The Sun. — London, England, 1828-04-09 00:00:00

knowu and understood by those liable to be affected by it ; if it be not a rule, it is useless or mischievous. The thieves of the fowls are em ployed in a manner much less injurious to the community than the Judges and Lawyers, who are employed in destroying the security of pro perty, by the discovering of means to enable these thieves to escape. Would that the Legis lature could be enabled to render them less pesti lent memb ers o f soc i e ty ! Their whole science is a disg race to c ivilization. The partiality of Judges for the tricks by which they have risen to importance may easily be accounted for : but it would be as absurd to advise with thieves as to the means of putting down then, as with Law yers who live by allowing thieves to escape, or on their ill- go tt en ga i ns Judges who are living when Lawyers.—Morning Chronicle. The letter from Paris, which we referred to in our City article of yesterday, was not, it ap pears, without good foundation. We now learn upon authority on which we can rely, that the negociations which have for some time been cor ned on between England, France, and Russia, tor the joint execution of the Treaty of the 6th of July, having failed, the three Powers are, in oonsequenee, at liberty to pursue separately the measures which each may think, according to its interests, best calculated to meet (or, perhaps, :turn to account) the innumerable difficulties at tending the question which now engages the at tention of Europe. 'Whilst Russia, ready to pounce upon her prey, forthwith commences in .ber own name an invasion,—the results of which who can foretell ?—our neighbours do not re main idle. The Government of France is on the eve of applying to the Chambers for a sub s;-idy of 100,000,000 of francs, for the purpose of increasing her military and naval establish ments. The extraordinary levy will be from .80,000 to 100,000 men. Besides t'ie squadron -fitting out at Brest, which has bee ridluded to in the Moniteur, another naval rmament of considerable power is, we h aro„ preparing in her southern ports. tinder the , a circumstances, it remains to be seen what will be the measures adopted by this country. We are quite sure th,s.t England will be the slowest in resorting to desperate measures, as she will be the last to flinch from the contest. She will use, as we know she is using, all honourable means to ar range a quarrel which is pregnant with conse quences far beyond the mere " ignorant pre sent :" but if, after a reasonable time spent for such a laudable object, her efforts should fail, she knows how to assume the dignity of her na sional character.—Times. Amongst other crises of more or less national importance, the approach and development of which are now expeditiously, though almost in !:sensibly, advancing upon us, is that which within five short years will be produced by the expiration of the charter granted to the East India Company in the year 1813. This nargain let it be well understood, was stipulated to en dure for 20 years, and no longer. In the year 8`33, the legislative rower of the state will have ei perfect and acknowledged right to renew the (-entract e or to modify it as may be best for the nation ; eq. if the good of the country and the • public voice shall so demand of the Government :sad Parliament, it will he lawful, wise, and ho nest, to terminate for ever the dominion of the " merchants trading to the. Indies." If such a spectacle as that of the Company and its lease hold empire were now for the first time presented to us, we apprehend there are few among the re fleeting classes of our countrymen who would , believe that they saw aright. No Englishmen of this age could believe that a free jeeople would delegate to a trading corporation poweee tehich in their extent cannot be measured by any sten. dard known to the constitution of a limited monarchy, and in their exercise must have , recourse y to principles which every British ' :subject professes to abhor. The Com pany's dominion is one which does not confine' the claims of arbitrary authority to its relations with Hindus and Mabometans. Englishmen once landed on the peninsula of India are prac tically, if the present rules of the local Govern meut be adhered. to, as much slaves sa their copper-coloured neighbours. The press, if it utters a eound not strictly musical to the ear of a Governor-General in Coesncil, though in language not intelligible by the native: population, is extinguished and its conductors ruiised. A Judge upon the bench, who in the administra.- tion of justice dares to imagine that at some future 4ay the Parliament set' England may think fit to refine another lease of India to its existing :tenants, is haughtily dismissed from his office ; and Englishmen reeieling in India are deprived of all ri g ht 6f appeal to 'leer Sovereign, if a power, more prompt and arbitrary than that known here 1 as the un-English and odious eZen bill, be em yloyed as an engine of their forcible expulsion srom a country which ie nominally under the Crown of George /V. To these attributes et'i & e rotism, possessed, and as we have seen enforced, by the Company " trading to India, - must h e added others, which, if not legally belonging to them, are not only put forward in 7.: he shape of pretension`, but acted upon as pre rogatives by construction. The indefinite impo sition of taxes on British subjects has been re cently claimed and executed bythe ruling autho rities of Bengal ; and has caused, as every assumption of doubtful right and exercise of op pressive power ought to do, a commotion through out the m ercantile community of India, almost without example. It appears as if the officers of the Company had strained the privilege f