The Sun. — London, England, 1850-02-13 00:00:00

j ti(? gine man riot to be core:ire:A tee, t"se reentiem: " "41feenatees had bsen e reels off .tie lisf: had been r:1- 0111F'17.1, beea,ese :hey were Roman Catholics. The s; se .r. ; . J -i' a Ktog witY n the lest two 3 eare hied 1 , ie5...;! , , , 1i i .' politieel easel, and the pres. et case b, in e Leos , ' '-''' ''' '' tf e neblic character the public wi•re jaeiff d ie bei...-e• lag that Mr. li..ill[Dii lied been actual: d by pelirreal fe 'liett.. The reason why the case had not bsen broueht ; 61 for tri•A tvni because the plaintiff had no cer.4.::nee 41 th'iorY.—(flea - Inas.) He earnitted that the ,1 - 3 .... - ken t read b y the Solicitor- General, from Mr. Mr. Kerennre, re moved from his mind the idea that Mr. lieremis lied olibeila.ofueted by religious motives in striking the nine Thin Catholice ref the list. ATTORNEY -GENERAL concurred with the ijeolieit-ir-General for Ireland in recommending the (Mourahle Member for Carlow not to press this n . ie D ion ' He r,rotested against the House entertaining ' lte ations of this descri don unless a distinct cherge ef ei.rreti fit)nro°t4l3 n r t o -l' s ‘fri l 1 se l " : ce e;e the againstcb'°'rfu';frt'ihdtwmflacse no: rett'ah re)? ta:lflrlii' 'let: ea:,t6ei dt of the tl wouldi'l*ll('-' ! theseinterference of that House with the ordinary form:; ofteojtustiee on insuffieient ;rounds. Ile hail , bran ici had e r d ill his political life with many ma f, a __, Cirhheredhevisietited to exerei . se the right of challenge. Ile lam " • same rules of law to be applied in . both Erg es a nd Ireland. If there were good objections to the e•ere generalnt ° Sstern, ft remedy ought to he sought for by „ a riilone'tsure. With regard to this particular . casc-, G t en e - r t he I.tter of Mr. Kenamis, read by the Seller , ter al, would satisfy all par ties. Mr that il litl ME agreed with the B.ight Hon . . .G . eri a t c le s m ; : f t: in that Unwise to bring forward a judicieiq t le "' 0 0 use except on specific grounds. The Right ea, th e :i oe. ez Att orney• General had stated that he had The.v..!_i ereised the right of challenge in England. ene nt " ° an why it was not complained of in this (II 1,7,:°88,, because it was not unjustly exerci .. t f we eeeeti,.';'`eBro There was no analogy between the ° i n tlil s reB .,,Vth respect to the feel s in .r gs m o . f o ar , people j,gfiff,,, fled passed"e eet. The reason why i mainly 4 rule to prohibit jurymen being struck. off wee , 1 , " the ground of their being Roma.-i Catholics, it,e4cie previous existence of the practice. Protestant di e neY bed bt ea the great cause of the politir al tsic sc e °llle at of Ireland, and he trusted Gov . e . rem s ent . would .., lic e Pir!'rY means of removing the suspicions Ig amieb 8 ') many of the people of Ireland eat o e f rta u i ' i j .l u e:3: . . eilee,iotietiFnsiidroitBe SADsuisrsilled.kP;r notl- t , on in broadreply, principles, r s f a u i e d i p t l h e a s t , the hut question t e e ; la i l e a a - i had It having been stated by Mr. lie:minis that he off the Romaei Catholic jurors h. on . ac he w ag I their religion, he felt bound to believe but la lt 6° rrY to think the statement would not be believed lm tlot el ". In the present state of the House he should 413ress the motion. 110 11 1.. al li ER, in reference to an observation of the w rr - e . .."' e n wber for Montrose, said that the Orange party G I ttl i ( ,,, - 2 ,Way connected with the Whig Solicitor , . e la te e - 'Nth the Government. That. pert_y complained P r heet tritn e way that the Catholics complained in the Iti Cate filpti o , t ' Op th ' tnen withdrawn. o,enee,,te2botion cf Mr. HUME, return; were r ordered 'Nis"' With the grand tr:gonoinetrical survey of ttie . , 4 180 hetita returns cf . the nature and locality by ; el ttirveys undertaken by the East, of all India Corn till: 11 t 1 44 - ( l 4° 4 lig of all lighthouss s, be icons, buoys, or V a ll i, e fte ,,, s ett Marks established by the East India Com 'Oet,2""', ordered. Ohs t .,,,', 13 AND PRACTICE (IRELAND) . BlLL. thfs "' ll ll I"er of the day for the second reading of kr. 4 ;„ 4l F 6,11 n ad, le eutte "'MIER had not a word - to say against the Il i At 'At leg, but wished . to direct the attention of the e htion o"ourable the Solicit .r-Gencral to the compen e'abiteell,4e with r, fine rice to two ()glees, one in the r'er e ." d e 3 5 and the other in the Exehequer,.. e v i i t hi . c y h thei e°4B4lererl us freehold. Some alarm was f . e th e e r1 i , 5 . 41.1 es that injustice would be in thete 1 on . them by 16' r ' nl) °'-'ed e t 1.,,, arrengemen .s• , .. '°ll LP ' 'ls" teeirehr, they ss (Lee be au " ei l l P " c e li e la s ti u ' f e ' n' ' rlees . nti'eei , .'e laird dosser inn t} e. Act i t at "st ' e - 'l'll Yietel,a.' 1.1.: tesi - ,ed the Eght, llceoneals' Te .er° ,° ll would consider the clause. e t lh e e t ) ,,LlClTOß-C,ENERAL said the' the clat t ro e e e es ir model of the ehei e in ' feet sited on the model Y C hes °l.lrts Bill. He had no doubt that t,' e Com e ease c aaceee.,- • tilei ' wrpuld - ' to tee claim of these parties when them, but he could not at present gliii,etlitsittirlYP_lea7gee b o; ro i r 'lestiloj et. 'lshii sueee, tions which Bill 3. was printed would render ilblieee,,eletd since the, . , he 'rY brat to be committed ' profo c re, m (2. t Z e l si ie l p l, e m d ge te te z e l P fiking too early teddy for the o hilt t ." Monday, the 25th. .. ken t a, e ttd a second time, and orde. o I to te committed C6i 1 1 1 ,!. 1 3% 1,11 "U OF CHANCEBY (IRELAND) . BILL. oilil ° Meier of the day for the second reading of . ale,krailn been read, ' eURNE said 1 was as anxious as his Right a°l!sr,i,etld'coußldet : e lessen the delay and experee, not v i , -. Lne 1 - 1 e lleed ; C ourt of Cha , ncery of Ireland, but nho . of e1.,401,11,.f1ah.u, hoped ,he be e ouldeither immediately before in a condition to introduce a_ elu te -'ll„ter Easter t the Court of Chancery of th ° ,ld e‘ res t•', tet : s laving " steted i . hat, he might add that in 1 ' eloci which he desired to apply were, Ha must i 4 ), i,i0,2 enrol and prat cable.. in N the i' • - t the remedies proposed d k e s'till' e ." h '''' ../ °J .i.: 7 ','" '.. ere m i .r.leel then goe . ~ e ; 0 11 - ere t aloulstesi to iso te • ;4 4 . 4,este mote delay and expense 4 h iht e „" present system. He spoke without , rb erie - t i,• Prejudice on the subj . cct, for the vry scheme o d f Li . Bill e µai founo,c , h "tfir ' l ll by etition, on which ti Is• . i e t to i"te'drisepB.l,l cif the original of which he in.enee 1, 4 ;1; ;;A : leer the r, , forin o th, f . , Court of Chancery ( f 1: 4 , 4 4( it ,, btit which, after the , ul f leest coesideration, he Illt'llnined to reject, t another. In the an" “ °fi ditfeie ice there k_ttb:!, he should like to know what Right Hon. Gentle ' t,;(janpZen the proposition s ehtlre a s ite and the present . system; from the petilioa r at present the pro : 4 h ° ' by Bill, but did it us e . it t he . !gilt Hon. t 'ld -0 It G , ntleman proposed to a SV ( b i? Stillt i : l e e , souticit.oterio,,,eetories which he preP 3 sed to u, . nan , o i nt , e , l .t was merely g i ving another reene to . t , i , i . s e °opliciecul.,Prroeeeeingewith this vital inconeeineece, that. e °l o II ° LI o by bill mutt have the sanction of counsel, 17 4 04' i:1 ", „Petition might he proceeded with e . 'ithi ii , t . the ) :.lolie, ° _ t r eouusel,ald anything might be inse:tel . t y 41 410 , 4 0 . on the reco ' rd. r Again, by adepting the NA: ion (111 Iti7 l te, the advantat,eofcross-examining witnesses_ , tsdwe'es Ititogether lost. The , Court of Chancery of I.,ng .w. te e called on ;perhaps,co ith respect to rights 5 o w oo 000/. a year; and Lee th_atoount of, -e. ." ZS 4 1 _ 8 9 t) adjudicate on affidavits only? In some ilip „ s °a__lght be convenient to proceed by affilavits, I e it - mY cases it would be impossible, and the a ti,‘ I t N "uld ultimately be obliged to proceed . by to i e ,et an as actually propose d d . in the third clause Caen t e 7 stege of th" Proc r, to a party obj ett t ' l ltt Pri3 eecd by petition, t io n Tight to appeal to , the tk e 'l u t e % stoP t . he pr..ceedings, and the Court might I te t4 , , an rimer. Shorten . the proceedings as they i t , olti tet ne would agre , , if it could be done safely, but 1e. 41 11 0 0 11 to place the Court of Chau:tory in a state th ne esei ti tl would feel uncertainty as to the course it of Il t ll° , eety l t One of the great evils of the Gout if I,' it I , ‘ had been the too close observance of the rule " It Zliee °old d o no justice unless it could do compete et ° tit e i s i ll cases arising out of the construction of wills he /n i l th e t he Lord Chancellor required the production w e 'ette."lteeoun ts of every estate before he could ad -14w,8 eo Cases occurred almost every day, in which .1.70 lllllell t° he ed to say that, in the , present stet.e of ti teeilMlld give no opinion, and that the parties must , the aecery The result wag, . that the C./50 went '4" tbil't' • hundreds tt ed bet , .r, and of points had to be dis til 411,, t r0 it could be decided whether the residue .: lie particularly alluded e at lases te : 3 . was vested or not. is ihre t v t llll reference to the_rihts w o a l s married women "u) part y 8 ' ID the present Bill it . „ proposed that poi Might by petitioc, praying for the opinion ski . ° hrt Sue '- -, The Court might give ni gMee t "ft special ca,e. ti titi all 611 such petition, and thi: i s . judgment would thtiter sa t : Persons as the Court it e r .c s . o e n d s ; or in de tc,Detiti direction, would bindall presenting eeduave the It appeared, therefore, that masters . were je l'ei te Pciever of deciding on the rights of parties Itlep Illflutstoces the least calculated t a ensure strict kid Au .t. (14Pre btody might for instance, go to a master, 1% - hil s e eti a t j e petition in a case affecting the interests . N,4„t kw ,- at . from this country, while that child e tn ,"stl l 6,‘ 4l . his return that . judgment had been given fputeolia'" w ithout Isis having received , any notice of the . es tltl 4lii,e g6 ' Now he said that teat was a system . of ?