The Sun.
London, England, 1851-07-15 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London 11ew I rice Current, July 15.)
SUGAR. —TO-thy larger transactions took place in
SV4st lboia Sugar, iu consequence of ther3 bong sellers
rather er the rates of Friday, boll for grocery ano
fining qualities. The public sales o• 216 hhds 36 arcs 151
tals liarbadoes went off flatly at a reduction of 6d per cwt,
and several lots ware taken in: the part sold realized for
fine yellow 38s 64 to 403, good 37s 6d to 38s, mid 36s 6d
to 375, low 35s 6d to 365, mid to fine brown 34s 6d to
355, and two lots mid to good grainy yellow 38s to 40s;
30 hhds 15 trees 260 brls Trinidad in part sold at easier
rates, mid and good brown at 33s 6d to 345, ord to mid
yellow 34, 61 to 3586 d, and 37 hhds ord yellow Demerara
34s 6d per cwt.
REYINED.—To-day there was little passing in refined
goods for home consumption, still brown lumps cannot
be obtained under 46s per cwt, there being no increase
of supply. The crushed sugar market is quiet, with
sellers at rather lower rates.

MAURITIUS.—This afternoon Mauritius sugar met
with little attention, and of 4,178 bags at auction a part
only sold, whilst rather lower rates were in some cases
taker. Fine yellow selling at 383 to 395, low to good
34s to 37s 6d, ord. to flue brown 313 to 345, refining sorts
33s to 38s, and a few small lots grainy yellow 40. to 41s
per cwt.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon Bengal sugar met with
attention, and the rates obtained were generally equal to
those of Friday. At auction 3,455 bags were chit fly
disposed of ; good mid to fine white Benares went at
40s 6d to 425. low to mid 3S to 404 damp and washed
373 6d to 41a, mid to tinekraiuy white 44, to 47a, good
and tine soft yellow 363 to 37s per cwt. There was uu
public sale of Madras, and little was done privately.
FoREIOSI.—To-day there was little desire evinced by
shippers or home dealers to operate in Foreign Sugar,
sltnough there were sellers rather under the rates of
Friday. At auction 80 hhds 44 trcs St. Croix sold at
41s to 44s for good and fine bright yellow.
MOLASSES.—The demand continues limited for all
sorts, and there are sellers rather under the rates exist-
ing previously. West India of low to fine quality can be
()blamed at 12s 6tito 16s, Bengal and Mauritius 12e,
Cuba and Porto Rico 14s to 14s 6d. The rates paid for
low to fine Jamaica Roney are 30s to 55s per cwt.
plantation has been more in demand,
and suffer
erraßr hteistiasre obtained for Trinidad, the supply at
market being limited. At auction 230 bags were sold
at 45s to 47s for good to fine red; low and mid gray 36s
to 38s 63 ; but Grenada is still to be obtained at from
32s to 40s per cwt. In Fureign operations are trifling,
Bahia and Para at 25s to 275; and Guayaquil) at 29s to
30s per cwt.
COFFEE.—This afternoon Native Ceylon Coffee was
operated in with reluctance, although rather lower rates
were acceded to: of 1,100 bags at auction, a part only
sold at 37s 6d to 38s for ord and good ord, and at 33s to
37s for damaged. For Plantation Ceylon the market has
been quiet, find to some cases lower rates were taken ; at
auc.i"n 170 casks 200 bags were only in part sold, mid
at 50s to 525, low mid 48s 6d to 49s 6d, fine to fine fine ord
42s 6cl to 48., inferior 38s 6d to 425, and pea berry 563
6d to 58s. Of Jamaica 34 casks realised 50. 6d to 52s
for low mid and mid, being full rates. Of Porto Rico
170 pkgs 700 bags were nearly all taken in, at firm
rases, from 42. 6d to 49s 6d for good to fine ord, but
chisfiy at 45s to 45 6d; 2 980 bags Costa Rica. mid and
good 55s to 595; 38 bales Mocha sold at 38. 6d for
damaged.
TEA.—Public isles will take place on Fridsy, at pre-
sent the quantity declared is 10,000 pkgs. In low and
good e‘annion Cougou large transaction have again taken
taken place for home consumption at lOid to 11d, and
shippers are still operating. There is only a limited
quantity on offer. For medium or rather strong blackish
leaf a fair demand exists at lad to is Oid, good to
fine sorts are operated in more freely at is Id to
is 7d per lb. Several transactions have taken place in
Oolong at is to is Bd, and there is a firm
i market. To-
day operations were upon a small scale, n consequence
of the public sa'es declared, but rates are not lower.
RICE.—To-day the :private operations in East India
Rice were trifling, stud at easier rates. At auction 687
bags Bengal were taken in, good white at 93 6d to 10.,
and small bruken 8s 6d per cwt.
bricEs.—To-day at public sale 119 bags 46 pockets
Bengal Ginger were taken in at 17s 6d fur mid export
sort, Laing above the value.
SPIRITS.—Leeward Island Rum has been purchased
with reluctance, and is to be obtained at Is 4id to Is 5d
proof. For East India there is a quiet market, with
sellers at is 3d to is 313 proof, and larger parcels
are on oiler. Demerara has been purchased with reluc-
tance, and there are sellers at is 10d to 2s 3d for 30 to 40
over proof. In Jamaica operations are mareaterial. The
value of fine 34 to 39 per cent over proof is 3s 3d to 4s 3d,
good mid to good 38 to 35 over 2. 7d to 3s 2d, and low
to mid 30 to 33 over 2s 3d to 2s 6d per gal-
lon. Brandy met with little attention from sip-
pers or home dealers, and there is an increasing
stock. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1850 can
be obtained at 4, 41 to 43 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 6d to 4s Bd,
1848 ditto 4s lid to 5s Id, older 5s 5d to 7s, low and mid
sorts 2. 6d to 3s 4d, and Bordeaux 2. 2d to 2s 3d. In
the value of British-made Spirit no variation. Geneva
met a slow sale at is 7d to is Bd, and fine 1. 9d to 23.
INDIGO.—To-day during the progress of the sale 2 156
chests have been withdrawn. 2,628 chests (including
1,743 chests withdrawn) passed the sale. Proprietors
have bought in 585 chts, leaving 300 sold. Of total
quantity which has now passed the hammer 00,128

