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London, England, 1836-07-16 00:00:00

ELECTION EXPENSES.

On the motion of Mr. HUME, the Election Expenses
Bill went through committee.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND).
Lord MORPETH moved the committal of the Grand
Juries (Ireland) Bill.
Clauses 139 to 166 were agreed to, with verbal amend-
ments.

On clause 167 being proposed,
Mr. F. FRENCH and Colonel PERCEVAL objected to the
despotic power which it placed in the hands of the Judge
or the Chief Secretary for the time being, to order the
county treasury to pay a sum for purposes for which the
Grand Jury had, on consideration, refused to levy a rate.
Mr. F. FRENCH proposed an amendment to the
clause, on which a division took place :
For the original clause
For the amendment 35
Majority

While strangers were excluded a discussion took place,
which led to another amendment being proposed by Lord
Clements :

For the amendment 35
Against it
Majority
Several new clauses were agreed to, without discussion.
Mr. LE ROY proposed that the county of Tipperary
should be divided into two ridings, for the purpose of hav-
ing two assize towns in- that county ; .the power of such
division to rest with the Lord Lieutenant.
The clause, as we understood, was agreed to.
The report was ordered to he received.
The Order of the Day being moved for the recommit-
ment of the Stannaries Court Bill;
Sir J. Y. BULLER proposed that the Bill should be
postponed to the next session.
Lord EBRINGTON also wished the Bill to be post-
poned.
Sir C. LEMON said that the present state of Devon-
shire imperatively required that the measure should be
gone on with.
After a short conversation the Bill went through a com-
mittee pro forma and was ordered to be printed.
On the motion of Mr. LYNCH the Civil Courts (Ire-
land) Bill was read a third time.
COUNTY ELECTIONS POLL BILL.

On the motion that the report on this Dill be received,
Mr. FORBES opposed the motion. So important a
Bill ought not to be brought on at so late an hour.
Mr. A. TREVOR also opposed the motion. He bad
very strong objections to the Bill, and it ought not to be
brought on at so fete an hour.
Lord J. RUSSELL defended the Bill. When it was
before brought forward it was at five o'clock, but it could
not be passed through its stages so early.
Mr. R. TREVOR had strong objections to the Bill. It
would have the effect of disfranchising a large body of
county electors—the out-voters ; and it was moreover an
attempt to introduce by a side-wind a measure which had
much better, if agreed to at all, be made the subject of a
separate Bill. Why hadnot the Noble Lord brought for-
ward some specific measure earlier in the Session
Lord J. RUSSELL said that he had always intended,
when be introduced the Reform Bill, to introduce a Bill
for limiting the polling at county elections to one day, and
as this measure practically carried out that intention, he
could not see what foundation there was for the observa-
tions of the Hon. Member (Mr. R. Trevor) ; at all events
there could be no objection to the report being received.
Lord EBRINGTON denied that there bad been any
attempt to introduce the measure by a side wind.
After a conversation the report was received, and on the
motion that the amendment be agreed to,
Mr. FORBES moved the further consideration of the
report on Monday next.
The House then divided, when the numbers were—
Ayes lB
Noes 47
Majority
The report was then received. •
POST-OFFICE COMMISSIONERS.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER,
breught in a Bill to enable his Majesty to appoint Com-
missioners for executing the duties of Post-Master Ge-
neral, which was read a first time. He begged to give
notice that he would move the second reading of the Bill
on Thursday next, in order to afford his Hon. Friend the
Member for Greenock an opportunity of stating his views
to the House on the subject, and which he (the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer) hoped would not be adverse to
the views entertained by the Government on this most im-
portant question.—(Hear, from Mr. 'Wallace.)
The other Orders of the Day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at One o'Clock.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—ABOLITION OF FEES.
—The following written notice is affixed to the wall at the top
of the staircase leading from the Members' waiting-room to
the lobby of the House of Commons The doorkeepers,
messengers, and all other officers of the Sergeant-at-Arms
department, are prohibited from receiving any fee or gratuity
whatever." And over the entrance to the strangers' gallery
there is also a written notice posted up as follows Admit-
tance by a Member's order only."

The general opinion now is, that Parliament will
be prorogued about the sth or 6th of August.
THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION.—There was a
very numerous meeting of this body held at the Corn Ex-
change, Dublin, on Saturday. After some discussion on the
Dublin Roads Bill, Mr. French read Mr. O'Connell's letter
to the National Association of Ireland. A spirited discussion
ensued, and after several resolutions had been proposed and
adopted, the meeting separated.

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DETERMINED SUlClDE.—Thursday forenoon an
inquest was held at the King and Queen public-house, Hare-
street, Bethnal-green, before Mr. Baker, the Coroner, and a
respectable Jury, on the body of John Williams, aged 27
years, which was picked out of the Regent's Canal on Sun-
day last, with his throat cut in so frightful a manner that the
head had been very nearly separated from the trunk. So deep
and serious was the wound on the throat, it was the opinion
of the police and others that it was impossible the deceased
could have committed it himself before getting into the canal,
and that, therefore, he must have met with some foul play.
But alter a prolonged investigation, the Jury returned a var.
diet—" That the deceased was found drowned, with his throat
cut, and they had no doubt, from the testimony adduced, that
he had inflicted the wound himself while labouring under tem-
porary insanity."
LIVERPOOL, THURSDAY.---The demand for Cot-
ton to-day llbeen rather brisk, and the sales will reach near
5,000 bags, about 1,500 of which (of the lower qualities of
American) have been taken by speculators, and about 600 for
export.

