The Sun.
London, England, 1846-05-02 00:00:00

Matcb, 200, li ft, A. F.

Sir J. Hawley's Alamode, Bst 31b, beat; Mr. Osbaldeston's
Sorella, 8s 91b; 6to son Sorella; Alamode made all the
running, and won by a length. Run in 2 minutes 28
seconds.

Match, 200, 75 ft, T.Y.C. Bst 71b each.—Sir J. Hawley's
Bishop of Romford's Cob, beat Lord Waterford's Corranna.
Betting-5 to 4on Corranna, who made tremendous run-
ning till half way up the cord; the Cob then challenged, and
after a fine race, won by a length. Ran in 1 min. 20 sec.
The Newmarket Stakes, of 50 sous. Each,..h ft, for three yrs
old colts, Bst 71b; and fillies, Bst 21b, D.M. (20 Subs.)
Mr. Gully's ch c Pyrrhus the First (Day) 1
Colonel Anson's lago
Lord Exeter's br c by Colwick, out of Galata ...... 3
The following also started, but were not placed :—Lord
Albemarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, Mr. Wigram's Heiress,
Lord Stradbroke's Polecat, Lord G. Bentinck's Marquis of
Conyngham, Duke of Rutland's Sister to Flambeau.
Betting-11 to 10 agat lago, 3to 1 agst Pyrrhus the First,
6 to 1 agst the Marquis of Conyngham, and 8 to 1 agst
Galata.
The running for the first quarter of a mile was made by
Little Vulgar Boy; it was then taken up by lago at a good
pace, followed by Marquis of Conyngham, Galata colt, and
Pyrrhus the First. The Marquis was beaten at the cords,
and half-way up Pyrrhus the First, joining the favourite, de-
length from
feated him, after
lago. a goodun in a 1
cme,
in. by
53 half a length ; Galata a
sec.
Match, 100, h ft. D. M.—Mr. Osbaldeston's King Charles,
Bst 81b (F. Butler), beat Sir J. Hawley's Prospect,-7st 91b.
Betting-6 to 4on Prospect._
Won by a head. Run in 1 min. 58 sec.
Handicap Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each for three and four-
years-old. D. M. (5 Subs).
Lord Orford's Blackie, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b (Sly) 1
Lord G. Bentinck's Ennui, 3 yrs, 7st 101 b 2
Mr. Mare's Breastgirth, 5 yrs, Gst 111 b 3
Mr. Osbaldeston's Petit Morceau, 4 yrs, Bst 81b
Betting— 6 to 5 agst Blackie, 5 to 2 agst Petit Morceau, and
3to 1 agst Ennui. Won easy by a length. Run in 1 min.
51 sec.

Match, 200, 1i ft. D. M.—Lord Maidstone's Tom Tullock,.
Bst 41b, agst Lord Glasgow's f by Retriever, out of Emilia,
Bst. Off by consent.
The Cup was not challenged for at this meeting.
CHESTER CUP.—Up to the close of this meeting nothing
bad transpired to confirm or disprove the rumour of Mr.
Hill's death.

(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)
STOKE DOWN, NEAR CHICHESTER.—FRIDAY.
The Chichester Stakes of 5 sovs. each, 3 ft, and 20 added.
One mile and a quarter, over six hurdles. (5 Subs.)
Mr. Wright's Bob Booty, aged (Mr. Haworth) 1
Captain Pryce's Lady Alice, aged
The following also started :—Lord A. Lennox's Barnaby
Rudge, aged—Mr. Boniface's Black Bess, 6 yrs—and Mr.
Bell's Richard Cricket, 4 yrs.
The winner is objected to on acccunt of his owner's non-
residence.
The Farmers' Cup of 20 sovs., added to a sweepstakes of 2
sovs. each, two miles, was won in two heats by Mr. Boniface's
Black Bess, 6 yrs (Owner), beating Mr. Harris's Blackbird,
and Mr. Cheeseman's Charlie.
The Hunters' Stakes of 5 soya. each, with 20 added, the
second to save his stake, two miles, 5 subs, were won by Mr.
Cheeseman's Charlie, aged (Owner), beating Mr. Crosbie's
Clear-the-way, Captain Pryce's Jack Sheppard, Lord G.
Lennox's Bedouin, and another.

The Sweepstakes of 3 sovs. each, and 20 added, half a mile,
10 subs., were won by Mr. Boniface's Black Bess, 6. yrs
(Owner), beating Pimento and seven others.
The galloway race was won by Mr. Savage's Maid of the
Mist, and the pony race by Lord G. Lennox's Such-a-get-
ting-up-stairs.
BETTING AT MANCHESTER.—FRIDAY.

