The Sun.
London, England, 1847-06-12 00:00:00

FRANCE AND SWITZERLAND.

The Swiss journal the Helvetic publishes the following
correspondence which has t ,ken place between the Pre•
sident of the Swiss Directory anti the French Ambassa-
dor. The following is the letter of the French Atnbas-
sad,,r- M. Bois le Comte :

"M. le President,—lt was my first intention to present
to your Excellency only the expression of our wishes
that your magistracy may bring happiness to Switzer
land, but I fesred that this, eeeoid of all explanation
might make you believe that there was some disaccord
between me and some of my colleagues. 'The circum-
stances which attended and followed your election, the
speeches you delivered before and after it, have appeared
to me to render it I ecessary for me to open my relations
with you hs an expose which can leave no doubt as to
our principles in y our mind. This course will be more
candid and more proper. I heye to explain myself on
two subjects, the corps francs and cantolutl independence.
M. Guizot, in his letter of March, 1845, expressed hi.n•
self as regerds the corps trance in terms which make it
utinece.sary for me to add anything. Be has founded
Ins right to express himself in this way on the right ot
eves y Government to protect the bases of ordar, and the
relation between nations against the principles and dis-
orders by which they may be attacker. He has foundeo
it also in the more direct interest of France, and it is as
respects that interest principally that I address you, tor
if, as in the sittings of the Grand Council, the chiefs of
the state admit . xcuse to provide for the care of a peophe
imagining that its Government is too tardy or too weak
in doing it justice, take s justice into its own hands by
resorting to force, the same principle may be appliedto
the relations with foreign states as well as to those with
other cantons. The 15.000 French who reside in Swit
zerland on the faith of treaties may one day find them
selves exposed to this popular justice. and our frontiers
may be compromised. All security of relations would
dtsappear with a Government which should admit this
prineii..le, and which cannot answer for the armed action
of its populatt. n. It is also in the name of our direct
interest and of our positive right that I speak to you on
the second cpiesien respecting which I have to treat
with you. Eery nation is independent, but it is one of
the attributes of its independence to have the power of
restraining its exercise by treaties with ether nations.
France has done this several times, at different periods
of her history, particularly in renouncing the faculty of
evifying sew ral parts of Ler territory. Switzerland
has done as France has done. Whilst preserving her
independ.-nce, she has signed a treaty which limits the
exercise of it on some fixed points. I speak to you o'
the dispositions of the act of the Congres., ot Vi noa, to
which the diet of Zurich adhered by a solemn declara-
tion. The Act of Vienna do s not recognise a Suisse
intik:ire, but a Suisse federative, composed of 22 cantons.
I, one or more of these canton, should one day say to us
that its independent existence was menaced, and that
was sought to substitute a unitary Switzerland for a can-
tonal Switzerland, reengni.ed by treaties, and say that
thereby our treaties were attacked, we ehould have to
consider whether our treaties realty were at:evict d. The
very nature of this toirt of questions, the consideration
of the right and fitness of raising them, renders them so
&pendent upon circumstances connected with them, that
there is always a risk of falling into error when they
are prerna:ur. Jy discussed. We have therefore not dote
this. We have confined ourselves to the simple resolu
sign excressed by the words, we will examine. lam per-
fectly enabled to add that we will do this in per:ect ac-
cordance with the spirit and intention of the powers who
signed the said treaties, and particularly with Austria,
who stands with regard to Switzer and in a position
perfectly analogous to ours from contiguity of frond- rs."
" M. Ochsenbein the President," says the Helmtic,
" the next morning pled a visit to M. de Bois le Comte,
and read to him his answer. M. de Bois le Comte im-
mediately objected. as he had not intended to remit a
note verbale, but only to deliver his discours par ecrit.
M. Ochsenbein thereupoa requested him to receive his
answer as a discours ecrit, and which seems to us to
express correctly the opinion of the people ot Berne as
well as of the Government."

