The Sun.
London, England, 1851-06-17 00:00:00

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

" ridentem dicere verum
Quid Vetat."
He (Mr. Bmodeley) consented to the rule being dis-
charged, of course in the usual way, upon payment of
costs.—Rule discharged accordingly.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, June 16,
(Sittings in Banco.)
lIELSHAM v, BLACKWOOD AND ANOTHER

This was an action for a libel in Blackwoods Alagazine,
;he facts of which were fully repined in this paper yes-
erd ay.

Mr: PEACOCK, Q C., now said an apology had been
prof&red some time ago, but Captain ll,lsham was not
satisfied with it. He no v, therefore, came on behalf of
the defendants to tender the filla ,ing apology, which
the dofendants liopt4 would be satisfactory.
" We are ready on the part of Messrs. Blackwood and
the au.hor of the article in question to wlthuraw every
imputation upon Captain Holsham of anything like un-
fairness with refereuc,s to the duel, and in particular to
state that having made inquiries relative to the expres-
sions attribweri to Baron Bayley, and the statement that
Captain tlcish.m had practised pistol firing previoudy
to the duel, we believe that the statements in the article
relative to Vern aro unfunded."
Mr. KEANE, for the plaintiff, said he had perescd the
apology now tendered, and he recommended Captain
Hei,harn to accept it.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE—Then the case will be
disposed of on payment of costs by the defendants as
bttwten attorney and client.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
iv 0 /.? S 11. 1 P- S TREE, T.
DESPERATE CONFLICT WITH BUROLARS.—MichaeI
Butler, au a,hh tic, netermined-looking fellow, who has
been repeatedly in custody upon charges of burglary
and highway robbery, was paced at the bar before
Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged wish having b. en concerned
with another man not in custody in breaking into the
premises of Mr. Henry Bateman, a wheelwright, in
Holywell-lane, Shoreditch; and also with having as-
molted and wounded the prosecutor, with intend to
murder him.
It appeared from the evidence of Mr. Bateman that
between twelve and one o'clock on the night of Friday, the Isth of February last, he returned home from the
hour- ofa friend with whom he had bpent the evening ,and
found that the outer gates leading into his yard
wera
closed and locked as he had left them; but on crossing
ever to the side entrance of his dwelling-house, he -ob-
served that the door was partly open, and heard a low
whispering of men's voices inside. lie immediately
closed the door, and retreated underneath the window
of the bed-room in which his brother slept, to whom he
was calling loudly by name, when two men suddenly
rushed out upon him through the street-door, one
of whom dealt him a violent blow on the
head with a life-preserver, which caused him
to stagger back, and before he could recover himself the
other attempted to knock him down with the butt end of
a horse pistol. Wt itnpas instantly closed with the fore-
most of his assailants, and a desperate struggle ensued
between them, in the course of which the other man kept
beating bim incessantly over the head with the life-pre-
several severe wounds, from which the
poured down
down his face and person, bat he still se
bloodr v e r
p, inflicting
per-
tinaciously retained his hold of the first man, and while
grappling with him they both rolled over and fell into an
adjoining horse-pond. The struggle was there resumed
between them, and after receiving repeated blows from
the pistol, which almost deprived him of conaciousness,
he at length succeeded in wresting it from his assailant,
and two or three policemen having now made their ap.
Pearance at the front of the gates and demanded admit.

