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London, England, 1834-04-24 00:00:00

GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY.

Since our last notice, the committee of the House of
Commons has been actively engaged in inquiring into va-
rious interesting particulars connected with the western
trade and agriculture of the kingdom, which all the wit-
nesses agreed would be greatly benefitted by railways be-
tween Bath and Bristol, and London and Reading. It
appeared (which had formerly been denied) that the Li-
verpool and Manchester railway derived a profit from the
carriage of goods, the profits of last year being, on that
head, 23,6951., and on the conveyance of coal, (also stated
fo be profitless) out of a receipt of 2,5911., as much as
1,836/. was clear profit. Many witnesses from the clothing
districts of the west, stated that the railway would be of
great benefit to them in the conveyance of wools and
cloths, and would enable them to export from Bristol to
Ireland and New York. Coals, it seems, can be obtained
at Bristol in great abundance, at ss. 6d. per ton. Very
interesting evidence was given as to the advantages which
the farmer and landowner would derive from the convey-
ance of their cattle without fatigue, from the cheap con-
veyance of manure, and from the opening of new and dis-
tant markets for their produce. The advantages to be de-
rived by the metropolis appear to be great and certain—
the opening of new markets for her goods, and for
Baltic and other eastern and northern produce,
and from a cheaper, better, and more abundant
supply of food. The driving of cattle and pigs was proved
to be highly injurious, throwing them into fevers, dimi-
nishing their weight, andcausing a great number of deaths.
As a proof of the pernicious effects of driving, it was stated
thlt country-killed meat brought a higher price by Id.
per lb. than the meat from Smithfield-market. If the
railway was established, it would be a great boon to the
working-man, from the vast quantity of pigs, cattle, poul-
try, &c., which would flow in at a cheap rate from Ireland.
Eggs, butter, and cheese are now imported in large quan-
tities from the continent for London consumption, which,
it was proved, could, by means of the proposed railway,
bring better articles at a cheaper rate from our own pro-
ducers in the West, and in Ireland. The evidence appears
to have made a considerable impression on several of the
committee, who were supposed to be previously sceptical as
to the immense advantages which would accrue to trade,
agriculture, and commerce, when the work shall have been
completed.

LONDON AND GREENWICH RAILROAD.—
It appears that it will require 20,0001. per annum to
pay the shareholders 5 per cent. on the amount of
capital, which is 400,0001. It also appears that the
Creek Bridge, which unites the most unfrequented
parts of Greenwich and Deptford, returns, from pas-
sengers paying Id. each, 2,0001. per annum ; there-
fore, let us look at this new road merely as a footpath,
which will shorten the distance nearly two miles, and
reduce it to a pleasant walk between two populous
places, of one million and a half, and eighty thousand
at the other, and admit that twenty times as many as
now cross the Creek Bridge would avail themselves of
it, and also pay Id. each, it would amount to 40,000/.
per annum, or 10 per cent. to the shareholders, ex-
clusive of the revenue, should the company apportion
their width of ground of 75 feet in the following
manner :-25 feet for the railway, 25 for the esplanade
for foot pass:., era, and 25 for a common carriage or
horse road.'

LONDON,
THURSDAY EVENING, APRIL 24, 1834.

Mr. O'CONNELL, who entertains a well-
bred horror of any such tradesmanlike vulgarity
as a fact or a calculation, must have been sadly
annoyed last night by the vast array of those
very plebeian weapons which Mr. SPRING RICE
brought to bear against him. Like a bull in a
china-shop, the Right Hon. Secretary to the
Treasury made grievous havoc with the Agi-
tator's glittering, bazaar-like show of rhetoric,
tossing, here a trope and there a metaphor—
now annihilating an hypothesis, and now a
deduction, in a way that will make Mr.
O'CONNELL cautious how he ventures to put 1
forth such brittle wares in future. Indeed, we
never read a more triumphant reply than that of
Mr. SPRING RICE. It was equally successful,
whether looked on as an appeal to the under-
standing, or the feelings. There was no
sophistry—no begging of the question—
no 'tricky equivocation-7-all was plain and
above-board. The common sense of the
house went with him at every step of
his progress, and even ,shot a-head of
him, when, at the close of his luminous and
convincing speech, he descanted on the increas-
ing prosperity of Ireland, and the mischief that
would infallibly accrue to the empire from a
repeal of the union. A repeal of the union
indeed ! We have no patience with the term.
It is a synonym for the rankest absurdity, and
could have been hatched no where but in the
skull of some crack-brained fanatic or
scheming adventurer.
If repeal be so indispensable, as Mr. O'CON-
NELL would have us believe, to the welfare of
Ireland, why did he not prove his hy-
pothesis ? No one, even on his own show-
ing, has studied the question more profoundly
than he has done. During the whole of last
autumn, while the rent was collecting for him
in every quarter of Ireland, he was shut up at
Darrinane studying it in all its bearings. This
was invariably his excuse for non-attendance at
public dinners or meetings. He was studying
repeal, and could not be disturbed. And what
has been the result of all this meditation ?
Why, a verification of the old adage " Much
ado about nothing !" In a word, the moun-
tain has brought forth a mouse—and this after
keeping all Ireland in the agonies of suspense
for the best part of a year !

