The Sun. — London, England, 1844-02-27 00:00:00

ettrb Mbitton SUN OFFICE ; Seven o'clock PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE .*ND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TEUSDAY, FEB. 27. Dividend per Annum. Amount ( Names of Com panies. Paid. Share. 51 per cent. 41. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch—av Basingstoke .... .. . .... Breckneck & Abergay. Birmingham, I-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. June Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry • ......•,••••••• .• Cromford ...... . ..... Dudley Derby ... Danube and M a yne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash ... . . . ..••••••• Forth and Cly de Grand 'Junction Grand Union .......« Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh. ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield . ..... ....av Kennet cad Avon may Lancaster ay Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp, Loughborough ..... Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire. Melton M0wbray......., Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath .... . .... ..«.... .. Oxford ...... Peak Forest V Regent's (or London).. 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(per cent. .per Cent. it per cent. per cent 7p eiba cent. ercent. 9 per cent. tiler cent. e'er cent. 4er cent. rperesat. 2 . 2 peicen amtt 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 151 0 0 3500 25 0 0 20 0 0 [OO 0 0 2e o 0 t'o o 0 55 0 0 20 • 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 60 • 0 25 0 0 5000 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 2,5 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 no 0 0 100 - 0 9 15 0 • 5 9 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 5000 100 0 0 25 0 0 59 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 20 0 50 0 20 0 0 10 , 0 0 0 PANIES' PRICES 844. 16 16 21' - 16 0 0 2, O 0 1: O 0 2( • (1 10 0 11 0 0 1 10 0 4 O 0 50 O 0 59 O 0 14 0.0 24 COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.) LORD WE PAGET t'. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN; CUIM. The 80titifOrt-GE)iEn.A7., (in continuation fro n our After noon Edition) said—Lord William's son was in Queen-street, and Lord William takes this boy out with him, and waits in a cab until Winter should come to him. So, according to Winter, Lord William makes the appointment ) goes out ib his cab knowing the adttltery is to be committed, waits quietly in his tab Until it is committed, and then goes home. And after all this, on the Monday night he meets his wife at the Duchess of Richmond's. He sends his wife to Ports mouth ; he goes to Portsmouth after her, and after that brings this action. Lord Wm. Paget was not on terms of in timacy with any of his family, but Lady William had been on terms of intimacy with the Duchess of Richmond, Lord William's sister. The Duchess had heard the story on the Sunday night. She had investigated it, and so convinced was she of its falsehood, that notwithstanding the plaintiff was her brother, the intimacy had subsisted up to the present hour. The first thing to be considered was the character of the witness Winter. Was he worthy of credit ? While in Mr. Hamer's service he had been acquainted with those per sons whose names they had heard. He left Hamer's and went to Bartlett's, and thayhad heard him state the reasons for his leaving Bartlett's. He would not swear th a t h e did no t k fraudulently appropriate Mr. Bartlett's money for his own use. He was dismissed from Bartlett's in February, 1843, and from that time to August he had not had any regular employment. He was in a state of the greatest distress. Lord W. Paget was aware of the cause of his dismissal from Bartlett's, and being aware of Winter's Poverty and of his character, he em ploys him to watch in the manner stated. He sent Mr. Fishe to him, and Winter at once agreed to do it, but on what terms did not appear. Now he was in the back drawing-room under the sofa on the Saturday; the folding doors were closed, and yet he would make the Jury believe he could hear what was going on in the front drawing-room. He now came to the second day, on which day the doors were all left open. Now could they suppose an act of criminal intercourse to have taken place under such circumstances. It seemed they put Winter under the sofa in the back drawing -loom, and shut the folding doors, so that he was in precisely the same situa tion as he had been on the Saturday. Lady W. Paget then went into the room where Lord Cardigan was, opened the folding door, and left it open during the time the criminal in tercourse was taking place ; so that any one coming into the it back drawing-room could see all that was going on. She had closed the window, it appeared, but had left the door open. Winter said that he heard kissing, breathing, and conversa tion, and among other things he heard Lady William ask Lord Cardigan, to procure a place for a person, which had been the purpose for which he had been sent for to the house. Now he did not doubt but that Winter had been placed under the sofa by Lord William Paget ; but Winter had stated to day that which he had not previously stated. He had told Lord William Paget, in the presence of Major Close, that he had not seen more on the Sunday than he had seen on the Monday. That statement had been taken down in writing, and was in the possession of Lord W. Paget. Now, after his visits for the last fortnight to Lord W. Paget, they found him to-day adding to the statement that he had drawn him self out from the sofa, gone to the folding door, and seen Lord Cardigan and Lady W. Paget. Now, could that be , true? Had he always told that story? He admitted that he told Mr. Fishe that he was under the sofa in the front drawing-room, where the act was represented as having taken place, and that he was nearly scratched by Lord Car digan's spur. It did not appear that anything of the kind had been seen by the witness Thomas ; the whole % case rested upon the uncorroborated evidence of Win ter. There was no single fact to implicate Lord Cardigan and Lady William - Paget, except those deposed to by Winter, and Winter:alone. How came:Lord W. Paget to place Winter under the sofa? Had his suspicions been ' excited by any previous information—by any acts of indis cretion? There was nothing of the sort given in evidence; 34 no such thing had ever occurred, for if it had occurred, it would have been given in evidence. Lady W. Paget had been in Portsmouth for the last twelve months; Lord Cardi gan had never been there, and the only thing given in evi -234 deuce was, that twelve months before Lord Cardigan had sometimes called on Lady Paget while Lord W. was from home. 54 This matter commenced by Lord W. Paget bringing his Lady up from Portsmouth the Bth of August,-;and then placing the man under the sofa. It appeared that on one occa sion Lord William Paget had used personal violence 5 % to his wife, and had frequently used abusive language. 5 % and a night or two before Lady W. Paget's arrival in town, 534 he had passed the night with a prostitute. He alluded to these facts to show that he was not the affectionate and at tentive husband that his Learned Friend had represented him 3s. to be. It was utterly incredible that he could have been living on terms of affection with his wife. He cared not for 7% his wife—for her reputation, or her happiness ; he cared not 8 for the infamy he might bring upon her if he could wrest N from a rich nobleman—and he fixed upon one who was in some 4 degree of unpolurarity with the public—he cared for nothing 5 so that he might wrest from him a sum of money. Could 7 they believe that the offence had been committed? He was 5 sure they did not give credit to the testimony of the witness. This witness had received regular pay from Lord W. Paget s since, on the morning of the last trial, he bad come to give evidence. He thought he had not been well treated, and because he had not been subpoe naed, he did not come. He went to Mr. Powell's, Lord I% Cardigan's solicitor. Did he expect Lord Cardigan would buy him 'off ? That witness who would make an affidavit enormities that we would adjure our transatlantic kins men that they should not still further disgrace the 131Lialti bath 6 by ft deed from which, all legal as it is, even our Bullet's and our Garrows would have recoiled in horror, and Which, if it be really done, will open between America and England a gulf of moral separation far wider and more impassable than the ocean which now divides them. That ocean seemed yesterday but as a strait, on the further side of which there abode among a kindred people the spirit of Christian love, the feel ings of civilised humanity. To that spirit and to those feelings, and to the many there who own their sway, we still confidently appeal—not as assum ing to originate or to promt the indignant protest which ere this they must have put forth, but as ready to rejoice in their indignation, and to cheer them on, if we may do so, to the rescue of their country's honour. Soon, no doubt, will the sound, the welcome sound, of their remonstrance be wafted to our shores. We wish but to return it hence with increased and more wide-spread urgency, and to mingle with the plead ings of American humanity the cry of applauding sym pathy with which the universal heart of England is pre pared to re-echo its voice ! that they did not wish for the relaxation in the case of theological professors. Lord CAMPBELL concurred in the prayer of the petition, and he hoped the Noble Marquis would bring in a Bill to carry it into effect. In truth the law was is a great measure obsolete in the four universities of Scot land, and if it had always been observed they could not have attained their present high position. Some of the most eminent professors of languages and science had been persons who could not subscribe the confession of faith.