The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-04 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1837.

BRITISH FUNDS.

Bank Stock 204
3 per Cent. Ited. 891,4
3 per Cent. Con' WI%

Omni am
India Stock 258
Ditto Ronda 30 p.,

South Sea Stock
Ditto Old Annuities
Ditto New Arnuitien
Ex. Bills, 101,01 3O pm
Ditto 5091 30 pm.
Ditto 5001 30 pm.
Bank Stock for Opg.
India Stock for Act.
Consols for Act.
I FUNDS.
Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent.
Ditto, New Ditto 4B
Prussian, 5 per cent. ...» —
Russian Bands, 5 per cent
Ditto, Metallic
Spanish, 5 per cent
Ditto, Consolidated. 21%
French, 5 pci cent ...... —f. —c.
Exchange
French, 3 per cent —r c
Dutch, 2a percent. S3U
Ditto, 5 per cent. .100
SHA RES,
Birmingham and Derby Railway
Great Western Railway 4334
London and Brighton Railway (Rennie's)
London and Birmingham Railway
London and Southampton Railway l5
Manchester and Leeds Railway ......
Manchester South Union Railway
North Midland Railway l5
South Eastern, Brighton, Lewes, and Newhaven
No other variations in the Prices of Shares since our One o'clock
List

3c., per Cent.
3% per Cent. lied
New 3Y4 per Cent
4 per Cent. Assented
Dissented
Long Annuities to expire
Ja• 1860 l4 7-16
Oct 1850 ll 15-16
Jan. 1860 1454
YO ttEIG

Austrian, 5 per cent —
Belgian, 5 per cent —
Braillan Bonds ......... : .
Buenos Ayres, 6 per cunt —
Chinas) 6 per ten.
Colombian, 6 per cent. —
I)itto 1831
Danish, 3 per cent —
Greek Bonds, 1625, 5 per cent
Mexican, 5 per cent. —
Ditto, 6 per cent., 1825
Peruvian, 1825, 6 per cent l7

SECOND EDITION.
IiVIPERIAL PARLIAMENT,
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
The House of Lords stands adjourned till to-morrow.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the Chair at the usual hour.
YORK AND NORTH MIDLAND RAILWAY.

On the motion of Mr., LOWTHER, the York and
North Midland Railway Bill was read a third time and
passed. _ _ _

Nothing further of any importance took place up to the
time of our going to Press.

The health of the Duke of Buckingham, is con-
sidered in a very precarious state.

On Monday night last there was a numerous assem-
blage of rank, beauty, and fashion at the British Gallery,
Pall Mall, to view the pictures by gas light. The rooms were
splendidly illuminated with about 100 burners, tastefully ar-
ranged, and placed in the same direction as that in which the
daylight enters, so that the direction of the rays of light were,
with respect to the pictures, relatively the same ; but the effect
is more soft and pleasing, and yet the light is abundantly
strong, so that you can examine the finest parts of a work with
AS much clearness as in the broadest daylight ; the prome-
nading lasted for two hours (from nine until eleven), and it
would be difficult to discover a place where the admirers of
real living, as well as pictorial beauty, could spend an hour
more agreeably. The second and last assemblage this season
will take place on Friday next, at the same hour, and on the
evening of the following day the interesting Gallery will be
closed for this year, and the pictures bought and unbought will
be returned to their owners. About 60 'pictures have been
sold this season, which is much lower than the general average
of the sales in this Gallery.

