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EAST INDIA HOUSE, Ann 28, 1848. THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the EAST INDIA COMPANY do hereby give notice, That the Transfer Books of t he said Company's Stock will be SHUT en TUESDAY, the 6th June, at Three o'clock, and OPENED again on Tilua.sDAY, the 13th July ; and That the Warrants for the Dividends on the said Stock, payable on the 6th July, 1848, under the 11th Sec. of the Act 3 and 4 William IV., Cap. 85, will be ready to be delivered on that day. JAMES C. MELVILL, Secretary. K ELAT and NEPANEE PR IZE-MONEY Royal Hospital, Chelsea, June 14, 1848. The Direct ,rs of the East India Company having paid over to this Hospital th, amount of the Unclaimed Shares of the Prize-money for the Capture of KELAT, in 1839, due to her Majesty's Troops, viz., the 2d and lith Regiments of Foot ; and also the amount of the Unclaimed Shares for the Capture of NAP.kNEE, in February, 1841, on account of her Majesty's 4th Regiment of Foot ; notice is hereby given, that Payment of the said Shares will commence on the 17th day of July next, and be continued at this Office on each succeeding day between the hours of Eleven and Two. RICHARD NEAVE, Secretary and Registrar. GUILDHALL, 30Th JUNE, 1848. THE COMMITTEE for LETTING the CITY'S LANDS will MEET at G UILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, ,the 12th day of ,lumr next, at One o'clock precisely, to receive TE DERS for LETTING on LEASE, for twenty-one years from Mi chaelmas next, a House, No. 14, on the north side of Broad-street buildings, and premises behind the same ; House,No. 38 No. 28, on the on the south side of Broad-street-build in g s ; and a Rouse, , month side of Upper Thames-street. Also to receive TENDERS for LETTING on a BUILDING LEASE for Eighty Years from Michaelmas, 1848, a large Plot of Ground on the east side of the Puddle dock on the south side of Up per Thames-street, and on the north side of the Thames. Further particulars may be obtained, and plans seen, by applying at the Office of Works, Guildhall. THOS. SAUNDERS, Comptroller. THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION, REGENT-STREET, First Exhibition of Important and Novel Experiments in Elec ricity, by Isham Baggs, Est•. illustrating the Phenomena of Thunder ltorms and the Cause of Lightning, in a series of Lectures, on Mon dy, Wednesday, and Friday, at Two o'clock, and in the Evenings of Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at Nine o'clock Popular Lec tures by Dr. Ryan and Dr. Bachhoffner.—Dioramic effects are ex hibited in the new Dissolving Views, which, with the Chromatrope and Microscope, are shown on tile large disc.—Experiments with the Diver and Diving-bell.—New Machinery and Models described. Open daily from Eleven to Five ; and in the Evenings (including Saturday) from Seven till Eialf-past Ten. Admission, Is.—Schools, Half-price.—Tke New Catalogue, Is. THE GREATEST NOVELTY IN EUROPE. 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Charles John Manning, Esq. Henry Nelson, Esq. Edward llowley Palmer, Esq. John Henry Felly, Esq. Abraham G. Roberts, Esq. Charles Robinson, Esq. Sir Samuel Scott, Hart. William Soltau, Esq. William Wallace, Esq. Octavius Wigram, Esq. Charles Baring Twig, Esq. Henry Bainbridge, Esq. George Pearkes Barclay, Esq. Edmond S. P. Calvert, Esq. John Garratt Cattley, Esq. Alexander Colvin, Esq. Edward Maxwell Daniel, Esq. William Davidson, Esq. John Deacon, Esq. Riversdale W. Grenfell, Esq. Williams T. Hibbert, Esq. Lancelot Holland, Esq. Sir J. W. Lubbock, Bart. ALEX. GREEN, Secretary. BOND'S PERMANENT MARKING INK, requiring no preparation, offers the best means of protection for every variety of household linen and wearing apparel against loss or mistake, for which reason be careful to ask for the genuine article, prepared by the inventor, JOIIN BOND, 28, Long-lane, West Emithfleid, City. Sold by most Chemists, Stationers, and Medicine Tenders. 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The whole illustrated with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro ductive Organs in heaith and disease ; with instructions for private correspondence, cases, &c. By J. L. CURTIS and CO., Consulting Surgeon.% 7, Frith-street, Soho-square, London. " ' Manhood.' A Medical Work.—To the gay and thought less we trust this little work will serve as a beacon to warn them of the danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their passions, whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour or tempta tion, and to the afflicted as a sure guide to health."--Chronicle. " ' Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis, and Co.—Their long experience and reputation in the treatment of these paint 1;1 diseases is the patient's guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense cir- Oulation."—Era. " Curtis on Manhood' should be in the hands •f youth and old age. It is a medical publication, ably written. and developes the treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long be en the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— United Serrice Gazette. The Tarent, who beholds his beloved child Orlin away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease, which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this work, be astonished to find, that in nice-tenths of the cases of young per sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con sumption, heart disease, tabes, &c., the sole and exclusive origin has beets the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected. N.B. Users of consultation from Eleven till Two, aid Six to night in the Evening. - ----- ' - - • •.--', J -- z .,,,ed.A. • 4. - _ ..- fr<,f t mot- - - - —4 ) -- ' 411P144 / . ,-- - : . ,7" .- - - 4. 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Commiss On July 5, 1842 ......E13,100 £27s,oioners. 72 1843 13,820 305,383 1844 14,638 340,509 1845 15,724 356,265 1846 16,729 346,977 1847 ........ 17,939 319,340 1848 18,564 284,757 D. FINNEY, Secretary and Actuary. [PRicE SD. HER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. At the desire of several distinguished subscribers, La Figlia, performed on the last extra night, was repeated yesterday, with what success the large attendance will prove. It will probably be the last performance of LaFiglia for some time to come, for next Thursday will be de voted to La Sonnambula, and it is most likely that next week the great vocalist will appear for the first time in a favourite opera of Rossini, which has been on the shelf for some years. Whatever Mdlle. Lind's success in that opera, La Figlia, as the creation of her genius— es an opera which draws its whole interest, musical as well as vocal, from her embodiment—will always re main one of the most curious and attractive manifesta tions of her genius and power. The Queen's box was yesterday evening occupied by the Earl and Countess of Rosebery, Lady Mary Primrose, and Colonel the Hon. C. B. and the Hon. Mrs. Phipps. In her Majesty Queen Adelaide's box were—the Marquis and Mar chioness of Worcester, the Viscount Curzon, Lord G. Paget, and Captain and Lady Rose Lovell. Amongst the audience were—His Grace the Duke of Wellington, the Prince Louis Napoleon, the Duchess of Leeds, and Miss Lane Fox, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke and Duchess of Leinster and Lady Jane Fitz gerald, his Excellency the Russian Minister, Baron Brunnow and Mdlle. Olga de Lechner, his Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, his Excellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister and the Baroness Rehausen, the Baron Nicolay, the Marchioness of Bread albane, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Marquis and Marquis of Sligo, and the Ladies Browne, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Granby, the Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Donegal, the Marquis of Douro, the Earl of Fel mouth, the Earl and Countess of Jersey and Lady Clementina