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LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 27. LORD CAMOYS V. BLUNDELL — JUDGM ENT. Their Lordships gave judgment to-day is this case, affirming, the decision of the Court below with coats. THE PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW COLLEGE V. THE ATTOR NEY-GENERAL. Their Lordships also gave judgment in this case, re versing the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. .A.,3SIZEINTELLIGEN CE. OXFO RD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 26. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT. William Harth:lg Flint wa s indicted for_ h the emas Riley, man slaughter of Eliaalie:h Riley, the wife of T March of high Sheen, in Lilo cou nty, on the 28th of last. Mr. Iluddleston and Wooslrych conducted the prose.cution, and Mr. WI Coiko, and Mr. defended the prisoner. The prisoner, it appeared , l o.d for many yotrs pr r actistd ❑or,. a extensively as a surgeon and at.'coucbeur at L , place about two miles from Rile y 's residence. he de ceased on the day in questio n havin g all the sympi..lll,3 of an approaching confinement with her third child, he." husband sent for the prisoner to attend her, he having attended her at the birth of her second child. The prisoner arrived at the house about two o'clock in the morning. Evidence at great length was then given to show that the deceased had been improperly treated, and sunk un der it. A surgeon, who had made a post mortem examination, stated that in his opinion midwifery instruments had been improperly used, and that proper surgical skill had not been applied to the case. It was then elicited from the witness, on cross-examination, that even a very skil ful man might be mistaken as to the proper mode of deahne.. with cases like the deceased's. Mr. Baron PLATT here interposed, and said that, as it had now appeared that the rupture of vital parts had caused the death, and that such rupture might have been the result of natural causes, the charge of manslaughter could hardly be pressed under the present circumstances, he would recommend the jury to say that there was not sufficient evidence to show that the prisoner had been the cause of the death; and ultimately, under his Lordship's direction, The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, the foreman stating their opinion to be that the death may have arisen from natural causes. the trial lasted some hours, and created considerable interest in the neighbourhood. • -NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE, and Special and Common Juries.) • =The two cases disposc3 of did not admit of any public notice whatever. HOME CI R C UlT.—Maidstone, July 26. The commission for the county of Kent was opened on Tuesday by the Lord Chi©f Baron. There aro twenty eight ',causes for trial, and seventy-five prisoners, but none of the.charges against them appear to be of a very serious character. (Before the LORD CIIIEP BARON.) BTEBBING V. COYLE. This was an action to'recover a sum of 700/., the ba lance due upon a promissory note for 1,2501., made by the defendant, who pleaded that the whole amount had really been paid. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bovill were for the plaintiff ; Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Wordsworth for the de fendant. • The parties in this action were well known upon the turf, and it appeared that there had been a good many money transactions between them. In 1845 the defen dant held three bills in promissory notes, amounting al together to more than 1,2001., and he placed them in the hands of the plaintiff, who gave him consideration for them to their full amount. When these bills became due, the plaintiff was unable to get them paid, some of the parties being out of the way, and others not being in a condition to pay, and at length the defendant consented to 'dive his own promissory note, payable on demand, for the, full amount of• the three bills, the understanding being between the parties that the three original bills fibould .be .retained by :the plaintiff's solicitor as colla teral security, and that the defendant should pay off his own promissory note by instalments to suit his conve nience. Accordingly,'.it appeared that about 5701. had been paid off by different sums, at intervals, but at length the defendant declined to pay any more money, and he now set up as a defence to this action that he had paid the whole amount of the bill. The bill having been put in, together with the admis sion of the defendant that it was his handwriting. Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the jury, and called a wit ness named Sibree, who swore positively that he was present at a room in an inn in Doncaster, where he saw the plaintiff and the defendant, and the latter, in an swer to a question from Mr. Stebbing, said he had won 300/., and then the subject of the twelve hundred pounds bill was introduced, and he was asked to calcu late amount of interest that was due upon it, and he said that when he had done so a balance was struck, and the whole amount that was due was paid by the defendant in notes and gold, and he said also that the plaintiff promised to give Coyle the 1,200/. bill the next day. Upon his being cross-examined, this witness said that lie had been in business as a wine merchant, and became a bankrupt, and was charged with concealing his property, and was imprisoned for eighteen months for defrauding his creditors. rii - OiZer*Co r.but the testimony of this witness, Ser geant Shee called Mr. Roberts, the attorney for the plaintiff, and he•stated that he . was present when the arrangement was made with regard to the delivery of the promissory note in question for the three bills that were in the plaintiff's possession, and ho also proved the payment of the different sums by the defendant to reduce the amount down to the 25th of :May, 1847. lie likewise stated that, after the time mentioned by the witness Sibree, when the balance was alleged to have been paid, ho saw the defendant upon the subject of the balance due upon the bill, ant told him that if he did not make some arrangement to pay the amount, that the plaintiff would sue him and recover it, upon which he said he did not care if he did, for if he were sued, he owed eighteen hundred pounds more, and he should wipe it all off in the Insolvent Court, and at that time he said nothing about the bill having been paid. Mr. CHAMBERS then addressed the jury, upon this additional evidence for the plaintiff, and he urged that the defendant had made out his plea by the evidence of the witness Sibree. He said it was not because a man had been unfortunate that he was, therefore, disentitled to being believed. The CHIEF BARON—Oh, the eighteen months' im prisonment, you know, may be said to have completely whitewashed him, and he came out of gaol quite pure and above suspicion. —(A laugh.) Sergeant SHEE was about to reply upon the whole case, but was stopped by The LORD CHIEF Ilutox, who said it appeared to him that it was quite unnecessary he should do so. The witnesses swore directly in contradiction to each other, but on one side they had the evidence of a man who had been imprisoned for eighteen months for fraud, and in the other there was the testimony of a respectable person, whose evidence appeared to be above suspicion. The jury immediately returned a verdict for plaintiff. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 26. (Before Mr. JuAlen CRESSWELL and a Special Jury.) GRAYBURN V. EVERETT. This action resembled the one tried yesterday, being an action of debt for nut setting out tith e , t o w hi c h t h e defendant pleaded that he was not indebted. The plaintiff was proved to be entitled to the tithes of the rectory of Owston, as the lessee of the Archbishop of York. The defendant's case was, that the lands in respect of which tithes were sought to be recovered formed part of a district called the South Ings, which, prior to 1793, had always paid a modus of 4d. an acre, as was proved by old receipts. In 1793. a Mr. Morris became lessee, and he was succeeded by his nephew, who became bankrupt in 1812. His assignees sold them, in 1840, to the plaintiff. Since 1793, the lessees had always re fused to accept the modus. Tithes itt kind were never paid or rendered. Verdio:, for the defendant. His Lordship then proceeded to try prisoners. Sarah Stubbs and Abigail Stubbs were charged with having, at Harrogate. on the 15th of July, caused the death of their father by throwing him down stairs. The particulars of this case have recently appeared in this paper, and will therefore be fresh in the recollection of our readers. After hearing the evidence, the jury instantly re turned a verdict of Acquittal. Before rising last evening, Mr. Justice Erle passed the following sentences : William Burrows, aged 21, for a burglary in, and beating the inmates of the house of Wm. Scaife, at Bishopside, West Riding, on the 4th of July, to be transported for fourteen years. Thomas Bailey, aged 28, was, for a felony not named, sentenced to be transported for fourteen years. Peter Machan, aged 34, for three burglaries at Scarborough, on the 23d of November , on the 25th of May, and the 4th of June, to be transported for ten years. Edward Dickinson, aged 23, for stealing a mare on the '4th of May, at Wakefield, to be transported for seven years. James Frith, aged 31, for stealing a horse at Shef field, on the 6th of April last, to be transported for seven years. Matthe w Thompson, aged 37, for stealing a mare on the 24th of