The Sun.
London, England, 1841-01-16 00:00:00

MUSIC.

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.-'2RUCTIONS FOR MERE BEGINNERS
ON THE PIANOFORTE.
bPeThis is tbe title of a little work which has just
.publ:shed by Francis Egan, of Kingston,
in4fillalca• It contains in a small compass all the
th o...ination comprised in the ponderous tomes of
e old school, with a table of time, and standard
rcek"ing, on an original plan, which is well
,calculated to facilitate the acquirement of a know-
Pe or this most necessary branch of the art. The
lessons"al
are constructed upon a simple and judicious
e of progression, and as a whole, the workwe doubt
11„(will be eagerly sought after by the musical
cuculie of Jamaica, whose rapid progress in this
;Lined and delightful study during the last few
industry
is in a great measure to be attributed to the
us,try and exertions of Mr. Egan, and others of
is Class, who have so successfully catered for their
recreation and improvement.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE.

(LLOYD'S.)

LONDON, .
ON, JAN. ABP.
T Is—lt blew very hard during the night
this equalls from the Eastward, with snow at times. Wind
than. W day at noon, moderate breezes, at N. N.
~ with a
b0,41:311t4d.L, JAN. 14,....Wind E. N. E.—Sailed the outward
uVER, JAN. I3.—Arrived the J.C. Van Spyk,
"Yrnn, from Batavia ; Sophia Elizabeth, Mehrens, Rio
Janeiro.
PontswouTit, JAN. 14.—Wind E.N.E , strong and
81,14„411Y.--Arrived the Meldon, Hogg, Mauritius; Minerva,
,`,"l;;Caleutta. The Meldon, arrived here, passed on the
Bth instant lat. 47, lon. 16, a full-rigged ship of about 400
”ohs, with a billet head and round-house, painted yellow
aides' hatches washed off, fore-sail and top-sail blown out
bpit-ropes, both anchors at the bows, rudder gone, and
supposed cvater.logged. Passed on the I tth a quantity of
Wreck between the Land's End and Scilly.
kINO&TOWN, JAN. 13,—Arrived the Northumberland,
Spence, from Prince Edward's Island; Woodcock, Austen,
aielnerara.
for Jam
LIMEai RIC ax, JAN. 12.—Stilcd tho Rebut Kerr, Agnew,
LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14.—Wind S. E., light breezes.—
Arrived the James Kay, Mann, from Monte Video;
,wantan, Heath, New Orleans ; St. Mark, Alexander,
.„,'"oannah; Victoria, Prince Edward's Island ; Comet,
"„ewfoundland. Sailed the Hotspur, Wilson, for the
‘-',Pe of Good Hope ; St. Lawrence, Newland, Bombay ;
Star. Clernentson Monte Video; Helen M'Cormack,
tarbadoes ; Pauline, Kehrman, St. Thomas; Queen of
the Ocean, Tilby, New Orleans; Roseius, Collins, New
Yo,k. Shenandoch, West, Philadelphia ; Ellen German,
orrini"g, La Guayra. Off port the Mary Somerville,
Calcutta; Colchester, Bombay; Albatross,
Africa;
Huskis3on, Bonny. The Broad Oak, from
Bahia, is on
'hove
Con the main, near Nluckbeggar, and is discharging.
for v"". JAN. 12. Sailed the Rambler, M'Kerae,
Valparaiso and Ileyworth, Dunlop, Dcaneraia.
ti
.O.!isonHULL, JAN. 4•---Wind N.—Arrived the Columbine,
from Tatmagouche.
tho" 6 cremJn theitouon, JAN. I4.—The Waterloo, Granger, on
Piley Main, has been got off and brought in here.

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NEETINO OF PARLIAMENT.—The following I
ircular has been addressed by Lord J. Russell to the sup-
porters of Government in the /louse of Commons :
;_nowning.s;reet, Jan. 2, 1841r,—The meeting of
14"'llarrient b_ing fixed for Tucoday, the 26 h inst. I
an th,.) liberty of very partic ilarly requesting your at-
tenu,
h ce on that day.—I have the honour to be, you:
°vQricnt servant,
PORT OF SPAIN. —TItINIDAII•--- ' .1. RUSSELL."
Council An Older of
I
in the Gazette of last night, dated the Bth
4.1!•, vrhich refers to and recites an ordinance made by the
'Lieutenant-Governor and Council of Trinidad, on May
ti'it. 18.40, and then disallows so much of the ,;-11h clause
of the said ordinance as enacts, that all actions as aforesaid
sh4ll be brought and tried in the Court of First Instance
!'t Civil Jurisdiction, and not in the Cot
In any other court or tribunal. It i:
almpl,, hain or Ctiurt, or
f erlrfurther
ordered, that it shall be
competent fur the Compla.nt
Court, in the said island of Trinidad, to try and determine
all such actions as aforesaid, wide: the ordinance above
recited, notwithstanding. any thing to the contrary con-
tained in the said ordinance. And it is hereby ordered,
that, subject to the above amendment, the above recited
'rdinance shall be, and the same is hereby, confirmed and
allowed.
Tit 1,, 11007,N : Foxr-jou,:ps.—We mulerstanil
lo''-'' :; , .i ~„ „ .
,„ . , i).,,..,,,
~...3 no• imcni.i givi:„.: tn.,
abDve crack Perk
,i Lounds. They have discontinued
~arotleuntin
z gt's f indisposition. a short time, on account of the worthy

