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THE. SUN,

conveyed from place to place at tl ie buiest hours of
the day might be prevented.—(Hear,, hear) It was im-
possible to conceive, without witness tie state of the
streets between one and three o'cl lock, how great was
the impediment caused by a string cl coa or beer wag-
gons in the Poultry and Cheapside, ant how greatly
that impediment was aggravated by the obstinate
and uncivil behaviour of the drivers. Tie extraordinary
exertions of the police had brought the omnibuses and
cabs within management, so that th ere vas seldom any
delay or loitering except what was ireatably caused by
the stupendous nuisances he alluded to. He considered
the Court were bound, especially as stria enormous ad-
ditions were expected to the population, to endeavour to
mitigate an evil which might soon h acne altogether in-
tolerable.

Alderman HOOPER said, there v refe regulations by
which brewers' drays were prevent( .d rom laying down
their beer after certain hours in the :morning, but there
was no rule by which drays and waggons could be pre-
vented from passing through the a. 3.,
Alderman WILSON said, that nothing could exceed
the exertions of the police as regar:ed the removal of
obstructions, and their exertions were answered fully by
the rigorous infliction of penalties from the Bench. He
approved of the notice taken of the treat increasing evil
by Alderman Kelly, and was of or onion that the City
authorities had a great deal to a aprehend from the
" bullock nuisance," and Smithfield would, no doubt, be
exhibited in all its glory on the mai days during the
Exhibition. If ever there existed in argument against
that most abominable nuisance, calcu.ated to weigh with
the public with peculiar force, that (tegument was to be
found in the vast increase of traffic asd population.
Alderman SIDNEY said he agreed with Alderman
Wilson in everything he uttered, except the language
condemnatory of Smithfield-marliee. He admitted that
the present market was not sufficieiely large to suit the
size of the present Corporation, but f3e neighbouring site
for which the population were going: to Parliament was
admirably adapted to the great per poses of a metropo-
litan market.—(Hear, hear.) He warmly advocated
the project, the model of which head excited so much
cariosity and admiration, and said it. had been over and
over again proved that there was to place so completely
adapted to its object as the immedaee neighbourhood of
the present market, which was at tually the means of
existence to from 10,000 to 20,000 individuals.—(Hear.)
He hoped the Court would refer tie aubject of Alderman
Kelly's observations to a committee, at the same time
he condemned the manner in which,. Alderman Wilson
had lugged the reproach upon Smithfield into the dis-
cussion; but he believed thet Aller °fun Wilson was the
only man in court who entertained t:3 a opinions just ex-
pressed.
Alderman THomrsoer—Excuse me. There are others
here of his opinion about the nuisance of which he so
properly speaks.
Alderman WILLIAM HUNTER and other Aldermen ap-
proved strongly of Alderman Keily'a suggestion, and the
question was finally referred to a committee.—Adjourned.

ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES ASSUMP-
TION BILL.

A BILL TO PREVENT THE ASSUMPTION OF CERTAIN
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES IN RESP ECT OF PLACES IN

THE UNITED KINGDO3I.
[Note.—The words printed in Italics are proposed to be in-

serted in Committee.] -
Whereas by the Act of the nth yts r of King George
the Fourth, chap. 7, after teciti,3 g that the Pro-
testant Episcopal Church of England and Ire-
land, and the doctrine, disciphse, and govern-
ment thereof, rind likewise the Prote slant Presbyterian
Church of Scotland, and the clocti!: ne, discipline, and
government thereof, were by the respective Acts of
Union of England and tticotland, at d of Great Britain
and Ireland, established pert:amenSty and inviolably,
and that the right and title of archhishops to their re-
spective provinces, of bishops to their sees, and of
deans to their deaneries, as well in England as in
Ireland, had been settled end ect.blished by law, it
was enacted, that if any person after the commence-
ment of that Act, other than the person thereunto
authorised by law, should assume or use the name, style,
or title of archbishop of any pro'..nce, bishop of any
bishopric, or dean of any deanery, i n England or Ire-
land, he should for every such offer,ce forfeit and pay
the sum of one hundred pounds: a-nd whereas it may
be doubted whether the recited a ictment extends to
the assumption of the title of archbishop or bishop of a
pretended province or diocese, or and tbish op or bishop of
a city, place, or territory in England or Ireland, not being
the see, province, or diocese of any archbishop or bishop
recognized by law; but the attempt to establish,
under colour of authority from see of Rome or
otherwise, such pretended sees, pr)v inces, or dioceses is il-
legal and void, and the assumption of ecclesiastical titles
in resprct thereof is inconsistent with the rights in-
tended to be protected by the said enactment; and
whereas it is expedient to proa itit the assumption of
such titles in respect of any pheos within the United
Kingdom: be it enacted therefore by the Queen's most
excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent
of the Lords spiritual and tempura,!, and Commons, in
this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority
of the same, that—

