The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-29 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, J UNE 20, 18 18.

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o'Clock.

RAILWAY COMMITTEES.
(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.
GROUP No. I.—LEEDS CENTRAL STATION.—PreaIII-
- passed, clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be re-
ported.
STRATHTAY AND BREADALBANE.—PreambIe passed,
clauses agreed to, and Bill ordered to be reported.
DRUMPELIER.—PreambIe proved, clauses agreed to,
and Bill ordered to be reported.
EAST LINCOLNSHIRE.—AIteration of Great Grimsby
Branch.—Preamble proved, and clauses agreed to.
YonK, NEWCASTLE, AND BERWlCK.—Deviation and
Abandonment of Part of the Thirsk and Melton Branch.
—Preamble proved, and clauses agreed to.
LEEDS AND THlRSlC—Harrowgate and Peeteley
Branch.—Preamble proved, and clauses agreed to.
WATERFORD AND KIKKENNY RAILWAY ACT AMEND-
MENT.—PreambIe proved, and clauses agreed to.
LEEDS AND THlRSK.—Alteration of Levels of the
Leeds and Hartlepool Railway.—Preamble proved, and
clauses agreed to.
EDINBURGH AND FORFAR.—Additional Capital.—
Preamble proved, and clauses agreed to.
EDINBURGH AND GLASGOW, No. I.—Branches.
Preamble proved, and clauses agreed to.

ELECTION COMMITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
DUBLIN.

The rcrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds'
majority was resumed, and in the course of the day the
petitioners succeeded in striking off two additional votes.

CANADA COMPANY.
(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly court of the directors and proprietors
of this company was held to-day, at one o'clock at the
offices, St. Helen's-place ; Mr. C. Franks in the chair.
The CHAIRMAN addressed some prefatory remarks to
the meeting, after which he read the following report:—
" Since the general meeting of proprietors, held on
the 23d of March last, the directors have received from
the Commissioners a statement of all the lands belonging
to the company remaining unsold on the 31st of
December last, and of the value thereof according to the
prices at which they were selling, which is as follows:-
523,421 acres in the Huron Tract

worth (Colonial currency)... ... £268,378 3
502,738 ditto, in the Crown Reserves,
worth

... 218,490 17 0

Together
To this should be added :-
306,872 acres leased for ten years,
and which the lessees are at liberty
to purchase, on payment of the
sum of

.- £481,869 0 1

... 218,302 0 0

£700,171 0 lf
1,333,031 acres, together worth sterling£s6o,l36 16 1i
By the addition of this statement to the report, made
to the proprietors at the last general meeting, the whole
of the assets and liabilities of the company on the 31s
of December last will be shown."
The CHAIRMAN then intimated that the business be-
fore the court was to agree to a dividend. The court of
proprietors recommended a dividend at the rate of six
per cent. per annum for the half-year ending on.the 10th
of July next.
A PROPRIETOR inquired how much the company owed?
The CHAIRMAN said 125,0001. on debentures. There
were, however, some other debts, but they did not amount
to a larger sum.
• A Paw-an Ton inquired if that amount would hare
to be deducted from the 560,0000
The CIIAIR3IAN replied in the affirmative. The whole
of the company's affairs were clearly explained in the
different reports of the company. Hitherto the directors
hrd not been enabled to give the proprietors the value
of their land. They could only give the number of acres.
In the present report it would be seen they had
been enabled to give the value of the land. The
proprietors would be gratified to learn that the emi-
grants now going to Canada were of a superior class to
those in the habit of going out.
A PROPRIETOR said it would be most desirable if
numbers of the destitute poor here could be induced to
emigrate to Canada and locate themselves on the land
of the company.
The CHAIRMAN said the class of persons referred to
would be found more useful in Australia than in
Canada, because an experienced class of persons were
required in the latter place. The directors had no inten-
tion to issue any debentures at present; there was suffi-
cient money in the hands of the Commissioners to pay
the dividend. Their number of acres might have dimi-
nisherfobut it was to the interest o4.the company to sell
as much land a, possible.
The report and the proposed dividend having been
agreed to, and a vote of thanks passed to the Chairman,
the court adjourned.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAN.)
(Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCIIELE.)
TAXING AN UNDERTAKER'S BILE.—TIANDYSIDE V.WILSON.

HANDYSIDE V. WILSON.

The plaintiff in these actions is an undertaker. De-
fendant was in the first case sued as executor of his
mother, sal 901. 3s. was claimed for funeral expenses,
&c.. the other was for the funeral of his wife, for which
80/. 33. was charged.
The bills were read and were rather remarkable for
thsk terms employed, which would have been more
applicable to a ticketing linen draper. A " superfine"
burial dress was charged at 21. 135., and "rich" silk
scarves, and "elegant," &c. &c. were prominent items.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF said it was for the jury
to say whether the charges were fair and reasonable.
The jury gave a verdict for the first case, 60/. for
the funeral, and 101. for extra work ; and in the next
for 601. 9s.

manifestly unjust, and he considered that no livings
should be united or dissolved without the consent of the
patrons.

- Earl FORTESCCE defended the provisions of the
Bill, which had been introduced under the auspices, and
with the approval, of the Rev. the Primate of Ireland.
Lord MONTEAGLE rose and was
(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took the Chair a few minutes before
Four o'Clock.