April, at Bilbrough, to be transported for seven y ears. Thomas Wild, aged 23, for a burglary on the 29th of June, at e l . ill; in the East Riding, to be imprisoned, with hard labour, arr for ed twlve months.' " Thomas H a ll, 2 2 , for a burglary on the 15th of May, at Middleton, in the East Riding, for six months. John Matthews, clerk to the Midland Railway C orn . pany. for embezzling 101. upwards, of the Corn pany's money, for six month l s for bi g amy Elizae,Booth, aged 34, 0 n the 18th of Sep tember, at Sr. Pancras, Millthree months. sex, to be imprisoned The five girls who pleaded guilty to robbery and vio lence in a house of ill - fame at Leeds, two of them to be transported for to w n ere sentenced, seven yimprisoned s ears, and the other to be years . , two for ix months with hard labour. (Before Mr. Justice CaEsswEia..) Sarah and Abigail Stubbs, sisters, whose age Was not given, but who appeared about 24 or 26, and not hand some, were charged with manslaughter, in having caused the death of their own father, by throwing him down stairs, on Saturday, the 15th July, at Harrogate. The case has recently appeared in the papers, a n d i t may be sufficient to state the substance of the evidence. Ann Stubbs, the mother, said ho was 73. The pri soners wero unmarried, Sarah the elder. They had been in service, but were then at home, and washed for the) Harrogate visitors. Her husband had eaten no solid food for three days. The quarrel began with her. The prisoners had earned three shillings, and she only gave them two, when the father came in and struck Sarh on the side of the head, saying he would let her know who was master there. Ile then went up stairs to turn their boxes out of th e h ouse. The y had gone up. Ile was in a great passion, and she went to the door, pretending for a policeman. On her return she found Abigail holding up her father on the landing. She said, "I want you, mother, my father has tumbled down stairs and killed himself." Mr. Parry, a surgeon, said he examined the body; it was quite healthy. There was a slight bruise on the head. The stomach was empty. He attribute death to the shock of the nervous system, from struggl d e and fall. By the JUDGE—If he had been thrown down stairs with any force, or had fallen down headlong, there must have been greater bruises. Mr. J. PoLLocK addressed the jury for the prisoners. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury almost immediately Acquitted the prisoners, and they were discharged. THE CHARTIST RIOTS. F. Vicory, 30 ; Henry Walton, 35 ; Wm. Smith, 10 ; Yenry Whitcombe, 21; James Downs, 19; Isaiah Heaton, 22; Wm, Conner, 31; Win. Winterburn, 20; Wm. Sugar, and .lo,i'n Johnson we ft ee charged with riot and assaulting a palicemitg in the execution of his duty on the 29th of May last, Mr. KisI OWLES 6:VIC Hon. Mr. Phipps and M r. Overend a t 17,qxten. in the Westlliding. . with him) stated the ces.." o for the Crown. A brief outline of the caste may suffice on the present g ,,;•;in at the time, nor was occasion, as a full report was there aught to distinguish this from L'l€l general run f.ull of Ch ar tist meetings, of which the paper s u:"0 .been ad nauseam. held It will perhaps be recollected th at a meeting ye as on the 29th of May, at Bradford, on the occasion of PTIP Jefferson. a blacksmith, who had obtained the cognomen of Wet Tyler, being charged with drilling. There had b9en a meeting also of the well disposed. The following is Mr. Pollard's, a magistrate's, account:—Bradford was in a very excited state, and had been for three months. On the afternoon of the 29th he went out with a large body of police and specials, and soldiers. Before they had proceeded far they met a large concourse of people; stones were thrown, the specials were driven back, and the military were brought forward. They had three or four troops of horse, and four or five companies of infan try in Bradford. The police had cutlasaas; there were about 60 of them, and 600 specials. Other witnesses were called to prgie the part each took in the affray. Many stones *ere thrown, and truncheons used, but no very serious results. One of the prisoners, Sugar, had a dagger, and on his way to prison he said that he had intended stabbing it into the guts of a policeman or a special. Mr. J. PoLLocK addressed the jury for the defendants. Mr. Justice ERLE summed up with great care and minutenss. After which the jury found all Guilty, except Walton, whom they Acquitted. Sentence deferred. The trial lasted half the day, but did not excite any great interest. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. A young woman named Eliza Ashton, was again brought-up on the charge of obtaining money under false pretences from Mr. Chubb, of St. Paul's-church-yard. Mr. Chubb stated that the prisoner called on him, and said that she had been recommended to do so by a Mr. Nicholson, residing in Upper-street, Islington, whom he knew. She represented that her father was in great distress, in consequence of an execution having been put in by the landlord, and all that her parent wished was half-a-crown to make up the amount necessary to have the distress taken out of the house. Having some sus picion, he gave her half-a-crown, but sent one of his clerks with her to the place where she said her father resided, to ascertain the truth of her story, but on her way she altered her plan, and told that individual that she lived at another part of London, and having led him a dance, he eventually gave her into custody. Mr. Ni cholson had been sent to, and he denied all knowledge of her. Mr. George Mackie, of the City-road, said that she applied to him under another name, and with a similar story. She said she lived with her father in Pleasant row, Old-street, but knowing there was no such place, he told her he should make some inquiries before he gave her anything- upon trust. She left, and since then had obtained money from the Rev. Mr. Brookhouse, of Bru denell-place, Hoxton; Mrs. Roche, Herbert-street; Mr. Stanton, coal-merchant, at the Wenloek- basin; and Mrs. Wright, Bruns witla-place. Mr. Nicholson said that the prisoner had obtained money from various people in Hornsey-grove, and had been imposing- on the public for the last two years. She was generally.accompanied by a woman with sandy hair, and they had obtained pounds i❑ this way. The constable said he had made every inquiry, but could obtain no information respecting the prisoner. All the addresses she had given were false. Alderman JOHNSON said he would take care of her for some time, and sent her to prison for one month. SOUTHWARK. James Cooper, a keeper in a private innatio asylum, was brought before ➢lr. Seeker, charged with forcibly attempting to convey Mr. William Henry Reynolds, a licensed victualler, to Doddington Retreat Asylum, and taking possession of his watch; and Robert Hore was charged with assisting in the illegal arrest of the same individual. _ _ William Henry Reynolds stated that he is landlord of the Paviours' Arms, in Margaret's-court, Southwark, and that on the preceding morning, while he was lying in bed at his house, Cooper entered the room, and having awoke him, told him that his mother was dying, and that if he did not get up and make haste to accompany him K ennington, he would not see her before her dis sol .He (complainant) accordingly hurried on his clot ; and went down stairs to the bar-parlour, where Cooper asked to see his watch, and the moment he gave it into his hands he placed it in his pocket, and then desired complainant to put on his hat, that a cab wa' waiting at the end of the court for them, and they would go at once to see the dying woman before she expired. By this time, however, complainant began to suspect that there was no truth in the statement respecting his mother, and that it was a trick to get possession of his property; and this suspicion was confirmed when, on his refusal to quit the house, the other prisoner entered, and a carpet bag was then produced, from which was taken a strait-jacket and leathern straps, and he was then informed that if he did not submit quietly, and go with them, he would be compelled. He, however, peremptorily refused to quit his house, and on finding the prisoners were making preparations to put the strait-jacket on him, he called out for help, and his pot man, some of the customers, and the neighbours, came forward end prevented it, and the prisoners then went away, saying they had authority for what, they were doing, and exhibited a printed document, under which they asserted they were acting. The complainant added,. that he subsequently found that it was the intention of the prisoners to remove him to a lunatic asylum, if they had not been prevented in the way described, and he de clared that there was no pretence for such a step being taken against him, as he was in his perfect senses—that Cooper still kept possession of his watch, and that the same person also succeeded in obtaining 30s. from his wife for the expenses incurred in the attempt to place him (complainant) in a lunatic asylum. He further said that his mother was in the house during the time the whole proceedings were taking place. Patrick Mahony said that he was in the Paviours' Arms when the prisoners came there, and heard Cooper tell the complainant that his mother was dying, and that he mast go and see her before she expired. Witness afterwards saw the carpet-bag containing the strait jacket and straps, and heard both prisoners assert that they had authority to convey the landlord to a madhouse. Witness, with