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a whe le said t was Lord nation to the ;ion to ies of at he Mem sation i boen , erned orised der.") ?yond gan2N tainly Hon. t they those assuming ecclesiastical titles in the same position as that of the 22,1 and 23.1 of George 111., and, in 1795, When the college of Maynooth was endowed, so careful Was the Legislature to recognise no such title, that . the Commissioners named to carry the measure into chest Wer e simply set down as electors of divinity. So the law continued down to 1 8 2 9, when th e Relief Act ens Passed, the 24'th section of which imposed penalties for as Burning ecclesiastical titles. An argument v.- as u3.:,1 in the c o u rse of the present debate, that all titles not ex pressly prohibited by that section were permitted. very important that it should be borne in mini that that Prohibition did not interfere with the spiritual privi leges of Roman Catholic bishops, and that at that time the Act of Elizabeth, being in existence, the law was tore stringent than it was at the preaeot day. The Roman Catholic ecclesiastics of that time are men equal in learning and in talent to those new in existence, and yet not one of them complained of the clause, as in terfering with their spiritual rights, but, an the century, kcepted the measure with gratitude. Having ,ben dis claimed all ecclesiastical titles, what reason now existed for making any distinction between England and Ireland? The Noble Lord, on the motion of the Hon. Member for Rochdale, said that having made a law in regard to Eng land, he did not think it would be consistent to allow any person in any part of the United Kingdom to assume a title such as the Bishop of Galway. in consequence of a rescript received from the Pope. The Honourable Mem ber for Somorsetshire quoted an extract from a Roman Catholic publication, and he would read one which was snore extraordinary, and more striking, and, he re gretted to add, of a more profane description. He found the Tablet newspaper, in speaking of the bull appointing the Bishop of Killaloe, use the following Words:—" The law is broken, thanks be to God," and With respect to the rescript, said to be condemnatory of the Queen's Colleges, it used terms still more objection able and more repugnant. " Another rescript (it said), another crime, another cause of thankfulness to At raighty God, and ours must be the greater, because the direct and main object of it is to deteat with ignominy an Act of Parliament." Was the Noble Lord right, or Was he insane, to pirmit such scandalous attempts to disobey the law, and the shameful abandonment of the tights of a great nation?—(Cheers.) And yet under all these circumstances, and with the law even as it at pre- Bent existed, these repeated defiances were allowed to go on, and an Act framed, which did not guard every part of the United Kingdom. The preamble of the Bill was directed solely and exclusively at the rescript issued last year, appointing a hierarchy for England. If the Noble Lord determined to extend the Bill to Ireland, he would do for him that which he had not the courage to do for himself. His object was to convert the declaration, "certain briefs, rescript, or letter apostolical," into t• certain • briefs, rescripts, or letters apos tolical;" and also to cite and include the re- Script, brief, or letter apostolica 1 of 29th Sep tember, 1850; and with this object in view he asked how the Noble Lord could object to this amend trient? The legislation now proposed to meet this ag gression only elicited defiance, and was an encourage- Went to further encroachments. He therefore asked, did the Noble Lord intend to extend the law to Ireland, and if so, why not state it on the face of the Bill? He Wished the House to have in a concentrated form all the amendments, forming a series and a system. He would ehll attention to another amendment. The Noble Lord directed attention to one rescript, brief, or letter aposto ekeal which the preamble declared to be illegal and void. If the preamble was carried on these terms, as ho pro- Posed, it would pass to all rescripts if his amendments were carried. The Solicitor-General being pressed by the Member for the University of Oxford, whether he Was not inconsistent in confining the declaration of the Preamble to a particular rescript, whereas that by which the diocese of Ross was established was equally illegal, Stated that the declaration would operate in Ireland. He Stated the judges would apply the declaration in cases arising in Ireland. This, however, was not a declara tion of the law generally, but in reference to a particular tescript. The judges would decide according to the law If it stood before this declaration was made. 'lf this declaration clause had any operation, it Would 'be an injurious one, and detrimental. His honourable and Learned Friend said it would apply to Ireland. Ho would then appeal to the Noble Lord in consistency to declare it on the face of the 4 5114 He would now proceed to the next amendment. In 1846 the Noble Lord said that, to prevent parties e from assuming these titles, would be absurd and puerile. If that was his impression it was their duty not to per !en! the Noble Lord to give them this minimum of legis lation against this aggression. He appealed to the Noble Lord whether the statute of Richard H. was available lit the present day or not. Ho thought they ought to have an answer on that point. The Noble Lord said it Was obsolete. Well, he agreed it was right that it Would not be prudent to risk a conviction under that statute, but at the same time he asked the Noble Lord , did he mean to carry out the Act of Richard II , and if to, be would say, let him declare it openly on the face of the Bill. The value of his amendment was, that they Would bring it down to the present day, and make this &till accordant with the declarations of the Noble Lord, but which he was prevented carrying into effect °Y a counteracting force. His object was to protect them from further aggression. Obsolete laws, as Lord i llation observed, brought a gangrene on wholesome 'Were that were to be brought into practice and exe oetion. The Noble Lord proposed to leave the law as it Was under the 10th of George IV. What was the effect of that Act ? The law was allowed to sleep, and the penalties left, like unstored arms, hanging Ott the walls, not meant for use. Ho would 1 4, had the Attorney-General done his duty ? If not, Was it likely that any Government would embarrass itself with such a prosecution, if they could avoid it. ,le asked, was it not their duty to take care that the laW should be efficient, and not be allo wed to sleep, as It had been under the existing law? It was said he Leant an indignity to the Attorney-General; but was he on that account to be prevented from providing a ttimulus to the Attorney-General to enforce the law? The Government was unwilling to prosecute, and he Proposed to give the power to any one to prosecute with the consent of the Attorney-General. The effect, there fore, would be that if any respectable party proposed to Prosecute, if it was a proper occasion, the Attorney-Ge lieral would consent, and if not, he would withhold his i consent, and, therefore, the matter would be left in the i hands of the Attorney-General as heretofore. He had brought these amendments forward in no spirit of hosti lity, hut to sati fy the public and to enable the Govern !tient to act up to their declarations. This was a most Important measure to protect Protestant ascendancy, Which was assailed from within and without, and was in a condition similar to that of the .Primitive Church When it was said to contend " with outward lghtings and with inward fears."—(Hear, hear.) hie had to contend against a power which assumed a tight to govern all—heretics and apostates, among Which Protestants were included. The Hon. Member for Kerry said they would wait for an occasion, and not anticipate it; but that would never come until it was too late to prevent it. They had to contend with a foe Who would crouch in his lair for the fatal spring, which Would then be irresistible. He thought they ought not to disregard the warning they had already, and not Wait until it was too late. The time was the present to respond to the Protestant zeal of the country, and to pro tect the interests of tsose who were to come after them. lie called upon them rot to repair the breach which had been made by the enemy with the rubbish furnished by the opposite bide, but with sound materials, which would form an impregnable defence. The eyes of the world Were upon them. They were engaged in a contest in Which to fail would be a disgrace—which was described by an eminent writer, that if they allowed the Pope to introduce his bulls into this country the honour of Eng land would be trampled in the dust, and be the heaviest blow for the last three centuries against human liberty and human progress. The Hon. Gentleman resumed his seat amidst loud and continued cheering. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman who had just resumed his seat had spoken with Much ability in support of the amendment to the mea sure he had introduced to the House; and, after very considerable vituperation against the measure as it now stood, had stated that his proposed additions would make the Bill complete, comprehensive, and efficient. H e , however, was surprised at the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman attaching so much consequence to the additions he had proposed, as he (Lord J. Russell) did not con ceive that they were either very valuable or very strin gent. In the first place, let them consider what consti tuted the offence against which the present measure was directed. Tho offence was, in the first place, an assump tion of titles in this country by a foreign Power, with out the knowledge or consent of the Sovereign of this country, and in defiance, in fact, of the expressed wish of the Government of this country. Now, t o moat that, they proposed, in the first place , to insert in the Act that a certain rescript, professing to emanate from the Pope of Rome, purporting to give these titles, had been issued in this country, and that such titles, conferred under such re script, were void and illegal. Such was the first step the Government took in the matter, and that he considered to be the best mode of meeting the case, because what they had to deal with was a document which was published in this country openly and palpably; it was read on plat forms, and from all the pulpits of the Roman Catholic Church in this country, and therefore it was proper that Government should take cognizant® of it. Some parties said that the proper way to meet the case would be to pass a resolution in each House of Parliament, condem natory of the Act; but Government considered that the better mode of meeting the case would be to pass a de claration in the shape of an Act of Parliament, aiming at the particulat act of encroachment—reciting it, and de• daring it void and illegal. That, he considered, would have been a declaration that all such acts were illegal, and that they could not have effect in this country. But then the Hon. and Learnad Gentleman said, " Oh! but while you declare this