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contrary, ilat such creditor may cause such property
to be seized under the usual writ of fieri facias at his
own risk, and may apply the proceeds in discharge of
his own debt and costs, rendering the overplus (if any\
to the official assignee entitled to receive the same.
And be it enacted, that if any bankrupt or insolvent,
not being protected from process by the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, sall with the consent of the true owner thereof,
be in possession of any (=roods or chattels whereof he is
reputed owner, such goods and chattels shall be liable to
be seized under a writ of fieri facias for the benefit of
any person who may have issued the same.
And be it enacted, that this Act may be altered cr
repealed during the present session of Parliament.

PUBLIC HOUSES (SCOTLAND).
Report from the Select Committee appointed to take
into consideration the system of granting certificates for
public houses in Scotland, laid upon the table of the
House of Commons:—

1. That the number of houses in which spirits are sold
for consumption on the premises is excessive, and ought
to be restricted ; and in particular that the number of
such houses of inferior class is excessive, and productive
of evil, and that it would be expedient to repress the evil
arising therefrom.
2. That the facility with which licenses for the sale of
spirits is to be consumed on the premises are obtained,
is one main cause of the excessive number of such houses,
and of their indiscriminate character.

3. That the combination of the trade of grocers and
venders of other commodities with the trade of venders
of spirits to be consumed on the premises, is, especially
in towns, productive of evil consequences to the working
classes.

4. That great inconvenience arises from the circum-
stance that the Excise licenses are in force from October
to October annually, while the occupation of houses and
shops in Scotland is almost universally from Whit Sun-
day to Whit Sunday, and certificates are commady
granted in May. •
5. That with a view of diminishing the number and
improving the character of houses for the sale of spirits
to be consumed on the premises, and with the view of
securing a better appointment of the number of such
houses to the wants of each particular district, it is ex-
pediont that the system of granting certificates be
altered and amended.

S. That no certificate to any new party should be
granted until the number of public-houses in the district
or locality shall have been reduced to the number fixed
by the general committee first mentioned, without a spe-
cial reference to and approval by the said committee,
and in no case should more than one such new certificate
be granted in any cne district in any one year.
9. That each local committee should fix the minimum
rent of houses to the occupants of which new licenses
may be granted, and the minimum rent having been
so fixed, the same should not be altered without the
consent of the general committee.
10. That there should be one certificate for keeping
a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house, in which
beer, cider, or perry should be sold to be drank or
consumed on the premises, and a separate certificate for
keeping a common inn, alehouse, or victualling house,
in which spirits, &c. shall be sold to be drank or con-
sumed on the premises ; and that there should be se-
parate licenses to correspond with the separate certi-
ficates.
11. That no certificate for keeping a common inn,
alehouse, or victualling house, where beer or spirits are
sold to be consumed on the premises, and no license for
such sale of beer or spirits should be granted to any
person who sells groceries or such like commodities,
unless special permission to that effect shall be annexed
to the certificate, and subscribed in like manner as the
certificate.

12. That in no case should a certificate for license be
granted to any person whose character is not satisfac-
torily attested on the personal knowledge of the attesta-
tors, cacti of whom should add to his signature a state-
ment that the attestation is made on his personal know-
ledge.

13. That there should be a license for the sale of
spirits to be consumed on the premises, distinct and
separate from the retail license.

)4. That no certificate should be necessary to entitle
any person to a license to retail spirits not to be con-
sumed on the premises.
15. That it is very expedient that the period of tho
currency of Excise licenses should be made to corre-
spond, as nearly as possible, with the period of the oc-
cupation of the premises, viz., Whitsunday to Whit-
sunday.
16. That no certificate should be granted for a license
to the occupant of a toll-house in any case in which
there is a licensed public-house within two or three miles
of such toll-house on the same road ; nor unless tho
aforesaid general committee shall have resolved that a
license for such toll-house is necessary for the con-
venience of the district in which it is situate.
17. That the remuneration to the clerks in 'respect of
the matter of certificates shall be by a fixed annual sum,
and not by fees on each certificate.

6. That at their .meeting on the 30th of April, the
justices of the peace of each county should appoint a
committee of their own number for the purpose of as-
certaining and fixing the number of public houses ne-
cessary for the wants of each locality or district. That
this committee,"after full inquiry, should fix the number
for each district for a certain number of years prospec-
tively, and that such decision of the committee shoultd
be final.
7. That at the same meeting the justices of the peace
should appoint local committees to act in the several
localities or districts, in granting or renewing certificates,
and that the decision of every such local committee
should be final.

