The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1860.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF CONIIOIII3—W r.D:c MAT, 31.4sca 21.

iCeschelsri frees yesterday*" Efpreme.)
ENDOW= 101100 LS BILL

Br. BELWiiiMdthis wee amiette r which admitted of
us eron:v.,,i•s, : and as the haw. peitleman the member fur
Itemose sessial to decline the ireseemiendation of the right
bum gestbeesen who had jut ad down, and would ~,a
with&mw he. inillisurei. he fdt that he had no alternative
het to move :be AD aniendinwel that the kill be read a se.
mead time that Jay win remdta
Ilb. LOWY! ELD seesaw the lialimainent.
Lard TREMOY said thews& of the right bon. postle-
not Me. Lowe). thollieb a elingirsh. au..
1.114•2 i, I at • very seimitimil The right len. petki.
lean mil ere ought to respect will of the hieindoms hal
wi,•-• he eau* to the edge of Illerard VI. he Axed err se
..., of i arliatiellt and said be would said by it. U the
w,. No, of parliament in Edward Vl.'s reign sanetimed se
. t 4 whammed contraries/as the intentions of the
why denim nut lb. same Wag be dons ao„frit
ii. ,seneeuleat donors lived they woad mew me
th, chureli of laginad every day mane and mum
and to liceme, sad would feel it meet
wire to widen tie perhele, Whet prevented a =
body of the church of- LOW hem gam over to
Niue, tans buck but the hemset eretesesat foam's(
th, .liweeters, and rent , missrable, futile Beele-
si...iiosl Titles Bill ! If the lea gentlemen would
thlrsosoire,
trel upon the retentions of the let bin Awl by
tho prui,iple, and ii.,t attempt to do se he had does, blow
hot .tai ~,!,L He reprded the bill as one aiwerting good
low . hureli protestant prioapke, and therefore it should
ha% .. los hearty support.
M r .t. li I Ltd would vote for the amealment, and thought ,
the boo. gentleman who brought in this bill did not act
wady us not accepting the suggestion of the select committee.
Hr. BAINES considered the object of the bill • eery
=r use. They had beard • great deal of those prin.
al law air! equity, which, haring been acted upon
for XID years, ought to be held sacred; but the bin of the
boo. and learned rut!eman Mir H. Cairo.) actually pro-
ceeded ups the euppimitios that those ancient usages and
jaw, .ni, .......g. i 5...) Tee, it was so; for it enacted that
&waters who ILA enjoyed the benefit of admission to
nth schist. for tweetydles year., should continue to enjoy
that privilege, and that diameters should in Niue be eli-
gible, in certain cases, to become tru.teoe. Bat this wee
tly opposed to the declaim of the courts of law,
who, 1,.1 decided the question, ass! in consequence of
wi,i,.h de. i.s.o this bill had become nec•-vary. He ma-
tianr.l the arse ut a toereship in his neighbourhood, the
peat majority of the inlabitanta of which were dimwitted,:
but where there Wu an endowed school established in
lCti, from the trusteeship of which diseentars were, by the
morattlecision. excluded.

KoLSTCI'K oaderstood that the right boa. gentle-
maa Mr. Lows) desired that dissenters should be trustees
el these se and dimeaters' children should be admitted
fa them: and &La, that the bill sent down from
Se bed. did WI ride for thoes objects.
LO y for me of them.
Kr. 110E111.1C1 then wished to know 'whether the right
beittsztleeimse would support a preposition to introduce an
mite the Lurds' bin in acc,,rdsnee with hie
views?

Mr. LOWE °add not answer for the government, but for
Masa he should he willing to support such si=
Omagh he would prefer that the ohjevt should be p
ler by a separate xt, which mizht le rot up to the Lards
without prilliaz the coacession which had already bees
made hy the upper boom.
Mr. HATLRAFT testabeed a came where there could be
se doubt that the ob4srt of the endoermert was to afford
etheatica is the tesei of the Church of Eiglaad, but die.
seaters hattalwars bsea admitted.

