The Sun.
London, England, 1848-06-05 00:00:00

SITTINGS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR has issued a notice with
respect to the sittings of the Courts, to the following
effect, namely:—that the sittings would continue till
the 10th of August; that there would be no sittings
between the end of the present term and the first seal—
the 24th. That after term the Courts would rise on
Saturdays, at two o'clock, and that on Mondays the
sittings would commence at eleven o'clock A.M., and end
at four o'clock P.M.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
Sittings in Banco before Mr. Justice WiawrstlN.)

TEAR V. A BARRISTER OF THIS COURT.
Mr. PARRY moved for a rule, calling upon a gentle-
man, a barrister, whose name his Lordship would find in
the affidavit, to show cause why a certain warrant of
attorney which had been given to him by the person on
whose behalf he moved should not be cancelled, on the
ground that it was given for an illegal consideration; and
also why a further warrant of attorney should not be
set aside for the same reason. It appeared that the
person against whom he moved. being about to be called
to the bar in 1843, consented to dispose of an office which
he held as clerk to magistrates to Mr. Tean, for the
yearly sum of 2001. for five years, the value of the office
being worth 5001. a year. The first bond was set
aside in order to destroy some suspicion which it
was believed the magistrates entertained in consequence
of the person who held the office having recommended
Mr. Tean as his successor. He ultimately was appointed.
The second bond was subsequently given for the same
consideration. The instalments not having been regu
lariy paid, and the applicants being 150/. in arrear, the
defendant proceeded against him, entered up judgment
by con.ent, and subsequently had been arrested on the
strength of it, sod he was at present in Whitecross-
street. He apprehended that the sale of the office,
which was one c f justice, was illegal, according to the
Act of George ILL, and that the vendor was liable to
be proceeded against for a misdemeanour. Under these
circumstances the whole of the proceedings were invalid,
and the applicant ought to be set at liberty.
Mr. Justice WxuaTmax considered that the Learned
Counsel should have cited authorities in support of his
application, and recommended him to do se, and to move
the Court again, or in the meantime to bring the matter
before the full Court. He felt some doubt, under the
circumstances, whether he should comply with the

motion.
Mr. PARRY said he should look for authorities, and
most likely mention the subject again.

COMMON PLEAS.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
MACGREGOR V. DARRETT.-LOAN SOCIETIES.

This was a case of considerable importance to loan so-
cieties and their officers. The plaintiff was formerly secre-
tary to the "Caledonian Loan and Discount Society," and
whilst holding that office 1001. was lent to the defendant,
who gave a promissory note to the secretary, making it
payable, as is usual, to the secretary. Shortly after
the plaintiff ceased to be secretary, and as the bill was
not paid when it became due, an action was commenced
by the secretary in his name, as their public officer at
the time, and as the party to whom the bill was made
payable. After the action had been commenced the
plaintiff came to this court, in which it was proceeding,
and protested against the action being brought in his
name; but the Court decided that the society had a
right so to proceed, giving him at the same time an in-
deinnity against any costs being charged against him.
Subgequently the defendant was arrested on the judgment
thus obtained, and placed in Whitecross-street prison.
The plaintiff, after the defendant had been there a short
time, gave a discharge to the sheriff, and the defendant
wai accordingly liberated. The plaintiff subsequently
framed an affidavit, which, however, was not tiled in
sufficient time, stating that the society had acted op
pressively. A rule was obtained a short time ago calling
upon the plaintiff to show cause why an attachment
should not issue against him, or why he should not pay
the amount of the debt and costs.

Mr. PICOT showed cause against the rule to-day, on
the ground that the plaintiff had no intention to treat
the Court with contempt, that he acted in ignorance of
the consequences that might ensue to him, and under
the impression that, as the defendant was in custody
at his suit, that he could liberate him when he thought
proper.
Mr. White was on the other side, but the Courtedid
not think it necessary to hear him.

The COURT said the plaintiff had been guilty
of as gross a contempt of the process of the Court
as had ever come under their observation. The
Court having decided that the action should proceed in
his name, and having given him an indemnity against
the payment of costs, the plaintiff had taken upon him-
self to render all the proceedings of the Court impera-
tive. The rule for an attachment must be made abso-
lute; they thought it unnecessary to add the later portion
of the rule. If when in custody he paid the debt, it
would then be f,r the Court to consider whether or not
they should punish him for contempt.

AN EASTERN FANCY.—It is said that the Sultan
has ordered a cask of chloroform for the use of the sera-
glio. Is this to supersede the sack and string ?

MARLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.)
CAPTURE or GAlnaLEas.—Charles Liley, 3, Bloom-
field-terrace, Pimlico, gentleman ; Samuel Brown, 4,
Crown•court, Pall-Nlall, servant; Charles Sidney Davis
Mills, Captain of Life Guards, Linimer's.hotel ; Captain
Alexander Bagot, 15th Regiment of Foot, Aide-de-Camp
to Lord. Gough ; Edward Welsh 1, St. Al6-In's-place ;
Captain Charles Fitzroy, Royal Artillery; George Liley,
Lieutenant Alexander, Caesar Hawkins, Royal Artillery ;
James Webster, 41, Berry-street ; William Brown,
h. ristopher Capel, 1, St. Alban's-place ;
Henry Smith, 60, Strand ; William Richards, 25,
Brompton-row ; Richard Mostyn, 30, Cockspur• street ;
C
Lieutenant
Gilmore Burchell, Royal Artillery; and William Wil-
kinson, were brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged
with being found in a common (Yambling-house, No. 64,
St. James's-street, without lawful excuse.
Mr. Henry Beresford, superintendent of the C di-
vision, said, he produced his report, and the order of the
Commissioners of the Police to enter the house. About
a quarter-past two on Sunday morning he went to the
house with a body of constables, and found the premises
to all appearance closed. He rang the bell several
times, and as no one appeared he directed one of the
constables to knock loudly on the door with a crow-bar.
After waiting a few minutes he commenced forcing the
i
door. This door was strongly secured with aniron
chain, and gave them some trouble
to break it open.
l'hey then proceeded along the passage till they came
to a pair of folding doors covered with green baize,
and strongly secured with iron bars. This door was
also forced open, when witness entered a passage, and
saw the defendants Charles Liley and Brown standing
at the bottom of the stairs. Witness ordered a con-
stable to secure them, while he proceeded upstairs, and
found all the other defendants in the first floor front
room. Tnere were two billiard tables in the room, and
lights were burning over them. Witness then had the
whole of the defendants taken into custody, and con-
veyed to the station, where they were searched, but no
gaming implements found upon them. Witness subse-
quently searched the premises, but could discover no
implements used in gaming.
Mr. Robarts, of Spring-gardens, and Mr. Huddle-
stone, who attended for the defendants, contended that
the defendants must be discharged, as there was not the
least evidence offered to show that they had met for the
purposes of gambling.
Mr. HARDWICK said, in the absence of any technical
and legal evidence of the house being a common gaming
house, the present case could not be gone on with. He
must, therefore, discharge them.

