The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-14 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT SENTENCES , The following is a correct list of the sentences passed during the last seasion: Death, and left for execution —George John Howson, for the ynurder in Coldbath.fieldA House of Correction. Sentence of death recorded --Wm. Swain, Mary Tobin. . • . TRINSPOATATI iN. Twenty Years—John Clarke, J.-11meg Henry Bradbury. Fifteen Years—James Love. Ten Years—Charles Buck, Richard Welch, William Shells, Richard Brown, Charles Chapman. Seven Years — Cha rles • Hicks, Joseph Gobbett, Fre derick Howard, Robert Roberts, Edwin SmPhi ll ith, George Wright, William Gay, alias Henry ips, H Benham, Henry ; Caswell, George . White, William Nor tun, Charles Soloman, Thomas Scott, Bridget Mahoney, Willi a m Jackson , alias Smith. alias Cook, Henry John son, alias • William Jones, Thomas Leather, Joseph White,.Beinjamin Rawlings, Bevan Labon, John Dean, Georo.e Lee, Henry Nicholls, James Stuart, Thomas John " r arner,---Thomas William Parrington, Charles :Fisher, Thomas Johnson, William Ro6erts, William e ock IMPRIi ON 71 ENT. . . Two Years—Charles Swan, William Girdleston, John Kelly - , Joseph Francis FuSsell, and three months, to enter into. his own recognizoices in 1001., and find two sureties in 50!. each to keep the peace for five years ; Joseph Williams, and one week, own recognizinces in 100/, nd two sureties in 501. to keep the peace for three years ; Charles Ernest Jones, and one week, bail him self in 300!., and two sureties in 150/. to keep the peace fo: live years ; Alexander Sharp, and two months, with bai; himself in 100/., and two in 50/., and keep the peace for three years ; William John Vernon, and bail himself in 100!., and two in 501., to Izi:ep the peace for three years ; Francis Looney, and t , ..o mouths, with bail him self in 100/., and two in 501., to keep the peace for thrce years. Eighteen-Months —Daniel K,?efe. Twelve Months—John Stuart, Richard Aldrige, Luke Keefe, Joseph Saville, John Smith, Joseph Collis, John Mortimer, John Brown alias Benjamin Locker, James heath, John West, John Harris, Jonathan Case, Charles Beard, William Davis, George Burgess, James Cannon. Nine Months—John Atkins, John Smith, Caroline Smith, Thomas William Jones, Robert Smedly, John Daley. Six Months—Thomas Franklin, Mary Niles, Philip Clog, Sarah Johnson, Mary Ann Brown, James Richard Taylor, Bartley, Daniel Daley,. Frederick Allen, William Lovcl, William Reeve, Sarah Williatr , . Thomas Cannon, Thomas Jenkins, John San derson, John Mack. Four Months —Sophia. Harley, William Robe, George Holt, Catherine Ganey, Elizabeth Webb, Richard Tanner, Elizabeth Robinson. Three .Months —Richard Edwards, James Branton„ Joseph Wilkinson, William :‘,l•Kew, William Dixon, and to he whipped, John Atkinson, Oliver Chapman, William Aldis, Robert Downing, Richard Frith, Samuel ,!mer. Two Months —John Oliver, John Fallcner, Daniel Rush, Richard Reeder. One Month-Thomas Wooding, Wm, Tait. To be Inaprisoncti in Newg ate tor Terms varying from Three I) Lys to One Month—Sarah Rice, Emma Hart, Henry Nixon. Thomas Skinner, William loss, and to be whipped. Elizabeth Caps, George Whitehead, Robert Slaughter, Edward Scarborough, Eliza Cawood, George James, and to be whipped. RAnanded until next Session—George Day (bailed), Samuel Watchman. Judgment Respited—Alfred Bishop, Ann Fuel. Acquittals—Abraham Simrnonds, John Saunders, Charles Perkins, John James (ordered to he detained), Ellen Baynes, Jane Pearson, Joseph Brian, James Brian, William Mann, Daniel Oliver, Sarah Poole, Eliza West, William Matthew Aston, James Hinton, John Welch, Henry Johnson, Charles Dag, Mary Ann Wood, Henry Clarke, Peter Williams, Edward Worby, John Walker, Ellen Merritt, Patrick Collins, John Jones, Thomas Stevenson, Ann Grey. Bills not Found—Prisoners Discharged by Proclama tion—Thomas Reynolds, Charles Fry, Maria Todd, Francis Godfrey. The Court sits again on the 25th of August. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. George Jones, a person dressed .like a porter, was , brought up charged with having; presented a forged , order for quicksilverat the warehouse of Messrs. Drew. Hayward, and Barrow,: of Bush-lane, wholesale drug gists. The prisoner called at the warehouse on the ith inst., and presented the order to one of the servants of the establishment. It purported to be the order of Messrs. Browning,. of St. John-street, with whom the house had done business. The forgery was suspected, and the pri soner was.desired to call again at three o'clock, when the quicksilver should be ready. The prisoner then went off to Messrs. Browning and mentioned that he had been employed by one of their men to apply for the quicksilver,and had been promised by him sixpence for calling; but a Messrs. Drew and Co. had refused to let bins have the article, he would be obliged by the trifle of money for which.he had performed the message. One of the firm gave the prisoner into custody instead of giving hinethe money. The prisoner was remanded till this day. • BOW-STREET. A woman named Mary Filer was placed at the bar be fore Mr. Hall, charged with being cencerned in a Post office robbery of 391. 7s. Id., under the following circepn stariees:— On the Ist of July Mr. Grainger, a merchant, in Pudding•lane, transnlitted through the Post-office a cheque for ,391. 7s. id., payelble to :dr. Ponsonby, of Southwick-road, Paddington. 0 i the Bth it was found that the letter never reached its destination, but on ap plication at the bank it appeared that the cheque had been presented by the firm of M :see and Son, and duly cashed; Messrs. Moses were neat applied to, and they stated lat on the 4th instant tee , tong, who gave the names u Marshall and Sprig„, ordered some clothing of them, and tendered the cheque in payment of the re quired deposit, upon which, alter sending to ascertain the genuineness of the cheque, they paid the dif ference in the amount. I: was arranged that the goods should be called for •on the following Thursday. 4,ccurdingly, on that day a buy, named. Cremer, came to the ehap for the goods, which •were delivered to bin; hut, by previous arrange ment, he was followed and taken into custody. The bOyehen explaieed that his aunt, the prisoner at the bar, requested him to go with her to show her the Duke of York's Monument, in St. James's Park, that morning ; that he there met and conversed with a postman, and afterwards sent him to Moses and Sons, to inquire for a parcel, giving him a shilling for his trouble. The aunt :was then apprehended, but she declined stating what she, knew upon the subject. Meanwhile, it having been ascertained that her nephew was a postman, and that he had absconded, a reward of 201. is offered for his apprehension. • The prisoner was remanded fer further examination. John 7'homds Witchell, a letter-carrier. in the Poet office, we; charged with stealing a letter, containing a .shilling, two duplicates, and two penny stamps. He was detected while concealing the letter in a me morandum book. and was accordingly watched. He was also remanded. • • . MARLBOROUGH-STREET. James Grieves, alias Yensym, idiot Barenger, was brought before Me. Bingham for final examination, charged with having obtained goods from various p a rti es by false and fraudulent pretence?. William Tytherleigh said—l live at Stalbridge, Der• setshire. I deal. in butter and other goods. O a th e 26th of May last I received through the post a letter, • signed. George Pennon, and containing a request f or m y terms fur goods. I looked into the London Directory, and tinding the nem.. of George Penson, eheesernoneer, 86, Berwick-street, I euppoled the letter came from the same party. wrote.an otl-r of contract :0 supple him with butter. On the 26th May I received an order for buster, and on the following day I sent 3501b5. of butte., worth 161. Is., directed, as requested, to the Boar and Th e next day I sent to the Castle, Oxford - street. place 601bs. more butter, but as I did not receive a re- I inquiries, and was e a . 1 -pittance ; as promised , forrniel that no such person lived. at Berwick-street. William Archer, a • stationer, of No. 88, B erwick. street, said about six weeks ago, the prisoner, who was , a stranger, come into my sho p and aeleed if I had any objection to take in his l etters, as the person n ext d oor, who..bad. done so, had left. I consented, and the pa- SfeV'T wrote on a piece of paper el eorg,e Penson, cheese monger, High-street, Woolwich. I. was to have a shil line a week for taking in his letters. I received six let ters, five of which were given to the prisoner. Th e . three letters received by last witness, I believe to be in the prisoner's hand-writing. cods that - • Hugh,Lavinatton, carrier, 69, Old Baile _ y. goous sent from a woman brought several orders. Settle VO. eMr. Tytherleigh, were delivered in consequence of these Lis orders. Witaess was not sure that the prisoner was ,eea.he man who was seen with the woman after the order •.a. , for delivery was brought. • • ' Etheard Stone, a commercial traveller , pr oved that he •e hail been twice to Woolwich, and could find no such Verson as George Denson, 3_lia7l-saece. Wee! eia:a there. • • 2.or . ge Haw, police•cons'.l:l:l', prnvul th'2, .