The Sun. — London, England, 1831-01-19 00:00:00

THE REAL PROPERTY COMMISSION REGISTRATION OF DEEDS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. .N 1 R. EDlTOR,—Complaints against the present system of conveyancing are nearly as loud, and quite as well founded, as the clamour for Reform in the practice and constitution of the legal tribunals of the country. The science of conveyancing is commonly considered " the mystery of mysteries"—" the apocalypse of the law :" and the public, comprising in that term King, Lords, and Commons, and ex cepting only the few quiet persons who have, amidst the cobwebs that are proposed to be swept away, shrunk from the very idea of enterm4 its dusty and labyrinthine chambers on an expisr ng mission. The debates on this subject in the Hounc of Commons have afforded, and are likely to extend, the 'tritest illustration of this opinion, The learned supporters of the Bill introduced by Mr. Campbell for providing a general registry for deeds (and which has invited this letter), restrained themselves (from political deference to the feelings of the House) from any examination or disphy of the inner grounds recommending the measure; and the other learned members, I respectfully presume, who took part in the debate, reserved their consideration of the question until it arrived at a more mature shape. The circumstances of toy life and profession here led me to take an interest in this branch of jurispru dence, and conviction has long made me an advo cate for Reform. The plans of the Commissioners f. ,r improving the laws relating to real property, e specially the design of a general registry, ought to eng age the serious attention of the public: and I trust that the sentiments on the , c subjects of an individual who may, in some sense, call himself a ; witness (being ministerially an instrument in the workings of the system), may be permitted to find a vehicle for public dissemination through the columns of your Journal, which furnished a copy of the reports adverted to, and which has displayed an intelligent attention to the subject. The great sources of evil, bithvto pervading every province of the law, have originated in muses by no means innate in the legal Constitution, but extrinsic and capable of easy excision i and are principally tlie following f—lst. The interposition of the Chancellor of the Exchequer in rendering all legal transactions the subject of grinding taxa tion, thereby aggravating expense ; then the system, sometimes alluded to under the bye-word of " vested interests," by which many of the Ministers who fill subordinate, but important, offices in the halls of justice, derive their salaries from taxes on the procedure, thereby interesting them, and insur ing multiplicity and delay ; and, lastly, that our ancestors, in adapting institutions, devised in a simpler and ruder age, to the wants of increasing and artificial society, did not remov e s y s t ems an d forms no longer applicable, but, supporting their authority, invented contrivances and sanctioned fic tions to render them as practicable and convenient for modern use us the unpliable nature of the origi nal materiel permitted. These great cperating causes, the effects of which in the general administration of justice are noto rious arid sufficiently exposed, have had equal influ ence in the more silent department of the law now under consideration. In the system of " convey ancing" on the transfer of property, the evils occasioned by these causes lay on the surface, and have long been very prominent. The necessity of a lease for a year, in addition to a release as a conveyance of real estate, is an inven tion to avoid the inconvenience of the old practice of transferring estates, which required notoriety and attendance on the land; and has hitherto been retained because laid hold of by the Chancellor of the Exchequer as a medium of taxation. Fines and recoveries, both of which are fictitious suits, in which the parties are dragged through all the " formula" of procedure in a real action, have long since been discovered to be merely private convey ances, and requiring to be put on the footing of such : but " vested interests" stood in the way.— The late Mr. Canning enjoyed the benefits of the King's silver office. The Duke of Grafton has the seal office, &c. &c. Dower was a provision for ti e widow, which, adapted to one age, a change of cir cumstances has rendered productive of inconve nience in another. The rules regulating the descent of real property were framed in subserviency to a political system which has been subverted. These instances, without further, sufficiently illustrate the above position, and show that their removal by legislation is as easy and safe as the eradication by a surgeon of the simplest excrescence that evil humours may engender in the human frame. The defect in the law in all these respects has been long acknowleged by the profession ; and the propositions contained in the first report of the Commissioners not only suggest remedies of perfect efficacy for their cure, but also originate new plans of improvement which promise to render the science of conveyancing as nearly perfect as is permitted to human institutions. But the master proposition, recommended by the second report of the Commissioners, and in accord ance with which the Bill now under discussion has been introduced into Parliament, is the establish ment of a general registry of assurance relating to lands. . _ I do not shrink from this plan from mere appre hension of innovation, instead, I object to it as a plan to nroid Reform, and as creating troublesome and onerous machinery, and as productive of un necessary expence. In exhibiting my views, I propose to di fine the scheme, to describe the prominent evils that will flow from it, and then, (my main object) to enter into a discussion whether the alleged reasons for submitting to such a burthen are not ascribed by the Commissioners to e f fects which would cease if the anatomizing knife had gone to the causes that produced them ; and whether, in short, the scheme is not one to stave off Reform where it is most needed, and where it would be most beneficial and effective. The plan ‘vhich excludes district registers, pro vides one Metropolitan register, where every docu ment (with few exceptions) any way affecting teal e.tate is to be registered at length, and the original deposited. The evils are very prominent. Ist. Grantees must incur a charge on every con tract in getting possession of the benefits of the register, viz., of a search by a person who has pre viously acquitted himself with so much of the grantor's title as shows identify of persons, things, and instruments : he must, in the same transaction, incur a further charge in complying with the con ' dition now imposed on him of