„ I , ll st e 1 e ,,, 11 . 1 eh that House aught not to sanction. Acts , 4 ' It ' em P t ionought to be more ca w h it w a. , , . Ils!')latee'.' •mpossible that their legislation could other refu Hy prepared, Why, there had D ZI k - ' 4 4 , ed iii a satisfactory . manner. f be —di ed' ° tflet year in winch, a ter a Bill had b_ e t ei x n . l a th i it had beers found • 1'4 %444 4 1 ! h t ef " r''oetrer : e l oe fj a f of the e t he es s s e i s o s i i o , a to in t rod tic c o _ another n _ r tb la s f ,'e e t iret arc its operation in consequence f the tilt; tiiii ? rilode is which its provisions . had been ' framed. I W•j' en freet.it'n under their consideration would ,y . e lu n f a n h a l u e (;p"etee (11 Chancery, without notice to a., I art e , l 'd to a master a case for which the decision , of (I t tivt,,,' l 'elf had been asked, and by that me.an h s . the re 0 0 , - ,; ( ,) f '"(I be empowered to escape from the disc .n .. „ e k 11._.-t:utictons with which it was entrust . :d_ .t please lees it IT ti o oltu t ti in fact let the master do as he mighpl f. at ' ei tt , 4l '. Now, be said, with all due respect,. h . eel. t -4at disgrace te the Legrsla .44 d escr i p ti on was a ki l l i ll e til _,Part of the Bill was there to be found any F r i' `d, as the conduct of the master was to be, re -11 d ill l l ' % 143 36.1 suggest to his lion. and Learned ter, to bri t ho Ought either to withdraw ‘ that measure dPractical charne l:4,e' or el "I: in nne of a more. SiIP 4P t _ te oni , 014°, whichat he eieekst to refer it to a ge,e g t , lat!tici Mi.ht come 40 acme more satisfactory ao , n• ' 4 ti 11 °4 th ' It wee his (Mr: Turner s) pt J ill , ft matter. - tid ae ` i. ". Proceed with a, Bill fur improvin g the mode ta e k'atie "'nit business in the Court of in . , ised e (1 r 'Ale ee no hoped to be able to lay such a Bill on 1 1 - 4 PY li t: ji tilo Rouse, either before the Laster reeess. 17‘efiee 7:tlY after. But he could assure his Hon. and es nl ally it rienti that he should isa most . ready to (Apr retire eleu°Blstance its his power Owards Oar prp,naration ,1 w o 2 4 . r e crewed for a siren' ar object, fir his eidy 1,, -.... 14.11r1( ` 1 • - ‘43 5C the defects et the present syst en 41, a° OLlnt toss well hi it ° that --T OR-GENERAL said ho we e e ae s h h i oe. at obserystens which had just fallen teen te "' of e '" Learnee Friend were but the commence it e .. 'ter • t h h ti s ta hill 114,05,a1.3t,i,,ttseeat deal of opposition to be givente more interested and 1, .he a qui i'' and Learned Friend upon the 8 J k t il , eoi, less intelligent , 1); 4 " 0 11 es t :. "t AtIV that the strictures of his .ion f . and te r : l l °4y 0 1. ° nd . hud in any way convinced him . o . ~.t ., l a_e p et; Lear ned eslu" withdrawing the measure. Ills II .:n. l ion was a v I . iend had said. in the first place, that '4 O Nthi, e t : / " l. nnik t .dc, because, in poiei, of fee . !; ! i t ~ 11 4,1 4 wcitiled ...7.1.114i1 a bill. But if it were nothi i n# ee, fine e l ' t'e mor eobjectionabl e than a bill. his e es "el ect Lt-earned Fr: eild had rAil that a petition t , Y t rl ie,"ave the sauetion of counsel ; hut it would be Nei,„",te ui ""oduce ' provision dtelering the the signs ll 0"11Me:1 stem' 1 he ' I leachI each -se ta .Is H er, et re tee ier to petition. 3, itahrottr4attintdeinLecnatriued Friend had stated that might be introduced into a n. was, no doubt, t; Ct,u;:t wouil ut it ;)1,1 to eriSQSut We IS t!';ii very irnpor:ant diff!n-ece. tweet' a petition erd tl Liq, ttla', the co•!As, Itel•ind, in case ot a HP, wet e in poortion r.O long vthile that wa+; .11J 4, the case with 9 pptiti,m ; rnd one at tl-,o rnos.t i nitortaat ref,rms th,t trine: be tna, , e in tiny judicial system was to In1.1;e it the in terest of the prepared the documents not to swell them out uttn , ..ssary length. .ALothec eb jecti,;rt of his 1.1,:m. that under the hill Viere would he no cross-examination witnesses. But, in the tirst pla/1 , , he should observe that such an cx,inkination m ght taco place on the deposituns; and, in the next place, he woull remind kis Hon. and Leaned Friend and the House that so preposterous was the system :of exa initiation before the Court of Chancery that Mr. 13e11„ a high authority upon the sulject, had stated before 0. Commission or a Committee of the House of Comm.ms that ho never, under ordinary eirearnstance, nro,:s-ex - atnined a witness, lest he might thereby only damage his own:case. His Hon. and Learned Friend had farther,,V nt plained that any person might present a petition ap,•iin,t an infant, for instance, in his absence; but the ink sOt would be represented by his proper guardims, ~nn it could surely tnatt.nr little whether or not he was hin soil present at the proceedings. Ilis Hon. and Learned Friend seemed to apprehend that caws would be impr4.- perly referred to the masters, but his Hon and Learned Friend roust be aware VIA in those matters soul( thing should necessarily be .left to the discretion of the judges, and ho certainly thought that they might invest the judges with the proposed power without any apprehe 4.• sion of its being improperly applied. HiS main ofjet in introducing that measure was to dispense with cum brous and unnecessary proceedings before the Court of Chancery. The present system in that Court operated in many cases as a denial of justice. It had been stated by a gentleman of the very highest authority upon that subject, Mr. Pembert in Leigh, that no man in his senses would recommend a party to carr y before the Court of • Cba'icery a case in which the sum - at issue was less thy' 9,0001, lie said that such a fact was a disgnee to their judicial system—(Hear, hear)—and that they ought to remedy the abuses which produced it. But they could not attain that object better than by entrusting the judges with a certain discretion as to the mode of tryir g the cases which might come before them; and he be lieved that no men were better qualified properly t) use that discretion than the present Lord Chancellor and the Ma ter of the Rolls in Ireland. Let the House listen to an instance of the abuses which prevailed under the pre sent system. A man who wanted nothing but a more account filed a long bill, stating various proceedings in which he was interested; alter the lapse of three months a ling answer was put in; six weeks or two months after the bill was amended; a second answer was put in; a replication was filed; briefs were given to five or six counsel with considerable fees; and when the case was called in cow t one of the counsel fer the plaintiff rose stud said that that was a common adminiltration case, and asked for the usual decree, thus showing that all those costly preliminary proceedings might have been dis pensed with. He said that abuses of that kind ought to be remedied, and that the plaintiff' ought to have had the power of asking for the use a! decree without having had recourse to all those cumbrous and unnecessary forms. The wording of the Bill might be imperfect, and he should meet gladly receive any well-considered sug gestions for its amendment; but he believed that it con temned many useful provisions, and he hoped that the House would support him iu his proposal for carrying it into Committee. He felt assured the, if he were to receive the c. - - q:eta.ion ef gentlemen c ipithle of afford ing valuable aid in the framing of the measure, it would be productive of mu:h benefit, - and that it would remove crying e iils which at present disgraced the Court of Chancery in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Before he re sumed his seat he wished to say a word upon what had fallen from his Honourable and Learned Friend with respect t , .) what his Honourable and Learned Friend had called an act of disgraceful legislation lest tree, as stated by his Honeurelale a»:i thet in the course of tae Sr 5 :. 1 :f set;. which balore the ie - Amu had been thought desirable to suspend by another Act. But the frets of the case were not, he believed, of the discredittbh character which his Hon. and Learned Friend appeared to imagine. He had no doubt himsef hut ihet the Act in question had been framed in a man lier calcukqed to attain its object; but as some gentle man, for whose opinion he entertained considerable re spect, 113:1 arrived at a different conclusion, he had thetiglit it advisable that the operation of the measure should be suspended for a while, in order that time might be stfitrdeil for the consideration of the mutter. lie did rot think that such a circumstance merited the censure with which his Hon. and Learned Friend had visited it. Mr. TURNER said that he had not appliod the word tii. , gr,.ceftil” to the Bill of last session, but to the Bill then under their consideration; and in using that word he had not meant any personal offence to the framers of the measure. He regretted that he had at all referred to the 13d1 of last session. On the motion of an HoN. MEMBER the House was then c;:unted, and there icing only twenty-five Members preerlt, an adjournment immediately took place shortly aft ll4lf-Mast Nine o'clock until Two o'clock to-morrow (titi6:day). : TO THE SECRETARY OF THE Bri ADFGRD REFOKH ASSOCIATION. Sir,—On Monday the 1 1 th, a special report was brought up front the Public Petitions Committee, " That the petition from Ceylon, purport ing to be signed by thirty-seven thousand' nine hun dred and sixty-five inhabitants of that colony, set tir)g forth various circumstances connected with the late riots in that colony ; complaining of the measures that were adopted by the government, and of th,y, severity- and illegality of the punishments in flicted upon the offenders, under colour of martial law; and PiSO of grievances under which the inhabi tants ( f that islaNd suffer, and praying for redress, which was presented upon the 6th day of this instant February, is a petition which ought to be printed for the use. or Memb,:rs only ; and that a special report he made to this effect." Whereon the said petition was ordered to be printed, for the use of Members only. A very ugly demonstration. " Excuse comes prologue or, more properly, prayer that the charge and evidence may go to the smallest number. There must be something very curious and interesting in this petition from Ceylon ; and by some of those wonderful concatenations by which a King's speech, like a last dying one, is found in print before the speech is spoken, it is ten to one if the public does not in the end come to know all about the matter. LAW.INTEL LTG ENCE. COUIiT OF GgiIIAZON PLEAS, Feb. 12, ( afvr :ern", boforo Jioqicei _IA UL; CP.F.SSWELL, WILLIA7,IS, TALFOURD.) 