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London, England, 1840-11-21 00:00:00

LON DON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1840,

LORD MELBOURNE, THE DUKE OF WELLING-
TON, LORD JOHN RUSSELL, SIR ROBERT
PEEL, LORD STANLEY, MR. O'CONNELL, &c. &c.
Now Publishing, Price One Shilling,
V
I A POLITICAL E
T O It
POM. I A,
BY RICHARD WEMYSS ;
Containing Sketches, in rhyme, of the above Statesmen : with
a variety of other matter, which will be found interesting to
those who desire the welfare of their country.
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SHIP FOR NEW ZEALAND WANTED.
THE COURT of DIRECTORS of the
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its-
DAY, the 26th day of November instant, at Two o'Clock pre-
cisely, to receive Tenders for the Hire of a Ship of about
500 Tons, old Register, for the Conveyance of Passengers
from Plymouth to New Zealand, to sail in the month of Fe-
bruary next.
The Tenders to be made according to a form which may be
had, on application, at the Company's House.
The Directors do not pledge themselves to accept the low-
est Tender.
Dated at the New Zealand House, in Broad-street-buildings,
the 19th day of November, 1840.
By Order of the Court,
JOHN WARD, Secretary.

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Cr Vincet veritas et prevalebit "
FEAVER'S INFALLIBLE EMBROCA-
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though in the present age of imposture it is difficult to put for-
ward a truth, however important, that shall not be liable to be
confounded with the daily empirical puffs that are obtruded on
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the proprietor of Feaver's Embrocation from advertising it.
Feeling, however, a thorough conviction of the incalculable be-
nefits it will confer on mankind, he conscientiously believes
that, by withholding it longer, he would be wanting in the com-
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duty towards himself. He, therefore, no longer hesitates to
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known, that the afflicted may have an opportunity of enjoying
the blessings it offers them. This specific was revealed to the
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years' standing, and although on that occasion he had been
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walk two miles within six hours after the application. Since,
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and radical exterminator of the above-named maladies in all
their terrible and agonizing forms. Original testimonials in
confirmation are in the hands of the Proprietor, Nos. 2 and 3,
Friday-street, for the inspection of those who may wish to
sati.fy themselves on the subject.
To be hail of Mr. Feaver, Friday-street. Clieapsido; Bar-
clay and Sons, Farringdon-street ; Newbury ard Sons, St.
Paul's ; Sutton and Co., Bow Churchyard; Willoughby and
Co., Bishopsgate-street ; Sanger, Oxford-street ; and of most
of the respectable Chemists and Medicine Vender: in town
and ountry. In bottles at 45. 6d.,115., 155., and
30s.c The label bears the, autograph signature of the proprietor.
N.B.—The public are requested to refer to the London
morning papers, from the 6th to the 12th of July last, for a let-
ter from Thomas Schofield, Esq., relating the extraordinary
cure effected on him by the use of this embrocation.

COURT OF SEWERS FOR THE
CITY AND LIBERTIES OF WESTMINSTER
AND PARTS OF :lIIDDLESEX.

Yesterday a Court of Sewers was held in the Conrt-
house , Soho-square. The Chair was taken at 12
o'clock by J. L. Donaldson, Esq.
• The proceedings of the last Court were read.
The collectors delivered in their reports.
The clerk gave in a report, from which it appeared
that in the Western District there was only 3441. un-
collected out of a rate of 16,0001., and there was in
the hands of the treasurer 1,4101. 18s.
Captain ACKERLY, of No. 5, Swallow-street, Re-
gent-street, applied to the Court to take cognizance of
A spring which formerly existed in Golden-square, bat
the important properties of which had been lost to the
public in consequence of the neglect of the trusted of
the square. In looking over some old books of the time
if Elizabeth, he had found that there then existed in
'he site of Golden-square two springs—one metaline,
Ind one an ever-green spring ; the metaline one was
eery celebrated in scorbutic and other complaints, as
well as for sore eyes. Being rather weak in the eyes,
he sought for the spring to bathe them in its waters ;
but he found that, in consequence of the improvements
in Regent-street, the two springs had been con-
aected, the waters of both became mingled, and the
properties of both were destroyed. In the time of
George the Second an octagon railing was run round
the spring, and up to the year 1825 people who were
suffering under disease received much benefit from bath-
ing in its waters : but in that yea: the railing was en-
larged, and the publ::: shut out. He respectfully sub-
mitted to the Court, that under the various Acts regu-
lating the proceedlukof the Court, the Commissioners
had power and
,i\lrisdiCtion over the spring ►n case of
the default of the trustees of the square. It would be
of infinite benefit to the public that the springs should
be restored.
After a short conversation,
The CHAIRMAN said that Court bad no jurisdiction
in this matter. The proper Court to apply to was the
Queen's Bench.
Captain ACKERLY was sorry for it. He had done
his duty. The inhabitants of the square were very
anxious to have the springs restored.
The Trusteesiof the Catholic Chapel in Golden-
square appealed against the rate upon them as being
excessive.

