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Tt114.1 SUN, LONDON, W_EDNI4'SDAY, ‘NLJARY 22. is4O.

the land, to the people for support, it will be found out a uniform, which is still assumed as the badge
to have lost all its ancient hold over their minds. of honourable and loyal men, the troops of the line
W hat happened last Session ? A somewhat would have been called out, and perhaps blood
popular Ministry took up the somewhat popular shed—a result Nhich, doubtless, would have erati-
subject of education, and though supported by the lied a party about die Court in the habit of i'denti-
House of Commons, they were fairly beaten by lying all roforms of the electoral system with ,
the Priesthood, making one of the most canting, i revolutionary schemes and republican conspiracies.
hypocritical, appeals to the public that ever was When the law was adopted which is now invoked
made by a self-interested set of men, intent only I by the Court to condemn the National Guards, it
on deluding and deceiving. We know some was certainly not contemplated that a time was so
questions, indeed, on which the Commons might near at hand when the uniform of that body would
carry the people with them, but this of privilege is form the only protection which an honest Reformer
no such question; and though now to abandon it would have against being denounced as a traitor by
might be disgraceful, it would be less destructive the spies of the Government. But in addition to
than to carry it forward. this consideration, the Government ought to bear in
We would have both parties, therefore, look mind that it has always encouraged the violation of
at this question in reference more to the present the law by the National Guards whenever it was
condition of the country than to former precedents. thought expedient to obtain applause for the
Considered in relation to the many pressing de- conduct of the Court. The National Guards
mands on the time of the Legislature, it is a mere were always welcome to carry their delibe-
trifle. Considering the course the House of Corn- rative addresses to the foot of the Throne with-
mons has adopted, which will neither vindicate out reproof, provided that they were caretul to
their privileges against past offenders, nor repel re-echo the Royal sentiments. Their competency
future attacks, it seems worse than futile—it is to approve of the existing order of things—to
absurd. The House might settle the question by hail as of marvellous importance to France the
a law ; its present course leaves the privilege open hit tl, of an heir to the Throne—to discover in the
to attack from every STOCKDALE who may here- Duke of ORLEANS a conqueror, at
atff he s
ht—hound of
after choose to brave the House. whose name all Africa quakes with rigas
Perhaps, too, the Judges—though Heaven for- been officially admitted. This being the case, the
bid that we should presume to attempt to fathom injustice of punishing them, in the person of their
their inscrutable ivisdom—may sec something in Captain, for presenting an address to such mode-
the present temper of the times which would make rate Reformers as M. LAFITTE, M. ARAGO,
it more advisable for them to look at the reason of and M. DUPONT (de l'Eure), conceived in hill-
the whole matter, than at old laws and old deci- guage remarkable for its moderation, and breathing
sions. It would he safer for them to try their attachment to the ORLEANS dynasty, must create
hands at a reconciliation with the House of Corn- a strong feeling against the Government. The
mons rather than stick to old forms, careless very able defence of Captain VALLEE before the
what exasperation they may produce, and what Council of the Prefecture of the Seine, on the
consequences may follow. That society is go- 17th instant, which is fully reported in the Na-
verned by very little wisdom, is a common adage; tional, is well calculated to strengthen such a feel-
how little or how much folly may suffice to peril, Mg in the minds of the more reflecting citizens.
not society, but authority, seems now about to be We deplore the folly which blinds French states•
brought to the test of experience. The grave men to the consequences of thus perpetually bring.
seignors, both in Parliament and in the Courts, ing themselves into petty collisions with the mire.
who yet possess some power over the people, -'resented classes of the French people.
ho.vever they may laugh when they are with each
other, like the Augurs of old Rome, should be
careful not, by their mutual quarrels to show one
another up to the laughter or the indignation of the
people.

