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London, England, 1837-01-23 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JANUARY 23, i 837.

gregations in London and twelve miles round, will
have an interview with Lord JOHN RUSSELL on the
subject of Church-rates to-merrow
We are glad to present our readers with this fact,
as we.have no doubt his Lordship will take the oppor-
tunity to set the minds or right thinking Churchmen
and Dissenters at rest, by giving the deputation an
af;suranee that the Ministry have determined on the
total and final abolition of' a tax so hateful to most,
and degrading to all classes of the community.
- The determination of the Dissenters in and about
London having been so unequivocally expressed, the
deputation will . doubtless convince his Lordship, if it
should be needful, of the imperative necessity of carry-
ing the. measure speedily, and without any attempt at
Commutation.
We think it right, however, to put the Dissenters
throughout the country on their guard : they must
rely on their own energy, and the justice of their de
mands, and not on the good will or favourable expres-
sions of any Administration whatever. Let them re-
member the expression of Lord JOHN RUSSELL last
year, that " he believed there would be great excite-
ment on this subject for a short time, but that it would
soon subside, and all would be quiet again in that
quarter."
Judging from the tone - which the Dissenters now
take, we think the apathy foretold by Lord JOHN
RUSSELL is not at all likely to succeed the present
state-of excitement. We know measures arc about to
be commenced for, carrying on, through the country, a
systematic opposition to the re-election of every Mem-
ber who shall oppose the total abolition of Church-
rates. The Dissenters will prove at the next gen :ral
election, not only their power as a body, but their sin-
cerity and zeal in this cause, by turning out those who
have betrayed them, or been found opposed to their
equitable and conscientious demands. We shall return
to this subject ; in the mean time we warn the Dis-
senters to be vigilant and watchful—they have many
disguised as well as open foes to contend against.
There can be no doubt that Ministers are favourably
disposed towards them, but Ministers can judge of the
interest felt by the Dissenters in this question only
the public manifestations of it made by them. Let it
then never be forgotten, that these manifestations are
as much the duty of the one party, as to act according
to them is the duty of the other.

Our Dublin Correspondent states that accounts
have been received in that city of the death of Mr.
KAVANAGH, one of the Members for the county of
Carlow, and adds, " this has been for some time a
Tory county, but very little doubt now exists of its be-
ing restored to the people. Mr. VIGORS is generally
mentioned as the sure successor of Mr. KA VENAGH, and
it is very questionable whether any person will even
attempt to oppose him on this occasion. In fact,
the faction have lost their greatest support there
in the death of the late representative. Mr.
KAVANAGH was a good landlord, but his son and heir
is a minor, and cannot for many years claim the be-
nefit of his father's character in the country. In this
state of things all doubts as to the conduct of the electors
at the next contest are removed. Should there be a
contest at all, Mr. VIGOR S will be sent to Parliament by
a triumphant majority." .We are glad to hear this.
Mr. VIGORS is a Reformer of tried _ worth and
experience ; of high standing among his countrymen ;
well acquainted with Tory tactics ; and prompt,
fearless, and uncompromising in exposing them. For
.years he has been a staunch, unwearied advocate of
liberal principles—a fact which the Carlow electors
will; we are persuaded, keep foremost in their minds,
at the approaching election.. It is impossible' that they
can have a representative more every way qualified to
support their interests than Mr.• VIGORS. The
Tories will, of course, make a desperate effort to main-
tain their ascendancy ; the usual electioneering threats
and persuasions will be resorted to ; but Mr. VI GORs
is the very man to neutraliEe all their efforts. Had lie
been in Parliament when Colonel BRUEN made his
famous Carlow defence, the Hon. and Gallant Mem-
ber would, we suspect, have pretty considerably
sobered down the high flown character of his
oratory ; and pitched his. .praises' of himself in a far
lowg key. It will give us sincere pleasure to see Mr.
VIGORS sitting, in the'next session, on the same side
• of the Rouse with O'CONNELL ; supporting, with his
best energies, all that Gentleman's measures for
the improvement of the Sister-country. - But, in
order that, this may be effected, the electors of
Carlow must be, betimes, on the alert : wherefore we
say to them, lose not a moment, but take the field at
once with all your conibined forces ; your enemy is
powerful, and-is only to be circumvented by prompti-
tude, energy, and union.

