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JUNE 19, 1848.
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On Tuesday next, in 2 vols. post Bvo , price 15s. cloth,
MA DONNA PIA, and other Poems. By
JAMES GREGOR GRANT. With Frontispieces by W.
Mu ready, ILA.
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STRICTURES OF THE URETHRA : Prevalent and Da' gerous
Errors in their Treatment.
Jost published, price 55., (by post free, Gs.,) Bvo., in cloth.
THE PATHOLOGY AN I) RATIONAL
TREATMENT of STRICTURES of the URETHRA, in all
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the Use and Abuse of In,truments In the Treatment of Urethral Dis-
eases, showing that the unnecessary employment of instruments is
a frequent exciting cause of stricture, and that a want of practical
knowledge and manual dexterity in their use, when necessary, is the
source of most of the severe, long -protracted, and complicated cases
of that disorder so fataly prevalent. The whole illustrated by nu-
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COURT of CHANCERY, made in a cause BRIGNAL
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late of the City of Durham, Widow, deceased (who died on or about
the second day of July, 1844), •are forthwith to collie in and prove
their Debts before WILLIAm WINGFIELD, Esq., one of the Masters of
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of the said Decree.

JOHN ROGERSON, 50, Lincoln's Inn-ifelds,
Agent ter
11. J. MARSIULL, Durham, Plaintiff's Solicitor.