tatice, the two burglars hastily made their way on to the
topo of the external wall and effected their escape. The
been
tebles were then admitted by his brother, who had
disturbed by his cries, and in searching the pond
gle,
ovirbieillt
server new
and rd they discovered the horse pistol and life.pres
Produced, the latter of which had
bronze been
surmounteds by the head of a beavy
by the force
had been broken off from the handle
beak of whieshevhear the blows blows inflicted upon him, and the
producing te through his hat in diffirent places,
The officers alPsfs rounds in his head and fore-
lying in tho neighbourhoooudnd a "jeramY" or crowbar
of the same spot, and the
skirt of one of the burglar'seous, which had been torn
ptchkorns and the remainder
off during the contest between
in the street, in
of which coat was afterwards
where
was in the
dereewhee remained
the pocket of which was found aeinliip
had been stolen from the premises. Witness
which
meantime conveyed up stairs to bed,
under the care of a surgeon for a cunei
very dangerous condition, and upwards of t_..,,,, time
_ /no in a
.n is
elapsed before he had entirely recovered from the t"
effects
of the injuries he had sustained.
Ia answer to questions from the Magistrate, the r
p 0
secutor stated that to was himself unable to identify-tb;
prisoner, the sudden and dlsperate nature of the attack
having afforded him no opportunity to scrutinise the per

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son of either of his assailants.
i Police-constable Chambers, 41 G, deposed to
attention having
m P
been attracted by cries cf " Murder"
and police yard, between
one and two o'clockfro morningtlie'°secu'r's
u
question, on
reaching which the prisoner suddenly press-tired him-
selfL at the top of the wall upon his hsnds and
hne,s; hut al soon as he caught sight of him he
raised himself upon his feet and darted along:the wall
until he reached the roofs of some adjoining outhouses,
which he dexterously clambered over
aof sand got clear o.
ri
tness could positively swear to the identity of the
prisoner, as the moon was shining brightly at the
htime, and he was well acquainted with his person from
boanving seen him rEpeatedly prowling about the neigh•
rh ood.

Blion-constlible Evans, 145 G, stated.that in come-
clUeace of jafWllll‘tioll. of
,the burglary betas ken

