The Sun. — London, England, 1845-07-26 00:00:00

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P a id ny h a e r )usand franc; vho 01.1rijn oi c busin el , ° Eng l3" the r3"r‘l dir ect the 0 , r oontlh ae ct u rch.'" a 9 P d fat' red a" ,id/ at to b e : to be " 11 to 0 doli vc " ,! t he sterlingfoo at A nt stablibro- guec boA of ti 50 0 v e. A R e f o r ridni e, ting ,c 1 in e e l oa s ith ft. fi clo , 00 d P7 O l the sn e ,59 6 n we n t ~ nee rdurof [Jors owlYwick . 5 a t . . a ht ely bour A cran' dA yi a fel , ' , 54, 16 ':ful , snec e y . ef• ,ber, re ttl ri e rrtie l 3o ,l c sdaY;,e; afe e g e r i ot sefe ee jrau g r out rtea ° Tb e tbd o; o r t O. o ,hipe• for daY SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. TEWKESBURY AND GLOUCESTER RACES. THURSDAY. The Ham Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 30 added. Heats, once round and a distance. Mr. Clark' s h fhv Defence, out of Nik6, 3 yTs...(Treon) 1 1 Mr. Wall's B or i ani, 3 yrs ' 5 2 Mr. 1 — r. I Raworth's 1 ,-, •ram ' 4 T. , 2 3 ai M ' ..r. Tr ten s Wild Roe, 3 yrs Pearce's Jack, 6 rs The Gloucestershire Stakes of 25 s o y a . eac h, 15 ft, a n d 5 only if declared. About two miles. Mr. Isaac Day's b g by Mazeppa, 4 yrs The e Borough Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 25 added by the 11Member. Gentlemen riders. Once round and a distance. .r. Parr's Minna Troil, 4 y r s (Owner) 1 Dir. Wales' Zel 4 sir ,-, _ . . a, yrs M.r.‘,p.ecock,erell's President, aged ••• Pearce 's Florine, 3 yrs "eepstakes of 3 soys, each, with 25 added. Heats, once , round and a distance. Winner to be sold for 50/. lgtirr.•lPvarir,:s Teetotaller, 6 yrs... ........... ...(Owner) 0 1 1 ... ai s 1303, 3 yrs 11!r. Minor's Manasseh, 3 yrs ••• ;11,r. Pearce's Miriam, aged L!r. Brailsford's Chevy Chase, 3 yrs ~I ; r• J. G!-ifliths's Somerset, 5 yrs air, Ballinger's Wellington, 4 yrs I r. W. Tucker's Nelly Holmes, 4 yrs 0 dis NEWTON RACES—THURSDAY. The St. Leger Stakes of 20 sovs. each, and 30 added. One Iflrr:l3Ae.nlnett's Hope mile and a half. (Marlow) 1 s V. Hill's Ironmaster Th e Golborne Stakes of 20 sovs. each, with 50 added, for lirf t . ~, . two-yr-olds. Golborne course. m•i• A orthington's ch cby Stockport ...(Whitehouse) 1 u , r. F.• Peel' T '' p'_. .. c . . s wig ~1. ssaltine's Fitz:a-nil= ir. r. Dawson's Lord Harry . p. The fallowing also ran :—Sir J. Gerrard's Brutus, Lord Pt glinton's Dolo, Mr. Mostyn's ch c by Hetman Platotf, out iss Thomasine, Mr. Stephenson's Seaham, and Mr. I • 4°m Ps° ll 's fby Stakes out of Miss Fitz. The Garswood'Hun of 10 soya, each, 5 ft, and 50 ~ added. One mile and half. Gentlemen riders. on• John,,,, Gerard's Jessie, aged ... walked over "e Borough Cup of 100 sovs, added to a Handicap of 20 h se a v if s . • each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared One mile and a A te„ r(1 Warwick's Yardley, 5 yrs (Whitehouse) 1 Sir A. JO hnstone's Rowena, 4 yrs 2 „j• Gerard's Brunel, 4 vrs ;, 3alr. llornby's Cock Rubin, 4 yrs, and Mr. Heaps Staley, v•rs, wee not placed. ee pstakes of 20 soya. each, with 20 added. Golborne Sir John Gerard's Pluto, 3 vrs . • Walked over. A rr. „ Plate of 70/. Ileats, one mile and a Pal'. c a . ) , l ' , wson' s 'My Pet, :3 yrs (Wintringliam) 1 Captain Boyd's 'Dog Billy, 4 yrs Her Ma' I PSWIC I I RACES.—WEDNESDAY. by hi t 'i, i e h s tY'e Plate of 100 Guineas was won in three heats Thnb r i.; ",, af t"'s Metal, :3 yrs (Cotton), beating Lord Exeter's Woodr, - ;,," Yrs• 'V • Theobald's Desperation, 3 vrs ; Mr. bageaetdi.;e-el`fs Devil among-the-Tailors, 6 yrs; and Sir Philip, Members' Plate was won by Mr. Robinson's Glee, Thing T imbria and Devil-among-the-Tailors. be„.,e Gentlemen's Purse was won' by Desperation, beating '''amon g - the-Tailors, and Odd Mixture. Th e he l- , 81 .1: OF W IGIIT RACES.—WEDNESDAY. by a " alden Plate.—Both heats won by Medina ; the first necknad and neck, and the second by a length. j, l rr i s on Stakes.—A beautiful race won by half a P, i ,. -3' tills Fawn. Adrian was afterwards drawn, and left The to walk by herself. Gipsi es Ladies' by was won nobly by the Queen of the heat, the others barely saving their distance in the first TO t ri ,. 4 Was left to do the work alone. N il ,' "ad( Stakes. —A pretty race in the first heat ; Irish lec,l(in'ame in by half a neck, Molly second, the other two beti„"g o n and barely saved distance. Second and . third . heat k id teheenelrishman and Forty-one, the latter email, in first, H er 1 ,. (4 . 1ner each time a good second. Won by a neck. ebg ery •,'laJesty and the Prince were not on the course, but Th e,. part of the race from the road. C/ we e 4 ing of Holland has been lent Norris Castle, East . t0.4,' fi r a weeklby Robert Bell. Esq. and willarriye there Si r , , Irh a ,'" ), ln Pens , is given directions for the erection of a , 441 at Bast Cowes, opposite the old Custom-house. The IN ng Place is to be 60 feet square, with gates towards the itit t ! t i that her Majesty may land and embark without the . "wn of the inhabitants and others. DOWN ROYAL CORPORATION RACES. W I , (From th e A rmag h S por ti ng CZ ron i c l e .) 1/.4 9I; ')NE SDAY, JULY 23.—The Queen's Plato of 100 sovs., The n by' by Mr. M axwe ll' s b c J o h nn y. *elp;', u nwnpatrick Challengable Cup was won by Mr. Max.i'', ur,,c Ilanrcoman. a kree dicap was won by Croydon. 'rap ~, . CRICKET. ' F.NTLEMEN OF ENGLAND V. TILE PLAYERS OF At le ENGLAND. atlcl, a ngth thi s ma t c h h as been brought to a conclusion, tiNvs t he score w ill s h ow , i n f avour of the Players. The Isi,likeZ Part of th e a ff a i r was th a t, a lth oug h th ere were s i x Yqt this t o go in, th e w h o l e on ly p ro d uc ed s e v en . runs ; and and ''Y were all goo d w i c k e t s, an d w h a t i s terme d "likely k rtti pr"lis ing for runs ;" the more so as they had been un -4,,,1ate in th e fi rst i nn i ngs. Th e b ow li ng o f Lillywhite and Ivlti y - h w a 3 splendid, and nearly every time at the stumps, to With m ea t-Ise probably may be - attributed the ineffective play `ue bat. The filial state of the score was as follows : Lill y , PLAYERS. a:-C n i,te, b Bathurst 0 ... c Bathurst, b Mynn ... 0 Ma rt i'„ r, 0 Taylor Filch " 1 ;91, li Mynn Gu y Tapper,'e b Bathurst 44 ... b Bathurst , , b vl ~ 3 tis h t , or FieN. i''' b Taylor b o ' r : ; : 1 ) Mc r , 6c. Bathurst b Lynn... 1 1) 1 ' ' n , gton, Taylor'b u Ile ‘' Taylor Dead,, b - M • 3nn 4 c Pickering b Bathurst ... 18 not out 1)33 7, Wide ( llnn )3, no Byes 4, wide (Mynn 8, Taor , B 1, balls (rynn) .v 7 ...... - Napper 1, Alynnl), 7.. 21 tif,;, A,: ,t,nson, Esq , l tITINIIE GII2,,N7TLEMEN. 149 ''', k to'' Wa hittaker, Esq., c b D i e l a i n Li-ver '''''' *** 9 b Hillyer ... II c llillyer ... .6 , A . '''‘.l)Per, Esq., b Lillywhite t, " - ` 3.l 'n, E 51., b Lillywhite G. 9 lion out II Taylor, Esq., c Dean .. . . 2 5 3 8 5 43 b Lillywhite 6 1.1, x l?eli ; Esq., b Lillywhite . 3 b Lillywhite 0 E it Yna Q° ll , Esq., b lillywhite . F, -1. hewing I;' , zo b Lillywhite ,p_ , ..„, ~ . R'• r4on, Is run out. c L u i 3 l , lilitl e n a t n e 03 3 7 Not 0ut...... , 11. , . -1., sit ,yeaering, '.sq., not out 0 0 s Box . t. Bathurst, b Lillywhite 133 '" 7 ) Wide (Dean) 2.... ...... ... 9 Beie i s iii 6 .3. , er wid 2 e , Martingale 1), 3 ••• ,T 1 1 , 1„ 94 115 have iVers thus won by 67 runs. It was stated, and we th e amasoni!t kn mrledge, to a certain extent, of the truth of tU ''"rtion t Nud e , * hat many thousands o f pounds were not only 6 on the issue of this match, but changed hands. The n. and \Val , GREAT ChapmanßOATleßssArsC.E of afire boat race between 3 d w strong muster caine °lron Thurslay evening, r t of a race the V bet w t 'fe of the Thames. Theannounce firstm m the een these gentlemen had from its much anxiety moment created 1,,,u_t4,9q lively interest amongst the memb ' ers of the various G ,jile clubs, and was looked forward to with ii,cessary to enter ni'l,:u...el,asses of rowing men. It of thn'n_3 lengthened statement of tl l l i o e s s a t q u b i n i e at f i a c ni ca il r ia ee r r t o o f e n i ‘ t . l e i r er 4 1 ,„ 7.. gentlemen, whose names n . 4,0'111,11 hoever took a pair of sculls in hand d . ; i f a l d iey be l f i n a r d e both iia A d uper r ed great celebrity as scullers, a, , n hate conflicts for precedence. Mr. Thames, the 8 4' 1 the symbol of amateur championship of t e aye spoken, Chapman has twice tir.els,Fulls. On the two occasions of which we h e oatifl.of Ritn, A adhere exhibited, as his opponent,such q a e i l e ) and power, as to leave it a of ln these events 4 r. ,Vuen which to choose. In the first continue the race; question . the minds of in t,lwallace was swamped, and could not or _ I :: o ;:ese p el' al n in d' of ' in carrying Off fTsucceeded, after a most desperate struggle, perhaps the greatest race on record, Mr. Chap d from the II ,gentlemen again together this season, an ~ ems_ victory. The Henley Regatta ' brought the elheY Regatta- bout to descrw . e nate& tae contest we are a and the umpire !lean s In the middle of a close race for the diamond bavi n ' ", fOld occurred between them, Walla g ` leci ded that Mr. Chapman had twice t fo h u e le i d at iN t l e r r .. kt 1 01 ., ., the award of victory was presented 0 Me "dversitY of opinion existed as to the . merits of the .n ortine'r to t hey both went into the most active trainingt The eout3,--,,PrePare for the great struggle of Thursday. i titan, tuj_sett was from Putney-bridge to M K ort i la o i r e e , N, an r d ow th e( e i b Y fli t' e t iaP a "' k at a little after six, Lord with a cer --t,,,w,aterrnen, Mr. Wood, of the L gTeat th i, e ' ea i n o d y e a r l , Acadenl v re h ' ` -- \- 4 'ng number, the Oxford Roomasl clubs and well-ke; ' I -e -' eptune, the Guys, and other great The start wa s tak wri patrons of the sport being present. Wall e e e n with great ra idit - and, after a fe,w strokes, b l ot ever; - 4 , o'4tegaintselriow the desperatelyn 3 o ' se of his boat in athanee, the .p at question • was h w ow as lo s'a ng either col, I d d is l p a u st ted a , t t t_ h ha e t pa t c i e. titewal,c, elf int of the most determined and pluck y work, drew.' him clear off Finch's grounds, where Mr. Chapman x hibi - ti li P" him and scull and scull, and after an li* eh n „' °4 of the' most unflinching 'game on either side, w _ coa t y n in an took the lead near Rosebank, gradually drew or a away, I)oate Ile'l at 4 fine rattling pace, and won by five,_ _mseln', th e • 'ngths. Both are very big and very pouerful wuarier being a member of the Neptune Club. l'esnectibls FULHAM REGATIA. A.ve ry • . tainted contest took place, on Thursday, ongst the 9 bility andsubscribed by the F u lh Y canducted men plying at the Middlesex am sic' eof (~ , ?tit-bridge, for a purse of sovereigns gentry residing in the vicinity. It was an oars' W ager . in three heats, with twelve competitors. , L. , 1 ; J . e1.,,1rt hat 4. Hawkins and W. Hawkins 50 „ 11 ; 'jun., and NV. Hill (blue), 2; W. Phelps and J. e miranga), 3. „ ink took the lead, and although severely challenged by 'ussecond pair kept it, and won by half a length only. . T. (pin"Julin -0 Pret, econd heat— J. Kelly, sere., and J. Powell (purple), 1 ' a 1 'man and S. Mulleti (plitid), 2; S. Knight and J. Bowel kred) , 3; ti l T heY all went away evenly, and at a smart pace. Plaid 1 . . r". took the lead, but in * rounding the boat at the Crab w o ce , , Purple cut them oft Plaid, however, went sharply to ahi r- a g a in , Slid on nearing the shore had a foul with purple, , (, Whihit they were so engaged red went into the first place. 'illsrPle got clear directly afterwards, and soon by bare rowing passed red, which latter directly afterwards 'o a ve Pla s tart G a nd r ing to plaid also. Won by two lengths. dint of **- pr ee r e T.' neat.—The distance in this was the same as in the Ing heats, but reversed to suit the tide. The men i i ed from Putney bridge, round a boat moored oil Broom krTklett, .1 ; ti a ° ,, l te, up round a boat moored off the Crab Tree, down i ugli the centre arch of Putney -bridge. Freeman and Kelly and Powell, 2. the Thetlets took the lead and kept it. Mr. Chasemore, the secret,ry at Putney -bridge kindly acted as treasurer fur tleitils4tewen, and the curate of the parish and another gen t,'nglishnamed Walf or d generously regaled them with old cheer. Pl i t.