringing for ward the old combination of Fould, Itutther, and Buroche, which seems to be entertained at the Elysk , e is as distasteful and unpopular here as the unaltered restoration of the whigs in England. These three, according to report arc to resume their for mer places, while M. 13rouvn de Lhuys takes the charge of foreign affairs, M;Dupetit Thouars that of marine, and M. Fortoul another portfolio. MM. Magna and Hendon retain their present places. There is, however, probably nothing serious in this and other lists in circulation. An attempt seems to have been made to form a junction between Odilon Barra and &troche, but the former will not tic his hands by any pre-engagement. Ile insists on having the formation of his own cabinet. The dust stirred by the changes of prefects, is still for from being luid. New facts come daily to light in relation to this measure, which illustrate with singular clearness how the currents of influences set. Here, is seen at work the finger of Baraguay d'Hil hers; there, of Montakmbert. One department loses its prefect because he is under the finger and thumb of & powerful parliamentary leader, who is an invete rate enemy of the President ; another prefect is' removed for rashly backing the municipal authorities against the Jesuits. M. do Charnailles, late sub prefect of Boulogne, now prefect of the Allier, is nephew of M. de Dauremout, a near relation of Baraguay d'llilliers, to whose puissant patronage M. Witisae owed the elevation to his transitory post. Thus the minister of the interior has used his brief authority to pay an instalment of gratitude for his promotion. I have before stated that M. Hessen was transferred from the Haute-Garonne to the Nord, to be out of the way of the influence of M. de Itemusat, whose late rude assault upon the executive power was the signal for internecine war between the President and parliament ; while a Bonapartist, M. Maupas, has been put into the prefecture of Toulouse, who will not have the mine motives for dealing ten derly with that potent ally of M. Thieni, when he comes to the pull again. - But M. Maupas himself was removed from the Allier because he had run foul of the Jesuits. In fact, the Bishop of Moulins, M. de Dreux-Breze, has set up a Jesuit seminary, and planted therein a primary school for the purpose of training youths who are 'destined to compete in the communes with the schoolmasters. The council general looked black on this scheme, and M. de Maupas declared fur the council-general. But Mon talembert does not, in spite of all his professions of 'disinterestedness, give the Elyske the benefit of his ! eloquent advocacy fur nothing, and when Nlonseignor j de Dreux-Brez;• brought his complaint to Paris, little i difficulty was made about moving M. de Maupas from Moulins to the capital of the Haute-Garonne, the rather as thereby two birds were killed with one stone. This whole business of the change of prefects has been rather botched in the operation by the dis placed getting wind of their doom beforehand, so that the ministry of the interior was daily besieged by appeals ad miserieordiam, or menaced by the intervention of powerful advocates. Promises seem thus to have been wrung from poor M. Waisse which he was quite unable to keep, and M. de Re niusat's friend, the Ordre, assails him fur removing Beason after giving his word to keep him at the head of the Haute-Garonne. On the other hand, it seems that M. Bart, one of the shelved functionaries, and an intimate friend of Achille Fould, has been removed from the prefecture of the Tarn by some blunder, and quite without the knowledge of the ex- Minister of Finance. The omnipotence of M. Fould at the Flys& is too well known for it to be supposed that his friends can be intentionally disgraced; and M. Bart, if not promoted to some higher office, is ex- THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 12, 1851. peeted to oust some prefect, perhaps M. &lean, the legitimist prefect at - Marseilles, whose maintenance in that post is matter of surprise to everybody, after the fierce opposition which M. Berryer and his com peers have latterly exhibited against the Elysee. I mentioned yesterday that M. Waisse had asked the committee on the 'National Guard Bill for two days' delay, in order to announce the definitive re- solution of the government. Before be did this he declared afresh that the cabinet persisted in the opinion that a transitory law was not necessary; that the principle by virtue of which the officers of the national guard preserve their commands until replaced was established by a decree of the Court of Cessation, and allowed the adjournment of the general election without any need for a special law before the adoption of the organic law. Meanwhile, if the committee chose to take the initiative in bring ing in a special law, the government would not op pose it. To this it was objected that the decree in question only applied to the case of individual func tionaries, and not to a whole class, whose elections were appointed by the law to take place at a fixed I epoch. M. Waisse was about to retire, when M. Lacrosse, usually a supporter of the government, urged upon the attention of the minister the false position in which the cabinet would be placed by ap parent irresolution and indifference upon a matter of such importance, if it neither took the initiative itself in bringing in a necessary bill, nor offered any oppo sition to the bill if brought in by_ the committee. These considerations determined M. Waisse to ask for a fresh delay of two days. If the government still decline, at the end of that period, to bring in the transitory bill, the initiative of that measure will be taken by the committee, and the motion of