2iIAI:itICZ v. MARSDEN. This was an geiian tried at the Flintshire Summer f:r 1849, iu which the verdict was found fur the plaiutiff—darra4os 44/. 12g., with leav3 to move to rc diee the verdict. A rale nisi having been obtained on a former day, Mr. We!shy and Mr. Townsend appeared to show cluse ageiust the rule, and Mr. Crompton and Mr. Wynne Edwards in support of it. It appeared at the trial that the defendant was an hotei-keeper at Holywell, and was in the habit of run ning au omnibus from the railway station to his hotel, and in doing so he had to pass through a turnpike gate caled the Greenfield-gate. Under the Turnpike Act, giving power to exact the toll at that gate, vehicles car rying passengers for hire were li ible for toll each time they passed through the turnpike gate; otier vehicles only paid toll once, which freed them for the rest of the d:iy. As the delenciant's omnibus plied to the station and back a great many times each day, be hit upon the expedient of having a spring cart to follow his omnibus, in which he carried the passengers' lug age, coats. sticks, and unabrelll , , making a charge of 61 for the luggage of each passenger, or where there was no luggage for a walking-stick, umbrella, or coat, as the case might be, and carrying his passengers by the om nibus fir nothing, as a means of evading the repeated toil. When the toil-keeper demanded toll fur an om nibus full of passengers, he was answered by the dri ver, " Oh, you have no right to toll from me, I carry my passengers to my hotel for nothing." The spring cart carried no passengers, and was only liable under the statute to one toll per day. This went on for some time, the toll-keeper ceasing to demand toll on being always met with this excuse, but keeping an ac count of the number of times the omnibus Fused through the gate ; and eventually an action was brought against the defendant to recover the amount, and the verdict went against him. In support of the rule the Learned Counsel contended that a demand of toll was necessary bE bro the toll became due, and that the gate either ought to hare been shut against the defendant, or a demand of payment hate been made each time ; otherwise a man might pass through the gates as far as he knew free, and afterwards be suhjtct to an action for toll. The COURT thought there was no ground for main ttining the rule, and that it must be discharged ; for if a demand a toll were necessary, there was abundant evidence t.) show an evasion of the demand. Rule discl:wged. The same evening, the Bill was read a second time for repealing the Act of George IV., which directs the Treasurer of the Navy to sit like Djezzar and give so much a piece fir the heads of anybody called pirates. The Government are manifestly in earnest in - repealing the Act; but they admit that 100,0001. is to be paid fir plst decapitatiorH, and that they see no means of hindering it, inasmuch as the terms of the Act have been complied with. There will be an opposition to this payment; and its chance will depend upon showing that the people in question were not such as were contemplated by the Ac .The Act was made to put down collections of men of no country and no political existence, who, in the confused period when the new Republics of South America declared their indTendence, used these new South American flags for a cover when, it might be useful to them, and robbed all end every body when they had the oppor tunity. The present parties, who do not seem to have harmed a little finger of their assailants in re turn, were small independent tribes, carrying on petty wars b , ,tcause unable to carry on great ones, and not stated to have been found in the act of committing hostilities against British ships or territories. On Tuesday a &bate on the motion for second reading of the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill, had the arca of reducing the Members present to twenty five; whereupon the House was counted out. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, AN OLD REFORMER. London, 13th Feb., 1850. COURT OF .EXCHEQUER, Feb. 12. BROOKES V. ROOKES. This was an action in which the plaintiff sought for damages from the defendant, a clergyman of Exeter, for the seduction of her daughter. The case w as tried at Exeter, when a verdict passed for the plaintiff for 100/. Subsequ(ntly a rule for a new trial was obtained, on the ground that the verdict was excessive and opposed to the evidence. When the report of the Learned Judge, Mr. Justice Williams, was read to.day, in which his Lordship intimstad that he was dissatisfied with the ver dict, and that the damages would not have been so high had the jury attended to his observations, Mr. Baron PARKE said, that le thought there ought to be a new trial. Mr. COLLIER and Mr. KARSLAKE, however, claimed the right to show cause; and thereupon proceoed at some length to contend that the rule ouglA not to be made abs,dute. The COURT, without calling on Mr. Greenwood to support the rule, said that the facts of the case, coupled with the affidavits filed by the defendant, called for a nklv investigation. Without at all saying what would be the result of a new trial, it was sufficient to state that the case ought ts) be submitted to a fresh jury on rayment of costs. Ruh absolute: for new trial. COI7/IT liAlVicigi7PTC3; F. 12. (rat..f,et , FINF.) THE CiIEMORNL (11111):::NS. IN TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF JAMES ELLIS. This was a meeting for the aijourcei last examina tion the bankrupt, who was extensively engaged in various speculations connected with public places of amusement. He was the lessee of the Adelaide Gallery in the Strand, end c.f Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, He supplied with refreshments the saloons of Her Majesty's Theatre and of the Lyceum Theatre. Ile catered for Orockford's Rooms, for the balls at the Princess's Con cert Rooms in Oxford -street, for the balls at the Llan o% er-sqaure Rooms, and for tile Lai masque in Covent gardcu. - Some of the items are interesting. When the bank rupt took Cremorne Gardens there were old debts due upon it to the extent :of 1,885/. Mr. Nicholson was the former less( a. He lost by the Adelaide Picture Gallery 3771. He expended in building and improvements in Cremorno about 8,000/. The refreshments sold at the Adelaide Gallery etnounted to 5,9821. The receipts for refreshments at Cremorne were— in 1846, 8,6261.; in 1847, 10,9571.; in 1848, 9,7191.; in 1849, 11,4441.—during the five years, 40,8011. The sum raised for refreshments at the saloon in the Opera during the years 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849 was about 1,4001.; for ditto :it CrocitforO's Rooms, in one 3 ear, 260/.: for ditto at Lalls in the Prince,s's Concert Rooms, IP6I. The receipte for wirnisAione at the Adelaide Gallery were—in 1846, 2,4411.; in 1847, 5,6191.;- and in 1848, 4,003/. There was a profit on the sale of bills of 531.; and from the rent of the cloak-room in the Adelaide Gallery a profit of 193/. was raised. At the same place of amusement 1,056/. were derived from the rent of rr.- served seats during the ears 1846, 1847, and 1848; and 87/. from the rent of the liketiess-room. At Cremorne the panorama cf Mexico brought in 2141.; Batty's tournament, 865/.; Dubourg's exhibition, 51.; upon advertisements, 3,0001. were expended; the atrical salaries, 4,500/.; fireworks, 1,200/. ; theatrical band expenditure, 4,800/. ; tournament expendi ture, 500/. In 1846 admissions at Cremorne made 3,181/. ; in 1847, 5,045/. ; in 1848, 4.5861; in 1849, 5,19y1. The balloon expendit.ire was 2,4001; gas, 1.200/.; the improvements at the Adelaide Gallery host 4201.; the law expenses are 2,600/. Upon the whole there are unsecured debts to the extent of about 17,000/.; and secured debts, 12,0001. The principal, if not the only assets, are 2,000/4 which Mr. Simpson, the execu tion creditor, who had possession of Cremorne, will, it is said, pay into the assignee by way of a compromise. Mr. Hutton has been directed to prepare the balance sheet. ice ridjudication of blolcrui:toy was ifloroupon raale. Mr. Edwards is the officiAl aisiguee. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. dIriNSIOIV-IIOUSE. ' A young man of respectable appearance, who gave his name and address to Alderman Carde made applica tion under very singular circumstances. lie had, he said, written to the Secretary of State for advice in what manner to proceed in a case which had in the part of the country in which it occurred excited a great deal of surmise avid conversatioe. A lady to whom Le was to have been united in marriage sud denly died about the middle of January. He had been for some time paying his addresses to her, and the marriage was to have taken place in a few days, but he: mother and step-father, who were opposed to the match, had placed her under violent constraint, arid the .rapid approach of death, together with variety of circumstances connected with that event, led to the suspicion that the lady had been prematurely hurried out of the world. The belief that the unfinitu natii young lady had not died a natural death gained ground from the fat that one of the domestics, who had ivhispered that she had been cruelly treated by her mother, and that her fatter -in-law had sworn that he would hang her rather than that the marriag.