THE LORD MAYoR's BANQUET
TO THE MINISTERS.
The Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress gave a mag-
nificent banquet, on Saturday evening, to her Majesty's
Ministers, in the Egyptian-hall, Mansion-house, where
savers were laid for 170. Amongst the company were
—'The Danish Minister and Countess Reventlow, the
Netherlands Minister and Mdlle. Schimmelpenniack, the
American Minister and Mrs. Bancroft, the Turkish Mi-
nister and Princess Callimaki, the Marquis of Lans-
downe, the Marquis and Marchioness of Clanricardn,
Earl and Countess Fortescue, Earl of Falmouth, the
Earl of Auckland and Miss Eden, Lord and Lady John
Russell, the Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady
Mary Wood, Lord and Lady John Hay, Lord and Lady
Marcus Hill, Lord and Lady Cowley, Lord Campbell
and Lady Stratheden, Sir George and Lady Grey, Lord
Howden, Lord and Lady Robert Grosvenor, Viscount
Palmerston, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Chetwynd, Rear-
Admiral and Lady Emily Dundas, Lord and Lady
Monteagle, the lion. Captain and Lady Charlotte
Berkeley, the Hon. Mr. and Mrs. S. Ponsonby, the
Bishop of Norwich and Miss Stanley, Sir T. Freemantle,
Bart., and Miss Freemantle, the Vice-Chancellor of
England, Mr. Baron and Lady Rolfe, Mr. Justice
and Lady Vaughan Williams, the Right Hon. W. G.
and Mrs. Hayter, Mr. Baron and Lady Platt, the
Solicitor-General for Ireland, Baron and Baroness
Rothschild, Lord Dudley Stuart, Sir B. Hall, Sir W.
Riddell, Sir J. L. Lushington, Major-General Galloway,
Sir C. Trevelyan, Baron Wydenbrach, Secretary to the
Austrian Embassy ; Mr. and Mrs. Plowden, Mr. R. M.
Bellew, Mr. Masterman, Mr., Mrs., and Miss Morrison,
Mr. Moffatt, Mr, Grey, Mr. and Mrs. Heath, Mr. and
Miss Hooper, Lieutenant-Colonel Ridley, Mr. G. R.
Smith, Mr. Boyd, Mr. J. H. Smith, Mr. Merivale, Mr.
Arbuthnot, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, Mr. Hudson, Mr.
Chaplin, Mr. Locke, Captain W. Pell, Captain Gordon,
Mr. and Mrs. Delane, Mr. Brand, Mr. Stephenson, the
Rev. Dr. Knapp, Mr. Hine, Mr. Roberts, Sir C. Stephen
and Lady Hunter, Sir W. and Miss Magnay, Mr. Al-
derman and Mrs. Thompson, Sir Peter Laurie, Mr. Al-
derman and Miss Farebrother, Mr. Alderman Copeland,
Mr. Alderman Humphery, Mr. Alderman and Mrs.
Johnson, Mr. Alderman Gibbs, Sir George and Lady
Carroll, Mr. Alderman Challis, Mr. Alderman and Mrs.
Sidney, Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Moon, Mr. Alderman
and Mrs. Lawrence, Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Salomans,
Mr. Alderman and Mrs. Finnis, the Common Sergeant,
Mr. and the Misses Mirehouse, Mr. Sheriff and Mrs.
Cubitt, Mr. Sheriff and Mrs. Hill, the Mayor of Exeter,
Thomas Shapter, M.D., Mr. and Mrs. John Wood, Mr.
Elardwick, Mr. Under-Sheriff France, Mr. Under-
Sheriff Wire, the City Solicitor, and the City Remem-
brancer.
The LORD MAYOR having proposed the health of the
Queen and the Royal Family, gave " The Navy and
army," and joined with the toasts the names of Lord
Auckland and Lord Howden.
Lord AUCKLAND, in returning thanks for the nary,
said they were all aware of the intimate connexion be-
tween the commercial power of the city of London and
the naval power of the country, and he was convinced
that if the services of the navy should be again called
into operation they would prove as efficient as ever.
Lord HOWDEN returned thanks for the army. He re-
garded it as a particular honour that in a very short
,pace of time he had been twice called upon, though un-
sxpectedly, to return thanks in that hall for the profes-
sion to which he belonged. Under ordinary circum-
,tances the duties of her Majesty's servants in arms was
to guard the honour of their country, and to preserve its
came inviolate abroad, and then to watch over her inte-
rests, her complicated interests, in peaceful prosperity at
none—that prosperity which chiefly arose from the good
t'aith, the high intelligence, and dauntless energy of that
;rest commercial body which the Lord Mayor so fit-
tingly, and they had all reason to say, so hospitably
represented. But in the present condition of
Europe, when its political state was trembling in
the balance ; when the tempest of revolution
was abroad, before which thrones and dynasties and in-
,titutions wore crumbling ; when rebellion and treason
were rampant on one side, encouraged by the example
4 a cowardly treacherous defection of a armed bodies
n the other ; sterner duties might devolve upon the
13ritish soldier, and those duties would be fulfilled. He
could not stop to examine the casuistry of the condi-
tional obedience of men with arms in their hands. He
ti(i not understand that miserable jargon which was the
)ffspring of perverted honour and duty. The English
soldier feared neither a selfish oligarchy nor a more
selfish rabble. He wore freely and tearlessly the livery
his Sovereign, and that coat ho would neither turn
-tor tarnish.—(Loud cheers.) Far be it from him to
cast the slightest reflection on brave men struggling fur
just rights and indefeasible franchises ; but if they
rished to gain the sympathy of the army of England
they must never fur one moment forget that the best of
111 equalities is the equality of the law, and the only
lasting and true fraternization—that was the word now
—is a just and considerate, kind, charitable Christian
consideration of the other interests, various, complicated
and great, of which a commonwealth is composed. If
the day of danger should arise the army would do its
duty, not only in defence of the honour and interests of
the country, but of what was too often insidiously at-
tacked under the name of liberty—the true indepen-
dence of the people.
Tho next toast was " The Foreign Ambassadors," to
which the Danish Ambassador returned thanks.
The LORD MAYOR said that in proposing the next
toast he had a most gratifying task to perform. Agree-
ably to the good; old custom of the city of London, the
Chief Magistrate had the privilege of inviting under
his roof, to partake of his hospitality, the Ministers of
tier Majesty. In conformity with that custom he had
invited her Majesty's Ministers that day, and he felt the
utmost gratification in seeing around him nearly the
whole of them. The members of the Administration
were not invited for the purpose of entering into poli-
tical discussions, but for the purpose of enjoying some
relaxation from their serious and important duties.
Under these circumstances they had been invited that
day, but extraordinarily situated as they were, it would
not be improper to refer to their present position. It
was a source of great satisfaction to all that the power
,existed for assembling at that board. It was a privilege
not granted to many of the cities on the Continent of
Europe, and it showed that Providence was abundantly
kind to this nation. Ile congratulated her Majesty's
Ministers upon coming to the city of London to enjoy
the relaxation to which he had alluded, and he believed
sincerely that if any one question more than another ab-
sorbed the anxious attention of the members of her Ma-
jesty's Government, it was comprehended in the desire
to preserve the peace of Europe. It must be admitted
that England was in a state of comparative agitation
—lout it was quite obvious, as appeared from everything
which had taken place, that the masses of the people
desired no change exeept that which would bring im-
provement with it.
Lord JOHN RUSSELL My Lord Mayor, I rise to
thank you, in the name of my colleagues and in my
own name, for the great honour which you have done
us. Being much accustomed to the splendid reception
which is given to her Majesty's Ministers in this city, I
need express no surprise at the noble hospitality with
which we have been received this evening. But, my
Lord, you have, I think, very properly expressed that
this was an occasion on which we might be expected
to make some allusion to the events passing through-
out Europe. And I cannot forego this opportunity,
even though I may be infringing on the office of my
Noble Friend the Secretary for the Home Department,
of expressing my sense of tho way in which he has
succeeded in preserving this country from the horrors
of anarchy.—(Cheers.) We have felt, supported and
aided as we were by the great mass, by the overwhelm-
ing majority of the inhabitants of this neighbourhood,
that there was little to be feared from any attempt to
violate order or overthrow our institutions. And I
trust and believe that this same spirit of loyalty and
attachment to our institutions will preserve that internal
peace and tranquillity which less fortunate nations have
aeon deprived of. I think, my Lord, that we indeed
owe thanks to Providence for having been able to pre-
serve peace, both internal and external. My Noble
Friend the Secretary for Foreign Affairs as you have
justly observed, appreciates as highly as any man can do
the blessings of peace with the continent of Europe.
I trust that peace will be maintained ; and I must
add, that it is not only our wish that peace
between this country and foreign nations should
be maintained, but that it is our earnest
wish to contribute, by all the means which the
influence of this country can command, by all the
counsels which impartiality and friendly zeal can suggest,
to preserve those blessings to other countries, and to
secure their oontinuance—(Cheers.) And, my Lord, I
may, perhaps, be allowed to remark that the course which
we are pursuing at the present period affords a signal
refutation of those calumnies which have been constantly
heaped upon this country, as being the country which,
founding its prosperity upon commercial and naanufac -
taring pursuits, must therefore have a desire for the de-
preciation and almost degradation of those pursuits in
other nations. Such has been the prejudiced idea which
has been entertained in some foreign nations with regard
to England, and which has been carefully instilled into
the minds of their people. But, whatever may have
been the notions generated by the spirit of commercial
rivalry in past ages, I will venture to say that, at the
present time, men of all political parties, of all pursuits,
and of all classes in England, ardently wish for the pros-
perity of foreign nations.—(Hear, hear.) The last six
months have given our neighbours to see, even if
we had no better motive for wishing independence,
riches, and prosperity to other nations—experience
has shown us that there can be no disturb-
ance abroad, no injury to other nations, no
fears of insurrection or the commencement of war
amongst the nations of Europe, without this nation
sensitively feeling, in its trade and commerce, the injury
which arises from that apprehension and those disturb_
antes.—(Hear, hear.) Therefore, if we had no better

