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London, England, 1852-03-24 00:00:00

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THE LONDON GAZETTE, March 23.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Lorene Theodor Wang, merchant, Sunderland.
BANKRUPTS.
John Branch, corn dealer, Camberwell, to surrender
March 27, at eleven, and April 30, at ono, at the Court
of Bankruptcy Whitmore, official assignee, Basing-
hall street; Wilson ,Greaharn-street, City.
William Stevens, upholsterer, High Holborn, April 2
and May 7, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
Cannan, official assignee, Aldermanbury; Taylor, South-
street, Finsbury-square.
John Wood, brewer, Putney, March 31, at half-past
twelve, and May 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy. Graham, official assignee ; Laurance, Flews,
and Boyer, Old Jewry-chambers.
Charles Henry White, china, glass, and earthenware
dealer, Southampton, March 29 and May 8, at twelve,
at the Court of Bankruptcy. Nicholson, official assignee,
Basinghall-street; Braikentidge. Bartlett's-buildings.
Richard Chamberlain, draper, Uttoxeter, Staffordshire,
April 3 and May 3, at half-past ten, at the Birming-
ham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Bir-
mingham; Cox, Sise-lane, London; Motteram, Knight,
and Emmet, Birmingham.
John Cadman, grocer, Derby, April 2, at half-past
ten, and April 30, at twelve, at the Birmingham District
Court, Nottingham. Bittleston, official assignee, Not •
tingham; Vallick, Derby; Motteram, Knight, and
Emmett, Birmingham.
James Lnxford, draper, Market Rasen, Lincoln, April
14, and May 5, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court.
Carrick, official assignee, Hull; Tweed, Lincoln.
Robert Tomlinson Carlisle, builder, Sheffield, April 3
and May 15, at ten, at the ieeds district Court. Free-
man, official assignee, Sheffield; Broomhead, jun.,
Sheffield; Fernell, Sheffield.
William Todd and James Todd, provision merchants,
Liverpool, April 5, at twelve, and April 26, at eleven,
at the Liverpool- District Court. Morgan, official as-
signee, Liverpool; Holden, Liverpool.
Anson Hardy, general and commission merchant, Li-
verpool, April 2 and May 6, at eleven, at the Liverpool
District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool;
Holden, Liverpool.
George Foster, joiner, Chorlton-upon•Medlock, Lan-
cashire, April 5 and 28, at twelve, at the Manchester
District Court. Pott, official assignee, Manchester;
Messrs. Whitworth, Manchester.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
J. Banks, stereotyper, Castle-street, Holborn.
E. L. Levy, attorney, Mecklenburgh•square, Gray's
Inn-road.
Wm, Patterson, coal dealer, Grundy-street, Poplar New
Town.
W. Aldred, corn dealer, Harper-street, New Kent-road.
T. B. Loader, map publisher, Princes-street, Stamford-
street.
J. Ainslie, draining engineer, Earl-street, Blackfriars.
G. J. Brown, land agent, Victoria-grove, Kensington.
I. Smart, dining room keeper, Somerset-place, Rother-
hithe.
W. Killick, share broker, Gower-street North, New-road.
G. Wheateroft, a Lieutenant in her Majesty's 6th Regi-
ment of Enniskillen Dragoons, Southampton-street,
Bloomsbury.
J. Fuller, beer retailer, Hillingdon, Middlesex.
C. R. Storey, Captain in her Majesty's Army, Francis-
terrace, Hampstead-road.
W. Haggis, beer seller, Woolwich. (7Z,:;
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
J. Harrop, Crasscroft, Yorkshire, clothier, April 16,
at eleven—H. J. Ellis, Rotherhithe-wall, Rotherhithe,
ironmonger, April 16, at one—H. R. Sabine, Poppin's-
court, Fleet-street, cardmaker, April 16, at twelve—J.
Murray, Graceohurch-street, Manchester warehouseman,
April 16, at twelve.
In the Country. •
J. Robinson, Henley, Yorkshire, dyer, May 4, at
eleven, at the Court, Leeds—J. Duggan, Maryport,
Cumberland, draper, April 21, at halt-past twelve, at
the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—J. Storey, Hartlepool,
Durham, draper, April 19, at twelve, at the Court,
Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.
J. Phillips, Birmingham, druggist and grocer, 11 d.,
on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office
of Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
T. E. Slate, King's Head-court, City, and Hatton-
garden,tween eleven'and three, bookbinder, Is, 70. on any Wednesday, be-
tween_ eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore,
BlRinghall-street.
J. Barker, Exmouth street, and Pleasant-row, Clerk-
cheesemonger 6id on any Wednesday, be-
, second dividend of 111., tont
a
7 as sieghall• sireer.
J. Franekeiss p
aotrtthseeaoffianced
ofL atindr.plovrht,iiwalooorlele,nßdarsainpegr.,
eleven and three,
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dividend
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hell street.any Wednesday, eodfneMs dr.ayW, hbiettmwereen
, Princes-street, Hanover-square, re-
ceolenFvdenFd. and three, at the ooffince 401 yMr . wWednesday,hitmre betweenßs Basing-
hall-street.
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hall-street.
J. H. may, Breoknock-terrace, Camden Town, draper,
second dividend of 51, on any Wednesday, between
eleven and three, at the office of Mr. W hitoure, Basing-
hall-street. flowam

WEDNESDAY

E. Lee, Glossop, Derbyshire, cotton manufacturer,
2i. 50., on Tuesday, March 30, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Pott,
Manchester.

R. Heardman, Manchester, wine •nd spirit merchant,
41d., on Taesday, March 30, or any subsequent Tues-
day, between eleven and one, at the cffice of Mr. Pott,
gancbest er.
T. Birch, Manchester, common brewer, 6s. 4d., on
Thursday, March 25, or any subsequent Thursday, be-
tween ten and one, at the office of Mr. Lee, Manchester.

R. Seymour, Sunderland, linendraper, 4%, on Satur-
day, March 27, or any subsequent Saturday, between
ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-
upon-Tyne.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basingball-atreet.
W. Clapham, Strand, licensed ♦ictualler, April 15, at
hall-past eleven.

