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fURSITA NT to an Order of the High Court of
Chancery, made in the matter of the Estate of ELEONOR
SCARMAN, late of Pembroke-square, Kensington, in the county of
Middlesex, spinster, dece,sed, and in a cause " Orme against Paco',"
the c, editors of the said ELEONOR SCARMAN, late of Pembroke-
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or about the mouth of January, 1847, are, by their solicitors, on or
before Vie 12th des of April, 1858, to come in and prove their debts at
the chambers of the Vice-Chancellor, Sir Richard Perin Kindersley,
at No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-Inn, Middlesex, or in default
thereof they will be peremptorily excluded from the benefit of the
said order.

. onday, the 19th day of April, 1858, at one o'clock in the
afternoon, at the said chambers, is appointed for hearing and adju-
dicating upon the claims.

Dated this 26th day of February, 1858.
CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
EIVBANK and PARTINGTON, 3, South-square, Gray's-inn
Plaintiff's solicitors.

VICE-CHANCELLOR SINDERSLEY AT CHAMBERS.
IN CHANCERY.—In the matter of the Joint-
Stook Co np miles Wilding-itp Acts, 1848 and 1849, and of the
Shipowners' Towing Company.
By direction of the Vice-Chancellor Sir Richard Torin Hinders-
Icy, the Jude to whose Court this matter is attached, NOTICE IS
HEREBY GIVEN, that the said Judge will proceed, on MONDAY,
the Twenty-second day of March, 1858, at one o'clock in the after-
noon, at his Chambers, No. 3, Stone-buildings, Lincoln's-inn, Lon-
don, to settle the List of Contributories of this Company, and that
after such list shall have been settled no p irty affected thereby will
be allowed to dispute the same without leave of the High Court of
Chancery first obtained.
Dated this 6th day of March,lBsB.

CHAS. PUGH, Chief Clerk.
R. P. HARDING, 5, Serie-street, Lincoln's-inn, Offle'al
➢tanager.
AMORY, TRAVERS, & SMITH, 25, Throgmorton-
street, Solicitors.

THE RE-ELECTIONS.

