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clauses,—(Hear , hear.) He believed that that Principle was .. , lready acted upon in well regulated unions. He protested against thecruelty of forcing two old people into the un i on -h ouse, an d separat i ng thorn. He hatln f though t that any gentleman would wish to see ', A p o o ld People thus forced to leave their homes-, and not after wards b e perm i tted to see each othw,--(llear.) But if that argument was good for the .rat clause, it was better for the second. If it was cru-41 and abominable to separate an old man and his wife,, was it not still worse to sepa rate a man from his 17;ife if she were ill? Why should she be turned ptuehrnreadvozer to the care of a hired nurse, who might Et woman of bad character, instead of being trinitted to have her husband to attend her?—(Cheers.) 8 asked the Ri g ht H on . B arone t if he would make the. law 8401 that out-door relief should be necessarily g r anted in e ver y case t o p ersons o f more than 60 years a a ge, for, if he would not, he should vote for the tittll se•—(llear, hear.) lr• DARBY obj ec ted to the wording of the clause. yr,a Yrhat was the meaning of suitable and decent (w -e'll:elucidation ? Different meanine.s would be attached ;.o the diff erent words by different'boards of guardians. Then with regar d to th e secon d c l ause , w h o was t o -tde termine when one person stood in need of the assistance of another? Both clauses were indefinite. Then with regard to the proposal to give magistrates the power in tended to be given them by this clause, he believed ma gistrates wou ld b e very unw illi ng to h ave t h ose powers. tie objected to out-door relief, without any test—there ;light to be a labour test in conjunction with the work- Douse test. He should long since have,proposed a clause to enact a labour test, if he had not met with great op- P o sition on the part of the boards of guardians, He Dever would consent to giving relief to able-bodied men, Without any test at all. The great hardship of the law ta 'S, that able-bodied men out of work could not receive out-door relief. He had never seen any case of cruelty Dr hardship to old people. He would defy any board of guardians to carry the provisions of these clauses into ci.iy °Peuernattion—they were too indefinite, and were cense impracticable. The Government proposition was a great improvement on the existing law. - Mr. STUART WORTLEY thought the clauses were intelligible, and if they waited until they could draw up hLI clause without a flaw, they would never legislate at all. I e ; "Teed with the Hon. Member for Sussex as to the lreelause. He thought it would open a door to the 'ntreduction of the evils of the old system, and he s hould oppose it, as he did not wish to interfere with t h e discretion of the guardians. With regard to the „,rst cla use , h e approve d o f it, as , a lth oug h admitted (pat the orders of the Commissioners had in a greet lure carried out the objects of these clauses, yet he would rather have those objects secured by legislative 'enactm ent . Lord STANLEY said. that if these clauses were agreed to, they would, as far as the poor-law was concerned, fru strate the labours , of the present session. —(Cheers.) 't had been aclmitteq. on all hands that the present Bill oracle many advantageous alterations in the poor-law. u t he, for one, wiktld rather that those ll—vantages should be deferred 'till another session, than purchase tta at the price of - these clauses.—(Loud cheers.) His ° l l- Friend who hactj oat sat down had abandoned the third c l ause.He had admitted that he did not think it right _ empower a single= justice of the peace to overrule a ci • "lawn of a board of guardians, and he had also admitted that if such power were conferred on a single • iustice it would re-introduce the abuses of the old poor try and revive that system which had nearly brought - Country to the verge of ruin. The first and second ° m 7 uses met with the support of his Hon. Friend. He (Lord Stanley), however, was satisfied that however hu mane might be the intentions of his Hon. Friend the ember for the West Riding, and however humane might be the intentions of the Honourable Member for 4t esharn, a clause more cruelly bearing upon the old people could not have been introduced. It was a corn- V l sory clause, and would bear upon the aged and infirm o r with the greatest hardship. The law as it stood at present invested a large discretion in the board of tardians, the persons who, of all others, were most t eizant of the peculiar circumstances of each particular tti ' t e• The board of gdardians w e re no t com p e ll e d t o g i ve 'door relief to persons above sixty years of age, be trse the law imposedlno test upon them, but upon the ,e,cossity of the parties. A man of sixty years of age !X ht be capable of doing a good day's work, while an ,"tler man of fifty might, from his-infi rm ities, be a t r °Per subject to be taken into the workhouse, or to 2 relieved out of the workhouse. His Hon. Friend, t 7 141 . the Hon. Member for Eversham, wished . to deprive t , ,board of guardians of this discretion, and confine ~eeir attentions solely to the age, without reference ' 1 ' 1 ! the state of health. The present l aw gave t h e ja,.rtl of guardi a n s a di scre ti onar y p ower o f gr anting t door re li e f, if t h e part i es were i nf i rm ; an d sure l y fat was a much safer, a much better, and a much -.ore humane test, than the test of sixty years, which f u`s l Propoted by the Honourable Gentleman.—(Hear, 1, 41 Mr. Borthwick.) The present law provided that the rd of guardians should have power to grant -.t; of relief; without separation of parties, in their .1 4 ' 1 1 homes, if th e y were i n a s t a t e o f b o dily infirmity. ls Hon. Friend the Member for the West Riding Wish e d , th at state of things on l y to a pply to parties above sixty years of age, whether they were infirm or W et ; and th e Hon. Memb er ' for Evesham said that, if they at're above sixty, and were relieved in the workhouse , h QY were to have separate rooms. The principle souzlit be established by the Hon. Gentleman existed already, . 0 ; by the provisions of the present law, a power existed ;1 the Board of guardians to allow the infirm or aged illtsband and wife to inhabit the same apartment in the 'Workhouse, only requiring the board to report such case to the Poor-law Commissioners, and subject to the re strictions they might impose. What would be the con (sequence of the clause? Why, the board of guardians 'would have only to choose between the necessity of pro viding aged and infirm couples with separatet apartment h s e in - the workh ouse, or refuse them admissional ag n e s th o e f r a . T ccon i . would be comp e ll e d f rom want of the m modation, to adopt the latter alternative, and thus these poor people would be forced back into their hovels, aubject to all the privations and discomforts of the lowest 'stage of poverty. The amendment, if carried, would operate seriously to the disadvantage of the poor and of the rate-payers, and he called upon the House to re ject it. Captain PECHELL supported the amendment. No- Cling could be harsher than the present mode of separa !tion between husband and wife practised in the work houses. Mr, DENISON regretted that he should feel himse °bilged to oppose every one of these resolutions. Mr. BROTHERTON did not think the clauses pro °sed by the Hon. Member for Evesham could be carried `out, If he thought they could be, he certainly would support them. He thought, however, it would be im- Posstble to carry out the wishes of the Hon. Member, be 7anso, to do so, an enormous expense would be incurred .14 Providing separate apartments for the married in aties of the workhouses. He had often wished to see t present law ameliorated, but he could never support 1 11 3 , propositi on w hi c h was consonant with his feelings, ut against his judgment. Colonel ROLLESTON thought the boards of guardian s ou ght to have more power placed in their har -ds with respect to granting relief. 11 Ir• P. HOWARD thanked the Right Hon. Baronet flis attempts to ameliorate the existing law. He could 1 1 1(3 t support the motion of 'the Hon. Member for Eves am, as it would place paupers on a better footing than those who were engaged in our fleets and armies. He Ilholll d therefore, give his decided opposition to the re 4301ntions for he believed that, if they were carried, they ' W ouldould only h 9 old out an inducement to persons to go into th e workhouse. Should CURTEIS thought it was desirable that paupers he allowed certain times for recreation. 1 ,2 4 - BORTHWICK shortly replied. The question on - 2 4 0 i th ey were a b out to di v id e was th e fi rs t c l ause , an d that only, R e w i s h e d th a t t o be distinctly understo o d, b ecause he felt convinced many Hon. Members would elc'at.uesfe.or that clause who would not vote for the third T he , 'House then divided, when there appeared— the clause Against it 95 Majority against the clause In answe r to a question from Mr. BORTHWICK on the third clause, b,,T r j. GRAHAM said guardians had the power, 40 e the 22c1 clause of the Poor-law Act, of ordering "tdoor Q 44 1% B. ESCOTT expressed his satisfaction at the de eation they had heard from the highest authority on 14 subject in the House. Ho had often contested the t i i i nt at meetings of boards of guardians, but had gene -1,,„1, been out-voted; he trusted, however, that guardians In Tutd now interpret the Act according to its strict literal d and act upon their discretion in ordering out °(,)ll,;_ relief .n cases where it was obviously required. .. qe ana we t y tithr clauses moved by the Hon. ember for '- e re then negatived without a divis M ion. addition STAFFORD O'BRIEN then moved the following C'tiou to clause 20 :—" And be it enacted, that the f ° Lunaissi oners d o an d s h a ll take order for the due per ' ho m anse of religious services in each of such work togila, and for that purpose do and shall appoint fit N0 v 13113 , being clergymen of the Church of England, to as chaplains in such workhouses, and fix the amount " paid to such chaplains respectively by way of salary Paid ance for their services (which amount, when so shall be paid out of the rates accordingly) : pro to7d always, that no person who shall be so appointed " a chaplain for any workhouse shall act as such Plin, unless he be approved for that purpose by the : 40 P of the diocese within which such workhouse is He said ho had for his proposal the sanction fPr esident o f the Council, who, in another place, had su ggested th a t a provision of this kind should be added t t " Present Bill ; and he had, also, the authority of introduced Poor -law C omm i ss i oners t h emse l ves . Th e c h ange :lodu.ced by the new p oor -l aw was b o th a social pfdreligious one , as it t oo k a l arge num b er th e poor fr om t h ose w h o were c h arge .' w ith th e i r iritual care. Yet in the original Act there was no iriention of a chaplain, except incidentally, in an amend -eat introduced in the House of Lords in the interpreta- ZTclime. Acti ng , h owever , on t h at mere ment i on o f rh an officer, the Poor-law Commissioners had ap- Ited several c h ap l a i ns , an d i n 1839 t h ey o b ta i ne d t h e -4; 'stanc e of a mandamus from the Court of Queen's ,: - . 