~ltl"C~ two tiectats on thtiprisona: lt.:d =MC: on the 1::,.;!: eges in which the butter had b.:en sent. Mr. Briekwell, Overtherpe, - a magistrate, proved that ~; he. received letters and ordt.rs for butter from the pri e sour. ]tile sent four or five p.trcels of buttOr before he found out the fraud. A gentleman from Messrs. Maltinson and Sandtrs, Temple, attended for the pro:F.ecution, and produced numerous Aetters which the prisoner had sent to the - parties who had been defrauded, and from others who did not come forward to prosecute. The letters were written in , such a plausible, busines.i like way as to dis arm suspicion. • There was a case of forgery, but it was 'not gone into, • Mr. Bingham suggesting that it would be competent; for the parties to, bring forward eiidence at anotheflline if they chose to proceed against the prisoner. The prisoner, who is a respectable, elderly.romn, of appearance, adrnitted,prat he had' ree,i,ved quiet,_, grave • but he' said there ' • were some g ooa s several instances; . parts o; the evidence not correct. He was fully committed. SUUTIIWARK: a v er y • powe rtol young man, and re 'George Pearson, turned transport ,. waeY b . .roahlit before Mr. Seeker, charged with attempting to itab policeman. e ..tt r ed that, having deant4)errig,division, was re ceived information that the prism e rs' at large, after hsving been sentenced to , twentyya transportation, ;we - years age,,for highway he (the Serjeant) edeeededAtitha.ribliceniatil'r°oabbfeari3r.'held• on some ruins in the Mint, where he wa, likely to be found.- They, • however, did not succeed in their search, and at a later period td: the evening they entered a house, a receptacle PRE SUN,_ LONDOLtit FRIDAY ELEBIIIIB4B for thieves in the Mint, and there found the man they were in search of dancing with some women in one of the rooms upstairs. The moment the prisoner saw the police were after him, he made a 11)1t out of the room down stairs followed by the policeman, but instead of running out of the house, he stopped short, and concealed himself in a dark corner on the staircase. The police man, aware that the prisoner was still on the premises, began to .earth about for his man, and when he ap proached the spot where he was concealed, the prisoner made a stab at him with a knife, which fortunately he avoided by falling back, and having his truncheon out. he struck his assailant a blow on the arm which disabled it, and male him drop the weapon. The prisoners was then secured and taken to the station-house. The prisoner said that the police were mistaken in his identity, and that he had not returned from transporta tion before the expiration of his sentence. Sergeant Watkins, however, was called, and he proved that the prisoner was tried and convicted of highway robbery at the Old Bailey in 1846, and sentenced to twenty years transportation. The prisoner then said that he should decline saying anything further on the subject of the charge until a more fitting opportunity. The MAGISTRATE said that he should commit the pri soner for trial. Til A ES. Reubm . Avery, police-constable: of the K division, 216, appeared in his uniform, before Mr. Ballantine, by order of the Commissioners of Police, to answer a charge of assaulting Henry Watson. The complainant, a man of respectable appearance and aldress, is a shipwright, residing in IS iw•lane, Poplar. Ho came int.) the Court upon crutches, and the Magis trate dircct , ll him to u chair, and he was seated while giving his evidence. It appeared from his testimony that he had been ac qeainted with the defendant for three years, and that a female, whom Avery has since married, formerly lodged in his House, and contracted a debt. Ho had made more than one application to Avery for the money, and he refused to pay it, on the ground that the debt was con tracted before his marriage. On the night of Saturday, the 15th of April, about a quarter past nine o'clock, Watson" met the policeman on his beat, in Robin Hood lane, near the East India Dock entrance, and asked him if he intended to pay the debt of 10s., which had been so long owing. Avery -said he had nothing to do with it, and desired the complainant not to trouble him while he was on duty. Watson, however, repeated his de mand, walked alongside the police•constable, and touched his cape. lie had no sooner done so than he received a violent blow on the right leg, which felled him to the ground. lle endeavoured to rise again, but could not, and found his leg was broken. Mr.'relham made a defence for the defendant, and said he was instructed that the complainant had been con tinually annoying the police-constable, and on the par ticular night in question followed him up and down his beat and pulled his cape, and on pushing him away Wat son fell and injured his leg. Mr. BALLANTINE said it was clearly made out the man's leg was broken by the policeman, and the provoca tion was so very slight as not to justify the use of the truncheon at all. He was asked to dispose of the case summarily, and should do so. He did not know what effect his decision might have, but if the defendant was a violent man, using his truncheon in such an unlawful manner, he ought not to be in the force ono moment longer. Ile should treat this as a very serious case, and inflict the full penalty of 5/. fur the assault or two months' imprisonment. Watson appealed to the magistrate for some compen• sation,•and said ho could never work at his trade again, and his family were helpless. The costs of his witnesses amounted to 153. Mr. BALLANTING said if the fine was paid the com plainant should have his costs, and that was all he could do for him. He then altered his sentence, inflicting a fine of 41. ss. and 15s. costs. WINDOW GLASS A FREQUENT CAUSE OF FIRE. — A ; farmer in the neighbourhood of Ayr had his farm steading.improved and additions made to it lately. In an attic apartment, containing a bed for the servants, the light ens admitted by thiee or four single panes of glass in the - roof. One of these panes, for greater strength, - was selected from the centre of a sheet of glass, having what is commonly called a knot in it; and this knot was found, - from its convexity, to act as a powerful burning lens when the sun was shining on it. The bed was threctly opposite to this pane, and acci dentally placed at such a distance from it that the rays of the sun passing through it were collected into a focus sufficiently strong to burn the woollen covering of the bed. The• smell of burning woollen attracted the family one day to the bed, when . they found a large portion of the covering consumed. It was at once - conjectured that some of the servants might here accidentally set fire to the covering in lighting their pipes. Unfortunately for this conjec- ture there were no smokers among the servants, 'nor had there been any lights or fire in the room, so that stone other cause had to be sought after. The farmer, at length, thinking that the pane of glass might have something to du in the affair, tested its power as a burn ing lens upon a piece of cotton cloth, which was very quickly consumed. He immediately placedla screen be tween the bed and the pane, so as to prevent the collec tion of the rays of the sun into a focus, anti this acted as a safeguard. Lately the'screen was accidently displaced, and the burning-glais was again allowed its full power. On this occasion a large portion. of the covering and blankets was destroyed. Had the textures been of cot ton instead of woollen, there can be little doubt that the destruction of the steading might have taken place on either of these occasions, and if they had upon the first occasion, the real origin of the fire would, in all proba bility, have remained for ever a mystery. MYSTERIOUS DEATH AT GLASGOW.—About six o'clock on Sunday morning two of the carters in the employment of Mr. M'll wham, contractor for the General Barbour 'l'errniaus Reilway, proceeded to the stable in Dolton-street, near Binning House, and were surpr'sed to find that the private watchman did not allover to their summons for admission. One of the into effected an entrance from the back part of the building, and found the watchman, whose name is John MeLechlan, lying at the foot of one of the stalls, quite dead, with a large lacerated wound on the upper part of his head. At the tete r end of the stable, for it is a large one, and accommodated 19 horses, the two carters found a man, named M'Ginty, and his wife, with their- little boy, lying in a stall asleep, or ap parently so; but on being aroused they denied all know ledge of the manner in which M'Lachlan met his death. From subsequent inquiry, it appears that M•Ginty and M`Lachlan were acquainted, and had been together on the Saturday night, when a good deal of drink was going; but at twelve at night, when they were last seen, M'Lachlan was quite well, and not drunk, though hearty. Dl`Ginty and his wife were in the same state.. It is said that the noise of quarrelling was afterwards heard in the stable or near it, by a person who lives in the neighbourhood. A good deal of doubt, therefore, exists as to the cause of the man's death, though the probability is that having lain dewn io the stable he was killed by a stroke from a horse. If the watchman met his heath unfairly plunder could not have been the object of the aesailants, for when dis covered there were 13'. sd. in his pockets. At all events, Captain Wilson, who has been making an in vestigation into the case, has considered his duty to take M Ginty and his wife . into custody. The locality being in Renfrewshire, a full report of the circumstances was by nim transmitted early yesterday morning to the Procurator Fiscal of Paisley (Mr. .lodger), and that gentleman, accompanied by Dr. Macinlay, arrived in Glasgow in the course of the . forenoon, with the view of carrying out the investigation.. The locality was minutely examined, but nothing further was elucidated than what has been above stated. The fiscal immediately ordered a post mortem examination of the body, which was per formed by Dr. Stewart, of Portland-street, and Dr. Mac inlay. The epinicm of the surgeons we understand to be, that the man a death was occasioned by a fracture of the skull; produced from a blunt instrument; so that the ca,Se remains involved in as much mystery as over. In the Meantime M'Ginty and his wife are still in custody. —iVcrth British Daily Mail. CLASSES ExrosED TO INSANITY. — c ` It has been affirmed that the classes from whiCh asylums are peopled, especially