The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-11 00:00:00

AMENDMENT OF THE LAW.

The Society for the AmendmeLt of the Tali h
a general meeting yesterday evening •t their room% lictg,
Regent-atreet ; Mr. VA NSITTANX NUL in the chair,
Mr. PULLING, burr star-at-law, intr,3l, cad thiClatog
of the prestiot ayetem of law repotting. He s.id tc,riesig
be nu coubt that tLe publicyt-na reports was a t9ia.
portance with the prom/lea:Lit of the trate lew,,/htis
werds of the report of the special c ,mmi;!ce ct :kiwis
wt.ich had ju,t been prepared:
" The judicial deei,ious of the auperior courts it Warne
ster, as rep..rted in the • tlumes r. mishit...ea by dung*
constitute at the present • YAll,l4t I qually with Mamie
book, the law ut the land. They are, to use Übe Wry
of Sir Mathew Hale, ' the formal tots:quints of the ina
mon law ;' cold yet, by a si, viler incotsisteriey.ft
every act of parli meat requires t..e et eh ea
estates of the realm; and It. contents are cablimisieeala
the pu"lic in the mott authentic form, tr‘e law laid dam,
our tribunals is in ..o resin ct officially prormegatad,
tote cresting the m 0,7 t. Ming Miamian is legal "dm
is ushered into public notice in the must formal wiargarm
Bible ; a judicial expasitioit of one of the leadiog
our tommun law, m.terially alt ming the Jame admiths
tion of justice, the rights of pe. petty, or the lA:wit/Chi
subject, may take place without notice and Ili li,at s:tirga
lion, amidst an inattentive (Lived, whil,t the sake oftle
judge who delivers it may Lot reach an on: bey:adds
parties imm.diately interested in the case unit pen tie
to it."

The existing state of thit gs was a senors evil, iliffli
es; utial to the maint. nonce of proper rsspect Arita ler
that souse alt ration sh ulu take mate. A number deals.
ineu were constantly end. amour ng W serape tog. ffier as sad
new law a. poesinle. Within the last two or three yam
competition bad been carried on •h ch lead resulted
Lerma irregular repots tit.der the name of the " flaeses
Bench Report*, the Comm-n Pleas Rep,rts, end the &.
chequ. r Reports." Although • hese roped' nen timid
irregular, and althou.h the judges discouraged reels:eh
them, yet a gentleman who wanted to know what thils
was at the pre sent tiu.e wits Almest compelled to obtainds.
lhe Queen's Bench auth. Sara reports only eau Medlin
ts Micnselmas, 1846 He then pew did to advocotelhen
pointment of corps of official r, posters in the syyral cows
It was objected to tie appointment e f cad.' prr
that it would be impo-sible for the judges pro*, 1
sanction their reports ; that the patronage might h
abused ; and that the system would deprive the paid
all the advantages of competition. The great eeevt
with reference to official riporta wr.su'd h. in be kern
a strong corps of reporters in each court. There shod
be in each court six official reporters at least, the aim
being paid much highe than the others, and the Sim
tak,ng the plats of their sails; as vacancies arms, Ili
in proportion to their merit,. A subscription of 54 a yea
from two thirds of the practising members of the tit
would suffice to en• ere for each rulncribir a copy mail
ouch bulky reports as wens now published. The sem Ail
he bad mentioned would allow he the remuneranoe of amid
he cfli. ial reporters quite us much 41, WWI 'mired Is
eLvidually by those who now acted as rop2ren. H. see
eluded by moving the following resolution:
"That it is desirably hat aw hot iaed re ',erten Salad is
spp.,iuted for each of the superior Comte of 1.• sad teak"
Mr. JAMES S 1 EWAR *fronded the r,solui t. Hs
said the grievance was not merely a probe:total bet a page
enc. He thought that in the first it.stahce, at le st tY
appointment ct official reporters shou.d rest with de
judges. He looked to the judges for help Those BPI
tunctionarres had generally gone with the popular kW&
and he Imp. d they would do so in t!..is instance.
lilt A'ISECKETT advocated the al ponsahent of a showt
hand writer, whoee t u yit should be to take a stank
r. p ,rt cases, in order that his owes might be steered I
by the official reporter, on any doubiul p:Aat. Sub
officer would be eelt.suppottirg, as clients hennas:lva
quired notes of the proms dings in courts of law. 'Rented
observe that at present the expense of the shorthand veld
uctes wee not allowed in the tease not costa.