The following is the President's answer :

"M. le Conde I, In thanking your Excellency for the
good wishes you have expressed towards Switzerland on
the occasion of my entering upon my functions, I am
bound to make the following observations on the con-
tents of the • verbal note you have deliver,d to me.
This note refers to facts which are personal to myself,
and of which I have rendered no account to the authori-
ties, or to the public opinion of my country, and you
foresee eventualities upon which I am not called upon to
explain myself, either personally, not agreeing with the
consequences ffrawn froth them, or in the name of the
Directory or of the Confederation, nut being warranted
in answering officially such communication without being
authorised. I feel it, however, to be my duty to assure
your Excellency, that the federal authorities will not
make any attack upon existing treaties and that they
will in all cases entertain the firm will, and have the
.power to cause respect to he paid to public order and
the rights of the people throughout the Swiss territories,
even when they at. the same time oppose with no less
energy t very attempt at foreign interference in their in-
ternal affairs, and that they will never allow any power
or any minority of cantons the right of interpreting the
federal compact,—a right which belongs to the Coulede-
ration alone."

THE SMALL DEBTS ACT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SIR, —The short, but excelltnt, article which appeared
in your columns on S Iturday evening, relative to the
discharge of a prisoner by the Court of Common Pleas,
who had been committed to prison by one of the County
Courts for the non-payment of an instalment, without
any notice being given of the intention to apply for such
committal, entidea you to the unqualified raise and
gratitude of all those who are unable but willing to pay,
and who are either suffering from thi eats (or actually
undergoing an imprisonment in venom, utter circum-
stances never contemplated by the trainers of the Act,
or the legislative body that passed it).
The following case is well known to me, and similar
ones are far from rare.—An order under the Small
Debts Act was obtained in the Court of' Bankruptcy to
satisfy a judgment of the Court of Common Pleas. The
defendant was ordered to pay th, debt and costs,
amounting to some 25/. odd, by instalments of 255. a
month. klis employment being temporary, and only
during the sitting of Parliament, he remonstrated on the
operation of the order during that cowitderable part of
the year in which he would have no certain means of
existence. The remonstrance was.useles.--, the Commis-
stoner saying that the Act gave him nu pnwer to use
such discrimination. So long as his occupation lasted
the instalments were regularly paid, but when his means
—the essence of the power to make the order—ceased,
he was no longer able to comply. The threat of forty
days' confinement in a gaol was then resorted to, and
ib consequence of that threat was, that he pawned his
necessaries, got into debt, and I,st expectations and
friends, in addition to bodily heal: b, in his efforts to
keep from so dreadful a punishment.. Had he the
opportunity of stating why the instalments were not
paid previous to committal, he could have insisted on the
protection of the Act, which does not give incarceration
to the willing and pour, but to the unwilling and able to-
pay debtor —I aro, Sir, your most obedient servant,
EQUITAS.
June 7, 1847.

We understand that the London and Brighton and
South Coast Railway Company are about to erect a large
hotel at Newhaven, capable of making up (tom 120 to 140
b tls, also a custom house ( with the sanction of Government),
and two splendid stations, one for the local traffic, and the
other for the continental traffic, bonding warehouses, engine-
house, coke-oven, &c. They have already constructed a
wharf 1,100 feet long; and it is intended to have a covered
corridor from the hotel to the wharf. Newhaven, with such
prospects before it, may be said to be in its intincy ; for there
is very little doubt that it will grow into a town of consider-
able magnitude in a few ears.—Br;ghton paper.
TRADING IN SEDUCTION.—On Thursday a public
meeting of the inhabitants of Finsbury was holden in the
Queen-square Assembly-roomy, Theobald's.rpad, for the
purpose of taking into consideration the Bill introduced into
the House of Commons by Mr. Spooner, for the suppression
of the traffic in seduction and prostitution. At eight o'clock
B. Bond Cabbell, Eq , M.P., took the chair. The Honour-
able Chairman, the Rev. Woodyard, Mr. Osborne, Mr,
Roper, and several other gentlemen. addressed the meeting
at considerable length, advocating the provisions of Mr.
Spooner's Bill, and resolutions warmly approving of the
principles of Mr. Spooner's proposed remedy were carried
unanimouey by the meeting.

THE QUEEN'S STATE BALL.
Th:, Queen gave a State 8.11 (the second this seasenN
last evening, at Buckingham Palace. The compasi
present at the rec(-ption exceeding in number those e
at-
tending •an ha former ball iven by her Majesty. Th
invit•itionsving been extended to the unprecedented
number of nearly two thousand. The guests comprised
the Royal Family, the foreign Princes in this cotintrip
the whole of the Diplomatic Corps, Foreigners of Dis"
tinction on a visit to England, the Ladies and Gentlemen
of the Household of the Queen and Prince Albert, of the
Queen Dowager, and of the different memberoft
Royal Family, the Min sters of State, and 'the principal
members of the Administration and their Ladies, and a
very numerous party of the'Nobility and Gentry.
and
At nine o'clock the company began to arrive
continued setting down with great rapidity at the pet°
Portico in Pimlico, and also at the garden entrance.
The guard of the Yeomen Guard lined the SeelPtere,
Gallery and Grand Hall under the command of Captaal
Sadler, the Exun in Waiting. The Officers of the car
prevfnt were Sir G. P. L e, the Lieutenant; Si! LI
Houlton, the Ensign; and Captain Kincaid, the Don os
&Sy. The band of the Coldstream Guards attended
the conservatory.

