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London, England, 1840-07-02 00:00:00

CONSISTORY COURT.

WHITE AND JACKSON v. BEARD.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON gave sentence in this case, which
was a suit for subtraction of Church-rate, by the
Churchwardens of Coggeshall, Essex, against Mr. W.
Beard, a parishioner. The amount of rate sued for
was 3Ti. 9d., and it was resisted on various grounds of
alleged inequality.

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The Le ancd JUDGE began by lamenting the absence
of authorities, either in elementary writers or decisions

of Courts, that could throw any light upon the definite
principles which should govern his judgment in this
case. This Court had no power to amend a Church-

rale, and where a rate was resisted it must either pro-
nounce it nu'l and void, or for its validity altogether.
The rate sued for in the present case was trifling in
amount, anti it the party succeeded in his resistance to
it, and received costs, they could not idntifv him for
the trouble and expense he would have incurred. But
regretting, as Le did, that so long a litigation should
ha: c taken place respecting so small a sum, the party
had a right to dispute the rate if he had a legal defence,
and by acquiescing in a rate of small amount made upon
an erroneous principle he might furnish a prima facie
proof of the equality of a rate similarly made of larger
amount. Not only were the authorities barren of infor:na-
tion a; to the principles which should guide the Court,
but the only statute in which the sli!zhtest degree applied
to Church-rate—tile 5Sd George 111., c. 127—referred
merely to the cell( ction of the rate, not to the mode of

makin,,..* it, or to the principles which should gavern
any difficulties. The first and leading principle upon
which Church-rates stood he apprehended to be this—
that the rate should be jest and equal, which Sir
William Wynne said was a " truism," and which
was strongly affirmed by fir John Nichol!. Then
the question was, whether the facts of the case
showed that the rate was unequal. The meaning of
an " unequal rate" was thi's—that some party had a
right to complain that there was demanded of him more
than he ought to pay under a just assessment.
And an assessment might be unjust in various ways ;
as where a party who ought to be rated was omitted ;
or where a party was rated at less than a fair valua-
tion. In these cases it was clear that the other pa-
rishioners were unequally rated. But there would be
scarcely a parish in the kingdom in which a Church-rate
could not be overturged, if the Court were to decide
against the validity of the rate, in consequence of the
omission of one or two names. Again, no rate could
stand if the value at which each tenement was
assessed were to he examined with a nice and careful
scrutiny. A doctrine true in itself might be pushed
to such an extremity that no rate in the country could
stand. He apprehended that there must be some lima,
and the only limit was to be found in the exercise of a
fair and just discretion on the part of the Court. He
was aware that it was said there could not be a more
dangerous principle than that of leaving a discretion to
the Court to determine what amount of omissions,
what quantum of error, was sufficient for the purpose
of invalidating a rate. But, in the absence of direct
authorities, this Court must, like others, in the exer-
cise of its jurisdiction, according to the best of its skill
and ability, administer justice with discretion. The ob-
jections to the rate in the present case were three-
fold : first, that certain property has been wholly
omitted ; secondly, that landlords have be :..,n rated
instead of occupiers ; and thirdly, that paupers are ex-
cused. Now, if property which ought to be rated is
omitted, the rate necessarily becomes unequal ; but it.
does not therefore follow that thereby any great hard-
ship is imposed on any individual, because the omission
may be so trifling as not to damage an individual to the
fractional part of the smallest coin. Again, the omis-
sions may be justifiable ; for he should hold, under the
decision of the Judicial Committee in the Kensington
case, that a rate should not be disturbed because paupers
were omitted. With regard to assessing landlords in•
stead of tenants and occupiers, that was undoubtedly a
great error, for although some landlords might be will-
ingrated, and although it might be convenient
to
to rate be
theminstead of occupiers, a rate should be so
made that it might be enforced if resisted. With re-
gard to the total emissions, he was of opinion that the
Court must look at the quantum, and lie hod no hesi-
tation in saying that the property which had been
omitted had excited the greatest anxie'y in the mind
of the Court. With regard to general omissions,
he was of opinion that a grave error had been
committed by the churchwardens, and the diffi-
culty he had was, whether under all the circumstances
the amount omitted was so great that he was bound by
law to pronounce the entire rate null, and void. It ap-
peared that the value of rateable property was about
7,0001. ; what the precise amount of property not
rated was, he confessed he had great difficulty in ascer-
taining. The property rated to landlords lie took at
132/., the property omitted at 60/., the paupers, 161.
he dismissed from consideration. The difference which
this mode of rating made to the defendant was about
a half-penny. Were errors to such an extent sufficient
to induce the Court to pronounce against the validity
of the rate ? Unless these errors affected the interests
of the parishioners, he should with the deepest reluct-
ance find himself compelled to overturn a Church-rate;
because Church-rates being fully established by law, it
would ill become any court to destroy the
validity of a rate by taking advantage of such
minute circumstances. There had been a case in the
Court of Queen's Bench, in which that Court had
refused to quash a rate where illegal items of small
amount had been defrayed out of it, thereby adopting
the principle, that where the parishioners had not been
actually aggrieved in consequence of the introduction
of improper items, the Court would abstain from quash-
ing the rate. On the whole, though the question was
not without doubt, he thought the errors were not suffi-
cient to induce him to pronounce the rate invalid. With
regard to the costs, he thought there were many reasons
why he should not condemn the defendant in the costs.
There had been irregularities of a serious description,
and, if a parishioner chose to resist the rate, he was en-
titled to the fullest information in the answers of the
churchwardens, who should set forth the whole of the
facts and circumstances. He hoped that by attention
in future on the part of churchwardens, and by a due
consideration of the difficulties with which the case was
environed, the Court might be relieved from the pain-
ful necessity of having again to adjudicate on a sum of
3s. 9,id. Ile pronounced for the rate, but he made no
order as to costs.