—(Hear, hear.) If the law had been enforced the Marquis of Lansdowne, Sir Robert Peel, Lord Stanley, and Sir James Graham could not have filled the office of Lord Rector.— (Hear, hear.) Lord BROUGHAM said that those eminent and most useful professors, Sandford, Moore, Young, and his own distinguished and revered relative, Dalzil, were Episcopalians.—(Hear.) In fact there was no end to the number of such names which he could repeat. After a few words from Lord HADDIN GTON, in favour of the petition, the conversation dropped, and the House adjourned at Half-past Five o'Clock. HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour, CORN-LAWS:- THE LONDON GAZETTE (THIS EVENING.) Col. SIBTHORP presented twenty-five petitions from places in Lincolnshire, praying that no alteration might be made in the existing corn-laws. ST. ASAPH AND BANGOR. LORD CHAMBERLAIN'S OFFICE, Fza. 26,1644. Lord CLIVE presented a petition from a plain in North Wales, against the union of the sees of St. Asaph and Bangor. Orders for the Coart's change of mourning, on Thursday, the 7th of March next, for his late Royal Highness the -Duke of Saxe Coburg Gotha, father of his Royal Highness Prince Albert, and uncle a ad father-in-law to her Majesty, viz.:—The ladies towear black silk, fringed or plain h nen, white gloves, necklaces and ear-rings, black or white shoes, fans and tippets. The gentlemen to wear black, full trimmed, fringed or plaid linen, black swords and buckles. The Court to change the mourning further, on Shuraday the 14th of March next, viz.—The ladies to wear black silk or velvet, coloured ribbons, fans and tippets, or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuffs, with black ribbons. The gentlemen to wear black coats, aad black or plain white, or white and gold, or white and silver stuff waist coats, full trimmed, coloured swords and buckles. And, on Thursday, the 21st of March next, the Court to go out ()- mourning. SUPPLIES. Mr. BLEWITT presented a petition from Newport, in Monmouthshire, praying that the supplies may be withheld until the grievances of the people shall have been considered. POOR-LAWS. Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented twenty petitions from Gersten; and other places in Lancashire, praying for an alteration in the present poor-laws. CANADA .CORI 4 I - BILL. Mr. HUTT presented a petition from the Chairman and Directors of the South Australian Banking Com pany, stating that they had invested a capital of 230,0001. in their business with South Australia, and, praying that the provisions of the Canada Corn Bill might be extended to that colony. TOBACCO. Mr. SHARMAN CRAWFORD presented a petition from Rochdale, with 525 signatures, praying for a reduc tion of the duty on tobacco. CORN-LAWS. The House having remained a considerable time without business, The SPEAKER proceeded to the notices of motion, and first called the order No. 7 on the paper, which was the notice of Mr. Cobden, of a motion for a Select Com mittee to inquire into the effects of the corn-law protec tion upon the tenant-farmers and agricultural labour ers.—(Loud cries of " Cobden, Cobden.") No answer being given for some time, the Speaker then called on No. 8 upon the paper, which was Mr. Ferrand's notice of an amendment on Mr. Cobden's motion, the amendment being to the effect that it be an instruction to the Committee to inquire also into the effect upon the:condition of the manufacturing ope ratives by the immigration of agricultural labourers into themanufacturing districts, and the treatment ofsuch im migrants by the master manufacturers who promised them employment. No answer to the Speaker's call being given, the cries for Mr. Cobden were renewed. At length Mr. COBDEN postponed his motion till this day fort night.—(Hear, hear.) EDUCATION IN IRELAND. . . Mr. WYSE gave notice that on this day fortnight he would bring forward a motion for the purpose of pro moting the universal education of the Catholics of Ire land, and especially of those who were intended for the priesthood ; also for the purpose of rendering the honours and advantages of Trinity College equally ac cessible to Roman Catholics with others of her Majesty's subjects ; and of elevating the College of Maynooth t o the rank of a theological college, with the power of con ferring degrees. STATE TRIALS IN IRELAND.—SECRET SER VICE.—THE PRESS. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE gave notice that on reading the Order of the Day for going into a Committee of Supply on Friday next, or on the first Supply day after Friday, he would move for a return of all the moneys paid to Frederick Bond Hughes, Charles Ross, and John Jackson—(A laugh)—on account of any communications made by them to Government relative to the repeal agitation in Ireland, distinguishing the amount paid to each ; also the dates of the several pay ments, specifying the respective periods at which they commenced together with copies of every instruc tions given to the above named F. B. Hughes, Charles Ross, and John Jackson, with respect to the duties to be performed by them in Ireland.—(Laughter.) Also a return of the amount paid for expenses during their attendance at the trial of the Queen v. O'Connell and others. Also a return of all moneys paid to the late proprietor, or proprietors, managers, con ductors, or agents of the Morning Herald and Standard newspapers, or any of them—(Laughter) on account of commuications or information made or given by the said parties, or any of them, to the Govern ment, in reference to the repeal agitation in Ireland, dis tinguishing the times at which the said communications or informations were furnished, and the period at which the several sums of money were paid ; also the name or names of the short-hand writers appointed to furnish the Government report of the proceedings of the trial of the Queen v. O'Connell and others.—(Laughter.) a for two guineas, but not for one—who would not give evi dence unless he were well treated—who had promised to pay l%- his creditors with the money he was to receive after this trial —would get no money from Lord Cardigan. Lord Cardigan and Lady Paget defied him, and said, let him say his worst— ; let him go into a jury -box, and see if a jury will believe him. Ili It was impossible to call any party to contradict his testi mony, for the only persons who could contradict it were Lord Cardigan and Lady William Paget, and neither of those could be called. It was, therefore, for the jury to test the truth of the story—to consider his character, 1 to consider the improbability of his story in the different versions he had given of the same transaction, and to ask themselves if they could act upon his evidence, and blast the character of a lady who had hitherto passed through life without a stain, and to convict Lord Cardigan of having seduced the wife of his friend. They had seen the witness ; they had heard him give his testimony ; a n d i n thei r h an d s 11 4 he left the case. Immediately after the Solicitor-General had concluded his address, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant. The announcement was received with applause, which was instantly checked by the officer of the Court. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. STANDARD.—Mr. Sharman Crawford last night divided the House of Commons upon a motion to post pone the consideration of the navy estimates until after Easter. This is, we believe, in part fulfilmeut of a factious and vexatious opposition, threatened of the Member for Rochdale at the commencement of the Vi session. The motion was, of course, rejected by a great 9 majority-105 to 11; but Mr. Sharman Crawford's ob si( ject, the only object he could propose to himself by 3 4 % such a proceeding, was gained—the public tim e was wasted, and Mr. Sharman Crawford's name appears in the newspapers befor a speech and 5 7 at the head of the debate. The occasion was also 1 convenient to Colonel Rawdon and Mr. E. Roche, who were safely delivered by two superfetations upon Lord John* Russell's motion. Now, all this is very well in a February, but surely such proceedings ought to be re ° membered in August next (that is, if Parliament can be adjourned so soon), when complaints will be made of the 6 small amount of business transacted during the session. How can the session's really useful business be otherwise 9 than small, when every, say every Mr. Sharman Crawford, 5 feels no scruple in obtruding himself and his crotchets upon 0% the public time ? It would be a delicate and difficult, o but a very useful analysis, to separate the number of the 0 4 34 Members of the House of Commons into the several 5 classes of those who