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Th e m promitted betw ee i ions, and gr. 7,1 id about it the upon the areb i to Honse to be 001 i 0 ion, to order boi berefore, by ° )11 notice. XCHEQUES.iti'o le part of the ;51 ,ointed a Cete t° ' fear. He belief ted by that C °° ol rs would be t '" l the session 0 ° Id give thew 0 the new Hoeoe d. vbether the Cod of the buildivg, be a atatetneok,,i ork, and the 0, 11 01 led the Chan ce into his serioeilipii Dstponcd for 0° by t be adopted ' s in "tjunctioo,,, kt plan prop erli A lf ,missioners Wer-tol Ise with res p ee 1 0 . harmer. TheY 0' curse of 1:0° vhetber,Lor Id what bad bteo and th at she $9 Mr. COBDEN slid either one foi - m or another °ugh ' to be adopied, Mr. HENLEY said the octavo form had ben found more eonv,-nient; hut he did not. think printing was to easily read as that of the old term. The vote was then agreed to, 3S were also the follow- racy and unsightly buildines which now surround the New Palace of Weetminster and Westminster Half would be soon removed. After a few words from Sir W. CLAY, The motion was re-waived witheut a division. SUPPLY.—MISCELLANEOUS ES CIA ATES. The House then went into a Committee of Supply; Mr. BERNAL in the chair. A vote of 32,000/. for foreign and secret service having been prep Mr. WILLIAMS said he could not understand why such an enormous amount was required for such pur poses. An impression prevailed amongst the public that that secret service money-was spent on elections, — (Hear, On, and laughter) He moved that the vote should be reduced to 20,0001. Mr. C. LEWIS defended the vote, which was the smallest prop' sod under that head since 1822. Colonel SIBTHORP said he had always been op posed to what was called secret service money. Per haps some of it was laid out in entertainments for the Chancellor of the Exchequer in D twning-screet.— (Laughter.) They might, perhaps, be enter atnn,cr, Car dinal Wiseman, or rather bribing him to stay out of the Way.—(Laughter. He th aught a British House of Com mons ought not to be called upon now-a-days to vote public money away without knowing what became of the money. Mr. HUME thought the time was come when we plight dispense with trio secret at rvice money. Lord PALMERSTON ceuld. inform the Hon. Mem ber behind him th it none of ihe secret service money was ever spent in bribery at elections. No Government• however, could go on without having a certain amount of that kind for purposes essential to the public service. It should be borne ha mind that information was re (piked by the Government from time to time from per sons whose names could not be published. Mr. DISRAELI said be had for fourteen years given a silent vote in favour of the secret service allowance, and perhaps the Committee would allow him to state why he would again support it. The Hon. Member for Lambeth (Mr. Williams) had announced that there was nothing in the state of our foreign relations, or in the condition of our colonies, which could justify any extra ordinary or secret service expenditure by the Govern ment. Now he (Mr. Disraeli) confessed that he bad heard that announcement with considerable satisfaction. He had not previously beau aware that the state of Europe, or even the state of our colonies, was such that they might congratulate theniselves on perpetual tran quillity, or on a condition of affairs which demanded no extraordinary exertions. The lion. Gentleman the Member for Lambeth bad further said that a general impression prevailed to the effect that the sum demanded by the Government for secret service money was spent in influencing elections. Now that was a strange charge, and he (Mr. Disraeli) in supporting the vote, should protest against the supposition that he was doing so with the intention of enabling the Government to influence the elections of this country. He did not wish that fo reigners should think that our elections were conducted on so miserable and meagre a scale as that 32.0001. could exercise any serious influence over them.—(Hear, hear.) There was a blue book in their library which showed that 32,000/. had bsen spent by one candidate at an election in Norwich. With respect to the allegation of his Hon. and Gellant Friend the Hon. Member for Lincoln, that the money might have been spt nt in enter tainments in Downing- street, he had only to observe that be bad not been aware that there was any extra ordinary hespitelity in that quarter which could rerder necessary such a misappropriation of the public money. —(A laugh.) He believed the fact was, that a large portion of the sum must be spent in the payment of pen sions: to persons on the continent, who, io the course of the last great European war, had rendered important service to this country; and he thought it not impro bable that the vote had of late years become consider ably diminished in consequence of dea.hs among persons of that description. Now if the money were appro priated to the payment of such annuities and pensions it seemed to him that her Majesty 'a Ministers would do well frankly to state the fact to the Committee. He did net think that a sum of 32 000/. was too much to place tit the disposal of the Government of this country for meeting peculiar claims on their favourable considera tion; and he believed that the smallness of the item would excite the surprise of every court in Europe. He should protest against the exaggeration. and he would say the irrationality, which had provoked the remarks of the lion. Gentleman the Member fur Lambeth. Mr. COBDEN said that the conjectures which had been offered by several Hon. Members a s to the mode In which that money was spent seemed to him to afford h good ground of opposition to the vote. Those Hon. Members suspected that the money was spent in some very objectionable manner; hut was it any wonder that such a suspicion should be entertained? He defied any person to believe that the mon e y was devoted to an y ccourable purpose. The Noble Lord (Lord Pal- Menton) had told them that it was necessary they Should pay for secret information. But that only % showed that the Government thought it d e sirable to hire spies and traitors abroad. He very much doubted whether any really valuable information was ever ob- Wiled by means of that money; for they might depend upon it that in nine cases out o f ten p ersons who came 1 ,1%e1l secrets were persons who told lies. The Hon. gooey for Buckinghamsh ire had suggested r the cey might be spent in our colonies.—(" No" fom Mr. Disraeli.) The Hon. Gentleman had alluded to the s tate of of the colonies as one mode of accouutieg for the *zPenditure of secret rervico money; and that certainly was not complimentary to the inhabitants of those dis Mat possessions. The whole course of that discussion showed how impolitic it was to have the vote at all. He should support the motion for reducing the sum to 20,0001; and he should also protest against the prin ciple of having any secret service money. The sum in question was itt itself &trifling one, which could, he be lieved, be productive of no serious advantage to this country, while it injuriously affected among foreign na tions our character for tair dealing. Mr. NEWDEG ATE said he should remind the Hon. Gentleman the Member for the West Riding of York shire that in the year 1845 cs sum of 100,000/. had been subscribed by the Anti-Corn Law League, and that that sum had been placed en'irely at the disposal of the com mittee of the League. The lion. Gentleman had him self bean a leading member of the committee, and he (Mr. Newdegate) remembered to baYe read a speech in which the Hon. Gentleman had expressed his gratitude for the confidence which had been placed in him and •his associates by the subscribers to the fund.—(Hear, hear.) That was a somewhat curious circumstance in the history of an Hon. Gentleman who was so vehe . mealy opposed to the allowance of a sum of 32,000/. to ' the Government for carrying on the less public business of this great empire.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. COBDEN said that if the Hon. Gentleman had been a subscriber to the Anti-Corn Law League he would no doubt have been better acquainted with the proceed . logs. The League had published all their accounts. They had performed everything openly, and if they had toted otherwise they would not have succeeded as they had done. • Mr. DISRAELI said that the Hon. Member (Mr. Cobden) had misunderstood him upon one point. He had not insinuated that any portion of that money was . Spent in the colonies. All he had said was that he had - not been aware that the colonies were in so tranquil a condition as the Hon. Member tor Lambeth had stated. lie would not allude to the many instances in which the employment of secret service money had been of great advantage to the nation, fur he was aware that the Hon. Gentleman despised history and defied experience. Mr. NEW DEG ATE said that the accounts of the Anti-Corn Law League had never been rendered until after the League had been dissolved: During the period the League had been in active operation it had never Made its accounts public. Colonel siartioap said that if anything could add to his determination to oppose that vote it was the speech delivered by his lion. Friend the Member fur Bucking • hamshire in its favour. Mr. WILLIAMS said be was. not surprised at the observations of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Buckinghamshire upon• that occasion. He had never known a gen tl e man in office—or who expected be in office—that was not a supporter of the vote. The Hon. Gentleman if he were a minister of the Crown, would, no doubt, employ the money prudently, and would not spend it in entertainments. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the amendment *" 41 Against it ... 