The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-05 00:00:00

CO ZONIAL.

SUGAR.—There is a steady Tntirftet for British Plan-
tation, and the sales are 820 hhds, including 120 Barba-
does by auction at 39s Gd to 41s Gd; Mauritius, 100
casks and 6,700 bags sold with animation, the lower kinds
at fully former rates, but the better sorts went 6d lower,
mid to fine yellow 383 to 425, grey 37s Gd to 41s,
and fine brown 37s to 37s 6d ; Beng4l, 4,400 bags were
mostly disposed of at rather higher rates, white
Crystalized brought 45s 6d to 47s 6J, mid to fine white
Benares 40s 6d to 445, and brown and yellow 36s to
39s 63; Madras, 1,200 bags sold briskly at stiffer prices,
brown at 32s 6d to 355, and low to mid yellow at 36s
to 37s 6d. The quantity of British Plantation landed
last week at the East and West India Docks was 2,132
hhds, 222 tierces, 589 barrels; there were taken for
home consumption 1,224 hhds, 115 tierces, 247 barrels.
The stock in the same places is 14,186 hhds, 2,045 ties,
3,843 barrels.

COFFEE.-240 bags 20 casks Plantation Ceylon sold
without material change in prices; but 300 bags good"
ord native were disposed of at a slight reduction,
30s Gd to 31s ; 50 bales Mocha sold at 58s 6d to 59s 6d
for mid long berry ; 620 bags Bahia sold steadily at 28s
6d to 30s for common to good erd.
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only partly sold at 8s 6d to lOs 6d for low to good white
in bond, being rather lower.
SALTPETRE.-1,450 bags Bengal were disposed of at
26s to 27s for 10 to 5i per cent. refraction, being again
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39s 6d, separate monthly deliveries. The supply from
South America is, and will remain, in much doubt; it is
presumed that it will be continued, but on a smaller
scale than for the last twelve months. The same remarks
apply to the Australian colonies. The present losses in
shipments from those parts will doubtless have the usual
effect of checking shipment!. The supply of Home
Tallow continues good, but there is no probability of the
make, for the next few months, being so large as of late.
TEA.—The market is steady fur black, but rather dull
for green.

DEATH OF A POACHER.— On Friday evening a
party of three persons, whom a fourth joined on VI()
mail, left Welshpool for the purpose of netting in the
River Verniew, a rapid and dangerous one, near the
village of Meifod. Shortly after midnight, while par-
suing their il:egal atnthseEm-nt, one of the party, mni,Ld
Itotsusit Davies. nged twenty-four, whose parents reside
in Welshpool, was suddenly missed by his companions,
the fir6t intimation of his tate being the floating of his
hat down the stream. The immediate cause of the ca-
tastrophe is not known, for not a sound was heal d by
his fellow poachers. The body was found some Lours
JUNE 3.—The Friends, of Bideford, front
afterwards.
A PPLEDORE,
Cardiff, was run into about twenty Jana off Lundy
Island on the 26th ult., and sunk by au unknown
schooner, baud up aitinali crew paved, and landed
hire!

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEIN'S BENCH, June 4.
(Sittings in Banco.)
GOODMAN V. POCOCK.

T;',is was an action brought to recover money due for
service, and compensation for improper dismissal. It
was first tried before Lord Denman. The plaintiff had
been engaged in January, 1847, and served until the
Bth of April, 18-48, on which day he was dismissed
by defendant. The action before Lord Denman was
brought for salary up to the Bth of April, and
a compensation in damages for wrongful dismissal. The
special jury gave 501. damages for the dismissal, and were
about to give him further damages, when Mr. Peters-
dorff said that the particulars of demand did not go
beyond the 231 January. Another action was brought,
which was tried before Mr. Justice Erle, when the jury
returned a verdict for 5/. 17s. 6d.

Mr. HUMFREY now appitted for a rule to show cause
why that verdict should not be increased by the sum of
43/. ss. td.

The Court took time to con3ider.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Yesterday Mrs. Catherine Stultz was again placed at
the bar, before Mr. Alderman Gibbs and Mr. Alderman
Carden, charged with commissioning Mr. William Bar-
ton, of No. 10, Throgmorton-street, stock-broker, to
purchase 1,000/. London and North-Western Stock,
which stock was purchased, and which she refused to
pay for, or the loss thereon, amounting to 371. 18s.
Mr. Huddlestone, the barrister, anMr. Hubler, soli-
citor, attended to conduct the rfrosecution on behalf of
several members of the Stock Enchange. The prisoner
was still unattended by any professional adviser.

