The Sun. — London, England, 1851-07-15 00:00:00

f - ourtiiTi---,:brition', SUN OPPICE, Seven o Clock. 1 STAMFORD RACES• (THIS DAY.) (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) Handicap Plate. Brother to Willingham Datura filly • Stamford St. Leg Pr.. ... 1 Telescope Cane ~ ... 2 GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY. (TIIIS DAY.) A special general meeting of the proprietors in this company was held this afternoon at the Paddington Station, for the purpose of considering and approving, iherwise, of an agreement entered into between the or other Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Coca natty of the one part, and the Great Western Railway C o mpany of the other part, on the 20th instant, for a l eas e, on certain terms and conditions, of the undertaking and works of the former company, from a Junction with the Oxford and Rugby Line at IVolvercot, near Oxford, to a Junction with the London and North-Western Rail way, near Show-hill, for the period of 999 years. Charles Russell, Esq., the chairman of the company, presided. Mr. C. A. Saunders, the Secretary, having read the advertisement convening the meeting, The CHAIR3IAN said—Gentlemen, at the half-yearly meeting, which was held at Bristol last year, I entered at some length into the agreement between the Great Western and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhamp ton Railway Companies. I stated that from some papers which had just then been presented to Parliament by the Railway Commissioners, it appeared that a very full case had been laid by the Oxtord, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company before an eminent Chancery barrister, whose decided opinion it was that there was no agreement subsisting between the two compani"b which could be enferced in equity, and that opinion has since been very strongly confirmed by the judgment de livered by Lord Cran worth on the occasion o f en appli cation being made for an injuection to stay an agree mentwhich has recently be e n en t e red into Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton andbtehthweeeLrecondon and North-Western Comp an i es . Bat theugh t were no legal agreem e nt b etween the two comdpannaieds,neen though the a greements which rendered null and vo id by the hadeprobceeeedninm:s had resolu tions of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton C..n:wany itself, and not by any act of the Great Western Company, we, nevertheless, had the same reasons for an alliance between thethwoif possible, companies which originally actu ated us, and which, bad become still stron g er and more coent, and we expressed to that company our willing. ness to adopt any scheme for the renewal of the con nexion w hi c h we could feel ourselves justified in sulta m lie ,T e lOg to the proprietors. Sev e ral meetings were held between the directors of the two companies and several arrangements were proposed between them, but none of them Iv, re such as we could accept. From the first it had been attempted to insti tute against us a claim that our guarantee to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton was on an un limited, and not a limited capital. That claim is con trary to tact, as evidenced not only by verbal. but by writ ten communications, which passed between the two cern psniee Lis contrary to the policy which has been in variably adopted by this company, as we never enter into any arrangements with any other com pany which are nut strictly defined. We steadily and, I hope, succeefully resisted that claim, and I am sure you will epprove of our having done so.—(Hear) It was attempted to be proved also to us that we should raise the rate of guarantee from 4 to 5 per cent.; but as no substantial reasons were assigeed for this change, ex cept the necessities of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wol verhampton Company, we dial notehink that, in the po• sition of our company, we should be justified in proposing such an alteration to you. It was proposed, also, that we shonld undertake the lease of the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company, from Ox ford to Stourbridge, at a mileage rent proportionate to the whole rent of the entire line, but as that would give to us a most unproductive portion of the line, and scarcely bring us to the verge of that district from which we expected to derive the greatest portion of :raffle. I am sure you will also Miele we were right in declining that proposal also. It was then proposed that we should ourselves undertake the completion of the line from Oxford to Worcester, and leave the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Compares, with the aid of other northern companies, to complete the portion from Worcester to Wolverhampton. This again would only give us the unproductive portion, and hand over the productive portion to other companies. This also we thought it would be improper for us to accept. It has been said by those not acquainted with the facts of the case, that we throw overboard the Oxford, Worcester, arid Wolverhampton Company. I have stated to Sou the leading proposals which were made to us, and I have done so not for the purpose of reviving any difference between the two companies, but for the purpose of our own justification in answer to the allegations which every day are put f-rth, and also in order to satisfy your minds that no pro pdsals really ever were made to us such as we could have been justified in enter taining. But our opinion also was, that the time had nut arrived when any egrea merit could be made with the Oxford, Worcester, and Woiverhanpton Com pany. I thought teat the common interests of the two companies wtre so intimate and so important that Vie time must arrive when such an agretment would be made between us; and I conreae I thought also that those opinions were entertained by persons connected with the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company. It was, then, with the greatest surprise that we heard ut the agreement that was entered into between that Cam pan) and the London and North-Western Company. No such terms as those contained in that agreement were ever proposed to us, or even hinted to us; but that agreement having actually been entered into between tbos- two companies, vve did not think it right to offer any , counter proposal, as was suggested to us by many persons. We 'lid not think it honourable to endeavour to seduce ono company from an engagement which it hid made with enetner, whether i; were wise or unwise, legal or by the offer of higher terms.—(Hear.) We do think it worse for your interests to enter into a race of emeeetetien with the North-Wes:ern Company or any other company to see which should outbid the other in orter to ()Wen t possession of any lute of railway.—(Hear.) Such a course we did nor, think either ju licous or etre cluabk—sech a course never has bet n adopted, and suet) a course never shall be adopted in this compent.— (Cotrers.) Bur, gentlemen, we entertain a decideu opinion that the ere , meet which had been entered into was in o-If lit' gal, atd ee were determined to bring that question to the test of a court of law. Is the course of the proceedings it Was suggested to us, indeed it was urged on us by counsel, that it would be unreasonable to ask a court of law to set aside an agreeitirnt with another company If we were not prepared to give another in substitution of it ; arid, under these circumstances, we authorised our couesel, in the event of the egret ment being proved to be illegal, and in the event of the Court thinking that it was 11 .2. ht so to do, to state that we were prepared to give folly as good terms to the Oxford, W orcester ; ,, nal Wolverhampton Comp ally as those of which Worcester, had ' d them. Tue , Vice: Chancellor (Lord Cr 'Prdig?'rnante,dn he an injunction for staying that agreement,d the question or legality, hel'eent' and h i is ul. Own very decided xp . ress opinion that the agreement was illegal. This decision, for practically it is a decision pot-time° to us i n many was of great im as affecting an important- ways ' . It was valuable 1 1 question, which was then at issue ; it was vadvabsimaisl affecting many other ques tions of the same or a s i mil ar opportunely t o s h ow that a ceeracter. It came very ree n na w e e n r t a s i however he large the promises they Contain, or whom they proceed, are utterly.t f a p l an, !reli t. actous they have not th e sanction of . the law, and that a policy subtle and temporizing, rather than soun d, practical, and far-sighted, though it neg ht t„ ee lve others, as welt as rho s .,, w h o pursued it, in loi gation a nd expense, benefi cia l only to the lawyers who advised i t, a nd iejurious t o every other person, still, as the inevi,able I' , stilt, could not contend against the enactments „f the law on the principl e of public policy, as it is found ~,,,„it t e n in the acts arid P r, c F. dlngs of the LeAislature, and mutt it, th end :ea.—(Hear.) I t i s too late to think of obstructing lines or systems of railway, which not only have been sanctioned, but Which ate almost finished. It is idle to think of ob structing alliances which public convenience, local p os t _ l_ t juas co mmon i nteres ts, and actual a g r eements have t'e'-ettnitied and it is the pert , I will net sa y of w isdom hut of common sense, to shape our measures to meet the enn thaeu of circumstances, not as th e y existed in 1844 or 1845, h ui , as they most inevitably ex ist in 1852, and diminishto by rational precautions and prudential ar raegeenenta thoseevils whwhich -,, h human power can now avert, Which ever y passing day brings nearer to consum metiun, and -whieheve ent will render more severe and axre r..progessive movern arrangements be n,it, ad eel, ‘„iiiieuse, it such e _ tng set fre the hisondsisiocnf of a court of e quity oat. f t ,rd, Worcester, and Wolvereampt tn Ox 'tampons. they intimated to ui their readiness to elve r and arra , ge:nents which we ha te f e a lty the negonations t h e ot Our rh•gotiations, c"Tdatae y to submit to you us indispe.o_sahle purvise of the primary aLtl most and Wolverhampton Company xt.,rd, Worcester, nt,ce,s,Ary money o„mptete wa t L i t r o raise the to render the capital which they h„li"Pa and spen t on it productive. It has been e alreedy that foe this purpose an annual sum of 82,0001. it rtained sar y,..