The Sun.
London, England, 1839-07-01 00:00:00

'l, 1839,

L COURT.

dreds by the detention from his business, and that a few
xiiintues would have sufficed to have given some directions
to 80 or 90 men in' his employ, of iilnite importance in
his business. He should be a great sufferer.
The Learned JUDGE said he much regretted the incon-
venience to which the Jury were subjected by this unex-
ampled trial, but it was not in the vower of, the Court to
give thein any furexr relief than it had done. The
county would require their services three days loafer, s 8 ilC'll
he should be able to dismiss them to their honic, awl their
'business.

'ft,e Jury looked st.,N.••hed, anti these was s-on, grum•
Wing among. them. Oae gentleman said he had not terse
. '••• and ciiiireir morning,•wrid aip..her
he had to settle which he wa6 pce•
ve,,t,-ct doing by his detention.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE said the Jury could not be le•
s;parkted ; they muF,t remain too: ales- in the
officers, ,sho would make them •,
Asible. They cuuld take their •
:;;other on Sunday, within the 4 ';l'
The Jury bowed in woful silenc!t, and Atoide
ihe officers of the Sheriff,

LOWER ViNADA GOVERNII.I

A BILL TO AMEND AN ACT OF THE LAST SESSION OF

PARLIAMENT, FOR MAKING TEMPORARY PROVI3ION

FOR THE GOVERNMENT OF LOWER CANADA•
Mute.—The words printed in Italics :.err; prUplls•ed to

inserted in the Committee.
Whereas an Act was passed in the 31 st year of the
of his late Nliijesty King George the Third, in-
tituled " An Act to repeal certain parts of an Act passed
in the fourth year of his Majesty's reign, intituled ' An

Act for making snore effectual provi•non for the govo.n-
ment of the province of Qaebec, in North America, and
to make further provision for the government of the said
province f" whereby, among other things, it was en-
acted, that there should be within. each of the provinces
of Upper Canada and Lower Canada. respectively, a
Legislative Council and an Assembly, to be constituted
in manner therein described, and with such powers and
authorities as therein mentioned ;

And whereas an Act,was passed in the last Session of
Parliament, intituled "An Act to make temporary
provision for the Government of Lower Canada
whereby it was enacted, that from the Proclamation o
the Act until the Ist day of November, 1840, so mini
of the said Act of the 31st year of the reign of his Ma
jesty King George.the Third, and of any other Act o
Acts of Parliament as provides for the constitution or
calling of a Legislative Council or Assembly for the
province of Lower Canada, or confers any powers or
functions upon them, or either of them, should cease ;
and by the said Act now in recital provision is- made
in the mean time for the appointment by her Majesty of
is Special Council for the affairs of Lower Canada, and
for the making of laws or ordinances for the Government.
of the said province by the Governor thereof, with the
advice and-consent of the majority of the Councillor,:
present at any meeting of the Council ; and whereas it
is expedient that some of the provisions contained in the
said lastly recited Act should be altered ;
Be it therefore enacted, by the Queen's Most Excel-
lent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this
present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of
the same. that the number of Councillors forming the
Special Council in manner provided by the said Act,
pass,(l in the last Session of Parliament, shall not be
less than twenty.
And be it enacted, that from and immediately aster
the passing of this Act, so much of the said recited Act
passed in the last Session of Parliament as provides that
;,o law or ordinance made by the Governor of the said
province of Lower Canada, with such advice and consent
as there n mentioned, shall continue in force beyond No.
vember 1, 1842, unless continued by competent autho-
rity, shall be and the same is hereby repealed : Provided
lattays, that no law or ordinance which by the terms
and provisions thereof may be made to continue in force
after the said first day of November, 1842, shall be con-
firmed or left to its operation by her Majesty until such
Ivy or ordinance shall first have been laid for thirty days
ieforc both Houses of Parliament.
- And be it enacted, that from and immediately after
the passing of this Act, so much of the said recited Act
passed in the last session of Parliament as provides that
it shall not be lawful by any such law or ordinance as
herein mentioned to impose any tax, duty, rate, or im-
post, save only in so far as any tax, duty, rate or
impost, which at the passing of that Act, was payah!e
within the said province of Lower Canada might be
continued, shall be and the same is hereby repealed :
Provided always that it shall not he lawful for the said
Governor, with such advice and consent as afore-
said, to make any law or ordinance imposing or
iuthorising the imposition of any new tax, duty,
,-ate, or impost, except for carrying into cif:ct local
improvements within the said province of Lower
Canada, or any district or local divisiai thereof, or
for the establishment or maintenance of police, or
)ther objects of municipal government, within any city,
or town, or district, or other local division of the said
province. Provided also, that no such new tax, rate,
duty, or impost shall be levied by or made payable to the
Receiver-General, or any other public officer of her
Majesty's revenue in the said province, nor shall
any such law or ordinance as aforesaid, provide for the
appropriation of any such new tax, duty, rate, or im-
post, by the said Governor, either with or without the
advice of the Executive Council of the sail: province, or
,y the Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, or by
any other officer of the Crown.
And be it enacted, that from and after the passing gi
'his Act, so much of the recited Act passed in the last
ies=ion of Parliament as provides that it shall mot be
',awful for any such law or ordinance as therain men-
Toned to repeal, suspend, or alter any provision of any
Act of Parliament of Great Britain, or of the Par-
;iament of the United Kingdom, or of any Act of the
Legislature of Lower Canada, as then constituted, re-
pealing or altering any such Act of Parliament shall be
'rid the same is hereby repealed : Provided always, that
it shall not be lawful for the said Governor, with such
:advice and consent as aforesaid, to, make any law or
ordinance altering or affecting the temporal or spiritual
"fights of the Clergy of the United Church of England
find Ireland, or of the ministers of any other religious
communion : Provided also, that if any law or ordi•
:lance shall be made by the said Governor, with such
advice and consent as aforesaid, altering or affecting the
tenure of land within the said province of Lower Ca-
nada, or any part thereof, the operation of every such
iaw or ordinance shall, by the terms thereof, be sus-
pended for the signification of her Majesty's pleasure,
and no such law or ordinance shall be cocfirmed or left
to its operation by her Mak sty until the same shall have
hen first laid for thirty days before both Houses of
Parliament.
And be it enacted, that every law or ordinance to he
raade by the said Governor, with such advice and con-
sent as aforesaid, shall, before the passing or enactment
thereof, he published at length in the public Gazette of
the said province of Lower Canada, and shall not he
finally passed or enacted until the expiration 'of seven
lays from the date of such pshlication.
And be it enacted, that, for the purposes of this Act,
`lie person authorised -to 'execute the commission of
Governor of the Province of Lower Canada shill ho
taken to he the Governor thereof.
And be it enacted, that this Act may be amended or
repealed by any Act to be passed during 'the present
Session of Parliament.

