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sufficient to satisfy all charges, and leave handsome
balances for the quondam proprietors.

The Sabbatarian movement—to use the expressive
phrase of Mr. CARLYLE—bas been effectually
" squelched" by the Hon. Member for Honiton. Sir
ANDREW AGNEW may sell out his one share as soon
as he likes, for any advantage it can ever afford in
enabling him to interfere with the proceedings of the
shareholders.
Last evening, on a division as to whether Mr.
LocaE should be permitted to introduce a Bill for
the purpose of securing to the public on Sundays a
limited and reasonable use of all railways which con-
vey passengers on other days in the week—fifty-
eight voted for the motion, and twenty against it,
leaving a clear majority of thirty-eight in favour
of uninterrupted travelling. Whatever may be the
ultimate fate of the Bill—whether its principle be
distorted, or its details modified in subsequent stages
and supplementary discussions—the fact of this deci-
sion against the religionists can never be diminished.
It can never be forgotten by the opponents of the
Agnewite faction that the House of Commons has
pronounced itself in favour of the running ofpassenger
trains uninterruptedly throughout the whole of the
seven days on all the lines of railway north of the
Tweed and the Grampians.
It was humorously remarked by the Hon. Gen-
tleman, the representative of West Surrey, that the
question of conscience in this case was as between
one and two carriages. The expression implies no
exaggeration whatever. The point on which con-
science was here balanced was literally as minute and
frivolous ; for the mails were to be allowed to proceed
without stoppage, carrying with them break-waggons
and empty carriages ; but no traveller was to be ad-
mitted into the latter under penalties commensurate
with the insult offered to the godliness of the board
of directors. Now, thanks to the common sense of
the shareholders, to the insignificance of Sir
ANDREW and his disciples, and to the irre-
sistible effects of the indignation which followed
immediately upon the cruel treatment of her
Grace the Duchess of SUTHERLAND trains
may convey passengers on Sundays through
the heart of Perthshire, and those passengers may
enter at their convenience the first, the second, or
the third. class carriages. No invidious distinction is
made between the affluent and the needy—and the
improved system will be inevitably maintained in
force now that it has obtained the marked approval
and countenance of the Parliament.
According to the Member for Taunton, it would
be more expedient for the Legislature to leave the
matter to the operation of common sense and to the
settlement of spontaneous discussion. Upon this
point we cannot in any way coincide with Mr. LA-
BOUCHBRE. The subject being one which affects
the interest of the community at large so very for-
cibly, we cannot but think that the House of Com-
mons is immeasurably more than justified in protect-
ing the population from the possibility of any of those
ignorant acts of despotism which have emanated from
the councils of half-a-doaen sanctimonious directors
to the temporary disgrace of a whole district in Scot-
land. Knowing that the feelings of the public have
been violated, and that the property of the public is
liable at any moment to serious injury, if this
company or that company should happen to
take it into its head in a moment of
moral dyspepsia or religious meagrims, that Sunday
travelling is in opposition to the injunctions of Scrip-
ture—we do think that the Parliament is called
upon to diminish an authority so peculiarly liable to
abuse—we do think that the arguments of Mr.
LABOUCHERE against any kind of legislative inter-
ference were insufficient in contradiction to the pro-
posed enactment.
As was observed by the Member for Guildford,
the measure suggested by Mr. LocKE is nothing
beyond the regulation of railway monopoly. It
is only a protection against arbitrary proceedings,
not an arbitrary proceeding itself. It is
merely a security of the rights of the population, not
an infringement upon those of the railway companies.
The rights of the multitude are to travel at their
pleasure along the various lines of railway throughout
the United Kingdom as free from the chances of im-
pediment as they were formerly upon the QUEEN'S
highway. The rights of companies are anything
rather than the power of blocking up the railroads
under their jurisdiction upon this day or that day, just
at their good will and option. To insist that
Parliament has no authority to require the
conveyance of passengers upon railways on Sundays
is as absurd as it would be to deny the power of the
Government to interfere in the event of any railway
company refusing to carry troops upon their line in
some period of emergency. If a number of fanatics,
acting as a board of directors, may with impunity or-
dain that no travellers shall be accommodated on
Sundays with seats in their carriages, simply because
they prefer singing the Doxology to the beating
of the pistons of the steam-engine dragging
nothing but the mail bags and a few
of the Post-office attendants—then a number of
Quakers might with equal justice refuse, in their
capacity as directors of the
dispatch by rail a body of soldiers into a district
threatened with Rebellion (as was the case only the
other day, during the SMITII O'BRIEN agitation

merely because their fraternal sect holds all bloodshed

in abhorrence, and looks upon swords, guns, and
bayonets as the paraphernalia of his Satanic
Majesty. It is all very well for the Right

