The Sun.
London, England, 1848-04-17 00:00:00

DERBY.

Mr. EVANS moved that the Clerk of the Crown
be directed to issue a new writ for the election of two
burgesses for the borough of Derby, in the room of
the Hon. Edward Strutt and the Hon. Edward
Frederick Leveson Gower, whose election had been
determined to be void.
Mr. MACKINNON seconded the motion.
Mr. ELLICE oppsed the motion. He said he
was a member of the Yarmouth Election Committee,
before whom it was proved that great corrup -
tion had existed for years among the freemen ;
and the House, at the suggestion of the Committee,
passed with acclamation a Bill to disfranchise the
freementchoerrreurotre,
se
so acted did not deserve to be longer entrusted with
armed o of
thet h at
principle b()rough.
that
the elective franchise. He had taken the trouble to
look through the evidence adduced before the Derby
Committee, and he was quite prepared to say that the
corruption in the two cases was precisely parallel.
The evidence upon which the House claimed the
right of disfranchising the freemen of Yarmouth
was to be found in this instance, and the House would
be doing an act of injustice it it disfranchised them
and allowed the freemen of Derby to go free.
Sir J. HANMER said it was exceedingly diffi-
cult to oppose a motion for issuing a new writ for the
return of representatives for such a borough as Derby.
He supposed that in all England there were very few
towns which had greater or more essential claims to
be represented in that House than the borough of
Derby. It was an ancient borough, and possessed
all the rights that prescription could give to it.
It stood upon one of the great lines of communication,
and was a very industrious and populous town. It
stood in the immediate vicinity of a large manufac-
turing district, and altogether Derby had as good a
right to be represented in that House as any
other town in the kingdom. But, independently
of these considerations, it was exceedingly diffi-
cult to oppose the issuing of a new writ
after what took place the other evening in reference
to Bewdley, and he certainly did not intend to oppose
the issuing of the writ on this occasion. Still, how-
ever, he could not suffer this motion to pass by with-
out calling the attention of the House to the present
state of the law in reference to these matters. If
the House persisted in issuing writs for these corrupt
places, and iisiting all the sin upon the heads of the
gentlemen who should be returned for them, and
none upon the heads of the electors, they never could
get rid of these abuses. This borough had long
been represented by a gentleman who was
largely connected with it, and who was
highly respected by all parties, and yet
although he had taken every means in his power to
have the law of 1842 observed, what had been the
result? Why he was petitioned against and
the Committee appointed to try the merits of the
petition, discover that the grossest corrup-
tion prevailed amongst the freemen of the
borough. Now he did call upon honourable
gentlemen and the Noble Lord at the head of the
Government to turn their attention to this state of
things, and see if some remedy could not be provided
for the evils.—(Cries of " Hear, hear.") No
doubt there were a good many Chartists, and he
had little doubt that these abuses would have
a strong tendency to augment that body. At
all events seeing these corrupt freemen rolling
in the gutters in a beastly state of drunkenness,
must naturally create discontent amongst those poor
and industrious inhabitants of towns who were
not in the enjoyment of the franchise.—(Hear, hear.)
He did not rise now to oppose the issuing of the writ,
but to entreat the Government to turn their attention
to a subject which more than any other at the present
moment required the consideration of the Government.
He reserved to himself the right, after he had heard
the discussion, that he had no doubt would take
place on the motion, of either voting for it or against it.
Mr. HUME opposed the issuing of the writ
at present. He had on a previous occasion sug-
gested that in all the cases where bribery had been
proved to have taken place the writs should be sus-
pended till all the Election Committees had been
disposed of, and that then they should be referred
to a Committee appointed for the purpose of con-
sidering them. (Hear, hear.) He thought that the
case of Derby was almost a parallel one with that of
Great Yarmouth, and he did not see why the same
course should not be pursued, as had been adopted
with respect to it. He should vote for the suspension
of the writ until an inquiry bad taken place.
The Earl of LINCOLN said that he should most
certainly vote with the Hon. Member for Montrose,
in favour of the suspension of the writ. He thought
it a most unconstitutional proceeding to suspend the
issue of any writ, unless the House had some definite
object in view.—(Hear, hear.) His reason for
voting for its suspension was, that he indulged the
hope and strong conviction that, as soon as the
case was brought under the notice of the Go-
vernment, the Noble Lord would take this
question in hand, and in some form or other
take care that justice should be done in the case,
as well as in those which the Noble Lord had already
taken up with so much spirit. He had read the evi-
dence given before the Committee iu this case, and so
far as he could form an opinion on the subject, be
thought that it would be most unjust for the House to
disfranchise the freemen of Great Yarmouth, and to take
no notice whatever of the long-continued mal-
practices of the borough of Derby. By some
means or other the proceedings of the House with
respect to the issue of new writs had the appearance
of partiality or inconsistency, but he did
not think that it was now too late for
the House to retrieve in some measure
its character, and hoped that some means would be
devised to provide that when a special report was
presented to the House, on the corruption of any
borough, measures would be pdopted to provide
uniformity in its proceedings with respect to
such cases. Evident testimony had been borne to the
admirable manner in which the law relating to con-
troverted election had operated in the inquiries before
the Committees, the decisions of those Committees
had been considered by some persons as some-
what too severe, but that was a fault oc the right
side, and If the House did not treat the reports
of such Committees with impartiality, great
evils would result.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. Strutt,
in his address to the electors of Derby, had stated
that he was entirely ignorant of the proceedings
which were pursued before the Committee, and he
did not think that it would at all tend to check
these corrupt practices of the House merely confined
its punishment to the unconscious Members, and
continued to reward those persons whose
mal-prac-
tices had brought such result about.—(Cheers.) No
doubt the individuals who received the bribe were
now looking forward to a new harvest.—(Bear.)
candidates, he understood, now in the
field, and II; hoped tout they would each of them tully
resolve to discourage a repetition of these practices.

