The Sun. — London, England, 1851-03-29 00:00:00

rotzlf..f, r,.40 ittan DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. A letter from Hamburgh says :—" The two Federal Commissioners not having been able to come to an understanding with the Danish Commissioners in the Duchies of Schleswig-Holstein, it was agreed that all three should go to Copenhagen, where it was thought that their differences might e more easily settled. But on the 23d the Danish Commissioner Count de Reventlow Criminil embarked alone at Kiel, and it was std that the Federal Commissioners had not ac compinied him, because they feared to be ill-received at e.,...enhagen. The cause of the dissension is that th e 1 ng of Denmark wishes to re-establish the rights he enjoyed in the Duchies before the revolution; whereas the Federal Commissioners wish to transfer part of them to the Confederation. The military con ventions between Prussia and different petty states, appear completely abandoned ; and the city of Ham burgh and the Duchy of Oldenburgh have accordingly opened negotiations for re-establishing the military convention which existed between them before 1848." MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the 2kfining Journal of this day.) A considerable businesi has been done this week in every description of mining property, the demand for dividend mines, however, again predominating, and our list generally shows a great advance in the value of the most favourite and high-priced shares-as much as thirty to forty per cent. rise having taken place in others. The shares of several new concerns have also been fully subscribed for, but chiefly by those who operate for im mediate profits, in the shape of premium. We are not pleased with the prospectuses of some new setts just introduced into the market, and for which inordinate premiums are asked, upon assumptions of the success of neighbouring lodes; and although such schemes may flourish whilst capital is abundant, an adverse fate would await them under different monetary circumstances, and involve the incautious subscribers in heavy losses. In the Metal Market-Iron is in steady demand, although no: much animation exists.-Lead is unaltered in. price, with good foreign reports.-In Tin little has been doing, English Refined becoming more plentiful. -Copper continues in fair demand-For tin plates there is a steady sale, without advance in prices. Spelter without transactions, and prices nominal. Yellow Metal Sheathing in fair request. Tregorden Mine sold 51 tons of lead ore, at 281. 6s 6d, per ton; the lowest bid was that of T. Somers, 211. Wheal Mary Ann sold two lots of lead ore-68 tons at 22/. ss. 6d., and 53 tons at 71. 15s. per ton. The Tamar Mine sold a parcel of silver-lead ore, computed 69 tons, at 201. 2s. 6d. per ton. Callington sale of 45 tons lead ore, on Wednesday, realised 17/. ss. 6d. per ton. They have now 40 tons of copper ore at surface from Kelly Bray lode. The ticketing for 100 tons of Newtonards (Isle of Man) lead ore varied from 10/. 19s. per ton by Walker, Parker, and Co., the purchasers, to 101.65. 6d., the lowest offer. At Drtkewalls the sale of tin for March was 25 tons 3 ants. 2 qrs. 16 lbs., realising 1,2601. 3s. Id., which is an advance of 4/. 10s. per ton on the best ore sold in Feb., and 24 pet* ton on the second quality; this is in conse quence of having come into a richer course of ore near the footway shaft in the eastern part of the mine. A further improvement has taken place in Treleigh Consols; the 90 west is now reported worth 301. per fm. Ferran St. George Mine promises again to resume the leading character it did some years ago, as one of the mot profitable mines in Cornwall. The month's produce of the Rocks and Treverbyn United Tin Mines, sold on the 21st inst., amounted to 14 tons 2 cwts. 0 qrs. 9 lbs., at 561. 10s. per ton, 7964 17s. ed.; 18 cwts. 2 qrs. 17 lbs., at 384 per ton, 35/. Bs. 91-= 832/. 6s. 3d., which, after payment of dues, sinking sump shaft, working cost and merchants bills, together with all other expenses, shows a clear profit on the month's workings of upwards of 501.; and the agent considers the next month's product will be considerably in excess of this. Tywarnhayle and Nancekuke are improving, having sampled 594 tons of ore, of equal quality with the last, and about .50 tons silver-lead ores. At West Alfred Consols, on Saturday, six pitches were set to 21 men, at an average of Bs. 4d. in 11. tribute. The mine is looking well. At Great Pelgooth the discovery in the 84 is stated to bave improved, as well as a pitch near Clark's shaft to the eastward. Fi'om North Tamar, we learn that in the edit level they kave some rich lead, and that the lode is 10 ft. wide at 3 fins, below the surface, which is highly promising. In South Tolgus report, dated 26th inst., the agents estimate the, discoveries of ore, during the last two months, to have amounted to 750 tons; and they hope to sell for the next account upwards of 460 tons of ore, worth, on the Ever - age, 51. per ton, which will give them increased profit. Some fine specimens of silver ore in the state of the grey oxides and sulphurets have been received from Silver Valley and Wheal Brothers. The analysis proves it to contain 1,677 ers. of silver to the ton or ore, worth about 400/. per ton. A dividend of 201. per share in the Lisburne Mines has been declared. The directors of the Devon Great Consols, at their weekly board meeting. yesterday, declared a dividend of V. per share, amounting to 8,192/. from net profits aris ing from sales of copper ores sampled for the months of November and December last. After payment of this dividend there wi!l remain oa hand a balance of 18,629/. 12s. Bd. in cash, ore bill:; are not at maturity, and re served fend, applicable to the general purposes of the company. Tee directors of the Cara Brea Mines have declared a dividend of 31. per share. At South Tungus meeting, on Wednesday, the ac counts for January and February, showed-Balance from the last account. 1141. Is. 2d.; ores sold (less dues), 1,879/. 17s. 2d. = 1,9931. 181. 4d.-To costs and mer chants' bills, 1,2421. 2s. 6d.; dividend of 21. 10s. per share (6401.); leaving balance in favour cf adventurers, 111/. 15s. 10J. At South Caradon meeting, at the mine on Tuesday last, the accounts showed-Copper ores sold in Dec., 1,8551. 4s. 7d.; .January, 1.5991. 18s. 6d.; sundries, 1134 Os. 103 =3,568/. 3s. 11d. Labour cost for two months, 2,5361. 16s. 3d.; lord's dues, 185/. 18s. 31.; merchants' bills, 4651. 3s. 3d ; showing profit, 8801. 6s. 2.1.; to which add balance from last account, 894/. 3s. 6d., and deduct dividend 2/. 10s. per share (6400- leaves balance in hand, 6341. 9s. Bd. Captain Clymo stated that an improvement had taken place in several of the levels; the eastern shaft was sunk to the 50, and driving commenced to gee under a splendid lode gone down in the 40. At the Wellington Mines meeting, on Thursday, the accounts showed-Balance last account, 12/. 1 ls. Id.; copper ore sold, December 12, 229 tons 17 cwts. 2 qrs., 1,284/. 9e. Ild.; tinstuff, January and February, 271. 3e. 10d. (lets lord's doer, 72/. 17s. 51)_=1,2381, 163. 4d. -By labour cost for November, 3441, ss. 10J.; Decem ber, 3791. 56. 3d.; merchants' bills, 235/. 9s. Bd.-leaving balance, 2921. Os. Bd.; from which deduct dividend, se. per share, leaves in hand 351. 6s. Bd. The actual profit on *ho two months' workings was 279/. 15s. 7d. The purser was directed to accept the transfer of eight ehares rom Mr. A. Bennetts to Messrs. Foley and Forsyth. Itt the Bedford United Mines meeting, on Wednes day, the accounts showed-Balance from last account, 458/. ss. 21.; copper ore sold November 21, December 19, and January 23, 2,2621. 12s. Id.; received for car riage of ore, 851. se. 8d.=2.8061. 2s. 111-By labour cost, &c., for December, 4431. Bs.; January, 114/. 13s. I Id.; part of dividend due January 22, paid, 557/. 10s.; leaves balance of 1,3704 11d. A dividend of ss. per share was declared. At the Callington Mines meeting, on Wednesday, the accounts were examined and Fused, showing-Balance last account, 2,4421. ss. 4d.; labour cost for three months, 2,796/. Os. Id.; interest, 51/. 15s. 9d.; directors and office expenses, 1411. ss, 101=-5,431/. 75.-By silver lead ores sold 2,3011. 4s. 3d.; calls, 1,000/.; forfeited shares, 151. 7s. 6d.; leaving balance against mine, 2,1141. 15s. 3d. At the Holmbush annual meeting, on Wednesday, the statement of receipts and expenditure for the year showed a considerable improvement in the returns over those of the previous one, and from the present extensive operations a further increase is confidently anticipated, so that at no very distant period the Holmbush Mines ratty rank amongst the best in the eastern part of Cornwall. At West Par Consols general meeting, on Thursday, the report from the Vounder lode was considered most satisfactory; tribute ground is now opened sufficient to return four tons per month. In the eastern side of the sett the shaft is sinking in a beautiful killas, after the rate of 4 fin,. per month-the killas presenting the same apPearanee as that of the adjoining mine, Par tonsols. At Be • d ows Wheal Mary two-monthly meeting on wednesday, a call of 2/. per share was made. The en gine is now at work, and the shaft sunk to the 20 fm. level, and the N o. 3 lode intersected, and found worth 301. per fat., beintr, the third lode of that value discovered and worked urw • Twenty-nine tons of copper have been sampled, and 20 t ons more at surface. At E a st Wheal pretty meeting, on Tuesday, the ac counts showed-Mi nn caoesst,hflortJlan. and Feb. 1,227/. 2s. d o By ores sold Feb. (less •2 8.7 d.), 1,849/. 18s. 3d.; discount on bills, 121. 7s. 7d.; i ncome-tax on dues, 4/. 8a • received of Messrs. Smi th an d 'Roberts, 12/. is. la.; leaving balance against the min e , 1 81 7s. Id., reducing the balance in hand to 59 21 . 9s. 2d. ; to which add club money, 1,2304 ss. 41, gives balance in favour of adven tures, 1,822/. 14s. 6d. At the West Ding Dong m eeting, oh Monde the accounts showed-Balance last account, Ise& ets y , , gd labour cost three months, 247/. Os. ld • ; merchants' 1731. 'Os. 2d.; sundries, 2t. 1 Is. 10 3 . 513 " 63 . By calls, 3904 10s.; leaving a balance against adven tures, 182/. 16e. 10d. At Wheal Torn and Deer Park bi-monthly meeting, on Thursday, the accounts showed -February cost, 1221. 