The Sun. — London, England, 1848-03-22 00:00:00

F r I (THIS DAY.) tea 127aition SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Twelve o'clock. BEWDLEY ELECTION. Mr. Chalmers, the clerk of the Bewdley Election Committee, brought up the minutes of the evidence given before the Bewdley Election Committee. Mr. SCHOLEFIELD presented a petition, agreed to at a public meeting in Brighton, in favour of the People's Charter ; also a petition praying for the abo lition of the duty upon solicitors' annual certificates. Mr. P. SCRUPE presented a petition from Bal lina, in the county of Mayo, praying the House to adopt some measure for the reclamation of waste lands. Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Glasgow against the Bill for establishing diplomatic relations between this country and the Court of Rome. Mr. K. SEYMER presented a petition from the Governors of Christ Hospital, praying for the aboli tion of the duty on legacies left for charitable pur poses. RIVER DUN NAVIGATION (EXTENSION TO SHEFFIELD). The Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. EJECTMENT S (IRELAND.) Mr. POULETT SCROPE wished to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether any steps are being taken or contemplated by the Government for the prosecution of the parties con cerned in the illegal destruction of several houses, and the forcible ejectment of their inmates, which' took place in the Union of Galway on or about New Year's Day last, and -which occasioned the deaths of several of the unfortunate beings so ill treated ; as appeared by the evidence taken on oath before - Major Wile, Poor-law Inspector for that union, at the request of the Commissioners, printed in page 467 of the Fifth Series , of relating to the Relief of Distress and State - of the Unions in Ireland. The Hon. Member pro - ceeded at some length to read extracts from the Report of - the - Commissioners of Poor-laws in Ireland, forming the ground of his question, but was finally called to order by the" Speaker. Sir G. GREY said that it was impossible to read without feelings of considerable pain of the destruc tion of a great number of houses in the county of Galway. He was not aware, however, that the parties so destroying the property had laid themselves open to any criminal inforinatbn. It was his opinion, that if a landlord .in the exercise of his discretion acted in an unjust manner towards his tenant, the latter would have a right of civil action, but he did not think that they were- open to any criminal pro ceedings on the part of the Government._ On the motion that the order of the day be pro ceeded with, Mr. P. SCROPE said that he begged to differ from the opinion expressed by the. Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the dome Department, with respect to the persons who had forcibly ejected their tenants and destroyed their houses not being amenable to any criminal proceedings. It appeared to him, from the statements in the reports, that such conduct was punishable under the " White Boys' Act," which prohibited the destruction or pulling down of houses... In this case the unfortunate tenants had been compelled to leave their houses in the middle of a cold and inclement night, and their houses were im mediately destroyed. It was nothing more nor less, in his opinion, than a system of agrarian outrage carried on by the more powerful classes, for which many of the poorer and weaker classes had been im prisoned or transported. Sir G. GREY said that he;deprecated the facts of the case as much as any Hon. 11! ember ; all that he had stated was to the effect that he did not think that the Government had the power to institute criminal proceedings'against the landlords for the commission of such acts. Mr. B. ROCHE said that it appeared to him that the whole of these evils were the result of the opera tion of the " quarter-acre" clause, which the Irish Members had ♦ainly requested the House to repeal. With respect. to the right of the ejected tenant to bring a civil action against the landlord, it was a perfect farce to talk of such things, or suppose that a poor wretch stripped of everything, turned out of his dwelling, and -compelled to seek refuge in the union workhouse, could carry on an expensive suit against the rich and powerful landlord. Was it to be sup posed that the poor people of Ireland could feel any thing like confidence in a Government which treated them in this cruel and unfeeling manner ? The whole object of the legislation of the House appeared to he to protect and give impunity to the rich landlord in his oppression of the poor. Sir W. SOMERVILLE denied that these eject• ments were the results of the " quarter-acre" clause ; there was no proof whatever to show that those so ejected were the holders of only quarters of acres ; they might, for aught they knew, be the holders of eight or ten acres. lie quite agreed in the opinion of his Right Hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department, that the Government had no power whatever to institute criminal proceedings against the landlords for these ejections and destruc tion of houses. Sir A. BROOKE deprecated the wholesale charges which were brought against the landlords of Ireland. If cases of oppression and injustice occurred he was perfectly willing that the names of such persons should be made known and held up to public repro bation.— (Hear, hear.) Mr. REYNOLDS proCeeded to read further ex tracts from the•" Blue Book," in confirmation of the opinions expressed by thellon. Member for Stroud (Mr. Scrope), of the atrocity of the acts complained of, and expressed his thanks to the Hon. Member for bringing the subject before the House, and his sur prise that he should have been induced to vote against the motion recently brought forward for the appointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the poor-law, and . the causes which led to this disastrous state of things. Mr. NAPIER wished to confirm the opinion ex•. pressed by the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for ,the 'Home Departme►tit, that the Govern ment had no power to institute criminal proceedings against the landlords of Ireland. Mr. H. M. FOX suggested that Mr. Blake, the party who bad been guilty of these outrages, ought, at least, .to be removed from the commission of the peace. AGRICULTURAL TENANT RIGHT BILL. At the request of the Earl of M..RCH, Mr. PUSEY consented to postpone main this day three weeks the second reading of the Agricultural Tenant Right Bill. After a few words from Mr. Slaney, Sir G. Strickland, and Mr. Henley, tae motion was agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be read a second time this day three weeks. OUTGOING TENANTS (IRELAND) BILL. Mr. S. CRAWFORD moved the second reading of the Outgoing Tenants (Ireland) Bill. The tenant right had been, from time immemorial, treated in Ireland .as real property, and the object of the present Bill was to place the rights of outgoing tenants in Ireland upon the same footing as they were at present in Ulster, and to assimilate the common law of Ireland with that of the common law of England, as it related to the relation of land lord and tenant. One great reason why he was anxious that. the Bill should become law was, that the tenants of Ulster were attempting to invade the custom that prevailed there with respect to the rights of tenants, and it therefore became necessary to perpetuate the custom by making it law. Unless this Bill became . the law every man - in Ireland would feel that he had not a permanent title to his land, and he therefore could not be supposed to have any motive for attachment to the country. The tenant right in Ulster had proved beneficial in various ways, It bad been the means of establishing and extending manufactures, and without it they would have been in as miserable a condition as the other parts of Ireland. Commissions after commis sions had reported upon the necessity of some alteration in the law 4 landlord and tenant in Ire land ; the reports of those Commissions had been un heeded in that House, and one great object of this Bill was to-relieve it from the obloquy under which it laboured for this neglect. The ilon: Member having at some length observed upon the provisions of the different clauses of the Bill, concluded by mov ing that it be.read a second time. Mr. TRELAWNY moved that the Bill be read a second time this day six months. The Bill excited hopes in the minds of the Irish tenantry that never could be realised, and the bringing forward of such measures therefore did more harm than good. In fact, the Bill was founded upon a dangerous confis cating principle. He might, indeed, compare its prin ciple to that which would justify him in crossing the floor of the House, seizing the watch of the Hon. Member for Rochdale, and handing it over to the next passer. by.