If such be the failure of the head, what will
be that of the tail ? The question affords room
for much curious speculation. O'CONNELL
having already plunged into an abyss deeper
than ever plummet sounded, how much lower
may FERGUS O'CONNOR be expected to
sink ? If he go head foremost, as his great
leader has done, the specific force of gravita-
tion will infallibly conduct him to the bottom—
and really it is a great thing in these times,
when there is so much competition that
way, for a gentleman to be enabled to say that
he has sounded the very lowest depths of ab-
surdity. Some persons, we know, who are
intimately acquainted with the specific weight
of both honourable members' skulls, calculate
on Mr. R UTHVEN outstripping Mr. 0' C o NNOR
in his plunge. But we have no apprehensions
on this score. FERGUS is our favourite. We
will venture odds that he dives to a depth
unknown to the most expert practitioner in the
Dunciad. It is not, perhaps, quite fair to in-
dulge in these sort of anticipations, but really
the whole question is so extremely absurd, that
anything like serious argument is thrown away
upon it.

We take for granted that Mr. RICE'S masterly
speech, conjointly with the amendment which
he moved, for an address to his MAJESTY, re-
cording in the most solemn manner the fixed
determination of the house to maintain undis-
turbed the legislative union between Great Bri-
tain and Ireland, will have the effect of crush-
ing repeal for ever. True, the question may still
linger on—still afford a handle for faction and
discontent in Ireland—but here in England it
will henceforth be virtually dead. To this most
desirable dissolution Mr. O'CONNELL has him-
self in no slight degree contributed. His dull-

ness has " scotched" the snake. Mr. RICE'S
energy has " killed" it.

The news in the French, Brussels, and Ger-
man Papers, may be given in a few lines.
The late insurrections at Lyons and Brus-
sels are now said to have been the result of an
extensive conspiracy. The law relative to fo-
reign refugees has passed the Chamber of Peers.
Arrests are frequent, and several editors of
newspapers appear to be implicated in the late
disgraceful and afflicting proceedings. The
Funds on Tuesday were declining. Reports were
in circulation that the Government intended to
contract for a loan of ten millions sterling. The
Austrian Ambassador at the Court of Spain
passed through Aix on the 10th inst., on his
way to Nice.

The Brussels papers of the 22d and 23d are
chiefly filled with accounts of the arrests or
banishment of numerous individuals concerned
in the late disturbances. Some have been
removed, and others have not yet obeyed the
orders of the government to quit the kingdom.

The two Chambers met on the 23d.
M. RoGIER made a report in the Chamber of
Representatives of the events of the sth and
6th April. M. LEBEAU, Minister of Justice,
justified the expulsion of strangers, who had
made themselves the organs of the Orange
party, and others the agents of the Propaganda.
It appears, from a letter from Antwerp, that
Ithe local tribunal there had declared the order
for the expulsion of M. KRUMER, merchant,
illegal.
A new financial operation is spoken of at
Berlin, by which an annual saving of nearly a
quarter million of rix-dollars will be effected.
They write from Vienna that as nothing is
heard of a new loan the funds continue to
rise. Accounts had been received from Gi-
braltar that the Polish refugees, who were
embarked at Trieste, in Austrian ships, to
be conveyed to America, attempted to over-
power the crew, and take the ship where
they pleased ; they chose the 12th of February,
the anniversary of the EMPEROR'S fete. The
ships were at anchor in the Bay of Gibraltar,
many of the officers were on shore, and the
conspirators thought this was a favourable op-
portunity to execute their project; but the crew
defended themselves with so much vigour that
the scheme failed. The ringleaders, being
seized, were tried by a courtmartial.

