The Sun. — London, England, 1840-07-24 00:00:00

EVENING EDITION'. sputrr of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. am afraid that my decision may diminis h the p rice of the stoek.—(Lauhter.) Mr. Wooler— riser'' is no danbt at all as to the Hie '. gality of the conduct of the defendant. Sir P. LAURIE--I very much doubt it. In my opi nion the Act applies to waqs or permanent ei.ections, and not to hoards, which are put up but for a few weeks. It meant to operate against those who, the moment they See empty premises, cover them all over with their bills. Mr. Wooler—lf you choose to adjourn this case, I shall produce the opinion of counsel of your own election. S r P. LAURIE—No. I think I can decide in this case myself: S,ereral bill-stickers of the Association here begged to inform the Alderman that, amongst the great advan tages to be derived from the formation of this Company, was one which they were sure would please the magis aracy, the prevention of the nuisance of perambulating boards.—(A laugh.) Many of the ancient bill-stickers declared that the very fellolvs who perambulated, were those who now called that very low department of the business a nuisance, and who were obliged to " walk" a bill, bec,iuse they didn't know how to " stick" one. Mr. Holder said that he remembered the defendant and those who called themselves the old ancient bill. viekers, for many years, and they certainly displayed great skill and industry. One of the old ancient bill-stickers—Yes, Mr. Nob ler, I can get 50s. a week at but then, if I was put to it, I could turn a whole street into paper in a very little time, with a few of the old uns to help me.— (Laughter.) These fellows serve us out sometimes. It was only the other day I put up a large red and white bill for the sale of feather-beds, some of the finest sort, and an hour afterwards I saw it covered with a lot of the little bills of Mr. Muntz, the bug killer to her M a jesty.—(Laughter.) Sir PETErt LAURIE said that he had no doubt that in bill-stieking the strict line of honour was occasionally departed from, and that strange cross -readings were often the result. Ile should discharge the case upon the ground he had stated. He considered that the complainant was endeavouring to establish a monopoly, mid he should do nothing to encourage such an object. He was surprised that the owners of the hoard would let it for such a purpose. Mr. Wooler thought that if blame lay anywhere, it was with the Legislature, by whose sanction the com plainant had acted, and under whose authority they would doubtless be protected. The mattAr covid not eud in the dismissal of the summons. 17 a0M THE DAILY yApEII9 YESTEKDAY. ) (From the Globe. ) Lard Sendon—heaven preserve the mark /—occupied the House of Commons last night with a speech on the state of our commercial relations with foreign coma.- tries. His Lordship's colleague, Mr. Cres swell, has, it is said, incurred the reproach of his constituents for his neglect of their commercial interests ; and, possibly, nis Lordship's speech was composed and delivered in order to show the Liverpool people that at least he is in his place, guarding with commendable vigilance the cem rnereial interests of the country, and thus approving himself worthy of the confidence of those who sent him thttber as their representative. We are, of course, unable to predict the effect of Lord Sandon's speech on the Liverpool Tories, or how far its delivery mil tend to improve his rather ticklish position as one of the Repre sentatives of that town. One thing,however, is manitest— if the foreign policy of t he Government be subjected to no more formidable assailants than the Noble Lord and those who with him undertook to nibble at it last night. the Fo reign Secretary will have little ground for apprehendmg danger, whether in his official conduct of its ieirninh tration, or to the character of the Ministry to which lie belongs. With the exception of the debate on China, in which the Tories of the House of Commons found themselves at loggerheads with the Duke of Wellington in the Lords, the foreign policy of the Government has been umassalled during the present Session. (From the Standard.) The two pillars of the strength and greatness of the United Kingdom are its maritime commerce and its agriculture : let either of these be shaken, and within five years Great Britain sinks to the condition of a third-rate povrer,and its manufactures are extinguished. Yet these stays of national power and prosperity arc precisely the interests most violently assailed by modern Liberalism, and assailed apparently for no better reason than because they were to the despised " wisdom of our ancestors" objects of peculiar cere. At present we say nothing of agriculture. We helve the public to judge how safe that great interest is in the bands of a divided Government, if that Ge vernment may be said te, be divided upon the subject, feur-fifths of which Government is committed to the ruin of the agricultural body. The debate upon Lord Sandon's motion, however, gives rise to grave reflectioas upon the state of our maritime .commerce. It is a narrow and false view of the :.•impottance of teat commerce which regards only tte number of pounds sty rling it may bring into ebe country. It' it merely maintained itself, with ou: adding a farthing to the public wealth, the foreign commerce of the nation is of immense value. Tee saga's of our commercial marine are at least so many Eag:ishraen, provided for without cha , go to the mar} , ; mei they are so many Enelishineu trained in the manner best fitting them to defend us in time of danger. If the number of these defenders of the country is dimiiiiehing, even if it does not keep pace with the in creese in the populatien, marine, and armies of other countries, then is the power of Great Britain retrogra eeeg—then are we not merely not obviating. we are in selther the hostility of other nations of the Continent and fb - e, Ljoited States, some of which would willingly be ,out frieade, if oe do not make them enemies by neglect iute our affairs. FUTURE SPEED OF sTEAM VES'SEL S. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) Amongst the variety of experiments now making to improve aid simplify steam navigation, that waich at present most prominently engages the attention of the public is the substitution of the Archime&an screw for the paddle wheels now in use ; and if implicit reliance can be placed upon the account of the recent voy age of the Archimedes from London to H ull, during a gale of wind, in which she is reported to have beaten the Monarch steamer by five hours, we are on the eve of a most important revolution in steam navi4a tion, as the ordinary paddle•whecls, with their enormous paddie•boxes, must be got rid of before we can hope to attain the maximum rate of progressing through the water by steam. We have long ventured to express our doubts of the accuracy of the received theory of the resistance to solid bodies moving through fluids, and we have stated our reasons for differing from the pretty general opinion resp2cting the maximum speed of vessels through the water. In our publication of Octo ber 8, 18:30, we oberved that the " resistance to solid bodies moving through a fluid, according to the recog• nised theory, increases with the speed in such a rate as to preclude all hopes of impelling vessels of any descrip tion much faster than our best sailing ships now move by the action of the wind." We have always thought, however, that if ten or twelve miles were the maximum speed of a sailing vessel, the fact is not to be received as a demonstration that a body of the bulk and exact form of our largest vessels could not by any means ;sc impelled through the water at a much greater rate than that we have just mentioned. In our opinion, if a sailing vessel cannot be impelled at a greater velocity than ten or twelve hoots, the circumstance is not to ha wholly ascribed to the resistance which the fluid presents to the progress of the vessel, but to another caus e. If when a sailing vessel, with all her sails spread, has attained her maximum speed, more sail could be set, he consequence would, in all probability, be either that the oasts would give way or the vessel would go down by the hea:l- If we arc correct in our theory, the fact that sailing vesst's have n e ver exceeded the rate assumed is no evidence tha t a F eater speed is unattainable under any circumstances. That botfies which present much greater surface, and of coarse much greater resistance to the water than our largest sailing ships do, can move through the water four or five times f., st jr than any of our vessels,is proved by the vast ra pidity o i .. !be motion of the whale, although its head, or, as the sailors would say, its bow, is much more bluff, and ill adapted la penetrating the water, than the bows of a ship. A whale s7hen struck by a harpoon will dart perpendicularly down Cith such velocity that it is necessary to moisten the rope attaielea to the harpoon, to prevent the friction of the rope ign:tirlthe gunwale of the boat. We are aware that a whale :g gifted with this extrordinary power by the great author o: nature, no doubt for the wisest of purposes , and tha t any 7t" tempt of human skill to impart the same energy to our inanimate ships would be futile ; but still we maintain, that the rapid progress through the