SLIGO ELECTION.
The minutes of evidence taken before the Sligo Elec•
tion Committee was presented to the House, and or-
dered to be printed.
THIRD READINGS.
The following Bills were read a third time and
passed :
Helmsdale, Little Ferry, and Leek Robie Harbours.
Whitehaven and Furnessid unction Railway (Extension
or Deviation Line from Silecroft to Foxtield, &c.)
The report upon the Leith Municipality and Police
Trusts, Markets, Paving, and Sanitary Improvement
Bill was considered and agreed to.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Colonel THOMPSON presented four petitions from
Manchester in favour of household suffrage, and several
petitions to the same effect from Aberdeen.
SELLING INTOXICATING LIQUORS.
Mr. GREENE presented a petition from Lancaster
against the sale of spirituous liquors on the Sabbath.
PARLIAMENTARY REFORM.
Dr. BOWRING presented forty petitions from Man-
chester in favour of Parliamentary reform, and two
from Bolten coinciding with the views of the Prime
Minister, and praying that universal suffrage and annual
Parliaments might be adopted in lieu of the limited mo-
tion of the Hon. Gentleman the Member for Montrose.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR presented petitions
in favour of Parliamentary reform.
Mr. G. BERKELEY presented petitions from Bristol
to the same effect.
cheMstrerloOotnWpAlaTinTingproefsethnoted pufhoiriotyexppeetintdiointus from
tre,inAa
favour
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ef Parliamentary reform, and stating that this would not
be accomplished until the people were more fairly re-
presented.
Lord R. GROSVENOR presented a petition from
the admirers of the late Richard Cartwright, praying
for universal suffrage and the vote by ballot, and saying
that if the House were so constituted that it would truly
deserve the title of being a tribunal of virtue, wisdom,
and justice.—(llear.)
THE ORDNANCE SURVEY.
Sir B. HALL gave notice that he would to-morrow
present petitions from surveyors and civil engineers
resident in the metropolis, praying that the services of
the Ordnance department might be confined to the
national survey; and he would take that opportunity of
asking his Noble Friend the Chief Commissioner of
Woods and Forests what arrangements had been
made for the completion of the survey of the
metropolis; and what would probably be the expense,
including the military pay, and whether the whole ex-
pense was to be defrayed by the rate-payers of the
metropolitan parishes?
Mr. HUME presented a number of petitions from
Glasgow, Berwick, and other places in the provinces, in
favour of Parliamentary reform.
NATIONAL EDUCATION.
Mr. GROGAN presented a petiton against the na-
tional system of education.
CUSTOM DUTIES.
Mr. WAWN, pursuant to the notice which he gave
yesterday, asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whe-
ther the Right Hon. Gentleman had made any calculation
what amount will have to be paid out of the consoli-
dated duties of customs, in the event of the navigation-
laws being repealed, in respect of double dues on foreign
shipping; and if so, what did it amount to (668,0001. hav-
ing already been paid on account of reciprocity treaties)?
And if the Right Hon. Gentleman had not made any
such calculation, whether her Majesty's Government, in
the event before alluded to, intend to introduce a Bill to
abolish the payment of double dues altogether?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER, in
answer to the question of the Hon. Member, said that
the Bill that had been introduced during the present
session did not make the least difference as to the
question of double dues ; at d as to the other question,
no increase would be entailed on the Exchequer.
The parties who received double dues received them
by Acts of Parliament, and would continue entitled to
them until those Acts were repealed.
SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. CARDWELL presented a petition from the Bra-
zilian Association of Liverpool against any alteration in
the Sugar Duties Act.
ENCUMBERED ESTATES (IRELAND) BILL.
In answer to a question from an HON. MEMBER,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL stated that he proposed to
bring on this Bill on Tuesday next.
BUSINESS OF THE HOUSE.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL, seeing the Hon. Gentleman
the Member for Montrose in his place, wished to ask
him whether, in the event of the adjourned debate on
the Sugar question not terminating to-night, he had any
objection to give up to-morrow night, and allow his re-
form motion to be resumed this day week ?
Mr. HUME said he had no objection to give up to-
morrow night, but the subject of reform was one of im-
mense importance to the country, and he saw no reason
why his motion could not come on on Monday.—(llear,
hear.) He would take that opportunity of stating that
he was sure the House bad come to the conclusion that
-,,mething must be done to forward the business of the
House.—(Hear, hear.) They were in a condition that
he never recollected to have occurred before. They had
five adjourned debates.—(Hear, hear.) From the time
which had elapsed since they debated the navigation•
laws he was quite certain a good deal of time
must be wasted in renewing the subject, and he would
appeal to the chair whether something ought not to he
done to get rid of this confused state of affairs.—(Hear,
hear.) Formerly a rule prevailed that no debate should
be adjourned, and if lion. Gentlemen had no objection
to the establishment of a similar rule now, he thought
the difficulty they were in might easily be overcome—
(Hear, hear.) At all events if the business of the
House was to be got through they must agree to one of
two courses, either they must have no adjourned de-
bates or they must limit the length of speeches.—(Hear,
hear.) The latter practice existed in another place.
Several Hon, 11E3113E11s—where ? What place ?
Mr. HUME said, in America.—(Cries of " Oh, oh!")
His own view was that no Member ought to be allowed
to speak more than half an hour, except the introducer
of the question or the Member who rose to reply.—
(Hear, hear.) They were now about to enter July,
and yet scarcely one great question had been decided
upon. Something must be done, or they would render
themselves contemptuous in the eyes of the country.
Lord J. RUSSELL was glad the Hon. Gentleman
had mooted this subject. The time had arrived when it
was absolutely necessary, for the sake of the public ser-
vice, that the House should use more dispatch in getting
rid of the business berore it; and he would suggest that
those Hon. Members who were in the habit of taking
part in the debates should consult with the Speaker to
see if any means could not be devised to effect that
object.—(Hear.)
Mr. HUME—WiII you allow me to take Monday ?
Lord J. RUSSELL said there was a good deal of
uncertainty about Monday, and he thought it better to
fix the debate at once for Thursday.
Mr. HORSHAM said, formerly it was the custom to
decide each question in one sitting, and he thought such
a rule ought to be adopted now.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY said he hoped the House would follow
that example, and decide on the sugar question to-night.
Mr. BROTHERTON quite agreed that it was neces
sary something should be done to regulate the proceed •
ings of the House, so as to limit the duration of the
debates. He would suggest, as one remedy, that Hon.
Members should be required to cut their speeches short.
—(Bear, hear.) On a late occasion, for instance, three
Hon. Members occupied no less than six hours in de-
livering their speeches, and thus prevented Members
who represented large constituencies, and who were
expected to give their opinions on great questions,
from getting up to speak.—(Hear, and laughter-) He
would recommend that a Committee should be appointed
to consider the subject, and to report to the Housp.
THE COLONIAL OFFICE.—EXPLANATION.
Lordaanli doe
hG. BENTINCK said he wished to put a ques-
tion, to enable the President of the Boarrd of Trade, the
Noble Lord at the head of her Majesty's Government,'
and an omUnder-Secretaryw of State for the Colonies, to
out to them resneetivel
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a number of relative to the concealment of
dtoter-h—esYwhich had been received from
Jamaica by the
Government. In answer to a question
which was put
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ruary by Mr.
rece,ivteh? former stated that no
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dispatch had been
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at that time he could prove that there were in the Now,
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session of the Colonial-office no less than fin dis
atephoes:
of March,
which contained statements of great i
respect to the general condition of Jamaica.
three dispatches were dated on the 25th
the 21st September, and the 6th of November, 1847.
But with respect to the last dispatch—the most ire,
portant one in reference to the answer given by the
Right Hon. Gentleman—that from Governor Grey, en-
closing that remarkable memorial to which public atten-
tion had been so much directed of late, and upon
which a discussion had commenced in the other
House of Parliament. He wished to know from the
Right Hon. Gentleman how he could come down to that
House, on the Bth of February, and state that no such
dispatch had been received, and that when it was re-
ceived it would be laid on the table of the House?
Mr. LABOUCHERE could not understand why any
attack was made upun him in reference to the matter,
since, in replying to his question, he was merely acting
as the organ of the Colonial-office, and he stated at the
time that he believed his Hon. Friend the Under Se-
cretary of State for the Colonies would be much
better able to do so, as he was, as a matter
of course more conversant with the affairs of that de-
partment than he could pretend to be. He (Mr. Labou-
chere) had made it his business to inquire at the Colonial-
office, and he found that what he stated, with re-
spect to that office—that its conduct in the matter
would be found perfectly honest, and was fully justified
by that inquiry. He found his answer more correctly
given in the Times of the 9th of February than in Han-
sard. The Hon. Gentleman then read the question and
answer. It was to the effect that no dispatch
had arrived from Jamaica containing any specific
account of the island, but that dispatches had
been received from some other of the West
Indian islands, which, with any that might arrive
from Jamaica it was the intention of the Secretary of
State to communicate immediately to the House. On