In the Country.
J. Duggan, Maryport, Cumberland, draper, April 21,
at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—W. Bel-
shaw, Manchester, joiner and bni:der, April 20, at
twelve, at the Court, Manchester—H. Gladwin, Not-
tingham, draper, April 23, at half•past ten, at the
Court, Nottingham—J. Furniss, Almondbury, York-
-I.hire, woollen cloth manufacturer, May 3, at eleven, at
the Court, Leeds.
CERTIFICATE GRANTED.

S. T. Jay, Badley, Suffolk, miller, certificate of the
nird clan.

PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.

Coulthart and A. Coke, Blackburn, drapers—Jane
Edwards, Anne L. Edwards, and W. L. Edwards,
Colwyn, Carnarvonshire, grocers—J. Russell and G.
Russell, Hoy land Nether, Yorkshire, tanners—J. Mit-
chell and T. E. Sykes, Worsbrough, Yorkshire, coal
miners—H. Batch and H. Knowlden, Lichfield-street,
Soho, water gilders—W. Roberts and J. Wagner, Bull's
Head-court, Newgate-street, perfumers—B. Hainsworth
and W. Tetley, Liverpool, brewers—J. F. Kennedy and
Harriet Spence, Kingston-upon-Hull, woollen drapers
—W. J. Robinson and M. Cullwick, Birmingham,
grocers—J. Gibbons, S. Gibbons, and W. Brown, Sal-
ford, manufacturers (so far as regards J. Gibbons)—
S. L'wis, E. Allenby, and R. Whitehouse, Leaming-
ton Priors, silk mercers—W. Hobbs and W. Side-
botham, Gibralter Mill, near Hydo, Cheshire, cotton-
spinners—J. Garlick and J. Hirst, Lockwood Berry
Brow and Springwood, both near Huddersfield, coal-
merchants—J. Dyer and T. Wigley, Belper, Derbyshire,
joiners—H. Butterfield, W. T. Fisher, and L. T. M.
Rochet, Victoria-street, City, merchants—J. Hughes and
Oaa.totte Pack, Alderagate- strew eurreenowie-keepera—
P. B. Gow and Katharine Gow, Bishopsgate.street
Within, lace manufacturera—R. Peate, Diana C. Peate,
and M. Tomlin, Ashton-under-Lyne, milliners (so far as
regards M. Tomlin)—J. B. Orrell and J. J. Brierley,
Manchester, fancy dress mixed goods manufacturers.
INSOLVENT PETITIONERS.

R. Miller, West Derby, Liverpool, bricklayer and builder,
John Packett, Liverpool.
J. Perks, Bootle, Lancashire, ironmonger's assistant.
George Dawson, Hulme, Lancashire, butcher.
Thomas Warr, Manchester, Lancashire, coach driver.
Samuel Burman, Hulme, Lancashire, plumber.

John Bratley, Wragby, Lincolnshire, farrier.
Joseph Dent, Castle Yiew, Leicestershire, law stationer.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATION.
T. J. Adams, Glasgow, professor of music, to meet
within the Glasgow Stock Exchange Room, Glasgow,
on March 25 and April 15, at one.

SHIP NEWS.
NOTICE TO MARINERS.

Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,

Whitehall, March 18, 1852.

Sir,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee of
Privy Council for Trade to transmit to you, for the in-
formation of the Committee for Managing the Affairs of
Lloyd's, the accompanying copies of two notices that
have been received from her Majesty's Consul at Rot-
terdam' and which were published in the Naha lands
Sta., ts Courant, No. 56, of the sth inst., respecting the
shallows off the Island of Texel, and alteration about to
t7,1t0 place in the existing coast light at West Capelle.
(Sign( d) G. R. PORTER.
Capt. Geo. A. Halsted, R N., Secretary to Lloyd's, &a.

Marine Department, the Hague, Feb. IG.
The Minister ofj Marine having taken :into con-
sideration the numerous strandings and shipwrecks
which occur on the coast of the island of Texel,
hereby informs and cautions mariners that the coast
of the island of Texel is, for the purpose of
avoiding the shallows extending from the said
coast, known under the appellation of the Eyerland
Shallows, and also designated by fishermen as the Gardens
or Orchards, not to be approached within a distance of
two to three German miles, or a depth of 16 to 18
fathoms, at has of old been intimated and published.
The shallows to the north of the eastern part of Texel
are very dry, and extend about one mile from the shore,
and the ebb stream coming at this part of the coast from
the north-east and east-north-east, by variations of com-
pass is apt greatly to mislead. Ships coming west about
in thick weather and at night are therefore especially
recommended to make timely and careful use of the
sounding line, in order not to approach the coast of
Texel within the aforesaid 16 to 18 fathoms; the result
shown by the sounding line being the safest guide to
keep out at sea, in order to avoid the aforesaid
coast and shallows. As the charts of the North Sea are
in this respect less extensive, and as no special chart of
tho Eyerland Shallows is in existence, it is intended
shortly to cause accurate soundings to be made of the
aforesaid Eyerland Shallows, which will then be included
in the Charts of the Mouths of the Sea. The Minister
aforesaid, (Signed) T. ENSUE.

The Hague, March 20, 1852.
The Minister of Marine hereby informs mariners
that the existing coast light at West Capelle, composed
of argand lamps, with parabolic ri !lectors, will, in all
probability, bare to be temporarily extinguished at the
commencement of the ensuing month of May, to be re-
placed by a powerful catadioptrie light of the first class.
From the time when the present light will be 'ex-
tinguished up to the lighting of the improved light (cal-
culated to embrace a period of about six weeks) an
auxiliary light will be exhibited from the aforesaid
of a eatadieptric lighting apparatus
(small size). The time of lighting
anxsgisliary light, as also the horizln thereby
beacon,
the
thare 0
fourthecsoani sdi sactuli
to be lighted, and the distance at which it will be visible
will be published later. The Minister aforesaid,
(Signed) T. Minn.

