The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-11 00:00:00

GROUP XLIV.

The Committee on this group commenced their week's labour at
twelve o'clock this day, in Room 25 (New Houses of Parliament),
when Lord Palmerston took the Chair, the same Members being pre-
sent as on Friday.

ravzsepoom, MANCHESTER, AND NEW-
CASTLE-UPON-TYNE JUNCTION.
LANCASHIRE AND NORTH YORKSHIRE,
YORKSHIRE AND GLASGOW UNION.

YORIC AND CARLISLE.
Mr. TALBOT applied to the Committee to postpone the above four
Bills, or rather the above two Bills, for by the atrukamation of
the first with the second, and of the third with the fourth, they are
reduced to that number. The parties had to arrange some matters
between themselves, and they could not go through the clauses with-
out having them settled. The fact was that for some distance be-
tween Leyburn and Hawes, the Yorkshire and Glasgow, and the
Liverpool and Newcastle lines coincided, and it was necessary that
some arrangement as to that part of the line should be made. He
appeared for both parties.
The Committee agreed to allow the cases to stand over.
Sir JOHN BAILIE, who appeared as counsel for two petitioners
against the Bill—Miss 31. A. Pierce and Mr. Henry Paul Beresford,
applied to have the Yorkshire and Glasgow, and York and Carlisle
lines postponed for a week.

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The CosimirrEz said, ~
that having adjourned the Bills, they could
hardly be said to be before them. The application must be made ou
Friday.

Another application was made by Mr. Wyvell, a petitioner against
the line, but this was also postponed.
Mr. Cockburn not being present, the case of Mr. Pulling also
stood over.

The Committee then called on the case of the
PLEZTWOOD, PRESTON, AND WEST

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAV.)
The Judicill Committee of the Privy Council mat in tha
Com..cii Chamber, Whitehall, for the first time sine the

The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, the Vice-
Chancellor Knight Bruce, the Judge of the Admiralty Court,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir Edward Ryan,
Sir E. H. East, and Sir Alexander Johnstone.

Their Lordships were occupied fir> whole morning with
the arguments in an appeal from Madras.

HOUSE OF LORDS.--(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear Scotch appeals. The Petra
in attendance were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Brougham,
and Lord Campbell.
THE EARL OF MANSFIELD V. SIR W. D. STEWART....STEWART

V. TEE SAME.
These cases came before their Lordships on Tuesday last,
upon appeal from the decision of the Court of Session. The
short facts connected with the case may be thus stated :--
The appellant, the Earl of Mansfield, bought, in the year
1842, from Sir W. D. Stewart, the est ate of Logrealmond,for
the sum of 203,000/., but some doubts afterwards occurring
whether, according to the terms of an ancient family entail,
the powers of Sir W. D. Stewart over the estate extended
to the right to sell it, a suit was instituted in the Court of
Session for the purpose of obtaining their decision on the
point. The appellant in the second appeal was one of the
line of entail. The Court of Session gave judgment in favour
of the power of sale, and from that decision the present ap-
peal was brought.
The arguments were resumed this morning, and appe
likely to occupy the whole day.

BANKRUPTCY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner SHEPHERD.)
NOVEL QUESTION UNDER THE NAN/ERUPT LAW.
An affidavit was tendered to the Learned UOIHMISSiOnfro
on which to found a fiat of bankruptcy against J. Paine*
architect and surve\ or. The fiat was sought to be issued et
the instance of Mr. Payne, who gained the golden medal for
th best design for the .New Royal Exchange, and was also
connected with several railroads. lie had previously IV-
plied as an insolvent, but his petition was discharged.
The Learned COMMISSIONER asked on what grounds the
act of bankruptcy was tounded?
The SOLICITOR said the party had bought copper, eln"
ployed engravers, had the plates engraved, and enemas&
published them for his own profit. This he deemed to be *
trading.
The COMMISSIONER—What were the works published?
The SOLICITOR—There was a design of the New Royal
Exchange, and also a map of the parish, &c., &c.
The ConsussioNEß—Surely he had a right to publish A
design which was the work of his own imagination, and
which he could not have displayed without drawing or en•
graving, and yet not be liable as a bankrupt.
The SOUCITOR—But lie bought the paper, and sold it at a
profit.
The COMMISSIONER—Yes ;in displaying a work of imagi-
nation, you might as well say that an author would be liable
for selling the work of his own imagination.
The SOLICITOR said, that in publishing the maps, the per-
son was evidently selling for profit.
The COMMISSIONER said that he did not think that it was
a working up of paper or copper as materials.
The SOLICITOR said that the selling for profit could be
maintained by the having sent out agents to solicit orders,
and then selling the maps.
The COMMISSIONER—StiII he was only selling the design.
The SoLicrrou—That design was on a survey of the 'parish
which he had been enaged to make.
The CosistrssicasEtt—That makes no difference.
The SOLICITOR—But he became a printer by employing
printers to print the work.
The Commi,SloNEß—All that was necessary; he could not
sell hie design without paper and printers, and that is the
very reason he is not subject to the bankruptcy laws.
The SOLICITOR—But this is his own petition.
The COMMISSIONER—That makes no difference.
Mr Commissioner EVANS, who was called in to adviser
expressed his opinion that no trading was proved in this case,
but the acts of the petitioner were as free as an author, all
being works of imagination--(meaning the designs—query
surveys).