M. Bare will be presented to the Chamber on Thursday. The imprudent eclat given by . the organs of M. Thiers to the question of the elections of the national guard has excited a great deal of agitation in the ranks of that militia. A great number of officers have determined on resigning after tho 23th of March. The committee on the Municipal Bill has modified an important clause, which provides that the deli berations of the municipal council shall be entitled to execution on the approbation of the prefect. The committee adds to this clause the following rider: — In ease the prefect should think proper to withhold his approbation, he is to refer to the council of pre fecture. Yesterday a committee was appointed in the bu reaux on the governments bill for settling the packet service of the Mediterranean, which it proposes to hand over to the company of the .4(essayeries Na amain, granting an annual subsidy of 2,725,000 fr. Madame Montenegro, whose triumphs as optima donna in Italy have awakened much eagerness to witness her powers here, will make her first appear ance at the Italiens to-night, in the part of Ammo. Mr. Reeves, the English tenor, will come out on Thursday, in " Linda di Chiunouni." Lord Normanby had an interview yesterday with the President. SI'AIN. MADRID, MARCH G. The committee on the settlement of the debt have decided that the Assembly should have submitted to it the question of the replacement of M. Garcia Luna, who had resigned. The brigadier Eduardo San Roman is spoken of as likely to be made politi cal chief of Madrid. ITALY. A letter from Rome, in the Opinion( of Turin, of the ith, announces the occupation of Terni by the Austrians, and adds that 10,000 Austrians are ex pected at Perugia, Assisi, Foligno, and other places in that quarter. At the same time the King of Naples is sending troops towards the frontiers of his territory. Ilene the writer is led to conclude that the Austrians and Neapolitans are going to form a single continuous military line. GERMANY. The German papers are filled with comments on the note of Prince Sehwarzenberg to the smaller states. The Berlin correspondent of the Koiner Zeitung communicates, it says from a good source, new propositions of Prussia ; they arc that the presidency of honour should remain with Austria, whilst the real presidential functions should be exercised by Austria and Prussia conjointly, viz., that all the acts of the Diet should bo signed and published by both presidents. The seventeen votes, according to this new project, arc to be retained, but differently distributed : 3 for Austria, 3 for Prussia, 2 for Bavaria, 1 for each of the three kingdoms, 1 for Baden, 1 for the two Hessen, and 4 for the other small states. The Franif9rt Journal says, however, that in well informed circles it is reported that Prince Schwarzenbcrg will eventually consent to return to the old Diet. The news from Bosnia is that on the 26th February, the Bosnian insurgents took posses sion of Banjaluka; and that on the 6th March, after having been once repulsed, they had also obliged the citadel of that town to surrender. Our correspondent writes as follows : BERLIN, MARCH 9. I forwarded by last night's post the result of the short debate on Vincke's motion for an inquiry into the state of the country. The recommendation of the committee ap pointed to consider it, via., to proceed to the order of the day, was adopted by a majorityy. of 228 to 41 votes. The only persons who spoke were ir incke, Bodelschwingh (the reporter to the commission), and the minister Manteuffel. fhe arguments on which Vincke supported his motion were, that the ministry war in duty bound to inform the country, through the Chamber, of the position of the foreign policy of the country, of the true nature of the meetings at Warsaw and Glints, and of the intentions of the govern ment with regard to the reconstruction of the central federal power. A large party in the Chamber demanded this informa tion, and ought not to be left to seek for information in the columns of discredited ministerial organs. The policy of the government in the affairs of Schleswig-Holstein hod resulted in the presence of from '20,000 to 25,000 Austrians on the left bank of the Ellie, endangering the communica tion with the northern and Baltic provinces, and able to unite with the Danish army in the duchy of Schleswig. The same was the case in Hesse, where Austria had inter vened without hearing both sides, and had ruined the most peaceful race in Germany. Thousands of Hersiaas were being compelled to emigrate to America, when their forefathers had in a former period shed their Wood to fill the exchequer of a former elector. The Austrians and Bavarians held a position in Hesse enabling them to cut off all connexion between the eastern and western provinces of Prussia. The country had a right to inquire what kind of treaty had been concluded with Austria. Were all the provinces of Austria to he admitted into the confederation ? `'incite then alluded to the Erfurt Union, and declared that the humiliation of abandoning the scheme might have been accomplished without putting the country to an expense of 32,000,000 thalers—a sum which might have been spent in finitely more to the advantage of the best interests of the country. The ministry, no doubt, were desirous of an op portunity of justifying their policy; he was glad to be the instrument of affording it. Until that justification was ac complished he must assume that his view of the state of the country was shared in by the majority of the people ; and if this were so, one of the necessary bases of the state, respect fur the government, was wanting. Manteuffel in reply, as usual, tried the house at a joke, and, as usual, failed. He then