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LONDON, TUESDAY. FEBR UARY 10, 1852.

In the House of Lords last night,
The Earl of ELLENBOROUGH, St the request of the
Marquis of LANSDOWNE, postponed his questions on
Indian affairs till Monday next.

The LORD CRANCELLOR moved the second reading of
the Common Law Procedure Amendment Bill, and pro-
ceeded to explain, at considerable length, the various
alterations and improvements contemplated by the
measure.

Lord LYNDHSJRST did not object to the second read-
ing of the Bill, as all the objections to it related to mat-
ters of detail and would be best discussed in Committee.
He could not, however, understand, as the machinery
of the County Courts had worked so well, why
the same machinery should not be applied to the supe-
rior courts in all cases not exceedi.a g two or three hun-
dred pounds.
Lord BROUGHAM thought the hest course would be
to read the Bill at once a second ti rne. He also agreed
in the suggestima of Lord LYNDHUMST as to the appli-
cation of the County Court machinery to the superior
courts.

The LORD CHANCELLOR rems, ..ged that, before he
acceded to Lord LYNDHURST'S s aggestion, he should
be glad to have his positive assns ance that the County
Court machinery was adapted to th o superior courts.
The Bill was then read a second time.
Lord STRANOFORD wished IO as k Lord GRANVILLE
whether an answer had been returned by Lord PAL-
MERSTON to the remonstrances of the French Ambas-
sador respecting foreign refugees, and, if so, why it had
been omitted from the papers laid before Parliament?
Earl GRANVILLE replied that no unswer had been re-
turned by Lord PALMERSTON to tbe remonstrance re-
ferred to, but he had every reason t D believe, if the Noble
Lord had returned an answer, it w could not have been
discordant to the answer returned by himself.
After some further conversation the matter dropped.
Lord LYNDHURST then made I lome observations on
the course of legislation pursued by the House.
After which their Lordsbtps adjf 'caned.
In the House of Commons,