CRIMINAL COURI.-(THIS DAY•)

OLD. COURT

These sessioes, the seventh of the present Mayoralty
were commenced to-day, before the Lord Mayor, the Re-
corder, and Aldermen Sir Chapman Marshall, Mr. Hughes
Hughes, the Sheriffs, &c. From the calendar it appears that
thereare no less than 251 prisoners tor trial, and the following
may be taken as a summary statement of the offences wit
which the prisoners stand charged :—Murder, 3 ; unnatural
crimes, 2 ; manslaughter, 2 ; rape, 1 ; sheep-stealing, .1;
demanding money with menaces, 1 ; burglary, " forgery and uttering forged instruments, 1 ;
bezzelment by clerks and servants, 15 ; curtilage
breaking and larcency, 1; cutting and wounding
with intent, 12; unlawfully uttering counterfeit coin, 11,i
unlawful possession and uttering, 2; house breaking as`'
larceny, 4; highway robbery with violence, 1; receiving
stolen goods, 9 ; robbery, 7 ; larceny in a dwelling-house, 7;
larceny from the person, 24; larceny by servants, 39 rob;
beries on the river Thames, 4 ; robbery in ports of entry sus!:
discharge, 2; assaults with intent to violate, 2; unlawm'
assault, 1; misdemeanours of divers descriptions, 13; lar
cenies, grand and petite, 80. The committals are:—ls°,‘,ll,
don, 41 ; Middlesex, 151; Essex, 4 , Kent, 12; Surrey, 's
-b'
Total, 251.
The grand jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER proceeded to deliver his charge to then!'
It was not his intention to address them at any length, be:
cause, upon a careful perusal of the depositions he found tils`
they contained matters of fact, which it was purely the prtr.
wince of the grand jury to deal with them according to la',
He lamented to observe the number of prisoners fbr trial
which the calendar presented, upwards of 250. That nut"
her could not but be considered large when it was remem-
bered that the Central Criminal Court had been relieved of
vast number of minor cases at Hick's Hall. He regretted to
see that offencesagainst the person of an aggravated charen-
ter were on the increase; there was in the calendar no lass
than twenty cases of cutting and wounding, with intent t 4,
murder or do some grievous bodily harm. There were three
cases of murder, one for rape, seven cases of robbery with
violence, and two cases of manslaughter. With regard-
to the charges of murder, one alone was like',"
to be submitted to the consideration of the gran,"
jury, because the other two persons charged with that
offence whose names appeared in the calendar had been in"
dieted in a former session, and true bills found against tbel
by previous grand juries. The other case of murder was one
in which the mother was charged with the death of her
children by drowning ; he adverted to the case not from any
doubt that by the act of the mother the children met thel
s,
death, but because some doubt might arise from the act of
,°
the mother as to whether or not her mind was impaired. Im
question of the sanity or insanity of the party was o°o
the grand jury could not dispose of: if they
were clearly of opinion that death had been caused
by the act of the mother, it was their duty to put the 1,
via
715 in a course of trial, by finding a true bill against her. m
was sorry to see that the offence of larceny from the person
was on the increase, there were no less than twenty-1,.°„,e
- cases of that description in the present calendar. Judicious
severity of punishment had apparently been Is: able to restrain effectually this species of offence.which was generally committed by thieves by Pr"
ms
fession. There were several charges in the calendar of u,"
lawfully uttering counterfeit coin, and also uttering it fel°.
niously ; and for the latter offence the parties were liable._
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transportation or long imprisonment, according to the die' ere:ion of the Court. There was also a case in the calendar
et a horrible description, on which the charge rested upon
the evidence of two servants in the establishment of a gen'
tleman. That charge related to an offence of which they were stated to be eye-witnesses. With respect to that he
would oily say, that if, upon considerstion of the evidence,
they were convinced that the case would succeed, or Well
likely to succeed be;'ere a jury, it was their duty to put it in
a course for trial ; but if they were convinced that thei a Nils:
not enough in the evidence to convict the party, then they
would spare the Court the disgusting details. Among too
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cases of cutting and wounding, he was sorry to say there
were souse of a most shocking character, and ifa.
tressing to contemplate. For the smallest provage
cation resort was now had to such weapons
spades, knives, and other weapons, instead of the more manly
method that was formerly adopted. He was sorry to see Ors
change in the state of society. Whether the lenity of t°'
Legislature had caused this it was not for them to inqullYo
but it was distressing to see petty injuries resented in
murderous a spirit, and by such murderous weapons. The
Learned Judge, after remarking upon the increase of larceny
committed by servants, remitted the grand jury to the pa.
formance of their duty.
The Court then proceeded to swear in the petit jury.

