The Sun. — London, England, 1858-04-16 00:00:00

DUTY ON PAPER. A deputation of the association for promoting the repeal of taxes on knowledge, and also of the paper manufacturers in the West Riding of York shire, waited ox Lord Derby yesterday at his official residence in Downing-street, to memorialise his lordship on the subject of the total repeal of the excise duty on paper. The deputations were intro duced by Mr. T. M. Gibson, M.P., and amongst those present were—Mr. Ayrton, M.P.; Mr. H. Ingram, M.P.; Mr. E. H. J. Crawford, M.P. ; Mr. John Bright, M.P. ; Dr. Watts, of Manchester ; Alderman J. Towle, late mayor of Oxford ; Aid. Baldwin, of Birmingham ; Messrs. T. Fletcher, of Newcastle ; W. Kent, of London ; T. Bentall, of Bedstead ; R. C. Rawlins, of Wrexham ; W. Wick ham, T. Wilson, R. Moore, C. H. Elt, C. D. Collet, J. Hyde, E. Wolhouse, M. Garnett, Mellor, Waddington, W. Wilkes, W. A. Smith, Jr. Morris, solicitor, F. Fowler, and Murray. Mr. GIBSON said the reason the deputations waited on his lordship as the head of the Govern ment was that the question was not merely one of taxation. If that had been the case, they would have gone to the Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but beyond its financial bearings the subject on which they sought . the present interview involved an im portant question of public policy, the tax on paper having a most injurious effect not only on the ma nufacturing interests, but on the e ducational con dition of the country. He would go no further into the question himself, because the secretary had prepared a memorial which treated the subject very fully, and which he would now read to his lordship. Mr. COLLETT then read the memorial, which stated that the objections — "To the pap er duty, and to the other restrictions re snaining on the press, are not so much a question of reve nue as an interference with the literature, the manufac • nres, and the commerce of the country. We have been gra dually abolishing restrictions on foreign importation —the paper duty is a restriction on our internal trade ; we talk of the freedom of the press, and we tax its raw material ; we pay money out of the taxes for schools, and we tax the books which convey instruc tion. The paper duty impedes instruction, it hinders the extension of the manufacture, and ruins the small manu facturer. In 1838 an addition of three-tenths of a far thing per lb. was made to the paper duty. By the end of the year 1340 63 mills had become extinct. The paper made in 1138 was 93,464,2401 h ; in 1856, 171,209,2951 b. The number of mills in the United King dom in 1838 were 525 ; in 1856 393. The paper duty is also a loss to the revenue. In the 11 years which elapsed between 1841 and 1852, there was a balance of taxes repealed 7,284,3751., the remaining taxes increased in productiveness 12,410,6071., leaving a permanent im provement of 5,125,7121. A return of exemptions showed in what a hopeless condition any financier would find himself who aimed at continuing the paper duty. The drawback on envelope cuttings made by the domestic envelope manufacturer is granted, because the mill owner, who is charged with duty only on the finished ar ticle, has an unfair advantage over the man who buys hie duty-paid paper, and thus pays on his waste. But since this concession a similar one has been refused on the waste cuttings of writing paper, though the case is precisely the same. " The most remarkable ground of exemption is that assigned to papier-mache boards —namely, that it is important that no restrictions but such as are absolutely necessary fur the protection of the revenue should be imposed upon the manufacture of an article already so largely used as papier-mache, and one of which the ap plications are likely to become so numerous and so valuable.' We have only to read paper for papier-macbC; the duty is not necessary for the protection of the re venue, since the revenue would ultimately benefit by the abolition of the duty. " But there are other restrictions which affect the press exclusively, and which have no connection with revenue. It is now five years and upwards since we had the honour of addressing your lordship on this sub• ject. On that occasion you expressed your concurrence with ns so far as that the law ought to be defined, and that it ought to be enforced. At that time the press was labouring under three restrictions—the newspaper stamp, to which was added the inability to know what was a newspaper, the advertisement duty, and the security system. In 1353 Mr. Gladstone brought in a bill which repealed the advertisement dnty, and a'l the provisions which protected it. In March, 1855, he brought in a bill which repealed the newspaper stamp and the Regis tration and ,iecurity Laws. In repealing the stamp Mr. Gladstone proposed to repeal all the provisions for pro tecting the stamp; and, as the security system had never ' been enforced without the stamp, he proposed to abolish the security system. Bat Mr. Gladstone having retired from office, Sir G. Lewis brought in a bill to repeal the stamp, leaving unrepealed all the harassing regulations whose object was to protect the stamp, and retaining also the security system. "The Act of 60th Geo. 111 , requiring recogni antes in the sum of 3001. from printers and publishes' was for 37 years enforced only upon newspapers taking out stator, and so brought under the cognisance of the Board of Inland Revenue ; but in April, 1857, a notice was sent out to several unstamped newspapers, desiring them to register and give security, and stating that this was done under the authority of the law of e,ra of the Crown, who had advised the Board that it was their duty to enforce the law against newspapers. "The discrimination in favour of pamphlets by the Board is an unfounded in reason as it is in law. No bet ter illustration can be given of the anomalous system at present carried on than that the pamphlet on tyrannioide now under prosecution, althoug strictly within the Act, and precisely of the kind against which the Act was aimed, is tee(' of a class from which securities have never been demanded. " We call upon your lordships either to repeal the 60th Geo. 111 , or else to enforce it, not against newspapers only, bat against all pamphlets and other papers.' Bue (to use the words with which we conclude our address to your lordship in 1952), whatever your decision may be, there is one opinion in which all loyal subjects and good citizens must concur, and that is, that obedience to the law is a habit which ought to be inculcated upon all classes of the community, and that a Government cannot perform this duty while there are laws in the statute book which it has neither the firmness to enforce nor the grace to repeal.'" Mr. GARNETT then road a memorial from the paper manufacturers of the West Riding of Tork ehire setting forth : The fact that the present Excise duty on every de scription of paper is 10. per lb., and S per cent. addi tional, which practically is unequal in its operation— being equivalent to a charge of 20 per cent. on some kinds of paper, and more than 100 per cent. upon many other descriptions. "That during the last few years the price of paper has gradually decreased to such an extent that writing and printing papers, which are the staple product of the trade, have fallen more than 20 per cent. in value, exclusive altogether of the Excise duty ; and, notwithstanding this great depreciation in price, the coat of materials and the expense of manufacture have not lessened in any percep tible degree. "That other fabrics, without restriction, are now allowed to supersede the use of sheathing and roofing paper, made frcm precisely the same materials, and pass ing, in their manufacture, through very similar processes, via—that the one is made in a wet and the other in adry state. Toe latter the Excise authorities have deemed it right to exempt from the payment of any duty whatever, while the former is subject to a duty of 14 , . 