COURT OF SEWIMS FOR WEST
MINSTER AND PART OF MIDDLESEX.

A Special Court of the Commissioners of Sewers for
the city and liberties of Westminster, was held yester-
day, at one o'clock, at the Sewers-office, Greek-street,
Soho, for the purpose of hearing parties who appealed
against the presentments of the Jury for the Ranelagh
and Counters Creek Districts.

T. L. DotisentsoN, Esq., having taken the Chair,
Mr. BKeKNEer. was called in, and said he appeared
on behalf of the Commissioners of Chelsea Hospital,
and objected to the assessment—lst, That the hospital
was not assessable, and that it derived no benefit from
the sewers ; 2(1, that if assessable, the assessment was
too high ; and, 3d, that if assessable at all, they were
not so for the chapel and the wards; and, should the
Commissioners be against him on all these points, they
had assessed the rate in such a manner as to preclude
the possibility of trying the question. inasmuch as
they had assessed a person not residing either in
the chapel or the ward-. If the Commissioner
thought it right to persist in the assessment, the
question must be tried, and as he wished to try it
on its merits, he was desirous that the assessment should
be made in such a way as to enable the question to be
tried. He would give every information that should
enable them to ascertain on whom the rate ought to be
assessed. Chelsea Hospital was not assessable to the
poor-rates for the wards and chapel, and therefore not
to the sewers-rate. The case was different from the
Somerset House case.
Mr. LESLIE said the Somerset House ease was much
alluded to, and had been much misunderstood. The
goods of the Clerk were taken, not because he was in
occupancy of the premises, but because he was assessed
to the poor-rates.

The *CHAIRMAN said the Court had always held that
they had the power to go upon any premises and levy
for the sewers:-rate. All the Court wanted was, that
the case should be decided upon fair grounds. Mr.
BicknA would be put into communication with the
Solicitors of the Court, and the question would be pu;
in a train of being tried fairly. There were twa ways
of trying it.
Mr. BICKNELL thought the best way would be to
remove the proceedings of this Co irt to the QUCCIft•
Bench by certiorari.
The SOLICITOR said that appellants would be rc-
eluded from relief ualc.ss they traversed.
Mr. LESLIE said that it was coming out now that
parties m;ght traverse. It ought to have been men-
tioned before. . _ _

Mr. BICKNELL gave notice he would traverse.
The SOLICITOR said that 'Unless a party came before
this Court, and submitted to its jurisdiction, or unless
they claimed a traverse, and went to another jury, the)
were precluded from relief, and the question could not
be tried as an action for trespass.
Mr. ADEY did not agree in that opinion ; he doubted
whether the question of law could be tried in an action
of traverse.
Mr. LESLIE wished to know whether the Solicitor
meant that unless a person came before the Court on
some such occasion as the present, he was precluded
all remedy ?
The SOLICITOR said that Lord Ellenborough had
given it as his opinion that unless a traverse were
claimed the party admitted he was liable to taxation.
Mr. LESLIE wished to know if it were not possiblt
that a jury called out on the traverse might refuse to
present the property, seeing the litigation it might
occasion.

The SOLICITOR said, certainly that was the law•
Mr. LESLIE thought it was their bounden duty to
inform those who came there, that the first step for
them to take was to claim a traverse, and another jury
might relieve them from all the dtfficuliy they had got
into.

Mr. BICKNELL wished the Court to futnish him
with the ordinary form of traverse, or if they prefer-
red it he would give them a notice of traverse in five
minuses.

The CHAIRMAN wished to know what part of the
rate he appealed against.
Mr.BICKNELL—The part affecting that quarter of the
Hospital which was not before rated, viz. the chapel
and the wards, amounting to 3,3811.
It was then ordered that Mr. Bicknell be permitted
to inspect the form of traverse used on a former occasion.
Mr. ADEY thought the traverse could not dispose of
the legal question if the property was rateable or not.
Mr. LESLIE thought a new jury might be of opinion
that that property ought not to be rated, and that,
for the present time, would be decisive of the question.
Mr. ADEY denied that a jury would take upon them-
selves the province of a Judge and decide the point of
law, and, even if they did so, the Commissioners must
raise the question in another way.
Mr. LESLIE—The law says the way of raising that
question is by a traverse, when the question w ould be
tried in open Court. The question is between the pub•
lie and the jury—the Commissioners base nothing to do
with it. Supposing the traverse jury find that to he a
bad presentment, it would vitiate the whole proceedings.
Mr. W. B. FRANCE thought, as the case was to go
before a jury, it was a waste of time to•argue it now.
Mr. Bicknell then withdrew.