—(Oh, oh.) At all events, if it were not quite so bad as that, it partook very much of its character, and he trusted the House would throw out the Bill altogether. - Dr. POWER gave it as his opinion that the time had arrived when it was indispensably neces sary that Parliament should do something to improve the tenantry of Ireland.—(Elear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman, Who had just sat down, com pared this Bill to the act of a pickpocket, but for the life of him he could - not see what similarity there was between the ; yrinciple which actuated a thief and the principle of justice and equity, Upon" which this Bill was founded.—(Hear, hear.) The present state of the law of landlord and tenant in Ireland in flicted misery and degradation upon the great : mass of the people, and he hailed with de light any measure which was likely to have the effect of improving such a state of things. In Ulster tenant-right was admitted, and the consequence had been that the people were happy and contented. In every other part of Ireland, however, no such privi lege as tenant-right was known ; and hence the origin of the cries of _discontent which at pre sent might be heard extending from hill to hill, and re-echoing in the willies throughout the length and breadth of the sister land.—(Hear, hear.) The Bill brought in upon this subject by the Right Hon. the Secretary for Ireland was a delusion, a mockery, and a snare, while that of the Hon. Member for Rochdale contained a solid remedy for the prevail ing evils of Ireland, and he had, therefore, much pleasure in supporting the motion for its second reading. The moral which was to be drawn from all this was, that if all the landlords of Ireland were like Lord Headley, the positien of Ireland would be like Glen beg, but the fact was that the great majority of the Irish landlords was not like that Noble Lord. The people of Ireland had looked forward with the greatest anxiety to the introduction of this measure, and he had no doubt that it was the hope of this measure which had supported them through the trying circum stances in which they had been placed during the late famine. A measure of this sort had been alluded to at the opening of the session in the Queen's Speech, and foremost in the list of measures promised by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government was one for improving the relations of landlord and tenant. He most earnestly trusted, therefore, that the House would consent to pass this measure. Mr. HUME said that the Hon. Member who had last addressed the House stated very truly that in Ireland the: Irish people conducted themselves like no other nation upon earth, but when placed in other situations and under different Govern ments, their conduct became assimilated to that of both the: English and Scotch. What was the reason of this ? They were badly governed, and they were oppressed by their landlords to a most grievous extent. He had for many years lifted up his voice in favour of the fullest extension to them of the same rights and privileges enjoyed by the people of this country. If such rights were not granted to that people, then, in his opinion, the union was nothing more than a mere parchment union. He did not think that it was any answer, in refusing the extension of these rights, to say, that the people were not prepared for those rights.—(Cries• of " Hear, hear.") He was sorry th a t there was no member of her Majesty's Go vernment present; no doubt they considered that this was a measure which might safely be left to the discussion of Irish Members, but he thought that the time had now arrived when the subject ought to be taken up by the Government. He thought that the Government was much to blame for not having brought foOrard their views upon the subject. They had alreadY been assembled about five months, and nothing whatever had been done upon this subject. They had 4ot even the excuse of having had their time occupied by important measures. Since their last assembling, tbey had done nothing that he knew of, beyond pasting a Bill of Indemnity to:her Majesty's Government for interfering in the question of the currency, and voting some of the supplies.—(Hear, hear.) It was time for the House now to look around them, when they saw the hurricane which was raging everywhersi about them, .and endeavour to remove all abuses and causes of grievance.—(Hear, hear.) When the Honourable Baronet the Member for Tam worth (Sir R. Peel) left office, he stated in the paragraph of his address which closed his official career, " that he would be ready to support any measures Which her Majesty's Government might bring forward for the extension to Ireland ef perfect equality in all the rights and privileges en joyed by the people of this country." Why, then, had not some measures been brought forward :by the G-Overnment for this purpose ? Why was not some measure introduced for improving the registra tion; for equalising the representation of the country; for amendihg the jury -laws; for improving the muni cipal government of towns, and other purposes equally needed for; the improvement of the country ?—(Hear, hear.) He had been informed by a large auctioneer, that if one million of lots of land were to he put up for sale+ in the course of the ensuing year, they would find purchasers at twenty-seven years' pur chase, prOvided a good and sure title could be given to the purchasers. He had lately perused a pamphlet written by a Mr. Tuite, and he rose from that perusal fully convinced in his own mind that what was wanted to improve the condition of Ireland was a more equal distribution and allocation of the land of that country. It was because he had ever been of opinion that Ireland, like Scotland, would profit by its union with Eng land, that he was anxious to avert the consequences which might arise from a discontented popula tion, who joined in a cry for repeal or any other thing. (Hear, hear.) Let the Govern ment remove the causes of those grievance. ' and the agitation would cease.—(Hear, hear.) Under all the circumstances of the case he should advise his Hon. Friend to postpone the further consideration of his measure, in order to afford time for the Government to consider the subject, and either bring in a measure themselves, or_give their support to the present one. Sir W. SOSIERVILLk said that the lion. Mem ber who had just addressed the Ilouse could not be aware of the course which had been taken by the Government with reference to this subject, or the difficulties they, had met with in the course they had pursued. The Hon. Member for Rochdale (Mr. S. Crawford) had said that the people of Ire land would not accept of any measure which did not go on the ground of the recognition of the tenant-right of Ulster. The llon. Member bad made very extraor dinary and contradictory assertions upon this subject. On the 9th of November last that lion. Member said that mere occupation gave no tenant-right to the oc cupier. On the 11th of the same month he stated that the tenant had a right, upon giving up posses sion of his land, to sell his interest in it, but nothing whatever was said about money expended by the tenants on improvements. If the present Bill was to be allowed to pass, it would have the effect of turning the whole of Ireland into one vast field of litigation. With respect to the measure introduced by the Government, he begged to state that he had received from numerous persons competent to pronounce an opinion upon the subject, their entire concurrence in the principle of that measure, and suggesting some slight modifications in the machinery of the Bill, tending to reduce the chances of litigation. If he thought that the Bill of his Hon. Friend was likely to confer on the people of Ireland those benefits which he appeared to anti cipate from it, he would give it his most cordial support; but it • was because ' he thought no such good would result from the measure, that he felt bound to oppose the second reading of the mea sure. The effect of this Bill would, if introduced into the county of Meath, for instance, be the means of punishing all the kind and considerate landlords of that county. Suppose, for instance, a person wishing to dispose of a large quantity of land and unwilling to sell it by public sale, being anxious to keep his tenements as comfortable as possible, should dispose of it privately for a sum of 20s. per acre, it being worth 303. if sent into the market.' Suppose, then, the person purchas ing the land should immediately go_ into the market and dispose of the land, receiving for the same in immense sum as tenant-right, whiohhe would put into hii own pocket, leaving the„ original owner a number of rack-rented tenants, while. he himself pocketed the amount of the tenant-right.