3 . ( :5:11 to enable th em t o d o so . I n twenty - two un i on ' w o g in this country Divine service was per- C hnatirecd gratuitously by clergymen of the Established vio , II; but the act of performing f rom a s was a !ation of the law. It appeared, from a return which (I P been made to the House, that there were, exclusive smaller towns, thirty-five towns whose population v t i a o ri , e d from 109,000 to 4,000, whose aggregate popula to.' was nearly 900,000, without chapels. In the whole i n u a r , l tY of Cumberland there were but three chaplains; a _ ;fie North Riding of Yorkshire there was but one ; _in the w h o l e coun t y o f D ur h am, w i th its II:11/3.1114am of 325,000, there was no chaplain at Church,A t their Conservative dinners they drank the v e and it was boasted of as the church Dvfore 1834 it Plight hale been TOY_ g . n, L 0.:.) 14 00 N, PIifUIISDAY EVENING JULY 25 itgil. HAIR-BREADTn ESCAPE.—A party of the officers o the 44th Regiment visited the Milehouse races in a car riage and four, having hired a stage coach for the pur pose from Weakley's Hotel, Captain Pulliston acting as coachman, and one of the other officers filling the subaltern post of guard. On leaving the ground in the evening, the inside of the coach was devoted to the sergeants ; the back part to as many of the soldiers as could posssibly find a resting place, or a bar to hang on at ; while the officers occupied the front part of the carriage. Captain Pulliston taking the reins. From the way in which the vehicle was loaded, there not being many less than forty persons inside and out, it was with some difficulty the car riage was started from the field, but once moved, off they went over the hill to Swilly at a dashing pace—the Captain keeping the road very cleverly. All prudence, however, was evidently ex pected to be in the possession of whatever other party was on the road. As might have been anticipated such a freak as this could hardly be expected to end without some accident—the party passed through the village of Stoke and the more difficult part of their homeward course in safety, but in turning rather too sharply the corner of the road to come into town by the drawbridge, at the north-eastern barrier, the coach lurched, and the weight of the load being thrown on one side, down it went. The horses ran off with the pole, and the driver and his friends were strewed about the road in a most fearful plight, and a long list of killed and wounded was anti cipated by the witnesses of the accident, but miracu lously all escaped with some severe bruises, except an unfortunate fellow named Smith, a horsekeeper in the employ of the owner of the horses, who fell under the vehicle and received some severe contusions. The poor fellow was taken to the infirmary of the workhouse, and still lies in a dangerous state. The horses Proceeded towards the town, but in passing over the drawbridge one of them fell, and his legs became entangled with the chains so firmly that it re quired a great number of persons and powerful levers to extricate them. This accident brought the other horses to a halt, or further and serious damage might have resulted in their passing through the streets. The horse that fell ran the pole into his breast, and is not expected to live, while the damage to the carriage is estimated at not less than 501,--Devonport Telegraph. PIKE FISEING.—On Saturday last an immense pike was caught in Bassenthwaite-lake by a young man named John Stanley, who certainly secured his unwieldy prize in a manner somewhat novel in the art of angling. Whilst fishing for perch by the side and near the head of the lake, and baiting with the minnow, the bait was pre sently swallowed by an enormous pike, and the moment the fish found himself hooked he rapidly took off, and made his way further into the lake. When the " tyrant of the stream" had nearly stripped the young man's line off his wheel, it suddenly stopped, otherwise it would have snapped his frail tackling in an instant, and thus have regained its liberty. The angler, however, commenced working the fish, with a view of exhausting him, by first draw ing him towards the shore and then letting him off again into the lake. In this way he wrought on for upwards of two hours, the pike frequently running his whole line off within a yard or two. At length, the young man observed a piece of wood or railing lying on the ground, about three yards long, with a nail in the end of it, which he contrived to get hold of. The pike by this time was getting weaker, but was still much too strong for his frail tackle; he determined, however, on trying his chance of capture with his new weapon, and drawing the immense fish as near him as he could with one hand, whilst with the other he struck at it, and succeeded in driving the nail into the pike's head, up to the very wood. Stanley then quickly landed his prize on terra firma , when it proved to be a full-grown pike, 44 inches in length, 22 inches in girtb, and weighing no less than 281 b. AMENDED RAILWAYS BILL. A BILL TO ATTACH CERTAIN CONDITIONS TO THE CONSTRUCTION OF FUTURE IlillysfiAys, OR TO BE Atrritogis fly ANY ACT OF THE PRESENT dit St ddtEDING SESSIONS OF PARLIAMENT, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES IN RELATION TO RAILWAYS. Note.—The clauses marked (A) and (B) were added by the Committee. 1. Whereas it is expedient that the concession of powers for the establishment of new lines of railway should be subjected to such conditions as are hereinafter contained for the benefit of the public; be it enacted by the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, that if at any time after the end of twenty-one years from and after the Ist. day of January next after the passing of any Act of the present or of any future session of Parlia ment, for the construction of any new line of passenger railway, whether such line be a trunk, branch, or junc tion line, and whether such new line be constructed by a new company incorporated for the purpose, or by . any existing company, the clear annual profits divisible upon the subscribed and paid-up capital stock of the said railway, upon the average of the three then last pre ceding years, shall equal or exceed the rate of 10/. for every 100/. f such paid-up capital stock, it shall be law ful for the Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Trea sury, upon giving to the said company three calendar months' notice in writing of their intention so to do, to revise the scale of tolls, fares, and charges, limited by the Act or Acts relating to the said railway, and to fix such new scale of tolls, fares, and charges, applicable to such different classes and kinds of passengers, goods, and other traffic on such railway, as in the judgment of the said Lords Commissioners, as suming the same quantities and kinds of traffic to con tinue, shall be likely to reduce the said divisible profits to the said rate of 101. in the 100/., and so from time to time at the expiration of each succeeding period of twenty-one years ; provided always, that no such re vised scale shall take effect, unless accompanied by a guarantee, to subsist as long as any . such revised scale of tolls, fares, and charges shall be in force, that the said divisible profits, in case of any deficiency therein, shall be made good to the said rate of 101 . for every 100 /. of such capital stock ; provided also, that such revised scale shall not be again revised or such guarantee with drawn;otherwise than with the consent of the company, for the further period of twenty-one years. 2. That whatever may be the rate of divisible profits in any such railway, it shall be lawful for the said Lords Commissioners, if they shall think fit, at any time after the expiration of the said term of twenty-one years, to purchase any such railway, with all its hereditaments, stock, and appurtenances, in the name and on behalf of her Majesty, upon giving to the said company three calendar months' notice in writing of their intention, and upon payment of a sum equal to twenty-five years' purchase of the said annual divisible profits, estimated on the average of the three then next preceding years ; provided always, that if the average rate of profit for the said three years shall exceed the rate of 101. in the 100/., it shall be taken at only 101. in the 100/. for the purpose of cal culating thereon the amount of such purchase-money; provided also, that if the average rate of profits for the said three years shall be less than the rate of 10!. in the 1001., it shall be lawful for the company, if they shall be of opinion that the said rate of 25 years' purchase of the said average profits is an adequate rate of purchase of such railway, reference being had to the prospects thereof, to require that the rate of purchase, instead of being calculated upon such average rate of profit, shall be taken at a valuation, to be determined, in case of dif ference, by arbitration. 3. (A.) That nothing herein contained shall be con strued to subject to the said option of revision or pur chase any railway made or authorised to be made by any Act previous to the present session ; and that no branch or extension of less than five miles in length of any existing line of railway shall be taken to be a new railway within the provisions of this Act ; and that the said option of purchase shall not be exercised as to any branch or extension of any existing railway, without in eluding in the purchase the existing railway ; also in case the company or proprietors of the same shal require that the same be so included. 