The Sun.
London, England, 1856-02-13 00:00:00

HOUSE OF CONIMONS.—(YEsTERDAY.)

The SPEAKER took the chair at a quarter before four
o'clock.
NEW MEMBERS.
The Right Hon. Mr. WALPOLa took the oaths and
his seat for Clmbridge University.
Mr. RIDLEY took the oaths and his seat for New-
castle.
NEW WRIT.
A new writ was issued for Leominster, in the place of
Mr. Ark wright, deceased.
BROADSTAIRS HARBOUR AND PIER BILL.
On the motion that this bill be read a second time,
Sir E. DERING moved that It be real a second
time that day three months. The inhabitants of St.
Peter's most strongly objected to a certain clause, and
the reason that they had not opposed the bill in the first
instance was that, till Friday last, they were unac-
quainted with its provisions. If the' hon. members
whose names were at the back of the bill would with-
draw the objectionable clause, he would withdraw his
opposition.
Mr. BROTLIERTON said the clause would be with-
drawn.

The bill was then read a second time.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The following bills were severally read a second time,
and ordered t) lie committed : Bagnalstown and
Wexford Railway, Bardney, &c. Drainage, Bawtry and
Tinsley Road, Crowland and Eye Road, Dews-
bury, Batley, and Heckmondwike Water, Forest
of Dean Central Railway ; Hampstead Junction,
Railway • London, Tilbury, and Southend Rail-
way (additional Capital, &c.)
; London,. Tilbury,
and Southend Railway (Extension and Brancbes) ,
Perth, Almond Valley, and Methven Railway ; Perth
Burgh and Harbour ; Puole and Bourne Valley Rail-
way ; Ilttoxeter and Blythe Marsh Road ; and Wem
and Bronygarth Roads ; Calnbrook, Datchet, and
Sksugb AOAti ; Conway and Llandudno Road ; Mid and

Great Western Railway of Irc!and ; Prisoners' Dis-
charge Society.

THE LANS' OF DEBT.

Mr. MA.LINS gave notice of hii-T;Ceation to intro-
duce a bill to do away with the present distinction be-
tween special and simple contract debts.
SALARIES OF COUNTY COURT JUDGES.
Mr. ROEBUCK gave notice that on that day fort-
night he would move f,r leave to bring in a bill to regu•
late the salaries of county court judges.

SAND H.URST COLLEGE.
Colonel NORTH asked what steps bad been taken b 7
the Government (in accordance with the promise made
last year) to carry into effect the recommendation of the
Committee on Sandhurst Collage for the admission at
10 additional cadets into the orphan class at that cats
blishment ?

Mr. F. PEEL said no steps bad been taken to fill up
the proposed cadetships, because it was thought better
to let it stand over for the present.
PREVENTION OF RAILWAY ACCIDENTS.
Mr. SEYMOUR FITZGERALD asked the Vice-
President of the Board of Trade whether it was his in-
tention to propose, during the present session, any mea-
sure for the prevention of accidents on railways ; and
also, as it appeared from the proceedings in reference to
the report of the officer appointed, to inquire into the
condition of the Eastern Counties Railway, that, though
the Board of Trade had the power to direct inquiries into
the condition of any line of railway, it had no power to
compel the repairs that may be absolutely necessary
for the security of the public, whether it was his inten-
tion to introduce any measure for the purpose of invest-
ing the Board of Trade with the authority necessary for
the purpose ?
Mr. LOWE said it was the intention of the Presi-
dent of the Board of Trade to introduce his bill of last
session, with reference to railway accidents. The second
part of the question was under discussion.
In answer to a question from Mr. Mthf ANON,
Mr. HORSI\IAN said it was not his intention to
bring in any measure for facilitating the reclamation of
Irish waste lands ; neither did he intend to bring in
any measure to amend the Irish grand jury system.
Colonel W. PATTEN asked whether the joint corn-
mission agreed to in the month of August last by the
Emperor of Morocco and her Majesty's Minister Pleni-
potentiary, to arrange a commercial treaty, had yet met,
and, if not, what was the cause of the delay ?
Lord PALMERSTON said that in consequence of
some delay on the part of the Emperor of Morocco,
which he explained, the treaty alluded to had not yet
been arranged.
REGULATION OF THE NAVY.
Mr. BRADY asked the First Lord of the Admiralty
if he intended altering the regulations in her Majesty's
navy, by which the following officers were at present
not allowed to have the distinguishing mark of gold
lace on the cuffs of their undress coats, thereby reducing
them te a level with the inferior grades of officers, viz.:
Inspectors and deputy inspectors of hospitals, staff sur-
geons, surgeons and assistant surgeons, paymasters and
assistant paymasters ?

Sir C. WOOD said the regelation of uniform for the
navy was under consideration.
SA RDINIA. AND THE EAST.

Mr. LAYAll,ll asked the First Lord of the Treasury
if the report with reference to the exclusion of Sardinia
from the late conferences atConstantinople was true, and
if Sardinia had protested in consequence ?

Lori PAL:VIE RSTON sa,d that the Conferences al-
luded to had reference only to the fourth point, that of
the arrangements to be made by the Sultan in favour
of his non-Russnlmen subjects and to the principalities.
Sardinia had not been communicated with on the
subject, it being considered not a question affecting the
peace negotiations, but to be decided on by the Sultan
independently. Sardinia applied to be admitted, but
the representatives of France and England having no
instructions on the point, Sardinia therefore was not
present at the conferences.

MUNICIPAL REFORM BILL (SCOTLAND).
Leave was given to Mr, EWART to bring in a bill to
extend the provisions of Scottish Municipal Reform Act
to certain Royal Burghs in Scotland now excluded from
the benefits of that act.