quoted a para . graph from a speech made by Vinckc in 1849, in which that gentleman declared that it was not the parliamentary custom in England to lay bare the wounds inflicted on the history of the country by former events, still less, if it were done, to greet them with approval. lie applied this quo tation by requesting the Chamber not to use their parlia mentary freedom to represent the condition of the Prussian state worse than it really wu. Prussia was in a different position from the year 1648--it wu strong again in its own good right and strength, and lee advised the Chambers to prove to the country and to the foreigner that Prussia was strong under its new constitution through its internal , concord. - . . . . After a few words from Bodelsehwingh, and an explana tMn from Vineke, the Chamber divided, with the result al ready mentioned. The Dresden conferences were to have resumed their sit tings Toa..rday, but, under existing circumstances, a longer delay to anticitsted. Several of the newspapers auert that the resumption of the sittings of the Frankfurt diet may shortly be expected. These are at present mere supposi doss. TER PENINSULAR AND ORIENTAL COMPANY'S SIZAXILA SINUAI-010!, which is about to take out troops to the Cape, as stated in swieril.iy's E.:press, was heavily coaled for India. She w ilt now be unburdened of some of her cads, in order to accommodate as many troops as pos sible. She is advertised to tale out a ship letter mail to the Cape, and, as she is a remarkably fast steamer, it is ex weed that it will be a very heavy mail. It should be borne in mind by the public that correspondence to be sent by her must be specially addressed per private ship, or per Singapore. As the Singapore will start from Southampton about the same time as the Cape mail screw steamer from Plymouth, there will be a good op ytunity of testing the zebtive merits of the ,crow and r.d.bvs deanier. 'Ely Court. OSBORNE, Trnsuar, MARCH 11. Her Majesty and Prince Albert ,took their accus tomed early walk this morning in Osborne Park. The Prince or Wales and the younger brunches of the Royal family walked and rode. The Marchioness of Douro relieved the Viscounte.A Can ning as Lady in Wititin* this day. There was no addition yesterday to the Royal dinner party. A deputation from London, Liverpool, and Birmingham, on the subject of the adulteration of coffee, consisting of Mr. Thom.ui Baring, M.P. (chairman), Mr. G. Moffat, M.P., Messrs. Twining, Peek, Drone, Quick, Antrobus, Henry Cooper, Turner, and Farrer, jun. (London) ; Messrs. Shand, Bromley-Moore, Sharpe, and Harrison (Liverpool); and Mr. Griffin (Birmingham), had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday at his official re.idence in Downing street. The Chancellor of the Exchequer was present with Lord John Russell at the interview. Sir William Clay, M.P., had an interview yesterday with Sir George Grey at the Home-other. Sir John Burgoyne had also an interview with the right hon. gentleman. Mr. John Wood, Chairman Of the Board of Inland Revenue, had an interview yesterday with Lord Johu Russell at his official residence in Downing-street. Mr. John Wood had also an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yesterday. A deputation, consisting of Mr. Divett, M.P., Mr. Bad ham (sivretary), and Mr. Clark (solicitor), of the Bristol and Exeter Railway Company, and Mr. Charles Parkes, parlia mentary agent, had an interview yesterday with the Com missioners of Railways at the Board of Trade. The American Minister had an interview with the Right Hon. henry Labouchere yesterday, at the Board of Trade. Sir Thomas Fremantle, Chairman of the Customs, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. A deputation, consisting of Major Beresford (North Coun ties Union Railway), Mr. Lang (Direct London rind Ports mouth Railway), Mr. Young (secretary), and Mr. Parks (solicitor), had an interview with the Commissioners of Railways yesterday, at the Board of Trade. The Oxtord University Commission met yesterday at the official residence of the First Lord of the lreasury, Down ing-street. Present—The Bishop of Norwich, the Dean of Carlisle, the Master of Pembroke, the Rev. 11. U. Liddell, J. L. Dampier, Esq., the Rev. U. FL S. Johnson, and the Rev. A. P. Stanley (secretary). (Perin last niste's Gazette.) FOREION-OFFICE, MARCH FL—lt is hereby notified, that Viscount Palmerston, her Majesty's Principal &ere tary of State for Foreign Affairs, has received despatches from her Majesty's Chargé d'Affaires at °maternala, dated respectively the sth of November and the 2nd of December last, ludo:mut two letters from Commander Hayes, of her Majesty's ship Champion, which had arrived off the coast of the State of Salvador, by order of Rear-Admiral Unruh'', Commander-in-chief of her Majesty's Naval Forces in the Pacific, stating in the first, that he had placed an embargo on all traffic in the port of " The Union, ' and declaring, in the second, the entire coast of Salvador to be in a state of blockade. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MARCU 7.—The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John Watson Bain as Consul in New Zealand fur the King of the Ilawiian Islands. DOWNING-STREET, MARCR 11.—The Queen has been pleased to appoint William Barrow, Esq., to be Chief Clerk in the office of her Majesty's Treasurer for the Island of Mauritius. IVIIITELIALL, MARCH B.—The Queen has been phased to present the Reverend Grigor Stewart to the church at Kinloch Likart or Kinloch Linehart, in the parish of Coutin, in the presbytery of Dingwall, and shire of Ross, vacant by the transportation of the Reverend Duncan Simon Mackenzie, late Minister there, to the church and parish of Gairloch. COMMISSION SIGNED RI THE LORD LIEUTENANT OF DERHYSItIllE.