the transmission and registration of his conveyance; and, as the original deeds are to be left at the office, if he would possess the evidences of his title, lie must suffer the ad ditional expense of procuring copies. All these expences will be created—brought into existence—by the Act of Parliament. But, to render the imposition of fresh expenses consistent with the design and scope of the com mission, which vas to remove, and not to create, burthens, the public are informed that the Com missioners have devised means by which this ex pence shall be •irtually sustained by the attorneys. The length of conveyances is to be abridged, and the necessity of particular deeds is to he greatly super seded. There is a little " see•saw" in this part of the report from a desire of conciliating all ; for, the attorneys are told in their turn not to be apprehen sive of injury, as the Commissioners will meet their case by recommending an increased scale of fees. It will be subsequently s hown that the alleviation offered to the public of shorter and fewer convey ances may be afforded without paying the price which this scheme exacts of them. 2d. The delay which must occur when the parties reside in the country, will operate in those innumerable cases of emergent exigency, which, in the artificial and extensive concerns of a commercial nation, art constantly arising, and may produce un merited disaster and ruin. 3d. The risque attending the transmission of such documents, which can be reached by no in surance from remote parts of the empire, to the metropolitan registry, and of mistakes in the busi ness of the registry. 4ths The abolition of a convenient mode of ob , taining loans, credit with bankers, &c., by depositing title deeds, which deposit secures a right in the holder to require an actual mortgage, should such circumstances make such additional security necessary. The frquency of transactions of this kind may 1;e unsuspected by the Commissioners who advile its destruction. sth. The exposure of private transactions==-the power of investigating any gentleman's or lady's affairs at pleasure', which in despite of the Corn tnistmers, the mass of the public will put in the scale of evils. I now In?rioach the main inquiry, the necessity for the merits of this scheme. The evil which a general register is to remedy is the insecurity of title from the facility with which false titles are made by the suppression of deeds. It also promises great collateral benefits by rendering ntinceessary the various deeds and devices, which the ingenuity of lawyers has invented for the pro tection of owners estates against such dangers, thereby sinp!irying and cheapening the practice of cortr*hncing. These are the cardinal virtues on which it is advocated; the few bye-advantages expected hardly need referring to. To explain the nature of this insecurity, it is ne cessary to refer to the state of the law, which I can best do by citing the instances taken by the Commissioners. " The seller or mortgagor may have been the absolute owner of the fee simple, and may produce he instruments by which hi:, owner-hip was con stituted : but he may have executed some settle ment, by which hi; interest has been reduced to a tenancy for life. The possession of the estate and of the title deeds wall have remained unchanged; and, in order to impose on a purchaser or lender of money, he need only keep back the settlement. " Again, the seller or mortgagor may be heir at law of the last proprietor, and may claim as such heir, and may suppress a will giving him a limited interest ; or he may be heir at law, or general de visee, of some deceased proprietor, who may have made a settlement, giving him a limited interest, and he may claim as such heir or devisee, and may sup press the settlement." All the means of inqniry and investigation, af forded by the present law,being insufficient to guard against the insecurity of title arising from the pos sible suppression of documents, the subtle invention of lawyers has been exerted in availing themselves of some peculiarities of our system of law, built upon the distinction between legal and equitable estates, and they 'have devised machinery, called " attendant terms," to be a defence to the posses sions of their clients. It is impossible, within the limits afforded, to de scribe the nature, principles, and value of this pro tection; but, it is properly treated by the Commis sioners as a protection at once costly, inconvenient, and uncertain : and they found a principal claim for approbation of their plan on the promise of super seding by a registry this imperfect, intricate, and ex pensive invention. Such are the merits and prospects of the scheme: —the grounds of opposition to it remain to be considered. The prominent objections are that the devise of a registry creates machinery as pregnant with expense, risque, and inconvenience as the old; that it is alien to our legal and moral system, and calculated to prevent reform where it is 71103 i needed, by divert. rug the public attention from the true source of the evils that require a remedy; and that it tends, by giving increased value to the equitable title, to con firm and perpetuate that jurisdiction of the Court of Chancery over real property, which has been the prolific parent of the abuses now complained of. Some derail is inevitable. The original simplicity of the common law ad mitted of no immediate estate in lands, which was not clothed with the legal seizin and possession : and the practice of conveyancing was remarkable in early times for its preciseness, brevity,and clearness, until the ecclesiastics, in order to evade the statute of mortmain, invented the practice of conveying lands to one person to the use of another : and cle rical Chancellors assumed the jurisdiction of com pelling the execution of such uses in the Court of Chancery, consummating the work of usurpation, and the extension of their authority, by setting aside the maxims of the English law, and deriving the rules by which uses were governed from the civil law. This assumption was not brooked by the Com mons of England in silence; at length a statutory remedy (the statute of uses) was applied, being in tended, in the contemplation of the framers, to be a law of restitution, and " to restore the good ancient common law." _ The chief object of that statute was to provide that whoever bad the use and enjoyment of land should be held to be the legal owner : but, by an extraordinary construction of the statute, its plain and acknowledged end failed, and the Court of Chancery retained its domination over the same interest in real estate under the appellation of trusts. The title of the Court of Chancery to the juris diction exercised over landed property was founded in usurpation arid fraud, and maintained by violence