PUBLIC JUSTICE.
Mr. NAPIER, moved the following resolution :
"That in the opinion of this house, as a measure of ad-
ministrative reform, provision should be made for an
efficient and responsible Department of Public Justice.
with a view to secure the skilful preparation and proper
structure of Parliamentary bills, and promote the pro-
gressive amendment of the laws of thoUnito'd Kingdom."
The hon, and learned member said he rose for the purpose of
redeeming a pledge which he gave in the last session with re-
gard to what must be a matter of great importance to the
people of this country, namely, the framing of their laws.
This was not an isolated or departmental question ; the inte-
rests of the whole eommunity were involved; and it was
surely the duty of that horse to adopt the best means of
improving the current legislation of the country. Let the
house observe the magnitude of the evil which they had to
grapple with. The state of the laws at present was, he said ad-
visedly, disgraceful to a civilised country like this. They had
first their common law and customs, scattered over he knew
not how many volumes and traditions, They had three differ-
ent systems of law, to which every session was adding,
for England, Ireland, and Scotland. So far as Scatland
was concerned, he would do her the justice to say
that ske gave the Legislature very little trouble. As
regarded Ireland, he must say there was no
part of the United Kingdom which suffered more from the
state of the laws and the state of current legislation. Identity
between legislation for England and that for Ireland was the
exception rather than the rule, and towards midnight the pe-
culiar system of legislation to which that country was sub-
jected occupied a large portion of the time of the house. The
number of public statutes applying to England and. Ireland,
exclusive of local and private acts, was 18,251. This was in
addition to the common law, which was common to both
countries. There were 34 volumes of English and 19 vo-
lumes of Irish acts. Before the Union there were 2,263
Public statutes peculiar to Ireland, an 1 1,300 had been added
since, The system of double legislation which prevailed
created the greatest inconvenience, and inflicted great evils
upon society. Lord Bacon remarked on the accumulation of
the statutes in his own time, though the number was then only
2,572. He had there a book which showed that in the reign
of her present Majesty there had been more public statutes
passed than existed down to the reign of Elizabeth. Some of the
statutes which remained unrepealed were absurd and lmlic-
rous in the extreme. For example, one statute imposed
a penalty on Irish prelates for bringing any Irishman to Par-
liarneut ; another imposed a penalty for carrying coals to
Newcastle. (Laughter.) Another prohibited any Irishman
from coaling toEngland without a testimonial from the Lord-
Lieutenant ; another forbad any person keeping more then
2,003 sheep ; another had reference to abstinence from flesh
in Lent. These were mere samples of the mass of obsolete sta-
tutes. The statute law commission gave a list of 10,047
statutes which were either repealed or obsolete. A resolution
was passed by that house last year for sweeping away all this
mass of obsolete legislation. But had that been doee On the
contrary, the noble lord at the head of the Government, when
asked a question on the subject the other night, said the task
far exceeded the powers of the present Government—au an-
swer which did not afford much hope of any attempt at im-
provement by the Administration, and which therefore jus-
tified the attempt which Le hilaself was now making. 134
acts were passed during the last session. Thus the process
of accumulation was still going on ; and the weight of law
under which the country had been so long groaning was still
increasing. It was remarkable that while so many abortive
attempts at improvethent in this respect had been made in
this country, the object sought had been accompliahed in
other countries and at other periods. The Justinian Code was
perfected in less than four years, and the Code Napoleon in
102 sittings: There was a mere modern instance in the case
of New York. In that state a complete digest had been made
of the statute book, incorporating so much of the common
law as was inseparable from the statute-hook. The whole was
reduced to three octavo volumes ; and the Judge of the Su-
preme Court of New York, Mr. Parker, said that, on the whole,
the consolidation was highly successful, and popuhs.r with the
profession. Lord Bacon made proposals to James the First
for the consolidation of the IaWS, observing, that ho thought
be should best show his gratitude to Lis Majesty for making
him Attorney-General by reducing and re-compiling the
laws of England. It was often said that obsolete statutes did
no harm; but, in oppesition to this view, Lord Bacon re-
marked, that by leaving, on the statute-book acts which were
unsuited to the spirit of the times in which they lived, the
Legislature weakened the authority of the other laws, and the
living died in the arms of the dead. One important point
was to fix the boundary of legislation, to determine where
legislation should stop, and where reason, education, and re-
ligion should be left to exercise their influence. In 1787 Har-
grave alluded to the increased costs of the accumulation of
the statutes, and observed that were Bacon and Hale alive
they would not be unconcerned spectators of those evils.
Since that period the statutes bad doubled in number. In
the year 1816 a resolution in favour of classifying the
greatestn
abtlity
andstatutesawdadsrepsiamptoasetdbeancdraezriaead
4bein thesb
subject
tuswe
was
sf
aLgorrdeasd,
to. 4,585 statutes had since been added. In 1826
mcaoteamtleianttswaofek
practical of Sir
Lie bert
statesmanshipPe Peels one
rief
tiled
—the consolidation of the criminal code. Sir Robert
of his task ; he declared that lawyers came to his aid in the
Peel availed himself of the best assistance in the performance
most generous manner; and, accordingly, the attempt made
was eminewly successful. Great public advantage was at
once derived from the classification of offences into offences
(against the person, offences against property, and so on.
That change, though very good as far as it went, affected
only the criminal law. In 1833, Lord Brougham, then Chan-
cellor, appointed a commissioa. The commission made a re-
port in 1835, but nothing. was done in consequence. There
had been a great deal of advice on the subject, and a
great deal of pointing out what ought to be done ; but what
Parliament wanted was that something should be done.
(Hear.) In 1843 Lord Brougham addressed letters to the right
hon. baronet the member for Carlisle (Sir J.Craham), who took
a great interest in the subject when he was at the head of the
Home-oflice. In Feb., 1853, the present Lord Chancellor pro-
posed to Parliament an admirable plan for consolidating
the statute law. He proposed to begin with expurgation,
to proceed afterwards to classification, then to consolidation,
and lastly lie proposed to set up a standard of new legislation.
He (Mr. Napier) thought that if that proposal had been pre7
perly carried out, the result would have been beneficial. At
s
present there was a double system of legislation for England
aid Ireland, and had the statutes of the two countries been
consolidated into one imperial statute code the best
might been •
the Chancellor that
have anticipated. It now appeared, leeway%
the very first step in the process, in which
pro-
bably expected
were nob prepared
• of a bill—was ono which the Government
stated the other
no difficulty in 1853—namely, the preparation
to take. The noble lord (Lord Palmerston) stated
now
pointed
he thought he had
night that that step was impracticablea.ndH had
out the state of the existing statutes,
ought not to be allowed
shown that it was one in which they
In point of fact, the Statute Law
to remain. Wear, hear.)
He now came tothe next branch
was necessary to have done. Commission had not
dsucce.eedeld in doing the work which it
legislation. This was of still
of the subject, namely, current the
greater importance than state or f the statute-book. In
statutes, good sense might enable them
the midst of obsolete tmuch was net cre-
ditable to the people
harm; though it e
to struggle on without
this count •their that
Lear.)
laws should
be in such a condition. ( ear, Lear.)He had always been
to do what he could to
assist in the legislation of
this cowl, try but he had constantly been baffled in his at-
tempts. Session after session, and night after night, he saw
anxious
the same kind of bills introduced. That night he heard that
the Old Fishery Bill, which he had considered to be extin-
guished last year, was to be introduced again in the present
session. He wished some of the financial gentlemen would
examine into the expense to which this country was put by
abortive bills, and doubted not that if such an inquiry were
made it would turn out that the cost was sufficient to pay an
ample staff for the furtherance of the object contemplated by
him is 919 ion, Moir, hear,) public bill mild ho
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d exce t b some person who was acquainted slastical Courts Commission, in which, on one question, five . present asked to pledge themselves to one particular mode 'is imnostible that this house aiid th o h h se of Parlia-
properly f rame le y . . h to• ' - ' • ' lednel to erect a sea-mark add place a lieht ship on St. Pat- from Sho bu
eter ou i . . e . e ryness, having gone through the second Country Markets. - '
dLarVneeEolftPTuOiOneLr-s
h the s rhole state of the law with regard to its subject of the members differed from three •on another two from of effecting te o ject, I caniot agree with the meet should be called upon to abdicate their functions, and riek's Causeway-a reef in Cardigan Bay, which was ex-
i series of ' experiments with Colonel Cho.lmers' 10 inch
A good atten
mwaittter - beet, under the Present sYstem, private members seven ; and on another, one from Blithe rest. A's a general hon. and learned gentlemen the member for Cambridge when individual members would not yield their own opinions um- tremely daegerous to shipping. A promise was given, but howitzer guu. Since the pontoon metal has been -....--...-_.
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- ' . al • h • 1 h. d. •th ut any rule each of the commissions seemed to take an individual he complains of the absence of any attempt to improve the plicitly at the dictum of the offieer in question. That member nothing whatever had teen done. strengthened all the experiments have turned out satis-
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brought in. b s wit some partieu ar o ject an wi o
iaft,ori.ly, co.nsequeatly tire-raft has been pronounced in
Fark:il3l. dle2a.lers to-d" a'ar.' At
know-ledge of the general slate of the law'on the subject to journey through the statute-book, but all to return to the engination of this country. He has alluded to the important of the GoVerurnent might say-" I think that such a proposal Mr. PHILLIPS, though he shared in the anxiety of his e . - . -
f aid to oppose same point and with the same conelusion_namely, that the reforms introduced by Sir R. Peel for the improvement of the a bad one ; 1 thiek it
which ther.re .
ferred The Government were a r liable to this objection or to that oh- hon. friend for the establishment of a harbour of refuge in
1 h fortress of abuse was completely impregnable. (Hear.) It was criminal law, and says that nothing has beendone for the ine- iection if the words Proposed are inscribed in the bill ;' but Cardigan Bay, recommended 4im not to Press for the appoint- pence sery
e ice co edition. . the beginning of tho market holders of wheat requirnd an
their introduction lest the sh i il be defeated • anc t e pas.
. y o d , .
t 1 th that if they meant to succeed with law reform provcment of legislation since that period. I think he has individual members would persevere in retaining their own ment of a eommittee in the face of the unfavourable opinion A. curious experiment was on, Monday tried in the advance Over Friday Of I‘.l to 2d per bushel, which ohecked
sine of tbfe bills thus introduced became ultimately a sort of qm e e ear, en,
0 h He believed that they must turn to some means which bad not as yet been scarchlY done justice to some of Sir It. Peel's suCeessors. I opinion, and the house would very often back them, and so which they had'just heard from the right hon. gentleman. Arsenal marshes at Woolwich with a new description of business, and only a moderate one was effected. American
scramble among those who supported t ern.
t take an credit for m lf shell, being the invention' of a Mr. Stevens. A piece of red wheat sold at 10s, 108 3d, to 10s 64 per 70Ibs. In flour
• • ld be found a remedy adopted. What were those means to be ?He did not rely on canno y yse , but when I was Secretary the minister of justice might find himself, as other members The house divided-
if his oronaeal were carried out it wou
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• - the example of foreign countries, juwhich the expedient was a of State before, the valuable .and important consolidation of of the Government sometimes do left in a minority if a di- Ayes wood fitting the bore of the gun was attached to a shell, no change. Indian corn declined 6il per qr., and in slow
for this state. of things. As one instance of the anomalous
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home we had a reeedent in the a - the criminal law known as Je is's A
11 th ttte b k wes at the present time, he minister of justice, but at p p h. . . l , ry ets, was effected, and vision should take place upon tho question. Therefore you Noes • l7B-74 according to the inventor's eeotrivance, to accelerate its demand. No alteration in the value of other articles of
state in whici e s a n - oo •
ilia trade.
intment of a Minister of war, who had In a great degree re- tis is just y regarded as one of the greatat improvements in could not comlene tho absolute power of a member of the The motion was thus lost. ' flight, which he expected would be a very long one.
' hh t 0 t I•htatte Po
would call theattention of t e onse o ne or wo ris s n s.
odern le hlation The S
dnced the military chaos of which the country had some- m •gl . • tatute Law Commission have pro- Government to` direct legislation in what he might think the THE IRISH MAILS. --
The statute:7 and 8 Vic., c. , •
76 TM passed to facilitate the Several of the shells were then fired from a 6-pounder
oi lained te somethin like order Theo had ceeded in the same course and we shall o n I t e h
time since eo-P . . g . , . , , --, 80 , rus., -aye proper codrse, with the inherent constitution of a deliberae Mr. MICANN moved for a return, for the quarter end- LEEDS-FEB. 12.
gun and in each iestance the wood was shattered in •
transfer of la n -a very i
d •reportant object, but one requiring
iso a poor law minister who had rendered signal service, and tne opportunity of Passing our opinion upon the labours of tive assembly like this. Certainly. there might be some ing the 31st day of December, 1855, of the number of let- • ' The show of whea • .
that the law u pon it should ne clearly intelligibte to all. The very
lle
pieces, and the shell. ro. d to a distance of about 200 tis only moderate, and in consequence
a, minister of health, and a minister of works ; why not then that commission in classifying? and codifying the statute law. weieht attathed to the iocommendations aud the objections ters received in Dublin 'by the mail which leaves Euston
next session it was found necessary to amend it, and an act was . •
• yards. In fa,ct, the experiment completely faile.'. of the damp weather the condition generally is defectiye.
f • t• ? H
a minister e jus ice ( ear, hear.) The task of consolidat- If you want a great deal e .
o work done in a short time you of such a public officer ; that would depend upon the lege' Station at five o'clock p.m., and of the number of those letters . . For best dry whe . • •
passed for that purpose. The third section of this latter act was
h h The following: promotiens and appointments were ats there is a fair sale at rather over Fri-
' • fth I• h 1 'th effard
intended to meet a peculiarity o e ris aw wi r p ing onr statute law was a great work, and would require t e must aye a dictator, and whatever the labours of individuals attainments and professional knowledge of the individual who which were forwarded by the morning mails from Dublin day's rates ; other descriptions, move slowly at former
Admiralt •
made yesterday at the . y ,
whole energies of the ablest man we could get, It could not may be, the bills to give effect to them must undergo a first might happeu to have been selected for the office. Now, my to the provinces ; and siniilar return of the letters received
to leases and stmenders, but by one of those blunders which
prices. The supply of south bailey is rather be ond the
he casual and second readine in both ho es nd h xamin '
be made the amusement of dilettante lawyers, or t . 0 us , a tat e, anon of noble friend behind me has quoted the difficulties which have by the mails which leave Easton Station at 45 minutes past The Rev. W. W. Campbell, Chaplain to the Dragon;
bad driven him to tro-a
ble the house on the present occasion,
demand, and the value recede.. Oats and b Y . h
eans wit
ocCupation of busy nractitioners • no it would require the the details bY indenendent members which renders the cow n
, l ase" was substituted for " lease " and thus a- - - ee ' • • .e e . - - , -I- eeen experienced, and the length of time whieh has ehepsed, 8 p.m., and of those forwarded by the night mails from J. G. Barnes, Paymaeter to the Archer ;A. Rowe, C, other articles, without material It • '
a oration.
the word Ire e , . . h whole time and attention of a first-rate man• and he belleven ocation of the statute law a slower process iu this than inother in passing a great veriety of iin ' t br ••b t D lel'
Per ant pu ic measuies , u u in. W. Herne, T. J.' Ley, T. C. H. Shears, H. Gilpin, A.
fruitful source of litigtion was opened. So, again, in t e
-.------,
that Governm t ld • t th b 'the appointment countries which do t ss the
tatute (tine 26th chapter of the sesaion) was en- _ . eii. wou acquire s mug x .
(ff ) f f . . . no posse .
.unquestionable advantages if he will allow nee to saY it, I think that those difficulties and Mr. WILSON would have no objectiou to the return were 0 vey, A. T. .M. Rebertsid 13. Luemore, Assistant- .
year 1849 a s
IPSWICH-FEB. 12.
acted, and in the very same year, by cap. 110, t e o
h f rmer act r
o a minister of justice with sufficient qualincations. ear, 0 ree institutions. Th„unject is one that has engaged the delays depend not upon the absence of each a member of the it not that the Post-office accounts did not coutain any mate- Pa tdt th kf P.
ymasters, promo e o e ran o ay masters.
Such minister of "
ded Another instance ocenrred in the case of the justice, whether so calle .
n . dor Secretary of attention of the Government, and I hope we shall soon be able Government as that whose appointment is now under consi- rials for making it. . -- The supply of wheat was not large, but the trade. wax
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wCoas ausPeLa P d A Vh th lin s goine through State, sinned have a competent legal staff, and his office to take a decided step upon it.' I therefore hope the right hon. iteration but upon the resistance in Parliament arising from Colonel DUNNE hoped that the Government would as- - • firm. Best samples sold at a trifling advance upon last
mmon w roee ure et. 1, en e i wa p
MILITIA. .
b't 101 t I.* 't xtended certain sections
that house, yi s s secoon i e should be the repository of an the judicial statutes of the gentleman win not now ask the house to pass a resolution the variely of opinions, the resistance wieich alwann is opposed sent to the re-appointment of tho committee on the Irish Th 1 R ' week's prices, whilst the damp and ill-conditioned samples
e st egiment of Sonierset Militia has left Taunton were neglected. Barley in less supply, and the best quell-
b'ect of evidence to all country-a mint in which we were at present singularly defi. without knowing what must be the staff, what must be the to the progress of any great system of improvement in your mails.
having relation to the important su j
for Aldershott camp. ties sold readily tit 188 and 19s per coomb. Beans and peas
dora When the measure cient. That office should be open to complaints of the work. expenses, and the duties which the new minister is to be ex- laws; and that resistance will alsiays be found, let who maY The motion was then withdra,wn.
courts of justice in the United King .
The Royal Cornwall Rangers' Militia Regiment, not hut few at market and heavy to sell.
Mons of amendment ected to erform '
h use various 'alterations were made, ing of the various courts, and sugges , p p .
be the officer of the Government by whom such measures are THE CURRENCY.
went up to the other o
rim QUARTEtt. , - ,
' t the original numbering it should collect information, and from that menu_ Lord g. ReehoELL_l think that the house is greatly in- proposed. Suggestions for the amendment of the law, andva- Mr. MUNTZ said that as he understood the Government being able to recruit its strength up to 400 men by the lila QUARTO.
which had the effect of thnowing ou
Wheat, red (01d)... 64s to 70. s Barley, grinding ... 824 to 1140
tion however, was thereupon tion it should be the dutY a the_ Finister to ?relearn, debted to the right hon. gentleman (Mr. Napier) for having rious matters of that sort, can oily be carried through by a intended t 3 oppose the motion of which he had given notice time aPPointed, has been dissolved, but many of the men
of the sections. No proper altera ,
Ditto (new)
I hence as it happened, Eng, measures which the Government coma subsequently intro- brought befOre us a grievance of great extent and importance conjunction of the majority of the two houses of Parliament, on this subject, he would not bring it on at that hour of the ha,ve entered revimente of the line.
made in the 101st section„ an( ,
o Ditto, white • 72s to 76s Peas
he inferior courts, of ono very inn duce to the house. In addition to that, the Minister of aus„ and I think. that he has likewise proposed with great mode- and that conjunction may certainly he hastened by the argu- night (a quarter to 11). He would bring it on again on Tees-
land was deprived RS tO t
_ Ditto (old) . - a tO -s Ditto (white)
s. . ' .1 n Ireland there was conferred tice might superintend the current legislation of the country, ration a proper remedy. Ido not think that the remedy he has ments urged by a member of tho-+-Government ; but the de- day, the 19th inst. .
portant provision, whi e npo
Barley, malting en 365 to 38oFlour, per sack
b her Von which was in the manner he had jnst not interfering with the free action of individual members, pro Posed is open to the objection taken to it by my right hon. lays which had been alluded to do motorise from the difficulty ADULTERATION' OF FOOD, dre. P.RICES 0-1?" SHARE'S
y anot sec i ,
described extended to a
ll courts, powers which were quite but ready when called on for a suggestion-for he believed friend the Chancellor for the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Biines), or impossibility of framing proper hills. but from the diffi- Mr. SCHOLEFIELD moved for the re-appointment of - AVERAGES TOR THE WEEK ENDING FEB. 9, 1856.
has they had already been possessed there were few individual members who would not be glad to namely, theta is vague and inaefinite. It was the deity of the eulty of persuading Parliament to adopt those bills, when the committee on the adulteration of food, drink, and drugs. IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM
Wheat' lOO4 quarters, at 74s 9,1
unnecessary, inaserue
by the judicature o ,
f thet coantry for a long series of years. refer from time to time to a competent authority respecting right hen gentleman not to enter upon details, or to dictate to properly framed and submitted to their judgment ; therefore, -Agreed to. PANIES' STOCK. . Oats
Such wretched mistake's as these could never ocenr if there the technical bearing of their measures. They would thus the Government in what manner the new office was to be 30 far as the functions of a minister of justice could consist in CONTRACTORS DISQUALIFICATION REMOVAL. • _-___ ,„..-___ Peas
were a proper department duly charged with the preparation avoid the errors which were constantly creeping into acts of constituted, but simply to state the principle upon which he assisting and directing this a,nd the other house of Parliament Mr. T. MITCHELL moved for leave to bring in a bill to Barley
of the statn .
tes No doubt there would be some little extra Parliament. A very striking instance of the imperfect man. wished it to ne established. Bat while Ithink the right hon. in the act of new legislation, I think that somewhat of an ex- repeal the act 22 Geo. 111., di qualifying contractors from From the, Official Last. Beaus
expense me
' urred by such a plan, but that ought not to be the ner in which some of our statutes were framed had latelybeen gentleman (Mr. NaPier) quite justified in making hiS motion, aggerated view has been taken of the advantage which would being elected to, or meeting and voting as members of the PUBLISHED EVERT TUE3DAY AND FRIDAY EVENING
••••••••••...0
consi e
al ration in a matter of such vital necessity. The coun- cited by Lord Lyndhurst. It appeared that some time ago an Ido not see how the house, aft,r hvhat has been stated by arise from the creation of such an office, though Ido not House of Commons. The act in question was of such a •
LONDON, TUESD AY, FEB. 12, 1856. . HULL-FEB. 12.
try had a right to the best talent and the best ability that act had been Passed making it penal to forge a parish register, the Government, can in:mood to adopt the resolution of the mean to say that there might not sometimes be conveniences sweeping character that hon. gentlemen were continually
could be procured. Wherever that ability and those talents and the penalty was to be given, one moiety to the informer, right hon. gentleman, since it aPPears that persons of great resulting from in Now, in regard to the other point, viz., being involved, quite nnawares, in its meshes. Ho might; GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. A moderate supply of English wheat, and condition ga'
were to be had, the country ought to possess the benefit of the other to the parish. During the passage of the measure authority and learning are now assembled for the purpose of the reform of the existing mode of leeislation, I think that refer to several instances which had Occurred within a very
0 nerally indifferent. For dry samples Is to 28 more moneY
them. (Hear.) In truth he believed that no increase of exa though that honse an hon. member proposed to add to the considering the subject, and have nearly agreed upon a report gentlemen have rather lost sight of what has been done when phort period. Amongst others there was that of Sir S. M.
Name of Company. per
Dividend Amount
of had to be paid. In Foreign nothing doing. Barley dull-
raid. Price. Beans ls lower. Oats !without change. Linseed and ite
use would be incurred by such a plan, for it would obviate PecteniarY mulct, 14 years' transportation, and consequentlY which is about to engage the serious attention of the Govern- they represent that no considerable improvements ha.ve b.:co Peto, who had been permanently disqualified from sitting in
Pe
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the necessity for their perpetually recurring to acts to amend it became the law of the land that in such eases the in. meat. Ent while we are bound to wait to see the recom- made in the direction of legal reform, It is, perhaps, rather the present Parliament by simply undertaking what was
and acts to explain acts which ought never to have required former and the parish should divide the fourteen years' mendation of the commission in a Mature state and in its de- a good tendency of the human mind to undervalue what has really an act of kindness te her Majesty's Government.' A , , X s. d. Z s. d. there are no transactions.
amendment. Another fruitful cause of mischief and doubt 'is there is a eat differ
transportation between them. (Laughter.) He trusted tan , gr ence between the proposition been done, and to fix attention mainly upon that which yet stronger case was that of Baron Rothschild last year ; British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• ,-- - - - it 8 I _
I. Ill•
that the statute-book would be cleared of these absurdities, of the right hoe. gentleman and that propounded by the remains to be done ; and it is not a tendency that one and without pretending to be a lawyer, he must confess he Ditto Frovinelal ••••• • 71. 20 0020 0 0 24% Wheat, English, red 66 to 72)Peas, grey and black -to ---
was this, that acts on kindred subjects, or on subjects touch-
and its contents consolidated ; and, in conclusion, he begged Government. The right hon. gentleman proposes that a re- would feel at all disposed iu the abstract to quarrel could not see the distinction which had been drawn by the Brighton .• •• •• •• •• •, M. 20 0020 0 0 15 Ditto white S.s. 74 to 76'Linseed, Black Sm., 65.6. ro
ing in some of their parts upon the same points, were prepared
City of London .. •• .• 41. Os. 100 0 0 150 fil 0 -
by different commissioners. Thus, not very long back, there to express his opinion that the motion of his right hon. and sbponsll d .
ible Minister shall be a ointed-
pp by what name he is to with ; but nevertheless, when we aro endeavouring to fix in committee appointed' by the house to sit upon the matter,
Continental (4th Cats.). - - AO 0020 ,0 o Dantzic and Konigs- - IDitto Petersburgh ... ate 0
learned friend, indicating, es it did, a want which had before ecae is not very materi il-but responsible to Parliament, our owe minds the real state of things we must not forget between a contract to supply a small quantity of goods and Equitable .• •• ........ 2/. 10s. 50 0 0 all aete berg 7B to' 82 Ditto Riga and Arch-
were two bills brought in, the one founded upon the report
been recognised by Lords Lyndhurst, Langdale, Brougham, whose dutY it shall be to Pro Pose and conduct through the that great progresshas heeiamade of laL years in the improve- a contract to supply sixteen millions of money. He alrrays Great central ....... A/ per cent. 10 0 0 all iI ti Pomeranian and Hans- . angel
of a common law and the other of a real property commis-
and the Attorney_General, and which was generally felt and House of Parliament he which he may sit-and I suppose he moist of the law in its variensbranehes, although that is rather thought that the constitutional check upon malversation Imperial .. •• ........ 101.& bonus. 50 0 0 all 86 burgh
sion. In one of these bills the limitations of actions with
acknowledged, would end in some real and energetic attempt would have a seat in this house-all such measures of legal a reason for going on, and. by no means a reason for objecting. was to be sought for in the responsibility of Ministers, Independent .......•• SI. 40 0 0 o - Dsutish,Holstein, and Memel 5B to 6°
• respect to (mean' claims in connection with real estate was
ndon.• ........ •• .. - SO 0 0 -
form as the Government ma a r
at a remedy. He did not presume to dictata to the Govern. re . t y pp ova. I think the ap. or opposing anyobstaele to measnres-of great and further lin- and not in bills of pains and penalties. Besides, the Lo Friesland 6B to 72 Per Ton.
fixed at six years, while in the other 20 years was the limit.
• 1 61
Do., lar . Preference . per cent. 25 0 0 -
ent of such a Minister
ment what that remedyshould be, but he thought the remedy porn in would be of great advantage provement to be made i Now, my right hon. friend the Chan- act was really quite useless to preyent that against Russian and Odessa 64 to 68 Litus. ce, Hull 010 s to 11115 a
Both bills became acts ; and there were upon the statute-book
Phcenix ............. 41. per cont. 60 0 0 52 ii; 0 -
two equally binding, but yet directly conflicting laws. An- Proposed by his right hen, and learned friend an important and convenience. IVhatever amendments to his bills may be cellor of the Duchy of Lancaster has told the house that tho which it had been aimed, for it was perfectly noto- Ratcliff..... ....... 51. 400 0016 0 0 16 Oats, English
attempt in the direction of law reform, and as such he corn. proposed, he will either be able to defend his measures, and Statute Law Commission are at the present moment engaged rious that it could be evaded with the most p3rfect orniteA General ...... 21. 10s. 50 0 0 all 19X Ditto Danish
other sample of the inconsistency which the present system led
mended it to the notice of the Government and of the house. to show in what respect they are better than the amendments in considering propositions that are to be submitted for atop- ease. Erery eplovernment was most ready to transfer + westminsterChartered 4) per cent. 60 0 0 ~ 55 Ditto Friesland
to occurred in the y 1848. In that year he had introduced
Mr. BAINES said that the pubic ware greatly indebted proposed, or to give way to those amendments if he sees rea- tione My hon. friend who spoke last behind me (Mr. Ewart) contracts to those members of firms who were not seeking Ditto, New ........ - 50 0010 b o lo Ditto Russian 26 to 30 Rape cakes •-,s Od to 135.04
a bankrupt act for Ireland, and in that act he inserted a
h.
to the right hon. gentleman opposite for taking up the son to do so, and this house will be disposed to listen with said that it is a question whether the,proposal which is to be to enter parliament; and that equally with respect to gentle- Barley, malting
clause which he took from a proposed measure of Lord
WATER-WORKS.
gh that question, and for the temper and ability with which he bad greet deference to the arguments of such a Minister. It is a made is a proposition for continuous or 'merely for a tempo- men who were their political opponents, as with those who
Brougham's. The bill, with the clause, pissed throu
introduced it to the house. (Loud cheers.) It would be totally different thing to have, as it seems intended to have, miry improvement. I believe thtt very question is under were inclined to give them their support. On the part of the Dividend Amount Beans
house without objection. Meanwhile a bill came down from
impossible to over-rate the importance of the subject • certain officers under the Lord Chancellor or some other Mi- consideration, and therefore I think that, considering that mercantile community he must repudiate all desire to enter Name of Company. . per of Paid. Price. Ditto foreign
the House of Lords with a clause in it similar to the one
indeed he had himself long had occasion to observe and nister, whose business would be to frame the details and to thos-3 emiaent men iviioliave.been appointed to tho task have into collusive bargains with the members of the Government. • Annum. Share. Peas, white and yel. 58 to 60 Rye Meal
to which he had already avertei. This identical clause, •
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lament the state of things existing with regard to the statute correct the language of acts of Parliament. Suoh an arrange- at the present moment under their consideration proposals In the Admiralty all large contracts were put up by adver- --e-
-altheueli it had but a short time previously passed the house
- X s. d. X s. d. " • .-....-- .
law which the right hon. and learned gentleman had pointed ment would be exeellent in order to avoid those gross blun- which m iy. eventually go far to meet the views •of the right tisement for public competition, and he supposed the same D ÜBLIN--7FEB.. 12. .
without a word, excited opposition upon its second appear-
East London
out so clearly. He (Mr.Baines) believed that not only in that ders of which an illustration has been given to-night ; but, hon. gentleman opposite, and of the house at large, I think rule was adhered to in the other departments. The hon. gen- e
ance to such an extent that it was in the end withdrawn.
Grand Junction
Another evil arose from the practice of passing acts for house, but generally throughout the country, there was a per- with regard to the general principles of our legislation, officers that right hon, gentleman would do well to adopt the euggee- tleman concluded by moving for leave to bring in the bill. Kent as per mt. 100 00 ' - 78
Eneland, and thee, in the following session, passing others feet concurrence of opinion as to the existence of great evils of that kind, not having Seats here, not being able to explain (lion of my right hen, friend, that is to say to waive for the The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said he had no Lambeth - 100 0 0 - _l4 Factors hold for higher retest- which were realieed to a
for Ireland, ;sometimes with slight verbal alterations. An in the state of the law, and the necessity there was of hitting themselves t• the house, and not knowing' the wishes of Par- 'present asking the Rouse of Commons to agree to the resehl- objeetion to the motion of his hon. friend. The repeal he pro. Newßiver CompanY •• , 21.105. - - - trifling extent. The general tone of the market firm, ev
example of this kind occurred in the case of the act to some substantial remedy. The only question left for them to liament, would have very little weight and authority. They floe which he has proposed, reserving to himself, later in the posed to effect would have a double operation. First, it Southwark &Vauxhall st: per ent. 100 0 0 -
t Middlesex - 89% cept for Indian corn, in which the business done was onli
8914 trifling, at late currency.
amend the Fi„„nd Recoveries Act, which was passed in a consider was what the remedy should be. His right hon. and would, indeed, to a certein degree, improve the language of session, if he should find that the result of the labours of the would remove all doubt as to the liability of loan contractors Wes
late session of Parliament. Another class of acts to which he learned friend had not proposed any distinct remedy, although bills brought before us, and. prevent the introduction ef in- cOmmission have not been such as the house feels entitled to uuder the Contractors Act.. That question came before the BRIDGES. ---- --- --, -.-
must refer were the Board of Works Acts. These were he had established to the satisfaction of every one that a state consistent clauses when those bills were about to pass, and so expect, are not calculated to lead to any sufficientlysatisfactory committee which sat last session in the case of Baron Roths- • •
Dividend Amount ..
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brought in about the middle of July, when it was extremely of things existed which loudly called for a remedy. The right far they would be useful a hut for the great objects which result, the right to renew his proposition either in its present child. The greatest discrepancy of opinion existed amongst N eof Com r of
Pony- Pe Paid. Price, Amsterdam ............ 11 18 Gibraltar .......• •• •• •• - ,
difficult to get the attention of hon. members to any subject. hon.gentleman spoke merely of a department of public justice, the right hon. and learned gentleman has in view their utility ehape or in any other shape that may appear to him to be better the members of the committee upon the interpretation of the Annum. Share. Ditto, three months .. 12 OSS Leghorn .. • ... 3' 22
41
At the latter end of last year a bill of this class was brought differing in his views on that point from the hon. and learned would, I conceive, be very_little. What I should be glad to calculated to lead to a practical result. (Cheers.) I can only net with regard to these contractors, but the majority decided
in, which was most objectionable in some of its details. He member for Plymouth, who, it appeared, would cast on the See, and what we have wanted for many years, is a depart- assure him and the house ,that her Majesty's Government are that they did not Come under the operation, He should not •• - • • Xs.d.A s. d. Antwerp .............. 25 60 IMilan ...............• --- '
per. Napier) attended in the house from day to day, morning Proposed department functions far more extensive than were meat, with an officer at the bead ait who should make this deeply sensible of the extreme importance of this matter, and venture to express an opinion on the legal question, but he Htingerford.......... . - - - 12 Brussels .............. 25 60. I Venice .........• .... -
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and evening (for it was when day sittings were being held),in contemplated by his right hon. and learned friend. A depart- Particular sort of reform his business, who should obtain from that they, so far from wishing to throw any obstacles in the way had no doubt that the committee decidedly rightly in the Soilti Ititwo lw
of
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order to prevent the measure being hurried through without meet of public justice for this country might appear easy in Government certain days to bring forward his measures, and of the improvement of the law, feel that it is undoubtedly view of expediency. There was a great difference between Waterloo ........ ••• • • - iOO 0 0 - - Paris.. .................. 25 40 'Messina .. ' ... ia34,
opposition or comment. Ultimately, finding that every day it itself ; but they must consider what the idea involved. suffici nt time for their discussion, instead of having them one of those matters which it is the duty of the Government loan contractors in this respect, that in the case of loan con- Ditto Old Ann,
„ef 81. • 11. 14s. Rd. 60 0 0 - - Ditto,lhree months ..' 25 80 Lisboa ...... ..... ..... b 3,11,
nia,de its appearance and wa,s passed over, and fearing that an Some persons believed that the Minister of Justice ought to be brought on at the end of the session, and who should call the to pay the greatest and most earliest attention to. I should traCtS, the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the one hand and Ditto Nw ditto oflis• 11. 10s. 4d. 40 0 0 - 26 hiarseilles ............. 25 82y, Oporto ................ ea%
opportunity would occur when it might he get through, he a person having high political funet'ons He believed thatthat serious attention of Parliament to those measures. There hope, therefore, that the right hon. gentleman will not press the parties who made the tender for the loan on the other Vauxhall .......... • • '96s. 70 10 3 - 20% Bourdeaux ............ - Rio Janeiro ..... ......• !--
