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laughter, and other interruption, followed by cries of " Go on, go on.") It is very well to say go on.—( Roars of laughter. ) If the House will allow me, I will say a few words, to explain why I wished to speak on this question. The House will re collect an outrage which took place L Monmouthshire.— (Laughter.) Having always represented popular opinions.— ( Crih of " Pish, pish, shame, shame, and oh, oh !") As I stated that I did not intend to occupy the House more than a few minutes, I do not consider this treatment fair ; and, there fore, I move to adjoure the debate. Mr. COLLINS seconded the motion, The SPEAKER put the question for the adjournment, and it was negatived without a division, Mr. BLEWITT *id he should certainly not address the House after the manner in which he had been treated. He did not think it was at all fair towards him. He had been for years in Parliament, and had never intruded himself on the House ; yet they had denied him common civility and con sideration. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD briefly replied. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when there appeared— For the motion;... Against it Majority against the motion _— 159 RUDE LIGHT—REWARD TO MR. GURNEY. Sir C. LEMON moved fora Select eommittee to con sider the propriety of granting a reward to Mr. Gurney , for tke invention of the Bude UL—A g reed to. SALMON FISHERIES (SCOTLAND.) Mr. E. ELLICE moved for leave to bring in a Bill for regu lating the claw of the Salmon Fisheries in Scotland. TIMBER SHIPS BILL. The Timber Ships Bill passed through Committee. COPYRIGHT BILL The Report of the Copyright Bill was brought up, and on the motion of Lord MAHON it was ordered to be reprinted with the amendments. _ _ The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the Howe Adjotunecl at a Quarter after Twelve o'Clock. Just ready, in 3 vols. post Bvo., 31 ODE l ai i it iN eci by F M I R I S E . GORE,NU' LIFE. Author of " Methers and Daughters," " The Dowager," " Mrs. Armytaoe," &c. Richard Bentley, Now Burlington -street. THE WEATHER—NOON, APRIL 22. ROYAL GALLERY OP SCIENCE, ADELAIDE-STREET. Iriewnoineter... 53 ?Highest 59 1 Lowest Iterometer 30.03.- .\% E.—Freezing Point Deg. HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE THIS DAY. ZI minutes attar II 1 Evening 0 minutes after 0. 2.,...,,, „3_,,' ~;,;„+,.. , _ (.;44,,y,t,,.....,a....„...,..... ~...4, , 1 4 1 4 1 , riz, , 7.-., , ,;,.. , :k-iir427 .6„...„.. i • , „..,._i...„..r..,..,,,,,,.. __, 13117q1ittOi ore t 4,44vfi SUN OFFICE Three o'Cluch. In a 'House of Commons returned under the Reform Bill, only sixty 111 , :mberg are found to vote for an in quiry into the state of the elective franchise. This fact Baffle:el:fly demonstrates the inetliciency of that Bill as a meiture for securing the people a full and fair represen tation in Parliament. Millions of our fellow-countryrAcn last night approached the so-called People's House-- the House of Cutout us, in which the most tincomn - a,n t11::12:s arc nightly said and done, and whore common people are sure to meet with very scurry treatment — praying that certain propositions which they advanced : and wuieh they believed to be:cssential to their wclf a r,•, and. consistent with yeast - m, justice, and expedieue:., might be made the su")jects of inquiry by the Their pr^..y,Tr was ably supported by Mr. SHARMAN CRAwFoan, Me. O'CoxNELL, Mr. WAnn,.Mr. WaicLEv Mr. VILLIERS, Mr. GORDEN, Dr. BownING, and 1111.. Ro!-:ritTe::, but on a division it was confen.ptuomly end offeruively rejcetej by a nivjority of 1 5'J —there being 226 v,:ts given against it. Not only, therelorc, is en Ex ., ;nsion o the ta:fra4, Annual P.lrliainents, :rad Vo'e by Bailot rcia , ied, bet the House not i::- quire whether one or tniter of thcitt ought to be (sin ce:led. The people approach the Ho use of cc,m,„oos in their knees as petitioners, suitpliants, and they are driven away with marks 0: contumely and contempt. But while we contend that inquiry should. be rdloaxd, we are not prepsred to sdopt. far ourselves all the pne positions inivtin,:ed by the Hon. :Y.ember tar Rocha:tit Ot:rs is the Old Radical cree !—Annttat Parliaments, a •Aiale Suffrage all bat Universal, and Vote by Ballot. Secret voting for the sec.trity of the elector; anti, for the same reason, oi:en voting on the part of the elected. We di-7,liks the propssai to pay Membcrs of Parliament fur their ta,r;ic.'s. Extend the suffrage sufficiently, and do away with a property qualification, which has: no other effeet than to increase perjury in the House of Commons, and there will be pleii,y of compe tent, honest men to diticharg the functions of legislators in the House of Connanns without taxing the nation r their maintenance. Besides the payment of Members WOllll till the house of Co;nmons with a class of person's whom we have no wish to see there—noisy, popular de ckimer, who, to make a slow of earning their wagss, woald make long speeches instead of attending to the proper business of the country. Were no pay znent4 made to the Members of Congress, we should hear of none of those long - inr.Zed orations which sometimes occupy three days in tilt! delivery, and which, after all, are such mere matt e r s of coume, that one in twenty of them are never reported at the length of ug)re than ten lines in the American newspapers. Legislation is too niuch of a trade already, to attach to it the provocative of certain profits. But for all Sir IZOLERT PEEL'S flippancy, and Sir JAMES GRAHAM'S pomposity, and Lord STANLEY'S vin dictive spleen, the suffrage must be extended. The people will not submit to the longer withholding front them a just constitutional right. The time is past for arguing this question by the Press. The people last night °tiered to argue it with the Ministry, and they are to du so again on the 2_ of May, when Mr. THOMAS DUNCOMUE will present the National Petitiori; but on the part of the Press, this is altogether a work of supererogation. All that is now lii to the Press is to warn the aristocracy of the danger they must incur by longer withholding from the masses their just rights. By refusing moderate Parlit - mentary Reform half a century ago, they raised up a ge varation of Radicals who carried the Reform Bill ; by de daring that Bill a final measure, they sowed the dragon's :teeth whence sprung three millions of Chartists ; and now "to bid the people despair of an extension of the suffrage, will be to call into existence a legion of revolutionists. The danger is serious. Let the aristocracy look to it, and to themselves. There is no political news of interest in the Frcnch Journgls. Most of them notice, as will be seen in our Foreign Summary, the alleged communication of the Cabinet of St. Petersbargh to that of Washington. We shall hare something to say to-morrow on this subject. The Moniteur Parisien of last night announces the death of M. Aguado, a few instants after his arrival at Gijon. No such intelligence had been received yesterday evening at his resi dence, and we therefore doubt the correctness of the statement. The Count de Mesnard, formerly princip:ll Equerry to the Duchess of Berry, has just died at the age of seventy-five.— Gulignani's ille.yeenger. The Patriote of Madrid, of the 13th instant, has the follow .ing article : ‘ 7 ‘ Last night 14 individual; were arrested, who formed part of -the assemblages of the workmen yesterday and the day before. The Judges of the Tribunal of the Ist instant, who, toge ther with the Alcaldes, remained together at the residence of the political chief till one o'elock in the morning, are diligently •engaged in the proceedings against the authors and instigators .of the riot. ". Thanks to the measures taken by the authorities, frau nuillity is perfectly restored. This morning horse patrols - truvetsed the streets, and detachments of the national militia protected the several works of the capital. " The proposal to take t wen t y -f our m illi ons o f reals of the revenues of Ceba and Porto Rico, for the use of the navy, was oikopte'd by a majority of 45 to 35 in the sitting of the Spanish Chat?.ber of Deputies on the 13th." In the Phareiles Pyrenees of the 1 ith, we find the follow ing ptora.graph " The accounts from the frontier inform us that extraor dinary measures of precaution are taken by the Spanish au thorities, which do not seem to be called for, considering the perfect tranquillity which prevails in the northern provinces." Commerce. BOU E —PA r. 18, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20. First Highest Lowest Last Price Price. Price Pric.. French 5 per Conti llB 80 ... 11S 93 ... 118 80 ... 118 05 4 10S ••• ... 10 - 3 ... 108 !., per Cents 41or Cents. ...... 101 75 ... 101 7 5 , ... 101 ... 101 75 81 81 . 1 .5 81 10 ... 81 2 ) PerlAn tt. Rank ot 3 /quake 3267 10 511 ...5365 Latiitte ti,Aut b oot. . 50 .1i 21 50 —1022 50..1(22 50 5 .00 , ;f. skares r. 0•15 —.5 00 •- 51 : 45 ...5050 13elgiao Bank .............. ... 7t , 5 ••• 785 .. 785 1111 11. ..... 'O5O ...Icso ...1050 Belgian 5 ;.er C tut:.,lB4o lO4Th ... 10• 1 ;ii •••• 0 10 1,14 —• 104 % 3pan,srt Active ........ r5 l •••••• - 5 4 1 4 •%porttivilese 5 per t...eitt,. Neapolitan .......... . . rtAILW A/ s 1 - 11&. St. Germain 337 50 ... 340 2111 .. 012 To .. 210 212 T.O criums St gto 'laic _ , ,1 15 ' , 3„ ••• 5,7 50 5:1 ... 527 50 '" ••• e 24, . 238 75 ... 7.5 b•UNDS-13atawaLs, ApaiL.•io Actual Debt, 123 , i per Cent. .............. . 55 tio 1 Lean, 5 per C.tit ...... .............. 1122% Lean of Thirty Millions, per 93 aper Cent • .. ....... Thirty4Q:'en. 0A)7. — ... ............. I . IIV I Lo.ni of City, 1.'23:1, 4 pes Cent. .................. i 5 Soctoty of Costorn , rce, 4 pzr Cent ............. F. 12 8a,1, - . of 13clgilia., 5 par Cer.t.... ....... ..-..._, 7ci 0 tio.lal :-;,.eiZ':y - E , 0 ,,,, ge nn I,ln - I,r: (wni 0 • .....Bru ;gals L'aperi . , April t.. ) 0. 'IIA:IBURCaI 1;011..-,12,11.:11,1..1;, Arum l!'. Rills. Abney, Austrian 5 per Cents. ........... . ..... ......• • ...... ••• flu lui)% Ita,,k ti!lare, Angle-Russian Loan IntSia!l 5 o t.cr Cent., Ist ~eries, Certiticato.....• I" 1(1274- Instaiptioo, Ist,eries . Russian a per o.,nt. Hops and Co., 3d and 4th Series SV,4 .1. 91 Ditto in Certificates New 4 par Cent. (1.41.1) Fil -1 4 t: 9% Dutch Attual Debt, 44, per Cent. •1% 31,S Ditto ~ per Cent. Pollsn Bond s - 154 New Tirkets 1(1)1' 7 Anglo- Danish Loan, 3 per Cent... Spanish, New 5 p..r Cents. LAW INTELLIGENCE ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.) Lord LANGDALE heard motions to-day. BEYON V. WATERHOUSE. Mr. PEMBERTON, applied on behalf of the plaintiffs in this cause, to have book accounts and other documents produced by the defendants, who were agents of a certain plantation estate in the West Indies, in which the plaintiffs had an interest. Mr. TURNER opposed the application, on the ground that great inconvenience would result to the defendants, who resided in Liverpool, and were in extensive business as agents for other parties, from their being obliged to produce their books in London, to be detained there till the accounts in question were examined. The defendant was will ing to fut nish copies of all the parts of their hooks that related to the matters in question, and would consent that those copies be read against them in the same manner as the original ac counts, with which the copies could be compared. Lord LANGDALE thought the proposition of the defendant very reasonable. Sir. PEMBERTON said that it would greatly inconvenience the :plaintiffs Ito send down a commission to Liverpool for the purpose of making copies of the accounts. Lord LANGDALE said inconvenience must arise in either case to both parties. At all events the plaintiffs were entitled to have the accounts produced. Such was the rule of the Court, and an order to that effect should be made. It was ultimately agreed that the books should be examined at Liverpool. VICE CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.) (Before Vice-Chancellor BRUCE.) ROSE V. CLARKE. The Court was engaged the entire day with the arguments in this part-heard cause, which came on for further directions. It was totally devoid of interest. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIG RAM. ) BOWER. V. COOPER. The bill was filed in this cause by the plaintiff, as purchaser of a small pi operty near Southampton, sgainst the defendant, who was the vendor, and who had refused to perform the specifiic contract entered into at the sale. The case was entered into at considerable length, but its de tails were quite uninteresting. QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY.) RICIIARDS V. DYKE AND ANOTHER. In this case the point to be decided was, whether in cases of non-payment of Church-rates, under the sum of 10/., the validity of which was not disputed, the Ecclesi astical Court possessed co-ordinate jurisdiction with the Magistrates ; whether, in fact, it was competent to Churchwardens to sue persons in the Ecclesiastical Court for non-payment of a Church• rate under 101., without summon ing them before a Ikhgistrate, and ascertaining whether it was a mere refusal of payment, or whether the validity of the rate w as disputed. 'Tice arguinents were wholly of a technical nature, and turned upon the comtruction to be given in the wording of one of the sections 54th of Gco. 3. The COURT took time to consider the point. DUNN V. COOMBE. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, whose name has been so frequently before the public as the suitor of Miss Burdett. Coutts, against the defendant, the Magistrate of Hatton Garden, for false imprisonment The defendant had committed the plaintiff to prison under certain articles of the peace, which this Court had subsequently determined to be bad. The case was tried before Mr. Baron Alderson, at Hertford, and the Jury had given him a farthing damages. The plaintiff in person now moved for a new trial, unless de fendant would pay 35/., because he had proved special damages to that amount, and that would have carried costs. It appeared that the Learned JUdge had refused to certify. Lord DEN:ALAN said the Court would consult the Learned Judge who had tried the case, and give judgment in a few days. cross-examination of Mr. Wingate, that it accidentally came out that Mrs. Dillon had been in ti habit of absenting herself from home, how often, under what circumstances, an d w h at means Mr. Dillon took to check such a habit, and bound he was to exercise all the control of a husband, well knowing that he had not married her under ordinary circumstances—with re spect to all these facts, the Court was left wholly in the dark. Such evidence, assuming the facts to be true, on the part of Dr. Dillon, might have been given, and there could be no doubt that, being thus purposely kept in the dark, the Court was bolted to take especial care, with respect to the further facts of the case, that it walked in the light. To proceed to the charge of adultery, it was not proved by any evidence that on the 29th of December, le4o, Mrs. Dillon met any man whatever at Gravesend ; but it was admitted that in the after noon of that day, she was in the neighbourhood of Gadshill, where, it was alleged, she went and committed the adul tery. The fact was not unimportant in its bearing. if the three witnesses were not grossly perjured. They proved that some man and woman did sleep at their house on the night of the 29th December, which, if true, would bring the question merely to one of identity. With respect to the particular day, it was of course very important, and under the circumstances, he should have but a slight reliance on the accuracy of the memory of a witness, unless, from some pecu liar facts, they were enabled naturally and probably to fix them on the memory. It certainly appeared that the facts spoken to by one witness of a ball that was to take place on the 31st day of December, the last day of the year, was a fact reasonably tending to enable the witness to fix the time. Nor was the accuracy of Mrs. Wilson affected by the state ment of the maid, that the parties slept in the house two nights before Christmas day, and not two nights before New Year's day. It was but a slight error, and not such a discrepancy as would lead the Court to doubt the accuracy with which the witness had fixed the day, or the probability of the fact making due impression on her • mind. With regard to the identity of the persons, the power of a witness to speak to the identity of the parties who slept in the house on the 29th of December, would much depend on the opportunities they had had of seeing them, and having their attention called to them. Mr. Wilson, who attended the parties at tea, and again in the morning at breakfast, had such opportunities as might enable him to speak to the identity of the parties with reasonable certai n ty. H e sa id reasonable certainty, because, in all commo n cases , h e was of opinion that an innkeeper was not the best witness as to the guests whom he sees but once. This was obvious on the slightest consideration, because from the habit of seeing a very considerable number of strangers, unless some particular fact called his attention to the personal conduct of any individual, he was not likely to retain any very fixed recollection of their persons. But upon the present occasion, there was, as stated by the witnesses, the additional and parti cu l ar f act o f t h e lady having lost one eye, or that it was visibly affected; and also the particular fact, that the person who accom panied her again came to the inn in May afterwards, and spoke of bringing the lady there again. The maid ser vant, Frances Gough, had still more ample opportunity, according to her own account, of ascertaining the identity. She not only waited on the parties, but assisted the lady to dress and undress ; and she further stated, that upon see ing her in the steam-vessel as she was leaving, she recognised her. It was unnecessary to travel through the evidence as to the mere fact of adultery, because, unless this witness was grossly perjured; it was clear they slept together at the ton at Gadshill. In the libel it had been stated that the person who slept there told the chambermaid while she was assisting to undress her that she had a mother living, whom she was going to see; that was true as stated in the libel, but the evidence of the servant went further, for she says that she not only stated that she had a mother living, and was going to visit her, but that she had not seen her for eight or nine years. Now, though the adultery here charged was limited to one occasion only, and although there was no circum stance either preceding or succeeding it to throw any lightispon the case, yet he felt himself bound to say that the onus of proof which was thrown upon the accuser was prima facie tome out by the evidence. But before the Court arrived at the conclusion, that the adultery was established, not only must the evidence be duly weighed, but many other important and peculiar circumstances must receive grave consideration. All this must be done before the Court could arrive at the deter mination that the facts alleged were proved, and that Dr. Dillon was entitled to the divorce he prayed. The evidence with re gard to the alibi consists of Mrs. Drury, the mother of Mrs. Dillon, who at the time resided at Gravesend, Janet Rumball, Emily Dix, and Elizabeth Lloyd. They were exp.• mined to prove that Mrs. Dillost was at Gravesend, and slept. there on the night in question, and therefore that she coull not be at the Sir John Falstaff. Now these witnesses were in that situation whirls induced the Court to watch their evidence with great diligence. With respect to Mrs. Drury she was the mother of the patty accused, but it was not on that account alone that the Court had watched her evidence with great - 1. gence, or that it would say that she ought not to be en— credit, for nothing could be more improper than to hold that a person standing in the situation of mother to the accused could not be examined. It came therefore to this, that when they came to examine a witness connected with the parties as to facts, they were to consider whether that witness was cnt:tled to credit or not. Now, it' Mrs. Drury, Janet Rumball, and Emily D.x spoke the truth, it was manifestly impossible that Mrs. Dillon conld have been at the Sir John Falstaff at the time stated. Eli zabeth Lloyd did nut establish the fact with the same certainty, for she spoke of Mrs. Dillon bring at her mother's on Tuesday evening at six o'clock, so that she might have gone to the Sir John Eiletaff. But the evidence of Elizabeth Lloyd was of considerable importance, for it tended strongly to corroborate the evidence of Mrs. Drury, Janet Rumball, and Emily Dix of her having been at the house at Gravesend. With such means, looking at the contradictory nature of the evidence, the credit of the witnesses was most important. The credit of these four witnesses, the manner in which they gave their evidence, and the probability of the reasons which induced them to fix so positively on Tuesday night, were circumstances which the Court must look to in pronouncing its judgment. The fact that Mrs. Dillon did go to Gravesend with the con sent of her husband on the '29th of December, took away all improbability of her going to her mother, and put in doubt, at least, the circumstance of her being at the Sir John Fals:aff; and it had this additional bearing, it was in unison with the evidence of Mrs. Drury, when she stated that she had written to, and expected her daughter. The Court. upon a careful ex amination and consideration of Mrs. Drury's evidence, con sidered that it was not marked with such improbability, or w.s so void ct truth, as to give it no weight. Mrs. Drury's evi dence was confirmed by that of Janet Rumball, Elizabeth Lloyd, and Emily Dix. The Learned Judge did not think it necessary to follow minutely all the circumstances stated; they appeared probable, and were spoken to by all the wit nesses, as well as Mrs. Drury herself. Elizabeth Lloyd was, as far as it appeared to the Learned Judge, as credible a witness as any in the cause. She did not attempt to go beyond the facts in her own mind, she simply gave the fact that she had been engaged to go that evening to sleep at Mrs. Drury's, for the purpose of making a dress, and she did not attempt to carry clown the presence of Mrs. Dillon at the house of Mrs. Drury, a moment lunrrer than six o'clock. If she had been brought forward to establish the fact of an alibi satisfactorily, it was to have been expected that she would have gone further. The question was, was she a credible witness, and were the reasons she gave as impressing the cir cumstances on her mind consistent. Now with respect to that, the Learned Judge would observe first, that Thursday was New Year's Day, was a fact