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CIRCUITS OF THE COMMISSIONERS FOR Tag
RELIEF OF INSOLVENT DEBTORS.
AUTUMN CIRCUITS, 1847.
HOME CIRCUIT.
HENRY REVELL REYNOLDS, Esq., Chief Commillllener.
.
Kent-At Dover, Friday, November 5. runterbgrit
At the City and County of the City of `"*.--
Monday, November 8. •
Kent-At Maidstone, Tuesday, November 9.
Sussex-At Lee es, Friday, November 26.
Hertfordshire-At Hertford, Friday,
December 3. ,
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
;,,,,i
JOHN GREATHEAD HARRIS, Esq., Conthl--°l3eT.
Essex-At Chelmsford, Tuesday, October 26.
Essex-At Colchester, Wednesday, Oct. 27.
Suffolk-At Ipswich, Thursday, Oct. 28.
Norfolk-At Yarmouth, Saturday, Oct. 30.
Nov 1.
ris Norfolk-At the Castle of Norwich, Monday' .ch, she
At the City and County of the City of Nor
same day. .
Norfolk-At Lynn, Tuesday, Nov. 2. Nov'
v 4,
Suffolk-At Bury St. Edmunds, Thursday,_,A'")"g
Cambridgeshire-At Cambridge, Friday, Di°Y;S",,;,.., 6.
Huntingdonshire-At Huntingdon, Saturday, .0.,,/e, 8.
Northamptonshire-At Peterborough, MondaYel`
Rutlandshire-At Oakham, Tuesday, Nov. 3.
Lincolnshire-At Lincoln, Wednesday, Nov.. 10. 12,
Nottinghamshire -At N“ttinghain, Friday, Nov tor'
At the Town and County of the Town of Nottiogh
The same day.
Derby shire-At Derby, Monday, Nov. 15.
At the City and County of the City of Litchi].
Tuesday, Nov. 16.
Stliffordsliire-At Stafford, Wednesday, Nov. 17.
Shropshire-At Shrewsbury, Friday, Nov. 19.
Warwickshire-At Warwick, Monday, N0v.22. 4.
Warwickshire -At Coventry, Wednesday, Nov. 2
Leicestershire-At Leicester, Friday, Nov. 26.N0v. 29,
Northamptonshire-At Northampton, Monday, r 4
Bed Ordshire-A t Bedford. Tuesday. Nov. 30. 2,
Buckinghamshire-At Aylesbury, Thursday, Dom'
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
WILLIAM JOHN LAW, Esq., COMIDiSSiOner•
Yorkshire-At Slid-field, Saturday, Oct. 16.
Yorkshire-At Wakefield, Monday, Oct. 18. fr. aster
At the Town and County of the Town of •11-in
upon Hull, Monday, Oct. 25. o,:t. 17.
Yorkshire-At the Castle of York, Wednesday,
Yorkshire- At Richmond, Saturday. Oct. 30.
Ourham-At Durham Monday, N..v. . ofr
le-013-
NorthumberlanDd-At the 'Moot-hall, I
NewcasL
Tne, Wednesday, Nov. 3.
At the town and county of the town of Newcasti°4lP°ll*
Tyne, the same day. -
Cumberland-At Carlisle, Friday, Nov. 5. •
Westmoreland-At Appleby, Monday, Nov. 8'
Westmoreland-At Kendal, Tuesday, Nov 9'lo.
Lancashire-At Laiwyster, Wednesday, Nov*
Lancashire-At Liverpool, Wednesday, N ''' 171.40.0
Cheshire -At. the Castle of Chester, SaturdllY, r.....111e
At the City and County of the City of Claes"
same day.
Flintshire-At Mold, Monday, Nov. 22.
Denbighshire-At Ruthin, Tie-sday, Nov. 23. 25,
Merionethshire-At Dolgelly, Thursday, Nov. 9.
Carnarvonshire-At Cernarvon, Monday, No!' • . -
Anglesey-At Beaumaris, Tuesday. Nov. 30.
ec. 5.
Montgomeryshire-At Welsh P. FridaY, D ..
SOUTHERN CIRCUIT.
CHARLES PHILLIPS- E-q., Commissioner.
Berkshire-At Reading, Friday, Oct. 15.
Oxfordseire-At. Oxford. Monday, Oct. 18. _ ..20;
Worcestershire-At Worcester, Wednesday, Oa*
Herefordshire-At Hereford, Friday, Oct. 22. _
Radnorshire-At Presteigne, Mond ,y, Oct. 25.
Brecknockshire-At Brecon, Wednesday, Oct. 27.,,_
Carmarthenshire-At Carmarthen, Friday. Oct. 2v• ,
Cardiganshire-At Cardigan, Monday, N."'• 1",,T ~, 4'
Pembrokeshire-At Haverfordweet, Tuesday, 0°
Glamorganshire-At Swansea, Friday, Nov 5. . _
Glamorgan.hire-At Cardiff. Monday, Nov. 8.,
el.lO.
Monmouthshire-At Monmouth, WednesdaY, Il
Gloucestershire-At tiloucester, Friday, Nov. 12'
Somersetshire-At Bath, Monday, Nov. 15. Wed'
At the City and County of the City of Bristol--
nesday, Nov. 17.
Somersetshire-At Taunton, Friday, Nov. 19.
Cornwall-At Bodmin, Tuesday, Nov. 23.
Devonshire-At Ply mouth, Thursday, Nov 25._,, 107.
Devonshire-At the Castle of Exeter, Saturday, DO 0S
At the City and County of the City of Exeter
Same day. •,.
