The Sun. — London, England, 1840-04-28 00:00:00

EVEN IN CT' EDITION. CAMBRIDGE ELECTION COM- NIITTEE. The Committee met again yesterday at Eleven. Lydia Smith was called in and examined. By Mr. TALIOT—I am the daughter of George Smith ; I recollect my father going to Royston on a Wednesday before the last election. I remember my mother's leaviug home also that day, between break fast and dinner. While she was away Mr. Sutton, Mr. / Wm. Swan, and Mr. Headley called at our house, and asked for my father, and afterwards for my mother, but I told them they were not at home. They left a can vassiree card with Mr. Sutton's name on it. By Mr. ANDREWS—I was 13 years old last Decem ber. I saw Mr. Sutton for the first time on the day I mentioned, and I have not seen him since. I knew him, and I believe I must have seen him before, but I do not know when. I have been three weeks in London with my fa Cher and mother. No one told me to say that the person who had called was Mr. Sutton. I think I must hove seen Mr. Sutton at previous elections. I think I must have seen him canvassing. By Mr. TALBOT—I had seen canvassing parties before about town. I saw Mr. Gibson's party. I did not see any other. I saw the gentlemen who were at our house go into a neighbour's afterwards. I should know Mr.Statech now if I saw him. I saw him chaired. By the COMMITTEE—I knew the other two persons who had called with Mr. Sutton. Mr. Francis Ecten was then called in and examined. By Mr. AUSTIN—I know George Smith, the shoe as Aker. I saw him the week previous to the election at my own house. I had seen him in the street also. I was in the habit of seeing him before that. He gave me nine sovereigns at my office on the Thursday before the nomination at the Town-hall. He told me how he hail acted with Long. I have had the sovereigns since. —(The witness here produced the sovereigns, which were marked on the edge.) By Mr, WRANGLIAM—I saw Smith before he had given me the sovereigns, both at my own house and in the strene. lam sure we then talked on the subject. I t.hi.nk I saw him on the Sunday before. I think he also spoke on the matter on Saturday, and I believe )-bat was the first time he did so. He came the first time eititer to my house or to my office. He then merely related to ma what was going on. There was a conversation between us, but I merely listened to him, and I gave him no advice on the subject. If it was not a long story it was a story about Long.— ( Laughter.) He told me the sum that had been of iicred him for his vote, and asked me if he should ac cept it. I declined to give him any advice. He told me at a subsequent meeting that he had made up his mied on the matter. That was at our second meeting which was en Tuesday evening. I think it was also in the evening I first saw him, but I cannot say whether it was at my office or at my house. 1 did not commu nicate the matter to any body till it began to be talked about, as I thought our first conversation was a con fidential one, 1 had not mentioned the matter to any one till the evening previous to Long's apprehension. I believe my name was put on the list of Mr. Gibson's Committee. I believe there was a Committee or a meeting of Mr. Gibson's friends. I attended but very little the room in which Mr. Gibson's friends met. I think I might have called in once or twice every day during the election week. I cannot swear who were there. It is very probable that Mr. Cooper or Mr. Cannon were in the room when I visited it. Mr. Cannon and Mr. Cooper were not the election agents of Mr. Gibson, as far as I am aware of. only knew that Mr. Serle was the Chairman. have seen Mr. Serle presiding at the Committee room. I did not at first speak to him nor to any body else about Smith's business. By Mr. AUSTIN—I do not know whether I was a member of Mr. Gibson's committee or not. I acted as if I was one. I canvassed a good deal, but I did very little business within doors. I went to the Hope merely about my own entries. Ido not think it was on the morning of Saturday I saw Smith. It was on the Tuesday evening he told me had made up his mind. He ilea told me that what be was going to take would not interfere with his vote. He said he thought he should bake the money. The first person I spoke to on the subject was Mr. Cannon. By Mr. PLUIITRE—Smith told trio on Tuesday that he thought he should take the money. He said bribery was going on to a great extent, and that de tection was desirable. Mr. Cooper was then called in and examined. Ey Mr. COCKBURN—I remember th e T ues d ay an d the T hursday before Long's apprehension. I remem ber Smith's coming to Mr. Gibson's Committee on Tuesday, and telling me of the offer Long had made him. The communications then made to me corre spond substantially with those he has made to the Committee. He communicated further with us on Thersday, and told us his wife had accepted the money. By Mr. ANDREWB---1 think it must have been ten o'clock, or later, in the evening, when Smith came to the Committee-room. I knew Smith before, but I do not recollect entering his house. Smith's daughter is in Mr Cannon's service. By Mr. COCKBURN—Before Tuesday ovening I hard some in - distinct rumour of Long's canvassing Wilthni Marsh was then called in and examined. B 40. AusiV—l am a watchmaker in Cambridge, and I live. in Fttzroy-street. I remember seeing Samuel Long before the last election. He called at my house for the first tittle on the 19th of August. He asked ate if I had a. gold chain to brace a couple of grey hounds together ? He called again a few days after, and I found I had none to suit him. He inquired of ale then if I had a vote, and he asked me how I in tended to dispose of it ? I said I did not know yet, as I had not heard who the candidates were. He said that Gibson, the rejected turncoat from Ipswich, was coming among us, and asked if I would be taken in by him ? He said that Whigs and Tories wer e a ll l oo ki ng out for themselves, and that it did not matter to a poor man how he voted. I saw him again on the 28th of August in Gold -street, near his own house. He asked me to go is with him and have a glass of wine. I had seen him often before then. When I went into his house we had each a glass of wine. He asked me if I had yet determined on promising him my vote, and I told him I had not. He then said that if I would pro mise to vote for Mr. Sutton, he would give me ten sovereigns, on condition I should give him one back for himself. --(Laughter.) I told him I could not consci entiously accept his offer, but that I would consider on the matter. When I was in the room I heard a woman's voice at the door. She asked Mrs. Long for her husband, but she was told that he was engaged. He took a sovereign out of his pocket, and said he would let me have the other nine if I promised him my vote. He called on me again at about nine o'clock on the following morning but no conversation took place between us, as I had customers in the shop. I did not see him again till he was under examination. On the day after he had offered me the money I communicated the fact to Mr. Cannon. On the Saturday after he was bailed he came up to me and said, Marsh, I thought I could depend on you. I said I did not intend to in jure him or his family. By Mr. WRANGIIA3I-1 saw Mr. Cooper on the Thursday afternoon, on the day following that on which the offer was made to me. I told him part of what I have related now. I told Long I could not conseien tiousry take the money, but that I should consider on it. I meant to wait and see what further steps I should take on the subject. When I told him I should consider, I meant to let him draw what inference he might choose from it. By Mr. ThEslGEß—Wben I said I should consider, I meant I should see how I might bring to light the darkness in which they were walking. I made the same statements to the Magistrates as I have made to-day. By Mr. PLUMPTRE-1 gave Long at uncertain answer, and let him draw what conclusion he might from it. By the (illAtamAN—When I said I should consider on the subject, 1 had made up my mind not to take the money, but I wished to see what proceedings I might take. By Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE-4 am a Wesleyan Methodist. The witness was then orilterea to withdraw. Mr. COCKBURN then said th a t b e believed the time was coma for t'al"og the attention of the Committee to the evidence ...itfectin g t h e i ssues on which they should ' have Ito O:onouncc their judgment. These issues were two in number—namely, the question of treating and the: 4f bribery. He would proceel to discuss them in dettfil. He should commence with the question of trApting, acrd he would begin by rea di ng the statute w - Tr - ch rriltited 16 , &rat subject. (The Learned Gentleman then re-ad ti 7th of Wm. 111., chap. 4, which is the statute In question.) After having read that statute, he would assume that no orders for treating had been given, and though he thought that he could prove the issuing of such orders, be felt it was unneces sary that he should do so. If a candidate chose to pay for refreshments given