the effects of it were to displace the simple and brief assurances of ancient times, and to substitute a system of conveyancing which has rendered deeds voluminous and expensive, and involved titles in a labyrinth of intricacies and refinements, which (in the alleged assertion of a great conveyancer of the day) the very Judges of the land possess no clue to, nor any body else except the Learned Gentle man himself and about two persons beside T. Recitals in deeds which, but for the interference of equity, would only be occasionally necessary when wanted to render the frame of a document intelli gible, are now dilated to an inordinate length, from the expediencies (while the Court of Chancery ex ercises such an authority) of preserving and embody ing with the muniments of the title evidence of the fairness of the transaction. The bulk of convey anc rig has thus swelled to its present magnitude. A further result was the reduction of the autho rity of the Common Law Courts over real property, where the decisions are speedy, the evidence oral, and the proceedings cheap; and the subjection of it to a tribunal whose character, as regards delay and expense, is written in the debates of Parliament and in the complaints and ruin of its suitors, pro claimed through the public press and through every organ where oppression can express its feelings. The state of the law is, as an old writer phrases it, radix maloruni : and reform there while it would improve and perfect the system of English convey ancing, would render the cumbrous and costly ma chinery of a registry superfluous. The insecurity to titles which is sought to be remedied is nearly altogether occasioned by the artificial rules of the Court of Chancery. To apply this allegation to the grievance of false titles pro duced by suppression of deeds, and which registry is to remedy the fraud in all the instances adduced, except of one anomalous class, can only be com mitted by the assistance of a third party, whose right and duty it is to hold the deeds, and thereby not to afford the means of fraud. It is among Bacon's maxims that a party en abling another to commit a fraud is answerable for the consequences; and it is an easy corollary from the doctrine (and was the old notion) that the trustee, mortgagee, or purchaser not taking the title deeds, and by his omission, negligence, or improper confidence, enabling the proprietor to commit a fraud, should be postponed to a subsequent grantee, who has the title deeds. But the doctrine of equity is the reverse, except moved by evidence of fraud. Secondary interests will not be of less value by adopting a different principle, because the second and third incumbrancer, who cannot have the deeds, will take care to have notice of his incumbrance re corded, by an endorsement, on the deeds in the custody - of the possessor. Alter therefore the law—re-establish the old rule —and what residue of insecurity from this source is left to be dealt with ? The anomalous class of interests excepted from the protection of this new rule, or rather restora tion of the old, occurs where the possession of an inheritance is carved into quantities—where A has an interest for life, and B at his death—so that the tenant for life has the custody of the title deeds, and, if he were a former owner of the fee, but abridged his interest by making a settlement, he might retain the deeds showing the fee in himself, and suppress the settlement. But the exception—the anomaly—could easily be specially provided for. The proposed rule, it will he said, is not suffi cient for the case cited by the Commissioners of a devisee for life, who also happens to be heir at law, suppressing the will, and disposing of the estate as if entitled by descent. But it is singular that it did not occur to the eminent and learned members of the commission, that the heir-at-law, to manifest his title by descent, must prove, when he sells or mortgages, the intes tacy of the late proprietor. If the present proving medium be too weak, let it be strengthened. A very concise statement is all that space permits; the proposition above recommended at least dimi nishes, aud, with some auxiliaries ingrafted, would reduce to nothing the insecurity arising from sup pression of deeds. The mischief connected with the practice relating to attendant terms, even if left to work uncontroul led, would then be very trifling. The evil and absurdities pervading the doctrine of attendant terms is also altogether created by the state of the law, an exposition of which would be the severest satire on our system of equity. The creation of terms for purposes of family provisions, mortgages, &c., is of public convenience, and is not pr,)po•ed by the Commissioners to be interfered with; but let the rules governing the further dealings with them be reformed, and rendered reasonable ; let not the termor, as at present, who is a mere conduit pipe, be the arbiter—the uncontroulled and perhaps venal arbiter—(for equity does not distinguish be tween unbribed and venal injustice)—of the con conflicting rights of the claimants to the inheritance, and the doctrine (the occasion for the application of which will be greatly diminished by giving increased value to the possession of the title-deeds, and new modelling the law of dower,) will then be subdued within limits which will abate the nuisance. I regret that I cannot enter into detail, but am confined to broad lines, and the larger principles. But there is another suggestion I cannot •forbear throwing out. Equity has departed from the old common law rule—" Qui prior est lege, fortior est jure ;" and by such departure has given birth to a large portion of the intricacy, absurdity, injustice, and consequent complaint which have led to the issuing the present commission. I think it well worth consideration whether the re-establishment of that rule, concur rently with what has been suggested as to the bene fit of the custody of the title-deeds, would not be the best reform of which the sy3tem of conveyancing is capable. The Court of Chancery would be thert by ousted of half the subject matter of its jurisdic tion over this department. My views, as partially and hastily developed, it will be seen, lead me to regard with hostility a plan introducing a measure opposed to our legal and moral system, producing great expellee, and fostering the extension of trusts and of equitable interests, and enlarging and establishing the usurped authority of the Court, which, I confess, 1 regard with an in vidious and jealous eye. Instead, I think, a recur rence (which, assisted by the labours of Humphreys and others, we are rapidly approaching) to greater brevity and simplicity in conveyancing, and the more precise rules by which rights in property were ad ministered, when the maxim " Qui prior