The Sun. — London, England, 1852-05-07 00:00:00

~} t urtt V2tittion SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor PARKER.) THE RIVAL OPERA HOUSES. ',MILEY V, WAGNER. BETEEELL (in continnationfrom our Afternoon Edi tion) said—The Court had now to judge between these two stories, and he thought that the force of circum stances went substantially to show that the bill which lied been filed gainst his clients was founded entirely on fiction. Now, with regard to the second part of the case, the money question, it was agreed on all hands that there was a precedent condition originally intended t guard against expenses which they might incur in leaving their own country, and against the contingency —which had often occurred to foreign artists—of not receiving any remuneration after they had come to this country and rendered their services. Now the time for the original payment of this sum of 3001. was fixed on the 15th March, though when the commencement of Mdlle. Wagner's engagement was fixed, the time for the payment was also extended to the 2nd of April. Now he had to point out to the Court two misrepresentations —first, that Mr. Lumley had sworn in his affidavit that he had written to Madlle. Wagner on the 11th March— juse four days before the time for payment—when, in truth, it was not written until the 18th; and the second was the mistranslation of the French particle de, by which Mr. Lumley wished to make it appear that Herr Wagner had written to him to sand the money either to 83r1in or Ilamburg'a after the 2nd of April, instead of what it really meant, not later than the 2nd of April. The same word de had been used just before, when Herr Wagner had said that it was necessary, that his daughter had need of rest to learn the Italian words of her piet before her dait. Mr. Lumley professed him - eel:tt good French scholar, able to read and write French correctly, ancifyet here they fou nd him translating after th% ed of March, when, if he had bean consistent in his kno Arl e dge be must also have translated that Madlle. Whetter must learn her Italian part after her delnit. Now Mr. Lumley's story was that he had written to the Wagners to tell them that Dr. Becher had the money ready to pay them. Now he (Mr. Bet'nell) was sorry to say that he feared that Mr. Lumley had not had for some time such an abundance of money in his exchequer as to render it at all probable that he would have furnished Dr. Becher with that sum so long before it wee required. With great respect to both Mr. Lumley and 1)r. Becher. he did not believe, nor did he think that his Hone ar's judicial mind would believe, one word of this story which they had brought forward. It had no elements of credibility or probability about it, and its own contradictions were sufficient to destroy it. Next came the account which Dr. 'Becher gave of the conduct of the parties at Hamburgh, when he saw them there after the contract with Mr. Gye had been entered into. That was equally absurd and full of improbabili ties. According to him, Madlle. Wagner had no sooner signed the engagement with Mr. Gye than she repented of it, and only consoled herself with the idea, inspired as it were by prophetic divination, that she would go to England and leave the courts to settle who was to have her• —(Laughter.) Then Mr. Lumley appeared on the scene at Hamburgh, and he would show that very soon alter he sent to England for Mr. Mitchell, who joined him with a considerable sum of money in his pocket. How much money Mr. Lumley had in his pocket he could not say, but it was certain that he had just before been arrested, that he was covered with debts and lia and was utterly unable to pay that which he owed. He thought that any rational man, looking at the circumstances and the conduct of these parties, and then considering the representations they had made, in Which every part was irreconcileabie with the real truth, would feel convinced that the father and daughter ought to prevail, and that the truth was that neither the father nor the daughter had the least reason to be lieve that the travelling Doctor had the 3001. in his hands, or that if he had he was teddy to pay it. Now they had lately discovered that Dr. Becher had written to a gentleman connected with the musical world, in which he said he had recsived a bill of exchange, which, however,, wee dishonoured when presented at Hamburgh. Now that exactly coincided with an ex preeeioa used by Mr. Lumley in one of his letters to the Wagners, that Dr, Becher had undertaken to transmit to them a bill of exchange for the 3001. Now, it was true that Dr. Becher had denied in an affidavit that he had ever written such a letter, but it was proved by affidavits that Dr. Becher had drawn a bill of exchange on Mr. Lumley, which was dishonoured on being presented. Now he would suggest, that sup pdetng this was true, that Mr. Lumley had given to Dr. Becher an order for 3001., ta /doh, however, was dishonoured, they would be able to account for the statement that Dr. Becher had 306/. iw his possession ready to pay to Madlle. Wagner without Vatting:: it down as a complete fiction. True, Becher had 300/., but it was a bill - of exchange,: which, in truth, was good for nothing. By this theory, too, they could aiersunt for the friendship existing between the leer, Lumley and Bacher, even after the rupture of the contract, which if Mr. Lumley's statement wore true, it were manifest was owing solely to Beciser'e neglect in not payfne, that sum; and also for the remarkable fact that Dr. Becher had not been made an original deponent in this matter. He contended that this contract had been wisely and justly broken. It must be remembered that Herr Wagner, in hislaffidavit flied yesterday, denied that Dr. Becher is his letter of the Nth March had mentioned anything abut having the sum of 300/. in his hands. That letter was now at Beeitn, and though a telegraphic massage had been dis patched thr it it had not yet arrived. Then with regard to the prohibitory clause, it was represented by Dr. Backer that this was inserted in the engage teens of all p rima donnas in England. Twat was tie.: the face Te e eneag Madame of edame Sontag, Madame Grisi, and other eminent artists had been re ferred to, and had been found to contain no such clause. He contended that the clause had been obtained by mis repreeentation, and on Chet account was utterly vitiated. He estatended, too, that the misrepresentations which the bill contained in reference to the conduct of Mr. Gye were of themselves sufficient to defeat it. It ap peared that Mr. Gye was the first to enter into negotia- Cone with Mademoiselle Wagner, which continued up to August, 1351. Abont this time the intimacy sprung up between the Wagners and Dr. Becher, and the course of misrepresentations on the part of that gentleman began. The moment that the inclination of the Wagners towards an engagement with Mr. Lomley became apparent, Mr. Gye very properly abstained teem any further communication with them on the sub ject ref an engagement. When Mr. Lumleeda failing circumstances became notorious, Mr. Gye then went to Ithalburgh to renew the negotiation, and so far from hiving had recourse to the misrepresentations which were ascribed to him, he certainly did tell them that li re Lumley had shortly before been arrested for 2,275/ , a fact widen was admitted by Mr. Lumley, in addition to " 19 thaa fact of sOl worse a earance that he had been oblig e e to PP ' in theassign to one of his creditors some of his boxes theatre in Paris, and afterwards, by the pressure of further ti; • aam flteulties, to sell those same boxes to other par ties.tee usefavourahl 1 a nee in her affidavit, did not attribute Mr. Lumley to e g opinion which ' she ' entertained of fact. of the ease the representation of Mr. Gye, bat to the meetien of it having'nmoney not having been paid, nor any aced also from information been made by Becher in his letter, .orreation from Madame Sontag and Madame Tagn on i, that their last year's salaries had not haen paid. Now, h e would just contrast this with the ads davit made by mr. Lumley in reference to this per- NOW the injuncotinonthe c had been asked on the ground of .raudulent conduct part of Gye, both towards Lumley and the Wageees, a statement which was con teadteted by the affidaytts both of Gy e grea ter pert of this bill had and the Wagners. Ti c been framed with the wish that even if he failed ultimately in • his object,that , and the obtaining the publication of these statement: evir .„, an injunction at all, woeld so ta - r h d e a d m i a d g n e the repu tation of Idadile. Wagner, that even if still she would be rendered useless and unprootfigaebtlher' Mr. Gye. Now, with regard to the tact on this t bei e n to it had been e a Lard bargain, 113 , objected Madlle. Wagner the sum had complained of its bring, ha end only to refer to the affidavit of Mr. Lumley, ‘ Et . nd compa re which wore to be paid to .uadlle, Wa gner to the s been made 20.0001. which he said he t had paid to ma_ dame Sontag for two and a hat .etears' engagement, With reference to the allegation wnich had that 'the agreement of the 9,1 i of March, tee i, was % vend agreement aceordine to the Prussian law, he held in his hand an opinion or a Prussian (meat, Dr. Ba c h, which went to s h ow that so far from that agreem ent being valid it was of no value whatever in consequ ence of eke neglect of Mr. Lumley to pay th e mone y , and Mademoiselle Wagner could have recovered the da insg's which she could show she had sustained by such ss broach. He b e li eve d , too, t h a t supposing Mdlle. Wagner had really broken this contract, the penalties for such breach, according to the Prussian law, would not have been a personal interdict, but indemnification by way of damages; and he contended that the law of contracts was a species of lex loci, and that no such penalty hav ing been contemplated in the contract itself, it could not now be imported into it, and that, therefore, the only remedy which Mr. Lumley was entitled to, even supposing a breech could be proved, was indemnification by way of damages. Even if it were brought to a trial, he did not think that a jury would be likely to return more than a shilling or a farthing damages, and he thought the Court would scarcely stretch its jurisdiction so tar as to visit with all the heavy and severe conse quences, which must result from an injunction being granted for the breach of the letter of an engagement , which would only be visited by a jury by the very smallost amount of damages. He, therefore, thought that this was not a case in which the Court would think itself justified in interfering by way of an injunction. b • sing now twenty minutes past four, the case was ullourniq until to-morrow inoraiw. „_ CC) ivitSE OF EXCH. , ....maw ..