-0,000/. to pay interest on debentures, and „%coeosi. to pa y ,interest on the preference shares that must be er,:ated. This saw, therefore, of 82 0001. is team the on the gross revenues of the Oxford, Wor cester, and Wolvernanptoo Company, even befor e the 'working ensee,w,d tinder suc h pay meta of ex p sout,cl curtly tbat there esa be little doubt that they will ha enebted to raise the capital they r, quire o n mos t advAutzigeous terms. The second cherge on the gross ra ces of the company is 60,0001. v Great Western is to be paid to the Coco parry for werking expe eses, a yea r, / s o long sie the receipt s of r fad, 001 on 142,000/ is 42 the linera / re 142,00C1. yka • V.I . anti Wulverhamp pet cent., aud the Oxford, Wel e saved the cost of VI) Company are, therefore, not only Pr`tviding themselves with rolling stir:{, but secure the woikin g - of the line on much more reasonable terms than 0,7 could possibly week it (.)1. themselves. On taw grolo, earnings reaching from 142,0001. to 200,000/., Eh() Great Western is b4o one-third for work' - THE SUN, ing expenses, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton two thirds for themselves; so that when the revenue amounts to that sum we ukree to work the line for 33 per cenr.—again a very great advantage to them. It the line produces only 142,0001. the nterest of the Great Western is secure, but I think a more reasonable way, indeed a more business-like way, is to look at this agreement under the circumstances which we think most probably will occur. Looking at railways of nearly the same length—take, for example, the Bristol and Exeter Company—is it unreasonable to expect that a line like the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton, 90 miles in length, and running through such a district as that from Worcester to Wolverhampton, can yield a less sum tha❑ 4,000/. a week? Assuming that proves the state of the gross revenue, the following will be the effect of the arrangement which is now made. If the receipts amount to 208,000/. a-year, they will be thus applied:— Debenture interest ..• ••• ••• ... .£35,000 Other preference claims ... ... 47,000 First Charge 482,000 Working Expenses. Up to 142,0001. gross reeeirs ... £60,000 Between 142 and 200 . 0001 ., one-third 19,334 Above 200,0001., one-half 4,000 83,334 Dividend to original shareholders— Two-thirds of the excess between 142,0004 and 200,0001............. 38,666 One-half of th e exce ss above 200,0001 ''''''''' 4,000 42,666 £208.000 This 42 666/ is very nearly 3 per cent. on 1.450,0001., the share capital of the original shareholders.. This into o ink w i h t ich rea w %La h h 3 l v e e to how expect arrangementfirsomthethrpesutwhich I i en tered. The advantage to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company may be brit fly summed up thus, —that it e nables them to raise the funds neces sary ' f or the completion of their line, that it insures their getting that money on reasonable terms, hat it saves them the cost of renewing the rolling stock, that it insures the working of the line on mucn more advantageous terms than they could themselves possibly work it, and gives to the original shareholders every reasonable expectation of a moderate dividend for the money which they have invested. To the Great Western Company the advantages are, that we reduce the exi,enses of our line a little more by working their line on the terms I have men tioned, that we shall bring a considerable addition of traffic over our main trunk line, and that we shall have given to us, in common with all the other original share holders, a reasonable expectation of deriving some return for the 180,0001. which we have invested in the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Com pany. These are the direct pecuniary advan !ages which we shall derive from this agreement. There are other important advantages if we regard the arrangement as a distinct arrangement.—(Hear.) I believe that in every point of view the arrangement is desirable both to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton and the Great Western Companies, and we (the directors) have the fullest confidence, therefore, in submitting it for your adoption.— (Cheers.) The epitome of the agreement, as already published in The Sun, was then read to the meeting. The CHAIRMAN then moved that it be received, adopted, ratified, and confirmed. After a very brief discussion the motion was unani mously agreed to, and the meeting immediately after wards separawd. OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND OLVERII AMP I ON RAILWAY. ( [BIS DAY.) An extraordinary general meeting of the shareholders of this company was held this morning at the London Tavern, for the purpose of considering an agreement for a lease to the Great Western Railway Company of the line from Ox•ord, through Wolverhampton, to the Lon don and North-Western Railway, near Show-hill, fur the term of 999 years. Captain Rushout took the chair. The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings by apologis ing to the shareholders for appearing before them in his present position, which he said was caused by the seces sion of the late chairman. The present object of the meeting was to sancticn an agreemenc with the Great Western Railway, negotiations for wnich had been commenced ►n consequence of the late judgment ot Lord Cranworth, in the case of " Beman v. Rutford," that the tormer agreement entered into with the London and North-Western Railway could not be legally carried out. The agreement now proposed with the Great Western would be equally beneficial to this company, and at the time of the hearing of the cause to which he had alluded, Mr. Bethell, the counsel for the Great Western, had professed the readiness of the company to use all their endeavours to carry out a fair understand ing. The agreement which was now laid before the shareholders would, he thought, completely carry out the objects with which the company had first been formed. The LI in. Gentleman concluded by moving that the directors ot the company be empowered to carry out the agreement, of which we subjoin au ab stract:— " The Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company I, agree to complete their undertakino. between Wolvercot (near Oxto d) and a junction with the London and Nortn- Western Railway, near Wolverhampton. in a substantial manner, with a double line of broad gauge railway, and ad ditional rails as prescribed by Act of Parliament; and to lease it when completed, with the requisite stations, side lines, and other accommiclations, to the Great Western Rail way Company, for 999 years; the latter providing all the necessary locomotive stock, &c., to work the said line. "The Great Weste n Company covenant to pay , 5,000/. per annum to liquidate the debenture interest of the lessors, which sum is to be reserved to the Great Western Company as the first charge on the revenues of the railway. They are further to transfer to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolver hampton Company, out of the gross receipts as defined in the agreement, a sum not exceeding 47,0001. per annum, to de fray preference d,vidends, and other liabilities of the lessors. "The annual sum of 60,0001. (subject to a contingent and proportionate reduction when 82,0001. shall not be required for the foregoing purposes out of the revenues of the line) is to be the next charge on the gross receipts, to defray the working expenses, rates, and taxes of the line which are undertaken by the Great Western Railway Company, sub ject to such reimbursement. "The excess of all receipts up to 200,0001. per annum is to be divided in the proportion of two-thirds to the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Company, in respect of their capital, and one-third to the Great Western Company, in respect of working expenses; and all receipts beyond .200,00 1. per annum to be divided in equal moieties between the two companies. " Provision is made by clauses for insuring the proper traffic to the line, and developing it; as web as for an equal mileage distribution of rates, &c., fur through traffic passing over both railways, and tor working any portion of the line, if partially opened, before the completion of the undertaking. " The Stratford Canal, the Stuurbridge Extension Canal, and the Moreton Tramway, are to be worked by the Great Western Company, and the revenues thereof first appropriated to discharge interest upon certain liabilities in respect of them, the balance belonging to the Great Western Company, to de fray we! king expenses, &c. •-• Accounts are to toe kept in proper form, and to be open to inspection by the directors and (dicers of the Oxford, ‘Vor cester. and ‘Volvertianipton Comptoy. Recourse is to be had, in all cases of ditierenee, to arbitration, under elduses inserted in the agreement, and an extended agreement is pro vided Mr, with powers to the two boards to give full effect to it." A SHAtterioLDEB. suggested that the correspondence between ate London anti forth-Western Railway Cum. rainy, and the Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Rl:thee:) , Company, on the subject of the late agreement, shothd be reed. Mr. Tdemes, in seconding the adoption of the reso lution, said that no such correspondence had taken place. Both parties, on hearing the judgment of Lord Crauworth, had resolved to consider the agreement as void. The directors of this company, therefore, felt themselves bound to listen to the overtures of the Great Western Railway Company ; and though on its first appearance the agreement was not so beneficial as might have been wished, as a larger sum would now have to be earned before the original shareholders came in for any benefit, yet in its ultimate results he had no doubt it would be even more advanta geous. The London and North-Western certainly