to parties voting in his favour, there could not be the slightest doubt but he was an swerable for such proceedings. Let them look at the case in detail. Messrs. Twiss and Marshall were the avowed agents of the sitting Member ; and shortly after the election an advertisement appeared in the local papers fro m these gentlemen, stating that all claims on the Hon. Manners Sutton should be sent in to them. A few days after Mr. Brown and Mr. Twiss met in the streets, and Mr. Twis s then asked the other if he would consent to look over the hills. Mr. B rown sa id he should h ave no objection, t . he wished that there should be some person of respectability to act with him. Mr. Brown afterwards arrangedawmiith Mr. Fisher that Mr. Bishop should assist him third person_ namely, Mr. Spencer —was afterwards.a d nussbcr. The bills in Mr. Twiss's paosdeiobd tno theirwere then sent to Mr. Bishop's, were examinede and were eventually paid. It should be y him, bered, that as Mr. Sutton had himself givenaresm4ttait. towards the expenses of the e l ect i on, and money must have become amalgamated with the rest, he, in reality, contributed towards the payment of th e bills in q uestion. It should also be remembered that the subsequent adoption of a proceeding renders a party liable for an act as if he had himself been the author of it. The refreshments had been furnished in con- travention of the statute, and if Mr. Twiss afterwards authorised the payment of them, such a proceeding on his part must be fatal to the sitting Member. (The Learned Gentleman then went into various details with regard to a l arge p ort i on o f t h e NO bill s w hi c h h a d I been paid by the friends of Mr. Sutton, for the purpose 1 of showing that treating to a great extent had been resorted to at the election by those gentlemen.) Refreshments had been furnished on the polling day, and that was clearly contrary to the letter of the law. It was also contrary to its spirit. It might be said that those refreshments were furnished to those only who had already recorded their votes. But even though it were so, such a proceeding tended equally to demo ralize the constituency and to influence their votes as if the refreshments had been furnished previous to the polling. He believed that justice to the electors, justice to the petitioners, justice to the representative system, and justice to the community at large, now called on the Committee to manifest their condemnation of proceedings so immoral and illegal as those which had taken place at the late Cambridge elec tion. He would pass to the second question —that of bribery. He believed that there could not be the slightest ground for any doubt upon that subject. The fact of an attempt at bribery on the part of Long, had been proved by the witness Smith in the fullest and most explicit manner. There were various circumstances to confirm the evidence of Smith. The demeanour of the witness himself, and the feeling with which he repelled an unjust suspicion, entitled him to the confidence of the Committee. The evidence of ~his wife came in corroboration of that which 'ho had given, and they had before them the money which had been offered to Smith. The case of Marsh strengthened the other. An attempt had also been made to bribe him, and his evi dence was perfectly clear and detailed. It should also be observed that on Long's being arrested a paper was found in his possession, which he hid attempted to destroy, but which was found to be an election list, and the first name on it was that of Smith, and farther down was the name of Marsh. The moment, too, that Long was asked in his examination whether he had attempted to bribe Smith, his answer was that he could not reply to that question, as it might criminate himself. Was that the answer of one who felt himself guiltless ? And could there he any doubt as to the truth of the evidence of Smith ? After having entered into some details for the purpose of justifying the course pursued by the petitioners and their agents, the Learned Gentleman concluded by saying that it appeared to him that the two cases of treating and of bribery on the part of the agents of the sitting Member had been clearly made out, and that the matter was one in which the Committee could have no hesitation in applying the salutary provisions of the law, both as regarded the consequences of such pro ceedings as those which had been detailed to them in the present instance, and their suppression for the future. It was then past four o'clock, and on the application of Mr. ANDREWS the Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow, with the understanding that they sit till five. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS FROM THE DAILY PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. (From the Globe.) The Standard of Saturday gave its readers a dish of foreign politics, and a pretty mess it made of it We have seldom seen so much ignorance, confusion of ideas, and misrepresentation, condensed into a column and a half. The Standard took a wide range— Naples, China, North America ; and was equally unfortunate in all. But it laid down doctrines most particularly curious, and well deserving to be re corded as announcements of the principles of foreign policy to be pursued by the Tories if in power. The Standard admits that England is in the right in her quarrels with Naples, China, and the United States ; that is to say, that we have justice on our side in each of these three differences ; in other words, that injustice has been done, or is threatened to be done, towards us by Naple3, by China, and by the United States. But nevertheless, says the Standard, the Melbourne Administration is to blame for allow ing these quarrels to arise ; and if the present Minis ters had acted with good management they might have prevented all these disputes. But how do our readers think the Standard would have prevented all this ? Aye, how ? The Standard has a receipt for avoiding a quarrel even when injustice is done to us, and a notable receipt it is ; risen: teneatis. We would give our readers any number of guesses, but wo are sure they never would find it out ; and so we must tell. Why, the receipt is to submit to be cheated and to be wronged and to say nothing about it. If, says the Standard, our Ministers would only have had common sense enough to allow the country to be cheated and wronged quietly by other Powers, we need have sent no expedition to China, we need have made no reprisals against Naples, we should have had no Boundary Question with America. In private life, says the Standard, the maxim is established, none get into the Gazette as bankrupts, but men who steadily refuso to be cheated 1 , none become wealthy and prosperous, but those who let themselves be cheated by all who like to cheat them. Really the childish absurdity of this de spicable nonsense is so great, that we will not insult the understanding of our readers by giving it a serious refutation. (From tho Standard.) We hear it obstinately denied that Lord Staniey' Lill is a necessary part of " the great measure of reform. They who take this ground are, however, compelled to entrench themselves in the vague generality of the con tradiction, or to distract attention by petty cavils at the details of the measure, all of which, let it be remembered, are open to amendment in a committee. 'We stand upon our original ground. We say that the Irish system of registration is, and, for at least fifteen years, has been notoriously and thoroughly corrupt. We repeat it, that when Lord Stanley in troduced the Irish Reform Bill, he referred to the notorious and thorough corruption of the Irish registry (attested by the discoveries of a host of Parliamentary Committees since), and promised the measure which he now introduces as a necessary part of the great measure of reform. If any of these positions is disputed —if it is denied that the Irish registration system is corrupt —we are prepared with the evidence of Mr. O'Connell, Dr. Magauran, and the Roman Catholic witnesses of 1825, with the reports of the Parliamentary Committees—nay, with the abcr tk e Bills of the present Ministers themselves, acknow ledging that corruption. Lord Stanley has distinctly referred to his own promise at the time of the Reform Bill. How, then, arc we to understand those who re fuse to Lord Stanley's Bill the character of a Reform Bill? Do they contend that Reform is not to correct, but to perpetuate, proved abuses and corruptions i—or will they dispute that Lord Stanley and his colleagues of 183:2 knew their own minds ? This they must do if they refuse to the Bill now under consideration, the name of a part of the great measure of Reform ; in substance and in circumstances it is most clearly en titled to that name. (From the Courier.) It will be seen that the actions for libel arising out of the mistaken notions of the House of Commons as to the nature and extent of its privileges, are formally terminated, in pursuance of the recent Act of Parlia ment. We have no desire to renew the discussion of a subject with which the public have long since been thoroughly disguted, but which the friends of the ancient Constitution could not avoid treating. In fact, it was fairly thrust upon them by the violence and per tinacity of the leadrrs of the majorities, whose decisions were so deservedly reprobated by the country at large. The Speaker's certificate that the action was in respect of a publication of a Parliamentary report is sued by order and under the authority of the House of Commons, was pleaded and admitted, with an ob servation from Lord Denman, who, during the pro gress of the case has ably sustained the high character of a British Judge, that the Act of Parliament was imperative, and a compliance had been made with its different requisites. Though this Act ii now recognised as a part of the Constitution, we are far from perfec tion, while an irresponsible power of injuring the cha racters of others is vested in a body which has shown itself unscrupulous in that respect. very important experiments , ' !; of the Corporation of EXPERIMENTS Past, in the presence of the Syno) have i3R E been Ap goingl\ `TAKING.