The Sun.
London, England, 1851-03-07 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1851.

less business doitg privately, and at auction 150 bags
were only in part disposed of skd to 51d for low mid
and mid. Fall terms are required for Cloves, but there
arc few buyers, and 137 bags Bourbon at auction wereonly
in part disposed of at 6d per lb. The value of Penang is 9d
to is 4d. Mace is wanted, first sort realized 2a 6d to 2. Bd,
and other sorts realised 2.6 2d to 2s sd. Nutmegs are
yet in small supply, and prices have an upward ten-
dency, there being several buyers. The value of good
and fine brown is from 3s 2d to 48, other sorts 2:16d to
3s, and good limed 2s 8d to 2s 10d. Holders of Pepper
continue firm and none has again been ofered at
auction; privately, however, operations have been
to a fair extent, and prices remain at aid
to aid for Malabar, and Summatra 341 to
3id. In white several sales have been made
at from 6d to Bd, but African Pod is offered at from 35s
to 45s per cwt, and with few buyers. Ginger continues
in small supply, but purchasers are few, and rates re-
main at 21 lOs to 9/ for low to fine Jamaica, and at 34s
to 37s for African. At auction 195 pockets Bengal were
disposed of at 17s 6d for export sorts. For small parcels
of Cassia Lignea, 92s to 102 s per cwt have been ob-
tained. At auction 37 boxes Cassia Vera were sold at
35s to 375, and one lot at 40s. The value of Cassia Buds
is 1088 to 110 s. Cinnamon of common quality is wanted,
but there are few buyers of the best kinds, low as prices
are. The value of first sort is from is 9d to 3s 61,
second ditto Is 5d to 2s 7d, third and fourth is to 2s 3d
per lb. To-day at public sale 119 bags cf Pimento sold
at rather lower rates: mid went at *I, ord and low
to 4id per lb.

SPIRITS.—There is much dulness in the market for
Jamaica Rum with sellers of low and mid sorts at rather
lower rates, but better kinds sustain the previous value.
The rates taken for common and mid are 2s 8d to 3s
for 30 to 34 per cent over proof, and 3s 2d to 4s 6d
for good mid and good 34 to 38 over. Of Leeward
Island only small parcels have been sold at Is 8d to is
8d proof, but supply is yet scanty. East India has been
dealt in with caution at is 6d to is 6jd proof. In De-
merara sales have been small and more desire is
evinced to sell at from 2s 5d to 2s 9d for
30 to 40 per cent over proof. The sales in
Brandy continue upon the same small scale, as for some
time past, with free sellers of Cognac best brands of the
vintage of 1850 at 4s 4d to 4s 6d, 1849 ditto 4s 7d to
4s 9d, 1848 ditto 4s 9d to 4s 11d, low and inferior sorts
3s to 4s 3d. British made Spirit are still quoted at 9s
8d to 9s 9d. Gin 8s 3d for 22 under proof. Geneva is
7d to is 8d for ord and fine at is 9d to 2s per gallon.
INDIGO.—This aft, moon, at public sale, 30 Serona
Guatemala Indigo sold at rather lower rates, and went
at from 2s 10d to 4s 2d, and one lot low 2s 4d per lb.
The market for all sorts of Indigo has a dull aspect.
SALTPETRE.—TO-day prices were supported at the
public sales of 1,266 bags Calcutta refraction 6 to 5 per
cent, selling at 28s 6d to 295, 7 ditto 27s 6d to 28s, da-
maged 23s to 27s per cwt:
TALLOW.—To-day at public sale 630 casks Sydney
Tallow mostly sold; Sheep at 36s to 36s 9d; Orr 35s to
363 6d; 1,000 pkgs South American 34s to 37s 9d; 23
cks of North American 36s 3d to 37s 9d; 10 cks Belgian
36s 3d to 36s 9d.

OILS.—To-day at public sale 30 tuns Southern Oil sold
at 30110 s to 31/103; 500 ditto E. I. Rape Seed Oil mostly
taken in at 31s 6d to 323 9d; 70 pkgs Teel Seed Oil at
335; 104 Ground Nut Oil at 34s per cwt.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

