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ticular case that was to be made against him. His agent ,
had been served with ninety-six cases of objection, but ►hat
these objections were he could not even surmise.
After some short discussion,
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said the House :had nothing to
do with the question—it lay with the Committee.
The Committee was then ordered to meet to-morrow at
eleven o'clock.

coffins and human bones piled up into bonfires, and
burnt to make room for a fresh supply of the
dead ; he will be told of gravediggers driving
their spades into the ground hap-hazard (with
injunctions to dig through whatever may intercept their
progress), and casting up shovels full of flesh, and hair,
and shrouds ; he will even hear of one REUBEN Room,
who asserted upon oath that he had at times stood up to
his knees in human flesh, stamping with his feet to com-
press it into a narrow compass; he will read these things
and possibly throw the pamphlet aside as an
exaggeration—as a fiction. But those disclosures are
all true—and more! It is from the hideous character
of the facts, and from the terrible consequences which
result from those facts, that we derive so much satisfac-
tion on finding a movement just now reviving for the cor-
rection or similar abuses in Spafields Burial-ground—a
spot notorious for their recurrence. The heart has a
spontaneous impulse of joy at intelligence so much in
accordance with its better feelings, with its reverence
for the dead, and with its affection for the living. Hence
do we look forward to the continuation of Mr. MAc-
KINNON'S efforts in a cau,e so politic and so venerable,
while we are fain to anticipate that ecclesiastical inter-
ference in its behalf, of which Sir JAMES GRAHAM has
spoken with so much confidence.

MONEY and COMMERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.
The sales of Cotton at Liverpool yesterday, were about
6,000 bales, the market closing steadily at a slight decline
from Friday last. In Railway Shares there was an improve-
ment, and more business doing than for some time past.
At the public sale of Railway Shares yesterday afternoon,
by Messrs. Lomond and Co., there was a good demand, and
very fair prices were obtained. The following were the
rates for some of the lots :-Rugby and Huntingdon, 11. 35.-
London and Manchester, Remington's, 195.-North Stafford-
shire,4/. 55.-Worcester, Hereford,
ndon and Bantry, Bs.-Ipswich,
Ross, and
aCnhduGrnloeut, cesantder,lo9tstP.e-Bandon
Norwich, and Yarmouth, IL 55.-Great Eastern and Western,
alni.dli‘sii6ddla.-ndC:,rn 11. 8.-Warwick and Worcester, 12s. 6d.-
wall and Central Devon, 11. 9s. 6d.-South
Direct Birmingham and Leicester, 1/.-East Indian, 108.-
Louvain a la Sambre, 1/. 55.-Bridgewater and Minehead,
18s.-Waveney Valley, 15s.
There have not been any arrivals announced from the
Colonies to-day.
The Bank returns made public last evening show the fol-
lowing results upon a comparison with its predecessor :-
An increase in the notes in circulation of but 1,255/, or to
27,031,510/.
An increase in the Rest of 6,69:1, or to 3,359,0841.
A decrease in the Public Deposits of 1,013,9471., or to
3,197,029/.
A decrease in the other Deposits of 359,0061., or to
17,710,987/.
A decrease to 18,736,602/. in the General Securities, but
there is a slight increase in the amount of Seven- day'sßills
in hand.
The bullion in store last time was 13,572,027/. Now it is
stated at 13,627,170/. Increase, 55,143/.
Alto:ther it seems that the position of the Bank of
England is gradually becoming more and more favourable.
Bank Stock remains at very firm prices.
A very firm market has prevailed to-day for the British
Securities. Consols for Money have been quoted at 953
to 96%, and for the Account from 961-A to 14. Reduced
Annuities arra, however, rather heavy at 95. The New
Three-and• a- Quarter per Centss are at 97%. Exchequer-
bills are rather lower, viz., at 245. premium.
Not much business has been done in the Foreign Funds
to-day. Brazilian Five per Cents. opened at 82, but are now
at 81. , are at 31%; Portuguese at
5814 ; i,s for Account, t
at
t 51/2 ;
and the Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents. at 591% f/2.
The Railway Share Market is buoyant to-day. The value
thMeex Sipcaann
of most of the old Shares are looking up. The latest accu-
rate prices are annexed
FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK
(From the Official List.)
Three per Cent. Reduced Annuities • • 9534 95
Ti,?ee. tsar cent. consols Annuities .. • • 96 95% 96%
New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Anns. 9734
Long Annuities, Expire Jan. 8, 1860 • • 10%
Ditto, 30 years, Oct. 10, 1859 • • 10
India Bonds, 1,0001. .. .. -
Ditto, under 1,0001. . • • • . 32
Consols for Account •.• • • 96
Exchequer Bills. I Nd. I%d.
1,000/. - ~.. 27 24 - - pm.
5051• •• •• •• - •• • • 24 27 - - pin,
Ditto, Small •• • 24 27 - - Pm
PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Brazilian Bonds, 5 per Cent • • .. 82 81
Mexican Bonds, 1837, 5 per Cent • • -
Ditto, for the Account
Portuguese Three per Cents.
Spanish Bonds, 5 per Cent. •• •• -
Ditto, Passive Bonds • • • • • • 8334
Dividends on the above pay-able in London.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. 59 %
Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates .. 921 t
BUSINESS DONE IN RAILWAY SHARES AT ONE O'CLOCK
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester .. 100 125 .. to 1245 a
Birmingham and Oxford Junction • • 2 • • l% %.. to -
Caledonian .. •• • • • • 10 61/ .... to -
Ditto Half Shares .. 254 •• • • 1341% •. to -
Chester and Holyhead .. 2253 2l to -
Cornwall and Central Devon .. 2% •• • • 1% .. ••to -
Direct Manchester (Remington's) • • 1 .... to -
Direct Manchester (Rastrick's) .. • • .. 3%.. ••to -
Direct Northern .. .• .. 234 •• • • INI• • • • to -
Dublin and Galway .. .. 4 •• • • 21/ .... to -
Eastern Counties • • .. 14/. 16s. Od 23%%.. to -
Ditto, New • • Si. 16s. Od.• •• • 7%3y pto -
Do., Perpetual,s per Ct. No. I, 61 13s. 4d % P• • to -
Ditto, ditto .. No. 2,6/. 13s. p.. to -
Ditto, York Extension • • • • 10s. -
Edinburgh and Glasgow .. •• b 0 - to -
Ditto, Half Shares .. .. 10 .• 16% .... to -
Ditto, New Quarter Shares • • • • 10 -
Ely and Huntingdon • .. • • • • 734 ..•• 3% to -
Goole, Doncaster, and Sheffield, &c. • • 425. •• Ds.• • to -
Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 20 .. • • 2334 to -
Great Western .. • • 85 -148 •• • • to -
Ipswich, Norwich, and Yarmouth • • 2 •• • • 134.... to -
Lancaster and Carlisle .. • • • • 40 •• • • 5534 to -
London and Birmingham .. • • • • 100 .• • • - •• .. to -
Ditto, Quarter Shares • • • • 2 -
Ditto, Fifths .• 2 •• • • 2454 •• • • to -
London and Illackwaß .. 161. 13$. 4d. •• • • 8% •• .. to -
London and Brighton • • •• SO 643454.. to -
Ditto ditto Fifths .. 20 •• • • 29% .. •to -
London and Croydon .. 13/. 153. 9d. •• •• 22%.... to 2254
London and South-Western 411. 6s. 10d. • •
Ditto, New .. • • 1234.• 2234 %% % to -
Ditto, New .. • • .. 10 •• • • 18 .. • . to -
London and York .. . 234 •. • . 1%34.. to -
Ditto, Half Shares •. • • • • 234 •••• 1% •.. to -
Lynn and Ely .. • • .. 10 •• • • 6% .. •• to 7
Manchester and Leeds .. .. 82 •• • • - .. • • to --
Ditto, Half Shares .. 38 • • -
Ditto, Extension 425. -
Manchester and Birmingham .• •• 40 • • - •••• to -
Ditto, Quar.er Shares (II) .. 4 -
Ditto, Quarter Shares (C) 1 . • -
Midland • .100 •• 146 .... to -
Ditto, New • • 18
Ditto, Birmingham and Derby -100 • 118 .... to -
Newcastle and Darlington Junction • • 25 -
Ditto, New .. •• • • 1...• 9 .. to 8%
Ditto, New, Brandling .. 25 -
Newcastle and Berwick .. .. 10 .... 191,E .... to -
North British .. • . 20
Ditto, Half Shares .. •• .. 6 .... 834.... to -
Ditto, Carlisle Extension • • • • 11% • . 1%.. •to -
Northern and Eastern .. .. • • 50 71 .... to -
North Staffordshire .. • . • • 425. -
Oxford, Worcester, & Wolverhampton 121/ -
Portsmouth Direct • • •• • • 3% •- • • 236 •• • • to-
Shrewsbury and Birmingham .. .. • • 2% .... to -
South Devon • • • . .. • . • • .. 3.5 • • -
South Midland • .. 425. dis par to 31 dis,
South Eastern and Dover .. .. 33 38 •• .. to 3734
Ditto, New, No. 2 .• .. • . .. 10 ... 12 .... to 11%
Ditto, New, No. 3 •• • • • • .. 15 151,E to -
South Wales .. .. • • • • • • .. 5 .... 2 .... to 154
Vale of Neath • • • • • • • • .. 2 .... % dis ••to -
Welsh Midland .. • • • • • • .. 234 .... .... to -
West Riding Union .. • • • • • • 425..... 154 pto -
York and North Midland • • • • 50 - .... to -
Ditto. Extension • • • • • • .. 15 .... 33 . to -
Ditto East and West Riding Extension I .... 934 34 34 to -
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish •• • • • • • • .. 5 .. ,• 64 34 .. to -
East Indian • • .. •• • • .. ss. ...• 54 ••• •to -
Great Northent of France Constituted 5 .... 15% .... to -
Louvain and Jemeppe ' • • • • • 4 •• • • to -
Madrid and Valentin • • • • • • • • 2 .. • • 1 •• • • to -
Namur and Liege • • • • • • •• 4 .. • • 134 .. • • to -
Paris and Ot leans • • • • • • • • 20 .... 48N .... to -
Rouen and Havre • • • • . .. 20 .... 30% %14to 30
MINES
•

