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less business doir g privately, and at auction 150 bags
were only in part disposed of sfd to sicl for low mid
and mid. Full terms are required for Cloves, but there
are few buyers, and 137 bags Bourbon at auction were only
in part disposed of at 6id per lb. The value of Penang is 9d
to is 4d. Mace is wanted, first sort realized 2s 6d to 2s Bd,
and other sorts realised 2s 2d to 2s sd. Nutmegs are
yet in small supply, and prices have an upward ten-
dency, there being several buyers. The value of good
and fine brown is from 3s 2d to 4s, other sorts 2s 6d to
3s, and good limed 2s 8d to 2s 10d. Holders of Pepper
continue firm and none has again been ofered at
auction; privately, however, operations have been
to a fair extent, and prices remain at 34d
to 3id for Malabar, and Summatra 311 to
3d. In white several sales have been made
at from 6d to Bd, but African Pod is offered at from 35s
to 45s per cwt, and with few buyers. Ginger continues
in small supply, but purchasers are few, and rates re-
main at 21 10s to 91 for low to fine Jamaica, and at 34s
to 37s for African. At auction 195 pockets Bengal were
disposed of at 17s 6d for export sorts. For small parcels
of Cassia Liguea 92s to 102 s per owt have been ob-
tained. At auction 37 boxes Cassia Vera were sold at
35s to 375, and one lot at 40s. The value of Cassia Buds
is 1088 to 1105. Cinnamon of common quality is wanted,
but there are few buyers of the best kinds, low as prices
are. The value of first sort is from is 9d to 3s 6d,
second ditto Is 5d to 2s 7d, third and fourth is to 2s 3d
per lb. To•day at public sale 119 boas et Pimento sold
at rather lower rates: mid went at sed, ord and low 4id
to -lid per lb.
SPIRITI.—There is much dulness in the market fur
Jamaica Rum with sellers of low and mid sorts at rather
lower rates, but better kinds sustain the previous value.
The rates taken for common and mid are 2s 8d to 3s
for 30 to 34 per cent over proof, and 3s 2d to 4s 6d
for good mid and good 34 to 38 over. Of Leeward
Island only small parcels have been sold at Is 8d to is
80 proof, but supply is yet Beauty. East India has been
dealt in with caution at is 6d to is 6id proof. In De-
merara sales have been small and more desire is
evinced to sell at from 2s 5d to 2s 9d for
30 to 40 per cent over proof. The sales in
Brandy continue upon the same small scale, as for some
time past, with free sellers of Cognac best brands of the
vintage of 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 7d to
4* 9d, 1848 ditto 4s 9d to 4s I Id, low and inferior sorts
3s to 4s 3d. British made Spirit are still quoted at 9s
8d to 9s 9d. Gin 8s 3d for 22 under proof. Geneva is
7d to is 8d for ord and fine at is 9d to 2s ptr gallon.
INDIGO.—This aft. moon, at public sale, 30 Serons
Guatemala Indigo sold at rather lower rates, and went
at from 2s 10d to 4s 2d, and one lot low 2s 4d per lb.
The market for all sorts of Indigo has a dull aspect.
SALTPETRE.—To-day prices were supported at the
public sales of 1,266 bags Calcutta refraction 6 to 5 per
cent, selling at 28s 6d to 295, 7 ditto 27s 6d to 28s, da-
maged 23s to 27s per cwt,
TALLow.—To-day at public sale 630 casks Sydney
Tallow mostly sold; Sheep at 36s to 36a 9d; Ox 35s to
36s 6d; 1,000 pkgs South American 34s to 372 9d; 23
cks of North American 36s 3d to 37s 9d; 10 cks Belgian
36s 3d to 36s 9d.

Ou.s.—To-day at public sale 30 tuns Southern Oil sold
at 30110 s to 31/103; 500 ditto E. I. Rape Seed Oil mostly
taken in at 31s 6d to 32s 9d; 70 pkgs Teel Seed Oil at
335; 104 Ground Nut Oil at 34s per cwt.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

[The following is substituted for an article which ap-
peared in last Tuesday's Gazette.]
WHITEHALL, FEB. 22, 1651.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto Arthur Baron de Frey ne, and the heirs male
of his body lawfully begotten by the name, style, and title
of Baron de Freyne, or Coolavin, in the comity of Sligo,
with remainders, in default of such heirs male, to his
brothers, John French, Clerk, Charles French, Esq.,
and Fiizstephen Fench, Esq., severally and successively,
and to the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Longlands Cowell as Consul at Gibraltar fur his Majesty
the Emperor of Austria.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
N. Christian Mathiasen as Consul at Gibraltar for his
Majesty the King of Denmark.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
William Henry Tilstone as COll6lll in Canada for her
Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Joseph Jesse as Consul at Montreal fur his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
CROWN-OFFICE, MARCH 7.