4. (B.) And whereas it is expedient that the policy of calling into exercise the powers of revision or purchase hereby reserved, or either of them, should in no manner be prejudged by the provisions of this Act, and should remain for the future consideration of the Legislature, upon grounds of general and national policy ; and whereas it is not the intention of this Act, that under the said powers of revision or purchase, if called into use, the public resources should be employed to sustain an undue competition against any independent company or companies ; be it enacted, that no such notice as hereinbefore mentioned, whether of revision or pur chase, shall be given, until provision shall have been made by Parliament, by an Act or Acts to be passed in that behalf, for authorising the guarantee or the levy of the purchase. money hereinbefure mentioned, as the case may be, and for determining, subject to the conditions hereinbefore mentioned, the manner in which the said options or either of them shall be exercised ; provided always, that before any application is made to Parliament for the powers to exercise the said options or either of them, three months' notice shall be given by the said Lords Commissioners to the company or companies to be affected thereby, of the intention so to apply. 5. That from and after the commencement of the pe riod of three years preceding the period at which the option of ransom or purchase becomes available, full and true accounts shall be kept of all sums of money re ceived and paid on account of any railway within the provisions hereinbefore contained (distinguishing, if the said railway shall be a branch railway, or one worked in common with other railways, the receipts, and giving an estimate of the expenses, on account of the said railway , from those on account of the trunk line, or other rail ways) by the directors of the company to whom such railway belongs or by whom the same may be worked, and of the purposes and things for which such sums of money shall have been received and paid ; and every such railway company shall, once in every half year, cause a half-yearly account in abstract to be pre pared, showing the total receipt and expenditure on account of the said railway, for the half year endihg the 30th day of June and the 31st day of December, respec tively, or such other convenient days as shall in each case be directed by the Lords of the said Committee, under distict heads of receipt and expenditure, according to such form as may be required by the Lords of the said Committee, with a statement of the balance of such ac count, duly audited and certified under the hands of two or more directors of the said railway company ; and shall send a copy of the said account to the Lords of the said Committee on or before the last days of August and Feb ruary respectively, or such other days as shall in each case be directed by the Lords of the said Committee in each year ; and it shall be lawful for the Lords of the said Committee, if and when they shall think fit, to ap point any proper person or persons to inspect the ac counts and books of the said Company ; and it shall be lawful for any person so authorised, at all reasonable times upon producing his authority, to examine the books, accounts, vouchers, and other documents of the company at the principal office or place of business of the company, and to take copies or extracts therefrom. 6. Companies to provide one cheap train, each way, daily. (This clause remains virtually unchanged, see clause 25 of former Bill.) And with respect to all rail way companies subject to these obligations which shall be open on or before the Ist day of November next, these obligations shall come into force on the said Ist day of November; and with respect to all other rail ways subject to this obligation, it shall come into force on the day of opening of the railway, or the day after the last day of the session in which the Act shall be passed, by reason of which the company will become subject thereunto, which shall first happen. 7. That if any railway company shall refuse or wilfully neglect to comply with the provisions of this act as to the said cheap trains, within a reasonable time, or shall attempt to evade the operation of such order, such com pany shall forfeit to her Majesty a sum not exceeding 20/. for every day during which such refusal, neglect, or evasion, shall continue. 8. Board of Trade to have a discretionary p o wer of allowing alternative arrangements. [This clause is the same as the former clause 27.] 9. That no tax shall be levied upon the receipts of any railway company from the conveyance of passengers at fares not exceeding Id. for each mile, by any such cheap train as'aforesaid. 10. Certain companies to convey military and police forces at certain charges, 5 and 6 Vict., c. 55. [This is the same as the former clause 29.) 11. Railway companies to afford additional facilities for the transmission of the mails, 1 and 2 Viet., c. 98. [This is the same as former clause 30.] 12. And whereas electrical telegraphs have been established on certain aailways, and may be more ex tensively established hereafter, and it is expedient to provide for their due regulation; be it enacted, that every railway company, on being required so to do by the Lords of the said Committee, shall be bound to allow any person or persons authorised by the Lords of the said Committee, with servants and workmen, at all reasonable times to enter into or upon their lands, and to establish and lay down upon such lands adjoining the line of such railway, a line of electrical telegraph for her Majesty's service, and to give to him and them every reasonable facility for laying down the same, and for using the same, for the purpose of receiving and sending messages on her Majesty's ser vice, subject to such reasonable remuneration to the company as may be agreed upon between the company and the Lords of the said Committee, or in case of disa greement, as may be settled by arbitration ; provided always, that. subject to a prior right of use thereof for the purposes of her Majesty, such telegraph may be used by the Company, for the purposes of the railway, upon such terms as may be agreed upon between the par ties, or, in the event of diference, may be settled by arbitration. 13. That where a line of electrical telegraph shall have been established upon any railway by the company to whom such railway belongs, or by any company, partnership, person or persons, otherwise than exclu sively for her Majesty's service, or exclusively for the purposes of the railway, the use of such electrical tele graph, for the purpose of receiving and sending mes sages, shall, subject to the prior right of use thereof for the service of her Majesty and for the purposes of the company, and subject also to such equal charges, and to such reasonable regulations, as may be from time to time made by the said railway company, be open for the sending and receiving of messages by all persons alike, without favour or preference. 14. And whereas by an Act passed in the 4th year of the reign of her Majesty, intituled, "An Act to regulate Railways." power is given to the Lords of the said Com mittee to appoint any proper person or persons to in spect any railway, and the stations, works, and buildings, and the engines and carriages belonging thereto ; and in order to carry the provisions of this Act into execu tion it is expedient that the said power be extended ; be it enacted, that the said power given to the Lords of - tine SMd Ccgirnttee, 4. of Appointing proper tiffsopd to inspect railways snail exteicid id authdtisti fliti appointment by the Lords of the said Committee of any proper person or persons, for such purposes of in spectiop, as are by the said Act authorised, and also for the purpose of enabling the Lords of the said Committee to carry the provisions of this and of the said Act, and of any general Act relating to railways, into execution ; and that so much of the last-recited Acts as provides that no person shall be eligible to the appointment as in spectc.r, who shall within one year of his appointment, have been a director, or have held any office of trust or profit under any railway company, shall be repealed; provided always, that no such person shall exercise any powers of interference in the affairs of the company. 15. Repealing provision of 3 and 4 Vic., c. 97. (Same as farmer clause 35.) 16. Board of Trade may direct prosecutions to pre vent railway companies from contravening or exceeding the provisions of their Acts. [Same as former clause 36.] 17. Notice to be given to the company. Prosecutions to be under the sanction of the Board of Trade, and within one year after the offence. [Same as former clause 37.] 18. And whereas many railway companies have bor rowed money in a manner unauthorised by their Acts of incorporation or other Acts of Parliament relating to the said companies, upon the security of loan notes or other instruments purporting to give a se curity for the repayment of the' principal sums bor rowed at certain dates, and fOr the payment of interest thereon in the meantime : and whereas such loan notes or other securities issued otherwise than under the provision of some Act or Acts of Parliament have no legal validity, and it is expedient that the issue of such illegal securities should be stopped ; but such loan notes or other securities having been issued and received in good faith as between the borrower and lender, and for the most part for the lawful purposes of the undertaking and in ignorance of their legal invalidity, it is expedient to confirm such as have been already issued ; be it enacted, that from and after the passing of this Act, any railway company issuing any loan note or other negotiable or assignable instrument, purporting to bind the company as a legal security for money ad vanced to the said railway company otherwise than under the provisions of some Act or Acts of Parliament authorising the said railway company to raise such money and to issue such security, shall for every such offence forfeit to her Majesty a sum equal to the sum for which such loan note or other instrument purports to be such security: provided always, that any company may renew any such loan note or other instrument issued by them prior to the passing of this Act, for any period or periods not exceeding five years from the passing of this Act. 19. That where any railway company;before the 12th day of July, 1844, shall have issued or contracted to issue any such loan notes, or other unauthorised instruments, the company may and shall pay off such loan notes or other instruments, as the same may fall due, subject as herein before provided ; and, until the same shall be so paid off, the said loan notes or other instruments shall entitle the holders thereof to the payment, by the company, of the principal sum and interest thereby agreed to be paid. 20. That a register of all such loan notes or other in struments shall be kept by the secretary, and such re gister shall be open, without fee or reward, at all rea• sonable times, to the inspection of any shareholder or auditor of the undertaking, and of every person inter ested in any such loan note or other instrument desirous of inspecting the same. 21. Remedy for recovery of tithe-rent charged on rail way land. [Same as former clause 43.] 