levying sums of limited amount of d e _ finite character, and for municipal purposes only, from the inhabitants of Calcutta, to a po in t which, if yielded, leaves no interval or barrier leetween itself and a system of dictatorial taxa tion, not referable to any sanction but that of a eompeny's mandate,—not bounded by any con stitutionel principle, nor checked by any real re sponsibility. The history and immediate con sequence; of an attempt of this nature, far Im posing a sump duty on all commercial transaet tions in Calcutta, are elaborately and powerfully treated in an article of the last Edinburgh Re viezv. But the writer, who is familiar with his su bj e ct, and full of it, enpports his reasonings ' by expanding the discussion, and stating facts as well as principles, which have 4 . considerably than on the mere di s p u t e q.bout wider bearing the Stamp Act. W e think it impossible to reed, ever so cursorily, the following catalogue of per sonal and political disabilities experienced by Englishmen who strive to prosecute the fairest objects of active and industrious life withi n the vast region ruled over by the Company of Leadenhall-street, without asking for whom and for what it is that such enormous and offensive latitude should be given to one party, and such cruel restraints and privations fastened upon the other, that other being the community of Bri tish subjects. After affirming, and truly, that the " undoubted sovereignty" of India is vested by Act of Parliament in the Crown, and that the countri is the property of the State, the ' author enumerates, with great force and cleames, the humiliation, as well as substantial penalties, to which all Englishmen, without exception, save those in authority civil or military, arc there subjected. " 1. An Englishman cannot resort to India,— to that country, the acquisition of which has, of all our possessions, cost Englishmen the greatest share of blond and treasure,—without licence from the East India Company. This licence, too, is granted with difficulty, that it may be made an object of patron age. When given, it is clogged with fees, forms, and illegal indentures, by which theapplicant is called upon for unlimited submission to the bye-laws of the East lodia Company. " •1. When arrived in India, his licence is liable, at any moment, to be withdrawn by the servants of the Company, and his person may be transported to England without any cause assigned. " 3. An Englishman cannot go beyond ten miles of the seats of government without a special licence, and such licence may be recalled without any cause assigned. " 4. An Englishman, residing ten miles beyond a principal settlement, which means the to , ,vns of Cal cutta, Madras,and Bombay, must file a copy of his licence in the civil court of the district. Failing the production of an attested copy of such licence, he cannot have or maintain any civil action or pro ceeding (other than in the nature of appeal) against any person whomsoever, in any court of civil juris diction within the British territories in India ;' and proof being given to the court that such licence does not exist, or is defective, such British subject shall thereupon be nonsuited.' " 5. Such licence must he for a particular place named; nor must your free-born Englishman' move from such place, even into an adjoining dis trict, without further leave. " 6. An Englishman found beyond ten miles of a principal settlement, without licence, may be seized, imprisoned, and sent within his bounds by the meanest retainer of the Government. "7. An Englishman is prohibited from being concerned, directly or indirectly, in the great inland trade in salt, betel -nut, tobacco, and rice, on pain of forfeiting the goods he is thus said to be illegally dealing in, and treble the value thereof.' The origin of this silly and mischievous law is curious enough. The Company's own servants, shortly after their conquest of Bengal, had monopolized the articles in question, and the ininstizT and extortion practised by them of course ruined the trade of the country. For this good and sufficient reason, Eng lishmen, not in the service of the Company, and therefore without the power of committing such abuses, are excluded from dealing in them for ever after I " 8. An Englishman may not manufacture opium nor salt, two of the staple products of India. With respect to the latter, he is not allowed to deal in it directly, even within the limits of the jurisdiction of the King's courts. " 9. ' An Englishman,' to use the words of the author of the appeal, may not settle, colonize, in vest his fate or his fortune in the soil of India. He must not hold or farm lands without the limits of the towns of Calcutta, Madras, and Bombay. This is the great and standing law of the land, enacted in 1793, and confirmed again and again by the Com pany, who regard this and the power of summary deportation as the corner-stones of their existence.' " 10. Englishmen in India are forbid from meet ing in public bodies, without leave of the Company's servants, and unless the object of the meeting lie agreeable to the servants in question. " 11. Englishmen in India are deprived of jury trial in all civil cases whatsoever. " 12. Englishmen in India are deprived of the liberty of the press. No man in Bengal can print or publish, or cause to be published, periodically, any paper whatsoever, in any language or character whatsover, containing, or purporting to contain, public news or intelligence, or strictures on the mea sures and proceeding-of Government, or any political events or transactions, without licence. Such li cence may be recalled without any cause assigned. If any person shall print as above without licence, he shall be liable for such offence in a penalty of 401., at