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London, England, 1852-11-17 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1852.

NOTICE.
BASIL. By W I LKIE COLLINS.
Is Now READY AT ALL THE LIBRARIES.

3 Vols,

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC.
Now ready,

ATKIN'S COMMERCIAL and GENERAL
LONDON DIRECTORY and COURT GUIDE for liss3.
Second Annual Publication, price IN. (M., containing upward of
127,000 nature and addresses, being 27,600 more th,n will be found
in any other Directory of London ever published. Embellished with
an entirely new and superior .)lap of London.
Published for the Proprietor (F. W. Watkins) by Longman,
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Directory.oflice, 38, Nelson-square.

THE DUKE'S FUNERAL.—Parties taking
rooms for viewing the procession can be supplied with ice-
re,hments of any kind, including Wines, and the use of China,
Glass, Cutlery, &c., by MesFrs. Pitmen, 7e and 80, Cornhill, near
the Exchange. Orders by post, if sent in time, will be punctually
attended to, or a party from the firm will be sent to any pare of
London to take instructions.

NOTICE.-DUKES FUNERAL, ST. MARY-
!.E-S 1-11 ND CH (.711C ii.—PersAls desirous of obtaining the
few covered and numbered SEATS still vacant, are earnestly requested
(to avoid coniusien) to apply at the only office for tickets, Samuel
Eyre, 19, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street. Tickets will also be issued
at the north rate, opposite Drury-court, on Thursday morning, 6 a.m.
Retiring Rooms, &c., provided.

THE" IRON DUKE'S" FUNERAL.—Parties
visitinz London ahoulol evil at DANIEL ELLIOTT HEDGER'S,
Wholesale Watch Manufactory, 27, City-road, near Finsbury-square,
where they can buy a good gold watch from :31.155., a silver do. from
21., being the wholesale trade price.—Merehants, captains, and the
trade supplied.

DINNERS, BALL SUPPERS, and ED-
DINGW BREAKFASTS provided in Town or Country, by
~essrs. PIJItSSELL, Cornhill. including Wines, and the hire of plate,
linen, china, semis, tables, tents, awnings, dancing hollands, err-
vantA, carriages, &c. Ball-rooms lighted. Instrumental Music pro-
vided. Bills of Fare sent per post, for any number, or one of the
firm will wait upon parties, if required. A magnificent display of
Bride Cakes for selection, decorated in a new and elegant style.
All the Parisian novelties in Wedding Stationery,

NIESSRS. ITRSSELL, Cornbill, near the
Exchange,ke just received the whole of their stock of
FRENCH GOODS, etsisting of Fruits of every description at 45.
per ib, or 71b box for '3. A great variety of Parisial lion lions in
11i boxes, 4s. each, tlb box 15s. Splendid baskets and boxes of
Fruits and Bons Defier presents, being a careful se'ectlon of all
the nov.ities of the secon. Every description of Fancy Chocolate,
a large as.3ortitent (
German and French articles suitable for
Christmas Trees, pacli in boxes for the country, Raisins, Almonds,
Figs, French Plums, 1,., &c.

QUPERB NUELTIES in PAPIER MACRE,
L. 7
A visit to his establiment will prove that there is not In London
another such s3tiEocCkloi 4 Leadenhall-street, London.
gnces. They consist of tables, envelope-
cases, netting-boxes, egpanions, cabinets, jcwel-cases, work-boxes,
dressing-cases, tea-cads, hand and pole screens, card-racks, t tide
inkstands, regency wri
g
tg-desks, portfolios, playing cards, and visit-
in card-cases, cigar al bottle-cases, note an-I cake baskets ; also
an assortment of neep.ases In pearl and tortoiseshell, silver and
gold pencil-cases, pen liders, and other articles suitable for pre-
sents. Inventor of thettent castellated tooth-brush.

