The Sun. — London, England, 1851-08-01 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. CAMERON'S STE LO CUGHOR.OAL AND SWANSEA AND The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wednesday at the office, Moorgate•street; Mr. W. Win throp in the chair. The report stated that the directors had to lament that several of the shareholders in arrear of calls not only evade the payment thereof, but endee.- your to frustrate the zealous efforts of the directors. It was not until every effort to conciliate parties and to in duce those in arrear to pay up had failed of success that the directors had been compelled, in justice to the ge neral body, to institute legal proceedings against every shareholder in arrear whom legal proceedings could reach, and they have no doubt that theso proceedings will have the desired effect. The whole of the works on the branch line to Llanelly have been completed, with the excep tion of a small portion near Loughor-bridge, and the line is now ready to receive t he p ermanent way, which may be finished within six or eight weeks after the rails are placed at the disposal of the contractor. An agreement has been entered into wiLh Mr. W. Cameron, by which he allows a preference to all other shares in the company up to 8 per cent. over his own shares; and up . to 15 per cent . . over all his shares, with the exception of 2,000,. which are to take dividend after the other shares . receive 8 per cent, should the profits of the undertaking admit of it. The re maining 9,970 shares which he holds are not to be enti tled to dividend until all the other shares in the company receive 15 per cent. He has also given up all other claims alleged to be due by the company to him. He is to have an annuity of 4001. per annum out of certain tolls on the Swansea line when completed and in opera tion. The directors regret that arrears of calls to the amount of 3,000 Z still remain unpaid. They believe that the sum of 2,000/. would enable them to complete and open the branch railway to Llanelly. The directors urge on the shareholders the necessity of an imm edia t e exertion to release the company from its present finan cial difficulties, and to bring the undertaking into pro fitable operation. The report of Mr. Atkinson, the manager, stated that 460 tons of coal per day could be raised and conveyed on the line when completed, and that making allowance for the reduced price of coal, the profit, after paying all expenses, would be sufficient to pay 8i per cent. on the share capital of 79,4001., in cluding 40,0001. of new shares. The directors express their belief that the arrangement with Mr. Cameron, if carried into operation, will be for the benefit of the shareholders. The CIZAIADIAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said from the present position of their affairs it was im possible for them to go on much longer unless the share holders came forward to assist the directors by p a y ing up the calls in arrear. The creditors of the iv company were not oppressive, and they were dispose d to se them a little time, provided they saw a determination on the part of the shareholders to carry cut the undertaking without any further delay. The directors intended to circulate the report of the manage r among certain parties acquainted with mining, with a view to obtain assistance, and thereby save the property for those who had paid up all their cells. He believe d that if their affairs were put in a healthy condition, the property would yield them a good dividend. About 3,0001. would enable them to go on and bring their coal to market, for which they would obtain an immediate return. They had got over the grea t er part of the o pp osition and difficulties they had to contend against, and all . they wanted now wag pecu niary assistance to render their property productive. Aft e r a short d i scussion the report was adopted; the retiring directors, Messrs. Winthrop and Cazalett, were re-elected, and a vote of thanks was passed to the chair man, which concluded the proceedings. NEWRY, WARRENPOINT, AND ROSTREVOR The half-yearly meeting of this company was held on Wedneeday at Liverpool; Mr. F. Shand in the chair. The report stated that the payments under the work ing contract with Mr. Dargan have been made to the re ceiver up to the 9th day of July instant. The directors have from time to time been in negotiation with the Newry and Enniskillen Company, with a view of ar ranging for a distribution of the sums received from Mr. Dargan towards payment of the interest on the deben ture debt of the company, and they have at length suc ceeded in effecting terms fur that purpose, and for stay ing further litigation between the two companies. Ne gotiations between the Newry end Enniskillen and the Dublin and Belfast Junction Companies, for the purpose of effecting a junction of the two lines at Gorah, are still peeling. The CHAIRMAN said, in moving the adoption of the report, he was glad to see a prospect of the contention which had been goLg on between this company and the Newry and Enniskillen Company being settled. The terms hail not yet been distinctly stated, but he had reason to know that the basis of a satisfactory arrange ment had been agreed upon, and that therefore the legal expenses would not be continued. Those expenses had been heavy. Mr. BOWERS—Row long does Mr. Dargan's lease last? The CHAIRMAN—Five years from the commencement. One year and a half had expired. The directors of course contemplated making more of the line as soon as the lease was out. In the mean time they were receiving from Mr. Dargan more than paid their interest. They confidently hoped and expected that the Dublin and Belfast and the Newry and Enniskillen Companies would enter into such arrangements with them as would be more favourable for the interests of the shareholders, and enable them to get rid of Mr. Dargan. After some further discussion the report was adopted, and the meeting was then made special to authorise the issue of debentures for the purpose of liquidating the remaining debts of the company. SHREWSBURY AND CHESTER. The directors of this company, it appears, have de clined to comply with a requisition to call an extraordi nary meeting of the company for the purpose of consi dering a proposed agreement between the Shrewsbury and Chester and the London and North-Western Companies, assigning as their reason the agree ments already sanctioned by the shareholders of this company - with the Shrewsbury and Birming ham and the Great Western Companies, which are en tirely inconsistent with any such agreement as that now proposed. They state that the Legislature, acting upon the great principle of securing to the public a se cond mode of communication between London and Li verpool, Manchester and the North, has, in the present session, granted to the company the power of running their engines, carriages, and waggons, over the lines of the Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction Railway, from Chester towards Manchester on the one side, and towards Liverpool on the other. They have also been authorized to run over that portion of the Chester and Holyhead Railway which intervenes be tween Saltney and Chester; and, to secure them against any attempt on the part of the London and North- Western, by influencing either the Holyhead or the Birkenhead Company to impede t heir traffic to Birken head, a power has been conceded to their company to conduct their business there in a station of their own, and to demand an impartial arbitration as to tolls. They conclude by stating that this great system of communi cation may now be regarded as finally established, and any attempt to interfere with it can only result in useless litigation, ending in certain defeat. THE DEVIL AT PISA. FLORENCE, JULY 16.—One of those ridiculous prac tic a l jokes which so often end 'fatally to the actor has just occurred at Pisa, and as it occasions agreat sensa tion here, in consequence of the stain it f attaches to the o friars in one of th e convents that city, I take leave to give you the particulars, partly as I have heard them recounted by others, and partly as I find them in the local journals. At Pisa , there lived in latter years a young man, whose morals were something like the st' celebrated lean ing tower, a little inclined the wrong way, and who, among other escapades, had caused a great scandal in a respectable family, and refused to repair it by marriage, according to the prayers of the victim and the ota m antis of the Church. The gentleman was, in fa c ct; regular mauvais sujet, a fit subject for a French novel, and he went on from day to day, strutting along the banks of the Arno, and pervertiag all the foolish /Du a l s of that not over-religious vicinity, neither fitten ding to the advice of his friends or the remon strances of the clergy, till sickness overtook him in the midst of his sine, and death struck him with its most mortal arrow. Scapegrace as he was, he declined the consolations of religion in his last days, and refused to confess or repent, like another Don Giovanni. In vain an excellent and pious priest spoke of his immortal soul and the peualties prepared in the other world for those who take leave of this in find impenitence— in vain did the friars declare that the Devil would claim him as his own the moment the last sigh was drawn—and in vain did one of the reverend gentlemen recount how in a vision he saw his Infernal Majest y maltreat a hardened sinner on a similar occasion. Don Giovanni died game, as the greatest criminals often do, rbefore he gave up the ghost he made ono of his ,Teh,dst a Corsican resident at Pisa, promise that he and never watch over the body in the Chapelle Mortuaire, ho " me. hever leave it until it was consigned to its last t h d The Corsican kept his word, and alone and in f'rieencleadinhtf the night he sat by the side of his departed for twentyb-e_ o convent chapel, where corpses are exposed crated er un f ee ur hours before burial, either in cense struck tweleau