—Edward Sacheverel Chandos Pule, jun., Esq., to be deputy-lieutenant. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. THIS DAY. WORSIIIP-STREET. Ann Fleminl, an lriahwuau n,waa --- clL;ged with a.ssaulting Jane Spilling. The pour woman, who was in a state of great exhaustion, and carried an infant in her arms, stated that prisoner was her lodger, and lust evening, while in estate of intoxication, insisted on some money being lent her. This being refused, she seized a poker, and struck witness several times on the head, till she ran screaming from the house. The constable who took the prisoner into custody de posed to the complainant staggering into his arms, covered with blood. The baby was clinging to her neck, and at the AMC instant he distinctly Saw the prisoner throw tke poker at the woman, whom it missed, and struck the head of a paver-by. The only defence the prisoner offered was that she had been aggravated. Mr. Arnold said that, but for the circumstance of the complainant being unable to meet the exp.•nse of a prose cution, he would send the case to the sessions ; as it was, he ordered her to pay a fine of di., or be committed for two months. ANTICIPATED VISIT OF HER MAJESTY TO Pal . —lt is now fully anticipated that her Majesty will honour Pembroke Dock-yard with her presence on the oc casion of the launch of the Victoria, first-rate, which it is ex petted will take place very shortly. Should her Mikkety honour the neighbourhood with her presence, the Earl of Cawdor will place his scat, Stack's)le-court, at the disposal of her Majesty. The dock-yard strength has been increased to 898 men. STEAmEns.—By a recent arrival from Per nambuco intelligence has been received of the movements of the Teviot mail steamer, which took out the first Bra zilian mail from Southampton on the 9th of January last. It appears that she reached Pernambuco on the 2nd of February, which is the day she should have reached that port. This is satisfactory, as it shows that she kept time during 4,000 miles of her outward voyage. The Petrel, which has just arrived nt Falmouth, is the last of her Ma jesty's sailing brigs that will bring a Brazilian mail of any importance. Rer Maksty's brig Seagull has to come home from Brasil, but her dates will most probably he anticipated either by the Teviot, which is now due, or by the Tay, which will be due the beginning of next month. It was stated in the Times on Monday that British mails were sent out by the American packet Franklin, which left Cowes on Saturday. As the Franklin and Arctic are both American mail packets, and as they both started on Satur day for America, one from Cowes and the other from , 1 Liverpool, it was a matter of some importance to know which took out the American mails made up in the General' Post-office on Friday last, and whether any letters posted subsequently to that day were forwarded by either of the American packets. Inquiries have been made at the Gene ral Post-office, and it has been ascertained that the Ameri can mails were despatched by the Arctic, that no mails were sent out by the Franklin, and that all letters posted in London alter krill' , night last, will be forwarded by the British steamer Canada, which leaves Liverpool on Satur day next. filE SAILOfts ON STRIKE, who visited Manchester early last week to make subscriptions on behalf of their brethren at Liverpool, arc still in that town, to the number of 180 or 200, and go about in companies of three or four, handing the begging-box to housekeepers, shopkeepers, and others. On Saturday they presented themselves at the mills at wage time, and the hands coming into posse:sib* of money were generally disposed to be liberal in their dona tions. They have a committee-room in Anenats, where the public are invited to visit them at their meetings, and they have it in contemplation to get np a ball. On Sunday morning they proceeded, a little before eleven o'clock, in a procession to the Cathedral Church. As they went through tho streets, thousands of curious people col lected about and accompanied them. They were too late for the opening of service. The cathedral was crowded with a fashionable audience, whose gay dresses would have contrasted strangely with Jack's more homely attire ; but the admission of such a body of men to the sacrist edifice at that time was out of the question. The Mayor of Manchester and Mr.Birley, senior churchwarden, left the church to have an interview with them, represent ing to the leaders the crowded state of the edifice already, and they ultimately retired, but not • much pleased with having to do so. llithiTto they . have so conducted them selves as to leave little room for interference with them by the police. Their leaders maintain something like discipline, and any misbehaviour, such as drunkenness or swearing, is punished by cropping off nearly the whole of the hair, after which the culprit is taken to the railway station, his fare paid to Liverpool, and sentence of banishment carried out without appeal. ADMIRALTY, MIAMI 11.—PROMOTION. —To be Acting Carpenter, Richard Calloway. Areot.terwesra.—Flag-Lieutenant F. G. Prohyn to the Penelope. Lieutenant (additional) J. It. Alexander to ditto. Masters J. E. Barton to the aeon, and R. D. Stuart to the Trafalgar. Pursers John Williams to the Monarch, and W. Young to the Penelope. Secretary's Clerk Robert Bone to ditto. DETACRMF.NTS FOR THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.