not of the Pope illegal, you don't declare the other rescripts he bas issued to be iilef.Tal, and the measure fell, therefore, far short of what it ought to." He, however, considered that by making the pre sent measure applicable to all rescripts, they would very much weaken its effects in respect to this particular act. The Honourable and Learned Gentleman had censured the Government for not making the measure appli cable to all similar rescripts; but if the Government was liable to censure in that respect, the Hon. and Learned Member for Midhurst (Mr. Walpole), who had proposed the clause, was equally so, for he had confined it to this particular rescript. Tho Hon. and Learned Gentleman had stated that the effect of their not having extended the measure to all similar rescripts as that complained of, would have the effect of embarrassing the judges, should they ever be called upon to put the clauses of the Act into force. Not being a lawyer, he would not enter into a legal argument on that point, but he thought the opinion expressed by the Hon. and Learned Gentleman respecting it, was so contrary to the common-sense view of the subject, that they could not be considered so now. Instead of the measure as it now stood, embarrassing a judge, it occurred to him that thejudge before whom such kosee would come, would THE SUN, say, " I see, by the Acts ( f Richard the Second and Elizabeth, that such acts on the part of a foreign power are illegal, and I ern strengthened in that opinion by what occurred in 185 D, when Parliament declared by Act en . Parliament a rescript issued by the Pope in Sspteenber of the preceding year to be 'void and H iker!): " That was the construcdou which he thought any ' learned judge before whom such a case might come would put upon the matter. The lion. and Learned Gentleman said that the contrary would be the effect; that the judge would declare that while all such rescripts were deel end illegal by the Acts of Richard, the S, cond, and Elizabeth, tha Act of 1851 only ren dered one of these rescripts illegal, aed that conse quently a doubt weci raised as to the legality of all others. He did net, as he had said, think that any judge would come to such a conclusion, and that being the case, he did not think there was any necessity for adopting the amendment on that clause, as he thought they would lose the effect of the measure unless they confined it to this particular rescript. With regard to the case of Ire land, he had elways considered that any Act of such a nature as this should refer equally to all parts of the United Kingdom.—(Hear, hear.) But then there could be no doubt that when the present Pope came into power, finding that ever since about forty years after the Reformation, archbishops and bishops belonging to the Roman Catholic Church had been appointed to sees in Ireland, he felt himself justified in continuing those ap pointments. The case, however, was different as re garded England, for here the Pope had divided the country into dioceses, and had appointed to them archbishops and bishops without . even asking the consent of the Queen or • Government of this country, and it was that Act with which the Government and the House had now to deal. With respect to those Irish bishops, it was not to be ex pected but that the Pope would fill up the vacancies in any of the sees when such occurred, and such might not be considered much aggression; but with respect to the aggression of 1850, that was one which the Pope might and ought to have avoided, and at all events asked the consent of the Sovereign of this country before he had made it. There was, therefore, in point of common sense and reason, a considerable difference in that which had been done in Ireland since, he believed, the year 1600 in respect of the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops, and what had been done in England in Sept., 1850. That appeared to be the opinion of the people of this country, for he had never heard them object to the appointment of Roman Catholic bishops in Ireland, al though they had done so when the same was attempted in England. With respect to the other amendment to the enacting part of the Bill, he did not consider it of much importance, and would not trouble the House with referring to it.—(Hear, hear.) Then came, however, what was more important, for the Hon. and Learned Gentle man proposed next, that any one should not be allowed of himself to institute proceedings against parties who might infringe this Act, but that t any party might do so with the consent of the Attorney-General. He owned that prosecutions of this nature were matters which so affected the State, that those who repre sented the State sought to have the sole power to institute them. Let the House consider what were the considerations which those who represented the Go vernment ought to have in view previous to ,instituting them, Previous to instituting all such prosecutions there were four considerations which Government ought well to weigh. Ia the first place, had the offence been committed? Second, could they adduce legal and suffi cient evidence of its having been committed? Third, supposing the offence had been committed, and that there was legal evidence of its being so, were they likely to obtain a verdict? And in the fourth place, suppos ing they were sure to have a verdict, would any public benefit ensue from such a prosecution being instituted? All these were natters for Government to consider. With respect to the two first, not a reek passed but what they might institute prosecutions for libel, and prove them by most satisfactory evidence ; but if these tall place, the jury who tried the case would be told that the prosecution had been raised to cover the delinquencies of a corrupt and persecuting Government, so that the parties prosecuted for libels would be raised in public consequence, and their libels more extensively read than ever. It was a serious matter, therefore, for the consideration of the Government whether such pro secutions ought to lie instituted or not, end whether any public advantage would accrue from them. Wise men ale° herd formerly held high positions in the Government of this country had seen the propriety of always observing great forbearance in respect of these. There was a well-known story told of a circumstance which took place between Sir Robert Walpole and Sir William Wyndham in that House. Sir William Wynd ham made an attack in that House on the Sovereign, and used language most disrespectful; upon which Sir Robert Wulpole said, "I see what he wants; he wants me to send him to the Tower, but I shall do no such thing." In his opinion Sir Robert Walpole acted wisely, for Sir William Wyndham would have been greatly raised in public notoriety by such imprisonment. He said then that as all these matters required so much con sideration, they ought not to be left to be instituted on the bidding of every individual, but left to the decision of the Government. Besides the proposal, be thought, would defeat itself, for the Attorney-General would of course refuse his consent in all cases where he thought prosecutions ought not to be issued, and, therefore, there would be little effect which could attach to the amend ment. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman had com plained that Attorney-Generals had not done their duty in not instituting these prosecutions in cases where the Act of 1829 had been infringed, but that was a com plete mistake, for his belief was that Chief Justice Blackburn and the Master of the Rolls in Ireland had done their duty in that respect. If they had neglected their duty, why did not the Honourable and Learned Gentleman, when Attorney-General and Solicitor-Genera], which he was for a considerable time, remind the Home Secretary that they were failing to do su? That he had not done, and, therefore, he could now have no ground of complaint. Upon the whole he thought that the effect of the Hon. and Learned Gentle man's amendments would be to weaken, instead of strengthen, the measure; and he would therefore leave the House to decide as to whether they ought to be adopted. The House, in considering the question, could not forget what had taken place at the commencement of the discussion, when a considerable number of Members, who represented counties and towns in Ireland, had re tired from the House. In an ostentatious manner they had refused to take part in the deliberation of the ques tion.—(Hear, hear.) They must, however, be held as consenting parties; and if the Hon. and Learned Gentle man succeeded, be would consider those parties who had left responsible far such success.—(bear.) He found nothing in these amendments which would pre vent him from going on with the measure, which he would do his hest to carry through successfully. Mr. NAPIER supported the amendments, and contended that while there had not been any infringements of the Act of 1829 in Ireland, during the time the Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon was Attorney-General, yet there had very soon after the Noble Lord came into power. He then found, on Lord Clarendon being sent to Ireland, that Dr. M'Hale, in an address which was presented to that Noble Lord, designated himself as Archbishop of Tuam, and was, in the reply to that address, styled by Lord Clarendon "My Lord," and recognised as a peer of the realm. That, there fore, was an intringement of the Act of 1829. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he did not so much object to the first two amendments proposed by his lion. and Learned Friend, although ho considered that the measure was much better as it stood. With reference to the introduc tion of words 'respecting rescripts introduced into England and Inland, there was no necessity for the allusion. The law in the two countries was the same. The sovereignty of the Crown was the same. Government directed their legislation against this act of aggression on the part of the Roman Pon tilt because it was an invasion of the rights and prerogatives of the sovereignty of the Crown. He undertook to say that no judge who was called upon to enforce the law in Ireland would have any difficulty in administering the law for Ire land, as it was intended it should affect rescripts in England. The Biil, in is present state, was equally applicable to all rescripts received in Ireland as to the special rescript consti tuting bishoprics in England, but he did not regard it as a matter of any great importance which way they decided, one way or the other. With respect to the amendment which proposed to make parties receiving and acting on rescripts liable to the penalties of the Bill, he objected to it because of its tendency to make the penalties cumulative. Be yond this, he did not see any great harm in the amendment. If the House chose to inflict a double penalty for taking titles, and procuring, publishing, and putting in use, within a ny part of the United Kingdun, any Papal briefs or rescripts, that was a subject for the House to consider and determine on. They should boar in mind, however, that the object of the amendment was to inflict two penalties for what was substantially the same offence. The third auiendment, giving power to the common informer