whom these people could not have had the slightest
ground for ill feeling ; and, as generally happens
in these cases, the parties whom it was wished
to injure escaped,
wholly untouched, whereas
up;vards of one hundred and fifty persons were
either killed or wounded whom probably there
was not the slightest desire to injure. Hereupon a
strong feeling naturally arose throughout this coun-
try. It was a cause of regret to us that any human be-
ings should have had the wickedness to attempt any
such act, and these men lettering found here theasylum
which this country always has, and I believe al-
ways will and ought to afford—(hear)—it was felt
as a -still greater misfortune that persons who had
received such great kindness at our hands should
have so abused that kindness' and that hospitality
as to have concocted here schemes which every
Englishman holds, as I do, in the greatest detesta-
tion and horror. (Hear.) It is, I think, not less
a matter of regret to us that there have been—at
least we have reason to fear there have been—men
have disgraced the name of Englishmen by mixing
up in those horrible and detestable acts. It is a
matter of the gre itest possible grief that such men
should have so disgraced their country, because dire
grace I think we must all feel it to be. Under such
circumstances it is not to be wondered at that our
neighbours on the other side of the Channel felt
annoyed and angry at what had taken place. A
correspondence ensued between the two Govern-
ments, in which our own was requested to see if
there were any means by which such acts could be
better prevented for the future ; but I do regret,
and I believe the country-entertains the same re-
gret, that while taking these steps, and while de-
nouncing the atrocity of the attempt to assassinate
the Emperor, her Maiesty'e Ministers did not take
care to state at the same time to the French Go-
vernment in firm and deliberate language that under
no circumstances could they ever interfere with
that asylum which it is our pride to offer to exiles
from every country in the world. (Cheers.) This
asylum I hope will always be maintained ; but if
the result of the trials which are now likely to take
place here of some of the misguided men mixed up
in these transactions should prove not according
to the opinion of this judge or of that attcrney-
general, but by a solemn decision of our courts of
law, that our laws are in any way defective—if it
shall be seen that those laws dono t place foreigners
in this country in the same position as Englishmen,
we must rake care that those foreigners, enjoying
the same protection, shall also not be exempt
from the same punishment which Englishmen
under the same circumstances would have to under-
go. (Cheers.) That, I think, is what we ought
to aim at. Great men in high places entertain
stands in this
wteimshperexpected power a
a e
foreigner
particular.doub ts
btehleievloa law
shall have
v e t
e
the best means
of arriving at a conclusion on the subject when our
that i thef
doing
amenable feel
o i n
resid-
ing o
s to
judges shall have given their opinion from the
bench upon cases brought judicially before them ;
and then I mistake the
oto
my countrymen if they
ing in England shall have the
(hear.)
Hh
thoseeeaf r
lawsh) er
We whichohri el While
s we
Ewe hn
rgse
Englishmen
ri
se
hern arewithout
abuse of our hospita-
lity n
the
(for abuse it is) which these foreigners have
committed, one cannot but feel also that the acts of
these guilty men will have a fatal effect upon the
c suss of constitutonal government and of liberty
t! roughout the whole of Europe. Attached as Ibe all Englishmen are to constitutional liberty,
it is impossible for them not to see that the cause of
free government and of liberty has of late gone back
upon the continent. (Hear.) It is impossible not to
see and regret this ; and one must feel that guilty
acts like that of which I have been speaking—acts
not confined to attempted assassination, but embrac-
ine those struggles we have seen made abroad within
the last 10 yeate—that these, I say, have a strong
tendency to throw back the cause of constitutional
liberty throughout the world. (Hear.) It has been
said by a distinguished personage in this country
that the cause of constitutional government has of
late years been upon its trial here. I think we
cannot help feeling that this observation is to a
great extent true. Looking back at our history for
the last 20e years, and, observing the struggles we
have gone through, we cannot but see that the
great ends at which we have artivel have been
achieved by prudent, c ireful revision of our laws
and institutions. I bore the time will never come
when that progress shall cease to be carried on. I
know there is a claptrap kind of question talked
about by many sections of politieieus, who go about
the country Galling thpmselves this, that, and the
insber name ;be‘ • AreilrAynet" Jaime never belonged,
to any school of that and. (Cheers.) lam speak-.