the 9th the Committee made an order for the production
of all papers in reference to the colony, and they were
prepared for presentation to the Committee before the
House, as the Committee required them immediately.
It was true that it was a month before all the dispatches
which were very numerous, were communicated to the
Committee, but it was not denied that the dispatch
which had been so much remarked upon of late was
communicated in print to the Committee. —(Hear,
hear.) The only pretext of delay tfiat the
Noble Lord had was, that a month had elapsed. He
would put it to the House and the Noble Lord whether
there was anything in the statement which he had made
which entitled him to say, after the explanation he had
made, that the course that bad been adopted at
the Colonial-office was in any degree inconsistent
with what he had stated some time since. He had no
hesitation in asserting that his Noble Friend at tho head
of the Colonial-office had acted on the present, as he
had done on all former occasions, with undoubted honour
and integrity.—(Hear, hear.)
FOREIGN CORRESPONDENCE.
Mr. URQUH ART postponed till to-morrow the
asking of the following question of which he had given
notice for to-day :—Why the correspondence between
Mr. Urquhart and Mr. Backhouse in the years 1837.8,
moved for on the 19th day of April, does not, as laid on
the table of the House, contain any letters of the year
1837, these letters being the part of the correspondence
which is of importance.

SUGAR DUTIES.
Mr. BARKLY called the attention of the Chancellor
of the Exchequer to the fact that the sugar duties would
expire on Wednesday next, and wished to know what
course he intem-ed to pursue supposing that the resolu-
tions with respect to them had not been passed through
Committee and reported on before that day.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER was in
hopes that the debate on the question of going into
Committee would be concluded that evening, and that
they would be enabled to go into Committee to-morrow,
and discuss the resolutions, and have them reporteJ
to the House on Monday or Tuesday ; in that
event the usual Treasury order would be issued with
respect to the duties. It the resolutions were not re-
ported before the expiration of the duties, he confessed
be did not know what course to adopt.
Mr. BRIGHT srid it would be in the recollection of
,he House, that when the corn question was under die
cussion—when it was a matter of protection—it was held
that the mere reporting; of a resolution to the House
was not sufficient to allow the new duties to be taken,
but that had it been a question of revenue that
course could have been pursued. Now, as the present
was a matter of protection he thought the same rule that
was observed on the corn question ought to be prevail
now.