+ should take place, was dismissed from the service. Shocked and afflicted by such intelligence the applicant repre sented the various matters which had come to his know ledge to the cry one-, who was disinclined to hold an in quest upon the holy unless fortified by the opinion of the medical avendant of the deceased, but the physician upon being waited upon declined giving a certificate as to the necessity of such a proceeding. Several of the residents of the neighbourhood joined in a requisition to the ooroner upon the subject, on the ground of public justice; but whether an improper influence had been exercised for the purpose of stopping inquiry, or means of prevention had been adopted in any other way, cer tain it was that the coroner persevered in his di termina tion not to summon a jury to inquire into the remarkable circumstances of the case. Alderman CARDEN—What was the opinion of the medical man who attended the deceased? The applicant —He said that she died of a disease of the brain. I had not seen her for six weeks before she was taken ill, and she died three days after her first attack. Alderman CARDEN—Had she any property? The ap plicant—She was to.have come in to some property in a very short time, and she was about twenty-seven years of age. The property she was to have inherited from her father. Sir George Grey, upon reading the state• meet of the facts which I have represented advised me to apply to the magistrates; but I apprehend an application to them would not be so effective as an application to the Lord Mayor or his representative, and I therefore deter mined to come here. It is necessary that I should state one ftct of a singular nature. The vault in which the deceased was buried was opened in the night, and ,next day I was charged «s one of the violators of the sepulchre. Alderman CARDEN—It is quite impossible that the Lord Mayor could interfere in a matter of such a nature wholly out of his jurisdiction. I would have you apply to the magistrates of the district in which the lady died, it' you are not satisfied with the result of your appeal to the coroner and medical men; and I have no doubt due attention will be paid to you in such a case by every gentleman in the commission of the peace. GUILDHALL. A young, innocent-looking girl, aged 17, name d Fanny Harnsworth, nas charged before Mr. Alderman Hunter with stealing a victorine, value 35., the property of her master, Mr. Moses Solomons, of No. 3, Little Britain. After hearing the evidence, Alderman Husuin said there were so many contra dictions between father and son, that no twelve men would ever believe that the prisoner wai guilty of such a charge, when any one else might hare placed the vie torine where it was found. There was no foundation for the ch3rge, and the pritlnm.r vva.: di•chart , ..ecl. There vt as teach a)planse, which w.t - instantly sup son, Joseph Solomons, with the crime of rape. Rob:n:on said, that now he into dad charging the Alderman HUNTER inquired under what Act he did so. The Chief Clerk said'that an Act of Parliament came into operation last year, called an Act to " protect women from fraudulent practice's for procuring their defilement," whereby it was enact. l " that if any person shall by false pretences, false representations, or other fraudu 1-nt means, procure any woman or hild under the age of 21 years to hare illicit carnal connexion with any man, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanour, and shall, being duly convicted thereof, suffer imprison ment for a term not exceeding two years, with hard labour." This case, as far as be (the chief clerk) had heard, was the first ono under the new Act, and was very important. Mr. Joseph Solomons was then placed in front of the dock, and the first witness called was Henry Webb, who stated that the girl said in the presence of Joseph Solomons, that he came to her bed room and put his hand over lor mouth. She galled out, and his sister, who slept iu the next room, asked what was the matter, when Joseph replied that he was calling tLe servant up. He did not contradict the girl, but treTtted the whole affair in a light off-handed manner. She s - .oke to him sud accused hint of canaing to her bed room on Monday night, and defied him to deny it, which he did not. Sine further added, that he passed some thing over her eyes and nose, which took her sen:ei away, and he then ruined her. Alderman HUNTER—UntiI she charged the son with ruining her, was any charge of felony made against her? Webb—None whatever. The girl also, in the presence of Mri. Solomon; told me she had informed her of her son's conduct, and that Mrs. Solomon, said, " Well, I suppose he did not kill you." Alderman llnwrEa—Did Mrs. Solomons deny it in your presence? Webb—She did not. Joseph Solomons—Did not the girl any to me in your presence that she had said," If you will not come to my bed, I will come to yours?" Webb—Nothing of the sort was east ut'ered. Fanny II srnsworth was then sworn, and said—l am in the servi( • of Mr. Solomons. On Sunday weak the defendant came to the kitchen, and said he was coming t ► sleep with me. I said he should not come, and went to bed alone. There is no lock to the door. He sleeps on the third floor, and lin the room above him. I was awoke on Monday morning week, about half-past six o'clock, by finding some one in bed with me, and then saw it was Joseph Solomons. I told him to leave, when ho took improper liberties, and went down stairs. He had effected his object. He held his hand over my mouth. His sister called for me to get up, and ho said he was getting me up. Alderman HUNTER —Why did you not tell your mis tress? Complainant (innocently)—Because I thought he would not repeat his conduct, and I did not wish to make a disturbance in the family; but I told my sister the same night. The last time he repeated his conduct was on Sunday night, when he got into my bed and put something to my mouth which took my senses away. By the ALDERDIAN—I was conscious till the moment he put his hand to my mouth ; but I was insensible when ho left me. I d on ' t know what it was he placed to nay mouth. No charge was made against me of taking the tippet until I inf orme d his parents of what hal taken place. This was about tea o'clock yesterday morning, and I was not given int ) custody until five o'clock in the afternoon. In the morning I told his mother I I would not sleep its the house again, and she said " Oh, he did net kill you." Chief Clerk—Was the prisoner present when you told his mother? Complainant —He was. Chief Clerk—. Did he make any remark? Com plainant—He said I would say anything. Alderman HUNTER—IIad he any handkerchief on his face when he left his father's yesterday? Complainant —He had; but he took it off when he went out at eleven o'clock, and when he returned, between one and two, he resumed it. The defendant denied the charge, as an entire fa brication, that he ever used anything to steal away her senses. Esther Greives, the sister (a married woman), deposed t,) the complainant telling her of the treatment she had received, and she advised her to infom her master and mistress of it, whi c h she said she would do. Mr. Robinso n app li ed for a remand to complete the evidence. Alderman HUNTER sa id h © s h ou ld m ost certainly re mand the cas e unt il Friday, as it was a most important one. and the fi rst under the Act of 12 an d 13 Vi ctor i a, c. 76, which h o understood would have to b e a dj u di cate d upon. A s it was a misdemeanour. he should take b a i l, requiring t we sureties of -50 1 . eac h , an d d e f en d ant i n 1001. Mr. Lawrence supported; Mr. Taylor appeared for Vie assignees. Mr. LAWRANCE, in support of his application for an adjournment, stated that the bankrupt, with the assist ance of Mr. Hutton, his accountant, had been at work night and day since the last examination, in making up the books and preparing the balance-sheet. The ac counts had been so imperfectly kept by those to whom they had been intrusted, that, although the materials w‘ re abundant, a considerable time had necessarily been occupied in arranging them. An adjournment was then fore ordered, at the expense of the estate, until the 26th of March. Ttre ofTh:ial assignee stated that the amount of the a,: etc in hand amounted to about 9001, and that a fur ther sum of 1,0001. was expected to be realised. It was further s'at4d that the unsecured debts proved and prov able against the estate amounted to about 10,0001. A long divenssion ensued, respecting a proof for more than 1,0001., which was resisted upon the ground of want of consideration and of usurious interest. The prof was tendered -by a Mr. Foulkes, who, it was al leged, charged an enormous rate of interest. 'rho COMMISSIONER, however, directed Foulkes to furnish a full and particular account of all his transac tions with the bankrupt, and the meeting was again ad journed. (Berore Mr. Commissioner HoLnoYD.) TUE DIRTFORD SAVINGS' BANK -IN THE NATTER OF J3SEPII JARDINE. A. petition for adjudication in bankruptcy wa3 this day opened against Joseph Jardine. of Dartford, in the county of Kent, linondraper, whose defAlcations as sc• to try of the Dartford Savings' Bauk have recently ex cited considerable interest. _ _ The petitioning creditors were Messrs. Loaf, Smith, led Co., of Old 'Change. The act of bankruptcy was the execution of an assignment by Jardine, on the Gth of February inst., to Mr. Charles Colyer, of Dartford, of all his estate and effects. The assignment contained a recital that the said Joseph Jardine, in his capacity of actuary and manager in the bank for savings for the town of Dartford and its vicinity, had received and neglected to account for divers -urns of money, amounting iu the whole to the sum of 2,000/. and upwards; and that, being unable to refund and replace the same, had proposed and agreed to exe eute to the said Charles Colyer, as a trustee for and on h half of the said institution, the assignment of all and every the estate. and effects of him the said Joseph Jar dine thereinafter mentioned upon the trusts thereinafter expressed. Mr. LA'WitANCE, who appeared on behalf of Mr. Hay ward, the solicitor for the trustees, who had been sum moned to prove the execution of the assignment, ob jected that there ou4ht to be no adjudication, inasmuch as by the 28th section of the 3d and 4th William IV., .chap. 14, it was enacted " that if any person already ap pointed under the provisions