Letters from Athens of the lath of December state
that King Onto, having dismissed from his councils
MM. TRICOUPI and PItARMAKIDI, the zealous oppo-
nents of Russian domination in Greece, and the able
advocates of the independence of the National Church,
which the EMPEROR sought to govern through the
agency of the Patriarch of Constantinople, the Impe-
rial Government has signified its approbation of the
KING'S conduct by remitting him Russia's share of the
third instalment of the Greek loan. Money is omni-
potent at the Court of King Otho ; and were it not for
the presence of the English and French Ambassadors, who,
fortunately for the independence of Greece, are united in
their opposition to the sinister designs of the Russian
fact ion, the kingdom would become a Russian province.
The unhappy condition of ,Greece, governed by an
idiot—a tact attested by the certificate of two physi-
cians—is greatly to he deplored. But England and
France are competent to obtain some relief for the people,
despite of the intrigues of Russia. Let them obtain
a constitution for Greece agreeably to the guarantees
g:ven by King arlio on his accession. This will be
opposing some barrier to the tyranny of the Crown.

By inserting on Monday the letter of " A Moral-
Force Chartist," dated Sheffield, without comment,
we by no means wish it to be understood that we as-
sent to his conclusions. At the same time, we do
not intend to enter fully into the subject, but
merely give such further illustrations of our opinion
as may set us right with our readers.
We are so thoroughly conscious of being the very
antipodes of the Tories, that, though we hate the
name as we do that of thief, we have not the least
apprehension of being taken for Tories. Not-
withstanding, therefore, the accusation of
our Correspondent, we must continue to advise
the working classes, that the pursuit of the franchise
is at present a vain chase. Nay, it is worse. Had
they followed our advice last year, they would have
made common cause with the Corn-law repeaters.
If they had not then achieved that great object.
they and the middle classes would have been united ;
the latter would have been ready to go part of the
way with the former, and the uuenfranchised would,
we believe, have been saved from those violent
courses which have armed the middle classes against
them, and have brought iwny of their friends into
serious trouble. They have, we are very much
afraid, worked more mischief than this. We see,
unhappily, many indications of a coercive spirit
in the Government. The police is extending
in all directions, and we should not be sur-

COMMITTAL OF SEVEN SHEF
FIELD CHARTISTS.

We see from a second czlition of the Sheffield Indepen-
dent, published on Monday, that Clayton, Booker, jun.,
Marshall. Pcnthorpe, Bennison, jun., Wells, and Duffy.
were all brought before the Magistrates at Sheffield, en
menday, for final examination. Earl Fitzwilliam was one
of the Magistrates present, and took an active part in the
proceedings. Before the examination his Lordship in-
spected the weapons found on the prisoners. The evidence
was taken at great length, when Mr. Parker, one of the
Magistrates, addressing the prisoners, said, " You are
charged with coaspiring together. with the intecaon of
arming yourselves, anti saving recourse to arms to rezist i
the civil authority, anti obtain an alteration of the
existing laws. This is the nature of the conspiracy
with which you are charged, and ,whioh you will have to
answer. I have, therefore, to state to yog, that we shall
order your commitments to be made out to York, Castle
where you will be confined till ti,e Assizes, and thee ;:r;ed
on this charge.
Earl FITZWILLIAM then addressed them at some length,
and among others made the following remarks Out of
regard fee the peaceable inhabitants t felt it my duty to come
down to this county and satisfy myself, by accurate inspection
and not by reports, what was that condition, and what that
danger from which, on now coming here, I find we basic
happily escaped. Your plan is to put down the rule of
morals, and to exalt the rule of brute (owe, That never
can be successful, I am perfectly satisfied, lo this country ;
because, however numerous you may have fancied those
who would have joined you to be, be assured that the lwair
her who would have been enlisted against you must have
been such as to crush, in one moment, any such extrava-
gant attempt,"
The prisoners were sent off, in half an hour, in two post
chaises, and with a military guard.

