The Sun. — London, England, 1851-06-14 00:00:00

r ' 4,4 ~~ qr. tttnn GERMANY. A Vienna letter of the 6th s t a t es th a t a very un tisfactory feeling prevailed in the Austrian Court in consequence of the chilling reception given by the EcupPror of Russia to Prince Schwartzenberg. The fact that during his sojourn in the Austrian States the Emperor wore a Hungarian uniform is con sidered ominous. SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. WEIGHTS FOR THE GOODWOOD CUP. Age st. lb.l Age st. lb. Voltigeur Little Jack 4 9 3 Sir John a 7 5 Nutshell Cariboo Beehunter Essedarius Landgrave Lord George Clincher 4 3 101Glenhawk Rusaborough The Nigger 4 8 10l The Tout 3 6 10 Cossack Officious Cby Sir Hercules, War Horse 4 6 8 out of Dark Susan 4 8. 1 Pandemus Melody . . MINING INTELLIGENCE, (From the Mining Journal of this day.) MlNES.—Peering through the gloom which has of late beset our market there is the encouraging feature of a strong disposition to purchase into solid mines, whes ther paying dividends or otherwise firmly established safe concerns. In the former it is difficult to purchase, except at advanced rates, and the business, therefore, is limited; but in the latter considerable transactions have l taken place; in man y cases at a d vance d prices—t •0 number of shares so changing hands being larger_ erns than usual. As bef ore i nt i mate d , t h e fl us h o f capital netting from the p a y men t o f th e July dividends will give a further s ti mu l us to m i n i ng share transaFtionl end,at will in all probability, capitalists offering at this Ia the lower m have no re ason t o regre t th e ir outlay. grades of m i nes , a b so l u t e i n action prevails. Ti ere has been but little variattoni in the metal mar ket. The de m a n d for copper is steady. Lead is some bas dhveeld r what brisker. The Dutch Tr s a l d a in s g a C s o n m ea pa t t i t a y , has ta titled a public sale of 111,181 slabs h A i e n Amsterdam; te 50,875 dam ; slobs lots wilt consist of 1,000 at Amsterdam on the sth August , arc,s o t f a w t arc lying at fi rn eetterda, and ta slabs each. The direction h ag at the same time given an ass i urance that no oth er l i t will be brought to marketay thebe before trading company, will not e m eno : ms d dpflarenoomy! India sad 1852, either in Holland.t n s that atacth)yinta during hefactory, the and a space the ex ceed 10,000 pieule. Other s o metals ea'ionary. The price of gold in bars (standard) was 3/ I7s. 9d. per oz.; silver in bars ditto, o s . Oid. per oz.; and new dollars, 4s. 1 l e l d. per oz. mes s rs. Pow!es Brothers and Co. have sold to the Sheffield Smelting Company 9 cwt. of sulphuret of lead and concentrated slags, at 472/. per ton; end to Slur* Will) ams on , Nevill, sa d C o., 28 cwt, of cupel stuff, at 3181 per t. The Mill Pool Mine sold three parcels of black tin— at 471., 44/. 103, and 43/. 10s. per ten. Wheal Mary. Ana sold two pnrc,is of lead ore-64 tons at 22/ Is., anti 46 tons at El 4s. 63. per ton. Whet , / Tri e 11 soldof black tin, which seo. three parcels realised 504 93. Id. A sale of tin from Grest Polgeoth,: raised during thi3 Brat twenty-feur - tiles Of the 1:11-V1 company's operations (from the stit to 301 April), has just taken place, and realised 1,1901. Ile. lid., givieg a profit over the working cost at 1361 19e. ld. eierilen Mines sold thirty tees of lead for May, at 11/. 17e. 611. per toe, , ealising 356/ ss, Pereira Glaze Mine sold ferty-four tons of lead ore to the Tamar Smeiting Company at 8/. 13s. 6d. per toneon the 7th instant. The foreign arrivals at Swansea include—from Cabe, 460 tons of copper ore, 250 tons of regulus, and 278 bags of silver ore. The arrivals in London include —from Hambergh, 50 casks o f P lL 'athe°'e; Gottenburg, 3,652 b ars o f i ron; Rouen, 90 toes eflpelter ; Stettin, 9,134 plates of spel ter; Bremen, 49 cs. 1 cask of old nietal; Adelaide, 2,188 cakes. 8,229 tiles, 3,551 ingots of copper, end 2,004 bags of copper ore; Trieste, 101 ca. of quicksilver; Coquim bo, 61,207 ingots of copper, 615 bags of argent ore; Gulf of Conchagna, 2 bozos and 164 barrels of silver ore. Gergent ' , 260 tons of brimstone; Antwerp, 8 cases of epsitts, 32 casks of nails; Seville, 40 tons of lead ore; Singapore, 2,374 slabs of nu, and 164 bozos of antimony. At Liverpool —from Stockholm, 7,802 bars of iron; Antwerp, 52 cases, 10 barrels of zinc; Singapore ; 61 slab, of tin; Bilbea, 10 cases iron hatchets. At Hull—from Hanteurgh, 4.204 plates of epelter, and 5 casks of nickel; Rotterdam, 10 casks of manganese, and 12 casks of plumbago; Gottcnbarg, 1,330 bars o f iron. The Great Work-acccunts for Jan., Feb., and March showed-Balance from last account, 5391. ss. 7d.; Ores and materials cold, 3,204/. 14s. 10d.3,747/. Os. 5d.- Mine cost and merchants' bills, 2,470/ 6s. 6d.; dividend of 71. 10s. per share (8921. 10s.); leaves balance in hand, 3847 3e. 11d. At Wheal Seton meeting, on Monday, the accounts fur March and April showed-Balance from last ac• count,243/. 3s. 63.; ores sold (less dues), 3,182/. 114. • 3,4251. 15s. 31.-Costa and merchants' bills, 2,876 i. 05. 23. ; leaving balance in favour of Adventurers, 5491. 153. ld. • At South Tolgus bi-monthly meeting, on the lid lust , the accounts showed-Balance from last account, 111/. 15s. 101; received for copper ores sold (less dues), 2,1211. 41.5d._2.233/. 33.-Mine cost and mer chants' bills for March and April, 1,505/. 145.; divi dend, 6401.; leaves balance to next account, 871. 6s. 3d., the profit on the two months being 6151. 10s. sd. A di vidend of 21. 103 per share (640/) was made. At the Devon Consol s north first two-monthly meet . ing, on Thursday the accounts were examined and passed, showing-Call, 2,5001-By costs to date, 1224 153. ; leaving balance in hand, 2,3771. ss. At the Derwene Mines meeting, on the sth instant, the directors' report stated that all the debts owing' the miners and the merchants for supplies had been liqui dated, and that they had now reached the nearest ap proach to cash payments practicable. The returee for 1850 had exceeded the cost by 1,414/. 14s. I ld.; and, as far as the cup rent year has proceeded, the produce goes on increasing, as compared with the correspondinz, period of 1850, and continued incretv;ed supplies of ore are expected. At Bedford United Alines meeting, held on Thursday, the accounts showed-Balance in head, 413/, 12s. 93., to gether with an ore bill for 8451. due next week, which balance of assets being increased (according to estimate made to 20th August), to 1,578/193. 7d,, a dividend of 8001. was made, being 4s. per s h are. At the South Tamar meeting, on Wednesday, the ac counts were examined and passed, showing-BAlance last aoiount, 690/. 103.8 d.; ores sold, 1,4331, 93. 23.---..2,1231. 19s. 103.-By labour cost, March, 7521. 14s. 8d ; ditto April, 736 1: 15a. 4d.; discount, 101. La-leaving balance in favour of mine, 6241. Bs. 103. The estimated pay . smote to be made before next meeting in August, are : Costs, 1.5001; half-cost of stamping engine 3901.; dues, ..3061. 7e. 41=2,221/. 75.44.; leaving to be provided for, 1,596/. 18s. 6d. The estimated value of the ores to be sold will not be available. until after the meeting, and on the 3d December the other half cost of the engine, 390/, becomes due , . A call of 2s. 6d. per share was made, pay able on or before 6th July. At East Tamar Consols meeting, on Wednesday, the accounts showed-Balance from last account, 7531. Is.; sales of silver-lead ore and fluor-spar, 8801. 17s. 53 1,633/. 183. 5 01.-Mine cost for March, 4631. 153. 5d.; April, 4924 Ils. 4d.; discount, 31. 151. 10d... leaving balance to next account, 6731. 15s. 103. The estimated expenaes to end June are 1,3501.35. Id., leaving balance of payments over receipts of 676/ 7s. 3d., against which are 63 tons of silver-lead ore to be received, 8907 The Lelant Consols accounts for Jan., Feb., and March, show ed -Balance from last account, 706/. 7s. Bd. • mine cost and merchants' bills, 1,552 1 13s. 5d =2,259/, ' Is. Id. -Ores sold, 507/. 195.; sundries, 531. 28. Bd.; j Call in March, 1,0244: leaves balance against adven turers, 6 7 195.5 d. A call of 31. per share was made. The Ding Doug accounts for tnreo months ending March show-mine cost and merchants' bills, 1,894/, ss. ad. Ores sold, 1,831/. 13a. ; sundries 9/. 9s. 9d. ; leav ing loss on the three months, 531. 23. 63. At East Tolgus meeting on the 4th instant, the W eems showed-balance last account, 127/. 12s. sd. • mine cost for March and April, 1441. 10s. 3c1.272/. 2 ' s. Bd. By third call, 3847; leaves balance in hand to next ac count, 1114 178. 4d. At Tavy Consols meeting, on the 3d inst., the accounts sho wed -balance from last account, 921. is. 31. ; l abour cost for M a; ch, 1461. 15s: 9d.; April, 177/. ls. 2d.• pier chants' bids, 314/. 13s. 5d.---4301. 1 Is. 7d. By call. 3434 o March produce, 2021. Os. 53.; April, 242/. os. Bd. lea°es balance in hand to next account, 57/. Bs. 63. Thursday,,, The N orth Wheal Robert quarterly meeting, fixed for W as adjourned until Friday next. At il.e we re 1 - 11. meeting s on Wednesday, the accounts coi th , " eiTirtd and passed, showing-Balance last me -1,73.51. is.- _B 1.; ores sold (less dues), 1,678/. S. 9d.= 2011.,%73Y labour cost, 8471. Bs. 9d.; merchants' leavin g b ahtn • l id.; carriage of ore, 1741.; agency, 1504; from W hich ticeeduto favour of adventurers, 367/. 03. 43.; 117/. Cs. 4d. Thcetdd.ividend made, 250/, leaves in band I,s_idead was declared plyable forth with; and it was meetings he hod ev r e " °l ved, that in future the account At the Bryn-Ariart7, meeting on Wednesday, the ac counts for the two laste quTere were examined and p a ssed; the first sh avc k abour test, December, Januagrl7, 101. 11d.; royaltY, 4d ; .ditto, 2481. 6s. 171.. 65.. 2d.; managernent, 311 . balance last account. 681. 95. ; call " , 600 13s. ad . B y 'she mine , 801. 415. 51 T. against leaving balance no last t • follows-Balance as above, 80/, 4s. 5d ; cr ls a February, 192/. Os. 4d.; March, 2121: labs 12s, 4d r cost for 212/. lls. 9d. • unpaid calls. 137. 15..711/. 3 s . ores 184. 73.: leaving a balance against thYe. mine, 3514 ss. 33. A call of 5 3 . per share svas lama s. At Wheal Arthur (ealstock) mtetieg, held ori hurs. day, the a ccounts s h owe d-Balance from last accoont, 2/. Is 7d.• ' calls, 2091. 153.; ore sold, 17 /. 1 7s. Id. e e 2 291. 13e. 81.-By arrears of March cost, 244 2s. 93. ; A pril cost, 661. 54. 33.; May, 801. 18s. 43.; office expenses and stationery fur' two months. 10/. 108.; sundry payments, 36/ 2s. 61.---2171. 10d.: leaving balance in hand to which, with calls to receive, next eccount, 11/. 14s. 1041., bills, 221. 10e, makes 163/ 4s. 103.-loss me rchants' 221. 55.: leaves assets over liabilities, 140/ 193. 103. At the East Guneis Lake reeeing, on Thursday, the accent is were examined and p asse d, showing- Balance last account, 591. 14s. 63.; calls, 5001.- - . - - - -5591. 