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rbtrb Vallttton SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. ASCOT RACES. (THIS DAY-BY EXPRESS.) The Queen'& Plate of 100 Guineas, &c. Footstool Humdrum 2 Oliver Cromwell The New Stakes. Assault Glendower Tisiphone ................. 2 ....................... 3 Seven ran. Won cleverly. THE EMPEROR'S PLATE. The Hero Wolfdog 3 Jericho Sewn ran. Won cleverly. The St. James's Palace Stakes. Montpensier Mirmill* o Voronetz The Visitors' Plate. Footstool Martingale 2 Hydrangea Seven ran. Won by two lengths. RAILWAY COMMITTEES. (THIS DAY.) HOUSE OF COMMONS.' GROUP 111. The Committee met this morning at twelve; Mr. Vernon in the chair. BONBON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH COAST (LONDON BRIDGE STATION ENLARGE BRNT AND ARRANGEMENTS). Mr. Hill, Q.C., opened the case on behalf of this Bill, which is one of several schemes before the Committee for the enlargement of the London-bridge station. In the course of his observations the Learned Gentleman intimated that an arrangement had been made with the rival company for a joint Bill for the enlargements proposed. They were opposed by the directors of St. Thomas's Hospital and the authorities of the parish of Bermondsey. After an explanation of the nature of the enlargements, sad the necessity for them, the examination of witnesses was proceeded with. The Committee wa3 engaged up till four o'clock in hearing evidence in support of the alterations and extensions of the station, in order to accommodate the great and increasing traffic of the company. The Committee then adjourned till to-morrow at twelve. GROUP VI. WILTS, SOMERSET, AND WEYMOUTH AMENDMENT (NO. XI). The Committee was occupied the whole of the day with the cross-examination and re-examination of dr. Charles Russell, the chairman of the Great Western, and with the examination of Lord Falmouth, the former on the financial condition of the Great Western Company, and the latter with the proposed accommodation to be given by Ithe Great Western scheme, to the districts west of Exeter. The Committee adjourned till twelve o'clock to-morrow. GROUP XVIII. MANGOTSPIELD AND BATH. The Committee assembled this morning, at twelve o'clock —the Earl of Lincoln in the chair—when they proceeded to take the evidence against the line. GROUP Xi. Thia Committee met at the usual hoar this morning. 311XILIVEINGI1LIVI AND OXFORD TETNCTION (1)1WIATION LINES). The whole of the clauses in this Bill were agreed to, and the Chairman was instructed to report the same to the House accordingly. This closed the labours of the Committee. GROUP XXI. The Committee met again this morning for the purpose of Tecommitting the MIRNEINCLECAM, DUDLEY, AND WOLVER HAMPTON (WESTBROVIVT/CH BRANCH). The clauseo I were agreed to, and the Committee adjourned. GROUP XXIV. ORUNTIER. AND 3 101:11IIIAD EXTENSION. The. Committee assembled this morning at twelve o'clock ; Lord Itendlesham in the chair. Mr. TALSOT opened on behalf of the promoters, anticipat ing the objections of the landowners who have petitioned against the line, and called 'M'r. Ross, the engineer or the Cheater and Holyhead line nudfar Mr. Stephenson, and who is at present the acting en ginf ier of the line as far as Conway, and who stated that the alt.+ rations had been planned by him. The deviations pro pos .ed would principally affect a street in Flint called Evans% lane, but the gradient would not be more than 1 in 132, and & !much better summit would be attained. The next altera tion was between Dowlas and Abergelly, where the company preposed to go about 200 yards more inland, where in order to avoid the sea they would have to surmount a summit 'requiring gradients of one in a hundred on each side, and there would be an increase of the tunnelling to the extent of 250 yards, but the line would be greatly improved by the alteration. There were no valid objections that he was aware of, and the total expense would be 50,0001., and foar com panies, who are now acting in concert, would have to be ac commodated by the new station at Cheater. Mr. WORDSWORTH appeared for Mr. Jones Bateman, a gentleman who conceives that his property is likely to be affected, and who complained that an agreement which had been settled and engrossed had not been completed by the directors, and he therefore proposed to introduce a clause, which would in effect embody the agreement. Mr. Hops contended in reply that Mr. Wordsworth had no locus stassdi, its the agreement though not completed was not destroyed, arid therefore there was no right for the peti tioner to interfertt. GROUP XLV. :Z2IIII7IITRGH AND PERTH. The Committee met this day in Room 28, at twelve o'clock ; Sir Denis Le Marchant, chairman. Mr. ANDUKIVAI opened the case for the promoters of the Bin. The line, he stated, was 364 miles long; the esti mated cost 650„0001. It would traverse one of the richest mitLeral fields in Scotland, and would be of the greatest nat Tonal importance, as connecting Edinburgh with the North. The line would be of great advantage to the dig. tricts traversed, as its effect would be to lower the price of coal and lime, both indipensahle articles for domestic and ag3jicultural purposes. lie contended that in consequence of an agreement entered into with the Edinburgh and Northern Company in 1845, that company should be excluded from appearing before the Committee. eir Charle.o., Adams was examined to prove the agreement. A. long and desultory argument followed, Mr. Andrews cont ending that the Edinburgh and Northern, and the Stir ling and D , unfermline had no locus standi. Mr. Whately re plied for these companies, and Tbte C ommittee decided that the Edinburgh and Northern had right to appear, and that the Stirling and Dunfermline had no locus standi. Sir C.llarles Adams was then examined as to the minerals in the district. He proved that this country abounded with coal, lb ne, and freestone, which could be worked if this line were* )astructed. The manufacturing towns, of which there were • :veral, would also be greatly benefited. The Earl of Minto and Sir John Hope gave similar evi dence. Th a Committee then adjourned till to-morrow. COsaIIMITTEE on PRIVATE BILLS (THIS DAY.) LIVERPOOL WATERWORKS. Tb le Committee assembled this morning, Sir J. Johnstone, in tb as chair, and proceeded to a further consideration of the claw as, every one of which is battled for from a variety of quer Wu ST ANDING ORDERS COMMITTEE HOUSE OP LORDS.—(THIS DAY.) Thy Committee met this day, at the usual hour, for the dispaitta :h of public business. GLALS GOII, DUMFRIES, AND CARLILSE RAILWAY, ANI ) GLASGOW, PAISLEY, KILMARNOCK, AND AYI I RAILWAY. The) Committee decided that the promoters of this Bill had comph ied with the standing orders of the House. Simi filar decisions were given in the following cases : South Wales Railway. Vale of death Railway. Wilts, 7Somerset, and Weymouth Railway (No. 1.) Southampton and Dorchester Railway (New Forest Devia tion. :and Branches). SHoeunithea inpton and D orc h es t er R a il way ( W eymou th B ran ch ). Norfol :31taiand Cante r b ury J unct i on R a i lway. Eastern ij I Y ra Y• tau t R a i lhway nl% and the Ipswich and Bury St. Edmund's Newrylnver :ncl.rasEna'alnii:ll Railway Act Amendment. Llynvi anadtioron.rui Cawl and Llynvi Valley Frail- Du w f a ryn. ya Amai Ll Iringsthn-uPn-Thames Small Tenements. EvrTehile Rates. Belfast Port and ing cases Harbour. were adj ourned from want of proofs : Boston, Stamford, and Birmingham R a n and Thorney Line). -- way (Peterborough HOUSE OF COMMON. S. UNOPPOSED BIL L& The following e haa Bills received the sanction of th c • rman (Mr. Greene): — East of Fife Railway (3larkinch Deviation). York and sewcEugle Railway (Pelaw Tyne Docik, E ct . Branches). St. Ives (Huntingdon) Improvement. Bingley Improvement. -Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Osaett &c.) York and Newcastle Railway (Wearmouth Dock EJ ilarge bent). Leeds and ThirSk Railw •(E I Railway ag e,c e and I r 3 tenaion). Kilmarnock Police and l'lr t'llinffts a Ex- Improvement •Edizaburgb, Leith, and Granto n R •I a: way (Leith Este vsion). EXCHE QU ER.( THIS DAY.) (Sittings in Banco.) WAKLEY v. cooK E . The Court was occupied during the greater part of the day in hearing cause shown by the Attorney-General ( A 'kb whom was Mr. Bramwell) against a rule obtained by IS fr. Cockburn, for a new trial in this case, on the ground of misdirection. The particulars have already appeared so often before then public as not to require a report. _ Pito) OF EARLY HARVEST. On fine full- s h o t ear of wheat of the current growth was exhi- • bited, in the Leeds corn market by a corn and flour dealer, who bad gathered it on a previous day at a short distance trzna. Leeds- ~,. THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENT NG, JUNE 3, 1847 IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. (THIS EVENING.) HOUSE OF LORDS. The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the Wool sack at Five o'clock. MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF COMMONS. Messengers from the House of Commons brought up several Bills, which were ordered to lie on the table. ment in order to effect a great public good, and to carry out that arrangement was the object of the present Bill. l i Mr. llU.