go there to serve their personal 7 interests, those who go to serve a faction, those who , 3 , go to gratify their personal vanity, and those who 4 enter the house with the honest and sober purpose of serving their country. The last class would, we fear, be found a very small minority: and yet all the I public business is really trausacted by this class, not IN merely without help from, but in defiance of, the most pertinacious opposition of the other classes of all politi cal parties, for they pervade all parties, though happily the Conservative party numbers but few Borth wicks, D'lsra ells, and Monckton Milneses. In S proportion, however, to the number and activity of the really honest and intelligent men of business on one side, and the factionists, fops, crazy dotards, &c., on the other, must be the amount of useful work done in the ;3,6 course of a session. We have only to look back for l% proof to so much of the present session as has already passed. Nearly a month has been consumed, and what 13„ is the result of that period's labour ? Why, we have Ri had a long Irish debate of nine nights, in which three-fourths of the speeches have been one tissue of lc fallacy and nonsense—not less nonsense than it was in flammatory and mischievous nonsense—while the other fourth was extorted from reluctant speakers, by the ne cessity that falsehood should not pass un answere d an d ;il unexposed; these nine nights, wasted in speeches, making a a full half of the sitting nights since the opening of the sea !A, sion. Well, at the end of the long debate, the servant s o f 7 the Crown come forward to try if the House of Corn -14 mons will at length engage with the public burthens, and 96 forth comes Mr. Sharman Crawford deliberately to un buckle his budget of treasured grievances, modestly requiring that the public business shall not be entered upon until after Easter (say the 15th of April as i the earliest day), that is, until about eleven weeks 5 of the session shall have elapsed, and Colonel Rawdon and Mr. Roche follow with their superfetations. Mr. Sharman Crawford's request is, indeed, ridicu lous, but it is characteristic. What are we to think of 5 % the patriotism — we s a y nothing of the sense—of a gen- B tleman who prof es s es to exclude all public business from 1 the first half (according to old practice, more than the N first half) of the Parliamentary session ? We entreat our readers not to forget last night's proceedings when they shall, about August next, hear solemn speeches in Parliament,. and r ea d grave E d i n b urg h Review, coin ; planting that little or nothing has been done during the 5 . 34 session. 15 - GLOBE.--When we hear of a New Zealander making a feast of his enemy —when we read of the nurer can aT4 theirniba fe lso ll f e o w ld me m n a — ki t n h g e thheerriredr whichyood we feel at h onth e flteseh act elee r, b a y e dr inc -09% is greatly softened, perhap s too removed,easilyrace,e 1 fleeting how wide is the diff erence , in habits, between the actors and ourselves. But when we 5% hear, as wo did but yesterday, that among a people r sprung from the same race that we are, sp ea ki ng the , same language that we do, and looking to the outward 1 eye even as we look, whose religion is one with ours, I whose laws are derived from the same source, whose oi justice (so to tail it) is clothed in the same forms, a man has been doomed to die for assisting in the escape ' of a female slave—who had, too, that claim upon ,% him which springs even from an unlawful passion— ' in the midst of our indignation and disgust, we tremble to think how small may be the interval which divides even ourselves from the savageness of the brute ! This is not the occasion nor the theme for indulging in any thoughts of our own superiority; and still less is it the time to utter them in the shape of taunts, or by the suggestion of any threat to give to the pride of a susceptible nation a pretext for throwing its shield around the crime which it contemplates. Rather does it be hove us to reflect how far our own bad example, our own bloody laws, not so long disused, may pi have paved the way among a people sprung from r% our stock, for the perpetration even of such atro % i lasteit i e , s as and ue deg w r e ees, hav f e rom bee t n he re ;t a i i l m t reclaimed at a ferocious legislation ; but it is still with a deep b th y is. slow Tr sense of shame at the remembrance of our own past THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING FEBRUARY 27, 1844. question, respecting the appointment of an assistant Commissioner for the superintendence of such revision, it was necessary to appoint one for that purpose. With regard to the third question we understood the Right Hon. Gentleman to say that it was intended that there should be a revaluation. Sir D. NORREYS then gave notice that he would move for a Select Committee on the poor-laws in Ireland unless the Government took the subject into their con sideration. STATE OF PAUPER LUNATICS IN WALES. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY said he wished to put a ques tion of great importance to the Right Hon. Baronet the Secretary of State for the Home Department, re specting the state of pauper lunatics in Wales. There were 157 lunatics in Wales, and only twenty of them were in any asylum or licensed house. There were 31 lunatics in the county which he repre sented ; not one of whom was in a proper place of confinement ; and, in many instances, they were treated in a most improper manner. The question he wished to ask, was, whether the attention of Government had been called to the treatment of pauper lunatics, or whether any compulsory steps could be taken to make several counties join together to support lunatics, which they were enabled to do under the Act of the 9th George IV. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said that he quite agreed with the Hon. Member that it would be desirable if the smaller townships combined together under the Act to which he referred, for the purpose of erecting lunatic asylums. No object could be more important; but, as at present advised, he was unwilling to render it com pulsory upon them, and he was not prepared to say that he would introduce any measure on the subject. Mr. W. 0. STANLEY then gave notice that he would, on a future day, bring the subject under the con sideration of the House. THE LATE OUTRAGE AT BRIGHTON. Captain PECHELL begged to put a question to the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite the Secretary at War, respecting the outrage which had taken place some time since at Brighton, and with regard to which he put a question on a previous occasion, when the Right Hon. Gentleman acknowledged that an outrage had been committed by the troops, but that it was provoked is consequence of an attack upon a soldier by some of the inhabitants. A trial was then pending, and was now over, the result of it being that the soldiers were convicted. Lord Chichester, who was chairman at the sessions, in passing sentence upon them, said that they had been guilty of a very serious of fence, and that he would punish them to show that the peaceable inhabitants of the town were to be protected from the soldiers, who had been placed there for the preservation of the peace. The inhabitants of Brighton felt that a stigma had been cast upon them by the •Right Honourable and Gallant Officer. He now wished to ask the Right Ilonourable Gentleman whether he had made such an inquiry as would remove his impression from the people of the town, that the inha bitants brought the outrage upon themselves, and whether the officers of the regiment intended to remune rate the parties whose property had been destroyed? Sir H. HARDINGE said that it was an erroneous impression to suppose that in any statement of his he cast any stigma upon the inhabitants of Brighton. He was led to believe at the time that the soldiers had received an insult, but from the result of the trial, it appeared that they had received no previous provocation of any kind. He had stated before his opi nion that the regiment had misconducted itself in break ing the peace; it was a serious offence, and he hoped the sentence they had received would teach them in future, to observe the laws of the land. They had been each imprisoned during a period of ten months, with hard labour, for the assault. What he stated with regard to compensation was, that the soldiers of the regiment, and not the officers, were ready to subscribe to compensate for the injury which had been done. An order had been issued by the Commander-in-Chief pre venting any soldier from entering the town unless accompanied by a non-commissioned officer. TAHITI. Mr. HINDLEY said, that having seen by a second edition of the Times that the French Government had disapproved of what had been done in Tahiti by Admi ral Thouars, and that it was their intention to adhere to the Protectorate treaty, he wished to know from the Right Hon. Gentleman opposite (the First Lord of the Treasury) whether he had received any official informa tion on the subject ? gi Si r R. PEEL said that he had not received any in formation on the subject beyond what had appeared in the second edition of the Times, and which had been received by express. He