10a; paid on account of engine (50-inch cylinder) andboilsrs, 6004 ; for pump, bellows, and anvil, shown en per bill, 2601. = 982/ .. w hi c h d e d uc t e d from balance in hand at the last meeting, 4,295/. 19s. Bd., leaves now in hand 3,3131. los. 81. At 6'outri Trelawny adjourned meeting, on Thursday, a call .of it. per share was 'eyrie. At the East Tolgus meeting on Monday, the accounts showed-Costs from August to February, 4041. 165., and balance against adventurers, 127/.125. sd. A call of 30a. par share was made. At East Gunuis Lake Junction meeting on Wednes day, the accounts showed - Cash received on deposit, 10 e per share, 2,000/. By 28 - 6 d. per share paid for tsonttt isagiff Bedford United, 5001.; labour cost for April, 351._4A.' SZilklay, 1171. 7s• ; June, 91/. s s . 7d. ; J u ly, 1424 §i5;44.4 N. August, 1641. B s. 3 d.; September, 1971, Is. ad.; inctoEsere-`242/. ls. 3d.;__ November, 1941. 6s. 4d. ; Deoemhere .1 _l. 17s. 6d.; January, 411, 4s. 4e1.; stale fl s THE SUN, tionery and printing, 10/. is.; Duchy of Cornwall for lease, 211.; London expenses for one year to end of March, 401.; leaving balance to next account 59/. 14a. 6d. Estimated payments to the end of May, 2551. A call of 2s. 6d. per share was made. At a meeting of the finance committee at Lamherooe Wheal Maria, on Thursday, the labour and agency costs for February (1861. Bs, ld.) were paid. It was stated that the assets in hand and arrears of calls were equiva lent to the total debts of the mine to the end of Feb., and that 8001. or 9001. worth of ore was at surface; whilst the erection of stamps and wheel, and kilns for burning the ore, were progressing as fast as possible. At the Devon and Courtenay meeting, at the mine on the 18th inst., the acconnts showed-Balance last ac count, 34/. 31. ld.; labour cost, Dec. and Jan. 2261. 104. 11d.; ditto, Jan. and Feb., 1631. 16s. = 4241. 10s.-By calls, 4161: leaving balance against adventurers, 8/. 10s. At the North Wheal Buller (or Great South Tolgus) meeting, the accounts showed-Balance from last ac count, 602/. 19s. 9d.; call, 1,000/.=1,6021. 19s. 9d. By labour cost January, 182/. 25.; ditto February, 2321. 7s. 2d.; leaving balance in favour of mine, 1,188/.los. 7d. At the Wheal Henry meeting on the 18th inst., the accounts showed-Balance last account, 38/. 17s. 9d.; labour cost, November and December, 3211. 9s. 2J.; merchants' bills, 531. 15s. 3d.; dues, 14/. 64. 7d.; water charge, 40/.=4691. 83. 9d. By copper ores sold, 214/. 18s. ad.; materials, 35/. 15s. ld.; having balance against adventurers, 2181. 15s. sd. A call of 1/. per share was made. At Trethevy adjourned meeting, on Tuesday, the purser reported that only three or tour persons remain in arrear of calls. A call of 12s. 6d. per share was made. At the Wheal May meeting, held on Thursday, the accounts were examined and passed, showing—Labour cost for Jan., 181. Is. id.; Feb., 1101. 14s. 5d.; the total liabilities, including engine and boiler, payable for at 501. per two months, being 1111. is. 10d. To meet this amount there were assets—Cash in hand, 1021. 15i; calls unpaid, 921. 165.; shares to be disposed of, 1841.; calls due on unrepresented shares, 171. 65.: showing balance in favour of adventurers of 851. 14s. 2d. The share list showed 909 shares out of 1,024, represented by 51 shareholders, 23 unrepresented, and 92 yet un allotted. Mr. Boxall and Mr. Emery were appointed auditors. At the Wheal Venton two-monthly general meeting, on Monday, the accounts showed balance in hand 311., and balance of liabilities over assets 2751. 12s. 6d. A call of 10s. per share was made. At South Wheal Josiah two-monthly meeting at Tavistock on Saturday, the accounts showed a balance, after liabilities, of 36/. ls. 6d. is favour of the company, which is to bo dividod into 1,025 shares, of which no shareholder is to hold less than four. _ _ _ At the West Sharp Tor general meeting, at Tavistock on Wednesday (T. Morris, Esq., in the chair), an ac count of liabilities and assets, showing balance at the bankers of 521, Bs., alao an account of payments and re ceipts before the next meeting (26th May), showing a balance of payments over receipts of 6981. la., to be provided for, were laid before the meeting and passed. A call of 31. per share was made. In Foreign Mines, transactions have taken place in United Mexican, Australian, Imperial Brazilian, St. John del Rey, and Cobre. In consequence of favourable arrangements having been entered into between the managers of the Mexican and South American Copper Company and the English copper smelters, the shares have advanced from 11. ls. to 3/. 108., and are even expected to reach to a premium THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette of this day.) STORES AND ARMS FOR THE CAM—Great activity has been displayed by the authorities in the Tower of London during the week in the shipment of stores for the Cape of Good Hope. On Wednesday a party of the Guards, at short notice, assisted in the shipment of 20,000 stand of arms for conveyance to that colony; and every description of camp equipage, clothing, &c., requisite for a campaign has been forwarded from the garrison. REAR-AD3IIRAL TOM' NIcoLAS, C.B.—lt is with ex treme sorrow that we express a fear that before our paper is published one of the best, bravest, and ablest officers of the naval service will be no more. Admiral Nicolas, ever since the cabal of certain parties against him at the Royal Naval Hospital, Stonehouse, and the summary appointment of Captain Rich to dispossess him o! the office of captain-superintendent, has been suffer ing severely in mind and body. At the early age of sixty-three, one who would have done honour to the highest post in the service, in peace or war, the free, open-hearted, dashing Toup Nicolas dies of a broken heart, leaving a young family dependent upon his country's gratitude. Admiral Sir John Ommanney, K.C.8., the new Com mander-in-Chief at Devonport, has nominated his son in-law, Captain Arthur Lowe, to be Flag Captain, and Mr. Alexander Kent, Paymaster and Purser, will be his secretary, if the state of his health will permit him to undertake the duties of the office. No officer has yet been named as flag-lieutenant to the gallant admiral. CAVALRY CHANGE OF QUARTERS.—We are enabled to state that no orders have been issued as to the precise date for the change of quarters of the cavalry regiments, except the 13th Light Dragoons, which will leave Edin burgh for Newcastle-upon-Tyne on the 4th of April. ARMY MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Dr. Spence has been removed from the Staff at Chatham to the appointment of Assistant to the Superintendent of the Army Medical Department, and is to be stationed in London on a sa lary of 5001. per annum. We understand that the appointment of Dr. Smith, as the successor to Sir James M'Grigor, as the head of the department, has given great offence to most of the medical officers of the army, both in a public and private view. WINDWARD AND LEEWARD ISLANDS COMMAND, — Major Blackall, M.P., is, we hear, to succeed Lieutenant, Colonel Macdonald, as Lieutenant-Governor of Domi nica, the usual period of service of the latter officer b.?ing about to expire. Sir John Liddell has been lately seriously indisposed at his residence in Greenwich Hospital, and considerable anxiety was felt on his account by his friends. We are, however, in a position to know that ho is much better. The service could ill spare the talent of this eminent sur geon at this moment. RACING FIXTURES FOR 1851. Croxton Park 1 Catterick Bridge 3 Epsom- Spring 4 Newmarket Craven Mahon l5 Newmark. First Spring 21 Hambledon Hunt Abergavenny 24 The Hoo(Gorhambury) 26 Chester Y. Lothians 8 York Spring Bath l5 Epsom Harpenden 2B Wye Lewes 5 Nevvmkt. Second Spring 6 Plymouth Spring Liverpool El (Hoylake) 7 Durham Shrewsbury 8 Ascot Beverley, Hull, &c 4 Hampton ll Manchester ll Southwell (Notts) Knighton l3 Loo (Holland) l6 Bibury S. Lancashire (Newton) 18 Lenham . Stockbridge Winchester.... Newcastle Salisbury r. Stamford.... Ilsley Nottingham Chelmsford 22 Goodwood Newmarket Carlisle ........ 1 Ludlow Lancaster Worcester Liverpool Ripon Brighton 6 Wolverhampton ..... Huntingdon . 12 Reading York Southport ...... Derby 26 Eghatn 27 SEPTEMBER. Eccles Warwick Lincoln Radcliffe ... 8 Bedford Lich field 8 Eglinton Park ... 23 or 24 Yarmouth Weymouth ... .. 10 Newmarket F.O 3O , BER. Wrexham Monmouth Richmond 1 Newmarket S.O l3 Chester Yorkshire Union Hunt 8 I NOVE. Newmarket Houghton.. 27 :MBER. --First week. Worcester.. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. MANCHESTER-FRIDAY EVENING. The whole of the afternoon was cccupied with the Northampton settling. Not one investment of the slightest importance made on any forthcoming event. The fol lowing quotations are given entirely from offers:— GRANBY HANDICAP (CROXTON PARK). -3 to 1 agst General Sale-7 to 2 agst Clothworker. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.-7 to 1 agst Cnteus-7 to 1 agst Sunrise-9 to 1 agst Valentine-10 to 1 agst Agis-12 to 1 agst Raby-200 to 14 eget Sauter-la- Coupe (t). CHESTER CIIP.-8 to 1 agst Rhesus (off to take)- 12 to 1 agst Montague (off to take)-15 to 1 agst Black Doctor (off to take)-100 to 6 agst The Italian (off to take)-200 to 9 agst Haricot. IMPROVEMENTS AT NEWMARKET. The following alterations have been 'made on the heath:— THE BEACON COURSE.—Tne old weighing-house, which stood in the course, has been taken down, and the rails taken away as far as the Duke's Stand. The course is thus set back (towards the turnpike road) at the end of tha Beacon Course about seventeen yards, and is now delineated by temporary posts and chains as far as the Duke's Stand, where it joins the old rails. t't new weighing-house and jockeys ratiring _Vro, with . lead flat over the whole, is in the course u. erection, at a distance of sixteen yards from the new cmoeveetriintigg,toowthini owing to I ,___ e boundary line of the course, so as stan ' c il r In enclosed area, in front of the New ! ,, _r r u_rposc . i of saddling, &c. The lead flat n h d is in abeyance till after the Craven b m i 1 ittb; Portland late robbery of 7 cwt or S cwt of of a L ver S d tand, as there is in consequence weighing and jockey's retiring room. • 9 nportovibdeedcwort Stand Room being . substituted Purpose until a nswer . Ove b ry —The rotten ol phleatetdembpyorathrye Craven : r h raP a This stand probability fb n r aoo v m e e r e t i t the n h g e r , ef butor e will wooden,the stewards roof, so as to determine what kind of covering th ey will have in ane neat t ference to the very convertible article lead Pre- THE ROUND COURS E. worm eaten, structure, has disappeared at last, and weighing-house has been e rected abo ut five yards past the winning-post, and will be completed by the Craven s week. All speak in praise of the alteration to th e tumius.. lIST. OCTO LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 29, 1851 tion of the Beacon Course, and think it is the greatest improvement that has been made for years on the course. The finish is now on a perfect flat for the last 200 yards, and there is nothing to impede the perfect view of the running hor3es. DEATH OF SIR GILBERT HEATHCOTE.