had renewed their offer, but the solicitor of this company ad vised the directors that it could not legally be carried out, and the shareholders would see that it these nego tiations had been renewed they would have had to en counter, perhaps, another Chancery suit, and certainly a struig Parliamentary opposition. In answer to a question irom e Alderman Tuomesoze, M. P., Mr. PARSON, the solicitor, said that it must be evident alit it a nen ow gunge line were laid down between Ox ford and Worcester, as well as the broad gauge, the Great Western could not be expected to lay down a single gauge between Worcester and Wolverhampton. Mr. Alderman THOMPSON of jected to being heeded over to the Great Western hallway bound baud and foot. The most advantageous course would be to com plete their own road without any arrangement with any other company whatever. To deprive them selves of the narrow gauge between Oxford and Worcester would be a moat suicidal ant, more particularly now that projects had just been act on l oot f ur ma ki ng ra il w ays from Her e f or d t o Stirewbbery and from Hereford to Worcester on the confirmation nary Li ~ w gauge line. e should oppose to the utmost the of this agreement. The Hon. Alderman concluded by moving as- an amendment the appointment i of a committee of five shareholders to consider , he expe -1 diem') ef entering into any agreement whatever, and that tee meeting idu,ua the amendment. this day month. Mr. BRATT se con eam endment. Mr. LAWRENCE saidthe whole point was whether t h e present egr , emeet was 0,8 beneficial as that formerly concluded by the London aid Nerth-Western Railway. In his opinion they were now b lindly surrendering up t h e moat valuable portion of their property, and enabling the Great Western to dam up from this company the immense traffic which was preparing fur them in South Wales. 'The fact was that the two greatest companies in t h e country were bidding for their favour, and he thought time eh ., h , I& to be given to the shareholders to consider which offered the greatest advantages. Be trusted that they would nut exclude themselves by a rash and hasty vote to-day ever from reconsidering the matter. Before bitting down h e wi,hed to ask the Chairman whether the Solicitor-G e . nerat had nut cl , vieed the draft of an agreement, which niiget be termed With the London and North- Western Railway, leic..l and bind A . Mr. PARSON S ex 1 been dr a w n up by stueo that such an agreem ent ha d Westernitait.uy uu th o eeolicitor of the London and North citor-Generai. The iP4nY ' and submitted to the Soli the nece s si t y o f the verycom first clause, however, entailed Pee going to Parliament fur an Act, and it was this cous • d eratton which had induced the directors to turn to the Great We stern Company. former Mr. TOWNLEY obj ected to the Preaent agreements, and contracted them with former a gleerwmts proposed by the Great Western Railway, by which a 4 per cent. dividend was guaraotPed to the 6 harPholders of this company. He was astonished that the directors had been so short-sighted. He should certainly euppurt the amendment. Major COURT suggested that the original agreement alluded to by the Hon. Gentleman who bad just sat down should be reverti-d to at once. Ever since that agree ment had been abandoned the company had been going wrong. Mr. COHEN contrasted the advantages which this company would derive from the two companies who were candidates for their alliance. If they agreed with the London and North-Western Company, from the re ceipts of 110,000/. this company would reeeive 29,3841., and the London and North-Western 14,3601.. or a divi dend of 2 per cent., and all excess to be divided equally between the two. From an agreement with the Great Western Railway, from a receipt of 100,0001. this com pany would only get about 21. I Is. 6d. per cent. Again, the agreement with the London and North-Western Rail way would save the expenditure of 300,0001. and be able to borrow money on the credit of that railway at 4 per cent., and also to borrow money on the Great Western Railway. If the worst came to the worst they could work their own line—(Hear, hear)—and he was sure that with the increased advantages of the present day they could do it with a much higher dividend than many other railway companies. Air. PARSONS defended the agreement on the ground that it was more advantageous than the former agree ment with the London and North-Western Railway, and that in fact there was no other path loft open for this company. The one distinguishing element in the last agreement was certainty, whereas in the other there was an uncertainty, both of expenditure and receipts. This last agreement, also, could be carried out immediately without any further experience. The London and North Western were not in a position to deal with them. Fhe traffic of this company was a London traffic, and in his opinion the Gr..at Western Railway was the most advantageous line to carry on their traffic to London. Mr. Sergeant GASELEE commented on the anomaly of the solicitor of the company making harangues iu fa vour of a sehtme which he would receive the piy of the company to carry out in another place. Unfortu nately, on the last occasion, he had just the same advo cacy in favour of the London and N.trth-Western Ra.l - Company. It, however, he had such confidence in his case, what objection could there be to wait and al low every body else to satisfy themselves that the ad vantages were as great as had been represented. He, for one, could not forget the breach of faith which the Great Western Railway bad once been guilty of. He would rather subscribe fur a Bill against the Great Western, than favour them in the least. He would, however, not enter into the relative advantages of the two schemes, but entreat them to consent to the amend ment for a delay, to give time for consideration. After a cons►derable altercatian the original resolution was withdrawn, and the amendment agreed to. Mr. Uzelli, Mr. Lawrence, Mr. Walker, Mr. Bratt, Mr. Caple, and Mr. H. Grisewood were appointed to form the Committee of It:quiry. The meeting then separated, after a vote of thanks to the Chairman. THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 1 5, 1851. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Jane, Mar chioness of Ely, to be one of the Ladies of the Bedchsm b.•r in Ordinary to her Majesty, in the room of Emma, Lady Portman, resign“l. Si. JAMES'S PALACE, JULY 15. The Queen has been pleat,ed to appotut Emma, Lady Portman, to be Extra Lady of the Bedchamber to her ulajeaty. WHITEHALL, JULY 9. The QuPen has been pleased to appoint Edward Francis Maitland, E-q., Advocate, to be 6herifl of the ,hire or sheriffdom of Argyll, in the room of Rubert Bruce, E.g., deceased. WHITEHALL, JULY 11. The Qieen has been pleased to nominate and appoint Charles Hominy, Esq., to be Clerk of she Crown in Chancery, in the room of Charles Edward, Earl of Cottenhano, resigned. WHITEHALL, JULY 12. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to bo passed under the Great Seal granting the dignity of a Baronet of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto the Right Honourable John Musgrove, of Spddlaurst, in the county of Kent, and of Russell ,quare, in the county of Middlesex, Lurd Mayor of the city of London, and the heirs male of his body lawfully begotten. WHITEHALL, JULY 14. The Queen has been pleased to grant unto the Rev. Arthur Yenrhyn Stanley, M.A., the place and dignity of a Canon of the metropolitical church of Canterbury, void by the death of the Rev. Frederick Vernon Lock wood. Commission by the Lord Warden of the Stannaries. The Royal Cornwall and Devon Miners Regiment— William Graham Vivian, Gent.. to be Second Lieutenant, BANKRUPTS. William Alley, may ket gardener, Hanwell, July 23 and Angust 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Canna'', ofs.•ial assignee, Birchin-lane ; Poole and Gamleo, Gray's-inn-square; Rtches and Woodbridge, Uxbridge. . . . . . Henry George Ilirrison, wheelwright, King's-road, Eloxton Old Town, July 22, at eh-vo-n, and August 23 at halt-pa,t one, at the Court of Babloup'ey. Statuat Id. • tlicial a‘ognee; May mid Sweetland, Qui-en-1 quure, tsbomoury. Robert l/avid Nlerc , r, silk merchant, Church-passaLe Bishopsgato-street Without, July 9. at one, and Aug. 30, at eiew n. Nicholson, official assignee, Basitighall stret Brider and Collins, King Will,am-street. Thomas Ward, coal merchant, Stoke Prior, Worces tershire, Aug. 2 and 23, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Christie, official assignee, Birmingham; Chaplin, Richards, and Stubbin, Birmingham. Thomas Elsou Williams, wine merchant, Exeter, July 25, at one, and Aug, 26, at eleven, at the Exeter Dis trict Court. Ilirtzd, cfficial assignee, Exeter; Wilde, Rees, Humphry, and ilde, Queen-street, Cheapside, Lludnn; Jones, Exeter. Jatuts Te.:ce and Thomas Peate, drapers, Oswestry, July 30 and August 20, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, official assignee, Birthing ham; Sale, Worthington, and Shipman, Manchester; Motteratn, Knight, and Emmt t, Birmingham. Benjamin Baylis, woolstapler, Gloucester, July 28 and Aug. 25, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Acra• man, official assignee, Bristol; Lovegrove, Gloucester; Abbot and Lucas, Bristol. Kichard Bugden, irontounder, Llanhilleth, Monmouth shire, July 29, and Aug. 26, at eleven, at the Bristol l)i4triel Court. Miller, official as,ignt e, Bristol; Bevan, Bristol. • lt,chard Willing, miller, Ashburton, Devoiv.hire, July 24, at one, and August 20, at eleven, at the Exett , s Dis trict Court. Hernatnat.n, official assignee, Exeter; Geare, Mountford, and Geare, Exet-r; Stogdon, Exeter. John Bibby, dr.-Ter, Llatirhaiade-yn-Morhnatit. Den bighshire, July 28 and Aug. 18, at rleven, at the Liver pool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liver pool; Royle. Llantyllin; Evans and Son, Liverpool. Isaac Wakefield, tea dealer, Liverpool. July 28. and Aug. 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Cictirt. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool. Hilton Kay, Robert Kay, and William Kay, cotton spinners, Hey wood, Lancashire, July 25 and Aug. 15, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Minket, zie, official assignee, Manchester; Worthington and Earle, Manchester. Samuel Joule and John Joule, ribbon manufacturers, Macclesfield. July 30 and Aug. 20, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Pott, official assignee, Man chester; Parrott, Colville, and May, Macclesfield. IMPERIAL PARLLUMENT. (THIS EVENIN G.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool. sack at Five o'clock. GUNPOWDER STOWAGE (LIVERPOOL) BILL. Earl GRANVILLE moved that this Bill be'referred to a Selo et Committee. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from the proprietors of property on the banks of the Mersey, pray►ng to be beard by counsel against the Bill. The motion was agreed to. PE [IONS. The E irl of ST. GERNIANS, — in presenting several petitions against the Ecensiastical Titles Assumption Bill, took (;cession to recommend to the attention of the Government a pqmpht e t, written by Mr. Eneas Mac donnell, on this subject. The Noble Earl also presented several petitions prityieg for the preservation of the Cry stal Palace. Lord WODELIOUSE presented petitions from the Cape of Good Hope in favour of a Constitutional Go vernment. ST ALBAN'S BRIBERY BILL. Lord BEAUMONT postponed the motion for the Committee on this Bffl. THE CAPE OF GOOD HOPE. The Earl 0T13411-ifYrOseto move, according to no tice, that the papers laid before this House during the present and the lest session of Parlia ment relating to the settlement of a constitution for the Cape of Good Hope should be referred to a Select Committee. He had beard with great regret that it was the into-ntion of her Majesty's Government to oppose this motion. He could assure them that he brought forward this motion in no spirit either of personal or of party hostility to the Govern ment. He had nu wish to add to the embarrassments of the Noble Earl opposite at the bead of the Colonial•oilice ; his object was rather to relieve those embarrassments, and to endeavour to miti gate the force of those elements of, he was afraid he must call it, disaffection, at present existing in that colony. The colony was what was commonly called a Crown colony. It had been acquired by conquApst, and its insti tutions were wh liy granted by the Crown, but the Crown, havir ,, once granted those institutions, had not the power of withdrawing them.—(Hear, hear.) Mnliy of their Lordships, perhaps, were not aware of the exact history of the colony, and there fore he should have to go at some len t4 th into the history of the different proposals which had been made for cunt erring a representative Government on thecolouy. ( fhe Noble Earl then shortly related the history ot the eulogy in 1842.) In the year 1842, when he held the office of Cubmial Secretary, a petition had been presented to him from the colony on the subject ot conferring representative institutions on the colony. He had, in reply to that petition, written a dispatch, in which he pointed out the difficulties which stood in the wsy of complying with the requests of that ... 1 ... 2 LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JULY 15, 1851. petition, and stating his desire to have an answer from the petitioners on the subject. This was in April, 1842, and no answer had been returned to it up to the autumn of 1846. At that time the Noble Esrl opposite assumf , d office, and he sent out a dispatch to Sir Henry Pottinger, directing his attention to that dispatch of 1842, to which no answer had baen re turned, and stating that it was the desire of her Msjesty's Government to confer representative insti tutions on the colony. In 1848 Sir Henry Pottinger's successor, Sir Harry Smith, answered the dispatch by forwarding to the Noble Earl a dispatch, which set forth the views of those is authority on the subject of confer ring representative government on the colony. (LEFT SPEAKING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. COUNTY COURTS FURTHER EXTENSION BILL. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) The ATTORNEY-GENERAL was quite ready to adopt the suggestion of Mr. Cardwell, that there should be a uniformity of practice, and that a party should be allowed to employ tin attorney, a barrister, or any other perion whom he might select, with the simple condi tio❑ that the latter should be approved by the judge. Mr. CROWDER also thought the best plan would be to adopt such a clause as that suggested by the Hon. Member for Liverpool, and secure an exclusive or a free audience neither to the attorney nor to the barrister. Mr. AGLIONBY was in favour of a uniform practice. Mr. COBDEN thought the beat course for the Com mittee to adopt was to establish free competition in the county court bu'ineas. Mr. MULLINGS said the eff,ct of the proposed clause would be to give the barristers the privilege of receiving instructions from an attorney, but it would preclude an attorney from receiving instructions in a similar manner from another attorney. Now, he thought the same scope ought to be given to the attorney as was conceded to the barrister. After some observations from Mr. Forster, Mr. Crowder, Strgeant Murphy, and Mr. Williams, the clause was anuoidud as prop , wed, and agreed to. The House re.umed, and the Chairman reported pro gress. SUPPLY. Mr. BERNAL brought up the report of the Com mittee of Supply, which was agreed to. The House adjuurned at ibilf•past Three to Half-past Five o'clock. The House resumed at Half-past Five o'clock. Mr. ANSTEY presented a petition from Youghal, praying for an alteration of the law in regard to the im portance of foreign flour. Mr. DIVET r presented a petition from Exeter, pray ing that the Crystal Palace might be maintained as a winter garden. Mr. ROCHE presented a petition from a place in Cork, in savour of Church reform in Ireland. Mr. DISRAELI presented a petition from Liverpool, praying For an alteration of the law respecting the im portation of foreign flour. HARWICH ELECTION. Mr. BANKS gave notice that he would to-morrow move that the new writ for Harwich should not be issued until the minutes of evidence taken before the Com mittee had been printed and laid on the table of the House. SELECT COMMITTEE. Mr. EWAR I' then rose to move, according to notice, the following resolutions on this kubject:-1. That the number of Members composing Select Committees be reduced (except when special cause be shown, to the satisfac . ion of the House, for enlarging that ❑umber) to seven. 2. That the Members appointed to serve on Select Committ-vs be selected by a Committee of I Sslection. 3. That it be the duty of the Committee of Self c ion to choose only such members to serve on Select Committees as may declare their unility to give their regular atteudaece at such Committees; and that the Committee of Selection ascer tain this fact from such Members beforehand. 4 That it be an obj..et of the Committee of Selection, in the formation of Select Committees, to combine a due proportio❑ of the younger Members with the more ex p rienced Memners of the House. 5. That three Mem hers be held a sufficient quorum of Members for Select Committees. (LEFT SPEAKING. THE GREAT EXHIBITION. (THIS DAY.) The crowds of visitors which the various excursion trains brought up to town at the end of the week are beginning to show perceptibly on the numbers at the Great Exhibition. To-day has been the most crowded which the Exhibition has yet experienced, and the police returns show an increase of 10,000 over any former occasion. The following are the num bers up to fire o'clock: — There bad been admitted — At 11 12 58,492 2 .... 64 594 3 4 5 At this time 14,844 persons bad lett the building, but the most crowded period was about four o'clock, when there were more than 62 000 persons present, and the mighty stream could scaree find room to ft ,w along so choke d and crowded were the various avenues. At the first opening the ti mp- raiure was bib-ut 65 but it ros daring the day to 74, which it stood at futzr o'clock. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London 11ew I rice Current, July 15.) SUGAR. —TO-thy larger transactions took place in SV4st lboia Sugar, iu consequence of ther3 bong sellers rather er the rates of Friday, boll for grocery ano fining qualities. The public sales o• 216 hhds 36 arcs 151 tals liarbadoes went off flatly at a reduction of 6d per cwt, and several lots ware taken in: the part sold realized for fine yellow 38s 64 to 403, good 37s 6d to 38s, mid 36s 6d to 375, low 35s 6d to 365, mid to fine brown 34s 6d to 355, and two lots mid to good grainy yellow 38s to 40s; 30 hhds 15 trees 260 brls Trinidad in part sold at easier rates, mid and good brown at 33s 6d to 345, ord to mid yellow 34 , 61 to 3586 d, and 37 hhds ord yellow Demerara 34s 6d per cwt. REYINED.—To - day there was little passing in refined goods for home consumption, still brown lumps cannot be obtained under 46s per cwt, there being no increase of supply. The crushed sugar market is quiet, with sellers at rather lower rates. MAURITIUS. — This afternoon Mauritius sugar met with little a ttention, and of 4,178 b a g s a t auction a part only sold, whilst rather lower rates were in some cases taker. Fine yellow selling at 383 to 395, low to good 34s to 37s 6d, ord . to flue brown 31 3 to 345, refining sorts 33s to 38s, and a few small lots grainy yellow 40. to 41s per cwt. EAST INDIA. — This afternoon Bengal sugar met with attention, and the rates obtained were generally equal to those of Friday. At auction 3,455 bags were chit fly disposed of ; good mid to fine white Benares went at 40s 6d to 425. low to mid 3S to 404 damp and washed 373 6d to 41a, mid to tinekraiuy white 44, to 47a, good and tine soft yellow 363 to 37s per cwt. There was uu public sale of Madras, and little was done privately. FoREIOSI.—To - day there was little desire evinced by shippers or home dealers to operate in Foreign Sugar, sltnough there were sellers rather under the rates of Friday. At auction 80 hhds 44 trcs St. Croix sold at 41s to 44s for good and fine bright yellow. MOLASSES.