to institute actions, with the consent of the Attorney- General in England and Ireland, or her Majesty's Advocate in Scotland, was the most objectionable. That was a matter of serious importance, and should be well weighed by the House. The cases contemplated by the Bill were not those in which the common intormer should be allowed to act. Such p rosecutions should be left to th e pub lic pro undet the responsibility of the G ov ernment. to urge that they could not depend upon a e i e t c N t v i taosr,aabcstui nr public officer, such as her Majesty's Attorney-General and pa ying a poor compliment to public officers. Judge Advocate, d ischar g in g his p ublic duties. Such a statement was Let him not be told that in the present state of public opinion in England the Bill, when it became law, would not be enforced. If prosecutions were not instituted in Ireland by the law officers of the Crown against parties offending, it was because public opinion in Ireland did not desire or demand an enforcement of the law; but the case was different in England. The public mind was in a state of excitement in consequence of an attempt on the part of the Roman Pontiff to infringe on the rights and prerogatives of the Crown. No law officer of the Crown under such circum stances would sleep at his post, and no Government with which he was connected would permithim to do so. By intro ducing the common informer, and allowing hint to prosecute, it was clear they would lower the ,character of the offence to the character of those other ()fleeces where common in formers were permitted to prosecute. They would lower the character of the prosecutions and of the public prose cutor. For these reasons he would oppose the alterations proposed to be made by the Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon. The House then divided on the question of substituting in the preamble the words " briefs and rescripts" for " brief and rescript." There appeared — For the amendment ... .•• 135 Against ... 11.0 Majority for Sir F. Thesiger's amendment and against Government ... —35 The announcement of this Ministerial defeat was followed by tremendous cheering from the Opposition benches. It was then proposed to insert in the preamble the words "and particularly by a certain brief, rescript, or letters epos tolical. ' Lord J. RUSSELL considered the words unnecessary, but he would not divide against their insertion. The preamble; as amended, was then ordered to stand part of the Bill. On the question that Sir Frederick Thesiger's third amend ment—namely, that in the first clause the words " all such briefs and rescripts" should be inserted, for " the said brief and-rescript," The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that, before the House proceeded to deal with the next part of the Bill, he desired to ask the House if they were not, to a certain extent, prac tising a delusion on.the public, by holding out that the sug gestion, or additions, or amendments of the lion. and Learned Member for Abingdon were towers of strength and bulwarks of the Protestant Church in Vila country?—(Hear, hear, and Oh, oh.) These were the words user by the Hon. and Learned Member for Abingdon. He said that his amend ments would not only render the Bill complete, but, in a speech of great abiPity, he stated that at a peri,cl of their history where every step they took was of the greatest im portance, and where every treachery was put in motion to surprise, it became of the first importance to mark well their towers, and to set up bulwarks for strengthening the Church against the attacks of assailants; and the Honour able and Learned Gentleman concluded by telling the House that he proposed to Eubstituce his masonry for the rubbish of the Government Bill. Now it never was his (the Solicitor- General's) view of the Bill that the Church of England should rely upon it for support. He had diecovered that while they were looking merely at this wretched rescript di viding the kingdom of England into Popish dioceses, that the Pope had created a Bishop of Ross and a Bishop of Gal w .y. Now, if they declared only that one rescript was ille gal, the judges in Ireland would be apt to think that the others were not illegal. Now the Hon. and Learned Gen tleman knew very well that all these briefs were illegal.— (Divide. ):The case stood thusiThe merit of his Hon. Friend consisted in this, that whereas it was now a misdemeanour to do these acts, he would make it punishable instead of by fine and imprisonment by a fine of 1001. That was the ut most extent of his merit. Now why had he said all this? (Cheers and laughter.) If they were not setting up any new bulwark and increasing their securities, it seemed to him that they were in effect destroying the Bill, the object of which was a solemn declaration of independence of Papal authority. Was it worth while to adopt these partial amendments, whichdid not in any way affect the main principle? The House then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment ... ... 165 Against it ... ... 109 Majority against the Government —56 717: Lord JOHN RUSSELL here intimated that be would not divide on the next amendment, but would take the sense of the House on the third reading. The amendments were then agreed to. Sir J. GRAHAM said, he understood tt was not the inten tion of her Majesty's Government to offer any opposition to the amendment of the Hon. Member for Abingdon, and, under these circumstances he wished to call the attention of the House to the preamble, which was of unusual length, and to the fact that the two clauses had been altered in such a manner as to materially alter the character of the Bill. The Bill having been so materially changed, and her Ma jesty's Government still adhering to the measure, he sug gested that it should be printed with the amendments. for the consideration of Hon. Members before the third reading. Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had no objection to the Bill being reprinted in the form in which it now stood, and he proposed to take the third reading on Friday next. Sir J. GRAHAM had no objection to Friday next, but he thought there should be time given to send the Bill to Ire land in its altered form.—(Hear, bear.) The third reading was then agreed to. OATHS OF ABJURATION (JEWS) BILL. The third reading of this Bill was postponed till Thursday next. The Supply Report was then brought up and agreed to. COURT OF CHANCERY ADJOURNED DEBATE, ON MOTION FOR ADDRESS (27TH MAY). On the order of the day being read for resuming this debate, The SOLICITOR-GENERAL regretted he was not pre sent when the Hon. and Learned Member for Newark brought forward the subject. The motion, he thought, pointed to two distinct matters—one, that the commission on which he had the honour to serve should be augmented by two Members not belonging to the profession; and the other, that the commission should be directed to attend to the proceedings in the Masters' offices, with a view to make an immediate report on the subject. He should shortly state why he con ceived the motion would frustrate the object which his Hon. and Learned Friend had in view. No doubt the object of his Hon. and Learned Friend was speedily and effectively to make a reform in the Court of Chancery. The present com mission consisted of seve❑ commissioners, who were mem bers of the bar, but since its appointment two of the commis sio ers—the Master of the Rolls and Vice-Chancellor Turner —had been appointed to the bench. With regard to the proposal of adding two additional members to the commis sion, ho thought all who had experience in these matters would admit that seven members were quite enough for the speedy and effectual carrying out of its object. He believed there was not a single member on the commis sion who was not desirous of Chancery reform—the Master of the Rolls, for instance, and Vice Chancellor Turner. He did not see what could be gained by making the commission nine in number, specially to include persons not members of the legal profession. The last two meetings of the com mission were occupied with hearing evidence on the subject of the Masters' offices in Chancery; and they were now busily engaged with the subject. But the vast question at issue was not to be settled in an off-hand manner, and he (the Solicitor-General) could not therefore promise a report this season. Mr. ELLICE said there had been various inquiries made into the abuses of the Court of Chancery by the legal pro fession, but as yet the unlearned public had derived no ad vantage from them. Since 1839, when two new Vice- Chancellors were appointed, nothing had been done to remedy the grievances of the over-crowded state of business in the Masters' offices. He appealed ,particularly to the Noble Lord at the head of the Government, and said it was a lamentable fact that this most enormous of all abuses had been forgotten in the reforms that had been achieved by the party of which he was at the head. He (Mr. Ellice) did not attach any blame to the Masters in Chancery, nor even to the solicitors; but to the system of abomination which pre cluded relief from any quarter except the Legislature. In this great commercial country no contested partnership ac count ever went into the Masters' offices and came out settled with a report. It was a sad fact. Was it not, he asked, a miserable thing that in a country like England there should be no court for partnership cases but this court? He was given to understand that no number of judges would be of avail unless there was a reform in the office of the Tax ing Master in Chancery. When Lord Grey came into power he (Kr. Ellice) was one of a commission to inquire into the Court of Exchequer, and they found the old tally-stick sys tem prevail there. They reformed that court, however, and now it was one of the most effective in the country. The same might be done with the Masters' offices, but if it was left solely to lawyers it would never be reformed. A mer chant or two, an accountant or two, and perhaps a barrister and a solicitor, would make the best possible commission. A deep knowledge of law was not needful to that end. Almost every department had been reformed, but no daylight had ever been permitted to entetr that den of Cacus—the Masters' offices in Chancery. He hoped, therefore, his Noble Friend would not let the matter sleep, but would bestir himself, as the head of the Government, to get rid of this scandal, which was a disgrace to the country. The MASTER of the ROLLS said he had not been idle, but had been doing what he could to facilitate the adminis tration of justice in all its departments. He had admitted the evils of Chancery to be not less strong than his Right Hon. Friend bad stated. One of the greatest abuses in Chancery was certainly in taking accounts ; but that could not be remedied by an accountant or a barrister. The evil was this—that if partners went into a contest as to the ba lance in their boots, every item was obliged to be proved by vouchers, though they might amount to thousands, and extend over a period of many years. This was the reason why a report never came out of the Master's offices in a part nership account. He had proposed a clause in the Irish Chancery Bill, making the books