The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said the
Honourable Gentleman was perfectly correct in his
statement, but in 1830 an additional duty of 6d. was
levied upon rum, and that duty was immediately levied
upon the resolution being reported to the House.
There was, however, a stronger precedent than this,
in 1831, when an additional duty was imposed
upon one particular description of wine, and lowered
upon another. In that case the duty was levied imme-
diately upon the resolutions being reported to the House,
and the same course was proposed to be followed in the
present instance.
Mr. BRIGHT wished to ask the Right Hon. Geatle-
man whether Government had made any arrangement
with a number of parties who had cargoes of foreign
sugar coming on 'their way to this country, which wete
expected to be entered at 18s. 6d. after the
sth of July, instead of 20s. It would be re-
membered that only three weeks ago an intimation
was given by the Government that they did not intend
to alter the Act of 1846, and it was upon the faith of
that declaration that these cargoes were ordered.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
according to the present regulations all cargoes afloat
would have to pay 20s.
Mr. ROBINSON wished to know how it was proposed
to enforce pay-merit of the 205., if on the sth of July the
existing duty of 18s. 6d. were tendered.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said,
they should refuse to allow the cargoes to be entered.
Mr. HILDYARD apprehended this was a question of
law and not of precedent, and he put it to the Attorney-
General whether, if a paarty on the sth of July tendered
the duty which by law could be demanded, and Govern-
ment refused to receive it and detained the goods for it,
would not be liable to make good the loss which
might result from such detention.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that case would
be met by the resolutions, as reported to the House,
being taken to be the existing law.
VAN DIEMAN'S LAND.
On the motion of Mr. ANSTEY, the following papers
were ordered to be laid before the House:—Copies•of
correspondence and papers in the Colonial-office re-
lating to the decisions of the two Judges con-
stituting the Supreme Court of Van Diemen's
land, against the validity of certain Acts of the Le-
gislative Council of that Colony, or to the removal of
Algernon Montagu, Esq., the Puisne Judge of the said
Court, or to any proceedings taken for the removal of
Sir John Lewes Pedder, the Chief Justice of the said
Court.

COMMITTEE ON COMMERCIAL DISTRESS.
Mr. NEWDEGATE wished to know whether it was
true, as reported, that the Seeret Committee on com-
mercial distress had refused to hear the evidence of rwo
gentlemen who were enabled to lay some important in-
formation before them ?
The SPEAKER informed the Hon. Member that the
report of the Committee had not yet been laid on the
table of the House.

TRINIDAD.
Mr. FAGAN inquired of the Under Secretary for the
Colonies whether Major James Fagan, who had been
two years acting as stipendiary magistrate in the
island of Trinidad had received his appointment from
the Colonial-office ; and if so, whether under that ap-
pointimint he had authority to adjudicate between
coolies and coolies, and coolies and colonists ?
Mr. lIAWES replied that Mr. Fagan was nominated
to the office at the instance of the East India Company,
and Sir W. Macllougal, the Governor, at the request
of that body, invested him with all the power of a
magistrate, in which capacity he was acting at present.

MR. lIUNIE'S MOTION.
Mr. B. OSBORNE wished to know into what under-
standing the Government had entered into with the
lion. Gentleman the Member for Montrose, with re-
spect to the day for which the adjourned debate on his
motion was to be taken, as at present he did not intend
to proceed with it to-morrow, and therefore appeared to
be adjourned sine die.

Lord J. RUSSELL said the debate on the Hon. Gen-
tleman's motion would be resumed on Thursday next.
EVICTIONS (IRELAND).
➢lr. P. SCROPE inquired if the Government had
taken any means to ascertain the extent to which evic-
tion had recently been carried out by some landlords in
Ireland? Also, when the destitute tenants', or rather
the landlords', amendments would be taken into consi-
deration ?

Sir N. SOMERVILLE said the Government had
taken no extraordinary means to do so. A Bill had
been introduced for the purpose of providing for any
extra amount for destitution caused by such proceedings.
Sir G. GREY said the Bill in question had come down
from the Lords with some amendments, which would be
printed.

(LEFT SITTING.)

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

Six o'CLocii.

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30 to 1 agst Reflection
GOODWOOD CUP.
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LATEST FROM PARIS.

From Galignani's Messenger of yesterday evening.)
The death of the Archbishop of PARIS forms a topic
of mournful comment in the leading columns of
several of the Paris journals of this day, but our
limits do not permit us to give more than two
extracts on this subject. We must be per-
mitted to add to them the expression of our
own grief, for although the circumstances under
which the ARCHBISHOP met his death were of them-
selves sufficient to excite the most profound sensations
of vwas one
we do not forget that his previous life
one continued career of piety and virtue. The
character of M. Amu' was remarkable for char
liberality, and firmness. His entire income,
deducting the l small portion that he
after
took for hi,
the poor, and it is known ona
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revolution devoted fto
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February; when his purse
the use of the wountl.th. the platelittle exhausted,.
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the best school, and by his energy carried into effect two
measures against obstacles with which few men in
his position, and with the ideas which he might have
been supposed to have imbibed, would have had the
courage to contend. It was M. AFFRE who, in spite
of the resistance of the churchwardens of the churches
of his diocese, insisted on the reduction in the price
of seats, in order that the poorer classes might not be
kept apart from their more fortunate fellow-wor-
shippers ; and he it was who also compelled the cures
to bestow upon the poor a portion of what they re-
ceived. The Debats says—
" This cruel catastrophe has plunged Paris into con-
sternation. Now it is that we begin to estimate the
cost of civil war. Alas! only a few hours before he
received his mortal blow, the courageous Archbishop
passed through our streets amidst the benedictions

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of the people. As an apostle of the God of peace,
clemency, and pardon, he bore the cross and
the sign of reconciliation into the very centre of murder
and carnage, and fell in the very heat of the battle. It
may be said that God, in pity for mankind, concealed in
darkness the hand that committed what was either a
frightful crime or a most lamentable misfortune.
On this sublime sacrifice, Christian hearts are di-
vided between a holy pride and an inconsolable
sadness. The history of the Church does not con-
tain a more admirable page. On being carried bleeding
over the barricades, the only thought, the only words
of the martyr were May my blood be the last that is
shed 1' In its flight to its creator, the immortal soul
of the just, no doubt, demanded this as the price of
his oblation and his holocaust, and his prayers arrests d
the work of blood and expiation. Death, after having,
among so many others, struck this innocent and
holy victim, seemed to have become satiated. After
two days of excruciating su&rings, the venerable pre-
late died full of calmness, resignation, and courage, the
purest—the most admirable example of the passage of
the soul of the just into the bo,onst of
its God. We cannot describe the extent and
depth of the mourning which this egregious event
produced in Paris—it was universal. In every street
at every corner, the priests u-re questioned upon the
subject with the utmost anxiety, and in this great
blood-stained city even those who hail to mourn some
of their own kindred reserved a portion of their tears
for the holy martyr who died for all."
The Univers says—.
" This death is precious in the eyes of God; it is
precious also to Paris and to France. It is a death,
no doubt, to be ever lamented, but which at the same
time fills us with consolation. A country in which
such devotedness is displayed cannot be a coun-
try under the malediction of heaven. You who have
lighted or sustained an impious war—you who
nourished against your deluded brethren an implacable
anger. Oh ! if you had been present with us at his
last moments—if you had seen the tears and emotions
of the priests, the soldiers, the citizens of all classes,
who were in attendance upon him—if you had heard
the last and solemn prayers which sustained him
till the end—if you had contemplated the sere-
nity of that countenance, about to render its last sigh
—that sigh which was for you ! Oh ! we cannot
doubt that you would have immediately cast away all
your resentful feelings—your minds would have been
elevated with a higher order of thoughts and ideas—you
would at once have become what you are really in your
hearts, much more than you believe—Friends, Brothers,
Christians! This miracle will be accomplished. Such
a sacrifice cannot be sterile. God has not imposed it
upon you in vain. The hour of his mercy is marked—
this hour cannot be far off."

aThe number of troops in Paris is so great, from the
reinforcements constantly arriving, that all the barracks
are filled to overflowing, and added to this the military
precautions imposed by the aut de siege render it neces-
sary that part of the troops should bivouac in the open
air, and hence the Boulevards, extending nearly from
the Porte St. Denis to the middle of the Boulevard du
Temple, is turned into a vast military station, occupied
by lancers, dragoons, artillery, garde mobile, and troops
of the line. The various occupations of cleaning their
horses and equipments, cooking, and amusing them-
selves, give this part of Paris a. most animated aspect,
the novelty of which drew thousands to that quarter
yesterday afternoon and evening. The soldiers, though
much fatigued, display all that exuberant gaiety which
is a marked feature in the French military character,
and those of them who were asleep, with a paving stone
for their pillow, seemed to enjoy a repose which the
occupant of many a bed of down might envy. The
whole scene gave a lively idea of life in a camp—the
brighter aide of civil war, the gaiety of which was in
melancholy contrast to the marks of devastation left by
the recent conflict in the surrounding streets. On the
Place de la Concorde and at the entrance of the
Champs ElyE6es, troops of all descriptions are also bi-
vouacked, and present the appearance of a seat of war,
which has not been witnessed in Paris since the memo•
rable year 1815.

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HOP INTELLIGENCE.
MAIDSTONE.—It is impossible for the hop bine to
look more healthy, and it may be called quite clean.
A few days ago there were a fly or two to
be found, but the fly goldings are very numerous.
We may, therefore, attribute to their industry the
disappearance of the vermin. Speculations on
the present appearance of the coming crop are very ex-
travagant, as they have ten weeks longer to hang on the
poles, subject to all their enemies. With the refreshing
showers of the last week, we may estimate an improve.
ment 10,0001., making the total 200,0001. duty.
YALDING, LINTON, FA.RLEIGH, CIIART.—The bine
grows rapidly and looks healthy. The high winds have
driven the heads off the poles and done some mischief,
but still weather will enable them to catch again. Un-
fortunately many bines must be put right by ladder
tying, which adds to the expense of cultivation.
ULcoms.—Quite free from vermin. The weak bine
has not made so much progress as the planters expected.
The wind and the cold night of Saturday has much
bruised the strong bine. The prospect altogether is not
so good as last week; if we get a continuance of showery
weather and oold nights it will affect the crop most
seriously.
STAPLEHURST.—Rine growing fast. Some grounds
back ward.

