The Sun.
London, England, 1857-01-31 00:00:00

stimulated by sharp practitioners who know that
they will get their costs from the plaintiffs, if not
from the defendants, and who—

" So there are quarrels, care not for the cause,
Knowing they must be settled by the laws."
Why there should bo two distinct codes
with a different procedure, and distinct remedies
for different classes of her MAJESTY'S subjects
is an anomaly that it is impossible to jus-
tify. Thousands of parties have been ruined,
who, with a little time, could have liquidated all
demands to the uttermost farthing. The funds
that would have gone to the settlement of just
debts and liabilities have been frittered away or
lost by the seizure of the person of the debtor,
which prevented him from attending to his own
affairs, or conducting them to advantage. The
execution on property gives to one that which
should be fairly divided amongst all the bond
fide claimants. All these matters demand imme-
diate alteration, and, as we have stated, the Con-
ference will force it on the attention of the Legis-
lature, so that great improvements may be anti-
cipated.

The vexed question of Tribunals of Commerce
must also be taken into consideration. On that
point there is an able and indefatigable advocate
in the field, and we feel assured that Mr. LEONE
LEVI will not fail to place the subject to which he
has so long and so zealously directed public atten-
tion in the best possible point of view. There is
another point which has not as yet received the
attention it so eminently merits. The law of
banking, or, in other words, the regulation of the
circulating medium of the country, must be placed
on a sound and satisfactory foundation. The Bank
Charter Act of 1844 has virtually expired. The
interesting and important question must be dis-
posed of during the present session, and there is
nothing in which the mercantile and manufac-
turing classes are so greatly concerned. The
Conference would prove a failure if its views were
not elicited on this all-important problem, which
perhaps, more than any other now pending, de-
mands a speedy and satisfactory solution.

The Queen will hold a Privy Council on Monday next,
at Windsor Castle.

A Cabinet Council was held yesterday afternoon at
the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury,
in Downing-street. Present :—Viscount Palmerston,
the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Marquis of Lans-
downe, Earl of Harrowby, Sir George Grey, Earl of
Clarendon, Lord Panmure, the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, Sir Charles Wood, the Right Hon. R. Vernon
Smith, Lord Stanley of Alderley, the Right Hon. M. T.
Baines, and the Duke of Argyll.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer and Lady Theresa
Lewis returned to town ye-terday from Windsor Castle.
Earl Granville, Lord President of the Privy Council,
gave last evening a dinner to the Cabinet Ministers and
the great officers of state of the Queen's Household, at
his lordship's residence in Bruton-street. The Roll of
Sheriffs for the present year was settled at the meeting.
The Earl and Countess of Derby and Lady Emma
Stanley, who, during the week, have been staying with
the Marquis and Marchioness of Exeter at Burghley
House, Northamptonshire, return to town to-day for the
season. The noble earl gives aParliamentary dinner on
Monday evening to a party of thirty of his political
friends in the House of Lords.
Lord and Lady Lyndhurst and the Hpn. Miss Copley
have arrived in town from Turville Pa The venerable

learned lord is in excellent health.
Lord Redesdale and the Hon. Miss Mitford come to
town on Monday next from the noble lord's seat in
Gloucestershire.
Lord John Russell arrived in Paris last night from
Italy. His lordship will leave for London on Sunday
next.
Sir G. Grey has appointed the Rev. Sydney Turner
to the office of Inspector of Prisons, with special charge
of all reformatory schools certified or sanctioned under
the recent acts 17 and 18 -Viet., 74 and 86.
THE EARL or HAREWOOD.—The medical bulletin
respecting the Earl of Harewood was yesterday as fol-
lows :—" The Earl of llarewood has hitherto bad no
unfavourable symptoms. -- Harewood-house, Friday
Morning, Jan. 30."
DEATH OF VISCOUNT DOWNE.—We regret to have to
announce the death of Lord Downe, which took place at
Torquay, on the 26th instant, in his 45th year. The
deceased, William Henry Da wnay, was the seventh
Viscount Downe, of the county of Down, in the peerage
of Ireland, to which he succeeded in 1346.
W. are requested to state tbat Mr. Venn (son of the
Rev. H. Venn, B.R, prebendary of St. Paul's), who is
bracketed 6th wrangler in the Cambridge " List of Ho-
nours," was educated at the Islington Proprietary
School.
MINISTERS AT FOREIGN COURTS.—The salaries of
Ministers at foreign courts amount to 124,2221. a year.
THE FORTHCOMING SESSION.—There are already 28

notices of motions on the order-book of the House of
Commons. Mr. Muatz has one on the property tax.
MAINTENANCE OF PRISONERS.—The cost to the
country for the maintenance of prisoners in county gaols
and Bethlem Hospital, in the year ended March, was
152,990/.
It is estimated that the amount to be taken out by
the steamer Ripon to India and China on the 4th of
February will be between 700,0001. and 800,0001.,
nearly all in silver.
Mr. Thomas Gray, of the Royal Insurance Company,
and formerly of the Liverpool and London, ha 4 been
appointed manager of the Unity Fire and Life Associa

tion.
REFUSAL TO PAY CHURCH RATES.—Yesterday a Par-
liamentary blue-book was issued, (.f 220 pages, showing
the places where church rates have been refused and the
places where they have altogether ceased. Some hun-
dreds are detailed.