—It is with deep regret we have to announce the death of that " good old English gentleman" and staunch patron of the Turf—Sir Gilbert Ileathcote, who departed this life at his residence at Epsom, on Wednesday, sincerely la mented by all classes, and more especially by that class which required and received his benevolent sympathies. COSTS IN CHANCERY. The following important order of Court was made by the Lord Chancellor on Saturday last, and printed yes terday. It will materially affect the coats of all present and future proceedings in Chancery, as it will greatly reduce the fees payable in the various offices of the Court during the progress of suits through their various stages:— " ORDER OF COURT. " SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1851. " Whereas it is expedient that some of the fees here tofore payable in respect of certain proceedings in the Court of Chancery should be abolished, and that others should be reduced in amount, now I, the Right Hon. Thomas, Baron Truro, Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, with the advice and concurrence of the Right Hon. Henry Baron Langdale, Master of the Rolls, and the Right Hon. the Vice Chancellor, Sir James L ewis Knight Bruce, do hereby order and direct that from and after the 31st day of March, 1851, such of the fees here tofore received and taken by the clerks to the Masters in ordinary, the Taxing-Masters and their clerks, the Registrars and their clerks, the Master of the Reports and Entries and his clerks, the clerk of affidavits and assistant-clerks of affidavits, the examiners and their clerks and the clerks of records and writs and their clerks, as are set forth in the first schedule hereto, shall be and the same are hereby abolished. And that such of the fees heretofore received and taken by the clerks of the Masters in ordinary, the Registrars and:their clerks, the Taxing-Masters and their clerks, and the clerks of affidavits and assistant clerks of affidavits, as are mentioned in the second schedule hereto, shall be reduced in amount, and in lieu thereof the fees set forth in the said second schedule shall be received and taken respectively by the clerks of the Masters in ordi nary, the Registrars and their clerks, the Taxing-Mas ters and their clerks, and the clerk of affidavits and assistant-clerks of affidavits, and shall be by them severally and respectively paid into the Bank of England in the name of the Accountant-General, to be placed to the credit of the account entitled the Suitors' Fee-fund Account.' "FIRST SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO. "FEES TO CEASE ON AND AFTER THE 318 T DAY OF MARCH, 1851. " IN THE OFFICES OF THE MASTERS IN ORDINARY. g Y. d. For investigating every title brought in before the Master to be settled, and perusing the abstract thereof, upon the first 25 folios thereof Upon every succeeding 25 folios thereof ... 0 3 4 For every advertisement issued by the Master 1 1 0 For every peremptory advertisement for the sale of property with the approbation of the Master, in addition to the foregoing fee, to be repaid if the property shall not be offered for sal" For signing the allowances of every deed, re cognizance, set of interrogatories, account, or other document allowed and signed by the Master ... 0 5 0 For every order upon a warrant ... 0 5 0 For perusing and settling the draught of every deed brought before the Master to be settled (except a lease for a year), where such deed shall not exceed 30 folios ... ... 1 0 0 Where such deed shall exceed 30 folios and not exceed 50 folios 1 10 0 And where such deed shall exceed 50 folios and not exceed 100 folios ... 2 10 0 And where such deed shall exceed 100 folios 3 0 0 Fee oa preparing recognizance ... 1 1 0 For an examination fee on each witness, ex clusive of oath For examining engrossment of deeds, each skin ••• ••• 0 3 4 For comparing deeds, books, and papers with the schedule, on their being deposited or delivered out, where the schedule shall not amount to 50 folios ... 0 6 8 Where the schedule shall amount to 50 folios 0 13 4 For expunging scandal or impertinence out of every record or document referred, on every such record or document 1 0 0 IN THE OFFICES OF THE TAXING-MASTERS. For signing the allowance to every set of in terrogatories, account, or other document... 0 5 0 For an examination fee on each witness, exclu sive of oath ... 0 5 0 IN THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE. Far every certificate signed by the Registrar for the sale or transfer of annuities, stock, or Exchequer-bills, or for delivery out of the latter ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 2 6 For every other certificate signed by the Re gistrar 0 1 0 For every copy of minutes of any decree or order, per side ... 0 1 0 For every exhibit, proved viva voce in court... 0 2 6 For entering every plea of demurrer... ... 0 1 0 For setting down causes, exceptions, further directions, pleas, and demurrers, each (ex cept for setting down causes on the Regis trar's days) ... 0 1 0 For setting down causes on the Registrar's days ••• ••• ..• • • ... ••• 1 1 0 IN TIIE REPORT OFFICE. For every attendance, with a report at the Masters' offices, for any material alteration to be made therein 0 6 8 AT THE ENTERING SEATS. For every certificate in Master's report ... 0 1 0 For entering every attachment ••• ••• 0 0 2 IN THE AFFIDAVIT OFFICE. For registering every affidavit, for each side 0 0 4 For expunging impertinence from an affidavit 1 0 0 IN THE EXAMINER'S OFFICE. For every certificate signed by Examiner ... 0 3 4 For drawing every folio of depositions, where no office copy is taken, when two terms shall have elapsed without the examination of any witnesses ••• ••• ••• .•• ••• 0 0 10 For every interrogatory added 0 1 0 For every subpcena notice ... 0 1 0 IN THE RECORD AND WRIT CLERKS' OFFICE. For sealing every dedimus to take an answer 010 0 For sealing every special dedimus by order of For filing every answer or demurrer ... 0 10 0 For every consent 0 7 0 For filing every note ••• ••• ••• 0 7 0 For filing replication 0 10 0 For entering every memorandum of service of copy bill on every defendant 0 7 0 THE SECOND SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO. FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE CLERKS TO THE MASTERS IN ORDINARY. For entering accounts of receivers, consignees, .£ 8. d. and committees in each book (in lieu of the present fee of 6d. per folio), per folio ... 0 0 4 For entering accounts of parties accounting before a Master in a book, if required (in lieu of the present fee of 6d. per folio), per folio ... FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE TAXING. MASTERS AND THEIR CLERKS. Per centage on amount of every bill of costs as taxed, in lieu of the present fee of 31. ... 2 10 0 FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE REGISTRARS' AND THEIR CLERKS. For every order for payment of money out of court, where the sum or sums thereby di rected to be paid shall exceed 100/., and shall not exceed in the whole 5001.; And for transfer out of court or sale of any sum or sums of Government Stock or South Sea Annuities (excepting Long Annuities or annuities for terms of years), when the sum or sums thereby directed to be trans ferred or sold shall exceed 1001., and shall not exceed in the whole 5001.; And for payment out of court of any annuity or annuities exceeding 51., and not exceed in the whole 251. per annum, or of any inte rest or dividends upon stock or annuities exceeding 51., and not exceeding in the whole 251. per annum; and for no other purpose, in lieu of the present fee of 21. 10s. 1 0 0 For every office copy thereof, in lieu of the present fee of IL ... 010 0 For every other order for payment or transfer out of court, in lieu of the present fee of 2/. 10s. FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE CLERK OF ♦FFIDAVITS AND ASSISTANT-CLERKS OP AFFIDAVITS. For every office copy of an affidavit (in lieu of the present fee of 4d. per side, and 4d. per side for registering), per folio ... 00 4 " TRURO, C. " LANGDALE, M.R. " J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE, V.-C. " J. Collis, Registrar." EXTRAORDINARY RIFLE SHOOTING. Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, of the Royal Artillery, who left Woolwich garrison in September last to take the command of that branch of the Ordnance service at Ceylon, shortly after his arrival in that country, was present with Captain Lewis and other officers of the 37th Regiment, and Lieutenant Margesson, Royal Ar tillery, to witness rifle shooting by Comte de Belloy and his friends, Messrs. Salamann, Uchard, and Oder. The two rifles used were made in Paris, and had each four grooves, and did not appear to differ in weight or length from the rifles in common use. The Ceylon Times gives the following account of the shooting and description of the ball with which the trial was made:—" A target, about 6 feet square, was pitched on the sea-road of the Galle face, which was, when we approached, placed at the enormous distance of 900 yards from where the gentlemen practising stood. Of course a tripod stand was used on which in a groove the rifle was placed as a rest. After witnessing several shots from the stand we left for the target, near which three Artillerymen were stationed. To our surprise we noticed that, although the bull's eye was not pierced, there were several shot-holes in a goad direction above it, as well as below, perforating the inch planking of which the target was made with a well-defined round holt", similar to what a common rifle would make at a distance of 100 yards—a proof of the enormous range and povverof the rifles used. We may inttance a curious fact in acoustics on this occasion. On leaving the firing place for the target, when about 200 yards off, we heard the rush of the ball, followed at a perceptible interval by the sound of the rifle; getting farther off, the period betwecu the two sounds visibly decreased, until at the target the sound of the explosion reached us before that of the ball. Sound, of course, would travel at its accustomed rate of 1,080 feet a se cond, but where the balls had, at a range of 900 yards, the velocity necessary to pierce an inch plank, and fly far beyond it, it would be a fair presumption that the velocity would even be greeter than sound. We state, however, the fact, which may be learned at future ex periments by any one who has no objection to place himself with those who watch the target, albeit in ra ther close proximity to the range of the whistling mes sengers. The marvel of the vast range must consist is the form and make of the ball used. These were made in the shape of a fir cone, rather smaller than the bore, and with a hollow orifice in the centre running from the base to the apex. Before placing the ball in the piece a small capsule of iron is slightly affixed to the ex terior of the hollow in the ball, which is then rammed down. In the act of firing the explosion of course forces the iron capsule up the whole length of the hol low in the ball, and in so doing it expands the cone, which of course fills up the grooves of the rifles, expos ing the whole base of the bullet to the action of the powder without allowing the slightest windage, which takes, in ordinary rifles, so much off the explosive force of the powder. The invention is simple, but highly effective, as we have shown. At first sight we imagined that the rifles used were the far-famed " needle-guns" of the Prussians, which have so immense a range, and which bid fair to be such formidable opponents to field artillery, where the effective striking force of the rifle ball is 800 or 900 yards' distance, with equal certainty with that of the common musket or rifle—namely, 200 and 250 yards respectively." THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Sir James Graham, when referring to the Lsw of settlement, intimates that he would combine parishes into unions; by this process he would centralise 1,500 places into 600 circles; upon the face of this, it appears an improvement, and consequently must prove attrac tive to the superficial observer, but let us, without enter ing deeply, look merely under the surface and examine this proposition. This consolidation does not, nor can any such propo sition, abolish that portion of the law which relates to removal. Whenever an applicant needs relief, the inquiry into settlement must of necessity be instituted, the de sire will remain to shift the charge from one union to another—the same motive for appeals against magis terial and quarter session decisions—the same desire to change settlements by pauper marriages—the same motive to drive forth the labourer will exist—the same crowding will continue, and the utmost that can be realized by this process of union settlements, may be a slender reduction for law expenses, without in the slightest measure benefiting the labourer. The inquiry will be simply, changed from does he belong to the parish, to does he belong to the union; if not, let him go hence, and thus it will continue so long as the law avoids rendering settlement universal. About a fort night since an occurrence took place which will illus trate this point; it; is, the case of a destitute man before the magistrate at Stamford: — "John Clay had, on the previous Wednesday, been turned out of the Loughborough Union, with a threat that if he returned he would be sent to gaol for two months. He had been repulsed whenever he applied for work; and in vain had he applied to the union offi cers for relief. Fearing that he should be obliged to lie in the street, he preferred breaking the lamp, although subjecting himself to the degradation of becoming a felon." Here we have an example of the effect of the law of settlement in a union now existent. Had this union not been individually interested in saving a trifle of food, it would have been spared the expenses of maintaining a criminal. The magistrates, however, thought such a state of things ought not to continue, and called for a return of similar cases from the chief constable, when it appeared that "the average number of persons in a state of destitution Who have applied to the police for relief, in consequence of the refusal of the master to take them in, may be taken at ten each night during the months of November and December, 1850, and January, 1851- 92 nights, 920 persons." The number in the early part of February applying under similar circumstances amounted to thirteen per night for the first fifteen nights of the month, being 195, thus making a general amount of 1,115 persons totally unprovided for during the nights of the late winter, and the whole of this be it remembered has taken place in a union. Truly the law of settlement works well in unions, but luckily the statement has drawn attention, for the clerk to the board was ordered to wait upon the magis trates, for this evil is now carried to such a fearful ex tent that it affects the peace and safety of the ratepayers, as well as the increased charge which it brings upon them for the support of persons in prison. Here is an example - of how crime is promoted, and that in unions. Once the prison door shuts upon a human being, character is for ever gone, self-respect abandoned, and the man lost to society beyond hope of redemption. The law also produces crowding or hoarding together, and the same will under union settlement continue, whe ther it be union in town or country. The rural - districts are almost barren of domiciles, and the towns lack ac commodation, and thus the needy are necessitated to seek shelter in places, to view which humanity shudders. These things are of course known to those who have been in parish offices, but for the uninformed another ex ample will show forth the effect of crowding. Mr. Hut chinson, surgeon, says:—" I was sent for to attend a poor Irish woman in labour at half-past six o'clock yesterday morning at 17, Fox and Knot-court. There were three families, each consisting of a man and wife and two children, in a small room, fifteen feet by eight, all lying upon dirty rags on the floor. I found one of the children suffering under small-pox. The ad joining room was occupied by six grown-up persons and two children.",: And another authority says—" We know a single house—not a large one—with sixty per sons in it; many of them married, and have their beds placed in the midst of single persons of both sexes. The children have beds on the floor. Close to this scene there is a mother, her adult son, ,a daughter 17 years of age, and a boy about 12, who wash, eat and sleep, in a small place like a coal-hole; and in Birming ham it is said that in some parts of the town whole fa milies, consisting of 50,000 persons, are dwelling in 2,000 courts, which are entered from the street by a passage three or four feet wide," What but a depression of morals and increase of crime can flow from such domestic training! every inquiring mind must ejaculate. But why this choking up? The answer is—Examine the question, and it will be found that the law of settlement is the centre round which the whole revolves. The destitute are first treated as idle, then vagrants, next impostors, and then anger drives them to crime. Change the law into union settle ments to-morrow, and the same distressing results will be the consequence. The picture is bad enough, but it is nothing to what may be found in other towns and in the metropolis. Read the evidence about the lodg ing houses, in which human beings, our brethren, arc promiscuously packed, where persons may be dying of some contagious disease, nay, from which some victim of typhus fever has just been carried forth to the grave, and the children, too, become precocious in vice and enter upon premature decay. It is stated upon authority of Government that the question of the law' of settlement* is this session to be brought under the consideration of Parliament. Then let us hope that each one will direct his attention to the question, so that every Member of the Legislature may be enabled by his constituents' information to demand from the Government the entire abolition of the law of settlement.—l am, Sir, &c., M. E. WEST. 6, Hollywood-place, Fulham-road, March 22. * A petition, which embodies a plan for the total abolition of the law of settlement, was presented last session to Parlia ment, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed. —See Public Petitions, Twenty-first Report, March, 1850; Appendix 445, No. 4,116. M. SOYER AND HIS MAGIC STOVE AT SHEFFIELD. A large portion of the elite of Sheffield have visited M. Soyer, the ruler of the kingdom gastronomic, at the Cutler's Hall, and had the gratification of beholding the redoubtable chef-de-cuisine himself exhibit the capa bilities of his magic stove. On a large table were dishes of chops, kidneys, &c., most temptingly displayed, and so artistically arranged that to use the words of an humble disciple of the kitchen, "it looked a pity to dis turb them." On a small tray, in the centre of the table, a Lilliputian apparatus of brass and copper, in two divisions, weighing altogether no more than 31b. 2oz. was placed before the operator. The stove has a furnace opening with a flue near the bottom, adjoining to which is fixed .a vessel with two receptacles for spirits of wine. Connected with the bottom reservoir are two burners with their wicks. The flame from one of these wicks acting on the upper reservoir, a, stream of vapour rushes down a tube connecting it with the wick at the mouth of the stove flue, and a large body of flame rushes into the stove and all is ready. The kitchen fire, as M. Soyer said, is ready in half a minute. Over the stove may be placed a frying-pan, stew-pan, saut6-pan, or ot her culi nary vessel, and "presto," the cutlets, kidney s, or e gg s are done a merveille, in almost no time. I n this wa y mutton cutlets were cooked before