motive—which I maintain we have—than a wish for our
own interests, that alone should induce us to use all the
means in our power for the maintenance of peace, the
progress of rights, and of international friendship in
Europe and in the world.—(Cheers.) I trust, there-
fore, seeing that we have no selfish vice's in this matter,
that other nations will be ready to listen to our advice,
and that we may be enabled, at this great crisis in
European affairs, to contribute, as we have done in
former times, to allay and remove hostilities, to preserve
the independence of nations, and to aid them in going
through the great difficulties of the present time without
any serious or formidable infringement of peaceful re-
lations.—(Hear, hear.) You have said, my Lord, most
truly, that the task imposed upon Ministers at present
was one of more than ordinary difficulty; but we have
the consolation of knowing that we are supported in it
by all orders and ranks in this United Kingdom ; we
therefore endeavour to perform our duty to the best of
our ability, regarding any sacrifice of time, or health, or
convenience, as due from us to our country.—(Cheers.)
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—I rise at this moment
to ask you to drink a toast which must accord with all
your feelings, and which ought not longer to be delayed
—the health of the Lord Mayor of London, and thanks
to him for his hospitable entertainment.—(Cheers.) I
will not dwell on the many excellencies which attach to
his character; I believe they are universally known and
acknowledged; and we may congratulate ourselves that
at this moment we have such a chief
_magistrate to pre-
side over the peace of this metropolis, and to uphold
the honour of this great city in the eyes of the British
public and the world.—(Cheers.)
The LORD MAYOR—I feel more than words can
express the honour which you have done me. If I
have done anything to render the least service in my
position as chief magistrate, I may attribute much of its
influence to the assistance and confidence which I have
derived from her Majestys Ministers; and I particularly
allude to that Minister with whom I have had more
frequent communication, by virtue of the office which
he so honourably sustains the Secretary of State
for the Home Department, Sir George Grey.—
(Cheers.) In no case when I have found difficulty
and needed advice, have I been for a moment denied it,
when I applied to the Right Hon. Gentleman.—(Hear,
hear.) He has invariably given it with the greatest
kindness and courtesy. I have had access to him at all
times, and I feel under the deepest obligation to Sir
George Grey for the manner in which he has acted on
late occasions. I may allude to another Noble Lord,
who continues to render kind assistance to the city of
London, whenever it is asked and needed; I mean the
Earl of Auckland, who is held in the highest estimation
by the citizens of London.—(Cheers).
The LORD MAYOR then proposed " The Marquis of
Lansdowne and the House of Lords."—(Cheers.)
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE—I assure you, on
behalf, not only of those Members of the House of
Lords who are present, but also those who are absent,
that in a period which has been justly described as
one of no common difficulty (and the year in which
your Lordship has been called to fill the civic
chair has been such) it will be the first ambition of that
body to discharge those duties, and to perform those
functions, and those functions only, which the constitu-
tion has assigned to them.—(Hear, hear.) I believe
that that is their first wish; and I am convinced they
feel that their strength consists not in the possession of
any exclusive power or privilege, but that it rests upon
the consideration well known to those who have studied
the constitution of this countay, that those functions and
powers are linked with the functions and powers of all
other classes, and are made to combine and to co-operate
with them in one harmonious whole. In that feeling I
am sure they all unite; and I am convinced that they
will discharge their part in the maintenance and preser-
vation of the institutions of this country, and its liber-
ties as founded upon those institutions.—(Hear.)
The LORD MAYOR—I have now the honour of pro-
posing " The health of Lord Palmerston and the Members
of the House of Commons." The country at large
must be under great obligations to the Members of that
House, for their unwearied labours in promoting the best
interests of the nation. In connecting with the toast the
name of Lord Palmerston, I would observe that I have
no doubt his Lordship is animated by a sincere desire to
support the honour of this country ; and I trust that,
amidst the difficulties and confusion now creating distur-
bance in neighbouring countries, he may be enabled to
steer clear of those evils, so as to preserve the peace and
tranquillity which we now enjoy.—(Cheers.)
Viscount PALMERSTON—I return you my most cor-
dial thanks for the double honour you have just bestowed
on me—that of drinking my health in this great and dis-
tinguished assembly, and that of connecting my name
with one of the most noble public bodies that exists in
the civilized world. —(Cheers.) I would thank you in
the name of the House of Commons fur the honour you
have done them in drinking their health on this occasion,
did I not feel there is that brotherhood existing between
that great assembly of freemen and the great cor-
porate body of the City which must convince you
that the Members of the House of Commons
cannot but be grateful for the compliment paid them
by a body representing the commerce of the kingdom.
Commerce and freedom go hand in hind, and are
mutually dependent on each other; it is natural, there-
fore, that this great commercial city whose interests
depend upon the freedom of which the House of Com-
mons is peculiarly the guardian, should not forget in
the social and convivial moment to do duo honour to