water of so an wieldy a body as the whaN with its huge bluff head, proves that the limit ordinarily assigned as the rate of sailing ships is not to be ascribed to the mere resistance of the water, but to the impossibility of c arr y in g more sail. That vessels are capable of moving at much greater speed through fluid than our best sailing vessels, has long since been fully proved by the rate of our su perior steamers ; and it the statement we are about transcribe from a recent number of the Greenock Ad verfiser, can be implicitly relied on, the speed of steam ‘essels exceeds that of sailing vessels thirty or forty pci (From the Courier.) That spawn of Unitarianism, the Affi:mation Bill, „went through Committee last night, It is a satis ruition which is shared by every good Christian and b y , every righteous man, of whatever religious faith he may be, that, if the Bill eventually pass the Commons, it mast come under the scrutinis ing revision of that House on which, since the inun dation of thy Cernmong by the turbulent streams of re nublicanism and infi.leljtY, the nation I:as eon tidontly placid a reliance whic:i has never yet been .disaopeinced. Vv o are glad that this chance remains of continuing that security in the good faith 6 4 witncsses on civil and criminal cases, and of the jurymen who try them, idch has existed from the most remote ag,. - 5, and Ohich has been adopted, under different forms, it is true, by ad nations under the sun. The pretence for the proposed substitution of the bare word for the solemn oath, which carries wiLh it so many sacred obliga ti..ms, is perfectly ridiculous. It is stated that the main object of the Bill is to relieve persons who entertain conscientious scruples to taking an oath, under the im pres,ilon that swearing to the truth of an allegation is :forbidden by the word of, God. Can anything be more absurd than such a notion ? We are bound by the Mosaical Decalogue, and not by isolated portions of the criptures. 'Cunt code forbids us to take "the name of the Lord our God in vain," which clearly means that we shalt neither use his holy name in idle conversation nor iu attestation of that which is false. cent. : « STEAM WONDERS.—The same day which saw the Archimedes pass the quays of Greenock also witnessed the first trial of the elchdies, previous to her taking her place on the station for which ehe ha:. been built, be tween the Clyde and Liverpool. This splendid ship is about 1,000 tons burden, and has eoginee of larger size than the Great Western. Although the day was un favourable, blowing a gale, the speed of the ship was be tween fourteen and fifteen miles an hour through the water. Tuis extraordinary speed was accomplished by the engines, which ha-, e a stroke of seven feet, making nineteen and twenty revolutions per minute with the greatest steadiness." We shall not venture to offer any decided opinion as Lo the speed which it is possible to communicate to a steam-vessel, but we shall venture to express our con viction that the maximum has never yet been at tained. We lay considerable stress on the velocity at which a huge and bluff-nosed whale is known to be capable of swimming, which demonstrates that the fluids may be penetrated by moving bodies with much more rapidity than is generally imagined, provided an adequate impellent power be applied. That is the mechanical problem which remains to be solved, and when we bear in mind the fact that locomotive steam-carriages have lately been moved on our railways at a rate five or six times greater than scientific men believed to be pos, sible when the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was first formed ; and when we further reflect upon the various improvements in steam machinery now in pro cress ;-0: hen we take all these things into cousidera- Lion, why should we doubt that our steam-vessels 'hay at some future, and probably not very distant time, be brought to such perfection as to make the voyage between Liverpool and New York in five or six days, or even less? Those who may laugh at what w e here deliberately commit to paper, would have believed any man mad who, but a few years ago, should have predicted that a locomotive engine should in the year 1840 tr ►vel at the rate of seventy•five miles per hour! and yet this mecha nical phenomenon has recently been witnessed on the North Midland Railway. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A young man named Joseph Everson, was brought be!ore Sir P,Aer Laurie, who sat for the Lord Mayor, for foal examination, under the following circum- starees : Mr. Thomas Watts, of the house of Pellatt and Watts, of Fenton street, Little Moorfields, 'calenderers and packers, stated, that the prisoner hail been in the .service of the firm three years as errand boy. It was .discovered a few days ago that a draft, saned by wit ness, upon Masterman's Bank, for the sum of 8/. 75., dated 1833, ha l been presented at this banking-house. As the Louie kept cash at Maiterm m's Bank, the check would have been cashed at once, if the clerk had not observed the date, and referring to the account to aviMila it related, he ascertained that that account had lbeni long since settled. He accordingly wrote" acconnt closed" upon and the firm were informed that the prisoner had presented the check. The clerk at Master mrn's had, upon discovering that the check was of so ancient a date, desired the person who had presented for payment, to call again, but no application was isabsequently made for it. It was soon ascertained that prisoner had provided himself with keys to almost every part of the house in which property was krpt, and that with one of these he had opened the clerk's desk, where the key of the iron safe was kept, in which 0;413 deposited the old, and of course, useless checks. Sir PETER LAURIE asked what kind of character the prisoner had borne when he was taken into the service of the prosecutars ? Mr. Watts said that there was nothing against him. Sir PETER LAURIE observed that the prisoner must 7 a oil 2 of the mast dangerous boys he had seen. Luckily the cheque was of no value, and the system was soon ,discovered, or the injury done might have been very great. Mr. Watts said that money which had been in the clerk's desk on former evenings had been missed, and the detection of the prisoner on the present occasion jolly explained bow that went. A cheek had been eitisissed from the safe at a former time without being traced, but it was crossed to Mastermans, and that, no doubt, prevented the thief from presenting it for pay ment. Sir PETER LAURIE—Sad), a person as this must cot bs ,let go out upon the public. A!. Watts stated twat two pattern cards of little va l ue , which the prisoner had stolen from his em ployers, had been found amongst the prisoners adothes at his lodgings. Sir PETER LAURIE—I would send him for trial to the C ee ;ral Criminal Court, for be is a thief of no ordinary di me n e ions, but I am afraid that he would be sent out • upon Ow public after imprisonment of a month or six weeks, ag t he value is so unimportant and he is so young. f! I thought they would transport him, in which case ..some service might be rendered him, I would commit at once, for he can never come to good here. Mr. HOBLER said th. et if the prisoner were committed the whole of the facts be stated to the Court, and no doubt transportation would be the sentence, aid it would be much more merciful ,:ban a brief imprison ment. SIT PETER LAURIE asked what the prisoner's father said upon the subject?—Mr. Watts replied that the father, who was a very honest man, was most indignant at the robbery and renounced the lad. Sir PETER. LAURIE—Wh .t have you to say yourse'. prisoner? Prisoner—Nothing. Sir PETER LAURIE—You arc committed for trial. John Davey, a bill-sticker of the ancient school, was summoned by the managers of the " Effectual Reform all -sticking Association," for having stuck up a bill on the hoard of the C . entenary Association, in Bishops gate-street, without permission of the proprietors of the hoard. Mr. Wooler appeared for the prosecution, and called a witness who stated that he saw the offence committed in the fame of day, and produced an authority, giving to the Association the exclusive right of covering the hoard, with letters of recommendation of those who employed them. The defendant put it forcibly to the Alderman that the Association was like other novelties of the day, com posed of humbug and impu fence, and intended to take money out of the pockets pit the old right sort o f bill stickers, whose fathers , and g randfathers, and great grandfathers, had been all their lives teaching the walls to speak to the public. Sir PETER LAURIE—How much is paid per week for the use of the hoard ? The Association --We pay four shillings a week for tbe exclusive h osting of oer bills. The defendant said the monopoly sought to be esta blished would not. only be injurious to the experienced bands, but would mislead,the public, as it was notorious that the new Company were introducing all the most rascally quacks of all trades to the citizens of London. —(Laughter.) Mr. Wooler said that the Act of Parliament an nexed a penalty to the offence which he had proved the defendant had committed. It was quite impossible to mitigate the law upon this subject. Sir PETER LAURIE—I perceive that this is a regular Company, Mr. Wooler. Pray are the shares at a pre mium ?