the discretion of two stipendiary magistrates ap- IG4;ted by the Company, and removable by them at pleasure. If he cannot pay the forfeiture and rea sonable costs, he shall he sent to the common gaol, there to remain for a period not exceeding four months. If any person shall knowingly and wil fully, either as a proprietor, or as agent, or servant of such proprietor, or otherwise, sell, vend, or deliver out, distribute, or dispose of; or if any bookseller, or proprietor, or keeper of any reading-room, library, shop, or place of public resort, shall knowingly or wilfully receive, lend, give, or supply, for the pur pose of perusal or otherwise, to any person whatso ev,?r,' any political paper published without licence, or after the recall of a licence, such offender is to be fined to the sgrile amount, and by the same authority. " 13. An Englishman residing in India has not the slightest share in, or the remotest inthience upon, tl;,a Government to the maintenance of which he so mainly contributes with his money, labour, and en terprise. tie has not so much even as a voice in the nomination of a scavenger in the towns of Cal cutta, Madras, and Bombay, although strictly co lonial possessions of the Crown. Contrary to the and example of all British institutions, and to the prine;ples of all good government everywhere, the East India Company rapaciously seizes the mu nicipal revenues alai mtmicipal appointments, and makes a job of both. " 11. If an Englishman, on his return home, small bring any suit or action against the East India Company, or any of their servants, for the recovery of any costs or damages, for the unlawful taking, ar resting, seizing, imprisoning, sending, or bringing him into the United Kingdom, the defendants may pead the general issue, and proof shall lie on the plaintiff to show that he was lawfully in India.' I n failure of such proof, the free-born Englishman shall be nonsuited, and pay treble costs, any law, statute, or provision to the contrary notwithstanding,' The very law of this land is here expressly set aside to pi,otect the East India Company in their evil-doing! " tn,:h is the brief detail of the disabilities of those persons whom the East India Company now desires further to hu;7;iliate and oppress, by subject ing them to the same system of capricious taxation to which they have subjected their iadin hewers of wood anti carriers of water." After this, we suspect that Members of Parlia ment will pause before they vote for the renewal of such a code of grievances under the opera tion of a charter; but there is another circum, stance to be added. All other nations can trade to China hut the English alone, without asking leave of the India Company. The people of England have had the insane complaisance to hotow upon this overgrown corporation a mono poly of chg most lucrative commerce, in the cp,t;"nt;a4sinagnidt enjoymentsto turntile world, for t a li g e 4 tz t p ° t 2 l e ic the mistresz Morta°glYrantor. In every region of the globe, except England, which calls herself of the East, that article which has long become a necessary of life to ric h and p o or among us, is aold for less than half what it costs an English man. The Company, even if not bent on ex travagant profitr.i,,LPUld not carry on the tea trade, or sell the tea, on terms of fair rivalship with any private merchant ; yet to the disadyantag e of being forced, or rather forcing himself, to buy from an expensive and improvident shop, the Enghshtnan suffers the chartered shopkeeper to cha rge him a double profit on the goods which have been bought at higher prices, and brought home at heavier freights, than those which mer chants of other nations pay, and on which they arc contented with the natural profit. The truth is, that so iniquitous a monopoly, combined with 6 a despotism so tremendous, cannot be revived in any future instance by a legislative power, which pretends to have a regard for common honesty, or common decency, for the most obvious rights of the people of England, or for their character among civilized nations.- That the Company will make a huge racket upon the question, we are prepared to expect ; so then, we beg leave to say, ought the country, which has been long enough trammeled on by this creature of its own indulgence.—Bid. It is a long time that Mr. Fenn has been struggling against the jobbing, taxing, feasting Junta, called the " Select Vestry" of the parish of St. Martin-in-the-Fields. His, though a highly useful, and very popular, has been no en viable task. A man who sets himself against a body who have power, money, and patronage in their hands, must have the sense of public duty stronger on his mind than the love of ease and his personal interest, to bear up long against the vexations, the calumnies, and the various sorts of persecution and annoyance to which he ex poses himself. Mr. Fenn, has had his full sh are of those fruits of hi s public spirit, whil e t h e Select Vestry has been enjoying the " loaves and fishes." Few have had the courage or the honesty to support him, though, if his efforts should be crowned with success, many of those who now hang back, would be the foremost to share in the honour and advantages of it. The " Select" prevail by combination—they all act as ' one man—they do not rely on their cause so much as upon their cabal. The union which gives strength to a bad cause ought surely to be advan tageous to a good one. If the parishioners acted in that spirit of co-operation which a ti ue sense of their interests would dictate, the usurpations of the " Select" could not long resist the united efforts of such a community determined to re claim their rights. Such a cause is not to be won without trouble, perseverance;and expellee ; but those