[The following is substituted for an article which ap-
peared in last Tuesday's Gazette.]
WHITEHALL, FEB. 22, 1851.
The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity
of a Baron of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
Ireland unto Arthur Baron de Freyne, and the heirs male
of his body lawfully begotten by the name, style, and title
of Baron de Freyne, of Coolavin, in the county of Sligo,
with remainders, in default of such heirs male, to his
brothers, John French, Clerk, Charles French, Esq.,
and Fitzstephen Fench, Esq., severally and successively,
and to the heirs male of their bodies lawfully begotten.
FOREIGN OFFICE, MARCH 6.
The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. John
Longlands Cowell as Consul at Gibraltar for his Majesty
the Emperor of Austria.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
N. Christian Mathiasen as Consul at Gibraltar for his
Majesty the King of Denmark.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
William Henry Tilstone as Consul in Canada for her
Majesty the Queen of Portugal and the Algarves.
The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr.
Joseph Jesse as Consul at Montreal for his Majesty the
King of the Belgians.
CRO WN-OFFICE, MARCH 7.
MEMBER RETURNED TO SERVE IN THIS PRESENT
PARLIAMENT.
Borough of Harwich—Henry Thoby Prinsep, of
Little Holland House, Kensington, in the county of
Middlesex, Esq., in the room of the Right Hon. Sir John
Cain Hobhouse, Baronet, who has accepted the office of
Steward of her Majesty's Chiltern Hundreds.
WAR-OFFICE, MARCH 7.
2d Dragoon Guards—Lieutenant David Henry Howell,
from the 15th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, vice
Hibbert, appointed to the Ist Foot, March 7.
15th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant Henry Howard
Barber, from the Ist Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Howell,
appointed to the 2d Dragoon Guards, March 7.
Ist (or Grenadiet) Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieu-
tenant and Captain the Hon. 11. Hugh Manvers Percy,
to be Captain and Lieutenant. Colonel, by purchase, vice
John Dixon, who retires; Ensign and I.,etitonant James
Evelyn, to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice
Percy, March 7.
Ist Foot—Lieutenant Leycester Hibbert, from the 2d
Dregoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Barber, up-
peinied to the 15th Light Dragoons, March 7.
sth Foot—Cep:ain William Robert Lyon Bennett,
from halt-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Felix
Ashpitel, who exchanges; Lieutenant Ferdinand Wil-
liam L'Estrange, to Le Captain, by purchase, vice Ben-
nett, who retires, March 7.
7th Foot—Lieutenant the Hoe. William Monck, to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires, March 7;
Ensign Richard Williams Thomas, from the St. Helena
Regiment, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Monck;
Lieutenant Thomas Beckwith Speedy to be Adjutant,
vice Monck, promoted, March 7.
18th Foot—Ensign George Augustus Elliot to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ferrer, who retires,
Me.rch 7.
34th Foot—Lieutenant Mawdistly Gaussen Best to be
Captain by purchase, vice Sir George Douglas, Bart.,
retire; Ensign Arthur Trevor Leake Chapman to be
Lieutenant and Adjutant, by purchase, vice Bast, pro-
moted, March 7.
48th Foot—Lieutenant Samuel John Maclurcan to be
Captain, by purchase, vice Adam who retires; Ensign
Frederick John Castle to be Lieutenant by purchase,
vice Maclurcan, March 7.
57th Foot—Lieutenant Robert Abraham Logan to be
Captain, by purchase. vice Ashton, who retires; Ensign
Gerrard John Forsyth to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Logan, March 7.
74th Foot—Lieutenant John Jago to be Captain, by
purchase, vice William Cunninghawe Bruce, who retires;
Ensign Philip Philpot to be Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Jago, March 7.
81.;:t Foot—Major Henry Farrant to be Lieutenant-
Colonel, by purchase, vice Miller, who retires; Captain
the Hoe. Robert Alexander George Dalzell to be Major,
by purchase, vice Farrant; Lieutenant Francis Lepper to
b Captain, by purchase, vice Dalzell; Ensign William
Egerton Todd to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Lepper, March 7.
91st Foot—Lieutenant William Richard Annesley,
from the 97th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cole, promoted
to an Unattached Company, March 7.
Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Edmund Bagee
nail, from half-pay of the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be
Lieutenant, vice Ross, promoted to an Unattached Com-
pany, March 7.
Cape Mounted Riflenaen—Ensiga George Lloyd Stud-
dert to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Lavers, who
retires, March 7.
UNATTACHED.—Lieutenant the Hon. Edward Sydney
Plunkett, from the 95th Foot, to be Captain without
purchase; Lieutenant Archibald Rutherford, from the
76th Foot, to be Captain without purchase, March 7.
BREVET.—Lieutenant-Colonel Frederick Abbott,
C.B. late of Bengal Engineers (Lieutenant-Governor of
the East-India Company's Military Seminary at Addis-
combe), to have the local and ternporapy rank of Lieut.-
Colonel in the Army while so employed, March 7.
MEMORANDUM.—The Commission of Lieutenant
William West Turner, as Adjutant of the 15th Foot,
has been ante-dated to the 26th August, 1850.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, MARCH
5.
Royal Regiment of Artillery—Second Captain John
Farnaby Cater to be Captain, vice Low, retired on full-
pay; First Lieutenant John Fraser Lodington Bad-
deley to be Second Captain, vice Cator; Second Lieu.
tenant Herbert Mark Garrett Purvis, to be First Lieu.
tenant, vice Baddeley, Feb. 22.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH 4.

Corps of Royal Marines----Gentleman Cadet John
Blackwood Colwell to be Second Lieutenant.
ERRATA.—The Commissions of Captain R. S. Searle
and First Lieutenant E. D. Thelwall are dated 28th Feb.,
instead of 3d March.

