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London, England, 1836-08-18 00:00:00

MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.

A Message from the Lords announced that their Lord-
ships had agreed to the County Polls Bill, and the Church
Temporalities Bill.
BRIBERY AT ELECTIONS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER moved
the third reading of this Bill.
Mr. A. TREVOR opposed the Bill. He considered it
an inroad on the elective franchise, and that the effect of it
would be to deprive many voters of their votes. He would
move as an amendment, that the Bill be read a third time
this day three months.
Colonel SIBTHORP seconded the motion.
Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the House
divided, when the numbers were,
For the motion
For the amendment
Majority —49
Colonel SIBTHORP proposed a Clause, by way of
Rider, to prevent bribery on the part of the Government,
by giving places to parties in order to procure their votes.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said
that such a clause would weaken the effect of the Bill.—
(Cheers.)
Col. SIBTHORP said that he had proposed the clause
as an additional trap to catch the Government. He be-
lieved this would be what was called a poser.—(Laughter.)
Mr. TREVOR hoped his Gallant Friend would divide
the House upon the subject ; if he did he should go along
with him, although he was alone. He was used to that
now_ - -

After some further observations from Colonel Sibthorp,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Mr. Palmer, stran-
gers were ordered to withdraw.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the clause .
Against it
Majority .. ..
On our return to the gallery we found
Mr. A. TREVOR on his legs, moving that the 4th clause
be struck out of the Bill.
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For the motion
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The Bill then passed.
The House adjlurned at a Quarter to Seven until Friday.

Most trades entertain a pretty high notion of their
Own importance. No trado, however, appears to us to have
formed a higher notion of its own importance than the "ope-
rative printers." Two addresses, from a meeting of Delegates,
recently held in Manchester, to the printers of the United
Kingdom, now lie before us, and they contain rather amusing
instances of professional egotism. The first address, which is
signed " John Backhouse, Secretary," styles printing an
" Honourable Profession," and bestows sundry fine epithets
on the " Honourable Professors."--Liverpool Albion.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

APPEALS.
Judgment was given on Tuesday in the case of Sir W.
0. Anstruther v. Anstruther.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that it was an appeal
from the Court of Session in Scotland, on the question whe-
ther an heir of entail, being also an heir of the line, was
bound by the law of Scotland to collate or bring into ac-
count the value of the real estate to which he had suc-
ceeded, before being entitled to claim the share of the per-
sonalty of the deceased. By a decree of Nov. 28, 1833,
the Lords of the second division of the Court of Session
had declared that the heir of entail must collate the real
estate before he could take any benefit from his share of the
personal estate. That decree was appealed from, and in
April, 1835, this House forebore, hoc statzt, to give any
judgment on the case, but directed the case to be remitted
to the Court of Session, with an instruction to have it ar-
gued before the Judges of all the divisions of that Court,
including the Lords Ordinary, and to pronounce judgment
according to the opinion of the majority. The cause was
accordingly argued in the way directed, and on the 20th of
January, 1836, the Court pronounced unanimously the
same decree as before. The judgment was now affirmed
by their Lordships.
Another case in which judgment was given was "the
Marquis .of Breadalbane v. the Marchioness of Chandos."
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that this was an ap-
peal intended to bring under consideration of the House two
questions, the first upon the construction of the marriage
settlement of the Lady Mary Campbell, now Marchioness
of Chandos ; and the other, whether before claiming her
share of the legitim or child's portion of the personal pro-
perty of the late Marquis of Breadalbane, the present
Marquis was bound to collate the estates he had taken as
heir of entail. Lady Chandos, who was a daughter of
the late Lord Breadalbane, had in 1819 married Lord
Chandos, and upon her marriage a settlement was executed
according to the English form, a settlement by which cer-
tain annuities or rent charges, expressly declared to be in
satisfaction of her rightful dower, were granted out of the
estates of her intended father-in-law the Duke of Bucking-
ham. The settlement also provided that the Marquis of
Breadalbane was to pay the sum of 30,0001., "as the por-
tion or fortune of the said Lady M. Campbell," but there was
no express renunciation on her part of any future claim on the
property of her father. The late Marquis of Breadalbane died
March 29th, 1834, leaving three children, the present Mar-
quis of Breadalbane, Lady Pringle, and Lady Chandos. Lady
Pringle had, in fact, released her father's estate from any
claim on her part to the legitinz or child's portion ; and the
questions now raised were contested only by the Marquis
of Breadalbane and Lady Chandos. The present Marquis
of Breadalbane succeeded to the heritable estate as heir of
entail, and claimed his share of the personalty of the late
Marquis to be allowed to him without his being called on to
collate the value of the real estate, of which he had already
entered into possession. The case had come before the
Court of Session on these questions, and that Court had
decided that the Marchioness of Chandos had not re-
nounced her claim of legitim by any contract of marriage ;
and in her respect of being the only daughter who had not
renounced, the Court found that her claim was one-third
of the free moveable property of her father, and that it was
not liable to be reduced by imputing to it any part of the
sum mentioned as given to her in the contract of mar-
riage ; and, further, that the present Marquis of Breadal-
bane was not entitled to take his share of the moveable
estate, without first collating what he had become possessed
of from the heritable estate.