Sir R. PEEL, in answer to a question from Mr. B.
rane, said that the Government had done all it couldfoCr.thhi
relief of the families of Captain Stoddart andCapfetraitne ceethe
nolly, and that any further relief must be looped
East India Company.
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O'Brien,
Mr. nnan
and Mr. Cobden, having addressed the House,
Scrope,Mi. S. O'BRIEN wished to know if the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman was willing to accept the terms of his offer?
Sir R. PEEL said that he had no hesitation in at once say-
ing that he could not accept them.
11Ir. DISRAELI rose to charge the First Minister of the
Crown with cheering an expression in the Hon. Member for
Stockport's speech, namely, that the inhabitants of the
"towns should rule the country party." The Hon. Gentle-
man having very warmly adverted to the circumstance,
Sir R PEEL said " I totally deny the fact."
Mr. MaunicE O'CONNELL moved the adjournment of the
House.
A warm discussion then arose, as to the previous misun-
derstanding, in which several Hon. Members joined in stating
that Sir Robert Peel did not cheer at the time alleged.
Mr. DISRAELI then explained, and apologised for his
The adjourned debate having been resumed, Mr. JOHN
O'Coxxxu, addressed the House at some length, after
which, on the motion of Mr. ArCapanv, the debate was
adjourned to Monday.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of and the
House adjourned.

Madrid papers and letters of the lith have been received.

The Gazette contains a circular, issued by 31. PIDAL, the
Minister of the Interior, authorising all the political chiefs of
Spain, in consequence of the " military rebellion' in Galicia,
to adopt all the extraordinary measures, such as the procla-
mation of martial law, that the maintenance of order may
require." From the dispatches published in the same Ga-
zette, it would appear that the QUEEN'S troops had entered
the suburbs of Lugo, but that the town itself was still in
possession of the insurgents.
El Herald() says that CONCHA has taken General IntAnTE
prisoner. The rumour, however, wants confirmation. There
were likewise rumours of pronuncianiientos haying taken
place at Cadiz, Saragossa, and Valencia. They could not,
however, be traced to any authentic source.

