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We IS t!';ii very irnpor:ant diff!n-ece.
tweet' a petition erd tl Liq, ttla', the co•!As,
Itel•ind, in case ot a HP, wet e in poortion r.O
long vthile that wa+; .11J 4, the case with 9 pptiti,m;
rnd one at tl-,o rnos.t i nitortaat ref,rms th,t trine:
be tna,,e in tiny judicial system was to In1.1;e it the in-
terest of the prepared the documents not to
swell them out uttn,..ssary length. .ALothec eb-
jecti,;rt of his 1.1,:m. that under the hill Viere
would he no cross-examination witnesses. But, in the
tirst pla/1,, he should observe that such an cx,inkination

m ght taco place on the deposituns; and, in the next
place, he woull remind kis Hon. and Leaned Friend and
the House that so preposterous was the system :of exa-
initiation before the Court of Chancery that Mr. 13e11„ a
high authority upon the sulject, had stated before 0.
Commission or a Committee of the House of Comm.ms
that ho never, under ordinary eirearnstance, nro,:s-ex -
atnined a witness, lest he might thereby only damage his
own:case. His Hon. and Learned Friend had farther,,V nt-
plained that any person might present a petition ap,•iin,t
an infant, for instance, in his absence; but the ink sOt
would be represented by his proper guardims, ~nn it
could surely tnatt.nr little whether or not he was hin soil
present at the proceedings. Ilis Hon. and Learned
Friend seemed to apprehend that caws would be impr4.-
perly referred to the masters, but his Hon and Learned
Friend roust be aware VIA in those matters soul( thing
should necessarily be .left to the discretion of the judges,
and ho certainly thought that they might invest the
judges with the proposed power without any apprehe 4.•
sion of its being improperly applied. HiS main ofjet
in introducing that measure was to dispense with cum-
brous and unnecessary proceedings before the Court of
Chancery. The present system in that Court operated
in many cases as a denial of justice. It had been stated
by a gentleman of the very highest authority upon that
subject, Mr. Pembert in Leigh, that no man in his senses
would recommend a party to carry before the Court of
•

Cba'icery a case in which the sum-at issue was less thy'
9,0001, lie said that such a fact was a disgnee to their

judicial system—(Hear, hear)—and that they ought to
remedy the abuses which produced it. But they could
not attain that object better than by entrusting the
judges with a certain discretion as to the mode of tryir g
the cases which might come before them; and he be-
lieved that no men were better qualified properly t) use
that discretion than the present Lord Chancellor and the
Ma ter of the Rolls in Ireland. Let the House listen to
an instance of the abuses which prevailed under the pre-
sent system. A man who wanted nothing but a more
account filed a long bill, stating various proceedings in
which he was interested; alter the lapse of three months
a ling answer was put in; six weeks or two months after
the bill was amended; a second answer was put in; a
replication was filed; briefs were given to five or six
counsel with considerable fees; and when the case was
called in cow t one of the counsel fer the plaintiff rose stud
said that that was a common adminiltration case, and
asked for the usual decree, thus showing that all those
costly preliminary proceedings might have been dis-
pensed with. He said that abuses of that kind ought to
be remedied, and that the plaintiff' ought to have had
the power of asking for the use a! decree without having
had recourse to all those cumbrous and unnecessary
forms. The wording of the Bill might be imperfect, and
he should meet gladly receive any well-considered sug-
gestions for its amendment; but he believed that it con-
temned many useful provisions, and he hoped that the
House would support him iu his proposal for carrying it
into Committee. He felt assured the, if he were to
receive the c. --q:eta.ion ef gentlemen c ipithle of afford-
ing valuable aid in the framing of the measure, it would
be productive of mu:h benefit, -and that it would remove
crying e iils which at present disgraced the Court of
Chancery in Ireland.—(Hear, hear.) Before he re-
sumed his seat he wished to say a word upon what
had fallen from his Honourable and Learned Friend
with respect t,.) what his Honourable and Learned
Friend had called an act of disgraceful legislation lest
tree, as stated by his Honeurelale a»:i
thet in the course of tae Sr 5:.1 :f set;.
which balore the ie -Amu
had been thought desirable to suspend by another Act.
But the frets of the case were not, he believed, of the
discredittbh character which his Hon. and Learned
Friend appeared to imagine. He had no doubt himsef
hut ihet the Act in question had been framed in a man-
lier calcukqed to attain its object; but as some gentle-
man, for whose opinion he entertained considerable re-
spect, 113:1 arrived at a different conclusion, he had
thetiglit it advisable that the operation of the measure
should be suspended for a while, in order that time
might be stfitrdeil for the consideration of the mutter.
lie did rot think that such a circumstance merited the
censure with which his Hon. and Learned Friend had
visited it.

Mr. TURNER said that he had not appliod the word
tii.,gr,.ceftil” to the Bill of last session, but to the Bill
then under their consideration; and in using that word
he had not meant any personal offence to the framers of
the measure. He regretted that he had at all referred
to the 13d1 of last session.
On the motion of an HoN. MEMBER the House was
then c;:unted, and there icing only twenty-five Members
preerlt, an adjournment immediately took place shortly
aft ll4lf-Mast Nine o'clock until Two o'clock to-morrow
(titi6:day). :

TO THE SECRETARY OF THE

Bri ADFGRD REFOKH ASSOCIATION.