had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the information which appeared in that journal, for it gave the quotation from the Moniteur, which was the official organ of the French Government, to the effect that it was the intention of the French Government to adhere to the treaty of 1842. He said he deprecated hasty questions on the subject, and he had a stroni and con fident impression that the French King and the French Government had acted on the impulse of their own feelings—(Hear, hear)—and he was rejoiced that they had acted in a manner which was so satisfactory to the feelings of many persons in this country who were interested in the welfare of our missionaries. He be lieved the statement in the Moniteur was perfectly correct, and that the act of Admiral p erfectly correct, and that the act of Admiral Thouars had not been rat►fied by his Government ; and he was bound to add, injustice to the French. Government, that this act was the voluntary act of the French King and the French Government, and that it was not neces sary that any communication should be made on the subject by this Government. On the motion of Mr. DUNCOMBE, A return was ordered of cases of insanity which oc curred in the Pentonville prison. GAMING TRANSACTIONS BILL. Mr. M. GIBSON wished to know whether it would not be desirable that the Gaming Transactions Indem nity Bill, which stood for a second reading, should be printed, in order that the House might judge of its pro visions before it sanctioned the second reading. He would also express a hope that the Government would not bring on the third reading of the Horse Racing Bill at a late hour. Sir R. PEEL said that the Hon. Member for Man chester seemed to have a most curious notion of what were measures of the Government, and what not. The measure he had last alluded to was not brought forward by the - Government or any person connected with it. He thought it was but reasonable that the Gaming Transactions Indemnity Bill should be printed before it was read a second time.—(Hear.) Mr. M. GIBSON wished to know what Hon. Mem ber had the carriage of the Bill ? To this question no answer was returned, and after some further discussion it was agreed that the Bill should be printed before it was read a second time. FACTORIES BILL. Mr. BRIGHT wished to know from the Right Hon. Baronet opposite, the Secretary for the Home Depart ment, when he intended to proceed with the Factories Bill. At present, he believed, it was fixed for Friday. Sir JAMES GRAHAM said, that it was intended on Friday to proceed with the Committee of Supply ; but, on that day, ho would state when he would bring the subject forward. NEW POOR LAW. Mr. BOTHWICK wished to put a question to the Secretary of State for the Home Department. He understood, that in another place of which they often heard an important conversation had taken place between a Right Rev. Prelate, and one of the Members of her Majesty's Government, from which it was to be presumed that the Government would, in the course of the amendment of the Poor-law Bill, adopt some measures for the religious instruction of poor in unions, by chaplains of the Church of England only. He wished to know from the Right Honour able Baronet whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce any such provision Sir J. GRAHAM had no hesitation in answering the question put to him by the Hon. Member, or in stating what the decision of the Government was upon the point referred to by him. Her Majesty's Ministers were perfectly satisfied with the exercise of the dis cretionary power vested in the Poor-law Com missioners, with respect to the appointment of chaplains in workhouses, he was sure that they would appoint persons according to the necessities of the different localities in which these ap pointments were to take place. He was not prepared to propose any alteration in the law. As at present ad vised he was perfectly satisfied with the state of the law, and in any discussion that might take place on the sub. ject he would be prepared to show to the satisfaction of the House, that the discretion placed in these responsi ble officers bad been exercised in a most proper manner. DUELLING. Mr, TURNER, in pursuance of notice, asked the Right Hon. Baronet the First Lord of the Treasury, whether it was his intention to bring in a Bill for the more effectual prevention of duelling? Sir R. PEEL said that her Majesty's Government had not failed to take this important subject into their consideration, hut they were not prepared to bring in any new legislative enactment in reference to duelling. If the practice of duelling still existed, it was not owing to any defect in the letter of the law, and her Majesty's Government greatly doubted whether any good object could be promoted by altering the law.—(Hear, hear, hear.) At the same time they had shown by the exercise of influence and authority, during the recess, a disposition to discourage the prac tice of duelling, so far as it could be discouraged by the executive power. He believed that the feeling which had lately existed on this subject had been excited in a great degree by the unfortunate result of a duel which took place in the course of last year. He thought there could be no doubt that the practice of duelling was on the decline, that the influence of civilisation was producing its necessary effect; and on this account he should de- precate any interference on the part of the House. The officer who lost his life last year had served his country with great distinction. When his widow applied for that :pension to which she would have been entitled had he died in any other way than by the hand of his antagonist, her Majesty's Go vernment felt themselves compelled to refuse the application. With respect to the survivors, as that of ficer did not come forward to answer the charge after the lapse of the period which was allowed for public feeling to subside, he was superseded. The widow of the deceased officer having been refused the pension, and the surviAor having been superseded, he thought her Majesty's Government had shown that they were not unwilling to exercise their legitimate authority for the purpose of suppressing the practice of duelling ; but they were not prepared, as he had already stated, to in troduce any new legislative measures with that view. Mr. TURNER said, after what had passed, he should feel it his duty, on a future day, to move a resolution to the effect that duelling is immoral in its tendency ; that it brings into contempt the laws of the country, and is contrary to Divine command. Mr. T. DUNCOALBE said it bad been stated by the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel), that the unhappy widow of Colonel Fawcett had, from the mode of her husband's death, been deprived of a pension she would otherwise have been entitled to. HQ wished now to ask whether it was the intention of the Government to dis continue pensions to the widows of officers who did fight duels, and to break officers, as was now the case, if they did not fight duels when challenged to do so.—(Hear.) Sir R. PEEL said that after the notice of his intention to more a resolution against duelling, just proposed by the Hon. Gentleman opposite (Mr. Turner) he thought it best to say no more upon the subject, but to reserve his opinions until the subject was brought regularly be fore the House. THE POLES IN PRUSSIA. Mr. VILLIERS STUART said, the House was aware that the King of Prussia had allowed fugitive Poles to take up their residence in the Duchy of Posen, and had conceded to many of them the rights of Prussian subjects. It had been lately announced, that his Prussian Majesty had given directions to withdraw the protection from these Poles. He wished to ask the Right Hon. Baronet (Sir Robert Peel), if he could give the House any information upon the suhject. Sir R. PEEL said that he was not prepared at present to give an answer in a definite point to the question put by the Hon. Gentleman. SCOTTISH LAW COURTS. Mr. WALLACE rose to bring forvvaad his motion upon the above subject. He said that the legal tribunals in Scotland had been an immense expense to the nation. Instead of those Courts being called the Courts of Sessions, the more proper name to use would be the Courts of Vacation, for they were idle for nearly seven maths in the year, and during those seven mon th s the Judges sat only for five days in the week. He held returns in his hands which would prove beyond doubt that the law authorities in those Courts had allowed an enormous amount of arrears to accumu late ft om the year 1781 up to the present time. The number of cases which were in arrear in the year 1838 was 477, and he thought this was sufficient to require inves gation. The vacations of the Courts in general exceeded in length of time the sessions. There was another matter that called for remedy, namely, the choice of Courts, and he must say that he thought the delay and expense incurred in the Courts in Scotland were attributable to the listlessness of the Judges. I do believe that until a Court of Review (as we understood) was established, there would be to satisfaction in the courts of law in Scotland. There was no court more dreaded, with the exception of the Court of Chancery, than the Court of Session. All this waste was