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The following testimonia, is another proof of the great efficacy
of this medicine :

" Winchmore Hill, Middlesex, April 16, 1851.
" Sir,—ln consideration of the great benefit I have derived from
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and the public to send you the following statement. For upwards of
nine years I have experienced the efficacy of this excellent medicine.
I had long previously been afflicted with headache and indigestion,
but a friend having induced me to make a trial of Frampton's Pills,
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this long period of time I have taken them in preference to any other
medicine ; and I have the happiness of saying that I never had a
better state of health, which I attribute to Frampton's Pills. I beg
farther to add, that this medicine is in general use by my family, and
we know of nothing to equal it.
" I am, Sir, yours respectfully,
THOMAS PROVINCE.
" To Mr. T. Front, 229, Strand, London.

This excellent Family Pill is a medicine of long-tried efficacy for
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Ask for FRAMPTON'S PILL OF HEALTH, and observe the
name and address of " Thomas Front, 229, Strand, London,"on the
Government Stamp.
Price 12.1%d. and 2s. 9d. per box.
South Australian Copper Mining Company,
17, Gracechurch-s'reet.

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS.

[PRICE 5D .

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE.

The general haif-yearly meeting of shareholders in the
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was held at the Pa-
latine-Hotel, Manchester, yesterday afternoon. There
was not a very numerous attendance. Mr. T. Barnes,
Y.P. for Bolton, presided. The report of the director,
and the statement of the accounts, which had been pre-
viously issued, were taken as read.
The CHAIRMAN observed that there was an item in the
accounts which might call for a remark. The amount
of outstanding accounts due to the company appeared
very large, being 397,000/., and the proprietors might b
inclined to ask were all these good debts The auditor
assured him th4t there was no reason to doubt any of
them. More than 250,0001. of that sum was owing to
them by other railway companies, including the balance
owing from the East Lancashire, the Great Northern,
the Leeds Central, and some others. .The remainder of
the 370,000/. were what might be called current ac-
counts, respecting the validity of which the directors had
no manner of doubt. There was another item, which
the directors bad purposely placed in a prominent posi-
tion in order that some explanation might be given. It
was the extra fortnight's expeuses for wages and stores
up to July Ist. This had been the accumulation of the
last ten years. The revenue bad alwars been debited
with the amount paid each half-year for working thirteen
fortnights ; but as there was one day and six hones
additional in each year, and two days in leap year, it
must of course happen that in some half-year fourteen
fortnights would have to be paid for. Had he (the
chairman) been aware at the last half-yearly meeting
that they were within one day of an extra fortnight's
expenses, which would sweep away nearly the whole of
their balance, he should have deemed it his duty to
inform the shareholders of the fact. The auditors had
received instructions to make provisions against thb
recurrence of such a circumstance. The next item in
the report •was the loans. The directors had availed
themselves of opportunities, as they had been presented,
of reducing the amount of interest, and the average rats
had been reduced, during the past half-year, from
41. Bs. llid. to 41. ss. 6d. Being spread over so large
an area as three millions of course the reduction of the
average rate of interest could not be Ter), rapid ; but
considerable amount would fall in dunng the current
half-year, and they would have no difficulty in
getting money at the rate they had been doing
lately, 3i per cent., and in some cases very probably
at 34- per cent. The receipts of the line had been
going on steadily increasing during the whole year, and
were still doing se ; and he had no doubt whatever that
the vitality there was in the line' would cause a gradual
and constant increase of the receipts. They were, to
some extent, checked by the limited amount of their
accommodation, and the directors had under their con-
sideration the subject of increasing it. The disburse-
ments on the line were heavy in appearance, but, if
measured by the number of miles run, and by the amount
which had been expended on the working stock, they
would not be found to be unduly large. During the
year 1852, 14,820/. more had been expended than during
the previous year, on railway carriages, engines, and
tenders ; •and in the half-year, ending Dec. 31st, 1852,
they had expended 8,7001. more than in the correspond-
ing half of 1851. The report explained the nature of
the renewals and repairs, and this expenditure was, in
the judgment of the directors, well and wisely made, and -
the money had been employed much' more beneficially
for the proprietors than if it had remained, in the hands
of the bankers as balance. They held that it was tree
economy for railway companies to maintain their work-
ing stock in the highest possible state of efficiency. The
work had been done cheaply and effectively, and they