of the Act of the 9th George IV., or who might thereafter be appointed, to any office in a savings' bank, or in a society established under this Act, and being intrusted with the keeping of the accounts, or having in his hands or possession, by virtue of his said office or employment, any moneys or effects belonging to such savings' banks or society or any deeds or securities re!atitig the same, shall die or ibecorne bankrupt, or be placed in eerta,in other described situations, his executors, administrators, or assignees, or other persons having legal right, or the sheriff or other officer executing such process shall, within forty days after demand made by two of the trustees cf the said savings' bank or society as aforesaid, deliver and pay over all moneys and other things belonging to suoh savings' bank or society to such is.rson ss the said trustees shall appoint, and shall pay out of the estate, assets, or effects of such person all autos of money remaining due which such person re ceive] by virtue of his said office or employment, before any other of his • suid debts are paid or satisfied, or before the money directed to ho levied by such process tc of tresaid is paid over to tho party issuing such pro ses.'' lie contended that it was quite clear Viet all the assets proposed to be seiz el by the messenger under the bankruptcy would bo solely applicable to the payment of the deficiency due to the savings' bank, and that those assets ought not to be chargeable with the costs of prose cuting t baplirtuttes whioh could not result in any benefit tea the general creditors. Mr. JONES, the solicitor for the petitioning creditors, having objected that Mr. Lawrence could not be heard at this stage of the inquiry, The Learned CommissioszEn held that all he had at present to inquire into was, whether the ordinary re quisites of a tankruptcy were proved, leaving the dis poEal of the assets fur subsequent discussion. STAG HUNT EXTRAORDINAB Y.—About tW• o'clock yesterday rif;ernoon the inhabitants of Camden-town were astonished tt tae unusual sight of a fine slit?, or red-deer, running t t full speed in the, diteAion of Somers-town, with five hounds in full cry at his heels, f dloweri by one solitary rider and the huntsman, on h „,„„ t h at hal evidently done a hard day's work. It seems that Mr. Beaus hounds had met at Hendon, whence, in a circuitous route, the stag broke away for Finchley-cornrnon, skirting Coldfall',-wood, past High gate, and thence over the fields to the metropolis. He entered Soccer's-town by Brewer-street, through Skin ner-street, Phillips':-buildings, and Wilstal-strcit, finally crossing the .New-rea with five hounds close at his haunches. lie here untie a bolt at the iron-gate leading through Mableclon-place into Burton-crescent, but being hendei by two of the hounds, and terrified at the nu:fiber of-vehicles naiEsingt the Now-road, he daShed through the open gate facing Meisrs. Prior's stove-grae manufactury,-whence, seeing the shop-door open, he darted int) the house, and was there speedily secured. The unusual sight at . racted some thousands of per Sons; 4nd it required the assistance of a stroll hotly of police to preserve . ISlessr: , , Prior's •railinast from destruction. Such was the curiosity excited on the occa - .ion that nurn ber4 of women and children paid a penny each for ad mission to the put,l, to see so strange a visitor. The run from first to last was over not leis than thirty.five miles of grotlncl, and, u(04.11.14'11 a SOlng field had nine' tared in the ninrnin,ff, dogs and horses ware all fiirly beaten excei.t the small remnant who came in at the take. The star was carted-off from his reting-place al) nit s 4 o'clock, amid the cLeers of many hundrelS of sp,:ctators,_ The required recognizances were entered into. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mr. Lewis, the solicitor employed by the proprietor of the Saloon, Piccadilly, yesterday stated to Mr. Bing ham that an unexpected di ffi culty had present e d it se lf with r e f erence to the contemplated proceedings in an appeal ag ainst the decision given by the magistrate th e previous day. The proprietor of the Saloon was bed • ridden in the country; and as the Act of Parliament re quired that he should enter into his own recognizsnces within forty-eight hours to appeal against the decision, this provision of the Act could not be complied with. Now, as the decision in question affected hundreds of tradesmen in London and us the proprietor of the Saloon was desiro us o f setting 'aside all technical points, and fighting the decision on the merits of the case, he hoped the magistrate would give him his assistance to overcome the difficulty he had mentioned. Mr. BINGIIA.M was desirous of affording the defendant every facility for prosecuting an appeal. If the solicitor would make a declaration of the state of the defendant, and his inability to enter into the recognizances on that account, and would also undertake to enter into recog nizances for tie defendant, he saw no objection to that course, although it was quite new in practice. Mr. Lewis replied he was quite willing to adopt that alternative, and would at once enter into recognizances for his client. He wished now to ask advice in another matter. It was clearly understood that the decision on the previous day was in the nature of a preliminary step towards a final decision by a higher tribunal. It was also understood that the police ware not to act on the decision until the question had been settled at the ses sions. But the police had taken upon themselves to pro ceed at once to act on the decision, and had gone to the Saloon the same night with a demand on the manager to turn out the women who were in the hou.e. Hi s a d v i ce to the manager had been to take no notice of the demand of the police, but to let the police proceed to turn the parties out at their peril. If the police did act, then he advised an action against them. Mr. BINGIIAM had no authority over the actio ns o f the police, and theref ire could say nothing in reply to the solicitor's statement. Mr. Lewis Vianked the magistrate, and left the court to enter into the required sureties to prosecute an appeal. CLERKENWELL. William Edgar, alias William Beale, a well-dressed young man, was put at the bar before Mr. Combo, charged with a burglary on the premises of Mr. James TILE WRECK O 1 TITE PALMYRA.—IIIIORTATION 01 TliiE CA1.130. —The stearrnr Seine, arrived in the river from Boulogne, has brought Flu chests and 37 bags of tea, and the steamer Albion, from !he s.aaie French port, has brought 1,009 chests of tea, 53 packages of China ware, and !Imo other rrrelrm,2i,:o. b, ink norCor4 of Oio cargo t f the ship irately , :vrecked oft' Boulogne, n her a ofge fcorn Claim to London. Another poN lion ( f cArgo, comprisin g s.veral hundred packages of tea, had previously arrived I T th, , steamer C ty of Bo ilogne, consigned to e proper parties in th _ _ An idea of the extent' of the miichid committed (luring the, days t,f February maybe formed-from the fact thiv the Court of Liquidation of the Ci v il Li st i s ~,I abut t') sell by auction 50,001 b. of broken glass nodcryatnl, crystal, i onging to the furniture and servicos of the old Valais National. Broken porcelain has been already sold for 6,000£--Galignani s Messenger. THE SU LONDON, W.EDNI4ISDAY EVENING, PF,BRUARY Starling, stationer, of Upper-street, Islington; and also with ass,sulting Police-nonsi able Joseph Batts, 414 N division. with intent t murder him. Insmed.i.tely the prisoner was placed in the dock ho was recognized by Mr. Mould, the clerk, as an old and convicted thief and most desperate character. Inspector Gray, of the G division, said that a more daring fellow had not been prowling about London and committing depred ttions of an extensive description for many years past. On the 24th of August in last year he with another man named Blackwell broke into the premises of Mr. Raheire, furrier, of 322, Oxford-street, at midnight, and being disturhed by the police the accused jumped from a second-floor window and in jured his leg, which led to his capture, while his wretched companion, who dropped from the roof of the building in the hope of escape, was killed on the spot. The prisoner on that occasion was removed to Middlesex Hospital, and placed under the surveillance of a police-officer; but he managed to escape from that institution a few weeks aftkrwarde, and was recaptured in September following in Spitaltields, by him (Inspector Gray), with assistance, after a severe encounter with him and several bull-logs; and he was thth with conveyed before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlbo• rough-street, who, in consequence of the fatal catastrophe which had befallen his companion, found a difficulty in the case, notwithstanding a burglary was proved to hare been committed at Mr. Rsheire's, and a summary conviction of three months, with hard labour, was the result. Sergeant Dyer, of the E division, informed the worthy magistrate that eighteen months ago the prisoner was sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the House of Correction from that court, he having been found con cealed at the hour of twelve o'clock in the house of Mr. Davis, the Swan public-house, in Little Ormond-street. He appealed from that conviction, and absconded from his bail, whese recognisances were Entreated. The following evidence was then given in respect of the present serious charges : The police-officer Ba.e , , being sworn, stated—At half-past 3 o'clock this morning, I met the prisoner in Seabrook-mews, at the back of the Pied Bull public house. I aske d him what business he had there, when he instantly drew back without making a reply, and struck me under the left ear with a hammer. I stag gered against a wall, when rallying a little I sprung my rattle, and in a very few minutes saw the prisoner in the custody of George Lock, 196 N. (The witness ap peared very ill, and had on a plaster.) Lock deposed to the capture of the prisoner, and to finding upon him 66 pencil-cases of gold and silver, and 121. in cash. The prosecutor identified the