Light-house on the Ponta da Atalita, province of Para.
Braz lian Consulate-General, Liverpool, March 17.
Sir,—l am directed by the Brazilian Government to
make public, for the information of all parties whom it
may concern, that a lighthouse, of which I beg to hand
you the particulars, has recently been erected on the
andn the Salinas, province of Para, in
that the said light-house was
intended to be in operation on and after the 15th o
February last.
(Signed) J. M. BRAGA, Vice-Consul,
thePo n empiret a d a
At
of a I a
Brazil,is .

Acting-Consul- General.
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Particulars of the light-house recently erected on the
the " Secretary, Lloyd's.
Salinas, province of Para,
PempireG. tof ABrst.a let.illzial,eisistidn3 ItlsT
te
4 S., long. 33 32 of the meridian
of the Ilha do Ferro:—The light is visible at 17 miles
distance, is varied, and presents the following phases:—
Bright white light during 70 seconds—Eclipse of ob-
scurity during 16 ditto—lnoreasing and brilliant light
gradually until it disappears, 12 ditto—
Attotherecdliipmsein, diminishing
ditto: total, 120. The phases suc-
ceed each other at intervals of two minutes.

muddle" (expressive and distressing dissyllable) has our
real endeavour to defeat
Against muddle—the muddle of
ignorance, the muddle of idleness, the muddle of want of
heartiest' DgDot7d."w—isheAs.ny
order, the love-destroying and comfort-killing "muddle of
inexorable cleanliness," against muddle in the drawing-
room, the studio, or the workshop—we wage war eternal
and unsparing. Unhappy victims of muddle, who shall re-
count your miseries or obtain you redress? Muddle cannot
get for five pounds what Order, Judgment, and Energy can
get for one: muddle makes fortune of little avail, and takes
the shine out of a life which might otherwise be all bright-
ness. "Lucky. Jones has married a wife with 3001. a year;
but then she is a sad muddle." Miserable Jones! do you
know what you have done? Muddle would lie dear at
double the money. Muddle will provide for you no home to
rest in—no sympathising comforter to advise. In the temple
where muddle reigns there will be found no peace, no beauty,
no good. Against muddle the dower weighs not. An ob-
serving eye, a calculating head, a ready hand, a gentle step,
a loving heart, cAternal neatness, internal purity, are more
to be considered than hundreds a year, trashy accomplish-
ments, lofty connexions, and unhealthy apings of the class
above. Mothers, be wise ; make your daughters able women,
real help-mates; not useless toys, joy-destroying muddies..--
Builder.

ACCIDENT TO A CLEEGYMAN.—We regret to state
that the Rev. Charles axenden, the respected rector of Bar-
ham, met with an accident in the course of last week, which
will, we fear, incapacitate him from fulfilling his parochial
duties for some time to come. Mr. C. Oxendon was walking
in the garden of the rectory, when he slipped down an ab-
rupt terrace bank fronting his house, and in the effort to re-
cover his footing, snapped the tendons of the leg, just above
the ankle. To a gentleman of his active habits this is a most
unfortunate occurrence, seeing that though neither dangerous
nor painful, the accident is one which requires entire rest and
perfect quiescence. Our readers may remember that some
months back we recorded an accident of a similar nature,
which befel Mr. Charles Vernon Oxendon, of the Rifle
Brigade, son of the above gentleman, on the St. Lawrence
cricket ground, when playing the match between the gen-
tlemen of Kent and the gentlemen of England.—Dover
Telegraph.

