The Sun.
London, England, 1853-12-03 00:00:00

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* - LON DON, S EVENING, DECEMBER 3,
1853.

No. 19,092.1

GUILDHALL, Dec. 2, 1853.—The Committee
for LETTING the CITY'S LAND will meet at Guildhall
on WEDNESDAY; the 14th day of December instant, at one
o'clock precisely, to receive TENDERS for LETTING, on leases
fur 21 years from Christmas next, TWO HOUSES, Nos. 14 and 15,
on the east side of Queenhithe. Further parit.ulars and Plans may
seen, and Forms of Tender obtained at the Architect's office,
Guildhall.

This -itty, post 0., 5,9,
E 4.-1,54 ON 'AGRICVLTURE.
By the late THOMAS GISBORNE, Esq.,
• - ',Of Yoxall Lodge, Staffordshire.

I. ;Cattle and Sheep.
11. Agricultural Drainage

'ONTENTS :
Ancient Agricultural Liters
tare.
IV. High Farthing.
.ihemkrle-street.

THOS. SAUNDERS. Comptroller.

John Murray; A'

L.A_MARTINE'S CONSTITUENT
ASSEMBLY (1789), to oe completed hi Three Yols. uniform
witii " THE at TORY OF TUE RESTORATION OF MONARCHY IN FAA:, OE."
Vol. I- Price 65., will be Published on At ()inlay next, Deeember sih,
Vizetelly and Company, 135, Fleet-street.
Anil all Booksellers, Libraries, and Railway Stations`_

Just Published; thoroughly revised, 55.; or, with an Appendix, or
Index of Names contained in the -Volume, Is. 6d. in addition,
THE RED BOOK FOR .1854.
THE ROYAL KALENDER; and COURT and
CITY REGISTER, profogland, Scot Lind, Ireland, and tin.
Colonies ; containing an Imed and Enlarged Peerage and
Bat onetage —The ;louse of Commons, with the latest alteratious—
The Queen's Ministers—R ,yal Household—Government Depart-
inents--A oassadors, British and Foreign— Navy and Army—Law
and Civil Officers—Ecclesiastical Estaolishments—Universities—
bits; ary,. Scientific, and Religious S'ocieties—Charitable and Com-
mercial Institutions—Magistrates,llo9itals, Sze.
London: R. and A. Suttaby, Stationers'-court; and other pro-
prietors.
_ _

. THE PRESS," No. 31, This Day (Saturday),
contains, among others—Preparations for' the European
War—The Emperor of Russia and his pecuniary resources—Row a,,ism
and its Defen :era —Strikes—the City ,Corporation--Report of the
Medical Officer of the City Boarol of Health—Census of the Uni:ea
States—Omer Pacha's despatch from Oltenitza—Corporitti,n Finance
--Sketches of Radicals, No. H: The Fraternal Radical—Lord C-.r-
-lisle's Garter—Examination of Lord John Russell before the Cit.
Corniniwon—Literature : Brown's Life of Southey—Arnold's Poems
--Westgarth's Victoria—Keepsake--Court Album—Feathered Fa -
vourites—Democritui in London —Wei den's Justice in India
by W Jones—A. Crowquifl's Bundle of Crowquills - Spencer P.
Butler's Turkish Invas!on of Europe—Sullivan's Parish Sermons—
Clerical ~ducation—Gtsberne's Agricultural Essays—Montgomery's
rhria,tiati Life - Blaine on Artistic Copyriuht— Periodical Literature
,__New Music—Dramatic Novelties: Ilaymatket—Princess's--ifhe
Marionettes, together with all the News of the Week.
" THE P KESS" is published every Saturday, at the Office, No. 110,
Strand, price td. May be had of all newsmen, athirat the railway
stations. Money orders to be made pay able to Mr. Alfred Iva.

LATJRENT'S CASINO, ARGYLE Rooms,
(Lessee, CHAS. C. LAURENT, Onslow-house, Fu.aam-road).
The above Rooms are now OPEN FOR THE SEASON,
and will continue open every evening, with LAURENT'S
CELEBRATED BAND. Admission, Is. Doors open at half-past 8
Dancing to commence at 9 o'clock, and ter.ninate at half past 11.