Me WALTER had usdentood that what the dissenters
dal 111.1 wadi that their children should he allowed to attend
• aimed schools without being onipellid to take part
to nor religious instruction of which they did not approve,
and -that they, the diseenters, should be admitted to • gees.
eel trusteeship, so far as Koch aihniesica would not he toren-
niatent with religious teaching in the schools secording to
the dnetrine of the Church of 'England. Now, to this he
was willing to agree. but he could ad aid& with Hr.
Dill w, n tl..ct they were cal that ground to over ride the eon-
Met mum .4 the courts .4 law, and sweep away the nietrio-
tire. which had been impend for the protectiew of themes-
&lenient.. It wee not for him to my how the proyeeition
admit dia.enters to the privileges they claimed ander thin bill
would worn, or what contintawoeld arise for the tateetseahlp
es ei to the character of the education which should be
gig en. The noble lord the member for /lerylehene had
spoken of the aeosmity of widening the portals el the
aureh Faiglaad to &mentors, aid approved of the bill
on that ground. But that arment wee in fact tting the
cart liefon• th horse. He (h r. Walter) would also open
the church's portals to dissenters ; belt until they were se
opened. it uvula be wrong. he thought, to admit dissenters
to the management of Church of England schools. He re-
gaoled the bill as the second of two serious attach the
Ch 4 Chinch . England. The first, of course, was the welt.
re, Alsdition Bill, which had arisen out of the it.t, of
th.• House .4 Lords in the Brnintree eau. Having paid at:
tenti.m to that question and to the grounds of that dee.
be thought it was imp Bible to resist the case of the die.
minters e., t.. ehurch.rates. This was the next attack ; and
the third &mend would be for a share In the property of
the . beech. o Hear, hear.) It was a gamine which the
mothers of the church would do well to erstaider serioud7,
how rile church was to maintain its exchinve bold epos lie
poss....ions, supposing the hold it sow had
_upon the
num.•fleal majority of the population should vary ?
la ri few years the relative position of churchmen and &s-
-nider. in this respect might be tnumpoesid, awl it behoved
them to marline this matter beforehaad, and consider how
the> might be able to meet the demands to which once •
state .4 things would give rise. One means of ineetiag the
diffleultc would be to congest to a perncipation of the pew
petty cif the eburch—which he believed they would be le.
vitel t.. d., - another wee by conciliating beforehand that
large number of persons who were sow separated from the
ehuveh. not so mush in matters of doctrine as in minor
matter. .4 dia-ipline.
Mr. WiIITINIDE segnested that if the differences be.
teem' dissenters cool churchmen were, as had been maid, cow
finest to points of trilling importance, it was merely the duty
of three who objected on trifling pounds to withdraw their
elipret roes.
Mr !inn/EC/ATE believed the hill wee breesht in to
aid objects which noes of the dissenters would diersni, and
prisciples which they were sot maxima fur, bet which
would-establish • tpusey far more objectionable then any.
this/ ef sesid wencompliun referents to the
Chiireh of
Mr. DILL If, V rekreece to the gamin wheliar
the, bin wee to be nib ayylleable leas& dwell
be eery meek gild by the views of the Merry her Inc
hod on the point.
The him.. divided
E.,e the wound soullog l3O
For the ammehmen

