The Sun.
London, England, 1847-07-14 00:00:00

SCHOOL OF DESIGN.

Mr. WAKLEY asked the Vice-President of the
Board of Trade a question respecting the report of the
School of Design Committee, which was some time
before the House, and afforded Hon. Members the op-
portunity of reading the extraordinary statements con-
tained therein. He wished to ask whether it was the
intention of the Government to found any proceeding
upon the recommendations contained in that report ?
Mr. M. GIBSON said that when the report had been
received, a special Committee, with full powers, had been
appointed. This special Committee had to make a re-
port to the Board of Trade, they had not yet done so,
but when they had made the report then that course
would be taken which might be considered necessary.
Mr. WAKLEY gave notice that next session he would
move the appointment of a Committee on the subject.

- RELIGIOUS SECTS.
Mr. HINDLEY asked the Under Secretary of State
for tho Colonies relative to a petition which he bad pre-
sented the other night, whether it was the intention of
the Government to advise the Crown to sanction an Act
of the Legislative Council of Australia authorising the
payment of money to certain religious sects of the colony
in direct contravention of the original Act made when
that colony was first established ?
Mr. HAWES said that all that was known of the ap-
propriation of thi4 money was, that the money had been

spent out of the funds of the colony. It would be a fit
subject for review hereafter. The Hon. Member said
that it was in contravention of the original Act. If he
would refer to the original Act he would find that by
the second clause the commissioners were to raise money,
and were to appropriate the money to English and Scotch
clergymen, but to no others.
Mr. HINDLEY asked if there would be any objec-
tion to lay on the table the original report of the com-
missioners ?
Mr. HAWES said that it would be found amongst the
Parliamentary papers.
MORTALITY ON BOARD OF EMIGRANT

SHIPS.
Lord JOHN MANNERS asked if the Government
intended to take any steps in future to prevent the great
mortality which had occurred this year on board the
emigrant ships to Canada and the colonies.
Mr. HAWES said that it had been his intention to
bring in a Bill upon the subject during the present
session, but the multiplicity of business prevented it.
He would make enquiries, however, during the recess
with regard to this matter, and introduce a Bill with
regard to it next session.
Lord G. BENTINCK asked if it was not possible to
bring in a short Bill during the present session.
Mr. HAWES considered that a Bill at present would
fail to effect any good, as the season for emigration was
over.

DISMISSAL OF A JUDGE IN CEYLON.
Mr. B. ESCOTT moved that an humble address be
presented to her Majesty, that her Majesty will be
pleased to take into her gracious consideration the mat-
ter of the petition of Robert Langslow, Eq., late one of
her Majesty's District Judges in the Colony of Ceylon,
of the 19th day of December, 1846, and grant to the said
Robert Langslow such relief in the premises as to her
Majesty shall seem fit. If that gentleman had been
wrongfully dismissed, the wrong was done not only to
him, but to the people of Ceylon. The case had been
brought before three chief Secretaries, and neither
the present occupant of the Colonial Office,
Earl Grey, nor his predecessor, Mr. Gladstone,
had considered the case on its merits, and with regard
to Lord Stanley, who had concurred at the dismissal
of Mr. Langslow, he had never inquired into the case,
but merely confirmed the decision of the local Govern-
ment. Mr. Langslow was first appointed to the office of
Attorney-General for Malta, but some time afterwards
the office was abolished, and Mr. Langslow retired
upon a pension. Subsequently he was appointed
to one of the judgeships of Ceylon, and up
to the time of his dismissal he performed the
duties of the office with ability and attention.
From that office he was most unjustly dismissed
upon a charge being preferred against him of
writing party articles in newspapers, which had never
been proved. Mr. Langslow, too, had been charged
with setting himself up as the leader of a discontented
party in this island, and of holding forth to the people
upon every occasion that presented, but Mr. Langs-
low utterly and unequivocally denied the truth of such a
statement. Another charge, upon which the dismissal
was justified was that, at the time he held office at
Malta Mr. Langslow used unlawful influence to excul-
pate his son from a charge of having illegally smoked a
cigar in the streets in Malta ; but, like all the other
charges, this one was altogether without foundation. The
public f Ceylon, indignant at Mr. Langslow's dismissal
while at the bar of the island, presented memorials to the

governor imploring the Government to reconsider its
decision upon the dismissal of Mr. Langslow. All the