admitted on both sides. Now what were the circumstances that occurred to her, not simply that she was disappointed at not sleeping at the house, but that she had, at six o'clock at night, on the 29t1r of December, to go back to Northfleet, having no other place to sleep at. That was a circumstance calculated to make an impression cn the mind of any witness, and induced the Learned Judge to think tier evidence entitled to credit. With respect to the evidence of Emily Dix, there was nothing in it that would induce the Learned Judge to say that she was a less credible witness than t rances Gough, the servant at the Sir John Falstaff; they were both in the same situation of life, and equally entitled to credit. Her reasons for fixing the day might not be so cogent as those operating on the mind of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson, but still there was no appearance of fiction in her evidence. To her the circumstance of being permitted to have a holiday was likely to fix the time on her memory. Her statement, too, of her interview with Mrs. Dillon on the 10th of May, was consistent in itself and with the evidence of Janet Rumball ; and it was scarcely possible—he was now alluding to what took place on the 10th of May, when Dr. Dillon went down for the purpose_ of seeing thi s g i r l ; she had q u itt e d th e serv i ce when Janet Rumba]] was closely examined as to what took place on that occasion, and so also was Emily Dix—they had to give detailed evidence as to what occurred, and they were both consistent in that evi dence, and it was impossible that it should have been concocted by two such witnesses ; they could never have met a cross examination, such as had been applied to them, by any previous concert. Now, he was hound to say that there was one fact deposed to by Emily Dix—he was now considering her credit—of a very startling description he referred to her evi dence on the 9th article, and she on the 9th article stated, agreeably to her belief, that subsequently to the 10th of May Dr. Dillon did come to her; did question her as to the day Mrs. Dillon came to her mother's, and did endeavour to persuade her to say that it was on the Wednesday. She stated that at the time of the first interview she mentioned it to her mistress, and that the person returned a second time. The reference to her mistress certainly tended to show that some one at least so visited her ; but he had thought it his duty to look at the answers. Dr. Dillon there positively denied that he ever had any interview with this witness at all. Now upon her sole testimony as against Dr. Dillon, in this particular opposed by his answers, he thought he should not be justified in imputing to Dr. Dillon the attempt to induce this witness to swear falsely; but though he did not impute to Dr. Dillon the offence of endeavouring to pervert the evi dence to be brought before that Court, yet on the other hand he should be wholly unjustified in imputing to this witness that she had wilfully told an untruth. The principle which he had acted upon in considering this evidence was analogous to that which was acted upon in a Court of Equity where a single witness deposed to a fact, which fact was distinctly denied in the answer of the other party ; and though he did mot say that those principles could always be carried out in those Courts, and indeed they ought not, yet he thought, in a case of this great difficulty, it was justifiable to resort to that principle, and he thought there might be equal justice between the parties when on the one hand he disclaimed imputing to Dr. Dillon any culpability with regard to the witnesses, and on the other did not fix upon Emily Dix the charge of having told a wilful falsehood. Now this was the evidence of those seven witnesses. He feared that, in looking at other parts of the case, it would be indispensably requisite to advert to other parts of their testimony which would have a bearing also on the question of credit and identity. But he had now considered the evidence of these seven witnesses, as to the great point in dispute ; viz., as to where Mrs. Dillon slept on the night of the 29th of December ; and he was compelled to say that on whichever side the truth might be, on the examina tion of the evidence of these witnesses, so far at least as he had hitherto gone, he was placed in this painful predicament: he did not find sufficient to enable him to say that either party had been guilty of wilful perjury ; if mistakes there were by either, it was certainly as difficult to be accounted for. In such a case it behoved the Court to proceed with great caution ; and, therefore, he should now address him. led. to self to the other points arising in this case. There were two points to which tho evidence in great measure equally applied, and he should deal with them together ; the conduct of Dr. Dillon before and after the discovery of the alleged adultery, what. took place us regarded the witnesses, as regarded his wife, and with regard to the unknown adulterer. _The evidence as to the Manner in which the adultery first came to the knowledge of Dr. Dillon. was given by Mrs. Wilson on the 7th and Bth interrogatory, and the truth of that statement could not be denied without impugning the veracity of one of the principal witnesses examined on behalf of Dr. Dillon: Ile won' not advert to the other alternative, or, to the supposi in that Dr. Dillon had wilfully mis-stated the truth. Now what were the facts established by Mrs.Wilsen's evidence on the ;th interrogatory. Having first said that Dr. Dillon had called upon and questioned her, she said, " My husbAnd was the only person present on that occasion. Dr. Dillon stated that he had been repeatedly written to about his wife to watch her move ments; that he paid no attention to the letters he received about her, till he received one from a friend of the gentleman who had been with her at our house, and who had quarrelled with the said gentleman, stating that his wife and the said gentle man had slept at our house on the said 29th day of December." Now the Bth interrogatory went on further to say, that she did not know who the man was. that Dr. Dillon said he did not know the man himself, but that he had been told that he was the son of a solicitor, living at No. 3, scra , .et)here, at a place . which Dr. Dillon mentioned in Lincoln's Inn. Now what did Dr. Dillon do upon this? That which was not prudent in any case, and still less in one like this. lie undertook the investi gation in person, and going down to the inn there saw the two principal witnesses. This happened some' days before the 10th of May; ho went down twice, between the beginning of May and the 10th of May. Mrs. Vs ilson stated that on Mr. Wilson observing that the lady had something the matter with one of her eyes, Dr. Dillon said, " It is my wife," and was much af fected. • Pursuant to an arrangement then made, Mr. Wilson proceeded to town on the 10th of May, and met Dr. and Mrs. Dillon at ,the Polytechnic. The conver sation which took place was somewhat singular. The previous facts which he had mentioned must be borne in mind. It was for the purpose of identifying this lady that Mr. Wilson so entered the Polytechnic ; and he said, having observed Dr. Dillon sit down with his wife in a less frequented part of the morn, and having immediately recognised her, he went up and said, " Good morning, Ma'am ; I hope you are better. Mrs. Wilson and myself thought we should have had the plea sure of seeing you at Gadshill again before this. Your good gentleman was at our house a short time since, and said he should bring you down again, as he thought it benefited your health." Now, it did appear to him, that was a rather singular mode of addressing her, and it produced at least one fact, that this gentleman—this unknown gentleman—who, as they found from the other parts of the evidence, had been at the house subse quently, and as he thought pretty clear, many times before, though still unknown, that he had used, according tothe statement of this witness, an expression denoti ng hi s i ntent i on to rev i s i t him. But what said Dr. Dillon to that? Dr. Dillon and his wife then stood up, and he questioned about what he had said to her, addressing her by her Christian name, which he did not now remember, " My dear," says he, " what does this mean ? Your good gentleman—what does this mean ?" Why Dr. Dillon knew all this; he was perfectly cognisant of it ; he had received the letter; he had seen Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. He could not but say that what followed appeared like an arrangement of identity. " What does this mean—your good gen tleman?" Addressing me he said, " I are this lady's good gentleman." Surely Mr. Wilson knew that before; it was a very gratuitous piece of information. " I am her husband—was it.l who was with her at your house?" Cer tainly that was a fact in his own knowledge. " I told him no, and he proceeded to question me further as to his wife, and as he was so doing Mrs. Dillon squeezed my arm. I con tinued, however. He appeared very much cut up, and putting his hand to his forehead he turned round." Why if he had believed the witnesses before, certainly it was somewhat singular that he should conduct him self in the manner stated. Now, the reason why he ad verted to this was, because of the predicament in which the Court was placed, where an individual undertook to conduct his own case. What it had a right to expect was, that some person, whose integrity and impartiality could be re lied on, should have been employed in sifting these witnesses ; on this occasion, there was only the party himself. He must not, however, though very much struck by the detail of the conversation, take a one sided view of this evidence. This was distinctly sworn by Mr. Wilson, of whom he had already said' that he knew no reason why he shoal(' not be entitled to credit ; and it was a fact of the greatest importance in this case, that Mrs. Dillon, by urging him to silence, in effect admitted her identity; because it was impossible, prima facie, that if she was utterly ignorant of the whole of this transaction, but that she should have utterly disregarded all assertions to the contrary made by Mr. Wilson; and certainly she would not have endeavoured to silence him in the manner which had been deposed to by Mr. Wilson himself. It was a very strung circumstance, but it was deposed to by a single witness alone, and corroborated by no other. Now what occurred then? On this same 10th day of May, the day of this very interview, Mr. Wilson cam e t o Doc tors' Commons, and wa s examined by the clerk of the Proctor. What occurred there? Mr. Wilson comes to Doctors'-com mons, and is examined by the clerk of the proctor. If all this were done by previous arrangement it was most inconsistent with all probability, and difficult to account for the surprise ex • pressed by Dr. Dillon at the interview ; he must have made up his mind, and have spoken with the proctor. On the 10th of May Dr. Dillon takes his wife home to her mother's at Gravesend; on the 11th of May Dr. Dillon is again joined by Mrs. Dillon, after her return from Gravesend, and the citation is served in the presence of Mrs. Wilson and Dr. Dillon, a fact almost ur precedented in the history of that Court, and as soon as it is served Mrs. Dillon walks away with Dr. Dillon. Other facts show that there is nothing extraordinary in this