—Some A : C o on :I f for . some ---- S Ci d I 1 ri ay e s takers and a commission named by preparation of bread. By a new disc overy . ve r t n h m e elnuta, quantity ty t the consists in the made to yield 122 to 127. The discovery iif G ? flour which in the ordinary process yields only 102 loaves,. is now mode of fermentation. The bread, which is of the same weight as in the common mode of panification, loaf for loaf, is equally n u t r i t i ve, and is superior in flavour. I have tested some of it, and can therefore confirm this part of the state ment. This is, indeed, a very important discovery in the pre sent high price of bread, and secures a provision for a large in crease of population. If generally adopted it will render the application of the Malthusian doctrines unnecessary for at least a quarter of a century, and in the meantime some other disco very may be made which w:11 prevent the abrogation of the great ordinance" increase and multiply."—Letter front Paris. Grisi, Tainburini, and all the opera stars, will appear at the fourth ancient concert on Wednesday. There will be several English singers as well. The fifth and sixth per formances will be conducted by Mr. Turk, organist of West minster Abbey. FATAL ACCIDENTS.—On Saturday an inquest was held before Mr. Baker, at the London t , Hospital, o n v i ew o f emiloy e d at S t. got v upon a i the body of Boer Powell, aged thi r t y years. It appeared f rom the evidence that '' the deceased was a l a b ourer, Katherine Docks. On the previous mornin g he bale of hemp for the purpose of shifting his dress, ha assisting in unloading a vessel , when his foot slipped, having gn keen fell on a hurdle which Lad bee n p lace d upside down, and he on the spikes entered his left thig h. No ti me was lost in conv e y_ jug him to the above hospital , but he expired sh or tl y after his admission. Verdict—" Accidental death." An i nquest was taken before Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholomew 's Hospit a l, on view of the body of Charles Hicks, aged 2S, a dairyman, who fell down an area. Joha Saunders, street-keeper, said that he Was in Bedford-row, on Thursday evening last, when he saw ,op an area house-sunte and fell the d eceased in company w ith ano ther man. Deceased, w h o was not sob er , wa lk e d across to the east side, where he leaned against se area. He ;vas taken up and carried Travers, , in a chaise to St. Bartholomew's H o sp ital. Air. eon, said tothe that deceased was fotind to ha ve received hop es o f his re a fracture of the wtrtehrw, and there were no 4re ov ery• Verdict, " Accidental Death.- THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 1840, LAW INTELLIGENCE. THE GUILDHALL LIBRARY. COURT OF CHANCERY, Aritrz 27. I'YNI V. LOCKYRit. The arguments in this part-heard case were resumed, and concluded to-day. The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed giving judgment. COLLARD V. ALLISON. This case originally came before the Court upon motion fur an injunction to restrain the defendant from infringing a patent obtained by the plaintiff, about twelve years ago, for certain improvements in pianofortes. Upon that motion coming on, his Lordship refused to grant the injunction, ordering the plaintiff to bring an action at law to try the validity of his patent. That action was brought, and a verdict obtained for the plaintiff. Notice, however, was given on behalf of the defendant of his intention to apply in the present term for a new trial, but, in the interim, the plaintiff again set down his motion for the injunction, found ing that motion upon the verdict he had obtained at law. That motion stoed for hearing last Monday, but upon its being called on, it was ordered to stand over till to-day, in order that the result of the application to the Court of Queen's Bench, which would be made in the first four days of the term, might be ascertained. That application had re sulted in the Court granting a lulu nisi to show cause why a nonsait should not be entered, or a new trial had, on the ground of want of evidence and misdirection. Under these circumstances the motion came before the Court again to-day. Mr. RICHARDS, on behalf of the plaintiff, afterstating what had taken place below, observed that it was not his wish if the Court thought it was not competent to him to bring on the motion that day, but he understood, from the state of the business in the Court of Queen's Bench, that it was not likely the rule which had been obtained could be heard for twelve or eighteen months, and that delay would be extremely hard upon a plaintiff who had the verdict of a Court of Law in his favour. He trusted, therefore, if the motion was to stand over, that his Lordship would request the Court of Queen's Bench to advance the case for argu ment. A catalogue of the Guildhall library, which owes so much to the research and assiduity of Mr. Herbert, the Librarian to the Corporation of London, has been just completed. As a library relating to London the Guild hall library greatly surpasses the British Museum, and it is daily receiving fresh accessions of considerable value. It was instituted by the charter of Common Council in the year 1824, on the motion of Mr. Richard Lam bert Jones, to whom the public are indebted for some of the most useful improvements in this great city, as a library of all matters relatteg to the City, the Borough of Southwark, and the county of Middlesex. In June, 1824, the Court granted to the Committee appointed to carry the object into effect, the sum of 500/. as an outfit, and resolved to allow 2001. per annum towards rendering it as complete as possible, the general opinion amongst the members of the Corporation being that when the establishment should be known many public bodies, as well as individuals, would be induced to pro mote the object by gratuitous presentations of works, especially of duplicates, of which they might be pos sessed. In the year 1837 an extra grant of 1000/. was voted by the Court of Common Council to enable the Com mittee to make purchases of works, and the library now consists of 10,000 volumes, 2,000 of which are dona tions ; but it is to be regretted, and deprecated too, that the names of very few members of the Courts of Alder men and Common Council appear in the catalogue ap pended to books of value. The rules or regulations are briefly as follow. The library, which consists of three very elegant rooms situate above the grand entrance to th e G u i ldhall, is opened daily from 10 till 4 o'clock, from the Ist of September to the 31st of March, and from 10 till 5 o'clock from the Ist of April to the 31st of July (th e usua l hol i days excepted). It is closed during August, and from the 6th to the of . November. E very member of the Corporation has the right of person a l admi ss i on an d t h e privilege of introducing a visitor, the names to be en tered in a book. The printed books and manuscripts, prints, maps, and drawings, are in the care o f th e libra rian, who i s to lay before the Committee a report of the actual state of the library every year. Persons may take one or more extracts from any printed book or ma nuscript, but the whole or greater part of a manuscript is not to be transcribed without a particular leave from the Committee. No printed hook or manuseript, print, map, or drawing, is to be taken out of the library. The principal donors are alphabetically as follows : Mr. Henry Butterworth, forty-five volumes ; the Trustees of the British Museum, sixteen volumes ; the late Chamberlain's executors, forty-two volumes ; the Commissioners on Public Records, ninety-seven volumes ; Messrs. Fisher and Co., twenty-seven volumes ; Mr. Holmes, High Sheriff of Southwark, fifty-four volumes ; Mr. James, the Secondary, fifty-five volumes ; Mr. W. L. Newman, late City Solicitor, thirty-five volumes ; Mr. David Salmons, sixty volumes ; Mr. Thomas Saunders, thirty-five volumes ; Mr. Thomas Tegg, sixty-two volumes ; Mr. Edward Tyrrell, the City Remembrancer, one