I. If, after the passing of this Act, any person other
than a person thereunto authorized by law in respect of
an archbishopric, bishopric, or desinery of the United
Church of England and Ireland, a 3311131?, or use the
name, style, or title of archbishop, bishop, or dean of
any city, town, or place, or of any territory or district
(under any designation or description whatsoever), in the
ijr.,..ited Kingdom, whether such ci7y, town, or place, or
such territory or district, be or bo not the see or the
province, or co-extensive with the province, of any
archbishop, or the see or the diocese, or co-extensive
with the oiccese, of any bishop, or the seat or place of
the church of aay dean, or co-extensive with any dean-
ery, of the said United Church, to ? person so ofnlatiing
shall, fur every such offence, forfeit and pay the sum of
one hundred pounds, to be recover ad as provided by the
rt. cited Act.

IL Any deed or writing made, signed, or executed
after the passing of this Act, by or under the authority
of any person, in or under any nwne, style, or title which
such person by the recited Act and this Act, or either
of them, prohibited from assuming; or using, shall be
void.

111. Where by an assurance, transfer, will, limitation,
or declaration of use or trust, or other instrument, made
or executed after the passing of this Act, any real
or personal property, or any profit or advantage to be
had therefrom, is assured, given, or made applicable,
or expressed or intended to be ass ared, given, or made
applicable, directly or indirectly, for or towards the
endowment •,or maintenance of any archbishopric,
bishopric, or deanery, intituled or in anywise
designated or described as an archbishopric,
bishopric, or deanery, of any city, town, or place, terri-
tory, or district in the United Kingdom (except the
archbishoprics, bishoprics, and deaneries of the said
United Church), or for any purposes connected with or
referring to the maintenance or continuance of any
archbishopric, bishopric, or deanerf (except as afore-
said) so intituled, designated, or described, or of the
titular province, see, diocese, or limits thereof, or where
by any such assurance, transfer, will, limitation, declara-
tion, or other instrument, any real or personal property,
profit, or advantage, or any power, authority, or discre-
tion (whether for private or personal benefit, or for cha-
ritable or other purposes), to be exercised over er in rela-
tion to any real or personal property, or such profit or
advantage as aforesaid, is assured, given, or vested, or
expressed or intended to be assured, given, or vested, to
or in any person by any name, style, or ,title of archbishop,
bishop, or dean, by which the recited Act and this
Act, or either of them, such person is prohibited from
assuming or using, or to or in any person who in such
assurance, transfer, will, limitation, declaration, or other
instrument is in anywise designated, mentioned, or
referred to as being or claiming to be, or as being called
or known or reputed to be archbishop, bishop, or
dean, under any name, style, or title which such
person so prohibited from assuming; or using, or
to or in any other person therein described as chap-
lain or other subordinate of the persons so designated,
mentioned, or referred to, or to or in any person in
anywise described by means of a reference to a name,
style, or title of whicb, by the said Act and this Act, or
either of them, the assumption or use is prohibited, all
the real or personal property, profit, o r advantage afore-
said, or such estate or interest therein, as but for this
enactment would have been in anywise applicable
to any of the purposes aforesaid, or would have vested in
or enured to the use of the person to or in whom the
same is so expressed or intended to be assured, given, or
vested, shall, without any office or inquisition found,
vest in and enure to the use of her Majesty, and
shall and may be disposed of and applied as her Ma-
jesty shall be pleased by warrant under her sign ma-
nual to direct, whether such direction be to apply the
same according and pursuant to the intents and pur-
poses declared in and by the instruments hereinbefore
mentioned or otherwise; and all such power, autho-
rity, and discretion as aforesaid, so far as the same but
fur this enactment might have been exercised by the per-
son in whom the same is so expressed or intended to be
vested, may be exercised by such persons and in such
manner as her Majesty may be pleased by warrant under
her sign manual to direct.
IV. Every person who may be liable to be sued for
imposed
any penalty by the recited enactment and this
Act or either of them, shall in any suit or proceeding in
equity in relation to any such assurance, transfer, will,
limitation, declaration of use or trust, or other instru-
ment as hereinbefore mentioned, or in relation to any
secret or other trust, or other matter whatsoever, be
compellable to answer upon oath, notwithstanding his
liabilility to such penalty, in the same manner as if no such
liability existed: provided that no answer of such per-
son in any such suit or proceeding as aforesaid, nor any
matter disclosed or made known only by means of such
answer, shall be admitted as evidence against such per-
son in action for the recovery of such penalty.