ROUSE OF LORDS, June 16.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
CHANCERY REFORM.
Lord BROUGHAM wished to draw the attention of
their Lordships to the measure for increasing the judicial
force of the Court of Chancery, which had been intro-
duced by the Noble Lord at the head of the Government.
He approved of the measure es far as it went, but he
hoped that his Noble Friend would say with
regard to this measure, as he had said when
twenty years since he introduced the Reform Bill, "But
we do not mean to atop here;" words full of terror to
some, but most auspicious to the advocates of reform.
So he hoped that the friends of legal reform might con-
sider this as merely a first step in the right direc-
tion, and that his Noble Friend would direct his
attention to other and more fundamental reforms.
He particularly wished to draw the attention of his
NoLue Friend on the woolsack to the necessity of a re-
form in the manner of transacting business in the Mas-
ter's office. The Noble and Learned Lord then pro-
ceeded to relate the progress of a case in which he was
interested; that cause was brought on before the Vice-
Chancellor in 1842, and referred to the Master, who
replied in 1843; it was heard again in 1846, before the
Vice-Chaticelior, referred back to the Master in 1847;
heard again in 1848, before the Lord Chancellor; referred
spin to the Master, and having been referred to the
Master six times, at last, in 1850, after a lapse of ten
years, an issue was directed to try that very question
before a jury which had been referred to the Master
originally in 1842, and bad been again referred to him
six times. But there was an appeal against this, and that
appeal now stood for hearing. When entered it stood
69 down the paper; it now stood about 50, and
it was calculated that in about a year and
a half they would have the decision of bis
Noble and Learned Friend, if he should so long
live, as to whether the issue should be tried or not. Ile
held in his hand a petition from the parties en-
gag, d in this suit, and he hoped some
means would bo devised to enable the judges in
Chancery to work out their own decrees without re-
ference to the Master. A worse system than the present
had never been devised. The Master saw the witnesses
and reported, and the Vice-Chancellor who did not
see the witnesses gave the judgment. In another case
a reference was made to tne Master to ascertain who
was the next of kin; after a lapse of two years and
a half the Master reported, and then the case
was heard, when it appeared that according to the judg-
ment of the Court it mattered nothing who was the next
of kin, inasmuch as the Court decided that the
whole property went to the residuary legs-
tee. He begged to say that in this he meant
to cast no imputation on the judges, nothing could ex-
ceed the labour and the conscientious and efficient
manner in which the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce
Learned Friend The
o pre-
site -
sauce
of discharged
his
Nobleh i arduous
du ouLs
site (Lord Cranworth) closed his lips as rearded
him, and his friends the Master of the Rolls and the
Vice-Chancellor Turner had only just taken °Ake; bat
he felt bound to bear his testimony to the very efficient
manner in which the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce had
performed his duties.
IRISH REPRESENTATIVE PEERS.
The Earl of EGLINTON complained of the delay
which had taken place in the issue of a writ for the elec-
tion of an Irish representative Peer to fill up the present
vacancy.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that no unne-
cessary delay had taken place in the issue of the Royal
Proclamation. No official notice of the vacancy had
been given.
The Earl of EGLINTON hoped the Noble Marquis
would consider this notice as a notice of the vacancy.
Earl FIIZ WILLIAM thought the Government would
not be authorized in ordering the issue of the proclama-
tion until they had received some official notice of the
vacancy.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said the case was
precisely similar to that of a Peer succeeding to a title on
the death of his father.
Lord REDESDALE thought the subject was one
worthy of consideration, and he hoped the Government
would introduce some measure on the subject,
PUBLIC-HOUSES (SCOTLAND) BILL.
The Duke of ARGYLL moved the third reading of
this Bill.
The Earl of MINTO was anxious that the House
should uuderstand•that the object of this Bill was to de-
prive quarter-sessions of the power
of
fgratthite magistrates
or refusing
in
ieg
licenses,
and of transferring
magis-
trates sbdeerpriorfingthpoesersonmsagaips:
plying for licences of the power of appeal
I);
owtheurs, toin
from the local magistrates to the county quarter-
sfacst,mavlilr virtually
sessions. The power thus given to a small
number of magistrates might be abused, and would
probably be abused for political purposes. It was the
first attempt that had been made to deprive the general
body of the magistracy of power and to transfer it to a
small number of individuals selected from their body.
Re would conclude by moving that the Bill be read a
third time that day six months.
The Duke of ARGYLL would not deny that the
wouldpowermi
git
bbceeo conferred on
li:
for
0 politicalc
tohme mp ritetseeepnuot justicesrfpsyoss
etesa,busbthyea
vntehni s
whichtßh ai l
that
nothing could be worse. He hoped the House would not
throw out the Bin.
ported tfheh Bill, which was ap-
Lord KINNAIRD
The Earl of EGLINTON ho e
proved of by the greatsmpa-orit
would not agree to the amendment° people ol Scotland.
poel their Lordships
He thought the Bill would do great goodt the it
Sli'oblie Earl.
The amendment was then negatived withoutcot aanddivi-
sion, and the Bill was read a third time, and after cer-
tain verbal amendments were introduced into it, Ina
passed.
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PETITIONS.
Tbe Earl of ZETLAND pressitedpetitiOna from
Irifeihire and 9tber Flom gBl4lll Pm' oggrwsim

In reply to Mr. COWAN,
Sir G. G IiEY said the Government were not yet in
receipt of the report respecting the distress that existed
in the Isle of Skye and the Western Islands of Scotland.
The report required a very great deal of preparation,
but he Expected that it would be shortly ready to be laid
before the House.

CUSTOMS BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of the Customs'
Bill.

Mr. DISRAELI said ho would take that opportunity
of stating the course which ho intend,id to take with

o the financial measures of the Govern-

After the House had arrived at a mot important

decision, renewing the income-tax only for ca l° year, Ira
confessed the financial propositions of the Govyrnmelat
bad assumed au entirely different aspect ; clod un?Jer
these circumstances be thought is became tho duty
of the House to ccnsider whether it was pt Lidera
or politic, having due regard to the maintenance of S he
public credit and the efficiency of the public service, to
agree to a diminution cf any of the permanent souro es
of the public revenue. He was anxious not to
take any precipitate step on the subject, to, it
he was bound to say he could not incu,r
the responsibility whieb, as a Member of the Rouse,
would proportionally devolve upon him, if he
slloired the finSLICiSi propositions of the arrfera•