- -- -
LANDLORD AND TENANT.—In the Sheriffs
Court on Tuesday, an action was brought by Horace
Griffin, Esq., against Mr. Wardroper, of Weiheek-strect,
Aka- an excessive distress. It appeared that Mr. Griffis,
and his family had taken apattrndnts in the house of Mr.
• Wardroper in July last, at four guineas a week, and they
were t 4 be occupied till the 30th of March following.
The rent was regularly paid, and on the 30tir of Mirch
several boxes, containing plate. linen, &e. of the.
value of five or sirOinttCrlreirpounds, Were placed in the
hall for the purpose of removal ; but the footman, by in ilex
f Mr. Wardroper, refused to al ow theni to be taken
.:way till a sum of 181. 193. 3d. had heen paid for clilanida-
.ions. Mr. Griffin did not come honie till eight at night.
.vher, it was too late to r'move, and the—partcr, who 'glad
barn waiting since four o'clock, was discharged, It wrs
also proved that during a part of the time the stre, t. door
had been locked. The consequence was that Mr. Griffin
had been obliged to remain till Saturday, the Fridpy
being Good Friday, when, after several offers, the money
was accepted at ten minutes to twe!ve, when Mr. Ward-
roper said, if Mr. Griffin and his family did net leave in
ten minutes, he would charge them an advanced week's
rent of nine guineas. The plaintiff's case was proceeding,
when the Under-Sheriff suggested to the counsel, Mr.
Anderson and Mr. WheatlY, whether some arrangement
could not be come to, and a verdict of 201. was agreed on.
The foreman of the jury said if he had been kept there
much longer, he should have given three times the
amount...--( A laugh.)
DEATH FROM NOXIOVS VAPOUR.—On
Friday an inquest was held at the tap-house belonging to
the brewery of Messrs. Manners, Furze, and Marshall, in
Old Castle-street, Wbitechapel, before Mr. Baker, on the
body of David Feld, aged 33 years. From the statement
of Thomas Fani,ing it appeared that on Wednesday after-
noon the deceased, who was a drayman to the above firm,
was sent to pump a bucket of stale beer from a tank in the
floar about seven feet deep, Finding that he could only
pump up about half the bucket full, and thinking that there
was something the matter with the pump itself, the deceased
raised a flap at the end of the tank, and having procured a
ladder descended into the tank, where he was suffocated
from the accumulation of carbonic acid gas, which was ge-
nerated by the late contents of the vessel. He Was missed
in about ten minutes afterwards, and the witness Fanning
had very narrowly escaped a similar fate in attempting to
go down the ladder to his assistance. 11.,ecased had been
fur many years employed in the br,twery, and %%as well
aware of the danger conseqnent on entering a vessel such
as that in which he had lost his life. The jury withelt
hesitation returned a verdict to the affect that deceased
had lost his life by accident find misfortune, and that no one
was to blame in the unfortunate transaction.

We are glad to learn that it has been determined
to illuminate the Horse Guards clock at night. It will be
done by the Bude light, under the direction of Mr.
Gurney, whose plan of lighting te House of Commons is
now under consideration of a Select Committee. The
pi:.inciple of blimination is to be that of reflection upon
the fuee of the dial, and not of transparency, as is the
itiumiFmed clicks ,Letcopoliz.
The arrangements 4 cot leted iii the course of the
osiliqg_vveck.