►ti vial in +lemur of the Bill, but against the mode in which the objects were to be carried out. He objected to so many aldermen being members of the board, considering that the City had no interest in the measure, but the merchants of London had. He considered such a board would be altogether ineffi cient, and it ought to be revised ; the acting managing board should have a portion of gentlemen representing the shipping and mercantile interests of the port of London. He concluded by moving that the Bill be re committed, with the view of the board of conservancy being reduced from 19 to 12, and that four of their mem bers should be connected with the shipping interest. Mr. WARD opposed the amendment on the ground that as all the funds for the improvement of the river would have to be raised on the credit of the Corporation of London, it was but right that they should have the management. Were the City authorities favourable to the alteration, he would have no objection to it. He had asked an eminent engineer what would be his estimate of expense for those improvements, and he had laid it at 350,0001. Those were the objects contemplated by the Bill. It appeared to him an immaterial point whether the conservators consisted of 19 or 12, and therefore he should oppose the amendment of the Hon. Member for Montrose. The Earl of LINCOLN said that it was universally conceeded that the objects of the Bill could not be found fault with; the only matter for the consideration of the House was how to carry out these objects, and to re concile the conflicting interests connected with the sub ject. The Hon. the Secretary to the Admiralty said that the present state of things had continued so long, that no other: interest than the city of London could now be represented. But he could show the House that a different course from the present had been pur sued in the case of the river Mersey. From the moment that understanding ceased another arrange ment had been entered into, which gave entire satis faction to the corporation of Liverpool. He wished to bring this under the notice of the Hon. Secretary for the Admiralty; and though he did not feel ready to throw any reflections on his conduct, he yet might say that he had not voted as be himself would have done if ho had been at the head of the Woods end Forests. He felt assured, therefore, that the Bill never could give satisfaction, and he could not conceive that the amendment of the Honourable Member for Montrose would, in any sufficient extent, remedy the evil, and he should, therefore, vote against it. Lord MORPETH said that, when he entered upon the duties of the office which he held he found consi derable doubt resting upon the circumstances on which the Bill was founded, and he regretted that the speech of the Noble Earl had shown that there was not the same spirit of amicability which had formerly been evinced. (The Noble Lord then read a letter of Mr. Pemberton, the solicitor for the Bill, in which that gentleman stated that he did not expect the suit upon it to be terminated for perhaps less than five years.) It was stated by the City authorities that this suit pre vented them carrying into € ffect certain improvements in the river, which otherwise they would be prepared to undertake. He entertained no doubt whatever that the funds derivable from the use of the river ought to be applied to its improvement. Whether there were means to compel the City autho rities to undertake these improvements, he could not venture to say, but he had agreed to the provisions of this Bill, believing that it was the safest and e asiest course to effect that object, and he trusted after this statement the progress of the Bill would not be impeded. The improvements would be carried on under the super intendence of the Board of Conservancy, and Govern ment would also take care to see that they were efficient!) performed. It, was provided by the Bill that the receipts and expenditure should be first laid before the superior board. and that all the works should be subjected to an en gineer, who would also see that the board carried into effect all they were bound to undertake by the Bill. The details of the expenditure would be also laid before Parliament, and if any circumstance should hereafter arise of a nature to require legislative interference, Par liament might be called upon for its adjudication. Mr. DUNCOMBE was not aware, after the speech of the Noble Lord opposite, how the Bill would detract from the character of the Corporation. He was of this opinion particularly after the example set them by the , corporation of the river Mersey. His Hon. Friend wished to strike off seven aldermen, but the superior board alluded to in the course of the discussion professed to control the aldermanic board. Powers were to be taken to levy taxes to the amount of 350,0001, for the purpose of this conservancy. (Mr. Ward made some explanation, which was inaudible in the gallery.) Well, at any rate, with the one shilling fee sought to be imposed, there would be taxation of the public in some way or other ; at any rate it would bear heavily on the consumers of coal—(Hear, hear)—but the principal reason which led him to oppose the Bill was this, that it was a public and not a private Bill — it was a public Bill to all intents and purposes: it was an important Bill, and one which would materially affect the trade and commerce of the city of London—it was a public Bill and ought to be submitted to the whole House.—(Hear. hear.) Besides, no one knew anything about the Bill, and he thought the public was indebted to the Noble Lord (Lord Lin coln) for his statement with respect to the Bill. Even if it came back from the Committee with a recommendation that the seven aldermen should be knocked off, he should still look upon it with suspicion. Mr. WILLIAMS did not think the Bill was so ob jectionable as the Hon. Gentleman seemed inclined to be lieve. He quite agreed with the observation of the Noble Lord the late Secretary for the Woods and Forests. He thought it would be much better to carry out the new system, rather than that which was proposed by the Bill. The present board did not consist of persons fit to manage the navigation of the river Thames, and if they interfered at all they ought to do so by rendering them an efficient body. So many com plaints were made against the management of the river, that, in 1836, a Committee of Inquiry was granted, in which such charges were fully proved ; in fact, they could not speak to a single shipowner upon the sub ject without being eonfirmed in the general belief that the present board was wholly inefficient. if they were going to make a change in the body they should include shipowners and merchants. Such a class was not to be found in the corpora tion. and such a class had an interest in the navi gation of the river, which the corporation had not. This was a question which seriously affected the public, considering the enormous amount of traffic which took place even above bridge. There were not powers suffi cient in the Bill to remove the abuses which existed, and therefore this interference would do more harm than good. Alderman COPELAND then rose, but was for some time inaudible in the gallery in consequence of the low tone iu which he spoke. He thought that it was an im provement upon the previous Bill, and he would vote in support of it. Mr. COWPER said that the present Bill was a de cided improvement upon the former, because it gave a check upon the corporation. Mr. S. WORTLEY said that this Bill bad taken the parties interested by surprise, and he should support the recommittal, in order to give time for its consideration. The House then divided, and on our re-admission we found the numbers were— For the amendment Against it 65 Majority for the amendment —6 Monday next was fixed for the recommittal of the Bill. After a few words from Mr. LAW and Mr. WILLIAMS, Lord LINCOLN objected to the Bill, as it did not give private parties, who might be affected by it, the notice which they should have. Mr. HUME Wished to know when the House would go into Committee of Supply, and whether the papers which he had demanded in relation to Portugal would be in the hands of Hon. Members on that day? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, that if possible the House would go into Committee of Supply on Monday evening, and that the papers referred to would be in the hands of Hon. Members on that day. The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER :said that when the papers were laid on the table that he would move for a committee immediately, and if they were laid on the table on Monday he would move for a committee that evening. Sir R. PEEL said that as it would be hardly pos sible for all the Members of the Committees, many of them being engaged on Committees, to read those papers on Monday. If those papers were delivered on Saturday night it would obviate this difficulty, and he thought the best course would be to wait till to-morrow. Mr. HUME said that under these circumstances he would wait till to-morrow. The motion was accordingly withdrawn. JUVENILE OFFENDERS BILL. Mr. B. ESCOTT gave notice that upon the bringing up of the Bill for the Punishment of Juvenile Offenders' Bill that he would move for the omission of the clause authorising the punishment of flogging. PRISONS' BILL. On the order of the day for going into Committee on this Bill being read, Mr. EWART presented a petition from the towns of Maitland and Newcastle, in New South Wales, against the renewal of the system of transportation. Sir G. GREY then rose to move that the House do resolve itself into a Committee of the whole House upon this Bill. The present Bill, with the one which imme diately followed it (the Custody of Offenders Bill) was, formed together, a comprehensive sehems of prison reform proposed by the present Government. The present Bill proposed to unite under one management the government of the Parkhurst, Milbank, and Penton villa prisons. (LEFT SPEAKING.) THE ARMY SERVICE BILL. PROTEST OF THE MARQUIS OF LONDONDERRY, G.C.B. Dissentient-1. Because an _attempt to introduce ______.......... ... .._ _ _ limited service was first proposed in 17 . 