He therefore most earnestly trusted that the Noble
Lord would take some further measure with respect
to the burgh. He believed that the number of persons
bribed at the last election were :not less than 400.
Mr. CHILD ERS wished, as the chairman of the
Committee, to say a few words to the House. The
Committee reported that the evidence adduced before
it was not such as they could rely on, and Mr. Holmes,
whose evidence had been much commented on,
was a person upon wh( se testimony the Committee
entered with considerable suspicion, as it appeared he
was formerly agent to the Whig candidates, but at
the last election tor the Tories. The Committee con•
sidered that the franchise should be taken from those
freemen who had taken bribes. There were 500
freemen, 200 had been proved to have taken bribes ;
but 1,500 of the electors were entirely free from
any charge of the kind. The brieery was not direct,
but consisted in the payment of certain parties who had
votes for their services, and the practice having
grown upon them, had become almost proverbial.
The Committee thought it desirable to disfranchise
the freemen who had so acted, but they did not
consider that they could place implicit reliance
upon the evidence that was adduced before them.
He was not prepared (as we understood) under these
circumstances to oppose the issuing of the writ.
Mr. .A GLIONBY thought that the House should
support its sessional orders. They should inflict
punishment where it was due, and thereby uphold
the respectability of the House. 'This was the first
session during which Committees of the House had
gained the credit of acting fairly with respect to re-
turns petitioned against. The general opinion enter-
tained out of doors was to the effect that they had done
their duty. It was said that the recent Members for
Derby were ignorant of the practice that prevailed of
paying electors for whatever services they performed.
Why, the very fact of the existence of such an abuse
of the trust reposed in them showed that they were
no longer fit to be entrusted with it. If sufficient
information had not been obtained on the point
further inquiry ought to be made, and if the electors
were as corrupt as they were stated to be, they ought
to be disfranchised. If the Government declined to do
so the house should take the matter up. In fact there
ought to be a public prosecutor appointed to deter-
mine whether cases of this nature should be prose-
cuted or not. That would be the most con•
stitutional mode of acting, and not at the
expense of the candidate, but of the public.
Whenever a prima facie case was made out to
show that further inquiry ought to be instituted
into these corrupt practices, it ought at once
to be gone into. Who was there that was not
acquainted with the venality of freemen of
boroughs ? In one borough that he was connected
with, he saw at the last election but one freeman
brought up to poll in a hopeless state of intoxication,
and while these corrupt practices were allowed
to prevail, who could wonder at the discontent
manifested by the non-electors.—(Hear, hear.) He
should therefore vote fur the non-issuing of the writ,
if Government were prepared to prosecute the case
further, but if Government or some Honourable
Member were not, he did not think it would be right
upon his own judgment to vote for the suspension of
of the writ.—(Hear, hear.)
Lord J. RUSSELL said, with regard to the par-
ticular case, it seemed that the Committee came to
the resolution that only certain freemen had
been bribed, but there was sufficient evidence
adduced before them, which led to the impression
that an extensive system of bribery had prevailed
amongst the freemen of the borough, and they pro-
perly found that the two gentlemen who had been re-
turned could not retain their seats.—(Hear.) Now
with regard to this part of the decision of the Com-
mittee, he could not agree with the Noble Lord
opposite, that such reports as these were highly
unjust and inexpedient, because the very obvious
results of the reports of these Committees
would be to make electors more cautious in future,
and the guarded severity with which committees
had vie wed acts of bribery and treating
in the present Parliament would inevitably make it
the interest of all parties in future to avoid these acts
of corruption, or they might lay themselves open to
being disfranchised. This feeling would naturally
induce electors to take care that such a return
was made in their behalf as could not be set aside ;
and, therefore, the practice of visiting these acts
of bribery and corruption upon the Members
themselves was of great public importance.—(hear.)
The Committee appear to have found in this case that
an exclusive system had prevailed amongst the
freemen of Derby. We understood the Honour-
able Chairman of the Committee to state that
the bribery affected a considerable number of 500
freemen of the borough, but only a few of 1,500
ten pound householders, and he really did think
looking at this state of things, that it was right that
a further inquiry should be instituted into the case.—
(Hear, hear.) He did not, however, agree with
his lion. Friend the Member for Cockermouth
that the duty of instating a further inquiry ought to
devolve upon the Government. In 1819 when he was
an independent Member of the House, he en-
treated an inquiry with considerable advantage
into one or two cases of corruption, in reference to
the franchise, and if the Noble Lord opposite, or some
other Hon. Member would apply his attention to this
case he should feel himself justified in recom •
mending that the issuing of this writ be delayed.
—(llear, hear.) At the same time, it would
hereafter become a question for the House to
decide for how long a time the suspension
of these various writs should be suspended or the end
of the Session would creep upon them, and they might
break up without those !places where corruption had
been proved to exist having any representative at all.
Sir R. PEEL had heard the statements of the
Noble Lord at the head of the Government
with great satisfaction, as they agreed entirely
with his own views on the subject. He
thought the writ ought not to be issued until
further inquiry had taken place. He rejoiced
greatly that there was now an opportunity
afforded of teaching large constituences that the
same measure of justice and punishment would
be dealt out to them as had been adopted with
respect to small ones.—(Hear hear.) Many
persons had run away with the notion that prac-
tices that had been carried on for years in boroughs
did not partake of the character of bribery,
and lie thought that the time had now
arrived when they should be told that such practices
would not be allowed in future.—(Hear, hear.) One
practice that had existed was that of giving
head-money, a practice that had been declared
by Act of Parliament to be bribery and
according to the report of the Committee on this case,
that practice had been most extensively practised in
the borough of Derby. He would not give
any opinion as to the course that ought
to be pursued ; he would not vote for a
Bill to disfranchise the borough at once, but he
would vote for the appointment of a Commission to
go to Derby to inquire into the subject. Ile hoped
the Government, if they thought that Commission
was required in the case of Sudbury, they would at
once adopt the same course with respect to Derby.
Mr. W. EVANS said that he was the last man to
object to inquiry, but as he could not ascertain
that there was any intention to oppose theissuing of
the writ, or to institute any inquiry ; he considered
it to be his duty to move that the writ be issued.
Unless he felt asssured from one party or the other
that some steps would be taken to promote an inquiry
into the subject, he should most certainly feel it his
duty to divide the House upon his motion.

