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Lstant fresh ter of ilrrun ailing rst of I pro- inces, alto ontri- i of a are to ice of ce on onth. these ionies ossess make n de ed on 100 of ig the valua- Bezo- Ls this s ; it L 2 per 3 Em- ivided alier ;o was to the to the down lit to or the elf ac noble stered )ge of 611 the MEMPT rr Lo. ver s o f this gigant i c c hild' s - p l a y o f " make t l eli ls 've" aze employes or attached to the Court. Pf.tEPARATIONS AT CRONSTADT. The Augsburg Gazette says that the Russian fleet is re& tdy for action at Cronstadt, and nearly 10,000 men garrison the forts. On the island lying west of tb.e fortress tent: are pitched, where troops find s hezer, and all the coast swarms with soldiers, rues tly of the Guards. They are still working at Paul's Fort. The lower orders at St. Petersburg ,er!.t to Cronstadt as usual during their Easter holidays. There they sported in swings and whir ligigs, their attention being divided between eating and drinking, and finding time to hurrah the im- Penal family, who showed themselves to the multi tude there. GREECE. VAIONA, May 16.—A1l is tranquil in Upper Alba n i a . Up to the 16th the Montenegrins re mained quiet. Accounts have been received, says the Moniteur, from Janina, of the 7th, giving fres h details of the checks sustained by the Greek insurgents in Pirus, and which have been already briefly. men tioned by telegraphic despatches. The principal body o f t h e insurgents , commanded by General Tzavell as , was attacked on the 26th ult. at Petra by a corps' of Turkish troops under Osman Pacha ; and after only a short resista nce the Greeks dis persed and fled in great disorder towards the fron tier, abandoning to the Turks the chest contain ing their money, and almost all their arms and ammunition. Tzavellas had barely time to escape, but the Greek Tagm atar que Antonaki - Kalagmodarti, of Patras, was made prisoner. In the baggage of Tzavellas there was, it is said, found a correspondence of that chief with the Greek Ministers, particularly with M. Scarlato Soutzo, the Minister of War ; this correspondence is now in the bands of Fuad Effendi. The Souliotes, comprehending the dangers to which they exposed themselves by continuing to take part with the Greek adventurers, have laid down their arms, and surrendered to the Ottoman troops, without fir firing a shot, th e i m p or t an t pos iti on o f Pente-Piga dia, and were about to unite with Abdi Pacha to attack Zervas, who was at the head of 700 Greeks. The latter, however, made a night march towards the frontier. Com mun i ca ti ons have been re-es ablished between Janina and Arta. There are now no insurgents, except in Radovitzi ; the inha bitants of the remainder of the country have returned to their duty, and nothing is heard but curses on the Greek chiefs, who endeavoured to make them the tools of the designs of Russia. AUSTRIA. -- - A telegraphic despatch from Vienna, says, hardly a day has passed since the 17 th wit hout the mem bers of the Vienna Conference meeting. The Cologne Gazette states from Vienna that the negotiations between the Prussian Env o y , Count d 'Alvensteben, and the Austrian Cabinet, are for the purpose of agreeing on the details of the con vention between Austria and Prussia in the event of, its being carried into execution. T he Breslau, " - azette, under its Vienna head, announces that the Austrian C a bi ne t h as given orders for the rapid or phulsation of the new levy, and mention s a rumour a t the Russian Ambassador a t Vienna having d emanded explanations, was informed that circum- S tances had rendered p re cautions necessary, but t hat the E m p e ror of Austria was still anxious to act as a mediator, and to support a n y p ro p ositions f or peace which should be compatible with honour and with the maintenance of the equilibrium of Pow er in Europe. The lithographic news sheet of Berlin of the 20th, announces that the Austrian Government h as ad dressed. a circular letter to its representat ives at foreign Courts, in which it explains its motiv es for making,, armaments. we extract the following from a Vienna letter of the 19th May :—" Count Alvensleben, who has alr eady had several interviews w ith Count Buol, ae not yet had an audience of his Majesty. It is generally believed that the mission of the Prussian E nvoy is of a mediatory nature, but the blood of -Austria is rip ; and this Government is evidently ;ore inclined to take a step forwards than in t r oPposite direction. It is foreseen, indeed, by f e se who 'best know Austria that she will avoid a complete rupture with Russia as long as possible, but she is ev id en ly preparing for the worst. The nginentation of the army has naturally led i a grem demand for experienced officers, an d many who were on the una ttached and Pension lists are again emp lo y ed. The V i enna Gazette of to-day contains a long list of pro ?potions. Eight unattached major-generals have been created generals of division, and 16 colonels raised t o the rank of generals. T he pension list has supplied four lieutenant - gene rals and eight major-generals some of whose names were of ten heard during the war in Hungary. In a letter Written a few days ago it was said that some of the highest military men did not scruple to express their disarobation of the present policy of this pp Governme nt, and it was yesterday related that, in "nsequen ce of his strong bias in favour of Russia, Count SeJilick is not to have the supreme com mand of the northern or Galician army. This, however, is probably a mistake, as General Count Clam, wh o is not or i ous ly on e of the greatest Partisans of the Emperor Nicholas, is to com mand the . cavalry corps of fifteen regiments which is now forming in the above- mentioned province.. tioilnintohiins It is very far from being my inten tion innate that any Austrian officer would f a (luty to his Sovereign, but it is not good ,policy. to endeavour to force men to act against tneir convictions. The fact is, that the Russian Emperor. has distributed so many stars, crosses, H. that ilithb an d e a y lid.s among the highest Austrian officers, P.m totally incapable of taking a dispas sionate vie w of the present state of affairs, and con sequently d o no t see that Austria is now called on to inainta; kn both her independence of action a nd ner position as a great European Power. The reason s urged by military men why the alliance with d ß a li n ss'ia should be maintained a re in g eneral so futile s hort-sighted that it is next to im p ossible to listen to them with patience. If worsted . in argument the invariably take refu g e behind the Phrase, k.ustria owes a debt of gratitude to Rus -131a) ' >, and sl ie must pay it. FRANCE. t,nder d a te of yesterday, the Paris corr es p ondent a 118 Ai - liming Chronicle writes : — Th e attitude of Austria is now the point upon which, in public o pinion, the whole affair turns ; and unhappily ' r e is s .ufficient ambiguity in the conduct of that P ower t c . create doubts on both sides. The French Gr "erlinc,tent professes the utmost co nfidence in Austria ; and certainly there is much in what has u al?Pened within the last two months which seem s to Justify that confidence. How can it be sup posed that sedtha .t a Power, occupying so high a p osition 0_ f Austria, and having a regard fo r its con and character can have entertained the opinions recorded in the protocols of Vienna, and !till thin Ii of supporting pretensions on the part of Russia, chich it has declared to be unjust and un tenable ? After the explanations which it has ,given to the Western Powers, of its recent mili ;ary man iceuvres, and of the increase of its army, how can. it, if it has any regard for its veracity, in tend th , sse measures as anything but a threat to Russia? And yet there are many who still be lieve tha.t Austria will not take any part against Russia, and that all that she is now doing is merely_ s with a v i ew to her b e i ng th e umpire in the quarrel, and to her stepping in to check the progress of the allies, should Russia be in danger of de feat. A t the present moment