9d. per cwt., or 80 per cent. on cost price. "That, were the duty on paper totally repealed a largely increased production and consu mption would re sult, at the same time additional empl oymen t would be given to many thousands of the worki n g classes. "That it is a notorious fa c t that the existing Excise regulations have been found insufficient to prevent the revenue being defrauded and the memorialists ask for a total abolition of the duty and restrictions upon th e trade." Dr. WATTS then proceeded to point out various instances in which the Excise laws operatedpreju dicially to the manufacturers of paper, One great impediment was that the manufacture of paper must take place in a separate building. The paper, as it came from the mill, was in a fit state for the printer, and yet it was illegal to use it for printing purposes on the same premises. Indeed, so nu merous were the hindrances of the law that not an hour passed at any day when some of its provisions were not broken, and it was only by the conniv ance of the exciseman that the manufacturer was not at any moment ruined. Mr. GARNETT said lie was a papermaker, and he mentioned a case which had occurred to himself that illustrated the hardship under which the tied& sufferiad. He, in September last, sold a quantity cf paper for 3001., for which be received a bill l for —h d ex change. One half of that sum —namely, 400. a been previously paid by him to the Govern ment mo- for duty on that paper, and yet up to the present ment he had not received one farthing of the pur chase money. He calculated his loss in the shape of interest on capital paid for duty in advance at not less than 5001. a-year. Alderman TowLE said be had made paper from straw for many yeats but it had almost ruined him, for if the paper happened not to be worth its duty he was not at liberty to disp se of it as he could, but he must burn it, otherwise the excise man would demand of him 151. a-ton for that use less paper. The whole of the trade in Oxfordshire had been rui ne d b laws. 'Th ere was a y the operation of the Excise description of paper manufac tured. on which tbeE xcise oflicers would not c , ,11.ct and this the revenue , worked m os t i n j ur i ous ly t o those who made pa per on which the dut y was Lord DERBY—Then your purpose would be an ewered if the Excise-office were a littl Ald. TOWLE — it would be ur,re t fti e r' more active ? Mr. Monnis called his lordship's a'ttenet?rtainly. ion to that part of the memorial which set forth the injustice of enforcing the security from newspapers, and suf fering pamphlets to escape. Lord DERBY —I understood you to say that the s t a tute is applicable as well to pamphlets as to newspapers ? Mr. Moititis. —Yes ; but it is not enforced in the case, of pamphlets. The regulation was co existent with the newspaper stamp, and then no difficulty was experienced ; but the stamp duty having bea d abolished, the retention of this portion THE SUN, LOND Ot 3 f, FRIDAY E V ENING, APRIL 16, 1858 THE P. 'STEM. LAW INT. %--April 15. BANK RETURNS. (From the Times.) We yesterday had occasion to compliment the House of Commons on the plain style of speaking now adopted on the subject of national defences. Not to be outdone, our hereditary legislators spoke their minds quite as freely last night on the system of passports. Both the present and the late Foreign Secretary, as well as Lord Grey, treated the affair much as we should the require ments of some barbaric tribe, which it might be difficult to resist, though they were never so ridiculous and un- VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir T. Kindersley.) As the Lord Chancellor gave his usual breakfast, which in this case was fully attended, the Court did not sit till nearly two o'clock, when there being no business of public interest to be disposed of the Court shortly after rose. (Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. Stuart.) The Vice-Chancellor took his seat on the bench shortly after half-past 1 o'clock, but no case of any interest came before the :ourt. BROOK v. mooR.—MARRIAGE WITH A DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER. The Vice-Chancellor stated that he should give judgment in the abote case on Saturday, the 17th i ns t. It w ill b e recollected that the question in it is whether the marriage at Altona, in the duchy of Schleswig-Holstein, whore by the lex loci such marriages are legal, of a British subjest domiciled in England with the sister of his deceased wife is valid according to the laws of this country. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, ip Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 3d day of April, 1858 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co. 8,938 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jentmitt Pomfret,and 12,623 Co. Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Z. D. Hunt 20,022 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogge, and Co 21,530 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 8,901 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Sey-rn•ur, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford—Barnard and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley Nichols, Baker, and Co .. 9,139 Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-11. M. and G. Tubb 14,6(1 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 22,212 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir- necebsary. In fact, in this matter of passports we have much the same difficulty with the French and the Celes- tial Empires. The difference is only one of degree. China excludes us altogether, as far as it can ; and when we push our way in by blows or by diplomacy, we have to encounter the more subtle opposition of ten thousand forms and ceramonie., which we can never master. We make the attempt in the most perfect good faith, sad with childlike simplicity, but only degrade ourselves in the eyes of the silken savages as well as our ewn. The whole thing is contrary to our geninß, and we end with the conviction that we had better have let it alone. QUEEN'S BENCH. Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice Crorspton.) This beiin the first day of Easter Term, their lordships, after breakfasting as usual with the Lord Chancellor, took their seats on the bench at about 2 o'clock. SHORT V. THE NORTIT-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. That is the precise danger of all attempts to work the passport ryeteen so as to suit the convenience of the British traveller without hurting the prejudices or the pocket of the French official. It is tiSHILI.ed across the Channel that the Englishman must carry a pass port, which he is bound to produce on any occasion, and which must tell the tale of his travels. Our public men weary and degrade themselves with the attempt to make this no inconvenience. The question is how to hit both these objects. So far there is little prospect of our being able to do so. The Englishman dislikes a " ticket-of-leave" altogether. He dislikes it as be would dislike having to crawl, or lick the dust, or make a cer tain number of obeisances, or observe a load of etiquette, in Siam, or China, or Madagascar. Nothing will re concile him to it, for it admits of no compromise. Tell him that you have made it quite easy, that he has only just to touch the ground once with his knee, only just to take up a little dust and put his hand to his mouth, only just to bob once at the door and once before the footstool of his barbaric Majesty, or that it will be enough if his Moonshee does all this for him, or that he has only to ask to be excused and make a trifling pay ment, it matters not, he doesn't like the thing in any shape whatever. He likes it still less when he is told that the very people before whom he is required to do these humiliations think them utterly absurd, and wonder at his compliance. It does not improve matters to be told that the personage who won't admit you with out a label round your neck thinks it an idle ceremony, and only retains it because his servants make it a pre tence for some trifling extortion. Let us see what relief is now promised the British traveller. If you reside in London or the interior you have now a greater variety of means of identification at your command. If you have no account at a bank, and are not of the same politics as the mayor, and have no acquaintance with the county magistrates, you may resort to a clerical friend. Should you be a Dissenter, it is enough to have the word of your minister that you are what you pretend to be. As it is possible you may be a Churchman, and still on cool terms with your clergyman, you may go to your solicitor, whom you are supposed to be always only too happy to consult. If you are afraid of having to pay 6s. Bd., you may go to your physician or your surgeon. Even these, however, may expect fees. What, then, remains l A notary. Nut one Englishman