MED IC AtAND SURGICAL ADVICE.
No. 3, King William-stnt, Strand, Lon:lon, opposite Charing-cross
Hospital.
lURGEON HtsTR,Y HAMILTON, Member of
the Royal College f England, twenty-eight years in London
practice, will remove 51,- case of a r rivate nature before charge be
made for me ,icine to the, attending. In case+ arising from debility,
nervousness, scrofula, ains in the back, lumbago, affections of
the kidneys. infirmities A* youth and maturity, or any case re-
quiring practical profesonal skill, Surgeon Hamilton decidedly
states that no case withirreach of human aid shall leave him un-
cured. Ladies and Genemen who prefer consulting by letter, en-
closing a fee o- 10s, 6d., 'Rh a detail of their complaint, will be
answered by return of pot. Surgeon Hamilton attends for personal
consultation from 9 till 2, nd from 5 till 9, daily. Post orders pay-
able at Charing cross pit-office, to lima HAMILTON, 3, King
Witliam-street, West Strnd, London.

1 is intended to ma.ifest the yublic sympathy and patriotic
1-1 E —Pt bt',----IttL
respect indulged by the whsle !talon towards the memory of Eng-
land's greatest hero, whom deatt has numbered with the illustrious
names-of the departed defenders our country and our homes. The
funeral obsequies will be the last tlbute which the public can pay to
the remains of the immortal Cotrilander, and tens of thousands will
endeavour to take part in that imp)rtant event. The appropriate in-
dicator of public appreciation oftbe highly important services ren-
dered to the nation by the Duke (Wellington will be a NEW SUIT
of MOURNING for the occasion. This will be required as a neces.
sary cemcomitant of the visits to (HELSEA. during the lying in state,
and a'so on the day of interment
E. MOSES and SON are no wry desirous of making this a business
affair; but, prompted by a dismition to offer every accommodation
to their patrons in the City and throughout the country, they have pre-
pared for this occasion a STOCK of MOURNING HABILIMENTS
for all classes of society; and as thousands will visit London from
the country, their great rreoa•ations and unequalled STYLES and
QUALITY in MOURNING DRESS will found highly advan-
tageous to every one, not amply from the appropriateness of the
goods, but also from the eteeding low price which E. MOSES
and SON have resolved to ;upply MOURNING DRESS for the
funeral of the late