WORSHIP-STREET.—(TIIIS DAY )
THE CHARTISTS.—This morning long before the
opening of the court, the office was literally besieged
by individuals anxious to obtain a sight of the indivi-
duals called Chartists, sho had, during yesterday, been
taken into custody for riotous and disorderly conduct,
and with assaulting the police in the performance of
their duty.
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plaister.
A sweep. named Samuel Newman, was charged by
constable 214 N, with hooting and yelling at the police
whilst conveying their prisoners from the van into the
office at about half-past ten o'clock this morning. He
had been seen by witness, among the crowd, some time
previously, and was heard to say by a brother constable
that he should like to " run the police through." He
was, however, at length laid hold of and brought into
the court.
Mr. HAItIMILL said that the defendant had been in-
terrupting the police in the execution of their duty,
almost within the very walls of the court. He should
therefore call upon him to find substantial bail for his
good behaviour for three calendar months.
The prisoner, in default, was locked up.
Robert Maigrie was charged by 172 N, with being one
of a mob, collected yesterday morning in Nova Scotia-
gardens, Bethnal-green, and with attempting to hurl a
stone at the police. One man was haranguing the mob.
He perceived the defendant pick up a stone and place it
in his pocket. The police were hooted at by the mob.
Witness kept his eye upon the prisoner, and presently
saw him pick up another stone and place that
also in his pocket. The mob now removed
to an adjoining field, followed by the police,
and presently he saw the defendant withdraw
one of the stones from his coat pocket, and raise
his arm, and directing it towards the police would have
hurled it at them, but for his arm having been caught by
a policeman, who conveyed him to the station-house,
followed by some of the mob. On his way to the sta-
tion the prisoner pulled off his hat, and gave " three
cheers for the Chartists." The other stone was found
upon his person.
The prisoner acknowledged to having given " three
cheers for the Chartists," but said he ha no intention
whatever of injuring the police.
A host of other individuals similarly charged was
brought before Mr. Hanimill, who desired that they
should be locked up until he should have considered
of their various sentences according to the amount of
their aggression.
THE LATE FIRE IN OLD-STREET-ROAD. BENEVO-
LENCE.—We are requested to acknowledge the receipt
of one sovereign by " F. P.," who desires it may be
placed for the benefit of the unfortunate sufferers by
the late fire in Old-street, St. Luke's. We have, ac•
cording to the wishes of the benevolent donor, banded
the same to Mr. Hammill, the sitting magistrate at the
above office, for that purpose.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LIFE.—The marriage of
Count Pompeo Troili, Guardia Nubile of his Holiness
Pius IX., with Miss Maria Hoare, the beautiful daughter
of Captain Richard Hoare, R.N., and niece to Sir iAugh
R. Hoare, Bart., was solemnised on Saturday eit St.
James's Church, Piccadilly, the Roman Catholic ritual
having previously been complied with in the Catholic
chapel by the Right Rev. Dr. Wiseman, Vicar Apostolic
of the London district. The impressive ceremon y was
performed in the
Presence of a select circle of the friends
of both families, and several foreign noblemen. The
happy pair early in the afternoon left the residence of
Mrs. Hoare, the bride's aunt, in St. James's-square,, in a
chariot and four for the country, where they will pass
the honeymoon before leaving for Rome.
THE RIVER PLATE.---LivEßrooL, SATURD
The Phoenix, Captain Rooney, arrived to-day with dates
from Monte Video to the 24th of March. Letters brought
by this vessel represent Monte Video as being in an
alarming state. Mr. Gore arrived in her Majesty'' s ship
Inconstant on the 18th, and Baron Gros in the French
steam-ship Magellan on the 19th. Her Majesty's at gamer
Hydra, from Rio, had arrived at Monte Video. Dr.
Varela, editor of the ContErcio del Plata, was stab!Ded at
his own door on the night of the 20th of March.
TROOPS ?ROM NEW SOUTH WALES.--CHLrHAM,
JUNE 3.—This day arrived at Fort Pitt, a detac!ament
of the 58th Regiment, consisting of ten men and one
sergeant, and eleven privates of the 99th Regiment!, with
one woman, in charge of Lieutenant Michael :Lionel
‘Vestropp, of the 58th. Some of the men are blin ,d, and
the majority are invalided on account of length of ser-
vice. These troops embarked at Sydnoy on the 9th of
January last, on board the barque Hamlet, Captaiia Wil-
son. 420 tons burden.

