The Press.
London, England, 1857-02-14 00:00:00

Volittrai.

THE GENERAL COMMITTEE ON ELECTIONS for
1857 consists of the Right Hon. F. T. Baring, Bart.,
the Right Hon. S. H. Walpole, Colonel Patten,
Robert Palmer, Esq., W. Deedes, Esq., and C. S.
Fortescue, Esq.
THE EAST INDIA DIRECTION have published their
letter addressed to the Governor-General on the
10th December, 1850, relative to the assumption of
the government of Oude, and the introduction into
that country of a system of administration superin-
tended by British officers. The letter congratulates
the Governor-General that " nn expanse of territory
embracing an area of nearly 25,000 square miles. and
containing 5,000,000 of inhabitants, has passed from
its native) prince to the Queen of England without
the expenditure of a drop of blood, and almost with-
out a murmur." The directors also notice the cir-
cumstances attending the King's refusal to accept
the new treaty, consider the question of his future
stipend, arrange it at 120,0001. a year, suggest that
the young princes should be well educated, and con-
elude with a complimentary acknowledgment of the
able manner in which General Outram conducted
the little affair.

THE ELECTORS OF MARYLEBONE held a meeting
on Monday to pass a resolution condemning the
language lately used on one or two occasions by Mr.
Nicholay against Sir Benjamin Hall, and to express
admiration of Sir Benjamin's conduct. The meeting
was crowded, the resolution was put, and met by an
amendment claiming the privilege of any elector to
pass his opinion upon the elected, and declaring that
on the present occasion it was not necessary to ex-
press any opinion upon the conduct of Sir B. Hall.
The amendment was carried, and Sir Benjamin's
friends beaten by a large majority.
Mu. HUMPHREY BROWN was drawn in triumph in a
one-horse " shay" into Tewkesbury last week. Mr.
Brown's friends are about to give him a dinner,
when revelations will be made of the British Bank,
and explanations given of the 70,000 good reasons
which it is said by evil-disposed persons induced Mr.
Brown to remain a director of that famous bank.
MR. J. M'GREaou, M.P. for Glasgow, was some
weeks since addressed by the electors of the second
ward asking for explanations relative to the British
Bank. The electors are reported to have ob-
served :

In a havty note written by you some time ago, you
promised to give an explanation of your share in these
occurrences. We think if you were fully aware of tho
opprobrium that is daily heaped upon the electors of
Glasgow, your sense of justice would induce you no
longer to delay giving such explanation, or of adopting
such other alternative as would free the citizens of Glas-
gow from these reflections, which are buth painful and dis-
creditable.

Mr. ]'Gregor has taken no notice of the letter.
AT THE LAST MEETING OF THE LAW AMENDMENT
SOCIETY, Mr. Howell read a paper on the law of
partnership; and in considering the points ofdifference
which now engage the public attention on this subject,
pointed out that there are only three sorts of part-
nerships—namely, first, the ordinary partnerships
in which participation of profit renders every partner
(ab hoe) wholly liable ; secondly, the partnership in
which the liability of every shareholder is limited ;
thirdly, partnership in which both of the above prin-
ciples are conjointly in operation, some of the proprie-
tors being under the first rule, others under the second.
These distinctions were at once recognised in the
Code Napoleon, and in his ( Mr. Howell's) judgment
no law could practically succeed unless they were
avowedly and carefully preserved. Mr. Howell
concluded by laying upon the table suggestions
for an Act of Parliament in reference to partnerships
on the commandite principle, and also a literal copy

FEBRUARY 14, 1857.

of the act passed by the French Legislature on the
same subject in July last. The paper was referred to
the committee.

THE CITY CORPORATION REFORM COMMITTEE re-
commends, among a mass of reforms, that the
number of wards shall be reduced to twenty ; that
the qualification for parliamentary franchise should
be taken for the municipal franchise; that the num-
ber of common councillors should be 150, thirty to
be a quorum ; daft the term of office should be one
year ; that the Lord Mayor should be elected by the
livery, with the municipal electors, from the alder-
men who have served the office of sheriff; that the
sheriffs should be elected by the same constituency ;
that the Lord Mayor and aldermen should be magis-
trates and commissioners of the Central Criminal
Court, with the same duties and powers they now
have; that the aldermen should submit to the
Common Council quarterly accounts of their expen-
diture for magisterial purposes; that all exclusive
rights of trading in the City should be abolished ;
and that all street tolls should be abolished. There
are several other subjects, including the conservancy
and metage, upon which the committee would have
offered suggestions, but they have abstained, the
court baying referred such subjects to other com-
mittees of the corporation.—This report was con-
sidered at the Court of Common Council on Thurs-
day, and several of the propositions of the committee
agreed to. Further discussion was adjourned till
next court day.
Da. SANDWITH, whose name is so well known to
the public in connection with the siege of Kars, has
been appointed Colonial Secretary of the Mauritius,
in the room of Mr. C. J. Bayley, now Governor of the
Bahamas.

Sin BENJAMIN Heil., M.P., attended an anti-
income•tax meeting, at Marylebone, on Thursday
evening, and expressed as his opinion that the Go-
vernment had no intention of continuing the war
9d., and highly complimented the Chancellor of the
Exchequer upon his truthfulness, &c. Major Reed,
M.P., thought that the right hon. baronet en-
deavoured to make it appear that the Government
contemplated the removal of the war tax, and took
credit to them for it :
Now, his belief was that the Government would never
have taken one farthing of that tax off but for the agitation
throughout the country.
Resolutions for the abolition of the war 9d., and the
readjustment generally of the tax, were unanimously
adopted.

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