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......... 3 who le said t was Lord oat ieqf to the ion to es o f at he Mete- ,ation been tamed vised ler.") fond fame, ainly Hon. they at he Gen- 'ear, !ries lon . hich lon. 1, he and )er'a and wed of hie d J. age in 'or the aid , ier yat n's rig those asturnint.r ecelesiattical titles in the same pesitien as that of the 224 and 231. of Gorge end, in 1795, when the college of Maynooth Wai CCd9Wed, so CaN;!0l was the Legislature tit recognise uo soch thee the Commissieners nound to curry the meature into efleet were simply stet down 118 doctors of divinity. So the law continued down to 1829, when the Relief Act teas passed, the 24 di section of which imposed penalties !or as• suming eccl, siasiieel titles. An argurneet was used in the course of the present debate, that al Litit'S not ex pressly prohibited by that section were permitted. Lives very imporianr, that it should Ott borne in ailed that that prohibition dil not interfere with the spirituel pdvie leges it Roman Catholic bishops, and that at that time the Act of Eliz tbeth, being in existence, the law was more stringent than it was at the present day. The Rotrisn Catholic ecelesiestics of thet titne were men equal in learning and in talent to those now in existence, and yet not one of them complained ef threeletise, as in terferifig with their spirttnitt rights, hut, ott the contrary, accepted the meatnre eith gratitude. Having then dis claimed ell ecclesiastical titles, what reason nose existed for making soy distinction between Eigleild and Ireland? The Noble Lord, on the moti ti,of the Hoe. Member for Rochdale, said that having mole a law in regard to En;- land, he did not think it would be oonsistent to allow any person in any pat t of the United Kingdom to assutne title such as the Bishop of Galway. in conseepience of is rescript leucite d t tom the Pope. The Honourable Mem ber for Someretshire quoted an extract from a Rican Catholic publication, and he would read one which was more extraurdit,ary, and more striking, and, he re gretted to add, of a more profane description. Ile found the Tablet newspaper, in speaking of the bull appointing the Bishop of Killaloe, use the following words:—" The law is broken, thanks be to God," and with respect to the rescript, said to be condemnatory of the Queen's Colleges, it used terms still more objection able and more repugnant, " Another rescript (tt said), another crime, another cause of thankfulness to Al mighty God, and ours must be the greater, because the direct and main object of it is to detest with ignominy an Act of Parliament." Was the Noble Lord right, or was he insane, to permit such scandalous attempts to disobey the law, and the shameful abandonment of the rights of a great nation?—(Cheers ) And yet under all these circumstances, and with the law even as it at pre• sent existed, these repeated defiances were allowed to go on, and an Act framed, which did not guard every part of the United Kingdom. The preamble of the Bill was directed solely and exclusively at the rescript issued last Lear, appointing a hierarchy for England. If th e N o bl e ord determined to extend the Bill to Ireland, he would do for him that which he had not the courage to do for himself. His object was to convert the declaration, "certain briefs, rescript, or letter apostolical," into certain brief;, rescripts, or letters epos tolical ;" and also to cite and include the re script, brief, or letter apostolica 1 of 29th Sep tember, 1850; and with this object in view ho asked how the Noble Lord could object to this amend ment? The legislation now proposed to meet this ag gression only elicited defiance, and was an encourage ment to further encroachments. He therefore asked, did the Netile Lord intend to extend the law to Ireland, and if eu, why not state it on the face of the Bill? He Wished the House to have in a concentrated form all the amendments, forming a series and a system. He would full attention to another amendment. The Noble Lord Directed attention to cue rescript, brief, or letter aposto lical which the preamble declared to be illegal and void. If the preamble was carried on these terms, as he pro• posed, it would pass to all rescripts if his amendments were carried. The Solicitor-General being pressed by the Member for the University of Oxford, whether he was not inconsistent in confining the declaration of the preamble to a particular rescript, whereas that by which the diocese of Ross was established was equally illegal, stated that the declaration would operate in Ireland, lie stated the judges would apply the declaration in cases arising in Ireland. This, however, was not a declara tion of the law generally, but in reference to a particular rescript. The judges would decide according to the law as it stood before this declaration was made. If this declaration clause had any operation, it would be an injurious one, and detrimental. His Honourable and Learned Friend said it would apply to Ireland. He would then appeal to the noble Lord in consistency to declare it on the face of the Bill. He would now proceed to the next amendment. In 1846 the Noble Lord said that, to prevent parties from assuming these titles, would be absurd and puerile. If that was his impression it was their duty not to per-- mit the Noble Lord to give them this minimum of legis lation against this aggression. He appealed to the Noble Lord whether the statute of Richard 11. was available at the present day or not. He thought they ought to have an answer on that point. The Noble Lord said it was obsolete. Well, he agreed it was right that it would, not be prudent to risk a conviction under that statute, but at the same time he asked the Noble Lord, did he mean to carry out the Act of Richard II , and if so, he would say, let him declare it openly on the face of the Bill. The value of his amendment was, that they would bring it down to the present day, and make this Bill accordant with the declarations of the Noble Lord, but which he was prevented carrying into effect by a counteracting force. His object was to protect them from further aggression. Obsolete laws, as'Lord Bacon observed, brought a gangrene on wholesome laws that were to be brought into practice and exe cution. The Noble Lord proposed to leave the law as it was under the 10th of George IV. What was the effect of that Act ? The law was allowed to sleep, and the penalties left, like mastered arms, hanging on the walls, not meant for use. He would ask, had the Attorney-General dune his duty ? If not, was it likely that any Government would embarrass itself with such a prosecution, if they could, avoid it. He asked, was it not their duty to take care that the law should be efficient, and not be allowed to sleep, as it had been under the existing law? It was said he meant an indignity to the Attorney-General; but was he on that account to be prevented from providing a stimulus to the Attorney-General to enforce the law? Vhe Government was unwilling to prosecute, and he proposed to give the power to any one to prosecute with the consent of the Attorney-General. The effect, there fore, would be that if any respectable party proposed to prosecute, if it was a proper occasion, the Attorney-Ge neral would consent, and if not, he would withheld his consult, and, therefore, the matter would be left in the hands of the Attorney-General as heretofore. He had' brought these amendments forward in no spirit of hosti lity, but to sati •fy the public and to enable the Govern• ment to act up to their declarations. This was a most important measure to protect Protestant ascendancy, which was assailed from within and without, and was in a condition similar to that of the Primitive Church when it was said to contend " with outward fightings and with inward fears."—(Hear, hear.) He had to contend against a power which assumed a right to govern all—heretics and apostates, among which Pro estants wero included. The Hoe. Aftmber for Kerry said they would wait for an occasion, and not anticipate it; but that would never come until it was too late to prevent it. They had to contend with a foe who would crouch in his lair for the fatal spring, which would then be irresistible. He thought they ought not to disregard the warning they had already, and not wait until it was too late. The time was the present to respond to the Protevant zeal of the country, and to pro tect the interests of t ,ose who were to come after them. He called upon them rot to repair the breach which had been read, by the entmy with the rubbish furuisned by the opposite side, but with sound materials, whittle would form an impregnable defence. The eyes of the world were upon them. They were engaged in a contest in which to fail would be a disgrace—which was described by an eminent writer, that it they allowed the Pope to introduce his bulls int) this country the honour of Eng land would be trampled in the dust, and be the heaviest blow for the last three centuries egaiust human liberty and human progress. The Hon. Gentleman resumed his scat amidst Iced and continued cheering. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman who had just resumed his seat had spoken with much ability in support of the amendment to the mea sure he had introduced to the House; and, after very considerable vituperation against the measure, as it now stood, had stated that his proposed additions would make the Bill complete, 'comprehensive, and efficient. He, however, was surprised at the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman attaching so much consequence to the additions he had proposed, as he (Lord J. Russell) did not con ceive that they were either very valuable or very strin gent. In the first place, let them consider what consti tuted the offence against which the present measure was directed. The offence was, in tho first place, an astump- Lion of titles in this country by a foreign Power, with out the knowledge or consent of the Sovereign of this country, and in defiance, in fact, of the expressed wish of the Government of this country. Now, to meat th at, they proposed, in the first place, to insert in the Act that a certain rescript,•professing to emanate from the Pope of Rome, purporting to give these titles, had been issued in, this country, and that such titles, conferred under such re script, were void and illegal. Such was the first stop the Government took in the matter, and that he considered to be the best mode of meeting the case, because what they had to deal with was a document which was published in this country openly and palpably; it was read on plat forms, and from idl the pulpits of the Roman Catholic Church in this country, and therefore it was proper that Government should take cognizance of it. Some parties said that the proper way to meet the case would be to pass a resolution in each House of Parliament, condem natory of the Act; but Government considered that the better mode of meeting the case would be to pass a d (Aeration in the shape of an Act of Parliament, aimin, g at the particulat act of encroachment—reciting it , au" d de daring it void and illegal. That, he considered., would have been a declaration that all such acts wer , ill egal, and that they could not have effect in this con' e t ry . B ut then the Hon. and Learned Gentleman " Ohl but while you declare this set of the Pope ille ett l, you d on ' t declare the otter rescripts he has issuea lob e ill ega l , and the measure :fell, therefore, far short p ; nf wilat ought to." He, howtever, considered that fUy pre sent measure ar e plicable to all rescrir . e s , the ...ney would very much weaken its effects in respect t o'ibis particular act. The Honourable a.nd Learned Gear ieman had censured the Government for not ma "' the measure appli cable to all similar rescripts; i was liable to censure in tee Hon. and Learned Men iber for rilidhu• .it respect, the est (Mr. Walpole), who had proposed the clause, IV" te . y so, for he had confined it to this paelicular rfts r, arpt. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman ) 111- a slaty d ties% the effect of their not having extended the melee to all similar rescripts as that complained of; w' out di have the effect of embarrassing the judges, shoube, t' tip ever be called upon to put the clauses of the Act i ato force. Not being a lawyer, he would not enter it t r 'a leant argument on that point, but he thought the - • t' u expressed by the Lion. and Learned Gentlema 'pinto was 21 , respecting it, so contrary to the common-seas .11 dew of the subject, that they could not be considere' sc. now. Instead of the measure as it now stood, ern' Jai 'missing a judge, it occurred to him that thejudge I • Afore, whom such span would come, would ray, " I see, by the Acts o fßieherd the Sceond and Elie tbeth, that such acts oil ttO pint of a foreign pow( r are the nl, and I sin eterengthe fled in that opinion by what occurr, d in 185 e, when Parltemeht &aired by Act of Parliennent a reeteept issued ey the Pope in S 'W" ,ll bcr of to e pteeriting year to 61 and II- That was the construction which he thought any learned judge before whom such a case might Clint). would put ueou the matter. The Hon. aid Learned Gentlemen ad that the contrary would be the effect; that the ju , lge .woeld deektee that mile all such reecripte were doctored illeg,l by the Acrs of Richard the S, coui, and Eliz ibeth, the Act of 1851 only ren dered one of these re:scripts illegal, aed that a else fluently a doubt wits raised as to the legality of all others, He did net, as he had setd, think that any judge would come to such a coeclusion, and that beMg the case, he did not think there was any necessity for adopting the amendment on that else's', as lie thought they ss ould lose the effect of the measure tielYse they confined it to this particular rescripe eV i:h regard to the case of Ire land, he had delays coretidered that any Art of mice a nature as this should refer equally to ad parts of the United Kiugdotn.—(llear, hear.) Bet then there could be no doubt that when the pry ,:ent Pope canes' into pow e r, finding that eel r since about forty years after the lt,forrnation, archbishops and bishops belonging to the Roman Catholic Church had been appointed to sees in ' Irelirel, he felt himself justified its continuing these op pointen•iits. The ccse, however, seas differeet as re garded England, for hare the Pope had divided the country iteo diocese , , 'and had appointed to them archbishops and hishiepe wi:hout even askiee the consent of the Queen or Goveremeet of this country, and it was that Act with which the Government aid the Hou:e had now to deal. With respect to those Irish bishops, it was not to be ex pected but that the Pope would fill up the vacancies in any of the sees when such occurred, land such might net be considered much aggression; but with respect to the aggression of 1850, that was one which the Pope might and ought to have avoided, and at till events asked the consent of the Sovereign of this country before he had made it. There was, therefore, in Oita of common :tense and reason, a considerable difference in that which had been done in Ireland since, he believed, the y ear 1600 iu respect of the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops, tend what had been done in England in Sept., 1850. That appeared to be the opinion of the people of this country, for he had never heard them object to the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland, al though they had done so when the same was attempted in England. With respect to the other ameedment to the enacting part of the Bill, he did not consider it of much importance, and would not trouble the House with referring to it.—(llear, hear.) Then came, however, what was more important, for the Hon. and Learned Gentle man proposed next, that any one should not be allowed of himself to institute proceedings against parties who might infringe this Act, but that any party might do so with the consent of the Attorney-General. He owned that prosecutions of this nature were matters which so affected the State, that those who repre sented the State sought to have the sole power to institute them. Let the House consider what were the considerations which those who represented the Go vernment ought to have in view previous to instituting them. Previous to instituting all such prosecutions there were four consideratiens which Government ought well to weigh. In the first place, had the offence been committed? S , Tond, could they adduce legal and suffi cient evidence of its having been committed? Third, supposing the o ff en ce had been committed, andt ird that there was legal evidence of its being so, were they likely to obtain a verdict? And in the fourth place, suppos ing they were sure to have a verdict, would any public benefit ensue from such a prosecution being instituted? All these were mutters for Goverument to consider. With respect to the two fiist, not a week passed but what they might institute prosecutions for libel, and prove them by most satisfactory evidence ; but if these took place, the jury who tried the case would be told that the prosecution had been raised to cover the delinquencies of a corrupt and persecuting Government, so that the parties prosecuted for libels would be raised in public consequence, and their libels more extensively read than ever. It was a serious matter, therefore, for the consideration of the Government whether such pro secutions ought to be instituted or not, and whether any public advantage would accrue from them. Wise men who had formerly held high positions in the Government of this country had seen the propriety of always observing great forbearance in respect of these. There was a well-known story told of a circumstance which took place between Sir Robert Walpole and Sir William Wyndham in that House. Sir William Wynd ham made an attack in that House on the Sovereign, and used language most disrespectful; upon which Sir Robert %V alpole said, " I see what he wants; he wants me to send him to the Tower, but I shall do no such thing." In his opinion Sir Robert Walpole acted wisely, for Sir William Wyndham would have been greatly raised in public notoriety by such imprisonment. He said then that as all these matters required so much con sideration, they ought not to be left to be instituted on the bidding of every individual, but left to the decision of the Government. Besides the proposal, he thought, would defeat itself, for the Attorney- General would of course refuse his consent in all cases where he thought prosecutions ought not to be issued, and, therefore, there would le,t Ltd° effect which could attach to the amend ment. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had com plained that Attorney- Genet als had not done their duty in not instituting these prosecutions in casts vi here the Act of 1829 had been infringed, but that was a com plete mistake, for his belief was that Chief Justice Blackburn and the Master of the Rolls in Ireland had done their duty in that respect. It they heel neglected their duty, why did not the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, when Attorney-General and Solicitor-General, which be was for a considerable time, remind the Home Secretary that they were failing to do so? That he had not done, and, therefore, he could now have no ground of complaint. Upon the whole he thought that the effect of the Hon. and Learned Gentle man's amendments would be to weaken, instead of strengthen, the measure; and he would therefore leave the House to decide as to whether they ought to be adopted. The House, in considering the question, could not forget what had taken plane at toe commencement of the discussion, when a conside:able number of Members, who represented counties and towns iu Ireland, had re- tired from the House. In an ostentatious manner they had refused to take part in the deliberation of the ques tion.—(Hear, hear.) They must, however, be held as consenting parties; and it' the Hon. and Learned Gentle men succeeded, he would consider those parties who had left responsible E,r such success.—( dear.) He found nothing in these amendments which would pre vent him from going on with the measure, wnicti he would do his hest to carry through successfully. Mr. NAPIER supported the amendments, and contended that while there had nut been any infringements of the Act of 1829 in Ireland, during the time the Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon was Attorney-General, yet there had very soon after the Noble Lord came into power. He then found, on Lord Clarendon bein4 sent to Ireland, that De. 711.11a1e, in an address which was p. esented to that Noble Lord, delsignated himself as Archbishop of Tuam, and was, in the reply to that address, styled by Lord Clarendon "My Lord," and recognised as a peer of the realm. That, there fore,-was an infringement of the Act of 1829. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he did not so much obje:ct to the first two amendments proposed by his Hon. and Learned Friend, although he considered that the measure eras much better as it stood. With reference to the introdee, tion of words respecting rescripts introduced into Eogland ai id Ir land, there was no necessity for the allusion. The law the two countries was the same. The sovereignty of the Crown was the same. Government directed their legislation against this act of aggression on the part of the Roman Pon tiff because it was au invasion of the rights and prerogatives of the sovereignty of the Crown. He undertook to say that no judge who was called upon to enforce the law in Ireland would have any difficulty in administering the law for Ire land, as it was intended it should affect rescripts in England. The Biel, in Ls present state, was equally applicable to all rescripts received in Ireland as to the special rescript consti tuting bishoprics in England, but he did not regard it as a matter of any great importance which way they decided, one way or the other. With respect to the amendment which proposed to make parties receiving and acting on rescripts liable to the penalties of the Bill, he objected to it because of its tendency to make the penalties cumulative. Be yond this, he did not see any great harm in the amendment. If the House chose to inflict a double penalty for taking titles, and procuring, publishing, and putting in use, within any part of the United Kingdon, any Papal briefs or rescripts, that was a subject for the House to consider and determine on. They should bear in mind. however, that the object of the amendment was to inflict two penalties for what was substantially the same offence. The third anaendment, giving power to the common informer to institute actions, with the consent of the Attorney- General in - England and Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate in Scotla'ad, was the most objectionable. That was a matter of serious importance, and should be well weighed by the House. The cases contemplated by the Bill were not those in which the common informer should be allowed to act. Such prosecutions should be left to the public pro secutor, sicting under the responsibility of the Government. It was r;osurd to urge that they could not depend upon a public officer, such as her Majesty's Attorney-General and Judge. Advocate, discharging his public duties. such a state Anise was pa ying a poor compliment to public o ffi cers . Let, him not be told that in the present state of public' opinion in England the Bill, when it became law, would rot be enforced. If prosecutions were not instituted in - Ireland by the law officers of the Crown against parties offlr.nding. it was because public opinion in Ireland did not desire or demand an enforcement of the law; but the case 'Brats different in England. The public mind was in a state of exciter.aent in consequence of an attempt on the part of the Uor.uan Pontiff to infringe on the rights and prerogatives of the Crown. No law officer of the Crown under such circum stances. would sleep at his post, and no Government with which he was connected would permit him to do so. By intro ducing the common informer, and allowing him to prosecute, it was clear they would lower the character of the offence to the character of those other offences where common in formers were permitted .to prosecute. They would lower the character of the prosecutions and of the public prose cutor. For these reasons he would oppose the alterations proposed to be made by the Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon. The House then divided on the, question of substituting in the preamble the words " briefs and rescripts" for " brief and rescri pt." There appeared— For th amendment ... ••• 135 Against Majority for Sir F. Thesiger's amendment and against Government ... —35 The announcement of this Ministerial defeat was followed by tremendous cheering from the Opposition benches. It was then proposed to insert in the preamble the words "and particularly by a certain brief, rescript, or letters epos tolical. ' Lord J. RUSSELL, considered the words unnecessary, but he would not divide against their insertion. The preamble, as amended, was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. On the question that Sir Frederick Thesiger's third amend ment—namely, that in the first clause the words " all such briefs and rescripts" should be inserted, for " the said brief and rescript," The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that, before the House proceeded to deal wits the next part of the Bill, he desired to ask the House if they were not, to a certain extent, prac tising &delusion on the public, by holding out . that the sug gegio, or addition/4 or arheatlmente of the Hon. and Lamed _ ` ~T. - THE SUN, LONDON, Member for Abingdon were towers of strength and bulwarks of thou Prwestattt Church in this country ?—qllear, hear, and Oh, oh.) These wore the words use by th , 3 Gun. and Learned Member fur Abingdon. He sail that his ariietA= ' mints would not only render the Bill complete, but, in a ante: t of great abiity, he stated that at a peri d of their hi tory ‘vhere they' , took was of the greatest im portance, and where every treachery motion to surpise, it becao,e of the first importance to mane ' . .ten their towers, and to set up bulwarks for strengthening the Church against the a! tacks of assailants; end the Honour atno a i d o en o, m ,•, r , ~,m eluded by telling the House that he proposed to rubstimute his 11 - Ida:int:2 for the rubbish of the Government Bill. Now it never was his (the S dkltur. General's) view of the Bill that the Churn of England should rely upon it fir support. He had discovered that wh le they were looking Merely at this wretched rescript di yiding.the kingdom of England into Popish dioceses, that the Pepe had created a Bishop of Rose and a Bishop of Gal w y. N w. if they declared only that one rescript was ille gal, the judges in Ireland would be apt to think that the others were not illegal. Now the lion. and Learned Gen tleman knew very well that all these briefs were illegal.— ( Divide. ):The case :to at thuslThe merit of his Hon. Friend consisted io this, that whereas it was now a misdemeanour to do tho,e acts, he would make it punishable instead of by fine and imprisonment by a line of 100/. That was the ut. most extent of his merit. Now why had he said all this? (Cheers and laughter.) If they were not setting up any new bulwark and increasing their securities, it seemed to him that they were in effectdcstroying the Bill, the of of which was a solemn declaration of independence of Papal authority. Was it worth while to adopt these partial amendments, which did not in any way affect the main principle? The House then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ••• •.• .•• ldb Agairot it ... 109 Majority against the Government Lord JO iIN 147SSELL here intimated that he would not divide on the nest amendment, but would take the sense of the House on the third reading. The amendments were then agreed to. Sir J. GRAHAM said, he understood tt was not the inten tion of her Majesty's Government to offer any opposition to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Abingdon, and, under these circumstances he wished to call the attention of the House to the preamble, which was of unusual length, and to the fact that the two clauses had been altered in such a manner as to materially al_er the character of the Bill. The Bill haviT g been so materially change l, and her Ma jesty's Government still adhering to the measure, he sug gested that it should be printed with the amendments. tor the consideration of Hon. Members before the third reading. Lord J. RUSSELL raid that he had no objection to the Bill being reprinted in the form in which it now stood, and he proposed to take the third reading on Friday next. Sir J. GRAHAM hat no objection to Friday next, but he thought there should be time given to send the Bill to Ire land in its altered form.—(Hear, bear.) The third reading was then agreed to. OATHS OF ABJURATION (JEWS) BILL. The third reading of this Bill was postponed till Thursday next. The Supply Report was then brought up and agreed to. COURT OF CHANCERY ADJOURNED DEBATE, ON MOTION FUR ADDRESS (27TH MAY). On the order of the day being read for resuming this debate, The SOLI7ITOR-GENERAL regretted he was not pre sent when the Hon. and Learned Member for Newark brought torward the subject. The motion, he thought, pointed to two distinct matters—one, that the commission en which he had the honour to serve should be augmented by two Members not belonging to the profession; and the other, that the commission should be directed to attend to the proceedings in the Masters' offices, with a view to make an immediate report on the subject. He shoat' shortly state why he con ceived the motion would frustrate the object which his Hon. and Learned Friend had in view. No doubt the object of his Hon. and Learned Friend was speedily and effectively to make a reform in the Court of Chancery. The present com mission con•i,ted of seven commissioners, who were mem bers of th bar, but since its appointment two of the comm s sio ers—the Master of the Rolls and Vice-Chancellor Turner —had been appointed to the bench. With regard to the proposal of adding two additional members to the commis sion, he thought all 'alio had experience in these matters would admit that seven members were quite enough for the speedy and effectual carrying out of its object. He believed there was not a single member on the commis sion who was not desirous of Chancery reform—the Master of the Rolls, for instance, and Vice Chancellor Turner. He did not see what could be gained by making the commission nine in number, specially to include persons not members of the legal profession. The last two meetings of the com mission were occupied with hearing evidence on the subject of the Masters' offices in Chancery; and they were now busily engaged with the subject. But the vast question at issue was not to be settled in an off-hand manner, and he (the Solicitor-General) could not therefore promise a report this season. Mr. ELLICE said there had been various inquiries made into the abuses of the Court of Chancery by the legal pro fession, but as yet the unlearned public had derived no ad vantage from them. Since 1839, when two new Vice- Chancellors were appointed, nothing had been done to remedy the grievances of the over-crowded state of business in the Masters' offices. He appealed particularly to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, and said it was a lamentable fact that this most enormous of all abuses had been forgotten in the reforms that had been achieved by the party of which he was at the head. He (Mr. Ellice) did not attach any blame to the Masters in Chancery, nor even to the solicitors; but to the system of abom;nation which pre chided relief from any quarter except the Legislature. In this great commercial country no contested partnership ac count ever went into the Masters' offices and came out settled with a report. It was a sad fact. Was it not, he asked, a miserable thing that in a country like England there should be no court for partnership eases but this court? He was given t t understand that no number of judges would be of avail unless there was a reform in the office of the Tax- ' ing Master in Chancery. When Lord Grey came into power he ( Mr. Ellice) was one of a commission to inquire into the Court of Exchequer, and they found the old tally-stick sys• tem prevail there. They reformed that court, however, and now it was one of the most effective in the country. The same might be done with the Masters' offices, but if it was left solely to lawyers it would never be reformed. A mer chant or two, an accountant or two, and perhaps a barrister and a solicitor, w. uld make the be,t possible commission. A deep knowledge of law was not needful to that end. Almost every department had been reformed, but no daylight had ever been permitted to enter that den of Cacus—the Masters' offices in Chancery. He hoped, therefore, his Noble Friend would riot let the mat es sleep, but would bestir himself, as the head of the Government, to get rid of this scandal, which was a disgrace to the country. The MASTER of the ROLLS said he had not been idle, but had been doing what he could to facilitate the adminis tration of justice in all its departments. Ile had admitted the evils of Chancery to be not less strong than his Right lion. Friend had stated. One of the greatest abuses in Chancery was certainly in taking accounts; but that could not be remedied by an accountant or a barrister. The evil was this - that if partners went into a contest as to the ba lance in their boo :s, every item was obliged to be proved by voucher, though they might amount to thousands, and extend over a period of many years. This was the reason why a report never came out of the Master's offices in a part nership accoust. He had proposed a clause in the Irish Chancery Bill, naking the books prime facic true, unless they were proved to be the contrary. The constant com plaint in his early acquain'ance with Chancery was the arrear of business in original causes. This had been remedied; and though