prised if some measures, supposed to be for
the public security, but certainly for the limi-
tation of freedom, were to be proposed to Parliament.
Such is now the temper of the middle classes that
measures of that description would, we are afraid,
meet a ready acquiescence. We are far, very far
indeed, from saying that any such measures can ever
have our approbation. We make no excuse or
apology for them, we merely state a fact when we
say that alarm created by the violent language of
some individuals will make coercive and restrictive
measures acceptable to large numbers of the people.
In politics and in legislation it is an axiom univer-
sally adopted, to consider abstract right in subser-
viency to the opinions, prejudices, feelings, and
customs of the people. Now this maxim ought to
be followed by Chartist politicians as well as aristo•
crats, and by not following it in relation to that
great portion of the community who differ from
them, they have, we are afraid, done almost irre-
trievable mischief.
With respect to the power which the franchise
would give the people, we are not quite such dolts
as to suppose that it would not give diem more in-
fluence over the election of Members to the House
of Commons than at
present, but whether it would
give them more iri ueice over the actual making of
1
laws is a different quesL;orl, he, have nothing to
tbC middle
classes with electing the Peers, neiller bll5,
classes ; but a demonstration of popular
the voice of the unenflanchised, has, before
now, compelled the Peers to assent to a law;
land will again, whenever it is strongly and
:ao;tedly lifted up. Why the people have not
haul more influence over the Legislature
has ben owing to themselves. Up to a recent pe-
riod they have been, in general, blind adorers of
rank, stupit: worshippers of wealth, ready at any
of a rich man or a noble-
time to follow I:te bidding
man. As long as they felt in that manner the ex
tension of the franchis!l amongst them only served
to give a preponderance in the Legislature to men
of rank and men of wealth ; and to that ignorance
or folly of the people, as much as the grasping de-
sires of the noble and the we,:lthY, we owe the many
wicker' laws which encumber the sZtote•book. Let
but the people be awake, as we think they are awak-
ening, to the truth, let them see their true interest (:11
this point, and they will be able, we can assure them,
to make their opinions be embodied into the laws,
whether they go to the poll to say who shall be
their representative in the House of Commons

MONEY and COMIVIERCIAL NEWS

CITY, TWELVE' O'CLOCK.
LIVERPOOL: COTTON MARKET, TUESDAY.—The
sales tc-day are 3 000 bales, at yesterday's prices.
Owing to the boisterous state of the weather we are de-
prived of the usual foreign mails, as well as arrivals from
other quarters, with the exception of those from the Cape
of Good Hope, which bring accounts of the result in the
Legislative Council of the &bate on the Bills of Exchange
Ril! ; after several days' discussion on the subject, the
13i11 was withdrawn.
Consols opened this morning at the quotations they left
if yesterday, 90i 91 for Money, 91,E I for the Account,
svarccly any thing doing, owing, no doubt, to the
',feat seam* of intelligence from all quarters. Money
-.8 in aimins-444ge, and unemployed at present in
e.ntio,„ --seteulationcs,

or Nits sty the market yesterday
I,,lnges were *44;,,er lower, and
iitipioiteiAent in

-,44.;

or not.
We by no means pretend to treat this very
important question fully ; but, vitrlr the most
earnest and sincere wishes for the welfare of the
unenfranchised, we think we take a more cor-
rect view of it than those who direct their
attention to obtaining :he Suffrage rather than
to the means of exercising the power they now
possess for their own benefit. If they had
Universal Suffrage we are not acquainted with
one measure they could command so pregnant
with advantages as the repeal of all the taxes and
prohibitions on the supply of food. The " Moral-
Force Chartist " differs from us in ..ur estimate of
those immense advantages ; but, be they little or
great, it suffices for our argument if it be admitted
that the unenfranchised could, in the next six weeks,
carry the repeal of the Corn-laws were they united.
They have tried by themselves for the Charter, as
Mr. HARRts said at the meeting of Delegates at
Manchester on Tuesday, and have failed ; the
middle classes tried by themselves for the repeal of
the Corn-laws, and have failed ; let them now try
united, first for this latter object, and the success
and power of the unenfranchised will be manifest.
We are not opposed to the extension of the cranchise,
but we wish the Corn-laws to be repealed, as a
step towards that end. We rejoiced, therefore, in
the' great and noble meeting at Manchester, less
even on account of the blow it gave to the bread-
tax. than on account of the unanswerable proof it
supplied, not to us, for we never doubted, but to
the public at large, that the unenfranchised classes
deserve the franchise as well as their more opulent
brethren.