with cases of excitement and per version, cau readily be pointed out in society, and that, with a moderate degree of penetration, the ultimate mental conditionthe fate of-particular individuals and families may be foreseeei and foretolth These are tendencies, and habifs, which pursuits lead directly to mental disturbance and unsoundness; but - there - are likewise qualities and dispositions which, of themselves innocuous, are gradually tteed e by yj y t t at othte e develop e d an d exa lt e d, an d matured into extravagance, eccentricity, and di sea se : there is an education provided in r m so prevailingu the r sociala rrangements which promotes and pmoral politics, l atmosphere and oro c cre: t tone th e i r n ea a religion, mercial enterprise, which may act favourably upon those df strong and stern temperament, but proves fatal to thefracile or may not act at all, Her cules in frame and iutellig , an susceptible.. The Her fall beneath the blows of misfortune, or the crash e o n f ee may panic ; but imaginative and excitable minds are affected a a ndi th v e r v e e c eci t ' by the influence of ordinary circumstances, by they have been enbieeted eetr... ry b: re . a , ;.n ,. in o g to which t y pursued, t e e qestiey which they 41 ' If the his tei-y,,2f the insane traced, cause of i been or test a I)* iae' re will b e ' eerier z;ly f' and y o ed some peculiarity '" " t - • • or conduct which has issued in eccentricity; some acute susceP tibi lite tit' feeling which b y indul g ence an d cultivation, ter minates in melancholy; somt infirmity of purpose, which becomes incapacity; some irritability of temper, which expands into violence; some vain, but cherished opinion, which eventually menopeliers the whole mind; some se cret,. some hidden spring of hop-, or ambition, or fear, which may be a foible in youth, but is regarded as fol:y in an an hood —which may be compatible with I „ • ro rity, bet is laid bare , and exntseil as visionary tad • prenos'erous under misfortune. Is imbecility is Matte incliceted by such minute irregularities us absence of mind, rev, vie, ;traction, foreetfu bless of facts or Persons, so are other forms of animation preceded by mere gentlenees and feeblenesS of character, by slight in con.sistenciss,, or contrarieties of disposition, or even oddity in dress While it may be held as certain that physical disease is the cause or contemporaneous condi tion in every case of aberration, there are a number of patients whose previous history presents little for obser vation, except some pre-existing or premonishing pecu liarity or perversity."—From No. 111. of Dr. Forbes inslony's Journal of P.ycholoyieal Medicine. .have just now glorious weather for the harvest, and everythie , looks well and full of promise. Fine new potatoes have been sold in the market to -day - ay at Is. per scot e.— Western Laminar? The Antwerp Company's j. steam-ship Antwerpen, Captain Jackson, arrived at th S .To.wer, . yesterday, morning, •at a ve e r e e ath ri arir'sWh2 . .Ff e , our, in passage was made in nineteen hours, tiie . passengers were numerous. CESAREAN OPERATION. A Cassarean operation, as it has been called, from being the mode by which Julius Caesar made his en trance into the world, was FicilCully performed by Mr. Strafford a few days ago, i this town, on a poor woman named Abbott. She was a native of Chid dingly, a village in this county. In person she was almost a dwarf, and her lower limbs so curved as to strike with astonishment many medical men who saw her that a person so deformed should have entered into the matrimonial state at all, or that any man should have wedded her. Though so dwarfish and deformed she possessed a good and clear intellect, and displayed the utmost courage, patience, and submission through ! out her long and severe trials. We understand that the deformity is hereditary, for the legs of her father are useless, and only a few inches in length. As it was known it would be a difficult case the friends of the woman had her removed to Brighton, where there is much greater amount of scientific skill tkau could of course be found in a small country village. She accordingly took up her residence at her mother's, in this town, and Mr. Batteock attended during the first throe days and nights of labour, when, being ex hausted, his partners, Messrs. Paine and Strafford, took his post by the bed-side of his patient. The time was now come when it was necessary to decide on sur gical operations. The chloroform was administered, and, though the patient retained perfect possession of her intellects throughout the trying period, she de clared that she was quite insensible to pain. The operation is of a nature which precludes uny further allusion to it in a publication of this kind, though it will probably be explained at length in medical works, as it was attended with some circumstances of deep in tore it to the profession. We can only add, therefore, that the poor woman was delivered of twins—one alive; the other had died prrvious to the operation. The medical gentlemen present were Drs. Plumer and Allen, Mr. Parsons, house-surgeon at the County Hospital, Mr. Paine, and Mr. Strafford, who, as in other extremely difficult cases in which he has ope rated, was perfectly successful'. It was performed, we understand, in the most scientific and skilful manner, to the entire satisfaction of all present. The shock to the constitution in a case of this kind is, medical men assure us, tremendous, and against which no skill, medical or surgical, is available ; arid it is with regret we add that the poor woman ultimately sank under it. Her constitution was not strong enough to rally and recover ; otherwise, in a stronger constitution, it is possible for a patient, even in an operation of this kind, to rally. It is, we understand, one of the most difficult operations in the whole science, and its skilful performance reflects the highest honour on the profes sion, its on this occasion. The other child died a few hours after delivery.—Brighton Herald. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—We have now arrived at a 'very critical time of the year, and have therefore been at some pains to ascertain the actual state of the crops in this county. On former occasions we have observed that there is a great breadth of land under wheats ; generally speaking, the plant looks healthy, but it is not stout, and the heavy rains it experienced during the time of its blossoming, will be detrimental to the "cast ;" such a yield therefore as that of last year may not be ex pected in the present, though a fine genial harvest would unquestionably give an average crop. The Lent grains wear a most promising appearance, the barleys in particular. Last year, it may be re collected, the failure of beans was general; this year, the stalk is short, but there is every prospect that of both beans and peas the crop will be good. From the hop plantations our reports, on the whole, are favourable; the cold nights of the early part of the week were beginning to tell, but the return of more genial weather has effected great improve ment. The hay harvest has been much retarded by heavy rains; considerable damage has, without doubt, been done, especially as the swathe is heavy. The return of fine sunny weather on Wednesday last has enabled large breadths of hay land to be cleared, and the late mown grass is being harvested very favourably. On all hands we hear most encouraging reports of the potato plant ; we have ourselves looked over a large number of acres in various parts of the county, and never saw the potato crop look more promisingly than it does at pre sent ; the haulm is very healthy—not the least appear ance of disease.—Hereford Times. SCOTLAND.—During the last week (says the In verness Courier) the weather has been somewhat chi 1, and not just what is required in July. Occasionally, slight serviceable showers have fallen, but the cry is for more sunshine. Still the crops progress well. Having made a short excursion in the early part of the week, it gave us great pleasure to observe the luxuriance of the fields. In the Aird the wheat and barley crops promise to be abundant, and they are generally in ear. From Ileauly to Ding wall, and up Strathpeffer the same remark applies; and at Highfield we observed a thick though uneven braird on land newly taken in, and which a few months ago, from the quantity and size of the stones, and other difficulties, seemed hardly worth the expense of reclaim ing. At Island Bank, Culcabock, and other places in this neighbourhood, the oats are in ear ; but we suspect a portion of this crop will be short in the straw. Potatoes generally are most luxuriant ; but in several parts of the Aird, and our own immediate neighbourhood, we have observed the crumpled leaves and sickly stems usually indicatitive of the curl. We hope we nre mistaken ; but, at all events, this appearance is limited. Turnips have now all been got iu, and in good teter. In the hay-fields the scythes are at work, but this operation might now be much more general. It is a complaint against our intel ligent farmers that they are always too long in cutting their grass. They allow it to ripen too much, and cut it when dry and wiry, instead of when se eet and succulent. A gentleman who has recently traversed great part of the west coast in Innverness-shire and Ross-shire, the Long Island, Skye, and the districts of Ardnamurchan and Stontien, in areyllihire, informs us that appearances are highly prerni-ine. There has never before been so great a breadth of corn sown in these localities; the potato crop is scarcely a fourth of what it used to be in former years, before the blight was known; but wherever potatoes are met with the plants are vigorous and healthy. The people express themselves gratified with the prospect before them, and only desire that the herrings would be a little plentiful. SUICIDE AT THE CAVALRY BARRACKS, WIND• SOR.