—(A laugh.) Mr. Wooler—l believe the Company consider them to be too valuable to send them into the market. Sir PC:TER LAURIE--J ask the Question because I TRP, !tN, LONTNOW, FRIDAY. JULY 24, mit). T I BUN AL OF CORREH, A care of swireitine to in utiusur3 extent, the unit obiained arnountima - to 1,400,000 fraccs.l has o;!cupied tee "I . ihuo,tl of GA-roc:maid 1 olic9 :it Corbeil for four successive da}s. Tne widow Caste de Guillemin, aged 57, Caillon, her secretary, a:A elef. Burgaud, member of the Council-General of the dep irt ment of the Charente, were charged, the two first with having swindled a great number of persons of large sums of maney, and M. Bat-gaud with having acted us their accomplice. The widow Coste de Guide i nen ap peared in a very plain dress, perfectly calm, and at times smiling. Her small grey eyes and sharp nose gave her an appearance of cunning. The number of witnesses was considerable. The first witness calied was the Countess of Cha vigny, who deposed that she had first met Madame Guillemin at the house of her cousin, Madame de Mar liac. Madame Guillemin pretended to be their relation, and she believed her. She talked much of her opu lence, ar.d the witness was incliaed to credit what she said, as she had a secretary, a demo de compenie, the Marchioness d'Annehaux, a physician attached to her household, and a carriage and large establishment. She talked to the witness of her intention to pur chase the mills of Corbeil. After the purchase of the mills, Madame Guillemin called upon her in her carriage ; and when she left, the servants of the Countess did nothing but talk of what they had heard from Madame Guillemia's servants about the ex tensive possessions of their mistress. Madame de Guillemin had borrowed 1,0001. of the witness, which was repaid a few days afterwards, and during the works at Corbeil the Countess lent her 3,000 f, for which she took shares in the mills at Corbeil, Madame Guillemin having formed a Joint Stock Company for them. Herve, the servant of the preceding witness, said that in consequence of the floe picture given to him by Madame Guillemin's coachman of her lands and houses, he concluded she was very rich, and took al,ooof. share in the Cempany of the Alias at Corbeil. The Countess de Lastours stated that she had be come acquainted with Madame Guillemin at the house of Madame de Mediae, the sister-in-law of the witness. Mme. Guillemin, who pretended to be related to them, talked inueh of her wealth, end said her father was the Count de Groliere. At one time be wished to give to the son of witness her immense forest of Montfort of 4,000 acres ; and another time she said she wished to sell to her 1,800 acres of wood-land for a life annuity. When she had purchased the mills of Corbel], nod had commenced the works, she borrowed frJrn the witness 30,0001., and successively from 140,000 f. to 180,0001. The Counti.ss de GratVoild said she had met with Mine. Guillemin in an omnibus going to Nouilly. They became int:mate, and the mild manners of the accused fascinated her. Her secretary spoke in raptures of her splendid fortune. By a series of fraud and deception she contrived ultimately to obtain 59,500 f train the witness. Mine. Nau de la S tuvagere was next examined- Tne accused had gained her acquaintance by stating tha , she was a relative. Before she passed for rich her bust bind had received her in his house, and lent her I,ooof. without interest, which had never been repaid. M. Pasquier de Saint Projet had taken 30,000 f. in shares in the mills, on the personal guarantee of the ac cused ; but, becoming uneasy on the subject, he had an interview with M. Bargaud, who, after having in vain attempted to tranquillize him, coasented to pay the money for Mme. Guillemin. Lirut -Colonel Obry said he had been fool enough to lend Mme. Guillemin 10,000 f., which he now looked upon as lost. M. Laurent had been appointed cashier of the Cem pany, at a salary of 2,000 f., which he had never re ceived. He had also expended 1,800 i: of his own money in advances to workmen. A woman named Cresson stated that she had been engaged by Mme. Guillemin as cook. She had never received any wages, and had lent linen to her mistress, and also four shares of the Caisse Hypotheeaire. Be sides the value of these shares, Mme. Guillemin owed her wages and 4001. which she had advanced. Au old lady of 70 stated that she had, twelve years ago sold property to Mine. Guillemin, who had never paid for it, and had damaged it to the extent of 15,000 f. The Counsel for Mme. Guillemin asked this witness if her husband had not been under obligations to h i client—whether her husband had not been accused of murder, and found a refuge at Mine. Guillemin's from the offices of justice? The witness replied, that the accusation against her husband lied been almost imme diately abandoned. Witness was then asked if there were not some medals, and replied as follows :—" A mason had found a treasure of medals, or old gold and silver coins. He asked my husband how he could change them, and my husband having advised him to take them to Bordeaux, the mason asked him to accom 'party him to the spot. They set out one evening, and having arrived at a7steep place bordered by a precipice, my husband said, Go that way if, you like, I shall take another med. The mason went up the steep part, dis appeared, and was never heard of afterwards." M. Gadhot said he knew the accused first in 1834, and was then two years without hearing of her, wlTen M. Burgaud informed him that he had seen her in Paris with Ceilion, that she had found her old aunt, and had purchased the mills of embed, which were w zth from two to three millions. M. Burgaud urged : daring with him in the purchase of th em for him t , 0 1,200000f. ._ confidence in M. Burgaud , who so .f/rvourable to Mine. Guille had made statemeet . a" to his debt to the extent of min, lie allowed her to get :." 85,000 f., which she still owed to :ii ii, M. Pleignard, a notary, knew lltne. Guillemin more than 30 years ago, when she was living with his rela tives. His relatives supported her 0010 humanity. She had, by borrowing at different times, got possession of all the fortune of her aunt, esnounttog to between 35.000 f. and 40,0001. He knew that the poor Mar qu:se d'Annebaux was now it Ltuban withona roeourees, end supported by her uncle the Cure. At the age of 45, Mine. Guillemin married M. Coste, who, ries then 7.5. In 1830 she abandoned him and eerie of with Caidon. The written deposition of the Marquise d'Annehaux was then read. It stated that she was 88 years of ege, and had lent from 50,000 f. to 60,0001. to Madame Guillemin, of wham she spoke in high terms. The President now interrogated Niaclame Guillemin. From her tins sers it appeared that she had airivad in Paris with 7,0001. or 8,0001., and began by hiring a little shop in the rue Sainte Antoine, not to sell herself she said, but to place some person in it. She lied come into several small inheritances, and it she had pur chased an hotel in Paris, and the mills at Coshed, it was because she relien on recovering large sums from M:ssrs. Seuchere, which had been transferred to her, and upon the immense claims ceded to her by the Marquise d'Annebaux. The President then interrogated Cailloa, who said he was the steward and homme d' affaires of Coste and his wife. He declared that he had entire faith in the re sources of Male. Guillemin, and of the advantages pro mised by the affair of Corbeil. He protested that he bad not been actuated by any wrong intentions. M. Burgaud was next interrogated. He said Mme. Guillemin owed him, in 1834, 44,000 f. She now owed him 132,000 f. In 1836, he found her by chance in Paris living in apparent opulence, and in great intimacy with a Marquise d'Annebaux, who celled her her niece, and her hale Duchess de Montfort, in allusion to the claim which she had ceded to her fur a forest illegally taken possession of by the state. He therefore imagined she had found her old aunt, and, Gavin; confidence, made fresh advances. The affair of Corbeil appeared to him to be so good that lie did not hesitate to guaran . tee the 30,0001. to M. de Saint Prajet. The Avocet du Roi then addressed the tribunal, and called for the punishment of Mine. Guillemin and Cail lon. As to M. Burgaud, he should defer to the discre tion of the tribunal. The tribunal then retired, and after a deliberation of an hour and a half, decided on adjourning the trial to the 14th of August, when other witnestes arc to be heard. M. Burgaud was allowed to be at liberty, and his word was taken to appear again on the day above named. T I has VACCINATION IN AusTR A LlA—Great anxiety appears to prevail among the Australian colonists on the subject of vaccination. A disease something similar in appearance h been known to exist among the aborigines, and may in time be communicated to the colonists. Should such an event occur, says the Sydney 1. erald (March 16), it is dreadful to think of the havoc which must result; for the portion of our juvenile population who have undergone the process of vaccination is comparatively small, arid nothing but the actual existence of the disease in the colony will induce the many thoughtless fa• i thers and mothers to avail themselves of the means of its pre- I vention whi c h the Government has humanely placed at their disposal. About three years ago the supply of vaccine lymph in the colony failed, and for two years the colonists were with out the means of procuring vaccination for their children, until aaesly was obtained from Van Diemen's Land. The same su e: h eat may occur again, and should the small pox appear at a ertsts, the devastation it would occasion A ould be fearful. The danger, however, is in a great measure obviated by the recent discovery of Mr. Ceely, relative to the i dentit y of small pox and cow pox, whi c h we need not now describe. Both the Van Diemen's Land and the Sydney papers abound with die cesoions on this subject. —South Australian record. LONDON AND BLACKWALL RAILWAY._ —No fewer than 67,154 persons were conveyed on -he London and Blackwall Railway darring l the uu ti e r is t , eleven dye from the op p ing, and this. although o b ;i t li tiuus f it e of rail is yet open arid the from being accommodation at the no numbaerr it will very soon be. b e en much larger had the Com o i n ( i ) a f tij u 's arrangements el 'iic have e a a t 'a l ' ! 