Lord CAMPBELL, who has already distinguished him-
self so highly by the judicious legal reforms he has in-
troduced, last night added to his well-merited reputation
by moving the second reading of two Bills, viz., the
" Deodands Abolition Bill" and the " Death by Acci-
dent Compensation Bill."

A deputation from the authorities and inhabitants of Val-
ladolid had arrived in Madrid, to beseech her MAJESTY to
show mercy to the prisoners taken by General Conctin.
in the affair of Astorga. The British Minister, Mr.Bu LAVER,
had also interceded for the prisoners, and it was rumoured
that the Council had determined in consequence to spare the
privates, but to try the officer 3 and sergeants by court-
martial.

It is difficult to conceive why the law relating to
deodands has been permitted to remain so long in its
present state ; it is one of the relics of the darker
ages. The principle on which it was originally
founded was, that anything by which human life was
destroyed, or its loss was caused, should be forfeited, and
its very name " deodand," or a gift to GOD, implies its
original object, viz., that its value should he applied in
pious uses, for the repose of the soul of the deceased
person. When the State no longer recognised such an
object the Crown retained the forfeiture for its own use,
and in every coroncr's inquest a part of the duty of the
jury was to find what was the thing by which the death
was caused, and what was its value. For many years
it was usual for the jury to assess a nominal SUM
as the v,lue of the deodand, but when numerous
deaths ensued from railway accidents—many of them
resulting from negligence on the part of the servants or
officials of the company—the almost obsolete law was
revived, for the purpose of inflicting a punishment
where no adequate one was in existence, and large sums
were assessed as the value of the engine or carriages
causing the accident. The magnitude of the
fines inflicted induced the parties interested
to remove the proceedings into the Court of
Queen's Bench, in which they were almost invariably
quashed. Mr. WAKLET, who has applied his great ex-
perience to a subject so peculiarly within his province as
one of the coroners for the county of Middlesex, has
stated that no benefit whatsoever arose in any instance
from deodands under the present law. This being the case
it is surely high time that so useless a law should be
abrogated. And we are happy to find that
by the second Bill, which is intimately con-
nected with the former, an efficient and
valuable enactment will be substituted in its place.
Hitherto, by a strange anomaly in the law, although
a person could recover pecuniary damages as compen-
sation for any minor injury he might sustain, caused by
the default or neglect of another, yet, if the greatest
injury of all was sustained—if death ensued—there was
no remedy for his bereaved family, who might in a
moment be reduced from comfort and affluence to
misery and destitution, without being enabled to obtain
any redress from the person by whom so heavy a loss
was occasioned. A better state of law exists in Scotland
and in all the continental states on this subject. We
have lately seen a sum of two thousand pounds awarded
to the relatives of a person who met his death by an
accident on one of the Scotch railways; and in France,
a sum of twenty thousand francs against Monsieur BEAU-
TALLON, as a compensation for the death of the gentle-
man who unfortunately fell by his hand in a duel,
although he was acquitted of the capital charge ; and
we have no hesitation in saying that such decisions
were received with approbation by the public. The
present state of the law forms an exception to the
gt neral rule—that wherever there was a wrong inflicted,
the law should give a compensation. The Noble Mover
seemed to fear that in the Commons difficulties would
be thrown in the way of the Bill passing into a law,
from the strength of the railway interest in that House.
We cannot think so badly of our Legislators as to sup-
pose it possible that private interests should be suffered
to impede the progress of a measure so just and equitable
in itself, and one in favour of which there is so strong a
feeling on the part of the public.

Several fresh arrests have taken place in Madrid, and the
Eco del Commercio has again been seized.
General RoNull has, it is said, withdrawn his acceptance
of the Governorship of Havannah, and will probably be ap-
pointed Captain- General of Grenada, in the room of General
SAWZ.

.. .. 31%
.. 58%

On the 16th Don FRANCISCO DR PAULA held a grand re.
ception in honour of the birthday of his son, Don ENRIQU E.
These journals contain no further intelligence on the sub-
ject of the Ministerial crisis.

BIADRID BOLSA, APRIL 17.—Three per Cents., 31% for
Cash ; Five per Cents., 20% for Cash ; Exchange on Lon-
don, 37%.

We have received the Paris papers of Thursday.
LECOMTE was transferred to the Luxembourg prison at
sine o'clock on Wednesday. He states that he fired at the
KING because his MAJESTY in reply to his petition, on the
subject of his pension, had referred him to Count MONTA.
LIVET, which he considered as tantamount to a refusal.
The Journal des Debats publishes a note which has just
been presented by M. DE BOUTENIEFF to the Court of
Rome, on the subject of the alleged persecutions of the Ba-
silian nuns in Minsk. The Russian Government declares that
it has caused the most searching inquiry to be made as to
the truth of the facts alleged, and it gives the most solemn,
formal, and explicit contradiction to all the statements of the
person calling herself the Basilian Abbess—statements which
are pure fabrications, forming part and parcel of the con-
spiracy for getting up the insurrection which has recently
broken out in the provinces of ancient Poland. This is the