The conduct of the French Government in pu-
nishing a Captain of the National Guards for read-
ing an address thanking the Members of the Elec-
toral Reform Committee for their exertions to
obtain an extension of the franchise, appears to us
exceedingly injudicious. We arc aware that ac-
cording to law the National Guards are forbidden
to assume deliberative functions, except in the cha-
racter of simple citizens ; that when wearing their
uniform, and with arms in their hands, they are
bound to confine themselves to the maintenance of
publicunarm unarmed, and order. But the National Guards who
formed the procession bearing the address to the
Members of the Reform Committee, were wholly
it
conducted
oguthemselves in the most
peaceable and orderly manner. There was no out-
, rage, no violation of the public peace; and
in
ndifintlirteidy
wore their uniform
that it was the only protectionilttobe b
they had against
being charged by the police with being a gang of
traitors and conspirators. Had they appeared with-

QUEEN'S BENCH.-Cr HIS I)AY.)

• (Sittings in Banco.)
STOCKDALE HANSARD.
A rule having been obtained in the course of the iast Term,
calling upon the Sheriffs to show cause why they did not pay
over to the plaintiff the damages levied in this action,
Mr. RICHARDS, on behalf of the Sheriffs, proceeded to
0.-gu., against the rule. He said the Sheriffs in the present case
were placed in a very peculiar situation, having been com-
mitted by, the House of Commons for contempt, and he had an
affidavit showing that they had been ordered by that House to
refund the money. He, therefore, requested as an indulgence
, that the Court, by not making this rule absolute, would
I give them an opportuni!y of having the question decided
by a higher tribunal—the House of Lords. He thought it
hard that the Sheriffs should be called on to pay the money
twice over. He further opposed the rule, because the She-
riffs had also been served with a novice from the Insolvent
Debtors' Court, ordering them to pay the money into that
Court for the use of Steckdale's assignees. On this ground,
also, he submitted to the Court that the rule should not be
made absolute. The Sheriffs had no other method of obtaining
their liberty but by paying over the money, according to the
order of the House of Commons • and he trusted that the Court
would not allow its ministerial Officers to suffer in the trial of