others, interposed, knowing the com plainant was not insane, and having heard that Cooper had previously taken possession of his watch, he desired that person to restore it, but he refused, saying he was acting under authority, and that he took the watch to take care of for the owner. Witness saw the printed document under which the prisoners asserted they were acting in the business, but they both withdrew on finding that the neighbours were all up in arms, and that they were likely to receive rough usage if they remained. The witness added that he never perceived that the com plainant exhibited any symptoms of insanity, and that was the reason he and others interposed to save him from having a strait-jacket put on and taken to a lu natic asylum. Thomas Only, potman in the complainant's service, confirmed the above statement with respect to hearing Cooper :,ay that complainant's mother was dying, and afterwards mention that he had authority for taking him to a mad-house. Witness saw the strait-jacket which they were about to put on his master, until measures were taken to prevent it. That he know complainant was not mad. He added that he heard Cooper refuse to deliver up the possession of his master's watch, and saw that person produce the authority for taking him to the mad-house. Mrs. Ann Reynolds said she was complainant's wife, and that as he was very ill, and she had reason b e lieve his illness was produced from drinking, she sent a message over to his mother, describing s his situation, and requesting her to procure such assistance as a man in his condition required, us she was anxious that he should have some person in attendance to make him take his physic. That soon afterwards the prisoners came to the house and informed her that they came there by the direction of her husband's relations, and told her who they were, and that their duty was to prevent him from doing himself or any other person injury, by conveying him to their employer's asylum, at Doddington-grove. She was surprised at finding what their business was, and had no idea that her mother-in-law would have sent such pk rsons there and when 'the neighbours and others interfered, the prisoner Cooper, before leaving the house demanded 30s. for expenses, which she paid him, and they went away ; that her husband's watch bad not been since restored to him. In reply to Mr. SECKER, she said that Cooper gave her a receipt for the money ho received from her. Cooper, a very powerful looking man, with a blouse, said he belonged to a private lunatic asylum, and that application was made at his employer's asylum to re move the complainant, and the necessary documents having been procured for his removal, he went to his house for that purpose, accompanied by his fol low-prisoner, if he should require his assistance. That he did take possession of the watch, and in order to throw the patient off his guard, and get him along quietly, h e did pretend that his mother was dying, _but that, on finding he was resisted by several persons, he quitted th e h ouse , a ft er h av i n g mad e and received the d noweraand of th e expenses incurred on the occasion, He i removal pro dueed the written authority for the complainant's on the ground of temporary insanity, and added that his employer had the complainant's watch, which he had delivered to him. The prisoner's employer said he was the proprietor of the Doddington-grove asylum for lunatics, and that tho necessary application having been made for the com plainant's removal there, the prisoners were sent to his house for that purpose. They, however, came without him, and Cooper gave the watch into witness's charge, upon the supposition that he was to be sent back again for the patient, who was described by his friends as in sane. He, witness, had the watch, and was prepared to deliver it up under the magistrate's authority. He added that the 30s. received of the complainant's wife were the expenses incurred for the proceedings adopted to place him under proper restraint by his own relatives. Mr. SEeKER having perused the document, and heard the statements pro and con., said there was no pretence for charging the accused parties with stealing the com plainant's watch. That the facts were the complainant had reduced himself to a condition which some of his re lations had reason to suppose brought on temporary in sanity, and that with a view to his own preservation, as well as those about him, considered that he ought to be placed under such constraint as would avert the conse quences. That for that purpose they applied for his ad mission into a place where he would be put under the Aecessary constraint, and the prisoners were onl em loyet: P 3, execute that intention, and, therefore, had only acted under' instructions they had received. He should, therefore, Clituirargt, the prisoners, and give • directions that the watch belonging to the corepWnWite should be delivered up to him, which was immediately done, and the accused were liberated. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) GROUP No. 9.—PsisEEr, BARRHEAD, AND HURLET RAILWAY.—Clauses further considered. CALEDONIAN RAILWAY (Glasgow Station, and Branch across the Clyde).—Case opene and evidence taken in its favour. GROUP No. 10.— NEWPORT AND PONTYPOOL RAIL WAY * VT A MENDMENT.—PreambIo passed, clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be reported. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' ma jority was resumed, but the petitioners did not succeed in striking off any additional ♦otes to-day. A good deal of time was taken up in proving the legality of the supplemental building-rate for the parish of St. Mark's, Dublin ; but eventually the Committee decided that the evidence was not sufficient to establish the validity of the rate, NORTH CHESHIRE. The ovideneo of treating was further proceeded with this morning. Mr. Joseph Higginson, proprietor of the Warren Bulkeley Arms, at Stockport, proved that he supplied a number of Mr. Legh's voters with dinners, drink, wine and refreshments, to the extent of 2241. 17s. 10d. The orders were given by one of Mr. Leigh's committee, which tat at his house, but ho had since not been able to obtain the amount of his bill.—Mr. George Massey, the landlord:of the Union Inn at Altrincham, proved that another of Mr. Leigh's committees held their meetings at his house, and by their directions he supplied a number of electors with drink and refreshments. He did not know amount of his bill, but it was under 200/. This witnOS gave his evidence in a very unsatisfactory manner, which brought down upon him the re prehension of the Committee. The Speaker's war rant required him to produce his books, but he failed to do so; while in a private communication with Mr. Coppock, the petitioners agent, he had represented, as it would now seem falsely, that he had no books. It turned out, however, that his bar-maid kept books, in which entries were made of the business transacted at the Union, but it was agreed on both sides that to send for the books would not compensate for the waste of time and expense it would lead to. This being all the evidence the petitioners bad to ad duce, Mr. PHINN summed up at great length, insisting that sufficient treating had been established to justify the unseating of Mr. Leigh. After which the Committee adjourned till tomorrow at eleven o'clock. EDINBURGH. (From the Edinburgh Evening Courant of Wednesday.) This afternoon Mr. Henry Rankine, Mr. Archibald Walker, and James Cumming, with some others, were arrested on charges of a general character, comprising attendance at illegal public meetings, and addresses delivered on those occasions of an exciting description. The houses of those individuals have been searched, and documents of a very suspicious character have been seized and carried away. After an examination, Messrs. Rankine, Cumming, and Walker were committed to gaol; and some of the other parties arrested were liberated upon bail. A great demonstration of sympathy with the offenders is talked of by the Chartists. FRANCE. [The following appeared in our Third Edition of last night] : In the sitting of the Assembly yesterday, M. Thiers read a report of the Committee of Finance on a pro position of M. Proudhon, relative to the tax on revenues. The proposition, he said, tended to authorise the Go vernment to seize one-third of.the rents, and the Com mittee had been unanimously of opinion to reject it. According to the proposition, a tax of one-third was to be levied after the 15th of July, 1848, on all property, one-sixth of which was to be given to the lodgers and farmers, and the other to the Government. M. Proudhon calculated that the produce of that new tax would amount to at least 150 millions of francs, and permit the suppression or reduction of other taxes, particularly those on articles of consumption, the most odious of all. M. Proudhon suggested that the Government once in possession of those resources might proceed to organize immediately discount banks in all the districts of France ; create farming and manufacturing banks, &c. M. niers stated that that proposition had been discussed during several days in the Committee, in a financial, moral, and political point of view. The project originally published in a journal, subsequently suspended for sedition, contained a direct and avowed attack against property. It was presented as a petition of a factious nature, since its author declared that it should not be presented as a prayer but an order. It was moreover founded on the denial of the right of property, and was one of those engines by means of which so many ambitious men sought of late celebrity or power amidst the ruins of social order. M. Proudhon,when examined by the Committee, declared that he did not wish to destroy property, but merely to de rive from it a temporary resource for the benefit and protection of property itself. The Committee, however, had not considered the proposition entitled to considera tion. It regarded it as one of those indirect appeals to citizens to turn against each other the arms that should only be directed against the enemies of the couutry. M. Thiers was of opinion that all those anti-social doctrines should be discussed publicly and in noonday, and that they should not be stifled, lest the modern Erostrates should, like Galileo, complain of having been condemned without a hearing. He next de monstrated the folly of the proposed scheme, and maintained that it would be impossible to raise the sum of 1,500,000,00 0 francs. In 1821 the Govern ment had ordered an inquiry to be instituted into the revenue of the landed property of France, and it was ascertained that it did not exceed 1,600 millions. 