14s. 6d. By cost-sheet , February, 411, 4s. 4d.; ditto March, TRIAL OF COUNT AND COUNTESS DE BOCARME. The Proeureur du Rol, in the sitting of the Court of Assaes of Mons, yesterday terminated his requisitory ; he contended, as on the previous cay, that all the cir cumstances that preceded, accompanied, and followed the clime, proved that it had been planned and executed by both the accused. M. de Paepe, advocate of de Bocarrnl'a then pro ceeded to address the jury. Ile complained of the prejudice which had been created against his client by publications, but expressed a hops that the jury would Only decide according to justice. He said that he would not attempt to defend the morality of the accused, but that it should be remembered that he had been born at the Cape of Good Elope, was brueque and rude in man ner, cuuning:and distrustful in character—that, in fact, he was a sort of savage grafted on a European ; and this, he aeserted, would account for many of the circumstances al leged against him—such as his taking false names when he bought venomous plants and chemical instru ments, Scc. He then proceeded to argue that it was impossible that a man of the Count's cunning and pru dence could have resolved, for months before, to kill Gustavo Fougnies by poison, and yet let him know that he was constantly engaged in making experiments with polio'''. He con• tended if the Count and Countess had perpetrated the murder in the way alleged in the indictment, they must have been raving mad, and more fit for Bedlam than the scaffold—for it really seemed that every act had been done to attract attention. He maintained that the version of the Count was the true one—the only probable one, viz , that deceased had taken the mixture by mistake, from a bottle which the Count had imprudently allowed to remain in the cellar, and which his wife had by mistake placed on the table. The statements of the medical men, that deceased must have taken the poison when lying on the ground were, he observed, no doubt erroneous; but it was probable that he had fallen immediately after leaving swallowed the deadly draught, and this would account for some of the liquor having fallen on his neck and mouth, and left scars. He denounced the Countess in vehement terms for having, in the hope of saving herself; accused her husband, and maintained that all she had said against him was false. The Count, 'he said, had acted generously to her, for he had laid nothing to her charge, and he hoped that even now sh© would not refuse the hand ho extended to her, but admit that she had spoken untruly. One proof that her statements were false was that she had tenderly caressed her husband whilst deceased was lying on the floor, and it was not in human nature to have done so, it; as she eaid, he had just before murdered her own brother. The Learned Gentleman had not concluded when the Court adjourned at a quarter past one. The Countess do Bocarmg appeared completely overwhelmed by what the Procureur du R& and her husband's counsel said against her. IRISH FISHERIES. The Bill brought into the House of Commons by Mr. Conolly and Colonel Taylor, to consolidate and amend the several Acts relating to the Irish fisheries, proposes to repeal all previous Acts, and that this should serve as a substitute for them, under the title of the " Irish Fisheries Act." It proposes that salaried commissioners should be appointed by Government, who, with the two existing Inspecting Commissioners of Fisheries, should be appointed Commissioners of Fisheries in Ireland, and also the Commissioners to carry the Act into execution. They will be empowered to hold general meetings of the proprietors of fisheries in any district, and t o exam i ne w i tnesses, or take other necessary mesas for inquiring into the state of the fisheries, and for pro viding for their requ i rements. An annual report will be made, which will b e l a id b e f ore P arliament. Ireland will be divided i nto districts, and to each district a con servator of fisheri es will beelected by such persons as Pay s a licence duty for captur i ng sa l mon, trout, &c., by net or other devices. The electors being entitled to ono to pay. The vote for Everyeop n ound of licence duty that they may have vlleirvbators will be elected for three years, and to them duty to be p a id f or nets, &c., used. Rods . not used for sal p ns r o . n pt iert.trout will n o t b e su bj ect to any licence duty. ruproswand le ssees o f l ands adjoining the sea coast will bo e ne.red with certain limit a ti ons , no stake fi cr d ther nets fixed nos sever r al sa fi l s m h o e n ry i e n xis t t i s ie ; but river l be p erm i tted at or to erect xe where timefour withi n two statute o m wi ii t e ls s in of th i e t. m l o . F h t e h nolf.sa:y vv and tideway& is fixed at from the I st of August to the Ist of February, and the close time fur saleua tou to iti riv ers and lakes above tideway from the Ist of s the Ist of March; but from the I st of August to the Ist of s salmon roust be taken only with rod and line. T i h il,n ecl u e o P w s t e : easo ha a f they can pro cure the permission of the Commissioners to alter t h e ever, s° g r i t v r e ° n tit to will the be district itS2 Pl conservators, t o st March. %f it iv close sessoti according to the requirements and peculiar circumstances of fisheries in particular localities and districts. A penalty, not exceeding 2/., will be incurred by Persons t a ki ng or using boats, or entering lads fo r t he purpose. or Under the retence of fishing or angling, w ithout a writt en permission from the proprietor or oc ca schped ier. p The 13111 contains 163 clauses, besides several ules. rived in The first di v i s i on o f the 12th R oya l L ancers ar iverpool on W e d nes d ay, en rou t e t o the Cape of Gocodt i l°l l e, ;And the secon d d i v i sion the day f o ll ow i ng . OUCESTER.—SId. John, Quebec; Weicklemann, ditto. W HITHII AYEN.—Arrd. Wasdall, Antigua. .142125. 9d.; April, 2051. 25. 5d.; rent , 60/.; agency, 311. 105.; sundries, 31. 75.; leaving bale ace in favour of the mine, 69/. 4s. 2d. The estimated cc , st for the next three months is 5001., and law expens , as 50/.—showing balance of payments over receipts of 4451. 15s. 10d. A cad of ss. per share was made, payable on Bth July. The Allt-a - -Crib committee have determined to dis- , gMURDER WILL OUT." murder in this county have proved quite true. The the Tli n e ise r c u mr m er o 3 nr n s prevalent falo for the ngcnnceale dlastand i ni ev n ,r st da n y t e as rnei to atrocious following are the particulars:—About fortnight since a woman named Mary Fleming, residing at lankessy, went to Constable Read, of the Huggins -town station, and wenthim a nn eec to re s t a w y h t i h c a h t had longtat stated h6gernte wish to d her mind. one night, sometime between the 25th of D ecember, 1847, and the Ist of January, 1848, sh e c h ance d to pass the eiisc disclose e Sh t e o door of John Walsh, at Castlegannon, and turned for the purpose of going in, but drew back in terror upon beholding the body of Walsh's brother-in-law, Thomas Ball, a cow-jobber, lying dead and covered with blood on the floor, and Walsh and his daughter making ready to remove it by the back door. She contrived to get away without being observed, and upon reaching home in formed her husband of what she had beheld. He strictly enjoined her never to divulge the circum stances, and during hi s lif e she kept the pledge. On inquiry the constable found many circumstances to corroborate this strange story, for Ball had been sud denly missed from the locality at the period indicated, and when be was known to have had with him a large sum ot money. It h a d, h owever, been supposed that he went privately to America. Walsh and his daughter were ar rested and committed for further examination by Mr. J. de Montmorency, J.P., and a search having been made at the hous e at C astlegannon, a skeleton was actually discovered buried at a few yards' distance from the back door. There is bat little room left for doubt teat this was the body of Ball, who had been murdered for the sake of the money he was known to have in his possession. An inquest was held on the remains on Monday last by Mr. T. Izod, coro ner, when the following verdict (on which Walsh was fully committed for trial on the charge of murder) was returned:—" That the said deceased was discovered dead in an old yard, late in the occupation of John %Valsb, on the lands of linockinoylan, on Tuesday last; that said deceased's skull was extensively fractured on both temples with a blunt or some such weapon, feloniously and of malice aforethought, by him the saiu John Walsh, late of Castlegannon, aided and assisted therein by a person or persons unknown; and that the said murder appears to have been perpetrated on or about the close of the year 1847."—Kilkenny Moderator pense with certificates, and that shares s la; ill henceforth be transferred in the usual way at the offi.o B. By the East Wheal George report, the mine appears to be progressing satisfactorily; the May ores sampled 22 tons 3 cwts. of good quality. During the week hhares have, in the Mining Ex change, changed hands in Wheal Reeth, 87.1.103. to 90/.; Treviskey, 2001.; Bedford, 71. 5.; Alfred Consols, 161.; Tincroft, 41. 10g.; Botailack, 205/ ; Mary Ann, 59/.; Trelawny, 52/.; Bodmin Consols, 41.; Butecrdon, 71. 55.; Craddock Moor, 91.; East Tamar, 11.; trreg, 11.55.; Helvellin, 251.; South Tamar, 2/ ; West Alfred, 19/.; West Ding Dong, 31. 103.; Wheal Artiqir, 31. At Exeter two shares in Devon Consols have been sold at 308/. each, and in London 14 at 300/. In Foreign Shres transactions have taken place in St. John del Rey at 191- i; Mexican and South American, 4i i; United Mexican, 2i ; Cobre, 39; :National Bra =flan, 2i. (From the United Service Gaz ette THE ARMY AND vPENSIO N ERS.—COn- RECRUITING FOR AiteinYhavi i%T of A ei rY s day.)l having bete expressed siderable difference of opin s io t,n, b i e n a g p re e solved upon I. ,estinae, it by d b i e s f a o d re va t n h t e ag M e i o li f taermyploy Commis ' , nsio a n s er t s o t i h n e thi a e de r a e n er taf in o g r for the army, it has once to coraneence with Zi!..e alteration be made with th e sta ff , theei is p herienoweverce, roNorth e e , r end ßi,orir t it t sh h he e (r p Gr l e e a l; n - esig : to s wt a )o t district. before' whom ail recruits are there to be brought for approval. ESTABLISHMENT OF REGIMENTS AT TEE CAPE CP GCOD DOPE.—The Service compa n i es o f the infantry regiments now serving at the Cape of Good Hope, as well as the 2d Queen's Royal Regiment about to pro ceed there, are to be completed to 610 rank and file each. The 12th Lancers, under orders for embarkation for per troohat colony, is also to be augmented to seventy men that colony, is also to be augmented to seventy men per troop. CONVEYANCE OP TROOPS TO THE CAPE„--Her Ma jesty's screw-ship Megrera having broken down, the Admiralty have ordered the officers and men to be turned over to the paddle-wheel steam-frigate Cyclops, which ship is to be prepared with every possible dis patch to proceed to Queenstown, and embark troops for the Cspe, The Admiralty have also ordered the paddle wheel steam-frigate Birkenhead, at Portsrnanth, to be got ready immediately to convey troops to. the Cape. She will be ready on Monday. STAFF. —Meier George Talbot, of the 43d Light In fantry (who for some years past has filled the post of Military Secretary to Lieutenant-General Roairae, C. 13., the general commmanding the forces in British North America), has been selected by Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Armstrong, C. 8., the newly-appoiated Com. mander-in-Chief at Madras, to be his Excellency's tart' Secretary. at that Presidency. Sir Richard, acceare panied by his staff, will sail, via the Cape, from Ports mouth the end of this month. THE LATE ADJUTANT FLETCHER, 73D REGIMENT.