great interests of Ceylon bore testimony to the firmness
and impartiality with which Mr. Langslow had dis-
charged the duties of his office, and every one of them
had spontaneously petitioned against his dismissal. He,
therefore, hoped the Government would see the neces-
sity of agreeing to his motion, and not give their
sanction to the dismissal of a Learned Judge who was
unheard in his defence, and ignorant of who his ac-
cusers were. Under these circumstances he implored
the House to take this case into their serious considera-
tion, and not allow it to pass without redress.
Mr. HAWES thought his Hon. and Learned Friend
was perfectly justified in bringing this case forward, but
he must protest against the statement of his Honour-
able and Learned Friend that Mr. Langslow was
kept in ignorance of the charges preferred against
him, and of the names of the parties who preferred them.
With regard to the charge at Malta, he did not think it
necessary to say a word upon the subject, except to re-
mark that the charge had no connexion with his dis•
missal. Mr. Langslow was dismissed upon a charge of
general misconduct in Ceylon, and upon a review of all
the facts of tho case, and all the proceedings taken in the
case by the late Government, her Majesty's present Go-
vernment did feel justified in further interfering in the'
matter. Mr.• Langslow allowed a long time to elapse
before he made any remonstrance against the sentence
which the Colonial-office passed upon him, and then it
was not with the view of removing the judgment, but of
obtaining such a modification of it as should entitle him
to receive the retiring pension of a Judge of Ceylon.
Under these circumstances, both Mr. Gladstone and the
Noble Lord, at present at the head of the Colonial De-
partment, had declined to re-open the case, and he (Mr.
Hawes) expressed his opinion upon a review of all the
facts and circumstances of the case, that they were per-
fectly justified in doing so. He must, therefore, resist
the motion of his Honourable and Learned Friend.
Mr. G. W. HOPE said no case was more carefully
and conscientiously investigated by the Colonial-office at
the time Lord Stanley was at its head, than this, and
the decision which was come to, was based upon the
most searching inquiry into the truth of the facts, and
evidences adduced against Mr. Langslow. Except where
there was a strong case made out against it, it was
highly injudicious in that House to disturb the decisions
of the head of the Colonial-office ; and as
no strong ease had been made out in this
instance, he trusted the House would see fit to pursue
that course on the present occasion. The conduct of

Mr. Langslow at Malta formed no part of the grounds
upon which Mr. Langslow was dismissed, nor did the
statement that he wrote for newspapers have any effect
upon the judgment which had been come to in this case.
Mr. Langslow was removed for general misconduct
while holding the office of Judge in Ceylon, and as the
evidence was fully substantiated of general misconduct,
there could be no doubt that his dismissal was justified.
Mr. F. BARING said that in his opinion this was a
questibit,Whiclymust,be decided in that House, for there
was nb other tribunal to which any appeal could be made
from the decision of Lord Stanley. He did not believe
that Lord Stanley had wilfully committed any injustice,
but he trusted that he should be enabled to prove to the
House that he was in error as regarded this case. It was
quite true that the ground of Mr. Langslow's suspension
was submitted to the proper authorities in the first in-
stance, but all the circumstances of the case had not
been stated. On hearing the charge against Mr. Langs-
low the Council heard his reply to them, and then drew
out a long and laboured minute, alleging against Mr.
Langslow fresh corroborative circumstances with which
he had not had any opportunity of dealing with in his
defence. The charges against Mr. Langslow were
first, dilatory justice, and next, insubordinate con-
tempt of the Government. With regard to the
first charge, Mr. Langslow had satisfactorily refuted
it, and had proved that -his delays, if delays
they were, had been upon very sufficient grounds.
With respect to the second charge, it was difficult
to understand distinctly what it meant; but, at any rate,
it was proved upon evidence which Mr. Langsk w never
saw much less had an opportunity given to him
of disproving. The speech upon which he had been
condemned and dismissed, was not an accurately re-
ported speech. It appeared in a newspaper. and was
merely a judgment which the journal in which it was
reported stated to be delivered " to the following ef-
fect." He did not say that it was a correctly reported
judgment. Even as the judgment appeared, two different
constructions could be put upon it according to the em-
phasis which was laid upon the words. Mr. Langslow
himself had declared that, in the delivering of that judg-
ment, nothing was further from his intention than to
throw any imputation upon the Superior Courts. He
thought that, at any rate, whatever became of Mr.
Langslow, this blot ought not to be allowed to remain
upon their Colonial-office, and trusted that no vote would
be necessary to induce the Government to do justice in
this case.
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House,oß G EheßhßadNnTelNinCteli antsienid
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ahne came
into
in this discussion, but after the speech of the Right Hon.
Gentleman who had just sat down, he could not let the
matter pass without attempting some defence of Lord
Stanley. It had been urged that Mr. Langslow was an
admirable judge, but he (Lord G. Bentinck) thought
that even the most cursory perusal of the papers before
the House would satisfy any person that such was not
the case. The House had heard that a severe sentence
had been passed upon Mr. Pugh for some trifling offence;
but what would it say when he (Lord G. Bentinck) told
it that it appeared in these papers that Mr. Pugh was a
gentleman who had formerly carried a hostile message to
one of Mr. Langslow's sons. There did not appear that
Mr. Langslow had performed his duties in the expedi-
tious manner which had been stated, and upon a com-
parison of the amount of business performed by him
and other judges, Mr. Langslow's performance
suffered greatly as to the amount.—(Hear, hear.)
The council had come to an unanimous conclusion, and
their decision was not given or was stated behind Mr.
Langslow's back. The Council stated that it could not
fix upon any one act of the gentleman's which would
warrant his suspension; but still the general tenour of
his act was such that they would be productive of the
most mischievous consequences to the island, although
performed strictly within the letter of the law; and the
council further stated, that in the case of Mr. Pugh they
had the strongest reason to believe that he was actuated
by the desire of implicating a gentleman to whom he
owed a grudge. Mr. Langslow was not dismissed upon
this report of the council, for the Government were
desirous of giving him an opportunity of amending his
that conduct, and it wa
Campbell wrote over
the advice of the authorities for the suspen-
sionsnot
tto until
le
1843
Governmentha
with
of Mr. Langslow, with a view to his
dismissal from the civil service. Mr. Langslow had
persisted even in spite of these measures, in a course of
conduct which had the effect of suspending almost totally
the criminal proceedings in his court for many months.
It was proved that Mr. Langslow in the course of three
months only decided four criminal cases, and in the
course of seven months had only decided forty-four civil
cases on argument, and seventy-eight on evidence, while
his successor had, in eight days, disposed of more busi-
ness than he did in four months. His court was assem-
bled at the hours of eleven and twelve, and adjourned at
a very early hour. He should, therefore, say "No" to the
motion of the Hon. Member.
Mr. B. ESCOTT said that he would not trouble the
House with dividing on the subject, after the statement
which had been made to the House by the Hon. Member
the Secretary for the Colonies. Ho would therefore with-
draw his motion. _ _