Dorset.hire -At Dorchester, Tuesday, Nov. 30.
IViltshir..-A t Salisbury, Thursday,e
At the Town and County of the Town of Southew
-Saturday, Del. 4.
Southampton-At Winchester, Monday. Dec. 6'
...i. Ao. r•
CATESBY ABBEY, NORTrL.
TONSHIRE.
This truly fine old English property, whiebizioeisB'
nounced for public sale in our columns by Alr...:it,Jist+
appears to present so many attractions to the rsy_t fro
s:
that we cannot resist giving our readers an ev•_i;),,i3O_4.
Dugdale's " Monasticon" and the " Beauties
.xl7,oed
and W ales," in both of which this property ist.,7'r 03ore
Few estates in the country, we understand'
an_ ticstesb.i
interesting relics of a very early period th Dor stater
Abbey. The beautiful avenue and grov,e,oso,,,d spot 4
elms-the ancient burial-place, " a Catesby,titne-lno slid
singular beauty"-the pristine village of 600 s°
the noble manor hall, with a domain of "L"--ent,xtensilf
700 acres of the richest land in the count,' all tnir/
--are bunting
manorial rights, and preserves for game the Vst din
cane 0
temptations for a residence in certainlY ri, so
ground in the ,kingdom.: Catesby Nn,o"netd In Dug"
the reign of Henry 111., is thus men er
" Monasticon":- : 'The char II
" Cateshy Nunnery, Northamptonshire' lics
of the 17th of King Henry 111. recites _
anV
llibus go A
grants made to this monastery. John de 5 toe till_7
to these nuns all his lands and lordship--lhe
,or o'
territory of Botendon. The Bull of the fifth )0,50
Pope Gr.gory VIII. confirms to them all th y.
sion, and tl.lces them i
into his special protecton. 00
eir
A more interesting history of the property is ell
from the " Beauties of England and Wales":- ,fp
‘‘ Co.tesby.-LiL this village was formerly a Ilre
founded by Philip Esseby, according to some wr'eeog
and by Robert, his soil, according to others, for a prayed r
iatudwilinfehne uandsv,ow ofs othe o
IB'iitnee di ctiii
Church,e Order,vario uwsh4
lel
dnid,:irodi3O:
with
as is logtily probable, the manor of Cateslgt i I,lo'
the 31st of Henry 111., the prioress and nuns ° of •
house obtained, amongst other privileges, the gran their
weekly market, to be held on Mondays. wit_hil' t''l(ll°
manor of Catesby, ' apud manerium de CatteuP Arpo
principle of avarice which influenced King Ilenq 0 ill
to abolish the religious orders in England, is ell 104,
the circumstances attending the suppression ;,efic.aill•
house. Though the Commissioners, appoihteci,ePOtre
to the dissolution to make their report as to .- to ].:
state of each monastery, bore ample testirnalloret.hiv;
good character of the inmates here, neithOr the fP.
-
of the prioress' nor the acknowledged leiii-14r,Litefaricid
nuns, ware able to divert from his purpoNklile -at. -II
monarch, nor prevent the downfal of this con
't.e-rdalsirl
its suppression (in exchange for lands • irr Ilerenu lens
and Salop) the revenues of the Priory
hundred and eighty-eight acres. of pastures i ealliiii,
of meadow, and one hundrial: and siitty-o °terdli bp
laud, exclusive of the qatiyeast, church, 0.'4 ester t„, .1,0.0
eight messuages, and one dultiatie , were gray,tie'out of
the
Aniy, Esq. On the site of e priory;SW);„e to till
ruins, has been erected a mansion belonging) is 674,
family of Parkhurst. A portion of the .ohilar;ide bei4
visible. The present proprietor does not r' CatO r
In that part of the parish denominated 111,Perbeen rl 0,0
stood the church, which is, supposed to Weit op e
molished at the same time with the priory, l's_.--,_ ,r
to have been disused for two hundred years r,";,;‘,011-1;
remains of the four buttresses belonging £o_,lt'-wind°4o;
and a fragment of the wall, having a poietn"to 1040
are still standing. The churchyard continues, open
parochial cemetery, and divine service is Per.° ille
the chapel of the manor.house." • t. i° 0
The property lies in a completely rural distrtrogob
parishes of Catesby and Hellidon, approached
delightful country from either Daventry or 11 `--