FRENCH FUNDS.—PARIS, APRIL 22.
Five per Cents., 10-If. 10c. 15c.
Three per Cents.. 77f 75e. 70c.
Bank Actions, 1,790 f.
Rente de Naples, 114 E 75c.
Roman Five per Cents., 95%.
Rente .l'Espagnc, Five per Cents., 27%.
Rente d'Espagne, Three per Cents., ,11i.
Royal Spanish Loan, 81%. '
Rente Perpet. d'Espagne, Five per Cents., 67%.
Belgian Loan, 19:11. Five per Cent., 97%.
Haytian Loan, 27CE
EXCHANGE ON LONDON.
Oise month, paper, —f. —C. ; money, 25f. 110 c.
Three months, paper, —f. —c. ; money, 25f. 17%c,
—Cours Authentique.

We expressed our high satisfaction yesterday
at the measures adopted by the Spanish Govern-'
ment, in relation to the Cortes. The ground-
work of those measures is the ancient constitu-
tion of Spain, which admits the right of the
people to choose representatives for themselves,
whose duty it is to co-operate with the King and
the nobles in protecting the property, lives, and
liberties of the whole people. To them
also will belong the work of effecting that re-
form of all the public institutions which may
be requisite and practicable. We regret,
however, to find that it will be necessary for
those who are chosen as representatives, to
have resided in Spain for two years. This will
shut out the best friends of freedom who fled
to other countries when the liberties of their
own had been violated by a weak and arbitrary
Monarch, who had allowed himself to be deluded
by artful politicians and courtiers.

We could also have wished that it had been
provided that the titulos should have been
elected by their Peers, as is the case with our'
Scotch and Irish Representative Peers, instead
of their being selected by the Crown. The ap-
pointment, also, of Ecclesiastical Peers by
the Crown seems calculated, by making
them, as well as the titulos, dependant for
their seats on the Crown, to render them
less likely than they would otherwise be to
fulfil the great end of a House of Peers. They
should be as independent as possible alike of
the Crown and the people.

General education is of so much importance
that we cannot refrain from recurring to it. We
doubt if it can be accomplished otherwise than
by having one or more schools established by
law in every parish. We are glad to find that
Mr. MUNDELL is of this opinion, though he is
for the country availing itself for this purpose
of the means afforded by our numerous chari-
table foundations which have been so much
abused (the abuses of which by the way show
the uselessness of voluntary establishments).
After adverting to what has been done in Prus-
sia, and is doing in France, he gives an account
of the establishment of parish schools in Scot-
land, with the benefits that have resulted from
them—and he asks, " How is England to
establish preparatory. schools ? Is she to im-
pose a rate upon the proprietors of every parish,
as Scotland has done, to defray the ex-
pense? This she must do, unless the nume-
rous charities established by private bounty can
be converted into: general preparatory schools."
He further asks, " Is there any reason why
they should not be so ?" To do justice to this
part of the subject, we must give the answer
in his own words :
" The universities, and great schools by name, and
every school that has a special visiter, having been ex-
cepted from the statutory inquiry concerning charities,
they form no part of our present consideration, even
though they did not belong to a subsequent part of it.
But has there been any charity reported upon which
has not been perverted and abused ? Is this perver-
sion and abuse to be suffered to continue ?

" But is the property that has been endowed to be
violated ? No. It is to be held sacred. The pro-
perty was bestowed for the purposes of education :
the property so bestowed is to be applied to the pur-
poses of education still. Even if these charities had
not been perverted and abused, the matters directed to
be taught, and the manner of teaching them, though
perhaps suited to the period of the endowment, or
being all or the best that could then be had, have be-
come useless in the progress of society. Isolated and

exclusive as many of these charities are, they hardly
admit of separate improvement, even though they had
not been abused ; bnt, amalgamated into one mass,
for the purposes of general instruction, the aggregate
of them may be rendered highly useful. If the foun-
ders were yet in being, with their minds enlarged and
improved by the advancement of society, they would
probably all join in consenting to this amalgamation ;
but when individuals give their property in mortmain
for a charitable purpose, they create a public trust for
public purposes, which vary with the changes of
society, and cannot receive effect unless alterations be
made by the supreme power of the state, in confor-
mity to these changes. By the very nature of the en-
dowment, therefore, the founder constitutes the su-
preme power of the state a superintending trustee for
the execution of the trust, for the purpose for which it
was given, namely, the improvement of the commu-
nity, by means of instruction ; which must-cease to be
productive of improvement, unless the means be
adapted to the state of society for the time being.
Coupled with a public purpose for the attainment of
which all those endowments were made, the property
endowed becomes by the endowment public property,
to be always preserved, but to be used and applied by
the supreme power of the state, in the manner which
may from time to time appear best calculated to pro-
mote the object of the founder, namely, the instruction
of youth in the way in which youth should be in-
structed.