THE =Ammo AND MUNN WORKS BILL
Mr. MOON owed the weed maw et this bild
Mr. MINED mid whet say hem immber to
%trainee • neessare to that hoses white tnde.Ybeer
Semi with the operation of ea important %ma einedianni
inciastry. mei when he sought to &MOO the inglgemests
existing *twee. the madam and the ga11..., be Moe
hound to wake out a clear ear for onat • amnia -.1%
411,- Tamer) bad heard a/ so see me Wig Made
out. Moor. hear.) The question hid bmB is
• •Avot rommittee. sal they had remarked swig* egy
ve the subject. aid if the eimmmiensus. Whisk
ca▪ n
sst the committee in ISM to report agrimin isgleistion
,wvro Many degree changed they were is • iilresaion to
ruder legivlsture lees espeasst. The hem. mumbler pro.
proed to place them wor% ander the operation of an
Pactorie• Act ; Lot so massy wherever existed between
the branch 4 labour sad fantods. The leastories Amt
was, with few eampticms, Mildly obeyed ; bet is fanner
limos the factory ovum were very much sad
condemned for the bog hears of work is their Indlaw.le
Idea, nor did rot work mans owe property ; basw the
sori.olt the public. The supply of kis raw •
u. t riAl depended upon navy fluctuating rheum.
It depended upon the orders which be
• trim Lome and foreign correspmdmte, end it des
pet..l.+l upon the meaner sad the periods ted for the
skal:iwg %week to distant markets. (Heir, The
h.a. member them referred to Use iridium pyre before the
roioo•ii••• In Mr. Rob. rt Barbour, Mr. Neon (of the Area
• Brothers). and Mr. Hanksiiitle to lighe
lotion °tithe babied. Further, he ;cal. mention that in
nett. a mina the machinery could be at any moment
and the opoistions resumed the neat day at that potP, rut!
it law. n•A in bleach works. there were variat*
eritirel nprrationa to he performed, such as 'abject*
eissl. to ehm,i...111 appliances sod boiling and chairing them,
and it widi!d twit du to leave them in a wet state without
iiqury. If the hon. 10-mber succeeded be the second read.
u,:o he would not a, the object which he had
in %ie.. lib would only discourage the operations
of hap.rtant trades. Waimea and shildren were not
thee lommarn of trade, but adult
in. wenn" and ehildres were employed in the finiah-
ui,.: .101 lisiking up aud asourthig departments, and in ralen•
dieriug and Team,: hinters and In warehoused, and this ball
sroohl not tooch those hmeineress. Beside* V they were
included in the bill. the hos. reatleman aught to place
-.nil washerwomen under the sem low. The
nteni 1., then rued a letter frrrn Mr. Aldermen Field, the
hoed .d 11,- daettekl pr rat work, slii.wingthelapplicabolity
.4 the awl he stated that the permme emmged la
I aorta had au objective to
entering their premien. at any time is • most bi
Dowser. not that they had dem anything +mil but they
.1,4 not INirotich voila (" Heir, himr,' hem Nr. Aydin
mod other...) These hos. peettemew Mho Mod "!rear
heir." km -a soaking whatever of the brings in gusetisn:
Meer. herr" The boa member them referred Is eons
stotivtire freWerded to hinacorms boos i• the bleseh•
madinav maks, a that tile perroes,.:4l3loyed
weny den, and the labour • ham
eghout the year.
Mr. ACKE- •What le the lower period d labour men.
tiioed?

111/INEB aii Isertese Bonn was ths lowest time
awatioliad to bite. The% am minted tialtealthinem ei these
.n.O peseta be Ird received itateatiele showing thaa
wore by mere healthy dam Om Maw i. eottee mills K•
had •Isltedi • pest runny al those waste, Lod ho could only
oetwo that he :,evar saw a more healthy body
rh• young wouo.o wars robeat, seem sad h.ulthy, sad

morght this employment in preference to working in fac-
tor*, Thin would he a piece of uwiew legialation and
therefore he begged towns an amendment, that the bill be
road a ee•tnd tint,. that day six month&
Yr. 'H A RLaYON wooadad.the amendment.

