The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-27 00:00:00

THE SUN, education was one of much importance to Ireland, loss- The CFIANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER hoped much as out of 249 000 inmales (i‘f the w orkhouses in that the CoMMittEe would ag,ree to the veto vsitticut a that co untry 103,000 were children under 15 yeers of , division. age. A s ystem of combination for the purpose of in- I Sir W.JOLLIFFE said that racing in these king d )ms dustrial education had been attempted; but the Poor- had been attended with the very important advantage law Board of the country had not lent it any strenuous of having greatly contributed to the improvement of ea-operation. our breed of horses. • • Mr. BOOKER said he heard many complaints that The Committee then divided, and the numbers were — the boards of guardians were too grea tly controlled by For Mr. Homo's motion... ..• ••• 40 the inspectors, and ho stated the ge neral opinion to be Against it that a reduction of the cost of these officers —which was Majority against th e amendment...- 125 7,8001. a year salary, and 8,7121. expenses—would be a The vote was then agreed to. great advantage to the a gricultural and pauper comma- The following votes were els) adopted:-- nity. He fully concurred in the idea of industrial 24,152/. for the Chief and Under - Secreta r y 's Office, schools, and hoped from henceor ward greater confidence and 055/ . the ivy the Council O offif c the Paymaster of Civil Ser e, in Ireland. would be placed in boar ds of guardians. Mr. for office Mr. M. O'FERRALL wished to know what the vices in Ireland. " other expenses"—viz., 447,0001. out of 598,0001, the 1and34,8341. for the Commissioners o f Public Works in cost of the administrat ion of the p oor-law in Ireland, Ire. were? The CHAIRMAN reported progress, and obt ained Sir Nl7'. SOM.ERVILLE was not prepared at that me- lees° to sit again. Merit to state. In answer to Mr. HUME, Sir H. W. BARRON protested against the reduction Lord J. RUSSELL said it was his intention to-morrow of one-half the expense of the Irish c onstabulary being (Friday) to proceed with the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, considered as an equivalent for the sum wrought by the and then with the Oath of Abjuration Bill. poor-law in Ireland, as well as by the abolition of tbe Mr. BROTHERTON gave notice of his intention to corn-law. It was a mockery to say so. Another injustice move the adjournment of the House if they attempted wa s now sought to be pe r p etrated as regarded the to proceed with any opposed Bill after twelv e o ' clock at medical expense and the school system in workhouses. night. Mr. REYNOLDS said of 211,0001. to defray the ex- On the reading of the order of the day for going into penses of the poor-law for the three kingdoms Ireland Committee upon the Court of Chancery and Judicial only got 41,0001., while the grant for hospitals in that Committee (Annuity to Judge) Bill, country was now proposed to be withdrawn. If schools Mr. STUART was proceeding to comment upon the in workhouses were not to be paid for in Ireland he did imperfect state in which this question was, when not see why they should he paid for in England. He Lord J. RUSSELL said that at that hour of the night he did not think it desirable to enter int o these therefore protested against the grant. Mr. HU'ilE held that if the grant was right fo r En Cs details. land it was right also for Ireland; and i f t he constabulary Captain ARCHDALL moved the adjournm ent of the force was made the pretence , it was for the gentlemen House. He was induced to take that course in cense from Ireland to insist on its reduction. quests of the conduct pursued by the Right Hon. the Mr. COWAN again called attention to the state of Secretary of State for the Home Department on last distress in the islands and highlands of Scotland. The Tuesday evening in supporting the adjournment of the most opposite statements prevailed as regarded the House when he knew that he (Captain Archdall) had an state of this part of Scotland, and he wished to know important motion on the paper to bring forward on that when a report on the subject would be laid before the occasion. House? Sir W. VERNER seconded the motion, also express ing his disappointment of the course then taken by the eg Right Hon. Baronet. Sir G. GREY disclaimed having been actuated by any such intention as that attributed to him by the Hon. and Gallant Captain. Mr. STUART complained of the position in which in dependent Members were placed who had important mo tions on the paper, and could not bring them forward earlier than midnight. Captain ARCHD ALL said that after the explanation of the Right Hon. Baronet he would not press his mo tion for the adjournment of the House. The motion was withdrawn. The House then went into Committee upon the Court of Chancery and Judicial Committee (Annuity to Judge) Bill, when the sum of 3,7501. to be granted to the retiring judge of the Court of Appeal in Chancery was agreed to. The House then resumed, and the Chairman reported progress. LANDLORD AND TENANT BILL. On the motion of Mr. MULLINGS, This Bill was read a third time. Mr. ANSTEY moved the addition of a clause for the purpose of exempting Ireland from its operation, on the ground that the Bill as it stood would revive the power of distraining growing crops. Mr. HATCIJELL explained that the Bill would not affect the relation between landlord and tenant, but was only intended to apply to the case between landlords and creditors, for the purpose of preventing collusive sales. After a short discussion, the clause was withdrawn and the Bill passed. VAN DIEMEN'S LAND. Mr. ANSTEY moved for copies of all communications received from the Lieutenant-Governor of Van Die men's Land, and not already printed by order of the House, on the subject of the revocation of the tickets of leave lately held by the State prisoners, Messrs. Mac menus, O'Doherty, and O'Douohue, their subsequent imprisonment and treatment at Port Arthur, the pro ceedings taken by any of them to obtain their discharge from such imprisonment, with the result of such pro ceedings, and the measures taken by his Excellency Sir William Denison in consequence thereof ; and of all letters addressed to his Excellency by Earl Grey upon the said matters. Mr. HAWES could not, consistently with his duty, consent to the production of the papers. Legal proceed ings were pending, and the information in the posses sion of the Colonial-office was in so imperfect a state that it would be unfair to Sir W. Denison,who had been very unjustly assailed, to lay it upon the table. At the same time he bogged it to be understood that there was no desire on the part of the Government to withhold in formation. Mr. ANSTEY, seeing that no division could take place in the then thin state of the House, withdrew his motion. The other business was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at a Quarter past One o'clock. Sir G. GREY hoped to have the report next week. Mr. CLEMENTS again pressed for an answer to the questions he had asked. Sir W. SOMERVILLE was still in the same con dition. He could not then give him the information he required. The CHANCELLOR , of the EXCHEQUER said the assistance to emigration had been given out of the se cond rate-in-ail. Mr. CLEMENTS said the second rate-in-aid had not been as yet collected. He complained of the mode in which the returns were made out. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the advances were made subsequently to the period when the returns were made up. He thought assistance had been given out of the rate-in-aid to about six distressed unions in the south of Ireland. The vote was then agreed to. 47,000/. for the expenditure of the Mint. Mr. HUME asked why an estimate had been taken for the coinage of 3,000,000/. of gold, and 350,000/, in silver; and on what ground that sum was required? Also, when the new system would be brought into operation; and what arrangement had been made with the " moneyers?" The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said a certain quantity of light sovereigns were returned from time to time to the Mint, and it was necessary therefore to replace them. The new system would be in opera tion in a very few weeks, he believed, the delay having arisen from an effort to coin by contract. Mr. HUME asked whether Sir J. Herschell, the new Master, was to take an active part in the Mint, or merely to superintend generally the operations? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER bore testimony to the fact of Sir J. Herschell being one of the best men of business he ever met with; and he bad taken a most active part in the proceedings since his appoint ment to the Mint. The vote was agreed to. 8,6621 for the office of the Commission of Railways. Mr. LABOUCHERE said, though the Committee on Salaries had recommended the union of the Commission with the Board of Trade, it was impossible for the Pre sident to dispense with the services of a lawyer of emi nence. He had always opposed the reduction of Sir Edward Ryan's office; but as Sir Edward Ryan was op posed to holding the office in the face of the recomeuda tion of the Committee, it was his (Mr. Labouchere's) in tention to unite that office with the Board of Trade, and he should accordingly bring in a Bill in the course of the session to that effect. He (Mr. Labouchere) was afraid that putting the whole of that railway business on the legal secretary of the Board of Trade would completely absorb his time. He proposed to wind up all the pre sent affairs with Sir E. Ryan, and to commence the new system in September next. It was his intention also, if he should next year have to propose those votes, to move the addition of 500/. a year to Mr. Booth's salary. Mr. BASS hoped no measure would be introduced to destroy the efficiency of the railway board. , In reply to a question from Mr. HUME, Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was part of the functions of the railway board to see that no infraction of an Act of Parliament took place, and to investigate any com plaints made against railway companies. Mr. BOOKER regretted the board should lose the services of Sir Edward Ryan. He thought the public safety and convenience required that the two departments . in the Board of Trade should be kept separate. Mr. PLUMPTRE thought the public would have no objection to the expense to make that department more efficient. The vote was then agreed to. A sum of 11,960/. to defray the salaries and expenses of officers connected with the keeping of the public .re cords, was voted after a short conversation: A vote of 14,5831. was then moved to defray the sale• ries of inspectors of factories and mines. Mr. WILLIAMS asked why the number of inspectors had been increased by four? Mr. C. LEWIS said a reduction had taken place in the expenses of the factories, but an increase had been made in the number of inspectors of coal mines. Mr. FIUME asked had these inspectors made any report? Sir. G. GREY said they had only been appointed last year, and though they had not yet made a formal re port, they were in regular communication with him. After a few words from Mr. BOOKER and Mr. HUME, the vote was agreed to. A vote of 1,7001. was then proposed to defray the ex penses of salaries of officers in Scotland, which were formerly defrayed out of the hereditary revenues of the Crown. Mr. WILLIAMS thought they ought to have some information relative to that vote. Ha could not under . stand the meaning of a Queen's limner and clockmaker. He would move that the vote be reduced by the amount of the three last items, which included the sum for the Caledonian Hunt and the Scottish archers. The amount he proposed to reduce the vote was only 2471. 13a, but he would oppose the grant on principle. Mr. C. LEWIS said these expenses, formerly defrayed out of the hereditary revenues, had been of late years put on the votes. The grant to the Caledonian Hunt bad been made by George 111., and they were all ancient privileges. Mr. HUME would put it to the public spirit of Scotch gentlemen to pay for their own sports.—(Hear.) Mr. WILLIAMS said he would divide the Committee on the vote. Mr. DISRAELI wished to know what was the prin ciple upon which the lion. Member proposed to divide. --(Hear, hear.) When a proposition such as that was made, they ought to look to the origin of these votes appearing on the estimates. Were not these sums a fair disposition of the patronage of the Crown, defrayed out of the Crown estates, when Parliament took the ma nagement of these estates upon itself?—(Hear, hear.) That vote was not paid out of the public taxes, but out of the funds which Parliament managed. There was nothing extraordinary in the Sovereign of this country proposing to give a certain prize for archery, or such other purposes as were specified in the vote. He would not support the motion of the lion. Member opposite. Mr. WILLIAMS said there were nine royal palaces, and the public did not object to pay the expenses of these establishments. After a few words from Mr. MOORE, Sir R. INGLIS said these discussions were derogatory to the.dignity of the Crown, the loss to which was 100,000,000/. since the arrangement relative to the civil list had come into operation. Besides the loss, too, it placed the dignity of the Crown at the mercy of any Member who could string eighteen or twenty sentences together. Mr. WILLIAMS would not condescend to notice the impertinent language of the Hon. Baronet.—(Order.) Sir R. INGLIS must say that the Hon. Member for Lambeth was not the man to tell him that he used im pertinent language. He had neither on the present oc casion, nor ever since be came into that House, said anything which should entitle any Member to use such language to him as the lion. Member had just addressed to him.—(Hear, hear, and cheers.) Mr. WILLIAMS, if he had said anything contrary to the rules of the House, would withdraw it. But he objected to the Hon. Baronet standing up in his place and saying that he (Mr. Williams) was incapable of ut tering eighteen or twenty consecutive sentences.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) The Hon. Baronet was the last person in the House to whom he would address any lai guage that would hurt his feelings. He was satisfied now that the Hon. Baronet did not make any allusion to him in the words which had fallen from him. Sir R. INGLIS thanked the Hon. Gentleman for the manner in which he had just alluded to him. Lord J. RUSSELL explained that on the commuta tion of the revenues of the Crown for the Civil List the charge on the latter for the Queen's plates in Scot land was transferred to the estimates, while the expense of the English Queen's plates was placed as a charge on the department of the Master of the Horse in the Civil List. The Committee then divided, when there appeared:— For the amendment ... 39 Against it Majority ••• ••• —123 A vote of 6,464/. having been proposed for the house hold of the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, Mr. HUME moved that there bo omitted from the vote a sum of 1,5741.65. 2d. for fifteen Queen's plates given for horse-racing, in Ireland. Mr. BRIGHT said there were many persons in this country who objected to horse-racing on moral grounds. Now he had no wish to interfere with what other per sons considered innocent amusements. But he thought it only fair and reasonable that those parties should themselves pay for those amusements, and that the charge should not be thrown upon the public revenue. Colonel DUNNE supported the motion. Colonel SIBTHORP also supported the vote, and complained that the Hon. Member for Manchester was not a Free-trader in the amusements of the people. ing. The Royal circle was attended by the Vicountess ; Cannieg, Madame de Montanc!os, General Wemyss, Cdo:.01 Bouverie, Colc,nel de M,l)erkerkp, and Count Albeit de Briey. The Queen, the Prince, and King of t .o Belgians, remained an hour in the Exhibition, and then returned to Buckingham Palace. His Royal Highness Prince Albert, attended by the Marqui3 of Abercorn, Colonel the Hon. Charles Grey, and Colonel Bouverie, left Buckingham Palace at twenty minutes past twelve o'clock yesterday morning for Har row School. His Royal Highness and suite returned to Buckingham Palace at ten minutes past five o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent and his Serene Highness the Prince of Leiningen visited the Queen, and also the King of the Belgians yesterday at Buckingham Palace. The Royal Family took their accustomed exercise yesterday in the garden of Buckingham Palace. The Queen's private band attended at Buckingham Palace on Wednesday evening, after dinner, and played the following pieces:— Overture Fantasia on airs by his Royal Highness Prince Albert. Quartette, " Oberon" Weber. March, " Le Prophe:e" Meyerbeer. The Hon. Amelia Murray and the Hon. Lucy Kerr have relieved the Hon. Matilda Paget and the Hon. Mary Seymour in their duties as Maids of Honour in waiting on her Majesty. In consequence of the number of applications which are addressed to the Lord Chamberlain of her Majesty's Household, for permission to view the House of Lords, it may be desirable to state, that all applications for that purpose should be addressed to the Lord 6-'l-eat Cham berlain, at his office, at the House of Lords. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat yes terday at the Council-office. The Lords present were— The Lord Chief Baron, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir Edward Ryan. Judgment was given by the Judge of the Admiralty Court, in the appeal from the Prerogative Court, " Greville v. Tyke." An appeal from the Pre rogative Court, " Whyddon and Chase v. Billinghurst," was partly heard. COWES, ISLE OF WIGHT. (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) COWES, JUNE 26. ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON INTELLIGENCE, ARRIVALS. June 23. Arrow cutter, T. Chamberlayne, Esq., from Southampton. 24. Marlton*, cutter, J. GPP, Esq., from Guerntoy Coquette schooner, Lord Godolphin, from Exmouth; Alarm yawl, J. Weld, Esq., from Lymington; Osprey cutter, H. Goodden, Esq., from Weymouth. 26. Water Lily, J. Hilbert, Esq., from Portsmouth. SAILINGS: June 24. Stella cutter, R. Frankland, Esq., for Cher bourg; Merlin schooner, Colonel Markham, or Channel Islands. 