Mr. Huddleston said that without going through the
evidence taken on the previous occasions, ho would
merely state that since last examination inquiries were
made, and it was discovered that her father was game-
keeper to the Duke of Devonshire, and was at present
living in Derbyshire in independent circumstances, and
it was his wish that his daughter should live with him,
but from some cause she was induced to come to London
and had been living on her wits. It would seem that
she was acquainted with the porter of the lodge,
at Devonshire House, Piccadilly, and had letters ad-
dressed to her there, but she was not authorised by any
party to date her letters as from Devonshire House. So
again at Knowle-green, Staines, where she was known
by name, she told different tales. At Woburn-place it
turned out that she was only acquainted with the ser-
vant, and therefore, as at Devonshire House, had re-
ceived no permission to direct her letters from there.
He (Mr. Huddlestone) was of opinion that the prisoner
was acting in concert with others, and it appeared the
more likely from the f .ct that since her apprehension
and the reports in the newspapers, the owners of the
..Old Friends Coffee-house" had decamped without
paying their rent, and it was not known where they
bad gone to. The difficulty to be got over was, whether
the law, at first sight, would be sufficient to reach the
prisoner's system of what could be called nothing else
but swindling. He was of opinion that it would, as she
induced Mr. Barton to purchase shares for her, and ob-
tained the contract note from him, under the pretence
that she had money to lay out, and was a widow, both
of which assertions were false. Supposing that she had
obtained any money from Mr. Barton in case the shares
rose in the market, that would have been obtaining it
under false pretences; but as she did not, the fact of her
trying to do so rendered her equally liable.
Alderman GIBBS asked what further evidence there
was?
Mr. Huddlestone called

Mr. Thomas Harrison, jun., of Walbrook, solicitor,
who said that tho prisoner called one day at the office,
and made herself known, at the same time laying claim
to certain property . Having seen her before, and know-
ing that his father was the professional adviser of the
late Mr. Stultz, the celebrated tailor, he listened to what
she had to say; and during the conversation she said
that she had a little money to invest, and could he give
the name of any gentleman on the Stock Exchange who
would do it tor her? He mentioned the name of Mr.
Goulding, a stockbroker, when she requested him to
write down the address on a piece of paper, which he
did.
. _ _

Alderman GIBBS asked where the husband was—
whether he was dead or alive?
Mr. Harrison replied that he did not know; but since
the prisoner had been in custody his father had seen him.
Robert Taylor, 144, said that he had been to make
inquiries in Fetter-lane, and found the house shut up.
He was informed that the party owning the coffee-shop
left a few cloys after the apprehension of Mrs. Stul:z.
Mr. Charles Vartin, of the firm of Hesseltine and
Co., of the Stock Exchange, said—l know the prisoner.
She came to us in the beginning of March, and men-
tioned the name of a very respectable friend of ours, at
the same time saying that she had some money to re-
ceive, which she intended to invest in the York, New-
castlo, and Berwick stock. I advised her to hesitate, in
consequence of the then peculiar state of the stock; but
she said she had spoken to her friends, and they advised
her to take that stock. She wished it for a distant
period, and she purchased ten shares for the account.
Before the account time arrived she again called, and
said she had more money to invest, and requested us to
purchase ten more shares.
Mr. Fluddlestone—And of course you did so.—
(Laughter.) Mr. Martin—We were soft enough to do
so.—(lncreased laughter.) When we applied for the
money, we received a letter, dated the 14th of April, to
the same effect as those sent to other brokers.

Mr. Iluddlestonc—And what loss did you sustain?—
Why, 33/.; hut if Cat: commission was included it would
amount to 371. 103.