in a hundred knows what a notary is. But, granting that among the mayor, the town and county magistrates, the physicians, surgeons, solicitors, clergy, Dissenting preachers, and notaries of your neighbourhood, you may find some one to vouch for you, you have still the further process of applying at the Foreign-office, obtaining the rises of the Foreign Consuls, and having always to carry the document with you, and produce it when re quired. But the Foreiga-office tells us it is going to do more. We are now to have our passport for 2s. instead of having to pay 6s. for it ; and, should we happen to be en the coast and in a hurry to cross over, we may get a Foreign office passport at once by applying to an agent put there for the purpose. On the other hand, the French Government is now gra ciously pleased to peemit British subjects living in France to travel Irons one town to another with a French passport, 'lt" in the ordinary case of British travellers they will" content with the vise ( f the local Consul on the Foreign-office passport, instead of requir ing that of the Consul-General. All this proves the so• licitude of the English and French officials to put on the handcuff without hurting the wrist, and at the prime cost of the instrument ; out it does net alter the main fact that you must have a passport. Indeed, we are not sure that the increased facility of obtaining the passport, anywhere, any how, with any body's voucher, will not give a pretence for a closer ecrutiny of the document abroad. It will be known, of course, that, notwithstanding the signature of the Fo reign Secretary, his armorial bearin,;s, and his high souuding titles, the document only means that some body or other, a doctor, solicitor, or Methodist preacher, vouches that a veritable John Jones did not sign the paper bearing the signature "John Jones." The bearer may simply call himself " John Jones ;" or, being really John Jones, may be a very dan gerous character, either because he is in the habit of leaving his bills unpaid, or because be has a particular animosity to emperors, Sup posing it to turn out in two or three instances that the traveller, warranted by the licensed pastor of some eccentric denomination in the North of England, is not much the better for it, we can easily imagine the French police turning round on our own Foreign office, and saying, "See what sort of men you send amongst us ! What is the value of your voucher l Were we not in the right to take care of ourselves I" Their arguments, of course, go to the absurdity of the system, but that is just what the French do not choose to observe. In sober truth, all the names and rises of a passport, though it has travelled half round Europe, only endorse the first voucher; and in the instance we have suppos ed, the French, Belgian, Austrian, Prussian and Russian rises, as well as the names of our Foreign Secretary and of the French Consul-General in London, only testify to the original allegation of the Rev. Simon Snuffle, minister of Ebenezer Chapel, at some place with an unpronounce able name, that the document was originally given to a man bearing the name subscribed to it. The whole pyra mid of authorities rests on this point, which is really worth nothing ; and the earth on an elephant, the ele phant on a tortoise, is not a v ga•er absurdity. Is it possible this state of things can: last long l If, as our own Foreign Secretary tells us, the present system is a delu sion, we don't see how the improved one can be otherwise. The passport is worth nothing, and its greater cheapness and facility of acquisit.iOn will not make it worth more. The olj. ct, of course,.`is well intended, and we have to render our honest thanks fur the trouble which Lord Malmesbury has taken to get over the preliminary diffi culties of a passport. Nothing that he can do, however, --nothing even that he is able to promise on the part of the French Government—can mitigate the inconve nieece of the passport after the moment of its delivery from the Foreign-office on the payment of 2s. It must still be visai in London, ati 1 at Boulogne, still at Parr, still almost everywhere abroad, still taken from you, still kept you know not where, still liable to be lost, still filling your pocket, still a pretence for i xtracting more francs, thalera, carlines, and paulines, still a badge of degredation, and still, after all, of no use whatever. Mr, H. Hill, Q.C., said this was an action in which the plaintiff sough - , to rec over damages from the North-Eastern Railway Company for an injury sustained by him while travelling in ore of the company's carriages. At the trial, which took place at York, befora Mr. Baron Martin. it appeared that the train had run off the line at the Bel mont station, and thus the plaintiff sustained the injury complained of. The plaintiff himself was examine,, and he also called the other witnesses in support of his case, and certain printed regulations as to the rate of speed at which the train ough: to travel were put in. At the close of the plaintiff's evidence the learned judge expressed his opinion that, but for the printed regulations which had been put in there would have been no evidence of negligence, but his lordship thought that by them the burden of proof was changed, end that it was incumbent on the company to prove that the rate of speed had not been exceeded. The defendants then called several witnesses who proved that tke steam had been shat off, and that the train bad not exceeded the proper rate of speed. The jury, however, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with 800 t. damages. The learned counsel contended the verdict was against the weight of the evidence. • The Court granted a rule nisi. Several motions for new trials were made, after which Court took the enlarged rules. ming - ham—J. L. Moilhet and Sons --- Blandford Bank, Blandford—Oak and Co. — Boston Bank, Boston—Claypons and Co. Boston Bank, Boston—T. Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Miles, and Co 30,904 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. ..- - 15,224 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury -J. C. and A Gillett Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 25,856 Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Son, and Co. ... 34,352 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Lloyds & Co. 20,088 Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 34,072 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Co. Burlington and Driffield Bank Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- Worlledge and Co 2,445 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock &Co 12,352 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Fosters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons 14,966 Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Costa and Son 2,640 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co 23,455 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 38,615 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock 5,433 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 16,772 Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co 7,01. Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans & Co. 11,874 Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 36,779 Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co .. 27,650 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co Diss Bank, Diss-Fincham, and Co - - Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster -Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse &C. 73,667 Bevonport Bank. Devonport- Hodge and Co 8,558 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-R. and H. Williams 38,906 Fast Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos ter, and Co 8 0 ,508 East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co 51,031 Essex Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 38,947 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 25,855 Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co 4,761 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co. 5,914 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon.. 11,512 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and C 0... 27,309 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. l2 11,943 Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Veasey and Co. Harwich Sank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. 