25 years afterwards a now inquiry was instituted, and it was found to have increased by one-fourth, and to amount to 2,000 mullions, or perhaps 2,200. To-day that revenue would not be above 1,800 millions. After recapitulating the different branches of revenue of which M. Proudhon proposed to confiscate one-third, M. Thiers showed that not more than 320 millions could be realized. M. Thiers contended that it was neither a system of credit nor a new tax. M. Proudhon wished to establish that it was an attack against property, as audacious as it was ably combined; that if there were errors entitled to pity and respect, there were others unworthy of any in dulgence; that the doctrines developed by M. Proudhon deserved universal reprobation, and, in the interest of society so deeply shaken, he called on the National As sombly to ratify the judgment of its Finance Committee. M. Proudhon next asked that his proposition be dis cussed on Saturday. M. Boutel, as Member of the Finance Committee, had found fault with a passage of M. Thiers' report, in which he said, that the project of decree on the progressive tax had alarmed all the proprietors. M. Boutel was not a partisan of the savage doctrines of M. Proudhon ; ho indignantly reproved them, but he thought that M. Thiers was not justified in attacking before hand a pro ject of decree presented by the Government. M. Thiers replied, that M. Boutel was the only mem ber of the Committee who had objected to that passage of his report. He had at first used the word " deeply irritated the proprietors," but at the suggestion of M. Boutel he had consented to substitute for them the word " alarmed." When M. Thiers descended from the tribune a great tumult arose, which only subsided when General Ca vaignac appeared at the tribune. General Cavaignac gave his fullest approbation to every word of M. Thiers's report and thanked him in the name of the country for the sentiments he had ex pressed. But he thought that M. Thiers should not have condemned in advance a project of decree that had After a its few wordsnot yet come under discussion. M. Thiers maintained his right, and observed that the Committee to which the project had b e en r e f e rr e d had reproved prieci ple. from General Cavaignac, the inci dent was dropped. M. Marie, Minister of Justice, next laid on the table a project of decree relative to elections of Judges of the Tribunals of Commerce. According to the decree, the members of those tribunals should in future be elected by merchants, licensed during five years, and having re sided two years within the jurisdiction of the tribunal. M. Marrast next read a l e tt er f rom M. B ' Imo. who tendered his resignation of the post of the Assembly. The Assembly afterwards resumed the adjourned dis cussion on the 13th article of the law relative to clubs, which had been referred, with the different amendments, to the Committee. M. Coquerel, the reporter, stated that the Committee had carefully examined all these amendments, and thought to substitute three articles for the 13th article. properßy the first, it was propo sed to p rohibit all secr et societies, and to condemn their members to a fine of from loof. to 500 f., and to an imprisonment of front three months to a year. The penalty might be doubled as respected the chiefs. By the second article, the eitivns were to bA authorized to establish circles or reunions, which were not of a political nature, on giving previous notice of their intention to the authorities. Finally, the 15th article sanctioned the right of all citizens to hold pre paratory electoral meetings and to assemble for religious purposes. M. Vivien observed that the penalties against secret societies were not sufficiently severe, and proposed not only to increase the fine and imprisonment, but to de prive the members of such societies of their civil rights during a period of five years at least and ten years at most. A discussion ensued on the nature of secret societies, which M, Valtette was desirous to specify in the law. M. Dupin stated that the fact of th e i r secrecy consti tuted their culpability. M, Flocon was left at the tribune, combating M. Du pin's opinion. LIVERPOOL, MANCHESTER, AND NEWCASTLE JUNCTION RAILWAY. (FROM A CORRESPONDENT.) The opposition (petitioners) to this line having been thrown out on Wednesday night by the Com mittee of the House of Lords, I send you the follow ing account of the line from its first introduction into Parliament ; " This line is intended to join the East Lancashire line at Burnley, and run north into the York and Newcastle line at Cowton (near Richmond), in York shire, crossing the projected Northern Counties Union line, which runs to Bedale, and using twelve miles of that line, the total length being fifty-six miles. " The company was projected in 1845 under the highest patronage; the shares were to be 80,000, at 201. each, with 21. 10s. paid. Several other projects were in the field to occupy the district; there being nothing nearer than the Leeds and Thirsk on the east side, the Northern Counties Union on the north side of the proposed line, and the Lancaster and Carlisle on the east side of it, into which the rival Northern Coun ties line ran. The only project which survived was the Lancashire and North Yorkshire Company, which agreed in committee in 1846 to amalgamate with this line. "The Bill passed most triumphantly in 1846, and the amalgamation took place ; the capital then to be 70,000 shares at 201., and the shares were equally divided, 35,000 to each company or ,body of pro prietors. "This line shortened the route between Newcastle upon-Tyne and Liverpool 25 miles over any other line, between Newcastle and Fleetwood 541 miles, between Newcastle and Preston the same, between Newcastle and Manchester 181 miles, and to Bury 38 mites ; it commanded the traffic between those places, and of course the north of Ireland via Fleetwood. The coal and coke passing over the line was calculated at an immense extent, and the line itself occupied a rich grazing country : it shortened the communication between the terminii considerably more than the. Northern Counties Union line. "Mr. Hudson had agreed to pay six per cent. on half the capital for making the twelve miles running west from Bedale to the Northern Counties Union line, in other words, that part was to be common to both companies. " In 1847 the directors went to Parliament for the Burnley branch, -so as to cut off an elbow, and to effect other important deviations, and the line, as it stands, was said to be constructible now for 800,0001. only. The district had become matter of much dis cussion between the Manchester and Leeds Company, the Northern Counties Company, and Mr. Hudson's companies, and those discussions led to internal dis sensions, which had a serious influence on the share holders, especially as other companies held large shares in this undertaking. It also appeared that the allotments of shares in 1845, and the subsequent transactions in them by directors and officials, had called forth strong expressions of disapprobation, and there is no doubt those irregularities (to use no harsher term) had influence with the Committee of the Loris—the solicitors promoting this Bill having lately purchased several hundreds of shares at nominal prices. In 1845, 20,000 shares had been originally allotted to the officials, 6,000 only to the public, and 3,000 to Members of Parliament ! In 1845 the shares were at 61. to 81. premium—in 1848 at as many shillings! and large numbers were bought by the promoters of this Bill. " Above 170,000/. had been raised, and above 100,0001. spent ; so that there remained 70,0001., or nearly 1/. per share. 'The public advantages of the line had been through out maintained by all sets of directors up to the pre sent application, and there is no doubt that that weighed with their Lordships, as well as the private considerations as to the conduct of the promoters, and the share transactions, which appeared of the most extraordinary character. The public interests cer tainly appear to furnish a fair reason for the making the line in competition to existing routes on the north or south, or the projected route of the Northern Counties Union." THE POTATO CROP IN IRELAND. (From the Dublin Pilot of Monday.) Unfavourable reports continue to reach us from some quarters of Ireland; but there are districts in which a single symptom of the disease has not yet manifested itself. The Team Heratt states that it has not been found, on the minutest inquiry, that there is the least ground for the apprehensions which had become so pre valent in the past week. There is an encouraging para graph in the Tipperary Free Press, and also in the Cork Reporter, on this important matter. The country mar kets appear to be abundantly supplied with potatoes of the very finest quality. In 'Tam they are sold at 4d. to 51 a stone, and - in Cork from 6d. to Bd. a weight of 21 pounds. We are happy to find these views corroborated by the following extract from the letter of a highly respectable Catholic clergyman:— " SATURDAY, JULY 22.