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London, England, 1846-08-19 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LORDS.
OTEST AGAINST THE THIRD READING OF THE

SCOTTISH JOINT-STOCK BANKS BILL.
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Ist, Because the Bill is inconsistent with those free and
lib era Principles of trade by which her IViajesty's Ministers
arer understood to be governe,l, inasmuch as, under the pre-
tent a of removing a monopoly disadvantageous to the public,
it co vers the monopoly with a protection that fixes it more
firm, ly than ever. - While it protesses to open the door to an
equal dispensation of -chartered privileges to all Scottish
bank: i that may petition for them,- it bars it,' at the same
time, against any bank but such as may choose to submit
to vex atious conditions, calculated to create in the public
mind .individious distinctions between them and the old
chartered banks, which by this Bill are to be exempt from
such conditions.

2d. Because the legislative interference with the manage-
meat of joint-stock companies, which this Bill provides, is
erroneous in principle; but, even if it were sound, the incon-
sistency of its application is conspicuous, as it imposes rigid
rules and restrictions on one class of banks, whose consti-
tution and unlimited responsibility offer to the public the
most perfect security, wuile it exempts from all such inter-
ference another class of banks, less securely constituted, ind
in which the probabilities of mismanagement are as great,
if not greater.
Bd. because the confining of certain privileges to one class
of banks in Edinburgh, while the banks in other large towns
are, by this Bill, to he debarred from the attainment of such
privileges on equal terms with their competitors, is disadvan-
tageous to the public ; for the exclusive privilege of re-
ceiving deposits of public money, trust funds, railway de-
posits, &c, greatly increases the trading power of the char-
tered establishments, and the large sums which are thus di-
rected to these banks, in place of being permitted to flow in
their natural channels, enables them to change the rate of
discount when the existing state of commercial affairs does
not warrant such a step, and the relations depending bet Ween
other banks and the public are thus liable to be disturbed,
and speculation encouraged.
4th. Because the Bill takes away all discretionary power
of granting charters of incorporation to banks founded on
such equitable principles as circumstances may at the
time suggest, and as was done in the case of the Commer-
cial and of the National Banks of Scotland, and because it
limits the power of her Majesty to the granting of charters
according to the specific provisions of this Bill only; that is,
upon terms and conditions which no bank in Scotland is
likely to accept. Consequently this Bill, if passed into a
law, will become an act for no apparent object of public ad-
vantage, but in reality an act for preserving to the five
chartered banks of Edinburgh their existing monopoly.
RADN OR.

PARLIAMENTARY. BUSINESS.
From the Votes and Proceedings of the House of Commons.

WEDNESDAY, AUG. 18.

Messengers from the Lords brought up the following Bills,
to which their Lordships have agreed :
Court of Common Pleas Bill—Sugar Duties (No. 3) Bill—
Militia Pay Bill—Forms (Assessed Taxes) Bill—Naval
Medical Supplemental Fund Society Bill, without amend-
ment—Amendments to Booth's Charities (Clowes') Estate
Bill—Duke of Cleveland's Estate (Bathgate and Wrington)
Bill, without amendment—Caledonian Railway (Clydesdale
Junction Railway Deviations) Bill, with an amendment—
Taff Vale Railway—Allhallows (Northampton) Tithes Bill
—Glasgow and Belfaq Union Railway Bill—Poor Removal
Bill—Metropolitan Sewage Manure Company Bill—Sion
College Bill—East and West India Docks and Birmingham
Junction Railway Bill—London and South. Western Rail-
way (London-bridge Extension) Bill, with amendments.

DEATH OF SIR C. WETHERELL.
This venerable and much-celebrated lawyer, whose name
has been rendered familiar to our readers by his providential
escape from the Bristol rioters, his determined opposition to
the Reform Bill, and other measures, and by his connexion
with the Government on the occasion of the prosecution of
Thistlewood and his associates, expired at half-past five
o'clock on Monday evening, at Preston Rectory, Maidstone,
from the effects of the melancholy accident, the particulars
of which have already been recorded in this' paper. He
breathed his last in the presence of his nephew, Mr. Nathan
Wetherell, barrister, Mr. Peach (his clerk), &c. &c., being
for some time previou% indeed we might add from the mo-
ment of the accident, quite unconscious of all that was pass-
ing aroun d.