's • on s presented number, n day it i, calculated ,inatiitttedupo%fcarrndosre o f f i•eq 2 z yuo t trains. pers themselves at as appears from th e sq ver al stations, and out of that understand, in the retools, not more than 8,313 could b w e e accommodated. trains The second line of rails will be opened, the course of .a fortnight, and the despatch will lys much simphied and accelerated. Alread of several steam-boats are advertised as starting from the terminus y wah at , Blackwall. The mode adopted 4)r working the rail ; we hear, given the fullest satisfaction to t4s Directors and en ' emu!. ' gineers of the Company. In fact they no longer loo'; neon it as an experiment, and although various minor improvement s will, of course, suggest themselves in practice, the soundness of the principle is placed beyond question. It would be quite im possible to work the Blackviall line by locomotive power, for although less than four miles in length, there are already three I s tations intermediate betwe en the termini. Another station will be opened in a few weeks, arid afifth in the course of the season.—.ltai/way Times. AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.—A circumstance a they Sunday.position. firstr y t of a novel and amusing nature occurred on Fridly in the county Court, before Mr. Sergeant Green, while trying an appeal from a decree obtain .d by a person named Margaret O'Brien v. Keating, a minor. Mr. Freeman was engaged on the part of O'Brien, the applicant, and, having been handed his instructions in Court, cone ived he was employed f.r the other party, and accordingly showed that the delen dant was a minor, and consequently not liable to be decreed. His Lordship agreed with the Learned Counsel, and the rule was abou' to be taken down, when he was informed by 3lr. Darcy, the attorney for O'Brien, that he had been " in the wrong box," and, amidst the laughter of :he Court, in which his Lordship joined, he very gravely commenced upsetting his a e n ec h ev ,aedann, scene.—L i m e ric k dic4eh : i,ie, , . a, h o w ev e r, lsieLtni d itl m eoeo waset ir ivet five accordingly ,i businessCh ronicle.,)c n own argument, and quoted several eases in support of his new o e n ff sZ t t u ed al , ly i n after train was on n . t o ie ff a , r a ß nd on h tt e o . r i tl i: c t p h i t t . e h , a )t t ti o w f e s ar m ae a s n t tz:(1 , t ifft u se l a 'nv l riayoynjf from I T' i t' i . s al; b "b r brother-in-law, r-in- l a w , J . Cooke, and when the rosins was at 2:i-inile speed, jumped off to reco ver i t ! T he train was s t o pped as quickly as possible, and the poor man was taken ' up ..,, ns d e ss. On his arrival at the Brentwood statio n surgical 1 aQ;tance was speedily procured, and on examiirttion an ex being found necessa r y , it was p e r fo rmed , but he is teWive fractu n- of the skull was discovered. The o p era io n of trepanning no w -7 1 ' 'dent was occasioned by the unfortunate lt .i„,, a t Great Warley wit hn u t t he s m a llest hope of re covery. The a cc i dent R —Courvciister, when in the sir - C ou n VOISIE . M.P., res ided for some time on the banks tor vice of Mr. Fen , of the Cairn , a nd was s ll to be a most attentive servant , not only w ell known in the surrounding district. ow n rashness. — E ssex Herald. man's He was remarked b y a visiters, and always conducted himself in such a manner as to 4ppear to be a respecta ble and trustworthy person. H e once T to his immediate e m p lo y rs. but to any of their friends and figured at 4 r - e ddiog at T hornhill, where his dancing powers were he ba r d }resented to his were much admired, and gentleman of th tt village, a ring w hich appeared sr,e . were shown the other day, by a was of his own to be formed of bone, curiously ornamented, , and neatness manufacture, and slid great credit to his ingenuity partner on the festive occasion. This trinket, which ' a f hand.—Dumfries Courier. OWERIAL PARLIAM EN HOUSE OF LORDS, JULY 0 3. ROYAL ASSENT. a ; . ,:t .„ l was given at tour o'cloi k, by C. 41 1- I he fOiIOW:Ug Mr. Speaker reported the Royal Assent to Canada Government Bill, Vaccination liill,Police-rates Assess ment Bill, Timber Ships Bill, Borough 'Watch Rates Bill, Masters in Chancery Bill, Inclosure Acts Amend ment Bill, Episcopal Church (Scotland) Bill, Arms (Ire'and) Bill, Birmin2ham, Bristol, and Thames Junction Railway Bill, Taff Vale Railway Bal. Ardros san and Johnstone Railway Bill, Glasgow, Paisley.iland Greenock Railway Bill, Elinburgh and Glasgow Rail way (No. 2), Bill, Dublin and Drogheda Railway (No. 2) Bill, Hartlepool Dock and Railway Bill, Mill Bay (Devon) Pier Bil, Banf Municipal Police Bill, Clcrkenwell tmprovement Bill, Deal and Wilmer Waterworks Bill, Austin's Patents Bill, Niivicastle undiir-Lyme, Bluth Marsh, &c. Roads Bill ; G irnzad Read Bill, Warrington School Bill, Lady Ruthven's Estate Bill, Mowbray's Estate all, Doddington Rec tory B 11, Angerstein's Estate Bill, Stanley's Charity B• 11, Bacon's Estate Bill, Shuttleworth's Estate Bill, Gravenor's Estate Bill, Woodhouse's Estate Bill, Racklcy Grange Estate Bill, Swingfiell Minnis Inelo sure Bill, Dean's Divorci! Bill, Wari's Divorce Bill. The Lords Commissioners were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Shaftesbury, and Lora Clarendon. Their Lordships then adjourned during pleasure. Their Lordships met at Five o'Clock. ECCLESIASTICAL DUTIES' AND REVE NUES' BILL. Lord RAVENSWORTH presented a petition from Durham against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, in so far as respected the diocese of Durham, which the petitioners prayed their Lordships to take into their most favourable consideration. The Duke of WELLINGTON presented a peti tion from the University of Oxford against the Eccle siastical Daties and Revenues Bill. He said that he entirely differed from the petitioners, who, indeed, showed, by some of their own statements, the necessity there was for such a measure. Tney com plained of the parochial deficiency of the Church of England at this time. But (said the Noble Duke with very great warmth) it is vain for any man in these times to expect the deficiency will be made up out of the public money, whilst the Church has in itself resources that may be applied to the purpose. I say, my Lords, that all the resources which the Church possesses should be applied to supply that deficiency, and to remove those inconveniencies. The petitioners themselves admit that the evil exists and it is most desirable, both for the public good and for the good of the Church itself, that those ineonvenieneies should be remedied and removed. ' I confess, therefo-e, that I heard with astonishment that this petition was got up in the University of Oxford, and that these petitioners prayed that the Bill should not pass. My Lords, I sin of a very different opinion from the petitioners. lam convinced that no measure could he devised which could more tend to remedy the evils, and to remove those very inconveniences of which the petitioners themselves complain in this pe tition, and which they say truly attend the parochial system of the Church in this country. I think, my Lords, the Ecclesiastical Commissioners did their duty in recommending this Bill. I think it highly creditable to the Church that those inconveniences should be re moved by the Church itself. I think it highly credit able that the Church should even take the first step in removing those evils, without applying for the assistance of the public money. Lord KENYON presented a petition from Canter bury against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill. He supported the prayer, and considered the I3ill a robbery. He hoped their Lordships would send it to a Committee up stairs, where they might hear the opinions of persons who were well acquainted with the matter to which it referred. The petition was then read at length at the table. The Bishop of DURHAM presented several peti tions from his Diocese, signed by the Clergymen of various parishes, and a great majority of the parishioners, praying that no further abstraction might be made irom the revenues of the diocese of Durham, but that the surplus funds might be applied to supply the spiritual wants of the diocese. Several Bills were brought up from the House of Commons. Lord R EDES DALE presented a petition from the Licensed Victuallers of the Town of Nottingham, pray