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That the alleged offence for which your petitioner
was condemned the second time was committed previ-
ous to the first offence, and in the same county ; and
your petitiocer solemnly declares, that at all the public
meetings he attended, he was solely engaged getting up
petitions praying for a reform of your honourable

TORTURE IN ENGLAND. Petitioner prays that an inquiry may be instituted as
to the treatment of political offenders in the House of
rom the Supplement to the Votes and Proceedings Correction at Wakefield, and that measures may be
• of the House of Commons.) taken to prevent their punishment being left to the ca-
On Tuesday the House of Commons ordered se- price and political dislikes of the Visiting Magistrates
veral petitions to be printed from persons imprisoned
and Governor.
on account of political offences. We copy the names WILLIAM SHELLARD,
of the petitioners with a portion of their petitions. Late of Pontypool, in the county of Monmouth, and
GEORGE MORSE BARTLETT AND now confined in the county gaol of Rutland,
CHARLES BOLWELL, Showeth—That your Petitioner was brought to trial
Prisoners in Ilchcster gaol, the former on a charge of
on the 26th of March, 1840, before Judge Pattcson, at
sedition, and the latter on a charge of conspiracy.
Monmouth, on the charge of conspiracy and sedition,
Showeth—That we have heard that Feargus O'Con-
and found guilty, and sentenced to eighteen months' im-
nor, Esq., and other incarcerated Chartists, have been
prisonment in Monmouth Gaol.
granted the privilege of maintaining themselves ; and 'chat your petitioner was most cruelly treated on his
that, therefore, we pray your Hor.ourable House to
trial, by those witnesses being withdrawn whose testi-
grant us the same privilege, as the most Noble Mar-
mony he was prepared to refute by the most respect-
quis of Normanby has refused to do so. able evidence, and other witnesses substituted in their
WILLIAM EDWARDS, places whose testimony he was then not prepared to
Late of Newport, now confined in the county gaol of
refute.
Rutland, That your petitioner is entirely innocent of the
Most respectfully showeth—That your petitioner
charges for which he is now suffering in a prison,
was indicted for seditious speaking, and attending un-
and could prove his innocence by witnesses whose ve-
lawful meetings, before Baron Alderson, at Monmouth,
racity could not for a moment be doubted.
on the 31st July, 1839 ; and, after a long trial, found
That your petitioner was removed to the General
guilty of attending illegal meetings only, and sentenced
Penitentiary, Milbank, on the Bth of April, 1840, and
to nine months' imprisonment in Monmouth gaol.
was there kept in solitary confinement, clad in the dress
That before the termination of your petitioner's sen-
of
,a convict, and governed by convict regulations.
tense, that is to say, on the 26th of March 1840, your
That your petition.er was removed to the county gaol
petitioner was again brought to trial before Baron Gur-
of Rutland on the., 9th of June, 1840 ; and although
ney, at Monmouth, on a second indictment, for con.
your petitioner is permitted to wear his own clothes,
'piracy and sedition at public meetings held at Ponty-
pool on the Ist of January 1839, and on the sth, 20th, he is, in every other way, subject to the common gaol
and 24th of April 1839, and was found guilty, and sen- regulations.
That your petitioner, in consequence of his ill
tenced to fourteen months' imprisonment, the remaining
health, is- now under the hands of the.surgeon.
one month of the first sentence being included in the
That your petitioner complains that the food of the
second. Your petitioner cannot but complain that this
prison is insufficient to restore and preserve his health ;
second trial was an act of wanton persecution; more
that he is not allowed to receive books, save a few re-
especially as he had offered the Ministers of the
ligious books from the gaol library ; that he is not.al-
Crown, (through the medium of J. R.ll3lewitt, Esq.,
lowed to correspond with his wife and family until six
M.P. for the borough of Monmouth), his own bail, in
months have elapsed from the passing of his sentence
any amount, to keep the peace for any length of ,
and that he is not allowed the use of a knife to cut
ime. his food.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISION.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.)

