The Sun.
London, England, 1846-04-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDA y ETENING, APRIL 22,

lepartment it had occurred, was responsible for it, and not the
government.
The Committee on the Corn Importation Bill, and the ad.
journed debate on the first reading of the Irish Protection of
Life and Property Bill, were re-appointed for Friday.
Mr. Cluturruc then moved, pursuant to notice, for copies
of all correspondence between W. DAY, Esq., last Assistant-
Commissioner of the Poor-laws and the Poor-law Commis-
sioners, and the Secretary for the Home Department, relative
to his involuntary resignation of his Assistant Poor-law Cora-
missionership, and of all minutes relative to Mr. DAY'S re-
signation, and to the appointment of Colonel Wade as his
successor; also, that it should be an instruction to the Com-
mittee on the Andover Union to inquire into all the circum-
stances under which Mr. DAT was called upon to interfere.
Mr. C. POWELL seconded the motion.
Sir J. GRAHAM would offer no objection to the motion,
thinking it highly desirable that investigation should take
place into the matter.
The motion was then agreed to.
Mr. T. DENCOMBE then moved for a Select Committee to
inquire into the allegations of the petition of Mr. Jonathan
Duncan on the mal-administration of affairs in the General
Post-office. If it was not for the mal-administration in the
General Post-office, the public of London might have their
letters delivered an hour and a half earlier than they were at
present ; and this assertion he would undertake to prove. '1 he
mal-administration of which he had to complain was not of
yesterday, but many years' standing. He was ready to
prove, that the private undertaking, called " Kelly's Post-
office Directory," was a job that gave great dissatisfaction to
the officers in the Post-office, and was highly detrimental to
the public service.
Mr. WILLIAMS seconded the motion.

Mr. CARDWELL defended the course adopted by the
Post-office authorities, and opposed the motion.
Mr. MOFFATT supported the motion, being convinced
that inquiry into the course pursued by the Post-office would
tend to the public good, inasmuch as it would lead to some
alterations in the mode of conducting business at that great
establishment.
After some observations from Mr. Protheroe, Mr. Brother-
ton, Mr. Christie, Mr. F. Baring, Mr. Wakley, the Chancel-
lor of the Exchequer, Mr. B. Escott, and Mr. T. Duncombe
in reply,
of 43,
The
there Housbeing for e divided, and the motion was lost by a majority Mr. Duncombe's motion 49, and against
it 92.

Mr. S. O'BRIEN then moved, pursuant to notice, that after
the present session all inquiry with respect to Irish Railway
Bills, which at present took place in London before both
Houses of Parliament, should be proceeded with in Ireland.
Mr. F. FRENCH seconded the motion.
After some observations from Sir R. Peel, Mr. C. Powell,
Mr. Wakley, Lord Claude Hamilton, Colonel Connolly, Mr.
Maurice O'Connell, and several other Members, the motion
was lost, upon a division, there being 25 in favour of it and
69 against it.
The Polling Places (Ireland) Bill went through Committee,
and the House adjourned.

Sir R. PEEL last night gave notice that he would,
on Thursday night, propose certain resolutions, as
sessional orders, in reference to the several railway
Bills still pending before Parliament. These resolu-
tions, which at a later hour of the evening were laid
upon the table, appear to be founded on the suggestion
of Mr. LABOTICEIERE, who, when the measure pro-
posed by Sir ROBERT PEEL, previous to the recess,
was brought before the House, stated the difficulty
that there would be for parties wishing. to put
an end to any scheme, but unsupported by the
directors, to assemble so large a number as one-
half of the persons holding the scrip to express their
opinion on the project being carried into execution, and
gave it as his opinion that the onus should be on the
directors to obtain the consent of a fair proportion of
those interested therein to the further progress of any
Bill before it should receive the ultimate assent of the
Legislature.
The present plan appears well calculated to effect
this object, and furnishes an additional security to
that afforded by the measure then mentioned, that no
Bill shall receive its third reading until the shareholders
shall have full time maturely to weigh the advantages of
the undertaking, and the probabilities of their being
ible to carry it into execution, notwithstanding the diffi-
culties to which it may be subjected by the present
depresied state of the money market, and the unwilling-
)ess on the part of the public to invest any part of their
spare capital in the construction of new lines of railway.
The former measure is intended to enable persons
(whether original shareholders or persons not parties to
the Parliamentary contract, but who have, by the pur-
chase of scrip, acquired an interest in the projects), who
are the actual holders of at least a full moiety of the
stock, to have the meaviure wound up, the assets of the
company vested in an official assignee or trustee, and,
after ascertaining the liabilities of the company, to ob-
tain r. return of the amount of the deposits, less the fair
expenses already inc urred, to the parties entitl, d
thereto. This was hailed with universal approba-
tion as a just and wise course, ley which parties,
who had incautiously involved themselves in railway
speculation, would be enabled to extricate themselves.
with as little additional loss as possible, and also as an
indirc ct means by which the absorption of too large a
portion of the capital of the country, in such enterprises,
to the great injury of the great commercial interests,
might be prevented.
The present plan is not intended to interfere with that
tower, but provides that the house will not read a
third time any Bill to empower any company
(whether intended to be incorporated by such Bill,
,r already incorporated by Act of Parliament); to
construct a railway, unless a certificate, sigin d
sand authenticated, shall have been deposited at the Pri-
vate Bill-office, there to be open to the inspection of all
parties, three clear days before such third readirg, and
stating the following facts, viz.:-
1. That a copy of the Bill was submitted to the considera-
tion of a meeting of the scripholders of the company, or (in
ease of a company already incorporated) of the shareholders
or stockholders of the company, specially called for that
purpose.