„, W e n..AL OF THE LATE VISCOUNT CANTERBURY.— . Understand that the funeral of the late Viscount Canterbury 1,'"11 take place on t enlo v Monday morning next, when his remains will „.....ee d l from the residence of his son, No. 11, Southwick. Souse nt, for burial at Addington Church, Croydon. Ranting and ,St. Jarnes's.street, are the undertakers. t'EN D EATH IN PICCADILLY. —On Wednesday 44 : 14 Mr ' jehn K nowles, a gentleman thirty-three years of 1, 4. _, gas walking Knowles, the posts fronting the gates of Hyde ingrsKi,oorriaer, vvlicn he was observed, on reaching the iron raid -4 poli c€ B ' ln g APsley House, to stagger and fall to the groun . qeor nlan ran to his assistance, and he was carried to St. PI Hospital, where, in 4 few intnutes, he expired. IMPERI AL PA i 1 L lAMEN T. the subject.—(l he Noble Lord resumed the reading of the re purt amidst great laughter.) The Earl of SflArrEsnuaY and the Earl of DEVON having declared their opinion that the presentation of the report was irregular, the motion was withdrawn. HOUSE OF 1:01WS, July 23 Their Lordships met at Five o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition on the subject of pauper lunatics, praying for further inquiry. The petition was [ram inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury. PRIVILEGE. SCOTCH POOR-LAWS. Lord COTTENHANI presented a petition praying that Mr. Henry Miller might be heard by counsel at the bar of their Lordships' House, against the Scotch Poor-law Bill. There never was greater insmomlity, even in this great metro polis, than prevailed in the very precincts of the House. The population of the united parishes of St. Alargaret's and St. John's was 56,C00, of which 7,900 were returned as belonging to the Established Church, and 6,000 as Dissenters, making, in all, but 13,000 of any professed religion.—( Hear, hear.) But, even of this small number, there were 5,000 persons with out any means of religious worship or instruction. The cause of that destitutien was the insertion of a clause in all the leases prohibiting the building of any school-house or chapel for Dissenters. But there was no clause to prevent the em ployment of the houses on the collegiate estate for immoral purposes.—( Hear, hear. ) There were 130 houses of that character upon this estate of the Church. The Hon. Member then read extracts from a correspondence between the Earl D'Aubeney and Dr. Chalmers, in which the Noble Lord said that a foreigner entering Scotland would be struck by a state of things unknown to the most despotic State in Europe. He then continued by saying he regretted being obliged to have trespassed so long on the attention of the House ; but he had no doubt that the result of this discussion would be to induce the House to afford some effectual relief to those poor creatures other than that which death supplied. Sir J. GRAHAM said he had heard the Hon. Member with great attention, and he could assure him that he deeply and sincerely deplored the events to which he had drawn attention. But he feared that the subject was one which, while it had been operated on by public opinion, was one also upon which it would scarcely be possible to legislate. It should be remem bered that the Episcopalian form of religion prevailed in Scot land ; but even that fart should be no reason why the meanest peasant in the country should not have the same protection from the law as the largest landed proprietor. He admitted that the people whose complaint the Hon. Member had stated, had a just and irresistible claim for toleration in their form of worship, and that they should have suitable places af forded them as sites on which to build their places of public worship.—(Hear.) But while he would be anxious to see this object carried out, on the other hand lie would hope that one temple of worship should not be placed in a position that might be regarded as one of offensive ri►alry with other churches. He could state instances where a Noble Friend of his, and other Noble Lords, had been very liberal in granting sites on their estates for those places of worship; he hoped their examples would be followed by many others. But while he again should express his regret that it was not possible to legislate on this subject, yet he did hope that this discussion would, as the Hon. Member opposite had said, operate beneficially, and that so useful an example would be most extensively followed in Scotland. Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from J. Thomas Russel, of 37, Percy-street, Bedford-square. It was a very re►pectful petition. 'I he petitioner complained that he had been grossly slandered in evidence given before one of their Lord ship's Committees by George Ledbitter, William M'Culloch, and John Pope, who were witnesses there. He complained that his character and good name had been injured, and prayed that their Lordships would grant him some mode of clearing himself from those imputations, which he was fatly pre pared to do. By a recent decision of their Lordships' House, he perceived that it would he a breach of privilege to bring an action against those parties, and but for that he would have done so. He moved that the petition be laid upon the table, and next session he would move that it be referred to a Com mittee for investigation. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he would be very will ing to render the petitioner all the assistance in his power, but he should have laid his complaint before the House at an earlier period. Lord BROUGHAM said the petitioner stated in his peti tion that it was not until last Saturday he saw the printed evidence. The LORD CHANCELLOR—But he knew the nature of the evidence before them. A NOBLE Loan said, that surely it was not too late for a man to clear his character if unjustly accused. He should certainly support the motion of his Noble and Learned Friend, as their Lordships ought to throw their doors open to persons who felt themselves aggrieved. If it should turn out that the petitioner had been unjustly traduced, and that his character had been injured, they ought to allow him to bring an action against his traducers, and make provision that by doing se he should not outrage the pri vileges of the House. The LORD CHANCELLOR—ProbabIy any Learned Friend is acquainted with this gentleman.—(Laughter). A NOBLE LORD said he was a member of the Committee referred to, and recollected that the persons named in the petition gave evidence before it. The Earl of WICKLOW said it did not signify who the person was who had been aspersed. They should disregard his position, and give him some remedy by which he might clear his character, if it had been injured by evidence delivered in one of their committee-rooms. The period when the cir. cumstance complained of occurred was immaterial. The LORD CHANCELLOR said he only referred to a particular date. The Earl of HARDWICK said he had to present a petition to the same effect ( we did not hear the name of the petitioner or petitioners). The petitioner stated that he had purchased a number of shares in the Doblin and Galwas Company at a 1 rge premium. in conAetitienee of the faveurable report of the Board of Trade, and that he should suffer grievous injury if the Bill was not allowed to proceed, in consequence of the way in which the contract deed was signed. He therefore prayed that the parties aggrieved might te heard at the bar of their Lordships' I °use. Lord BROUGHAM regretted that the petitioner had not invested his money in a better project than the one he did. However, he lal a remedy in his Learned Friend on the wool saels, who had funds at his disposal to reimburse parties who had lent their money in such speculations.—(Laughter.) The Earl ef DAL H °US! E :lefended the report of the Board of Trade on the Irish Great Western, and considered that the Board of Trade perfectly justified in the course it took. If the petitioner had lost his money it was his affair, and not that of those who made the report The Earl of BESBOROUGH said, as he had moved for the Committee which had inquired into the allegations against the Company in question, he wished to say a few words w ith respect to their report presented to the House yesterday. The Committee reported that they had heard evidence on the allegations, and had arrived at the opi nion that systematic frauds had been committed to obtain signatures to the subscription contract; that no proper atten tion had been paid to the distribution of the letters of allot ment ; that letters had been sent to country postmasters that they might be posted and sent to London as applications for Shares; also, that a petition had been presented to the House of Commons with respect to these frauds, but that it had been withdrawn on account of the payment of 2501. to the party who had petitioned that House, and that 5001. more was pro mised on the Bill passing the standing orders; that the sub scription deed had not been executed in a bona fide manner, and at an amount insufficient to enable it to pass the House. He doubted whether it was true, as had been stated, that the same system was adopted in ether Railway Companies. He blamed the Standing Orders' Committee for not paying greater attention to the subscription deed. Unless they paid great attention to this, no security would be afforded to the public. The parties now stated by petition that they were ready to insert the necessary number of names as security for the amount required by law ; but this ought not to be done after the Bill had passed the Standing Orders' Committee. He regretted that parties had taken shares in the Company, and he also regretted that the important railway accommodation which was proposed in that part of Ireland could not be carried out by what had occurred, and which could not be too highly repro bated, as it would have employed those who at that period of the year stood much in need of employment. He should therefore move that the further consideration of the Bill be postponed to that day three months. The Marquis of CL ANRICARDE was of opinion that the debate should be adjourned, that the report and evidence might be printed and placed in the hands of Noble Lords. He did not hold one share in that or in any other Company. He spoke as a disinterested party. Lord BROUGHAM said that having been a member of the Select Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations set forth in the petition, he wished to make a few observations on the question before the House. They should remember that there were two different kinds of fraud that might be practised in such a case—one on the Company by forging names, for the purpose of obtaining shares, and the second for perpetrating a fraud upon the House, viz., by an inferior agent of the Company making a fictitious allotment for the purpose of getting up a list of the number of shares taken. He would tell them now in what way these frauds, being actually coalesced, had been both practised on the Company and the House. If a set of parties went abort to gamble in the market—if surveyors, engineers, agents, &c., for the purpose of obtaining places and employment, and having an interest in promoting the Bill, either by fabricating letters or forging names, foisted tip the names of Irish paupers, deceased trades men, parties resident in the West Indies, or other such ficti tious representatives, as shareholders in the company, that was a gross imposture. But there was another course which was equally effectual in committing a fraud upon the House. Par tit, issued a prospectus, conteinme a puffing account of a scheme, and invited m he world to apply for shares. In poured applieations from all quarters, and, even if they possessed them, they took no means to see that those applications were genuine. They shut their esee to the character of the references, they never inquired into the respectability of any parties, and it was just the same thing as if the fabrication had been practised by the company to defraud the House. In the present case 970 persons applied for shares, out of which 11l only gave any proof of solvency. Was that the course the London anti York Company pursued ? When they got a letter without a re ference they threw it in the fire, but out of ill applications made to the Dublin and Galway Company, only twenty-nine were inquired into, out of which about one-half or fourteen were totally unknown. No inquiry was instituted when they had proceeded` so far, fearing, he supposed, that the further they went the worse they would fare. Therefore without knowledge, or attempting to know the nature of their qualifications, shares were given to the other eighty. Amongst others, a chimerical man, to whom the name of Tenbury was accorded, hut who never had an existence, whose address was stated to be Crosby Chambers, received an allotment of shares. Another, called Baltlran, resident for the last seven years in the West Indies, received thirty shares ; and Margaret Mere dyth, a pauper, the inmate of a workhouse, whose residence was made to be Lower Tooting, Surrey, obtained shares to the amouet of 7,5001., upon which a deposit of 751. was expected, when, in reality, she had not 75 pence in the world !