this great constitutional question.
Mr. WATSON, on the same side, contended that Stockdale's
rroper remedy was by action against the Sheriffs, when the
question of right might he tried, and the Sheriffs would have
an appeal if they felt themselves aggrieved. The object
of this rule was to bring the Sheriffs into contempt of this Court,
and to deprive them of all opportunity of having this question
discussed. The resolution of the House of Commons called
upon the Sheriffs to refund the money—(the Learned Counsel
here read the resolutions.) There c'iuld be no doubt but that
the House of Commons possessed great privileges,, and when
the privileges were brought incidentally before this Court, the
Court had no power to interfere. In support of this opinion he
quoted the judgment of Mr. Justice Patten. The resolution
stated that the levy was a breach of privilege. Suppose the
Sheriffs had levied execution on the goods of Messrs. Hansard
in the House of Commons, or seized the money from them at
the bar of the House—no doubt that would be a contempt of
the privilege, and therefore he had shown that it was possible a
levy might be in contempt. The Sheriffs had been committed,
and the Court had no power to free them. A writ of habeas
corpus could not be granted, as they were committed for breach
of privilege, and as the Court had no power to inquire into the
matter, he trusted that the Court would not make thisrule abso-
lute. Was it so clear that the House cf Commons had
no right to order this money to be refunded? No such
thing, and therefore he trusted that the Court would
give the Sheriffs the power to litigate that question.
Suppose a person should by main force take the money
from the Sheriffs, would the Court make the rule abso-
lute and attach them ? Certainly not. It has been contended
that the Sheriff had the power of raising the posse comitatus
for his defence, but he could only do so in his county. If the
Sheriff of Northumberland were attached here, he could not
raise the posse comitatus in his defence, and in that case he
thought the Court would not specially interfere, but would
leave the plaintiff to his ordinary remedy. The Learned Gen-
tleman then alluded to the case of Coates v. Lord Hawarden,
4 Barnewell and Cresswell. Lord Hawarden had been arrested
at Brighton, and this Court had ordered his release ; but if
that had been ordered to be done by the House of Lords,
surety the Ccurt would not order an attachment against the
Sheriff. The cases were alike ; in the one case the
House ordered the Sheriff to restore his prisoner to his
liberty, in the other they ordered the Sheriff to restore a
party his money; and he contended that the Court would
no more interfere in one case than they would in another.
He saw no difference between the case of a Member and the
case of seizing money with contempt of the House. In the
case 10th East, it was held that the Sheriffs could not levy
goods in the palace of a Royal Duke, and the Sheriff's return
that there were no goods in his bailiwick on which to levy, was
held to be a good return. He also submitted that the plaintiff,
in a case where the Sheriffs refused to arrest a Member had
no remedy, for the arrest of the Sheriffs would be a contempt
of the privileges of the House. The Learned Counsel then
proceeded to cite many cases in support of this proposition.
He then contended that the Parliament had the power of judg-
ing of their own privileges, and that the Court could afford the
Sheriffs no relief. He contended there was sufficient doubt in
this case to justify the Court in not interfering, but leaving the
party to his ordinary remedy. He now came to the second
point. On the 14th January, 1840, the Sheriffs were served
with a notice to pay the money levied on the goods of the
Messrs. Hansard.
Loral DgymAx— Supposing the first point had been disposed
of, was there any mason why the assignees should not come and