— The news in this day's paper contains the death of E- sign and Adjutant Fletcher, of the 73d, killed in scion with the Katirs on the 16th April. Although a melen- Choly truth, still it is gratifying to us to know that this officer's early death is severely felt by a large body of his friends at home, as well (as our private letters from the Cape my) ell who had the pleasure of knowing him there; and it must be highly gratifying to those friends to read the eulogium on his merits pronounced in General Orders by his Commanding Officer, Lieutenant Colonel Eyre. Mr. Fletcher was a native of Birr, is Ireland, and, we have heard, was educated for th e Church, but not liki ng t h e path laid out for him by his friends, he left Ireland, and enlisted in the Scotts Fusilier Guards in 1836, and, from his assiduiry and his previous education, was in 1841 appointed Sergeant and Pas? Ser geant. When the Board of Officers was formed for the examination of claims for the War Medal, Mr. Fletcher ,was selected as clerk to the board, where his un• tirng exertions in behalf of the claimants gave so much satisfaction to his superiors that his commanding effieer , recommended him to the Duke of Wellington for a commission, and Mr. Fletcher was gazetted to the 73d Regiment in November, 1848, and shortly after joined his regiment at the Cape. Mr. Fletcher was highly respected by his brother non-commissioned officers in the Fusilier Guards, and was looked upon as one of the best drills in the British army. In 1847 he published a small volume upon arithmetic, which he dedicated, by permission, to his colonel, Prince Albert; his Royal Highness was so pleased with this really clever work that he presented Mr. Fletcher with a silver medal as a mark of his approbation. in the death of Mr. Fletcher the British army has lost a good soldier and a kind-hearted comrade; but there is one left whose loss is far more severe and irreparable—his poor wile, who by this sudden affliction is deprived of her protector, and with four children is left to deplore her loss. Need we say that we sincerely trust the authorities will do a they can or her'? BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria,cap. 52 for the Week ending on Saturday, the 7th day of June, 1851. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. X. Notes issued .. .• .• .. 27,198,335 .C. Government debt .. 11,015,100 Other securities .... 2,934,900 Gold coin and bullion 13,164,960 Silver bullion ...... 33,375 t 27,198,335 I .£ 2 7,198,335 3f. Dated the 12th day of J une, 1851, MARSHALL, Chi e f Cashier. RANXINO DE/ AZTMEN T. Proprictors'espital 14,553,000 Rest • •••• • • • • 3,089,074 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, ;Say iugs-banks, and Di- Government securi- a• ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 13,541,329 Other securities • • • • 12,558,11 0 Notes • • • • • • • • • • • • b,190,020 Gold and silver coin.. 638,222 , vidend accOeno).. 7,08,615 Other depo;ets ...... 8,726,693 Seven day an? other Bills— •••• •••• •• •• 1,073,309 £34,930,; i £34,930,68 Nr. MARSHALL. Chief Cashier. Dated the 12th day of June, 185 --- --- THE LONDON GAZETTE, June 13. FOREIGN-OFFICE, JUNE 12, 1831. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Jona than Binng Were as C,niul-General in Australia and Vau Diernere*Land for her Majesty the Queen cf Portu gal and the A/gar ves. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Jonathan Biun4 Were as Consul at Melbourne, Port Philip, for the Free Hanseatic City of Harutiurgh. DOWNING STREET, JUNE 13. The Queen has brew pleased to appoint Joseph Pope, Esq., to be her MEijosty's Treasurer for Prince Edward Island. CROWN-OFFICE, JUNE 11. MEMBERS RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT PARLIAMENT. County of Argyll—Sir Archibald Islay Campbell, of Succoth, Bart., in the ro,m of Duncan M`Neill, EN., who has accepted the office of one of the judges of the Supreme Court of Scotland. Combined Counties of Clackmannan and Kinross— ' James Johnstone, Esq., of Al va , i n t h e room of Major- General William Morison, deceased. OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, JUNE 12. Royal Regiracnt of Artillery—Second Captain Ed ward Arthur Williams to be Adjutant, vice Burrows, promoted, June 22 ; Second Captain Herbert Winsloo Patton to be Adjutant, vice Laurence, deceased, Oct. 26. Commission by h er M a j esty ' s Commissioners of Lieu tenancy for the City of London. Regiment of Royal London Militia—Samuel Wilson, Esq., Alderman, to ba Lieutenant -Colonel, vice Lieu tenant-Colonel William Thompson, M.P., promoted, June 10. I.MPERI PARLI TRANSFER 0F - TROOP ElORSES.—D:tachmints from the following regiments in charge of troop horses trans ferred from the 12th Lancers, embarked at Dublin on the 10th inst., for Liverpool, cn route to join the Head quarters of their respective regiments, viz., 2d and 3d Dragoon Guards, Ist and 2d Dragoons, 4th Light Dragoons, Bth and 11th Hussars, 13th Light Dragoons, and 16th and 17th Lancers. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of the North Rid kg of Yorkshire. North York Regiment of Militia—John Edward Adolphus Dolby, Gent., to bo Lieutenant, vice Gritlet, deceased. E VENIN G ) rr 7?. vr ti()NDON SATURD v . B-4 S WHITEHALL, MAY 23. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Arthur Ransom, of Sudbury. in the county of Norfolk, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JUNE 7. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Col quhoun, of Woolwich, in the county of Kent, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, JUNE 9. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Thomas Southum, of .Manchester, in the county palantino of Lancaster, Gent., to bo a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. Samuel Rateliff, Dallier, Suffolk, to surrender June 19 and July 25, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall• street; Whishaws, Gray's Inn-square; Robinson, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Charles Moody, pork butcher, Goswell-road, Clerken well, June 19, at half past one, and July 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, cfficial assignee, Birehin-lanr, Cornhill; Smith, Stenning, and Croft, Basinghall•street. John Marten Wood, victualler, Barbican, June 25 and July 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stens feld, official assignee; Hine and Robinson, Charterhouse sg uare. John Walters, licensed victualler, Great Rider -street, St. James's, June 25 and July 25, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Dimmock and Burbey, Suffolk-lane, Cannon-street. John Mildrum, builder, Oakley-terrace, Ch e l sea , June 24, at eleven, and July 24, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, official assignee, Coleman -street buildings, Moorgate-street; Turnley, Cornhill. John Latham, pianoforte manufacturer, Howland street, Fitzroy-square, June 21, at eleven, and Aug. 2, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers, Bavinghall-street; Paxon, Bloomsbury-square. Thomas Fisher, pianoforte manufacturer, Tottenham street, 'Tottenham-court•road, June 26, at eleven, and July 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. G room, official assignee, Abchurch-lane ; Cox, Pinners'-hall, Old Broad-street. William Clipson, builder, Chester, June 20 and July 18, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Hostage. Chester. Benjamin Whittaker and John Fullalove, manufac turers, Manchester, June 30, and July 21, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee, Manchester; Hitchcock, Buckley, and Tidawell, Man chester. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from returns made in the week ending June 10, 1851, exclusive of Customs Duties paid or payable thereon on the importation thereof into Great Britain:— From the British possessions in America 255. 9d. per cwt From the Mauritius ... 265. 101}d. „ From the East Indies ... 19s. led. „ Average price of th e three foregoing de scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as above, and exclusive of duty ... 255. 3d. By authority of Pa r li amen t, ~ HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company. Grocers'-hall, June 13. The following noblemen and gentlemen and other distinguished personages visited Mr. Wyld's large Model of the Earth, in Leicester-square, during the past week: —Duke of Wellington, Duke of Northumberland, Duke of Hamilton, Earl of Dartmouth, his Excellency the Austrian Ambassador, Lord and Lady Granville, Lord Craven, Colonel Bailey, M.P., Captain Green, M.P., Sir W. Clay, M.P., and Mr. Walter, M.P. MEININGEN, MAY 20.—A. new edict bas been added to our statute-book. It regulates the administration of an oath. The formula begins with the words, " I take a solemn oath," &c., and concludes, "So help me God." Th e sacredness and inviolability of the oath, together with the punishment attendant on perjury, must be explained by the clergyman or rabbi of the respective parties. No Jew is in future to be compelled to take the oath in the synagogue._ Jewish Chronicle. CHOIR BENEVOLENT FUND.—The first choral fes tival of this fund, which has been recently instituted, in aid of the widows and orphans of those subscribing to it, took place yesterday, at St. Martin's-hall. The chair was to have been taken by Lord Howe, but in consequence of his Lord ship's inability to attend, Lord John Thynne consented to preside in his stead. The noble chairman was supported on his right by the Uean of Bangor. The dinner was attended by 100 members of 25 of the cathedral and collegiate choirs of England and Wales, who performed in the intervals of the toasts a number of madrigals and other choral pieces. After the usual loyal toasts had been given, the "Prosperity of the Choir Benevolent Fund" was proposed in connexion with the name of Mr. George Gray, the provisional secretary. In replying to the toast Mr. Gray, whose exertions have been the principal means of bringing the fund into existence, expatiated on the great need there was for such au institu tion, owing to the difficulty there was for members of choirs t to mike any ade qua t e prov i s i on for t h e i r fam i l i es i n case of death, and c i te d several cases by which the distress to which might be subj ec t was exemplified. The donations were Bucci an nounced; amon g th e pr i nc i pa l were the Duke of Dean a rch, 201. ; M essrs. Broadwood and Sons, '2ll. ; the d chora l the . _Chapter of Westminster, 301. and an annual dona tion of 51. Ss • Mr. Robert Addison, 101. The c o llectio n made at iloors: of Westmin s t er - a bb ey i n the morn i ng, after a se rvice performed b y t h e mem b ers of the various choi rs t h en present, amounted to 811. 