Under the head of Ireland, in another column, will
be seen a summary of the proceedings which took place
at the General Association on Thursday last. They
are important, inasmuch as the resolutions relative to
the- tithe question adopted by that body, on the motion
of Mr. O'CONNELL, may be considered as speaking
on the subject to which they refer the all but universal
sentiment of the Sister country The mutual explana-
tions afforded by Mr. O'CONNELL and Mr. S.
CRAWFOR9, with the reiterated declaration of the
opposite views unhappily entertained by each of these
Iron. Gentlemen, will also be read with some interest.

—The whole of the Paris Papers of Friday and Sa-
tiiiday have been received. . On the former day the
Chamber of Deputies closed its debates Upon the ad-
dress in-answer to the speech from the Throne, which
was ultimately carried by ,a majority of 242 votes
against 157. The only amendment moved by the
Liberal Opposition was that of M. ODILLON BAR-
ROT, relative to the recognition of the nationality of
Poland. The majority obtained by Ministers was
much greater than they had anticipated, and was, in
fa-ct, the result of a sudden panic among the Deputies.
On the 18th, the Court of Assizes of the Lower Rhine
concluded the trial of the prisoners accused of having_
joined Prince Louis BONAPARTE at the revolt of
Strasburg. A host of witnesses proved their participation
in an open rebellion against the ORLEANS dynasty; the
facts were notorious and avowed ; nevertheless the Jury
acquitted the whole of them! The Judges ratified the
sentence, and the verdict was hailed with the loudest-
acclamation's by the populace and the garrison. The
effect of such intelligence upon the Chamber may be
easily conceived. The timid crowded round Ministers,
and overwhelmed them with demonstrations of anxiety,
and offers of support. The consequence was, that the
Address was supported by the great bulk of the
'll.Oyalist faction, and the rndie.7 timid -of the Juste
Milieu, who otherwise would .-Itovq Ainittd With M.
THIERS in voting against it.
In the sitting of the Chamber on Saturday, the
PRESIDENT read the KING'S answer to the Address,
which had been presented to his Majesty by a Depu-
tation appointed for that purpose. It was couched in
the following words :

" Gentlemen—l felt an anxious desire to have another
opportunity of expressing to you how deeply my heart is
penetrated with the liveliest sense of the affectinate senti-
ments professed by you towards me in those moments of
sorrowful memory when Providence shrouded me and my
family from the perils we have shared in common so often.
I Welcome with gratitude the prospect which you held out
to me of finding that henceforward France, freed from new
revolutions will be also preserved from witnessing any fur-
ther attempts of so odious a nature, and of which you have
so well defined the causes and the object. Yes, gentlemen,
strong in the persevering concurrence which during six
years I have experienced at your hands, strong in the sup-
port of the irresistible will of the nation which has called
me to the Throne, and my sons after me, to maintain invio-
late the order of things now established among us, and tte
institutions which we have sworn to uphold and defend, we
will ultimately succeed in removing from our native land
the evils from which it has so grievously suffered, and we
shall secure to it a long and peaceful enjoyment of all the
blessings which it now shares.'
rnic question of the succession must cause the
King of the FRENCH many a sleepless night. It
is ever uppermost in his thoughts. No mat-
ter upon what topic he is -called upon to address
the French people, he is always careful to re-
mind them of the stipulation in the agreement with
LAFEYETTE that his Sons are to succeed him.
There is sufficient reason to believe that so much pre-
caution on the KING'S part, is not uncalled for. At
present ,the French nation is as much indifferent to

the dynasty of the " NAPOLEON of Peace," as it ever
was to that of the NAPOLEON of War.

The Spanish question is, therefore, shelved for the
)resent.