XEXIER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Harwich-Henry Thoby Prinsep, of
Little Holland House, Kensington, in the county of
Middlesex, Esq., in the room of the Right Hon. Sir John
Cain Hobhouse, Baronet, who has accepted the office of
Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCIt 7.
2d Dragoon Gaards-Lieutenant David Henry Howell,
from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Hibbert, appointed to the lit Foot, March 7.
15th Light Dragoons-Lieutenant Henry Howard
Barber, from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Howell,
appointed to the 2d Dragoon Guards, March 7.
lst (or Grenadier) Regiment of Foot Guards-Lieu-
tenant and Captain the Hon. 11. Hugh Manvers Percy,
to be Captain and Lieutenare• Colonel, by purchase, vice
John Dixon, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant James
Evelyn, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice
Percy, March 7.
Ist Foot-Lieutenant Leycester Hibbert, from the 2d
Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Barber, ap-
pointed to the 15th Light Dragoons, March 7.
sth Foot-Captain William Robert Lyon Bennett,
from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Felix
Asbpitel, who exchanges; Lieutenant Ferdinand ‘V a-
hem L'Estrange, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Ben-
nett, who retires, Mareh 7.
7th Foot-Lieutenant the Hon. William Monck, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires, March 7;
Ensign Richard Williams Thomas, from the St. Helena
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Monck;
Lieutenant Thomas Beckwith Speedy to be Adjutant,
vice Monck, promoted, March 7.
18th Foot-Ensign George Augustus Elliot to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ferrer, who retires,
March 7.
34th Foot-Lieutenant Mawdistly Gaussen Best to be
Captain by purchase, vice Sir George Douglas, Bart.,
retire; Ensign Arthur Trevor Leaks Chapman to be
Lieutenant and Adjutant, by purchase, vice Best, pro-
moted, March 7.
48th Foot-Lieutenant Samuel John Maclurcan to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Adam who retires; Ensign
Frederick John Castle to be Lieutenant by purchase,
vice Maclurcan, March 7.
57th Foot-Lieutenant Robert Abraham Logan to be
Captain, by purchase. vice Ashton, who retires; Ensign
Gerrard John Forsyth to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Logan, March 7.
74th Foot-Lieutenant John Jago to be Captain, by
purchase, vice William Cunningham° Bruce, who retires;
Ensign Philip Philpot to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Jago, March 7.
81st Foot-Major Henry Farrant to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires; Captain
the Hon. Robert Alexander George Dallied to be Major,
by purchase, vice Farrant; Lieutenant Francis Lepper to
be Captain, by purchase, vice Dallied; Ensign William
Egerton Todd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Lepper, March 7.
91st Foot-Lieutenant William Richard Annesley,
from the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cole, promoted
to an Unattached Company, March 7.
Ist West India Regiment-Lieutenant Edmund Bage-
nall, from half-pay of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be
Lieutenant. vice Ross, promoted to an Unattached Com-
pany, March 7.
Cape Mounted Riflemen-Ensign George Lloyd Stud-
dert to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Lavers, who
retires, March 7.
UNATTACHED.-Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Sydney
Plunkett, from the 95th Foot, to be Captain without
purchase; Lieutenant Archibald Rutherford, from the
76th Foot, to be Captain without purchase, March 7.
BREVET.-Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Abbott,
C.B. late of Bengal Engineers (Lieutenant-Governor of
the East-India Company's Military Seminary at Addis-
combe), to have the local and temporapy rank of Lieut.-
Colonel in the Army while so employed, March 7.
MEXORANDLTX.-The Commission of Lieutenant
William West Turner, as Adjutant of the lath Foot,
has been ante-dated to the 26th August, 1850.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MAWR 5.
Royal Regiment of Artillery-Second Captain John
Furnaby Cater to be Captain, vice Low, retired on full-
pay; First Lieutenant John Fraser Lodington Bad-
deley to be Second Captain, vice Cater; Second Lieu-
tenant Herbert Mark Garrett Purvis, to be First Lieu-
,
teaant, vice Baddeley, Feb. 22.
ADMIRALTY, MARCIE 4.
Corps of Royal Marines-Gentleman Cadet John
Blackwood
Colwell to be Second Lieutenant.
ERRATA.-The Commissions of Captain R. S. Searle
and First Lieutenant E. D. Thelwall are dated 28th Feb.,
instead of 3d March.
WHITEHALL, FEs. 28.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Ling, of
the city of Norwich, Gent., to be a Master Extraordi-
nary in the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas Picket Hennings, dealer in wine, Wyndham-
road, Camberwell.
Joseph Harper, coal merchent, Ponsonbyeplace, Vaux-
hall-bridge-road.