Sir R. H. INGLIS said that he believed that the
large majority of the electors of Derby were entirely
free from the charge of bribery, he did not think from the
report wf the Committee that more than eighteen
persons were implicated in the charge. The question
then which the House had to decide was whether
the House would punish all the innocent electors
of the borough for the sake of punishing the few
guilty parties. He thought, therefore, that the better
course for the House to adopt would be to allow the
writ to issue in the usual manner.
Mr. STAUNTON said that, although the
I:enwmeriendat thatleast
twoone
bneurmyberandof electorsreported prtoovcdtheto
House
gons;uiltuyasof
vberriy-
hundred persons who had received bribes. With
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justly
respect to the other portion of the electors he believed
that it was a constituency of which any Ho-
nourable Member might be proud,
for the Learned Counsel of Mr. Strutt
had been instructed by that gentleman to state that
the whole expenses attending his recent election had
not amounted to 5007.—(hear,
a ar,lahrge
ear.)borHoeugdhidlnikoe
t
think that there was any Hon. Member whose
return had been entered whose expenses had amounted
to so
like Derby of its right to be represented in that
House in consequence of the bad conduct of nine
l smallc
unjust sum
to Lva Ls that.
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prtought that it would he
most
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persons, for it was only nine persons who were re-
ported by the Committee to have been bribed.
Mr. MACKINNON explained the course he had
aissslitaintegmoefn
statement to
wsrhiot.w
that adoisrte.di3woiltvhßreisi,4p,eGct troeatdhe
two hundred of the electors were bribed.
Mr. STAFFORD said none of the Hon. Gentlemen
who had spoken had suggested the adoption of any
practical course.
(LIFT SPEAKINeI.)

