The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

k the same plea as before, expecting that
court would pronounce the same deci-
sink
and resolved, in order to save time,
pay the men what they should be de
doted to have earned, and be done with them. But
ea court, which had changed its views of the law in
di interim, admitted his plea to proof. It was ins-
Pm.* to foresee how long these proceedings might
biers= out—it was known that the solicitor had five
sere of the sailors in relentio to bring forward as soon
odds case ,as terminated—a new crew had been en-
mca, and, with the ship, cargo, and passengers, was
I,A under an embargo as long as litigation lasted.
The captain surrendered at discretion, granted notes
the owners to the men for their lays, payable on
dce arrival of the ship at London, paid 901. of law
armee, and sailed after having been subjected to a
achy the consequences of which might have been
wet disastrous. And all this because he refused to
1.7 a solicitor five guineas for annoying him with an
'oboe in the name of a deserter, whose claims were
kit from the beginning to be eo worthless, that both
lawyer and client were ready to give them up.
This is no isolated case. So long ago as September,
fi345. Mr. ROBINSON drew attention to the abuses of
the Vice-Admiralty Courts in the legislative council
of New South Wales. Mr. ROBINSON adduced a
'umber of instances in which owners of ships had
been obliged to pay 6001. or 7001. on claims amount-
Mg to less than 100/. One vessel was detained on a
claim of 3/. is., and the costs amounted to 1871. ; in
coiner case 301. costs were incurred in resisting an
unfounded claim of 81. ; three ships, with cargoes of
homes for India, were on the most frivolous and ex-
tortionate pretexts arrested on the eve of sailing for
The men in whose names these actions are carried
ort, are as great sufferers as the owners. Even when
damages arc awarded them, their lawyer's bill absorbs
the whole. A select committee, appointed by the
legislative council of New South Wales in 1845, to
impure into the administration of the law in that
colony, examined five of the most respectable
sad most extensively employed solicitors in Sydney,
all of whom concurred in representing the Vice-Adnii-
felts Court as a nuisance. Mr. OWEN, one of these
gentlemen, in reply to the question whether such
actions had not been greatly multiplied within the
last twelve months, said "Whey have ; they gene-
ra] arise from some practitioner who is
=scrupulous, and who lays himself out for that dile I
meditable mode of mtking a living" The same
opinion appears to be entertained by Mr. BROWNING,
• merchant of great experience in the colony, who, in
his examination before the committee on the naviga-
tion laws appointed by the House of Commons this
session, stated :
There is one very serious inconvenience under which
British ships labour in our colonies, which is confined to
them exclusively ; and that is the Vice-Aimirslty Courts—l
mean the ahuse of the Vice-Admirals y C meta in our colonies
and the immense expense which ships are pat to by false
allegations. A ship is arrested, and a sort commenced
against a ship upon a false statement, and that ship may be
detained there for two years or longer, unless the captain
comes a. terms with the seamefi, and saw pays something
considerable to the lawyer. There is an inferior claw of
lawyers in the colonies who are employed.
The public may form some conjecture as to the
extent to which our shipping owners believe the
navigation law enables them to over-charge their
customer., when they submit in silence to extortions
of this kind as trifles which cannot materially dimi-
nish their gains.

Considembl.• excitement was produced on Satur-
Ilayevening and Sunday, in Paris, by the report
having spread that the result of the investigation of
the committee of the Chamber of Peers, in the
Cubieres affair, would, in fact, be an impeachment
before the Court of Peers of MM. Teste,,Cubieres,
Pellaprat, and Parmentier. The Chamber was con-
voked for a secret sitting for yesterday (Monday), at