10,33$ 43,9$ 29 315 57, :22 7,025 55,235 42,853 H fordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Ross Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank. and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexan dere and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington— Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Harrison and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson 31,785 17,869 20,374 60,489 and Co. Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co. •• Leeds Union Bank, Leedg—W. Williams, Brown and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—T. & T. T. P age t Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Whitfield and Co Lincoln Tank, Lincoln—Smith, Ellison, and Co Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery—D. Jones and Co Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle ton and Cradock Lyrnington Bank, Lymington—S. and G. F St. Barbs Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvisand Co Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst andCO.. .............................................. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree—Nunn and Co. .................................................... Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and 'Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hung Irford Bank, Marlborough —Tan. nerand Co ........................................... Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and 50n..... . Truro—Willyams and Co Mi n ers' Bank, Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co Monmouth Cld Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, andCo Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudscns Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbecks Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co. New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Parsons and Co. ... Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H. and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W. Clinch and Sons Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverl3y Bank, Hull—Pease and Co Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and SOUS Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—R. C. Pomfret, & Co Ross Old Bank, Herediordshire, Ross Allawa,y and Macdougal Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden—Gibsons and Co. Salop Bank Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co. Scarborangb Old Bank, Scarborough—Wood all and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank _and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocke, Ey. tons, and C 0.... Sittingbenrne and Milton Bank, Sittirghourao —Valiance and Co. Southampton Tow* and County• Bank, South ' amptou—Maddioon and Pearce Ilontlawall Bank, flonthwell--Wyida mad 0o 11,003 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, fieutkaar ton—Athol.ley, Fall, and Co. Stafford Old Bank, Staftord—Ste-renso and 13,168 Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford —Eaton., Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Tauntoa Bank, Tauntoa-11. and R. Badcock 12,1/4 Tayistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill and Rundle 7,142 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph and Co. 9,516 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiyartox— Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton- shim—Thrapston, York* and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—Percival and 9,386 11,720 Co Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole—G. W. Led gard and Sons Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and 13,691 8, 830 Co ------------------- Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co 10,896 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges, Wells, and Co. . 1,486 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greaves and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers, and Co 1,606 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield— Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co 11,860 Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Eliott and Pearce 12,011 Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth—Arkwright and Co 34,432 Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurneys and Co Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W. Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Go o d rick. and Holyoake Worcester Bank, Wercester—Farley, Laven der, and Co Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and 16,063 , Co. . ............................................. : ...... Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley, Turner, and Co Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—R and W. F. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co York Bank, York— Swarm, Clough, and Co JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- 20,492 hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking 38,006 12,403 45,216 61,1 Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 24,355 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 126,187 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax 18,713 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 29,086 Hull Banking Company, Hull 20,749 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 7,472 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,461 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 22,085 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,915 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 16,254 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds t2,705 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 81,019 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 45,110 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors. 9,235 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 8,520 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 24,353 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham 26,555 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 5 1, 701 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 72,041 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North a 19,345 mpton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 43,031 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddloworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,401 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 11,620 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com- PanY, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang. 10,24 111,769 20,473 13,940 90,903 22,629 16,476 27,685 49,19 P Ort, 321,094 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 2 0 ,742 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sh e ffield 30,295 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 47,641 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 10,266 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wake field 12,452 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven 21,231 Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick West of England and South Wales District Bank, Bristol 58,441 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 74,622 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield 30,874 Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 3, 67S Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 5,418 York Union Banking Company, York 64,673 York City and County Banking Company, 81,540 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 118,252 J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns, Inland Revenue, Somerset House, April 10. 