THE GAME-LAwB.—The-amount of crime, misery,
and cost,
calla
at ,
118 h
for
forth
resulting from
grave
ave superabundantreflection. T
game-preservinghatb
no
lnoblemen
m
and
and
gay's-laws, which is shown during the present assize cir-
cts
squires, by their infatuation for superabundance of game
(which amounts to a sort of mania or madness), should
bring upon the community all the ills and evils which they
do, is truely disgraceful, and it is impossible that it can be
much longer endured. No reasonable person Would begrudge
tern of rational sport and diversion, but the contrary ; yet
their game preserving; has grown to such a hight that the
countryjustly condemns it, and because it beget injuries and
consequences most serious. It is, also. too bad that the
public should have to pay, in any shape, one farthing for
prosecutions arising oat of the !game-laws. The time is
hastening on when some preserves will have, as they ought
to have, the entire cost of those prosecutions to defray them-
selves ; and they ought to be at the expense of maintaining
the prisoners, and exonerating the ratepayers from charges
of the convicts' wives and families. This being ac.complished,
" My Lords and Gentlemen" would then act differently to
what they now do.—(From a Correspondent.)
monster fish, of
THB SEA SERPENT'S RIVAL.--A
an unknown species, has been exhibited during the week in
the old corn market. It had six gills on each side of its
head, measures 16 feet in length, and from five to six feat
in girth, and weighs about two tons. It was caught off the
Start, on Sunday, the 14th inst.,-by the crew of the sloop
Jessie, Thomas Middleton, master, and, in consequence of
its enormous size, was towed by that vessel Into harbour,-
Devonport indepencicnt.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, March 23.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his scat on the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
LAW OF WILLS.
The LORD CHANCELLOR—My Lords, I rise to
move the second reading of a Bill for the amendment of
the law with resreet to wills. When I introduced this
Bill the other night, I stated to your Lordships the diffi-
culties which it was intended to guard against. By a
statute passed in the reign of Charles 11., all devises in
writing were to be attested and subscribed by three or
four witnesses in the presence of the testator; and it was
said that a will was:good if the name of the testator was
found at the head of the will; and therefore, if a man,
for example, began in these terms—" I, John Styles, do
make this my will," that was held to be a sufficient big-
nsture. Now, my Lords, this was thought to be an
abuse; and, in order to guard against such an abuse, a
new Act of Parliament was passed in the first year of
her present Majesty, for the amendment of the law of
wills, which provided that every will should be signed
at the foot or end thereof by the testator, in the pre-
sence of certain witnesses. I had stated to your Lord-
ships that the effect of that enactment was (and I
dare say it was a surprise upon those who framed the
Act) that unless the name of the testator followed im-
mediately after the disposition of the will (if there was,
for example, a little more than an inch of space left,
on which the name might have been introduced),
if the name was placed a little lower, the case was tried,
not by the rule of law, but rather by a rule of space, nod
the will was held to be void; and, upon that construc-
tion, my Lords, hundreds of wills have been held to be
invalid, and misery and wretchedness have found their
way to hearths where wealth, and peace, and comfort
ought to have found their liabilities. My Lords, the
proposition is to amend the present law by providing
that where the name of the testator is found after the
will, so as to give, by its place and situation, a sanction
to the will itself—so as to show that it was intended to
sanction the will by the signature after the will, that
shall be held to be valid. Now, my Lords, no question
ever arose in the vast number of wills which were made
after the Statute of Frauds in the reign of Charles IL,
which I have mentioned—no question, I say, ever arose
as to whether the name of the testator being after the
will was in its proper place or not, and therefore
the removal of the obstacle which has been occa-
sioned by the decisions will remove all the difficul-
ties, and no question hereafter can arise, as it ap-
pears to me, my Lord., with regard to the PT .1111.
Lion of such a will. My Lords, I believe there will
be a general concurrence in this measure, and I be-
lieve that nothing can be more desirable, as people die
daily, and as men must have made their wills, and as a
great majority of wills would be held to be valid but for
the rule of law I have referred to; and, indeed, I know
that many of your Lordships, in consequence of what
you have heard, have done exactly what I have done
myself, namely. I have looked at my own will to see
whether it was executed so as to carry my own inten-
tions into effect, having a very great doubt in my mind
whether the appearance of the thing upon paper might
not invalidate it, for I might have put my name a little
lower than the rule of law required. And I think, my
Lords, that it is of the utmost importance that a man's
will should be considered valid and sacred where the
mere form only is in question, and the substance is not
in question. Therefore I propose, with your Lordships'
permission, to carry the Bill through all its stages now,
so that your Lordships may be enabled to pass the mea-
sure before Easter, and send it down to the other House
immediately. My Lords, there are other points which I
have endeavoured to cops with, and which may be open
to more observation, and which may draw from some
of my Noble and Learned Friends objections to its pas-
sing without more mature consideration ; and, my
Lords, if that should be so, I can only say that I should
at once feel myself bound to withdraw those clauses,
because I mean to put forward nothing that in my
opinion shall endanger this measure, which is ono which
I think so exceedingly important. My Lords, the two
clauses to which I refer will, I think, remedy a great
abuse. The Act of Parliament of her present Majesty,
as I have told your Lord hips, requires a will to be
signed at the foot or end thereof, in the presence of two
witnesses. That my Lords, I have disposed of. It
then goes on to require that the signature of the testator
shall be made or acknowledged in the presence of the
witnesses. Now, my Lords, this difficulty has arisen
upon that—it was not required by the Statute of
Frauds: but this difficulty has now arisen. Your Lord-
' ships will bear in mind that what the Act requires is,
that the signature of the testator shall be made or ac-
knowledged in the presence of the witnesses. Now,
my Lords, it often happens that when a man has
made his will and called in the witnesses to
attest his will, ho is anxious that they should
not see any part of the provisions of that will;—
suppose, for example, that it is written on a sheet of
letter paper—you have it before you, and two servants,
perhaps, come into the room to witness the will, and
the testator desires that they should not read any por-
tion of the will by glancing over that part which is
above the signature, and that has induced a man fre-
quently to hold down the will so as to hide from the
witnesses the portion above the signature, and in doing
so they have folded down the signature itself. And, my
Lords, it has been held, that as the statute requires
that the signature, not the will, should be made and
acknowledged in the presence of the witnesses, that
unless they have seen the signature the will is void.
Now, my Lords, that was never the intention, and with
your Lordships' permission I propose to amend that
state of the law in this manner—by enacting that if
the signature of the testator be in its proper place, and
it is not proved to have b en placed there after the
witnesses affixed their signatures, and if the testator
at the time acknowledged the instrument to be his will,
that that shall be sufficient. Now, my Lords, I enter-
tained a hope—which hope I have rather abandoned
within the last quarter of an hour—but I had
hoped that this proposition was free from objec-
tion, and would meet with none from any of my
Noble and Learned Friends, because, if a testator ac-
knowledges an instrument to be his will, and if the will
come to be examined, and the name of the testator is
found to be in its proper place at the end of the will,
where is the danger? What is it, my Lords, that you
have to guard against? There is the signature—the
testator has signed it, and properly speaking it is not
his will unless he has signed it. If, therefore, he did
that which was requisite at the end of it, which is ne-
cessary to
give effectual operation to it, I ask your Lord-
ships whether it is reasonable to allow men's wills to be
set aside upon a distinction of that sort. I should pro-
mise your Lordships that if any obstacle be opposed by
any of my Noble and Learned Friends to this provision
being carries' now—a provision which I should think it
not proper to attempt to force upon your Lordships—if
any of my Learned Friends should have any objections
to offer, I shall think it highly improper to attempt to
ask your Lordships to pass this provision without full
consideration being given to it; and therefore I shall
withdraw it, so as not to endanger the ultimate success
of the whole measure, though undoubtedly I shall intro-
duce it for further and more mature consideration upon
another occasion. My Lords, there is another improve-
ment, if your Lordships should think proper to concur
in it, that I propose to introduce. The statute requires
that the witnesses should sign in the presence of the tes-
tator; ased, my Lords, it has very often happened that
when a man is making his will tn extremis —when he is
lying in bed, and is incapable of being moved, but still
in a state of perfect capacity of mind—it lass frequently
happened that witnesses who have come round the bed-
side, and witnessed the execution of the will, and seen it
signed by the testator, all due solemnities being ob-
served, in order not to disturb him, have retired to the
adjoining room, and there attested the will; and then
the question has arisen—is that, or is it not, a com-
pliance with the statute, which requires that a will shall
be signed by the witness in the presence of the testator?
Now, my Lords, in order to meet the difficulties of the
case—with a natural desire to give effect to men's wills
where there is no fraud, and where the statute has been
substantially complied with, the courts have made
this distinction, that if the witnesses sign in such a
position in an adjoining
_room, that they are within
the line of light, so that the testator, if he liked,
might see them (although nobody pretends that he
did see them) the will is good; but if they happen
to retire a little beyond the line of light, the table,
for example, being out of view, and they all sign
the will, then the will is void. Now, my Lords, what has
been the consequence ? W hy, my Lords, this—that
juries have not been found who would, though upon their
oaths, find a will so signed to be void. They would not
find a will to be void, though it was clear that the tes-
tator was not in a position in which ho could have seen
the witnesses sign. And, my Lords, we have had
several instances of this sort. Several trials have been
sent down to juries once, twice, and thrice, to decide
that question upon a will, in cases in which there was
no doubt about the fact that the witnesses were not
within the line of light, and the juries have upon every
occasion returned a verdict in favour of the will, and re-
fusing obedience to the law, because they thought that a
verdict according to the rule of law would be stripping
the rightful owners of their just possessions. N.
is an invitation which should not be held towituohrie
o
compel them to come to a verdict at variance their
own consciences. My Lords, there is rodrodusblelpedslwyhaadtiift-
ficulty ; but before I state to h
is, I must state that it is almosty. aolesruradn,_
a blind ni s andi ludicrous.a we i
The statute applies to
11,
therefore, that under
possessed of his eye-
as to the will of a man who
is
sight ; and it has been held,
witnesses are to sign in the
the statute, althought the witnesses
they sign in the pre-
sencepresence of the testanotriitayeits
good signature. But
of a blind m
ps willa be astonished when I tell you—
your Lordships
a testamentarydeprivepdowoferh,iasnsdigihtt,would be
although nobody would find fault with it, because it was
that he
in furtherance of
hard, because a ma
should be deprived of the power of making a testamen-
tary disposition ofhis property—that the courts have
made this rule, which surely must startle most people—
viz., that the same same rule, that which I have spoken
of to your Lordships as to the line of light—applies as
well to a blind man as to a man that can see; and the
courts have decided that if a blind man is not in a posi-
tion in which if he was blessed with sight he could see,
his will is void. And so, in the case of a man being
wholly incapable of seeing, if the witnesses are there,
his will is good if they happen to sign within the line
of light. Now, my Lords, surely these are anomalies
in the law of England which ought not to be allowed to
prevail; and I must say that the first case that I put to
your Lordships, in which men's wills have been held to
be void because the signature was not put in the proper
place, is a case arising under a law which in its opera-
tion is a disgrace to the country. My Lords, it is very
easy to point out what I have been stating to your
Lordships upon the last head. It will not be perhaps so
easy to persuade some of my Noble and Learned Friends
that I have provided a satisfactory remedy, although
have often and anxiously takes the subject into coot-