LIFE ASSURANCE.
REPORT of the SELECT COMMITTEE of the HOUSE
of COMMONS, and the DEPOSIT SYSTEM—the New and
Important Feature of Life Assurance adopted by The DEPOSIT
and GENERAL LIFE ASSURANCE COMPANY.
The following is an extract from the Report of the Select Com-
mittee : -
" THE OBJECTS Which persons HAVE IN VIEW IN EFFECTING IN-
SURANCES upon their lives, are GENERALLY OF AN IMPORTANT AND
SOLEMN character, viz., the PROVISION FOR WIDOWS AND ORPHANS
after the death of their NATURAL PROTECTORS;
.unlike any ordinary
transaction of trade, a CONTRACT ONCE ENTERED INTO CANNOT BE
DISCHARGED OR ABANDONED, if doubts of the stability of an
office should arise, WITHOUT ♦ SACRIFICE OF PREMIUMS PAID IN
PAST YEARS, and the. necessity of effecting new policies in other
offices at increased rates of premium, owing to the greater age
of the assured ; persons are thus placed in the ANxious AND UN-
HAPPY DILEMMA OF BEING COMPELLED TO PERSEVERE IN PAYING
PREMIUMS FROM YEAR TO YEAR, with SOME suspicion and doubt RS
to the ultimate advantage of doing so, OR OF INCURRING THE SE-
RIOUS LOSS WHICH, UNDER THE MOST FAVOURABLE CIRCUMSTANCES,
MUST ATTEND THE ABANDONMENT OR SALE OF A POLICY."
On the DEPOSIT SYSTEM a person is NOT " COMPELLED" to pay
from " YEAR TO YEAR," and he does not, if desirous of " ABANDON-
ING" his Policy, incur ally '• SERIOUS LOSS," but, on the contrary, lie
may pay such amounts, and at such times as he may find most con-
venient; he can stop paying whenever he pleases, and he can with-
draw the whole or part of his premiums. If the whole be with-
drawn the Policy is cancelled ; if part only, then the value of the
Policy is diminished by the assured value of the part withdrawn.
A B, aged 20, opens a deposit policy with a payment of Si., which
it will be seen he increases from time to time, and occasionally
diminishes.

BUILDING GROUND, Fenohurch-street.—
The Committee for Letting the City's Lands will meet at
all, on WEDNESDAY, the 14th day of December in,t., at
One o'cock precisely, to receive TENDERS fcr LETTING, on
building leases for 80 years froii, Christmas next, several PLOTS of
;EDIIN 0, on the south side of Fenchurch-street, between London-
treef and Mark-lane. Farther particulars, specifications, and plans
ni;:y be seen, and forms of tender obtained, at the Architect's Office,
Guildhall.
guildhall, Dec. 2,1853. THOMAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller.

PRIZE CATTLE SHOW of the SMITHFIELD
CLUB.—The ANNUAL EXHIBITION of Prize Cattle, Seeds
hoots, Implements, &c., commences on TUESDAY Morning and
closes on Friday Evening, 6th, 7th, Bth, and 9th Deeember—Bazaar
King-street and Baker-street Open from daylight till nine in the
evening, admittance, One Shilling.

OYSTERS—TO EPICURES.
UEENBOROUGH and FAVERSHAM
NATIVE OYSTERS.
e most acceptable Present at this season of the year is a Barre
of the best NATIVE OYSTERS, which are to be obtained at SCOTT'S
Celebrated OYSTER WAREHOUSE, 18, Coventry-street, Piccadilly,
,t Sc 6d.per Barrel, warranted to weigh 1 4lbs.

ATKINSON and COMPANY, CABINET
MANUFACTURERS, UPHOLSTERERS, and CARPET
xIIEHOUsEMEN, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, and 75, Westminster-
)ridge-road, Lambeth, London.

A TKINSON and COMPANY, DRAPERS,
sfll 11ERCERS, LACE-MEN, &c., 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74,
and 75, Westinitntee-brbige-road; Lambeth, London.—Shawls, Furs,
Mantles, Family Mourning, &c.

1-'0 LOVERS of FISH.-100 REAL YAR-
-1 MOUTH BLOATERS for 65., package ineluded. The above
forwarded to all parts on receipt of penny postage stamps, or Post-
office order (preferred), for the amount.—Address, THOMAS
LETTIS, Jun., Fish Curer, Great Yarmouth.

TUR. ALBERT SMITH'S MONT BLANC
L WILL OPEN for the SEASON on MONDAY EVENING,
December 5. Stalls can now be secured (without any extra charge)
at the Box-Office, Egyptian Hall, every day between Eleven and
Four.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
PATRON-H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT.

CLASS LECTURES.

Mr. J. H. PEPPER will commence TWO SEPARATE COURSES
of Twelve Lectures each on PRACTICAL CHEMISTRY in the
LABORATORY on Mo:mar, December the sth, at Eleven o'clock
a.m., and on the Evening of the same day at a quarter to Nine.
Fee for each Course, including use of Apparatus, Three Guineas.
Also, TWO SEPARATE CLASSES on PHOTOGRAPHY, each
including Six Practical Lectures on the Paper and Glass Processes,
to commence December Ist, at Eleven o'clock in the Morning, and
in the Evenings at Eight o'clock.
Fee for each Course, Three Guineas.
CLASSES on MATHEMATICS by Mr. SMALLEY (a Graduate in
First Class Mathematical honours of the University of Cambridge)
commencing MONDAY, the 28th inst., at Eight p.m.
Terms. One Guinea per Month.