had been increasing the capacity, power, and dump
bility of the stock which had been replaced. The half-
year just closed had had to bear more than its due pro-
portion of the repairs, as 24 out of the 33 carriages re-
placed had been broken up in former half-years. They
also had to make good the damages sustained in the un-
fortunate accidents during last year. In the inquiry,
into the circumstances of the Burnley accident, the coro-
ner and jury had made some remarks about the carriages
not being made of a height, and it was supposed that
might have had some influence on that lamentable acci-
dent. During the past half-year considerable alterations
had been made in the carriages in order to remedy this.
Although there would not be the same extent of repairs
during the current half-year, yet the increased rate of
wages and cost of materials would prevent any great re-
duction of expense on this head. The committee which
had been appointed by the directors, as he stated at the
last meeting, to inquire into the working expenses, was
still sitting, and when their investigation was finished,
prudent and effectual means would be taken to reduce
the working expenses where it was possible to do se. He
believed it was possible to reduce the locomotive mileage,
and if they could succeed in that, they would be able to
reduce the expenses in that department. He was happy to
state that this company was on the most peaceable and
friendly terms, and working most cordially with very other
railway company. He hoped that the day of fighting and
contests had gone past, and that all railway boards
would be advised it was for their interest to work
amicably and cordially together. The allowance of
20,000/. for the renewal of the permanent way had been
exceeded by 4071. during the past half-year, but the re-
laying had gone on to such an extent that less than half
that sum would probably suffice for the next two or three
years. Nearly the whole of-the Leeds double line had
been re-laid with heavy rails. The East Lancashire
Company had projected a duplicate line from Clifton to
to Salford, but he was in hopes that this useless ex-
penditure would be avoided, by some mutual arrange-
ment being come to between it and this company.
Speaking of an individual proprietor on the Lancashire
and Yorkshire Railway, he was quite advised that the
day would come when there wou!ci be, to tire an expres-
sion of Mr. Dugdale, the chairman of the fast Lanca-
shire Company, •‘ sensible men at both boards," who
would resolve that there should he an amalgamation be-
tween the two companies. That portion of the South-
port line between Wigan and Southport had been let oa
very satisfactory terms, and was expected to be com-
pleted by next spring. The other part, between
Wigan and Manchester, had been re-surveyed by the
engineer, and the Southport board had resolved to apply
to Parliament for power to deviate from the original line,
whereby there would be a saving of several miles in
length, and of a considerable amount of the cost,
whilst the line would accommodate the district it was
intended to pass through quite as well as the original
line. The directors recommend a dividend of 3 per cent.,
and although not so much as they would have liked it
was a clear dividend, and obtained after fetching up the
arrears of wages and stores, and the heavy extra charges,
and after doing more work to the stock than had been
done in any previous half-year. He concluded by mov-
ing the adoption of the report and the accounts.
Mr. STEWART (director) seconded the motion, which,
after some conversation, was carried.
The CHAIRMAN then moved a dividend of 1/. 10s. per
share on the 1001. stock, and so in proportion on such
of the Manchester and Leeds 100/., 501., 251., and 121.
shares, on the Wakefield, Pontefract, and Goole 50/.
and 251. shares, and on the Liverpool and Bury and •
Huddersfield and Sheffield 501. shares, as have not yet
been paid up and converted into stock ; of 4s. 3fd. per
share on the 19/. 10s. shares; of 2s. 80. per share on
the 161. F Extension shares; and of 3s. 4id. per share
on the West Riding 141. shares, deducting income tax,
such dividends to be payable on the 15th inst.
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Times.)
There is, it has(From
beenthe remarked by an ancient
philosopher,, a certain power of long life dependent
neither en strength nor health. As in the physical,
so in the moral world, there are abuses which
seem to draw fresh strength from weakness, fresh
vitality from corruption, and fresh longevity from
imminent annihilation. Evils far less gross and
crying are eradicated by their side—things which
flourished when they were already rotten and
decayed are swept away, but they continue and
endure condemned by every one, yet stricken by
no one, with the mark of Cain on their forehead,
but also with Cain's impuniv.
This has been the fate, the singular destiny, of
our Ecclesiastical Courts. They were emphati-
cally-condemned by grave and learned commissions
at a time when common law was regarded as the
perfection of reason, equity as a refinement of
enlightened justice, and the feudal law of real prod'
perty as the noblest monument of the wisdom of
our ancestors. Yet these have all had in their
turn to bow to the amending hand. Common law
pleading is but the shadow of what it was, and the
rules of evidence themselves are no longer always