TUESDAY, JUNE 30.
CHURCH EXTENSION,

House.
That your petitioner was removed from Monmouth
Gaol to the General Penitentiary, Milbank, on the Bth
of April 1840, and was there degraded by being com-
pelled to wear the garb of a convict, and being subject
in every way to the discipline by which the convicts are
governed.
That your petitioner was removed to the county gaol
of Rutland on the 9th of Juno 1840 ; is living upon
the common felons' food, which consists of gruel, bread,
potatoes, and three ounces and a half of uncooked
meat daily, which your petitioner finds to be insufficient
to restore and sustain his lost health and strength.
Your petitioner also complains that he is not allowed
the use of a knife, but is obliged to tear his food
with his fingers ; and is not allowed the free use of
books.
Your petitioner therefore prays your Honourable
House to take his case into your serious consideration.
HENRY VINCENT,
Now confined in the county gaol of Rutland,
Most respectfully showeth—That your petitioner
was removed to the county gaol of Rutland on the 9th
of June 1840, where he is now confined.
That, although your petitioner is permitted to wear
his own clothes, he is, in every other respect, under the
common gaol regulations, living upon the same poor
diet as the felons, and not allowed the use of a knife to
cut his food with, and only permitted to receive a few
very mean religious books from the gaol library.
That the diet of the prison consists of bread, gruel,
potatoes, and three ounces and a half of uncooked
meat, daily.
That your petitioner finds this food to be insufficient
to sustain his strength and health ; and this, coupled
with the long period of his confinement, is making
havoc with an originally good constitution.
JOSEPH CRABTREE,
Late of Barnsley, in the West Riding of the county of
York, and now a prisoner in Wakefield House of
Correction,
Showeth—That your petitioner was tried at the
Yorkshire Lent Assizes, 1840, and convicted of at-
tending an illegal meeting, which was held at Barnsley
on the 16th July, 1839, and sentenced to two years'
imprisonment in Wakefield House of Correction, sub-
ject. to the most severe discipline.
That your petitioner is a man of very bad health ; he
has been afflicted with a disease of the liver more than
six years, and is at present very ill, not only of that
complaint, but is likewise labouring under a pulmonary
affection, which he feels assured must prove fatal, if
some change be not made in his treatment. He is
locked up in his sleeping cell at six o'clock at night, a
room about 8 feet by 6, where he must not walk about,
or make the least noise whatever, but remain in perfect
silence, till he is let out at six o'clock in the morning,
at which hour he is taken into the day-room, and placed
among the convicted misdemeanants ; and he must sit
there on a form, with his face in one particular direction,
in order that the officers may see the whole of the
face ; he must sit there until nearly seven o'clock in
the evening, when he is again locked up in the sleeping-
cell. It is entirely close confinement ; he cannot walk
into a yard, unless when sick, and then an officer is ap-
pointed to take a number of sick prisoners, and move
them round a small yard about twenty minutes ; this
may be allowed twice or three times a week.
That the following offences committed by your peti-
tioner would subject him to be placed in dark solitary
confinement for three days, to be allowed no more than
half a pound of bread and cold water per day ; he
must not hang down his bead so that his face cannot
be clearly seen by the officers ; he must not speak
under any circumstances to any other prisoner ; he