" When the land of England is suffering from the
operation of restrictive corn laws, and the abuses of
ill-administered poor laws, it is not desirable' to create
any direct charge upon it, which will not be the less
severely felt that the owners and occupiers of the soil
have been themselves the authors of those restraints
and abuses. But, in truth, every other class has been
equally exclusive. Every interest has sought to
benefit itself at the expense of the consumer. Thus
all have suffered ; but the consequences, according to
the ways and the retribution of Providence, are now
recoiling upon the authors of the exclusion."

INIPERIAL PARLIAMENT,

THIS DAY, THURSDAY, APRIL 24.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.

The SPEAKER took the chair at twenty minutes after
twelve o'clock.

ISLINGTON MARKET BILL

Petitions against this bill were presented by Mr. Bris-
coe, from Kingston, in Surrey ; by Mr. Shawe, from Suf-
folk ; by Mr. Finch, from Rutland ; by Mr. Sergeant
Spankie, from the hay and straw salesmen of Smithfield ;
by Lord Milton, from Warwick and Northampton ; by
Mr. Hope, from Gloucester ; and by Mr. Byng, from
Brentford, Hounslow, and Hammersmith.
Mr. RUMBOLD presented a petition from Great Yar-
mouth, against the Yarmouth Railway Bill. '
Mr. J. OSWALD presented a petition from 30,000 of
the inhabitants of Glasgow and its neighbourhood against
the Glasgow Water-works Bill. Also a petition from the
commissioners of police of the same city, against the same
bill. _ _

Mr. LAMBTON brought up the report of the committee
upon the Blaydon and Heber Railway Bill.
Mr. FITZSIMON brought up the report of the com-
mittee upon the Dublin and Kingstown Railway Bill.
Mr. WIGNEY brought up the report of the committee
upon the Brighton Water-works Bill.
Mr. GASKELL presented a petition from the owners
of real property in Yorkshire, against the Metropolitan
Registration Bill.
Lord MORPETH supported the petition, and said he
had a petition to the same effect-from the West Riding of
Yorkshire.
Mr. STRICKLAND also supported the petition, and
said that the alteration in the law was monstrous and un-
called for. _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Mr. G. Heathcote, Mr. Tooke, Mr. Beaumont, Mr.
Cayley, Mr. Tynte, and Mr. Finn, each said a few words
against the bill.
Mr. W. BROUGHAM defended the character and ob-
jects of the bill, and said he should move the second read-
ing of the bill on Wednesday se'nnight.
Mr. ' GASKELL presented a petition to the same
effect from the owners of real property in Leeds, signed by
1,157 persons. Also a petition from the Wesleyans of
York against tithes, and all compulsory payments for the
support Of the established church.—To lie on the table.
Mr. BAINES supported the petition from Leeds against
the metropolitan registry bill. It had been correctly stated
by his hon. friend the member for Wakefield, that this pe-
tition was signed by no fewer than 1,157 persons, and he
could bear testimony to the high respectability of the peti-
tioners, who consisted of bankers, merchants,manufacturers,
and the other proprietors of landed property in the borough
that he (Mr. Baines) had the honour to represent. Against
the General Registry Bill they had the strongest objections,
so far at least as it went to the extension of their own local
registry office, and he believed that their feeling was ge-
neral through the whole of the county of York ; not as had
been suggested by the hon. member for Northumberland,
amongst interested professional men, but amongst all those
who had an interest in real property, and in the possession
of the deeds by which they held that property. (Hear,
hear.) They felt that it was a matter for just complaint
that they should be persecuted, year after year, with this
Metropolitan Registry Bill (Hear, hear), and hoped
that this would be the last effort to deprive them of the
advantages which they already enjoyed, of possessing the
benefits of registration without the evils of the unnecessary
exposure of their transactions, the litigation of their titles,
or the custody of their title deeds. (Hear, hear.)
Sir S. WHALLEY supposed the bill must be a good
one, since it was only opposed by the county of York,
who had enjoyed a system of registration.
Mr. JAMES said there was just as much opposition
against it in the county of Cumberland.
Mr. BLAKE presented a petition from the dissenters of
Berwick-on-Tweed, praying for the removal of their dis-
abilities.

