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London, England, 1830-04-15 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 15, 1830,

EVIDENCE ON THE EAST INDIA COMPANY'S

CHARTER.
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IL before the SELECT COMMITTEES of 'the
HOUSES of LORDS and COMMONS, appointed to
inquire into the present STATE of the AFFAIRS of the.
EAST INDIA COMPANY; and into the TRADE be-
tween GREAT BRITAIN, the EAST INDIES, and
CHINA.

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THE NERVOUS SYSTEM,
By CHARLES BELL, F.R.S.,
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Appendix of Cases and Consultations, illustrative of the
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By EDWARD PELHAAI BRENTON, Esq.
Captain in the Royal Navy, and Author of the Naval

History of Great Britain.

London ; C. Rice, Mount-rtreet, Berkeley-square.

This day was published, in foolscap, price 6s.
IMILDA DE' LAMBERTAZZI; and
other Poems.

By SOPHIA MARY BIGSBY.
London : Hurst, Chance, and Co., 65, St. Paul's
Church-yard.

WHITE'S SELI3ORNE.—NEW EDITION.
This day was published, in One Vol. foolscap, price ss. 6d.
¶FIE NATURAL HISTORY of SEL-
BORNE,
By the late Rev. GILBERT WHITE, A.M., Fellow of
Oriel College, Oxford.
A New Edition, with Additions, by Sir WILLIAM
JARDINE, Bart.
London : Hurst, Chance, and Co. ; and Constable,
and Co., Edinburgh.

This day was published, in Two large Vols. Bvr.,
Price 21s.

rTHE HISTORY OF THE HEBREW
COMMONWEALTH, from the Earliest Times to
the Destruction of Jerusalem, A.D. '72.
Translated from the German of JOHN JAHN, D.D.
With a Continuation to the Time of Adrian.
By CALVIN E. STOWE.

"This very able work of Professor Jahn, ono of4the
most learned of Continental biblical scholars, has long
been a desideratum in the English language. In present-
ing, therefore, the excellent work of Dr. Jahn to the
English leader, Mr. Stowe has performed a very accept-
able service, and deserves great praise both for undertaking
so laborious a task, and for the creditable manner in which
he has executed it. No biblical student should be with-
out it, and it may be riad with interest and profit by the
general inquirer."—Monedy Review, June, 1829. See
also Literary Gazette, August 1, 1829.
Kndon : Hurst, Chance, and Co., 65, St. Paul's
Church-yard.

CHRISTCHURCH., SURREY.

SECOND DAY.

This morning the poll commenced with consider-
able spirit.
MAPLEToN, the !lector, presided, and Mr.
MErmorr, the late Vestry•clerk, attended for the
" old party," as they were termed by some, by way
of distinction from the " Huntites, or reformists ;"
and Mr. MAITLAND for the latter.

The poll was conducted throughout the day with
tolerable good humour, until the clock struck six,
when the books were cast up, and there appeare—

CHURCHWARDEN.

For M. Webb, as pro- I Mr. Davies, as pro.
posed by Mr. Hunt, posed by Mr. Hawes, .
Mr. Wooler, and I Mr. Davey, and
others
COMMISSIONERS OF THE. COURT OF REQUESTS.

As proposed "by Mr.
Hunt, Mr. Wooler,

As proposed by Mr.
Hawes, Mr. Davey,

and others. ....... . Lig I and 'others
AUDITORS OF PARISH ACCOUNTS.

As proposed by Mr. As proposed by Mr.
Hunt, Mr. Wooler; : Hawes, Mr. Davey,
and others 67• and others
VESTRY CLEW, )IR. 'KEY:MOTT.

Supported by' Mr. I Against him, as op-
Hawes, Mr. Davey, I posed :)y Mr. Hoot,
and others Nit Mr. Wooler, and
others 42
Against it

For the grant of 400
guineas to the Rector 245
At eight o'clock the m,

:eting adjourned.

THE PARIS ESTAFETTE.

Some of our leading merchants are earnestly en-
gaged in measures for bringing about an improve- '
merit in the Post-office communications with France
and the South of Europe. These depend more or
less on the Paris estafelte, an arrangement which
has now existed- nearly twelve months, but -from
which all the advantages of which it is susceptible
are certainly not as yet derived. Even with regard
to the Paris mellants and the direct communica-
tion with Lendarby the estVette, there appear to
exist impedithents which betoken any thing but a
zealous cc-operation on our side of the Channel.
These difficulties and the proper remedy for them
are well pointed out in the annexed letter from one
of the first commercial houses in Paris. to which
we have been requested to give publicity :

" PARIS, APRIL 11.