hundred and eighty-seven volumes ; Mr. Deputy 'Whitby, of Vintry Ward, two hundred and twenty-six volumes ; Mr. E. Archer Wilde, and Mr. A. Spottiswoode, twenty-seven volumes ; Mr. Thomas Wilson, jun., twenty-one volumes ; Sir Matthew Wood, Bart., one hundred and fifty-two volumes ; Mr. Woodthorpe, the Town Clerk, seventeen volumes. Mr. WIGRAat, on the behalf of the defendant, would gladly join in that request provided his Lordship felt him self justified in doing so. The LORD CHANCELLOR did not sae how ho could in terfere with the proceedings of another Court. What had taken place lately in the Court of Queen's Bench certainly did not improve the situation of the plaintiff. It certainly was quite competent to Mr. Richards to make a motion for an injunction the day after the Court had re fused to grant one, but there was some risk in that. When the Court refused an injunction on the ground that the right at law, which was doubtful, ought to be tried, it wus usual that that right should be established before the Court determined whether, on a second application, it would grant the injunction or not. That could not be said to have been done in the present case, because although a verdict had been obtained it was good for Hothing with out judgment, and it was at least doubtful whether that would be obtained when the Court of Queen's Bench had granted a rule nisi for a new trial. Mr. RICHARDS submitted that the Jury, having found a verdict for the plaintiff, had thereby established the fact of the novelty of the invention, added to which they had the opinion of the Lord Chief Justice in their favour. The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was competent to the plaintiff to proceed with the motion, but he could not give any credit to a verdict after the Court of Queen's Bench had granted a rule nisi for a new trial. Mr. ANDRRDON submitted that the Court ought to direct a case for the opinion of the Court of Law, as by that means the matter might be speedily settled. The LORD CHANCELLOR said if it was consistent with the practice of the Court of Queen's Bench to advance a case, he hoped they would do so in the present instance, and during the time the arguments had been going on, he had communicated with the Judges on the subject. As to the proposition of Mr. Anderdon, it was quite impracti cable to adopt that. After some short discussion, the motion was ordered to stand over, with liberty to either party to apply to the Court. Pecuniary donations of 105/. and 100/. were named, the one from Sir James Shaw, Bart., the Chamberlain of the City of London, and the other from the late Mr. Philip Hurd. The Lord Chancellor then proceeded to hear appeals, none of which were of any interest. Mr. Herbert, the Librarian, presented his volumes, in the compilation of which he has been engaged for some years, entitled " The History of the Twelve great Livery Companies of London, principally compiled from their own records ; with attested copies and transla tions of their characters, and an introductory historical essay." VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, APRIL 27. The VicK-CuANeaLLoa proceeded with the adjourned petitions to-day. JULLIEN V. POWELL. This case came before the Court upon the petition of Mrs. Jullien, the step-mother of a young lady 17 years of age, praying that that part of the Master's Report, which found that 1701. a year was the proper sum to be appro priated for her maintenance, might be confirmed, and that the petitioner might be appointed her guardian. From the statements in the petition, it appeared that the infant was entitled, under the will of her grandfather, to 2001. a year, and certain of the young lady's relatives were under the will appointed trustees to carry the object of the tes tator into effect. By the will of the young lady's father the petitioner was appointed her guardian, but upon a re ference to the Master, that will had been found to be un duly attested, and therefore of no effect. Since the father's death the young lady had resided with her step mother, for whom she entertained a great affection, in apartments in the neighbourhood of London. Mr. K. BRUCE, who appeared for the trustees, sub mitted that a more proper residence ought to be found for the young lady than with her step mother. He was instructed on the part of the trustees, to state that they believed her to be a highly respectable woman, and one who never had had the slightest imputation against her moral character, but that her origin (she having been a servant to, though afterwards married to the infant's father) made her not altogether the most proper person to take charge of a young lady with a fortune of 2001. a-year, especially when the young lady's relations who had es tablishments of their own, would be most happy to re ceive her. Amongst the latest contributors to the library is Mr. Ward, of Paternoster•row, whose note upon the occa sion to the Lord Mayor is well deserving of notice. It is as follows: 27, Paterno s t er - row . MY LORD MAYOR,—Havin g lately been favoured with a view of the library now forming with so much taste and judgment under the roof of Guildhall, I beg leave, as a citizen of London, to present the Corpora tion of London with a work I have lately published at considerable expense—namely, " Coobin's condensed Commentary and Family Exposition of the Holy Bible," hoping it may be deemed worthy a place on their shelves, and that I may set an example to other publishers to assist in an undertaking so honourable to the Court of Common Council, and likely to be so valuable to the citizens at large. I Lave the honour to be, my Lord, Your Lordship's faithful servant, THOMAS WARD. A great number of valuable tracts, scarce prints, maps, and curious antiquities, which lay the foundation of a Museum, have been also presented to the library. KILRUSH PETTY SESSIONS. The VICE-CHANCELLOR recollected having seen the young lady and her step-mother, in his private room, at - Liacoln's-inn, and at that interview, he could not but ob serve the affection that existed between them ; and as the father had expressed his wish in his will that his daughter should be taken care of by her step-mother, ne thought it would be a strong act on the part of the Court, when there was no imputation against ber character, to take the care aid guardianship of the young lady from her. He would, therefore, appoint the petitioner the guardian of the infant, with liberty to the latter to visit her other re latives whenever she thought proper,) and the report of the master giving the young lady an allowance of 1701. a-year must be confirmed. " Be Gor, you shan't go away dhry and hungry." A WATER WITCH.—" The seven parishes" hold not a more determined Mathewite than Dan Dempsey. Flashy was the riband that suspended his medal in the procession on St. Patrick's day ; and the appearance of " publicans and sinners," when he meets them casually in his wayfarings, excites his indignation to an almost uncontrollable degree ; but Dan Dempsey is no water drinker ; he never could bear it either in shoes or sto mach ; and his decided disrelish for that insipid beve rage now brought him within the precincts of this Court. ROLLS' COURT, Arn.rh 27. SIDMOUTII V. siomotYrni The bill in this case was filed by Viscountess Sidmouth against Viscount Sidmouth, Lord Eldon, and others, trustees, under the will of the late Lord Stowell, for the purpose of having it declared that certain sums of stock amounting to between 30,0001. and 40,0001. were part of the property of Mr. Scott, the son of Lord Stowell, who died in the lifetime of his father ; that the defendants, the trustees, in whose name the stock is standing, might deal with it as a part of the assets of William Scott ; and that under the trusts of his will the plaintiff might be declared entitled to the stock and to have it transferred to her. The MASTER of the ROLLS, at the conclusion of the ar guments, stated that ho would give judgment to-morrow (this day.) Nelly Casey, the proprietress of a provision esta blishment, alias a concern where pettitoes and salt-her rings formed the staple commodity, was tendered the book, and modestly expressed her assurance that the " Gintlemen o' the binch would'nt ax a lone woman to take her oath." Before the " Gintlemen o' the binch" could reply, Mister Dempsey broke into a' most reviving cachina tion. " Oh! dear me (he said) what delicacy it is. Eh, then, how do you do, Mrs. Casey, this shinin' ninrnin' ?" and he bowed very low. "Eh ! Nelly, a cushla, how's every breath o' you, my lone woman. Not to take the book, indeed. Oh ; be the tare o' war that beats cock fitin'." Having thus delivered his sentiments, Dan Dempsey shook his head, and, smiling significantly at Nelly Casey, sat down. Mrs. Casey was at length prevailed upon to take the book, which she did as gingerly as though it contained a detonating powder, and would explore at a touch. Magistrate—What do you charge Dempsey with ? Nelly—With heaving this through my little windy on last night, an' bein' within a herrin-scale ov knockin' me brains out. Look hether Sir, an'jest handle this if you please. So saying, Mrs. Casey presented his Worship with a most unequivocal lump of a brick-bat, which she had fished up from her ample pocket. " Easy wid the hay, for a succond," interposed Mas ter Dan—" Easy now, ma'am, an' jest tell their ho nours of the gallon—what, gallon ! no, but three gallons o' wather, you hey down on the crown o' me head the same night ; that I mightn't sin, your Rive rence, if ever I got rich a drowndin, pon my word to you, if you seen me, you'd imagine 'twas towin' afther is boat I was, for the lingth ov a day."