parishioners who avoid expence and trouble on the present occasion will be put to great deal more than the struggle can cost them, if the "Select" should, by their remissness, be come finally and permanently triumphant. The parishioners should recollect, that, whatever dif ficulties they have to overcome in dislodging the " Select" from their strong hold of usurped power, they have the voice and support of public opinion along with them. To say nothing of the jobs and other doings of Select Vestries, the prin ciple of taxation without representation is so at variance with reason and the first principles of the Constitution, that it cannot bear the touch of investigation. We know nothing of the local interests of the parish of St. Martin in the Fields beyond what the present contest has caused to be made pretty generally known, but we be lieve that, as far as matters have gone, Mr. Fenn has done his duty, and set an example to h-is fellow-parishioners which, if generally emulated, could not fail to make the absolute reign of the " Select" of very short duration. Even as it is at present, their " Paradise" of jobs and feast ing is not esithout its anxieties and alarm. They assume a confidence which they have not, they swagger and talk big, while they have serious misgivings in their own minds. Although " the proud man's contumely" and " the insolence of office" have been heaped rather liberally upon Mr. Fenn, he has the merit of shaking the tyranny, and spoiling the enjoyment, of the arro gant Junta whom he has so energetically ex posed.—Morning Herald. It would seem as if a certain class of attorneys in this country had combined, for the purpose of effecting what the Crown, in its days of highest prerogative, could never accomplish—namely, the total extinction of the freedom of the press. But the fact ie, their object is not a political but a mercenary one, to which the low, needy, and unprincipled part of' the profession are naturally tempted by the present state of the law of libel. It is quite customary for men of this description now-a-days to make it a point to get hold of ob scure persons, who, having been parties or wit nesses in Courts of Justice, have given occasion for their names to be brought before the public, not perhaps in the most reput a bl e way, in the reports of the trials. It is true the Judges allow that a fair and full report of a trial (with ' exceptions of blasphemy and indecency) is not the subject of legal proceedings ; but the petti foggers take advantage of the equivocal and absurd state of the law with respect to reports from Police Offices, Insolvent Courts, Coroners' Juries, &c., and even sometimes venture to attack cor rect reports of trials in the superior Courts, cal culating upon the chances in favour of the most groundless or unjust cause which the technicali ties of the law afford. But the great induce ment is this, that a farthing damages, in cases of libel, saddles a defendant with 2001. or 3001. of expenses, under the name of costs—so that, where a Jury appraises a plaintiff's character at the value of a farthing, the defendant is punished to the amount of 2001. or 300/. for meddling with that . farthing's worth of reputa tion. This is a state of law which would ap pear to have been created not for the protection of men who have any characters to preserve— not for the security and advantage ofthe public— but solely and exclusively ibr the employment and profit of pettifogging attorneys. Whether such attorneys bring actions on their own account, or obtain the use of the name of some characterless plaintiff for the purpose, to know that, if they can get but a farthing damages, the bill of costs which they are enabled to manufacture will pay them better for their time and trouble than any honest employment in the country could pay them. Juries were for a long time in the dark about this matter—they thought that by giving but a shilling or a farthing damages in an insignificant or spitefill action of libel, they would sufficiently disappoint the intention of the party bringing it. They had heard, indeed, that Judges had a power in such cases, whore the damages were under forty shillings, of certifyirzg to deprive the plaintiff of his costs—but they were not aware that Judges rarely or never exer cise that power. We have endeavoured, on more occasions than one, to pm this matter in its proper light before Juries ; and we observe, with satisfaction, that, in several of those got up" cases of libel lately, they have given a ver dict for the defendant, which saddles the plain. tiff with th;, , costs, and disappoints the infamous speculation of him and his incendiary attorney. This is the only way, while time law remains un reformed, to put an end to those trumpery cases of libel with which the time of Courts of Justice is consumed, and legal plunder encouraged.—B. Roy A re ACA DEM Y.—Yesterday and Mon day being the two days fixed for the giving in of the pic tures, sculpture, and casts, intended for the ensuing exhibi tion, an immense number of hackney coaches and other vehicles continued setting down at the Institution, with specimens, from morning until a late hour, during both these days ; it was remarked, that the artists in general have bestowed more than usually splendid and massive frames upon their pictorial performances, a circumstance which will undoubtedly give a striking and gorgeous tout ensemble to the exhibition, and please the taste of a certain portion of visitors as much as the finer and more elaborate touches of the pencil. APPREHENSION OF A SUPPOSP.D GAN'C OF BURGLARS. The town of Truro and its neighbourhood has been considerably agitated during the past week, in consequence of the apprehension of four persons, under very suspicious