prima facie true, unless they were proved to be the contrary. The constant com plaint in his early acquaintance with Chancery was the arrear of business in original causes. This had been remedied; and though there was now a great ar rear in appeals, there was little or none in ori ginal business. Attention had been called to a case where a bill had been filed in Chancery 'in 1815, and the case was heard in 1851; but the cause of that arose from the fact that the Court of Chancery had acted as a trustee in the case, and that the question had been raised in connexion with the trust only in 1849, when the lady, the original party, died, though the bill had been filed so early. The public should not, therefore, be misled by dates. Ho believed that one of the most useful reforms that could bs adopted was to make the Court of Chancery general trustee, and to enable it to decide without delay disputed cases. He begged the House to believe that nothing was further from his wishes than to defend the real abuses of the Court of Chancery. On the contrary, he was most desirous to see them removed ; and he believed all his Learned Friends who were joined with him on that Commission were equally anxious with him on the subject. When they had met in that Commission they had divided themselves into sub-Com mittees of two ; and a large number of most valuable sugges tions, which they were then considering, had been contri buted. It was not possible for them to take all these subjects together, for the question was a very large one. The Com inissioners, however, were desirous of getting as much infor mation as they could upon one branch, and then to make their repOrt upon that before they went to another. With respect to the taking of evidence, they had drawn up a great number of questions`which they had sent to masters, solicitors, officers, and even judges, and they had received a great number of valuable suggestions, upon which they were on the eve of making a report. They had also begun to examine into the subject of the Masters' offices. The Honourable Member for Newark proposed that two new Members should be added to the Commission, and the names of the Right Hon. Baronet the Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) and the Hon. Member for Oxford had been suggested for that purpose. He fully admitted that more valuable assistance could not be obtained than that which these two Hon. Gentlemen could afford. But there was a great difficulty always in too numerous a Commission. Then it might be a long time before lay members, however intel ligent, could be made acquainted wit h the principles and sys tem of taking evidence. Another difficulty arose in the at tendance of members. They had appointed Tuesdays, Thurs days. and Saturdays, from four to six o'clock, to go through the business of the Commission. Would it be possible for lay members to attend on those days and at those hours, consistently with their other public business? If they could, nothing would give him greater pleasure than that they should have those Hen. Members; but in the present state of the Commission, he had his doubts whether the in troduction of other persons would be of so much benefit as his Hon. and Learned Friend thought. Amongst the evils stated to exist were, that if a Bill were to be taxed one had to wait three or four months, and if an order were required it would be three or four weeks before it could be got out of the Master's office. There was no doubt but that there were evils; but it was said they might be remedied by the appointment of two new taxing officers and additional masters. No doubt such was wanting; but if a proposition to that effect were made in the House, it would be com plained of that new offices were being created. He agreed with the Hon. Member for Coventry that it was of the ut most importance to take up that subject seriously and earnestly, and such was the intention of the Gov -rnment and the Commission which had been appointed. He was sure üb tl n i u e tti l lt l lit o he u a s bti,t e Cs w o o nc u lmo ld uirs i ss n s o i n st on a full inquiry into the subject; whichs hould i t h c a o v u e l d madetak e its wouldre port, be a t n o wait d not to seek to add to it for the present any new members. Be fore next session he trusted they would have made such a report as would tend in a great degree to point out the re medy for many of the most obvious existing abuses and evils in the administration of the affairs of the Court of Chancery. Mr. CHRISTOPHER thought, after the speech they had just heard from the Righ Hon. and Learned Gentleman who had addressed the Ilouse, there could be no more cogent reasons advanced for the proceeding re commen d e d by his Hon. and Learned Friend near him. As to the delays of the Court of Chancery, there could be no doubt on the mind of any one. He had been dragged into that court against his will on one occasion, and had been kept there six years with out any result. After every effort to obtain a hearing at the end of that period, he had obtained one which lasted ten mi nutes, and he had be told by the Master of the Rolls that he had no business in that court. It was subsequently nine years before lie succeeded in getting the suit terminated. He agreed with the Hon. Member for Coventry, that unless they got rid of the whole system from the beginning, there was no use in appointing new judges, new masters, or new officers, and that they should strike at the root of the evil, 1 if they intended to accomplish any real practical good. Mr. BETHELL concurred very sincerely in pa't of the appeal made by the Hon. Member for Coventry; and he hoped the Noble Lord at the Head of the Government, whose name was associated with eca many useful reforms, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1851. would not allow the present session to pass without doing something which would cause it to be handed down also in connexion with the reform of our judicial proceedings. Contrasting the vast amount of business which the five judges of the Court of Chancery had to do with what the fifteen law judges were called upon to go through, it would seem that in the former case it was impossible for human industry to accomplish it. Yet they expected these five judges to do all that. They had only themselves to blame for a great many of the evils complained of. They had refused to appoint additional masters, although the officers of these functionaries were crowded day after day, and hour after hour, with suitors who were unable to obtain justice- He would call upon them, therefore, to add to the power of that court. The fact of having increased the number of judges created addi tional labour for the masters. The difficulty in the Masters' offices arose from the fact that there was a centralised place of business to take accounts, and these were furnished through the medium of agents. He would briefly illastrate that difficulty by an example. suppose in Birmingham, or any other great commercial town of this country, a dispute arose about accounts in a large partnership concern. It was at once brought into the Court of Chancery, instead of being referred, as it ought, to some local parties of experience and judgment. Of course agents were to be employed here, and all the business was to be transacted through agents at every step in the proceeding. The Master to whom the case was referred had no power to compel the attendance of wit nesses, and at each additional movement the agents had to send to the country for evidence or instructions. Thus were proceedings lengthened out to a most immoderate extent. Again, he would ask them to contrast the duties per formed by the courts of common law with those of the Court of Chancery, and see how much assistance was neces sary to make the courts of equity equal to the business which comes before them. If the Hon. Member for Newark, in stead of turning out the Commission for a little sport in that House that night, were to go before the Commissioners and answer their questions, he would do much more to promote the object he had in view, than by adopting the course he had pursued. If the addition of any lay members to the Commission at the present time were at all desirable, no doubt no two Hon. Members could ba a greater acquisition than the two whose names had that night been mentioned. Mr. HENLEY was more hopeful of the results of the Commission before he had heard the speeches delivered that night by three Hon. and Learned Gentlemen, who were members of the Commission. He had not heard the slightest symptom that they thought anything like a true remedy for the abuses complained of was wanted. What was needed was, not a tinkering up of the system, but a sweeping away of its abuses; and he hoped the Government would direct their serious attention to it. Mr. J. EVANS could hardly believe, when he heard the Master of the Rolls speak to-night, that it was the same person who, as Solicitor-General, had introduced the reform of the courts of law in Ireland. The Hon. and Learned Member for Aylesbury had cautioned them against proceed ing upon extravagant clamour and unfounded complaint. What did he consider unfounded complaint? Were the abuses of the Masters' offices matter of unfounded com plaint? There was a greatly mischievous system, and yet what was proposed to remedy it? Unless they corrected it, it was useless to increase the number of their judges. Let them see what was going on in the courts of law. In all his long experience of Westminster Hall, he had never known the courts there so devoid of business; the public found them too expensive, and the business was in consequence transferred to the county courts. But from what he had heard that night he expected little from this commission, and he trusted the Noble Lord (Lord J. Russell) would at tend to the suggestions of the Right Hon. Member for Co ventry, and superintend in his own person the accomplish ment of these great reforms which were needed. He wished, too, the Right Hon. Member for Ripon (Sir J. Graham) would act on the commission. The, whole system should be reformed in a comprehensive manner, and not bit by bit. Sir J. GRAHAM, with reference to the allusion male by the Hon, Gentleman who last spoke as to his services, begged to say he was weary of inquiry. They had on this subject inquired much and done little. For two sessions he had devoted a large portion of his time, together with the Hon. Member for Oxfordshire, to the subject of Chancery reform, and the commission was, in addition to themselves, composed of some of the most distinguished lawyers in the House, as the Master of the Rolls, Sir George Turner, the .Honourable Member for Midhurst, and the Solicitor- General. They were perfectly unanimous in their report; they had exhausted the inquiry upon some very important subjects—namely, the payment by fees of the greater portion of the officers attached to the Court of Chancery. They went into great detail, and presented two reports, which, with the evidence and interrogatories, were before the House. These reports, too, contained detailed recommendations. Now, he had heard the speech of the Master of the Rolls with pleasure, indicating as it did an adherence to his desire to reform those courts; but he must also say that his final judgment smacked too much of his court ; for he said as to the Bill that they must wait. "Wait" was the ominous word. With the unanimous agreement that he had mentioned in their report, and with the facts before the House now two sessions, yet nothing had been done.