—(Laughter.) Magistrate—Perhaps it was accidentally done ? Dan—Oh, very accidental, intircly, sir,—no, indeed ; but as I passed the doore, I hear singin', aye, be gor, two or three voices sthrivin to hekup out " Hurra for Dumbarton," an I jest peeped in, my disgust was so great at 'em for not risin' out ov id, for dhrinkin, as most o' the nibors are doin'. Sure, my dear life, 'twasn't long till I hear the words—"none o' your harkenin' there, you bligarl," in Mrs. Casey's voice, an' thin down kern the shower, an' no stint my hand to you, from this ould witch ov a woman.—((xreat laughter.) " " And th en y ou fl ung th e b r ick," said his Worship. " W ou ld you bl ame me , Si r , now after sick a wa therin'," returne d D empsey -- Aye, fakes, as if I was a big geranium that was witherin' wtd drooth. Begor, sure enough I flung the brik, an' sure as look would have id, it h ot the m iddl e o ' the sash, an' me d as much small gl ass as wou ld li ne a gar den wall, there'sthe whole treuth for y ou , r i g h t or wro ng, up or down, this or that ! way, an' l ong lif e to your W ors hip's reverence, anyhow." Mrs. C asey once ' more rene wed her appeal of being a lone w o m an , b ut t h e B enc h taking the provocation given into account and also Dan's general good cha racter, sent them both--about their business. s m Is t m time, commenced willten, A HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.-11 practice within to detplowpsuelafet depopulate icland c h o , u i n f t t i l e o s t eye namely, prevented an extensive exportation of English-built stocking frames to Belgium and Holland, and some few to France. No stocking frames ?pun the English model have been exported to the Con tinent since 1696—the date of the first law for preventing the exportation of stocking frames—a period of 14-1 years, in which th w e ee r i n c i s d , this country has enjoyed the pre-erninenee of superior machi nery in the frame-work knitted manufacture. A considerable number have been shipped from Liverpool to the United States, which has been a sort of free port for such traffic, as the Cus tom-house officers take little notice of such shipments. Little has been dreaded from this quarter, as in the three winter months in America, the jacks in the English frames will not fall, and in the three summer months, the weather is so hot that the stcckingers cannot work in the heat of the day. The point principally selected for the removal of the English frames is to the vicinity of Antwerp ; as the Belgian Government, act ing in direct opposition to the measures of the British Cabinet, have increased the demand to a surprising extent for hosiery goods, by vigorously enforcing protective duties, allowing a bounty of 10 per cent on exportation, and actually engaging to take a large quantity of goods that may be made on application, and cannot be sold by the manufacturers, thus adopting the measures of Edward * , Edward I V., Richard 111. , and Eli zabeth, whi c h made us become a great manufacturing nation. No less than 27 plain frames were exported at one shipment, about a month since, to Antwerp, whether by Treasury licence or otherwise, h as not vet transpired. Foreign agents are ex tensively engaged in purchasing more frames, and engaging hands to work them. A sort of half fever prevails amongst the unemployed to get situations abroad, and such are the numerous applications that only the best workmen are selected. In addi tion to which, considerable numbers of frame-smiths have been seduced to leave this vicinity for Antwerp, Ostend, Ath, and Calais.—Nottingham Joferni:d. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. Yesterday a Court was held in consequence of a re quisition signed by a great number of Aldermen and Common Councilmen, for the purpose of considering the propriety of expressing to the Sheriffs the sense of the Court on the very peculiar and trying circumstances in which they have been placed, and presenting to them some token of the respect and veneration enter tained towards them by the Court for their recent upright and honourable conduct, and on other business. THE ROYAL HUMANE SOCIETY. Mr. SAVAGE, after a few observations upon the great advantages derivable by the public from the exertions of the Royal Humane Society, moved that the Chem. berlain do subscribe, in the name of the Court, the sum of 100 guineas, in aid of the funds of the Royal Humane Society. It was suggested that the more proper and regular course would be to refer the subject ',to a Committee, who would have the opportunity of inquiring into the merits of the application. Mr. PRIOR (the Chairman of the Blackfriars-bridge Committee) strongly advocated Mr. Savage's proposi tion. The Institution was one of the very noblest in the country. He had had occasion to write several letters to it.e Society, respecting individuals who had been the means of saving persons from being drowned, and the Institution in every instance rewarded those whom he had recommended.—(Hear, hear.) Neither could he too highly eulogise the great promptitude and alacrity which existed amongst the servants of the In stitution, in all cases of danger. Alderman LUCAS said that to his knowledge the So ciety did an immensity of good. They would send gra tuitously to any place in which they believed such things neigh be of utility, grappling irons, boats, and the whole apparatus for saving the lives of drowning persons.— (Cheers ) He could speak of several instances, to his own personal knowledge ; and it gave him much satis faction to allude to a case in which a distinguished wi ntery officer, Colonel Brothcrton, hazarded his life, because the readiness of the Institution to do good was strongly exemplified, and an opportunity was thus afforded of doing justice to the instinctive humanity of a very gallant man —(Cheers.) As the Colonel was riding on the banks of the river Medway he heard that a boy, the son of one of the soldiers under him, had just sunk. The Colonel jumped into the river, booted and spur red as he was, and very nearly lost his life in endea vouring to save that of the boy, for his spurs became en tangled in the branches of a tree at the bottom of the river, and although he believed he touched the body it was quite impossible to rescue it from death.—(Hear, hear.) The Society, upon hearing the circumstance, took care that the apparatus should not be wanting in another case, and at once sent to the Medway all the necessary n asleitury.—(Cheers.) In fact, the Society never re p fed in the negative to any application, and he trusted that the Corporation would never refuse to contribute to so great a charity. Mr. OBBARD said that the Court had already given to the Royal Humane Society several sums of money, and if the Society required aid, they surely could not object to appear at the bar, and apply to it in the usual way.—( Hear, hear.) Mr. BURTON considered that so old a member of the Court as Mr. Savage was might be very fairly allowed to represent a society with which he had been so long connected. Mr. R. TAYLOR said that it was not always con venient for the officers of a society to appear at the bar, and that it was quite competent for a member to represent there. Mr. WELLS objected to the granting of the City money to any but corporation purposes, and, as the money was not for corporate purposes, he would move the previous question. A discussion took place upon the amendment, which was rejected by a majority of eight. Finally it was agreed to refer the matter to a Committee. THE SHERIFFS AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Alderman BROWN rose to call the attention of the Court to the subject of the requisition, which his Lordship read. He said that whatever question might arise as to the policy of the adoption of the Parliamentary Paper Bill by the Legislature, or whatever opinions might be entertained as to the course pursued by the House of Commons in the late matter of the privileges, there could be no difference of opinion, he thought, as to the conduct of the Sheriffs.— Hear.) There might be present gentlemen who en tertained the opinion that the House of Commons had justly exercised its privileges. There were others, pro bably, who looked upon the proceedings of that branch of the Legislature as liable to objection, but no doubt at all could exist as to the conduct of the Sheriffs, who were the innocent sufferers in the great cause.