SOYER'S EXQUISITE SAUCES expressly sea-
soned to suit the Palate of Ladies or Gentlemen. SOYER'S Re-
lish for general purposes, and SOUR'S Aromatic Mustard.
To be had of all grocers and Italian warehousemen ; and whole-
sale of Crosse and Blackwell, purveyors by appointment to her
Majesty, 21, Soho-square, London.
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t: sons may be seen at Dr. Batchelour's, 12, Finsbury-place South,
4 cl . Finsbury-square. CANCER : from Mrs. Brown, 2, Bevis-marks,
City ; Mrs. Wilton, 24. De Beauvoir-terrace, Kingsland ; Mrs.
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4 -jj ••4 Tioing, Hoxton-place, Epsom. WHITE SWELLING : from Mrs.
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{4 4 C.= Smart, Somerset-place, Rotherhithe. SCALD HEAD: From Mr.
fi - Carter, 38, Kingsland-road.
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o cn —t: 41''' '''' ' 2 c'l 4.' -2 wr. 2 .=. --. 10, of the lotion, the most wonderful medicinal agent of modern times.
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; a South, Finsbury-square, and at George Watts', 17, Strand, in bottles
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Thus A B, in 10 years, has saved and invested at different intos.
vats various sums amounting to 971., by which he had been insured
In case of death for 2601. 12s. 7d.; but A B requires 221.; he draws
this sum out, and diminishes the value of his Policy by 601. Bs. 3d.
at different times, leaving him in case of death a Policy for 2001.
4s. 44., and during his life a fund of 751. to draw out at any time, in
part or wholly.
The first claim settled by the Deposit and General Life Assurance
Come Uy was upon a deposit of 101. which a parent made for each
of five children, instead of a•'ding it to an account they had at the
Saviturs Bank. One of them died a few days after the 10/. was de-
posited, and the father received 341. 65., being the amount of the De-
posit Polley

EXAMPLE No. 2.
Supposing A B, aged 23, when he opens a Deposit Policy has the
ans, and continues VOLUNTARILY to pay the same sum every year
imen the sane way as he is COMPELLED to do in the ordinary system.

Year. Age.
------ -- X £. s. d.
23 18 49 6 6
24 18 48 16 0
26 18 47 18 0
26 18 47 4 6
18 46 10 6
1855.. •• ... ..... •• .. 27 18 45 17 6
1855.••••••••••••••• 28 18 45 4 0
1857...•..•• •••• .. •• 28 44 10 6
1858.. •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 30,
18
43 17 6
32 18
1859....•••••••••••• 3. 18 43 4 0
1861...• •• •• •••• ••• 33 ? 90 206 7 6
to 37 N
1865....•.. • ...... •• 38
90 190 4 6
to•• ••
42
72 141 3 0
to 46
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432 1,000 4 0
1875. ....... •••••••• 47?
108 194 13 6
k' to 52
1481-•• •• ••••• • •• • • 53? 90 147 18 6
to 0
1485 •• •••• •• •••• 58
1885.. 108 182 10 6
to 63
1891.. ...... •••••••• _ .
738 1,525 6 6

The premium 0'1,4/. commencing at 23 years of age, and paid upon
an ordinary Policy (As IT MUST BE) evey year till A.B. is B
Buys 'ears
old, will secure the same sum, 1r,004., hut if A 7
years loader (which is the proba'ile duration of life at the time he
eflecte,(l the insurance) his Deposit Policy, for the same payments
as for an ordittarY Policy of 1,000/„ will have increased to 1,525/.
Cs. Gd.

GEORGE REEVES, 3,4, and 5, POPES
HEAD ALLEY, 19, CORNIIILL, LONDON,
(nearly opposite the South Entrance to the Royal Exchange), being
determined to supply the Public with the very best WINES and
•'•PIR ITS, at the lowest remunerating prices, begs to submit the tol
lowing list for their consideration:—

WINES.
Good Draught Ports and Sherries • • ...... 245. per dozen.
Superior ditto (,econd to none)
Very fine Old Crusted Port, 4 years in 80tt1e.... 425. per dozen.
Fine Old Sherry, Pale or Brown .......... 423. per dozen.
SPIRITS
Gin of the finest Quality, 9s. 6d., 103 Bd., and 12s. per gallon.
Fine Old Jamaica Rums. 10s. 8d„ 125., and 16s. per gallon.
Glenßret and Campbelton Whiskies, imported direct, 5 years old,
and 5 over proof, 20s. per gallon.
G. It. having purchased, previous to the rise, 50 Hogsheads of
Martell's Pale and Brown Brandies, 4 and 5 years old, feels disposed
to offer them at the Original Prices, taking no advantage of the Is.
advance in the markets.
Finest Pale Champagne Brandy • • .... • • .... • • 28s. per gallon.
Coloured ditto 265. per gallon.
Hampers charged Is. per dozen, and bottles 2s. per dozen.
REMITTANCES in all cases to be made in advance, by Post
office Order, or by Cheque payable in London.