MR. APGREGOR, M.P., AND THE ROYAL BRITISH
BANK.—The Scotsman, in a severe article on the conduct
of Mr. J. M`Gregor, M.P., in connection with the
Royal British Bank, exhorts the electors of Gla.gow to
require the hon. gentleman to take office under Govern
ment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds, or, in other
words, to vacate his seat.
The Plymouth Journal says :--" The reformers of De•
vonport have determined to bring forward as a candidate
for the representation of that borough in Parliament
James Wilson, Esq., the present member for Westbury,
and the proprietor and editor of the Economist, to super-
sede that do-nothing Derbyite General Sir Geo. Berke-
ley. Wr. Wilson was to have attended a reunion at the
Mechanics' Institute last week, but was prevented by a
fall Iron, his horse." _

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THE EAST INDIA CIVIL SERVlCE.—Captain F. Stokes
has been permitted to resign his appointment as extra
assistant commissioner in the province of Oude. Mr.
Ricketts, the commissioner for the revision of all civil
salaries and establishments, has completed his labours as
far as the Government of India is concerned ; but he
has not yet entered upon the revision of the Bengal
Government establishment.—Civil Service Gazette.
ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
—The report of the directors of this company states that
the revenue account of the half-year ending the 31st of
December last shows that 84,7371. bad been received,
and 56,7551. expended, leaving 27,9811. net revenue.
The receipts for the corresponding period of 1855
amounted to 77,2391., the expenses to 54,8601., And the
net revenue to 22,3791., showing an increase of 7,4981.
in the receipts, of 1,8951. in the expenses, and 5,6021. in
the net receipts. The net earnings applicable for divi-
dend gives 7 per cent. on a larger capital, as against 6
per cent. at the corresponding period.

THE LONDON SEWERAGE PLANS.—In an excellent
little pamphlet, recently published by Dr. Copeland, on
the "Drainage and Sewage of Large Towns, he states
—and his authority is one of great weight—that the
very first proceedings to construct the intercepting
sewerage proposed by the Metropolitan Board of Works
would be "productive of terrestrial emanation,calculated
to generate a fatal typhoid epidemic of long continuance.
. . London would be as deeply, more generally,
and not less fatally cut up into trenches, as the ground
round Sebastopol." In ;,his pamphlet Dr. Copeland so
judiciously and concisely directs attention to the most
Important objects of consideration, that his essay should
be studied whenever the disposal of the sewerage is now
under disoussion.—Lancet.
LONDON AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY LIBRARY
AND LITERARY ASSOCIATION.—The ordinary meeting of
the members of this excellent institution was held yes.
terday at the Easton-square Station ; Mr. C.E. Stewart,
the secretary of the company, presided. The report of
the committee of management was submitted, and the
chairman, in moving its adoption, delivered a brief but
very able address on the advantages to be derived from
the study of the excellent works to which the members
had access. After an interesting discussion, in which
the members (all of them officers in the company's ser-
vice) took part, the report was unanimously adopted ;
several formal resolutions were passed ; thanks were
given to the treasurer and auditors, and to the chair.
man for the kind maim) in which he has always at
tended to the interests of the institution.
MISS CHATTERTON, daughter of Mr. Frederick Chat-
terton (harpist to her Royal Highness the Duchess of
Gloucester), gave a Harp Recital at Cambridge, on
Monday last. This young lady is very clever, and pos-
sesses a fine tone, and appears to have a 'thorough com-
mand over the difficulties of the' instrument, which she
clearly evinced in Parish Alvar's elaborate niorceau La
Danse des Fees, which won a most genuine encore ' • the
general selections, however, were compositions of Mr.
Frederick Chatterton. We were particularly pleased
with the Welsh "Bardie Fantasia." Miss Chatterton is
likely to take a very prominent position in the musical
world this season, and we see she is advertised to play
at Greenwich this evening. Miss Cole was the lady vo-
calist ; she possesses a fine voice ; was encored in "Deh
Vieni," which she gave with much effect. The enter-
tainment gave great satisfaction, and there fivias not a
vacant place in the room.