chts), 4,238 have been withdrawn, and 2,562 bought in,
leaving 3 328 sold.

SALTPETRE.—To day Saltpetbre met with little att4-n-
-tion. and prices declined 3d to 6d p-r cwt. At auction
1,050 bgs Calcutta part sold; very fine 2f refract‘on went
at 294, eood mid 11 to 12k per cent 25s 6d.
COCHINEAL.—AItbough there are sellers rather under
previous rates, only a limited home or export demand has
been experienced. Of 300 begs at auction not above one
half sold; Honduras, silvers low to mid went at 33 to
3s 3d, common to fine bl.cks 3s 6d to 4s 9d, Teneriffe
3s 7d to 339 d, low red Lima 23 6d to 2s 10d; Mexican
was taken in, silvers 3s, black 3s ld to 3s 3d.

,
TALLow.—llealers operate with caution for present
delivery, but lower rates are not taken; and fine Russian
Candle is held for 37s 6d to 37s 9d per cwt. There is,
however, more demand for the last three months of the
year, and quotations range firm at 39s to 39s 6d. Home
melted is Bull obtainable at 35s to 36s net cash, on ac-
count of a large supply.

COURSE OF EXCHA
Amster, laa, 11 18%1
Ditto, three months.. 11 lb %
,totterdam • • .... 11 18%
Antwerp • • ............ 25 22
Brussels.. 25 22%,
liamburgh ••3d.8. 13 13}i
adtona • • ........ • • ....
Paris, 3 days'sight . 25 2
Ditto, 3 months .... 25 22%
Marseilles .......... • • 25 24%
.
Frankforton Maine.... 119%
Vienna, effec. Bo.— 11 56
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 11 57
Petersburgh,Sll. Rble 37%
Madrid .............. 4934
Cadiz •• • ............ 50►,(
Barcelona ............
deville.• •• •• •• •• •• •• .•

NGE.-('THIS DAY.)

(Gibraltar.. • • .• ..
Leghorn • •
iel2lo/1 •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 30
Milan .• • . • • • • • • • • • • • •
Venice.. • • .• • • • • • • • • ••
Naples ...... • • • • 41%
Palermo, peroz .• ••• • •• 124
Messina ••••••• • • • • • •• 12414
L15b0n...............• 53%
Oporto.• . • • .. .• •• • • •• 53%
Rio Janeiro ••• •
Buenos Ayres .. ••• . ••
New York, 60 days'aight
Vhlladelphia .... • • ....

PSIOSB OP BULLION, YES OS
Foreign Geld inisars...E3 17 9
Vortitgal Gold Coin .. 0 0 0
Apanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars •• •• 0 4 11%
Silver in bars . 0 5 0%

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 14.
The LORD CHANCELLOR took hi seat on the Wool-
sack at FM, o'CloCk.
_ RORFIELD MANOR ESTATE.