• deration; but, my Lords, this is no hasty conclusion of
mine. I have no doubt some of my Noble
and Learned Friends will think that I have not
provided in the most satisfactory manner for the solu-
tion of this question; but what I propose to provide for
is this, that where witnesses, without fraud, and as part
of the same transaction, without quitting the house or
place where the will is signed, do sign a will after see-
ing the testator sign it, all due solemnities being observed,
that shall be held to be a valid will. Now, my Lords,
no doubt it may be said that this would open a door to
some fraud, or to a substitution of one will for another.
My Lords, these are not the dangers after all which we
have to avoid. It may be said that because the dangers
have not occurred these laws have prevented them. But
the law has not stuck at fraud; the law has destroyed a
man's will, which was open to no substantial objection.
The law has not prevented the frauds which, whenever
the parties had been determined to carry them into exe-
cution, they have been able to do so in spite of it. I do
not say that they have ail been successful—men have at-
tempted it skilfully, and it may be successfully in some
cases, and they have taken care to adhere to all those
rules which would destroy men's wills, in attempting to
impose the solemnities required. Now, my Lords, I
must state in conclusion that if any of my Noble and
Learned Friends object to either of these two latter
clauses I will not retain them. But if I should have
the concurrence of my Noble and Learned Friends to
the first clause, which I heartily expect, I shall be
very well content to have the Bill passed in that
shape; if not I shall listen with respectful attention to
what they have to suegest. But, my Lords, I cannot.
promise that I shall not, upon a future occasion, bring
into your Lordships' House a measure founded upon the
two last propositions, which may then be more fully con-
sidered. And, as I am addressing your Lordships upon
the subject, and speaking of future measures, I would
draw your Lordships' attention to a measure as to wills,
which may require the attention of this and the other
House of Parliament. The statute of the first of Queen
Victoria for the first time imposed the same solemnities
upon the disposition of personal estate as in the time of
Charles IL (with variations) were imposed upon the
disposition of real estate, and it was said, how very ab-
surd it is that you cannot dispose of half an acre of
land without three witnesses, and yet you may dispose
of 100,0001. o 1 personal estate which is even fluctuating
without any witnesses at all. Yet, people do not desire
every day to alter their testamentary dispositions; but
they make variations in the disposition of their personal
estate by codicil or by legacy to be payable out of their
personal estate, however large it may be; but now no
man can make the slightest alteration in his will—he
cannot give 5/., nor alter a certain legacy, without call-
ing in two witnesses. It was said of a great man, that
the faults which we denounced in him died with him;
but I might say with greater truth, that owing to the
difficulties which the law throws around them, many
codicils die even in thinking. These are points, how•
ever, which we must consider hereafter. The Noble
and Learned Lord thou concluded by moving the second
reading of the Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM agreed with his Noble and
Learned Friend that at all events the first provision of
the Bill should be passed. With reference to the pre-
sent state of the law some test must be taken. It had
been decided that if the witnesses were in a position to
be seen by the testator that was sufficient; and it was
difficult to see how the law could be otherwise construed.
He recollected that a question aroso on the Duke of
Roxburgh's will, as to whether the witnesses signed on
a particular table in the adjoining room, where they
could be seen by the testator, or not, which was decided
by a court of law. Ile did not object to give the whole
Bill a second reading; but if there were doubts as to the
second and third clauses, it would be well to withdraw
them for the present.
Lord ORAN WORTH did not object to the first clause;
but he thought the other clauses required further consi-
deration.
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH thought that all the
statutory provisions having reference to wills should be
embodied in one Act of Parliament.
The Bill was then read a second time.
THE ARGENTINE REPUBLIC.
Lord BEAUMONT rose to put a question to the
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs relating to the
present state of the Argentine Confederation. It was
not his intention to criticise the policy of former Go-
vernments with regard to this Confederation, but simply
to obtain information as to the present state of our rela-
tions with that quarter of the world, and to press
upon the present Government the absolute necessity
of commencing negotiations in that part of the
world, and not to lose the present golden opportunity of
extending our commercial intercourse, and to attempt to
establish there a permanent peace. The Noble Lord
then proceeded to contrast the progress of the two great
races, Anglo Saxon and Spanish, in the great continent
of America, and attributed the inferiority of the latter
to the propensity of the Spanish Government to
exclude as much as possible all European intercourse.
The independence of the Banda Oriental had been
established by a treaty between Brazil and Buenos
Ayres, in 1828, which independence it had always been
the policy of the English Government to maintain. In
the year 1830 war existed between France and Buenos
Ayres, and during the period of the war the French used
to avail themselves of the independent country of Monte
Video, in order to make it the basis of their operations,
and carry on their hostile movements against Buenos
Ayres. General Oribe happened to be the President of
Monte Video, and he obj- cted to that country being
made use of by France. A revolution arose—he need
not say how—in Monte Video. General Oribe was
driven from there, and General Rivera was appointed in
his stead. He joined the French in their operations, and
an invasion of Buenos Ayres took place, in which he as-
sisted. At that time, as well as since, thorn raged two
violent parties in the Argentine Confederation, going by
the names of Unitarians and Federalists; and so hostile
were they that not a single proclamation of the Govern-
ment was issued without being headed " Death to the
savage Unitarians." There was no doubt that the Uni.
tartans from Buenos Ayres went over to Monte Video,
and carried on their hostilities against Buenos Ayres,
for, alter the French had left, General Rivera continued
the war, and invaded part of the Argentine Con-
federation. General Roses availed himself of Oribe,
who was then in Buenos Ayres, placed him at the head
of a large body of men, and sent him to meet General
Rivera, who was completely routed. Oribe continued to
press on the Banda Oriental, claiming to be the legiti-
mate President; he roused the whole country of Uru-
guay; he surrounded and besieged the town of Monte
Video, and it being thought necessary to interfere, we
sent out Mr. Gore Ouseley, as the successor of Mr. Man-
deville, and the French Government also sent out a ne-
gotiator. They went to Buenos Ayres, but could not
get Rosas to adopt any terms of peace, in consequence of
which they went over to Monte Video, which was then
engaged in hostilities against Buenos Ayres, which was
blockaded by an English squadron, and an English force
was landed to defend Monte Video. In spite of all this,
Generals Roses and Oribe maintained their footing, and
pressed Monte Video extremely hard. Mr. Ouseley
proposed terms which Roses did not then think proper
to accede to. After that the British Government sent
out Lord Howden, and with him went out, on behalf
of France, a ;distinguished person who was now the
ambassador to this country. After a short time Lord
Howden, although that was a joint intervention, thought
it better at once to break the blockade and do away
with our interference, leaving But nos Ayres and Monte
Video to fight it out as best they could. They ac-
cordingly did so, the blockade was withdrawn, and
from that moment the joint intervention must
have been considered to have come to an end.
This state of things continued; and after that
another person was sent out, and finally Mr. South-
ern, who was the only negotiator who seemed to
have anything like success. At that period a treaty
was framed between General Roses and this country ;
and that treaty, as was well known now, had merely
for its object the acknowledgment or the independence
of Monte Video and the inducing of itosas to withdraw
his force from that country. In all these treaties, not-
withstanding the instructions originally sent Out to ne-
gotiate for the opening of the River Plate, and notwith-
standing on one occasion we forced the opening of the
river Parana, yet notwithstanding these instructions,
never did Resets at any moment consent to open those
rivers. Mr. Hood proposed to open the Paranssa
end ni
Paraguay, as internal rivers, yet so suspicious was
no
that he objected to do so; the negotiation feiverdrd,. andii
When
attempt had since been made to open thoser
interference
affairs had come to this point, asps adr atbs ob
ue
an end of the
was concerned, there was sup
had gained no ad-
we had
vantage in a commercial view, although matter; and up to that moi;entPtaf:O
of Monte Video, After
the independence
compelled Roses to act up to the treaty of 1828, and ac-
knowledgethat country, and opened np an opportunity of
that circumstances aroso which totally changed our rela-
tions as to
had withdrawn
establishing
std the independence of
eofthothseo
Monte Video had
new relations. After Resat;
been acknowledged, the Brazils entered into four
others Somor five
treaties with Monte Video, which he trusted would be laid
toafblceomofmtehreceH,ottunsde,
Corrientes to
urgedtreaties were
raise the flag of rebellion. C •
orrientes was not in a con-
dition to be successful. It was supported by Brazil
(which had never declared war) very much in the man-
ner we supported Monte Videoformer occasion. on a
General Urquiza next went to the Parana and defeated
Roma,
who was abandoned by all his followers, and
was obliged to •
escape with his daughter on board the
Locust, one of our vessels. General Urquiza was at this
moment in the Banda Oriental, and he (the Noble Lord)
was informed by letters he had received that the Brazi-
lian and Argentine lags were now both flying in that
country. In this state of affairs Brazil, having assisted
Urquiz 1, would, of course, demand high pay for the
services she had done his cause; and it was stated that
the Gibraltar of the Parana was to be surrendered to
Brazil; and that a large portion of the Banda Oriental
had been coded. It was to ascertain, then, who was to
be considered the proper authority—whether the Argen-
tine Confederation wes to be consider the proper autho-
rity—in the Banda Oriental, that he had asked the
questions he had risen to put to the Noble Earl. He
would also strongly urge on her Majesty's Government
that, in the present state of affairs, the should lose not
a moment in entering into negotiations with the coun-
tries which were touched by the rivers Parana and Pa-
raguay for free navigation through all those countries;
amongst which he included not only the Argentine Con-
federation, but also Bolivia, Brezd, Paraguay—which
we had not yet, but which we ought to have, considered
independent— (Hear, hear)---and the Banda Oriental.—
(Ideer, hear.) Under these circumstances, he begged
to ask the Noble Earl whether he could afford them any
information on the subject; and also whether he could
give them any hope that the great object they had in
view—namely, the legitimate extension of our commerce,
was likely to b carried out more successfully than it had
before Le en under General Rosas?—(Cheers )
The E at' of MALMESBURY remarked that, after
the detailed account which the Noble Lord had given,
it would be perfectly unneceeeary for him again to go