Sir S. WHALLEY supported that part of the petition
which referred to the registration of births and marriages.
Mr. FINCH respected the principle of liberty of con-
science ; but, claiming that for himself, he should say that
he considered the Dissenters' demands too much. The
disseverance of church and state, and the admission to uni-
versities, were requests not to be acceded to.
The petition was ordered to lie on the table.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented 29 petitions for the repeal
of the union from several parts of Ireland ; one, too, for the
same purpose from Manchester ; and one from Scotland,
signed by 1,412 persons : likewise 24 petitions from Ire-
land for the abolition of tithes ; and one from an indivi-
dual, named Adams, in favour of the Dorchester convicts.
The hon. member made allusion to the observations
that were made in his (Mr. O'Connor's) absence, by the
hon. member the Recorder of Dublin. He (Mr. O'Con-
nor) would not imitate his example, as he was absent
then.—To lie on the table.
Mr. HARVEY said that with respect to the petition
on the subject of the Dorchester convicts, the sentence was
perfectly legal, and borne out by many precedents in simi-
lar cases.

After some remarks from Mr. JEPHSON and Mr.
O'CONNOR, relative to the petition from Milton, the peti-
tion was laid on the table.

Mr. P. LALOR observed that the repeal of the Union
was necessary to cure all the grievances that Ireland la-
boured under.

Mr. G. LANGTON presented a petition from certain
dissenters at Castlehaven for a redress of grievances.
Mr. COATES presented a petition from Brecknock,
and other places, to a similar effect.
Lord VILLIERS presented a petition from Honiton for
the better observance of the Lord's Day.
- Mr. R. TODD supported the prayer of the petition.
Mr. PINNEY presented a petition from a parish in
the county of Dorset, for the redress of dissenters' grie-
vances ; also, from Lyme Regis, against beer shops, and
from Axminster, in favour of Sir A. Agnew's bill.
Mr. G. W. WOOD presented three petitions from
places in the county of Lancaster, in favour of a proper
measure for the observance of the Sabbath. Also, one
from one hundred tea dealers in Manchester and Salford,
for the repeal of the act making a graduated scale of duty
on teas, and in favour of one uniform duty. He said a
few words in support of the prayer of the latter petition.
Mr. BLAKENEY presented several petitions from the
county of Carlow for the abolition of tithes and of ministers'
money. He stated that he heartily concurred in the prayer
of the petitioners, who were 4,000 in number.
Sir R. FERGUSON presented a petition from Not-
tingham for mercy towards the Dorchester unionists.
Also another from the boot and shoemakers of Nottingham,
and two from Castle Dunning, Dunstable, to the same
effect. He supported the petitions, but he strongly depre-
cated the system of intimidation that had been adopted by
the unionists. With regard to the procession on Monday he
believed the whole of the persons composing it were ac-
tuated solely by humane and benevolent feelings. (Hear. )
One of the petitions was from an association of men and
women. He next presented a petition from Burnt Island
against the duties on receipts ; also one from the fishermen
of Burnt Island, complaining that they were subject to
the light-house duty, while the English fishermen were
exempted.
An HoN. MEMBER (name unknown) gave notice that
on some future day he would move an alteration in the law
regarding the subject alluded to by the late petition.
Mr. PRYME said the system of intimidation first com-
menced 25 years ago at Nottingham, and that it had the
effect of driving many opulent manufacturers from that
place.
Captain PAGET presented a petition from Beaumaris,
and another place, for a redress of the grievances which the
dissenters laboured under

Sir E. WILMOT presented a petition from Coleshill,
complaining of distress among the hand-loom weavers ;
also one from Wolsey, in the county of Warwick, for relief
of the dissenters. _ . _

Lord WATERPARK presented several petitions from

Shirley, Dalbury, and other places in the county of Derby,
for the better observance of the Sabbath ; also one from
Brainford, in Derby, that market-days may be altered
from Mondays; also several petitions from the same
county, praying that the rights of the established church
might be preserved; also several from dissenters, praying
for relief.