17s. 9d. With regard to the consumption of smoke in the furnaces connected made marine engines, a most remarkable d t only is the smoke consumed, discovery has been obfustttelaitenfuknepntelnipts.elf i+l a d e is: . with, and a uniform pressure x ell l N n e eo a rinient has been tried on board burthen, and has been found a vessel of three hundred to' to answer roost eatisfactorily , .-- tverp oo / iv,. cury, CHANCERY REFORM. Lord J. RUSSELL rose to move for leave to bring in a Bill to improve the administration of justice in the Court of Chancery and the Judicial Committee of Privy Council. Ho said a Bill on this subject was impera tively called for by the necessity which existed to relive the Lord Chancellor of some of the duties at pre sent imposed upon him both in the Court of Chancery and the House of Lords, and after some consideration, one thing seemed certain, that it was desirable to retein the Lord Chancellor in his present political func tions, and in his position as Speaker of the House of Lords. A proposal had been made that two judges, the Master of the Rolls, and a common law judge should sit in the Court of Chancery, to take the business when the Lord Chancellor should be absent, but objections had been made to this scheme by many persons of great experience in the Court of Chan cery. Among others, he had received a letter from the late lamented Lord Cottenham, whose opinion was that the measure ought to be directed more to the relief of the Lord Chancellor himself than the Court of Chancery. One important principle which had been laid down, and on which Lord Cottenham himself had drawn up and introduced a Bill, was to separate the judicial and political functions of the Lord Chancellor, to have a Chief Jadge in Chancery to sit in the Court of Chancery, and in place of the Lord Chancellor, and another to sit in the House of Lords in appeals. The objection made to that plan was that unless a judge sitting in appeals in the House of Lords were to sit at some period or other in the original court, he would not be able to preserve that ability which he once might have possessed, and his decisions would lose that weight which ettached at present to those of the Lord Chancellor sitting in appeals. Another mode would be to appoint a Vice - Chancellor to sit in the place of the Lord Chancellor when he was absent in the discharge of political functions, but that was opeu to the charge that although the name and the authority of the Lord Chancellor might be attached to the Vice - Chanchellor, yet the decisions in appeals, after all, would carry with them only the influence of the de cision of one sebordinate judge set against another. The mode which appeared to him (the Noble Lord) to pos sess the greet,st advantages, and to be least opcn to ob jection was, that during the absence of the Lord Chancellor from his own court, two judges appointed for that espe cial purpose, to be called the Judges of the Appeal Court, should sit to decide on all cases brought before them. The only objection which he could foresee to this plan was the increased expense which would be brought Upon the country, or on the suitors' fund; but they must remember that a great object was to be gained. There could be no doubt that the remount of business disposed of iu the Court of Chancery was very great indeed. By a return which had been laid before the House . of Lords, it appeared that from the 2d of Novembsr,lBso, to the 13 , h May, 18.51, the number of cases dispisea of in all the courts was no less than 5 270, Now that was an enormous amount of business, and showed how excessive the labour of those must have been who had the disposal of it.—(de ar , hear.) The experience of late years had proved that when all the judges regularly attended their courts, the business th a t came before them could ho easily got rid of, but in case of illness overtaking any one of them, the whole machinery of the courts was checked, and the business ie cuediately fell into arrear. Again, the Lord Chancellor's attention was often called away from his judicial functions by having to attend to his political cuties. Now, he proposed to provide fur those contingent evils in this way :—Whenever the Lord Chancellir should be attending the House of Lords one of the judges of this new Court of Appeal should sit for him, and tnen the business would not be interrupted. He proposed besides, that in case of any one of the other Judges of the Court of Chancery, from illness sr other cause, should be unable to attend his court, tle Lord Chancellor should have the power of makingsuch an arrangement as to enable one of the Judges of the Court of Appeal to sit fur him.—(gear, hear.) The advantage of this provision was obvious, it would rave the public from the annoyance of losing an accomplished judge like the late Vice-Chancellor Wigrim, through temporary illness, because the Lord Chancellor would be in a position to Supply the place of any o' the existing judges b cells y appointin g one of his own tt;ues.to sit either.for thre e weeks or three months, as the else might be. Another advantage of this arrangement woulc be this—lt would give the Lord Chancellor more time lo attend to his political duties, and watch the pro gress of those measures which might from time to time be brought forward for amending or improving the law.—([-Tear, hear.) For instance, of late, only in this very session the Lord Chancellor had been prevented by his judicial functions from attending on the Bank ruptcy or County Courts' Committee in the other House, and for these reasons he thought it highly desirable that they should adopt the plan he lied proposed, namely, appoint two new judges, who should ho called Judges of the Court of e.ppeal, and who should exercise the functions he had already specified. With regard to the financial view of the subject, he did not think the burden would be exceediigly heavy on the public, because he pro posed, as he stated on a former occasion, that in future the Lord Chancellor,instead of 14,0001. a year, should receive 10,ar, 000/. a yhat theear, tsereby prod uc i ng a saving of 4,000/. a ye and t Master of the Rolls should receive 6 , 000 e a year ins;ead of 7,000 Z, thereby saving 1,000/. a year.—(lleart baar.) Now, with respect to these two new judgss to be appointed under this Bill, he pro ud that they should be placed on the same footing as tee Master of the Rolls, namely, that each judge shield receive 6,000/. a year, which would increase ;he expense on the suitors' fund by the 12,000/, a sear, but then against that they must place the saving of 5,000/ , thus reducing the actual increased expense to only 7,000/. a year.—(Hear, hear.) H e proposed not tnly that the two judges of the court of appeal sh ould la Privy Councillors, but also that three judges should fork a quorum, and in that way he thought it would not le difficult to obtain a sufficient number of Menbers to attend the Committee. He did not propose to alter the constitu tion of the tourt, which had worked most safely, and was boked up to with confidence. All he proposed was to gve greater facility for the transaction of business. Tte Noble Lord concluded by asking leave to bring in he Bill. Mr. STUAlUtsked the Nobe Lord whether at this late period of the gessim, when there was already such a pres sure of public busieess, he thought he could bring forward is measure of sue) enormous importance with any hope that it would receive a sufficient amount of considera- House in tion to put it in() such a shape as would justify the and details Plssiniit into law thi s y ear ? The provisions if the Bill were entirely now to the HOW), and would require a very great deal deliberation. It deserved to be considered w iether the larg o access i on of business in the Court of CI neery arose from accidental circum stances, or hoar the effects of recent legislation. It would also be seal to consider whether a great portion of that busines. might not be conveniently, advan tageously, and properly transacted by the judges of other tribmals, who were now comp l a i n i ng of a want of badness in their respective courts. He had taken the lberty of making these observations, as he thought it welled be impossible, advanced as the ses sion now was, tipass a really useful and perfect measure. Mr. BETIaL,, was grateful for the first instalment of what had been ong demanded, and not more than was needed — namely,Chan cer y re f orm . H e pra i se d the wisdom of those recent saes of Parliament in refe re n ce to the of Chancery as vell a d apte d to promote the administration of justice requires b y t h e wants, t h e intelligence, and r the Court wishes of the peyle of this country. The Hon. and Learned Member for Newark would, no doubt, be happy to learn that another Bil had been laid, or was to be laid, e before the House, to facilitate i n a s till f ur th er d egree the sof theadministra tion of justice by re li ev i ng t h e Master's offices pressure which at present loaded their t functionshehoped Imp • eded the die administration of justice. Bat the Hem woad not agree with the Honourable Member for Newark that it was too late in the session to com mence this refers. No objection could possibly be conceived in a truer sp r i t of Chancery delay. For his he did not Image What other course the Noble Lord own could part have adopted pore fitting for the purpose, or more calculated to result in a ithetne in which all parties should than the one he hada nnounced. It was true that this been submittet for general consideration, but scheme had he thought there were mazy the Hon. and Learned Meml Members of the House besides er for Ne war k who knew alse that it had been submitted to el arge body of men well qualified by their ex perience to fena an opinion upon it ; anti the result was that the collet e d opinions of those gentlemen having been submitted to tie Noble Lord at the head of the Government, the Noble Lodg had framed the measure which was about to be introchrea to the c ons id era ti on of the House. ide did not know t coany course could have been adopted more likely to lei. r .to a well-considered scheme than] this. They were now al'at to have a measure laid before them that would accomplish a point of great importance. As the Court of Chancery gas at present constituted it was impossible for the courts of the first instance in that large tribunal to go on with theitbusiness if they allowed the appellate tribunal to remain loaded, as w as t h e hea d o f t h a t Court and the head of the House o f L ords, with the weight of politicla andju dicial duties. Th e appellate tribunal was undoubtedl y a great obstruction to th e w h o l e course o f Chancery business; and not onlyth a t, b ut the whole administrationofjustice na was aterialy imp e d e d b y the present stateJf business w that tribunal, ith because it w ts i mpossible for it to dispose any regulari t y so l ong as t h e Lord Chancellor was taken t away from to attend in the House of Lords, and in fact to give a littlebit of his time first in one place and then in another. le would just give the House one example out of many he w as acquainted with o f the evils which resulted from this system. In the year 1847 an important appeal was brought forward, and the House of Lords were earnestly entreated t 5 allow the further hearing of it to stand over till the next session. The Lord Chancellor declined this, saying that he mutt hear the appeal then is order that he might be able 'o devote a portion of the long vaca tion to the consideration of the case, with a view to its more easy progress in the ensuing Michaelmas term. That suit involved half a mi:lion of money, and the expense of getting up the hearing itself involved an outlay of no less than between 5,000/. and 6,000/. But the session of 1848 rolled away, and also that of 1849. The session of 1850 passed away too, without seeing the close of the case, and now the lamented death of the late Lord Chan cellor had obliged the parties to begin again, and the time and money spent were absolutely wasted. This case was extremely hard ; and what did the delay originate in? Why, because the Lord Chancellor was engaged in other duties, and sat in other capacities, which prevented him from going through with this case. His own brief in this case was as large as one of the " Encyclopxdias Britannica."