Villiers, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl and Countess of Sefton, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of Howth, the Earl of Lansdale, Viscount Anson, Viscount Cantilupe, the Viscountess Godolphin, Lord Polworth, Lord William Lennox, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset and the Misses Somer set, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lord and Lady Charles Welles ley, Lord Gerald Fitagerald, Lord Harry Vane, Lord Elphinstone, Lord and Lady Brougham, Lord andys, Lord Saltoun, Lady Colborne, Lady Bentinck, Lady Thorold, Lord Otho Fitzgerld, Miss Burdett Coutts and party, Lady Jervis, Sir J. Duckworth, M.P., General the Honourable H. Cavendish, the Hon. C. Cavendish, the Hon. Mr. Dundas, General Fox, Sir John Bailey, Bart., and Lady Bailey, Sir Benjamin Hall, Bart., M.P., Sir G. Palmer, Bart., and Lady Palmer, Sir G. Carroll, Bart., Lady and the Misses Carroll, General the Hon. A. Upton, M. C. Koudriaffaky, Sir W. Beresford, Lady Hall, Captain the Honourable James Macdonald, Lieu tenant-General Sir Alexander Woodford, Bart., Mr. and Mrs. Atwood, Mr. and Mrs. Phillips, Mr. 0. Morgan, M.P., Mr. H. Broadley, M.P., Mr. G. Cornwall, Cap tain Pelham, Mrs. Ascue, Mr. Hubert de Burgh, Mr& Howard, Mr. Towneley, Mr. Barry Baldwin, M.P., and Miss Baldwin, Mr. C. W. Puke and Mrs. Packe Read ing, &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA. Donizetti's grand opera La Favoriia was performed last night by special desire of her Majesty. The cast has been greatly strengthened by the engagement of M. Massol, of the Acackalie Royale de Musique, at Paris. His performance of the character of Alfonso XL im parted a perfection to the ensemble, the want of which materially deteriorated the general effect of the former representations. M. Massol is tall and dignified in per son, graceful in deportment, and h is act i ng i s marked by great intelligence and truo dramatic action. His voice is a baritone of consid era bl e extent, fluent in deli very, and just in intonation. The cava ti na " Si , tutt i i cortigiani," was admirably rendered. The sentiment was passionately delivered, and the vocalisation of the best school. The applause was enthusiastic and unanimous. The romance "A tanto amor " was charmingly inter preted, and convinced us that M. Massol may take a lore m tuwei o cnoi s sntr a t sha r iaxr a tgy n e rtd k hee anae a tde m grmirg o nei n ytrae g atant the chief artiste s o f th e ly r i c stage . sang lwiha l noen a eng d Grisi was in ad m i ra bl e vo i ce, an d acte d an d an oc i dn t e y nd , ier naain dramatic thedatthi eteMario,tenderer powerdnac rle e r t of h pof oorturhtgt the third ioetnhljSsi'uarsondtft act, won opera. Nothing could exceed the beauty and pathos of the lovely romance, " Angiol d'amore." The burst of fearful despair at the close was quite perfect. The re demand was spontaneous. The exciting duet, " Vien tutto obblio per to," was given with wonderful force by Grisi and Mario, and achieved a similar honour. The fine chorus of courtiers in the third act was encored. The concerted pieces were superbly rendered, and the closing scene, with its architectural excellence, picturesque mise en scene, and chorus of monks over the corpse of Leonora, may be cited as one of the coin pletest that has been witnessed on the stage of any theatre. The house was full sad fashionably attended. The Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, honoured the performance with their presence. Her Majesty was attended by Viscountess Jocelyn and the Earl of Listowel, and his Royal Highness Prince Albert by General Wemyss and Colonel Seymour, and in attendance on her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent was the Lady Augusta Bruce. Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and his Royal Highness Prince George were also pre sent, attended by the Hon. Miss Mitford, Baron Knesebeek, and Mr. Mildmay. Among the visitors were his Excellency the French Minister, the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland, the Duke and Duchess of Beaufort, the Duchess Dowager of Bed ford and Lady Rachel Russell, the Marquis and Mar chioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Cardigan, the Earl of Bessborough, the Earl and Countess Bruce, the Earl and Countess Granville, the Earl of Munster, the Countess Dowager of Essex and Miss Johnson, the Earl Cawdor, the Earl of Durham, the Earl and Countess of Eglinton, the Earl of Pomfret, Viscount Templetown, Viscount and Viscountess Canning, Viscount Exmouth, Sir Charles and Lady Cecilia Des Voux, Lady Char lotte Denison, Lady Caroline Maxse, Lady H. Baring, Viscount Clifden, Lord and Lady Caringten, Lord A. Harveya,ord Bateman, Viscount Mandeville, Lord Foley and the Hon. Miss Foley, Lord Elphinstone, Lord Henry Gordon Lennox, Lord and Lady Wodehouse, Lady Joddrell, Lady Isabella Moore, Lady Lyndhurst and the Hon. Miss Copley, Lady Macdonald, Lady Webster, Lady Holland, Lady Morgan, Sir John and Lady Bur goyne and the Misses Burgoyne, Hon. George Mills, lion. A. Willoughby, Hon. Dudley Fortescue, Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Upton, lion. Spencer Cowper, Sir Ed ward Codrington and the Misses Codrington, Sir W. do Bathe, Sir T. Here, Sir Henry Webb, Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson and the Misses Atkinson, Sir George and Lady Amytage, Sir George and Lady Clerk, Sir Henry Paulet, Admiral Tucker and the Misses Tucker, Major-General Campbell, R.A., Colonel Freestun, Colo nel B. Knox, M.P., Colonel Blanc, Colonel Wingfield, Baron de Steinberg, Major Jones, Captain Cuddy, Cap tain Montressor, Captain de Bathe, Captain Dudley Carleton, Captain Charles Seymour, Captain F. Cleve land, Major Gage, Captain Blake, Mr. Leslie, Mr. Tunne, Mr. W. Rose, Mr. 11. Greville, Mr. Spencer de Horsey, Mr. W. and Miss do Horsey, Mr. 11. Baring M.P., Mr. Montague Gore, M.P., Mr. Divett, M.P., &c,. HANOVER-SQUARE ROOMS. Mr. A. Sedgwick's concert took place on Monday night, when a programme, cc,nsisting of thirty-six pieces of vocal and instrumental music, was performed by some of our most distinguished and talented young professors. To enumerate all w e should be obliged to write a column ; we shalt, therefore, confine ourselves to the salient points o i the concert. The concert opened with the over turf to Don Pasquale, performed on ten concertinas„ by Mr. A. Sedgwick, &c., &c., which had a novel effect. A new ballad, by Welling ton Guernsey, vvw a sweetly sung by Miss Moriat O'Connor, which, f rom the enthusiastic applause which followed, promises to b e most p o p u l ar . M r . A. S e d gw i c k performed several t i mes on t h e concer ti na , an d a l ways w i t h taste, judgment, / aid expression. Guile Regondi's fanta sia for the guitar :, on a i rs f rom D o n Giovanni, was a masterpiece. T 1 a e morceau is arranged from Thalberg's Don Giovanni f an t as i a . I t was encore d, and indeed it well merited t hat honour, for we never heard such perfect execu . tion of such extraordinary difficul ties. On his re-appearance he played "La Chasse," by L. Schulz.. 2.1. T. T. Williams rendered Rossini's beautiful aria. from the &abet divinely. Miss Eliza Nelson wit s very successful in her father's pretty song '° Dea r ,tif u l Ni g ht," The duet for piano and violincello, b, i J u li an Ad ams a nd George Collins, was a decided hit,' an d was mos t r a pturously applauded several times d ur i nn i ts mas t er ly performance. Mr. Frederick Chattel :ton's harp fantasia on themes from Robert le Diable cf .as as usual excellent. A splendid aria r little known in tb , is country, "Io non ti Posse" !) v .Y l3 l 3o c' y I Donizetti, now,, i dest no more, was superbly g in i a u .