— ' Yesterday it was mentioned that orders were received at Southampton to prepare the Singapore for the conveyance of troops to the Cape. These troops will consist of drafts from the depots of the 6th, 4.5 th, and 73rd regiments, and from the lit battalion of the 91st to strengthen those regi memo now serving in the Cape Colony. We have already alluded to this but repeat it now because an erro neous impression is afloat that a regiment in addition to the ' 7ith is to proceed to the Cape. No other regiment will go there unless the government should receive despatches of such an unfortunate nature as to necessitate further rein forcements. TILE STARVATION CA ~ E AT BATlL—Edward Spa ring, the husband of Harriet Spiting, whose dtath resulted (ruin want of the common necessaries of life, as reported in the Express, bas been apprehended and committed to the Bath gaol, under the coroner's warrant, to await his trial at the ensuing Somerset assizes, on the charge of wilful mur der. It will be recollected that Sparing absconded as cam as he heard that an inquest was to be held on his wife, and had sot been apprehended when the inquiry cbsed. It now appears that he went to Bristol, where be bulged for some days, in great secrecy, and whilst there enlisted into the 30th regiment of font, under the name of Edward Woodmen, and on Wednesday last was sent off with other recruits to his regiment. He was apprehended in Widmer Barracks, Sent ' sad pawky kdged in the Bath gaol. IRELAND. DUBLIN, MARCH 11. Evidences are not wanting in the lrihh papers to show that the mothheation4 of the Eeelmastical . . Titles Bill will have but little effect in propitiating the hostility. to it in this country. Another missive from Archbishop M'Halc has made its appearance this morning, in the shape of an epistle to Lord , John Russell. Never, perhaps (says the Lion of Judah), in any former period of its eventful history has there been such a strong union of all classes--a union, thanks to your lordship's policy, brought about by the conviction of the hostility with which they are threatened, and the necessity of the most strenuous exertions to avert it. You now, forsooth, condo- j osend to bring in your penal bill in a more mitigated form. No mitigation short of its utter rejection will satisfy the catholic people of Ireland. To the Irish members he administers the following gentle hint:— The eyes of all are turned now to parliament, watching I to sec whether their members are at their pests, though, like the Roman senator of old, they should be carried thither on their couches. No apology can henceforth plead with the people if those members do not exert themselves' in stopping the present penal enactment. Opposition—stem, persevering opposition—to your hateful measure, in season and out of season, is the paramount duty of every Irish member of parliament, as well as opposition to every other measure you propose until you abandon the bill which in an evil hour you proposed, oruntil imee more you abandon the helm. The following account of a desperate struggle with an agrarian assassin, and the death of the latter, is furnished by a correspondent of ,Sattruferis News Letter PAasossrower, SATURDAY.—About the hour of o'clock on Friday night last, when Timothy (loran, who resides at ltathbeg, within about three miles and a half of Parsons town, and less than a mite from the police station at Shan vogue, Was returning from hi,. work, when within a few yards of his own house he was fired at by a man named Patrick Morgan, who, with another person unknown, lay in wait tar hint. Fortunately the shut did not take effect. Morgan finding he had not accomplished his deadly ob ject seized a gun front his associate, which he presented at Cloran, but it missed fire. Morgan then struck Cloran with the butt-end of his gun, which cut his head and injured his chest. Cloran then seized the ruffian by the breast, and loudly called out " Murder ! Police !'' which, no doubt, induced the unknown man to make away. Cloran's wife heard his cries, and she ran to his assist ance, when a desperate struggle ensued between Morgan. Cloran, and his wife, during which the latter, with a stone, so severely wounded Morgan in the head, that he lay in sensible until the arrival of the police from Sharavoguc, who procured a ear, and removed Morgan to their barracks, where he died about a quarter past eleven o'clock same night. In his pockets were found a small bottle of wliskey, souse balls, and a few percussion caps. During the conflict Mrs. Cloran succeeded in capturing the gun, which Morgan had snatched from his comrade, after discharging his own at her husband, and which she handed over to the police on their arrival ; it was capped and heavily loaded. Cloran is bailiff to Captain Richardson, an extensive land agent; ' he has been recently placed in care of a log, from which his predecessor was dismissed. Ile also within the last week purchased and retains in his possession a cow and ass, which were seized and sold for non-payment of rent. These are the causes alleged for the attempt to deprive him of life. Morgan, in the agonies of death, loudly called on some persons to come to his assistance, and those to whom he alluded have been arrested, and are detained in custody. A coroner's inquest was held next day on the body of Morgan, when a verdict of " Justifiable homicide " was re turned. The jury also attached a " rider" to their ver dict, recommending, in the strongest manner, Cloran and his wife to the consideration of the government for their valorous conduct. It is stated that Morgan was a tailor, and it is generally believed he was hired to shoot Cloran, as neither he nor any of his faintly has had any connexion whatever with the property over which Cloran acts as bailiff. On Sunday evening, the second person engaged in the attack on Cloran was captured. His name is Patrick Mnylan. lie was identified, and at once committed for At the Waterford Assizes last week two men, named Cody, father and son, and l'hos. Carty, were tried for the murder of Thomas Phelan, one of the most remarkable of the agrarian crimes of last year. The trial occupied two days, and the jury, after be ing locked up from Thursday evening until Saturday morning, were at length discharged without agreeing to a verdict. The learned judge was aroused at two o'clock on Saturday morning with a statement that the lives of two or three of the jurors were in danger if they were detained any longer, and his lordship went at once to court and discharged them. Nine or ten of them are said to have been for a conviction. It is said that government has issued directions for the prosecution of some of the apprentice boys of I )erry, under the Processions Act, for their last riotous party celebration. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL. CAMBRIDGE, MARCII lI.—PRENIOUS ExAMINA TION, LENT TERM, 1851.—Subjects of Examination: On Monday, March 31, Paley's Evidences of Christianity. Tuesday, April 1, Old Testament History. Wednesday, April 2, Euclid. Books 1., IL, and Arithmetic. Thursday, the 3rd, to Thursday the 10th, The Apology and Crito of Plato, the An Poetics of Horace, and the Gospel of St. Mark. Rev. R. G. Young, to Barthomley Curacy, Cheshire. Itcv. J. D. Elliott, to Bowden Curacy, Cheshire. Rev. C. B. Dorris, to Ifelsington I'erpetual Curacy, void by death of the Rev. J. Muckalt ; patron, Rev. J. W. Barnes, vicar of Kendal ; value, 1251., with residence. The Rev.'. Chadwick, to the Senior Curacy of Saint Johns, Dukinfield, Cheshire, on the nomination of the Rev. W. Waller, the incumbent. Rev. J. 0. Evans, to Llandyrnog Rectory, Denbighshire; patron, Bishop of Bangor. Rev. C. Heycock (perpetual curate of Owston), to be a surrogate, diocese l'eterborough. Rev. T. Sier, to Itavensden Vicarage, Beds. ; value, 81/. ; patron, Duke of Bedford. Rev. W. T. C. Brande, to Miehaelstone-le-Yedwk, Ola- • morganshire and Monmouthshire, value -1001. with residence; patron, C. K. K. Tynte, Esq. Rev. 0. Unwell, to Llangattock Rectory, with Llanclly Curacy, and Llangeney Curacy, Brecon, value 1,1231. with residence; patron, Duke of Beaufort. VACANCIES, Canonry of Mapcsbury, in St. Paul's Cathedral, London; value, 20f. ; patron, Bishop of London ; 'tar. J. T. Bar rett, D.D., deceased. Brisley Rectory, with Gatcicy Vicarage, Norfolk; dio cese Norwich; value, 4861., with residence ; patrons, Christ's College, Cambridge; Rev. J. T. Barn tt, D.D., de ceased. Vicarage Kilken, Flintshire, diocese St. Asaph ; value, 3001. and residence ; patron, Bishop of St. Abaph ; Rev. T. Evans, deceased, Mastership of Ripon Grammar School, Yorkshire; salary, 250/. and residence ; patrons, the Governors ; testimonial, before April 2. Chaplainry of Anglesey County Gaol ; stipend, 541. 12... application before April I. SPORTING. DERBY STEEPLECHASES.—TVESDAY. MATCH 601. Owners up. One mile. Captain Poster's 11;ear ...-..— Captain Dickson's Soframe sto 2 on Over. Won easy. Hunnts. RACK H NDICAP of 5 %Wog. each and 30 added second saves his stake. One mile and a half, over 6 hurdles. (8 subs.) Mr. Isrstssna's (bate, lest Mb Mr. D2TipesSlstisla, 9st Islb . ..... ( Archer) The following al.; ran: Mr. T. Lister's Wharfdale Maid, list; Mr. Eskrett's Lucy, lOst sib; and Mr. Harrison's The Swift, lOst 21b. Betting : 7to 4 sot Cogia, 3to 1 each agst The Swift and Wharfdale Maid, 4 to 1 agst Lucy, and 10 to 1 agst Matilda.—Won cleverly. MIDLAND STICIPLECNANE HANDICAP of 20 ROM each, 10 ft, and only if declared, with 100 save. added; second saves his stake. Four miles. (16 subs ., of whom de dared.) Mr. Taylors . . 3reuit, 9st 71b.. (Arabs') 1 Dr. Tretbstuts ben to.mond, last Sit The following also sta rted: Mr. Palmer's Victim, 1 lst .slh ; Mr. J. Osborne's Abd-cl-Kader, lOst I Ilb ;Mr. Hughes's Miss Collingwood, last 31b; and Mr. Mason's Trust-me not. 10.1 31b. Betting 6to 4 agstAbd-el-Kailtr, 3to 1 agat Victim, 4 to 1 apt Miss Collingwood, 6 to 1 apt Ben Lo mond, and 10 to I ag.t Jesuit —Won cleverly. UNION HUNT STAKES of 10 SOTS. cads, sft ; for hunters, &c., 13st 71b each. Four miles. Gentlemen riders. (11 subs.) Captain FoMet's o,ear Mr. Story's Lottery 3 to 1 apt Oscar, and 5 to 1 nth apt Lunatic and The Nun. DORILISTOTON STAKES 0f.3 SOTS. Oath and 30 added; for fanners' horses, &e., 12st each. Three miles. (7 subs.) Mr. Y. 11,1 m islromMen Mr. ('. MAtheerti link Strlvelier 7to 4 apt Outcast, and 3to I art honsides. A good Fonesir LAND IN FIIA.NCE. —The following is the statistical account of the extent of forest land in France, according to the accounts made up in 1850 : The state pos se.ses 1,226,133 hectare. of wood; the commune+, 1,874,909 ; private individuals, 6,758,771 ; in all, 8,869,133 hectares. In 1791 there were in Franca 9,589,869 hectares of land under timber, so that, in the last 60 years, the diminution has been 729,736 hectares. The hectare is about 2i acres "6 1114gE I6 E h. VIL superstition is still preva lent in this mighbourhood (Launceston). I have very re cently been informed of the cue of a young woman, in the village of Lifton, who is lying hopeles,ly ill of consump tion, which her neighbours attribute to her having been "overlooked " (this is the local phrase by which they de . sigaate the baleful spell of the evil eye). An old woman in this town is supposed to have the power of "ill wishing," or bewitching her neighours and their cattle, and is looked l on with numb awe inconsequence.