140 Majority . * **-99 The vote eat th en agree d to. 226,5661. for stationery and printing. • Mr. HUME wished to know why the printing and profits of the Gazette were not, put into a separate so . count. He observed a sum' of 300/. in this vote on ac . count of the expenses of the It 'yet Exhibition Com mission. He regretted that this small sum had been put into the estimate. • Mr. C. LEWIS said that by the alteration made last year the whole profits of the Gazette' were paid into the Exchequereand the expenses put into the estimates. Mr. REYNOLDS - oomplained of the reduction made in the vote as regarded 'lreland. A treasury minute existed which provided that • the printing and binding connected with Irish business should be executed in Dub lin. He complained-that the work was done in London at a cost of 30 per cent. over what it could be done for in Dubin. Colonel SIBTHORP 'also objected to the 300/. for • the printing and stationery of the Commission for the . , Exhibiton. It appeared the Honourable Member for Montrose had been twenty-seven times at that Exhibi tion. He was happy to .say be had never been once. The whole affair, instead of 'being any advantage to the country, was a carne, and he every day was told by those connected with it that it had turned out to be a disappointment and a humbug —(Question.) Con sidering that it had been the means of extracting, by some trick, fraud, or conjuration, 300,0001. out of the pockets of the people, he thought it was shameful to call on the House to vote for it this paltry item of 3 00/.—(Qa. , stiou.) Mr. WILLIAMS hoped the 300/. would be repaid by the Commissioner'. Mr. LABOUCHERE said the Government, as a Matte e r of principle, had thought it right, according t usual practice, not to allow the expense of a Royal th Commis:don to be dare) ed otherwise than by PerliAnent. Mr. SPOONER asked what expenses the 300/. was • for ? Mr. NAPIER—In the case I have mentioned there were eighty Prt,ti stant convicts . on board. The Committee then divided, when there appeared— For the vote •.. 98 ,Against it ... ••• ... 9 ,Majority —B9 The vote was then agreed t o, and the Chairman re port,d progress, and obtained leave to sit again on Fridny. The Stock in Trade. Bill was read a second time. Tne Luau Soci,.ties Bill was read a third time and passed. 'The. Turnpike Trusts Arrangement . Bill was read a second time. ;The House adjourned at One o'clock. " • in' vote:4:- 13,000!. for law charges paid by the Solicitor to the Treu,ury. 86701_ for prniecutions relating to coin. 17,700 L for Sheriff ' 3 expenses, offices of the Court of Exchequer, &c. 0,0801. for the Insolvent Debtors'. Court. • 87,840/. for criminal prosecutions, trld othet law. charges. Scotland. On the vote of 60.0001. for criminal prosecuions, and other law charges, I eland, • OTLAHEB,TY called the attention of the Attorney-General for Ireland to the inetflOieut manner iu which the prosecutions were m Imaged on the Con naught circuit. Mr. HA.i'CLIELL said representations had been made to bite on the subject, to which be had in eons quence direct•.d his attention, with the view of ion mug ail caue for cotnpinint iu future. rho. vote was then agreed to, as were also the lollow- THE BISHOP OF LONDON .AND . SIR B. LULL. The Bishop of London presents his compliments to the Edior of the Times, and in order to show that , the Bishop has not "contented himself with a contemptuous denial, and that only by implication, of the charge brought against him by Sir amj‘inin Ball, " he requests the republication of a letter addressed by him to air. Goul burn, and re.id oy that Gentleman to the !louse of Com mons on the 15th of July, 1850. Reference was made to that letter in the Bishop's correspondence with Sir B. Hall, published in the Times in linch last. Fulham, July 5, log votes :- 33,5001. for the police of Dublin. 200,000/. for prosecutions at assizes and quarter ses eioes ► etneny paid from county rates. 15,4721 for the general superintendence of prisons and convict service at home and in the colonies. 251.2691. for Government prisons and convict °eta bliehments at home.. 117,1901. for the maintenance of prisoners in county gaols end Bethlem Hospital. The next vote was for 98,8601. for expenses of trans portation (0 convicts to the colonies. Mr. HUME said, he had already objected to the pay ment of money to send convicts to Van Diemen's Land, in constquence of the dislike of the colonists to receive convicts and to have their colony any longer made a penal colony. He thought, therefore, it would be wise to postpone the vote as far as Van Diemen's Land was con cerned until the present discontent in the colony was ,at an end, and further information obtained from Govern ment as to the future intentions with reference to the transportation of convicts there. The Colonial Minister appeared to go on in a headlong course, regardless of every remonstrance directed to him, and therefore it w.as the duty of the House to interpose a check upon a.pulicy that could only continue to produce discontent andmis chief. Mr. C. LEWIS consented to postpone the vote fora few days, when he hoped such reasons would be ad vanced as would induce the House to agree to the pro posed sum. The expenses at home for convicts were greater than usual, because a large proportion of con victs were suffering their punishment at home in place of being sent as heretofore to the colonies. The difference in expense in the case of home convicts was more by 20,0001. this year than lastyear, while the expenses for con victs sent to the colonies was less by 17,0001. Therefore the House would see that the number of transports was diminishing. Tne number of prisoners last yeae at home was 9,828. The number at present'. was 10 872, and this would prove that Government were doing all they could to diminish transportation to the colonies. Mr. HUME did not complain of the amount of money, but he complained of throwing on the shores of any colony a number of convicts against the wishes of the colonists, and in the teeth of the promise and pledge elven by the Colonial Secretary that this system should cease. It was a breach of public faith to act as we were acting. It was on that ground alone that he objected to the vole. Alderman COPELAND said he could bear witness to the ill-effecei of sending convicts to Van Diemen's Lend. He believed 12.000 persons had signified their inteniion to emigrate It 'En hat colony in consequence of the Government persiining in forcing convicts upon them. Tne CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said it was impossible to discontinue sending out convicts to Van Diemen's Land all at once. The only thing that could be done was to diminish the number gradually. He would also remind the House that some colonies Australia, for instance, desired to have convict labour. Government were doing all they could ; they were send ing convicts to colonies that desired to have them, and discontinuing sending out convicts where the system was objected to. Mr. G. HAMILTON objected to the system of turn ing convicts loose among the colonies. Colonel DUNNE was satisfied that transportation must be returned to. Convicts were multiplying too fast in the gaols at home. We must not shut our eyes to the difficulty, and the Government must be prepared to meet it. Many colonies would be glai to have con vict labour, but that was no reason for forcing convicts on the Van Diemen's Land colonists. Mr. HENLEY said there were plenty of other colo nies to which convicts might be transported. He looked with great alarm at the increase of eonvicts at home. It was impossible convicts could get work in this country as easily as they would where their characters were not known. Though a pledge might have been given that. convicts should not be sent to Van Diemen's Land. that was no reason why convicts should be kept at home. Mr. DUNCAN said many merchants of Van Diemen's Land were about to leave the colony in cons' queue° of the system of sending convicts there. He earnestly hoped Government would adopt measures to put an end to this mischievous state of things. Mr. V. SNIITH said Bermuda might be advanta geously resorted to as a colony to which to send our convicts. He was sorry to sea that the vote for free emigration wee diminished this year. He should have preferred to see that vote increased. Captain HARRIS considered a great mistake had been originally made in establishing penal colonies. He thought if we could enter into amicable arrangements with colonies willing to receive convicts, and at the same thee time do away with the stigma of a colony being a penal colony, we existing s t h i o n u g ld be difficulty.get getting easily impressionasilyridofagr w e a a s t portion gatirg of abroad that transportation was to be discontinued, and that the convicts were to serve out their punishment at home. He thought Government should Speak out on this question, and not leave the country in a state of uncer tainty. He believed that many portions of our colonies might be made available for the reception of convicts, and without any stigma attaching to colonies consenting to such an arrangement. Mr. AGLIONBY admitted there was a large amount of just cempleint in Van Diemen's Laud against the further reception of convicts. From his experience upon these matters he looked with abhorrence at the introduc tion of these convicts into Australia. Lord J. RUSSELL said the Hon. Member for Oxford shire lok ked with great apprehension at the numbers of convicts kept at home, and afterwards let loose upon society. Other Hon. Members expressed great objections to sending convicts to any of their colonies. It would be found difficult to send convicts in any great number to any part but Australia. He believed the charge of breach of faith made against the Noble Secretary for the Colonies was wholly unfounded. The fact was this, that in consequence, at one time, of so great a number of convicts being sent to Van Dienieu's Land it was thought desirable to suspend sending out any more for a time. The system of ticket-of-leave was subsequently adopted; but there was nothing whatever to ground a charge of breach of faith against the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies. He (Lord J. Russell) be lieved that the instructions sent by the Secretary of State to that colony were mistaken by the governor. The Noble Lord had expressed an expectation that the neces sity of sending convicts there would not continue; but the expression of such an expectation was quite different from the giving of any pledge upon which this charge ap peared to be founded. It was impossible to make a sudden change in respect to transportation. The Hon. Member for Montrose talked of waiting a few das for further advice from Van D iemen's Lana; but he did not consider the Lumber of persons that were convicted and now crowding their prisons. If the Committee should come to the resolution to abolish trampertation they' must make some provision for the support of these coe victs at home.