‘ Hunts- I effect. Mr. Oohs ,n's popular fantasia of the man's Sara Fle , ser , her fine voice telling with e i man's Chorus," t T Weber, was the theme of univerad with vern al praise, his own peculiar style , tolling ndid contralto ordinary effect. Miss Huddart s sp shed every one came out with : a power that astoni ' What a pity that such a fine in "Il segreto.' should not have an voice and charmii rig person engage ment at one of ea r principal theatres. Last, but indeed, • 0 public favourite, the " goddess not least , as a g mum mouse I of the bow," Ros ins Collins charmed the audience with her matchless e xecution on the violin, of Paganini's variations to the ( Jarnival de Venise, which was applauded to the echo. Br ava, indeed we may say bravissima, Rosina. THEATRE 1101 CAL DRURT•LANE.—We have muc.h pleasure in annou: acing that an attempt is about to be made to restore 4 old Drury to its true and legitimate purpose. Arran] :ements are now completed, and in a day or so a prog c amme f or th e season will appear, in which will be fou nd the names of some of our best and most talented acto rs and actresses. The " starring' sys tem will be comp] etely avoided, and the beauties of the legitimate drama will be given in a style of fir:it-rate excellence. Anti ! tone i s to be the first production. The enterprizing losses ) has our best wishes for his suocess. Mr. Saint Am ant, Governor of the Tuileries after the departure of 7 :Jouis Philippe on the 24th February, has arrived in Lor don. This gentleman is the celebrated chess player who l las obtained so high a reputat ion both in England and of . the Continent. N.9.17,402.] LONDON, WEDNESDAY G GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. CALLS for SEVENTH INSTALMENT of 3/. 10s. per SHARE on 251. Shares, making 211. paid, and for FIFTH INSTAL MENT of 31. 10s. per SHARE on 171. Shares, making 131. paid. The Directors of the Great Western Railway having resolved, at a meeting held this day, to CALL, under the provisions of the Acts of Parliament, for an instalment if 3/. 10s. per Share on 251. Shares ; and also for an Instalment of N. 10s. per Share on 171. Shares ; Notice Is hereby given, that the Proprietors are requested to pay, on or before the sth day if July next, to any of the undermentioned bankers, the said sum of 3/. 10s. en each of their respective 25/. Shares ; and the like sum of 3/. 10s. on each if their respective 17/. Shares, viz.:— London—Mescrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co. ; at the Great West era Railway Office, 29, Gresham-street, City. Bristol--Messrs. Mlles, Harford, and Co.; Messrs. Bernie, Ames, and Co. ' • Stuckey's Banking Company ; the West of Eng land and South Wales District Bank. Liverpool—The Bank of Liverpool. . _ Cheltenham—The County of Gloucester Bank. Beading—Messrs. J. and C. Shnonds and Cip. By order of the Board of Directors, CHAS. A. 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It is objected that he ought to include in the list of debts certain old debts as to which he was discharged by this Court a few years ago, and that this , brings with it the necessity of calling himself a trader, some of these debts having been contracted by him when in trade, and then it is urged that being a trader, owing 3001., he cannot petition under the new Act. I will pass at once to the point which has been argued, whether the debits of a former prison insolvency are to , be included. Does the party petitioning come before us owing those debts within the meaning of this statute? I have not before had the opportunity of dealing with this question, and have never intimated an acquiescence in the opinion which is commonly said to prevail. It is a question which I ought to entertain with much caution, because in deciding one way, I should. as I conceive, contradict the principles on which the law of this Court has hitherto stood, and stultify our own practice, as it has prevailed for thirty years. Some are satisfied with this truism, that the debts of an insolvency are not absolutely extinguished but, exist until paid, and declare, as a necessary consequence that they are to be reckoned in the total whose amount regulates the competency to petition. I must de cline so rapid a conclusion. Words are to be con strued with regard to the subject- matter in which they are employed. The subject-matter is this—a man surrenders all his estate and effects present and future for payment of his debts ; he desires to have protection against process for his debts, and the owners of the debts are to share in the property which shall be obtained as the result of his petition. It seems reasonable that in all these propositions " debts" should mean thd same thing. The words of the Act are—" A person being a trader, but owing debts under 3001. may petition. The peti tion shall have annexed to it a full and true schedule of debts with names and dates of contracting the debts severally, the nature of the debts, and the security." Surely the debts which he owes for the purposes of this Act are those in respect of which he seeks an advantage to himself by the protection of his person on the one hand, and in respect of which his creditors are to have the benefit of his estate, on the other hand. By these tests let the question be tried. The first test is easily disposed of. The petitioner is no petitioner as to the debts of the past insolvency. His protection as to them was pronounced long ago: he cannot ask to alter the terms of it. The latter test gives the one topic to be discussed, Is the property that shall be obtained under a new insolvency distributable only among the creditors, as to whom pro tection is sought, or also among creditors under prior insolvencies, as to whom protection is not sought ? The argument must be the same as if the party were again petitioning under the Insolvent Act The cre ditor's right of suit under either scheme depends ou the position in which he and his debtor stood before this new insolvency took place—that is to say, in the rela tion which was established between them for the time to come, when the latter received the benefit of a discharge. There is no provision in the new laws which professes to alter their relative rights and liabilities. The defini tion of a petitioner—" trader owing debts under 3001." —cannot be held to impart to the creditors of a former insolvency new powers over property present or future ; and the question of letting them into proof and dividend is the same as if that definition had not been expressed. Thus the point to be discussed resolves itself into a question which has been constantly before us ever since this Court was constituted, and which has received one uniform decision. The former creditors have never been inserted in a schedule, neither individually nor in a mass. They have never received notices never been admitted to oppose ; never allowed to receive a dividend. So much has the contrary prevailed, that even when such parties have obtained from the debtor fresh securities they have been rejected, and told that their claims belonged to a former and a different insolvency. When the law (as was the case ten years ago) re quired the consent of a certain number of creditors for a man to petition a second time within five years, the creditors of a former insolvency had no voice in the question. If such:creditors are to be admitted now then in a prison case, their debts must be included in the warrant of attorney, which will contradict the 90th section of the Act, which denies effect to all judg ment, except that which they have already got; in a protection case they will share in taking a vested interest in all future estates, which by enlarging, contradicts the terms in which the former insolvency placed them. Either result appears equally perverse. If we were required thus to blend all the insolvencies of a very insolvent life, it would be necessary to parti cularise all the debts of all in the last schedule. Each creditor is entitled to know all his competitors. He knows little by reading, the provisional assignee's name with a lumping security for claims that have never been sifted. Moreover, the Act itself requires " a full schedule, with names and dates of contracting the debts severally, with securities." If not particularised, how