Nr. NEAL, in reply. else eve d that them wire ens
dt z,n assize towns in England, in w:,ich there was mist
to the law report.. in the few caws in whittiriPl
could be obtained. the advantage was due to solidus. TIN
magistrates, though they put the country to the expend
buyiig every new edition of "Burn's Justice," sir
tt•ought of purchasing reports. It was remarkable that the
Resist. re of the courts—the succ.seors of the prothesis's
—performed at present scarcely say duty. That was aria
portant element in the question.
The insulation was then agreed to, with the additioad
Mr. S:ewart'e suirg stion as to the vesting of the appeal.
ment ot official reporters in the courts of law sant equity.
On the motion of Mr. J. STZWAIIT the report OS
special committee on the law.r. porting system was rtodwit
This terminated the procmdmp.

THE OUTWARD INDIA AND CHINA MAILS Of
THE 24Th NOVEMBEIL—A let er from Matta, dated tad
inv., rec. lied to.da) in Lond n, contains the following
•' The Peninsular and Orie:,tal S tam Navigation Cote
patty's ship Indus arrived Our at 7 p.nt. • n the 30th eft.
from Southampton and Gil.rattar. Sue h.s been ready ftt
sea since 2 p.m. yesterday, but is detain, d waiting for de
Mruseilles portion ot the melts, which nuyht to have Nee
here on the evening of the 30th." A. the French sonnet
Leonidas, which we. engaged by the Btu WI goternette
to take the m de to Malta, in consequet.ce of an widest
to the Admiralty pack t, chi not leave Maret ales until de
Ist instant, and is known to be a very
slow vessel, there k
great rea.on to fear that the mails would not reach Malts
until after the departure of the Indus, which could ad
be &cloned beyond the 3rd invent, and that eontiquentif
the mai's would meet likely have to wait at Moats ON
nest month's steamer.
OPERATION OF THE GAME LAWS.—A volomingkf
re urn, published on Saturday (obtained by orderof lit
House of Commons, on the motion of Mr. bright, Mtn.
shows that the total number ot penises c.i.vtct.d at weisw
of offenet a against the same laws from th' sth of May, ON,
to the Ist ot August, 1818, amounted to 165; and Netter
Mr convicted at petty sessions dueller the same petted
10,330—making a grand total of 10,491 (in Lnglani). is
Will a, the grand total number of persona onvickg ai
assizes and petty session' amounted to 284. Tho 1115
held on the bodies se gamekeepers and lath( n employed
enf,,ree the game laws amounted to 60, in ebich 37 veftW!,,,
of wilful murder were returned, 2 ot manslaueloter, 0T
justifiable homicide, and 8 of accidental derb. The tow
meats inflicted on the effendera agaiist the game laws wen
various—from small fines to tranaporta'ion and WOO'
t with hard labour.
THE BODY OF A GENTLEMAN FOUND IN IV
RIVEL—On Sunday afternoon, as two watermen were No'
tag past the en ranee of the Commercial Pocks, Bathe*
hithe, they had th.ir attention drawn4w something 10111:
the mud by the edge of the river, which they foiled to
the body of a gerleman. A messeoger was dispatched to
Mr. H..nry Gardner, the eummor ing officer of :he dittritt,
who at once repaired to the spot, and idenriffid the bad/
je
that of Mr. Charles Whitburn, of No. 10, liennisetst
rerruce, facing the Common, who had beet:emit:4B StdiSl
month since. It appears that the deceased geetlerraa!
