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PERUVIAN BONDHOLDERS.

We have had the following correspondence about
Peruvian affairs submitted to us. _ _

The following is the memorial regarding which
Messrs. G. R. Robinson, I. Capel, and W. P. Ro-
bertson, on the pert of the Peruvian bondholders, had
an interview with Lord Palmerston. The memorial
was numerously and most respectably signed:—
"My Lord, We, the undersigned, creditors and
representatives of creditors of the state of Peru, in virtue
of holding its legal and recognised bonds, beg respect-
fully to lay before your Lordship a brief statement of
the wrongs which for years we have suffered from that
republic, in the hope that you will find the case one
legitimately calling for the prompt and active inter-
ference of her Majesty's Government. In 1822 and
1825 the republic of Peru borrowed in this country the
conjoint capital amount of 1,816,000/., engaging to pay
the lenders en annual interest of 6 per cent., and to pro-
vide a sinking fund for the extinction of the capital
itself. During the twenty-six years which have inter-
vened since the major part of the loan was contracted,
Peru has never remitted one farthing either
to pay the interest or to extinguish the capital,
Her creditors waited long and patiently in the belief
that the want of means was the only bar to an honour- '
able fulfilment of the solemn obligation entered into by
the republic; at all times expressing their readiness to
listen to any proposals for a new arrangement of their
claims, tending to facilitate an equitable adjustment
with Peru. Matters remained in this unsatisfactory
position till 1841, when a new source of riches to Peru
sprang up, enormous and almost indefinite in amount,
and wholly and exclusively State property. This was
the deposits in the Chincha Islands of guano, which
has since become so celebrated as a manure in England.
Now this source of wealth being drawn exclusively
from England itself, and absolutely unrealisable without
its concurrence, seeing
that this is the only country
where guano is used to any extent, the creditors came
to the natural conclusion that the necessary part of the
proceeds would forthwith be applied to the payment of
the long-deferred and accumulated debt due to the bond-
holders by the State. But your Lordship will have
learned with surprise from the Committee of
South American bondholders, that while Peru is
reaping a rich harvest from the guano, while
she a ideriving from it in England, and in England alone,
not less than 300,0001. annually over and above her ordi-
nary revenue, the creditors appear this day to be as far
from receiving payment of their debt, either in whole
or in part, as they were twenty-six years ago. In the
most scandalous and nefarious manner the executive
Government of Peru continues to make contract after
contract with foreign houses in Lima, which advance the
whole proceeds there, and consign the guano for sale to
their friends in London, just as if Peru had no claim of
any kind against her here. One honest contract indeed
was made in London by the Peruvian Minister Plenipo-
tentiary, on behalf of his Government; but it was indig-
nantly snouted by the latter, wholly and entirely on the
ground that out of 500,000/. to be paid within two
years to Peru, the moderate sum of 120,000/. was re-
served for the long-suffering creditors. Indeed Peru
has taken up, and shamelessly pursues, a line of such
unblushing tergiversation, dishonest subterfuge, and
wretched chicanery, with her creditors, as to leave no hope
whatever of the slightest attention being paid to their
claims, unless peremptorily enforced and exacted by
your Lordship, as her Majesty's Minister for Foreign
Affairs. Towards this end your Lordship has the
strong ground in equity to go upon, that the Govern-
ment issued a decree in 1842, ordering that one-half the
proceeds of the guano should be appropriated to the
payment of the bondholders. Aud that your Lordship
may bo entirely satisfied, not only of the equity but of
the legality of an interference in our behalf, on the part
of her Majesty's Executive, we beg to lay before your
Lordship the following literal translation of a law passed
by the National Congress of the Peruvians on the 21st
October, 1845. " Art. 1. The Executive shall religi-
ously fulfil, in all their parts, the contracts entered
intowith individuals, national or foreign, at whatever
timeon
raed, er by
whatever Executive adjusted.
Art. 2, Ail the contracts which have been made with
constitutional Administrations shall have the priority of
payment, commencing
with the oldest, and following in
the order of their dates; while the contracts adjusted
with Governments de feet° shall follow on the same
principle." This law was promulgated with the usual
formalities of the legislature; and the contract made
with the British creditor, standing first in point of time,
and having been entered into under a constitutional
government, is first entitled to payment by the Peruvian
treasury. Your Lordship will be prepared to hear that
the decree of the Executive, and the law of the legisla-
tive Government of Peru in favour of the bondholders,
have remained, as they doubtless were intended to re-
main, a dead letter. Indeed, the Minister of France, in
an official, but flagitious note, passed to Congress on the
23d November last, used these words ;—" Because heaven
is bent on making us unexpectedly rich, that is no
reason why our foreign creditors should be equally bent
upon making us unexpectly poor." We trust we have
made out such a case as will induce your Lordship offi-
cially to authorise Mr. Pitt Adams, her Majesty's Chargé
d'Affaires in Lima, to demand payment of our claims.
In that gentleman we place implicit confidence, for he
has ever displayed zeal, judgment, and ability, in main-
taining the rights of British subjects whenever be has
been called on to advocate them. We have taken the
liberty, my Lord, of naming a committee from our body,
to transmit this our memorial to your Lordship, and to
beg that you will admit the members of that committee,
as a deputation, to the honour of a personal interview,
at which every additional information which your Lord-
ship may desire will most readily be afforded—We have
the honour to be, &c.