— (Hear, hear.) He could not conceive a more fatal omen with respect to this Bill. This might appear only of minor impor tance ; but still the Lord Chancellor was appointed on the distinct understanding that he should be subject to any regu lation Parliament might impose with respect to his staff of officers. They had reported against his having seven secre taries and a secretary in bankruptcy, yet these were still re tained ; they had reported against the Lord Chancellor's two gentlemen-at-arms, who were pqid by fees to the amount of 7501. a year each ; also against cbaffwax and tape, yet these were all retained. He mentioned those things to show how fruitless were investigations and reports if there was not a spirit to act and improve in conformity with them. There was a passive resistance in the Court of Chancery, which seemed somehow to overcome all attempts at reform. The Noble Lord at the head of the Administration could not reap greater favour by any act of energy than by giving, effect, before the close of the session, to the recommendations which they had proposed in these reports. Why should they not abolish the hour-warrants in the Masters' offices in this country, as Sir E. Sugden had done in Ireland when he held the office of Lord Chancellor there? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—They ara abolished. Sir J. GRAHAM. was not satisfied With the attendance given by the Masters in their offices; they came there later than the Judges and left earlier. He was sure that if the Government would set about it in earnest they would, in a very short time, with the entire approbation of both Houses of Parliament, with immense satisfaction to the public, and to their own infinite credit, easily make great, extensive, and most satisfactory reforms in the administration of justice in this country; and it was very painful to him to see how good an opportunity of effecting these reforms was at present being neglected. Public opinion was ripe for the change; and the profession itself, if it understood its own interests, ought to be anxious to see the change carried into effect. There was nothing like a beginning in such matters; and some practi cal proof of their determination to do something was much wanted. - - . . Lord J. RUSSELL said he was ready to admit that there were many , reforms to be made in the Court of Chancery ; but at the same time he should say that there was no great encouragement to make those reforms when one found that the complaints remained the same after the reforms had been effected. Now the complaint of the length of time occupied in Chancery suits had been in a great degree remedied by the appointment of additional judges. There had during the last six years been more than one occasion on which it appeared that there had been no further appeals to be heard in the court. It was true that there were con siderable arrears at the present moment ; but it was also true that the court was now in a far better condition than that in which it had been placed fifteen or twenty years ago. His Right Hon. Friend the Member for Ripon had ex pressed his surprise that the hour-warrants should be allowed to go on at the present day. But the fact was, that more than a year ago orders had been issued, under the directions of the late Lord Cottenham and of the late Lord Langdale, by which a great change had been effected in the system of hour-warrants. He be lieved that the hour-warrants had been replaced by a much less objectionable mode of proceeding. He should, however, observe that with respect to such a very compli cated system of property as that which prevailed in this country, it might not be easy to conform to the doctrine that they ought not to inquire but to act. The difficulty was, how to act in the right direction. He believed there never was a country in which there had prevailed such a compli cated system of property, and such complex relations con nected with land, and with titles to every description of pro perty in the most distant parts of the world, as that which prevailed in these kingdoms. If he were asked why he did not attempt at once to resolve all the difficulties of the ques tion, he should ask in his return how it would be possible to explain the whole Newtonian theory in a few words. There was frequently great difficulty in dealing with the accounts which were brought before the Court of Chancery. The accounts in the War-office and in the Navy-office were kept upon a uniform and intelligible system; and if Parliament had provided thirty years ago that the accounts of merchants should be kept in a similar manner the duties of the Court of Chancery would have been considerably lessened. But if a number of partners in a mercantile establishment had kept their accounts for a period of thirty years in a manner so confused that they were at length obliged to come before the Court of Chancery to decide on their rights, that Court would necessarily have a most troublesome and onerous task to perform. At the same time he should confess that it seemed to him there was no part of the business of the Court of Chancery which so obviously required amendment as the mode of dealing with complicated accounts; in his opinion such questions ought to be de cided on the principles which usually regulated the dealings of mercantile men, and the duty to be entrusted to the Lord Chancellor and to the Masters in such matters ought to be merely to decide upon points of law and upon titles. With respect to the question of fees he had to state that he be lieved the Lord Chancellor was fully sensible of the necessity of effecting a change in that respect; and the fact was, that he had already abolished fees to the amount of 20,0001. a year. He had to observe, in respect to the office of chaff wax, that that of f ice bad, he believed, been already abolished. It was true that some reductions might be made in the seven secretaries of the Lord Chancellor; but it should be remembered that the Lord Chancellor was at the head of a great department, and that he should naturally have some assistants to aid him in carrying on the business of that department. With regard to the proposal that gentle men not members of the legal profession should be placed on the commission, he had to state, that he had no objection to adopt that proposal ; but he should add, that he believed it would be impossible for those gentlemen to get an insight into the technical details of the profession without devoting very considerable attention to the subject. Let the commis sion make its report, and if next year they should be able to effect any important reforms through the labours of that commission, lie believed they would have reason to congra tulate themselves on the fact that they had been able to deal effectually with a matter which two centuries ago had baffled the genius and the sturdy will of Oliver Cromwell. After a few words from Mr. J. STUART, the motion was agreed to. The report on the Court of Chancery and Judicial Com mittee Annuity) Bill was agreed to. Mr. FREWEN moved the second reading of the Seques tration of Benefices Bill. Sir G. GREY said he had heard no reason fcr the adoption of that measure, and he should, therefore, move that it be road a second time that day six months. Mr. FREWEN said that the Bill was framed. for the removal of what he thought was an admitted evil. He felt that he had reason to complain of the conduct of the Right Hon. Baronet in the matter, and he wished to give notice that ho would for the remainder of the session oppose any measure brought forward by the Government after twelve o'clock at night. The gallery was then cleared for a division - , but none took place, the Bill (a 3 we understood) having been rejected without a division. The other business was then disposed of, and the House adjourned at Ten minutes to One o'clock. REPRESENTATION or AYRSHIRE.-Mr. Alexander Oswald, the sitting Member for Ayrshire has addressed a letter to the electors of that county, stating that he does not intend to offer himself as a candidate at the next general e!ection. Referring to his past Parliamentary conduct, he states that he sees nothing to regret in his vote in support of, free trade, nor in the opposition which he gives to the Eccle siastical Titles Bill.— Edinburgh Witness. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. NEWCASTLE-ONsTYNE.—Tnur.sns.Y. The Gateshead or Lottery Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p.p., with .50 added; for three yrs old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Sst 41b; the second to save his stake. Two miles. (14 Subs.) Mr. H. Stebbing's the Cutler..., (llumby) 1 Lord Eglinton's Pandemus Mr. H. Templeman's Nan Darrell f Captain Harcourt's Colsterdale Betting. - 6 to 4 agst Colsterdale, 7 to 4 agst The Cutler, 5 to 2 agst Pandemus, and 6 to 1 agst the Emilius filly. Pandemus made the running to the distance; The Cutler then challenged, and after a fine, race won by a head; the same between second anathird, and Colsterdale only a length behind them. The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, p p., with 50 added; 3 yrs old, Est 10th; 4 yrs, Bst 51b; 5 yrs, 9st; 6 yrs and aged, Ost 31b ; mares and geldings allowed 31b. From the new Mile Post, once round. (14 Subs.) Mr. Wrather's Maid of Masham, 6 yrs (G. Abdale) 1 Lord Stanley's Uriel, 5 yrs .. (J. Marson) 2 Betting.-5 to 4on Maid of Masham, who took the lead at starting, was never headed, and won cleverly by a length. The Grand Stand Stakes of 10 soya. each, b ft, with 50 added; for two yrs old, 6st 121 b; three yrs, Bst 121 b; fillies and geldings allowed albs; the second to save his stake. T.Y.C. (11 Subs.) Mr. G. White's Snowdrop, 2 yrs (Arnold) 1 Mr. A. Nichol's Miss Sarah, 2 yrs ......... ..... (Charlton) 2 Mr. Chilton's Liberty, 2 yrs... .............. (J. Osborne) 3 Mr. Carter's Farmer's Boy, 2 yrs ...(G. Oate) 4 Mr. H. Walter's Flora Macdonald, 2 yrs ..... ......(Wells) 5 Betting-6 to 4on Miss Sarah, 2to 1 agst Farmer's Boy, and 4 to 1 agst the others. The running was made by Flora Macdonald and the Far mer's Boy till about half a distance from home, where Miss Sarah took it up, and carried it on till within a stride or two of the chair, but was beaten on the post, after an excellent race by a neck. The Members' Plate of 50 sovs., added to a Handicap of 10 801 , 3. each, 5 ft; the second to save his stake. From the Newcastle Turn in. (15 Subs.) Mr. J. Osborne's Oxford Blue, 4 yrs, Est 51b (J. Osborne) 1 Mr. R. Barrow's Abdallah, 4 yrs, 6st 51b ... (Hammond) 2 Mr. H. Stebbing's The Cutler, 3 yrs, sst 121b...