The Sun.
London, England, 1841-09-07 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SIR-I observed in the Times of Sept. 2an article,
and rather wonder it has escaped your notice. The sub-
ject was the completion of the first contract and esti-
mates for a second contract for the building of the Royal
Exchange; and after announcing the successful contrac-
tor, Mr. T. Jackson, it goes on to state that the Com-
mittee are pretty sure of securing a rental of 10,0001. per
annum for the parts to be let out to different individuals
or companies.
Mr. Editor, after the fire you must recollect the citi-
zens coming to the House and getting a Bill passed to
levy 150,0001. by extra tax through their accursed coal
monopoly, to enable them to rebuild their Exchange ;
is it not rich that the poor of London and environs
should be thus plundered of 150,0001. to raise a building
to enable the mean plunderers to receive a rental of
10,0001. per annum ?—Your constant reader,
Sept. 4, 1841. A. P.

THE TORIES AN]) THE POOR-

LAWS.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR—Some few years ago, when the Tory press and the
small fry of the Tories were making such a hubbub
about the atrocities of the Whig Poor-law Bill, it was
prophecied that all this show of humanity had reference
to party purposes more than to any real feeling for the
poor, whom the Tories, when in office, had invariably
oppressed and despised. It was observed that the landed
aristocracy, who have ever a keen eye to their own inte-
rest, found in the stringency of the Poor-laws a consider-
able saving in the poor-rates levied on the farmers, and
as they were thus enabled to obtain a higher rent for
their land, it was not to be supposed that they were really
anxious for a repeal of laws which worked so well for
them. That the Tories made excellent use of the unpo-
pularity of the Poor-laws, as a lever to oust the Whigs
and install themselves in " the pickings of office" and the
plunder of the country, is a well ascertained fact. Hav-
ing now completed this patriotic object, it would appear
by the altered language of the Tory papers, that the poor
having materially assisted in pitching the Tory faction
into the Treasury, are now to be thrown overboard. Com-
pare the mild language of the Standard of September 4,
1840, on the subject of the Poor-laws, with the following
extract from that journal, under date October 29, 1836:

" The Ghbe asks us, Would we have it believed for
ourselves, that in supporting the Conservatives, we sup-
port those who would not, were they in power, permit
those laws to continue ?' We unhesitatingly answer—
Yes. We do most firmly believe that a Conservative Ad-
ministration would either wholly repeal the new Poor-law
Bill, or at least so modify it as no longet to leave the li-
berty of the humbler classes of Englishman the enjoy-
ment of their families, or their security from the death of
starvation" (Query, by the landlords' bread-tax) " at the
mercy of any Prime Minister."
Sir Robert Peel, with all his cunning, may perhaps find
it a more difficult task to play " faSt'and loose" with the
Poor-laws than he seems to suppose, Mr,izeargus O'Con-
nor is reported to have addressed.' the Chartists at York,
where a man opiliiSed the Poor-laws in the following
words:—" Now, thank God, we have triumpliCd over the
party in advance, a*l the Tories having triumphed over
the Whigs, and taken up their position in the front rank,
show me the man who Nvill keep up upon the Tory party
a more continued fire than I will."—Your obedient servant,
LUBIN LOG.

We are authorised to contradict the announce-
ment of the death of the Rev. Dr. Foord-Bowes, Rector
of Cowlam, Yorkshire, which appeared in The Sun of the
ult.. The Rev. Gentleman, we are glad to say, is
in the enjoyment of good health, though suffering under
the effect of a late heavy bereavement.
FORCE OF IMAGINATION.—A short time since
a poor, woman in the neighbourhood, who was near her
confinement, was frightened by the fighting of two doffs,
one of which was spotted, and such an impression had
the circumstance upon her mind, that two nights pre-
vious to her accouchement she dreamed that she had a
spotted child, and upon her being delivered the chili
was considerably spotted, and upon the back of the neck
there is the figure of a dog's paw, and some marks like
the teeth of a dog when in the act a worrying another.
--Cambridge Chroick.