CHESTER Cur.-9 to 1 agst Sweetmeat-11 to 1 agst Pe-
dometer (t)-13 to 1 agst Best Bower-14 to 1 agst The
Baron (t)-18 to 1 agst Miss Burns (t)-18 to 1 agst In-
heritress (0-20 to 1 agst Weatherbit-20 to 1 agst The
Magnet (t)-27 to 1 agst Hope-30 to 1 agst Clumsy (t)-
35 to 1 agst Coranna (t)-35 to 1 agst Crim. Con.---40 to 1
agst Ruff-50 to 1 agst Vol-au-Vent (t)-50 to 1 agst Beau-
front (t)-50 to 1 agst Lady Wildair.
DERBY.-7 to 2 agst Sting-7 to 1 agst.Tibthorpe-18 to 1
agst Brocarslo-18 to 1 agst Tom Tullock-22 to 1 agstHum-
drum-22 to 1 agst The Traverser-33 to 1 agst Fancy Boy.

LONDON HIBLRNIAN SOCIEIY.

———— -
A meeting of this Society, on behalf of the Irish Church and the
cause of Protestant education in Ireland, was held in the large room,
Exeter-hall, yesterday, at eleven o'clock.
The Marquis of CHOLMONDELEY, who occupied the chair, called on
one of the reverend gentlemen on the platform to read prayers.
The CHAIRMAN then said that he had been requested to take
the chair as having been connected with the Society for some time ;
and though lie would have wished to see another person there more
competent to discharge its duties, yet he felt interested in the objects of
the Society. Ile valued a Protestant education, and it gratified him
to know that the Society, under the patronage of the Church of
England, was constituted to give such an education to more than
50,000 children, and he hoped that it would continue to extends its
efforts, and become, under the blessing of God, increasingly useful.
He would refrain from detaining the meeting, and proceeded to
call on

The SECSETAIa, whoread the report for the last year. It stated that
the receipts of the Society for the year amounted to 4,4651., being an
increase of more than 1,0001. over the income for the previous year ;
that 2,4501. had been remitted to the Church Education Society for
Ireland ; that the number of schools in connexion with the Society
were 1,811, containing 100,755 children, of whom 12,000 were the
children of Protestant Dissenters, and 30,000 of Roman Catholics.
Lord SANDON, who moved the first resolution, said there were
ethers more competent, but he felt called on by the course of poli-
tical events to come forward, as he thought every Cristian ought,
and especially legislators, to show that they were still warmly
concerned in the cause of the Church : for if legislators, 'after oppo-
sition, were compelled to acquiesce in certain event:, they were cer-
tainly called on to come forward personally and individually, feeling,
as they must do, that they were led;less and less to rely upon l'arlia-
moat or corporate bodies, and more and more on their own endeavours.
The Church of Ireland had suffered mnch, placed often in circumstances
of temptation—temptations from persecution and from kindness ; but
she had continued with a singular unanimity to hold up to them the
same grand principles, and he hoped she would long continue to do so.
But it was the duty of individuals now to countenance her In her
struggles. The Noble Lord, after some further observations, moved
that the report be adopted.