The &bat.: on this paragraph of the Address had
continued without intermission for five days. It was
exceedingly animated. On Wednesday M. OD I LLoN
nfloT and M. TILLERS ably exposed the mis-
chievous policy of the present Administration. M.
THIE Rs was particularly severe upon Count iVIoLE
and M. GUIZOT. He contended that the Quadruple
Treaty did contain serious and business-like clauses,
and that no circumstances had arisen to justify France
in regarding it as a dead letter. He declared that
he bad ever been consistent upon the Spanish ques-
don, and he defied friends and foes to cite a single occa
sion upon which lie had held different language. He
had never, either in 1835 or since, opposed interven-
tion on the demand of England or Spain—he had merely
declined a project of translimitation, viz., the occupation
of Passages, Fontarabia, and the Bastan, by French
troops. This was not intervention, but the permanent
occupation of territory, and to such a scheme he could
not then accede. But he ordered a Foreign Legion
to be raised, and substantial aid to be given to the
QUEEN'S cause. Not so his successor in office. His
first act was to disband the Foreign Legion, and from
the moment the order for disbanding that force was
signed, he pronounced the Treaty to be abandoned by
France. " The Treaty was broken," said M. TILLERS,
" the day that an order was issued to disperse the
troops assembled at Pau—the day of the accession of
the present Cabinet. I repeat, the Treaty was aban-
doned on that day—for from that moment co-operation
was a thing of no meaning. From that instant the
Treaty was dishonourable to France. The moral sup-
port of the French Government was transferred from
the QUEEN to the rebel Don CARLOS. This is a
fact which no honest man can deny." Count MoLE's
reply to M. TILLERS was shuffling and undecided
in the extreme. His Government, he declared, dif-
fered in no respect from that of his prodecesspr
in office, except in -the mystery which he desired
to maintain respecting his future conduct. He
would pledge himself to nothing, but trust to the
guidance of events. He would neither engage
to remain active or passive with respect to the
Peninsula. Nothing can show more forcibly the im-
mense difference between an English House of Com-
mons and a French Chamber of Deputies, than the
apparent nonchalance with which the latter heard a
Premier make such a declaration. Were Lord JOHN
RUSSELL to address the House of Commons in such
language, it would vote him a fit subject for Bedlam.
There were rumours of a partial change in the Ca-
binet in Paris on Friday. It was said that M.
SAUZET had been applied to, as M. MOLE is in a
sad way for some one to assist him in the concoction of
his speeches.
Letters were also received in Paris from Madrid,
stating that the QUEEN had sent three mouths' pay to
the entire army of the North.
Great preparations are making for a new expedition
against Constantine. Thirteen regiments of. infantry,
with artillery sufficient to compose ten batteries, two
thousand cavalry, three battalions of sharpshooters,
and an immense quantity of provisions and stores will
form the vanguard of the expedition.
A journal states that a deplorable event had taken
place at Martinique. The fine bathing establishment
Au Piechetv, has been destroyed by a water spout,
which carried away the whole of the buildings and
bathers. Several persons of distinction are mentioned
as having perished ; among them Madame DE LA
ROSIERE, wife of the Director of Customs, and her
(laughter.

_PARIS, JAN. ?I.—The Sentinelle des Pyrenees gives some
account of what is passing. in the two camps. On the 13th,
some companies of Carlists approached within half a cannon-
shot of Bilboa, doubtless to reconnoitre. An English battalion
and some sharpshooters of Isabella pursued them, and killed
and wounded and took prisoners some of their men. Six pri-
soners have been shot. By order of General Evans, rope-lad-
ders have been got ready to storm Irun, Fontarabia, and Her-
nani. The Carlists have lately blown up two fine bridges on
the road from I'ampeluna to Vittoria. These two bridges,
built in 1835, cost the kingdom of Navarre 250,000 f.. The
Carlists are likewise raising redoubts on the_beights of Bern-
tigne, two leagues from Tolosa. Theyhave cut trenches in
several places in the road which leads to Pampeluna.
It is said that Villareal is gone to the Caste of Guebara as
a prisoner.
On the 7th, 14,000 complete uniforms for the Queen's
troops arrived at Bilboa.
A frigate and a brig, which arrived at St. Sebastian on the
3d with a cargo of musquets, grenades, bombs, &c., unloaded
at Passages on the 10th of this month.