(Hayhoe) 3 Lord Eglinton's Belus, 5 yrs, 7st 611 ... (J. Sharpe) 4 Mr. H. Walters's Maid of Team Valley, Bst (M. Noble) 5 Mr. G. Barton's Madame Wharton, 3 yrs, sst 41b (Wells) 6 Betting-6 to 4 agst Oxford Blue, 2to 1 agst Abdallah, 3 to 1 agst Belus, 3 to 1 agst The Cutler, and 4 to 1 agst each of the others. fhe Cutler, Belus, and Abdallah ran nearly abreast across the flat, and up to the distance-post, where Oxford Blue went in front, and after a capital race won by a neck. The Innkeepers' Speculation Plate of 20 sovs., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each, the second to receive 10 sovs. ; three yrs old, 7st 101 b ; four, 9st ; five, 9st 71b ; six and aged, 9st 101 b; mares and geldings_ allowed 31b. The winner to be sold for 200 sovs., &a. Heats, from the New castle Turn in. (6 Subs.) Mr. White's Clara, aged-251. (Charlton) 5 1 1 Mr. Pedley's Fifty-three, 2 yrs-25/. ...(Aspinall) 1 2 5 Mr. Weatherell's Lady I-am-off, 6 yrs 25/.(lrvine) 3 4 3 Mr. Faucus's Reversion, 5 yrs-50/. ... (Livesey) 2 3 3 Mr. Thrift's Fleur-de-Seine, 6 yrs-501. (G. Oates) 6 5 4 Mr. Gaman's Cools, 6 yrs 25/ (J. Osborne) 4 dr SALISBURY RACES.—FRIDAY. The Wilton Park Stakes of 10 sows. each, and 50 added; for two years old, colts, Bst 71b, and fillies, 8s 31b; winners extra. T.Y.C. (13 Subs.) Mr. E. Cooper's Julien, Bst 71b Sir J. B. Mills's Aitchbone, Bst 71b Mr. Hayter's Tested. Bst 71b .. (W. Day) 3 Mr. Arnold's cby St. Francis, Bst 71b (W. Alston) 4 Betting-6 to 4on Julien (t), 2to 1 agst Tested. Won cleverly by a neck, a length between second and third. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas ; three years old, Bst 21b ; four, 9st 61b ; five, lOst; six and aged, lOst 31b. Three miles. Mr. Campbell's Woolwich, 5 yrs, lOst ...(Hiett) 1 Mr. J. Arnold's Pitsford, 4 yrs, 9st 61b...: . (A. Day) 2 Mr. Farrance's cby Cardinal Puff, 3 yrs, Bst 21b (W. Day) 3 Betting - Even on Woolwich, sto 4 agst Pitsford. Won cleverly by a length. The County Members' Plate of 501., added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sovs. each. One mile and three-quarters. (5 Subs.) Mr. Herbert's Letter-press, 3 yrs, 7st 31b...(W. Harlock) 1 Mr. Waring's Manifold, 4 yrs, Bst 31b Mr. H. Robiwon's Confidence, 4 yrs, Bst 71b (W. Day) 3 Mr. Evans's Mr. Toots, 5 yrs, Bst 101 b........ (Delamore) 4 Even on Confidence, and 2 to 1 agst Letter-press. Won by a length. The South-Western Railway Stakes of 5 sovs. each, and 25 added, Heats, oue mile. (7 Subs.) Mr. S. Herbert's c by Sir Hercules, out of Adela, 3 yrs, fist 61b Mr. Stollard's Woodsprite, 4 yrs, 9st 41b (Maton) 1 4 2 Mr. King's Bryce Snailafoot, 5 yrs ... (Benskin) 3 3 3 Mr. Shrimpton's Arlette; 4 yrs, 9st 41b ... (Burns) 0 2 dr Mr. Wilkin's Ima, aged, lOst 21b (Carlisle) 0 dr The first heat was won by a neck, the second by a length, and the third by two lengths. IPSWICH RACES.—FRIDAY. The Queen's Plate of 100 guineas. Heats, 2 miles. Mr. Rayner's Presto, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ...(Pettit) 2 1 1 Mr. Higgins's Theseus, 3 yrs, 7st 51b . 1 2 dr Mr. Berkeley's c out of Mrs. Bull, 3 yrs, 7st 51b ... bolted. The Town Members' Plate of 501. Heats. Mr. Sare's ch fby Pantaloon out of Virago, 3 yrs 1 1 Mr. S. Roger's na Belissima, 4 yrs ...... ....... Mr. Bird's Mrs. Taft, 6 yrs ... Mrs. Smith's Drakelowe, 5 yrs 4 dr Mr. Roger's Jubilee, 3 yrs Mr. Vincent na Ethereal, 4 yrs dis The Hurdle Race, two miles, was won in 2 heats by Mr. Land's General (owner), beating Mr. Sait's Urania, aged, and Mr. Abel's Slashing Jack, 5 yrs. The Closing Stakes of 2 sovs. each, with 10 added, won in 2 heats, by Mr. Abel's Slashing Jack, 5 yrs, beating Mr. Sait's Urania and Mr. Roger's Present. THE, CRYSTAL PALACE. (From the Times.) Mr. Paxton, with all the helings of a parent, ha:, coma to the rescue of the Crystal Palace in this crisis of its fate. Starting from a somewhat different direction, and redolent of Chatsworth, ho proposes an application of the building su . wtantiantially the same as that advo cated by "Dmaarius." Perhaps the latter dwells a little more on the floe arts, en fetes, and other miscellaneous aces of a recondite or popular character, while sir. Pax too has chiefly in his eye those purpuees to which the gardens and coniervat9ries of our aristocracy or of the nation have hitherto been appled. Put together Chatsworth and Kew, the Botanic and Z )ologicd Gard:2ns in Regent's-park, the Jardin des Plantes, the subterranean oiangery at Versailles, and the cloisters of the convent, and the aggregate will al most make up what Mr. Paxton would give ns in Hyde park. Another suggestion is made in both pamphlets, but more expressly in the one than in the other. " De uarius " would let into the building the gay chivalry of the park, only making them pay a heavy toll. Mr. Paxton is also prepared for their admission. We have our doubts on this point. Such a feature, to the extent that would be expected in the Crystal Palace, would not be so convenient to the equestrian as it would be inconvenient to the pedestrian crowd. It would be a pity to sacrifice the nave to so extraneous a pur pose; the larger aisles are broken by staircases, and the smaller would not satisfy the mounted interest. There are comparatively few days during the London season in which Rotten -row is not available. A riding-school ought to have a circuit so as to admit of a gallop. On the whole, the balance is against the plan, at least as far as we can now see our way, and Mr. Paxton has wisely said little about it. Eighteen acres of pleasure ground under cover is a thing to bo appreciated by country people quite as much as by Londoners. and by Belgravians quite as much as by City folk. We shall best express our estimation o f the idea when we say, that should it be realized, we shell seriously recommend our country friends to come up in the winter for the benefit of the air. In the greater part of this beautiful island it is scarcely possible for delicate ladies and children to get exercise for the greater part of the year. One day it snows, another day it blows; it rains, or it burns; it is dirty, or it is dusty, or otherwise intolerable. For the stronger sex, indeed, and for such ladies as cell and will claim its privileges, we hold with Charles 11. that there is nut a day in the year in which one cannot take a walk out of doors. But our ladies are not made for rough weather. Their dress is not compact or weather-proof; it is soon drenched by the rain, draggled by the mud, faded by the heat, or loaded with the dust. The female complfexiou is soon freckled by the sun, parched by the frost, or roughened by that violent degree of exercise which is necessary to keep the blood flowing in our usual winter weather. The ground underfoot is generally so rough or so wet that enle:s a lady could put oa her husband's boots, and unless she can afford new shoes for her .little girls once a fortnight, that alone is a serious obstacle to walking. The commonalty of this metropolis, who, it they have not always the purest air in the world, have hundreds of miles of pavement to walk on, and hundreds of miles of houses to protect them from the blast, with doorways and omnibuses in the event cf rain, little know how difficult it is to manage a " con stitutional" walk daily in the country. The father of the family, healthy himself, and full of sanitary thoughts, asks day after day, at dinner, whether Mary and Bessey have had their walk, and is almost as often met with some allegation of sk7, , ey influence cr elemental strife. We assuto Lon doners, then, that if they can get what is proposed to them in the cast-off shell of the Great Exhibition, they will be tester off, so far, than most country people—that is, country people so genteel as to care fur complexions and dirt. The omnibus, returned by that time to threepence, will take the children from any part of thie metropolis to the Crystal Palace, where they will be able to walk, or to play, or to sit, for a couple of hours, among as beautiful shrubberies, and flowers, and fountains, and lakes, and rockeries, and streams, and statues, and other ornaments and curiosities of nature and art, as money and taste can bring together. 'he daughters of the 'squire or the rector on the fat soil of the tens will have reason to envy the privilege. It is not a little remarkable that the idea - which these ingenious and hitherto most successful projectors have chiefly to fight against is that which seems inseparable from their plans. That the Crystal Palace is a colossal greenhouse, or " blue-house" as somebody has called it, is as much a condemnation us it is a fact. But the English idea of a greenhouse is derived from the familiar domestic example, which is a sqtare lean-to, built against a garden wall, or the side of a house ; with rows of flower-pots rising above one another, with a stone pavement always damp, with sliding sashes that always stick, with small panes always leaking at the sides and foul at the joints, with a warming apparatus always cut of order; the plants always infested with vermin, the atmosphere always an invisible steam, and the whole fabric operating as a still, of which the adjoining apartment is the damp and unwholesome condenser. That is the greenhouse, cud when a set of horticultural enthusiasts propose to send the population of London to take the air in a greenhouse, popular prejudice will be apt to think that any open suburb, be it only Kennington common, will do better for the purpose. Mr. Paxton, as well as " Denarius," meets this prejudice boldly and successfully. lie talks of the old tropical conservatories, and even of the palm-house at Kew, as a place that an Englishman runs through without stopping, lie is confident of a sys tem of warming and ventilation which will secure what climate we please; southern Italy for gentle promenaders in winter, and the east wind; a specimen of the tropics, if necessary, and fine bracing air for those who can walk quick, but do not like muddy boots er wet clothes. For the present boarding round the lower tier of tle building he proposes to substitute glass, which he says will immediately and marvellously improve the appear ance of the building, and do more justice to its architec tural design. This glass he would remove in summer, leaving nothing but a vast roof hanging over green sward and shrubbery. The pillars he would clothe with creepers. Our Parisian neighbours have usurped—we had almost said spoilt—the tit'e of Champs Elysies; nor is the English taste quite so ambitious; but the ex ample of our own public gardens, and of those at Paris, shows to how many instructive and recreative purposes a garden may be applied. No place so suitable fur bo tanical, mineralegioal, and ornithological collections. As for ornament, with perhaps the exception of the organs and the silks, there is not an object in the whole of the present nave which might riot remain with safety, if there were the funds for its purchase. We will volunteer a hint of our own, not because we have any wish to see it adopted, but merely to show the capabilities of such a winter garden. At least a quarter of the British Museum is occupied with stuffed birds and beasts, and other physiological collections. Would they not be much better placed, besides setting at liberty a great deal of vaiueble space, in the Crystal Palace? In these days no project is complete without a finan cial statement. Mr. Paxton, like " Detrains," gives us an estimate of expenditure, but leaves others to de cide whether it shall be met by a national grant, or by making the building self-supporting. He has nppa parently set his heart on presenting the Crystal Palace tree to all nations, leaving pence for the door at St. Paul's. Wo are afraid that the " self-supporting" system is that which suits us the best. It is the self-supporting system that has made the Zoolo gical Gardens and the Great Exhibition what they are. If the Vy inter Garden is to answer, let it be selt-supporting. The moderate tariff proposed by " De narius," which will give every one the ruu of the build ing four days in the week, winter and summer, for a penny etch admission, will raise enough far all neces sary purposes. If the expenses of continual repair are likely to be considerable, they admit of Nag readily calculated. It is easy to estimate an annual ave rage of panes to be replaced or new puttied, of saAs bars to be renewed, of gutters to be new painted or lined, of new calico, and all the other expenses. There is here no incalculable element—no massive walls gradu ally settling into the quicksands below, no subaqueous piers, no sculptured walls mouldering under the wear end tear of the elemeate. Everything here is comprised in the books of prices, and when " Denarius" and Air. Paxton estimate the substantial maintenance of the build ing, the former at 5,500/. a year, the latter at 4,0001., we have no doubt that they are speaking within compass, the slight difference in their estimates arising only from variety as to the items included. THE SHAKESPERE SOCIETY.