The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of Cagan said, he rose with great
pleasure to second the resolution moved by the Noble Lord. Ile
was gratified at the sympathy expressed by the Noble .Lord for the
great, the arduous, but important struggle in which the Church of
Ireland was engaged. It was a struggle for the grand principles of
the Reformation, namely, whether instruction, such as would do
good to man, shall be through the Hely Word of God, or, whether,
that being put way, it shall be through the traditions of men.—
(Applause.) lie felt himself standing there, the advocate of a prin-
ciple which, in fidelity to his God and to h:s fellow-man, he dare
not give up, and whether he stood against persecution, or tried by
kindness, he trusted neither would ever lead him to desert it.—
(Applause.) There were assemblies, he said, at the present day, in
which it would seem strange to advocate the Irish Church, and in
which that Church was looked upon as a monstrous thing. It was
strange that that should never have been found out—never,
so long as the clergy of the English Church and of the
Roman Catholic Church met together on the same field of
sport, and at the same table, neglecting the duties of their
office. One thing, reported as said by a Noble Lord, astonished him,
that the Church of Ireland robbed the Roman Catholics of property
that belonged to them. Did they consider that the Rinds of the
Church, and the endowments generally, were a robbery from the
Roman Catholics, because the Archbishops and Bishops appointed
by the Pope once possessed these endowments? If so, then
it was as much a robbery in England as in Ireland. He
said, that an objection against the Church of Ireland had
been originated by a young man, a Member for one of the
Irish counties, a fashionable young man, who perhaps did not
matt the Bible himself, and supposed the Roman Catholics of Ireland
had no need of it ; at least, he thought he pleased their clergy when
he objected to the Irish Church, because it would not support the
Irish Board. His Lordship went at great length into the demerits ofthe
National Board of Education, and read several documents showing the
statistics of the schools conducted under the different systems, and
urged the meeting to support the system of scriptural education.
The resolution was put from the chair and carried unanimously.
Lord LIFFORD, after some remarks confirmatory of the Rev.
Prelate's statements, moved the second resolution,
Rev. Dr. O'Sumavan, in seconding the resolution, said that three
charges had been made against the Church of Ireland :—that her
revenues were too large ; that her title to them was founded on in.
justice; and that the establishment of a Protestant church in Ire-
land was very impolitic. On the first, he said it ought to be recol-
lected that, in establishing a church, it was necessary to open a
door for clergymen from every rank in society; it had, therefore,
been settled that there should be twelve Episcopal Peers, whose
gross income was to be not less than 60,0001. annually, and he was
sure that a jury of their peers would not decide that that was too
much. The income of all the Protestant clergy in Ireland, who
amounted to two thousand two hundred, was only so
thing more than 400,0001„ which would not be morn 47
20C1. to each of those who were to live as gentlemen
in
Looking to the people, and assuming that out of 1,700,000 -"b7fo,antS
und
500,000 belonged to the Church of England, then it would
that the funds at the disposal of the Church were equivalentc
mere than 10s. each person. Considering the
tpoo importance
spent towards
ee
fa
man'sto i
salvation, that amount was surely not too m
In discussing the injustice of the
title attaining
held
biyt t h
°Tilde
revenues, begged to correct a
mistaken supposition that modern Romanism was the same as old Ito-
mauism, sh jijurScpheatkoerthe
manism, and that the Protestant Church dated no earlier than the time
of the Reformation. The modern Catholic Church pretended to be a
man
urmsaiedd
thcheurcßohmeqanuatsltsly
huadtheheanEgnegdlisthheCfhwutrhch, .andTleetaißneved. Geeernintlep-t
forms, the English Church reformed the ceremonies and retained
the faith;i on that ground of distinction he held the English
to be but a development of the ancient church, and,
teformhaerteaeu, thd
realtigiotuhse
juerisild;ruwdmenencets properly belonged to those
according to all legiti-
in whose hands they were at
man then went into the history of
show that that country was never in greater allegiance I ce with
Ragland than during the supremacy o f the Protestant
Church. He sat down with moving the following resolution :
That there is abundant reason for thankfulness to God for the in-
creased success that has attended the exertions of the London
Ilibertlan Society during the past year, and it is much to be disked
that English churchmen should display yet greater interest in the
welfare of the Church in Ireland, and use more strenuous and
effectual efforts to assist her in the fulfilment of the important
duties with which she is entrusted."
Lord TRIG NMOUTII in a spech of some length, moved the next re-
solution.
The Rev. H. M'NetLE, in seconding it, said, although the proximate
view of the subject before them was scriptural education for Ireland,
and therefore the speeek of the Rev. Gentleman might seen irrele-
vant, yet as one step behind that proximate view led them to the
continuance or non continuance of the Irish Church, it was closely to the
point, and he believed that one other step would lead to the question
of the existence or non-existence of an Established Church in Britain.
On that topic, he thought they were all indolent and inactive, and
though incomparably the greater number, and the stronger, if
united, their Church was being gradually invaded and undermined
by the measures of their enemies, and by nothing more certainly then
Gentie-
by the national system of education. This brought the Rev.
Gentle-
man to argue against that system, and the exclusion of the Scriptures
from its schools, which he did with great eloquence and amid great
applause. He concluded with moving— itself precluded
of this country feels
" That as the Government
from affording any aid to the schools
tofem the sacred Scripturesthe Church Education
Society for Ireland, on the ground that in them
to the pupils, it
are made an essential part of the instruction given
themselves to the is a duty incumbent on all Christians exertto.necessary
for affording the
ut-
most of their power to supply the mean
the poorer classes of
blessings of Scriptural education to the whole of
the community."
A vote of thanks having been passed to the Chairman, the meeting
separated.
[We are always unwilling to speak against any priva • te individual,
blic we never met a snore
but in doing our duty to the pu ,
dis-
rY
anly person than he who officiatedwithas seereut
obliging or ungentlem
for this Society.]

Yesterday being the birthday of the Duke of Tirol-
lingion, the tradesmen of his Grace assembled to celebrate the com
pletion of his seventy-seventh year, at the Albion, Aldersgtstrect,
where an entertainment worthy of the occasion wasp reared by Messrs.
Staples. The chair was taken by Mr. Underwood, ands deep fool-
ing of gratification was expressed by all the gentlemen present, that
they had again the privilege of meeting to testify their respect to the
illustrious nobleman, to whom the country is so much indebted.
SERIOUS ACCIDENT FROM 3i AcHINER y.—A dreadful
accident happened on Saturday last to Mr. Ilarris, of Brook Mill,
veerysitua
impeded,
tion
asrvtietirgitnhethmeacahboin
near Tavistock. He was in the act of greasing the cogs of the great
wheel of his mill, when by some means his shirt became caught,
which gradually drew him within the lathe and crushed his breast
and
shtroopkpoodbitshreibms.ill
andTbe
dmisaconvaetrlvdorhkisobmse
Ha was immediately removed, and, to the astonishment of all, w
found not dead. Faint hopes are entertained ofas
his
Plymouth Journal. recovery.—
Rumours have been in circulation
as to a failure in
the early potato crop, which, we are sorry to
say, is likely to prove
too true ; in our neighbourhood this
kind.—areen* averiiier. applies particularly to the kidney