Mr. Iluddlesone—Did she get the contract note?—
She admitted receiving it.
Mr. Iluddlestonc—Why did you part with that con-
tract not.,?—We did SD in consequence of her repre.:en-
ta•iou that she had money to invest, and was a widow.
Mr. Iluddlestorio—Do you consider the contract note
a valuable document?—Most certainly, for if the shares
rose it would be evidence against us, and therefore must
be valuable to the holder.
Aid& rman GIBBS said that he did nor see how the case
ccud be rent to a jury. He was of opinion that the con-
tract note was not a valuable security.
Mr. Huddlestone said he would then not put it as a
valuable security, but merely as obtaining a piece of
paper under false pretences, the value of which might be
or was the ICOth part of a farthing, fur it mattered not
how insignificant the value might be, and the alderman's
experience would teach him that in bill stealing cases,
where the bill stealer had bought the stamp, the stealing
had been laid for the paper. To show that, he would
examine Mr. Barton again.
Mr. Barton then proved giving the prisoner the con-
tract note, and said that to show it was valuable, if she
h ad written on it and sent a person to receive any balance
that she might be entitled to in consequence of a rise in
the market, he would have been compelled to pay the
difference. The contract note was evidence of sale, and
therefore a valuable document.

Mr. Alderman GIBBS—I Still think it is not a valu-
able security, and as every one must admit the prisoner's
.conduct is most disgraceful, yet I do not see my way
clear enough to convict her for trial, as at present I
think no jurs would convict her.
Mr. Fluddlestone contendc.l that it was a valulble
document, and a most imp 'rtant one to the holler.
They.were not to look at shat it turned out to be, but
what it might have been. Ile hoped the Alderman felt
that present case was a most important one for a
jury to decide. Let it gn before the judges to say
whether the l w was sufficient to meet this kind of
swindling, an-1 if tlicy found it was no*, then the Legis-
lature could be petitioned to pass an Act to protect the
community, whom_he represented, frum such frauds. Ile
was satisfied that if the prisoner was sent for trial, the
jury would dot hesitate to bring in a verdict of Guilty.
Mr. Alderman GIBBS—How would you frame your
indictment?

Mr. Huddlestoac—l would first charge her with ob-
taining by false pretences a paper, value id.; next, for
conspiring with some persons unknown to obtain goods
by false pretences; and thirdly, for attempting to obtain
shares by false pretenc"s.
Alderman Glans—But as yet she has obtained
nothing.
Mr. Huddlestone—But if she only attempt it comes
within the statute. Some of the late decisions of the
judges, reported in " Dennisoa's Crown Cases," support
my view.
Alderman GIBBS —Well, I have no objection to re-
mand the prisoner if you think you can bring forward
such proofs as will remove the doubts I have at present.
Mr. Iluddlestone replied that he had no doubt he
could; and the prisoner was remanded until to-morrow.
The officer said that he bad six letters which had
eraived at the prisoner's lodgingi since her apprehension.
Alderman GIBBS asked her if she had any objection to
his opening them?

- -
Mrs. Stultz replied that she had not, but she hoped the
Alderman would not read them publicly.
Alderman GIBBS having read them, informed her that
they were letters front stockbrokers in Leeds containing
more contract notes.
WORSHIP-STREET.

Eliza Ward, a young woman of abandoned habits,
was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, charged with
having violently assaulted Margaret Middy, and bitten
off a large portion of her ear.
The occurrence took place in a low lodging-house in
Keate-street, Spite Melds, in the occupation of William
Sheen, the man who acquired so much infamous noto-
riety some years since from having murdered his chili,
by cutting off its head, when he escaped conviction in
consequence of a technical informality in the indictment,
but was subsequently committed from this court for
stabbing a woman with whom he cohabited, for which
offense he was tried at the Old Bailey, and sentenced to
twelve months' imprisonment.
The complainant, whose face was very much bruised,
and head enveloped in bandages, stated that she was em-
ployed as the female superintendent at Sheen's lodging.
house, and that the prisoner came there at a late hour on
the preceding night, and endeavoured to intrude into the
apartment of one of the male lodgers. Witness opposed
her entrance, and succeeded in forcing her back into the
passage, where the prisoner commenced a violent attack
upon her, beating h2r unmercifully about the head and
face, and ultimately grasping her hack hair, so as to holl
her securely, fixed her teeth in the centre
of her right ear, and tore the greater part
of it completely oft*. She had previously sciz,d and
attempted to detain the prisoner; but the agony occa-
sioned by the wound was s excruciating that she was
unable to retain her hold, and the latter escaped into the
street; but, having stopped outside the window and
dashed her hand through several panes of glass, a po-
liceman who had witnessed her outrageous behaviour
hastened up and took her into custody. The witness
added that a diligent search for the missing portion of
her ear had been made by the landlord and other in-
mates but they had been unable to discover it, arid'
she felt satisfied that it had been swallowed by the
prisoner.