at the cost of both countries. He would now read to the House a statement of the yearly cost of this establishment, and he believed all the- Honourable Gentlemen who were friends of economy would be surprised to hear it. They had thirteen Judges of the Supreme Court, to a population of two millions and a half. They might know by the number of the English judges, whether this was a justifiable mode of applying the money of the people. The cost of the judges was 42,700/.; that of clerks of the court 17,000/. There were also thirty sheriffs, which cost 16,500/, or, on an average, 5511 each per year. He had no hesitation in saying that the most vicious part of their vicious system was the having three times the number of judges required. W hen the Noble Lord the Membor for London introduced his County Courts Bill, the number of judges he proposed for all England was twenty-five chief judges, and four others in the event of ill ness i n the chiefs. The whole amount of the cost of the judicial establish ment in Edinburgh was not less than 150,0001. You might travel from one end of Scotland to the other, and you would not find one man who was not dis satisfied and disgusted with the whole system of the administration of the law in that coun try. In 1843, and Act was introduced by the late Government to raise the salaries of the Judges, by which it was held that it should . give great facilities to the means of obtaining justice—the rules of Court were to be altered, and the time of session was to be extended so as to do away with the arrears of which so much complaint had been made, and so justly. The salaries of the j udges were at that time raised to 1,0001 a year each. The Court of Ses sions and the Crown had the power of extending the sessions for one mouth. (LEFT STEALING.) COURSE OF EXCill Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at eight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp liamburgh M.B. 14 0 Altona l4 0 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Bourdeaux. Frankfort on Maine ___ Petersburgh, 3Us 364 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. 11.3 M 956 Trieste, ditto. , 9 58 Madrid 364 Cadiz' 361 Bilbao 36 BarcelonA 36 ►NGE.—(THIS DAY. Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 80 Genoa 25 95 Milan — Venice 47 Naples ........ Palermo, per oz llBl Lisbon' 531 Oporto 531 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Geld, bars £3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 91 Silver in Bars 0 4 Ili Sevilla — LAW INTELLIGENCE. HOUSE OF LORDS, Feb. 26. The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, and Lord Campbell. SANDFORD V. MORRIS. The arguments in this part heard appeal were resumed and concluded to-day. The question in the case related to the law of real property. Their LORDSHIPS postponed their judgment. WHITEHALL, FEB, 21. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Pilgrim, jun., of Chapel-field, in the city of Norwich, Gent., to be a Muter Extraordinary in the Nigh Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed James Ainsworth, of Blackburn, in the county palatine of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Muter Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. CHARLES BLANDY BAYLEY, draper, Abingdon, Berkshire, to surrender, March 4, at half-past one, and April 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Ashurst, Cheapside. THOMAS HODSDON, butcher, Harrow, Middlesex, March 15, at half-past one, and April 13, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Old Jewry; Poole and Gamlen, Gray's Inn-square. WILLIAM HENRY CHAPLIN, bricklayer, Inworth, Essex, March 6, at half-past twelve, and March 29, at half past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy: Green, official assig. nee, Aldermanbury; Bell, Bedford-row; Mayhew, Cogges hall, Essex. . WILLIAM SCOTT, wine -merchant, Regent-street, March 6, at half-past twelve, and April 10, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Lackington, official assignee, Coleman-street Buildings; Clarke, George-street, Mansion-house. THOMAS GREENING, surgeon, Worcester, March 13, and April 10, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birmingham ; Robeson, Brims grove. THOMAS GRIFFITHS, draper, Stoke-upon-Trent, March 5, at twelve, and April 12, at one, at tne Birmingham District Court. Valpy, official assignee, Birmingham ; Middleton, Stone ; Hodgson, Birmingham. GEORGE COPAGE, victualler, Wolverhampton, Ste , fordshire, March 7, at half-past eleven, and April 11, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official as signee, Birmingham • Phillips and Bolton, Wolverh am pt on . ROBERT PADDON, chemist, Hartlepool, Durham, March 8, at twelve, and April 15, at two, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official assignee, New castle-upon-Tyne • Wilson, Hartlepool; Meggison and Co., King's •road, Bedford -row, London. EDWIN BRASS, grocer, Taunton, March 11, and April 10, at twelve, at the Exeter District Court. Hernaman, official assignee, Exeter ; Trenchard, Taunton ; Terrel, Exeter ; Whitaker, Lincoln's Inn-fields, London. JOHN GOSS, draper, Devonport, March 8, at twelve, and April 10, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. Herteel, official assignee, Exeter ; Crosby and Compton, Church-court, Old Jewry, London. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY.' J. L. Blanchard, commission agent, Great Trinity-lane, City, G. Beesley, gardener, Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire. W. Roberts, farmer, Wickwar, Gloucestershire. T. Hughes, farmer, Newland, Gloucestershire. W. Audley, carter, Liverpool. W Charlton, carpenter, Dorchester-place, New North-road. J. Roebuck, farmer, Kirkburton, Yorkshire. G. Hewitt, cowkeeper, Sheffield. J. Axe, boatman, Mexborougb, Yorkshire. J. Haywood, clothier, Shepley, Yorkshire. E. Weatherstone, plumber, Cheltenham. W. Griffiths, grocer, Saithaelwyd, Flintshire. J. Stammers, licensed victualler, Totnes, Devonshire. D. Pollitt, dyer, Pendleton, Lancashire. T. Bate, land agent, Neath, Glamorganshire. R. Wigg, plumber, Redenhall, Norfolk. M. Carter, doctor in medicine, Reading, Berkshire. A. Bonser, victualler, Reirrpstone, Nottinghamshire. J. Scales, land steward, Battle, Sussex. J. 0. Webb, accountant, Greenwich. J. Slark, Cowley Peachey, Middlesex. R. Smith, clerk. Seckford-street, Clerkenwell. H. Knight, Maidstone, Kent. T. Ives, blacksmith, Wokingbam, Wiltshire. G. Eastwood, coin dealer, Fore-street, Cripplegate. J. Brown, tailor; Clifton-street, Finsbury. D. Robinson ' wharfinger, Sneinton, Nottinghamshire. T. Chatwin, brazier, Aston, Warwickshire. T. Cooper, piano-forte key maker, Chapman-st., Islington. E. Brown, Paradise -street, Lambeth. T. Clinch, beer retailer, Albert's-place, City-road. W. Collender, painter, Edward-street, Limehouse. J. Parratt, blacksmith, Bradford, Yorkshire. J. Grierson, linendraper, Huddersfield, Yorkshire. J. West, tobacconist, Northampton. T. Hooper, accountant, Pendleton, Manchester. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Mercantile Price Current of Feb. 27.) B. P. SUGAR.—There having been a very small quantity on show to-day, only 280 casks have been sold. Prices re main firm. MAURITIUS.—A public sale of 5,804 bags took place to-day, and passed off very briskly. The full value was realised, and in some instances prices advanced 6d per cwt ; low to mid yellow from 59s 6d to 64s 6d, and brown from 53s to 59s per cwt. ___ BENGAV—There was offered to-day 1,177 bags of middling to good white, which brought 67s 6d to 69s per cwt. 5,816 bags damp brown were also offered. The sale passed rather heavily in consequence of the quality not being desirable. 47 casks went at 52s to 56s per cwt. All the Khaur has been sold at, and since the sale, at 53s to 52s per cwt. FOREIGN.—No business has been reported to-day, the holders not having been anxious to effect sales at p resen t . REPINED. —A fair amount of business has been done to-day at the quotations. For Crushed 26s per cwt has been re fused, but there are sellers at 26s 6d ; however, no business has been transacted at that price. COCOA was dearer at public sale. 107 pkgs Grenada were partly sold ; good red at 46s to 47s 6d per cwt. COFFEE.—The market is very firm, but generally the busi ness transacted to-day has not been extensive. At public sale 13 cks Demerara were chiefly taken in; 602 bags Cey lon found buyers at rates corresponding to those paid in the private transactions; good ordinary pale at 68s 6d to 69a per cwt. A parcel of 97 bags Madras, of fine quality, admissible at 4d per lb duty, was also sold at 70s to 96s 6d per cwt at public sale. COCHLVEAL was sold at an advance of Id per lb at public sale ; 60 bags and 17 serons silver Honduras, ordinary to good, at 4s 5d to 4s 10d per lb. TALLow.—The market has become firmer, and there are few sellers of good Y. C. on the spot under 41s. New Tallow likewise is dearer, and for deli v e r y in the last three months of the year 44s 3d is demanded. MOLASSES.—A fair business has been done in the W.I. de scriptions at the former value. Very ordinary St. Kitts, at 20s 6d, and good Berbice at 25s per cwt. Molasses of good quality went at 20s per cwt. Srinrrs.