Yesterday morning the melancholy news was conveyed to
Lady Wetherell, the Hon. Mrs. Warneford, her mother,
Archdeacon Wetherell, the Rev. W. Wetherell, the brothers
of the deceased, Mr. Richard Spooner, M.P., who is married
to a sister of the deceased, and to the family mansion, 34,
Berkeley-square.
Lady Wetherell, it will be recollected, proceeded to the
bedside of her now departed husband on Tuesday week, but
returned to town on the following day agreeably to the re-
quest of the medical gentlemen in attendance upon the
Right Hon. and Learned Knight.
As a politician and a public man perhaps no one was
better known than Sir Charles Wetherell, and though his
extreme opinions for many years past found but little sym-,
pathy throughout the country, all admired the honesty and
candour which he displayed, particularly upon resigning the
Attorney-Generalship when the Catholic Emancipation Bill
was brought forward by the Duke of Wellington and Sir
Robert Peel in 1829; and we need hardly state that in so
doing he made a heavy sacrifice, as otherwise he would have
long since been called upon to fill perhaps the highest office
of his profession.
Sir Charles Wetherell was born in the year 1771, being
the third son of the Rev. Nathan Wetherell, D.D., M.A., of
University College, Oxford, and Dean of Hereford. At a
very early age the deceased evinced a strong desire for the
legal profession, and in 1790 he entered the Inner Temple as
a student, having previously completed his education at
Oxford. In 1794 he was called to the bar by the Honour-
able Society of the Inner Temple, and of that institution he
was the leading bencher for many years. His progress as
an advocate, principally in the Chancery Courts, was pretty
rapid; in the course of time he received a silk gown, and in
1823 was appointed Solicitor-General, being on the occasion
knighted by his late Majesty George IV. In 1826 he suc-
ceeded to the Attorney-Generalship, an office which he re-
signed on the formation of the Canning Mini4try in 1827 ;
but
.the formation of the Wellington Government in 1828
once more witnessed him the King's principal law officer.
In 1829, the Government of which he was a member deter-
mined upon conceding to the claims of the Roman Catholics
—a course which met with the marked disapproval of Sir
Charles, and resolving not to sacrifice principle for in-
terest, he resigned, and never again held office under
Government.

The deceased was first returned to Parliament for the now
disfranchised borough of Boroughbridge ; he also repre-
sented Oxford for a considerable period, but latterly he de-
clined taking any part whatever in the proceedings of the
Legislature, as he never could reconcile himself to the ma-
chinery of the Reform Bill, which, like other measures
deemed by him inroads on the constitution, he emphatically
but unsuccessfully opposed.
Since his retirement from Parliament, Sir Charles de-
voted himself to his professional duties, his practice being
confined to the Equity Courts. Apart, however, from West-
minster Hall and Lincoln's Inn, he held three lucrative ap-
pointments, viz., those of Recorder of Bristol, standing
counsel to the University of Oxford, and leading legal adviser
to his Majesty the King of Hanover.
In his addresses to the House of Commons while a Member
Sir Charles was generally very satirical and sometimes per-
sonal in his remarks ; in consequence he was involved on
many occasions in conflicts with Hon. Members. Indeed, in
various ways the deceased showed tokens of eccentricity.
more particularly so in his manner of dress, which his oldest
friends seldom remember to have sees adjusted in an orderly
manner.

Sir Charles Wetherell did not enter the married state
until far advanced in life. He had completed his 60th year
when be espoused the daughter of the late Sir Alexander
Cooke, of Studeley Priory, Oxfordshire. By this lady, now
dead several years, he had one child which expired four
months after birth. He married a second time about eight
years since Miss Warneford, the daughter of Colonel and the
Hon. Mrs. Warneford, of Warneford-place, Wiltshire. This
lady, by whom the deceased had no family, is about forty
years of age, and is heiress to a large property.
At the time of the melancholy occurrence Sir Charles, it
appears, was returning from an inspection of an estate which
he purchased some months back. It is generally understood
that he has died very wealthy, if indeed not enormously so.
Though a member of the Inner Temple, he kept his offices
for many years back in Stone-buildings, Lincoln's
About four months ago he purchased the splendid mansion
formerly occupied by the Earl of Abergavenny, in Berkeley-
square.
The mortal remains of the deceased will, it is understood,
be interred in the Benchers' vault, Temple, unless his repre-
sentatives should resolve otherwise.