the spectators, and refreshed with a little of M. Soyer's own "relish," whioh by the way would have astonished the Roman epicure with a new delight, were handed to the admiring visitors for their approval. Many could scarcely have conceived that the flesh of the ordinary wether sheep could con tribute material oat of which any magic stove could conjure cutlets so far transcending any previous experi ence of mutton. " The cutlets are delightful," said a lady visitor, " and then M. Soyer is such a thorough gentleman!" Poached eggs, or as they , are named by M. Soyer himself, " l es awes au mirrior, possessed the same potent spell, and it was really wonderful with what ease and rapidity he achieved the most exquisitely fla voured dishes by his cheap and portable apparatus. Magic indeed ! it appeared to us far more magical than any thing we have recently seen at the hands of professors of legerdemain. Connected with the magic stove is a magic kitchen, adapted as well for the overland route as a modest picnic. Bachelors may defy the annoyances of " genteel lodgings," and travellers may now laugh at the blundering cook of "mine host" without fearing the consequence of a spoiled dinner. There has been a strong demand for these stoves wherever they have been exhibited, and Sheffield, we are glad to learn, was no exception. Soyer has made and will make many happy men, for assuredly good temper waits on good dinners and good digestion. No doubt many of our townsmen will visit Soyer's salon restaurant at Gore House, Lon don, which it is said will be one of the most agreeable and "refreshing" reminiscences connected with the great Exposition.—Sheffield Iris. THE WINDOW DuTiEs.—The amount of window duty assessed in the year ending sth April, 1850, was 1,912,8891., and the amount received was 1,832,6841, the number of houses 4harged being 459,034! .. i c SUNDAY TRADING PREVENTION BlLL.—Yesterday a Committee on this Bill met for the first time, and pro ceeded to business. _ _ MURDER.—At the Norwich Assizes a man named Gorge Baldry, aged 27, was convicted of the murder of Ca roline Warn, aged 13, at Thurlton. The prisoner lodged in the house of the parents of the child, and without any con ceivable cause struck her on the head as she lay in bed, with a hammer, several times, thereby causing her death. He ap peared to be a man of weak mind, but capable of knowing right from wrong. Sentence of death was passed upon him. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 28. ORDNANCE SURVEY. Lord H. VANE asked the Clerk of the Ordnance when the Ordnsnce maps, on the scale of six inches to a mile, fur the North Riding of Yorkshire, and the counties of Durham and Northumberland, would be completed? Colonel ANSON said that the survey was progressing northwards, but be could not hold out any hope that the maps in question would be ready for some time. BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE. Mr. REYNOLDS begged to ask the question of which he had given notice last night, and on which the Rouse bad expressed a resolution in 1848, through the Com• mittee which had been appointed to consider the matter every Member of which had, with ono or two exceptions, voted for the abolition of ministers' money in Ire land, and stated that the cost of that expense, if defrayed at all, ought to be defrayed out of the revenues of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for Ireland. The question which he had to ask, then, was at what time did the Government intend to introduce any measure with a view to the abolition of ministers' money. That money amounted to 16,0001. a-year, out of which his constituents paid 2,0001. a-year, and there fore he thought a sufficient case was made out for the alteration of its assessment. Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that, instead of imme diately answering the question, he thought that the better plan for him to adopt would be to state the course which the Government intended to pursue. It was necessary, in the first place, as the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill had been passed, to proceed with the army estimates, in order to go into a Com mittee.—(Bear, hear.) The Government, therefore, proposed to go on with the army estimates on Monday, in order to provide for the exigencies of the country. Having got these settled, they proposed on Friday to go into the financial statement, and his Right Hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Ex chequer would intimate what the intentions of the Go vernment were. On the same day he should move, in a Committee of Ways and Means, the resolution respecting the income-tax, which would give the Right Hon. Member for Stafford an opportunity of moving his motion, the debate on which could be taken on Monday. The remaining order days, of which there would be only three at the disposal of the Government before the recess, would be applied to the purposes of the financial arrangements of the country, and the re maining estimates. He regretted this the more, as he had intended to proceed with the Committee for the Eccle siastical Titles Bill on Monday, the 28th, or to take the first day which was an order day ; but that was Friday during the holidays, and, there fore, he should propose to take the Committee on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill on Friday, the 2d of May. He regretted this much, but he would proceed with the question of ministers' money immediately afterwards.— (Hear, hear.) There was another matter which had also occupied much of public consideration—that was the retention of the office of Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, which it was proposed to suppress by the Bill brought in last year.—(Hear, hear.) His own opinion still remained the same, but he had received intimations from so many parts of Ireland—(Loud cries of" Hear, hear")—of the feelings of the inhabitants of that part of the country, that he should not, this session, introduce any measure for the suppression of the office of Lord- Lieutenant.—(Loud and repeated cheers from both sides of the House.) With respect to the question which the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Dublin had proposed be would observe that, although it was his intention to deal with the matter, be could not say at what time the measure would be introduced, CHURCH ESTABLISHMENT IN. IRELAND. Mr. MOORE was proceeding to ask a question with respect to his motion, which stood on the paper regard ing the Church Establishment in Ireland, when he was stopped by being called to order by both sides of the House. PAPAL ENCROACHMENTS. Mr. STANFORD rose to ask the First Minister of the Crown, whether it was the fixed intention of the Government, in conformity.with the declaration made by the Secretary of State for the Home Department, to limit the measures of the Government for the repression of " Papal encroachments" to the single clause of the " Ecclesiastical Titles Bill," which declares the meaning of the 24th section of 10 Geo. IV., c. 7; and whether her Majesty's Government will resist any attempt to enlarge the scope of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, and to render its provisions more stringent, as, for instance, by extend. ing the penalties to persons giving as well as using or claiming the titles there prohibited; by extending the penalties to the assumption or use by British subjects of any title, ecclesiastical or secular, as of cardinal, emi mence, &c., not conferred or authorised by the Sove reign; by extending the same to the publica tion of Papal bulls, rescripts, or other documentse without the consent of the Crown, and to the holding 01 synodical meetings, &c., and by permitting the penalties to be sued for without he intervention of the Attorney- General; and by enlarging the terms of the preamble of the Bill, so as to render it declaratory of the opinion of Parliament on the entire question of papal aggression? Lord J. RUSSELL said that before the second reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, his Right Hon. Friend the Home Secretary had stated the course which it was intended to pursue in respect to the measure by the Government; it was therefore quite unnecessary for him (Lord J. Russell) to go into the matter again. However, before the Easter re cess, if the Hon. Members who intended to move amend ments to the Bill would place them on the paper, he would a few days before the Bill went into Committee—say the 28th April, state to the House whether the Government intended to adopt them or move their rejection. Mr. HORSMAN gave notice that shortly after Easter he should call the attention of the House to the condition of the Church of England as regarded its temporal and spiritual affairs.— (Oh, and laughter.) AYLESBURY AND ST. ALBAN'S ELECTIONS. Mr. F. MACKENZIE presented a petition on the subject of the Aylesbury election, which the Hon. Member moved be read. The petition was accordingly read. Mr. AGLIONBY proceeded to address the House relative to a petition from Mr. Coppock on the subject of the St. Alban's election. The Aylesbury petition was similar in principle, but without assuming any knowledge as to the statements set forth in that petition, he was authorised to say that a m i sun derstanding existed with respect to the attendance of Mr. Sergeant Merewether at the Committee. The question involved in the petition was similar; but he did not think it would engage the attention of the House very strongly, because it concerned only a dry point of law; but, then, the decision of the House would affect the seats of he did not know how many Members, but he was certain it would at least affect the seats of two Members on his side of the House. With this introduction, he would beg the House to give its attention to the points under discussion, and not to allow party or political feelings to in terfere with their judgment. The first point was, that the St. Alban's petition was informal, because not addressed in proper form. That point, he considered, might be disposed of by the qnestion being referred to the Committee of Selection when that Committee sat. The next and most important one was, whether the Committee had followed the proper precedents, and had given due and sufficient notice with respect to the petition. The first question to be deter mined was, was the notice bad ? and if