47,890 of the law operated oppressively, especially in re gard to cheap newspapers. Mr. INGRAM said the present law was most in jurious to our foreign trade in the article of paper. This country stood alone in respect to a ta►x on paper, there being no other country in the world where such a duty existed. The Emperor of the French had tried to impose the tax on the French nation, but with all his power, he was not able to do so. Mr. Fowler, Alderman Baldwin, and Mr. J. Cassell severally dwelt upon the injurious operation of the duty, showing that it caused the misapplica tion of capital, which, instead of being invested in profitable labour, mechanical and intellectual, by which cheap publications might be largely extended in their circulation for the benefit of the people, it was now forestalied, as it were, by the Chancellor of the Exchequer in the shape of a most obnoxious tax. The Earl of DERBY said this was not at all a new subject. It had often been discussed, and had again been gone into very fully on the present oc casion. Of course, the deputation could not ex pect that he should at that moment enter a discus sion of the various points that had been brought before him. Two very different questions had be:n raised by the gentlemen whom he was then addressing. One was the security required by law from newspapers and other works, and as to whether it was possible or impossible to draw a distinction between the two descriptions of publi cation. Now, as to that question, and as to the policy of requiring any security at all, he did not at the present moment wish to make any observa tion. The other question which had been brought before him regarded the disadvantages aid the injuries suffered by and inflicted on the manu facturers of paper by the Excise laws. He was quite prepared to go a long way with what had been said on that subject. He thought, in the first place, in point of principle, that a great deal might be said against a duty upon paper, and he thought that the securities required to be taken by the Ex cise against fraud did afford facilities for throwing great disadvantages in tine way of the manufacturer, and had the effect of increasing the pressure of the tax itself. He had one observation to make in re gard to what had been stated as to the effect of tnese disadvantages on the manufacture of paper in this country. It appeared by the memorial which the deputation had presented to him, that, however inconvenient might be the tat and the mode of col lection, there had been within the last 20 years, under the operation of that tax, a decidedly large inerease in the manufacture of paper. It was stated in the memorial that the quantity of paper made in 1838 was 94,464,2401b5. weight, and in 1856 the quantity was 171,209,2951b 5 . weight. It was also stated that there had been, during that period, a falling off in the number of the mills ; that in 1838 there were 525 mills, while in 1856 there were only 393. That diminution in the number of mills, si multaneously with a large increase of paper mann f,ctured., might be accounted for on the principle that large capitalists had an advantage over small capitalists. At all events, it was clear that, notwith standing the disadvantages of the tax, there had been a considerable increase in the quantity of paper manufactured. He could hardly suppose that the manufacturers were in so utterly ruinous a condition as some were disposed, to represent them to be. If the present Government had suc ceeded to an over-abundant exchequer, and if they could see that they had a prospect of making a considerable reduction in the public expenditure instead of having, as they would have, to provide for a considerable increased amount of what he hoped lie might call extraneous expenditure, he should have felt disposed to look favourably on a measure for re clueng or even for taking off the duty on paper alto gether. He could not anticipate the budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer, nor was he so san guine as to suppose that his right hon. friend had such an overflowing exchequer as to enable him to make any reduction of taxation. Of course, such a state of things must stand in the way of a reduction of a tax that was so productive as that of the paper duty. He did not exactly know the amount which that duty yielded to the revenue. Alderman TowLE—lt is 1,200,0001. The Earl of DERBY was afraid the Chancellor of the Exchequer, when he came to consider how very greatly such a duty added to the amount of revenue, would not be able to encourage the hope that dur ing the present year, at all events, he could hold out any prospect of takingofl that duty. But if it should please the country to retain a Conservative Go vernment in power for two or three years (a laugh) —and if, as some members of the deputations had been pleased to say, a Conservative Government managed affairs more cheaply than a Liberal Go vernment, they might possibly at the end of that period be able to do what the deputations required; but he felt that at the present moment they could not take off the tax. At the same time, he was ready to admit that it was a tax both in principle and in detail open to very serioas objections, and if there was an opportunity for repealing it, ho, for one, should be very glad to see it repealed. After thanking his lordship for the courteous re ception he had given them, the united deputations wii hdrew. LORD CAMPBELL'S PECULIAR POSITION " A Liberal " writes the following letter to the editor of the Morning Advertiser : _ _ " Sir,—By what right, and on what ground does Lord Campbell invite the Press to mutisin during these State trials? What plea does he put forward for leaving a pri soner to brave, under all circumstances, without public aid, the whole legal power of the Crown? If this preten sion is founded on solid reasons,llet us hear what they are ; and, if it is not, let not blind submission to it establish a dangerous precedent. " In ordinary cases between man and man the propriety of Lord Campbell's recommendation can admit of no dis pute. The judge is there to expound the law, the jury to weigh the fact, and both are responsible for deciding con scientiously according to the evidence before them. As that evidence can be best sifted by those before whom it is brought, the interference of the Press is not only needless but it would be positively mischievous, for arguments or declamation would supplant the data on which verdicts should be based. " A. prosection by the State differs tote ccelo from an or dinary cause. In the latter, if a judge is upright, there is no danger of partiality, and at the present day no suspi cion of corruption taints the Judgment Seat of England. Bat in a prosecution by the State it is not its integrity, but its impeccability that is involved in the issue ; preju dice and party feeling biassing men whose honesty is un impeachable. " Under a Despotism the Magistracy is servile, how ever personally honourable, and in a free country its Ma gistrates, like other citizens, are not exempt from the spirit of faction. What is there in the social condition of England to make that unlikely now? There is everything to favour it. The judges mix with the Oligarchy and im bibe its sentiments and prejudices; and history proves that they have often played the part of its reckless partisans. Human nature is always the same, like causes produce like effects, and the revival of political prosecutions will revive political judges. " The people, then, should look with watchful jealousy on Lord Campbell's dictation to it. To what does it amount? To its allowing him to do what he likes until the mischief is done. Let the trial be over, let sentence be passed, and then let the Press, when it is too late, take exception to this or that iniquity ! That is a capital joke. What credentials can Lord Campbell produce for this Bill of Indemnity, for this carte blanche to say and do as he pleases? Is it his recent conduct in the House of Lords, or on the Bench itself? Is it the trial of the directors of the British Bank, with its equanimity, impartiality, and dignity ? Is it his declaration en the 4th of February that an offence was a misdemeanour, which on the 22d of February he affirmed to be a felony ? Is it denouncing a Conspiracy Bill and pronouncing in its favour? Is it his ruling in this very case, where by a fatality, every point, as it arises, is decided against the prisoner ? " Whether the country sees fit or not to endorse Lord Campbell's assumption, that country, at all events, cannot tu o hnc n agh y tl ,o w t iffadhesanott offender el h eyr e l ata s ow a m i t d eihs t od h pwe e : a le ,: has was honeuo, luff o. o tr doubt offender hffbeetnhwd infractionaea rsi shut its eyes to his indecent position. He is now engaged he in trying for felony n b h y r: v t de h o e a u n lo law y t ? t h o a f l t s of a law of which the Lord Chief Justice of England ignored and denied the existence? And, having affirmed what he common ha I denied, and so prejudged the que s ti on, i f that Lord Chief Justice to try the question and th e offender too . Lord Campbell's situation is equally au outrag e on sense and propriety. 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Thomas King, ' means of cure had tions, In canisters, failed,lll 121 b. 225, The 121 b canisters . ooipt of Post-office order. Regent-street, London. , fear ful. dangers of spurious Importantimitations .