Ir. ROEBUCK said he was le speak under some-
what peculiar circumstances, for when Lord Ashley (sew
Fitt of shaseehory) introduced a bill 01 this oription
hr oppeoll it, sod he was now sa strong • pout' econo-
mist as ever. He drew a distinction between women and
childon and aces. Women sad children were not, sun
joris —they Iron sot their ewe esestere, or under their own
eretrol, but men were, sod be would not interfere with
sem sad their employer; but he woati when women and
were encerned. fto • femur mead= he
fumed his *Mon hem lASI be bed heard from
peruse he Imes* in Nei Tarkabite, and they
said the het beffieur wee them Frain and that
ff it were When 'War they should be robed. He listened
to that iiMemest, Ind be trembled for the manufactisern
of treed ; hat lAN Ashley pemovered, and the has.. of
rlielneed la bits end his bill wee paw to pawed in , zrtrcet that time to the present he bad not heard
that Ms interest, of mmufacturen bad suffered. ,
beer.) New, he fond the bun. member for Manchester
in the same poultice, prophesying all Kids of evil ; bet
be bed kept out of view that evidence which bad been laid
before the committee. He would slate it to the house, and
then be would appeal to them as fathers and brothers of
•onien and children and ask them to interfere on their be-
belt There was enders in the blue book which made
ha blood run cold, and he would not be a party to a further
perpetration of such atrocities. The hon. member for Man-
chester said the blesehere and dyers were the servants of the
public; that tbr7 bed to work for the public, and that there
was 'umiak", these works and factories. He put
the matter esi a different ground. He did not care whether
there woe any analogy or not between these employments; d
there was a greet dead suffering on the part of the people
there ought io le the same interference in the one case as in
the Mier.
misery wee idlieted upon t people 'milord;
and as they bad prevented it in the one can =Gy=
in the other. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and
man then read the evidence given by rennin mem, em-
ployed in the bleaching trade, showing that they worked
sometimes 24 hours in succession. Now, boa. mush=
took upon themselves to complain of the /mg boon d the
house. They came down to the bonse at 4 o'clock end
were at liberty to go aid dine at 7 o'clock ; and if they got
home at 2in the morning, they afterwards complesmd
having had a terrible of6t's work. (Hear, hear.) Then
let them think elf the torribk loeg hours of labour if the
bleaching and dyeing works. H. asked them, as ma-
timelier of England, if they would bear these Mune
any longer. He beard a great deal of humanity—
lip-hurosaity—(hear, bead—about the slaver in America.
(Rear, bear.) Now, no man could feel more indignantly
than he did the horrible treatment of the blacicata America.
(Mar.) But that indignation was not greater than that
which he felt for the white slaves in Englend. (Hear,
hear.) He recollected a touching story told by Mr. Cagier,
who was once walking through the splendid picture gallery
of the late Sr R. Peel. Mr. Oaetler wee a strong advocate
for shorter hours of labour, and Sir R. Peel was • great
political economist, and he was arguing agaiust the
policy of shortening the hours in tectoriek and when
they came to that well.lmown picture by Sir
Edwin La:Weser, of Bir Robert Peel's daughter,
Mr. mitler said, "By God, Sir Robert, she might have
been • factory girl ;"' and he (Mr. Roehrick) would remind
boo. members that ems of their children might have been
factory girl., and then let them think of the tender feet,
often skinned, and the tender hoods, often blistered, of
these unfortunate persons, and that the owners of these
feet and hands were obliged to be kept at their labours by
boards being struck on the table to keep them awake. For
God's Nike, then, let them not listen to the exhortation of
the hoe. member for Manchester. He (Mr. Roebuck)
them, a. men, as fathers, and as brothers, to say thabteV
would not allow these horrible things to continue
longer. He believed, in opposition to the hoe member for
Manchester, that they would go into committee—(bear)—
and that the bill would be carried by • triumphant instancy.
They ought not to lay their heeds on their gallows without
doing their utmost ter those who were so weak, helpless,
and distressed as the persons employed in these works, and
he as an humble enppoetirir, weak as he was, would appeal
to them with eooldwee to pan this bill. (Cheers.)
Mr. CORBETT prayed the house to read this bill •
second time, and if it could be shown that there wee
anything impracticable in its provision it could
amended in committee. Let not the house suffer this
anomaly to euotioue—let them not suffer women and chil-
dren to be worked in • manner that any man on earth would
be ashamed to work his horse.