ABSCONDING OF THE CASHIER OF LAFFITTE,
BLoUNT, AND Co.'s BANK.--A telegraphic dispatch
reached Lille at half past eight o'clock in the morning
of the 10th, ordering the arrest of an Englishman,
named Burton, the cashier in the house of Messrs. Laf-
fitte, Blount, and Co., who had left Paris with securities
and money to a considerable amount.
THE GREAT BRITAIN...—At the meeting of the
Great Western Steam-ship Company, at Bristol, last
week, the expense attending the recovery of the Great
Britain was stated to amount, after deducting the pro-
coeds of materials, to 12,6701. 14s. id. The estimates
for restoring her to the condition .he was in previously
to her stranding were, for hull, masts, sails, cabins, boats,
anchors, cables, &c., 1.5,586/. 55.; machinery, 5,8081.;
total, 21,694/. ss. The directors stated that after a
settlement had been come to with the underwriters
at Liverpool and Glasgow, negotiations for her sale
would have their best attention.—Liverpool Mercury.
AMERICAN Hors.—An arrival of 50 bales of hops,
the growth of the United States of America, has just
taken place at the port of Liverpool, by a vessel from
Boston. This is a very large importation of this parti-
cular article of merelia,ndize Irma America, and we think
by far the largest which has yet taken place from the
United ages.

PARLIAMENTARY DIVISIONS.

(From the Votes and Proceedings of the (louse of Commons.)

WEDNESDAY, ..;lARCII 15.
ELECTION RECOGNIZANCES BILL.

Order for Second Reading read; Motion made, and Ques-
tion proposed, " That the Bill:be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out from the words " That
the" to the end of the Question, in order to add the words
" Order for referring the Petition presented against the
Election and Return of Members for the Borough of Bodmin
to the General Committee of Elections, which petition is
mentioned and referred to in the said Bill, be discharged, and
that no further proceedings be taken on the said Petition,"
instead thereof : —Question put, " That the words proposed
to be left out stand part of the Question." The House
divided:—