there are the most contradi , 3tory reports on the subject. On the one hand, it. is said that every day the intimacy and good-fee ling between England and the Cabinet of Vienna :are on the increase • while, on the other, it is said that the Emperors of Austria and Russia never understood each other better than at the present moment. I do not pretend to say which party is in the right, but the truth cannot be long concealed. Facts, interests, and protestions are all on the side of the Austrian Government takin , part with the Western Powers. Personal feeeling on the part of the young Emperor of Austria would, perhap s , point the ot her w a y . There is a stor y current here, which I give without vouching for it, and just for so much as it is worth. The Aus trian Government has, is appears, given a large order for crosses a-id decorations of the first class to some Paris tradesmen. T he Russian party speak of this matter with great gke, and affirm that they are intended for the LUSSiall geauals who have distinguished themselves. It is to be hoped that th ey will be as much d'sappointed in the ir expecta tions i n thi s re c pcc t as they lave been in many others. I n the meantime t' , e prepar ations for the e ar%) at Boulogne and St. Omer (a measure which, with all their ingenuity, the partisans of the Czar are unable to construe into a iything but a hint to Prussia as ell as to Austria) are going on with great actin' ,y. The third divison of the army of Paris is already under orders, and will leave for St. Omer in the course of a day or two. From the west and north of France tie troops are being directed towards the same port. A considerable number of persons have been arrested in Paris within the last few days. The offences with which they ara charged are, of course, politic a l. Among the notable parsons whose nany's are mentioned are the Count do Pols and M. Hut teen d'Origny. The Minister of the Marine has given orders for 4 4 3 fabrication of 1:60,000 boarding pikes. It might have been well if they had been got r eady a ' little sooner. The reports with respect to the new loaf 1. to be raised by the French Government are aga: in rife, and it is thought the operation cannot b e post poned many days longer. It is reported in Paris that the King of 3 ?russia is about to abdicate. A treaty has been concluded between E t gland and France with respect to the division of the prizes taken from Russia. They are to be divided n pro portion to the number of men engaged in the differ ent captures. The whole terms of the treat y show that the utmost confidence exists between t to two Governments, and that they are both actua tod by the same feeling, of not doing more than is abso lutely necessary, or anything that can outrag e the feelings of humanity of the most scrupulous., The French Government has determined Li) send M. Ebeling, the Russian consul-general, wl a o still remains in Paris, his passports—the Russit w a Go vernment having withdrawn the exequatu ; from the consuls of the allied Powers. Allusion was made yesterday to changes likely to take place in the French Cabinet. It is 3 now said that not only is M. de Thouvenel go ing to Constantinople as ambassador, but that al 1 im portant change is to take place at home. M. D rouyn de Lhuys, it is said, is to retire, and to be sue, seeded as Minister of Foreign Affairs by the Co ant de Walewski, the ambassador in London. Ii t that event, M. de Persigny will quit the Mini s ;try of the Interior, and become ambassador in. Lon don ; M. Baroche will become Minister of t: he In terior ; and M. Fould will retain his p ost of Minister of State. The disputes between :M. de Thouvenel and M. Drouyn de Lhuys have a consi derable influence on these changes. The 11 Mends of M. de Thouvenel assert that he is the real • writer of the famous despatches which have gains d M. Drouyn de Lhuys so much renown, and th at M. Drouyn de Lhuys is so jealous of his able ( ;hef de division, as to wish to thrust him into the , back ground. The appointment of M. de Thouve nel to Constantinople is the act of the Emperor hi mself, and is so unpalatable to M. Drouyn de Lhuj s that it has produced the crisis. The market was rather languid yesterday , and prices were a little lower. The Three per Cents. have fallen 10c., at 67f. 94c. ; the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. are unchanged, at 94f. 75c. Bt ink of France Shares are unchanged, and the othe - r Bank Shares have scarcely varied. ITALY. The Parlamento of Turin states from Gem )a that counsellor Franzoni and the deputy-fiscal-ad vocate Zuzzini have set out for La Spezia, in order. to in quire judicially into the circumstances of the late invasion of refugees. Among the prisoners w•e one Ricci of Modena, a Signor Piva, who acquired some notoriety in Tuscany in 1849, and a Bole gnese named Simoni. These appear to be the ringl(saders. There are besides a priest and an inhabitant of La Spezia, who were both implicated in the a ffair of September last. SPAIN. A telegraphic despatch from Madrid of the 20th says :—" It is positively asserted that a roy Ed de cree, ordering a forced loan, is to appear almost immediately in the Gazette. This loan is to have for basis the anticipated payment of six m.niths' taxes." The Madrid journals of the 18th publish the bulletin of that day of the health of Queen Chris tina. It states that the illness continued to de cline, and that her Majesty was much easier. There is nothing else to notice in the journals. A letter mentions a rumour that the Government, with a view of avoiding the necessity of having re course every month to bankers for advances. for which it has to pay enormously, intends to pro pose to the tax-payers generally that they shall pay six months' taxes in advance for which they will be allowed interest. PORTUGAL. The Lisbon journals of the 11th publish an. order of the Portuguese Government prohibiting the fitting out of privateers in Portugal, or the admis sion of foreign privateers into the ports of: that country except from stress of weather. INDIA AND CHINA MAILS (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, MAY 24. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's ship Ripon, Captain R. Moresby, has just arrived I sere, with the heavy portion of the East India and C hina and Mediterranean mails. Her dates are—Ala xan dria, May Bth ; Malta, 13th ; Gibraltar, 18th.. The Ripon brings 86 passengers, among w hom are Admiral Sir Fleetwood Pellew, Lord :Kerr, Lady Price, Colonels Stewart and St. George.. The 55th Regiment of Foot embarked on. the 10th inst. from Gibraltar for the East. The British barque Edward Robinson, from Odessa, with wheat for England, has been t otally ' wrecked near Tentail ; crew saved and landed at Gibraltar. A great number of transports with trooj?s and artillery have passed the Straits of Gibraltar•. The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Simla reached Gibraltar on the 12th ins'r,. in six days from Southampton, and proceeded to Malta. Her Majesty's troop ship Simoom arrived on the 12th, and left again the ensuing day for Constan tinople. THE MEDITERRANEAN. (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNESDAY MORNING. By the Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Tagus, Captain Joy, we have dates from Gibraltar, 15th ; Cadiz, 16th ; Lisbon, 19th ; Oporto, 20th ; Vigo, 21st inst. The Tagus brings on freight 883 half-chests oranges, four packages specie, and a general cargo. Exchange at Lisbon was quoted at 54k, with a scarcity of money. The health of the Duke of Saldanha was very precarious. The young King of Portugal is to leave Lisbon on the 28th of May in the Portuguese war steamer Mindello, for Southampton. His Majesty will be accompanied by his brother, Don Luiz, the Baron de Sarmento, and the Viscount Carriera. The Mindello is to be escorted by the steamer Sal danha, both vessels being under command of the Port Admiral of Lisbon. At Oporto, exchange on London was quoted at 54i to 55. The wine market was very high, but brandy lower in price. Freights to London, 425. 