The CHAIRMAN said they came too late. They had
had notice of the assessment ; they had been told of the
proper time of appeal, but did not come before the
Court until after the decree had been made.

Mr. Brown, an agent of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, was summoned for having broken into the
sewer opposite to the Courts of Law in Palace-yard,
Application bad been made to the Court, and it was
granted, conditionally that leave was given by Mr.
Barry, whose sewer it was.
A lengthened discussion ensued ; one party contend-
ing that Mr. Barry obtained the leave to make the
sewer as the agent of the Commissioners of Woods
and Forests, and it being, consequently, their own
sewer there was no necessity for a written permission
from Mr. Barry.
The CHAIRMAN said it appeared as if there had been
some disagreement between the various officers of the
Commissioners of Woods and Forests. All would
have been right had Mr. Barry been applied to for a
written authority. The orders of the Court had been
treated with the utmost disrespect.
Mr. LESLIE thoughts the facts of the case were
these. The Commissioners of Woods and Forests,
through Mr. Barry, built a sewer—they were the pro-
prietors of the sewer and wanted to break into it ; they
applied to the Court out of courtesy ; leave was given.
If they obtained permission from themselves, would not
substantial justice be done if Mr. Barry's written au-
thority was produced ?
The CHAlRMAN—Certainly.
Mr.ma ti.teErS.LlE—Why, then, waste
any more time upon
the
Mr. Brown was ordered to produce to a future
Court, either the written permission of Mr. Barry or
i.he Secretary to the Commissioners of Woods and
Forests.
It, was then proposed "to sanction the order of the
Court, on the 6th November, for building a new gully
in Southwick-crescent, Paddington, estimated at 21/.
Ditto ditto, of 13th November, for a further payment of
201, each, to Messrs. Sibley and Taylor for additional
buildings surveyed by them in the Eastern Division,
which