— (Hear.) He anticipated a unanimous concurrence in the resolutions he had to propose, and which were to the effect of presenting to each of the Sheriffs a piece of plate, value 150 guineas, as a proof of the sense en tertained of the magnanimity of their conduct.— (Loud cheers.) The resolutions (for which see advertisement) did not by any means com promise the Court. He asked them to mark their sense of the spirited and independent conduct of the Sheriffs who were officers of that Court, and all he would say with regard to the Parliamentary Paper Bill which was just passed was, that it was calculated I t o prevent innocent persons like their Sheriffs from being subjected to any annoyance, such as that to which Mr. Evans and Mr. Wheelton had been exposed. Mr. WIRE seconded the resolution, and said that he would follow the example of the Alderman in the brevity of his remarks. While there existed a diversity of opinion as to the conduct of the House of Commons, there existed none whatever as to the conduct of the Sheriffs, who could not possibly have acted with more becoming zeal and spirit.--(Hear, hear.) Mr. LAWRENCE rose to oppose the resolutions. He could not see that such a word as magnanimity was at all applicable to the conduct of the Sheriffs. However he might and did regret the inconvenience to which these gentlemen were put by what had taken place, he could not allow that they were entitled to such peculiar dis tinction. He understood that magnanimity m ean t something voluntary, and he b e li eve d that the Sheriffs had shown just as much magnanimity as prisoners ex ercised upon being committed by the Lord Mayor to Newgate.—(A laugh.) The worthy advocate of the Sheriffs had upon this occasion expressed himself briefly, and deprecated discussion, anticipating at the same time an unanimous concurrence in his resolutions ; but the art of the worthy Alderman was seen through easily. Notwithstanding the disavowal of any intention to ques tion the conduct of the House of Commons, the object was evidently to pit the Court of Common Council against the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) The object of these resolutions, which spoke of an alleged breach of privilege, was to testify the opinion of the Court, that the Sheriffs were right in the whole course they had adopted, and the House of Commons were wrong—(Hear, hear)—and that the Sheriffs had con quered the House of Commons.—(Hear, hear.) The resolutions directly meant the Court of Common Council were the best judges of the privileges of the House of Commons, and the vote of the pieces of plate would to all intents and purposes comprehend the approval of these officers and the disapproval of the House of Com mons.—(Hear, hear, and laughter.) Now he could not think of going such a length. He certainly should have thought that the conduct of the Sheriffs would have been much more magnanimous if they had quietly waited to the end of the Session ; but they began to cry out too soon.—( A laugh.) It was, he believed, possible to procure modest gentlemen ready to testify to the ex treme condition of any kind of patient, and the House of Commons seemed to entertain that opinion, for it was very certain that they doubted the statement of one of the doctors, who denounced the continuance of the im prisonment. The Sheriff, he apprehended, cried out too soon to deserve the designation of magnanimous, and after all they were guilty of disobedience as well as Howard or Mr. Stockdale.—(Cries of —(Oh, oh, and a laugh.) He did not see that there was a notice upon the paper of a vote of thanks to Mr. Stockdale, or to Mr. Howard, or of any intention to give to either of those gentlemen a piece of plate, al though he certainly thought that their claims to the virtue of magnanimity were superior. He (Mr. Law rence) believed that the House of Commons had acted rightly from beginning to end in the matter, and he could not think of negativing that opinion after the de cision to which a large majority of that House had come, by voting for the resolutions. He therefore con sidered it to be his duty to vote the previous question as an amendment. Mr. GALLOWAY seconded the motion. He considered the conduct of the Sheriffs towards the House of Com mons to be improper. He believed they were ill advised. He could not help thinking that, after the sub ject had been so long agitated, and men of all political opinions had supported the right of the House of Com mons, it did not become the Court of Common Council to interfere. Mr. Alderman BROWN replied. It was true that the Sheriffs had acted magnanimously. He believed! that if they had paid the 'Toney it would have been re. funded to them, and their magnanimity was this, that rather than sacrifice what they believed to be right, they had submitted to protracted imprisonment. The question was then put by the RECORDER, and the original resolution carried. The amendment having been put, the Court di• vided, when the numbers were— Sir P. LAURIE observed that the expression " the mag nanimity of the Sheriffs" had been objected to, and they had been compared to prisoners before the Lord Mayor. Were prisoners before the Lord Mayor told that they might have their liberty if they made an apology ? They were not, but the Sheriffs were told that they might go if they apologised, and, therefore, he asserted that there was great magnanimity in their suffering for the benefit of the public. They had suffered, and the Court was now about to reward them. It was said that this resolution had been slumbering in the pocket of some member of the Court. Why was it so ? Be cause, until th.. Sheriffs were discharged, there was no opport un it y o f b r i ng i ng f orwar d t hi s ques ti on . Wh at For the amendment 520 was now prop ose d was mere ly a compliment t o th e Majority Sheriffs—it was not like a dinner in which they might Mr. Alderman BROWN moved that a piece of plate, all tak e p ar t. H e h ope d t h at th e resolution would of the value of 1501., with an inscription thereon, stating be en grave d on t h e p l ate, an d wo uld go down to pos- the cause of the presentation, be presented to each of the terity, that posterity might know the opinion which Sheriffs. He inserted this inscription in compliance was ent erta i ne d o f t h e con d uct o f th e Sheriffs by their with the suggestion of Sir Peter Laurie, in order that fellow-citizens. He truste d t h at t h e motion would be the posterity of the Sheriffs, at the latest period, might carried unanimously. Mr. R. T AYLOR sa id that the Sheriffs had submit- done.po int with honest pride to what their ancesto rs had 1 ifit ted t o i ncarcerat i on to ma i n t a i n a gr eat con s tit ut i ona l Mr. Plum' Alio said be would vote for the p prin c ipl e , an d t hi s was one o f t h e ma i n tests o f magna _ comprehended the sentiments he ha d expressed ; but nimity, sod had always been so considered. He might not it it com p re h en ded the original resolution. refer to the conduct of Daniel in resistance to the ty., Mr. Alderman BROWN then read the words, with For the original resolution, Aldermen 4 Common Councilmen EVEN ING EDITION. some slight alteration. He hoped this Court and Cor poration would do all that which was due to their own corporate officers, and would not be behind in any sub scription, which any individual might set on foot, to tf stify their personal regard and esteem for the Sheriffs. Mr. WELLs said that he had been endeavouring for the last hour to make up his mind whether this was a vote for corporate purposes, and he should vote for this testimony to the Sheriffs in consequence of its being a Corporate Act. Mr. Pnmoa wished to hand down to posterity the opinion of the Court as to the conduct of the Sheriffs. Ile had no such scruples about Corporation money as the Hon. Member who spoke last. When he thought a meritorious act was being done, he should be willing to take part in it. The 27th standing order was then suspended, and the resolution for presenting a piece of plate was agreed ' to. It was also agreed that it be referred to the Sheriffs Committee to prepare a piece of plate to be prssented to the Sheriffs. The Court then adjourned. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. Q UEEN- S Q UA RE. EXTENSIVE ROBBERY OF JEWELLERY. -- Sarah French, a good-looking young woman, was placed at the bar, charged with stealing a pair of diamond ear rings, an emerald necklace, and other articles of jewel lery, valued at 90/., the property of her master, John Evans Thomas Esq., residing at No. 7, Lower Bel grave-place. Mrs. Thomas said that on Sunday afternoon she went up stairs to dress, and was astonished to find that the whole of her jewels had been abstracted from the casket. She immediately inquired of the prisoner, who was the only servant then at home, if she knew what had be come of the property. The prisonersaid she did not know. Complainant's suspicions were, however, aroused, and she caused the prisoner's box to he searched, and in it was found a bottle of sherry, similar in appearance to that in the cellar. Prisoner was asked to account for the possession of it, and the statement she made being proved to be false, she was given into custody. Emma Walmsley, the housemaid, said, that on Wednesday afternoon last her mistress sent for her into the parlour, and asked her if she knew any thing of a gold watch which she had missed from a cushion in her sleeping apartment. Witness said she knew nothing of it ; and soon afterwards went and examined the jewel case, thinking the watch might be there, it WJS not, but the jewels were safe. On Thursday she looked into the jewel case and found it empty : she did not mention the circumstance to her mistress, as she imagined they had been taken away for safety. She told the prisoner about it, and said she thought her mistress suspected her, and she should be sorry if it were so, as her friends were most respectable, and the prisoner's reply was, " Oh, no ; witness was not ono of that sort." The prisoner said she knew nothing of the robbery. The Magistrate remanded the prisoner for a week. On Thursday afternoon, as Sir William Follett was driving in his carriage in Hyde Park, near the Serpen tine, in company with Lady Follett, and other ladies, the horses took fright, and it was with the utmost difficulty they were prevented from backing the carriage into the water. One of the ladies was slightly injured in getting out of the carriage. On Friday afternoon an inquest was held at the Prince of Wales, Hampstead-road, on the body of Harry Brougham Ciodwin, aged five years and six months. It ap. peared from the evidence that on Wednesday last, about half past to elve in the afternoon the deceased went out to play, and in about two minutes after he was run over by one of Hanson's patent safety cabs. He was taken into the surgery of Mr. Clarke, and died in about half an hour after. The Rev. W. Landon said that he was in the cab at the time of the accident, and no blame whatever was attributable to the driver. The Curoner summed up, and the jury, after an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict of " Accidental death," with a deodand of 5/. on the cab, on the ground that this species of cab prevents the driver from seeing what is before him. THE BRITISH QUEEN.—The number of revo lutions the paddle wheels of the British Queen performed in coming from New York to Portsmou'h, as ascertained by among o l t en n rg i , ninety onoti h - e ra thousandpaddle h,,e wheels means of a clock attached to the machinery, was two hundred g th h i t rt h y u - r o id n r e ei f l ee a t. nd forty-eight—dia meter On Saturday the regular passenger ship Roam y_s,es ai ed from Greenock for New York vvith 161 passengers. whom emigrants oinaro. by 40 o hi ag s v r e i s e s ti e l l tu a r r i e sts r , a N t c h h e o r a o r f e a d r e e t s e p ro e l c i t t a w b ( l i e to class, be come land proprietors in the interminable forests of America. The remainder are t j o 'Oi t irs, cotton-spinners, weavers, and other better,trades, seem w BRADFORD. Chronic l e. A i that et. c any c hi:an Parliament a m w liberal -minded toCatliljuorsctlitir i c a h n o d ro Vsseuter s is in course of sig nature here, Church -rate . question, that the ani mosity and bad feeling which have iecilenat:bfy" the rant of Babylon, or, in more recent times, to the con duct of Hampden, both of whom had undergone im prisonment rather than consent to tyranny. To deny them the character of magnanimity was strange and extraordinary. It was true that the sufferings of the Sheriffs had not bee❑ as great as many had expected, yet their credit was not on that account the less. They had taken their stand on the principle of distinguishing between legislative and executive functions, which had always been insisted on as a main point in the constitution of the country. What was the use of laws if one branch of the Le gislature could, by an ex post Jade law, set aside all the laws of the country? It had been said that the privilege of the House of Commons had been shown by the Act that had passed. Surely the passing of the Act was a direct admission that they did not possess the privilege. They were obliged to go to the house of Lords to affirm and make it law. The great merit of tiro Sheriffs was, that they acted according to the known laws of the country. If they had been great officers of State all the aristocracy would have taken their part. Was this Court to feel less sympathy for them because they were men who had realised an independence by the humble pursuits of trade ? When officers of their rank discharged their duties in such a manner as to redound, not only to their own credit, but to the credit of those who elected them, it behoved their fellow-citizens to mark their sense of such con duct. Whenever the House of Commons happened to be wrong, and took up a wrong principle, they endea voured to get out of it by tyranny and meanness. What could be more mean than examining into the bodily infir mities of the Sheriffs—comparing them to criminals, and requesting them to express contrition ? Nothing could be more disgraceful and disgusting than such con duct. It. was the same mental torture that was prac tised towards the great Galileo. The House of Com mons, it seemed, were so lost to every sense of moral rectitude as to expect gentlemen, who acknowledged they acted from a sense of duty, to go down on their knees and express contrition. The model of their pro ceedings had been the infamous House of Commons in the reign of Queen Anne. On looking at the history of Parliament in the time of Ashby a. White, it would be found that the great Whigs of the Revolution, to which we owed our liberties, opposed and reprobated this claim on the part of the House of Commons. Those who now called themselves Whigs, had been de parting from the principles of their predecessors. The Sheriffs had been more magnanimous than their ad visers. He only wished that Mr. Under-Sheriff Francis had acted in a manner equally honourable. Mr. STEVENS said that the Hon. Gentleman who had just sat down had endeavoured to direct the attention of the Court of Common Council to the public as a mark to be pointed out, and had said that there was a change of opinion on the part of those who were the firmest ad vocates of the rights of the people. A book of an infamous description was found in one of the gaols of the city ; the Committee thought fit to notice that the morality of the prisons was not attended to. This notice became the sub ject matter of an action for libel. The House of Commons put in a plea and were defeated, and the Sheriffs had consequently to execute the writ. The Sheriffs might have taken the money and paid it over to Mr. Stock dale, but they did not. They waited for the opinion of the House of Commons, and they disregarded it. He contended that the House of Commons ought to have this privilege, because they were the representatives of the people, and it was privilege for the benefit of the people. If this resolution should be carried, it would prove that a majority of the Court did not act in unison with the opinion of their constituents.—(" No, no.") He did not believe that a meeting of any ward would sanction such a resolution ; they were putting their hands into the City purse ; they were using the cash of their fellow-citizens. It would be more honourable in those who approved of the conduct of the Sheriffs to put their hands in their own pockets : if they had had a meeting of their own friends, it would have been unanimous, and would have been much more satisfactory. He now found the advocates of public liberty standing in the foremost ranks of Toryism—he now found that this Court was to become a mere asylum for Toryism—a Court which had hitherto supported the principles of public liberty. Although he entertained the opinion which he had expressed,:he could not help bearing his testimony that the Sheriffs were highly respectable individuals. Mr. W. JONES said it had been observed that they were acting in opposition to the sense of their consti tuents. Did his Honourable Friend forget the meeting of the inhabitants of the Ward of Bishopsgate. He advocated the majesty of the law against oppression of any kind. The conduct of the House of Commons to wards the Sheriffs was like the conduct pursued towards the Jews at Damascus. The poor Jews were bastinadoed till they consented to admit that they had committed murder, and so the Sheriffs were incarcerated until they should consent to say they were wrong. He admired the magnanimity of the Sheriffs in having suf fered as they had. They had settled the question of privilege, by compelling the House of Commons to acknowledge themselves in the wrong—(Cries of " No, no") —by passing an Act by which, for the future, no such injustice could be committed. They had also been the cause of the Legislature passing an Act giving the Judge the power of certifying against costs, in any case of libel where the Jury were obliged, against their conscience, to give a verdict for the plain tiff. The Court was only carrying into effect this prog nostication of Lord John Russell, who said that the House of Commons was only laying the foundation for the presentation of a piece of plate. Mr. W. PRITCHARD