—Since our last report there has been a further rise in the prices of W.I. rum. All the parcels have long been cleared out of the first hands, which have been re-sold at a profit. The Brandy market is firm at the quota tions. Delivered for home consumption in the course of last week 167 puns. A fair business has been done in Foreign Corn Spirit for exportation. There is now but little demand for this description for home use. TEA.—The public sale, on the 20th inst., consisting of 37,400 pkgs passed off very flatly. About 15,700 pkgs found buyers at the previous value. Two or three parcels of Congou were sold at id per lb. reduction from the prices of the pre vieus sale. Junk Tea taken in at high prices. Yesterday, a large business was also done in Congou and Twankay, and the current rates are fully Id per lb higher for the former, and id per lb for the latter description. RlCE.—Bengal at 6d to 9d per cwt advence ; low to good white from 11s 3d to 12s 3d per cwt. Madras at 8a 9d to 9s 3d per cwt for middling ; cargo at 9s. Java at 9s 6d for middling to good middling white. The prices of Carolina remain unaltered. SPlCES.—Cassia Lignea 58s to 67s for good ord to good middling, which is about is to 2s per cwt advance upon former rates. Sumatra Pepper good light at 3d to 30 per lb. Penang at 3d per lb cash, for good half-heavy. Malabar remains steady : white taken in at sid per lb at public sale. Pimento at fully hd per lb decline ' • good ordinary at 241c1 to 2id per lb. Jamaica Ginger at 4/19s to 101 7s. Bengal at 15s 6d to 16s 6d per cwt for fair to good quality. OlLS.—Common qualities at fully 20s per ton under the prices of the previous transactions. Southern, fine quality, at 341. In Sperm Oil, there is no actual advance in prices. Linseed Oil, a shade higher. Southern Whalebone, at 2361. to 240/. per ton. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) H OUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at a few minutes after Five o'Clock. The Earl of YARBOROUGH presented petitions from Wisbeach, and other places in Lincolnshire, against any alteration in the corn-laws. RELIGIOUS TESTS IN. THE UNIVERSITY OF . _ GLASGOW. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE presented a petition from the Lord Provost, the magistrates, and Town council of Glasgow, with reference to the imposition of religious tests upon professors in the University of Glasgow. The petitioners stated that the im position of these tests in many cases was unjust. The petitioners, however, were not desirous of abolishing those tests, in so far as they related to professors of theology, but they thought them unneces sary with respect to the profession of philosophy, che mistry, and other sciences. The petitioners stated that many excellent and competent men had been prevented by these tests from giving their services to the Univer sity, and therefore prayed that in such cases the tests should be abolished. 2_ Lord BROUGHAM said, that having had the honour of filling the chair of Rector of the University alluded to in the petition, as had also his Noble Friend (the Mar quis of Lansdowne), he had had communications with that body upon the subject, and he would say from them VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Feb. 26. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) His Honour took motions to-day, and was occupied the greater portion of the morning with one relative to an article of dress called antigropelos, or mud-boots. The matter has been several times before the Court, and it is unnecessary further to advert to it. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 26. Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Drzr3tAx and a Special Jury.) THE CUSTOM-HbUSE FRAUDS. THE QUEEN, ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF CUSTOMS, P. PETER WILLIAMS, CHARLES MOTTRAM, AND JOHN HORSLEY. This was an indictment arising out of the late frauds upon the Crown through the Custom-house- revenues, to the extent of about half a million of money, with the history of which, almost in minute detail, the public are already familiarly acquainted. The bill of indictment was found at the last June sessions of the Central Criminal Court, and removed by certiorari at the instance of the Commissioners of Cus toms. The Attorney-General, the Solicitor-General, Mr. Thesiger (Queen's Counsel), and Mr. Pollock, were for the prosecu tion ; Mr. Cockburn (Queen's Counsel), and Mr. Clarkson ap peared for the defendant Mottram. The brief summary of the case is, that the defendants were carrying on business in partnership in the way of French goods and the like, and in the month of September, 1840, by conspiracy, &c., carried through the Custom house, goods to the amount of 5801. or thereabouts, pay ing only 401., instead of 881., thereby defrauding the revenue of (the difference. The defendant Williams had pleaded guilty, Horsley had not been taken or appeared at all, and Mottram said that he knew nothing about it. 111ottram had been a linendraper in an extensive way of business in Lamb's Conduit -street, and in Janvary, 1840, relinquished that business, and went into partnership with the other de fendants in Wood-street, Cheapside, as Manchester and silk warehousemen and importers of " foreign fancy goods." They became bankrupt, and there was a fiat, which produced a great sensation, and the examination of Mettram was ad journed for three years. One Burnby, living then in Eus ton-square, of whom all the world has heard so much, and who by his multifold and various devices in almost every species of fraud had almost made fiction upon such matters uninteresting, tempted the firm, and all would have fallen but that the first attempt resulted in an abortion, as the only mode of avoidance of manifest detection. Fraud succeeded, however, time after time afterwards, but Mot tram, who alone now at the trial attempted a defence, averred that he bad no knowledge of or connexion with anything but the abortion, which would not support the indictment. About all that supervened he was wholly inno cent and unconscious. In fact, he was so shocked at the first attempt, or the failure of it, that though a partner in the house, he never, as his counsel from instruction stated, had the faintest knowledge of, or idea about, any of the future transactions connected with the revenue duties. The man Burnby, however, who appeared to have been dismissed from the service of the Crown for sundry enormities, but subsequently retained by the Crown at 15s. a day to de tect and prove the guilt of others, gave a very different ac count from that set up by Mr. Mortram, and quite proved the sagacity of the counsel of setting a thief to catch a thief. Mr. Cockburn freely called him " a perjured villain, covered in his scoundrel infamy, who had had the barefaced effron tery to come into the Court and tell the jury that he was kept by the Commissioners of Customs—fed by them on 15s. a day—and retained like a wild beast, ready to pounce upon any victim determined upon as being, in their caprice, to be devoured." Lord DENMAN summed up the caso, commenting with some calm severity upon the bearing of the evidence in proof of the guilty participation if the defendant Mottram, though with deepest indignation at the conduct of the man Burnby, whose evidence had been necessary to make out the case. The jury retired for about two hours, and returned with a verdict of Guilty generally. Sentence stood deferred without observation. PREROGATIVE COURT. (Before Sir H. JENXER FUST.) COVENTRY V. WILLIAMS AND OTHERS. In this case three codicils have been propounded, in a com mon codicil to the will of the late Lord Coventry, the vali dity of which was opposed on several grounds. The will and other codicils have been already proved by the executors named in it. At one period his Lordship suffered under in sanity, but the testamentary papers already proved were made previously. The first codicil brought to the notice of the Court was dated the 17th of September, 1836, but was torn up by his Lordship while in a state of insanity. After hearing Drs. Addams and Curteis in support of the paper so torn (the fragments of which were picked up by the keeper), and the Queen's Advocate contra, the Court had no doubt that it was entitled to probate, and directed accordingly. The next paper discussed is couched in the following terms : " Severn Bank, Worcester, Nov. 18, 1840. " In consequence of a late introduction to Mrs. Chase, and finding her talents and virtues were unrepaid, either by her profession (to which she jean ornament) or by her hus band, who since th a t acqu aintance has turned out a great villain, having been proved to be already married at Port slade, near Brighton, to a Miss Everall, I have determined to offer, as a tribute to her talents and virtues the follow ing small pittance, that poverty may never overtake her. I shall immediately order Mr. Morland, who has made my will, to make the following codicil to it :—That whereas in consideration of my sincere affection for Fanny Maria Brunton's irreproachable character, and her other virtues, she shall enjoy from me the small but welcome allowance of 501. per annum, to be paid by Messr3. Coutts and Co., bankers, Strand, half-yearly, quarterly, or annually, as the said Fanny Maria Brunton shall will it, and after her death (wiaiCh I cannot contemplate Without feelioge of