A letter from Santander of the Bth, informs us that the
division of General Ribeiro had just arrived in that town, and
that it was waiting for steam-boats to convey it to Portugaletto
with other troops. The whole are about 8,000 men.
A le ter from Pampeluna says that General Sarsfield only
waited for orders to leave that place. His division consists of
six battalions of the Algerine Legion, and six Spanish batta-:
lions; four squadrons, two of which are Polish Lancers, and
two' Spanish, and six pieces of artillery. • .
The English are masters of St. Sebastian.
,and .Passages.
It seems they will soon command at Bilboa. The bulletin of
Guipascoa says—We expect two new English steam-boati de-
stined fox: the service of the coast, which Lord Hayproteets'
with so much zeal and so much advantage. It-is announced
that these steam-boats will bring 500 artillerymen of the-Royal
British navy, who are believed to be destined for Bilboa.--
Memorial des Pyrenees.-Supplement to Journal du Commerce,
Jan. 21.

FRENCH FUNDS.-I)ants-;JAN. 21.
/Ave per Cents., 109 f 10c 20c..15c..
Four and a half per Cents. 103 f.
Four per Cents., 100 f. 70c. -
Three per Cents-. 79f: We. 81'. 79f. 93c.
Bank Actions, 2,. Sec. 2,355 f.
Rente de Naples, 99f. 961. 90e.
Roman Five per Cents.
.;
Spanish- Actives, 26T 27.
Spanish Differes,lll3% .12, . . • .
Spanish I.l;assives, .7%104. •
Port tiguese Three per Cents. '32 32!.414. •••
fiaytiasi Loan, 3SOf.
' -EXCHANGE ON LONDON. •
One month, paper, 251. 30c. ; 'money, 25f. 27.2 c.
Three months, paper, 25f. 10e. ;- money, 251. 734 e.
—(bars Authentiatie.

BOURSE, HALF-PAST Fotia.—Very little business was done
in French securities, which would perhaps have risen bad not
the Consols come lower from LOndon. The Spanish Actives
improved in consequence of an assurance that the syndicate of
the..'Changc agents had come to the resolution of allowing the
notice of, the paymcnt.of the dividend.in Treasury Bonds to. be
posted up on Bourse next MondaY.. The adviees from the
frontiers of. Spain, too, represent the situation or the Carlits
as critical in the extremei notwithstanding an advance 'of
2 000,000 ducats which the King 'Co'F, Naples is' said to have,
lately remitted Don Carlos.; • •'
LAST PRICES., t' '
Five pertenui., 109 f. :Rje.
Three-per Cents. WI. 15e. .
• tsank AelfohS., 11,35-Fir.
Rentc,(le Naples' . -
'Roman five per Vents.,'lo2}g'.
Belgian Loan, 103.
. Portuguese Three per Cents., 32N.
Haytian Loan, 380 f.
Spanish Actives, 27.
• Spanish Passives, 7g.`
Spanish Differes,
New Ditteres, 12.

Tl.e acquittal by the Court' ofiAssizes of the Lower
Rhine, of the whole of the prisoners accused of. partici-
pating in the late revolt at Strasburg, for which Prince
LOUIS BUONAPARTE was summarily banished, will
create an immense sensation through Out France. That it
will procure for the Government the temporary support
of the Chambers is certain ; but its effect upon the mind
of the nation will be permanently unfavourable to the
House of Orleans. The position occupied by the
KING is particularly humiliatinc, as well as dangerous.
His MAJESTY is now recognizer'd; if not as the author,
yet as a participator in plots and conspiracies, con-
cocted with a view to entrap and ensnare every man of
influence opposed to the execution of his. ambitious
projects. He has secretly encouraged crime only to
fall with merciless severity upon the victims, of his
duplicity. The debate upon the Address has let the
world into the secret of the pains which he sometimes
takes to circumvent and betray his. very Ministers.
The affair of the Spy CONSEIL—the firebrand flung
by the KING'S own hand into the peaceful and hos-
pitable Cantons of Switzerland—has shown France
how heartily Louis PHILIPPE despises the.principles
which ought to guide the conduct of a Constitutional
Sovereign. The first regicidal attempts got up with
the design of crushing the honest Republicans of
Paris, were long since proved to have been concocted
with the knowledge of his MAJESTY; but as the ex-
ample set by the Government began to be followed by
the desperate in real earnest, the scheme was changed
in favour of conspiracies aiming at the total destruction
of the established order of things. Thus, there has not
been a plot discovered within the last six years, at the
bottom of which was not found three or more of the
secret agents of Louis PHILIPPE. Even the con-
spiracy of Strasburg was almost wholly the work of the
French Government. Ministers were long aware of
what was going on, and they might have crtnhed the