est," &c. prevailed—the adoption of remedies for excising the bundle of abuses springing from the causes ex plained at the commencement of this paper, the " vested interests," &c., and, chiefly, the providing that the interference and authority of Chancery, as a Court of Law controuling real properly be les• seized and recede, while the jurisdiction of the Com mon Law Courts converge and resume their original power and controul, are the principles which a wisely amending spirit would cultivate. A Reform founded on such a basis, at least deserve the consideration of the Legislature. I have aimed only at affording outlines, glimpses, fragments of ideas. But there is matter conveyed, which, passing through the alembic of a more powerful mind, might originate a plan for that radical amendment in the laws of real property which it was the object of the Commission to elicit. Incidentally, it requires pointing out that a me tropolitan register will have the effect of diverting a large portion of the conveyancing business of the country from the provinces to London ; the intri cacy of the register containing a hash of all the titles to all the estates in the kingdom, and of all con tracts and equitable incumbrances affecting them, will render the important duty of the search too de licate and difficult to be entrusted t. , ) mere agency ; and it will be found expedient by,large and cautious proprietors, to transfer this duty and all its depem dencies—in short, their business—to the only class of the profession who can personally perform it. This result will work ill with the Local Court Jurisdiction Act ; that measure will increase the mass of litigation ; and, when emolument from em ployment in the best and most responsible line of business is dried up, it is evident that the character of the profession in the country will change, and be deteriorated. The race of pettifoggers is nearly worn out—it will be unwise legislation which will produce a second kora. Your very obedient servant, T. B. East Retfurd. PARLIAMENTARY PAPERS. GREENWICH - HOSPITAL. An Account of the Prices of Bread and Meat psi , ' at Greenwich Hospital, in the Years 179 A, 1791, 1792, and in the Years 1828, 18:9, and 1830. BREAD, per lb. 51 LO 0 1 1/25T0 1 41 4 0 0 11 / - ' l, 360 0 0 I 348 360 Calculated on the cost priccl of Flour supplied in each year,l and 4s. 2d. per nick for making into Bread, 36411 h. being consi. demi the produce fr m eachl Sack of Flour. BREAD, per lb. 28A £0 0 1123c0 IS 0 0 2 3 75 35 0 0 2 570 Calculated on the average jprice of Flour supplied in each lyear, with expenses, and 45. per sack for making into Bread. 'lle price for the present quar ter has been assumed to be the same as in the prece.!ing quar ter, the account not being vet received from his Majesty's Vie , .Z. s. d. 1,106 14 6 1,510 19 11 1,498 10 1 1,495 2 0 1,505 19 11 1,465 0 3 1,475 15 11 1,340 14 2 1,174 19 2 TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SIII.,—You inserted in your excellent Paper of the 10th instant, a paragraph which escaped my notice until this day, when it was pointed out to me by a friend ; and as it is calculated to injure me to an unknown extent, I trust you will lie sufficiently impartial to give admission to the present communication. The paragraph in question was copied from the Greenock Advertiser, and its object was manifestly to give a Mr. M‘Dowall, of Johnstone, credit for the intro duction of a " great improvement" in steam engines, by means of a metallic piston, &c., when, in fact, this very improvement for which he is thus lauded, is mine by a two-fold right ; first, as being the sole inventor of it, and secondly, as it is confirmed to me by his Majesty's royal letters patent. Mr. M‘Dowall was for a short time in my employ, and it is to this circumstance that he is in debted for whatever knowledge he possesses of the im provement for which he has been so unjustly extolled, especially in a newspaper published at Paisley. I could produce a heap of documentary evidence, if necessary, from Government departments, &c. to substantiate this statement, but as I am sensible of the value of your co lumns, I will beg to intrude upon your space only for the following extract from the last volume of the Transac tions of the Society of Arts, (No. 43,) as an answer to all pretenders and detractors on the subject, which is one that you will perceive is not merely of interest to myself, but of importance to the public In the 46th vol. p. 64, is the description of a metallic ex panding piston, by Mr. Robert Motienshead ; and in the intro ductory remarks it is stated that one of the best patent expand ing pistons has been found very liable to mark, and finally to score and destroy the cylinder, against the sides of which it is continually pressing, &c." Mr. J. Barton, conceiving that his patent expanding piston is the one referred to in the above sen tence (and indeed the description which immediately precedes the clause complained of hardly suits any other), has addressed a letter to the Society, requesting that he may be allowed to pro duce evidence that the remark is founded in mistake, as other wise his interest may be affected by a charge which, although made inadvertently and incidentally, and without mention of Mr. Barton's name, will be considered by many persons as coming with authority, from its appearance in the Society's Transactions. The request was immediately acceded to, and the matter was referred for investigation, during the Society's vaca tion, to the Committee of correspondence and Papers, in order that some notice of it m ‘ ight be inserted, if requ i s i te, i n t h e f or thcoming volume of 'transactions." Mr. Barton, accord ingly, produced very satisfactory testimony from Mr. B r unel), Mr. J. I. Hawkins, Mr. J. Martineau, Mr. Rastrick, and other engineers, shelving that his patent expanding piston has been employed in steam-engines of high and low pressure for various times up to two years or more, not only without doing the least injury to the cylinders, but improving them by the high polish which they acquire from it after a few months' wear .ii Palmam qui meruit ferat. I am, Sir, &e. &c. JOHN BARTON. No. 6, Goswell-road, Jan, 18, 1831. I t 40.., 1791... 1792.- 1828.. IS2 9. 1830.. Year 1831 1822 1823 1824 1825 18'26 1827 Greenwich Hospital, JOHN A. LETHBRIDGE, Steward. Dec. 22, 1830. By order of the Commisaioners, WM. H. HOOPER. 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F.,: 1829... 80 0 0 ' 1827...1 79 15 0 263 17 3' Bth Sorter. : =4 1828..1 79 15 01 288 19 11 18V... 70 0 0 1 I , 1829... 