—An inquest was held at the Cavalry Hospital, Windsor, on 'Tuesday afternoon, before W. Marlin, Esq., the coroner for the borough, on the body of a private in the 2d regiment of Life Guards, named George Baxter, 19 years of age, who had blown out his brains with his carbine, loaded with ball, the day before. The unfor tunate man, it appeared, had been about seven months in the Life Guards, and had since been for some time in the hospital with a bad leg, which seemed, however, to have no effect upon his general health. The dread of the hospital seemed to prey upon his mind. The de ceased, as a recruit had been drilled, but had never done duty. Alexander Hopper, a witness, was with him in his room ten minutes before he shot himself. There were four or five carbines in the room, and also cartridges, which had been served out to the men. He sat on the bed at the time he committed the act, the butt-end of the carbine resting an the ground. William Jenkins, another private in the regiment, stated that he heard no complaints made by the deceased of the low ness of the diet at the hospital. James Nisbet Comm!, the regimental surgeon, said--I attended the deceased at Knightsbridge Barracks, who had an ulcerated leg, from May 9to June 2, when ho was discharged as well. I at first, when he enlisted, rejected him, on account of his • being so very slight and young, but the Colonel agreed to take him, as he said ho might improve. lie came from Dundee. The jury returned a verdict of "Feb de se, under the dread of again going into th e h os pit a l." F ELI N E SAGACITY.--A boy herding cattle in the vicinity of this villege, a short time ago found a young squirrel, and brought it home to his father's house, which he placed beside a cat having young. Puss im mediately took it under her protection, and suckled it as she did her own kittens. An instance still more sure prising happened lately at Lochtayside. A cat there having three kittens, two of which had been drowned, baudrons quietly wont out to a rabbit burrow, an d took in two young rabbits, which she is still rearing with maternal fondness along with her own surviving. kitten. —Perthshire Advertiser. EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTER WITH A DOG.—A few days since an extraordinary encounter took place at Hurst. A professional gentleman at that place had given instructions to his servant to destroy a dog of the setter and bloodhound species, on account of its ferocity; but the man instead gave the dog to Mr. Richard Mar chant, who proceeded with it about eleven at night to his home at Edgerley House, leading it by a chain. On the way the dog made a spring at Mr. Merchant, who was enabled to keep him at bay for some time, and being an active runner thought the best plan to adopt for safety would be, if possible, to reach his dwelling by a gate in the garden hedge, the night being dark; he missd the gate, however, and tile dog came up and sprang at him in the ditch. The only chance left him then was to seize the dog as he came at him, which he fortunately did with both his hands. A struggle took place, in which Mr. Merchant obtained the mastery, and throwing the dog on his side knelt on him and held him with one 'hand for e' icetant while he drew his penknife from his pe e ket with the other, sad opeeine :t with i" , 3 (Ott the dog's throat, but not ef;ec:uelly, as the blade of the knife broke in two. Mr. M. made two gashes in his left hand as well. The dog was now losieee; power by the loss of blood, and Mr. Merchant lett him to proceed to the surgeon as speedily as possible to get his wounds dressed. The dog again endeavoured to follow him, but was lost sight of till Mr. M.'s return, when he found him a short distance from the spot, having bled to death. —Brighton Guardian. TILE SOUTH DEVON RAILWAY.—The telegraph upon the line has been completed during the week to Lairs, and is now, we believe, in full operation. The di rectors having agreeed with Mr. Re.ndle, during the past week, will forthwith take possession of a portion of the nursery in his occupation, between Devonshire-terrace ' and King-street, and the works will be recommenced without delay. The Dainton engine•house and engines are in a great state of forwardnesss ; the engines, which . are being built by Bolton and Watts, are of immense size, and are constructed differently from those at the other stations ; they will work horizontally, instead of perpendicularly, the exhausting cylinders are 7 feet 8 inches in diameter. About five miles of pipe are laid between Newton and Totnes. The Totnes engines are not so forward; in fact, it is said, the engines at that sta tion will not be required for the opening to Totnes, as the powerful Dainton engines would create a vacuum sufficient before the train passed Dainton, to take it down to Totnes, and vice versa. We are sorry to find that the Torquay branch is not being pushed. We had hoped that this capital feeder for the trunk line would have 'been finished ere this.— western Laminar/1. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had a general meeting yesterday, at their office in Whitehall place. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (YESTERDAY.) HOUSE OF LORDS. FJORD SHAFTESBURY'S COMMITTEE—WRITE- Et 2 NEN AND FURNESS JUNCTION RAILWAY (Exton sic ns).—Preamble proved and clauses agreed to. (3.ROTTP No. 4.--LONDON, -BRIGNZON, AND SOUTH CoAsT RAILWAY (Powcr to Purchaie Steam-boats). — Case for the promoters further considered. HOUSE OF COMMONS. GROUP No. I.—EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW RAIL• Al AND EDINBURGH AND BATIIGATE A3IALGA3IaTioN. --Clauses further considered. :EXETER AND EXMOUTH RAlLWAY.—Proamblo passed and clauses considered. - ',LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY (Amend ment of Acts and Regulation of Capital).—Preamble pus ed and clauses considered. ELECTION COMMITTEE. DUBLIN. The scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' majo rity was resumed yesterday, but the petitioners failed to striko off any additional votes. A lengthened argument arose upon the allegation of the Counsel for the sitting Member that the grand cess was not a legal municipal rate within the meaning of the Reform Act; but the Committee adjourned without coming to any decision upon the point. HOP INTELLIGENCE. MAIDSTONE. — The weather on the whole these last few days has not been kindly for the hops; they do not want any more rain at present, and the wind is too much for them. The greater. part, of the College ground is very short of bine, and the ground anything but kindly —whilst at one little spot the bine is strong and they have put up helpers and poled with 12 feet poles. The duty stands at 195,0001. to 200,0001., but we must have better weather than the present or they will not do it. A correspondent says;—" The want of manure on the hop ground begins to be felt, as no one thinks hops worth it. Your remedy, the mattock, is the only wise one. Planters have themselves to blame. They have planted too many hops. In 1839 corn fetched a fair price, which induced planters to grub. Now the pros pect is bad, still let them recollect that on a low price of corn not a tenth part of the loss occurs which occurs in hops." OTRAM, LEEDS, AND HOLLINGDOURNE.—The bine is platty, and takes too short turns round the poles to pro duce much fruit. From all appearance the duty must be overset. ROLVENDEN.—Bine very growing, and every appear. ance of a full crop. YALDING, FARLEIGH, AND CHART.—The bine has grown since the still warm weather, but is not so good or so strong as it was in these parishes last year, nor do we think so many hops will be grown. Should the weather prove unkind, we shall not grow anything like the crop. STAPLEHURST.—Growing fast. WROTRAM, IGTHA.M, AND SHIPBORNE.—Rine healthy and vigorous. The winds and the rain of the last few days have done some injury, but the general appearance is very good in some, platty and uneven in most. TUDELEY.—Going on well; the bine stronger than last year. SEVENOAKS (and adjoining Parishes).—The hop bine has made more progress this last week, and there is scarcely any fly. GOIIDNIIRST.—Growing fast, and the bine looking healthy; we hear of no increase of vermin. TicEnunsT.—Not going on so well the last fortnight, the wind having bruised the heads in exposed situa tions. EDENBRIDGE.—Not looking so well as they did a week ago; the high winds these last few days have whipped them severely in many places. CANTERBURY.—The hops continue to improve; and though the earlier shoots were devastated by vermin, their present state promises a fair crop. Many growers grubbed up their old plantations last year, which will cause a falling off in the usual growth in this district. The duty ranges from 190,0001. to 200,0001. SUSSEX.—The accounts from this district are generally favourable, though in some places there is slackness of bine arising from neglected cultivation.