—([Scar, bear.) Their maintenance in this country would be attended with much expense and risk. - He could only say he thought every means ought to be taken, and he believed were being taken, to ttecertain in , what part of Australia there would be a willingness to receive convicts, and the number then that would be sent there would be very much guided by that considera tion. He agreed in the opinion expressed that the send ing of a great number of convicts to a particular colony did cause a great moral evil. He thought that the evil of transportation was a good deal to be measured by the extent of the population amongst whom they were sent. Where there was a great demand for labour and the so ciety in a healthy state, no such evils as were appre hended Mi g ht b e p r oduced; but where the state of things was different no doubt much injury might arise. After a f ew words from Mr. •W. WILLIAMS, Lord NA.AS said it was quite evident that no more convicts _could be sent out to Australia except at a gre at risk, as the inhabitants there almost to a man, were determined to oppose the introduction of any more. Mr. B was of opinion that all the poisonous and contituiluati be ng ; influence resulting from transporta tion should notconcentrated in one colony. But be was of maintaining that portion of their was convinced that transporta tions w . s system, n strongly ersi rosoatds in law,sound favournd s criminals, as well as to punish cr i me. Mr. HUME was always in favour of transportation. But what was their situation now? They had 10,060 convicts in their gaols, o f which number it appeared that 1,550 were to go to Australia, contrary to the declared wishes of the inhabitants, and the understood promise of the Noble Lord the Secretary for the Colonies. He complained of throwing such a number of convicts upon an infant colony. He did not oppose this vote on the ground of the expense to the country; on the cont rary , if the Government would pledge themselves not to send these convicts to Ven Di , men's Land, he would support a vote for double the amount. He would not, however, agree to give Is. for the purpose of sending any more convicts to Australia. Captain HARRIS quoted a sp eech mad ' e by ose 0 Earl Grey upon secondary punishment, for the purp showing teat the Noble Earl had admitted necee for the virtual abolition of the punishment of trauspur tation. Mr. NAPIER asked what the character of the reli gious instruction was which was to be given to these convicts? He wished to know whether religious instruc tion was given impartially to the convicts of diffsrent denominations, or whether, as in the case of a late con vict-ship in Kingstown, in Dublin, there was only reli gious instruction afforded to Roman Catholics, and none at all to the Prnt stents that were on board. Sir W. SOMERVILLE said that inasmuch as the con victs from Ireland were generally of the Remsu Catholic refigi-in, it was meat difficult to provide separate religious instruction fur the few other convicts tut foimed ao small a minority. " London-house, July 11. " My dear Mr. Goulburn,—ln the Times' report of the debate on thR Ecclesiastical Commission Bill on Monday night, Sir Benjamin Hail is stated to have said, that, present income of ono of the bishops, the Bishop of Lyndon, was 50001. a year. It was quite absurd to adopt the bishop's own returns on the point. " The absurd exaggeration contained in this statement is, perhap, hardly worth while to notice. But the im putation cast upon my honesty I think it right to repel, although I trust that my character is not such as to render such an imputation credible. " I should be much obliged to you if you would take an opportunity of assuring the House of Commons that the: returns to which Sir B. Hall referred were strictly correct, and contained an exact statement of the income of my bishopric in the years to which they relate. " Sir B. Hall seems to think that I receive the whole rents ot the Paddington estate, whereas it is only one third of the ground rents which is paid to the bishop, the other two-thirds being paid to the representatives of the original lessees of the estate. Believe me, my dear Mr. Goulbern;youri moat truly, " C. J. LONDON. " The Right Hon. Henry Goalburn, . MX." TO THE EDITOR OF THE -TIMES. 'Sir,—The 141stiop ot London has addressed a commu nication to you, in which he embodies his letter of June, 1850, read to the House of Commons by Mr. Goulburn, and in which also he refers to the correspondence which took place between his Lordship and myself in March last. That correspondence arose in consequence of a desire o❑ the part of my constituents that what his Lord ship calls " histrionic performances" in one ot their churches should be discontinued, Audi expressed their re gret that whilst his Lordship had promised, by letter dated February, 1850, to write to the incumbent of the district on the subject, he had never written one single hue from that date to the end of February, 1851, when Mr. Hope stated the fact in the House of Commons, and read his Lordship's letter of February, 1850. The correspond ence then proceeded upon the amount of episcopal in come enjoyed by the Bishop of London, and as his Lord ship has referred to my letter, I beg to call the attention of your readers to the principal passage contained in it. The whole may be found in your paper of March 24, 1851 • " Mr. Murray, secretary to the Ecclesiastical Com• miesioners, says:—` This is a very fallacious return 119 toe foundation of any inference respecting the actual in comes of the bishops. It is a return made by the bishops themselves, the net is struck from the gross by themselves.' When Sir Benjamin Hall found the as sessinent of Paddington had risen from 112,8681, in 1827, to 191,1541. in 1843, or an increase of 78,286/., winch increase was owing mainly to the additional buildings upon the bishop's estates in that parish, he, considered that he had come upon one of those fallacies suggested by the secretary of the Commission. The Bishop of London will therefore see that it was not Sir Benjamin Hall, but that it was Mr. Murray who im pugned the veracity of the bishops, and who said not only that the return was fallacious, but added, as it to account for its incorrectness, that it was made by the bishops themselves." The assessment ; of Paddington, in 1850, had again risen to the enormous sum of 343,0661., and I believe it is now still higher. In consequence of the very unsatisfactory returns made to the House of Commons, for the septennial period ending 1843, I obtained an order for a return for the last septennial period, which return was to show not merely the various sources of income, but the items con stituting the difference between gross and net income. From the former returns it appears that, in 1843, the whole of the net income of the see was 12,4811., and in the following year (which I am obliged to take, as it is the first in which Paddington estate is given separately ), the net income of that estate received by the Bishop is shown to be 6,3761., so that the net income of the whole of the rich see of London, exclusive of Paddington, was, according to the Bishop's return, not more than 6,1051. in the year 1843. The income of the Paddington estate is now vet down (vide Epiecop..l Incomes 1850, Parl. Paper No. 400, e3siou 1831).6 8,9414 When the late Mr. Sidney Smith was asked—" What do you suppose may be the amount of the Bishop of Lon don's income?" he replied, , " filers) is but one man who knows." In 1836 the Bishop of London was the great obstacle to the payment of fixed incomes to the bishops, and to the management of the property of the sees bent.' vested in the nands of a commissio n, and such (as I • understand) he still continues. But, not withstanding all his opposition, I believe the time is coining when the laity will insist upon knowing the exact value of the immense propertrot their church — how it is leased, how it is managed, and how it is ap propriated. Aud I believe the debate of Tuesday last has hastened the consummation of this long-desired and legitimate object. But as the Bishop of London has noticed an observa tion made in a leading article in your paper of Sa turday last, wilt his Lordship be so good as to answer the following very plain and intelligible questions, which I put to the House of Commons on Tuesday last, and which, therefore, his Lordship has had ample time to'consider? On Saturday, May 30, 1837, it was resolved by the epicopal body, that 10,000/., with two palaces, London-house and Fulham, was an ample income to maintain the dignity of the see, and such, should be the income assigned to the see on the next avoidance. If that sum was sufficient for the next Bishop, why is it not sufficient 'for the present Bishop? Why has the Bishop, according to his own