22. Communications to and from Board of Trade, ser vice of notices, &c. [Same as former clause 44.] 23. Peralties. [Same as former clause 45.] 24. That where the word " railway" is used in this Act, it shall be construed to extend to all railways con structed under the powers of any Act of Parliament ; and when the words " passenger railway" are used in this Act, they shall be construed to extend to all rail ways constructed under the powers of any Act of Parliament upon which one-third or more of the gross annual revenue is derived from the conveyance of passengers by steam or other mechanical power; and whenever the word "company" is used in this Act, it shall be construed to extend to include the proprietors for the time being of any such railway ; and that where a different sense is not expressly declared, or does not appear by the context, every word importing the sin gular number or the masculine gender shall be taken to include females as well as males, and several persons and things as well as one person or thing. 25. That this Act may be amended or repealed by any Act to be passed in this session of Parliament. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Special Court was held, for the purpose of receiving a report from the Parliamentary Com mittee upon the Criminal Justice (Middlesex) Bill, the Corporation Officers Bill, and the Charitable Bill now in Parliament. THE LOSS OF LIVES AT BLACKFRIARS BRIDGE , Two or three members having risen at the same time, to call the attention of the Court to the late dreadful accident at Blackfriars-bridge, Mr. ANDERTON handed in a notice of motion, "to take into consideration the state of the piers for embarking and landing passengers on and from steam-boats ; and also the present laws for regulating steam-boats on the river Thames, and the necessity of applying to Parlia ment for further power, for the better regulation thereof, and that the subject be referred to the Naviga tion Committee to examine and report thereon." Mr. T. IL Hata. said there existed in the Court a very great and natural anxiety to give expression to the feeling occasioned by the awful calamity which had oc curred at Blackfriars-bridge on Thursday evening; and he thought it necessary to mention that the Chairman of the Navigation Committee was not aware of the inten tion of the Lord Mayer to hold a Court, and had gone up the river on business connected with the Corporation, or he certainly would have attended in his place in order to make any explanation which might be required as to the responsibility of that Committee. The Lord Mayor was perfectly aware of the difficulties which the Navi gation Committee had to encounter as to the navigation of steam-vessels on the river Thames; and that doubts had been expressed, even by the members of her Ma jesty's Government, with regard to the powers of the Committee. His Lordship was also aware that there were individuals connected with the river who completely set at defiance the authority of the Committee, and that a difference of opinio n ex i s t e d i n the body itself, calcu lated to prevent that whi c h unanimity would have effec tually accomplished.—(H ear , hear.) That there should be a perfect supervision of all encroachments and inno vations, and that a contro lli ng power s hould exist some where, there could be no doubt. Many were of opinion that the authority should belong to the Navigation Com mittee. At all events, that point ought to be settled, as nothing but the repetition of such calamities as they had to deplore, was likely to arise from the continuance of the existing irregularities, and the operation of an inefficient and divided control.—(Bear, hear.) Sir P. LAURIE , upon looking over Mr. Andertoit's notice of motion, hop e d th at th e w ords " if necessary," in reference to going to Parliament, would be added ;'for he much feared that an application to Parliament would, to a certain extent, put the rights and privileges of the citi zens of London in jeopardy.—(Hear, hear.) He believed the Secretary of State to be disposed to take all power to himself, and had embraced the advice of one Major Jebb, who recommended that the City should be called upon to erect a n ew prison upon five acres of ground. Now, where th a t en ormous space was to be obtained, unless, indeed, it was to be found in the river, he could not tell.—(lTear, hear.) There was no spot except Smithfield upon which such an enormous speculation could be at all likely to be reduced to practice. These attempts to build gaols of frightful magnitude should be closely watched.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the control of the river Thames, he had not the slighest doubt as to the efficient exercise of the united power of the Lord Mayor and the Navi gation Committee without an appeal to Parliament at a ll.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Dixort said it would be recollected that before steamers were employed in the Thames the stairs and landing-places within the jurisdiction of the Lord Mayor were kept in repair, and the expenses were defrayed, by the City of London. The complete authority rested with the Corporation. The introduction of that new species of navigation did not abate that authority. On the contrary, it rendered the exercise of the power more necessary by :he introduction of new dangers.—(Hear, hear.) As to the regulation of the steam-vessels, the W a termen's Company, from whom the licenses were ob tainedwere, under existing circum s t ances , no t empowered penalties for the violation of the rules ; but that tdoefienctiticetould be supplied by the Lord Mayor and Alder men, who might, in his opinion, at once confer the power, and thus achieve the remedy.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Noants said he was anxious to call the attention of the Court to the important question of the state of the pier at Blackfriars-bridge, where the melancholy acci dent occurred. He recollected when the Blackfriars bridge Committee arrived at the conclusion of their la boura, they requested that the question as to the state of the pier there should be referred to a Committee ; and a discussion of some length took place as to whether the subject should go to the Navigation Committee, or the Bridge House Estates Committee. He advised upon that occasion that the matter should be submitted to the Navigation Committee as more appropriate to the duties of that Committee than to those of the other. Ultimately, however, it was referred to the Bridge House Estates Committee by whose report further plans and papers were called for and the consideration of which report was deferred to another period. That period had unfortunately not yet arrived.—(Hear, hear.) The question of course was at the present moment before the Committee, and would no doubt be soon b roug ht forward. After some remarks from other members, Mr. GRESHAM said it was quit e i m p oss ible for any one to suppose but that the Corporation might have re medied the existing ev ils l ong ago, if they had acted with ordinary vigilance and energy.—(Hear, hear.) He lamented that, two years since, the condemnation alluded to had not produced the effect so naturally expected from a judgment of that description. What, he asked, would the public say when it should go forth, as it, no doubt, would next day, that the very spot on which the dreadful occurrence had taken place, had been condemned two years ago ?_(Cheers.) How monstrous was it that the greatest corporation in the country should be told that what was formally condemned by the Committee appointed by them to superintend the affairs of the river was allowed to remain as if formally sanctioned by . them, and that they were only roused into a recollection of the sentence by the terrors of the disaster ?—(Cheers.) It was (Mr. Gresham contended) absolutely and indis putably necessary to go into the question at once, without waiting for the slow operation of a notice of motion. — (Hear, hear.) The Court ought to reflect that similar accidents might happen, and had happened at other piers on the river. They ought to reflect that the loss of parents to their children, and the loss of children to their reeerits f was attributable to the culpable neglect of the Corpuretien of ..London.—(Loud cries of " Hear, hear," and "No; Ile.") He insisted that his charge was just. If they argued in their defence that they had no power, why did they not say who had the eiower, and who had refused to exercise it? If they said the power lay with the Lord Mayor, why did they not distinctly say so, and call upon him to perform so serious a duty ? —(Cheers.) The Court of Common Council had the City funds at their command, and showed that they pos sessed that authority in a great variety of ways; and surely, as they were invested with large corporate autho rity, they were bound to devise a remedy for the evil, particularly as they had money to carry out the object. —(Hear, hear.) There were several of the inhabitants of the ward in which the calamity had occurred, at the bar, ready to present a petition, praying the Court to give their immediate attention to the subject. He added his entreaty to theirs. He had spoken strongly, and in the opinion of many, perhaps, harshly, on the subject; but it was one calculated to operate powerfully upon the feelings of any man of common humanity.—(Cheers.) The LORD MAYOR rose. He said it might be satis factory to the Court to know that a code of laws for the regulation and management of the river Thames would be submitted to the Committee of Aldermen on Saturday next, and that the conservancy was of itself a sufficient power upon which to act on all occasions, however im portant, and rendered quite unnecessary any application to Parliament for assistance or sanction. When these rules should be agreed to, there would be no delay in nor check to their operation.