conspiracy before a single individual was implicated.
Doubtless they would have done so but for the KING.
His MAJESTY wanted to prove the strength of his
dynasty, and to make a few dreadful examples in
the army for the purpose of wholly extinguishing
a spirit of disloyalty among the troops. Well, the in-
surrection was permitted to ripen, while some of the
superior officers were let into the secret, in order that
they might play their parts with an air of national en-
thusiasm. Every thing succeeded according to the width
of the Government. The conspiracy developed itself,
the leaders were seized ; and France was stunned with
the shouts of an official press proclaiming the won-
derful popularity of her King. The first act of the
SOVEREIGN was to convince the nation that he was
above the law, by banishing without trial the pr ncipal in
this conspiracy. The moment he thought favoured the
commencement of an undue exercise of the Royal prero-
gative, and he took care to avail himself of it. The
trial of the other conspirators followed. It was
conducted—on the part of the Crown—with un-
common virulence. Everything demonstrated the
determination of the Government to punish the con-
demned with unusual rigour, when the Jury termi-
nated the affair by a verdict of acquittal ! It will be
seen by the report in another column with what lively
demonstrations of sincere joy the populace and the
garrison responded to the convictions of the Jury.
We repeat that the affair of Strasburg will create M
France a strong and general feeling against the KING.
M. DIJPIN, President of the Chamber of Deputies,
violently denounced on Friday last the act of the
SOVEREIGN, by which Lours BONAPARTE was
banished without trial. He openly rebuked Ministers for
having sanctioned a gross violation of the principles of
justice. The Chamber applauded these sentiments.
So much for the popularity of this first abuse of the
Royal prerogative. Were it allowed the Chamber
to pronounce an opinion upon the rest of the
KING'S conduct, we qnestion whether the influence
of Ministers would succeed in rendering its sentence
more favourable. If the KING be not entirely incor-
rigible, these facts will open his eyes to the dangers by
which his own duplicity has surrounded him.