—( A laugh.) Fourteen hundred and fifty applications were inquired into, and took four hours in their examination, or at the rate of about ten seconds each. Two hundred and forty recommenda tions were received from Hesseltine, the broker, founded upon these applications, and such was the way of pro ceeding in this notable Company, the very reverse, be it remembered, of the method pursued by the London and York. There was a rule in law that if a person had the means of discovering a fraud and did not avail himself of it, he was responsible for his wilful negligence. That principle was founded upon justice and common sense, and was equally applicable to parallel cases like the present. As to the scheme and its merits, per se, he had every reason to believe it was a good public work. He had no objection to it as a project brought forward to promote social and commercial prosperity ; on the contrary, he believed that under better auspices, with greater prudence and circumspection, it might, in a future session, be reintroduced advantageously, if not successfully. Nevertheless, the House was bound to protect itself against fraud, and he, therefore, felt bound to support the motion of his Noble Friend (Lord Besborough.) Lord MONTEAGLE said that having been a Member of the Committee which inquired into this Bill, he also wished to offer a few remarks. When it was proposed on a former occa sion to go on with the Bill he advised their Lordships that it would be better to deny all railway communication whatever to the country than to refuse an inquiry into the allegations of fraud. The question was referred to a Select Committee, and when fully discussed the evidence adduced before it was laid on the table of the House; anti he thought it so clear from that evidence that mal.practices had existed, that he imme diately proposed the postponement of the Bill. What he now wished to call the attention of the House to was, the course that had since been taken. Their Lordships did not come to the conclusion he desired, but referred the Bill, with the report and evidence of the Select Committee, to another Committee. This latter tribunal had taken further evidence, and made a report to the House. Tho motion now made by the Noble Marquis was, that the evidence taken be fore the second Committee should be printed before their Lordships finally legislated on the Bill. He thought this pro position was fair and rational, was consistent with the pro ceedings and practice of the House, and with what was just. He did not think that any doubt could Inc entertained of the ultimate result, but still he considered that in a case charging nothing short of personation and forgery, involving the ques tion of the grossest criminality, the House, after having them selves asked for the evidence, could not, consistently with jus tice, venture to decide absolutely without the production and publication of that evidence. He therefore felt that the motion of the Noble :'ellarquis being calculated to afford information, and conduce to the promotion of justice, it was Isis duty to give it his support. Lord BROUGHAM—Undoubtedly, if the evidence goes to rebut the evidence which was given before the other Commit tee, let it be brought forward. He, however, misunderstood that report. He thought they had got additional evidence i n the other Committee. What he saids% as, however, that if the new Committee —if the sesond Committee, had taken evidence to rebut the evidence given before the other Committee, by all means let them have it. They had carried the case further, but he thou„ ht they should have an opportunity of hearing it.— (A Noble Lord said ti at in that case they would have to hear counsel at the bar of the House.) Oh no, if they allowed counsel to be heard at the bar of the House, he considered that that would be an infraction of the orders of 1637, of far greater consequence than any that had yet been committed. Lord W A RNCLIFEE said that before they took any fur ther steps, they should hear tine evidence taken before the new Committee. A desultory conversation then ensued, on the point whether or not they should wait till they heard the evidence taken be fore the other Cemmitte e, before they ca me to a decision. The debate was then adjourned till Monday. PORTSMOUTH DIRECT RAILWAY. Ti.e Earl of HARDWICK then brought up the report on this Bill, and was proceeding to read it when he was inter rupted lay Lord BROUGHAM, who rose to order, and asked if it was a special report ? Time Earl of HARDWICK—No ; it is not a speeial report. Mr. HAWES said he deeply regretted that he should differ from the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, and express his fear that the hopes he entertained would never be realised ; for it had been seen that while sites were liberally granted for the erection of places for Roman Catholic worship—thwe for the Dissenters were denied. He had also received petitions on this subject, and their prayer fully established the fact that there were many instances in that country also of the forget fulness by the landlords of the maxim that property had its duties as well as its rights. The Honourable Member con cluded by saying he cordially concurred in the motion of his Honourable Friend. Mr. CARDWELL defended the conduct of the landlords who had been alluded to, and contended that their acts had not been dictated by feelings of religious intolerance. Mr. RUBE felt assured that the Government would do all it could to put an end to religious intolerance of this descrip tion in Scotland. The Noble Lord then continued to read. Lord BROUGHAM—This, my Lords, is the most extraor dinary proceeding I have ever witnei•sed. The Earl of HARDWICK continued to read, and was again interrupted by Lord BROUGHAM. My Lords, I rise again to order. We cannot now enter into the subject at all. Unless the Noble Lord is about to make a motion on the_ The Earl of HARDWICK...No ; I will make rio motion on Mr. SHEIL was sorry to see Scotland assuming a position which betrayed a state of things similar to that existing in his own country. The Seceders were i apidly increasing in Scotland, and surely it was the duty of the Government to prevent that. If the Government deemed it incumbent to grant a regium donuni to Ireland, surely it would be an anomalous state of things to refuse it to Scotland, or to grant it when it would be too late.—( Hear, hear.) He knew it would be presumptuous of him to say anything upon this subject ; but from all he had heard and read in reference to it, he did think that though the Hon. Baronet had said that legislation would be impossible as a remedy, because a man could not be forced to give a part of his estate, yet it would be very easy for the Government to provide a fund far the purpose. Mr. PRINGLE was of opinion that many of those disputes existing in Scotland between landlord and tenant had been the result of bad advice. There never would have been any mis understanding but for untimely and injudicious interference. He would caution the House against giving too much credit to ex parte statements which were often gross exaggerations. He trusted that by forbearance and kindness harmony would yet be restored to the Church of Scotland. Mr. HINDLEY said he very much rejoiced at the separation which had occurred in the Church of Scotland. It had excited a wholesome spirit of religious zeal, and was attended with the best effects. The sum of 776,0001. had been collected by the Free Church of Scotland, of which 320,0001. had been em ployed in the erection of churches. He thought it right to divest religion as much as possible of mere pecuniary consider ations, and objected to making the clergy the mere tenants of the State, so that the great look-out was, not the promotion of the interests of religion, but to obtain a good benefice. He regretted the conduct of many noblemen and landed proprietors towards the members of the Free Church. The Hon. Gentleman opposite had defended the Duke of Buccleuch, but he thought the conduct of that noble man was not dictated in the true spirit of Christianity, and that he might have acted more nobly than by refusing a site for a Free Church chapel, because some of the supporters of it had abused him. When that Noble Duke saw that many of his own tenants were anxious to obtain a place of worship, ho should have shown them that he was for freedom of conscience, and evinced a desire to see them worship their Creator accord ing to their religious belief, by selling the land to them. When the Earl of Cawdor was applied to for a site, he refused any other than one on some waste lands, and provided that the chapel should be built of wood, to be removed upon three months' notice. Surely such conduct as this was rather calcu lated to exasperate than restore harmony in Scotland. After a few words from Mr P. BORTHWICK and Mr. P. M. STEWART the subject dropped. Mr. EWART then gave notice that he would postpone the following motion until Monday next. 1. That a statement be made, on the part of the Government, of the condition and prospects of such educational establishments as are supported wholly or partially by a vote of this House. 2. That it is ex pedient that the formation of public libraries, freely opened to the public, be encouraged. 3. That it is expedient that schools for the training of masters be more extensively promoted. 