circumstances, and who ate supposed to form part of a gang of London burglars, that intended to make Cornwall the scene of their operations. The discovery and apprehension of the suspected persons took place under the following rather ex traordinary circumstances :—on the forenoon of Fri day, the hind of Captain Devonshire, of Newham, being in a field near that place and adjoining a bye road, called Barrack-lane, observed a man look over the hedge, as if making observations. The hind supposing that this person had some particular ob ject in view, withdrew behind another hedge, though which he could observe his motions, when he saw him enter the field, pat something into the hedge and break off and place in a particular way a branch of thorn, as a mark. The person watching being desirous of not alarming the man he observed, went to dinner, and soon after returned, and on looking where the person had been, he discovered by the broken branch two bags—one of blue stuff, and the other of ticken, which, on opening, he found to contain a complete set of burglars' implements. Struca with the discovery, he hastened to acquaint his mas ter with the fact. Captain Devonshire, who is a Magistrate for the county, immediately ordered the bags to be conveyed to his house, when on examina tion they were found to contain upwards of 100 skele ton-keys,most of them being double, of all sizes, fitted for opening all descriptions of locks, from the largest to cabinet ones. These skeleton-keys are of the very best workmanship ; some of them are fitted for opening padlocks, and by ingenious contrivances are calculated for fitting pipes of different sizt:s ; there were also pocket crow-bars of great power, with pieces of wood, or wedges, for placing between them and a door-post, &c., so as to prevent the marks of force from being too apparent. There were also files, and a great variety of other implements, all perfectly adapted for the intended purposes. The importance of this discovery was instantly seen, and, though labouring under a severe attack of the gout, Capt. Devonshire took instant measures for the dis covery of the gang, who were evidently practised thieves. He directed the different constables to make careful but secret inquiries at all the inns and public-houses in the town and neighbourhood for any strangers that might have been in or about the place, and he placed a watch near the spot where the bags were fottnd. In the course of Saturday he learned that two persons had been for some days living at the Exeter Inn; that they had been taking walks ail round the neighbourhood, and had been occasionally visited by two other persons. No one, however, came to see for the bags until Sun day morning, when, as it afterwards appeared, the persons at the Exeter Inn having been visited by their acquaintances, who shortly after left them, they called for their bill, which they paid, and im mediately proceeded to the lane, where the person who discovered the bags immediately recognised the man who had hidden them, as he and his companion approached the spot where'they had been deposited ; they were taken into custody by Hugh Bawdea, a constable of the parish of Kenwyn, and Mark Rowe, a constable of the borough of Truro, by whom they were conveyed befere Captain Devonshire. Oa being searched, there was found on one of them a knife, apparently new, of a peculiar construction, having but one long blade, sharp pointed, and so formed, that upon being opened, it was secured from closing by a projection in the spring which fitted a notch in the back of the blade; it is a most for midable weapon, and it may be instantly used as a dagger with fatal effect. On one of the persons were found 931. in Bank of England notes, and three sovereigns, and en the other 265. These persons being secured, inquiries were made for their com panions, when it was ascertained that two men answering the description given of them, had been seen on the road leading to Chacewater. They were immediately pursued, and being overtaken at Chacewater, were taken into custody and searched by W.Rowe,an active constable at Kenwyn, who had for several days kept a sharp look-out after them. On ono of them was found a bundle containing a number of skeleton keys, a dark lantern, phosphorus box,&c. This man,on being searched, said to the con stable, " There is what you want," showing a belt round his waist, in which there was stuck a brace of very small pistols, but which were not loaded ; he had about him a number of balls to fit. The bag containing the skeleton keys, &c. was made of the same ticken as that found in the hedge near Newham ; and a piece of the Times newspaper found in the one, corresponded exactly with another piece found in the other bag. One of the men had a metal watch, with a large oval gold seal, having a coat of arms engraved with a crest, a lien rampant. The account these men gave of themselves is very vague, and they have been detained. It is evident they proposed robbing some of the banks here ; two of them were seen making observations on one of the banks from an opposite passage, during a shower of rain on Saturday evening; and two men knocked at the door after dark, saying they wanted to se e one of the bankers ; and, on being told that he did not live there, they were very importunate for ad mittance to draw a draught on the bank. Happily the person who answered the door kept the chain across, and peremptorily refused to admit them. There is no doubt that the fellows taken at Chace water were on their way to commence operations in the west of the county, whilst their companions at tempted to effect their object at Truro. It is sup posed there are other persons connected with those in custody, but who have taken the alarm and fled. A statement of the facts, and a description of the persons detained, have been transmitted to London. Prest Briton. FASHIONABLE ARRIVALS.