26. Brilliant schooner, G. H. Ackers, Mil, for Cork. YACHTS AT AND ABOUT THE STATION. Alarm, Drift, Wizard. Elizabeth, Osprey, Gauntlet, Lavrock, Turquoise, Aurora, Arrow, Gondola, Spider, Maritana, Osprey, Nautilus, Ripple, Plover, Titania, Magician, Leda, Laelia, Water Lily. PUBLIC HEALTH. The new boundary for the town of East Cowes Was arranged by Mr. Ranger yesterday; it originally took in the whole parish of 'Whippingham, including the royal grounds and part of the town of Newport; now it ex tends only to Spring-hill and part of East Cowes Park, leaving out Norris Castle and grounds, Osborne Palace and grounds, Osborne Villa, and the Prince of Wales's Inn. East Cowes is to be tacked on to West Cowes for the purposes of this Act, and there is to be only ono body of commissioners for the two towns; this is said to be done to save the expenses of two clerks, two surveyors, &c. &c., but it is doubtful how this complicated machi nery will work. If with the Public Health Act the inha bitants of the two towns had also the government of their harbour in their own hands, now in the hands of the inhabitants of Newport (an inland town at five miles di3tance), they would, we have no doubt, contrive to throw a bridge over the Medina and join the towns; but having inland folks to govern seaports is like having landsmen, who know nothing of the sea or the navy, to govern the navy; and it is something like making judges of our captains and admirals • they might think them selves sound lawyers for the sake of the salaries, but we guess would make as queer work of it as some folks do of ship. building. THE METROPOLITAN WATER SUPPLY COMMITTEE. Yesterday this Committee re-assembled at twelve o'clock—Sir James Graham in the chair—and in the course of the preceediugs an important discussion took place upon an application relative to the right of the public. as contradistinguished from that of the several opposing companies, to be heard in opposition to the Government Bill. Mr. J. Heron, town clerk of Manchester, was cross examined at great length by Mr. TALBOT, Q.C., on be half of the metropolitan water companies:—The pro posed supply by the Corporation Water Works, when completed, would be equivalent to 25,000,000 cubic feet daily; the present supply was 10,000,000 cubic feet, and there would be no difficulty in finding a demand for the other 15,000,000, as they had been applied to during the last few months for supplies for trading purposes which they could not meet. Was of opinion that water in a place like Manchester could never be effectually distri buted without what is called a compulsory rate, and he would apply the same principle to the water supply of London. There was a clause in the Government Bill (tbe 35th) such as he had not seen before in any ordi nary water Bill, giving this species of power to the parish officers, who, with the consent of the vestry, might require the inhabitants to procure a supply of water where it could be furnished at a rate not exceeding 2d. per week. Mr. VAUGHAN, on behalf of the inhabitant ratepayers of St. Luke's, Finsbury, was about to cross-examine the witness, when Mr. JAMES, Q.C., on behalf of the promoters of the Government Bill, objected to his locus standi. After some discussion, the Committee retired to con sider the application, and after a short interval returned, when. The Hon. CHAIRMAN said—The Committee have come to the unanimous decision that Mr. Vaughan has a locus standi on behalf of the ratepayers and inhabitants of St. Luke's, but the Committee expect himAin his opposition to the Bill, to confine himself to the negative of the pro position for which Mr. James contends, viz., that this Bill is the measure most advantageous to the public, and not to sustain any other project not submitted to the Committee. The Committee further think it right to take this precaution—that if other inhabitants of the metropolis should appear by petitions before the House, and if these petitions should be referred to us, and other counsel should appear for the inhabitants, the same rule should be applied as the Committee have determined should be applied to counsel appearing for the different water compenies—viz., that there should only be ono cross-examination. Mr. Heron was then cross-examined by Mr. VAUGHAN as to the nature and extent of the jurisdiction of the cor poration of Manchester. The principle of imposing a water-rate on rooms, as proposed in the Government Bill, was unknown in the north, where it was levied at so much per cent. on the rental, and he was of opinion that the assessment per room instead of per rental was calculated in some instances to produce injustice. Mr. T. Smith, on behalf of the London (Watford) Spring Water Company, was about to cross-examine the witness, when Mr. JAMES objected. After considerable discussion, the Committee decided, on the grounds before stated, that Mr. Smith, in any opposition he had to offer, must consolidate it with the other companies, and that they would consider the other question, relating to the order of reference of the House of the 17th of June, when the case for the Government Bill was concluded. The witness was then further examined by the Com mittee, and deposed that the result of taking the water supply of Manchester into the hands of the corporation had been satisfactory to the great body of the ratepayers. Had no doubt, from a knowledge of the trades of Man chester and Salford, that the supply of water from the, high level would be calculated to supersede manual labour, and that the water supply would be made largely available for hydrostatic engines, for raising goods, grinding coffee, and other uses, thereby facilitating as well as superseding manual labour. Mr. James Rossiter, secretary to the Southwark and Vauxhall Water Company, was next called and ex amined by Mr. YIIINN, relative to the amalgamation and practical working of that company's system; and at A four o'clock the Committee, adjourned to twelve o'clock this day. COURT CIRCULAR. It is understood to be her Majesty's intention that a Stte 13 sha take Mo a nday, ol the 14th of Ju p ly, and a Concert ßuckingham on P Monday, lace at alace on the 7th of July. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, visited her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester last evening. The Queen and Prince Albert were at tended by Viscountess Canning, the Hon. Amelia Mur ray, the Earl of Morley, General Wemyss, and Colonel Bouverie. His Majesty the King of the Belgians was attended by Colonel do Moerkerke. Her Majesty and Prince Albert and the King of the Belgians arrived at Gloucester House at twenty minutes to ten o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent also visited the Duchess of Gloucester at Gloucester House, Picca dilly. last evening. Her Royal Highness was attended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Sir George Couper, and Lord James Murray. His Majesty the King of the Belgians, accompanied by the Duke do Brabant, the Count de Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte, , went to Claremont yesterday, and returned to Buckingham Palace early in the evening. Her Majesty and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by his Majesty the King of the Belgians, with their Royal Highnesses the Duke do Brabant, the Count do Flandres, and the Princess Charlotte of Bel gium, visited the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of i All Nations, at half-past nine o'clock yesterday morn- LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 26. (Sittings at Nisi Pries, before Mr. Baron MARTIN and a Special Jury.) BELLAMY AND ANOTHER V. MAJORIBANKS AND OTHERS. The Attorney-General, Mr. Knowles, and Mr. Un thank were counsel for the plaintiffs; Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Channell, and Sir John Bayley appeared for the defendants, who are the well-known banking firm of Coutts and Co. This was an action of a most important character, and possessed of great interest to the commercial world at large, as well as to the banking circles. The decla ration of the plaintiffs alleged that they, having drawn a cheque on the defendants in favour of one Gary or bearer, for 2,596/. 175., according to the custom and usage of bankers, crossed it to " the Bank of England, to the account of the Accountant-General," whereupon, according to such custom and usage, it became and was the duty of the defendants, as the bankers of the plain tiffs, not to paylsuch cheque except into and through the hands of the Bank of England. Besides this special count there was another on which no question turned, and the usual money counts. To the first special count the defendants pleaded that there was no such custom and usage of bankers as alleged therein, and payment to the money counts. These being the issues joined between these parties, the facts out of which the action arose may be briefly stated. The plaintiffs, who are both pro fessional men, are the trustees of the settlement entered into on the marriage of the Rev. Mr. Franks, who died, leaving issue, in 1834, after a commission of lunacy had been issued against him. Under the settlement the younger children were entitled to the benefit of certain policies effected on their father's life to the extent of nearly 11,000 L, which sum was not realised by the trustees till 1843, when proceedings arose in Chancery, wherein Mr. Gary, an apparently respectable solicitor, represented the younger branches of the family. In the course of June, 1845, it became necessary for the trustees under an order to pay the sum of 2,5961. 17s. in the cause into the hands of the Accountant-General, and Mr. Gary ac cordingly drew the following cheque, which he sent to the plaintiffs, who had on the 21st of June opened an account at the defendants' : " London, June 25, 1845. " Messrs. Coutts and Co.—Please to pay Edward Bryant Gary or bearer two thousand five hundred and ninety-six pounds seventeen shillings." The plaintiffs being desirous of insuring the cheque from mistake, Mr. Bellamy added the words " General unpaid costs account" to the body, and both having signed the cheque, Mr. Bellamy crossed it thus:— " Bank of England. " For the account of "The Accountant-General." This done, it was handed over to Mr. Gary, who erased the crossing, and added the names of " Goslings and C 0.," with whom he had a "respectable account," and paid it into his account there. In the usual course the cheque was paid by Coutts and Co., and for soma time it was supposed that "it wan all right," bat Mr. Gary, on being pressed for the Accountant-General's certifi cate for the payment, was driven to forge it, and being discovered was tried and convicted for that offence. The plaintiffs' account was afterwards closed at the de fendants', but no question would seem to have arisen touching the payment of the cheque till a recent period, when in 1850 this action was brought. Mr. KNOWLES having opened the case, in the absence of the Attorney-General, the following witnesses were examined in support of the plaintiff's case. With re gard to the alleged custom Mr. Srange, a cashier in Gosling's bank, proved the fact that Mr. Straughan, now dead, presented this and a smaller cheque, drawn in favour of Gary by the plain tiffs, for his own costs, to the defendants. He said they were paid into our bank by Gary. I saw no difficulty about this cheque. I have made payments to Accountant- General present at Bank, and have always paid cash with a memorandum of the suit. I saw no difficulty in it, and did not consult my principals. Re-examined—l consult them sometimes when I pay double crossed cheques. Some are paid and some are refused, according to the account the parties give. This explains itself. I frequently get such cheques. When the parties are respectable we pay without hesitation. Cross-examined again—l should not have paid this, as it is so large a sum, without inquiry. Mr. Bevan, of the firm of Barclay, Bevan, and Co.