must not stoop down to take anything from the ground ;
he must not turn his head any way ; he must not stand
up ; he must not laugh or smile, or make a motion
with his lips or hands to another prisoner ; he must not
look a prisoner in the face ; if he were to offend in
any one of these particulars, he might be punished as
stated above. If he want to attend the calls of na-
ture, he must put his cap on, and wait till called by one
of the officers, which will sometimes be an hour and a
half, there are so many ;n the room.
That your petitioner never was an advocate for vio-
lence, but belonged to the moral force party. Your
petitioner is led to believe that he is suffering in conse-
quence of outrages that were committed in other places;
the Judge observed, on passing the sentence, " Although
you have been convicted of attending the meeting only,
do not suppose that you are receiving this severe sen-
tence for that ; it is not for that."
That your petitioner would prefer and look upon it as
an act of the greatest kindness being transported for
seven years, and would have a better hope of surviving
the seven years, and of being restored to his family,
than he possibly can have of living two years un:ler the
treatment of this prison.
That your petitioner is a poor man, and has a family
of small children depending on him for support, and he
is cut off from all communication with them until he
has been six months in prison, and then he will be al-
lowed to write and see them once a month, and no more.
Your petitioner therefore most humbly prays, that if
ever pity did enter into the breasts of the Members of
your Honourable House, that it may do so now, and
that you would be pleased to make intercession for
mercy to be extended to him in his present situatien,
in orler that he may be saved from certain death ; in
mercy, look upon his miserable condition, and save him
from the most protracted death !
RICHARD WHITE,
Of Bradford, in the county of York, news-agent,
Showeth—That your petitioner's son, George White,
of Leeds, in the said county, was, at the last York As-
sizes, convicted of a political offence arising out of the
late Chartist agitation, and was sentenced by the Judge
to six months' imprisonment in the Castle of York.
That your petitioner, on the 15th day of May last,
was informed by John Lumb, of White Abbey, in
Bradford, aforesaid, woolcombcr, who had shortly before
been imprisoned in the House of Correction at Wake-
field, that petitioner's son was there, having been re-
moved from York Castle ; that he was treading the
mill with those who had been convicted of felonies :
that he was in an ill state of health, and so feeble that
he had twice fallen from the tread-mill, in a state of
exhaustion, and had to be carried to the sick ward.
That your petitioner, being greatly affected with the
above intelligence of the state of health and sufferings
of his son, who is of a weak and hectic constitution,
wrote several letters to his son to know if the above in-
telligence was true, and receiving no answer to any of
them, obtained an order from Matthias Whitehead, of
Bradford, aforesaid, Esq., a magistrate for the West
Riding of the county of York, desiring the keeper of
the said House of Correction to allow your petitioner
to see his son.
That your petitioner, whose age is sixty-two years,
and is infirm, on the Bth day of this present June,
walked to Wakefield, a distance of fourteen miles, and
on the succeeding morning applied to Mr. Shepherd,
the keeper of the said House of Correction, with the
order of Mr. Whitehead, and desired permission to see
his said son, on account of the ill state of health he