„,,, blvt , ~” t , -e...• • .. 12 1 1 :4 Itotterd, )°°atha ** 12 ''''''' Aztv7tro„.. • ;•***•• •• •2 211 DrusBels.... „ • ,2 7 . • .25 63 Tlartably.„o, „,...z." • • '25 63 . Altozr •..11. 13 i i V a , Pari.,, 3 1.2.; s slght ..., 25 rittc,„ a tnGntba IV, r 131! : ' 4+3 BO Lira :...;LX • • • . • • • . .. itanliilr L• L oil 3i C.lllO .... -_ . 12 43 itto.• e ffec. fla•••••• 12 40 t .,'.:- X---' /111.9ribi.. gl2,Sil• .1018.. 3 7 ...4i -fl ~ , ..• ,- ---- 7 -st:aAd, oti.,-- -••• •• 49 % 0 , •• •••••• efe l i;: , . fe .. ......, 497. (~.. ...----o \l Bire44 . 2lis . ....... ..... ____— 1 ie7111 ! P M" .. ";.".:;.............= , Queensto wn having his relof the c -------- oritots at CarlisTeT -- ort . --- -Mr litaijo his escape on Saturday lest.' ja, eff t etxtilidin ffre dress of one of the superintendents, ViOUSIY br9keiu open a box and stolen 30 /. therefrom pre _ ANGE.-(THIS DAY.) ( - 41'.:raltex.. • • .......... L le er oa orn .. .... .... .... .• .. .... .......• 1 2 0 i 1 , 6 , 1:1 Allan ................ Venice.. .. .. .. • • • • .... gaples .... .. ••••.. • • 4^1.4 Palermo, peroz ........ 121% ailf Janeiro el; — ...... .... ..: ...• 4-3% i il nenos Ayres .••• • • • • 1..T9.7 York 60 clays'aight ? hiladelphia .. ••• • • • 'RIM! OP BULLION, PER OZ. !'oreign Geld in bars . • .£3 17 9 o rtugal Gold Coin tt 0 0 %)4111-11h1)0uble .. C 0 0 I'lol, b ollaa °lll :: 0 4 10 1 4 1 ilivor in h", - " • ' • ........—__ •- • ...... e 4 1134 - 144, r. 1- THE ERE LONDON GAZETTE• (THIS EVENING.) LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, APRIL 7, 1852 , Notice is hereby given , that her Majesty will hold a Drawing-room, at St. James's Palace, on Thursday, 13th May next, at two o'clock, to celebrate her Majesty's birth-day. N.B. The Knights of the several orders are to appear in their collars. FOREIGN-OFFICE, MAT 6. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Ro bert Munroe Harrison as Consul, at Kingston, Jamaica, for his Majesty the King of Sweden and Norway. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Henry Chapman as Consul at Montreal for his Majesty the King of Sardinia. WHITEHALL,MAY 6. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Alexander Redgrave, Esq., to be an Inspector of Factories, in the room of Robert John Saunders, Esq., deceased. ST. JAMES'S PALACE, MAP 5. The Queen has been pleased, on the nomination of the Earl of Sandwich, to appoint Captain Thomas Robert McCoy, late of the 65th Regiment of Foot, on© of her Majesty's Hon. Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, vice Robert Bryce Haye, retired. The Gazette of this evening contains a notice that writs have been issued fir the election of a Temporal Peer of Ireland, in the room of Randal Edward, Baron Dansany, deceased. WAR-OFFICE, MAY 7. 16th Regiment of Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Fran cis Benjamin Hallowell Carew has been permitted to retire from the service by the sale of his commission, May 7. 6th Regiment of Foot—Assistant-Surgeon Egerton James Pratt, from the 62d Foot, to be surgeon, vice John Murtagh, M.D. who retires upon half-pay, May 7. 10th Foot—Acting Assistant Surgeon Duncan Robert son Rennie to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Inglis, pro moted in the 64th Foot, May 7. 21st Foot—First Lieutenant George Neeld Boldero to be Captain, by purchase, vice Verner, who retires; Se cond Lieutenant Robert Wharton Wilkinson to be First _ _ Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bolder°, May 7. 22d Foot—Captain Richard Butler Low, from half pay 53d Foot, to be Captain, vice Brennan, who ex changes; Lieutenant John Higgin Graham to be Cap tain, by purchase, vice Low, who retires, May 7. 39th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Sir James John Hamilton, Bart., from half-pay Unattached, to be Major, vice Bond, who exchanges; Captain William Munro to be Major, by purchase, vice Sir James John Hamilton, Bart., who retires; Lieutenant Charles Deni son Pedder to be Captain, by purchase, vice Munro; Ensign William Hucks Harding Warner to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Pedder, May 7. 62d Foot—Cornelius Clark Rutherford, Gent, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Pratt, promoted in the 6th Foot, May 7. 86th Foot—Ensign Frederick Gardner to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Wittaker, who retires, Moy 7. Royal Malta Fennible Regiment—Ensign and Ad jutant Loretto Bonavita the have the local and tempo rary rank of Lieutenant, May 7. HOSPITAL STAFF.—Acting Assistant-Surgeon James Joseph Roofmalecocq to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, eice Jameson, appointed to the 87th Foot, May 7 OFFICE OF URDNANCE, MAY 4. Royal Regiment of Artillery—First Lieutenant Fre derick William Craven Ord to be Second Captain, vice Adye, promoted; Second Lieutenant Augustus Henry King to be First Lieutenant, vice Ord; Second Lieute nant Robert James Cairns to be First Lieutenant, vice Walker, deceased, April 1. MEMORANDIIM.—The date of the promotion of First Lieutenant J. K. Pickering has been altered to 25th March, 1852. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Essex. George Montagu Warren Peacocke, Esq., to be De puty Lieutenant; Samuel Brise Ruggles Brise, Esq„ to be Deputy Lieutenant, May 4. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire 2d Regiment of Royal Bucks Yeomanry Cavalry— John Bartholomew Parker, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Stone, resigned; Harvey Drummond, Gent., to be Cor net, vice White, resigned, April 12. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Yorkshire. let Regiment of West Riding Yeomanry Cavalry— Benjamin Huntsman to be Cornet, May 3. MEMORANDUM.—The names of the Assistant-Surgeon of this regiment, whose commission is dated 25th March, 1852, are Robert Thomas Cooke, not Cook, as heretofore Gazetted. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Oxford. Queen's Own Regiment of Oxfordshire Yeomanry Cavalry—George Hall, Esq., to be Captain, vice Jones, resigned, May 1; Lieut. Henry Barnett to be Captain, vice the Marquis of Blandford, M.P., resigned, May 3; Lieutenant Benjamin John Whippy to be Captain, vice the Honourable Henry George Spencer, deceased, May 4; Henry Elwes, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Wright, re signed; Charles Philip Duffield, Gent., to be Cornet, vice Barnett, promoted, May 6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the Tower Hamlets. Queen's Own Regiment of Tower Hamlets Militia — George Money, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Chalmers, deceased. _ _ _ Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Middlesex. Royal East Middlesex 11 , gicaent of Militia—Francis Dalton, Gent., to be Surgeon, April 30. Uxbriege Yeomanry Cavalry—Charles Henry Mills, Gent., to be Cornet, ♦ice Sleigh, resigned, April 30. BANKRUPTS. James Mandeno, oil and colour man, Shoreditch, to surreflder :day 18, at one, and June 22, et eleven, at the Court or Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sam brook -court, Basinghall-street; Parker, Hooke, Parker, and Whitehouse, Bedford-row. John TiloM2l3, builder, Little Stanhope-street, May fair, May 17, at half-past twelve, and June 15, at twelve, a: the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; St iciland, Bouverie-street, Fleet street. John Burlingham, draper, Worcester, May IS, and June 16, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham; Wright, armingham. H. Harding, draper, Bcckington, S3raarsetshire, May 18, and June 8, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acraman, official assignee, Bristol; Cornish and Parnell, Bristol. Charles W. Woodworth, licensed victualler, Liverpool, May 19 and June 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool Dis trict Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Yates, jan., Liverpool. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending May 4, 1552, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain : From the British possessions in America 223. 4,1 d. per cwt From the Mauritius ... 235. 941 t, From the East Indies 20s. Average price of the three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 223. 9 By authority of Parliament, HENRY BICKN ELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company Grocers'-hall, May 7. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From this night's Gazette.) An Accotmt, pursuant to the Act 7th and Stn of Victoria, cap. 32 for the Week ending on Saturday, the Ist day of May, 1552. IS3UW. DLPASTBLENT. X. Notes 33,417,77 S Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 19,384,4 1 0 SilTer bullion ...... 33,375 £33,417,77 5 433,417,775 MARSIIALL, Chief Cashier. Dated the 6th day of May, 1852. BANKING DEPAETNSNT. Proprietors 'capital .. 11,553,000 Rest .. 3,102,037 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, sav- I ngs-banks, and D ividend accoan,s) • • 3,194 917 Other deposits • • • • .. 14,365,920 Seven day and other .... 1,213,321 Government Beene ' ties (including Dead W e ight Annuity) • • 13,338,023 Other securities •• .• 10,022,332 :Cotes • • • • • • • • 11,585 6 5 Gold and silver COW.. 483,625 £36,429,595 £ 36,429,505 M. MAT.SHA.LL, Chief Cashier. Dated the Gth day of May. 1852, MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, May 7.) SCGAR.