there was now a great ar rear in appeals, there was little or none in ori ginal business. Attention had been called to a case where a bill had been filed in Chancery in 1815, and the CAS ' was heard in 1851 ; but the cause of that arose from the fact that the Court of Chancery bad acted as a trustee in the case, and that the question had been raised in connexion with the trust only in 1849, when the lady, the original party, died, though the bill had been tiled so early. The public should not, therefore, be misled by dates. Lie believed that one of the most useful reforms that could be adopted was to make the Court of Chancery general trustee, aed to enable it to decide without delay disputed cases. He begged the House to believe that nothing was further from his wishes than to defend the real abuses of the Court of Chancery. On the contrary, he was most desirous to see them removed ; and he believed all his Learned Friends who were joined with him on that Commission were equally anxious with him on the subject. When they had met in that Commission they had divided themselves into sub-Com mittees of two; and a large number of most valuable sugges tions, which they were then considering, had been contri buted. It was not possible for them to take all these subjects together, for the question was a very large one. The Com missioners, however, were desirous of getting as much infer mation as they could upon one branch, and then to make their report upon that before they went to another. With respect to the taking of evidence, they bad drawn up a great number of questions which they had sent to masters, solicitors, officers, and even judges, and they had received a great number of valuable suggestions, upon which they were on the eve of making a report. They had also begun to examine into the subject of the Masters' offices. The Honourable Member for Newark proposed that two new Members should be added to the Commission, and the names of the Right lion. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) and the lion. Member for Oxford had been suggested for ; hat purpose. He fully admitted that more valuable assistance could not be obtained than that which these two lion. Gentlemen could afford. But there was a great difficulty always in too numerous a Commission. Then it might be a long time before lay members, however intel ligent, could be made acquainted with the principles and sys tem of taking evidence. Another difficulty arose in the at tendance of members. They had appointed Tuesdays, Thurs days, and aaturdays, from four to six o'clock, to go through the business of the Commission. Would it be possible for lay members to attend on those days and at those hours, consistently with their other public business? If they could, nothing would give him greater pleasure ta . an that they should have those Hon. Members; but in the present state of the Commission, he had his doubts whether the in troduction of other persons would be of so much benefit as his Hon. and Learned Friend thought. Amongst the evils stated to exist were, that if a Bill were to be taxed one had to wait three or four months, and if an order were required it would be three or four weeks before it could be got out of the Master's office. There was no doubt but that there were evils; but it was said they might be remedied by the appointment of two new taxing officers and additional masters. No doubt such was wanting; but if a proposition to that effect were made in the House, it would be com plained of that new offices were being created. He agreed, with the Hon. Member for Coventry that it was of the ut most importance to take up that subject seriously and earnestly, and such was the intention of the Government and the Connnission which had been appointed. He was sure the House would insist on a full inquiry into the subject; but the best course which it could take would be to wait until that Commission should have made its report, and not to seek to add to it for the present any new members. Be fore next session he trusted 'they would have made such a report as would tend in a great degree to point out the re medy for many of the most obvious existing abuses and evils in the administration of the affairs of the Court of Chancery. Mr. CHRISTOPHER thought, after the speech they had just heard from the Righ Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had addres , ed the House, there could be no more cogent reasons advanced for the proceeding recommended by his Hon. and Learned Friend near him. As to the delays of the Court of Chancery, there could be no doubt oe the mind of any one. He had been dragged into that court against his will on one occasion, and had been kept there six years with out any result. After ever , effort to obtain a hearing at the end of that period, he had obtained one which lasted ten mi nutes, and he had been told by the Master of the Rolls that he had no business in that court. It was subsequently nine years before he succeeded in getting the suit terminated. He agreed with the Hon. Member for Coventry, that unless they got rid of the whole system from the beginning, there was no use in eppointing new judges, new masters, or new officers, and that they should strike at the root of the evil, if they intended to accomplish any real practical good. Mr. BETHELL concurred very sincerely in pa. t of the appeal made by the lion. Member for Coventry; and.he hoped the Noble Lord at the Ilead of the Government, whose name RAs associated with ao many useful reforms, ' SAT URDA Would not allow the present session to pass without doing something which would cause it to be handed down also in connexion with the reform of our judicial proceedings. Oletraeting the vast amount of business which the five judgei el the Court of Chancery had to do with what the fifteen le* judges were called upon to ge through, it would seem that ?IT the former case it was impossible for human industry to accomplish it. Yet they expected these five judges to do all that. They hid utfly thenaselv , s to • Warne for a great many of the evils complained of. They had refused to appoint additional masters, although the officers of these functionaries were crowded day after day, and hotfe after hour, with suitors who were unable to obtain justice- lie Would call upon them, there . fore. to add to the • power of that court. The fact of having Increased the number of judges created addi tional labour for the masters, The difficulty in the Masters' offices arose from the fact that there was a centralised place of business to take accounts, and these were furnished through the medium of agents. He would brietic illustrate that difficulty by en example. Suppose in Birmingham; or any other great commercial town of this country, a dispute arose about accounts in a large partnership concern. It was at once brought into the Court of Chancery, instead of being - referred, as it ought, to some local parties of experience and judgment. Of course agents were to be employed here, and all the business was to be transacted through agents at every step in thirproceeding. The Master to whom the case was referred had no power. to compel the attend-owe of wit nesees, and at each additional movement the agents bad to send to the country for evidence or instructions. Thus were prweeings lengthened out to a most immoderate exteet. Again, he would ask them to contrast the duties per formed by the courts of common law with those of the Court of Chancery, and see how much assistance was neces sary to make the courts of equity equal to the business which comes before them. If the lion. Member for Newark, in stead of turning out the Commission for a little sport in that House that night, were to go before the Commissioners and answer their questions, he would do much more to promote the object he had in view, than by adopting the course he had pursued. If the addition of any lay members to the , Commission at the present time were at all desirable, no doubt no two Hon. Members could b a greater acquisition then the two whose names had that night been meutionel. Mr. HENLEY was more hopeful of the results of the Commission before he had heard the spee,:lies delivered that night by three 'Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, who we'e members of the Commission. He had not heard the slightest symptom that they thought anything like a true remedy for the abuses complained of was wanted. What was needed was, not a tinkering up of the system, but a sweeping away of its abuses; and he hoped the Government would direct their serious attention to it. Mr. J. EVANS could hardly believe, when he heard the Master of the Rolls speak to-night, that it was the same person who,.as Solicitor-General, had introduced the reform of the courts of law in Ireland. The Hon. and Learned Member for Aylesbury had cautioned them against proceed ing upon extravagant clamour and unfounded complaint. What did he consider unfounded complaint? Were the abuses of the Masters' offices matter of unfounded com plaint? There was a greatly mischievous system, and yet what was proposed to remedy it? Unless they corrected it, it was useless to increase the number of their judges. Let them see what was going on in the courts or law. In all his long experience of Westminster Hall, he had never known the courts there so devoid of business; the public found them too expensive, and the business was in consequence transferred to the county courts. But from what he had heard that night he expected little from this commission, and he trusted the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) would at tend to the suggestions of the Right Hon. Member for Co ventry, and superintend in his own person the accomplish ment of these great reforms which were needed. He wished, too, the Right Hon. Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) would act on the commission. The whole system should be reformed in a comprehensive manner, and not bit by bit. Sir J. GRAHAM, with reference to the allusion ma e by the Hon, Gentleman who last spoke as to his services, begged to say he was weary of inquiry. They had on this subject inquired much and done little. For two sessions he had devoted a large portion of his time, together with the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire, to the subject of Chancery reform, and the commission was, in addition to themselves, composed of some of the most distinguished lawyers in the House, as the Master of the Rolls, Sir lieorge Turner, the Honourable Member for Midhurst, and the Solicitor- General. They were perfectly unanimous in their report; they had exhausted the inquiry upon some very important subjects—namely, the payment by fees of the greater portion of the officers attached to the Court of Chancery. They went into west detail, and presented two reports, which, with the evidence and interrogatories, were before the House. These reports, too, contained detailed recommendations. Now, he had heard the speech of the Master of the Rolls with pleasure, indicating as it did an adherence to his desire to reform those courts; but he must also say that his final judgment smacked too much of his court ; for he said as to the Bill that they must wait. "Wait" was the ominous word. With the unanimous agreement that he had mentioned in their report, and with the facts before the House now two sessions, yet nothing had been done. — (Hear, hear.) He could not conceive a more fatal omen with respect to this Bill. This might appear only of minor impor tance; but still the Lord Chancellor was appointed on the distinct understanding that he should be subject to any regu lation Parliament might impose with respect to his staff of officers. They had reported against his having seven secre taries and a secretary in bankruptcy, yet these were still re tained ; they had repotted against the Lord Chancellor's two gentlemen-at-arms, who were paid by fees to the amount of 7501. a year each ; also against chaffwax and tape, yet these were all retained. He mentioned those things to show how fruitless were investigations and reports if there was not a spirit to act and improve in conformity with them. There was a passive, resistance in the Court of Chancery, which seemed somehow to overcome all attempts at reform. The Noble Lord at the head of the Administration could not reap greater favour by any act of energy t tan by giving effect, before the close of the session, to the recommendations w hich. they had proposed in these reports. Why should they not abolish the hour-warrants in the Masters' offices in this country, as Sir E. Sugden had done in Ireland when he held the office of Lord Chancellor there? The AT FORN EY•GENERAL—They are abolished. Sir J. GRAHAM. was not satisfied with the attendance given by the Masters in their offices; they came there later than the Judges and left earlier. He was sure that if the Government would set about it in earnest they would, in a very short time, wi h the entire approbation of both Houses of Parliament, with immense satisfaction to the public., and to their own infinite credit, easily make great, extensive, and most satisfactory reforms in the administration of justice in this country; and it was very painful to him to see how good au opportunity of effecting there reforms was at present being neglects f. Public opinion was ripe for the change; and the profession itself, if it understood its own interests, ought to be anxious to see the change carried into effect. There was nothing like a beginning in such matters; and some practi cal proof of their determination to do something was much wanted. _ . Lord J. RUSSELL said he was ready to admit that there were many reforms to be made in the Court of Chancery ; but at the same time he should say that there was no great encouragement to make those reforms when one found that the complaints remained the same after the reforms had been Wee ed. Now the complaint of the length of time occupied in Chancery suits had been in a great degree remeiied by the appointment of additional judges. There had during the last six years been more than one occasion on which it appeared that there had been no further appeals to be heard in the court. It was true that there were con siderable arrears at the present moment; but it was also true that the court was now in a far better condition than that in which it had been placed fifteen or twenty years age. His Right Hon. Friend the Member for Ripon had ex pressed his surprise that the hour-warrants should be allowed to go on at the present day. But the fact was, that more than a year ago orders had been issued, under the directions of the late Lord Cottenbam and of the late Lord Langdale, by which a great change had been effected in the system of hour-warrants. He be lieved that the hour-warrants' had been replaced by a much less obj-ctionable mode of proceeding. He should, i however, observe that with respect to such a very compli cated system of property as that which prevailed in his country, it might not be easy to conform to the doctrine that they ought not to inquire but to act. The difficulty was, , tow to act in the right direction. He believed there never was a country in which there had prevailed such a compli cated system of property, and such complex relations con nected with laud, and with titles to every description of pro perty in the most distant parts of the world, as that which prevailed in these kingdoms. If he were asked why he did nut attempt at once to resolve all the difficulties of tne ques tion, he should ask in his return how it would be possible to explain the whole Newtonian theory in a few words. There I was frequently great difficulty in dealing with the ace rants which were brought before the Cain of Chancery. The accounts in the War-office and in the Navy-office were kept upon a uuiform and intelligible system; and if Parliament bad provided thirty years ago that the accounts of merchants should be kept iu a similar manner the duties of the Court of Chancery would have been considerably lessened. But if a number of partners in a mercantile establishment had ' kept their accounts for a reriod of thirty years in a manner so confused that they were at length obliged to come befoie the Court of Chancery to decide on their lights, that Court I would necessarily have a most troublesome and onerous i task to perform. At the same time he should confess that it seemed to him there was no part of the business of the Court of Chancery which so obviously required amendment as the mode of dealing with complicated accounts; in his opinion such questions ought to be de cided on the principles which usually regulated the dealings ' of mercantile men, and the duty to be entrusted to the Lord Chancellor and to the Masters in such matters ought to be merely to decide upon points of law and upon titles. With respect to the question of fees he had to state that he be lieved the Lord Chancellor was fully sensible of the necessity of effecting a change in that respect; and the fact was, that he had already abolished fees to the amount of 20,0001. a year. He had to observe, in respect to the °tree of chaff wax, that that office had, he believed, been already abolished. It was true that some reductions might be made in the seven secretaries of the Lord Chancellor; but it should be remembered that the Lord Chancellor was at the head of a great department, and that he should naturally have some assistants to aid him in carrying on the business of that department. With regard to the proposal that gentle men not members of the legal profession should be placed on the commission, he had to state, that he had no objection to adopt that proposal; but he should add, that he believed it would be impossible for thoss gentlemen to get an insight into the technical details of the profession without devoting very considerable attention to the subject. Let the commis sion make its report, and if next year the should be able to effect any important reforms through the labours of that ' commission, he believed they would have reason to congra tulate themselves on the fact that they had been able to deal effectually with a matter which two centuries ago had baffled the genius and the sturdy will of Oliver Cromwell. After a few words from Mr. J. STUART, the motion was agreed to. The report on the Court of Chancery and Judicial Com mittee Annuity) Bill was agreed to. Mr. FRE WEN moved the secondleading of the Seques tration of Benefices Bill. Sir G. GREY said he had heard no reason for the adoption of that measure, and he should, therefore, move that it be read a second time that day six months. Mr. FRE WEN said that the hill was framed for the removal of what he thought was an admitted evil. He felt that he had reason to complain of the conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet in the matter, and he wished to give notice that he would for the rernafiver of the session oppose any measure brought forward by the Government atter 'twelve o'clock at night. The gallery was then cleared for a division, but none took place, the Bill (as we understood) having been rejected without u division. Tne other business was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Ten minutes to One o'clock. REPRESENTATION OF AYRSHIRE.—Mr. Alexander Oswald, the sitting Member for Ayrshire has addressed a letter to the electors of that county, stating that he does not intend to offer himself as a candidate at the next general election. Rderring to his past Parliamentary conduct, he status that he sees nothing to regret in his `vote in support of free trade, nor in the opposition which he gives to the Eccle siastical Titles Bill.— Edinburgh Witness. -~~'' <., EVENING, SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NE WCASTLE-ON-TYNE.—THURSDAY. The Gateshead or Lottery Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., with 50 added ; for three yrs old cults, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 41b; the second to save his stake. Two miles. (14 Subs ) Mr. H. Stebhing's the Cutler-- r ord Eglinton's Pandemus ( Marlow) 2 Mr. 11. Tetnpleman's Nan Darrell f Captain Tisrcourt's Colsterdale Betting. • 6 to 4 agst Colsterdale, 7 to 4 agst The Cutler, 5 to 2 agst Pandemus, and 6 to 1 agst the Duals filly. Pandemus made the running to the distance; The Cutler then challenged, and after a fine race won by a head; the same betwesn second and third, and Celsterdale only a length behind them. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sm. each, p p., with 50 added; 3 yrs old, Est 10ib ; 4 yrs, Fst 51h; 5 yrs, 9st; 6 yrs and aged, Oct 31b; mares and geldtngs allowed 31b. From the new Mile Post, once round. (14 Subs.) Mr. Wrather's Maid of Atasham, 6 yrs (G. Abdale) 1 Lord Stanley's Uriel, 5 yrs (J. Marlon) 2 Betting-5 to 4on Maid of Masharn, who took the lead at starting, was never headed, and won cleverly by a length. The Grand Stand Stakes of 10 sous. each, 5 ft, w ith 50 added ; for two yrs old, 6st 121 b ; three yrs, Bst 121 b ; fi:lies and geldings allowed Clbs; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. .(i1 Subs.) Mr. G. White's Snowdrop, 2 yrs Mr. A. Nichol's Miss Sarah, 2 yrs ......... (Charlton) 2 Mr. Chilton's Liberty. 2 yrs... .... (J. Osborne) 3 Mr. Carter's Farmer's Boy; 2 yrs (G. Oate) 4 Mr. H. Walter's Fora Macdonald, 2 yrs (Wells) 5 Betting-6 to 4on Sliss Sarah, 2to 1 agst Farmer's Boy, and 4 to I agat the others. The running was made by Flora Macdonald and the Far mer's Boy till about half a distance from home, where Miss Sarah took it up; and carried it on till within a stride or tw. of the chair, but was beaten on the post, after an excellent race by a neck. The Members' Plate of 50 sovs., added to a Handicap of 10 soya. each, 5 ft; the second to save his stake. From the Newcastle Turn in. (15 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Oxford Blue, 4 yrs, 6st slb (J. Osborne) 1 Mr. R. Barrow's Abdallah, 4 yrs, Est 51b (Hammond) 2 Mr. H. Stebbing's The Cutler,3 yre, sst 121b...(Hayhoe) 3 Lord Eglinton's Belus, 5 yrs. 7st 61b ... (J. Sharpe) 4 Mr. H. Walters's Maid of Team Valley, Bst (M. Noble) 5 Mr. G. Barton's Madame Wharton, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Wells) 6 Betting-6 to 4 agst Oxford Blue, 2to 1 agst Abdallah, 3 to 1 agst Belus, 3 to 1 agst The Cutler, and 4 to 1 agst each of the others. fhe Cutler, Bettis, and Abdallah ran nearly abreast across the flat, and up to the distance-post, where Oxford Blue went in front, and after a capital race won by a neck. The Innkeepers' Speculation Plate of 20 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 soya. each, the second to receive 10 soya.; three yrs old, Tat 10lb ; four, 9st; five, 9st 71b; six and aged, 9st 101 b; mares and geldings allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 200 soya, tic. Heats, from the New castle Turn in. (6 Subs.) Mr. White's Clara, aged-251. (Charlton) 5 1 1 Mr. Pedley's Fifty-three, 2 yrs-25/. ...