ENGLISH ASSISTANCE DURING THE
PRESENT WAR.
Almost all the readers of the daily papers are puzzled to make
out the position and prospects of the combatants, bat English inter-
ference must be required. The elements of the present war are
palpable enough in the City and in the country. The grand northern
foe has declared his hostilities, and opened a regular siege on the
constitutions of the British subjects, by Fogs, Damp, Rain, and Frost,
moving in consolidated masses, or dispersed in irregular troops under
the command of General Winter. To meet these inhospitable in-
vaders, E. MOSES and SON have marshaled an in .omparable army
of Overcoats, Paletots, Wrappers, &c., &c., of sufficient force to
destroy the antagonistic influence of the elements, and to act as
Life and comfort Goads on unnambered thousands; and the re-
nowned artillery of their strong, neat, and substantially-made Win-
ter Coats, Vests, and Trousers, will entirely subdue the capturing
powers of colds, whose penal settlements are rheumatics and all the
ills of the Winter Season. sn army of reserve is just made up by
E. OSES and SON for sale at their Establishment and West-end
Branca), consisting of Oxford Blues, Greys, and Mixtures of the most
•novel, seasonable, and serviceable materials, associated with the
most fashionable and accomplished workmanship ; and millions of
Light Infantry, in Children's and Youths' Attire, most magnificently
bring up the rear of Eighteen Hundred and Fifty-three. Victory
will he consolidated by the best Understandings which ever existed
—a Stock of Boots and Shoes of unparalleled quality and cheapness ;
and the crowning of these victorious powers will be at the establish-
ments of E. MO AES and SON, the largest, best, and cheapest stock
of Hats and Caps being prepared for the purpose. The event will
be celebrated by a vast selection of Hosiery Goods, Furs, Shawls,
La lies' Cloaks, &c., &c. ; and in superabundant satisfaction every
one exclaims, " Long live the Queen, and prosperity to all her
subjects."
CAUTION.—E. MOSES and SON regret having to guard the
public against imposition, having learned that the untradesman-like
Asebood of " Being connected with their Establishment," or "
the same concern," has been resorted to in many instances, and tor
ibctous reasons, they beg to state that they have
CONNEXION WITH ANY OTHER HOUSE IN OR OUT OF LONDON,
except their own Establishments, as follows :
London City Establihment, 154, 155, 156 , and 157, inorles, 83,
s 1, a 5, and 86, Aldgate, s
opposite the Church, all communicating.
London West-end Branch, 506, 507, 508, New Oxford-Street, 1, 2
and 3, Hart-street, all communicating.
Bradford (Yorkshire) Branch, 19 and 20, Bridge-street.
Sheffield Branch, 36. Fugate.
Colonial Branch, Mslbourne, Australia.
Merchant Tao:- Clothiers, Hatters, Hosiers, Furriers, Boot and
Shoe Makers, and General Outfitters for Ladies and Gentlemen.
IMPORTANT.—ShouId any article not give satisfaction, it will be
exchanged if desired, or, if preferred, the money will be returned
without hesitation. All goods are marked in plain figures, the lowest
price. trom which no abatement can be made.
The Establishments are closed from sunset Friday to sunset on
Saturdays, when business is resumed till 12 o'clock.
A new Book, " The Epitome of Comfort and Economy," contain-
ing full lists of prices, our system of self-measurement, &c., &c.,
may be had on application, or post-free.
A handsome Almanac for t,:e year ending 1853 can be had gratis,
on application.
let Pon parle Francais. Qui si parla Italian°.
rtriebt man Deutsch. Aqua se haola Esnano

THE HOME COUNTIES AND METRO-
POLI CAN FREEHOLD LAND SOCIETY.
Office-14, Chatham-place, Blackfriars.
Members enrolled Daily. Office hours 10 to 4—and on Thursday
eveninge from 7 to 9.

PRESIDENT.
Lord Dudley Cutts Stuart, M.P.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Ap° ley Pellatt, Esq., M.P. William Ewart, Esq., M.P.
TRUSTEES.
Apsley Pellatt, Esq., M.P. William Ewart, Esq., M.P.
. John Williams, Esq:

Shares, £3O each. Entrance Fee la. Subscription, One Shilling
per Share Weekly...

- The Directors call special attention to the cuss of estates that are
purchased for allotment amongst the meinbm's of this society. The
one at Wool-green (now almost allotted). is lanowledged to be one
of the most eligible for building purposes yet distributed by any Land
Society; and a further purchase in Wimbledon-Ark has just been
effected, fully equal, if not superior, to the one at Wood-green, ad-
mirably adapted for first class villas.
There is now an opportunity, either by paying up
them, to get Ballot-rights of acquiring plots on this highly eligible
and profitable estate.
Ballots take place Monthly. Shares, or taking

• HENRY KNIGHT, Becretary.
Office-14, Chatham-place, Blackfriars.

Now Ready, in 2,400 imperial octavo pages, price 365., with Map
corrected from recent Surveys,
POST-OFFICE LONDON DIRECTORY for
1854. The work is printed in entirely new type from the
Caslon and Glasgow Letter Foundry, and has been so greatly ex-
tended, that the " Street Directory" contains 135,842 distinct names
or firms ; these will be found correctly classified in all the other
principal divisions, Commercial, Trades, Law, and Court,
all of which
are increased in proportion to the great extension of the " Street
Directory."