-A very :curious and valuable discovery has recently been made among the papers and evidence of the Mostyn family. It is an original play of the time of Shakespere, even the title of which has not hitherto been recorded ; and it has been with the utmost liberality placed by the owner in the hands of Mr. Payne Collier, the director of the Shakespere Society, for imme diate publication by that body. The story is a very remark able one, of a highly popular character, and it relates very much to the achievements of two magicians of the middle ages, to promote or to defeat the marriage of the daughter of one of the Earls of Chester with a Prince of Wales. The drama is entirely in the handwriting of the author, Anthony Monday, who subscribes the manuscript, and who was one of the most notorious dramatists contemporary with Shah.. spere, Ben Jonson, Massinger, &c. METROPOLITAN COMMISSION OF SEWERS.— An adjourned Court of Sewers was held yesterday at their offices, 1 Greek-street, Soho; Lord Ebrington in the chair. The following were the Commissioners present Captain Dawson, Messrs. Bendel', Lewes, P. Hardwick, and Thomas Ilawes. Among the works ordered were the following:— Works at Swain's-lane, Highgate, 442/. ; for l ay i ng down 1,015 feet of 18-inch, 30 feet of 12-inch, and. 60 feet of 9-inch pipes in George-row, Bermondsey district, 2701. ; for con structing 750 feet of sewer, 3 feet 5 inches by 2 feet 3 inche s, in King's-road, St. Pancras district, 337/. 10s. ; construc tin g 785 feet of sewer, 3 feet 9 inch es by 2 feet 3 inches, in the Seven Sister's-road, llolloway district, 37014 mounting Ordnance maps, IC4/., & C . Rates were made on t he Green wich, Richmond, tcld P.avensboume districts; a nd certain parties summoned to appear having been heard, the Court separated. HOLYHEAD, JUNE 25.—0 n the arrival of the mail packet St. Colo m b o ( steamer ), Davis, from Kingstown, about 12', A itt she ran into the schooner Thetis, Fell, of and for Yarmouth, from Runcorn; she had come to anchor a little to north-west of the pier head, right in the steamer's track, and h a d no li g ht up. She almost immediately fiiled and went down, only her topmasts and yards are to be seen above water; crew saved in their own boat. The steamer was delayed a little, in consequence of home damage to her paddles. [ A nv snrisE MEN r.) —Holloway's Pills, an excel.. lent Remedy for Coughs, Colds, Pulmonary Complaints, and other Diseases of the Chest.—Mr. J. C. Rheinhardt, chemist, o f Hull, states that Mr. Stinger, formerly of the Hull glass works, was pronounced to be so far gone in consumption that the medical men had given him up as incurable. On seeing Holloway's Pills advertised, he thought he would give them a trial, and after taking a few boxes his cough abated, his flesh became firm, his appetite improved, an d now hi s h ea l t h i s com pletely restored. This admirable medicine is a certain remedy for the most obstinate cases of asthma, old eoughs, recent colds, and all diseases of the chest and lungs.—Sold by all druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. When made up in From what When PLACES. General Post-office port port dis- London: patched. due. America (by Brit. pkt.) N July 4 .. .. Liverpool .. July 5 America (by U.S. pkt.) N July l .. Liverpool .. IJuly 2 America (by U.S. pkt.) M July 2 .. Southampt. Arrived Africa (West coast) .• N 14th of the month Plymouth July 3 Alexandria* .• N;l9th & 30th of mo. Dover .. June 28 Belgium • . .. • • N Daily .. Dover .. Daily Brazil W9lll of the month Southampt. July 12 Buenos Ayres .. .. 31 9th of the month Southampt. July 12 CaliforMa(viaChagres)M'id & 17th of month Southampt. July 5 Cape of Good Hope Nll4th of month Plymouth.. July 3 Constantinople* .... Nlth 17th 27th of mo Dover .. June 30 Central America .. Ml2d & 17th of mon. Southampt. July b Channel Isles • • .. N Mon., Wed., &Fri. Southampt. Ta. Tk.Sa Chili .. . 31,17 th of the month Southampt. July 20 Franco & N Twice daily .. Dover .. Twiceclaily Greece* • • .. • • N7th 17th 27th ef mo Dover .. Juno 30 Hamburgh N;Tuesday & Friday London .. Tues. Sat. Holland .. • . M P Wednes. & Satur. London .. hfoe.Tht= Honduras .. N 17th of the motaCi;Southampt. July 20 Ireland .. •.M & N Twice daily .. Holyhead .. Twicedaily India (via Sonthamp.) 31;20th of the month Southampt. July 23 India (via M arse:leg) N 7th& 24th ef month 'Dover • •IJuly 1 Mediterranean (via Southampton) .. M 20th of the month gouthampt. July 23 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) N 7th& 24th of month Dover .. July 1 Mexico .. 312 d of the month..(Southampt. July 5 Madeira 31 9th of the month 'Southampt. July 12 Malta . N 1 7t11,17 th,l9 th,27th Dover June 23 & 30th of month Naples* .. N sth 15th 25th ofmo ; Dover • • July 2 Papal States* .. N sth 15th 25th of mo Dover .. ;July 2 Peninsular . • .. 7th 17th 27th of mo, Southampt. ;July 6 Peru • • • • • • • • M 17th of the month Southampt. !July 20 Tuscany* N l sth 15th 25th of tno ; Dover • • ; July 2 West Indies M 17th of the mouth Southampt. ' July 20 West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 32 2d of the month ..;SouthanaptiJuly 5 The mails to those countries thus marl I reach racket vi al Marseilles - CALIFORNIA.—MaiIs to and from California aro now despatched and due by every Amerb !Southarupt. !July 5 Ked (*) are conveyed by la, via the United States ican packet. CRICKET. THE MARYLEBONE CLUB AND GROUND V. THE GENTLE MEN OF RUGBY SCHOOL.—This annual match was played on Thursday at Lord's, and went to show that cricket has by no means been neglected this year at that celebrated educa tional spot. The final score stood thus :—Rugby— First innings, 101; second ditto, 133. M. C. C. and Ground, 69. It being a one day's match, Rugby won by 32 runs upon the first innings. The M. C. C., however, played weak. THE SURREY CLUB AND GROUND V. MITCHAX—his is one of the matches which the committee of the " Surrey Club" will this year play in their county for the purpose of encouraging the practice of cricket in Surrey. Upon the present occasion it turned out that the committee sent down too strong a team. It may not be so, however, even though precisely the eleven should play them the return match at the Oval. At the conclusion of the match, after two days' play, on Friday evening the Surrey Club won by 161 runs. The following is the score :—Surrey Club-Ist innings, 129 ; 2d ditto, 159. Mitcham-Ist innings, 71; 2d ditto, 56. ROYAL THAMES YACHT CLUB. ENTRIES FOR THE QUEEN'S CUP. The following is a list of entries for the above Cup, value 100 guineas, to be sailed for on Wednesday next, anti which closed last night : Name. Tons. Owner. Phantom Cygnet Secret Musquito Whisper Heroine Arrow .... ..... ..... 84 Volante It is to be a time match, half a minute being allowed. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. GREAT WESTERN. The traffic on this railway for the first_thivo days of the present week amounted to 10,2551., and for the cor responding days of 1850 to 6,0174, showing an increase of 4,2381., or 41.3 per cent. The receipts on Monday amounted to 3,6751., on Tuesday to 3,4921., and on Wed nesday to 3,0884, as against 2,0091, 2,0504, and 1.958/. It is supposed that a considerable amount of this increase is due to excursion trains and the Exhibition. TRAFFIC. The aggregate traffic on railways in the United Kingdom, published weekly from the Ist of January to the 21st of June, inclusive, amounted to 6.253,6441. ; corresponding period of 1850, to 5,557,3001. ; corresponding period of 1849, to 4,890,4941. ; and in 1848, to 4,345,3771., showing an increase in 1851 over the corresponding period of 1850 of 696,3381., an increase in 1850 over the corre sponding period of 1849 of 666,8121., and in 1849 over the same period of 1848 of 545,117/. The average length of railway over which the traffic was carried dur iog those periods was—in 1851, 6,292 miles; in 1850, 5,334 miles; in 1849, 4,586 miles; and in 1848, 3,661 miles. The traffic receipts for the above period averaged, in 1851, 9941. per mile; in 1850, 1,031/. per mile; in 1849, 1,0651. per mile; and iu 1848 they averaged 1.1841. per mile. The traffic receipts on railways daring the past week, ending June 21, amounted 307,5441., being at the rate of 491. per mile per week, and exceed ing by 42,1871. the receipts of the corresponding week in 1850. The gross receipts of eight railways having their termini in the metropolis amounted to 159,6391. for the week ending the 21st of June, and for the corresponding week of last year to 128,2471., showing an increase of 31,3921. The increase on the Eastern Counties amounted to 6481., on the Great Western to 5,879/., on the Great Northern to 8,2401. (chiefly in consequence of the line being in operation between London and Peterborough, which was not the case at the corresponding period of last year), on the London, Brighton, and South Coast to 1641., on the London and Blackwell to 264/, on the London and North Western, to 11,024/., on the South- Western to 1,924/., and on the South-Eastern to 3,2491., making the total increase, as above, 31,3921., being about 74 per cent. of the total increase of traffic on rail ways in the United Kingdom. SOUTH-EASTERN. The number of passengers conveyed on this line to and from the London-bridge terminus on Thursday, June 26, was 15,540—namely, 7,579 to Loudon, and 7,961 from London. EASTERN COUNTIES. The number of passengers conveyed on this railway to and from the London terminus on Monday, the 23d of JunP, was 16,125—namely, 12,372 to London, and 3,753 from London; and on Tuesday, the 24th of June, the number conveyed was 11,168 —namely 7,300 to London, and 3,868 from London. LLYNVI VALLEY RAlLWAY.—Yesterday, in Mr. Bernal's Committee, the Bill of this company for junction with, and power to sell or lease to the South Wales Rail way, was declared proved. MANCHESTER, BUXTON, AND MIDLAND RAIL.. WAY.