Letters and Papers from Madrid to the 12th inst.
have been received. Their contents are sufficient to
awaken the dormant faculties of those interested in the
future welfare of Spain to a serious consideration of
passing events in that country. In the Madrid Papers
of the 11th-inst. we find two Orders of the Day issued
by General NARVAEZ, in one of which, dated " Bur-
gos, the 6th of January," he formally resigns the
command of the Vanguard of the Army of the North.
In the other he states that Gen, RIBEIRo has appointed
Col. Z AVAtA. to succeed him. Now this is a serious blow
to the QUEEN'S cause. NARVAEZ is a young officer
in the flower of life, full of enthusiasm, breathing
only chivalrous sentiments—hitherto fortunate in arms,
and enjoying the unbounded confidence of his men.
His resignation was occasioned by the conduct of
Ministers, who permitted ESPARTERO to appoint
ALAIX, whom NARVAEZ had denounced as a trai-
tor, Commandant-General of Alava. We blame not
NARVAEZ. He acted as every generous-minded
man would act, under similar circumstances. He beat
GOMEZ in Estremadura, and he would have made a
prisoner of the rebel Chief but for the seemingly
treacherous conduct of General ALAIX, who for a
time set the orders of the Government at defiance.
GOMEZ is brother-in-law of ALAIX, and it was even
told Don CARLOS that the former secretly made over
a part of the plunder to his relative ALA IX. NAR-
VAEZ entertained similar suspicions of the conduct
of his colleague in arms. He denounced ALA IX
to the Government, declared him a traitor, and
offered to prove his collusion with GOMEZ before the
Cortes. Ministers at first gave ear to him, and threa-
tened an investigation ; when all at once ESPA RTERO
comes with his services before Bilboa in one hand, and
his sword in the other, and offers to resign unless his
friend ALAIX be not only acquitted but promoted, as
a mark of the QUEEN'S confidence in his loyalty.
Ministers ceded the point, upon hearing which Gen.
NARVAEZ resigned his command in the army.
The conduct of ESPARTERO in this affair is un-
worthy of him. He had no right to employ an in-
fluence so suddenly obtained in removing from trial a
General Officer accused of a crime against the safety
of the State. Still less had he a right to force Mi-
nisters to place that officer in a condition to reflect a
stain upon the honour of the officer who so openly
accused him. We purposely omit all immediate
reference to the danger to which the appointment of a
man labouring under a suspicion of treasonable designs
to a most important post, must expose the QUEEN'S
cause in the North. We shall merely observe that
• ESPARTERO his misemployed the influence which
the • raising of the siege of Bilboa has given him.
Before' that event his own conduct was not considered
aliove suspicion ; and we take leave to observe that
greater men have lived to cancel the obligations due to
them by-their country.

His MAJESTY'S packet Alert arrived at Fahnouth on
Saturday froM the Tagus, whence she sailed on the 15th
inst. We have thus been put in possession of letters and
papers from Lisbon up to that date. The intelligence
they bring is by no means satisfactory. On the 18th
the Cortes were to assemble, when it was secretly
resolved - again to attempt a counter-revolution.
The fact not doubted, inasmuch as Admiral
Sir WILLIAM GAGE, the British Commander in
the river, had ordered the British Consul to
report on :Change that, in the event of a dis-
turbance, all ; British subjects would be received
on board the fleet. The QUEEN and Prince FERDI-
NA ND are at the bottom of the counter-revo-
lutionary project, and as her MAJESTY is reported to
be enciente, she was to make that an. excuse for not
opening the.COrtes.:in person. We are sorry to learn
that our Government continues to manifest some-
-thing -like. a . wish for the re-establishment of the
Charter of 1826_ in Portugal. The Constitution
alone -can give.freedom and repose to that country.
.The revival of. Don -PEbno's Charter 'in Portugal is
'not .
a jot more practicable than the re-establishment of
'MARTINEZ DE LA ROSA'S Estatuto Real ill Spain.

German Papers have been received, bringing ad-
vices from St. Petersburg to the sth, Warsaw to the
Bth, Berlin to the 10th, Frankfort to the 15th, and
Hamburgh to the 17th inst. ; together with letters
froin Smyrna and Aleppo to the 13th ult. From St.
Petcrsburgh the only accounts relate to an Imperial
Ukase for the regulation of the Russian sea-service,
which is of no importance to the Western Govern-
ments of Europe. On the 10th inst., six students
confined in Frankfort, for a participation in the rising
of the 3d.. of April, 183 G, broke their prison and
escaped. The turnkey was also missing. The autho-
rities had in vain sought to discover their rout.
The negotiations between Prussia and Russia re-
specting the adhesion of the latter to the Commercial
League, are not yet concluded. It is considered doubt-
ful whether Russia will now consent to join the Union,
except she does so with the secret design of thwarting
the political, views_ of Prussia.
A letter from Aleppo, dated the -3d ult., and ad-
dressed to Colonel CHESNEY, holds out no prospect of
the success of the Euphrates Expedition. The diffi-
&hies are said to be clearly insurmountable. We
place no great confidence in statements emanating from
such questionable sources.