Lord J. ILtNNIERSZon the committee, and be
Mt so far bound by the report that he thought it only
proper that a °erten time should elapse to enable the
naaufaeteren to adopt the recommendations of the com-
mittee. Three years bad now elapsed, and there was no
name to believe that nay of these recominendations bad
been carried into effect He therefore thought the com-
mittee were absolved. and be for one should heartily sup-
port the second reading of the bill.
Sir H. CAIRNS was bound to say that, so far an the
bleaching! wake in England were concerned, the facts
stated la the report were of the most startling
descriptiou, and warranted the observatiowi made by the
hon. and learned member for Bhedleld ; but there was
another kind of bleaching works—he meant those for the
bleaching of linen, • prone which was carried on mainly,
if not exclunvely, in the north of Ireland, and which was as
different a. possible from that used in the bleaching of
cotton. Yr. Trenseuheers visited the works in the north of
Inland, and admitted that he could not specify one heart.
rending use such as were stated in reference to
Maadand Soothed, teat be reported that he did not
to except Ireland, because the difference was only one
Of agree. He plc B. Cairns) had gone through several
blear. works, it ceder to ascertain whether there wee
'waded= fee each charges against them, and he
hslieved there wee cely one proem as to the whole-
sonseens of Alta there wee nay doubt, and that
was in one particular room, called the finial ing
room, in which • mall number of persons wan
employed, and it, Ina up to •U to Ugh heat in order
Emelt cambric hanieeddikhept but Mere wee hardly any ex-
ertion reiptired from the employed. The ether m-
oose' were corded ea od of doors, sad the bows flan six
to as, with two, or tic sad a half hours off for insole.
This bill propped to brag 011 them works seder
and required that mane should be made end IssOrrepa
the most irksome kid, and unless these wee some far
ream for it this ought not to be sequked. The
proprietors of blackleg works told tam they was
quite ready to do without women and children,
and would do no rather than be brought o'er inspection.
The oesesqesnos of passing this bill would be to deprive
women sod ehildree of that employment which was the
most agreeable te them next to domestic employment. He
asked the peareeten of the bill whether they would exempt
Ireland? U they world he would support the mooed red-
otherwise he should vote against at.
Yr. BICHAB.DBON remarked that it was unrearmalds
that Ireland should be brought Nader this legislation sailb-
oat as Marge Wag brought "game her zaanufaritaren.
Irish basM•warks were known to be of a healthy character,
and those who wore employed were not anxious for say
wither were their mamma
IeIetZOLLY mid it was impossible for any number cif
a enuallemey in the north of Ireland to vote for this ism
galas Intend was exempted.
Mr. A. ROKRTON aid the speech of the hoc member
for Oldham had changed his opinion, sad he should vote for
the second reading, us be was convinced that legislation wee
The house divided—

For the semi nadirs .
..A.ind
The !rids' anosedmines le the laderkishotles of Pointe
Bill were esseliesd Ind Se.
no Shift 818 sad lheirims Mutiny Mill were rad a
third does posL
The Municipal BM and Enclosure Bill weree=sl=l= end posit the
Os the manias of Wind Doha the folirers Norms
want odd nf lir somblist of Aker% neerset-
upricred caws, end rase in dupe balealiass to
regiments grubs( in brie ; *Mks Mum for
wring in the ; and Mailer Mena for regiments
serving in the 17Mesd Biegdons. Wen= of the experts
incurred for lb. emsersion eggelnied to inquire into the
state of the stove ontoblistuniel el Weedon, detailing the
earner of prarabg the secounts and auditing them, es-
pouse el wlleme~ and all ether objects.
The ben adjoerstel a few snouts before 8 o'clock.

