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resumed, and the report was ordered to be
Li.-,Jught up on 'Wednesday, the 25th.
SEQUESTRATORS' REMEDIES BILL.

The Louse then went into Committee on this Bil.,
Mr. MULLINGS proposed the following amen,
menu:—Clause 1, line 7, to strike out " whenever a se.
questrator is," and insert " every sequestrator who shall
then have been or shall thereafter be." Line 9, to strike
out after "duty" the word " of," and insert" due or owing
from." Line 10, to strike out "it shall be lawful for
such sequestrator," and insert "may and is hereby au-
thorised and empowered." Line 16, after "nature" to
add "or in lieu;" and after "tithe," to add "or other
rent or annual sum." Page 2, line 6, to strike out
" Levari facias," and insert " }led facias de bonis
Ecelesiasticis, or Levari facias de bonis Eeclesiasticis or
s( questrari facias."

Mr. S. WORTLEY proposed the following clause:—
" 111. Charge of tithe ;commutation expenses to be first
made. And be it enacted, that out of the moneys to be
ceivcd by any sequestrator of any benefice, the said
sequestrator shall, in the first instance, pay and dis•
charge any instalment or instalments due or to become
due en such benefice in respect of any charge made
thereon, or ou the tithe rent charge thereof, to secure
the repayment of the moneys expended in the commuta-
tion of the tithes of such benefice."

Both amendments were agreed to without any dis-
cussion.
The Committee then went through the remaining
clauses of the Bill, which were agreed to, the House
resumed, and the seport was ordered to be brought up
after the Faster recess.
PARTITION OR SALE OF CHATTELS PER-
SONAL HELD IN JOINT TENANCY.
The House having resumed,
Mr. R. PALMER rose to ask leave to bring in a Bill
to authorise, • in certain cases, the partition or sale of
chattels personal held in joint tenancy or tenancy in
common. He said there were in many cases great in-
convenience felt in dividing or disposing of property of
that tenure, especially with regard to shipping. He
himself had had many representations of their inconve-
nience from shipowners in Liverpool. The evil they
complained of was this, that if there were a number of
part-owners of a ship, the majority of the owners
had the power to dispose of the ship, in cases
of disagreement, against the will of the minority,
who had no remedy in such cases.—(Hear, hear.)
He said he had consulted persons both in Liverpool and
London.who were well conversant with the operations
of the law on this subject, and he proposed simply this
Bill to enable parties by petition to the Court of Chan-
cery to have the partition or sale of chattels personal hold
in joint tenancy. _

Leave was then given to bring in the Bill.
The Hon. Member subsequently brought in the Bill.
POLICE IN POPULOUS TOWNS.
Mr. GIBSON CRAIG, in the absence of ;the Lord
Advocate, obtained leave to bring in a Bill to make
more effectual provision for regulating the police of
towns and populous places in Scotland, and for paving,
draining, cleansing. lighting, and improving the same.
SAVINGS BANKS.
Mr. REYNOLDS postponed his motion until this day
three weeks relative to the appointment of a Select
Committee on savings banks.

REV. JAMES SHORE.
After the presentation of a few petitions relstive to
the liberation of the Rev. Mr. Shore,
The Musa adjourned, at Five o'clock, until Monday,
the 16th of April.

THE STANFIELD-HALL

MURDERS.