—In Mr. Bernal's committee this company's bill for completion and purchase of Cromford Canal was declared proved. RAILWAY FACILITIES FOR CONVEYANCE OF FISH.... Yesterday, in the Committee of the House of Lords on the Bill of the Great Northern Railway Company for communi cation with Grimsby Harbour, an extensive dealer in the London Fish market stated, that by means of the railway communication between London and Grimsby , he had re ceived 8,000 lobsters that morning, and sold them for the sop° ply of the metropolis, the cargo leaving Grimsby at eight r.sr. and arriving in London at four A.m. FIILE AT LONDON -BRIDGE.--Mr. Payne, the coroner for Southwark, considering that the opinion ex pressed in Common Council on Thursday authorises him to do so, has issued a warrant for holding an inquest to inquire into the cause of the tire at London-bridle, on Monday next, the 30th inst., at eleven o'clock, INAVAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain George Ro 'ney Mundy has been appointed • flag captain to Vice-Admiral the lion. J. Percy, C. 8., ac Sheerness. It is understood that Mr. Smith, the se cretary to the ex-Commander-in Chief, will remain us I secretary. The London, 92, will supersede the Ocean I on the Ist of July as the flag-ship; the Ocean will be paid off on the 30th inst. C3plain Chads, C. 8., pays off the Excellent at Ports mouth, on the 30th inst., and on the Ist of July cora -1 , rais.ioas her with the same complement. Commander Sir IV. S. Wiseman, Bart., Commander Jerningham, and ail the lieutenants and other officers will be re-appointed. kep T t ne by ann ti i i v , er sar y of her Majesty's coronation will be dockyard to day; the public (Afters will have their usual holiday, but the Portsmouth people will keep holiday on Monday next, Saturday being the mar ket-day. The ships and troops will fire the customary salute at noon. Clerk—John J. Stevens has been appointed to the Prince Regent, 92, at Lisbon. Master's Assistant—Henry C. Sedmon to the Impreg nable, flog-ship, Devonport. act C in a g r . penter —William Gree nsell, of the Arrogant, to be Adder steam-tender, with seamen paid off from the Wellesley, at Chatham, arrived at Devonport on Wed nesday, took in coals, and sailed again on Thursday, on her return. Avon steam-tender, which sailed with seamen and marines paid off from the Caledonia on Tuesd a y evening, rcturnad to Devonport on Th urs d ay morning Sidon steam-frigate, Comm an d er Gardner, was taken into dock on Thursday, and her copper where the" hog" could not touch was very much covered with weeds. She was scrubbed and taken out the following tide. She and the Retribution go out of harbour at ten o'clock, and will probably proceed on to Cork with out anchoring at Spithead. Our correspondent says-- " Sir Charles Napier has (I understand) the Bee steamer, Second Master-Commander Alfred Messum, placed at his disposal; for he will probably go outside the Nab in the Sidon, and return back in the Bee. He has been inspecting his pet ship, and is no doubt glad to see her in commission. She will beat the Retribution in every way; and by herself would make the passage out in four or five days less than the latter ungainly vessel, as she is of great horse power and less tonnage; but they will be obliged to keep company, so as to bo able to assist each other in case of breaking down.'' Vengeance, 84, Captain Lord Edward Russell, exer cised firing live shells and shot at a target on Wednes day last, and yesterday was exercising her large guns with blank cartridge. She has practised firing salvos of eight guns at a time at fixed intervals, &c. Thu Portsmouth Dockyard Boat Brigade, under com mand of Major Davis, master attendant of the Clarence yard, have been exercised in gu nnery practice several evenings daring th e week, firing blank cartridges. —...--._ THE NE IV AND WER,P STEAM SHIP, THE BARON OSY. Yesterday this splendid iron steam-ship, recently launched, went down the River on her trial trip, for the purpose of testing her speed and capabilities. The vessel, gaily decorated with the flags of Belgium and England, started from her moorings, off Blackvvall precisely at half-past twelve o'clock with a large and distinguished party of visitors on board, among whom were Lord Bar riedale, Sir James Hamilton, Mr. and Mi ss P ratt, Mr. Lawrell, M. Fleury, Belgian Minister of the Extereur, and daughter; Mrs. Dalvey and Miss Gilbert, Captain and Mrs. Lichfield, Mr. Scott Russell, Mr. Robinson, the Baron Paradicini, Mr. and Mrs. Lightly, Captain and Mrs. Cochlan, M. Clements, the Chevalier Schultz, Dr. end Mrs. Payne, the Consul of Monte Video and lady, Mrs. Townsend and niece, Dr. and M r s. Row &e. _ The Baron Osy is about 600 tons burden, and has engines of 220 horse-power. She belongs to the Ant werp Steam-packet Company, and is intended to ply between Loudon and Antwerp, and from her superior speed and peculiar build, it is fully anticipated that she would make the trip between the two ports in 14 or 15 hours—leaving London in the afternoon, and arriving is Antwerp early the next morning—so as to enable tra vellers to reach Cologne, on the Rhine, the same night. The saloons and sleeping berths are fitted up with great elegance and taste, the prevailing colours being those employed in the decoration of the Exhibition building in Hyde-park, by Mr. Owen Jones—namely, white, blue, and yellow. The main saloon will dine with ease 150 passengers, and the numbor of berths is proportionally large. When going at full speed her time, as taken by a person on board employed for the purpose, was said to be 15 2-3 knots an hour. Her motion is extremely easy, and we have no doubt she will fully maintain the reputation of the enterprising company to which she belongs. A very elegant dejeuner was provided on board for the guests, who amounted to upwards of 200, and " The health of the gallant Captain Jackson, and success to the new steam-ship the Baron Osy," was drunk in flowing bumpers of champagne. There was a quadrille band on board, which contributed much to the pleasure and en joyment of the trip, and tempted many of the visitors to take part in the quadrilles, polkas, &c., which beguiled the short interval between the termination of the enter tainment and the arrival of the vessel at Blackwall. Captain Jackson, the commander, was unremitting in his attention to the comforts of his numerous guests during the day, which was one of unmixed pleasure and gratification to all who were present. SEABORNE MAILS. [N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post-olnee by the night—and 51 by the morning—dispatch.] RAILWAY RETURNS TRAFFIC RETURNS FOR THE PAST WEEK. Miles NAME OF RAILWAY. Receipts. opened, 1851. 1850. 1851. BRITISH. ---..... 72 Aberdeen .. •........ ..... .... ..... £1,329 g 1,669 3711 Belfast and Ballymena - ...... -.. •• 574 679 17 Belfast and County Dosvn.• .... • ..... 246 240 33 Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire 1,178 1,690 27 Bolton, Blackburn, and West York .... 404 931 85 1 ( 1 Bristol and Exeter ...... • • .... ••• • .. 4,24 s 5 , 334 160 Caledonian... .... ...... .... •••• • . • • 16,071 6,678 94% Chester and Holyhead.•• .. • ..... .... 3,332 3,878 49 Dublin and Belfast Junction • • ...... 2:;7 623 53 Dublin and Drogheda... ... ......... 991 986 6 Dublin and Kingstown . ..... ...... • • 1,076 949 16% Dundee and .Arbroath ... ........ ~ 457 496 31 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen Junction 561 690 19 Dundalk and Enniskillen- .. .. .. .. 170. , ... 141 783 67% East Anglian-. .. ..........., .... „ 821 79 East Lancashire ....., ....., ........ 3, 2 3 7 4 ' 157 322 Eastern Counties and N0rf01k....... 95 Eastern Union • . .. .. . .. .. .. „ : 2,:g 3,635 116% Edinburgh and Glasgow..... .......• 1' 309 2,167 71 Edinburgh, Perth, and Dundee- .• •• '4l I 471 18 Farness Railway .• • .. -••.• •• '• 2,756 3.8 1 2 171% Glasgow, and South -Western.• •• " ••., 1,211 1, 2 7 1 22% Glasgow, Pnt i 16,48 0 1 2 7: 4 1 :: - -MY, and Greenock •• - 4 , 3 71 1 4 ,82 7 236 Great Northern and E. L.* "' •••,.„••,•,; 4,371 4,827 188 Great Southern and Western. (Ire'' 19,005 24,884 262% Great Western .. .. •• ••"-•• •• • • - 3,571 5,056 90 Lancaster and Carlisle • ......... . 15,067 16,522 260 Lancashire and Yorkshire. • .. .. ...•.: ... .. . 1,115 1,286 39 Leeds and Thirsk ••. • .. n d • ........... • • . 209 675 12% Liverpool, Crosby , •;,,,, S. ter n .- . ... 47,987 59,011 51814 London and N° ll '," ;if -.."-,-.- ... • ..•1,2i i 1,475 5 % London an d B b i tn ac- Ind Sou • th • oa • st. • . 12,374 12,538 173 1 4 London, Brighton, Western. 239 London and lB7 195 , nis an lial d M en atiOCl;;S:C. 162 139 1 1 5 i x m Lo aa nd m,c o h lderrY terr, Sheflield,and;Lincolnshire 6,094 6,921 167% ~„.3 1. f la n•i ;te r and South Junction...... 495 554 , Itx d t E on n ... 518 624 28 Mend _ .... , ....... ........ 22,647 21,426 496 M 3il d Great Western (Irish) ...... 1,252 1,342 94 3 - / A ryp -c ort and Carlisle 0 311a1311 60 Newcastle and Carlisle...• .... -.. .. 2,199 2,170 North British •. 146 North Staffordshire 222 - North-Western ...... ..... ......... 474 691 47 45 Scottish Central ..... ......... •..... 1,424 1,808 32 Scottish Midland ............., _ „. 441 625 47 Shrewsbury and Chester .• .. •• • ... .. 1,472 1,735 30 Shropshire Union .................. 474 613 58 South Devon-- .. .. • . ..... .. .. „. . , 1 , 9 2 7 2,142 261 South Eastern....... • 75 South Wales , ~ ... - .. - 69 South York., Doncaster, and Goole .. 1,052 773 40 Taff Vale ••• • . 36 Ulster . ............... ~ .. .... • • 846 897 25 Waterford and Limerick . .. .•• • - 265 13 West Cornwall ...... ... „.. • ,•, •• . ~ 343 286 12 Whitehaven Junction ......: ::••• . 186 213 293 York and Newcastle, and Berwick •••• 14,897 14,578 256 York and North Midland .••••• • • • '' 8,268 7,281 FOREIGN. • 76% Amiens and Eoulogue.... ....... .... 1,315 ;1,901 44 Diep pe • '• • - ..... '••• • • • • •.. - - 942 1,004 6 3 Montereau end T royes .. • • .. •• " 336 Northern of France ;• ••••••'• • • • • • • 17,531 15,409 143 Orleans to Bourges (Cent.) •••• • • • ... 2,921 2,965 72 Orleans to Bordeaux .• .•••••• • • • • • • • 3,551 3,404 82 Paris and Orleans •• •• ...... " • • • • •' 3 212 3.171 85 Paris and Rouen .••••••••• • • • • • • • •• 6,472 7,108 59% Rouen and Havre ••••••••• • • • • • • • •• 2,736 4121 FUNERAL OF SIB DAVID SCOTT, BART., MEL— Yesterday morning, at an early hour, the mortal remains of the late Sir David Scott, Bart., K, H., were removed from Gloucester place, Portman-square, and conveyed by a special train of the Brighton Railway to Hove, near Brighton, in the churchyard of which village they were deposited, a vault having been built expressly for their last resting place, in accordance with the wish of the deceased. Upwards of fifty of the nobility and gentry sent communications to the family, requesting permission to pay a last mark of respect to the Baronet's memory, by their attendance; but, in consequence of the numerous applications, they were all most respectfully declined. Several of the tradesmen partially closed their shops, out of respect to the deceased. cries rhich Hon. n, he ,end ,ber's and ,oved 3 of ntle rd J. .r as ica the