—Thinking that you would be anxious to know the condition of the potato crop in this part of the country, I have to say that, with a very few exceptions, it promises well. Certain interested indivi duals are looking out for an excuse to circulate an unfa vourable report." (From the Leinster Express.) In our last we alluded to rumours which had been circulated of the re-appearance of the potato disease of 1845-6, in various parts of Ireland. We have the utmost satisfaction in recording our conviction that there is not the slightest ground ter apprehension. Against the few isolated reports of partially discoloured leaves and tainted tubers, we have to place the cheering and encouraging accounts received from a vast number of localities, in which no trace of the blight has manifested itself. All the discouraging symptoms said to have been observed are, we firmly believe, traceable to the effects of the weather, or of diseased seed, or of improper cultivation. The conductors of the Farmer's Gazette have, in the last number of their valuable journal, published in a tabular form the result of their inquiries relative to the whole of the crops, issued by circular to a great number of locali ties throughout the country, and this result is in the highest degree satisfactory. We compile from this table the report from such of the districts in our own vicinity as are embraced in the return as follows: BALLYCASTLE.—No appearance of disease in potatoes. The crop has a most healthy and luxuriant appearance. About four times the breadth planted this year compared with the last. The appearance of the wheat crop is a little complained of. For the last seventy years the oat crop never looked better. BALLYNAHINCIL—Dise so has appeared partially in the potato crop even in the fields. There are, however, no grounds for alarm yet. Four to one of an increase planted. Wheat, oats, and barley look well. Busfottees.—Not in any instance has disease appeared in potatoes. Five times the amount planted over last year. Wheat and oats an average crop. COLERAINE.—The potato disease has not yet appeared. A few tainted ones have been met with. The quantity planted is four to one compared with last year. Wheat and oats very good, but very long straw. DONAGHMORE, COUNTY Dowse—No appearance of disease in the potato crop, which never looked healthier, or more luxuriant. About six times the extent planted this year, as compared with the former. Wheat looks well. Oats from all appearance will be short in the straw. DUNGANNON.—No appearance of potato disease. The crops never looked better this time of the year. Fully tenfold more planted than last year. Wheat and b oats an excellent crop. Dustmuner.—ln some districts a trifling appearance of disease in potatoes, but the crop generally appears safe, and promises well. Quantity planted treble that of last year. Wheat not as weighty as last year, but the oats seem a fair average. liceurtcuv.—ln potatoes no appearance of disease. The crop never looked more healthy. Fully five times as many planted as last year. Wheat light compared with former years. Oats a fair crop- LARNE.—The potato crop in general never presented a more beautiful or promising appearance than it does this season. Quantity planted equal to that of years betore the disease. Wheat and oats look extremely well. Beans which are extensively c ultivated, most promising. LOUGHOALL.—No appearance of disease in potato crop. Four times as many planted as last year. Wheat and oats first rate, with the exception of some wheat sown on ground not fit to grow it. Persons connected with this journal have had, during the past week, opportunities of inquiring and examining into the state of the crops in the Queen's County, the county of Kildare, and King's County. As'regards the potato, the accounts are varied; traces of disease are re ported in many districts, while in some the crop is stated to present a most healthy a ppearance, and thou g h suffering from high winds and other ordinary causes, there is not the slightest symptom of taint. The other crops are described as most luxuriant. -- Since writing te fo-egoing, Iv, hilvn bo-u Mr. Turpin, Muryborough, a sample of the ask leaved kidney potato —a variety that has hitherto been but little affected by disease—in which the taint was plainly developed Other fields in the neighbourhood of Mary borough, Stradbally, Mountmelliek, and Mountrath, are said tube extensively affected with disease similar to that of the past year. A COUNTERFEIT PRINCE. Mention was made some time ago of an impudent scamp having swindled an old soldier by passing him self off as Prince Louis Napoleon, The fellow has since contrived to keep out of the reach of the police; but a middle-aged man, named Mialhe, a bookkeeper by occupation, who introduced the swindler to the dupe, was arrested, and was yesterday brought to trial be fore the Tribunal of Correctioual Police. The dupe, whose name is Chausse, and is now a weaver, related that he fell in with Mialhe at a club of old soldiers, meet ing in the Ituede Lowry, and that he there told him that he was in communication with Prince Louis Napoleon. at the same time. showing him a manuscript address to the electors, which he said was signed by the Prince. Some time after he was drinking in a wine shop with Mialhe, when the latter bolted ant, and returned in some minutes, accompanied by an individual who he made complainant understand by signs was no other than Prince Louis Napoleon. Ou this Chausse invited the Prince and Mialha to breakfast, and on the former graciously ooncleacending to accept it, the complainant made it, as he expressed it, worthy to be offered to the nephew of the Emperor. In the course of the breakfast the Prince asked him if he had known the Little Corporal, and the complainant answered with great emotion, that he had that " immortal honour." " Well !" said the Prince, " having known him, you must recognise these," and he showed him a cross of the Legion of Honour, and another of the Iron Crown, which, ho said, had bean worn by the Emperor. On this the complainant, to use his own words, " cried like a calf," and reverentially kissed the cross of Honour. After breakfast, the Prince accom panied him to his own house, and there dispatched Mialhe to seek for some papers, giving hint a warrant under his hand and seal so to do. Hia Highness next expressed a wish to partake of some Lyons sausages, and the complainant procured him half a pound, which he dispatched with Infinite relish, The Prince then discovered that, in coming from Auteuil that morning on horseback (he had, he said, a residence at Auteuil), he had torn his trousers, and the complainant offered him a pair which he deigned to accept, and the Prince also condescended to receive a waistcoat, a shirt, and two pocket handkerchiefs. The trouble of dressing made the Prince thirsty, he intimated that a bottle of wine would be acceptable, and the complainant supplied him with one of the best that could be found in the neighbourhood. The Prince then showed an empty purse, and graciously borrowed 3a francs from the complainant to put into it. Hearing that complainant's sister and some friends had gone out fishing, he proposed to go and eat the fish they had caught, as be said he adored fish. In returning, he tried to borrow 300 francs from the com plainant, but, as the latter had not so much, he consented to accept 150 f. These were to be given to him next day, but fortunately the complainant was warned by the prisoner himself not to ad vance the money, and he took the counsel. Shortly after, the pretended prince, who had been seen reeling about very drunk, disappeared. The prisoner contended that he had not assisted in duping the complainant, and that he himself had been deceived into believing that the swindler was really what he pretended; and as his warning to the complainant to keep his money seemed to bear out this story, the tribunal acquitted him.— Galignani's Messenger. HOP INTELLIGENCE. A correspondent who occupies a considerable breadth of hop land in a usually favoured district says, I calcula ted last week that the crop from cold nights, high winds, &c., would fallshort two bags per acre. Another week has passed on, and I am now in my own growth (which is not one of the worst) prepared to say that it will not exceed that. If the weather continue cold at night and windy in the day for another week, not more than half the growth of last year will be produced in this neigh bourhood. I hear: (and from those I can depend on) that this is the case in other districts; I believe it, because the weather which affects one part will another. Should the crop fall short, as I expect, it will be another proof how little the growth of hops can be depended on. MAIDSTONE.