2: That such meeting was called by advertisements, in-
serted once in each of two consecutive weeks in the London
Gazette (if the railway be an English or Scotch railway),
or in the London and Dublin Gazettes (if the railway be an
Irish railway), and in each case in at least three London
daily newspapers, and not less than three times in each such
paper, in each of such two consecutive weeks.
3. In the case of the company being intended to be incor-
porated by the Bill :—That such meeting was constituted of
persons producing thereat ecrip of the company representing
not less than one-third part of the whole capital proposed to
be raised by the company under the Bill (such scrip having
been actually issued, or the deposits in respect thereof having
been paid before the 31st of March in the present year).
"4. In the case of the company being already in-
corporated :—That such meeting was held, except so far as
is herein otherwise provided, according to the constitution
of the company, and was constituted of shareholders or
stockholders thereof competent to vote at the ordinary
meeting-3 of the company, and representing either personally
or as proxies not less than one-third part of the whole
capital or stock of the company.
5. That at such meeting the Bill was approved of by per-
sons producing thereat scrip equal to at least three-fifths of
the total amount of scrip produced at the meeting ; or, in
the case of a company already incorporated, by three-fifths
at least of the meeting, the votes being given and computed
according to the constitution of the company.
The resolutions further provide, in the event of there
not being a sufficient attendance at such a meeting, that
the chairman shall be empowered to cause the votes of
the persons constituting such meeting, approving or dis-
approving of .the Bill, to be taken and recorded, and
then to adjourn the same for a period of not less than
three days, or more than one week, from the original
day of meeting, and which adjournment shall be adver-
tised twice in each of three London daily newspapers ;
and that the chairman shall be empowered at
such adjourned meeting to cause to be taken and
recorded the names of such of the persons constitut

ing the saLie, as shall not have voted at the original
meeting, and the total amount of votes given at the
_ _ _ _

original and adjourne,4 meeting shall be received as ii

given at one and the same meeting. The additional
matters required by the reNolutions are respectingrticluathrse
form of the certificate, which .shall comprise pa
showing that the meeting has been held in accordance
with the spirit of the foregoi 7g regulations, and the
manner in which the certificate shall be signed and
authenticated. Such is the scheme of the Minister, and
it is only to be lamented that it was not promul-
gated at an earlier add' The outline appears
clear and simple, hed in a spirit
of fairness towards those interested in the several rail-
ways on the one hand, and the public at large upon the
other; as, while there is no difficulty placed in the way
of any well-devised or prudent project, the directors of
which will easily be enabled to procure the requisite
attendance and approval, no plan can be proceeded
with contrary to the wishes of the majority of the share-
holders, although, from difFicultieot in their way, they
may be unable to procure signatures sufficient to ensure
the dissolution of the company in sufficient time to stay
its further progress.

IThe news from Poland is of a very contradictory cha-
racter. The Poet Ampt Gazette, under date of Posen.
April 13, states that though order has been to all outward
appearance restored, there still reigned a kind of dull feeling
cf uneasiness. Excesses had been. committed at Ragusen
where several ,of the public functiova.ries had been insulted:
A sentinel on duty bad met with_ some indignity, and had
discharged his mthilket at the party,, -who had taken to dight.
No one was wounded, but the miliita.7 authorities had put:-
lished a notice cautioning the inhabitants to refrain from such
conduct for fear of more fatal consiNacnces.

IA letter frem Lemberg, the ,Ceipital of Austrian Galicia,
dated April 7, states that the grea't'er portion of the bawls of
peasants who continued under antis bad been dispersed, but
that assassinations were daily ta'c.ing place. Count GOLE-
VIOSKI had been attacked on the: previous day by a body of
the peasantry, and murdered. In . The town of Styria, a p.a.
sant, who had taken a very act ive part in attacking the
chateaux of the nobles, had died c f his wounds, and was in-
terred with extraordinary porn' ,„ The public authorities
both civil and military, attended, said military honours were
given—a circumstance so unusui ti :and improper, that it dis-
gusted not only the Poles, but th, s Germans, and especially
the officers of the army.
Jasln. The
datel:::0(a I,tathhereedcoaeytivhefeorltlohhweaninnldgo,asstnao3,B,tshioo:lirliyet ter from the same place,
public mind. are a kst ndeowwsn,trinthtehree cisirenloet ofa

dread of political outbreaks alone, bat of a civil war, which
might decimate the population, if the promptest succour does
not arrive. The work of pillage and incendiarism has again
broken out with the peasants. They have mustered from
5,000 to 6,000, and it is said that they have repulsed the
troops sent against them. The military had received orders
to act with moderation, and even to fire in the air; but the
peasants were in no way intimidated, and fell on the troops
and killed 50 of them. They then fled to the woods, and
are now carrying devastation throughout the country."

Madrid journals of the 14th have arrived. Although that
city continued tranquil, it would appear that the authorities
feared, or pretended to fear, some outbreak, for not only has
the Government adopted every possible precaution to guard
against an outbreak, but domiciliary visits had been made in
many instances, and several persons had been arrested, among
them an ex-provincial Deputy, and, one of the editors of the
Eco del Comercio. They are charged with having propa-
gated false news, and distributed proclamations subversive of
order. The Eco del Comercio had again been seized. As
an excuse for these proceedings, the authorities state that
they have received information that a conspiracy was plotting
in Madrid ; that the 13th had been fixed upon by the con-
spirators as the day on which the emeute was to take place,
and that the first object of the conspirators was to seize on the
arms taken last year from the National Guard, and which
are stored in the dep6t of artillery.
The Heraldo stated that the Duke of SOTOMAYOR, the
Ambassador of Spain at the British Court, had applied for
permission to return to Spain on account of the state of his
health.