Cli Tetlow, innkeeperjeeeds•
Margaret Wood, widow, Grinshill, Salop.
BANKRUPTS.
WilliamnSgstotorn.rour,puopn..bHolustleirer, Southampton.
chaAurnta,old Francis Wide aad George Henry Wilson, mer-
William Walker, manufacturer, Howden, Torkshire
William Couch, pianoforte maker, John-street, Fitir
roclomuaarse.Birch, eoalmaster, Broseley, Shropshire.
yi
John Horroeka, coal merchant Liverpool.
Hugh Buchanan MacMillan and Robert Service
Wilson, drapers, Preston.
made PRICE OF SUGAR.
Th
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a, rce ohm4e,
utd average price
or
re ll of Brown
n ad
1850, exclusive of Customs Duties paid -
peaepayable thereon
on the importation thereot into Great Britain:-
From the British possessions in America 303• ltd.
per cwt
From the Mat-itius 29e. 2d.
From the East Indies ... 0 3_3.
Ilia. "
Average price of the two •foregoing de-
scriptions of sugar, jointly, computed as
above, and exclusive of duty ... 295. 100. ~
By authority C. Pariament,
HENRY BICKNELL, Clerk of the Grocers' Company.
Grocers'-hall, March 7.

LONDON.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
DESIGNS ACTS EXTENSION BILL.

This Bill passed through Committee.
PETITIONS.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the
Tithe Commissioners' Report tor 1850.
Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the Law
Society against the second clause of the Law of Evidence
Bill which authorised the examination of parties to the
suit and their wives; be personally did not agree with
the prayer of the petition, because such evidence would
always be taken for what it was worth, and the e►i-
dence of the parties might lead to the discovery of fur-
ther evidence; but still the opinions of the petitioners
were entitled to attention, and he hoped the Bill would
be referred to a Select Committee.

Lord BROUGHAM bore evidence to the high re-
spectability of the petitioners; but forty-nine out of fifty
of the county court judges had reported in favour of the
pion.
The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented a petition
from Galway praying for the establishment of a packet
station on the west coast of Ireland.
COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.

Lord BROUGHAM rose to move the second reading
of the County Courts Extension Bill. So long ago as
the year 1825 Lord Althorp brought in s Bill for the
better recovery of small debts. That Bill went
but a little way; it merely proposed to give
jurisdiction to small debt courts in eases in which the
amount in dispute did not exceed 10/. Lord Althorp
handed over the Ball to the late Sir R. Peel, who was
always anxious to pronsote any measure of law reform,
and Sir R. Peel cheerfully uedartook the task of reform.
Two Commissions of Inquiry into tae common law, and
another for inquiring into the Jaw of real property,
were issued by 6zr R. Peel and the reports of those
Commissioners were moat valuable, and many impor-
tant changes had been introduced, grounded upon
the reports of those learned commissioners; and so im-
perfect had these changes been, that it some of the emi-
nent lawyers who had died within the last quarter of a
century were to revisit Westminster Hall they wou'd
scam ly believe that they were in the same country in
which they had parsed their lives. He had himselr, in
1840, introduced a Bill for establishing courts of local ju-
risdiction. In that bill he bad originally given jurisdiction
to Local Courts, in cases of debt to 1001, but on the re-
presentation of the Commissioners he had reduced it to
201. That Bill was rejected by a small majority com-
posed of proxies. In 1842, Lord Lyndhurst had intro-
duced a Bill which was its all essentials identical with the
Bill, which afterwards became law, and he regretted
that more had not been done. Last year a measure was
proposed, extending the jurisdiction of these courts to
501. in cases of debt. There was no man who could
deny that these County Courts had worked admirably
In every man's neighbourhood a tribunal existed where
a man's dispute with his neighbours could be speedily
and cheaply settled. In two years and nine months
1,200,000 causes had been disposed of in these County
Courts, being at the rate of 420,000 causes alear, and
the amount of property adjudicated on must have been
about 2,000,0001. a-year. The last year's Act gave an
appeal upon points of law upon sums above 201,
In five months 4,000 of these causes had been disposed
of, and there had not been more than four appeals.