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went te, the secretary for Ireland to expostulate upon the sub. was the view of the hon. and learned member for Plymouth ; are instance', without end of cases in which such an officer his resolution on the house at the present moment, but wait hand, were merely negotiators mid not principals-the one -
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ject, but was told that it was not in his department ; thence but his right hon. and learned friend had confined himself to would have been useful. It is a great many years ago since and see what shall be the result of those deliberations in which representing the Government and the others the subscribers -
he went to the Irish Solicitor-General, and got the same re- a narrower issue-namely, whether it would be desirable to I heard the late Bishop of Lincoln-a very learned and able the Statute Law Commissioners are at the present moment to the loan. The a:green:tont made by them was merely a pro- Dividend Amount
raid. Prim Trie5te................ 10 47 PI.I.ICES or source, psi oz._
ply ;in the end he " caught up" the bill in the Treasury De- have some authority to assist in the business of legislating, and man-call the attention of that most eminent judge, Lord engaged. visional one, which required the confirmation of the House of Name of Company. pgr , of
Annum. Share. " Petersburg ............ 36% ' Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 . 9
partment, and it wag only by using the strongest expostn- to that point only, he (Mr. Battier) should direct his observe- Stowell, in the other house, to the defects in our law with Mr. M`MAHON was not satisfied with the working of the Commons, and, therefore the act which imposed penalties on Madrid ............... 49% Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 !-
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lotions that he succeeded in his object. Now, this was tions. He had already stated that not onlY in his own °Pi' resPect to the disciPline of the clergy. He mentioned a case statute commission, which ban coet. the country upwards of persons contracting with the Commissioner of the Treasury Xs.d.X s. d. Barcelona .......S .. - New Dollars 00 0,
not a course to which a private member of the house anxious nion, but in that of a great majority both in and out of the. in which a clergyman had been guilty of gross and notorious. 100,0001. and Do beneficial results had proceeded from it. He could not be held to apply to agreements for loans. The case Commercial .• ••••- •• . 5/. pr cent. Stock. Stock. . - Swint° . . • • • ...•
IS
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to do his duty ought to he subjected. Had there been a pro. house, the conviction existed that the Present state 'of our immorality, to the scandal of his neighbourhood, and he had thought that great benefit would result from the appointment was different where partiee enteredinto othercontracts-as the East and West India.. ' 6i. pr cent. Stock. - 119 ti
per responsible board of officers entrusted with the supervi- laws required a remedy, and a confirmation of the general opi. been obliged to institute proceedings, which had thee ex- of a minister of public justice, for he could do the same duty supply of coals, ter instanceeto the Admiral Board or to the East C•antry• • 2os. per sh. - - - ii. ,
,
sion and care of bills, to them he should have gone and stated nion was to be found in the report of the Statute Law commis- tended over four or five years, and had cost him 3,000/. or that the chairman of committhes did for private bills, and he Commissioners of the. Treasury. itf• anyreasonable doubt existed London .••••••• •• • •1 5/. pr cent. Stock. - 100 SEABORNE MAILS. ..
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his objections. The project which he brought before the sion, in which not only was the existence of evils stated, but 4,000/., but had not arrived at a Satisfactory conclusion. Hero hoped the motion would be persevered in. as to the exemption of loan contetors, he aereed with his hon• St. Katharine • • ....•••• 4 per cent. Stock. - 84
il forth 'The commis- was a gross defect in the la
house was not a new one, nor was there wanting to it many the sort of remedY neeessarYwas shadowee • • w which did not apparently re Mr. CRAUPURD urged Mr. Napier not to press the house friend that that doubt should be removed: and that the Go- - onthampton .. •• ••• 34. os per c. 50 0050 0 0 - (N signifies that the malls are sent from the General Post OW
distinguished advocates. Some years since Lord Brougham sion reported that nothing satisfactory could bo expected, until quire any great effort of legislation to reach it, but it had to a division on his motion, but to wait to see what the Go- vernment ought to support a bill having that object. With Victoria ..••• ...... - I si; per cent. 20 00110 0 0 17% by the night-and Mby the nsorning-despatch.)
hail stated his views upon the subject, and niged the neces. either a beard or some body was appointed whose duty it would never been corrected to this day. Gross cases.of immorality vernment intended to do. regard to other coutraets, there was some doubt ; and whilst _ee
sity that existed for the organisation of a board to superintend be to revise all bills for Parliament. That was the report still occur ; bishops are still obliged to institute proceedings Mr. ROUNDELL PALMER contended that they could not reserving to himself the opinion he might form as to that per-
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the drafting of the statutes, and at the head of this board his of the law commission, and was most deserving of attention, at great expense and loss of time to themselves, and Ido not appoint a minister ofjustice withont altogether disturbing the tion of the bill, he should not object to its introduction. Dividend Amount COUNTRIES. in General Post- Per!' i du, 1,
Ibrdship was of opinion that the Minister of Justice might to seeing that it had attached to it the names of Lord know that the facility of legislation upon the subject will be present functions of the Lord Chancellor and the Attorney- Mr. J. G. PHILLIMO RE said that he was unable to under- Name of Company. Per of Paid. Price. Office, London.* Dispatch- ! Ere '4l°'
be placed. ‘• without some such system ” said Lord Chancellor, Lords Lyndhurst, Brougham, and Broug,laam, the increased bY its having been taken into the especial care of General: It would be a further inconvenience that such an stand the ground of the decision of the committee, because I Annern.. Share. _____.„ __________
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Brougham, "it is impossible to work out any r;lan of safe and Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron, late convocation. It appears to me that if we could get rid officer must go in and out with the MinistrY, so that they any person who read the debates when the Loau Contractors' ---_-__ --______- ___x •
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efficient law reform." So also at a much more recent period Lord Wensleydale, Sir W. Page Wood, (he. That baiug their of the ecclesiastical notion, that ecclesiastics alone are fit to would not eat any eminent lawyer to give up his practice by Act was passed, could not fail to see that it was especially Australasia... ...• •• .. 20/. per cent. 40 O o , all 92
the subject had again been brought under consideration by view, and the cm:whaler:et° which th h a
---aY -a- COMO last session, judge of such subjects, a prosecutor or attorney-general of taking 5W,317 an office, uniess they awarded him a large salary directed against that very class of contractors which the com- British NorthAmerlcan 51. per cent. 50 0 0 It % packet) ..........N
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Lord Lyndhurst, who pointed out how necessary it was that he might perhaps be allowed to call attention to what they the Church might be appointed, who Might bring cases of this and a large retiring allowance. mittee by their decision declared to be exempt from its ope- Commercial of London. 10/.per cent. 100 0020 0 0 -s- packet) ...........N - ••o• • • • South.smst•, gen 21
the present system should be araended. His lordship referred had done during the Present, since their labours had been re- kind before a tribunal which might speedily decide them, Mr, NApIER replied, offering to amend his resolution by ration. As to the other part of the bin, he thought tho house Colonial -••••"" •• • • - 51• Per cent. 'lOO 0 0 25 0 0 - Australia (via South-
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to a eme in which a court of law had been for many days slimed. He was happy to say that most valuable suggestions and the Church would then eet rid of the scandal of having omitting the words, " securing tho skilful preparation of should consider well before acceding to thom. ampton) ..........M ' •••••• ••• •• •• Southatnetio,
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engaged in endeavonriug to pnt a meaning upon the word had been laid before them, some by the hon. aud learned such notoriously unfit ministers, and the bishops would be bills," and substituting. g,enerally, " with a view to Promote The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that if his hon. and London and County .. 101. per coat. 50 0020 . 0 0 Eve (via Cape of Goeiiii,
" may" in an act of-Parliament, with respect to which they member for Cambridge, others by the hon. and learned mem. relieved of an unfair claim upon them. There are ahem. in, the better auiendment of the laws of the United Kingdom." learned friend who had just spoken with so much confidence Londn and Westminstr ;14/. percent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 4-6% •• .. Uncerta
ultimately came to a conclusion diametrically opposed to that her for Suffolk, and a plan had been devised which he be- stances of the same kind. Many years ago, at the end of a Sir G. GREY could not agree to the resolution in that studied the question on which he spoke, he would see that London Joint• Stock ... ,121, per cent, so 0 0 10 0 0 31% AiviriiegiCCo.ag..t.)`:-.Nind ofthe month.• pl mill' :,. Mar 6
at which another court had arrived. Upon that occasion the lieved he might say had received the sanction of the commis- session, I took charge of a bill for the reform of the ecclesi. form, but offered to accept it if the right hon. gentleman he was in error in point of fact, for Baron Rothschild had en- Provincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 52 Alexandria .... .. .. .. N:8, 9, 24, &30of m • Dover .... . l
Lord Chancellor admitted that the evil called loudly for re- sion. The end of that plan was shadowed forth in the passage astical courts. Sir R. Peel, who was then in office, was would omit the words, ‘. the creation of a department of public tared into no contract at all. If his lion. and learned friend Ditto,. ew•
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medy. Time fact waS that in the framing of statutes the re. he had read, which, he took it, was identieal with the motion about to commit that massacre of bills which takes place justice," and allow the eesolutioe to stand thus:-" That in had read the Loan Act, which, with great deference to him, I:isis_aatt:oli:risoi o
vincial of Eng. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 33 0 0 -7
' Bahamas ...........m rt. 1.1 of tbe anent! fienthamptor (
sponsibility was too much diviaed, (Hear.) Hon, members of his right hon. and learned friend. He was not, of course, everY Year, and I was obliged to give it up ; and the fines. tho opinion of the house provision should be made witha view be begged leave to say he had not -(laughter, and " Yes I Ditto. New •• •••. . . , 8/. per 'cont. 20 0 0 1o 0 0 3IA
Belgium '..• . • . • • • • .11. 911ftal Yit.l;. ••
••
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DOM ....., Marie •
Brazil ..............at; o e month.. Southamptol Feb 16.
iermitted to state that plan in detail, but he believed it ti f the reform of the ecclesiastical courts is still waiting to secure the skilful structure and preparation of Parliamen- have," front Mr. Phillimore)-he would find that it was ex- Orientai Bank Corpora. 141. p. ct.Stbs. 25 0 0 all
came into that house perhaps far half an hour only when the I
40 Buenos Ayres -,,, .., ~ Al 9th of the month - Bentham? to:, Feb i 6
inbody .onie most valuable suggestions. The question f‘.l' the attention of Parliatnent. (-near, hear.) Do not tary bills, and promote the progressive amendment of the prcssly framed in such a manner as to operate with regard to south Australia ...... 141 p.ct.&bs. 25 0 0 o
house was in committee and proposed off-hand iraportant al- would e
39hi Cape of Good Hope ..N 'Various pots lUncsstei'
bill. Rightly and then for them to consider was Whether it would not be desir- til. Te that
_the law offic.ers of the Crown can prevent these laws of the United Kingdom." the subject matter of the act as a repeal of the Contract Act, Union of Australla••••• 30!. per cent. 25 0 0 ~ ,71 li Owe of Good Hope ..N
tcrations disturbing the entire scope of a
1t d the writt„ laws of a country like thin able to see this plan before theV Pronounced a definitive °Pi- tn'n.s ; wlth tilt'," Publlc duties and their private practice Mr. NAPIER had no objection to consent to that anent. and therefore if the perses negotiating a loan had entered Ditto .............. 301.-per cent. - 210 0 - cape de Verds . st: 9th of tbe month southerner., nee, 16
proper y o raw up
nion. That, he was authorised to say. was the view of the they have already a great deal too munch ou their hands. The tion. (A laugh and cheers.) into a contract, but which they could not perfect till the Union of London ..... 20% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 28 Ceylon (see Indla) .
was a great a gigantic task, (Hear.) That was all the more
Union of Madrid ..r• . - 40 0 0 all ••••- Ceylon ..............N . ,
' -11 to by men whose duty it I,arned members for cansbridge and Suffolk ; and, being so, right hon. gentilernan who spoke last seemed to think that The resolution was then put, and passed nem. con. persons competent to do so concluded the contract, till in fact , -
reason that it should be mitten, cc .
Channel 151e5.... ~..N Mola•Aredu&Frli• Southamptor Tu.Tb.' 8
• • hole tteition to it. At present it was Perha
should be to give their w a b - d • b If • I h d even e uew Minist f J t* ld hel • • •
ps it would e concarre in yis rig it on. an • ,_ er ous ice wou ai ly have sufficient HARBOUR OR REFUGE AT CARDIGAN, a loan act was passed, that subsequentloan act was so worded CANALS. hhm................ee 2d &17th of month Southatnpto. ,
' business. (Hear.) As the learned friends to whom the house and the country were time for the important duties tbat would be thrown upon as to operate as a repeal of the contract act, and exempted
everybody's, and therefore nobody s
China ..... Once a month.... Kan 4.
3fr L. DAVIES rose to move for a select -committee to in-
matter stood, statutes came berore courts of justice, they were mueh indebted for the ability with which he lad introduced him ; but if a Minister, with no other busieess to occupy him • . the parties from coming under the penalties imposed by that 4 Dividend Constantinople ......h ,8,13,18,23,528 01 is Dover n- ..
there laughed at - thejudges were in the habit of stating that the question. would find the task too much, how could it be undertaker; quire into the adyisability of coustructing a heebour of refuge • Names of
• act. With regard to loan cOntractors, therefore, the present i elj Dividend p,4„A Names of w Constantinople nen._ leth & 20th of mon Southampto.
i e-6. per ^ ^-" Companies. el's' per rri
they were unable to say what was the intention of the Legisla. Mr. L. KING said that most of the evils in our laws might by the Lord Chancellor or tho law officers of the Crown ? and defence in Cardig in-bay, end whether it may not be ad- bill was unnecessary, and with regard to the other parts of the Companies.jh A ,
m nnum. ; .e . Annum. ce• Cont. of Europe M& N Twice daily ..., - - Dover .... • TwitrilisiP
ei , Egypt (see India) ,
ture, On the other hand, the Legislature were sometimes in be traced tO the nlilitary system, which had at one time been ManY caseS must occur to horn gentlemen in which measures vanta,geous also to employ convict labour in the said works ? bill he saw great daneer from them on pablic en.ounds. ,
mle
the habit of charging courts of justice with passing over and found the most convenient for the Government of this coun- involving no party questions liave been delayed for years and The hon. gentleman began by urging the great importance of Mr. PHILLIMORE said that lie confined his observations - .
4 ! j -- - France ........ M& N iTwicOsiaily...... Dover .... ~ Twleeo
X 1 ar ......... 31,4,7,17.20, 27 sfm SoutheMpten
forgetting' the spirit of the law in the mere verbal criticisms. try, the ouly change being', that for the savage barbarity of years in that way through this house. When I introduced the' the subject in reference both to the preserva.tion of human life to the object which the framers of the Contractors' Act had in Ashtn IsOldli 93 71. p. Ct. 145 Macclesfield. 100 21. 10s. 51 reef: (see India) . I ' '
Such a course was not of a character to raise in dignity our the dark ages we had substituted the more refined mischief Charitable Trusts Bill, I-mentioned that the question had been and property, and the defence of the country froda foreign in- view. He said nothing about the Loan Act. Barnsley.• .• 160 t - i - Neath ...... too . 161. - Oreytown ..........M•2nd h 17th of mon Southempten
.
conception of the law or of those who administered it. The and legal subtleties of the present time. The statute laws under consideration about 30 yeaes ; the question of County vaeinn. He then proceeded to bring forward a number of facts, The house then divided- , , BrkiikorAbrg 150' - 41. - Oxford.. •• • • 100 - - Hamburgh .........„N Tuesday & Friday London .....
• -
which could be authenticated, and on which lie founded his Birmingham •10 41. 91% Peak Forest. 78; 5/. Os. 76., Havannah .......• •. Sli2nd of the month Southanaptes :Feb. 0-
plan which he advocated wouh\put an end to all this, and were now in such a condition that they could hardly be un- Courts was under consideration about 25 years ; yet I find For the introduction of the bill 46
would have the further advantage of leaving the House of derstood by the lawyers themselves ; but there was another that, although tho two Houses of Parliament are employed motion simply for inquiry into the matter. He stated that the, . Against - Regent's ....
Derby • •... 100' 6F. 15a. 84 Rochdale.... 30i 11 143 Holland ............M I DallY• ••••• • • •-• Dever - ...pail! ,
85: IL 103. 76 Ronduras
„..„,.....34 17to e ithe month..6outhamp•tor !tether%
distance between St. David's-head and Holyhead was 92 nau-
Commons free for the diseussion of broad questions of prin. branch, namely, the unwritten law, which was in a still more almost every year upon those subjects, their task is not yet Leave was then given to bring iu the bill. Elisinre&Chs: 69 2% p. et. - Soinrset Coal 140 - - India (vlaSouthampt.)lll 4th is 20th Of mon. Plymouth .. 4& 20 01'
• tical miles and. elon,g that whole liue of coaet there was net
ciple instead of its being engrossed, as was at present too unsatisfactory state. The law was, in short, the decision of completed. This house, in fact, appears to be taking a course . QUALIFICATION OF JUSTICES OFTII E PE ACE, Orandjunetn 100 3!. pr.ctl 36 Do. Lk Fd St 12 - - India (via Marseilles)mi9th&2sth of month Dover .• .... I
often the case, with mere petty questions of detail. Nor the jadge, and remained so until some subsequent judge came the reverse of that which has been taken with regard to the el '•
t' ' hich ac shi ld ob h 1 '1 o
a sine e porn in,w .he con . tain s e ter, an cvi s 3lr. COLVILLE. moved for leave to bring in a bill to Do., 6 or. Ct., 10 6L pt. et. 11% Stfird &Wore 140 281. 420 lonian Isles (see India)l7, 17, &27 of mon Delver...." ,
enormous that ail the shipping goine up St. George s Chan- Grand Purrey 100 41. ' - Shrewsbury.. - - ' 13,4'1
........m k}l Twice dolly ...... Doe, head •. el'w ,
amend the laws relating to the qualification of justices of the 125 _ . Ireland
would this be all-the statutes would be uniform, would be to a contrary conclusion, and the reselt was that a wise man steam-engine. IVhen the steam-engine was first invented much
1 eie obli el to b • d ' 1 of 33 t
e insure at an ac vance per ceu . Grand stnion 100 11.0 s. ' - stonrbridgc,.. ~ir) 12/. 2eu rai5b0n..............m 7,9, 17,5 Vof m. Southamptot Feb. 1°
classified, and, at least, would net carry upon the face of would prefer submitting to injnstice, rather than defend his of ins power was wasted, a great deal of the steam produced nei
twh • g peace. Leave was given. Kennt & Avn 39 Os. Od. 6% Severn and"' 21 mada!„ ~..........01 9th of the . Month Southampton'
them actual contradictions. Let en honourable member take right in a court of Uw. Referm might be difficult, but they being of very little uso ; but Watt and other inventors con- remiums althoneh he admitted that a part of that
oi C p , . e .
_RETURNS ORDEItED. - Lancaster -1100 - - Wye Rail. a 26 • Madeira ...........,,N 23d of month •• :. Liverpool ...
laree per centape of insurance had reference to some difficul-
up a volume of the statutes, they would be found ttnne, must recollect that only a short time since olir military was trivet' in time that nearly all the power generated should be IRISH Pooa LAW.-On the motion of Mr. Honsmes.-Re- Leeds &Livsp, 100 251. 470, Warwick &? i 2/, 24 Malta (see India) •
tie:of nevi ad of Vie Mn. Lookine to the sh' pine
5/. • 49% Birming. j 100 r
together as if bound into the cover with a pitchfork, as bad as our legal system, but taught by the disasters in the applied to the purpose for which it was intended, and very tonna g on
' " "3%
' • IP- 0 turns showing tho total number of paupers (in-door and out- Leicester -•• '100; Malta .............al 8. 18, &28 of mon. Dover n ....., 4&20 la
little waste uow takes lee° But Parliament 50 aers aeo
(Hear, hear.) There would also be a body who could re. East, we bad already arrived at a better state of things. The P• • , y ~ , got ge that went up and down that coast, whieh was in so 1 •
c oor) in receipt of relief en the first Saturday of January, Leicstr &Nth' 83, - - Warwick & / n IS Mauritius (see India) = 1
defeneelcss e'state ha thou:At that he had only (riven some Low•ht•oroet 142 701 550 Napton.. j 100 • Mauritius ..........N 14th of the montt
ceive the suggestions of practical men throughout the right bon. gentleman who had spokea last augured great tbrough whatever business it had to do, whereas now, although '-. •• . ' e . - e . 1855, and the first Saturday of January, 1856, in the unions
few statistics to induce the house to erant tee committee he unou s 0. - - ores r
Mot' th'h 10 ' NV t &I Kexico .......;...N 2nd of the month. SouthamptonlFeb, 16
countiy, who could also take into consideration the reports things from the report of the commission. He must confess you, air, very often sit in that chair from 12 to 4 o'clock in the of Ireland ; specifying the increase or decrease in the latter, mntgmery,h'iool _ ...... . Binning. 78 21. 21 ma lea „ „..„ , 1.4 Sthlsth2Stbormon. :Dover . '
of committees and commissioners. None of the existing that he had no faith 'Whatever in that commission, for he re- day, and then from 6in the evening till 2in the morning ht It • h 1.1 ' • th • •
soug . mig tbe supposed tat to mention o shipping as compared with the former period, Of the total number mennitlwbry 100; -s- :•-. Wilts & Brks -10 s. Od. - Ng/ o;•a.n"aiite... •24 5 17th of month Southern. .io• ..
....ti p-la
means of information would be passed over, but a depart. membered one that was established in 1830, all the members many bills have to be given up at the end of every session, and of Cardigan as compared with that of the rest of the kingdom of paupers in receipt of relief in • the workhouse in each pro- . New Zealand.. ~...,
ally private slip .. Various port- Hneerl 1°
ment could bo found able to take that information into con. of which had since died off or been used up elsewhere, with- all the power created by such protracted sittings does not it would appear very small ; but still there was no less than vince in Irelaud, at the clos 3of the first week (ending Satur- INSURANCE COMPANIES. papal states
........ii Nthlsth2stliofmon. Dover .... ..1
sitleration, and turn it to practical use. There were depart- out producing any result. The commissionerwho still remained contribute to the effect of useful and wholesome legislation. 210 ships using that bay in the yeer, with a tonn ige of -
day) of January, 1849, 1850, 1851, 1852, 1853, 1854, 1853,
manta for war; for trade, for the navy ; whY ehould not jus- was a personal friend of the -Lord Chaneellor's, and it was to lam perfectly ready to wait, at the request of the Govern- 11,891 ; while of strange ships passing by it there was an and 1854, &c. Name of Company': per;
Dividend Amount
of peru
..............m 2d & 27th of mon. Southampton I
Paid. Price. Port Natal ..........N • fly privet° 'ship... Various ports Uncertto
tice-of ail things the most essential to the internal well-being be regretted that his lordship should have permitted a private ment, until new propositions, recommended by learned aherage. of 710 vessels with a tonuaee of 33 000 The shin-
, , e , • - FEES ON BARONETCIES, dr.C.-OLI the motion of Mr. GUINNESS, . Annutn. Share. Sicily
........... InNthlNtll2sthotmex, Dover ......
of a country-have a department also ? He hoped that the friend to retain as a sinecure that which should be the most authorities, shall be placed before the house ; but I have ping going up and down the Cleannel was estimated to con- Address for return of all fees chargeable upon baronetcies, .
Tuscany ...........; N'sthletheethohnon. Dover ......
,
house now that it had got the subject fairly before it, would important office of the day. From the law officer.; of the Crown already made up my mind upon this point-that of the two to the value of 20 000 000/ a. ear with a
vey property e , , • Y • Order of the Beth, or other hciuourablo distinctions confer- Zs.d.X s. d. ven„„te
.. .
......ee 2d & 17th olmonth Southampton 1 & le ine
give him its opinion upon the proposition. He had proposed taey could not expect much, so much was Quit. time occupied propositions of the right honourable and learned gentleman tounamee of 11 00),000 The honourable entleman then
stated' h ' . gcrean Bt 1 t red by her Majesty in rewerd of distinguished services, aud Albion ... ... .
a..1.1;:e.;,
71. ees
ri Ttbs tlgg g g I? g g 83
Van Dlemen'eland (se:
it at the end of last scission, and every hour's reflection which- with other matters; besides, Lord Lyndhurst had pointed out opposite, on the one hand, and of appointing a certain num- t e numbegoef PCSSCIS 103 t near Car tel. .1 y
to: , e _
i any expenses incident to such creations and distinctions. Alli,ro3el3,elr'lihhi.., ':
61. p.c:& be. •1100 0 0 25 0 0 4-13% Australis)
••
- " " '' 2d/b •
Welt Indies ........ y 17th 01Montl Southareptotill 516 law'
he had since given to the subject had confirmed him in his that in the commission there had been a want of co-operation her of clerks to mend the details of bills before they are passed, year, giving their names and the number of iyes os lin BANK NOTES. -On the motion of the CHANCELLOR of the Ancho'r :... :•.:. 6 per cent. 5 .0 I 9 0 -'
determination to persevere in the matter. (Hear, hear.) between the law officers and the other commissioners. Neither on the other hand- the proposition of the right hon. and each, and stated the amonnt of tonnage known to boost
a ouuted to 12 000 He also Betted the number lost or EXCHEQUER, Copies of the correspondence between the Chan- Atlas ••
••
::.. . 15s. Od. 50 0 0 515 0 17% • _,........-'
• de•
He called upon the image to unite in reseuine the law and could they expect muchneform from the Government ; indeed, learned gentleman is the most phirosoPhical, the most prac- . m . , • . . colter of tee Exchequer and the Geometer and Deputy-Co- Argus Life ........... 4Lper cent. 100 0025 0 0 - When any of these dates fall on a Sunda t
y, he malls will , r ,
, injured off Fishguard Ba aud mentioned that in one day in t hed ' •
spa c on the following dan with the exception of the India CO
the administration of justice from its PreSent °defective state. the First Lord of the Treasury had intimated as mulh in reply tical, and the most conducive to that improvement in our le- vernor of tho Rank of England, ain the subject of issuing ad- British Commercial .. 74. los. 50 0 0 50 0 6% Southampton), and th Mlt ' both o. a tee
Octobei last I h ' Y.'
ssels we racked or damaeed.
no ess tan 22 ve ro w ' . •• 1 ClericLafed.& Gen• Life spr et. & bs. 100 0010 0 0 21% 0 aa, of which will be deSPs.al•- '
Much remained to bo done. The hous-e had still to settle to him (mr. L. King.) Ravine' quoted a short Passane from gislation which is one of the great objects to which Parliament • ditional Bank notes within the limit of the act 7 and 8 Vict., preceding day.
the jurisdiction of onr different courts, to amend their pro- Lord Campbell's " Lives of th% Lord Chancellors," tile lion. ought to direct its attention. He next read a letter from a person whom he said was an
authority who stated that if a harbour of refuge was esta- c. 32 ; and of the order in Council author' • ' •
'sing the issue in County .. .. ... .. .... •, 41. 100 0010 0 0 120
Crown .... ...... • ... 17s. Od 50 0 0 50 0 18% - .
- -
question. .
• ss
eednre, aud to lessen as much as possible the difference member concluded by giving his cordial support of the motion. Mr. DRUMMOND could see no possible objection to the re- blished on that co tno • 1•h h 1 b
ne of the casualties w tic ac een . Eagle .. ...... 58. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
rADVaitvissmaNtr.} -*-- Sionr AND YIKARINO, - SPECTAULRS,
between England and ireland, If they persevered in such Mr. WIGRAM supported the motion, and thought that solution, the Usefulness of which be thought was rielnev•dent. d • ' as . CHARITABLE USES BILL. Equity and Law.-- 4% per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 5% POWERFUL.
escnbed would have occuired and 'that the cost of its eau- TELESCCirts ur
an . , , , - ERA, Race aue PERSPECTIVE GLASsee'
This bill was read a sec 1 •
on. time. European Life l/. 20 0 0 18%
a course, voices from the noble dead would honour them, his right hon. and learned friend had exercised a wise dis- Mr. MALINS thought that instead of regretting that so structio e d not fie o th '6O 0;0/ oh' 80 000/ All he
nn e . .mre an , .. ~ . . Genera 1.......... .. t, ee 50 0 5% -Messrs. S. anti B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Alberearl°'
the recollection of the noble-minded and manly wisdom of cretion in not pointing out the particular lino of reform that little bad been done, they should rather take credit to th SUPPLY-NAVY ESTIMATES. . ~
em- asked for was inquiry in order to see if some inexpensive 5/ er cent Stock
Globe .•.. •• .-.- , . p . .
..
104% street, Piccadilly. Observe - opposite the York Hotel;
Remaly would be with them, they would have the good ought to be adopted. One point he thought should be deter- selves that they had accomplished so much. With reeard t • • ' • • • Mr. FITZROY brought tip the report of the committee of
.. 0 structure might not •be erected, with a view to the saving . Guardian ............ 51. per cent. 100 0 0 47 5 0 51% By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable anus
wishes of one who yet remained, whose eye was not mined on, namely, that the minister of justice, if appointed, the proposition of appointing a minister of justicedie thought supply on the navy estimates. .
such a sacrifice of life and property. The hon. gentleman Imperial Fire......... 12/. per cent, 500 0 0 50 0 0 , 340 extraordinary improvements in the most powerful anh
dimmed, and whose natural fire was not yet decayed-he should have a seat in Parliament. On•li a minister might that suck a functionary being removed from the practice of JOINT-STOCK BANKS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Imperial Life
then treated the subject with reference to the question of .- t2s. 100 0 0 10 00 ' 18% brilliant Telescopes, Camp Racecourse, Opera and Per;
On the order of the d '
ay fur the second reading of the biil, Indemnity Marine.... 11.33 Is. 3/. 100 0020 0 0 77 spectivo Glasses; to know ' the distances ''' ' 5
alluded to Henry Lord Broug,ham. (Hear.) He (Mr. Napier) initiate measures of law reform, a thing which it was hope. profession would soon lose the qualifications necessary to the defenc •1 f • • • d f•d t th Won
e agams oreign invasion, an re ene, o a opi t of objects viesvc
did hope that the house would join in giving effect to those less to expect from a Government. He did not recollect any effieieut performance of his dut'
les, and would overlook those lii reply ta Mr. BLACKBURN/1, Law Fire ............ 2s, & 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 - -
through them-of great importance to the army, navY•
of the late Duke of Welliugton with regard to the defenceless ' Law Life........, .... - 100 0 • 10 0 0 61
Propositions which he stiould submit. He hoped by these which had been originated in that quarter siuce Sir R. Peel's defects ill the law which every-day practice broue
oht under • Mr. IVILSON stated it was not a continuance of any exist-
condition of this c mit • 11 I lit 1• t a historical • L 1 •
0 iy. eaSO C ere, in 0 ega and General Lire - 50 00 , 2 0 0 fils and others. These telescopes possess such extraordinar/
ing act, but almost an exact copy of a bill which had passed
powers that somo three and a-half inches, with
melons that our laws Might be rendered consistent, rational, valuable alterations in the crimival law. What they wimted the eye of the law officers of the Crown and ban" t
es ers prac- review of the proposed invaelen of tins country ley Napoleon . London ' 11 10s. 25 001:2 10 0 2.tee an extra ele•
clear, and intelligible-worthy to be deposhed in the sacred was something. done in the same business-like manner. He tising in the courts. tl h I. t •
. . . . . . , , ie ouse as session. • I • a l• • • . • . ... • .
_ _ I_ 0 I. • . - •••
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ultimately came to a conclusion diametrically opposed to that
at which another court had arrived. Upon that occasion the
Lord Chancellor admitted that the evil called loudly for re-
medy. The fact was that in the framing of statutes the re.
sponsibility was too much divided. (Hear.) Hon. members
came into that house perhaps fer half an hour only when the
house was in committee and proposed off-hand important al-
terations disturbing the entire scope of a bill. Rightly and
properly to draw up the written laws of a country like this
was a great, a gigantic task. (Hear.) That was all the more
reason that it should be attended to by men whose duty it
should be to give their whole attention to it. At present it was
everybody's, and therefore nobody's business. (Hear.) As the
matter stood, statutes came before courts of justice, they were
there laughed at - the judges were in the habit of stating that
they were unable to say what was the intention of the Legisla.
tore. On the other hand, the Legislature were sometimes in
the habit of charging courts of justice with passing over and
forgetting the spirit of the law in the mere verbal criticisms.
Such a course was not of a character to raise in dignity our
conception of the law or of those who administered it. The
plan which lie advocated would put an end to all this, and
would have the further advantage of leaving the House of
Commons free for the discussion of broad questions of prin-
ciple instead of its being engrossed, as was at present too
often the case, with mere petty questions of detail. Nor
would this be all—the statutes would be uniform, would be
classified, and, at least, would net carry upon the face of
them actual contradictions. Let an honourable member take
up a volume of the statutes, they would be found etting
together as if bound into the cover with a pitchfork,
(Hear, hear.) There would also be a body who could re-
ceive the suggestions of practical men throughout the
country, who could also take into consideration the reports
of committees and commissioners. None of the existing
means of information would be passed over, but a depart.
ment could bo found able to take that information into con-
sideration, and turn it to practical use. There were depart-
ments for war; for trade, for the navy; why should not jus-
tice—of ail things the most essential to the internal well-being
of a country—have a department also ? He hoped that the
house now that it had got the subject fairly before it, would
give him its opinion upon the proposition. He had proposed
it at the end of last session, and
.every hour's reflection which
he had since given to the subject had confirmed him in his
determination to persevere in the matter. (Hear, hear.)
He called upon the heurie to unite in rescuing the law and
the administration of justice from its present defective state.
Much remained to bo done. The house hail still to settle
the jurisdiction of our different courts, to amend their pro-
cedure, aura to lessen as much as possible the difference
between England and Ireland. If they persevered in such
a course, voices from the noble dead would honour them,
the recollection of the noble-minded and manly wisdom of
Romilly would be with them, they would have the good
wishes of one who yet remained, whose eye was not
dimmed, and whose natural fire was not yet decayed—he
alluded to Henry Lord Brougham. (Hear.) He (Mr. Napier)
did hope that the house would join in giving effect to those
propositions which he should submit. He hoped by these
means that our laws fright be rendered consistent, rational,
clear, and intelligible—worthy to be deposited in the sacred
ark of the respect and affect'on of our country. (Hear.)
Mr. COLLIER. rose to second the motion of the right hon.
gentleman. He thought it almost impossible to overrate the
importance of the question before the 'house. It was not one
which appealed to public excitement, or which called up
party feeling; but it was of far greater importance than
many matters which comprised Intl: those characteristics.
It was, so to speak, a question, which concerned the general
health of the body politic. Nations, like Individuals, al-
though they wore anxious euoegh when any sharp or sudden
malady intervened, were veto be careless of their general
health. e That which his right honourable friend at pre-
sent brought under
.the consideration of the house was a
chronic malady, and such a disease one was apt to consider
inevitable. The fact was, that the laws of the country were
very far behind its present condition. There existed at this
moment tribunals and forms of procedure as out of place at
the present time as a galley of Elizabeth's time would be in a
fleet of steam-ships—some courts whose procedure was so un-
just that other courts wore obliged to interfere to restrain
them ; not content with law and equity, we had a third set of
tribnnalsin the ecdesiastical courts. There was no need to calf
to the recollection of the house the difference between real
and personal estate, nor the numerous abortive attempts
which had been made to simplify the transfer of landed pro-
perty., Nor was there any need to advert to the defective state
of legal education, through which, although we had many
able practitioners, we had few men capable of comprehend-
ing in one view thetelaw of England in its relation to the
general principles of jurisprudence as a science. He needed
not to call attention to the state of the statute book after
what had been said by the right hon. gentleman—it was
indeed a collection without a form, and void and darkness
as on the face of it, and one who hail heretofore defeated
every attempt to set it right. The worst thing about tee
matter was this, that it was an evil perpetually increasing.
Ne doubt there were some who despaired of finding It remedy
ecanse the evil was gigantic. Should it be said that the Ro-
man law, after hullo; accumulated for ten centuries without
any attempt to digest it, was yet reduced to order in three
Years—that Napoleon was able in a few years, notwithstand-
ing the difficulties of an excite(' political state, to codify the
law of France—that America, had a codified set of laws for
the state of New York—that almOst every state of Europe
possessed a code, and yet England had not been able—he
would not say codify-to reduce her laws to anything like
system. lf they had done their best and had failed, then, in-
deed. there might be a cause for despondency ; but they had
not done their best, or indeed had scarcely even taken a step
in the right direction. The true secret of the failures was that
and
indeed,siepa and
hitherto the reform of the law had been nobody's business.
(Hear, hear.) The law officers of the Crown were inade-
quate to the task, simply because. they had no time to attend
to it. The Lord Chancellor, with his combined ut' •
until
political functions, was equally
form no I t
had been eonsidereipart of
very lately, law reform preoecn pied,
o
his business. Lora Eldon never considered it to be his duty
to reform, but, on the contrary, gave the most t
Position to any attempt that might be made fromre/mous p
another
quarter. As for the Attorney and Sol.icitor General, what be-
tween their official business and their private practice, any
assistance from them was entirely ont,' of the question. What,
then, had been the amount of extraneous aid given ? Recourse
had been had froin time to time to commissions; but as a ge-
neral rule they had not been attended with any satisfactory
results. No doubt the Common Law Commission had, in so far
as it went, done some good, bat unfortunately all these com-
missions seemed to have been nominated on the principle of
balancing conflicting opinions, and the result was that now, in
no far as any definite conclusion was concerned, the members
were at a dead lock, or the results were useless. (Hear, hear.)
Take, for example, the Conerniasion on the Lawof Partnership,
which roppil4d, that the law was in a satisfactory state, such
rvo-rttreinn subsequently negatived isy the almost unanimous
iteadon of the house. (Hear.) Then there was the Eccle.