_ .
The Bishop of OXFORD moved that copies of the
correspondence touching the airfield Manor Estate be-
tween
the Copyhold Commissioners and the Eccle-
siastical Commissioners, be laid on the table. He
moved for these papers on behalf of an absent
brother, who had, as be believed, been most grievously
misrepresented in regard to this matter. He should
assume that every mis-statement which had been made
bad been accidental, and tnat the parties making them
had been actuated by the purest motives. It had
been charged that his Right Rev. Friend, when he
had succeeded to the diocese of Bristol, was
morally and equitably bound to deal differently
with the manor of Horfield from any other part of the
property of his diocese, that he had sought to make a
bargain with the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, a bargain
which had been prevented by the intervention et a Mem-
ber of the other House of Parliament. Now, he would
show that the Bishop of Gloucester received the estate
of Horfield manor upon precisely the same conditions on
which he received every other portion of the property of
the see of Bristol. He had done with that property
what the Legislature intended he should do with every
portion of the property of the see. He had entered into
negotiations with the Commissioners tor the purpose of
carrying out some singularly liberal views with respect
to the Church to which he belonged. The Right Rev.
Prelate had taken such steps as he thought best calcu-
lated to forward those views, but he would not now state
what they were, lest it might be supposed he had been
forced by the clamour which had been so unjustly raised
against him, and not by his own free will. The state•
meat against him was, first, that because his predeces-
sors bad refused to renew the lease in order that the
estate might tall into the Church, his Right Rev. Friend
had inflicted injury by doing so. For his part, he (the
Bishop of Oxford) never knew a case in which every
step of the proceedings had been so entirely misrepre-
sented, and in which truth had been so mixed up with
falsehood. Now one predecessor of his Right Rev.
Friend, namely, Bishop Grey, had been negotiating with
the lessee for a new lease when he died. It had
been alleged that Bishop Allen, the next in succession,
had given a pledge to Lord Melbourne that he
would not renew; yet the fact was that Lord
Melbourne had lett it entirely in his own discree
tion, and he, too, had been about renewing when
he was transferred to the see of Ely. In the
Committee on Ecclesiastical Leases it had been proved
that such tenures as that of airfield were very injurious.
In 1842 it bad been rumoured that the bishop was about
to renew, and that in consequence some correspondence
had taken place between him and the Ecclesiastical
Commissioners. No such correspondence, although
some of it had been quoted, had ever taken place.—
(Hear.) In 1847, when some new scheme had been
started by the Commissioners as to the charges which
ought to be levied on certain sees, it had been thought
that the united diocese of Gloucester and Bristol ought
to bear a larger charge; and it was intended to add the
Horfield Manor estate to the episcopal Lund, after the
psesent bishop should be removed. To that he had ob•
jected as being unjust to his successor, and some nego-
tiations accordingly took place between him and tee
commissioners, with the view of entering upon some ar-
rangement relative to the property. Tne bishop had
considered that the peculiar holding of that estate wits
a most injurious tenure to the Chinch, inasmuch as it
prevented the possibility of improvement. He had never
intended to renew the lease on the same terms upon
which it had been originally granted, but never enter-
tained the idea of not granting some kind of a lease
fhe Right Reverend Prelate here referred to and
read se me extracts from letters from the Bishop
of Gloucester to the Commissioners, in which he had
stated that be treated the imputation of renewing the
lease "as heretofore" with con empt. Another accuse-
don was that in 1848 the Ecclesiastical Commissioners
having desired their secretary to remind the bishop of
his moral obligation not to renew the lease, the bishop
answered that he knew nothing of any moral obligat,on
on the subject, but that he had a legal right, which he
would not alienate except for 11,500/, Now not only
obf6thhoepkhi
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a negotiation with the Commissioners, and offered to
part with his interest to them. That proposal was re-
ferred to a Select Committee, of which Sir J. Graham
was the chairman. Tney entertained the proposal, and
a communication was made to the bishop announcing to
him that the proposal had been laid before the Finance
Committee, and that they had expressed an opinion of
the liberality of the offer.—(Hear.) The negotiation
went on. It had been asserted that the Commissioners
endeavoured privately to transfer the estate to themselves,
but that when the deed of transfer had been transmitted
the solicitor refused to be party to the affair. The fact
was that the Commissioners having satisfied themselves
that there was neither equitable, legal, nor moral re-
straint on the bishop to act differently with the Horfield
estate from the ocher estates of his see, consulted one of
the most eminent c nveyancers as to the best mode of
transmitting it, who gave an opinion that the proper way
of transmitting it was not by deed, but by order iu Coun-
cil.—(Hear.) Such an order was drawn up, and sent, as
is usual in such cases, for the approval of the law offi-
cers of the Crown, who at the end of the month returned
it with the answer that there were legal difficulties in
the way, in consequence of the limited power given by
the Act of passing such an order. On that ground alone
was the order in Council set aside.—(Hear.) Feeling
that the matter might be misrepresented, the bishop
called on the Commissioners to express their opinion on
the subject; and at a meeting of the board, at which the
Archbishop of Canterbury was present as chairman, a
resolution was drawn up and agreed to, to the effect that
the bishop having been under no obligation, legal or
otherwise, to deal with the Horfield estate differently
from any other estate of his see, and having made with
regard to it a most liberal offer, the board hat been
anxious to avoid all needless delay in bringing the nego-
tiation to a close. The remaining charge was that on the
dropping of the last life the bishop had renewed the
lease in a way in which he had said he would never do.
Now if his Right Rev. Friend bad evaded the law, by
selling it to a second party, in a way to allow him to
transform it into a lease for three lives, then he would
have done the thing with which he had been charged;
but, to prevent that, he had put the name of his secre-
tary in the lease, retaining in his own hands full power
to carry on those improvements which from the first it
had been his object to effect, and had already laid out a
large sum in enfranchising the copy hold. In order to
avoid any reproach of grasping at income, he gave up
his legal claim to what he held in conimendant to an
amount equal to what he retained.— (Rear.) On this
point it had been remarked that what be held in corn
ntendam was only for his own life, and that it would not
benefit his children to the same extent as the renewal
of the lease. The terms which his Right Rev. Friend
had stipulated for in his negotiation with the Commis-
shiners was 11,5001., and he bad accidently learned the
way in which he proposed to apply that amount. It
appeared that he bad engaged to advance a sum of
5,0001. for the erection of a college at Bristol, provided
it were repaid to his children. Circumstances oc-
curred which rendered it problematical whether his
children would receive it, and in case they did not he
proposed that of the 11,5001. the sum of 5,000/, should
go to his family, and 6,5001. to endow small livings in
the diocese of Bristol.—(Hear.) Such was the answer
he had to make to the charges brought against his Right
Rev Friend. In a letter which his Right Rev. Friend
had written to him he stated that under present mews].
stances he should not enter upon !ley promise or engage.
ment with respect to his particular views and intentions
on this subject. " These, ' said his Right Rev. Friend,
"must be inferred from what I have already done.
Spectentur agenda. True, I have ulterior views; but I
will not at present make any engagement with regard to
them; for if I were to do so it would be attributed to
fear of him who, per las et nefas, is determined to de-
stroy my character."—(Hear.) His Right Rev. Friend
had, without fear or favour, won his way to an eminent
station in the national Church, and had left this coun-
try sick in body, depressed in spirit; and he was sure any
expression of their Lordships' sympathy would be dear
to him under these unexampled misrepresentations.
The Bishop of LONDON said the Bishop of Glouces-
ter had been his intimate friend for 45 years, and he
could assure their Lordships that the interests of the
Church might safely be left in his bands.
Lord CAMPBELL bore testimony to the character
of the Right. Rev. Prelate, as being that of a kind-
hearted and generous man, and added that it had been
demonstrated that there was not the smallest pretence
for rayieg that he held Horfield in a different manner
from any other estate of his see. He believed the
Bishop of Gloucester had consecrated more churches
within his diocese since he had been appointed to it than
toh hisadb imeten
e.cousecrated within it since the Reformation up
The Earl of HARROWBY bore testimony to the cor-
rectness of the statement of the Right Rev. Prelate as