SHIM WSBUR Y and BIRMINGHA°
RAIL WAY.—(THIS DAY.)
A special general meeting of the proprietors of this 0051_1;
papy was held, at one o'clock this day, in the LoncionTaverhe
for the purpose of giving their sanction or otherwise to
Bill now before Parliament to construct a railway from 13ir.
mingham to Shrewsbury, with branches.
Then- was a very numerous attendance of scripholders•
W. 0. Gore, Eq., M.P., Chairman of the Company, Pre'
sided.
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has no hesitation in characterising this scheme as decidedly
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less than 33,113 registered holders of scrip were in favour °f
going before Parliament. Having thus -briegflhyamstaßtegid: objects of the meeting, he would leave it to them to decide whether they should proceed, or dissolv3 the Company. re.
The question having been put, it was
unanimously
Pro
solved that the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway P
ceed to Parliament.
Thanks having been voted to the Chairman and directeorei;
The CII AIRMAN again rose, and after returning thank,,er,
the part of his colleagues and himself for the confidearcevois.
posed in them, repeated that if this measure passed the Le no
lature—and he entertained no doubt that it would—he bad
hesitation in saying it would be one of the first in Eng__ 0..
The meeting (one of the most unanimous we have eve'
tended) then broke up.

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THE ASSASSINATION IN DRURY•LANE.—DEA,g ;,, ate
BtEwirr.—This morning, soon after one o'clock, the nefo"-lie ct
mau Blewitt expired, in the King's College Hospital, from the trio
of the injuries caused by the shot tired at him in Drury-lane,. "-
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evening of Satorday thrtnight, by the lad Graham, who'—
Saturday remanded at Bow-street until next Wednesday. WO,
( told Lady Alice Pee! received Lord Broug,. en
Sir Robert and Lady Peel, and a distinguished party at dinner, .e,
Saturday, at the Gallant Colonel's house, in Park-place, St. JaZico.
THE LATE ATTEMPT ON THE KING OF THE F",-Fon.
—Tiv, preliminary examinations relative to the late ettemPt a', ter-
taintleau are nearly terminated, and should no new incident inzo
vene, it is probable that the matter will be brought about .34°Y the
before the Cerninission of the Court of Peers, which is to fulfil
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functions of Chambre d'Accusation. It is said' that the fl rat cella
Went, M. Frank Carre, had been designated by the Cit090n...,
to draw up the report in the name of the examining Colcont'sl
Galignani.
ciOd'
A UANDIDATE FOR THE MINISTRY.—Lately a -r
pole in on.: of our northern counties applied to a magistratee2rthe
license to preach. The worthy magistrate, observing nothing ID
outer man that entitled hint to the office, addressing him,
you read or write ?" Clodpole—" Nuther, plaze your honour.-
„led.
lo
gists ate— " Well, but my good fellow, how will you preach t' Cl
pole (scratching his head)—" Mother reads, and me
'splains." Tho magistrate refused to gratify the ambition 0.
aspirant, who went away loudly disappointed.
Be
COLONIAL Bietionnics.—Tiirce new epiaqopal
arc forthwith to be created in our colonies ; one in our Chinese
sessions at Bong-liong, the bishop to tek called the lotabop et Victv"'
and twa in Australia.