—Maidstone Journal. THE SLAVE TRADE. Her Majesty's ship Kingfisher, 12 guns, Commander F. W. Horton, arrived off the Isle of Wight on Wednes day, from the coast of Africa. She left Ascension on the 21st of May, calling at Cape Coast, where freight was expected. A considerable quantity of gold dust had, however, been previously shipped in the Governor M‘Lean, brig, to sail in a day or two after the above date. Captain and Nlrs. Bingham, with Dr. Dolce, of the West India Regiment serving on the Gold Coast, and some others, came passengers in the Al• Lean. She was spoken by the Kingfisher on the 3d of June, and kept company until the sth. Her Majesty's ships Penelope, Tortoise, and Adelaide, were the only men-of-war at Ascension. The Adelaide, a slaver lately purchased into the service, is fitting as a tender to be stationed be tween Sierra Leone and the Galinas. Lieut. Joliffe was appointed to command her. A number of invalids and supernumeraries have come home in the Kingfisher:—Lieutenant E. Glynn, late commander of the Dart; Dr. O'Hagan, late surgeon of the Britomart, We are indebted for the following interesting particu lars to a correspondent:—" The slave trade goes en briskly, and very little affected by our cruisers. The new slave treaties and palavers seem to afford a complete protection to ships of varied flags, which approach the coast without the slightest fear or molestation, and watch an opportunity to ship their slaves, haul down their assumed flags, and be off. Even the very negro declares that we are worse than useless, and through us come all the torments and sufferings of the middle passage, which horrors are even increased after we capture them, as the returns of the deaths occurring between tho capture and de livery into court will fearfully show. We are even accused of mercenary motives, and dealing in human traffic by expatriating our liberated captives' to our West India islands. The only effectual way to put an end to the trade is to withdraw our squadron; largo and commodious vessels would then be employed, when the human cargo would enjoy comparative comfort in room and air, instead of being as r.ow packed like herrings in a barrel in old, ricketty, and impure vessels. The sudden opening of the trade would throw a sudden inundation into the Brazilian markets and other slaving countries, and these being overstocked, the demand must cease, and thus render the trade profitless. Now, the question is—is it worth expending a mil lion a year on this signal failure?—or how long will our Government remain obstinately deaf to the real facts which every day's experience on the coast of Africa elicits? As to the distribution of prize-money, it is a flagrant injustice to the officers of the service, more especially to surgeons and pursers, whose shares have been cut down to five, whilst the warrant officers are, just by way of distinction, within a half share of them; the commander, however, getting nearly one .third of the whole prize. " The check money formerly paid to officers and men doing extra duty at Ascension has been stopped. This is a very severe loss and privation to men whose only inducement to volunteer fur service in such an unpro ductive island was the contemplation of being enabled to save from their hard earnings wherewithal to recom pense them on returning to a land where comfort could be procured for money. It is rumoured that Ascension is to be made a penal settlement, and that convicts aro about to be employed where the marines and sailors of the Tortoise formerly were. Guns have been placed on eminences and com manding positions around the buildings, and large par ties are daily employed in putting this huge cinder into a state of defence." RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERVOOL, JULY 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.--It will be seen from the following list of business transacted, that rates are improved, and the extent of business done greater than yesterday. The sales are—Lancashire and Yorkshire; Fifths, 1 dis.—London and North-Western, 126—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% c. p.—Ditto, paid up, 22%—London, Brighton, and South Coast, New 51. Shares, IA p.—Midland Stock, 106—North Staffordshire, dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, 25—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 p. ex int. MANCHESTER, Jura 13: _ STOCK EXCIIANGE.--1 he sales are—East Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 3-16 p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), 3 13-16 dis.—Ditto, Preference, 6 per cent., p. —Leeds and Thiuk, Preferential, 2A 3 dis.— London and North-Western, Quarters (C), 2? p.—Ditto (Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal), 23 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 10! — Ditto (Grimsby), 201. Shares, 8 13-16 dis.—Ditto ditto, 12/.los. Shares, 5 1 / 8 dis.—North Staffordshire, 2% dis.— Northern Counties Union , 3 9-16 di:.—South-Eastern and Dover, 25—Ditto, No. 4, 2 3 % diS. BIRMI N JULY 13. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The market to-day was rather dull, and the business limited to few sales, of which the following are quotations Staffordshire. 48s. 9d. dis.—Shrews -bury and Birmingham (A), s—Ditto (B), 3t. 3s. 91. — Stour, 3!i. MARKED SALI/O:c.--70: 1 Wedneiday movnin , ;, sth salmon WAI brought . np at O'rebar demo!: ice house, near Perth, in one of the gathering boats, a fine Well-grown fish of 121bs. 2oz. weight, with a bit of small copper wire attached to the root of the tail, on the back of the fish, below the dead fin, where the skin had been bored through with an aw l, the wire, about two inches in length, inserted, then t wisted double, and, thus marked, the fish bad been turne d adrift to seek its wa y to the see, from which it has no w returned. We ho p e every p u bli c ity will be given to this, so that the river, ti'ne, and place where the fish was marked may be as curately ascertained, and another fact added to the in vestigation into the natural history of the salmon.— Dundee Courier. ST. SWITHIN'S DAY. —Saturday next will be St. Swithin's Day, remarkable on account of a well-known popular notion, that if it rain on this day there will be rain for forty days to come. St. Swithin was an emi nent and learned Bishop of Winchester, and priest to King Egbert. The story runs, that being buried at his own request in the churchyard of the Cathedral, the prietts, a hundred years after, felt desirous of doing him greater honour, and commenced the work of translating his remains into the interior. This was on the 15th of July. They were stopped in their work by a heavy fall of rain ; neither could they resume their duty next day, for the heavy rain still continued. In short, this rain lasted forty days, by which time the priests became convinced that it was to stop them in a work which, though well meant on their part, was ill taken on that of the saint, and they gave up the point. Ever since then it has been held as a maxim that if there be rain on,St. Swithin's Day, there will be rain forty days ensuing, IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT HOUSE OF LORDS, July 13. Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. PROTECTION OF FEMALES BILL. Lord BROUGHAM laid on the table a Bill for the prevention of seduction, which was not exposed to the objections which had been brought against the Bill of the Right Rev. Prelate the Bishop of Oxford. Lord CAMPBELL thought it was impossible the Bill could pass this session, and would suggest its post ponement. _ _ After a few words from Lord DENMAN, the Bill was read a first time, and the second reading was fixed for Tuesday next. INDEPENDENCE OF PARLIAMENT BILL. Lord BROUGHAM moved the second reading of the Independence of Parliament Bill. The object of this measure was to exclude insolvent debtors from Parlia ment, in the same manner as bankrupts were ex cluded. As the law now stood, law-makers were law-breakers, and brought sc•sndal on the House to which they belonged. He would, however, if he could get an assurance from the Government that they would take up the question next session, withdraw his motion. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE was understood to approve of the principle of the Bill, but to recommend its postponement. Lord BROUGHAM considered it better the measure should originate in the House of Commons, and would not therefore press his motion. The Bill was then withdrawn. CRIMINAL LAW ADMINISTRATION BILL. Lord CAMPBELL moved that the House do resolve itself into Committee on the Criminal Law Administra tion Bill. The Bill had been referred to a Select Com mittee, and the question bad been mooted as to whether it would be advisable, in all criminal cases, to give the party convicted a right to demand a new trial, and the judges had unanimously decided that it would not be advisable. Lord DENMAN likewise bore testimony to the unanimous opinion of the judges on the subject. He also objected to giving a right of appeal from the judg ments of courts of quarter-sessions on points of law, as was proposed by this Bill. It would be attended with great inconvenience, and would amount to a practical defeat of the adminis tration of justice. The judges were generally of opi nion that no practical good could arise from this appeal to the judges on circuit, but that, on the other hand, it would be attended with great disadvantage. Lord BROUGHAM said it was a great mistake to suppose that the same course could be pursued with reference to appeals from courts of criminal judicature as from civil courts. They must double the number of judges, and make them sit in July as well as in Novem ber, if such a proposition were carried into effect; and anything more wild, altogether, could not possibly have been proposed. Ile thought nothing was snore unsatis factory than the manner in which points were now re served by judges and finally adjudicated upon. He con sidered that their judgments should be given in open court; but still he could not approve of the present measure as an effectual remedy for the existing evils in the administration of the criminal law. Lord CAMPBELL said that many difficult and im portant questions came before the courts of quarter-ses sions, and it was quite as important that appeals should be allowed in such cases as in those tried before the su perior courts. It bad generally been considered one of the defects of the courts of quarter-sessions that there was no appeal. A judge could consult his learned brethren upon a difficult point, but a chairman of quarter sessions had not that advantage. He did not think there was any danger of the privilege of appeal from quarter sessions being abused. The amendment was then agreed to, and the two clauses accordingly struck out. Their Lordships resumed, and the Bill as amended was reported. Their Lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 13. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'clock. FARMERS' ESTATE SOCIETY (IRELAND) BILL. A lengthened discussio❑ arose upon bringing up the special report of the Chairman of Committees upon this Bill; to whom it had been referred, as to whether the special nature of its provisions did not demand that it should be referred to the consideration of a Select Committee. Mr. MONSELL said the Bill was a most important one fur Ireland. It had received the sanction of the Lord-Lieutenant and the Law Officers of the Crown, and he hoped the Bill would not be delayed. Sir R. FERGUSON said the Bill contained most extraordinary provisions, and he though it ought to be referred to the consideration of a Select Committee, with the view of ascertaining whether the promoters had raised the capital for carrying it into effect. Mr. BAGOT suggested that the debate upon the Bill had better be adjourned. Mr. BRIGHT opposed the suggestion. He thought the House knew nothing of the provisions of the Bill, and it ought, he thought, to be referred to a Select Committee. The report was then ordered to lie upon the table. LORDS' AMENDMENTS. The Lords' amendments to the following Bills were considered and agreed to: — Bristol and Exeter (Branch from Bleadon to Wells, Glastonbury, and Street) Bill. Bristol and Exeter Railway (Taunton and Castlecary Branch) Bill. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Amendment and Branches, &c.) Bill. Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway (Relinquishment of Line between Omagh and EnniAilien) Bill. North Staffordshire Railway (Ashbourno Branch and Approach to Congleton Station) Bill. Whitehaven Junction Railway (Extension, Alteration, and Branches, &c.) Bill. York, Newcastle, and Berwick Railway (Great North of England, Clarence, and Hartlepool Junction) Bill. Mr. HUM presented eight petitions in favour of Parliamentary reform. Mr. DUNCAN presented a petition against the Lunatic Asylums (Scotland) Bill. Mr. HUME presented petitions from the Cape of Good Hope praying that the principle of self-govern ment might be extended to that colony. lie gave notice that when the petition was printed he should call attention to its contents. The Honourable Member also presented a petition from Chiswick, Kensington, and Fulham, signed by 18,000 persons, praying that they might be allowed to return a Member to the House to supply the place of Sudbury. The Hon. Gentleman gave notice that he should on an early clay move that this petition be printed with the view of founding a motion upon it. INCREASE OF BISHOPS. Lord C. MANNERS presented a petition from certain ratepayers in Leicestershire, praying the House to adopt measures for augmenting the number of bishops. DISEASE AMONG SHEEP. In reply to a question from an Lim MEMBER, Mr. LABOUC - HERE stated that the attention of the Government had been called to the prevalence of a disease called small-pox among. sheep ; and he would state to the House exactly how the case stood as far as they were acquainted with it. At the end of the month of September last they received information that several cases of disease among sheep had occurred of a very fatal and contagious nature. The Board of Trade and the Customs having heard that these sheep arrived from Germany, instituted a strict in spection of all sheep imported from that country, and every other measure that they thought necessary, and very shortly afterwards cases of diseased sheep imported into this country had altogether ceased. He had, however, seen the accounts to which the Honourable Gentleman had referred of a disease of a very extensive magnitude among sheep in the eastern counties. A strict investigation e h a as a s d e Idaatgenani animal b a e ll e a n h, e d s s t a ab b te u l e i rn s d h a e y d . a u n d p discovered only t a w o hll n o cah c in a b s t uo e or o gk f h a d plac e ve is s sel. He could assuro the Honourable Gentleman that the officers of Customs,. particularly of . the eastern ports had been d!rected . to have all animals affected with the disease immediately slaughtered on their arrival. The most stringent measures would be adopted by the Government to prevent their impor tation. In reply to another , question, Mr. LABOUCHE4I.tE stated that all cargoes arriving from Germany were inspected by a veterinary surgeon, and that the Gove rnment had received some valuable information from Germany respecting the disease, and that he was quite willing to have it laid on the table o the House. SUGAR DUTIES. H umE gave notice that he would bring the peti tion which he had presented from Jamaica, respecting the proposed sugar duties, before the House on the firs opportunity. NEW BOROUGHS.. The HON. MEMBER. also gave notice that on an early day he would move for leave to bring in a Bill to have transferred the two:llembers taken from Sudbury to Ful• ham, Kensington, and Chelsea. RUM. Lord J. RUSSELL, in answer to a question from Mr. Berkeley, whether it was the intlntien of the Go7ern rumnt to prope,:e any re:V . .l.olOn EtS to t i lt!' reduction of the duty on rum, stated th, t the Chancellor of the Thiche. , quer would give the information required by the Hon. Gentleman. Colonel SIBTIIORP was glad to find that the mind . laneous estimates would be laid on the table in the course of a week: he trusted that the return he had moved for with respect to commissions would be laid on the table at the same time. Mr. HINDLEEMY IgGaltv gave nToltOieNe that h C a L t U o B n S. an early day he should move for leave to introduce a Bill to facilitate and legalise the establishment of emigration clubs. THE ABOLITION OF CHURCH-RATES. Mr. B. OSBORNE said, as the session was so far ad vanced, he wished, to potpone his Bill on this subject until the ensuing session. CANADA. The Earl of LINCOLN wished to ask the Under- Secretary for/the Colonies whether a Commission had been appointed either by the Secretary of State for the Co 'onies or by the Governor-General of Canada, to inquire nto the complaints of Mr. Isbister and others, against he present Goverment of the Red River Settlement, cr against the Hudson's B:ay Company generally ; and whether, if no inquiry is now pending, he will lay on the table of the House any correspondence which has taken place on the subject. Also, whether a grant has been made by the Secretary of State for the Colonies of Vancouver's Island to the Hudson's Bay Company, and if so, what is to be the form of government, what regu lations have been made as to the working coals and minerals, and what stipulations have been entered into as to future colonization of the island ; also whether there will be any objection to lay on the table of tho House port of the Select Committee appointed to sit on election petitions, as to whether a further investigation were required or not, and whether it should be made by the commission, or by a Select Committee. These were the general provisions of the Bill, but before he sat down he must state that he proposed to introduce a clause to indemnify the parties who were examined before the commissioners from the penalties of the ex isting bribery law. He would now proceed to move that the orders relating to the Borough Election Committee and the Horsham Borough Bill be discharged, with the view of asking leave to in troduce a Bill to inquire into the origin of bribery and corrupt practices at elections. On the question being put, Colonel SIBTHORP rose to protest against the Bill being introduced at this late period of the session. Unless the Noble Lord gave more cogent reasons for the introduction of the Bill than he had done, he should feel it his duty at the next stage of the Bill to move that it be proceeded with that day six months. Lord JOHN RUSSELL, in reply to a question of Lord Lincoln, said the first clause of the Bill which he proposed to introduce directed that a General Election Committee should appoint a Select Committee in regard to those boroughs which had been made the subject of inquiry, and in respect to which petitions had • been already investigated, and those boroughs mentioned in the schedule (Derby and Leicester) would be all the boroughs to which that clause should apply, and a Select Committee might be appointed in the first place by the general Committee of Rections, who should report whether a further investigation should be entered into by a Select Committee or a commission. In reply to another question of the Noble Lord, whether, if a case of bribery had been sufficiently made out, but was not bron;ht home to the Member him self or his agents, the Lborough would be affected by it, he (Lord John Rus,,A) thought that the case in point was already met in the Bill; but, if the words were not sufficiently comprehensive he would take care to render them so. After some observations In m Mr. MULLINGS and Mr. HUMS, the moti.m for the committal of the Bill was withdrawn, and the Noble Lord obtained leave to bring in his Bill. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. In answer to a question from Mr. NEWDEGATE, Lord J. RUSSELL said that he meant to go on with the Incumbered Estates (Ireland) Bill, and if not finished that evening, would proceed with it to-morrow (this day). After that, it was his intention to take the Lords' amendments to the Echoed Tenants (Ireland) Bill. PRIVILEGES. Mr. OSBORNE complained that on a former evening the lion. Baronet the Member for Marylebone had ac cused the Hon. Member for Mayo of having wilfully abandoned his intention of bringing the Iri h Church temporalities under the notice of the Hou•se. Now the fact was that the lion. Member for Mayo was Leriously indisposed, and open so for three week F. INC LIMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.. The order of the day for the Committee on the above Bill was read. Sir GEORGE GREY expressed his hope that pre liminary discussion would be avoided, so as that the clauses and their amendment might be disposed or. Mr. HENLEY doubted very much whether the Bill would effect the object in view. The object was to keep clear of the Court of Chancery; and he feared that the Bid would throw the estates more helplessly into that court than ever. The house went into Committee. On clause l—the interpretation clause— Colonel DUNNE proposed an amendment to pre vent the sale of the lee simple to pay otY incumbrances on the life interest, which, after some discussion, was negatived ; the Honourable and Gallant Member inti mating that he woul I raise the question and take a divi sion upon it at a more fitting opportunity, which the Solicitor , General said would present itself on the 30th clause. The clause was then agreed to. On clause 2, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL moved to omit the words which limited the sale of the property under a decree of the Court of Chancery, unless is sold for a sum which should be suasient to pay cif all incumbrances on the estate. No such limit existed us to sales by private arrangement. The amendment was agreed to. Mr. MaCULLA.GH proceeded. to state the object of the amendment of which ho had given notice.' The Bill, as at present framed, limited the right of petitioning for a sale to the owner of the estate, to the first incum brancer, and the mortgagee who might hold the title deeds in his possession. He was desirous of removing such limitation, and permitting any incumbrancer to institute proceedings in a court of equity fora sa'e. The parties on whom the clause exclusively conferred the power were precisely those who in general were least disposed to sell.—(Hear, hear.) The owner of an estate heavily incumbered has ceased too frequently to retain any direct interest i i its possession, excepting that which he valued very naturally, and not undeservedly, the consideration and position which had come to him by inheritance, and which, with the inheritance, he is con scious that he mast 10. e--(tleer, hear.) To expect such a man to initiate proceedings in equity for a sale Would be idle. Were the highest price realised and all his cre ditors paid off, the balance in monce a numbered that would remain could not enable him to maintain what is familiarly termed hie position in the county ; and if lie happened to be but tenant fur life, the interest annually payable to him out of court upon this residuum would be wholly inadequate to maintain him in that social sphere in which he had hitherto moved.—(Hear, hear.) If you waited until the insolvent, or nearly insolvent, owner pee titioned for a sale, you might wait for ever. Then as to the first incumbrancer, he believed it would be found that the first incumbrancer was, generally speaking, a person holding a charge under family set tlement, or an old judgment on a bond. In Ire land these early charges and old judgments were looked upon as about the best investment that could be had. They were transferable, and always brought their full price whenever they were sold. They were valued like old pictures, which the possessor was always tho less disposed to part with, because lie knew that they would always bring him his own money. If, therefore, lands were never brought to sale until persons so circum stanced filed petitions in equity to ra ise the amount of these charges, sales to any considerable extent there would never be.—(Cheers.) As for the principal mort gagees, who had the title-deeds in their c po r s c, se e s , : t tn r , those parties had ussiefie' 7 s7s'ol . to buy up prior ineurnbre see they lent .y any considerable sum to fhf! 0 1.1- Jri 'T to syi escnt margin of rent to secure the payment o: tee : ). interest. Sometimes these parties were wealthy individuals who had lent their money in this way as a per manent, safe, and profit ible investment. Sometimes they were joint-stock companies or money-lenders; but, almost invariably, they felt themselves to be in exactly the position where there was seldom any object or mo tive to institute proceedings for a s:ale.—(Loud cries of Hear, hear.") The estate might deteriorate, as most heavily incumbered properties are apt to do; but they were distant from the scene; indifferent to the slow decay; safe, by their possession of the title-deeds, from the practical consequences of the evil. To wait till such parties filed petitions of sale would he to wait for ever. In the course of the discussions that had taken place upon this Bill, on a previous d'iy, he regretted •to ob serve a tone of argument indicative in some sort of a feeling that after all this was a mere wrangle between landlords and lawyers. But there was another and a far wider interest concerned which he trusted the House would protest and guerd—he meant that of the tenantry on incumbered e:tates in Ireland. Their position was most lementable. Improvement was unknown, and escape from evil impossible. Year after year the condition of the embarrassed property grew worse, until, in the sad progress of deterioration, the time came when. every other duty of proprietorship having ceased to be discharged, the collection of the rents devolved upon a receiver; and what misery and demoralisation was comprehended in that fatal phrase it would hardly be necessary to explain. Now what • was the condition of the puisne incumbrancer? He watched the gradual deterioration of the estate on which ' copies of the correspondence between the Colonhasoffice Ihe had lent his money with a very diorent eye. The and the Hudson's Bay Company on this subject, and of I eventual danger of a deficient fund was ever present to the charter, if any, granted to the company. his mind. It he were enabled to do so, he would in- Mr. IIA WES said the inquiry was proceeding, and stitute proceedings for a sale before it was too whilst so it would not be welt to lay the papers on the late. By doing so he would do a real service table. The charter, we understood, would be granted to the improvident owner, and an inestimable bene• in the usual way. The lion. Gentleman was scarcely fit to the tenantry of the Portion which might audible in the gallery. be sold. The amendment which he had the honour nououdn EFECTIONS BILL. to move would clothe the minor incumbrancer with this On the motion for the House rosolvin4 itself into a - power ; and it would, he believed, go tar towards the Committee on the Borough Elections Bill, gradual encouragement of what was so desirable, but Lord J. RUSSELL said that he would take that op- what, at present, did not practically exist in Ireland—a portunity of stating that it was his intention to move to market for land. People talked of bringing land into discharge the order for going into Committee otethe Bill the market. Into what market ? If they meant by a Tor the purpose of introducing a measure for the conside- market the competition of small capitals for moderate ration of the House, the outline of which he would shortly portions of land, he could understand it ; but if they state. The House we aware that an Act of Parliament meant a forcing of large estates unbroken and in great had:been introduced, in 1842, fur the better discovery of numbers suddenly to sale, then ho would tell them that bribery and treating. By that Act it was provided that the only practical effect would be to depreciate most in cases where bribery had been abandoned the Corn- ruinously the present value of land, and to hand over a reiteee should have the power to report to the House vast portion of the soil of Ireland to a class of mere land whether or not further investigation was needled, and upon jobbers.—(Cheers.) Be was sure that such was inn that report the House should proceed to appoint another respect the purpose or aim which the framers of the Bi I Committee to consider the grounds of the abandonment had in view. But he very much feared that such would to of such Bill. Now, in the Bill he intended to introduce, some extent be its unintentional tendency, ifsome means he proposed to extend the provisions of the measure to were not found of permitting portions of estates rather which he had just alluded, nee to propose that in all than entire estates to be sold in liquidation of minor in cases where charges of bribery and corrupt practices cumbrances. He had heard with the deepest interest were made, whether made in the original petition the speech delivered on a former day by the Right Hon. or by way of recrimination, the rection Committee Baronet (Sir J. Graham) ; and by nothing was he more should proceed to investigate such charges, and if they struck than by the caution with which he guarded his found the parties did not bring before teem evidence of strenuous support of the principle of the Bill from any such bribery and corruption, he should propose that approval of recklessly throwing more land upon the they should then have the power to proceed, and to re- market than the capital of Ireland could appropriate, port to the House, that in their opinion further investi- a nd thus incurring the incalculable evil of general do gation was needed in respect of such practices, and to preciation. The amendment would restore the second ascertain whethersuch practices had extensively prevailed. clause to the condition in which it stood when the Bill He intended also to propose that the Committee should was originally introduced into the other House last have power to report further whether such irquiry year ; and he earnestly hoped, therefore, that her !des should be made by the same Committee or by commis- jesty's Government would not refuse to adopt it. sioners on the spot, If tint Committee reported that the Sir J. GRAHAM, being most anxious to forward the inquiry should take place before the same Committee Bill before the House, was not desirous of instituting then he proposed that that Committee should assemble any