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arrived,
exertions on the part of the firemen the flame
FIRE ON BOARD A SHIP IN THE RIVER --- About
half-past four o'clock yesterday afternoon a fire of an
alarming character broke out on board the I aarque
Trubadah, lying in Lavender-dock, Rotherhith.e. It
originated in the hold, from, it is supposed, some t.parks
pipe falling from a lighted
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timber. In the course of a few minutes the
engines, floatingwere
eventually extinguished, but not until the vessel, which
toltelwi edorfffikL,cabualudftoyat.o eeßxs tytai nbsgt
ru'
was about 100 tons burden, and full rigged, vivo seri-
ously' damaged.
EXTENSIVE CONFLAGRATION AND THREA TENED
DESTRUCTION OF THE SLEW RAILWAY BRID nE AT
BATH.—The utmost alarm and anxiety preys sled in
Bath on Saturday afternoon in consequence of the break-
ing out of a most alarming and destructive fires in the
large range of flour mills which adjoin the newly erected
goods sheds of the Great Western Railway, and; which
are likewise situated in the almost immediate pros ximity
to that beautiful and costly work of engineering skill,
the skew wood bridge, by which the railway is passed
from the Bath viaduct across the River Avon. Th alarm
of fire was first given at between two and three o'clock
in the afternoon, and the city engines and those tielong-
ing to the different insurance offices were pr samptly
manned and conveyed to the scene of coi aflagra-
tion. The flour mills have a great deal of tit ober in
their construction, and the flames consequently spread
with such rapidity and violence that, at one tis tae, the
destruction of the goods sheds of the railway seemed
inevitable, and the skew bridge itself placed i n great
jeopardy. The flames poured from the window a of the
mill against the goods shed, the windows of whis eh were
broken, and the sills of them ignited. The officials of
the Great Western Company exerted themselves I to the
utmost, as did also the firemen and others; and t she con-
flagration was at length got under, but not u tail the
interior of the mills had been entirely burnt out. A
large concourse of spectators assembled on the al :,ot, and
the apprehensions telt for the safety of the railway pro-
perty was considerable; fortunately, however, it was not
materially damaged, nor was any delay experli- taced in
the transit of the trains.
JOINT-STOCK COMPANIES REGISTRATIO I‘.-0o
Saturday was printed, by order of the House 0 f Com-
mons, an abstract of the report of the Registrar ocf Joint-
stock Companies for the year 1847. In the yrs t ar only
'215 companies were provisionally registered ut I der the
Act 7 and 8 Vict. c. 110, an insignificant numb' r com-
pared with the two preceding years. There were ninety-
eight companies completely registered in the >as ar. Of
companies provisionally registered, but which had not
obtained complete registration as required, the number
was 178. The amount of fees paid at the head ,office in
London in the year amounted to 4,0551. 3s. 2d.„ and in
Dublin 1001. 12s. 8(1.-4,155/. 15s. 10d. A
asmst mg the
companies which failed to obtain complete registration
was one called " Sanitary Fountains and Genet ral Ad-
vertising Company." Four fiats were issued in the year
against Joint-stock Companies, three of which hr ere rail-
way companies and one a cemetery company. In one
of the railway companies—Birmingham and. Boston
Direct—the debts were returned at 5,0591, Gs, 1.,0d., and
the assets at 24/. 10s.
"LIVE FEATHERS. "_Mr. Mac:\ tullen, ?rine'lpa
avin
inspector of the detective police in Manchester, h
occasion to search the West Point emigrant sl for a
g
party who had absconded from Manchester, andP, who,
was strongly suspected, was concealed on board j
,found a
feather bed which he thought was rather heal •
ter than
such things are wont to be, and upon opening
discovered a live man concealed amongst the-fthe tick
The fellow had been stitched up in the bed
byeathers.
rascally passenger broker, with the view of ..tc some
carried over to America as luggage. g,, ing him
Ile had on his
person two IL Irish notes and five
figs. Of c
the fellow was rather surprised at the discov ourse
' was placed on shore rather sooner than he e. Lijor
leadnd he