_ .
BELGIAN } UNDS—BRUSSELS, JAN. 21.
Actuil Debt, 234 per Cent.
Rothschild's Loan, 5 per Cent. 10034
Loan of Thirty Millions 92%
Lban ol- City, 1832, 4 per Cent 101,4
Society of Commerce, 4sy per Cent 132
Bank.ol Belgium, 5 per Cent 129
—Brussels Papers, Jan. 22.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.-.VIENNA, JAN. 13.
Five per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents. ' - 100
'
Three per Cents. 755,',
Bank Shares
—illliemeine ZeitUng, Jan. 18.
DUTCH FUNDS—Amerrzactw, JAN. 20.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent
Ditto, ditto 5 per cent.
A mort Sviulie,4s4 per cent 94,/i 95
Ditto, ditto, 334 per cent. 7,114 781 i,
Commercial Company, 4!4 per cent...
Ditto (1532 and 181)3) 5 per cent. " — --
Exchange on London, One mouth l2 0 -
Two months

On Sunday morning last, the groom of A. Jubb,
surgeon, Halifax, upon entering the stable, found two of
his horses dead from suffocation, and a third survived only
a short time. The cause of the accident was the ignition
of some hay and hayseeds under the manger.—York
Courant.

CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lora) CHANCELLOR was occupied the whole morning
in his private room with the arguments in a lunatic petition in
the matter of Hill, the facts of which we are of course prevented

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V ICE-CHAN CERY.-(THIS DAY.)

SITTINGS AND 11,,LIDAYS.

The VICE-CitANcEt,Lotc, on taking his seat, inquired from
the Cientlemen at the Bar whether there was a large arrear
of motions ? His object in making the inquiry was, as it was
now so near the end of term, to devote several days after its
expiration to the purpose of hearing them.
Mr. KNIGII r observed that the arrear was much Ices heavy
than usual.

The VICE- CIL% NCELLOR-Then three or four days' sitting
after term will overcome it. Term ends on Tuesday se'nnight,
and what I shall, therefore, do, is to sit on the four following
days exclusively to hear motions.
Mr. KNIGHT and several other gentlemen at the Bar thought
that time would be quite sufficient to dispose of the remaining
motions. With respect to the holidays, Mr. Knight trusted the
Court would pardon him for suggesting whether it might not be
possible to arrange the vacation at Easter so as to be at the
same time as the Easter holidays, as it was very inconvenient
to Counsel that the House of Lords should rise at one time
and the Court of Chancery at another.

The VICE-CitANctr.toa-said that both the Lord Chancellor
and himself had felt the inconvenience the Bar had been put
to, and they had now arranged the holidays as if the new Act
had passed.
Mr. WiwiAm wished to know whether it was the intention
of his Honour to sit at the Privy Council after Term ?
The VICE-CHANCELLOR had not made any arrangement
with respect to that yet.
The subject then dropped.
His HONOUR then proceeded to hear causes, but no case of
any public interest came before the Court previous to our re-
porter's leaving.

ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.)

BANK,OF ENGLAND V. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK.

Mr. PEMBERTON (who was with the Attorney-General) this
morning addressed the Court, and contended that the question
was not whether his Lordship should confirm or overrule the
certificate of the Common Pleas, but whether the plaintiffs
had made out a case which would warrant the Court in grant-
ing an injunction. The Learned Gentleman, in a very elabo-
rate manner, went through the history of banks from the year
1601, and commented upon all the Bank Acts, to show that
" bills and notes" had never been considered to mean bills of
exchange, as the Learned Judges of the Court of Common
Pleas had supposed. Want of space prevents us giving a
detailed report of the argument.