evidence. After the suit was commenced, it was proved that Dr. Dillon, while the ease was going on, had two interviews with his wife, one on the 3Qtli of May, the other on the 4th of Jfily. They took place in the evening, and lasted no inconsiderable time; fOr taking the fair medium between the witnesses, it appeared that they lasted three or four hours, arid did not terminate till twelve at night. It appeared that they walked away arm in arm, and the witness Page says they shook hands at parting. The con versation spoken of by fills. Drury he should have paid more attention to, had it been deposed to by more witnesses than one ; as it stood, he did not feel safe in relying on the evidence of a single witness in this case, in anything of this eescription. He should now consider what bearing this evidence hart on the fact of adultery. This was no ordinary case, and in many respects the observations that ap plied to c.mtnori cases did not apply to this one. His judgment was not founded on any isolated part of the case, but on all the circumstances combined. It was no ordinary case, because, as, he had already observed, in a case where the husband sought to be divorced on account of adultery from the wife whom he had first seduced; he must expect to have his whole conduct visited with a much more rigid senutiny and investigation than the conduct of a husband in ordinary cases. In such • circumstances' the husband alas bound to exercise par ticular vigilance; he had paved the lead to her first fall, ' and he ought to take care that he did not smooth the path to her second. He had furnished no evidence as to their criminal cohabitation ; he slid not place much reliance on the evidence of the two servants, who deposed that he had often expse sued a wish to get rid of his wife. But it was fair to rely on his own witness, who proved that he did not live on happy terms with his wife, nor were circumstances-wanting during their union calculated to excite his vigilance. In the early part of 1840,-Dr: Dillon declared that they could not live toge ther much longer, f r o m th e v i o l ence of Mrs. Dillon and her absenting herself from home. This fact considered, with reference to their connexion before marriage, and the disparity of years ought to have excited his attention and have led him to take steps for the preservation of her honour, but nothing whatever appears to have been done. Nothing having been done, he did not think he was expressing himselt too strongly when he said that the absence of such due precautions was a criminal neglect, and which, from the cir cumstances occurring before marriage, never ought to hav e b een lost sight of by hi m . Th e a b sence of all precautionary measures might not alone determine the judgment of the Court, yet, it would be an important ingredient combined with o t h er eircum stances. 'He had himself stated that he had often been written to respecting the conduct of his wife, but he paid to attention to the letters • he had received the se warnings of danger, and had totally disregarded them. And what did he do after he had had his second interview with Mr. and Mrs. Wilson? He continued to cohabit with his wife. If the party' accused, should prove that the party proceeding had a knowledge of the adultery, a criminis scientia, it was a bar to the - suit. Here the condonation was pleaded; the husband had received letters relating to the conduct of the wife ; it had been proved that means of identification had been devised, he had declared that the person implicated . must have been his wife, and yet he continued to cohabit with her. In the case of "Elwys v. Elwyn," or rather the dictum of Lord Stowell upon it, the condonation was not pleaded, as in the present case, for 'there was not the probabilis scientia. To the dictum of Lord Stowell he was disposed to pay great deference, and he says that in case a husband has some suspi cion, enough to satisfy his own mind, but not to instruct a legal case, he might perhaps continue cohabitation for the purpose of discovering the party. I n t h e case of " Timmins es Timmins," however, Lord Stowell expressed himself strongly as to' the necessity of the husband, though condonation was not pleaded,, not having slept with his wife after the fact of the adultery having come to his knowledge. It was true that in the present case on the 9th of May Mr. Wilson had not a personal interview with Dr. Dillon, yet the Learned Judge could not but think that it was difficult for Dr. Dillon to escape from one of two conclusions, either that Dr. Dillon did not give credit to the story, or that he was very reckless about cohabiting with her again, and the latter the Learned Judge thought was the more probable. The Learned Judge held that the principles laid down by the Court in cases of adultery ought to be strictly attended to. Perhaps, in the present case, he might not be fuel ned to hold, were these circumstances the only ones with respect to Dr. Dillon, that they would bar his obtaining a divorce, hut there were many other things to be looked to, There could be no doubt whatever that if the interviews that had taken place between the parties during the pendency of the suit had come to the knowledge of the Court that it, would not have permitted the case to proceed. None of those facts ought to have been kept back from the Court in cases of adul tery. In former times great doubts were entertained whether a solicitor would be justified in keeping hack what he knew from the knowledge of the Court, but it never could lie in the mouth of the husband to lay that he would afford no information to the Court as to what took place. There was a still further point of no small importance to the final determination of the present ease ; here had been no action at common law ; the alleged adulterer remained undiscovered, and it had not been shown that any attempts had been made to discover him. In argument, it was true, it had been said that Dr. Dillon's finances would not allow inquiry, but what was there in the case to show that the Court ought to dispense with such evidence? There were letters also; giving important in formation of the adultery, and they were also withheld from the Court. If the story was true that the letters were written by one who must have known the facts, Dr. Dillon bad been informed that the adulterer was the son of a solicitor, and the number of his chambers in Lincoln's-inn had even been stated.. This person knew the house at Gadshill before the 29th of December : he must have been there previously ; he was there afterwards, according to the evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Wilson. If such were the case how was it possible the Court could say that the individual could not be traced out. In the case of Timmins v. Timmins, the withholding of evidence was strongly commented on by Lord Stowell, but in the present case such evidence would be of tenfold importance, and yet the evidence had been withheld In ordinary cases proceedings at common law were not neces sary. Far otherwise was it, however, in the present case, when the identity of the adulterer, and the withdrawal of the evidence on that subject, became of paramount importance. It was manifest that in a. case like the present, the confronting of witnes s es would have thrown more light upon the subject than any written examination. If ever there was a case in which an action of common law ought to be tried, it was the present. Doing as his predecessors had frequently done in • the chair, taking into hi s cons i derat i on a ll t h ese circum stances, the char ge of adultery was proved by three witnesses, whose capacity h e h ad no right to deny, and and if there was no other testimony the adultery would be established; but op posed to that testimony was that of four witnesses equally res pectable and equally to be believed. The present case, as far as concerned his wife, was not a c.vil but a criminal proceedi ng , and if there was any d oubt she was entitled to the benefit of it. In his opinion the evidence, on the part of the wife preponde rated, but it was not free from reasonable doubt; but it was not on that ground alone that he refused'to grant a divorce. I look, observed the Learned Judge, in continuation, to the circum stances before the marriage, and the neglect of warn ing afterwards, direct and indirect; I look to the unjust cohabitation after the discovery of adultery ; I look to the recklessness shown by Dr. Dillon in this cohabitation, to the suppression of evidence in Dr. Dillon's possession, to the absence of evidence, the Court was bound to require, to the non- discovery of the adulterer, and the want of proceedings at common law ; and for all these reasons, I am of opinion, that if I were to pronounce for this di. vorce, I should do towards the party proceeded against an act not warranted by the legal considerations of the case, and set an example of granti ng rel i ef i n a case of great doubt, to one whose whole conduct towards his wife, during the whole progress of this suit, shows that he has no just claim. I there fore dismiss the party. T h h e e case result judgment, therefore, is, that the Court 1..- fused the divorce asked fo r b y D r. Dill on. T seemedto excit e cons id era bl e i n t e re s t i n Court. FATS L ACCIDENT. - Between eight ind nine o'clock yestet day morning James Buchan, aged 43 years, a journeyman painter and glazier, expired at St. George's Hos pital, from the severe injuries he sustained by falling out of a window he was cleaning, on Monday last, only three feet from the ground, at the residence of Mr. Evans, 44, Hans-place, Sloane-street, Chelsea. 'I he unfortunate man fell on his back, and on being raised up was found to have sustained a compund fracture of his right leg, of so dreadful a nature as to cause his death. POLICE INTELLIGENCE, CLERKENWELL.-(THIS DAY.) Catherine Leary was charged under the following circum stances :—Last night, between seven and eight, Police-con stable Archer proceeded to Bell-court, Gray's Inn-lane, to disperse a mob of low characters who had assembled there. On reaching the place he found the prisoner literally mad drunk, and throwing her little infant, not more than a few months old, into the .air; sometimes catching it in its fall, and sometimes allowing one of the bystanders to do so. Then she would throw it on the ground, and roll it about like a foot ball. When the constable apprehended her, the helpless little sufferer was almost insensible. The prisoner refused to go to the station-house, and so violent and pertinacious did she be come, that no less than three constables were obliged to assist in bringing her there. Inspector Jarvis, with laudable h uman i ty, or d ere d a search to be made aft er her other child. She refused to give up the key of her miserable:apartment, but it was broken open, and the child was found in a deplorable state of filth and emacia tion. The Inspector stated that she was drunk six days out of the seven. Mr. GREENWOOD ordered the ehildren tr be consigned to the parish officer, and the prisoner to be sent to the House of Correction for twenty-one days. Jeremiah M' earthy, a young boy of most diminutive stature, was committed for having feloniously entered the shop of Mr. C:oehrane, baker, Francis -street, Tottenham-court -road, yes terday afternoon, arid stealing the till therefrom, which con tained about a pound in silver. WORSHIP -STREET-(THIS DAY.) Ann White, a young woman of deplorable appearance, was brought before Mr. Bingham, and charged with being a street beggar. '1 he prisoner was taken into custody in Finsbury-place, where she was found sitting at the step of a door, exhibiting a written paper, representing her to be in a state of starva tion, and imploring assistance. In answer to the charge the prisoner, with a profusion of tears and sobs, declared that she was most willing to labour for her livelihood, but she had been unable to obtain any emplwy ment for the last six weeks, and was in the last state of destitu tion and wretchedness. The MAGISTRATE was visiby impressed with the truth of her statement, and was about to direct her how to proceed in order to obtain parish relief, when Horsford, a mendicity ()Meer, stepped forward and said that the prisoner was an incorrigible beggar, who had carried on a long career of imposition, and had been twice convicted.