110 THE SECRETARY OF THE
BRADFORD REFORM ASSOCIATION.
Sir,—On Wednesday May 31, the House went
into Committee on the Roman Catholic Relief Bill.
The party that are for relieving nobody, moved an
instruction to the Committee to divide the Bill into
two; which will he understood as giving up one por-
tion of the spoil with a view to making a better de-
fence upon the other. In this they succeeded by a
majority of 142 against 129. On a subsequent mo-
tion to stop progress, they were defeated by 161
against 111.
On Thursday, the adjourned debate on the Navi-
gation-laws was resumed on the question of going
into Committee. The Conservatives made their usual
protest against " the sordid spirit of gain ;" which is
what they habitually put forward when the question
is of taking profits for themselves and making other
people pay for it. One fact they commented on,
which must be further looked into. A naval officer
of rank, Sir James Sterling, has declared before a
Committee, that he does not believe in the
connexion between the navy and the mercantile
marine, to the extent it has been customary to
assume. 'fhis, as coining from a professional autho-
rity, is important ; for it strikes at several weighty
assumptions, among others, the necessity for Im-
pressment, and the policy of paying twice over, once
for the navy, and once before for the mercantile ma-
rine. My own belief is, that it would he as reason-
able to ask you the public, to pay a monopoly price
for postboys, in order that the Artillery might supply
itself with drivers. It is no doubt convenient for the
Artillery to recruit among men used to
the driving
business, in order to fill up what it cannot educate
itself; and it is possible there might be difficulty in
maintaining a corps of artillery-drivers in a country
where there were positively no drivers to be had
outside. But this is a long way from allowing
post-
masters to set up a plea, that they are the great
nursery of artillery-drivers, and therefore must be
nursed with a monopoly price. Drivers are good,
and sailors are good ; but not necessarily so goo as
to require to be paid for twice over. It appears we
have a naval officer avowing his disbelief; and you
at Bradford, as the men who are to pay for all, ought
to follow his lead, when you have done with the
pike-exercise.
On Friday, the debate on the Navigation-laws was
continued and again adjourned. The most remark-
able point brought out during the debate, was the
admission on all sides of the House of the impossi-
bility of again resorting to Impressment. Those who
attend to such things, know the effect of an admis-
sion of this kind, and how it settles down into the
public mind, forming there a fixed basis of opinion
which cannot be aiterwards disturbed. •
Lord John Hay, one of the Lords of the Admiralty,
was the mouthpiece of the Government. When urged
to say how the Government expected to man the
navy in the event of a sudden war, he fairly stated
that they looked to the inevitable check to employ-
ment in some department or other of the merchant
service which must be attendant, and to the encou-
ragement the royal navy could offer to the un-
employed seamen to enlist. It is quite clear
that sense and justice have made their way into
high places. The army has long been recruited on the
same principle ; and it was only because the sailor
was a man cut off from conceived community of in-
terest with the other classes, that the injustice could
be applied to him. Two things only are wanting to
recruit the royal navy to any extent, good pay, and
good usage. On the first there is a good deal
to be done; for the transfer of sailors from the
merchants' to the royal service must be slow, so long
as there is the outward visible sign of wages being
three times as high in the one as in the other. There
may, to a certain extent, be counterbalances in
the eyes of reasoning men ; but the navy cannot wait
for being manned by reasoning men. At the same
time it is plain the naval officers are doing much to-
wards the cause of progress. They scout the notion
of their predecessors, that there is no way of supply-
ing the navy with able seamen but by stealing them
from the merchant-vessels ready made. They do as
the Artillery would do, if told there was no way to
have their guns driven but by stealing post. boys.
They do not deny that post-boys may be a useful
accessory; but they say that they can make post-
boys too, and that there is no reason why a man who
is to live in the saddle, should not learn his trade in
their school as well as in another.
It is evident that this question of the Navigation-
laws divides itself into two parts, the commercial and the
political ; and these it is the policy of the Protection.
ists to confound together, and therefore of everybody
else to separate. The first or commercial part of the
question, is simply a portion of the general subject of
Free Trade. Is it for the advantage of the community
that the price of any commodity should be artificially
raised by law ? See who gains and who loses, and
then putting the whole together, see which way the
balance lies. If you at Bradford could not do this,
you would be of scant knowledge in your own busi-
ness, and deserve to take the consequences. But it is
wonderful how slow the progress of this knowledge is
outside; and for trying to extend it in the house of
Commons, you might as well make a proposal for
teaching algebra. I have always maintained that the
main cause of the obscurity is from overlooking one
of the items of the account. For example, it is only
a few nights since a very eminent member of the
House, who may some day be Prime Minister, put
with great effect the case of the steam-boats
on the Thames, which carry the citiz-n for
fourpence as far as the old wherries did for
four shillings, and pointed out the certainty that the
difference was in the pocket of the citizen. But, if
he will excuse a question from " an older, not a
better, soldier," why did he stop exactly there ? He
had proved a balance, but no more. Why, for in-
stance, should not the Member for Lincoln who
grieves over railways, ask him what good has
been done upon the whole, and why the suffer-
ings attendant upon change are to be incurred,
with the mere result of taking three and eight-
pence out of one man's pocket to put it into
another's ? I therefore take liberty to ask, whether the
Honourable Member did not halt exactly where it was
important that he should go on. I want to know, whe-
ther the citizen in the steam-boat does not expend that
identical three and eightpence as much as ever, on some
form of industry or another,—at Brussells I remember
supposing it the industry of pastry- cooks, which
has the advantage of being distinct and picturesque.
I want to know then, whether the account does not
stand thus. In the old state of things, fbur shillings
to a waterman for pulling me in two hours from
Blackwell to Westminster. Per contra, in the new,
fourpence to a steam- boat company for carrying me
the same distance in one hour, and three and eight-
pence to a pastrycook for a magnificent currant tart.
Now what I insist on knowing, is, first, whether this
does not make an exact balance as regards the indus-
try of the country from the expenditure of the four
shillings, keeping the tart-eater out of sight ; and
secondly, whether under the new state of things, the
tart-eater does not gain the tart. I hold to it, and
will for ever maintain it, that the " burking" of the
truth that the three and eightpence is just as much
expended on the industry of the country in the new
state of things as in the old, is the cause of all the
doubt which has hung about the question of free trade,
and that the observation of it is the key which opens
all difficulties connected with the subject. If there
are pining watermen for want of the three and eight-
pence, there are fattening pastrycooks, and, what is
the important: thing] which: turns the scale, there is
a citizen swallowing pastry for his money, instead of
swallowing nothing but the damp air of the I.le of
Dogs in a two hours' drag with sculls. This is what
nobody can be got to see. This is what I have
been laughed at by all sorts of men, political
economists included, for maintaining. And this is
what I mean to maintain to the end involves the
whole principle of free trade, and without it, we who
have supported free trade, have been babblers dis-
turbing the world without a cause.
Hence all artificial raising of prices for the sake of
giving more extensive profits or employment to those '
who are to sell, is only taking from one man to give
to another as far as industry is concerned,.and rob-
bing the consumer of the value of the difference for
love. And the conclusion is just as clear, if instead of
steam-boats is put the proposal for making wine in
hot-houses; the result being that the balance among
the industries to be employed is just the same, only
the consumer in one case is to pay six instead of two
pounds for his wine per dozen, and have nothing for
the difference. If this is not true, we ought to close
railways, burn steam-boats, prohibit ploughs, forbid
omnibuses, blunt knives and take off the edge of
razors, makel wine in hot-houses and grow cotton in
cucumber-frames, levy taxes to be spent in fireworks
or digging holes and filling them up again, and in all
possible manners take the way that gives most trouble
with the least result. In every one of these cases,
the reason why it should not be done lies simply in
the neglected fact, that the money would just as
much be expended on industry if all people were left
to take the course that is profitable to them. But
if this is true, then the refusing to employ
a foreign-built ship in order that you
may give a greater price for an English one,
is in a commercial view a piece of the same silliness
as to insist on making wine in hot-houses instead of
bringing it from Oporto. And it acts on you at
Bradford in two ways, besides your general interest
as consumers which might make a third. It obliges
you to use a dearer instrument for your foreign
trade,—for a ship is just as much your instrument as
a cart or waggon ; and it cuts you off from a portion
of your foreign trade, which is increased by all ex-
tension of transactions with foreigners, and dimi-
nished by their prohibition.
If you like to consent to the prohibition because it
cannot exactly be shown which is the piece in your
warehouses that is not to go abroad, it is for your-
selves to decide. Though, to my fancy, there would
be no more reason in it, than in asking you to con-
i sent to a sovereign being taken from your pocket,

because you did not know whether it was to hav e'r-St,
George and the Dragon or a coat of arms on the
reverse.

I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
T. PERRONET THOMPSON.
Blackheath, London, June 5, 1848.

HER MAJESTY'S TIIEATRE.

Saturday was the last performance tor some time,
probably, of the Lucia. Until Thursday there will be
no performance, on account of the melancholy observ-
ance of Tuesday. whilst we are happy to see that the
Monday and Wednesday, belonging to the other theatres,
will not be invaded. On Thursday will be performed,
fur the first time, Elisir d' Amore, in which Wile. Lind
made her first appearance in Stockholm this season,
with a success so remarkable that the details were at the
time copied in all the journals of the Continent. Still.
whatever the new characters' she may asinine, we con-
sider, as yet, that none can surpass Lucia, and such
appeared to be the opinion of the audience on Saturday
night. The house was crowded to excess: the boxes
had more than the usual number of fashionable tenants,
every stall was occupied, whilst the spectators in the
pit were wedged in immovably. Although it was the
fourth time consecutively that Lucia had been performed,
the plaudits and enthusiasm were undiminished.
_ _