—To.day there was a falling off in the home 31541 n l operatehgho d o s di trade demand for West India Sugar, yet lower rates were not taken for grocery or refining sorts. At auction 3653 t t i o rc 3 e B s 9. 3s6 brls Barbadocs sold; brown to 31s 6d, ord yellow 32s to 33s 6d, mid 34s to 35s 6d, a t E ful v l ili fo Ea r D m a s a . y home dealers were anxious to former Sugar, and the market closed with firmness; brown lumps at ' 46s to 46s 6cl per cwt. In Crushed Sugar there is a good deal doing for shipping sus tained for I xt u T t : T t e ° r - na d low to mid 32 e s MAuarr This afternoon former rates were sus rw4huihsleSsuhgladr;atfinteheyeplulobwlic36s salsa e t s o of 3 7 6 3 ,6 6 0 d? 6d, low to mid bags, and th to 345, geed to fine brown, 2°3 6d to 313 36s per cwt. 3to 27s 6d, and greyish from 30s to sustained. At auction 3 EAST INDIA.,—. yet'rh i theS afternoota the market for Bengal Sugar was quiet, sold, good to fine white previous currency is generally .. ,.000 bags rather more than half from 27s at 36s to 38s, mid 353 to gold at to 309, and Klaaur 35s 6d, date yell ow 61 fo. lt 25s to 263 for soft brown, ste ,dy prices. Of ' 2 ow Of Madras 1,000 ba gs 24s 6d. to mid yellow, these are and at 263 6d to 273 to Penan g 26 foo bags sold at full rates, 9, yellow 27s to 303; 294 soft brown at from 24s bags Bombay, ord and middling soft yellow 28s 61 to 293 6d. S a u d a, ;a a n r cPd 63, and in some ,O E r I G s N il i — p p To n o g - , d a a y n f d o reign prices was much sought cases Is, per cwt above last Friday, The aftlerc)itt ay- The private opera tions are to-day 600 cases of brown Bahis, lin bond, at 18s to 193; 1,400 chests yellow Ilavanh No, l 21; and , '1 1 aOO chests ditt o at 9ah at 213 for ...4 for No. 13k. A 'sale of 30 0 bag s Java went at Pl' F•e 133 63 for low soft yetlow. MOLASSES. -- , To•day 100 puns Molasse f. . .. s ound buyers; new Demr2rara at 134 G 3, and Anti 14 , 61. COFFER.—Thi3 afternoon the demand w as active for i Native Ceylon, and at auction 600 bags sold at 433 f or good ord; and privately 3,000 bags at 43s to 43s 6d, Thero is a brisker sale for Plantation Ceylon, and an advance took place of 13. At auction 180 cask 3, an d . 56 bags sold, good went 60s to 623 63, low mid to mid 558 to 57s 6d, fine to fine fine ord 513 to 343, triage 373 t o 475. Of Costa Rica 4,500 bags taken in at 48s to 503, for fine to fine fine ord unclean being above the value, but 100 bags sold at 45s to 45s 6d for good ord. Of Bahia 230 bags realised 41s to 423 6d for good ordinary washed; and 28 cases unclean Callcut 465. CoCOA.—To-day at auction 694 bags Fara have been i all been taken in at 25s per cwt. SUN, LONDON, TEA.-The speculative demand for Congou has abated this week; the better kinds sustain previous terms, but inferior can be obtained at a reduction. Sales of low quality are made at 8d to Sid, good ord sound Sid, rather bileish leaf to blkish leaf Sid to 10 fl, strong and Pekoe kinds lid to is 51. In Souchong a good business has been done, at the same time prices have ceased to advance, common selling at 9d to 11d, mid to good is to Is 3d, and fine is 4d to is Bd. Few transactions have taken place in Oolong, and more desire is evinced to sell, good to fine is Id to is 6d, inferior 101 to Is. Pouchoug remains in good request, sound at from 6d to 7id, and there is no increase of supply at previous terms holders of Green are de sirous to sell, and supply is more plentiful than last week; still large transactions have taken place; prices for common to mid Hyson rule at is Id to is 4d, good to fine is 51 to 2s 2d, superior 2s 4d to 2s 10d; Young Hyson, common 101 to 11d, mid to good is to Is 61, better sorts ls 8d to 2s 2d; Gunpowder, Canton 101 to ls; Hyson kind is ld to 2s, Hyson skin 7d to ls, Twankay 9i to Is, Caper 91 to 100, and Scented lid to is 4. Flowery Pekoe continues to find a free sale; fine and superior at is 8d to 2s 83, and other kinds is 3d to is 7d. There is a dull trade for inferior Orange Pekoe, with free sellers at 101 to is, but several transac tions have taken ulace in good to fine at is Id to is 8d per lb. RICE.-The demand for Java has been better for cleaning purposes, still moderate terms have been ac cepted. At auction 3,352 bags were sold at 10e 6d to Ils for good sound white, and 9s 6d to 10s 6d for damaged. For other East India sorts the market re mains dull, and previous terms are barely sustained. Including small parcels at public sale, transactions for the week do not exceed 3,000 tierces. Prices for god to fine White Bengal rule at 9s 91 to 10s 6d, mid to good mid 9s to 93 6d, broken 8s 61 to 8e 91, cargo Bs, pinkey Madras 7s 9d to 8s 6d, Ceringa grain 8s 6d to 9s, pearl barley and Arracan 83 6d to 9s, and Moulmein 9s to 103 per cwt. Home and export de liveries are 300 tons greater than last year, and prices keep lower. Sago remains in good demand, and the previous value is well sustained, small pearl realising 153 to 183, large and medium 21s to 245. Sago Flour is less wanted, and can be obtained at 14s. Farina has been dealt in with reluctance at 16s to 18s. Of Arrow root there is a decrease of supply, with several buyers; Bermuda is ld, St. Vincent's 3d to 7d, Brazil and East India lid to 4i, and Tapioca Sid. The supply i 3 less than last week of all sorts. SPIRITS.-There is more activity in the market for Demerara Rum, and several parcels have been• sold at from is lid to 2s 3d for 30 to 42 per cent over proof. For East India a good demrnd exists, and Is 4d is the lowest price proof. Several transactions have taken place in Leeward Island at is 5d to Is 6d proof. Operations in Jamaica are much larger than they were in the preceding week, and the terms of that period are well sustained for all purposes. Sales of choice marks made at from 3s 4d to 4s for 35 to 38 over proof, fine 2s 10d to 3s 3d, good mid to good 30 to 34 over 2s 4d to 2s 91, mid 2s to 23 3d, and low 24 to 28 over is 10d to is lid per gallon. A large demand pre vails for Brandy; holders have confidence, a nd obtain for Cognac best Brandy of the vintage f 1851 43 2d to 43 41, 1850 ditto 4s 5d to 4s 7d, 1849 ditto 4s 9d to 43 lid, 1848 ditto 5s 3d to 5s sd, older 53 7d to 6s 61, low to mid 2s 4d to 43, and Bordeaux is lld to 2s Id. Deliveries are again larger than last year, with every prospect of a continuance. Trade is not better for British made Spirit; there are selers at 9; 8d to 9s 9d, net cash; Gin 22 under proof 83 6d, and 17 ditto 93. In Geneva several transactions have again taken place at is 93 to is 10d, and fine ditto 2s ld to 2s 4d per gallon. Sricas.-A greater demand existed for Pimento, and the previous value is well sustained, although supply is larger than for some time past. At auction 1,356 bp were so'd; good mid to good at 4id to sd, low mid to mid 4}cl to 483, common 41d to 481, and damaged 31 to 4'l s per lb. For Pepper stiff rates continue to be obtained, supply not being adequate for the demand. At auction 1,237 bags Batavia were sold at 3-0 to 31d for good clean light, one lot 311, and one ditto at aid for very dusty. Privately Penang and Sumatra realised from 3,1c1 to for clean, and Malabar 313 to 4id. White is wanted at 81d to lid; there is no increase of supply. Cayenne met with a slow sale at 7id to is per lb. Pod is less in request, and is offered at from 38s to 54s per cwt. In Cloves little has been done, still rates remain at :11d to is 2d for Penang, 7d to 8d for Am b yets, and 61 to 64d for Zanzibar. Mace is wanted ; first sort at 2s Id to 2361; other kinds is t Id to 2s 2d. At the previous currency there are several buyers of Nut megs, and few parcels are at present on the market. Sales of fine brown made at 3s 2d to 3,3 7d, good 2s 81 to 3s, low to mid 25 to 2 s 7 d , and limed from is 91 to 2s 4d. The market for Cassia Lignea has a dull aspect, and prices have generally given way 4s to 5a per cwt. At auction 25 cases sold at 1103 to ills for pile one and two of ord quality, and mouldy 94s to 955. Cassia Vera is cheaper; a public sale of 114 bundles went at 435, and very thick at 35s to 365. Cassia Buds are wanted at high t,rnes, but none can be obtained out of first hands. Tnere has been no public sale of Ginger; several tran sactions have taken place privately at prices rather above those existing previously; African realizing 25s to ,265, Cochin 303 to 403, good co fine 42s to 665, Jamaica 44s to 150 e, and superior 1603 to 2205. FPOIT.-A large business has been done in Valencia Raisins, but at th reduced rates of 25s to 27s for new. Sales of Denia have been made at 20 to 223. Currants have met with a free sale and the market has a firm tone; the rates paid for naw are from 303 to 363 per cwt. SALTPETRE.-There is no decided decline this week for rougb, yet lar4e arrivals have taken place, whilst ex porters and home dealers have operated with reluctance privately. The value of flee Calcutta is 293 6d to 30s 6d, good mid and good 27a to 295, other sorts 24s 6d to 26s 6d, and Madras 223 61 to 265. At auction 1,275 bags Calcutta were taken in at 26 6 s 61 for 131 to 12} per cent refraction. Deliveries of Saltpetre are nearly 1,000 tens more than in the former season. British Refined met with a slow sale at 293 61 to 313, and is likely to be cheaper. Although Nitrate of S )da is more plentiful, still rates remain at 143 91 to 153, there being a good demand. COCHINEAL. - This afternoon a public sale of 110 bags Honduras Cochineal went at easier rates, silvers at from 3s 8.1 to 3s lid, ord to mid black 43 Id to 4s 31, and garblings at lid. INDIGO.-The quantity declared for the public sale of the 11th May is much smaller than it has been of late, being 6,171 in A and 1,185 in the B catalogues, total 7,356 chests, showing a fair assortment of middling and good qualities of Bengal fi; for Russian market, a mo derate quantity of ordinary and consuming sorts, an unusually small proportion of dry leaf Madras (only 530 chests), and about 730 Kurpahs of middling to good quality, well suited for export. TALLOW.