Ms BALLOT SocirrY.—The weekly of
the executive conunittee was held an Tuesday, at the
ti, tluildhallohambers, Mr. f2t in the chair. Subscriptions
from Mr. Andrew Lusk, 111. 28.; Mauro, Starry Brothers,
22. 2a. ; and smaller soma from Latinceirton and other places,
were announced. The remit of Loud Teynham's motion
he the House of Leeds waa laid before the committee, who
to the fallowing resehetiesi : " This committee, in
awed
name ef the binds of 4110 ballot thrsuOoet the
country, toes leave to expre to Lad Teryabare Moir admi-
vulva of the moral cougar be displayed in promoting to an
unwilling audience the ODIFOIOOO2III question of the ballot,
and thew thank, for the alio manner to which he die
charged the duty he undertook. The committee beg
leave also to tender their thanks to the Earl be they and
Ripon, Viscount Itsisid, Lord Helper, and Lord Lissome
for their Ann adbennee le the came of the DOM which
they invadably pepper* laths Haws olCommons. The aim-
MAN refer Meirtriende to the repetition cif worn •out fallacies
tywhit ibit the Dube of Newcastle attempted to answer Lord
as a proof of the complete exhaustion of our op-
, peneata' airmen* and the committee cannot refrain from
nsekim Met a meson Mended to reprise bribery,
t:Lbmnemasiseins.nd other crime and immoralities now at-
on did net receive the support of cm
member of the gimps' beach, but, oa the contrary, was
mimed by each member
Tneletwut:f that beach whoww,stlpreseul on
ect
that it le deniable to hold ri:elmeisip"DiaaCt of the MI the L( in
the boroughs about to be enfranchised by the new Reform
toinviting tbemoperetim ed Ito Mende of the
tba in them boroughs
The Bakst Boom ty for the Presielies of Ceueity
to Anima, bare frwstii to the limps Nemetary a memo-
, rail, entreatim the pireweremed Wsr all poonlis me m
to prevent the prise 1101 einnemend Madly to NM pleas
' between Resume and Sayers, mil pesseaßy to put down
Wise eihiisid•

NAVAL AND MILITARY.

ADMIRALTY, MARCH 21.—ArronerstIrt —E. D.
Green, t the Antiwar., to supernumerary.

The Secretary of State for War, the Right Hon.
Mary Herbert, has issued • aircular,llairltich it appears
of the royal warrant the lit of July, preserihng the
periods of service to entitle thew ell-con noted soldier to
obtain the different rates of good conduct pay, is revised,
and that from the let of this month the period of Service to
entitle such soldier to the grit grant of good-conduct pay
shall be three ars,
beauins of five years, and Uri the nue.
maim, additions a heretofore, •OW every further
of serviss el fire years, mbject, however, to the con-
promelhad by the royal warrant above specified.
• similar respeoling the entry, examination,. the.
et uniabgeaoleila, Alia, and assistant paymasters in the
royal easy, hes hem bud. addremed to all li
eapjeZirsersia==ind commanding dilemstiblwakefe'lla.
Sir George Brown, G.C.8., the aziccee-
ter el General Lord Stators, G. C. 8., cannsanding the forms in
Ireland, hes asiected as his aides-de-camp Captain Alward
W. Blackett, now aide-de-camp to Lieutemadral W.
T. Lays, and Captain F. Kingacote. Both officers are in
the Rile Brigade, and served with distinction in the
Crimean—the latter in the 41st Regt. and were both
setrorely wounded.
The South Devon Militia, under the command of
the Right Hon. Lord Chardon, will ensemble at Plymouth
an the 30th April, for twenty-seven days' training and
exerciou

PORTSMOUTH, Maim 21.
The Sutlej, 51, screw frigate, and the Rinaldo,
IT, screw sloop, are to be undocked on Monday pert. The
latter is a new Teasel, constructed in the dry dock, and her
removal will be tantamount to the
.rwanoey of launching.
The Orlando, 50, sailing frigate, la ordered to be brought
down to harbour, to be lengthened and coneerted into a
WPM.

the event of [avowable weather, the troops of this
nirwill have • grand field day to-morrow, co Portadowu
where a series of evolutions will be performed, and
various es to the garrison from the north-east and
wart will be occupied.

WOOLWICH, Mahon 21.
• number of canes of war stores, consisting of
shot, shell, rockets, &c., were this day forwarded from the
laboratory department of the Royal Arsenal to Southampton,
for shipment to Alexandria, to be conveyed from thence b 7
the overland rotate to China. A quantity of ammunition is
also to be forwarded from the Royal Arsenal to Shoebury.
nee, when it is Mated that a competitive trial between the
Armstrong and Whitworth rase is to take place in a few
days, in the presence of the Ordeals), Select Committee.