the Commons House of Parliament.—(Hear, hear.) If
there is any period at which, more than another,
Englishmen ought to be sensible of the great blessings
which the House of Commons, as part of the Parliament
of this country, confers upon them, the present time is
perhaps not the least remarkable of any. We see
around us the nations of Europe that have long been
deprived of those blessings of freedom which we pos-
sess, and which we hardly value sufficiently, because
they have been handed down to us as an inheritance
from our remote ancestors—we see the nations which
have not enjoyed those blessings now struggling
through the greatest difficulties, and affronting the
most appalling dangers, in order to obtain possession
of the freedom we enjoy, and to fulfil an ambition
which perhaps might be described as almost the
ordinary ambition of men.—(Cries of "Hear, hear.")
And therefore I say this is a moment at which every
Englishman must peculiarly value those inestimable in-
stitutions which have secured us the benefits of internal
peace when the nations around us are so plunged in con-
fusion and disturbance. Your Lordship has been pleased
to advert kindly, and with a due estimate of the feelings
by which I am animated, to the particular office which
I have the honour to fill. I can assure you,
my Lord,
that it hes been, and will be, my constant study, in dis-
charging the duties which belong to that office, not
merely to endeavour to the utmost of my abilities to
maintain and preserve for this country the blessings of
peace, but, has my Noble Friend Lord John Russell has
said, it shall be my endeavour to preserve that blessing
to other countries, and in every part of the world to
which our influence may be permitted to extend, in
every case in which our advice may either be accepted
or solicited, to endeavour to preserve to those countries
that blessing, or to restore it, if, by an unfortunate com-
bination of circumstances, they have been for a moment
plunged into the horrors of war. It is
a satisfactory
illustration of that which your Lordship so well pointed
out—the connexion between peace and the progress of
civilization—thati those attempts which are now conuvls-
ing Europe from one end to the other, although, in former
periods, when the triumphs of civilization were less
than now, they would probably have
produced a
universal war, have, hitherto at least, only partially dis-
turbed tranquillity in different portions of Europe.— ,
hnecaer.m)
aylomnloyst
bfeertveemntplyo•rharoyp?
andthatthat we may
that partial
(Hoar,sdoisotnurba see tranquillity restored, and that the progressive
change which is taking place among the different nations
of Europe may pass to its consummation without any
disturbance of the general peace of the world.—(Cheers.)
t
His Lordship concluded by proposing " The health of the
Lady Mayoress."—(Cheers.)
w
The Lowe MAYOR returned thanks, and concluded
by proposing "The Church:and the Bishop of Norwich."
The Bishop of Nonwicn in
A acknowledgments l
o long
a s ex-
pressedhe his hope that the clergy would always maintain
that high position which they had hitherto held in the
estimation of the people of England.
Church did its duty zealously and devotedly it would
always enjoy the respect which. was its due, and which
would be secured by the learning, talents, and devotion
b
of its members.—(Hear, hear.)
~
The LORD MAYOR next proposed The health of Sir
G. Grey."—(Cheers.)
Sir G. REY—I beg to return you my. most sincere
ected honour which you have
conferred for th© very unexp
has
Your Lordship alluded to recent
events upon me.
events which have occurred throughout the continent of
and to the late cautionary measures taken in
Europe,
say, to prevent the occur
this country—not, I mayoccurrence
as
of similar events here, but ratherest. precautionary mea-
sures. These measures have testified to the unshaken,
of the people to the Govern-
ment,firm, and ardent loyalty
this kingdom, and to the ofSovereign
attachment toorath, and
to their
equally warm and ardent
.e. great prin-
ciples of the British constitu , _ maintenarem of
shown themselves devoted, and de-
which they have s , .
vuig it to be
voted to its defence, belieespecially fitted
for the unimpaired maintenance of the rights and
body of the people • •
liberties of the great.,of this
Your Lordship has alluded to the
country.—(Cheers.)
intercourse which it has been my good fortune to. main-
tain with yourself during the la!t few eventful •months.
Allow nee to take this opportunity of saying, tb at while
it has been my (ha gratifying 37
in the House of Com-
mons to bear testimony to the success which, wader Pro-
vidence, has attended the measures taken by Govern-
ment for the maintenance of public order and tranquil-
lity, that success was in a great degree owing to the
very valuable aid which was promptly and efficiently
rendered by your Lordship, and by the authorities of
this great city, and
to the feelings of loyalty and love of
order which animated the inhabitants generally.—
(Hear.) I am glad of the opportunity of expressing
this sentiment, which I deeply
feel, of tendering my
thanks to your Lordship, and through you to the citi-
zens of this metropolis at large, .for the decided part
which they took in testifying their loyalty to the throne,
their attachment to the great prii iciples of the British
constitution, and their determination to uphold the su-
premacy of the law.—(Cheers.)
The next toast was "The Ma i prates of the City,"
which Alderman Thompson,
_11.4';%, briefly acknow-
ledged.