RABID DOGS.--The following extract is from the
Act of Parliament in force against the owners of dogs who let
them go at large, to the peril of the public, the existence of
which is not by any means generally known :—" If any per-
son shall keep at large any cur-dog, mastiff or bull-dog, within
fifty yards of any public rood or street, without a log of wood
of the weight of five pounds attached to his neck, such person
for every such offence shall forfeit the sum of ten shillings, and
PvPry ennstahl. Tref v Irill curb clop_

BANKRUPTCY COURT-FRIDAY.

DtTK.t.TT, AfORLAND, AND CO.'S BANKRUPTCY.

A meeting of the creditors under the separate estate of Sir
r: B. J. Morland, Bart.,. one of the partners in this banking
firm, held to-day for tliie proof of debts, and the declara-
tion of a divi&md,. The amount already declared on the se-
parate estate is 64. ad. in the pound, and a further dividend
was announced to-day of 13s. 9d. in the pound, making a to-
tal of 203. in the pound. The dividends already declared ora
the joint estate arc Bs. 4d. in the potiod, and before the close.;
of the year a further sum will be paid to ,;he general creditars..

ASSIZE IN TELLIGEN CE.

OXFORD CIRCUIT, JULY 14.

The Commission was opened yesterday, and business bega
this morning. fa both Courts it is very light, there being:
only seven causes entered at Nisi Prius, all of a trifling de—
scription ; and the only two serious cases in the calendar
(which contains the names of 29 prisoners) the Grand Jurr
have thrown out the hills; they were both charges of infanti—'
cide. Mr. Justice PATTISON presides at Nisi Prius, and Mr..
Justice LITTLEDALE in the Crown Court. _ _ _

Thomas Hawkins, aged 52, was indicted for having on the-
ist of May, 1836, at the parish of Watlington, feloniously ad-
vanced the rate of postage upon a certain letter from sd. to
Bd., he then being postmaster at that place.
Witnesses were called for the prosecution.
On being called on for his defence the prisoner declined to•
say anything ; but several highly respectable witnesses were
called, who said they had known him for the last twenty years,
during sixteen of which he had kept the post-office at Walling-
ton, and he had always borne a very excellent character.
Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE having summed up at great leng'tb,
the jury found the prisoner Not Guilty.
The business at Abingdon did not conclude until eleven•.
o'clock on Wednesday night, the whole day having been occu-
pied in the trial of a watercourse cause, which was of no public
interest; but a melancholy circumstance attended its termina-
tion. Early on Thursday morning the body of the plaintiff's
wife was found in the very stream which was the subject of dis-
pute, into which she had fallen in the night, it is believed
accidentally.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—BUCKINGHAM, JuLr 14.
The Commission was opened here on Wednesday by Lord
Chief Justice Tindal and Mr. Justice Bosanquet. The calen-
dar is unusually light for this county, there being only sixteen
prisoners for trial. Several of the offences are of a highly
criminal nature.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-NORTHAMPTON, JULY IS.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.-SMITH V. MLLES.

This was an action to recover compensation in damage
for injury done in not fulfilling a promise defendant had made..
The defendant is a chemist and druggist, carrying on that bu-
siness at Spalding, and is 27 years of age ; the plaintiff is a
young lady, the daughter of a farmer living near to the same
place ; and in 1833, being on a visit at a friend's in Spalding,
they became acquainted, and there the defendant paid his ac-
dresses to her.

Thomas Wilson examined—Lives at Spalding. Is ac-
quainted with Miss Smith, who is now 25 years of age. Was
on a visit at witness's house in 1833, where she met the defen-
dant. lie paid her particular attentions, and they frequently
went out together. The defendant is a chemist and druggist,
and has the best business in Spalding. When the acquaint-
ance was brokers off, he was told by Miss Smith that it wit,
on account of some objection made by the defendant's mother..
The defendant has since married.

The Learned Sergeant (ADAMS) then put in a letter con-
taining the following passage, which was the promise alleged
On reading your last letter over and over again, I am fully
convinced of your worthiness, and feel confident I shall find
you a prudent and happy wife. Should it be our happy lot
to be so related, I do here most solemnly declare, Sce.,,
Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN, for the defendant, contended
that, even supposing the above to amount to a promise, it at
least was only a conditional one—conditional on the consent of
his friends ; and, such consent never having bccn obtained,
therefore not binding.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the Jury instantly
returned a verdict for the defendant.

Mr. Sergeant GOULBURN thought it but fair to his client to.
state that, although he was entitled to costs from the plaintiff,
he had instructed his Counsel to state that he would not take
them.