HArtTBURGH and FLANDERS MAIL.
BRUSSELS, MAY 7.—Ti s Clistrher of Representatives, in
its sitting. s est eids, ncol t unanimously the ii!tr'get is
public works. The Senate continued ii e podrical discuss(
summoned yesterday on the late Mini serial Legotiations ;
Messrs. Dumon, Dumercher, de Theux, the Minister of the
Interior, the Minister for Foreign Affairs, and several other
Members spoke. The discussion will be continued to-day.
BRUSSELS, MAY B.—The Chamber of Representatives, in
its sitting to-day, rejected a project of law the object of
which was to grant a drawback of 2f. 24c. per kilogramme
on the exportation of Lemburg cheese. The Chamber pro-
ceeded to discuss some other projects of law relative to the
promotion of the army, &c., which were agreed to unani-
mously. It resolved to discuss a project of law for granting
supplementary rates of credit on the budget of 1845 for the
Veterinary School and the Marine.
The Chamber then proceeded to the general discussion of
the budget of the Department of the Interior.
The Senate continued the political discussion. The
Minister of Finance and several others spoke.
The central section of the Chamber of Representatives has
just rejected the project of law on sugar. Of the seven
Members comprising the central section, two voted for,
three against the project of law, and two declined voting.
FROM THE GALICIAN FRONTIERS, APRIL 29.—For some
days past it has been reported that the Austrian Government
intends to fortify Podgorcze, which on one side form, with
Cracow, the gate of Galicia. On the other hand, well-in-
formed persons affirm that Podgorcze will have no other for-
tifications than a tete de-pont on the Vistula.
There are still reports in Cracow of fresh disturbances,
which are to break out on the 3d of May. It may be hoped,
however, that the 3d iif May will pass over as quietly as the
Easter holidays did. The accounts from Galicia are favour-
able. Tranquillity is everywhere restored.
corporal bzehi,
who voluntarily appeared before the Bailiff of Tarnow, is
stated in an unconfirmed report, to have been afterwards
arrested.
The expense occasioned to the Austrian Government by
the Galician insurrection is said to exceed four millions.—
ettlenseine Zeitung, May 5.
PRUSSIAN FUNDS.—Bmtx, MAT 7.
Bills.
St. Behind Sch., 33{, percent •••••• • • • • • 97%
Pruss. English Bonds, 1830, 4 per Cent ••• • • •
Foreign Exchanges....
Exchange on London, £1 Sterling, 3 Months. 6 25U
Hamburgh, 300 Marks, 2 Months. 14914 1493{
Paris, 300 fr., 2 Months ......... 80 1-12
On Paris • • ........ ..
Two inonths. -
-Universal Prussian Gazette, Mar 8.
AUSTRIAN FUNDS.—VIENNA, MAY 2.
5 per Cent. • . 112
4 per Cent. 101
3 per Cent. 75
Loan, 1834 ............................ 154
Ditto, 1839 .......................... 122
Bank Shares ....... ..... , ........... 1555
Esterhazy's Loan ........ . •
RAILWAYS.

Money.
96%

The Northern, or Ferdinand ............ 1904
Vienna—Milan .........
Leghorn .. . ...... . 11234
104%
Sienna • ..... ••••.••••••• • • •• • • • • ••
Oldenburg •• • •
Apenninen • • .
Pesth Bridge .. . • .......... ••• • • • - . 120
--Allgemeine Zoitung. May 5.
HAMBUBOLI BORSENHALLE, MAT 8.
Bills. Money.
Austrian 5 per Cents .... ••••••• • • • • • 113
Bank Shares
Anglo-Russian Loan . • •••• •• • • •• 107
Russian 5 per Cent., Hamb. Certificate. 101% 101%
Ditto Ist series Inscription— ..
Ditto, Hope and Co., 3d and 4th series.. 96
Ditto, in Certificate. •
New 4 per Cent., Hope and Co. •• • 88%
Ditto titieglitz • . . ....... ••• • • •
Spanish New 5 per Cent.... •.• • • • .... 18% 18%
Ditto 3 per Cent ........... ..... 29%
Anglo-Port it,guese Loan, 234 per Cent..
Dutch Actual Debt, 234 per tent -•• .. 59
Ditto 3 per Cent. .. ••••••• • • • • • • •
Polish New 4 per Cent. Loan, 1844.... 81
Anglo-Danish Loan, 3 per Cent .... 8634 564
National Bank Mares • • • • •• •
BELGIAN FUNDS.—BRUSSEI.a, May 9.
Actual Debt, 2% per Cent • • ....
Rothschild's Loan, Five per Cent .. —
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent
Ditto Three per Cent.. ..... • • ......
Ditto Thirty-seven Millions, ditto •• ••
Ditto, ditto, 1840
Ditto, ditto,lB42 • • . 102
Ditto, 1844. ............. •• •.• • • • • 106
Ditto, 1838 ..... ..................... 74%
Ditto of the City, 1832 .... ••• • • ..... • •
Ditto, 1843 ................ ........ 100%
Bank ofßelgintn.. ................. 895
—Brussels Papers. May 9.
DUTCH F UNDS.—AINTERDAM, MAY 8.
Money. Bills.
Actual Debt, 234 per Cent........... 60 6034
Sato, 3 per Cent .......... 7234 73%
Ditto, 4 per Cent • ......... • •• • • 93% 944
Amon Syndic. 4% per Cent.
Ditto, 334 per Cent.........• • . 88% 68%
Commercial Company, 434 per Cent •• 166 16836
East India Loan, 4 per Cent • • ••• • • • 9334 93%
Exchange on London, at sight • ••.• •• 12 27
Two months... •• • • . • ....• 12 20
On Hamburgb, at sight .... 35 75
Two mouths.•... .• .••• • • •• 35 75
--Dutch 'Wars. May 8.