DEATH OF THE ELEPHANT AT THE .-•°
d101:1
-- ------
nesf:rhe:s.esetsihilindeEtusthsee.g—eeinelpt',hile:apih—lata:bkki,ntuwoawilinlvisitors at the Zoolog:siecta;ll:oor!sioje°6oslosl4:.
blearn
thewfiatmh
leaDltuhrionfgotheep;oaosrt few weeks eheakas
bpeerenceradpinidgiyh
departed this life, on Sunday morning last, after a sinutio4
On Frida •
3, the sth instant, the skin under the -Ibisith
cracked, and a copious effusion of blood took place. ~.dell'"
irleiagrrentamtheatof t,,eirse!t
tor,
thereason which determined the authorities of the gad jolg
keep poor Jack in solitary confinement ; but he did 1 bt,
survive his seclusion. bn Sunday morning he °pre tio'''
upon his haunches, with his fore legs extended befo ,000 r
and remained in this motionless posture for about tiOtPo t
when, at half- past seven o'clock, his trunk dropPed _,,,e0
ground and he expired without making any further nsof.%"o itt
He did n,t. fall over, but stiffened in the upright re,l'estoe
which he lay, not even his head sinking. The probah'we eigbt:
of Jack's death was a disease provoked by his great ;„ OP
and aggravated by the want of sufficient exercise, I', pre,
part ot Lis fore legs situated below the knee. This vr;r1001
ductive of excessive irritation, which affected the... 04 hi,
system generally. His sufferings were finally terrnloAa 0,
a stroke of apoplexy. A large abscess had formed 1?0.1' I
lower jaw, of itself quite sufficient to cause deatti.ae
terminated the career of poor Jack, whose amusing
_10"-. 11.0
docile manner had rendered him everybody's favontliilo pro;
mangled remains are distributed amongst the Ineuon beft!:
lessors resident in the metropolis, the larger Pertigeterien
been assigned to the College of Surgeons, the theo'-
oCfoltlteigees,kai,nidwtillilerKeailnisge's
aCoclol
considerable
e ralbt
lies esxumpe;ctsenddtbsentatooftetfild
will be ma,le to recover the dispersed fraglrl_se
skeleton. The loss of this tine specimen of took:(
tribe must prove a very serious one to the Z0014,0'4.,;h:W.
and can scarcely be replaced tor a less sum Oita d
zP. itfett7.
The height ot the elephant was betirsen 12 in .