so, was the appoint. ment of the Committee void ? and if void, whether there was any mode under the statute of curing this irregularity ? Now did the notice mean 14 clear days? He was not aware that the caseicohu weres h ed a ecw d noi b suui e mol e dn n e srho r vaissedecdt cases s b eede e sne f o ci n r in i d e gteihvueep t ne b oo a nui t tt l s i ,ff o aof u var House, and h throeoofnfi urfs n motuerr time. therefore toeuesn, i T t n h h e w er h il e clear days. After citing several cases, the Hon. and Learned Member said the point was made so clear, that no lawyer could. venture to diipute it. Then, with respect to the validity of the notice, he was of opinion that the notice was not regular, and that therefore the Committee was void. If the Committee was void, there would be no difficulty if the mode were adopted which he would venture to suggest. Assuming that the Committee was void, what was the course to be pursued ? The course he should propose was, to move for a Select Committee to inquire if the election was null and void. Mr. FOX MAULE would state how the matter stood, first thanking the Honourable Member for the temper he had shown and the upright motives by which he had been actu ated throughout. (Hear, hear.) The Committee, he contended, had not acted without precedent. The Dart mouth Committee, in 1845, was appointed under ex actly the same circumstances. The Wigan Committee, in 1846, was appointed under the same circumstances, and at that time Mr. Coppock, then the petitioner, as he was now, took no objection to the proceedings. He would next proceed to state that the main objection to the present peti tion was, that there were not 14 clear days as required. Notwithstanding all he had heard from his Hon. Friend, he was still of opinion the Committee had discharged their duty correctly and properly, and he must say he considered this was a question to be decided rather by the good sense of the House, than by legal argument. He asserted that the Committee had discharged their duties faithfully, aad he should, therefore, move that the motion be negatived. Mr. HEADLAM contended that the Act required 14 clear days, and therefore it was necessary that the notice should have been published on the 10th, whereas it was not pub lished till the morning of the llth March. Such being she case, he did not think they could proceed to direct that the Committee be sworn at the table. s a lk c 1. 1 e r t . a ß ry . B at. ARMWar,oSnTltthOeNpoGinotpopfosneodticteb,eaßadrguniaminetnatisneodf t h t h a e t the Act required 14 clear days. Sir H. INGLIS said they must be guided by the Act in deciding this matter, and the questionhe t:.ct had to ask was, whether the publication required by. t be no or had not been made. There could, in his opinion, by the Chairman of the Committee of Election so, the spirit his colleagues had fixed the day. If that vrerweith, eta2ryst-hatA for there and the letter of the Act had been complied _ more complete publication than the statement sinothaatthne House He should support the amendment of the Mr. ANSTEY reminded the House that the Act • required in the Votes. His not only publication, but publication were fourteen clear days from the 10th t s o ec t r h e to proceed with the ' opinion was, that they had no power Committee. to see that no objection interfered with the proper administra tion a justice. If the general Committee, in appo i nt i ng the Mr. WALPOLE thought that their first care ought to be be th terms Wiyarahcr had o d. f Select Committee to try the petition, had made a slip or a • mistake not absolutely fatal according to the Act, it became the House to rectify that slip, and to see that no injustice was done either to the sitting Member or petitioner.—(Hear.) The Act required the general Committee to give notice 14 days before the swearing of the C •mmittee ; and according to decisions in the courts of lew fourteen days' notice meant not less than fourteen clear days. The notice of fourteen clear days not having been given in this case no further pro ceedings, strictly speaking, could be taken with regard to the peti ion. But then he wished to suggest that that part of the Act relating to the giving of notice was merely direc tory, and that the appointment of the Committee did not de pend on the validity of the notice. If that were so, he thought that when the 2 ith March had arrived the sitting Member or his agent ought to have stated what objection there was to the appointment of the Committee ; for if that had been done, the general Committee would have had power under the 53d section of the Act to appoint a Select Committee to try the petition. Having neglected to do this he thought the petitioner had waived all objection. If he was right in that, then came the question as to what they were to do at that moment. The Act seemed to provide that a slip made in the appointment of a Committee should not in any way operate to the prejudice of the party. By the 68th sec. it was provided that the Members having come to the table to be sworn, and having been sworn, they should be regarded as the Select Committee legally appointed to try the peti tion, and that the legality of such appointment should not to be called in question on any ground whatever. If, therefore, the sitting Member not allege any objection to the members of the Committee being sworn,.he was of opinion that justice would not be done either to the sitting Member or the petitioner if the members of the Committee were not allowed to be sworn. He should like to know ehether any injustice would be done by trying the petition on the notice which had been given? Mr. BERNAL agreed with his lion. and Learned Friend that if the Committee were once sworn the legality of its ap pointment could net be questioned. But the difficulty was, that the five members of the Committee should have been sworn yesterday.—(Cries of "No, no," and laughter.) The Act provided that they should be sworn on the first business day after their appointment, and yesterday was the first day the House had met after their appointment on the 25th. He protested against the assertion that that House was in the habit of following the constructions put upon legal .tech nicalities by the courts of law. With respect to the terms of notice, he might remark that the words used in the stand ing order, with reference to private Bills, were, " seven clear d. ye." Sir G. GREY regretted that this case had been brought before the House, which, in his opinion, was not the best tribunal for deciding nice questions of law.—(Hear, hear.) He believed that the decisions of the courts of law were con flicting as to the proper construction of the term of notice. He concurred with the Hon. and Learned Member for Mid burst, that the Committee once sworn would be legal, and that it had not been alleged that the parties petitioning against the swearing of the Committee had suffered any injury or incoavience from the alleged mistake. The ques tion for consideration was, whether there were clear and distinct grounds for the House interfering, and saying that the Committee should not be sworn. His own opinion wa., that there were no grounds strong enough to warrant such an interference, and he should 'therefore vote against the resolution of the Hon. and Learned Member for Cocker mouth. Mr. AGLIONBY intimated his intention of taking the sense of the House on his resolution. Mr. T. HOBHOUSE thought that this case would not be settled by any decision they might come to, but would ulti mately find its way into the courts of common law. In a case of'such importance he could not accept the ipse dixit of any man, not even of the Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst. He thought his Hon. and Learned Friend who and introduced the question should withdraw the motion, foci substitute another for referring the matter to a Select Committee.- (Cries of " No.") There were some Hon.. Members near him who thought that the Right Hon. Gen tleman the Speaker could throw great light on such a ques tion as this. Sir D. DUNDAS counselled the House not to be afraid of anything which the courts of law might do in this question. The 68th section of the Act distinctly declared that the lega lity of a Committee once sworn could not he called in ques tion on any ground whatsoever. He differed from the Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst and from the Home Se cretary, and maintained that the words to which they were referred were not directive, but imperative.—( Hear.) He did not find anything in the Act of Parliament which would make him believe that the words were merely directory. Let them look at the Act itself. The Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst had omitted all mention of the publication in the Totes. But the Hon. Gentleman thought the words "14 days" meant 14 clear days. He (Sir D. Dundas) was of that opinion also. No one, he thought, could doubt that that was the meaning of the words. The House was then acting ju dicially. Though it was painful to him to vo e against those with whom he had been in the habit of acting, he felt obliged to oppose them then, for such was his clear convic tion in point of law. The House then divided, when the numbers were— Ayes ... ... 79 Noes ... ... 204 Majority against the motion ... —.125 The Committees were then sworn on the St. Alban's and the Aylesbury election petitions. QUESTIONS. _ _ _ _ Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to know from the Noble Lord at the head of the Government when he intended bringing forward the Parliamentary Oaths Bill? Lord J. RUSSELL said it would be brought on some time in April. He wished to take that opportunity of stating that he should move on the order of the day on Monday for a Select Committee to inquire into our relations with Kaffraria and the South African Continent.—(Hear.) He mentioned that in reference to a motion which an Hon. Member oppo site had on the paper. An HoN. MEmBEa asked, would the question come on first ? Lord J. RUSSELL.—Yes. _ _ _ Mr. ADDERLEY said, he did not know why the Noble Dord did not consent to his motion. He was glad, however, that the subject should be left in more efficient hands; and, therefore, begged to withdraw his notice. The motion for going into Committee of Supply, having been put, Colonel DUNNE was understood to move a notice he had on the paper. Mr. HUME said he understood the Budget was coming on on Monday.