regarded the transactions with the board. The Bishop of
Gloucester had Lot departed from the usual cyarse of
proct date. It wr s with rPgr::t that h, hotic4-d a des4ire
xibliog to prebume very thing evil of thobe who were at
the head of the Church.

The motion was then agreed to.
MISSION AT FLORENCE.

In reply to Earl FITZ WILLIAM,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said that there was
no foundation for the report that Government intended to
discontinue the mission at Florence.

COURT OF CHANCERY AND JUDICIAL COM-

Ml"r TEE BILL.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE moved the first
reading of this Bill.
Lord BROUGHAM said his Noble Friend had
moved the first reading of this Bill, which, aceordiug to
the practice of their Lordships' House with regard to
Bills brought up from the Commons, would otherwise
have been read a first time without remark, in order to
give him an opportunity of saying a few words on this
Bill, and of addressing their Lordships for the last time
this session. He entirely approved of this Bill, but the
change to which he wished to advert was with respect
to that branch of the Bill which referred to the adminis-
tration of justice in the appellate tribunal of the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council. The first question to
be carefully considered was whether the quorum ought
to be reduced from four judges to three. His opinion
was that four was the boat number, and the experience
of Westminster-hall was stroegly and clearly in faveur
of four judges in preference to three. Tne reason was,
that on all occasions of dill-rence you bad the great
authority of a majerity of three to one in favour of
the judgment of the Court, and if such a majority
was essential to the courts of the first instance, how
much more necessary it was to give effect to the deci-
sions of an appellate jurisdiction, deciding in the last re-
sort the most important questions, and which decisions
nothing short of an Act of Parliament could overturn.
He agreed in the propriety of a change in the presi-
dency of this body. The president of such a body
should be answerable for the regulation of the proceed-
ings, for the attendance of the members of the court, and
the distribution of its business, duties which a lay pre-
sident could not well undertake. The propriety of ap-
pointing such a president was admitted 18 years age,
when it was proposed by him. Jr it were said that there
was some inconvenience in four judges being equally
divided in opinion, he had only to reply that during the
last 18 years the judges had only divided two and two
upon one occasion, and the inconvenience was ea-ily re-
moved by calling in one other member. 'I he appoint-
ment of a vice-president of the court bad been recom-
mended, and be thought well of it. There were other
parts of the Bill of which he approved, and he re-
garded the measure altogether as a step—not a great
or a long step, but still a step—in the right di-
rection. He ought to add that one want still
remained to be supplied. No provision was
made in this Bill to supply another very ma-
terial defect in the appellate jurisdiction, in cases which
rarely occurred, but which had occurred, and which
were likely to be of more frequent occurrence, namely,
cases involving spiritual questions of a highly important
nature, of an exceedingly difficult nature, and which very
often, with reverence be it spoken, were of an exceed-
ingly
obscure nature. They of the Judicial Committee
were admirably adapted to deal with the common law,
with questions of colonial law, with cases from the Con-
sistorial Court, and embracing the learning of the civil
law. It was a tribunal well adapted to deal with ques-
tions of evidence, whether that which was deservinse of
the name, the evidence taken at common law, or that
which passed under the name, which was taken, or
which appeared to be taken, in courts of another descrip-
tion. But with regard to those other matters which his
Noble Friend the Lord High Commissioner of the Ge-
neral Assembly of the Church of Scotland, who dared to
hold an episcopalian conversation during the non-sitting
of the session—(Lord Belhaven was at this moment
conversing with a Right Rev. Prelate)—would admit
were spiritually diffi •ult questi ns, the Judicial Com-
mittee had a confused authority, and his brethren
had authorised him to confess that with those
subjects they felt themselves wholly unfitted to deal.
Upon this class of subjects they desiderated control.
They did not want to be dictated to, but they wished to
have what it was right they should have, the aid, the
inestimable benefit of the assistance of learned men in
that branch of the law. The present measure, then, was a
step—but not a stride, not along step—in the right direc-
tion; but if any man thought that this or any other struc-
tural alteration in the Court of Chancery—if any man
dreamed that such a measure laid the axe to the root of
the greatest and most grievous of the many crying evils
that afflicted the subjects of this country, not the judges
or the practitioners, but the unhappy suitors of the
court, although he admitted that it would, nevertheless,
do justice to the suitor, and enable him to obtain that
which he had a right to obtain at a reasonable cost of
money, of trouble, and of time—if any dreamer, he
rep. seed, believed that any structural alteration of
the Court of Chancery would do all that was wanted,
such a dreamer was in a fool's paradise, and would
awaken in the [omit g to a sad reality that would belie
all that he had fancied in his slumbers. It would
alarm their Lordships to hear the preens that had been
brought before the Committee as to the state of things
in all the courts of equ ty and in all the branches of
those courts. Their L edehipe had victims among them-
selves, and he saw a Nohie Frig nd of his who wtnt into
Chancery for a debt of 500/.. and who had the unsfor.
tune to deal with a someahat insolvent party and his
professional adviser. 1,2001 was the cost of obtaining
that 500/. His Noble Friend had succeeded, and ha
might believe him he ought to consider it very the p.—