Police-conattLle Byrtie, g 105, corroborated the lat-

ter part of the woman's evidence, and stated that after
lodging the prisoner in the station-house, he conveyed
the complainant to the London Hospital, where her mu-
tilated car was dressed by the house surgeon, from whom
he received a certificate, which he produced, describing
the nature of the injury.
In her defence, the prisoner said that she was com-
pelled to protect herself in the best way she could from
the violence of the complainant and the man Sheen, both
of whom attacked her in the first instance, and beat and
kicked her in a brutal manner, in confirmation of which
statement she directed the Magistrate's attention to her
face, which was stained with blood in several places, and
exhibited a severe scar over the temple.
The prisoner was remanded for a week.

ORIGIN OF THE GEOGRAPHICAL
SOCIETY.

The late Mr. Francis Baily, the eminent astrono
mer and mathematician (says Mr. Britton in the
Builder),. was for many years my next door neigh-
bour, with a wall parting his and my gar-
len between us. He frequently entertained
parties of his scientific friends at dinners,
which were distinguished for the elegant simplicity
of the table, the eminence of the persons around it,
and the very agreeable conversation which always
prevailed. At one of these dinner-parties were the
following :—Colonel Colby, Captain Smyth, Lieut.
Stratford, the Rev. R. Sheepshanks, Mr. Baily,
and myself, with three or four other gentlemen.
Amongst subjects discussed was the desirable-
ness of forming a " Geographical Institute," or So-
ciety, when some parties stated that it had been
talked about ; but no one person came forward
with anything like a plan or scheme for forming it ;
and both Smyth and Stratford lamented that such a
desideratum was not promptly and substantially
adopted. I ventured to remark that it was a subject I
had often meditated on, and that I had, at one time,
penned something of a prospectus, expressly on the
subject, and if they would breakfast with me the next
morning I would show them what I had written, or at
all events explain my opinions on, and wishes to see,
a practical society formed to promote and give addi-
tional interest to the science of geography. Five of
our friends assembled the next morning, when resolu-
tions were passed and written down; and I volunteered
to act as secretary pro tem., and write a more ma-
tured prospectus, a copy of which was shown to Mr.
Barrow, secretary to the Admiralty, who soon mani-
fested not only angry hostility to the scheme, but
wrote intemperate letters to one or two of the officers
who were and are connected with the Admiralty.
The language used by the secretary was very irritating
to the gentlemen he addressed, and it was feared
that serious consequences might ensue. A meeting
of our preliminary committee assembled, and it was
agreed that the prospectus should be issued, and an
appeal made to the public to ascertain who were
willing to co-operate in forming a new society therein
explained. The secretary, who was prompt, peremp-
tory, and resolute, instead of asking the advice
and aid of friends, issued a prospectus, named a
committee, and told the public that such a society
was formed, and invited members to join it. Too
much engrossed with the literary works I had in
hand, I did not feel disposed to enter the
field. I declined to involve myself in a
paper contest, but both I, Captain Smyth,
and Mr. Baily were named on the first com-
mittee, where we both saw and lamented,
that a man of such rough bearing and manners should
overawe and govern the society which had thus been
formed. In the autobiography which I am now
printing, I may be induced to give a further expla.
nation of this public subject, from papers and dates of
the time, as the Literary Gazette of May 26th has
endeavoured to invalidate my claims to credit in the
origination of the Geographical Society.

THE IMPROVIDENCE OF A
PEOPLE.