Mr. LESLIE said he had two objections to make to
the payment of the 20/. to Messrs. Sibley and Taylor.
In the first place he contended it was the duty of the
Jury to return all property that was to be assessed to the
s,wer-rate ;.and, secondly, that the Court possessed no
power under the Act of S,vvers, to enter into any con-
tract with professional valuators. . It would scarcely be
necessary far him to detain the Court. by pro;ving that
these gentlemen were professional valuators of property
for the Court, for he held in his hand a copy of a letter
from the Clerk of the Court to them, asking them to
send in a tender, for valuing the property under the
Parochial Assessment Act. That he considered was
proof enough for the Court of the character Messrs.
Sibley and Taylor stood in. Well, then, he had estab-
lished that the Court had employed professional
valuators, which he contended was going far beyond
the power given them by the Act of Parliament,
the 23d Henry VIII. The next question then
was as to the sum of money proposed to be paid to these
gentlemen, and he was most happy to see so crowded a
Court. He had no doubt so many gentlemen appeared
there for the purpose of retracing the steps they had so
unfortunately taken upon former occasions—(A laugh)
—and refrain from putting their hands in the public
purse for purposes which were clearly not authorised by
the Act of Parliament. He held the bill sent in by
these gentlemen in his hand, from which it appeared
that they each claimed PO/. 15s. Now this sum of
241/. was to be paid them for assessing property which
was brought into the assessment for the first time during
the last 300 years. In their bill they charged for va-
luing nine churches, thirty-seven chapels, seven hospitals,
three workhouses, barracks, &c. All these things were
charged for. He had proved by the Clerk's letter to
them, and their bill, that they were mere professional
valuators employed by the ,Court. He would then go
to the Act of Parliament, and from it prove that the
Court had no power or authority for entering into any
such contract, and had no right to touch one single
shilling of the public money in order to pay for it.
He had not the least doubt that gentlemen would
preach to them about the equity and justice
of paying for work which had been performed at the
desire and by the order of the Court. His answer
would he to such reasoning that they had no right to
I exceed the powers given them by Act of Parliament
y.and t
Manyhiatheyottw go
worth l hailfim veryfighting
would say it as Commissioners ; and it would be his unpleasant
duty
was but
was apparently a small sum of only 20/., but let Hon.
Commissioners remember that the gross sum was very
near I ,0001, which had, been contracted to be paid
these gentlemen. He would proceed to show that the
duty which the Court had undertaken through these
at smallen to
a l r sum, eprovead
g- ntlemen was a duty imposed by Act of
recg n grossly exceeded
for. No doubt it
h
Parliament
upon the Jurymen returned to that COUrt, by the
Sheriff. The duty imposed upon the
Commissioners
and upon the Jury was clearly defined in 23d Henry
VIII. chap. 5. sec. 3 ; and upon reading it he contended
that all such valuations were entirely in the
province of
the Jury. That section also pointed out the 'oflkers
they were to appoint. The Court had pretty nearly.
filled up all the offices named ; but one most important
officer had never been named, viz., the
Expenditor of
the Public Money raised by the Court. The Court had
itself usurped that important office.
The CHAIRMAN.—The bankers ar© our expenditors
of money. bankers •
Mr. LESLIE
the
. were appointed Trea-
surers, as appeared in
hadminute of the proceedings of
the Court—the Court itself usurped the office
which was to be created by the Act of Parliament.
There was a case meotioned in Collis, where an applica-
tion was made to the Court ol Chancery respecting the
expenditure of seNers-rates, and an objection was taken
and held valid that that
wr not the proper Court, they
must apply to the
Court
o Sewers.
A CousatsstoNEtt s
aid the 110
beforen' Gentleman was de-
viating from the question the Court.
Mr. LESLIE contended that
he was perfectly in order,
I he was showing; that the Court had no legal power to
nded of them
the money dew. .
pay ad the decree
The CuAtittaAs re made by the Court
rate, from
on the making of ever) , , which it appeared that
the Messrs. Druminondswere appointed treasurers anti
expenditors of the money.
Mr. LESLIE had been misled by the imperfect mi-
nutes of the proceedings of
~,the Court. Why did not
.ce,,11,,s ag,cee . However, he contended
all their proc 11 e ,v
that he had made it amply apparent that the Court had
these professional valuers, and that
no
power to employ
li esciittnents and assessments ought to he made by
a
1 jury.En It. might be said that that would lead to difli-
cultor it might be impracticable—that was for the
Y, -- • ,is not for that Court to • -
Legislature—it %;,
of
the . act against
actment Act of Parliatnent, under
the direct en
powersHe .
which they derived their
to entering into engagements and paying money, to do
neither of which things were they authorised by the sta•
Ile II • would therefore move--" That as, by the
lute.
Bill of Sewers, n- 3 Henry VIII., c. 5, sec. 3, it is a
,uty impose d upon a jury of the honest and lawful oleo
a
their oath
s, to inquire who bath or
of the shire, upon
holdeth any lands or tenements, or common or pasture,