Sir,—On Monday the 1 1 th, a special report was
brought up front the Public Petitions Committee,
" That the petition from Ceylon, purport-
ing to be signed by thirty-seven thousand' nine hun-
dred and sixty-five inhabitants of that colony, set-
tir)g forth various circumstances connected with the
late riots in that colony ; complaining of the
measures that were adopted by the government, and
of th,y, severity- and illegality of the punishments in-
flicted upon the offenders, under colour of martial
law; and PiSO of grievances under which the inhabi-
tants ( f that islaNd suffer, and praying for redress,
which was presented upon the 6th day of this instant
February, is a petition which ought to be printed for
the use. or Memb,:rs only ; and that a special report
he made to this effect." Whereon the said petition
was ordered to be printed, for the use of Members
only.
A very ugly demonstration. " Excuse comes
prologue or, more properly, prayer that the
charge and evidence may go to the smallest
number. There must be something very curious and
interesting in this petition from Ceylon ; and by
some of those wonderful concatenations by which a
King's speech, like a last dying one, is found in print
before the speech is spoken, it is ten to one if the
public does not in the end come to know all about
the matter.

LAW.INTEL LTG ENCE.
COUIiT OF GgiIIAZON PLEAS, Feb. 12,

( afvr :ern", boforo Jioqicei _IA UL;
CP.F.SSWELL, WILLIA7,IS, TALFOURD.)
2iIAI:itICZ v. MARSDEN.

This was an geiian tried at the Flintshire Summer
f:r 1849, iu which the verdict was found fur the
plaiutiff—darra4os 44/. 12g., with leav3 to move to rc-
diee the verdict.

A rale nisi having been obtained on a former day,
Mr. We!shy and Mr. Townsend appeared to show
cluse ageiust the rule, and Mr. Crompton and Mr.
Wynne Edwards in support of it.
It appeared at the trial that the defendant was an
hotei-keeper at Holywell, and was in the habit of run-
ning au omnibus from the railway station to his hotel,
and in doing so he had to pass through a turnpike gate
caled the Greenfield-gate. Under the Turnpike Act,
giving power to exact the toll at that gate, vehicles car-
rying passengers for hire were li ible for toll each time
they passed through the turnpike gate; otier vehicles
only paid toll once, which freed them for the rest of the
d:iy. As the delenciant's omnibus plied to the station
and back a great many times each day, be hit upon the
expedient of having a spring cart to follow his omnibus,
in which he carried the passengers' lug age, coats.
sticks, and unabrelll,, making a charge of 61 for the
luggage of each passenger, or where there was no
luggage for a walking-stick, umbrella, or coat, as the
case might be, and carrying his passengers by the om-
nibus fir nothing, as a means of evading the repeated
toil. When the toil-keeper demanded toll fur an om-
nibus full of passengers, he was answered by the dri-
ver, " Oh, you have no right to toll from me, I carry
my passengers to my hotel for nothing." The spring
cart carried no passengers, and was only liable
under the statute to one toll per day. This went on for
some time, the toll-keeper ceasing to demand toll on
being always met with this excuse, but keeping an ac-
count of the number of times the omnibus Fused through
the gate ; and eventually an action was brought against
the defendant to recover the amount, and the verdict
went against him. In support of the rule the Learned
Counsel contended that a demand of toll was necessary
bE bro the toll became due, and that the gate either ought
to hare been shut against the defendant, or a demand of
payment hate been made each time ; otherwise a man
might pass through the gates as far as he knew free, and
afterwards be suhjtct to an action for toll.
The COURT thought there was no ground for main-
ttining the rule, and that it must be discharged ; for if
a demand a toll were necessary, there was abundant
evidence t.) show an evasion of the demand.

Rule discl:wged.

The same evening, the Bill was read a second time
for repealing the Act of George IV., which directs
the Treasurer of the Navy to sit like Djezzar
and give so much a piece fir the heads of anybody
called pirates. The Government are manifestly in
earnest in-repealing the Act; but they admit that
100,0001. is to be paid fir plst decapitatiorH, and that
they see no means of hindering it, inasmuch as the terms
of the Act have been complied with. There will be an
opposition to this payment; and its chance will depend
upon showing that the people in question were not
such as were contemplated by the Ac .The Act was made
to put down collections of men of no country and no
political existence, who, in the confused period when
the new Republics of South America declared their
indTendence, used these new South American flags
for a cover when, it might be useful to them, and
robbed all end every body when they had the oppor-
tunity. The present parties, who do not seem to
have harmed a little finger of their assailants in re-
turn, were small independent tribes, carrying on petty
wars b,,tcause unable to carry on great ones, and not
stated to have been found in the act of committing
hostilities against British ships or territories.
On Tuesday a &bate on the motion for second
reading of the Court of Chancery (Ireland) Bill, had
the arca of reducing the Members present to twenty-
five; whereupon the House was counted out.
I am, Sir, your obedient servant,
AN OLD REFORMER.
London, 13th Feb., 1850.