" In establishing the estafette, our administration
of the Post-office has shown great attention to the
wishes and the advantage of merchants. It has de-
frayed the whole of the expence, a very small part
of which has been hitherto covered by the increased
rate of postage. It would have seemed natural that
the administration of the English Post•oliice should
also make some efforts to facilitate the correspon-
dence by estafette, especially as a pecuniary sacri-
fice was not so much required as more expedition in
the conveyance of the bags. But your Post-office
has not co-operated with ours in endeavouring to
improve the means of communication between the
two countries ; and we therefore address you, in
hopes that the merchants of London, and your house
in particular, will make an application to the Board
of Trade, or the beads of other offices, in order to
induce them to accelerate the service of the estafette
as much as possible. The following are the princi-
pal points to which attention is requested by our
Direction des Posies:—

" 1. The estafette bag is despatched from Calais
by a special boat, which generally arrives at Dover
in time for the London mail. But it happens some-
times, and particularly in winter, that the boat ar-
rives at Dover after the mail-coaches have set off,
and then the estafette letters, which the French
post-office has sent by express, are detained twenty-
four hours at Dover, and go by the mail of next
day ! In such cases, which are not of frequent oc-
currence, it is desirable that the English post-office
will either have the bag sent by express from Dover
to London, as is practised for the regular mails which
are landed late, or order the mail-coach to wait at
Dover for such letters. It may be observed here,
that it would be much better that the mhil-coach
should set off from Dover at midnight, instead of
eight o'clock ; the Calais boat would then always
reach Dover in time, and with proper despatch the
mail-coach might arrive in London by eight o'clock
in the morning.
" 2. It is necessary, for the delivery of the letters
at Paris- in convenient time, that the express sta:t•
from Calais by two o clock in the afternoon, which
cannot be done unless the English packet sail from
Dover at nine o'clock-in' the morning. This can
easily be accomplished, even when the mail leaves
London at midnight; but it frequently happens that
the private interest of the captains of packets
duces them to remain at Doverfor passengers till a
late hour, and consequently they arrive at Calais
only in the evening, thus rendering it impossible to
deliver the letters at Paris till after the hours of
business. Strict orders, then, should be given by

your Post-office that the estqfette letters should be
despatched from Dover for Calais at nine o'clock at •
least, and that the packet get out pf harbour earlier
whenever the tide does not alloW it to be done at
that hour.
" If the trade of London set any value on the
continuance of the estifette, it is absolutely requisite
that they induce your Post.oftice to assist ours on the
above points, or any others of the same kind which
we may not be aware of. Otherwise this advanta-
geous establishment must be given up."
But besides the facilities here sought for, and
which appear too reasonable to be withheld long
after a wish expressed to that effect, it is the opinion
of the merchants here, that the French esfifelte
system is capable of being usefully extended, in con-
nexion with the German, Italian, and Spanish moils,
as well as the communications generally with the
Mediterranean, Greece, Egypt, and the coast of
Africa. As this embraces a very wide range, it may
be some time before the plans under consideration
will be sufficiently matured to meet the public eye;
but the subject being a highly important one to the
interests of our commercir and manufactures, it is
proposed occasionally to revert to it under this head,
as new materials shall present themselves.—Timm

TouLoN, APRIL 4.--It is reporte3 here
that two English merchantmen, in attempting to enter
Algiers, have been detained by the blockading squadron.
Since March, 1315, there have not been so
many departures from France for England as have taken
place during the last fortnight. No fewer than 1,095
persons have embarked at Calais within that space of time,
when the arrivals during the same period were only
.305.
—Galignani's Messenger.

TURNING A CORNER : CENTRIFUGAL
FoacE•—A
carriage, or horseman, or pedestrian, passing a
corner moves in a curve, and suffers a centrifugal force,
which increases with the velocity, and which impresses
on the body a force directed from the corner. An animal
causes its weight to resist this force, by voluntarily in-
clining its body towards the corner. As the velocity is
increased, the centrifugal force is also increased, and
greater inclination of the body is neces-
sary resist it. We accordingly find that the more
rapidly
rpeideflo to
yre a
a corner is turned, the more the animal inclines his
body towards it. A carriage, however, not having volun-
tary motion, cannot make this compensation for the dis-
turbing force which is called into existence by the gradual
change of direction of the motion; consequently it will,
under certain circumstances, he overturned, falling of
course outwards, or from the corner.—Dr. Lardner's
Cabinet Cycloptedia, Vol. V.

PRICE ID.

PARLIAMENT-LAW REFORM.

" My object is to abolish every technical form which
is not absolutely necessary for the purposes of the impartia'
administration of justice."—Speech of Mr. Peel, 18th Feb.
18$0.