Lord J. RUSSELL moved for leave. to bring in a Bill
to extend the right of voting for Members of Parlia-
ment, and to amend the laws relating to the representa-
tion of the people. With reference to the satisfactory
state of this country, in its home find foreign relations,
he thought the present was a more proper time fur con-
sidering this subject than when thse country was in a
state of agitation and excitement. After a brief expo-
sition of the principles upon arliich such a measure
should be based, and adverting no the importance of
the functions performed by that House, Lord
Jome noticed the prominent features of various
schemes of Parliamentary reform which had
been proposed antecedent to the Act of 1832,
and explained the mein c hjects contemplated
by that great measure, nan rely the disfran-
chisement of nomination boroughs, and the enfran-
chisement of large towns thet excluded from the
representation. It was not then intended that there
should be no boroughs with small constituencies. He
thought it would be extremely un wise, and that it would
destroy the balance of the Constitution, to say that only
counties and large cities and towns should enjoy the
franchise, excluding small representations. In regard
to disfranchisement, therefore, the present Bill pro-
posed to disfranchise only in cases of proved corrup-
tion, and by another Bill he should propose to make a
considerable change in the mode of inquiry into
cases of corruption, whereby, upon an address of the
House, founded even upon common fame, it should be
lawful for the Crown to appoint a Commission clothed
with the same powers of inquiry as those which had been
so effectual in the case of St. Albans. In respect to the
extension of the franchise, the grounds upon which the
present measure proceeded were, first, that the Reform
Act, in requiring a 10/. qualification for household voting,
had placed the suffrage rather too high; secondly—
and this consideration had great influence upon his mind
—the growing intelligence of the people. He proposed,
therefore, to reduce the household qualification to Si.
rated value, which would add a great number of
persons to the constituency, to whom he was
persuaded the franchise might be safely in-
trusted. As regarded the counties, he did not
propose to change that which had been the gene-
ral constitution of that House, which was placed on
a different basis from that of the representation of bo-
roughs. The great change which was effected in this
respect at the time of the Reform Bill was one
Introduced by a Noble Lord not then in this
House, the present Duke of Buckingham, which
went upon the principle of tenure. It was now proposed
to give the right of voting to persons paying au
occupying rent of 201. instead of 501., as before.
There were also a number of persons possessed of free-
hold and other property who, at present, did not possess
the right of voting, and it was proposed now to give the
right of voting to all those persons who paid an :as-
sessed-tax of forty shillings per annum. With regard
to small boroughs, against which such an outcry had
been raised, he did not propose to destroy any of these,
but, in order to diffuse the influence of property, which it
was objected so greatly affected elections, he proposed
in some instances to join together certain neighbouring
towns and to unite them in one general representation.
He stated at the time of the Reform Bill that none of
the boroughs would have less than 300 electors; whilst
that was the case generally, there were fourteen small
boroughs with foe than that number, there were up-
wards of thirty with less than 400, and several
others with less than 500. He spoke of permanent
electors, 101. householders, and freemen. He
now proposed to make the limit 500, and to add places
to small boroughs which had less than 560 electors.
There were 67 boroughs to which this arrangement applied.
These small boroughs generally, except some in York-
.hire, were in the south and west of England.
They were si-nated in agricultural and not commercial
parts of the country. Tee towns proposed to be added
were of the same character. Whether this arrange-
lion was right or wrong, politic or impolitic,
the result would be to establish the same balance
'if interest which was established by the Reform Bill.
Ifn these small agricultural boroughs were disfranchised,
Bbdthe right of voting was given to manufacturing towns,
there would be
man&
landed interest would total
change of that balance—the
acziiinriterirliestru.zdouldin beits
stead. It
manigdht
the
right, to
ttemen mi adopt such a plan, and many Gen-
tle presengt t wish it; but he was not prepared on
rangement, occasion to propose any such ar-
Commons would it were adopted, the House of
an bed it might pas the witness of fierce struggles,
re liable to scree a measures which would probably
Parliament. Thegre opposition in the other House of
Bill which ge
wouwidere other propositions in the
shortly
in a previous session thethohrtly state. He stated
taining the present property e saw no reason for re-
present
it y qualification of Mem-
was easily evaded
to the general principles ot the re that it was contrary
he for one would willingly
sereirntation, and that
he still maintained that opinion, removed. Now
, and he had in-
troduced a clause repealing all Acts on the • sub-
ject,*ng with the Act of A
thequalification tine, which on
ginally enacted
Members for 13E. M
in same position as those for
not required to have Scotland, who were There a pro-
perty qualification.
was another proposi-
tion introduce c into he intended tolthe the Bill,
but he could not do so until subject we,
considered b a Comm. qtee of the House. It appeared
y
to him that the state of the oaths taken by Members was
not consistent with religious liberty or justice.
In the first place Members were required to take
an oath renouncing all right of succession to the
throne in the Stuart family, watch was not necessary now.
There was also an invidious distinction made in
the oa'hs between Protestants and Roman Catho.
lies. Thera ought to be an :oath isehich they could
both alike take. The oath of supremacy was
altogether useless, because if a Roman Catholic
came into the House with feelings of repugnance to the
Established Church, and a desire to injure it, the
oath would not prevent him exercising his feel-
ings. It would not Rouse to
surprise the
learn that the new form of oath was, generally
speaking, that taken by Roman Catholics with the
omission of certain words. The words "on the
true faith of a Christian" would not be intro-
duced. It was abundantly clear that they were not
inserted in the oath for the purpose of preventing I
persons other than those professing to be Christians
from entering the Huust. He would make sim-
plea oath of allegiance to the Throne and fidelity to the
succession, which all Members could take. There was I
also another proposition is the Bill; when a Member

vice.