6d. to 455. Although some reports of the vine disease were prevalent, yet the young vines generally looked well. LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY. LONDON, May '24.—Wind this day at Noon, S.S.W. ; moderate breeze, and cloudy at times. OFF HASTINGS, May 23.—Aberfoyle, from Geelong. COWES, May 23.—Wind, W.S.W. Sailed—Lady Kin naird, for Trieste t • _Jed°, Stettin. PORTSMOUTH, May 23.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived— Sylphiden, from Krageroe. Sailed—H.M.'s steamer Sea- , lark, on a cruise. SOUTHAMPTON, May 23.—Arrived—Brilliant (s s), from Madeira. PLYMOUTH, May 23.—Wind, W. Sailed—Continguiba (s), for Bahia. FALMOUTH, May 23.—Wind, W. Arrived—Marmion, from Havannah ; Villa di Neda, do. ; Kieng Thryn, Alexandria. SWANSEA, May 23.—Wind, N.W. Arrived-17nderley, from Cuba. Sailed—Countess of Beative, for Cuba; Na tive, Gibraltar ; Samson, do. PENZANCE, May 22.—Wind, W.S.W. Arrived—Wel lington, from Hobart Town. SHIELDS, May 23.—Wind, S.E. Arrived—Nicolina, from Girgenti ; Williams, Carthagena. QUEENSTOWN, May 22.—Wind, N.W. Arrived—Elea nore, from New York ; Bellone, Alexandria ; Emanuel , do. • J ane Innes, Casa Bianca ; Kent, Pernambuco. Vhswir, May 18.—The Petrel, or and from Hartlepool (coal laden for the Baltic fleet) ran on shore off the north entrance to Farosund 14th May, but was got off after dis charging part of her carg o, and will proceed round the island of Faro, and into Farosund, as soon as the dis charged portion of her cargo has been re-shipped. The Maria, of Umea, from Newcastle to Stockholm (coal laden), ran on shore off Froel 16th May, but has been assisted off aid into Klinte harbour, to discharge and re pair, having sustained heavy damages and being very leaky. A few more vessels have arrived in Farosund for the Baltic fleet, and some ships of war have run in there for a day to take in coals. ( r 2zAarri.liveGde-3raiana, ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Off Port—ldfras:': LIVERPOOL, Wednesday, 10. 15 a.m. Wird, S. ; Icene h, f and cloudy. from Perhambuco. a o n n d fuj l i i u v s e , from Sanghai; John Bucha (BY SUBMARINE AN D E . UROPEAN TELEGRAPH.) urhours' GRAVESEND,W flo e o d i n l ad fi a n y e. , 11.10 a.m. Wind, S.W. ; t i de, four e i .;_id, from Venice ; Angolina, Arrived, 23d—Mary Berns-d, Odessa • Herman, HamiTbauni from re , : m iflig o n . e t Boulogne ( s ) , ; Ba Amsterdam ta v ier (s );, Emanuel, Bremen ;Olaf Star, Havre ; Grecian, Trygfoesord, Konigsborg ; vir age ' r, b a - rea, Nantes ; A r rived, 24—Albion (s), P Aterdam ; Sannyside, New York • 9. G 30 e r a e i d ra i n . a , Maidstone, Sydney; Secundus, EW A n l ed e d a n a e n s d d e r a i y 7 eavour, Rotterdam ; i D n a o l 2 , t Guernseyzi e; Narcissus, ; Wind, S.S.W., moderat3, and fine. Passed —Flying Dutchman, Canton fcr London; Mar garetha, Dantzic f or Granville ; Wilton, Jamaica for Lon: - don. Anc'uored—Spheroid, Louden for St. Vincent ; lona London for Tobago ; John Bright, London for Cardiff. Sailed—Lord Laglan, No. 89 Transport, West, Caroline Elizabeth, Yantaloon. BATH RACES. (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) ORDER OF RUNNING. 2. o—City Cup. 2.3o—Weston. 3. o—Dyrham Park. 3.3o—Aristocratic. CITY CIIP. Rataplan LATEST BETTING. DERBY. 3to lon the field. 7to 2 agst Dervish. 10 to 1 agst Andover. 16 to 1 agst Neville. 18 to 1 agst Hermit. 20 to 1 agst Autocrat. 6to 1 agst Hermit and Andover, coupled. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS—(THIS DAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The following bills were read a third time and passed : —Londonderry Bridge ; North Yorkshire and Cleve land Railway ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway(Stratford-upon-Avon and Stonrbridge branches). The following bills were considered and ordered to be read a third time :—Bethesda and Llanlleched Improve ment ; Cork and Bandon Railway ; South Devon Rail way. PETITIONS. Petitions were presented by Mr. FoLEY from Wor cistershire against the opening of public-houses on Sun days ; by Mr. W. 0. STANLEY from, the Attorneys and Solicitors of Chester, praying that the originals of wills may not be removed from that diocese ; by Mr. COWAN, from the brewers of Scotland, complaining of the pro posal of the Chancellor of the Exchequer to levy the increased malt tax on stock in hand ; by Mr. A. PELLATT, from Southwark and other places, praying for the aboli tion of church-rates ; by Mr. COLLIER, from the mayor and town council of Plymouth, praying that the univer sities may be thrown open to all classes of her Majesty's subjects ; by Mr. LUCAS, from a place in Ireland, against any further legislation on the subject of corn rents PROPERTY DISPOSAL BILL. 11A On the question for resuming the adjourned debate SO. on the second reading of this bill, St. Mr. MA.LINS supported the bill, the object of which 20 was to prevent professed nuns from disposing of their 10, property in favour of convents, without the deed or in. St. strument of disposal was executed in the same manner 50 as deeds are executed by married women in favour of 40 their husbands. No objection had been made to the 25 principle of the bill, but it was said the preamble con- U. tained improper assertions, As the preamble, however, 812 was a matter of secondary importance, he was sure his St. hon. and learned friend who had charge of the mea- St. hon. would consent to strike it out altogether, if _25 th ,e house would only sanction the substance of the bill. The hon. and learned gentleman then proceeded to argue that ladies who take religious vows renounce the world and its temporal affairs, so that they had no free will in the disposal of their property ; and it was therefore only right that some protection of the sort proposed by this bill should be thrown around them. Sir J. YOUNG had hoped that the hon. and learned member for Enniskillen would have been disposed to follow the example of the hon. member for Bath, and, withdrawing his bill, relieve the house from those po lemical discussions which had produced so much excite. ment out of doors, and especially in Ireland. With regard, however, to the bill itself, it was hardly likely that it would be accepted by the Roman Catholics, coming from the quarter it did. The evils or injustice of the system which the bill dealt with, fell wholly upon Roman Catholics, and if the bill had come from a mem ber professing that faith, there might have been some reason for adopting it, but coming from a Protestant member who was not remarkable for any predelictions in favour of Catholicism, it was only natural that it should be looked upon with doubt and distrust. Besides, the Roman Catholics received it as cast ing a dishonourable suspicion upon an important class of their body, and knowing that there was no foundation for such a suspicion, they had unanimously rejected it with scorn. A stronger animus actuated the promoters of tho bill than a desire to assimulate the law relating to nuns, with that affecting married women, and hence the bill, supposing its provisions had been sound, would have been distasteful to the Roman Catho lics. He denied that the Government opposed measures like this for the sake of obtaining Roman Catholic sup port, they resisted them because they were opposed to the tolerant spirit of the Reformation, and being ani mated by the same feeling, he was confident the house would negative the second reading of this bill. Sir J. PAKINGTON denied that this was a polemical question, and said he viewed this subject from a directly opposite point to that of a religious view. He protested also against its being supposed that the supporters of this bill were actuated by a persecuting spirit, or that the provisions of the bill were at all opposed to the principles of toleration established by the Reformation. The policy of the Church of Rome was aggressive and anti-tolerant, but that should never induce him to sup port any attack upon the religious liberty of his Roman Catholic fellow-subjects. This bill, however, meditated no such attack, it was altogether divested of anything like a religious character, and proposed to deal only with one of the temporal