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London, England, 1848-08-01 00:00:00

HIGHWAY BATES BILL.

This Bill went through Committee, and was ordered
to be reported to-morrow.
COURT OF JUSTICIARY (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Committee on this Bill was postponed till to-
morrow, at twelve o'clock.
CALEDONIAN CANAL BILL.

This Bill was read a third time and passed.
CONSTABULARY FORCE (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third time and passed.
LOAN SOCIETIES BILL.

The Committee on this Bill was postponed till Friday.
FEES (COURT OF CHANCERY) BILL.
The report on this Bill was brought up.
TURNPIKE ACTS CONTINUANCE BILL.

The second reading of the Bill was postponed till
Friday, at twelro o'clock.
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The House then adjourned until Five o'clock.

The SPEAKER resumed the Chair at Five o'clock.
Sir B. HALL presented a petition from the parish o
St. Pancras against the increased police rate.
THE NATIONAL LAND SCHEME.

Mr. HAYTER brought up the report of the Comm,
tee appointed to inquire into the state of Mr. Feargus
O'Connor's National Land Scheme.
On the motion of Mr. O'CONNOR, it was read by the
Clerk at the table. The report, after stating that the
evidence taken before the Committee would be laid upon
the table, proceeded to state that the Canimitteo bad
come to the following resolutions :—First, That by this
Bill it proposed to make additional provisions to the
Friendly Societies Act, which is incorporated with the
Bill in question, and to alter and amend the 9th
and 10th of Victoria for the amendment of the

law relating to friendly societies, but the Bill does not
include the National Land Company. 2d. That the
National Land Company is not consistent with the
general principle upon which friendly societies are
founded. 3d. That the National Land Company, as at
present constituted, is an illegal society, and will not
fulfil the expectations held out by the directors through
the chairman. 4th. That it appears to the Committee,
and by the evidence of several witnesses, that the
whole system of proceeding in the National Land Com-
pany, as well as the accounts, have been most imper•
fectly kept ; that the original balance-sheets signed by
the auditors have been destroyed ; and that only three
of these balance-sheets, namely, for the quarters ending
the 29th September, the 25th December, 1847, and the
25th March, 1848, respectively, have been pro-
duced ; but Mr. O'Connor having expressed his
opinion that an impression bad gone abroad that
the moneys subscribed by the National Land Company
had been applied to his own benefit, this Committee are
clearly of opinion that, although the accounts have not
been kept with strict regularity, yet they are greatly
against Mr. O'Connor, instead of being in his favour;
for it appears by the evidence of Mr. Gray .that there
is due to Mr.:O'Connor the sum of 3,2981. ss. 34d.,
and by Mr. Tindell, the sum of 3,4001. sth. That
considering the great number of persons interested in
the scheme and bana fide, with which it appears to have
been carried, it is the opinion of this Committee that
that power might be granted to the parties concerned,
if they should so desire it, to wind up the undertaking
and relieve them from the penalties to which they
may have subjected themselves. In submitting, those
resolutions, it is the opinion of the Committee
that it ought to be left entirely to the parties concerned
to propose to. Parliament any new measure for carrying
out the objects of the promoters of the company.
Mr. O'CONNOII said, with regard to the financial
statement of the report, he begged to state that although
the balance sheets were not produced, the book from which
these balance-sheets were made were laid before the
Committee. The resolutions were exceedingly favour-
able to him, but he could not allow an impression to
go abroad, that those workmen who had been managing
this company under his direction were liable to any
odium for the irregularities complained of. Having
stated thus much, and that the resolutions were unani-
mously come to, he hid only to appeal to the Chairman
and the other Members of the Committee, to say whether
every facility was not afforded to them to investigate the
accounts and the affairs of the company.
Mr. HAYTER bore his willing testimony to the truth
of the statement made by the Hon. and Learned Gentle..
man. Every facility was given to the Committee to in-
vestigate the accounts, and the other matters relating
to the accounts. Every officer that was called for was
produced, and the accounts were regularly investigated
by the accountant appointed by the Committee, and the
result had been such as stated in the resolutions. With
regard to the general question, he should be quite ready
to go into that when the evidence was in the hands ofi
Hon. Members, and it only remained for him to confirm
the statement of the lion. and Learned Gentleman that
the resolutions were unanimously agreed to by the Com-
mittee.