—(Hear.) Mr. S. CRAWFORD—There is a clause in the Bill preventing that. Sir W. SOMERVILLE--Then the Hon. Member did not intend to base his measure on the Ulster tenant-right; he had some other plan to propose. He felt it, therefore, to he his duty to op pose the second reading of the present Bill ; and he trusted that the House would not consent to allow the Bill to be further proceded with, satisfied as he was that if passed into law it would only be pro ductive'of the most serious evils to the country. Mr. B. ROCHE felt much pleasure in support ing the second reading of the Bill.: He contended that there was no means of enabling the tenants of Ireland: to gain a livelihood on the land, unless they granted the tenant-right. The Right Hon. Baronet, the Secret ar y • f or I re l an d, h a d stated that if this Bill was passed there would be one mass of litigation from one end. of Ireland to the other ; he deniedassed itwould 'thatstiad tend t tement, gr b e e a l t iei t d gt e h e a re t aisfe litigation thisßill was pin Ireland and n e e n t un i t n y c o r m eas n e w i n t. thi M ng Th s y we w re .as gni i n t g that in Ulster and the on well while in other parts of Ireland there was the confusion ? The answer was plain—the t was established there. The question they had to decide was, whether they would en courage t h e people of Ireland to ensure themselves comforts by their industry, or would allow their energies to be cramped and shackled as they were at the present time by the law as it at present stood. He most cordially sup ported the second reading of the Bill. Sir B, HALL did not object to the enfoccemei3 of tenant-right, but he did object strongly to the manner in which it was proposed to be enforced by the present Bill. He agreed with the Right Hon. Baronet, the Secretary for Ireland, that if the Bill became law, it would lead to the extension of litigation in Ireland. He did not think that the tenant-right was absolutely necessary for the well-being of Ireland ; nor did he imagine that its existence had produced such good effects as many persons imagined. The present discussion proved that there was something wrong. in the re lation of landlord and tenant in Ireland. In this country there was a sympathy be tween the landlord and tenant,:, but such was not the case in Ireland. In that country tile tenants were continually complaining of the absence of the landlords, and the moment they came among them they shot them, and then illuminated the neghbourhood, and rejoiced that they had got rid of them. He thought that the course that had been adopted by the Lord-Lieutenant for putting a stop to these outrages in Ireland had laid that country under a far greater debt of grati tude to him than was due to many Hon. Member for speeches they had made in that House. He believed that the provisions of the Bill would not meet with the approbation of the great mass of the people of Ireland. He believed that the question of tenant-right was brought forward for no other purpose than that of keeping up agitation in Ireland. The Hon. Gentleman then referred to two speeches of Mr. John O'Connell, stating what he considered tenant-right to be, and also to the statement of Mr. Foster, 7'he Time? Commissioner, whose statements with respect to Darrynane and other property in Ire land he believed to be most correct. The Hon. Baronet then proceeded to refer to the case of several parts of Ireland, for the purpose of showing that the greatest wretchedness had existed where tenant-right existed to the fullest extent, and that that wretchedness was removed when the ciptorn of tenant right was done away with. The lion. Baronet re ferred particularly to the case of the property of Lord George Hill, who on succeeding to his property in Ireland found it in a most wetched condition, and had now suc ceeded in making it fruitful, and his tenantry happy and contented, and this, too, without the exercise of any foree. Such being the case, he asked those who had property in Ireland to follow the example of Lord George Hill. As to the repeal of the Union, he believed that question would soon die a natural death if the landlords of , Ireland, like Lord G. Hill, did their duty. Hon. Gentlemen had been in the habit of re ferring to Ireland in the language of the poet, and calling her— " First flower of the earth. And first gem of the sea." He thought that the time had long since gone by when she deserved such appellations.—(Hear, hear.) Her flower had faded, and her gem had lost its lustre . ; they might revive the one, and restore the splendour of the other, but not by the means that her sons were now pursuing—they must help themselves, and God would help you.—(Hear, hear.) Parliament could never do that good for Ireland which it might do for itself if its countrymen would only pursue the right course. He felt bound, therefore, to oppose the second reading of the Bill. Mr. SADLEIR deprecated the introduction of irritating topics into the question. No one could more appreciate the efforts of Government to alleviate the distress and sufferings of the Irish people than he did, and he felt that, when the proper time arrived, they would be prepared with other measures to per manently improve the condition of Ireland. It was, in the mean time, easy for Hon. Gentlemen to get up in that House and talk largely about tenant-right, without condescending to explain what they meant by that plan. No man was more disposed to 'concede all that the tenant had a right to demand of his landlord than himself; but let them look at the question with unprejudiced eyes, and not take steps in a time of excite ment to unduly relieve the tenant at the expense of the landlord. The system of tenant-right which he wished to see legalized by an Act of the Legislature was that which was already in operation in the province of Ulster, and he hoped the House, instead of agreeing to the Bill now under dis cussion, or the Bill introduced by the Right Hon. the Secretary for Ireland, would direct them to be referred to the consideration of a Select Committee up stairs. He certainly was opposed to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Tavistock, because there could be no doubt that the tenants of Ireland had a right to ask for relief at the hands of that House ; and although he saw the seeds of future litigation in the Bill of the Honourable Member for Rochdale, he would rather vote for its second reading than consent to a proposition to post pone till a future day an abuse which certainly did exist in Ireland, and which ought to be got rid of without a moment's delay.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon: Member then proceeded to inveigh against the exist ing Irish poor-law, but he was interrupted by Lord CASTLEREAGH, who rose to order, on the ground that the poor-law of Ireland had nothing to do with , the Bill before the House. Mr. SADLEIR would readily bow to the decision of the House, and would sit down protesting that it was 'the duty of Parliament to adopt some measure to put at rest the Irish landlord and tenant question. Mr. D. O'CALLAGHAN sympathised with the motives which had induced the Hon. Member for Rochdale to bring forward this Bill, and he very much feared that its provisions did not fully meet the difficulties of the question. He had had many private conversations with the Hon. Member upon this subject, and it by no means appeared to him that the Hon. Member himself was quite satisfied that his measure was an efficient remedy for the prevailing evils. lie thought, therefore, it would be much better to leave the matter in the hands of the Government, and let them try if they could not devise some mea sure which should have the effect of settling the question to the satisfaction of all parties.—(Hear.) On the motion of Mr. Napier the debate was then adjourned till the sth of April. DERBY ELECTION. Mr. CHILDERS brought up the report of the Derby Election Committee, declaring Mr. Strutt and Mr. Gower to have been unduly elected for that borough. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVEN ING, SUPPLY. Mr. BpLLEW brought up the report of the Committee of Supply, which was agreed to. The remaining orders of the day were then dis posed of, and the House adjourned a few minutes before Six o'clock. ELECTION COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HORSHAM. The Committee appointed to try the merits of the petition presented against the return of Mr. John Jervis for' Horsham met this morning; Lord Courtenay in the chair. Mr. M. I). Hill, Mr. Calvert, and Mr. Merewether, appeared for the petitioners; and Mr. Sergeant Wrang ham, with whom was MrClarkson, Mr. Bodkin, and Mr. Wordsworth, for the sitting Member. The usual preliminaries having been gone through, Mr. M. D. HILL rose to open the case for the peti tioners, but he was interrupted by Mr. Sergeant WRANGHAM, who stated that the peti tioners prayed that the election might be declared void on the ground that Mr. Jervis was not of age, and did not possess a proper qualification, and that the Hon. Gentleman obtained his election by corruptly treating and brining the electors. Now he would admit at once, on behalf of the sitting Member, that treating was practised at the election, and of course the consequence of that admission would be that the election must be _declared void, and that Mr. Jervis would be precluded from contesting the borough during the present Parlia ment. The object of the petitioners would, therefore, parties, the if time he be gained w ith out go i ng i nto t h e case at a ll , an d i t wou ld save a o d f m t i h ss e io C n vi om e m re it a te t e o , n a c n e d ac e c x ep p t e ed nse to the -Mr. M. D. HILL said the proposition of the Learned Sergeant had taken him and his Learned Colleagues quite by surprise, and he must, therefore, apply to the Com mittee for an adjournment till to-morrow, in order that he and his Learned Friends might have time to consult the petitioners on the matter. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Committee haring consulted together for a few minutes, the parties were re-admitted, when The CIIAIRMAN intimated that the Committee had determined to accede to the application of the Learned Counsel for the petitioners, and to adjourn till twelve o'clock to-morrow. At the same time he was instructed by the Committee to mention, that although the charge of treating had been admitted they felt it would be necessary that some formal evidence of the allegation must be put in order that they might found their resolu tion upon it, The Committee then adjourned. DERBY. The Derby Election Committee re-assembled this morning; Mr. Childers in the chair; when the evidence of bribery on the part of Mr. Strutt, the sitting member and his agents was resumed. At the close of the second witness's evidence, Mr. Sergeant WRINCINAM said it would perhaps save the time of the Committee and expense to the other side if he admitted that the allegations of bribery had been established against the agents of Mr. Strutt. lie denied however that the honourable gentleman himself had been personally concerned in the corrupt practices, and he should be able to show by the testimony of unim peachable witnesses, that so far from Mr. Strutt having taken part in or been cognizant of the cases of bribery proved on the other side, that gentleman distinctly inti mated' to his friends and partizans that he would be no party to anything in the shape of bribery and corruption. Witnesses were called to prove that Mr. Strutt, both publicly and privately declared that he would be no party to any corrupt practice, and that on one occasion, at a public meeting of the constituency of Derby, he explained to them that since the past general election the law of bribery and treating had been rendered more I stringent and severe and he, therefore, hoped those ' who professed to be his friends would abstain from treat ing, or jn any shape or way bribing voters to induce them to support his claims. Mr. MEREWETHER then summed up, after which the room was cleared. Strangers having been re-admitted, Th e CHAIRMAN announced that the Committee had come to the following resolutions : That Mr. Strutt and Mr. Gower were not duly elected to serve as burgesses in the present Parliament for the borough of Derby. " That the last election for the borough of Derby was a void election. That it had been proved to the Committee that Mr. Strutt and Mr. Gower were by their agents guilty of bribery; But that it war not proved to the Committee that such bribery was administered with the consent of the said Mr. Strutt or Mr. Gower. That it was proved to the Committee, that at the last election, as well as at previous elections for the borough ' of Derby, a prafztice prevailed of placing freemen on a nominal committee, for the purpose of bribery, and it was also proved that the practice had extensively pre vailed at the last election ; and the Committee consider it to be their duty to report the same specially to the House. An application was then made far costs on behalf of the petitioner, which was opposed by Mr. Sergeant Wrangham, and rejected by the Committee. This closed the labours of the Committee. CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn, to-day, and heard appeal motions, this being the fourth seal after Hilary Term. ATTORNEY GENERAL fl. MUNRO. Our readers will recollect that the Lord Chancellor, a few days ago, stayed the execution of the decree pro- nounced by the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce in this case, which relates to a Presbyterian Church in St. Peter's-square, Manchester, by which that Learned Judgo ordered the trusties of the church to be dismissed and new ones appointed, and also dismissed Mr. Munro from being the minister of the church. The ground on which the Lord Chancellor stayed the execution of the decree till the appeal was heard was, that it would cause the dispersion.of the congregation, and also the greatest inconvenience, provided he should decide upon hearing the appeal in favour of the appellants. Mr. J. RUSSELL this morning applied to his Lordship for leave to give notice of a motion for Friday next, to discharge the order of his Lordship staying the execu tion of the decree of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. clecree. Since his Lordship had made that order the church had been locked up and deserted, and Mr. Munro and his congregation had performed Divine service elsewhere, so that the object which the Court had of preventing the dispersion of the congregation had been frustrated. The LORD CHANCELLOR granted leave to Mr. Russell orderto giv e s t notice Friday, to discharge his The Court then proceeded to hear appeal motions. ,th o e f e xec ution motion for of th 4 VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE•CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) . This being the fourth seal, his Honour the Vice- Chancellor of England took motions. BARNARD GREGORY AND WIFE V. SIR THOMAS WILSON. Mr. BETHELL showed cause is this case, on behalf of the plaintiffs, against dissolving an injunction which they had obtained, restraining the defendant, Sir Thomas Wilson, from proceeding with an action of ejectment which he had brought against the plaintiffs. It appeared that, so long ago as the year 1813, a gentleman of the name of Thompson entered into a treaty with tho late Sir T. M. Wilson and Lady Wilson, to take a lease of certain land in the neighbourhood of Hampstead, and to erect a mansion upon it. Although the lease was never exe cuted, Mr. Thompson entered into possession of the land, and erected a mansion , upon it, which was called the Priory. , He resided there many years, and upon his death the plaintiffs; as his devisees, entered into posses sion of it, and had lived there ever since. The present Sir Thomas: Wilson brought an action of ejectment to turn the plaintiffs out of possession, on the ground of their having committed a breach of the contract, not having kept the premises in proper repair or insured them. To restrain this action an injunction had been obtained, which it was now sought to dissolve abso lutely. Mr. WALPOLE, who appeared for Sir Thomas Wilson, said that he thought it would be beet for all parties, as there was a legal objection to the possession of the plaintiffs, that that question should be tried at law, and for the purpOse of that question being decided, although no lease had ever been executed he would admit on behalf of Sir Thomas Wilson that there was an executed lease. Mr. BETEELL asked for time to consider this propo sition, and the motion was ordered to stand over till the first day of Easter term. The Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce did not sit to-day, arid nothing of public interest occurred in the Court of the Vice-Chancellor Epigram. . • . - SECONDARIES',-(THIS. DAY.) (Before Mr. Secondary l'orran). DEAN AND ANOTHER M.HORTIHER. The plaintiffs in this action are ironmongers, in King William-street, City, and defendant is an attorney. The claim was for 111. 7s. 4d., for goods sold. 'rhe de fendant pleaded that he was not indebted, but did not appear to support his plea. The plaintiff's attorney said the action had been brought in the superior court, as it was a question whether the defendant, being an attorney, could be sued in the county courts ; and he might - have pleaded his privilege. The facts of the case, however, were very simple, for the defendant had both ordered the good s an d agreed to the price. A solicitor, who attended on behalf of the defendant, said he was not instructed to dispute the delivery of the goods or their value. Evidence having been adduced, a verdiot was given . for the amount claimed. WATTS a. HIND. This was an action for a bill of exchange for 101. De fendant pleaded that he did not accept, but no person appearing on his be half, and positive evidence being ad duced, a verdict was given for the plaintiff. LAMBETH.