SEVENOAKS.—The thunder-storm of Monday week, and
the succeeding showers, have done wonders in cleansing
the bine, but although the hops generally are much im-
proved, and divested in a great measure of the vermin,
the appearance of the gardens is anything but satis-
factory; the bine came away at first very unequally and
unevenly, and has never recovered. Ira the beat planta-
tions in the neighbourhood may be observed a dozen
hills with the binea nearly topping the poles, whilst
close adjoining' the other hills (and at places to a great
extent) the bine is not above two feet high Poor,
spindly, and looking yellow; still, the last week has
done wonders, but we do not augur a large crop. The
bine on the Limestone and Blackstone Shatter is cer-
tainly more even than its otherwise good soil favoured
neighbours. The same observations will apply to the
whole of the districts through Westerham westward
through Brasted, Sundrich, Chevening, and Seal,
as regards the Sand and Limestone Ridge. In the Vale of
Eden the hops appear to have suffered from drought; they
however are much improved, but there is not (except
isolated places) abundance of bine, and the gardens, as
we before said, are very " platty;" this would more parti-
cularly apply to the sandy clays and still soils of Eden-
bridge, Hever, Chiddingstone, &c. Upon and till north
of the great Chalk Ridge, the hops are perhaps as even
as any we have seen, but still there is not, comparatively
with the corresponding month last year, anything liko
so good an appearance of a crop.—Maidstone Journal.

AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATlL—Thursday the Lady
of Capt. Hillier, in company with Mrs. Elizabeth Bran-
don, left her residence in Pittville Villas to attend the
public meeting for the distribution of prizi.'s at the Col-
lrgß. Nothing of importance took place until they reached
the College, when Mrs. Hillier complained of shortness
of breath. She entered the largo room, but finding
herself suffering so much Immediately went out and sat
down in the hall. She asked for a little water, which
was brought, but she was unable to swallow any. In a
tew moments her face became discoloured, she lost all
power, and falling into the arms of her friend, imme-
diately expired.—Cheltenham. Journal.

LAW IN TELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMOiV PLEAS, June 28.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before the LORD
.CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.)
NEWTON V. CHAPLIN.
This was an action brought by Mr. Augustus Newton,
a barrister, to recover from the defendant the deposit
money paid upon certain shares allotted to the plaintiff
in the Sheffield and Macclesfield Direct Railway Com-
pany. The defendant denied his liability.
Mr. Newton (with whom was Mr.Atherton) conducted
his own case; and Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Bovill
were counsel for the defendant.
The plaintiff, Mr. Augustus Newton, resides at St.
Paul's Cottage, Cheltenham ; and the defendant, Mr.
John Chaplin, is one of the firm of the well-known car-
riers of that name, and keeps the Spread Eagle Tavern,
in Gracechurch-street. It appeared that, in the autumn
of 1815, a railway scheme, designated the Direct Shef-
field and Macclesfield Railway, was projected by a Mr.
William Chaplin, a brother of the defendant, and seve-
ral other gentlemen, who, with the defendant, Mr. John
Chaplin, were registered as the provisional committee-
men. This provisional committee held their meetings
principally at the Swan with two Necks, in Lad-lane,
a house kept by Mr. William Chaplin, the brother
of the defendant, and who acted as chairman of the
meeting:. In due course of time the promoters adver-
tised their project in the Times. to which they appended
the names of both the brothers Chaplin as provisional
committeemen among others. Mr. Newton, the plaintiff,
having seen the advertisement, and amongst the pro-
moters the names of men so respectable as the brothers
Chaplin, applied to the company to have 100 shares
allotted to him. In answer to that application the
plaintiff had 40 shares allotted to him in four allotments of
10 shares each. The company proposed to raise a capital
of 80,0001. in 4,000 shares at 201. each ; and the deposit
money was to be 21. 2s. per share. On having the 40
shares allotted to him Mr. Newton paid the deposit
money of two guineas a share, amounting to 841.
Eventually the scheme was abandoned by the projectors,
and one--half of the deposit money returned to the
allottees of shares, and to Mr. Newton amongst the
others. Mr. Newton now sought to recover the other
half of his deposit money, which the promoters had
thought fit to retain.

statement to the jury,
Ali. NEWTON, in his opening
charged the promoters with not having meted out an
equal measure of justice to all the allottees of shares
alike in the matter of the return of the deposit money.
To him and others they had only returned one-half,
while to certain favoured persons they had thoughr, fit to
return three-fourths of the deposits. He should be able
to show that no regular account had been rendered to
the shareholders, that the balance sheet, such as it was,
was full of misrepresentations and falsehood, and that,
in some respects at least, the money subscribed for this
undertaking was deliberately applied by the Messrs.
Chaplin and those acting with him, to the payment of
debts for which they were liable, and not at all connoc-
ted with this scheme.

Mr.lWilliamChaplin, the chairman of the company,
Mr. Fry, the defendant's attorney, and Mr. George Fre-
derick Eyre, the secretary, were severally called by Mr.
Newton, with the view to fix the defendant with having
acted as a provisional committeeman in the proposed
railway scheme, but nothing to the purpose was elicited
from any of them, except the fact from the secretary.
that the defendant had attended two of the preliminary
meetings. lie had not been seen at any of the subse-
quent meetings when the company had been regularly
embodied.
The Lot Cam, JUSTICE interposed—Unica, Mr.