—' have been connected with that bank twenty years. The rule for the clerk is to refuse double crossed cheques, and never to pay to, without reference to the partners. The rule is stronger in the case of a large cheque like this. I consider the first crossing is a special one. Cross-examined by Mr. Sergeant CHANNELL—We . had-an account withsthe Bank of England. Payments 'to the Accountant-General are always made in cash; but our own cheques would be received. I don't know the process of payment. I always understood the rule to be general. Mr. Tap, chief clerk of the London and Westminster Bank since its commencement—The custom of the Lon don banks is to refuse double crossed cheques. We in variably refuse them, even when presented by bankers. Cross-examined—There are cases in which the cashier will consult the principal. Mr. KIRBY—I certainly should not have paid this cheque without inquiry. Cross-examined—lf it bad been explained that Gary banked at Goslings' I should say the cheque would have been paid. Since this action our attention has been drawn to th© subject of crossed cheques. Before we should have paid crossed cheques if they came through any bankers. Mr. Bentham, of the London Joint Stock Bank, stated that the custom of bankers was not to pay double crossed cheques. Such is our custom. Cross-examined—There are cases in which reference is made to the manager, but I don't remember any in which payment was made. Re-examined —We have received such cheques, tied taken our chance of payment. Some have been paid, and others not. Mr. Marshall, chief cashier to the Bank of England — Our clerks are always directed to throw double crossed cheques out of the charge of any bankers, and to refer them to the principal o f that office, who requires expla nation of the circumstances under which the double cross ing has taken place. Some are paid after explanation, and I should say that, judging from the few cases of reference to me, the explanation is generally sufficient. I never knew of a cheque being doubly crossed where the first crossing was a special one. The Bank would in such a case exercise erecial caution. The account of the Accountant-General la limited to cash or its equi- REPRESENTATIVE PEERS IN SCOTLAND. —There is a Bill in the House of Lords, which has just been printed, to regulate certain proceedings in relation to the elections . of represen tative peers in Scotland. It provides that a certifi cate from two peers of Scotland shall be a formal notice of the death of a peer. LON DON, U JUNE 27, 1851 see how it is," said my uncle, again filling the pipe, "once a man's fairly down, and can't defend hims •lt, everybody's on to him—Government, landlords, lawyers, and all. They lay taxes on him without asking his con sent, and send their emissaries into his tea-pat and his sugar-basin: others of them, because they have great estates, think they ore also entitled to cut a slice off the poor man's loaf, and to get a penny extra out of it to • protect' them. Talk of thefts and burglaries! Why, there is ono in every poor man's cupboard, and there is not a Chubb yet discovered that can keep them out! The biggest thieves are not those that break in at Lights through our window shutters, but those that march in at the open door, and ait by us at our hearths!" " But you would surely tax luxuries!" " I would tax dirty faces and dirty skins, sir, not be cause they are luxuries though; and I would tax bache lors after a certain age, because then they become con firmed fogies, and I would tax imperials," tufts,' and mustaches; I would tax all husbands that sit drinking in public houses, while their wives are left lonely at home; and I would tax all low-bosomed frocks and short petti coats in women, as well as rouge and wasp waists. Kisses might be taxed ( are t h ey i n y ou r list of -luxu ries?'), but the difficulty would be in Ending supervisors and excisemen for the department!" " But, without joking," he continued, "I'll te ll you what it is, sir. You will never get the taxes paid c h eer f ully, un til you allow the people who are called upon to pay the taxes to have something to do with the laying of them on; that's where it is, sir. If the Governm ent i s to b e an e fficient ' taxing machine,' you must let th ose who are t a xed get a fair hold of the handle; otherwise they will be dealt with like that pig over there; you understand! That's just where it is;—the long and the short of the matter." VENING, valant, a draft on the Bank of England. We hou1:1 have refoscd this rlreft in its original state if pail in to the nee: atilt of the Ileeountmlt-General. Cross-examined—l know of no custom which prvents a cheque crossed with one hanker's name from bring paid to any other. The only effect of cro3sing a cleque is to prevent its being paid to any ordinary individu I. The custom of crossing «rose from the desire to irti,vent the mere finder of a cheque from getting it cashed in fraud of the drav,-sr. It insures paymenit rough some banker—that is all. I know no custom which restains the holder of a crossed cheque from putting out the original banker's name and putting in an other and receiving the money. All:: know is Oat the bankers pause when calkd on to pay d::,ublecrossed cheques; but there is no custom not to pay. I believe the caution has grown up upon the comparatively recent practice of crossing which is connected with the institu tion of the clearing house. Though a special first cross ing would require more caution, yet when the name of the payee is a respectable one we should not hesitate to pay it. Re-examined—Taking into consideration bat this cheque could not been received at all at tEe Bank, and that it was presented by Messrs. Gosling:, one of the most respectable firms, if they stated their customer was in their belief a respectable man, this chcqae would have been referred to the Governor. _ Hoary Bryant Reynolds—l am principal in the town office of Glyn's bank. I have known their business for 20 years. Our general rule is to refuse payment to double crossed cheques, but they are very often paid when we get a satisfactory explanation of the case. I almost invariably refer to one of the principals. Such a cheque as this would certainly not be paid, but would be referred to one of the partners, who would give directions. Cross-examined—l have paid double crossed cheques myself. I should do se when the second bankers are the bankers of the payee. Mr. Taylor, cashier of Sir Claude Scott and Co.—Our custom is not to pay double crossed cheques. We refer to the principal in all cases. Sometimes they are paid. It all depends on the partners. ' Mr. Rushton, cashier in Cox and Biddulph's—Oar general practice is to refuse double crossed cheques. I have always refused them. I never referred any to the partners. Cross-examined—Ours is a small house, and I can't refer to five instances. . Mr. Oliver Vile—l ain the resident manager of the London and Westminster Bank at Wesminster. Our custom is generally to refuse double crossed cheques. The form of this crossing would have led me to exercise :special caution. This being the close of the plaintiff's case a discussion arose whether the custom alleged had been proved, which resulted in the Learned Attorney-General recall ing most of the witnesses for the purpose of eliciting from them a fact which the Learned Judge thought had net been clearly proved—that fact being the custom not to pay crossed cheques except to the bankers whose names were crossed. This evidence having been given, Sir F. THESIGER submitted that there was no case to go to the jury, but Mr. Baron MARTIN being of opinion that there was now evidence in support of the first count, Sir F. THESIGER addressed the jury for the defen dants, and at some length contended that his clients were justified in the defence to this claim, which had been prefered so long after the account had been closed with the plaintiffs. He then proceeded to observe on the evidence adduced by the plaintiff, and concluded by intimating his intention to call several witnesses who could establish the custom to be completely at va riance with that relied on by the plaintiffs. The following witnesses were then called : Mr. Stanley, cashier of the defendants—l remember the fact of Mr. Straughan presenting the cheques, but cannot speak to the circumstances positively. I think I referred the matter to one of the firm before payment. I have known banking sixteen years, and have known cases where crossed cheques have been paid to other bankers under certain circumstances. I paid both cheques at the same time. Goslings were Gary's bankers then. Cross-examined—l can't say whether the smaller cheque was crossed. In the case of a cheque crossed to a banker and presented by another I should not pay un less I was satisfied by the representation of the clerk presenting it that it was correct. The first crossing is invalidated by the circumstance of the cheque beiog made payable to the Accountant-General's account. Mr. Penny, a clerk in the house of Williams, Deacon, and Co., since 1803.