important office of the day. From the law efficer3 of the Crown
they could not expect much, so much was thoir time o2cupied
with other matters; besides, Lord Lyndhurst had pointed out
that in the commission there had been a want of co-operation
between the law officers and the other commissioners. Neither
could they expect much reform from the Government ; indeed,
the First Lord of the Treasury had intimated as mush in reply
to him (Mr. L. King.) Raving quoted a short passage from
Lord Campbell's " Lives of the Lord Chancellors," the hon.
member concluded by giving his cordial support of the motion.
Mr. WIGRAM supported the motion, and thought that
hii right hon. and learned friend had exercised a wise dis-
cretion in not pointing out the particular lino of reform that
ought to be adopted. One point he thought should be deter-
mined on, namely, that the minister of justice, if appointed,
should have a seat in Parliament. Still a minister might.
initiate measures of law reform, a thing which it was hope-
less to expect from a Government. Ho did not recollect any
which had been orip,iaated in that quarter since Sir R. Peel's
valuable alterations in the criminal law. What they wanted
was something done in the same business-like manner. He
did not expect much from codification, seeing that the codifi-
cation of the merchant shipping acts had required a bill of
500 or 600 clauses, but the statutes might be taken up sub-
ject by subject, and thus practical amendments might be car-
ried out. At preSent Government did not take up the m tt-
ter, and when a private member carried a bill through with
great labour ;it was generally found to be unsatisfactory, and
ultimately rejected by the House of Lords. Thinking that
his right hon. friend's motion offered the nearest approxima-
tion to a remedy, he (Mr. Wigram) should give it h's
support.