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has received 201.
from "G. H." The same will be paid into the Ex-
chequer.
Tux REGULAR Mom—A return obtained by Mr.
Humc, M.P., shows that the regular army of all ranks
in the United Kingdom on the Ist of January last con-
sisted of 66 417 men, of whom 35,421 were stationed in
England, and 31v 996 in Treland Th.• tnt.4l
eluding the Colonial forces) amounted to 123,992 rank
and Lilo. The number of recruits last year amounted to
18,02 against 23,871 in 1546.

MURDER OF A FEMALE AT
WESTMINSTER.
Considerable excitement was created throughout yes-
terday, in Westminster, in consequence of a report that
a young female had been found murdered, at an early
hour in the morning, within twenty yards of the spot
where Mr. Bel!chambers met his untimely end a few
weeks ago. The following particulars of the transaction,
gleaned from the most authentic sources, may be strictly
relied on :
At about twenty minutes to one yesterday morning,
Mr. Kean, an engineer, living in Page-street, Millbank,
was on his way home, near Vincent-row, Regent-
street, Westminster, when he heard a sup[ressed scream
from a female, and immediately afterwards saw a
man come from the spot from whence the cry had
proceeded, with a large open clasp knife in his
hand, and hastily disappear. Mr. Kean immediately
acquainted two shopkeepers in the neighbourhood,
and while one party was engaged in hastening
to cotienunicate the intelligence to the police,
the others went to the spot to which Mr. Kean's at-
tention had been first attracted, and there found a
young female in an ap?atently dying state. They
lilted her up, assisted by a police-sergeant and con-
stable, who were promptly on the spat. and conveyed
her to the residence of Mr. G. Pearse, surgeon, Regent-
street, Westminster, a few doors only from where she
was found. Mr. Pearse, who had been hastily aroused
while the ill-fated woman was being carried to his house,
met her at the door, and immediately pronounced lite to
be extinct. Those who had first assmaed in raising the
poor woman from the ground were not for some two or
three minutes aware of the cause of her apparently life-
less state, until in the act of lifting her up previous to
conveying her to the medical gentleman's, they observed
blood inside the bosom of her dress, and on an
examination Mr. Pearse discovered a wound just
above the left breast, three quarters of an inch
in length, and two inches and a half deep. It may be
as well hero to observe that the unfortunate woman
never spoke from the time she was first lying on the
ground, but groaned slightly two or three times. Mr.
Cummings, the inspector on duty at the Rochester-row
station, who at once proceeded to the spot on hearing
what had occurred, gave directions that the body of the
lifeless woman should be conveyed to St. Margaret's
workhouse, and having taken a description of the man
who had been seen coming from the direction of the
woman with the knife in his hand, and who had been ob-
served about five minutes before the tragical occurrence
talking to her, close on the spot where she was after-
wards found by State, 157 B, was pre:etering to dispatch
it to the various police-stations. In. consequence of
some observation that fell from one of the constables,
with respect to the woman, Mr. Cumming, who
had expressed his opinion that he had recently seen
the woman somewhere before the tret,eical occurrence,
at once remembered that she was charged in com-
pany with a man, about a fortnight ago, with some
trivial offence, and en referring to the books, found that
he was correct. Re then took down the address of the
man then charged with her, and was proceeding towards
the place with a constable, in order to ascertain whether
he was the perpetrator of the outrage, when he met the
man, William Tomkins, a man in the employment of
Mr. Thorne, the extensive Westminster brewer, in the
custody of police sergeant Abraham 'Wright. The latter
in company with a constable, also named Wright, both
being on duty in the immediate neighbourhood, had
from some information or conjecture eu their part that
Tomkins was the culprit, proceeded to his residence at
7, Vincent-row, close on the spot where the murder was
committed, and taken him into custody on suspicion.
On meeting with Mr. Cumming. the prisoner exclaimed,
Oh, sir, I have done it now." On searching him a
very formidable clasp knife, stained 'with blood, was
f, and iu his pocket, and there we:re also marks
of blood upon his left hand. It having been ascer-
tained by the police, to whom, throughout
this transaction the greatest credit is due for their
intelligence and alacrity, that the name of the
murdered female was Maria Eden, and Mr. Kean having
identified the accused as the person he saw leaving the
spot where the woman was found, wish a clasp-knife
exactly corresponding with the one found upon the pri-
soner, the charge was entered against him upon the
police-sheet, and on being read over to him, the prisoner
who appeared in a very low dejected state, did not offer
a word in reply, and was immediately conveyed where
he was closely watched, the inspector being apprehensive
from his despcnding condition, that he- might attempt to
destroy himself. It may be necessary to remark, that
the prisoner was also recognised by State as the person
he saw talking to the female a few minutes before the
fatal transaction. The age of the murdered female is
about twenty years. She had formerly lived in service
in Holywell street, Millbank, but has of late been resid-
ing in lodgings iu Cooper-street, Deere street, West-
minster. She was a good-looking girl. The accused
is a short thick set man, twenty-five years of age, and
his family, who are industrious hard-working people,
have been for many years resident in the neighbour-
hood. He was in a very low desponding state through.
out the whole of yesterday, and could scarcely be pre-
vailed upon to take any food.

FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE
OF FRIDAY.
DIVIDENDS.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.

J. T. Jay, Acle, Norfolk, sill-gem and apothecary,
May 5, at twelve—J. Atkins, West Cowes, Isle of Wight,
wine and spirit merchant, May 5, at one—J. Jillings,
Woolpit, Suffolk, draper, May 9, at one—T. Weston,
Southampton, plumber, glazier, and painter, May 10, at
eleven—J. Rogers, Northumberland-street, Strand, oil
and Italian warehouseman, May 9, at twelve—J. K. Kent,
Craven-street, Strand, money scrivener, May 10, at one
—H. S. Brazier, Oxford, tailor, May 10, at twelve—J.
Notting, Poole, Dorsetshire, currier an I cordwainer,
May 10, at eleven—J. C. Staines, Oundle, Northampton-
shire, tailor and draper, May 10, at twelve.
In the Country.
J. Clarke, Leicester, Lutterworth, and Melton Mew-
bray, Leicestershire, and Uppingham and Oakham, Rut-
landshirerbanker, May 12, at eleven, at the Court, Not-
tingham—J. Philips, Leicester, Lutterworth, and Melton
Mowbray, Leicestershire, and Uppingham and Oakham,
Itutlandshire, banker, May 12, at eleven, at the Court,
Nottingham—W. Coulter, Birkenhead, Cheshire, grocer,
May 8, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Buckton,
Darlington, Durham, grocer, May 5, at half-past ten, at
the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—G-. Bagnall, New-
castle-upon-Tyne, music seller, May 11, at eleven, at the
Court, Newcatle-upon-Tyne—F. Marshall. Sunderland,
chemist, May 8, at one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-
Tyne—J. Hudson, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, dealer in
marine stores, May 11, at twelve, at the Court, New-
castle-upon-Tyne—A. Keir, North Caw, Yorkshire,
timber merchant, May 17, at half-past ten, at the Town-
hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—F. Stamp, Kingston-upon-
Hull, stockbroker, May 10, at half-past ten, at the Town-
hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—H. Oxtoby and W. C. Oxtoby,
Wansford, Great Driffield, Scarborough, Bridlington,
and Beverley, Yorkshire, miller, May 17, at half-pst ten,
at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—E. Lilley, King-
stoa upon-Hull, timber merchant, May 17, at half past
ten, at the Town- hall. Kingston-upon-Hull.
PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS.