" The Post Office Directory has long been the wonder of the pub-
lishing world, a monument of private enterprise and ingenious labour
wholly without parallel."—Morning Herald. Nov. 4, 1853.
" Battersea, Bow, Brixton, -Bromley (Middlesex), Camberwell,
Cambridge Heath, Clapham-road, Delete/14 Deptford, Hackney, Hol-
loway-road, Kentish-town, Kingsland, Ifevearass, south Lambeth,
Stratford, Wandsworth•road, &c., &c., are 418entially parts of the
great metropolis,' and, as such, should obvil ply be included in any
Directory of Loudon. . ln the' Pdinkeice Directory:there-
fore, the Inhabitente Of 'these place gpPeter -In all-the alphabetical
lists, so that the residence and calling Of any one can be Instantly
traced in 'whatever part of the suburbs he may be lodged. This
renders the work one of the most useful that can be possibly ima-
gined for any purpose of metropolitan life."—Observer,Nov.l3, 1853.
" The indices are very numerous, and immensely facilitate refer-
ence to the various sub-divisions of the book."—Morning Advertiser,
November 4, 1853.

"A mine of useful and entertaining knowledge."—Dally News
November 17, 1853.
" Deserves much praise for the accuracy which pervades it, and for
the lateness of the information."—Mornbag Chronicle, November 4,
1853.

" The completest Directory yet produced, both as regards classifi-
cation and typographical executlon."—lllustrated News, November
5, 1853.

"If it be true, as all our readers will be ready to admit, that
there is no country like England, and no place like London, it is a
most consistent climax to add, and no guide book like the "Post
Office Directory."—John Bull, November 5, 1853.

" One of the most remarkable and useful works of the age."—
Her apath's Journal, November b, 1853.

" This monster volume is a perfect desideratum for the office and
the counting-house."—Mining Journal, November 5, 1853.
" Greatly increased in size by the introduction of a large number
of streets in the suburbs."—Weekly Dispatch, November 5, 1853.
" The edition of this wonderful work has, to speak commercially,
been enlarged some ten or fifteen per cent.''—Spectator, November
5, 1853.

"Gives no insignificant idea of the wonders of a city that de-
mands such a work to register its multifarious contents."—Atlas,
Nov. 5, 1853.
" Thewhole information has been brought up with great care Awn
ACCURACY to the 19th of September."— Sunday Times, November
6, 1853.
"A notice of this gigantic volume, proportioned to its size and
value, would occupy our whole paper—we say its size and value, for
they hold a perfectly equal measure."—Standard, Nov. 7, 1853.
" Already the Messrs. Kelly and Co. had actually distanced the
most enterprising of their competitors. They have new rendered it
preposterous for any other compiler to dream of emulating their ex-
traordinary enterprise."—Sun, November 7, 1853.
" Its marvellous accuracy and minuteness of detail, fills one with
astonishment."—Morning Pest, November 7, 1853.
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"It is unrivalled—indeed quite unapproached by any competitor
we have seen."—Examiner, Nov. 12, 1853.
" Upon a gentleman of our acquaintance stating to us that the two
great wonders of the age are the electric telegraph and chloroform,
we were induced to observe that there was yet a third, and that—
Kelly's Post-office London Directory." —Bell's Weekly Messenger,
Nov. 12. 1853.
" Of the accuracy of the Court Directory, we can ourselves speak
with confidence.”—Court Journal, Nov. 12, 1853.
" A most valuable, commodious, and almost indispensable work."
—Weekly Times, Nov. 13, 1853.
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Punch. Nov. 19, 1853.
" It would be quite superfluous for us to dwell at length upon the
superior excellence of this work."—Economist, Nov. 19, 1853.
" Has no rival in the publishing world."—Britannia, Nov. 19,
1853.
" The volume before us far surpasses in bulk, weight, and com-
pleteness any that has appeared before."—Literary Gazette, Nov. 5,
1853.
" Such a handbook of the polite, official, professional, and com-
mercial life of the greatest city in the world, as to demand unquali-
fied praise no less than universal admiration."—Shipping and Mer-
cantile Gazette, Nov. 5, 1853.
one of the greatest wanders of this wonder-working age."—
Church and State Gazette, Nov. 25, 1853.

Kelly and Co., 19 and 20, Old Boswell Court, and all Booksellers.

CITY OF LONDON COMMISSION.