The performance was attended by the Prince Louis
Napoleon, his Excellency the Russian Minister, Baroness
Brunnow and Mademoiselle Olga de Lechner, his Ex-
cellency the Sardinian Minister, his Excellency the
Swedish Minister, his Excellency the Hanoverian Mi-
nister, the Duke of Wellington, the Duke and Duchess
i of Leeds and Miss Lane Fox, the Marquis of Clauri-
carde, the Marquis of Donegall, the Marquis of Ailes-
. bury, the Marquis of Worcester, the Marquis and Mar-
chioness of Londonderry and Lady Adelaide Vane, the
Earl of Wilton, the Earl Granville, the Earl of Fal•
mouth, the Earl of Aboyne, the Earl of Cardigan, the
Countess of Chesterfield, the Countess of Blessington,
and the Misses Power, the Earl of Munster, the Earl of
Abergavenny, the Earl of Liverpool, the Earl of Bess-
borough, the Ladies Kathleen and Harriet Pousonhy,
and the Honourable Spencer Ponsonby (who occupied
her Majesty's box), the Earl and Countess of Sheffield,
the Earl and Countess of Harewood, the Viscount Las-
celles Lady Louisa, and Lady Elizabeth Lascelles, and
theHonourable Captain Spencer (who occupied her
Majesty the Queen Dowager's box), the Countess of
Lichfield and Lady Harriet Anson, Viscount Exmouth,
Viscount Enfield, Lord Walpole, Lord Forester, Lord
Ernest Bruce, Lord Southampton, Lord Sandys, Lord
and Lady Willoughby de Ereshy, Lord Foley and the
Hon. Miss Foley, Lord and Lady Denman, Lady Dom-
vile, Lord and Lady Charles Wellesley, Lady Mary
Christopher, Lady E. Burke, Sir W. and Lady Fre-
riro dnwtaler,Sir Fitzoy and Lady Kelly, Sir Ralph and Lady
Lady Thorold, Sir C and Lady Constable,
Lady Longford, Sir John Bailey,. the Baron and
Baroness de Rothschild, General Hon. H. Lygon,
the Hon. R. Curzon, Gene-al. the Hon. P. Upton, Colonel
Colonele 1() n .
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Lady Palmer, Mr. B.
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Reynolds, CampAtiaaiii
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FRENCH PLAYS.
The troupe of the Palais Royal—that inimitable troupe
which, so long as events left the Parisians courage enoug
to laugh, maintained its ground and warred against the
invasion of gloom—made its first appearance on Friday
night at the St. James's Theatre. We have now in Eng-
land, for the first time, a complete company of French
comedians, thoroughly drilled, habituated to their parts,
and all belonging to the same department of the drama.
Nothing could be more marked than the difference re-
sulting from this great advantage alone. Were it not
for the long intervals betwixt the acts, customary at this
theatre, the longest vaudeville ever performed would
have glided off with astonishing rapidity, and without
error or mistake, every nuance being thoroughly studied,
complete in details, and up to every exigency of theatri-
cal illusion. We had only, of course, a portion of the
numerous troupe before us. The first vaudeville, in
two acts, entitled La Savonette Imperials, is an illus-
tration of the manner in whieh l'Empereur himself,
a most striking example of the soldats heureux of
Voltaire, elevated his officers, raised from the ranks to
the level of the most aristocratic families of France. The
hero of the vaudeville marries the daughter of a Marquis
of the old regime, who, in his pliancy and sycophancy to
the ruling power, does not forgrt any of the prejudices of
hereditary lineage. In these prejudices his daughter for
a time participates, and despises the rough habits of the
soldier of fortune, her consort, until, become familiar
with his native nobility of character, arid proud of his
prowess and of his glory, she repants, and determines to
follow him away from all the frivolous scenes of Parisian
fashion, and amidst all the trials of a military campaign.
The hero was enacted by M. Derval, an actor of repute
in Paris, and the heroine was Mdlle. Figeac, an estab-
lished favourite of the Palms Royal. But there
was also M. Lemenil, who enacted the part of
a rough, true-hearted old soldier of the empire,
and, whatever the merits of the two other per-
formers, he totally eclipsed them. We have seldom
seen a more admirable portraiture ; it was lull of life
and individuality, replete with pathos, as well as broad
humour, Ills swigs were excellently delivered, and most
justly encored. 'the great feature of the night, how-
ever, was the second vaudeville, a vaudeville in no le,s
than three acts, which has had an extraordinary run in
Paris, under the name of Une Fievre Brulante. The plot
is too full of peripeties—too lengthy and involved—to
allow any connected account of it. The hero, Richard
Tremblay (Ravel) is a rich, eccentric young bachelor.
lie is consumed by love for the lair sex; but such is his
timidity, and his consequent fear of meeting with the
objets of his dreams, that, at their approach, he is seized
apparently with horror of their presence, and gives way
to the harshest expressions of feigned dislike but of
real terror. He is in love with his opposite neigh-
bour, whose name he knows not, and passes his time
gazing at her from his window. Dire consequences
arise from his astronomical observations of his ruling
star. The young ladies of the milliner's establishment
below think his glances are directed to one of them, and
invade his retreat to solve the question, first—to his
dismay—in their own costume, but they next come
dressed as young students, so that when subsequently he
meets them at a ball he thinks they are boys disguised
as girls. On the other hand, an old romantic dancer,
who has married a Russian Count, takes Tremblay's
love fur her sister (twenty years younger) as being
addressed to herself, and gives way to the most head-
long return of supposed affection, whilst her husband
(Grassot) is no less headlong in his jealousy and ven-
geance. The unfortunate bachelor, besides his nervous
timidity, baffled in his affections, constantly labouring
under the mistakes or misapprehensions of others as well
as his own, first tries to shoot himself; but, fortu-
nately, like the Irishman in the old story, he shoots
his image in a mirror. Next he throws himself out
of window, but falls in a mud cart. Ile encounters
the repulses of his inamorata, the persecutions
of the young milliners, and those, still more
terrible, of the old lady, together with the vengeance
of the Russian Count. His happiness is, however,
sealed at last by an adventure in a box at the
Opera Comique, where he gets the Russian Count taken
up by the police, by hiding in his box and imitating the
barking of a dog, which he has a natural propensity to
do, like a real canine quadruped, whenever he hears the
pianoforte played upon. His sweetheart, the Countess's
sister, accepts of his hand, to prevent the former, in her
romance, eloping with him. and the Count, in his alarm,
gladly consents to the match. The acting of Ravel was
beyond all praise, as it was beyond all description. The
least movement of his features produced bursts of laugh-
ter amongst the audience. His mercurial movements,
his untiring spirits, his complete abandon, his alternate
despondency and excitement, and his admirable delivery
of the couplets introduced—in a word, every resource of a
genuine actor of:a peculiar type was displayed successively
with most triumphant effect. He was admirably supported
by the scarce less celebrated actor Grassot, who played
the part of the Count and diplomatist. His broad, de-
cided caricature style was full of originality, and con-
trasted excellently with the nervous delineation of hie
brother actor. The entertainment was altogether most
successful—full of present enjoyment and of future
promise.