W. Reeve and R. Reeve, New Bond-street, upholsterers,
3s. 3d., on Saturday, April 15, and ts% o subsequent
Saturdays, between the hours of eleven and two, at the
(Ace of Mr. Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
J. Bell, Finch-lane, Cornhill, newsvender, 3s. 6d., on
Saturday, April 15. and two subsequent Saturdays, be.
tween the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr.
Edwards, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry.
W. Day, Gracechurch-stret t, oilman, 70., on Satur-
day, April 15, and two subsequent Saturdays, between
the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Ed-
wards, Frederick's• place, Old Jewry.
R. Ensoll, Broad street, Bloomsbury, draper, 9d., on
Monday, April 17, and two follewing Mondays, between
the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr.
Cannan, Birchin-lane, City.
J. Ellis, jun., Beresford• square, Woolwich, boot and
shoe maker, ls , on Monday, April 17, and two following
Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the
office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City.
S. Davies, Bankside. Southwark, and of Wilton-road,
Pimlico, coal merchant, lid., on Monday, April 17, and
two following Mondays, between the hours of eleven
and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane, City.
R. Peck, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, grocer, Bs. 6d., on
Saturday, April 15, and any following Saturday, between
the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr.
Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
S. Langdale, sen., and S. Langdale, jun., Stockton-
upon-Trent, Durham, and Yarn, Yorkshire, corn dealers
and flour merchants, id., on Saturday, April 15, or any
following Saturday, between the hours of ten and three,
at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon• Tyne.
J. Perrin, Hereford, grocer, 2s. 3d., any Thursday,
between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of
Mr. Christie, Birmingham.
NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES.
At the Court, Basinghall-street.
R. Parker, Ludgate-hill, City, woollen draper, May
8, at half-past one—H. Mocket, New Snoreham, Sussex,
merchant, May 8, at one—W. Pearce, Croydon, tailor,
May 8, at half- past twelve—J. Miller, Ipswich, Suffolk,
licensed victualler, May 5, at half-past eleven—T. Free-
mantle, Bedford New-road, Clapham-rise, builder, May 5,
at twelve—ll. Hicks, New Bond-street, saddler, May
5, at one—H. Hill, Gray's Inn-lane, brewer, May 5, at
one.

In the country.
W. Curtis, Cheltenham, auctioneer, at the Court,
Bristol, May 5, at twelve—E. Whitehall, Newport,
Monmouthshire, watchmaker, at the Court, Bristol,
May 5, at eleven —Ellen Edwards, Bristol, banker, at
the Court, Bristol, May 10. at eleven—J. Ramsden,
Halifax, Yorkshire, woollen draper, at the Court, Leeds,
May 9, at eleven—J. Robinson, Huddersfield, and Addle•
street, City, merchant, at the Court, Leeds, May 9, at
eleven—J. F. Fletcher and H. Fletcher, Over Darwen,
Lancashire, cotton munufacturers, at the Court, Man-
chester May 5, at eleven—H. Morris, Liverpool, licensed
victualler, at the Court, Liverpool, May 4, at eleven—
J. Wallace, Liverpool, corn merchant, at the Court,
Liverpool, May 5, at eleven—W. W. Baker, Birming-
ham, engraver, at the Court, Birmingham, May 10, at
halt-past ten—W. Carter, Exeter, innkeeper, at the
Court, Exeter, May 11, at one—D. Hawkesford and J.
Hawkesford, Bilston, Staffordshire, ironfounders, at the
Court, Birmingham, May 17, at eleven—S. Beddoe,
West Bromwich, Staffordshire, draper, at the Court,'
Birmingham, May 16, at eleven.
At the Court of Review, May 5.
W. H. Mann, Maiden-lane, Queen-street, Cheapside,
lead merchant—W. D. Collard, College-street, Chelsea,
slater—S. H. Gurnmer, Bridport, Dorsetshire,attorney—
R. R. Fretwell, Jersey, and Greenwich, shipowner—T.
Cox, Manchester, wine merchant—R. Blake, jun., Nor-
wich, soap manufacturer—G. Cork, High-street, Isling-
ton, livery stable keeper—J. R. Gamble, Exchange-
buildings, City, electric telegraph manufacturer—G. B.
Wa-1•1%, sq
G. Morton, Leeds, paperstainer—E. Gough, Wetn,
shrophire, druggistf-11 Williams, Birkenhead, Che-