—The demand continues limited for all sorts, and there are sellers rather under the rates exist ing previously. West India of low to fine quality can be ()blamed at 12s 6tito 16s, Bengal and Mauritius 12e, Cuba and Porto Rico 14s to 14s 6d. The rates paid for low to fine Jamaica Roney are 30s to 55s per cwt. plantation has been more in demand, and suffer erra ßr h te i s ti a s re obtained for Trinidad, the supply at market being limited. At auction 230 bags were sold at 45s to 47s for good to fine red; low and mid gray 36s to 38s 63 ; but Grenada is still to be obtained at from 32s to 40s per cwt. In Fureign operations are trifling, Bahia and Para at 25s to 275; and Guayaquil) at 29s to 30s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon Native Ceylon Coffee was operated in with reluctance, although rather lower rates were acceded to: of 1,100 bags at auction, a part only sold at 37s 6d to 38s for ord and good ord, and at 33s to 37s for damaged. For Plantation Ceylon the market has been quiet, find to some cases lower rates were taken ; at auc.i"n 170 casks 200 bags were only in part sold, mid at 50s to 525, low mid 48s 6d to 49s 6d, fine to fine fine ord 42s 6cl to 48., inferior 38s 6d to 425, and pea berry 563 6d to 58s. Of Jamaica 34 casks realised 50. 6d to 52s for low mid and mid, being full rates. Of Porto Rico 170 pkgs 700 bags were nearly all taken in, at firm rases, from 42. 6d to 49s 6d for good to fine ord, but chisfiy at 45s to 45 6d; 2 980 bags Costa Rica. mid and good 55s to 595; 38 bales Mocha sold at 38. 6d for damaged. TEA.—Public isles will take place on Fridsy, at pre sent the quantity declared is 10,000 pkgs. In low and good e‘annion Cougou large transaction have again taken taken place for home consumption at lOid to 11d, and shippers are still operating. There is only a limited quantity on offer. For medium or rather strong blackish leaf a fair demand exists at lad to is Oid, good to fine sorts are operated in more freely at is Id to is 7d per lb. Several transactions have taken place in Oolong at is to is Bd, and there is a firm i market. To day oper a ti ons we r e upon a small scale, n consequence of the public sa'es declared, but rates are not lower. RICE.—To-day the :private operations in East India Rice were trifling, stud at easier rates. At auction 687 bags Bengal were taken in, good white at 93 6d to 10., and small bruken 8s 6d per cwt. bricEs.—To-day at public sale 119 bags 46 pockets Ben g al Ginger were taken in at 17s 6d fur mid export sort, Laing above the value. SPIRITS. —Leeward Island Rum has been purchased with reluctance, and is to be obtained at Is 4id to Is 5d proof. For East India there is a quiet market, with sellers at is 3d to is 313 proof, and larger parcels are on oiler. Demerara has been purchased with reluc tance, and there are sellers at is 10d to 2s 3d for 30 to 40 over proof. In Jamaica operations are mareaterial. The value of fine 34 to 39 per cent over proof is 3s 3d to 4s 3d, good mid to good 38 to 35 over 2. 7d to 3s 2d, and low to mid 30 to 33 over 2s 3d to 2s 6d per gal lon. Brandy met with little attention from sip pers or home dealers, and there is an increasing stock. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 can be obtained at 4, 41 to 43 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd, 1848 ditto 4s lid to 5s Id, older 5 s 5d to 7s, low and mid sorts 2. 6d to 3s 4d, and Bordeaux 2. 2d to 2 s 3 d. In the value of British -made Spirit no variation. G enev a met a slow sale at is 7d to is Bd, and fine 1. 9d to 23. INDIGO.—To-day during the progress of the sale 2 156 chests have been withdrawn. 2,628 chests (including 1,743 chests withdrawn) passed the sale. Proprietors have bought in 585 chts, leaving 300 sold. Of total quantity which has now passed the hammer 00,128 chts), 4,238 have been withdrawn, and 2,562 bought in, leaving 3 328 sold. SALTPETRE.—To day Saltpetbre met with little att4-n -tion. and prices declined 3d to 6d p-r cwt. At auction 1,050 bgs Calcutta part sold; very fine 2f refract‘on went at 294, eood mid 11 to 12k per cent 25s 6d. COCHINEAL.—AItbough there are sellers rather under previous rates, only a limited home or export demand has been experienced. Of 300 begs at auction not above one half sold; Honduras, silvers low to mid went at 33 to 3s 3d, common to fine bl.cks 3s 6d to 4s 9d, Teneriffe 3s 7d to 339 d, low red Lima 23 6d to 2s 10d; Mexican was taken in, silvers 3s, black 3s ld to 3s 3d. , TALLow.—llealers operate with caution for present delivery, but lower rates are not taken; and fine Russian Candle is held for 37s 6d to 37s 9d per cwt. There is, however, more demand for the last three months of the year, and quotations range firm at 39s to 39s 6d. Home melted is Bull obtainable at 35s to 36s net cash, on ac count of a large supply. COURSE OF EXCHA Amster, laa, 11 18%1 Ditto, three months.. 11 lb % , totterdam • • .... 11 18% Antwerp • • ............ 25 22 Brussels.. 25 22%, liamburgh ••3d.8. 13 13}i adtona • • ........ • • .... Paris, 3 days'sight . 25 2 Ditto, 3 months .... 25 22% Marseilles .......... • • 25 24% . Frankforton Maine.... 119% Vienna, effec. Bo.— 11 56 Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 57 Petersburgh,Sll. Rble 37% Madrid .............. 4934 Cadiz •• • ............ 50►,( Barcelona ............ deville.• •• •• •• •• •• •• .• NGE.-('THIS DAY.) (Gibraltar.. • • .• .. Leghorn • • iel2lo/1 •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 30 Milan .• • . • • • • • • • • • • • • Venice.. • • .• • • • • • • • • •• Naples ...... • • • • 41% Palermo, peroz .• ••• • •• 124 Messina ••••••• • • • • • •• 12414 L15b0n...............• 5 3% Oporto.• . • • .. .• •• • • •• 53% Rio Janeiro ••• • Buenos Ayres .. ••• . •• New York, 60 days'aight Vhlladelphia .... • • .... PSIOSB OP BULLION, YES OS Foreign Geld inisars...E3 17 9 Vortitgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0 Apanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0 New Dollars •• •• 0 4 11% Silver in bars . 0 5 0% IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS, July 14. The LORD CHANCELLOR took hi seat on the Wool sack at FM , o'CloCk. _ RORFIELD MANOR ESTATE. _ . The Bishop of OXFORD moved that copies of the correspondence touching the airfield Manor Estate be tween the Copyhold Commissioners and the Eccle siastical Commissioners, be laid on the table. He moved for these papers on behalf of an absent brother, who had, as be believed, been most grievously misrepresented in regard to this matter. He should assume that every mis-statement which had been made bad been accidental, and tnat the parties making them had been actuated by the purest motives. It had been charged that his Right Rev. Friend, when he had succeeded to the diocese of Bristol, was morally and equitably bound to deal differently with the manor of Horfield from any other part of the property of his diocese, that he had sought to make a bargain with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a bargain which had been prevented by the intervention et a Mem ber of the other House of Parliament. Now, he would show that the Bishop of Gloucester received the estate of Horfield manor upon precisely the same conditions on which he received every other portion of the property of the see of Bristol. He had done with that property what the Legislature intended he should do with every portion of the property of the see. He had entered into negotiations with the Commissioners tor the purpose of carrying out some singularly liberal views with respect to the Church to which he belonged. The Right Rev. Prelate had taken such steps as he thought best calcu lated to forward those views, but he would not now state what they were, lest it might be supposed he had been forced by the clamour which had been so unjustly raised against him, and not by his own free will. The state• meat against him was, first, that because his predeces sors bad refused to renew the lease in order that the estate might tall into the Church, his Right Rev. Friend had inflicted injury by doing so. For his part, he (the Bishop of Oxford) never knew a case in which every step of the proceedings had been so entirely misrepre sented, and in which truth had been so mixed up with falsehood. Now one predecessor of his Right Rev. Friend, namely, Bishop Grey, had been negotiating with the lessee for a new lease when he died. It had been alleged that Bishop Allen, the next in succession, had given a pledge to Lord Melbourne that he would not renew; yet the fact was that Lord Melbourne had lett it entirely in his own discree tion, and he, too, had been about renewing when he was transferred to the see of Ely. In the Committee on Ecclesiastical Leases it had been proved that such tenures as that of airfield were very injurious. In 1842 it bad been rumoured that the bishop was about to renew, and that in consequence some correspondence had taken place between him and the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. No such correspondence, although some of it had been quoted, had ever taken place.— (Hear.) In 1847, when some new scheme had been started by the Commissioners as to the charges which ought to be levied on certain sees, it had been thought that the united diocese of Gloucester and Bristol ought to bear a larger charge; and it was intended to add the Horfield Manor estate to the episcopal Lund, after the psesent bishop should be removed. To that he had ob• jected as being unjust to his successor, and some nego tiations accordingly took place between him and tee commissioners, with the view of entering upon some ar rangement relative to the property. Tne bishop had considered that the peculiar holding of that estate wits a most injurious tenure to the Chinch, inasmuch as it prevented the possibility of improvement. He had never intended to renew the lease on the same terms upon which it had been originally granted, but never enter tained the idea of not granting some kind of a lease fhe Right Reverend Prelate here referred to and read se me extracts from letters from the Bishop of Gloucester to the Commissioners, in which he had stated that be treated the imputation of renewing the lease "as heretofore" with con empt. Another accuse don was that in 1848 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners having desired their secretary to remind the bishop of his moral obligation not to renew the lease, the bishop answered that he knew nothing of any moral obligat,on on the subject, but that he had a legal right, which he would not alienate except for 11,500/, Now not only o b f 6 t h h o e p k h i m d . a e l l d i e n d E t o e b w r u r i a t r t e y n , b l y B4 t B h , e o s p e e c n r e e c i t w a a r s h no bu le t t t t h er e a negotiation with the Commissioners, and offered to part with his interest to them. That proposal was re ferred to a Select Committee, of which Sir J. Graham was the chairman. Tney entertained the proposal, and a communication was made to the bishop announcing to him that the proposal had been laid before the Finance Committee, and that they had expressed an opinion of the liberality of the offer.