—(THIS DAY.) George Nadge, a respectably-dressed young man, who has been recently sworn in a special constable, was placed at the bur charged with being one of a party who had amused themselves by firing pistols in the Kenning ton-road. Police.eonstable 04 P, proved the offence. The firing of pistols has now become common with the• recently-created conservators of the peace, and tradesmen have in many instancos complained of broken windows from the concussion. The prisoner explained that, haring been detained in court all day yesterday as evidence against the Camber, well rioters, he had not had an opportunity of taking food, but after retiring, he, with more " specials," ad journed to a public-house, after leaving which one of his companions, who was armed with a pistol, fired it in the air, in order to prevent after d a n ger . The MAGISTRATE fined him 10s., or in default to be sent ten days to the House of Correction. FIRST REPORT FROM THE COM MITTEE OF SELECTION. The Committee of Selection have formed into groups the following opposed private Bills, not being railway Bills, which it is, in their opinion, expedient to submit to the same Committees, respectively ; Glt@UP No. I.—Clerkenwell Improvement, Leeds Im provement, Oxford Paving. Gnour No. 2.—Wigan Improvement, Walsall Im provement, Huddersfield Improvement. GROUP No. 3.—Dublin Improvement, Londonderry Improvement. GROUP No. 4.—Worcester New Gas, Bristol and Clifton Gas, Brighton Gas-light and Coke. GROUP No. G.—Lambeth Waterworks, Derby Water works, Penzance. Waterworks. ' Gaour No. 6.—Stirling Waterworks, Glasgow Water works, Manchester Corporation Waterworks. Gaour No. 7. —Edinburgh Municipality Extension, Edinburgh Police Amendment, Edinburgh Police Con solidation, Leith Municipality and Police. Gaunt. Nu. s.—Torquay Market, Manchester Ceme tery. Gnour No. 9.—Liverpool Docks, &c., Barrow Har bour. Gnour No. 10.—Bristol Docks Transfer, East and West Looe Harbour Dover Landing Pi er . Gnour No. 11.—The several Bills relating to the Birkenhead Docks. Canal (Ireland), Newry Gnour No. 12.—New Grand Navigation. Geouc No. 13.—Norwich and Yarmouth Navigation, Great Yarmouth Coal Duties, Tyne Direct Ferry, Queensferry Passage. Gnour No. 14.—Middle Level Drainage, River Nene Drainage, Thorne Alcor Drainage. Gnouli No. 15.—Patent Galvanized Iron Company (two Bills relating thereto), Price's Patent Candle Com pany, Kettering Small Tenements Rating. lIER MAJESTY'S THEATRE. Ths Queen's box, et her Majesty's Theatre, was last evening occupied by the Earl Dela,warr and the Lady Arabella Sackville West, the Hon. M. Sackville West, and Lord and Lady Colchester. In the Queen Dowager's box were the Earl and Countess Howe, the Hon. Mr. Curzon, and Captain and Mrs. Montague. 'rho general company included his Excellency the Russian Minister, his Ex cellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Sardinian Mi nister, the Baroness de Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, his Royal Highness the Prince Leopold of Syracuse, the Duke of Wellington, the Due do Melfort, the Marquis and Marchioness of Douro, the Marquis of Clanricarde, the Marquis of Donegal, the Earl of Fal mouth, the Earl of Besborough, the Earl of Granville, the Earl of Munster, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Clifden, Lord William Lennox, Lord Charles Wellesley, Lady Mary Howard an d t h e ion. H. Howard, Lady Caroline Towneley, and Mrs. Towneley, Lady Carroll and the Misses Carroll, Lady Barrett Lennard, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, &c. &c. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COTANT GARDEN.— Her Majesty's box was occupied last evening by Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Mr. and Miss Peel, Viscount and Viscountess llardinge. Among the general company we also noticed the following:—llis Excellency the Greek Minister and Madame Lizardi, the Marquis of Lichfield, the Marchioness of Ailesbury, the Earl of Wilton, Viscountess Castlereagh, Lord and Lady Malmesbury, Lady Cowley, the Marquis of Granby, the Earl of Munster, Earl Bruce, the Earl of March, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Duplin,, Viscount Tern pletown, the Countess of Cardigan, the Countess Dowager of Essex and Miss Johnstone, Lord Foley, Lord Elphinstonee Lord Holland, Lord George Manners, Lady Webster, Lady Burgoyne, Lady Malet, the Hon. Miss Foley, Hon. Edward Cope, Hon. J. Fortescue, Sir Henry Paulet, Bart., Sir William P. de Bathe, Bert., Captain de Bathe, Sir George Armytage, Bart., Sir Jasper and Lady Atkinson, Major-General P. Campbell, R.A., Colonel Brownlow Knox, M.P., Colonel Blanc, Mrs. Dennistoun, Miss Burdett Coutts, Mr.., Mrs., and Miss Brereton Trelawny, Mr. and Miss Mitchell, Mr. and Mrs. Newton Scott, Henry Greville, Esq., J. Lloyd Clayton, Esq., Gerard Sturt, Esq., Samuel Rogers, Esq., Thomas Baring, Esq., M.P., H. T. Hope, Esq., M.P., W. Ord, Esq., M.P., George Repton, Esq. , M.P. Louis Panarrn's Swon.D.—umbers of the com batants of February, anxious to retain trophies of their prowess, had kept the arms they took from the Tuileries, in spite of the many appeals of the Provisional Govern ment to restore them. Causidiere, the new prefect of police, has been active in his researches, and caused most of these arms to be restored. Amongst these was a sword which had been preserved in Louis Philippe's cabinet, and which he had made use of in his first cam paigns under Duniouriez. MA RC II 22, 1846. THE HIGHLAND SOCIETY. ANNIVERSARY OF THE BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA. The Highland Society of London held a general Court of the' corporation last evening, at the Free masons' Tavern, to celebrate the anniversary of the battle of Alexandria. About 200 partook of the festive entertainment. A number wore the costume of their native land; and those present connected with the army appeared in full uniform. The juvenile•ban4 of the Caledonian Asylum, under the direction of Angus M'Kay, the Queen's piper, were in attendance, and played during the evening several Scottish airs with their pipes. The spacious gallery was occupied, by a number of elegantly-attired ladies. The feast was presided over by The Chisholm, who was supported on his right and left by the veterans Lieutenant-General Sir James Macdonnell and Lieutenant-General Sir James Law Lushington. Among the company we obseaved -1)r. Stewart Chisholm, Dr. Power, Rev. Dr. Cum ming, Captain Lamont, R N., Captain Forbes, Captain Jay, RN., Captain R. Guthrie, Sir Evan Mackenzie, Captain Dalrymple, G. Krehner, Esq., Russian Consul; General Pereira, Lieutenant Spurgin, J. Wedderburn, Esq., David Charles Guthrie, Esq., S. M. Buulderson, Esq., Charles Lushington, Esq., James Tulloch, Esq., James Guthrie, Esq., D. Nelson, Esq., W. Rose, E s q., Kyd, Esq.. W. Anwardale, Esq., Alexander R. Irvine, Esq., Henry Rose, Esq., J. Duff Gordon, Esq., J. Bushby, Esq., A. Paull, Esq., Thomas Skinner, Esq., Captain Bague, Captain Shea, J. Bulkeley, Esq., Hector Rose, Esq., Charles Sutherland, Esq., R. R. M'lan, Esq., Dr. Este, of the army, J. M'Tavish, Esq., H.B.M. Consul, Baltimore. Due justice having been done to the viands, which were of excellent quality and well served, The CHAIRMAN gave " The Queen and her Consort Prince Albert," a toast which was received with the loudest demonstrations of applause, and drunk with Highland honours. In proposing it he said loyalty was a ditinctive characteristic of every Highlander, and he should not be thought to violate that wholesome and salutary rule laid down by the society, that no political matter should be introduced into their pro ceedings, when he gave utterance to the sentiment which he believed was entertained in common by its members, that that free constitution which they en- . joyed under their most gracious Queen might long continue, that they might long live under the sovereignty of that Queen whose limited monarchy must ever be the best guarantee, as it had 'ever been the safeguard, of the continued existence of civil and religious liberty in her dominions.—(Loud cheers.) Miss Horton then sung from the gallery, in her usual beautiful mellow voice—" Bonnie Prince Charlie," and being encored, " God forgi' e f o r li e in'." The CHAIRMAN then proposed " The Prince of Wales, and the rest of the Royal Family."—(Loud cheers.) He hoped that the nation, should the Prince of Wales be spared to reign over it, would enjoy, under his sway, the same benefits they possessed under the sovereignty of his august mother. There was, however, as a recent circumstance had evinced, no reason to expect that there would be a failure of the line.—(Laughter.) They would, perhaps, pardon him if he here broke off into a short digression or anecdote illustrative of the respect entertained for monarchy in England. Upon a recent occasion— (we understood the Chairman alluded to an incident that occurred at the Caledonian fancy ball)—when the health of the Queen was proposed, a young man, dressed as a French cavalier, continued in his seat, and placed a cap of liberty on his head, bearing the inscription "Mourier pour la patrie," and refused to remove it, or to join in the toast, when called upon to do so. A Highlander, a member of the Highland Society, plucked the cap from his head, and dashed it from him.