In the eyes of foreigners we are a wealthy, money-
making, provident people. We labour unceasingly with
our hands and with our heads; we amass wealth, we
support our charities with a munificence which re-
deems, in a great measure, the refinement and amount
of our vices ; our argosies float in every sea, we
are called into and sway the councils of other nations,
greater in extent, but weaker in power, and the sun
never goes down upon our vast possessions, but shines
perennially upon them; yet we are not, as a people,
provident. The soft stirring sounds of music from
the palace fall upon the ear of the wretch languishing in
poverty and rags upon his pallet, such is the proximity
of wealth and squalor—magnificence and filth. In the
highways of the sister isle, men, women, and children,
whose lives have been one long, dark, bitter night
of agony and suffering, unchequered by the
slightest gleam of sunshine, the amount and
extent of which no pen can paint, lie down and die of
disease and famine; thousands here want work, and to
waist work is to want bread, lodging and raiment; yet
are we an improvident people, when we have the means
of being provident. To hear that a man has died
and left his wife and family without a farthing—
le.s them to chance—to live or perish anywhere;
in the workhouse, in the prison, or the street, is so
common an occurrence as not to be regarded as such
things should, as the integral parts of a disaster,
which in the aggregate amounts to a national cala-
mity 1. Forecast and the merest prudence would
obviate this to a vast extent. The mass of the people
possess no capital save their labour, and the suste-
nance which it produces may the next moment be im-
paired or taken away altogether. It becomes therefore
the absolute duty of the poorest man to provide, in
however slight a degree, fur the support of himself
and hie family in that season of helplessness
which cernes upon mon when they least ix-
p-ct such a visitation. The curtailment of some slight
enjoyment—a glass of beer, or a " screw" less a day--
would enable a man of twenty-five years of age to provide,
by the aid of those humane establishments which have
been formed for the accomplishment of so much geode__
the assurance offices of the metropolis-501. to his family
on his death, or a small annuity when ho reaches a
given age.
The assurance of life has been esteemed by the igno-
rant a luxury, which the opulent classes alone could
purchase. It is obvious, from what we have said, that not
only is life assurance within the means of the humblest
mechanic, but that from the precarious nature
of their subsistence and the poverty which their decease
woull entail upon those they must leave behind them, it
is more incumbent upon them to make some provision,
however small, for the future, than any other class of
society !
The man whose thoughts do not extend beyond the
mere gratification of the wants of the day is on a par
wish the mere animal ; forecast shows the mastery over
the lower passions of our nature; it is our duty, therefore,
to exercise it to the best of our ability; and, as we have
said, there are few who cannot do so. Life Assurance,
let it be borne in mind, is a barricade thrown up against
the foul fiends—want and misery!

Again: but a small portion of the industrious classes
seem alive to the fact that few homes are worth more than
the amount of the accumulated rent for ten years. By
becoming a member of a building and investment society
he may buy a house outright for the ten years' rent;
the money is furnished by the society; he mortgages
the house to it as security for his payment of the rent to
it for about ten years, it is then delivered up to him in-
tact,—it is his for ever!
The mass of the people know nothing of the advan-
tages to be thus obtained. Let those whose at-
tention has not been arrested by these simple
facts pause era they are beyond their reach.
They earn money, and they spend it :
show them how they can be provident,—give them
an interest in their labour, beyond supplying
the mere wants of the present hour, and you
create better citizens, better morals, and at the
same time, a social police, who, having something' to
lose, would array themselves against the reckless
and the turbulent for the common benefit and protec-
tion of all. " Procrastination is the thief of time;" the
boldest and the strongest often go down into the val-
ley of death, before the weak and dying;—the head of
a family, whose labour brings present comfort and hap-
piness whose death would bring misery and
agony—unfathomable wretcheduess—may be stricken
down among the dead this night. Let those who would
lessen the agony of the throes of death recollect that
they must work out their own redemption ; and
that if they defer the preparation for the work
until the back is bowed and the head is bleached
the effort will be vain and fruitless. They will
thus add to the pains of the deathbed the wild
agony of despair--the thought that, by the smallest ex-
penditure of money in earlier life, that despair would
not have taken the place of happiness and peace, and
that those for whom they were bound to provide by every
law, human and divine, would have been left in comfort
instead of deplorable wretchedness !—The Reporter for
June.

ROYAL COLLEGE OF_ CHEMlSTRY.—Yesterday the
annual general meeting of the members and supporters
of this institution, of which Prince Albert is President,
was held in the board-room of the college, Oxford-street
Sir Charles Lemon, Bart., M.P., in the chair. The se-
cretary having read the minutes, proceeded to lay before
the meeting the fourth annual report, from which it
theatred
aiy was
appeared that the cost of erecting the
estimated to be nearly 2,0001. The average
at-
tendance of students had been between 20 and 30, all
of whom, though many were foreigners, cordially agreed
and prosecuted their studies very industriously. The
receipts for the year were, including the previous ba-
lance of 543/., 3,1911., and the disbursements 2,791/.,
leaving a balance of 4001. The report having been
adopted, votes of thanks were passed to Prince Albert,
the council, auditors, &c., and the proceedings termi-
nated with the usual compliment to the Hon. Chairman.
TIIE BRITISH BANK.—We have much pleasure in
announcing that the Government have granted this
Bank a Charter of Incorporation. The deed
of constitution has been approved of by the
law officers of the Crown, and the Chancellor
of the E;:chequer has given it the fit of his
approval. We may mention that this will be the only
chartered Bank in London, with the exception of the
" Old Lady or Threadneedle-street," and that it will
commence operations in August. Those who wish to
have the good fortune of becoming proprietors must lose
no time in doing so. We look forward to the time
when the Bank will transact as extensive and lucrative
an amount of business as the London and Westminster
,Bank.—The Reporter for June.
TIIE WEATHER.—The weather continues highly
favourable. The crops begin to make a splendid ap-
pearance. There never was a finer prospect of an
abundant ,--Carlislebarvest
Patriot.