.

Judgcs,"
Mr. Baron ROLFE, in responding to the toast of " The
said that he was inspired with confidence that
the spirit of disorder which had passed over different
countries would not seriously affect us ; and this belief
honourtthe
judicial
i doneciai himoffi office, ; but
thatthere
its
was founded on the universal, deep-seated—he might
almost say instinctive—reverence which Englishmen en-
tertained for the laws of their country—a feeling not
confined to the opulent, noble, or enlightened, but ex-
tending even to the ignorant and the lowest in the corn-
!nunit.Y.—(l.lear.) He thanked the company for the
to it. d"t'iatsi e this
were peculiarity probablyh
aboutes t
discharged when public attention was the least directed

The toasts of " The Chairman and Deputy Chairman
of the East India Company" and " The Sheriffs". fol-
lowed, and were respectively acknowledged by Lieut.-
Gen. Sir J. L. Lushington and Mr. Cubitt, M.P., and
the proceedings then terminated.

COUNTY COURTS.
TO THE EDITOR OF 7'HE SUN.
Si itaa,---wm
weekly
enfhkdel
amendment
Countyattentionepna tp ie nr . has
the
cI be
Courts,
nrcttsp:n is
sec
pocaparil
eel called (1
t oito a
requiredn into The
but
ucT letteridi
elre-
spectingtsahl
siaon
pcfmror(uennc.tehn that
eminently
as
successful.experiment
The
fatchte measure
15has
plaintsbeen
being issued in nine months proves this. Nut in order
to get well-considered amendments adopted, the real
effect and working of the measure should be laid be-
fore the public, and in no respect distorted or misre-
presented.
The writer of the letter says the total sum paid
into the suitors'-fund is 345,1221., upon the recovery
of which the fees amount to 255,4361. This is not a
lair way of putting the question. The amount of
fees is not paid upon the amount paid into court, but
upon the amount sued for, being above 1,200,000/., or
nearly four times the amount paid into court. This
is proved by computing the amount from the general
fund. _

You will observe by the Parliamentary return that
no less than 161,000 plaints never came to trial at
all, the plaintiffs and defendants having, doubtless, in
most of the cases, come to an arrangement without
incurring the cost of hearing and judgment. In
many other cases where judgments have been ob-
tained, the parties afterwards effect an arrangement,
so that, in fact, the suitors fund does not represent
at all, or in any considerable proportion, the amount of
money actually recovered by the plaintiff
With respect to such points as the Act may re-
quire amendment in, I think the subjoined form of
petition might be judiciously adopted.
Yours, faithfully,
A COUNTY COURT TREASURER.

COUNTY COURTS ACT.—At a recent meeting of the
Chester Town Council the following petition was
unanimously adopted :
" To the Honourable the Commons of Great Britain and
Ireland in Parliament assembled,
" THE PETITION,
" Showeth,—That the Act of the 9th and 10th Vic-
toria, c. 95, entitled, An Act for the more easy re-
covery of Small Debs and Demands in England,' has
been of great benefit to the trading and honest part of
the community, notwithstanding its limited jurisdiction.
" That your petitioners fully approve of its leading
provisions, particularly as embracing local jurisdiction,
the easy proofs of debts and demands, and summary re-
medies against the property and persons of fraudulent
debtors.

" That your petitioners pray that your Honourable
House will not suffer the efficiency of this measure to be
in the slightest degree impaired ; but, on the contrary,
that you will be pleased to pass a measure extending the
jurisdiction as to the amounts which may be recovered ;
further simplifying the proceedings ; reducing and
rendering more uniform the costs and fees ; and intro-
ducing such modifications and improvements as the pre-
sent experience of the working of the measure may show
to be desirable, in order to insure the objects of the en-
actment.