Honourable Gentleman the Member for Coventry
to talk of the proposed Bill as an act of legislative
compulsion; but we should like to know uncommonly

1 the evil which the Bill is intended to annihilate is

not an act of legislative compulsion on the part of a
petty squad of psalmsingers, in no respect qualified
to cram their theology down the throats of the mul-
titude. The Right Honourable Member for Bute
opposes the measure on the plea that it is an inter-
ference with private property and with conscience—
forgetting altogether that the annoyance which the I
measure is intended henceforth to render impos-
sible of recurrence is, in the most flagrant
manner imaginable, ax interference with public pro-
perty, with private interests, with individual rights,
and with the conscience of the vast majority of the
population. And this fact must be borne, moreover,
in mind—that the Bill introduced by the representa-
tive of Honiton, and approved of by the House of
Commons, is a defensive and not an offensive measure.
The Agnewites have been aggressors. Parliament
now only comes forward to vindicate the indisputable
rights of the multitude, and to place a wholesome
check upon the frenzy of fanaticism.

We rejoice to find that the first reading of the Bill
introduced by the Hon. Gentleman the Member for
Stroud was last night carried by so decisive a majority,
and that the Premier and the Home Secretary were
induced to abandon what could only be regarded as
an ungracious opposition. No Member of the House,
of any party has devoted himself more zealously
and indefatigably to supply the wants and to ame-
liorate the condition of the Irish nation than Mr.
POULETT SCOPE. In and out of Parliament, by
his speeches: and by his writings, he has endeavoured
to point out the evils by which its industry is
paralysed, and to provide fitting remedies. He has
accumulated a vast body of information, and he is
enabled to afford sound instruction to the House on
every question in any degree relating to Ireland. It
is due to such a man to listen to his propositions, and
to give a calm and attentive consideration to his
suggestions. The ordinary courtesy of permitting
the question of the first reading to pass
almost sub silentio should not be withheld,
and it was doubly incumbent on the Government
not to have adopted a course so invidious when the
Honourable Gentleman had waived his undoubted
right, and granted priority to the adjourned dis-
cussion on the Rate in Aid Bill, in order that the
House might come to a decision on the principle of
the measure before the Easter recess. He was there-
fore precluded from stating fully
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Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Board of Inland
Revenue, had an interview with the Chancellor of the
Exchequer yesterday, at his official residence in Down-
ing-street.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the chair precisely at Twelve
o'Clock.

NEW WRIT.
On the motion of an How. MEIDIER, it was ordered
that a new writ should issue for the election of a Knight
of the Shire for the Southern Division of the county of
Nottingham, in the room of Colonel Rolleston, who
had accepted duo office of steward of the Chiltern
Hundreds.

JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.
Sir M. LOPES presented a petition from Torquay,
in favour of the Jewish Disabilities Bill.
KIRKALDY HARBOUR, &c., BILL.
The House went into the consideration of the Report
of the Select Committee on the Kircaldy Harbour,
Docks, Ferry, and Petty Customs Bill.
Mr. BERNAL suggested, as an amendment, that
provision should be made in the Bill for providing and
maintaining life-boats, end mortars, and rockets, by the
Harbour Commissioners.
Colonel FERGUSON said the Board of Admiralty
had reported in favour of such a provision; but since
the Committee met the Custom House had objected to it.
The promoters were ready to insert a provision in the
Bill for the maintenance of life-boats and rockets, if the
Board of Admiralty required it.
The amendment was then agreed to.
FUND FOR POOR-LAW OFFICERS.
An HON. MEMBER presented a petition from Wey-
mouth in favour of a fund for superannuated poor-law
officers, in accordance with a recommendation in the
Twelfth Anual Report of the Poor-law Commissioners.
JEWISH DISABILITIES BILL.
Sir M. LOPES presented a petition from Newton
Ferrers against the Jewish Disabilities Bill.
RAILWAY TRAVELLING ON SUNDAYS.
Mr. BOUVERIE presented a petition from Stirling
in favour of a measure of relief for clergymen seced-
ing from the Established Church; also several peti-
tions from different places in Stirlingshire against com-
pelling railway companies to run trains on Sundays.
Mr. COWAN presented a petition from Haddington
and other places to the same effect.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE FOR THE
HOLIDAYS.—THE COLONIES.
Lord J. RUSSELL moved that the House at its rising
should adjousa to Monday the 16th of April.
Mr. HUME could not allow the House to separate for
the Easter recess without calling its attention to the state
in which the colonial governments were at the present
time. There was at the present moment in several of
the colonies of this country contentions going on of a
most unsatisfactory nature. They had Governors against
the Legislative Council, and Legislative Councils against
Governors. Such a state of things was highly unsatis-
factory, and greatly to be deplored. He thought any
Government who would allow such a state of things to
exist in the colonies for so long a time
must have been guilty of great mismanagement at home.
If this country wished to keep its colonies it must do
that which would satisfy them ; it was only by the
adoption of such a course that the colonies of this
country would be preserved. Let them look at Jamaica;
what he might call the House of Peers there, had
chosen to reject the measures passed by the Assembly,
with the consent of the people, for the reduction of taxa-
tion. Large military establishments were kept up in
the colonies, not for the purpose of protecting them, but to
keep up misrule there. The House was now about to
separate for the Easter recess, and before they met again
a mail would be sent out to the West Indies, and what
he wanted to know was, what was to be done with De-
merara and several other of the colonies of this country
there. Notwithstanding all the representations which
had been so industriously made of the discontent in the
Canadas, it was evident that in no colony under the
British Crown was there a greater state of tranquillity
, than that which prevailed there. By a newspaper re-
ceived only the other day, and which bore the date pf
February 27, it appeared that the discussion upon grant-
ing allowances for the losses sustained during the
rebellion had been terminated by a division
in which the numbers appeared to be sixty-seven against
five for granting remuneration to the sufferers. So that
they had here a practical proof of the adhesion of the
colonists to the British Crown. He was ready to give all
praise to the Governor-General, Lord Elgin, for the
temper, energy, and judgment which he had displayed.
But although so much might be said of Canada, what
was the report that was to be made with regard to the
feeling and position of Demerara, Ceylon, and Jamaica.
All the colonies had more or less causes for discontent
with the mother country, and he trusted at least that if
he got no satisfactory reply to this portion of his com-
plaint, he should at any rate elicit from the Government
something of their intention with regard to these depen-
dencies. Every mail was likely to bring important in •
telligence, and he should therefore move that, instead
of neglecting such important business so long, they
should adjourn to the 14th instead of the 19th instant.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said that the theme upon
which the Honourable Gentleman had just dilated was
an old one, and that nothing very novel bad been adduced
on the present occasion to vivify the staleness of his ob-
servations. For the last ten years, at least, the HOD.
Gentleman had been in the habit of stating the supposed
discontent of the colonies, and yet, by his own admission,
Canada, one of the greatest and most important of those
colonies, was now in so high a state of loyal adhesion
to the British Crown, that there had been a division of
sixty seven against five for granting a recompense to
those who had suffered either in person or property
during the rebellion. lle might remind the Hon.
Gentleman that ten years ago he had used language
which was much more calculated to excite rebellion than
to promote a spirit of peaceable submission to the Go-
vernment among the people. He (Lord John Russell)
had proposed the fusion of the two Canadas iito ode
province, and he had been very carefully remonstrated
with by the Hon. Gentleman against proceeding in,
what be conceived to be so, unwise and dangerous a course.
He had been reminded of the conduct of Lord North,
and had been told that just as the measures of that No-
bleman had led to the disruption of the United States
from the British Crown, so would his own measure lead
to a similar consequence in the case of Canada. Yet
all these predictions had been falsified, and by the Hon.
Gentleman's own admission, Canada never was in a stale
of more peaceable and loyal contentment than at the pre-
sent moment. The Noble Lord then went through the
cases of New Zealand, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia,
and the Cape of Good Hope, praising the late GO-
vernment, and especially Lord Stanley, for the appoint-
ment of Captain Grey as Governor of New Zealand;
and stating that he himself had first made him the Presi-
dent of a subordinate dependency, in consequence of the
ability which he had displayed in his survey of Western
Australia. In the case of the Cape of Good Hope, Sir
H. Smith, had been recommended to the Crown by Lord
Grey, whom the Hon. Gentleman had so much con-
demned, and yet by universal declaration there was no
man so fitted by ability, experience and energy
for the post which he occupied.---(Hear, hears)
With regard to New South Wales and Van Diemen's
Land he did not think it could be said there was any
general discontent prevailing in those colonies. If that
was not the case, let the Liouse consider that there are
forty-three colonies under the British Crown, with vari-
ous institutions inherited from different countries, with
which it must be always a matter of difficulty to deal.
He would ask the Hon. Gentleman to name to him any
other forty-three colonies similarly situated; and be
would defy him to name forty-three states so circum-
stanced, and to say that every one of those
forty- three states, with their constitutions repre-
senting almost every form of government,
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that. Now, there were colonies, he (Lord J. Russell)
would not deny, in which there was a good deal of dis-
satisfaction, but when the Hon. Gentleman referred to the
cause of that dissatisfaction, he thought he could hardly
lay it to the charge of the Colonial Secretary. He
meant those colonies concerned in the production of
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sugar. It would be in the recollection of the House
that two Acts were passed regulating the productione
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foreign sugar ; whether those Acts were wise or other-
wise they were not the acts of the Colonial Secretary, but of the Parliament of this country.—(Hear,
With regard to what the Hon. Gentleman had said
with respect to the colony of British Guiana,
it ought to be remembered, that early in this session a
Select Committee had been appointed to inquire into the
affairs of that colony. That Committee was now pro-
ceeding with that inquiry, and he (Lord J. Russell) did
not think it would be advisable, in the midst of that in-
quiry, to decide the question without knowing what evi-
dence had been taken before the Committee, and with-
out knowing the result of their deliberations. The Hon.
Gentleman had represented that Lord Grey would not
allow the colony of British Guiana to make any claim
on the civil list. Now that was not the
ground taken by Lord Grey. Lord Grey said, let
reductions be made in the civil list, but let them be made
consistently with the faith established between the Crown
and the colony. In 1834 the colonists voluntarily gave
a civil list, which was to subsist until 1851. Those who
held office under that civil list held it under an Act of
the Colonial Legislature on tho one hand, and of the
Crown on the other. Lord Grey said it would not be
proper or fair for the Provincial Legislature, on its own
authority, to disturb and put aside that Act. That was
the objection that Lord Grey made. But the Honour-
able Gentleman spoke of that Legislature as if
it was a popular Legislature. Now, the Legislature
in British Guiana, so far as it was an official
Legislature, was elected by a very small constituency,
and did not by any means represent the colony.
—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") Ile (Lord John Rus-
sell) had always been of opinion, and was still of
opinion, that there ought to be a more popular represen-
tation in that colony, and that the present Council,
which always pretended that it represented the colony,
did not represent the popular opinion of the colony.—
(Hear, hear.) Now, therefore, the whole case of the
Hen. Gentleman, of there being general discontent in
the colonies, meant this—that, with regard to the sugar
1 colonies, there had been effected by Acts of Parliament
such changes as to cause very great difficulties.
The Colonial Secretary did not, of his own authority,
make those changes.—(llear, hear)—but he had to deal
with them; and he (Lord John Russell) believed that so
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not think it was necessary now for him to say more
on this matter. He did not think the scheme of popular
representation was applicable everywhere. The
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that it was far better that the colonists themselves
hould look into their own concerns, and have their own
opinions with regard to their own finances; and their
own wrongs were likely to he a great deal better re-
dre.sed by themselves than by any Colonial Secretary,
whether it were Lord Grey or anybody else in this
country. —(Hear, hear.)
Mr. BERNAL said it was not his intention to oppose
the question of adjournment; and although he was not
prepared to say that every colony within the cycle of
43, was in a state of discontent, and that the Colonial
Secretary of the day was chargeable with that dis-
content, yet he could not disguise from himself
that those sugar colonies to which his Hon. Friend ad-
verted were in a state which it was painful to reflect
upon, and painful to every member of the British Legis.
lature in the colony. Taking the colony of Jamaica, he
knew at that moment, without travelling into the reasons
or facts with which he was acquainted, that that colony,
with respect to its financial and statistical condition, was
in a most deplorable state.
GRAND JURIES (IRELAND).
Sir W. SOMERVILLE, in answer to a question from
Mr. O'F.aherty, said that he hoped shortly after Easter
to be able to bring in a measure with respect to the
grand jury system in Ireland.
ADJOURNMENT OF THE HOUSE.
It was then agreed that the House at its rising should
adjourn until Monday, the 16th of April.
ELECTORAL REFORM.