ing among those who know me, and I can say that
I have always been one of those who think it bet-
ter to do the most good we can with the tools we
have to our hands, than to run abort whooping
and hallooing after something else, leaving undone
what ought to be and might be done with the means
already at our disposal. I have been questioned in
this ball during stormier times than the present and
in larger meetings. I have been asked what I would
do upon this or that question, and among the rest
it has been said to me, " What about Reform?" To
that question I have always, before my constituents
or otherwise, given this frank answer when other
men have been in power, " Let me see what they
are going to do, and then I will tell you whether I
will support them or not." That has been the an-
swer I have given here before, and many may re-
member it. Now, I will tell you how I stand on
this question at present. I could not have joined
any Government in which my hands were to be
tied upon that subject. But I feel that the question
is one which has been dangling for ernes time before
the eyes of the country, which has been put into
the mouth of the Sovereign by several successive
Prime Ministers, though none of those Ministers
have brought any scheme before the country, for I
don't think the most ardent reformer will affirm
that the one or two bills introduced by Lord John
Russell 7 or 8 years ago,
can be called schemes of
reform. For this reason, no question having been
brought fairly before the country, I have not felt
in a position to say whether this or that particular
measure should be adopted. But this I may tell you
—that I would not have joined any Government if
I were not able to say to my constituents that I
stand unfettered upon this subject, that I am free
to take into consideration that or any other subject
I please, and that I am
at liberty to sot respecting
it according to what I think to be for the good of
the country ; and whether the support I receive in
that line of conduct will be small or large, or none
at all, to that I will adhere. This I think is as free
an expression of opinion upon the subject as you can
expect any man in my position to give. I believe
there is not a single person now standing before me
who three weeks ago might not have considered he
had as good a chance of being called to the councils of
his Sovereign as t had. (Hear, and a laugh.) Mem-
bers of a party who see 400 gentlemen sitting op-
posite them in the „House of Commons, you may
conceive that about the last thing in the world which
these with whom I have the honour to act could
expect was to be celled on to form a Government.
Under these circumstances it was not natural that
the party to which I belong should discuss or consi-
der among themselves any of those great questions,
because we neturally mid, "Let us see what Lord
Palmerston is going to bring forward, and then, if
ever he brings for ward anything (which wasthought
far from an impossibility), it will be quite time
enough for us to discuss it among ourselves, and to
see whether we can support it altogether, in part,
or oppose it." Ido not know whether there is any
other subject of public importance to which I need
refer. (A. Voice—" How about church-rates t")
You ask me any opinion about church- rates. I don't
believe there is any mau among you who does not
know it. (Laughter.) However, that is no reason
again. Now, I
willwhy tell you
you.should
parishes
in England, between 9,000 and 10,000 pay
I not
believe have
thatit oovuetr
of about 12,000
church-rates, their own open vestries, where every
ratepayer has a right to vote, agreeing so to pay
them. Now, I have never heard any y reason ad-
vanced why, if the vestries choose to agree upon
the rate after full discussion, Parliament should
take from those 9,000 odd parishes that which they
have always had the right of voting beyond the me-
mory of man. (A Voice—" But the rich man has
six votes and the poor man one.") As to the other
2,500 parishes, they, following their own will, as
pronounced in open vestry, do not pay church-
rates. Well, now I really don't think it is very easy
to put things on a better footing. In this country we
are bound by majorities. All parishes are just in the
Those who like to have
same position.
church-
rates pay them, and those who don't like them
But then I have something to
don't pay them.
say upon this subject. _
h
I inherited my estate,
and my father
boughtis estate subject to
these payments provided _
the rated inhabitants
church-rates were to be
If
chose to levy them. I
done away with by law that money would go into
my pocket. (Hear, and laughter.) Every tenant
a farm
,says
when he comes to take _ , " What are the
rent ? ' Generally speaking
rates and taxes and the
he asks for the amount of the rates the first thing.
Now of course, if the rates are less the rent will
be more—(laughter)—and, therefore, that,' is ano-
ther thing which 1144 inducted MO to see no reaeott

