The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-29 00:00:00

COSTS IN CHANCERY.

The following important order of Court was made by
the Lord Chancellor on Saturday last, and printed yes-
terday. It will materially affect the coats of all present
and future proceedings in Chancery, as it will greatly
reduce the fees payable in the various offices of the
Court during the progress of suits through their various
stages:—

" ORDER OF COURT.
" SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1851.

" Whereas it is expedient that some of the fees here-
tofore payable in respect of certain proceedings in the
Court of Chancery should be abolished, and that others
should be reduced in amount, now I, the Right Hon.
Thomas, Baron Truro, Lord High Chancellor of Great
Britain, with the advice and concurrence of the Right
Hon. Henry Baron Langdale, Master of the Rolls, and
the Right Hon. the Vice Chancellor, Sir James Lewis
Knight Bruce, do hereby order and direct that from and
after the 31st day of March, 1851, such of the fees here-
tofore received and taken by the clerks to the Masters
in ordinary, the Taxing-Masters and their clerks,
the Registrars and their clerks, the Master of the
Reports and Entries and his clerks, the clerk
of affidavits and assistant-clerks of affidavits, the
examiners and their clerks and the clerks of
records and writs and their clerks, as are set forth in
the first schedule hereto, shall be and the same are hereby
abolished. And that such of the fees heretofore received
and taken by the clerks of the Masters in ordinary, the
Registrars and:their clerks, the Taxing-Masters and their
clerks, and the clerks of affidavits and assistant clerks of
affidavits, as are mentioned in the second schedule hereto,
shall be reduced in amount, and in lieu thereof the fees
set forth in the said second schedule shall be received and
taken respectively by the clerks of the Masters in ordi-
nary, the Registrars and their clerks, the Taxing-Mas-
ters and their clerks, and the clerk of affidavits and
assistant-clerks of affidavits, and shall be by them
severally and respectively paid into the Bank of England
in the name of the Accountant-General, to be placed to
the credit of the account entitled the Suitors' Fee-fund
Account.'
"FIRST SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.

"FEES TO CEASE ON AND AFTER THE 318 T DAY OF
MARCH, 1851.

" IN THE OFFICES OF THE MASTERS IN ORDINARY.
g Y. d.

For investigating every title brought in before
the Master to be settled, and perusing the
abstract thereof, upon the first 25 folios
thereof
Upon every succeeding 25 folios thereof ... 0 3 4
For every advertisement issued by the Master 1 1 0
For every peremptory advertisement for the
sale of property with the approbation of the
Master, in addition to the foregoing fee, to
be repaid if the property shall not be offered
for sal"
For signing the allowances of every deed, re-
cognizance, set of interrogatories, account,
or other document allowed and signed by
the Master ... 0 5 0
For every order upon a warrant ... 0 5 0
For perusing and settling the draught of every
deed brought before the Master to be settled
(except a lease for a year), where such deed
shall not exceed 30 folios ... ... 1 0 0
Where such deed shall exceed 30 folios and
not exceed 50 folios 1 10 0
And where such deed shall exceed 50 folios
and not exceed 100 folios ... 2 10 0
And where such deed shall exceed 100 folios 3 0 0
Fee oa preparing recognizance ... 1 1 0
For an examination fee on each witness, ex-
clusive of oath
For examining engrossment of deeds, each
skin ••• ••• 0 3 4
For comparing deeds, books, and papers with
the schedule, on their being deposited or
delivered out, where the schedule shall not
amount to 50 folios ... 0 6 8
Where the schedule shall amount to 50 folios 0 13 4
For expunging scandal or impertinence out of
every record or document referred, on every
such record or document 1 0 0
IN THE OFFICES OF THE TAXING-MASTERS.
For signing the allowance to every set of in-
terrogatories, account, or other document... 0 5 0
For an examination fee on each witness, exclu-
sive of oath ... 0 5 0
IN THE REGISTRAR'S OFFICE.
Far every certificate signed by the Registrar
for the sale or transfer of annuities, stock,
or Exchequer-bills, or for delivery out of
the latter ••• ••• ••• ••• ••• 0 2 6
For every other certificate signed by the Re-
gistrar 0 1 0
For every copy of minutes of any decree or
order, per side ... 0 1 0
For every exhibit, proved viva voce in court... 0 2 6
For entering every plea of demurrer... ... 0 1 0
For setting down causes, exceptions, further
directions, pleas, and demurrers, each (ex-
cept for setting down causes on the Regis-
trar's days) ... 0 1 0
For setting down causes on the Registrar's
days ••• ••• ..• • • ... ••• 1 1 0
IN TIIE REPORT OFFICE.
For every attendance, with a report at the
Masters' offices, for any material alteration
to be made therein 0 6 8
AT THE ENTERING SEATS.
For every certificate in Master's report ... 0 1 0
For entering every attachment ••• ••• 0 0 2
IN THE AFFIDAVIT OFFICE.
For registering every affidavit, for each side 0 0 4
For expunging impertinence from an affidavit 1 0 0
IN THE EXAMINER'S OFFICE.
For every certificate signed by Examiner ... 0 3 4
For drawing every folio of depositions, where
no office copy is taken, when two terms shall
have elapsed without the examination of any
witnesses ••• ••• ••• .•• ••• 0 0 10