apply to the Court in the ;swat manner?
Mr. Wsersos said that if the Court enlarged this rule, then
the assignees could come before this Court. The Interpleader
Act was passed for the relief of Sheriffs, otherwise they would
have to pay the money twice over. Therefore, as there was
a bona fide elaim, he trusted the Court would give the Sheriffs
an opportunity of Litigating this question.
Lord DVilf4s—S,uppose the rule made absolute, there was
nothing to prevent the Assignees corning to this Court imme-
diately.
Mr. WATSON said that two actions might be brAt)ght against
the Sheriffs.
Jjr, Justice LITTLEDALE—The Court would interfere if
two actions were brought, one by a bankrupt, and the ether by
his assignees,
Mr. WATsoN contended that the plaintiff's proper remedy
was by action ; here he was asking a. favogr of the Court
which was never granted but in the elearesst psissible epee,
They could not bring the assigness here by interplgasler, or
tliss Court itself, and if the rule were made absolute in the
Instsivs4 p,ebtors' Court, the Sheriffs would have to pay the
money into that Csegrt, or an attachment would issue. If the She-
riffs were attached here, they would be attached by the Insol-
vent Debtors' Court, and they were already PgFilrflitte4 NT Pons
tempt by the House of Commons. On these greonds he snb,
mitted that the rule ought not to be made absolute, bgt that
the ritg.intiff should be left to his ordinary remedy.
Mr. KgVve.piy, en the same side, contended that Mr. Stock-
dale might have l4r.g4ght his action in this Court, and recovered
the amount levied, There 44-ere vie precedents in the text
books for the present application. ffe rernindi34 the Court
that the case had already been before Mr. Justice Patteson at
chamfers, as was shown in Mr. Platt's affidavit on the 221 of
December last. That Learned Judge refused to make the
order; iilFpfr, Kennedy) submitted that the case was in the
same position ;lien as it was at the moment he was speaking,
and that as Mr, Justice pattewiq Torgsgd to grant the rule, the
Court *rmilti DOWbe wrong in granting the application, He then
proceeded to argue that the order of the Insolvent Debtors' Court
was binding on the Sheriffs. The notice, he contended, was
from a Court of competent jurigliation, He then proceeded to
call the attention of the Court to certain elauses of the Insol-
vent Debtors' Act, by which general powers were panted to
vest all the debtor's estate in the provisional assignee, and it
also indemnified the Rheriffs for acting in obedience to the
order of the Insolvent Debtors' Court, He, therefore, sub-
mitted that their Lordships would not gape them to commit
an offence against the• Court to which he had alluded, He
(Mr. Kennedy) further submitted that Mr. hi' °Wale still had
his right of action against the Sheriffs, and if he would prove
that he bad suffered any loss through any laches of theirs, he
would recover Nil eoLlMPPsation.
Mr. PLATT, wilaaPPPaFftd it! i4ppert of the rule, detailed the
facts of the action, and the issue ant) qacution of the writ of
venditioni expones, and proceeded to state that it we; therefore
necessary on the first day of term to move for a rule calling qn
the Sheriff to pay over the money in the performance of his
duty. He believed on that occasion he might have moved for
an order to make that rule absolute, but he merely moved the
rule nisi in order that if there were any real ground
to resist it, they might state It to the Court. And
now they showed cause against the rule, Why
The order against which they are showing cause
bseirm been issued about the 11th January, they have an
Acta,v,t thigh stated that on the 15th of that month they
-,etu yegl xr4 R. Kipp of the paper writing thereunto an-
- -nn vtdit 7 R#P9Med oPe ruleor the Insolvent
Thai. WU 41, Tr9rlliaPßß rPIPeORg That
-'"other Ur, agabcrtain, who made
-"narty wtio meant to resist
-t-u•iff said he had