PUTNEY BRIDGE AND PIER COMPANY,
, (—lncorporation of company—Erection of Bridge and Pier-
Powers to remove Existing Fulham and Putney Bridge—
Amendment of Acts).
Notice is hereby given, that Application is intended to be
made to Parliament in the ensuing Session, for leave to bring
iu a Bill to incorporate a Company for making and maintain-
ing a new Bridge across the River Thames, to connect the
Town of Putney, in the County of Surrey, with the Town of
Fulham, in the County of Middlesex, with_roacls.or
~,ap:
tothe parish of Wiigitfic otherwise All Saints Fulham, in the
the point v.i, -, vv,.l-1, taut works v'."l-street-street unite.
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County of Middlesex, and will terminate at or in the High-
street, in the Parish of Putney, otherwise Saint Mary Putney,
iu the County of Surrey, at or near to the south western
corner of the Church-yard, belonging to the Church of Saint
Mary, Putney, in the County of Surrey, together with a Pier
or lauding-place in the River Thames, in connexion with and
at a convenient part of the said intended Bridge, at or near
ono of the Piers thereof, and iu the position shown upon the
Plans, hereinafter referred to, for the lauding and embarking
of Passengers and Goods, and with all necessary roads, ap-
proaches, conveniences, and other works in connexion with
the said intended new Bridge and Pier, which Bridge, Pier,
and Works will be made and pass from, in, through, or into
the several Parishes, Townships, Extra-parochial and other
them, that is to say, Putney,
and the bed or soil of the River
and Fulham, otherwise All
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Thamesi,vfios
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Putney,
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Saints, Fulham, and the bed or soil of the River Thames in
the County of Middlesex.
that it is intended to
te compulsory purchase
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er hereditaments, and to
vary or extinguish all existing rights or privileges in any
manner connected with any lands, houses, bridges, or horedi-
taments, which may be Purchased or taken, or which would
in any manner interfere with the construction, maintenance,
or permanently_,,tna,lling
and use of the said intended Bridge, Pier and Works. Also
Belisicitgoes, cross, stop
and Pipes in the several Parishes, Townships,
up, alter, or divert, whether
such roads, Approaches,
Ferries, T, ,i
or places aforesaid, which it may be deemed necessary or
be crossed, stopped -places, Sewers, Streams,
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Watercourses,
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convenienti:i
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for the purposes of the said intended works, or any of
them.
' is hereby
And notice further up, altered, or diverted
given, that it is intended by
the said Bill to confer powers upon the Company to be incor-
porated, compulsorily to purchase or acquire the Bridge now
across the Thames between Fulham and Putney aforesaid,
called or known as " Fulham and Putney Bridge," and the
approaches thereto, and the toll-houses thereof, and to vest in
the Company to be incorporated as aforesaid all the powers,
property, rights of ferry and u other rights, estate, interests,
and effects, real or Personal, of the Commissioners, Trustees,
or Company or Proprietors,
or any body or bodies, person or
persons therein ; and to Pull down and remove the said pre-
sent Bridge, and to stop the Roads, Avenues, and Ap-
proaches thereto, and to repeal, alter, or amend the Acts of
Parliament following, relating to the same, that is to say, an
Act of the twelfth year of the reign of his Majesty King
George the First, intituled. "An Act for building a Bridge
cross the river of Tharoes from the Town of Fulham, in the
County of Middlesex, to the Town of Putney, in the County
of Surrey," and an Act of the first year of the Reign of his
Majesty, King George the Second, Mauled "An Act to
explain and amend an Act made in the twelfth year of the
Reign of his late Majesty, King
George the First, for building
river a Bridge cross the of Thames, from the Town of Fulham,
in the County of Middlesex to the Town of Putney, in the
County of Surrey, and for making the said Act more effectual,"
And also the provisions of all Royal Charters (if any) which
may have been granted in relation to the said Bridge.
And it is further intended to apply for powers in and by
the said Bill, to levy tolls, rates and duties, upon or in re-
spect of the said intended new Bridge, Pier, Approaches, and
Works, to alter existing tolls, rates, or duties, and to confer,
vary, and extinguish exemptions from the payment of tolls,
rates, and duties, and ether rights or privileges.
And notice is hereby further given, that on or before the
30th day of November, 1852,
a duplicate Plan and Section of
the said intended Bridge' Pier and Works, together with a
Book of Reference thereto, and a copy of this Notice as pub-
lished in the " London Gazette," will be deposited with the
Clerk of the Peace for the County of Surrey, at his Office
in North Street,
Lambeth, in the said County, and with
the Clerk of the Peace for the County of Middlesex, at his
office at the Sessions House, Clerkenwell-green in the County
of Middlesex ; and that on or before the said 30th day of
November, 1852, a copy of the said Plan, Section, and Book
of Reference, --n-a d
a copy of the said " Gazette" notice will be
deposited with the Parish Clerks of each of the Parishes
aforesaid, at their restoctive places of abode ; and that
printed copies of the said Bill will, on or before the thirty-
first day of December, 1852, be deposited in the Private Bill-
office of the House of
Commons. Dated this third day of
November, 1852.

FEW and Co.,
Covent Garden

PETITIONS AGAINST THE IRISH LIBERALS.—It appears
that a " Committee of telection " has been appointed at
the Carlton Club, to inquire into all the circumstances
connected with the elections affected by those petitions,
with the view of decidikg upon the cases in which there
might be a prospect of success before a select committee,
and of rejecting all others. Until the result of this
scrutiny becomes known, no decided steps will be taken
in respect to most of the petitions emanating from the
Protectionists in Ireland. There are one or two instances
in which individuals—Persons of wealth—are likely to
proceed with their petitions, no matter what may be the
decision of the Carlton Club.
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are unequalled.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor
Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTER DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the
Woolsack at five o'clock.

In reply to Lord BROUGHAM,
The Duke of NORTHUMBERLAND said, that the
report which had been presented by the Committee ap-
pointed to 'consider the subject of manning the Navy,
had been adopted by the Government.