—She was committed for a month to the House of Correction. THE ROE FIAMPTON M URDER. BOW - STREET. -(THIS DAY.) The anxiety which was excited to so considerable a degree in the case of Daniel Good, - appears to have quite abated in the case of Molly Good; for though it was expected that she and Richard Gamble would be examined at this office to-day, the Court was by no means crowded, and Bow-street was as quiet as it ever is. The night charges havin g been dispos e d o f b y M r. J ARDINE, Mr. HALL entered the Court, accompanied by the Earl of Uxbridge, and took his seat on the bench at half-past ten, when Mary alias Molly Good and Richard Gamble were placed at the bar, charged with being accessories after the fact, with Daniel Good, in the murder of Jane Jones, alias Good, at Roeliampton: Mr. Maule appeared for the prosecution on behalf of the Crown ; Mr. Pelham appeared for Molly Good; and Gamble was unrepresented. Mr. Pelham rose, and addressing Mr. Hall, said—Sir, I 're quest that you will allow me to see Mary Good : I have been instructed by certain of her friends in the east end of the town, and I now attend to watch her interests. Mr. HALL—Perhaps you are not aware of another applica cation that is about to be made ? Mr. Maule then rose, and said—Sir, I am under the neces sity of asking you to postpone this ease for a few days : the reason of it is that the witnesses who were here last night have all gone home ; and living, as you Irtiow, Sir, some distance off, at Putney, Roehampton, and thereabouts, it will take some time to collect them. I was unfortunately obliged to leave the Court last night before the case was quite concluded, and I neglected to leave instructions for the witnesses to be in attendance here to-day ; the consequence is that most of them are absent. If you will postpone the case, however, Sir, say till Monday, I will take care that no further delay ahail take place on my part. Mr. Pelham—Sir,.l appear for Mary Good, and am inclined to ask you not to grant this application, because from what I know of the evidence, I do not think there is sufficient to war rant you in remanding this person any more. If Mr. Maule. however, will state the precise charge against her, I shall know more about it. Air. HALL—As the circumstance now stands, there is quite notigh, I apprehend, to justify me in detaining both of them, as connected same way or other in this transaction ; because there is property found on them which is clearly proved till a very recent period to have been in the possession of the de ceased. At the same time, in the course of this investigation certain expressions fell from each of them which tended, as far as they went, to show a knowledge of tchat had occurred. Yet it might be shaped in a variety of ways ; I cannot tell what the ultimate result may be ; but I still think there is quite enough to justify me in drawing an inference that they may be concerned in this transaction. Mr. Pelham—l presume then that they are charged with being accessories. Mr. IL LL—I do not know, and perhaps Mr. Maule does not wish to tell; and I must say that things came out yesterday which convinced me that he had taken a very judicious course in this affair. Mr. Pelham—Of course, I submit to you, Sir. I have, however, a case from her friends which will clear up any shade that may at present seem to rest ul.on her character. Mr. ll.u.r.—That is very possible"; but you know she may be charged with one thing, and be sent to prison for another. Mr. ,%taule—l only watit the case postponed for a few days to collect the evidence—Monday will suit me. Mr. Pelham—Very well, that will do for me. Mr. HALL—Any hour convenient for you. Mr. Jardine is kind enough to say that he will take the night charges; we will then, if you please, begin at ten o'clock. Mr. Per , iram—Perhaps you will allow me now, Sir, to con. for with Mary Good ? • Mr. HALL—Certainly. Then addressing the prisoner Gamble, he said, " Gamble, you have heard what has passed; you have no person here acting for you professionally. I have stated the reason why we cannot go into your case to-day, but it will be entered into on Monday, when your case will be gone on with without delay. The prisoners were then remanded till ten o'clock on Monday. Mr. HALL to Mr. Alaule—Sir, I beg to tender you my thanks for the very able assistance I received from you yesterday. NATIONAL CONVENTION, (THIS DAY.) The Convention met this day at the usual hour. Mr. Du NCAN took the chair. The names of the Delegates were called over. The Convention was occupied the whole morning in receiv ing Reports from various Associations. " Mr. CAMPBELL reported from the English Executive, from which it appeared that they had been in existence twelve months. At the time they were established the Association contained only 70 or 80 towns, and at the present time it num bered 350. In London, at the formation of the Association, there were 17 or 18 " localities," and at the present time they numbered 40. In Northampton, at the commencement, they had no " locality ;" at the present time they numbered seven or eight. In Birmingham they had increased in numbers of individuals, though not in Associations. In Leicester, at the commencement of the Association, there were but 100 mem bers; now they numbered 1,200. In Nottingham they had a large increase, as also in Derby, the Potteries, Cheshire, and other places. The Address to the people of England was then submitted to the Convention. The Address had been got up, calling on the people to support and advance the principles of the Charter. The Address, with a few verbal amendments, was then agreed to. Mr. O'CortNo a said that as a proof cf the strong feeling that existed in the manufacturing districts on the subject of the Charter, he had to inform them that there was a man in the room who had walked all the way from Manchester to attend the procession to the House of Commons, on the day the Na tional Petition is to be presented.—( Cheers.) The Convention adjourned at a quarter to one o'clock. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(T HIS DAY). LONDON, APRIL 22.—Wind this day at' noon, E. DEAL, APRIL 21.—Wind E. N.E., moderate.—Arrd. from the River acid sailed, York, Nith, and Columbus, for Bombay; Briton, Mauritius. SHEERNESS, APRIL 21.—The Foxhound, Betts, from the Straits, which was ashore or, the Grain Spit, has been got off without damage. PRNZANCE, APRIL 20.—Arrd. off, St. George, Wilson, Port 'Melbourne, sailed 16th of November; City of London, Martin, Mauritius; New Phoenix, Simpson, Jamaica; Arnold and Hector, Messina: BRISTOL, APRIL 21. —Sid. Irvine, Quebec. LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Wind easterly, light. —Sld. Celia, Large, Jamaica; Windsor Castle, Bombay; Sunflower, Bahia; Leonora, Demerara; General Wilshire, Baltimore; Oakland, New Orleans; Alabama and Oxford, New York. Orr CORK, APRIL 19. Marys, Robinson, Mauritius ; Coronet, Bute, Charleston. The greater patt of the wind bound vessels are now under way, with a light b reeze f rom t h e southward, includi ng th e British Queen, Argyle, and Ann and Mary, for St. John's, New Brunswick. SCILLY.—Atrd., between the 12th and 19th April, Herald, Hancock, Batavia; John Tomkinson, Hutchinson, and Eliza Stewart, Miller, China; John Hellena, Port Rico; Urinden, Ameln, Batavia, for Amsterdam ; Charlotte, New Orleans, for Gothenburg; Stadt Schiedam, Boer; John Crec., Calcutta. PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 21.—Wind E.N.E.—Arrd. Port to Port, Bahia, for Hamburgh. The Experiment, from Card to Newcastle, got ashore on the Sand Head this morning, but is expected off next tide. OFF SA LCOMBE, APRIL 19. —Eleazer and Heline, Havan nah, for Hamburgh. FALMOUTH, APRIL M.—Rind E. to N.E. moderate breeze.—Arrd. Forth (steamer), Havannah, left 15th ult., Nassau 31st, Bermuda sth inst., and Fayal 14th inst. Arrived off, Republic, Tegeley, Havannah for Bremen. Thc• Integrity, Lockman, front Calcutta, sailed hence this morning, has put back with damage, having been in contact with the Wow Johanna (Dutch barque), which proceeded. SCILLY, APRIL 18..—The Celt, Galway, loading rice at Batavia, for Demerara, sprung a leak, and received damage, and discharged part of cargo. SOUTHAMPTON, APRIL 21.—Arrd. Tay (steamer), with the Jamaica and Leeward Islands mails. The Dee (steamer) was safe at Havannah on the 29th ult. THE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN EXCHANGE. The arrivals sinee Monday have been small. Wheat firm for good qualities, but dull for all other sorts. Barley and Oats as last quoted, with a slow sale. Flour met a slack demand. SMITHFIELD. The supply was an average, and there being few at market, trade becartie heavy, and lower p r i ces were submitted to. Beasts, 474 ; Sheep and Lambs, 6,360 ; Pigs, 312 ; Calves, 185. Bed, 33. to 4s. 2d. ; Mutton, 30. 2d. to 3s. 10d. ; Veal 4s. to os. 2(1. ; Pork, 33.6 d. to ss. ; Lamb, 6s to 6s. 4d. COLONIAL MARKET. There was little busines, transacted; but holders were firm, and in prices little variation took place. TE,I 1. AIIKET. The demand was steady, and prices firm. G mpany's Congou ls. 10d., cash. TALLOW MARKET. The Market was inactive, but prices were steady, at 6i. 3d. on the spot. Her Majesty and Prince Albert, attended by the '..oval Suite, left Buckingham Palace this afternoon for Claremont Park, where the Royal party will spend a few days, and then return to the metropolis. Galvanism is now being applied in the blasting of rocks M the vicinity of Glasgow, and is found to be more effec• tive than gunpowder. EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.) JONES V. TARLETON. This case was an action of trover for a cargo of pigs tried before Justice Coltman at the last Assizes for Anglesea. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff in the sum of 1001. he plaintiff' was a dealer in pigs in the Island of Angles, a, and the defendant was the owner of a steamer engaged in the convey ancr.. of gods between Anglesea and Liverpool. The plaintiff having become indebled to the defendant for certain charges of freight, the pigs, which gave rise to the action, were seized by him, on their being placed on board of his vessA ; and he afterwards kept possession of them in payment of his claims. It bad been proved on the trial that a notice had been hung up in the race of the defendant, stating that goads shipped on board his ves,el would be seized in pay ment ,;r the sums due to him ; but the notice was not pi oduced at the trial. INIr. ANDREWS now applied for a rule to show cause why a new trial thould not be granted, and the verdict for the plain tiff set aside, on the ground that the Learned Judge had ire proper:y paced out of tlr, , consideration of the Jury the notice 111 the (AIL: , of the defendant. The COURT refused to grant the rule. The notice was not sailicient, or, at zll events, it should have been pro used at the trial. PENNY V. SMITH. Thia Was an action of assumpit; trotight by the plaintiff, f the recovery of the purchase-money and the enforcing the pur chase of certain cepyhohi pren, ises. The case was tried b-f,re Mr. Justine Matteson, at. the last. Assize 3 for Staffordshire, and a verdict was found fur the p aintiff, damages :2731. Mr. ALEXANPER now applied why a verdict should not be entered for the defendant, on the ground that the only evidence adduced against him was that of his attorney, who had also acted as the attorney of the plaintiff. The COURT was of opinion that the rule cruld not be granted. There was nothing to show that the attorney acted as the agent of the dcfeudant on the subject on which he had given his evidence. BAIL COURT -(TI-116 DAY. FINLAY V. BIRD. This was an action for 3 1. Si. 50., the price of work done for the defendant by the plaintiff. The plaintiff entered into a contract with the defendant to survey the ground from Staines to the Grand Junction Canal, a distance of seven miles, which it was necessary should be completed by the 30th of November, in order that the•suryey may be lodged in the House of Cora mot s. But the plaintiff, and those whom he engaged to complete the work, did not commence the survey till the ?4•h of November, and he told the defendant that it would be scarcely possible to complete the work at the time specified, to which the defendant replied that they should only do their best, because though the survey was not complete by the 30th, he might afterwards get the standing orders of the House of Commons suspended and the survey lodged. The plaintiff in consequence °Meted the survey, and it was proved in evi dence that the surveyors made every expedition. The defence set up was, that the survey not being complete it was of no use to the defendant. His LORDSHIP briefly summed up the evidence, and the Jury brought in a verdict for the plaintiff to the full arnount claimed. Mr. Thesiger appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Richards for the defendant. IN SQJLVENT COURT-(THIS DAY IN RE JUIN WHITE. The insolvent in this case was a boot and shoe-maker, carry ing on business at Newington•causeway, where he also kept the post-office. His petition to be discharged was supported by Mr. Cooke. Mr. Nicholls, on behalf of a person named Kemp, who was I a bill-discounter, in Finch-lane, opposed the insolvent's dis charge on the ground of having made away with property to the detriment of his creditors. After a number of witness: s had been examined, whose evidence occupied the entire morning, Mr. Commissioner BOWEN said he could not entertain the opposition for a moment, as there was no proof of the insolvent having disposed of any property in such a manner as to render him amenable to the discretionary clause of the Act. The insolvent was then discharged forthwith. IN RE JOHN ABRAHAM SMITH. The insolvent appeared in Court to receive judgment. He had been already brought up for hearing, when the case was adjourned for further evidence. The facts have been already reported in The Sun. He was remanded for six months from the date of his vesting order, at the suit of Mr. Swan, who was appointed assignee. CONSISTORY—(THIS DAY.) JUDGSIENT.—DILLON v. DILLON. On the opening of the Court, Dr. Lc SHINGTON gave judg ment in this case. This was a suit brought by the Rev. Dillon against Frances Charlotte Dillon, his wife, for separa tion, by reason of adultery. Certainly, since he had sat in that Court he had never met with a case in which the evidence required more careful and painful investigation. On the part of the wife the adultery :was denied, and it had been further alleged that the conduct of Dr. Dillon, after the discovery of the adultery, was such as to bar him of any remedy, even if the charge of adultery should be found to be sufficiently established. It was to this point that his attention must be directed. The marriage took place at the end of November, 1839, and it was truly stated by the counsel for Dr. Dillon, not under happy circumstances, for it was proved by Mr. Wingett, a wit ness for Dr. Dillon, and his intimate, that previous to such marriage, Dr. Dillon had seduced this young woman, who was under twenty years of age, and had had a child by her. When this case was adverted to by the counsel in favour of the remedy for which Dr. Dillon prayed, it was observed, that however reprehensible the conduct of Dr. Dillon might have been in this particular, the Court ought not to visit him with punishment, on account of it, in this suit. Certainly not, and the Court wholly disclaimed both the intention and the power to do it. Farther, a marriage under such circum stances, is of itself commendable; for it was making all the re paration in the power of the individual for the injury he had already done. What had occurred between the parties previous to marriage never ought to be allowed to operate on the circum stances occurring after marriage, so as to form a bar to Dr. Dillon's claim. Still, in a claim like this, facts occurring prior to marriage were not altogether without a legiti mate bearing, for the Court apprehended that a hus band, contracting a marriage under th ese c i rcumstances, was bound to exercise a more than ordinary degree of care and circumspection to prevent his wife deviating into those paths of vice into which he was the first to lead her. The cohabita tion was of no long continuance ; the citation was taken out on the 10th of May, 1841, and there was not much evidence to show on what terms they lived together during such cohabita tion. From all appearances, however, they were not happy ones. Dr. Dillon had often complained of his wife absenting herself, but under what circumstances there was no evidence to prove. He would now proceed to the charge of adultery, which was contained in articles 4 and sof the libel. It was alleged that it took place on Tuesday, the 29th December, 1840. It was stated that Francis Charlotte Dillon went on that day to Gravesend, in the county of Kent, for the ostensible purpose ofa visit to her mother, Mrs. Drury, for several days, her mother residing at or near Gravesend ; for this visit she had solicited, and obtained the consent of the husband, who accompanied her to Blackwell, from whence she went by the steamer, as if fur die purpose of going to her mother's house. That some time previous to the premises, Frances Charlotte Dillon had for used an adulterous intercourse with some man whose name is unknown. The deponent alleges that, on the arrival of the steam packet at Graeesencl ,Mrs. Dillon was w e t and joined by some man, and shortly efterwards pro c e e d e d i n an omnibus or public conveyance to the Sir John Falstaff Inn, Gadshill, where they spent the evening and slept together, Oe Wednesday, the 30th, they left the inn for Gravesend, on which occasion she stated to the chambermaid, while assisting to dress her, that she had a mother living, to whom she was going. The first oleereation naturally occurring On reading this statement was the absence of all preliminary circumstances leading up to and rendering the adultery probable. In most cases it was true that the adultery is clandestine, but it was equally true that when the parties were living together there s, in the g rea t ma j or ity LI cases, evidence after the discovery .1 the fact that rendered the fact probable. It was the com "len and ordinary course of things that the previous circum stances came to light, and were appealed to and proved. This of evidence was always looked for ; and, indeed, required where the circumstances allowed of its production. It was more th an once observed by Lord Stowell, that the Court looked with extreme jealousy on cases where the fact of adultery alone was app ea l e d to , an d a ll t h e prev i ous circurn ,tances rendering the adultery probable were entirely omitted. It was upon these facts the Court looked, as tending to show whether the fact was prob a bl e or not. Upon the present occa -ion all such evidence was wanting, and it was only on the THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, APRIL 22, 1842, MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS. CITY, QUARTER TO THREE. A slight improvement on the prices of yesterday has taken place on Money Stock, Consols being 91 1 / 2 911 for money, and • 91% 91* for the account ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 901 904 ; • Three-and-a-Half p er C en t s . R e d uce d , 991 994 ; New Three i and-a-Half per Cents. ' 1001 100,1, Bank Stock, 166 ; India Stock, 243, 245 ; the Bonds, 18, 30 ; and Exchequer Bills ; l 37, 39, prem. • Foreign Securities are the same as yesterday, these as well as our own Stocks looking firm. The Dutch Two-and •a- Half per Cents., 52%, 52/ ; the Five per Cents., 1001, 101 ; Belgium, 1031, 1041 ; Danish, 80, 81 ; and Brazilian, 67,68. A great deal of speculation has been going on in Mexican, which is quoted 4 per cent. lower than the closing price on Wednesday evening, it being then 39, and now 35, having been marked this morning 33*. The cause assigned is, that an ex pedition had s t ar t e d f rom M ex i co to overcome Texas. That such would be the case, and the extent of the preparati ons were known long si nce , an d w hil e they were going on Mexican Stock rose; now that the intended object is in the course of being attained, down the quotations are forced. 'I he Spanish Three per Cent. Stock is nearly two per cent. lower, being 241, inasmuch as M. Aguado, the banker, at Paris, is dead. It all that the holders of this Stock asserted be true, the future dividends have been provided for by the Government ; the demise of this gentleman, thtieefore, should have had no effect. Such, however, is the real nature of these speculations, in the course of a few days a scarcity of Stock will doubtless be made, and the unfortunate bears on the Account day will have to settle at the former rates. The Share Market is good. Birmingham, 179 180; Quar ters, 37 ; Thirds, 30* ; Cheltenham and Great Western, 17i : Great Western, 941 ; New, 65* ; South Western, 611 ; South Eastern, 301 30; ; Brighton, 37 37*. The bonds of the insolvent States are quoted—Colombia, 26 ; Peruvian, 18; Portuguese Five per Cents., 37 371 ; the Three per Cents., 214 22*; Spanish Active, 24*; the Three per Cents., 24/. The arrival of two of the West India Mail Steam Packet Company's vessels, has been announced this morning, and grosser instances of bungling throughout the whole arrange ments cannot be imagined. More than two months have now elapsed since any intelligence has been received from Jamaica, such of these ships which have returned to England having missed the mails ; meanwhile property and vessels to an immense amount are on the sea, uninsured for want of proper advice. Merchants connected with the West Indies are loudly complaining, not only of the delay in remittances, but of the risk their produce is exposed to. One of these vessels, it ap pears, has again come away without the bags, or, as it has b een stated, " with mail s scarce l y sufficient to fill a pocket-handker chief;" and the other by accident appears to have letters on board. By way of covering all these blunders, the " Tay," with the im portant correspondence on board, landed it at Falmouth, whence it may be expected to-morrow, and proceeded to Southampton, from which port the captain and passengers have actually ar rived in London twenty-four hours before the letters. This is the second instance in which a similar thing has oc curred, thereby fully proving the preferability of Southampton over Falmouth for a packet station. PRICES OF IRISH STOCKS, DUBLIN, APRIL 20. 