commercial J,
Owing to the sea., - -
afternoon, the Foreign Ext..
it is generally expected that no n..
them will take place for this month to come.
teogelki e Billsrl7B I 791;3 India i 5 ;
i24p9air., 2 pre.
India Stock Bonds
d s
IlaEnkNeSh
In the Foreign Market no speculations have yet taken
place. Spanish Active opened at the leaving off prices
of yesterday, 254 / ; Passive 61 4- ; Deferred 111 12 ;
Portuguese same as the closing price, 33/ 134 ; l'hree
per Cents. 231 ; Colombian 27/ :I- ; Mexican 29-;
lii,ztlian 754 i ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per Cents.
521 / ; Five per Cents 1014 Q.
P.;ict,:s OE STOCKS Ti 11.., uAy Al' ONE o•cLocm.
Bank ,ltieek ll9 India Stuck
1 per Cent. Red. 91%5, Ditto Bonds ... .......... .. , par
3 per Cent. Cons. ..... ..... 9 34 1 South Sea Stock —
3,, per Cent — Old Antitutie. —
Ditto Red. , 93N, l% New Ditto
Kit 314 vier Cent ...... ..lillk 9 8.34 , 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1751
•:a, 3 per Cent.
Bank Long Annuities toexpire I Ditto 500 ..13 15 pm.
Jan; 5, 1880 14 13 15-16 14 Ditto Small l3 13 tan.
Oct. 10, 1559 , Ditto Commercial —
Jm. 5, 1560 135 i 11-:8' Ditto Advertised .....
J.tii. 5, IS'IO — Bank Stock for Account ...
April 5, 1580. lndia Stock for Account „ .
Jan. 5.1570 — Consos fur Acc0unt........ 9114
PRICES OF FOREIGN Ft/ NDS THIS DAN AT ONE 0 CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds Peruvian Bond. —
Belgian Bonds
Ditto Account
-.lrazilisn Bon is
Ditto Account
! ... :33%
,Betio;'wet. Bonds
Ditto Aczo~m
111a1 load i — Prussian Bonds
D•tt.l ..;',:cr. it — Russian Bends, 1821
C..,...,tinian P.: ids —. Ditto Account —
'MC: 1:::., iit
Columbian Ti . ds,ls24
.:.:I'.:- C:0-.3it 07%% 6% . Ditto Account.
,nigh Bonds „ ... — Passive
Div.° t.i.:.,•111
Greek Bon& — French, 5 per cent. —f —c•
Ditto Bonds, 1t415 — --- 4 per cent.
Ditto Account —— 3 per cent. —l. —c.
Mexican Bonds, 5 per Cent — Exchange. —f. —c.
Ditto Account Dutch, 9.!4 per cent. 5214 'ii
Ditto, ti per Cent.
Ditto Account -, Ditto, 5 per cent —
Svanclitan
—• Ditto Account —
vitICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AIVE DoCigret;are.
....... .65 tut
GrJat Western Railway Company ... ........ 2,, 1.214 .•.,
14,,,,0r, and Greenwich nailwar:comPrY ....... op 17
London a- d Greenwich (New) Itailw ' .......... 95
Nortn Midland Hallway Company ..............••
In 1!"0t,
Ditto New Shares ....... ' HALF.
............. H.P.AsT ONE.
we still continue as in the early part of the morning, in
t
respect to arr vats, consequently We have no intelligence
communicate to the p
of the least importance
to "mmun
hour, and every thing has a dull appearance both in respectreent
to commercial affairs as well as in speculations in the funds.
The metals in the
The Export official report of the
preciousasfollows :—Silver
week ending the 16th of January,
16
000 ounces, Sierra
to Gibraltar and Mogadore, 10,
Leone, 8,000 ounces, Hambro, 64,000 ounces, Gold coin
to Rio Janeiro, 494 ounces. morning, 911 for
Consols are a shade lower than in the •g, 4.
fi 1 - Exchequer Bills un-
thc Account, Money 90t - 'Bank Stock, 179.
proved to 15 prem. ' India I tondo, at par;.e
25
In the Foreign market, Spanish Activ • s ;
1 Deferred,
Portuguese, 33/ ; Three
11i ; Colombian lower, 26i ;
per Cents, nothing done ; Dutch Two-and-a- Half per
Cents., 52k, little doing e market
in the abut .
CLOSING PRICES.
MU T ISII FUNDS.tacI,
.49
Bank StOCk ...1..... ............. 179 India;
_5
2
. 91% Ditto ]fonds . .
3 per Cent. Red ......,. Ditto Old Annuities —
3 per Cent C!-515• ...- 90%
Ditto New Annuities ...... _. _
3% per Cent. Best • 904! •
a...,' ti,.., x. Bills, I,OOIW .2,1 15 pm.
New :1 ly per Cent ....... ....••••• —" : tin•lP 5'114 15 pm.
NT( iv 5 tier Cent ''' ' Ditto §3:111
Long Annuities to expire \ Bank Stock for fiPg•o:„ ...
Jam IStio
( ,ct. 1859
Jan 1860
13 - •
FOltElf] N FUNIDS
Portuguese Bondi, bluer cent.
Austrian, 5 per cent 4,3
Belgian, 5 per cent — Ditto, New Dittti
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Prussian, 5 per cent. „„
Brazilian Bonds
Russian Bonds, 5 per cent", ~-.,
iluenos Ayres, 6 per cent -'"' Ditto, Metallic —
Chilian, 6 per cent Sp
Ditto, 1R24 r'""l,4 Ditto, Pe cum
f. anish, 5 per cent 25!..f.
Coininban, 6 per cent .........• "-- f t 11-i
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,4' —c.
Danish French, 5 I CP)it.
, 3 per cent -- Exchange— ... , , ~•, . I PIP fly • • "...1.• —C
Greek Bonds, 1825, 5 per ct - French, 3
perp”..,, ,-,-.4. Tft
Mexican, 5 per cent •-• Dutch, •
cent..
Di, to, is per cent.. 1625 — 1 - '` per cent ilal,
Periivian,lB2s.6 per unt.„ llßi Ditto, J p ..,.
• giIAIIES
Birmingham and Gloucester itagway
c 6
Great Western ItailwaY
London and Brighton Railway .......... ”•,,••,.•• lBli
London and Blackwall'llailwav , ... Mi
London and Greenlich Railway ., 1;44
Ditto New Shares
North Midland Railway
Ditto New Shares