discussion which would consume time ; but he felt within fourteen days, and that the Speaker should bound to state his concurrence in the views of the Hon. appoint an agent to conduct the investigation. But, Gentleman who had last addressed them re s p ec ti ng the supposing the Committee should recommend an inquiry sale of estates in large masses. By the Stamp Act as it by commissioners on the spot, then he :proposed that existed there was a saving effected by selling large por the Speaker should notify to the judge of assize tions, while the small sales were obstructed by its ope where the offence had been committed, that the ration. He thought that the object of the Act would House of Commons had determined that the inquiry be considerably promoted if an alteration were effected should be made into the subject, and the senior in this state of things. judge should then proceed to nominate barristers, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was sorry that be not Members of Parliament, on the commission. could not accede to the amendment, and he thought the He proposed that the conatui3sion should investigate all House would see that the retention of the words pro the circumstances attending such bribery and corrupt posed to be omitted, instead of interfering with the ope' practices, and that they should report their views upon ration of the Bill, would be beneficial. each case to the House. Ile proposed to make it a The amendment was then negatived, and the clause, general rule to apply this Bill to all boroughs whose with some verbal amendments, was adopted. Members had already been unseated, while the future Clauses 3,4, 5, and 6 were adopted without discussion. application of its provisions should depend upon the re- On the motion that clause 7 stand part o f th e Bill, Mr. NAPIER said that he was strongly of opinion that powers of a more extensive nature should be given to the Lord Chancellor to frame proper orders and rules respecting the petitions to be presented to the Court under the Act. The SOLICITOR•GENERAL thought it right to leave technical details as much as possible to the Lord Chancellor; but he was at the same time opposed to de legating to others the powers of right belonging to that House. It was provided by the fifth section of the Act that every petition brought before the Court should set forth the estate of the petitioner, his interest in the land or lease, and the uses and limitations or trusts to which the laud stood limited; also all incumbrences bf which it was affected. Now ho was sure tbe House would see that it was necessary to make this compulsorl by a section of the Act, in order to economise the time of the Court by making it impossible for persons to come before it with fictitious cases. Mr. B. OSBORNE believed that unless the Bill were carried out by Commissioners appointed for thepurpel it would be a failure, on account of the complexity 0 ' its provisions. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that such an ar rangement would be attended with great expense, ea ( ' the strongest desire of th e f ramers o f t hi s Bill h a d beee to avoid throwing additional expenses on these inceer bored estates. After a protracted conversation, in which Mr. B• Palmer, Colonel Dunne, Mr. Napier, the Solicitor-Gr neral, and Mr. Monsell took part, the Committee di' vided, when there appeared— Fur the clause 64 Against it' Majority fur the clause —s6 The clause, after some verbal amendments, was tile° ordered to stand part of the Bill. Clauses 8 to 28 inclusive were then agreed to. On clause 29, Mr. OSBORNE called attention to the charge the 0 " usher's poundage," which he said was g i ven by . late Lord Clare to his son, when in the cradle, and pro' duced to him 150,0001. before he came of age . 06 wished to know how the Hon. and Learned GentleteaS proposed to deal with that charge of 2i per cent? • The SOLICITOR-GENERAL stated there was proviso exempting from that charge all sums paid the credit of the Accountant-General of the Court a' Chancery under this Bill. The clause was then agreed to. On clause 30, Colonel DUNNE said it was the first of a very is?: portant series of clauses, which he thought ought net be discussed in so thin a House. He would, therefor e, move that the Chairman do report progress. Sir G. GREY thought a small house was the IS proper for such a discussion. Mr. NAPIER suggested that the discussion migh t take place on the bringing up of the report, when he is . tended to move the omission of this and the folloivial thirteen clauses. Mr. GROGAN recommended that these clauses, to ; lating to sales by the Court of Chancery should be poiW poned.—(" No, no.") Mr. OSBORNE said the postponement of these claus e° would be in effect to give up the Bill. After a conversation, Colona DUNN N.: withdrew his motion. Clauses 30 to 33 were then agreed to. On clause 34, 1 The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said h e wa s Ili °• anxious to secure a bona fide sale when one took PI and at the same time to avoid unnecessary expense. re secure due notice of the sale b e i ng g i ven h e wou ld P 0, pose an amendment, entitling ever y p erson w h o bad e 0 tared a caveat to personal not i ce at hi s a b o d e, the.re hi ; , enabling him to take step s t o restra i n t h e sale lfbo thought proper, and giving hiorthe right to knout ' price at which it was proposed to sell. Sir J. GRAHAM thought this clause one which re t : quired the utmost attention. It was most desirable tb s o in cases of sale, the full value should be obtained, 60 all collusion prevented. For this purpose it had he e m suggested that a public sa l e by auct i on would be gl best —(Hear, hear.) The suggestion that the 17 4 should be in the m aster ' s o ffi ce , w i t h a r i ght to the ole h ' i to open the biddi ng , h e did not approve; but to mile 11 auction there appeared no objection. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL doubted whether public auction would be a security against fraud. b y thought frauds might be perpetrated under a salev auction as well as under one by private contract. t o place the power of sa le o n th e b est t oot i ng , t h e per' o r ought to have the option of selling dither by auctiolibil by private contract, as was done in all cases io country where trustees had the power of sale. To bi g . up the parties either to one mode or the other we',ll jurious. By making it the interest of the vendors toco for the largest possible amount the best security sg ni d fraud was supplied. Besides, the cases in which O a f could arise were comparatively few ; for the insten o f would be very rare where it was the interest of the r i es , selling to do so at a reduced price. As additional se o p rity he proposed to introduce a clause making all o d parties to the sale liable in the case of fraud; n O ,l thus the buyer in such a case would acquire no titlet i e b e ' both he and the seller, as well as the s o li c it or , woulem e l liable for the amount by which the full va l u e excel, , the sale prices. Probably a dt, s i ra bl e course wo uld , di e after all the incumbrancer s h a d received notice of 'il l sale, that the estate should b e o ff ere d by auct i on , °it liberty to the seller, if no sale were effected, to offer by private contract. But even this might be protin h ; Live of inconvenience; and upon the whole he thod i f it would be best to leave the manner of the sale entir e ' open. 0 14 Sir J. GRAHAM was not quite satisfied that it 1 1 0 1 always be to the interest of the vendor to obtain the ge t possible price.—(Hear, hear.) Where a mortgly effected a sale he might have very little regard for of interest of the heir in remainder. The uniform vie fi o f the law was, that a public auction was the best m eans securing a fair sale. lie would not now pre ss his s a. d gestion, but hoped it would receive the consideratio n the Learned Solicitor-General. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL p rom i se d to ellei,eloi your to frame a clause which s h ou ld meet the v i e " the Right lion. Baronet. Mr. MITLLINGS said that no prudent trustees w e h ,d now, dint a sale by private contract, until after they offered the property by auction. „ 0 Mr. SADLEIR th oug h t i t s h ou l d b e left quite oPe'4,(J. to whether the p u bli c or pr i vate sa l e should be f i rs t t ha d r ' At present s carce any mortgagee i n Ireland cel power of sale by private contrret ; end ell jild'aT;:tll. creditor; !ri3t necessarily resort to en soletion pouters of the Qom:. This incurred greet expent ( Vttio ticularly where the property was smell ; end duril 3 7,to hat tro yCers there had been a growing dispc. - ;iti' avoid those sales. iA Colonel DUNNE did not believe that many 0 0 7, 0 1 6 fee simple would be operated under thi s Bill ; it fl e to principally affect the smaller gentry, few of who'll holders in fee. Mr. OSBORNE was certain that great frauds Leo tO be committed, unless the utmost publicity was give n the sale. Oi j ll‘ Mr. MONSELL feared that a public sale would riously affect small properties. fl c r. The clause, as amended, was then agreed to, o s clauses up to 50 inclusive. On clause 51 being put, 11 : 0 $ The SOLICITOR-GENERAL proposed to res ,„0 0 addition to the clause, the object of which was to s ae parties who had by themselves or their agents to fraudulent or collusive purchases of property, lie u make full compensation. The clause, as amended, was agreed to. Clause 52 was agreed to. Clauses 53 to 62 inclusive were agreed to. On the question heir).-put from the Chair that c l°ls° 63, as amended. do stand part of the Bill, c l • Colonel DUNNE moved that the clause be otnitt The Committee divided, when there appeared -- For the clause .Against it _au --1 Majority The clause was then agreed to. Clauses 64, 65, 66, were agreed to. On clause 67, WA' Mr. F..O'COINTISOR tendered his thanks to the