construeted for the purpose of shutting out the
truth. Equity herself has lost some of her terrors ;
suits do not abate with the precision and frecpiency
of the glorious days of old; and accounts are taken
pan principles more. nearly approximating-to common
sense, and less vividly -repugnant to the intention
of the parties. Uses are not 'hat they were, nor
contingent remainders either, and even the con-
struction of wills has not been saved from arbi-
trary innovation. But amid this sudden, terrible
wreck and ruin of the elements of our judicial sys-
tem—amid prostrate columns and fallen porticoes,
shattered pavements and choked-up fountains--one
sacred edifice still rears its head unscathed and un-
shaken, complete to its minutest proportions—that
edifice is the jurisdiction and procedure of the Ec-
clesiastical Courts. While everything around them
has bowed to the law of change, it may well be the
boast of these venerable tribunals that they have
come down to us such as the wisdom of our ances-
tors made them, without the correction of a single
abuse or the softening of a single absurdity. Their
imposing number, 372, their confined and intricate
jurisdiction, their long and tedious written plead-
ings, their wearisome depositions, in which the
examination-in-chief is carefully concealed from the
cross-examiner, and the eliciting of truth is con-
fided to chance instead of design, all mark them out
as judicial ouriosities more worthy of note to ananti-
quary than conceivable in an age where everything
else has yielded to the desire of progress and im-
provement. Yet this has been the fate of the Ec-
clesiastical Courts. The ravages of time have had
no effect on their constitution, and they stand be-
fore us a full and perfect specimen of the sort of
thing which our ancestors were in the habit of en-
during under the prostituted name of "justice."
They had been so long condemned that they eluded
inquiry. Their defects were so manifest, that no
one thought it necessary to devote himself to their
exposure; and thus they have lived on, till their exis-
tence must seem as marvellous in the eyes of the pub-
lic whose indignation they have attracted, mocked,
and survived. The strangest part of the matteris, that
to a procedure the most absurd, and a jurisdiction
the most intricate and oppressive, then courts
have added sinecures enough to excite the indigna-
tion of the least sensitive among the advocates of
corruption and negligence of the trust confided in
them, such as we should seek for in vain elsewhere.
Mr. oore, with ten thousand a-year for doing
nothing, and three clerks with eighty pounds a-year
for doing everything, arranging our wills in pre-
mises the reverse of fire-proof, and giving us in ex-
change for enormous fees nothing but neglect and
insecurity, form a picture at once edifying and
astonishing. This is the den of monstrous abuses
which the Chancellor cannot prevail upon himself
to touch—the sanctum sanctoram of iniquity and
injustice into which he is not bold enough to enter.
Commission has succeeded commission, committee
has followed on committee, speech on speech, and
bill on bill, yet there stand the Ecclesiastical
Courts; unalterable, unchangeable, steadfast where
all is mutability, and unimproved where all else is
progress.
They received, however, a rude shake on Tues-
day evening. Mr. Collier's speech, clear and com-
prehensive in its statements, and bold and sweep-
' ing in its propositions of amendment, was well cal-
culated to show even the most dilatory teat the
time for action has arrived ; and, if we rightly un-
derstand the remarks of the Solicitor-General, we
may, perhaps, have no reason to regret that reform
has not overtaken the Ecclesiastical Courts at an
earlier time, when the true principles of jurispru-
dence were less thoroughly understood, and the
habit had not yet been acquired of viewing the ad-
ministration of justice as .one grand and connected
whole. Had the Ecclesiastical Courts been reformed
twenty years ago, it is probable that their existing
jurisdiction would have been preserved, and nothing
altered except the glaring defects of their procedure,
the enormous amount of their fees, the scandalous
nuisance of their sinecures, and the negligence With
which they perform their duty of custodiers of im-
portant and valuable documents. But all this,
though good, is no longer sufficient. It cannot be
endured that a man should be driven into the Eccle-
siastical Court to obtain probate of a will consti-
tuting him executor, then into a court of equity to
have the will administered according to law, and
then into a court of common law to obtain a deci-
sion as to the rights conferred by this self-same in-
strument over the real estate. This, we say, might
have been tolerated once, but will not be submitted
to now. The controversy which has arisen with
regard to the union of law and equity has at any
rate decided this, and no system of amendment will
be accepted by the public which does not give to
the tribunal before which the bill is first brought
the power of dealing fully, effectually, and com-
pletely with all the rights and interests arising
under it. Providing this be done, it is compara-
tively of minor importance whether the granting of
probate be handed over to any one of the existing
forms of tribunal, and we trust that if we have
waited long we are about to receive from the ame-