ft erre.ted ground. But just as the clock cf chains, emai : l e e ep groan, accompanied by the rattling a figure enter, draersds' d and the watcher to his horror saw receipt for fitting : according to the most approved a long tail, a ehaii li a i devil, with tremendous horns, girt his body, and draped in red and black, a f a bold heart, Maj The Corsican had esty should be. Devil and he asked the Devil what he wanted. The replied by an awful groats, the rattling of chains, the outspreading of hi s claws to seize his prey. would not Corsican, still un &wilted, declared that he the n Do te allow the body se vi n l d tha h t i i m f he did to he touched, and he warned not leave the place he would to his infernal regions faster than he cameaau from them.scornful To this sp eech the Devil re plied b Y laugh, such as Zamiel in Der Freischtd- , used, d with anot h e r rattle of th e chains advanced to the coffia-s ide ; on which the fa ithful friend produced a loaded pistol, and taking sure aim, shot the Devil through the heart, and dropped him at his feet, dead, as they say at Am sterdam, as a herring or, at Birmingham, as a door nail. The report of the pistol alarmed the police, and a num. bar of those guardians of the night having appeared,they caw to their astonishment the corpse lying in its proper place, the Corsican sitting tranquilly by izs side, and a bleeding masa covered titheed and black, with a tremendous pair of horns, awellnown tail. An explanation was soon given, and when the Devil was stripped of his finery he turned out to be the fri a bellrs - man. of the convent, employed no doubt by the whole religious assistance was refused, for the purpose ootufiving a striking proof of the danger of dying with tke consolations of the Church, and of the fate to THE SUN, .------------: which all impenitent sinners are exposed. The Corsican was tried, and acquitted, as he showed that in the Tuscan code there was no penalty attached to shooting the Devil, and as he persisted in saying that when he fired he be lieved he had to deal with his Satanic Majesty, and no mortal representative. The best joke of all remains to be told, and that is, the friars of the convent declare that the whole story is a fabrication, and the Minister of Instruction announces that he will prosecute the Gazzetta die Tribunale for having inserted it. LONDON NECROPOLIS and NATIONAL MAUSOLEUM COMPANY. The following petition will be presented to the House of Commons by Sir B. Hall:— TO THE HON. THE COMMONS OF THE UNITED KINGDOM OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND IN PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED. The humble petition of the undersigned directors and others of the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company, Sheweth,— That your petitioners are the registered promoters, and with others the directors of a company called the London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Company. That your petitioners have in that capacity, and with a view to the establishment of a grand necropolis or burial-ground, obtained a site comprising 2,000 acres of land at Woking-common, in the county of Surrey. That your petitioners have caused such site to be mi nutely surveyed and examined by a surveyor of great ability and experience, and that it has been found emi nently calculated for burial purposes. That such site, moreover, possesses all the require ments of the Board of Health —namely, 1. A suitable distance from the m etropolis. 2. A moderate price and very limited outlay. vou;of appropriate a A b e soil to theadraapptiedd and to vigorous interment growthu r oses and fa 3. 4. Facility of access. 5. A double approach (by railway a nd canal with converging roads), and 6. Suitable and convenient termini. That the purchase money for such site is only 57,0001., and that the other contingent expenses of making the same available to interment purposes do not, upoa a careful estimate, exceed 93,0001., making together 150,0001. That the requisite arrangements have been made with the South-Western Railway Company for the trans mission of bodies, and the conveyance and return of mourners, upon very reasonable terms. That the comparative inexpensiveness of the site and the facility of adaptation will enable your petitioners to adopt a tariff of charges to which they will bind them selves by the sanction of your Hon. House considerably lower than that at present demanded for interment within the metropolis, or in existing cemeteries. That your petitioners will, moreover, make due re servation of the rights of the clergy and all concerned. That the funds for effecting all these objects are forth coming, a great proportion of their capital being al ready subscribed for, and that the other arrangements requisite for the adaptation of the site will occupy a comparatively very short period, and render it almost immediately available. That the two cemeteries proposed to be purchased for provisional interments out of the 137,0001. granted by your Honourable House contain only 89 acres, and are moreover surrounded by houses and a dense population, and are at most only capable of receiving under 6,000 bodies, including those already buried there; whereas the annual ordinary mortality in the metropolis alone averages 55,000. That your petitioners humbly submit a comparative statement of their contemplated expenditure and that of the Board of Health : LONDON NECROPOLIS, &C. Purchase of land, 2,000 acres Cost of making the same available as detailed in the report of their surveyors, in cluding suitable buildings, en closing, draining road, making fencing. &c., and incidental ex penses of the Company BOARD OF HEALTH. Already advanced £ 40,000 Proposed grant, to purchase two out of nine cemete ries Purchase of seven remaining ceme teries, at 50,0001. each at the least 350,000 Purchase of suit • able site of 800 acres, only at 45/. (See report) ... 36,000 Cost of mating same available, and incidental expenses 93,0001 £150,0001 656,000 Your petitioners, therefore, most humbly suggest that, concurring as your Honourable House does in the ne cessity for the prompt and effective provision of a suit able and sufficiently extensive burial-place for the bodies of all persons dying within the metropolis and its suburbs, or at least for that portion of those bodies which the most distant of the existing cemeteries can not receive, your Honourable House will not sanction a manifestly inefficient and highly costly preliminary ex penditure, and which must be auxiliary to a charge of many hundred thousand pounds upon the public when the same objects can be more completely,more promptly, and more satisfactorily effected by the contemplated measure of your petitioners. SEABORNE M ATTES. UN signifies that the malls are sent frora te General Poet-offlee by the night—and tby the morning—dispathch.] When made up in From what when PLACES. General Petit-Office port dis- due. London. patched. ...--- ..--.—•-• America (by Brit. pkt.)NIAUg. 1 .. .. ILiverpOel .. Aug. 4 America (by U.S. pkt.) N Aug. 5 .. .. Liverpool .. Aug. 12 America (by U.S. pkt.) Id Aug. 13 .. . Southampt. Aug. 7 Africa (West coast).. Nl l4 th of the month. ;Plymouth Aug. 3 Alexandria* • • ...... Nll9th & 30th of ruo.iDover .. Aug. 16 Belgium • . .. .. NlDaily • • .. .. 1 Dover .. Daily Brazil .. .. .. 31,9 th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12 Buenos Ayres • • .. Ml9th of the month ISoathampt. Aug. 12 California(via Chagres) M l 2d & 17th of month' Southam pt. Aug. 5 Cape of Good Hope N 14 th of month !Plymouth— Aug. 3 C o nstantinople* .. .. N 7th 17th 2 7th of mo ;Dover .. Aug. 10 Central America .. M,2d & 17th of mon. i Southampt. Aug. 5 Channel Isles • • .. N;Mon., Wed., & Fri.; SouthamPt. Ta. Th.S a Chili .• • • .. . Mll7th of the month ISouthampt. Aug. 5 France .. .. M & NlTwice daily .. .. (Dover .. Twicedall: Greece* • • .. .. N; 7 th 17 th 27 t h of mo Dover .. Aug. 10 Hamburgh .. .. NiTuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. Holland .. .. .. MlWednes. & Satan London .. Mea.Ther Honduras .. .. . Nll7th of the mouthlSonthampt. Aug. 5 Ireland .. .. M & NlTwice daily .. .. ;Holyhead .. Twicedaily India (via Sonthamp.) M 20th of the monthlSouthampt. Aug. 23 India (viaNtarseilles) 1117the.24th efmonth Dover .. Any. 15 Mediterranean (via Southampton) -- 31 20th of the monthSonthampt. Aug. 23 Mediterranean (via 1 Marseilles) .. .. N 7 th& 2 4 th of monthl Dover .. Aug. 15 Mexico .. ~ .. M2d of the month—lSouthampt. Aug. 5 Madeira .. .. .. M 9th of the month Southampt. Aug. 12 Malta* .. „ N ' T t B l2 ' 3 l o 7 tt hh 0 . I f 9 na th o ' n 2 T l 1 Dover Aug. 10 Naples* .. .. .. N s th 15th 25th of mo Dover • • Aug. 2 Papal States* .. .. .Nlsth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. ;Aug. 2 Peninsular .. • • .. M;7th 17th 27th of mo Southampt. ; Aug. 5 Peru .. .. .. .. M;l7th of the month ISouthampt. Aug. 5 Tuscany* .. .. .. Rsth 15th 25th of moiDover • • Aug. 2 West Indies .. .. M ; l7th of the month Southampt. Aug. 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 71.1,2 d of the month .. Southampt. Aug. 5 . . ..., • I2d of the month ountries thus marl Southaaapt. !Aug. 5 Led (*) are conveyed by * The mails to those c French packet 'lda Marsei CA.LxFoarits.