MADRID, APRIL 17.—M. Santa Maines, the
Mexican Plenipotentiary at this Court, breathed his last at
nine o'clock yesterday, after a lingering illness of several
months. His remains have lain in state until this morning at
his apartments in the Calle del Desengano, and the funeral
will start this evening from the church of Porta Celi. He was
a most able and intelligent man, most anxious for the increas-
ing welfare of his country. I understand, from very good
authority, that the preliminaries of the treaty of commerce
and navigation between Spain and that Republic were adjusted
with him about ten days since, at which time he appeared to
be perfectly aware of his approaching dissolution, expressing
deep regret that be would no longer be in the land of the living
when the ratification of the treaty of peace and amity between
the two countries is received at Madrid next June. Whether
his Secretary is provided with the necessary !powers to assume
the post of Charge d'Affaires, or whether another Minister
from Mexico must be waited for before anything further can
be done, is what I have not yet been able to learn.
A suicide of a dreadful and most determined nature
took place in Horsham during the night of Monday, the 24th
ult., when a man named Peter Pollard, an under bailiff of the
Sheriff of Sussex, destroyed himself. Pollard was of the Ro-
man Catholic persuasion, and had the care of the chapel in
Horsham belonging to that ancient faith. He lived in the
house attached to the chapel, which was also occupied by a
family named Potter. He had much habituated himself to
drinking for several weeks past, up to within the last day or
two of his death, and to the horrid vice of drunkenness his pre
mature end may be attributed. He went to bed quite sober
on Monday night ; but on Tuesday morning it was discovered
that he had left his bed in the night and come down stairs
into, a small parlour, where he kept his shaving-box and razor
in a drawer ; it is supposed he opened the drawer, took out
the razor, and cut his throat. He then returned up stairs to
his room and got into bed. Finding, however, that the wound
he had inflicted was ineffectual, he left his bed again, and
fastening a small cord to the post at the foot of the bedstead,
with the other end completed his horrible design, and was
found a corpse early in the morning. An inquest was taken,
when the Jury, after hearing the evidence, returned a verdict
—" That deceased destroyed himself while labouring under
temporary degrangement."—Brighton Guardian.
EMU A TI 0 N.—The spur to virtue.--Andrew

CARLOW ELECTION COMMITTEE.
cr.

The Ciommittce intt to-&xy At the usual hour.
The room %Ins then cleared, and on onr return

The CHAIRMAN stated that the Committee; in considering
cast: of John Nowlan, felt considerablo difficulty in coming
to au th,,,,woi, voan In. law of this question. 'They found
that 4ifre4,,?):). upon the law ques-
tion 16Olye'cl h ific. argUnienft tifit4 yisteroa;
proposed
by Mr. Paige,Undei'aff the 6rennistadee§ !be Cornnee
bad decided to proceed the esM.6l6e its fbehesi itißOtiv of
meeting the justice of the case. N'ib's. boWeVe, WAS to be
sto..);.f. 0.4 keh' kture Consideration as the case tlitlif equitably
demand.
T'II •
Mr. TIIESSIGER then calle ••- ;'ot; who deposed to the
conversation which he had with Nowlan, his not being
entitled to ?otc for the 14 acres which he said he he.:C..
Cross-cAamined by Mr. Mact.F..—He said he was a Soli-
citor. Nowlan resides with his mother, on the ground which
l:e says he is entitled to tate for; he is in possession of the
garden only. about a quarter of an acre; I think a Mr, Doyle
and tt Mr. Kelly have part of the ground, it is generally said
so ; I live atoOt five miles from NowVan'a house; hQ was unwil-
ling to come to ttW because he owed nit some money Mr.
Cummins is no relation id I was opposed to Nowlan in
the last t?lection for Carlow.

Re-ex amieed )y Mr. MESSMER.-1 hail" a perfect recollec-
tion of what I have stateti so-day to the Cornminee.

Examined by the Ciimas'A:l'l—Cummins has beer: n client
of mine between six and seven years; I never prepared
deed of assignment for the 27 acres.
Mr. TITESSIGEn addressed the Committee against the vote.
Mr.. MAULE replied in a very able and ingenious speech,
contending that no man ought to be disfranchised on such evi-
dence as that given by Mr. Elliot. The room was then
cleared, and on our return in about half au hour, the CHAIR-
MAN said the Committee had decided that the vote should not
be struck off.