through the transactions to which the Noble Lord had
alluded, end which had extended over eo many yea".
It was not very likely that any Government in which
her Majesty placed confidence would have neglected to
see the vast importance of these transactions, both as
respected the subject itself, and as respected the opper-
tunity which had been offered to her Majesty's
merit to to interfere, with view to the interests of British
commerce ; but it had been a subject which had occu-
pied the attention of the Government for many years.
Even so long ago as 1806, when Sir Home Popham had
made an attack upon Buenos Ayres, it was shown before
a court-martial how invaluable it would be as regarded
the communications with those rivers which fell into
the Piate, and certainly it would bo most desirable, to
have an unbroken communication between all the coun-
tries through which they ran and the Atlantic, and thus
with this country.—(Hear.) The independent Public
of Paraguay, which we had not yet acknowledged, but
which he thought we ought to do as soon as possible--
(Hear, hear)—and which appeared to be upheld at this
moment by a man who was the most advanced of his
race, had agreed to accept commercial relations wl.ll
this country.—(Elear.) It appeared that when a
Charles Hotham went up to the Parana, he had COt"
munications with the chief of that country. It v131,d
tisfactory to find that the two great states at the bee
of these rivers were in favour of commercial intercourse
with Eegland; and when they further considered the
immense advantages that England and the other Eur,;
pests countries w uld derive, he thought that there
be no doubt that all the nations in Europe would tage
the same view as that which the Noble Lord and licrt
Majesty's Government entertained. (Cheers.) 11,4
now, in answer to the questions which the Noble LOTfu
':
had put with respect to the_ political state of thr
countries at the pres.nt moment—officially the Goeerv,
meet had no account of anything beyond the tots;
our
defeat of Roans, ard his fltght on board of one ef
ships. They had no accounts, either official or othe.rci
wise, as to the flags which the Noble Lord bad said
were flying in the Banda Oriental; or that any 1)°,111,;1
of that territory had be on ceded. They had no eint—d
or private information as to what the Noble Lord said
been given up, but he had reason to believe that it still
remained what it was by the last arrangement.--(111,7„
hear.) With respect, now, to the conduct of heft had
jesty's Government under these circumstances. hthe
been simply this. Within 24 hours after receiving to
news of Rosaa's deft at, he (the Noble Earl) httd, Pato
himself in communication with the Government 01i,
French Republic, and invited that Government to Jo
us in arranging such negotiations with these
e"
state
would contribute to the peace of the country WA':
commercial interests both of this country and the
nations of Europe.—(Cheers.) Further than the bjee
could not at present answer the questions of the l'°",t
Lord, and ho thought their Lordships would not eltc
him to enter into the details of such plans as the Gelekril;
ment had in contemplation upon a subject which Ine's
considered to be of as much importance as anything °di