" And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever
pray,' &c. &c.

ELECTION PRACTICES.

_ - - - -
On the system adopted by the Lower House during
the present session with regard to void elections, there
is not a borough or county in the United Kingdom which
might not be left unrepresented for an indefinite time.
That system just amounts to this:—Let A and B offer
themselves as candidates for a particular borough on
opposite interests. Towards the close of the poll, B finds
his rival has a clear majority in his favour. To fetch up
the difference is beyond hope, it is impossible B should
become the sitting member. He is not quite
beaten for all that. lie cannot get in himself,
but he can turn his rival out before he is well
warm in his seat. He can do more than this. B,
the candidate of the 50 votes, can not only unseat A,
the candidate of the 500 votes, but he can mulct
the 500 constituents who have been unable to dis-
cern his Parliamentary capacity to the full extent of
their suffrages. It is not even necessary that B should
tuke any step himself. He may be a man of spotless
honour and integrity, such an one as would shrink from
the dirty act of dragging down a rival by unfair means.
But amongst his electioneering agents may be found a
person not quite so scrupulous. There would appear,
shiomu
ln
ec unhappily,election
matters,t be
whicha does kindof
not,conventional
as
it
stamp the parties concerned with infamy. All that B's
mldooraflity in
eright,
agents then have to do is by the hands of their sub-
agents—there is always a lower depth—to administer a
bribe to each of half at-dozen electors professedly in A's
name, and to dispatch them to the poll to register their
votes in his favour. If adequate care be taken that the
proofs are sufficiently stringent, B in due course of time
presents his petition before a Parliamentary Committee;
and A, the sitting Member, is unseated. The indigna-
tion of the Parliamentary Purists does not stop here.
They not only exile from their untainted fellowship the
Member who has been found guilty upon such evidence.
but declare, as a cumulative penalty, that the borough
where such proceedings aro practised or countenanced is
unfit to return Members to Parliament. For the sake
of the ten unjust men the city is condemned. And what
does the public all the while? Pretty much what the
public generally dues when it takes no particular trouble to
sift a question to the bottom— Odit dumnatos. The words
" venality," " iniquity," and " rascality" fly freely
from mouth to mouth, and the United Kingdom runs
a very good chance of being disfranchised in detail.
What between the adoption of this practice of the
Committees, the officiousness of private Members, and
the inexplicable delays of Government in forward-
ing their own Bills, we have arrived at this prac-
tiiacuatl
towns n
result—thatthe sokminegdoofmthearme most opulent lentand iP
unrepresentedr
in Parliament. We have no desire to press the point to
its consequence; but is it not a remarkable fact that the
concurrence of Queen, Lords, and Commons, of the
three branches of the constitution, is requisite to add
one single Member to the Lower House, or to bestow
the franchise on a hitherto unrepresented borough, and
yet the Lower House by its single agency can dock and
clip the constituency of the kingdom of its right propor-
tions, and, by its simple act or its mere acquiescence,
deprive Englishmen of privileges won after eight cen-
turies of struggle? It may be said the House can only
proceed to actual disfranchisement by way of Bill; but
as far as practical exercise of the franchise is concerned,
in what respect do such important towns as Derby or
Leicester at this present moment stand in a better
position than though the sentence of perpetual exclusion
had been actually pronounced against them? The tri-
bunal is not ready before which they are to be arraigned.
We can only say that in spirit and in practice, if this be
accepted as a good answer, Parliamentary law must be
very different from any other law. If a poor wretch but
filch a pocket-handkerchief, he is not committed to gaol
while a statute is framed which shall apply, and a tri-
bunal is constructed which shall adjudicate in the cora-
pletest manner possible upon the exact nature of his
crime. You take the offence as you find it, and dispose
of it by the existinc, law and before existing courts. If
the law be not sufficiently valid, or the court be judged
defective in its administration, these matters aro looked
to, and offences subsequent to the new law are tried
under its provisions. Felons are entitled to an early
gaol delivery, but there is no delivery, it would seem.
for thousands of upright and intelligent freemen, if a few
voters of scabby morality have crept unawares into their
ranks.— Times.

TIIE REGISTRATION..--IMPORTANT TO BOROUGH
AND COUNTY VOTERS.—Yesterday notices were issued
within the city of London and county of Middlesex,
that no person would be entitled to have his name in-
serted in the list of voters now about to be made out in
respect of premises of the yearly value of ten pounds
unless he shall pay on or before the 20th of July, all th;
poor rates and assessed taxes which have become due
from him in respect of such premises during the twelve
calendar months next before the 12th of April last past,
and all persons who omit to make such payment will be
incapable of being upon the next register of voters.
County Voters.—All persons entitled to vote in the.
election of a knight of the shire who are not upon the
register of voters now in force, or who being upon the
register shall not retain the same qualification, or con-
tinuo in the same place of abode, and who are desirous to
have their names inserted in the register of voters about
to be made, must send in on or before the 20th of July
notice in writing to that effect to the overseers of the
parishes in which their qualification is situate; giving
their name and surname in full length, their place of
abode, and the particulars of their qualification. Per-
sons already on the register not having changed their
qualification or place of abode, aro not compelled to
make a claim unless they think fit.
GAOL DIET. —On Saturday a woman named
Louisa Davis was indicted at the Central Criminal
Court for stealing a watch from the person of William
Deverill. So great was the alteration for the better in
her appearance that the prosecutor had some difficulty in
identifying her. 1
EARLY CLOSING MOVEMENT. —We understand
that a course of lectures to promote the general adoption
of this system is about to be delivered at Exeter Hall
by Xialph Waldo Liners=

[PRICE SD.