COURT OF .EXCHEQUER, Feb. 12.
BROOKES V. ROOKES.
This was an action in which the plaintiff sought for
damages from the defendant, a clergyman of Exeter, for
the seduction of her daughter. The case was tried at
Exeter, when a verdict passed for the plaintiff for 100/.
Subsequ(ntly a rule for a new trial was obtained, on the
ground that the verdict was excessive and opposed to
the evidence. When the report of the Learned Judge,
Mr. Justice Williams, was read to.day, in which his
Lordship intimstad that he was dissatisfied with the ver-
dict, and that the damages would not have been so high
had the jury attended to his observations,
Mr. Baron PARKE said, that le thought there ought
to be a new trial.
Mr. COLLIER and Mr. KARSLAKE, however, claimed
the right to show cause; and thereupon proceoed at
some length to contend that the rule ouglA not to be
made abs,dute.
The COURT, without calling on Mr. Greenwood to
support the rule, said that the facts of the case, coupled
with the affidavits filed by the defendant, called for a
nklv investigation. Without at all saying what would be
the result of a new trial, it was sufficient to state that the
case ought ts) be submitted to a fresh jury on rayment of
costs.
Ruh absolute: for new trial.

COI7/IT liAlVicigi7PTC3; F. 12.
(rat..f,et, FINF.)

THE CiIEMORNL (11111):::NS.
IN TIIE BANKRUPTCY OF JAMES ELLIS.
This was a meeting for the aijourcei last examina-
tion the bankrupt, who was extensively engaged in
various speculations connected with public places of
amusement. He was the lessee of the Adelaide Gallery
in the Strand, end c.f Cremorne Gardens, Chelsea, He
supplied with refreshments the saloons of Her Majesty's
Theatre and of the Lyceum Theatre. Ile catered for
Orockford's Rooms, for the balls at the Princess's Con-
cert Rooms in Oxford-street, for the balls at the Llan-
o% er-sqaure Rooms, and for tile Lai masque in Covent-
gardcu.

- Some of the items are interesting. When the bank-
rupt took Cremorne Gardens there were old debts due
upon it to the extent :of 1,885/. Mr. Nicholson was the
former less( a. He lost by the Adelaide Picture Gallery
3771. He expended in building and improvements in
Cremorno about 8,000/. The refreshments sold at
the Adelaide Gallery etnounted to 5,9821. The
receipts for refreshments at Cremorne were—
in 1846, 8,6261.; in 1847, 10,9571.; in 1848, 9,7191.; in
1849, 11,4441.—during the five years, 40,8011. The sum
raised for refreshments at the saloon in the Opera during
the years 1846, 1847, 1848, and 1849 was about 1,4001.;
for ditto :it CrocitforO's Rooms, in one 3 ear, 260/.: for
ditto at Lalls in the Prince,s's Concert Rooms, IP6I.
The receipte for wirnisAione at the Adelaide Gallery
were—in 1846, 2,4411.; in 1847, 5,6191.;- and in 1848,
4,003/. There was a profit on the sale of bills of 531.;
and from the rent of the cloak-room in the Adelaide
Gallery a profit of 193/. was raised. At the same place
of amusement 1,056/. were derived from the rent of rr.-
served seats during the ears 1846, 1847, and 1848; and
87/. from the rent of the liketiess-room.

At Cremorne the panorama cf Mexico brought in
2141.; Batty's tournament, 865/.; Dubourg's exhibition,
51.; upon advertisements, 3,0001. were expended; the-
atrical salaries, 4,500/.; fireworks, 1,200/. ; theatrical
band expenditure, 4,800/. ; tournament expendi-
ture, 500/. In 1846 admissions at Cremorne
made 3,181/. ; in 1847, 5,045/. ; in 1848, 4.5861; in
1849, 5,19y1. The balloon expendit.ire was 2,4001; gas,
1.200/.; the improvements at the Adelaide Gallery host
4201.; the law expenses are 2,600/. Upon the whole
there are unsecured debts to the extent of about 17,000/.;
and secured debts, 12,0001. The principal, if not the
only assets, are 2,000/4 which Mr. Simpson, the execu-
tion creditor, who had possession of Cremorne, will, it
is said, pay into the assignee by way of a compromise.
Mr. Hutton has been directed to prepare the balance-
sheet.