nexed,
Debtors' Court.
Court. It did not state u.

the affidavit, was in collision with son,,_
the application, but merely that a clerk of the
been served with such a paper writing. And what did that amoun,
to? The Sheriff was ordered to keep the money in his hand, and
in the Court of Queen's Bench to show cause why he had PO
paid it over. Surely the Court should know under what Act
of Parliament the discharge had been obtained—whether the
Act of 7th Geo. IV., or the Ist and 2d of Victoria. Why did
not they find out the party who served the notices ? Bad he
entity? Had any enquiry been made in the Insolvent Debtors'
Court ? No. Were that the only thing for which they
showed cause against the rule, their Lordships would have no
trouble ; but it was, no doubt, on other grounds. There
:IS an affidavit of a number of votes and proceedings
in the Commons House of Parliament. He was sorry, he
mus.; say, to have observed a smile on some countenances,
when the condition of those honourable men the Sheriffs of
London was alluded to. He did not think it matter of mirth
that Gentlemen who held such an oifice with honour to them-
selves, and advantage to the country, should be placed in the con-
dition in which onel3ranch of the Legislature had now placed them
for doing their duty ; they had behaved nobly; and while paying
every respect to the House of Commons had shown that they
would support the law, and that there was no tyrannical power
in this country should prevent their asserting the dignity of
the Court of Justice. He wished now to call attention to that
to which his friends had not ventured to call the attention of the
Court. He found it noticed in one of those papers, that on the
16th of January a petition from Messrs. Hansard was presented
to the House of Commons, informing the House of the legal
proceedings commenced against them by Stockdale, and which
the House declared to be a contempt of privilege. If so, then
he ( Mr. Platt) was now in contempt. But let Parliament know
11:e spirit which animated the bar—let them know that the mem-
bers of that profession would advocate boldly, but at
the same time respectfully, any cause entrusted to them in
which the privileges of any portion of the Legislature were in-
volved. The Learned Gentlemen, whose arguments we re-
gret we are precluded, from want of space, from fol-
lowing, then proceeded to argue, that had the She-
riff's in resisting the execution of the Speaker's war.
rant slain the officer, it would have been merely justi-
fiable homicide ; that not to obey her Majesty's writ
was a contempt of the Courts of Law, and an offence equivalent
to that of disobeying the orders of the House of Commons.
That the Sheriffs trusted for protection, in the dignified as-
sertion by the Bench of the power of the law. That the
House of Commons had acknowledged that power until they
found it decided against them, and concluded by expressing the
hope that their Lordships would not suffer the rights of British
subjects to be so sacrificed, but would support the rule.
Mr. CARRINGTON followed on the same side, and contended
that the Sheriffs should have made a special return, and then the
question could have been argued; but having had the money
ready on the 19th December, it was their duty to have paid it
over to the plaintiff. Such had been the method pursued in
the Kensington Palace case. As far as a usual mode could be
supposed to exist in such an unusual case, he apprehended that
the application for a rule was the usual mode. With regard to
the case supposed by his Learned Friend, it was clear from
the wording of the resolution that the House of Commons
would take cognizance of the mode and try it, as they declared
they were sole judges of any question involving their own pri-
vileges. The Sheriff, by the return he had made, had pre-
cluded himself from doing anything except paying the money
over to the plaintiff.
The arguments on both sides having been concluded, the
Learned Judges proceeded to consult together.
After having remained in consultation about half an hour,
Lord DENMAN said this was a rule calling on the Sheriffs to
show cause why they should not pay over the damages
levied in an action brought by a person named Stockdale,
azgit:st certain persons of the name of Hansard, to the
plaintiff. It appeared that the action had been brought
for the putitiegtum of a libel, and that judgment had
been suffered to go by derplt. A writ of inquiry
was in consequence issued, which writ was regularly executed,
cogj the Jury had found damages to a very large amount. An
execs Aan Fla levied and the Sheriffs had returned that they
could find no buyau, g. writ of Venditioni expenes was then
issue, to which the sherifw
j rened that they had found
buyers, and that they held the proceeds in their hinds, ready to
tb 41.Tpe into this Court. This occurred in December. Aps
pi1i.:4344 kid hems made to Mr. Justice Littledale to delay the
retail a kid giAt, #4d he had given time merely as a matter
of convenience to a s4=9):* Application had afterwards
been made to Justice Pattcon all'aWioa i;sl tie She-
riff; to pay the damages over id the plaintiff. his tspialistation
FAd been refused. The Court had since communicated with
*Jr. Patteson, for the purpose of ascertaining the
grgqi,n !PP I,efe„!.)r and it appeared it turned entirely upon
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