can they be challenged ? Those whose practice I think to have been erroneous never proposed that an assignee should prove for the whole body; nor was it ever done. Each had to come for himself. This appears in one case to have raised the question whether any such old claim could be repelled by the statute of limitations; and here it occurs to one to say, that if to such a claim a man could desire to plead that statute he would not bo allowed to do so; but the reason would be this, that a creditor cannot be under a penalty for neglecting to sue when the law has prohibited him from suing. The debtor, in such a case, needs no such plea; he has a higher ground of defence—whether six years or only three have elapsed—he cannot be sued. The statute has in terms disabled the creditors from all suit, " except on the judgment entered up by order oi this court," and most especially disentitles him from coming forward against the debtor in any new state of insolvency. It is quite certain that none of those whom we hear speak of as old creditors can compel a new in solvency. In order to do this a man must be a detaining creditor, and the old one cannot become a detaining creditor. The same thing prevents him from driving the debtor to seek protection under the new laws; he has it already against such parties. The debt, we know, is not extinguished for all intents and purposes, but the power of proceeding for the recovery of it is extinguished excepting upon the judgment in the several ways pre scribed by t h e statute. Those peculiar methods of se eking p a y ment rema i n open to him; but the statute limits the employments even of those to the marks the future relation case of the debtor coming into a solvent state. is be th tw at ee t n he a The most important and definite feature which solvent and his jurisdic tionspdeicsicahlaredin contrived by the statute for making after-acquired property available, is not to be exercised, " if it shall appear that the debtor is of ability to pay." This con dition attaches to the exercise of all future proceedings in favour of creditors, under the 87th, 88th, and 89th sections of the Act. There can be nu suit except upon the judgment, therefore no suit whatever by individuals, fur suit upon thej udgrnent is on behalf of all together. The first of these clauses provides execution on the judgment. The next constrains him, when pos sessed of property not subject to execution, to transfer so much as the Court shall direct " towards satisfaction of the judgment." The third compels those who hold money, &c., belonging to him to deliver it for the " be 'left of the creditors entitled to claim under the judgment." These are but different modes of satisfying the judgment, all J sub ect to the scrutiny of th e C o u r t into the debtor's " abl ilit y to pay." These words have always appeared to me of essential import in defining the state of debtor and creditor after au insolvency. But I do not perceive that these words have ever been notified by those whose arguments and decisions are re ported for us. There is the leading case iu matters of bankruptcy, where the judge quotes at length every clause in the Act which can be brought upon such a question, excepting only these words which disclose and illustrate the whole principle of the subject. Some of the earlier Acts not only express this principle, but define the meaning of it. By the 14th sec. of 53d Geo. 111., o. 102, " If the insolvent shall become able to pay all or part of his debts, atter a reasonable allowance for the maintenance of him and his family, and payment of his debts contracted since his discharge, the creditors may apply for leave to proceed against him, and in case it shall appear to the satisfaction of the Court that he is of ability to pay, it shall be lawful for the Court to re voke the discharge, or to permit execution to be taken out on the judgment." The present Act exhibits the same contingency, "if it shallappear that he is of ability to pay' the meaning of which, namely, ability after payment of new debts, has been recognised by the Court ever since I be longed to it, now twenty-four years. We constantly have inquiries into the truth of new debts, when al leged in resistance of a claim made to our discretion upon fresh property. It is plain that if a man becomes wealthy, not having new creditors, the old ones can never deal with his substance by bringing on a process of insolvency. They must resort to the special jurisdiction of this Court under the insolvency to which they be long. Why, then, should the accident of his having a new creditor who can arrest give them introduction to that process? The new creditors may enforce payment through that process. The old ones must follow the pro visions of the statute in their pursuit of the surplus. There is indeed in the opposite doctrine this enormous absurdity : if a man has new creditors, and just property enough to pay them in full, the Court, while none of these ar rest, can by no means whatever interfere with his pro perty in favour of the old list, because the condition of helping them is wanting—he is not more than solvent. If, however, he has enough only to pay the new ones half-a-crown in the pound, and one of them shall arrest and petition, then, according to that theory the old ones may rush in, and set the condition, ability to pay, at defiance, actually resting their claim on his inability to pay either one set of creditors or the other. Can any man study the insolvent Acts from that of 1813 to the present day, and not discern the policy of these laws ? It is that a man shall be able to earn himself a livelihood, not ha rassed for his debts; that his struggle for subsistence shall not be frustrated by the invasion of his means of subsistence; that his past debts shall only be a charge on the contingency of a clear surplus estate. This policy is set at nought if the old creditors can, by finding one new man to arrest, procure a second insolvency for their own benefit. The further removed a man shall be from a state of surplus, the surer will be the scheme of oppression in the facility of finding the instrument of oppression. Such a state of things is warranted by no words in any statute, and is prohi bited by the whole tenor and principle of the laws which this Court is required to administer. It remains that I should notice the grounds on which a contrary opinion seems to be founded. It is known that the scheduled creditors of a discharged insolvent have been permitted by the Court of Bankruptcy to prove under a subsequent fiat. I admit that there is analogy. But if my observations have been just; if the laws of this Court limit the faculty of claiming payment to the predicament of a clear surplus estate, this Court is to respect the'law, notwithstanding the practice of another Court of similar character. But more is to be said—the admission of such proofs in bankruptcy has been introduced on the supposed authority of one single common law decision—" Jellis v. Mountford" 4 Barn. and Ald. 256. I dispute the application of that authority—the ques tion in that case was upon a prior bankruptcy, not a subsequent one. One Boutlidge had become bank rupt, that is, had committed an act of bankruptcy before he passed through this Court ; and the questio i n was, whether, after he had gone through this Court, it was too late to prove that bankruptcy; whether a creditor named in the schedule was not barred from bringing forward his debt as a foundation of the bankruptcy. It was decided that he might petition on that debt. In that instance there would of course be no diffi culty on the proof of debts ; for the bankruptcy once established took all the funds by priority, and creditors could not be deprived of their right against the funds by the discharge of the debtor, under an insolvency which was in law posterior to the bank ruptcy. This is the case which has been made the ex cuse for permitting proof of such a debt in a new bank ruptcy twenty years afterwards, for