Sir B. HALL wished to say a few words with regard
to the observations which had fallen from the Hon. and
Learned Gentleman. He perfectly agreed with him that
every facility was given to the Members of the
Committee to investigate the affairs of the Company ;
but at the same time he could not conceal from himself
the fact that the whole of the original accounts stated to
have been audited by Mr. Cully and Mr. Knight, with the
exception of the accounts :ending for the quarters of
of September, December, 1947, and March 1848, had
been destroyed.— (Hear, hear.)
He wished to ask the Hon. Gentleman what course he
intended to take in order to effect the complete regis-
tration of the company; and he also wished to know
whether he proposed to make over the estates vested in
his name to those persons who, under tho rules and
regulations of the society, were entitled to them.
Mr. O'CONNOR thought the course that had been
pursued by the Hon. Baronet was rather uacandid and
unfair to him (Mr. O'Connor), for he had sought upon
the bringing up of the report to cast imputations upon
his motives. With respect to the question that had been
put to him, the only answer he could give was that it
was left by the report of the Committee to
the propounders and promoters of the society to
say whether they would wind up the society,
or apply to Parliament for power to carry it
With respect to the second question he had offered to
the Committee to apply to the House to give him power
to hand over the property to the parties who had agreed
to purchase it.
The report was then ordered to be received.
On the question that it be printed,
Mr. O'CONNOR said that the Hon. Baronet had
attempted to confuse the accounts of the financial
secretary with his (Mr. F. O'Connor's) accounts.
Mr. HAYTER, in answer to a qaestion from Mr.
Bouverie, said that according to the calculations of the
accountant, it would be from 150 to 250 years before
parties could obtain the benefits that had been held out
to them by this society.—(A laugh.)
Mr. G. THOMPSON bore his testimony to the entire
exoneration of the Hon. Member for Nottingham from
the charge made against him, that in the prosecution of
this scheme, he only considered his own benefit, and not
that of the working classes.
The report was then ordered to be printed.
(LEFT SITTING.)

THE LONDON GAZETTE.
(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, Auo. 1, 1848.
9th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant George Pinckney
Atkinion, from the 89th Fooi, to be Lieutenant. vice
lichards, appointed to 17th Light Dragoons, Aug. 1.
11th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Foster to
vice
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chase, vice Garland, August 1.
14th Light Dragoons—Captain William Longfield,
from the 12th Foot, to be Captain, vice Shaw, appointed
to the 63rd Foot, August 1.
17th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William Frederick
Richards, from the 9th Light Dragoons, to be
Lieutenant, vice Campbell, appointed to the 89th Foot;
Ensign Thomas Taylor, from the 3d West India Regi-
ment (Ridinginaster). to be Cornet, by purchase, vice
Erskine, promoted; Aug. 1.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot. Guards—Assist-
ant Surgeon James John Marjoribanks Wardrop, from
the 7th Light Dragoons, to be Assistant Surgeon, vice
Balfour, promoted, August 1.
Scots Fusilier Guards—Lieutonantand Captain Charles
Francis Seymour to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel,
by purchase, vice Romilly, who retires ; Ensign and
Lieutenant Edwa.td Jobn Otway to be Lieutenant and
Captain, by purchase, vice Seymour; Ensign William '
Gascoyne Bulwer, from the .52d Foot, to be Ensign and
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Otvray, August 1.
2d Regiment of Foot—Major Jobn Burns, from the,
78th Foot, to be Major, vice Stinted, who exchanges;

Captain Hector Munro, from the Royal Canadian Riflo
Regiment, to be Captain, vice Hamilton, who exchanges,
August 1.

19th Foot—Captain William James Hutchins, from
the 63d Foot, to be Captain, vice Longfield, anointed to
14th Light Dragoons, Aug. 1.
14th Foot—John Barlow, Gent. to be Ensign, by pur•
chase, vice Le Mesurier, appointed to the ;86th Foot,
Aug. 1.
29th Foot—Ensign Edmond H. C. Pery to be Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Singleton, who retires; Ensign
Edward Hazlefoot Paske, from the 69th, Foot to be En-
sign, vice Pery, Aug. 1.
ha 30th Foot—Ensign Graham Le Fevre Dickson to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Broome, who retires;
James Crosby Anderson, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Dickson, Aug. 1,
45th Foot—Captain William Abraham Le Mesurier,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice William
Smith, who exchanges, receiving the difference; Captain
Thomas Wright, from half-pay. 95th Foot, to be Cap-
tain, vice William Abraham to Mesurier, who ex-
changes; Lieutenant Stephen B. Gordon to be Captain,
by purchase, vice Wright, who retires; Ensign Arthur
Smyth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gordon;
Sergeant-Major Alexander Walker to be Ensign with-
out purchase, vice Browne, who resigns; Aug. 1.
William Hodnett Rowland, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur-
chase, vice Smyth, Aug. 2.

52cl Foot—Cecil Lennox Peel, Gent., to be Ensign,
by purchase, vice Bulwer, appointed to the Scotch Fuji.
her Guards, August 1.