WEST ConNwem.—The half-yearly meeting of the
proprietors was held at the company's office at Penzance,
on Monday—Mr. H. 0. Wills in the chair—when a di-
vidend was declared of 3s. 3d. per share, being at the
rate of 2i per cent. per annum on the 131. called up,
leaving a balance in favour of revenue of 6001.
GLOUCESTER, ABERYSTWITH, AND CENTRAL WALES.—
A preliminary call of ls. 4d. per share has just been
made by the Master in Chancery winding up this com-
pany.
CAMERON'S COALBROOK AND SWANSEA.—The Master
has ordered that the action in respect of a claim of 1,4001.
of Mr. Douglas in this matter, be no further defended.
BARBADOES.—A compromise of the affairs of this com-
panyto: tphl
ae
nOsffi
andeial I Ils
eacnt
iaognesT
o3fotohl
0. Gunn
ecodne:
has been sanctioned by the Master, whereby the
d trusteesi
tion of arehaving to payth
livered up to them, and on being discharged from all
lia-
bility as to the company, other than that of th • liability
as contributories. their
PORTSMOUTH.—Yesterday, before Mr. Examiner
the standing orders in the case of this bill ner May,
not complied with, and the bill will be referred e declared
to red
select committee on standing orders.e
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW.—The thirteenth
half-
yearly meeting of this company Was held
's Hotel, George-square on Tuesday, in
Blackburn, Esq
chairman
01
the
Glasgow ; Peter
chair. The following is an abstract directors, in the
was held as read :—" In of the report which
the balance-sheet for the h layinghalf-year before the proprietors
January, 1853, the directors a-year ending on 31st of
on an increasehave to congratulate them
in receipts,
goads, as compared • from both passengers and
1852, amounting with the corresponding half-year in
e to 83 8101. 6s. id The working ex-
penses amount to 34' * *
‘2, per cent. ; the ennes
stock are in excellent observeda that a
sum of 4,0551. _ _ nt order. It will bth debit
18s. 11d. has been placed to
of a revenue 'charged to
enue account, under the heading
revenue.' After deduction of this sum, there remains a
balance of 40169/. 4s. 2d. from which the directors re-
commend that a dividend be declared at th_e_moi7all2rsa. of
3 per cent, per annum amounting to 35 6d.,
the
reserve fund."
leaving 6,818/. lls. Bd.t to be added. to twas
The report, after a short conversationn,a e
~adopted
una-
nimously, and the proceedings termi t a
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lioration to be effected a system more complete and.
scientific than could have been hoped for under any
previous system. It would be a triumph to reduce
the Ecclesiastical Courts to common sense, but a
still greater one to make their reform the means of
establishing a court which shall administer to every
suitor not law, equity, or ecclesiastical custom, but
full, adequate, and complete justice.