(Rear, and a laugh.) At any rate, his Noble Friend
would have been 700/. better off if he had left alone his
5001 and made up his mind to its loss. But ninete en-
twt ntietha of the cases were not those, of contested debts
tor 5001., but cases where parties were perfectly ready
to wirer them up and arrange them without going
into the Court of Chancery. One case of infancy had
lasted four years. The estate was of moderate amount,
the income being 155/. in stuck. The infant was placed
out, orders were made, considerable expenses were
incurred,. and 681. 4a. was the cost that the estate had
to pay in order to get the infant's own money laid out
for the infant's own use and benefit. The deduc-
tion of 701. a•yeter from the income of the in-
fant was incurred for orders of Court where there
was sto contest or dispute whatever.—(Hear, hear.) In
another case, where a simple contract debt was claimed
against the estate, costs amounting to 1,2001. or 1,500/.
were incurred on one side, and, in all, costs to the
amount of 3,0004 were incurred to recover 1,000/. In
the case to which he alluded the suitor was a gentleman
residing in India. In July, 1840, his case was before the
Rolls; in 1851, when he came over to ask after his
cause, he was told it was still undecided, and that it was
before the Rolls again, where he had lett it 11 years ago.
This gentleman was root eover told that he had tour or
five years more to wait. It might be expected that this
gentleman would say that in India they had the cobra
capella, the jungle fever, the tiger, and various other
evils and dangers, but that at least they had not a court
which he (Lord Brougham) dared not to name.—(A
laugh.) The taxing-master, Mr. Follett, had a case be-
fore him in which 901. costs were incurred in deciding
whether 101. should be laid out in repairing a necessary
and convenient part of a house, but which he should no
more dare to name to their 14,rdships than the court in
question. In one case a reference was made to the
Master for impertinence—that was for putting irrele-
vant and unnecessary matter into an answer, and the
Master had to inquire whether a number of documents
had not been so put upon the answer. The case was
glaring and gross, and the master decided, after hearing
counsel, who were not prolix—they were never prolix
but only full—that relief must be given to the amount of
20/. The party thus decided against appealed to the
Vice-Chancellor, who agreed with the Master. Another
appeal was made, and the decision again affirmed, and the
expenses of getting this 201. struck off amounted to 800/.
—(Hear, hear.) But the wrongdoer had to pay that?
Yes, almost the whole, but not quite the whole. Between
401. and 50/. of these expenses he never received, so that
he would have been 301. the richer if he had submitted
to pay the 20/., which the taxing-master decreed he
ought not to pay; and this dispute lasted for two or
three years. In the Day and Martin ease, which was
partly litigated and partly administrattve, the value of
the estate was about 400,0001. He had heard that the
bill of costs in this case amounted to between 70,000/.
and 90 000/.—(Hear, hear.) Now, was it possible that
their Lordships could much longer resist the conclusion
at which the people of this country had arrived, that
the axe must be laid to the root of this crying and
unbearable evil, and that, to use the words of Lord
Chatham upon another subject—if they did not reform
themselves, the people would come in upon themand reform them from without with a vengeance? He
wished for no rash and imprudent changes. He had
constantly maintained that to make .retie w wholesome
it must be sate, and that reforms of the law, to be safe,
must be left in the hands of skilful and well-informed
men, without suffering the rude and the ignorant to
iin-
terfere.
But n proportion as that reform was delayed
which was wanted and, indeed, exigently
required, tt
their Lordships should no longer do their duty in ad-
ministering relief where it might safely be given, then
he said that the result would be inevitable, that the good
would be swept away with the bad, andh
nd that
had swept
(as he had
~
once before said), having the good a
away together, the jurisprudence and the judicature of
the country would be put in a state and reduced to a
condition of ruin such as to afford a sad spectacle of. the
vanity of human plans and the instability of institutions,
and to supply a wholesome warning tO those who, from
a fear of granting moderate and safe reform, exposed
their Lordships to the dangers of a violent revolution.
—(Hear, hear.) Ha trusted that, instead of stopping
at this measure, the other House wouldh adopt the valua-
ble measures sent &iv n from that louse, and particu-
larly one of the most important rut asures that had ever
passed through
Parliament—he meant the County
Courts Extension
Bill, to which might be added the Law
of Evidence Bill. If these Bills were adopted by the
wisdom of the other House of Parliament, they would
greatly diminish the evils of the present system. To
those measures might be added a reform to which
the public mind was beginning to be directed,
and which bad the sanction of sums of the most learned
m„, Nee., the adoption, as fur as possible, of the com-
bination of the two systems of t quity and law, by what
what was called, after the experience elsewhere obtained
of its working, " the fusion of the two branches of the
system." He !toped that those who were younger would
have the happiness of seeing this among others of the
greatest improvements in jurisprudence adopted, so that
they might at length say that a real and effectual pro-
gress had been made towards the amendment of the law.
Nothing should have tempted him to take so uttusual
and unprecedented a course ns to address their Lord•
ships on the motion that this B:11 be read a first time,
but that during the East five or six we. ks he had with
with the utmost dlfficul y, and against the opinions of
his medical advisers, attended the service uf their Lord-
ships' House. During the last week or ten days this
difficulty had increased and become mote severe. In