--The prevailing south-westerly winds and rain are very unfavourable to the hop plant which is whipping about, now that the burr requires warm, calm weather, instead of a continuous bruising, and want of sun. Under such circumstances, the duty must now re cede as fast as it progressed during the month of May. It would be extraordinary to estimate it above 190,0001., and with the present symptoms 150,0001. will shortly be the " set." BOXLEY, AYLESPORD, AND BURHAM. Bine not quite so healthy. The high winds and cold nights have been much against the progress of the plantations. OTHAM.—The hops continue going on favourably, and are remarkably clean. YALDING, FARLEIGH, AND CHART.—The hops are going back. The bine, which has always been short, is now looking sickly, and there are other unfavourable symptoms. GOUDHURST.—Growing fast, and looking well. In fact, too well according to the planters accounts. We hear of no damage being done by the late winds. WROTITA3I, ICITHAM, AND SHIPBORNE.—Notwith standing the healthy appearance of the bine, it is the general opinion that we shall not grow anything like last year's duty—experienced persons think not more than half. Even in the very beat grounds their uneven ness becomes daily more apparent, SEVENOAKS AND ADJOINING PARISHES.—The high winds the last few days have very much injured the growth of the hops. TICEIIURST.—The hops within the last fortnight have made but little improvement; the late winds on high grounds have injured them considerably. CANTERBURY.—The declining condition of the hops, noticed in our last, is more apparent this week ; and though the drenching rain of Saturday served to cleanse them, still, injury was inflicted in many instances, and we have to remark a further declension of duty this week. WORCESTER,: JULY 19.—We have a limited demand for hops, and at ruinously low rates; the best 1846's not realising more than 20s. per cwt., and some few useful lots have been taken at 425. to 455. The reports of the growing crops are generally favourable, the duty for the district being already estimated as high as 25,0001. That for the kingdom is backed to pay 210,0001. M aidsfone Journal. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JULY 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was a much more active market to-day ; prices. however, remain about the same. The sales are—Great Western Quarter Shares, 2 dis.—Mid land Stock, 103—Taff Vale, New Shares; 1 / 4 dis.—Lanca shire and Yorkshire, Preferential Shares, % p.--South Devon Preference, 9 dis. LIVERPOOL, JULY 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market is again lower, and but little business doing. The sales are—Great Northern, 9 dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101. Shares, Prefe rence, % p.—Ditto (late West Riding Union) Fifths, 41. Is. 3d. dis.—London and North-Western, 5 1 ,4 p.— Ditto, New Quarters, l p. —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 101. Preference, 10—Midland Stock, 101—Ditto, New Halves, 6 3 4 dis.—North British, New Thirds, 38s. 9d. dis.—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds, 3 1 / 4 c. dis.—York, New castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 3a p. MANCHESTER, .JULY 27. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead. Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7 9-16 ins. Caledonian, Preference, 9-161.—Last Lancashire. Preference, Quarters, 5-16 p.— Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding Junction, 51. 14s. 3d.—Great Northern, 8 15-16 dis.— Lancashire and Yorkshire, 10/. Preference, 6 per cent., p. —North Staffordshire, 2% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 3 dis. BIRMINGHAM, JurAr 27. STOCK EXCILINGE.—The sales are—North British, Thirds, 365. 3d. dis.—Shrewsbury and Birtningham (B), 68s. 9d. dis.—North Staffordshire, 274 dis.—Shropshire Union, 565. 3d. die.—South Staffordshire, 3 1 % dis. YORK, JULY 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows : —Great Northern, 61. 35.—North British, Thirds, 2%--York, Newcastle, and Berwick, No. 2 (late New Ber. wicks), 11%. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULY 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only sale was—North British, Thirds, 375. 6d. GLASGOW, JULY 26. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The.—The sales are — Caledonian, 27 Ditto, New, 325. 6d. — Ditto , Preference, 56s.—Caledonian and Dumbartonshire, 6d.—Edinburgh and Northern, 17— Edinburgh and Perth, 17s. 6d.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 6 1 ,4 —Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 70—Ditto, Halves, No 1, 7!A—Ditto, No. 2, 71. Bs.—Great Northern, Cl. Os. 6d.—North British, Thirds, 531—York, Ne wcas tl e, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 914. EXPENSES OF THE FRENCH GOVERNMENT. --The following is the expose des motifs of the proposed decree, presented by the Minister of Finance, for paying the ex penses of the Chief of the Executive Government, President of the Council of Ministers :—" The National Assembly, by decree adopted in the sitting of July 4, fixed the salary of the President of the Council of Ministers at 10,000 f. a month during the existence of the powers conferred on him by the decree of June 24 preceding. But, inde pendently of this personal allowance, the expenses of administration arising from the Secretary's depart ment, and the private bureau of the Chief of the Executive Government, to which must be added the e xpenses of printing publications and subsciptions, have to be provided for. These expenses, which are in herent to the exercise of the extraordinary powers con fided in General Cavaignac, and which could not pre viously have been provided for in the budget, now demand a special vote of the Chamber. They are esti mated, as appears from the subjoined return of the per sonnel and materiel, at 15,000 f. a -month. I come, citizen representatives, by orders of the Chief of the Executive Government, to submit these expense to you, and to de mand the necessary authorisation to pay the first month, about to become due. Such is the object of the decree which I have the honour to propose to you to adopt." The return referred to is as follows :—" Personnel.— Cabinet of the Secretary-General and redaction —An employe, 300 f. ; five employes, at 250 f. Publicity.—Chef de Service, 5001. ; four translators, at 250 f.; two copying clerks, at 250 f. and 200 f. Huis siers and garcons de bureau.—One huissier, at 180 f., four at 100 f.—three garcons !de bureau, at 83f. 83c. Total, 4,258 f. 32c. Materiel.—Subscriptions to French and foreign newspapers, 200 f.; publications, impressions, Moniteur, placards, 10,000 f.; carriage expenses of the employes of the secretaryship, 300 f.; different expenses, 214 f. 68c. Total, 10,714 f. 68c., and general total, 15,000 f." AN INTELLIGENT NEGRO.—A negro, while under going an examination at Northampton, Massachussetts OR being asked if his master was a Christian, replied " No, Sir, he's a member of Con gress."—American Paper :111' L: . ..II .L 1,127.12 N ROUSE OF LORDS, July 27. Their Lordships met shortly after Five o'clock. The Ecclesiastical Patronage Suits Compromise (Ire land) Bill went through Committee. The Prisons Bill also went through Committee. PUBLIC HEALTH BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved the second reading of the Public Health Bill, with amendments. The Bishop of LONDON thought that the Select Committee which had been appuinted had improved the Bill by making the amendments in it, and therefore he gave his cordial support to it. The Bill was then read a third time. and passed. STATE OF IRELAND. Lord BROUGHAM put a question to the Noble Lord (Lord Lansdowne) relative to the alarming accounts which had just been received from Ireland. For himself he thought they were grossly exaggerated, if they were not altogether pure inventions. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that with respect to the rumour which had been circulated in the City, of the commencement of rebellion in Ireland, he had the satisfaction of being enabled to state that there was every probability of its being altogether unfounded. The Government were in the possession of dispatches from the Lord• Lieutenant, dated at three o'clock yesterday, which were brought by a special messenger, but they contained nothing whatever with respect to any such an outbreak. Letters had subsequently been received, dated at six o'clock on the same day, which had come by the mail, but they were equally void of the slightest refer ence to such an occurrence. He therefore did not think that there was the slightest grounds for the circulation of such a rumour. At the same time he begged to add that there was the greatest probability of an outbreak in that particular quarter of Ireland in which it was rumoured disturbances had already commenced. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY blamed the Go vernment for the way in which they had allowed the Irish people to go unchecked until they had arrived at the very verge of rebellion, but he trusted now that they would exercise every possible power with which they were invested to prevent these deluded people proceed ing any further. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he had that moment received additional intelligence up to seven o'clock yesterday evening, which was equally devoid of any information as to the reported outbreak of the people in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) DEGREES OF AFFINITY. The Bishop of LONDON inquired whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce into either House of Parliament, during the present session, any measure with reference to marriage with a deceased wife's sister? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE replied that a very able Member of the other House had prepared a Bill on the subject, but that as he was in no way connected with the Government, he was unable to say whether that Bill would receive their sanction or not. SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. The adjourned debate on the London and South- Western Railway Company's Acts Amendment (Exten sion, Deviation, and New Works) Bill, after a short dis cussion, was adjourned again until Monday. CHARITY TRUSTS REGULATION BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR in moving the second reading of this Bill said it was introduced the better to regulate certain charitable trusts. The Municipal Re. form Bill took away from the corporations the power of administering the uses connected with the trusts of many charities, and it was now necessary to apply t o th e Court of Chancery to appoint trustees, which was an expensive process. Moreover, those trustees could not take the legal estate, which was said to be in nubibus. Many small charities could not afford to come to the Court of Chancery at all, and they had no means of renewing their trustees. It must be evident that there was a constant necessity for seeing that the funds of these charities were properly administered. To show the extent of this evil he might state that of charities under 301. a year, which could not afford to apply to Chancery, there were 23,746; the total number of charities in the situation he had described being 28,340. In 1846 the present county courts had been established, and they had been found to be much more useful than it was ever imagined they could be. They were now 60 in number, and from November, 1846, to the same pe riod in the following year, they had adjudicated upon no less than 429,415 suits, and received during the same period 600,5591., including 203,3181. for fees. It would, he believed, be practicable to reduce these fees by one half, and still leave a revenue sufficient to pay all the expenses of the establishment. This, he thought, was a highly satisfactory state of things—(Hear, hear) — and they need not look further for a jurisdiction to ad minister these local charities. He might at once, there• fore, say that the object of the Bill was that all chari ties under 301. a year, should be subject to the juris diction of the judges of the county courts.—(Hear, hear.) The greater part of the Bill applied to that purpose; but it had also other objects, one of which was that by an order of a judge or the Court of Chancery, the legal estate should be vested in the treasurer of the county court; and by the same authority the stock of such charities would also be transferred to the same officer. In ascertaining the value of the charities, so as to give them the benefit of this measure, the report of the Charitable Trusts Commissioners would be held to be conclusive. The Bill provided, among other things, that persons entrusted with charitable funds should annually render up a balance-sheet for the inspection of the proper authorities.—(Hear, hear.) There was a great deal of property under these trusts which had been, bequeathed in old times, and a far different state of society, for purposes to which they would be wholly inadequate at the present day, and the object of the Bill was, if possible, to render such property avail able for educational purposes. 'At present the county courts might report to the Court of Chancery as to the way in which such trusts might be carried out, but there were many small towns and villages from which an ap peal to the Court of Chancery would completely exhaust the funds. In such cases ho thought they could not do better than hand the funds over to the county courts, giving them the same powers as were now enjoyed by the Court of Chancery. In cases where doubts might arise as to the efficiency of the county courts, a refer ence might be given to the Educational Committee of the Privy Council, a tribunal in which the public seemed to have considerable confidence. After one or two further observations, the Noble and Learned Lord moved the second reading of the Bill. Lord REDESDALE approved of the principle and object of the Bill, but objected to the time at which it had been brought forward. He trusted that the Noble and Learned Lord would not press the Bill further dur ing the present session. The Bishop of LLANDAFF said that the object:of the Bill was one in which the Right Rev. Bench took a deep interest. A Bill which should tend to the application of the various small trust funds scattered over the country to educational purposes would receive their most fa vourable consideration. There • were, however, several enactments in the present measure to which he could himself. He pledge either his Right Rev. Bret hren or He concurred in the suggestion of the Noble Baron as to postponing the Bill until next session. The Earl of HARROWBY believed that there was nothing more abused than the various small trust funds scattered over the country, nor anything more loudly °ailing for a Lremedy. It was therefore with reluc tance that he stood in the way of legislation on the sub ject, but he feared that with a Bill introduced at the end of July little progress could be made during the present year. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not think the ses sion so far advanced as to preclude the hope that they might complete a measure respecting which there seemed to be so general a concurrence among their Lordships. The fact was that a Bill neatly similar had been intro duced last session, so that the public had had ample time to consider the principle. The Bill was then read a second time, and, after a short discus.sioe, the Committee was fixed for that day week. Their Lordships adjourned at Half-past Seven o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 27. POOR-LAW UNION CHARGES. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. DRUMMOND thought that the Bill was an in different amendment of a bad measure. The great fault of the Somerset House Commissioners was that they treated paupers like abstractions, and carrying out the poor-law in that way they had destroyed all sources of private charity. He thought it would be a great mercy and charity if landowners and farmers were to meet together every autumn, and devise some kind of em ployment for the poor, which, though it might be unprofitable in some eases, would be far preferable to sending the people into the workhouse. The poor-law had tended to abolish that direct interest which was taken in the poor by landowners and others, and as it was now carried out there was nothing but a vile system of money. saving on the one hand and of cheating on the other. Mr. VERNON SMITH considered it would be ad visable, after the important statements and observations which had been elicited from Hon. Members, who were well acquainted with the working of the Act in rural districts, that that the Hon. Member (Mr. Charles Buller) should not take up more of the time of the House, but should at once withdraw the Bill. this session. The House had for five years been at tempting to deal with this question of i the law of settle ment, but instead of grappling with its great principle they had, session after session, been dealing with it by piecemeal. The present measure was not one of a com prehensive nature, and he did not consider that it would lead to a final settlement of the question. Ever since the days of Adam Smith it had been clearly proved that the law of settlement was one of the greatest curses to the poor of this country. He trusted that the Hon. Member would adopt the suggestion to postpone th e Bill unt i l next session, by which time his additional experie nce , and the suggestions which had been made by Hon. Mem bers, would enable him to bring in a more comprehen- Sive measure. Mr. BANKES said it was apparent to him that this Bill would not pass into a law this session. He consi dered that the measure would be discussed more fairly, and that the Hon. Member who had introduced it would be better enabled to develop his plans, if it were post poned until next year. On the motion of Sir H. WILLOUGHBY, the de bate was adjourned until to-morrow evening. ECCLESIASTICAL UNIONS AND DIVISIONS OF PARISHES (IRELAND). This Bill was read a third time. The House then adjourned until Five o'clock. 1 , e r.castat ic,Ltaieil the Cilair at Etvw o'clock, when there %vas au unusually lull attendance of Members. FALSE RUMOURS.-STATE OF IRELAND. Mr. MONSELL shortly after one or two unimportant petitions had been presented rose, amidst almost breath less silence, and said—Sir, seeing the Right lion. Baronet, the Secretary of State for the Home Depart ment in his place, I wish to put a question to him with reference to the rumours that have reached this city to' day with regard to the state of Ireland.—(Sensation.) I am happy to know that a great many of these rumours are entirely false.—(Cheers.) And I am sure I only express the feeling of the House when I say that a more heartless or disgraceful rumour was ne ver perpetrated than that which has been cir culated to-day.—(Loud cheers.) I do not knout whether there is any means that the Right Hon. Baronet could make use of to prevent the electric tele graph from being used for such disgraceful purposes, but I am sure if the Right Honourable Baronet has the power to do so, he will take care to prevent a recurrence of these disgraceful practices.