S TNT

• LAW INTELLIGE.
COURT OF COMMON PLE,,
(Sittings in Banco.)
SPECIAL PAPER.—GEBBS V. FLIGHT . Va
This was a special case arising out of an
brought to recover the parish books of St. r: • 11:111A1
brook, and the case came on to-day for argument. The
plaintiff is Mr. Alderman Gibbs, and the defendants are cer-
tain parishioners of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, between whom
and Mr. Alderman Gibbs there has been a long parish war-
fare, respecting the right of the latter to retain and fill con-
tinuously the office of churchwarden for the parish, and by
reason of that office, and his being a member ex officio of the
select vestry, to retain the custody of the parish books.
Sir Thomas Wilde, Mr. Sergeant Channel, and Mr. Cow-
ling, appeared for the plaintiff. and Mr. Sergeant Tallourd
and Mr. Atkinson for the defendants.
Sir T. WILDE, in opening the case, said the parish of St.
Stephen's, Walbrook, had been under the management of a
select vestry from the earliest period that the history of the
parish could be traced to ; and the plaintiff alleged that
there was evidence that it had been immemorially governed
by a select vestry. There was no trace of an open
vestry having ever acted in its government. It appeared
that the vestry had consisted, at different times, of various
numbers of vestrymen, from sixteen down to three; and
that the qualification for a select vestryman was his
having previously filled the office of churchwarden. The
parish consisted of 67 houses, of which a proportion was let
out in counting-houses, and would not therefore furnish in-
habitants capable of tilling the character of vestrymen.
After the fire of London the number of vestrymen was re-
duced (by reason of all the houses in the parish being nearly
destroyed) to four, who were qualified to act; and at that
time a faculty was obtained from the Bishop of London, which
proposed to:add fourteen persons to the vestry, of which eight
should be a quorum; It also appeared that for a great mimber
of years the select vestry had every year elected a church-
warden out of the general body of the parishioners, who
first served the office of junior churchwarden, and the follow-
ing year was elected to the office of senior churchwarden,
and became then entitled to act as a select vestryman. This
was the invariable course from 1648 to 1734, with the excep-
tion of four times. There was a gap in the books from 1666
to 1675, owing to the fire of London, and they were then re-
sumed again ; and since that period to 1824 there had been
werehe efleencrtiovneeotfr3tunhe vestrymen
nplaintiff present, took
and other four instances when this course had not been pursued.
T
place in
there
who
began to attend the vestry in 1835. The defendants in-
tended to object to the title
of
the plaintiff, first, on the
ground that the custom of the Vestry parish,
I any, was that the
should be constituted of persons who had either been
elected as churchwardens or had fined for
not
there should be eight (at least) vestr en present acting;
at that
the
election of a churchwarden; that the Junior sen
churchwarden
should be elected from the parishioners at large, and in the
following year be elected the senior churchwarden. The next
objection was, that the plaintiff having served as senior
churchwarden prior to the year in which he claimed to be
elected, he was not therefore eligible to be elected in 1844.
To this it was objected, that as in the year 1672, the date of
the faculty, and at the date of the plaintiff's election, the
number of the vestry was below the number of eight, that
therefore the custom was destroyed; that the custom was
uncertain, and had not been settled, but was a subject
of dispute. The Learned Sergeant then proceeded to con-
tend that the attempt of a bishop to control a select
vestry by faculty was void. He referred to the case of
" Golding and others v. Fenn," reported in 7 Barnewali
and Cresswell, p. 765, to show that there must be a reason-
able number of vestrymen, and that that reasonableness
must be decided with reference to long-established ueage
and the population of the parish. This was a very small
parish. The smallest number attending a vestry prior to
the date of the faculty was six. From 1648 to 1672 there
were 102 vestries held. The number of vestrymen attending
these meetings were, in three instances, 6 ; in ten instances,
8 ; and the remainder exceeding that number. From 1676
to 1843, the number of vestrymen attending had varied from
3to 11, and during the whole period from 3to 16. There
were entries of some adjournments, because only seven yes-
trymen were present, but he argued that these were not con-
clusive. Sturges Bourne's Act, the 59th George 111., c. 12, a.
1, provided that no select vestry should consist of more than
20, nor of less than 5 members; and looking at the vast
number of parishes, some of large extent, under the pur-
view of that Act, where five vestrymen were thought rea-
sonable and sufficient to fulfil the duties imposed on them, he
contended that in this small parish of SL Stephen's four vestry..
men were a reasonable number—and the adjournments for a
deficiency of vestrymen were subsequent to the date of the
faculty requiring eight to be present, and that instrument, he
contended, was void. He submitted, that whenever the
wants of the parish rendered it neceseary to increase the,
number of the select vestry, it would be sufficient and com-
petent for them to do so, but it was not a necessary past of
the custom. He contended, also, that the custom was gone,
from the number having, in 1762 as well as in 1844, bcen
reduced below eight. Neither was the number definite, and
therefore this was not a good custom. There was nothing
in point of law to render it unreasonable that three should be
the number of the vestry.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, for the defendants, said the claim,
on the part of the plaintiff, was, that a select vestry, composed
of those who had served the office of churchwardens, being
the persons on whom devolved the election of church-
wardens for all time to come, should be at liberty to elect
themselves as churchwardens without limit or restriction,
from time to time—that the select vestry should be able to
prey upon itself until it sunk down to three in number, in-
cluding the two subsisting churchwardens. If this prin-
ciple were asserted, he did not know why the number of
three were to be maintained, or why they should not, like a
tontine, sink down to the survivor, and go on till the custom
was lost in the skies, when the survivor should depart this
life. In truth, this was a claim in a body to take the whole
responsibility of a parish into their own hands. For nearly
200 years, down to 1824, there were only eight instances in
which the select vestry had not been annually renewed I:1)-
a perpetual selection of junior churchwardens from the
body of the parishioners. In 1811 Mr. Alderman G ibbs
was elected junior churchwarden, and subsequently senior
churchwarden; and again, in 1824, lie was elected junior
churchwarden, and senior churchwarden in 1825, and had
continued to be re-elected down to 1844, the select
vestry every year growing-less and less, until the senior
and junior churchwardens had almost acquired a fee-simple
in their office. In 1844 there were only four persons, in-
cluding the plaintiff, at the election. The defendants con-
tended that it was quite impossible that such a custom as
this could ever have had a legal origin. It was monstrous to
sqppose a custom which could thus reduce the select vestry
to a point; it would, in fact, be a suicidal custom. Without
depending on the faculty, the number of eight named in it
was good evidence that that number of vestrymen was
thought reasonable as a minimum, and it agreed with the
usual fact. He submitted that the custom set up was one
which their Lordships would not sanction because of its
unreasonableness. It was clear that Lord Tenterden, in
the case of " Golding v. Fenn," when he suggested that
"the love of ease among men would usually counter-
balance the love of power," never contemplated a case
like the present. The effect of the custom contended for
by the plaintiff was to make the churchwardens an irre-
sponsible body; as churchwardens 'liable to account to the
select vestry, and, as the select vestry, accounting to them-
selves. It might be that everything had been done which
the parishioners could desire; but this case must not be de-
cided according to the character of individuals. It might
be rare to find a gentleman of the undoubted abilities and
business habits of Mr. Alderman Gibbs thus placed. It
might be with regard to Mr. Alderman Gibbs, as was said
by the Emperor Alexander to Madame de Steel, in answer
to her question, " How can despotism be so centered in
you?" Ah, madame," replied he, "I am only a happy ae-
cident." It might be ." a happy accident" that a gentleman
so qualified as the plaintiff was placed in such a position.
Ever since 1835 the overseers had voted with the vestry ' • but
they were not legally members of the vestry, and had no
more right to vote than persons called out of the streets.
He cited the case of " Tyson v. Smith," in 6 Ad. and EL,
645, and 9 Ad. and EL, 406, to show that, in order to its
validity, a custom must be certain and reasonable in itself,
commencing from time immemorial, and continuing with-
out interruption ; and whether the custom is reasonable
or not depends on the decision of the judges. Thus a custom
reported in Lord Raymond's Reports, p. 1558, alleged by the
vicar of Wakefield of a due of 10d. for the churchcnig of
e
women, from every householder having a child born irebthe,
parish, at'the usual time when the mother should:eechwuus
uul...
was held to be invalid, on the ground that the
might bem
called on
certain and unreasonable, as the husband
_o
would
his wife was not churched at all,
to pay though to many
Lordships with referring
not, however, trouble their
were very curious), they were
of these cases (some of whichlle concluded with arguing
so wide of the present question._or
by
the plaintiff tended to
that as the custom contended f
le and bad.
irresponsible power,
.It was unreasonab
le
Sir T. Wzr-us replied at some length, and the Court re.
served its decision.
The case occupied the whole day.