showing, re ceived in the last fourteen years no less than a net sum of 77,2591. over and above the income.assigned to the see? Aud why did he also, in 1848, appropriate to him self a net income of 23,9751., being exactly 13,9751. more than he declared was amply sufficient for a Bishop of London to enjoy? The income of the see in that year was nearly five times more than the salary of the Prime Minister of this country, and 151 times more than the income of one of the most industrious, most meritorious, and most zealous clergymen in the parish of St. James, iu which his Lcrdship resides. • I am, Sir, your obedient servant, - B. HALL. 9, Great Stanhope-street, July 7, 1851. CHEAP PIANOES A DESIDERATUM. (From Eliza Cook's Journal.) Wonderful is the display of splendid pianofortes in the Exhibition of Industry ! Iu point of .decoration they are magnificent, and in variety of combination and arrangement almost infinite. There are grand hori zontal and grand upright pianoes, cottage and semi cottage, extra grand and transposing, double and quad ruple, new repetition pianoes, and all sorts of new adapta tions and contrivances, set forth in all possible styles of architecture, many of them extremely beautiful. But it strikes us that the main thing is wanting, and that " the part of Hamlet is left out." While we admit the desirableness of new inventions and improvements in the piano, we must state that the great popular want is a cheap piano—an instrument so moderate in price as to enable people of moderate means' to possess themselves of it. Heretofore the piano has been too much a draw ingloom luxury, come-at-able only by comparatively rich people. Expensive wood has been used, and this has been highly decorated. Now, for useful purposes, plain fir deal, well-seasoned, is much better fitted for the purpose of piano casing than any other description of timber. No other wood has been able to supersede fir in the con struction of the violin—the finest toned of all instru ments. We believe pianoes of fir-casing have lately come into use to a limited extent; but still the price is too high; and there ought to have been a prize offered and given for the constructor and exhibitor of the best cheap piano at the Industrial Exhibition. We trust some ingenious practical man will yet take up this subject, and work it out; and whoever does so may be assured there is a fortune in it. Thousands would purchase pianoea for one who does so now. The instrument would supersede all others in.the hoines of the people; for there is none that can compare with it for melody, tone, and fulness. We should rejoice to see such an or chestra in every house in England, cultivating a refined musical taste among the people, furnishing the ground work for their household melody, and giving new attrac tions to home superior to those of the casino or the pub lic-house. Possibly, we may not be able to secure:pianoes sufficiently cheap—say at ten pounds, or thereabouts — without the aid of machinery. But a machine, or set of machines, to form pianoes, would create an entirely new branch of industry, and give employment to many mote thousands of hands, as fitters, tuners, teachers, and so on, than are now engaged in the piano-making trade. Be sides, look at the immense national benefit of an orches tra in every house—melody iu every family. We do nut yet despair of arriving at the Cheap Piano, and we only regret that it has not been made a feature in the Grand Exhibition. ,sity TUE GREAT MEDALS.—It is to be hoped that the British jurors will not allow their desire to deal liberally with their foreign coadjutors to lead thorn into injustice. An abandonment of the feeling of nationality is all very well, indeed very desirable, but then it should take place on all sides, or the liberal country will suffer in the eyes of Europe hereafter, the circumstances being unknown. It is nonsense to talk of delicacy as opposing allusion to this question, when it is well known out of doors that the various jurors of one foreign country have meetings to communicate results, and are working conjointly to one end. If, moreover, it should happen that some of the jurors of any one particular refer to see their countr discredited rather s t i h d a e n sP a vaourlidp y, l s hed, the game of thine who are , striving fur nat ional credit will be greatly strengthened.— ' Builder. Mr. LABOUCHERE said it was for printing and sta- 1 tionery connoc , e4l with the Commission. Mr. COLII)EN wished to ask the Hon. Member for Liverpool in 'chat form the bin • books were in future to be published? He had understood that the Committee had recommended the octavo form, and that its adoption would save a third of the expense. Lod MAHON bald thu subject was under considera tion, but he believed Itie Hon. Member was mistaken to supposing that the octavo form would be atteuaed with h saving of expense. The octavo form had been tried•in 110149 meg only by way of experiment TILE SUN, LONDON; TUESDAY EVENING-1 JI3LY s,-- THE GREAT EXHIBITION. Yesterday by a sudden rebound the number of visi tors to the Crystal Palace rose once more to 61,670, and the receipts at the doors amounted to 2.8521. 2s. For the first time since the opening the sale of season tickets presents a perfect blank. Among the crowds that thronged the interior were about 500 men and boys in the employ of Messrs. Clowes, the extensive printers and part contractors for the official catalogue. Mr. Gladstone treated fifty of his poor fellow-parishioners to a view of the interior, wtd, with a kindness which the public will appreciate, 4cpompanied them in their survey. Now that excursion trains begin to be in full ope • ration, and when the industrial. classes are daily flocking in large numbers -to London in - : order to see the wonders of the Exhibition, we think it right to remind. them of an establishment called "the Rane lagh Club," formed under the auspices of the Royal Com mission, and capable of providing at a marvellously - cheap rate comfortable accommodation for a thousand persons. This club is situated on the north aide of the river, close to Cubitt's pier, and at a distance of about one mile from the Exhibition. It is provided not only with clean and %el-ventilated dormitories lit with gas, and securing v erf cut privacy to their occupants, but there are also a dining-room, a news-room, a lavatory, a barber's shop, and a smoking room, all of a size which it was confi dently expected that the business of the place would ren der requisite. The charges are drawn up on the lowest remunerative. scale, a night's lodging being only is., and provisions being supplied at fixed prices. We understand that those who have hitherto taken up their abode here have been much pleased with the accommodation pro vided for them. THE KAFIR WAR. ARRIVAL OF THE BOSPHORUS. The Bosphorus arrived at Plymouth yesterday, from the Cape of Good Hope, which she left on the 31st of May. The aspect of affairs seems to have taken no definite turn in favour of either part. It was expected that by the time of the departure of the next packet some more decisive movement will have been made by Sir Harry Smith. The following is the summary of the Cape Mail Monthly Dispatch : "CAPE TOWN, FRIDAY, MAY 30. " The aspect of the war has undergone little altera tion since our last publication, and we regret to tap that we have still no decisive success to record, or in fact any. thing that would lead to the conclusion of a speedy termination of the present disastrous state of affairs. The system of patrols has been continued, the Amatola mountains have been repeatedly penetrated, and -their fastnesses explored by the British troops, who have endured great fatigue and displayed all their usual energy and gallantry ; but the enemy, like the children of the mist, vanish on their approach, driving off their cattle. In fact, as Sir H. G. Smith observes, we have to deal with a foe who acknowledges neither front, flank, nor rear, and whose movements are ton rapid and eccentric to be cal culated upon. A fall of snow had occurred on the Will terberg and other mountain ranges of the colony, which extended to the Amatolas; the number of plundering parties of Kafirs within the colony have greatly in creased, probably in consequence of the privations which they suffer in the bush. Fortunately the 74th regiment landed at Port Elizabeth and proceeded to Graham's Town, so that there will be a larger military force than heretofore within the colony, to second the efforts of the burghers and the faithful coloured inhabit ants. The 300 men who arrived in the Dee, have joined Sir H. G. Smith at King William's Town. These reinforcements are, however, inadequate for the purpose, looking at the extended line of frontier along which operations must be carried on. A couple more regiments of infantry, one of light dragoons, and above all, some companies of the rifle brigade, with propor tionate artillery, will probably be required before the half-barbarous tribes in our vicinity can be sufficiently impressed with the power of Great Britain for any lasting and satisfactory peace to be concluded. As we have before observed, the sooner a sufficient force can be brought into the field the better; the necessity is inevitable, and farther delay may increase the disorder and bloodshed in our newly-ac quired territory and the sovereignty, and augment the cost of this harassing warfare. Whatever conciliatory measures be adopted, and whatever alteration in our Ka fir policy is contemplated, they should be preceded by a display of the power of Britain to subdue and crush any combination of the coloured tribes in the vicinity of the colony. Tbc reports from the north-eastern districts and the sovereignty, even if somewhat exaggerated, are suffi ciently gloomy to cause the most serious apprehension for the safety,of the farmers, and of the numerous flocks and