note :
"Additional information to complete the preceding note
on the soi-disant Abbess de Mieczislawska.
"Addition the first.—On her arrival in Paris, the woman
Mieczislawska began by calling herself abbess of the convent
of Kowno, and the Univers observed on this occasion that
the Basilian nuns have been established from time imme-
morial near the village of Kowno. Subsequently the in-
ventors of this fable must have learned that there exists no
convent of Bazilian nuns either in the town of Kowno or the
province bearing that name. It was then that they made
Mieczislawska assume the title of abbess of the convent of
Minsk, which has just as little existence. In more precision
we will remark that up to the year 1834 there was a con-
vent of Bazilian nuns at Minsk, but in that year the convent
was transformed into an hospital. In exchange, the former
convent of the Carmelites at Madgioly, a small town in the
same government, district of Villeika, was placed at the dis-
posal of the Basilian nuns, and they were transferred to
Madgioly, with an increase of revenues and other advan-
tages, amongst which was an annual contribution of 1,500
silver roubles, which the abbess of this convent, Lewehetzka,
enjoys to this day. All this passed five years before the
' union of the United Greeks with the Church of the State.
1 "Addition 2.—lt has been proved that the Bazilian nuns
who had expressed a desire to live with their relations of the
ROman Catholic faith continue to be with them, and that not
one of them has disappeared.
"Addition 3.—The following is an account of the nine
convents of Bazilian nuns, with the names of their supe•
riors at the time of the union :-2. At Wilna, the Abbess
Wichinska ;2. Grodno, Bolkonna ; 3. Vitebsk, Kasimirska
4. Polosk, Koulechauka ; 5. Pinsk, Korewianka; 6. Mad-
gioly, Lewchetska (this is the person who was abbess of '
Minsk when the convent of that place was transferred
to Madgioly in 1834); 7. Orka, Schthepanowska ; 8.
Polounce, Tchernikowska ; 9. Woliany, Pechkowska.
Of these nine Basilian convents one only has been
suppresed since the union namely, that of Wilna,
where there were only four nuns, two of whom entered
the convent of Woliany, and two that of Polounce. The
internal direction of the convents has been preserved by
the same superiors and maintained precisely on the same
footing as before the union. No change whatever has taken
place in the former mode of administration. In the apocry-
phal interrogatory published by the Univers and the Journal
des Dibats, the woman Mieczislawska mentions the co-ope-
ration of the civil governor of Minsk, Usrakoff, in the mea-
sures of violence of which the Basilian nuns are said to have
been the victims. There is no governor at Minsk of the
name of Usrakoff. He has been confounded with the Coun-
sellor Souchkoff, who has been governor of Minsk since the
year 1838, at which time these pretended persecutions are
said to have commenced. Now, M. Souchkoff declares in
the most positive manner, that during the whole of his go-
vernment no incident has come to his knowledge of a nature
calculated in any way to explain the source of the odious
narrative of the woman Mieczislawska; no com-
plaint or remonstrance on the part of the Basilian nuns
has ever been addressed to him ; he has never heard of
any complaints of the nature in question ; never, in his fre-
quent communications with the clergy-of the two religion's,
or in his tours of inspection, which have more than once led
him to the convents, has he received the slightest indication
which could induce him to suppose the existence of abuses.
In the same interrogatory, the woman Mieczislawska termi-
nates her recital, with an eulogium on the Mother-General of
the order of Basilian nuns, the Princess Euphrosina Giedy-
min, descendant of the Grand Dukes of Lithuania, aged
more than 80. She says—' When the persecution began to
rage, she sustained and encouragod the sisters by her example.
Being sent into Siberia, she died during the way,' &c. In the
first place, we will observe that Basilian nuns have never had
a Mother-General of their order in Russia. In the second
place, it is positive that the Princess Euphrosina Giedymin,
who is brought to life in 1838, died in Rome on the 12th of
November, 1239, more than six hundred years ago. We
have consulted her genealogy, as also the authors who speak
of her. Renowned for her piety, her memory is principally
kept up among the Basilian sisters. This single fact, it
appears to uN ought to suffice to show the meassire of veracity
of all the other assertions of the woman Mieczislawska. St.
Petersburgh, March, 1846."

At the commencement of the present month we
gladly seized an opportunity which enabled us to give a
voice to that general sentiment of loathing in the public
mind towards the hideous scenes enacted in too many
of our London churchyards, and which sentiment,
though shrouded by something very like apathy in the
parties towards whom we are entitled to look for repa-
ration, is, we might undertake to avouch, more
prevalent and more earnest than possibly any
other excited by a social grievance. The op-
portunity to which we refer was the introduction
of a Bill, by Mr. MACKINNON, for the removal of burial
from towns, the prosecution of which laudable project
has, however, been prevented by the extraordinary pro-
longation of other discussions in the Lower House.
Nothing further has transpired in Parliament
in reference to this very important matter, by which
additional comments have been either alto-
gether precluded, or rendered to a considerable extent
useless. In this manner an affair involving not only the
cleanliness, but the decency ; not only the decency, but
the health ; not only the health, but the morals of the
populace, has been left in abeyance. The evil is still
rife in some of the most dense and populous quarters of
this great city, and no effort has been made to alleviate,
much less to eradicate, the nuisance. Clear passages are
carved through the heart of St. Giles's ; the few
tenements still remaining are by that means exposed to
a salubrious ventilation ; and by a recent parochial re-
solution, we observe that it is proposed to root out some
of the most infamous dens in the vicinity of West-
minster Abbey, and transform theneighhourhood into re-
spectability epivtrtesoamvb
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The sanatory position of the
essential particular, but in another it is forgotten contemned—the homes of the living are cared the
homes of the dead are treated as though of no inon' whatever. Now, if we considered these facts simply e t
their political influence, they would fully arouseourin
in-
terest,
seeing that all philosophic legislators, whether in times of the remotest antiquitr or in lands of the most
excessive barbarism, have incorporated with their
systems a reverence for the relics of humanity. They
knew that any decay of feeling in this regard would
tend inevitably to subvert some of the most humanising
principles of our common nature. As an evidence of
this esteem even for the perishable remains of their
fellow-men, we may incidentally mention the costly
sarcophagi and perfumed mummies of the Egyptians,
the mausoleums which flanked the principal roads of
entrance to the Eternal City, the solemn funeral cere-
monies even of savages, but especially the impressive
and beautiful rites of death peculiar to Christianity,
Everything conspires to prove that some respect either of
heart or of formality is requisite to maintain the com-
monest sentiments of decency and humanity among
the people. Experience shows this, so also does reason.
But there are other and no less important lights in
which the matter can he regarded. Due attention to in-
terment is necessary for the preservation of bodily
health, as well as for the cleanliness and adornment of
These things are so manifest in tt•-cm.
selves, we have already so fully ex'eused their
sufficiency in The Sun, and, cie
-eumstances of a
most harrowing nature have so. adequately demonstrated
the truth of such conCliasions, even within the bounda