—(Several voices, " Friday. ") He understood that it was on Monday, and that no supplies were to be voted until after that had been brought forward. They had been called on to vote men for the navy, and he had thrown no impediment in the way of that ; and be supposed because they had agreed to it, they were to be called on to vote the army and the ordnance estimates before the Budget was in troduced. If the House supported him he would move that there be no further proceeding en the estimates until after the Budget. He was not aware that there was any obstacle in the way of the Chancellor of the Exchequer from bringing on the Budget on Monday, or even at that moment if he wished. The SPEAKER said the question before the House was, " that he now leave the chair," of an amendment to which the Hon. and Gallant Member for Portarlington (Colonel Dunne) had given notice. Mr. WILLIAMS—I rise to second the motion of my Hon. Friend the Member for Montrose.—(Laughter.) Lord J. RUSSELL said he was not aware that any un derstanding had been entered into that they were not to pro ceed with the estimates until after the Budget. He thought they were fully justified in proceeding with the estimates then, with a surplus in the Exchequer, even before the Budget was brought forward. Mr. WILLIAMS said it struck him as being very strange that the Budget had not been introduced long before this. He was surprised the Chancellor of the Exchequer asked for one moment longer than was necessary to bring it forward. The Right Hon. Gentleman had said be proposed to reduce the duties on timber, coffee, and tea. Now, the complete suspension produced in the trade of these important articles was very injurious to the commerce of the country.—(Hear.) Mr. B. OSBORNE said he understood it lees not competent for the Hoe. Member for Montrose (Mr. Hume) to go on with his motion, in consequence of tine previous motion of his Hon. and Gallant Friend (Colonel Dunne). Now, although he was not one of those mho would unite in such an extreme measure as that of stopping the supplies, he could not but think the Noble Lord at the head o f the Government haa not acted fairly towards his friends in the matter of the Budget. He, too, had understood that the Budget was to be brouget forward before any more money was to be voted. If the Chancellor of the Exchequer would then rise up in his place and say he would take off the window-tax.—(Hear and laughter.) - the Right Hon. Gentleman would calm the apprehensions of many Hon. Gentleman at his side of the House. Perhaps the Right Hon. Gentleman would favour the House with a brief financial sketch then of his intentions. The CHANCELLOR cf the EXCHEQUER said he di not think his Hon. Friend made a very reasonable request. ue. The Hon. Member for M on t rose s h ou ld be aware tha t that was a particular time of the year, which made it necessary that the men for the service should be voted. If not done before the sth of April the public service would be put a stop to. Lord JOCELYN intimated to the House that he would not move the nomination of the Select Committee ofwhich had given notice until Monday next. Mr. HENLEY suggestei the exclusipnofallnaanireessilof persons connected with any of the grea t rive comp terested in the inquiry. 1. 11 o t r a tt vseny., a Sir B. HALL said he understood the foalsafter the division of the other morn in g , ing he would take the army estim ates, and would state when the Chancellor of the Exchequer_ thwoeuldeemssiaelnee, h h e is we fi v n e a r, nc t i h a e l statement. In the early part of Noble Lord had said he would tabsttsirnali.y H es a ti l m o at t e h s eu a g ft h e t r that financial statement. No"' they ought to have that statement before they proc ee d e d any further. The matter becamemoTrehey serious id consequence of the notice of the Nobl e Lord. soon arrive at the Easter recess , an d they tshoeultde considerbe th trownhe financial one night further on, and ha ve less time statement of the Chancellor of the Exchequer. They were neral condemnation of h r g e e e ll e u n dg l t e t e l t to take the navy eestigmates, then have the Bud t. consequence of which had beenutllhdaid-beefore the House, he had t be a new one made; and that the a y s gl t suppose there would to have, to enable them to judge of the views of the"Gol vernment, before they voted the large item which they were then called upon to do. If they voted the number oi men, of course they should vote the necessary supplies to maintain them. f e w wo rds in explan a ti on from the CHANCEL- After a AEcxy E CHEQUER, R LO onfEthLe VANS said th a t th e no ti ce g i ven b y t h e Sir Noble Lord, and which might l ea d to a protracted debate h a d made it doubly important that they should have a finan cial statement at once. The window proposition of the Right lion. Gentleman had been most unpopular, The general opinion was that th e t ax s h ou ld b e repea l e d , an d i t was most desirable any mistake on the subject should be cleared up. air. ADDERLEY said until they had a financial state meat they could not know what means .they had to meet such an aggression as the Kafir war. Sir W. MOLES WORTH gave notice that he would move as an amendment upon the Noble Lord's motion, that it was the duty of the Government to relieve the country from any expense of any war with the Kafira or others at the Cape of Good Hope.—(Hear.) SUPPLY. Colonel DUNNE than rose to move the following resolu tion of which he had given notice on going into Committee of Supply That orders having been given not to receive any more pensioners into the Royal Military Asylum at Kilmainham, it may be inferred that it is the intention of her Majesty's Government to abolish that establishment, and it is the opinion of this House that suck abolition is not advisable. 1. Because unjust to the old soldiers of Ireland who have served her Majesty and been worn out in the service of the country. 2. Because the land on which the Royal Hospital was erected was granted by Charles 11. to trustees, for the purpose of erecting an asylum for the reception of the old soldiers of Ireland, and that asylum was built by means of a fund created by deductions from the pay of Irish soldiers. 3. Because the saving which would be effected by such abolition would be so inconsiderable as to give no colour for such injustice, the expense of supporting a pen sioner at Kilmainham being much less than at Chelsea. 4. Demo the trans* 0 the Irish est4l)l4llgamt to Epgland stems part of a system of centralization unjust and ruinoud to Ireland, and impolitic, as tending to weaken those feelings of mutual interest which can be the only basis of uinon be tween the two countries." The Hon. Member was proceed ing to explain his motion when he was interrupted by Mr. HUME, who said his motion was on reading the order of the day. The SPeAKER said the motion before the House was "that he now leave the chair," and the amendment of the Hon. and Gallant Meember was upon that question. Lord J. RUSSELL reminded the Hon. Member for Mon trose that there was no question then before the House, and his own rule would preclude him from moving. Colonel DUNNE went on to say that his motion was of considerable interest and importance to those whom it con cerned. He contended that her Majesty's Government would act illegally if they were to forbid the reception of soldiers in that asylum, because the land on which the asylum was erected had been granted by Charles the Second to trustees, and that corporate grants could no more be annulled by the mere will of the Government than the corporation of the city of London could be destroyed by them. Another reason why they should rot put an end to the asylum was to be found in the fact that the building had been erected out of money kept Iv m the pay of Irish soldiers; and as the Irish Par liament had been bound to make, a grant fur the maintenance of the establishment after it had been so founded, the Par liament of the United Kingdom were subject to the same obligation. The Marquis of Anglesey had, on a former oc casion, given it as his opi ,, ion that the re moval of the lr.s pital would be both unjust and impolitic; and Sir Hussey Vivian had at two different times put forward a similar opi nion. Ile had in favour of the view he advocated a still higher authority- the authority; of a statesman who might one day possess great. power in this county—he meant Lord Stanley.—( Hear.) That Noble Lord had made an emphatic declaration, not only with respect to that single institution, but against the policy of centralization generally. He had said that it could not be denied that the consolidation of es tablishments in this country, however it might be called for on general principles of economy. had an injurious effect oich n local interests; he had also acknowledged the injury wh that system had inflicted on Ireland; and be had further de clare I that the only excuse that could be offered for it would be some large saving to the public. N ew he (Colonel the in Dunne) denied that there could be any larg e saving present instance. It appeared that the whole sum charged to the public in the estimates for that establishment was 8,417/. ; while the expense of maintaining the pensioners at Chelsea was estimated at 6,174/. ; ao that the wh ole of the sum to be saved would only amount to a little more than 2,0'01. a year. There were in Kilmainham Hospital 205 pen; sioners ; and the sum required for the supp ort of a pensioner the i"e there was 71. or 81. a year less than that required for maintenance of a pensioner at Chelsea Hospital. alone there were required 51. a head less at Kilmainham than at Chelsea. If, therefore, cheapness were the only matter to be co- suited, he would say that they ought to remove Chel In food an sea Hospital to Kilmainham—(Hear, hear)—instead of re moving Kilmainham Hospital to Chelsea. But he wished to_ be just to the English as well as to the Irish soldier; and he should not. therefore, advocate either measure. It further appeared that Kilmainham Hospital was possessed of funds of its own, which should be taken into account i n esti! mating its cost to the public. They would find at the end of the army estimates that the hospital was entitle d to rents for land to the amount of between 4001. and 500/. a