DEATH .4 GENERAL WuLFF.—Lieut.-General Wulff,
of the Royal Artillery, died at the residence of his (laughter,
Lady liardinge, on the Gun Wharf, Chatham, on Monday,
the 17th instant, at the advanced age of 83 years.
DEATH OF B 4RON DEDEL.—We regret to announce
the demise cf his Excllency Baron Dedel, the Netherlands
Minister at this Court, which event took place on Monday
last, at his residence in Wilton-crescent.

DEATH OF THE PRINCE DE ROHAN ROCHEFORT.—
PRAGUE, AUG. 7.—The death of his Highness the Prince
Benjamin Bohan Rochefort has the more deeply affected the
inhabitants of Prague, to whom he was known, as the dread-
ful catastrophe was wholly unexpected. He arriyed here in
the afternoon from one of his estates, intending to leave the
city in the evening of the same day. Towards sunset, in
order to refresh himself after his journey, he resolved to go
to the military swimming institution. In spite of the warn-
ing of the superintending °Dicer, the Prince ventured the
dangerous leap from (or over) the barrier, when he was so
unfortunate as to be carried under the raft, and though all
the swimming masters followed him, it was with the greatest
difficulty that they got him out of the water. All means
taken to recover him were unavailing, his exertion in leaping
having doubtless caused a rush of blood, which proved fatal.
DEATH OF THE REV. JOHN CHEVALLIER.—We have
this week to record the death of a most valuable and much
esteemed magistrate in this county, the Rev. J. Chevallier,
111. D., of Aspal-hall, than whom few persons lived more
universally esteemed by his relatives, his friends, and his
neighbours, or who will be more generally missed and la-
mented by them now that he is taken away. Dr. Chevallier,
for many years past, has taken a leading interest in all the
plans for improvement of the district in wlich he has re-
sided ; and his name will be long identified with the agri-
culture of this county,% by the widely-extended reputation
which the " Chevallier barley has acquired, which was
first cultivated under his auspices, and on the estate where,
for many generations, his family have resided.—lpswich
Express.
DEATH OF
REAR-ADMIRAL_ TRENCH.—On Sunday
morning, at six. o'clock, the Hon. William Le Poer Trench,
Rear-Admiral, breathed his last at his residence, nearßallina-
sloe. He was in the seventy-sixth year of his age, and re-
tained his faculties, unimpaired, to the moment of his disso-
lution. Disease of the heart was the cause of his death. He
's
was the uncle of Lord Clancarty, and for a considerable
period acted as bis Lordship agent.
SINGULAR Roan ERY --Yesterday Mr. Inspector
Henderson, belonging to the New Cross station, Kent-road,
gave information to Mr. Superintendent Mallalieu, at the
station of the K division of the Metropolitan Police, in the
Blackheath•road, that the galvanic apparatus used for the
electric telegraPh had been stolen. He had no clue to the
robbery, but it was suspected that a party of low fellows fre-
quenting the vicinity of the spot where the apparatus had
been fixed were the thieves. It was used lately for the pur-
experiments on the cutting through the in-
pose of trying
clined plane between the Kent-road station and Sydenham.
It had been placed at considerable expense, and would, if
sold as old metal to dealers in marine stores, fetch very little.
It could, however, be made no other use of. Mr. Henderson
left an engraved plan of the apparatus, for the purpose of
assisting the police in their exertions to trace the property.
Aiaother person died yester-
day,PossosiouS BEBRIEs.—
, from the effects of eating a
in the London Hospital
pie, the principal ingredients in which were called bilberry
herts, but which, there is no doubt, contained berries of the
nightshade. There are three other persons in the same hos-
-1 pital who are in a state of great suffering, from eating berries
of a similar description; one in Guy's Hospital, and two in
the Royal Free Hospital, Gray's inn-lane,