SHIP NE WS.

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Arrived—Hindostan, from Canton; Contest, rom
GRAVESEND, FEs. 18.—Wind W.S.W., fresh, squfally.
Lisbon; Carolinda, from Caen; Dudbrook, from Madras;
Ann Mary, from Demerara; John Henry,
from New
York; Lionne and Leon, from Gravelines; Pearl and
Aurora, from St. Michael's; City of Poonab, Troubadour,
and Ambrosia, from Calcutta; Palmyra, from Demerara;
Lady Rowena, from Bombay; Darling, from Taganrog;
Brounfield, from Gottenburg; Neptunus, from Valpa-
raiso; George Dean, from Para.
Sailed—Matchless, for Lisbon; Ceres and Miriam, for
Antigua; James Holmes, for Demerara; Isabel, for Lis-
bon; Emerald, for Boulogne; Giraffe, for Rotterdam.
VESSELS SPOREN WITH.
[jams, of Bremen, with 40 barrPl3 of sperm oil, Jan. 1,
in let. 5 —, 19 W., which vessel had spoken the Ernest
Gustav, of Bremen, in lat. 39 N., long. 14 W.

REPRESENTATION OF Walker, the
Member for,Bury, has not taken his seat in the present Pat-
liament, although electedin 1847. Continued ill health and
the infirmities of age are assigned as reasons for the delay.
Mr. Walker is in his 6i th year.

LONDON,

[The following appeared in our Third Edition of
last night :-1
PUBLIC WOOL SALES.

The following from the official monthly returns will lute.
rest the wool trade, being the imports into the United King.
dom for the month to the sth January:—
Wool, Sheep or Lambs' :

1850. 1851.

From British Possessions, out of
Europe ... lbs. 2,403,786 1,708,734
From other parts ... 2,504,724 2,670,121

Total ... ... 4,908,510 4,378,858
Alpaca and the Llama Tribe ... 491,983 317,61!
Woollen Manufactures :
Manufactures not made up, value £ 28,738 22,276
Articles or Manufactures of Wool
wholly or in part made up ... 8,191 19,451
The exports of the month are as under:—
Wool, sheep or lambs' ... lbs. 811,117 815,557
Woollen Manufactures :

Entered by the piece ... pieces 180,911 184,493
Entered by the yard ... ... yds. 5,404,047 4,634,396
Stockings ... ... doz. pairs 28,452 14,844
Of all other descriptions value se
Woollen Yarn
_2.. ... ... cwt. 7,798 6,543
~..

The prices of Port Philip at last (Monday) evening's sale
were ls. for snow white, Is 3 to Is. Bd. for lambs',
and is. sd. to Is. 912 d. for scoured sheep's. Merino, 70 bales,
sold at la. to ls. 04d. for combing X and double X.
Spanish, in the grease, realized 6d. to 7d. for combing, up to
ls. 6d. to ls. Bd. for clean. Merino Odessa, 11d. for low,
up to 2s. 2d. for super. A good deal of greasy Spanish was
withdrawn.