SPANISH CORRESPONDENCE.

The following are the most important portions of the
additional Spanish correspondence. The first part con-
tains a private letter of M. Isturiz, and a personal con-
troversy, of no public interest, with Lord Palmerston:—

M. ISTURIZ TO VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.
London, June 3, 1848.
The undersigned, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister
Plenipotentiary of her Catholic Majesty, has the honour
to transmit herewith to Viscount Palmerston, her Bri-
tannic Majesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, copies of two dispatches from the Duke of So-
tomayor, First Secretary of State of her Catholic Ma-
jesty, dated Madrid, the 15th of April and 12th of May,
both of them relative to the steps taken by the under-
signed to obtain the withdrawal of Sir Henry Bulwer
from his mission at that Court.
Two motives have induced the undersigned to make
the present communication—first, the determination
expressed by her Britannic Majesty's Minister for Fo-
reign Affairs in the house of Commons, that everything
should be stated in writing; and secondly, the declara-
tion made in the House of Lords by the Marquis of
Lansdowne, that the correspondence hitherto produced
his notes of the 28th and
by the undersigned was not considered entirely satisfac-
tory,
oafllmuclai
clearly that the undersigned has written little and tar-
dily,her Britannic Majesty's Minister for Foreign Affairs
will acknowledge, at the same time, that the reading of
qc offi-
cial e pteodsi
tt
that
position ghaev
me
ihgi
hmt,
yngLdnolstdoouf doubt, to
concerning the affair to which they refer. But
them will have added little or nothing to the full infor-
mation which he has received from the undersigned in
the various conferences which have taken place on these
matters.
In the stage at which this affair has arrived, the un-
dersigned does not hesitate to reduce it to clear and in-
telligible dimensions. The Government of the Queen
convertedm ati c functions.
in to ,:)
his mistress were convinced that her Britannic Majesty's
was previously a declarc
possess itself of power, and in consequence, they re-
minister at Madrid employed the means which his offi-
wtoh
.should confine himself to the fulfilment of hisdiplo-
amereason that he has well as by custom, havingright as
demand, authorized by
difference between the Spanish Government and the Britishandthatwhich representative, having been
adding
ainn yt observa-
tionshv'. iperson,sdheldvery of passports.
The undersigned abstains from
ab-
stained from writing, until he found
by circumstances to do so
accumu-
lating grounds of irritation, he has's instead of
conciliation, and because his desire is otuogh t for those of
mind of Viscount Palmerston, that the impress on the
her Catholic Majesty only aims at maintainingvrnment of
unim-
paired the relations of peace and friendship,
advantac,eous to two independent countries est' mhfoostAini.g„
Spain and the noble and enlightened English such as
nation.
The undersigned, &c.
(Signed) XAVIER DE ISTURIZ.
THE DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR TO M. ISTURIZ.
Madrid, April 15, 1848.
Most Excellent Sir,—Her Majesty's Government has
unfortunately for some time had well-founded grounds
of complaint against the conduct pursued at this Court
by the British Minister, Mr. Bulwer, who, forgetting the
character and friendly attributes of his mission, for
reasons which it is difficult to characterise, has not
ceased, to the surprise of everybody, to direct all his ef-
forts and the influence of his official position against the
Government to which he is accredited, in aid of a poli-
tical party which harbours a turbulent and violent frac-
tion which aims at overthrowing the existing Cabinet
that governs the country by means of the entire confi-
p e
n Thisvv a rinet favourh risepcloaotefedsa t bpeyanr
deuce bestowed upon it by the Crown, and with the
support and ample sanction of the Cortes of these king-
doms.