holding that a creditor having received his share of assets under an in solvency, may ate, any distance of time share in the now assets of a new insolvency. I have ex plained my reasons for thinking that such position violates the principles and enactments of the insolvent law; but let us suppose those principles brought to the notice of higher tribunals, which I am not aware that they ever have been, would this case be allowed to sub vert them? I think not. In applying the decision of a Court as a precedent, we must look to the case which was before the Court; and not merely make a handle of particular expressions, avoiding to noti ce th e facts to which they were applied. In thatcase there was a competi tion between a bankruptcy and au insolvency for the title to a failing man's estate, and the point was decided in favour of the former. The result was that the proceedings in this court, excepting only the award of personal liberty, became void. As to debts and property, present and future, our jurisdiction was utterly superseded. In pronouncing the decision which was clearly right on grounds of commercial policy, the Court expresses that most unquestionable proposition, that the debt was not extinguished ; and they sanction the use of it to a most legitimate purpose, the purpose of enabling the creditor to charge his debtor with an act of bankruptcy, that shall over-reach the title under the insolvency. The misapplication of this case as a precedent consists in an extravagant value given to the proposition that a scheduled debt is not extinguished to all intents and purposes. It is not therefore alive and available to all intents and purposes. It seems to me that the case ceases to be a precedent, when you want to use such a debt for a totally different purpose from that for which it was permitted to be used there. Ob serve then, in that case, there was no succession of in solvencies or bankruptcies as iu the question now before us. There was no newly acquired property as there is here. There was one state of insolvency, and the contest was by which tribunal the affairs should be administered —in short, it was a question of priority, or rather of the right to prove priority, and the means of proving it. The Chief Jus tbeass." Mr. Justice assignee assets," Jus tice says, "It may be important tor creditors that a com elegcollect that th e di sc h arge h as has a more exten sivem com mission i poweron sho of We issueem recovering the se ; trirn Bayly says, no operation as against creditors not named in the schedule, any of these creditors, therefore, might lawfully sue out a commission, and then the same effect would take place. and all the property of the insolvent would vest in the assignees appointed under that commission. Now to prevent this inconvenience, which would be still greater than those suggested, it seems to me that the creditors named in the schedule ought to have the power of suing out a commission, for they cannot be sure that the creditors not named may not after wards make their whole proceedings void. Besidesj their remedy under the bankrupt laws is much more extensive than under the Insolvent Act; here, the pay ment of money to the defendant was void under the bankrupt laws, and the petitioning creditor, finding that he cannot set it aside under the Insolvent Act, has obtained a commission, and is seeking to distribute the proceeds among all the creditors of the bankrupt." Is the Learned Judge here talking with a view to future trading and future acts of bankruptcy? Certainly not, for against them the title :in this court is 4 safe. He speaks on the subject before him, a commission that may overreach the insolvency, and, as be expresses it, make the whole proceedings void. His point is, that the creditors should not lose their option of the stronger title. It has always been a blemish in the law that creditors cannot more readily compel an insolvent trader to a bankruptcy, and I apprehend that the Courts have been inclined to aid rather than im pede them in their resort to this process against the trader's estate. It was not expedient that his own act of petitioning this Court should disable them from proceeding in bankruptcy or their discovering that he had committed an act which would over-reach the title of our assignee, and place the funds in the other court. " J e lli s a. M oun tford " was decided in favour of that principle in 1821 ; and by the Insol vent Act of 1824, creditors were relieved from all difficulty on the subject, by a provision that the very act of petitioning should itself be an act of bankruptcy. When I framed the Act which was passed in 1826, I found there was great injustice in this, for the assignee of a man subject to the bankrupt laws could never know whether his title was safe, as the:very faction wh i ch it rested could any d ay be brought forward in support of a commission to overthrow it. :I represented this to Lord Eldon, who was sufficiently jealous on behalf of the bankruptcy ju risdiction, and on behalf of its presiding deity,*.the Lord Chancellor. But his admirable sense of jus tice sanctioned the alteration which I required, and the result was that provision which now stands the 39th clause of the present Act. It is a sta tute of limitations providing that the title in this court shall not be avoided by a bankruptcy, unless the bankruptcy be adjudicated before the gazetted day of hearing, or within two calendar months from the vesting order, and this limitation holds good, however early may be the act of bankruptcy which can be proved, and whether the debt for supporting the fiat was duly scheduled or o m itted. I feel assured that neither Lord Eldon, in assenting to this enact - ment, nor the judges of the King's Bench in deciding " Jellis v. Mountford" had any notion of dealing with a case such as is argued now —th e the debts of an old insolvency interfering with new as sets in a new insolvency. Notwithstanding some re marks that are questionable, and others that are super fluous, I feel confident both that the decision was a sound and wise one, and that it is quite inappli cable to the case now before us. In showing that this case is no precedent for the question before us, I excuse myself from imitating the practice in bank ruptcy, which professes to be founded upon it; [but as two cases upon that practice have been reported. I will advert to them. In ex parte "Barrington," 2 Mont. and Ayrton, 225, which was before the Commissioners of the Great Seal in 1835, it was held that such a debt as we speak of may support a fiat, and in ex-parte " Fen wick," 14 months afterwards, this was followed by the Court of Review. In the former case the Court took time to consider the judgment, so that one may expect to find whatever strength of argument the subject ad mits of. Lord Commissioner Shadwell begins with saying, " The question is, whether this fiat be good, the peti tioning creditor being inserted iin the schedule in the Insolvent Debtors' Court. It is insisted that his name and debt being therein, the debt is gone and destroyed for all purposes." Now, I must be excused for saying that I do not find any sushi monstrous proposition put forward by counsel in that case or any other that I have seen, and yet neatly the whole of these judgments are employed in combat ting- this imagined proposition. The Learned Judge, who quotes at length many clauses of the sta tute, proceeds to repeat that " the Legislature has not, in positive terms, declared the debt extinct for all pur poses. After quoting the 57th section, excepting only t he very important words, " if it shall appear that he is of ability to pay," his Lordship observes—" This clause clearly shows that the debts still exist in the contempla tion of the Legislature." There is then, this comment on the 91 st section: "It appears to me that this section applies only to legal proceedings, for though the word `suit' might apply to a suit in equity, yet at law the proceeding is denominated a suit. M oreove