—The custom is to pay cheques crossed to the bank and not to an individual over the counter. There is no custom preventing payment to other bankers. I have known multitudes of such cases. We generally pay cheques when a new crossing is put and the first has been erased. There is no custom to prevent the payee of a crossed cheque from erasing the first bank and putting in another. Cross-examined --Formerly such payments were made without inquiry; latterly inquiry is - generally made. That greater strictness has been introduced with the last three or four years. We are satisfied if the cheque comes to the said banker through a respectable house. We have had frequent cases of an erased creasing. If it came through a respectable house I should say the first crossing was a mistake, and I should pay it. Mr. Hughes, cashier of Willis and Co., Lombard street—There is a custom to pay crossed cheques to any banker presenting them. We require them to put their names to them. We pay doubly crossed cheques, when the first cross is erased, to the banker presenting. I should pay them to either, the object of crossing being to secure payment to some banker merely. There is no custom to prevent a holder of a cheque striking out a banker's name, and putting another in the cross. Cross-examined—l should make the banker put his name for my own satisfaction. I don't recollect any such instance occurring. If this cheque had been pre sented by a West-end banker I should have paid it, be cause they do not go to the clearing house. Mr. Drewitt, of the firm of Drewitt and Bowler—The payment of a crossed cheque presented by another banker depends very much on circumstances. I do not think there is any invariable custom. I know of none to pre vent its payment to the banker presenting. Where there are two crossings I should pay the cheque if presented by the payee's banker. Cross-examined—l should not pay as a matter of course, but would snake inquiry, as I know the Bank of England will not take a cheque for the Accountant- General. I should pay this to the payee's banker, for I should suppose he wanted notes to pay to the Bank. Mr. G. 11. Barnett, for fifty-four years connected with Barnett, Hoare, and Co., Lombard-street—lf a cheque crossed is presented by an individual, inquiry would be made, and if it be satisfactorily answered he should pay it to him. If presented by a banker different from the crossed name it would still be a subject for inquiry, and it would be paid in the same manner. I know of no custom to prevent our paying such a cheque under such circumstances. Where a cross is erased and another bank added I should inquire. I have always found the banker presenting capable of giving satisfactory expla nation. I know of no custom to prevent payment. I should certainly have paid this cheque. Cross-examined—A very slight inquiry would have sufficed, for the cross shows it was drawn for a purpose which the cross defeated. I should have seen at once that the drawer had acted in ignorance of the practice of the bank. I have often paid cheques " and Co." to parties presenting them, on inquiry, which satisfied me of their respectability. I have never found reason to regret such a practice. At this stage of the case the court was adjourned, being six o'clock and there yet remaining several w nesses to be called for tho defendants. BALLOON ASCENT OF MADAME GAR HERON FROM CREMORNE GARDENS. Madame Palmyre Garneron made a second balloon ascent from Cremorne Gardens yesterday evening. The whole was managed so carefully, and with such evident judgment, so fine was the weather, so unruffled was the fair aeronaut, that' the spectators lost every feeling of even the slightest anxiety. The balloon went up almost perpendicularly, and hovered over the gardens for nearly half an hour, when it slowly departed, travelling over Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Paddington, and the Regent's Park, steadily and almost deliberately in a north-westerly direction. The air was so remarkably tranquil that at one time it was expected that the spectators at Cremorne would Lava witnessed the phenomenon of a descent as well as an ascent. So agreeable and pleasant was the whole spectacle, so charming the aeronaut, and so great the nerve and spirit cliipla) ed by her, that the evening may be considered as almost unique in the annals of public amusement, the more especially as it was crowned by the arrival of Madame Palmyro Garneron herself in the gardens at the early hour of ten, where she was received with loud acclamations of pleasure by upwards of 10,000 persons—the dance—the sports of the new Franconi's Circus—the very suppers themselves being suspended to afford her a hearty greeting. The lady it appears, after following the coutao we have mentioned above, descended in a field at West-end. Madame Palmyre Garneron gives the following account of her descent:- 1 " After leaving the gardens I !sceaded almost perpen dicularly, keeping the garde ns i n si ght an d p assin g over them more than once or twice, distinctly perceiving the people. I then passed over towards Ily de-park, and cou ld distinguish Mr. Batty's Hippodrome, and hear the band play in my transit. I crossed Hyde-park within 300 yards of the Crystal Palace, and about 600 yards shave it. The evening being so serene, I kept the bal loon at a low elevation that I might enjoy the sight of the excitement of the people, wha thought that I was momentarily about to descend, and were running, riding, and ivngdowner direeti . on, and even calling out to me to cons° From time to time I threw out a little ballast, and went up again, leaving my numerous admirers and followers at fault. In this manner I drifted onwards over to Bayswater! across Lord Holland's park; over the Great Western Railway, and, atter passing reached the Abbey Fields. ,near Kilburn. where I de scended gently in a field el new mown hay, about four fields' distance from the eel Cottage. About 5,000 people, of all classes , rushecito any assistance immedi ately; my balloon was speedily emptied, but the packing was a work of more trouble, and I am infinitely indebted to the police for the kindness 19 well as activity they displayed in controlling the too great and overpowering eagerness of the thousands present to assist me. I was borne in the car, almost in an ovation, towards the Swiss C o tt a ge,whero I found waiting the carriage of Captain Smith, of, Cwoins-hill, Greenwich, who, being in the ne ighbourhood, had, with great feeling, directed his coachman to follow and convey me back to Cremorne Gardens." LITERATURE. f the herbage between the broken stops of some marble a biirld drawn back for an instant by th © b are THE WANDERER AND HIS ROME. By :PaNce; A.de Lanzartine.—Parlour Librczry,Vol. LV. Simms I arm 'A some invisible woman, rhea closed agai n as ra and 111nty pidly and silently upon emptiness or sleep; lon g cor d s 1 re. stretching from window to window, on which the lams- Occe ;lied as ha is continually in watching the pro- dresses hang their clothes, or the poor their rags, to dry gross of' political events in his fatherland, M. de in the sun; at the extremity the long shadows east b yLamartine is still not alto:ether inattentive to those the colonnade of St. Peter's, like the obkcure recesses cf faculties which empower him to adorn the records of a mysterious fore-4 of stone; and above, in the sky it- European literature. Another work from his hand self, the mighty dome defined clearly against the blue lie.i, before us, and in it we recognise an additional firmament, with its globe, its aerial galleries, and its top chapter of his Autobigraphy. Never to our know- most balustrade beneath the cross, like the balcony to ledge has there been witnessed a more brilliant illus- the palace of a God—such is the sombre physiognomy tration, than is di:c3verable in these memorials, of the of Rome in this quarter of the city. undying enthusiasm and eter na l a d o l ecence c f If a door should open by chance, and give a view of ‘ the interior of the dwellings, you sea large courts where poetic temperament. But th a t th e au th or i s one flags, the marble b • of sun is glaring upon the ags, whose celebrity is as wids ly extended as that of any the fountains, and the marble statues in the niches; and individual in Christendom, it might have been the beyond a flight of marble steps leading down t) a gar conjectured by a chance peruser that the volume den, planted regularly with tall cypress trees, and ex was the effusion of a writer young in years tending like the pontifical garden of the Vatican, to the as inexhaustible in earnestness. Every page is old, broken, ivy-wreathed brick walls of the ramparts of radiant with the passion of a na t ure untarnished Rome. Such was La Longara. by sufferings and unvanquish e d by di sapno i ntment. " The close of the love story above alluded to, is but Every sentence is the utterance of a h ev.rt burning a me l anc h o ly p e roration to our present instalment of with the ardour of boyhood, though filled with the autobiography. M.de Lamartine, however, in so the wisdom of experience. Every word throbs arranging his narrative, has contrived to whet the cu with fervour and reveals withal the gentleness riosity of his readers as to his other revelations, reve of the sympathies and the sweetness of the disposi- lations which cannot fail to be always interesting, tion from which they have all alike emanated. Those coming from a pen so eloquent and a heart so im who have already devoured the first fragments of the passioned. Autobiography of Lamartine • those who remember the love of Graziella, the goodness of the Abbe Du mont, the affectionate faithfulness of Martha, the simple story he has since then told of her, under the name of " Genevieve ;" those especially who have; found their sensibilities stirred up their very depThs by the mingled agonies and raptures of " RapY..ael," as he beholds the object of his devotion sinki•Jg into a grave strangely, and even, under the circurnstances, awfully premature, will require no indu cement to enter upon the examination of the present, book,which is but a continuation of the same enthralling nar rative. In the " Wanderer and his Home" Lamar- tine depicts the aspect of his tranquil life, on his re turn to his family immediately after the youthful calamities which had befallen him in France and Italy, calamities which, it will be remembered, have already been recounted. Aided by the luminous pencil with which the whole of these chapters have been traced, we can to the full appreciate the fascina ti▪ ons which surrounded his footsteps even in the monotonous routine of life, as it was about the com mencement of the present century, a t Ma con . As st▪ ated by the tender recollections of his filial and fra ternal love, he has sketched in vivid colours the ap pearance as well as the character of the principal members of the patriarchal household. His saintlike mother, whose every breath was an orison, and whose nature united the purity of the recluse with the dis charge of all the worldly duties devolving upon her as a wife and as guardian of her children. His father, of whom he says, " his y ears seeme d t o b a lanc e him upright and firm upon the s t rong s t em o f life which God had given him," so stalwart was the old soldier and the coun t r y gen tl em an in the progress of his career t o it s conc l u sion. His five sisters, Cecilia, the one whose beauty was the most popular ; Eugenie, handsome but not admired ; Susanna, the pious and lovely, whose face was like a Madonna of Raphael, and whose form was like a Psyche of Phidias ; Cesarine, with that voice of rich and deep vibrations which seemed as though it breathed the language of Dante with the accent of Sienna ar Florence ; and last of all the little Sophie, with eyes of blue, and hair soft and light, and features radiant with the innocence of childhood. Then there was the uncle, elder brother to the father, and the only one then bearing the family name as M. de Lamartine, together with his sisters Mdlle. de Lamartine and La Comtesse de Villars. In recounting, the quiet and plodding existence which he had to endure among these relations and their ecquaintancee, the author contrives to throw an interest over matters which re counted by others might be contemptible as the veriest puerilities. Among these little revelations of feeling there are some that would be inexplicable in a peet,if unaccompanied by acme explanatory statement, as where, describing the bold and flaunting mistresses of the barracks near Macon, who used to meet him on afternoons in the meadows, pulling as they sauntered on, the blossoms of the violet and the hawthorn, he observes—" since that time I have held violets and hawthorns in abhorrence." Pleasant society was to be encountered early in the nineteenth century even amidst the monotony of Macon, and therefore it is that we rejoice in the account here given by the auto biographer of such visitors in the drawing-room of his uncle as the Abbe Sigorgne, and the Abbe Bourdon, and the mysterious and dilapidated M. deValmont, and the colossal and loud-voiced M. de Lamella, whose sympathies went with the Girondins, seeing that they were devoured by the Revolution because they dared to denounce its crimes ; and with them, too, were the Marquis Doria, and M. de Saint (his name being suppressed because he is still living), and M. de Davoy6, and M. de Seveigny. Who can pass over unremarked, moreover the old bedridden Chevelier de Sennecey, who wiled away the evening of his life by making watches and other nicknackeries; or yet more, have no thought of fondness for the memory of Blondel ? There is an interest likewise in the youthful friendship of La martine for M. Ronot, a young advocate of the Jura, then settled at Macon. Notwithstanding the plea sure derived by the former from the particulars just enumerated, we cannot feel any surprise whatever to find the passionate delight with which he records the return of his family from the town of Macon to the village of Mills, holding as he does so heartily with Cowper, that " God made the country, but man made the town!" A visit paid by the future poet and statesman to his other uncle, the Abbe de Lamartine, then resident in the Chateau d'Urcy, in Upper Bur gundy, closes the first portion of the pre sent volume, being adorned, moreover, by some graceful verses addressed to " The Fountain of the Forest," a favourite retreat often haunted by his footsteps. The second division of the production before us recounts the tender and beautiful story of the love of Saluce and Regina.—Saluce, the friend of La martine, and Regina, a Roman Princess. The inci dents comprised in this narrative are as picturesque and enthralling as any romance born entirely of the imagination. As strikingly contrasted examples of the power with which these pages of his auto biography have been penned by Lamartine, we sub join the following quotations: the first depicting the young poet's life in the bosom of a landscape of Bur gundy : " To watch the sun rising above the summit of the great oaks in the park, to open the window for the swal lows to circle round my ceiling, to porn over the old books of the castle library in my bed to the music of tinkling sheep-bells and the busy murmurs of an awakening household; to rise and breakfast with my uncle on the delicious cream of his cows and the liquid gold of his bee-hives ; to wander with him from the parlour to the library, from tho stables to the garden; to return to shelter and quietness during the burning hours of noon; then when the sun declined a little, to wander forth again with my gun, or a book under my arm, or to spring upon my wild mountain horse, with his long, thick, silky mane flowing down his shoulders and nearly veiling the eyes; to plunge him at a gallop through the flowery meads, or rush down the gorges of the hills, through woods where I had to fling myself prostrate upon his neck to pass beneath the branches; to wander wildly and recklessly wherever fancy or chance led me, discovering some new glade, some hitherto unknown spring, disturbing the leverets, or startling the dear from their lair ; to lose myself thus for whole hours till I found that I had wandered many leagues from the castle; to return listlessly homeward in the'aeol of the evening; to dine, talk, read, listen to the) adventures of an abbe of the old regime at Paris or Ver sailles; to gently doze over the recital, and when sleep had fairly mastered me, to ascend the grand staircase, traverse the long echoing corridors that led to my apart ment, fall asleep over the pages of some philosopher or poet, and rise again next day to commence the same life of liberty, idleness, and dreamy reverie—such was my existence at the chateau, and no days of my youth flew more rapidly than those passed in this wild solitude, this monastery of freedom and friendship. The shadows of the trees, which are still flourishing, have carpeted the garden for my footsteps; the music of the fountains have lulled me to repose ; but yet I was forced by circum stances after the death of my uncle to sell the trees that had shadowed me and the streams that bad lulled me to rest. May their influence bo as beneficent and soothing to other generations us they have been to me!" The following passage describes, after a very different fashion, the aspect of the Roman street i n which stood the religious edifice that sheltered the heads of Clotilda, the sister cf Saluce, and of Regina, long af terwards his beloved : " The convent was situated in the vast deserted quarter of La Longara, which extends from Transtevera along the back of the colonnade of St. Peter's. It is a long, interminable street, presenting eve r y variety of building, alternating with each other, or side by . side —palaces, monasteries, and mean, wretched habitations, formerly occupied by the numerous poor families attached by their functions to the altars , the sacristies, or the ser vic,e, At the the g t r i e m a e t B ef as w il h ic ie a h , th l e s C pe a a p k it , a t l h o e f s 0 Catholicism. hous sw e re either entirely deserted or inhabited only by a few inch- , gent old men and women. But t he antique splendour of the street was still visible in the architectural remains of some of the grand palaces, and the sculptured porticoe s of the churches. An irre sistible feeling of melancholy, unknown to the north, seizes hold of the imaginatina at the aspect of such a street in Italy. An oriental sad ness, a gloom within the light, a coruscation of mourn ful surprise oppresses the heart, one knows not why. Perhaps from the contrast between the clear bright azure heaven,blue as the lapis lazali, pouring dow n it s streams of light upon the burning payethents and deserted pa laces, and the silence and solitude that gives to noon s omething of the vague immensity and terror of mid night. I have often passed from one extremity to the o ther of this long avenue of burning w alls, in the mid dle of the day, without meeting a sin g le b e ing through out its whole extent, or hearing a single footstep re-echo on the pavement. " A solitary cat crossing the leads, and gliding through a dormer window; an ass loaded with ranter s cropping THAT'S WHERE IT IS! (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) "What's all this outcry about the taxes?" said