AUSTRIA.

VIENNA, MAIr 30.—A telegraphic dispatch from
Warsaw states that his Majesty the Emperor of
Russia has placed the Russian corps d'arrnee, com-
manded by Lieutenant-General Ganjiatin, under the
command of Field-Marshal Welden.

The Emperor of Austria, in a letter to the Minister
of War, F. M. Van Cordon, has commissioned that
general to take immediate steps for ascertaining the
names of the officers and soldiers who fell at Ofen, in
order that the widows and orphans of all those who
there met with their heroic death may be provided
for with as little delay as possible.
The Wiener Zeitung in an article this day com-
pletely exonerates the Government from thecharge of
having suppressed the extra supplement which con-
tained the non-official accounts of the fall
of Ofen. The editor says, that so great
was the demand for this extra supplement
that the edition of 8,000 which was taken off
was soon exhausted, and the office was therefore
closed. The Wiener Zeitung, says, that the above re-
port was the more greedily circulated because it
seemed to hold out a hope that the fatal intelligence
might not be officially confirmed. The article con-
cludes with saying, the loss of the position of the
Imperialists at Ofen can have no decided
influence on the result of the operation of the army.
This, as the Cologne Gazette observes, is an absurd
way of imparting comfort, for the moral impression of
the loss of Ofen is of immense importance.
We learn from Weis-Kirchen that the Maygars
have beaten the battalions of Puchnie's corps d armee.
From Orsowa, we hear that the remnant of the ex-
hausted troops wers beaten and dispersed, and had
fled—some to Wallachia, and some to Servia.

The Cologne Gazette says that the confusion
which prevails in every department in the Go.
vernment in Austria is evident from the new
press law, which Jellachich has just issued,
on his own responsibility, for Croatia and
Sclavonia. Although the Ministry at Olmutz pro-
mulgated such a law for the whole Monarchy,
Jellachich 'made nothing of setting it aside,
because he- considered it too weak in some points
and too strong in others for " his people." Ac-
cording to the new law of the Ban, every
political journal which appears more than three
times a week must give security for 2,000 guilders,
three times a week 1,000, and once or twice a week
SOO. The Ban has also given a totally different
meaning to the "Lease Majesty" than its definition
by the Minitry. He has also adopted a new title,
for he signsfils decree Jellachich Ban and Dictator.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, June 4.

Their Lordships met bt Five o'clock.

The Duke of.BUCCLEUCIIPrnted some peti-
tions against the Scotch Registration Bill for L'irths,
Deaths, and Marriages.

The Rid of MALMESBURY presented several peti-
tions in favour of protection.

NAVIGATION-LAWS REPEAL BILL.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE, in consequence of
the absence of the Bishop of Oxford, postponed the
motion for the third reading of the Navigations-laws
Repeal Bill until to-morrow se'nnight.
The NOBLE MAuttuis also laid upon the table certain
additional papers relating to the affairs of the Punjaub.
TURNPIKE TRUSTS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
EDUCATIONAL GRANT.

Lord STANLEY, in presenting a petition on the
subject of the distribution of the educational grant,
asked if the correspondence between the Prelates and the
Privy Council had been brought to a close?
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that the cor-
respondence could scarcely yet be said to be closed; but
propositions had been made, to which he believed the
Right Rev. Prelates were inclined to accede, and before
any great length of time should have elapsed he would
lay the correspondence before the House.
The Bishop of LONDON said the correspondence
was carried on between the Government and the Com-
mittee of the National Society, but although many of the
members of the Church were members of that Com-
mittee, yet th it Committee could not be said to represent
the Church; neither was the Church bound by their
acts. He was not one of those who entertained
the apprehensions which others entertained with
regard to the regulations of the Privy Council, but he
regretted to state that he feared those apprehensions
had not yet been allayed.
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