MINORITY—AYES, 124.
Adam", Sir T. Gaskell, J. M. Patten, J. W.
Adair, Hugh E. Gladstone, W. E. Peahen, Captain
Adair, R. Shafto Goulburn, Henry Rendlesham, Lord
Armstrong, R. B. Gower, Leveson Ricardo, Osman
Bailey, Joseph Grahasn, Sir James Richards, Richard
Bailey, Joseph, jun. Greene Thomas Robartes, T. J.
Barrington, Lord Grenfell, C. Pascoe Romilly, John
Berkeley, Captain Grcnfel , Charles W. Seymour, Lord
Bernal, Ralph Guest, Sir J. Sheridan, R. B.
Birch, Sir Thomas Belford, Sir H. Shirley, E. J.
Bourke, Richard S. Hall, Sir B. Simeon, John
llouverie, E. P. Hallyburton, Lord Sotheren, T. H. S.
Bramston, T. W. Hamilton, G. A. Stanley, R. J.
Brotherton, Joseph Hamilton, Lord C. Stansileld, W. R.
Bruce, C. L. Ileacllam,:Thomas Strutt, Edward
Buller,:Charles Heathcote, Sir W. Stuart, Lord D.
Burroughes, H. N. Beneage' G. 11. W. Stuart, J.
Carter, John B. Henley,, J. W. Sturt, Henry G.
Cavendish, G. H. Berries, John C. Sutton, henry
Cholmeley, Sir 3i. Holland, Robert Tennent, R. J.
Christy, Samuel Hume, Joseph Thicknesse, Ralph
Clay, Sir W. Hutt, William Thornely, Thomas
Clerk Sir G. Jervis, Sir John Tr*Hope, Sir J.
Clive, 11. B. Lascelles, E. Turner, George
Conolly, Col. Law, C. E. Tynte, Colonel
Corry, H. Lewis, Sir T. Verner, Sir W.
Craig, W. G. 3PTaggart, Sir J. Vivian, J. E.
Dalrymple, Captain Maitland, Thomas Wakley, Thomas
Davie, Sir:H. March, Earl of Walpole, S. 11.
Divctt, Edward Marshall, William Walsh, Sir J. B.
l)od, J. W. Martin, J. Watkins, Colonel
Duckworth, Sir J. Matheson, Colonel Wawn, JT. _

Duff, George S. Manic, Fox - Westhead, J. P.
Duneuft, John Maxwell, Hon. J. P. Whitmore, T. C.
Dundas, George Miles, W. Williamson, Sir li.
Dunne, F. P. Mitchell, T. A. Wood, W. P.
Ebrington, Viscount Moffatt, George Wyvill, Marmadake
Estcourt, J. B. B. Monsell4William Yorke, H. R.
Evans,-.William Morris, David
Ferguson, Sir R. Napier, Joseph
Ffolliott, J. :Coneys, Lord
Fitzroy, Henry Norreys, Sir D.
Fortescue, Chichester Parke, C. W.

Adderley, C. M.
Alexander, N.

TrLucite.
Harter, W. G.
Rich, He►ry

MAJORITY-NOES, 126.

Fox, W. J.
Fuller, A. E.

O'Brien, Timothy
Owen, Sir J J.

Anderson, Arthur Galway, Viscount Paget, Lord C.
Anson, Viscount Gibson, T. 31. Pllkington, James
Archdall, Captain Goring, Charles Power, Dr.
Arkwright, George Granby, Marquis •f Power, Nicholas
Armstrong, Sir A. Greene, John Raphael, Alexander
Bagge, W. Gwyn, Howel Reid, Colonel
Bagot, William Hall, Colonel Repton, G. W. J.
Bankes, G. Hardcastle, J. A. Reynolds, John
Bennet, P. Henry, Alexander Ricardo, J. L.