13. The system total failure. It was tried, however, again in 17,5 , or plan lasted two years, and was abandoned from its _ and continued to the end of the war, but was unsuc cessful in its operations during the American war. In later periods—in 1906—it was resorted to in another form of periods of limited service ; but sigually and completely disappointed the expecta tiolis that were formed of the measure to obtain more recruits and a better class of men ; and in the midst of pirecaution of th e the war in th e P en i nsula much inconven i ence an d dis order might have ari sen b u t f or th e foresight and v ce men b e i ng then his best troops, who had served seven or ei g h t O a rn r s e o, a ta t nv de C r o yw m lha m or a g r be i d ab e d r o — aan t t h ri e e i gs b h l i t e s e e i t t no e d gtih s ve e e r inr discharge ; and b y ad e - w th o 2 u . ld ß ey mightel) c a s v u e s h e b , e w en ti m ile os it t fias mosttal. have been l ost to the army, and their l desir a bl e toadopteve o r s y e s p oc o s i s a i l b le an d m m e a o s r u si re co f o a r d i t i 0 improvingcomforts n sofourthesoldiers, t is injudicious and inexpedient to attempt experiments ( w hi c h are avowed as such), and which experiments may tend to shake the gwid feeling* n.,w ,xitiiing, and the dii.eipline h:therto prevAing in the Bri.ish army, which never at any moment In history stood higher for its warlike achievements and admirable conduct. 3. Because, while it is admitted from the very highest authority, that the old soldiers of the British army give to it all its perfection and matchless excellence, it is manifest that the present Army Service Bill presents a risk, and offers an occasion of lo s i ng th e ver y men who, after their service of ten years, become the most velu able, and who may still be in the prime of life (from 30 to 40) for all purposes of hard fatigue and military ser vice. It is, therefore, highly impolitic to hazard this experiment, and far more judiciou s t o re t a i n th e p resen t regulations, which allow all soldi e r s , un d er a mos t libe ral plan and with good characters, to receive their dis charge by the recommendation of their officers, and the decision of the Commander-in-Chief. 4. Because, as has been clearly a n d unanswera bly s hown, great inconvenience must result to our colonial service from the plan now proposed, and especially in the minutia of every regimental arrangement. If men had six or eight months to serve, and were ordered out to India, that circumstance might occasion a degree of discontent among them. The army in the East, as has been ably shown, presents many further obstructions to the eligibility of this measure; and it will b e necessary, w hen it shall be in full operation, and one-tenth annu ally of 72,000 men (our average force serving in the colonies), shall be entitled to discharge, and must be brought home, to make frequent reliefs of corps at great difficulty and inconvenience. Finally, because the Government must either have a most extraordinary confidence in themselves, or expect an unlimited confidence from others, if they imagine that a measure of such magnitude, sanctioning chang es so hazardous and on such fanciful theories, and, abo ve all, against the opinion of nine-tenths of the Briti s h ' army, can be carried into effect without stro nger an d more cogent reasons than have hitherto been advanced by them for these new experiments, under th e i r A rm y bervice Bill, on the British army. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. JUNE 1.-Sir John Rennie, President, in the chair. The paper read was an account of the iron barque Josephine, of Liverpool, by Captain Masters, who commanded her in the voyages she has made. Tile subject of iron vessels is one of great importance, and the use of that material in naval architecture has been steadily progressing since it Arts introduced for sea-going vessels by Mr. Manby in the steamer named after him, in 1821, and which was the only vessel that ever conveyed a cargo direct between Lontion and Paris without trans-shipment. Sanguine hopes had been entertained of introducing iron vessels , )t war, but it appears from the partial accounts that have been made public of the results of the experiments At Woolwich and elsewhere, that the effects of cannot, -hot on iron vessels is more destructive than upon timber. The paper read was a plain and somewhat dry specifi cation 01 the construction of the vessel, w hich will however, when printed in extenso in the minutes of pro ceedings, be extremely usecul. The main dimensions or the barque Josephine are :—Length over all, 99 feet 6 inches ; extreme breadth, 24 feet 6 inches ; depth of hold, 9 feet 9 inches. Register tonnage, 168 tons ; by old measaroment, 221 tons. She was of a pe culiar build, differing from almost any other mer chant ship, being intended for service in the Mexican trade, and calculated to cross the bar of Tampico, and other impediments. She was entirely of iron, even to the bulwarks; and as she lay low in the water, draw ing 9 feet aft, and eight feet 8 inches forward, her ports were hung on hinges forward, so that they should act as valves, and allow the water to escape from the deck, and yet shut of themselves when she heeled over deep on her side. Iler general rate of sailing was from 114 to 12 knots per hour ; she was very buoyant and very dry ; rising well . o the sea. There was great capacity for stowing the cargo, owing to the absence of large projecting timbers. She was somewhat damp forward and aft, but was very dry in the main hold. There was not found to be any difference in the health of the crew from that of wooden vessels ; she was a little cooler than other ships, owing to her being so deep in the water, and the thin material dal not retain the heat like wood. Iron ships have generally been found to get very foul. The Josephine was, however, paid with various compo sitions as experiments, that which succeeded best was 1 barrel of varnish, 2t cwts. of best tallow, 40 lbs. black lead, 7 lbs. brimstone, 70 lbs. arsenic. This being ap plied hot, the iron having been previously warmed and paid wtth boiled linseed oil, appeared to have prevented foulness, as after her voyages there was little weed or grass, and scarcely any barnacle; but very slight oxida tion took place, and that only where the composition had been rubbed off. They were as much annoyed by rats as in a timber ship, nor could they be destroyed by any of the means adopted. The principal feature of the paper was that which treated of the local attraction of the compasses, which can scarcely be in an abridged form. It appeared that as long as the ship was on an even keel and perfectly upright, the compasses acted correctly, but in proportion to the listing over so was the derange ment of the magnet, for the local attraction ;being changed by the side frames and deck beams falling into new positions, this caused great variation in the ship's course, and it led to a conjecture whether this may not have been the cause of the loss of the Great Britain, as if her compasses were acted upon as much as those of the Josephine, a deviation of six miles and a half from her course might easily have occurred. Captain Masters suggested the hanging the binnacles complete in gimbles like the compass, in order to their always remaining vertical, and also in adjusting the compasses that they should be tried in every position, a table of variation being made out fur every degree of listing over. The paper was illustrated by drawings of the vessel and of her rigging, which possessed peculi • arities, and also by several tables for the corrections of the compasses. The piper announced to be read at the next meeting was " On the Expansion of Steam," by J. M. Heppel, Inst. C.E. _ At the monthly ballot the following gentlemen were elected :—Messrs. J. B. Clacy, J. Phillips, W. Sayce, and Captain J. L. A. Simmons, associate. PROGRESS OF FEVER IN GLASGOW.-It is indeed raging at a fearful rate, and no sufficient accommodation is vet provided. Up till Wednesday, the 26th ult., there were 117 cases on the lines of the district surgeons of the poor alone. On :hat day there were 38 cases of fresh lines ! This simple statement carries its own tale. Since the above was in type we regret to learn that four of the Catholic clergy. men in Great Clyde -street are now laid up with fever, and amongst them is the Rev. Mr. Gordon, whom we had the pleasure of seeing officiate as chaplain at the Sunday Soup Kitchen a few weeks ago. Their unremitting attention to the poor, the destitute, and the dying, is no doubt the cause of so many of these truly Christian clergymen being laid up with the dire malady now so prevalent in Glasgow.— F4foinzers' Gazette. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Edmund Duggins, clerk to Mr. Watson, a conveyancer, of Dy er ' s -b u ild ings, was charged by Mr. Ch ar l es Lemon Greaves, a solicitor, of Furnival's lun, with enforcing payment of his fee as a barrister's clerk by unlawful means. Mr. Greaves laid his charge as either an assault, an extortion of half-a-crown, or the stealing of half-a crown. Mr. Ballantine supported the complaint, and Mr. Ilorry defended the prisoner. Mr. Ballantine stated that his client went to the con veyancer's chambers to speak to him on business, and upon entering the prisoner closed the door, and refused to let him leave until he paid him a shilling. There being no such recognised fee, the prisoner raised it to half-a-crown. Upon another person coming to Mr. Greaves's call for assistance, Mr. Greares held out some cash, and told him that he might take what he demanded, but he would have to answer it. Either because he wanted the money, or did not care what he did, the prisoner actually took a sum of 28. - 6 d., there being nothing due to him at the time. He was not at liberty to press the case as one merely of assault, but would leave it to the magistrates to say what offence had been committed. _ _ _ Mr. 11O1ry remarked that his client had been already charged with felony at the station, and it would be better to state whether that charge was now made or not. Mr. Ballantine wished only to place the fact before the aldermen, and leave them to say what the offence was. _ _ • —. Mr. Greaves then stated that he had been in the habit of going to Mr. Watson's chambers, but he did not owe him or his clerk any money. On Monday e v e nin g he called at the chambers and asked if ho cou l d s p eak with Mr. Wat son ? Without answering the question , the children prisone r p u t hi s b ac k a gainst the room door, and asked him for a shilling. Witness replied he did not owe him a shillin g . Th e p r i sone r said, " I'll be d — d if you sha ll go out till you give me the shilling, unless you g o out at that wind ow." ildn offer in been inc o n ven i en t, as he must have dropp ed a dis tance of 12 f e et. Witness called out of t he window to some them by wsay of the window would penny to fetch a police man,g and witness then said, " You blackguard, what are you d e t a i n i ng me for ?" The p risoner then, in a menacing attitude, said, " If you call me that again, I will knock y our h ea d t h r ough the wall." Mr. Besant, a solicitor, came to witness's aid , a nd in his p resence he held out some money in his hand to t he p risoner, and told him to t a k e w h a t he demanded at his peril. The prisoner took 2s. 6d. Witness would have staye d in the chreebers all night rather than have submitte d t o the extortion, if h e h a d no t engaged to go to a dinner , whic h ergagernent he incidentally mentioned to the p risoner when he i nqu i re d f or M r . Watson. Mr. Ald erman Wool) said the facts, as stated , wou ld re Leaving e in support either a charg e of assault or larce n y . Mr. Horry asked the witness if he had not delivered to Mr. Watson instructions to draw a bill of foreclosure in the case of " Greaves re Godfrey." The witriese said he had. Mr. Horn, asked it he left the clerk's fee along with the papers? The witness said he had not, because the fees were not due till the work was clone. Mr. Alderman Woos said, there was this reason for not paying the conveyancer's and clerk's fee at the time the papers were delivered, —the solicitor could not fere see the extent of the work to be dune, and the proper charge for it. Mr. Horry asked the witness if the prisoner did not ask for a shilling on account? Witness replied he did not. Mr. Horry asked if the prisoner had not called on him for the fees in this case? The witness said, yes, but only for the purpose of an noyance. Mr. Horry inquired, what he meant by " for the pur pose of annoyance?" Was not the money due ? Witness said, he meant by annoyance that he tried to insinuate himselt into wi.rn-ss's room. Mr. Alderman WOOD asked how the prisoner would be relieved from the charge of assault if the money were due. Sur pose it were due, he could not enforce pay ment by assault. Mr. Alderman JoaNsolg asked, what was the custom with regard to payment of fees to barristers' clerks? Mr. Greaves said, sometimes fees were delivered with the papers; but the usual mode was, to pay when the work was done; and it had not been completed in this case. Mr. Alderman WOOD added, that generally the fees were allowed to run to the end of the term, and then paid off. Mr. liallantine, to show that nothing was due to Mr. Watson at the time, put in an I 0 U for 11. 7s. 6d., which Mr. Watson had signed on Saturday last and given to Mr. Greaves. Mr. Horry expressed his readiness to meet the case at the sessions either as a larceny or an assault. The Aldermen consulted, and Mr Alderman WOOD then said, they would deal with it summarily as an assault, which they had power to do, and they fined the prisoner 405., or, in default, to be im prisoned for one month; and further, to enter into his recognizance in 101. to keep the peace for six months. Mr. Horry expressed some disappointment, as he should have been prepared to go further into the matter at the sessions. He was ready to give bail to appear at the sessions. Mr. Alderman WOOD replied, he thought it was a proper case for the exercise of summary jurisdiction. The defendant paid the fine and was discharged. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. A solicitor and a gentleman (understood to be the uncle of the Hon. Henry Arundel, who was lately fined 51. for an indecent assault on an Italian boy, and in ad dition sent to prison for a month for an assault on a police-constable,) entered the Court yesterday and men tioned to Mr. Hardwick that an application had been made to Sir George Grey, the Secretary for the Home Department, for a commutation of the sentence of im prisonment on the Hon. Henry Arundel, and that this ap plication was now under consideration. The solicitor also wished to know how it happened thut the circum stance of the apprehension of Mr. Arundel became known to a certain individual who made his appearance in court, and who took an active part in attempting to procure an alteration of the sentence on Mr. Arundel. Mr. HARDWICK said he could give no information on that point. The police must be applied to. He also said, in the course of conversation, that the public, and indeed the rersons connected with the law, who rnighr be supposed to know better, exhibited remarkable igno rance with resp,•ct to the powers vested by law in ma gistrates in cases of assault. In all cases of common as sault, however outrageous in character, or however re spectable the station of the accused, a magistrate was prohibited from inflicting a penalty higher than 5/. Now, as this penalty was found to be totally inadi-quate to re press the taste for such outrages on police-constables, the law was altered, and a magistrate had power given to him to substitute a limited imprisonment for a fine. The exercise 01 this -power has been found to produce salutary results, and it was generally resorted to by ma gistrates, and this was the reason why he had inflicted this punishment on Mr. Arundel. Magistrates were frequently abused and vilified, and bad all sorts of im putations cast upon them, because they had not gone be• yond the law in eases of outrage, and inflicted a punish ment that the law did not permit. The applicants, after some further conversation, left the court. A military-looking man, who gave the assumed name of Jobn Butler, was tined 51. t',.r an indecent assault upon a boy in a public-house in Green-street, Leicester- square. THAMES. A tall and powerful man, Henry Jones Harrison, was charged with assaulting and wounding Anne Fox. The case was brought before the magistrate by Police sergeant Nicholas, No. 1, K, in consequence of a com munication made to that officer by Mr. Cleland, a sur geon, residing in Ratcliff, that a patient of his was in a dying state from the effects of injuries she had received from her husband. Nicholas immediately took the pri soner into custody. Harrison is a labourer, and was formerly a police constable of the K division. Sarah Ince stated, that on Saturday fortnight the pri soner came home very tipsy, after the witness had been to market, and quarrelled with Anne Fox, a woman with whom he cohabited, and kicked her on the stairs. Fox immediately afterwards exclaimed, " Oh, Harrison, you have murdered me I" He then kicked her after she was down, and the woman had been ill ever since, and was now dying. Nicholas then put in the following certificate:— "I hereby certify that Mrs. Fox, of Dunstan-place, has been under my care for the last fortnight, with an inflammatory affection of the bowels, the result, as she states, of violence offered to her by her husband, a kick on the stomach, and from which I believe her to be in imminent danger. " June 2. "A. CLELAND, jun., surgeon ,Rateliff." Mr. Cleland gave evidence in confirmation of his cer • tifieate. The woman was in the most imminent danger. Mr. BALLANTINE gave directions to Inspector Bilson, of the K division, to proceed to the house in Dunstan place, and take down in writing any statement which Anne Fox might have to make in the presence of the prisoner, and bring the case before him in the afternoon. Some hours afterwards the prisoner was again ar raigned in the dock. He was in a very excited state, and was made fully aware of his perilous situation. Inspector Bilson said he found the woman very ill in deed, life was fast ebbing, and the doctor said he believed his patient was in a dying state. He took down the statement of Anne Fox in writing, in the presence of the prisoner, and she afterwards signed it. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, read the statement, which was to the following effect:— " Anne Fox, residing at No. 6, Dunstan-alley, parish of Stepney, says—On last Saturday night fortnight the 15th day of :limy, 1847, between ten and eleven o'clock, the prisoner Henry Jones Harrison, withwhom I have been living about eighteen months as man and wife, came home very tipsy. He sent for some gin, part of which I drank, and part the prisoner drank, about eleven o'clock. No quarrel took place at that time, hut on my returning between eleven and twelve o'clock, having been to make!, the prisoner looked me out of my room. I kicked the panel of the door, which I pushed out, and, putting my hand inside, let myself into the room. The prisoner jumped up, and made use of the expression, I will scrag th.,, b--,' and kicked me in the stomach. I fell down by the room door, in con• sequence of the kick. After I was upon the fiaer, the prisoner again kicked roe in the side. I then called out • Police,' and I said, 'lam a murdered woman.' Sarah Ince came up stairs to my assistance, and I asked her to go for the police. She left for that purpose, and a police-constable came into the room in a few minutes. I did riot call on the constable to take the prisoner into custody. I firmly believe that the illness lam now labouring under, viz , pains in the stomach, is occasioned by the violence of the prisoner on the night in question, as I was previous to that in good health. Taken on the 2d of June, 1847. "ANNE FOX." Mr. BALLANTINE (addressing the prisoner) said—This is the declaration of the unfortunate woman, and the doctor says she is dying. The prisoner buried his faco in his hands, and sobbed aloud. Mr. BALLANTINE—You may hold down your head, but your sorrow comes too late. You may have kicked the woman to death, if she dies, as I am afraid she will; and I commit you to prison without bail for a week, when you will be brought up again, most probably to be committed for wilful murder. WE,N7 MINS7'ER. Mr. Somers, M.P. for Sligo, accompanied by three or four friends, waited upon Mr. Broderip, and solicited his assistance under the following circumstances:— Mr. Somers said, that on the previous evening a person named O'Connor, the son of a highly respeetable towns man of the borough he represented in Parliament, came up to him in the lobby of the House of Commons, and called him a privileged swindler, a robber, and other opprobrious epithets. He also shook a stick which he had in his hand, and placed himself before him in a menacing attitude, Mr. Gossett, the Assistant-Sergeant at-Arms, immediately had the person put out. On Mr. Somers subsequently leaving the House, O'Connor came up to him in the street, and repeated the same offensive conduct. Mr. Somers said that he could with difficulty keep his temper, and he felt that unless the man was restrained by the law, a breach of the peace must be the consequence. The person of whom he complained had, without the slightest reason, annoyed him for a length of time past in various ways, and it was the great respect that he entertained for the offender's father alone that had made him hesitate to take proceedings against the son. Mr. BRODERIP said that Mr. Somers could avail him self of either of two courses. He could take a warrant against the offender for the intimidating conduct in the lobby of the House of Commons; or he might proceed against him under the Police Act for the abusive lan guage in the street. Yin Somers gave the first-named course the prefer. ence, and a warrant was accordingly issued. HAMMERSMITH. Amongst the names of persons charged on the police charge-sheet laid before Mr. W. F. Beadon, the sitting magistrate, appeared that of Lord Viscount Neville of the 2d Lite Guards, Regent's Park Barracks, charged with having broken a window at the house of Mr. Barber, hatter, Brentford end, Isleworth. Mr. BEADON inquired if the noble offender was in at tendaisee? lespecior Morgan, T. division, said he was not. He had been bailed immediately that he was brought to the station, bu: had not attended. A gentleman who stated himself to be an officer in the same regiment said he bad attended for his Lordship, and had satisfactorily arranged with the complainant, who had no charge to prefer. Mr. Barber having confirmed that statement, The bail book was Wen handed up to the magistrate to mark with the accused's discharge, but Mr. BEADON demurred at doing so, on the ground that the noble detendant had not surrendered in cimcharge of his bail, and eventually the book was marked that the recognisance should be estreated. The ground of the charge, Mr. Barber informed our reporter, was, that about a quarter past eight o'clock on the previous evening, as the Noble Viscount was driving a four-in-hand, on which were four other gentlemen, along the Great Western Road from Ascot, on passing the complainant's house they discharged a shower of oranges against a window at which his wire and child were standing. Mr. Barber pursued them through Brentford, and gave information of the outrage at the Brentford station-house, when Policeman Ambridge, 'l' 162, in stantly jumped on a horse and galloped after them to Turnham-green; where, notwithstanding the party swore at him, and two said they were magistrates, he took his Lordship into custody. CLERGY OFFENCES BILL. The BISHOP of LONDON moved that this Bill be referred to a Select Committee.—Agreed to. The members of the Committee were then nominated. PORTUGAL. Lord BROUGHAM asked when the papers respecting Portugal would be on the table ? The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said he would tell him to-morrow. LUNATIC ASYLUMS BILL. This Bill, on the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, went through Committee. HERITABLE JURISDICTIONS (SCOTLAND) BILLS. Lord CAMPBELL rose to move the second reading of the five Bills which had been brought before their Lordships on this subject. They were all of a technical character, so that he need not trouble their Lordships with many observations. And after recapitulating the titles, which are—Service of Heirs Bill, Transference of Lands Bill, Burgage of Tenures Bill, Heritable Securities for Debt Bill, and Crown Charters Bill the Noble Lord briefly explained their characters, which are indicated by their titles. He would conclude by stating that the Transference of Lands Bill was of particular importance, for at the present time no land owner could transfer an acre of land without a very con siderable expense or evil which was peculiarly injurious to the country. Lord BROUGHAM entirely approved of the Bills. They would get rid of many prevailing defects in the present system, and simplify and encourage the law in many of its details. He, therefore, highly approved of these measures, and he hoped, shortly, to see them car ried into effective operation. There were several amend mendments which he could suggest, but he should defer them until they got into Committee on the Bills. The Bills were then read a second time. POOR-LAW R E MOVAL (ENGLAND (ENGLAND AND SC BILL. On the motion of Lord CAMPBELL, this Bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Monday next. POOR RELIEF SUPERVISION (IRELAND) BILL The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the second reading of this Bill, and briefly explained the objects of the Bill, which was to improve the administration of the poor-laws in Ireland. The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH objected to the Bill as going to effect a total change in the mode of carrying out the poor-laws. Originally the administration of the law was in the hands of parties unconnected with the G vernment, but now it was proposed to place it under the control of the Executive Government. The result would be that the machinery for carrying out the law would vary and change with every new Government that held office. There was another evil in the practical working of the poor-law. It was no doubt well that the board should be made up of men of all parties. But he had great reason to suspect that it would be uppermost in the mind of those at that Board that the Government would listen rather to its friends than those who happened to oppose it in politics. He would then oppose this law for carrying the Poor-law into effect as he had opposed the Poor-law itself. The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the Noble Earl seemed so far at variance with general opinion, that it was the general experience of the last five or six years that the public generally were determined to dismiss all party feeling and difference on a subject of the nature of the pcor-laws. As to the other topics mentioned by the Noble Earl, he thought he was in error. Lord BROUGHAM thought that the change proposed was very portentous, inasmuch as it made the poor-law a Government department. He considered that the Bill was making the poor-law a Government department. He did think the administration of the law ought to be placed in the hands of a high officer with a large salary. It was not stated whether this Government officer was to be removable with the Ministry or not. He believed that it was not so intended ; but if so there would be a great difficulty occasioned which he could not see the way to obviate. This was evident for this department being a portion of the Government, it was liable to all the attacks on the men of the day, and such being the case, it was surely plain that a vast mischief must ensue, for the Government must of necessity protect its officers, and what ever the guardians might have to complain of, whatever the overseers might have to complain of, and whatever the poor might have to complain of, no remedy whatever could be afforded by the men i❑ office.