THE WORKING MEN'S TESTIMONIAL TO SIR ROBERT
PEEL.—A deputation from the acting committee, con-
sisting of Mr. Hume, Mr. Wyld, Mr. Macphail, Mr.
Yates, Mr. John Sharpe, and Mr. Dean, had an inter-
view on Tuesday last, at the Admiralty, with Sir James
Graham, Sir Edward Ryan, the Right Hon. Edward
Strutt, and Mr. Groat, to consider and discuss the
clauses of the draft deed, whereby the fund subscribed
by upwards of 400,000 working men of the United
Kingdom, is to be vested in the London University Col-
lege for educational purposes. When this interesting
testimonial is completed, it is intended to present a copy,
framed and glazed, to her Majesty, to the houses of Par-
liament, the British Museum, the corporatism of Lon-
don, and certain literary and scientific institutions. The
object is to apply the interest of the fund subscribed,
under the direction of the college in the purchase of
useful literature for the working classes, which is to be
presented annually to various mechanics' and literary
institutions throughout the United Kingdom.
ABSCONDING OF THE GOVERNOR OF CHESTER GAOL.—
Yesterday information was received at the various me-
tropolitan and City police stations from the magistrates
acting for the City of Chester, offering a reward for the
apprehension of Mr. Horatio Nelson Tivy, late governor
of Chester city gaol, who had absconded in the course
of last woek with several sums of money he had em-
bezzled, the property of the town council. He is de-
scribed as forty-eight years of age, rather slender in per-
son, and of dark complexion. He is supposed to be a
native of Cork, having formerly been an officer at Tra
metropolis,sit preparingl
mere. He is also accused of having purloined a n-
quan-
tity of property belonging to the prisoners in the gaol,
i 8 whichenep
ehadete
d beentebe deposited
concealedi i
in hni handssthe
for ey,
renrs
for a trip to Australia. It is stated that an examination
of his accounts disclosed serious frauds.
his Case more painful is that he has left his hur
children at
Chester unprovided for.
L -IthEecTeloenestui
einP
or Lord Rector COLLEGE ABER
DEEN°.R—D T
Col-
lege took place within that Universityor of Marisehal
Lord Carlisle was elected by a large on Tuesday, when
enabled to state that Mr. Disraeli majority. We are
nomination, having declined refused to be put in
that he oin Ithe honour on the ground
requiri could not c_ p y with the condition of election
ng that he should visit Aberdeen next month and
deliver t inaugural addv • ress, Mr. Disraeli had pre
iously refused a
mil -
sli ar
offer from the University of
Edinburgh, for si •
milar would have
been no oppositionreasons, though there
to his
election.—Times.
CLERGY RESERVES (CANADA
,—Fro a Parliamentary
Paper published on Wednesday, ar t the nurn-
,,, s that it
app em's
reserves in
her of acres originally appropriated as clergy remng,
Canada was 3,346,252. The number of :,.carise
of clergy
unsold was 1,574,600, and the prebabols.
reserves remaining unsold, 43,0431.
..,,- ~v lAn undertaker 15
THE BEST PERSONS TO cich,
be says, "is
advertising a new kind of
~Cot • '
~..luity.,,
strongly recommended by tne '

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DEATH or Dn. OVERWEG.—Through intelligence re.
ceived at the Foreitn-office from Tripoli, and communi.
cated to uq by the Chevalier Bunsen, it is our melan-
hso at
choly duty to announce the sudden death of Dr. Over.
btl
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:Dcr okron.,
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Richardson,
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olciurhonanattruied woe
wem, one of the travellers employed in determining.the
bounda r i e q of Lake Tsad. Dr. Vogel, a gentleman
bo , . inquestwoenlf:
'no:yea:no
ion,—
Literary to join them, and on Seuennt
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to
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record. Southampton
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with two sappers and miners, and a supply of the best
x.
yiBll:oorp!iis:bssterrvo naq
fell another hearty traveller of vigorous
instrumentstt ih,
w:
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agwreifioi
ocTrhfirm3Ewoa:gishnßhaeßavirri i
was commenced on Tuesday on the two
victim in this particular service of African entetprise n,
Literary Gazette.
the men who perished b
Coburg-dock, in y the capsising of the Irene, op-
positeves investigation of
journed until Thursday some length, the Saturday ast'
mates of the Uncle s next, to afford case was ad-
making their statementsam and Queen the captains and
to
the jury,