The Journal des Dibats states that the Minister of Ma-
rine has given orders that at each of the Frenck dockyards
a ship-of-the-line should be built without delay. This mea-
sure, says the Debuts is equivalent to keeping five new
ships-of-the-line afloat, because it is an easy matter to keep
on the slips ships ready for launching.
The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Thursday,
at 83f. 65c.; the Five per Cents, 1201. 10c.; the Orleans Railroad
Shares, 1,2371. 55c. ; Rouen, 1,0401. ; Havre, 7551. ; Great Northern,
768 f. 75c.; Avignon, 925 f. ; Vierzon, 687 f. 75c.; Bordeaux, 6271.
50c. ; Troyes and Montereau, 410 f. ; Basle, 230 f.; Fatnpoux, 450 f. ;
Dieppe, 457 f. 50c.; Paris and Strasburg, 520 f.; Tours and Nantes,
545 f. ; Paris and Lyons, 575 f. ; Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
75f; Spanish Actives, 32%.
The following are the quotations in the new lines :-
Lyons and Avignon Railroad (Talabot), 5121. ; ditto (Le-
cointe), 1061. ; ditto Bordeaux and Cette (Macknzie), 601 f. 50c. I
ditto (Espeleta), 507 f. 50c. ; Charleroi, 4951.
Lions,APEIL 21.-Marseilles and Avignon, 8951.; Paris and
Orleans, 1,202 f. 500 ; Rouen'
1,0281. ;Lyons, 5651.
lIIJSINESS DONE IN FOREIGN' RAILWAYS AT THE.
LONDON STOCK ExCIiANGE, Avail, 24.
Boulogne and Amiens, lIN -Dutch Rhenish, 81,4 E t I
dlan, }i -Great Northern of France Constituted, 1554 ---Na as
n-
Liege, Great Northern
and Bordeaux, 1 l-Paris and latraabournrurcaeld
stituted, 5% -Rouen and Havre, 30% -Sambre and Mousge, 511-
Tours and Nantes Constituted, 6%.

LLOYD'SSHIPPING—(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, APRIL 25.—Wind, N.E., sunrise, light breeze, and line
clear weather ; 10h. 30m. cloudy; I lh. heavy rain and hail ; at noon,
light breeze and One, but cloudy at times.
DEAL, APRIL 21.—Wind S.E. to IC moderate.—Arrd. Palmer, and
slcl. for Ghent ; Waterwitch, Strugnell, St. Michael's. Arrd. from
the River. Ilindostan, Lamb, Bombay ; Tyne, Montreal. Arrd.
from the River and and. Duke of Portland, Cubitt, Bombay,
LIVERPOOL, APRIL 24.—Wind N.N.E., light breeze.—Arrd. Par-
land, Smith, New Orleans ; Abagun, Finney, Charleston ; Ranawan,
Swaney, Wilmington. SM. 24th, llama. Amicizia, Bassi, Rio Janeiro ;
Nel son
Pakenh
packet, am, Bourne
Meadus,, BarNewbadoesfoundl ; Washandington, Wilkie, Staten Island;
SHIELDS, APRIL 22.—S1d. Walker, Cozon, North America; Hope,
MirainichL
PENZANCE, APRIL 22.—Tbe schooner Lady of the Lake, repor'ed
A
IRIL 23. —The Enterprise, Berwick, from London. ‘^-
yesterday ashore on Chyandour Beach, came off last tide without ap-
parent
CARDIFF,
got off Breaksea Point yesterday morning, and brow. 4- • •
the
evening.
31t:Ntsr.r.s, APRIL 22.—The Hope, I%*''' in in
Porthcawl, parted chain and 0-
parently has sustaine"
HARTLEPOO•
Walla,-

Talbot tb
—vv. on shak-e M hhth water, but ap-
, Arati,"2.4l4fr Card, marked in gilt letters "Sir W.
,„.-- was washed on shore near the Black Itocks, north of this
~ace, on the 20th inst.
L
—Malabar,
Saldanha Bay.
SMELLS, APRIL 23.—The Aletander, bf this port, from London-
Wlnd
derry to St. John's, New Brtlhaivick, with emigrants, is reported to
have put back to Ireland, having been dismiloamstued.yo,ffroTi.et•yonlsdloann.d.
Aden.
BRISTOL, APRIL •
OFFN Ew
pFOARL: OATII,L2A42p4i.
Marmon', APRIL 23.—Wind E.—Sld. Fawcett, Sligo and Quebec.

our towns.

ries of the metropolis, that any amplification of the like
arguments would now be superfluous. A pamphlet, very
recently published, with the quaint heading of "Burial-
ground Incendiarism," written by Mr. G. WALKER, an
untiring
advocate for the suppression of interment
within cities, will afford any one unacquainted with the
details of our London churchyards a frightful bird's-eye
view of the occurrences enacted in those pernicious nests
of decornposition. Jae who is a will shudder over their diem stranger to the facts
al record ; he, will hear of

CABINET DINNER.—There will be a Cabinet dinner
on Wednesday next, but it is uncertain whether the Earl of Aber-
deen •r the Right lion. William E. Gladstone will give the entertain.
ment.

THE QUEEN DOWAGER.—The negotiation for th•
Queen Dowager's occupancy of Blenheim Palace, the residence of
the Duke of Marlborough, has been broken off. The object her Ma-
jesty had in visiting Cashiobury, Herts, the seat of the Earl and
Countess of Essex, was preliminary to completing an agreement for ,
renting it for two years; and we can state that yesterday her Ma-
jesty accepted the terms of the noble owner.
HOLLOWAY FAlR.—This pleasure fair will be revived
on Monday next, and continue four days. A large portion of the ,
grMid LB already covered with bovtits and ohms,

PrEE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, APRIL 25, 1846.