--Sir Felix Agar, Bart. in Stratford-place; Major Ross, in Regent street, from the Netherlands ; Captain and Mrs. Denne, in Park•street, from Bath ; Major Prescott, in Clarges street, from Dublin ; Mrs. and Miss Holdsworth, in Brook-street, from Yorkshire; Captain and Mrs. Vaughan, in Piccadilly, from Paris : Lady Mordaunt and Sir John Mordaust, at Marshal Thompson's Hotel, Cavendish square, from Brighton ; Miss Howe, at ditto, from Brighton ; Joseph Haigh, Esq. Mrs. and the Misses Haigh, and J. Haigh, Esq. jun. at ditto; Miss Winn and Miss Williams, at ditto ; William Henry West, Esq, at ditto : Mr. and Mrs. Fulcher and family, at the Hyde Park Hotel, Hyde Park-place, from Cheltenham ; the Hon. John Nigh, in Berkeley-square, from his father's (the Earl of Darnley) seat, Cobham Hall ; Prince Paul Lieven, at Ashburnham Nouse, Dover-street, from Brighton ; Count Sablonsky, at ditto, from Brighton ; Colonel Tynte, M. P. and family, at their house in Hill-street, Berkeley-square, from their seat, Halswell House, Somersetshire ; Major and Mrs. Alexander, in Park-lane, from Ireland ; the Hon. Thomas Greville, at his house in Cleveland-square, from Dropmore, Backs; Captain Gray, at Kirkham's Hotel, Lower Brook -street, from a tour ; Major Weyland, at ditto, from Oxfordshire ; the Rev. William Mills, at ditto, from a tour; John Campbell, Esq. at Mivart's Hotels, Lower Brook and Davies-streets, from Yorkshire ; Lord Heytesbury, at ditto, from Wiltshire ; John Dauncey, Esq. at ditto, from Kent. DEPARTURES.—Lord and Lady Dacre, and Miss Brandt, for the Hoo, in Hertfordshire ; Mr, Giles, for Hertfordshire ; Major Woodhouse, for Brighton ; Lady and Miss Campbell, for Wellington-crescent, Brighton; John Douglas, E sq , an d M rs. D oug l as , f rom • M ars h a l Thompson's Hotel ; H enn; Spronk, Esq. from ditto ; Mr, and Mrs. Corhet, aa d family, from the Hyde Park Hotel, for the Continent ; Mr. and Miss Clemens, from ditto, for Somersetshire; Mr. and Mrs. Streatfield, from ditto, for Kent ; Mr. and Mrs. Bethune, from ditto ; Brocas Braces, Esq. and Mrs. Brocas, from ditto, for Berkshire; the Archdeacon Probyn, from ditto, for Longhope, Gloucester shire ; the Marquis and Marchioness of Bath, from their house in Grosvenor-square, on a visit to Mr. and Mrs. George Byng, at their seat, Wrotham Park ; Sir Watkin and Lady Harriet 'William Wynn, from their house in St. James's-square, for Lord Braybrook's seat, Audley End, Essex ; Sir Henry Cooke, Bart. for Harefield Park, Herta ; Sir George Robinson, Bart. from his house in South street, for his seat, Cranford, Northamptonshire ; Captain Harrington, for Cambridge ; D. Lynch, Esq. from the Royal Hotel, St. James's. street, for Paris. WF,STNIINSTER SESSION'S, Aram 8, DR. BLACK V. TILE COMMISSIONERS FOS, BUILDING NEW CHURCHES. On Monday there was an adjourned Sessions held in the Sessions House, Westminster, Guild _ _ hall—Mr. CONST in the Chair. It was to acsess the value of ground belonging to Dr. Black, lying between Hammersmith New Bridge-road and Ham mersmith Church, required for the extension of the Hammersmith burial-ground. The ground had been the subject of long contest ; it was stationed amongst garden ground, and was valued by the pa rish at 247/. 10s.; being at the rate of :300/. per acre ; while Dr. Black was alleged to have de.. manded as much as 1,250/. His surveyors re quired 8001. - The Act for the Commissioners for Building New Churches empowering them in all such cases to make an offer, and, in the event of such offer being refused, to send the case to a Jury, to assess the value of the land, that was the state of this case. The Commissioners made the offer of 24.71. 101, in October last, which being declined, the Jury was assembled. Mr. PLATT and Mr. STEER appeared for Dr. Black, opening the case with stating that the ground had become of increased value, in conse quence of the improvements by the new Suspen sion Bridge, and its road, in line with which was stationed this ground. The land was very advan tageous for building. Witnesses were called, Mr. Hardwick, &c. to prove the facts, and the value of the ground. Mr. 11. estimated the value at 8001. Mr. BOLLAND (with Mr. ADOLPHUS) appeared on behalf of the Commissioners. He said that he had been concerned in many cases before Juries to assess the value of property, and on all those occasions there had been cause with him for abundant wonder, on observing the extraordinary differences between the valuation of different surveyors. He had won dered on, and he supposed he should have cause to wonder, from the like account, till the end of his existence. In some recent dock investigations he had met Mr. 11., and he thought Mr. H. then con siderably undervalued the property in issue; now he felt assured that Mr. H. had much overvalued the ground. He thought that, had Mr. H. been en gaged on the other side, another value would have been set upon the property. Several witnesses were called---Mr. Gardiner, Mr. Cutbush, Mr. G. Bird, &c.; all of whom, from their knowledge of the neighbourhood, estimated the ground to be worth 300!. per acre, which was 247/. 103. for the three roods and twelve perches in question. _ _ - Mr. G. Bird delivered in a statement, setting forth that within the last twenty-seven years, down to the present time, he had purchased various eli gible plots of freehold ground in and about Ham mersmith, that the average price was 19.5/. per acre, and that the highest price he had ever given was under 3001. per acre. The price fixed for Dr. Black's ground, at the rate of 300/. per acre, he thought to be quite enough. Mr. PLATT having replied, The Jury returned a verdict for 7.50/. THE MARKETS. COUNTRY CORN MARKETS DURING THE WEEK. Wheat. I 13ar1ey. I Oats. i Beans. ----. Per Quarter. s. to s. Is.to A. P to A. S. to s. Boston 42 58 22 52 15 22 36 40 Grantham 54 58 177 36 18 26 40 44 50 53 25 28 20 22 40 42 Horncagtle— 45 53 24 22 18 22 aS Hull 46 55 26 30 16 26 36 41 Lincoln Spilsby. 