&c. &c., any payment to Messrs. Sibley and Taylor,
Professional Valuators,' of any sum of money from the
Sewers rates, for the duties imposed upon a jury, is an
illegal application thereof ; and, as the Justices of Sewers
have neither the authority under any statute or ordi-
nance made before the Ist day of March, in the three
and twentieth year of the reign of King Henry the
Eighth, nor by any statute made in or subsequent to
that year, to authorise them to make such payments,
this Court cannot pay the same."
No one seemed inclined to second the motion. Alter
the lapse of a few seconds,
The Hon. Mr. BouvEau seconded it, for the pur-
pose of raising a discussion.
Sir J. FARRANT had no wish to use language calcu-
lated to offend ; but, speaking in Parliamentary lan-
guage, he felt bound to say that the motion, which had
just been put into the hands of the Chairman, was both
frivolous and vexatious.—( Hear, hear.) It was frivo-
lous, because of the frequency of its being brought on,
and the weakness of the arguments used to support it ;
and vexatious, because of the attempt to make the
Commission stultify its own acts.—( Hear, hear.) He
would move as an amendment—That all the words
after sec. 3 be omitted, for the purpose of introducing
other words, approving of the proceedings of the Court,
and ordering the money to be paid.

Captain BOGUE, R.N., had much pleasure in second-
ing the amendment.
Mr. WILLOUGHBY said he felt bound to oppose the
motion, both upon legal and moral grounds. He would
support the amendment, but he thought it would have
been the better course to have met the motion with a
direct negative.—( Hear, hear.) It was a question of
law, in as far as the statute authorised them to incur the
expense, and it was a moral ..icestion inasmuch as the
work been order of the Court, and
ought to be paid for.—(Cheers.) The Court had
come deliberately to the determination of employing
these gentlemen ; and, in common honesty, they must
pay them. As to the legal question, the worthy mover
of the motion was attemptingto impose a new province upon
the jury. He had always thought the jury were to
be guided by the evidence laid before them. Surely the
worthy gentleman would not call upon them to make a
presentment without having heard evidence ? It was
therefore the duty of the Court to prepare the proper
evidence to be laid before the Jury, and that evidence
was to be got up by surveyors, for that was what they
ought to be called, although Mr. Leslie had thought it
would answer his purpose to go a long, round-about
way to call them professional valuators.—(A laugh.)
Surveyors they were, and that was an office mentioned
in the Act of Parliament. Nothing seemed to him
more clear. He would, therefore, vote for the amend-
ment.

Mr. CHAMBERS Said it might be a question of mo-
rality whether the Commissioners would pay the bill
of these gentlemen out of their own pockets. In a
legal view of the matter, he thought the Court had no
authority to employ them, and so throw an additional
tax upon the ratepayers. He would support the motion.
Mr. R. GUNTER—Suppose that a Jury were impan-
nelled, could they sit down and judge of the value of a
church or chapel, a workhouse, or a piece of ground ?
Would they not naturally call for the evidence of some
competent person to give them data to go by ? If he
were upon a jury, he would certainly do so. They had
empioyed the gentlemen, and must pay them. He
would have preferred to have negatived the motion, but
the amendment being before the Court, he would sup-
port it.
Mr. HAWSES said it might be good in morals, that those
who had always supported the appointment of these va-
luers, should put their hands in their own pockets, and pay
them, but there would be no morality in calling upon those
who had uniformly opposed their appointment to do so.
Many persons would look with the utmost suspicion at
the acts of the Court, composed as it was of many pro-
fessional men, when they saw them taking a course
which inevitably oust give rise to much litigation. He
would with pleasure support the amendment.
Mr. ADEY said the question had been disposed of
over and over again. If any one who knew anything of
the law were to say that the Court had not the power
to employ surveyors, all he (Mr. Adey) would say was,
that he did not envy him his legal knowledge. They
had the right to employ surveyors, and how could they
do so, if they had not the right to pay them ? He
really trusted the Court would not waste any more of
the public time in discussing the question, which had
been decided over and over again.
A COMMISSIONER was disappointed at the course the
debate had taken. From the notice on the paper he had
expected to have heard the principle discussed, viz.,
whether they had the power to have valuations made,
or whether it must be done by a jury. He thought Mr.
Leslie had Idled in his object, and he would therefore
vote for the amendment.