of Lordstthe
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justb y Et.
the,ej eN noprintedrYd Chancellor, C
for° thetj t
HaTnudSs e
read.
Till
bill (pi
time on
the 27th t lt.), entitled "An act to improve and
Extend t
ho Jurise iction of County Courts."
The pr 'amble s ats forth that, whereas there is much
need o cc WO of summary jurisdiction for the recovery
of small de htf.!., an( I for other purposes hereinafter speci-
fied, to be tista blished throughout England ; and
whereas the Sheri ff of every county hath authority in
his county c ourt to hold plea of personal actions where
the debt or damaA'd doth not amount to 40s. ; and it is
expedient th at the jurisdiction and practice of the said
, •ourts be ex tended :aid improved, and that provision be
Nla for :ho lding the county court for thepurposes afore-
Zia • babe( a . judge ofrompetent knowledge; be it enacted
by the
Qu. ee n's Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the
advice a lac , c onsent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal,
Chancellor of
,;f. th _
nglund to appoint through-
out Engle
and Coi non 41S. in ti.r:s prose Parliament assembled,
and bt. 'lka Authority
-lumber not more than 25
persons to e same, that it shall be lawful
for the L, ~rii
•Id and Wales any E
-lbo judges of the coin.'ty courts, every one of
whom shall be a. sergeant-at-law
or barrister-at-law,
who shall h;
we be en called to the
..bar and practised
as a barrister for seven years, or an attori, ey of one of her
Majesty's sups rior .eourts of common law at ;Vestminster,
who shall have .prac tised as an attorney for te..-1 fears ;
and it shall he .lawful for the Lord Chancel. `lr,
if he shall t kink fit, to remove any judge of the
county court for misbehaviour, or for any sufficient
.lause to be stated in a petition to be preferred to him
fore that purpoc e by tho justices of the county in ge-
neral or quart er ;session assembled, and every such
judge :hall be e ntitl :d to hold his office until he shall
be so re moved; provided always, that no sergeant or
barrister . shall practice as such during the continuance
of his app. lintment as judge of the county court, and
that every at torney who shall be appointed one of the
said judges sh all, ir taon his appointment, and before he
shall begin to a et a s judge of the county court, procure
his name to bey :struck off the rolls of every court of
which he shall, th tic be an attorney, on the ground of his
appointment as i;11,34 ti. judge, and shall not thereafter dur-
ing the continuance • (31 f such an appointment be, directly
or indirectly, con:-er.
tied in any business as an attorney
or agent for any oak 'r person, for gain, in any court,
cause, or matter what soever, with liberty, nevertheless,
on ceasing to hold the t. ffice of judge, to apply for re-ad-
mission to the rolls of t. Lie court, according to the prac-
tice of the court.
Clause 2 prescribes the j, " edge's oath.
Clause 3 provides that tut Iges shall not sit in Parlia-
ment.
Icre
Clause 4 provides that the jut bma
y appoint a deputy.
Clause 5 enacts ti:lat more than one judge may be ap-
pointed for each cow, ty.
when and where coun
bf di)urts
Clause 6 provides
shall be holden :—viz.ri hat a county court shall be holden
this act in every place in which
under the authority of .
her Majesty, with the ad, vice of her Privy Council, shall
-ourt shall be holden under
be pleased to order that a
rt shall be holden,iii each
this ii-A ; and every such Ja...
1
place at such times and foristie.as her tkfajesty
1 district
and it 'shall be
with the advice aforesaid, shall order ;
lawful for her Majesty, with the a...
'vice aforesaid; to de-
scribe the limits and extent of the several districts for
which courts shall be holden, and from time to time alter
such districts as to her Majesty, with the advice afore-
said, shall seem fit ; and the several courts 1.,' the ssame
county may be holden either simultaneously befo.: i
~,,iffer-
ent judges, or by adjournment before the same or itiLlek-
ent judges, as her Majesty, with the advice aforesaid,
from time to time shall see fit to direct ; and if the county
court shall be holden under the authorty of this act in
two or more places within the same county at the same
time, the proceedings of each of such courts quAitoke„.as.
valid as if each court were the only county' coniMiii
sitting within the county.
Clause 7 enacts that courts may be holden on the
borders of counties for adjacent counties.
Clause 8 regards the appointments of clerk, bailiffs,
and inferior officers. ~,
Clause 9, that the clerk may appoint a deputy. t -
Clause 10, that the Commissioners of Treasury are
to appoint a receiver-general.

Cialse 11. .Aid it enacted, that every receiver-
general shall be paid either by salary or by a poundage
on the gross produce of the fees of the courts of which
e is receiver-general, or partly by salary and partly by
poundage ; aad every judge, clerk, or other officer of the
county court (except the bailiff) shall be paid by a cer-
tain salary, the salary of a judge being in no case more
than 1,5001., nor 1€ ss than 800/., and the salary of a clerk
being in no case In ore than 5001., and the salaries of the
other officers being suitable to the duties they have to
perform ; and the bailiffs of the court shall be paid
by their fees ; and the judge, or, where there is more
than one judge, the senior judge, subject to the ap-
proval of the CommisLioners of her Majesty's Treasury,
shall frem time to ti me fix on the number of bailiffs and
o.,ficers to be appointed to each court ; and the Commis-
sim:ers of her Majesty's Treasury shall fix the remune-
ratim; to be paid to the judges, receivers-general, clerks,
and officers, except the bailiffs ; and from time to time
the number of bailiffs and officers, and the remuneration
to be paid to the judges, receivers-general, clerks, and
officers, may be inc ceased, or, as vacancies shall occur,
may be diaunished, by the same authority by which they
were at first fixed.
Clause 12 en= erates the duties of the clerks and

Clause 13 relates to the fees to be taken according to
the schedule.