ing for an alteration of the Beer Bill. The Bishop of SALISBURY presented a petition from the Dean and Canons of the King's Free Chapel, Windsor. against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Re venues Bill. Also a petition from two individuals claiming compensation for the loss of office should the Bill pass into a law. Tivi Bishop of ROCHESTER presented petitions from the Clergy of Canterbury and Rochester against the Bill. The Bishop of CHICHESTER presented similar petitions from Farnham and Allsop. Toe Earl of CHICHESTER presented a petition complaining of British troops being compelled to assist at llindoo and Mahomedan worship in India, and pray ing the immediate interference of her Majesty's Govern• went to put an end to such practices; The Bishop of LONDON had intended to put certain questions to her Mijestv's Government touching an iGi‘t;:titilevwd,eieatbr.d:noe Government o n i e st n oti t at askktiveteoen anynt w io h n e s t tt l o i e e pm r s i o i n e e . assurance that had been given in consequence p u t t o a tn t h ea t the tn end to o T Christiantuh Tuesday st tia ycryingn e next public ta bi ut was . a s thatahi He of a motion made by him in the course of last Session. lie might rather say that the assurance country, that measures would be taken by the joisiptieyien'sst of G o f o u v ut e yi r ia n dt n i :ent in.. begged now to state, pledge.p a t c e s and statements of ally orders issued by the Governor- General of India to the Piesidi ncies of Bengal and t4ino p s at oil. .i i r d e L l a i4i t el r o o p u ru s e sit w e s ‘E, h d i ., p hoa i rd n known , Madras on the subji•et of the attendance of British Lorc not utiuta himself to t o give the informati on ie c i u i re d by th e Noble ldh a t v h e a p t r t e l the r p e e d - Earl. As far as he was at present informed, he believed the Government had done every thing that could be expec•ed upon the subject. Petitions to the same effect from Davenport, were presented b y herd Mount Edgecurnbe ; and from Bristol and Lancaster, by the ga4 pf Chichester. The Earl of pOWi. presen#4l i petition (as we understood) from Carnarven, righinet any grant tq the Chester and Holyhead kailWfty. • Lord STA NLEY (of Alderley) thought it right on t i tn t ,oceasieo to call their Lordships'' to a cU•- c 4li i iit an ee that almost amounted. to a breach of privilege. Two g entleman, vih )se 44tRe§lts7rp ettacheil to the pre sent petition, had some time iqin sent, n,petitiori to the House in which they stated :that he beieg,a landowner ;id the .:island of Angle se y , procured through his son, who was Ai ,' ;je o retary to the Treasury, the selectiOn of the the by the Government to survey the two linesla the Riailgral 44estgoo, The petitioners He.aiiii.trecU their Lordship' that their was no founda tion whatever, for the imputation. 'the .earl of PO WIS said there was no allegation in the Petitiou.ng4i.ast the Noble Lord. Lord ;BROUGH presented a petition from the county it:,,Derhem against the B;;desiotigal Duties ;and ReveWttes and praying that the ease of that diocese might be taken into consideration, The Earl of DEVON proem hied a similar petition from Glastonbury,•.kthe diocese of Bath and Wales. The Earl of*AttWICK, presented a petition from the Licen4ed Tic:Wailers of 13ixrftiagb4m against the Beer Bill. Lord PORT NI AN :2 presented a similar petition from the Licensed Victuallers of Liverpool. Lord WHARNCLIFFE brought up the Report of the Select Corntn'ttee on the Weaver Churches Bill, which had not been altered by the Committee. After some discussion the Report was received, apd it was agreed to take a discassion on the third reading, of which due notice will be giver" pe tition From a large body The Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a pc (l2o in number) employed in the Weaver navigation against the Weaver Churches Bill, a measure which they regarded as being frauAt with the most s•rioos consequences. The Bishop of LONDON thought the sentiments of workmen contained in the petition, if indeed they were the sen timents s t r ongest arguments that 1 - pur ported to come, were the • • • I could be urged to their Joru d salp s in favour of the timents of the poor unedu cated men from whom it pur measure. Lord STANLEY presented a petition from Ch es t er against the Bill, and stating that the petitions in favour of the Bill had been ha wked about to the children's schools in the districts: A O their signatures affixed to then.. The EArl of RIPON was rather surprised that theso tatement, had not, b. , en laid before the House before i v r o o u n r i the Bill went into Giromitt`'. said that a &erg:prim) bad, Toe Dishop of LONDON presrnkd a petition in fa stiowTneehf(i)prietioestmrip:uxvlkßepleiliitil,liP spokenitil i b n ec i l a ) your of the titeasuiT, but surely it could not be considered a crime for a cicr 'groan to address his neighbours on the subject of the spiritual destitution of his district. The Marquis of WESTMINSTER said the Bill violated mosnnttgousfdtrioessntuti..noorronst.aHly: Kingston-on-Hull, lyiAgettshoitf the Chimney He wo4ld E t ß he L g A re N at D bot p ly re 9 se f n t t l e i d e e a ou p n e t t r i y . a petition from the were decidedly against the Bill. , net praying le to r g L h i t e Licensed e d e'R V -ter i against the Beer Bill. olreland,f Portsmouth Toe Bishop of LONDON presented the Dean and Gluons of Windsori nf wou A r ls o o l the Ecelcsin atlical Ditties and Revenue s Bill.' from the Minor Canons of St. Paul' s , in fav a our Pc o ti f t t io he Bill as it came up from the House of Commons. REGENCY BILL. ! those professorships were was not stated, are: he seg. The Regency Bill thee went through Committee, I geared th.,t it the Bill were considered in detail these and was reported without am n ittmlits. 1 professorships should he stated The 17th section eave ECCLESIASTICAL DUTIES AND REVS- 1 the power of rtaestahlishine ciinonries if they should he NUES BILL. i i found uticessary. New he should say they ought Several ode r Bits were then firwarded a stage, after \ riot to be soppy , s,ed if there were the least, doubt wlech Course. was ordered to be celled in to be heard 'tan tee suhket. In is dubia nou agendum against the Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill. The Learned Counsel then went through the various Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE then appeared at the bar, and sections of the Bill, commenting on them as he pros curled. The measure had been decided on in a time said he appeared as Counsel against a Bill entitled the of alarm, when the Church was considered in danger— Ecclesiastical Duties and Revenues Bill, which had been the danger was passed—let not the measure be sent up to their Lordships from the House of Commons perseverid in—why throw the cargo overboard on Tuesday last. It had been introduced into the House of Commons in the month of February ;it had not been when the danger of shipwreck was over ? A measure so calculated to excite scandal and alarm ought not to crommitted until the month of July. Great alterations be passed except it were absolutely necessary. if bail then been made in it, and on the thirl reading on Monday last in the House of Commons, other alters - means were wanted to provide for the spiritual wants ;ions were made. It had been impossible to obtain a d of the nation the nation was bound to provide the means o rioted copy of the Bill as it had passed until within from the national revenues. The Ecclesiastic ii Corn the last, forty-eight hours, and therefore it was irnpos- missioners had abolished the bishopric of Sodor and Man. Parliament, however, in consequence of the af sible that any speciric inetructioes could be given to Pectin; appeal of the late Bishop, had retraced, Counsel on the subject. It was agreed on all hands its steps, and the bishopric was restored. To that pro- Oat the Bill was cue of the deepest interest and im- test he would refer. The Learned Counsel then eortanee, effecting as it did the entire Church of quoted from the protest referred to, and said that those England, whether for good or for evil Gad knew—they lie represented were actuated by similar feelings. Ex i oeuld only conjecture. It was a question upon which i p the members of the Church were less in unison than Psediency was the plea of tyrants -with principle there could be no compromise. This Bill did evil that un a s one of triumph to themselves, and of defeat to the a vowed enemies—they one and all }tailed the measure certain good might come ; and they were forbidden by Church. Men of undoubted judgment and piety in the the highest authority to do evil that good might come Church thought this an advisable measure. The Learned Counsel , having concluded his ar " Res dura cogit alia moliri." Egmont, Those men seeing the consequences of the spoliation Viscount MELBOURNE said that no one could of monks and Popes, of tyrants, and of courtiers , in the complain of the length to which the Learned Counsel diminished efficiency of the Church, had considered it had gone—(Cheers)—but as they were to hear the other Learned Gentleman, he would suggest that they not immoral to adopt the present measure of confisca tion. He used that. term respectfully, but as the only should meet at an earlier hour to-morrow. He would suggest four o'clock. term in which he could describe the present