herds of the colonists, which have been driven in that direction as a place of safety from Kafir incursions, and there is a probability of our having to assist our ally Moroko, beyond the Vaal River, as he is threatened with an attack by the Basutus. The fidelity of Moshesh is considered questionable, and the Kafirs are becoming more daring; five farmers have lately been killed in the Albert division. Two successive mails between King William's Town and Graham's Town have been inter cepted by the Kafirs; a waggon was plundered and the oxen driven off on the high road within three miles of Graham's Town, and several farm-houses in its vicinity burnt. Fort Amatrong and the Kat River districts are again in the possession of the enemy. As an illustration of the state of the frontier we may mention that we are informed that two officers of the 91st lately arrived, who wished to go to Fort Hare from King William's Town, a distance of fourteen miles,were compelled to return to Buffalo Mouth, and to proceed by sea to Port Elizabeth, whence they marched to Graham's Town, 100 miles, escorted by Fingoes, and then had a dangerous journey before them; thus making a detour of 500 miles. The road from the Buffalo mouth to King William's Town is no longer secure, strongly escorted waggons having lately been attacked. On the other hand the arrival of the Natal auxiliary force, wader Mr. Shep stone, is daily expected in the Tambookie country, and may effect a favourable diversion in that quarter. The following is a summary of the proceedings of the various patrols during the month: On the 28th April, Colonel Mackinnon marched with 2,200 men, and two six-pounders, in the Amatola moun tains by way of the Keiskamma Hoek, while Major Wilmot proceeded with 700 men, into Stock, Tolo's, and Seyolo'a country, to harass these chiefs and their people. Colonel Mackinnon returned on the 30th, with 400 head of cattle and a number of horses ; he had been attacked on his return by a very large combined force of Gaikas and Hottentots, who made moat determined efforts to retake the cattle ; they were, however beaten off, after a severe conflict, in which they are supposed to have suffered an unusually heavy loss ; that of the English column was four killed (including three privates of the 73d Regiment), and eleven wounded. The Kaffirs had early intelligence of the march of the troops, and there was no Burgher force on the further side of the Amu toles to intercept their cattle, or it is probable that many more might have been taken. Umhala, on hearing the firing during the engagement, sent his great 'eon, his nephew, and his counsellor and speaker " Soubati," into King William's Town, to beg Sir H. Smith to put an end to the war. The following day Colonel Mackinnon again marched towards the Keiskamma Hoek, by way of the camp, near Bailey's grave, burning the kraals of Sandilli's brother, Klu Klu, devastating the country, and returned without having met with any opposition from the Kafirs who witnessed his proceedings from the neighbouring heights. Major Wilmot successfully performed the service for which he was detached, and returned to King William's Town on the 3d of May, a few hours after Colonel Mac kinnon. While near Fort Wiltshire, he was smartly fired,upon by a party of Kafirs, who bad taken possession of a ruined loop-holed tower, which commanded the road and fort; they were, however, dislodged without loss to the attacking party. On the 4th and s th the fall of snow occurred, which put a stop to military operations for a day or two, but on the Bth Colonel Mackinnon was again in motion with a strong patrol, proceeding to Toise's kraal, on the Ks lusi, and from thence to the junction of the Doom and Thomas Rivers, he returned to Toise's kraal on the 11th, while the cavalry under Lieutenant-Colonel Napier s wept the country round. On the 13th the patrol marched to Dohne's station, large herds of cattle were seen on the other side of the Kei, but the Colonel's in structions prevented his crossing that river—the cavalry and Cape Mounted Rifles, however, succeeded in cap turing 300 head, and the patrol returned on the 16th. Major Wilmot, who marched on the same day as Colonel Mackinnon, had also penetrated the Amstolas, by way of the Kabousie Neck, and returned to King William's Town on the 13th, with fifty head of cattle. General Somerset had been on patrol in the Blinkwater, and was at Keel Hoek in great want of reinforcements, his force being far too weak (about 900 men only) to act against the Kafirs and Hottentots about the Kat River, and the Tambookies. During his absence from Fort Hare, the Kafirs attacked a dwelling within gun-shot of the post. Since writing the above the frontier post has arrived, bringing little further intelligence. A train of waggons was threatened on their way from the Kowie mouth, by a strong body of Kafirs; but, being escorted by Mr. N. Cock, and some first-rate shots, armed with long-range rifles, they escaped with the loss of one loose ox. A great many Kafirs had shown themselves at the Govern ment contractor's farm, near. Graham's Town, who was alarmed for the safety of the slaughter cattle there—a party of Stubb's Rangers and Fingoes proceeded thither, when the assailants moved off in small parties into Lower Albany. General Somerset, after waiting at Kaal Hoek for the co-operation of Captain Tylden and a burgher force, marched on the 18th inst., and stacked the enemy at Van Bulen's Hoek, driving them from their position with the loss of only one man. The shells thrown among them are supposed to have killed at least twenty Kafirs and Hottentots. Near Burghersdorp the Kafirs are is great force, committing numerous depredations; every able Bier has been called out. The rumoured removal of the seat of Government to Graham's Town is viewed by many persons in Cape Town with alarm, by many with apprehension, whioh we think unfounded, while by others it is considered as im practicable; we have, however, no official intimation of the intentions of his Excellency, and only know that such a recommendation has been received from Down ing -street, before acting on which we have no doubt but that Sir H. Smith and his Executive Council will care !ally consider the subject. COURT CIRCULAR. The Queen gave a Concert last evening at Bucking. ham Palace. Above 400 invitations, comprising the Royal Family, the diplomatic corps, and foreigners of distinction, and a large party of the nobility and gentry, were issued for this reception. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent arrived at the Palace at twenty-five minutes before ten o'clock, at tended by Lady Augusta Bruce, Baroness de Speth, and Sir George Couper. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester ar rived, attended by her Lady in Waiting and Colonel the Hon. A. Liddell. • The Royal Duchesses were received by the Hon. Antelia Murray and the Hon. Lucy- Kerr, Maids of Honour in Waiting; Mr. R. Ormsby Gore and Colonel Wylde, Grooms in Waiting to the Queen and Prince Albert, ,and by Lord C. Fitzroy and Lieutenat-Colonel F. H. Seymour, Equerries in Waiting to her Majesty and the Prince. His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridg e was ac companied by his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, and attended by the lion. James Mac donald. • The general company, on their arrival, were ushered to the picture gallery. About ten o'clock her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, accompanied by their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Kent, the Duchess of Gloucester, and the Duke of Cambridge, and attended by the Ladies and Gentlemen in Waiting, were con ducted by the Lord Chamberlain to the saloon, which was fitted up as a music room. The general circle of visitors followed the Royal party into the saloon. The concert, the singers in which were selected from the two Grand Operas, then commenced. The following was the programme:-- PARTE PRIMA. Quartetto " Di Pafo it Dio," Mesdames Caitellan e Viardot, Sigri. Gardoni e Herr Formes (Eco e Narciso) Air " Della sus pace," Sig. Gardoni (Don Giovanni) Trio, " Dolce ne' guia ristoro," Madlle Cruvelli, Made. Castellan, a Mario (Faniska) Air " Du frommes Bild," Herr Formes (Der Monett) Duo " D'un bell use di Turchia," Sig nori Lablache a Tamburini (Turco in Italia) Air " Predi per me sei libero," Madile Cruvelli (Elixir) Quintetto "O Dio di pie*" Mesdmes Castellan and Viardot, Signori Gar doni, Tamburini, e Lablache (II Diluvio) PARTE SECONDA. Quartetto ' " 0 Nobile Signora , " Sigri. Mario, Gardoni, Tamburini, a Lab !ache. (Comte Ory.) Rossini. Airs Espagnolles, Made. Viardot Trio, " Giovinetto Cavalier," Madile Cruvelli,filesdmes.Castellan e Viardot (IL Crociato.) Duo, " Far Calzette," Made. Castellan e Sig, Lablache. (La Sciocca perAstuzia.) Moses. Air, " Connais-tu la Chanson?" Sig. Mario. (Le Chant de Mai.) Meyerbeer. Dao, " Ich wollt' meine lieb," Madile Cruvelli e Made. Viardot Mendelsshon. Finale Seconds, " Pian pianin in questo seggio," Mesdmes. Viardot, Castellan, e Madlle. Cruvelli; Sigri. Gardoni, Tamburini, Herr Formes, e Sig. Lab lache. (Nozze di Figaro.) Mani. Mr. Costa presided at the pianoforte Refresbmeat were served _to the company during the evening in the Green Drawing Room, and after the performance the State Dining Room was thrown open for supper. The following had the honour of receiving invitations: —His Royal Highness Prince Gustavus of Was, his Se rene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar, the French Ambassador and the Countess Waleweki, and the first Secretary of the Embassy, the Belgian ,Minister and Madame Van de Weyer, the Bavarian Minister and Baroness de Cetto, the Argentine Minister. the Russian Minister and Baroness de Srunnow, the Sicilian Minister, the Prussian Minister and Madame Bpnsen, the Bra zilian Minister and Madame Marques Lisboa, the Danish Minister and Countess de Reventlow, the Swedish and Norwegian Minister, the Costa Rica Minister, the United States Minister and Mrs. Abbott Lawrence, the Bolivian Illinister, the Spanish Minister, the Sardinian Minister, the Greek Minister and Madame Tricoupi, the Nicaragua Minister, the Turkish Minister, the Tuscan Minister, the Austrian Charge d'Affaires, the Peruvian Charge d'Affaires, the Portuguese Charge d'Affaires, the Mexican Charge d'Affaires, the Netherlands Charge d'Affaires, Prince Loewenstein, Prince Victor Bariatinsky, le Due •de Valencia, le Due d'Ossuna, le Duc et la Duchesse de Luyness, Baron Q. Dupin, M. de Viebahn , Prince Demidoff de Sandonati, and a long list of the nobility and gentry. Her Majesty and Prince Albert took a drive in an open carriage and four yesterday. The Equerries in waiting, Lord C. Fitzroy and Lieut.