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WHITEHALL, FEB. 28.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed Henry Ling, of
of Norwich, Gent., to be a Master Extraordi-
nthaey
ryciitn
the High Court of Chancery.
BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED.
Thomas Picket Hennings, dealer in wine, Wyndham-
road, Camberwell.
Joseph Harper, coal merchent, Ponsonby-place, Vaux-
hall-bridge-road.
C Yellow, innkeeper,:Leeds.
Miti-gatet Wood, widow, Grimshill, Salop.
BANKRUPTS.
William Siorror, oPholiterer, Southemp on.
Arnold Francis Wile and George Henry Wilson, mer-
chants, Kiugston-upon-Hull.
William Walker, manufacturer, Howden, Yorkshire.
William Couch, rianotorte intker, .John,-street, Fitz-
roy..square.
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Grocere-hall, March 7.
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
(THIS EVENING.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat upon the Wool-
sack at Five o'clock.
DESIGNS ACTS EXTENSION BILL.
This Bill passed through Committee.
PETITIONS.
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE laid on the table the
Tithe Commissioners' Report for 1850.
Lord BEAUMONT presented a petition from the Law
Society against the second clause of the Law of Evidence
Bill wticti authorised the examination of parties to the
suit and their wives; he personally did not agree with
the prayer of the petition, because such evidence would
always be taken for what it was worth, and the evi-
dence of the parties might lead to the discovery of tur-
ther evidence; but stilt the opinions of the petitioners
were entitled to attention, and he hoped the Bill would
be referred to a Select Committee.
Lord BROUGHAM bore evidence to the high re-
spectability of the petitioners; but forty-nine out of fifty
of the county court judges had reported in favour of the
plan.

The Earl of ENNISKILLEN presented a petition
from Galway praying for the establishment of a packet
station on the west coast of Ireland.
COUNTY COURTS EXTENSION BILL.
Lord BROUGHAM rose to move the second reading
of the County Courts Extension Bill. So long ago as
the year 1825 Lord Althorp brought in a Bill for the
better recovery of small debts. That Bill went
but a little way; it merely proposed to give
jurisdiction to small debt courts in cases in which the
amount in dispute did not exceed 101. Lord Althorp
handed over the Bill to the late Sir R. Peel, wbo was
always anxious to promote any measure of law reform,
and Sir R. Peel cheerfully undertook the task of reform.
Two Commissions of Inquiry into the common law, and
another fur inquiring into the law of real property,
were issued by Sir R. Peel and the reports of those
Commissioners were most valuable, and many impor-
tant changes bad been introduced, grounded upon
the reports of those learned commissioners; and so im-
perfect had these changes been, that it some of the emi-
nent lawyers who had died within the last quarter of a
century were to revisit Westminster Hall they would
scarcely believe that they were in the same country in
which they had passed their lives. He bad himself, in
1840, introduced a Bill for establishing courts of local ju-
risdiction. In that bill he had originally given jurisdiction
to Local Courts, in cases of debt to 100/., but on the re-
presentation of the Commissioners he had reduced it to
201. That Bill was rejected by a small majority corn.
posed of proxies. In 1842, Lord Lyndhurst had intro-
duced a Bill which was in all essentials identical with the
Bill, which afterwards became law, and he regretted
that more had not been done. Last year a measure was
proposed, extending the jurisdiction of these courts to
50/. in cases of debt. There was no man who could
deny that these County Courts had worked admirably
In every man's neighbourhood a tribunalexisted where
a man's dispute with his neighbours could be speedily
and cheaply settled. In two years and nine months
1,200,000 causes had been disposed of in these County
Courts, being at the rate of 420,000 causes a-year, and
the amount of property adjudicated on must have been
about 2,000,000/. a-year. The last year's Act gave an
appeal upon points of law upon sums above 20/.,
In five months 4,000 of these causes had been disposed
of, and there had not been more than four appeals.
Now, so far as regarded contentious jurisdiction, so far
as regarded the ousting of the jurisdiction of the Supreme
Courts, he did not propose to extend the jurisdiction of
these courts. The four classes which were included in the
Bill of 1830, but which were now excluded by the County
Court jurisdiction were bankrupts, equitable jurisdiction
arbitration and courts of reconcilement. He proposed to
extend the jurisdiction of the county courts to cases of
bankruptcy, gradually to absorb the bankruptcy juris-
diction in that of the county courts. He also proposed
that all matters upon which a Master in Chancery
could decide should be, upon the order of the Court of
Chancery, remitted to a county court of decision, so
that instead of parties being brought from Cornwall
to Chancery-lane, they should have equity administered
to them in their own district. He also proposed that
all parties, whatever might be the cause or the amount
in dispute, should be enabled to submit the matter in
dispute to the county court judge as an arbitrator, sub-
ject only to have points of law, as is the case at present
with regard to arbitration, raised in the superior courts
on their award. In a great variety of cases at present,
more particularly in cases of disputed amount,
when a case became ripe for trial it was found that it
was impossible to try it by a judge and jury, and the
judge ordered such a case to be referred,
now he proposed to give parties a power of
referring such a case at once to a county-court
judge. (Hear, hear.) In ordinary cases of
arbitration there was sometimes a tendency to
protract proceedings. Now the county-court judge would
have no temptation to protract proceedings, because he was
not paid by the number of sittings, but was paid a fixed
salary. But he set still greater store by his proposition
to make these county courts counts of reconcilement. It
was proposed that any party suing or sued
on any matter whatever might cite his adversary
to appear before a county court judge in reconcilement
and the parties thus uppearing might state, the one his
cause of grievance and the other his defence. In every
profession, and in the law as well as others, there
must be a better and worse class, and as a skilful
and honourable solicitor was the greatest blessing a
neighbourhood could have, so there could not be
a greater curse than one of the worst class. But a
respectable solicitor might be misled as to the
merits of his client's case ; he proposed that no
counsel no attorney should attend the court of reconcilia-
tion, bus that the parties should go unattended by legal
advisers and state their case. The judge would at once
see whether or not a party had pod grounds for proceed•
ing, and if' he had none, and the judge told him so, in
nine cases out of ten litigation would cease. The courts
had been tried on the Continent, and had succeeded
In France they were compulsory • but if that wore
the case here they would gradually Assume the
character of courts of law rather than of
courts of reconcilement, and therefore he did
nut propose to make them compulsory. In Switzerland,
in some of the cantons it was compulsory, in others it
was optional; where it was compulsory it was said to
fail, where voluntary it succeeded.