Mr. BOLLING presented a petition from Bolton for
the better observance of the Sabbath.

Colonel TORRENS supported the prayer of the pe-
tition.

Mr. BOLLING presented another petition from Bolton
praying for a legal registration of births, marriages, &C.
He also presented a petition from the licensed victuallers
of Bolton, praying for an alteration in the New Beer Act.
Colonel I ORRENS supported all the petitions except
that which prayed for a separation between Church and
State.

Mr. BLAKENEY was not surprized, from the conduct
of the clergy, that the people should demand a separation
between Church and State.

Mr. HALCOMB thought that the object which the
petitioners had in view was to obtain the revenues of the
church establishment.

Mr. BARRON presented a petition from the dissen-
ters of Kirby Lonsdale, praying to be relieved from dis-
abilities ; also one from the householders of Kendal against
the General Registry Bill.
Lord COLE presented a petition from the sheriff,
grand jury, and magistrates of Fermanagh, against the
repeal of the union.
Sir WILLIAM CHAYTOR presented a petitionsigned
by 1,300 inhabitants of Sunderland for the better observ-
ance of the Sabbath ; and another from dissenters, praying
to be relieved from disabilities. _ s

Mr. E. L. BULWER presented a petition from the in-
habitants of Lincoln to the same effect.

IMr. BUCKINGHAM presented a petition from Shef-
field, signed by 15,000 ; one from Barnsley, Yorkshire,
signed by some thousands, and another from the dis-
senters of a congregation in the west riding ofYork, in favor
of the Dorchester unionists ; also one from the merchants
of Kirkaldy, complaining of the number of shipwrecks that
have taken place, and praying that some precaution to pre-
serve the lives of merchant seamen may be adopted ; also,
a petition from the seamen of Newcastle-upon-Tyne,
against the payment of 6d. per month to Greenwich
Hospital.
Mr. STRICKLAND supported the petition respecting
the Dorchester unionists, and the petitions were then
ordered to lie on the table.

Mr. DILLWYN presented a petition from North
Glamorgan for the better observance of the Sabbath ; also
a petition from an Ancient British Society for the repeal
of the malt tax.

Mr. TYNTE presented a petition from Broomfield,
against the Metropolitan Registry Act.
Mr. WHITMORE presented a petition from the clergy
and inhabitants of Bridgnorth, for the better observance of
the Sabbath.

Mr. COLLYER presented a petition from the ship-
owners of Plymouth against the payment of money by mer-
chant seamen to Greenwich Hospital; also from the Unita-
rian dissenters of the same place, respecting their grievances;
also from the Wesleyan Methodists for the better obser-
vance of the Sabbath, and from the butchers and others
of Plymouth, to change the market day in that town.
Mr. C. RUSSELL presented a petition from the dissenter
Cranfield, in Bedfordshirs, respecting their grievances.
Mr. HODGES presented a petition from Tentern, for
the better observance of the Sabbath ; and from other
places in the county of Kent, to the same effect.
Mr. FINCH presented a petition from Stamford against
the Annual Registry Bill.
Mr. RYDER presented a petition from the Wesleyan
Methodists of Dartford, for the better observance: of the
Sabbath.

After the presentation of some other petitions the Speaker
left the chair.

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

THOMAS V. SANDERSON AND OTHERS,

Their Lordships, on taking their seats, gave judgment
in this case, which was a motion for a new trial. The
plaintiff, who was a solicitor at Carmarthen, brought the
action against the defendants, who were magistrates, for
a malicious prosecution and imprisonment. The circum-
stances were briefly these. The plaintiff was taken before
the defendant on a charge of feloniously demolishing the
house of a person named Davis, who resided in the town
of Carmarthen, when a riot occurred, and Davis fired upon
the people. The plaintiffrepudiated the charge and was about
to make a charge in his professional capacity against Davis,
when he was ordered into custody. He was subsequently
indicted on the former charge, at the instance of the ma-
gistrates. Upon the trial of this action the jury found a
verdict for the defendants. The plaintiff, some days ago,
moved for a new trial, on the ground of misdirection of the
learned judge, and also that certain depositions had been
improperly received in evidence. The Court then refused
the rule on the first ground, and this morning decided tha
the rule should be refused on the other point.