matters of the Roman Catholics. The only ground upon which this question could be dis cussed, was simply this : was there, or was there not, something in the constitution of these mo nastic and conventual establishments which vio lated the rights of the subject. ? He believed there was as their rules and regulations interfered with ,the great civil right of disposing of private property, and that was the reason why he supported this bill, which would only extend to Roman Catholics the same law that already applied to Protestant. He denied that the bill assumed that the disposal of property in favour of convents was invariably made under undue influence ; 20 it assumed nothing of the sort, but it did assume that 17, there were occasional cases of such a disposal being made 20 under duress, and it was to meet such cases 20 that it was now proposed to assimilate the 20 law in reference to the inmates of convents with that 20 which applied to married women. In the absence of a 20 bill of this nature there was only one alternative for the 25 house to adopt, and that was to revive the law which 100 held nuns to be civilly dead. 100 Mr. HADFIELD thought the acts of the right hon. 20 baronet presented a strange contrast to his professions. 20 He professed to entertain a high raspect for the Roman Catholics, and yet he was ready to support a bill which ... cast a most offensive insult upon that body. The Roman 20 Catholics made no demand upon the house in support 100 of their religion, and what right, then, had the house to 20 interfere with their religious establishments ? but, above 5 all, what right had the supporters of the bill to interfere 20 with them ? None whatever ; and he advised the house 10 to reject the bill, as in this enlightened age neither this 5 nor any other mortmain law was necessary for the sup- 5 port of civil rights. He felt humbled as a Member of 10 Parliament to find these religious differences being forced 20 upon the house. In the American Legislature polemical 20 discussions were never allowed to take up the time of 29 the senators, because there the religious sentiments of 10 all were respected, and the same rule ought to,prevail 2D in the House of Commons. 20 Mr. COLLIER suggested an amendment to the bill, and observed that if these amendments were 20 made, he could see no objection to the measure. 16 The purpose of this measure was but a corol lary to the Mortmain Bill, and having sanctioned 20 the second reading of that bill, he could not understand 10 why the house should reject this one. 20 Mr. J. FITZGERALD reminded the house that 4 ° convents had existed both in this country and in Ireland 1 2 -g for many ages, 20 [LEFT SPEAKING.] 20 20 20 50 20 STATUE OF CHARLES I.—The statue of King Charles 20 I. at Charing-cross is to be restored and renovated, pre- 5 paratory to being placed under the surveillance consti- 20 tuted by the new act. THE STATUTE LAW COMMISSIONERS.—Yesterday a 20 return was printed, showing that in the present session 20 a vote of 7,5501. is to be asked for the statute law com mission, on the experiment o f codification. 10 PRICE OF GOLD.—The quotation of gold at Paris is 20 about 5 per mille discount (according to the last tariff ), 10 which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10Id. per 20 oz. for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.042 ; 20 and, the exchange at Paris on London at short being 24.971, it follows that gold is about 0.28 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advice' from Hamburg the price of gold is 4212 per mark, which, at the Eng- 7 lish Mint price of 31. 17s. 10I.cl. per oz. for standard 25 gold, gives an exchange of 13.34 ; and, the exchange at 20 Hamburg on London at short. being 13.31, it follows 10 that gold is 3.30 per cent. dearer in Hamburg than in 10 London. The course of exchange at New York on 50 London for bills at 60 days' sight is 109/ per cent., and, 5 the par of exchange between England and America being 100 109 23.40 per cent., it follovvii that th e exc h ange is n ominally 0. 08 per cent. againtst England ; b u t, after ` s ' making allowance for charges of transport and difference 4 of interest, the present rates leaves no profit on the 20 transmission of gold either way between the two coun- 25 tries. REGISTRATION OF BILLS OF SALE BlLL.—This bill has been reprinted as amended in committee. It is now pro vided that the bill is not to . apply to stock or produce upon any farm or land, which by virtue of any agree ment or of the custom of the country ought not to be re moved from the farm at the time of giving the bill of sale. Neither is it to apply to mortgages of ships, or shares in ships,' or to sales of goods in the ordinary course of business, or to transfers of bills of lading, or to mort gages of merchandise for advances made in the course o f any wholesale trade according to the known usage of that trade. The bill is also not to apply to marriage settlements, and it is still limited to bills of sale by per sons in trade, within the meaning of the bankrupt laws. This limitation seems to be generally considered unwise, and it is probable that to a great extent it will be inope rative, as it will be difficult to be sure that the owner of the goods is not, by an interest in some undertaking or other, a trader in the eye of the law, and, that filo bill of sale ulaY safely be kept unregistered. 50 50 2 1.00 1 25 SHARE MARKETS. (THIS DAY.) BRITISH RAILWAYS. Calming Prieesl yesterday. Business done St• this day. 50 ....--........... 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' SU Myth &Tyne original £25 (issd. at £45) 100 Bristol and Exeter 100 Caledonian all Chester & Holyhead. all Cork and Bandon... all Cork, Black, & Pass 12 Corn wall 1 Crietf ,:iune 'don 45 Dublin&BelcastJunc all DundeePerth&Aber• deen JUllOtioll all Do. New all East A Ag',;: , .u.... ar 'Do., Ca', 1 .."1 Etz al.„, a:, Eastern Cur, .tie5..,... all Eastern lia'...,_t, A Stock 10C De., B. Stoci.: 8 Do., New A 100 East Lancashire 100 Edinburgh a Glasgoir 5 Edinb. and Pe" : es 100 - Edin.Prth &Dundeel 1 Forth & Clydl J unc. 100 Glasgow &S. Western' 100 Great No.. ;;dern Stk.', 100 Do., A. Stock - 100 Do., B. Stock 100 Gt. Stb. &Wes . ...(lre ) 100 Great W esteru 12 Irish South-Eastern all Lancaster & I,ar l isle lit Do., 'hires 2 Do. 1\ ew Third , , 100 Lancash.andYorksh. 18,...D0., Fifths 111 . IDD. , Wst. VI(li ag Un. all Leeds Northern all Liv.Crsby.& Southpt all London & Waekwall S., - Loud. Till). / - Sthend. 100 Loud . Jrig 'lt &S.CSt, 100 Lord. and ii. Wesi,n, 12 Do. Fifths 1 Do.101.S1).,11.&B t , 2 Do. Eighths LOO Londo. andS. Westn 42. Do., £5O 34 Do., £4O all Lndndrry& Cole ..sine all landndrry.& Ennisk. 100 Manch.Sbe '.& Lin clr 4; Do., avian. & .4i n. Un 100 Midland 100 Do. Birmug. &Derb; 471 %did. G. West .( I :re.) 17i Do. Half Shares all Newcastle & Carlisle 100 Newmarke 54 Do., Bury .1 xtens'ol, ril Nwpt.Abei:. & add. n Newry &Enniskillen all Newry V..rrenpoint and Rostra or 100 Norfolk . . . 3 Northu.Coanties 'fn 100' North Britisi 16 North Devon, No. 1 all Do., No. 2 all )0., i A Deferred 8 Do., i B Guaranteed all ; North London \ 5? Do. New £lO ,11 I E , i.&S.Wstrn. ,Hamp stead, and City J o 17' North Staii'ordshire all North Western 10 N. ;',z 3. Westrn. Jun^. 1 Nuneaton, Hinck l ey, and Leice3‘e LOO Oxford, W °vest 31' ; Z Wolverhampton 212, •?ortsmo ,, i,i) 100 Scottish Leis tral 100 Scottish Midi au ) 100 Shre wsbnry &Bi ms. 'lOO Jo. L. &N. 'Western Guarah'6eBC Sicct 10 Shrewsby. ti; P atoa. all Shrewsby. Z.l.- Chester (N. W. P.l - ; . all , Do. Halves,". c all 100. Oswes:. y . 6 , -ihrooshiz , Le > ... .)0..i., 3, C, , "till ' 1 wid u - i) r.; per .'3n all I.!outh Devou 100 'South Eastern._ all 'South Wales 15 S. Y,•ksh. & Riv. Dun 5 )o 212 s 3tain.es,Wo ,, ~ oh all Stock'con & Darling 16!.., Stoe'lion d; Hartlop'. 100 ral'Ve'e. 8 Do. .:.:_ 0 shale .00 Do. P.e'., io. - .I 21 frames l': - veu DOS \ and Railway \l7 Vale of Neat . a ll Wateri'd. & Kill - ennyt all Waterford aLiir erick 16 West Uorn.vall 1 ,Vest End o 7 To 30 Otil and C.7stal - n- lace.. all Nest Lo ad or 51s. Wimbledr Z C,..ovCce - 1 100 Yo ek. Ne wet,' .