Notwithstanding the repeated assurances given in the
official papers that tranquillity was completely restored
in Galicia, it would appear that such is far from
the fact, for, notwithstanding the defeat of IMARTE
by Correia, the insurrection, if we may judge from
the proclamation of General VILLALONGA, which ap-
pears in these papers, still continues to spread. This pro-
clamation declares the four provinces of Galicia in a state of
siege, and also declares that the insurgents at Lugs, and all
those who may join them, are traiters,'and that the soldiers,
who have joined the movement, and who may return to their
duty in twenty-four hours, shall be pardoned. The General has
also issued an address to his soldiers calling upon them to
remain true to their allegiance, and not to be led away by
revolutionary firebrands—from all which we gather that
Lugo is still in possession of the insurgents, who have been
joined, and aided, and assisted by many recruits, including
among them several of the soldiers of VILLALONOVS own
army, and that the insurrection is spreading from
Lugo, as from a centre, over the whole of Galicia.
Catalonia also is in a very disturbed state. Attempts have
been made to gain over the garrison of Barcelona, and procla-
mations have been circulated in the barracks headed "Con-
stitution of 1837," and "Prince Henry for Queen Isabella."
No outbreak, however, had taken place, although if anything
can cause an outbreak, the following bando, issued by the
Captain-General of the province, the sanguinary Don
MANUEL BRETON, will most assuredly do so :
" The disturbers of public order still endeavouring to de-
prive us of the tranquillity which we have the happiness to
enjoy, and it is so necessary to maintain in this populous and
commercial capital, I order the following:—
" First and only Article.—Any person belonging to any
class that shall spread news tending to disturb order, shall
immediately be delivered up to the military commission,
which shall permanently sit in the royal citadel of this city,
in order verbally to judge the accused, and, after obtaining
proof of the offence, condemn him to be shot."
. ..

Anything more tyrannical and violent than this never
before was issued even by a Spanish Captain-General ; and
the past conduct of BRETON shows that he is fully capable of
carrying out this bando to the very letter. The whole
popula-
tion of the province is at his mercy, fur, be it observed, the
court-martial, composed of his creatures, is to judge what is
to be considered as "news tending to disturb order." Ile
seems to have taken the French revolutionary tribunal as
his model, and to be ambitious of acting the part of FOUQUIEr.
TINVILLE on a small scale. Several persons have already
been arrested on suspicion, among whom are several, who n
1843, proclaimed the Central Junta.
_ _

MADRID BOLSA, APRIL 14.—The Funds are higher to-
(la% 11/ per cent., which would appear inexplicable weie the
Bolsa of Madrid like that of any other place. The Three
per Cents. are 31% cash, and:3lli for the 30th inst.; thirty-
three millions done. The other funds are not quoted.

We have received the Paris papers of Monday. They all
attack the Debats for its article of Saturday, in which it
more than insinuated that LEco3rrE had been excited to the
commission of his atrocious attempt by a political con-
spiracy, of which he was the mere instrument. As might
have been expected, all the Opposition papers are indignant
at this attempt to give a political complexion to the crime of
the assassin, and even the Ministerial papers disavow the
Journal des Debuts on this occasion. The Moniteur officially
contradicts the assurance given by the Journal des Debuts,
that anonymous letters had been received by the authorities
in some of the provinces, stating that the attempt was to be
made, and the Epoque, the Ministerial organ, thus comments
on the article in the Debuts :
" The Debats has created a phantom in the honest but
puerile idea that royalty and the Government required this
phantom far its defence. The Government and France have
no need of such evocations. Their strength is in the
country, and the country does not require to be alarmed.
For the last five years its reason and its wisdom have been
alone appealed to, and for five years it has more than at any
other period given its confidence and its adhesion to the Go-
vernment. But there is in this something more serious; we
are told of optimism, an 4 of culpable and fatal indifference;
we are told that the blow which would have struck the per-
son would have also touched the institution, and for the pro-
fit of present royalty the Debuts has not hesitated to bring
the safety of that of the future into question. Yes, the pre-
sent King has saved royalty, and this is not the first time
we have stated the same; he has also saved liberty, which is
the consequence of order; but now, should the King be struck
by the arm of au assassin or by the hand of God, royalty and
liberty would net be shaken, for all France would rise to de•
fend them. Those know little of the great King who governs
us who think to flatter him by telling him that he has onle
founded his personal royalty. Louis Philippe wished to found
a dynasty, and he has succeeded. That is the reason se by
be remains so calm whilst the balls are whistling past his
ears. He knows that they might kill the King, but could
not destroy royalty. The Count de Paris, supported by the
Duke de Nemours, would lose nothing of the strength of
Louis Philippe. And what, good God 1 would be a constitu-
tional Government if it were otherwise, if it were always
necessary to have a great man to render a nation strong and
prosperous, if it did not draw its vitality from its own con-
stitution. That after a revolution a man of genius should be
necessary may be readily conceived, but it would be a con-
demnation of it to say that he was always necessary. The
country, moreover, is perfectly tranquil. Look at the Bourse,
that thermometer of the emotions of the capitalist, who has
such a dread of revolutions ; it has been scarcely affected by
the two shots of Lecomte. If thee, had been successful tbe
great capitalists would have thrown all their millions into
ihe scale to prevent a fall, because they are convinced, from
the knowledge which is acquired by having great interests
at stake, that their millions would be of no value without
order in France—an order on which the peace of Europe
depends. These capitalists have more instinct than many
political men. They invest their millions in railroads on
the soil of France, because they know that it is not on that
soil that the volcano of revolution will burst forth. France
is calm, calm as the King, and both have reason to be so, for
the one has patiently founded a dynasty which the other has
resolutely adopted.'
The Presse, after giving the addresses to the KING,
and his MAJESTI'S replies, on his return from Fontein-
bleau, says :
"In all these expressions it is easy to perceive that there
is not a word tending to transform into a political attempt
the abominable crime of Lecomte. This is an additional re-
ply to the ill-imagined article which the Dtbats published
on Saturday, and against which the whole press protested
yesterday with great reason. This article is an anachron-
ism, and that is the least of its faults. Fortunately, and fur
the honour of our country in presence of Europe, which is
only but too much inclined to distrust, the morals of parties
are notably ameliorated for some time. There is not one to-
day, however desperate may be its cause, which would con-
sent to find a last resource in a cowardly assassination.
There was a time when the journals of the extreme Opposi-
tion did not fear to insinuate that the police might not be
strangers to the attempts of a really political character
which then periodically threatened the king's life, alarmed
the world, and caused doubts to be entertained of the future
prospects of the country. Henceforward this odious system
of tactics is given up. The LYational declared yesterday that
such a course would be ridiculons at present, thus itself
treating as it deserved a discussion to which for a long time
it certainly was not a stranger. The progress of public
reason is therefore evident and incontestible, and the fact
must be stated with pleasure, in place of denying it, as the '
Debuts did on Saturday in hat inconceivable article, which
we have heard blamed by men of sense of all opinions."
The following is the justification of the Journal des
Debats :-
4. It appears that we have made ourselves guilty against
society, perhaps against the dynasty and‘ even the monar-
chical system in Franee, by having said that we found it
difficult to believe that the crime committed by Lecomte was
purely a private crime, perpetrated under the inspiration of
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the mind of the wretch who has added. his name to this list,
which was, alas ! already too long. Justice will tell us
whether he conceived his crime in solitude, or whether the
idea came front out of that dark abyss whence have already
sprung so many conspiracies, so many attacks. The magis-
trates will do their duty. lSutwhether the crime from
the King has again so narrowly escaped bein the v which
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for it."
Duke ResstutEn, the President of the Court of Peers, and
id. HEBERT, the Procureur-General, were engaged on Sun-
day, skt the Conciergerie, in interrogating Lacontra.
The o1(1 prison of the Luxembourg having been pulled
down with the ether ancient buildings in the Rue Vaugirard,
workmen were on HA.ifiday employed in converting a room
of the Luxembourg felaee, into a prison, to be used as a
place of cominement for fir.coiam. Ile was transferred
thither oni Monday, and is now in the eestody of the Court cf
Peers. 'flee Peers wet on that day at one, ie secret committee,
to hear the ProcureureGeneral's requisitoire *ftigtive to the
attempt made on Louts Potterrx's liCe, on Thursday the
Ifith instant. When last accounts left, t'ae Court had not
yet issued their arret. Le.coarre's spirits seemed to have
deserted bin. He at first exhibited a great deal of bravado,
but latterly he has appeared much depressed. For two days
he has refused all food, and expresses a hope fat he may
die of exhaustion ;his personal appearance also is greatly
altered. Two keepers watch him day and night.