—(Cheers.) There were times when such an act of indiscretion would have cost the wearer his head.—(Hear.) The toast was drunk with great enthusiasm. Captain FORSES said the statement would not be complete until the Highlander who had so distin guished himself in supporting his lawful Queen and the loyalty of the society, and who was amongst them, had been named.—(Cheers.) Their thanks were due to him for the act. His name was Mr. Brown.— (Loud cheers.) Perhaps the Chairman would allow him to propose the health of that gentleman. Drank with Highland honours. Mr. BROWN (who wore the kilt) rose, and was re ceived with loud applause. He said he could not find words to express his thanks for the high honour they had conferred upon him. He was sure, however, he did no more than hundreds would have done if they had a similar opportunity afforded them for evincing their loyalty to the throne. He begged to thank them all most cordially.—(Luud cheers.) The CHAIRMAN said the next toast he had to pro pose was that of " Prince Albert, the Chief of the Highland Society." He presided over them on the last occasion, and was so well pleased with the prin ciples and objects of the society, that, he understood, but for an occurrence in his domestic circle— (Laugh ter)—he would have been amongst them that eve ning.—(Loud cheers). The toast was warmly responded to. The CHAIRMAN then proposed a toast, which he said he was sure was one peculiarly welcome to the Highland Society, namely, " The Army and Navy." —(Cheers.) He was proud, on that occasion, to be supported by a near relative of his own—Sir John Macdonnell.—(Loud cheers.) It was now fifty-two years ago since he became a soldier, and he believed there was a kick in him yet.—(Cheers.) One of his feats whilst in active service was the defence of Houguemont—he bore upon his breast the token of his achievments, and it was unnecessary for him (the chairman) to say more.—(Loud cheers.) A little further to his right was one who served under Aber crombie in Egypt.—(Cheers.) On his left he was supported by a distinguished officer of the East India Company's service ; and with the toast he begged t 3 couple the "Army of the East India Company." The toast was received like the last. Sir JAMES MACDONNELL returned thanks, as also did Sir JAMES LUSHINGTON, who said he believed the Indian army had ever done its duty, in proof of which he need only allude to the glorious achievements of Lord Ilardinge—(Che ers )— an d h e m i g h t a dd that whenever their services might be again re quired, he believed they would be found ready to support the renown they had obtained. The CHAIRMAN proposed the health of the Duke of Buccleugh, the late president of the society. lie regretted that the demands upon his time prevented him from paying that attention to the society which a president should do. No one could deny him the character of an highly estimable nobleman. Drunk with Highland honours. The CHAIRMAN then said they had met on that occasion to commemorate the victory of Alexandria, and it was the unanimous wish of the Highland Society that their anniversary should be holden that day.—(Cheers.) If there at ere any who inquired the reason—and he did not think there were—he would say he need scarcely remind them of the historical claims that that day had upon all their re collections—he need not tell them that their troops di*atabarked in the Bay of Aboukir, in which but a few short years before, Nelson had achieved one of the most glorious victories. He exclaimed, with true British enthusiasm, when he first came in sight of the fleet of the enemy, " Now for a peerage, or West minster Abbey."—(Cheers.) Three years after, under Sir Sidney Smith, the army :gain disembarked there, and with regard to the object which he bad in view, and the glorious manner in which it was achieved, and the importance of them to the nation, he need say nothing, as they were duly felt and appreciated. The expedition was under the command of their dis tinguished countryman, Sir Ralph Abercrombie, aided by Sir James Murray, a member of the society, and who had filled that chair. The gallant 42d, the Highland Regiment, stood opposed, hand to hand and foot to foot, against Napoleon's invincible legion, who gave way before the kilted warriors of their aative land.—(Loud cheers.) This was the reason why they met that day.—(Hear, hear.) What they did their countrymen yet could do.—(Hear.) But they must cease their plaudits and check their pride. The path of military glory had always been a path of blood, and many victories were alloyed by the recollection that the leaders had fallen.—(Hear, hear.) So was it here, and it was well it should be so—that in the moment when human pride beat highest it should be reminded of human frailty. — (Hear, hear.) Not long after a frigate, on which the standard of the gallant hero floated, bore to this country all that was mortal of Sir Ralph Aber crombie. lie proposed that they should drink to the memory of Abercrombie, and the heroes who fell with him in Egypt. He might conclude with the words of his friend and school-fellow, General Hutchinson, who, after enumerating his great deeds, said,was honourable " but therei so w is one as his comfort—thus death ;he his y lived, m e a m s o his life will be enshrined in the annals of his country—it will be inscribed in the heart of every British soldier, and engraven in the recollection of a grateful posterity." I give you in silence—" The memory of Sir Ralph Abercrombie, and the gallant heroes who fell with him in Egypt." The toast was drunk in silence. Mr. GUTHRIE then proposed—" The health of the Chair," a toast of peculiar interest to Highlanders.— (Loud cheers.) He paid the greatest attention to the society ; and when a man was poor, and needed as• sistance, the fact of his being a Scotchman was sufficient recommendation to receive aid from The Chisholm.—(Loud cheers.) lie was to the society " all in all," and filled up the vacancies of all that were absent. They owed him, ' therefore, a deep debt of gratitude.—(Loud cheers.) The toast was received like its predecessor. The CHAIRMAN returned thanks. He felt the ' deepest interest in the society, for it was the means of concentrating at certain periods the innate feelings of Highlanders who were separated, by their avocations, at other times. Mr. Sinclair then, at the request of the CHAIRMAN, sung " Scots wha hae wi' Wallace bled," in excellent style. The CumariAN then proposed "The Church," with which he begged to couple the name of the Rev. Dr. Cumming. Captain FoßnEs proposed the addition of the " Church of Scotland." The CHAIRMAN would say nothing for or against it, but, as their chairman, Le called upon them to drink " The Church." The Rev. Dr. CUMMING briefly returned thanks. Mr. Brown then sung " Roy's Wife." The CHAIRMAN proposed " The health of Mr. Holmes and the other Visitors." Mr. HOLMES returned thanks. Mr. Archibald M'Donald then danced the sword dance capitally. The following toasts then followed in rapid succes sion :—" The Highland Society of Scotland ;" " Chiefs and Clans" (responded to by The Chisholm) ; " Three cheers for the Caledonian Asylum." In speaking of the band, Captain FORBES, who had been complimented as the chief promoter of it, said this was not so, as they were chiefly and mainly indebted for .the establishment of the band, and the proficiency of the lads composing it, to Captain James Lamont—he was, he said, its chief promoter. " The health of Mr. George Bain, the Honorary Secretary," whose absence was much regretted, and that of " The Ladies," followed ; and the company separated, not, however, we must add, before mid night, and until two or three reels had been danced. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF COMHOIVS, Match 21. (Continued from our Third Edition of last night.) THE CASE OF MR. RAYSON. Mr. M. MILNES then rose to bring under the consideration of the House the injuries alleged to have been suffered by Mr. Rayson, an English merchant, from the Austrian authorities at Constantinople. The claim of Mr. Rayon was not upon the Austrian Government as such, but his complaint was, that he had been de prived of his rights, and had not been permitted to bring his case before the Austrian Courts. All he asked was to, be enabled to state his case before an Aus trian tribunal, and to obtain tho same justice as if he had been an Austrian subject. In 1834, Mr. Rayson, then a wealthy merchant at Constantinople, had a dispute with x Jew named Me* who was an Austrian protected subject. The super-arbiter decided the suit in Mr. Rayson's favour, and Mo:S j i brought his claim before the Austrian internuncio at Constantinople, who combined ire his own person the powers exercised by tne English Consul- General and the English Ambassa dor respectively. The Austrian interuuncio took it upon him, quite illegally, to decide the case against Mr. Rayson, who protested against the decision, and de manded in vain that his opponent should be compelled to give security for the iproperty in question, while the matter remained in dispute, and in the event of Mr. Ray son succeeding in proving the Jew's conduct to have been illegal. In 183 i Mr. Rayson, being unable to ob tain justice from the Austrian internuncie at Constanti nogle, repaired to Vienna, and obtained the assistance, first of Sir F. Lamb, and afterwards of Lord Beauvale, the British Ambassador at that Court. From 1825 to 1838 Mr. Rayson's case was met with a series of evasions, but after . those three years the Austrian Government was compelled, by the pertinacity of Lord Beauvale, to issue an order declaring the decree of the iuternuncio unjust and invalid. The decree was re versed by the Imperial- and. Royal Supreme Court of Vienna, but no communication of the decision was made to Mr. Rayson, who was in that capital, or to Lord Beauvale. When he heard of the decision, he hastened to Constantinople, and demanded from the in ternuricio Oat security should be given to him upon the goods of his debtor, Most This, however, was refused, and he aftehvards heard that the man Mose had been claimed as a Turkish subject by the Turkish Govern ment. Upon application to the internuncio that func tionary informed Mr. Rayson that the man, having been so claimed, he had no longer any power over him, Now, if a transaction of this -kind was to be permitted. there was an- end to commercial faith, and our mercan tile affairs in the Levant could not be carried on. Mr. Rayson went again to Vienna, and again his case was zealously seconded by Lord Beauvale. Legal advice was taken, and a petition entered in one of the courts at Vienna. For .a long time no answer was given to that petition. Lord Beauvale applied to Prince Metternich, who promised -to see what could be done in the matter. In 1839 the Court issued a de cree deciding that it had no jurisdiction, but Mr. Rayson's papers were not returned to him, and without his sanction the case was transferred to the Chancery of State, which was the Foreign-office of Vienna, or, in fact, was Prince Metternich himself. Lord Palmerston then took up the matter, and wrote a dispatch, stating that wrong had been done to a British sabject, that the case had 6cm:is a question between her Majesty's Government and the Government of Aus tria, and appealing for redress. Mr. Rayson then came to England, but Lord Palmerston was just then going out of office. Nevertheless, he attended to the case, and probably recommended it to his successor. Lord Aber deen did not seem at•first to take the same view of the matter as his predecessor, and he as much as said that Mr. Rayson had done wrong in bringing his case before the Courts at Vienna. An HON. MEDINER here moved that tho House be counted. Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and forty Mem bers not being found present, the House stood adjourned at Seven o'clock. POLICE. IN' ELLIGENCE. BO IV-STREET. Andrew Green, who has been so frequently men tioned in our reports of this court, and against whom, at each examination,*. fresh evidence of his swindling practices and impositions has been given, was again placed at the bar before Mr. Henry. On tbis occasion Mr. Clipperton, the solicitor, and ' Mr. Nicholay; one of the trustees of the London Association for the.rrotection of Trade, attended with other members of the managing body, some of whom had been themselves bitten by the prisoner. The cases already established, it will be remem• bared, have been charges of felony, preferred for ob taining money and goods under false pretences (prin cipally in connexion with the supposed Parliamentary Chronicle), and now another kind of offence was im puted to him. M. Soyer, the celebrated. cook of. the. Reform Club, stated that, a few weeks ago, the prisoner and his son called upon him at' the club; and, representing him self as the editor and proprietor_ of the Parliamentary Chronicle, which had en immense circulation, re quested a copy of . his (M. Soyer's) work, with the view of noticing -it in his journal. Witness pre sented him with a-copy; Afterwards, as witness was talking to his . frierid'M. Volant, about advertising his " Parochial Kitchen" in the papers , the prisoner observed - that his printing-office was close .to Printing-house-square, -•and he would be very happy to take the advertisement there for him to the Times. Witness 'then 'gave him 1/. for the advertiseineno, besides 10s. for one in a weekly paper, and —los.. for one in. the Parliamentary Chronicle, the two latter of -which never appeared. The one seise to the Times did appear in the next •day's paper; but the isrisotier' called on witness, and said that, unfortunately, the sovereign he (M. Soyer) had given hint was a. bad one. Witness did not be lieve this, but took the bad one which the prisoner pretended to - return to him, and gave him, another good one, subsequently ascertaining, on inquiry at the Times office, • that the advertisement had never been paid for. at all.' By these' means, therefore, M. •Soyer was defrauded .of 41., besides the copy of his work and some soup, which the. prisoner and his son requested the honour of tasting, and were favoured with by the courtesy of that gentleman. - Mr. Dobbs, hosier and•glover, of 4, Princes-street, Westminster, identified the prisoner as the' person who, in the name of Henry Arnold Green, desired goods to the value of 8/. to be sent to his house, 3, Cureon-street, May-fair, where they would be imme diately paid tor. When the prosecutor's lad arrived with the things, the door was answered by the pri soner's son (dressed as a fostman), who took the goods from his hands, and sent him back for a pair of straps which had been ordered, and said he would then have the money paid to him on his return. Neither the prisoner nor the money, however, was ever after seen. Upon these charges the prisoner was again re manded till Saturday. MARLBOROUGH -STREET. James Parker, a journeyman tailor, was brought up for further examination, charged with having stabbed. Mary Ritchie and her daughter in several P laces , with a shoemaker's knife, whereby their lives had been seriously endangered. The daughter, who has since been delivered of a child in the hospital, is still in such a doubtful state as to be unable to come forward to give evidence. Mary Ritchie, an elderly woman, living at 26 Dudley-street, said the p r i soner h a d been acquainted, with her daughter for about eighteen months. On Saturday, the 19th of Februjry last ' the prisoner came in with h e r d aug h ter, and asked leave to lie down on the boards of the floor. She refused to give him permission, and the prisoner went away. On Sunday morning, about ten o'clock, she heard her daughter scream. She went out of the room and saw her daughter coming up; stairs, and the prisoner near her, he having apparently been ill using her. The prisoner wanted to come into her room, but she told him she would not let him beat her daughter, and the prisoner then went away. In a short time afterwards witness heard a knock at her room door, and on going to see who was there she found the pri soner, who said he wanted to speak to Eliza, meaning her daughter. Witness said, "You shan't knock her about ;" immediately on saying which, the prisoner rushed at her, and pulled out a knife. She called out, " Oh, my God! he has a knife." The prisoner in stantly attacked her with the knife, stabbing her in the left side. She tried to get away, but the prisoner again stabbed her near the abdomen, and she tben contrived to get out of the room. Witness afterwards saw her daughter Eliza bleeding furiously from a wound in the head. Witness was conveyed to the • Hospital, and had been under medical treatment ever since. Mary Ann Walker, a lodger in the house, heard- , L some persons having high words in Mrs. Ritchie's room on Sunday morning. Shortly afterwards a— 'tl' screaming and scuffling took place, and she ran up ." stairs and saw the prisoner striking at Mrs. Ritchie with a knife, which he had in his hand. Mrs. Ritchie got away from the prisoner, and went down stairs. , Her (laughter Eliza tried to pass the prisoner in., order to go out of the room, but the prisoner pro- vented her, and stabbed her violently in the head. . • The prisoner again stabbed her in the back. The prisoner then threw the knife out of the window. John Calverley said he lived at 18, Compton-street, which is close to Dudley-street. On •Sunday morn ing he saw a knife hurled through ths air b • y some one. The knife lodged on the roof of an adjoining house. Witness got it, and found the blade was stained with blood. It was a shoemaker's knife. Noble Johnson, shoemaker, 25, Dudley-street, said on Sunday morning about ten o'clock, the prisoner came to him and borrowed a knife to cut the sole off one of his shoes, as he said. The prisoner said the knife was not sharp enough, and witness sharpened it at his request. The knife