The motion was accordingly withdrawn.
CLOCK FOR THE NEW PALACE AT WEST-

MINSTER.

Mr. B• DLNISON moved for copiei of all the papers

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and correspondence relating to the great clock, and alt
other clock% for tt-e new Vala,2e t Westminster (onit'
ting drawings and descriptions of nu chanical details).
After a few words from Lord MORPETH,
The reports upon the following Bills were brought 01)
and agreed to :
Constabulary Force (Ireland, &c.) Bill
Destitute Persons (Ireland) No. 2 Bill
Public Works and Drainage (Ireland) Bill
London-bridge Approaches Fund Bill
Canal Companies Bill
Trust Monies Ihvestment Bill
Copyright (Colonies) Bill.
THE COMMONS INCLOSURE BILL.
This Bill was read a second dale, and ordered to be
committed to-morrow.
PASSENG EilS ACT AMENDMENT BILL
.1
The Lords amendments to this Bill was considered
and agreed to.

MILITIA PAY BILL.
The Hou,e then went into Committee on this Bill, and
the several clauses wtre agrced to.
NEW ZEALAND (No. 2) BILL.
The several clauses of this Bill were also considered
and agreed to in Committee.

TRUSTEES RELIEF BILL.
The House then went into Committee on this Bill, and
after a short discussion the several clauses of the Bill
were agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be reported
to-morrow.
POOR REMOVAL (No. 2) BILL—ADJOURNED

-DE BA- l'E.

Mr. FITZROY moved the second reading of this Bill.
Mr. BODKIN opposed the second reading on t"
ground of the injurious effect which the retrospective
clause in the Act would have upon those persons who, bi
virtue of the Act passed last session, were rendered We'
movable by a five years' residence.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER thought
the Act of last sessii in had been found to work very Wet('
and ho thought it butter not to disturb the arrangeineut
then come to.
Captain PECIIELL supported the second reading of
the Bill.