70 00, The Sum Total received by the Foreign Department of the Ge neral Post Office, for the transmission of English Newspapers to France, and for the supply of French Newspapers to Sub scribers resident in England; distinguishing the Cost of the Newspapers from the Charge made for the transmission of them; and distinguishing also the Amount received in each Year, from 1821 to 1829, both inclusive: — Total Amount received for English Newspapers to France, including the first Cost of the Newspapers. 19•28., Isa) MEAT, per cwt. £1 17 .51 , 1 16 101/2 1 17 9 Average of two Con tracts in each year. MEAT, per cwt. £2 10 7!4 2 6 31% 2 3 6 Average of three Con tracts in the years 18‘2S and 18'29, and of two Contracts in NM. The Contract price for 1831 is :21. 4e. 10.1. The cost of a daily paper is 91.9.5. 7d. per annum, and the charge for transmission, includ_ ling the price of the pap er , i s 131. ss. per annum. Total Amount received for French Newspapers circulated in England, including the first Cost of the Paper. .C. 5. d. Year 1821 982 5 4 182 9 1,132 3 9 1823 1,153 19 0 1821........••••• 1,266 3 5 18.25 1,2:4 19 10 1826 1,137 0 5 The cost of the minor French 1827 1,157 4 1 papers is 31. 4a., and the charge 1939..... 1,045 IS 1 is 61. 18s. per annum. 1829 1,140 15 9 The cost of the Monde'''. is 41.95. per annum, and the charge to subscribers in England is 104 Is. per annum. The Sum Total received by the Foreign Department of the Ge neral Post Office, for the supply of French Newspapers to the Daily Morning and Evening Journals published in London ; distinguishing the Sum Total charged in each Veer, from 1821 to 1829, both inclusive, to each of the said Morning and Evening Journals. Total amount X. 44. d. Year 1821 l,OBO 19 10 1822 2,420 3 0 1823 3,304 15 2 1824 2,599 19 0 1825 8,528 8 8 18243 2,470 9 6 1823 1 414 It 0 1829 3,234 12 6 11329 0,699 1 0 The sum total charged in each year, to each of the Morning and Evening Journals cannot be distinguished. (Signed) A. STANHOPE, Compt. OFFICE OF CHAMBERLAIN OF THE CITY or• LONDON.—Yesterday a preliminary meeting of the friends of Sir JAMES Sitaw took place at the London Ta vern, Sir CHARLES PRICE, Bert. in the Chair. There were upwards of '7O gentlemen in the room at one o'clock, amongst whom were Aldermen GARRATT, Bitoww, FAREEROTHER, and COPELAND, Mr. ROUTH, Mr. H. MARTEN, Mr. SLADE, the Chairman of the London Bridge Committee, Mr. S. DIXON, Mr. DRINE:ALD, &C. &C. Sir JAMES was proposed amidst the cheers of the meeting ; many of whom passed very high, and we believe well deserved, eulogiums on his fitness for the office; and after he had returned thanks, a general meet ing of his friends was appointed to he held at the London Tavern, between one and two o'clock to-day. A meeting of the friends of Mr. Alderman WAIT/MAK was on Monday evening held at the London Coffee-house, Ludgate-hill, for the purpose of adopting expedient measures to secure his election to the sacant situation of CHAMBERLAIN of the City of London. Mr. Deputy BLACK ET took the Chair. Resolutions to the above effect having been put, and carried unanimously, Mr. Alderman WAIT/13IA N returned thanks in a short ap propriate speech, expressing the gratitude he felt towards his friends on this occa•ion. The meeting was not nume rous, but highly respectable, consisting of about 90 gen tlemen, among whom were 12 of the Common Council of the ward. They formed themselves into distinct canvass ing Committees, and determined to commence their labours immediately. A deputation from the City of Salisbury, consisting of the Rev. Mr. GREENBY/of the Church of England ; the Rev. Messrs. Goon and SAFFREY, Dissent ing Ministers, and JAMES WIIITMARSII, Esq., att, n led at the Home Office yesterday, with a petition to his MA JF.sTY, signed by upwards of 2,000 most respectable persons, including the Mayor, the Ca one residentiary, and the Clergy of the Cathedral (with the exception of a very few individuals), praying that mercy might be extended to the unhappy men condemned to die in that city on Tuesday next. The Under Secretary of State listened with great attention to their bumaneTepresentation, and promised that the petition should be laid before the KING without delay. FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. FRENCH PAPERS. (From the Courrier Francais.) " Paris, Jan. 15. " Monsieur le Comte,—lf you grant me a moment's intervie sr, I hope my frank explanations will remove the unpleasant impression made on you by the publicity given through the Journals to my letters to the Provisional Go vernment. I have already stated to you how much I felt hurt at the publication, as official, of documents which had no such character', and which were only intended for the in formation of the Diplomatic Committee of Belgium. I regret that the hurry in which I wrote my list letter did not allow me to take a copy of it, so that I cannot appre date to what extent my expressions were uttered by the newspapers. The Beige and Messager des Chambres, make me say, for instance, " that the King of the French would never consent to give his daughter to the son of a Beauharnois." I hope you will not suspect me of having applied an expression so injurious to the descendant of one of the most illustrious Chiefs of the French army—of a Prince who has left such noble and glorious recollections behind him. " Nevertheless, although the introduction of words which were not perhaps precisely those you made use of may be condemned, I have no hesitation in appealing to your memory for an admission that in fact, if not in tertns, I was correct. " I should regret extremely that the publication of my letter should have interrupted suddenly an intercourse commenced in a manner so agreeable and flattering to me. That interruption would not be one of the least desagr e mens I am likely to encounter in the career in which I am now engaged. (Signed) " FIRIIIN ROGIER." To M. Seba:tiani. The Dictator has published an ordinance for the organi zation of the moveable National Guards, but excluding the Jews. These latter justly complain of being excluded from the service of the National Guards, which they say is contrary to the liberal sentiments professed by the new Government. A young lady, Angelica N., objects to the proposed formation of Amazon reciments. "We shall most willingly," said she, " very properly devote ourselves to the care of the sick and the wounded in the hospitals, but it does not become our sex to take arms and fight." (From the Journal de Paris.) _ _ It is reported at Toulon that a squadron of observation, composed of six ships of the line and ten frigates, are about to be sent to the Mediterranean, under the command of Admiral de Rigny. . _ _ (From the Quotidienne.) We have news from Constantinople up to the 10th of December. The European discipline has been adopted by the army throughout Albania, which province is now in a state of perfect tranquillity. The bands of insurgents which infested some parts of Asia Minor have disap peared. (From the Constitutionnel.) Letters from Toulon, dated