property produced which bad been stolen from his dwelling between the hours of half-past twelve and four on that morning. He retired to rest the last in his family at half past twelve, leaving every door and window fastened, ■nd was called up by the last witness after the apprehen sion of the prisoner, when he discovered that the thieves bad passed from the mews over some sheds to the leads at the back of his house, and bad then forced open a barred door, leading to his shop, back parlour, and kitchen, from which place the property mentioned was removed. This being the case against the prisoner, Mr. COMBE asked him if he wished to make any statement in respect to the charges ? The prisoner said he should reserve his defence. The witnesses having each been bound over in the sum of 804 to prosecute the prisoner, ho was convoyed to Newgato. REPEAL of the DUTY on PAPER. A deputation of gentlemen, representing paper-makers, publishers, and printers, in England and Scotland, had an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at three o'clock, in Downing -street. Amongst those present were Mr. Charles Cowan. Mr. T. B. Crompton, of Farnworth, Lancashire; Mr. Baldwin. of Sherbonrne Mill, Birminzhane; Mr. Thomas kVrigley, (I Bury, Lancashire; Mr. James Dnrhaul and Mr. Henry Bruce, Edinburgi,,hire; Mr. Robert (`ham <<e of Edinburzh; Mr. Chalks Knight, and Mr. W. S. Ocr, of London. Tile deputation was accompanied by Mr. Hume, M.P., and by Mr. Scbolefield and Mr. Blair, the Members re spectively for Birmingham and Bolton. Mr. Cowart introduced the deputation, and made a few general observations. Mr. CROMPTON said—My Lord, I can assure you with great sincerity, that I have come hither with much reluctance. I have been impelled by what I feel to be the necessity of the case. I have been upwards of forty years an extensive manufacturer of paper, and during all that period I have never known the branch of industry in question so unre munerative as it is now. I will endeavour as concisely as I can, to explain to your Lordship some of the more palpable causes and reasons for this state of things, and I will point out the gross inconsistencies which exist, and of which we are obliged to complain. First. Is it reasonable that a raw material of the most worthless character—l mean the very refuse which is ere tted from cctton and linen, in the process of manufacturing these substances into cloth—should bear the impost of a duty amounting to 600 per cent. upon its cost price, when main in'3 . paper, whilst the cotton manufacturers have succeeded in removing a tax of only five-sixteenths of one penny per lb. upuu cotton imported into this country, the Government having been satisfied that tle.t very snesll proportion—certainly not more than five pee cent upon its value—was prejudicial to the interests of the country ? I ask again. How can it be justified that the very refuse of the same articles should be burdened with a tax of six hun dred per cent. upon their value? Now, my Lord, I will endeavour to bring under your notice some of the numerous h trdships to which papor malufa.3turers have boon obliged to submit in consrquence of the arbitrary and inconsistent operation of the Excise. Here are spe cimens of numerous articles brought into the market as substitutes fir paper, and, in appearance, so identically ' the same with that article, that even I, my Lord, with out marking them, could not distinguish between the ny e real commodity pett a ei et o n , rt end oft officers sen t ve s uoaper nrnrr i isoembo pronounced . or t ris. a ouog t ; i f :o:xsaentepldh, specimens t ( th)ebhlniersw. Now, ral ofe l (pa paper. eref. l orayert what One pmoetfictitious Cromptonrreeerdem t p to bee oe o o produces tpuf e he hundred per cent. is accordingly levied upon the cost value of the one, while the other goes free, and it may be interesting to your Lordship, and to the public at large, to know why. The hare assertion of the fact, indeed, would scarcely bo credible without the corrobo ration of detail. By a decision of the Board of Excise, in order to constitute paper, the material must have been pulverised and worked in water. It occurred to a manu facturer to take advantage of this official definition. He erected premises and constructol machinery for the pur pose of fabricatin g the very same materi a l in a dry s t a t e . He succeeded, a n challenged the Board of Excise to seize the goods, which, according to their authoritative description, could not be paper. A seizure was made; but a compromise took place. The manufacture was al lowed to proceed for a given time, on the distinct under standing that, after its expiration, he should discontinue his process or subject his product to the same duty with that paid upon paper manufactured in the usual way. I believe it was ,discontinued accordingly; but it was subsequently revived, and is at this moment carried on—the goods being sold under the name of felt, exten sively substitute I for paper, and distinguishable from that manufacture by no perceptible difference except by being slightly darker in colour. Of another extreme hardship I have personally experienced the severe pressure. About two years ago a general order was issued from the Board of Excise to the effect that paper to be made into papier macho should bo exempted from duty provided the paper were manufactured on the premises on which the papier mitch6 manufacture was carried on, but not otherwise. Now, observe the opera tion of this. I was under the necessity of either allow ing the papier mitchti manufacturer to come to my pre mis3e, or of erecting paper-making machinery on his, or, finally, of allowing myself to be superseded in his supply. Finding myself thus situated, I memorialised the Board of Excise, as well as the Lords Commission ers o f th e Privy Council for the Board of Trade, as did also my customer (one of the most respectable and extensive manufacturers of papier mitche in the kingdom) ; but neither • of us could succeed in obtaining permission for me to send out paper under permit, giving notice to the officer of Ex cise to that effect, so as to be, allowed a drawback. This is but one of a thousand of the vexatious and unjust impositions inevitably resulting from the existence of the duty and the consequent Excise regulations. As there are several other gentlemen desirous of addressing your Lordship, I must conclude by observing that the immoral tendency of this tax is such that I fear it is en couraging the most iniquitous practices, and rapidly breaking down the probity of the manufacturer in this trade. For we see daily in the market paper sold at prices at which net honest trader can produce it, tram melled as he is by this most oppressive and obnoxious law. Mr. JAMES BALDWIN, from Birmingham, said—My Lord, I had the honour, about a year and a half ago, of addressing a letter to your Lordship on these unjust Excise laws, and the answer I got from your Lordship was that you would take the matter into your serious consideration. I now come with this deputation to offer a few additional reasons for their abolition. I perceive that your Lordship's Go vernment is aware that the Excise laws are becoming exceedingly obnoxious, for I perceive you now call all the Excise offices " inland revenue offices." This convinces me that your Lordship is aware of the feeling of the country on this matter. Now, my Lord, a few of the additional reasons are these, that I find that Birmingham, the town I come from, according to its population, uses more paper in wrapping and re-wrapping its manu factured goods than almost any other in the kingd ,, m: and to show how this Act operates, before I left home I called on a few of the merchants and manufacturers, such, for instance, as Messrs. Scholefield, Messrs. Vanwart and Co., Harrolds, Mr. IL W. Winfielul, J. Palmer, and others. In one of these houses I f oun d t h at nearly 00 tons of wrapping paper, paying 151. per ton, had been used in a year. The manufacturers of these goods having used 30 tons previously in making the same goods ; the merchant d ea li ng w i t h t h em use d 30 tons additional for the same goods; so that, reckoning the 30 per cent. put on in America, this paper duty alone made a difference of nearly 1,0001. per annum in the dealings of one houie. Under such circumstances, how was it possible the English merchant and manufacturer could compete with the foreign merchant and manufacturer, who did not pay duty on the paper in which their goods were packed ? (Mr. Baldwin here showed to his Lordship some scraps of button boards, out of which blanks for the insides of Florentine buttons had been cut, and in which there is great waste made, though duty is paid on all.) Thus, in the case of the very low-priced small buttons, the duty alone raises the prico of the buttons nearly 10 per cent., on which, w hen they are sent to America another 30 per cent. is put. I ask your Lorkship how it is pos- 13 1 i 850 sible for us to compete with t`.e fertigeer? And th en again I would esic your Lordship to look at its effect., on education. My Lord, Ido hop ,us you cannot say now you cannot, :Tare the money, that you will relieve -the country of this unjust and improper tae. Before I sit down, allow me just to say that, in exporting the corn. moner kind of paper, the trouble and expense we are put to in packing for exports amounts to from 12 to 15 per cent., while to send the same paper to Australia the carriage does not amount to more than about 5 per cent. Mr. DURHAM adverted to the circumstance that the Excise duties proved a bar to the applications of science in this branch of manufacture, and illustrated this by observing that beautiful papers of certain descriptions, such as paper hangings, &c., have been made in France from straw (several samples of straw paper Navin; been laid on the table by Mr. Cowan), and the wonder of course is, how such an article manufactured in France, cannot be also done in England, where there is so much skill, enterprise, and capital. He said the Excise duty must be held chargeable with this marvellous atate of things. The French maker has no duty or