Eastern Company were asked to pay the money: The appli-
cation was made to the solicitor of the company, the person
to Whom under the Act the application should be made., but
no answer was received, and the application was renewed. In
answer to that application a letter Was received from the
company's solicitor, stating that he was sorry that the pay-
ment of the 10,000/. had been delayed, but it had passed the
finance committee and board, and a cheque for the amount
should be ready on the following Friday. The money was
not forthcoming on that day, and another application was
made, the answer to which stated that the cheque was ready
and would be forwarded. As the money was not forth-
coming, and as it was necessary that their Lordships—who
had waited as long as their duty would permit—should have
the money to be applied to the purposes already stated, it
became necessary for them to make this application to the
Court.

Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Take a rule.
IN RE CHAMBERS V. WILTON.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL applied to-the-Court to revise
certain judgments which had been given by Mr. Chambers
to a Mr. Wilton, and also for a writ of scire facies, to make
the assignee of Mr. Wilton, under the Insolvent Debtors'
Act, a party to those judgments.
It appeared that Mr. Wilton had for some years acted as
attorney for Mr. Chambers, who was a banker, and against
whom a commission of bankruptcy had been issued, and had
received four warrants of attorney on which judgment had
been entered up. It was iu respect of one of these warrants
that the present application was made. One of these war-
rants was a bond, under a penalty of 3,0001., to indemnify
Mr. Wilton against certain costs in an action which was
then pending, and also in certain other proceedings involving
the validity of the bankruptcy against Mr. Chambers. An-
other of them was a bond, under a penalty of 10,00 N, to
secure 5,000/. by way of gift or gratuity to Mr. Wilton, in
respect of certain services which he had performed, and the
two other judgments were simply for costs— one for a sum of
between 4,000/. and 5,0001., and the other for 3,9601. for
costs due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton in certain
Chancery proceedings. Judgment was entered on all these
warrants, and as they remained unsatisfied, in January,
1837, a rule was obtained calling on Mr. Wilton! to
show cause why judgement should not be vacated. - The
ground on which the application was made was, that at
the time these costs were incurred Mr. Wilton
was not an attorney duly qualified to act in that Court, or
at the time when the warrants were made. The matter was
discussed in that Court, and the rule was made absolute for
vacating the judgments, with a qralitication that they were
to be referred to the Master to ascertain how much was due
from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton for money actually paid,
and subjecting these warrants to the payment of whatever
money might be due upon that ground. The matter was
referred to the Master, and it seemed that from 700/. to 800/.
were due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton for money paid.
After that Mr. Chambers proceeded in Chancery against Mr.
Wilton, in order to have that suns still further reduced, and
to obtain an order of the Court to ascertain how much of this
700/. was for business done in the Court of Chancery, when
Mr. Wilton was duly qualified to practise as an attorney.
This question was under a decretal order of the Court referred
to a Master, and the result was that instead of 7001., only
1111. was found to be due from Mr. Chambers to Mr. Wilton,
and accordingly a decree was obtained that on payment of
that sum satisfaction should be entered upon the warrants.
In the meantime Mr. Wilton had assigned two of these
judgments to a gentleman named Greene, who was conse-
quently interested in these proceedings, and would of
course be entitled to some portion of the 1111.
Mr. Wilton took the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act
and a Mr. Sturges was appointed as his assignee. The
result was that Mr. Wilton, who was entitled to the pay-
ment of 111/. before Mr. Chambers could enter or cause to be
entered satisfaction on the warrants, ceased to have any inte-
rest in them, as he had subscribed them to Mr. Greene and
to his assignee. Mr. Chambers was perfectly willing to pay
the 111/., but could only pay it on satisfaction being entered
on ehese judgments. On the other band Mr. Greene was
willing to arrange his claims, and Mr. Sturges, the assignee,
was willing to cancel the judgments on the receipt of 1111.
An application was made by Mr. Chambers some time since
to enter up judgment on payment of 1111,but the objection
was that it was a proceeding fur the Court of Chancery, and
the rule was accordingly discharged. The present applica-
tion was made on behalf of Mr. Wilton's assignee in order
that judgment might be entered up, and the 111/., subject to
the claim of Mr. Greene, should be paid to him to distribute
amongst the creditors of Mr. Wilton, for he could not obtain
the money except on satisfaction being enured. This tran-
saction took place 15 years ago, and the present application
wasmade to revive these judgments and to make Mr. Sturges
a party to them. The only question was whether under
these circumstances it was necessary to have a rule nisi to
show cause, or to serve a rule on Mr. Wilton to enable him
to show cause.

Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—TO avoid any trouble you had
better take a rule to show cause.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Baron ALnEnsoN.)
SLACK v. FRANCIS.
This was an action brought to recover the possession of
certain deeds which had been placed in the defendant's hands
for the purpose of raising money on a bill, the deeds being
placed, as the defendants considered, as a collateral security.
The plaintiff, before the money was advanced, changed his
intention, and demanded the repossession of the documents,
but the defendant Francis refused to deliver them unless he
was paid his costs.

The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff of 400/., the
payment of which was to be enforced, if the defendant did
not give up possession of the deeds.
WINTERBURN V. BROOKS AND OTHERS.
This was au action brought to recover damages which the
plaintiff had sustained, by means of an assault committed,
and false imprisonment sustained, at the instance of the
defendants.

It appeared, from the evidence for the plaintiff, that Mr.
Winterburn happened to have a very ill-conducted youth for
a son, who was accustumeol to keep very bad company, and
on the day in question, the 21st of December last, the son
had stolen from his home, to go to his usual haunts, and Mr.
Winterburn followed to drive him home. It happened whilst
he was administering chastisement with a strap, which was
shown to be by no means grievous, Mr. Brooks, a Mr. Wil-
kinson, and a Mr. Herbert, seized hold of Mr. Winterburn,
shook him, and led him by the collar to the station-house.
[The Court then rose to enable his Lordship to attend the
Crown cases.]