-This afternoon the public sales of Tallow went at full rates; 155 pkgs South American sold at 34s to 35s 93 for mid to good; 46 cks Grease 27s to 325; 300 cks Australian, mutton 35s 61 to 36s 91, beef 34s to 35:, 71 cks Italian 36s to 375. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS; Lord REDESDALE took his seat on the Woolsack al Five o'clock. PETITIONS. The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND presented a petition against the grant to Maynooth. The Earl of FEVERSHAM presented a petition from a place in Yorkshire to the same effect. Tne Earl of RODEN presented two petitions from places in Warwickshire to the same effect. The Earl of DERBY presented three petitions from the city of Ross against the endowment of the Catholic clergy. The Earl of RODEN presented petitions from the female inhabitants of Tyrone (3), Londonderry, and Donegal, praying for the establishment of inspectorships of nunneries. TheLA W Ear O I F of E m VI IN DE ro NCE (SCOTLAND) second BILL. reading of moved he this Bill. ;,:Lord LYNDHURST said he regretted that this Bill did not go far enough, and did not allow plaintiff and defendant to be admitted as witnesses, as was provided by the Bill which passed last session with regard to Eng land. The new system had worked most admirably, and he was happy to state this on the testimony of Learned Judges, who like himself had at first doubted of it. The verdicts of juries were mach more sa tisfactory under the now system than under the old. ' He thought that, with those good effects before them, they were additional arguments for assimilating the practice throughout the United Kingdom. He had already given notice of an amendment which he meant to propose when they went into Com mittee, to extend the jurisdiction of the Bill, and he hoped that before they went into Committee the Noble Earl would consent to adopt these amendments. Lord CAMPBELL supported the second reading of the Bill with the greatest pleasure, although he regretted that it did not go further than it did, and he hoped that his Noble and Learned Friend would not abandon his intention to propose the amendments of which he had given notice. The Earl of MINTO said ho should certainly not op pose the amendments which were proposed to be in serted by his Noble and Learned Friend opposite. The Bill was then read a second time. Th e Disabilities Repeal Bill was read a sec ond time on the motion of Lord LYNDHURST. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed: The Linen, Sec., Manufactures. The Loan Societies. The Poor Relief Act Continuance. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. Tho SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Amendments to the Droitwich Junction Canal Bill were c msi,!ered and agreed to. The following Bills were read a third time and passed:— Deesid.3 Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. M.rthyr Tydtil IVaterwoiks. Tap following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Cork Improvement. Shillingford, WallinMr. Macclesfi e ld an d B uxton R ea d. Tyne Impro vement . lingford Brid ge Bill. PETITIONS. gford, and Reading Road, a nd Shit- Mr. HASTIE presented several petitions from various parts of Scotland against the Maynooth grant. Mr. W. MILNEs p resented a tition Worn the Wake field Mechanics' Institute,pra y ing for tb o repeal o f all taxes on knowledge. Mr. FR EWEN presented a petition fropiEasex against the Maynooth grant. FRIDAY EVENING, MAC _7, 1852. Mr. SPOONER presented a similar petition from CamberwelL Mr. THORNELY presented a petition from Nantwich, in Cheshire, praying the House to take steps to put an end to the practice of flogging juvenile effsnders. Mr. MACGREGOR presented a petition from a place in Scotland, praying for repeal of the Tests Act; also a petition from a body of hand-loom waivers, praying the House to assist them to emigrate to New South Wales; also a petition from Chelsea and Kensington, against the Militia Bill. Mr. W. J. FOX presented a petition from Finsbury nets before the [louse to introduce qaestiona about the Income-tax After a few words from Sir DE LACY EVANS, Mr. RICARDO agreed with the lion. Member for Montrose that it was improper to bring forward a Bill of such great importance at two o'clock in the morning. The declaration mide last night by the Chancellor of the Exchequer was entirely st variance with that con tained in his financial statement.—(Hear.) He had said that it was the intention of the Government to shift the burdens from the landlords, and to place them on the shoulders of the manufacturers, and before the Income tax Bill passed the people ought to be informed what the to the same effect. Mr. G. NOEL presented a petition against the May nooth grant. Mr. WHITESIDE presented a petition from Ennis killen in favour of tenant right. Mr. P. HOWARD presented a petition against the Charitable Trusts Bill from Selby in Yorkshire. Mr. BROCKLEHIJRST presented a petition from the Macclesfield Institution, praying the House to direct that copies of all Parliamentary reports and other valuable public papers may be furnished to that and similar bodies. Mr. WAK LEY presented a petition against the Mi litia Bill. Mr. RICARDO presented a petition from the pub lisher and proprietor of the Household Narrative of Current Events, complaining of the conduct of the So merset House authorities, who had threatened to prosecute him for publishing an illegal p a p e r, but yet hesitated i to bring the matter n dispute to issue in a Court o s Record. real object of the Government was. Mr. WAKLEY also concurred in the impropriety of moving the second reading at such an hour. The pro ceeding was unworthy of any administration. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's declaration, had produced out of doors, not only profound astonishment, but great indignation. He was bound to tell the House and the country not in any mysterious language, but in plain, bold, and intelligible expressions, what the Government really intended to do. Did they want to get a majority at the elections. and then to lay on protective duties? The eountry had a right to know the nature of their policy at once, so that a fair battle might take place on the hustings. If they declined to give the required information, they would be guilty of absolute dishonesty. He was positively disgusted with regard to the course taken by the late and present Government on She Militia Bili—they were both alike to blame, being tarred with the same brush. He had hoped that the wit and good sense of the present Go vernment would have induced them not to take up so unpopular a measure, for it was evident it could not be passed without creating great sun ;fence and incon venience to the public. After a few observations of Mr. BAILLIE COCH RANE, Mr. BRIGHT thought this discussion would dispel two delusions which at present existed throughout the country, and were calculated to do a great deal of public injury. One had been originated by the Hon. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner), who had a motion on the paper for inquiry into the College of May nooth. The leader of the Government in the House of Commons was deeply responsible for not bringing such questions as Maynooth to an immediate crisis.—Hear, hear.) For instance, upon the ques tion of Protection, the follower of the Government were for one thing, while the speeches of their leader preached another, and their countenances were conti nually alternating between cloud and sunshineacoording to the tone of the Right Hon. Gentleman's addresses. The Right Hon. Gentleman, in fact, reminded him of a character which was to be found a few years ago in a party of Indians who were visiting this country. He advised them upon all their temporal and spiritual concerns, and was also their medical adviser.—(Hear, hear.) He was, in a word, the mystery man of the party—(A laugh)—and the Right Honourable Gentleman appeared to him to be the mystery man of t he aboriginal party opposite.—(Laughter.) He urged upon the Right Hon. Gentleman. then, the propriety of postponing this question until the Parliament to be held in autumn or till the session of 1853. ,There was no necessity for a militia now, and, therefore, he insisted that the Bill ought to bo postponed until after the general elections, when those who returned to Par liament would be able to judge this question in a clear and impartial spirit.—(Bear, hear.) Mr. P. MILES rose to state on behalf of the followers of protection that they had the utmost confidence of her M4jesty's Ministers, and whether in the next Parliament it was done in the shape of an import duty on corn, or by any other means, they were con vinced that the Government would make an effort to carry into practice those great principles which they had so long and ably advocated in Opposi tion.—(Ctieers.) Mr. SPOONER said he was neither a dupe nor a de ceiver; but, nevertheless, he should persevere with his motion on Monday next, though at the same time he thought that no motion, which was not absolutely neces sary, ought to be brought forward this session.—(Hear.) Sir B. HALL believed that the present Government came into office for the purpose of carrying out the principles of protection, and he was informed that immediately after Lord Derby was called to the head of affairs, a meeting of the acting committee of the National Association for the Pro tection :of Industry, a thanksgiving rto Almighty goodness was offered up at the restoration of the Noble Lord to office.—(Laughter and Op position cheers.) If was absolutely impossible for the present followers of the Government to give up protection, that was if they wished to secure a charac ter for honesty and consistency.—(Opposition cheers.) (LEFT SPEARING.) NISI PRIUS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL gave notice that on Monday he should move for leave to bring in a Bill to make provision relative to the performance of the duties of clerks in Nisi Prins and Judges' Chambers. HOME-MADE SPIRITS. Mr. REYNOLDS wished to ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if it be the int en ti on of her Majesty's Go vernment, during the present session of Parliament, to introduce a Bill to place the manufacturers of and dealers is home-made spirits on a footing of equality (as regards allowance for leakage and evaporation) with the importers of and dealers in foreign and colonial spirits. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was not the intention of Government in the present Parliament to introduce any measure which could have the effect of altering the means or method of raising the revenue.—(Hear, hear.) In coming to that reso lution the Goverment thought they had arrived at a de termination in unison with the feelings of the majority of the House.—(Hear hear.) BRITISH MUSEUM. Mr. HEYWOOD wished to ask Sir Robert Harry Inglis, if the trustees of the British Museum had con sidered the over-crowded, ill-ventilated, half-lighted state of the reading room in that institution; and if the forma tion of a glass roof over the central court of the Museum would not afford increased accommodation. Sir H. INGLIS said with respect to the first question he begged to state that the trustees had repeatedly had u nder their consideration the state of the reading - roo m, and he admitted that its condition was such as required alteration, but it would depend upon the liberality of the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether or not that al teration was made. With regard to the second question, he was not in a position to give any answer. NEWSPAPER STAMP. Mr. HUME wished to ask the Attorney-General, why the Dunfermline News, published at intervals of twenty-eight days, and thus often appearing in the middle of the month, should be liable to prosecution under the Act 60 George 111., c. 9, 0. 4, whilst the Stoke-upon-Trent Monthly Narrative, coming out in the middle of the month, is tree from prosecution under the same Act? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said it was ex tremely difficult to answer the question; lit seemed to him that the Hon. Member was seeking to obtain a legal opinion which would be chargeable if put in the regular way.—(dear, and a laugh.) With regard to the question its e lf, no proceedings had been taken against the paper, nor could any be taken without the sanction of the authorities at Somerset-house, and as there fore the question was based upon an assumption of facts which did not exist, he of course would not answer it.—(Hear, hear.) THE FRANCHISE. Mr. GLADSTONE said the Right Hon. the Chan cellor of the Exchequer had given notice of his intention to move on Monday for leave to bring in a Bill to dispose of the four seats vacated by the disfran chisement of Sudbury and St. Albans, and he should be glad to know if that was to be the first business taken on Monday, as it was his intention to make a motion to raise the preliminary question whether that subject ought to be introduced at all during the present Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was his intention to ask for leave to bring in such a Bill on Monday, and he should do so before the orders of the day were read. Sir GEORGE GREY asked what was to become of the Militia Bill then? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said be should proceed with the Committee on the Militia Bill afterwards. THE SEWERS COMMISSION. In reply to Sir BENJAMIN HALL, Lord J. MANNERS stated that it was his intention, in the course of a week, to bring in a Bill to continue the existing Sewers Commission for the limited period of twelve months. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. Louonziao', MAY 6.—This market was well attended to day. Wheat Is lower ; barley Is higher ; oats and beans firm. DERBY SMITHFIELD MARKET, MAY 4. The supply of fat beasts to-day was again large, the quality generally good, with a fair attendance of purchasers, without any quotable alteration in price. The show of sheep was also large (most of which were out of their wool) ; the demand was brisk, and a good clearance was effected. There were several lots of lambs penned, which were readily sold. Fat and store calves were again plentiful; fat pigs about the average. Beef, 44d to 5d ; mutton, sd. to 6d ; veal, 4d to 4id per lb ; pigs, 7s 3d to 7s 6d per score. Rough fat, 3s 6d per stone of 141bs. Hides, lid to Od per Ib; calf skins, 2d to 3d per lb. UPPINGRAM, MAY s.—Wheat 38s to 41s; barley 254 to 27s Od ; oats 19s to 248 ; beans 30s to 33s per qr. Butter 7id to 8d per lb ; eggs 26 for Is. Lounr, MAY s.—Wheat 35s to 39s ; barley 25s to 285; oats 16s to 193; beans 26s to 31s per qr. NEWARK, MAY s.—Wheat, white 44s to 455, red 38s to 40s ; barley, malting 28s to 30s, grinding 23s to 24s ; oats, 2451., 22s to 235. 22st , 23s to 21s; beans, 32s Od to 331; malt, OJs to Ons ; tares, :35s to 40e per qr. BOSTON, MAY s.—Whe at, red 34s to 391 Od, w hite 40s to 425, superfine 44s to 003 ; barle y 0)s to COs ; oats, I7s to 21s ; beans 29s to 3 :s ; peas 2. is to `27s per qr. LYNN, MAY 4.—Wheat 305 Od to 36s oats d fine 3Ss to 41s; barley 24s to 205, fine 288 to 30s;COs to 00s; beans Os to ;;s, fine Os to Os per qr. MELTON MOWBRAY , M AY 4.—Wheat, 37s Od to 4ls ; barley, 24s to 2 is • oats, 18s to 22s ; beans, 2iis to 33s per qr. Butter 8d to 9d per lb ; eggs 24 for Is. EDINBURGH GitAis MARKET, MAY s.—We had in the market a good supply of (Train to-day. Sales for wheat and oats ready, but barley and beans rather dull. The top of wheat was Is, and the a verage 3d down. Barley on the top 6d up, and the average.. thbe.s..ame las s t s : ib e . ek 3 . 33 Oats on the top same as last week and the average id down. Beans on the top Is, and the average 7d down. Unsold, 127 qrs 6641 b. 351 wheat, 53 qrs barley, 101 qrs oats, and 2i.) qrs beans. Top of Wheat ••• ••• 65ilb. 45s Od Barley•O ße a at s n•• •.. 44ilb. 23s 6d ••• Od EDINBURGH CATTLE MAIMIT, MAT s.— The number of cattle was 702. or 46 more than last week. Top price, 6s 9d to Os Od ; current, 65 6d ; secondary and inferior, from 5s 6d to 61 Od per Dutch stone. A clearance was effected. The number of sheep at market this morning wag 2,028, being 629 less than last week. Best wedder mutton, top price, bad per lb ; current, sid to Od ; ewes, 4d to 40. Lambs, top, 225 ; current, from 20s to 21s a head. At the close a clearance was not C effected. ORK, MAY 5. Currency. B o arT w elt ite w h ea t 00s Od to 00. Od 00s Od-20 stone h ea t 2ls 01 to 00s Od 0 Ditto • Red w heat • 001 Od to 00s Od l 00 s Od -20 d o .................. Od o t t o o 0 1 0 2: 10 Odd 00s Od to 00s Od 00s Od.-00 do 0 0 s Od to 00s Od :005 Ditto a ri i i t t t t t tloo o e y O Bere ..•••.••.,.00s Od to 00s Od 0. Od 104 Oats ..101 6d to lls 4d O Ditto ..«..... 00 s Od to 00s Od 101 10d—r) do O Ditto ........003 Od to 00s Od 10 Pigs ............ 28s Od to 32s Od 00s 01 per cwt Quantity sold at the Highest Prices:- 0 barrels white wheat; 0 red; 25 barley; 0 bare; 2 oats; 5 pigs. Quantity of Grain and Number of Pigs sold last week Wheat, 80. Barley, 1582. Oats, 1264. Pigs, 11. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, MAY 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an improved feeling ex hibited in the share market to-day, and a good business has been done at improved prices. The sales reported were— Midlands, 70 1 / 4 —Ditto, Six per Cents., 142 1 / 4 —London and North-Western, 12 3 1 / I —South-Eastern and Dover, 21:;8 — Taff Vale, Quarters, 34. LIVERPOOL, MAY 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market opened well this morning, but soon became flat, and closed heavily. The transactions were as follow Caledonian, 20 5 / B —Eastern Counties, 9 , , 3 c.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 73% 8 —Ditto, 201. F Shares, dis.—London and North-Western, 124 1 / 4 —Ditto, New Quarters, 5 1 / 4 p.—Ditto, Fifths, 41 IN - 7 -- Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire, 34%—Midland, 70A —York and North Midland, 251/.. MANCHESTER, MAY 6. STOCK EXCHANGL—There has been a fair amount of business transacted to-day, without material alteration in prices.—The sales reported were—Caledonian, 20% —East Anglian, 6 percent, 3 —Eastern Counties, 93/4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, New Preference, 7 / 4 p.—Shrews bury and Chester, Preference, 157/4—Midlands, 701 A—Sout h and Dover, 21 11-16—Blackburn , Preference, 201/.2 —East Lancashire, Fifths (second issue), 5%1 —Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 7%—Leeds, 20/., 3 / 4 dis.—Warringt on and Altrincham, 1-16 dis.—Loudon a nd North-Western, 1.-3•// • BIRMINGHAM, MAY 6. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The share market wdasdemmoarnedthfaonr usually buoyant to-day, and there was ago Midland and Shrewsbury and Bi d rnn e t rans a c tions were as follow :-1 -, ee .(A), 71:, l a n g d h Bradford ilar e , .1 02 1 / 4 T13 am Midland, 701/4 — S hrew sbury and Biraungh Ditto (B), 51/ . simple and intelligible to the most ignorant man in the I came in, they resolved on adopting the other course of country. Upon this clause he would take the sense of consoliea:ieg by reference. He did not mean to sly slie House in respect to his proposition. The Hon. consolidation by reference was superior, or even equal, Iterember concluded by moving the omission of certain to absolute consolidation; but to tay that the word con words from the clau s e, with the view of carrying cut his olidatien was used merely for the Fiske of form, and ti se ob s 'ect. the Bill die not really consolidate, was a statement which The CHAIRMAN having put the question, no Hon. Gentleman was jastified in making. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he believed that Lord J. RUSSELL had heard the Right Hon. ten th ts Hon. Member for Montrose was not in the House tleman speak of consolidation by reference before, but . wh .on a question upon the s u bj ec t w as asked by the Right it was quite impossible to gather a meaning from it. It 11( n. Gentleman the Member for Northampton. His they brought in a Bill that, did not repeal the former Rig ;ht Hon. Friend the Secretary for the Home Depart- laws, it was obvious that all the parts of those laws met it gave such an answer at the time as seemed to which were not inconsistent with the new Bill remained sati tfy the Right Hon. Member for Northampton. He in full force ; but it was clear that that was not consoli (the Attorney-General) believed that some of those Acts dation. If, after deliberation, the Government had de to which the Hon. Member for Montrose referred were tertnined that it was not advisable to consolidate, their pas ar, d prior to the 42d George 111., c. 90, and that the proper course would have been to discharge the order as othot s related to Ireland and Scotland. Now if the Hon. it stood. have brought in another Bill simply to Gent leman would take up the 42d Georg:; lIL, he would " emend" the militia laws , and then to have fol lowed find I hat the first section repealed all the prior Acts re- the course adopted by Sir Robert Peel in 1842, and al lating, to the militia, so far es they related to England; lowed every Member of the House to have a copy of and, teherefore, in point of feet, the 42d George 111. was the Act which they intended should remain in force. the exi sting and prevailing law upon the subject at pre- True, that would not have answered the put pose of sent. 'With regard to the Acts passed subsequently, consolidation, but it would have afforded an explaoa there .really was little alteration made, and none of the tion of the actual nature of their measure. slightest importance as regarded the present question. Mr. WALPOLE believed that, in considering the H e was satisfied that if the Honourable Gentleman measure now i under discussion, Hon. Members bad would to rn his attention to the particular statute to nothing further to do in order to understand its prod which ho referred he would find that there was no sions than to take the Act 42 George 111. us its obligation whatever to revert to any other Act in the basis, and the Bill itself as the basis of the voluntary present Bill than the 42d George 111., which principle. was intend ed by this Bill to be the governing law in Mr. COBDEN said the question which had been raised respect to tho militia. Ho agreed with the Hon Gen- on that side of the House was, why Hon. Members had tleman that it was most desirable that the law on the not the details of the laws they were going to re-enact subject should be rendered intelligible to those particu- laid before them. These Acts of Parliament were vire larly who v rere to administer it. Ho was, however, tually expired Acts.—(Oh, oh, and no.) Why for 20 afraid that many of the class of persons to whom his years they had been inoperative.—(No.) At all events Hon Friend referred could not read the law—and if they had been suspended during that period, and they even could, they would not understand it. It was, the proposition was to revive them. What he wanted, however, most desirable that the law should be clear therefore, wan, that the House should see the provisions and definite. The Hon. Gentleman propos es to re p eal which the y w ere now called upon to re-enact. The all the Militia Acts in regard to England, Ireland, and Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton (Lord Palmerston) Scotland. Ho said that he was desirous of consolidating had certainly shown a degree of inconsistency upon this them, and including them in the one Act. Well, inns- question, which he (Mr. Cobden) had scarcely ever see°, much as the only Act which could apply was the 42d exceeded in lint H o and he had seen a great deaf George 111., all that he could accomplish would be this of it there; but the Noble Lord might rest assured —that he would take the 42d George 111. and repeat it that he should not be permitted to smuggle the provi• clause by clause in the provisions of this Bill. Now, he sions of the Act of 1802 through the House without asked, how could they make the matter more clear and discussion. intelligible by taking such a course? Everybody was The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in allusion to Mr' presumed to know the law. He, however, confessed he Cobden's statement that the Act 42d George 111. Tres did not believe that after this Bill passed into a law the inoperative, and therefore the same as if it did not people would be better acquainted with the state of the exist, reminded the Hon. Member that from time to tints law than they were before. It appeared to him, then, Acts of Parliament had been passed suspending the bah, that it would bo perfectly unnecessary, and but a waste lot under that Ac', thus showing that it was an existing of time, for them to consider the provisions of the 42d law, and that the very last Aet which did this w as the George 111. He submitted that the course taken by the 14th and 15th of her Majesty's reign.—(Hear, hear.) Government was the better one. There was no want of He contended that this was a very inconvenient mode of clearness and intelligibility in the measure before the raising the question submitted to the Committee, and , House. moreover that it was not the proper stage of the Bill Mr. HUME reminded the lion. and Learned Gentle- upon which it ought to be raised. As to the statement man that the late Sir R. Peel, when Prime Minister, made by the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) that this well had in one of his greatest and most important measures, not a consolidation Bill, he begged to say that long consolidated seventy or eighty Acts connected with Cue- before it came to the second reading, which involved tome, and he frequently took pains to lay it down as his the question of principle, the House was fully informed principle that the old laws should be repealed, consoli- with regard to the character and decription of the Bill. dated, or brought into ono Act. Ho did not think that And he apprehended that, if it were the intention of the the Hon. and Learned Gentleman had made out a case House to admit a Bill which did not consolidate, a stand for departing from that principle on the present occa- would be taken against the measure then. The clu es ' sion. The course ho proposed might no doubt entail tion now raised was virtually this, whether they wer e some trouble upon the Government; but ho hoped it to have a militia Bill or not. The objections of the would not be considered offensive if he told them that Noble Lord (J. Russell) were clearly intended to defea t they were well paid for their trouble. the Bill, notwithstanding the pledge ho had given on e The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that, in the case firmer night. He (the Attorney-General) doubted gin)/ referred to by the Hon. Member, there were seventy or Bill which could emanate from the present Govern:i eighty Acts to be considered, b u t i n th e p resen t there meet woul satisfy the Noble Lord; indeed, if they h a was virtually only one, t a ken up his own Bill, he question e d if the Noble Lord Lord PALNIERSTON said he perfectly agreed in prin- ingenuity would not have discovered some reason or ciple with the Hon. Member for Montrose, thinking it other for opposing it.—(Hear.) He hoped the Lona most desirable that the several Acts passed upon this nub- mittee would not adopt the amendment of the Hon. Die?: ject should be consolidated into on e. I t was entirely in her for Montrose. for it would virtually deprive them 01 accordance with this view th a t h e took the liberty of Militia Bill, and leave the country without that defe ne: it suggesting when the Bill was fi rs t brought in that it which a majority both in this House and out of should consolidate all the previous Acts passed; they deemed to be absolutely ueetssary.—(Cheers.) were, however, on the occasion referred to in the month Sir W. P. WOOL) could not sit silent whilst the atfe h ' of February, when the House had ample time to act tiou of the House was diverted, and purposely diverted, upon the suggestion which he threw out. He would re- from the details of the Bill, which ought now to be th e mind the Hon. Member, after the changes which had subject of their deliberations, to the consideration of the taken place, and under the peculiar position of Parlia- personal conduct of his Noble lend late at the head of ment at the present time, that it was deemed advisable her Majesty's Government. That course was adopted and it was the general understanding that nothing would first by the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton (Lo r " be done during this session but what was absolutely no- Pahnerston), who, upon the introduction of his Nu! cessary. Now, although the proposal was a good one, Friend 'e Biil, and whilst professing to throw aside alle ho did not think it so necessary to occupy the time of considerations of party, directed the whole of his ad' the House in discussing so extensive a subject. It might dress to prove that his Noble Friend had acted wit be equally well done in the next year. All the main inconsistency upon the question. The attack of the provisions of the law were to be found in the 42d Noble Viscount was then followed up by a Lord of th ° George Hie c. 90. He hoped that the Hon. Gentleman Admiralty breaking, as he told the House, a twePtf would not consider that he was altering his opinion years' silence—for what? Not to discess the Militia D l ' upon the principle of his am e ndm e nt if he thought, in the but, in his turn, to tell the Noble Lord again that present state of the ses s i on , it w a s not necessary to press he was inconsistent. And to-night the at t a ck on 0" it, as there was a general expectation that the business Noble Lord was continued by the Learned Attorney' would be finished early, and that Parliament would be General. His main objection to bringing forward this Bit' dissolved, at all was, that having waited now for two months sinhe Mr. V. SMITH regretted that the supporters of this the resolution of the House on the subject was passed , amendment were riot to have the assistance of his they had come to a period of the session when in reality Noble Friend the Member for