the deopest m a° regret) to her son, now born, Thomas Chase, but 'll egili NOW'ince the horrid previous marriage has been pro4f, Given under my hand and seal this 18th day of in the year of our Lord, 1840. (L.S) " COVEN T°. " Witnesses—THOMAS MARCHANT. RICHARD CHAMBERS, M.D." The codicil was enclosed in an envelope, endnrseu, Miss Fanny Maria Brunton—Coventry." r The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE and Dr. Pruumtoas, jam" lets used the paper as not being a codicil to the will of O ie Earl, but merely as a security that the testator would !se larly execute a paper in her favour. ti Dr. Anniuts submitted that the paper had been prol L ws. as a codicil, and it was rather too late now to raise the 0 0 , Lion made on the other side. The paper was regularlY : 031 . cuted and delivered to the lady, who placed it in her bs°,ol There could be no doubt but that the deceased was ° f. yo mind at the period it was executed, though there 10 1 00 question he subsequently became deranged, and centin,no. till his death. As to the execution of the paper by to o s Earl, that was most fully established. The cases , d 0 the other side did not bear on the points now rsl,, e e against the validity of the paper under diecnsdion• ena quirements of the new Will Act had been complied ' l 'l irr the Cuurt must pronounce for it as a provisional c odict ore tended by the testator to 'operate in the absence of and To formal instrument, as it would be hard indeed to der l" lady] e of her annuity. COURT said it must consider if this paper was co d or not. It was an important question. The other r A i lut were entitled to probate, the costs as to them to be ro of the estate. JAMES V. COHEN. This case respects the validity of certain testaellhl papers of the late Mr. L. Cohen, who died on the „5t0004 March, 1842, leaving property of the value of about " o po Among the relatives he left behind him were two niec n e t t bs of whom is the wife of the Bishop of Jerusalem. v.' 0 papers before the Court, the distribution of the propertir • ued • varied. The deceased destroyed his last will, and the l o di• tion was, if this revived a will dated in 1832, and two c tio cils, made in 1833 and in 1836, which had fora I°l the been out of his possession. The case does not pose ' s lea public interest. ld tO t The Court, after hearing civilians on both sides,. —I i ll there was no proof of the intention of the deceased to re ar the will of 1832, or the codicils of 1833 and 1836, 0 01 . fore an intestacy must be pronounced for. • POLICE INTELLIGENCE . (YESTERDAY.) GUILDHALL. im als Yesterday Mrs. Earnshaw, of Park-street, Caindell" n i" and Miss Ammo Wells, who resided with her were re-examined, charged with purloining various from jewellers' shops. rfel Mr. Clarkson, who attended for the prisoners , 0 - s e c te , that the o ffi cers were, at the last hearing, especially direithet as con311.„0 . 0 0 to ascertain if there were grounds for believing that_Lort of the eight 5/. notes found in the possession of the pr— to off could be presumed to be the produce of ether goods loof and sold or pawned by the prisoners. He wished to if they had made those inquiries. He knew the a c c ost that Mrs. Earnshaw had received them in paymen t d the allowance under her marriage settlement, and he truottfloa magistrate would restore them to the lady. The offil r oo iti brought away some savings' bank books, containine w er to to the amourt of 801. As he could not as clearly en ° ti 6 be the moneys paid in were not the produc e t hat was afraid he could not then make the same claim or restoration. of stole* g, °° d ni‘ al Mr. Alderman HuGzizs asked the officer if he bt, inquiry about the notes ?—Wardle, the policemen , r e P pi' had, and that he could not trace that a 51. note had bee o w to the prisoners in any case. He had traced only poo r e is ing, that of a locket, stolen from Mr. Lamb, 11 31 %! gel . Cheapside, and pawned at Mr. Fleming's, in r street. Mr. Alderman HUGHES examined the notes, end they were new, and seven of them of consecutive 1 1 °'7,1" t i orde r said he believed Mr. Clarkson's statement, and eb0.7,00 the 30/. to be given up. Lest anything should turn " read notes, he must direct the o ffi cer to keep two of the n o take the numbers of those he gave up. e l h ( f To complete the case entered into at the fi rst e v o sof, - the stealing of a fruit knife from the shop of Mre• Farringdon-street, alin e° 4 George Chambers, a station-house clerk, was t s ! • a and proved that he found the knife in an unstirred p o rt Miss Wells's boa. lie also found there a gold wil l : which had not an been owned. pocket A t e purposely bet° Mr. Alderm CirAuas asked if a secret 1 .i purposely formed in the boa. The officer said no. Att• merely unripped. There was no sewing to form it,P„ ° t ifeti,", Mr. Shepherd, a watchmaker in the Strand;juf'" e ;1 111 "( gold watch of the value of 30/. The prisoners cso:ro, his shop three weeks ago, and Wells wished to flea 1 t op ' watches in the window. He placed two trays before at 0 they objected to the price, and wished to seo acme 000 guineas. Their appearance obtained his confidence 50 0 to that he did not remove the trays b e f o re he turned I 1 1, ti p reach the cheaper watches, and this was taken adva n ce r ir to steal the watch, which he did not miss till the quired whether he had been d. he Mr. Alderman HUGHES asked if it was possible that could have sold the watch r (also watch Shepherd said it was not. The number 0 olso watch was entered in a stock-book, and the sale WI entered. fool Mr. Alderman HuGuns asked the officer 'rebore b• the watch ? t rb Thomas Hollingsworth, a City policeman, stated o ' B ,ol he was conveying the prisoners to the Compter, the watch to Mr. Hughes, her landlord, of Park - ems care, and witness immediately took possession of it ' Of A third charge was preferred by Mr. Hannafer"' tine of gent-street, a dressing-case maker. He had a recollecv ti, seeing the elder prisoner about five years ago, but f ri or he nor his partner had any recollection of seeing the pre ers in his shop recently. The two gold peucil-cal re 01 duced, value 8/. and 3/., were his property. TheY °e on t bi out of three which were purchased from the maker ate Wells t, for 31st of January ; the larger one was missed ten days 11— the smaller one had not been missed. cam "'" The officer said these were fou n d, e ach in a sepias ° at the prisoners' l o d g i ng . cterf Mr. Alderman HUGH ES said it would be more 6 gat he if his partner would attend the next examinatio n, might be certain that neith e r cou ld id ent i fy t h e Pri s°9 :,, , elle!, A fourth charge was pref erre d b y Mr. empham , 6d tire" in the Strand. He said the prisoners had been threa sr hie to his shop within two months, and each time look ed t rei° rings. They did not purch ase any thi ng . nHe did I rbsir anything, but he suspected them so much that at rev second and third visits he use d suc h p r ecautions toe dered stealing undetected impossible, and he sen t , core r to watch them. They went int o th e j ew ellers at toe t w ith of Villiers-street. He identified three finger-ring s le stones. s r' IfOr e he Mr. Alderman Caucus asked how he knew thei A ed sold ?—Mr. Clapham said they w ere very o ld stock , could not have sold them without remarking the fact...mot' A fifth charge was preferred by Mr. West, of butt street, jeweller. He did not rememb e r the prisoners, 0) identified a gold brooch, value 2/. 10s., which had beer' II from his stock, and was found at th e prisoners' lodg in g . missed it on the Ist of February. A sixth charge was preferred by Messrs. Hitchcrril‘bbei'llecir Rogers, St. Paul's Church-yard, of stealing a piece f„bend e4 t ; value 55., on the afternoon the prisoners were aPP I , - th. r They first looked at some boxes of dark ribbon , " i iytsi i wished to see some light ribbons • and while the e" to helc was fetching the box, they took ' the opportunit/ ;' themselves. They bought a small quantity. 0 011 1 A seventh charge was preferred by hiMr. Lamb , °,l O - ree'' in Cheapside. He identified a gold locket, but h f Y lection of seeing the prisoners at his s hop. Mr. Alderman HUGHES said, as seve ral articles eh We ld b‘ 0 unclaimed, it was desirable that the prisoners h t further remanded. f , Mr. Clarkson said he could not oppose this. TI'S t he P P. to be the fullest inquiry, and he was willing that t. „ni soners should at once stand remanded for a fortnif h nz er Mr. Alderman HUGHES replied that this was a °. ;0 011 ',.14 of remand than he should have proposed, but if it,. if Ow more convenient than an intermediate examination, with their own consent, remand them for a fortnight' The prisoners were removed. IMPERIAL PARLIAMEN I ' HOUSE OF COMMONS, Feb. Z6 ' a uto The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual' " - A O ° On the motion of Sir T. FREMANTLZ the Sr,! i i . the directed his warrant to issue for a new ' wr it. ' o o o/ 111 election ofa Member for Londonderry in the r° ° Bateson, Esq., deceased. t v" MANCHESTER AND LEEDS RAI L " th e Mr. HARDY mo ve d th e secon d readinV f Manchester and Leeds Railway (Bury bra ve Mr. T. EGERTON took the oortun i . t Y, n on le , marking on the want of formality in referri°, lo ; I T N of those branch Railway Bills to the York r4 - 114 n ," Committee, and others to the Leeds Railway ` l°- I tee. nrder e° The Bill was then read a seco nd time, an d to be committed. vorD P ' SUPPLY—GRIEVANCES OF THE Mr. W. WILLIAMS (in continuation fr°;or:, Third Edition of last n i g ht) proceeded t c , d tai`h The Right Honourabl e B arone t opposite ia s ori b e he was obliged to support this enormous arm, oainl ) count of the state of Ireland, but he (Mr. s 1 0 ,,,r °1 : contended that the nece ss ity f o r doing his solely from the policy pursued by the liilr t ea Gentleman toward s th e coun t r y. • It was rr how' vote 34,000 men f o r th e navy thi s year. e s d a is r„ g i e. like to know how was suc h a l arge force ri" quired now, when in 1822 th e nav al force con,ooo only 21,000 men, namely, 13,000 seamen , s ll d 18 0 ' marines? In the year s , 1832, 1833,18 34, 411 Ther only 27,000 men were vo t e d f or this servic e. w ish''' ._A° was another important question to which 1)0 1 0 .0 0 to direct the attention of the House, an d give n , matter upon which the Admiralty had ne fer nc t tht l y any satisfactory information to the Hous e ' f °r was the large amount' of the naval pension, .. 