HAYMARKET THEATRE.
A. new and original comic drama entitled Omens and
Odd Coincidences was acted fur the first time on Satur-
day. It bears internal evidence of being of true Eng-
glish facture, from its weakness of construction and its
entire absence of anything approximating to develop-
ment of character ; for though there is an attempt to
endue the several personages with some ruling " hu-
mour," it is done so inartificially that it forms little be-
yond the mere outward covering. The title bears but
slight reference to the action, for there are neither
omens nor coincidences, if we except some auld wile
superstitions of an elderly gentleman, who shudders at
the upsetting of salt-cellars, and has an abiding faith in
the aqueous virtue of cauls and sueh antiquated follies,
and even these absurdities have been worn threadbare
by preceding playwrights. The piece opens at a fashion-
able boarding-house at St. John's-wood, kept by Mrs.
Provender (Mrs. Humby), with whom resides Mr.
Christopher Token (Mr. Farrell), an elderly bachelor,
rich, silly, benevolent, nervous, and superstitious, who
believes in signs and portents, ghosts, casting o
nati-
vities,f
and other astrological fancies. His servant,
Foil
(Mr. Keeley), having had the advantage of University
experience as a Gyp, becomes an academical
hrogne, and
contrives to fatten upon the lean wits of master.
Then there are Mr. Gorman Grub (Mr. Tilbury), a fat-
headed, rubicund-faced, swollen-paunched gourmand; a
Mr. Frederick Gayhurst (Mr. A. Wigan), a former pro-
visional director of various hypothetical railroads, who
is deeply in debt, and seeking to victimise the ladies and
gentlemen of Mrs. Provender's establishment, and last
and least, Lionel Harlencourt (Mr. H. Vandenhoff), a
walking gentleman, drawn out to infinitesimal tenuity,
who makes love to an amorous walking lady, Emmeline
Linden (Miss Harding). The ladies of the St. John's
Wood boarding establishment are Mrs. Fitzmarshall
(Mrs. Nisbett), an officer's widow, who breathes gun-
powder and talks congreve rockets; Miss Prune (Mrs.
Glover), a spinster on the shady side of forty, scientific
and sinister, who affects systems and statistics; and Su-,an
(Mrs. Keeley), a bustling', intriguing, quaint, monthly-
warning. We must not forget Trace (Mr. Rogers), a
sheriff's officer, and Mordax (Mr. Brindal), an individual
with no character at all. The boarders have a pie-nic
up the Thames, at which the usual agreeabilities occur,
e. g. broken bottles, spilt wine, mutilated pasties, absent
cork-screws, and a thunder-storm. The ladies get soaked,
Mr. Token tumbles into the river, and is saved by

the pale, bilious, and interesting " walking gentlenian.-
Then there is a mysterious story appended, which we
found quite unfathomable, about the young lady being
the orphan daughter of a former love of Mr. Token,
and how Mrs. Provender, the principal of the St. John's
Wood boarding establishment, had run away from
America, carrying the young lady with her, and leav-
ing her husband behind 'her in the United States, who
turns out most opportunely to be the aforementioned
Trace, the Sheriff's officer. Then there is the accus-
tomed pairing—a sudden match is concluded between
Gayhurst and the military widow, the young walking
gentleman is united to the young walking lady, and
then came the final appeal to the audience, of whom
some faintly applauded and some considerably disap-
proved. A description of a siege, after the manner of
the celebrated lines in the Love Chase, delivered by
Mrs. Nisbett with great spirit, was much applauded.
Mrs. Glover has a part totally unworthy her rrinatkable
talent. The pic-nic on an sit on the Thames aff ,rded
opportunities for oddities oF situation ; but a similar
scene, in a piece called, we think, The Water Party,
performed during the Vestris regime at the Olyinpie,
detracted from its novelty. A want of clearness and
consoeutiveness renders the piece ineff ctive and weari-
some. The actors laboured zealously and this public
were amiable and patient; but, without great conden-
sation, we opine that the new drama will never become
an old une. It was not given out for repetition.

COURT CIRCULAR.
The Queen and Prince Albert, the Ladies and
Gentlemen or the Court, and the domestic house-
hold, attended Divine service yesterday morning, in
the Private Chapel in Buckingham Palace. The lion.
and Rev. C. Leslie Courtenay officiated.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent attended
the afternoon service in the Private Chapel in Buck-
ingham Palace.
I'he Prince of Wales, Prince Alfred, the Princess
Royal, and the Princess Alice, took airings yesterday,
and the Princess Helena and the Princess Louisa
were taken airings on Saturday.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Kent visited
her Majesty o❑ Saturday.
Her Majesty the Queen Dowager and his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge attended Divine
service yesterday, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
The prayers were read by the Rev. Mr. Knapp, the
lessons by the Rev. T. Helmore, and the communion
service by the Bishop of London. The sermon was
preached by the Rev. Dr. Hook. The anthem was,
" Let me know my end"—Green. Sir George Smart
presided at the organ. The Bishop of Norwich,
Clerk of the Closet, and the Dean of Hereford, De-
puty Clerk, were in attendance. The Queen Dowager
and the Duke of Cambridge received the sacrament,
which was adminimtered by the Bishop of i ondon.
The Duke of I'Vellington attended the early service
yesterday. The Rev. Dr. Wesley officiated. The
Lord Almoner, the Bishop of Oxford, will preach on
Sunday next, in the Chapel Royal, St. James's.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
attended Divine service yesterday, in St. Michael's
Church.