Newton, you can show that this gentleman, Mr. John
! Chaplin, was acting as a provisional committeeman, it
' will be of no use your wasting the time of the Court.
You are seeking to charge this gentleman with fraud,
and you must show tome acts by a hieh it clearly ap-
pears that those who committed the frauds acted by his
authority. It is very odd that you have selected a gen-
tleman who has really so little to do with the company.
Here we are till two o'clock
Mr. NEWTON—The real difficulty, my Lord, is to get
at the real Simon Pute.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—But you have taken a
Simon Pure who is a long way off.—(Laughter.) It is
really of no use your wasting the time of the Court,
unless you can call witnesses to fix the defendant with
having acted as a provisional committeeman. We like
to see that one is making way, especially as you made
some remarks on the very slow course of justice.—
(Laughter.) The defendant's name being on the provi-
sional committee will not lay a foundation fur this action.
Unless you can go further to connect the defendant than
by showing his attendance at a preliminary committee
meeting, I shall tell the jury there is no evidence.
Mr. NEWTON, nothing daunted, renewed the attempt,
and called and recalled several other witnesses in order
to prove the defendant's attendance at the meetings of
the company, and the allotment to him of a sufficient
number of shares to qualify him to act as a provisional
committeeman ; but with as little success as before,
which elicited considerable merriment as each failure to
get over the difficulty became manifest and called down
repeated expressions of impatience from the Lord Chief
Justice, who besides had frequent occasion to reprove
Mr. Newton for his disregard of the rules of evidence.
Air. ATHERTON, on behalf of Mr. Newton, submitted
to the Coo rt that the question was, whether there was
not evidence that the plaintiff paid the money, the
amount of which was not in dispute, upon a considera-
tion which had failed, the scheme in respect of whick ho
subseribed it :laving miscarried ?
The LORD CIIII.F JUSTICE was of opinion that there
was no case to go to the jury. It seemed to him that
the plaintiff had failed to make out that he had any
locus standi in the court on the present occasion. It
was in evidence that the defendant at one time consented
that his name should be announced as a provisional
committeeman; but they had in evidence also, that in
order to quality him to act as a provisional committee
man it was necessary that he should possess a certain
number of shares, and it did not appear that he did
possess any shares; but on the contrary, when he was
called upon to qualify as a provisional committeeman he
refused to pay, and he never, in tact, attended any other
than a preliminary meeting. It appeared to him (the
Lord Chief Justice) that he never became a member of
the company. There was no evidence that he had re-
ceived the plaintiff's money, which was the foundation
of the present action. It was the mere payment of
money into a certain banker's, having an account with
certain names, namely, the Direct Sheffield and Mac-
clesfield Railway Company. There was no evidence to
go to the jury, and it seemed to him (the Lord Chief
Justice) that the plaintiff must be nonsuited.
The plaintiff was nonsuited accordingly.
The trial lasted nearly eight hours.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 28.
,Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the Loan CHIEF BARON
and a Common Jury.)
GADDERER V. Hassle.
This case, which was partly heard on Tuesday, was
an action to recover 2001., the amount of a bill of ex-
change alleged to have been accepted by the defendant,
who pleaded 17 pleas denying the acceptance and the
several indorsements, as alleged, by James Lomas, Jabez
Haime, Frederick Haime, R. Shires, and John Miles,
and averrirbos that the bill was accepted for a special pur-
pose, which had not been carried out; that there was no
consideration for such acceptance; that it was obtained
by fraud and conspiracy; and that the plaintiff and the
various indorsees took the bill with full knowledge of
those facts and without any consideration.
This was one of those numerous actions, of which the
public have beard so much, and which have arisen from
applications made by various clergymen in answer to ad-
vertisements in the Watchman newspaper, to the effect
that the advertiser had 7,000/ to advance for pious pur-
poses upon the personal responsibility of clergymen of
the Methodist persuasion. Application to be made to
Mr. Lomas, 53, Mount-street, Lambeth.
Mr. Humfrey and 2,1 r. R. B. Miller appeared for the
plaintiff.
Mr. Montague Chambers and Mr. Dovvdeswell for the
defendant.
The case having been opened on the part of the
plaintiff,
Thomas Clark, who was the first witness called, said
that he knew the defendant and his handwriting. The
acceptance was his writing. Upon cross-examusination,
he said he became acquainted with the handwriting of
the defendant by going to Pengwelley under pretence of
taking lodgings for an invalid, and called upon the de-
fendant as ti person recommended to minister spiritual
consolation. The witness tied his arm in a sling, and
by this means, upon application, the defendant wrote his
address as the person to whom the invalid was to be re-
commended upon arrival. He obtained the handwriting
of one of the indorsers, who kept a shop in Pengwelley,
by watching when tho party was alone in his shop, and
then going in to buy a bottle of pickles, as mate to a
vessel, and requiring a receipt to be put to the bill.
Langdale, another witness, proved the handwriting of
Mr. Lomas, another of the indorsers; he had seen the
party write three letters in the office of the plaintiff, he
standing by his side and observing the signatures. The
witness bad known this indorser a week only. He also
proved the handwriting of Mr. Shires, another indorser.
lie knew him by having done business with him; the
business was applying for orders to the Lyceum Theatre.
He had seen Mr. Shires in Panton-square. It was at a
hill-discounting house. He did not know when it was
He knew the handwriting of another indorser, Miles.
He was a relation of his; but he did not know what he
wask but he was of very respectable connexion. Mr.