(LEFT SPEAKING.)

HOUSE OF COMMONS.
The SPEAKER took LI e Chair a few minutes to Four
o'clock.

NEW MEMBER.
Mr. PRINSEP, the new Member for Harwich, took
;he oaths and his seat. The Hon. Gentleman was in-
,roduced by Mr. Herries and Mr. F. Mackenzie.
ABOLITION OF THE OFFICE OF LORD LIEU.
TENANT OF IRELAND.
The Lord Mayor of Dublin, accompanied by several
Aldermen, appeared at the bar, and presented a petition
from the corporation of that city, against the abolition
of the office of Lord-Lieutenant.
SECOND READINGS.
The following Bills were read a second time, and or-
dered to be committed:—
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway (Fifth Share.).
Metropolitan Cattle Market.
COPPER MINER'S IN ENGLAND.
On the motion that the Copper Miners in England
Bill be read a second time,
Mr. SPOONER objected to the Bill on the ground
that the principle of it was to set aside the
claims of all the creditors of the company unless
they became partners in the undertaking, which had for
many years been in a bankrupt state. A great number
of debentures had been issued by the company, and the
effect ef this Bill would be to render them cutiiely va-
lueless, except where the holders of them chose
to become proprietors. Ile, therefore, hoped the
House would not give its assent to so unjust
and monstrous a proposition. The Honourable Member
moved that it be reed a second time this day six months.
Sir DE LACY EVANS supported the second read-
ing of the Bill.
Mr. MUNIZ would be exceedingly sorry if this '
Bill a ere passed, and he thought that everybody be-
longing to the concern would be sorry too that they had
ever got it.
Mr. BOOKER protested against the principle of this
Bill being entertained by the House.
Mr. MACGREGOR supported, the second, reading of
the Bill.
Mr. BROTHERTON thought that the Bill ought to
go into Committee, in order to give opportunities fur
investigation.
Mr. G. C. LEGII opposed the Bill.
The House then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading
Against it 66
Majority
—57
The Bill was then road a second time.
PETITIONS.

Mr. TANCRED presented a petition from the Catho
lies of Banbury against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. L. HODGES presented a petition against the re-
moval of Smithfield Cattle Market.
Sir DE LACY EVANS presented a petition from
Westminster praying for the repeal of the window-tax.
Mr. S. ADAIR presented a petition praying fur a re-
peal of the taxes on knowledge.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition against the
Papal aggression, and praying for the suppression of
Jesuit establishments.
Sir GEORGE STRICKLAND presented two peti•
lions from Preston against the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented four petitions
egaiost the Government measure for the removal of
Smithfield, and a petition from tho butchers of Enfield
praying to be heard by counsel against the Bill,
BOARD OF CUSTOMS.
Mr. MITCHELL gave notice that on an early day
be should move for the appointment of a Select Com-
mittee to inquire into the management of thu Board of
Costume, with a view to its improvement—(hear, hear)
nd saviog expotise to the courAey.
Mr. MACGREGOR az.cl sestrzl other Hon. Members
preb,!ited petitions to the Ifouso, awl Postponed motions
of vshicli the) had given notice.

_ ...
CIIANCERI:REFORAL
Lo:d JOHN RUSSELL gavm notice that it was his
. intention to bring in a Bill on an early day for a reform
1 in the practice of the Court cf Chancery.
THE KAFIR WAR.
Sir DE LACY EVANS begged to ask the Noble Lord
at the head of the Government a question respecting the
intentions of the Ministry in providing for the expensesof
the contest. He put this question in the hope that :the
colonists would have to bear the weight of their owncon-
flirts.