Mr. GUNNING, on the part of St. George's Hos-
pital, being called ie, stated his object was to re-
quest tine to consiihr the queition, and in all proba-
bility they should be guided by what "was done by the
other hospital, and most probably they might come to
some arrangement. He had many objections, but he
would waive them now, and merely ask for time. His
wish was that ail the hospitals should act together.
Mr. ADEY suggested that it would be better for Mr.
Gunning to let this presentment go under protest,
which would not preclude him from trying the question.
He did not wish to go to the trouble of a trial. Let a
decree go against him, and if other ceses should go
against them, they could relieve him from the decree.
Mr. LESLIE thought Mr. Adey had better read up
his law before be came there to give opinions. It was
not in the power of the Court to relieve parties from a
decree, and Mr. Adey's law was wrong.
Mr. ADEY said he should not answer such a ridiculous
observation.

Mr. LESLIE WOUId ask the solicitor if the Court
could relieve parties from a decree.
The SoLIcITOR said they could not.
Mr. LESLIE Said that showed what Mr. Adcy's law
was worth ; he knew nothing of it.
Mr. ADEY said the object was to prevent the rule
being made ; and if all these traverses were tried, it
would never be made. if the Court of Queen's Bench
on a trial decided they could not make the rate, the
Court could relieve him after decree.
Mr. LESLIE—But the law says the party must tra-
verse to entitle him to relief.
The SOLICITOR said he had not quite understood
the question. The Court could give relief after de-
cree, hut not grant a traverse after decree.
In the case of Chelsea Hospital,
Mr. BICKNELL presented a protest agAinst the pre- '
sentment and traversed it, and that day fortnight was
fixed as the day for trying the question ; the Court
meet at 10 o'clock in the morning.
Mr.ADEY moved that the question as to St. George's
Hospital be adjourned to that day three weeks.
Captain BAYNE seconded it.
Mr. MULLINS thought no distinction ought to be
made ; one party had put in a traverse, and now they
ought not to grant time to others who (lid not traverse.
Mr. LESLIE thought that all proceedings ought to
be adjourned until the traverse jury bad met and de-
cided, and he .should move as an amendment that the
further consideration of all matters relating to the pre-
sentment of the Banelagh district should be adjourned
until the traverse jury should have given their decision.
Mr. MULLINS seconded the amendment. It ap-
peared absurd to postpone an application until after
the traverse jury should have decided the question,
and not to postpone all.
Mr. WILLOUGHBY opposed the amendment.
On the question being put, there appeared—
For the Amendment
Against it

Majority against it
On the motion being put.

Mr. WILLOUGHBY moved as ant amendment, that

is expedient the Court confine the days of appeal to
those publicly announced.
Mr. LEsutz, as n point of order, wished to know it
an amendment could be put after one had been re-
jected. Ob. a former occasion an amendment of his had
been -4-stused to be put after a previous amendment had
been (Esposed
The CHAIRMAN said that on that occasion the amend-
ment had been carried.

Mr. WHITE thought they ought to decide the ques-
tion at once. This exclusive privilege question was di-
rectly contrary to law. The law of Henry VIII. said
that no one should be exempt from the sewers'-rate,
but that all property should be assessed. Such should
be the answer given to all applicants. He should sup-
port the amendment.
Mr. MuLuNs thought that the statutes alluded to
by the last Commissioner, had nothing to do with the
question of the present presentment.
Mr. ADEY asked let'delay, soleiy to give the Gover•
nors of Coe Hospital an -opportunity of considering
;Ler they would litigate the question or not.
On a division—
For the amendment • 12 •
Against it
_L-;
Majority
The amendment was carried.

Mr. GUNNING said he protested against the notice,
ouu the manner in whiel it was served altogether. He
b.,ri no authority to present a Writtert protests or to do
more than he had done.

He then withdrew.

Mr. FARR, solicitor to the Ordnance, appeared to
appeal against the assessment on the Hyde Park Maga-
zine and Barracks. He objected to the rate, on the
ground that the Maraine was unconnected with any
not oe,•upied by any individual, and thcrc-
::-.-•rt. nut tut ;
The CHAIRMAN said the benefit derived from the
sewers might be remote. The roads leading to tho
Magazine were drained.

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