ice ridjudication of blolcrui:toy was ifloroupon raale.
Mr. Edwards is the officiAl aisiguee.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
dIriNSIOIV-IIOUSE.
' A young man of respectable appearance, who gave his
name and address to Alderman Carde made applica-
tion under very singular circumstances.
lie had, he said, written to the Secretary of State for
advice in what manner to proceed in a case which had
in the part of the country in which it occurred excited
a great deal of surmise avid conversatioe. A lady to
whom Le was to have been united in marriage sud-
denly died about the middle of January. He had
been for some time paying his addresses to her, and
the marriage was to have taken place in a few days,
but he: mother and step-father, who were opposed to
the match, had placed her under violent constraint,
arid the
.rapid approach of death, together with
variety of circumstances connected with that event, led
to the suspicion that the lady had been prematurely
hurried out of the world. The belief that the unfinitu-
natii young lady had not died a natural death gained
ground from the fat that one of the domestics, who
had ivhispered that she had been cruelly treated by her
mother, and that her fatter-in-law had sworn that he
would hang her rather than that the marriag.+ should
take place, was dismissed from the service. Shocked
and afflicted by such intelligence the applicant repre-
sented the various matters which had come to his know-
ledge to the cry one-, who was disinclined to hold an in-
quest upon the holy unless fortified by the opinion of
the medical avendant of the deceased, but the physician
upon being waited upon declined giving a certificate as
to the necessity of such a proceeding. Several of the
residents of the neighbourhood joined in a requisition
to the ooroner upon the subject, on the ground of public
justice; but whether an improper influence had been
exercised for the purpose of stopping inquiry, or means
of prevention had been adopted in any other way, cer-
tain it was that the coroner persevered in his di termina-
tion not to summon a jury to inquire into the remarkable
circumstances of the case.
Alderman CARDEN—What was the opinion of the
medical man who attended the deceased? The applicant
—He said that she died of a disease of the brain. I had
not seen her for six weeks before she was taken ill, and
she died three days after her first attack.
Alderman CARDEN—Had she any property? The ap-
plicant—She was to.have come in to some property in a
very short time, and she was about twenty-seven years
of age. The property she was to have inherited from
her father. Sir George Grey, upon reading the state•
meet of the facts which I have represented advised me to
apply to the magistrates; but I apprehend an application
to them would not be so effective as an application to the
Lord Mayor or his representative, and I therefore deter-
mined to come here. It is necessary that I should
state one ftct of a singular nature. The vault in which
the deceased was buried was opened in the night, and
,next day I was charged «s one of the violators of the
sepulchre.
Alderman CARDEN—It is quite impossible that the
Lord Mayor could interfere in a matter of such a nature
wholly out of his jurisdiction. I would have you apply
to the magistrates of the district in which the lady died,
it' you are not satisfied with the result of your appeal to
the coroner and medical men; and I have no doubt due
attention will be paid to you in such a case by every
gentleman in the commission of the peace.
GUILDHALL.

A young, innocent-looking girl, aged 17, named
Fanny Harnsworth, nas charged before Mr. Alderman
Hunter with stealing a victorine, value 35., the property
of her master, Mr. Moses Solomons, of No. 3, Little
Britain. After hearing the evidence,
Alderman Husuin said there were so many contra
dictions between father and son, that no twelve men
would ever believe that the prisoner wai guilty of such
a charge, when any one else might hare placed the vie-
torine where it was found. There was no foundation for
the ch3rge, and the pritlnm.r vva.: di•chart,..ecl.
There vt as teach a)planse, which w.t - instantly sup

son, Joseph Solomons, with the crime of rape.
Rob:n:on said, that now he into dad charging the
Alderman HUNTER inquired under what Act he did so.
The Chief Clerk said'that an Act of Parliament came
into operation last year, called an Act to " protect women
from fraudulent practice's for procuring their defilement,"
whereby it was enact. l " that if any person shall by
false pretences, false representations, or other fraudu-
1-nt means, procure any woman or hild under the age
of 21 years to hare illicit carnal connexion with any
man, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanour,
and shall, being duly convicted thereof, suffer imprison-
ment for a term not exceeding two years, with hard
labour." This case, as far as be (the chief clerk) had
heard, was the first ono under the new Act, and was
very important.
Mr. Joseph Solomons was then placed in front of the
dock, and the first witness called was
Henry Webb, who stated that the girl said in the
presence of Joseph Solomons, that he came to her bed-
room and put his hand over lor mouth. She galled out,
and his sister, who slept iu the next room, asked what
was the matter, when Joseph replied that he was calling
tLe servant up. He did not contradict the girl, but
treTtted the whole affair in a light off-handed manner.
She s-.oke to him sud accused hint of canaing to her bed-
room on Monday night, and defied him to deny it, which
he did not. Sine further added, that he passed some-
thing over her eyes and nose, which took her sen:ei
away, and he then ruined her.
Alderman HUNTER—UntiI she charged the son with
ruining her, was any charge of felony made against her?
Webb—None whatever. The girl also, in the presence
of Mri. Solomon; told me she had informed her of her
son's conduct, and that Mrs. Solomon, said, " Well, I
suppose he did not kill you."
Alderman llnwrEa—Did Mrs. Solomons deny it in
your presence? Webb—She did not.
Joseph Solomons—Did not the girl any to me in your
presence that she had said," If you will not come to my
bed, I will come to yours?" Webb—Nothing of the
sort was east ut'ered.
Fanny II srnsworth was then sworn, and said—l am
in the servi( • of Mr. Solomons. On Sunday weak the
defendant came to the kitchen, and said he was coming
t ► sleep with me. I said he should not come, and went
to bed alone. There is no lock to the door. He sleeps
on the third floor, and lin the room above him. I was
awoke on Monday morning week, about half-past six
o'clock, by finding some one in bed with me, and then
saw it was Joseph Solomons. I told him to leave, when
ho took improper liberties, and went down stairs. He
had effected his object. He held his hand over my
mouth. His sister called for me to get up, and ho said
he was getting me up.
Alderman HUNTER—Why did you not tell your mis-
tress? Complainant (innocently)—Because I thought
he would not repeat his conduct, and I did not wish to
make a disturbance in the family; but I told my sister
the same night. The last time he repeated his conduct
was on Sunday night, when he got into my bed and
put something to my mouth which took my senses away.
By the ALDERDIAN—I was conscious till the moment
he put his hand to my mouth; but I was insensible
when ho left me. I don't know
what it was he placed to
nay mouth. No charge was
made against me of taking
the tippet until I informed his parents of what hal
taken
place. This was about tea o'clock yesterday morning,
and I was not given int ) custody until five o'clock in
the afternoon. In the morning I told his mother I
I would not sleep its the house again, and she said
" Oh, he did net kill you."
Chief Clerk—Was the prisoner present when you told
his mother? Complainant—He was.
Chief Clerk—. Did he make any remark? Com-
plainant—He said I would say anything.
Alderman HUNTER—IIad he any handkerchief on his
face when he left his father's yesterday? Complainant
—He had; but he took it off when he went out at eleven
o'clock, and when he returned, between one and two, he
resumed it.
The defendant denied the charge, as an entire fa-
brication, that he ever used anything to steal away her
senses.
Esther Greives, the sister (a married woman), deposed
t,) the complainant telling her of the treatment she had
received, and she advised her to infom her master and
mistress of it, which she said she would do.
Mr. Robinson applied for a remand to
complete the
evidence.
Alderman HUNTER said h© should most certainly re-
mand the case until Friday,
as it was a most important
one. and the first under the Act of 12 and 13 Victoria,
c. 76, which ho understood would have to be adjudicated
upon. As it was a misdemeanour. he should take bail,
requiring twe sureties of -501. each, and defendant in
1001.