r, this section speaks of " r e pl y ," w hi c h expres sion is inapplicable to a suit i n equity. The judgment then reverts to the main to p ic, s aying, Even if this sec tion did apply to suits in equity, the language of the whole Act proves that no intent to dis charge from a debt existed:" Lord COM. missioner Bosanquet speaks to the same effect excepting that he does not declare proof in bankruptcy to be a suit in equity. He inquires only whether the debt was utterly dead and gone, saying, " The ques tion is whether the Act discharges the debt? Is the discharge complete in all respects, or qualified? If the Act intended to discharge from the debt, it is very badly worded. If the Act intended completely to discharge the debt, it would have been easy to have done so, and there is nothing to enable a Court to draw an inference the other e ea — . , e The leading idea that is thus laboured, is that the debt is not absolutely extinct. No one ever thought or said that it was. The idea is suggested only by those who combat it. The most superficial notice of the statute shows that the debt is not extinct. What then ? A debt may be ex tinct for one purpose, and not extinct for another. The debt of one who has his debtor in execution is ex tinct her some purposes. He cannot sue him again, and he cannot have execution against his property. Accord ' in l he cannot institute a bankruptcy which is both a g 9/ By F. B. COURTENAY, M.R.C.S.E. Published by 11. BaiMere, 219, Regent-street ; Maclachlan, Stew art, and Co., Edinburgh ; Hodges and Smith, and Pannier and Co., Dublin ; Simms and Denham, Manchester ; Deighton and Laughton, Liverpool; and all Booksellers. N 7 JULY 5, 1848. suit and an execution. But his debt is not extinguished to all purposes. If another man has instituted a bank ruptcy he may release the debtor and prove the debt also; if the debtor die in custody, the right of execution against land and goods is revived. Let us not then be told that the debt, because not absolutely extinct, can share in the scramble under successive insolvencies, and that a court of law is not to consider in any case the principle which should admit it or exclude it. Such in difference to principle does not characterise the decision on matters of bankruptcy. Observe the cases in which the Courts have refused&to give effect to a second com mission, where the party is uncertificated in the first; or to a third, where he has not paid 15s. in the second. In those cases judges might have said, " A debt is a debt, a trading is a trading, and an act of bankruptcy is an act of bankruptcy; and we sitting in a court of law must pronounce the commission to be valid." They have not so reasoned; they have embraced views of public policy and declared the nullity of assignments where there can be nothing to assign—views sanctioned by a long series of decisions of Lord Eldon, Lord Tenterden, and Sir Nicolas Tindal, and which stand unimpeached, although the words in which they have sometimes been expressed were disapproved by a Lord Chancellor, as importing a limit to his power. I allude to them only for vindicating in the consideration of such questions a regard to principles and policy. In the second case, ex-parte " Fen wick," 2 Montague andjAyrton, 681, I find one remark not in the other case, namely," This case is like a trust deed of composition without a release." It seems to me that there is the greatest dissimilarity. After such a deed there are covenanted instalments, the full payment of which is frustrated by the bankruptcy. Something, therefore is to be claimed under the bankruptcy. No such payment can be in progress after an insolvency ; on the contrary, all is gone save a contingency, with which bankruptcy is utterly inconsistent. While the operation of a discharge by this Court thus prohibits proof in bankruptcy, the statute of bankruptcy itself seems to repudiate such a proof. By the 46th section proof may be made by a creditor. Creditor means a man armed with ordinary legal rights. Now, such rights belong to the old creditor we speak of. By the 51st section, another sort of person may prove; one who has given credit to the bankrupt for something payable at a future time. No such credit exists in the case we speak of ; for the indefinite delay of payment is not credit, but the act of the law, and no future time is ascertainable. By the 56th section another sort of per son may prove, one whose debt is payable on a contin gency; or, if hereafter such contingency shall happen, then h e may prove the debt. There is, indeed, a con tingency on which the claims we speak of may be brought forward, but it is a contingency incapable of valuation, and therefore incapable of proof—the contin gency of solvency and surplus. Moreover, it can never arise, so long as a certificate is worth asking for. I can imagine that one, who admits the strength of what has been urged on the words and principle of insolvent-law, to be perplexed with a seeming difficulty, and to argue thus:—" If the bankrupt shall get his certificate, it will bar all debts, and among them the old insolvency debts, operating a satisfaction of the judgment ; therefore the old debts must be proveable." I would answer by say ing, " We do not reason from certificate to proof, but from proof to certificate." If I show that such a debt is not to be proved, it follows that the certificate has no effect upon it. Look, however, again to the Act, and study the certificate clauses. The ex tent of the privilege gained to a man by that instrument will appear by the provisions made for his availing himself of it. By the 42d clause of the last Bankrupt Act, " If ho shall be arrested or have any action brought against him for any debt, claim, or demand hereby made proveable under the commis sion, he shall be discharged upon entering an appear ance, and may plead that the cause of action accrued before ho became bankrupt." The discharged insolvent is as a man who needs not a certificate to shield him against arrest or action for a debt scheduled in this court. Again,- "If he shall be taken in execution or detained order him to be discharged." The debt of an old insol vency n prison has t b b e r u e e s e c b h t a de i n e b d t , before claim, o certificate, demand, awher ejudge mentshall is no object of this privilege; the bankrupt was safe against arrest and execution before the certificate existed or the bankruptcy either. For all these reasons I cannot help thinking that the Courts of Bankruptcy have been wrong in admitting old insolvency creditors to a dividend. The question has not arisen in a court of law. It might arise, if the Court of Queen's Bench were asked, on the ground of a certificate' to prohibit this Court from exercising its powers over a surplus estate acquired bys a party tater his bankruptcy. The question would be a new one in that court, so, perhaps, would be the assertion of the obvious principles of the in solvent law made by Mr. Cooke in this argument, principles which have long been familiar to my appre hension, and cherished for the sound justice in which they are founded. My conjecture is that the Court of Queen's Bench would recognise those principles, that they would hold the old debt not proveable, and that the contingent interest left to the creditor by the insolvency, the right to ask the aid of this Court in the event of the debtor owning some day a surplus estate, is an interest not capable of proof, and that if ever such predicament shall be attained, the peculiar powers which the law re served to this Court at the insolvency, will survive, not withstanding any number of bankruptcies and certifi cates that may have intervened. There is one other point alluded to in the cases—namely, that payment of a scheduled debt may be sought in bankruptcy, because this process is not by name prohibited. It appears to me that all individual suit whatever is prohibited. Besides defining t o o n f the justly debtor's con strued are ample for the purpose. The words are— " Any suit except upon the judgment." What is suit upon the Judgment? It is the execution or other process which this Court may permit agai ns t a s t a t e o f sol vency, and the petitions and applications made to this Court for sanctioning such process. This is itself a liberal use of the word suit, and the one clearly-expressed exception takes away all doubt from the extent of the thing spoken of, the suits which are prohibited. All is prohibited, except upon the judgment under the control of this Court. There is high authority that favours us in claiming the most liberal interpretation to the words of the 91st section, which protect the discharged insolvent from the aggres sion of individual creditors. Lord Mansfield had held that the statute of limitations did not prevent a creditor from taking out a commission of bankruptcy, as it ex tended only to the remedies by action mentioned in the statute, not extinguishing the debt, nor taking away other remedy—" Fowler v. Brown," 1 Cooke's B. 4. 