Jan. 10, state that the fri gate Armide, commanded by Captain Lassus, is about to sail for Algiers, in order to reconvey to France General Clause', his family, and staff. Toe corvette La Perle sailed yesterday for Algiers, with despatches, which are said to be of a very urgent nature. Their object is pro bably to hasten the return of the army. It is thought that only 5,000 men wil rem iin at Algiers, and that they will be placed under the command of G:nerul D'Au remont. The ISth and 40th regiments of the line, in garrison at Toulon, hare been ordered to repair immediately so Strasburg. They will be replaced here by regiments coming from Algiers. • (From the Figaro.) • The insurgents of Basle have been joined by 500 Swiss coming from France. If they are as successful in fighting for liberty as they were in defending despotism, the Helve tian revolution stands a very bad chance. The cholera morbus is said to rage at Vienna—having been sent to Austria by Russia. This is all right. Among friends trifling presents tend to keep up good intell gence. (From the Temps of Sunday.) PARIS, JAN. 15.—The letter of Sebastiani to M. Ro gier gives rise to strange reflections. What opinion are we to form of our diplomatic relations with Btlgium? Who can give us a true statement On the subject ? M. Rogier transmitted the letter in question as an official and positive communication, and now the Minister for Foreign Affairs denies having _used such language, or any thin; to that effect. There is a very culpable negligence in this affair, or a scandalous falsehood. (From the Globe of Sunday.) PARIS, JAN. 15.—1 t was the general subject of conver sation in several private circles this evening, that a Treaty of Alliance had just been entered into between France ,ind England, to prevent Poland from being invaded by the Russians. It is raid that, according to this new arrangement, Po land would be given up to the House of Saxony, who , e states would be tranferred to Prussia. In that case, it was added, we were to get back the Rhenish provinces. The Duke de Mortemart set out yesterday morning, at eight o'clock, for Russia. (From the Messager .51( s Chambres.) GREECE. We announced yesterday, on the authority of a letter from Trieste, that the Greeks of the Morea were about to retake the island of Candia, which, by the Protocol of London, had been incorporated with the Pachalik of Egypt. After having taken into consideration the Sultan's Erman, which incorporates their isle with Egypt, as well £1.9 the letter of the Turkish Commandant of the fortress of Cdnea, calling on the inhabitants to submit, if they wished to avoid being subjected to the greatest evils, the Delegates, Elders, and Captains, answered by a positive refusal. The answer given contains the following expressions : " Every one is acquainted with the justice of the motives which have induced us and our brethren of Greece to brave, during ten years, every species of suffering, and even death itself, for the purpose of repelling the enemies of cur lives, of our honour, 80(1 our religion ; being de termined and pledged by oath to live free from their in tolerable yoke, or to die with arms in our hands. " The streets of Cydonia, Rethymno, and Heraclia, are still red with the blood of our brothers, our fathers, and our children, massacred by our bloody enemies. The wells are filled with the bones of Christians slaughtered by their brutality. Heraclia still reeks with the blood of the un fortunate General Malhoeti, who was made prisoner and cruelly murdered. There too, are the bodies of six sailors, whom Suliman Pacha caused to be hanged, after an en just imprisonment of eight months. The Primates of Sphakia, arrested treacherously by Mustapha Pacha, are still confined in the prisons of Canes. The brave Captain Tsakiri, taken in the same manner, as well as others, have b een discharged, after undergoing horrible tortures. The markets of the fortresses of Candia and of Africa are full of our women and children, whom they sell as they would cattle. " These examples, and an infinity of others, are an in contestable proof of the perfidy and cruelty which charac terize our deadly enemies. Can the tiger ever change his nature, and become a lamb? From the beginning we have prod limed with our brethren, in the face of the civi lized world, our resolution, taken on the faith of an oath, and the sanctity of our c ,use has been recognised. Our firm resistance during six years proves sufficiently the desire that we have to live free, or all to die on this land which has seen our birth—on this land which we have moistened, and are daily moistening with our blood." CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES. (CONTINUATION OT THE SITTING OF TILE 15TII. ) The Chamber proceeded to the Order of the Day upon the report of petitions. FRANCE AND BELGIUM. A petition was presented from Sieur Laporte, a lawyer at Mons (Belgium), expressing his anxious wish for the reunion of Belgium to France.—(Much interest excited amongst the Members of the Chamber.) General Lam ague requested permission to speak. M. Etienne said that whatever sympathy they felt for the Belgians, whose revolution was founded on the same bases as their own, the above petition did not appear to be of such a nature as that the Chamber ought to take it into consideration. The Belgian nation had freely decided upon its form of Government ; its independence had been recognised by them, and by the Great Powers. It was even from a feeling of respect for their independence that they considered that it would not be either prudent or ad visable to take the first steps for a reunion, which they would be wrong in soliciting. The Commission, there fore, proposed that they should proceed with the Order of the Day.—(Assent from several Members.) General Larnarque—lf, durin; former Sessions, a Mi nister in the confidence of Charles X. had ascended the tribune, and addressed us in the following manner : " A few Spanish rebels are anxious to regain their native country, from which they had been driven by the inter vention of the French ; but we have withdrawn them from the frontiers, and their Chiefs are under the surveillance of the gendarmes. Belgium has severed the band which bound her to Holland; a branch separated by violenc. from our social body. She would be willing to be re restored to her former state. She offered us the enclosure of fortresses with which the Holy Alliance has surrounds. our country ; but we have rejected her offers , and for gotten even the names of Fleurus and Jemappee. Noble Poland, tired of the regime of the knout , demanding it rF,riiilaninttehreruLyie, . 