—(Cheers.) The question I wish to ask him first is, what accounts he has received from Ireland; and, secondly, do these accounts confirm the statement that the whole of the south of Ireland is in open insurrection? Sir GEORGE GREY—I have great satisfaction in stating that I have every reason to believe that the• alarming accounts which have appeared in the late editions of the morning papers, and which were trans' mitted this morning from Liverpool by the electric telegraph, to the effect that an open insurrection bad actually broken out in the south of Ireland, are totally destitute of truth.—(Loud cheers.) Sir, on re ceiving the first copy of the paper transmitted to me containing the intelligence, said to have been sent from Liverpool this morning, I dispatched a letter to the Honourable Member for Stoke -upon - Trent, to induce him to forward a communication. by the electric telegraph to the Mayor of Liverpool, requesting to know from him what information had been. received in Liverpool from Ireland, and I received a dispatch from that functionary by the electric telegraph., stating that the information published this morning ws s accom panied from Ireland by a letter, of which the - following is a copy. (The letter was dated Dublin, W ednesday evening, and represented that Mr. Conway, of tt Le Dublin Evening Post, had received from the CCastle a most dreadful rumour, which he was :about to publish in a second edition of that paper.) 'l2 he writer then went on to say that he took advantage of a Queen's messenger going off at the moment for London to forward the intelligence in a parcel to Mellars. Will mer and Smith, of Liverpool, who no doubt would transmit it to London by the electric telegraph. The Mayor of Li- • verpool about an hour after this further communicated tt, me that he was perfectly satisfied that the Irish intelli• • gence contained in the paragraph published in tb.e morning papers was utterly untrue, unless Gover n meat had received a dispatch from Lord Clarendon confirming it. He also states that a Queen's m es senger certainly had arrived from Dublin by s steamer this morning, and he left Liverpool by the half-past six express train. Now, it is perfectly true that a Queen's messenger was dispatched from Du blin last night. I had sent him over with a dispatch, sta ti og that the Bill for suspending the Habeas Corpus Act bad received the Royal assent, and he left Dublin wirtk, dispatch from the Lord-Lieutenant yesterday eve ni ng, and arrived in London by the express train this morr Ling at half-past one o'clock. This dispatch certainly descr ibex the state of the country in the neighbourhood of Clots mel, Carrick, and Thurles to be dreadful, but in relatio n to any actual outbreak it is perfectly silent, and make ,s no mention whatever.—(Hear, hear.) I have seer , the messenger, and he states that he left Dublin at three o'clock yesterday afternoon, but he assures me tit at he brought no parcel or letter for any private party •what ever. The messenger is stated to have come oven •by special steamer from Kingston yesterday ; tth at be started at three o'clock by the steamer which was reported to have had the Queen's messenga r on board. Now, no Queen's messenger came o' ier in that steamer; but I have received letters from the Lord- Lieutenant, written after the departure of the q ueen's messenger yesterday afternoon, which contain lb 3 allu sion to those frightful accounts. lam also assured by an Hon. Member that the Hon. Gentleman the 111 ember for Totnes left Dublin yesterday by the steamer which leaves at seven o'clock, and that everything was tran quil when he left—that no rumour of the kin d had reached his ears when the steamer left the pc will only add that I certainly shall ends savour to trace the wilful originator of the report.— -(Loud cheers.) I have now given all the information. in my power; and it enables me to concur with the 11 onour able Gentleman, that these reports were fabricai red for a wicked and maliCious purpose. With reap set to the state of Ireland, I may only add, that by the letters which I have receive from the Lord-Lied enant, it appears that Sir Charles Napier had arrived at the port with his squadron—(Hear, hear)—with an al de and ample body of troops, who, I am sure, are • always ready to discharge their duty with unflinching Ix avert, and who are, therefore, entirely free from the is mputa tions which the reports circulated this day he ev e most unfoundedly cast upon them.—(Cheers.) Mr. HAMILTON considered the Right Hon.. It a ronet had sufficiently answered the question which ha d been put to him. In the event of any partial outbrt great excitement would be the natural result ; and 1;h erefore he thought it would, in such a case, be the duty o f every loyal Irish subject in this country to put himst lf at the disposal of her Majesty's Government either :for the purpose of suppressing insurrection or tranquillisl , ,ng the excited minds of that people.—(Hear, hear.) Il e there fore begged to ask whether it was the wish of tl ie Go vernment that Irish Members now in London s h ould at once leave this country and immediately proe eed to their estates and the particular localities with•. which they were connected, for the purpose of perforrni rig the duty he had stated—(Hear, hear)—and it so, what course the Government intended to pursue with l •espect to Irish business ? Sir G. GREY—Several gentlemen connecter l with Ireland have called upon me in the course of tb e day, and expressed their ree.tliness to proceed at once T.( ► those parts of Ireland where they considered their ai ,rvices would be available in tranquillising the minds of the people.—(Hear, hear.) Although, as I have stated, from the information I have received from. Liver pool, that I belii.,ve the rumour totally destitute of information, yet in the excited state of the country, where the insurrection is stated to have brc ken out, I think Irish gentlemen of property, of character, and of influence, cannot do better than proceed at once to that country, and exert themselves to maintain t he peace of the country.—(Hear, hear.) My Noble Fri and has instructed me to say, that in the event of Iris h. Mem bers leaving town, he will not proceed with the Land lord and Tenant Bill. Sir ARTHUR BROOKE considered that Iris h Mem bers would do well by adopting the advice thrown out. In the north of Ireland there were mar, y well affected men, but if it was necessary that the) r -should come forward in the defence of the country, he I hoped the Government would take the precaution to provide them with arms and ammunition. He tho• anlit it necessary to make this observation, since an im piression had gone abroad that they were well provid td with arms. Now they were tota:ly destitute of am es; they were, in fact, without any means of defence r what ever, except some old yeomanry muskets whi eh "were altogether useless. He hoped the Governmen t would give them the means of defending themselves a nd their country.—(Hear, hear.) Sir G. GREY here arose again, with a pape r in his hand, and said, I have since received a further co mmuni cation from the same quarter on this subject. : [t states that Messrs. Wilmer and Smith are the agents ; for the London morning newspapers at Liverpool ; that a cab man, at seven o'clock this morning, drove up to their office, and delivered to tl tern a parcel, which contained the news that ha d been transmitted to the London papers, and which I have read to the House, stating that it was to be sent t by the seven o'clock special train, and that it was by • special favour of the Queen's messenger. He stated that he had received it from a Queen's messenger. Mr.IIERBERT inquired when tho Noble L ord in tended to proceed with the Landlord and Tenet it Bill ? Lord J. RUSSELL—I mean to postpone that Bill for a fortnight; and in case Irish Members are not i a town, I certainly shall not proceed with it.—(Hear.) Mr. M. J. O'CONNELL considered that the t Noble Lord might as well postpone it for six months, for whether Irish Members were obliged to go to Ire land or not, it could not be proceeded with this session. The CHANCELLORSUGAR DUTIES of the EXCHEQUI ie'R, in answer to a question from Lord George Bentinck , stated that he proposed to go. into Committee on the Sugar Duties Bill on Monday next, and he would the. a state the course he intended to pursue. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. A message from the Lords informed the Hon on that their Lordships had agreed to the following I hlls:— Amendments to Ecclesiastical Districts Assign: tient— Edinburgh and Bathgate Railway (Extension at id De viation, without amendment—London and North- Western Railway (Branches and Extensions frog t Lea mington, &c.)—Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway., a nd Glasgow, Airdrie, and Monklands Junction Re ti IwaY (Amendment of Acts)—Dundee and Arbroath IL ti p twat' , (Dundee Junction), with an amendm e nt—Sti r li n ;• and Dunfermline Railway (Amendment a nd Deviat is ens), with Amendments. . LANDLORD AND TENANT (IRELAND) BI I L. In answer to a question from an Hort. MEMBER, Lord J. RUSSELL said it was not his intend or to proceed with this Bill in the present session. Several Members called upon the Noble Lord not to postpone the measure to another session. Lord JOHN RUSSELL could not, consistent with L is duty, recommend the further proceeding with the Bill in the absence of the Irish Members, who had been advise d to go immediately to Ireland to do all in their power t 0 put down the disaffection that preyailed in that count'] • Y 2B, 1818.