-
shire, builder—J. Adams, Finsbury-square, surgeon—.
J. Moseley, Neath, Glamorganshire, watchmaker—J..
Shaknshaft, Tranmore, Cheshire, licensed victualler—.
G. Smith, and D. Smith, Birmingham, leather sellers.
PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED.
W. Cooper, R. Sharp, and T. A. Sharp, Owston, Lir-
so
colnshire, hemp sacking and sheeting manufacturers (
ar a:, regards T. A. Sharp)—W. "lender and W. BrOWn,
Callington, Cornwall, surgeons and apothecaries--
G. Buck and G. Thomas, Great Bussell-stresr,
Bloomsbury, drapers and mercers—T. Deedle an!!
J Fryer, Exeter, joiners and builders-4). Zoucri
drapers
and R. B. Evans, Newport, Monmouthshire,
nport, J. , and M. Stott,
Chadderton, Lancashire,Daven cottonpo rt
spinners —T- Brodi.e
and Beevers, Oldham, Lancashire, wine and
dealers—P. M. Wilmot and J. Wilmot, Leicester, con-
mon brewers—J. Thomas, W. Stretch, and J. Stretch,
Warrington, Lancashire=, patent tube manufactuerss
E. Cooke and J. Harris, Wolverhampton, if ine,se
brandy merchants—G. Sharman and M. SbarmnPuf-
derland—F. S. Jones, J. Jones, and J. P. Jones, Lceaf,'.o
spirit
iron founders—J. Salkeld, J. Lockwood, and T. SaL
man
keld, Huddersfield, silk, cotton, and waistcoating
facturers (so far as regards the said T. Salkeld)--
Angus and T. G. Angus, Newcastle-upon-lyne,
Ain ca°.
r-
riers and leather sellers—G. Gimson, T. Yates, J.
worth, and J. J. Collier, Staleybridge, Cheshire, iron,
founders (so far as regards the said J. J. Collier) u
Rowe, jun., Lyme Regis, Dorsetshire, and J. RIZ:
Cullompton, Devonshire, eurliers—J. Burnham RI
Burnham, Potion, Bedfordshire, chemists--vTwins;el
er
and W. Twinane, Canada and the United States, gen
and commission agents—H. L. Gintherr, Clop.arokviissill,roet;
City, and W. Carruthers, Philpot lane, City,
merchants—B. Manuel, M. Moyssi, 11. Panagiotti,
Moyssi, H. Christo, H. Moyssi, Elia, IL Moyssi, Ala
cheater, commission merchants—J. Treyers, sere.'
J. Trevers, jun., Gloucester-place, Old Kent-road, cO,
penters and builders—W. H. Ambler and W. Ile
mond, Bishop Auckland, Durham, mercers.
INSOLVENT PE nTIONERS.
John Butcher Stephens, Westrip, Gloucestershire' CO°.
tractor.
Francis Careswell, Aberystwitb, Cardiganshire, ill°.
keeper.
William France, Liverpool, surgeon.
Frederick aral;
Ramsgate, e.t
fishermanth. park, Lancashire, wheelicright.
John Cook,c P u
Henry Lewis, Birmingham. •
Joseph Walker, Birmingham, cabinet-maker.
John Revell, Huddersfiel, York
Joseph Greenwood, Carldton, nesarhire Slipton, Yorkehiref

stonemason.
Evan Davies, Dowlais Ironworks, Glamorganybiret i 1313.
keeper.
Thomas Quant, Foston, Lincolnshire, driver.

Allrrd Baler, Albury, Surrey, bricklayer.
William May Matthews, Tur, Devonshire. moire!
William Sewell, Cirencester-place, Maryleboner --
and gilder.
SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. pod
R. Reid, Denhy, baker, to meet within the Zet -
~.rrns Inn, Falkirk, April 20 and May 11, at one. .„01
W. Wilson, Wallace-town, Ayr, merchant to
s;of
within the Crown Inn, Ayr, April 19 and MO I
onLle.
. R. Russell, Dunfermline, Fifeshire, bank sondoin;
surance agent, to meet within Mrs. Llutton's Doh
fermline, Aril 20 and May 11, at telve.
W. Steedpman, Leith, merchant,w to meet viltPl,-, At
Royal Exchange Coffee-room, April 19 and MaY
t wo
D. M'Corkle, Glasgow, ship owner, to meet WI,
the Star Hotel, Glasgow, April 19 and May 99 V'

LAW INTELLIGENCE. 15
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, AP"'-'
(Sittings in Banco.)
the ilsti
This was the first day of Easter Terra, but L3KO
breakfast with the Lord Chancellor not having„-Dect
place, the Judges, Lord Denman, Mr. Justice ?skitheir
Mr. Justice %V ightman, and Mr. Justice Erie, t°°' -
seats at ten o'clock.