3 per Cent. Consols Three and Half Stock 984 i Grassi Canal Stock ... Ditto Reduced ...... ... Ditto Debs. E 3 per cent... Ditto New 1830... 99 Ditto 4 per cent ... 3l per Cent. D e b s . LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, APRIL 21 .—Speculators purchased 2,0C0 American, and 400 were also taken by the shippers. Prices remained steady, and the sales consisted of i 600 Surats, 31d. 4d. ; tco Egyptians, 9d. ; 70 Peruvian, 71d. ; and :3,310 American 41d. 7d., being a total of 4,000 bales. LIVERPOOL SHARE .MARKET, APRIL 2l.—Eastern Coun ties were in good demand at 101 ; 11/. 14s. 2d. for the Deben tures, and Si. 19s. 2d. for the New ; as were also Great Wes tern Halves, 651; Fifths, 101; and London and Birmingham Quarters, at 37. Other shares remained without variation, Edinburgh and Glasgow being 52, 524; Grand J unc ti on N ew Quarters, 1(3-1 ; Brighton Quarters, 37 1 / 2 - New,' 81 ; South Western, 61* ; Manche s t er , B o lt on , and dury, 64 1 / 2 ; Man chester and Birmingham, 28 1 / 2 ; ilanchester and Leeds, 83 1 / 2 ; the Quarters, 5 1 / 2 . MANCHESTER STOCK EXCIIANCE, APRIL 21.—Our Market has not undergone any particular change to-day. Bolton and Preston, 21-s; ; Eastern Counties New Shares, 5/. 14s. 2d. ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 514 ; Liverpool and Manchester, 190 ; South Eastern and Dover, 32 ; Manchester an d Bir mingham, 274. CLOSING PRICES. BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock 166 India Stock 3 per Cent Red. 90:4 Ditto Bonds 3 per Cent Cons 9lg Ditto Old Annuities ... :34 per Cent Red...., 99 iDitto New Annuities... New 3} per Cent New 5 per Cent. — Ditto 5 001......... 39 prs Long Annuities i:oexpire Ditto S ma ll 37 pm Jan. l8;60 ..... ..... 12} Bank Stock for Acct ... Oct 1859.... ..... 12i India Stock for Acct.... Jan. 1860. ......... 124- Consols for Acta ......... 91i FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 F c,..• cent.... Portuguese, 5 per cent. Belgian,. 5 pei rent 1044 Dit to, N ew D i tto — erazilian Bonds. — Prussian, 5 per cent — Buenos Ayres 6 per cez t Russian, 5 per cent....., Chilian. 6 per cent..... Ditt o , M e t a lli c ..... .. Colombian, 6 pet cent.. Sp a ni s h, 5 per cent. — Ditto, 18 9 4.......... ..... Ditto, Deferred.... Danish, 3 per cent Bo* French, 5 per cent. —f. —c. Greek, 18:25,5 per cent — Exchange — I —c. Mexican, 5 per cent.... 36 French, 3 percent —.'. —_,, Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Dutch, 21 2 per cent. , 52 Peruvian, 1825, ii per et. Ditto, 5 per cent. .. . ]OO SHARES. Bristol ~..nd Exeter (70 paid) ... ...... ... .. 45 Cheltenham and Great Western (72* paid) 17* Eastern Counties Railway (23 paid) .... loi Ditto Debentures . ... Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) .... 52* Great North of England Railway (100 pd) 84 • Great Western Railway (65 paid) 94A Ditto New Shares (50 paid) . ........ London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall (25 paid) . l2i London and Birmingham (90) . ..... .. 160 Ditto Quarter Shares (15 paid) 37 Ditto New Shares ( 2 paid) ... 30* London and South Western Loudon and Croydon Railway ( Trunk) - 14 Midland Counties Railway ( 100 paid) South Eastmi and Dover (50 paid) • 30* York and North Midland (50 paid) ... ...... 94 20prr WEST INDIA MAIL. FaLatounr, APRIL 20.—The Royal Mail Steam•packet Company's steamer Forth, Captain Frere, arrived here this evening, bringing dates from Havannah, 15th ult. ; Nassau, 30th ; Bermuda, sth inst. ; and Fayal, 14th inst. In addition to the mails from those places she also brings letters from Mexico and New Orleans, but no Jamaica mails. We cannot learn any political news. Santa Anna is still President of Mexico, and the Government are increasing the number of their ships of war. The Forth does not bring any %peon:, and only five passengers. The steamer Tay left Nassau 15 hours before the Forth, and as this vessel was leaving Fayal the Tay was going in. It appears that the Tay brings the Jamaica mails, &c. We may look for her tomorrow. No steamer at Havannah when the Forth left ; one from England looked for. Before the Forth can proceed for Southampton she requires a supply of coals. _ Capt . ain Frere reports the Channel full of ships, beating up. On the 13th, about 100 miles west of Corvo, spoke the South Sea ship Active, for London, with 3,525 barrels of oil, all well. Yesterday, 30 leagues south-west of Scilly, spoke the Centu rion, of Jersey, Mauritius for Falmouth, for orders. Three large ships are in our offing to-day, keeping company, apparently East Indiamen, showin g th e i r ens i gns. Wind E. The Mauritius Papers of January 16th announce the death of Lady Smith three days after that of her husband. Her delicate state of health it appears had, ever since h er resi dence in the island, precluded her Isom mixing in company. HAYMARKET THEATRE.—A merry " comedietta," of the free anti easy family, was produced last night, called A Lover by Proxy. It was eminently successful, for it was acted with spirit, and its humour was at once felt and relished by the audience. Mr. Webster, Miss Charles, and Mrs. W. Clifford, represented the principal characters. This airy trifle is by Bourcicault. It is light and sparkling, and will doubtless be a popular interlude for some weeks to come. The Shildon tunnel, which unites the Stockton and Darlington, and the Auckland and Weardale Railways, was opened for merchandise and passengers on Tuesday last. The Directors and friends in several coaches drawn by an engine, preceded the coach containing passengers, which was drawn by a horse. The tunnel is above a mile long, and passengers can now be conveyed from London to the South Church station by railway; thence to Rainton Meadows by omnibuses, when they will again be conveyed by railway to Newcastle, so that the entire distance from London to Newcastle may be traversed by railway, with the exception of one-and-half hour's travelling on the road between South Church and Rainton Meadows. The Darlington Mechanics' Library and Reading room have decided to admit newspapers by a majority ofil4 to 8. THE DEATH OF SENOR AGUADO.—The French Government received, on Tuesday afternoon, a telegraphi c despatch from Bordeaux, announc i ng that M. Aguado sank under the attack of apoplexy, at Gijon, in the Asturias, en the 12th inst. A few days before his departure from Paris he experienced a slight attack, which was considered by his friends an alarming symptom ; he, however, treated it lightly, and having promised, for the last four years, to visit his mines in the Asturias, he determined on undertaking the journey. He was informed at Bordeaux, that the Spanish Government had ordered the Isabella steamer, lying at Passages, to be placed at his disposal, in order to convey him to Gijon ; but he declined accepting the offer, pre ferring to travel thither by land, as it would give him an opportunity of seeing the country. He repaired first to Valladolid, where he stopped some days, having assigned a rendezvous in that city to his brother and to Messrs. Re. miss and Marliani. He took his departure thence for Oviedo, and, it appears that, in crossing -the mountains, he under. went considerable hardship, His progress through them was retarded by snow during forty-eight hours, which he passed in a desolate cabin, wanting even the necessaries of life. A let ter written by him, ur.der date Oviedo, the llth, reached Paris on Wednesday, in which he describes the sufferings which he and his five companions had to endure in those mountains. Upwards of 100 men were employed in opening a passage for them, and they had to walk afterwards five miles knee-deep through the snow, before they could arrive at the nearest vil lage. M. Aguado was only 56 years of age. His father like.. wise fell a victim to a similar attack about the same period of life. He leaves a property estimated at upwards of 2,000,000/ . sterling, to be divided among his three sons. CORONER'S INQUEST.—THE LATE FATAL ACCI DENT TO MR. WILLIAM SA MS.—Last evening, at eight o'clock, an inq ues t was h e ld a t the Star and Garter Tavern, in Pall-mall, before Mr. Higgs, the Coroner for Westminster, on the body of M r . William Sams, late of No. 1, St. James's street, bookseller, print publisher, and propriet or of the Royal Subscription Library, whose death occsirred under the follow-. ing melancholy and ninesditressing circumstances The deceased, between eight and o'clock on the evening of Saturday last, accompanied by Mrs. Sams and his daughter, was driving in a from Hammersmith-b r id ge, being on their four-wheeled open chaise carriage, drawn by t wo h orses, along a lane leading way to their scat at Roehampton. When within a sho r t distance of Walham-green, one of the horses became restive, , a eu, and the ladies screaming, started the o th er, and both of the the eire e ti on towards the church, the vehicle came in contact w i t h a post. the collision co. n i roi ls in t ro Fa k l h e a tinx7r( furious gall o p, an d i n turning the was tremendous; the carriage was overturned, and the de ceased and the ladies were thrown out. The deceased was found lying underneath the carriage; he was extricated as q u ickly as possible, and found to be very severely hurt, so much so, that he was quite speechless, and presently became perfectly insensible. fie was conveyed to a surgeon's at Walham-green, and afterwards removed to his residence in St. James's -street, where he expired about three o'clock on Wednesday afternoon. (In a pest reorient examination his death was Lund to proceed fi °in concussion of the brain, and a slight fracture of a portion of the skull. Mrs. Sams escaped with but trifling injury, but Miss Sams received rather a severe laceration of the neck. The melancholy catastrophe was purely accidental. Verdict, `• Accidental death," The deceased was 49 years of age.- PARLIAMENTARY Dl VIsIONS . I, HOUSE OF LORDS. —APRIL 19. MINORITY IN FAVOUR OF LORD MELBOURNE RESOLUTION FOR A FIXED DUTY ON CORI' PRESENT EARLS. Rosebery Scarborough Uxbridge Zetland ISCOUNTS. Duncannon Melbourne LORDS. Brougham and Vaux Campbeil Camoys Carew Cloneurry Colborne Cottenham De Freyne Denman Dinorben PROXIES. RA RLS. DUKES. Norfolk Somerset Sutherland mARQUIssEs. Anglesey Clanricarde Lansdowne Normanby EARLS. LORDS. Godolphin Hatherton Kinnaird Li:ford Lovat Lyttieton Ytonteagle Poltimore Portman Stratford Vivian Wenlock Wrottesley Bruce ----- Charlemont Clarendon Cowper Fingal l Fitzwilliau Forteucue Lovelace Radnor Derry, Bishop Durham, BistioP Ely, Bishop Worcester, BishoP H. R. H. the Duke of Sussex EARLS. Albemarle Camperdown Carlisle Craven Fitahardinge Gosford Huntingdon Leitrim --- Mint° Sefton VISCOUNT. Torrington LUAUS. Bateman Berners Clifford • LORDS. De Mauley Dormer Foley Leigh Methuen Sudtley Hereford, Bishop PAIRS, Earl of Kinnoull Cornwallis Carnarvon Lord Reay De Lisle Lord Langdale Stanley of Alderley earl of Suffolk Lord Montfort Earl of Erroll (From the ,Votes and Proceedings of the House qf Commons%) THURSDAY, APRIL 2 REFORM - OF PARLIA lINORITY of Sixty-nine (Tellers incl Mr. Sharman Crawford's Al( Aglionby, FL A. Fielden, J. Armstrong, Andrew Gibson, T. M. Bernal, Ralph Granger, T. C. Blake, MarK Hall, Sir B. Blake, M. J. Johnstone, A. Blake, Sir V. Leader, J. I'. Blewitt, Reginald Muntz, G. F. bodkin, John James Aluzphy, F. S. Bowring, 1)r. Napier, Sir Charles Bridgman, Hewitt Not reys, Sir D. J. Brotherton, J. O'Brien, Cornelius Browne, R. D. O'Brien, J. Busfeild, William O'Connell, D. Cobden, Richard O'Connell, M. Collins, William O'Connell, M. J. Currie, Raikes O'Connell, J. Dennistoun, J. Paget, Lord W.