now occupied the civilised world.—(Cheers.) a bad
The Earl of ABERDEEN remarked that. as b
frequently had occasion to refer to this subjec;
could not help taking this opportunity of expres".%
the great satisfaction ho felt at the tern3instlo
which had taken place of the war. The bad
object of the interference of this country
only now for the first time been fully obtaine
namely, the entire independence of the Banda Odell'
(Hear, bear.) That was not the case with the
between this country and Roses, because, althcegu ;e
independence of the Banda was recognised in terms,
army of Roses was left in the Oriental States in a fci
cf
dition to pursue hostilities against them; and if it 70
not been for the intervention of Basil and the rebeloe
of Curientes (as the Noble Lord had called it) DPW,-
cßoses, it was very probable that he would have
,sen
ceded in obtaining possession. He (the Noble 11.°1.'
was most happy to hear from his Noble Friend b
that tebe
Government had proposed to renew with the Pre"t-op
Government those negotiations which were pot 3 SW
to by the separate treaties concluded with this concl
—a proceeding which at the time he (Lord Aberdeend
had taken the liberty of saying was not justified, 6130,
which the French people might to a certain degreedrie
sent, and to which they had testified their greet the
content. Hu thought that nothing could exceed
perfect cordiality and good faith with which the -cqe-Aise
Government had acted throughout the whole fl'"o.
and he therefore hoped that in renewing tide cr3e-;
nexion and concert with them we should proceed in L-)
same manner that we had hitherto done.—(Cheerr9i.
No doubt it was impossible to exaggerate the imPeibe
ante in a commercial point of view of free access to 0
internal rivers of South America: but, although it !ref
exceedingly easy to declare the navigation of el ri,/„.
free, much remained to be done after such declaraties',
He recollected when the navigation of the Rhine w„
declared free, but it took twenty years to regulate the
conditions upon which that free navigation ahould tra
place.—(Hear, hear.) He was exceedingly glad t° Psh
the various states iu favour of free communication wlAe.,
Europe; but the Eastern Republics had never beenjube
ficienr. Tasty had always tee utmost liberality, au
nee
trusted that the Argentine Confederation in their
condition might share in this very salutary feelngi r
(Hear, hear.) He thought it would not be WIEO to coereti.,
wore particularly into the specific acts of the Gclfa
went. No doubt the Noble Earl was very fully impressfor
with the importance of the object in view, and Ite the
one would give them credit for pursuing it wit ',„,.,1
greatest assiduity.—(llear.) He hoped that he
Aberdeen) was not carried away with the va°lool4
authorship, bat it had that day happened to him to
at the instructions, which he had not seen for sevnelci
years since he had first drawn them up in 1545;
be really thou,;ht, as far as ho might judge, there "
nothing in them that he would alter at this momen'Thed
After a few words from the Earl of HARROW -
Lord STANLEY of Alderley
Viscount CANNING i, of nquired if the Governtneot
any information with respect to the independence
Pareuay. a•
The Earl of MALMESBURY answered is the Ile°'e