—(Hear.) The negotiation went on. It had been asserted that the Commissioners endeavoured privately to transfer the estate to themselves, but that when the deed of transfer had been transmitted the solicitor refused to be party to the affair. The fact was that the Commissioners having satisfied themselves that there was neither equitable, legal, nor moral re straint on the bishop to act differently with the Horfield estate from the ocher estates of his see, consulted one of the most eminent c nveyancers as to the best mode of transmitting it, who gave an opinion that the proper way of transmitting it was not by deed, but by order iu Coun cil.—(Hear.) Such an order was drawn up, and sent, as is usual in such cases, for the approval of the law offi cers of the Crown, who at the end of the month returned it with the answer that there were legal difficulties in the way, in consequence of the limited power given by the Act of passing such an order. On that ground alone was the order in Council set aside.—(Hear.) Feeling that the matter might be misrepresented, the bish o p called on the Commissioners to express their opinion on the subject; and at a meeting of the board, at which the Archbishop of Canterbury was present as chairman, a resolution was drawn up and agreed to, to the effect that the bishop having been under no obligation, legal or otherwise, to deal with the Horfield estate differently from any other estate of his see, and having made with regard to it a most liberal offer, the board hat been anxious to avoid all needless delay in bringing the nego tiation to a close. The remaining charge was that on the dropping of the last life the bishop had renewed the lease in a way in which he had said he would never do. Now if his Right Rev. Friend bad evaded the law, by selling it to a second party, in a way to allow him to transform it into a lease for three lives, then he would have done the thing with which he had been charged; but, to prevent that, he had put the name of his secre tary in the lease, retaining in his own hands full power to carry on those improvements which from the first it had been his object to effect, and had already laid out a large sum in enfranchising the copy hold. In order to avoid any reproach of grasping at income, he gave up his legal claim to what he held in conimendant to an amount equal to what he retained.— (Rear.) On this point it had been remarked that what be held in corn ntendam was only for his own life, and that it would not benefit his children to the same extent as the renewal of the lease. The terms which his Right Rev. Friend had stipulated for in his negotiation with the Commis shiners was 11,5001., and he bad accidently learned the way in which he proposed to apply that amount. It appeared that he bad engaged to advance a sum of 5,0001. for the erection of a college at Bristol, provided it were repaid to his children. Circumstances oc curred which rendered it problematical whether his children would receive it, and in case they did not he proposed that of the 11,5001. the sum of 5,000/, should go to his family, and 6,5001. to endow small livings in the diocese of Bristol.—(Hear.) Such was the answer he had to make to the charges brought against his Right Rev Friend. In a letter which his Right Rev. Friend had written to him he stated that under present mews]. stances he should not enter upon !l ey promise or engage. ment with respect to his particular views and intentions on this subject. " These, ' said his Right Rev. Friend, "must be inferred from what I have already done. Spectentur agenda. True, I have ulterior views; but I will not at present make any engagement with regard to them; for if I were to do so it would be attributed to fear of him who, per las et nefas, is determined to de stroy my character."—(Hear.) His Right Rev. Friend had, without fear or favour, won his way to an eminent station in the national Church, and had left this coun try sick in body, depressed in spirit; and he was sure any expression of their Lordships' sympathy would be dear to him under these unexampled misrepresentations. The Bishop of LONDON said the Bishop of Glouces ter had been his intimate friend for 45 years, and he could assure their Lordships that the interests of the Church might safely be left in his bands. Lord CAMPBELL bore testimony to the character of the Right. Rev. Prelate, as being that of a kind hearted and generous man, and added that it had been demonstrated that there was not the smallest pretence for rayieg that he held Horfield in a different manner from any other estate of his see. He believed the Bishop of Gloucester had consecrated more churches within his diocese since he had been appointed to it than to h hisadb im e t en e. cousecrated within it since the Refo rmation u p The Earl of HARROWBY bore testimony to the cor rectness of the statement of the Right Rev. Prelate as regarded the transactions with the board. The Bishop of Gloucester had Lot departed from the usual cyarse of proct date. It wr s with rPgr::t that h, hotic4-d a des4ire xibliog to prebume very thing evil of thobe who were at the head of the Church. The motion was then agreed to. MISSION AT FLORENCE. In reply to Earl FITZ WILLIAM, The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that there was no foundation for the report that Government intended to discontinue the mission at Florence. COURT OF CHANCERY AND JUDICIAL COM- Ml"r TEE BILL. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the first reading of this Bill. Lord BROUGHAM said his Noble Friend had moved the first reading of this Bill, which, aceordiug to the practice of their Lordships' House with regard to Bills brought up from the Commons, would otherwise have been read a first time without remark, in order to give him an opportunity of saying a few words on this Bill, and of addressing their Lordships for the last time this session. He entirely approved of this Bill, but the change to which he wished to advert was with respect to that branch of the Bill which referred to the adminis tration of justice in the appellate tribunal of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. The first question to be carefully considered was whether the quorum ought to be reduced from four judges to three. His opinion was that four was the boat number, and the experience of Westminster-hall was stroegly and clearly in faveur of four judges in preference to three. Tne reason was, that on all occasions of dill-rence you bad the great authority of a majerity of three to one in favour of the judgment of the Court, and if such a majority was essential to the courts of the first instance, how much more necessary it was to give effect to the deci sions of an appellate jurisdiction, deciding in the last re sort the most important questions, and which decisions nothing short of an Act of Parliament could overturn. He agreed in the propriety of a change in the presi dency of this body. The president of such a body should be answerable for the regulation of the proceed ings, for the attendance of the members of the court, and the distribution of its business, duties which a lay pre sident could not well undertake. The propriety of ap pointing such a president was admitted 18 years age, when it was proposed by him. Jr it were said that there was some inconvenience in four judges being equally divided in opinion, he had only to reply that during the last 18 years the judges had only divided two and two upon one occasion, and the inconvenience was ea-ily re moved by calling in one other member. 'I he appoint ment of a vice-president of the court bad been recom mended, and be thought well of it. There were other parts of the Bill of which he approved, and he re garded the measure altogether as a step—not a great or a long step, but still a step—in the right di rection. He ought to add that one want still remained to be supplied. No provision was made in this Bill to supply another very ma terial defect in the appellate jurisdiction, in cases which rarely occurred, but which had occurred, and which were likely to be of more frequent occurrence, namely, cases involving spiritual questions of a highly important nature, of an exceedingly difficult nature, and which very often, with reverence be it spoken, were of an exceed ingly obscure nature. They of the Judicial Committee were admirably adapted to deal with the common law, with questions of colonial law, with cases from the Con sistorial Court, and embracing the learning of the civil law. It was a tribunal well adapted to deal with ques tions of evidence, whether that which was deservinse of the name, the evidence taken at common law, or that which passed under the name, which was taken, or which appeared to be taken, in courts of another descrip tion. But with regard to those other matters which his Noble Friend the Lord High Commissioner of the Ge neral Assembly of the Church of Scotland, who dared to hold an episcopalian conversation during the non-sitting of the session —(Lord Belhaven was at this moment conversing with a Right Rev. Prelate)—would admit were