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MR. SMITH O'BRIEN,
Yester_d.ay a great number of the friends of M.P.on. Mein.
ber for Limerick called to make inquiries and leave ea.
cardsm
in
nt
whhisiethemmxpo.oralrfriernesiidiencenthin Old Palace, their
rthooe entrance to the Houses oaf InLoYdsoalineTeoismhalfmeo-eis.YaYarritwe The
room
leading to his apartment is the second door on the left (there
being no door on the right) after passing the entrance to the
House of Commons and ente •
runs from the House of Coring
ya
ila
messengers
noynlfyee :es
within the boarding which
ground mmons to the House of Lords*
The room rroaringiseounteitdhee
the
window.floor, and may be known by the
railed ; the first is the windowf There are two windows so
must, pass to enter that inwehi:h M
room through. which one
His room is of small dimensions, and krnOlneecin neatly confined.
scantily; it contains a folding bed, a table, a fbw chairs, a
wash-hand-stand, and fender and fire-irons, and is carpeted
with cocoa-fibre matting. It was reported that on Thurday the
Hon. Member paid it a visit, and had some furniture put into
it ; bat the rumour was incorrect. On Tuesday, however,
two gentlemen, having measuring rules, were discovered is
the outer room, which is generally used as a sort of lumber
room. On being questioned, they answered "We belong to
the press, and may go anyyvhere." The messenger was not,
however, of the same opinion, and ordered them to go about
their business.
On Thursday evening, while the House was deliberating
on Mr. O'Brien's case, the Hon. Member remained standing
at the library door, in a state of great excitement, frequently
clasping his hands together in a very agitated manner. 011,
being taken into custody and lodged in his apartment, Mr..
Bellamy waited on him to receive his instructions as to the
hours at which he should like to breakfast, dine, tie., and
the viands and liquors that would be agreeable. Mr. O'Brien's
answer was, " All I want is simply wha Lour sustain nature.;
tea and dry toast to breakfast at any that may suit
you. I should dine between two and three on anythinLevu
anything of thewhkenindh. e
will The
be Hon.
allo w
allowed
Member bowgoefrintitel'isioe
please, but let it be simple ;
tea and dry I eat, and that shall be of
shall pay. for nothing but f . ~ _ _
the simplest and least expensive kind. ' Mr. Bellamy in-
cannot be permitted
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ACCIDENT IN FLEET-STREET.
o'clock, a - boy, apparently between fourteen and fifteen years of vAge.
whilst crossing Fleet-street, opposite Bouverie-street, was kr.ocked
—Last night, about to n
down by an omnibus which was proceeding at a rapid Par-,e toward*
Temple-bar, the wheels passed completely
hti%) over the boy's body (who,
from his dress, belonged to some printing-office in th • neighboar-
conveyed to
were found some PUN ,f.oljpo of a re-
view, apparently from some weekly paper.
dh)o.spildle.Walsnptihcekebod,us,
cianpsensible, and immediater f
Lord John Manners and the membe'rs of the Cam.,
bridge AtheVie
num Club will give their annual dinit er at the Clarendon
T
ilnhedaiblesditaanYtlinexoft.Camberwell have subscribed a large
Hotelhoen
sum of money for the purpose of presenting a tostiwnial to the Ecv.
C. H. Hyde, rector of the parish.