1 t multa ? th ql , sttunit 0: Itrpitieedb)rthat a f independence, Ao solemnly promised at the Congress of! : 1 1 . e.: i ( tz N iol sr Aut risii Vienna, and guaranteed by all the great Powers, lifts her hands in supplication to France, her ancient ally; but we Prot' the Ce must suppress our feelings, silence historical recollections , n ar ar l ii, th , e ,f ct p ir o r n en ia t to o w f t it h i e . El s st h e e r, hwabsicehxelsatiimlledmurmLiubreerdtytheer y 4e Re I, I n' iri Germ s Deal. !' and we repeat, in answer, ' Die then! and Praga ' and 'Warsaw shall see a second Suwarrow.'" A Member, - At such a discourse loud applause would, no doubt, have ' y ou , burst from this side of the Chamber, in testimony of t / ' e f `` Silence l a satisfaction felt at the immense holocaust of the friends ° A M ember._ liberty. Wiry- are the principles which governed the c 0 0" AL G n i zot _ duct of Charles X.'s Ministers still adhered to by the t n it to the T Miniaters of Louis Philippe ? I am fa', very far, from impeaching their patriotism, lutl 'h, and a sa y/ Y wished it'ler 'a'ing reality raising the slightest doubt as to their intentions. But, er the violet a h f a r a .i 'i i n d g ti e ) n t t i e ir r n ed th i e nto st p at o e w , er ia a i t ot to Lm lr tehea pfaetraiold,trpt,,h.ftey!trA` ”Iterreftitzt: in ,;,,o,„ suinfi which it had been driven by their predecessors; weal's' and 'Y pe op j e; i confuting, they believed that a few autograph letters woo' bind down the Soy,Teigns of Europe, and that PliilipPer I.t t beti would no longer be looked upon by them as an usurper, (1 na are of „ our revolution regarded as a rebellion.—(Great excitemen t seed s of ~, among the assembly.) They have imagined that by abandoning the people Lv:' Llg ' it more di ,r w ii, i i i ii i n i b l gt d !3, fe at legitimise heee Biseaig precious ,r e n t e r ,e c i: i 7 u ,si s e tghi i fe n t Itnhise,uu insurrection ; 3 e . e c s itfi t o if int o S ft o vt : l e ise re pn i Sovereigns. Poles, t ' ll ' i a v h a i n b g e, En uarn: ic not been rev believed that our 'evolution was the signal for the deliver' ly b y its viri once of the people, you would have had a war long since.l (Marks of agitation and murmurs.) Ministers would r"ntlern en, I ' re him that Sovereigns would be hound by treaties and pro' !try to Monar whiel mins.. Promises, indeed ! They wished that Frad e Ikl NT - "auZin I should be great and powerful. But when the nation, 10 ° .tre.)__t he ' conaluence of being deceived, had withdrawn its our, '4O nt and cora from that of Napoleon, the spirit of coalition was frel , d that, a , th extended. Metternich insisted that our offensive positi°ll; 'Nell „ should be changed into the defensive.—(Murmurs.) 131 j, ."able for i i for Russia, this strange argument would have prevailed ( i 4 b e " yet 0 1 and it was thins, after so many promises, that that' shame,! e tintidity of t peace was forced upon us, and which in the presence of P o l l Princes who signed it, and despising their rage, I dared :I , they 'ma g l° des . gnate as a halt in the mud !—(" Oh, oh!" Much sr e ca nt , • g d . g luta e tation throughout the Chamber.) ha lt ' Ithat thev General Unearqu,:—And it was to continue this ha' n 'ent to lose —(Strong murmurs and confusion). 4 not whethe f t° t.ere t he I The order of the day was called for by several voices' i ' t future was General Lamarque—Gentlemen, I beg of you to a11 ° ,,; 4 t . he o, ollld me to give full developement to my sentiments. It iar,,tll o3 , the purpose of remaining in that miserable stubs quo t'i l 'd u p ? Th we reject the Belgians, and shut our ears to the cries ' e lution, c ut agitation — n— lt m w u a r s m on urs meou.v,e tho unhappy Poles, who have shed their blood with 1 0 ' 1 subj ect . , , the indep of that static quo that our Minister for Foreign A o l ,,, tf ut °Pe app r „ e centre — approbation made use of the strange language attributed to him by t .o ' 4 Wer e g i ye Belgian Envoys, and to which I now allude merely bo ill amore theso many eentr e — b battles.—(lncreased t p l give him an opportunity of contradicting it. N o , he e Alilitary not slid " that we refused Belgium because England tv°° ''' )4l Od e to not consent to it." .4h Potts e.ti se Were M. Duvergier De Hauranne.—You will upset Franc , .1 6 ; , ,-- -Akk p General Latnarque—We don't object to England's be l " :- what Preps rich from our spoils, and those of Holland—to her or s o been , toppc pressing one hundred millions of Indians —to her be V:"'equ nce i unrivalled mistress of the Mediterranean, occupying treZ brave ~., principal places on the globe, from Heligoland to SingalAt 4 rav e p oi. ,!" —from the Northeru Seas to those of China; and shee t , have said not consent to allow us to escape from the iron ri r ‘ o f ae e) ' have been which the coalition hail drawn around us ! But the hel lo Erie and inter of Notre Dune has tolled, on the 2,lth of July, t e, rl "id to Fran moment of our delivery ; and the cannon of Paris 10,..atlee: there i silenced the artillery of Waterloo.—(Great confusion.)„" War Which You must easily see that all the sacrifices made to P ° A . ° a _querti ou 414 serve peace would become the fretful germ of cruel ays:iiii!.to the E n and th it we are prep 'ring a singuinary inheritance rehttluater who our nephews and relations. But I have not explri° ols In j niy, a every thing. England and Metternich have not dti°o4e th)lation of enough in inviting the nephew of the Emperor of Atts,gat,teeonized to the throne of Belgium ; and the project of excharig',,, u ,l time caus the Netherlands—a project which made Frederick Oa ,I i D- ethno t 0 At n ; arms in I 77S—in not, probably, forgotten by the C 4 , t a t . i . 1 i u P ( 'n the of Vienna, which, like the Court of Rome, faithful toW oolib 41, Aarliarn, traditions, always wishes for what it once desirerl.—( Silltltl 4ted to the r sideratile sensation. )—The circumstances of William ' I,,, r yr the form-, of England were nearly similar to those of Louia•Philif;f o e j t , s t f Ministry 1 The former Monarch drove away the silly Stuart s , „o l d °l'llet that felt the full value of maintaining the throne by brast'betinet.hat aristo, and a spirit of independence. Therefore he embraced toeselPlee. All first opportunity of taking the field, and crushing all t 0 ,1 3 f ea n t Mom ent panties which rose with the revolution. The battle 01 ~oreZWere were ant Boyne, and the war which Inc carried on against 1i" 0 , 4i Paring and XIV., rendered hia throne more . permanent than ai , arid dd,. IPti°'artt avoid hibiZ!Peet t° 1 graph letters and diplomatic promises could haSeeffte•- tillt. k 444 , l • l l , sni. l tiLetlle.e,d e tivogie s iir,suti , oietn i rleoinnnhat . she:: ' —(" Bravos" from the left.)