-Colonel 1. H, Sey mour, attending on horseback. Her Royal Highness the. Duchess of Kent went to Claremont, yesterday, and visited the F rench Ro y al Family. Her Royal Highness returned to her residence Clarence House, St. James's, in the afternoon. A deputation, consisting of Mr. R. A. blaney, M.P.; Mr. E. Vansittart Neale, Mr. Thomas Hughes, Mr. Holmes (deputed by the Leeds Flour Mill Society), Mr. Cooper (Manager of .the Working Tailors Asso ciation), Mr. Jennings, (Manager of the Working Builders' Association), and Mr. J. G. Marshall, M.P., had an interview with the Right Hon. Henry Labou chore on Saturday, at the Board of Trade. The deputa tion was headed by Lord Ashburton. Mr. Theodore Martin, P ar li ame ttle6 Mr. S. Solomon, late Hi g h Sh e riff of St. Helena, had an interview with Earl G re y, a t t h e Colonial-office, 3 7 9 3 ' terday, Agent for the MOrayshire Railway, and M e . J a mes rant. of Elgin , and Messrs. James, Anton, Law, Holmes, Parliamen tary agents, and Thomas All a n, f Edinburgh, had an interview yesterday with the Commissioners of Rail ways it their office in the Board of Trade. Sir James Alexander had an interview yesterday with Earl Grey at the Colonial office. Mr. John Leslie Fos ter had also an interview withAe Noble Earl Mozart. Cherubini. Meyerbeer. Rossini. De Beriot. Donizetti. AQUATICS. LAMBETH REGATTA. The watertoenof Lambeth contended yesterday even ing for a purse of sovereigns .liberally presented by the residents. The race was with twelve competitors in three heats, and attracted a large crowd of spectators. First Heat. William and Edward Perry (Blue) 1 John Maynard and Joseph Arthur (tireen) 2 Jsmes.Perry and William Wilson (White) 3 Richard Wilson and Joseph Wild (Pink) 4 John Wyld and Edward Rolls (Yellow) 0 George Wilson and LOWS Richards (Scarlet) 0 The men started,from Westminster-bridge up, round a boat off tiurnett's Distillery, and rowed down to Hun gerford-hridge, returning to Lambeth stairs to finish. Gteen took the lead at a good page , but was unable to keep it. Won by three lengths. Final Heat. AHRIVAL OF THE 74TH REGIBEENT.—The steamer Vulcan, having on board 24 officers and 602 men (with 41 women and 93 children) of the 74th Highlanders, ar rived in Simon's Bay on the 11th inst., and after coaling and landing the women and the heavy baggage, pro ceeded on the 13th, at two A. 31 for Algae Bay, where she arrived on the 16th inst., when, after landing the troops, &c., she left that port on the 18th, and arrived at Simon's Bay on the 26tb.inst. The distance was reverse& William and Edward Perry (Blue) 1 John Maynard and Joseph Arthur The other' two placed in the first heat, also as before. The winners got the lead directly after the start and kept it. Won by four lengths. ACcIDENT IN ROTTEN- Row. — Yesterday an ad journed inquiry as to the death of Mrs. Sophia Martin, aged 66, the widow of a retired licensed victualler, which occurred through being run over by a lady in Rotten-row, on the 6th of June last, was concluded by Mr. Bedford, at St. George's Hospital. 7Baldwin, the constable, informed the court that he had not been able to discover ariy trace of who the lady was. Mr. Richard Hoare, 17, Whitehall-place East India merchant. stated that he was ridin g with Mr:Reid, at the time of the accident, in Rotten-row, and was about parallel .with the lady, and, as far as he could observe, the deceased ran towards the lady's horse as she was cantering along, and she was knocked down. Neither he nor Mr. Raid knew who the lady was. A crowd collected, and the lady and gentleman, who was with her, came back, and having coolly looked at the deceased for about two minutes, then rode away. He rode after them to ask her to come back, for he never saw such an unfeeling act in his life. He had been in the park every day with Mr. Reid, in the hopes of seeing the I lady, but had not been successful.—Ellen Thomas, daughter of the deceased, and who was with her at the time, said there was plenty of room for her mother to have got across if the bad not whipped her horse at the moment, and as the •loose she had then no control over it., and the knocked las her down. The Coroner said it. was to be re grettedlhbarodirdysled v that the lady, whoever she was, had shown such a want of feeling: . if one person inadvertently even injured another, ; some sympathy was shown, but here there appeared to be I none. —The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. INSTITUTE OF ACTUARIES.—The following gentle , men having passed their examination in the' "Doet of Probabili:ies,” and the " Theory and Practice of Life. Assu.. ranee," have received certificates of competency as duly qaalified actuaries (alphabetically arranged), viz. :—Edward Cheshire, London; Christian • Child, London; Alexander Colvin, London; James Meikle, Edinburgh ; and Henry Thempeon,jan., Aberdeen. 1851. -LAW INTELLIGENCE HOUSE OF LORDS, July 7. WRIT OF ERROR. The House cat this morning to hear arguments in a " writ of error," upon a ju:lgment of the Court of Ex chequer Chamber. The Lords in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham, and the Earl of Chichester. The Judges having been summoned, the following members of that learned body took their seats on the woolsack:—The Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Alder son, Mr. Justice Patteson, Mr. Justice Maule, Mr. Jus tice Wiglatman, Mr. Justice Creswell, Mr. Justice Erie, Mr. Baron Platt, Mr. Justice Talfourd, and Mr. Justice Williams. • THE ST. PANCRAS RATING CASE. This is a writ of error upon a judgment of the Court of Exchequer Chamber, reversing the judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench upon a special verdict in an ac tion of replevin, in which the now plaintiff in error was the. plaintiff, and the now defendant in error and one Joseph Patrick (since dead) were the defendants. The declaration complained that the defendants on the 28ra day of August, 1840, seized and took certain goods and chf.ttela of the plaintiff, then being in the plaintiff's dwelling house, situate in the parish of St. Pancra-, in the county of Middlesex. The derenclant Lorant avowed specially under a distress for a poorets:e assessed on the plaintiff, in respect of his dwelling-house, in and for the said parish of Sr. ' Pancras, and as a collector of such rate for the said pa rish. The Vaintiff pleaded in bar De iejurid. Upon the trial the jury found a special verdict, etti ag forth by whom and under what circumstances the rate was made, assessed. and levied, and the two substantial questions were :—First, whether the facts found dis closed a valid rate ? and second, whether those facts sustained the avowry? Mr. Peacock, with the lion. G. Denman and Mr. W. Needham, appeared as counsel for the plaintiff in error; and Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Bagley for the defendant in error. The matter was eventually argued before the Court of Queen's Bench, and in the month of June, 1848, judgment was pronounced by Lord Denman in the fol lowing terms :—This is an action of replevin for taking the goods of the plaintiff, for which there is an avowry and cognizance, justifying the taking under a warrant of distress, for a rate made for the relief of the poor of the parish of St. Pancras, the said parish being under the regulation of a select vestry, by virtue of the statute 59 Geo. 111., c. 39. Several questions were raised for the consideration of the Court, but the Learned Counsel were desired to confine their attention in the first in stance to one point, viz , whether the avowry, sup posing it to contain an allegation that a poor-rate was lawfully made, be sufficiently sustained by proof. Now, on behalf of the defendant, it was contended, either that such assessment was made at a meeting of the vestry holden on the 12th of August, 1839, or on the 14th of September fol lowing, or that the proceedings of the two meetings, considered together, amount to a valid assessment, it being admitted that the precise day on which they were holden, if both or either be in other respects sufficient, is not material. It certainly appears, both from the pleadings and the proof, that more than two meetings were in fact holden. The first allegation is, " That on the 12th of August, 1839 (laid under a videlicit) a meet ing of the vestrymen of the said parish was held in pursuance of the said Act, for the purpose of making one general rate and assessment, and that at such meet ing a rate or assessment of one shilling in the pound was judged and determined to be necessary, and was then and there unanimously agreed upon and made." Now, supposing this to amount to an allegation that a rate was in fact made, the statement in the case plainly shows that all which was done at the meeting was preparatory only, and that then no rate or assessment was in exist ence at all, and of course cannot be said to have been made. Various other proceedings took place, and ulti mately it was declared that the judgment should have been for the defendant below. Against