now produced is the knife witness lent to the prisoner. Police-constable Curling, F 18, said he saw a great mob of persons in Dudley-street on Sunday morning, and the prisoner was among them, with his hand bleeding. On learning what had occurred, he took the prisoner into custody. The prisoner did not say anything until he got to the station-house, and then he said, "Am I to die ? . because, if _I am, I'd die for any woman who is false." The prisoner, when required to make his defence, stated that he went on Sunday morning into a shoe. maker's shop, to borrow a knife., for the purpose of cutting the sole from his shoe. The shoemaker handed him a knife, having previously given it a rub to sharpen it. He went over to Mrs. Ritchie's house, to see the girl Eliza, whom he had been living with. Eliza swore she would have his life, for keeping com pany with other girls, and she 'blade a "grab" at the knife to stick him with it. Being in a passion, he got the knife free, and in so doing he cut his fingers. He then stabbed at Eliza, and her mother coming to assist, he stabbed her too, and then threw away the knife. The mother here said this was not true, as the pri soner stabbed her first. The prisoner's present defence is very much at vari ance with the story he told when first examined. The prisoner was fully committed on this charge. He is to be brought up on the second charge when the woman is well enough to give evidence. LAMBETIL _ After the night charges had been disposed of, William Males, George Lower; Henry Brown, Ro bert Archer, Anthony Finlay, Henry Rowe, Sa muel Morgan. Henry Davis, William Barrett. George Payne, James Taylor, Thomas Howlett, Samuel Maney, Thomas Walker, William Brigdon, Benjamin Prophett, Davis A. Duffy, Thomas Hen sey, John Denmore, Robert Webster, William Bailey, Joseph Burdon, Thomas Briant, John Wil liams, and George Smith, were placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott, for further examination, on a charge of feloniously breaking into, and plundering the shops of Mr. Thomas Gray, the pawnbroker, and other tradesmen, in Southampton-street, Camber well, and Thomas Smeed and Alfred Butler were also put to the bar for the first time, and charges' with a similar offence. Mr. Humphreys attended as the solicitor to Mr. Gray for the prosecution ; and Messrs. Games and Binns for four of the prisoners. Mr. Robinson, the superintendent of the P division of police, in whose district the outrage occurred, was also in attendance to watch the proceedings. Mr. Humphreys, addressing the magistrate, said he attended on the part of Mr. Gray, who was as anxious as any citizen and Englishman to protect the rights of his country and to maintain its laws ; btit as he (Mr. Humphreys) begged to suggest that as this was not a prosecution of an ordinary character, and that there was mixed up in the offence something like an attempt, though he would admit a futile effort, to overthrow the Government, the Crown should be called upon to prosecute. Had the case been one of an ordinary description, Mr. Gray should not have shru n k f rom hi s duty; b ut under the circumstances, and Mr. Gray being already a sufferer to a considerable amount, upwards of 1,0001., he (Mr. Humphreys) did not think he should be indi vidually put to the additional expense of a prosecutor. On a former day he had offered a similar suggestion • before Mr. Norton, and that magistrate entirely con curred with it, and expressed it as his opinion, that the law officers of the Crown should prosecute. He (Mr. Humphreys) had carefully looked over the evidence already given against the prisoners, and it being his opinion that there was sufficient to send them all before a jury, he begged to recommend that the prisoners be further remanded to give an oppor tunity, in the event of the Government prosecuting, for the Treasury Solicitoi to be present, and not, as in ordinary cases, take it up when it was finished by the magistrates, but attend the examination and follow it onward. Mr. ELLIOTT replied that he did not quite agree with Mr. Humphreys, that the attempt was to subvert the Government, but at the same time thought that it WAS quite a proper case for prosecution by the Crown. - Mr. kol;inson said he had been requested bY Alayne, the Commissioner of Police, to state that they (the Commissioners) would put the case in a proper train for the Treasury solicitor to pro secu t e . Mr. ELLIOTT directed the superintendent to inform the Commissioners, that if they did not communicate with the Treasury solicitor, to the end that he might be present at the next examination, he (Mr. Elliott) should. A number of fresh witnesses were called, whose testimony considerably strengthened the case against the prisoners. One of the witnesses, Ann Brown, said she saw the prisoner Payne in front of Mr. Gray's shop, with a thick bludgeon in his hand, and striking the win dow with the weapon, exclaiming, " Come on, my brave boys, we'll have our liberty. The prisoners, after a long investigation, were re manded to a future day, but some strong evidence to prove an alibi having been given for Joseph Burdon, that person was admitted to bail, as was also Henry. Rowe, who is only eleven . years of age. The majority of the prisoners are mere' youths. We have learned that Mr. George Hudson, M.P. has in the most liberal manner headed, with a donation of SU, the subscription opened at the Railway Times office, for the suffering railway labourers who hare been expelled from France. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received 101. from an anonymous correspondent for " a game certificate and income-tax omitted." The amount will belcarried to the credit of the public service. An appropriate tablet to the late Lord Chief Justice Tindal is about to be erected in the parish church of his native town, Chelmsford. We hear that the project of placing a bust of the deceased in some public building in Chelmsford is revived.—Bury and Norwich Post. MORNING MAlLS.—Yesterday notice was issued *t - the General Post-office, St. Martin's.le-Grand, that Winchfield, in Hampshire, and Oldham, had been added to the list of towns to which morning mails are for-. warded. The total number of !towns in England and Wales to which morning mails are now dispatched is 283, exclusive of Ireland and Scotland. ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.—Last night, at a ..quarter . past eleven o'clock, a man threw himself from the pa rapet of Blackfriars-bridge into the Thames. He wash however, rescued by William Neary, Gee of the piensen, and conveyed to the house of Mr. Cheshire, theGlaziere Arms, Water-lane, whose humanity h as been taxed with five similar deplorable acts of indiebretioa within the last month. After great efforts, under the direction of Dr. Hutchinson, the man was restored, and said his name was Thornton, that he was a watchmaker. from Bristol, and that he had had no food lately. No money was found in his clothes. EDUCATION Or NEGRO CHILDRRN.--TOSterday a public meeting was held at the Literary Institution, in Cadogan-gardens, Sloane-street, Chelsea, the Marquis of Cholmondeley in the chair, in aid of the Ladies' So ciety for Promoting the Improvement of Children of Negroes and People of Colour in the British West Indies. Resolutions in accordance with the meeting were supported by the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Antigun, Sir E. N. Burton, Bart., M.P., and the Rev Dr. Burgess. MATHS. On the 17th inst., Dirs. James Johnston, of Botolph•huto, Lower Thames -street, of a son. On the 17th inst., at Cleveland-rovr, St. Janlefesl the wife of the Rey. Charles D. Breretsn, ILA., of a son. On the sth inst., at Rome, the wife of Calverly Bewhoke, Esq., of a son. On the 17th inst., in Palace-street, 'Norwich, the wife of J. J. Blake, Esq., of a daughter. ' On the 17th inst., the lady of G. E. F. Hatch, Esq., nrgeon, Cambridge-terrace, South-street, Greenwich, of a son. On tke 111th inst. at Bolton Hall, the lady of W. H. 0. Powlett, Esq., of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Balharn, Surrey, Mrs. Thomas Ken nedy, of a son. On the 12th inst., at Westbourne-crescent, Hyde -park, Mrs. Frederick Chinnock, of a daughter. On the 20th inst., at Richmond-park, East Sheen, the wife of Williams Adam Loch, Esq., of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 15th inst., at Fearn, Rosshire, ♦lexander Simpson, Esq., to Cecilia Gardner, eldest daughter of George Middle ton, Esq. DIED. On the 18th inst., at Cardiff, the Most Hon. the Marquis of Bute. At Paris, Eliza, the second daughter of is Duo de Stao. poole, aged 28. On the 10th inst., Mr. George Stephens, aget 41. On the 16th inst., at Greenwich, Charles Rowland Parker, Esq., aged 73. 4:5;1 tile 17th inst., at Brighton, Mary, the wife of Charles Stanbridge, Esq. On the 17th inst., at Harpole Rectory, Northamptonshire, the Hon. and Rev. Thomas Lawrence Dundee, aged 73. 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