The Chamber of Deputies met on Monday, and when the
post left they were discussing a proposal of M. DE Mon..NAT
for indemnifying the posting-masters of France owing to the
detriment they suffer from railways.

On Sunday, at one o'clock, theKixot, accompanied by the
QUEEN, the Prince, and Princesses of the Royal Family, and
holding the Count of PARIS by the hand, received in the
throne-room the Municipal Corporation of Paris, who
were presented by Count DE K.A.IIBUTEAU, the Prefect
of the Seine. The Count expressed to the KING the
profound indignation with 'which the attempt on his
MAJESTY'S life had inspired the population of Paris, and their
affliction that such an act should have taken place. The
Count's expressions were warmly responded to by the accla-
mations of the members of the Corporation. The KING,
much moved, replied to this striking manifestation by
thanking, in warm language, the municipal body for their
loyal and affectionate sentiments. The conclusion of his
MAJESTY'S address was greeted with loud cries of " Vice le
Roi! Vivent le Famille Royale!"

Thanksgivings were offered in all the Protestant churches
in Paris, en Sunday, for the KLNG'S escape. Lord and Lady
PALMERSTON dined with M. and Madame TRIERS on Sun-
day. The Marquis of NORMANBY has arrived in Paris.
The Bourse was rather firmer on Monday, although there was a
trifling change in the quotations—Three per Cents. closing at 83f.
40c. ; Five par Cents. are rather lower, leaving off at 119 f. 70c. The
market closed as follows :—Three per Cents., for cash, 83f. 40c. ; for
account, 83f. 40c.: Five per Cents., for cash, 119 f. 50c.; for aecount,
119 f. 70c. ; Bank of France Shares, 3,410 f. ; Neapolitan, 101 f.;
Spanish Threes, 36% ; Ditto Fives and New Loan, not quoted.
RAILWAYS,—The share-market was also firmer, most of the lines
closing at about the same as on Saturday. For cash—Paris and
Orleans, 1,210 f. ; Paris and Rouen, 1,025 f ; Rouen and Havre, 740 f. ;
Avignon, 900 f. ; Strasburg and Bale, 225 f. ; Boulogne and Amiens,
505 f,; Northern, 753 f. 75c. ; Bordeaux, 613 f. 75c.; Paris and Lyons,
566 f. 25c.; Paris and Strasburg, 515 f. ; Nantes, 545 f. ; Dieppe, 460 f.;
Montereau, Fampoux, and Yierzen, not quoted.
BUSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN RAILWAYS AT THE
LONDON STOCK EXCHANGE, Antal. 21.
Boulogne and Amiens, 12—Bordeaux, Toulouse, and Cette
(Espeleta), 2%—butch Rhenisk, 6—East Indian, %—Lyons and
Avignon, 2—Luxembourg, 1% —Namur and Liege, Il4—Paris and
Strasbourg Constituted, s%—Rouen and Havre, 2934—Tours and
Nantes Constituted, 634—West Flanders, 2.

LATEST FROM OLAND.
In the organ of the Polish Emigration, published in Paris,
under the title of the " 3d of May," on Saturday last, we
find the following paragraph :—" At this moment
the news has reached us, on the strength of received
correspondence, of the 'full up' burning of Tarnow and
Bochnic, equally as the evacuation of Cracow by the Aus-
trians, and the occupation of the city by the Russians. The
details of this correspondence are not clearly known to us.
We cannot vouch for their truth. We give them as we
have learned on authority."
The Gazette de Cologne gives a letter, dated Cracow, April
8, which states that the reflection of flames was seen in the
distance, and that the sound of cannonading was heard, and
that SZELAS, the chief of the peasants, had threatened to burn
Tarnow, should any attempt be made to arrest him.