- Duke, Sir James Pechell, Captain Duncombe, T. S. Phillpotts, J Ellice, E. Plumridge, Captain Elphinstone, Howard Powell, Caleb Esmonde, Sir 'T._ Protheroe, Edward Ewart, W. Rennie, George Ferguson, Colonel WENT. laded) who voted fce Aton : Roche, Sir D. Roche, E. IL Roebuck, J. A. Rundle, J. Seboletleld, J. Scott, R. Smith, B. Somers, J. P. Somerville, Sir We Strickland, Sir G. Tancred, H. W. Thornely, Thorns' Turner, Edmund Villiers, Charles Wakley, menus Walker, It. Ward, H. G. Williams, W. Wood, B. Yorke, H Q , n , E. T. TELLERS Crawford, W• Wallace, IL LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTE R It WAY.—IMPORTANT MEETING. On Wednesday last a special general meeting of the P 1 ,,7 0 prietors and Di rectors of this Company was held in the Co" Sales-room, Li verpoo l, to consider the propriety of adopting a Report of th e Di rectors, recommending and empowering tn to adopt the pl an propose d for carrying on the line to Hullt ,is a„o bank, in Manchester and thus forming a junction with Manchester and Leeds, and the Manchester and Birmingh ll33. and also with the Manchester and Sheffield lines. Mr. C. LAWRENCE was in the Chair ; and, after the not ° , calling the m ee ti ng La d b een read, the Treasurer of the Cum', mittee read the Rep or t o f t h e Di rectors, which recomment; the adoptio n o f th e f o ll ow i ng resolution, after stating na the cost of th e p ro p ose d li ne w il l not exceed 225,000 h, sr alluding to the difficulties they had h a d to encounter in I t, endeavour to carry into effect a line to extend to Store-sr:4 in Manchester :—" That the Directors he hereby empoe'" of to proceed with th e negotiations and arrangements ,i/j pending w ith ot h er C ompanies and parties interested, en"tbe take the n e cessary steps, by application to Parliament, in present session for an extension of time for the purchesn4 land, should suc h a course be deemed expedient; and to n into such contracts, and do all such other matters and tblZ . as may be necessary or expedient for carrying into full e r e . and operatio n th e f ormation and completion of the procor Hunt's-bank j unc ti on li ne, i n conformity with the Report received and approved by the meeting." ~.e The CHAIRMAN then said, the Directors were fully o 'ol the great importance of the question before the meeting' or e it was, therefore, with regret that they did not on the,* sent occasion appear before the Proprietors as a united " f ee The Report whi c h h a d b een read, although nominally t il e port of th e w h o l e B oard, was only that of a major/01 p 0 y that not a la rge one ; and it was due to those necessary , ntlemen ing the mi nor it y to state that fact. He felt it ne c essary '. 40 0. form the meeting, as the Board were now of a different or t b a s to what they were at the last meeting, that the reason n , change was expediency. They had no chance of succeetli n tes obtaining an Act for carrying out the most desirable plan s tia such influential and powerful interests as the Manebestelsole Leeds Co m p any aga i nst them, and it was therefore &Owed to carryout th a t now proposed, for if they did not he felt cony y iy that it w ou ld p l ace the Manchester and Liverpool C 0134100 a position of gr ea t d anger, and jeopardize the propertY concern altogether. Mr. Moss, one of the Directors of the Company, r -nr° P °4 the resolution quoted above. Mr. R. BENSON moved an amendment' to the effec a junction o f t h e ra il ways on the south side of the Mane' blit, via Store-street, would be more advantageous to the 5,„. and would conduce snore to the interests of the . .. s o. pcol and Manchester Company. After giving several `7; - o or for this proposition, it went on to state that this sio s palsy have, consistently with their own intereshot,., saf been anxious to consult the convenience of the Pu n " - e ies"' therefore, if the Leeds Company should, after having the proposion to leave the whole question at issu e attic unexceptionable reference, and in consequence of the .t.ro c mination of the Company not to make the junction:a tbt: Salford, conclude themselves to execute that line, "' - o daticr Company will engage to afford them every accesein til t heir and facility in their p ower f or effecting a junction 01 railway." Mr. D. Ho oosoN spo k e against the original reselntinn" great length. r tes sul e Mr. H. EARL E secon d e d the original motion, and at it at conside ra bl e l ength. The adoption of the line pe°` once effect a com mun i cat i on between the seaport a Lwi v e .) and the manufacturing districts of Yorkshire.—(Cll e . r h i e oritir Mr. SAUNDERS and Mr. CROPPER also support nal motion. On Mr. ALST ON moved, that the question be deferred . v. ltair month, and thi s amendment was seconded by the I. e b i t FORMBY. A long discussion ensued on this in the course w ale of2edf was stated, that out of five lines to in it wa' d t hus : determined to carry four of them to Hunt's-bank, :z oo as' complete communication would be formed betwee. n . j o itt ys• and west coasts, the formation of such a union of trade" being considered most important for the interest " t generally. to The CHAIRMAN at len g th put M r. Alston ' s ernendEnen amendment Pr the meeti ng , w hi c h was lost, after which the arae posed by Air. Benton was withdrawn. The original resolution was then carried by a °l:4l'l3°llble majority, and the meeting separated. - ,-... , i he s il tre ll- SHAKESPEARE'S BIRTH-DAY.—TO-da y -S ch t aksP. ; versary of the birth-day of the great poet "Militia 0- re - sen tea His Royal Highness Prince Albert ful s filoPi tal l the munificent donation of 501. to the Que,eon'-ediciLie foundedand in connexion with the Roal School o ' 4- 1 clinical of m edia e 9. Surgery at Birmingham, for the purposes oC tin 'e been education of the medical students of the Midland 2 . notic e 119 : o ffice, MAILS FOR INDIA. —The follo vin : N ~ V;eeeral 13 ,_ ° '"? pito issued by the Post -office authorities Islands, 20. The next mails for Malt—a Greece, the ct'clica India, c. via hence on the 30 h • t instant. The next mad or Marseilles, will be ntlfly_s Egypt, and India, via Falmouth, for _ ..... . iade up here o be desPa ._ On I inst. at L shire, th e l a d y of J. BrBRTHS. n the 17th in o Sp i g, near Wethe rb y , York- On the 17 t h i nst., at o U w p tn ie Eaqq r la'apatoan:°llnirs. F. J. Cat lin g . of e. I o v SON i th o ' ti On r o ealBthwienssttm.,acaottt. of a Chastsloen.ton Rectory, the lady of the Rev. On the 18 t h i nst., t h e w if e o f the Rev. John Garwood, of S daughter. Ou the 19. h mat., at Highgate-rise, Mr*. George Cloves, of a daughter. t h e lady On the 18th first., at Garlands, Ewhurst , Surre y , of the Rev. E. H. Hopper, of a daughter. On the 19th inst., Mrs. Barclay Watson, of Cambridge terrace, Hyde-park, of a son. On the 19th inst., at the Grove, Kentish-town, Mrs. Charles Shearman, of a daughter. On the 19th inst., at Lower Clapton, Mrs. Philip Whitaker, of a daughter. On the 19th inst., Mrs. William Stutfield, of a d a ughter. On the 20th inst., at Ulster-terrace, Regent's-park, the lady of J. C. Curwen Boyd, Esq., of a M.4IIIIIED. On the 19th inst., at Christ Church, Surrey, George Samuel Hayes, Esq., of Hull, to Sarah Diana, second daughter of J ohn Gilbert Aleymott, Esq., of Christ Church. DIED. On the 11th of February, at Calcqtta, John Boucher, Esq. , M.D., of the Bombay medical servidk On the 18th inst., at Keyham-point, D ev on port, Charles Thomas, son of Captain C. H. Burnaby, R-.A., aged 12. On the 19th inst., at El well-square, Brighton, Anne Acklom, wife of Major-General Tongan, C.B. On the 16th inst., at Tunbridge-wells„ William, son of W. L. Sclater, Esq., of Hoddington House, H ants, aged 9. London: Printed and Published by MORDO YOUNG of Nu. 112, Strand, at The Sun Office, N.:. 112, Strand, in the County of Middlesex, Friday, April 22, 1842. I THE INCOME PLUNDER. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN Sia,—As the people are generally ignorant of the machineri by which Pitt worked his Income-tax, perhaps the following may show them a little how they may expected to be Peel' by the present Income-tax, and to gnaw their chains with re morse for their own apathy in not opposing its enactment. I was (when Pitt's Income-tax was inflicted) a partner small manufacturing concern, and during the three previa" years, from which our average income was to be reckoned, Re had incurred upwards of 8001. losses, in bad debts, and go' ships reeked. I laid before the Commissioners (some of them violent pl ot n i hatching Tories of th e C as tl ereag h sc h oo l ) a clear state me .of our losses, giving names and dates of every item, sh° l44 , that our income was nothing, and that we had been sebsigt on our capital. Th e Ch a i rman sett l e d t h e b us i ness at on ce , saying, "Y o u ca nno t. ma i n t a i n your f am il y for less than 30°• year, and therefore yo u s h a ll b e assesse d at 3 0 01 . " W e had °- appeal—nothing but pay, and work or starve.—l am, ONE OF THE PLUNDEREv• TO THE EDITOR OF THE S UN. SIR,—As the NoMe Lord, the Member for South Lao* shire, has thought proper to boast of the petition which 1 4 presented from Manchest e r i n f avour o f S i r R o b ert Pi s Income-tax a n d t ar iff, I b eg to i n f orm you, for the bene fit and satisfaction of those staunch Reformers which Manchester CO boast of, that the majority of the manufacturers, `merchants' shopkeepers, an d o th ers , are oppose d to t h e obnoxious, iiiqual rial, and s h ame f u l I ncome - tax ; and therefore I declare that! those 24,000 signatures, which the Noble Lord said his peace tion contained, were scrutinised, there would not be found ow' than one-fifth in favour of the beautiful and well-liked and that one- fifth is composed of the Church clergy and tbeir friends and p ar ti sans , w h o , w h en they were asked to 5110 s it , petition for r e p ea li ng t h e o b nox i ous Corn-laws, declared 7,- a public questio n , en d th ey wou ld h ave nothing at a ll to 0 " with it. Now these are the men who cry aloud for the bogie" tax, and any measure which their old friend, Sir Robert, 035 / think proper to propo s e. If th e N o bl e Lord, or any one of t be Members for Lancashire, will take the trouble to go round every elector, or even non-electors, they will find how ti a l s ? hare been delud e d by th e i r f r i en d s, an d i n such a manner think they will not easily forget. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, Manchester, April2l, 1842., LIBERATO REFoRMO. . I,llead-o H , ~, ; ] ~~~,;; 7 ] t Thu r , 45,. Thor k 74 estab highest , k e trtieuli ' IV Cu d. ItNT OTH 4 % TWO 4 6 f Chr 'r, in / mastitut k,s. 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