the hope of assisting in the passing of this great met'
sure in a cause to which his life had been devoted....
(Cheers)—he had struggled to the last, until be fotend
that he could struggle no longer. It was with grelit
pain that he was compelled to withdraw himself ft°
their Lordships' House, when ho considered that the
great cause of religious libel ty, in more shapes than one.
was in danger, and when he desired to co-operate in the
philanthropic measures of his Noble Friend (the Earl °f
Shaftesbury). It was a great pain to him to leave We
service of the House at such a time, but it wets hic;
bounden duty no longer to incur the risk which he. had
not hesitated to run when he thought it absolutely ye'
cessary.—(Cheers.)
The LORD CHANCELLOR was extremely g.
find find that the Bill now on their Lordships' table met wri.""
the approbation of the Noble and Learned Lord.
would not follow the Noble and Learned throu.gh the
statements he had made on other important matters, be'
cause the present was not quite the proper occlusion fci:
doing so; but he wished to observe, that as he,wir„h;
aware of the many defects in the Court over which „•71
presided—defects which were the growth of tiroets,_",
which had existed during the period when his NI
and Learned Friend and others had held the great ett
—immediately upon his entering upon the dutice P„,
present office, a selection ve.ts made of gentlemen stn°„`",.;
the most informed at the Chancery bar, the nice s"'s
to the defects in the Court, and the most fitted to sugge's
a remedy; and those gentlemen were called upon to ec
as a commission to review the whole system of Cbanneri
practice. They had since been most diligenitlY ef;
ployed, and his Noble and Learned Friend being sw"jd
of the character and ability of those gentleme w°"s,
doubtle.ss derive considerable comfort from ane oriph
d..nce he must entertain, the; en inquiry conducted bYeti"re
gentlemen must be followed by some effective toes3ll,he
of reformation. There was already a report on 'be
table from the commission, which had revie viecltbe
whole proceedings at c. mmon law, end a Bill, v r bleu of
hiiped to present to their Lordships before the close "'„/
the session, was being prepared from the matc,riele:e
that report. It was not likely that a report feet° tmlo
Chancery Commission could be so far advamced as 0
allow of a similar step being taken with respect to It ',
the present session, but it would, so tar as it m'orbt re
l/
ceive their Lordships' approbation, be most (Wei
carried into eff ct. The Noble awl Learned Lot tre 111;
gestions with respect to the present BIM would r'e"ce
the most careful attention. They had principal r efersok.
e
to the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council;
present Bill addressed itself to the remedy of a p.srP,,c,-
far evil, namely, to prevent the recurrence of the,
venience which was felt to arise last year from the 6:f
sence of several of the Learned Judges in the coves °f
equity in consequence of illness. It did not protest:A
go further, because, as the Commission to which he 70
alluded was in actual operation it was thought botter.e,
wait for the report with a view of then applyin fqb e
neral remedy for existing defects. Considering t bat
Noble and Learned Lord had presided over a cotert °lt
as he had described, the details which he had give] 0".