lan early hour of the morning was proceeding on board it
Sir William Julliffe steamer, moored elohaside the Teel
Wharf, when he by some means slipp d anal fell overbW
into the watt r. An alarm was raised at the time and
exertion made to rescue the deceased. hut he d'
ant! was drowned. Mr. Gardner, the offictr, procured •kbsg•
~nd Lad the deceased removed to the d-feeslithsa &SAW
Lithe CLurchjard, where it await* an imitate&

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suppl 3 OF WATER TO THE METROPOLIS. I
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A public dooetiog of the inlvabitoots of Sou'h stark
sad imp adjacent Metres% wee held lest evening at the Three
Tees t'‘,l44 Pt. d 0 .mar; "to consider the pro. eight
&steam ea/ Sulam rapt of aster t,O these ke ales. as
drama from the psi 414 tidal hadgetsee of the river
Thaws; alto fee the purpose of adeptiog measures to semee
„mew. gatmi aboodeat, and pare oupply of water at
mei prsisar., so esseatially 04114111117 tut the premott.m of
14;ish sad ell monitory wren.'
%tiros. WdLiza, Chorshwarden of St. o:are's, pee-

mr. CHALLS. surgeohairman of the Bennondeey
ci Guardian',l men th cu
ant Isolation :
'etyma this meeting& 'widen the water en.ply to to whole
entropoile to be deficit's% is geniality sad imperil in
; especially so is the borough of Southwark aad the
t Joint% tla• supply being drawn ezelusively from
phe;e4 tidal inffseace of the river Thames."
sr R. HOWARD a Deeded the neckties. Upwards
si to Hems, be observed, disgorged themselves tato the
Dames wavede* Load...ridge and Chelsea ; th-re was,
gam" minage of messfeet wise and workehnpe all
&gesso rifer; end the veleta imposed the public was cent-
em only I. swallow, bat to pay 340,0001. a year tot
M4sa,iltar, hear.) It was quite hopeless to expect
let • water companies to abandon their grasp; cad
Cowl the result of any appeal to pall smear, is.
wallop that about 140 members of the House of
rinioalle were interested is kf epi,,g up the pretest mow.
rw yet the constituter-ire Glen unite, ea order to went
•No their MorteastatiVia. Iner.l)
L. SHAND, vestry Meek of St. lave's, supported
i
Me tiesalation. Toe Thasts• had a emotes of &twat use'
baited rd gutty miles before it reached Llsslst. as
nem,' is pa way the reline of 223 cities, tense.
...inhere. At L *doe, it received the contests of the 130
Tapas, which wares:aerie d backward sad Leeward with the
lade, sad soniatiness lodged in the very places where the
emir c WPM,* sere Odmpleg up their supplies. The
40!ests of the Fleet dub toner went farther than De pt-
feed. (Hest, hear.) Twenty tributary streams in the
wegbbourhood, Leavening 900 miles of country, somewhat,
fewesed the water just '.ow ; but in the thy months of
esumer. this &dusters was eat off, and the Thames water
wee an twine than diluted poison. Too system of Bushing
Me sewers had increased the evil. In the last tea years,
SIAM houses and 1,642 new streets, 200 miles in anent,
W been edded to the metropolis, the dealing* of the whale.
stealth &a brought into the 'Shames; and if the sass
berme to. k place in the next ten year", the people would
Ite.relly roisoned. It had been calculated that
sewers discharged daily tun millions of cubic
Vet, or thirty millions of perilous. or 190.00) tons of
gab Mt• the Themes. (Rear, hear.) it was an
suer wiffeks to suppose that this wag carried away with the
Gwent, foe the eeriest of water was styosger in the middle
el the stem, end had little cr no effect where th- sewers
emptled tit prindpel disokarge from which was
et
ball tile. (lHeer, hear.)
Mr. PAINE said the two companies which supplied the
ninth of London drew their mtter, one from near Helare-
lleelltbridge, the other from the neighb Wrhood of Battersea-
fleldt. Ten wen no better than taking it from an elotgated
esseriol, into *bleb 300 miles of reword emptied thenteelvee.
(Hear.) The whale reweatly taken at Grays had
_pile tad
ewe many shoals ; but themomeut he tasted the Theme*
wets', ho wools physics' pitmen relapsed. aid he went ow
• /hen it • state of 'beer exhilietion. Cheers and %net-
mr.) Must pc-plo in Southwark krsw the blind sewer of
Sraa•lttallt, whose inclination, if at all, was the wroag
• way ; swat 600 toes of flyless was found in it, which, '
is. ier spicaltural peep teas, would have hee• wont vela-
'We ; but we it must go into Father Thames: " thematic
was now being flushed; and prrhape they would breakfast
'oil th seatents next inmate g. (Rear, beer.) Sc great a
Mewing ea. pare water, they ought to consider no capers.
es saailim too great to ootain it. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. S [IV ENS said that Lambeth went entirely with
liesthwark in thus movement. (Hear, hear.)