Berkeley, Grantley Hervey , Lord A. Roche, E. B.
Blackall, S. W. Hildyard, R. C. Rufford, Francis
Blackstone, W. Halyard, T. B. T. Rushout, Captain
Blakemore, R. Hood, Sir A. Sadleir, John
Boldero, Henry Mope, Henry T. Salwey, Celonel
Bowring, Dr. Hornby, John Scott, Francis
Bright, John Howard, C_W.G. Seymour, Sir li.
Brown, Humphrey Hughes, W. B. Shell, R. L.
Cabbell, B. B. Jackson, William Smith, J. Benjamin
Callaghan, D. Jervis, John Smyth, Sir H.
Chaplin, W. J. Keating, Robert Somers,V. P.
Clay, James Keogh, William Stafford,:Augustas
Clements, Charles Kershaw, James Stanley, Edward
Cobden, Richard Knox, Colonel Stuart, Henry
Cocks, Thomas S. Lacy, H. C. Sullivan, Michael
Codrington, Sir W. Lindsay, Colonel Talbot, J. li.
Coles, Henry B. Lushington, Charles Thompson, Colonel
Crawford, W. S. Lygou, General Thompson, George
Cripps, William Mackenzie, W. F. Tollemache, John
Darner, Colonel Macnamara, Major Turner, E.
Deering, John P. M`Gregor, John Tyrrell, Sir J. T.
Devereux, John T. Magan, W . H. Villiers, Charles
Dodd, G. Mahon, O'Gorman Walmsley, Sir J.
Drax, J. S. W. E. Maunsell, T. B. Willcox, Brodie
East, Sir J. B. Miles, Philip W. S. Williams, John
Fagan, William Milnes, R. M. Willoughby, Sir H.
Fagan, James Mowatt, Francis Wilson, James
Floyer, John Manta, G. F. Wortley, J. 5.
Foley, John 11. Neeld, Joseph Wyld, James
Forbes, William Newry, Viscount TELLERS.
Forster, Mathew Nugent, Sir Percy Spooner, Richard
Fox, Richard M. O'Brien, John Anstey, Thomas C.

Question put, " That the proposed words be there added."
The Nouse divided :

MINORITY—AYES, 78.
Alexander, N. Gwyn, Howel Power, Nicholas
Anderson, Arthur Hall, Colonel Rapkael, Alexander
Anson, Viscount llardcastle, J. A. Reid. Colonel
Armstrong, Sir A. Heathcoat, John Reynolds, John
Bagge, William Hood, Sir Alexander Roche, E. B.
Bennet, Philip Hope, H. T. Rufford, Francis
Berkeley, Grantley Hughes, W. B. Rushout, Captain
Blackall, S. W. Jackson, William Sadleir, Join
Blakemore, R. Jervis, John Salwey, Colonel
Brown, H. Keating, John Scott, F.
Cabbell, B. B. Keogh, William Shell, R. L.
Callaghan, D. Knox, Colonel Smith, John B.
Chaplin, W. J. Lacy, Henry C. Somers, J. P.
Clay, Sir W. Lindsay, Colonel Stafford, Augustus
Clements, Charles Lushingten, C. Sullivan, Michael
Codrington, Sir W. Lygon, Gen. Talbot, C. R.
Cripps, W. .11Iacnarnara, Major Thompson, George
Deering, John M'Gregor, John Tollemache,Vokn
Devereux, J. T. Mahon, O'Gorman Turner, Edmund
Drax, J. S. W. Maunsell, T. I'. Tyrrell, Sir J.
Fagan, William Nugent, Sir Percy Walmsley, Sir J.
Fagan, James O'Brien, J. Willcox, Brodie
Foley, J. H. O'Brien, Timothy Williams, John
Forbes, W. Owen, Sir John Wyld, James
Fox, Richard M. Paget, Lord Clarence MLLES.
Galway, Viscount Pilltington, James Anstey, Thomas
Greene, John Power, Dr. Spooner, K.