This evening there are two sales in progress. The first
consists of 485 bales of East India, 102 of Donskoi, just
landed, 23 of Mogadore, 26 of foreign skin, 28 of goats', 26 of
Buenos Ayres, 63 of '1 urkey and of a few sundries. East
India has realized 34d. to 9d. for sound, sd. to 9d. for white,
and 3d. to Sid. for damaged. Mogadore has been sold at 4d.
to 44d. for greasy, and 6d. to 9id. for sound. Turkey has
realized 74d. to 84d, and ditto grey 6d. to 6id. Skin has
been at 61-d. to 84d, Odessa 74d. to 84d. for sound, and 74d. to
Bd. for damaged, part being taken in.
The other sale comprises 1,980 bales, including 613 Aus-
tralian, 420 Port Philip, 151 Van Dieman's Land, 1 8 Ade-
laide, 215 Cape, and a few bales of New Zealand, Swan
River, &c., besides 419 bales of Brook-washed Odessa,
Spanish greasy, Italian, and Chilian.
MERINO.-The Port Philip and Portland Bay sold at
la. 7ia. to 2,. id. for snow white, Is. sd. to Is. 9d. for
clean sheep's, ls. 4id. to Is. Bd. for clean lambs', and
2s. to 2s. 31d. for scoured lambs'. The Australian
realized is. 3d, to la. 100. for clean Sheep's, le. 3 id. to
ls. Bd. for handwashed and scoured. The New Zealand sold
at ls. 4d. to Is. 4td. The Van Dieman's Land brought
ls. 40. to Is. 10d. for clean sheep's, and is. 4d. to is.
7d. for lambs'. The Cape of Good Hope went at ls.
4d. to is. sid., and the Brook-washed Odessa at Is. 2d.
Spanish greasy was withdrawn.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 18.
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before the LORD
CHIEF JUSTICE and a Special Jury.)
YOUNG V. BROOKS AND ANOTHER.

This action was brought to recover the value of a
schooner which was totally lost at sea, and, as was
alleged. through the negligence of the defendants.
Sir Frederick Thesiger, Mr. Sergeant Shee, and Mr.
Phipsun conducted the plaintiff's case, and Mr. Watson
and Mr. Unthank appeared for the defendants.
It appeared from the evidence that a schooner named
the Harriet Emma, belonging to the plaintiff, left Sun-
derland on the 29th of May, 1850, with a cargo of coal
for Wisbeach. She was brought to anchor next morn-
ing, and remained at anchor until noon, when she again
started on her journey. The weather at this time was
rather foggy, and when in full sail near Seaham the
crew saw another vessel coming fast upon them. They
put tie helm about, but before the lapse of many minutes
the vessel came in violent collision with the Harriet Emma,
striking her with her stern on the larboard bow. The
Harriet Emma went down, and all the crew were
lost, with the exception of two seamen, Mason and
Stoilibrass, who escaped to shore in the long boat. The
other vessel, including the whole crew, was totally lost.
The plaintiff now attributed the loss of his schooner to
the negligence of the crew on board this vessel which he
alleged to be the Kate, of Newcastle, an iron schooner
trading between that port and Rouen, and belonging to
the defendants. In order to identify the vessel, evidence
was produced on the part of the plaintiff, from which it
appeared that a fisherman belonging to Seaham, while
fishing about seven or eight miles from the shore on the
31st of May, picked up near the Black-hall rocks a
beef cask and a steep-tub, and other articles, branded
with the name Kate, and also a boat containing
the dead body of a sailor, with the name Kate of New-
castle painted on the stern outside, and Nicol Harvey
in the inside, that being the name of the captain who
commanded the Kate.

Mason and Stollibrass, who were called, said the
moment the Kate was seen the helm was put about, and
that if the crew of the Kite had ported her helm the col-
lision would have been avoided. On these grounds the
plaintiff contended he was entitled to recover from the
defendants the value of the Harriet Emma, as well as the
cargo on board, both having been wholly lost.
Mr. WATSON, on the part of tho defendants, said their
vessel, the Kate, left the Tyne at six o'clock in the morn-
ing on the 30th May, and had never been heard of since,
except as regarded the boat and other articles which were
picked up by the fishermen at Seaham. Therefore, although
he was disposed to admit that the circumstances seemed
to point to the Kate as the vessel which came in colli-
sion with the plaintiff's schooner, he contended, even if
it were so, that the accident was inevitable, and arose
out of the dense fog which prevailed at the time, and
that no blame attached to the crew, who, unfortunately,
all went to the bottom, not a single one on board being
saved whom he could call before the jury to give his
own account of the fatal occurrence.

Several mariners were called who were at sea on the
30th of May in the near vicinity of the spot where the
two vessels were lost, and they all agreed in their state-
ment as to the existence of a dense fog.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up,
The jury returned a verdict fur the defendants.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Feb. 18.
(Sittings in Middlesex, at Nisi Prius, after Hilary Term,
before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.)
THE GREAT REVENUE CAUSE.

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE LONDON DOCKS COX

PANT.