--(Hear, hear.) He would remind the House that it was important in appeals not to have them from one single mind to another. Such a system only caused dis satisfaction among the suitors. The appeal to a plurality of minds was desirable as well as important. Now the measure of the Noble Lord effected that great object. When an appeal was brought forward the suitor henceforward would have the advantage of having his suit submitted to the conside ration of two minds. There eas another and a more im portant point to accomplish. It was a disgrace to observe the manner in which legal jurisdiction stood, and also the whole condition of our legislation. The jurisdiction of courts was parcelled out in an extraordinary and anomalous manner. A little bit of justice here, and a small stream of justice there, made small suitors who were in pursuit of justice at a lois whether to seek it in one province of the law or another. The greatest duty of some of the courts, and the largest expenditure of their time, was devoted to settling the boundaries of jurisdiction and its machinery. There was not at the head of the law any responsible person to control the composition of Acts of Parliament. By the present mea sure the Lord Chancellor would be enabled to attend to the duties of his court and of Parliament; the Lord Chancellor would have abundance of time to discharge those duties which belonged to him as the head of the law. He hoped eventually that the evils of the existing system, and of tho mode of legislation, would be abolished. In particular, the time of judges was mostly taken up in working out the meaning of words, and of settling the intention of statutes. This, he hoped, would be put an end to. Although the present session might not be very profitable in respect to law reform, still he trusted that this first step towards Chancery reform would lead to others equally needed and de manded. Mr.WALPOLE agreed with his Hon. and Learned Friend as to the great propriety of considering at a future period the necessity of some other reform measures, which he had in dicated. He considered that the present Bill would give satisfaction to the House and the country. The result of the Bill would be that the judges of the Court of Chancery would have constant sittings, and that thereby the business of the courts would be kept down, and arrears not accrue. The next advantage was that a court of appeal would be made permanent, and thus all causes would be fully re-heard in a limited period. The third great point would be that the legal knowledge of the Lord Chancellor would be kept up at the same time that he was enabled to attend to his duties in the House of Lords. These were the three great points, and if the measures were so carried out as to give them due effi ciency, he should give the measure his sincere support. Mr. ELLICE, as one not learned in the law, sincerely thanked the Noble Lord for taking the initiative in Chancery reform. He specially thanked the Noble Lord for the pro mise of reform in that branch of Chancery in which the worst abuses prevailed---the Masters in Chancery offices. He was a violin in one of those courts, and could say that he saw no hope of relief during his natural life. He had been told by Mr. Leigh that cases had been hung up for ten or twenty or thirty years, in which generations of suitors had passed away while the cases were pending. When he asked Mr. Leigh whether some remedy for this enormous abuse could not be provided, Mr. Leigh answered that the eases which had occupied thirty or more years might easily have been decided in ten years.--(Hear, hear.) He had been told that the system in the Master's offices might be assimi lated to the practice, in some points, of the proceedings in the Admiralty courts and the Scottish courts. He said, on be half of the public, that the abuses in the system of the Courts of Chancery were alike disgraceful to the country as they were to the law itself. Mr. HORSMAN hoped the question of the judge's salaries would not be overlooked. Mr. R. PALMER would say that the House and the coun try ought to acknowledge the great candoer with which the Noble Lord had introduced and treated the subject. The question had not been hastily introduced; it had been under consideration for at least a year, and the pre sent measure had been judiciously conceived. The effect cf the measure would be to make these Chancery courts efficient and relieve them from those difficulties and interruptions with which they were now beset. These advantages would be attained very cheaply. The expense to which suitors were put by keeping the present courts in a state of ineffi ciency was tenfold that which it would be under judicious alterations. He should give his rupport to the measure. Mr. HENLEY said the country had for so long a period loudly called fur rseorm in the Courts of Chancery, that no Government could venture to resist the appeal any longer, more especially after the question had been referred to in her Majesty's speech. He had no doubt that the measure of Government would give general satisfaction. With re spect to the allusion to a reform in the Master's offices, though very desirable, he did not see there was any foun dation for Saying that immediate reform was contemplated. He was certain that the public were more anxious for a re form in the Master's offices than for Chancery reform. He was glad to bear that Government would probably take up the subject. What the country now wanted was action. Why could not suits be wound up in the Court of Chancery as they were in the Court of Bankruptcy? But once get a suit into the Master's office, and no human being could predicate how soon it would get out. He hoped this measure would not stop other and more important reforms which were equally necessary. The ATTORNEY -GENERAL said some mistake ap peared to have been made with respect to the present Bill. This Bill did not differ in principle from the former Bill. The principle of both Bills was to remedy the evil of a want of power to assist the Court of Chancery in the appellate jurisdiction. The first Bill took one judge from the courts of common law, and one from the Chancery Court. The defect of such a proceeding was felt at the time. It was stated that the Court of Chancery was not too strong is judicial force, and therefore anything that took away the Master of the Rolls from his court would be an injury to the suitors of that court, though it might be a benefit to the ap pellate court. The present Bill provided additional judicial force in the court of appeal, without diminishing the judicial force in the other courts. The Hon. Member for Newark had referred to the Winding -up Act, and the additional business it had thrown on the Masters in Chancery offices. He had a return which showed the amount of business disposed of in the Court of Chancery in the year 1841 as compared with the year 1849. The report prved that he increase of business which had taken place could not be referred to new Acts and new business. He would instance the additional labour which had been thrown on the Lord Chancellor by stating that Lord Cottenharn, with all his great powers of business, had been able to reduce the arrears of appeals from 50 or GO to about 18. But in consequence of hie Illness the arrears had reached the number of 280, which fell to the lot of the present Lord Chancellor, who, were his powers of business as great as his predecessor's, would re quire a year and a half before he could get through them. It was impossible that such a state of things, as far as re garded suitors, could be suffered to continue. When, there fore, the Hon. and Learned Gentleman sail wait another year, he would remind him there were widows and orphans who would be kept in suspense, and would have to sustain the consequences of the existing state of things than which it was difficult to find a greater grievance. As to the Masters in Chancery Offices and the Bill for the Extension of the County Coasts jurisdiction, the purpose of that Bill would, no doubt, be beneficial, because it would enable the Lord Chancellor to refer small suits to the county courts, and thus the Masters' offices would be relieved. They all wished to effect a complete and thorough reform in the Court of Chancery, in order that it might ao longer be considered a blot in the judicial system of the country. One of the first things to be done was to relieve the Lord Chancellor from the pressure upon him. At all times the Lord Chan cellor must be the head of the court. At present it was im possible for any Chancellor to give his mind to reform. The moment a Lord Chancellor entered upon his office his time was wholly taken up with attending to his duties in the Cabinet, in the House of Lords, and in his court, and he had not a moment to give to the consideration of any reform. The present step, therefore, would not only be a benefit to the country, but would give the Court of Chancery an effec. tive head for carrying into effect the various reforms that might be suggested. Mr. J. STUART said the Acts which he had referre I as having increased the business of Chancery were those which had been passed within the last 12 years, for regulating joint-stock companies generally. Mr. E. ELLICE wished to explain that in what he had said ho meant to cast no imputation on the diligence and care of the present Masters in Chancery. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY was not inclined to object to any measure which should increase the judicial power of the Court of Chancery, but regretted that no intention had been ex pressed of introducing measures founded on the reports of Committees of that House on the subject. It was satisfac tory to find all the gentlemen of the long robe in that House agreed as to the necessity of Chancery reform ; but he could assure them that the public would hardly be satisfied unless that reform was immediate. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could — n - Ot — agree with the Hon. Member for Coventry as to the utter inutility of the measure on the table with reference to the Masters' office, because he believed the effect of it would be to relieve the Masters to the extent of nearly all the country business, which at present formed a considerable portion of the business of Chancery. There was on the part of the profession :every desire to lend their assistance to effect the legal reforms de manded by the country. It must, he thought, be a great satisfaction to the Noble Lord that the Bill had met with the approbation of all the Members connected with the legal profession in that /louse—with, perhaps, the exception of the Hon. and Learned Member for Newark, who, though he had suggested delay, had not offered a single objection to the details of the Bill. He regretted that any Member of the legal profession Should have suggested delay, when all were agreed as to the necessity of the Bill being passed as soon as possible. Mr. STUART said he had never used the word delay. He had asked for consideration.—(oh, and laughter.) Mr. HUME hoped the House would give due consideration to the Bill without delay.—(Hear.) lie believed the present system of the Court of Chancery was a tax upon the public to an amount equal to the whole of the national taxation, and that it was one of the greatest grievances in the country. The present measure was a step in the right direction, and every support should be given to the Noble Lord to enable him to carry it as speedily as possible. He did not see why the Masters should not dispose of one case before taking up another. Indeed, he thought it would be better to abolish the Masters altogether, and increase the number of judges. He hoped the Masters' offices would not be allowed to remain in their present state. The appointment of the additional judges would be true economy; but he thought that some of the common law judges might be dispensed with, inasmuch as the county court judges had relieved them of a great por tion of their duties. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL, in explanation, said that what he meant to say was, that the present number of Masters would be sufficient if the country business was trans ferred. Mr. EVANS thought that the Bill would be of little use unless the whole system was reformed. Mr. MULLINGS thought that unless a power was given the county court judges and Masters of taking evidence and examining the parties in open court, the Bill on the table would be a failure. Lord J. RUSSELL was glad to find that the Bill had met with so general a sanction. With regard to other Chancery reforms, it was far from being a logical conclusion that no further reforms would be effected because he had preposed to introdu ce one Bill on the subject. The question of the Masters' offices had al ways b een one of great difficulty, b at if the one Bill be passed, probably further reforms would follow. H e t h anked Hon. Members for the mannerin which they had received his proposal. Leave was then given to introduce both the Bills. ENNISTYMON UNION. into On thoenomrdietrteoeof sly the u sl p ay p -b , eing read for the House going Sir L. O'BRIEN rose to the petition o f t h e l ate guardians call tlo e e a f t t t h e e nt E io n n el o s f ty th re e e H e o u u n s i e en to , and to move for the Select Committee and theam to causes assigned f or th e i r dismissal, of the affairs of the union. He said that he knew the board had acted in an upright and efficient manner up to the moment of their dismissal. The reason assigned by th e cora. missioners for dissolving them was, that they had refused out of-door relief. The general feeling was that the Commis sioners had not acted wisely in dissolving the board of guardians. There had been expended in Clare during the last six or seven years nearly 1,000,000/. for the relief of the poor. For the year 1849 the expenditure was 175,0001., on a valuation of 300,000. ; and for last year 121,0001, on a valuation of 220,000:. It was easy to conceive that the levy ing of such an enormous poor-rate was felt severely. A clergyman who was entitled to a rent. charge of 2301., had to pay out of that 1101. for poor-rates, leaving only 1201. for the support of himself and his family. The only remedy he could suggest was a reversal of the policy which had led to the dischsrge of the board of guardians. Those guardians had had very arduous duties to perform. It was found that if a prospect of relief was held out to the poation labour, they would ava il th emselves of it. It ul t had been without found that persons had applied for relief who held farms of forty acres, and that others had sent a boy with a horse and cart for their rations. Such abuses could only be checked by local administration. Certain papers had been produced on the subject; but he wished to see the correspondence that had passed between several individuals and the Corn missioners in Dublin on the subject. In conclusion he would say, that what he claimed from the House was a Committee before which all the facts of the case might be laid. He might state a great deal more than he had done, but he would refer Hon. Members to the papers already in their possession ; and, if the inquiry he sought for was granted, the persons who had confided their petition to him were ready to prove all the facts he had stated. He therefore moved, pursuant to notice, for a Select Committee to inquire into the case of the dismissal of the Eunistymon board of guardians, and the administration of the affairs of that union. Sir W. SOMERVILLE felt obliged to oppose the motion for that Committee, because if he agreed to it, it would be an admission that the Poor-law Commissioners in Ireland bad improperly discharged those functions confided to them for the carrying out of the law for the relief of the poor in that country. The matter which they were then considering was, whether or not the Commissioners had properly exer cised their duty, in availing themselves of those powers which the statute confided to them, by the dismissal of the board of guardians of the Ennistymon Union. , lie was ready to admit all the difficulties which beset the board of that union. But it should be remembered that Parliament had imposed a responsibility upon the Poor -law Commis sioners; and the question then was, whether they had rightly exercised it. The correspondence which had taken place between the guardians and the Commissioners, and all the papers connected with the subject, were on the table of the House. So far back as August, 1843, the guardians of that union had expressed a wish to put an end to out-door relief, and at a subsequent period they had said that the re lief to be administered in their union ought to be adminis tered by paid officers. Indeed, throughout the whole of Ire land, the Ennistymon board of guardians was the only one which had been dissolved, and the only paid one now in ex istence. On an occasion of great pressure, but before the Commissioners had proceeded to such en exercise of their power, they had recommended that until in-door relief could be provided for the poor, out-door ought not to be discon tinued. There were about 470 persons in the workhoue more than its proper number, and the Commissioners had desired that it should not be permitted to remain in such a crowded state. Indeed, they had sent many communica tions to the guardians, directly, and through their assistant Mr. Briscoe, but they were all mostly unheeded. On one occasion, they postponed the consideration of the Commis sioners' letter for a fortnight, when the condition of the union was most distressed and sufiering. The Right Hon. Baronet here went• through a series of letters passing between the parties, to show that the board of guardians were totally regardless of the recommendations of the Commissioners, and that it was absolutely necessary for the latter to proceed to those extremities of which they had given full notice. He contended that if ever there was a case in which the Poor law Commissioners were justified in the exercise of the power entrusted to them, that was one. If the power was not a right one to confide to any body, let Parliament take it away if they pleased—(Hear) —but as long as it existed, as long as the responsibility was thrown upon the Com missioners, they were bound to exercise it when occasion re quired. Colonel DUNNE regretted to differ from his Right lion. Friend, but he did so then chiefly for the reasons he himself had advanced. He thought it was very right that House should pass a censure upon the Commissioners, and he would, therefore, vote for the motion of his Hon. Friend. Why had the guardians hen obliged to act as they had done, but be cause the country had been previously totally exhausted of its resources by the paid officers of the Government. If the Irish poor-law was a bad measure, or working badly, that was a still further reason for having such a Committee as was sought for, with the view of having some improvement adopted in the administration of the law. A deputation concerui, g the Irish poor-law had waited on the Govern ment not long since, and all its Members had been unanimous in condemning the system of out-door relief, and the power of dismissing guardians vested in the Commissioners. The Noble Lord, however, at the head of the Government did not agree with them on these two points, and that furnished another ground for the inquiry. The Hon. and Gallant Member then entered into a defence of the conduct of the guardians, quoting statements f rom a correspondence, and insisted that they had demanded inquiry into the allega tions which some of the assistant Commissioners had made, which they denied, and that such an inquiry had been refused them. Even if the board of guardians had failed in doing their duty, the remedy was much worse than the disease. It was paid guardians who had formerly ruined the district, and they were likely to do so again. If such a system were to be acted on, the lands would be left totally uncultivated, and that was a bad way to meet a famine at any time. Mr. G. A. HAMILTON did not wish to prolong that discussion in so thin a House, and when, perhaps, they were anxious to proceed with other business; but if the Commis sioners had made a mistake he thought his Hon. Friend behind him was quite right in bringing forward his motion, as it was upon a subject of great importance, and one which the House should very properly take into its consideration. It should be remembered that the guardians had in reality made great exertions for the relief of distress in the union ; for while the valuation of the aunual property of the union was only 22,6441., the expenditure there under the poor-law had amounted during the year to 22,8861.; so that the an nual expenditure for the relief of the poor had been greater than the annual value of the property which had been as sessed for that purpose. On the whole, however, he would suggest to his lion. Friend that it would not be advisable to divide the