MAJORITY-NOES, 165.
Fortescue, Chichester Napier, Joseph
Fox, W. J. Neeld, Joseph
Fuller, A. E. Newry, Viscount
Gaskell, J. M. Norreys, Lord
Goring, Charles Norreys, Sir D.
Goulburn, Henry Packe, C. W.
Gower, Leveson Patten, J. W.
Graham, Sir James Pechell, Captain
Granby, Marquis of Rendlesham,lLord
Greene, Thomas Repton, G. W. J.
Greufell, C. Pascoe Ricardo, Osman
Grenfell, Charles W. Richards. Richard
Guest, Sir John Robartes, T. J.
Ilalford, Sir Henry Hominy, John
Hall, Sir B. Seymer, H. K.
Hallyburton, Lord Seymour, Lord
Hamilton, G. A. Sheridan, R. B.
Hamilton, G.:A. Shirley, E. J.
Ileadlam, T. E. Simeon, John
lleald, James Sotheron, T. H. S.
Heathcote, Sir W. Stanley, E. J.
Heneage, G. 11. Stanley, Edward
Henley, J. W. Stansfleld, W. R.
Henry, Alexander Strutt, Edward
'terries, J. C. Stuart, Lord D.
Hervey, Lord A. Stuart, H.
iiildyard, R. C. Stuart, John
Itildyard, T. B. Sturt, H. U,
Hollond, Robert Sutton, 11. M.
Ilornby, John Tennent, R. J.
Howard, C. W. Thicknesse, K. A.
Hume, Joseph Thompson, Colonel
Hutt, William Thornely, T.
Jervis, Sir:John Trollope, Sir:J.
Kershaw, James Turner, G. J.
Lascelles, E. Tynte, Colonel
Law, C. E. Verner, Sir W.
Lewis, Sir T. Villiers, Charles
Mackenzie, W. F. Vivian, J. E.
IPTaggart, Sir J. Wakley, Thoins
Magan, W. H. Walpole, S. 11.
Maitland, T.. Walsh, Sir J.
March, Earl:ot Watkins, Colonel
Marshall, W. Wawn, J. T.
Martin, J. Westhead, J. P.
Matheson, Colonel Whitmore, T. C.
Mauls, Fox Williamson, Sir 11.
Maxwell, J. P. Willoughby, Sir 11.
Miles, P. W. S. Wilson, James
Miles, William Wood, W. P.
Mitchell, T. A. Wortley, J. S.
Moffatt, George Wyvill, Marmadnke
Monsen, William Yorke, Henry R. •
Morris, David TELLERS.
Mowatt, Francis Hayter, W. G.
Muntz, ; G F. Rich, Henry

Acland, Sir T.
Adair, Hugh E.
Adair, R. Shafto
Adderley, C. B.
Arc Mall, Captain
trkwright, G.
Armstrong, H. B.
Itagot, Hon. W.
Bailey, Joseph.
Bailey, J., jun.
Bankcs, George
Barrington, Ylscount
Berkeley, Captain
Bernal, Ralph
Birch, Sir Thomas
Blackstone, W. S.
Boldero, 11. G.
Rourke, R. S.
Bouverie, E. P.
Bowring, Dr.
Bramston, T. X.
Bright, John
Brotherton,:J.
Bruce, C. L. C.
Buller, Charles
Burroughes,lll.
Carter, J. _B.
Cavendish, G. H.
Chohneley, Sir M.
Christy, Samuel
Clerk Sir George
Clive, Henry B.
Cobden, B.
Cocks, T. S.
Coles, H. X.
Conolly, Colonel
Corry, Henry
Craig, W. G.
Crawford, W. S.
Dalrymple, Captain
Davie, Sir Henry
J)ivett, E.
Dod, J. W.
Dodd, George
Duckworth, Sir J.
Duff, G. S.
Duncuft, John
Duudas, George
Dunne, Francis r.
East, Sir J. B.
Ebriugton, Lord
Estcourt, J. B. B.
Evans, John
Ferguson, Sir B.
Floyer, John
Forster, M.