— (Hear, hear.) Of all things, then, he could not think that anything could be worse than making this board en object of attack on the one hand and a matter of defence on the other. Earl GREY said it was impossible for any Member of that or the other House of Parliament to have watched the discussion which had recently taken ,place upon the poor-law, without being convinced that the time had I . arrived when some change ought to be made in the conttitution of the board to whom the administration of the law was entrusted. In the other House of Parlia ment, within the last two years, every conceivable point in connexion with the administration of the law had been freely discussed, and the Secretary of State for the Home Department had been forced upon many occasions to defend and justify the acts of officers with whom he had little or nothing to do. Did it not strike Noble Lords, therefore, that it would be introducing a great improvement into the system, if some of the admi nistrators of the poor•law had seats in the other House of Parliament, in order that they might be prepared, on their own individual resp6nsibility, to explain or defend any act connected with the administration of the law that might be called into question by parties either within or without the walls of Parliament. (LEFT VITTING.) HOUSE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the Chair shortly before Four o'clock. THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were read a third time and passed : Ambergate, Nottingham, and Boston and Eastern Junc tion Railway (Alteration of Line and Branches to Nottingham). Caledonian Railway (Branches to Canonbie, &c.) Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway (No. 2). Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock, and Ayr Railway, and Ayrshire and Bridge of Weir Railway (No. 3). London and South-Western Railway (Andover to the Bishopstoke and Salisbury Branch, &c.) Macduff Harbour. Metropolitan Sewage Manure. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway Devia• tions. Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford Railway (Eaten. siun to Taff Vale Railway). North Staffordshire Railway (Alterations and Branches; Swansea and Amman Junction Railway. Waterford and Limerick Railway. REPORT - S. The following reports were brought up, and ordered to lie on the table.— British American Land Company. Direct London and Portsmouth, Brighton and Chiches ter, London, Brighton, and South Coast, and London and South-Western Railways. Direct London and Portsmouth Railway. Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway. Gloucester and Hereford Railway and Canal Purchase. Great Western Railway (Amendment and Extensions.) Leeds, Dewsbury, and Manchester Railway (Extension to Wakefield and Junction at Methley, with the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole, and the York and North Midland Railways). Leeds Central Railway Station. London and North-Western Railway (Lime-street, Liverpool, Station, Extension, &c.) Manchester, Buxton, and Matlock, and Midlands Junc tion Railway (Deviations). Manchester and Leeds Railway (Branch from the Hud dersfield and Sheffield Junction Railway to Barnsley, and Extension of Holmfirth Branch). Manchester and Leeds Railway (Alteration of Levels of Brighouse Branch of the West Riding Union Rail ways, and new Line into Leeds). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch at Bugsworth to join the Peak Forest Canal Tramway and Amendment of Acts). Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway (Branch from Ashton under Lyne to Oldham). Midland Railway (Syston and Peterborough Railway Deviations, and Approach to Manton Station). Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway (N 0.2) (Extensions and Amendment). Strathtay and Breadalbane Extension Railway. Van Diemen's Land Company. York and North Midland Railway (Harrogate Branch, Extension, and Terminus). The reports on the fullowing Bills were further con sidered and agreed to: — Ayrshire Roads. Falmouth Waterworks. Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock Railway (Branch to the Caledonian Railway and Diversion of Canal). Lancashire, Cheshire, and North Wales Drainage and Inclosure Companies Incorporation. se J ot u t n is c h tio ß n ii ß d a la i n lw d a. Manchester and Birmingham, and North Staffordshire sh ß ro r p a s n h c i h ro to u L a a it u m ren u ce a k il i w rk ay ) Junction Railway (Amendment and Su m nd r e . rl it an . London and North-Western the c o ro E R . s BELFAST Ipreo.Te m IMPROVEMENTe n t ~It &r ke ts , and B Bridge. L . Belfast fvmed Impro v ementtothe i tee on the Bill .tui p l r l, es:n h t i e o d h a wa p:ti t ordered petition agai to ns b t e t r it e ! COVENTRY, BANBURY , JUNCTION RA ILWAY. AND OXFORD On the motion of Mr. WILI the Committee of the Coventry , Banbury, was ordered that Junction Railway Bill, have leave to repor t and Oxford THAMES CONSERVANCY this day. On the motion of Mr. WARD for the B ILL. further consi deration of the report on this Bill, Sir R. INGLIS wished to know if the Bill had re ceived the conse nt of her Majesty's Attorney-Gene ral. There was a surrender by the Bill of the rights of the Crown to a private body, which he objected to. There could be no doubt that the Corporation of London had a *des of the river , b ut he was not aware right to both sides that the Crown had denuded itself of the right on the soil of the river. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that, instead of fighting out the rights of the Crown in a court of law, it had been considered desirable to come to some arrange- 1 COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. On Tuesday a Court was held in consequence of the application of Dr. Lynch and a number of the inhabi ta.tite of various divisions of the ward of Farringdon Without, relative to the sanatory condition of that ward. The galleries were crowed with the constituency, and, by the direction of the Lord Mayor, crowds of strangers were allowed to sit within the bar of the Court, the in terest excited by the notice of the discussion being so great as completely to obstruct the avenue to the Council Chamber. The preliminary matter having been speedily disposed of, Dr. Lynch was called upon to proceed with the peti tion of the ward of Farringdon Without. Mr. King moved that the standing order, that " no petition or memorial be received by the Court before two o'clock in the afternoon unless the other business on the paper be completed before that time," be read. He objected to the irregularity which the consideration of the petition before the stated hour, according to the standing orders, was calculated to sanction, and sug gested the propriety of moving the suspension of the standing order. Mr. Anderton—Certainly, the Court was appointed for the consideration of the particular subject. I shall, therefore, move that the standing order be suspended, in order that the subject of the petition be at once enter tained. The question that the standing order be suspended was negatived by 61 to 30. FRAUDS IN THE COLLECTION oF THE WINE DUES. The subject of the late extraordinary frauds in the col lection of the City's dues on wines, which has caused so much excitement in the corporation, was then entered upon. The following are extracts 'from the report of the committee of officers and clerks to whom it was referred to consider the nature, duties, and emoluments of the office of collector of the City's dues on wines, and the necessary regulation to be adopted for its future ma nagement:— " We are of opinion that the following regulations should be adopted:— " That the person to be appointed be required to attend personally to the receipts of the dues, and any deputy on his part to act only in case of his unavoidable ab.-ence; all such cases of absence to be reported to the Chamberlain, and the receiver to give security against any misconduct of his deputy. " That, inasmuch as the scale of charges heretofore used for many years was computed as nearly as prac ticable in conformity with the Act of Parliament, the same be continued. That the custom of giving credit be abelished. That the collector be required to paz the full amount of all mon , ys received by him into the chamber once in each week at least, accemeanied by a statement in detail setting forth every particula. That his accounts be audited by the Coal and Corn and Finance Committee quarterly. That he be required to give security with two sureties iu the sum of 5001. "Your committee are unanimously of opinion that the salary to be allowed to the collector should be 4001. per annum." The report, after having certified as to the necessity of the eppointment of a person, to be denominated the comptroller of the City wine dues, concludes with the followirg paragraph: — "And we, your committee, being of opinion that the original statements respecting Mr. Fellowes' conduct connected with hi: receipts and collections of the City's dues upon nine have been fully borne out; we have, in con-equedce thereof, direct d Mr. Fellowes :o be pro ceeded against ci iminally, for embezzling various sums of money received by hint; and true bills of indictment have been found against him for the same." Mr. BURN (the chairman of the Officers and Clerks' Committee) moved that the report be agreed to. Mr. SELSJN called the attention of the Court to the subject of the extensive frauds to the complete detection o: which the inqeiry entered into by Mr. Lart and him self had necessarily led, and moved an amendment to the motion, by adding the fallowing words, viz.