(Aspinall) 1 2 5 Mr. Weatherell's Lady I-am-off, 6 yrs 25/.(lrvine) 3 4 3 Mr. Faucus's Reversion, 5 yrs-50/. (Livesey) 2 3 3 Mr. Thrift's Fleur-de-Seine, 6 yrs-501. (G. Oates) 6 5 4 Mr. Gaman's Coola, 6 yrs 25/. (J. Osborne) 4 dr SALISBURY RACES.—FRIDAY. The Wilton Park Stakes of 10 soya. each, and 50 added; for two years old, colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, 8s 31b; winners extra. T.Y.C. (13 Subs ) Mr. E. Cooper's Julien, Bsl 71b (R. Sly) 1 Sir J. B. Min.'s Aitchbone, Bst 71b Mr. Hayter's Tested. Bst 71b... ...... . (W. Day) 3 Mr. Arnold's cby St. Francis, Bst 71b (W. Maton) 4 Betting-6 to 4on •Tulien (t), 2to 1 agat Tested. Won cleverly by a neck, a length between second and third. The Queen a Plate of 100 guineas • 'three years 01.1, Bst 2lb ; four, 9st 61b; five, lOst; six and aged, lOst 31b. Three miles. Mr. Campbell's Woolwich, 5 yrs. lOst (Hiett) 1 Mr. J. Arnold's Pitsford, 4 yrs, 9st 61b..... ... Mr. Farrance's cby Cardinal Puff, 3 yrs, 83t 21b (W. Day) 3 Batting Even on Woolwich, sto 4 agst Pusford. Won cleverly by a length. The C .unty Members' Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sows. each. One mile and three-quarters. (5 Subs.) Mr. Herbert's Letter-press, 3 yrs, 7st 31b...(W. Harlock) 1 Mr. Waring's Manifold. 4 yrs, Bst 31b Mr. H. Robin-on's Confidence, 4 11 yrs, Bst 71b (W. Day) 3 Mr. Evans's Mr. Toots, 5 yrs, Bst 10lb (Delamore) 4 Even on Confidence, and 2 to 1 agst Letter-press. Won by a length. The South-Western Railway Stakes of 5 soy& each, and 25 added. Heats, one mile. (7 Subs.) Mr. S. Herbert's c by Sir Hercules, out of Adele, 3 yrs, Bst 61b Mr. Stollard's Woodsprite, 4 yrs, 9st 4lb (Maton) 1 4 2 Mr. King's Bryce Snailsfoot, 5 yrs ... (Benskin) 3 3 3 Mr. Shrimpton's Arlette, 4 yrs, 9st 41b ... (Burns) 0 2 dr Mr. Wilkin's Ima, aged, lOst 21b ..... (Carlisle) odr The first heat was won by a neck, the second by a length, and the third by two lengths. IPSWICH RACES.—FRIDAY. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, 2 miles. Mr. Rayner's Presto, 3 yrs, 7st 51b (Pettit) 2 1 1 Mr. Higgins's Theseus, 3 yrs, 7st slb I 2 dr Mr. Berkeley's c out of Mrs. Bull, 3 yrs, 7st 51b The Town Members' Plate of 501. Heats. Mr. Sare's ch fby Pantaloon out of Virago, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. S. Roger's na Belissima, 4 yrs ... 2 2 Mr. Bird's Mrs. Taft, 6 yrs ... 3 3 Mrs. Smith's Drakelowe, 5 yrs 4 dr Mr. Roger's Jubilee, 3 yrs Mr. Vincent na Ethereal, 4 yrs dis The Hurdle Race, two miles, was won in 2 heats by Mr. Land's General (owner), beating Mr. Sait's Urania, aged, and Mr. Abel's Slashing Jack, 5 yrs. The Closing Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 10 added, won in 2 heats. by Mr. Abel's Slashing Jack, 5 yrs, beating Mr. Sait's Urania and Mr. Roger's Present. ~`~'~-~. _~° #1 "*. Y 4 gfr, • 4. JUNE 9_ 8 OMCKET THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND V. THE GENTLE MEN OF RUGBY SCHOOL.—This annual match was played on Thursday at Lord's, and went to show that cricket has by no means been neglected this year at that celebrated educa tional spot. The final score stood thus; —Rugby —Pint innings, 101; second ditto, 133. M. C. C. and Ground, 69. It being a one day's match, Rugby won by 32 runs upon the lirst innings. The M. C. C., however, played weak._ THE SURREY CLUB AND GROUND TCMITOIIAM —ThiS is one of the matches which the committee of the " Surrey Club" will this year play in their county for the purpose of encouraging the practice of cricket in Surrey. Upon the present occasion it turned out that the committee sent down too strong a team. It may not be so, however, even though precisely the eleven should play them the return match at the Oval. At the conclusion of the match, after two days' play, on Friday evening the Surrey Club won by 161 rues. The following is the score :—Surrey Club-Ist innings, 129; 2d ditto, 159. Mitcham-Ist innings, 71; 2d ditto, 56. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. ENTRIES FOR THE QUEEN'S CUP. The following is a list of en•riesfor the above Cup, value 100 guineas, to be sailed for on Wednesday next, and which closed last night Name. Tons. Owner. Phantom Cygnet .. 35 ........ H. Lambton, Esq. Secret blusquito ....... Whisper Heroine Arrow .... ..... ..... 84 Volante It is to be a time match, half a minute being allowed. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WES TERN. The traffic on this railway for the first three days of the present week amounted to 10,2551., and for the cor responding days of 1850 to 6,0171., showing an increase of 4,2381., or 41'3 per cent. The receipts on Monday amounted to 3,6751., on Tuesday to 3,4921., and on Wed nesday to 3,0881., as against 2,009/ , 2,0501., and 1.958/. It is supposed that a considerable amount of this increase is due to excursion trains and the Exhibition. TRAFFIC. The aggregate timaffic on railways in the United Kingdom, publibbed weekly from the Ist of January to the 21st of JUDE., inclusive, amounted to 6 253,644/. ; corresponding period of 1850, to 5,557,306/. ; corresponding period of 1849, to 4.890,494/. ; and in 1848, to 4,345,3771., showing l i an increase in 1851 over the corresponding period of 1850 of 696,3381, an increase in 1850 over the corre sponding period of 1849 of 666,8121., and in 1849 over the same period of 1848 of 545.117/ Toe average length of railway over which the traffic was carried dur ing tho,o periods was—in 1851, 6,292 miles; in 1850, 5,384 miles; in 1849, 4,586 miles; and in 1848, 3,661 mile. The traffic receipts fur the above period averaged, in 1851, 9941. per mile; in 1850, 1,031/. per mile; in 1849, 1,065/. per mile; and in 1848 they averaged 1.184/. per mile. The traffic receipts on railways during the past week, ending June 21, amounted 307,544/, being at the rate of 49/. per mile per week, and exceed ing by 42,1871.• the receipts of the corresponding week in 1850. The gross receipts of eight railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted to 159,6391 for the week ending the 21at of June, and for the corresponding week of last year to 128,2471, showing an increase of 31,392/. The increase on the Eastern Counties amounted to 6481., on the Great Western to 5,8791., on the Great Nortkern to 8 2401. (chiefly in consequence of the line being in operation between London and Peterborough, which was not . the case at the corresponding period of last year), on the London, Brighton, and. South Coast to 164/., on the London and Blackwell to 264/, on the London and North Western, to 11,0241., on the South- Western to 1,9241, and on the South-Eastern to 3,2491., making the total increase, as above, 31,3921, being about 74 per cent. of the total increase of traffic on rail ways in the United Kingdom. SOUTH-EASTERN. The number of passengers on this line to and from the London-bridge terminus on Thursday, June 26, was 15,540—namely, 7,579 to London, and 7,961 from London. EASTERN COUNTIES. The number of passengers conveyed on this railway to and from the London terminus on Monday, the 23d of Jane, was 16,125—namely, 12,372 to London, and 3,753 from London; and on Tuesday, the 24th of June, the number conveyed was ' 11,166 —namely 7,300 to London, and 3,868 from London. LLTNVI VALLEY RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, in Mr. Bernal's Committee, the Bill of this company for juncr ion with, and power to sell or lease to the South Wales Rail way, was declared proved. MANOIDSTER, BUXTON, AND MIDLAND RAIL.. WAY.—In Mr. Bernal's committee this company's bill for completion and purchase of Cromford Canal was declared proved. RAILWAY FACILITIES EMI CONVZYANCR cr Yesterday, in the Committee of the House of Lords on th e Bill of th e Great Northern Railway Company f or communi cation with Grimsby Harbour, an extensive dealer in the London Fish market stated, that by means of the railway communication between London and Grimsby, he had re ceived 8,000 lobsters that morning, and sold them for the s ply of the metropolis, the cargo leaving Grimsby at eight r.M. and arriving in London at four A.m. THE Finn AT LONDON -BRIDGE.—Mr. Payne, the coroner for Southwark, considering that the opinion ex pressed in Common Council on Th urs d a y "authorises him to do so, has issued a warrant for holding an inquest to inquire into the cause of the fire at Lond on -bridge, on Monday next, the 30th inst., at eleven o'clock. , - 7's .T~~ f -'. ,~,a. - -- 1851. THE CRYSTAL PALACE. (From the Times.) Mr. Paxton, wi.h all the ((clings of a parent, h as come to the rescue of the Crystal Palace in thia crises of its fate. Startieg from a somewhat different direction, and redolent of Chatsworth, he proposes an application of the building substantiantially the same as that advo cated by " D narius." Pe , hups the latter dwells a little more nu the fine arts, on fetes, and other miscellaneous uses of a recondite or popular character, while Mr. Pax ton has chi. fly in his eye those purposes to which the gardens and coniervateries of our aristocracy or of the nation have hitherto been app ied. Put together Chatsworth and Kew, the Botanic and Z tologic al Gardens in Regent's-park, the Jardie des Plantes, the subterranean orangery at Versailles, and the cloisters of the convent, and the aggregate will al most make up what Mr. Paxton would give ns in Hyde park. Another suggestion is made in both pamphlets, but more expressly in the oce than in the other. " De naritla " would let into the building the gay chivalry of the park, only making them pay a heavy toll. Mr. Paxton is also prepared for their admission. We have our doubts on this point. Such a feature, to the extent that would be exp-c:ed in the Crystal Palace, would not be so convenient to the equestriaa as it would he inconvenient to the pedestriaricrowd. It et ould he a pity t r sacrifice the nave to so extraneous a pur pose; the larger aisles are broktin by staircases, Slid the smaller would not t , a'i,fy the mounted interest. There are comparatively few days during the London season in which Rotten-row is not available. A riding-school ought to have a circuit, so as to ;admit of a gallop. On the whole, the butane° is against the plan, at least es fir as we can ?lOW 890 our way, and Mr. Paxton has wisely • said little about it. Eighteco acres of ensure oround under cover is a thing to be appreciated by country people quite as much as by Londouers, and by folk. by CityW e shall beet expr ess Belgravians quite as much as our estimetion of the idea when we say, that should it be realized, we shall seriously recumtnend our country friends to come up in the winter for the benefit of the air. Iu the greater part of this beautiful island it is scarcely. possible for delicate ladies and children to get exercise fur the greater part of the year. Ono day it snows, another deY it blows; it rains, or it burns; it is dirty, or it i s dusty, or otherwise intolerable. For the stronger sex, indeed, and for such ladies as can and will claim its privilege s, we hold with Charles 11. that there is not a day in the year in which one cannot take a walk out of doors. But our ladies aro not made for rough weather. Their dress is not compact or weather-preof; it is soon drenched by the rain, draggled by the mud, faded by the hest, or loaded with the dust. The female complexion is soon freckled by the sun, parched by