RAILWAY BILLS.
The following is the first report from the Select Corn.
mittee appointed on the Railway Bills of this session,
who were empowered to report their opinion from time
to time to the House:—
I. That the amount of capital proposed to be raised
by the Railway Bills of the present session is not so
great as to render it expedient that any general measure
should be adopted for interfering with the progress of
such Bills in their ordinary course, beyond a careful and
strict investigation by the Committee on the points
hereafter specified.
11. That the attention of the Committee to whom the
various Railway Bills shall be referred, be specially
called to the necessity of strictly enforcing, with regard
to such Bills, the standing orders which were adopted
by the House of Commons in the last session of Parlia-
ment, on the recommendation of the Committee on
Railway Bills—viz., with respect to the new Bills of
this session, the standing orders, Nos. 124, 125, 126,
127, 128, 129, 130 ; and with respect to suspended
Bills, the two standing orders which follow the above
orders; and that in each case (whether the Bill be a new
or a suspended Bill) they make a special inquiry into the
sufficiency and bond fide character of the subscription
contract, and report their opinion thereupon to the House.
111. That the standing orders relating to suspended
Bills be rescinded, so far as they shorten the period re-
quired between the second reading of the Bill and the
sitting of the Committee thereon; also so far as they
would prevent the Committee from receiving evidence
and hearing parties with reference to the sufficiency and
bond fide character of the subscription contract ; and,
lastly, so far as they dispense with the further considera-
tion of the report previously to the engrossment of the
Bill.
IV. That seven clear days shall in all cases intervene
between the report of a Railway Bill and the further
consideration of such report, and that on the further
consideration of such report the Chairman of Ways and
Means shall acquaint the House whether the Bill con-
tains the necessary provisions for carrying into effect
the standing orders specified in the second resolution.

SUICIDE.—Last evening an inquest was held at
Bartholomew's Hospital, before Mr. W. Payne, on the
body of Richard Daynes, aged 27. The deceased was a
member of a highly respectable family at Norwich, but
for some time past had resided at the Sun Tavern,
London-wall, and obtained a living as a common mes-
senger. He suffered from a disease which gave him
great pain. On Tuesday morning, while in bed in a
room in which two other persons slept, he inflicted a
large wound in his throat with a razor, and was so deter-
mined to receive no relief that he tried to fasten the door
against the surgeon. He was then removed to the
hospital, and died there in an hour. Before retiring to
rest the previous night he wrote the following in chalk,
addressed to his brother, on the bagatelle oard of the
tavern :—" Dear Samuel,--1 regret to have to write to
you under such unfortunate circumstances. Be careful
how you break it to my mother. If others had been as
kind to me, I should not have suffered the privations I
have. With kind love to all, except to one woman,
I am, yours truly, R.D.—P.S. I give 40,000/. to Mr.
Anthill.' Verdict, Temporary Insanity.
FIRES IN TUB PROVINCES.--A fire, the damage
inflicted by which is estimated at 1,000/., took place last
week in the extensive dy e-works of Messrs. Smith
Brothers, Thornton-road, Leeds. On Thursday an,
alarming tire took place at Bristol, in the New Market
Tavern, adjoining the Butter Market. The house was
entirely destroyed.

LITERATURE.

THE PRACTICE of the COURT for the RELIEF
of INSOLVENT DEBTORS in LONDON,
and in COUNTY COURTS. By John Jetgoe,
Esq., Barrister-at-Law.
In passing Acts of Parliament for establishing
courts of justice the Legislature has a very important
duty to perform, and a no less arduous task the lawyer
has to perform who writes on the practice which is to
give effect to such Acts. We are led to these obser-
vations from the perusal of the present work, which
gives the practice under 1 and 2 Vict., c. 110, and
10 and 11 Vict., c. 102, so little understood in
county courts, that the diversity of opinions on the
construction of these statutes has caused serious in-
convenience to the public. Mr. Jagoe's work is there-
fore most opportune, as every branch of this difficult
subject is minutely given with that perspicuity for
which the works of the learned writer are so
remarkable. This book completes the entire
practice of the insolvency statutes of
the late session, and, though last, is
not least in merit. In the preface Mr. Jagoe says
that " the present work on the practice of the Insol-
vent Debtors' Court in London and in County Courts,
with the practice of insolvency and summons for debt,
recently published by me, comprehend both branches
of a subject which, though rather alike in name, are
so dissimilar in practice, that it would not be doing
justice to either to write them in one volume." In
this we concur, as it is more suitable to the profession
to have the practice under such important statutes
separately given, with an index for reference to each
work. We have read the reports of the applications
which have been made, and the arguments used for
and against the right of county courts to discharge
prisoners on sureties, but the manner in which Mr.
Jagoe treats this subject appears to us to be quite
conclusive:—