my uncle Dick one day, layiug "We talk down the Times, and taking up his pipe. a deal about taxes—a very deal." " Why, uncle," said I, " there's that odious tax on light—the window-tax, and the carriage-tax, and the soap-tax, and the paper-tax, and the attorneys'-tax." "Hold there," said my uncle, " and stop a bit till I have got this pipe lit." My, uncle deliberately and seriously put the match to his pipe, as if he was about to fire a mine; then he took a few strong puffs, until he had made a dense thick cloud about him ; then he threw aside the match, and set himself back in his elbow chair, w i t h a " P—oh—h. " Now, then, about that lawyer's-tax" said he. Bat first let me paint ray uncle's portrait. Beard could do it better with his daguerreotype; but I will try my hand nevertheleeal Fixat e a solid body, well set into his chair, which was covered with red damask, furnishing a warm background to his portly figure, and he fitted into it as if he were a fixture. His nether man was clothed in kerseymere breeches, buckled at the knee, and hi s white stockings showed a wonderfully plump calf, for so old a man. He was about seventy, but looked ten years younger—thanks to his equable good-humour. He wore raffles on his shirt-front; round his neck a white neck cloth; and a bunch of gold seals dangled at his fob. In short, he was a gentleman of the old school, a class fast growing out of date now-a-days. But I have not mentioned his face yet. It was the index of the man, and his inner light shone through it. Broad and massive, a large square chin, with a deep angle under his ear—usually the sign of strength in men—a full, prominent nose, slightly rubicund—some would call it " jolly," and a bright, clear, grey eye, twinkling with humour and shrewdness; a broad, but not very high forehead, strongly marked, surmounted these penetrating eyes, and the whole was covered by an abundant crop of silver-white hair. Ido not know whe ther I have succeeded in placing my uncle before the reader's eye, as he is before my own; but I cannot do better: you must learn more of him from his talk. " Now, then, about that lawyers'-tax," said he. " Well, uncle, it is very hard, indeed. Here have I, for instance, had a long professional education to un dergo; then, before I can practise, I have an immense sum to pay in stamps; then a large annual tax to pay by way of license to practise." " Well," said my unce, "and why not ? You have your run of the public, and you must pay for it. That's whore it is!" " What do you mean, uncle?" " Why this; that one can turn no way in life, can'i be married, or die, or buy a bit of land, or enter into a partnership, or make a bargain, without a lawyer springing up and crying, stand and deliver.' I would tax em all, and no mistake; if I did not do as Czar Peter did." " And what did he do, uncle?" " Why, when he was walking throueh Westminster Hall, he saw a lot of fellows in horse-hair wigs, pow dered with flour, strutting about in long black gowns, and he asked, ' Who's them fellows?' Lawyers,' was the answer. Lawyers!' said Peter; ' why, I've only two in all my dominions, and immediately on my return, I intend to hang one of them!' " " Ay, that's where it is, sir, (to use your own phrase). Peter was a despot, and could not brook lawyers. No lawyers no freedom—no rights, sir!" " Rights, sir! The right of being waylaid by every pettifogger, and robbed. That's what it is! Freedom, sir? I know them,—from the petty justices up to Chan cery,—and the higher you go the worse you fare. I was a ward for a girl, whose property was all swallowed up by the lawyers, in the quarrel they got up among themselves, and she never fingered a penny to this day. Look at that newspaper, and see what a solicitor says of our highest court. The Court of Chancery, I hesitate not to say, is a disgrace to a civilised country, causing in many sasses an absolute denial of justice, and in all much hardship, anxiety, vexation, and. delay.' But they don't speak of the cost, sir; it is ruinous to all who aro so foolish or so infatuated as to sue for 'justice.' There is no other way of dealing with these courts than to do as Noll Cromwell did,—abolish them at once. I'd blow them up forthwith!" " You are too hard upon us, sir!" "Not a bit, sir! My experience of law is this,—if a lawyer threatens you, lie down at once and ho robbed quietly; but don't go to law." " But you can be defended, sir!" " The cure's worse than the disease. The justice' costs more than the injustice. I have myself spent five and thirty pounds in recovering five; and I won my cause! And the beauty of it was, that while the one lawyer was stripping me, there were always a dozen look ing on laughing. While one robbed, the others quietly looked over the hedge. That's where it is, sir!" The loud squeaking of a pig here interrupted our con versation, and, looking out of the low parlour window, we saw across the street a butcher and his two lads trying to drive a pig into the passage leading to his slaughter house. " The lawyers are on him," said my uncle. The pig was a well-fed brute, and as comely as a pig can be. There are indeed pig-fanciers now-a-days, who can point out to you features of beauty in these animals; and there are judges of the animals at the Smithfield Shows, who award prizes accordingly. This pig in question came forward quite critically, with its nose down and its ears cocked, slowly picking every footstep, seeming to be intent only on the firmness of the ground under it, but with a cunning, sidelong look turned upon the butcher and his two lads. They were very cautions, and set about their work like persons experienced. in the art of pig-driving. They gently insinuated the pig on wards, encouraging him, hovering about him, and keeping his head pointed towards the way he was to go in. The pig grunted querulously, as if making objections, and now that he is close upon the entrance to the slaughter house, and when the butcher and his lads are putting forth their energies in a grand shout, and strive to force him within the narrow way, —now, on a sudden, he smells something in the wind that he does not like—for, all pigs have some instinctive horror of slaughter-houses, —and setting his ears back, and making a sudden wheel, he bolts, dashes between the legs of the heavy butcher who is on his back in an instant. " There's where it is!" I exclaimed, sympathizing cordially with the pig. " It's of no use," said my uncle, " they'll have him yet." A terrific squeal here arose up the narrow street, and, though we could not see the source, we knew it must be the caught pig. The butcher was up, and on his way to the scene of action. "The Philistines are on him," said my uncle. The squealing became more appalling, and drew nearer. It was one, long, loud screech, with a short emphatic grunt at intervals. Tho butcher and his two lads approached, carrying the struggling pig among them. As they approached the narrow entry, the pig's struggles became desperate, and his squealing incessant. He made one desperate effort; a foot escaped; the two lads are down; but the butcher holds on firmly by the two hind legs. "It is all over with him," said my uncle, turning to wards the fire; "why couldn't he have spared himself all this trouble, and laid down to be killed quietly, like an obedient pig, at once?" Ho set hi:nself again into his elbow-chair, and knocked the ashes out of his pipe into the grate. "It's just the way of the world," said he, " once let ill-luck catch a man, and woe for him; once he's fairly down, there's no getting him right on end again. He may struggle away, but it's of no use; he's cure to be made mince -meat of at last. We were talking of taxes, sir. What does a man care about taxes, if the world's against him?" "But that isn't the case with the majority, sir; and the public will think of taxes, and ought to think of taxes. What do you think about the window -tax, sir?" "Oh! take all your taxes off, if you can do without them, but don't give up taxing the lawyers, that's all ,— don't let 'em off! Soap? surely! Y ou i nsult the unwashed' by calling them s o , an d refusing to untax their soap." a fewse My uncle blew a long clo u d , an d was silent 'great c onds. "A thought strikes mc," said he, "I h o ley we tax ourselves daily, to a greater extent than any durst tax us," G o vernment " How do you me :n, uncle?" " Why, look at this; pipe here! It costs me a shilling a week, at le as t. Now, think of the G o vernment laying drink! upon us a smoki ng - tax of fifty shil li ngs a year , an outcry it wou ld cause . But look a t our in.k Whatl sec, it said, that the working folks of this country spend, of their own free-will, some fifty millions a year on drink. t Just fancy the Government puttin gth'isa directa mount! what a h t " these classes of one•tenth part of it!" wa a terrible agitation would come of "Why, there s what sir; some truth in you say, but then you will remem ber that this self-taxation is all VOLUNTARY! " " t h a t's where it is," answered my uncle; "it is our v i ce s and our appetites that we are voluntarily feed ing, and never count the cost of them. But when there is a tax on lawyers licences, or on house-windows, or on soap, or on paper, though it does not touch un to a thousandth part of the extent, we call it oppression, and so on. The taxes must be raised." " But how?" I asked. "Tax wealth—tax property—tax land; that is what always gets the chief share of Government attention, and it ought fairly to pay its own costs. Why ask a poor man to pay, out of the wages of his daily labour, the cost of protecting the rich men's propost)? but I My uncle always tried to get at the gist of a matter, and when he did, his eyes lit up, es they did now, and, with his pipe-tube extended, he triumphantly wound up with his "that's where it is It was the Q. E. D.