13. This was overruled by Lord Eldon. He gave a larger and more liberal interpretation, saving, in his admirable and most deliberate judgment, in ex parte "Dewdney,",ls Yes. 477—" A commission of bankruptcy is nothing more than a substitution of the authorities of the Lord Chan cellor enabling him to work out the payment of those creditors who could by legal action, or equitable suit, have compelled payment ; and the objection upon the statute of limitation may be sustained." Now, when we imagine in either statute what proceedings are ex cluded, the words of' the Insolvent Act are far more comprehensive than those of the Act called the statute of limitations. Every limitation in the 21 Jac. 1., c. 16, is applied in terms to some particular sorts of action, and to those only ; there are no general words whatever, and yet the principle of the Act has been ruled to extend to proof in bankruptcy and to proceedings in equity, both unmentioned in the Act. Much stronger are the grounds for construing liberally restriction of suit in the Insol vent Act. There is the large general expression " any suit," strengthened by one most pointed exception, the expression which excludes the exceptions—that which is excepted in the proceeding upon, and in aid of the judgment, and the policy of the provision becomes still clearer, when we see such proceeding limited to the case of ability to pay. The one case in equity, quoted at the bar, is in the strongest confirmation of the principle by which I abide. Those Courts maintain their right of deciding with assets for the scheduled creditors of de ceased persons, who have at any time obtained the benefit of an Insolvent Act, but those Courts aid them only with that estate which shall survive the payment of later creditors. This principle is derived from the Insolvent Act; it is declared to be so, and cannot be traced to any other source. In "Barton v. Tattersall," 1 'hiss. and Mylne, 237, Sir John Leach decided, where a party had in his lifetime gone through two insolvencies, that the new debts which had never been in this Court, must be paid first; that the debts of the second insol vency must be paid next, and those of the first insolvency paid last, and why last? Because by the relation estab lished between debtor and creditor by that first in solvency, a relation so discernible in the policy of those laws, they could only share in future property, when it should present a surplus after satisfying now debts. I think that lam supported by the words of the written law, by the worthiest portion of precedents, and by the whole weight of principle in saying that the old credi tors cannot be admitted to share under a new insolvency of their debtor at an after period of his life. OUTLAWRY.—The following persons were demanded under outlawry process issued against them into London at the busting, held on the 3d of July, 1848, at the Guildhall, London:—Frederick William Loveband Pol lard, at the suit of Robert Merton; John Penlease, at the suit of Thomas M'Gauran; John Busk, at the suit of Abraham Joseph; Samuel Ellis Bristow, at the suit of the Hon. Francis Henry William Needham; Joseph Pike, at the suit of Sir Peter Laurie, Knt., and others; John Ainslie, at the suit of George Webster; Henry Patteson, at the suit of Thomas Flight; George Stanley, at the suit of Anne Griffiths and another; Thomas Henry Horsford Bingley, at the suit of Robert Gordon; James Ball, at the suit of Kennett Kingsford, the elder, and others. THE NORTH - W ES T ERN RAILWAY.—On Saturday the mail express and first-class trains on this line of railway were accelerated, the distance betwen Rugby and the other stations being performed in from thirty to fifty minutes less time than formerly. An entire alter ation also took place in the time-table. Government are raising sea fencibles on this coast. It is expected that this town will furnish about 300. They will be exercised, as formerly, ten days in the course of the year, and be paid 2s. a day. Our young fishermen eagerly enrol themsel ves, as, in the event of a war, it would guarantee them against impress ment,—Brighton Herald. LAMBETH REGATTA. The twenty-eighth annual contest amongst the water men at the above place, for a purse of sovereigns given by the inhabitants of St. Mary's, Lambeth, took place on Monday, and, notwithstanding the inauspicious state of the weather, drew a very largo assemblage of spec tators. The race was in two heats, with twelve pair of oars:— FIRST HEAT. Edward Perry and William Wilson (Yellow) 1 John Maynard and Edward Perry .(White) 2 James Maynard and John Wyld (Pink) 3 William Perry and Richard Wilson (Scarlet) 4 William Richards and Henry Shelton (Blue) 0 George Wilson and Joseph Arthur (Green) 0 They rowed from Westminster•bridge up to Burnett's Distillery, down the Surrey shore, to a boat off the King's Arms Stairs, and finished off Lambeth Palace. The winners took the lead shortly after the start, and kept it. GRAND 31EAT. Edward Perry and W. Wilson John Maynard and E. Perry James Maynard and John Wyld 3 Tho distance was reversed, the men atm ting from Vauxhall-bridge, rowing down to the King's Arms Stairs up to the distillery, and back to Lambeth Palace. It was an excellently contested heat, the whole going away together. White, yellow and pink then went a trifle in advance, and were oar and oar, with slight varia tions, for about half a mile. Yellow then went into the first place, closely pressed by white, pink being for some distance close upon the latter's quarter. Yellow gradu ally went more in advance, and won by ten lengths. This heat was rowed in the presence of upwards of a thousand spectators. SUICIDE IN THE HOUSE OF DETENTION.—At Bow-street, on Saturday, two swell mobsmea, of the names of Collett, alias Musty, and Ginger;alias Stone, were remanded char g ed with a robbery at Messrs. Cocks and Biddulph's. The two prisoners were sent to the House of Detention, as the New Prison, Clerken well, is named. As is the custom, upon their arrival they were both searched, b u t not hi ng b e i ng•found of a suspicious nature they were, as is customary, locked up in their respective cells. On Sunday morning, on the turnkey of the ward going his rounds to open the sleep ing cells, he discovered Collett hanging, apparently quite dead, with his coat off and his shirt sleeves turned up, and the left arm covered with clotted blood. The deceased was immediately cut down, and the medical attendant on the prisoners was instantly in attendance, who pronounced that the deceased had been dead for some hours. Upon examining the arm, three wounds were found evidently done with an intention of bleeding to death, for the de ceased had fastened his handkerchief for a ligature round the arm, but having fixed it below instead of above the elbow, no blood would flow; and this no doubt led to the infliction of the two other wounds. The loss of blood being very little, the deceased then hung himself. Upon searching the cell to ascertain by what instrument the wounds had been inflicted, a small penknife, which had escaped detection, was found; while, as a proof of the de termination that actuated the deceased, ho had, by rub bing the blade on the stone, reduced the termination of the blade to a fine and sharp point, so as to act in the room of a lancet. At three o'clock an inquest was held before Mr. Wakley, when the jury returned a verdict in accordance with the evidence. DINNER TO THE SPECIAL CONSTABLES OF ST. PAUL'S, COVENT GARDEN.