—Fgms " Not 444 ' Quirks." Raba intelligence. HOUSE OF LORDS —NIAReO 10. PIIMINT: TUE Lou CHASOILLOII, 14..11 lINMULAK, IWO OTRIIS P... TUE LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY COMPANY v. LETTs--TITREs IN LONDON—How TO RE AIDIVARSII. This appeal against a decree of Vice-Chancellor Sir James Wigram, was opened last Monday, the 3rd inst., when Mr. Wood and Mr. Bigg were heard tor the appellants, and Mt. Speed (in the absenee of his leader, tho Attorney-Oeueral. through indisposition) was heard for the respondent. The nature of the ease was stated in our report in this journal last Tuesday, and it may be remembered that the principal question was whether Mr. Letts, the rector of the parish of St. Olare, Hart-street, London ' was entitled to payment from the appellants in respect of tithes fur the various houses and premises taken or demolished for the pur poaes of their railway, at the rate of 2s. 94. in the pound, assessed on the actual rent or value of such houses and premises as the rector insisted ; or " as sessed," that is "charged," as the appellants contended, " according to the lust agreements between the rector and the occupiers of the houses as to the amount of payment," which the appellants sold was at the rate of 2s. in the pound on the agreed value. The question depended un the true construction, first, of a decree made by the Archbishop of Canterbury and others on the '2lth February, 161.5, and confirmed by act of parliament of the 37th Ilenry VIII., " An Act for Tithes in London," which gives the rectors and vicars of all the parishes therein is. 9d. in the pound of the usual rent; and senindly, of the 33n1 section of th , act of 2 and 3 Viet., cap. 9.5, one of the Company's acts. The Attorney-General was now heard for the rector, and he contended that he was entitled to payment at the rate of . 2s. 9d. in the pound of the value of the houses, accenting to I the last assessment or agreement of value. Mr. Wood, in reply, contended that all the rector was en titled to under the art of the company was indemnity for his Ims, until houses should be rebuilt in lieu of those taken down, and absolute indemnity for those on the site of which the railway passed ; and such indemnities were of course to he equal to, and not to exceed the 144 payments received by the rector from the occupiers of the houses. These pay ments were, and were admitted by the rector to be, 2s. in the pound on the agreed value. The evidence showed that aome at least of the occupiers agreed to the value put on their premises, on the ground of having to pay only 2.. in the pound ou such value ; and if the payment were to be Is. 9d. in the pound, they would nut have agreed to the value put on them. Judgment was postponed. THE. EDINEUROM AND GLASGOW RAILWAY COMI - • %NY C. THE MACHSTRATEs AND ToWN COUNCIL OF LINL: I 11-00W.—BURGII 00W.—BURGII CUSTOMS—BRIDOE T 01.1.5. This appeal from the Court of Session was heard in a former session, and the house remitted the case to the courts in Scotland, for the opinions of all the judges there upon the points in dispute. Those points were two—find, whether the respondents were entitled to receive the burgh customs or tolls on all the cattle carried by the railway carriages through the town of Linlithgow ; and, secondly, whether the respondents were entitled to bridge tolls on each cattle as the railway carriages carried across the river Avon, which passes through the said town. The great majority of the thirteen consulted judges were of opinion Butt the re spondents were entitled to both the tolls. Mr. Llethell was in the course of opening tho appeal on behalf of the railway company, when he received an ac count of the dangerous illness of one of his family, and was, of course, allowed to withdraw. Mr. Hope (with whom is Mr. Denney of the Scotch bar on the same side) took up the arguments, and had net eon• eluded at the rising of the house soon after four o'clock, when the further hearing was adjourned. Mr. Bolt, Mr. J. Anderson, and Mr. Inglis (of the Scotch bar) are fur the reapoudents. "%Tanen 11. Mr. Hope and Mr. Bethell having concluded their argu menta for the appellants, Mr. Inglis proceeded on behalf of the respondents up to the rising of their lordships; at four o'clock, when the fur ther hearing was adjourned to nest Monday. EQUITY COUItTS.—YEsTEmmy. RUM'S TOSS at Or TKO Route. IiOnGBON LL EARL I'OWI/I.—INJI:NCTION DIISHOLVFI). Mr. Turner and Mr. Willeock moved on behalf of the defendants, the directors of the Shropshire Union Rail ways and Canal Company, to discharge an order laud the 10th of January 18.51, rts,training the defendants from de claring the plaintiffs shares forfeited for non-paym.nt of the several culls of U. 11. 10s. and IL, and from taking any proceedings to (tarry such forfeiture into effect until. they had answer." the plaintiffs bill. The defendant. had put in their answer. Mr. lt. Palmer and Mr. Wcstoby opposed the mot: on. The Master of the Rolls was of opinion that upon the .tate ments contained in the answer the injunction ought to be dissolved with costs. Baroze Loa* Cusgwentrw (Tice CRAMMLIAR). METAIRIE r. WISEMAN AND OTHERS. Mr. Itolt, in resuming his arguments, said the ease oft which the plaintith relied by their hill was this, that at the time of signing the documents on Thursday Mr. Caere supposed that he was signing two powers of attorney to' receive the dividends upon the two species of stock, and nothing else; that those were the only documents he had directed them to prepare on the Monday, and that in the interval the priest and Cooke had in concert concerted the deed and power of attorney to transfer the stock and the will, and substituted them during the confusion of Thurs day for the two powers of attorney which the testator had ordered. One circumstance inconsistent with this case wan this, that Cern: , shortly after executing the documents, had requested Hamilton to obtain a power of attorney too receive the dividends then due upon his consolidated stock. If he had supposed himself to have signed a power for