ARISTOCRACY OF THE SKIN. •
On Tuesday last two American sailors, named Alonzo
Lewis and George Brookes, were placed before Mr.
Rushton under the following circumstances:—
It appears that a poor Hindoo, who sells tracts, went
into the house where the sailors weye for the purpose of
selling his bookg.'l;,alkA4lllolln selling one, for
which he got paid. '':Onrilisf ,thi accused seized the re-
mainder of his stock ariddestrged them. On the Hin- •
doo remonstrating, he )vii,s"- immediately, with much
abuse, ordered out, link'rot instantly complying with
the order, both the sailor Wassailed him. He was beaten
and kicked, and fled for safety into the street. The
poor fellow was followed by his assailants, who, as Mr.
Moss, one of the witnesses, stated, beat and kicked him
about the head and breast in the most dastardly man-
ner. The seamen made no defence. As soon as this
Case had been heard, an elderly man, a negro, stepped
forward to prefer another charge. The negro stated,
that as he passed the same sailors, one of them squirted
his spittle into complainant's face, and, on being remon-
strated with, the negro was immediately knocked down
by one of the sailors, whilst the other threw at him a
large stone. The negro had not given him the slightest
provocation. Their cowardly conduct did not stop here;
for a poor woman, an English woman, who was carrying
a mulatto child in her arms, was strucked in the face,
and the child knocked down. In both these cases no
defence was made. These republican sailors were ex-
cited by the dark skin of their victims to abuse and in-
jure them. Mr. Rushton, on inquiry, found that the
negro had shipped on a voyage to Celcutta, and that to
detain him till the sessions would inflict further injury;
he, therefore, did not send them for trial. He, however,
spoke with indignation of the brutal conduct of the pri-
soners, and told them that such conduct in England
could not be endured ; that the laws admitted no dif-
ference between white and black ; and that the utmost
punishment the justices could award for the offence was
much too light. After consulting with Mr. Christopher
Rawdon, who sat on the bench, Mr. Rushton ordered
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each of the sailors to pay the sum of 5/. for each assault,
and in default of payment to be imprisoned two months;
ho also ordered them to find bail to keep the peace, or,
in default, to be imprisoned four months. We trust this
prompt and salutary punishment may serve to convince
such of our American visitors as venture to beat and
kick a man because he has a black skin, that the law is
too strong for them. We are glad to say, that in general
the American sailors are as well-behaved and as respec-
table as our own Now and then, however, the curse
which slavery brings appears, and we have the results
in acts of this kind.—Liverpool Mercury.

GROUSE SHOOTING IN " THE HOUSE."—In conse-
quence of the extreme length of the Parliamentary session,
several Members of Parliament are detained from their
favourite sport of grouse-shooting. As it is very hard upon
these individuals, who are thus deprived of their recreation
by the business f their country, it has bben proposed to in-
troduce into each House a large cage of living grouse, at
which Members may pop from their places, and thus combine
the pursuit of pleasure with the performance of an important
duty. They may, by this arrangement, discharge the order
of the day and their fowling-pieces at the same time, or
bring up the report on a Bill simultaneously with the reports
of a different character.—Punch.
COPPER ROCK.—The Detroit Advertiser contains, in
a letter addressed to that journal, the following account of
a most remarkable natural production :—Yon undoubtedly
have heard of the enormous copper rock at Eagle harbour
location, pronounced by Dr. Petit the great-grandfather of
all the rocks of this kind—estimating its weight at from 75
to 100 tons. A brief description by an eye-witness may be
interesting to your readers. At Eagle Harbour, commencing
at the shore of the lake, is au open cut 12 feet wide, $l5 feet
long, 7to 8 feet deep, in which is found this enormous mass
of copper. The shee, which is 90 per cent., pure copper, is
in the centre, running the entire length of the cut, varying
in thickness from 6 inches to 2 feet, having branches of from
1 to 2 inches in thickness shooting from it east and west, and
varying in length from Ito 2 feet. The interstices are filled
with sand and trap rock, charged with native copper—say
50 to 75 per cent. ; also small masses of beautifully crys-

talised marcasite or spar, filled with what has the appear-
ance of copper filings—being quite rich. This is what is
called the copper rock, as unlike a rock as possible ; it looks
more like a large tree that has fallen, and turned to metal,
with this exception, that its depth is not in proportion.
Large detached masses of native copper, weighing from 50
to 3001b5., are taken from alongside of this sheet, and the
vein stone up to the wall rock is richly charged with copper
in its native state.
ELECTORS (IRELAND).—A return has just been issued
by order of the House of Commons, showing the number of
Parliamentary electors registered for each county, city, town,
and borough in Ireland, on the Ist of February, 1835, 1837,
1845, and 1846 ; of the number of electors for counties en-
titled to vote on the 2d February, 1845, and 1846 ; and of
the number of electors registered for counties, cities, and
boroughs, from Ist February, 1844, to Ist February, 1845,
&c. These returns were moved for by Mr. Pigot, on the
15th of May last, and the following are a few of the
results shown thereby :—There was a decrease in the
number of registered electors in the county of Antrim,
on the Ist of February, 1840, compared with the Ist of Fe-
bruary, 1835, of 1,436 ; Carrickfergus, county town, a decrease
of 362 ; Cashel borough 67 ; Cavan county, 696 • Galway
; ;
county, 6,099 Limerick city, 952 Mayo county, a de-
crease of 1,184 ; Wexford county, 1,034 ; and in most of the
above, the decrease on the Ist of February last, compared
with the Ist of February, 1837, was still greater. In other
instances, there has been a decided increase in WisesTere
of registered electors. Thus, in the following cases tcoin
was the increase stated on the Ist of Februa.rY
pared with the let of February, 1837 ; city, ;
, Blonaghau county, 981 ; Waterford city,