Mr. HUME gave notice that,On-iiie-ist of May, he
would move for leave to bring in a Bill to amend the na-
tional representation by extending the elective fran-
chise, by taking the votes of electors by ballot, and by
limiting the duration of Parliament to three years.
RATE IN AID BILL.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD gave notice, that when the
House went into Committee upon the Rate in Aid Bill,
he should move the insertion of a clause for the purpose
of constituting a National Representative Board to di-
rect the disposal of the amounts levied.
DEATHS FROM FIRE.
Mr. WYLD gave notice that on the Ist of May he
would ask for leave to bring in a Bill (as we understood)
toexplainon ad amend the laws relating to inquests upon
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WORKING CLASSES.
Mr.r nd
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gave notice of a motion for the appointment of a stand-
ing Committee to consider and to report from time to
time upon the best means of improving the condition of
the working classes.
PETITION OF MR. HOLDSWORTII.
Sir J. YARDE BULLER postponed until the 20th
inst. the motion which stood on the paper to-day relative
to the petition of Mr. Holdsworth, as to his invention for
cooling the engine-rooms of steam-vessels.
COURTS OF .
Sir H. WILLOUGHBY gaveEQUITY notice that on the 17th
inst. he should ask whether it was the intention of the
Committee which was appointed to enquire respecting
the fees of the Court of Equity in this country, to make
any report to the House.
CROWN PROSECUTIONS (IRELAND).
Mr. KEOGH asked the Right Hon. the Secretary for
Ireland whether the Government would lay on the table
of the House the letter of instructions of the Irish At-
torney-General to the different Crown solicitors in Ire-
land, and also whether they would lay bofore the
House the address of the grand jury of the county
of Sligo relative to the Crown prosecutions in the west
of Ireland?
Sir WILLIAM SOMERVILLE said, if the Honour-
able Member would give notice of his question, he would
then be prepared to answer it; but at present he could
not give him the information he required.
Mr. KEOGH then gave notice, that on the Ist May
next he should call the attention of the House to the
management of the Crown prosecutions in Ireland, par-
ticularly with regard to the expenditure incurred by
them.