--Monday, at three o' c lo c k, an exce llent and substantial dinner was given to the special constables in the parish of St. Paul's, Covent garden. It took place at Highbury Barn, and was at tended by more than 300 persons. Mr. Robert Few, who was leader of the parish force on the memorable 10th of April, filled the chair, and discharged its duties with great spirit. He prefaced the different toasts he had to propose with very sensible observations upon the mutual dependence which existed between the master and his workmen, and the lamentable results to which a misunderstanding of these relations had led on the continent, and particularly in France. Mr. Few was supported by the Rev. J. P. Nicholson, Mr. Moseley, and other gentlemen connected with St. Paul's, Covent garden, each of whom took part in the proceedings, and endeavoured to promote the goodwill and right feeling among all classes, which the dinner was held to cele brate. A very valuable addition to the enjoyments of the evening consisted in the talents of a well chosen band of vocalists, who, under the direc tion of Mr. Green, delighted the company with a suc cession of glees, madrigrals, and songs, sentimental and comic. Mr. Genge, Mr. Binge, Mr. H. Smith, and Mr. Sharpe, each in his own department, exerted themselves to the utmost, and, judging by the applause with which they were received, not unsuccessfully, to please. An original comic song by the last named gentleman, in which " the specials" were covered with a good deal of clever ridicule, created a vast amount of merriment, and it is to be feared went far to defeat the chairman's well intentioned efforts to prove that the position which the company held on the 10th of April was a very serious one. The room in which the dinner took place was handsomely decorated for the occasion, and among other inscriptions on the walls was Nelson's celebrated signal at Trafalgar, which the men at St. Paul's Covent garden, no :doubt, conceived to have a special applica tion to themselves. When " The resident and non resident special constables of the parish" was given as a toast, Mr. Moseley, who returned thanks, facetiously observed that, (though they had Rot been at Waterloo, they were all:resolved on " the 10th" to die in defence of Waterloo-bridge. During the entire evening the utmost regularity and propriety of conduct prevailed, and at an early hour the festivities terminated. It is due to the Duke of Bedford to state that he contributed 201. towards the expenses of the entertainment. A handsome dessert of fruit was also provided, gratuitously, by Messrs. Israel and Webber, members of the commit tee of management. WESTMINSTER REFORM SOCIETY.-012 Monday a general meeting of the members of this society, whose object was to extend the franchise, and to send to Par liament two representatives who advocate their principles as reformers, was held at the York Hotel, Upper Wel lington-street. Mr. W. Geeson took the chair. The minutes of the proceedings which took place at the last meeting were read, and on the question of their confirmation being put, Mr. Prout said that he wished to propose an amendment on the following grounds, that ho thought it would not be prudent to confirm the minutes of the last meeting, as no, notice was given to the members that at that meeting it was intended to re vise and alter the general rules on which the society was founded. His amendment was " that the society having at their meeting of the 19th ult. materially changed its principles and mode of government without having given any previous notice thereof to the mem bers, and as a large majority of them must have been ignorant of such an intended alteration, the present meeting refrain from confirming the minutes, and con vene a special meeting for the reconsideration of the alteration made in their rules and principles."—Mr. Cribb seconded the amendment, which was put and lost by a large majority.—The minutes were then confirmed. —Mr. Pouncey thought that if the resolution which he would now propose was carried, perfect satisfaction would be afforded to all the members of the society. He moved "That a special general meeting of this society be called for Monday, the 17th of July, to reconsider the rules and principles adopted on the 19th of June." Mr. Laeram seconded the motion. Dr. B rett moved, and a member seconded, an amendment, that it be not entertained, which was carried, and the original motion lost. It was then agreed that 1,000 copies of the revised rules be printed and circulated, and a letter hav ing been read from Sir De Lscy Evans, stating his deter mination to support the petition, which the meeting sent to Mr. Lushington for presentation to Parliament, the meeting separated. THE LATE INQUEST.—The long protracted inquest on Mrs. Hill terminated on Wednesday last, and resulted in a verdict amounting to wilful murder against the hus band. The unhappy ma n has, by his own act, plac e d himself before a higher tribunal and the judgment of his fellow-men is now of no effect as regards him per sonally ; but this inquiry has involved a matter which concerns society at large upon a very important point. It was shown that Hill had, in June, 1847, effected an insurance on the joint lives of himself and his wife for 2,9991., to be paid to the survivor on the death of either, and it was tho death of the wife in the October following (the certificate of her [previous health, and the medical and surgical examinations, instituted before the office allowed the policy, having been of a most satisfactory nature) that led to the particular inquiries which first roused the suspicious of the officers of the Insurance Society, and occasioned the investigation before the Coroner. The proper use of Insurance Societies, as affording the means of providing for a family on the death of a father or others on whom its support may depend, or of making provisions for any of the many other events to which they are legitimately applicable, render them a blessing to society ; but they I might become its curse if allowed to be perverted to the purposes of crime, such as that developed in the case before us. Insurance offices are generally most unwill ing to dispute a policy, because a reputation of too great particularity in adjusting claims would operate to their disadvantage, by preventing business ; and we think that the courage displayed by the Insurance Office in the present case has been most praiseworthy, and entitles it to the commendation of society at large. Acting on strong convictions of justice and propriety, it has in curred a risk which might have been most detrimental to its interests, had the inquiry turned out otherwise than it has done ; but we are convinced that by all right judging and well-principled persons its conduct will be duly estimated, and that its character will be enhanced, as it is evident that the funds for settling just and ho nest claims must be more certainly adequate to that le gitimate purpose if not unhesitatingly allowed to be diminished by attempts at fraud and imposition.--Bristol Mirror. TiiE WEATRER.—We have had heavy falls of rain every day and night in the past week, and a strong desire is now entertained for more seasonable weather- Vegetation is exceedingly luxuriant. Our correspon dents, in all parts, speak well of the g rain crops; the potatoes also promise well—exceedingly well; but the turnip crop, in Cumberland, is to a great ext ent a failure. Some persons have sown seed three time a, and i in vain.—Carlisle Patriot. ■ i