• The towshitiow was then pet and carried nuanimonsly.
Mr. H B. EVANS, auras, chairman of the Christ
Chunk Semite', etwocietioa, said he bad recently had to
me near tee for medical purpose.. which, when melted wo-
rse& fretted of pure water, a lot filthy maggots. (Rear,
beer) He moved—
" I hat for the purposes of carrying cut the foregoing erne
When this meeting recommends that eseb metropolitan
web should, by vestry as magi or otherwise, support the
prireple t f parochial c capireitin for the rivets,. of elrain-
lee Itt ol renewal power to plies the whole of the weer
emit: tattler the management of n board of parechlal repro-
eentativte appointed by the ratepayers of all the metro-
politan pari.ttes."
Mr. W. BLAND seconded the trelatian.
Mr. DAY, vestry-clerk of St. Gorege'a, We're& to tie
eemparettve exemption of Notti. glum from cholera, as •
proof oe the beseticial effect of as abundant supply of whole-
some water. The 'apply there was eqnivelent to.lB or 20
relent per bead per day, min get city about bee,* rev to
:inch temily. (Hear.) Surely the metropolis could obtain
water ea the sere terms, ft the Mbabane% were only
'inked. Some plan might be adopted, even with pert ct
lustier to the ezistiag commies, by whi, It the public might
benefited. The competition or the sompardea wily led to
ens rewrite, by which the pa'-lie al.aye suffer- d; it was
tharetore mien de eirabic that the water should be supplied
without companies at all, and that the pahlic should take
the matter into the it owa twee& Already thirty ,fight
prober and unions bed Joined this mom saint. (li.ar.)
Mr. fiTHVENS asked whether the parochial &Ammo in-
leaded to apply for en tet on their own Ishelf, or to request
greturn-nt to she tLit Liszt"' inteeekeit kande.
Mr. DAY said the per chid representatives generally
wen opposed to the minter being test to government.
earn was to decide on tome Culiflla whereby the y night be
tee l neer te the mercy of the computies.
ldr SIEVENS sant if they contempleteri obtainine as
bet, they +omit have to wait another twelves, nth, as the
outlive had not twin cites in N •vember. Ha wee a sisp
ptr•it of the treposal for thtioning water from the Havel
Wardle, for which ea act wilt be sought in the twat
senion, ander c• anon Co. dine's. favourable to the public
lie moved as en IWO warent the appointment of • commit-
tee to it genre as to the beet nee..ns of Improving the supply
et eater ter tl.s dlitrire.
Na see basins sewn did tie mot edgiest, the resolu'iss
was pe' and agreed to ; and the preceeclinp tereaiaated with
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

DEATH OP THR EMIL OP CANI.IIIPIOBI. The Earl
co' Comarmas died yis•eaday weeenine (Dse. 10), at Pout,
the s et of hie brother ham, Mr. Pasty, the menhir for
II rkshire. The deeeseed webtensee wee born Jute 8, 1800,
and sutztsils d his loth• rus April 18, 1833. He alai oda
cated at Eton and Christeharch, °Mord. Soon aster be
tame of age he mode a •our on the Continent, is company
writ Mr. Posey, and eiusiog kis alumna "Du Pedro." a
ploy acne, by biome:id totioifeal es the stay ot Pie Peito
tbe Cru 1," wu 'sad at Drury-Wu The at re,t ke pi inci chs-
rmter Ming unawake& be Mr. Idecready. In 1827 Loa
Cinema published The Moor," a poem, oitti notem
thowilig an eater site srquairmsace with Sp Hsieh and
Worth histore. In 1838 he published a work entitlid
" Portugal sod OsWeis ; the andel sod Pali' ical State of
the Leos* Provision, mod R. :narks on R met Se- ots in
Span." le 1881 he was elected mensher for Westin. Bigger,
sad he dot tinpeised Mmrlt by several speech- s ii sloped-
skin to the Roam Bill. He married (August, 1830) t'
eldest daughter of Lord livery Bowed, (oily break r the
Uwe Doke of Neet.lk, sad he has left, by k, r, Mae* seas
sad two dughtsre. The eldest sea (now Earl of Caner-
mini N eighteee Lean on ego.