&Berw. 20 Do. Extensio is 13. Do. G.N.E. Put chase 100 IYork& N. Aidlaud FOREIGN. 9 Antworp&Rotterdam 3 Belgian Eastn. June. 8 Beziers to Graissessac 2s. 3ombay, Baroda, and Central Inci,a,Serip Central of Rely all ,:lharleroi& Jrquelin 101 Demerara . 14 (Dutch an" :e ,ango a 9 EI en Rh . all East 2 Do. Ext 3r • ' on all Gt. indian Peninsula 10 Gd. Junct. of Franc- Grd Trur": of Canad: 30 Do. Debeu" Iva all Do. do 10 Gt. Centre o; Franec all Gt.Westen o 'Canada' Shares Do. Bonds (IL:, is. )'57 all Hann ,on k Toronto a!1 Do. 6 per cent. 5 Lake Coast. & Basl all Lucca & Pistoj a.i p.c pref 15 Luxembour , 10 Do. (Rq.ilway) 2 Do. Pre' 3 Do. (Cana') 5 Do. 6p. ci. pref 8 Lyons and Gere 12 Lyons & Mediterrev. 13 Madras 3:: Maria Autou'a a' . Do. do. New 2 Melbourne Dk. &Ry. all Namur & Liege (wit; interesn all Do. (ex interest) all Northern of France Do. 201. 3 p. c Bds I all (fmy.B.&,Ams.Shs ; all NorwegiauTrunkPref 10 Paris and Lyons all Ditto Bor • all Paris and Orl all 'Paris and Rouen— all Paris and Strasbourb 10 ParisCaer &C.terbrg 102, Quebec & Richmond all Rouen an Havre 12 Royal Danish 2 Royal Swedisis all Sambre and 3,1309 e.„ 6 Do. 56 p. cent. Pref. 6 Southern of 8 St. Anerew's and Quebec (A) all West Flanders all Do 5i pee c. Pref 10 Western of Fiance 7 West. of Switzerland, 2 Wiesbaden 15 Zealand -3 dxn 1 4 3d id- iP . - - 4 a 14 2 p 1 - - P ..• -- . ..d. • 9 7 d , f L id 18i 191 par /la 7 —9 P dis Ei —5l i -4t 1 1.1 —14 d 2 1 a ..i— ••• d pr 7 - 7} 32 = - g —9 mn 16 -- 16ip, 35 291 -- S 3 Pia 3 -- d 2 c _ ~g - 8~ ... • 4f d • 5 PI 3i ▪ 5i MISCELLANEO US all Aubin Coal and Iron 17i Australian Agricult. 14 Australsn.Pcific.lYlail 8 A.ustraln. Royal Mail , 4 Berlin Water Works 40 Brit. American Laud I 1 Brit. etz Coln. Smeltg. and Reduction Ca 32i Cane da 5 I Cry 3tal P. 1e... a 1. Do. New...... ....... 2 Crystal Pal. of Fra ice 3 Eastern Stea:n 20 Electri;;Teegraph(A) all Do. (B) 1 Electric Teleg. of 14 Gen. Steam 2,:avlgat. 18 Generel Stearc 7 Irish Beetvoot Sugar 10 Magd..leua St. Navig. all Nat. Pat. Steam Fue' 3 Nethe:lands Land.... 1 N. S. W. Coal dr Inter. Steam Navigat. Co. all N. B. Australasian... Do. New 10 ]firth. ofEm ope Steam all Peel Rr. Ld. all Peninsula. & Oriental 35 Do. Do. all Portland Iron Co 60 'loyal Ma Dam all Scot. /Lust, 1 . Inves 2:3 south Austral. Land all Submar. Telegraph all Jo. Registered • 28i Pau Diemen Lang ••• 45i - ... 65 - 75 80 - 85 .•• 61 - 17 1-- 18 1 ---- ii i 7 ii id i - iP - 23 36 - 38 - 1 12 TlB - 1 1.01 i i 60k 964 6 10 20 771 8 71 5 10 St. 5 12 i 112 I St. 50 28i 1 50 53 I 1 12 St. St. per cent. 611 1 i 15 8g 8 10 10 25 10 1.01 5 5 t Bt. :I pnl 125 474 7 Iraid:l RAILWAYS. all Bedford and Bletchley.... 100 Buckghamsh. all Clydesdale Je. 100 E. Lincoln gr. 6 per cent. all Glas. Barr. & Neils. Direc: all Do. New...... allelstr.&Dn.Frl all Efrtlpl. Dk. Railway . . .. all Hull Selby all Do. Shares. all Do. Shares. all Lon.&Greenis all Do.Preferenc. 100 Lowestoft g 4 per cent. 100- Do. 6 per cf. all dancb. and Matloc all Niiddlesbro' S:1 Redcar all lifidld.Bradfd all Northern and Easternsp.c. Do. 6 per ct. all Do. fixeds p e all Prest. & Wyre L Do. Shares. 100 Roystn.& - llit , . 100 Do.Shepth.S. Shef.RothAN Gooleg.s p. c. 9:: S. Staffordbh. all Wear Valleygr 6 per cent... Dwoilt!&somrstl LOl - 103 50 - 52 25 -26 12 - 13 22i - 234 2A- 21 6 ----- bl) ri - 56 ad ad = iidl ..• - ••• 29 - 3 0 90 - 02 PREFERENCE SHARES. 100 iberdeen 100 , Do. No. 2, p:" 30 BlythandTyne 10 per c. pref. (issd. at 500 100 Bris. & Es. 4p. c. St. 5 Do. 4p. c. Shares iOO Caledonian £lO all Chester & Holyhead Guar. 54 per cent I 6 Cork &Bandons.p.c all Dundee Perth &Abar- all ldeen Junction EastAngliau (£3los; 6 per cent all Do. (.£5) 7 per cent 2 Do. (£71 . 7x) 7p. c all Eastern Counties Ex tensi on, 5 p. 1 all Do. No. 2 all Do. New 6 p. c. St. all Eastern Union, Seri} Guar. 6 per cent all Do. 51., 10 per C3l all Do. 101. Deben.r.S . 100 East Lan cash. 6 p.ct all East and West Yorl. shire Junc. Pref all EdinbPrth.&Dundec 5i per cent. 100 Glasgow & S.Westen2 Guar. 5 per cent 100 Great Northn. sp. c. 100 Do. sp. c. Redeem.; at 10p. c. prem... 10 Do. 4 3 / 4 - p.c. Scrip 6 Gt.N. orScoL. Ist Pre, all Gt. Southn. &Westin. (Ireland) Eighths)... 5 Do. 4 per c. Pre'. Sh. 6 Gt. Westn. (Beyks S. Haut , ' Ea. 5 c)... 100 Do co P. red. 4: 2 p.c. 100 Do. con. red. 4p. c. 100 Do. irred. 4p. c.... 6 Lan. &York. I'. £2O 100 Do. 6 p. c. Stock ..., 13 Leeds N. 6p. e. No.l Do. Quarters. 348 100 London and L • Guaranteed 5 p. c 100 Do. Pref., 5 p. c. St. an iDo. Convertible, 5 p c.,1852 _Op Do. New Gus, - ..6 p. c app Lon.&N. W., Cov. Nuneaton 5 London &S. Western - I Con. Thirds all Londonderry& Coler Shares all Londy. & Ennis.A Sh all Wan., Shef., & * Shares, No. 1. all Do. New, £lO 4' Do. a all* sfarypi;.& Carl. 4 p.c an Do. 4i per cent 10. Do 100 mid. Consol.6 p.c.St up Do. Consol. Bristol Sz, JBrm. 6 per cent 5 Do. Pref. 41. per cent 6 Norfolk Debenture , 100 Do. Prof. 4 p. c. Stock 100 I Jo. 5 p. c. Ezt 00 Do. 5i per ct .pref Do. Way. Val. 5 p. c North British - all North Staffordshire.. 103 Oxford, Worcester, bt Wolverh. £l5, 6 p.c. 15 D 0... - all Scot. Cent. ,New Pre all Shrews. &Birm.N.G. all Shrewsby. & Chester (Nor.W.Min), 8 p.c. 10 Do. 5 per cent all , South Devon ' r Do. ftxed,44 per cent !.; all S. Eastern (Readitr , Ara.) of £1 Os. 6d. e. 100 Do. 4 iper cent. all '3.Yorksb.4p.c.Guar. all Stockton and Dar lington, 4 per cent. 5 Do. do. do all Stockton and Harti:- pool, guar. 5 p. c. till Ist July, 185 t 3 Waterfd.&Kilir.6p.c. 1.00 York, Neweastle,ano Berwick,4 p.c. Pref. 5I Do 10 York&N.Midlandll and S. Porch : 2i - 3i 3t i - 4 - i P -P 121-12 p 23 - 24 3 -3i di -- 11i4d 105 - 107 9/ - 10 7i --- 8 ad 6 6A 94 - 96 87 89 88 93 pa 128 132 •• • '... ... 2} -21 p 1 14— 6 i 1 9 id _3O - 132 1 lid 94 -96 SI - 9 15} -16 i 9i -- 10 11 -- 13 id * nl 221 -- 231 98 -- 100 15 -- 20 ••• ......' • ••• ''' • "i 88 - 92 3 - 3§ 11 - id 1i li t i d - - I P 1 d 1 t : 4 I : 1 10 - 6 - 8 4 - - 24 29 -31 - 42 - 44 - 10 - 12 50 - 60 2 - 4 1/ - 2t II - i 1 - li to = it A - - 64 I - 6 i - i 15i - 16; A 23 - .11 8 -10 3 - 4 I - i 2 - 4 21— I d ... -- ••• i --i a .• -- .. if ---- $ all lustralasia all British Colonial Raul and Loan Company all British N. American 5 Chartd. Bank of Asia 2 Chrtd. link. of India, Australia, & China 25 Colonial 20 Commercial of Loud 12 English Scottish an 6 78 - 80 id 2 lid 1 - -- I Australian 20 Loud. Chart. Bk. 0 4i - 30 1 20 - 21 1 Australia 20 London and County 10 London Joint Stock 20 Lond. &Westminstm 35 National Provincial of England 10 Do. New 22i National of Ireland all New South Wales all Oriental Bank of Corporation 5 Do. New 25 Provincial o Ireland all Do. New 1 Ron Australn.Bkg 46 - 48 g; cold Imp Co—. all South An.tralia all UniGA of Australia 2i Do. New 10 Union of London a - 43 70 - 72 7 - 8 CAXTON PENSION FUND._Mr• W• Cooke has offered the profits of an entertainment at Astley's Amphitheatre in aid of the above fund, in connection with the Printers' Pension Society, which is to take 040 git Saturday , Juno 8, IMPERIAL PARMAIVIEN r. HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTER.DALY;;; ) The house met at five o'clock. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petitio n l ainst the dog-cart nuisance in the provinces. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY presentee l. per titions from Sheffield, Exeter, and other places , f 'or a ;losing public houses on Sunday ; also, a petition fro m the Lord Provost, magistrates, and council of E 'tdin burgh, against public executions. EPISCOPAL AND CA.PITULAR ESTAI TS MA NAGEMENT (1354) BILL. On the motion for going into committee upon this bill, The Earl of DERBY said it was worth the c msidera tion of the Government to inquire before pr oceeding with this measure how far the existing commis lion had fulfilled its original intentions. He was given t 3 under stand that the transference of the management 3f these estates into the hands of the commission had ' placed lessees in a less advantageous position than t hey f)r rnerly were with regard to the renewal of leases. Earl GRANVILLE observed that it was an i nconve nient course to discuss that question before go 33g into committee. The Bishop of OXFORD pointed out the nect esity of referring the bill to a select committee, and coi C4l.lluded by making a motion for that purpose. After a short conversation the amendment o f the . . right rev, prelate was agreed to, and the bill v is re ferred to a select committee. DANGEROUS ANIMALS BILLS. Lord LONDESBOROUGH move d t h e secon d read ing of this bill, which he explained was directed espe, daily to the dangerous practice of employing dogs in dra wing carte, which was still carried on to a considerable e: dent in the country districts, and which he believed to bt 3 one great cause of canine madness. The Earl of HARDWICKE admitted the nui sa.nce arising from the practice to which his noble frien4 I ad verted, but he questioned how far they would be justi fied in preventing the use of dogs, which he belies ed in proportion to their strength were as fitted for the pur poses of draught as any other animal, in drawing , carts, especially when it was recollected that a very cont dder able number of persons who could not afford to ern ploy horses were enabled by means of their dog carts to earn their subsistence. He should oppose the bill. Lord BERNERS supported the bill. The Earl of CHICHESTER believed the practice of employing dogs for drawing carts occasioned may serious a ccidents, and so far as it prohibited that practice he approved of the principle of the bill. The Earl of WICKLOW suggested that the fact that a similar bill had passed the House of Commons and had been thrown out by their lordships by a very small majority in a previous session, ought to induce them to give the measure a favourable consideration. He should vote for the second reading, and in comm i ttee would move its operation be extended to Ireland. The Earl of CARNARVON spoke in favour of the bill, which he thought was calculated to put down a. great public nuisance. It was only the lowest, most degraded, and most brutalised class of the community that em ployed dogs as beasts of draught. Lord REDESDALE thought that the bill was not calculated even to carry out its own principle. By its provisions two credible witnesses were to go and make oath before a justice of the peace of the madness of a dog, which in the meantime was to be left running about and doing as much mischief as possible. Again, there was a provision that after a dog was taken with madness all the dogs of the district were to be muzzled. Under this provision if some nervous persons saw a dog running about with his tongue out and looking languid, the hounds would have to turn out for the next day's hunt with their mouths tied up. (Laughter.) After a few words from the Earl of LANESBOROUGH, The gallery was cleared for a division ; no division, however, took place, the bill being withdrawn. SECOND COMMON LAW PROCEDURE (1854) BILL. On our readmission to the gallery we found their lord ships in committee, and Lord ST. LEONARDS complaining that in the clauses of this bill with regard to arbitration there was no provi sion made in accordan:3 with the recommendation of the Common Law Commissioners, who stated in their report that means ought to be taken to prevent frequent ad journments of arbitrators. The greatest misfortune which could happen to a man sending him before an arbitrator, who was tied to no time within which to make his report. In such a case the arbitrator only sat when it suited his convenience, and then very often it was impossible to get counsel to attend, other appoint ments keeping them away. If this part of the bill were persevered in he should propose to insert some time within which . an arbitrat or oug ht t o ma k e hi s awar d. The next objectionable past o f th e measure was con t a i ne d in the 17th clause, by which it was proposed to enact that if, at the expiration of 12 hours, 10 or 11 of the jurymen should agree, the verdict of such 10 or 11 should be taken as the verdict of all. The Common Law Commissioners had reported against any a lt era ti on o f th e unanimity required by the present law, but the committee of that house had proposed tbat after twelve hours' deli beration the assent of ten of the jury should be sufficient. He, not without reluctance, assented to the idea that after twelve hours' deliberation the unanimity of eleven should be sufficient, for it might undoubtedly happen that that one juror standing out would prevent justice being done. When, however, two jurymen concurred in opposing the rest, it was quite a different thing to say that the verdict of the remaining ten should be taken. He should therefore propose so to alter the 17th section that the verdict of not less than eleven jurors— the jury having previously been shut up twelve hours — should be taken. The next clause to which he objected was that relating to oaths. This clause dispensed with the necessity of a man taking an oath provided he had a conscientious objection to it. The commissioners, being divided in opinion, had not reported upon this point. He (Lord St. Leonards) could not at that time say how far he was prepared to go in relieving a man's conscientious scruples with regard to the taking of an oath, but he objected in the most positive manner to the question being at all dealt with in the present bill. It was a subject of very great importance and ought to be brought before the legislature in a substantive and dis tinct form, and not mixed up in the details of a bill like the present. Nor was this the only ground of objection to this clause. It was proposed to leave it to the judge to say whether or not a man should take an oath, upon that party's bare statement that he had a conscientious scruple to do so. Thus the duty of considering whether a man ought to take an oath ornot, was cast upon the judge, without his having any means of arriving at a just con clusion. Beyond these points, there was nothing in the bill to which he directly objected ; at the same time, the measure was of such great importance that he would venture to detain the committee while he drew their lordships' attention to the branches of the law with which it was most intimately connected. The measure, without doubt, had its origin in the feeling which had prevailed to some extent, that there ought to be a fusion of law and equity. That fusion had been, it was said, effected in America, and had worked well. But their lordships ought to be told what the so-called "fusion" in America was. It was little more than this, instead of two judges, one administering law in one court, and another equity in another, there was one judge who sat in one court and possessed a sort of divided existence, at one moment saying, " Now I'm law," at another, " Now I'm equity." He (Lord St. Leonards) must candidly confess that he saw nothing to recommend such a " fusion." In Scotland, however, law and equity was really fused, and what was the re sult ? He wished to say nothing against the learned lords who administered justice in that country, indeed he believed they were quite competent to fulfil the duties of the position in which they were placed, and he be lieved, moreover, that it was the system only that was to blame, but it was impossible to sit day after day in that house without seeing that the number of appeals to their lordships from the English and Irish courts was as nothing compared to those from the Scotch courts. At the present moment the numbers stood thus : for every one Irish appeal there were eleven Scotch ap peals. Here then was an example in their own house to warn their lordships that the fusion of law and equity did not work well. At the same time there were some things in which the equitable jurisdiction might, with advantage, be extended to a common law tri bunal, but there were others in which the very differ once of these tribunals prevented their extension to both courts of law and equity. At law, speaking generally, a man could have no other remedy than an action for damages, but at equity the very contract concerning which a bill was filed was enforced. Equity did not give damages, but compelled