—The Ministers ought, k 7 of 50 , , h ir . look well to it, and consider the immense responsihi l :; t z t i 'hle, ' ' ' which presses upon them, and that the loss of one e i a I. Al a ,,, in may prove the ruin of our country ; and we ourscil vie e : 4 th at • fat — ni who, although divided upon some points, are animated er i stt l t gla ry? the same sentiments, let us second their efforts in et ylo i 4 Peopi e ; l possible way; let us induce them not to forget the Pr ii i i 1 ,7 fron t t h e c ciples of the revolution ; and we should say to theta t j ) e • Itiaugi n ( their strength is that of all France, and that France io ready ta undergo any sacrifice to ensure its liberty, its dependence, and regain its proper place amongst natio' ~.,"ation . \ 1"41. )TI I vote that the petition be laid on the table. M e ant, P ranc e h as The above speech gave rise to much excitement, ie" ? r • 'tits.) T i lasted for some time. M. Sebastiani, Minister for Foreign Affairs, arcea,e e ,,, 0 they „,; the tribune, and (profound silence having succeeded t°l.`o4scie;alplnrehheendcielid"v.eL ed all th e former confusion) he observed that it would be a most prudent step, upon the mere presenting of a petitiom/ti ll , take that opportunity of discussing the question of I ) , ( 3,, I ,° l lo avo i d. or war. He, therefore, did not rise to speak eithe r r if o P 4 oru, , and Belgium or of Poland at a moment when negotiations °Aq ui * pending relative to both countries, and that the fa te i fif e j °4 aess a ll Europe depended upon those negotiations. Language I l tt lit 'ite hlent, ei worthy of a Minister of France was put into his nOsgtile Sebastian a . ' t die • l an Certain persons attributed to an august personage hog Ott, tln that which never escaped from his lips, or entered into ,oho w It Wa s r , imagination. lie should openly declare neither h e ' be r , 111:',;g a Boy er Minister, nor the Ministry of which he was a meto li oad iat ola tig i a __ declined the responsibility of their acts, the responsit d i 0 asserted of their words, or the responsibility of their silenc e ' lii a ."oer a i Lsf ... , t e , u (Mitch sensation and continued murmurs.) ja tf i lete ll , „t had ; M. Casimir Perrier said that General Larnarque had ii ikr 1i k.. 4 % soo n costal the former Ministry of having pursued a cule,Alai " „ ~ "tries, the policy %vitt' respect to the foreign relations of Fesf ir el'ith . from p i He gave the present Ministry credit for good intentie i declaring that such was not the case with the prec' - ionie eil :"e th e „ I , Ministry. He should request his colleague to exr a feae: ref re a ,„ these words. He M. Perrier) avowed that he had e f iat rai g i tittra again connected with the ( acts of that Ministry, and that6olo4i'd had w i was culpable, he ought to share the blame. He ther'/Peob 4 ,. 41 atl as o , expected and hoped that the explanation would be given' Pr e ,, eri l °tl.) w associat (Murmurs.) i tAst ', i t " Lim • General Lamarque disclaimed any imputation upn ° ,,,ithot v i ed 4 n act of mile Ministry, but it made some faux pas in its political CO ' i4ep t i, , , it did not keep pace with the spirit of our revoluti ol3 ; 4 ll u July ; it had placed too great a belief in that quasi- 141 /N, P 4 4 yo u ‘vi macy, and which had been admitted from this tribune' got tanh insurre (Manifestation of surprise from the bench en which too " eru la I G n u Ag i i z t . o h t Gi s n o ut t ioz . ) 0: defence c a e s ascended d theed p t i i ,i re icy t o r i f !) u t n ire e, i a a t n e d A enter , dui iolitical t l4 , a l ia,eh ti v i : e l pr a l i, : r i n i se Y la ti r l a tion. He contended that the experiment of interee ~etion, In the had been already tried, and had not only failed, but r t l'i Ord resident the 4 , voked the most awful reactions. It was tried fir',lo l le o r( i resid ent Louis XIV., who wished to impose a French 1110 0$1 ,0 1 Se ve "of th e upon Europe; secondly by the National Convention , s ot Th e t jl p ep , would revolutionize all Europe; and, lastly, by Bos e Porli ll ioa rae ,, h attlbee who would make the world subjects of his empire. d /V 'at Il e had these three unities failed ? Because they attacke r ist i A liberty of nations. Countries had laid claim to the 01,...pf,i-ARMIN of being governed according to their own Judgme ot' otleat e - :Rutne ti n , the principle of liberty hid gained the mastery over 0 0 1 i t 'eld ; 4 Westin artificial anti exorbitant unities. What was the nan' e . . t iot l awf,;:' the ne i gi gii en to this principle ? It was that of non-interv ei 'd f: i tie a This was the same principle which has been inY°}‘,ite,ttle Paeandg ht,en former periods against Louis XIV., the Convention' s '', I. 4 ti ttea l t aaff ected ~,, Bonaparte, and which has been invoked by France ri ° tl i d ll 'ilit:' acco inr years against the Catnarilla. The question is, c' t ~., te 1 1 . , 6 3 1 , t - 1' Patty, r principle be maintained at the present day, if we resP e n ,'"4:P wi t Ptee liberty of other nations, or whether we shall recoo l lo w,,na li 1 4 body attempts of unity and disorder in all Europe ? Intee', l o r !'!tae d . 4 t tw e l ve may be carried on in the name of legitimacy, as Wf' pit l elb p : n g r epeata, the name of the sovereignty of the people; and, I n r ei p t l l e l , rl g to lib, cases, there would he a violation of the principle of I llte r ; lt hi e o the ac , tervention, which preserves peace amongst nations•lor l' l ntlf,, etl4 4 l a f ew are a thousand ways of violating this principle; , 4 1 ,1 fl i tet tn nate guff should not countenance any one of them. He " m e i : , Qilti," 4 0, t h at more respect for the agents of secret societies the rt . ,( 6 l : 4 N e t n , s _to hin t , tertained for the myrmidons of the Holy Alliance' ~,to te i ° 4t a h " e insen s i fiend approbation.)—lt was between those two l l to' l i,:t th''' It i s that eke Ministers, since the revolution in July, bi t ti',, t N e , s ett i , elv es _ text; and each of them made the same choice-- -t s l o rit,,,,: l !y a'es--that t dish, alto- an insurrectional movement, legal a u . o ll l o 7,ettlj t e eollecti and constitutional institutions, which ought to 01 ipP , ,, t it:l i , ill ° remai n it. This was what would exert the most power.ibtterti I .t . 4" dan l ence upon other people. The steady aspect of l' 60' A I 4 eu reg i more contagious effects than the march of re volo o lur o l > l \ .... 11 )31 1:st I Bravo, bravo !)—Well, then, did they so s ° or' o , :4e co , clin g a sight of the past? They had witnessed the most l o at i o r ti ° l 4 sia t s !ables , of Governments, the Convention, adopting throug re se,i . 1 1 11 1 4;4 the , same principles by the same means as were note (1 ,10;e1 1 p ts ,Ject 0 f• p! mended. They had heard voices raised in favour itUoliritmiltlite7tieabie amongst all rations, and propositions for assistiog.: o +" ° v te 4 9, i Sir an who rose; and thus they would become Don Q 0; bY d o t elli t :' 4 , 7, 4 th 'nsinrection.—(" Rather of liberty !" exclaisneuforiat' • , b as set veral.)--Well, he should again say, bad they not