Lord JOHN RUSSELL replied that all he could
say at present was, that his Noble Friend at the
bead of the Colonial Department had written to the

Governor of the colony, enjoining him in the strongest
manner to take care that IL) expenditure should
be incurred in the event of a liiefir. war which
would fall on the G tvernment of this ceuntry. The co-
lony must, therefore, be exrct,d t•) b-tar its own ex-
penses. At the present time if, was impetetible to say
more than this—that with the exc,ption of sending out
a necessary reinforcement, no expense would be incurred
is respect of the war without, the sanction of the House.
Sir W. MOLES WORTH wished to know whether
the Under-Secretary for the Colonies had any official
information with regard to the commencement of the
war ?
Mr. HAWES said, as soon as any dispatches were
received they would be laid on th© table of the House;
but he might observe that he believed too much
importance had been attached to the information which
had been circulated among the public. No dispatch had
yet been received from the Governor, and the only
dispatch which the Government were in possession of
was that of the Colonial Secretary, which cemmuniceted
the nature of the events in tee colony up to the
4th of January last. The reason why no dispatch
was received from the Governer was that at that time
he was surrounded by a large body of Katirs.—(Loud
laughter.) Since that date Sir H. Smith, with that cha-
racteri,tie gallantry, skill, end courage which belonged
to him, hal emancipated himself fro all his difficulties,
and gallantly cut his way through hordes of b-aberians.
—(Cheers.) A steamer was expected every hear with
fresh advices, bringing accounts up to a period three
weeks later than thus, last received.
EXCISE.
_

SIBTIIOBP wished to know whether it was
true that the chairman of the Exci.le, Sir John Wood,
bad received an increase of 500/. a year, in addition to
his salary of 2,0001.?
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER said, if
the Gallant Member would move for the necessary mi-
nute on the subject, be would be glad to state the rea-
sons why that increase hai been made.
CEYLON.
In reply to Mr. BAILLIE,
Mr. HAWES said he would lay the report of the
Royal commission on Ceylon on the table of the House
to-night, and it would probably be placed in the hands
of Mombers to-morrow.
EXTENSION OF THE FRANCHISE TO
COUNTIES.
M. LOCKE KING brought up his Bill for the exten-
sion of the county franchise to 101. householders.
The Hon. Member, on appearing at the bar with the
Bill, was received with cheers.
The Bill was ordered to be read a second time on the
2d of April.—(This announcement was received with
laughter.)
MINISTERIAL STATEMENT.

On the motion that the House on its rising adjourn
till Monday next,
Lord JOHN RUSSELL said,— Sir, in rising to
move that the House at its rising a J,Jurn till
Monday next, I will make the statement which
I promised on Monday last. My Right Hon. Friend
the Secretary of State for the Home Department will,
on the reading of the order of the day for the second
reading of the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, state the altera-
tions and modifications which we propose to make in
that Bill, and, as they ate extensive, I propose after
that statement has been made to postpone the second
reading of the Bill until Friday next.—(Hear, hear.)
With respect to the general business of the session, I
should state that a considerable interval having taken
place, i❑ which no public business has been transacted, it
is most desirable that we should proceed with as little
delay as possiele, end, therefore, on Monday next
I propose that the House shall go into Com-
mittee on the Navy Estimates. As I have
proposed a postponement of the second reading of the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill until Friday, I trust that there
will be no opposition on the part of Hon. Members who
are opposed to the Bill, to go into Committee on an
early day after reading the Bill a second time,
supposing that the House should pass the second
reading. It will bo necessary to take some votes with
regard to the army and ordnance estimates, and espe-
cially to take a vote for the number of men required in
the army, as the House is aware that the Mutiny Bill
expires on the 25th of March, and the Easter
vacation intervenes before that day. I do not pro-
pose to take any vote on account of the Income-tax,
until Mondry, the 24th, and on the Friday preceding,
that is on the 21st, my Right Hon. Friend the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer wilt state any alterations which
he has to propose with regard to the financial measures
of the session.
The motion for the adjournment was then carried.
ECCLESIASTICAL TITLES BILL.
On the motion for the second reading of the Bill,
Mr. STUART presented a petition in favour of the
Bill from the Bishops of the Ecclesiastical Church of
Scotland, which he moved should be read by the Clerk
at the table.
The petition was then read at length by the Clerk at
the table.
Lord ARUNDEL and SURREY presented a petition
against the Bill from the Roman Catholics of Wales.
Dr. POWER presented a similar petition from Cork.
Mr. REYNOLDS presented is petition to the same
effect signed by 6,000 of the Roman Catholic inhabit.
ants of St. Mary's, St. Thomas, and S. George's, Dub-
lin. On the motion of the Hon. G-entltman the petition
was read by the clerk at the table.
Sir WILLIAM CLAY presented a petition against
the Bill from the &mail, C.2tliolics of the Tower Ham.
lets.