For every interrogatory added 0 1 0
For every subpcena notice ... 0 1 0
IN THE RECORD AND WRIT CLERKS' OFFICE.
For sealing every dedimus to take an answer 010 0
For sealing every special dedimus by order of
For filing every answer or demurrer ... 0 10 0
For every consent 0 7 0
For filing every note ••• ••• ••• 0 7 0
For filing replication 0 10 0
For entering every memorandum of service of
copy bill on every defendant 0 7 0
THE SECOND SCHEDULE ABOVE REFERRED TO.
FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE CLERKS TO
THE MASTERS IN ORDINARY.
For entering accounts of receivers, consignees, .£ 8. d.
and committees in each book (in lieu of the
present fee of 6d. per folio), per folio ... 0 0 4
For entering accounts of parties accounting
before a Master in a book, if required (in
lieu of the present fee of 6d. per folio), per
folio ...
FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE TAXING.
MASTERS AND THEIR CLERKS.
Per centage on amount of every bill of costs as
taxed, in lieu of the present fee of 31. ... 2 10 0
FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE REGISTRARS'
AND THEIR CLERKS.
For every order for payment of money out of
court, where the sum or sums thereby di-
rected to be paid shall exceed 100/., and
shall not exceed in the whole 5001.;
And for transfer out of court or sale of any
sum or sums of Government Stock or South
Sea Annuities (excepting Long Annuities
or annuities for terms of years), when the
sum or sums thereby directed to be trans-
ferred or sold shall exceed 1001., and shall
not exceed in the whole 5001.;
And for payment out of court of any annuity
or annuities exceeding 51., and not exceed-
in the whole 251. per annum, or of any inte-
rest or dividends upon stock or annuities
exceeding 51., and not exceeding in the
whole 251. per annum; and for no other
purpose, in lieu of the present fee of 21. 10s. 1 0 0
For every office copy thereof, in lieu of the
present fee of IL ... 010 0
For every other order for payment or transfer
out of court, in lieu of the present fee of
2/. 10s.

FEES TO BE RECEIVED AND TAKEN BY THE CLERK OF
♦FFIDAVITS AND ASSISTANT-CLERKS OP AFFIDAVITS.
For every office copy of an affidavit (in lieu of
the present fee of 4d. per side, and 4d. per
side for registering), per folio ... 00 4
" TRURO, C.
" LANGDALE, M.R.
" J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE, V.-C.
" J. Collis, Registrar."