Excise n gulations to interfere with his experiments; the English maker has, and the matter works thus—suppose a maker determines to experiment on 50 tons of straw at 40s. per ton, 4 e., 1004; now the risk, in this case, of failure in producing a good article is to the extent of 100/., besides workmanship. Now,supposo a loss of 20, 30,er 40 per cent., as the case may be, on an article sold in the market held to bo inferior or imperfect (as all experiments anal discoveries are of course very imperfect and uncertain at first), this is of course a loss, but not to such an extent as to be serious, but such as might be contemplated by any manufacturer in making experiments with the hole of ultimate benefit; but on the other hand, it is quite manifest that if, in addition to the price of the raw ma terial of the 50 tons, there be also the duty of 151. per ton, or 750 L on that quantity, the risk then is no longer on 1001. and workmanship, but on 8501. and workman ship, in the case supposed —a very different matter in deed, and such as might involve ruinous risk and loss. Such a fearfully increased risk prevents any prudent man attempting experiments, or following up discove ries, and, in fact, one party who did erect a mill in England, to make paper from straw, after sacrificing a large capital in the attempt, has ceased to work, and re tired from the trade altogether; and there is no likeli hood of any other party making such attempts whilst the enormous load of the Excise duties exist. Mr. CHAMBERS said the pressure of the paper duty upon the business of publishing is chiefly felt in the most popular class of publications. Those addressed to the great body of the people. On a newspaper of large cir culation it is very heavy. I know a provincial journal which shows great enterprise, and upon it the paper duty is about 6001. per annum, which would be a profit failing all other. On cheap literary journals, I can speak more definitely. There was one called a " Miscel lany of Tracts,":which my brother and I published. It met a large sale, and, I believe, was in the way of doing some good amongst the humbler classes. It returned, however, so slight a profit that we gave it. up, while selling to the extent of 80,000 copies. On the whole amount of this work printed, the duty was 6,220/. Now, this would have been a very ample profit in itself, though a mere shade upon each copy. The amount of duty paid for our publications per annum is, at an average, close upon 3,0001., which must be considered as a great burden on what is, to all intents and purposes, a branch of the educational means of the country. In a cheap publication, the value of paper may be set down at nearly one-fourth of the selling price, and considerably above one-third of the price to the retailer. This is the case of the publisher who acts with all possible advantages in his favour, such as pay ing ready money for every article, and acting as his own printer and binder. From these data the severity of the burden on popular publications may be estimated. Were the paper duty removed, the existing publications might, in some cases, be reduced in price ; in others the public would derive a benefit from a superior paper being usd, and a heater literature presented. In all subsequent works tee price would, of coatae, be struck es the lo veered Fete. I dally believe that, with paper eta re lieved price, we could bring out to guy new works of im peitunee to the public, which we could not now with any prudence attempt. Mr. CHAS. KNIGHT would not detain. his Lordship by adding anything to the general argument which had been urged by Mr. Chambers, as to the discouragement of popular literature by the existence of the duty on paper. lie would confine his observations to one point. The paper tax operated injuriously against all literature, but more especially ao in the case of cheap publications for which high priced skilled authorship was paid. He hal been able to show tbat the duty had been a positive bur den upon the " Penny Cyclopasdia" to the extent of 16,500/. That work was undertaken under the auspices of his Lordship himself, amongst other eminent persons; but the cost had been borne by Mr. Knight. It had never been remunerative, for the cost was largely in creased by the natural operation of the tax upon the price of paper. This was an example of the peculiar burden of the tax upon the higher kind of lite rary labour compelled to compete with low priced authorship in the race of cheapness. Mr. Knight be lieved that the great mass of publications were tending to cheapness—the good as well as the bad. He believed that books for the few were fast going ont of demand, and, further, that the many would ultimately pay the proper rewards of good writers as well, if not better, than under the present :system of a limited demand. Bu', with the paper duty the profits of a publisher em ploying the best authors to produce cheap books wars so curtailed by the burden of the tax upon the large amount of paper used for such books that the higher class of literature was deprived of its proper encou ragement. The remark.; of tho deputation were followed up by a short but lucid and firciblo aildrois from Mr. flume, on social. moral, and commercial questions involved in the subject; after which tho gentlemen, who had been received with the greatest courtesy by his LorJdhip, withdrew. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—TuEsDAr. LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.— 10 to I agst Chandler (t), 12 to 1 agst Rattrap (t), 12 to 1 agst Sir Juhn, 16 to 1 apt Knight of Owynne, 13 to 1 apt Sir Arthur (t), 20 to 1 agst Little Fanny (t), 20 to 1 agst Vain Ilope, 25 to 1 ap‘t Shinrone (t), 25 to 1 agst Ii scue (t;, 30 to 1 apt Maria Day (t). TnE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAYES.-10 10 1 ag't Osterley (t), II to 1 agst Harriot', 12 to 1 agst Velox, 20 to 1 agst Priestess (t), 20 to 1 agst Fernhill. METROPOLITAN STAKES.-5 to 1 agst Cheerful (t), 15 to 1 apt Snowstorm (t), 16 to 1 agst Dough, 20 to 1 asst Testator (t). CHESTER CUP.-14 to 1 agst Glauca, 18 to 1 a:at Miss Anne, 22 to 1 agst Peep-o'-Day Boy (t), 23 to 1 sgst Roland, 25 to 1 agst apt Cossack, 25 to 1 agst Ellerdale (offers to take), 25 to 1 agst Whim colt (offers to take), 25 to 1 agst Fugleman (offers to take), 40 to 1 sgst Woodlark, 40 to 1 agst Marriott. DERBY.-15 to 1 agst VolLigeur (offers to ta'se). Nothing else named. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, TUESDAT.—The Winchester, 50, WAS docked to-day fur repair. The Royal yacht Victoria and Albert was taken into the steam-basin to-day to receive her boilers, &c. The Termagant screw-frigato and the Hecati paddle-sloop were also taken in, to lay up until required for service. An accident, which might have been attended with most disastrous consequences, occurred in the harbour this afternoon about three o'clock. As one of the gigs belonging to the York convict hulk was coming down the harbour, by the strength of the ebb tido she got drawn in between the Dutch ship Clara Lasing Immsgonda and the Topaz receiving -hulk, when the top of the boat's mast fouled the Dutch ship's chain, and capsized the boat, throwing the keeper and four convicts into the water. Fortunately, by the assistance of the Dutch crew, and ropes hanging over, they were enabled to clamber into the ship, and were saved. The boat drifted out of the harbour. Wind, W., strong breezes and cloudy, with passing showers. Woo',wren, FEB. 12.—Captain Austen, C. 8., has been again a: the Admiralty to-day, making the noces ary arrangements for the expedition to the Arctic re gions, and in the afternoon, with Captain Sir Baldwin Walker, K.C.8., Surveyor of the Navy, proceeded to Blackwell, returning to the Admiralty about four o'clock r.sr. It is understood the expedition will consist of two sailing-vessels and two small steamers, having a small draught of water, and both fitted with screw-propellors, A plan, submitted by Mr. Tucker, one o f the foremen of shipwrights at Woolwich, for tilting a screw-propeller astern of the dead wood of the vessel, has been highly spoken of, and there is every reason to believe it will Le adopted in ono of the steamers. Mr. Penny, formerly master of the Advice, who was retained by Lady Franklin, had interviews yesterday with the Lords of the Admiralty and with Captain Aus ten, but his mission to the Arctic regions will be in a vessel of his own selection, at present at Aberdeen, and she will be entirely under his own control, independent of Captain Austen's expedition, excepting the mutual good services they may render to each other, should they meet in the Polar seas. Captain W. Peel was at the Admiralty a considerable time yesterday, and is most anxious, if he does not ob tain the command of one of the ♦essels, to act as an ad ditional captain for a land party, or to proceed over the ice. Captain Caffin, formerly commander of the Scourge, has also volunteered his services to proceed with the expedition, and had conferences yesterday with Captain Austen and Captain Bird, the latter having been consulted on many subjects connected with the ex pedition, but is not expected to accompany it on this oc casion. Mr. J. Barrow, F.R.S., one of the senior decks at the Admiralty, has been most indefatigable in collecting in formation of a useful nature from the valuable papers in his possession, and Rear-Admiral Beaufort, 1i.C.8., F.R.S., and Captain Sir G. Back, have unceasingly af forded their able assistance and advice on every subject connec:e.l with the expedition, and no exertion will be spared to render it the most efficient ever sent t) the Arctic Regions. COTTON.-It having been represented to the Board of Customs that it is very desirable, for the interests of merchants and others engaged in the cotton trade, that an account should be taken of the several kinds of cot ton wool exported, the board have issued an order di recting that in future all cotton wool entered for expora tation be described in the shipping bills by one or other of the specific denominations commonly recognised, or by such other denomination as may cor rect l y i ndicate its growth. This new regulation has resulted from an ap plication recently made to the Customs authorities from the brokers and merchants of the port of Liverpool, and others interested and concernod in the cotton trade, in order that a correct knowledge may at all times be ob tained of the stock of cotton actually existing in the kingdom. -- • - GRE A T SCARCITY OF COD FISH. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUIV. SlR,—Billingsgate market this morning exhibits a pretty practical proof of the necessity there is, that some measures should be adopted to prevent those fluctuations of supplies the market according to the now existing state of things is subject to. At one period, not many years ago, when there were upwards' • • of three hundred and fifty welled smacks constantly engaged in the deep-sea "Coddirtg trade," London market was then the boast of the world for its primest description of cod-fish, and its regularity of supplies. Like the butcher who keeps his cattle penned up alive until they are required to be, killed, so were the cod-fish kept alive in the vessels' wells until there was a wholesome demand. There having been such a considerable number of vessels in the trade, when it happened the weather was boisterous at sea for a number of de) s, the 'mead was not very materially affected, as there were always a number of smacks lying at Gravesend with living cod to supply the demand. That good old system, like ::any other good old systems, now wears a different aspect. The great competition offered by the open boat along-shore fishermen to the welled smack owners has caused the greatest number cf the smack owners to withdraw their vessels from the regular deep-sea trade. The consequence is, that when the weather happens to be at all boisterous (as it has been lately), the open-boat fishers cannot put to sea; and now, there only being a few cod-smacks engaged in the trade, when the weather is a little boisterous, the markets are left almost bare of fresh cod. Some little time since, when the weather was fine, large cod were sold at Billingsgate for two shillings or half-a-crown. This morning the wholesale price of cod fish was from fifteen shillings to one guinea each.' I am, Sir, &c., Feb. 13, 1850. 11. DE MPSTER. THE PENINSULAR WAR. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Thiers, in his 9th volume of the Consu late and Empire, claims forlhitnself the secret of the Peninsular war, having found it in certain papers to which he only has had access. That may be ; but I ask if he is incapable of drawing false conclusions from secret materials to support perverse assertions ? To answer with good warrant let us examine how he deals with authentic documents, not confined to his secret repertory. Thiers—"3,ooo brisk resolute Frenchmen" opposed 15,000 English at Ricorca. Reply—The Duke of Wellington judged the French to be 6,000. Laborde, their comm a nd e r, denied be bad 6,000, th us tacitly admitting he had 5,000 or more. Thiers—The English had 400 cavalry. Reply—The English Adjutant- General's return gives 250. Thiers—Laborde wounded or killed 1,200 or 1,500 English at Ricorqa. Reply—The Adjutant-General's return gives 479 killed, wounded, and missing. Theirs—"Junot collected 9,000 some hundred men to fight at Vitneira." Reply—The French order of battle found on the field gave 14,000. Theirs-22,000 French embarked under the Con vention. Reply—The official French embarkation return gives nearly 26,000 men and officers. Thiers—" Only 26,000 men followed Junot into Portugal." Reply—The Imperial mittl•-rolls cive 29 ; 584 effectlve in Portuzal, 2:Q of 1S:08. Theirs—The Frt ncli army of -pain under 16.- poleon :2,;0,000 strong, of v. Lich 200,000 only were assembled there the end of Oetober, 1808. Reply—The Imperial muster-rolls show, on the 25th of October, more than 319,000 efftctive ; on the 15th of November, more than 339,000 effective. Thiers—Sir John Moore's troops arrived at Sala. manta, exhausted by their long march, and by pri vations. Reply—Aloore's dispatches say his troops were in better case than when they started from Lisbon ; they suffered no privations, and their excellent con dition up to Sahagun was notorious. Thiers—" Moore advanced to Sahagun with 29,000 English troops, and about 10,000 Spaniards." Reply —The Adjutant-General's return of the 19th of December gives 23,583 of all arms ; Moore had no Spaniards, and Romans, who did not act in concert, had only 6,000. M.Thiers cannot deny the authenticity of my num bers, seeing they were taken from the original Impe rial muster-rolls in the French War-office; not the yellow, but the green rolls; the officers of that (lice will appreciate the distinction of colours. M. Thiess cannot plead ignorance. All the docu ments are printrd in toy history, and he had access to the French originals. So much for quantities. qualities. Thiers—Wellington hes a "contracted intellect;" Sir John Moore was " irresolute in council ;" th. English soldier is " beaten almost to death for the least fault;" "be is little practised to march ;" " is inanimate, feeble, when forced to wove to at tack ; " "he has no vivacity, no• audacity, so en thusiasm, no hardihood, no enterprise ;" "to beat him he must be forced to take the initiative in at tack," &c Let us examine him as to ii'ply—Wellington's intellect, measured by M Thiers' imagination, must appear very contracted. Yet it is strange that with a few troops having no enterprise, no hardihood, and fearing to be beaten to death for trifling ofiencs, he should have main tained the war for five years successfully in Spain, against enormous numbers of soldiars and officers the best and most skilful in the world, according to M. Thiers, and, finally, should carry that war int) France ! Strange that troops unable to march should have moved, in face of an enemy, from Lis bon to the Aguede, from the Agueda to Madrid, from the Douro to the Adour, from the Adour to the Upper Garonne. Stranger still, if to beat those troops it was only necessary to make them attack, that they should have attacked successfully at Rorica, where the French hill was five times more steep, rug ged, and difficult than the English hill at Vimeira, which the French unsuccessfully attacked ; that they forced the passage of the Douro and drove Soult out of Portugal ; that they attacked Massena at Re dinha, at easel Nova, at Fonte d'Aronce, at Sabugal, and drove him also out of Portugal; that they at tacked and retook the key of the position at A.lbuen, which the Spaniards had lost ; that they attacked and defeated Marinont at Salamanca— the King at Vittoria, driving him out of Spain ; that in the second fight, near Pampelunn, they at tacked Souk's mountain position, and drove him out of Spain ; that they forced the intrenched mountain position at Vera, and his fortified mountain lines on the Nivelle, covering B iyonne ; that they passed the Gave de Pau in face of the French army, and de feated that army at Orthes—that they passed the Garonne and forced the intrenched camp at Toulouse, thus terminating the war ! M. Thiers is not happy in his military reveries. Brilliant phrases condemna tory of revolutions which he could neither arrest nor guide are more consonant to his genius. Thiers—Sir John Moore was " irresolute in coun cil"—" he yielded to the imperious admonitions of Mr. Frere"—" papers published by his family prove this." Reply—The papers published by Moore's family proved that he repelled Mr. Frere's arrogance with calm dignity, did not follow his plans, and changed his own because fresh events called for change. His irresolution in council exists in M. Thiers' imagina tion—nowhere else. Those who knew Sir John Moore will laugh at such a silly assertion. M. Thiers has not been so remarkable for political reso lution himself as to give him a right to censure others. In what council known to him did Sir John Moore display irresolution ? Those who have read that General's journals know of several held with Mr. Pitt, Lord Melville, and others, wherein his abi lity, unhesitating vigour, and readiness to undertake what he advised, the sure sign of resolution, were signally manifested. But N. Thiers speaks after wards of his " prudent firmness." Prudent firmness combined with irresolution! Indomita b l e resolu tion, both in council and in the field , waslll ore a served a th more example of un founded censure. ‘ c c h id a e r d characteristic. Napoleon himself was no t mor e de - Onesaid N oln his advanceeo to the north, and Spanish‘Sir John aus e h giving the south tim e t o rally. This M. Thi e r s ca ll s a " presumptuous manner of presenting the affair to cov er a disastrous campaign." S cause r°lriweing The best reply to that presumptuous remark is M. Thiers' history, wherein he distinctly shows that Napoleon did turn all his forces from the south to the north in consequence of Moore's advance to Sahagun —an advance which that General had previously de clared he would make to produce such a result I Verily, M. Thiers must amend his manner of treat ing known accessible facts, if he would have his authority accepted for the unknown and inaccessible. WILLIANI NAPIER, Majo:. General. NAVAL CLUII or 1765.—The members of this anent club dined together at the Thatched House Tavern o❑ Monday lair. Vice-Admiral Sir Charles Malcolm, president of the club, took the chair, and was supported by upwards of forty of his comrades; among whom were Captains Sir E. Belcher, C. 8., Charles (;role, E. Chappell. Thomas Dickenson, H. E. Edgell, C. Edmunds, 11. Gossett. Percy Grace, %V. J. T. Hood, R. Bridhun, Sir John Boss, C. t 3., P. Yorke, &c. The secret .ry, Mr. Alen, occupied the vice-chair. UNIVERSITY COLLEGF, LONDON.—The council, at their session on Saturday last, awarded the Flaherty Soliolarship in classics to Mr. Alfred Wills, of Birming ham—examiners, Arthur St. Clough, M.A., Professor Newman, and Professor Malden. At the same session, on the recommendation of the Faculty of Medicine, the Longridge Prizi of 40/4for general profi ciency was awarded to Mr. Henry Briggs, of Mali*. . le r had ,uc• TiO? w of il Y_ A or" * 0 iO O, 4 ,00