that pur pose on the Thursday, why direct Hamilton to procure another power the the same object ? Another circumstance still more inconsistent was that on proceeding to obtain the power from Mr. Cromipton, the broker of the testator. Ha milton made uo mention of the transaction of the Thursday. Crompton was so doubtful of the testator's deputing to another a duty which he had invariably performed himself, that he had thought it right to see Carol before complying with Hamilton's request. Was it con ceivable then that Hamilton would leave the broker in ignorance of the execution of the deed, if he hail tilt any misgiving as to its fairness? The whole tale was so impro bable that it could not have been credited upon the evidence of third parties however respectable. Much less, therefore, could it be received on the evidence of parties themselves mixed up in the transaction. It was equal in absurdity with anything which had been received at the time of the Popish Hut, and would never have been put forward but for the similar infatuation of the day. He was4happv to say that in the present day no such feelings were likely to be met with in a court of justice. The learned counsel then resumed his criticism upon the affidavit and litter of Hamilton. Ile characterised those documents as so full of discrepancies as to discredit the evidence of the deponent in any court of justice. The letter treated the whole transac tion of Thursday as a perfectly fair one, while the affidavit cast every imputation of dishonesty upon it. Brown, who bad deposed substantially to the same effect tug Hamilton, was equally unworthy of credit. If he believed the execu tion of the documents to have been improperly obtained, why did he consent to attest them? How could him evidence against the fairness of the transaction, throughout which he had been present, and consenting, be received after that? lu the time of Lord Holt a man would not have been permitted to deny his own testi mony. The rule excluding such evidence had since been relaxed, but the evidence was never cons Mered es entitled to much respect. . . . His lordship said it was to be presumed that when a party signed a document as a witneas, he bad wins fied himself that the act was properly done; for it was the duty of a party not to attest unless he be lieved that the party executing was of sound mind, and free from imposition. The witness might, however, have been deceived at the time, and it would therefore be cony— ing the doctrine too far to exclude him altogether from afterwards disputing the transaction. Mr. Holt said his affidavit reprisiented that, on the even ing of the same Thursday, he felt regret at having signed a deed which he believed to have been obtained by unfair means. He had not, however, communicated that fart to the relations of the donor, and the affidavit stated that the moon why he had neglected so obvious a duty was, that he thought it better the commu nication ehould be made to them verbally. and not in writing. Upon the publication of the plaintiffs bill in the °Owner, an article had also appeared in that paper, stating that the writer had received a letter from Brown, in which he expressed his regret at having signed the documents, be cause they were written in a foreign tongue. This state ment was untrue, and must have been kaown to he so by Brown. Mr. Kinglake said he could furnish the defendants with a copy of the letter actually written by Brown, and ob jected to the statement in the newspaper being offered in evidence, when the letter itself could be produced. Mr. fait said the letter tendered had not been verified by the writer's affidavit. It could not be received unless verified on oath, and even then they would be justified in diaregarding it. For the letter thus referred to the de fendant's solicitor had applied to the editor of the paper. j The editor had been unable to fi n d th e l e tt er , hut ad vouched for the correctness of the statement in the paper. The evidence of Brown, therefore, appeared to be iu the same situation as that of Hamilton, and both those wit news must be regarded us altogether unworthy of credit. ,ahe as e win.terprek:ie known, to and h is This evidence was also contradicted by th a t o f other parties more worthy of belief. Angier, an old friend o f C are d, and Spencer, and who to hail whom acted Oaaquet and others, deposed that he freirently ex pressed an intentien to leave part of his property for charitable purposes, and in particular for the benefit of the girls' school in Somers-town It appeared, moreover, from the evidence, that he had had but little communi cation with his rel ative',l in France. It wan not till they obtained information of his wealth that they had written to him. The evidence went to show that as he grew older Calve became less indifferent upon religious matter.. He became ii regular attendant at the chapel, which eventually became the object of his bounty. Holdstnek had become his spiritual director, or, if the plaintiffs pleased, his eon teaser. To him he had, notwithstanding his penurious and miserly habits, entrusted v.uious sums for dintrihutioa amongst the poor. With this growing change in his religious feelings how , could it be said that any unfair influence had been exercised over him? The whole trauaaction, as disclosed by the plaintiffs' affidavits, appeared to be perfectly fair. The priest had been summoned by (Isaquot. He had gone to the sick man in performance of a plain duty. The dying man had proposed to leave part of his property to charity. At all events the gift was shown to be in confonolkwith his intaatioa. If It wen first in4Nlestelin.Ww dote 11 . ! ' .....-is ei!! . 6' . . 4 11,N. :1- 51,a. ) %./Ves;:t, • ... i' vs`—f46%. ~.~ I