EXTRAORDINARY RIFLE SHOOTING.
Lieutenant-Colonel Wilson, of the Royal Artillery,
who left Woolwich garrison in September last to take
the command of that branch of the Ordnance service at
Ceylon, shortly after his arrival in that country, was
present with Captain Lewis and other officers of the
37th Regiment, and Lieutenant Margesson, Royal Ar-
tillery, to witness rifle shooting by Comte de Belloy and
his friends, Messrs. Salamann, Uchard, and Oder. The
two rifles used were made in Paris, and had each four
grooves, and did not appear to differ in weight or length
from the rifles in common use. The Ceylon Times gives
the following account of the shooting and description of
the ball with which the trial was made:—" A target,
about 6 feet square, was pitched on the sea-road of the
Galle face, which was, when we approached, placed at the
enormous distance of 900 yards from where the gentlemen
practising stood. Of course a tripod stand was used on
which in a groove the rifle was placed as a rest. After
witnessing several shots from the stand we left for the
target, near which three Artillerymen were stationed.
To our surprise we noticed that, although the bull's
eye was not pierced, there were several shot-holes in a
goad direction above it, as well as below, perforating
the inch planking of which the target was made with a
well-defined round holt", similar to what a common
rifle would make at a distance of 100 yards—a proof of
the enormous range and povverof the rifles used. We may
inttance a curious fact in acoustics on this occasion. On
leaving the firing place for the target, when about 200
yards off, we heard the rush of the ball, followed at a
perceptible interval by the sound of the rifle; getting
farther off, the period betwecu the two sounds visibly

decreased, until at the target the sound of the explosion
reached us before that of the ball. Sound, of course,
would travel at its accustomed rate of 1,080 feet a se-
cond, but where the balls had, at a range of 900 yards,
the velocity necessary to pierce an inch plank, and fly
far beyond it, it would be a fair presumption that the
velocity would even be greeter than sound. We state,
however, the fact, which may be learned at future ex-
periments by any one who has no objection to place
himself with those who watch the target, albeit in ra-
ther close proximity to the range of the whistling mes-
sengers. The marvel of the vast range must consist is
the form and make of the ball used. These were made
in the shape of a fir cone, rather smaller than the bore,
and with a hollow orifice in the centre running from
the base to the apex. Before placing the ball in the
piece a small capsule of iron is slightly affixed to the ex-
terior of the hollow in the ball, which is then rammed
down. In the act of firing the explosion of course
forces the iron capsule up the whole length of the hol-
low in the ball, and in so doing it expands the cone,
which of course fills up the grooves of the rifles, expos-
ing the whole base of the bullet to the action of the
powder without allowing the slightest windage, which
takes, in ordinary rifles, so much off the explosive force
of the powder. The invention is simple, but highly
effective, as we have shown. At first sight we imagined
that the rifles used were the far-famed " needle-guns" of
the Prussians, which have so immense a range, and which
bid fair to be such formidable opponents to field artillery,
where the effective striking force of the rifle ball is 800
or 900 yards' distance, with equal certainty with that of
the common musket or rifle—namely, 200 and 250 yards
respectively."

THE LAW OF SETTLEMENT.
TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Sir James Graham, when referring to the Lsw
of settlement, intimates that he would combine parishes
into unions; by this process he would centralise 1,500
places into 600 circles; upon the face of this, it appears
an improvement, and consequently must prove attrac-
tive to the superficial observer, but let us, without enter-
ing deeply, look merely under the surface and examine
this proposition.
This consolidation does not, nor can any such propo-
sition, abolish that portion of the law which relates to
removal. Whenever an applicant needs relief, the inquiry
into settlement must of necessity be instituted, the de-
sire will remain to shift the charge from one union to
another—the same motive for appeals against magis-
terial and quarter session decisions—the same desire to
change settlements by pauper marriages—the same
motive to drive forth the labourer will exist—the same
crowding will continue, and the utmost that can be
realized by this process of union settlements, may be
a slender reduction for law expenses, without in the
slightest measure benefiting the labourer. The inquiry
will be simply, changed from does he belong to the
parish, to does he belong to the union; if not, let him go
hence, and thus it will continue so long as the law
avoids rendering settlement universal. About a fort-
night since an occurrence took place which will illus-
trate this point; it; is, the case of a destitute man before
the magistrate at Stamford:—
"John Clay had, on the previous Wednesday, been
turned out of the Loughborough Union, with a threat
that if he returned he would be sent to gaol for two
months. He had been repulsed whenever he applied
for work; and in vain had he applied to the union offi-
cers for relief. Fearing that he should be obliged to lie
in the street, he preferred breaking the lamp, although
subjecting himself to the degradation of becoming a
felon."