" Section 10 of 10 and 11, Vic., c. 102, empowers
the judge of a county court to fix a time and place for
the prisoner to be brought up, and to cause the usual
notices to be given ; when these duties are per-
formed his functions, as judge, before the hearing,
are at an end. On the day appointed for the Court
to sit, the judge presides, hears the prisoner's case,
and pronounces the judgment of the Court, but all or-
ders issued must be signed by the Court,' not 'by
the judge.' The part of the section that gives
jurisdiction to a county court is copied from section
30, 1 and 2 Vic., c. 110, which prescribed the duties
of the Circuit Commissioners, who could not, under
this section, issue subpconas, or discharge prisoners on
sureties, that power being vested in the London
Court alone, as the Act gives no general authority to
a county court to discharge prisoners on sureties,
nor to do any act until the hearing, when, for the
first time, it has jurisdiction in the cases referred to
it ; an order, which may be made even at the hearing,
would be illegal if issued before that time, so that a
warrrant, by a county court, to discharge a prisoner
on sureties cannot be upheld when unauthorised by
the Act, and made before the formation of the court.

" Section 11 of 10 and 11 Vic.,:c. 102, has only re-
ference to recognizances taken before the 15th of
September, 1847, and as these recognizances bound
prisoners to appear before the Commissioners on cir-
cuit, it was necessary to enact that prisoners so bound
should appear before :county courts ; but there is
nothing in this :section to give county courts the
power of taking recognizance% and discharging pri-
soners.

"It seems that the Legislature did not contemplate
that county courts were to discharge prisoners on
sureties, supposing that the Commissioners would
issue commissions as usual, and on the recognizance
taken in the country being transmitted to London,
that the court would discharge prisoners until the
hearing."
County Courts, under these statutes, have a very
peculiar jurisdiction; they are ancillary to the In-
selvent Debtors' Court in London, and used for the
convenience of hearing prisoners' cases in the country,
consequently they have no jurisdiction but for this
specific purpose, and the Court has no power until the
hearingof the case referred to it. Mr. Jagoe's view is,
therefore, correct, as any order made before that time
would be illegal, and even then, except for remanding
or discharging prisoners. After the case is heard
the Court for Relief of Insolvent Debtors in London
has absolute control over all the proceedings, and
applications by creditors and insolvents must be made
to that Court ; but we refer to Mr. Jagoe's work,
where the entire of this complicated practice is very
ably laid down.

THE LONDON and PROVINCIAL MEDICAL
DIRECTORY, 1848.

The " Medical Directory" for 1848, is a great im-
provement upon its predecessor—instead of a mere
almanac, we have a diary, in which we find noted
the days of meeting of the various medical and
scientific societies. In the " Provincial Directory,"
we find, in addition to the usual list of names, a local
list, wherein, by reference to any town or district in
England or Wales, the names of all practitioners
resident in the locality will at once be found, and
also a list of the Poor-law Medical staff of the various
unions throughout the kingdom. These additions
make the directory a complete mirror of the personnel
of the profession. The contents are admirably
arranged, and the work is well printed and neatly
got up. It will, no doubt, find a place on the con-
sulting-room table of every member of the profes-
sion.