House on the motion. But he trusted that the notice which had been taken of the subject would induce the Commissioners to act more cautiously for the future before they resorted to so objectionable a proceeding as that which they had adopted in that instance. Mr. F. FRENCH said that in his opinion if that was a question which deserved to be brought under the considers tion of the House on an evening like that, to the interrup tion of most important public business, it must also be a question upon which the House ought to be asked to divide. He maintained that the matter was one of vital , importance to Ireland. They did not ask for any condemnation of the course taken by the Commissioners ; they merely asked for an inquiry into the circumstances under which the Commis.. sioners had exercised the powers entrusted to them. And let it be remembered that those powers were of the most arbitrary and unlimited character. Parliament had passed a law by which the Commissioners could tax at will the pro perty of the country, and manage as they might think fit the whole poor-law system ; and when a complaint was made that they had exercised those great powers in an unjust and improper manner, the House of Commons ought not to refuse to inquire into that complaint. Viscount BERNARD said he thought the Commissioners might have adopted some more moderate coarse before they had taken the extreme step of dismissing the guardians. It was no wonder that the ratepayers of the union should feel extreme dissatisfaction, when they found that the adminis tration of their property was handed over to persons by whom that property had already been grossly mismanaged. He certainly thought that further inquiry ought to be made into the matter. Mr. HUME said he should confess that the Commissioners had, in his opinion, made a very extraordinary use of their powers; and it would be unjust on the part of the House of Commons, by whom those powers had been granted, to refuse an inquiry into the matter. But in the state of the House at that moment (there were not more than about 30 Members) it was manifest that the Honourable Baronet (Sir L. O'Brien) could gain nothing by pressing his motion to a division. What he would suggest was that the Noble Lord at the head of the Government should give a pledge that an inquiry should take place into the subject, and that the Hon. Baronet should then not press his motion. He (Mr. Hume) believed that the inquiry might be conducted more advantageously by two gentlemen rent over to Ireland from this country than by a Committee of the House, whose proceedings would necessarily be very dilatory and expen sive. He hoped the Noble Lord at the head of the Govern ment would have no objection to promise that the matter should undergo some investigation of that description. Lord J. RUSSELL said, that after the statement of his Right Hon. Friend (Sir W. Somerville), he take to promise any inquiry into the subject.could not unde r - Sir L. O'BRIEN said he feared that there would then be no use in pressing the motion to a division ; but he wished to give notice that he would again bring the subject before the House on the occasion of the discussion of the motion of which notice had been given for an inquiry into the state of the unions in the west of Ireland. The motion was then negatived without a division. SUPPLY— THE KAFIR WAR. ,The question ;having been put that the Speaker should leave the chair, Mr. ADDERLEY said that he had a statement to make on the subject of the Kafir war but he should postpone that statement until aft er the House should have gone into Committee, if the Noble Lord at the head of the Go vernment should think that that would be the more con venient course. Lord J. RUSSELL said :he thought that the more regular and convenient course would be that the Hon. Gen tleman should defer his statement until after the House should have resolv e d it se lf i nto a Committee. The Hon. G en tl eman could bring forward no motion on the question that the Speaker should leave the chair. The House then resol ve d i n t o a C omm i ttee of Supply; ni • BERNAL in the chair. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, he anticipated from what had just fallen from the Ho nourable Gentleman opp os it e (M r . Add er l e y) that it pont the was probable th a t a di scuss i on wou ld motion he was a b ou t to ma k e, b ut discus sion would tu rn pr i nc i pa ll y upon ot h er points that anse the u mere vote for th e expenses o f th e Kafir than the war. B u t he had only to d ea l w ith t h e fi nanc i a l par t of the question, and to that he should confine the observations he proposed to address to th e C omm itt ee . H e b e l i eved ne need not enter into a history of the recent events in British Kafraria. The Committee was already aware that a war was raging between us and the Kair tribes, and that considerable . . Putting an end to ex pense must be incurred for the purpose of that war. Border warfare between civilized ;men and unci a spirit of viliaed tribes had formerly been marked by • • A a m d e d ri e c il l o w h it e h n . vindictive cruelty and great barbarity. Such had been the character of our own wars in Nmoritghht the Indian tribes, and he believed he tween the Kafirs and the Dutch settlers i uthern Africa. The more enlightened spirit of moderntimes,how ever had put an end to that atrocious system of arfar which had formerly prevailed; but the consequence was that it was necessary to incur a greater expenditure than formerly in such cases. In the last Kafir war a very con siderable outlay had been rendered inevitable in conse quence of the officers in the Colony having been compelled to organize in great haste a body of men to supply the troops with provisions and ammunition, and in consequence also of its having been necessary. to convey the supplies from a considerable distan But fortunately those sources of expenditure were at present removed. W e had obtained a landing -place at th mouth of the Buffalo River, by which we were en,aabcleottoeltaend stores near the theatre of hostilities. And again staff of responsible officers had been organized since the war, for superintending the convey ance of supplies ; so that under that head also a considerable saving ot expense had taken place. When he had last ad dressed the House upon that subject, he had entertained as apprehension that the probable expense of carrying on the war would be much greater than he at present thought it likely to be. The first estimate which had been sent home by the Commissary -General at the Ce was, that the expen diture Would amount to about 400,0001. for six montlis; and he had some time ago proposed to take a vote of 300 0001. for meeting the exigency. He had then hoped that the war might have been brought to a speedy termination; but he was afraid the ground for that hope had since very much decreased. He was happy, how : ever, to be able to add that there had been a considerable diminution in the expenditure which had been anticipated for any given period of time. In consequence of the lesson taught by the last Kafir war stringent instructions had been sent out by the Treesury in the year 1849 to the commissariat officers; a much more rigid system of accounts had been i m p ose d on them, and a number of person s wh o had been trained during the last war for dealing with the commissariat service wore able to render valuable assistance to the Commissary-General. In the former war a large portion of the outlay had been entrusted to persons over whom the commissariat officers had possessed but a very slight control ; and t h e result had been that a system o f what he feared he should call jobbing had to a very con siderable extent taken place. He had been frequently asked in the House for the accounts of the last Kafir war; but the fact was that a large portion of them could not be produced, be cause t h ey had never been furnished. Th e accounts of the commissariat officers had been long since rendered, while the accounts of the local agents bad never n been audited. A much more rigid system had since been adopted. and he was happy to say that the recent accounts received .ae. received from the Commissary -General with respect expenditure in the colony were of a very satisfactory cha racter; racter ; while Sir H. Smith stated that he had never known troops better supplied with every article necessary for their health and comfort. The expenditure in the month t. o e ' January had been about 12,6001.; and judging experience which had been had up to the end of M m ore expenditure up to the end of July would not be I . ll _er n * than 202,000/. in addition to the 12,600/. which had bin spent in January. The total exenditure for six months would, therefore, fall far short of the 400 000/. which had the original estimate. On the 15th of April there had been from 15,000 men in the colony supplied with rations by the ct.lai missariat officers ; and there had been about 15,000 on the and other memb ers of the families of persons serving i army who had been supplied with allowances instead otla_i_ tions; so that the t o t a l number of persons for whom t h e ce missariat officers had had to provide had been 30,000.0 n n es e aid not think ns it would, then, be prudent on his part DA for a less sum than the 300,00 N. which he had orig! proposed ; beca use nobody could at present state what, to was the precise sum that might be wanted. It was only) a ua" re , the Commander-in -Chief to state that, although he h e u quired from the commissary that the troops should b . _ sup plied with everything they could reasonably require, al lne .. heartily joined in the attempts made to prevent an Yl ers ece cessary expenditure. All the officers engaged in the 14 had pursued a similar course, and their efforts had been tended with comp l ete success In conclusion he ha d to pro" pose t o th e C ommittee a vote of 300,000/. towards defraying the expenses of the Kafir war. ht /la n Mr. ADDERL EY said that although the Ri ee s sed Gentlem an th e C hancellor of the Exchequer had exp his satistact on at the reduced cost of the war, and at e. the fact of its bei ng conducted in a less barbarous manner than similar hostilities at f ormer times, be (Mr. Addeneey) these could see very littl e ground for gratification on either o bserve points. A s t o t h e smallness of the vote he should o_hid' that that was a mere part of the expense of a wa r : o promised to be a l most interminable. The Right II ur. able Gentleman was satisfied with th e c h ar acter of the War, and thought that it was far less barbarous than our a' with the Indian tribes in North America, or the wars ) ca, Adder iey be tween the Dutch and the Kafirs. But he (Mr. l did not believe that either of those cases presented A se stet .1i unci of warfare more atrocious, more barbarous, or more heed than that which we ' were at present carrying e q o a Kafraria. He knew of no horrors in our North Alue r a l ich wars, or in the wars of the Dutch in South Africa, ' cu e , bad exceeded the horrors which were at present being per petrated in that colony. Was the Right Honourable by the