—(Cheers.) With respect to the deplorable accident which had occurred, it was necessary, after what had been stated as to that disaster, that he should say a few words. It appeared from the statements which had been made, that the pier at Black friars-bridge had been condemned for the last two years. He regretted that his predecessor in office was not pre sent, to state why he had not acted upon that sentence of condemnation—why he had not proceeded as soon as possible to apply a remedy.—(Hear, hear.) At the same time, he could not help saying that the Navigation Corn mittee ought to have reported to him (the Lord Mayor) that such a dangerous pier existed. If the Com mittee had given him that information, he would at once have removed the Blackfriars-bridge pier as completely and effectually as he had removed the pier at London bridge.—(Loud cheers.) In his opinion the Navigation Committee ought to have renewed their application from time to time with ceaseless perseverance, until they accomplished that the accomplishment of which they knew and acknowledged to be paramount. It was their duty to follow up an object which melancholy experience now pointed out to them should have been long since attained.—(Cheers.) In his opinion, the pier ought not to have been at the place where it is at all. Any one who would look at the Blackfriars-bridge Act must say that the erection was made directly in opposition to it ; so that there was neither authority nor excuse for what had been done.—(Hear, hear.) His Lordship concluded by stating that on Thursday next (this day), he should go up the river, examine all the piers, and issue orders with respect to them, which, he would take care should be obeyed. Upon the motion of Mr. OBBARD, the standing order was suspended, in order that the Farringdon-ward With out petition e in praying for the immediate erection of a substantial pier, might be presented. In answer to questions from Mr. KING, the petitioners said they knew the Blackfriars-bridge pier had been under condemnation for the last two or three years, and that they did not care by whom the pier might be made, as their only object was to hare as efficient and secure one. Mr. KING, upon the part of the Bridgehouse Estates Committee, said that the members thought the question of the erection of a pier so important, that it ought to be submitted to competition, and that the vast plan of em bankment proposed by the Government necessarily caused delay.—(Hear, hear.) Under all the circumstances, the Court ought to be very cautious how they sanctioned any plan. Mr. R. WILLIAMS believed that the public mind would be, in a great degree, relieved by what had been stated that day in the Court, provided immediate steps were taken to carry out the object of those who had con demned the course of apathy which had been so long pursued.—(Hear, hear.) The petitioners did not appear at the bar to advocate any particular plan of building. Their only object was to have a secure and effectual pier, and the public would hold the Court responsible for what might henceforward take place, for they believed that the Corporation were chargeable with having allowed individuals to erect piers, no matter where, and to pocket the money of the people, without caring anything about the danger incurred by those who paid, or the disgrace reflected upon those who granted the favour.—(Cheers.) He hoped that petitioners would never again appear at that bar, praying for a remedy for grievances, the exist ence of which was a dishonour and a reproach to those to whom they were represented.—(Cheers.) Mr. T. H. HALL submitted, that the Court ought to recollect that the Navigation Committee could not re commend the erection of a pier upon any particular spot, until something decisive should be done in the great scheme of embankment.—(Hear, hear.) Lord Lincoln had given notice, that on the 30th instant, he should introduce a Bill in Parliament, fur the purpose of exten sively embanking the river, from the City to Westmin ster. How could the Corporation then, at once, erect a pier upon any spot within that large space ? They were bound to look at the question in all its bearings. (Hear, hear.) In the meantime ; that, he admitted, had nothing to do with the ricketty pier which had been con demned two years ago, and ought to have been removed the moment after condemnation.—(Hear, hear.) The petition was then unanimously referred to the Committee. the church of the lelor, bet it then ceetsed Io i sus poet of an<aer day had W i ld theta; iit " Ram too delkate to hear of hell," - and by a hurtible parody these words might now be ap plied to the Church. They deprived the poor of rights to which they had as good a title as they thenes.elYee had to their estates ; and if they persisted in this, they would not be - performing the part of Christians and statesmen, but of tyrants and robbers. What case, he asked, had bean made out for depriving their poor of such rights ? What right had they, in their power and wealth, to make their morsel of bread in this world con tingent on their willingness to surrender all tidings of another ? There were 135 workhouses without chapels, and 20,000 paupers without religious instruction ; and he asked what right had they to deprive the poor of the holy offices of the Church ? Let them show their own consistency—let them show their charity and their re spect for the poor, by their jealousy lest any misfortune should separate them from the holy membership of the Church. For the last ten years the poor had been deli vered over to practical atheism, which was worse than atheism ; but he hoped there would that night be a tri umph over sordid parsimony and a cowardly compro mise of principle. He heard with great pain the decla ration of the Right Hon. Gentleman,, that he felt himself bound to oppose the introduction of this clause. He felt that neither now nor hereafter would he regret it, if the opinion of the House me; declared to be at variance with his own. Ile would now conclude. He had spoken strongly, because he had had to describe a bad and a dangerous state of things—a state of things unworthy of any men who called themselves Christians ; but he hoped he had said nothing personally offensive. He warned the House not to refuse to assent to a clause so extremely important as that which he had brought under their serious attention. Sir J. GRAHAM said the Hon. Gentleman had ex pressed a hope that he had not used violent language on that occasion. He gave the Hon. Gentleman full credit for the purity of his motives, and the warmth of his feel ings ; but he thought the expressions which had fallen from him were hardly justified.—(Hear, hear.) He did not yield to the Hon. Gentleman in a desire to promote the interests of the Church ; but he very much doubted whether it would be promoted by an attempt to force the particular form of worship which the Hon. Gentle man and himself were attached to in every workhouse by the payment of a chaplain.—(Hear, hear.) The Hon. Gentleman should bear in mind that this was not a novelty proposed for the first time in 1834. The Gil bert Unions had been formed long antecedent to that period ; and when those unions were formed there had been no provision made for the appointment of chap lains. There were none appointed in those unions now. Captain PECHELL—In some of them. Sir JAMES GHAH All admitted that the Gallant Officer was a high authority on the subject of Gilbert Unions ; but he would admit that there was no provi sion made in them for the appointment of chaplains.— (" Hear, hear," from Captain Pechell.) The Hon. Gen tleman had described Divine worship, when celebrated in workhouses by clergymen, an illegal act. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN—When the clergyman is not licensed. . . Sir JAMES GRAHAM—SureIy it could not be contended that the clergyman of the parish would not be discharging his duty if he neglected to visit the poor in mates of the workhouse who were assembled together in his parish.—(Cheers.) He considered it was the bounden duty of the clergymen of the parish thus to attend to them, If a chaplain were appointed, he must be licensed by the Bishop, and, therefore, he could not be said to be celebrating Divine service illegally ; and if he were not licensed, then he would be, most probably, the clergy man of the parish, and he would not be acting illegally. In England. and Wales there were 537 unions. There were no workhouses in twenty-one of these unions, in three the workhouses were very small, and of the remaining 513 there were chaplains appointed in 411 under the discretionary power vested in the Poor-law Commissioners, with salaries averaging nearly 501. a year each, and yet the Hon. Gentleman alleged that they were establishing Atheism by Act of Parliament.— (Hear, hear.) While the rule remained in force for bidding the inmates of workhouses to leave its precincts even on a Sunday, he agreed with the Hon. Gentleman that they were incurring a fearful responsibility if they failed to provide for their spiritual consolation ; but, since he had come into office, the Poor-law Commis sioners, acting in conjunction with himself, had issued an order, empowering noards of guardians to permit the inmates of the workhouse who were members of the Established Church to leave the work house on every Sunday, Christmas Day, and Good Friday, for the purpose of attending Divine worship at their parish church, and also to permit mothers to be accompanied by their chil dren.—(Hear, hear.) The board of guardians were also empowered to permit such inmates of the workhouse as were Dissenters to leave the workhouse on Sunday for the purpose of attending Divine service in their respec tive places of worship, and in that instance, also, mo thers were permitted to be accompanied by their chil dren. He thought the motion of his Hon. Friend was not sustained by facts. If they were to render the, appointment of a chaplain in every union compulsory, they would be lighting up the flame, not of true religion, but of religious discord.