4. That it is expedient that appointments to the subordinate offices of Government be made (as far as possible) by ex amination of the merits of the candidates for such offices. LIGHT GOLD. Mr. HUME then, in pursuance of notice he had given, said he wished to call the attention of the House to the loss to the public by light sovereigns ; and that some offices should be appointed by the Government to receive light gold at the in trinsic value, according to the number of grains deficient in the average weight, and not allow the loss of six ience mwe or less, t o th e h o ld er o f t h e co i n , accord ' , leg to the will of the person who is to receive the coin. No man in Scotland or Ireland lost a penny by gold, and it was not fair that the people of England should be made to suffer. It was nothing less than a system of plunder upon the working classes. It was owing to the neglect of the Chan cellor of the Exchequer that such a thing took place, and he ought to be called to account fur it. He maintained that the Government, in the case of light gold, ought to bear the loss. The Hon. Member concluded by moving the resolution. Mr. SPOON ER seconded the motion. He considered the Hon. Member had referred to the working classes, but there was another important class that suffered—the small tradesmen and shopkeepers. They were obliged, in the course of busi ness, to take light sovereign s as full weight, and when they parted with them at the Bank, or to the small dealers, they were obliged to lose at least fourpence in every sovereign. With the losses and inconveniences attending on these light sovereigns, the value was often reduced tenpence or a shilling. He con sidered the Government ought to be made to bear the loss. There ought to be places in every town, regularly appointed, where gold could always be changed at its intrinsic value. But this was only a small part of the question. The question was one of the widest character, and involved the whole question of the cur rency. He was sorry that the two Right Hon. Baronets con nected with the Government were not present, as the Right Hon. Baronet at the head of the Government, on a previous occasion, in reference to a book published in Birmingham on the currency, said he believed there were only two men in Bir mingham that could write so much nonsense. Now he (Mr. Spooner) adopted all the leading views of that book, and was prepared to maintain them against that Right Hon. Gentle man. He would, however, only call their attention to a few facts, illustrative of what had been called so much nonsense. In 1797 a measure was passed, which the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of the Home Department had called a fatal measure. That measure was the act of Mr. Pitt, and by its ope ration they were enabled to raise means to carry on the great war subsequent to the French Revolution, supporting the Bri tish arms in all their efforts, till their standard was planted on the falls of Paris, after the battle of Waterloo. The policy of that measure had bean denounced by a disciple of Mr. Pitt, though there was a very scarce book, which supported the principle of that measure in a very able manner, and the argu ments of which ought to be in the hands of every Hon. Mem ber. It was entitled " Graham's Corn and Currency " (Laughter)—a book which was as plentiful as need be one day, but all on a sudden disappeared, no one knew why, until at last it was extremely difficult to obtain a copy at all. That measure, the act of Mr. Pitt, led to an extensive issue of paper money, without which it would have been impossible to carry out the gigantic operations of the country at that time. The Hon. Member then referred to the evils which had arisen from 1797 up to 1819—the very year when Sir Robert Peel's, then Mr. Peel's, famous Bank -note Restriction Bill was passed—in suddenly restricting the paper currency. The measure—that of 1819—was really to be called a fatal measure, and one that had been most ruinous in its operations. Ile was not one of th ese w h o thought it was not right tochange the character of the coin ; but by doing so, when they took the single standard of gold, they had inflicted a heavy penalty on the country. In addition to this, they went on to say that though the landlords might change their estates, they at the same time were doing an injustice possibility of ever principles on whi c h thi s country ought to be governed. He held in his ha nd the ablest book th a t had true e ties by preventin g th e reversrbtnie to a ecinengt o the writ l t l en on the subject ; and in that book these prin ciples were laid down. In 1819 this Bill was passed, in 1820 the pressure was felt, in 1821 it began to be insupportable, and in 1822 Lord Castlereagh came down to the House, and stated that it was impossible to return to cash payments. Then came the evanescent prosperity of 1824, and after that, on the of th e E xc h equer coming downto the in fliction of the weight aga in, the te rrible reflux of 1825. Well dict he remember the Chancel lor 4,,e,nadawni and stating, i n th e mos t that House of the glowing picture prosperity of the country._ and asserting that it was founded on a rock. What took place? In the spri ng f o ll owing the same Right Hoe. Gentleman came down t o the House, and in the most doleful strains complained that it h a d all passed away. Again the same thing occurred in 1828— prices had risen, a state of prosperity h a d returned, the completion o f th e mea sure took place. Agai n the g old left the country, and then Horseena h ad in curt l 8 b through a long period ca me the struggle again prices fell to the level of the Continent, the gold returned, and there was again a partial return to prosperity. The gold left again, and 'l4" - • •distress ensued. 'file same Course h ad been going on ever since, and lie e a rned the landed gentry, on the authority of his Right Hon. Friend ( eiir J. Graham), that either the rents must be conformed to that , of the Continent, or the standard must he conformed to the rate of rents. At the standard of 31. 17s. 10 1 41., prosperity had never been long continued in agriculture , k m anu factures, and commerce toge ther. When the re flux to: place commerce took the lead, then manufactures, then agriculture; but the prosperity of agriculture mediately left the c ountry, an d a panic ensued. This would be, and must be, the consequence of attempting to carry oil this struggle. A new race . would b e ca ll ed into ex istence, by the gr eat profits of the capitalist. Old forms would disappear, new ones would arise, and a complete revolution in the value of property would take place, and lie warned the Right Hon. Baronet that if the system succeeded, it would be productive of evil at the best, and if it failed, it would bring on such a panic as never occurr e d b e f ore . Im perfect as his vie ws were, th e y were h onestly felt, and were formed after a careful consideration of the subject since 1810. He would not, however, take up their time any longer, but conclude by seconding the motion. The CHANCE LLLOR of the EXCHEQUER confessed that he had not formed the idea when he came down to the House that the subject would run over such an extensive range as it had done under the Gentleman who last addressed the House, embracing, as it did, a period of nearly half a century. He would not, however, travel beyond the motion before the House. A proclamation was made its 1t313, calling ; t the li ght THE SUN, LONDON, SA.TURIJAI 'MORNING, JULY 26, .0145. reigns. The Honourable Gentleman must be aware that since 1816, no notice whatever bad been taken of the depre ciation of the light sovereigns, and so great at length had be come the clamour in consequence of this evil, that a memorial was signed by all the bankers and principal men of the kingdom, calling upon the Government to redreSs the grievance. At the moment the change took place, in compliance with that application, preparations to a large extent were made in the Mint to supply the amount of coin that would be required. With regard to the poor, he denied that no measures were taken to guard against the loss they sustained, but he would say that no measures theycould adopt would remedy the evil. It was a hardship he admitted, but it was impossible to apply a remedy where frauds were so easily effected. He should be very glad to give an opportunity of weighing light sovereigns in every town in the kingdom, but, when it was recollected that no less than .500,000 sovereigns were annually depreciated from tear and wear, he said th a t th e com pl ex ity of the machinery requi site to carry such a proposition into effect, was a sufficient argu ment against its adoption. The Post•office accepted every light sovereign, subject to the deduction of 3d. each. He trusted, in conclusion, that the same occurrence which happened in 1842 would never happen again, and that every future Go vernment would take care to give notice that such sovereigns were not a I , gal tender. Mr. WILLIAMS never expected that any one would have risen in that House to give them another dissertation on the Birmingham system of currency. He would not now follow the Hon. Gentleman (Mr. Spooner) through the argumeets which he b!...ight forward, but confine himself to the subject before the House. With respect to the difficulty pointed out by the Right lion. Gentleman the Chancellor of the Ex chequer, of finding persons in the various towns of the kingdom to undertake the business of weighing sovereigns deficient in weight, he considered it was totally unfounded, for any banker in those towns, or the persons to whom the taxes were paid in the district, would, for a small consideration, perform such a duty. The loss on each sovereign on an average was 2 3 .0, now the loss to the public on the present arrangement was 6d., and sometimes a Is., and it was net unusual to find sovereigns of full weight being rejected unless the reduction was submitted to. After the Ist of January, 1::441, sovereigns were sold as bullion, and only 31. 16s. 6 1 0. being given per ounce, .11 / 0. was lost upon every ounce of the 3,000,000 sovereigns then called in, and something was necessary to prevent the recur rence or continuance of so serious an inconvenience. Sir ROBERT PEEL regretted very much that he had not been present during the commencement of the speech of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Birmingham, not from curio sity, but interest in everything that fell from such a talented Gentleman. It was a pity that he had not given notice of his intention to second the motion of the Member for Montrose, as Honourable Gentlemen would have then been aware of the prospect of an amusing disquisition on the Birmingham system. However, from the:few audibly urged arguments of the Hon. Member, he could say that he (Mr, Spooner) had proved him self a worthy representative of the opinions of Birmingham.— ( Laughter.) But the Honourable Member had assumed a rather inconsistent position in the course of his latter observa tions. He had traced the whole question and course of the currency, from the monetary transactions in 1797 to the final change in 1844, and had said that in the ear 1832 the greatest distress prevailed; at which period the Marquis of Londonderry proposed an extension of the currency. The prosperity that followed this change was, they were told, tempora, y and delusive, and had been f illowed by a ruinous depression in the year 1825, caused by the change in the value of the currency, arising from the large issue of paper. But it would have been supposed that If the Hon. Member at tributed the distress at that period to this unlimited issue of paper, he would have concluded that a still greater crisis would have ensued from the adoption of a system which would cause the issue of inconvertible paper. As to the authority of Mr. Alison, whom his Hon. Friend considered a paragon of philosophers, he would quote one sentence from that authority, to show what credit should be given to his views, and he thought that pamphleteer and his ,Honourable Friend the Member for Birmingham would Male a fair couple— Castor and Pollux—in the expression of their unique opinions.—( Loud laughter.) Mr. Alison, after intro ducing a few curious original apothegms, advised that paper should be paid in gold, according to the standard value of the metal, so that notes issued at the rate Of 3/. 16s. 10,1-d. per oz. might afterwards receive payment at the rate of 61. or 71. per oz I And when forsooth the costs ran _up to the value of 101. per oz., which under such a system it very speedily would, the banker need not pay in gold, and of course he would only have to depreciate the value of paper; and raise that of gold, to render himself virtually irresponsible.—( Loud laughter.) Really such arguments were absurd, and he could scarcely de scribe his surprise at hearing the Hon. Member subscribe to such opinions. As he said before, he hoped the Hon. Mem ber would, on another occasion give notice, of his intention to speak, and he for one would like to be present and listen to him. Mr. J. STEWART said he trusted the present debate would lead to some efficient and satisfactory change in the arrangements for specifically correcting the monetary system. Mr. NEWDEGATE was rejoiced that the attention of the House had been called to the state of the currency. The effects of a metallic currency were every day felt more and more stringently. There had been spread abroad so strong a feeling in favour of Sir Robert Peel's currency policy that it was looked upon as a sort of treason to impeach it. But the fact could not be denied, that it was impossible to go on paying the interest of the national debt in the present cur rency. If free trade principles were to be carried out with the present monetary system the,greatest evils must be ex. petted. He had not intended to trespass so long upon the House this evening, but he would take an opportunity next session of bringing the attention of Parliament to the subject.