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ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
lIUIZIE v. CHITTY.
The arguments in this case, which was opened yesterday,
were heard. The cause arose out of the construction of a
deed of separation which had been entered into between a
gentleman and his wife, who subsequently cohabited; and
the question was as to the rights of the children who were
born since the re-union of the parties. The ambiguity in the
deed arose from the supposed application of the words "such
children born of my wife," &c., which, it was contended, in-
cluded the children that might be subsequently born, as well
as those in existence at the time of the execution of the deed
of separation.
Lord LASIGDALE, in giving judgment, said it was
expressly stated at the very beginning of the deed that the
separation between the parties should continue for their joint
lives, and Mr. Chitty, the father of the applicant, Mr. T.
Chtty, entered into the covenant. By that covenant there
was an express stipulation that Mr. Chitty was not to visit
Mrs. C., nor in any way intrude upon her privacy. Thus
there was clear evidence that the intention of the parties was
to live separate and apart, from the period at which the deed
was executed, during the rest of their lives. If, however,
they wished to perform again conjugal duties, and to renew
in all particulars their former intimacy, there was nothing to
prevent their doing so; but there was nothing in
the agreement that contemplates' such an event. By
that deed two distinct objects were covenanted, the
first to provide during the life of Mr. Chitty fur the
support of his wife anti for the maintenance and support of
his children who might be at that time living, a sum of 5001.
annually, or such of them as should from time to time be
living. It was, therefore, clear that the deed referresl to the
children already living who should be living at subsequent
periods. The next object was to make a provision for such
children as should be hereafter mentioned. The trustees
were to payonly so much of the sum as they should think
necessary for the support and maintenance of the wife and
children. If there was any saving it should be applied to
any future expense that might arise, or should it not be all
required it should accumulate.. In this way a provision
was made for the first object, namely, the maintenance of
the wife and the maintensnce and support of the children.
But Mr. Chitty only agreed for the payment of this during
his life however, he effected a policy of insurance for
15,0001., which, together with the saving already referred to,
was to be applied also for the same purposes as the money
already dispescd of by him. From all this, it appeared as
clear and as plainly set forth in the deed as could be, and
therefore he did not think that any doubt could arise on it.
The question was as to the provision to be made on the death
of the survivor of the two contracting parties. By the death
of the survivor, the insurance money was to be held in trust
for all such children of Mrs. Chitty which should obtain
twenty-one years of age, and to be equally divided between
them Now, if they considered the object of that deed, who
were to be provided for by it—the deed being that they (Mr.
and Mrs.o ) had agreed to separate for the rest of their lives—it
was perfectly clear the only objects intended to be provided
for were the wife and children living at the time of the deed
of separation being executed. There was certainly nothing
to show that Mr. Thomas Chitty was not as much an object
of affection with his father at the time of his death as his
other children. His case was certainly one of hardship, and
the Court would do all in its power in his behalf; but they
could not act in opposition to the plain meaning of the deed.
Mr. and Mrs. Chitty had carried their intention of living
apart into execution for twelve years, but in conformity with
their mural and religious duties, they had agreed to live to-
gether again, and did so accordingly for no less than 27
year,. The consequence of the connexion which resulted was
the birth of Mr. Thomas Chitty, He wished he could so con-
sider the deed as to give him (Mr. Thomas Chitty) the right
of provision for which be now sought, but he could not do so.
There could be no doubt that the meaning of the deed was as
he (Lord Langdale) had stated, and did not admit of any
construction of an intention to provide for children who might
be born after the reconciliation. The deed was perfectly
legal, and he felt bound to declare that it referred to th-a children, and to these alone, living at the time of the
marriage.

0 URT OF REVIET-V.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE.)
LAWRENCE IN RE BOWRLNG.
The assignees in the bankruptcy appeared by petition,
praying to have the only remaining part of the bankrupt
estate, consisting of shares in the Middlesex Water Works,
placed at their disposal. This was opposed on the part of a
gentleman calling himself the mortgagee of these shares,
who said they had been deposited with him as security for
dialt owed by the bankrupt. Mr. Swanston argued for the
assignees, that the point raised in the present case was de-
cided in the Lancaster Canal case, when it was decided by
Lord Lyndhurst, and affirmed by Lord Brougham, that pro-
fits arising out of the employment of real property were trans-
ferable as personal property. It was held, therefore, that the
party in Court could have no controul over the shares by
means of the deposition alleged; and if lie had a proveable
debt against the bankrupt estate that he must prove it in
the usual way.
Mr. Russatx, who appeared for the bankrupt, felt that
the case was concluded by the decision cited on the other side.
It seems that the bankrupt obtained his certificate in
1832, and a supersedeas was issued in bankruptcy in 1845.
The Court now ordered that the bankruptcy should be re-
vived, the assignees undertaking to the extent of the estate
to abide by any order the Court might make in respect to
the estate since the supersedeas, with liberty to all parties
to apply.
Costs were allowed to the bankrupt.

UEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, Westminster Hall.)
THE QUEEN V. THE MAYOR AND ALDERMEN OP LONDON.
The argument in this case was commenced at the sitting of
the Court, and occupied a considerable time. The question
was simply this, whether an attorney practising in the Court
of the Lord Mayor of London was eligible to practise in the
Courts of Westminster Hall, without having been duly ad-
mitted an attorney of those different Courts. It was con-
tended that he was not, inasmuch as that the Court of the
Lord Mayor of London was an inferior Court. There was
also a question as to whether attornies of this Court were
competent to practise in the Lord Mayor's Court without any
further qualification; and it was contended they here, inas-
much as the Lord Mayor's Court was an inferior Court.
Judgment deferred.