this judgment the plaintiff in error now brought his writ of error. Mr. Peacock and the Hon. G. Denman having been heard at considerable length for the plaintiff in error, The case for the defendant in error was being opened, when The LORD CHANCELLOR said that, it being now past four o'clock, the further hearing must be adjourned over to Wednesday, as the Learned Judges were summoned to hear the arguments of counsel in another case to morrow (this) morning. Adjourned to Wednesday accordingly. I ) gaged in his business as a jeweller, VII,d ife - "a : 43 rata thh he went by his own name. He might 'hate -Tallied b other names, such as Squi;e and Pr% l' l 4 l only for a " freak," and for anauseut4..,4tx.ettl net remember gettin g a ph ae t on a t Neathesdijak: was 110 t, paid for; but he believed that the prisetner.diCW g 0 4% tee and he rode in it. The prisoner vi4eit r- 1 1 -4 Oxford, and he made it his business to g Aitt e . did not get goods from different tradesmen • - -Town undur assumed names; but the prisoner might have in troduced him by different names, ench as Squire and Prescott. He knew that the prisoner got a gold chain and an eye-glass from one tradesmen, awl ho purchased the articles of him directly afterwards, at least he said he " allowed" him the value in an amount the prisoner was indebted to him. He remembered play ing at cards one night at Oxford, but could not reaellect whether he played at billiards. He did not know whether the tradesman vas paid for the glass and the chain, or whether the prisoner's father was not compelled to pay for it. He also received a worth and chain from the priPoner at (Mord; ht:t he returned the m to him; and he said he might, or he might not have teen present when these articles were originally olnaieed crew the tradesmen to whom they belonged. The result et these proceedings at Oxford was, that the prisoner was expelled, and he then went to Cambridge, with the vie* of endeavouring to get 'Omitted into one e f the eel leges. Witness accompanied him to Cambrielge, and one night he played at (liras with some el the young collegians. The prisoner entered himself far zeireissiou to one of the colleges, but was obliged to witlatraw his name. He denied having effered to cornileeedise scatter with prisoner's father it he would give him SO:, bet he admitted that he said he would do in his power to serve the prisoner, and that be was unwilling to prosecute. By the RECORDER—The moment the pass-book was examined by him he discovered the forgery, and_tee he lieved he went immediately to the Bank and gave infor mation of the fact. The RECORDER asked him if ho was sure that he went on the same day, and he then hesitated, and said it was possible he did not go to the Bank until the next day M , r. BALLANTIEE then made a most earnest and elo quent appeal to the jury ou behalf of the prisoner. After Observing upon the painful nature of the case, end the misery that had been entailed upon the respectable family of the prisoner by his present position, he pro ceeded to comment in indignant terms upon the conduct of the witness Lewis. He urged upon the jury the probability, from the nature of the connexion between them, that the prisoner might have imagined that he had authority to use Lewis'a name. Th e Rev. Ebenezer Smith, the father of the prisoner, who evinced deep emotion while giving his evidence, was then examined. lie deposed that he was perpetual curate of the parish of Boston, St. David's, near Glas tonbury. The prisoner was his BOIL He was now a little over 21 years old. lie sent him to be educated at Oxford, and before his dep artur e his conduct bad bsen so good, that he was a source of habitual comfort to him. Another gentleman also spoke to the good character of the prisoner. The RECORDER, in summing up the case, said that if the charge rested upon the evidence of the man Lewis alone, he apprehended that the jury would not think for a moment of convicting any individual upon the testi mony of so infamous a person as he had admitted him self to be; and he must say that in his experience he had never seen such an exhibition of infamy before. There were, however, other circumstances in the case, particularly the statement of the prisoner himself to the officer, which were well worthy of consideration, and it would be tor them to say after a calm and dispassionate deliberation, whether they considered the charge to be made out against the prisoner or not. The jury deliberated for a short time, and then re `.urned a verdict of Guilty, at the same time recommend- ing the prisoner strongly to the merciful consideration of the court. The jury also expressed their indignation at the conduct of the witness Lewis, who they said they considered to be one of the greatest villains that ever came into a court of justice. The Recorder postponed the judgment. SURREY SESSIONS. THE QUEEN'S VISIT TO THE CITY. The occasion of her Majesty honouring the entertain ment of the city of London on Wednesday evening next, at Guildhall, bids fair to surpass anything of the kind that was perhaps ever witnessed in this country. We are in a position to state positively that her Majesty has fixed the period of her arrival at Guildhall for half-past nine o'clock. The order observed will be semi-state. Nearly the pr ocess on®r Majesty's household will take part in the prion, which will leave Buckingham Palace a few minutes before nine o'clock. The entire line of road from Buckingham Palace to the Guildhall will be kept by the police and the Ist and 2d Life Guards. The approach to the Royal entrance of the hall in King-street will bo lined by the corps of the lion. Artillery Company, whose band, with that of the Life Guards, will be stationed in the open space between the church of St. Lawrence, Jewry, and the Irish Chamber. On her Majesty alighting, she will be received by the Lord Mayor, Recorder, and the other civic ofliceri. The intermediate approach to the throne will be lined by the lion. Corps of Gentlemen at Arm s , the Yeomen of the Guard being also in attendance in the passages which the Queen will traverse. The streets will be cleared at six o'clock, end barriers erected, and at balf - p as t six o'clock the hall will be opened for the reception of visitors. The number of invitations has been confined to 2,500. The Mansion House and all trine the public buildings will be brilliantly illuminated. The undermentioned sums have been awarded to the following general officers, as rewards for distinguished serv ices :—Lieut. - General Lloyd, 2001. per annum; General C. Gordon, 2001. ; Major-General Ayhner, :2001. ; Major-General Sir de Lacy Evans, ; hisjor-General Eleatiag, 1001,i a a j or .u e nerg D u c i ac hiap, 1001. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Henry Dimsdale was called upon to surrender and take his trial for an assault. The defendant, it will be remembered, had a true bill returned against him and other parties at the last session, for a series of assaults, by pelting persons with eggs, upon the return from the Oaks' Races. Mr. BALLANTINE, who appeared for the defendant, said that he was at present confined in the Queen's Bench Prison upon civil process, and the prosecutor had not taken the ordinary course of bringing him here by habeas to take his trial. Ho, consequently, was not in attendance, and as there wore other parties included iu the indictment, it would probably be better that the whole of the cases should be disposed of together. The trial was accordingly ordered to stand over. Edward Pontifes, 38, pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling three several sums of 6d., the property of Philip Pound and another, his masters. Mr. BALLANTINE, who was for the prosecution, in formed the Court that the prosecutors were omnibus proprietors, and in consequence of the absence of the regular conductor, the prisoner had been employed to act in his place with en omnibus plying to the Exhibi tion. He only went one journey, during which he re ceived fourteen shillings, and upon arriving et the ter mination of the journey, he very coolly appropriated the whole amount to himself, and refused to give up a single farthing. The RECORDER said it was a very impudent robbery, and it was fertunate for the prisoner that nothing was known to his prejudice before, or he would have been much more severely punished. He then sentenced him to bo imprisoned, and kept to hard labour, for three months. Robert Young, 38, was indicted for embezzling money, the property of his employers, Messrs. Squire and M'Cullocb. Mr. Robinson prosecuted; Mr. Parry was for the defence. The prisoner, it appeared, bad been in the service of the prosecutor, who was a wholesale druggist in Bishops gate-street, for thirteen years, and he bad latterly been employed as town traveller to the firm. In that capacity he had to receive money on their account, and it was dis tinctly proved that he had in two instances received money from the prosecutor's customers, which he did not afterwards account for. Mr. PARRY addressed the jury for the prisoner, and called several respectable witnesses, who gave him a high character for integrity and honourable conduct. The jury returned a verdict of guilty, but strongly re commended the prisoner to mercy, on account of his pre vious good character. In answer to a question put by the RECORDER Mr. squire stated that he had reason to believe that the total amount embezzled by the prisoner was at least SOO/. The REconi)en said he would take time to consider what sentence ought to be pronounced. James Smith, 21, was indicted for feloniously forging and uttering a cheque for 731., with intent to defraud the London and Westminster Bank. Mr. Parnell prosecuted; Mr. Ballantine; defended the prisoner. The circumstance of the case were of rather an extra ordinary character. It appeared that the prisoner, who is the son of a