— ( Hear, hear.) The effect of the present law was to give a pre mium to the money lender at the expense of the rest of the community. Mr. MUNTZ said that he could not understand how his Hon. Colleague could go the length he had done, of abolishing all metallic payments. He did not think that his Hon. Friend had shown his usual discretion in bringing forward a currency debate on this question. He thought that currency had nothing at all to do with it.. He wished that the standard should be fixed in silver. He had himself often seen women with children in their arms unable to get food, in consequence of not being able to get change for their gold. He thought that the object of the motion was a very proper one. He thought it much better that they should have 11. rotes than that they should be rubbing sovereigns together to the loss of the poor, who would lose 6d. in consequence of their bein; light. He hoped the Government would well consider the matter, and introduce some measure which would enable the poor to avoid `.his loss. After a few words from Sir W. CLAY, The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion Against it Majority against the motion Mr. SPOONER said he did not intend to speak in favour of any remedy for the present difficulty but he did say he was still of the same opinion he before expressed upon the question. SUPPLY. On the motion that the Speakbr do leave the Chair, and the House go into Committee of Supply on the Colonial Estimates, Mr. TUFFNEL said he would wish to call the attention of the House to the regulations lately issued with regard to the compulsory disposal of lands held in the Island of Ceylon, and purchased from the Governor of that 'colony by the members of the civil service, and the reflections that had been east upon their character as public servants in the Governor's minute, dated the 14th February, 1844. He held before him a state ment of the quantity of land so circumstanced, in the different years from 1838 to 1842, and he found it to be as follows : In 1838, the quantity of land in that position was 10,000 acres; in 1839, 39,000 acres ; in. 1840, 42,000 acres; in 1841, 78,060 acres; and, in' 1842, which was the latest period to which his information came down, it was 48,500 acres. Now,':he did contend for it, that it would be a great hardship upon the officers of the civil service who had purchased this land, and had brought it to a high state of cultivation, should they be ordered either to sell the property they had so acquired, or resign their situa tions as public servants. He thought it right to read a re monstrance whch the colonial servants had addressed to the Noble Lord at the Head of the Colonies, in which they state, that the Government had encouraged them to engage in agricul tural pursuits, and not unfrequentl . participated in their profits They then expressed a strong hope that the Noble Lord would not interfere with them, and that n, regulations such as those sent out from the Colonial-office would be persevered in, as they would have the effect of involving them in great loss and sa crifices. The minutes of the Government had been printed and published in the papers of India, and articles of the most insulting nature, in consequence, written, reflecting on the civil service. If there had been carelessness in the manage ment of the colony, it was the Governor's own fault ; and what business had the Government now to come forward and reflect on those who had been engaged in the civil service ? The No ble Lord (Lord Stanley), if he sent out the dispatch which he did, censuring the civil service, on the allegations contained in the Governor's minute, he acted very unfairly towards the parties who were reflected on. The Hon. Member concluded by proposing his motion. Mr. HOPE said it was not his intention to justify that minute, as it was not published under Lord Stanley's direction. The dispatch was not the same as the minute; it was not founded on ;the minute, being different in some essential par ticulars. The dispatch of the Noble Lord reflected on the junior members of the civil service. The Noble Lord, as well as his predecessor in office, had received repeated communica tions settinc , forth the carelessness and inattention of that branch of the e service. The charges 'were not new ones, but of an old date; for all parties connected with that island for many years had complained of the mariner in which mem hers of the civil service had neglected their public duties for their private interests. All parties there holding civil offices took an oath not to engage in any trade unless licensed by the Government so to do. That rule still existed. In 1833, a reduction was made in the sala ries of the officers, the consequence of which was that those officers engaged extensively in trade, and the regulation be came indispensable. Those parties were allowed to export, but not to grow cinnamon, and the reason of it was, that they said they could not make remittances to this country without so far engaging in the cinnamon trade. He would oppose the motion. Lord EBRINGTON supported the motion, and believed the facts stated by his Honourable Friend (Mr. Tuffnell) were perfectly correct. Dr. BOWRING thou ht a more satisfactory explanation should be made by the Government respecting the regulations issued as to the forcibly sending land into the maret, and their compulsory disposal of it at a great depreciation. Mr. AG LIONBY considered the speech of the Right Hon. Gentleman the Under-Secretary for the Colonies as calculated to irritate rather than allay the wounded feelings of those parties, injured by the tyrannical order of the Government of Ceylon. And as to his casting censure on the Governor of that island, it appeared that the only fault in that officer was his publication of an unjust and cruel order, whose publicity had been forbidden by the Colonial-office at home. Mr. HOPE explained that he meant to cast no blame whatever on the Governor of Ceylon. Mr. C. BULLER considered that a case of great hardship had been made out, and that .if the course pursued by Lord Cornwallis in his Government . of India had been pursued in the island of Ceylon, all these unjust occurrences would have been prevented. At the same time he admitted that the Governor of the island was above all suspicion of being actuated by any insidious motives ; he had known him personally for a considerable period, and regarded him as a most humane and exemplary man. Mr. TUFFNEL briefly explained, and the subject dropped. After a desultory conversation on the subject of the House going into Supply, which Mr. BILOTHERTON opposed in conse quence of the liveness of the hour (a quarter past twelve) — The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER consented to postpone it till Monday at five o'clock. The House then went into Committee pro forma, and im mediately after resumed. BRAZILIAN SLAVE TRADE BILL. Sir ROBERT PEEL fixed Thursday next for the second reading of this Bill ; and, in answer to Mr. Aglionbv, said that he would take the vote on the New Zealand question on Wednesday next. DEATH BY ACCIDENT COMPENSATION BILL. Mr. BOUVERIE moved that the report on this Bill be received. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the motion, whereupon the House divided, when there appeared For the Bill Against it Majority against the Bill LIBEL BILL. The House then went into Committee on the Action for Libel Bill, which was read a third time, and the House then resumed. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the Souse adjourned at a Quarter to Two o'clock COAL DUTIES. The Marquis of LONDONDERRY moved for a return of the. quantity of coal imported into the City of London during the years 1843 and 1844, and to June in the presnt year, tinguishing the quality of each kind. PAUPER LUNATICS. On the motion that the Pauper Lunatics Bill be read a se cond time, Lord BEAUMONT moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be referred to a Committee up stairs, on the ground that it had not yet received that consideration which its nature warranted. He wished to know, would the Bill include within its provisions other lunatics than paupers? The Noble Lord was proceeding to notice, seriatim , the objections to the Bill, when Lord WHARNCLIFFE said those objections might be much more suitably' urged in Committee, where they would receive fill consideration. He wished to inform the Noble Lord that the Bill merely referred to pauper lunatics. The LORD CHANCELLOR then put the question, and the House divided. The numbers were— Contents Non-contents Majority for the second reading ... —l6 CRIMINAL LAW CODE. The LORD CHANCELLOR then handed in a report on the criminal code of this country. He said that the Commission which drew up the report was not issued while he was in office. It was issued when the great seal was enti usted to his Noble Friend, and he had no concern in their appointment, but he felt it his duty to bear his testimony to the admirable manner in which they had discharged the duties entrusted to them. It was impossible to read these reports without feeling strongly a consciousness of the industry, intelligence, accuracy, and acuteness which were applied to this complicated subject, and to admire also the comprehension and masterly manner in which the Commission treated every part of the report. Should it be their Loidships' pleasure to legislate on the subject of the criminal law in next session of Parliament, it would be quite unnecessary for them to apply to any other sources of information. There was ample information i❑ the volumes of these reports. He felt it his duty to bear his testimony with respect to the manner in which those reports had been executed, and to express his gra titude, as one of the public, for the industry which they ex hibited in the discharge of their duty. Lord BROLTG HAM said, that though he was in office when the Commission was issued, yet his Noble Friend on the Woolsack added one or two individuals to it whose services were invaluable. They had now before them the whole crimi nal code. It was reduced to a digest and presented last ses,ion, and afterwards postponed until the Learned Commis sioners should complete their report, which was this evening presented and laid upon their Lordships' table. It was done in a manner so satisfactory, that little more remained for them to do to make a digest of the criminal law for both judges and the people, than to reduce these two reports—these invaluable documents—into the form of a statute. He would implore her Majesty's Govern rent, and particularly his Noble Friend on the Woolsack, in whose department it was, not to omit the op portunity of securing the services of such men as these Com missioners in the formation of a board for systematically and constantly revising the statutes from time to time. He threw this out for their consideration. Lord CAMPBELL said that though he concurred in the view of his Noble Friend as to the value of the reports, he wished to express his desire that they would not be allowed to remain on the table till they were covered with dust. There was not a country in Europe which had not a criminal rode published for the benefit of those who were to administer and those who were to obey the law. Lord BROUGH A M said that he did not wish that they should lie covered with dust. He wished last session to reduce one of them into the form of a Bill. He, however, postponed it till it should be revised by the Commissioners. They should have the whole reduced into one digest, or into two codes, as in France, the code penal and the code de procedure. The reports were then ordered to lie on the table. The Duke of BUCCLEUCH presented a petition from the inhabitants of Northfleet, against a certain clause in the Poor law ( Scotland) Bill. The Unclaimed Stock and Dividend Bill went through Committee, as also the Bothwell Prison Bill. The Highway Bill was read a second time. The Excise Duties on Spirits (Channel Islands) Bill went through Committee, as also the Spirits (Ireland) Bill. On the motion that the Waste Lands (Australia) Bill be read a third time, Lord STANLEY moved that the 7th clause be expunged, which was agreed to. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. The Geological Survey Bill was read a third time and passed. The other Bills on the table were advanced a stage, and their Lordships adjourned. ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 25. The Homo met at Twelve o'clock. COMMITTEES. The following Bills went through Committee, and were or. dered to be reported on Monday next, at twelve o'clock : —The Customs Laws Repeal Bill, Customs Duties Bill, Warehouse ing of Goods Bill, British Vessels Bill, the Shipping and Na vigation Bill, the Trade and British Possessions Abroad Bill, the Customs Management Bill, the Customs Bounties Allowance Bill, the Isle of Man Trade Bill, the Smuggling Prevention Bill (after a conversation in which Mr. AARON CHAPMAN and Mr. \VANN sought to obliterate the penalty which the Bill imposes on all merchant ships hoisting the blue peter, but unsuccessfully), the Customs' Re gulations Bill, the Stock-in-Trade Bill, the Removal of Paupers Bill, the Documentary Evidence Bill, and the Asaign merit of Terms Bill. CUSTOMS REGULATION BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and was ordered to be reported on Monday next. STOCK-IN.TRADE BILL. This Bill went through Committee, and the report was ordered to be read on Monday next. DOCUMENTARY EVIDENCE BILL. The report on this Bill was received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. ASSIGNMENT OF TERMS BILL. The report on !his Bill was received, and the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. The House then adjourned till hive o'clock. The Howe resumed at Five o'clock. The Earl of Onslow's Estate Bill was read a third time, and passed. 130 LION AND LEIGH, &c., AMALGAMATION BILL. On the o• der of the day for the consideration of the 13olton and Leigh, Kenyon and Leigh Junction, North Union, Liver pool and Manchester, and Grand Junction Railway Companies Amalgamation Bib being read, Mr. WILSON PATTEN moved the insertion of the clauses brought forward in the former debate. A di=cu‘sion ensued, in which Mr. Escott, Sir George Clerk, and Mr. T. Duneombe took part, and which was totally unin telligible to the gallery. Mr. DARBY thought that every system of amalgamation agreed to should be such as to operate for the benefit of the public as well as for the shareholders. Care should be taken that the tolls and fares should not be extortionate. After a few words from Mr. ALDAM, the Bill was read a third time and passed. THE MALT-TAX. Mr. DARBY presented a petition from a place in Cornwall in favour of a repeal of the malt-tax, and several other peti tions on various subjects, but their purport we could not learn, owing to the low voice in which the lion. Nlember spoke. AGRICULTURAL DISTRESS. Mr. SPOONER presented petitions from Birmingham and other places, complaining of the agricultural distress. TEN HOURS' BILL. Mr. BANKES presented a petition from his constituents in favour of the Ten Hcurs' Bill. SMALL DEBTS BILL. Mr. HOPE presented a Petition from Southampton in favour of the Small Debts Bill. NEW ZEALAND. Mr. J. E. DENISON presented a petition from the friends and relations of the settlers in New Zealand, praying that their case should be taken into consideration. He knew he was not at liberty to read the petition, but he could tell the House it was signed by the Duke of Norfolk, and many others of the highest rank in the country. IRISH POOR. Lord CLEMENTS wished to put a question to the Secre tary of the Treasury, as to whether he could inform the House of the amount of the salary and allowances which Mr. Frank Robarts Bestolacci was to receive out of the funds subscribed for the relief of the poor of Connaught and Munster in the year 1822 ? Mr. YOUNG said that the salary was to be 2001. a year, and 11. a day when travelling. These allowances were to be paid out of the funds of the Reproductive Loan Society, and not out of the funds subscribed for the relief of the Irish poor in 1822. IRISH CHARITABLE BEQUESTS BILL. Mr. SHEIL said he had a question to ask, the purport of which had previously been asked by another lion. Member in that House. He wanted to know if her Majesty's Government intended to make any alteration next session of Parliament in the Charitable Bequests Bill? Sir J. GRAHAM answered that there was an intention on the part of her Majesty's Government to effect an alteration. There were three points in which it was proposed to make alterations. The first point was respecting the doctrine and discipline of the Roman Catholic Church. As the law stood, in any dispute arising respecting the title of bequests left to Roman Catholic priests, it was referred to the Commissioners under the Bill. Now this was contrary to the canons of the Church. According to the canons of the Church, all such matters were to be referred to the diocesan. This point was one he proposed to alter. The second point had reference to monastic institutions. The Bill of last session was not intended to affect, directly or indirectly, those institutions, but as there had been some doubts entertained on this head, it was intended to remove those doubts in the amendments he intended to propose by a declaratory clause. There was one ether point. In the previous Bill it would be recollected that no provision was made for granting any quantity of land, however small, for the purposes of the Roman Catholic Church. This it was intended to alter, as the Government proposed to grant tracts of land of not more than five acres each to the Roman Catholic priests, for the purpose of glebes on which to erect houses and chapels adapted to the purposes of the Roman Catholic religion. (Cheers ) These were the three points which the Govern ment contemplated in their amendments. MR. SHOLLS. Captain FITZ lAURICE asked a question, why it was Mr. Sholls had been prevented from having any friends attend ing on him in his examination, and why it was the short-hand writer had been excluded ? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was not aware that the short-hand writer had been excluded, but he would inquire, and see that proper arrangements were made fur taking the minutes of the evidence. As the examination was private, he did not see that any friends of Mr. Sholls had a claim to he admitted. THE FREE CHURCH 01 , SCOTLAND. On the motion for the house to go into a Committee of Supply, Mr. P. M. STEWART rose to call the attention of the House to the petition of Patrick Macfailan, Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland (presented 24th J une), complaining of the refusal of sites to congregations of that church. The Honour able Gentleman then read the petition, which stated that about two years ago one-third of the inhabitants of Scotland separated trent the Established Church, and organised them selves into the religious community termed the " Free Church of Scotland." Upwards of 470 ministers seceded at that time, arid the number had since been increased to 620. The subscrip tions to a general fund for the erection of churches and the endowment of schools amounted to 726,000/., and of that sum 320,000/. had been already expended in the building of churches. The Hon. Gentleman then read several communi cations from various parts of Scotland, describing the hardship and suffering of the people of the Free. Church compelled to worship in tents by the road-side, exposed to the incle mency of the weather. He was sure that he was doing no more than justice to the landed proprietors of those districts when lie said that they could not know what was being done on their estates. The House had an in stance of the effects to be produced by such a system of perse cution in the very parish in which the building was ,situated? COURT OF CHANCERY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—The question of qualification for the office of chief cleric to the Masters in Chancery, which you have alluded to in your journal, is assuming a graver aspect than it has yet presented. The profession, who, though tardy in movement, are not deficient in energy when roused, have now taken up the matter in earnest, and have presented a petition, signed by upwards of thirty of the leading officers in Lincoln's-inn, calling for in quiry into the circumstances under which a gentleman exercises an office of trust and importance in the Mas ters' offices by deputy. When it is known that fees ex ceedieg 4,0001. are annually taken from the pockets of the suitors by the Masters' clerks, it is not unreasonable to suppose the suitors will expect there should be some supervision over these gentlemen. And the Legislature having assigned a salary for the office, sufficient to se cure the services of gentlemen of professional education and skill, the Lord Chancellor will not surely allow the office to be held by a person whose incompetency obliges him to perform the duties of his office by deputy. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Monday next for the hearing of the petition. I am, &c. A FORMER CANDIDATE FOR TILE OFFICE. Law Institution, July 25, 1845. QUALIFICATION OF CHIEF CLERK TO THE MASTERS IN CHANCERY. (From the Legal Observer of July 19.) We have received a copy of a petition presented to the Lord Chancellor in the matter of Thomas Whiting, the chief clerk of Andrew Henry Lynch, Esq., one of the Masters of the Court of Chancery ; and as this is a subject which concerns the profession generally, we .feel bound to submit it to our readers. It is the petition of thirty-two of the solicitors of the Court of Chancery, whose respective names and residences are there unto subscribed. It states that the petitioners are, and for many years have been, solicitors duly admitted to practise, and actually prac tising, in this Honourable Court, and in the course of their said practice the petitioners have the conduct and management of suits in progress through the offices of the Masters in Ordi nary, and divers of the petitioners have now the conduct and management of suits in which references have been directed to Mr. Lynch, one of the said Masters, and which references are still pending. That the officers in the said Masters' offices consist of the Masters themselves and their chief clerks and copying or junior clerks, one chief clerk and one copying or junior clerk being attached to the separate office of each of the said Masters. That according to the usual course and practice of the said offices, it is the duty of the chief clerk to assist in the prosecu tion of all inquiries and accounts referred to the Master to whose office he is attached, in which an exercise of the per sonal discretion of the Master _is not involved ; and it is like wise, according to the same practice, the duty of the said chief clerk to prepare the drafts of the reports of such Master, and to settle such reports in the presence of the solicitors concerned. That a very large amount of the business of this Honour able Court is, in fact, transacted by attendance before the chief clerks of the said Masters, and that in the prosecution of suits in the said Masters' offices the solicitors of this Honourable Court have to attend before the chief clerk more frequently than before the Master, and that it is of the highest import ance to the interests of the suitors of the Court, as well as due to the solicitors of the Court, individually and as a body, that an officer before whom such solicitors have to lay statements, and to whose judgment they are called upon to defer, should not be selected from a lower rank in society than themselves, and should be qualified by his station to attain their respect and confidence. _ _ _ That from the earliest time the said office of chief clerk to any of the said Masters in .Ordinary has been executed by the holder thereof for the time being in person, and not by deputy. That the copying or junior clerk in the office of each of the said Masters is usually a person who was clerk to the Master while at the bar, and that the duty of such copying or junior clerk is to wait personally upon the Master, and to receive the fees in the office, and