Now, so far as regarded contentious jurisdiction, so far
as regarded the ousting of the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Courts, he did not propose to extend the jurisdiction of
these courts. The four classes which were included in the
Bill of 1830, but which were now excluded by the County
Court jurisdiction were bankrupts, equitable jurisdiction
arbitration and courts of reconcilement. He proposed to
extend the jurisdiction of the county courts to cases of
bankruptcy, gradually to absorb the bankruptcy juris-
diction in that of the county courts. He also proposed
that all matters upon which a Master in Chanctry
could decide should be, upon the ord.r of the Court of
Chancery, remitted to a county court of decision, so
that instead of parties being brought from Cornwall
to Chancery lane, they should have equity administered
to them in their own district. He also proposed that
all parties, whatever might be the cause or the amount
in dispute, should be enabled to suomit the matter in
dispute to the county court judge as an arbitrator, sub-
ject only to have points of law, as is the case at present
with regard to arbitration, raised in the superior courts
on their award. In a great variety of cases at present,
more particularly iu cases of disputed amount,
when a case became ripe fur trial it was found that it
was impossible to try it by a judge and jury, and the
judge ordered such a case to be referred,
now he proposed to give pasties a power of
referring such a case at once to a county-court
judge. (Hear, hear.) In ordinary cases of
arbitration there was sometimes a tendency to
protract proceedings. Now the county-court judge would
have no temptation to protract proceedings, because he was
not paid by the number of sittings, but was paid a fixed
salary. Bat ho set still gaister store by bas proposition
to make these county courts couats of reconcilement. It
was proposed that any party truing or stied
on any matter whatever might cite his adversary
to appear before a county court judge in reconcilement
and the parties thus uppearing might state, the one his
cause of grievance and the other his defence. In every
profession, and in the law as well as others, there
must be a better and worse class, and as a skilful
and honourable solicitor was the greatest blessing a
neighbourhood could have, so there could not b.
a greater curse than one of the worst class. But a
respectable solicitor might be misled as to the
merits of his client's case ; he proposed that no
counsel no attorney should attend the court of reconcilia-
tion, but that the parties should go unattended by legal
advisers and state their case. The judge would at once
see whether or not a party had good grounds for proceed-
ing, and if he had none, and the judge told bins so, in
nine cases out of ten litigation would cease. The courts
had been tried on the Continent, and had succeeded
In France they were compulsory; but if that were
the case here they would gradually assume the
character of courts of law rather than of
courts of reconcilement, and therefore ho did
not propose to make them compulsory. In Switaserland,
in some of the cantons it was compulsory, in others it
was optional; where it was compulsory it was said to fail,
where voluntary it succeeded. Those courts were most suc-
cessful in Denmark and in Hamburgh, and the number
of causes brought before the courts of law had di-
minished two-thirds since the introdaction of courts of
reconcilement. The introduction of these courts would
put a stop to the system of attorneys telling clients they
were sure to gain, and then asking them for 401. or 501.
on account to carry on the cause, because the client
would at once go to the county court judge and get his
opinionion. This reconcilement process, coupled with
the arbitrative power, would at once prevent the occur-
rence of scenes such as those to which be had alluded.
These were the provisions of the Bill which he
had introduced to their Lordships' attention. In
Scotland they had long possessed the advantage
of local courts, and almost all cases were
originated in the courts of the sheriffs depute, and out
of 22,000 cases brought in these courts in one year, only
one flay-third of the number was appealed against. The
value adjudicated upon was 300,000/., only 6,000/. bad
been appealed against. Nothing could be more unjust
than to render a suitor liable to expense for that protection
which the country was bound to give him in return for
his allegiance. This principle bad been unansweredly
demonstrated by the profound and learned Jeremy Ben-
tham. He did not take say blame to himself for
any undue haste in proposing these measures,
for he felt that it would have been desirable to have
established local courts with these extended jurisdic-
tions many years ago, and this establishment would
tend to increase the respect of the people for the law.
Lord LANGDALE was convinced that the adminis-
trative points of the bankrupt law, and of the
Court of Chancery might be well adminis-
tered by the County Courts. He never could
see any reason why parties residing in the coun-
try should be compelled to come before a Master
in Chancery sitting in Chancery-lane. He believed
that in matters of arbitration it was of importance to
have as an arbitrator a person in authority. They
should hear in mind that if they extended the
jurisdiction of these courts, they must have judges
enough—they must have ample judicial power—it' they,
did not they would either have hurried decisions or un-
due delay. He agreed that it was a great abuse, that a
person seeking justice should have to pay for it. Justice
was the subject's right, and the country was bound
to render it to him, yet at the same time they were
bound to allow an adequate remuneration to the agents
who were employed, and who devoted their time to
acting for the suitors.
Lord BEAUMONT thought it would be advisable to
get rid altogether of the limitation of the jurisdiction of
these courts to 50/. This limitation induced debtors i
owing more than 501. to bold out, and thus fierce his
creditor to abandon a portion of his claim.
He should also wish to see the concurrent jurisdiction of
the superior courts in sums above 201. done away with,
as many attorneys took causes which might well have
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Now in the Court of Chancery this tax amounted to
150,0001. a year in the shape of fees, which amounted
on an average to 10/,per head per suitor.
After a few words from the LORD CHANCELLOR,
Lord BROUGHAM replied, and the Bill was read a
first time.
Their Lordships then adjourned.