— The William Page Wood granted an Injunction against Alfred Hooper been restored by it, after all other other respectable per- Suitably packed with full instruc tions, ".: 21b. 4s. 6d .; 51b. 11. s. ; B arc sent carriage free ou re • arry Du Barry, and Co , 77, Caution against the. The Vice-Chancellor Sir islev on the 10th March, Dun's Revaleuta Arabica Food.' ill for imitating .. Du COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. This being the first day of Easter Term, Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Mr. Justice Willes, and Mr. Justice Byles took their seats on the bench shortly before 2 o'clock. LEADER V. HOMEWOOD. This was an action of trover and detinue, tried at West minster before Mr. Justico Byles, in which a verdict was found for the plaintiff—damages 1171. The action was brought by the outgoing tenant of some premises at Lambeth, to recover the value of some fixtures to which he claimed a right. His term having expired, the tenant in possession refused to allow him access to the premises to take the fixtures away. Mr. Wordsworth, Q.C., now moved for a nonsuit, or for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against evidence. Rule nisi granted. DALTON v. SOUTFI-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by iiiei;&ii;tiff,;alu;inis trator to his son, who was killed by an accident on the defendants' railway. This action was tried last term before Mr. Justice Byles, and a verdict found for the plaintiff for 14 7 q, Mr. Hill, Q.C., now moved to set aside the verdict, or to enter a nonsuit, or reduce the damages. The question was whether plaintiff show el pecuniary loss. The plaintiff, it appeared, was an agricultural labourer. The deceased, his son, left home many years ago and became servant in a geatleman's family, after which he was apprenticed to a carpenter, and had latterly earned good wages. He visited his father about once alortnight, and was in the habit of taking him presents of groceries, clothes, and money, to the amount of about 201. a-year. This question had re ceived ajudicial construction in the case of " Lake T. The Midland Railway Company," 18, Queen's Bench Reports. He submitted that the father, under the circumstances, had not sustained a pecuniary loss within the construction put on Lord Campbell's act. Rule nisi granted. KERSLEICE V PICARD. This was an action tried. on the 24th of February last in the L.rd Mayor's Court before the Common Sergeant, when a verdict was enttrid for the defendant, with leave to move to enter it for the plaintiff for 26/. 12e. Mr. Powell now moved accordingly. The declaration was upon a false warranty of some gold chains. There was a second count for deceit, to which the defendant pleaded not guilty. The plaintiff, it appeared, was desirous of discounting a bill of exchange for 1501., aid took it to the defendant, who transacted such matters, and who also dealt in jewellery, and the defendant agreed to discount the bill if the plaintiff would take a certain quantity of gold chains, which he warranted to be ofll carats quality The plaintiff agreed to this, and took 571. worth of gold chains. Some time after the plaintiff was induced to get the gold of which they wore made tested, and it was then found that, instead of being 14 carats quality, they were only 94 carats, the difference in the value being 261. 103., which he sought to recover. The jury found that there was a warranty, and that it was false, but a idea they did not believe any fraud was intended by the defendant, On this verdict, the counsel for the defendant drew the atten tion of the Court to the scienter alleged in the declaration, which, he contended it was necessary should be proved, and claimed the verdict. The judge directed the verdict thereupon to be entered for the defendant, giving the plaintiff leave to move. The ease was identical with .illiamson v. Allanson," in 2, East's Reports, and on the authority of that case the learned counsel asked for a rule nisi. Rule nisi granted. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. (Sitting in Banco.) EX PARTE SMITH. Mr. Scotland moved for the discharge of one Smith under a rale for a habeas corpus, he having been com mitted to Kingston-on-Hull Gaol on a warrant charging him with ailing, abetting, counselling, and pr Thompson to desert his master's service. The return one nto e the writ having been read , the learned counsel took sev era l technical objections to the proceedings agai ns t hi s c li en t. M t. was r.Prr not called Thompson, who appea re d i n support of the war ranupon to answer the case put forward on behalf of the prisoner. The Court was of opinion that the prisoner was not en titled to be diezhargect. Judgment accordingly. HOGG V. WARD. Mr. Hill moved to enter a verdict for the defendant in lieu of the verdict for the plaintiff for 5/ damages, which passed at the trial before Mr. Baron Martin on the Nor thern Circuit. The action was for false imprisonment, and it appeared that the defendant, being a superintendent of police, was told by one Johnson to take the plaintiff into custody for stealing some traces which had be4n stolen at the " peace rejoicing" in 1831. The plaintiff, on being in terrogated by the defendant, said he had bought the traces for Is. from a stranger, who had picked them up, and, this account being unsatisfactory, the defendant took him into custody. The question now sought to be raised was whether, under these circurnstanc3s, the defendant was justified in taking the plaintiff into custody. Mr. Baron Bramwell thought that the bare fact of a charge being made was not a justifiration for an officer to take a man into custody without any further inquiry into the matter. The rule, however, would go. The Court granted a rule nisi. TRIAL OF BERNARD. [The a more exte n d e d report of the latter partt s hat appeared in our i mpress i on of of following the i trial yes terday :—j The Lord Chief Justice asked Mr. James whether ha wished to postpone his address. Mr. James replied that he did. There was the evidence of 70 witnesses, and it was now very late.will go en then in the morning The Lord Chief Justice—lt I? equires no apology. You Mr. James--Yes. Would your lordship wish us to state the points which we shall bring before the judges? The Lord Chief Justice—That would be convenient. Mr. James-- I have prepared them on paper, and I will state them shortly, and hand your lordship the paper. There are nine points. Of course the questions to some extent are doubly stated. I do not propose to address any argument to your lordship now, b u t w i ll s i mp l y s t a t e the points. The first question which we prop ose s h ou ld b e reser ved for the consideratien of the fifteen judges is, that the pri soner is not one of her Majesty's subjects, within the moan ing of the Otis Geo. IY., chap. 31 , sec. which is the act under which your lordships have jurisdiction to hold this special commission. Th e secon d point is, that the prisoner was not an acces the aforesaid statute. gory before the fact to any mu r d er w i t hi n the meaning of The third is, that there is ne proof of any murder having been committed within the meaning of that statute. The fourth is, that the murder for which the prisoner is charged by the indictment to have been accessory before the fact, is proved to h ave b een committed b y a n alien upon an alien within th e ki ngdom of France, a nd not by any of her Majesty's s u bj sub jects. The fifth is, that n , ev i dence of any ac t s done by the pri eck nor upon any of her Majesty's sonsr on land out o f th e United King d om , and without the Queen's dominio ns , nor of an ac ts done by any person in pursuance of any authority from him on land out of the Unikd Kingdom and with o ut the Queen's d ominions is properly receivabl e i u ev i dence i n t hi s trial. y The sixth point is the principal offence of murder charged in the first three counts of the indictment was not alleged s to hive been committ e d by any of her Majesty's sub j ects . Then .. propose to as k your l or dship to reserve the q uestion about the letter, which w ill b e the seventh point , that the letter of the let Janua ry, lt 57, s igned T. Allsop, was not properly received in evidence against the prisoner. Tae eighth point i s , th at b y the terms of the special I commission the court is only authorised to inquire and try the prisoner on the char ge c f being accessory before the fact of the murder by Orsi n i and others of per sons whose names aro not known, a n d th e y h a ve no jurisdiction to try the prisoner ou a charge o f w ilful murder as prin ci p al . The ninth point is th a t the fourth and fi ft h cou n ts, whici charge the pri soner a s principal, alley.