For the eleventh tinie this important case came on
for trial, and, as will be seen, was brought to a final
ending..

The LORD CHIEF BARON proceeded to sum up the
evidence in this case at ten o'clock. He said—lt is sa-
tisfactory to think that as this case now stands no charge
is made on the personal honour, character, or conduct of
any of the directors of the London Docks. I should have
thought it a national misfortune if anything like a system
of plunder had been carried on in which the directors, or
any of them, had participated. But I understand that
the Solicitor-General disclaims any charge against the
directors of the London Docks of having, as a body,
acted dishonestly or dishonourably, or that their supe-
rior officers have sanctioned any frauds, either on the
merchant or the revenue; but he Bays that a certain
lax system has prevailed in the docks which it
was incumbent on the Customs to put an end to.
I say again, that it is satisfactory to know that he has
entirely abandoned—not abandoned, but disclaimed any
such charge as that which he was supposed to have
brought against the company. The course which I shall
adopt inlpresenting this case to you will be this: I shall
first call your attention to the manner of the discovery
by the Customs officers of that which they considered
irregular, and the circumstances of the seizures by them.
I shall explain to you the application of the law to the
facts and the several counts of the information, and I
shall then leave the facts of the case to you, to whom
their determination exclusively belongs. There are
many facts of the case as to which the conduct of the
Solicitor-General yesterday will materially tend to
shorten your labours. He very properly stated some
points upon which he considered the explanation given
by the company was sufficient. We may at once dis-
miss from our minds the long episode of Davis's corner;
it forms, in fact, no part of the investigation in which
we have been engaged. It is a matter on which
you need not be called upon to give any opinion what-
ever. If, indeed, it were necessary to enter upon it, I
should be disposed to think, independently of any con-
tradiction, that there was great exaggeration on the part
of the witnesses for the Crown. One, I think, spoke of
having seen tons and tens of tons taken there and con-
verted into wet scrapings. The whole statement, how-
ever, is so pointedly denied by such a number of wit-
nesses, who were acknowledged by the Solicitor-General
to stand unimpeached in character, and who are of such
respectability that it is impossible not to give credence
to their testimony. It is plain that whatever may have
taken place at Davis's corner, which might be deemed
an irregularity or improper, as against the merchant,
was without the knowledge or sanction of the company
or their superior officers. The question that will have
ultimately to be determined by you, will be whether the
Customs were justified in seising certain parts of the
sugar and cocoa which are included in this information,
and you will have to say what is your opinion upon cer-
tain of the counts with reference to those particular parts
of the sugar and cocoa. But before I proceed to the facts
of the case, I wish to address a few observations to you
personally, which I think are called for on the occasion.
This is, I believe, the longest trial in the experience of
the administrators of justice in the City of London. I
think that the trial of Elissabeth Canning lasted seven
days, whereas we have now arrived at the eleventh of
this inquiry. The loss and inconvenience to you must
have been great and serious ; but it will be a consola-
tion to you to reflect that, on this occasion, you have
shown that the valuable institution of which you are a
part, that of trial by jury, is fully adequate not only to
the ordinary occasions which arise, but to an important
investigation of complicated facts, protracted over a
period of many days. I must bear my testimony to the
exemplary patience, intelligence, and attention which
you have throughout exhibited. In the first place, I
must say that there ought to be no removal of goods
whatever in the docks unless under the sanction and eye
of an officer of the Customs. The officer Cleaver appears
to have remarked that certain bags were removed in a
manner that excited his attention. Upon this he told his
superior officer what he had seen, and they went and in-
stituted a search. They found a considerable quantity
of sugar and cocoa which appeared to them to be good,
sound, and merchantable articles, of which the company's
servants gave no account, or only that they were sweep-
ings; but subsequently finding in some of the cocoa a
certain quantity of dirt, they abandoned that as pos-
sibly being what it was represented, but they hold the
rest; and to this your opinion has to be given. Now,
the Crown says some of these goods were never entered
at all, and I own I very much doubt whether there is
mayany evidence
tohni s t
fhri part
os
myour oof the case,
minds.
.and
Some,
It
hthink
say, youis
found in the docks without having passed the scale. Of
this there is some evidence, but not sufficient, I think for
you to found your judgment on. Some, they say, was
taken from the piles and carried to Davis's corner or
elsewhere, and there dealt with as the property of the