Shires was an elderly man, neither tall nor short, not
dark nor fsir, greyish hair, neither light nor dark; he
did not know him to a hair. Mr. Miles was neither
young nor old, and neither tall nor short. Three letters
were then put in, the signatures being turned back. He
had never seen any of those handwritings before. Upon
being re-produced to the witness, he said the signatures
were those of Mr. Lomas. He had been an attorney,
and was now clerk to the attorney for the plaintiff. The
bill of exchange was then put in and read.
Joseph William Snell—Mr. Gadderer, the plaintiff,
had several times taken the benefit of the Insolvent
Debtors' Act, and bad been twice a bankrupt. He
lived in Craven-street, in the Strand, and discounted
hills very largely. The witness had a cause in the list ;
it was an action on a bill of exchange for 1851. He had
discounted it for Gadderer. He had no means of liv-
ing ;he resided at present with; his daughter. The
bill upon which the action was brought was dis-
counted at the rate of 60 per cent. per annum. He
paid the money to Shires, who indorsed to the plain-
tiff. The plaintiff had lived 22 years in his present resi-
dence, and had also at one time a country house at
Streatham. His wife had a large property of her own-
-1,2501. a year.
This was the plaintiff's case.
Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS having addressed the
Court on behalf of the defendant,
William Wootten was the first witness called. He
recollected Lomas calling, in January, 1847, for letters
at his house (which was the post-office) at 53, Mount-
street, Lambeth. He had no knowledge of Lomas, and
had not given him permission to have his letters directed
there. About 30 letters were received.
John Villsden knew a person of the mime of Tuckers'
the bill was in his handwriting, and so were the signa-
ture and the endorsement in the name of Lomas. Three
letters addressed to the defendant upon the negotiation
respecting the bills of exchange, and signed " Lomas,"
were in the handwriting of Tucker. He knew a person
of the name of Sidserf; the copy for an advertisement
inserted in the ii'alchman on the 13th January, 1847,
was in his handwriting. It was shown to him before
insertion. He had known both the parties for some
years.
The letters from Lomas to the defendant were then
put in and read. These letters contained the terms of
the pretended negotiation, and were written in an affected
spirit of the greatest possible piety, but dealing most
freely with sacred names. The witness knew Shires;
had seen him in company with Sidserf and Tucker, at
the Bull Inn, Bishopegate, on many occasions.
Thomas Marsden knew Richard Shires, who lodged
in his house for some time at 6s. 3d. per week. He left,
leaving a balance of 271. 10s. in arrears.
C. T. Lewis—Was an officer in the Queen's Prison.
Sidserf, Dadderer, and Shires, had been in the prison
together. Gadderer had been in the prison five times,
between the years 1829 and 1839.
John Henry Newdiman—Miles was a tenant of his
at 4s. 6d. per week. His wife went out washing.
Mary Curling—Was the housekeeper at No. 9, Pan-
ton-square. Miles had an office there at 12s. 6d. per
week. She had seen Gadderer put down the money to
pay the rent.
Six schedules of Gadderer's insolvency were then put
in, from 1826 to 1843.
This closed the defendant's case.
Mr. Humfrey replied—He did not deny the fraud prac-
tised upon the defendant; the question was whether Mr.
Gadderer had bona fide given a consideration for this bill.
At one time it was held that a man was not justified in
taking a bill under suspicious circumstances, but that
doctrine had long been exploded in Westminster-hall,
and a man had now a perfect right to take a bill under
any circumstances, because the original doctrine was
found very much to embarrass the mercantile interests
in the circulation of bills of exchange ; but it cannot be
supposed that, under such circumstances, a bill would be
discounted at 5 per cent. ; the bill is bought, perhaps, for
50/., upon the faith of the names upon it, and the plaintiff
is at least entitled to recover the amount he has paid. Is
the person guilty of the indiscretion of putting his name
to a negociable instrument, or the person who, upon the
faith of that name, advances money, to be the sufferer?
There was no evidence whatever of any acquaintance
between Miles and the previous indorsers. There was
no evidence of fraud on the part of Miles or Gadderer.
Why did not Mr. Haimes give some notice of the fraud
practised in obtaining the bill ? No suggestion even of
this was made until the pleas were put upon the record ;
and Mr. Gadderer having paid a valuable consideration
fur the bill was entitled to recover.
The Loan CHIEF BARON, in summing up, said this
was the first time in which ho had ever known such evi-
dence as in this case given of handwriting. The only
knowledge the witness had of the defendant's writing
was such as he had obtained upon a most fraudulent and
wicked representation, and he did not know whether the
jury would not have been justified in dismissing the case
upon that evidence. There is no doubt the law of usury
in respect of bills of exchange is wholly repealed, and
they may now be discounted at any rate of interest ; but,
though legal, it does not follow that a conclusion may
be drawn by the jury of the knowledge of the facts
under which the bill was obtained. It is true, as ob-
served by the counsel for the plaintiff, that a person is
not bound to inquire into all the facts of the bill, but it

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must have been upon a bona fide transaction. The plain-
tiff must have taken the bill honestly ; and if the jury
believed the plaintiff had so taken the bill, he was en--
titled to their verdict. Ile must advert to the evidence
of the handwriting of Lomas, who turned out to be
Tucker. The only evidence was that of Langdale, who
had seen him write three letters in the office of the plain-
tiff's attorney. The purport of those L-tters, of which
the witness knew nothing, could be easily conceived ;
and he must say that he thought there was some evi-
dence to connect the plaintiff with all the other parties.
The jury immediately returned a verdict that the bill
was obtained by fraud, of which the plaintiff was cog-
nisant.