\

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF LORDS, May 1.

Their Lordships assembled at Five o'clock.
CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.

Lord DENMAN' presented a petition from the London
Missionary Society, praying to be exempted from the opera-
tions of the Charitable Trusts Bill.

DEODANDS BILL.
Lord CAMPBELL moved the order of the day for going
into Committee on this BilL

Lord DENMAN expressed his approbation of the Bill in its
present state.
Lord BROUGHAM also expressed his concurrence with the
object of the Bill. He thought that if an officer like the
Procurator Fiscal in Scotland was instituted in England, it
would be a great means of forwarding criminal justice.
Lord LYTTELTON supported the Bill.
The LORD CHANCELLOR was in favour of the Bill,
which had been utanimously agreed to in Committee up stairs
as a measure very desirable.
Their Lordships then went into Committee on the Bill, and
the several clauses were agreed to.
IRISH GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.
Lord REDESDALE presented a petition against the Irish
Great Western Railway, viz., the line from Portarlington to
Galway. He said it was signed by a large number of share-
holders, at least the parties signing it purported to be such,
and to represent 121,0001. He would recommend the peti-
tion to the attention of the House.
The Marquis of CLANRICARDE said he had heard
of a
.great many shareholders in the Irish project who
were just as anxious that the line should be forwarded.
This petition had been got up by
a person whostyled
himself a secretary to a rival company. The shares
were now selling at 2/. discount ; if any _ person purchased
these shares they would be entitled to receive
31. per share when the affairs of the
this
y wereivegreat we
couenndu t
il
Their Lordships would see that would
ragement to gambling speculation in railways. He presented a
petition from the chairman and directors, praying their Lord-
ships to pass the Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to lay some information be.
fore the House which he had received on the subject of rail-
way speculation. He had received a letter from a sharebroker,
which stated that his business made him acquainted with the
opinions of other brokers on the state of that speculation, and
thee/coincided in his own sentiments, which were thus stated in
the letter:— I beg to call your Lordships' attention to the fact that
within the last few days the mania of railway speculation has
been revived with all its former fury. Established are at from
20/. to 301. per cent, premium, and the scrip of lines which
are of a doubtful character have gone from a discount to a pre-
mium. The consequences will be more serious than is gene-
rally imagined. First, it will enable new companies to get a
majority of three-fifths in favour of carrying them on, and se-
curely cloak interested parties and the frauds of others ; and
last not /east, we shall have another panic." This showed the
necessity of adopting some effectual measures to meet the im-
pending evil of undue speculation, during the continuance of
which the gambler made his harvest.—( Hear. )
After a few words from the Marquis of SALISBURY,
which were inaudible in the gallery,
Lord MONTEAGLE was of opinion that all the Bills on
the table of the House should be suspended until the opinions
of the shareholders could be obtained respecting them. He,
saw considerable injustice in suspending the test respecting
some Bills and applying it with great severity to others.
There never was a year, in his opinion, in which a more ex-
traordinary and extravagant proposition had been made to
either House of Parliament. He agreed with the Noble Mar-
quis behind him, that they ought to make one rule govern all.
On these grounds he had taken the liberty of stating so much,
because, having originally opposed this Bill, he felt himself now
precluded, and he should consider himself acting not in
a very unjust manner in refusing the passing of this Bill.
He did not know whether his Noble Friend had moved the
third reading of that Bill, and he would now move that the
Bill be read a third time.