TRIAL OF RUSH.
BY EXPRESS-(THIS DAY

(PRO XI OUR. OWN REPORTER )
NORWICH, TWELVE O'CLOCK.
The Court was not so crowded this morning.
Rush, we understand, was busily engaged during part
of the night in writing, and preparing for the continua-
tion of his defence to-day. Ile ate a hasty breakfast at
eight o'clock.
Mr. Baron RonrE took his seat at a quarter to nine.
The jury then entered the box. After the lapse of a
few minutes Rush was placed at the bar; ho looked well.
Rush continued his defence.—Having reminded the
jury of what he was saying when ho broke off last
night, (the prisoner spoke sometimes in so low and
gutteral a tone that we could only gather the purport
of his remarks with great difficulty), he complained that
all the witnesses had been tampered with, and asserted
that in many most important points they had clearly
and grossly contradicted themselves. Had Howe been a
respectable man his evidence would have been most im-
portant for the ends of the prosecution. He had received
a letter yesterday, signed by several respectable per-
sons, stating that he had offered to come to Norwich
to give evidence on either side fur twenty pounds.
He regretted he could not put it in evidence.
Of course, only having been informed at the last
moment that Howe would be called, he could not be ex-
pected to obtain all the evidence that he could wish to
show the character of that witness. Ho should, how-
ever, produce respectable individuals who would inform
them who and what Howe was. Then, the boy Smith,
Who littered the straw, gave different evidence in this
court to that he had given before the Coroner.
The CounT intimated that the depositions taken before
the Coroner were not in evidence. He had simply to
answer the evidence thut had been adduced in this court.
Rush said, then, he would not allude further to that
discrepancy in the testimony of the witness. He clearly
showed that the " slack " had been littered some time
before the day of the murder. The straw had been
there more than a fortnight.
The COURT intimated that the witness said ho could
not swear that it had been there more than a fortnight.
He could not speak to the exact time, whether it was a
fortuight or a day or two before the murder.
Rush contended that the witness meant to say that the
straw had been there a fortnight. The assertion that
ho had said " young Jenny was his enemy," was got
up for the purpose of colouring the case against him, and
was altogether opposed to truth. He complained that the
papers iu his carpet-bag had been thrown about for the
purpose of rendering them as valueless to him as pos-
sible. Ho then referred to the evidence of
Pont and Mortar, the constables. Great mystery
was endeavoured to be attached to the wigs. Why,
they were kept in an open box, to which access could be
easily obtained, which would not have been the case if
they had been kept for the purpose of disguise. The pri-
soner then proceeded to deal to painful tediousness with
the most trivial matters which cannot affect the posi-
tion in which he stands to any extent. Speaking
of the evidence of Hubbersty with respect to Emily
Sandford signing her deposition, he said he knew
by the man's eye that he was telling a
lie. He complained much of Mr. Cann's interference
with his private papers, and of the secret examinations
of Emily Sandford by him, The fictitious signature of
Mr. Jenny was so unlike the real, that no person of the
slightest sense could mistake the two. Let them look at
them and say, as men of business, if they would not
at once be defected. It was said that he intended
to murder Mr. Jenny, and to mike use of the
forged deeds in order to get possession of the
property, which was as horrible and as gross and un-
founded a charge as could be brought against any man
in a court of justice. His signature was a most
emcomnion one ; it was well known, and the
forgery could, therefore, be detected at once.
Ile implored the jury to examine the two, and to judge
for themselves. Su much evidence had been adduced,
and that of so contradictory a nature, that
he trusted the jury would bear with him. He saw
they were patient, and he was obliged to them. He was
utterly at a loss to understand why Savory, who spoke to
meeting him at five o'clock on the night of the murder,
was produced, except it was to prolong time. He put it
to them, as men of common sense, if it was likely
that he would make the inquiries he had as to whether
or not Mr. Jermy was at home on the night
of the murder, if he intended that same
night to commit the horrible crime of murder!
It was not feasible, and he could not make it out. He
defied any one in England to say, after looking
at the way the prosecution had been conducted,
at the taking possession of documents of the utmost
importance to his defence and withholding them, and at
the private examinstions that had taken place, to say that
he had had justice done him—everybody knew that he
had not. He repeated that he never used stronger lan.
gunge to any one with respect to Mr. Jermy than'he had
to that gentleman himself. Howe had been kept back until
the last moment, and at a time when the counsel for the
prosecution knew that he would have but little
tune to bring forward evidence to show the
value of his testimony. Ho had now gone through
the remarks which he had to make upon the
pricipal evidence adduced against him. Instead of its
being to his interest that Mr. Jermy should die
it was to his interest that he should live,
on account of the agreements into which
he entered with him with respect to the property. The
prisoner uttered this with much vehemence, striking his
hand as he said it emphatically on the dock before him.
(He here detailed the nature of his relations with Mr
Jermy with respect to Potash )

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
• (FROM OUR OWN REPORTER.)
RUSH'S DEFENCE.
NOR wicn, THREE o'CLocx.
The Court was opened at th, usual hour.
Rush continued—The nature of his relations in re-
spect of property with Mr. Jenny were such that it
was to his interest that ho sh(,uld live, rather than die
If he had intended to commit the horrible crime of
murder, did they think he would have had Emily
ISandford at Potash? She said he trembled. He did ;
I as, from what he had heard at the Hall, and his differ-
ences with the family, he feared ,be should be
suspected : but when he went to bed he was
as firm as at that moment his conscience
accused him of no guilt. " God Almighty
if I had done such a thing, I could not
have looked you in the lace—l should have been
mad by this time." The coat ho had on that night