EAST SUFFOLK.
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL. •
The vacancy which was occasioned in the repre-
sentation of the Eastern division of Suffolk by the
acceptance of the office of her Majesty's Attorney-
General by Sir F. Kelly was supplied on Saturday
last by the re-election of that hon. and learned
gentleman without opposition.
The elections for the division of this county are
usually conducted on the large open space known
as the Corn-hill, in fropt of the Town-hall of Ips-
wich, and no exception to the ordinary custom was
observed upon this occasion, although a biting east
wind prevailed, and the snow fell with unrelenting
perseverance during the greater part of the pro-
ceedings.
A hustings, however, had been rapidly run up,
and some protection was thus afforded against the
inclemency of the weather. A large group of la-
bourers and others had assembled in front of this
erection ; but the absence of opposition deprived
the proceedings of that spirit which characterises a
contested election.
Sir Fitzroy Kelly, accompanied by a considerable
body of his more ardent supporters, who had met
him about half-way between his residence at Chan-
trey and the town, and had escorted him thence
into Ipswich, arrived at the hustings at 10 o'clock,
when the proceedings were at once opened under
the presidency of Mr. P. R. Burrell, the !high
sheriff.
The ordinary formalities having been observed,
Mr. SCHRIEBER proposed, and Mr. BARTHROPP
seconded, the nomination of Sir F. Kelly, the for-
mer observing that in his opinion the hon. and
learned gentleman would be the " right man in
the right place," and the latter that Sir Fitzroy
Kelly had always voted in a manner satisfactory to
the constituency of East Suffolk.
No other candidate having been proposed,
The HIGH SHERIFF declared Sir F. Kelly to be
duly elected, an announcement which elicited loud
cheers from the assemblage.
The Hon. and Learned ATTORNEY-GENERAL flux
proceeded to address his audience in nearly the fol-
lowing terms:—Amid the inclemencies of this March
morning, to which your patriotism or your kindness
has exposed you I must begin by offering you my
sincere and grateful thanks for the high distinction
which you have now, for the fourth time, conferred
upon me. Considering that, when I first ventured
to present myself among you I was comparatively a
stranger to you all, having no direct claims upon
your soffrages ; considering also that since you did
me the honour of returning me as your representa-
tive the incessant public occupations in which I have
been engaged have prevented me enjoying that
association and that frequency of intimate commu-
nication with you all which I had myself so anxiously
desired, I feel that it cannot be to any merits of my
own that I can ascribe this oft-repeated kindness on
your part; it can only be that in my public conduct I
have faithfully represented your principles, your
opinions, and your feelings ; and to that I owe the
kindness, the cordiality, and the unanimity with
which you have once more declared me your repre-
sentative, and for which I have now again sincerely
and heartily to thank you. (Cheers.) My worthy
friend who has seconded my nomination has alluded
to the votes which I have given in the House of
Oommons in your behalf, and it ie perhaps fit that
at the outset of this my address rshould allude to
the lastcand most important vote which has orlaie
years been given in. Parliament, and to which may
be ascribed my appearance among you at this
moment in that position to which the unmerited
favour of the Crown has lately raised me. You all
know that by a resolution of the House of Com-
mons the late Ministry has been dissolved. I was
a party to that resolution, and you have a fair
right to expect that, appearing here once more to
solicit your confidence and support, I should lay
before you the reasons which justify the vote
that I have given, and should satisfy you that
I have done my duty as your representative.
(Cheers.) In alluding, as I must do, with some
reserve, to that important question, permit me to
s that no man in this country feels more deeply
than I do the high importance of an amicable, a
permanent, and a firm alliance with the neighbour-
ing country of France, our connexion with which
was supposed—and not incorrectly supposed—to
be involved in that resolution of the House of
Commons. (Cheers.) Believing, as I do, that the
peace of the world depends upon the maintenance
of peace between France and England ; believing,
as I do, that these peaceful relations cannot be
maintained unless an intimate confidence and com-
munion of national objects and sentiments subsist
between the Emperor of that country and those
who conduct the affairs of Government in this, I
own that I should look with great sorrow—l will
not say with alarm, but with great regret—on any
occurrence of a public nature which should for a
moment threaten the permanence and stability of
those peaceful relations. It may be that the French
people have not the advantage of enjoying the same
free institutions in which *e justly glory in this
great country; it may be that the form of Govern-
ment in France is not that of which we approve, or
t U which, as Englishmen and English habits and
English sentiments, we should think it right to
submit; but that is a consideration belonging exclu-
sively to the people of that great country (hear) ;
and if they are satisfied with the form of Govern-
ment and the institutions under which they live, we
have no right even to comment on, far less to criti-
cise or assail, the character of those institutions. It
is enough that we have fought side by'side with the
brave soldiers of that country ; it is enough that
the Emperor of that country has been the firm, the
faithful, the unflinching and unyielding ally of Eng-
land to induce us as Englishmen, true to the char-
acter which belongs to us, to do our bast to main-
tain that alliance, and to render those peaceful
relations which now forso manyyears have subsisted
between these two mighty nations permanent and
stable to the end of time. But, having felt bound
to make these few observations upon our relations
with France, permit me briefly to allude to
the circumstances under which I now appear
before you, and which have led to the dissolution
of the late Government. You know that at an
early period of the present session of Parliament a
bill was introduced for altering and rendering more
severe the law in respect to conspiracies to murder.
It has been thought, and I do not hesitate to say
that I was of that opinion, the, whatever may be
the merits or demerits of that bill, it was introduced
into the House of Commons, and sought, as it were,
to be forced upon the Parliament of this country,
at a most inopportune period, and under circum-
stances calculated to alarm the jealous feeling of na-
tional honour which I trust will never cease to per-
vale the bosoms of Englishmen. (Loud cheers.) I
would say more upon subject—l would fear-
lesslyptoopolitical
dailandvindicate
partyte franklythwe ic
toiaiut t‘r
which
cpwhhiths, oh thmba
pbhreeoseutnaotfatmkoeynuaebb
asso-
ciated l itthye,
; but I must venture to remind you that under
the law of political conspiracies, or of conspiracies to
commit crime, as it now exists in this country, some
two or three persons are at this moment charged
with a criminal offence, and are about to be put
upon their trial. Holding as I do, under the fa-
vour of my Sovereign, the position of the first law
officer of the Crown, it will be my duty to takethe
the leading part in that prosecution, and,tatshose
representative of the Government, tor ;.;huese
cir-
men upon their trial. I feel that d
tcwauii
tmnh s
entire
aniecrreevs
silencee youor
even
willp
int pardonlalfle
eta t
relates
-n a court of
personal safety of men who
justice, affecting the
questions
for
(Hear.)
Permit me, then, the pre-
sent to remain silent on a
l
common with the rest of
which will come under considerationitmnee clteflsnls
ai
earty:
dtaroemsn
main-
tain atyitone
ur-
rialiloeluspneadst under
a at tth once
relateslaw
to
ot of
othertt l st
your countrymen, take a public interest. (Cheers.)
The Government with which I have the honour
to bo associated have man azdUeue and dd.
en
o r country.t
puta t uponn
ow which
subject, ty, their
o andt