A Cabinet Council was held on Saturday afternoon
at the Foreign-office. The Ministers present were
Lord John Russell, the Lord Chancellor, the Marquis
of Lansdowne, the Earl of Minto, Sir George Grey,
Viscount Palmerston, Earl Grey, the Chancellor of
the Exchequer, the Earl of Auckland, Sir John /lob-
house, the Right Hon. H. Labouchere, Lord Campbell,
and the Marquis of Clanricarde. The Council sat
two hours.

The Committee on Education of her Alejesty's
most Honourable Privy Council held a meeting on
Saturday, at one o'clock, which was attended by the
Lord President, Lord John Russell, the Earl of
hlinto, the Earl of Auckland, Sir George Grey, and
the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Mr. John Wood, Chairman of the Excise, had an
interview with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on
Friday, at his official residence in Downing-street.
Dispatches were received on Saturday, at the
Colonial-office, from the Governors of the West ludia
colonies.
Dispatches were sent off on Friday evening, from
the Colonial-office, for the Governors of the North
American provinces.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COVENT- CARDEN.—Her
Majesty's box was occupied on Saturday evening by the
Earl and Countess of Desart, Lord and Lady Brackley,
and Lord and Lady Blantyre. There were also present
the Duke and Duchess of Bedford, and Lady Caroline
Sandford, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Duke
and Duchess of Leinster, and Lady Jane Fitzgerald, the
Marquis of: Titchfield, the Marquis and Marchioness
of Lansdowne, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the
Earl and Countess of Harewood, Earl of Cardigan,
Countess of Egremont, the Countess Dowager of Essex
aid Miss Johnstone, Viscount Cantalupe, Viscount
Templetown, Viscount Ingestre and Lady Sarah In-
gestre, Viscount Ebrington, Viscount Mandeville,
Viscount and Viscountess Dillon, Viscount Can-
terbury, Lady Caroline Cavendish, Viscountess
Dungarvon, Lord and Lady Ernest Bruce, Ltd
and Lady Carington, Lord Glenelg, Lady Scott, Lady
J oddrel I, Lady Frances Hope. Lady Morgan,
Lady Webster, Lady Molesworth, Lady Lawley, Hon.
'l'. Forte.eue, Hon. Dud:ray Fortescue, Hon. W. Coke,
Hon. Mr. and Mrs. Gage, Hon Miss Maynard, Hon.
Mr. Upton, Hon. A. IVilloughby, Hon. Sir Thomas
and Lady Seymour, Hon. Theobald Dillon, Hon.
Deleval Astley, Sir John Burgoyne, and the Misses
Burgoyne, Sir W. de Bathe, Sir H. Webb, Sir Belling-
ham and Lady Graham, Sir F. Booth, Sir C. Marihall,
Sir W. Paulet, Captain and Lady Adela lbbetson, Mrs.
Charles Miils and the Misses Mills, Mrs. Mountjoy
Martin, Mrs. Locke, the Misses Richards, the Misses
Byrnes, Major-General P. Campbell, R.A., General
M•Gregor, General Fane, Colonel Towers, Colonel
Mane, Colonel Jones, Major Mountjoy Martin, Major
Wemyss, Captain D. Carleton, Captain Hoygarth,
Captain Cuddy, Captain Turner, Captain Leslie, Captain
de Bathe, Captain Seymour, Mr. S. Rogers, Mr. J.
Lloyd Clayton, Mr. Montagu Gore, M.P., Mr. Sackville
Lane Fox, M.P., Mr. S. Bailey, M.P., Colonel B.
Knox, M.P.

PORTUGUESE POTATOES.—A vessel arrived from
Lisbon with a cargo of oranges, has brought also fifty-
tour cases of potatoes, the produce of Portugal. This
is an unusually large and important supply of potatoes
from this southern European state.
EARLY WHEAT. -We observed, yesterday, a
small field of Australian seed wheat in full ear and
bloom, growing on Mr. Hall's model farm, Oyster-
mouth, within four miles of Swansea.—Cambrian of
June 2.

OFFICIAL SALARIES.-CHEAP (?)
From a return recently obtained, it appears that the
actual net increase of the number of appointments, and
the amount of salaries in all public offices and depart-
ments, since the passing of the Act 4th and sth Wil-
liam IV., c. 24, is 6,863 as regards the number of er-
sons. 184,368/. as regards the salaries, and 17,5861. as
regards the emoluments ; 7,060 persons at salaries
amounting to 260,0001. have been added to the esta-
blishment of the Post-office within the period of this
account, for the purpose of affording increased facilities
and accommodation to the public in the receipt and de-
livery of letters, &c. The account, !exclusive of the
Post-office, would exhibit a diminution of 197 persons,
and about 58,0001. per annum in salaries and emolu-
ments.

APPREHENSION OF GAMBLERS.—POT Some time
past it has been suspected that a very extensive system of
gambling has been carried on at 64A, St. James's-street.
During the last week the police having had private in.
formation of the proceedings of the parties, have been on
the qui vice, and about half-past two yesterday (Sunday)
morning. Inspector Beresford, in company with a strong
body of the force, repaired to the spot, taking the newly-
invented apparatus for forcing:the doors, &c., with them.
Several persons were stationed in different parts of the
street, evidently on the look out, and a signal was given
upon the appearance of the police to warn the persona
within the building, in order that they might effect an
escape. This, however, proved ineffectual. The police
advanced, the machine was put in action, and the doors
instantly broken open, when the whole of the parties
were at once captured, there being 16 in number. The
tables, dice-box, and other 'gambling implements were
also secured, and the parties were conveyed in cabs to
the Vine street police station, but were almost immedi-
ately released on bail. Notwithstanding the early hour
of the morning, hundreds of persons assembled round the
house in a few minutes.