BAIL COURT-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, Westminster Hall, before Mr. justice
COLERIDGE and a Common Jury.)
WHITE V. CO AND MAN.
In this case it appeared that the plaintiff and a person
named Williamson were levellers, and the defendants railway
surveyors; that Williamson and plaintiff called at the
The ver was 37L i
offices of defendants for employment in their capacities as
two guineas a day, and One
levellers, in consequence of an advertisement they had seen
in the newspapers from defendants, stating that they were
in want of such ; that plaintiff was employed at the rate of
doingu duty as leveller on the Northampton, Lincoln, and
tilo
rl,ilcpurojected railway, for 16 days. The sum he now sought
guinea a day expenses, while
amount.
Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full
Bs. 6d., having received 121. on account.

SECONDARIES.-(TH
this day.waTBhOenjltyir3O•nyfeecraBe Caseetdd,obUnt,afoftrer
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.)
There IS DAY.)
hearing
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gmsnt this court
none ct the parties being i 0 attendance, the jury were dis-
missed.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.)
IN ae 110L311,5, AN INSOLVENT.
An application was made to rescind the final order made in
the case of this insolvent, who is a lieutenant in the Royal
Marines. The order was made in January, 1845, and the
paorwneerdtc?zActiinssdiotri:Rorsdaeird
insolvent undertook to set aside 501. per annum out of his
half-pay, but had since refused to pay. By some mistake the
Pa?irgnit,ewas not made a eondition in the order.
had any
under certain to
he could do so. The creditors
solicitor ought to see that the order was properly drawn out.
gent, lead a similar
Lie would not enforce the pa} .meat now, but be was willing•
to render every as,istance inbis power, and would direct that
the ender ould be amended. If any inconvenience fell on
i nh et
htilsi d
case;no t seeit was thato only
the iniolvent it was his own fault.
IN Ill; It. II FRANCIS.
In this case, the inQolvent being a stationer. in the Old
fusing;
to Pay a sum of 5/the promise of doing which the
Learned Commissioner I.l;todn the order. It was con-
omitted
good
toodr sfaoiuogi hwtotuoksiele,etkheapttt_heheorredwerass weevtiedepnrtolpyeralny
tended in this case that the granted
insolvent's attorney had wilfully
omitted the r
- fact se
that ho was amenable to the Court.
application was made, the insolvent re-
The Learned Commls:iioNEßsaid the attorneys of the cre-
Te I.:olicitor said it was expected by the profession. that
intention to
impose on the Court. drawn out.
The C03131.1881011ER directed the order to be amended.

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY)
Eliza Stephens, a good-looking. young woman, genteelly
dressed, was charged with tendering a counterfeit sovereign
at the shop of Mr. Elphinstone, baker, of No. 227, Regent-
street. It appeared that between eight and nine o'clock last
evening the prisoner entered the shop, apparently in a hurry,
and asked for a shilling's worth of fancy biscuits. On being
served she tendered in payment the spurious coin in ques-
tion. It was nearly instantly detected to be bad, and she
was told so, on which she said that a lady who was waiting
opposite had given her the sovereign and asked her to run
over for the biscuits. Of course " the lady" could not be
found, and the prisoner was given into custody.
Mr. MALTBY asked if she wished to say anything? The
prisoner said the statement she had made was perfectly
correct.

Inspector Baker, of the C division, said that at the station-
house the prisoner gave her address at No. 5, Hare-court.,
Aldersgate-street. A constable had been sent there this
morning, and found that no such person was living there.
Prisoner—l do live there; some mistake must have been
made.

Mr. MALTBY said he should remand the prisoner until to.
morrow, when the solicitor to the Mint would be in attend.
ante.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday were 5,000
bales, including 500 on speculation and 500 for export.
Prices were steady and the market was quiet. Shares in es-
tablished lines improved, while Scrip was declining.
Messrs. Lamond and Co.'s sale of shares yesterday after-
I noon went off briskly, and prices were fully supported up to
their previous quotations. The number of shares submitted
was greater than usual, and a very large business was done,
more than 3,500 shares being disposed of at the hammer.
These sales continue to attract much attention, and many of
the jobbers obtain shares, er ease off some of their accumu-
lated scrip, through this medium.
There are no arrivals with late ship letters of any in-
terest.
The regulations which Government intends to propose to
Parliament for checking railway Bills, where carried on con-
trary to the wishes of the shareholders, although they come
very late in the day, are hailed with pleasure by the multi-
tude of persons involved in railway liabilities, and anxious
to close at once with a certain loss, rather than
to flounder on, and perhaps get deeper in the
mire. The directors will find it no light task to obtain
" assets" to the prosecution of such a scheme; and none but
first-rate and short lines, we conceive, will be at all likely to
be carried out at present.
Our contemporary the Times still labours in its creditable
vocation of endeavouring to make " confusion worse con-
founded." One day the allottees are attacked, the next
day they are championed ; on a third occasion provisional
committees are reviled, and on a fourth are screened; and
sympathised with. Every plain man of business in the City
is at a loss to understand such inconsistency, and such a
laboured system to aggravate the existing evil, weighing
now upon the innocent as well as culpable—the trader al-
most equally with the speculator. To-day a provisional
committee-man has his turn, and because he-has paid his 501.
towards the expenses of a defunct concern, and this is
proved to be insufficient, the Times advises him to pay
no more. Such advice may be easily enough
' given, but woe be to the man who takes it.
A Committee man is clearly liable for an equal proportion of
the expenses with his colleagues, and if 501. or any other
first call be not enough, thanks perhaps to the " levanting "
of many railway worthies, he must submit to make up they
difference, since creditors will never suffer quietly from the
acts of men who went into these speculations with their
eyes open, and with the sole object, as in all
other speculations, of making money. The company cited
by the Times, the Midland Grand Junction, it is stated that
the managing committee and others have paid a full contri-
bution, and it is not likely they will let any of their col-
leagues off for less because 50/. only was originally deemed
sufficient.
The English securities have been rather steadier to. day,
but the transactions are not extensive. Consols realise 95%
for the present transfer, and 95% to 96 for Account. The
premium or Exchequer Bills has been 22 to 25. New Three-
and-Quarter per Cents are 961/2 %. Bank Stock is 204% to
205%.
The Foreign Stocks are a mere dead letter to-day.
Spanish Three per Cents. have been 363/ % ; Dutch Four
per Cents. are 91% to 9214. Beyond this there have been
no bargains.
shares are rather steady, on account of the relief which will
be given by Sir Robert Peel's measure.
IntITISII FUNDS, ONE CLOSING
Bank Stock
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
.. . • • • • • • • % 205% 205%
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities 20494% %T. 94%
Three per Cent. Consols Annuities 95% % 95%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 96% % Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 5, 1860
.. 10 1-16 3-16 10 3-1 96%6
Consols for Account .•• • .. 95% 96 96 Exchequer Bills. 1% d. I%d.
1,000/.
•• • • 24 22 25 pin. 25
5001. -•— 23
Ditto, Small —.- ••
• • -
25 23 pm. 23pm. 23
ONE CLOSING
O'CLOCK. PRICES.
21%
4%
5711