COURT OF CHANCERY-THIS DAY.

SMITH V. IWRLOCK.

. .
The Loen CHANCELLOR gave judgment this morning in
this case, which was an appeal from a decision of the Master
of the Rolls, directing the retaxation of a solicitor's bill.
The question involved in the case, which was one not only of
importance to solicitors but to the public generally was,
whether after a solicitor's bill had been paid, it could be re-
taxed. Considerable doubts had been entertained by the
profession on the subject, which will be set at rest by
the present decision. The short facts of the case ap-
peared from the statements of his Lordship to be as
follows. :—ln the year 1818, Messrs. Goode were the soli-
citors of a gentleman named Yerns in certain suits in which
he was a defendant, and they so continued to the period of his
death in 1833. Upon that occasion the present petitioners
took out administration to the estate of Mr. Yerns, and in Oc-
tober, 1833, they employed other solicitors, of the name of
Harris and Hyde, and the employment of Messrs. Booth
ceased. In the year 1835 the bill of Messrs. Booth was
delivered to tho petitioners, and the balance due to
these gentlemen of 510/. was paid shortly afterwards,
when Messrs. Booth delivered up part of the papers belonging
to the late Mr. Yerns. The petitioners, upon obtaining the
papers, conceived that many of the items of the bill were
highly objectionable, and presented a petition to the Master of
the Rolls to have it retaxed. Upon the case coming an be-
fore the Master of the Rolls, his Lordship ordered the re-
taxing, and from that decision the present appeal was
brought. The Lord Chancellor, after going at some
length into the authorities on the subject, particularly the
different decisions of Lord Eldon, stated his opinion to
be, that solicitors were not liable to have their bills
retaxed, after they had been taxed and paid, upon a general
assertion that many parts of the bill were objectionable. In
his Lordship's opinion, a solicitor was entitled to have those
objections specifically set out in any petition for re-taxation,
and proved. His Lordship therefore felt compelled to dis-
charge the order made by the Master of the Rolls.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)

HOSEASON V. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied this morning, in this case
for a writ of mandamus or commission to the Chief Justice
and Judges of the Supreme Court at Madras, for the purpose
of taking evidence in the suit on the part of the defendants,
the East India Company, under the provisions of 13 Geo. 3,
chap. 63. The application was supported by the affidavits of
Mr. Lawford, the Solicitor of the East India Company, who
stated that the cause was at issue in the Supreme Court at
Madras, and that the evidence of the witnesses was necessary
to the due hearing of the cause. _

The VIOE.CHiNCELLOR immediately granted the appli.
cation.

GOODWIN V. SIR ANDREW LEITH HAY AND OTHERS. '

Mr. KNIGHT applied this morning, ex parte, for an injunction
to restrain the defendant Sir A. Leith Hay arid the other Di-
rectors and Bankers of the Deptfoi d and Dover Railway Com-
pany, from issuing or parting with any Exchequer Bills or
other Securities which they had received in their character
of Directors of the Company.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR granted the injunction, but as the
application was ex parte, we refrain from entering into the par-
ticulars at present. His Honour rose before twelve o'clock,
having no motion to proceed with.'

KING'S BENCH—(THIS DAY.)
No case of interest occurred in this Court up to the time of
our going to press.

EXCHEQUER COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The Court was occupied up to 12 o'clock with motions on
mere points of practice. Many important causes were put off
in consequence of the absence of Mr. Baron Parke, who very
unfortunately had a fall from his horse in coming down to
Court. His Lordship has received several severe bruises, but
we were given to understand no bones were broken.
The Court rose at the above hour.

At the rising of the Court, Mr. HUMPREY presented a peti-
tion from the prisoners confined in the King's Bench prison,
complaining of the heavy fees they were compelled to pay on
suing out a writ of habeas corpus, and praying their Lord-
ships to take measures for abolishing them.