—" Ex cepting that both elections, viz., of collector and comp troller, be with this Court. Mr. R. L. JONES, as chairman of the committee to which the subject had been originally refeire4 t declared that there had not been brought before thsFitioramittee any evidence to show that the conduct of the accused was criminal. The proofs of fraud were not produced until the investigation advanced. The committee had acted all through with no object but the desire and the determination to investigate the truth.—(Hear.) Mr. LAWRENCE said that nothing could be more un just or, absurd than the accusation of a committee for not having acted upon evidence which was never brought before them. Ihe report, which stated the criminality of the accused, was founded upon testimony got together subsequently.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. LART entered into a justification of the whole course of his conduct, in detecting : and exposing the gross frauds committed by Mr. Fellowes, who had in a few years actually received 12,5001. from the public more than be paid into the chamber. The motion was then carried, with Mr. Selson's addi tion, by a vast majority. The salary of the collector of wine dues was then fixed at 4001. a year. Mr. PRENDERGAST moved that the thanks of the Court be given to Mr. Selson and Mr. Lan for their zeal and perseverance in inquiring into and detecting the delin quencies of a public servant of the corporation. Mr. STEVENS seconded the motion, which, was carried by acclamation. Mr. J. Temple was unanimously appointed ball keeper of the corporation, and the Court was occupied in appointing other officers until a late hour, so that Dr. Lynch and Mr. R. Williams, of Farringdon Ward, were obliged to walk out, the petitions for sanatory aid being regularly burked till the 10th of June. GUERNSEY. (From the Guernsey Sun.) The following correspondence appears in the Guernsey Sun : (C PY.) " Sir Francis Drake Steam packet, " Stondwuse, 2041 l April, 1847. • - "My Lord Duke,—l beg leave very respi- etfully to lay before the notice of your Grace (as head of the Trinity Board) a subject of immense importance to this great commercial country. The subject to which lem about.to allude is th • necessity of t lacing a lighthouse on the western <eaboard of the island of Guernsey. "I beg ,o state to your Grace that I have already pointed this out to the Secretary of the Trinity Board, to Admiral Beaufort, hychographer to the Admiralty, and to the Committee of Management at Lloyd's, and they all have acknowledged the p•isitive necessity of such a lighi, yet at the same time no measures are being adopted towards carrying so desirable an otject into effect. The cau-e appears to be some conflicting interest between the titter brethren of the board and the island authorities. " I assure your Grace that the annual destruction of life and property is so great upon and about the dangers which surround the Channel Islands, that common humanity calls aloud on the par ties in whom the vested rights are placed to remedy such a crying evil, and which has been so long overlie•ked. This has induced several respPetable and influential individuals to recommend my bringing the matter to the notice of your Grace. I beg, further, to state that I have already furnished detailed statements to the before-mentioned public boards. Also, that, since my own personal knowledge of these islands, more than 100,0001. worth of property, and above 300 lives have been sacrificed. In addition to these, many other vessels have been lost, of whom nothing has been known but that of dead bodies being , Nashed on shore, and frag ments of wreck picked up by the natives a. ter a preva lence of heavy westerly gales during the dark winter nights. Every nautical man is surprised and astonished that such a serious barrier to the navigation of the Bri tish Channel as this island presents should have been alb.wed to remain so long in total darkness, when every other part of the world, where thought necessary, is pro perly lighted, so as to warn the mariner of his approach to danger. " To trouble your Grace with a further detail of my remarks on the subject would, I feel convinced, be un necessary; and I assure you that they are deduced from my own personal experience, and that I can safely defy contradiction from any one. I, however, take the li berty of sending you (as below) a copy of a statement now before me, made by that eminent surveyor of the Channel, Captain Martin White, R.N., than whom better authority cannot be found. " Trusting your Grace will excuse my troubling you on the subject, when I assure your Grace that nothing but humanity and a desire to serve my fellow-creatures prompted me to do so. I beg most respectfully, your Grace, " To subscribe myself " Your Grace's most obedient and very bumble servant " WM. SADDLER, " Commanding Sir Francis Drake Steam-packet.' (Copy) " Having been frequently referred to by certain par ties in the islands of Guernsey and Jersey for an opinioa as to the utility of a lighthouse on the south-western end of the former island—vic, eleinmont, for which it seems a petition is in course of signature, and having, during a period of 40 years and upwards, personally experienced the vicissitudes which attend the navigation among these islands, and along the French coast—particularly during the long dark and dreary nights of winter—l consider the erection of such a building (on the heights above al luded to) to be of vital importance to the interests of trade generally, and to such vessels as are bound to the island. more especially, and . equally conducive t o t h e safety of such of her Majesty's cruisers as may at any time sojourn among this rocky group ; and I do, there fore, alter mature consideration, earnestly recommend it, adoption. (Signed) " MARTIN WHITE, Capt.RN. " Dated in Jersey, the Bth April, 1847." REPLY FROM HIS GRACE TEE DIIJLE Olt 'WELLINGTON. .` London, Apri! 21, 1847. si r —I have had the honour of receiving your letter of the 20th instant, referring to the want of a light upon the western :sea-board of the island of Guernsey. " Although I am the elected master of the cor poration of the Trinity House, it is not in my power, and it is my duty to avoid interfering with af fairs under the direction and control of the corporation, excepting in my place at the board. 1 have, therefore, transmitted y our l etter to t h e deputy master, with a request to him to lay it before the corporation, together with a copy of this letter ; and you may rely upon it that the earliest attention will be paid to the important facts and casualties to which you have referred, and the means of preventing in future the evils alluded to. " I have the honour to be, Sir, your most obedient humble servant, " WELLINGTON." [We perfectly agree with the tenor of the letter of Captain M. White, R.N., respecting the necessity of a light on the western side of this island, feeling convinced that it will be the means of saving many lives and much property.-.4D, Jim.] STATE OF THE CORN MARKET IN FRANCE. The proceedings of the past wwek show a decided itn-, provernent in the general aspect of affairs. In no part of France have we to report as advance in prices—in seve ral districts a slight tall has taken place—and, in the g e e° nerality of markets, matters are calm, and giving P" raise of lower quotations. The fineness of the weather throughout the kingdom giving promise of an abundant harvest, has had an effect on priees ; apeettlater s longer engage in affairs of importance ; a hand't e ", mouth kind of business at present prevails , the ow/ object in view being to get through the ten or twelve weeks that must elapse before the new grain cep in the markets. In all the markets of the interi„or buyers now purchase as little as possible ; and the se. ll : vity which a couple of months ago was perceptible in toe inland markets is now removed exclusively to the eel; ports, and particularly to Marseilles and Havre. At ,_ . ..b °t o these ports, particularly the latter, purchases have u' e t made during the week for England. Prices are at present, higher in London that at Havre. Wheat at the th e place is from 44f. to 50f. the hectolitre, whi lst at A latter it is only 40f. to 42f. American flour is also Aw' at London at 65f. to 67f. the barrel, whilst at Sayr e it is only 55f. to 57f. This diff eren ce is en gnat as to cause fears to be entertained of it ' ll 1- 130 t ducing an effect on prices in Fran ce ' till supposing a temporary advance was thereby a used, stil l the position of France is superior to that of other ems, tions. Not only are supplies expected to other with regularity, but the harvest will be, i n at usual course of things, a fortnight or three weer% least earlier than in England, Belgium, or Hol l t n Zi e nd therefore, no demand were to arise from ttf tending to advance prices, it might be considered Pr e in certain that corn and flour would go no h i g her 1., France before the new harvest, and that the_leultisi until then is assured. Looking at the gene r Sk e ts of affairs during the week, we find in all the n' arg e, round Paris a slight decline ; the supply i s are et obliged purchases ri t et p i iler S prices are firm case in the north; the conduct of the seat& de PI tbe s ance, in attempting to supply the markets, en',„ we keeping away the trade, has in no small degre e ' , d have stated on fcrmer occasions, contributed to 0 1 loweratare formert madebe igru pretensions.ost o a t ions cautiouslyn ni s ae n t e c h s i e g3 . o e re l mo e si e v oa t s a l le e. in suit, In Alsace and Lorraine prices are statioirnsrJges some markets, but lower in the genera lity. In th e . : s itna a decided fall has taken pla ce . In ChelnPeg , „• t y C- Burgundy prices are the s a me , b u t the eutsn' f e et sumed appears to have diminished; indeed, this to be of a dimunition in the consumption aPPe ttre •,2e remarked in most parts of the kingdom, partly or a f e lt, the necessity wore .. ,„e of economy being more and and partly from the coming in in abundance of Op veketables. The south is stationary ; Marseilles hes,_,..al large arrivals, but no small quantity taken off to Belgium and to England. Bordel/evei Bayonne maintain their former prices , but the tel e z d. ja is rather downwards. Brittany is also unobe P L d oe Paris prices have fallen. Scarcely any thing -- in wheat.