measure. But there were men of equal eirtue and piety who had Lord BROUGHAM agree d w i t h th e N o bl e L o rd that the Learned Counsel had not at all exceeded the thought this measure fraught with danger, and such proper bounds in his very learned and able argument. were the opinions of those in whose behalf he had the honour to appear. The measure was founded upon the He thought that four o'clock would be a very good hour Second and Fourth Reports of the Ecclesiastical Cons - to meet. The oNCHES TER h that the missioners. The directions given to them by the Royal Bishop ld f not WI come on to-morro oped w, after the Commission was to consider the present condition of speech of the Learned Counsel. the Cathedral churches, so as that they might be made Viscount MELBOURNE said it, was desirable to to conduce to the efficiency of the Established Church, more particularly having in view the appointment of proceed with the Bill as soon as possible. These ob resident clereynien to the cure of souls. In page .5 of jeetions were new. the Second Report, after stating the improvements that The Earl of DEVON said the Bill had only been were desirable to •be made, they stated that the means it) their Lordships hands a few hours, and therefore they had scarcely had time to become acquainted with it. at their dispesal were very inadequate to effect the ins- Viscount MELBOURNE said the Report of the provernents required. In another part of the Report Commissioners, on which the Bill had been founded, they stated that they entered upon the inquiry relsting to Collegiate .and Cathedral Churches with a feeling that had been in th e ir Lordships' hands for four years ; how ever, if time w e re desired, he should not object, and it their endowments were larger than necessary, the sir- would fix a day for the second reading to-morrow. plus ought to be devoted to the improvement of poor livings. It was thus stated at the outset that the in- It was ultimetely agreed that their Lordships should quiry had been entered upon under an impression that meet to-morrow at the usual hour, and the House ad. decided the question without hearing evidence , and journed at Ten o'clock. without melting inquiry. Upon the principles of this Bill the revenues of Kent and Devonshire would be applied to the spiritual wants of York and Lancashire, without any attention to the will of the pious thunder. This point had never been discussed, but at the threshold had been taken for granted. The Report I went oe to say that the Commissioners hoped the seed- i flee which the Cathedral Churches would be called on to make, would induce private individuals to assist in the slate cause. To what a state must a national church be reduced to come to this ? The total gross amount which they thought might be obtained from the cathe dral property to be devoted to the cure of souls was stated at about 134,0001. He knew that many persons considered die fund to be thus obtained would be con siderebly less ; but as that fund was in fact a rever sionary fund, nothing like that amount could be ex pected at present ; and yet, according to the calculation of the Commissioners, the sum necessary to raise the livings to the small amount named by the Commissioners, would be 235,000/. The relief, therefore, to be ob tained from the present alarming and unsettling mea sure, was of such a nature as, upon the whole, to he scarcely felt. He would now come to the general principles of the Bill, which had been elucidated in a paper, entitled " The case of the petitioners ;" which was in the hands of their Lordships.—(The Learned Counsel then quoted largely from the paper referred to, which stated the object of the Bill to be the sup pression of a great number of Church offices, and trans ferring the revenues to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, ten of whom held their offices at the will of the Crown.) The Bill contained a most important clause, which had been introduced during the present month, adding all the Bishops of England and Wales to the Commission, .vhich was, ecclesiastically speaking, put upon a much mere proper footing than that in which it formerly stood. But why had not this been done originally? had this been originally done, was it clear that any such recommen dations as these would have proceeded from the Com mission ? . He contended their Lordships were bound to consider these propositions as if they had been sub mitted to a Commission originally thus composed. It had not been their Lordships' habit to pass lightly any measure connected with property, or to exercise lightly that power of dealing with property which every Le gislature theoretically possessed. Parliament did not morally possess the power of confiscating property, and there was no difference between the fee-simple of a property being vested in an individual or in a body cer porate. There were nearly corporations which had tin limited power over their property, even to alienation. Their Lordships might restrict these powers of aliena tion, but wow(' they take tile property away ? The Dears and Chapters, but for the statute 13th Rie e . heat, were absolute masters of their property, and up to that time could have disposed of their property as they. liked, and were under no cantrol whatever as to their manner of dealing with their property. How could they reconcile, then, to any notions of justice the takieg, away the property of the Deana and Chapters without their consent ? The Act of Elizabeth was only for the benefit of the successors, and if they took the property away from the successors, they did away with the Act of Efiz4beth, and the property was their own to do what they liked with, and by this Bill they were depriving the Deans and Chapters of the fee eirop'e of that which was their own. The gifts to the Deans and Chapters were gifts devoted to different purposes, which were specifically pointed out ; in many instances they were given by private individuals. In the case of the deanery of' Exeter, in the Court of Queen's Bench it had been decided that the power of appointing the Dean was in the Chapter, and the foundation was a private one. This Biil confiscated the Kronage of that deanery, and vested it in the Crown. There was no analogy to justify the taking away property from one district, and applying it to tna spiritual wants of ennther.—( Hear, hear, heir.) Such a principle had not beep acted on in the Mrseicipal Corpora t io ns Dili, andeayby should one principle be acted On with regard to civil corporations, and eeother with rega r d to eccle siastical ones ? The legitimate mode of dealing with any surplus would be to apply it to andegous purposes in the immediate district, and not until those el: ions hed been setisfied could expediency come io, No claimed this Qn 4ehtllf fl( Otos() whAro he repre4entoJ, and if this were wit dqne, grievous injustice would be done both to the dead and to the living, who would be de prived of those benefits which the founder had in tended they should . enjoy. In a surplusnrisipee fsero cheritekle 19tItt(tV914 til9 itit•Ctl49,a, of the fonder were alwaye looked tie, am.f the sorplus was never de voted to general purposes. In whatever way this pro perty wee eonsidered, the result was the same—th ee had co moral right tq diyert ow tqqoltiwis froro the purposes of the . founder ; end if' it were impossible tre parry those intentions into effect s then they were bound tq appropriete it to sonic ana'agous purpose. Those for whom he appeared had no personal interest in the matter, its their personal rio i lite were preserved, And he considered that, dealing as this measure did with matters of religion, this reservation of individual right made the measure still more objectionable. Th e y ought not tq hear of vested rights in rposere of re, ligion. ff this measure were just and holy, why was it delayed? If these Right Reverend Members of the Commission believed this to be necessary , why did they not come forward, and, from their own revenues, sup ply this deficiency, which was necessary for the eervice, of go 9 494 if Oli§ were tr, tiell'iMrif 1 4r the service e i . God, it was a tagraqt volatiun of private property. A. little more than half a century ago a similar plan had been proposed, and, after having been well considered by the heads of the Church, it woe thoeght to he spectoqs, het not wheleeome ; and 'Bishop Wateon's scheme fell to the ground. The t ffsct of this measure would be to bring the public mind tq eoesidee the clergy as etipendieriee of the f titte ; and at was paiofel in looking at the dehateewhich had taken placein another place on this Bill .to see how prevalent that opinion was. There was one part if the Act which as set had attracted no attention. There was a Bill now in the lioq4e of g3tprperts respectiog the living of Farnham, and great attention had been drawn to the claims of the lessees to compensation. In this Act property to a lerge amount was taken from the Chapters, and vested in the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. What was to be sgme of the lessees fie believed the; etoorieous class GI proprietors had not flee Slightest idea of the position in which they stood ; they would be ruin,•d. He ap prehended that under this Bill the Ecclesiastical Com missioners had not the power of reuewleg their leases. He beseeched t h e ir Lordships to consider t , 119 ep.l oi. OIL? nfirOcfoore Wtl)' of I''T 4b "' S l ti'-' liesveaed their Lordships to consider the nature of the oaths t tken by the Bishops to the Chapters, and by the Chapters to the Bishops, on their installation. He solemnly claimed, on the part of the Chapters he rtefe e , sented, the performanc e b y t+e Vsdlop ' of / the paths he had taken i th e y refused to eeleese him from and ili hail' soleha e edy claimed the performance of it. a (The Learned Counsel here read 3erieo oi 0,. 