4B 52 23 28 18 22 36 33 Stamford. 4B 61 26 31 20 28 42 York . 49 62 26 32 16 33 38 sti COTTON WOOL. LIST OF IMPORTS AND EXPORTS. DI PORTED. EXPORTED. Bags, &c. - 2 820 IPrtvioa. ly this y ear. (Same pe tiod last year. Bag., &c. Liverpool 138,488 London 15,510 Glasgow 9,877 Total exported in 182 Bags, &c. 167,721 10,5 t./ 15,3.40 Bap, &c. 3,915 9,757 14.6..q9. COTTON WOOL—GLASGOW. The sales during the week amounted to 1,478 bales. 61 Sea Islands 30 De. Stained 49 Do. Saw-ginned 354 Iloweds sd. a 611 d. 495 Orleans 5 Maranhanis 173 Derneraras 302 Egyptians Bd. a Slid. 9 Surats 4ld. a Od- Imported from Charleston GLASGOW MARKETS, Arun, 5. The whole of the SUGARS in the hands of the Importers have been disposed of this week, which was only 47 hhda. and 32 trs. ; time former good browns, at 61s. 6d., and the latter low middling, at 625. 6d. ; Refined SUGARS are still scarce, and in good demand. British Mot.assEs have been sold at 225. a 228. 6d. ; no sales made in West India Molasses. The sales made in COFFEE are limited to small parcels of Demerara, taken by the grocers, fine ordinary at 585., and middling at 635. Nothing done in Pnevwro or Gusaaa. About 70 puns. of Jamaica Rua' have been sold at 3s. Id. a Sc. 2d., for 16 0.P., Leewards are held at 2s. ld. for proofs, and low o.P.'s. The demand for Corrox remains steady; the total sales amount to 1,478 packages, and prices are without altera tion. The particulars are, 61 Sea Islands, 13d. a 140. ; 30 stained do. Bd. ; 39 bowed do. Bd. ; 10 stained bowed do. 91 ; 354 boweds, 6d. a 6P.; 315 Orleans, bid. a ; 180 Mobile, 6P. a 6141. ; 5 Maranham, ; 1'73 Demeraras, Id. a Sid. ; 302 Egyptian, Sd. a BF. ; 9 Surats, 4id. In Jamaica Locwoon tkere has been nothing done; the holders are still demanding six guineas for the limited stock at market. _ _ ASHES are very fiat; the sales are confined to retail parcels ; Pots at 31s. a S2s., and Pearls at 325. 6d. a sg s . Nothing done in TOBAcro; prices are without alteration. Y. C. TALLow is dull and loser; the trifling parcels sold were at 435. a 445. Fish OILS are getting scarce, and are held at higher per pricer T thuen % d N o V el md h a am l n e eda 2 s uflor/re all descriptions of GRAIN has beta. a 221. ; and Pals deal, 221. a 231 . steady, and some advance has been obtained on Malting Barley, which is scarce. Wheat and Oats are firm at former rates. BRITISH EXPORTS. Statement of the Quantities of the under-mentioned Arti cles of British Manufacture Exported from Liverpool, from the 28th tilt to the 4th inst. inclusive. Cotton 134,620 Pieces. 1,945,293 Yards. Linen '739 ... 411,201 ... Blanketing 22,146 ... Carpeting 8,160 ... Calicoes Flannel 3O ... 1,982 ... Woollen Stuffs . 2,099 ... 311 Ends. Kerseymeres Worsted Stuffs 4,303 ... FP Baize Inferior Woollens 2,525 Cotton Yarn Cotton Thread 13,218 Sail Cloth Cotton Hon Silk Hose Cotton Handkerchiefs Cotton Braces ... 9OO ••• Worsted Caps ... 1,103 ... .e- Hats 654. •• Haberdashery _____— Yards. Earthenware £3,211 Hardware . .£12,841 salt, White Salt, Hock 10,200 .. Slates Coals 218 Tons, 56 Cwt. 0 Chal. Iron 360 Tons, 60 Cwt. Baron 8t.u..0w, the Prussian Minister, had a very long conference with the night nom Citautzs GRANT on Monday afternoon, at the Office of the Board of Trade, Whitehall. PARLIAMENTARY PROCERDINO_St EASTER IS2S. HOUSE OF COMMON!;. NOTICES OP MOTIONS AND ORDERS OP VHS DAT, tv-- iva nTOW STAND IN THE MIMI-ROOK. MONDAY, APRIL 14.--ORDERS OF THE DAV. 1. Promises and Engagements Bill—Second reading. 2. Records Variance 13i11—Second reading. 3. Supply—Committee. 4. Ways and Means —Committee. 5. Roman Catholic Land Tax Bill—Further consideratW of Report. G. Election Trial Acts Consolidation Bill—Second reed TUESDAY ? APRIL 15 . -- .NOTICE OF MOTION. Mr. Littleton—Resolutions for the abolition of f e es so 4 charges on renewal of Turnpike Bills. ORDER OF THE DAT. Rights of Executors Bill—Second reading. WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1 6......-ORDER4 OF TIER DAY* • 1. Bills of Exchange (Ireland) Bill—Further eousidere tion of Report. 2. Jurite (Ireland) Bill—Further coasideration of Report. THURSDAY, APRIL 17...-.-. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. 1. Mr. Slaney_.Motion for a reform of the abuses of tY Poor Law, respecting payments made from the pa Rates to and for able-bodied labourers. 2. Mr. Wilmot Horton—Dill to enable Parishes in Ei4' hind, under given regulations, and for a limited riod, to mortgage their Poor Rates for the pirrixd of assisting voluntary Emigration. 8. Mr. Byng—Bill to repeal so mach of the Law as re quires the County to repair one hundred yards of Road from the foot of each County Bridge. 4. Mr. George Lamb—Bill to enable persons elsarel with felonies to make their full defence by counsel , under certain regulstions. PRID•Y, APRIL 18 , --ORDERS OF TYR DAY. 1. Cities and Towns Improvement (Ireland) Bill—Sero'd reading. 2. East Retford Disfranchisement Bill—Canunitteat. 3. New Soutla Wales Bill—Secoad reading. 510 N DAY, APRIL 21. —ORDERS ore THE Dar. 1. Linen Manufactures (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 2. Larceny Laws (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 3. Sheriffs (Ireland) Bill—Committee. 4. Malicious Injuries (Ireland) Bill—Second reading. 5. Madhouses (Scotland) Bill—Secolid reading. TUESDAY, APRIL 22.--NOTICES OF 310TIONC. 1. Mr. Charles Barclay—Bill to give the Magistrate@ of th' county of Galway a concurrent jurisdiction with the Magistrates of the town and county of Galway. 