spiritually diffi •ult questi ns, the Judicial Com mittee had a confused authority, and his brethren had authorised him to confess that with those subjects they felt themselves wholly unfitted to deal. Upon this class of subjects they desiderated control. They did not want to be dictated to, but they wished to have what it was right they should have, the aid, the inestimable benefit of the assistance of learned men in that branch of the law. The present measure, then, was a step—but not a stride, not along step—in the right direc tion; but if any man thought that this or any other struc tural alteration in the Court of Chancery—if any man dreamed that such a measure laid the axe to the root of the greatest and most grievous of the many crying evils that afflicted the subjects of this country, not the judges or the practitioners, but the unhappy suitors of the court, although he admitted that it would, nevertheless, do justice to the suitor, and enable him to obtain that which he had a right to obtain at a reasonable cost of money, of trouble, and of time—if any dreamer, he rep. seed, believed that any structural alteration of the Court of Chancery would do all that was wanted, such a dreamer was in a fool's paradise, and would awaken in the [omit g to a sad reality that would belie all that he had fancied in his slumbers. It would alarm their Lordships to hear the preens that had been brought before the Committee as to the state of things in all the courts of equ ty and in all the branches of those courts. Their L edehipe had victims among them selves, and he saw a Nohie Frig nd of his who wtnt into Chancery for a debt of 500/.. and who had the unsfor. tune to deal with a someahat insolvent party and his professional adviser. 1,2001 was the cost of obtaining that 500/. His Noble Friend had succeeded, and ha might believe him he ought to consider it very the p.— (Rear, and a laugh.) At any rate, his Noble Friend would have been 700/. better off if he had left alone his 5001 and made up his mind to its loss. But ninete en twt ntietha of the cases were not those , of contested debts tor 5001., but cases where parties were perfectly ready to wirer them up and arrange them without going into the Court of Chancery. One case of infancy had lasted four years. The estate was of moderate amount, the income being 155/. in stuck. The infant was placed out, orders were made, considerable expenses were incurred,. and 681. 4a. wa s th e cost t h at the estate h a d to pay in order to get the infant's own money laid out for the infant's own use and benefit. The deduc tion of 701. a•yeter from the income of the in fant was incurred for orders of Court where there was sto contest or dispute whatever.—(Hear, hear.) In another case, where a simple contract debt was claimed against the estate, costs amounting to 1,2001. or 1,500/. were incurred on one side, and, in all, costs to the amount of 3,0004 were incurred to recover 1,000/. In the case to which he alluded the suitor was a gentleman residing in India. In July, 1840, his case was before the Rolls; in 1851, when he came over to ask after his cause, he was told it was still undecided, and that it was before the Rolls again, where he had lett it 11 years ago. This gentleman was root eover told that he had tour or five years more to wait. It might be expected that this gentleman would say that in India they had the cobra capella, the jungle fever, the tiger, and various other evils and dangers, but that at least they had not a court which he (Lord Brougham) dared not to name.—(A laugh.) The taxing-master, Mr. Follett, had a case be fore him in which 901. costs were incurred in deciding whether 101. should be laid out in repairing a necessary and convenient part of a house, but which he should no more dare to na me t o their 14,rdships than the court in question. In one case a reference was made to the Master for impertinence —that was for putting irrele vant and unnecessary matter into an answer, and the Master had to inquire whether a number of documents had not been so p u t upon t h e answer . Th e case was glaring and gross, and the master decided, after hearing counsel, who were not prolix—they were never prolix but only full—that relief must be given to the amount of 20/. The party thus decided against appealed to the Vice-Chancellor, who agreed with the Master. Another appeal was made, and the decision again affirmed, and the expenses of getting this 201. struck off amounted to 800/. —(Hear, hear.) But the wrongdoer had to pay that? Yes, almost the whole, but not quite the whole. Between 401. and 50/. of these expenses he never received, so that he would have been 301. th e richer if he had submitted to pay the 20/., which the taxing-master decreed he ought not to pay; and this dispute lasted for two or three years. In the Day and Martin ease, which was partly litigated and partly administrattve, the value of the estate was about 400,0001. He had heard that the bill of costs in this case amounted to between 70,000/. and 90 000/.—(Hear, hear.) Now, was it possible that their Lordships could much longer resist the conclusion at which the people of this country had arrived, that the axe must be laid to the root of this crying and unbearable evil, and that, to use the words of Lord Chatham upon another subject—if they did not reform themselves, the people would come in upon them and reform them from without with a vengeance? He wished for no rash and imprudent changes. He had constantly maintained that to make .retie w wholesome it must be sate, and that reforms of the law, to be safe, must be left in the hands of skilful and well-informed men, without suffering the rude an d the i gnorant to iin terfere. But n proportion as that reform was delayed which was wanted and, indeed, exigently re quired, tt their Lordships should no l onger do their d u ty in ad ministering relief where it mig h t sa f e l y b e given, then he said that the result would be inevitable, that the good would be swept away with the bad, andh nd that had swept (as he had ~ once before said), h av i ng the good a away together, th e j ur i spru d ence an d the judicature of the country would be put in a state and reduced to a condition of ruin such as to afford a sad spectacle of . the vanity of hum an pl ans an d the instability of institutions, and to supply a wholesome w arning tO those who, from a fear of granting moderate and safe reform, exposed their Lordships to the dangers of a violent r evolut i on. — (Hear, hear.) Ha truste d that, instead of stopping at this measur e , the other House would h adopt the valua ble measur es se nt &iv n f r om that louse, and particu larly one of the most important rut asures that had ever passed through Parliament —he meant the County Courts Extension Bill, to which might be add e d t h e L aw of Evidence Bill. If these Bills were adopted by the wisdom of t h e other House of Parliament, th ey wou ld great l y diminish the evils of the p resent system. To th ose measures might be add e d a reform to which the public mind was beginning to be directed, and which bad the sanction of sums of the most learned m „, N ee., the adoption, as fur as possible, of the com bination of the two systems of t quity and law, by what what was called, after the experience elsewhere obtained of its working, " the f us i on o f the two b ranc h es o f t h e system." He !toped that those who were younger would have the happine ss o f see i ng th i s among o th ers o f t h e greatest improv emen t s i n j urispru d ence a d o pt e d, so th at they might at length say that a real and effectual pro gress had been m a d e towards t h e amen d m ent of th e l aw . Nothing should have tempted him to take so uttusual and unprecedented a course ns to address their Lord• ships on the motion that this B:11 be read a first time, but that during the East five or six we. ks he had with with the utmost dlfficul y, and against the opinions of his medical advisers, attended the service uf their Lord ships' House. During the last week or ten days this difficulty had increased and become mote severe. In the hope of assisting in the passing of this great met' sure in a cause to which his life had been devoted.... (Cheers)—he had struggled to the last, until be fotend that he could struggle no longer. It was with grelit pain that he was compelled to withdraw himself ft° their Lordships' House, when ho considered that the great cause of religious libel ty, in more shapes than one. was in danger, and when he desired to co-operate in the philanthropic measures of his Noble Friend (the Earl °f Shaftesbury). It was a great pain to him to leave We service of the House at such a time, but it wets hi c ; bounden duty no longer to incur the risk which he. had not hesitated to run when he thought it absolutely ye' cessary.