The Housf) then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading 5
For the amendment ... 44
Mujority against the Bill —39
The Bill wa: e;,,n-altien,ly lost.
POOR REMOVAL AC 1' AMENDMENT (No, 2)

BILL.
Mr. CHRISTOPHER, objected to the third reading
of the Bill, on the ground that it would perpetuate the
system of union rating. As the Government intended
to introduce a measure next session of a comprehensive
character, and considering the late period of the session
and the state of the House, he hoped his Hon. Friend,
would withdraw the Bill. If net, however, he should
move that it be real a third time that day three months.
Mr. B. DENISON said the Bill was intended to
remedy the defects of the Bill of last session, which
pressed very heavily on the poor, and he could earn:
several places in his (Mr. Christipher's) part of the°
country that would consider it a great blessing ; 11
therefore trusted the House would pass it into a law.
Sir WILLIAM JOLLIFFE supported the Bill.
After a few observations from Capt. PECHELL and Sir
THOMAS ACLA ND,
Mr. CHRISTOPHER withdrew his motion, and the
Bill was read a third time. .
Sir WILLIAM JOLLIFFE then proposed an Weed,.
went to the effect that no person should be remorahl
from any poor-latv union in which they shall have resided
five years; and be it enacted that after the passing of till
Act, no warrant of removal shall be granted for all"
person, from any union in which such person shall
hare resided for five years next before the applicatioe
for such warrant. y- -

The SPEAKER, however, decided that the If°1:1:
Baronet could nut propose his amendment, and it Ow
consequently withdrawn.
Sir W. JOLIFFE urged upon the Government to take
his clause into their oun hands, and to carry it out 1106
session.

The Bill was then passed.
MESSAGE FROM THE LORDS.—CONFER-
ENCE, &c.
Lord J. RUSSELL brought up the report. of the Cools
mittee appointed to confer with the House of Lords
.00
the subject of conferring with the upper Howe, ands!
to the mode in which messages would be received su
sent up. They agreed to the proposition made by Lord
;
Brougham for this purpose, and the report was receive'
and adopted. The result will be, that 131112 will be Pre:
sented in the House of Lords by a list, and but oo:
Master of Chancery will bring down Bills from the
House of Lords ; much time will, const.quently, be safew ,„
The House then adjourned, at Twenty Minutes ''''
Twelve o'clock.

CHARGE OF VIOLATION. t.
At the Cheltenham Police on Tuesday ltig;
n
Edward Twining was charged with violating the Pets.tiv"
of Eliza Brooke. The prosecutrix is a young wure—ii
of extremely handsome and fascinating appearance, 65,
wife to one of the musicians in the Montpellier bob; 1
she gave her evidence under feelings of considerable e
citement, and fainted two or three times while the asge
was being heard. '1 he prisoner, Twining, appeared
be a young man of respectable, connexions, and jo
paper-hanger, employed at the seat of Sir J. Parki°s
ton, at Droitwich. The evidence, as far as it will be
publication, was as follows:
Eliza Brooke deposed that she war the wife of
las j°11,13
Owen Brooke, professor of music. On Thursday .?
Mrs. Keys called on her, and invited her to dinner
The prisoner was with her. She accompanied them to
Mrs. Keys' lodgings, at 6, Sull,lk-parade. After dity
ner they had some brandy and water, and talked 10
gether for some time. The prisoner was reading'
but occasionally left the room. Whilst he was sir
sent, Mrs. Keys left the room, and prosecutrix feel:
ing sleepy, reclined upon the sofa, and soon fe
into a slumber, from which she was awoke by the
prisoner taking liberties with her, from which he
did not desist until he had effected his purpose, in
spite of her resistance. The prisoner entreated her
silence, as he said, though she could hang or transport
him, disgrace would fall on her. lie then ran swat!
and as she left the house she met him returning to
it. He gave her a box containing some medicine whicllf
ho said, unlesS she used, herself, her husband, and he,
would all be ruined. She met her husband as she wag
going home, but was too much excited to tell him vilittio
had occurred. She was so ill that she was Put $
bed, but told everything that had happened the nits
morning.
Ann Greening, at whose house the prosecutri%
lodges, deposed to the excited state she appeared win'
when she came home; and to her going into hysteghe
when endeavouring to explain what had happened.
also spoke to several bruises which appeared on bet
person, and to her relating her story at eight o'ulbe
next morning.
John Owen Brooke gave his testimony to the condi:
tion in which his wife appeared when he met het,
and to her telling him how she had been tree"
on the next morning. He suspected what had hail
pened the night fore, and went to the prisone
who denied having ill-used her. They quarrelled, and
Mr. Gunter, the proprietor of the house, came ill IS.-
stopped them, and induced witness to go home. log
The prisoner called Mr. Gunter, who deposed t,ss
he was sitting in the kitchen of his house all /Po
evening, with the exception of a little time rs
was watering the flowers in his garden ; the due
were open, and he must have heard if any strUeff:
glc had taken place. After Mrs. Brooke depart 0$
her husband came and accused prisoner of having Ps;
something into what she drank, as she was iYUJ,...g
home insensible. He attempted to attack him us'
times with knives, which wituess took away from Olt%
Mrs. Gunter deposed to the same effect, and the prig
soner, who did not call any other witnesses, or make
defence, was committed for trial at the assizes.
Bail was offered, but refused.—Cheltenham Examiner