accepted office under the Crown, he vacated '
his seat and went back to his constituents,
which was no doubt a wise arrangement. '
But there was another provision which appeared to him
to be totally unnecessary, and that was that when a
Member changed his office, when having been i
Solicitor-General he became Attorney-General, he
then had to vacate his seat, and go again
to an election. Now, it appeared to him that
the electors having once decided that they did
not object to their Member holding office, it
was unnecessary that he should be re-elected
when he changed the office he filled, and
he proposed, therefore, to alter the law in this
respect to the extent he had stated. He be-
lieved he had now gone through the main
features of the Bill which he proposed to lay before the
House. It appeared to him to be one that was consistent
with that which he had frequently said they ought to
endeavour to frame, namely, a supplemental measure to
the Reform Bill, and not a substitute for it. He
had devoted great atttention to this subject, it was
considerably more than thirty years ago sine,
he first took it up, and it was nearly
30 years since he proposed the large measure
of reform which existed, the eloquence and the
opposition of some of the greatest statesmen of
their day, but subsequently to that time he was
successful, under the auspices of Lord Grey, in
carrying a still larger measure of reform; and he was
happy to - ay, that so far from fulfilling the warnings and
forebodings of its opponents, the measure had tended to
promote the happiness of the people, and to increase
the liberty and dignity of the country, while it had in
that by proceeding further in the same direction,
no respect endangered the Throne or any of the
institutions attached to it. And he trusted
and taking care well to measure their steps
in the advancement they made, they would contri-
bute still further towards extending the happiness of the
people and increasing the general prosperity of the
country, while they would, at the same time, be doing
the best thing that could possibly be desired for
firmly upholding and maintaining the principles of
the Constitution. He had little to say with re-
gard
to the two other Bills which wonld be intro-
duced as a corollary to the Bill which he now pro-
posed to bring in. One would relate to Scotland, and
would make some provisions tor the suppression of ficti-
tious votes, while it would likewise:reduce the qualification
of the voter from 101. to 51. With regard to Ireland, this
very subject had so recently engaged the attention of
Parliament in regard to that part of the kingdom, that it
was not necessary to detain the House upon that part
of the Bill. He did nut propose, however, to make
any alteration with regard to counties, but with
respect to cities and boroughs, he proposed to reduce
the qualification of the voter from Si. to 51., as there
was no doubt the present restriction had greatly
and seriously reduced the number of electors. He
trusted when this enlarged franchise was given, that
the next step the House would see the Government of
the country taking, would be to consider the great
question of the education of the people. To his mind
this question of the franchise was not less impor-
tant than that other of extending the education of the
people. He was convinced that after a measure
of this kind was carried, it would be the duty of the
House to consider the means of adopting a
really national system of education, and in
doing so, he was sure they would confer upon
the country and its people one of the greatest
blessings that could possibly be conceived. He be-
lieved that the people were almost prepared for this,
and after due discussion he hoped some such measure
would be carried with general assent. He did not
propose now to eater further into this subject; he had
stated the general views of the Government upon the
Bill which he proposed to bring in at a time of tran-
quillity and peace; and he hoped it would receive the
sanction of the Legislature, and promote the happiness
of the country.
Mr. HUME coraplained of the omissions in, the Bill,
and especially that the subjects of the ballot and of tri-
ennial Parliaments were evaded.
Sir J. WALSH reproached Lord J. RUSSELL with
again tampering with the institutions of the country,
after having carried a comprehensive measure which was
to obviate the necessity of further changes. These in-
roads upon the Constitution, he believed, would either
reduce this country to a democratic republic, er disable
that House from fulfilling its proper functions.
Mr. H. BERKELEY thought the Noble Lord's Bill,
though it would not be altogether approved, would be
generally agreeable to the country. He ought, however,
to have given voters a protection at the polling places by
adopting the ballot.
Mr. P. HOWARD spoke generally in favour of the
measure. _

Sir R. INGnis protested against the meditated altera-
tion of the oath of ahjuration—a matter utterly uncon-
nected with the subj,ct of Parliamentary reform. and
he trusted that the House would not sanction this part
of the Bill.

Mr. BRIGHT said, although he disapproved some por-
tions of the measure, which fell short of what the coun-
try expected, still there were other portions which would
give some degree of satisfaction to largo classes. He
regretted that Lord JOHN had not, by the ballot, taken
out of the hands of employers the power of influencing
the employ( d. He thought the county franchise, re-
duced to 201, still too high, and urged that the principle
of disfranchisement should have been carried further;
that larger constituencies should have additional repre-
sentatives, or that new constituencies should be created.

Mr. RAMIE pointed out what he considered the de-
fects and deficiencies of the Bill, which would prevent,
he thought, its becoming a permanent measure, or se-
curing the confidence of the great body of sincere Re-
formers. The present Ministers must bear all the respon-
sibility of this attempt to renew and promote agitation,
made by them in order to retain cffice.
Mr. RocHE exemined the measure on the supposition
that it was to be applied in its integrity to Ireland.
Mr. NEWDEGA.TE, deferring his remarks upon the Bill
until a future stage of it, remarked that one incongruous
provision showed that the Ncble Lord had determined
that the House should not have the sanction of Chris-
tianity to their deliberations.
Sir J. WALMSLEY believed that the measure would
not meet with the approbat,on of the country, which
would regard it eta unworthy o: the Noble Lord and his
colleagues.

After a few obaervations from Lord H. VANE,
Mr. ANSTEY approved of the scheme as an instalment
of a futare larger measure and a further extension of the
franchise.

Sir J. TYRELL recommended that this milk-and-water
measure should be entitled " A Bill to retain Ministers
in Office."

Colonel Spa'mon? having spoken unfavourably, and
Mr. 0. STANLEY favourably, o! the measure,
Mr. DISRAELI: observed that it was impossible to give
proper consideristion to such important propositions until
the Bill w 29 in the hands of Members. He saw nothing
in the scheme calculated to disturb—he could not call it
the balance between the two :nterestr, but the adjust-
ment established by the Refo:m Act. As to the pre-
ponderance of political influeace, which might govern
his vote upon the Bill, which was one of very question-
able propriety, he should reserve his observations until
be saw the de tails, upon which the merits of such a
measure mainly depended. He doubted whether it was
comprehensive enough to deal with so great a question.
Sir G. GREY brig fly replied' to some suggestions of
Mr. DISRAELI, and invited Members who were adverse
to the principle of the Bill to avow their hostility on
the second reading, and no: concentrate it upon the
details.
Sir B. HALL and Lord D. STUART gave a qualified
support to the measure, but only as an instalment, the
latter considering, that it would not satisfy the desires of
the people as an efficient reform.
_ _ _ _

After some remarks from Mr. MAURICE O'CONNELL
and Captain Illatnis, leave was given to bring in the
Bill, and soon after the House adjourned.

Parturiunt vn.antes, naseitur, &c. The quotation
is hackneyed, but it so clearly expresses the value of
the longdooked for measure of Reform, that we can-
not refrain from once more pressing it into our ser-
Yes, the country has at length before it the
strange conception which for thirty years had occu-
pied the teeming brain of Lord Jolts; RUSSELL. It is
now to be decided whether the present milk-and-water
proposition is worthy of the author of the Reform Bill
—a fitting extension of the glorious principles then
recognised by the Crown and the people of the United
Kingdom. We cannot hesitate as to the verdict.
There are, unquestionably, some good features about
the Bill. The franchise will be in some degree ex -
tended. The household qualification in boroughs is
to be reduced from 101. to 51., and in counties persons
with a qualification of 201. rated value will becom e
entitled to the suffrage. The qualification derived
from copyhold and long leases is also to be reduce d
from 101. to 51.7 and persons paying 40s. a year as -
sessed taxes, if living outside the limits of boroughs,
are to become entitled to the franchise for tb e
counties.

This is very good so far as it goes. It is a step in
' the right direction, an instalment, although a vez y
small instalment of justice. Were it introduce d
without any great flourish of trumpets, or bein g
spoken of as a "New Reform Bill" which is to satin} y
the reasonable expectations of the people, and to pro-
vide the 7fou cr7:,u on which the PREMIER can establis b
his favourite principle of finality, we should be as-
posed to regard it favourably and to receive the cot i-
cession grateully. But under the circumstances
of the case, looking to the pledges that have bee n
given and the hopes excited, the matter assumes a
very different aspect, and Lord JOHN RUSSELL is to
he judged, not merely by what he has done, but still
more so, by what he has left undone; not by the
trifle that he bestows, but by the far greater boons
which he withholds. A beggar in the street would
receive a few pence with a profusion of thanks, while
a person having strong and well-founded claims
would either loudly ex
press his disv 43'
pointment to the donor of as many'pours ds,
or retire in silence from his presen
So it is in the present instance. Much was anti ci-
pated ; and, in. place of being grateful for the tr. fie
granted, and Coat with not the best grace, we f eel
naturally indi grsant at the stinginess and pal ;Ed-

many with which the benefits are doled out, and ex-
press
our feelings in the most uncquivo,:.al terms
We shall now briefly allude to the other positive
enactments which are contemplated. In addition to
the alterations in the qualification, to which we have
already alluded, two other Bills are to be introduced
for Scotland and Ireland. There is to be no change
in the franchise for Irish counties, but in cities and
boroughs it is to be reduced from 81. to 51. It would
scarcely do to require a higher pecuniary qualification
in the country which has suffered so deeply, than that
which will be necessary in this more favoured land.
In Scotland the contemplated Bill relates to the
restriction rather than the extension of the
franchise. It is directed against " the fic-
titious votes," to which the President of the
Board of Control referred so feelingly in his speech
to the electors of Perth, requiring that in every in-
stance the title shall be completed by a regular " in-
fooftment." We have thus before us all the changes
that are to be made with respect to the extension
of the suffrage, and although it does something, we
fear it will not be considered a sufficient payment
n. al Parliamentary Reform Association can-
much doubt as to which is best suited
otnhnoet a cNhcaoavuteinot
to emergency, and calculated to satisfy the de-
mands who have hitherto been regarded as
political
the
those
cyphers.

The
abolished, propertyqualification for Members is to be
Every statute relating thereto from
that passed in the reign of Queen ANNE to the present
day is to be repealed. This is as it should be. It is
the only portion of the Bill which we can regard with
totallyunalloyed gratification. We can scarcely conceive that
there can be any difference of opinion on that'
especially when we consider that it was of no prac-
tical utility inasmuch as the required qualification
could at any moment be purchased in the market.
The tariff was perfectly ascertained, varying from
50/. to 1001., according to the nature of the
case, and whether the party elected was to represent
a borough or a county.
The Jew fill, too, is brought forward under
another form. The oaths are to be changed,
the distinction between those taken by Catholics
and Protestants are to be very properly re-
moved, and in the modifications the words "on the
true faith of a Christian" are to be omitted. This is
very right ; but we believe that it will be
unnecessary, that it will be established on
judicial authority, that the substance, and not the
form, of the obligation is to be looked to ; and that
there is at this moment no nractical difficulty but
that which the doubts of a small majority created, and
which must be speedily removed. If, then, the decision
of the Court in " MILLER W. SALOMONS" be such as
we anticipate, the change will be unnecessary so far
as the Jews are concerned; if otherwise, it would be
more becoming to bring the matter directly forward
than to tack it as a rider on a Bill for " the extension
of the franchise and improving the representation of
the people."
We are also to have the addition of neighbouring
towns to those boroughs where there are not
already 500 voters, a provision that will come
into operation in no less than 67 cases.
So much for what is to be legislated for.
The series of omissions would, however, require
greater space than we could this day spare. Suffice
it to say, that there is no allusion to the ballot, or to
the duration of Parliament ; no substitution of im-
portant towns for the nomination boroughs, or those
which are notoriously subjected to corrupt in.
fluences. A "Reform Bill !" in which these matters
are disregarded appears something like a performance
of Hamlet, the part of the young Prince being
omitted. It is not by such a diluted measure that
Lord JOHN RUSSELL is to retrieve his lost popularity,
and to obtain a new lease of office.

Government has somewhat wisely, we conceive,
put a stop to the operations of the Board of Health,
in reference to its scheme of organizing a system of
extramural interment for the metropolis. But for
this, we should very soon have become involved in a
gigantic and most oppressive attempt at centraliza-
tion. Meanwhile the capital of England remains
altogether unprovided for the adequate sepulture of
its population. According to the provisions of the
Interments Act, passed in August, 1850, burial
within the precincts of the metropolis was, as is well
known, prohibited thenceforth—but—no previous, or
even simultaneous, arrangement was made to enable the
citizens to inter their dead in extramural cemeteries
sufficiently remote or sufficiently capacious. Those
already existing are capable of containing only merely
18,000 annually, and the average mortality is some-
where about 58,000 ! With an increasing community,
and the chances of another visitation from pestilence,
the position of London in these respects has from the
first been very manifestly perilous. When, more-
over, it was found, on investigation, that the Board of
Health, having already 40,0001. advanced, proposed to
apply 137,000/. additional for the purchase of
merely two out of the nine existing cemeteries,
350,0001. more for the remaining seven, with
36,000/. for 800 acres at Erith, and 93,000/. for ren-
dering the ground available—making altogether the
that the prospect was not simply dangerous but ab-
seoniourtmeioyus6s6,oool—it became manifest
ofts character. Finding that the
Cabinet refused to suppl—
y them with the requisite
desperate
funds through the medium of Exchequer-bills, the
members of the board thereupon proposed to carry
out their enormous project by means of money raised
on the understanding that they should be empowered
to remunerate themselves by a poll tax levied upon
all parties indiscriminately. Than this nothing
could be more unconstitutionally interfering, and con-
sequently, if for that reason alone, we must
necessarily have rejoiced at the tardy but at last
peremptory interposing of the Government. Instead
of the extravagant and centralizing project of the
Board of Health, it was conceived—and surely not
without ample justification—that the mortality of the
metropolis might be provided for in the way of
burial, more efficiently, more economically, with
greater promptitude, and
with greater regard to the re-
quirements both of decency and religion, by means of
popular associations, instead of by means of monopo-
lizing associations, built up under the centralizing
influence of Government. The PRIME MINISTER
felt convinced of this, the CHANCELLOR of the
EXCHEQUER felt convinced of it, and so also did every
one acquainted with the statistics collected together
in the course of recent sanitary investigations.
Therefore we rejoice to think the operations of the
Board of Health were brought abruptly, but by no
means prematurely, to a close—Ministers refusing to
comply with a scheme calculated to lead to such
enormous and almost incalculable expenditure, and
to effect at the same time such a very intolerable
interference in the way of a gigantic monopoly con-
structed according to the principles of centralization.
Edinburgh, without the aid of a board of health,
contrives every year to bury its dead in extramural
places of sepulture—why not also London and West-
minster ? It has been with feelings of no ordinary
satisfaction that we have for some time past watched
the development of a scheme which promises the solu-
tion of existing difficulties. Already we have referred
more than once, and in terms of the warmest com-
mendation, to the plan sketched out by the pro-
moters of the London Necropolis and National
Mausoleum Company. We have commented,
and commented, moreover, at no inconsiderable
length, on the advantages held out by this humane
and magnificent enterprise. We have remarked
upon the merits of its accessibility—being approach-
able by half-an-hour's ride on the South-Western
Railway. We have pointed out likewise with peculiar
satisfaction the magnitude of the locality selected for
the proposed cemetery—extending over 2,000 acres
of land at Woking-common, in the county of Surrey,
the soil consisting of a dry yellow sand, the surface
undulating in picturesque and appropriate variety,
affording proper shelter to the bodies interred, and
nourishing over the remains of mortality a pro"
fusion of the most beautiful kinds of vegetation. We
are induced, more particularly at the present moment,
to revert to this subject by our earnest and reiterated
commendations, from the circumstance that its origi-
nators are about to develope their undertaking to its full
extent during the course of the present session of
Parliament. Let it be remembered that the arrange-
mentsin . of the company have
not been made with any
degree of precipitation, having, on the contrary, been,
to all appearance, most carefully and scrupulously
deliberated. The ground has been already

purchased, the two thousand acres having been
bought for 57,0001. An additional sum of
93,0001. is estimated as all that is required to render
the site suitable for interments. So that a total of
150,000/. will cover all expenses, instead of a gross
aggregate of 656,0001, as projected to be paid by the
Board of Health. It roust be borne is re-
collection, moreover, that in consequence of the
economy of these arrangements on the part of the
London Necropolis, it will be enabled to reduce very
considerably the cost of each individual interment.
Indeed it engages to diminish the average charges of
sepulture by at least 25 per cent.—ealculating merely
15s. as sufficient to cover the exp-nse of each pauper
funeral, and 255. that of every funeral for the
doss immediately above destitution. Added
to which the insatiable maw of the Church has,
by the company in quesrion, been duly taken into con-
sideration—the usual fees of the clergy being provided
for by a fund set aside for that purpose exclusively.
Everything, in fine, appears to have been pre-
arranged: the funds are ready : the regulations are
organized : the site is purchased—economy is ensured
—nothing, in short, is now required for the immediate
carrying out of the enterprise but the recog-
nition of its claims by the Legislature, and
the final approval of its plan by the Government.
With this record in its regard, we would here close
our observations on the National Mausoleum—
to demonstrate that it alone would be
adequate to encounter the difficulties of the
emergency, it is only needful to remark tha', esti-
mating the average amount of interments within the
metropolis at 50,000, there would be required for the
filling up of the projected cemetery at Woking, with
only one layer of bodie., no less a number of years
than—four hundred!

QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAV.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE MARQUIS OF BRISTOL
V. TME TITHE COMMISSIONERS.
Lord CAMPBELL intimated that the Court would relieve
counsel for the Commissioners from arguing this case. The
judgment of the Court would be given hereafter.
CAMROUX V. SMITH.
Lord CAMPBELL said the Court had great difficulty in
treating the question involved in this case as a pure matter
of law. They would, therefore, direct a new trial, in order
that the jury might determine whether the bankrupt was
di-qualified for carrying on his trade.—Rule absolute for a
new trial.

QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF THE GREAT WESTERN

RAILWAY V. TILLY !MST.

Lora CAMPBELL sai i this case was argued in June last, and
soon afterwards the Court stated the extreme difficulty
which they felt in satisfactorily applying the provisions of
the Parochial Assessment Act to the solution of the questio❑
presented for their decision, and expressed their conviction
that the point in dispute required the interposition of the
Legislature rather than the judgment of a Court at West-
minster. Parliament, however, had not thought right at
present to deal with the question, and it became the duty of
the Court, therefore, no longer to delay in giving their
judgment, which the parties had a right to demand. The
question had reference to the rating of 2i miles of the Berks
and Rants Railway, which passed through the respondent's
parish. This railway was at one time an independent line
of 25 miles in length, but had since become a branch of the
Great Western Railway. In order to arrive at the rateable
value of these 21/2 miles so as to make a proper assessment
the respondents treated the branch as an independent whole,
unconnected with the main line, taking the average annual
receipts upon it, and then deducting the expenses. The
separation of the branch from the trunk line made
a substantial difference to the company, because in one case
the assessment would amount to 251., and in the other 30/.
per mile. Now the Court thought the fusion of the two
lines was complete, the branch being abzorbed into the trunk,
and if the respondents had taken the gross receipts
per mile upon the whole, deducting the expenses, they would
have acted upon the true principle. The Court could, therefore,
not adopt he proposition of the respondents. The conse-
quence would be that the award must be referred back to
the arbitrators, to whom the parties were much indebted for
the labour and ability they had bestowed upon the case.
The Court trusted that the principles they had laid down
would enable the parties to agree satisfactorily, and prevent
further litigation on the subject.

REGINA v. MICHAEL GREEN, AND ANOTHER, V. OVERSEERS

OF GATESHEAD.

The Court discharged the rule which had been obtained
in this cause.
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DISMISSAL OF MR. RAMSHAY.

QUEEN v. POLLOCK (EXPARTR RAMSLIAY.)
Lord CAMPBELL said, this was a motion fur a rue to show
cause why an information in the nature of a quo warrant()
should not be filed against Mr. Pollock, calling upon him
to show by what authority he exercised the office of Judge
of the Liverpool County Court. The ground of the applica-
tion was, that when he was appointed to the office it was
not vacant, Mr. Ramshay, who formerly filled it, net having
been properly removed. The qoestion for the Court was,
whether, on the affidavits laid before them, M. Ramshay
was entitled to question the legality of his removal by means
of a quo warrant° against his successor. This depended
upon the true construction of the 9th and 10th Vic., c. 93,
8. 18, which enacted that it should be lawful for the
Lord Chancellor. if in the district of the Duchy of
Lancaster, for the Chancellor of that Duchy, to
remore for inability, or misbehaviour, any judge already
or hereafter to, be appointed. By a formal instru-
ment under the hand of the Earl of Carlisle, who was the
Chancellor of the Duchy, Mr. Ramshay was dismissed from
his office for inability and misbehaviour. The Court thought
this instrument was not asolutely conclusive, and that the
Chancellor exercised his authority in dismissing a judge, sub-
ject to the control of this Court, as laid down in the case of
the Queen v. Warren, but they could not insist on this docu-
ment setting out all the proceedings which were instituted
previous to removal. The Chancellor duly exercised his ju-
risdiction until the contrary was proved. It was open to Mr.
Ramshay to show that he was removed without receiving
notice of the charges against him, or without an opportunity of
being heard in defence, or that he was dismissed on insufficient
evidence; and in such a case the Court was bound to grant
a rule with the view of his being restored to an office from
which he had been illegally and improperly removed. But no
statements of that kind had been made, and the Court must
assume that the Chancellor had not acte on insufficient evi-
dence, or exceeded his authority. The affidavits seemed to lead
to the assumption that the removal was regular and justified,
and that Mr. Ramshay had shown misconduct, as well as ina-
bility, in the discharge of his important duties. It was
possible for a man to possess many excellent and amiable
qualities in private life, and yet to be proved of misconduct
and inability in the office of a judge. The Court considered
a rule ought not to be granted.—Application refused.

BOW-S'IREET,--(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles Nash, solicitor, formerly manager to the soli-
citors of the Great Western Railway Company, was brought
up before Mr. Jardine, on remand, charged with forging the
signature of Mr. Peter Hanystocke, of Wicklow, Ireland,
farmer, to a transfer of 196 shares in the Dublin and Wicklow
Railway Company, and further, with feloniously transferring
ten shares in the same company, the property of Mr. Michael
Kenny,of Dublin, builder. The main evidence for the prosecution
having been already heard, this day there was only the evi-
dence of Hanvstocke's father, who proved that he saw his son
on the ltith May last (as deposed) sign a paper connected
with his railway shares, at the request of Mr. Nash, to whom
he handed the paper so signed. The witness knew nothing
of the nature of the paper. The shares had been transferred
to his son by Capt. Owen, the agent of Lord Courtown, who is
this witness's landlord, for a farm of forty-nine acres. There
was nothing whatever paid by his son for the shares. Calls
had been paid on them by Captain Owen, and another call
was now made.

Mr. Peter Kelly admitted the signature shown him, but
said, when he signed, he thought it was a proxy paper.
Mr. Keane, barrister, for the prisoner, insisted that the
witnesses knew what they were signing, and alleged that the
prosecution was got up by the directors, with whom Mr.
Nash, who was a large shareholder, had been long in litiga-
tion. The shares were of no value, and the parties wished to
get rid of thena.—Fully committed.

GREENWICH ELECTION.
(THIS DAY.),
A little before eight o'clock this morning a vast concourse
of people, chiefly of the lower order, assembled at the hust-
ings at the corner of London-street, in High-street, Green-
wich, to witness the election of a Member or Parliament to
represent that borough. The nomination of two candidates
(Mr. Montaga Chambers, Q.C., and Admiral Houston
Stewart) took place yesterday, and has already been re-
poqed. The polling commenced at eight o'clock, and
the hourly number of votes from Woolwich was tele-
graphed to ;the committee, which sat at the White Hart
Tavern, Greenwich. Admiral Stewart was the favourite; his
amount of votes far exceeding that of his opponent, as will
be seen from the following figures :
The state of the poll at—
urn o'CLocK.
Admiral Stewart
Mr. Montagu Chambers ....

Majority for Admiral Stewart lO9
TEN O'CLOCK.
Admiral Stewart .. .. 744
Mr. Montagu Chambers 428
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Majority for Admiral Stewart 316
ELEVEN o'CLocK.
Admiral Stewart
648
Mr. Montagu Chambers

Majority for Admiral Stewart 591
TiVELVIS O'CLOCK.
788
1,663
Admiral Stewart... ......................
Mr. Montagu Chambers
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Mg. JUSTICE PATTESON.....Mr. Justice Patteson
will take leave of the Court of Queen's Bench this day on his
'retirement from the bench, and will be succeeded by Mr.
Crompton, the newly.appointed judge, who will take the
place of Mr. Justice Patteson in the ensuing circuit.
TESTIMONIAL TO MR. VINCENT,-The directors of
the Royal West India Mail Company are about to presen
Mr. Vincent, the midshipman, with a handsome gold watch
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-COLONEL IiEWES.—LjeUt.•
Colonel Hewes, in :he retired full pay of the Royal Marines,
died on the 2d inst.

THE ARCTIC SEARCHING EXPEDITION.—A- de-
cisive step towards the renewed search for Sir John Frank-
lin and his companions has at length been taken by the ap-
pointment of Sir Edward Belcher to the command of the
Arctic expedition. It is understood that the nominations
have included Captain Kellett as the second in command,
and Captain APClintock, and Lieutenant Sherard Osborn,
late of the Pioneer, to one of the steam tenders.
Salmon fishing has commenced in the Scotch
rivers, but at present with very indifferent SUC4O4II.

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