to make the appointments for attendance before the Master and the chief clerk respectively, and to enter and copy accounts, reports, and proceedings. That by an Act of Parliament passed in the session of the third and fourth years of the reign of his late Majesty King William the Fourth, intituled " An Act for the regulation of the proceedings and practice of certain offices of the High Court of Chancery in England," it was among other things enacted, that no person should be appointed to be chief clerk of any Master in Ordinary of this Honourable Court, unless he should have been admitted on the roll of solicitors or at torneys in one of the Courts of Westminster Hall, for not less than five years, or should have been a junior clerk in the office l i of one of the said Masters for a term of ten years. And it was thereby among other things further enacted, that each anti every of the Masters in Ordinary, registrars, and clerks of the said registrars, master of reports and entries, clerk of affidavits, and examiners of this Honourable Court, should hold their said offices during their good behaviour, and so long as they should personally give their attendance upon their respective duties, and should conduct themselves honestly and faithfully in the due execution of the duties of their said offices respec tively • and that the officers and clerks in the several offices of this donourable Court should give their personal attendance in their respective offices during the times they should be so di rected to attend, as by the said Act provided, unless otherwise engaged in the business of their respective offices, or prevented by sickness or other unavoidable cause. And it was further enacted, that there should be paid by the accountant-general of this Honourable Court out of the fund to be placed to his account, to be entitled " The Suitors' Fee Fund Account," to the several officers named in the schedule thereunder written the several salaries or yearly sums set opposite to their respec tive names or titles in such schedule, being (among other things) the salary or yearly sum of one thou-and pounds to the chief clerk of each of the said Masters in Ordinary other than the accountant-general, and the salary or yearly sum of one hundred and fifty younds to the junior clerk of each of the said Masters ; and it was further thereby enacted, that it should be lawful for the copying or writing clerk of the said Masters to receive and take the sum of one penny halfpenny per folio of 90 words, and no more, for every copy of every document or writing, or a part of any document or writing, made in the Masters' offices, from the parties requiring the same, and also for the transcript of every report, and that such sum of one penny halfpenny per folio should be retained by the said writing or copying clerks to be employed by the said Masters in their respective offices, and that no part thereof should be re ceived or retained by, or applied to the use or benefit of any other person or persons on any pretence whatsoever. That in the month of December, 1843, Andrew Henry Lynch, Esq , one of the said Masters in Ordinary, appointed Thomas Whiting, who had then been copying or junior clerk in the office of another of the said Masters for more than ten years, to be chief clerk of him the said Master Lynch, and in the month of June, 1 844 , the Lord Chancellor was pleased to order that the salary of one thousand pounds, provided for per sons filling the said office of chief clerk, should be paid to the said Thomas Whiting, since which time the said Thomas Whiting has annually received such salary. That notwithstanding such appointment of the said Thomas Whiting, and such receipt by him of the said salary, he has never performed, or in any manner attempted to perform, and does not now perform the important duties belonging to the said office of chief clerk to the said Master Lynch, but that such duties have been ever since his said appointment per formed by, and the same are now continuing to be performed by, Edward Wright, the junior or copying clerk in the said office of the said Master Lynch, who is not himself qualified, according to law, for the office of such chief clerk, and by sueh means the duties of chief clerk to the said Master Lynch are, in fact, performed by a deputy and an unqualified person. And the said Thomas Whiting has ever since his said appointment performed the duties 'of copying or junior clerk, and no other duties, in the said office of the said Master Lynch, and the petitioners believe that the said Thomas Whiting is, in fact, incompetent to discharge the duties of chief clerk to the said , Master. - That the petitioners are advised, and humbly submit to the Lord Chancellor, that an office of so much trust and import ance 'es that of chief clerk to one of the said masters ought not to be executed by deputy, and that to permit the same to be so executed would be establishing a principle injurious to the interest of the suitors of this Court, and contrary to the true intent and meaning of the said Act of Parliament, and would have the effect of depriving the said suitors of the security intended to be given to them by the said Act for the performance of the duties of the said office by persons possess ing the experience and legal attainment indispensable for the efficient discharge thereof ; and the petitioners, in their cha racter of solicitors of this Honourable Court, and also as re presenting the interests of the suitors of this Honourable Court confided to their care, feel aggrieved by the premises. The petitioners therefore pray his Lordship to cause inquiry to be made into the matters aforesaid, and into the manner in which the duties of the office of chief clerk to the said Master Lynch are now, and have been since the appointment of the said Thomas Whiting thereto, been executed and performed. And that his Lordship will be pleased to order that henceforth the duties of the said office may be performed by the said Thomas Whiting while he shall continue such chief clerk in person, and not by the copying or junior clerk of the said Master or by any other deputy, and that in case the said Thomas Whiting shall neglect personally to perform such duties, or shall be found incompetent thereto, that he the said Thomas Whiting may be removed from being such chief clerk of the said Master Lynch, and that in such case his Lordship will be pleased to make order for the due appointment of some other properly-qualified person to the said office of chief clerk in the place and stead of the said Thomas Whiting. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, JULY 25.—Wind this day at noon, N., light airs and fine. DEAL, JULY 24.—Wind N.E.—Arrd, Sally, Africa for Ilnll, Arrd. front the river and sailed, Bally Dring, Fernando Po; 10, Barnes, liarbadoes ; Grace Darling, Airth, Madeira; Great Britain, Swiu ham, Montreal ; British Queen, Alexandria. PLYMOUTH JULY N.—Am!. Stakesby, Richard, Quebec. FALMOUTH, JULY 24.—Wind E. motlerate.—Off port, 20th, Pandora ofJersey ; Denis, for London. 21st, Solo, Kust, La Guayra for Allona ; Narraganskt, New Orleans for Havre. LivEnrooL, JULY 2L—Wind E.—Arrd. Ambassador, Tate, Maran ham ; I dare ! Adair, Honduras ; Mayflower, Sawyer, and Sharon, Thompson, New Orleans ; Konohasset, Sears, Apalachicola ; Oregon, Rowland, Alicia, Johnston, and Sehattes, Havanna)] ; Ark, Johnson, Charleston ; St. George, Ferris, New York; Agnes, M•lntyre, Indus; Smith, Scotland, Thompson, Lady Milton, Hayes, and Defence, Da- ViGS, Quebec. TORQUAY, JULY 23,—Arrd. Speculator, Miramichi. OFF FOWEY, JULY 21.—Ilaidee, M'Bride, St. Vincent; Diamant, Ballehr, New York, for Bremen. 22. Lancashire Lass, Nassau; Ranger, Stewart, Galipoli. OFF PENZANCE, JULY 23.—Mercurins, Ney, Havannah, for llam burgh ; Emeral 1, Sharp, Miramichi ; Triton, Wakein, Quebec. BRISTOL CHANNEL, JULY 23.—Casino, Auterbridge, St. John's, New Brunswick. GLOUCESTER, JCLY 24.—S1d. Florida, Prince Edward's Island. WESTPORT, JULY 21.—Arrd. William and Ann, Matthews, Quebec. BELFAST LOUGII, JULY 21.—Arrd. Chamcook, Carey, Richebucto. SIIEILDS, JULY 23.—Arrd Ilebe, Quebec; Urania, Quebec. NEWPORT, JULY 25.—S1d. Helen, Hardy, Grenada; Bathurst, Hall, Bermuda ; Clydesdale, Johnson, Calcutta ; Isabella, Geale, Demerara ; Czar, Duck, Pictou ; Hibernia, Park, Miramichi ; Eliza Ann, Quebec. Hum., JULY 24.—Wind N.E.—Sailed 23d, Palestine, Nutt, Boston. OFF GALLTIIEAD.—Carina, Woodmass, Barbadoes. WIIITSTABLE, JULY 23.—The Catharina and Henrietta, Gulluser, from Dronthelm to Rochefort, has been assisted in here leaky, having lien on shore on a sand, supposed the Long Sand, and, it is supposed, must discharge. VESSELS SPOKEN WITII.—PCggy, Clyde to Jinn:deft, 18th instant, lat. 49, long. 8, by the Fanny, Temple, arrived at Falmouth. .lohn Thompson, Poole, to Quebec, 19th, lat. 50, long. 8, by the. Emerald, Short, arrived off P enzan ce. Priuce of Llewe ll y n schooner, 13th, lat. 4 7, long. 22, by the Mercury, NeY, arrived off Penzance. Arab, St, John'.i4, New Brunswick, to Bideford, Rh, lat. 43, long. 37 ; General Anderson, Bay Chaleur, to the Clyde, llth, lat. 30, long. 30 ; Elder, Quebec, to Newport, 120, lat. bo, long. 26, by the Casino, Auter bridge, arrived in the WI," GE T {G_F,,kereicNeSnt‘t' i lir t i: o a u tl b 3 bi t-i l n i l i s isBh, t se ßh d i p t-s: r e:o f : a ul el . i e rt e — ( tso aC e l e lO t d ib ilw y ßhi st i hl c i tt oe )i r Fc ta- a va s e i n e ri l stcwojilei;m:neureuus; th r sß e ' p et o xo r -c t di ta r, e s y - m il will n . it be l) r i' r s . e ad with 50015 interest by those who are at all intereAed in fair dealing. He comments with much zeal and firmness on having been forecd into Court to obtain the justice which it tvas intended to deny him, by selling at the clsvcnth hour, purposely to at the legitimate commission. However, the charge of the judge and the verdict of the jury have now set the question of commission at. rest for ever. The Law Times only gives a short detail of the trial, but in its leader the editor is unusually pithy in his remarks. We append only a few lines. Speaking of the result it goes on to say : " In other words, that a vendor shall not (hf rand an auctioneer of the fruits of his exertions by anticipating him in the sale, for such, in plain terms, is THE MEANING OF THAI MOST RIGIITEOUS pECISION," TEAN & DOVE VALLEY RAILWAY, AND CITURNET VA LLEY RAILWAY. TO THE EDITOR OF THE .UN. SI in common with many others, have been consider ably amused by the efforts which a certain officious individual has recently been making, not only to divert the attention of the public from the merits of the projected Tean and Dove Valley Railway, but also to puff and brinain into notice the Old Churnet Valley line, a scheme which though once neteri ous is now almost forgotten by all but its unfortunate share holders. The gentleman to whom I allude, has been industri ously dancing attendance upon the editors of several provincial papers, with a capfull of articles manufactured by himself, and aiming at the two objects I have mentioned. The whole of these articles, it may be observed, are anonymous, and although some of them bear a suspicious resemblance to editorial articles, yet the secret of their authorship peeps out from all, yes, verily, " The voice is Jacob's voice, but the hands are the hands of Esau." Now, Mr. Editor, I know that:it is your disposition to afford fair play to all parties who may have occasion to trouble you, and I am sure you will allow me to make a few remark, by way of reply to our friend of the Churnet Valley. In the first place, then, I must beg to tell him that, however necessary the North Staffordshire Line (i. e. from Macclesfield the Potteries to Colwick) may be to the important district which it embraces, it is rather too much to expect that the Lon don and Manchester traffic is to be dragged along so circuitous a route. A glance at the map will convince the public that the North Staffordshire line is not and never will be a London and Manchester line. The other portion of the North Staffordshire scheme (i.e. from Alacclesfleld to Wellington,) does not profess to be a London and Manchester line, and it may fairly be