tainly entitled him to great s)inpathy. to
Lord BROUGHAM said that he had endeavoitre,.4
apply as much remedy as he could to the defecta
were justly complained of. He should like w hli,"10
when steps would be taken to turn to public am)
the
criminal law digest. It was thirteen months sit lc°
he received a letter from the Chancellor of the Pc"o,
quer, stating that no time would be lost in doingi'.d
Were proceedings in respect to that to be cocducito
with the same snail-like pace as business in the cote;
which he had just directed their Lordships' atterisiow
The Bill was then read a first time.
The Duke of RICHMOND presented thirty•fil.,.° 14;
titions from parishes in Essex, against, es the •L'4°";
Duke described it, That most iniquitous law, the prase
corn-law, the present navigation law, and the curreho
law; also petitions from Elgin and another place„a
Scotland against Papal aggression, and a petition ogP--
any Bill for the abolition of religious tests.
The Burgesses and Freemen's Parliamentary Frtlir
chiTheßse ill went through Committee.
Attorneys and Suilicitors Regulation Act Atnemil
ment Bill and the RepreseLtative Peers for Scotland ".
were severally reported.
The General Board of Health Bill was read a s'vd
e
time. a„re
Lord MONTEAGLE gave notice that on a fo,"of
stage of this Bill he would put a queAton to the Esr`,l3-0
Snaftesbury with reference to the condition in which
metropolis aas lett in regard to interments. nd
The Lodging-Houses Bill was read a third time
passed.
The Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Bill, the Higbviatt
Rates Bill, and the Loan Societies Bill were severs";

read a second time.
The Earl of SHAFTESBURY gave notice that ,°ll
Friday he would move for a copy of the report mad,t°.°l310
of
Mr. Grainger on the sanitary state of certain parts of 'be
metropolis, and at the same time call the attention 00,
House to that report, with the view of showing thailla
lees some remedy were speedily applied there fad refig°
to fear a recurrence of the cholera.