—Mails to are now despatched and d and from Californt Me by every Amen la, via the United States ican packet. A MERCHANT VESSEL SEI . ZED BY THE PASSENGERS The Advocate, or St. Helena Weekly IVews, a paper re cently started at St. Helena, gives an account of some extraordinary occurrences said to have taken place on board a vessel called the Levenside, and which were being investigated by the authorities of the island. The vessel had on board Captain Vesey, of the Royal Artil lery, in command of a detachment of his corps, and Capt. Neill, aide-decamp to the expected governor, Sir Emer son Tennent. She arrived on the 29th of May, and it appeared that on the 15th of that month, while at sea, Capt. Campbell, the master, ordered the booby-hatch to be closed. This was done, an d immediately afterwards Capt. Vesey summoned the troops under his charge to take off the hatch in defiance of the master's order, which was immediately carried into effect. On the 17th, two days after this, a squabble appears to have taken place between one of the soldiers and the ship's carpenter. Captain Vesey insisted that the carpenter should be punished, bat Captain Campbell, the master of the vessel, would not punish the man. This led to some sharp words between the officers, and it is asserted that Captain Vesey said he had a superior force on board, and should not hesitate to use it when he thought requisite. This language appears to have excited Captain Campbell. At half-past eight o'clock at night, the captain ordered the booby-hatch to be put on; but no sooner was the order given than Captain Vesey, in charge of the troops, said it should not be done. Captain Campbell then pulled out a pistol, and told Captain Vesey that if he at tempted to interfere with him, and prevent any of the crew obeying his orders, he would shoot him through the heart. Upon this qualified threat being uttered, Captain Vesey immediately called his men to fall in round the hatchway, and ordered the bombs dier to go below for arms. This order was instantly obeyed, and as soon as Captain Campbell saw the arms being handed up t h e hatchway he went forward, seized hold of one of the m uskets, and ' commanded the soldier to give it up, saying, "put that down, it does not belong to you—it belongs to the ship." The soldier refused, whereupon a struggle took place for the gun, when some one called out, " seize him 1" on which several soldiers seized the captain, threw him against a boat, wrenched the pistol out of his hand, as well as the musket he attempted to take from the soldier. Captain Vesey then ordered his hands to be lashed behind his back, and it appears, at the instigation of Captain Neill, he was hurried into the hold and secured to a stancheon. The next morning he was unlashed from the stancheon, and h a d strong chains fastened to his wrists by pa dlocks. In this position he was kept in the hold, twelve days and nights, with an armed sentinel keeping watch over him. lie was not allowed to com municate with the crew during this time, nor was he released from his captivity, even ou the arrival of the vessel in the roads, till the police went on board and caused him to be unchained. Im mediately Captain Campbell was seized and forced into the hold, Captain Vesey commanded one of the soldiers to turn every one belonging to the crew out of the cabin, and take possession of it, which was done. He then seized the ship's papers, and the vessel was navi gated by the mates, by direction of Captain Vesey, and on its arrival at St. Helena, on the 26th, be went on allegedshore, i reason for not allowing the booby - hatch to be closed s, that the weather was hot, and that it would After four en danger the hea d l a th ys o , fthetnen,about thirteen in number. to murder. Informationi w as committed for trial , on th e investigati on Captain Campbell was a charge of assault with intent asi t h en i d th l e a othersidby Ca ptain o Camp bell against Captain VeseyhipCuaamenp: gers, for piracy, and illegal seizure of the ship, which information was taken and signA by the magistrates• CHARING-CROSS HOSPITAL MEDICAL SCHOOL. The annual distribution of priz , ts and testimonials of honour to the students most distinguished for their ac quirements in the various branches of medical study at this institution took place on Wednesday in the board room of the institution; the Rev. IL Mackenzie, A.M., vicar of the parish, in the chair. The following were the successful competitors:— Materia Medics—Silver Medal, Mr. Thomas Terry, Bath; Certificate, Mr. Frederick Dalton, Doughty street, London. Anatomy Senior—Silver Medal, Mr. John Williams, Cardiff; Certificate, Mr. David Thomas Morris,Carmar then (with the addition of the " Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper," given by Mr. H urd, the Professor of A n atomy). Anatomy Junior—Bronze Medal, Mr. Frederick Dal ton, London; Certificate, Mr. John Wickham Barnes, Bath. Midwifery Senior—Silver Medal. Mr. W. J. Golds boro, Glasspool; Certificates, Mr. J. King, Newbury; and Mr. Alfred Harvey, Blakesmere, Herts. Midwifery Junior—Bronze Medal, Mr. J. S. Tucker, Sheepwalk. Devonshire; Certificate, Mr. Thomas Simp son, Bishop's Stortford. Physiology Senior—Silver Medal, Mr. J. Williams, Cardiff. Physiology Junior—Bronze Medal, Mr. R. Fish, St. John's-wood; Certificate, Mr. Frederick Dalton, London. Medicine Senior—Silver Medal, Mr. D. T. Morris, Carmarthen; Certificate, Mr. J. Williams, Cardiff (with a gift from Dr. Rowland, the Professor of Medicine). Medicine Junior—Bronze Medal, Mr. J. L. Tucker, Devonshire; Certificate, Mr. A. Harvey, Blakesmere, Hefts (with a gift from the Professor). Surgery Senior—Silver Medal, Mr. H. B. Lingham, Brixton; Certificate, Mr. W. H. Folker, Oxford (with a gift from the Professor). Surgery Junior—Bronza, Medal, Mr. J. W. Barnes, Bath; Certificate, Mr. J. L. Tucker, Devonshire. Botany—Silver Medal, Mr. T. Simpson, Bishop's Stortford; Certificate, Mr. Charles Ewington, London. Medical Jurisprudence—Silver Medal, Mr. T. W. J. Goldsboro, Glasspool; Certificate, Mr. A. Harvey. Clinical—Silver Medal, Mr. W. H. Folker, Oxford; Certificate, Mr. C. Ricketts, London. General Proficiency—Gold Medal, Mr. J. Williams, Cardiff; Silver Medal, Mr. D. T. Morris, Carmarthen. Diligence and Good Conduct —Honorary, Mr. Folker, Oxford; Testimonials, Mr. Goldsboro, Glasspool; Mr. George, Kerton Lindsey, Lincolnshire; and Mr. Ricketts, London. From the observations made by the chairman, and some of the professors who addressed the meeting in the course of the proceeding, it appeared that the re sources of the charity had been severely tested dur ing the past year, no less than 19,105 (1,210 in and 17,895 out) indigent sick persons having been admitted during the period upon the books for relief, at a cost of 2,4301. Of those 17,885 were relieved without any re commendation whatsoever. The entire number of sick and needy individuals relieved by the institution from its establishment as a dispensary in 1818 to the 31st of December, 1850, was 186,863. CRUEL TREATMENT OF A LUNATIC. At the Western Circuit on Tuesday John Yeo (out on bail), a respectable looking farmer, residing at Lew Trenchard, in the Tavistock Union, was indicted for un lawfully assaulting Charles Luxmoore, knowing him to be a destitute person of unsound mind, he having under taken the charge of him. There were several other counts in the indictment varying the charge. Several witnesses were examined, who stated that the lunatic Luxmoore had been confined by the defen dant, who was his brother-in-law, in a small cell, badly lighted and ventilate d, and without a fire-place. When the discovery of the situation of the lunatic was made the cell was disgustingly filthy, and the unfortunate creature's legs were confined by a chain. The place of confinement was seven lent long, five feet broad, and about six feet high. He made the following explanatory statement of the circumstances, and which was given in evidence: — I am a farmer at Orchard. The lunatic was my brother-in-law. I have known him twenty years. He was brought up a blacksmith. He was always weak in bead and strange in conduct, and his mother told me that he was of weak intellect from child hood. About thirteen years ago his parents, thinking he would otherwise get into some mischief, had the chain rivetted on his leg, which is now on. I don't know that it has ever been off since he slipped it off about seven years ago, when it was put on more securely. He was us a cell for nine years similar to that from which he was removed yesterday. About four years ago I removed him from Germansweek to Orchard, and he has been treated as before. He never had clothes because he would tear them. About twenty years since his uncle left him 100/., which he soon spent. Sometimes he is violent and sometimes he is quiet for a long time. He was dressed yesterday. Four years ago he was dressed to be removed from Germansweek to Orchard. He sang well in church, and read and wrote well. His parents have 301. a year, an annuity from lunatic's uncle. Both his parents are bed-Tiers, the mother having been in bed for two years, and the father a longer time. They thought it the parish took charge of him they would have to pay for it. None of the relations are insane." The Learned Judge, in summing up, said that a state of things had been disclosed, in which ignorance of the law was the only excuse. There was a principle of law which although seemingly hard at first was not so on in spection. It was that although a man broke the laws in ignorance, yet that was no justification of the offence, he must pay the penalty. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a ver die,: of Guilty, and the prisoner was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the common gaol, the Learned Judge saying that he would not under the circumstances subject the prisoner to the ignominy of the House of Correction. SOCIETY OF ARTS. The annual meeting of this valuable institution was held on Wednesday evening at the society& rooms, John-street, Adelphi; Mr. Henry Cole presided. The report con gratulated the members on the flourishing condition of the society. The ordinary income of the society for the financial year ending Jane 30, 1851, was 1,9461., being an increase of 921. over the income of the previous year. The ordinary expenditure was 1,4421., being 5401. below the receipts. The liabilities at present amount to 1,6961.; last year they were 2,4021. There was at present in the hands of the treasurer a balance of 435 L, and uncol lected subscriptions of 4791., 2501. of which amount might be reckoned upon as certain, making a sum of 6851. to be set against a liability of 54 a. incurred in the ordinary business of the society. During the past year no less than 7061. of liability incurred in former years had been liquidated, and the current annual income over the expenditure was 1061. 