tleman aware that the war was being carried on ea that destruction of the crops of the unfortunate natives, and they, in th e i r turn, roasted our soldiers when they made them prisoners? If the b Rig thatht Hon. Gentleman had b een aware of tho se f acts how could he have stated that e war was le ss b ar b arous than those former wars to edict! had referred? He conf essed that the speech of the R i g ht e Honourable Gentl eman made him very much doubt as t o the course which h e oug h t then to pursue; and he thought th!Y_ would do well to ad j ourn the further consideration of t he question for a fe w d ays, in order to afford the Right He!. Gentleman an oppo r t un i ty of laying before them s ome ale" specific information upon the subject than that which they had received f rom him that evening. What was the reel; why the Right _Honourable Gentleman had proposed ill t vote that p art i cular amount of 300,000/.? If the vote sver e 2s. 6d., or any other sum, it would he just as reasonable 8 " exponent of the gigantic expense which must be incurred la this Kafir war. The Right Honourable Chancellor of this Exchequer seemed to think that the mode in which these expenses were now incurred was much more satisfactory than that which prevailed during the late Kafir vree war for it be remem b ered that this was the seventh Kafir for which this country had had to pay during the short titr e in which sh e h a d possessed that colony. The majority of accounts relating to the subject were at Cape Town e d. that moment, and had never left the office to which they ha d been sent, and were now in a heap of neglected paPer e e % Cape Town, and they certainly never would be seen in tole country, and never would be audited on either side of the Atlantic. No on e k new the extent to which peculation had extended. But the Right Hon. Gentleman hoed that on this occasion t h e expenses of the war would be much better conducted, th oug h h e knew not on what ground. They bad three points t o cons i der before they could properly proceed to it vote:, first, why the war had been incurred ; secondly, what chance there was of the expense increasing; and , thirdly, what chance there was of a recurrence. It had been laid down as a maxim by many colonial ministers, and by no one more clearly, distinctly, and emphatically than by Lord Grey, that every colony which had representative P h " vernment must bea r th e expense of national defence. With reference to New Z ea l an d and to other colonies, but par"' cularly to New Zealand, Lord Grey, in a corresponden ce with the govern or , said that an English colony which had representative government must bear the expense of its own internal defenc e . I n th i s case they knew well that Englan d l must pay the whole expense of the Kafir war. No one dis puted that. The only question was, whether they had ari t . hope of bei ng a bl e to throw future expenditure 0 this kind on the colony. If representative govern' ment were given to the Cape the wars would cea se. (The Chancellor of th e E xchequer made a gesture ofdis sent.) The Right. lon. Gentleman doubted this, but he maintained that if the colonists knew that the entire bur den of the war must fall on them, they would be more cautious; and the Chancellor of the Exchequer ought to be the last man to call that in question. At all events this country would cease to bear the expense. What was called by some the barbarous system would recur, and the settlers themselves would, with a strong hand, seek redress for ag" gr as ession on their frontiers; and history proved that this w far more effectual than the weak efforts of a distant power. Under the present system these wars afforded the means of many making their fortunes, and as long as the system continued it was hopeless to expect them to cease. He had not risen to express his own opinions, but merely to give a detailed chronicle of occurrences at the and Cape during the few months that had led to these things this might give some little clue to the prospects before them. I n t h e early part of 1850 her Majesty sent out letters patent to the governor of the Cape, authorising him, with his legislative council, to frame a representative constitution. Certain features were laid down, and full latitude was given to the governor and council to complete the outline. When the letters patent were re ceived, the legislative council had not been assembled for two years, and it was three years from the present time since there had been any legislative council at the Cape' The governor appealed to a popular election for the purpose offilling up the vacancies in the council, and having by this means obtained his council, proceeded to frame a constitution. How was it that the council broke down in their task ? The reason why the elected members resigned was probably very little known. It was sur posed by many who had not read the papers which had come from the Cape, that it was upon minor differences, or upon differences relating to the forma tion of the constitution, that they resigned. It was neither the one nor the other. The members elected by the people were ready to take any constitution, and would willingly have taken that sketched out in the letters patent- It was not upon a ,y difference between the governor and themselves that they resigned, but because the governer presented to them, atter they had begun to enter into the discussion of the new constitution, a series of bill s upon other sub j ects o f ordinary legislation, which led them to suppose that they had been brought into the council in order to be lased as an ordi nary legislature instead of being only a Constituent As sembly. That was the sole cause of their resignation. No one who had found time to read the documents on the subject could doubt for a moment that the point at issue between the governor and the elected members was, that • the latter refu se d t o pass th e es t i mat e s which had been incurred during the two previous years, the governor being afraid to meet a new Parliament without having his past ex penditure sanctioned by the Legislative Council. The four elected members who resigned having met t oge th er and drawn up a constitution according to their own views, which were in accordance with those of the larger part of the co lony, had sent their proposition to this country. They were the spokesmen of every municipality throughout the colony except two, and had been authorised over and over again to speak on behalf of nine -tenths of the future proposed electora body of the colony. Of this no doubt could enter the mind of any man who would take the trouble to read the papers which they had brought with them, and printed and circu lated in this country. The constitution consisted of 16 articles as the one proposed by Sir A. Stockenstrom and Mr. Fair bairn, and these two constitutions had been sent over to this country for consideration. Upon the arrival of the first de legate he proceeded to Lord Grey, and from that time for these four months his answer had been delayed until the arrival of dispatches from the Cape. These had lately arrived and had been laid on the table, and they showed that as soon as Lord G re y h eard the statementof facts which be Committee had just detail e d to the his first act was to reprimand Sir IL Smith on two grounds—first, for ap pealing to popular election; and, oecondly, when those elected members had resigned for not going on with the remainder of the council. Sir IL Smith defended himself on the ground that he had no other mode of filliog up the ee uncil, Which he was commanded to do, and that he had appealed t.o th e of Lord Grey. the will on the distinct statement e c s g i e c c e t r is f ile t otherhe colony, point, he ho saidh a e had consulted the law decided opinion that he could s not legalloyonpyrOcweed gave a council reduced below its legal number. Upon receiving this answer, Lord Grey wrote back to say that he could not personally agree in opinion with the opinion of the colonial legal officers, and he thought that if he wets to as tithe law officers of the C rown i n t h is country, they wld give a different opinion. However, it was too late, he said, to dispute that point, and that he would therefore advise her Majesty to send out fresh instructions by which the governor would be able to carry on the ordinary affairs of the Government with the remnant of the Council. Whether her Majesty had power to issue these fresh instructions, after the letters patent of 1850, was a mat ter rather for the law officers of the Crown than for him to settle. He imagined, however, that there wan considerable doubt on the point; at all events, Lord Grey seemed to be somewhat diffident about it, for he cautioned Sir H. Smith, and said that, whether legal or not, it was not desirable that he should do more than go on with the ordinary routine of government, and that he need not proceed to consider the letters patent, but wait till a better season, when he might be able to fill up the number of the Legislative Council. He had given a sketch of the state of things up to the period of the latest dispatches, and the epitome of the whole instruc tions appeared to be this—that if Sir H. Smith could not find four me n i n th e w h o l e col on y to fill up the Legislative Council, he was to govern the colony without the aid of a S mi sing th le colad onist. at This would have been b a d enough if Sir H. extent of the grievance. h been Cape Town, Sir but that was not the whole H. Smith was engaged in warfare far beyond the frontier altogether, wher e he filled two capacities, High Commissioner of Katraria and Com mander-in-Chief of her Majesty's Forces. How, then, was the Cape governed at all? By Mr. Montague, the Government Secretary. Mr. Montague governed, and nothing less, and his government was nameless, secret, and irresponsible. For three years there bad been no legal appropriation of the revenue. The revenue mainly arising from permanent taxes had, however, been raised, but not to a aufticient extent to meet the expenditure. .AM ENT. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 13, The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. NEW MEMBER. Sir A. S. CAMPBELL took the oaths and hii seat ft . r Argylesbire. The Hon. Member was introduced by Sir N IJ. Hope and Sir R. H. Inglis. Mr. ANDERSOPE TITIONS. presented a petition from a Scot tish sea port, pr a yi ng for the abolition of light dues. r Mr. SPOONER presented a second petition from Henry Edwards, the witness who was committed to ' Newgate by the House for misconduct before the St. Alban's Election Committee, praying to be released. The Hon. Member gave notice that on Monday he should move that it be printed, with the view of founding a motion upon it. Lord N AAS presented a petition from the Chamber of Commerce at Edinburgh, praying for an alteration in the mode of levying duties on home-made spirits in bond. J UNE 14, 185 L F Lord J out his si ber'a ape, Power of All these 'war upon Staking I object in - of the CI tesslon, different -The Duti Inents an Town ; t to time r And carr Mr. by the the Go given I He ha( posses fence •