Motion made and Question put, " That on Wednesday the
15th day of July next, this House will resolve itself into a
Committee of the whole House, to consider of the following
Address to her Majesty, that is to say, That an humble Ad-
dress be presented to her Majesty, praying that her Majesty will
be graciously pleased to take into consideration the deficiency
which exists in the number of places of worship belonging to
the Established Church when compared with the increased and
increasing population of the Country, the inadequate provision
therein for the accommodation of the poorer classes in large
towns, and the insufficient endowment thereof in other places,
as such facts have been severally set forth in the Reports of the
late Ecclesiastical Commissioners ; to assure her Majesty, that
this House is deeply impressed wit a just sense of the many
blessings which this Country, by the favour of Divine Provi-
vidence, has long enjoyed, and with the conviction, that the re-
ligious and moral habits of the People are the most sure and
firm foundation of national prosperity ; to state to her Majesty
the opinion of this House, that no altered distribution of the
revenues of the Established Church could remove the existing
and augmenting evil, arising from the notorious fact, that an
addition of more than six million souls has been made to the
population of England and Wales since the commencement of
the present century, and that the rate of this increase is rapidly
progressive ; that the grants made by the wisdom of Parlia-
ment, on the recommendation of the Crown, in 1818 and 1824,
have been inadequate to supply the national wants ; and that,
though private and local liberality has been largely mani-
fested in aid of particular districts, the greatest wants exist
where there are the least means to meet and relieve them ; to
assure her Majesty that this House, feeling that God has en-
trusted to this Nation unexampled resources, is satisfied, that
it is the duty of the Government to employ an adequate portion
of the wealth of the Nation to relieve the spiritual destitution
of large masses of the people, by whose labour that wealth has
been enlarged; and humbly to represent to her Majesty, that.
this House will cheerfully make good such measures as her
Majesty may be pleased to recommend, in order to provide for
her people in England and Wales further and full means of re-
ligious worship and instruction in the Established Church :"
(Sir Robert Harry Inglis )—The House divided.
MINORITY—AYES, 149.
Arland, Sir T. D.—.N Devonshire James, Sir W. C.—Hull
Acland, I'. D.—West Somerset lermyn, Earl—Bury, Suffolk
Alford, Viscount—Bedfordshire Jones, T.—Londonderry Co.
Arclidall, Gen. M.—Fermanagh Kelburne, Lord—Argyleshire
Ashley, Lord—Dorsetsl lire Kemble, H.—East Surrey
Bagot, Hon. W.—Denbighshire Knatchbull, Sir E.—East Kent
Bailey, Joseph—Worcester Lcfroy, Rt. Hon. T.—Dublin (.Inl
Baring, W. B.—N. Staffordshire versity
Barrington, Lord—Berkshire Lennox, Lord A.—Chichester I
Bell, Matthew—S. Northumber. Lincoln, Earl of—Northampton.
land shire, South
Blackburne, Ireland—Warrington Litton, Edward—Coleraine
Botfield, Beriah—Ludlow Lockhart, A. M.—Lanarkshire
Brareston, T. W.—Essex South Long, W.—North Wiltshire
Bruce, C. L. C.—Elginshire Lowther, Colonel—Westmoreland
Bruges, W. H. L.—Bath Lowther, J. H.—York