57th Foot—Lieut.-Colonel Thomas Leigh Guldie,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel,
vice William Ross, whose appointment has been cancel-
led. August 1. . _

63d Foot—Captain George Gardine Shaw, from the
14th Light Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Hutchins,
appointed to the 12th Foot, Aug. 1.
66th Foot—Lieutenant Astley Paston Cooper to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Taylor, who retires; Ensign
Wildman Yates Peel to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Cooper; Ensign Frederick Le Mesurier, from the 14th
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Peel, Aug. 1.
69th Foot—Cptain George Floyd Duckett, from half-
pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice George Abercrombie
Robertson, who exchanges ; John William Charles
Fagge, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Paske, ap-
pointed to the 29th Foot, Aug. 1.
74th Foot—Captain Robert Ross, from half-pay
Unattached, to be Captain, vice Christopher B. Cardew,
who exchanges ; Lieutenant the Hon. Francis William
retires
;FaEnenstoignbeliCirazpotjain, by purchase, vice Ross, who
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purchase, vice Fane; Lionel Ingle,
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Gent.,
tLieutenant, t
o be Ensign,by
by purchase, vic Carey, Aug. 1.
77th Foot—Gentleman Cadet William Henry Cecil
George Pechell, from the Royal Military College, to be
Ensign by purchase, vice Becher, who retires, Aug. 1.
78th Foot—Major Henry William Stisted, from the 2d
Foot, to be Major, vice Burns, who exchanges, Aug. 1.
83d Foot—Ensign John Sharman Molony to be Lieu-
tenant, without purchase, vice Lane, deceased, June 29;
Sergeant-Major William Hall to be Ensign, without pur-
chase, vice Blackburn, appointed Quarter-Master 91st
Hoot, August 1; Gentleman Cadet George Henry Coch-
rane, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign,
without purchase, vice Molony, promoted, August 2.
89th Foot—Lieutenant Alexander Campbell, tram the
17th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice Atkinson,
appointed to the 9th Light Dragoons, Aug. 1.
91st Foot-,Ensign William Blackburn, froni the 83d
Foot, to be Quartermaster, vice John Forbes, who re-
tires upon halt-pay; Sergeant-Major Erederick Boehmer,
from the 60th Foot, to be Adjutant (with the rank of
Ensign), vice Jennings, deceased, Aug. 1.
98th Foot—Lieutenant William Ridsdale Bustin, from
half-pay 10th. Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mends, ap-
pointed to the 99th Foot ; Ensign Daniel Antoine Baby
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Bustin, who retires;
Frederick Moller, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase,
vice Baby, Aug. I, 1848.
99th Foot—Francis Seymour Gaynor, Gent., to be
Ensign, by purchase, vice Wright, who retires, Aug. 1.
Ceylon Rifle Regiment—Second Lieutenant John
Brown to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hill,
who retires; Valentine Baker, Gent., to be Second Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Brown, Aug. 1.
Cape Mounted Riflemen—Ensign Henry James
Palmer to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Gahan, who
retires ; Ralph Love! Thursby, Gent., to be Ensign, by
purchase, vice Palmer, Aug. 1,
Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, Captain Digby St.
Vincent Hamilton, from the 2d Foot, to be 'Captain,
vice Munro, who exchanges, Aug. 1.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant James Clyde, from the
96th Foot, to be Captain, without purchase, Aug. 1.
BREVET.—Captain William Abraham Le Mesurier,
of the 45th Foot, to be Major in the Army, July 22,
1830; Major William Abraham Le Mesurier, of the
45th Foot, to be Lieutenant -Colonel in the Army, Nov.
9, 1846; Captain Thomas Wright, of the 45th Foot, to
be Major in the Army, Jan. 10, 1837.
HOSPITAL STAFF.—Assistant Surgeon Thomas
Graham Balfour, M.D., from the Ist or Grenadier
Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Staff Surgeon of the
Second Class, and to be Surgeon of the Royal Military
Asylum at Chelsea, vice Samuel George Lawrence, who
retigns, August 1.

lamonsiDum.—The Christian names of Ensign
Crispin, 2d West India Regiment, are William Benjamin.
Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Kent.
West Kent Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.
Chislehurst Troop—Henry Bowden, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Morland, resigned, July 22.
Oxenhoath Troop—Lieut. John Wingfield Stratford
to be Captain, vice Sir William R. P. Geary, Bart., re-
signed; Cornet Francis Geary to be Lieutenant, vice
Stratford, promoted ; Evelyn Boscawen, Gent., to be
Cornet, vice Geary, promoted, July 22.
Cobham Troop—John Stuart, Earl of Darnley, to be
Captain; William Gladdish, Gent., to be Lieutenant,
July 24; Thomas Harman Brenchley, Gent., to be
Lieutenant ; William Webb Hayward, Gent., to be
Cornet, July 25.
Tunbridge Wells Troop.—The Honourable Charles
Stewart Ilardingo to be Captain ; Cuthbert Jeddere
Fisher, Gent., to be Lieutenant; Robert Springett, Gent.,
to be Cornet, July 25.
WHITEHALL, JULY 22.
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BANKRUTS.
Charles Ilunafrey, jun., merchant, Manor-street, Cam-
berwell, Surrey.
Samuel Price, underwriter, Fish-street-hill, City.
s Thomas Waldron, grocer, Rowley Regis, Stafford
hire.