the frost, or roughened by that violent degree of exercise which is necessary to keep the blood flowing in our usual winter weather. The ground underfoot is generally so rough or de wet that uisleot a lady could put on her husband's boot a, and unless she can afford new shoes for her little girls once a fortnight, that alone is a serious obstacle to walking. The commonalty of this metropolis, who, it they have not always the purest air in the world, have hundreds of miles of pavement to walk on, and hundreds of miles of houses to protect them from the blast, with doorways and omnibuses in the event of rain, little know how difficult it is to manage a " con stitutional" walk daily in the country. The father of the family, healt,hy hinsseli, and full of sanitary thoughts, asks day after day, at dinner, whether Mary and Bessey have bad their walk, and is almost as often met with some allegation of skyey influence or elemental attire. We assure Lou (loners, then, that if they.can get what is proposed ta 04 in the cast-off shell of. the Great Exhibition, they will be better off, so tar. than most country people—that re, nountry people so genteel auto care fur complexions and dirt. The omnibus, returned by that time to threepence, will take the children from any part of this metropolis to the Crystal Palace, where they will be abie to walk, or to play, or to sit, for a couple of hours, among as beautiful shrubberies, and floweta, and fountains, and lakes, and rockeries, and streams, and statues, and other ornaments and curiosities of nature sad art, as money and taste can bring together. The daughters of the squire or the rector on the fat soil of the tens will have reason to envy the privilege. It is not a little remarkable that the idea which these ingenious and hitherto most successful projectors have chiefly to fight against is that which seems inseparable from their plans. That Use Crystal Palace is a colossal greeithouse, or blue-house" as somebody has called it, is as much a condemnation as it is a fact. But the English idea of a greenhouse is derived from the familiar domestic example, which is a square lean-to, built! against a garden wall, or the side of a house ; with rows of flower-pots rising above one another, with a stone pavement always damp, with sliding sashes that always stick, with small panes always leaking at the sides and foul at the joints, with a warming apparatus always out of order; the plantB always infested with vermin, the atmosphere always an invisible steam, and the whole fabric operating as a Still, of which the adjoining apartment is the damp and unwholesome condenser. That is the greenhouse, and when a set of horticultural enthusiasts propose to send the population of London to take the air in a greenhouse, popular prejudice will be apt to think that any open suburb, be it tnly Kennington. common, will do better for the purpose. 31r. Paxton, as well as Deriarius," meets this prejudice boldly and successfully. lie talks of the old tropical conservatoties, and even of the palm-house at Kew, as a piece that an Englishman runs through without stopping. lie is confident of a sys tem of warming and ventilation which will secure what climate we please; southern Italy for gentle prumesaiers in winter, end the east wind; a specimen of the tropics, if necessary, and tine bracing sir for those who can walk 'quick, but do not like muddy boots or wet clothes. For the present boarding round the lower tier of tee building he proposes to substitute glass, which he says will immediately and marvellously improve the appear ance of the building, and do morn justice to its architec tural design. This glass he would remove in summer, leaving nothing but a vast root hangieg over green swatd end shrubbery. fine pillars he would clothe with creepers. Our Parisian neiga bouts have usurped—we had almost said spoilt—the tire of Champs Elysies; nor is the English taste quite so ambitious; but the ex ample of our own puthe gardens, and of.those at Paris, shows to how many instructive and recreative purposes a garden may be applied. No place so suitable fur bo tauicat, mineralogical, and ornithological collections. As for ornament, with perhaps the exception of the organs and the silks, there is not an object in the whole of the present nave which might not remain with safety, it there were the funds for its purchase. 'We will volunteer a hint of our own, not because we have any wish to see it adopted, but merely to show the capabilities of such a winter gamete At least it quarter of the British. Museum is occupied with stuffed birds and beasts, and other physiological collmiens. Would they not be much better placed, besides setting at liberty a great deal of va•usble space, in the Crystal Palace? In these days no pre ject is complete without a finan cial 'statement. Mr. Paxton, like " Denarius," gives us an estimate of expenditure, but leaves others to ce cafe whether it shall be met by a national grant, or by making the building self-supporting. lie has apps.- parently set his heart on presenting the Crystal Palace tree to all nations, leaving pence for the door at St. Paul's: We are afraid that the " self-supporting" system is that which suits us the best. It is the self-tupporting system that has made the Zoolo gical Gardens and the Great Exhibition what they are. If the Winter Garden is to answer, let it be sell-supportiog. The moderate tariff proposed by o De nariu," which will give every one the run of the build ing four days in the week, winter and summer, for a penny arch admission, will raise enough for all neces sary purposes. If. the expenses of continual repair are likely to be considerable, they admit of bid, g readily calculated. It is easy to estimate an annual avt rtsge of panes to be replaced or new puttied, a saJa bars to be renewed, of gutters to be new painted or lined, of new calico, and all the other expenses. There is here no incalculable element—no . massive walls gradu ally settling into the quicksands below, no subaqueous piers, tie sculptured walls mouldering under the wear and tear of the elements. Everythieg here is comprised in the books of prices, and when " Denarius" and ler. Paxton estimate the substantial maintenance of the build ing, the former at 5,5001. a year, the latter at 4,0001,, we have no doubt that they aro speaking within compass, the slitsht difference in their estimates arising only from variety as to the items included. TUE SHAKESPERE SOCIETY.—A very :curious and valuable discovery has recently been made among the papers and evidence of the Mostyn family. It is an original play of the time of Shakespere, even the title of which has not bitheAo been recorded ; and it has been with the utmost liberality placed by the owner in the hands of Mr. Payne Collier, the director of the Shakespere Society, for imme diate publication by that body. The story is a very remark able one, of a highly popular character, and it relates very much to the achievements of two magicians of the middle ages, to promote or lo defeat the marriage of the daughter of one of the Earls of Chester with a Prince of Wales. The drama is enti• ely in the handwriting of the author, Anthony Munday, who subscribes the manuscript, and who w as o , e of the most notorious dramatists contemporary with bhak spere, Ben Jonson, Massinger, &c. . METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OP SEWERs.—An adjourned Court of Sewers was held yesterday at their offices, 1 Greek-street, Soho; Lord Ebriugton in the chair. The following were the Commissioners present- captain Dawson, Messrs. Bendel!, Lawes, P. Hard w i c k, an d Thomas Hawes. Among the works ordered were the following Works at Swain's-lane, Highgate, 442/ for laying down 1,015 feet of 18-inch, 30 feet of 12-inch, and . 60 feet of 9-inch pipes in George-row, Bermondsey district, 2701.3 3 fo i r s, con structing 750 feet of sew er , 3 feet 9 inches by 2 feet in King's-road, St. Pan cras di strict, 337 1. inches, in ; constructing 785 feet of sewer, 3 feet 9 inches by 2 feet 3 inches, in the • Seven Sister's-road, H olloway d is trict, 3701•; mounting- Ordnance maps, Lv i ltl4/., &c. Rates were made on the reen wich, Richmo n d, and A .,,,, ens b o urne trds; and certain parties sum mone d to appear h a ving bedeiisihe,rd, the Court separated. —On the arrival o f the m Ail HOLY READ, JuNa A O . - K • ), Davis, from Kings own, packet St. Colombo ( Thetis, Fell, of about 12t:, A.m., she r a s n te i • she lia,l come to anchor a Runcorn , anmtoerttie schooner and for Yarmouth, fr om fthepier head, right in the steamer's little to north-west o f t p She almi , st immediately fi led tr leir, and I tad no lii, i U. and went down, only s- her top.. rt n, qts and yards are t o b e seenab ov e water; Paved c rew wa s delayed a little, is consequence of come damage to her paddles. NnVERTIsE MENT.]—lTollow ay's pins, an excel [' lent Remedy for Coughs, Colds, Pulm onar y C om pl a i n t s , and , o ther litsea%es of the Chest.—Mr. J. C. Rheinhardt, chemist, of Hull, states th at Mr. Stinger, formerly of the Hull glass works, was pronot 'need to be so far gone in consumption that the medical men had given him up as incurable. On seeing Holloivay's Pills advertised, he thought he would give them a trial, anti after taking a few boxes his cough abate,l, his flesh I became firm, his app . et te improved, and now his health is cow p letely restored. Th is admirabl e me di c i ne i s a certa i n reme dy for the most obstinate cases of asthma, old ;toughs, recent colds, and all diseases of the chest and lungs.- Sold by all druggists, and at Professor 1 - 1.0110 way's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. • s'; **jS f,. .~ . _ ~.r. {..~ .` NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Ciptaiii G orge Ro •ney Mundy has been appointed flag captain to Vice-Admiral the Hon. J. Percy, C. 8., at Sheerceis. It is understood that Mr. Smith, the se cretal to the ex-Commander-in•Chief, will remain as secretary. The London, 92. will sup •rsedo the Oce•in on the Ist of July as the flag-ship; the . Ocean will be paid cii on the 30th inst. CAp sin Chad, C. 13., pays off the Excellent at Porta ! mouth, on the 30th inst.. and on the Ist of July corn naisiocs her with the same eqmplement. C , rnmander Sir W. S. ‘Viscitnan, Bart., CominiinclvrJerningham, and all the heutenants and other officers will be re-appointed. The anniversary of her Majesty's coronation will be kept by the dockyard to day; the public offiters will have th e i r usual holiday, but the Portsmouth people will keep holiday on Monday next, Saturday being the mar ket-day. Th e s h ips an d troops w ill fi re the customary salute at noon. _ . . Clerk—John J. Stevens has been appoint(' d to the Prince fl gent, 92, at Lisbon. master's Assis ten t—lienry C. Sednion to the Tharre-g.. ushle, ti7g-ship, Devour),,, t. Carpenter—William Greensell, of the Arrogant, to be acting:. Adder steam tender, with seamen paid off from th e W64leeley, at Ch3th:an, arrived :At lXvouport on Wed. nesd.q, took in coole, and sailed gin on Thursday, on her return. Avon steam-tender, which sailed w i s h seamen and marines paid r ff :rem the calcdonit. on Tuesday evening, returned to Devonport on '‘r.ursclay morning. Sidon stemn-tricatc. Commander. Gardner was taken into dock on Thursday, and h er copper where t h e .. b eg " could not toucli•was very much covered with weeds. Slte • V`fas scrubbed and taken cut the following tide. She and the REAribuVon go out of harbour at ten o'el, ck, and will probably proceed on to .Cork. with out anchoring at Spithead. Our . correspondent says— .. Sir Ch , irea Yipif,r has (i understand) the B ee steamer, Second Master-Commander Alfred Astessum. placed at his disposal; for he will probably go outride the Nab in the Sidon, and return bwk in the Bee, lie has been inspecting his pet ship, and is no doubt glad to ace her in commtssion. She will teat the Retribution in every and by herself would .ke the pa ssage out inl y ; four or five nr days less than the latter ungainly vessel, as she is of great horse power and less tonnage; but they wid be obliged to keep company, so as to be able to assist each other in case of breaking down." Vengeance, 84, Csptain Lord Edward Russell, exer cised tiring live sheds and shot at a target on Wednes "Y 1 4. t, and yesterday was exercising her large guns With blank cartridge. She has practised firing salvos of eight guns at a time at fixed intervals, &c. The Portsmouth Dockyard Boat Brigade, under com mand of Major Davis, master attendant of the Clarence yard, have het n exercised in gunnery practice several evenings during the week, firing blank cartridges. THE NE vlThir — WE ttlf STEAM SHIP, THE BARON 03Y. Yesterday this splendid iron Ntoam-ship, recently launched, went down the River on her trial trip, for the purpose of testing her speed and capabilities. The vessel, gaily decorated with the flags of Belgium and England, started from her moorings, off Blackvvall, precisely at half-past twelve o'clock with a large and distinguished party of visitors on hoard, among whom were Lord Ber riedale, Sir James Hamilton, Mr. and Miss Pratt, Mr. Lawrell, M. Fleury, Belgian Minister of the Extereur, and daughter; Mrs. Dalvey anti Miss Gilbert, Captain and Mrs. Lichfi, Id, Mr. Scott Russell, Mr. Robin son, the Baron Paradteini, Mr an d M rs . Li g h t l y, Captain and Mrs. Cochlan, M. Clem , nts, the Chevalier Schultz, Dr. end Mrs. Payne, the Consul of Monte Video and lady. Mrs. Townsend and niece, Dr. and Mrs. Row cliffs, &c. The Baron Osy is about 600 tons burden, and has engines of 220 horse-power. She belongs to the Ant werp Steam-packet Company, and is intended to ply between London and Antwerp, and from her superior speed and peculiar build, it is iully anticipated that she would make the trip between the two ports in 14 or 15 hours—leaving London in the afternoon, and arriving is Antwerp early the next morning —so as to enable tra vellers to reach Cologne, on the Rhine, the same night. The saloons and sleeping berths are fitted up with great elegance and taste, the prevailing colours being those employed in the decoration of the Exhibition batwing in Hyde-park, by Mr. Owen Jones—namely, white, blue. and yellow. The main saloon will di ne w i t h ease 150 passengers, and the number of berths is proportionally large. When going at full speed her time, as taken by a person on board employed for the purpose, was said to be 15 2-3 knots an hour. Her motion is extremely easy, and we have no doubt she will fully maintain the reputation of the enterprising company to which she belongs. A very elegant dejeuner was provided on board fot the guests, who amounted to upwards of 200, and " roe health of the gallant Captain Jackson, and success to the new steam-ship the Baron Osy," was drunk in flowing bumpers of champagne. There was a quadrille band on board, which contributed much to the pleasure and en joyment of the trip, and tempted many of the visitors to take part in the quadrilles, polkas, &c., which beguiled the short interval baween the termination of the enter tainment and the arrival of the vessel at Blackwall. Captain Jackson, the commander, was unremitting in his attention to the comforts of his numerous guests during the day, which Wa's one of unmixed *atom and gratification to all who were present. _ . SEABORNE MAILS. [N stimines that the mails are sent from the General Post-ofilei by the nlaht —and 41 by the morning--4lspatch.) When made up in From what PLACES. General Pout-office port die- London. patched. due. America (by Brit. pla.)N July 4 !Liverpool .. July. 5 America (by U.S. pkt.) N July 1 !Liverpool July 2 America (by US. pkt.) M July 2 .. ISouthampt. Arrived Atriea (Wvit coast).. N 114th of the month Plymouth July 3 Alexandria* • • ...... N 19th & 30th of .. June 2$ Belgium . • .. .. Ni Daily I t +over .. Daily. Brazil . &i 9th of the month Southampt. July 12 Buenos Ayres .. M 19th of the month Southampt. July 12 Califoruia(viaCharres) M I hi & 17th of monti Southampt. July 5 Cape of Good Hope 11!14th of month Plymouth.. Ju y 8 Constantinople* .. • • Nl7th 17th 77th of mo Dover .. une 30 Central America .. bii2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. July 5 Channel Isles • • .. N I Sion., Wed., & Fri. Southampt. Tu. TtaS a AI 17th of the month Southampt. July 70 France & N Twice daily .. .. Dover • • Twicedaily Greece* • • .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover • • June 30 Ilamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. Uolland M Wednes. & Satur. London .. Mek.Thur Honduras .. N,l7th of the mouth Southampt. July 20 Ireland .. & NiTwice daily.. Holyhead.. Iwicedidly India (via Southamp.) M 20th of the month Southampt . July 43 India (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th efmonth'Dover .. July 1 Mediterranean (via Southampton) f•Aa. .. M.2oth of the month Sonth am pt. July 21 Chili . Ai 17th of the month Southampt. France 51 & N Twice daily .. .. Dover Greece* . • .. N 7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London .. Holland .. 31 Wednes. & Satur. London .. Honduras .. N,17 th of the month Southampt. Ireland .. Id & NiTwice daily Holyhead .. India (via Southamp.) 31 20th of the month S outhampt. India (vi Al arsenics) N 7th& 24th efmonth' Dover Mediterranean (via Southampton) • • M.2oth of the month S on th amp t . Mediterranean (via Marseilles) N 7that 24th of month Dover • • Mexico .. M2d of the month.. Southampt. Madeira • • • • .. M 9th of the month Southauipt. 2z, C 7th,17th,19th,27th 2Dover & 30th of month Napless •• • • N sth 15th 25th of rno Dover • • Papal States' N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. Peninsular.. M 7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. Peru • • • • .. .. At 17th of the month southamnt. Tuscany* N s th 1 r,th 25th ofmoDover West Indies M 17th of the month I Southampt.l. West Indies (except I Havanna & Nassau) M2d of the month .. ISonthasapt. (July $ * The mails to those countries thus marked (*) are conveyed bit French pack.-t Marseilles Cimmertia.— Mails to and from California, via the United States are now despatched and due by every American packet. (July 1 (July 5 July 12 June 25 Malta* (July July 2 July 05 July 20 July 2 (July 20 RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETU 'NS FOR THE PAST WEEK. -.: -~._, Miles NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. opened, 1851. 1851. 1861. BRITISH. .----- 72 Aberdeen .. •..... .. ••• •-• ...• ••••• • • • • 41,32 9 11,669 37% Belfast and Ballymena •••••••• • • • • .. 574 679 17 Belfast and County Down • . • ......... 216 240 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,176 1,690 27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York. .. .. 4.14 931 85% Bristol and Exeter • • .... • • ...• ••• • .. 4,24, 5,334 160 Ca1ed0nian............. ............ 16 ,0 71 6,678. 94% Chester and 'Holyhead. • • ........., „ 4,332 3,8Z13 49 Dublin and Belfast Junction ...... „, 2,7 423 53 Dublin and Drogheda."... ......... , 91 986 943 6 Dublin and Kingstown . .......... ... 1, 076 ,„ 16% Dundee and Arbroath .... ........., 457 Zg 31 Dundee, Perth, and Ab er d een Junction blij 19 Dundalk and Enniskillen ............ 8 1 2 , • 7 17 e ° 3 67% .Y.:ast Anglian..... •• • .... • .... ..... • 3,237 4,157 79 East Lancashire..,. .... , ..... 16,480 17,12% .... 332 I•:astern Counties arid Noriblk.• ••• • '• 2,460 2.404 95 Eastern Union .......• •••• • • • ....... 3,033 3.635 116% Edinburgh a n d G lasgow •••••• •• • • - 2,309 2,167 71 'li'dinburgh, Perth, and Dundee• ••• • • 441 471 18 Furness Railway •••••••.• •• • • • • • • 2,756 3,812 4 2 127 3 2 6 1 'G G 4II Great Northern :. ,andPaisley,S ° andlll,2ll 1,471 t hallEl(les 1 leee. r n. n. ( e: 1; . e . 1 a . n . d ") 3 4,3 38 7 2 1 1 4 1 :8 6 2 2 7 3 188 Great Southern Wes tern a nd d l9,oos 24.664 .. ..... .......... 262% Great Western • • .•„, e 15 1: 047 5 16 1: 5 26 2 6 2 3,571 5,056 9 0 • Lancaster and 260 Lancashire an 39 Leeds and r c h ro ir s s by, and Southport.... 209 675 12% Liverpool , North Western ..• ..... 47,9117 59,011 k Y al o?ksn n- . .. i . r . e.. :.. • .. 1,214 1,475 Brighton, and South Coast., 12,374 12,635 173 w London, A and South We5tern......... 14,032 15,956 e Lond on 23-• Londonderry and Enniskillen ...... „ 187 195 15 51814% Lo.L°nliddo'nn and Blackwall.. hesicr, Buxton, and Matlock, &c. 162 139 I ' 34 ., 3 ja an e c hester, Shelf cid, and Lincolnshire 6,024 6,921 495 554 g 7 ' l6 -Manchester-n and South Junction...... 23 31aryport and Carlisle •............. 518 624 496% .. 22,647 21,436 50 Midland Great Western (Irish) .....• 1,'452 1,342 60 Midland ..... ................. Newcastle and Carlisle.. ••.... .• .... 2, t 99 2,170 146 North British ••..••••••••• • • • • • • • • • 3,018 3,281 222 North Staffordshire . . •• • 4,476 2,617 47 North-Western .... •• • ..... .. „ .... 4:4 691 45 Scottish Central •••• • • • • ... ...... ~ . 1,424 1,808 32 Scottish Midland ............„ 47 Shrewsbury and Chester ............ 1,4 2 1,735 30 Shropshire Union .... ....... ..... „ 474 613 58 South Devon •••••• . 1,937 2,142 " 251 Aout I Eastern• • • .... • 17, 025 ..... •• . „_..... --13,7 * 6 75 South Wales ........., „, - - 69 South York., Do ncaster, and Goole •• 1.052 773 2,535 2,184 25 Waterford and Limerick ............ 840 t, 897 - 265 13 West Cornwall ...• • • :•••••• • • • • • • 343 236 12 Whlteha een J unction .• • • • • • •" • - " laG 213 293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick ... 14,697 14,578 256 York and. No r th mi dl and. •• •••• • • •• 8 •268 7,36 1 rouricti. 7E% Amiens and Bolut , ,,ae. •• • 1.315 :1,901 • - - 44 ilit•ppe ...••• •• •• ".` ""•" • " • ~, , 4.. I, ,0& 63 Montereau and I 336 Northern of France 404 143 Orleans to 134 urges (Cent .) .......... 2,941 Y. 72 Orleans to Bordeaux .... • • ....., ~ , , :3.!, • I 3 . ... _ . 82 Paris and Orleans .... • • .... •„ , .... 3 211 Ls . D .. ! 85 Paris and Rouen . •• ••• • • ... ••„. „ , 6,4,2 . 7 , ..1u 1 S 51:% Rouen and Havre .. •., , „ .......... , 2 73 ~02 1 F UNER AL. OF SIR DAVID ',SCOTT, B IRT K 11.-- YeAerclay unornipg. , at an early hour, the mortal remains of the late Sir -livid Scott, Bart., K H., were removed from Gloucester p ace, Portman-s.quare, and conveyed by a special' train of the Brighten yailway to Hove, near Brighton, in the churchyard of which village they were deposited, a vault having been built expr ess l y f ur their last resting-pl ac e, in acc ordance with the wish of the deceased. Upwards of fifty of the nob' ity and gentry sent communications to the family, requestihg permission to pay a last mark of respect to the Baronets memory, by their attendance; but, in censequenct of the numerous applications, they were all most respectfully declined. Several of the tradesmen partially closed their glom out of respect to the deceased. ~.=~..._