4,0h3 tatieq b.T ' , %ri?94 1 , 3 ,4qpg tO their O rso bepts ue . p4t . .i t fa their Lordships to consider how far any active furtherance of the present mea sure was consistent with those oaths. The Bill proposed to suppress upwards of 400 dignit ar i es and the number of canons proposed to be retee e m , m , he censi beret!, inadequate te She oerferreance of the duties required. Two canonrics were to be retained at Oxford and to be annexed to two professorships. What HOUSE OF COMMONS, JULY 23. The SPEAKER took the Chair at Four o'Clock. NEW MEMBER. Mr. CHARLES HOWARD, the new Member for Cumberland, in the room of the late Major Aglionby, was introduced by Lord Morpeth and Lord Seymour, and took the oaths and his seat. MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS. The Usher of the Black Rod then entered the House, and summoned the Speaker to attend the House of Lords for the purpose of hearing the Royal Assent given to certain Bills, for which see Lords' Report. Oa his return, the SPEAKER informed the House of the Bills to which the Royal Assent had been given by Commission. On the motion of Sir H. PARNELL, the Shrews bury and Holyhead Road Bill was read a third time and passed. Mr. FRESH FIELD brought up the Report of Committee on Trafford's Divorce all ; also, of the Com mittee on Cloze's Divorce Bill, which, after a short dis cussion, were read a third time and passed. On the motion of Mr. FRES HFIELD Grant's Divorce BM was read a. third time and passed. Mr. E. J. STANLEY brought up the Report on the Metropolis Improvement Bill. It was ordered to be re-considered to-morrow, in a Committee of the whole House. FARNHAM RECTORY BILL. Oa the Order of the D-y being moved for the third reading of the Farnham Rectory Bill, Sir R. H INGLIS moved that the third reading should be postponed till Monday next. Captain PECHELL wished that the Hon. Bare• net should assign some reason for the postponement. Mr. HUME said as the motion was not immediately proceeded with he would move that the Bill should be read a thirst. time that day six months. Sir R. H. INGLIS would appeal to HAm. Members on both sides" whether the course taken by the Hon. Member for Kilkenny on the motion for postponing the third reading of a private Bill was not unprecedented ? He would leave the Hon. Member the grace of setting such a preeed:•nt. Mr. HUME considered the Bill in reality a public one. Mr. AGLION BY wished to ask whether a rumour Which bad been afloat, were well founded, and whether it was the intention of the Hon. Baronet, whenever the third reading might come on, to attempt to introduce such a clause as that which the House had rejected the other evening. He could hardly persuade himself that the Hon. Member entertained that intention. - Sir R. H. INGLIS said the postponement 'vas not for that object ; but he would not follow the extremely inconvenient course of discussing the question on the mere motion of the adjournment of the third reading of a private Bill. Mr. LA M BTO N wished to know if it were the Right Hun. Baronet's intention to attempt to rescind the decision of the House on the question of the Compen sation clause? Sir ROBERT INGLIS folded his arms, but gave no answer to the question. Lord JOHN RUSSELL wished to know whether the Right Hun. Baronet would give notice to-morrow it his object was to postpone the third reading for the purpose of re-introducing the Compensation clause ; if that we►e so, the House ought to be aware of his inten tion. Captain PECIIELL said it was easy at once to set the matter at rest by stating whether he intended to repeal those clauses of the Bill. The answer of the Right Hon. Bat (met would materially influence his vote. Mr. GOULBURN thought if his Right Hon. Friend ZAVO melee to-morrow, that would be sufficient. Mr. UASTEIOPE said the House must presume that such was the Right Hon. Baronet's altentiou from his silence. The Earl of DARLINGTON said the course adopted by the Hon. Member for Kilkenny was most unjustifiable, hat he would meet him with his own wea pons, and move that the debate be adjourned till Monday. Mr. HUME understood that it was the Right Hon. Baronet's intention to take advantage of the post ponement of the measure, in order to re-introduce these clauses, Sir ItOBERT PEEL said it appeared to him, that if his Right Hon. Friend intended to re scind the decision to which the House had come the other night, he should tomorrow give notice of his in tention, It appeared to him that the uniform course was, when a day was fixed fur bringing forward any particular measure, not to take advantage of the motion by moving an amendment. If the House establish that precedent, it would be taken advantage of in future. lie will so far disinterested that he would give no vote whatever on the subject. Strant. era were then ordered to withdraw. The House . oividod, when there appeared For the adjournment to Monday 92 Against it .:rom the passing of t- ; 4 til' i Mijority —44 should be inserted with a view of giving P art tifi l/ ' On our re-admission to the Gallery we found to comply with the provisions of the Act as to r , Mr. HUME on his legs, saying that he had been the proper notices. 0 6°11 given to understand th a t i t was t h e i n t ent i on t o Mr. HUME said he felt himself placed in a 1i'..,,, t1 11°‘ move that the decision whi c h th e H ouse h a d o f some difficulty regardit, this Bill. A Co rn : e i til CO4le to respecting the compensation to the had been appointed last year to collect information 0 10 4; lessees should be reseintled, and if some such inte n ti on subject ; and, although a blue book, entitled " 1 / b r e : had not existed , he should like to know why any post- Evidence," h a d b een l a id on the table, there . had T .o l"; pony eat was 'proposed Who had ever heard of any no time allowed for Members to look into postponement of a private Bill being proposed, without He had always been of opinion that private ente r , _ we, be some reason being assigned ? in these railways should be left as free as poss' se ll , Sir ROURT H. IN ii LIS had stated distinctly in sistently with the public safety, but. h e conic: t lit, moving the postponement that his object was not thought they ought to act cautiously, les t ict i e v . : , to make any alteration in the Bill. But he would not should do evil, by imposing unnecessary re sfr tie grej f submit to be catechised on the subject—(Cheers)—and The second clause was sweeping to the highest feted n i e te'e colli e 1p when he had stated that he thought it was unworthy of It took the management of the companies out. of the hands of the companies themselves I j any Hon. Member to attempt to induce him to say great doubts as to the propriety of the reguLl' i ret ai'v of more, More, however, he would not say : but if it had were proposed fcr railroads. He thought tbey_ A d I),i twee necessary to remind one so conversant with the more time to consider the subject than they l ie 0 0 ' 0 rult s of' the House as the Hon. Molilmr for Kilkenny, sibly devote to it during the present Session. _ h i e lt,, i he would refer him to page I I of the Standing Orders, unwilling to interfere with private enterprise, . 1 he 1 : r where he would find that he (Sir R. Inglis) could not thought ought to be left free ; at the same t • I Z e itt io ,, move an amendment without giving notice to all the anxious . to protect the public against any tln c : th i e t4 (,) partlei coocerns..d, and puttirg in a notice et. lie Pii terence on the part of the Railroad Con 1 P Oe'y vote Bill-i,fliee; so that,if he had had any such intention, ...-( .1. 1 cause they had the monopoly of carriaist,. guard oti the Hon. Member must have been aware of it almost On that ground alone he was desirous of it 00 , as soon as himself. public. The question, therelore, was w hether , 0 po i ,' Alr. L be wise to proceed the Bill this ear. °r ne 'rl o.4 oo ANI.B. VOIN said that he threw back the , c-.littoet itoworttiv ; and he thought it wis unworthy of . .wit h pone it until next year in order to maite it. as r. O the Hon. Baronet to attempt to rescind an agreement •a, . , ' .• . „ . v ii possime, witnout unnecessarily interlacing . b le which had been entered into, affairs of the comryinics. 30 1i" ' Mr. GOULKAN, dented that any agreement had Sir ROBERT PEEL thought it was , yeti r i e rs been en t er 4 ',„,,,, to take on l y one di v i s i on on eac h case ; to legislate on the subject in the presro' iot er;ott *AO an Offer had been refused ; and if the division had (Hear, bear.) •He was himself adverse N „,0 61 , been the other way, he thought the conduct of Hon. with the employment of caital ; but it was " li r e Iv Members on the other side would have been very to deny that in the monopoly ofrailways tbe t bc 101 ,1 by Of digereo, many abuses. That monopoly was . createk. ~,_ t i e _ i o Mr. AGLIONBY asked wlvt right the Right Hon, gislature, and it was therefore the duty of u c c ,o ,o l o o Member had to say th a t if t h e di v i s i on h a d b een th e tore to see that the public rights. were proteet i n ci ... ,,...