° that the alleged murder was committed in Paris, outof the Queen's dominions, and the prisoner being an alien, cannot be tried as a erincipal on such a charge. The Lord Chief Justice—There can be no objection to the racept ion of any of these points, but that is one which has aready been argued and determined, and an unanimous opinim given upon it ! MI. James—lf your lordship says it is not right to re serve that point, of course we are in your hands. Tie Lord Chief Justice—You have varied the mode of raisiig the different points, but they aro in substance the samt, and as they aro points of novelty, and also of im pen-twee, the court will adopt the course open to it, viz., we vill take the opinion of the fifteen judges before pro nourcing sentence, should there be a Yordiet upon the fact unfavourable to the prisoner. Tie court then adjourned until this morning. K a e l o g L a T o s o f , e N f r e TwII,Ev, York, n w s h E i Y i e . Ty T i n h g e a screw h s r t i e n a ra t h e e r riv!r, was run foul of by the Wyoming, from Philadel phii, and lost bowsprit, &c. The Wyoming had her starboard quarter stove in. 9,619 22,554 18,230 41,709 5,323 49,250 116,893 t 6,409 21,153 76,093 16,12 7,855 3,565 31,926 10,2 13,088 1,135 NAVAL AND MILITARY INTELLIGENC. Two battalions of Royal Marines, under the command of Lieut.-Col. Fleming, as well as the Oxford Militia Regi ment, in command of Lieut.-Col. Fans, were yesterday morning drawn out on Woolwich common and were put through battalion exercises. A number of Artillery recruits, who have passed certain stages of gun and position drill, were likewise mustered on the parade-ground for the in spection of Col. Bloomfield (in temporary command of the garrison), and having performed various evolutions they marched past in well-disciplined order and regularity. The freight ship Cordelia has commenced shipping war stores from Woolwich arsenal for Halifax; and the Flying Foam, laden with war materials for Hong Kong, is under orders to sail for her destination to-day. The launch of the large line of battle screw steamer Hero, 91, took place at Chatham dockyard yesterday after noon in the presence of several thousand spectators. The Hero has been on the stocks nearly four years, having been laid down on the Bth of June, 1851, and was built from the designs of Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, under the direction of Mr. F. J. ',lire, the master shipwright at Chatham dockyard, and his assistants. She is one of the finest vessels of her class evt.r constructed for the British navy. Precisely at 25 minutes after 1 o'clock Mr. F. J. Laird conducted Miss Jones, daughter of Mr. 11. T. Jones, storekeeper at Chat ham, to the bows of the vessel, and she performed the cere• mony of " christening" the Hero. The supports having been knocked away the slender rope which held the ship was severed, and the Hero glided into the Medway amid the cheering of the spectators, the band of the Royal Marine Light Infantry playing "Rule Britannia." The following are the proportions of this splendid vessel: — As ordered. As built. Feet. In. Feet. lrs Length between perpendiculars 234 3 231 4 Length of keel for tonnage 199 1 199 34 Exti erne breath 55 4 55 4 Breadth for tonnage.. 54 6 51 6 Breadth moulded •" 53 8 53 8 Depth in hold Burthen in tons She is to be supplied with the following powerfu armament : Guns. Weight Cwt. Feet. In. Lower deck 3l 8-inch 65 9 0 Main deck 22 32 ~ 15 8 6 Upper deck Ditto (pivot) the f A te f t r . i t c lr n l a a n u t y c L h i , z ? r e d Has st e e a ro m e w rf t o o r w t e i e to purpose oSheerness f being by taken into dock to be supplied with her machinery, which will be of GOO-horse power. Captain G. Goldsmith, C. 8., the superintendent of the dockyard, entertained a dis till;nished party at his official residence after the launch, and the whole of the workmen were granted a half-day's holiday. The next vessel to be launched at Chatham dockyard is the large screw steam-frigate Mersey, 40, which is very nearly completed. Her Majesty's steam block-ship Blenheim, 60, Capt. F. Scott, having been completely refitted for her new coast service, went to Spithea.l on Weduesd ty, where she was inspected officially yesterday by Admiral Sir George e I n c c h . : o . n t u r , h a i. ()we afterwards n e e yesterday e ' v. r n 4 l l n a e y: r - io j es l ' ) ut ; utb e i et. h aoi the ne ie tgit l . rg A yi un i t , S t Arrogant, h o eo g e rah a t : a n ym . r a t b,sawoc fol loweduliht7r Se- nlo t u o r , t K.C.L. C a . 1 Capta a i r u ld ll sp ea e t e h d: The Impel louse, 51, screw-frigate, h all despatch for commission. The Vulcan, 6, troop-frigate, Commander John Seccombe, will embark her troops for Malta this day. 31, Capt. Moorsom, C. 8., m a d e another 7th Fusi battalion ßay S er visited the Crystal Pal ace . th that they appreciated ln he bowing by their conduct ltereiYTra Yesterday Diadem,te dear e ys d pa f e u be r o.d d u yt M: eso l t i oe t r i mend a y u n ion d f u S r tth° t ek h e2 e comm and of M a j or sii I n H ' e b i g e b B b i o l e i f i e ' t t n i a o c il i o r d n o i m e u c c a e t P o r t d s . themselves etg in a most orderly manner, ROR filBL DOUBLE MURDER NEAR TAUNTON. TAUNTON, APRIL 15, A. most horrible double murder took place in the village of Creech, about five miles from this town, on Wednesday morning. It appears that a man named John Bucknall, and his wife Elizabeth, about 70 years of age, kept a small public house called the Cottage Inn, iu addition to which he car ried on the business of a jobber. On Tuesday evening he mentioned to a party in the presence of his grandson that he had 401. in his possession, and desired him at the same time to call him early the following morning, so that they might attend the Ilridgwater market. The grandson states that he went to the house at six o'clock, when he could not make any ono hear. He went down the village and told his father, who requested hire to go back to the cot tage. He did so, and procured a ladder, which he placed against the bed-room window; but he could not see any one. He again went to his father, who came back with him. The grandson then got over the roof to procure, as he said, an iron bar to force open the front door. In the meantime the father, seeing some smoke issuing from a crevice in the cider cellar door tried to open it. He could not do so at first, although it was only on the latch, on ac count of some heavy substance against it. He managed to work his body through a small opening, when he found the body of his father weltering in blood. On going upstairs he found his mother with her throat cut, in bed. Informa tion was given to the police, and Sergeant Judd, with several constables, wore soon on the spot. They found that the old man had been shot through the head as he was en deavouring to let himself out. The ball had come G ut a t the right cheek and struck the door. Although a careful search was made, the bullet could not be found, neither could they find the knife with which the woman's throat was cut. In a little room was found a gun that had recently been discharged, and which the grandson said had not been used since the previous Wednesday, when he discharged it. A. bar was found at the front door, which was open, with the bolt shot out, as if it Lad been forced open; but this could not have been the ht e c kaoes old woman's ow a f s m t t hhaeenr bones were ox oeos kune upstairs m s ianrrdsk had violence on the d.)or or the post. The key of this door . a re l n n o t t he ah c le o p u t r e se sa o ; couldl a h ltr b a e c f t o e u d n' f i r . o from b an )x y e th s i c u p g 3 .i n ,a ec s i b ; a b ou ut ta t k h e e n p a ti a ce y the grandson was taken into custody, and on the right lining at the back of his coat there were m arks a rta of his coat were r kf whether the a s f a day found several spots blo o d. On the bloody knife had been wined on it. He could not give any account of what he halt done with the knife, and only a few shillings were found in his pocket. He was con voyed to Taunton gaol the same evening. The murderer must have been close to his victim when h) fired off the gun, as the wadding sat fire to the old man's co it. The prisoner, who has lately come out of gaol, will be brought up before the magistrates on Saturday. Re is About 20 years old, and . 