NORTHERN MEETING.—We observe that the 111:.
nual gathering of the clans at Inverness is fixed to till:
place on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, the 1557
16th, and 17th of September next. Should the antic':
pated visit of her Majesty take place at or about th
time it will give an unusual interest to the norther°
meeting.—Highlandpaper.
ELECTION OF SCOTCH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS,'"
We have heard that the Earl of Errol, who is at
present
abroad, intends to return expressly to give his vote for
the Earl of Dundonald at the approaching election.
Caledonian Mercury.
lADVERTISEMENT.]—NERVOUS DEBILITY, IN---
TION, AND LOWNESS OF SPIRITS CURED BY HOLLOWAY'S roxor,
Extract of a letter from Mr. Medeait, oi Beverly.—" June 17, l"witig
To Professor Holloway. Sir,—For years I have been troubled d
indigestion and nervousness, causing a complaint commonlY tierinfor
the nightmare, frequently so severe that I dared not go to
weeks 'together. I obtained advice from the most proficient I++o
medical profession, without any good Jesuit. When sufferitiga ~° ii;
it In its worst stage, I was prevailed upon to give your pills,a,,.-
by their use am now quite well. I never slept better In my w`',lol-
enjoyed sounder health."—Sold by ail druggists, and at ProfeSSOr'—
loway's Establishment, 244, Strand London.

BIRTHS. Lee,
On the 7th inst., at Esher, the lady of J. Maclean
Esq., of a daughter.
uiO3
On the 13th inst., in Belgrave-square, the Lady --
Douglas Pennant, of Lo
a daughter. :f
On the 2d of May, at Cawnpore, the lady of Robert Oth.f,
Atkinson, Esq., Assistant-Surgeon, Bengal Light Ca"--
of a daughter.
On the 7th inst., in the Close, Salisbury, the wife of the
Rev. W. K. Hamilton, M.A., of a son.
On the 9th inst., at Rodinarton Rectory, near Cirencester'-
the wife of the Rev. J. S. llaygarth, of a son. ,
--. Of
On the 10th inst., at Barntley, near Liverpool, the la
W. W. Willink, Esq., of a son.
On the 10th inst., at Elstead Lodge, near Gods—
Surrey, the lady of Lionel R. Place, Esq., R.N., of a son.
On the 11 th inst., at Dyrham Rectory, Gloucesteroll
the lady of the Z.:v. W. S. Robinson, of a (laughter.
On the 12th inst., at Glastonbury, Somerset, Mrs. r
rick Maltoo,
th in sun. noorge
On the 1-2 , at Bermondsey, Surrey, Mrs.
Henry Drew, ot a son. the
On the 1-4111 inst., at Sunbury Vicarage, the lady of
Rev. Henry Vigne, of a thargliter.

SRIED. rcer'
On the 10th inst.,•at Torquay, Arthur Hill Hasted gekto
Esq., 60th King', Royal 1::11e s, to Elizabeth Anne, daugm
of the late Major IZobett Hutchinson Ord, R.A.,

DIED. ainaollt
On the 10th inst., Frank, youngest son of L. M. '"
Esq., Paragon, Blackheath, a.ged 25. Acid,
On the 10th inst., Mary, the wife of Robert Wake''
Esq., of Lower Clapton. aged 48.
On the 10th inst., .111 r. 11. R. Jones,
street, Gloucester-gate, Evgent's-park. r eff
On the 10th inst., at Paddington, W i-d
illiams Hopeful er
Esq., surgeon, aged 57. MO.
On the 10th inst., at Teddesley, Staffordshire, the
Hiacinthe Anne Littleton, eldest daughter of Lord and
Hatherton. —oft
late of Gloucester'

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tits and, Printer, ut fn, •,,tlict:, No. strand, in ttr: ' 24)
of the SaToy, in ti o t:oanty of SLlddleticy, Wedneelq,
"1847.