The work of reform is seriously commenced.
The announcement of Mr. Peel, which we have
prefixed as a motto, is worth all that has been
in the way of reform since the revolution. It is
the first step, indeed, of a great revolution, by
which human reason is to regain its ascendancy
over technicalities and forms, and by which law
itself is to be subjected to the principles and
rules of morals and common sense. Law, both
as to power and appetite, had become a monster
who domineered over and threatened to swallow

up every thing. Oppressive to all, and disgust-
ing even to its own progeny, the time was come
when a stand must be made against it ; and Mr.
Peel has obtained unfading laurels by the man-
ner in which he entered into and is still perse-
vering in the contest. In the criminal law he
has already repealed 272 Acts of Parliament, the
whole being now condensed into eight, and no
inconvenience, he states officially, has resulted
from either the repeal or the substitution.
On the evening of last Thursday, Mr. Peel
stated to the House and the country, what is
now intended to be done in our civil courts.
His preliminary step is the introduction of a
Bill to enable the Crown to deal with all vested

interests and patent offices in courts of justice—
to remove at once and for ever those numerous
and troublesome obstructions in the way of im-
movement. This is an excellent and important
preasure. He is to cut off' 500/. from the
Judges' salaries, reducing them to 5,000/. per
annum ; to consolidate all the laws respecting the
coin of the realm, offences under which are to
be no longer high treason ; and he is to conso-
lidate likewise all the laws regarding forgery.
Another proposal is to get rid of eight Welch
Judges, by creating two English ones, by which
means, we have no doubt, the Welch will obtain
better, and the English more justice. The
Parliamentary and judiciary functions, at present
united in the Welch .Tudges, will thus be dis-
united ; and what is hardly of less moment, the
same individual will no longer go permanently
the same small circuits, by which, as Mr. Peel
most justly observed, local and personal attach-
ments mast unavoidably be formed. This
remark applies still more emphatically to the
present state of our Sheriff-deputyships ; for,
learned and honourable as this body certainly
are, they cannot all be proof against human in-
firmity. Another excellent position was taken
by Mr. Peel. If the Welch forms be better
than the English—if justice can be obtained
through their means better and cheaper—let
them, lie said, be extended to England—let
them be diffused over the kingdom !—The same
principle applies to our Scotch forms. If we
have any under which "justice can be expedited
or obtained at a lesser expense," Mr. Peel is
bound to adopt them ; while, on the other side,
if there be English forms under which Scotland
might profit in the same way, we are bound to
receive them.

Mr. Peel, unquestionably, is bound to carry
his great principle, of abolishing every technical
form not absolutely necessary to the impartial
administration ofjustice into Scotland ; and if he
do so to the letter, the boon will be invaluable.
Away would go infefments, signet-letters, with
innumerable other forms ; away would go the
Bill-chamber, the Commissmy Court entirely,
and the Court of Exchequer, as well as the
Court of Admiralty. But this is anticipating.
What has been announced is, that the Jury
Court is to be abolished, its function of trying,
by jury being transferred to the Court of Ses-
sion, and care being taken to preserve for that
Court the benefit of the Lord Chief Commis-
sioner's talents and experience ; that the separate

jurisdiction of the High Court of Admiralty
shall be abolished ; that the Judges in the Com-
missary or Consistorial Court shall be reduced
from !bur to one, while the right of trying all
queltions of legitimacy, marriage, and divorce,
is to be transferred from that Court to the Court
of Session ; and that some reduction may be
made in the Court of Session—the number of
Judges connected with each Division being pro-
bably reduced from seven to five, and two of the
principal clerks dispensed with ; while a saving
may thus be obtained annually of about 10,0001.
Mr. Peel did not disclose what is intended to
be done respecting the Sheriffs: Courts; but
concluded an able speech with the remark, that
whatever may be the value we attach to our in-
stitutions, it might surely be conceded that they
may be altered with propriety, when that altera-
tion is to be attended with an improvement in
the moral state, the public prosperity, and pri-
vate comforts of the people—to effect which,
nothing, he said, could tend more strongly than
measures calculated to preserve the rights and
vindicate the wrongs of individuals, as expedi-
tion, purity, and diminished expense in the ad-
ministration of justice must assuredly do. And,
for this noble declaration, he had the cheers of
the House as he will have the hearts of the
people
The spirit in which these reforms are conceived,
and the objects aimed at, cannot be spoken of
too highly. We only regret that Mr. Peel does
not go far enough, and that in carrying his mea-
sures into effect he will be misled. He does
well in utterly abolishing the High Court of
Admiralty ; it was only an absurd stage on the
road to justice ; but some of its forms—its pre-
cepts, arrestmenss, and modes of pleading,
were cheap and prompt, and these ought not to
be lost sight of in the more cumbrous and fric-
tion-obstructed machinery of the Court of Ses-
sion. And why is not the Commissary Court
utterly abolished also ? The Clerk could most
easily take charge of confirmations and other
routine matters as an appendage to our Sherifi-
court; its higher business is, very properly, to
be transferred to the Court of Session, and, as
to the jurisdiction which it has in common with
the last-mentioned Court and Judges-ordinary,
no provision would have been necessary.
But why, of all other monstrosities of the
law, is the Bill-Chamber not to be got rid of?
We do not mean.that its functions should be
,riionrterCdioettisr,ts. Quite
annihilated—that there should be no means of
sxeocfutiinofrei
obtaining tat or reviews
the contrary. We could ensure and enlarge all
the powers and duties of what is called the Bill-
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