—(Cheers.) The LORD CHANCELLOR was extremely g. find find that the Bill now on their Lordships' table met w ri ."" the approbation of the Noble and Learned Lord. would not follow the Noble and Learned throu.gh the statements he had made on other important matters, be' cause the present was not quite the proper occlusion fci : doing so; but he wished to observe, that as he, w i r „ h ; aware of the many defects in the Court over which „ • 71 presided—defects which were the growth of tiroe t s,_", which had existed during the period when his NI and Learned Friend and others had held the great ett —immediately upon his entering upon the dutice P „, present office, a selection ve.ts made of gentlemen stn ° „`",.; the most informed at the Chancery bar, the nice s"' s to the defects in the Court, and the most fitted to sugg e 's a remedy; and those gentlemen were called upon to ec as a commission to review the whole system of Cbanne r i practice. They had since been most diligenitlY e f; ployed, and his Noble and Learned Friend being s w "jd of the character and ability of those gentleme w° "s, doubtle.ss derive considerable comfort from ane o ri ph d..nce he must entertain, the; en inquiry conducted bYet i " re gentlemen must be followed by some effective toes 3ll , he of reformation. There was already a report on ' be table from the commission, which had revie viecl t be whole proceedings at c. mmon law, end a Bill, v r bleu of hiiped to present to their Lordships before the close "'„/ the session , was being prepared from the matc,riele:e that report. It was not likely that a report feet° tm lo Chancery Commission could be so far advamced as 0 allow of a similar step being taken with respect to It ', the present session, but it would, so tar as it m'orbt re l/ ceive their Lordships' approbation, be most (Wei carried into eff ct. The Noble awl Learned Lot tre 11 1; gestions with respect to the present BIM would r'e" ce the most careful attention. They had principal r efersok. e to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council; present Bill addressed itself to the remedy of a p.srP,, c , - far evil, namely, to prevent the recurrence of the, venience which was felt to arise last year from the 6 :f sence of several of the Learned Judges in the coves °f equity in consequence of illness. It did not prote s t:A go further, because, as the Commission to which he 7 0 alluded was in actual operation it was thought botter. e , wait for the report with a view of then applyin fq b e neral remedy for existing defects. Considering t bat Noble and Learned Lord had presided over a coter t ° l t as he had described, the details which he had give] 0". tainly entitled him to great s)inpathy. to Lord BROUGHAM said that he had endeavoitre,.4 apply as much remedy as he could to the defecta were justly complained of. He should like w hl i ," 10 when steps would be taken to turn to public am) the criminal law digest. It was thirteen months sit l c° he received a letter from the Chancellor of the P c " o , quer, stating that no time would be lost in doi n gi' . d Were proceedings in respect to that to be cocducito with the same snail-like pace as business in the cote ; which he had just directed their Lordships' atterisiow The Bill was then read a first time. The Duke of RICHMOND presented thirty•fil.,.° 1 4; titions from parishes in Essex, against, es the •L' 4° "; Duke described it, That most iniquitous law, the pra se corn-law, the present navigation law, and the cur reh o law; also petitions from Elgin and another plac e „a Scotland against Papal aggression, and a petition og P-- any Bill for the abolition of religious tests. The Burgesses and Freemen' s Parliamentary Fr tlir chiTheßse ill went through Committee. Attorneys and Suilicitors Regulation Act Atn e m il ment Bill and the RepreseLtative Peers for Scotland ". were severally reported. The General Board of Health Bill was read a s'v d e time. a „ r e Lord MONTEAGLE gave notice that on a fo," o f stage of this Bill he would put a queAton to the Esr`,l3-0 Snaftesbury with reference to the condition in which metropolis aas lett in regard to interments. nd The Lodging-Houses Bill was read a third time passed. The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, the Higbvia t t Rates Bill, and the Loan Societies Bill were severs"; read a second time. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice that , °ll Friday he would move for a copy of the report mad,t°.° l3 10 o f Mr. Grainger on the sanitary state of certain parts of ' be metropolis, and at the same time call the attention 0 0 , House to that report, with the view of showing thai ll a lees some remedy were speedily applied there fad refi g° to fear a recurrence of the cholera. Their Lord hips then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. July 14. e s, ANNUAL GRAMS TO DUBLIN LIOSPITA' (Con inued from our Third Edition of last night.) te e Mr. V. SMI having presided over the Coueretro which had inquired into this question, must Bey the'l ero Right Lion. Friend the Chancellor t f the Exchequ oe i to the course which he had proposed, was carrying s ea the views of that Committee—views which had W oo founded upon the evidence that came before thew• je 4 cutlet iee nothing in the condition of Ireland, as regard those institution., so different from this country i 4g3 4 Scotland as 10 induce them to adapt the cour s e proPoz' by !be Irish Nlenibers. Mr. S. HERBERV admitted that the giving of nual grants to suet institutions was, generally epeaki e 4, deteieeless, but the que,tiou was, whether in the P: o sent case there ought not to be an exception to P as general rule ? Tht y should recollect that the circa of stances of Ireland were very different from those 41 , England, inasmuch as there was no law of settlea P Al or power of removal there as there was in England. b' lever appeared to be the national disease of Ireland , fre hoped tnat the Chancellor of the Exchi quer would isle the case of the fever hospitals into his consideration., eei place of making a final withdrawal of the grants tr lo these establishments, he hoped that the Chancellor of Exchequer would think it advisable to make one ci ) " 0 , plete grant, amounting to about ten or twelve Pl u s purchase, for the support of these institutions, and tv„, t rid of the evil that necessarily arises from COtn iv° annually to Parliament fur these sums of money. Colonel DUNNE characterised this as but a eP r e , men of the justice that was generally meted out to m be land by the British Government. Nothing could 0 more unfair or unjust than to withdraw these gri )l3 is from the hospitals in Dublin, which they kne"" e . would be impossible to supply by voluntary contr i v e ( tions in the present miserable and overburdened state that country. Mr. REYNOLDS said, under the advice of his feleo, he would not trouble the House by dividing. H e woo"; however, reserve to himself the right of again brine ) :r e the question before the House on the next favouri w opportunity. The SPEAKER, therefore,kd r having byaz pu e t t o h f e tritine ii, esti , °l) ll l and a division being e Members, The gallery was cleared, when the numbers were- -- Fur the amendment ... 43 Against it 106 Majority against the amendment —63 The amendment was consequently negatived. THE SEE OF GLOUCESTER. h r Mr. HUME was understood to ask the Hon. Meree e t for Bristol whether he was prepared to make a ny anti c , e l , to the statements of the Hon. Member for Cockermou' a relative to the income of the Bishop of Gloucester, L, which a reply had been attempted in a place where t „'",l evidence was not to be found on which his Hon. Fri heti relied. The Hon. Member for Bristol had in a L e ', ter in the newspapers promised to give an answer to P" statements of his Hon. Friend. Mr. P. MILES said that he had called upon the pob v i lie to suspend their judgment until information sou be received from the Bishop of Gloucester. H e was O cie prepar e d t o answer any charges that m i g h t b e 0 36 4 against the Right Rev. Prelate. lie was now prepsr" to give any intormation that might be called for. Mr. HORSMAN explained that he bad made a stor e : meat which was grounded upon evidence given before t " Co mm ittee of that House. He h a d ma d e t h e statetuell: too, in presence of several Ecclesiastical Commissione r "' and there was no answer or explanation to that stat e ; went. That House knew n o thing o f wh a t b a d bee d o ne by the Bishop of Gloucester. He had cowl:0 1 1i care d with the Hon, M em b er for B risto l , and poitti,,, out w him what were the specific parts of the , evidell e n which he g ro un d ed his statement. He agreed 41',1e the Hen. Memb er that if they could bring this mat ter before the Ho use i t would be very desirable to do e`'' but he found it was not poss ibl e to d o so e i ther oil - Government night or upon a motion day, as each ti l f 6 ; two o was fully oc c upi e d up to July 29th. H e 1 3 °: tna ,„ then, reiter ated the former statement he had " L He had, h owever, heard wit h great surprise that the Right Rev. Prelate bud given an explanation elsewhe r , in it place wbere the evidence w as no t accessible to those who listened to the Right Rev. Prelate. If the Bishop of Gloucester did not think a statement made J r c i i that House worth an answer, and if ho were sat is° with making a statement in a pl a ce wher e th e evitelea , t'' was not in existence, and in an assembly that wail 11 ' 3 cessarily ignorant of all the circumstances—if the Big ici f f was contented so to act, the p u bli c wou ld d raw ib•• own conclusions. He (Mr. Horemati) stood there an;tioll to substantiate his statements; arid the orcumsta sue . „ he said, turned out stronger th a n he h a d fi rs t p u t tbe i ", forward. It was not his fault that the explanation fi ts made elsewhere, and th e d iscuss i on remove d to ano ther assembly. He remark e d t h at t h e H on . M em b er f°' Bristol was not a party to those proceedings. Lord J. MANNERS remarked that while the WO, Member was so p art i cu l ar a b ou t t h e discussions Oil occurred in this H ouse, h e s h ou ld b e so i ncons i s ten; as to refer to debat es i n anot h er pl ace . H e cons id e red that the charge that had been made by the Hon. Mew' bee had been satisfactorily disposed of by the bishop'', (Ilear)— and he was sorry to find that the Hon. Memb er had teeing toffs opportunity of indulging in another vective against the Right Rev. Prelate. Mr. GLADSIONE said he could not quite under: stand how th e y were enterin g u p on t hi s su bj ect a t tb' present atornent.—(Hear.) He excused himself for ear tering upon it, as the discussion then seemed to him t& be both i m proper and irre gu l ar , b ut h e must , in o trankuess, say, that they were b o und t o go f urt h e r with the prooeedit.gs.—(l - lear.) In hie judgment the state" miens of the Hon. Gentleman had been impugned on every most material point;—(Hour)—hut still be nnte t say that it was most desirable they should have a furthe r discussion on this eubjece—(Hear.) It was with gree t pain he bad beard the charges made by the Hon. Meta . her against the Bishop of Gloucester, because there W no one on the episcopal b e n c h more distinguished for!, character ef liberality and charity thigi the j3jahop w of ti 3( Colt of A 1)top 1 ,4; ..te rn tpi th e I thou : th,s . tp 0 itibil t Tl] TI It 4e , tri b k (IN%