The commissioners re-assembled in the official residence
of the Premier yesterday, and resumed their investigation.
Commissioners present Right Hon. Mr. Lab:;uclaere
(chairman) and Mr. Coruewall Lewis. The first witness
examined was—
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river,the andsi
in particular had taken upon themselves to make grants to
parties possessed of wharfs or land on the banks of the
river, and to other persons whom they thought fit, giving
them license to embank the strand of the river between
high and low water mark. It then stated the grant
made to Mr. Cubitt, in May, 1843, already mentioned ;
another grant made to the Atlas Insurance Company for an
embankment at Rotherhithe, in April, 1843, for which the
corporation received 2001, ; and a third grant made to Cor-
nelius Park in May, 1843, for an embankment at Battersea,
for which the corporation received 101.; and it charged that
the two last-mentioned embankments would be nuisances
and obstructions to the navigation. It also alleged that
the corporation had made a great many similar grants to
other persons, and had received large sums of money for
them, and it required a discovery and account of the same.
The information required the corporation also to set forth,
under what charter, letters patent, or other grant they
claimed to be entitled to the soil, or to have had their title
recognised or confirmed, and it concluded with praying
that the rights of the Crown and of the corporation respec-
tively might be ascertained and declared by the decree of
the Court, and that if it were necessary that issues at law
should be tried, the same may be tried under the di-
rection of the Court ; and if it should appear that the cor-
poration had no title to the soil, that the grants to the
other defendants might be declared null and void. The in-
formation also prayed on account of the fines, rents, and
profits received by the corporation for licenses to embank,
and that they might be decreed to pay the same to the
Crown, and that the title of the Crown might be decreed
and established to the avoiding multiplication of suits.
The corporation have been loud in their complaints that
the Crown has adopted an oppressive mode of proceeding
in suing them in the Court of Chancery rather than in a
court of law. It is the privilege of the Crown to sue in
what court it pleases. In the present case, even if the
right to a discovery had been waived, the question of title
between the Crown and the corporation could not have
been effectually tried in any other court than the COurt of
Chancery, to which the equity jurisdiction of the Court of
Exchequer had been transferred. An information of in-
trusion against the corporation of London, grounded upon
their licenses to embank, could not have been sustained at
law, for the licenses contained no grant of soil ; and if such
informations had been filed against the grantees acting
under them, although the grantees might have been evicted,
the corporation, being no parties to the suit, would not
have been bound by the results of them, and endless actions
might have been tried without ever settling the question
between the Crown and the corporation. In March, 1844,
the corporation and the town clerk entered their appearance
to the information. An unusual length of time was con-
ceded to them for answering the same, on the assurance of
the City Solicitor that they would answer fully and com-
pletely. At length, on the sth of July, 1844, they put in
both an answer and a demurrer, answering only so much
of the information as charged that the licensed embank-
ments were nuisances, and demurring to all the rest of it,
alleging that the Crown was not entitled to any relief in a
court of equity, or to any discovery from the defendants
concerning the other matters in the information mentioned.
The demurrer was argued before the Master of the Rolls,
in January, 1845, and on the 17th of April, 1845, his
lordship overruled it. (8 Beavan, 270; Law Journal,
vol. xiv., p. 305.) The corporation thereupon ap-
pealed to the House of Lords, and on the 26th
of March, 1848, the House of Lords affirmed the judg-
ment of the Master of the Rolls. (1 H. L. Cas., 440.) In
the month of July following the corporation put in a fur-
ther answer. The Attorney-General applied 'to the Court
for leave to file exceptions to the answer as insufficient.
The motion was opposed by the corporation, and by
arrangement ordered to stand over till Michaelmas Term.
The motion was heard, and an order made giving Nave to
except. The exceptions were filed, and, in the usual
course of practice, referred to the Master. The exceptions
were argued, and on the 22d of December the Master al-
lowed them. The corporation appealed to the Master of
the Rolls by way of exception to the Master's report.
The case was argued during three days in the month of
February, and on the 4th of April, 1849, the Master of
the Rolls gave judgment, overruling the defendant's excep-
tions and confirming the Master's report with costs. (Law
Journal Reports, vol. xviii., p. 3144 The corporation
thereupon appealed to the Lord. Chancellor. The appeal
was heard during several days in December, and on the
14th of January, 1850, the Lord Chancellor finally dis-
missed the appeal with costs. (Law Journal Reports, vol.