MALTA, Maim l&
Her Majesty's skip Himalaya arrived from
Alexandria on the 14th, and leaves for Barbados. with the
211 t Reent on the 17th.
The Ripon, with might and via Gibraltar, did
not arrive till the lfelt, may homy the paranigars and
mails overland from &Idea bad left for Alexandria.
Lieutenant /Wovs has ceased to be gag lieutenant to
Bear-Admiral Codrington.
Her Majesty's ship Terrible, that left here with sealed
orders, went to Palermo, whirs she is still stationed.

tab) Inidlignce.

HOUSE OF LC/BDB.--MAsca 21.
AITRALS.
THE ATFOUTF-OfIIII.LI. V. THI DIAN .I.lfD CANONS OF
MIMI.

In thiss which Involved the question of whether the
Military ta of Windsor were entitled to the benefit of
the iroprov proceeds of certain Janda and other property
with which the Dean and Canons of Windsor were
endowed, and whit& wen charged with the maintenance of
the Military EniOta, the arguments, which have lasted
ei.±2ss and • half, were oescluded. The cam was fully
in our columns out March 14.
"Ed;meat wee posipmed.

EQUITY COURT&—Mika 21.
(Before the Mester of die Rolls.)
ATTORNIT-ORNISAL O. 311111TOL CORPORATION.

His Honour to-day gave judgment in this case, which
came before the court on a scheme for the future manage.
meet of the Bristol Grammar School. Two alterations were
proposed in the present system ; the purpose of one was to
rune the capitation fee, and by the other it wee sought to
give the masters the privilege of taking boarders. His
Honour expressed his intention not to sanction the scheme
as to the masters taking boarders, and thought the teatime-'
flask as to the effect of each • system at Eton, Harrow, and
Rugby, were of little weight, and had no application in re-
ferenoe to the matter before him. The Bristol Grammar
School was not an institution properly to be compared
with the large public schools of another class.
It had been urged that by increasing the income of the
masters both the echoed and scholars might be improved ;
but that was questionable, and the present emoluments
rand be regarded as stifkient. As to the notion that •
mixed school was the avenue through which members of
the humbler chimes might by diligence and conduct
work their way to • higher order of society, his Honour
thought such a remit wee not verified by experience. The
different dames would not work harmoniously together;
the higher would obtain various advantages, and the inpard
for wealth which reigns in the country would secure for the
boarders, who would necessarily belong to the richer class,
such • degree of attention as would enable them to win
the prises and obtain the exhibitions of the school. This
result would not omelet*e to its improvemeet, but rather
the reverse. At the great public schools the free schekus
were so few in number so not to modify their character,
and the source of the harmony and imperceptible gra-
dation in society was to be traced, not to those
schools, but to the free schools, which
placed every honour and dignity beneath the highest within
the reach of talent, conduct, and industry. Any boy rising
under such circumstances to the higher rank' of society
cements it, and gives members of one clams an interest in
those of another ; it would therefore be injurious to societ
to impair the means whereby such result may be obtai
' Eton is e4a.ra of edam/lion for the foremost ranks of so-
ciety, and there the son of a peer might look down on the
eon of a peasant ; but should the latter become eminent in
art, science, or literature, the former would gladly recog-
nise him se one entitled to his regard. His Honour then
said he was of opinion that where free scholars were nume-
rous it was not desirable to admit boarders; and that if a
school based on either principle be prosperous it u not ex-
pedient to disturb ita arrangements. Two hundred boys
were now being educated at the Bristol school. The
heed master was an eminent scholar, and his
salary appeared adequate to his position. There
was a staff of competent tutors, and the income of
the school appeared to be on the Alterations
were not always improvements, and though the proposal
might be succeed's!, it would risk the education Now ea-
joyed and valued. His Honour, therefore, 'ejecta that
pert of the whams which related to boarders; bet ea to the
menu* of the capitation fee, as the trustees did not ob-
ject to it, neither would his Honour.
Mr. Wickens appeared for the Attorner-General; Mr. T.
H. Terrell for them of the trustees approving the alteration;
and Yr. C. Hall for those opposing it.
COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.—

L&ICH 21.
(Before the Jodie Ordinary.)
PRIASANT AND PIZASAN/r V. GODWIN.