Mr. COBDEN presented a similar petition from the
Roman Catholic% of Yorkshire.
Mr. M. O'CONNELL presented ten similar petitions
from places in Ireland, and praying that the revenues of
the Protestant Church might in future be appropriated
to the relief of the poor.
Mr. A. GORE presented a petition to the same effect
from Sligo.
Mr. CAYLEY presented two similar petitions from
places in the West Riding.
Lord JOHN MANNERS presented a petition to the
the same effect from the Roman Catholics of Colchester.
Petitions were then presented by Mr. Cardwell, from
Liverpool; by Mr. Clement, Mr. Lennard, Mr-Bennet,
and Mr. Roche, from the county of Cork; by other
members from the county of Downe, by Mr. Philip
Howard, from Exeter, signed by upwards of 3,000 of the
aroz ins, labourers, and other members of the community
of Exeter. (Some amusement was occasioned in the
House, end not a little laughter, by the Hon. Member
going to the wrong side or the table to give his petition
to the Clerk of the House).—The petition was ordered
to lie on the table.
Mr. GRATTAN presented a petition from several
thousand people in Ireland to the same effect.
Sir R. H. INGLIS presented a petition from 616 per-
sons of condition and character who desired to re-
sist the Papal aggression. They expres.ed a strong
hope that the officers of Government would resist this
aggression; yet, while expressing this hope, they a; the
same time said that the last thought in their minds was
to oppose anything like a barrier to the progress of civil
and religious liberty.
Mr. MORGAN JOHN O'CONNELL presented pe-
titions against the Bill from the Roman Catholics of
Listowell and several other places in Ireland.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON presented a petition from
13,000 inhabitants of Manchester against the Bill.
THE MINISTERIAL CRISIS.
Sir GEORGE GREY then rose, and silence
having been obtained, proceeded to say that
before he went on to make any observations
respecting the Government, ho wished to make a few
remarks regarding the position in which the Go ern-
ment was placed. He desired to make a few explana-
tions. Tho Honourable) Member for Manchester (Mr.
Milner Gibson) had placed the Government in a singular
position. It might seem from that Hon. Gentleman's
impressions (derived from the speech of Lord Stanley
in another place) that it was the intention of the Go-
vernment to throw of this question altogether.—(Hear )
But the Right Hon. Member for Manchester, and those
who thought with him, had not rightly comprehended
the suggestions which fell from Lord Stanley. They
seemed to assume that his Lordship suggested
that a Committee of both Houses of Parliament
should be appointed, to whom should be re-
ferred a variety of subjects connected with the
relations of Roman Casktolic subjects in England,
wish the Crown on the one band, and with their own
church on the other, and that a proposition of that kind
might be adopted without debate and discuseion, and the
further considerate to of any Bill on the subject inde-
finitely postponed—(Hear, bear)—and both Houses be
enabled to proceed to the consideration of other matters
of greater public importance. But they seemed to over-
look that it was a part of his Lordship's proposition that
resolutions should be simultaneausly proposed in
both Houses declaring their opinion that the
encroachments of the Popo were offensive to the
country, derogatory to the digni'y of the Crown, and
trenching upon the independence of Parliament. Now,
the Government did not consider such a course consistent
with the duty
they owed to the country. If
resolutions of that kind were proposed, they
would involve long and discursive debates and
would probably occupy the House a much
longer period than the present Bill.—(Hear.) Besides,
such resolutions would have so legal ( fleet, aud would
be totellS disregarded by
Roman
Catholics in this coun-
try, and not prevent the assumption of any of tho titles
with which the Bill of the Government attempted
to deal, Then if Committees were appointed to
consider the subject it should not he forgotten that they
would have to receive ail kinds of statsmioits and retire-
to stations, impeaching the Reroun Catholics on the One
hand, and counter statements on tne other ; and a
kind of indefinite expectation would be held out to
the public that a system of comprehensive, legislation
would be adopted which woule toe Protestant
fee hog of the country. and at the some tittle loop invio-
late those principles el civil and religious liberty which
were held sacred by the COW awn:v.—(lleat., hear.)
The next suggestion maths was that the , opera-
tion of the Bill atiouel not be extended to Ireland.
That subject was fully considered by the Government.
Now, if a Bill was necessary—if this aggression of a
foreign power upon the authority of the Queen was to
be repelled by an Act of the .Legislathte, and the
Government had proposed to limit the Bill to one
part of the United Kingdom, they would have been
charged with tacitly admitting that the authority of the
Queen was less paramount in one portion of her domi-
nions than another. But at the same time he was
willing to admit that there was a wide difference in the
circumstances of Ireland and those of England and

Scotland. It was impossible to overlook the fact that
there existed a Roman C..t.thetic population in Ireland,
and a Roman Cairolic Church which had existed side by
side with the Established Church since the time of the
Reeerroation, at one time prohibited, at another tolt-
rect.?, and at awither protected. That was,in fect.the great
difficulty which stood in the way of legislAing for this
case. Certainly in this country Roman Citholic
Bishops had existed, but it was under entirely different
circumstances from those under which they had
existed in Ireland. Ho was not, however,
prepared to admit that the objection which
had been urged against the Bill, and particularly
against the second and third clauses. It could not pos•
sibly interfere with the spiritual acts of a bishop; neir-
tiser did he think a clause like the third
would at all defeat the object of the. &quests
Act, since by that Act only those bequests
were void which were left to ecclesiastics who assumed
tities contrary to the provisions of the Emanctieition
Act. Now it was said that a portion of this clause
as it now stood might pr judice some of the
rights of the Roman Catholics in Ireland. It was
alleged that it would interfere with precCcyis which
had been sanctioned by time as well as the
courts of law and equity, such as the ordination
or collation of a priest. Directly it would not, hut in-
directly it might; bec:use it was sometimes neeesury to
give in evidence the fait of the ordination and
the practice was to produce the certificate of collection
fir that ptirpo,e. Now, in these certificAtes the
nitary granting the ordination was described in Latin.
as the bishop or archbishop of the see which he held,
and though hitherto the courts of law and equity
had admitted those certificates. in evd,rice, it

Set was extremely d,tib,ful it than practice, could be
continued if this Bill pes:42(l

(LEFT SPEARING.)