.. .
xix., p. 314.) After the judgment on their appeal the cor-
pbration put in a third answer, which was deemed to be
still insufficient, and on the 26th of February the Attor-
ney-General obtained an order referring all the answers
back to the Master upon the old exceptions. On the 6th
of March, 1850, the Master made his report, finding the
answers still insufficient. After three answers reported
insufficient, the course of practice was to move for a seques-
tration against the defendants, and, notice of such motion
having been given, the corporation at length, on the 19th
of April, 1850, put in their fourth answer, setting forth in
the first schedule a list of charters and documents which
they claimed to be exempt from producing on the ground
that they were evidence of their own title to the soil, and
did not tend to prove the title of the Crown, anti in the
second schedule minute books and presentments relating
exclusively to the conservancy of the river. An order
was made for the production of the last-mentioned
documents. The examination of them was commenced on
the 15th and continued till the 29th May, and the result of
the examination made it expedient to amend the informa-
tion ; but I was advised first to prosecute further searches
for ancient and other d Icumentary evidence bearing upon
the points in controversy. Instructions were given to Mr.
Fearnside, the keeper of land revenue records and enrol-
ments, and also to Mr. Hewlett, to make such further
searches. Reports having been made by these two gentle-
men, which, though incomplete, were sufficient for the
present purpose, I instructed counsel to prepare the amend-
ments required to be made in the information ; the purport
of the amendments being, to place upon the record charges
negativing the statements in the answers that the corpora-
tion had been immemorially seised of the bed and soil
of the river, and that their title had been recognised or
confirmed by Royal charters, and to show that any acts of
ownership on which they might rely were attributable to
their office of bailiff and conservator ; that their applica-
tion for, and acceptance of, charters was inconsistent with
their alleged right by immemorial possession ; that other
grants had been made, and acts of ownership exercised by
various Sovereigns, acts of Parliament passed, and decrees
made in courts of law or equity, also inconsistent with
such alleged right ; and that the title of the Crown had
been declared in various courts of law or equity, and evi-
denced by the returns to divers inquisitions in several
reigns. The proposed amendments likewise alleged that
the Court of Conservancy was a court held under and
for the Sovereign, and showed that the matters in
which the defendants had for some time past assumed
to act as owners of the soil were matters which for-
merly they would have taken and ought to take cog-
nisance of as conservators of the river, and that the
licenses in the information mentioned were granted by
the corporation in violation of the duties of their office.
In February, 1851, I applied to the Master, as re-
quired by the practice of the Court, for leave to amend
the information. The corporation opposed the application,
but the Master made the order. The information was
amended and filed. The defendant then applied by motion
to the Master of the Rolls to discharge the order, giving
leave to amend the information, but the motion was re-
fused. The Solicitor-General did not press for costs, the
defendants engaging not to present any further appeal.
The defendants were not required to answer the amended
information, but they were at liberty to answer if they
pleased ; andon the 30th of April, 1851, they put in a fur-
ther answer, not making any new case, but still resting
their title on immemorial possession and claiming a right
to apply the proceeds of the shores and embankments to
their own use. On the 3d of May, 1851, replication was
filed, and the cause was at length brought to issue and ripe
for the examination of witnesses. Since then about 200
ancient records have been proved in evidence on behalf of
the Crown, and from 50 to 100 still remain to be procured
from the various record offices. No evidence has yet been
given ou the part of the defendants. In conclusion, I may
state that the reports of Mr. Fearnside and Mr. Hewlett,
containing merely an analysis of the documentary evidence
in support of the title of the Crown, extend together to
420 brief sheets.
The Chairman—When do you think that that cause will
be decided?
Mr. Pemberton—lt is impossible for any one to say. The
corporation of London have not gone into any evidence at
all, and it is likely they will apply for time.
Mr. C. Lewis—How does the exercise of the right to the
soil of the river stand now ? Does the City claim to exercise
the same right over the soil of the Thames as it did before
you filed your information, or is the right in abeyance?
Mr. Pemberton--The right is, in fact, in abeyance, but
the corporation go on granting their licenses to embank,
giving the Commissioners of Woods and Forests 14 days'
notice before doing so.
Mr. C. Lewis—Has the Crown exorcised a similar
right ?
Mr. Pemberton—l do not recollect any other case of the
Crown doing so except in that of the embankment for the
foundations of the New Houses of Parliament. We em-
banked there without any license from the City. We ad-
mit, however, that if a proposed embankment would be
injurious to the navigation of the river, the corporation of
the City have the right to stop it ; but the Crown in no
way recognises their right to the soil of the river. The
Crown does not dispute the right of the City to the con-
servancy—at least, I would qualify that statement by say-
ing that if the right be disputed at all it would be done by
the Admiralty, and I do not represent that department.
Mr. C. Lewis—Your case, then is, that the City are, and
have been, from time immemorial, the c,onservatotrhtsheeojifurrtihse-
river; but all the acts that they have Bono, and
diction which they have exercised, have been in
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Mr. C. Lewis—Do the licensed watermen charge a higher
rate for their services than other persons would ?
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considerable competition in the business, which lceeseg
down the rate of freight, but that there would bee,ngorpen I
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The y man—Have you any cemPla'n
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of the shallowness of the water, we 'There is not a free
pence in rigging out landin ,F.,'
passage up to our wharves-gads up the river to Islewortb,
ton WI for conveying our g°, roving the navigation. In