The affair of M. Emile de Girardin is to come be-
fore the Chamber of Peers on Thursday. La Presses,
of Sunday, is occupied with the evidence and argu-
ments to establieh some of the acts of corruption
ascribed to the ministry, viz., 1. The sale by a minis-
terial journal (L'Epaque) of the patent of the new
opera-liouse for 100,000 f. ; 2. The monthly payment
of 5,000 t. to the Globe; 3. An offer made to the
Maibes de Rate for a pecuniary consideration ; 4.
A cross of the Legion of Honour given for ditto ; and
3. The promise of a peerage sold.
Queen Christina, who, on her arrival in Paris from
the south, went immediately. to her chateau at Mal-
zaaison, held her first reception in Paris on Friday at
her hotel in the Rue de Courcelles. General Narvaez,
the new ambassador, attended by his suite, bad an
audience of the Queen Dowager, and report says was
received with marked coldness.
The French chambers having referred a variety of
questions, arising out of the financial and other diffi-
culties in which the railway companies have got in-
volved, to committees, the reports of several of these,
Is well as that upon the railway credits of the budget
at public works, have been printed and distributed,
and the substance of others not yet printed has be-
come known. A credit of sixty-six millions of
hence was demanded by the Minister of Public
Works on account of the railway works to be con-
structed in 1848, forming severally parts of the great
Ines already partially made. The committee have at
once reduced this credit to twenty-two millions, two-
thirds of the entire sum demanded being thus refwed,
and to this the minister has been compelled to assent.
In coeaderation of the peculiar circumstances attend-
ing the Paris and Lyons company, their lease is to be
increased in its duration by fifteen years. The lease
et the Lyons and Avignon company is also to be in-
'nosed, one additional year being granted for every
silliOn and a half of fence, by which the oast of
ecestruction shall exceed ninety millions. They are
also to be released from the condition of constructing
the branch to Grenoble unless the net profits of the
umtany shall on the average exceed seven per cent.
i Count and Countess St. Aulaire have left Paris
for London. The Duke de Broglie is expected to
have for London before the end of the month.
/ MADRID, Jose 15.
A most important decree made its appearance in
CIAO Gazate, bat stuck in so obscure a corner
k ~an, escaped my attention, till it was
*hid edit the papers of to-day. This is nothing
lams me hes than an =press prohibition of the pub- 1
liellsomito it the right of the Infanta Donna Lulea
Tom& to this anotooden. Any paper that pre-
snosalmahrward toapot thequiation of the legiti-
mise, it Met swermilioa will bo promoted by the
=This degree is se isammaly significant
present It to yea word for weed :
IllahMi of Gram and Jusiso.—Royal Os sr.—Certain
=having seamed We a disease's* of the right,
by the eardsesim and the laws, of the Senora
Mos Deem Lila imairmia to summed to the crown of
ems ream, die Ithai•Ply, ed with the fulfilment of
Its IBM la ifeeer, awl imMi defender of the high M-
ellish nay he asseeked by the press, conceives it its
~.. ... the of of repressive measures to
germ ea ahem T therefore communicate to your
Nam* Ma mar of bar Majesty, to prepare the state
Wrls dtammee with due punctuality all publiea-
ing i amorion the right to succeed to the crown,
-Mil Ihe smohealen sad the laws established sanction in
Uwe et Oa limn Lamm Dona Luisa Fernando. By
alba ef her Iftemy, I tell your worship this for your in-
somnia and the eorreepooding results. God preserve your
r" pors.—Madrid, June 13, 1847.—Vosieosna.
dor promulgation of this decree vanishes the
Abloirl Om that the interests of England bad
"Wear lisp la advance by the substitution of the
=aelehist for that of the Duke of tioternayor.
!Its puritan, whose voice was loudest armlet
it the Infanta with the Duke of Kest-
Pathrliart all ritose arguments went to prove that mar-
,_,11064 illval, and such as would disqualify the In-
and her issue for ever from succeeding to the
Stone, is the head of the cabinet under whose ens-
/ism a royal order, like the present, sees the light,
Milk soerts the indisputable legality of the In-
S'wag= of summon, and prohibits for the future
s doubt to be expremed on the subject.
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