FOREIGN FUNDS.
Grenada, 1 per Cent
Ditto, Deferred
Portuguese Four per Cents
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent
[into, Three per Cent ..
Ditto, for the Account .. • . 36% T.
Venezuela Floods,.• 2 per Cent
..
Ditto, Deferred ..
Dividends-on the above payable in London.
Fret ;eh Rentes, 5 per Cent .. •• —f —c.
Exchange
.. • • • • • • —f. —c.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cent
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates

120 f. —c,
25f. 75c,

91%34 9254 921
t PRICE
CLOSINS OF BUSINESS
RAILWAY SHARES. PAID. DONE AT PRICES
ONE O'CLOCK.
•
Armagh; Coleraine, and Portrush I% . .
Birmingham and Gloucester.. 100 .. .. 125 . ..... 125
Birmingham and Oxford Junction 2 - . 1;
Bristpl and Gloucester .. . • .. 30 .... 50 ...... •• .. 50
Buckinghamshire 425. .... 1 di5..... •• • • % d
Caledonian .. • • • . .. 10 .... 5%% ...... • • 5]
Ditto, ,Extension 2%• -
Chester and Holyhead .. 22% -..••• • • • • 21i
Cornwall anti Central Devon .. 2% ... % l3 Derby, Gainshoro', & Gt. Grimsby 1%
Direct Manchester (Remington's) 2% ....
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) 8% .... 3.j
Direct Northern .. .. • • .. 2% .... 11
Dublin and Galway .. . • 4 .... 34
Eastern Counties 41. 165..... 2234 221
Ditto New
Do. Perpet., 5 per Cent. No. 1. 61. 13s. 4d. % p........
Ditto, ditto, .. No. 2. 61. 13s. 4d. - .... ••• • • • 34
Ditto, York Extension .. 10s. .... 1% .... . • 1%
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. .. 50 .... 72 ..... ..... 72
Great Southern & West. (Ireland) 20 .... 22% .......... 2234
Great North of England . .. 100 .. .. 212 215.. ...... 212%
Ditto, New • • • • • 1% • .
Great Western
.• .. 145 . .
Ditto, Quarter Shares .. 5 .... 17 .• • . 17
Hull and Selby .. ••.. 80 ....10 100% ...... 1003
Ditto, Halt Shares .. • • •• 7 .... 24%• 24%
Leicester and Bedford
Leicester, Tamworth, &c. •425. .... 1 di5......... Idh
London an ; Birmingham . • •iOO ....223 •• • • 223
Ditto Fifths .. .. • •
London and Brighton .. 50 .... 63 71, • • .
London and Croydon .. 131. 15s. 9d. 21% 22• •• • •
21 64
%
London and South-Western.. 411. 6s. 10d. 77 76 •• . •• 76
Ditto, New . .•• • •• 123{ •• • • 2131 •••• • • • • 2134 London and York .. ••..• • 2% ... • 1%%%....., 134
Ditto, Half Shares 2%. - . ..... 1%
Lynn and Ely .. .• ..
Manchester and Leeds .. . •
Ditto, II alf Shares .. • •
Ditto, Fifths 3
.......... 11
Ditto, Sixteenths .. • • • • 6%.... 9 ...... • ...
Manchester and Birmingham
Ditto, Quarter Shares (A) • • 4 •• •• - •.••• • • • • . 12%
Ditto, Quarter Shares (B) • • 4
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C)
1 .. • . 8 •_ 8
Manchester, Buxton, & Matlock 425. - • •••• • r
Manchester and. Southampton .. 2 .... 11,4 ••• • • . • • 1 pal,4
.. • • • • .. 100 - ...... 144
Ditto, New .. lB .... 30 293 • • 29%
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby 108 ....118 117 • • 117
Newcastle and Darlington Junet. 25 .... 44% ....... •.. 44%
Ditto, New
Ditto, New, Brandling
.. 25 ... •.
43% ..... 43% Newcastle and Berwick
.. • . 10 . • •18 17% 18%x d 18N ad
Newark, Sheffield, and Boston .. .... I • . 1 %
North British .. .••• .. 20 .... 25% •
. .• • . 25%
Norwich and Brandon .. • 18 .... 23% 24. ...... 24
Oxfd.,Worcester,& Wolverhmptn. 12% .... 734 ..... •• • • 7%
Preston and Wyre .. • • •• 25 .... 3434.. .• • . 34%
Ditto, Half Shares •• .• 2% 6 .... .•• • • 6
Reading, Guildford, & Reigate . • 425. ...• ...... • • 1%
Scottish Central .. ... 10 .... 13% .-... •• • • 13%
Scottish Midland .. • • lO .... -
6
Shrewsbury and Birrningham .. 2%
.....
Shropshire Union .. .. • . .. 425. dis ...
South Midland .• • • .. 425. .• • 1 dis.
... dis... • • • • dia.
South Eastern and Dovor
.. •• • 33% .... 36% • • 37 Ditto. New (isa. at 321.) No. I. 16 18 • •
ra
Do., New (do. 30/.) .. No. 3. 15
... - •..• •
South• :• %
Do., New
s (do. 151.) .. No. 4. 234. • 2% •• . • •
• • 124 %
.. . • • • .. 5
.. • •
1 .... 1% % . •••• • • 1
le
34
Vale of Neath .. ••• • 2 .. •• • Wexford, Waterford, & Valentia 1% - . ..▪
...
• •
Welsh Midland
.. - ......
West Riding Union .. • •
• 425. . • 1% p.
York and Carlisle
.. • • .. 2% -
York and North Midland
.. 50 - •• • ▪ .
Ditto, Scarborough Branch
.. 25 .... 47% .. ~
Ditto, Selby
.. • • .. 30 ...• 71%
Ditto. Extension .. • • •. 15 ... . .
32% %
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Boulogne and Amiens .• .. 12
Dutch Rhenish
.. 5 .... 65%
East Indian ..
Lyons and Avignon .. ••.. 2 2.. . . Namur and Liege .. 4 ...,... .•• • •
Orleans and Vierzen .. • . .. 10 .... - •
Orleans and Bordeaux .. 6 10% %
Paris and Rouen .. 20 .... 4034
Paris and Strasbourg Constituted 8 • • 5%% • •
••• • • •
Rouen and Havre • 20 .... ........
Tours and Nantes Constituted .. 5 .... 6%
West Flanders 4 .... - . .....