BRID PORT ELECTION COM-
MITTEE.—(THIS DAY.)
RETURN OF MR. ROjiltrY, THE LIBERAL CAN-
DIDATE.
The Committee appointed to inquire into the truth of the
allegations against the return of Mr. Bailie Cochrane as Par-
liamentary representative for the borough of Bridport, sat
for the first time at eleven o'clock this morning, in No. 2
Committee-room of the House of Commons. The allegations
were bribery, treating, and corruption. It may be remem-
bered that the Honourable Member was returned by a majo-
rity of one only, and it was stated very generally, at the close
of the election, that had it not been for some errors in the
polling-books, the majority would have been in favour of
Mr. Romilly, the opposing candidate.
The Committee consisted of Mr. Charles Wood (chair-
man), Mr. B. Escott, Sir William Somerville, Lord Claude
Hamilton, and Lord Dalmeny.
The counsel for the petitioners were Mr. Cockburn, Ser-
geant Wrangham, and Sergeant Kinglake ; and for the sit-
ting Member Mr.'Austin and Mr. Sergeant Murphy.
The agent for the petitioners was Mr. Coppock, and for
the sitting Member Messrs. Vizard and Lemon.
Mr. Cochrane was present during the proceedings.
The proceedings were opened by the clerk of the Com-
mittee reading the petition, after which
The CHantsresi said—Mr. Cockburn, we have come to the
same resolutions which we passed in the case of the Cam-
bridge Committee. I believe I need not read them over to
you.
Mr. Couxnunsf—Oh, no • they ought in fact to be taken
as the general practice of iarliament.
The CHAIRMAN—ExactIy so; it was necessary that we
should come to these resolutions for our own guidance.
Mr. Ausisx said that those resolutions should in fact
be looked upon as the Tidd's Practice for Parliament.—
(Laughter )
Mr. Comeliest said, that it then became his duty, on
the part of the petitioners, to state the immediate cir-
cumstances under which the petition was sought to be up-
held. It was a petition that contained numerous allega-
tions, and for the purpose of laying before them the case of
the petitioners, he might state at once that all the main
points would be brought under their consideration. And one
of the grounds on which the petitioners sought to set aside
the return of Mr. Cochrane, and establish the right of Mr.
Romilly to be returned for this election, embraced what was
called the general case, and the other resolved itself
into a question of scrutiny. Upon the general case the
petitioners contended that Mr. Cochrane's return was
void in point of law, and ought to be set aside, as
well as upon the scrutiny ; and they would show to
the Committee r several cases by which Mr. Cochrane had
rendered himself disabled and disqualified to be returned
to sit in the present session of Parliament. On the scrutiny,
they would contend that he ought never to have been re-
turned, but that Mr. Romilly was entitled to be returned for
the borough of Bridport. Now it was always a painful
matter to have to enter on what was called the general case,
because oae could not do that without more or less implicat-
ing either the sitting Member himself, or those who bad
acted on his behalf—his friends or agents. There was no
question about treating in this case. They were prepared to
prove that the sitting Meniber, and his agents, had obtained
this return by means of corrupt and illegal practices. Now,
furthermore, upon the scrutiny they said that several votes
had been rendered void by bribery, and they were prepared
to prove that that had been done in numerous instances.
They were also on the scrutiny prepared to show that the
various other grounds which were set forth in detail in the
notices which they had served on the opposing party, and
which would, therefore, render it unnecessary for him to
trouble them by minutely going over those various grounds,
were all capable of proof. They contended that votes had
been given for Mr. Cochrane which ought not to have been
given, and that votes had been withheld which oughtto have
been given to Mr. Romilly.
Mr. AUSTIN—My Learned Friend talks about a scrutiny,
and it will be a great convenience to us if he tells us whether
he means to go into the general case, as he calls it, or to go
into the scrutiny.
The CHAIRMAN—I suppose he will tell us before he has
done.
Mr. Cocienuax—My Learned Friend's interruption is not
regular or usual ; but if he wishes to know I have no hesita-
tion in telling you, that though I feel it my duty to open the
whole case on which I seek to avoid this return, I shall think
it right first to proceed with thescrutiny, because I believe
that upon that scrutiny I shall be enabled to seat Mr.
Romilly, and if so, I. shall then be spared the more painful
inquiry into those practices which are charged against Mr.
Cochrane.
Mr. AUSTIN—My Learned Friend has a right, no doubt, to
begin with what part of the case he pleases, but I also have a
right to ascertain from my Learned Friend what course he
proposes to follow, and I consider it to be my duty to ascer-
tain from him what that course is. You will observe—
The CIIAIRMAN—I think you ought to allow him to go on.
Mr. Ausnx—l think not. It is with reference to the con-
ducting of the case. I understand that my Learned Friend
will go into the scrutiny first ; and he has a right to do that
no doubt, if he please, or he may take the general case first.
If you will just look at this petition, you will find that the
bulk of the allegations consists of what is called the general
case. With reference to that general case, I beg to say that
I am prepared, on the part of Mr. Cochrane, to meet it. But,
Sir, with reference to the scrutiny, if we are to be driven into
the scrutiny before we go into the general case, then I will
tell my Learned Friend, and the Committee, which is of
more importance, that at this period of Parliament—that at
the time when this session may probably measure the dura-
tion of the whole Parliament, I do not think it right, on the
part of my client, to follow my Learned Friend through a
scrutiny which might last to the end of the session itself. It
would be a waste of time and an expense which I do not feel
the least degree of inclination to advise, and I therefore do
not intend to go into the scrutiny at all. Ido not, in fact,
wish to inquire whether Mr. Johnson received alms from the
agents of my client, or whether another man received 101.;
and, therefore, if my Learned Friend wishes to go into
the scrutiny,he may go on with that if he chooses; but with
the general case lam prepared to grapple. I do not, how-
ever, mean to go into the question of scrutiny. I think,
therefore, that you will admit that my interruption is quite
pertinent.
The CHAIRMAN—Pefectly so.
Mr. COCKRUAN said that he hardly understood his position.
If he were to strike off two voters unopposed by the other
party, that was one thing; but he would certainly prefer fol-
lowing his own course, as he understood his Learned Friend
was not prepared to go into the question of scrutiny.
Mr. Auntie did not see any difficulty whatever as to the
course to be adopted by his Learned Friend with regard to
the question of scrutiny. It was simply whether a man of
the name of Skyrocket, or something of that sort—(Laughter)
—went and voted for Mr. Romilly, whilst the vote was en-
tered for Mr. Cochrane.
Sergeant Wuissioxase—They ought to restore that vote to
the right owner at once.
The CHAIRMAN—Of course, if that is so, he ought to be
entered for Romilly.
Mr. COCKBURN—Sergeant Murphy says, the man went up
a rocket to vote for Romilly, and came down a Cochrance.
Mr. AUSTIN—This is a case in which a scrutiny is most
desirable, to inquire into the conduct:of the returning officers.
The CHAIRMAN—It is quite clear that we are called upon
to enter into a scrutiny.
Mr. Cocumnix—l am quite delighted that for the present,
at least, I am called upon to go into the question of those per-
sonal matters to which I have alluded.
The CHAIRMAN—YOU had better proceed with the proof
about the state of the polling-books.
Mr. R. Naylor, chief clerk of the High Court of Chancery,
was accordingly called, and having been sworn, was cross-
examined as follows:
Mr. SERGEANT WRANGHAM—DO you produce the polling..
books in this case ?—I do. Do you find the name of William
Rockett, cordwainer, in them ?—I do ; his name is placed op-
posite 273, on the register, and his residence is stated to be
South-street: he is put down as having voted for Mr.
Cochrane. Is there not something opposite his name, which
has been written over ?—Yes; there were some words
written opposite his name, but they have been struck out ;
I believe the words " not completed" are those which have
been struck out.
Joseph Welsh was the next witness, and was examined as
follows :
Do you know Wm. Rockett ?—Perfectly well. He is a
voter at Bridport 2—Yes, Sir. Were you present at the
time when he came to vote at the last Bridport election ?
Yes, Sir. Did you see him come up to vote 2—l saw him
come to the polling-booth. Did you see him give his vote ?
—Yes : he voted for Mr. Romilly
The CHaansms—Was he sober at the time ?--Yes,
Do you see him here ?—I have not seen him here. Sir
Sergeant Waasastrast—He is not liere. In cases of this
kind voters are parties in the case, and they are not, there-
fore, entitled to be evidence. His ad missions may be evi-
dence against him, but not for him.
As the counsel for Mr. Cochrane had already stated that
they were not prepared to defend a scrutiny, the Chairman
here ordered the room to be cleared for the purpose of con-
sulting with his colleagues; and after the lapse of a few
minutes the parties were re-admitted, when
The CHARMAN said—We have come to the resolution that
Mr. Cochrane was not duly elected, and that Mr. Rost*
was duly elected, and ought to be returned, and we shall
report to the House that the manner in which Mr. Coch-
rane was returned was by the transfer of Rockett's vote.
The case was thus suddenly brought to a conclusion in the
space of three-quarters of an hour, and although the form
of an inquiry was gone through, and the vote of one
person legally disposed of, it was perfectly evident
from the whispering of counsel, and the consulta-
tion of agents, that Mr. Cochrane's party struck
their flag, to avoid exposures highly inconvenient.
In fact, it was generally reported and believed that a more
flagrant case of bribery, affecting both principal and agents,
has seldom been ready for opening, than the one which timely
surrender and arrangement, at the very last moment, pre-
vented.