• DUNN V. LIND. Dina'
nV
This was the well-known action against Jell"; 001. 0
in which the jury awarded to the plaintiff, ''-
dam ages. ly
The ATTORNEY•GENERAL was instructed - t
°,SIP ,bo
the Court fur a rule calling upon the plaiatiTootild
cause why the verdict so given for the Oaf° nti that
not be set aside and a new trial bad, on the grow ootia,
the damages which had been awarded to the,,,Podercat
were excessive. A bill of exceptions had bee° id not
shoo t.e
at the trial as to certain points to which he to t"
now further allude, but he should confine himself
were er
question of the damages, to show that they,rney
cessive. 281. would defray the expenses of Weld to the
from Berlin and back, and this being addeunotiag
amount of the cost to Mr. Fitzball, of tra,2-0/.
arid printing the opera, would only be e tbs'
to the other portion of the damages, therefor
could only be taken upon a calculation of what tiler:o4
tiff might have received, had the defendant Perhe Jeri
her engagement with him. In order to induce the
to give heavy damages, it had been contended te'll eo'
manager of Drury-lane Theatre had cleared !ogee
gagement with Malibran some years tine© bed for
4,0001. and 5,000/., although she had been engag with
35 nights at 150/. per night. The engage
Jenny Lind had been to sing for 20 nights. for oo§
which she was to receive 50 Louis-d'ors a night. It of
evident that the jury had been led away by this 03° „Jeri
treating the subject; but the state of things, as regt-
these two parties, was very different; because' Ma„°36y
Malibrau could speak and sing English, whereas
Lind had declared her inability to learn the langeseto
and there was a very inferior company to perform tad
her; besides, Jenny Lind's success in this country Phe
not then been tried, but Malibran was at that time t'
greatest favourite of the day.
Lord DENmeN did not think the Court could interior
with the verdict. The jury could only speculate uPbsii
the evidence adduced before them, and the Court that;
their conclusion correct.—Rule discharged.
5 1 '
MARY LEBONE COUNTY COURT,
_APIII

(Before A. ABRAHAM, Esq., Deputy Judge•)

COPE v BISEWEa. - -
This was an action brought by the trfostteenohfantahecoSos:
te
Equitable Loan Society, John-street, T
road, to recover from the defendant the sum '44;00
arrears of instalments due upon money borrowed "-
that society.
Mr. Keene, solicitor, appeared for the plaintiff:
The case having been stated, rvitti
The JUDGE examined the rules of the society' jfia
the terms upon which the money was borrowed; t or
Honour asked, was it in the form of an agree°, -11„ort.
contract that the money was lent? He, for bit,: he
thought it was a contract, and looking at the ter abet
was of opinion that the whole thing was illegal. jot?
was the rate of interest charged for the nionei
Why, 10 per cent. for three weeks, making 170 Pe! Cd to
per annum. But that was not all. Borrowers .%ing
pay Is. per mile to the society for the trouble ofloves for
after the securities, and that, together with the fin,,-
non-payment of the instalments within three wee"—.6o
of
they became due, with other charges, made the r"- 01.
interest amount to no less than 250 pe cent. per 11111/1:011
He was of opinion that the contract, if it Wore erte' tiba
illegal, and therefore null and void • but, as the clutjer
was one of importance, he should take time to On
his decision.

he Oil;
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Kennington-common, abandonment and dispersi°ll„:ol
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81.FITEM. OS
On the let inst., in the packet, on the Pass6lgebii°
Jamaica, the lady of the Rev. Colin Maclayertit
island Curate of Port Royal, of a daughter. n, itofj;
On the 9th inst., at the Court House, St. 44-rvaL 'bte'.
mouthshire, the wife of the Rev. John Graham, Of 4 '7: Sw"
On the 9th inst., et Ballinasloe, the lady of CaPts
van, of the Royal Scots Greys, of a daughter. East street'
On the MI inst., biro. Thomas Turner, of fi
/
Marylebone, of a U&ughter. ladl
On the 10th inst., at Headington, Rear Oxford, the
John Hemery, Esq., of a son. pit Alsrf'
Oa the 12th inst., at the Rect o r y Orchestoo, '
Wilts, the wife of the Rey. E. T. Bidwell, of a son. , jets'
On the 13th inst., at Dalston-terrace, the wife 0,
Williams, Esq., of a daughter.
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MARRIED.
On the Pith inst., at PCI 0, John Ruskin, .i"" °‘1(1.;;$1'
Dentuark-hill, near London, to Euphernia Chalmerl3,ertb.
eldest daughter of George Gray, Esq., of Bob+

DIED.
On the 9th inst., at Green, near Gretna, Putofriessl3ire,
Mr. Joseph Baxter, aged 48. pot,
011 the I Otk inat. William Jackson, eldest son of Or"
solicitor Hamton, 'Middlesex, aged 22. Prosser, of
On th'e 11th p
inst., Mary, widow of the late Mr.
Charing-cross, aged 72. •rlsoolS.
On the 11th inst., at Dagnam-park, Essex, Sir
Neave, Bart., aged 87.
On the 12th inst., at Hastings, Thomas Paige,' j1,1391.4°'
cled •
only son of the late Rer. Evan James, of

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