Sir G. GREY—My right hon. friend (Mr. Baines) has ex-
pressed, on the part of the Government, not only their sense
of the importance of the subject, but their concurrence in the
spirit of the resolutions moved by the right hon. and learned
gentleman opposite (Mr. Napier). They agree with him,
there are very great defects in the present statute book, and
still greater defects in the mode in which acts are passed year
by year through the Legislature. They agree with him that
it is most important and desirable a remedy should be applied
to those defects, and that, in the words of the resolution,
some means should bo provided " for securing the skilful pre-
paration and proper structure of Parliamentary bills, and for
promoting the progressive amendment of the laws of the
United Kingdom.' I hope that, having met the proposition
in that spirit, the right lion. gentleman will not ask the house
to pledge itself as to the mode in which the object shall be
attained—viz., by the appointment of a public department, at
the head of which shall be a Minister having a seat in this
bowie. (Hear.) I hope that he will, at least, wait until
the subject has received the consideration of the eminent and
learned men who constitute the Statute Law Commission
to whom it has been referred, that we may have the benefit
of their opinion • on some points to which the right
honourable gentleman has called the attention of the house.
(Hear.) The report of .that commission, having been laid
before the Lord Chancellor, will be submitted to the Statute
Law Commission anew, and it will afterwards be submitted
to the Crown and to 'Parliament. We shall then have the
benefit of the 'opinion of those eminent men. I hope:the
Government will not be asked to pledge themselves to the
appointmeut of a New Secretary of State, as he has been
called to-night, and who is to bo invested with functions far
beyond the power of any individual, unless assisted by a nu-
merous learned and highly paid staff, While I cannot but
agree in much that has been said relative to the careless mode
in which acts of Parliament are worded, I am afraid that no
Minister of Justice will prevent many of these evils unless
Parliament abandons something of its free right of legislation
and its arrangement of details, which are the cause of much
of the inconvenience, of which the right hon. gentleman com-
plains. The right hon. gentleman would appear to be dis-
posed to leave many of the details of acts of Parliameot to be
settled out of this house ; but this would be difficult, if not
impossible, under the present praetice, for there is hardly a
bill passes in which amendments arc not made in committee,
many of them verbal, many important, and many proposed
without notice. These amendments in committee are the chief
cause of the inaccuracies and laconveuiencete which the right
hon. gentleman has adverted. The evil may be partially re 4
IN edied by the draughts of bills being first submitted to the
public department which the right hon. and learned gentle-
man proposes to create ; but the house will regard with ex-
treme jealousy the proposal to entrust any department of the
Government with the revision of the bills of independent mem.
leers, and the control over that right of making amendments
in committee which is now so frequently exercised. I agree
with the right hon, gentleman in -thinking it desirable that
the house should Support the
.Government in objecting to
the introduction of
bills which have no prospect of .passing.
Agreeing also with the right honourable gentleman, upon.the
general question, and regarding this as a Babied' of great
importance, I must deprecate ,espy hasty steps being taken
when a campetult
body sic Loo.leeiderin the b 'ect and I
ate' j •
think it =advisable that Government should' be at