—Ga/ignanis Messenger. of grain has 70-d 0 tia l ' l tyle BRISTOL COUNTY C IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER TII DEIII S ACT. (From the Bristol Mercury.) On Thursday last a case was tried in 136°1 Court, which deserves the serious attention of all trades' men, as showing to a greater extent than we blfsbe4 is known, the great advantages of the newly•esta courts. aA_ due te An action was brought to recover 171 s 'iota a bout maker's bill, and it was objected by the y, were rte. the defendant that, inasmuch as more than , t he due from the defendant to the plaintiff for r h s e per plaintiff could not divide his cause of action for t pose of bringing two or more suits in this courts not that, if he brought one action, which must all of 511 exceeding 201., that such action must be in the rsaer dem.inds. FAO' His Honour the judge (Arthur Palmer, j however, ruled that the objection could deli v ery o f erY 4 tamed ; for that, as every order for, and deleLose. goods formed a separate cause of action, s trades' 0 man might divide his demand iuto as many P ae atlYr there were causes of action ; an d, coral.. o p, if a customer owed a tradesman 100/, or any lar e g4 er of man o r . 0 for twenty or any other number of orders, " which exceeded 201., he might bring fig R ae/ Ars° this Court as there were separate orders, _ cause of action, each under 201, however lare,th_e„,6sl gregate might be. His Honour then referred to_til_'", we unier,..ll sus. George 111., c. 25, s. 89, whereby it is providedusto; be cause of action shall be split or divided, so while by the 9th and 10th Victoria it is enacted. It t : a .e made the ground of two or more different licit°2l,.flii shall not be lawful for any plaintiff to divid.w:sit cause of action, for the purpose of bringing . 0 1ge more suits—which two enactments appeared to tne re , u . to be in effect the same. The first was passe d to tro late the civil bill jurisdiction in Ireland, and under,,,,,,. Act it has been held in the case " Hamblin v. an appeal before Bush, C.J., at the Dundalk Itinnl„e, assize of 1833, that where two gales of rent were 1,-t, which, taken together, amounted to a sum ceeding ceeding the jurisdiction, but taken separstl were within the jurisdiction, that the plaintiff split the two gales of rent, and bring one actia for one and another action for the other ; that it „ o . l ' also been held by M'Cleland, Baron, at the 00= 0 spring w,sizes, that where two processes had, e brought, even at the same sessions, each for 7/, tm e t i l et for a halt-year's rent, due May, and the other for etw eni , half-year's rent, due out of the same holding, st_, l4° ,: e in ber following, the plaintiff was entitled to al' boas each case, and the Learned Baron affirme d sir es, on appeal ; so, at the Lifford summer Ags !eel Pennefather, Baron, decided that where a fter B a sum of money, and about four nionli! a ea ch lent him another sum of money, A might sue WI. dote sum in separate action, even atter both the sums vi g l ,' 00 Thus, said his Honour, it is quite clear thatt,.„,,otius' case, the plainiff is entitled to split his bill o r ora te although amounting to up.vards of 601, int o s : r iret e causes of action, not exceeding 201, and bring affeeout actions in this Court for each part. But 1 ' 15 , 1 001 observed that this law did not depend on Irish beslr" `tor in England the same principle had been ell e Pig by Lord Tenterden, C.J., in the case of the poll' against the sheiiff of Hertfordshire; ia gee ,tie r s well and Adolphus, 672, the case — A be° for t b debted to B in a sum not exceeding 405 '_.h efter carriage of a parcel of goods and in the u 3o °` 4 oe. wards incurred another debt to , B, not exceedingsepowo i the carriage of a second parcel ; brought t w ,.. o j os° V actions in the County Courts, each for one of o pew, the debts, and it was urged by counsel that these tw bs, 0,0 0 must be considered as constituting one entfre, ! de t he d r that, therefore, mand. But Lord Tenterden held that the causvn sePV were distinct, and that A was entitled to °t i the s 1 ,0 :, plaintiff had no right to spo t fa ction rawly tor each demand. His Lordship said that two items were perfectly distinct debts, the 011 ,, e ,,f e eds°' incurred oconnexion with the other • that when the "' bi .f m the first debt the l ff ht have sued by p ainti ung d e nt in the County Court, and his having tecurre 0 0 and dis • eft. , distinct debt with the plaintiff, should not II! t he ct of depriving the plaintiff 44 f his remedY iu s till Co t unt y Court for the first debt •and if be mac arse same h .ve that re e y for t he first • -- debt, he had it ° for the second debt . with e This decision • will be found important,s w - tb of caption of the wholesale a „ lot dealer, who never setts s to gouda for less than 201., • debt m a " lit it seems that every - sp 13ristol, however large in arge in amount, might, by belle e et into sums, not d in exceeding 20/., be recovered County C ..urt by its expeditious and cheap proee o be eti Another point of verycoi,sider bl • bas a e importance day ruled by his Honour, viz., that although a party„ 10 reside at a distance, however great, a tradesew,i e e Bristol, having forwarded him goods by the cal_ . „'o , from Bristol, may sue for the debt in the Bristol C o ' Court, and have the same advantages in the action t ,, of the defendant were living here, and a great nuis....„ be oo processes have been issued under such circuteori r 0,41 This is of great importance to all tradesmen ill:, raof who trust persons residing at a distance, $5 sue iithotit leaving the city. t m s peigt SPECULATION IN CORN.—A farmer in " be lls '" bourhood, who is a large grower, has sold all is har the ground at 10s. per bushel, to be delivered batifer vest and Christmas.— Western Luminoly . BIRTHS. bitirSbP.- On the 29th ult., in Tonington-square , Ml* - Turner, of e of 2 daougahttheer. a 9t s h an ult., the lady of Francis ~ of ° yns Rowland Berk 30th ult. at Norl d No tting- h i ll ' : the 1 / 17 ofW i C ll:a m ott, Esq., of son. On the 30th ult., at UpallielTßacl'u-ia'ornelatret, the lady Berkeley, E sq., of a sou. T o/ lady of the Rev. W. M. Cosser, of a son. p On the 30th ult., at the Vicarage, Titchfield ••••• the Gruner,-Es , : a n f t: (1 ,of a daughter. -el" f Po w 0 Heathcote, ,-0 .t. a the 31st ult., in Fitzro y -squar e, y re, the WO - On the 18th ult., at Padua, the lady of Mai" Ch R.A., of a daughter. tilt., at Kwernalls, near Lyn:l4l°li' 8111051. On the 28t h the lady of R. Brown, Esq., M.D. of a daughter. R ife of On the 29th ult., at Cornwood 'Vicarage, the Wil e Rev. Herbert George Adams, of a daughter. s t ill - iftfil ni; On the 30th ult., Lady Knighton, of a daughter, n f job the 31st ult., in Hyde-park-place, the lady v ..t, Laurie Esq., of a son. OF On the Is t inst., the lady of the Rev. Sydney Tartgalrge'o" dent chaplain to the Philanthropic Society, St" ""-- .1 v. fields, of a daughter. ~,,,..,,,i E B4 On the Ist inst., the lady of James Du Da is..-- , Wandsworth-common, of a daughter. • g 0 i (1. On the Ist inst., at Park-street, Islington, the f Bryant, Esq., of a son. ~, O a MARRIED. On the 31st ult., at St. George's, Hanover-srlit,' - o 'f Or Chevalier Charles Santi , to Carol ine, second (Wigh t ' _., H. Ferguson Davie, Bart. lOW On the Ist inst., at Trinity Church, Lambeth, lt,harinB Adolph Farmar, of Westminster-road, Lambeth to ot. !uote Sarah, daughter of the late Mr. R. Bertram, Leicestershire. for' DIED. P (l. ' On the 241 inst., in his 73d year, Thomas Hurst, _ . . d Co., merly of the eminent firm of Messrs. Longman sw Sat Paternoster-row. kett, S at a 04. the 31st ult., the Right Hon. Sir John Bee Scut' D' On the 19th ult., at Rome, Lady Dudley Stuo., of Bom daughter of Lucien Bonaparte, Prince of Canino.. __,:s, Lis On the 24th of January, at sea, on board the Amu' Vsak to On the 26th ult.nt Donald Tull ,at Carriglea , Wa terford, John ocb, Madras Army. Odell. — e a, On the 30th ult., Frances , wife of the Rev. Ane nollO , e t ile of Oriel College, Oxford. late of 10 On the 31st ult., at Mi c kleham, Colonel l itih2B4 18th Dragoons. Dragoon Guar ds, a ged 642.,..--•'''''' --.'".--0. Elton, late of On the Ist inst., Lieute nant-Colonel . IP .4. _,,, n YOOras.f . 1 40 O t London: Printed ana Published by KURD—., ..„,i, in t , i s Strand, 'Printer, at The Sun Office, No, 112, streihvzo 40 paw of the Suva, in tits County of • ", 1147,