(tl a lie other way, the conduct of M em b ers on that sid e of th e the public convenience was attended ' * she tn ot i; t h at there ti o% 13 0 House would h a ve b een diff eren t 'e•—(Loud cheers.) For ' hear,) lie thought it right himself he could say that in wbltever way the division scale general superintend: ace of. railways. 110 bli'd t tls rhad bcc..q, he should have considered the agreement. w a s desirable for the interests both of the it e if t h e Ri g ht Hon Gcntlenri: must take distincti ons , th e companios that I. ere shotuld be a n A he ought not to be so indi..er . .minate. lie was also subje ct i n the p r es en t. S ess i ou .• mostjtifelicitous as to his f ac t s i n sa yi ng th at no agree- Mr. D. VERNON was uti derstood to °Peril° meat had been catered into. He should have rccol- present measure. 7.-144 .niTEN ING En 1T10141.. lect,'d that when 01- Hen. Member for Lc fester, in PrPsewitig a mcve.l an adjournir.ent, Hen. Members on that side C;e House told the Hon. Mom . for Leicester that during his absence on Ihe pre evening„ an understanding bad been entered into o trike one division, which would s,!ttle the question, end on that understanding the Hon. Member had with drawn his motion. He had acted, and he intended to act upon that understanding, and he did not doubt but that Honourable Members on the other side the House would act in the same manner. He felt it would be a dangerous precedent, and he had said,. when informed that it was the intention of the Hon. Baronet to move to rescind the decision come to on a former night, that he never could or would believe that the Right Hon. Baronet would be a party to such a breach of agreement, and be would not believe such a thing of any Hon. Member until he saw it. Ater a few observations from Mr. Goulburn, Mr. lines Stewart, and Mr. Aglionby, in explanation, the Bill was ordered to be read a third time on Monday. Mr. SANFORD presented petitions frem Somer set, against any grant of public money for Church Extension. Sir R. PEEL presented a petition from the incum bents of parishes and the owners of tithes in the dio cese of Rochester, praying that in any alteration of the law respecting the rating of the stock in trade, their interests might be attended to. The Hon. Baronet also presented a petition from the clergy of the Principality of Wales, praying that no person might be appointed to a Welsh Bishopric who was not acquainted with the Welsh language. Mr. T. DUNCOMBE rose to present a petition from certain inhabitants of Troubridge, Wilts, relative to the imprisonment of Carrier and Potts, but the Han. Gentleman stated that be thought it right to mention that the petition alluded to a statement made in that House by the Hon Member for Bath (Mr. (Bruges), and therefore he did not know whether it would be received. The SPEAKER said that a petition taking notice of a deb ice in that House was irregular, and could not be entertained. Mr. L. BRUGES had no objection, as far as be was concerned, to the reception of the petition, pro' viled the Orders of the House did not interfere with it.—(Cris of " No, no.") The petition was then withdrawn. Mr. BAINES presented a petition from a place in the County of Nottingham, praying the House to support Infant Schools. Also one from Lancaster, praying that our soldiers might not be obliged to give ,sny countenance to idolatrous worship in India. •, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL presented petit tions from a coal-work in Somersetshire, and a water.' works in Newcastle, praying that their properti might be exempted from all taxes for the relief of tbs poor. Mr. HUME presented a petition from Gallasi.lielg• in Scotland, against the trade in opium and war with' China. ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE BILL. , On Lord MORPETH moving the third reading c" the Insolvent Debtors' (Ireland) Bill, Sir E. SUGDEN wished to ask the Attorney-Gar, ral whether it was his intention to move the seem* reading of the Administration of Justice Bill tbst' evening. The ATTORNEY GENERAL said that the! were several Bills which it was necessary should b 6 proceeded with that evening, and as it did not appea l probable that the second reading could be brought 10 at an ear) hour, he should postpone it to a future day' Sir E. SUGDEN considered it matter of great ca l. plaint, that a Bill of such importance should be broug l4 forward at so late a period of the Session, and the c!ill of that complaint was increased by its being postpone d when it actually stood on the first Order of the Day' Perhaps the Learned Attorney-General would 6% " day, then, for the second reading. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL could not 6% .' .. e day in the absence of the NoMe Lord, th e S e erett for the Colonies ; but he would t a k e care t h at Rig' Hon. Gentlemen should have full notice when' thel. l ". cond reading took place. la Sir R. PEEL wi s h e d t o k now w h at b us i ness 4 0 • be proceeded with tc-morrow 2•;' Lord MORPETH said it w as i n t en d e d t o proce e with the Navy Estimates in Committee of Sul* dy " Mr. GOULBURN ge.ve notice of his inte'ntion' to going into a Committee of Supply, to put a nuestio i t the Noble Lord opposite r e lative to the N on -paP i , e° of one of the Queen's Chaplains. Mr. LOCKHART wished to know from the Vea cr ; Secretary for the Home Depart men t, w h et h er It. N` e , the intention of the Governme n t t o i nst itute °T o further inquiry as to whether the Magistrates' Clerks Scotland acted as political agents ? .oli Mr. FOX MAULE sa id t h at G overnmen t vt take every step t o pr event suc h a - proceeding, if it '- e isted, INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S (IRELAND) 131 , 1 ", 1 1 0 On the motion of Lord MORPETH the 10 s &c d, Debtor's (Ireland)Bill was read a third time and P s A • The Municipal Districts (Ireland) Bill was rep " second time and ordered to be committed to-morn: 3 , i ' 0 . On the motion of Mr LABOUCHERE, the 1 - I° , oc , merce and Navigation Bill went through Commit' and was ordered to be reported to-morrow. PILOTS' BILL. On the motion of Mr. LABOUCHERE the 11" port on the Pilots' Bill was agreed to. RAILWAYS BILL.. the Lord SEYMOUR moved the rer,ommitar 0 ' Railways Bill. The House having resolved itself into Com t oitteef Mr. EASTHOPE said it wo'ald be in the re cc „ oil tion of the House that there lrad been no diseussi' A i o i the principle of this Bill. . It was the underst ll °;io l when the Bill was - read a se c ond time, d l the discussion should hr.: taken before the reeoo lll 4l of the Bill. He was desirous of occupying the to tion of the H otu r e for a short time, anti bed b ets anxious to leara what th e vi ews o f th e H o use 710 upon the principle of the Bill. In the Comtnitt, ee lot found himself in a very small minority, o br 0 11 as he did t o any l eg i s l at i on on th i s sub j ect w ith l o t imperkct i n f ormat i on. T o hi s own m i nd i t was I°o4, of gre a t surpr i se t h at ra il way commun i cat i o ns t oo railway undertakings had proceeded so viel l ' o lo his objection to any legislation at P r- 0 1 ° was, that railways up to the present or, had proc ee d e d b e t ter t h an cou ld poss ibly b e t , petted. Wh en th e H ouse was directing W i t. Ole " to matters of t ra d e an d commerce, it must - ob i vious to every body, that before it legislated upon th e o ject, it ought distinctly t o h ave t h e w h o l e matte r ho r ° So far from any coal-administration, so far fronin abuse or disregard of the public convenience , ii s irce, irom anything of that kind, th e i n di v id ua l s i n the vios tion of the various ra il ways appeare d to under st o od most fully that the interests of the publ ic et e , their own were identified ; there was o° , sof er dente of any Company having acted in a 43 ,.''',: 0 0 11 ; spirit. There was much want of information upon t 11 : 0 0 1 `' ject, and he thought the Bill of his Noble Friel° "otr e he much better considered next Session. Tber e ot he f parts of it which he would support-:--there parts to which he must offer his strenuous opPo ,;0 " 1 ° i and there w e re om i ss i ons w hi c h it wou ld b e bis fit attempt to fill up, if the House decided upon goingtagb, ," the Bill at that l a t e p er i o d o f th e S ess i on . He t qf they might pr oc e e d w ith grea t er b ene fi t , an d 'NI 1 ,,p 0 1 danger to those important un d er t a ki ngs , t o l e gislat e oe the subject next Session ; however if the Hcuse 191 . : 0 16 to proceed with the Bill then he had no ohjectise t would apply himself te its provisions. On clause 1 being put, At ) Lord GRANVILLE SOMERSET sai d h bc i sho lli not going to oppose the cl ause , h e was metro )}ti me ` ' : t i m e / 1 to propose an amen d ment w i t h a v i ew of giv' cl .,iol, ll the parties interested t o comp l y w i t h the prol the Act ; he would propose therefore, that the M "after two months f `.11; this ,iftt After flour, L Membe r i t Was Bill. p where ter ms heigh t inco nv cases thougl by *Au the el, Mr from could that I .to the jealot ands had 1 0 , 'Nene ment do w uPon Si RO 0 elan greet railr • He Rol tiUt Clot it % Bil! of ar le av ti k' 4ll l ter in for al to b rail% 111 7"