Mr. EWART believed that, whatever the present decision of
the house, the end would be the appointment of a minister of
justice. He called attention to the advantage which had re-
sulted from the presence'. of a minister of poor laws in that
house, and expressed his conviction that equal benefit would
follow feom the appointment of a minister of justice and a
minister of education. The hon. gentleman then referred to
several of the valuable improvements which had been made of
late years in the technical process of legislation, and urged
that still greater advantages might be obtained by the creation
of a Minister of Justice, which would supply the motive power
of law reform, instead of merely perfecting the legislative
machinery.

Mr. WILKINSON had every disposition to take the word
of the Government that •They would promise something, and
did not advise the right boa. and learned gentleman, there-
fore, to persevere in his motion ; but if the motion were per-
severed in, he should feel bound to vote for it. If the scheme
which the Chancellor of the. Duchy of Lancaster had hinted
at was to involve the creation of a department or ministry of
justice, there could be no harm in such a resolution, as this
having beelit passed ; and if not he thought It would fall short
of what was wanted. Not only in framing new laws, but in
the repeal of obsolete statutes, the house required such an
official adviser. He would mention, as an instance, that there
was a statute of George ll.' a hundred and twenty years old,
which imposed a penalty of 500/. upon every man who should
sell stock which he had not got in his own name. Now, if
that obsolete statute were acted upon, it would interfere most
seriously with all the operations of the money market. It
would have this effect, that evely man on the Stock Exchange
would be asked, at once, whether he was engaged in any
other business ; because then, since he must sell no stock
which did not stand in his own name, all his dealings would
be unhinged in case of his failing in business, and therefore
he could not be admitted. This was an example of the ano-
malies aid inconsisteneies which were allowed to remain on
the statute book, and which required for their removal the
assistance of such a dePartment as was proposed.
- Lord PALMEILSTON—Sir, there can be no doubt that this
subject is one of the deepest importance, and one fully de-
serving the attentive consideration of the house. At the same
time, however plausible the proposition may be of the ap-
pointment of a minister of justice, I think that many of
those who have adopted the notion have perhaps not made
to themselves a sufficiently clear idea of the functions which
such a minister would have to perform ; and that upon
more.miuutely going Into it they might find greater diffi-
conies than at first sight .present themselves to view. I
do not,. however, mean to say that such an appointment
may_ not possibly be advisable, but I think it is one that
gaga to be well considered before the house comes to a
rescation, affirming positively and at once that such an
office should be created., Now the hon. and learned gen-
tleman who spoke last on the other side (Mr. MalinS) has,
I think, adverted to the difficultiee which would arise in re-
gard to some of the functions proposed to be assigned to that
office. I apprehend the objects in view are three. One
world be to direct the legislati6n of this house, while another
would be to originate measures, and the third would be to
endeavour to reform and improve the existing mode of legis-
lation., Now, in regard to the first two, it is very easy to
say that a minister of justice would prevent Parliament from
falling into errors in measures that pass through the two
houses of Parliament. 'We have heard the story, which is not
a very new 6ne, about the penalty of transportation, half
going one way, and half the other. No doubt there are many
cases, in whichhills pass into law, containing errors, either
Conflicting to other existing statutes, or errors by which they
do not acJomplish the purpose in, vk'ew ; but I think much
doubt may be entertained Whether the appointment of a.
member of the GovernMent, whoa° duty it might be more
especially to attend to those matters, would be sufficient to,
preveht altemher the occurrence of such mistakes. But it