RA ',WA COM `4i lITTEES.
ROUSE OF LORD 4.-(YES FERDAY.)

IrsOn-r Room C.
"••,'N AND SOUTH-WESTERN (WlDEN-
aligz A ING, &c.)
..WESTEaN (BAAATCH TO JOIN THE
zi,,,N2)°N AND SOUTH-VTESTERN AT
"'"4/IXTH).
7:l2.l3eUnnmittee on this group met to-day at eleven o'clock;
""„r,? Colborne it: the chair.
po:epoe first Bill, which, as will be perceived, is for the pur-
asraly
4t;_.f widening a minion of toe South Western, was pasted,
"nemcte arrangements having been come to with land-
The object of the second Bill is to widen the West London
fi:waY, and to continue it, by means of a bridge across the
17,112 es, to join the South-Western at Lambeth.
G 7" Brunel was examined, and detailed the nature and co:)-
`e,l the line. By it the London and North-Western, the
i otiat Western, the South-Wes:trn, and ultimately the
:21-Eastern, would be joined together. The new railway
made would be seven miles and seven chains in length ;
and
.ue entire Cost, including the bridge across the Thames,kb° .
be Battersea-hr dge, would he 280,0001. The line would
et 'lostructed on the broad gauge, so that there must ne-
w''sitY be a break of eauge at sue junction wit ti the South-
New". Toe line is opposed by the South-Western on the
6 ItiLoil that it will mater,allv in:erten with that line.
eahor* 'TILL hi adressed the Committee in opposition,
" On Mr Locke,engineer tv the South Western, in
the
-eon of his case.
'le Committee a.iljourned until Monday.

);rl.‘„ Room D.
ZO
—"AT, STAINES, and SOUTH-WESTERN
(STAIN
ILI ES TO ASCOT AND WOKINGHAM,
7,7°R, STAINES, AND SOUTH-WES-
rm. (RICHMOND TO WINDSOR, &::.)
e Committee
„ ttee met at the usual hour this morning.
r " -ne.
sprune! having been examined in opposition to these
clo
aud the case of the opponents- having been brought to
,
Mr'e ser"eaut WRANGIIAM addressed the Committee in
"

IMPORTANT DECISION.
1.),
~ie room was then cleared.
`-'n thee,ie mission of the parties,
0,4, uuke of RICHMOND said that the Committee were of
*e4tnn that the preamble of the Windsor, Staines. and South-
"ern (from Richmond to Windsor) bad been proved.
Pplause
~,,,, e
.followed the announcement.
!'n clauses were then proceeded with, and the Committee
"'Anted till Mon
day.
40'

1/BE. „OF COMMONS —(YESTERDAY.)
itatzut,.. GROUP VI.
WESTERN (EZTENSION TO

•
In to EX STEW.
mother "equence of Mr. Brunel being under examination in
mrr, COIIIIII4 ee,
With ;"awson, surveyor of Exeter, was called and examined
rch,'"Pect to the valuation of the land required for the
by ta
riBY,van,d the residential injury which would be caused
Cllway,
ep heho,runel was then cross-examined by several counsel
by At s' a certain opposing landowners, and re-examined
At r. Slad
th
tal tw2 conclusion of his evidence the Committee adjourned
-"ve to-morrow.

Th r!„ GROUP VIII.
e raittee on this group re-assembled this morning
at tau, --al
ispariletual hour, in Room 25; Mr. Young in the chair.
IiaILBOUR IMPROVEMENT COM-
(I /PIZ POWER TO THE LONDON AN
STERN TO ZSUBSCRIBE THERETO).D SOUTH-
t case
„of the promoters was resumed, and
• Warren, superintendent of the South Devon
ifetts;l3lg •
Company was cross-examined at considerable
lir.
by is,
r. ALL
lehteneo.
urY, tide-surveyor at Plymouth, corroborated the
e of
last witness, and deposed to the great necessity
herb existed for the improvement and the deepening of the
trecit4r; end preventing the accidents which were of such
:„occurrence.
the walker,.
Queen's Harbour-master, was examined to
same effect. effect
e`ride„,:re.ac Nichols, the secretary of the company, gave
cliff In favour of the Bill, and stated what would be the
Iree, n
the new of the dues at Milbay and at Sutton Pool under
v Act, in favour of the latter.
Rill ° Committee then ad ourned till Monday, when they
ketera.Pr°c"A--- to hear further evidence on behalf of the pro-

The gaa..., GROUP X.
thevonlmittee appointed to consider the merits of
'lour thin c°,„lllPrsed in this group re-assembled at the usual
314.7tiarr--"r"„Lg • Lord Clive in the chair.
—"aa 'AND mAsrEvav COUNTIES
The JUN CTION .
to the wuRMAN announced that the Committee had come
Proved, re4olation that the preamble to this Bill was Lot