Mr. Lawrence supported; Mr. Taylor appeared for
Vie assignees.

Mr. LAWRANCE, in support of his application for an
adjournment, stated that the bankrupt, with the assist-
ance of Mr. Hutton, his accountant, had been at work
night and day since the last examination, in making up
the books and preparing the balance-sheet. The ac-
counts had been so imperfectly kept by those to whom
they had been intrusted, that, although the materials
w‘ re abundant, a considerable time had necessarily been
occupied in arranging them.
An adjournment was then fore ordered, at the expense
of the estate, until the 26th of March.
Ttre ofTh:ial assignee stated that the amount of the
a,: etc in hand amounted to about 9001, and that a fur-
ther sum of 1,0001. was expected to be realised. It was
further s'at4d that the unsecured debts proved and prov-
able against the estate amounted to about 10,0001.
A long divenssion ensued, respecting a proof for more
than 1,0001., which was resisted upon the ground of
want of consideration and of usurious interest. The
prof was tendered -by a Mr. Foulkes, who, it was al-
leged, charged an enormous rate of interest.
'rho COMMISSIONER, however, directed Foulkes to
furnish a full and particular account of all his transac-
tions with the bankrupt, and the meeting was again ad-
journed.

(Berore Mr. Commissioner HoLnoYD.)

TUE DIRTFORD SAVINGS' BANK -IN THE NATTER OF

J3SEPII JARDINE.

A. petition for adjudication in bankruptcy wa3 this
day opened against Joseph Jardine. of Dartford, in the
county of Kent, linondraper, whose defAlcations as sc•
to try of the Dartford Savings' Bauk have recently ex-
cited considerable interest. _ _

The petitioning creditors were Messrs. Loaf, Smith,
led Co., of Old 'Change.
The act of bankruptcy was the execution of an
assignment by Jardine, on the Gth of February inst., to
Mr. Charles Colyer, of Dartford, of all his estate and
effects. The assignment contained a recital that the said
Joseph Jardine, in his capacity of actuary and manager
in the bank for savings for the town of Dartford and its
vicinity, had received and neglected to account for divers
-urns of money, amounting iu the whole to the sum of
2,000/. and upwards; and that, being unable to refund
and replace the same, had proposed and agreed to exe-
eute to the said Charles Colyer, as a trustee for and on
h half of the said institution, the assignment of all and
every the estate. and effects of him the said Joseph Jar-
dine thereinafter mentioned upon the trusts thereinafter
expressed.
Mr. LA'WitANCE, who appeared on behalf of Mr. Hay-
ward, the solicitor for the trustees, who had been sum-
moned to prove the execution of the assignment, ob-
jected that there ou4ht to be no adjudication, inasmuch
as by the 28th section of the 3d and 4th William IV.,
.chap. 14, it was enacted " that if any person already ap-
pointed under the provisions of the Act of the 9th
George IV., or who might thereafter be appointed,
to any office in a savings' bank, or in a
society established under this Act, and being
intrusted with the keeping of the accounts, or having
in his hands or possession, by virtue of his said office
or employment, any moneys or effects belonging to
such savings' banks or society or any deeds or securities
re!atitig the same, shall die or ibecorne bankrupt, or be
placed in eerta,in other described situations, his executors,
administrators, or assignees, or other persons having
legal right, or the sheriff or other officer executing such
process shall, within forty days after demand made by
two of the trustees cf the said savings' bank or society
as aforesaid, deliver and pay over all moneys and other
things belonging to suoh savings' bank or society to such
is.rson ss the said trustees shall appoint, and shall pay
out of the estate, assets, or effects of such person all
autos of money remaining due which such person re-
ceive] by virtue of his said office or employment, before
any other of his • suid debts are paid or satisfied, or
before the money directed to ho levied by such process
tc of tresaid is paid over to tho party issuing such pro-
ses.'' lie contended that it was quite clear Viet all the
assets proposed to be seiz el by the messenger under the
bankruptcy would bo solely applicable to the payment
of the deficiency due to the savings' bank, and that those
assets ought not to be chargeable with the costs of prose-
cuting t baplirtuttes whioh could not result in any benefit
tea the general creditors.
Mr. JONES, the solicitor for the petitioning creditors,
having objected that Mr. Lawrence could not be heard
at this stage of the inquiry,
The Learned CommissioszEn held that all he had at
present to inquire into was, whether the ordinary re-
quisites of a tankruptcy were proved, leaving the dis-
poEal of the assets fur subsequent discussion.