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Walter Dawe, builder, Holloway-street, Exeter.
Francis Horn Rendell, builder, Torquay, Devonshire.
Edward Gamalie' Winthrop, underwriter, Avenue-
road, Regent's-park.
Joseph Wilson, grocer, Green's end, Woolwich.
John Reginal Cousins, chemist, Ramsgate.
George Washington Wakeman, upholsterer, Nantwich,
Cheshire.

James Howard, grocer, Liverpool.
Charles Dutton, joiner, Tarvin, Cheshire.
Francis Webster, innkeeper, Writtle, Essex.
Henry Carpenter, oil merchant, Leicester-square.
Edmund Appleyard, bookseller, Farringdon- street.
Thomas Spiring, grocer, Bristol (and not Thomas
Spring, as advertised in the London Gazette of July 28.)
John Jackson, sen., tailor, Stockport, Cheshire.
John Jackson, jun., and Peter Jackson, Heaton Norris,
Lancashire.

Charles Mason and Thomas Turner Ritson, paper
manufacturers, Longsight, Lancashire.

ASSIZE
,INTELLIGENCE.
MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leicester, July 31.
The business of this circuit, instead of improving as it
draws towards a close, gets worse, there being but one
cause and very few prisoners; the county calendar con-
taining ke names of about twenty persons, and the
borough lender two. The offences charged were
mostly of a trivial character. The assizes will probably
be finished in one day.
CRIMINAL COURT.—(l3efore Lord DENMAN.)
Wiligam Sharp, aged thirty, was charged with stealing
911. 155., the property of one David White, of Croft, in
this county.
Mr. Simpson prosecuted.
The prosecutor, who is a frame-work knitter, had
saved up some money, which he kept in a box in his
bedroom, there being sixty pounds ten in sovereigns and
half-sovereigns, and thirty-one pounds five in silver. On
the 16th of July he saw the money in the box safe, but
on the lath, when be looked into the box, the money
had been abstracted. The prisoner by his own
acts proved himself guilty, for having taken the money
arid spent a portion in dress for himself and a female
named Thacker, whom he had associated with himself
in the robbery, and who pleaded guilty, he sent back
81/. 10s.

The jury found him Guilty, and he was sentenced to
one year's imprisonment, and Thacker to six months.
John Gardiner, aged 18, was charged with robbing his
employer of 11. Ss.
William Riley, the prosecutor, stated himself to be a
worm doctor, at Loughborough; the prisoner was in his
employ as an assistant, at 2s. per day on business days,
but wet days were not allowed to come under that de-
scription; then he had nothing, and was obliged to find
himself. The prosecutor had given him notice to quit
his employment. On the morning of the Eth of June,
his master had taken a sovereign and some silver out of
a waistcoat pocket, giving the prisoner 6d. to fetch some
articles, for which he was to pay twopence, and return-
ing the other money into the pocket of a waistcoat that
lay on the bed. This was in the presence of the pri-
soner, who shortly after went up stairs, came down,
went out, and never returned. Ho was taken up at Bir-
mingham with a lot of medicine bottles full to their
stoppers, being able, as he said, " To gammon the flats."
The jury Acquitted him.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Henry Smith, Robert Salmon, and Thomas Harris, wore
all brought up in custody of Edward Funnell and
George Russell, two active officers of the City police
force, on the charge of obtaining goods to a large
amount from the various recciving•houses in London,
and Richard Elsworthy, a carman, was also placed at
the bar as the receiver.
Mr. Humphreys, the solicitor, attended to conduct the
case on behalf of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, carriers;
and Mr. Ogle, of Great Winchester•street,City, defended
the prisoner Elsworthy.
The evidence taken was of great length, and would be
better understood if given in the form of a narrative.
It appeared that Salmon and Smith were formerly in
the employment of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, the
former as carman, and the latter as cart-boy, but they
were both discharged, from a year and a-half to two'
years back. Since then they had been jobbing about, i
but latterly Salmon, in conjunction with the prisoner
Harris, had gone on another tack. On the 29th they
employed Smith, ostensibly for the purpose of re.