ever occurred In this Conn-
APRIL 23.—Two of the
most brutal cases
on
G
try, were perpetrated
0 S 0 T t
ofA En;
7t,shPuanEt
perhaps,clNaityrvening last, at Knipe scar, a lone
I d
Hampton Grange, iii Washita:iran, on the persons of Miss Elizabeth
e
and extensive Moot, lying between the village of Ituckthorpe and
by four labourers, who were working on the Lancaster and Carlisle
Dover, aged thirty-two years, nod her sister Jane, aged seventeen,
Railway, named John Smith, Win. Smith, Jack Gloucester, and T.
that the mother of
Gunner, who have made their escape. It appears
,
these ladies and their brother carry on a large farm, called the Scar-
side, near which there is not another dwelling for upwards of a mile
and the Misses Dolan live with them. On Sunday last, another
sister, who lives at Hacktherpe Hall, was on a visit to see her
mother and the family at Scarside farm, and on her return home
in the evening, her sisters, Elizabeth and Jane, accompa-
nied her over a greater part of the moor. On their return,
when about half a mile from home, they were met on the
moor by the two Smiths, Gloucester, and Gunner, who a'l
four commenced most brutal assaults upon them by kicking
and beating them in a most unmerciful manner; indeed, one of
the Smiths knocked a tooth out of the head of Jane, Witt:dr bon-
nets and clothes were torn and tattered to pieces. Having done that,
they tnrew the two defenceless sisters on the ground, when each of
the villains violated their persons. For upwards of two hours they
kept the poor girls in this state, all the four having committed the
crime three times each. At last they let Jane go, who managed
with great difficulty to reach home, leaving her sister-in the hands of
the four villains. On getting home she presented a most fearful
figure, and having told what had happened, her brother Matthew immediately mounted his horse and galloped off in search of his
sister Elizabeth, and the villains, on hearing the clattering of the
horse's feet, decamped. He at last found her lying on the ground
unable to get up, and presenting a most heart-rending spectacle.
With great difficulty he succeeded in getting her home about ten
o'clock at night. It was before eight o'clock when the villains first
attacked them. On leaving the females they proceeded to their
lodgings at Little Stuckland, where they remained some time, but
early in the morning they decamped. The police are out in all direc-
tions in search of them, but up to this time (Thursday evening) they
have not been apprehended. The respectability of the two females,
and the enormity of the crime, have given rise to the greatest de-
gree of excitement and execration.
STEAM AND COMMON SENSE.—Since the Leicester
and Norwich coach has been knocked off the road, much dissatisfac-
tion is expressed at the route the lettersposted east of Holbeach now
take in coming to this locality, and vice versa. It can scarcely be believed that a letter having to go only to another town two miles off,
i.e. from Whaplode to Holbeach, should have to go the distance of 250
miles ; and so have the letters posted at the intermediate places be-
tween the latter place and Lynn, to go the same distance ; I.hat
should be delivered in two or three hours now take two days. This
calls loudly for an alteration, and though. caused .by the increase of
steam, waves the necessity of a further increase, anitmust convince
every person of the neceasity of A raillray between those piscoo.7-
1/Mit &W O.