STAG HUNT EXTRAORDINAB Y.—About tW• o'clock
yesterday rif;ernoon the inhabitants of Camden-town
were astonished tt tae unusual sight of a fine slit?, or
red-deer, running t t full speed in the, diteAion of
Somers-town, with five hounds in full cry at his heels,
f dloweri by one solitary rider and the huntsman, on
h„,„„ that hal evidently done a hard day's work. It
seems that Mr. Beaus hounds had met at Hendon,
whence, in a circuitous route, the stag broke away for
Finchley-cornrnon, skirting Coldfall',-wood, past High-
gate, and thence over the fields to the metropolis. He
entered Soccer's-town by Brewer-street, through Skin-
ner-street, Phillips':-buildings, and Wilstal-strcit,
finally crossing the .New-rea with five hounds close at
his haunches. lie here untie a bolt at the iron-gate
leading through Mableclon-place into Burton-crescent,
but being hendei by two of the hounds, and terrified at
the nu:fiber of-vehicles naiEsingt the Now-road, he daShed
through the open gate facing Meisrs. Prior's stove-grae
manufactury,-whence, seeing the shop-door open, he
darted int) the house, and was there speedily secured.
The unusual sight at.racted some thousands of per Sons;
4nd it required the assistance of a stroll hotly of police
to preserve. ISlessr:,, Prior's •railinast from destruction.
Such was the curiosity excited on the occa-.ion that nurn-
ber4 of women and children paid a penny each for ad-
mission to the put,l, to see so strange a visitor. The
run from first to last was over not leis than thirty.five
miles of grotlncl, and, u(04.11.14'11 a SOlng field had nine'
tared in the ninrnin,ff, dogs and horses ware all fiirly
beaten excei.t the small remnant who came in at the
take. The star was carted-off from his reting-place
al) nit s 4 o'clock, amid the cLeers of many hundrelS of
sp,:ctators,_

The required recognizances were entered into.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
Mr. Lewis, the solicitor employed by the proprietor
of the Saloon, Piccadilly, yesterday stated to Mr. Bing-
ham that an unexpected difficulty had presented itself
with reference to the contemplated proceedings in an
appeal against the decision given by the magistrate the
previous day. The proprietor of the Saloon was bed •
ridden in the country; and as the Act of Parliament re-
quired that he should enter into his own recognizsnces
within forty-eight hours to appeal against the decision,
this provision of the Act could not be complied with.
Now, as the decision in question affected hundreds of
tradesmen in London and us the proprietor of the Saloon
was desirous of setting 'aside all technical points, and
fighting the decision on the merits of the case, he hoped
the magistrate would give him his assistance to overcome
the difficulty he had mentioned.
Mr. BINGIIA.M was desirous of affording the defendant
every facility for prosecuting an appeal. If the solicitor
would make a declaration of the state of the defendant,
and his inability to enter into the recognizances on that
account, and would also undertake to enter into recog-
nizances for tie defendant, he saw no objection to that
course, although it was quite new in practice.
Mr. Lewis replied he was quite willing to adopt that
alternative, and would at once enter into recognizances
for his client. He wished now to ask advice in another
matter. It was clearly understood that the decision on the
previous day was in the nature of a preliminary step
towards a final decision by a higher tribunal. It was
also understood that the police ware not to act on the
decision until the question had been settled at the ses-
sions. But the police had taken upon themselves to pro-
ceed at once to act on the decision, and had gone to the
Saloon the same night with a demand on the manager to
turn out the women who were in the hou.e. His advice
to the manager had been to take no notice of the demand
of the police, but to let the police proceed to turn the
parties out at their peril. If the police did act, then he
advised an action against them.
Mr. BINGIIAM had no authority over the actions of
the police, and theref ire could say nothing in reply to
the solicitor's statement.
Mr. Lewis Vianked the magistrate, and left the court
to enter into the required sureties to prosecute an appeal.
CLERKENWELL.
William Edgar, alias William Beale, a well-dressed
young man, was put at the bar before Mr. Combo,
charged with a burglary on the premises of Mr. James

TILE WRECK O 1 TITE PALMYRA.—IIIIORTATION
01 TliiE CA1.130. —The stearrnr Seine, arrived in the river
from Boulogne, has brought Flu chests and 37 bags of
tea, and the steamer Albion, from !he s.aaie French port,
has brought 1,009 chests of tea, 53 packages of China
ware, and !Imo other rrrelrm,2i,:o. b, ink norCor4 of Oio
cargo t f the ship irately ,:vrecked oft' Boulogne,
n her a ofge fcorn Claim to London. Another poN
lion ( f cArgo, comprising s.veral hundred packages
of tea, had previously arrived IT th,, steamer C ty of
Bo ilogne, consigned to e proper parties in th
_ _

An idea of the extent' of the miichid committed
(luring the, days t,f February maybe formed-from the
fact thiv the Court of Liquidation of the Civil List is
~,I
abut t') sell by auction 50,001 b. of broken glass nodcryatnl,
crystal, i onging to the furniture and servicos of the old
Valais National. Broken porcelain has been already
sold for 6,000£--Galignani s Messenger.