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Mr. Edward Leigh Pemberton, who stated—l am solici•
tor to the Board of Inland Revenue, and have held that
appointment since 1830.
The Chairman—ln that capacity have you become ac-
quinted with the nature of any disputes which have taken
place between your office and the corporation of the city
with regard to the soil and the conservancy of the
Thames ?
Mr. Pemberton—l have.
The Chairman—State what you know with regard to
that.
Mr- Pemberton—l beg to state, in the first place, that I
attend hero at the request of the commissioners, to afford
such information as they may call for. It is now more
than sixteen years since it first came to my knowledge that
the corporation of London, who have long held the office
of bailiff and conservator of the river Thames from Staines
to Icrautlet had exercised acts of ownership on the soil and
shores of the river quite beyond their jurisdiction as con-
servators, and amounting to encroachments on the property
and prerogative rights of the Crown. The title of the cor-
poration to the conservancy, the nature of the office, and
the duties and authorities appertaining to it, are stated in
Lord Hale's treatise " De Jure Maria" ; Pars Prima, c. 5.
In the spring of 1837 the Solicitor to the Admiralty called
my attention to an act which had been passed in the ses-
sion of 1836, for making a Tier, wharf, and other works at
Greenwich, which act contained.a clause directing payment
of a fine and rent to the corporation of London for the
liberty of digging foundations in the shore and bed of the
river, and to a bill then in progress through the House
of Commons for amending and extending the said
act. The clause in question had been inserted without
the knowledge of the Commissioners of her Majesty's Land
Revenue, and as far as I could learn, without the sanction
of the Treasury or the Board of Admiralty. By the direc-
tion of the Board of Land Revenue, and after correspond-
ence and interviews with the City authorities, clauses
(eventually settled by the Attorney-General and the
counsel of the corporation) sere introduced into the Green-
wich Pier Extension Bill, repealing so much of the former
act as directed payment of rent to the City, and saving the
rights of the Crown in respect of its property in the soil,
and of the corporation of London in respect of their office
of conservators of the river. The proceedings on the
Greenwich Pier Extension Bill and the embankment re-
quired for the new Houses of Parliament, which happened
at the same time, together led to my investigating the
the claim of title to the bed and shores of the river,
set up by the corporation of London. I collected
all the materials I could at that time get togther
embracing the published City charters and all the acts of
ownership I could find to have been exercised on either
side and laid a statement of them before the Attorney and
Solicitor-General, the present Lord Chief Justice of
England, and the Lord Chancellor. The law officers gave
their opinion that the evidence in support of the title of
the Crown greatly preponderated, and that none of the
charters contained apt words for passing the soil, but they
advised that the Crown should not voluntarily enter into
litigation, but act as if its title was undoubted. Reports
of proceedings in the court of Common Councilhaving been
published in the newspapers, by which it appeared that
the corporation had granted, or were about to grant licenses
to embank portions of the river, and that they were granting
such licenses not merely in the character of consevatorse,
but in the assumed characters of owners of the soil of
full
river, I wrote to the C:ty Solicitor for copies or
ranted
particulars of the licenses granted, or about to begran ,
by the corporation. I afterwards received from him a copy
nof a license granted to Mr. Cubitt to make an embank-
, went in front of premises in his occupation the Isle
of Dogs. This was the only license, of which a copy was
sent to me, but it was in a printed form, and it was
evident that similar licenses had been granted, or were
about to be granted, to other persons. The license
grant
rht
e
fully framed. It did not contain any actual
to
strand or soil of the river, but it pro essegrant full
permission and authority to Mr. Cubitt to em
an bank it, with
a covenant that he should quietly hold the embankment
without interruption by the corporation of London or any
person claiming under them, The corporation were not
described as conservators of the river, an
th d there was nothing
on the face of the instrument to imply at they granted
that license merely as conservators. On the contrary, it was
so framed as to imply that they granted as owners of the
soil, more especially as the grant was expressed to be made
for a pecuniary consideration. By the order of the Board of
Woods I consulted the Attorney and Solicitor-General (Sir
Frederick Pollock and the late Sir William Follett) and
they were of opinion that the claim of the ownership of the
soil of the river being now openly made on the part of the
corporation, and acts having been done by them in asser-
tion of the rights claimed, it was desirable that the ques-
tion between the Crown and the corporation should be set
at rest, and that an information should be filed in the
Court of Chancery against the corporation and the grantees
of licenses to embank, praying that the rights of the Crown
and of the corporation respectively might be ascertaned
and declared, and that if it were necessary to determine
such rights by issues at law, that such issues might be
tried under the direction of the court. Accordingly, in
Hilary Term, 1844, an information was filed by the At-
torney-General in the Court of Chancery against the Cor-
poration of London and their town-clerk, and against Mr.
Cubitt and several other persons to whom the corporation
had granted licenses to make embankment
obstructions
of which
were complained of as nuisances and s
to the
navigation. The information stated that the Crown, by
virtue of its prerogative, was seised of the ground and
soil of the coasts and shores of the sea and of navi-
gable rivers, within the flux and reflux of the tide,
and,
throughout the kingdom,among others, of the river
Thames, and had the right of empire and government
over them ; that the Corporation of London had for a
very long period, by prescription or grant front the Crown,
held the office of bailiff or conservator of the river Thames
from Staines to Yantlot ; and that the duty the biff
or conservator mss to see to the navigation of the river
prevent nuisances and obstructions therein, and to regulate
the fishing thereof ; but that he did not, by virtue of his
office, acquire any estate or iaterest in the ground and sell