The Sun.
London, England, 1853-03-09 00:00:00

LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MARCH 9, 1853.

THE ATLANTIC AND PACIFIC
JUNCTION COMPANY.
Navigation through the Isthmus of Darien without Locks. .
Notice is Hereby Given, that the Directors will proceed to an
A llotmeat of Shares on TaURS DAY, the 17111. instant.
J. ROBERTS BLACK, Secretary.
36, Moorgate-street, Bth March,'lBs3.

NOTICE.
TOINVENTORS, ARTISTS' ANTI/ OTHERS.
THE ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITU-
'T'ION will be CLOSED after the sth of AIARCU until
EASTER MONDAY, for the purpose of ER EcTING spae.oua NEW
ROOMS for a PkIOTO,4ItAPIIIC SCSI &c.

.„.
MODELS of MACHINERY, which will be described to to Visi.
tors, WORKS of ART, &c., will be RECEIVED for EXHIBITION,
free of expense to.the Depositors, until the 21st of MARCH.

LAURENT'S CASINO, ARGYLL ROOMS.-
Lessee, CHARLES E. LAURENT, Otislow-house, Fulham-
road. 'Open Every Evening. The Orchestra will perform, during,
the week, "The Thistle," " shamrocu," " Carillonneur." and" Wind-
sor-castle" Waltzes, the "Chamoagne Galep," and "Marco Spada,"
"Le Cirque," and " Faridondaine" Quadrilles. Admission, • Is.
Doors open at Half-past Eight; dancing to commence at Nine
o'clock, and to terminate at Half-past Eleven.

T" ARCTIC COMPANY.To belncorporated by Royal Charter, or Act of Parliament,
with limited liability, as the " ROYAL ARCTIC COMPANY."
For the purpose of carrying on Whale and other Fisheries, and for
Mining and Colonising a certain tract of land in Davis Straits, under
a grant from the Crowe. •
Provisionally registered under the Act 7 and 8 Pict., c. 110.
Capital, 200,0001; in 20,000 shares of 101. each; deposit, V. 10s. per
share, to be returned in full in the event of a Charter, or Act of Par-
liameikt, not being obtained. (With power to increase capital,)
TRUSTEES.
Sir James Duke, Bart., M.P., for London.
George Duncan, Esq., M.P., for Dundee.•
Sir John Campbell, K.C.H.
DIREoTORS.

Richard Maxwell Fox. Psq., M.P., Director of the General Screw
Steam Navigation Company.
George Lathom Browne, Esq., 61, Torrington-square, Director of the
Upper India Railway.
William Llogarth. Esq., merchant, Aberdeen.
F. P. Bore, Esq., 3, Eccleston-terrace, Belgrave-square.
(With power to add to their number.)
GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT—Captain Penny, late Cbmmander (4 the
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MY
'.Lady Franklin and Sophia, Arctic Searching Expedition.'
BROKERS—Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, 2, Royal Exchange-
.
btlicrings.
The objects- of this Corporation are the application of the powers
of the auxiliary screw to whaling vessels, and the establishment of a
fishing and mining colony in an inlet on the west side of Davis
Straits, known as Northumberland Inlet, or Hogarth Sound, disco-
vered by Captain Penny, the Arctic Navigator, where the whales
hunted front the other fishing grounds find refuge, and especially
abound during the spring months, when the ice in Davis Straits
effectually prevents any Vessel from approaching the coasts, and on
the adjacent shores of which there is greatmineral wealth, especially
plumbago (blackhead)
In this inlet, lying in latitude 65 deg., longitude 65 deg., on the
west coast of Davis Straits, and on the rich mineral land adjacent,
her Majesty has been graciously pleased, under certain conditions, to
grant to Captain Penny and his co-adventurers a lease of land and a
right to trade, make settlements, work mines, and establish fisheries
within its limits.
The productiveness of the fishery in Northumberland Inlet was
tested by Captain Penny, in the years 1844, 46, 47 ; and in 1851,
twelve seamen, with only three boats, were landed from the Ameri-
can whaler " Maclellan" and killed no less than sixteen whales
during the spring months, when Davis Straits were closed by the ice.
Besides working the privileges conceded by the royal grant, which
are confined to the inlet and its adjacent shores. the Company pro-
pose to engage in the Nova Zembla fisheries, commencing with two
new screw steam whalers of 500 tons each, which the Company pro-
pose sending from Aberdeen in the spring months, the successful
prosecution of which is guaranteed by the superintendence of Captain
Penny, a successful whaling master of thirty-one years' standing,
who will go out to the colony, and pass the first winter in the inlet.
The whole of the expenses of Lease, Charter or Act of Parliament,
and Registration will be borne by the promoters, and no call will be
made without the consent of the Shareholders, or until a dividend
has been declared.
One-third of the capital having been already subscribed for (chiefly
in Scotland), applications for the remaining shares may be made to
the Secretary, William L. Hunt, Esq , 3, Cannon.street, City; or to
the brokers, Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, Royal Exchange-
buildings.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS—(YESTERDAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented a petition from
the Eastborne Union, Sussex, praying that the copies of
the general orders issued from the Poor Law Board, may
be for the future sent round to the different unions
before they are transmitted to the Secretary of State, by
whose ratification, at present they become law. Also
a petition from the farmers attending different markets
in Sussex, praying for the repeal of the malt tax;
The Earl of EGLINTON presented a petition from
the South Dublin Union, against the dissolution of Kil.
niainham Union.
Lord WHARNCLIFFE presented a petition from
Yorkshire against the Maynooth grant, and also praying
for the inspection of nunneries.
Their lordships then adjourned.
COUNTY COURTS.