2s. Bd.; after providing for all proper expenditure, and allowing 125/. for depreciation in value of the so ciety's lease. The accounts had been submitted to the inspection of Messrs. Quilter and Ball, who drew— " Attentian to one or two points presented on a com parison of them with those of the preceding year. Thus, the balance of cash in the hands of the bankers on the 30th of June, 1850, was only 4341. 165., whereas at the corresponding date of 1850 it amounted to 941/. 13s. 3d., being a difference of 5091.175. 3d., apparently against the present year i n this item of the society's costs. But the difference is amply and satisfactorily explained by ob serving that the liabilities of the society on the 30th June, 1851, are less than they amounted to at the cor responding date of 1850, by the sum of 7061. Is. 6d. Thus, on the 30th June, 1850, they amounted only to 2,4021. I Is. 11d. On the 30th June, 1851, they amounted only to 1,6961. 10s. 6d., being a difference in favour of the present year of 7061. le. 5d." Mr. Redgrava proposed the adoption of the report and accounts. Mr. Murchison seconded the motion. Mr. Newton said he was glad to see the prosperity of the society, but he did not think its usefulness had in creased proportionably. In the last year or two little had been done by the society, compared with what it had done in former years, but he trusted that would soon be remedied. The report was then adopted. A special meeting was then held for the purpose of making some alterations in the by-laws. The Chairman said the alterations were proposed for the purpose of extending the usefulness of the society. At present, the business of the society was conducted by five committees, of eleven members each, besides the Council. Now, it would always be found that large committees were, to a certain extent, inoperative; in the case of the fine arts committee, for instance, which had charge of sculpture, painting, engraving, &c. Some departments were sure to be looked after more than others, and some might be altogether neglected. It was, therefore, proposed that there should in future be thirty committees, with only three members in each, and that each committee should be required annually to present a report to the society. Another change was proposed to provide against the sleepiness of the society. At present the members of the council wore all eligible for re-election upon retiring pro forma ; but it was now proposed that one-fourth of the council should be compelled to retire annually, the same principle being applied to the vice-presidents, the treasurer, and audi tors. It was also proposed that six of the most efficient reporters upon the committee should be annually nomi nated to fill vacancies in the council. The thirty stand ing committees are to take charge of the several classes of subjects under which the Exhibition of the Works of Industry has been arranged. The secretary then read the new code of by-laws, the main features of w hich we have noticed. After some conversation the by-laws were adopted, and the proceedings terminated. REMEDY FOR BURNS.—Dr. Reese, late physician I of Bellevue Hospital, New York, has been making experi ments concernina the best mode of healing burns and scalds, and checking the acute suffering. He has found that Motu, thrown oa with a common dredging box, is one of the best and most efficient remedies yet discovered. The ex ternal air is one cause of suffering, and the flour thus ap plied, both heals and closes . the wounds to the atmosphere. The edges of the wound which remained open, he dressed with lime and oil, applied by a feather. Dr. Reese says the above application made to wounds by fire, &c., has been most Iwo , in the practice at the hospital. TREtWEST OF ENGLAND FIRE BRIGADE.—Great curiosity was excited yesterday in the neighbourhood of the Crystal Palace, in consequen ce of the arrival of a splendid brass band in a large vehicle, followed by the West of Eng land firemen, mounted on their engines, with a number of beautiful flags floating in the air. It was soon ascertained that the party was going to view the Grea t Exhibition. The directors of the company, in order to show their satisfaction at the manner the men performed their arduous, and often dangerous duties, paid for their admission to the Exhibition. The whole of the corps were dressed in new livery , a nd the procession had a very imposing effect. After going over the Palace, the firemen returned in procession, and afterwards sat down to a sumptuous dinner, provided by the company at Waterloo-road, Lambeth. the Hero of Waterloo Inn, . 1- UMPERI LIOUSE OF LORDS. ,fuly 31. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Woo!- sack at Five o'clock. ECCLESIASTICAL RESIDENCES (IRELAND) BILL. Lord REDESDALE brought up th© report on this Bill. PETITIONS. The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented several petitions from places in Ireland in favour of the Eccle siastical Tides Assumption Bill. Lord W HARNCLIFFE presented several petitions in favour of the preservation of the Crystal Palace. LEASEHOLD TENURE OF LAND (IRELAND) ACT AMENDMENT BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved the third read ing of this Bill. • After a few observations from the Marquis of Donegal Lord Beaumont, and Lord Monteagle, the Bill was read a third time and passed. MERCANTILE MARINE ACT AMENDMENT _ BILL. On the motion of Earl GRANVILLE, this Bill was passed through Committee. STOCK-IN-TR,ADE BILL. Earl GRANVILLE moved the third reading of this Bill. The Earl of MALMESBURY did not intend to op pose the third reading of the Bill, but he could not suf fer it to pass without a few observations. This Bill was regularly introduced every year, and passed almost as a matter of course. Yet it was clear that stock in trade was liable to be rated to the poor-rates, but that the difficulties in the way of rating it were such that it was necessary to introduce this Bill every year. The consequence was, that the burden of maintaining the poor fell upon the real property of the country. All the ameliorations which had recently taken place had been for the benefit of persons engaged in trade, and who, by this Bill, were also exempted from the burden of maintaining the poor, and it was the duty of the Government to propose such alterations in the law of parochial settlement as would give to the landed interest that relief from parochial burdens to which they were entitled. A Bill regulating parochial settlement had been promised by the Government, but had not been brought forward; and he should like to hear from some momber of the Government a reason why this Bill had not been brought forward. The agricultu ral class had by free trade suffered a depreciation of their property of 15 per cent., and yet the burdens of the poor fell exclusively upon that class. Earl GREY said that a Bill on the subject of paro chial assessment had long been drawn up, but it could only be introduced into the other !louse of Parliament, and there bad been no opportunity during the present session of introducing it with any prospect of passing it, for there was no subject on which such a variety of opinions existed as on the law of settlement, yet he acknowledged that there was no law which stood in greater need of amendment than that law. Ho would not, however, refrain from reminding his Noble Friend that year after year the proportion of these bur dens borne by the landlord was rapidly diminishing, and that great relief from these burdens had been already afforded to the lauded interest. The Marquis of SALISBURY expressed a hope that the Bill to be introduced upon that subject next session would not be one of a merely temporary character. After a few words from Earl GRANVILLE, The Bill was read a third time and passed. THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR having moved the third reading of this Bill, The Earl of MALMESBURY said he thought they would not be treating the other House fairly by sending down to that House a Bill of that importance, with not less than ninety clauses, within four or five days of its close of the session. He believed that their Lordships would not give assent to a Bill brought before them under similar circumstances. The LORD CHANCELLOR expressed a hope that their Lordships would assent to the Bill, which he looked upon as one of a very valuable character, and the merits of which had already been fully canvassed. He thought it likely that the other House would adopt th measure; and he further believed that their Lord shie ps ought to pass it whatever might bo its fate else where. The Earl of MALMESBURY said that he thought her Majesty's Government must have been guilty of what he should call inexcusable carelessness in not having brought forward that measure at an earlier period of the session. Why, ho would,ask, had it not been introduced in that House during the first three months of the session, when their Lordships had had little or no business of any kind to discharge? Lord WHARNCLIFFE said that as a member of the Commission that had inquired into that subject, he could state that the Bill had not been brought under the con sideration of the*Government until after the commence ment of the session. The Marquis of SALISBURY said that he thought his Noble Friend whe had preceded him had taken blame to himself, and that if the Commission had been as diligent as it ought to have been, the Bill could have been brought before Parliament at an earlier period of the session. He believed that if the House of Com mons were to do their duty to their constituents, they would not pass the measure during the present session. The Bill was then read a third time and passed. COURT OF CHANCERY AND JUDICIAL COM MITTEE BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in moving the second reading of this Bill, said that as considerable arrears had taken place in the appeal business before the Court of Chancery it had been thought desirable to increase the judicial staff for dealing with that business. The means which had at first been suggested for carrying out that object had led to considerable difference of opinion; but after much discussion and consideration the present Bill had been brought forward, and had been fortunate enough to receive the approbation of all those whose attention bad been directed to the subject. The main object of the Bill was to create new. judges for hearing appeal cases, and it would also provide that those judges should be members of the Judicial Committee. The duties of that Committee had become exceedingly important, and it had therefore been thought desirable that its members should receive the aid of the new judges when these judges should not be engaged in the Court of Chan cery. The Bill did not deal with the general question of the administration of justice in that court, and their Lordships were no doubt aware that a Commission which had recently been appointed was at present en gaged in investigating, that important subject. Ho was authorised to state that a Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Lyndhurst, wo believe), on whose opinion the House de servedly set a very high value, decidedly approved of the Bill then under their Lordships' consideration, and that it had also met with the approval of another Noble and Learned Lord (Lord Brougham, we believe) then absent from indispoeition. All those legal gentlemen, who had given an opinion upon the subject, had also expressed themselves in favour of the measure. He trusted, therefore, that their Lordships would see no reason to refuse their assent to the second reading of the Bill. He would take that opportunity of correcting an erroneous impression which very generally prevailed, to the effect that hardly any attempt had been made in re cent titres to improve the administration of justice in the Court Chiencery. The truth was that for a period of more than 20 years the attention of the heads of that court bad been constantly directed to that subject, and that se series of great improvements had been the result of those labours. In the year 1824 Lord Eldon, who had at that time been Lord Chancellor, had caused a Com mission to be appointed for the purpose of inquiring ge nerally into the practice of the Court of Chancery, and that Commission, which had consisted of between twenty and thirty legal g entlemen of the highest distinction, after an inquiry which had lasted two years, had pro duced, as the result of its labours, an immense folio volume, containing a vast number of most useful sug gestions. In the year 1827 Lord Lyndhurst had suc ceeded to the office of Lord Chancellor, and that Noble and Learned Lord, after having directed his attention to the report of the Commission appointed under Lord Eldon, had in the year 1828 issued a number of orders for expediting and cheapening business in the Court of Chancery. In the year 1830 an Act had been passed for the purpose of improving th© jurisdiction of that court, and also for the purpose of amending the prac tice of the court in regard to commitments for con tempt. That latter measure, which was known as Sir E. Sugden's Act, had very .much mitigated the severity of the law in relation to those commitments. In the year 1832, Lord Brougham had become Lord Chancellor, and in the year 1833 that Noble and Learned Lord had is sued a great number of orders for improving the practice of the Court. There had been issued altogether, since the Great Seal had been committed to Lord Lyndhurst, not less than between 500 or 600 orders for the accom plishment of the same object. In the year 1840, Lord Cottenham had issued an additional number of those orders. Since that time three or four Acts of Parliament had been passed for the purpose of diminishing the ex pense of suits in the Court of Chancery, and of facilitat ing the transaction of business in that Court. When he (the Lord Chancellor) had last year been raised to the office which ho had then the honour to fill he had issued 30 or 40 orders; and he believed that no one was more convinced than he was that the administration of justice ought to be improved to the utmost possible extent. A committee, consisting of seven or eight legal gentlemen, had some time since been appointed for the purpose of inquiring into the best means of improving the ad ministration of justice in the Court of Chancery; and to that commission there had lately been added, on the recommendation of the House of Commons, two lay gentlemen, whose labours, in co-operation with those of members of the legal profession, would, ho trusted, lead to the most valuable results. Much, no doubt, still remained to be done for the improvement of the Court of Chancery; but the complaint that nothing had hitherto been done for the attainment of that object was utterly unfounded. Ho believed that the only ground fur sur prise was that so much had been done in that way, in spite of the great complexity and extent of the interests with which the Court of Chancery had to deal. All the former commissions which had inquired into that sub ject had been authorised to deal merely with the prac tice of the Court, while the present commission would also address itself to the jurisdiction of the Court, with a view to ascertain what alterations might with itdrantage be effected in that jurisdiction. He believed that the Bill then before them would be productive of consider able ,advantage, by adding to the appellate force in the Court of Chancery, and by enabling the Lord Chancel lor to give more of his attention than he could heretofore have given to the business which came before their Lordship. He trusted that, under these circumstances, they would have no hesitation in aesenting to the second reading of the measure. The Earl of ABERDEEN said he believed it was well known that although his Noble and Learned Friend then absent from the House (Lord Lyndhurst) approved of the Bill as far as it went, he regarded it as merely a EVENING, LONDON, FRIDAY ! small step in the right direction. There was one impor- production of the minutes, he could not give a positive rtanatpiat to which ha (the Earl of Aberdeen) wished answer without communicating with the members of i 1:•:, f-;!!' in o.pPei , ll •rtt , ntion of thcir T. ,-, rrps. 7.10r0 • t•ba Governmont .7 .n. couni,xioa *h 2f :2 the board, : e (lid than two-thirds of the appeal cases which were brought not think there would be say objection to the produc before the House came from Scotland. Now under all tion of them, but thought that, if produced, other papers the circumstances of the case it was surprising how well would require to be produced at the same time. No the cases wore disposed of, and he believed that the de- one was more persuaded than ho was of the good inten cisions with respect to them had given on the whole tions of the members of the board, but he doubted very great satisfaction. But still the state of appeals whether, in their eagerness to accomplish a great re from Scotland was not altogether unobjectionable. He form, they had not a little too much neglected minor had no doubt but the Noble and Learned Lord on the advantages which might have been immediately ob woolsack would do all that could ho done to effect reform tamed. Upon that point he was not prepared to offer in that particular branch of the administration of justice. a positive opinion. The mode in which the English judges had adesinis- Lord MONTEAGLE thought the explanation of the tered the law on appeals from Scotland, it was admitted, Noble Earl opposite (the Earl of Shaftesbury) fully had given general satisfaction to that country. But acquitted him of any charge of having neglected his there was one point particularly to which ho wished to duties. direct consideration, and that was the manner in which appeals in some instances stayed execution of the sen tence. He believed that up to some years ago the same was the case in England; but in Scotland the fact of appeals stopping the execution of the sentence gave en couragement, in many instances, to the entering of ap peals. He thought the suggestions which he had thrown out were worthy the Noble and Learned Lord's con- MINES AND COLLIERIES. Lord WHARNCLIFFE rose to move for a return of the names of the inspectors appointed under the Act of last session for the inspection of collieries, together with the districts and salaries assigned to them, and the in structions issued for their guidance. He believed that under that Act thirty inspectors had been appointed; that salaries had been assigned to them—their districts marked out, and that they had for some time been occu pied in the discharge of their duties. As the Commit tee had recommended that the greatest publicity should be given to all information regarding the management of mines and collieries, he wished to know if Govern ment were prepared to produce any, and to lay on the table this session whatever information they had re ceived on the subject in the shape of reports from the inspectors. The Earl of CARLISLE said he had no objection to the motion. The inspectors were to report at the end of a year, but that period of time had not elapsed since their appointment. The Government, however, anxious to ob tain as much information on the subject as possible, had directed the inspectors to prepare a general report from the date of their appointment to the 24th June. Two reports had been received, and two more were ex pected in a few days. Ho had no objection to lay the two which had been received on the table. He was happy to say that considerable good had been effected since the appointment of the inspectors. The proprie tors of mines and collieries had received their visits with great goodwill, and had promptly complied with their suggestions. Earl NELSON presented petitions in favour of the preservation of the Crystal Palace. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the Ecclesiastical Property Retention (Ireland) Bill was read a third time and passed. The Nor..rx and LEARNED LORD then presented a pe tition from the Associated Law Society, praying that the salaries of the judges might be paid out of the Con solidated Fund instead of out of the Suitors' Fee Fund. Adjourned. sidoration. Lord CR ANWORTH said he did not think they could venture to make any change in the practice of an appeal from the Court of Session, Scotland, to that. House, without great danger; and more especially as the admis nistration of justice in that place had been acknowledged to give unmixed satisfaction in Scotland. His own ex perience fully satisfied him that the general principles of the laws of different countries differed much less than was supposed. The appeals from Scotland, as now con ducted, gave general satisfaction, and he did not think any great change could be effected with advantage. Com plicated inquiries into property, and the administration of justice with respect to important and varied claims, would alway be tedious and expensive, and that was no reason why they should not do all they could to make such improvements as the circumstances of the case permitted. The LORD CHANCELLOR, in briefly replying, ob served that not long since a deputation from Scotland had waited on him on the subject of the anomaly of the law between the two countries in the matter of appeal, but all the suggestions which had been made by the Fa culty of Advocates and others had been inefficacious to afford a practical remedy, and so matters stood as they had been. The suggestion, however, of the Noble Earl with respect to the staying of execution was worth at tention, and should receive his serious consideration. The Bill then before the House would cause a great im provement in the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery here. The Bill was then read a second time, and ordered to be committed. MEDICAL CHARITIES (IRELAND) BILL. The Marquis of CLANRICARDE moved the second reading of the above Bill, the objects of which he briefly stated. One of the objects of the Bill was to secure medical advice and assistance to poor persons in places where the present state of the law would leave them totally unprovided unless a certain amount of local sub scriptions should have been contributed. It was proposed to put all the medical charities under the supervision of a central board, and to constitute the Poor-law Commis sioners that controlling power. The country was to be subdivided into districts for the purposes of the Act. The motion was understood to have been put and agreed to. INTRAMURAL INTERMENTS. Lord MONTEAGLE begged to ask a few questions of a Noble Earl whom he saw in his place, or his Noble Friend the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, on a subject of the greatest importance, and upon which it was fitting some more definite information should he conveyed to the House than had been already laid before it. His questions related to interments in the metropo lis, a matter of so much consequence that her Majesty had alluded to it in the Royal Speech at the close of last session. rafter referring to the Act of last session, and a report describing the unwholesomeness and dangerous condition of some of the churchyards of the metropolis, the Noble Lord asked his Noble Friend opposite (the Earl of Shaftsbury) what had been the cause of the de lay in carrying out the Act—what steps had been taken to put the Bill of last year in force, or whether matters were to be lett in their present position? The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said he felt very deeply the delay which had occurred between the passing of the Act referred to and its being carried into full opera tion, because the statements made of the condition of many localities in this vast and crowded metropolis were by no means exaggerated. Every day's experience con vinced the Board of Health of the wisdom and practical utility of the measure which had been carried. The Beard of Health had been charged with neglect and de lay, but he could fully rebut that accusation by a brief statement of the progress of their proceedings since the Act first passed. On the very day it received the Royal assent the board had met to take proceedings under it, and they had published advertisements giving all the necessary notices to parties interested, in order that they might not be takon by surprise. They had extended the time of notice from six weeks to two months. Some members of the board had then gone to Paris. for the purpose of obtaining all the information they could on the subject, and had then put themselves in communication with the cemetery companies of London, as required by the Act ; but these companies had refused to give them any docu ments or any information by which they might arrive at an estimate of their probable valuation. They had sub divided the metropolis also into districts, and made all the arrangements necessary for carrying the Act into operation. On the 23d of November the board had pre pared a full scheme for bringing the Act into force, which they had laid before the Treasury. Every one had approved, not only of the necessity, but the practi cability of the plan suggested, which involved the ex pediency of the immedaite purchase of all the ceme teries. No reply had been received to that proposal until the 22d of January, upon which a correspond ence had taken place, and on the 20th of March the board had received permission to proceed as they had suggested, but they were recommended to purchase the cemeteries not altogether, but separately. They had then served notice on one of those companies, and the most tediose proceedings which the Act sanctioned had been adopted, and these were at the present moment going on. Up to the moment at which he was address ing. their Lordships the awards had not been made. In the meantime the board proceeded to take estimates for new cemeteries, and on the 28th of April were commis sioned by the Treasury to purchase ground. On the 13th of May the board applied to the Treasury for per mission to contract a loan from the Guardian Assurance Company, and obtained their permission, but they did not receive the answer of that company till the 18th of June, when they declined to lend any money to a body whose existence was limited to a period of five years. On the 9th of June permission was obtained to negotiate a loan with the Royal Exchange Assurance Company, but no answer was received till the 24th, when they said the security was not sufficient. On the 3d of July copies of the letters from the directors of the Royal Exchange So ciety were sent to the Treasury. On the 10th a final an swer was received from the directors, and was forwarded to the Treasury. Not a moment, he undertook to say, had been wasted by the board. The proposal made by the board was that they should have a commission with a permanent existence and complete control over all funerals. The Government altered that plan by referring that part of the' proposal to the Board of Health, and by intro ducing a clause with respect to the second part, which left the plan open to the objections of the Royal Ex change Company; and yet the board were told that it was in consequence of their neglect and of the crudeness of their scheme that all these difficulties had occurred. He was never more surprised in his life than he was when informed that a high authority in the Govern ment considered the scheme a bad one. He declared solemnly that he had never heard from any member of the Government that they considered the scheme a bad scheme. The board had compunicated the difficulties the very instant they were brought to their knowledge; and ho maintained that it was not owing to the board that the delays had occurred. He did not care one straw for any attack made on himself in consequence of the part he had taken in administering the Act, but he must say, in defence of his two colleagues, Mr. Chad wick and Dr. Southwood Smith, that he never knew two moro diligent, upright, and intelligent men than they were. They had not been defended by these who could have spoken on their behalf, and he felt for them what he did not feel or care about as regarded himself: In justice to himself, to his colleagues, to the board, and to the public, he maintained there ought to be laid on the table a full and authentic copy of all the correspondence on the subject, and then it would be seen whether the Board of Health were justly to be blamed. The Earl of CARLISLE did not mean to enter into the merits of the question, because he was not cognizant of all the different negotiations and transactions which had taken place between the Board of Health and the Treasury. With reference to any expression which might have fallen from the high authority referred to by the Noble Earl, he was willing to hope that some misap prehension existed, because he knew that the members of the Government generally were most anxious for the success of this measure, to which they themselves had been parties. For himself, be had stated his deep re gret that circumstances had hitherto prevented a more rapid progress being made. He needed not to acquaint the Noble Earl of the circumstances which bad interfered with public business in the other House, and which had prevented the introduction of various measures —one on thie subject, arming others—which otherwise would have been introduced. He believed that a Bill calculated to re move some of the difficulties, though he feared the Noble Earl would not think it calculated to remove all the dif ficulties, was actually in progress through the other House. With regard to the board, it was well known it had most obnoxious duties to perform—that it had to point out defects ande w call attention to liaaacdheisn,caunrcric,pdeir haps it had incurred a considera . nle amouut of o bl oquy, cbouttistehqautenocbeloogruytli b e s traightforward dscharge of the du ties entrusted to it. He did not claim for the members of it exemption from error, but be believed no other persons could have been found who w ou ld h ave more zea l ous ly devoted themselves to the management of all those iuterests with wince Parliament had entrusted Earl of HARROBY thought th e Government t w h e tT r m e h'e tn W blame for not having come forward to defend the members of the Board of Health. He believed the members of the Government in their Lordships' House were zealous and sincere in their wish to carry out the Act, but he had good reason to believe that other mem bers of the Government had taken opportunities, not to promote the pleasure, but to throw difficulties in the way of it. He wished to know whether there would be any objection to the production of the Treasury minutes on the subject. Eel.' GREY said that the Noble Earl had pronounced a severe censure on souse members of the Government, but he submitted that such charges ought not to have been made, except at the proper time—after notice, and with full information on the table. With regard to the AM ENT A'UG-UST 1, 1851. ROUSE OF COMMONS, July 31. Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL. The House then went into - Committee On this Bill. --- Mr. SCULLY urged the Government not to proceed further with this Bill, and moved that the Chairman do now leave the chair. Sir R. FERGUSON also thought it was a waste of time to go on with the Bill. Lord NAAS, on the other hand, hoped Government would persevere with the Bill. Sir W. SOMERVILLE declined to accede to the appeal which had bee❑ made to him, and insisted that the Bill was one of great importance to Ireland, while its principle had been twice adopted, once last year and once this. _ _ Mr. M'CULLAGH retorted that tho adoption was agreed to without discussion, and he therefore contended that the Bill ought to be delayed for another session. Mr. CONOLLY was favourable to proceeding with the Bill. Mr. B. OSBORNE thought on public grounds one ma4istrale was not sufficient to adjudicate in the cases which this Bill provided for. Sir H. W. BARRON was a supporter of the one ma gistrate clause, because it would assist the poor man in obtaining justice. At present the magistrates in Ireland ware so much iu debt that they were unable to leave their homes, and the consequence was a virtual denial of justice to the poor man, who often arrived in the police court to find only one magistrate in attendance; and, as by the existing law his case required two, he was com pelled to put up with the trouble and expense of a post ponement. Mr. WAKLEY considered the clause was atrocious. No one man ought to have the power of imprisoning another for twelve months in the manner which the Bill provided, and he trusted the clause which gave the power would be expunged from the Bill. The existence of such a power was only calculated to inspire the poor with feelings of hatred towards the rich. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was a useless waste of time to discuss the details before the Committee had decided whether they would go on with the Bill or not. Mr. E. B. ROCHE said the Government were not acting friendly towards the magistracy of Ireland in placing the onus on them of deciding singly in the cases embraced by this Bill. In England neither the people nor the magistracy would submit to it. Captain SCOI3ELL recognised no distinction between Ireland and Great Britain. Now he knew of no statute which gave such a power to a single magistrate in Eng land, and in these days of Liberalism he saw no reason for extending it to the sister kingdom. He should, therefore, oppose it, even at the expense of sacrificing the Bill, which was otherwise a very useful one. Sir W. SOMERVILLE was understood to say that in Ireland a single magistrate never exercised the power of imprisoning to: twelve months. Mr. F. FRENCH supported the clause. It would be a great inconvenience to the people of Ireland to force them to put off their cases from time to time until they could secure the attendance of two magistrates. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it would be a pity to sacrifice the rest of the Bill for the sake of the clause, and if the Committee would consent to proceed with the Bill, he would on the report with ' draw the second section of clause 10, which gave the objectionable power to one magistrate. After some further discussion the proposal of the Government was assented to, and the motion for leaving the chair was withdrawn. The Bill then went through Committee, and the House having resumed, the Chairman reported accord ingly, and the report was ordered to be received to- morrow. ATTORNEYS AND SOLICITORS' REGULATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This Bill went through Committee. LAW OF EVIDENCE AMENDMENT BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 3) BILL. This Bill was passed through Committee. CROWN ESTATES PAVING BILL. This Bill went through Committee. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH (No. 4) BILL. This Bill was read a second time. The House adjourned at Quarter-past Three o'clock until a Quarter-past Five. The House resumed at a Quarter-past Five. Sir B. HALL presented al petition from Marylebone, signed by 14,000 persons, against the removal of the Crystal Palace. Several petitions were presented to the same effect. Mr. CARD YELL presented a petition from Liver pool in favour of the Church Buildings Extension Amend ment Act. THE NEW HOUSE. Mr. GREENE said he was instructed by Dr. Reid to intimate that any deficiency , in ventilation which had been experienced in the new House was not owing to any failure in the apparatus, which in fact had not yet been fully prepared. THE EPISCOPAL AND CAPITULAR ESTATES MANAGEMENT (No. 2) BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this Bill, Colonel SIBTHORP objected to going on with a Bill of this importance at so late a period of the session. The attempt to smuggle it through was certainly very suspi cious. He thought it was unbecoming, to say the least of it, for the Government to persist in pressing it forward. H e should, therefore, take the sense of the House upon the question that this Bill be read a second time this day si x months. Sir B. HALL thought that before they went on with this Bill they ought to have an explanation from the Government of what was the real opinion of the Com missioners who had been appointed to inquire into the subject, since the Bill was certainly not founded on the report which they had presented. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER could not see what objection there could be to the present Bill, since every improvement which it proposed was not for the benefit of any particular bishop, but for the Church in general. The scheme of the Bill was in his opinion a far better scheme than the one recommended by the Commissioners. Mr. AGLIONBY said that, though he was fully alive to the importance of putting all the bishops on a footing of certainty and equality, still he hoped that those who had charge of the Bill would not press forward with indecent haste to carry this measure of so great im portance. It was said that it was only permissive. Why that he thought was the worst part of it. It should be borne in mind that there were two parties, the lessor and the lessee, and by some of the provisions of this Bill - the interests of the poorer lessee would be alto gether disregarded. He, therefore, thought it better to postpone the Bill till next session. Mr. SPOONER considered that the measure would be useful, and agreed with its principles, but he objected to the details of it. Mr. MULLINS was perfectly of the same opinion as the lion. Member for Warwickshire (Mr. Spooner). Mr. CARD WELL objected to'pressing the Bill at this late period of the session. He agreed with the principle of the Bill, as it would tend to increase the revenue of the, Church, and to throw that revenue into a common fund. Mr. ANSTEY hoped that the Bill would not bo with drawn this session. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said that no pledge of his Right Honourable Friend, the Secretary for the Home Department, could apply to this bill. for his Right Hen, Friend had not been in the House since it had been brought forward. Mr. CARTER gave a qualified support to the Bill, which ho considered required considerable improvement in various details affecting lessees. Sir 'l'. COLEBROOKE doubted the propriety of passing a Bill of this kind, without its having some defi nite principle laid dow as to the conditions on which the cominuniation of fines should b,) made. _ _ The SOLICIT6i-GIN — FTRAL said the objections to the Bill appeared t o b e a gainst its details, a n d no t against its principle; and on the second reading of th e Bill it was b ar di y f a i r t o di sc uss the clauses. Th e prin ciple was, to enable parties to effect an enfranchisement of holdings, if they so desired; so that there might be an actual sale and parting with the property. The mea- sure could not in any way prejudice lessees, because those who wished mig tat obtain a renewal of their lease from whoa,. th.l had to deal. As to the details, it might be asked why not at once lay down the rules which were to govern them. 11i3 answer was, that a vory great number of matters were to be taken into consideration, which it was not de- sita,ble to embody in the Bill. There were, for in stance, leases of titles, leases in the north, and leases in the south of England, which were placed on a very dif ferent footing from each other. There were also leases of mines, leases of houses, and various other matters re- specting which experience, as the measure came into operation, would be requisite in order to deal advanta geously with them. Mr. HENLEY objected to the sort of legislation which the measure introduced. Mr. BARRON objected to the second reading of the Bill. Lord PALMERSTON said the discussion which had taken place should lead the House to the second reading of the Bill with the view of discussing the details in Committee. All agreed that the principle was good, the objections expressed being only to the details of the Bill, and even those who wish the Bill to stand over until next session ought to vote for its second reading, in order that in Committee they might be able to stato their objections to its details, so that the measure might go to the country with such amendments as Hon. Gen tlemen desired to effect in it. Ho thought the House La the present se sion might shape the measure so as to free it from 7 objection, but even those who thought otherwise ought to vote for the second reading of .... ;h© Mr. B. DENISON said there was no chance that, the Bill could proceed this session, and it was better to poet- pone it altogether. In reply to Mr. FORSTER, The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the Bill did apply to mines. The House divided, when there appeared— For the second reading •.