Here we have an example of the effect of the law of
settlement in a union now existent. Had this union not
been individually interested in saving a trifle of food, it
would have been spared the expenses of maintaining a
criminal. The magistrates, however, thought such a
state of things ought not to continue, and called for a
return of similar cases from the chief constable, when it
appeared that "the average number of persons in a state
of destitution Who have applied to the police for relief,
in consequence of the refusal of the master to take them
in, may be taken at ten each night during the months of
November and December, 1850, and January, 1851-
92 nights, 920 persons."
The number in the early part of February applying
under similar circumstances amounted to thirteen per
night for the first fifteen nights of the month, being 195,
thus making a general amount of 1,115 persons totally
unprovided for during the nights of the late winter, and
the whole of this be it remembered has taken place in a
union. Truly the law of settlement works well in unions,
but luckily the statement has drawn attention, for the
clerk to the board was ordered to wait upon the magis-
trates, for this evil is now carried to such a fearful ex-
tent that it affects the peace and safety of the ratepayers,
as well as the increased charge which it brings upon
them for the support of persons in prison.
Here is an example-of how crime is promoted, and that
in unions. Once the prison door shuts upon a human
being, character is for ever gone, self-respect abandoned,
and the man lost to society beyond hope of redemption.
The law also produces crowding or hoarding together,
and the same will under union settlement continue, whe-
ther it be union in town or country. The rural-districts
are almost barren of domiciles, and the towns lack ac-
commodation, and thus the needy are necessitated to
seek shelter in places, to view which humanity shudders.
These things are of course known to those who have
been in parish offices, but for the uninformed another ex-
ample will show forth the effect of crowding. Mr. Hut-
chinson, surgeon, says:—" I was sent for to attend a
poor Irish woman in labour at half-past six
o'clock yesterday morning at 17, Fox and Knot-court.
There were three families, each consisting of a man and
wife and two children, in a small room, fifteen feet by
eight, all lying upon dirty rags on the floor. I found
one of the children suffering under small-pox. The ad-
joining room was occupied by six grown-up persons and
two children.",: And another authority says—" We
know a single house—not a large one—with sixty per-
sons in it; many of them married, and have their
beds placed in the midst of single persons of both sexes.
The children have beds on the floor. Close to this
scene there is a mother, her adult son, ,a daughter 17
years of age, and a boy about 12, who wash, eat and
sleep, in a small place like a coal-hole; and in Birming-
ham it is said that in some parts of the town whole fa-
milies, consisting of 50,000 persons, are dwelling in 2,000
courts, which are entered from the street by a passage
three or four feet wide," What but a depression of
morals and increase of crime can flow from such domestic
training! every inquiring mind must ejaculate. But
why this choking up? The answer is—Examine the
question, and it will be found that the law of settlement
is the centre round which the whole revolves. The
destitute are first treated as idle, then vagrants,
next impostors, and then anger drives them
to crime. Change the law into union settle-
ments to-morrow, and the same distressing results
will be the consequence. The picture is bad enough,
but it is nothing to what may be found in other towns
and in the metropolis. Read the evidence about the lodg-
ing houses, in which human beings, our brethren, arc
promiscuously packed, where persons may be dying of
some contagious disease, nay, from which some victim of
typhus fever has just been carried forth to the grave, and
the children, too, become precocious in vice and enter
upon premature decay.
It is stated upon authority of Government that the
question of the law' of settlement* is this session to be
brought under the consideration of Parliament. Then
let us hope that each one will direct his attention to the
question, so that every Member of the Legislature may
be enabled by his constituents' information to demand
from the Government the entire abolition of the law of
settlement.—l am, Sir, &c.,
M. E. WEST.
6, Hollywood-place, Fulham-road, March 22.

* A petition, which embodies a plan for the total abolition
of the law of settlement, was presented last session to Parlia-
ment, and ordered by the House of Commons to be printed.
—See Public Petitions, Twenty-first Report, March, 1850;
Appendix 445, No. 4,116.