Although such a proceeding on the part of
the diplomatic agent of a friendly and allied
nation would at all times be deplorable and im-
proper, in the present critical circumstances in
which Spain is placed, in consequence of the dis-
turbances in Europe, it had become even dangerous and
alarming for the security of the state and the preserva-
tion of pblic order, which the Government at all cost is
determined to maintain. For this reason it can no
longer overlook an affair of so much importance ; and,
however painful, it finds itself forced to adopt the mea-
sure which its duty imposes upon it, and tho only one
calculated to obviate the consequences of such a conflict.
Since the events of the 26th of last month the con-
duct of Mr. Bulwer has attained a degree of greater
significance and importance. The Government is as-
sured that at this moment his house serves as a refuge
to men of different classes in life implicated in that at-
tempt, some of whom were seen at the barricades with
arms in their hand., and were consequently ordered to
be arrested by the proper authorities ; that from that
asylum they continue their machinations in concert with
those without, in order to disturb anew the public order
and tranquillity of this capital. I aced not state to your
Excellency, that when I refer to this fact, contrary to
the law of nations, violating diplomatic privileges, and
offensive to the Government of her Majesty, I have the
most complete persuasion of its truth.
This state of things is no longer compatible with the
dignity of Government, nor consistent with the friendly
relations which should exist between the Iwo countries.
The Government, which is resolved to maintain public
order at every risk, cannot do less than complain of the
moral support which Mr. Bulwer openly lends to its ma-
nifest and decided enemies, who aro also the enemies of
the throne and of your institutions. For these reasons
her Majesty commands me to instruct your Excellency
to make this known to Lord Palmerston, in order that,
with the expedition which the case requires, he may be
pleased to make arrangements in order that Mr. Bulwer
may be removed from this post, and replaced by a person
who may study with better success to represent the
honourable and generous sentiments of England at the
seat of a Government which entertains towards her all
the sympathy and regard which in so many respects she
merits.
By royal command I state this to your excellency for
your information, and for execution.
God preserve, &c.
(Signed) THE DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR.
TIIE DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR TO Ti. ISTCRIZ.
rid, 48.
Most Excellent Sir,—l have Mad communicay 18
ated to her
Majesty the contents of your Excellency's dispatch
marked No. 255, in which you make known to me the
reasons that induced you to withdraw confidentially the
written demand addressed by your Excellency to Lord
Palmerston for the removal from this Court of Mr.
Bulwer, the British representative. Her Majesty ap-
proves the zeal which has guided your Excellency in this
matter, in consequence of the extra-official knowledge
which you possessed of the turn which this affair was
taking as the result of the interviews which the British
Minister had with me; but unfortunately the subsequent
course of political events renders that step more urgent
and indispensable.
That recent occurrences of the 7th instant have pro-
duced in the public mind an irritation ;difficult to ex-
press, and of which the periodical press is in truth but a
feeble reflex.
The political conduct observed by Mr. Bulwer in these
last times, the decided and open protection which he
has afforded to many of the individuals most conspicuous
ot hf etnhcee
Bwriitthi
ht the et,
jneect na e
Mr.s of
Sampsonin the conspiracy of the 26th, sheltering them in
his House, and allowing them to communicate from
guage of some of his personal friends, and particularly
of the Union Bank, who is alleged to have instigated in
theGove(rsnamnseonint,), the
direlcatnor-
some degree the late events, have had the effect of irri-
to such K degree, that the Government can
t g the passions, and of exciting public opinion
against him,
Youryour
so
tEnxy:
owe I
aol eyonuccooytnrist hie
nsou, uiel
tdt:r. w
ceedings with the British Government, in order that Mr.
Bulwer may be removed from hence. The Spanish Go-
vernment cannot in
oetreat
fay. oituhr
very
de-
sirable mo
and in order that this
determination may not affect the
e
relations between
that Lord Palmerston should take forthwith that
step which propriety and the true interests of the two
countries recommend.Mr
• Bulwer addressed a note to me dated the Bth, of
which have the honour to enclose your Excellency a
co I
py, as also of
my reply, written with the concurrence
of all the members of the Cabinet. By this correspondence
your Excellency will see confirmed all that I have stated,
and that our position with respect to the present British
minister admits of no other possible solution than his
immediate absence from these kingdoms.
In proceeding to obtain this object, your Excellency
will assure the British Minister for Foreign Affairs, that
the feelings of friendship and harmony which the Spanish
Government entertains towards England are unalter-
able, and that as they are based upon mutual interest
and respect, the Spanish Government considers them too
durable to be in the least impaired by this unpleasant
occurrence.
By royal command I communicate this to you for your
information and for execution.
God preserve, &c.
(Signed) THE DUKE OF SOTOMAYOR.
TIIE DUKE OF SoToMAYOR TO N. ISTURITZ.

ad, a 17 148.
Most Excellent Sir—Your Excellency Mwilly
beinformed
by my communications of the 15th of April and 13th
instant, of the embarrassing position in which the repre-
sentative of England at this Court has placed her
Majesty's Government. However much her Majesty's
Government may have desired that the differences pro
yoked by the irregular conduct of Mr. Bulwer should
be terminated in a friendly manner and by common
agreement between the two Governments, by the retire •
mont of that functionar3 • its efforts unfortunately have,
up to this time, been
unavailing ; and in the meanwhile
the scenes of disorder are renewed, and in all of them
her Majesty's Government meets with more than suf-
ficient grounds for suspecting Mr. Bulwer's influence.
Subsequently to the events of the 7th instant, of which
I have apprised your Excellency, others of a similar
nature have occurred in the city of Seville, in
which
coincidences buMcieutly significant oppeez. The coals