ti
to Lordwhat Bb
aEdikiU247l.3lofNroTin hadthe listened with
Earl, tied
tignrdeatteplie‘aiitlicei
to know whether the Government had any paper' w
had not already been laid on the tibia ot the liouie•
The Earl ot MALMESBITRY 'aid they bad "nil
except the dispatches related to the defeat of Rosh a

his pe
ocust
esca to file L.
Lord BEAUMONT was understood not to Pre" for
the production of these dispatches, stud
Their Lordships adjourned.

----..---
110 USE OF COMMONS, March 23. be
Mr. KEOGH gave notice, that on Thursday ne
tt it
would ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer
was the intention of the Government to repeal the 4'"
relating to the grant to Maynooth.
In reply to a question from an HON. MEI,II3EB, the
Mr. STAFFORD said it was the intention et 'ir
Government to send out tho expedition in search of '-'
J. Franklin, which was now fitting out.
HOP DUTIES. th°
Mr. FREWEN brought forward a motion to 1
pe _
effect that, in the remission of taxation, the re l'
of the Excise duty on hops ought to be taken into
serious consideration by the Bouse. Though Inl'
duty brought comparatively a small amount into the
Exchequer, yet it pressed with excessive severity upon!!
whethe.os
his unfortunate constituents. What with free trade
aanc!
the imposition of this duty, there was ruin . d
s were entitled
districts, end he thought the
fsutffheerreer
being such a tax
distress in every direction of the hop-growing
to demand redress. The facJ
n had
amount of duty paid in a forthcoming year, and he ,
saying that large bribes wet*
the best authority for
gave rise to excessive gamb „: as to what would be the
taining the number of poundops gat
given to the Excise officers
_roof theh purpose of ()seer'
ticular diszriet,,.
Mr. DODGES cordially supported the motion, sod
hoped duty would engage
the early attention of the next Parliament. In ever/
third year since 1819, when the currency was changed:
there had been complaints of distress among the groffer"
ofof tthheeEE:CHEQUER tbgletib.l
The thatcH
A ibo
s C E remission
LL o
of hops.
tow erthe.el;astlien?lt
ahwisallroono.fFtrhie,n, dsuhrfaedrinoro. --.
presented by his lion.gin
power by a rI,-, eu a very. moderate and tjv
the part of the co .
Aerate resolution. The Government dec• .
class of her
ready to cotne forward. Friend,l,i With
nrdeyg
were Pe"., re
entr7 .
proposition to remedy the suffering' 0'
is their
Majesty's suhj.cts, the wouldouly u- I
1,,, tOO
aifrdit
case, his Ilonourab!e Friend h
would be improper had justly stated f
to press the Government "h°r
any definite expression of opinion upon the 0%;
ice,. (Hear, hear.) All he asksd wee, bat
11 a revision of taxation took place the question of teat
might not be overlooked; and he could assure hic° °its
such would be the case. The Government would tstwarY:d
consider it their duty to give their utmost attention °ha
consideration to any representations which might

merle to them from any class of the people. a to
Mr. HUME said, though this was brought forwar,ty
an egricultural question, he considered the du
on hops pressed most unequally upon ~.
class, and therefore ought to be rel 33-„ .eild •
They bad freed the food of the poor man from ts%9!ve
why should they not relieve his beverage of taxat'°„o„
In Belgium and Bohemia beer was untaxed and wail
sumed to a large extent fur the purpose of ,1)",v
venting intoxication.—(Ltughter.) Honourable ueb,
tlemen might laugh, but when a man could co
fain good beer he would seldom have recourse to ardent
spirits, and if the House sincerely wished to carry °c„,
its social and free-trade policy, they would at °lnbe
abolish the tax on malt.—(Hear, hear.)
0
Protectionists protested that they wanted this
opportunity to relieve :the farming interest 0' "ot
country from unequal taxation, and if they really 03e4
what they acid, here was a capital chance for show
that they were in parnefer.—(Hear, hear.) the lie
Mr. DRUMMOND said, the speech of tie
nourable Member was one of the most extra ordiner.rher
had ever heard, when he remembered the Ilon. Diem
antecedently, for year after year he and others bilo.
been attempting to obtain a repeal of this tax, and Ynew
after year tied the Hon. Member voted against that
tion.—(No, no.)
Mr. HUME—I alwags voted in favour of the 00
.
tion.—Hear, hear DRUM )
Mr. BOND admitted this splendid exceptOnl3'
but Mr. Cob.len and Sir James Graham had alwaY9h7;
posed it.—(Hear, hear.) Both those Hon. Men""i-ee
when they were advocating the repeal of 'it,
c;rn-laws told the farmers that the °pee
tax could not stand after the corn-laws %Li
gone, and be now called upon them to fulfil their C"
prophecies.—(Hear, hear.) tO
Mr. COBDEN eispu:ed that tee malt-tax Was
upon the farmer. It was paid by the consumer+ and
therefore it waa a tax upon the people. As f°l.,..bir
hop duty, it was certainly of a very obnoxioue gig
racer, while the amount it produced was really in 5,
Influent ; but when they came to treat of the 01,,*0.
tax it became a much larger question.—(lo4
ltar) jr Pr9dinvi a large ega

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