—(Cheers.) He repeated it, he considered it was the duty of the clergyman of the reli gion favoured by the State to attend to the spiritual wants of the inmates of the workhouse situated in his parish. The Hon. Gentleman might call it a cowardly compromise if he liked, but he certainly should shrink from the responsibility of attempting to carry the propo sition of the Hon. Gentleman, although he bore as sin cere an attachment to the Church as the Hon. Gentleman. Mr. STAFFORD O'BRIEN explained. He had not meant to say that the Right Hon. Gentleman was not actuated by any feelings of attachment and respect towards the Established Church. Mr. LIDDELL said workhouse relief to the poor in the northern counties was of very trifling extent, and the aged and infirm were generally relieved in their own houses. He had never heard of the want of spiritual assistance in workhouses, of which the lion. Member complained so bitterly, and did not believe any such want existed, at least in the county of Durham. Mr. M'GEACHY deplored the tone in which the Right Hon. Baronet bad treated the Established Church. He thought it was the duty of a State to provide spiritual instruction for its Members. He earnestly hoped that the House would assent to the proposition of his Hon. Friend. Mr. C. BULLER thought the Right Hon. Baronet had shown himself a friend to the Church in taking the course lie had adopted with respect to this motion. Mr. S _MART WORTLEY objected to the forcing on unions the appointment of chaplains. Mr. HENLEY thought the time had come when the Legislature ought to interfere for the purpose of secur ing to the inhabitants of unions proper religious in struction. Sir J. GRAHAM explained, and the House divided; the numbers were, For the clause l9 Against it Majority against the clause The CHAIRMAN then reported progress, and the House resumed, the report was ordered to be brought up this day at twelve o'clock. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the House adjourned at One o'clock. SUMIVIER — ASSIZES. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Worcester, July 23, CIVIL. SlDE.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.) At the sitting of the Court, at nine this morning, the trial of Ariyustug .ffewtol, for perjury, commenced. Mr. Godson, Q.C., rind Mr. Greaves were retained on the part of the Crown ; the defendant was unrepresented by counsel, As Mi. Or/ EAVES rose to open the proceedings, he was in terrupted by 64 defendant, who claimed his right to have the indictment read aloud td the jury. The Learned JUDGE left the Court for the purpose of con sulting the Lord Chief Justice on the subject, and, on his re turn, observed—" I have spoken to my Learned Brother, who informs me that he never in his life heard of such a proceed ing, but if the defendant thinks Oa any good is to be got by COURT CIRCULAR, Thornhill Park is directed to be sold by Mr George Robins, by private treaty. It should seem there is nothing in Southampton's beauteous vicinity, that can approach this splendid mansion and estate. Sir William Curtis has in vain essayed to rent it furnished for the season of yachting, but the executors of Sir Barlow Hoy, think they are prohibited from disposing of it, except as a most eligible purchase. A reverend and highly ta lented correspondent of ours, makes the following com mentary upon the property :—" I hope the place is marked in Thornhill Park where the bones of the famous racer Emilius are interred." He was the founder of a race of " giants" in their way. Mr. Westley Richards, gun-manufacturer, Bir mingham, has succeeded in combining various qualities of steel, suitable for the manufacture of sword blades ; it has all the toughness of the Indian Wootz, with a beautiful Damask surface, but has much greater elasti city, which gives it a decided advantage over the Eastern material. Specimens may be seen at Wm. Bishop's, No. 170, New Bond-street, and at the manufactory, Bir mingham. REVELATIONS or Russu.—The recent visit . of the Emperor of Russia to this country has excited an unsuual interest about the vast empire which he governs, with a will and a hand to the power of which there is no limit; and this interest is likely, as we understand, to be imme diately gratified, in a most unexpected manner by the publication of such extraordinary " revelations," touch ing all Russian institutions, social as well as political, as no press but that of England would dare to put forth. Hitherto the accounts we have received of Russia and the Russians have been prepared and put forth by travellers only—individuals, however worthy of credit and attention, who could not from the brief time they passed in the country, by possibility have penetrated be yond the surface, which alone presents itself to a travel ler's eye. But these " Revelations of Russia" are said to be the result of many years' residence and observa tion, and under such circumstances of official and social position as render them more trustworthy than anything else of the kind that has hitherto been given to the world. This work is also said to contain the " Secret History," never before made public, of that extraordinary revolu tion which placed the present Emperor on the throne. HOSPITAL - FOR CONSUMPTION AND DISEASES OF THE CHEST, BROMPTON.—Considerable anxiety has been expressed, and several inquiries made, as to the probable completion of the new hospital at Pelham crescent, Brompton, and of which it may be remembered his Royal HighnesS Prince Albert laid the first stone, on the 11th ult. It seems that, although the ground plans and elevation are fully completed, yet the specifications of the builders are not thoroughly decided upon, and hence the apparent delay. The works, as far as they have proceeded, form a beautiful specimen of workman ship, although evidently copied from . the new building now in progress, in Lincoln's Inn-fields. It is most earnestly hoped by all well- wishers to this excellent foundation, that no further delay will be permitted by the Building Committee, more particularly as the claims daily made upon the present establishment, at Chelsea, are increasing to such an extent, that, in some instances, it has become painfully necessary to refuse admission, through the absolute want of accommodation. It is in contemplation to hold another bazaar and fancy fair, on behalf of this highly patronised institution, and of which as a matter of course, due notice will be given. 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Coupled with the acceleration of the mail trains just effected, it gives the public greater accommoda tion at a cheaper rate, at the same time that i must d ad toh o the influence and popularity of the companies, t and, in t end, to their income also.—Liverpool Times. ROYAL GENERAL D ISP ENsAur.---Yesterday a general meeting of the Governors of this Charity, was held in the Board-room of the Dispensary, Aldersgate street, for the purpose of electing a Physician tot e Institution. The Secretary, Mr. Wood, having read the minutes of the preceding meeting, a ballot was taken, when Dr. Klett Grant, the author of several successful medical publications, was elected. it, let it be read." Newton— Then, my Lord, I say, let it be read. The Learned JUDGE—I have already said so, Sir. The officer of the Court then commenced reading the docu ment in question, which was said to be nearly ten feet in length; the perusal occupied fifty minutes. Mr. GODSON, in opening the case for the prosecution, said that a most painful duty devolved upon him, entailing as it did a duty equally painful on the jury and on the Learned . Judge before whom he had the honour to appear; and pre mising his observations with some further remarks, the learned counsel stated that the facts of the case were few and simple, as would appear from the subjoined statement, The defendant, Augustus Newton, who resided at St. Paul's Cottage, Cheltenham, happened some time since to be sued by a wine merchant of the name of Healey, for the sum of 12/. 14s. ; to this action he made no defence, and judgment was taken for the full amount by his own consent, on the 2d of May, 1843. On the 28th of June, the defendant being at the time at the Gloucester sessions, was arrested by the sheriff's officer for the above debt, whereupon he claimed his privilege of freedom from liability to arrest, which was at length conceded by the Learned Serjeant Ludlow, who pre sided. on condition that the defendant would not take the benefit of such discharge. In order, however, to prevent any misunderstanding, it was suggested that the terms of the undertaking should be put into writing, whereupon the fol lowing document was drawn up and signed : " HEALEY V. NEWTON. - " I hereby undertake hot to bring any action in respect of any arrest in the said action made this morning against any person or persons ; and I hereby undertake that the plaintiff in the said action shall be at liberty to execute, or cause to be executed, the said writ, in the same manner as if no such arrest had taken place ; and that the case shall, in all respects, be considered as if in point of fact no such arrest had taken place as aforesaid. " 28th June, 1843. " AUGUSTUS NEWTON." An affidavit was afterwards made, as was alleged, on the part of the prosecution, for the purpose of doing away with this undertaking, the law not permitting two arrests for the same debt, unless the party arrested have consented to take it out of the general rule ; it became, therefore, in some de gree necessary filet the defendant should give some such docu ment as the one above set out ; being discharged, he duly attended the sessions, and afterwards retired to his cottage at St. Paul's, Cheltenham. Acting on the undertaking which had been already given, the officer proceeded to make a second arrest. The cottage was surrounded by its own grounds, having in front a lawn. The sheriff's officer rang the bell at the front door, inquired for the defendant, and was answered in the negative, the door being slammed in his face. Thereupon the officer climbed over the wall at the back ; and being aware that a large dog was kept upon the premises, took with him a loaded pistol, as a necessary pre caution against the animal ; nor did this appear to be a needless step ; for no sooner did the servant girl observe him making an entrance in the way described than she loosed the dog in question, which was only taken away under a threat of shooting him. In a short time considerable ex citement prevailed in the neighbourhood, and a large body of the populace collected around the house. The officers then made their way to the rear, when Mrs. Newton inquired of them their business. The warrant was shown to and was read by her through a window, consequently it could not be supposed but that the defendant was well aware of the errand on which the officers had come. The house was stated to have been as well protected as the liberal use of bars, bolts, barricades, &c., would admit ; and from half-past eleven