SUNDAY RAILWAY TRAVELLING, &c.
Mr. COWAN gave notice that on the second reading
of the Bill brought in by Mr. Locke, relative to
travelling upon railways upon the Sabbath, he should
move that it be read a second time that day six months;
he also gave notice that soon after Easter he would ask
the Noble Lord at the head of the Government whether
he would lay on the table of the House the report of
the Commission appointed to inquire into the annuity-
tax of Edinburgh and Montrose, and whether it was
the intention of the Government to take any proceed-
ings with reference to that report.
ATTACHMENT COURT OF RECORD (IRE-
LAND) BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of this Bill,
Mr. KEOGH said he concurred in the general
principle of the Bill, but as it abolished the
process of attachment altogether, it would have
the effect of removing from all those towns
where the process existed an officer called the Marshal,
who was paid by a fee upon each attachment, to whom
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not receive the sanction of the House unless
some provision was made for that officer.
He would suggest that the same fees upon the processes
to be issued under this Bill to the Marshal of the Bo-
ough Court should still be paid to that functionary, if
being deprived of his office.
no other means could be devised to prevent that officer
Mr. GROGAN had received a letter from the
Learned Recorder of this court, and while he approved
of the principle of the Bill, he would suggest that the
second reading should be postponed till after Easter, to
admit of the Marshal's case being taken into con-
sideration.
Mr. REYNOLDS was happy to perceive that the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman the Member for Athlone
and his Honourabla Colleague approved of the principle
of this Bill, but they seemed to object to it because
it did not provide compensation for a particular
officer. Now, although he was exceeding;y
ollminpgensation to inflict any injustice upon
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cond time now, and that a clause might be
proposed in Committee to give compensation
where it was justly due, but in preparing the Bill he
thought he was imperatively bound to explain to the
House what it was he proposed to do. He called upon
the House to apply a remedy to a crying and gigantic
evil, let him remind the House that in
the city of Dublin there was a court
of Record, called the Borough Court. Before the reform
of the Irish Corporation Law, that Court was known by
the name of the Sheriffs Court of the County of Dublin,
but by the 18th section of the Irish Municipal Act, the
powers of that court were transferred to the
Recorder's Court in that city.—(Hear.) And what
was the process of that Court? The process was
this. If any person demanded a debt of another person
he might make an affilavit before the Lord Mayor of
the city of Dublin, or the Recorder, to the following
effect; but he would only read the important
part of tho affidavit :—" And the defendant
maketh oath, and saith, that the said John
Doe resides within the jurisdiction of this court,
that the deponent is apprehensive that such debt is in
danger of being lost unless the process of the court be
i.su,d to distrain the goods of the said John Doe.
He found, by a Parliamentary paper which he
held in his band, that for the three years
ending 1845, 1846, and 1847, that the number of
affidavits made before the Recorder during the three
years was 301, before the Lord Mayor 1,984, making the
total of 2,285, and he found that in these affidavits were
included debts under 51., 28 before the Recorder, 211
before the Lord Mayor; under 101., before the Recorder
46, before the Lord Mayor 279; under 15/., before
the Recorder 42, before the Lord Mayor 257;
under 20/. before the Recorder 31; before the Lord
Mayor 182, making 1,076 affidavits under 201. a-year,
upon which attachment had been issued.---(Hear.) Now
what was the nature of this attachment? Why, it was
competent for any man in the city of Dublin, no matter
whether humble or rich, to go before the Recorder or the
Lord Mayor and swear that any citizen owes him money,
no matter how large in amount, as the debts had varied
from it to 1,2004 and upon payment of a fee
of ls. 6d. to the Lord Mayor, and 6d. to the
Marshal, an attachment issued. The first notice
the defendant had of it was the seiaure of
his goods in the presence of the bailiff, in his
shop or house, and by the 181st section of the
Act, it was provided that in all cases where goods
were seined under this process, the defendant
should produce two' solvent securities of the city
of Dublin who stiould swear that they were
respectively worth double the amount of the debt for
which the attachment was marked. The House would
perceive that the defendant was not compelled to put in
personal bail, but he was compelled to bail the
debt, so that, in point of fact, the attachment
and affidavit had all the force of a judg-
ment of a superior court. Let him just put a case--
a pauper walking the streets might make an affidavit that
the most respectable merchant in the City of Dublin was
indebted to him to the amount of 100,000/. The defendant
had no notice of the affidavit, and his goods were seined to
the amount of 100,0004 which could not be released until
he produced two sureties who would swear that they were
worth 100,000/. each.—(Hear.) Such a mischievous ma-
chine as that in existence in a mercantile city must have
a most destructive effect on commerce. He would mention
acase that had actually occurred of this sort.
[LEFT SPEAKING.]
C

ANCERy....._(THIS DAY.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR sat to-day in his Court; in the
Old Hall, Lincoln's-ion,
His LORDSHIP having disposed of all the unopposed
lunatic petitions, of which there were between 30 and 40
on his paper, proceeded to hear appeal motions, but no
case of interest came before his Lordship during the
morning. His Lordship will not sit again before the first
day of Easter Term.

ROLLS' COURT.—(THIS DAY f
His LORDSHIP, the Master of the Rolls, sat in his Court
in the Roll's-yard, Chancery-lane, to-day, and gave
several judgments in cases that had been heard before
him; this being the last day of his Lordship's sitting prior
to the first day of Easter Term.
SANDERSON V. THE COCXERMOUTH RAILWAY COMPANY.
His LORDSHIP gave judgment in this case. His Lord-
ship was of opinio❑ that the plaintiff was entitled to the
sp( cigc performance of the agreement entered into be-
twee:. him and the defendants, and as it appeared pro-
bable that no arrangement could be come to between the
parties, he, though with great reluctance, directed a re-
ference to the Master to inquire what roadway and slips
were necessary to be made for the accommodation of the
plaintiff, whose land was divided by the railway. His
Lordship had no hesitation in saying that the matter in
dispute might be arranged by an indifferent party
in a few minutes, and he could not but
think that there was something more then ap..
peared on the face of the bill to induce the parties