BANK OF ENGLAND.
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AnAccount, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fer
the Week ending on Saturday, the let day of March, 1851.
ISSUE DEPARTMENT.

Notes issued.... •• •• 27,772,240

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Other securities •• • • 2,9114,900
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4 27,772,240
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or some other way. I observed symptoms of inflamma-
tion in the bowels, such as would be produced by an ir-
ritant poison.
By the prisoner--I don't know who fetched the bladder
in which the contents of the stomach were planed. It
was brought to ma by Superintendent Clarke.
Superintendent Clarke recalled—On the 28th of May
I searched the prisoner's house. Is contained three rooms
on the ground-floor, in one of which the deceased died.
The prisoner was at home at the time. I first searched
the room in which the family lived, and in a kneading
troueh that wasp hi it I found a qUantity of rice. Breese
this I had taken possession of some bottles ' and other
things. The prisoner made no objection to my doing
so. I found the rice in a bag, and when the prisoner
saw me take it up she said " She hoped I was not
going to take that away, as it was her father's, and she
had used some of it for her husband;" and she added,
" That if I welt it away she hoped I would tell her te-
ther of it." I told her not to interfere with me, and I
should take away just what I thought proper. Two or
three times after this she repsered that she hoped I
should not take the rice away. I kept the bag and the
eke in my care until the 30th of May, and I then deli-
vered it to Dr. Taylor in the same • state i: was in when
I took it from the prisoner's house.
By the prisoner--- I had no warrant with me when I
went to sear oh the house.
Jana, s Pilly, a police-constable, said--I accompanied
Mr. Clarke to snatch the prisuer r'e Inane, anti I sew him
tulle the' rice out of the kneading-trough. When the pri-
soner saw him fake out the beg of rice she appeared very
anxiow, and exclaimed tat she hoped we were not
going to take the rice away.
Ann Piny said—l am the wife of the last witness. I
was present when Mr. Clarke took the rice from the
trough. The bag of rice was placed in my possession
for a short time, and I then returned it to Mr. Clarke in
the same state in which I received it. I searched the
person of the prisoner, but found nothing remarkable.
Mr. C. C. Lewis—l am one of the coroners for this
county. On the 20.1 of May last I held an inquest upon
the body of the deceased at Clavering, and I received a
parcel from Mr. Brown, which I afterwards delivered to
Dr. Taylor, of Guy's Hospital. The inquest was ad-
journed from the 20th of May to the 2d of June, and the
prisoner was present as a witness on the second occasion.
No charge had at this time been preferred against her.
She made a statement upon oath, which I took down
in writing.
Mr. BODKIN then proposed to put in the statement
made by the prisoner, but upon a suggestion from his
Lordship that there might be a question whether it was
admissible, the Learned Counsel said he would postpone
putting it in for the present.
Dr. Taylor, professor of chemistry at Guy's Hospital,
was then examined. He deposed that he examined the
contents of the bladder handed to him by Mr. Lewis,
and applied the usual tests to them, and the result was the
discovery of the presence of arscusic. He also said
that the intestines presented the appearances. which
usually accompanied the exhibition of arsenic. The whole
quantity of arsenic found by him was about the 25th
part of a grain, which, he said, was insufficient to occa-
sion death.
By the COURT—The whole of the arsenic was ex-
pended by the various tests that were applied to it, but
he could state positively that arsenic to the extent he
bad mentioned was discovered in the intestines and in the
fluid of the stemach.
By Mr. BODKIN—It was possible that the arsenic he
found was the remainder of a larger dose that had been
administered some days before, and he did not believe
that it bad been administered very recently before
death. If the poison had been taken seven or eight
hours before death he was of opinion that a larger
quantity would have been found in the stomach itself
than on the coats of that organ. The portion of the
poison that was absorbed and deposited in the stomach
might have been administered as long as twelve days,
but that which was contained in the fluid might have
been administered much more recently. The symptoms
exhibited by the deceased would in his opinion be en-
tirely explained by the continual administration of small
does of arsenic.
By the LORD CRIER JUSTICE—WitReBS was of
opinion that the arsenic must have been administered in
small doses, not at all calculated to produce death at
once, and when the administration of the poison was re-
linquished for a time the man got better. •
se- By Mr. BODKIN—The effect of the continual adminis-
tration of small doses of arsenic would be to gradually
cause the powers of the body to languish, and would thus
tend to develope any c nastitutional mated t, such as con-
sumption, that might be in the system. Witness subse-
quently examined a quantity of rice that was handed to
him by Clarke, the police-officer, and he found that it
was all over arsenic; and according to the calculations he
had made he was of opinion that thserice' which was
about a pound in quantity, there were about sixteen
grains of arsenic. Every grain of rice was covered
with a minute portion of the poison, end the whole ap-
peared to have been carefully mixed up together, so that
every part of the rice was poisoned, and the interior of
the bag containing the rice was likewise covered with
arsenic. The poison consisted of the common white are
genie, which had the appearance of flour. Witness was
examined upon the former trial of the prisoner for poi-
soning her children,-and he upon that occasion, in her
presence, described the nature of arsenic and its mode
of action.
Mr. BODKIN then again proposed to put in the state-
ment made by, the prisoner upon her examination before
the coroner.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said that before he ad-
mitted the evidence he would consult Mr. Baron Parke
upon the point of its
Upon his LORDSHIP'S return, he state &that his Learned
Brother concurred with him that the statement was ad.
missible.
The statement was accordingly put in and read. It
was to the effect that her husband had been in good
health until about twelvemonths before, when he was
seized with pains in different parts of his body, and they
eventually settled in the bottom cf his body, and he then
complained of suffering very great pain and was almost
mad for two or Three days when Mr. Hawkes neglected
to visit him. She el-o stated that deceased was re-
peatedly sick, and she thought that the doctor had given
him something in his physic to make him sick. The
most material part of the statement was that the pri-
soner denied positively ever having given the deceased
any rice.