Mr. LESLIE then rose to reply. lie denied that
Messrs. Taylor and Sibley were the Surveyors of the
Court. Messrs. Downe and Dowling held that ap-
pointment, they were the Surveyors of the Commission,
the others were as he had called them, mere professional
valuators—they went out with the professed purpose of
valuing, not of surveying. His main proposition was
that the Court had, through them, usurped the pro-
vince and functions of the Jury ; and he had proved,
from the Act of Parliament, that the act of so doing
was illegal. The Learned Commissioner (Mr. Adey)
had again, as was his habit lately, indulged in accusa-
tions of " wasting the public time." He wished it to
be distinctly understood that all petitions and appeals
had been heard, and that if any time was wasted it was
their own, and the public did not in any way suffer. He
trusted the Learned Gentleman would not continue to
repeat the charge, which was utterly unfounded.
It had been too much the custom to prepare
matter for the Jury—that was what he complained
of. They had rendered the Juries almost useless. Ac-
cording to the Act, the Jury were to be the surveyors
themselves ; and if any difficulty were found, it was the
Legislature that should remedy it, not that Court. his
motion had been called frivolous and vexatious. He
was not disposed to lose his temper, and the more cspe-
&illy as, on the present occasion, he had such strong
ground to stand upon. He had now discharged a dis-
agreeable, but he considered an imperative public duty,
and would leave his motion in the hands of the Court.
The motion was put, when there voted—
For the amendment
For the motion 4
Majority —22
Some routine business was then disposed of, and the
Court adjourned.

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banditti were known in his time under the name of Rap-
parees ; and he adds farther, p. 45, that the Cavaliers
became distinguished in the reign of Charles 11. by
the appellation of Tories, and the Roundheads under that
of Whigs, though he cannot precisely tell at what period of
that reign this took place. This statement of a fact does
not throw any light on the meaning of the words. No
person conversant with the Gaelic language appears to
have attempted their explanation ; but the terms, being
neither English nor Scottish, their s;gnification must be
sought for in that language. The Irish partizans of Sir
Phelim O'Neal called themselves, and were designated by
others, as the King's friends or party, that is, Taobh-Righ,
pronounced Taorie, a word equally used by the same party
in the Highlands of Scotland. The word Co•thuigse,
pronounced shortly Cuigse, is also a Gaelic term, and is
applied to persons who mutually understand each other,
who think alike on a given subject, people who enter into a
compact to defend an opinion—in fact, Covenanters. It is,
indeed, the most exprsssive and definite term that could be
found for per sons entering into a covenant against the law. It
amounts almost to a demonstration that the above deriva-
tion of 'illig, is correct, front the fact that it was first im-
posed when the " Highland Host," as it was called, was
brought down and quartered on the Covenanters of the
west of Scotland. The word was readily adopted by the
more unmerciful soldiers of the Low cout,try ; but the
persecuted people to whom it was applied as a stigma, took
pride in it, and it was ultimately adopted by the supporters
of Liberal principles, and the preachers of similar feeling,
both in England, Scotland, and Ireland. It is remark-
able that terms of Si) local and limited a character should
finally become the designations of the two political par-
ties so long known in these kingdoms, and, arising among
the enthusiasts of a corner of the empire, should become
widely spread, even beyond the limits of Europe and Ante-
rica.—D. M., Correspondent of the Athenmum.
ODD IDEAS OF OLD ENGLAND.—AbOUt 700
years since an Arabian geographer employed at the Sici-
lian Court described the different countri,s of the world in
a most curious and original work, which adverts briefly
to England, and represents it as " a considerable island,
having the shape of an ostrich's head, and contsining
flourishing cities, high mountains, great rivers, and spa-
cious plains ; the soil being fertile, the people brave, ac-
tive, and enterprising, but the climate subjected to perpe-
tual winter," Hastings and Shoreham, with their shallow
insecure harbours, then held the important position which
has since been attained by Liverpool, Plymouth and other
places ; though we learn, with fair national pride, that
England, so tar back as the twelfth century, when only in
the cradle of her commerce, could boast, as she now does,
of adventurous merchants and undaunted sailors.
employed,
Leigh, where a great number of hand-loom
weavers arc usually
and severe distress. We hear that more than 1,500
weavers are now out of employ. —filanchester Chronicle,
is the scene of wide-spread
cause3ini, becomet: