The Sun. — London, England, 1849-02-14 00:00:00

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IN RE SHREWSBURY CHARITIES.-IN RE SHREWSBURY passing of the Act 9th end 10th Victoria, cap. 95 ; and the question was, whether such a bond, since the passing . othfetikaetts,taatililte,awctaiosnssuffiocrientte.pleßvyinthNeTbliclh9thshs,e,cuilidon beet brought in the County Court, should be brought without writ in a Court held under the Act. As this statute left the form er statutes relatin g to replevin unrepealed, there was no reason why the sheriff should not take the replevin bond as before, but the bond being taken on the condition that " the obligor :,hould appear at the next county court for the county of Middlesex, at Red Lion square," the question arose whether such a bond was sufficient. It the obligor omitted to appear at the next county court and prosecute his suit there, it was an infringement of the statute, and the condition of the bond was violated. The question would be, whe ther such a bond was still a substantial compliance with the requisitions of the statute 11 th George 11. The suit was no longer prosecuted in the County Court, but in the district Court, and it might well be that the court within which the distress was taken might be holden before " the next County Court for Middlesex, at the Sheriff's office, in R• d Lion-square," and the proceedings might be indefinitely delayed with out any breach of the condition of the bond. The Court therefore thought that the bond was insufficient, and consequently the defendants were not entitled to have the verdict entered for them. GRAMMAR SCHOOL. His Lordship having disposed of these eases, which came before him upon petition, proceeded to bear the furtter arguments in the part-heard c.tse of ALLFREY V. ALLFREY. This case came before his Lordship upon appeal from the decision of the Master of the Rolls, declaring that Pee plaintiff was not bound by the settlement mentioned In the cause, and directing certain recounts. When the ease came before the Master of the Rolls the arguments occupied the Court no less than three days. Though the detdila from the' nature of the case, comprise numerous Pecnniary transactions, matters of account, and a long and tedious statement of minute particulars, tending to show that th e accoun t s were erroneous ly made out, and Purposely so as the bill alleged, yet the main facts of the case,_ itself a re no t a t a ll com plicat e d, and may be stated briefly as follows:—'_•.lr. George Allfrey, of Sussex, wine merchant, died on the 22d April, 1802, intestate, leaving his eife, Kitty Allfrey, three sons, and one daughter, then born, alai a fourth son afterwards born, him sur- M d.". The names cf the children in the order of birth were George, Edward, Thomas, John Stainnise, Mary. and William. The intestate at the time of his death also left his mother, an only brother, Edward Allfrey, and several sisters, him surviving. He was owner of some real estate, of which part was freehold and descended to his eldest son George, and the other part w as copyhold, or borough English, and descended to Wiliam, the youngest child, who was born on the 25th o f September, 1802. There was also personal estate, consisting of 9,1001. Three per Cent. Reduced Stock standing in the name of the in tes t at e , some cash, and other matters. One-third of this of course went to the Widow, and the children took each two-fifteenths. All the children being then infants of very tender years. and the widow, Mrs. Kitty Allfrey, not applying for administration, Mr. Edward Allfrey, the testator's only brother, took out letters of administration on the 17 t h of June, 1802, to his brother's estate, and on the 9th of November following he got himself appointed guardian of William, as to the copyholds by the lord of the manor. The whole affairs of his brother's family were afterwards managed by Mr. Edward Allfrey. In 18 - 08 he filed a bill in the name of his ward William, to compel disclosure of a notice to quit given to Elphick, a tenant of part of the lands, with a view to an ejectment. So matters went on till 1822, on the 22d of January of which year Mrs. Kitty Allfrey died, havine by her will appointed as her executors Mr. Edward Allfrey and another, who renounced. On the 25th of September, WA Mr. William Alifrey came of age, and some time ?lifter his uncle put the books of accounts into his hands but from some inaccuracy in some of the items, the matter stood over the 7th of May, 1825, when William signed a memorandum of approval, but without examin ing the accounts, his uncle intimating that George, his brother, had examined them on his own ac count as well as on that of his sister and brothers, or some such observation; and William then received a balance of 17/. or 18/. On the 6th of Il!Ine, 1834, Mr. Edward Allfrey died, having appointed his wife Margaret, his son Robert, and his nephew, the B ,!tid Georg e Allf re y, t h e y ounge r, hi s e x ecutors. On the 11th of August, 1841, administration deliveries were taken out to G ecrge Allf rey, t h e i n t es t a t e , an d on the 4 th of September, 1843, to Kitty Allfrey, by George ,Allfrey the younger. The papers of Mr. Edward All frey coming by some accident into the hands of William, h e happened to observe that credit was not given in the nooks of account for half a year's rent of the real estate after his father's death, and that circums stance exciting his curiosity, he examined fur ther, and found other errors, and at last of such a kind as to excite his suspicion. The result was, t hat after two years negotiation, and some offers of ac c°l2taledation, he filed his bill first to open the account, te regarded his own particular estate, notwithstanding e ls signing the memorandum, and to set aside the ar '4,ngeneent itself. He next filed a bill for the general ae ministration of his father's estate, praying that an account might be taken thereof, and of the balances in the hands of Edward Allfrey, from halt-year to half- Yeer, and that the amounts of stock and interest thereon (from time to time), which could be purchased with .sikeicilf!.res;rplus ht with be allsucowhed ; and that if Edward traffic m k l e g d balances, the amount f hispi ofits might be taken, and the ikr, benefitie allowed the plaintiff. It appeared that • Edward Allfrey, among other things, had s old out the stock, and used it in his business, being e "ged in large transactions, as one of the distinguished f trul of Makes, Robson, and Allfrey, underwriters, and that he accounted for the dividends from time to time "ugh there were none. The items were gone into ve ry minutely, and several errors were pointed out , the s ums in the aggregate not being of very great amount, b ut some of the entries of alleged sums being , as in the case of the stock, certainly fictitious as to the real Uature of the transaction, though in the remit, perhaps, net involving any great loss to the estate of the intestate. 1 ., At the c onc l us i on o f the arguments, the Master of the 41(311 s took time to consider his judgment, and ultimately gave that decision which was now appealed from, statieg t hat there wire circumstances in the clause which rendered it probable that the plaintiff had a very inaccu rate notion no' f the benefit he was likely to derive from e suit, and at the same time observing that probably it wobld be advisable for him to put an end to ntigation. The Master of the Rolla however, thought that he was entitled to a declaration that he was not bound by the settlement, and to have the usual accounts Vile estate of George Allfrey, possessed by Edward Allfrey, and its application, and to an inquiry as to the balances in hand tit the end of each year, after the death of George Allfrey, with a view to the consideration hereafter of what may be proper to be done as to the interest or profits arising from the employment of the halaeces with lib , rty to state special circumstances. F rom this decree the present appeal was brought. The case appears likely to occupy a day or two in ar gument. MURRAY AND OTHERS V. HALL. Mr. Justice COLTMAN delivered judgment in this case. This was an action for breaking and entering the plain tiff's house and expelling him therefrom ; to which the defendant pleaded, first, "not guilty ;" secondly, leave and license ; and thirdly, a denial that the house was the plaintiff's. At tle trial before Mr. Justice Maule, one ground of defence was that the defendant was tenant in common of the house with the plaintiff, and that therefore an action was tot maintainable. Mr. Justice Maule told the jury that if there had been an actual expulsion their verdict ought to be for the plain tiff. The defendant afterwards obtained a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered on the ground that one tenant in common could not maintain an action for trespass, +tgainst another tenant in common, although actual ex pulsion was alleged in the declaration. On showing cause, it was argued before the Lord Chief Justice, Justices Coltman, Cresswell, and Williams, that this de fence, even if sustainable, ought to have been specially pleaded. The Court was of opinion that the direction of Mr. Justice Maule at the trial was right, and conse• quently the rule must be discharged. MARLBRO'-STIIEET.- THIS DAY. George Fox, William Dean, and John Hunt, three soldiers belonging to the 3d battalion of the Scotch Fusilier Guards, were placed before Mr. Hardwick, charged with being drunk, and creating a disturbance in Oxford-street. J. Waltman, 11, Westbourne- terrace, said, last night, about eight o'clock, he was proceeding along Oxford street, when his attention was called to a mob, surround ing the three defendants at the corner of Charles-street. lie went up to see what was the matter, when he saw the soldiers take up their belts, and immediately begin striking out left and right; hitting every person who chanc.d to come within their reach. Witness remon strated with them, when he was told that he should be served the same. Several persons in the crowd endea voured to get the belts away from them, but could not succeed. Witness then ran for the police, and assisted the constables in conveying them to the station. The prisoners were very drunk, and were more like madmen than men in their senses. Samuel Abrahams, an engraver, residing at 22, Vere street, stated that he was in Oxford-street last night, and saw a large crowd of people at the corner of Charles street, and the prisoners fighting amongst them. Witness aw a fighting man go up to Hunt and knock him down. The crowd then closed round the others, and knocked them down also. The soldiers then pulled off their belts, and struck out in self defence. The mob irritated them by calling them foul names. Police-constable A 331, said he was called by the first witness to quell the disturbance, and to take the prisoners into custody. On reaching the spot he saw the prisoners, who were in liquor, striking at several persons with their belts. After some difficulty witness succeeded in taking them into custody. They appeared to be using their belts in self defence. The prisoners in defence said they were the aggrieved party. They were first assaulted, and used their belts in self defence. They were knocked down by the mob, end were severely injured by being kicked and trample,: upon. Mr. HARDWICK handed them over to the sergeant, to be taken to their barracks, where they will be punished for being drunk. Ann Brien, a nurse employed by the officers of the Strand Union, at the Ogle-street Asylum, was charged with being drank and disorderly. George Lock, gate-porter at the asylum, stated that the guardians of the Strand Union rented the above premises, which were occupied by the children removed from Touting. The defendant was one of the nurses, and yesterday shei.was allowed to go out for a holiday. with a strict injunction to be back by ten o'clock, or she would not be let in. About eleven o'clock she made her appearance in a state of intoxication, and demanded ad mittance. Witness told her he could not let her in at that time of night, and desired her to go away. She refused, and created such a disturbance in the street that he was obliged to send for a constable and give her in charge. _ . . The prisoner expressed her sorrow, and as the had been locked up all night, Mr. HARDWICK thought that sufficient punishment, and discharged her. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen held a Privy Council at one o'clock yes terday a.ternoon at Buckingham Palace. It was attended by his Royal Highness Prince Albert, the Marquis of Lansdowne (Lord President), the Earl of Minto (Lord Privy Seal), Lord John Russell (First Lord of the Trea sury), Sir George Grey (Secretary of State for the Home Department), Viscount Palmerston (Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs), Earl Grey (Secretary of State for the Colonies), the Earl of Carlisle (Chief Com missioner of the Woods and Forests), the Earl Fortescue (Lord Steward), the Marquis of Breadalbane (Lord Chamberlain), and the Duke of Norfolk (Master of the Horse). Thomas Wyse, Esq., was, by command of the Queen, sworn of her Majesty's Honourable Privy Council, and took his place at the Board, Her Majesty pricked the list of Sheriffs for the pre sent year. The Hon. William Bathurst was the Clerk of the Council in Waiting. Tho Queen gave audiences to the Marquis of Lans downe and Lord John Russell. VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.) (Before the VICE•CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.) • GRAY V. The further arguments in this part-hoard case were resumed to day, and occupied the Court the whole morning. The only queAion in the case which turned on the will of a person named Thomas Gray, was, whether 1 - 42 unapplied income, in the hands of trustees, Who were possessed of it for the benefit of the testator's ton John and his children, belonged to the next of kin of John, w h o di e d w i t h out i ssue , or w h e ther it had been given over by the will. (Before the Vice. Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) 111.3 HONOUR having disposed of the bankrupt peti tions in his paper, heard causes, and the arguments in t he case of Powell v. Dodson occupied the Court the whole day. The case involves no point of interest ex eePt to the parties concerned. , (Before the Vice-Chancellor WiGnAm.) nis Honour having disposed of the case of Fuller v. ' e nnett, which stood in the paper for judgment, pro ceeded to hear the further arguments in the part-heard e ase of M'Calmont v. Rankier, which occupied the Court the remainder of the day. ,QUEEN'S BEN Cl-I.—(f HIS DAY.) (Sitting s at Westminster, before the LORD CHIEF Jus- TICE and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. THE MARQUIS OF CHANDOS. is This cag e was ca ll e d on at the sAting of the Court. It Eld est prosecution against the Marquis of Chandos, th e two son of th e D u ke of Buckingh,an, at the instance of " Parties named Hitchcock and Waters, as we under stood, for the commission of wil,ul and corrupt perjury th n e a rnitted in reference to some property. But ten of wh sPeciul jury appeared, and Sir Frederick Thesiger , toles," aPpeared for the defendant, having prayed a e s , " a jury of twelve was sworn. p k Mr. May was called by Mr. Petersdorff, who ap "ted for th e prosecution, but nut appearing, L ord DENMAN, after more delay , enquired if any pers on was appointed for the prosecution, and, if so, if it tintended to proceed with it? i s 1 r P. TuEsmElt—Yes, my Lord , my Le ar ned Friend counsel for the prosecution, and I appear hero with t -Learned Friend for the defence, and lam quite ready i ll iruceed. I wish to know whether my Lea rned Friend m e llds to proceed with the prosecution. b en 7r. PETERSDORFF intiniated that arrangements had to 'n luade tor the production Of certain documents in The attorney had gone for them, and was not b rele nt. This being the case, he did not think he should e!.istified in addressing the jury in opening the case. the Sir THESIGER—If your Lordship does not open . r !ase, I claim an acquittal. 4%1 DENMAN said the Court knew nothing of any kjeutostances which might account for any person being offered The Court only knew that no evidence wen, g for the prosecution, and therefore the jury must 4 ,4 that the defendant was nut guilty. There had been opportunity of bringing the case forward. Chief Justice therefore, under the dir.'ction of the Lord le f , returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The Court was attended by the Marquis of London derry (Gold Stick in- Waiting), the Earl of Listowel (Lord iu 'Waiting), the Treasurer of the Household, the Vice-Chamberlain, and the Comptroller of the Household. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by Col. Seymour, visited ber Royal HiOmess the Duchess of Gloucester yesterday, at Gloucester House. Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess Royal, the Princess Alice, and the Princess Helena, took their usual exercise yesterday. (s i e tt . , (3 2l , M9N PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) - -fiS 112 nanco before Justices COLTMAN, MAITLE, CRESSWELL, and WILLIAMS.) MORRISON V. CHADWICK. r • Justice Cosamess delivered judgment in this case. f, a cid this was an action by a lessor against his tenant, th,, ll led on a promise to use the demised premises during vs: terns in a tenant-like manner. The breach alleged 41: ;* 4 that the tenant had used the premises in an unten iutt6like manner, and had suffered them to fall t!:, a ruinous state. The defendant had pleaded evic th — t ir °a l part of the demised premises, during part of Ar e but the Court was of opinion that that l:Positi on could not b e supporte d. E v i c ti on by the mi s tl e kr d of his tenant from part of the demised pre e, created a suspension of the entire rent during the p" et ion and u ntil the tenant was restored and resumtd h: tes sion; but there was no authority for holding that mattteanney was thereby !mit an end to. In a; 4611 to the suspension ot rent, the lessee might si s h ll ,tain au action against his lessor for the eviction, by lu s ' e " it was presumed he obtained satisfaction for any th 8 which he might suffer. The Court, therefore, Qu ßht that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment. EDMONDS AND OTHERS V. CHALLIS. eat `"-rt Justice CuLTMAN also delivered judgment in this tis - % ile said, this was an action brought against Al e ,' he ,!iff of Middlesex for not having taken a re uond, in conftsrmity with the statute. The ats —e Was tried before Mr. Justice Cresswell, a - a verdict was found for the plaintiff for th s l 3 at leave was reserved to the defendlut to show t the bond was sufficient for the purposes of the Act. wh a .PAf , ared by the Judge's report that the distress out of % e tch ., the action arose was taken within the district of k idd iVhitechapel County Court, in the county of obti le s''x; and the condition of the bs.nd was that the Loi rr " should appear at the next county court to be offi ke n a fer the county of Middlesex in the Sheriff's Ited Lion-square." The bond which had been ' l4ll this case was in the form often used before the The Marquis of Breadalbane and Lord George Len nox had the honour of dining with her Majesty yester day evening in Buckingham Palace. A deputation, consisting of the Right lion. Thomas Milner Gibson, M.P.; George William Alexander, Esq. Lombard street; Edward Davy, Esq., Crediton, Devon; William Henry Ashurst, Esq., Old Jewry; It. G. Wel ford, Esq., Chancery-lane; Robert R. R. Moore, Esq, Temple; and Thomas Chauntler, Esq., Gray's Inn, had an interview yesterday with the Right Hon. the Presi dent of the Board of Trade. Dispatches for the Governor of the Cape of Good Hope were sent off on Monday evening from the Co lonial-office. The School of Design had a meeting yesterday at the office of the Board of Trade. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday, and heard petitions in cases from Madras, Ben gal, and Dominica, and also one from the Court of Arches, " Craig v. Farnall." The Lords present were— the Master of the Rolls, Lord Brougham, the Bishop of London, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. An appeal from Bengal was afterwards opened by Mr. Turner (Queen's Counsel), " Huradhun v. Mookerjia." The Bishop of Lo ndon lef after the disposal of the petition from the Arches' Ccurt; and the Right Hon. Sir Edward Ryan sat with the members of the Judicial Committee during the hearing of the appeal from Bengal. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris is 9 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 175. 10d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an ex change of 25.37; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.321, it follows that gold is 0.18 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Elamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 101 d. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 13.11; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13.101, it follows that gold is 0.23 per cent. dearer in Ham burgh than in London. A decree of the Vice-Chancellor's Court, compelling a purchaser of shares in a public company to assume the liabilities thereupon, even although he may have ab stained from registering his name as the praprietor of such shares, has given much satisfaction in the Stock Exchange. REPEAL OF THE MALT-TAX.—At a meeting of a number of the malt and Lop growers and sgriculturists in East Su , sex, held at the George Inn, Battle, yester day (Tuesday), J. V. Shelley, Esq., in the chair, resolu tions condemnatory of the malt and hop duties were adopted. It was also resolved that a requisition be signed calling upon the High Sheriff to convene a county meeting to take the resolutions into consideration. DEATH OF SIR CECIL A. BISSUOPP, BART.—We hare to record the death of the above Rev. Baronet, who died at Malta on the 19th ult. He was only in his 28th 3 ear, having been born July 6, 1821. He suc ceeded his father, Sir George (the eighth Baronet), in March, 1834, and in January, 1843, he married Mary, daughter of Rear-Admiral Hillyar, K.C.8.. by whom, we believe, he leaves a youthful family, the eldest, a son, born i❑ October, 1843, succeeds to the baronetage. The late Baronet's remains were interred in the island with much ceremony. He had gone there for the benefit of his health. PRICE OF COALS.—We are requested to state that on Saturday last the merchants in Cambridge (gene rally) reduced the price of the best Wall4end sea•borne coals to 20s. per ton, at their warehouses, for six months' credit; 19s. 2d. per ton, at their warehouses, for cash one month after delivery. The coals are delivered to any part of the town for is 8d per ton, or Id per cwt., free of all charges for shooting, &e,—Canibridge Adver tiser. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. cause there were no police to carry out the regulations. 'The object of the Bill of last eessioe, therefore, was to give power to the parties interested to meet together and be their own conservators, and if possible, protect the spawn of the fish. That was the sole object of the Bill of last session. He admitted that it was an experiment, but it was one which had not yet been fairly tried. He remembered, that in the course of last session, the Hon. Member stated that the Bill, to which he now referred would not effect the object he had iu view, viz., the re moval of illegal obstructions. It appeared to him that that was the object of the Hon. Member's present motion, and he had stated such strong grounds for it, ,that he (Sir W. Somerville) felt it to be impossible to refuse his assent to it.—(Hear, hear.) He quite agreed with the Honourable Member that the salmon fisheries in Ireland were much neglected; he believed they were a mine of wealth, the extent of which had never yet:been explored. —(Hear, hear.) The Honourable Member - for . Water ford had, as he had said, alluded to an entirely dif ferent subject, and ho confessed be did not see what good would result from a Cjmrnittee upon it. Within the last year, or two, under the superin dence of Government and the Board of Works, several deep sea fish( ries bad Lean established in the west of Ireland, some of which had succeeded very well, and others had not succeeded quite so well as might have been expected. He trusted, however, that a great deal of good would result, and much useful information be imparted to the fishermen on the coast by their cff ins; and the Government would soon be able to give way to private enterprise in providing that encouragement to the employment of the fishermen which was so much required.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. FAGAN said, that from the great advantage which had accrued from the small encouragement which had been given by Government in the deep sea fisheries, it was easy to see what an enlarged encouragement would do for them. The Hon. Member for Waterford had es timated the imports of fish into Ireland from Scotland at 15,000/. The fact was, however, that they were upwards of 60,0001. The effect of the law of last year, which placed a tax on each fisherman, had been to reduce many of them to poverty, as they were unable to pay the sum, small as it was. He was delighted that Government had given their consent to the Committee. Sir J. YOUNG said, that if the Hon. -Member who moved for the Committee expected that it would be of advantage to the national interests, he feared it would only add one to the many proofs already existing that no Parliamentary interference or enactment could sup ply that prosperity to the Irish fisheries which could be derived from individual enterprise and energy alone. The Committee could not do the work which Irish ca pital could accomplish in promoting -the success of the fisheries.—(Hear.) If the Hon. Member, on the other hand, wished to put an end to the existence of the rights of several fisheries in Ireland, he feared the example of the Committee on Scotch Fisheries, in 1842, forbade any hope of success. The Committee saw that those rights were detrimental to the value of the fisheries, and placed the exercise of them under restrictions, but that was all they could effect—and if the present Committee eudea voured to do more he doubted if it would be successful. Those rights had been fully recognized by the Committee, but the owners who had exercised them more than half a century gave them up on terms to obtain a compro mise, and the Committee accepted their terms to prevent litigation, which in some cases, in Scotland, had cost the fee simple of the fishery. He heartily wished the Hon. Member all success in his object. The motion was agreed to. TRANSFER OF REAL PROPERTY. Mr. H. DRUMMOND moved for leave to bring in a Bill to facilitate the Transfer of Real Property. As Honourable Members had nearly all gone to dinner, there was no one left to whom he could address himself but the Speaker, and he would promise him not to stand long in the way of his enjoying himself in the same way. —(A laugh.) There was no reason why land should not be as free in the market as anything else, and no thing prevented that being the case but the existence of feudal tenures. Into the nature of those tenures he would not enter, nor would he occupy the House by showing how the worst portion of them had been preserved, while the burdens on the owners of land had long since been removed. The only difficulty he felt in intro ducing the Bill was, that he could not conceive what opposition would be made to it, and he could but an swer those which he had heard out of doors. He had been told, for instance, that it was presumptuous in a person not called to the bar to introduce a Bill on such a subject.. Now, being "called to the bar" meant that a person had eaten a certain number of dinners, and had paid a certain amount of fees to a conveyancer —(A laugh)—but he could not see any necessary connexion between those things and the ability to draw up a Bill.— (A laugh.) The question was not one for lawyers— they had quite enoughito do. Sidney Smith said long ago that " the Court of Chancery was like a boa con strictor, which swallowed up the estates of English gen tlemen in haste, and digested them at leisure."—(A laugh.) Surely those gentlemen should be satisfied to perform the offices of mastication and digestion in their own courts, and, if they were so, he did not see that any one else need trouble himself on the subject. It was solely a question for the owners of land. But it was said that only lawyers could draw up a Bill. That remained to be proved. A great many Bills drawn up by great law) ers would not work. For instance, there was the Bill of last session, drawn up by the Lord Chancellor, amended by the Solicitor-Geueral with the assistance of very eminent members of the'legal profes sion (the Encumbered Estates Bill), which turned out a perfect effput mortuum. In fact, the Bills drawn up by lawyers gave as much trouble to lawyers as those drawn up by other persons.—(Hear, hear.) But he was told he should wait till the Crown Commission which had been appointed had made its report on the subject. Rusticus expectett—(A.Jaugh)--14sellte' lfl s --be a very simple rustic indeed who expected' any useful recom mendations from a Crown Commission.-:-(Hear, hear.) He repudiated the idea that the lawyers would oppose this Bill. The study of a liberal profession like the law elevated men above the influence of sordid or interested motives, and he should as soon suppose that the College of Physicians would oppose a specific for some malig nant disease, or that military men would be adverse to peace—(A augh)—as to suppose that lawyers would object to such a Bill as this.—(Hear, hear.) The mere traders in law might do so, just as a certain body of physicians, who dined together once on a time, gave " A slow fever," with three times three.—(Laughter.) It was therefore possible that there were some barristers who, at their symposia, gave 1 " Trusts for terms of years," and " Contingent remainders," with all the hes nours.—(Laughter.) He would not detain the House further, for, though quite ready to give them a long speech when they wished it, he would rather abstain just at that moment. With respect to carrying out the object of the Bill, he proposed to establi h a registry of deeds in lands—(Hear, hear)—and that this registra tion should be e accompanied with maps of the same.— (Hear, hear.) There could be no objection now, as in former times, on the score of expense to these maps, because they could be had for every parish in England since the Tithe Commission sat. He also proposed that there should be a perfect registration of all encum brances of every sort on the property.--(Hear, hear.) He did not intend that these registrations should be compulsory; on the contrary, they were to be purely voluntary ; and, when the Bill was printed, he rather feared the objection would be that it did not go far enough; but he thought it right to restrict interference with property to the least possible lengths. Mr. P. WOOD seconded the motion. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he had no ob jection to the introduction of the Bill, though ho could not express any opinion upon it, from the gene ral way in which the Hon. Member had stated its ob ject, till it was printed. No one could deny the great importance and desirableness of the object sought to be effected, and he thought the Hon. Member had taken a step in the right direction in selecting registration as the mode of carrying it -- and accompanying that registration with maps, without which it could not be effectual. He should be happy to give the Hon. Mem ber every possible assistance in carrying out the plan he suggested.—(Hear.) Leave was given to bring in the Bill. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Sir J. PAKINGTON moved for leave to bring in a Bill for the better Prevention of Bribery and Corrup tion at the Election of Members to serve in Parliament. He had intended to explain the provisions of the Bill at length, but from what he had heard since he entered the House he was led to suppose there would be no op position to its introduction, as he believed the House felt very generally the evils a- the gross and notorious •bribery at the last election; Ile would state its details on the second reading. - • Mr. BROTHERTON seconded the motion. _ HOUSE OF COMMONS, Fcb. 13. THE FISHERIES OF IRELAND. Mr. C. ANSTEY rose to move for a Select Commit tee to inquire into the present state of the inland fish eries and navigation of Ireland, wed the obstructions which hinder the enjoyment of the same; and the best means of removing such obstructions, and to report their opinion thereupon to this House. The Honourable and Learned Member said that it would perhaps be in the recollection of the House that towards the end of last session he gave notice that he should in troduce a Bill to improve the management of the important fisheries of Ireland, with a view to render the laws relating to them more simple than heretofore, and consequently to render them more productive than during the past. The Bill introduced by the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir W. Somerville) in the course of last session would have effected some improvements with respect to what was known as the "close" fishing ses sion; but it was defective in other respects, particularly with respect to the right of way, and to the fishing below and above the " tidal" water, which it was the purpose of the Bill he (Mr. A) intended to introduce to remedy. In England the salmon fisheries, comparatively unim portant, were for the most part " several" fisheries — that was held by individuals. In Scotland—he spoke in the presence of those best competent to give an opinion—he believed it was universally true that the salmon fisheries were private property, or what was called in our law " several" fisheries; but of Ireland, with the exception of those fisheries, and they were very few, which were vested in individuals by Act of Parliament, no such thing as a " several" fisher existed. Every fishery, supposed to be a " several" fishery, which bad been hitherto made the subject of legislation in the courts of Ireland, had been found to be a fishery of public right,and no several fishery at all; and therefore it was in a peculiar manner the duty of the Government, who were the guardians of the nation, and particularly of the poor, to supervise those exten sive and valuable kinds of public property, and to pre vent all invasion of them. It was in this respect—op posed as he was to Government interference with the b I e , re l t a b n a d t t t h i e s ! ahnedw hasas a n a x l w i o a u y s s t o been state, histmha io e n d oil u pgi t en y me o nn f t G to o o v f ernment, and not of individuals at all, to watch over and preserve the inland salmon fisheries, and the inland navigation in all the navigable rivers of Ire !encl. lie so limited himself, because his motion was intended to apply to navigable rivers alone, it being in navigable rivers alone that no right of a " severer I fishery in the present state of Ireland existed. When a river discharging itself into the sea was navi gable from the sea, so far as that river was navigable, even tor boats of the smallest burdens, it was as much publici juris as seas beyond the coast. So far as a river was navigable from the mouth, so far did the public right extend. From the reign of James 1., no claim of a prescriptive character to a " several" fishery had yet been sustained. W hen he stated this fact he appealed to the recollection of Hon. Gentlemen that had real the history of Ireland; and it would be seen how impossible it was that any title by prescription to a " several" fishery in Ireland could have been acquired by any indi vidual now claiming it. His proposition which he made in the spirit, not of one party or of another—(Hear)—not even in the spirit of extreme right, being always satisfied these were matters of legis lation in which more particularly the summum jus than the summum injuria should obtain. His proposition was that the interests of claimants and of the public, as well as the legal rights of the poor, who had been so long prejudiced in ;his mater, should be conserved; and it was not his intentkaa to institute any one means se which would not provide to the fullest extent for the quasi aights of those particular claimants. But on the other hand it was undoubtedly and lamentably true that, not con ,ent with their assertion of those derogatory rights, and the mischief inevitably occasioned by such assertion to the general rights of the public and the poor, the monopolists for such he must be permitted to term the owners of those illegal obstructions—and ever since that introduction was first connived at by the Go vernment, and not acquiesced in by the help less and defenceless poor, proceeded further and further in their preservation until the result had been that in a country watered with rivers of the largest extent ; rivers which were stocked with the finest fish sufficient for the provisions of the population and the ma rkets of Great Britain,not one fish had been taken in many of those rivers. The Honourable Gentleman then proceeded to enu merate the rivers that were monopolised by pa tents, which he contended were rendered ille gal, by their not being dated later than the time of Queen Elizabeth, and then asked the House to bear with him for a few moments, while he pointed out the extent of loss which the people of Ireland suffered Cram the existence of these monopolising obstructions of These their rivers. Estimating the value of the lost fish according to its market price, Ireland lost 600,000/. worth of fish annually, independently of the consequential damage which resulted to them from the defective state of the_law, allowing poaching to be carried on with impunity. It had been as certained that one thousand femalo fish were annually destroyed in the river Blackwater ; each fish producing 1,500 spawn, of which SOO came to maturity; and, carrying out that calculation, it would be found that Ireland was an annual loser in that way of 160,0001., resulting entirely from the state of the existing law inducing the re sident gentry and landholders on the rivers to feel that it was not worth while taking steps to pre vent poaching during Vic close season. This was k he case he had to present to the House as a toundation 'or his Committee. If tha Committee were granted, the measures which he should feel it his duty to propose, would be of an administrative character only. He was perfectly -atisfied to take the law as it stood, beginning with the Act of 1842, which did not go the extreme length of giving a common law right to remove the obstructions, and with the strict observance of its provisions he felt convinced that a remedy might easily bo provided for the evils which afflicted the valuable and extensive fisheries of the sister kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) Notwithstanding that the statute law provides a re medy for the mischief, yet the benefit of the Act could not be obtained except through a regular course, and the gentlemen of Waterford, Cork, and the other counties had not called upon him to ask Legislative as sistance, without having tried every means, both legal and equitable, to arrest the continual loss. But all their efforts had been fruitless, for it was found, both in the trials in the courts of petty sessions and of quarter sessions, that the results had been invariably adverse, for four out of the five magistrates were themselves found to be owners of weirs, while upon application to the superior courts the decisions of the lower courts were always confirmatory of the determination of the ma gistrates, and this was not in accordance with the spirit of the law, for they were contrary to that of one of the most eminent barristers of Ireland, Mr. Berryman. The Hon. Gentleman then proceeded to show the difficulty which was constantly experienced in enforcing the ex isting laws on the subject of these fisheries, after which he said the remedy he would propose was, that imme diately upon a conviction being obtained before any ex isting tribunal or before a tribunal appointed under a new Act, the subsequent proceedings should be a mere matter of police; that in the case of an illegal weir, for instance, it should be immediately thrown down, and if another was erected in its place it should be thrown down likewise, without further prosecution. This would be of considerable advantage, and although it was by no means all to which the poor of Ireland and the inland proprietors were entitled, it would go a great way to wards satisfying their just expectations and removing their well-grounded complaints. If the Committee were granted, he would not ask for powers to send for witnesses ; but if any persons chose to volunteer their evidence, he should be happy to propose that they should be examined. His object would be completely answered by the C ommittee having an opportunity of examining the evidence which had already been taken by the Board of Works, and by the production of the correspondence which had taken place last year, and in former years, between those locally interested in the fisheries and the Government, respect ing the difficulty of prosecutions under the Fisheries Act and at common law at present. The Hon. Gentleman concluded by moving for the appointment of a Committee. Sir 11. W. BARRON seconded the motion, and begged to suggest to the Hon. Member the propriety of adding to it an inquiry into the deep sea fisheries. They had a treasure there which was altogether inexhaustible, and which might be made the source of a comfortable liveli hood to thousands of poor starving people on the coast of Ireland, if means were only taken to instruct them in the improved modes of fishing which were practised in Scot land. He attributed the improvements which had taken place there to the labours of the Fishery Board, which had been established in 1800, and suggested that a similar board should be appointed for Ireland. He understood that at present Scotland exported no less than 15,000/. worth of fish to Ireland every year, and yet so superabundant were the fish around the Irish coast, that with proper arrangements a supply could be furnished to the whole of the people of that country, and of other countries besides. This was one of the practical measures which Irish Members had frequently pressed upon Government, but with no satis factory result. There had been no tangible opposition made to their suggestions, but nothing had been done. There had been plenty of promises, but no performances. He implored the House, as a mere matter of economy, if not of justice, to take steps to place the Irish fisheries on the same footing as the Scotch. He did not think that an inquiry into this subject would interfere with the inquiry proposed by the Hon. Member. The O'GORMAN MAEION had intended to second the motion, but was glad to have been anticipated by the Hon. Member for Waterford. He would only now re mark, in confirmation of what had been said by the Hon. Baronet, that if the deep sea fisheries in Ireland had be en encouraged by Government as they ought to have been, there would not now be the mass of misery which they had the pain of contemplating in that country, nor would it have been necessary to ask for relief from the public Treasury.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the addition proposed by the Hon. Baronet, he begged to suggest that he should first allow the Committee to be named, and then add his amendment by way of instruc tion to the Committee. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said it was not his intention to object . to the appointment of the Committee which had been moved for by the Hon. Gentleman. It seemed to him, however, that the suegestion of the Hon. Baro net the Member for Waterford referred to an entirely different subject, and that the two inquiries could not well be conjoined.—(Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman (Mr. nstey) had correctly described the state of the law in Ireland on this subject. He had also correctly stated tha object which he (Sir W. Somerville) had had in view in the Bill of last session. Several Acts of Parliament had previously been passed regulating the Irish fisheries, and there had been .general complaints from all parts of the country that these laws were inoperative be. LO;cIJoIIIIIITSSELL — said, he thought the Hon. Baronet had pursued the most convenient course in re serving his statement for the second reading, when he (Lord John Russell) would give his utmost attention to the Bill. Colonel SIBTHORP declared he would discharge his duties to his constituents ih spite of any Bill against bribery and corruption.—(A laugh.) Leave was given to bring in the Bill. PUBLIC ROADS. Mr. C. LEWIS moved for leave to bring in a Bill to consolidate and amend the Laws relating to Public Roads in England and Wales. Such a measure had been ren dered necessary by the change consequent on the intro duction of railways, which had reduced many of the former trunks of communication to the condition of merely secondary lines, while many branch lines, on the other hand, not included in the turnpike Acts by which so many roads in the course of last century and the beginning of this were transferred from the management of the parishes to the manage ment of trustees, had become principal lines of com mun i ca ti on in connexion with the rail ways. The railways had subvel ted the ex i s ti ng system; many trusts had become insolvent; in some in stances the mortgagees and bondholders were collecting the tolls on th e i r own account; and the neces s ity h a d arisen of com i ng on the parishes for wh a t m i g ht b e called a rate in aid of the highway -rates. In 1841 a temporary A c t was p a ssed, which had been con ti nue d by annual renewal since. Private Acts which would other wise have re qu i re d t o bo renewed came under th e opera tion of that measure. But a large part of the law was in a provisional state; and it had been thought expe dient to deal with the whole subject of roads, including highways and turnpike roads. A highway Bill wa s in troduced last year; one principal objection to which was, that it created an t xpensive machinery for the mainte nance of highways, and took no notice of turnpike roads, though these were peculiarly exposed to abuse. The number of places repairing their own highways was 18,000; the number of miles of highway was 100,000; and the annual expense of their maintenance was 1,408,7501. There were 1,150 turnpike trusts in En gland and Wales, of which the annual charge was 1,378,3521. The total annual expense for highways and turnpike roads together was, therefore, 2,787,000/. Th e bonded debt on turnpike trusts was 6,825,7001.; the making a total of 8,267,000/. unpaid interest 1,441,983 1 .; such was the unsatisfactory state of things with which WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY. 14, 1849: Parliament had to deal. The only, question the House would now have to conslthr was whether the measure he proposed was one to which they could assent. ' At,pre sent there were two units of taxation ; the parish main tained its roads by means of a rate, the turnpike.trust by means of a toll. When the tolls were deficient the charge was defrayed from a highway-rate. He proposed to abolish both these districts of taxation, and to take for the area of taxation the county.—( Hear, hear.) He would vest the management in a committee of the quarter sessions, to be selected by the magistrates, and to be called the County Roads Court; For the more imme diate local management, he proposed that the poor-law unions should be taken as the districts. The county board would have power to divide the county roads into two classes, main roads and branch roads. The chairman and vice-chairman of the district boards would be members of the county board. It was proposed that on the 25th'of March, 1850, all turnpike and highway jurisdiction should cease, and all powers with reference to those roads should be vested in the county boards and district boards. From that day all general and local Acts would be repealed. Another point of great importance was the payment of the debt owing by turnpike trusts, which exceeded 8,000,0001. sterling in amount. lie propeg4l that the county roads board should take measures:to form a county road fund, which should be derived, first, from tolls levied on the main roads, and secondly, from a county rate ; a county rate being substituted fur high way rate. Arbitrators would be appointed to estimate the existing market value of all securities, and the county board should issue debentures for the amount charged and secured on the county roads fund. The only quer:. tion would be as to the inequalities which might arise from the charge being made coincident with the entire county, though some of the turnpike trusts might he con nected with adjoining counties. But, unless sime ar rangement of the kind proposed were adopted, it would be impossible to devise a general plan by which the debt would be secured and full security given to the bondholders. It was proposed that the debt should be paid off in a period of not less than seven or more than twenty-seven years. By the present Acts no provision was made for the ultimate extinction of the debts. To pay 1004 in twenty-one years. allowing 4 per cent. in terest, required an annual payment of 71. 2s. 6d. '1 pay 100/. in seven years, allowing 4 per cent. inter/1474d quired an annual payment of 161. 13s. 4d. The dif ference, therefore, between extinction in seven and in twenty-one years was, therefore, very considerable. Unless a measure could be framed on the principle he proposed it would be impossible to legislate on the subject by any general measure. It would be necessary to resort to local legislation ; and all matters con , nested with the great communications of the country, except, indeed, the railwa3s, would remain in stiVun satisfactory state.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. HENLEY was confident the House would agree with him in thanking the Hon. Gentleman for the very clear and lucid statement he had made. No onii besuld say that the measure now proposed was not comprehen- sive.—(Hear, hear.) It would be presumptuous for him to offer an opinion on the measure now; but when the Hon. Gentleman proposed to throw the management of 100,000 miles of highway and so many turnpike trusts on 700 Poor-law unions, it might be questioned how far the duties of those bodies could be satisfactorily dis charged. It was proposed that a sinking fund should be formed to pay off the debt; but the annual payment which would be required for twenty-one years to pay 8,000,0004 of debt, would be, in round numbers, 400,000/., equal to about half the present county rates for England, over and above what they would have to pay for the maintenance of the roads. That seemed a very heavy tax to impose just when they were be ginning to taste the pleasure of wheat at five shillings the bushel, and after they had cut down hills and overcome engineering difficulties at a great expense, not for their own benefit, but for the benefit of those who wanted to travel at ten miles an hour.—(Hear.) A few years ago a measure, cognate with this, was in troduced into Parliament. It dealt with bondholders by the same system of instalment as was proposed by the Bill now moved for; but the bondholders were almost unanimous in objecting to be paid off by driblets. One circumstance ought not to be lost sight of in the consi deration of this matter; namely, that the condition of turnpike-roads was an improving one. Although the tolls were, in the aggregate, greatly diminished, the ex penses had decreased in a more than equal ratio, which showed that the extra expense had been caused by what was technically called the through transit, in contradis tinction to the local transit. The Bill should obtain his maturest consideration, and he would support it if its provisions were just to all parties. Sir J. PAKINGTON had gathered from the clear statement of the Hon. Member that the principle of his measure was to be the consolidation of turnpike trusts, and the payment of their debts by means of a sink ing fund. That entirely met his idea as to the manner in which the difficulties connected with the ques tion of turnpike trusts might be removed. In 1843, when Sir James Graham was Secretary for the Home Department, a Bill was introduced relative to the turn pike trusts, and was referred to a Committee, of which he (Sir J. Packington) was chairman. That Committee concurred with him in strongly recommending the adop tion of the principles now proposed by the Honourable Under-Secretary for the Home Department. The Hon. Member for Oxford had omitted to take into considera tion that the tolls derived from the turnpike roads would go in aid of the sinking fund to pay off the debt; but, at the same time, it could not be denied that the adoption of the measure would impose a great charge on the county rates; and, on that account, it could not fail to be viewed with jealousy. Mr. BROTHERTON expressed his approbation of the plan generally. Mr. SLANEY was of_ opinion that, under the plan which had boon stated by the -Honourable Under-Secre tary, the landed interest would eventually gain, because it would lead to the construction of good roads, skilfully and economically made. Mr. SPOONER maintained that the lion. Member for Oxford had not been guilty of any omission in not referring to the toll derived from the gates as a means by which any portion of the debt could be liquidated, because those tolls were avowedly insufficient to pay even the interest of the debt. He feared that the boards of guardians would be found altogether incom petent to discharge the duties which the Bill would im pose upon them. The present was not a time when the agricultural interest could bear the imposition of a fresh burden of 8,000,0001. Captain PECLIELL supposed that the situation which the Under• Secretary had formerly held under the Poor-law Commissioners had suggested to him the idea of making the boards of guardians the administrators of the proposed new law; but for his part he disap proved of that part of the scheme, and thought that the guardians had quite work enough upon their hands already. Sir. G. STRICKLAND observed, that one objection to the proposed scheme was, that it would cause those districts in which the turnpike trusts had been well ma naged to pay for the mismanagement of others. For centuries the highways had been under the management of parishes, the roads were now in an improved state, and he doubted the policy of placing them under a new .administration. Leave was then given to bring in the Bill. THE DUCHIES OF CORNWALL AND LAN- CAST.EIL _ Mr. TRELAWNY, on rising to move that it be an instruction to the Committee on Woods and Forests, &c., to extend their inquiry to the duchies of Cornwall and Lancaster, addressed some observations to the House in a low tone. He was understood to contend that it was necessary to adopt measures to check mismanagement and improve the revenue. In 1846 the income of the duchy of Cornwall was 50,3951., out of which only 12,0321. was paid to the Crown, so that the coat must have been 38,363/. Lord J. RUSSELL said, the ITon. Gentleman had stated that ho made this motion with the view of show ing that the revenues of the Duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall should bo applied to the exigencies of the pub lic service and the votes of the Houk. It was upon that ground that he (Lord J. Russell) should oppose it. — (Hear, hear.) The house, when the civil list was settled, had the whole of the revenues of the Crown be fore them, and they had it then in their power, if they thought fit, to declare that the Crown might receive its own revenues, but that they would make no settlement on the Crown except those revenues. It might have declared that it made that settlement contingent on the surrender of the revenues of the duchies of Lancaster and Cornwall. It was competent for Parliament—though he did not say it would have been expedient—to have taken that course. But, after having made the present arrangement, and provided by Act of Parliament that the Crown should keep those revenues, he said it would be totally unjust to come now and say they would alter the terms of the contract, because the economy of the public service required it, and take these revenues which they had solemnly declared should be the revenues of the Crown.—(llear, hear.) Every ono knew that there were sources of revenue which belonged to former Sovereigns—there were casual revenues which belonged to George IV.—the revenue of Hanover, which belonged to William IV.—which belonged not to the present Sovereign of these realms. There bad been mismanagement of the revenues of the duchies of Lan caster and Cornwall; and, with a view of putting some check upon it, it was enacted that accounts should be periodically submitted to Parliament of the general re ceipts and expenditure of those duchies. That bad been done, and a very great improvement had been made in the management of those revenues. The councils of the duchies also had ,the power of making such improve ments as a great proprietor would make in the manage ment of his eatate; and the income, as compared with the expenditure, was every year becoming more im proved. That being the case, even supposing there had been no regular contract with the Crown, as the Com mittee could only recommend the correction of abuses which were already in the course of correction, ho did not see that any benefit would result from referring the subject to a Committee. Mr. M. GIBSON said there was something in the na ture of public inconvenience in these independent juris dictions and principalities in the country, leading as they did 'to litigation and vexation of various kinds. He doubted whether they were of any advantage to the Crown, or to any class of her Majesty's subjects. The motion was then withdrawn. QUALIFICATION OF ELECTORS (IRELAND). Sir W. SOMERVILLE, in rising to more for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the Laws which regulate the Qualification and Registration of Parliamentary Voterso in Ireland, said it would be in the recollection of the measure the Huse that last session he submitted to the Hoa on the same subject, and he then stpitlelddsiffteheerepdriniucipuloe and object of it; and as the present tion, it would bo unnecessary on that subject. The very material respect as regardefdorthheimcotuont)o,eqeouraylifitciale- House for any length of time e s _ m doing awa with substituting am ou nt of principle of this measpre occupation, i a t n h d e rating instead. any qualification requeirpmrgo .year,, Si , that amount posed that the of paying the poor-rates due implying the Qv rating should be aslast ~ • .within six months ; but .that, iniiteacl of their being merely paid preyiously to voting, as in the Bill of last year, they should be paid previously to registration. In the Bill of last year lie proposed to leave the borough fran chise as it was now, with this exception, that it did away with the payment of all rates except poor -rates, which were to be paid, as in the case of the county franchise, previous to voting. He proposed in this Bill to adopt the same principle with respect to the borough franchise as to the county franchise. He proposed also that there should be an annual revision and an annual system of registration, and he should b e prepared to show at the proper time that this measure would not give an undue number of electors as compared with England. Mr. STAFFORD said, that by acquiescing in the mo tion for leave to bring in this Bill, it must not be sup posed that he and other Hon. Members were pledged to support it tither in principle or detail. He must also say, it was not unworthy of observation that the same Government which was now urging a suwension of the Habeas Corpus Act for Ireland was propounding a scale of political franchise for the same people lower than was enacted in England. • Mr. E. B. ROCHE thought that, instead of confining the franchise to a rating of Si., it should be extended to every man who was rated at all. Lord BERNARD objected to the proposed alteration of the borough franchise in Ireland. Considering the many social questions connected with that country which required attention and adjustment, and the state of the poor-law in particular, he could not help condemning not only the general policy of the Government, but also the intrt duction of this particular measure. Mr. GROGAN agreed with the Noble Lord that a hen the destitution of the people was considered, to bring forward a measure like the present was to give them a stone when they asked for bread. The Bill pro posed to establish a uniform representation upon a cer tain amount of rating, when no uniform system of valu ation existed. He could not help thinking that there were many persons in Ireland who would thank the Right Hon. Gentleman very little for putting them on the re gistry, which would only place them in a false position with regard to their landlords on the one hand and popular opinion on the other. Mr. J. O'CONNELL said, that Hon. Members oppo site need not be afraid of the great extension of votes under this Bill, the effect of which would be in towns to diminish rather than to increase the number of votes. The privilege of voting would not, he believed, induce persons to incur the necessary amount of rate, which they now tried every shift to avoid. At the same time he . did not wish to be understood as undervaluing the step taken by the Government in bringing forward this promised Bill. One excellent principle of the measure would be ; to disconnect the franchise from the tenure of the land. [Leave was given to bring in the Bill. ELECTIONS (IRELAND). On the motion of Sir W. SOMERVILLE leave was also given to bring in a Bill to shorten the duration of elections in Ireland, and to establish additional places for taking the poll thereat. BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS. Sir J. PAKINGTON brought in a Bill for the bet- ter preventi ,n of bribery and corruption at elections. The Bill was read a first time. lIIGH WAYS. On the motion of Mr. C. LEWIS a Bill to consoli date and amend the laws relating to public roads in England and North Wales was brought in and read a first time. The House then adjourned about Nine o'clock. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS. (From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Cotnrnons.) MONDAY, FEB. 12. NOTICES GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE. The following Railway Bills are ordered to be read a second time on Friday, Feb. 16:— Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway, and Edinburgh and Glasgow Union Canal (Amalgamation, or Sale or Lease of the Union Canal to the Railway Company). South-Eastern (Removal of Restriction against opening tho Tunbridge Wells and Hastings, and Ashford and Hast• ings Lines, Grant of compulsory Powers for Purchase of Lands, Steam-boats).• - • East Anglian (Ely and Huntingdon Railway, Extension of Time). TUESDAY, FEB. 13. The Llynvi Valley Railways Bill :was read a first, and ordered to be read a second time. IRISH DEBT. Mr. Macgregor gave notice that he should, on Friday, Feb. 16, move tor the following returns:— Of the numberand amount of loans contracted on account of Ireland from the period of the union until the Exchequer of Ireland was united with that of Great Britain in the year 1817 : Of the amount Of any) which has been paid off, out of the Irish revenue, of the Irish debt due at the union, and of th e Irish debt which accrued afterwards, down to the union of the Irish and British Exchequers: Of the amount (if any) ef the said debts which has been paid from the Consolidated Fund since the union until the year 1817 : Of the total amount of funded and unfunded Irish debt, including floating Exchequer-bills, which was funded in England from the date of the union until the union of the two Exchequers in 1817 : Of the amount of loans contracted on account of Ireland from the union of the two Exchequers in 1817 to the sth day of January, 1349 : Of the amount (if any) of such loans as has been repaid, distinguishing the amounts paid (if an)) out of the Consoli dated revenue, and Of any) out of the revenue levied in Ireland : Of the gross revenue levied in Ireland each year, from the sth day of January, 1818, to the sth day of January, 1849, distinguishing the expense of collection, and the other pay ments out of the Irish revenue in its way to the Exchequer : Of the total gross expenditure of Ireland for each year, from the sth day of January, 181/ 1 , to the sth day of January, 1849, distinguishing the amounts (if any) of repay ments of loans, of reducing the Irish debt ;funded in Eng land or transferred to Ireland, the civil, military, naval, and constabulary expenditures and interest paid on Irish debt funded in England or transferred to Ireland, and which have been each year paid out of the Consolidated revenue, and out of the revenues collected in Ireland : Of the amount (if any) which has been redeemed of the Irish debt from the date of the union to the sth day of January, IS i 9, distinguishing payments out of the Consoli dated Fund and out of the revenue levied in Ireland : Of the total amount which remains unredeemed of the Irish debt funded in England from the union to the sth day of January, 1849: Of the amount of Irish debt funded in England on the sth day of January, 1849, and amount of interest payable thereon out of the Consolidated Fund: And, of the amount of Irish debt funded in Ireland on the sth day of January, 1849, and the sources from which the interest due thereon is paid. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN. From the statement of accounts to be submitted to the shareholders at the half-yearly meeting to-morrow (Thursday), it appears that the amount received on the old and new shares is 5,725,045/.; on preference shares, 171,0421.; calls in advance, 81,0471.; profit on shares sold, 26,209/.; interest on calls in arrear, 3,3351.; de benture bonds, 1,763,150 L; total receipts on capital ac count to the 31st of December, 7,769,828/. Expended on main line and branches completed (215 miles in length), 5,609.539/.; on lines not completed (22 miles in length), 302,7941.; on lines suspended, 686,663/.; on locomotive engines and carriages, 528,9241.; surveying, law, and other expenses, 362,765/, including 190,014/. for interest on calls—making a total expenditure of 7,490,688/., and leaving a balance of 279,139/. in favour of the company. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31st of December last shows that 201,417/. was received for passengers; 8,9861. for carriages and mails, 8,954/. for parcels, 2,1551. for horses, 1,892/. for live stock, and 49,192/. for goods; total receipts for traffic, 272,5961. ; sundry rents, 1,6901. ; total amount of revenue, 274,289/. The expenses were—for maintenance of way, 27,1011. ; locomotive department, 33,013/. ; earriage department, 7,690/. ; coaching, 25,631/. ; stores, offices, and other expenses, 24,332/. ; total working expenses, 117,769/. ; rates and taxes, 10,833/. ; Government duty, 8,741/. ; making the total expenses 137,3431., and leaving a profit of 136,9441. Out of this sum 41,2431. is de ducted for preferential charges and interest against revenue, including 23,3021. for debenture bond interest 2,400/. fur steam-boats, and 11,973/. for 12 months' in terest on the 7 per cent. preference shares, leaving a balance of 95,7014, to which is added the balance from the last account (1,2351.), making the disposable balance for dividend 96,9351. MIDLAND. It appears from the statement of accounts which is to be submitted to the proprietors at the half-yearly meet ing to be held at Derby tomorrow, that the amount re ceived on capital account to the 30th of June, 1848, was, on shares, 9,804,274/. ; on debentures, 2,860,3931. ; and, on loan notes, 245,750/. ; total, 12,910,4171. ; since which there has been received to the 31st of December, on shares, 630,3281.; on debentures, 46,200/., less 12,3501. paid off; total, 654,178/. ; interest on shares held in other companies, 14,191/. ; sale of materials, 2,1491 ; making the total receipts on capital account, 13,580,9361. The amount expended to the 30th of June last was 13,250,635/., and during the half-year ending the 31st of December, 791,705/., including 152,8371. for Parlia mentary expenses, and 36,0501. ; payments on account of shares held by the company in other railways, making the total expenditure 14,042,349/, and leaving a balance against the company of 461,4041. The revenue account for the half-year ending the 31 s t of December shows that 308,4931. had been received for the conveyance of passengers; 10,1241. for Iliofrusres, cattle; car riages, and dogs; 22,4021. for parcels; 12,7421. for mails; goods, 186,906/.; Ashby total traffic receipts on the railway, 1 3 1 minerals. 65,801 1 ; 65,801 1 ; 3,602/.; rents, 3,0851.; interest; fa6r,6tBh2ol. ;latlria-ynesaferr, fees, 367 Z, making the total re e n locomotives ewl rel coaching, l) including 1,5811., the balance fromvenu for maintenance of way the last account, 628,460/. The expower, 81,75 2 / 4 coach and works, 26,9 02 /.;account, salaries, and waggon repairs, 10,925tm.•eat, salaries, &c., 32,0121.; &c., 29,650 L; goods denacr, 30,027/.; total woz king ex. other expenses, rents,ca& .and taxes, 16,386/.; duty for penses, 211,179/.; Tat ; debenture interest, 80,192/.; help. passengers, 12,478 year's dividend on the e Sheffield and Rotherham Six per Cent. Stock, 4,5001.; ditto on the Leicester and Swan nington Eight per Cent. Stock, 5,6001.; on the Leeds 22 ,5001.; on the and Bradford Ten per Cent. Stock, Bristol and Birmingham Six per Cent. Stock, 50,774/.; the proportion of 50/. shares chargeable to revenue, 1 9 ,500/. ; making the total charge on revenue, 416,1101., and leaving a balance of 212,3501, from which is to be deducted 10,0001. as a fund for the re newal of the permanent Way, leaving a disposable balance of 202,350/. applicable to dividend. The disposable balance for the half year ended the 30th of Juno was 195,4601., out of which a dividend was paid on the con-• solidated stock of the company, at the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, amounting to the sum of 193,879/. The statement shows that while there has been an in crease of 6,8901. in th e di sposa bl e b a l ance of the revenue account over the preceding half-year, there has been an increase 'in the capital account during that period of 654,178/. • OPENING OF THE DUBLIN' AND BELFAST EXTENSION. —This extension is to be opened to-morrow (Thursday) from the junction station at Nevvfoundwell, near Drogheda, to the town of Dundalk, passing through Dunleer and Castle Bellingham, • -The opening would have been earlier, but for the unusual-floods in the White river carrying away the bridge near Dunleer. The con-- structive cost, including stations, but exclusive of working stock, has not exceeded 10,000/. pi' mile for a single line, with the laud purchased and the earthworks completed for a double one. A memorial to the directors of the London and North- Western Railway, which was only promulgated it a late hour on Thursday last, showing the innumerable incon• veaiences of the through traffic .on the tine being, di verted from this town and carried by the Trent Valley, received in a few hours the signatures not only of the Mayor, the principal merchants, bankers, and manufac turers of Birmingham, but also of- Wolverhampton, Walsall, Leamington, Warwick, Kenilworth; and