the defaulting party . to do that which he had contracted to do. Equity also inter fered to prevent a wrong doing. Of this a well known instance occurred in the case of Mdlle. Wagner. The Court of Chancery could not compel that lady to sing, but it compelled her not to sing elsewhere than where she had contracted to do so. Had she ventured to sing at Mr. Gye's theatre she would have b een imprisoned. Now, if the power of decreeing specific performance _ That were given to a court of law it would do no good. court had not the proper office rs to see such a decree carried into execution, while, on the other a ha a n p d, d th t e o machinery of the equity co urts was facts, do compel p to - that object. The bill enabled acourf e of f law a discovery, b o th of documents ande s oniall grant exparte injunctions. In short, it would turn the courts of law into courts of equity without giving them any of the equity mach i nery, and the result would be to create a conflict of o p inion between the common law judges, and also betw een the courts of common law and the courts of e q uit y . The commissioners never in tended to go the length that this bill went. As the bill was originally brought in, the defence was to be un d o ubted defence in equity, and the replication anw asto be an undoubted equitable replication. The changes proposed were of such a nature that he felt bound to direct their lordships' attention to them. He would take a particular instance—that of a common contract for the sale of an estate. Suppose A. should sell an estate to B, and agree to produce the title on the 7th of May, and to give possession on the 11th of May. As the law stood, those dates were of the essence of the contract ; the law knew nothing of time. If the title were not ready by the day, the purchaser was freed ; and if either party failed to fulfil his part of the contract the remedy was an action for da mages . I n equ it y the case wasjust the reverse. Alth oug h ti me m i g ht be of the essence of the contract, yet ordinarily speaking it was not ; and if one party brought an action for damages, the other party filed a bill in equity. Well, now, if this bill passed, the court of law would have two rules. Ho did not say that if the country determined that one court should decide both law equity, there would not ibe a great sav i ng b o th of time and money ; but he said 1 that they must give courts machinery to carry into effect the duties which they imposed upon them. In the case which he had stated, the courts of law, retain ing their present jurisdiction, were to be left to decid upon equitable grounds against their own rule. If he all bona Fria all Anglo Austrin. Gold all Anglo Californian 2 _Australasian 6 Australian all Australian Cordillera all Australian Freehold' all Ave Maria all Bader (Gd. Duchy et ) all Blaenarvon :... : C)" , all Brii:sh Anstrl 1. Gold 13.5 ritish Iron . 244 Brazilianlmp.(issnec at £5 pm all Do. Cocaes & Unlade', 15 Do. St. John Dcl Rey Carson's Creek 6 Clarendon Co 1. Min . _ - Co. of Jamaica all Cobra Copper 1 Colouial Grolo 15 Cop 4 apo all Copper Min. o! Eng all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. all English and Austrin. Copper Smel tg. Co all General all Great Nugget Vein all Do. Registered all Great Polgooth all Liberty all Linares all Lond.&Californ.Gold Quartz Crush. Co all Aarienita 9 dlexican &S. A merlon all New Granada all New Linares Mining and Smelting Co all Nouvear Monde all ?ontgibaud Silver Lead Min. & Smelt. 1 ?ort Philip all Quartz Lc • all th3...nuey I_ a a 15 )o. New /C . San;;!aLo de uoba all '''auth Australian 7 liu Cr o:t all Jni'ad. Memic..ll all Waller all West vranada all West Mariposa 12 - _ Worthing Mining o' all lAustralia Yuba JOINT-S' 12 St St 25 1 10 1 1 xd 2O 50 50 100 100 20 50 20 25 Leasing Compans. London Si N. West, L.&N.W. Caledon.., 3t.Nrthn. Jaldonian. Do Trestn ?k. New. Y.& Do Do i s. Eastern !Do i'Zorfolk r•W &ld 'tekton Darling. \lidland. I'. Count. ..... S;Ln&Yk SltNorthr r_aane,aialit Yorksh. 11.MClear Stockt. Darlingt. D 0... IGtWestn. !Closing Prices yesterday. 93 - 95 91 - 95 90 89 31 2 11 die Business this day. 1301 7i 21 201 were to enter further into detail, the result would ba. to add the force of the objections which he haft urged. His object had been to place the matter in. such a light as would enable their lordships to arrive. at a just conclusion, and his excuse for having thus trespassed on their attention was that they never had a bill of greater importance brought under their consideration. The noble and learned lord con cluded by intimating, in a tone which was scarcely audible, that there were two clauses on which he in• tended to take the sense of the house. The LORD CHANCELLOR said his noble and learned friend had referred in committee to five or six different provisions of a bill containing more than a hun dred clauses, stating that there were only two on which he intended to take a division ; and though he was very unwilling to trouble their lordships at that moment, he could not leave his noble and learned friend's observa tions un answered. What was the history of this mea sure ? Two years ago a bill was passed, founded on the report of a commission of learned Persons, making most extensive• changes in the proceeding s at common law. His noble ,and learned friend near him (Lord Brougham) would bear him out in saying that the working of the provisions of the bill was most satisfactorily. On a recent occasion his noble and learned friend attributed to that cause the diminution in the business of the county courts as compared with that of the superior courts:. Lord BROUGHAM--Not to the improvement of the article, but to the lowering of the price. (Laught er .) The LO RD CHANCELLOR continued—The present bill was founded on a second report of the same com mission,. and had received the approval of a select corn mitttee of their lordships' house, who went through it clause by clause. Now, what were the objections of his noble and learned friend ? First, he expressed a doubt as to the expediency of allowing parties to have a cause tried by a judge without the assistance of a jury. He (the Lord Chancellor) would confess that that was a part of the measure of which he was not at first ena moured, because he thought that men were often im proved as citizens in discharging their duties as jurymen ; but, at the same time, when a bill for amending the law had to be introduced to the legislature, it occurred to him that it was not fair to suitors to make them pay for the education of the community. (Hear, hear.) Tho next clause to which his noble friend adverted was one on which he had intimated his intention to take a divi sion. Their lordships were aware that, as the law stood at prevent, unanimity was necessary. Now, undoubt edly, the clause in question, which had been introduced after great byeat consideration, was not that which was recom mended the commissioners. He quite agreed with his noble and learned friend that with all its anomalies the present state of the law had not been productive of any great degree of practical injustice. But when they were making a change of this nature it was impossible to pr give ep ns e t d h w i s aquestionutnhe an gob nn - ity y . s b . % n V 1 l a d t b t h e e p e r o e m s e m r v i s e s d i ne r bute that the absurfdolo2d hourso andr fire l oc ki ng e arbarous rule o f up the u e t hseh jury yd should uld n abolished, ot h v and agreed,that if a r y t the without end of having had reasonabl e re f res h ment in the ameantim then the matter should d rop an d i t should be open, to the parties to have a new trial. That provision under went great consideration ; and his noble and learned friend the Lord Chief Justice suggested that the twelve hours should be retained, and if at the end of that time the jury were unanimous well and good, but if they were not and ten or eleven et them, five to one, were of one mind that should be a good verdict. There might be an obstinate man on a jury, who might be influenced by the consideration that if he only held out for twelve hours there would be an end of the