This judgment was also affirmed by their Lordships.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

TVESTERN CIRCUIT.—BnrsroL, AuG. 16.
HARDING V. STOKES.
This was an action brought under the Municipal Corpo-
ration Act, which gives an action of debt for 501. to any
person suing for bribery in the election of municipal officers,
and disqualifies a party against whom such action is suc-
cessfully maintained from holding any municipal office
during the term of his natural life, and from voting in the
election of any corporate officer, or for Members of Par-
liament.

Two or three days before the election of town-councillors
the defendant, who was deputy-surveyor for Bedminster,
said to one Wakefield, who kept a cart and horses, that if
he would vote for Pippin and two others, who were candi-
dates in the Tory interest, and not for Pippin, with Drake
and Brown, who were the liberal candidates, he would give
him the job of drawing a hundred load of stone to the work-
house. A hand-bill was also given in evidence, and written
by the defendant, in which he alluded to a rumour having
gone abroad of the above offer to bribe, and stated that he
only said he would continue Wakefield in his employment.
It also appeared that Wakefield expected to receive part of
the 501.

The Jury were locked up all yesterday and during the
whole of last night. They came into Court this morning,
and could not agree. After a long conversation between
the Court and Counsel, Mr. Erle, for the plaintiff, offered
to submit to a nonsuit, for the purpose of having the case
tried by a fresh jury.

WELSH CIRCUIT.-DENBIGHSII IRE.

Elizabeth Parry, of the parish of Llangerniew, was
charged with the wilful murder of her female illegitimate
child, at Llangcrniew, and pleaded Not Guilty.
The prisoner, when called upon, was borne in the arms
of the gaoler, like a child, from an adjoining room, but she
was not able to stand at the bar, and was permitted to sit
during the trial on a chair placed in the docl. She ap-
peared to be scarcely alive ; her whole frame was paralysed,
and her countenance was horribly ghastly. When sup-
ported at the bar to plead, she was as feeble as infancy,
and bent almost double, and her solicitor received from her
her plea, to every body else inaudible.

The LEARNED JUDGE summed up at great length, and
pointed out to the Jury the circumstances they must be
satisfied about before they found her guilty of so high a
crime ; and said that, in the event of their acquitting her
of the charge of murder, they must then give him their
opinion whether she was or was not guilty of concealment
of birth.

The Jury were absent a short time, and returned a ver-
dict of Not Guilty of murder.
She was then arraigned on another indictment, for con-
cealment, to which she pleaded guilty ; and
The prisoner was sentenced to be imprisoned in the
House of Correction for four years.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Joseph Triggs, aged 20, was indicted for stealing a gold
watch, the property of Mr. Garland, of Upper Berkeley-
street.

The Jury found the prisoner Guilty of stealing under the
value of 51.

The prisoner was again indicted for stealing a gold watch
and stand of the value of 181., the property of Mrs. Mary
Wordel, of No. 16, Upper Seymour-street, Portman-square.
—Guilty.
James Dunn, aged 40, Margaret Wean, aged 57, and
James Ward, alias George Read, aged 24, were found
Guilty of unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, well knowing
the same to be counterfeit.

POST OFFICE ROBBERY.—Joseph Chapman pleaded
Guilty to two indictments, and Not Guilty to a third, for
stealing money letters, he being at the time in the emp!oy
of the General Post-office.

At five o'clock the RECORDER took his seat on the bench,

Charles Hughes, aged 35, was indicted for stealing a
quantity of plate, of te value of 18/., the property of Mrs.
Piercey, the proprietress of the Hanover Hotel, Hanover-
square. _

The RECORDER summed up the evidence and the Jury
found the prisoner Guilty, joined with a recommendation
to mercy.
The Court sentenced the prisoner to be imprisoned for
three months, and to be kept to hard labour.
James Johnson Harris, aged 32, was indicted for steal-
ing, on the 7th July, four bank-notes of the value of 401.,
and some other monies, the property of Mr. Thos. James
Rooke, from his person upon the high seas, within the juris-
diction of the Admiralty of England. •
The prisoner in his defence denied the robbery.
Two witnesses gave the prisoner an excellent character
for honesty. One of them, in his cross-examination, admit-
ted he had been twice tried, once about *erne ear-rings, and
the second time it related to gilding sixpences. In both in-
stances he was honourably acquitted.
Guilty—to be transported for 14 years.
In the course of the trial, the RECORDER observed that
from the great number of persons conveyed on board of
steam-vessels, many of them unseaworthy, he had no doubt
that some of the Captains would be placed at the bar. It
was the opinion of many eminent naval men, that some
very fatal accident would occur. The lives of the public
were daily placed in jeopardy, arising entirely from the cu-
pidity of the owners, and it was essential that some mea-
sure should be adopted, to put an end to vessels being
laden, until they were within eighteen inches of the water's
edge.