Tiverton. The law no practical results under the Bill could be obtained pre was was on all sides admitted to be unpopular in its vious to their assembling again in the autumn. If, then' working. It was, therefore, the more desirable that her Majesty's Government found they could not dev .s _uf . it should be clearly known, and that there could be sufficient leisure to consolidate the laws relating toot!: uo mistake about it. He certainly did not under- militia, let them permit the whole Bill to stand But, stand the Right Honourable Gentleman the Secretary until they could undertake that necessary task._ Ac t s , for the Home Department to assent to the proposition independently of the consolidation of the other e -82, when he urged it upon him on a previous evening ; but they ought not to re-enact, uno liatu, in the year 15 , 0 , it would appear from the Hon. and Learned Attorney- all the provisions of an Act (the 42d of Genrg° re ' re• General, that he must hive assented to it, as he (Nlr. 90) which was passed in 1802. F or w h e n they we- - the y Smith) appeared at the time to be perfectly satisfied minded by the Noble Lo r d (L or d P a l mers ton) that with his reply to his interrogatory. Ho, however, had alterations by steam in navigation, and improlet hoped that the House would support the amendment of meets in other matters peculiar to m odern ti sus hay lion. Friend, who had greatly th e a d van t age o f hi m t h e y s h ou ld a l so remem b er that they h a d had "6° (Mr. Smith), inasmuch as he was evidently in the con- improvements in rho laws relating to soldiers. fidence of the Government.--(" No, no," from Mr. Lord PAL MERSTON said that his Hon. an d Learned _ [fume.) Why the fact of the Hon. Member for Mon- Friend (Sir P. Wood) had made such pointed allusion t. truse having that evening rea d a Ministerial paper which him that he must make one or two observations. fit` not been produced on th e ta bl e of the House, was Hon. and Learned Friend complained that be had, Ifr tolerably good evidenc e th a t h e was i n the coetidenee of comprehended any argument which be (Lord Feile--; the Government—(llear, hear, and laughter.) Now stun) had used in favour of a militia force. He h ad 710 he should like to inspect that paper that had passed be- addressed himself to his Hon. and Learned Friend• a weal the Right Honourable Gentleman the Home Se- never preached to the converted; ho took for grante eretary and the H on . M em b er f or Montrose. H o b e - that his Hon. and Learned Friend, having supported thhe. lieved that the supp or t ers o f t h e present measure did no t Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's late Goverl'of wish that the obnoxi ous c h aracter o f the i r Bill s h ou ld be merit in bringing in a Militia Bill at the beginni n g.o generally known t o the public. He did not know the session, was full y and dee p l y impressed with the whether his Hon. F r i en d th e Member for Manchester absolute necessity—(Loud cheers)—of the immed":lo. (Nlr. Bright) was aware t h at t h ere were so me stringent organization of a militia force to provide for the IN clauses in it whi c h es p ec i a lly re lated to the order to fe nce of the kin gdom, and therefore he wash seh°,4t which he belonged. If any member of that order wa s out of his (Lord Palm erston's) view in any 9110.131W„f unable or unwilling to provide a substitute he was sub - he had used for the purpose of showing the neoessit.i..n"d jest to the penalty of a heavy fine, which it not paid left such a measure. But when his Hon. and Learned Fri! him subject to imprisonment.—(Hear, hear.) He did found fault with him for having t ax ed with ine on n ise i. not think that the Hon, and Learned Gentleman was tfecy those who, like hi m , having supported a h ffl es acting respectfully to the House in the cour se he was litia Bill in t he beginning of the session , had, w he to taking. out of offi c e, and when other parties ba d brou g those Mr. RICH objected that, as the Bill stood , if a ma n a Bill similar to their own, turned round uPf'inn. ean d deserted—say from the Dorsetshire militia , and was p arties, o ppo s ed their measure—and whe n his "• found in Northumberland, he would then have to he Learned F riend found fault wi h him on ac count of his handed over to the colonel of the Cumberlaud militia, marks being insufficient and inadequate to convetref. and so from county to county, until he arrived in the views, his only reply must be, humbly to refer his r. county from whose militia he had deserted. Such a and Learned Friend to the Noble Lord the Chief t.) .. w od provision as that, he granted, might have been very de. missioner of the Board of Works (Lord Seymou r) sipable when there were no railways in existence ; but to the Right Hon.:Gentleman the late First Lord otee'ic"b he put it to the Committee whether it was not alto- Admiralty (Sir F. T. Baring), as the one by his sPosis gather inexpedient and unnecessary in the present state and the other by his vote had condemned the inf t ' d eo of locomotion in this country? By another clause it teucy of his Hon. and Learned Friend; and be ° tho se appeared that the 61. bounty was to be paid to the doubt that a private conference—(Laughter)—with mind militiaman free of all charges; but he did not under- two Right Hon. Gentlemen would convey to his oah , stand how that could be when 4d. a day was to be de- those impressions which his (Lord Palmerston's)* ducted. Such provisions as these rendered it necessary, had failed to do.—(Cheers and laughter.) Lord in his opinion, that the measure should be considered Sir P. W OOD did not com p lain of the Noble() „till, and amended by the Government before they pressed it not ha vin g converted him by his ar g uments on th further through the Committee. but what he complained of was, that notwithstana—a do o ' Mr. WALPOLE said it was from no disrespect to the the Noble Lord's . (Lord John Russell) Bill was a or . House that the Bill had been introduced in its present to be almost identical with that brought in by her ope present Ministers which the Noble Lord. !te shape. The Government had considered the matter jetty's maturely, and, seeing that it was in fact a Bill for carry- late Prime the Minister Noble L Lord even to o u b l d e not brought allowint,boen the g ° l ibi d e von° ing out a voluntary enlistment, they thought it would b© . much clearer and better understood if it were passed in that it required a total alteration before it was p osh td he agreed with Mr. to obtain from it an efficient defence of the countrY, that shape. At the same time, ally Hume that it was tadvisabl©, wherever it could toe done, yet the Neble Lord now assured them that he r ° to consolidate laws, and if this Bill were passed, that it meant nothing at all. would be extremely desirable, in an other session of Par- Lord PAL MERSTON had not said that th e two, or Raiment, to consolidate the old Mi litia Acts with this, so were identical. B ut whether the Bills wore identicalko that the whole body of militia law m i g ht be included in not, his co nduct would not be identical with that of . tt i , one measure. late Gove rnment — he should not throw over a Bill whits Mr. BRIGHT was astonishe d at the course which he thou g h t to be a necessary measu re on account Ministers had taken. He could only account for it by mere verbal difference. the fact that they were a new Government, in difficulties, Mr. M'CULLAGEI supported the amendment. in a Parliament rn extremis, and that therefore they were Mr. E WART rose amidst impatient and log • anxious to shuffle through the Bill, without sufficient tinned cries of "Divide, divide." sin consideration ofthe gravity and portance of tne sub- Mr. HUME rose, as his Eton. Friend could not _, e st• ject upon which they were legis itting.—(oh, oh, and a hearing, and moved that the Chairman report Pr ii t ' o b or hear.) As to the Noble Lord the Member for Tiverton in order that he might appeal to the Speaker whe t ete dis (Lord Palmerston), ho appeared to have fallen into not the business of the House could not bo cond o lamentable inconsistency upon the question. It was but a manner more satisfactory to the country? n e g i e le ° ) recently that he expressed himself most strongly in fa- Mr. EWART (amidst renewed cries of " D a d ar your of consolidation; but he seemed to be so wedded again rose to support his Hon. Friend's motion , a n 00 00 to the idea of getting through something in the shape of pealed to the Chairman if it was not possible to P re , JO' a Militia Bill, and of introducing the thin end of the order in the House. Hon. Gentlemen who were the o ld wedge this session, that he cared not to sacrifice his con- patient might apply to themselves the words of t sistency upon that part of the question. Let the Corn- ballad" mitten bear in mind that the Act of 1802 was passed at a period wholly different from the present, when the punishments, not only of the military, but the civil code, wore brutal and sanguinary to a degree, which would not now be tolerated; and even civil rights were not for one moment held in the balance where the necessities of the military service were concerned. He contended then that it was an improper thing for the Parliament of 1852 hastily, and without any cause of urgency being shown, to re-enact and incorporate in this Bill a measure such as that. On that account he egreed with his Hon. Friend (Mr. Hume) that it would be better to delay pro ceeding further with the measure in the present session. Sir G. GREY was surprised to hear that Government had resolved upon the course they now took, after any deliberation upon the subject. The House would re• member that an amendment was moved by Lord Pa lmerston spell the motion of the late Government for leave to bring in their Bill, and that part of the Nob') Viscount's amendment was toinsert that amend phe word " consoli dated."