Mr. L. DAVIES rose to move for a select committee to in-
quire into the advisability of enostructing a harbour of refuge
and defence in Cardig in-bay, and whether it may not be ad-
vanta,geous also to employ convict labour in the said works ?
The hon. gentleman began by urging the great importance of
the subject in reference both to the preservation of human life
and property, and the defence of the country from foreign in-
vasion. Ho then proceeded to bring forward a number of facts,
which could be authenticated, and on which lie founded his
motion simply for inquiry into the matter. He stated that the,
distance between St. David's-head and Holyhead was 92 nau-
tical miles, and along that whole line of coast there was not
a single point in which a ship could obtain shelter, .an evil so
enormous that all the shipping going up St. George's Chan-
nel were oblige' to be insured at an advance of 33 per cent.
on the premiums, although he admitted that a part of that
large per tentage of insurance had reference to some difficul-
ties of navigation of the Mersey. Looking to the shipping
tonnage that went up and down that coast, which was in so
defenceless a state, he thought that he had only given some
few statistics to induce the house to grant tae committee he
sought. It might be supposad that to mention the shipping
of Cardigai as compared with that of the rest of the kingdom
it would appear very small ; but still there was no less than
210 ships using that bay in the year, with a tonnage of
11,891 ; while of strange ships' passing by it there was an
average of 710 vessels, with a tonnage of 33,000. The ship-
ping going up and down the Channel was estimateel to con-
vey property to the value of 20,000,0001. a year, with a
tounage of 11,00).000. The honourable gentleman then
stated the numbecef vessels lost near Cardigan Bay lost
year, giving their naves and the number of lives lost in
each, and stated the amount of tonnage known to be lost
amounted to 12,000. He also stated the number lost or
injured off Fishguard Bay, and mentioned that in one day in
October last no less than 22 vessels were wrecked or damaged.
He next read a letter from a person whom he said was an
authority, who stated that if a harbour of refuge was este-
blished,on that coast none of the casualties which had been
described would have occurred, and 'that the cost of its con-
struction need not be more than 60,0 Of . oia 80,000/. All be
asked for was inquiry, in order to see if some inexpensive
structure might not •be erected, with a view to the saving
such a sacrifice of life and property. The hon. gentleman
then treated the subject with reference to the question of
defence againgt foreign invasion, and referred to the opinion
of the late Duke of Wellington with regard to the defenceless
condition of this country. lie also entered into a historical
review of the proposed invasion of this country lay Napoleon
in 1797. The hon. gentleman then quoted the celebrated de-
claration of the late Duke of Wellington, in his letter to Sir
John Burgoyne, as to the vulnerability of the south coast,
and urged the importance of attending to our coast defences
generally. He should be glad to see ticket-of-leave convicts
employed in useful works of this description. In Pentonville
there-were 412 prisoners.; the average cost' as 291. Cs. 5.}d.,
and the average earnings a trifle over 51. In Parkhurst, where
there were 514 prisoners; the loss was still greater, and the
case was much the same in Millbauk. In Portland, where
there were 1,400 prisoners employed on productive labour,
their earnings exceeded their cost, and the case was the same
at. Portsmouth. Ho hoped the noble lord at the head of the
Government would grint this committee; and if it were found
that the project was practicable that it might be carried out.
For the sake of humanity, some immediate attempt ought t
be made to stop the present frightful loss of life from shipwreck,
as well as to lessen the dangers of invasion. The hon. gen-
tleman then concluded by moving for a select committee.
The motion being seconded,
Sir C. WOOD said ho Would- first dispose of those por-
tions of the motion which had no reference to the proposed
object of the committee. Reference had been made to the
threatened invasion of Bonaparte, but ho did not see that any
defensive works in Cardigan Bay would have been of .much
service in such a case. It was true that a descent was made on
the Welch coast, some 50 or 60 years ago, but ho believed,
such was the bravery-of the inhabitants, that the invaders
were put to flight by a bevy of Welch women in red petticoats.
There already existed a large Government dockyard at Pem-
broke, which must be fortified, and it was not necessary to
have another fortified place so near. As to the proposed -em-
ployment of convicts, ho bad to state that a very large build-
ing hid been erected at Chatham, where they would undertake
to employ as many convicts as were likely to be available for
several years to come. On neither of these grounds was a har-
bour of refuge necessary to be iormed in Cardigan Bay. it
should also be remembered that since 1846, a harbour of refuge
had been established in St. George's Channel. The attention of
the Government had been called to the subject, and they de-
cided that Holyho id was the most-commient place on the coast
of Wales. A harbour of refuge had been formed there, and no
less than 3,000 vessels had ;taken refuge in it last year. On
this subject he had consulted the Hydrographer of the Admi-
ralty, and his opinion was that it was not only unadvisable to
dethis, but that it would be a positive injury to the trade of
the Channel ; for no mariner who knew his business would go
into Cardigan Bay if he could help it. The Trinity House had
taken great Pains to light that portion of the Welch coast, so
that vessels might be able to avoid that bay. Lights had been
Specially placed there to keep vessels 'clear away from that
spot. It was true that thedista.ne3 from Milford haven to Ho-
lyhead was about 100 miles ; but that Was no great distance
for vessels with It good'harbour 'on each side. With the de-
cided opinion of the Hydrpgrapher to the Admiralty that it
would be dangerous to construct a harbour of refuge in
Cardigan Bay, by enticing vessels there instead of keeping
on the other side of the Clam= I, he was not disposed
to accede to the motion: He thought it would be a mere
waste of public money to construct a harbour of refuge either
in Cardigan Bay or anywhere near it. On that ground he
should resist the motion.
Mr. L. DAVIES said, that if • anything would impress him
with the conviction that a naval man ought to be at the head
of the Admiralty, it was at the speech of the right hon. bart.
To talk of Milford-haven being a point ofrefuge after round.
ing St. David's Read betrayed unparallelled ignorance. One
of the lights referred to by the right hon. bart. Ties in such
a position that it could not be seen above 5 days in the year.
It was too much that the wishes of the inhabitants of the
district should be controlled by the opinionlof a single offi-
cial. Let the house be warned against relying on this by
what had occurred in the late Crimean campaign. He felt
bound to press his motion to a division, even if he went opt
alone.

CHARITABLE USES BILL.
This bill was read a second. time.
SUPPLY—NAVY ESTIMATES.
Mr. FITZROY brought up the report of the committee of
supply on the navy estimates. .
JOINT-STOCK BANKS (SCOTLAND) BILL.
On the order of the day for the second reading of the bill,
In reply to Mr. BLACKBURNFI,
• Mr. WILSON stated it was not a continuance of any exist-
ing act, but almost an exact copy of a bill which had passed
the house last session.
The house then adjourned at 20 minutes to 12.

Naval and Military. Intelligence.