regretted that he could not give an unqualified assent to either of the propositions before the Court. There was one sentiment in which all were agreed, and that was in deploring that, in a question of right between two august public bodies, each of them entitled to the respect of the public, the Sheriffs, as executive officers merely, should have been called upon to decide between the two at the risk of personal suffering, if they obeyed either in opposition to the other. Happily they were now relieved from that difficulty, and the question, as between the two bodies, had been set at rest, in what manner it was unnecessary now to speak of, and he, therefore, concurred in deprecating, with pre ceding speakers, all arguments tending to re vive the controversy that had terminated, though some had, in their subsequent remarks, been led into the very error they condemned. He agreed in the wish to express sympathy with the Sheriffs, in the incon venience they had sustained, but not in the terms of the resolution, which lauded them for it, as the sup porters of one opinion, involving as that did, however indirectly, a condemnation of the view taken by the House of Commons. He was also opposed to the pre vious question, as negativing too completely the senti ments generally entertained towards the Sheriffs. He should, therefore, wait until one of the propositions was negatived ; and, on the other being put as the original question, propose an amendment calculated to meet that which he believed to be the more general feeling ' of the Court. If his amendment should be carried, he would not object to the vote of the plate, but not if it should be awarded under a resolution lauding the Sheriffs at the expense of the House of Commons, and expressing an opinion on the question of privilege now set at rest, savouring too much of party feeling, and not in accordance, as he believed, with the general sentiment of the community. Mr. Pritchard concluded by reading the amendment he intended Lo propose, and which was to the following effect : " That this Court, sincerely sympathising with the Sheriffs in their protracted imprisonment, under an order of the Hon. the House of Commons, made during the dependence of the late question as to the privileges of that Hon. House, desires to express its deep regret. for the sufferings to which they have been exposed, and its respect for their high and honourable character, and "or their conscientious discharge, at all times, of the du. tics of their distinguished offices." Mr. ANDERSON said that the Sheriffs wanted not the sympathy of the court. His opinion was that whenever a fitting testimonial was voted, that testimonial ought to be in the Court as an example to others. He would much prefer that the busts of the Sheriffs should be placed up in the Court.—(No, no.) He would allow that the House of Commons was right and that the Sheriffs were wrong—they had been wrong in discharg ing their duty as public men, believing in their con sciences that they were bound by their oaths to adminis ter the law, and obey that law in preference to obey ing the House of Commons. He supported the resolu tion, and when they came to the second part, lie should take the sense of the Court upon it. Mr. R. L. JONES was in favour of having a tablet in Guildhall, under the bust of \Vilks. He was sure that the Court would to-day exhibit the same feeling of sympathy for the Sheriffs that they had exhibited on every former occasion. As to the motio❑ being de layed, it had been no longer in abeyance than the cir cumstances of the case would allow. NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. (From the Hampshire Independent.) PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 25.—The Dolphin schooner, Lieutenant Littlehales, arrived at Spithead on Tuesday from Sheerness, on her way to the Cape of Good Hope and West African station. Mr. Edward Rowe, Second Master, to join the Andromache, and Mr. Batten, Second Master, to join the Brisk, will take passage in the Dolphin. The Pantaloon, Lieutenant Tryon, returned on Tuesday from cruising on the coast of Brighton, for the protection of the fisheries. Captain Harrison has been appointed to the com mand of the Magicienne, but as he declines going abroad on account of the serious indisposition of hill lady, it is expected that either the Hon. Captain her' pel or Captain Erskine will succeed in the command. Captain Amoroux, of the French brig Jenne Frede rick, who some time ago rescued four sailors of her Majesty's schooner Lynx, after they had been captured by the negroes of Gabon, has been presented by the British Admiralty with a gold chronometer, in testimony of his generous and disinterested services. The New York packet St. James, Captain Sebor, on her last voyage from this port to New York, fell in with the Burlington, Capt. H a ll e tt, o f B os ton, which ship had been struck by lightning, and in fifteen mi nutes after the fire burst out, she was all in flames' Captain Sebor succeeded in saving the whole of the cri:vv within a few hours of her utter destruction. The Burlington had 1,553 bales of cotton on board. On Saturday afternoon last the Locust steam packet was launched at her Majesty's dockyard, Wool wich. She is one of the smallest class ever launched from that yard, and about 200 tons burden. The Success bulk, was towed out of harbour on Friday morning, by the Messenger steamer, to assist Colonel Pasley in his operations for removing the remainder of the Royal George, which will commence early in the ensuing month. APPOINTMENTS. Assistant-Surgeon Alexander Anderson (b), to Nautilus. Second-Master—J. W : • Saunders, to Cambridge. Lieutenant Wm. Styles i s placed on the list of retired Commanders. (From the .Hampshire Telegraph.) PORTSMOUTH, APRIL 25.—The Pique, 36, Captain Boxer, sailed yesterday for Cronstadt, to bring h° m. the Marquis of Clanricarde, our Ambassador at St. Petersburgh. The Vestal, 28, was at Halifax on the 4th April. The Dolphin, 3, arrived on Tuesday from Chatham, and came into harbour on the following day to be docked, having, on her passa g e roun d, b een r un foul 0 ' in the night, off the Foreland, by the Brazanza steamer, and thereby sustained much damage. Th is collision is attributable to the neglect on board the Braganza, in not keeping a good look out, or s howing lights ; and such was the force of the shock that the anchor of the Dolphin was cleanly cut in two ; indeed , but for the anchor, the Dolphin in all probability would have gone down. All her larboard stanchions were carried away, and her starboard side is much shaken. When repaired she will proceed to the west coast of Africa. The Cambridge, 78, Captain Barnard, is ordered from Plymouth to Spithead, to fit for the reception of a di plomatic gentleman going to some Italian state. The Pearl, 20, Commander Frankland, has received her orders for Rio Janeiro, and will sail to-morrow• Lieutenant E. Heathcote takes a passage in her to join the President. The Pantaloon, 10, Lieutenant Tyrone, arrived on Tuesday from a cruise, and sails to-day for Plymouth. The Rodney, 92, Commodore Parker, sailed from Gibraltar on the 10th inst., for England. The Conway, 24, was at Calcutta on the 12th of February. The transport ship Numa, Lieutenant Howe, R•N. agent, with a company of the Royal Engineers on board, under the command of Major Wright, arrived at Bermuda on the 11th of February, from England, in 50 days. The Gipsy tender sailed on Sunday for Sheerness, and the Emerald on the following day, with newly-en tered men for Plymouth, and returned to-day. The ship Semarang, from London, for Madras, ar rived on Sunday, and having taken on board passenger° , despatches, and stock, sailed the following day. AT SPITHEAD—PearI. IN HARBOUR—Britannia, Victory, Excellent, ReYni George, Magicienne, Vanguard, Jupiter, Victor, Dol phin, Messenger steamer. NAVAL PROMOTIONS AND APPOINTMENTS --AP POINTMENTS.—Captain Frederick Thomas 14lichell, to the Magicienne, vice Burnett, deceased. Commander George Mansell, to the Wasp, vice Hon. D. W. A. Pelham. Lieutenants J. C. Provost, to the Charles Postle, to the Van guar d ; R o bert AnVet t Newman, to the San Josef, f or Ply mou th Ordinary ; John Nicholas, to b e c hi e f officer of coast - gu ard. Master Richard Thomp son , ac ti ng , t o Vanguar d. Mates Henry Ley, to th e V anguar d ; P. W. May. to the Excellent. Masters' Assist an t s Richard Read , to the Victory ;G. H. F ors t er , t o t h e Jupiter. Victor ; Midship men T. G. Carmichael, to Magicienne ; Thomas For teseue, to the Vanguard. G unner M. Hughes, to the Victory. Vol. Ist class Al gernon D e H ors ey, to the Vanguard. PLYMOUTH, APRIL 24.—Th e L ou i sa freight - sh i P arrived on Saturday, emb ar k e d t roops an d sailed on Sunday. The Thund ercr i s s till i n h ar b o ur, 22 sea men have volunt eere d f or h er f rom t h e San Jose f. The Harpy, rev enue cu tt er , Li eut . G eorge , comma ! '" der, has seized th e A re th usa , C awsan d b oa t, for bei n g out of the limits of her licence. 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