KING'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.)
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(Sittings in Banco.)
TILE KING V. MURRAY--ChIMINAI. INFORMATION.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had been instrueted,to apply for
a criminal information against Mr. John Murray, the book-
seller, of Albemarle-street. This application was made on
behalf of William White, a schoolmaster, of the Queen's
County, in Ireland. It was necessary to make the application
against the publisher, as they had not been able to get at the
real author of the libel. The charge brought against Mr.
White was, that he, being a schoolmaster entrusted with the
education of boys, set them as a copy in learning to write a
text which, if he had done, would have been most disloyal and
most criminal. It appears that certain persons were executed
at Maryborough, in Ireland, for an atrocious murder, and the
charge brought against White is, that he set to his boys as a
text these words, " God be with the poor fellows who were
hanged at Maryborough." White swears that he was ap-
pointed master of one of the National schools in 1832—that
he had taken the best care of the boys, and had instructed them
in the principles of religion, loyalty, and obedience to the
laws, and that he never set such a copy, nor sanctioned it, nor
was privy to it, and that the charge is wholly false and un-
founded: The publication in which the charge was made is
entitledl " A Speech delivered in the House of Lords on
moving for a Select Committee to enquire into the operation
of the system of National Education in Ireland, by
Henry, Lord Bishop of Exeter." The Learned Counsel
then proceeded to read the passage from the publication,
the substance of which was, that lie (the Lord Bishop of
Exeter) " would now proceed to state a case which would
appear to the House of a grave character, and which
made him confident that he should obtain the assistance of
the Noble Marquis (Lansdowne) for the appointment of the
Committee. He was assured, and he believed he could prove
the fact, that in a National School on the property of the Noble
Marquis, and under the patronage of the Noble Marquis's
Agent, the boys, after the execution of certain persons who
were tried and condemned at the Special Commission held at
Maryborough, were found writing these words in their copies,
(of course set them by their master, God be with the
poor fellows who were hanged at Maryborough A
Noble Lord—That might be a charitable wish. The
Bishop of Exeter—He heard a Noble Lord say that that
might have been a kind and charitable wish. Now, he
would ask would the Noble Lord who had whispered that
remark so loudly get up and tell the House that such was the
fact. Was there any Noble Lord who was not sure that these
words were put before the boys to imbue their infant minds
with disaffection to the laws—to teach them to honour the men
who had suffered—to lead them to side with the violators of the
law—to sympathize with them, and to regard the law as a
system of tyranny and oppression ?" Now, if White had been
guilty of that offence, of corrupting the principles of those
entrusted to his care, he would certainly be most unfit to act
in the capacity of schoolmaster, and would himself deserve
condign punishment. The affidavit of White proceeds to state
that on this publication appearing, the Commissioners of Na-
tional 'Education sent it to him that he might vindicate himself.
Lord DENMAN—When was that ?

The ATTORNEY-GENEEAL—In July last, White first had a
knowledge of it. He instructed his solicitors, Messrs. White
and Bonet, of London, to take the necessary steps to find
out the author, and communications took place between
them and Mr. Clowes, printer of the pamphlet, Mr.
Murray, the publisher, and subsequently Mr. Murray's solicitors.
The Learned Counsel then proceeded, at- some length, to de-
tail the steps taken to get at the author, observing that they
were most unwilling to proceed against Mr. Murray, if the
real author could be come at, but both Mr. Murray and his
solicitor had refused to give him up.
Lord DEN MAN—There appears to us a reasonable evidence
of Murray being the publisher, but we arc not satisfied as to
the delay in making the application.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL explained that the first affidavit
forwarded to London by Mr. White was informal, and it was ne-
cessary to prepare another; there was, also, a good deal of
delay caused by the evasive answers of the solicitors of Mr.
Murray.
Lord DENMAN—It appears to the Court that they must re-
quire applications of this nature to be made within a proper
time, to show that the party is alive to the imputation upon his
character. There is no reasonable excuse laid before us for the
delay which took place, from July to November; and as there
are several remedies open, we do not see why we should
give this particular one to a party who has suffered so much
time to elapse.—Rule refused.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL had been instructed to make a
similar application against the same party, on behalf of Mr.
O'Donel, for a charge brought against him in the same publi-
cation, of having been dismissed the Preventive Service on
account of having used treasonable and seditious language ;
but, as a similar delay had taken place in the present case, he
could not press it upon the Court.
Lord DENMAN—The parties have the benefit of swearing
to the falsehood of the charge. There was a similar case
about two years ago, in which an application was made on be-
half of Lord Charles Wellesley, and we did not think the de-
lay properly accounted for by his being on the Continent.