the principal towns of the district. According_ to the pre sent arrangement, the transit from Birmingham by the express train for London occupies, in general, half an hour longer than previously, in consequence of the delay in the arrival at Rugby of the train from Liverpool and the North; and likewise a person taking a day ticket from Wolverhampton, or any other station between this town and Stafford, cannot possibly re turn to his home the same day if he leaves London by any train later than two o'clock P.m , but is compelled to remain in Birming• ham until 20 minutes past 12 at night. The day tickets, therefore, from those towns become totally un available. It also appears that at Walsall and the before mentioned localities, letters are obliged to be posted two hours earlier than before the Trent Valley was opened, a circumstance seriously detrimental to the mercantile community. With respect to Warwick, Leamington, and those neighbourhoods; complaints are being con tinually made of the want of communication to the north; fur unless travellers meet the two o'clock train from London, they also must wait in Birmingham for the down wail train, which does not leaves this town until twenty minutes past twelve at night. When it is consi dered that the comfort and convenience of a population of nearly half a million of souls has been made subset- : vient to that of a comparatively insignificant number, it is to be hoped that the Board will see the necessity,' as well as the provedeconomy, of bringing back the through traffic to its original direction through this town.— Birmingham Gazette. THE GRAVESEND.—We understand that the Directors of the South Eastern Railway intend to make an open ing trip on the new railway, from the station by the canal up to Erith, on the 14th instant, but we believe it is not intended to open the line for public traffic until the whole of the line is completed to London, and this, it is said, will take place early in the month of July.— Maidstone Gazette. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. HULL, FEB. 13. Messrs. Taylor and Bright's circular states that the demand and improvement in prices which we had occasion to report in our last circular have since been lost, and prices on all articles have gone back a full shilling during the week. We had at to-day's market a moderate supply of farmers' wheat, which millers attempted to buy at 2s less money, but is was quite as much as was submitted to. Very little business done in fa reign, but stocks being small and holders firm, we cannot write the market lower than noted above. A revival of demand is expected shortly. The sale for fine barley continues good, at Is decline, but grinding is less in request. A consumptive sale for new foreign beans, if hard and dry ; while soft ones are bad to quit. More doing in the better qualities of white peas at our quotations. Oats neglected. The linseed market is firm, with only a small amount of transactions. Linseed cakes are again procurable at lower rates. Nothing doing in rapeseed, while there is a fair demand and sale for rape cakes. Bones are dearer, and guano more free sale. The following are the present prices of grain s. Wheat, English, red 42 to 44 Do. white 44 46 Dantzic and Ko- nigsberg ... 50 52 Pomeranian and Hamburgh . 44 47 Danish Holstein, & Friesland 42 44 Rus,ian and Odessa 40 42 Oats, English Do. Danish l4 16 Do. Friesland l5 18 Do. Russ. & Odessa 15 17 Barley, malting 27 30 Do. grinding 23 24 Beans 32 34 Do. foreign ...... 28 32 IPSWICH Our market was in a very he at a decline of 2s per quarter. other qualities at a further reds to effect sales, less money must 1 and late prices not supported. s. 8. Peas, white and yet 27 31 Do. grey Linseed, Black Sea 39 41, Do. Petersburgh .. 34 39 Do.Riga&Archugf. 35 —' 37 Do. Konigsberg 32 36 Per ton. Linseed cakes, Hull 71 128 6d , Do. fine foreign Do. inferior foreign 5l 10$ Rapeseed, per 10 qrs. 261 to 281 Rape cakes, do ..10$ Od Tares, English ......1105 00s Do. foreign 24s 28$ Guano 51 to 91 5s Bones, do 90s Od to 97s 6d Rye meal 61 I, Faa. 13. !avy state to-day. Wheat sold . Malting Barley is Is lower, uction. Oats, beans, and peas, be taken. Malt extremely dull, Flour very heavy and cheaper. PER QUARTER. i PEA QUARTER. Wheat 4O, to 50s Beans Barley Oats l7s to 215ri11a1t..........493 to 50 Rye 231 to 26s1Flour, per sack ... 37. to 41. AVERAGES FOR THE WEIL EXIING FERRUART 10, 1849. Wheat . Barley Oats ....... Beans Peas LIYEEHOOL, FEB. 13.—The arrivals of aids and oatmeal from Ireland continue on a liberal scale, but of all other arti cles thence and coastwise they are moderate. From foreign ports there are large supplies of wheat, Egyptian beans, and American Indian corn; but they are quite unimportant of other articles. The exports in the same time being 2,110 quarters of wheat, 9,941 quarters of Indian corn, 1,382 barrels of corn meal, 407 sacks and 4,765 barrels of flour; and the quantities of foreign corn on which duties were paid in the week ending the Bth inst., were 410,286 quarters of wheat, 1,013 quarters of barley, 13,191 quarters of beans, 942 quar. ters of peas, 22,355 quarters of Indian corn, 450 barrels of core meal, and 164,821 barrels of flour. The trade was inanimate during the past week, and at the close wheat was Id to 2d per 70;b; and flour (id to Is per barrel lower. In the value of oats and oat meal there was no material change, but the inquiry was ve►y limited. Barley, beans, and peas were neglected. For Indian corn there was less inquiry, and had buyers appeared a reduction of 6d to Is per 48u1b would have been conceded. Indian cornmeal not saleable at mere than 14s 6d to 15s per barrel. At this day's market there was a slender attendance of dealers and a very limited business transacted. Wheat again gave way I d;per 701 b, making the decline 2d to 3d on prices of this day week. For oats and oatmeal few buyers appeared, and the transactions were quite in retell, at a decline of Id per 451 b and 6d per load. Barley, beans, and peas were all dull, and easier to purchase. Flour met a very slow sale at a decline of Is per barrel on American, and Is per sack on English and Irish. There was no further change in the value of Indian corn or cornmeal, but the demand was without nimation. EPETIRSOROUGH, FEE. 10.—Wheat, new 40s to 441, fine 46s to 50s ; old 42s to 463, fine 503. Barley, 263 to 281, floe 31s, malting 00s to 00,. Oats, new 14s to 163, fine 181 to 21e, old 20s to 00s, fine 265. Beans 363 to 390, new 28. to 301, per qr. Inspector's corn return for week ending Feb. 10— Wheat, 601 qrs 0 bu, 44s 6 d ; barley, 236 qrs 4 bu, 293 10d; oats, 96 qrs 4 bush, 16s 71d; beans, 228 qrs 4 bu, 29. 9id; peas, 0 qr 0 bush, 003 Od per qr. BISHOPS STORTFORD, FEB. B.—lnspector's return for the week ending Feb. 8: - Wheat, 782 qrs 3 bu, 435 104 d ; barley, 2,876 qrs 0 bu, 30. 11-1 d ; oats, 46 qrs 4 bu, 211 Id. DA LK EITIL MEAL MARKET, Fie. 12.—The following are the prices at this day's market:— Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. imperial .. ••• llarleymeal, per ditto •• Peasemeal Flour ••• ••• •• Pot barley First Second Third 27s 3d 26s 9d 26s Od 203 Od —sOd —s Od —s Od —s Od Od —sod —sOd —sOd —sod —sOd --sOd THE NEW HISTORICAL ROMANCE, " OWEN Miami," by the Author of " Whitefriars," " Cattier Borgia," &c., in 3 vols., is published this day, by Mr. Colburn, and may now be had at all the libraries. Also just published : 2. Mordaunt Hall, by the author of " Emilia Wyndham," " Angela," &c., 3 vols.-3. Lucille Belmont, 3 vols.-4. Adventures of Cromwell Doolan ; or, Life is the Army, by the author of " Echoes from the Backwoods," &c., 2 vols.-5. The Diamond and the Pearl, by Mrs. Gore, 3 vols.--6. The Old Judge, by the author of " Sam Slick," 2 vols.-7. The Midnight Sun, a Tale, by Fredrika Bremer, 1 vol.-8. The Dis cipline of Life, 3 vols.-9. Adventures in Borneo ; • Tale of Shipwrecks, 1 vol.-10. 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Top,: discovered re p roved fisherman,svE ter a d a r n l y gtoe a o bww n e ahasuaTs huge u ae iye rowingm s eo d nu nis a y theAsulbjveuctALitEtreAarts °LARGE. brought}'rah Jo hn ashore, and on the ebbin g of the t f i wo o hw a t: t l i e n ,a g r o d e a u ty thei fi five water, f e -as cut up by some d exterous veterinarians, and water w.et long . removed to the coppers for boiling do wn. [ADvsansEstENT.]—A Disease of tke Chest and Cold Cured by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.—Mr. Jarnes Kilroe, clerk to Mr. Maclaughlin, proprietor of the Castle cootc-mills, Roscommon, caught a most dreadful cold, from which he suffered for several months, and although he receirest the best medical advice, yet nothing p r e s cribed afforded him any reli e f, and fears were entertained that the disease was terminating in a confirmed affection of the lungs, whereupon he resolved to try Holloway's Ointment and Pills; and these unparalleled medicines for the cure of coughs, colds, and asthmas, shortly effected a perfect cure, after so many other means had failed.—Sold by all Medicine Vendors, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. Sir W. Molesworth paired off, on Monday evening, with Mr. Ord, against the grant of 50,000/. for the relief of distress in Ireland. Mr. Bagge paired off against the Irish grant with Mr. Mackinnon, on Monday night. ACCIDENT TO W. COBBOLD, ESQ.--On the 4th inst. an alarming accident occurred at Hacheston to Walter Cobbold, Esq., of Ipswich, from the effects of which he is still confined to his bed. lie had just arrived at the house of a friend in a horse and gig, and was in the act of assisting Mrs. Cobbold to alight, when the horse, taking alarm, suddenly turned round and started off hastening the lady's descent rather roughly. Mr. Cobbold seized hold of the reins in the endeavour to stop the animal, but, unfortunately tripping, he was thrown down and dragged to a considerable distance. The horse at length made a spring at a six-barred gate, which it cleared easily; the gig was broken off at the shafts, and fell back on Mr. Cobbold, who was lying upon the ground in a state of partial insensibility. Upon being conveyed homo he was found to have sustained many sever.) bruises about the head 41:1 (1 bOdy.—China. ford Chromiele, ..... ..... 1