MINES.
Real del Monte, Unregistered .. •• • • 3% •• •• •• • Erratum in yesterday's List —Read Preston and W yre ••• 34 to 33%,
Instead of 34% to 33%.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING___-(_____
THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 22.—Wind East, moderate breeze, and hazy.
Humphrey, Alexandria ; Dolphin.
DEA, APRIL 21.—Wind
New., N. to N.E., ilne ; P.M., i.W.—
Arrd. Aloveran, Jordan, Orns ; Albertina, Ssuidmarek,
kß;ioLjoarnde
ii;(o),llianngdwoo sailedd,
for Hamburgh ; Expedition, Nor-
denott, Rio Janeiro, and sailed fer Bremen ; Augusta Aldim, Meyer,
Hayti, and sailed for Bremen. Arrd. from the River, .Eneas, Towns-
end, Calcutta end, Calcutta ; Fare, Harding, Barbacloes.
OFF DUNGENESS, APRIL 19.—Agnes, Bosse, New Orleans, for
Bremen ; Mauran, Williams, New Orleans, for St. Petersburgh ;
Washington, Smith, Charleston, for Norway; Goitre, Soonberg,
Charleston, and sailed for Bremen.
CLYDE, APRIL 20.—Wind IN.L.—Arrd. Miilar, * ' ' Lady Harvey,.
De-
merara; Triton, Smith, New Orleans; Adam
York ; Athol, Mobile ; M'Donnell,
Tolinil, Nassau ; Ruby, Ewing, Quebec.
DUBLIN, APRIL 19.—Acrd. M`Donnell, St.
Wanderer,Jenkins,
Carr, Ewing, New
John's. Sid. Rolla,
Trinidad. Sld.
Dykes, Henderson, Quebec.
ItruacomnE, APRIL 21.-B°m
• square logs, supposed to be fir tlm-
the channel off this port last evening.
WAINFLEET, APRIL 19.
her, were seen floating up e Good Intent, Graseley, from Boston
to Wakefield, which drove on shore near Saltrieet yesterday, has been
got off without damage, after
Cowes, APRIL 21.—Wind S.S.E. —Arrd. Margaret, Wishart, Coast
of Africa. . - -

OFF TILE ISLE OF Nirtcnx.—Arrd. Atalanta, ilansen,vgt. Domingo,
for Ilamburgh.

DOFF ST. ALBAN'S HEAD.—Pililaq, Radcliff, Surinam.
NEWPORT.— Ski. Horatio, Hall, Havannah.
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 21.—Wind S. to S.W., moderate.—Arrd. May
eld, Rigby, New Orleans ; Cremona, New Orleans ; Philopontus,
Jones, Savannah. Sailed Guatemala, Macmillan, Valparaiso;
Emanuel, Burn, Staten Island ; Elizabeth, Tickle, Montreal ; Ann,
Blair, Newfoundland ; Swallan, Steele, La Guayra ; Thetis, Philips',
Honduras ; Joshua Bates, Murdock, Boston ; JllllO. Abrams, Mon-
treal; Argo, Fearson, Newfoundland. Off, Champion, La Guayr ;
ltalieela, Margaret. An outward-hound schooner was aground this
morning on the North Spit., but got off soon after, and Is now putting
back.
OFF BEACEIT HEAD.—Arrd. Duke of Wellington, Rollaway, Beaton;
Telegraph, Scharlan, La Guayra, for Hamburgh.
OFF HoLritzan.—Arrd. Milllcete, Hunter, Mobile ; Princess Char-
lotte, Nickels, Savannah.
Willi WATERFOR
QuebD,
ec APRIL 20.—Wind N. to N.N.E.—SII. Lady Plagot,
ams, .

Viscount Morpeth and Lady Mary Howard are ex pected at the Earl of Carlisle's, Grosvenor-place, at the end
of the
week. from Castle Howard, Yorkshire, where the Earl of Burlington
and his youthltd family still remain.
Lord Brougham arrived in town on Monday evening,
from Cannes, in the south of Franco, where Lady Brougham nu
remains.