year; and in addition to that the barrack-master was entitled to a certain rents to the amount of between 200/. and 300/. a year; so that both those items produced a sum of about 7001. a year —the property of the hospital and of the Irish soldier. He said that that 7001. a year would be sufficient for the repairs of the hospital. It was true that the superintendence o those repairs had been taken out of the hands of the governor( and transferred to the Board of Works, and that that board had expended under that head a sum of more than 2,00 0 /. a year; but considering the work done he was at a loss to conceive how that sum could have been spent. The hospital had another claim on the country at large. A number of officers on the staff in Ireland had apartments in the hos pital ; indeed, he believed there were quite as many apart merits occupied by the officers of the staff there as by th e officers of the establishment. Now it would only be fair to give the hospital credit for the amount of the rent of those apartments. He repeated that the removal of that establish ment would be a breach of trust on the part of the Govern ment. On a former occasion the governors of the hospital had consulted two eminent counsel—the present Chief Justice Blackburne and Mr. Justice Crampton—for the purpose of ascertaining whether they had the power of removing the hospital, and those distinguished lawyers had given it as their opinion that it could not be re moved without the sanction of an Act of Parliament. The present Secretary at War, Mr. F. Maule, had stated before a Par liamentary Committee that he should not wish to see so ancient and popular establishment as Chelsea Hospital abolished. But the Right Hon. Gentleman ought to have the same objection to the abolition of Kilmainham Hospital, which was also a popular institution, and was of nearly the same antiquity. For his part he should oppose the proposal as part of the system of centralization, and as a measure which, by creating discontent in Ireland, would injuriously affect the relations between the two countries.—(Hea r.) The Hon. and Gallant Member concluded by submitting his motion to the House. Mr. H. GRATTAN said that that act would be mani festly illegal, and ought to be opposed by every lawyer in the House. The Secretary at War had not the shadow of a right to prevent the reception of pensioners in that hospital. Mr. GEIOGAN said it was unworthy of her Majesty's Go vernment to make this attempt in the present state of Ire land. A proposition to somewhat the same effect was made in 1833, and Lord Stanley, then the Irish Secretary, veil truly said it deserved to be well considered whether the pecu niary advantages attending the proposed change were not counterbalanced by the injurious impression which it would produce in Ireland. Those arguments were to this day un answered. Was the city of Dublin or was Ireland in a better position now than in 1833, so as to justify them now in prosecuting a measure which they then abandoned? He hoped, however , that it had been taken up hastily, and ould not be persevered in; at all events it ought not to be carried by a side wind. The building and ground could not be appropriated to any other purposes than those prescribed by the charter. In 1821 an order was made to transfer the documents belonging to Kilmainham to this country, and the trustees thought it their duty to take a legal opinion on the subject, which was sent to the Lord-Lieutecant. What was the re°ult? _ _ _ Mr. F. MAULE—The thing was done. Mr. GROGAN—Yes, but how? By passing an Act of Parliament enabling them to do so ; and he wanted to know on what principle they thought themselves at liberty to dis pense with an Act of Parliament in the present instance? Before taking such proceedings the law officers of the Crown should be caled on to give their opinion. Mr. F. MAULE said he hardly knew how to deal with the question now before the House.— (Hear, hear.) From what bad been said, one would suppose that he had proposed to expunge the vote for Kilmainham altogether • but if Hon. Gentlemen would turn to the army es'imates, they would find the vote proposed to be taken for the hospital at Kilmainham was just the same this year as it was in the year just past. But he must say, as this question had been raised, that he was one of those who had formed a very deliberate opinion, that the system of in-pensioners in the British army was not popular with soldiers.—(Hear, hear.) This being the case, why should the British Parliament be called on annually to vote money for that purpose? It was quite true that when those and kindred institutions were founded, they were the only refuge for maimed and wounded soldiery, with the ex ception of the invalid companies. It was said that these in stitutions of Chelsea and Kilmainham were paid for by the soldiers themselves ; but he asserted deliberately that tio 501- dies in past times, or up to 1795, ever contributed one single sixpence. Formerly the pay of a soldier was distributed into two parts, one called subsistence, the other given to provide clothing • and'the only portion of the pay which belonged to the soldi was that which came under the name of sub sistence. T other part went to provide clothing and other es . articles, and a always paid to the colonel of the regiment. For many years these two pavments, he was sorry to say, were very generally in arrear. Subsequently an arrangement was made to pay more regularly, but a deduction was made of ls. in the pound, not from the subsistence portion, but from that part which was paid to the colonel. But, even supposing the deduction had been made from the soldier's portion, that could only apply to soldiers enlisted not later than the year 1771, because, after 1793 or 1794. all these proceedings were entirely given up. But, with respect to Kilmainham, it was contemplated, when that in stitution was first founded, that private funds would have been supplied. He admitted that the ground and buildings were inalienable except by Act of Par liament.— ( Hear, hear.) He admitted that a question was raised in 1834 as to converting Kilmainham into an artillery barracSs, which could only be accomplished by an Act of Parliament. But it was a very different thing when they came to propose that the maintenance expenses of the establishment, which were voted by the public, should be discontinued? Any gentleman being of that opinion had nothing more to do than to omit the vote from the estimat' a. --(Hear, hear.) He had certainly stated in his evidence that be should like to see Chelsea maintained, but he ad mitted at the same that there was no absolute necessity for its maintenance. The soldier infinitely preferred spending his pension in his own family than in an institution where he was bound down by rules and regulations almost as strin gent as in active service. No doubt the removal of such an institution might be prejudicial to the immediate locality, but it was nevertheless unjustifiable to maintain institutions after their utility had ceased.—(Hear, hear.) It was not proposed to remove any individual from that establish ment. All he had done was to intimate to the Governor and commissioners of the hospital that in future no admis sions should take place without his knowledge. These funds were voted by Parliament, and ought not, therefore, to be under the control of any persons who were not responsible, and the Secretary-at-War was the person responsible to Par liament. Sir DE LACY EVANS said the grounds on which the Government project was supported were economy, and the unpopularity of these establishments with the soldiery. With reference to the first, it ought to be recollected that part of the expense had reference to the maintenance of officers of high rank who were posted there, and if the ex pense under this head was deducted, they would find both these establishments extremely economical, particularly the Irish one, so that the ground of economy had by no means been made out. It was said that these establishments were kept up for show, but he denied that. Any one who had visited the splendid establishment at Paris, the ort Hotel des Invalides, would admit the great value and impance of such institutions. Some of these pensioners would probably prefer living with their friends, but they all saw that there gpinbiteolipie of Ire , were 500 or 600 at Chelsea, and 200 or 300 at Kilmainhiria► who preferred these public establishments. It was said_tis : these institutions were not popular, and yet the Right 1(11f?, Gentleman did not say that it eas his intention to ah 3! Chelsea Hospital. How far was that consistent with his declared intention to abolish Kilmainham. He denounced the paltry economy which, for the sake of savivnaiguaansfbyerewpteuhibgolhuie: sands per annum, would do away with these ofnecgalnimre institutions. Colonel RAWDON said the only argumentse the urged by the Right Ho,. Gentleman was, that h was room room in Chelsea the necessity for mota.itnuhtaei ham had ceased to exist; but did not the denim treat with contempt the feeling land on this subject? He reminded the main.enance of strong feeling feeling expressed elso upon the .sosouse of the rnainham by Sir H. Vivian. They werefa sohrtt andmonument of national gratitude to men who bad .oug on of the peopal le of their country. What would be the opi nj England if it was proposed to abolish nthet Greenwich theHpoeseppiltee?f He assured the Right Hon. Gentleman e against the Ireland felt strongly upon this questiop. . If the Government insisted in carrying out an abstract princift thr!ey ecsou d not any longer ge neral feeling of the Irish people, expect the support of thei know I 1 n (Hear.) Hon. Lord orders to Chelsea as be had Lord NAAS wished to whether-- the Right Eon. Gentleman had issued the sa He hoped no unfair preference issued to Kilmainham? Chelsea establishment. With regard. would .be shown to the to the mode, in which these institutions were supported, it would be found th9t they rested on a very different footing. The support of Kilmainham arose entirely from poundage levied off the actual pay of the Irish soldiers ex clusively, and that continued up to 1795. The feeling _of very strong upon this question, and be the ecdouthnetrsiziwg as hop ht Hon. Gentleman would reconsider his de termination. 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