Tilt GREAT EXHIBITION Or WORMS OF INDOXTRY
or ALL NATIONS —IIIIBII2IO AT NUITIDOSAIIL—ircsta-
day ammaing a sewing of metaliants, hookers, tomsufse-
toren sad others, war bald in the Rashest -ball, Ratline
hue, fir the purpose of proisetiog this exhibi•ius. '1 be
mayor (Mr. R. Bi.kie) having opened the peateedimm, the
teem el. rh trod conwprosden • which had pup.," seth
Mr Dighy Wyatt. Mr T. Cave', hosier m.v it, "Tut this
merisig Melly approve, of the props et d exhibitioe of the
weeks a 1 andusery os ell amigos to ba held iii Loudon
tae year 15.11. Sall considers it calculated to pro-
mote the agricultural as veil as the torounrci.l
eel aanufoei using int. nets of the comseurity, and to
slaw a bieadly union ado.' the nation. of the
world." Mr. R. Morley, of the arm of J. and R. Morley,
ID ODD, of Nottispheas and L tedon, seconded tie =seam
aadsmonstlr tweed the :Indies(' of app dating committee-
sun who would take an &vivo part is winkles tut the obji et
of the meeting. Tae resolution wee carried anacionousli.
Me. liechuses,Mes snieufecturer, moved—" That this meet-
log ackrowledges with Omsk. the horaluable txertious of
his royal bigamous Prince Albert, the president of the
Society of Arts, for the istehlishmeat of the inetitu•ion,
sad will ssenestly wrist is the lurch of the game'
objet's of the proposal." Mr. Renner, hi she, in second-
log the resoluticm, reminded the meeting that there was DO
lowa ta ores Britoin which could produce manufactures
of greeter beauty than Nottingham. If there were
any doubts on the subj, et of venue, these might be
resolved by leaving each totality to pay for itself,
bat h• wee opposed to a tax ea the country at large. Ho
approvid of money pis-s, but thought 5,0001. too .arse a
sum her one ptia s. Mr. C. Paters as en sgriculturio, spelt,
of the value attached to modal prime. Mr A. Reckless
explaised that the media' 'meld be is addition to the mussy
prima. The resolution was passed nesnimously. On the
motion of Mr. F.Min, minded by Mr. Myths., a committee
was appoiaud, sad the proseidiogs
FPNIALE ORPHAN ASYLUM, WESTMINSTER-ROAD.
—A special court of governors of themabove charity woo held
yesterdiy et the S :noel house, minster-road. for the
'Melon of five children to the school. Mr. R Format, who
presided, eaprened his regret that in times of privation aid
(burns like the prs gent, the eleetkin did not secure the ad•
misuses of a greater number of orphans; but the fact was,
that the diminution of the eulscririons bed obliged the
gOetTinle it mlitly to mll out 1,0001. of their stock to meet
cotangent expenses. The ohj eta of this assoeiation are to
receive tamale orphans from the ogee of eight and ten years,
sod to educe?, and maintain them until of on age to earn
their ova litine, when they are all provided with situations
as domestic somata.
Eaurwascm—The Ann Gales, of London, outward
be ord, ow kst off Cs mien Bead, between six and seven
o'ck4it co Seturdsy. We ere pony to announce that all
hands, with th exception of the mite, perished. Twelve
wah 1.41 a watery rave incluoieg the captain's
Waterford News. g
A Booa CoLutcroa's Hoesz.—M. Verbeyst, the
mast celebrated book collector M Europe, or pozhspi in the
world, hes jam died at Brussels at an advinced age. He
W handed a very carious Isis blishount, combing of •
been of several stories and as high as a p' loch, and dis•
FMUI 60 SS eon•• 1.1 ci;o•st 300,030 totem's, ar..-ettca at.
Mang to titer sa lads.