Buck, L. W.—North Devonshire Lygon, Major-Gen. Hon. H. B.—
Buller, Sir J. Yarde—Devonshirt Worcestershire West,
Burroughes, H. N.—East Norfolk Mackenzie, Thomas—Ress-shire
Calcraft, John Hales—Wareham Mackenzie, W. F.—Peeblesshire
Chapman, Aaron— Whitby Mackinnon, W. A.—Lymington
Cholmondeley, Hon. Hugh—Den. Mahon, Viscount— Hertford
bighshire Manners, Lord C. S.—Leicestersh.
Christe.pher, R A.—Lincolnshire Martin, Thomas
—Galway Co.
Clerk, Sir G.—Stamford Marton, Geo.—Lar.caster
Clive, It. H. South Shropshire Maunsell, T. P —Northampt. nsh,
Codrington, C. W.—Gloucestersh. Miles, Philip W. Skynner—Bristol
Colqishoun, John C —Renfrew Milues, R. M.—Pontefract
Compton, H. Combe—Hampshire Mordaunt, Sir John—Warwicksh
Conolly, Edward M.—Donegal Morgan, C. M. IL—Brecon
Corry, Hon. H. L.—Tyrone Co. Neeld, Joseph—Chippenham
Courtenay, P.—Bridgewater O'Neill, Hon. J. B. IL—Antrim
I Cresswell. Cresswell—Liverpool Palmer, Robert—Berks
Dalrymple, Sir A.—Brighton Palmer, George—Essex
Darby, George—East Sussex Parker, Montagu—De:var.
D'lsraeli, B.—Maidstone. Parker, R. T.—Preston
Dottin, A. R.—Southampton Parker, T. A. W.—Oxfordshire
Dugdale, W. S.—Warwickshire Patten, J. Wilson—Lancashire
Dungannon, Lord—Durham Peel, lit. Hon. Sir IL—Tamworth
East, James Buller—Winchester Pigot, Robert —Bridgnorth
Eastnor, Viscount—Reigate. Polhill, Frederick—Bedford
Eaton, R. J..—Cambridgestnre Vollen, Sir J.—Andover
Egerton, W. Tatton—Cheshire Pringle, Alexander—Selkirkshire
Egerton, Sir P.—Cheshire Pusey, Philip—Berkshire
Ellis, Jno.—Newry Rae, Right Hon. Sir Wm.—Bute
Estcourt, T. G. B.—Oxford Univ. Reid, (Sit J. Rae—Dover
Farnham, E.B.—N. Leicestershire Richards, Richard—Merionethsh.
Fleming, John—Hampshire Round, Charles Gray—Lssex N.
Foley, E. T.—Herefordshire Round, John —Maldon
Follett, Sir W.—Exeter Rushbrooke, Colonel—Suffolk
Forester, Hon. G.—Wenlock Rushout, Geo. Bowles—Evesham
Fox, Sackville Lane—Beverly Bandon, Lord—Liverpool
Fre.htield, James Wm.—Penryn Scarlett, Hon. J. Y.—Guildford
Gladstone, W. E.—Newarx-on- Shaw, Right Hon. F.—Dublin Un.
Trent Sheppard, Thomas—Frome
Glynne, Sir S. R.—Flintshire Shirley, E. J.—Warwickshire
Goddard, Ambrose—Cricklade Sibtherp, Colonel—Lincoln
Goring, H. D.—New Shoreham Smith, Abel—Hertfordshire
`Graham, Right Hon. Sir J. R. G Smyth, Sir G. H.—Colchester
Bt.—Pembroke Stanley, Edward—Cumberland
Granby, Marquis of—Stamford Stanley, Lord—North Lancashire
Grant, Sir A. C.—Cambridge Sturt, Henry Chas.—Dorsetshire
Greene, T. G.—Lancashire Teignmouth, Lord—Marylebane
Grimstoo, Viscount—Hertford. Thesiger, F.—Woodstock
shire [hornbill, G.—Huntingdonshire
Grimston, lion. E. H.—St. Al- Vere, Sir C. B.—East Suffolk
ban's Vernon, G. H.—East Bettina
Harcourt, G. S.—Bucks Vivian, John Ennis—Truro
Hepburn,Sir T.—Haddingtonshire Waddington, H. S.—West Suffolk
Herbert, Hon. S.—South Wilts Wclby, Glynne Earle—Grantham
Hodgson' Frederick—Barnstaple Williams, Robert—Dorchester
Holmes, lion. W.—lsle of Wight Wodehouse, Edmond—E. Norfolk
Hope, Charles —Linlithgowshire Wood, Colonel T.—Brecon
Hope, G. W.—Weymouth Wood, T. J.—Middlesex
Hotham, Lord—Leominster Wynn, C. W.—Montgomeryshire
Houston, G. J.—ltenfrewshire Yorke, Hon. T. E.—Cambridgesh.
Hughes, W. B.—Carnarvon Young, John—Cavan Co.
Hurt, Francis—South Derby TELLERS.
Ingestre, Viscount—Staffordshire Inglis, Sir R. H.—Ox. University
jackson, Mr. Serj.—Bandon Bridge Knight, H. G.—Nottinghamshir.