THE SU LONDON, W.EDNI4ISDAY EVENING, PF,BRUARY

Starling, stationer, of Upper-street, Islington; and also
with ass,sulting Police-nonsi able Joseph Batts, 414 N
division. with intent t murder him.
Insmed.i.tely the prisoner was placed in the dock ho
was recognized by Mr. Mould, the clerk, as an old and
convicted thief and most desperate character.
Inspector Gray, of the G division, said that a more
daring fellow had not been prowling about London and
committing depred ttions of an extensive description for
many years past. On the 24th of August in last year
he with another man named Blackwell broke into the
premises of Mr. Raheire, furrier, of 322, Oxford-street,
at midnight, and being disturhed by the police the
accused jumped from a second-floor window and in-
jured his leg, which led to his capture, while
his wretched companion, who dropped from the
roof of the building in the hope of escape, was
killed on the spot. The prisoner on that occasion was
removed to Middlesex Hospital, and placed under the
surveillance of a police-officer; but he managed to escape
from that institution a few weeks aftkrwarde, and was
recaptured in September following in Spitaltields, by
him (Inspector Gray), with assistance, after a severe
encounter with him and several bull-logs; and he was
thth with conveyed before Mr. Hardwick, at Marlbo•
rough-street, who, in consequence of the fatal catastrophe
which had befallen his companion, found a difficulty in
the case, notwithstanding a burglary was proved to
hare been committed at Mr. Rsheire's, and a summary
conviction of three months, with hard labour, was the
result.

Sergeant Dyer, of the E division, informed the worthy
magistrate that eighteen months ago the prisoner was
sentenced to two months' imprisonment in the House of
Correction from that court, he having been found con-
cealed at the hour of twelve o'clock in the house of Mr.
Davis, the Swan public-house, in Little Ormond-street.
He appealed from that conviction, and absconded from
his bail, whese recognisances were Entreated.
The following evidence was then given in respect of
the present serious charges :
The police-officer Ba.e,, being sworn, stated—At
half-past 3 o'clock this morning, I met the prisoner in
Seabrook-mews, at the back of the Pied Bull public-
house. I asked him what business he had there, when
he instantly drew back without making a reply, and
struck me under the left ear with a hammer. I stag-
gered against a wall, when rallying a little I sprung my
rattle, and in a very few minutes saw the prisoner in
the custody of George Lock, 196 N. (The witness ap-
peared very ill, and had on a plaster.)
Lock deposed to the capture of the prisoner, and to
finding upon him 66 pencil-cases of gold and silver, and
121. in cash.

The prosecutor identified the property produced
which bad been stolen from his dwelling between the
hours of half-past twelve and four on that morning.
He retired to rest the last in his family at half
past twelve, leaving every door and window fastened,
■nd was called up by the last witness after the apprehen-
sion of the prisoner, when he discovered that the thieves
bad passed from the mews over some sheds to the leads
at the back of his house, and bad then forced open a
barred door, leading to his shop, back parlour, and
kitchen, from which place the property mentioned was
removed.

This being the case against the prisoner,
Mr. COMBE asked him if he wished to make any
statement in respect to the charges ? The prisoner
said he should reserve his defence.

The witnesses having each been bound over in the
sum of 804 to prosecute the prisoner, ho was convoyed
to Newgato.

REPEAL of the DUTY on PAPER.
A deputation of gentlemen, representing paper-makers,
publishers, and printers, in England and Scotland, had
an interview with Lord John Russell yesterday, at three
o'clock, in Downing-street.
Amongst those present were Mr. Charles Cowan.
Mr. T. B. Crompton, of Farnworth, Lancashire; Mr.
Baldwin. of Sherbonrne Mill, Birminzhane; Mr. Thomas
kVrigley, (I Bury, Lancashire; Mr. James Dnrhaul and
Mr. Henry Bruce, Edinburgi,,hire; Mr. Robert (`ham-
<<e of Edinburzh; Mr. Chalks Knight, and Mr. W.
S. Ocr, of London.

Tile deputation was accompanied by Mr. Hume, M.P.,
and by Mr. Scbolefield and Mr. Blair, the Members re-
spectively for Birmingham and Bolton.
Mr. Cowart introduced the deputation, and made a
few general observations.

Mr. CROMPTON said—My Lord, I can assure you
with great sincerity, that I have come hither with
much reluctance. I have been impelled by what I
feel to be the necessity of the case. I have been
upwards of forty years an extensive manufacturer of
paper, and during all that period I have never
known the branch of industry in question so unre-
munerative as it is now. I will endeavour as concisely
as I can, to explain to your Lordship some of the more
palpable causes and reasons for this state of things, and
I will point out the gross inconsistencies which exist,
and of which we are obliged to complain. First. Is it
reasonable that a raw material of the most worthless
character—l mean the very refuse which is ere tted from

cctton and linen, in the process of manufacturing these
substances into cloth—should bear the impost of a duty
amounting to 600 per cent. upon its cost price, when
main in'3.paper, whilst the cotton manufacturers have