till one o'clock the officers remained hovering around it, the crowd in the immediate neighbourhood gradually increas ing in the interim. The officers, consequently, concealed themselves near the back door, under the shade of some pop lar trees then in leaf, watching attentively the only mode of egress in the rear. Their patience was finally rewarded, by seeing it at length gently opened. They waited no longer ; but rushing forward, pushed it fully open against the wall behind. On forcing the door thus, they met Mrs. Newton in the passage, saw one of the defendant's sons near her, and Newton himself; whom they instantly arrested, at the foot of the stairs. The defendant did not hesitate to charge the officer with breaking into his house, reiterating repeatedly his complaint, which was over and again denied, though the charge would seem, at length, to have been admitted. The defendant, upon his arrest, was taken to Gloucester. On the Bth of July he made an affidavit for the purpose of procuring a writ of habeas corpus, which he obtained. On the 14th of July he was brought from Gloucester gaol before Mr. Justice Maule, and thereupon alleged two reasons for his immediate discharge : the first of these was, that the plaintiff having con sented to his liberation upoU a previous occasion, was stopped from again taking him for the same debt, the second arrest being illegal ; the second allegation was, that he ought to be discharged from prison, because he had been arrested by means of a forcible entry into his house. It was upon these two grounds that the defendant was charged with perjury; no mention was made of the undertaking already adverted to. When before Mr. Justice Maule, the defendant asserting that two arrests had been made for the same debt, was about to be released from custody, when the undertaking was pro duced, and the Learned Judge, considering that the second arrest was not illegal, ordered him back to custody, on which occasion he was transferred to the Queen's Bench Prison. It may be as well to mention here, that an action of trespass was brought by the defendant against four of the individuals who were to be witnesses against him to-day, for the forcible en try into his house detailed above, a verdict passing against them for the sum of 50/. ; they, however, being all made parties to the record in that instance, were of course incapa cited from aiding each other by their evidence. The above is a condensed statement of the whole of the facts connected with this somewhat extraordinary case, as they were detailed in the opening speech of counsel; the proceedings, as will be seen shortly, were brought suddenly to a close, in consequence of a deficiency in the evidence; it is, therefore, out of our power to draw an intelligible account from the imperfect testimony adduced on the trial. William George Stratford, clerk in the rule department of the Court of Exchequer, produced the affidavit of the de fendant made on the Bth of July, and also two writs. Charles Thomas Lewis, officer of the Queen's Prison, pro duced a writ of habeas corpus, from the office of the Queen's Bench Prison. Robert George Whatley, attorney at Cheltenham, and Commissioner for taking affidavits, proved the swearing of the affidavit in question, his own signature and that of the defendant; and added that he attended for the purpose of taking the affidavit at the defendant's request. James Boodle, solicitor at Cheltenham, was attorney in the cause of Healey v. Newton. Was present at Gloucester in Court when the defendant was discharged, by an order of Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, on the 28th of June, 18.43. It is not true that Augustus Newton was discharged out of custody by any order, direction, or consent of mine, but I told the sheriff's officer that I would not bring any action against the sheriff if he would let the defendant go. That was after he had signed an undertaking in my presence. He was there upon discharged. I stated what I have already mentioned, in an under tone, to the officer. The defendant claimed his privilege as a barrister attending sessions, and the Learned Sergeant Ludlow (the Recorder of Gloucester) said he would make no order, but that the privilege should be allowed. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY—DO you think, Mr. Godson, that that amounts to perjury? Mr. GODSON—I submit that it does, my Lord. Boodle's examination continued—Mr. justice Maule stated that a discharge for privilege would have been right, and would not have prevented a second arrest. The application for defendant's discharge on the ground of a second arrest has failed. This undertaking answers that ground. Cross-examined by the defendant—James Bennett arrested the defendant in the Shire Hall, at Gloucester, and took him before the Court. Sergeant Ludlow said that the defendant should be protected during the sessions, on each party under taking to bring no action. After the undertaking was signed, Boodle told me no action should be brought oftt the she riff. I let him go at liberty in consequence hat. I should not have done so otherwise. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY — The question is, whether per jury can be assigned or not on these facts. Chief Justice Tindal agrees with me that as the officer would not have dis charged the defendant but for what passed between Boodle and the officer, though there is a suppression of truth in the affidavit, yet an indictment for perjury cannot be maintained. G. Wilson, constable and prosecutor, gave evidence rela tive to the mode of making the arrest. The cross-examination of the witness by the defendant was continued at great length, relative to irrelevant matters, when it was interrupted by Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY, who inquired, " What on earth has this to do with the subject before us ?" Defendant—lt goes against the credit of this witness. Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY—DO you wish to discredit a witness favourable to yourself ? The Foreman of the Jury—We are afraid, my Lord, that the defendant will do his case an injury. Defendant to the witness—Did you ask Mrs. Newton if I were at home ? Witness—Yes ; she said that you were not, but that she had pistols, and would shoot me. Re-examined—l am the prosecutor in this case. I said to the defendant, " I did not break open the door, and you know it." The door was opened from the inside purposely. After some further conversation, the Learned JUDGE, ad dressing the jury, told them that he thought the evidence in sufficient to support the indictment, at the same time he con sidered the case one very proper to be inquired into. The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty. NORFOLK CIRCUIT. —Ipswich, July 23. The Commission for the county , of Suffolk was opened this afternoon, and it is said that the Courts will be opened for the dispatch of business at an early hour to-morrow. The ca lender is a very heavy the befos, frightful crime of arson. This document and in order to give some insight into the state of this county, we think we cannot do better than show the names and ages of the respective parties CASES AND PRISONERS. Henry Sergeant, aged 21, read andn imperfectly. d write Eliza (his wife), aged 22, read a d write imperfectly. James Rudland, age d 53, read an Robert Roper, aged 15, neither. James Smith, aged 16, neithen d • J am es Friend, aged 27, read an write imperfectly. Wm. Cattermole , a g ed 18, read and write . imperfectly. Fred. Borley, aged 18, read and write imperfectly: This pr i son er was acquitted on a s i a m d i a la n r d c w ha r r it g e e i l m as p t e e rf ir e c e u tl i y t.. s John Williams , aged 29, re J. Durrant, aged 17, read and write imperfectly. David Jackson, aged 14, read and write imperfectly. John Woods, aged 16, neither. Samuel Jacob, aged 28, neither. • Ann Manning, aged 32, read and write imperfectly. James Thurlow, aged 60. Ed. Botwright, aged 22, read and write imperfectly. J o hn Spilling, aged 22 n , either. David Clow, aged 40, neither. All these cases are from the western division of the cOunty. Those which follow are furnished by the eastern : Robert Gower Grimwade, aged 38, read and write well Two threatening letters.) William Hales, aged 20, neither. Joseph Barnett, aged 21. G. Garrett, aged 11, neither. Laysell Randrill, aged 16, read.. Isaac Everett, aged 21, neither. R. Hammond, aged 35, read and write well. M. Turner, aged 33, neither. G. Davy, aged 13. Robert Feakes, aged 11. James Micklefield, aged 17, neither. James Lankaster, aged 30, read. This is, indeed, a wretched state of things. Is it not, how ever, easier to espy the evil than to devise a remedy ? Dispatches were sent off from the Colonial-office to the. Goyernors of Gibraltar acid - they Mauritius. WINDSOR, WEIMSDAY.—The Queen and Prince Albert, accompanied by the Prince of Wales, walked in the pleasure grounds of the Castle this morning, and also took an airing in a pony phaeton. Her Majesty and Prince Albert visited the Duchess of Kent at Frogmore Lodge. The .Princess Royal (accompanied by the Dowager Lady Lyttelton), and the Princess Alice were takeil their usual walks and rides in the forenoon. The Right Hon. Henry Labouchere took his depar ture from the Castle to-day. Sir Robert Peel arrived at the Castle from town this afternoon on a visit to the Queen. In the afternoon the illustrious party rode out. The Queen, the Marchioness of Douglas, the Countess of Mount Edgcumbe, and the Countess de Grey, occupied an open carriage and four. His Royal Highness Prince , Albert was on horseback. The Marquis of Douglas and the Equerries in Waiting on her Majesty and his Royal Highness, Colonels Arbuthnot and Bouverie, were also. on horseback. The Hon. Miss Paget, the Hon. Mis-, Liddell, and Earl De Grey, were in an open carriage and four. The Royal party returned from their excursion soon after seven o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent took an airing-in an open carriage. The Royal Family were taken in the gardens of tile Castle in the afternoon. - The royal dinner party at the Castle this evening included her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Charlotte Pandas, the Countess Wratislaw, the Marquis• and Marchioness of Douglas, and Earl and Countm De Grey. The band of the Scots Fusilier Guards was in attend ance at the Castle during dinner. Her Majesty's private band afterwards attended and performed the remainder of the evening. The Duke of Cambridge, attended by Baron Knese beck, left town yesterday morning, by the South-Westera Railway, at seven o'clock, for Southampton, to be present at the show of the West of England Agricultural Asso ciation. -flis Royal Highness returned to town in the evening. The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge and the Here ditary Grand Duke and Duchess of Mecklenburgh Strelitz, attended by Baron Knesebeck, honoured the Earl and Countess of Wilton with their company to dinner, in Grosvenor-square, yesterday. Sir Robert Peel left town yesterday afternoon for Windsor Castle, on a visit to her Majesty. The Governor and Deputy-Governor of the Bank had an interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer yes terday, at his official residence in Downing-street. Colonel Macdonald, of Sierra Leone, had an inter view with Lord Stanley yesterday, at the Colonial-office. Dispatches were received at the Colonial-office yester day, from the Governor of Gibraltar. Mr. Ingham, Comptroller of the office for the Reduc tion of the National Debt, had an interview yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer. The Bishop of London had an interview with Lord Stanley yesterday. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England had as meeting on Tuesday ; those present were the Arch bishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Ely, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Lord President of the Council, the Dean of Westminster, and the Earl of Besborough. THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.—The oeautuut weather of the last few days has had a wonderful effect on the crops. The harvest in the county of Essex has already commenced, and in the neighbourhood of Rona ford has become very general. Several fields of wheat, barley, and oats have been cut, and throughout the coun ties of Kent, Sussex, Essex, and Surrey, grain of every description presents a most luxuriant appearance. Not. withstanding the long drought which has prevailed for such a lengthened period throughout the whole of the agricultural districts, which had a serious effect on the early crops of grass, and which it was calculated would have caused hay to be exceedingly dear, the late refreshing showers have caused the crop of aftergrass to be most abundant, and the mowers are now everywhere engaged in cutting the second hay harvest. Some wheat and vats have al ready been housed in the most excellent condition. The hop grounds of the county of Kent are looking extremely beauti:ul, the plant is remarkably healthy, and freer from the grub than has been known for a number of years. The prospect of an abundant and early harvest; is cheering in the extreme, and should the present fine weather `continue, the harvest will become general throughout the country in the course of a week or ten days. ROBBERIES.--On Tuesday information of the fol lowin,g daring and extensive robberies was received at the various station-houses of the metropolitan police : Stolen from the person of Miss Hudson, while in the National Gallery, Trafalgar-square, a crimson silk purse containing five sovereigns end some silver. On Saturday morning last, about twelve o'clock, from the pocket of a gentleman, between the Bank of Liverpool, Water-street, and the Exchange News •room, a brown leather pocket-book, containing two 101. Bank of England notes, a 50!. ditto, endorsed in red ink, " Eli Pearce, 19th July, 44," a 5/. ditto, endorsed, "J. Harris and Sons," same date, and a bill for 72/. 16s. 6d. From the person of a little girl, five years old, whilst playing in North-street, Lambeth, a necklace of five rows of co: al beads, with gold snap. From the residence of Sir Au gustus Clifford, the Usher of the Black Rod, No. 74, Eatun-square, six silver fiddle-headed dessert spoons, crest, a leopard holding a spear in the right paw, motto, " Virtus roille scota." From 106, Strand, a small ma hogany case, containing three-and-a-half dozen of silver pencil cases, two dozen ditto thimbles, and a tooth pick. From the house of Mr. Lane, 13, Haberdasher-street, East box ton, a small flat French gold watch, a gold Maltese cross, a Maltese gold ring, pin and chain, and other property contained in a leather portmanteau. The robbery was committed by a man of middle stature, very stout built, and walks lame; he was dressed as a mariner, and is tattoed on the right arm with the figure of Christ on the Cross, sun, moon, and stars, and a heart with a dart through it. From 7, Upper Berkeley street, eleven silver tea spoons, two pair of sugar tongs, marked "F. E. L.," six silver dessert spoons, nine ditto table spoons, a sugar spoon, thirteen silver forks, four salt spoons, two butter knives, and two pickle forks, all silver. From the house of a surgeon in the City, name not mentioned, an immense quantity of valuable pro perty, consisting of rings, pins, coins, surgical instru ments, &c. SALE OF HISTORICAL AUTOGRAPHS. AND MANU SCRIPTS.—Last week a sale took place at Mr. Fletcher's rooms, Piccadilly, of a valuable collection of historical autographs and manuscripts, some of great raritz, and among which are upwards of two thousand Exche quer documents from the time of King Edward 111., selected from a large quantity of documents sold under the authority of Government, teaching over a series of reigns of successive Kings. The autographs, &c., are those of some of the most eminent peers, philosophers, poets, &c. Among the chief of the lots disposed of, we mention the following :—An Essay upon the Character and History of the Scottish High landers, extracted from the Quarterly Review, being a critique on the " Culloden Papers," with very numerous autograph corrections, by Sir Walter Scott, 2/. 4s. ; an autograph note of Napoleon Buonaparte, of four lines, 355. ; proof sheet of Lord Byron's " Hints from Horace," with numerous corrections in the Noble Author's auto graph, and a letter to Mr. Murray on one of the leaves, relative to " the damned cutting and slashing," which he will not allow unless it is against his friends Moore, Campbell, Scott, &c. &c., 4/. 10s. - ; Charles L's autograph to a document, in fine preservation, 1626, 175.; Nelson's order for secresy, signed " Nelson and Bronze," dated on board the Amazon, in the Downs, 12th Sep tember, 1801, 15s. ; an interesting letter of James Watt, the celebrated engineer, urging the comple tion of some cast from his bust, 1818, 18s. ; a speech of Sir Robert Peel, with the autograph corrections of the Right Hon. Baronet (the speech was extracted from a newspaper report, to which additions were made), 175.; autograph of Captain James Cook, the celebrated voyager, to a draft on the Commissioners of the Vic tualling Office for 2,000 rix dollars, in payment of sup plies to the Resolution and Discovery, dated Cape of Good Hope, 28th Nov., 1776, with the orders of the Commissioners for payment, signed James Hanway and others, IL los. Major-General Morison has paired off for the remainder of the session with Sir John Yarde Buller, Bart. LONDON _SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OP YOUNG FEMALES.—On Tuesday the ninth annual meeting of the supporters of this Society, which is established for the purpose of rescuing from vice and restoring to society young creatures under fifteen years of age, was held at the asy lum T o ttenham, the Rev. George Grea v es , M.A. , rector , Herne Bay, in the chair. Amongst the company present were se • veral ladies of the Society of Friends, and the following gen tlemen :—The Rev. John Glanville, H. F. Richardson, W. Astbury, H. Thompson, E. Brewster, Esqrs., &c. Dlr. J. B. Talbot, the secretary, read the report. The last year was one of unprecedented prosperity, the receipts having exceeded those of former years by 700/. Her Majesty the Queen Dowager had been graciously pleased to - become • patroness, and also presented the Society a donation of 251. During the year eight females were restored to their families, six were sent to service, four left of their own accord, and forty-seven remained in the asylum, where they were receiving a sound. moral, religious, and useful education. Several letters were received from the parents of the recipients of the charity's bounty, acknowledging the beneficial effects upon their chil d ren of the discipline of the asylum. Since the formation of the Society 101 brothels were put down, two procuresses were convicted, and 346 young females were rescued from infamy through its instrumentality. The late Mr. Earles Somers, of Chertsey, bequeathed the Society 200/. The receipts amounted to 2,0111.25. 5d., and the expenditure figured at 1,3261. The report, in.conclusion, regretted the failure of the Bill introduced by the Bishop of Exeter, as if it had been carried it would have assisted the Society in suppressing brothels, and prosecuting traffickers in vide. The report having been adopted, the officers for the ensuing year were elected, and thanks voted to the chairman. At the close of the meeting the Committee led the ladies and gentlemen at tending it over the building, which presented peculiar ad vantages for-its object, and is capable of affording. accommo dation for 150 inmates, with every convenience for domestic and other purposes. • MORTALITY OF TAILORS.—In the registered causes of death of 233 persons, watered during 1843, in the eastern and western unions of the metropolis, under the general head of " Tailor, " no less than 12 3 are regist ered as having died of disease of the respiratory organs, of which 92 were of con sumption ; 16 diseases of the nervous system, of which eight were of apoplexy; 16 of epidemic or contagious diseases, of whom 11 died of typhus; 23 of diseases of uncertain seat, of whom 13 were victims of dropsy, eight of diseases of the digestive organs, and six of "heart disease," Whilst, of the whole, only 29 ied of old age." DREADFUL SUICIDE OF A FEMALE.- - -011 Tuesday expired, at the Greenwich union, the unfortunate young female, named Hannah Diball, aged eighteen; who precipi tated herself from a second-floor window of a house near the Magistrate's Police-office, Woolwich, on Saturday last, and received such injuries, that Sergeant Perry, 8 R, and constable Gladwin, 122 R., immediately sent off for Surgeon Stuart and Mr. Waters, the relieving officer, who both most promptly attended; the former, after dressing her wounds, advised her removal to the union, which was done by his order. The un fortunate deceased was subject to fits of aberration of intel lect) gad in one 9f these she destroyed her life. en der louse, t an'' fro l ~ Oa ag,e , og In time. G