Lord REDESDALE explained the grounds which he
had taken with respect to this Bill on a former occasion.
There was no doubt that the petition which he formerly pre-
sented, embodying, as it did, so large a body of wealthy
andowners was deserving of considerable attention. That pe-
tition represented the wi.dies of the oweers of 5,000 shares, or
211,0001. out of 800,00:1/., which was two-thirds of the esti-
mated cost. He thought that, after all that 'had been stated,
i. would be better to let this Bill go on. At all events, after
what he had stated to their Lordships, he should decline to
offer any opposition to the third reading.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then put the motion, that the
Bill be read a third time, which was unanimously agreed to.
IVILILLINGAR AND GALWAY RAILWAY BILL.
On the motion of Lord SIONTEAGLE, this Bill was read
a first time.

RAILWAY DEPOSITS BILL.
Lord lIIONTEA GLE then said that he rose for the pur-
pose of moving that the Railway Companies' Dissolution Bill
ba read a second time.---(Oh, oh, and laughter.) He begged
their Lordships' pardon, he meant the Railway Deposits Bill,
to which motion he hoped there would be no opposition. In
the early part of this session their Lordships' attention was
called to the fact of thevery great inconveniencevvhieh might be
produced, and which he believed ought to be produced, upon
the money market with respect to the law on railway depcsits.
Ile was glad to find that•this Bill passed in the other House of
Parliament without opposition. He believed that BB was
one which would serve the public interest, though it was
thought at the time that it would give railway companies very
great influence ; that, however, was not the case, and he
trusted it would now be read a second time.
The Duke of BEA'6FORT said, that as several Nable
Lords who took a great interest in the measure were ab-ent,
lie thought it advisable to postpone the second reading till his
Noble Friends had an opportunity of expressing their opinions.
The second reading of the Bill was then postponed.
'the BISHOP of EXETER wished to know from his
Noble arid Learned Friend on the Woolsack, when the House
would go into Committee on the Bill (the Religious Opinions
Relief Bill), which was read a second time on the pre-
vious evening ?
The LORD CHANCELLOR feared that the Right Rev.
Prelate judged his powers of exi)editing matters according to
his own character for facilitating things. He might depend on
it there would be no unnecessary delay, but the precise time
ha could not say.
The Bishop of EXETER said, there had been no hurry
it appeared in puling forward the Bill. It had been intro-
duced in the beAinning of February, and for three montbs it
had been before the House ere the second reading was taken.
And then but little intimation had been given of the intention
of taking the second reading. He hoped, therefore, they
should have accurate infcrmation of the day of the Committee
en the Biil, as there were many nice points to be considered.
There were two points which he intended more especially to
oppose, unless _they were .Itered. The one was, that pro-
posing to repeal the prohibition against the extolling of Papal
supremacy ; and the other, the restriction on the circulation of
Papal bulls. Except these were amended, he should certainly
divide the House.