5 feet 9_inehos in height. 5,885 13,147 25,895 10,383 18,314 46,880 17,885 15,811 49,073 89,750 7,645 2,524 17,834 8,845 28,704 8,104 32,123 6,336 10,721 7,509 9,163 6,747 24,199 27,004 5,072 2,971 6,882 12,577 8,375 9,609 3,969 201,161 11,466 21,712 83,046 2,321 11,055 SPORN. GENOB. TATTE RSALL'S-THIIRSDAT. The York settling for some time delayed the renews of operatirms upon races to *come. When the old ac counts were closed new ones were not opened with much briskness, and for the eve of two such important events as the City and Suburban Handicap and Metropolitan Stakes speculation was never pursued with less spirit. Mdlle. de Chantilly was, supported with increased confidence for the former race, and for the latter the de monstration which has been recently made in favour of Wrestler was well sustained. With these exceptions tions the investments relative to the Epsom events were unimportant. Tat proceedings in reference to Toxepholite for the Two Thousand were most perplexing ; the horse seemed to have no settled price, and it was difficult to deter mine whether his supporters or his opponents were in a minority. 6to 1 were the highest odds against him at the close. That price in "ponies" was betted once against his stable companion, The Peer, about whom, however, 11 to 2 was afterwards " wanted." The other traniaciions require no especial remarkr. - CLOSING PRICES. CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 10 to 1 agst Madlle. Chantilly (taken freely) 14 to 1 apt Schiedam 100 to 7 aget Flying Englishman 15 to 1 aget Terrific 20 to 1 apt Little Sam METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 11 to 2 agst Wrestler (taken freely) 7to 1 aget Telegram 9to 1 agst Monarque 100 to 7 aget Minnie 100 to 6 aget Black Tommy TWO - YEAR-OLD RAMC (1013031). 3to 1 agst Stockham 4to 1 aget Fusee TWO THOUSAND. 7 to 2 agst Clydesdale (taken) sto 1 agst The Peer (take 11 to 2) 6to 1 agst Toxopholite (taken) 12 to 1 agst Cotswold 12 to 1 aget Happy Land (taken) ONE THOUSAND. 4to 1 aget Perfection sto 1 agst Governess 7to 1 agst Botany CHESTER CIJP. 100 to 6 agst Physician 100 to 6 agst Sweet William 20 to 1 agst Riseber 25 to 1 apt Adamas 25 to 1 agst Botany DERBY. Bto 1 agst Tozopholite (taken and offered) 10 to 1 aget Sedbury (taken and offered) 1000 to 30 aget Fitzßoland (taken) MALTON RACES—THURSDAY. awo-Year-Old Stakes. Basilisk ..... Prediction ..... 1 Five ran. Union Cup. Tom Ball I Prattler Fire ran. Malton Handicap. Gorsehill . Hegira.... Attorney-General... . Eight ran. Won by half a length. Welthatn Cup. Chance 1 Tam Ball Emelia Ten ran. Grmculus Esuriens Members' Plate. Peto Culcavy 8 Ten ran. Won by a neck. Country Markets. MANCHESTER -APRIL 15; There was a poor attendance this morning, and the demand for wheat and flour limited. Holders, however, were very firm, and prices fully as high as this day week. Oats and oatmeal much inquired for, and being scarce. were sold at an advance of Id to 2d per 451 b and la per load. English and Egyptian beans were held for more money. In barley and Indian corn no material chime from tast.week. LOUTH—ArRiri 14. At our corn market to-day tlacre was a mall attend ance, and wheat and flour met a slow sale at barely the last week's prices ; an advance being asked, which tended to check sales. No change in other articles. Wheat, red, 40s to 43s ; missed, 45s ; white, 48e; barley 33s to 351; oat- 20s to 238; beans, 38s to 41s. - BOSTON ---Arm 14. A good supply of wheat today, which met a slow sale at a slight decline on last week ; a mere retail Wanes* doing. Spring corn in dem:snd, and dearer. Prices :—Wheat, red, 38s Od to 44s Od; new, —s to —0 ; white, 42s Od to 46s Od ; extra, 475. Barley, 30s Od to 360 Od. Oats 18s to 265. Peas, 40 to 45a Od. Beans, 361 Od to 40s Od per qr. NEWA'3K—AnaL 14. This day's market was - very well attended, and a largo supply of grain of all ports., Wheat met with a read/ sale, at is to 2s over previous rates. Beans is higher. Other grain without cb Ange. Wheat, white 668 to 575, red 46s to 508; barley, malting 408 to 425, grinding 34s to 365; oats, 24st. 26s to 30s, 22st 24s to 26s ; beans, 43w. to 45s ; malt, 66s to 725; peas, 40 4 to 425; tares, —s to --s per qr. GL A SGOW-APRIL 14. We bad a good attendance of buyers to-day, and a fait supply of grain of all sorts. Wheat met a free sale ! t the last week's ex' areme rates ; some descriptions real ised an advance of 6d. per boll. Flour, 6d to la per sack and 6d per brl dearer.. Oats 64 and oatmeal is per load ova' previous rates. 'Barley scarce, and held for more money. Beans, peas, and. Indian corn steady. EDINBITRGH GRAIN.—APRIL 14, A limited supply of grain to-day ; sales were ready, and prices the turn higher. Wheat, on the top, 4s 6d up, and on the average Is lld up. Barley, 2s ed up on the top, and Os 101 up on the average. Oats on the top were 2s 3d down, and on the average 0.4 3d up. Beans on the top Oi 6d down, and on the average es lld up. /MEAGER PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat f 2 3 5 0-12th Do. new -12ths. Barley Oats 1 8 1 4-12th!. Beans -12ths. Total Supply and Sales. Wheat 992 qrs sold SS2 qrs Barley 698 qrs sold 577 qrs Oats 1202 qrs sold 958 qrs Beans 260 qrs sold 243 qrs DERBY SMITHFIELD.—Arnm 13. There was a large supply of fat beasts to-day, the west part being from the north ; sales flat, and some few left unsold. A large number of sheep, at previous prices.. A less supply of fat pigs, and a good show of fat and store calves. The following were:the quotations ;—Beef, 5.d tw ; mutton, 7d to 71e1 ; lamb, —d to Od ; veal, 6d to itl per lb. ; pork, 51d to s.'id per lb ; rough fat, 5s Oa t o Om per 141 b. ; hides, 2id to 31d per lb ; calf-skins, 40, to 5 4 per lb. Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at fate East India House, when three directors who were ro -elected on Wednesday last, viz., Mr. Wm. Butterworth. Bayley. Mr. Russell Ellice, and Mr. Henry Thoby Priam 13, took the prescribed oath and their seats. Sir Fi:ederick Currie, Bart., was chosen chairman, and Mr. WillistO 3 Joseph East wick deputy-chairman for the year ensuing. FIVE-SHILLING GOLD COINS.-0o account of ' the in convenience experienced by shopkeepers and others, in the bulky nature of the crown piece, a memorial has been promoted, with the view of soliciting from tire First Lord of the Treasury the coinage of five-shilling pieces in gold. The memorial has been signed by .all the bankers in this city, by many members of the city•coun cil, by some of the principal merchants, and by num& roue shopkeepers.—Manchester Examiner, BIRTHS. BUCKLAND—On the 10th inst., at Laleham, the wife of the Rev. Mathew Buckland, of a son. ECUs—On the 14th inst., at 75, Mornington-road, Ur* Edward Ellis, of a son. KING—On the Bth inst., at 21, Chapel-street, Belgrave• square, the wife of Charles J. King, Esq., of a son. APKERRELL—On the 15th inst., at 45, Inveiness-terrace, Mrs. Robert M`Kerrell, of a daughter. MARRIAGES. BARBER—PINKETT—On the 15th inst. at Old Cha eltou Church, Joh n Ab ram B arber, of Corn'hill, to Elizals 30, only dau oi g ai lit e e r rof o Th z a4ePzie. kett, Esq., of Old Chart toe, Kent, fiy HARDING— WILLIAMSON—On the 14th inst., at tiro Ca thedral, Ri pon, Ed mund H ar di ng , E s q., of Basing:l tali street, London, and Surbiton, Surrey, to Mary, your ,gent daughter of Thomas Williamson, Esq., Borage 13i ,use, Ripon. DEATHS. BARNES—On the 14th inst., at tho Rectory, Wild. an De verill, Wilts, the Rev. William Barnes, M.A., rector of that parish, aged 62. BouvEßlE—On the 14th iust., at Delapre Abbey, I;dward Bouverie, Esq., aged 91. CAPPEL—On the 7th inst., at the house of his fat; ler, at 21, Assembly row, Mile-end-road, William Bisho p Cap pel, representative of the house of P. Margetstsn and Co., Bermondsey, aged 26. FRACY ELTON—On the 13th inst., at 8, Newgate-mxrket, Mr. G. Fiackelton, aged 51. RAWLINGS —On the Bth inst., at Islington, Mr. Benjamin Rawlings, aged O. WOODHAM — On the 12th inst., at Wwyford, Thos.Wood ham, Esq., of Winchester, age , l 67. LONDON : Printed and Published by hfUEDO YOU.Nv • of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at. 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