M. SOYER AND HIS MAGIC STOVE AT
SHEFFIELD.
A large portion of the elite of Sheffield have visited
M. Soyer, the ruler of the kingdom gastronomic, at the
Cutler's Hall, and had the gratification of beholding the
redoubtable chef-de-cuisine himself exhibit the capa-
bilities of his magic stove. On a large table were
dishes of chops, kidneys, &c., most temptingly displayed,
and so artistically arranged that to use the words of an
humble disciple of the kitchen, "it looked a pity to dis-
turb them." On a small tray, in the centre of the
table, a Lilliputian apparatus of brass and copper, in
two divisions, weighing altogether no more than 31b.
2oz. was placed before the operator. The stove has a
furnace opening with a flue near the bottom, adjoining
to which is fixed .a vessel with two receptacles for
spirits of wine. Connected with the bottom reservoir
are two burners with their wicks. The flame
from one of these wicks acting on the upper
reservoir, a, stream of vapour rushes down
a tube connecting it with the wick at the mouth of
the stove flue, and a large body of flame rushes into the
stove and all is ready. The kitchen fire, as M. Soyer
said, is ready in half a minute. Over the stove may be
placed a frying-pan,
stew-pan, saut6-pan, or other culi-
nary vessel, and "presto," the cutlets, kidneys, or eggs
are done a merveille, in almost no time. In this way
mutton cutlets were cooked before the spectators, and
refreshed with a little of M. Soyer's own "relish," whioh by
the way would have astonished the Roman epicure with
a new delight, were handed to the admiring visitors for
their approval. Many could scarcely have conceived
that the flesh of the ordinary wether sheep could con-
tribute material oat of which any magic stove could
conjure cutlets so far transcending any previous experi-
ence of mutton. " The cutlets are delightful," said a
lady visitor, " and then M. Soyer is such a thorough
gentleman!" Poached eggs, or as they,are named by
M. Soyer himself, " les awes au mirrior, possessed the
same potent spell, and it was really wonderful with what
ease and rapidity he achieved the most exquisitely fla-
voured dishes by his cheap and portable apparatus. Magic
indeed ! it appeared to us far more magical than any-
thing we have recently seen at the hands of professors
of legerdemain. Connected with the magic stove is a
magic kitchen, adapted as well for the overland route as
a modest picnic. Bachelors may defy the annoyances
of " genteel lodgings," and travellers may now laugh at
the blundering cook of "mine host" without fearing
the consequence of a spoiled dinner. There has been
a strong demand for these stoves wherever they have
been exhibited, and Sheffield, we are glad to learn, was no
exception. Soyer has made and will make many happy
men, for assuredly good temper waits on good dinners
and good digestion. No doubt many of our townsmen
will visit Soyer's salon restaurant at Gore House, Lon-
don, which it is said will be one of the most agreeable
and "refreshing" reminiscences connected with the great
Exposition.—Sheffield Iris.

THE WINDOW DuTiEs.—The amount of window
duty assessed in the year ending sth April, 1850, was
1,912,8891., and the amount received was 1,832,6841, the
number of houses 4harged being 459,034!

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SUNDAY TRADING PREVENTION BlLL.—Yesterday
a Committee on this Bill met for the first time, and pro-
ceeded to business. _ _

MURDER.—At the Norwich Assizes a man named
Gorge Baldry, aged 27, was convicted of the murder of Ca-
roline Warn, aged 13, at Thurlton. The prisoner lodged in
the house of the parents of the child, and without any con-
ceivable cause struck her on the head as she lay in bed, with
a hammer, several times, thereby causing her death. He ap-
peared to be a man of weak mind, but capable of knowing
right from wrong. Sentence of death was passed upon him.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF COMMONS, March 28.
ORDNANCE SURVEY.

Lord H. VANE asked the Clerk of the Ordnance when
the Ordnsnce maps, on the scale of six inches to a mile,
fur the North Riding of Yorkshire, and the counties of
Durham and Northumberland, would be completed?
Colonel ANSON said that the survey was progressing
northwards, but be could not hold out any hope that the
maps in question would be ready for some time.