MAJORlTY-
kbercromby, G. R. —Stirluigshirt
Aglionby, H. A.—Cockermouth
Anson, Colonel—Staffordshire
Baring, F. T. - Por t smouth
Barnard, E. G.—Greenwich
Bqwes, T.—Plymouth
Blackett, C.—South Northumber-

-NOES, 168.
laster, E. Conliffe—Bradford
!iich, James—Kirkwall
dacauley, T. B.— Edinburgh
Maher, John—Wexford Co.
Marshall, Wm.—Carlisle
darsland, Henry—Stockport
daub°, Hon. Fox—Elgin: Burgh:
delgund, Viscount —llythe
•liklmay, P. St. John —Winches.
to
liorpeth, Lord—Yorkshire
.lorris, D.—Carmarthen
lluskett, George A.—St. Alban',
)'Brien, Cordelius—Clare
9'l3rien, W. S.—Limerick Co.
)'Connell, Daniel- Dublin
PConr•J'l, John—Athlone
YConnell, M. J.—Kerry
C'Oonncll, Maurice—Tr:dee
)rd, W. —Newcastle-u pon.T e
Jswald, James—Glasgow
'aget, Lord Alfred—Lichfield
Parker, John—Sheffield
Pattison, James—London
Pechell, Captain—Brighton
,'endarves, E. W.—W. Cornwall
"hilips, G. R.—Poole
Pigot, David Richard—Clonmell
L'onsonby, C. F. A. C.—Poole
'onsonby, Hon. John—Derby
i'rotheroe, Edward—Halifax
iawdon, John Dawson—Armagh
tedington, T. N.—Dundalk
Roche, E. B.—Cork Co.
.toche, William—Limteek
quirthold. C. E —Yarmouth
Rundle, John—Tavistock
dusselt, Lord John—Stroud
lutherfurd, Rt. Hon. A.—Leith
,alwey, Lieut.-Col.—Ludlow
;cholclield, J.—Birmingham
'Scrope, Poulett—Stroud
Seymour, Lord—Totness
*Vied, Richard Lalor—Tipperary
ihelborne, Earl of—Caine
ilaney, It. A.—Shrewsbury
Smith, J. A.—Chichester
smith, Benjamin—Norwich
Smith, Hon. R.—Wycombe
im th, R. V. —Northampton
Somers, J. P.—Sligo
Stanley, W. Massey—Pontefract
Stanley, W. o.—Anglesea
itanstield,W. It. C.— Huddersfield
Staunton, Sir George Thomas
Steuart, Robert—Haddington, &c.
Stock, Dr.—Cashel
Strangways, Hon. John—Dorset
Strickland, Sir G.—W. Yorkalnre
itrutt, Edward—Derby
Stuart, Villiers—Waterford Co
Style, Sir Charles—Scarborough
Falbot, C. R. 31.—Glamorganshire
l'alfourd, Mr. Serjeant —Reading
l'ancred, H. W.—Banbury
Thornely,Thos.—Wolverhampton
l'ollemache, Hon. F.—Grantham
I'ufatll, Henry—Devonport
Furrier, \V.—Blackburn
Vi7ors, N. A.—Carlow Co.
'Villiers, C. P.—Wolverhampton
Vivian, John llenry—Swansca
Wahlcy, 'Thomas—Finsbury
Wallace, Robert—Greenock
Warburton, 11.-131 idport
Ward, 11. G.—Sheffield
White, Andrew—Sunderland
White, Henry—Longford
Williams, William—Coventry
Wilshcre, William—Yarmouth
Wood, Charles—Halitax
Wood, G. W.—Kendal
Wood, Benjamin—`outhwark
Wo-sley, Lord—Lincolnshire
Wyss', 'Thomas--Waterfora
Yates, J. Ashton —Carlow