Lord BROUGHAM presented a petition from the
merchants and traders of Margate, complaining of the
expense, vexation, and delay occasioned by the present
state of the administration of the bankruptcy law. The
noble and learned lord said that the petitioners did not
complain of the law itself, but of the great distance which
they were obliged to travel to attend the courts ; and
they prayed that the bill now before their lordships for
vesting a bankruptcy jurisdiction in the county courts
might be passed into law. He had also a petition,
numerously signed, from the inhabitants of Brighton, to
the same effect. It was impossible for him to present
such petitions for extending the jurisdiction of the
county courts without entreating the attention of their
lordships and of her Majesty's Government to the
immense importance of the system of local judicature.
He would only mention one circumstance for the pur-
pose of illustrating the evils of the present system, and
which, indeed, it required no argument— to prove.
Of the 1,900 or 2,000 cases tried in the supreme
courts in one year, sent by writs issuing from all
the four courts of Westminster-hall, to be tried at
all the circuits, including the circuits of London and
Middlesex, more than one-half of the number were
cases under 501., which was the extent of the county
courts jurisdiction as the law at present stood, and con-
sequently more than one-half of those cases might be
tried much more expeditiously and infinitely more cheaply
in the county courts. How many cases did the county
courts try between 201. and 501., to say nothing of the
thousands and hundreds of thousands under 20/. ? Be-
tween 201. and 501.—the ground upon which the county
courts might be said to come into competion with the
supreme courts—there were somewhere about 6,000
cases tried in the county courts, as compared with 1,000
cases tried by the supreme courts under 50/. Anything
more monstrous than the state of the law, or rather the
administration of the law, in this respect, he could not
conceive. The whole of the salaries of the judges of the
supreme courts were now paid, and most properly paid,
not by the suitors but by the consolidated fund. He
thought it was the bounden duty of Parliament and the
Government to provide for the expenses of the adminis-
tration of justice at the expense of the country at large.
But in the county courts, where an immense amount of
business was conducted, to the infinite relief of the
suitors, instead of the country paying the expenses, the
poor suitor paid, because he was less capable of paying.
Being much less able to bear the burden, on that ac-
count the suitor in the county courts was saddled with
the expense of the administration of justice. That was
an anomaly to which he had often had occasion to
call the attention of their lordships, but he hoped and
trusted that he would not much longer have any occa-
sion to press it on the attention of Parliament and the
Government, 174,0001. was extorted, he might say, from
these poor suitors in the county courts, to pay the ex-
penses of those courts ; and besides that sum, they had
to pay about 100,0001. more to the general fee fund, and
there was even a surplus—which was even more mon-
strous and more anomalous still—and that surplus went
into the consolidated fund.

Lord COLCHESTER gave notice that on Monday
next he would move for a return of the number of per-
sons who had passed the examination established for
masters and mates of merchant vessels by the Board of
Trade.

use of metal of the proper quatty and value, do that
there should be no depreciation in the coin. (Hear.)

PASSENGERS PASSING TO FRANCE.

Mr. JAS. MACGREGOR moved for a return of the
annual number of passengers passing between this
country and France, beginning with the year 1842, show-
ing the ports of embarkation and disembarkation, and
the annual value of exports and imports to and from
France during the same period.
Agreed to.
PUBLIC 'INCOME AND EXPENDITURE.

Mr. W. WILLIAMS moved for an account of the
public income and expenditure of the United Kingdom,
in the years ending the sth day of January, 1851, 1852,
and 1853, distinguishing the actual payments for the ex-
penses incurred in the collection and management of the
revenue ; for the charges of the public debt (the termi-
nable annuities being valued by estimate), for the ex
penses of the civil Government, the allowances to the
Royal family and to his Majesty the King of the Bel-
gians, the establishment of the Lord Lieutenant of Ire-
land, the expenses of the two Houses of Parliament and
ahe civil departments, the other pensions on the Consoli-
dated Fund, on the gross revenue, and the
Civil List ; also the payments for the administra-
tion of Justice, diplomatic expenses, and on
account of the sums voted for the army, navy, ordnance,
and miscellaneous services, also public works, bounties,
post-office, the quarantine. and, warehouse
.establish-
ments, and all other payments not coming under any of
the foregoing heads, with an appendix showing the
several items composing each head of the account (in
continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 485, of Ses-
sion 1852).
Agreed to.