• Against it ... 34 Majority for the second reading —ll Sir B. HALL complained of the late period of the• session at which all Bills affecting the temporalities of the Church were brought before the House, and then hurried through it with indecent haste. The 3d and 4th William IV., for instance, received the royal assent on the 14th August, 1833. The 3d and 4th of Victoria, c. 113, received the royal assent on the 11th of August, 1840, and he might state a ease which showed in a re markable manner the operation of the system. A deanery vras attached to a bishopric, and it had been re commend(4l by the Commissioners that the deanery should be abolished. The Bill which should effect that ... 45 object was passed through all its stages on Saturday, the 9th of August, and on Monday, the 11th, it received the royal assent. The bishop, however, was installed on the intervening Sunday, and thus defeated the intention of the Bilq. He mentioned these to show the necessity . . for the laiety being allowed time to consider Bills of this character, and in the present they should have an op portunity of considering what they would have to pay in the cam s contemplated by the Bill; for he saw by one of the clauses the Commissioners were to settle the whole of the payment, the Commissioners being no other than the bishops, in whom the public had lost all confidence in their capacity as Commissioners. He pro tested, then, against the Government bringing forward the measure, and he pledged himself to use every means to retard its progress if they pressed it this session. It was an attempt on the part of the bishops to enforce a most arbitrary price for land, and they have not the de cency to enable members of the laity to communicate with the lessees on the subject. Let the House, then, come to the further consideration of the Bill with tho full underE.ttinding that it should not be brought to a third reading this session. Colonel SIBTIIORP considered it a most ungrateful attempt on the part of the Government to force on this Bill at so late a period of the session. Mr. AGLIONBY would endeavour to amend the Bill, and if he did not succeed in his effort, then ho would en deavour to have it postponed until next session. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was de sirous to aid Members in improving the Bill, and in re medying any defects that could be pointed out in it. Mr. J. A. SMITH understood that the Bill was to be no more than a permissive Bill. The Bill was ordered to be committed at one o'clock to-morrow. The New Zealand Settlements and Lunatics Bill to be read a third time to-morrow. The Canada and Now Brunswick Bill was read a third time and passed. The Conterbury Association, Nuisances Removal and Diseases Prevention Bill, were read a second time. PETTY SESSIONS (IRELAND) BILL. . _ The consideration of this Bill in Com - mittee was re sumed. Colonel DUNNE charged the Government with breach of faith in consenting to withdraw that portion of clause 10 which proposed to give magistrates power to act sum marily in cases of felony. Some verbal amendments were made in two or three of the clauses, and the Bill went through Committee. Mr. KINDERSLEY, Master in Chancery, brought up several Bills from the Lords. The House then went into Committee on the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) Bill, the several clauses of which were agreed to, with a few verbal alterations, and the House resumed. THE COLLECTION OF FINES, &c., (IRELAND) BILL. This Bill, as amended, was considered, and ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion that the House go intu Committee on the Constabulary Force (Ireland) Bill, Mr. CONNOLLY presented a petition from the grand jury of the county of Donegal, complaining of the limited force of the constabulary in the county as compared with the population. The House then want into Committee on the Bill. Mr. F. FRENCH said he felt it to be his duty to op pose the Bill, against which he protested as most unjust in principle. He hoped some notice, however abort, would be taken of what he was about to say .—(lfesr, hear.) The object of the Bill was to abolish the office of paymaster of the constabulary force in Ireland, an office which had been created in 1846. As long in; the officers appointed to the office had been paid by Ireland, the Government did not interfere; but the mometi t the payment of these officers was fixed on the Consolidated Fund, then in stepped the Lords of the Treasury with a Bill for the abolition of the office of Paymaster of the Constabulary Force, Eighteen gentlemen now held the situation of paymaster of the force in Ireland, and were appointed to hold the office during good behaviour. Those gentlemen had broken up their establishments and entered on the duties of the situation in confident expectation that provision would be made for them in consideration of their services, and amongst them was Captain Galbraith, an oLcer who had served in the Peninsular war, From the army he went in 1819 into the constabulary, in which he discharged with credit the duties of the several positions to which he was advanced. He had then served thirty years in the constabulary force—a service which should entitle him to a pension of at least 2501. a year; but it was noVI proposed by her Majesty's Government to retire this gentleman, who had more than thirty years' service, and a wife and ten children, ou a pension of 404 a y•f/ar. Ho considered that it was unjust in her Majesty's Go' vernment thus to treat an officer who had served so long a period with credit, and who, when appointed to the situation of paymaster, expected that due provision would be made for him. In the army, when a plaice man was appointed to a situation, and when the office was in time abolished, h e f e ll back on his half-pay. Se (Mr. French) had been told, by Members of the Go. vernment, that if he persevered in the course which he was taking, he would, instead of serving those gerttlee men, do injury to their cause; but he felt that he was but doing his duty, and that great injustice was beinti done by the Government in the matter.—(" Hear, hoar, fromM e Irish Members.) He should, under all the circumstances, oppose the Bill at a future stage, unless justice were done to those gentlemen who had been ap' pointed to the office of paymaster of the conatabuliarl force in Ireland. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER wokula state very shortly the partidulars of the case. The Hon. Member had stated that the Government did not uike any step to abolish the office of paymaster of the con stabulary force in Ireland, until the payment of the °ace became chargeable on the Consolidated Fund. Now tile fact was that the payment of the office was always charged upon the Consolidated Fund; and when the Ge vernment found that the duties of the office could be dis charged at a less expensive rate, it was their duty to abolish it, and to adopt that cheaper mode. In cases of superannuation, there was a fund from which provision was made; but when an dace was to be abolished, eer' lain reductions were necessarily to be made in conside• ration of the compensation to be given. If the Eton- Member should persevere in his course, he must sal that he would altogether take out of his (the Chaneeller of the Exchequer's) hands the power of compensating the officers in whose behalf the Hon. Member was in' terested. Mr. BROTHERTON said that if the Honourable Member for Roscommon succeeded in postponing this Bill, he hoped another Bill would bo introduced nest session, rendering the management of this matter in Ire land more consistent with justice. In Ireland the expense of the constabulary was thrown upon the eonsolidsited fund, whereas in England it was borne by the counties and boroughs. Colonel DUNNE observed that the appointment of these officers was about as great a job as was ever per' petrated. Ile hoped that there would be a proper revi" sion of them. Mr. CONOLLY brought forward the following clause, though not for the purpose of opposing the Bill; —" And whereas by an Act passed in the eleventh an d twelfth year of the reign of her present Majesty, inti" tuled, `An Act to amend the Acts relating to the coo" stabulary force in Ireland, and to amend the provisions for the payment of special constables,' it is amongst other things provided that the total number of officers and Weil shall not for each county, city, or town, exceed the nuns, ber specified in the schedule (A) thereto annexed, for each county, city, or town therein named; and w hereas it is expedient to alter said schedule with reference to the population of such counties, cities, or tovvns. 138 it therefore enacted that, the Lord-Lieutenant of chief governor or governors of Ireland may alter fror, time to time the number in said schedule specified to :: each county, city, or town; provided always that su ch alteration shall not he made more than once in cirri period of ten years; nod provided also that the nuooon, so specified shall not in any case exceed ono to cv°,,., of the population as given in the census nex t ceeding such alteration." 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