2. Mr. Wilbraham—Address, That Instructions be given to Commissioners of Inquiry into the defects of the Laws, occasioned by time or otherwise, that they di rect their early attention to the administration of ..16' tice in the County Palatine of Chester. 8. Sir John Newport—Consideration of State of A.dmiralfi Court, Ireland. 4. Sir John Newport—Bill to limit and restrain the Tour ing Dispensations on Faculties for holding pluralities of, Livings iu I re l an d ; an d f or con fi n i ng the power uniting parishes therein to the Lord Lieutenant via Council. 5. Mr. Warburton—Select Committee to inquire into ths manner of obtaining subjects for the Schools of Auc tomy, and into the state of the Law affecting the nuns. ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Ludlow Right of Election Petition-Ballet for Cow mittee at three. 2. Settlement by Hiring Bill-Second reading. 8. Corn Laws Acts—Committee thereupon. WEDNESDAY, Aram 23.-King's Birth Day kept. THURSDAY, APRIL 24.-NOTICES OF JIOTIONS. 1. Mr. Michael Angelo Taylor-Actual state of the Coilit of Chancery. 2. The Lord Advocate _Bill to amend the Laws relating t () the building, enlarging, or repairing of Gaols in &At' land, and for regulating the mode of alimenting percons therein confined. 3. Colonel Davies-Select Committee to inquire into the manner of conduCting Private Business in the lions, and the Fees paid thereon :-Also, on all Fees paid on Trials of Controverted Elections of Members t o serve in Parliament. ORDERS OF THE DAY. I. Assessment of Lessors (Ireland) Bill—Second reading' 2. Justiciary Courts (Scotland) Bill—Further conatikrs tion of Report. FRIDAY, APRIL 25.—ORDERS OF THE DAY. 1. Freeholders Registration Bill—Committee. 2. Tithes Commutation Bill—Committee. S. Freeholders in Districts Bill—Committee. TUESDAY, APRIL 2S. I. Sir Francis Burdett—Co !113 OP MOTIONS. lon of the Petition of the Roman Catholics of Ireland. 2. Mr. Brougham—Consideration of the Petition of Romas , Catholics of Ireland, complaining of their exclusiou from Parliament. WEDNESDAY, APRIL SO.--OIiDEIL OF THE DAY. Sessions Appeals Bill—Committee. THURSDAY, MAY 1.-NOTICES OF MOTIONS. Mr. Harvey—Re.olution, that it is expedient that an el ficient controul should be appointed over the erigi: and conduct of all proceedings instituted by the Crown for the recovery of penalties u n d er th e Cue . . . toms and Excise Laws. 2. Sir Matthew Ridley—Select Committee on expense of Printing Votes and Papers. B. Lord Nugent—Bill for the registration of Vane in Cities and Boroughs. 4. Mr. Hume—Bill to regulate the taking of the Poll b, Ballot at Elections for Members of Parliament for Counties, Cities, Cinque Ports, Boroughs, es ti Towns. FRIDAY, MAY 2.—OltnEES OF THE DAY. 1. Customary Tenure Bill—Committee. 2. Parochial Settlements (Scotland) Bill—Further consi deration of Report. 3. Scottish Vagrants Bill—Further consideration of Report• 4. Alehouses Licensing Bill—Second reading. 5. Salmon Fisheries Regulation (Scotland) Bill....Cool tnittee. , MONDAY, MAY s.—[Last Day for receiving Reports o Private Bills.] TUESDAY, MAY 6.—NOTICES OF J,IOTIONs. 1. Dr. Phillimore--Bill to alter and amend the Ecclesias tical Jurisdiction exereised in Country Court'. 2. Sir John Wrottesley—Copy of Memorial of Country Bankers to the Treasury, concerning Stamp Duties► and answer thereto ; also , Copy of Case submitted to the Law Officer', with their opinion thereupon. 3. Mr. Charles Pallmer—Bill to amend Foreign Enlist ment Act [59 Geo. 3, c. 69), which relates t o the fitting out or equipping vessels for warlike purposes. THURSDAY, 2itAY B.—NOTICE OF MOTIOW. Mr. Edward Davenport —Select Committee, to consider of the best mode of introducing an uniform systens of Gaol discipline throughout the United Kingdom. MONDAY, MAY 12.—DRIER OF THE DAY. 91elaonses Certificates (Scotland) BM—Committee. TUESDAY, MAY 13.—Nortcr.a OF MOTIONS. l. Mr. Edward Davenport-13in to afford to Criminals ac cused of petty felonies the option of summary coa ♦iction by two or more Magistrates. 2. Lord Viscount Morpeth—Address for making Wine pro vision for the family of the Lite 11T. Canning. THURSDAY, MAY 15.—NOTICE OF MOTION. Sir James Graham—Motion respecting the Report of the Commissioners of Inquiry into the Courts of Justice in Ireland, on the subject of the Office for the Re gistry of Memorials of Deeds, Conveyances, Wills, and Devises conceruing Lands, Ike. in Ireland. NOTICES OF MOTIONS FOR WHICH NO PARTICULAR DAYS DAVI: BEEN FIXED. Mr. Leader Nlaberly—Bill for preventing the application of Fonda belonging to Corporations, to procure the return of Members to Parliament. j r . R o b e rt Gordon-..lnquiry into the treatment sad condition of the black and col o u re d p o p u l a ti on i n the West India Colonies. 2. IJ BIRTHS. o n the 7th inst., at his house in Broad-street.buildingse th e lady of John George Behrends, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Ewhurstpark, Hants, the lady of Lientenant-Colonel Sir Dudley Hill, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the Bth inst., by th• RV?* C. Jerram, (vicar of Chobharn,) Lieutenant Charles Robert Malden, R.N.. (second son of the late Jonas Malden, Esq.), to Francis eldest daughter of the Rev. W. H. Cole, vicar of Wornersb. rector of West Clandon, Surrey, and domestic Chaplain to his Royal liighne4B the Duke of Gloucester. DIED. On the 7th inst. at Cholmondeley hours, aged 16 months, Marcia Charlotte Emma, eldest daughter of Lord Henry Cholmondeley. On the :,3 , 1 inst., aged 66 years, awfully fodder., Mr. Abraham Rose, sea. of the Castle Inn, Huut'a Bank, Manchester, late of the firm of Alessrs. 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