Mr; WYNN sill h- bAcCatplie'd to the- Triuitphouse for

- -.-

Portsmouth garrison presents just now the appearance
of a town beleaguered from the sea and the garrison pre-
paring busily for its defence. A large fleet of ships and
gunboats is at anchor in .the roadstead off the town,
and new batteries and quarters for soldiers are being
constructed rapidly within the walls of the fortress. At
the top of the town a large range of dwelling-houses
and the theatre hare been pulled down to create more
room for military accommodation, while at the bottom
a heavy battery of 16 68 pounder pivot guns is in
course of completion, having taken the place of the
old platform of 6-pounder saluting guns. In the rear
of these has been erected a large shell magazine,
flanked by, .a high earth mound to protect it from the
shot of an enemy seaward ; new embrasures for heavy
32-pounders have been cut in the curtain of the rani-
parts at various points commanding Southsea, where
a mud fort has been built near the old atone fortress,
Southsea Castle, to strengthen that defence. A new
double drawbridge is in course of erection in lieu of the
old single one at St. James-gate "Point," where a bat-
tery and Royal Artillery quarters in rear have• for some
time been built to protect, the mouth of the harbour on
the right of the entrance. The Government are also
endeavouring to negotiate for a large extent of house
property in Green-row and the rear for further enlarg-
ing the barrack accommodation, and this to the extent
(says military rumour) of 30,000 men ! If so, Ports-
, mouth and its adjacent dependencies must become al-
most exclusively a citadel.
The new steam-gun and despatch boat Lapwing, 4,
' was put in commission on Monday by Commander
Thomas Sautnarez, and the new class 6.gun screw
despatch-boat Pioneer was put in commission yesterday
by Commander Mends. I-ler Majesty's ship Blenheim,
60, Captain W. Ti. Hall, was undocked at Portsmouth
yesterday after-refit.
tprloaccekedDediamullond,
No.
2,
Sparrowbawk, in charge of. the engines.
has R.
been'. appointed Pearson,
at
es herisa Majesty'seng assistant-engineer,
despatch lst
cl
agsu
Channel,n -RII
froHmetrhMe aNjfeescityit'earsrcarneewane,teaxivna-sohoiffp Arlglyienrlso,uCur
yesterday
afternoon, afternoon, and, in consequence of orders from the Port
steamingA dTnhi
ei e
screwl Sir
was off Plymouth on Monday a'.; noon, from the Crimea,
for the eastward. _
slowly.
N l7i
steamlliam transport Parker,

Dividend Amount
Name of Company. per of raid. Price.
Annum. Share.
-••------
; X s. d. Z s. d.
British •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •,-. I
Ditto Frovinclal.... 71, t2O 0 0 20 0 0 24%
Brighton ............M. ,I 20 0 0 20 0 0 15
City of London .. •• •• 41. Os. 1100 0 0 150 0 0
Continental (4th Cap.) . 50 0 0 20 ,0 0
Equitable-. •... •.:.. 2/. 10s. (50 0 0 all Xi%
Great Central ....... Al per cent. 110 0 0 all 11U
Imperial .. •• ........ 101.& bonus. 50 0 0 all 86
Independent ..... .. •• Al. 1 40 0 0 ..
London•• •• •• •• •• •... 1 AO 0 0 90

The paddle-wheel steam transport Cumberland, Capt.
Rivera, No. 151, from Woolwich, for the Crimea, put
into Plymouth Sound, wind-bound, on Monday.
Assi,tant Adjutant-General Yorke, commanding the
Royal Sappers. and Miners, with his official department,
having been retained at likpolwtch until the present mo-
ment in consequence of an insufficiency of room for their
accommodation at Chatham, yesterday removed thence.
Capt. Tilley's sth company is now the only portion of
that corps stationed at Woolwich.
The gun-boat: Forward,. 2, Lieutenant Commander
Nelson, has arrived off Woolwich Arsenal from Deptford,
to receive her ammunition, &cm preparatory to joining
the squadron..

JOINT-STOCK BANKS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Company per of Paid. Price.
Ann Om. share.
-------
X a. d. 4 0. d.
Australasia... ••• • • ... 201, per cent. 40 0 0 , all 9214
British North American 51. per cent. 50 0 0 66
Commercial of London. 10/.per cent. 100 0 0 20 'I) 0 --
Colonial .• • 51. per cent. ,100 0 0 25 0 0
lonian. .• •••• • • • 6/. per cent. 25 0 0 25 0 0
Lond. Char. Bk. of Aus. 20 0 all 0 17
London and County .. 10/, per coat. 50 0 0 20 . 0 0
Londn and Westminstr ,14/. percent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 46%
London Joint-Stock 121, per cent. 50 0 0 10 J 0 31%
Trovincial of Ireland.. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 52
Ditto, New.• ••.• • • • 81. per cent. 10 0 0 all
Natiour.l of Ireland.... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 22 10 0
Nat. Provincial of En. 81. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 731,4
Ditto. New
Orientoi Bank Corpora. IV. p. ct.&be. 25 0 0 all 40
South Australia • ..... 141 p.a.& be. 25 0 0 If 39
Union of Australia— 30,. per cent. 25 0 0 , 71%
Ditto 301. per cent. 210 0
Union of London ..... 20'. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 28
Union of Madrid ..r.. 40 0 0 all

1 Z s. d. X s. d.
Albion ... ...... ..... 3/. 10s: ,500 0 0 50 0 0 83
Alliance Bri:. andrer: 71. 14s. 6d.b5.1100 0 0 11 9 0 -
Idtto Marine ....... 61. p.c.& bs. 1100 0 0 25 0 0 40%
Anchor .............. 6 per cent. , 5 .0 I 9 0 -
Atlas
•••• •
A rgus Life .........•. 41. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 -
British Commercial .. 74. los. 50 0 0 50 0 6%
i Clerietafed.& Gen.Llfe spr ct. & bs. 100 0 0 10 0 0 21%
County .............. 41. 100 0 0 10 0 0 120
Crown .............. 178. Od 50 0 0 50 0 1814
Eagle .. •.•• .. ss. 50 0 0 5 0 0 -
Equity and Law...... 414 per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 5%
European Life l/. 20 0 0 an 18%
General 6l. 5 0 0 5%
~
Globe ........., 5/. per cent. Stock. 1045
Guardian ............ 51. per cent. 100 0 0 47 5 0 51%
Imperial Fire.-- .... 121. per cent, 500 0 0 50 0 0 , 340
Imperial Life - 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 0 ' 18%
Indemnity Marine.... 11.3 s &. 3/. 100 0 0 20 0 0 77
Law Fire ............ U.& 2s. bs. 100 0 0 210 0 -
Law Lite............. - 100 0 . 10 0 0 61
Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 , 2 0 0 5%
London ..'......
London Ship-.
Martne l93.per share 100 0 0 28 0 0 40
Med.lnvlid& Gen. Life 434 /..per ct. 50 • 0 2 0 0 3%
Minerva
Monarch .. •• •• •• •• •• -^ 5 0 0 1 0 0 -
National Loan Fund 5l. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 -
Palladium Life ... 5l. per cent. 50 0 0 210 0 3%
Pelican .... • • • • • .... •-•- -
45%
Phoenix .. •• .• .. - - - 178
•
Profess:anal Life.• .... 5/. per cont. 5 0 010 0
Provident Life .... .... .U. 55. & bs. 100 0 0 10 o'o 38%
Rock Life.......; .... 71. 5 3 0 010 0 81%
Royal Exchange ...... 101. per cent. Stock. all 228
Sun Ike 6/. 10s. -6, 248
Ditto Life .... 1/ 143, - itti -
United Xingdom •...6. IL p et. & bs.l 20 0 0 40 0 4%
Universalictori
a Life
rAf
e 5
;.
6.7. •: •:
51:
perper
cant. cent. 1100 - . 4
12 650 0 10 0 0 -
Nr
- ---.-
. MISCELLANEOUS.
Dividend Amount
Name of Compaty. per of raid. Price.
Annum. Share.
.• Gl. per Cent. -
Si.
4 s. d. 4 s. d. •
Assam Tea .• ........ 5O 0 0 20 0 0 -
Auction Mart........ .23 per Cent. 50 0 0 - -
Australian Aertculturl 11. Is. 100 0 0 17 10 0 25%
Australian Trust .... 81. pet cent. - 25 0 0 -
AustraAan ROyal Mail 57. 10 0 0 all 4
Anglo-Mexican Mint.. 11. 10s. 10 0 0 all -
British Ain•erican Land . i 5,,.
- 40 0 0 -
Canada ... •• .....• .. 61, per cent. 100 o'o 32 10 5 131
Do. 5 per cent Bonds 51. per cent. - - -
-1077 i
City Nfalgatioll Bonds - - - -
Electric Telegraph .. 6 per cent. 25 0 0 24 0 0 20
Ditto .. ••••.. •. .6 -, - - -
6 per cent.
Equitable Reverslonry 71 pr. cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Dittc New .
•••••• - - 50 0 0 17 10 0 -
Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. & bs, 100 0 0 ,100 0 0 -
Gen.SteamNavigation 10, p et. 15 00'14 0 0 27%
Hudson's 8ay........ ,
- Stock. , - -
Hungerford .......... 2/. ss. 100 0 0 100 0 0 -
Ditto,
London Institution
• •• - - -
London Reversionary 5/per cent. 15 00 i all -
Russell Institution..., - 12 10 0 -
-
Price's Patent Cand. Co 101. percent. 20 0 0 17 10 -
Reversionary Int. Soc. 4%1. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 , 90
Royal Mail Steam.... 41. p. share. 100 0 0 60 0 0' 70%
South Australian Land 6/. pet cent 25 0 0 all
•. --'
Trust and Loan Comp.
Upper Canada .... - 120 0 0 50 0 -
i

rADVERTNEMENT.I, SMUT AND HSARINO, 6PEOTACLESt
POWERFUL TELESCOPES, OPERA, RACE AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSW3'
—Messrs. S. and B. Solomonit, opticians, 39, Albemarle:
street, Piccadilly. Observe opposite the York llotc;
By ker Majesty's Royal Letters Patent for valuable and
extraordinary improvements in the most powerful and
brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Racecourse, Opera, and Per;
spective Glasses, to know the distances of objects viewct`
through them-9f great importance to the army, nail,
and others. These telescopes possess such extraordinary
powers that some three and a-half inches, with an extra eye'
piece, v.lll show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ries
and the double stars; with the same telescope can be
sees a person's countenance three miles and a half distant,,
aceneowrdlyin-ginlyven;
tewhdilevtehryeirsvmarta.:
and an object from lit to 20 miles. They are of larger and aK
ing from 4 to 6 inches enable us to discover more than the
above, and the Georgistr,"with his 6 satellites, &e.—The ROY!'
powerful waistcoat-pocket glass,the size of a walnut, by which
a person can be seen and known 1 miles distant; they answer
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They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachtings
sportsmen, gentlemen,' gamekeepers, and tourists. 'OPert
race-course, camp, an perspective glasses, with wonderful
power. Newly-constructed Spectacle Lenses of the great;
eat transparent power. The \ valuable advantage derive
from this invention is, that vision becoming impaired le
preserved and strengthened, and very aged persons are
enabled to employ their " sight at the most minute men'
pation• can see with these lenses of a much less magnify-
ing power—and they do not require the frequent changes
to the dangerous effects of further powerful assistance'
Deafness—New Discovery.—The Organic Vibrator, an ev
traordinary powerful, small, newly-invented instrument for
deafness, entirely different from' all others, to surpass ant
thing of, the kind that' has been, or probably ever lan bet
produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not net'
eeptible ; it enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church
and at public assemblies; the unpleasant sensation of singing
noises in the ears is entirely removed ; and it affords all the
assistance that possibly could be desired.-3q, Albemarle.
street, Piccadilly. Observe-opposite the York Hotel.
CesE:xueeirlyit'bripwytiosti
Exhibition,
increasingiBsL

The pontoon .raorttir.rifb-hio returned to Woolwich

BIRTHS.

LIST 05' scomsa COMPANIES' PRICES.
Dividend Amo'tnt
Name of Company. per of raid. Price.
Annum. Share.
---.............—. —..,-- ---- ---
X a. d. £ a. d.
i Bank of Scotland :. •• 71. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 184/ 0
British Linen Company a/. per cent, 100 0 0 100 0 0 1220/5s
Caledonian Bank ..... Si. per cent 10 0 0 210 0 3/. 18s
City of Glaszow Bank ' IL per cont. 10 0 0 10 U 0 11 /14s
Clydesdale Bank _•. •• 5};l• p cent. i2O 0 0 10 0 0 1M 14s
C nnmercial Bank .• 71. per cent. 1500 0 0 .00 0 0 22310 s
Eastern Bank.. •• •• 4 C/. per cent. 25 0 0 10 0 0 1 13s
F.dinb. & Glasgow...; 3341. p cent. 5 0 0 5 0 0 41. 18s
Exchange link of Scot.. ____ •••••
National Bank ...... 534 per cent. 'lOO 0 0 10 0 0 17110 s
0
North of Scotland Bank 51.p,,,r cent 20 0 0 210 0 41. 17c
Royal Bank of 8 cotl. .. 5/. per cent. 100 0
00 1
500 0 0 132110
Gino!' Bank of Scot. ~ 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 0 921 5s
Western Bank ........ IL per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 75/ Os
Alliance fire and Lve.. 8;41. Pr cont. 100 0 0 lioo 18/10s
British Gin/ante° ... 41. per cent. II 0 0 2 0 0 11. lOs
Caledonian Fire Incur . I 0,• Per cant. 100 0 0 10 0 0 25110 s
City of Gia.sgow Lite : Si. per cent. 0 0 2 0 0 I/. 8s
Co onial LI • ......... 51. per,cent. 50 0 0 I 0 0 5/. 7s
Edinburgh Life Incur. 111. uer cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 27/10s
En't. :I,: Scot, Lass Life 151„ier cent. 50 0 0 3 5 0 it. Ss
Ltie ASSOC. 0 t4cel•ancl 61. per cent. 10 0 0 110 04/ 10s
Nationsi Fire and Life 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 21. Os
North British Incur... 71. per cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 321 tOs
Scottish Union Insrnc. 7;41. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 A I/. 10s
Standard Life ....... • 51. per, cent. 50 0 0 7 0 0 201100
MAO DeP Pontine '54 percent. 1000 ► 190

OP A SON.

On the 12th inst., at 7, Glocester-place, Greenwich, 3ire•
Henry Graham Stokes.
On the Sth inst., at. Bath, the wife of Captain E. Joseph
Thackwell.

MARRjED. "
On the 7th inst. atNorthrepps, Philip Hammond, Beil.t
of Annesley Park, Notts, to Bichenda, daughter of the
late Sir T. Fowell Buxton, Bart., of Northreppe
Norfolk.