— t h e thing to be demonstrated—the crowning summary of his argument. I could furnish some further illustrations of my un cls's mode of clenching his arguments, and may pro bably , do so on some other occasion. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. --- Yesterday the receipts and the number of visitors again suffered a slight decline, the former being 2,7221. 10s., and the latter 57,781. The . v heat of the weather, great as it was outside of the building, was more oppressive within, and , in conseq uence of the inconveni ence experienced, we understand tha t i t is det ermined to remov e the inside glazing atthe eastern and western entrances, and to endeavour in this way to secure a re freshing and thorough draught from end to end of the interior. Thi s will be an i m mense relief to visitors if successfully carried out. their rn survey in the buildin g e bbuyild an in The Queen an d the roya l par ty at the Palace were a and Milan gallery. g yesterday examination ofthe From this they pr oceeded to our own scu lptur e court, after which they went into the I n di an collection, and then, ascending to th e section s ofglass and pot tery, they who had by w th e a re t time ad mvnanssteagebTeds? seen by the crowds Some new arrivals of an interesting character were received yesterday. They consist of contributions of variou s kinds, including arms, dresses, trappings, and ivory from Abyssynis, and a . large round table from the Sandwich Islands. Among the dresses are " three fine cotton cloths worn by Abys synians of rank," and two sheepskins worn over the cloths, each the skin of one sheep. There are among the arms two double-edged sabres, with handles of Rhinoceros horn; and the contributions, which are pre sents to her Majesty, also include two silver coronets. The flag decoration in progress in the British half of the nave would be rendered much more effective, if car ried cut in the same manner as it has been by the diffe rent foreign countries. We hang out our banners at right angles, while their spear points are placed at an angle of 45 degrees. IRELAND. DUBLIN, THURSDAY,—The North American packet, from New York, was expected at Galway yesterday, where preparations had been made for giving the officers, crew, and pactengers a hearty welcome. The fact was, however, promulgated that this ship would not leave New York until the 24th, consequently she cannot be expected before the 2d of July. The railway is now so for completed that a train can be run from Galway to Dahlia; but cro tho North American shall arrive on the western shore the line will be in a condition for traffic the whole way. THE CURRAGEI RACES.—ller Majesty's Plate of 100 guineas, for three and four yrs old, was won by. Mr. Watt's Chatterbox, beating Lord Waterford's Kick-up the Dust and two others. THE ARMY. WOOLWICH GARRISON, Jura 26.—The whole of the troops in the garrison assembled this morning in drill order, and proceeded to the common, where they were formed in line, at ten o'clock. The Royal Horse Artil lery, under Lieutenant-Colonel Bell; the 17th Lancers, under Lieutenant-Colonel Lawrenson; the Foot Artil lery, in three battalions—the Ist under Lieutenant- Col. Thorndike, the 2d under Lieutenant-Colonel Gostling, and the 3d under Lieutenant-Colonel Story ; the whole of the three battalions, with two nine-pounder batteries, gunners dismounted, under Colonel Cruttenden; the Royal Marines, under Lieutenant-Colonel Gillespie; and the Light Field Batteries, under Lieutenant-Colonel An dereon. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman,C.B., K.C.11., commandant of the garrison, accompanied by Li: utenant-Colonel Brereton, C. 8,, Kai., Royal Horse Artillery; Brigade-Major Bingham, Captain Tylden, Deputy-Assistant-Quartermaster-General of Artillery, and Captain Wingfield, of the Riding-house troop, with the adjutants not on duty, arrived on the ground at a few minutes after ten o'clock, and the gallant Lieut.- General was received with the usual salute, the bands playing the national anthem. On the return of the commandant and staff to the flag-staff, the whole of the troops marched past, the Royal Horse Artillery, the 17th Lancers, and field batteries, at a walk, and the Foot Artillery and Royal Marines at slow time; the Royal Horse Artillery, the 17th Lancers, and the field batteries afterwards at a trot, and the Horse Artillery and Lancers subsequently at a canter. The whole of the troops then proceeded to the upper part et the com mon, where they took up a position, three troops of the Lancers on the right, flanking the Royal Horse Artil lery, supported on its left by lat battalion of Artillery, and in the centre were placed the two companies in charge of the 9-pounder guns, with the 2d battalion of Artillery in the rear. The Royal Marines were sta tioned on the left of the 9-pounders, and the field batte . ries and three troops of Lancers on the extreme left, forming a very imposing line. Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas Downman, who commanded the whole of the troops, then left the flag-staff, and on the word of command being given she 9- pounders opened their heavy firing, and immediately after the Lancers advanced, both from the right and the left, meeting in the centre the troops of Lancers on the right, closely followed by the troops of the Royal Horse Artillery. On reaching the middle of the common the Lancers wheeled to the right and left, and two troops of the Lancets advanced at full gallop, followed by one of the troops of Horse Artillery, until they arrived at the extreme north side of the common, when the Lancers wheeled to the right and left, and the Horse Artillery advancing, commenced what would have proved a most destructive fire against an enemy. The troop of Horse Artillery then withdrew a short distance, covered by the Lancers, and again commenced firing, which was kept up until the other troops of Horse Artillery advanced to support them along with the other troop of Lancers. The field batteries also advanced at the same time, and the whole of the infantry, the 9-pounders of the batte ries, end the light 6-pounders being fired in rapid suc cession, as would be the case in a general engage ment. The whole of the infantry commenced a run ning fire at the same.time, the whole presenting a mos t imposing spectacle, owing to the rapid and continuous succession of the firing, and the partial envelopment cf a great portion of the troops by the volumes of smoke. Oa the word of command and trumpet signal being given, tho whole of the troops retired to their position on the hill, and formed a line anroet, the upper par tof the common, with two troops of Lancers on the ri g ht, two on the left, and two on the rear of the centre. On an opening being made in the centre the two troops of an—a on passing through g Lancers advanced, dartinggalloped at their utmost speed, their lances ahead and on ethaechriegihdet and wi the other to theththegeeateetae left, tivit, one troop turning to after having nearly crossed the commo n in a semicircle, returning to the right an d la c o f the lino at full gal lop. The fi r t n , from t he whole of the troops , aa i n noramene7d a t the commanding positio n on the h;11 e and was contin ued for nearl y a q uarter of au hour, without intermission, along the line. After ad vanc i n g, and again firing in extended line, the evolutions were concluded, and the troops marched position previously occupied on the line to take up bmtheaei nr bands nedd formedoptrlhawyeatiiirrt:gt,eno'clock. The whole body then and saluted the Lieutenant-General, the national anthem. Sir Thomas at the conclusion, rode forward and ex- Downman, pressed his satisfaetisn with the manner in which the entire of the evolutions had been performed. There were fully 5,000 spectators present on the occasion, but there was not the least overcrowding, as every specta tor had an excellent view of the whole of the evolutions. Unfortunately a gunner of the field batteries had his Land so injured by the explosion of a cartridge when he was putting it into the gun after a previous firing, that it was found necessary, on his being taken to the hos pitol, to have a portion of his arm amputated. The nu merous visitors to the garrison to-day afterwards pro ceeded to the Rotunda, to the Royal Arsenal, and the Royal Dockyard. [ADVERTISEMENT.] - Holloway's Ointment and Pills have perfumed a most extraordinary Cure of an inflam mation in the Side.—Extract of a letter from Mr. F. Arnot, of Breahouse, Lothian -road, Edinburgh, dated 29th April, 1511. "To Professor Holloway. Sir,—For more than 20 years my wife suffered severely from an inflammation in the side, for which she was blistered and bled repeatedly, and used other remedies, but without any good effect. It was then re solved that your Pills and Ointment should have a trial, and after their application for about three weeks a cure was estab ' lisped. Four years have since elapsed, but there has been no recurrence of the c omplaint."—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. " NESTLING" gIGIITINGALES.—As the season for nestlings is now at hand, I would call attention to the fact of these birds being, when young, very tender; they must, therefore, be kept in the nest, covered over lightly with a piece of flannel, until they show signs of increasing strength. They should then be put in a long covered cage, the bottom being thickly strewed with very fine red sand, quite dry and sweet. Place them in a sunny spot; and be sure, when you feed them, that the food is fresh and wholesome. They will soon learn to perch ; and the males will " record" their song before they are six weeks old. Their early notes are sweetly musical.— William Kidd, in the Gardeners' Chronicle. FRIDAY a T4',