SIR H. BULWER AND THE SPANISH GovsnNmENT.
—lt is, we believe, beyond all doubton thatsir Henry the imputations
Buiwer
cast by the Spanish Government .
and assigned by it in defence of
the violent measure
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very recent date, between the representative of the Bri-
tish Government in Madrid and the Spanish Ministers,
consideration
state or
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there is a total absence both of fact and of proof suffi-
cient to justify the most extreme proceeding, short of
war, which is known to the usages of nations. With
a coarse precipitation, the Spanish Ministers have em-
ployed a remedy wholly unsuited to the occasion; and
the two countries may be exp,sed to some of the incon-
veniences of a rupture from the consummate misconduct
of those eminent persons on both sides, whose primary
duty it was to maintain the ancient courtesy and to re-
spect their common interests. But if the English
Minister is open to a charge of indiscreet interference,
the Spaniards had no right to resent such impolitic
conduct or unseasonable advice by a direct breach of the
law of nations; and as yet the larger offence remains
unredressed and unnoticed.— Times.
DEATH OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL GEORGE SAL-
MON, R.A.—This general officer, the last surviving of
18 officers who received commissions in the Royal Artil-
lery on the 24th of May, 1781—amongst whom wars
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, Lieutenant. Gene-
ral Millar, Lieutenant-General Robe, and others, who
acquired high distiction in the service—died on Thurs.
day, June I, at his residence in Park-street, London.
The late General Salmon was Colonel Commandant of
the 4th battalion of the Royal Artillery, having been
appointed to the command of the battalion on the 7th
of September, 1834. His period of service was 67 years,
he having joined as second Lieutenant on May 24, 1781;
promoted to first Lieutenant, 6th of June, 1788; Cap-
tain, 9th of September, 1794; Brevet Major, Ist of
J inuary, 1805; Major, Ist of June, 1806; Lieutenant-
Colonel, 18th of June, 1807; Brevet Colonel, 4th of
June, 1814; Colonel, 3d of July, 1815; Major General,
19th of July, 1821; Lieutenant-General, 10th of Ja•
nuary, 1837.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, June 3.
(Sitting in Banco.)
,lON r. Tar LONDON AND CBOYDON RAILWAY
COMPANY.
r THESIGER moved in this case to rescind an
urdet to the Master to review his taxation of the
plaintiff's costs. It may be remembered that the
defendants obtained a rule nisi for a new trial, on the
ground *at the damages (5000 awarded by the jury
were excessive. When cause was shown against that
role the Court was equally divided, and so the rule
dropped, and no judgment was given thereon. It
appears that the Master in taxing the costs had
allowed three counsel for the plaintiff at the trial, and
had also allowed him the costs of the dropped rule.
The question was, whether the Learned Baron had
taken a correct view in the order in question. As to
the first point, it was submitted that the number of
counsel was one purely for the discretion of the
Taxing Master, subject no doubt to be overruled by
the Court if it should appear to have been grossly
abused, and that there was nothing in the present
case for the exercise of any revision by the Court.
Then as to the costs of the rule, it was contended
that they had been well allowed to the plaintiff, for
if the rule had been made absolute it could only have
been on the condition of costs, and, a fortiori, the
plaintiff ought to have his costs when no judgment
was given by the Court.
The COURT, however, entertained a different opi-
nion. The costs would be given to the plaintiff if
the rule had been successful as the price of that suc-
cess ; but if the rule failed by reason of the division
of the Court, the clear practice was to treat the matter
as if it had never been mooted at all. The order
therefore for the review of the taxation was at all
events correct in that respect, and it would not be
rescinded ; but as to the first point the feeling of the
Court was certainly that the matter was for the dis-
cretion of the Master. The case would therefore go
back to the Master, coupled with the expression of
these views on these points, and he would exercise
his discretion anew with reference thereto no doubt.
Rule refused.

ARCHES' COURT, June 3.
(Before Sir H. J. FUST.)
GORHAM (CLERK) v. THE BISHOP OF EXETER.
This was an application to the Court to decree a
monition to issue under its seal to the Lord Bishop of
xeter, to show cause why he refused to admit the
Itev. George Cornelius Gorham to the vicarage and
parish church of Bramfordspeke, in the county of
Devon, diocese of Exeter, and province of Canterbury,
vacant by the death of the late incumbent, Mr.
Gorham having been duly presented to the vacant
vicarage by her Majesty, the true and undoubted
patron thereof.
The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE, by whom the motion was
made, stated that in the month of February
.last ap-
plication was made by Mr. Gorham to the Bishop of
Exeter to institute him into the vicarage, and
upon the Ist of March his Lordship signified his re-
fusal to admit him. This was a very uncommon
proceeding, a similar one not having occurred within
the recollection of the oldest practitioner in the
in court.
It appeared to him, how ever, to be exactly in con-
formity with the directions laid down books of
practice, and also with time 95th canon, which required
that before any clergyman who might be refused in-
stitution should be allowed a " double quarrel," he
should make oath that he had called upon the Bishop
to institute him upon the production of his presenta
tion, and that twenty-eight days had since elapsed.
Mr. Gorham had made the necessary affidavit. The
mode of proceeding was stated by Oughton in
titles 157 and 158. It was impossible to cite a pre-
cedent, inasmuch as no one had any recollection of a
similar case ; hut the directions of Oughton seemed
tolerably precise. In a MS. book of precedents—by
whom written could not be ascertained, th(,ugh it was
said to have belonged to the late Dr. Swabey—there
was a copy of a monition.
The Learned JUDGE directed the motion to stand
over dintil the next session, in order that further
search might be made as to the mode of proceeding.
THE OFFICE OF THE JUDGE PROMOTED BY FREELAND

V NEALE.
In this case, Mr. Neale, the warden of Sackville
College, East Grinstead, and the minister of a chapel
there, officiated with other clergymen in administer-
ing the holy sacrament without being duly licensed
in holy orders, or the chapel being consecrated by the
bishop. The bishop had interdicted him from per-
forming the service, but he still continued to read
prayers and preach in defiance of such injunctions. In
consequence, he was brought before this Court.
Drs. Addams and R. Phillimore argued the case,
calling upon the Court to pass censure upon the rev.
gerldeman, and dwelt upon the case of Barnes v.
Shaw in the diocese of Exeter.
The CIE:ZEN'S ADTOCLTZ, with whom wasDr.Bay-
ford, contended that Mr. Neale acted merely in a
private capacity, and that the members of the college
formed one family, therefore he was not open to the
censure of the Court ; and further, that noblemen and
others had private chapels in their mansions in which
not only prayers were read, but the sacrament was
administered.
The Learned JUDGE considered there were in-
stances where clergymen might perform the Church
service without the license of the bishop, but in the
case of peers they were privileged to appoint a cer-
tain number of chaplains. In this case he (the
Learned Judge) felt the reverend gentleman had
fallen under the censure of the Court ; he had been
guilty of an ecclesiastical offence for preaching with-
>ut the license of the bishop, and that he should be
admonished and abstain for the future, both from
preaching and administering the sacrament without
the license of the bishop. The costa also must be
borne by him.