clergyman at Boston, St. David's, Somer setshire, went to the St. James's-square branch of the London and Westminster Bank OR the 14th May, and presented a cheque purporting to be signed by William Lewis, one of the customers of the bank , for 731 . , and re ceived' the amount. It appeared that he had subsequently presented another cheque of the same description for 161., which was also paid, and it would seem that he had on a third occasion presented a cheque apparently drawn by the same person for 2801., but as there were not suffi cient funds to meet it, the cheque was not paid, and a communication which was thereupon made to the sup posed drawer of the cheque, led to the discovery of the forgery. From subsequent inquiries that were made, Trew, one of the city of London detective police, went to the residence of the prisoner's father, accompanied by Lewis, and the prisoner, on being told what ho was charged with, at first denied that he was guilty, but shortly afterwards he made a statement to the officer, in which he admitted that he had forged the cheque in question, and said that he had spent the money in riding about, and that all that remained of it was concealed iu the coal cellar, where the officer, upon making a search, discovered a five-pound note, five sovereigns, and some silver, in a bag. From questions that were put to the bank-clerks by Mr. Ballantine, it appeared that Lewis, the person whose name was represented to have been forged, had kept an account with the bank for three years, but ho had not originally been introduced by any one, and he had never had a larger balance at any time than two or three hundred pounds. It also appeared that after the cheques which were alleged to be forged had been handed over to him with his pass-book, two or three days elapsed before he returned them, with the representation that they were forged. William Lewis, the person referred to, was called to prove the forgery. He described himself as a jeweller, car rying on business at 42, Gloucester-street, Queen -square, Bloomsbury. He said that he kept an account at the London and Westminster Bank, St. James's branch, 00d' the cheque for 731. was not his handwriting, and not been written with his authority. He made the e a s: d u statement with regard to the 161. cheque, and ) 51 his belief that both the cheques were in the of the prisoner. rare cross.ex- The witness was subjected to a mostvase egeeldwrreiting amination by Mr. Ballantine, but 17.7 s eed as much as was not until the ' t h a t if he, did not possible giving a direct answer; "Loner that he would - Recorder interfered, and throve that an evidence answer the questions in A r, take measures to compel him At At length it was elicited could be extracted from him e *vas a witness in this from him that in 1847 b - court who were charged with against three persons . , robbing a d J e rrie of a large sum of move b a gentleman named he he said that he hy yd cheating at cards, a • h- been concerne_ ~,ou by going to Cremorne Gardens with upon the occ.. to " pick up a flat "and that Isubse quentlyone of the parties of the , he at tr, one asset the othersmeetings packed the cards • so as carrying out their sch , me of plun d er; and when the charge was preferred against them he turned round agaiuet Ins companions and gave evidence for the prosecution. fie said that he believed the other parties swindled Kerrie out of 1,0001.; but he said he had nothing to do with it. He then proceeded to state that he first met the prisoner at Neath, at an hotel, and that he was aware that at that time he was an undergraduate of one of the colleges at Oxford. When he was at Neath he was en- These sessions commenced yesterday at the Sessions house, Newington-causeway, before Thomas Puckle, E:q., chairman, Charles Francis, Esq., and other ma gistrates. The calendar was rather light, containing only forty-two prisoners for trial, owing to the quarter sessions having only terminated on Saturday at Guild ford. Elizabeth Brown, 22, was indicted for stealing, in Vauxhall-gardens, the silver top of a smelling bottle, the property of Thomas Lawson, from the person of Harriet Lawson. She was also indicted for stealing a purse containing 16s. 6d. from Jane Lawson, in the same place. Michael Hayden, an officer of the City police, said that on the evening of the 15th of June he was in Vaux hall-gardens watching the company. As the balloon was about to ascend he perceived the prisoner follow several ladies, and try their pockets. She then pro ceeded towards a fountain, and deposited something behind a shrub, after which she walked away. Witness went to the fountain and found a purse, which induced him to communicate with the inspector on duty, Mr. Cowling, respecting the prisoner's conduct. They ac cordingly followed her at a short distance, watching her actions, when they saw her put her hands under Mrs. Lawson's Nisite and t , :ke something from her pocket. She was immediately seized, and the silver top ut . . the smelling-bottle was found in her hand. She was then convoyed with al possible haste to the police station, and searched, wl...sin a purse containing 7/. 104. and twenty franc pieces was found on her; also two :100 franc notes and and another purse containing 16s. 61. which Miss Lawson identified, and in her gtove was 10s., all of which she had adroitly stolen that evening.. Owners were f_ , und for the French money. but being foreigners and up to them, on their proving its identity. Mrs. Lawson stated that she was looking at the bal loon with her husband and sister, when last witness came up to her and asked hrr whether she had lost anything. She put her hand in her pocket and found her smelling bottle, but missed the top. That now produced was the one she lost. Miss Lawson identified the purse as her property. As soon as her sister-in-law found she had been robbed, she put her hand in her pocket and missed it and the contents. In defence the prisoner said site found the things all tied up in a corner of the. gardens. The jury, without the least hesitation, found her Guilty, and tho Court sentenced her to nine months hard labour at Brixton. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE; PORTSMOUTH, MONDAY.—Dauntless, 24, screw steam frigate, Captain Halsted, weighed anchor this morning early at Spithead, and steamed into Portsmouth Harbour. A lieutenant and a gang of seamen were sent - on board the Odin to assist in getting the latter vessel ready for service. Odin, 16, paddle-wheel steam-frigate, of 560-horse power, was brought down to the dockyard on Saturday. At four o'clock this morning (Monday) sho was taken under the sheers, and by eight o'clock was masted. The riggers of the yard and the seamen from tho Dauntless immediately commenced rigging her, whilst other parties of men proceeded to get on board her tanks and sea-ser vice stores. She is to be got ready with all possible dis patch, to take the place of the Sidon, for the conveyance of troops to the Cape. Lieut. Sanford, of the Dauntless, with a party of seamen from that ship, will navigate the Odin to Cork; she will then be turned over to Com mander Gardiner, and Lieut. Sanford and party will bring back the Sidon to Portsmouth. The Odin has had her steam up, and her paddle-wheels have been revolving to prove that her engines and ma chinery are in perfect condition. Captain Chads and a party of seamen from the Excel lent have been exercising shell-firing at the Sand-bank on Southsea-common this day. DEVONPORT, JULY 6.—Aid, lighter, Smallmsn: master, sailed yesterday with stores for Portsmouth and _ the river yardri. Tiger, steamer, passed down Channel this morn in g' The frame of the St. Jean d'Acre, now being trimmed and preparing, is to be prepared with Sir W. ,Burnett 'a solution. JULY 7. IPPOINTNWEC:;:r°sL a .:WIC the p O ow di e n r , ,„ 16, 1 Chief Engineer Thomas Bunions .t.o_rsol paddle-wheel steam-frigate, of 560 ' Po Assi rtsmout. _,0,1 arr, stant h -Engineers Charles el Geore , Tr eviss, B and James Sumner, J. W. Hewitt , John Thomas, to the Odin. 0 the Albion, 90, on the Clerk Thomas W. Harnett Mediterranean station. w ood, Master-Commander The Black Eagle e t? s ri t r.i. a ver on Saturday, h av i ng Rear- Admiral went down t one of the Lords of the Ad- Admiral Berkeleyit'• osldwin Walker, C. 8., Surveyor miralty; Captain . gr. Jo h n Parker, Secretary to the of the Navy o ; n 7 ooo a radrc :, w a h n e d re t t h h e e y y Admiralty, paid an o ffi cial visit to inspected the Desperate Sheerness Doe of 400 . '"uo-norse power, at that port. screw sloop, subsequently visited Ramsgate harbour, Ws Lorde b,P rt ied to Woolwieh,thi s morn i n g with Mr. John an d J etu and landed at W oolw i ch Dockyar d. Flamer, --. The Lightning steam-vessel, Master-Commander Alien , went down the river to-day to Southend, having r o , board Major-General Fox, Major-General Lacy, Colonel Dundas, C. 8., and Lieutenant- Colonel Chulinerii, on an official visit to She a barynegs, to witness experi ments at that practice range. THE LATE COLLISION AT LIVERPOOL.—The ad journed inquiry before the magistrates took place on Friday. when the various cases were disposed of separately. Carey and Trussler were lined, the former 40s. and costs, or one month's imprisonment, and the latter GOs and costs, or six weeks' imprisonment. Robert bl`Fenaries was discharged. Thomas M*Gill, Thomas Power, John Rath. and Cronin were then brought up. The bench dischar7;ed Power, and fined Cronin, M‘Gill, and Rath 54 each, or in default, two months' imprisonment James Cox and Melia,' Woods were acquitted. Colonel Campbell said, he had always cau tioned his men against getting into quarrels, and must ex press his regret at what had occurred. The regiment would leave town ou Saturday, and he would always endeavour to prevent similar occurrences in future. 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