land
Blake, Wm. J.—Newport, Isle o

Wight
Bodkin, John James—Galway
Bowes, John—South Durham
Brabazon, Sir William -Mayo Co
Bridgeman, Hewitt—Ennis
Briscoe, J. I.—Westbury
Brocklehurst, J.— lacclesfield
Brodie, W. B.—Salisbury
Brotherton, J.—Salford
Browne, Robert Dillon—Mayo
Charles—Liskeard
liiistield, W.—Bradford
Byng, George-Middlesex
Bvug. Bight Hon. G. S —Chathan
Campbell, Sir John—Edinburgh
Childers, John W.—Malton
Clay, William—Tower Hamlets
Clements, Visc.—Leitrim Co.
:live, Edward 13.—Hereford
Collier, John—Plymouth
Craig, W. G.—Falitiburghshire
Crompton, S.—Thirsk
Currie, Raikes—Northampton
Dalmeny, Lord—Stirling
Dash wood, G. H.—Wycombe
Denison, W. J.—West Sussex
D'Evneourt, Right lion. C. T.—
Lan. bet'
Divett, Edward—Exeter
Duke, Sir James—Boston
Duncombe, T. S --Finsbury
Dundas, Sir Robert—Richmond
Dundas, David—Sutherlandshire
Easthope, J.—Leicestrr
Eliot, Hon. J. E.—Roxburghshiri
Ellice, Edward—St. Andrew's
Etwall, Ralph—Andover
Evans, William—North Derby
Ewart, William—Wigan
Fergucon,Sir It. A.—Londonderry
Flelden. John—Oldham
Finch, Frarcis—Walsall
Fleetwood, I'. H.—Preston
Gillon, Wm. D.—Linlithgow
Gordon, Robert—Windsor
Greenaway, Charles—Leominster
Greg, It. H.—Manchester
Grey, Sir George—Devonport
Grosvenor, Lord R.—Chester
Guest, J. J.—Mert;:yr Tydvil
Hastie, Archibald—Paisley
Hawes, B. -Lambeth
Hawkins, J. H.—Newport, Isle of
Wight
Haytcr, W. G.—Wells
Heathcoat, J.—Tiverton
Hector, Cornthwaite John—pc_
tersficld
Hencage, Edward—Grimsby
Hill, Lord A. M. C.—Evesham
Ilindley, Charles-1..,ht0n
Hohhouse, T. Benj.—Rochester
Hodges, 'l'. L.—West Kent
Hollow!, Itol,ert —II a..tings
tlorsman, Edward -Coctermouth
iloskirr, K.—l lerefordsh ire
Howard, llon. E. G.-- Morpeth
'lowan!, P. 11.- Carli,le
Hume, .10,cP11—Kilkenny
Hutt, AYrllidl
Iliitton, Hobert—Dublin

James, William—Cumbe,-land
Jervis, S.—Bridport
Labouchere, Right Hon. Henry—
Taunton
Lambton, H.—North Durham
Langdale, Don. C.—Knaresbo.

was in.
That the said Governor treated your petitioner's ap-
plication with contempt and scorn, and peremptorily re-
fused to allow your petitioner any access whatever to
his said son ; and stated that the letters your petition-
er had as aforesaid written were stopped by him, that
he would stop all your petitioner so sent in future, and
that he would not allow your petitioner's son to send
any letters ; that your petitioner, being poor, walked
home again, fourteen miles.
That your petitioner's son's offence was purely a
political one, arising out of the Chartist agitation, in
which your petitioner's son was unhappily engaged ;
and that, according to the testimony of several persons
who were present on the trial of your petitioner's
son, the sentence was imprisonment only, and that
it was never intended by the Judge that the sentence
should be carried out with the severity it has been.

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Langton, Col Gore—Somerset
Leader, J. Temple .....Wlustminster
Lennox, Lord J. 6,_wost Sussex

TELLERS.
Baines, Edward•—Leeds
Stanley, E. Juhn—North Cheshire

NATURAL PHOTOGENIC DRAWING.--A sin-
gular instance of what may be called " natural photogenic" is
observable at a house in Widemarsh-street-without in Here-
ford. .Fome time ago the passages, &e., were coloured with
drab colouring, and while in a state of moisture the fac-simile of
an adjoining yew- stree, upon which the morning sun shines,
became clearly impressed upon the wall of the door-way, and
still remaias. The branches, &e., are very distinctly defined,
and the whole exhibits a delicacy of delineation exceeding any-
thing that could be done by hand.
A LIE.—" A great lie,' says the poet Crabbe,
"is like a great fish on dry land; it may fret and fling and
make a frightful bother, but it eamiot hurt you. You haea
to keep still, and it will die of itielf."