In this OW the testator hail directed a sum of money to be
apphed to the education of children, but he survived until
they had grown up, and the question now arose whether
they were still entitled to the benefit of the legacy.
Dr. Spinks and Mr. Martindale appeared for the persons
claiming the bequest ; Dr. Bwaby and Mr. Russell for the
executors.

Sir C. Cresawell decided in favour of the former.
11170111 Till 001:112.

On the 20th of March there were 142 awes met down for
trial before the full court, beside' in in lea' advanced stages
of propels, making in all 313 petitions for dissolution or
auffity of =niece. There is also a petition for a declare.
tioa of legitimacy set down far twain. There are six mass
of judicial separation set down for trial, and 112 in various
stages of progress, making a grand total of 432 cause* pend-
ing before the court.

nations of the exhibition of some violent irritant, and the
stomach and other portions of the body were sent to Dr.
Taylor for analysis. The result was that this gentleman die-
, towered the preeence of white precipitate in the gullet and
other parts of the body, to the extent of two grians. Dr.
al Hasp Hospital, elm made an ndepen-
dal sinolosaas at other portions of thy body of the
demand %bat, art he same to the same conclusion
with regard to the mime of death se Dr. Taylor, and
Dr. Pony, of Guy'aHomital, gave evidence to the same
Wo

Mr. Barrow, at the close of the case for the prosecution,
addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner.
The learned Judge, in miming up, explained to the jury
that the question they had to decide wee whether the evi-
dence established, beyond any reasonable doubt, that the
prisoner had knowingly administered poison to her child,
with the intention of destroying its life, and if so, they
would be bound to find her guilty. He, at the same time,
rid he thought it right to inform thaw, that although the
learned counsel for the prisoner had correctly told them
that the offence that woe now the subject of inquiry was
still a capital one, yet the capital punishmeat was m a great
many cases ndtigated, and the result of a conviction was
very different to that involved by a conviction for wilful
murder, in which case the law almost invariably claimed
the life of the prisoner in return for the life he had dc.
'treys&
The jury retired to oonsider their verdict ; and after
being absent about a quarter of an hour, they again came
into court and returned a verdict of
The prisoner was then asked in the usual form whether
she had anything to urge why judgment of death should
not be reeorded against her, and she made no reply.
The learned Judge addressede her, and said that she stood
convicted upon perfectly clear evidence of a crime of the
most aggravated character. He bad no desire to add to the
misery she was enduring at that moment, and he should say
no more than that he did not intend the law should take
its course, and that he considered justice would be Satisfied
by his merely ordering judgment of death to be recorded
spinet her.
4 verdict of Poi Guilty was then taken upm the charge
of wilful murder, and the prisoner, who cried bitterly, and
exhibited the deepest anguish during the trial, was then
removed from the bar.

Mr. Jostles ifiihtman was engaged the greater part of
the day in trying an action of ejectment, the details of
which were of no interest except to the parties concerned.
WESTERN CIRCUIT. —TAUNTON, MAZCH 21.
The business of the Somerset amines commenced yeeter•
day before Barons Martin and ChaanalL The calendar is
the lightest in the memory of living man, and if a quarter
session tool been held previously to the soiree, there would
not have been a doom prisoaen for the judge to dispose of.
The muse list only sou '>ssel seven entries, all of which are
of a very uninteresting nature.
Caowx Coorr.—(Before Mr. Baron Kadin.)
BUM:MART. —Edward Brewer, a young man already'
under sentence for dealing a cash-box containing aboutsH.
from the premises of Mr. Mortimer, at Keynsham, was in.
dieted for a burglary in the house of Miss Harriet Copeland,
and' tealing three sovereigns, seven gold rings, and other
articles, the property of be Elizabeth Hewlett, at Keyn-
sham, on the 12th of October, 1858.
The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, the former
conviction was proved, and he was sentenced to three years'
penal servitude.