RAILWAYS O
The Earl of D ALH OUSIEDISSOLUT moved tlhatN theBILL. House resolve
itself on this Bill.
Earl RADNOR rose to offer a few observations before
going into Committee. He could not consent to the Bill passing
without considerable modifications. If it were agreed to in its
present shape, many good schemes would be put a stop to
by very unfair means.—( Hoar, hear.) This was
confirmed by a letter he had received that morning,
from a gentleman, from which he would read an exti act.
( The Noble Lord then read the extract, which was to the effect
that he had taken up shares in some of the best railway pro-
jects—in the South \Vales, the Waterford and Kilkenny, and
other lines.) He had taken up the shares as a bond fide in-
vestment, with the intention of paying up the instalments;
but in the present Bill a power was given to parties to break
up those companies by improper means. This gentleman's
position, as he stated, was a very hard one ; because it was
well known that a deal of gambling had taken place in shares,
for the purpose of putting an end to schemes, for the purpose of
realising a profit out of the sharing of the deposits This was
a great hardship upon those who had embarked in good
schmes, and very general injustice would result from the pro-
posed measure. There would be many cases of hardship under
the operation of the proposed measure. He thought t!lat by a
little management such hardships might be averted. It ap..
peared to him that there would be no great deal of difficulty in
carrying out an arrangement by which, when a majority of
the shareholders were in favour of a dissolution of the com-
pany, the minority should have the power of putting in a
claim to continue the company.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE—They would then get off
their liabilities.
Earl RADNOR—Their deposits would be returned out
of the money in the hands of the company, or which was de-
posited with the .Accountant-General. He did think that some
clauses should be introduced to meet this state of things, and
that it should be postponed for a day or two for that purpose. If
the House did not do this, the result would be great injustice to
the parties, and great injury to the public.
Earl DALHOUSIE said, that as some clauses were to be
proposed by the Noble Lord oppo4ite to the effect suggested by
the Noble Lord who had just sat down, perhaps it would be as
well that he (Earl Dalhousie) should reserve what he hod to
say upon the subject until those amendments should be pro-
posed, as by that means the House would be saved the neces-
suy
rl havinGßEg Y
thessaar
he should
gone over a second time.
Ea
postponed on
account of should object to the measure being
amendments vrhich he might have
to propose, because the nature ; of those amendments might de-
pend upon what the natuai:eur measure should be. He ap-
prehended that great
ife vsilosinaeniad„,ktLineiscmhiefis would arise from this
Bill as it now stood,
ents shatad not be intro_
doted. He considered that theensudbject ought to be isnstpc,ned
for a few days in order that the Government 'a
matter more mature consideration. They f; td
thew
ever, to call on the Government to state- thhe.liravrieLvvhst'olillothe
subject.
The Earl of DALHOUSIE said if the Noble Lord
ub
mitted his amendment to the House he should feel it his sdt;
to do all in his power to induce their Lordshtips to
If 0--
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reijaects if the Noble Earl had been in his place in the eirlier s
the Bill, he would have known that he (Lord Dielbousie)ge
, bete
in introducing it and in the second reading, disci) used the points
advised by the Noble Earl. These poit is had also
been considered by her Majesty's Government, who
had constantly endeavoured to avert the evil of
undue speculation, but they thought let impossible
to provide a remedy for the evils of which he complained.
The Noble Eafl complained that gambling had recten going on
in shares for a double nurpose—namely, gambling: for the pur-
pose of making a profit on shares, and gambling for the pur-
pose of influencing the proceedings of companies by purchasing
a quantity of their stock, and so obtaining a majority of votes.
Naw, he had thrice admitted, and he now admitted, that
gambling had been going on in the stock market, btzt that could
not be urged as an objection to this measure, neither woulo'
their rejection of it. But if they did reject it, they would
render many companies fifty times worse than they were at the
present moment, because they would leave them without the
means of dissolution, thus leaving them to speculate from
month to month whenever there was the least semblance of a
chance of snaking any money by their shares. Scrip passed
80 constantly from hand to hand that it was almost impos-
sible to trace those who originally held it—in fact, they were
like a bank-note. The object of the present Bill was to en Able
any company which had not come before Parliament, or which
were not before the House, in consequence of having failed to
Comply,, with the stending orders, to wind up their
i session.
1,200 registered companies at the commencereent
ofe
Hou'" There are now in actual progress before the
se not more than 430, and the whole of the
others are
from ascertaining
tif,ao:itly.condition utterly incapacitated
what was the liability of
eteli person.
the object of the Bill he held in
hit band. A Noble Lortr on
ini.nority ,hould have the power."ooqt.i.tic:ozsaiiitt,ieitan,lsii,idztuhigdegcbeoesatsc.epd,attre
existeece; and that the propert
them. He objected to such ai pro
posit who were retiring from the 'ct;;)," as
b uni'lst.
tieteod to the property of the co.nPanY, for ocieorni she
17: ;°
were the only property which could be saved?' a"1-4,aernx,,'"' n.
etetlipg up the plans was of course entirely
f
that :lye, ten, or fifteen persons, who chooselutsot.
the company to go on, should be (edit', d to all the provr.l4;
when the company was wound up? All the property should
ProNLa::ltn7zios
by
sold, and if the minority de,ired, 1,..t them purchase the plans,
and then for 51. they c ,ul,l put themselves in the condition. ~f
newly-registered company. By such means they would be
creating a nucleus of a new company, with a capital consisting
of the stock of an abandoned concern of a worthless comp any,
with a nominal capital to trade upon. They would be creating
a nest egg upon which the lowest kind of speculators would in-
cubate; neat year they would have a brood of these