The Sun.
London, England, 1852-05-27 00:00:00

POST-OFFICE N OTICE.

ESTABLISHNEET OF CONTRACT MAIL PACKETS TO CEY-
LON, AIAIIRITIIIS AND INDIA, `IA TEE CAPE OF GOOD

ROPE

On and after the 15th June next, the mail packets of
the general Screw steam Shipping Company, conveying
mails to the Cape of Good Hops', will call at Ascension,
and will proceed from the Cape to Mauritiai, Point de
Galle (Ceylon) and Calcatta.

All letters and newspapers for Ascension or for
Mauritius will h?reaf;er be forwarded by these pickets,
unless specially aldrelscd to be otherwise sent, but
letters fur Ceylon or India intended to hs snot by this
route must be specially addressed "rid the Cape of
Good Hope."
Letters for all these British poi;r.essiona will be liable
to the uniform rate of one
vsnilling, when not ex-
ceeding half an ounce in weight, two shillings when not
exceeding an ouac3, and so on in proportion, bu: news-
papers will be coavayed free from charge.
The postage chargeable upon letters for Ascension and
Mauritius must be paid in advance, but letters for
Ceylon and India forwarded by these packets may be
posted unpaid.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS:

The LORD CHANCELLOR. took his seat on the Wool
sack at Five o'cio,:k.

PETITIONS.

The Duke of RICEI:i:OND crelentei a petition from
Portsmouth in l'aiNiur of the enCranerment of copy-
holds; ono from Susv..x ag-,:oit the present spTem of
beer-t oua.,; and sE.ycrai others againat the
Macno,,th gran.
The Earl of I.I,ODEN prentol ceveral peti•iona from
Ireiacd again3t the I,l,yoo•.ith grant; al-:o Flying ftx
the inspection of nuuneriv:;.
MR. NIATHETS CASE.

Ia answer to a question from R4rIFITZWILLIA.M,
The Earl of MALMESBUARY said that this case
had at last, after great exertions and anxiety on the part
of Mr. Scarlett, our charge ;d'affaires at Florence, been
brought to a termination, and had resulted in Mr. Mather
having obtained an amount of pecuniary damages equi-
valent, according to Mr. Scarlett's opinion, to those
which ho would have received in an English court of
justice had the scion been brought. All feeling of
nationality, he might add, had been disclaimed on the
part of the AustrtAu cffi_er 113 prompting him to the un-
justifaible act of which he hal been guilty.
WELSH. WITNESSES.
The Earl of POWIS put aquestian to the Lora Chan-
cellor, respecting the trial o•L' John Joseph Corby at the
Monmouthshire weizsi, whetner it were true that the
Learned Judge stated to a witness, who desired to speak
Welsh, that if she did nor, ana;ver in English, she would
not have her exr,ensea.

The LORD CHANCELLOR said that it was per-
fectly true that the Learned J,Ld e of assize had ad-
dreesed such a remark to the witness in question. It was
often found that Welsh witnesses who could speak Eng-
lish refused to be exmined,
CI
C''.p l'.
in Welsh, and the
ens e s was the only
threw of not being allowed ther,exPlisti._(Lhar, hear.)
means of making
la this ocse the Latrhneemd .3'Cd P'igk. I
b'anl beenl farmer's wife,
informed that
the witness, who Wa3 a respectable
could speak English fluently, and in answer to all re-
cln°Eti to her to speak Enelsh, she only answered that
she woutd be examined in Wel3h. The Learned Judge
certainly did make to her tho siaement which was attri-
buted t° him, but at the end of the cause he ordered her
expenses to he alloyed her, and she received them.
Lord C
411----P6ELL protested that any Welsh witness, who could spenk
EngliA, could insist upon being exa-
mined in Welsh. tr
-Ae also bore his testimony to .the truth
of the remark of the Noble and Learned Lord on the
Woolsack, that the
faculty of speaking "1Y way of suddenly conferring the
Xzglisla fluently on Welsh witnesses
was to threaten them not to allow their expenses.
After a few words from Lord DYNEVOR the subject
dropped , m
co A ON LAMP PIIOCEDURE BILL.
Lord TRURO rose to move the third reading of this
....,ismtA N )pproved.of the Bill,
Bill.
Lord ..yr, and gave it his
hearty support.