matter ; and such a person would be more I.kely to be reasonable if he knew that at the end of the twelve hours the other jurymen would carry the verdict against him. His noble and learned friend complained of what he called the arbitra tion clauses. Any one who had been in the habit of attending the courts of law must be aware that many cases came before them which it was impossible to try. Suppose an action was brought by a builder for work to the amount of 5,0001., made up of a number of small items, it was not possible to decide the matter in court, seeing that every item would have to be investigated se• parately. The ordinary course was for the court to refer such cases to arbitration. By the bill power was given to the judge, at the instance of either party, to refer the matter to arbitration before any expense had been in curred. This was undoubtedly a new thing in Eng land, but it was not new in Great Britain, for in Scotland it was the common mode of proceeding with regard to accounts, and he anticipated great benefit as the result of its introduction here. The next provision to which b;s noble and learned friend objected was one relating to oaths, a provision which would, he thought, be received with satisfaction by the country at large. The present state of the law on this subject was most anomalous. Quakers, Mora vians, and Separatists, were absolved from the taking of oaths, and what was proposed was, that any person who, on being called as a witness, stated that he had a con scientious scruple against the taking of an oath, should be allowed to make an affirmation instead, provided the judge were satisfied of the sincerity of his objection. His noble friend asked why such a party was to be relieved ? This, as it appeared to him, was putting the matter on a most absurd foundation. It was unimportant to the witness whether his evidence were received or not ; but to a tradesman who was suing for the amount of a bill, it was of material consequence that the only person perhaps who coL'ld speak to the facts should not have his testimony refused. By the bill, tkis matter was placed on a rational footing. A few words in reply to his noble and learned friend's objections to the equity clauses. Their lordships could not be unaware of the fact that there had of late been a great call among legal refor mers for what was termed lega fusion, or the abolishing of the distinction between law and equity. Most unques tionably, if any man were going to make a code of laws for some island which had suddenly sprung up in the Pacific, and which bad just been peopled, he would not think of establishing there two systems—one of law and another of equity. But he had never been one of those who in making changes in a system that worked tolerably well on the whole, would, from a desire to carry out at once what might be theoretically right, incur the risk of creatiog practical difficulties. He thought it best in such a matter to proceed step by step. If there were any one principle upon which law reformers ought to be agreed it was that there should be one suit for one cause, in other words that one and the same court should be able to do entire justice in the case ; and all that the bill proposed had been devised with that view. The last objection he ever expected to hear the bill was that it was a step too much in advance. He would not answer the objections of his noble and learned friend in detail, but he thought they were generally un tenable. He hoped the bill had no obscurity about it : it seemed to be well and carefully drawn, and to have legitimate objects in view. Lord CAMPBELL approved of the bill, and would state his reasons for doing so on the third reading. Tho bill then went tnrough committee. CHURCH BUILDING ACTS AMENDMENT - BILL. This bill was re-committed. Their lordships adjourned at twenty minutes after eight o'clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS-(YESTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at four o'clock. The following bills were considered, and ordered to be read a third time :—Bagenalstown and Wexford (No. 2), Bideford Roads, Cornwall Railway, Dudley, Halesowen, and Bromsgrove Roads, Edinburgh Roads, Londonderry and Enniskillen Railway, Newport and Pillgwenlly Water works, Newport Dock, Stockport Rectory Division, Lon don, Tilbury, and Southend Railway, and West Brom wich Improvement Bills. YORK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWICK RAILWAY (CONSTRUCTION OF DOCKS, ho.) BILL. Mr. COWPER moved the omission of clause 10 in this bill, with tho view of inserting another clause, for the pur. pose of protecting the navigation of the river Tyno. Mr. STEPHENSON, Mr. J. H. LIDDEL, and Mr. Bou. YERIE, opposed the amendment. Sir J. GRAHAM said, believing that tho sense of the house was against the amendment, he should withdraw it. The bill was then read a third time and expressed. MIDDLESEX INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL. Ou the motion for considering the above bill, Mr. MULLINGS moved the omission of certain words in the bill respecting the regulation of religious worship in those schools. Mr. J. BALL opposed the amendment. This bill, though brought in as a private ono, was in reality a most important measure as regarded the public, and was the first attempt to get hold of the Roman Catholic children in those institutions under the plea of instructing them, but in reality for purposes of proselytism. Sir G. GREY said as a member of the committee upon whom devolved the consideration of this question, he felt, bound to support the retaining of the words in the bill, the omission of which had been moved by the hon mem ber (Mr. Mulling). Sir J. PAKINGTON said ho also had been a member of the committee to whom the bill had been referred, and he could not help expressing his hope that his hon. friend (Mr. Mullings) would not press his amendment. (Hear.) Mr. NEWDEGATE supported the amendment of hie hon. friend (Mr. Mullings). He thought the words ob jected to were wholly unjustifiable, as they would go to allow the celebration of the mass in those institutions, which was a thing unknown since the Reformation. Mr. DRUMMOND thought his hon. friend (Mr. New degate) was frightened at the word " mass," for he thought any other form of word. would not have challenged the opposition of the hon. member, for in reality, there was nothing frightful in school-rooms being used as places of instruction for children. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SPOONER said the hon. member (Mr. Drummond) had made very light of a very serious matter ; but he (Mr. Spooner) thought that any minister who should advise the Queen to sanction such a bill ought to be impeached. (Cries of " Divide.") Mr. ADDERLEY supported the amendment, not on the ground of the hon. member who proposed it, but , ho believed it would be found wholly impracticable. ee t_L itte : Lord D. STUART said, as a member of the ht been introduced as a general public bill an ho had opposed this bill, which he considereddounegteetoshparvie. to w a s w hich he (Lord vate bill. He believed, however , t hat thee cfleauunsdeeodbjeencttehde by the hon. member (Mr. H ollin g s) le principles of religious liberty—pr ne D. ort tho amend sSsetsu.art(H) wished ear.) to see extended i to all sects and all of su Toman Catholic moot. H T E h N er L e E , Y vere sai e d forms the o f amendment.theiro h ht they ought to children in those schools, largo he e could an d he numbernot t u g cl °when the numbers appeared-- wn The house thou divide , l9O h ch a u ve rc r h e . lig lTe us sh w o o u rs ld h t i li peareceforrdeivnogtteoagtahienst For the clause .............. 108 For the amendment Majority for the clause 62 So the amendment UILDIN Was lost an ACTS .d the clause agreed to. BUILDING Sir J. SHELLEY asked the Secretary of State for the Home Department when he intends to bring in a bill to amend the Metropolitan Buildings Act. Lord PALMERSTON said the bill would be for the amendment of 13wilding Ada generally, and he could not ilis ard t.ted and will and.. 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