6 r t oP the amount of these pensions was more this le s t ber it was in the year 1818, after the VW, w il i eri o ff, en" were a great number of officers pension the when it was likely to have more u pon t r: nir than at any other period, owin merous casualties incident to the w Ar. ytet ° should wish the Right Hon. .Baronet ° in the; why there had been so great an increas! ed or pensions to naval officers. He c omplal ll . had the manner in which the naval estimat"„litio, been made out. The army estimates wer e the but such was not the case with resPe c k t e pen' navy. Now, what was the amount of tu,. p ool sions given to the widows and children eleoion. to D. 09 officers ? In 1818 the whole a mount e f . P l O2 i t given to those individuals was 18, 8001. ; in 0,001, was 112,000/, while this year it was 2 e 11 03 Now, he should like to know why this vast incresseiod taken place. When they compared the amount r e ldren , by the naval officers, and their widows and ch l foo ght with the amount given to sailors, the men wh o t c d the their battles, what did they get? WhY , ` ; ' ' ‘rso ~A i t 1,100,0001., they got about 207,0001. ' v uld to be supposed that these men 1 ". - 1 . 0 0.• satisfied, and not consider themselves 11 . _ il d e . He would next advert to the pensions in the el; e d t ic pertinent of the Admiralty. After the 10t o f F el tion of the war establishment, the amount bia sions in this department was 99,600/, t Al e it came to no less a sum than 162,0 0011 n double what it Nies at the close of the wi t f r : i . tfult wanted to know what circumstances called 14 for t extra expenditure. Tim there WOO 'Price. 6000 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 2 le 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 44 All paid 12 2 30 0 ' 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 C 50 0 0 184 10 0 0 1: 513 0 27 10 0 0 41 2 0 0 12 10 0 it 12 10 0 it 2 10 0 2 0 0 40s, 1 0 0 20s, 10 0 0 10 0 0 4 5 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 0 40 0 0 4 40 0 0 4. 5 4 ) 0 0 4 200 0 0 13. 25 0 0 T. 20 0 0 2 20 0 0 10 0 0 1 7 10 0 25 0 0 4 10 0 17 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 ,631 34 la 0 0 2 to 9 0 2 19 0 0 2, 50 0 0 O 0 - O 0 O 0 15 5 0 7 O 0 0 O 0 6 O 0 9 O 0 2 O 0 0 O 0 3 0 • 7: O 0 O 0 ooli 31 13 10 WO 0 25 0 150 0 150 e 50 0 10 0 `4O 0 2 10 0 100 - 0 0 1 - 100 0 0 JO 0 30 0 35 10 32 10 9 0 14, 0 1 10 5 0 3 0 7 0 75 0 25 0 50 0 0 O 21 O s9r 0 0 O 4 0 0 POSTAGE. Mr. WALLACE gave notice of a motion for a future day, the object of which would be to give full effect to the Act called the Postage Act. He also gave further notice that when the Lord Advocate brought forward his motion on the subject of prisons, and prison disci pline, he should move an amendment to it. TURKEY. Mr. MONCKTON MILNES gave notice of a motion for the Ist of March, on the present state of criminal jurisdiction over foreigners within the dominions of the Porte. CANADA. Mr. LEADER moved for the following Returns, which were agreed to::—" Return of the charges incur red upon account of the Canadas, in respect of the army, navy, ordnance, and commissariat, in each of the years 1835 to 1843 inclusive, and the amounts granted by Par liament, from the year 1837 to the year 1843 inclusive, in consequence of the insurrection in Canada. Copies of the Address of the House of Assembly of the Province of Canadalto the Governor-General, respecting the civil list, regulated by the Act for the Union of the Provinces of Upper and Lower Canada ; of the Message of the Go vernor-General in reply to the said Address, and dated the 16th day of October, 1843, together with the me morandum alluded to in the said reply, and pre sented to the House of Assembly by the com mand of the Governor-General ; and a copy of the Address to her Majesty the Queen, passed in the last session of the Provincial Parliament by the House of Assembly, respecting the said Civil List. Copy of the Report and evidence presented by the Commissioners appointed, pursuant to an Address of the 7th day of September 1841, of the House of Assembly of the Province of Canada, to inquire relative to the Seignioral Tenure existing in Lower Canada. Also, extracts of any correspondence of the Governor- General of Canada and the Colonial Office respecting the Repeal of the Act of the Imperial Parliament, in tituled " The Canada Tenures Act." Return of the names of persons who are or wer e i n th e Canada, who were de sofin ; December 1843 stating i the n ame o f the Governor- General by whom they were respectively appointed, and t fra h e s e e leti o ep ffi rts c e oo fn held the the amount due by them respectively. Report of the public byl s n tt h o ed ni Select Committee of the House of Assembly of the pro vince of Canada, appointed in the last session of the Provincial Parliament, to inquire into the effect of the British Copyright Act, and the policy of excluding from the province American reprints of British publications." Mr. HUME wished to know from the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies whether he had any objection to lay before the House a statement of the number of Canadian exiles now in Van Dieman's Land. He was aware a pardon had been given to several of these un happy persons, but the Noble Lord perhaps would have uo objection to give a return to the House in reference to them. Lord STANLEY could not at that moment state the precise number of persons who had been pardoned ; but he could state generally that every case - which was not marked by aggravated circumstances had been mercifully considered by the Crown. Mr. HUME wished to know if the Noble Lord was willing to give to the House the instructions to Sir C. Metcalfe, which had induced that functionary to refuse his consent to the Secret Societies Suppression Bill. Lord STANLEY said, that Sir Charles Metcalfe, in the case alluded to, had not acted upon specific direc tions, but on general instructions given to all Governors of Colonies. The Bill itself he had received, but the Report of the Governor-General's reasons for not sanc tioning the Bill he had not yet received. . POOR-LAW (IRELAND). Sir DENHAM NORREYS rose for the purpose of putting to the Right Hon. the Secretary of State the three questions of which he had given notice, with re gard to the poor-laws in Ireland. Before he did that, however, he would ask the Right Hon. Baronet whether the Government would, or would not, object to the ap pointment of a Select Committee to inquire into the operation of the poor-laws in Ireland ? He then put the three following question :-1. Whether any steps had been taken by the Government to carry into effect a general revision of the valuation of poor-law unions in Ireland ; and if so, how soon the revision will be commenced ; 2. Whether it be still the intention of the Government to appoint an Assistant Poor-law,Commis sioner for the superintendence of such revision; 3. Whe ther it be still the determination of the Govern ment that the valuation of property for the purpose of County Assessments in Ireland (called the Griffith's valuation) shall be continued, notwithstanding the com mencement of a general revision of valuation, for the purpose of poor-rates ; or, whether it be proposed by the Government to introduce any measure for the conso lidation of the several valuations, so that county rates, poor-rates, and other local taxes, may be levied on one uniform scale of valuation. Sir J. GRAHAM said, with regard to the appoint ment of a Select Committee to inquire into the opera tion of the poor-laws in Ireland, he adhered to the pro mise made by the Government at the close of last ses sion, that if a desire was evinced on the. part of Irish Members to ha ve suc h a C om mittee of inquiry, the Go vernment would no t o pp ose it.—(Hear, hear.) With respect to the first question of the Honourable Member, be thought he was under a misapprehension with regard to the valuation; where a valuatip was unduly made, there was a power given to the Com missioners to raise the m i tia tio. As to the second ta ! J `hC . tic iE c *Ol Itk th k )111 thi, to titk ' lie