BILLS OF EXCHANGE.
The Earl of DERBY moved that the Bill providing
for the payment of Bills of Exchange, due on the 18th
inst., on the 17th be read a second time.
Lord CAMPBELL expressed his fear that foreign
indorsers would feel themselves relieved from all obliga-
tion in consequence of the Bills not having been pre-
_ _

sented on the 18th.
The Standing Orders having been suspended, the Bill
passed through Committee, and, after a few remarks
from Lord Truro, who expressed his opinion that Friday
ought to be the day for presentation, as alsto from Lord
Campbell and Lord Brougham, was read a third time
and passed.
THE DUKE'S FUNERAL.
Lord REDESDALE brought up the first Report of
the Committee appointed to consider of the Queen's
Message with respect to the funeral of the late Duke of

Wellington.
The Earl of DERBY moved that the House of Lords
be represented in the public procession by the Lord

Chancellor alone.

The motion was agreed to.
LAW REFORM.
The LORD CHANCELLOR rose for the purpose of
stating to their Lordships what steps had been taken since
they last met, in order to carry into execution the bills
Est wars`• ..the
Court of Chancery, and other matters Mtn

that Court, and also to state what were the further mea-
sures which the Government proposed to lay before their
Lordships and the other House of Parliament, for carry-
ing out the objects which the Legislature had in view or
the important subject of Law Reform. The Bills which
were passed, as their Lordships were aware, were three
in number as regarded the proceedings in the Court of
Chancery. One Bill was for the abolishing of the office
of Master in Chancery, and introducing a new system,
called a cllmber system, with regard to those matters
which up to that time had been prosecuted by the Masters
in their own chambers. The next Bill was for " the im-

provement of the jurisdiction of equity ; " and the third
Bill was the " Suitors in Equity Relief Act," which
certainly had afforded great relief in the reduction of
salaries and the abolition of what appeared to be useless
and unnecessary offices. It had been much the practice
of Parliament, and it certainly was an easy mode of
getting through the business of legislation, not to fill up
the outline of such Bills, but to leave almost everything
to be carried into execution by orders to be made by the
Court after the Bills had passed. He could assure their
Lordships, therefore, that the whole of his vacation and
recess had been principally occupied by a species of legis-
lation, sometimes with and sometimes without the assist-
ancehAacdt of
Acts
heoefn his
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Parliament.n learnedde r
ed necessarycolleagues,Theyt owi negriwere
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had already seen, he though: they would: fully effect
everything which the country and Parliament had in
view ; and he thought he might venture to assert that
the celerity with which matters would be decided in
Chancery, would be such as to make the old proverb to
be entirely forgotten, and lead to the introduction of a
new one. He believed that there was no court in this
country in which questions of property could be decided
so rapidly—he did not mean with undue haste, which
above all things was to be deprecated in the administra-
tion of justice ; but by " haste" he meant "good speed"
—speed so far as was consistent with the most mature
deliberation. That speed could now be given to matters
arising in the Court of Chancery, and he hoped to show
their Lordships, before he sat down, that the expense
would be greatly diminished, so as to render that court,
and every portion of it, at once rapid in its operations,
and cheap to the suitor. (Hear, hear.) There was a
crying evil, which had been remedied by some of the
orders which had been issued by himself ; it was an ob-
ject which he had always had much at heart, and had
endeavoured to carry into execution in Ireland ; it was
this—that there should be a statute of limitation, as it
were, within the court as well as without the court.
(Hear, hear.) The legislature had passed Acts of Par-
I...rm.:ant to prevent parties from brintrine. forwar_d _stale
rorwa-rd at a period highly inconvenient and
unjust. Their Lordships had an order, as to appeals,
to this effect : that no appeal from a decree or order
of the Court of Chancery should be made after
five years from the enrolment of such decree or
order. By the early orders of the Court of Chan-
cery the enrolment was to take place at once ; the
intention, therefore, was to compel a party to come to
that House for relief within five years after obtaining
his decree. But parties had constantly been allowed in
the Court of Chancery at any period to come for an
order of enrolment, nunc pro tune, which they obtained
as a matter of course ; and thus it often happened that
16 or 17 years after the decree in the Court of Chancery
parties came and appealed to their Lordships' House.
This was an evil of all others most to be avoided. No
hasty decision,. no hurry took away a man's right of
appeal, but no door should be left open to constant,
irritating and long-neglected litigation of this kind.
This defect had now been cured by the general orders
for the benefit of the public at large. In the first place,
nobody is to have the right of appeal in the Court of
Chancery after five years ; and, in the next place,
every party was to enrol his decree or order within six
months ; and after five years had elapsed he was not
at liberty to enrol at all, except by the special order
of the Lord Chancellor, so that in a case of great neces-
sity a party might be permitted to do so, but generally
all parties would be kept within the time limited. There-
fore, by this means, there would be a statute of limita-
tion within the court, as well as without the court.
Now, as to the Bill for the relief of suitors in Chancery,
the orders under that measure had all been settled, and
the great object had been greatly to reduce them in
number, and very considerably to simplify them. And
with regard to fees, they were not only fewer but less in
amount, and the whole system was greatly simplified.
Now, he must explain the nature of the funds in the Court
of Chancery. He wished to call their Lordships' atten-
tion, and that of every one in the country, to the state
and nature of those funds out of which the costs of the
administration of justice were paid, and the means by
which he proposed still further to reduce those costs.
Notwithstanding the saving which had been effected,
9,0001. a year additional had been thrown on the funds
in question by the late improvements, because Parlia-
ment had given such large compensation, and at the
same time had created new offices ; and although the
fees had been reduced, yet the expense had been con-
siderably increased ; the saving to the suitor between
the fees imposed last year and the fees which would now
be imposed under the scale just issued, would not be
less than 30,0001. a year. That was to be accounted
for, in some measure, by a large sum, probably 26,0001.
a year, having been transferred to the Consolidated Fund,
on the ground that the judges ought to be paid, not by
the suitors, and so, as, in point of fact, the administra-
tion of justice ought to be paid for by the public and not
by the suitor, the cost of the administration of the pro-
perty in the court ought not to be paid by the country,
but by the suitor. Parties ought to have a right to go
to a court of justice, and to have the opinion of a judge
free of expense ; but if accounts were to be taken, and
estates to be guarded and kept in order, they could no
more object to the expenditure for that administration
in Court than if the same operation had taken place out
of Court, and therefore the country could not be re-
quired to pay them. There was, therefore, a very
obvious distinction in these two descriptions of expen-
diture. He must now draw their Lordships' attention
to the state of the two funds in the Court of Chancery.
There were two funds upon which the Court drew—one
is called "the suitors' fund," and the other "the suitors' fee
fund." The suitors' fund arose in this way : vast sums of
money were in the Court, and those sums which were not
required to be invested by the parties the court had been
in the habit of investing from time to time, viz., that
portion of unemployed cash which the suitor had not re-
quired to be invested. The suitor was not liable to any
fluctuation in the funds, but could demand the amount
of his cash at any time. There was now a sum of
2,200,0001. which-had been invested in this way, and
that constituted the sui,tort fund. That fund had been
appropriated by Parliament to the payment of salaries,
compensation, and expenses, and it was now producing
111,000/. and a fraction, which was appropriated to the
payment of the expenses of the court in the administra-
tion of justice. The sums thrown upon this fund by
Parliament amounted to 43,3201., leaving a surplus of
63,523/., which was directed by the Suitors' in Chancery
Relief Act of last session to be carried to the suitors' fee
fund. The suitors fee fund was a fund derived from
duties imposed, fees payable by the suitors, and fines
incurred by the authority of Parliament. The balance
of 63,5231. came in aid of that fund, and the sum this
year to be provided for as charges on the fee-fund, would
be 157,4501., which would leave an amount of 93,9271.
to be levied this year by fees on suitors generally—the
whole amount to be levied for the year ensuing on all
the suitors. Although that was a large sum, yet it was
small in compaaison with the actual amount of business
done. The amount of fees last year was 133,8421., and
the estimated amount this year would be 93,927/. Then
there was to be added a sum of 3,832/. of fees received
by officers, which would make an amount of 44,439/.,
which would be the saving effected in the year.
But then
the officers of the Court used to furnish copies of instru-
ments, and chargt a certain amount per folio, which pro-
duced a sum of 10,000/. a year. The solicitors com-
plained of this, as taking away their own proper business ;