James Parker said—The prisoner is my daughter.
and I lived in the same house with her and her husband
at Clavering. I remember her husband dying. Before
this happened I had purchased two pounds of rice and
had eaten a portion of it on two occasions, and it took
no effect upon me whatever. I ate some of the rice the
first night I bought it, and the second time was a week
afterwards. I kept the rice in the kneading trough, and
I never put any thing into it.
By the prisoner—l used to ear, the rice without wash-
ing it. I do not know Mr. Lewis, the coroner, but I know
the "crowtier."—(A laugh.) I don't remember any..
thing particular happening about the rice one day when
he was going by the cottage.
Henry hooch, assistant to a groc:r at Clavering,
proved that about three weeks before the death of the
prisoner's husband he.sold the last witness two pounds of
rice. It was in good condition, and he Lever heard any
complaints of it.
Hannah Phillips, the wife of a labouring man at Cla
verin?, proved that she knew the prisoner before her
former trial, and remembered her coming home after it
was over. Witness was passing by her cottage some
time afterwards, when she called her in and began talk-
ing to her about her children being poisoned; and she
said that she did not poison them, but that some one else
had done so. She mentioned the name of the person,
and said that he had given the children a halfpenny a
piece. to take what he gave them. The prisoner then
mention, d arsenic, and witness told her that she must
not talk to her about arsenic, for she did not know what
it wis, and the prisoner then said there was very little
difference between the look of arsenic and flour. She
also said that the arsenic she had had before she was sent
to Chelmsford for trial she had hid under a stump of a
tree in a lane at Clavering, and when she came back she
took it up again, and said that was the poison she had
intended to poison the woman with, but had not
the opportunity, and that she poi-rained the child
first. She mentioned the name of the woman whom
she meant to poison. The prisoner did not tell her
all this at one time, but upon, several different occa-
sions. -Another time the prisoner told her that she had
bought'some liver and lights and made a mincepie of
them for her husband, and she advised witness to make
one too, and said that if she did not know how to
" season" it if she brought it to her she would season it
for her, and she added that it would be no more harm
to kill such a man as her own or witness's husband than
it would be to kill a mouse. Witness had had a quarrel
with her husband a short time before, and had told the
prisoner of it, and she said that her husband would not
dare to hit her, and if ever he did so she would put him
under the bricks. While the prisoner's husband was ill
the un t her one day as she was corning from the doc-
tor's, and asked her how her husband was. She replied
that he was very ill, and she had been for some medicine
for him, and that Mr. Hawkes had made a mistake, and
put the boy's medicine into his father's bottle. The pri-
soner then said they had taken the boy's allowance off
and wanted him to go into the union, and she then turned
aside and cried, and said she had sent her soul to hell all
through him. Witness did not know who she meant by
a him." On the Tuesday after the death of the de-
ceased the prisoner came to her and said that her mother-
in-law had heard what she had been saying about the
pistils), nod she wished witness not to say any more
about it, arid she added that her trouble was great.
Shortly after the inquest the prisoner carne to her, and
thanked her for what she had said before the coroner,
and began to abuse her; and she replied that she had
not said so mush but that she could say a good deal
more, and she then called the prisoner " Sally Arsenic,"
and told her that she might have had her husband alive
as well as other people if she had treated him properly.
The prisoner then told her that she might have gone in
and poisoned him if she had liked; and witness called
hers good-tor-norhieg wretch, and she also told the pri-
soner that if it bad been her she should rave been hung
long ago. The, prisoner replied to this, that the did not
care about the under, set" so long as she bad the good-
will of the heads of the people. The prisoner also told
her upon another occasion, that when the was at
Chelmsford before she did not intend to go home to her
husband, but to go an; live with another man, and cho
said that this man was waiting for her to take her away
while she was being tried.
Charles Cloydare a labourer, of Clavering, deposed—
that in the harvest of 1849 he was at work with the de-
ceased in the harvest field, and sew him eat his dinner,
which was a meat pasty. The decesasd complained of
pain in his stomach after he had eaten the pasty, and
frequently said that he had a gnawing and a sinking in
his stomach, as though something was feeding on it.
Dr. Taylor recalled—A sensation of gnawing and
sinking in the stomach would be one of the symptoms
consequent upon the administration of arsenic.
csroline Cole, a neighbour of the prisoner, deposed_