—(Hear, hear.) The House e adoptedllo wed—and et the ment—a change of Government f ecreta carne down Right Hoe. Gentleman (the Honee . S Secretary) to the House, and without givingit the slightest reesen to suppose the Government were not of the same opinion with the house that the militia , laws ought to be conso lidated, introduced a Bill which was merely to amend those laws. The ANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER—It was quite true that the course taken by her Majesty's Ministers with regard to the Militia Bill was the result of the deliberation due to so important a subject; but deliberation was exercised, not i to merely as that subject, but as to the circumstances under which the question had devolved upon them. They had before them two modes of consolidation—one was the plan now proposed by his lion. Friend the Member for Montrose; the other, by reference. And as it was their opinion that, if they adopted the former, they would not succeed in carrying a Militia Bill through the present Parliament, under the p eculia r circumstances in which the new Government I see a hand thou can'et not see, Which beckons me away; I hear a voico thou can'st not hoar, Which will not lot me stay." —(Oh, oh). ti The CHAIRMAN put the ques ti o n that ho r ° Pbut progress, and the gall er y was cleared for a dorr ip lu r i, eio none took place. O a our return to t he ga found .13 TxeCHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER ad,,a„ictile: g o was s Committee. He hoped they would not 0 " 0 01 H ure at tho Hon. Gentleman must see that i . t „ ta in impossible,times, into 03°1- a popular assembly o f lb° a rigid discipli ne , or repress those indiscretions oP ar moment which occasionally broke forth whe n the l e c oo of the Hous e was ru in ,d. Ho was • sure the rfou fie 0. always plonied to hear the sensible remarks or tho so Member f or D um f r i es (Mr. Ewart), from wh h l e 3 li d 0 0 much information c ou ld b o d er ived; and he doubt they would now hear the Hon. Gentleman. .0o Mr. HUME (amidst much noise and intorruptt be said if there was wanting any f urt h er reason i v , 13 „ 5 i 0 of should press his motion, in order to report the s ,i r of the Hou,e to th e Sp ea k e r, it was that th e lei," bed the House (the Chancellor of the Exchequer/00n. had no more attention paid to him than any other Member. so ia The CHANCELLOR of the EXCIIEQU"'"ItIo• that was a very i•igular observation of the Hon • t'',6,het man. It was difficult for one person to a scertain y d." g.,E3 o f a tt en tion was paid to what was g oing rd J . another. He remembered the Noble Lord ( 1- 1, 0 00 Russell) had been charged with being asleep ,i!P, l °- u pon occasion, when ho subsequently rose and rePu e 7, o 4 01 every point that had been raised during the! time .; in fe been charged with being asleep. Some i n ulgeo i n atten tive mood of abstraction, and very often appeared instrt: to when they wore most attentive. He did not 111 , d be speak of himself, but after what bad been just sal , must say that ho really dia attend to what was sai d " I lion. Gentlemen. FINSBURY PARK. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE wished to put a question to the Chancellor of the Exchequer with regard to the park at Finsbury. Hu wished to know whether tho Right Hon. Gentleman could' hold out any hope of assistauce on the part of the Government towards the formation of such a park? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said her Majesty's Government were extremely anxious to see a park formed in Finsbury, and the engineer who had made an e3timate on the subject was now making what was called an amended estimate, and until he had that in his baud 113 was unable to speak with any certainty as to the ultimate decision of the Government ; but in case any Honourable Member would introduce a Bill it should receive tho support of the Government upon the understanding that the whole subject should be referred to the decision of a Select C om mittee.—(flour, hear.) cHA.TITABLE TRUSTS BILL. In reply to Mr. I'• HOWARD, The ATTORNEY - GENERAL stated that it was his intention to proceed with the Charitable Trusts Bill on the first opportunity which presented itself. THE FRANCHISE. M r . REYNOLDS wished to know whether the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in distributing the four vacant seats of Sudbury and St. Albans, would introduce into his Bill the ❑ame of any county or town in Ireland? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was premature to make any statement now, but on Monday he should be ready to give the Hon. Member the fullest information on all points.—Hear, hear.) THE MAYNOOTH GRANT. In reply to Mr. M. J. O'CONN4LL, Mr. ANSTEY stated that it was his intention to per severe with his amendment on Tuesday next, of which he had given notice, to the motion of the Hon. Member for Warwickshire on the Maynooth Grant, as he was desirous of taking the sense of the House apon the pro priety o f giving endowments to any religious institutions at all. TITHES. On the motion of Mr. C. LEWIS, returns were or dered of all agreements fur the commutation of tithes which have been confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners in the several counties of England and Wales, from the Ist day of January, 1851, to t h e I st d a y o f J a nuary, 18 52 ; specifying, in cacti case the amount of rent -charge agreed to be paid in lieu of titho,and showing whether the same be payable to a pp ro p ria t ors , impropriators , or c lerical incumbents ; of all awards for the com mutation of tithes which have been confirmed by t h e Tithe Commissioners in the several counties of Eng land and Wales, from the Ist day of January, 1851, to the Ist day of January, 1852; specifying also, in each case , the amount of rent-charge awarded to be paidin lieu of tithes, and showing wh e ther the same be p a y able to appropriators, Impropriators, or clerical incumbents. And, of all apportionments of rent-carges which have been confirmed by the Tithe Commissioners, from the Ist day of January, 1851 to the Ist day of January, 1852 (in continuation of Parliamentary paper , No. 465, of session 18 5 1.) THE PATAGONIAN MISSION. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES moved fur a copy of the dispatch lately received at the Admiralty. from the Commander-in. Chief in the Pacific, transmitting a re port , made to hi m b y C ap t a i n Morehead, of her Ma-. iesty a ship Dido, respecting the death by starvation of Commander A. F. Gardiner, R N., and the whole of the party sent o at by the Patag on i an Missionary Society in 1850 to Ptcton Island, the sout h ern e xtremity of Ame rica.—Agreed t o . PATENT LAW AMENDMENT. In reply to Mr. RICARDO, Mr. HENLEY said it was impossible to proceed with this Bill to-night. He thought that to refer it to a Se lect Committee in th e present state of the session would be virtually to throw the subject over for another year, THE INCO-SIE•TAX. On the q ues ti on t h at th e House at its rising do ad journ until Monday next, Mr. HUME complained that the Income-tax Bill was read a second time last night at so late an hour as two o'clock. If he had had the slightest idea that the second reading would have been proposed he should have s t a y e d beyond twelve o'clock, though he had then been upwards of twelve hours within the walls of the House. Ile protested agaiast the Bill being further proceeded with unless the Government were prepared t o ca rry out the abolition of the remain ingimposts on articles of necessity. Sir Robert Peel when he proposed the tax gave a pledge that he would gradually reduce the duties on articles of general cunsumption, he thought this pledge oug ht to be fulfilled. Free trade ought to be extended to the fullest limits, so that the agricultural and all other inte rests should b e put on the same footing. The Committee upstairs had declared the income-tax to be most unequal and unjust in operation. Ho did not advocat e any party _ doctrine, because relief from taxation benefitted all elasscs. It, was their duty to the cJuutry not t o con tinue an on erous tax f o r one purpose while it was levied f o r anot h er — v i z ., t o enable a gener al reduction of taxation to take place. Mr. NEWDEGATE differed with the lion. Member in his statement, that it was inconsistent on the part of the Government to continue the income-tax witho . ut re ducing taxati on . On the contrary, _he_e t took h their con duct in this respect to be an earnest pled_ g at the suf ferings of th e ag ricultural interest wouldberbarorluigamhtenbt.y them under the consideration of the future It was with deep satisfaction he heard that the Govern ment intended to effect a more equal adjustment of tax ation. He complained that It WM irrelevant to thobtai. IMPERIA.L PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, May 6. Mr. COBDEN presented a petition from the Catholics of Burnley against the Charitable Trusts Bill. MILITIA (Continued from our Fifth Edition.) On clque 3 being proposed, Mr. lIUNIE said that he had given notice of his in tention to amend the preamble of the Bill by the inser• lion of such words us shall recite all the Acts of Parliament.inany way relating t o th e m ili t i a, l oca l or ge neral, or disembodied; and that it is expedient to repeal all those Acts, with the view of consolidating the law to be in force for the future regulation or govern ment of the militia in England. It was of the utmost importance that the present measure, if passed, should be recognised as the whole law of the land, and that every individual to be affected by it should be able to ascertain exactly wh a t hi s d ut i es were, without incurr in g the risk of the penalties to which he might be subject.the He held iu his hand an index he had procured frokmen the library, in which there were three folio p by the titles of Acts passed at different times hose appli subject of the militia. There were _eightJuostice does not cable to England alone. Now Burn's circumstances he allude to more than five. Under these o u ta pon the submitted that they ought to . have subject, Ina law so imperative eve Y mpg rn cdeo_u_b9tuusEotntothbee ."