questioned whether one and the same company can have any serious inten tion of making the two lines, running as they do parallel and within a few miles of each other nearly the whole of the distance. That the North Staffordshire Company may intend to apply for an Act for constructing both lines, no one who is at all con versant with railway tactics can doubt. The obtaining of an Act for that purpose would give them absolute possession of the ground, and keep their opponents at bay; but the:antual making of both lines is another and very different matter, and is an idea which, to my certain knowledge, many influential parties con nected with the Potteries portion of the North Staffordshire scheme consider themselves privileged to laugh at. But, sup posing on the other hand, and for the sake of argument, that there really exists on the part of the North Staffordshire Com pany an intention of carry ing out the whole of their scheme, what then? The whole, be it remembered, is at present only a project, and if the Tears and Dove Company can offer a much better and more profitable line than the Churnet Valley portion of the North Staffordshire project, what earthly: reason is there to prevent it? Are we to be gravely told, that because the North Staffordshire Company think fit to projeet a line of railway in a certain direction, that the Tean and Dove are precluded from projecting a better line, simply because it will traverse a por tion of the same country ? Surely, Mr. Editor, you are sufficiently:acquainted with these matters to know that the time has gone by in which such nonsense might have been insisted upon. The country is now in a situation to make choice of the best line, and the simple business-like question to be asked and answered is, which possesses the greatest merits, the Tean and Dove, or the Churnet ? The advocate of the latter harps a good deal upon the fact of the Board of Trade having already reported in its favour, but " as tkings go," the Report of the Board of Trade upon a railway project, is a " rather dis cordant string to play upon." " The light of other days is faded," with reference to the decisions of that unfortunate board. In short, Mr. Editor, you are well aware that the Railway Department of the Board of Trade has been regularly cashiered by Sir Robert Peel. You will think, Sir, that I am scribbling on to a most in convenient length, but there is one little fact connected with so m the Churnet and the Boa r d o f T ra d e , w hi ch d eserves to b e re corded.fri end by assumingßefore forst state t a e moment t , I will that gratify e our deg r Churnetee of i m p importance is to be attached to the Report of the Board of Trade. Under what circumstances, then, was that vaunted report made ? Was it when theghurnet was in its present "mongrel and sense less shape?" Certainly not. That report was made when the Churnet was a London and Manchester line, which it has now voluntarily, and to suit its own selfish purposes, ceased to be. So much then for the Churnet Valley and the Board of Trade. Now for the Tean and Dove Valley scheme. This is a London and Manchester line, and (as compared with the North Staffordshire line), will effect a saving of seven miles of actual distance. Whilst doing so it will embrace the important towns of Leek, Cheadle, Tean, Uttoxeter, and Burton upon-Trent (in respect of which latter town alone it is computed that 50,000/. per annum". is paid for carriage), and it will also (to adopt the language of its prospectus), open the rich and extensive coal-fields of Bid dulph, Poynton, Adlington, Cheadle, Gresly, Swadlincote, and Moria to the whole kingdom. Such, then, are some of the merits of the Tean and Dove Valley scheme, and of its claims upon public attention and support. If our Churnet Valley friend wishes for further discussion, I am prepared to afford it him when and where he likes. In the meantime I can assure him that, notwithstanding the various guises in which he has appeared, I am well acquainted with his real position as to the old Churnet Valley line, and will, in conclusion, give bins the benefit of an anecdote, the application of whichf I will leave to himself and his coascience. Coleridge takes up the old idea that the Jews have a peculiar odour, and may be known by it, just as Cobbett affirmed that he could scent a black man at the distance of a mile. " Once," says Coleridge, " I sat in a coach opposite to a Jew— a sym bol of old clothes bags—an Isaiah of Holywell-street. He would close the window, I opened it. He closed it again • upon which, in a very solemn tone, I said to him, ' Son Of Abraham, thou smellest ; son of Isaac, thou art offensive ; son of Jacob, thou hast a bad odour ! See the man in the moon, he is holding his nose at thee at that distance? Dost thou think that I, sitting here, can endure it any longer ?' M Jew was astounded, opened the window forthwith himself, and said he was sorry he did not know before I was so great a gentleman." I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A SUPPORTER OF THE TEAN AND DOVE VALLEY RAILWAY. FRIDAY NIGIIT'S GAZETTE. WAR-OFFICE, JULY 25, 1845.• 25th Regiment of Foot—Lieutenant M. Barbauld, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice \Verge, who exchanges, July 25. 31st Foot—E. B. S. Carver, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Cure, appointed to the 55th Regiment, July 25. 41st Foot—Captain G. Bagot, from the 51st Foot, to be Captain, vice Anderson, who exchanges, July 25. 44th Foot—Lieutenant A. Cary to be Captain, by purchase, vice Woolhouse, who retires ; Ensign J. S. Howard to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Cary; W. H. Hotham, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Howard, July 25. 45th Foot—Trevor Goff, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grant, appointed to the 58th Foot, July 25. 48th Foot-11. R. M. O'Sullivan, Gent., to he Ensign, without purchase, vice Harman, deceased, July 25. 51st Foot—Major C. Teulon, from half-pay of the 42d Re giment of Foot, to be Major, vice W. Austin, who exchanges, receiving the difference ; Captain A. C. Errington to be Major, by purchase, vice Teulon, who retires ; Captain W. H. H. Anderson, from the 41st Foot, to be Captain, vice Bagot, who exchanges ; Lieutenant the Hon. D. Erskine to be Captain, by purchase, vice Errington; Ensign J. G. D. Marshall, from the 55th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Erskine, July 25. 55th Foot—Lieutenant H. R. \Verge, from the 25th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Barbauld. who exchanges; Ensign A. C. Cure, from the 31st Foot, to be Ensign, vice Marshall, promoted in the slst Foot, July 25. 58th Foot—Ensign T. J. Grant from the 45th Foot, to be Ensign, vices Alain, who retires, July 25. 67th Foot—Ensign J. M'Donagh to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Sinclair, who resigns; E. Barnes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice M‘Donagh, July 25. 74th Foot—Lieut. the Hon. F. W. H. Fame to be Adjutant, vice Walsh, who resigns the Adjutantcy only, July 25. 91st Foot—Ensign H. C. Metcalfe to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Racket, who retires ; C. Lloyd, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Metcalfe, July 25. 3d West India Regiment—Captain W. M. Mills to be Major, by purchase, vice Jackson, who retires ; Lieutenant A. O. Creighton to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mills; Ensign R. Webster, from the 2d West India Regiment, to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Creighton, July 25. UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant J. Brannan, from the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without purchase, July 25. BREVET.—Major C. Teulon, of the 51st Foot, to be Lien. tenant-Colonel in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837. MEMORANDUM.—The appointment of J. A. Long, to be Staff Assistant- Surgeon, as stated in the Gazette of the 22d July, 1845, has been cancelled. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JULY 24. Corps of Royal Engineers—Brevet-Major M. A. Waters to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice Marshall, retired on full-pay ; Second Captain Charles Oldershaw to be captain, vice Waters; First Lieutenant A. Beatty to be Second Captain, vice Older shaw; Second Lieutenant V. T. Mairis to be First Lieutenant, vice Beatty, July 12. Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Herefordshire. D. P. Peploe, Esq., to be Deputy Lieutenant. WHITEHALL, JULY 22, J 845. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Granville Leveson Gower Ward, of the city of Durham, Lient., to be Master Extraor dinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JULY 23. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George William Harris, of Halstead, in the county of Essex, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Edward Philip Harding, hosier, Gravesend, to surrender Aug. 1, at half-past twelve, and Sept. ii, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee ; Oldershaw, King's Arms-yard, Ctileman-street. John Nevill Dumbrill,: jun., baker, Eastbourne, Sussex, August 5, at half-past, one, and September p, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom. official assignee, Abchurch lane, London ; White, Chancery-lane. George Jaques, painter, Tuthill-street, Westminster, July 30, at half-past two, and September 2, at one. at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Leigh, George-street, Mansion-house. Aug. 1.), at ten, and Sept. 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham official and C Thomas s e o e r p ta g s. s e . James, draper, Leamington Priors, Warwickshire , District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Moger, Paternoster-row, London ; Bartleet, Birmingham. Richard Nicholson, bookseller, Stockton, Durham, Aug. 6, Aug. Hutton,. s 'ana upon-Tyne is, lc at half-past D twe r lve .t , CanoudrtA.tig.B2a9k,era,t one, at a t s fi si e gn N e e: , ve N as e tl w e : castle-upon-Tyne; Freeman, Bothainley, and Bentall, C o l e , man-street, London. corn o -factor, Sept. 2, at eleven, . official assignee, Bristol ; Malpas and Co., Frederick's-place, Old Jewry ; Salmon, Bristol. Thomas Valentineaftiotlhmeesh 2, at twelve, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, ,fanning Allen, butcher, St. Helen's, Lancashire, Aug. 6 ig ; ne :Own and Donald Brown, ship and general Liverpool ; Gregory and Co., Bedford-row, London ; Cireen, Brunswick-buildings, Liverpool. agents, Billite., - s t r e e t , Aug .wu seteEt4td,:as.jnaerdwdisSn,e_pFstireemdebet:eirceksrippapltalecgetwa,teeol.vled, Jewry,at the official t a s l . la g i n i Bankruptcy. t i, e , y a is, -•r RICE OF SUGAR. The Average Prise of Brown or Mtvcovado Sugar, for the week ending July IS-15, is 31s. 7ia. per cwt., exclnsive of the Duties of Custwns paid or payable thereon on the ina• portatiun thereof into areat Britain. (Dividend,;,, tke., in our neat.) ExcriE PRosEctyrroris ,-- In the Court of Excise on Thursday, William Windsor, the proprietor of billiard. rooms in tie Strand, was convicted, on tour informations, of retailing wines and spirits, without a license, en the 16th and 111th of May last. Two officers of Excise went to the bih'iard-rooms and saw spirits brought, for which the customers had paid money previously; but two witnesses watched outside, who stated that no spirits or wine had been taken in during the time the Excise officers were In the house. The proprietor was fined 101. on each ;:iformation. Two billiard.room keepers in Picket-street, Strand, were also tined 201. each for similar practices, and on similar evidence, A FREAK OF Eort,TuNg.—James Seward, a poor man, by trade a carpenter, residing in Semerstown, who has been for some time in great distress from want of employment, yesterday received the pleasing intelligence that he had become the possessor of a large fortune by the death of a brother in India, who had there amassed considerable wealth. His wife was actually on the wed to pledge an article for food, when the letter arrived, bearing the welcome news that he was the owner of 15,0001. I rt dol' of ri ot :o' l ;iess cpe -1 of hi°