Clause 14 enact . that the fees and monies recovered
be accounted for to tie receiver-general.
Clause 15. And be it enacted, that subject to all de-
mands of the parties interested in any balances of mo-
nies remaining in court, and due to them respectively,
the general fee fund shall be applied towards defraying
the expenses of any court which shall be holden under
the authority of this Act in the same county, the fees
arising from which shall not be sufficient to defray the
-penses thereof, and to the other expenses herein
••Ted upon the said fund, and towards the establish-
ineni" f additional county courts or debtors' prisons in
any pia& in that county in which her Majesty shall be
pleased to (.:;reslt that a court be holden or a debtors pri-
son provided tZ,r• the purposes of this act.
Clause 16 pro/.ldes that the receiver-general account to
,e receipts shall exceed the disburse-
theClTareusaesiu7r,yt.hat if t, ,
'1 be paid into the Exchequer to
ments, the surplus slim
the consolidated fund.
1.11 be an issue of money out
Clause 18, that there sh,
of the consolidated fund if tt, e. fees are deficient.
• a,s
Clause 19 enacts that the act. ounts be audited public
accounts. . _

whenever' it
finished
Clause 20, that the fees may be dim
shall appear that the monies paid into the said consoli-
dated fund have exceeded and are likely te continue to
exceed the monies paid out of the consolidated fund on
account of the courts holden under this act, &c.

Clause 21 provides that upon the removal of any re-
ceiver-general or clerk, any balance remaining in his
hands may be recovered.
Clause 22 sets forth the mode of proceeding against
the representatives of a deceased receiver-general or
clerk.

Clause 23 relates what shall be sufficient evidence of
holding the office of receiver-general.
Clause 24 enacts, that receivers and officers are to give
security.
Clause 25, that the receiver-general is to provide
court-houses.
Clause 26 empowers corporations and others to sell
lands to the receiver-general.
Clause 27 relates to the application of compensation
when exceeding 2001.
Clause 28 relates to the application when compensation
is less than 2001. but not less than 201.

Clause 29 relates to the application where the money
is less than 201.

Clause 30 enacts that upon question touching title
to money paid into bank, the person having been in pos-
session of the premises be deemed entitled to the money
until the contrary be shown to the Court of Chancery.
'Clause 31. And be it enacted, that for raising a fund
for paying off any monies which may be borrowed as
aforesaid for building, purchasing, hiring, or providing
any court-house or offices, and the interest due in re-
spect thereof, and for the other purposes hereinafter
mentioned, the clerk of every court holden under the au-
thority of this Act shall demand and receive from the
plaintiff in any suit brought in that court, before he shall
issue any summons in that suit, the sum of Is. when the
debt or damage claimed shall not exceed 205., and for
every claim exceeding 205., 1-20th part thereof, neglect-
ing any sum less than 6d. in estimating such.
20th part,
which sum shall be paid in all cases in the first instance
by the plaintiff upon the suit brought in the court, and
shall be considered as costs in the cause; and the clerk
of the court shall keep an account of all monies so paid
to him, and shall pay over the amount from time to time
to the receiver-general of the county court, and the
amount thereof shall accumulate separately on accoent of
each court, to form a fund to be called " The Building
Fund of the County Court of ,at ," and shall be ap-
plied in the first place towards paving the interest of the
several sums so borrowed, and in the second place towards
paying off the several principal sums borrowed, in the order
in which they were borrowed, and in the third place to-
wards defraying the other expenses hereinafter charged
on the building fund ; and as soon as enough of money
shall have been raised in any court to satisfy all the pur-
poses aforesaid, so far as that court is concerned, the
surplus of the building fund of that court shall be applied
as the other fees of the said court are to he applied ; and
no further charge shall be made in that court under this
enactment, but the expense of repairing and upholding
the court-house and offices shall be defrayed, with the
other expenses of the court, out of the ordinary fees of
the court.

Clause 32 enacts that the receiver-general have charge
of the courts.

Clause 33 enacts that courts of request, &c., are to be
discontinued.

Clause 34 enacts that the chairman, registrars, clerks,
&c., of these discontinued courts may receive compensa-
tion, if not re-appointed.
Clause 35 enacts that the court-house, if discontinued,
shall vest in the receiver-general of the county court.
Clause 36 makes provision for outstanding liabilities of
discontinued courts.
Clause 37 provides that the jurisdiction of the county
court be extended to 20, .
Clause 38 enacts that the process of the court be under
seal.
Clause 39 enacts that the suits be by plaint.
Clause 40 relates to where suits shall be tried.
Clause 41 enacts that demands are not to be split.
Clause 42 enacts that minors may sue for wages.
Clause 43 enacts that no privilege shall be allon owed
the to
urisdicti of
any person to exempt him from the j
county court.
Clause 44 enacts that one of several persons liable
may be sued.
Clause 45. And be it enacted, that the judge of the
county court shall be the sole judge to determine all
actions brought in the said court in the summary manner
authorised by this act, and all matters and questions of