Their Lord hips then adjourned.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. July 14. es,
ANNUAL GRAMS TO DUBLIN LIOSPITA'
(Con inued from our Third Edition of last night.) tee
Mr. V. SMI having presided over the Coueretro
which had inquired into this question, must Bey the'lero
Right Lion. Friend the Chancellor t f the Exchequoei
to the course which he had proposed, was carrying sea
the views of that Committee—views which had Woo
founded upon the evidence that came before thew•
je4
cutlet iee nothing in the condition of Ireland, as regard
those institution., so different from this country i4g34
Scotland as 10 induce them to adapt the course proPoz'
by !be Irish Nlenibers.
Mr. S. HERBERV admitted that the giving of
nual grants to suet institutions was, generally epeakie4,
deteieeless, but the que,tiou was, whether in the P:o
sent case there ought not to be an exception to Pas
general rule ? Tht y should recollect that the circa of
stances of Ireland were very different from those 41,
England, inasmuch as there was no law of settleaPAl
or power of removal there as there was in England. b'
lever appeared to be the national disease of Ireland, fre
hoped tnat the Chancellor of the Exchi quer would isle
the case of the fever hospitals into his consideration., eei
place of making a final withdrawal of the grants trlo
these establishments, he hoped that the Chancellor of
Exchequer would think it advisable to make one ci)"0,
plete grant, amounting to about ten or twelve Plus
purchase, for the support of these institutions, and tv„,
t rid of the evil that necessarily arises from COtniv°
annually to Parliament fur these sums of money.
Colonel DUNNE characterised this as but a ePre,
men of the justice that was generally meted out to mbe
land by the British Government. Nothing could 0
more unfair or unjust than to withdraw these gri)l3is
from the hospitals in Dublin, which they kne""e.
would be impossible to supply by voluntary contrive(
tions in the present miserable and overburdened state
that country.
Mr. REYNOLDS said, under the advice of his feleo,
he would not trouble the House by dividing. He woo";
however, reserve to himself the right of again brine):re
the question before the House on the next favouriw
opportunity.
The SPEAKER, therefore,kd r
havingbyazpuet tohfe
tritine ii,
esti,°l)lll
and a division being e
Members,
The gallery was cleared, when the numbers were---
Fur the amendment ... 43
Against it 106
Majority against the amendment —63
The amendment was consequently negatived.
THE SEE OF GLOUCESTER. h r
Mr. HUME was understood to ask the Hon. Mereeet
for Bristol whether he was prepared to make any antic,el,
to the statements of the Hon. Member for Cockermou'a
relative to the income of the Bishop of Gloucester, L,
which a reply had been attempted in a place where t„'",l
evidence was not to be found on which his Hon. Fri
heti relied. The Hon. Member for Bristol had in a Le',
ter in the newspapers promised to give an answer to P"
statements of his Hon. Friend.
Mr. P. MILES said that he had called upon the pobvi
lie to suspend their judgment until information sou
be received from the Bishop of Gloucester. He was Ocie
prepared to answer any charges that might be 0364
against the Right Rev. Prelate. lie was now prepsr"
to give any intormation that might be called for.
Mr. HORSMAN explained that he bad made a store:
meat which was grounded upon evidence given before t"
Committee of that House. He had made the statetuell:
too, in presence of several Ecclesiastical Commissioner"'
and there was no answer or explanation to that state;
went. That House knew nothing of what bad bee
done by the Bishop of
Gloucester. He had cowl:011i
cared with the Hon, Member for Bristol, and poitti,,,
out w him what were the specific parts of the ,
evidell
en which he grounded his statement. He agreed 41',1e
the Hen. Member that if they could bring this matter
before the House it would be very desirable to do e`''
but he found it was not possible to do so either oil -
Government night or upon a motion day, as each tilf
6;
two o
was fully occupied up to July 29th. He 13°:
tna,„
then, reiterated the former statement he had
"L
He had, however, heard with great surprise that the
Right Rev. Prelate bud given an explanation elsewher,
in it place wbere the evidence was not accessible to
those who listened to the Right Rev. Prelate. If the
Bishop of Gloucester did not think a statement made Jrcii
that House worth an answer, and if ho were sat is°
with making a statement in a place where the evitelea,t''
was not in existence, and in an assembly that wail 11'3
cessarily ignorant of all the circumstances—if the Bigiciff
was contented so to act, the public would draw ib••
own conclusions. He (Mr. Horemati) stood there an;tioll
to substantiate his statements; arid the orcumsta sue.„
he said, turned out stronger than he had first put tbei",
forward. It was not his fault that the explanation fits
made elsewhere, and the discussion removed to another
assembly. He remarked that the Hon. Member f°'
Bristol was not a party to those proceedings.
Lord J. MANNERS remarked that while the WO,
Member was so particular about the discussions Oil
occurred in this House, he should be so inconsisten;
as to refer to debates in another place. He considered
that the charge that had been made by the Hon. Mew'
bee had been satisfactorily disposed of by the bishop'',
(Ilear)— and he was sorry to find that the Hon. Member
had teeing toffs opportunity of indulging in another
vective against the Right Rev. Prelate.
Mr. GLADSIONE said he could not quite under:
stand how they were entering upon this subject at tb'
present atornent.—(Hear.) He excused himself for ear
tering upon it, as the discussion then seemed to him t&
be both improper and irregular, but he must, in o
trankuess, say, that they were bound to go further with
the prooeedit.gs.—(l-lear.) In hie judgment the state"
miens of the Hon. Gentleman had been impugned on
every most material point;—(Hour)—hut still be nntet
say that it was most desirable they should have a further
discussion on this eubjece—(Hear.) It was with greet
pain he bad beard the charges made by the Hon. Meta.
her against the Bishop of Gloucester, because there W
no one on the episcopal bench more distinguished for!,
character ef liberality and charity thigi the j3jahop w