succeeded in removing a tax of only five-sixteenths of
one penny per lb. upuu cotton imported into this
country, the Government having been satisfied that
tle.t very snesll proportion—certainly not more than
five pee cent upon its value—was prejudicial to the
interests of the country ? I ask again. How can
it be justified that the very refuse of the same
articles should be burdened with a tax of six hun-
dred per cent. upon their value? Now, my Lord, I
will endeavour to bring under your notice some of the
numerous h trdships to which papor malufa.3turers have
boon obliged to submit in consrquence of the arbitrary
and inconsistent operation of the Excise. Here are spe-
cimens of numerous articles brought into the market as
substitutes fir paper, and, in appearance, so identically '
the same with that article, that even I, my Lord, with-
out marking them, could not distinguish between the
ny
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real commodity
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hundred per cent. is accordingly levied upon the cost
value of the one, while the other goes free, and it may
be interesting to your Lordship, and to the public at
large, to know why. The hare assertion of the fact,
indeed, would scarcely bo credible without the corrobo-
ration of detail. By a decision of the Board of Excise,
in order to constitute paper, the material must have been
pulverised and worked in water. It occurred to a manu-
facturer to take advantage of this official definition. He
erected premises and constructol machinery for the pur-
pose of fabricating the very same material in a dry state.
He succeeded, an challenged the Board of Excise to
seize the goods, which, according to their authoritative
description, could not be paper. A seizure was made;
but a compromise took place. The manufacture was al-
lowed to proceed for a given time, on the distinct under-
standing that, after its expiration, he should discontinue
his process or subject his product to the same duty
with that paid upon paper manufactured in the usual
way. I believe it was ,discontinued accordingly; but it
was subsequently revived, and is at this moment carried
on—the goods being sold under the name of felt, exten-
sively substitute I for paper, and distinguishable from
that manufacture by no perceptible difference except
by being slightly darker in colour. Of another
extreme hardship I have personally experienced the
severe pressure. About two years ago a general order
was issued from the Board of Excise to the effect that
paper to be made into papier macho should bo exempted
from duty provided the paper were manufactured on the
premises on which the papier mitch6 manufacture was
carried on, but not otherwise. Now, observe the opera-
tion of this. I was under the necessity of either allow-
ing the papier mitchti manufacturer to come to my pre-
mis3e, or of erecting paper-making machinery on his, or,
finally, of allowing myself to be superseded in his supply.
Finding myself thus situated, I memorialised the Board
of Excise, as well as the Lords Commissioners of the
Privy Council for the Board of Trade, as did
also my customer (one of the most respectable
and extensive manufacturers of papier mitche in
the kingdom) ; but neither • of us could succeed
in obtaining permission for me to send out
paper under permit, giving notice to the officer of Ex-
cise to that effect, so as to be, allowed a drawback. This
is but one of a thousand of the vexatious and unjust
impositions inevitably resulting from the existence of
the duty and the consequent Excise regulations. As
there are several other gentlemen desirous of addressing
your Lordship, I must conclude by observing that the
immoral tendency of this tax is such that I fear it is en-
couraging the most iniquitous practices, and rapidly
breaking down the probity of the manufacturer in this
trade. For we see daily in the market paper sold at
prices at which net honest trader can produce it, tram-
melled as he is by this most oppressive and obnoxious
law.

Mr. JAMES BALDWIN, from Birmingham, said—My
Lord, I had the honour, about a year and a half ago, of
addressing a letter to your Lordship on these
unjust Excise laws, and the answer I got
from your Lordship was that you would take the
matter into your serious consideration. I now come
with this deputation to offer a few additional reasons
for their abolition. I perceive that your Lordship's Go-
vernment is aware that the Excise laws are becoming
exceedingly obnoxious, for I perceive you now call all the
Excise offices " inland revenue offices." This convinces
me that your Lordship is aware of the feeling of the
country on this matter. Now, my Lord, a few of the
additional reasons are these, that I find that Birmingham,
the town I come from, according to its population, uses
more paper in wrapping and re-wrapping its manu-
factured goods than almost any other in the kingd,,m:
and to show how this Act operates, before I left home I
called on a few of the merchants and manufacturers, such,
for instance, as Messrs. Scholefield, Messrs. Vanwart and
Co., Harrolds, Mr. IL W. Winfielul, J. Palmer, and
others. In one of these houses I found that nearly 00
tons of wrapping paper, paying 151. per ton, had been
used in a year. The manufacturers of these goods
having used 30 tons previously in making the same
goods ; the merchant dealing with them used
30 tons additional for the same goods; so that,
reckoning the 30 per cent. put on in America,
this paper duty alone made a difference of nearly
1,0001. per annum in the dealings of one houie. Under
such circumstances, how was it possible the English
merchant and manufacturer could compete with the
foreign merchant and manufacturer, who did not pay
duty on the paper in which their goods were packed ?
(Mr. Baldwin here showed to his Lordship some scraps
of button boards, out of which blanks for the insides of
Florentine buttons had been cut, and in which there is
great waste made, though duty is paid on all.) Thus,
in the case of the very low-priced small buttons, the
duty alone raises the prico of the buttons nearly 10 per
cent., on which, when they are sent to America another
30 per cent. is put. I ask your Lorkship how it is pos-

131 i 850

sible for us to compete with t`.e fertigeer? And then
again I would esic your Lordship to look at its effect., on
education. My Lord, Ido hop ,us you cannot say now
you cannot, :Tare the money, that you will relieve -the
country of this unjust and improper tae. Before I sit
down, allow me just to say that, in exporting the corn.
moner kind of paper, the trouble and expense we are
put to in packing for exports amounts to from 12 to 15
per cent., while to send the same paper to Australia the
carriage does not amount to more than about 5 per cent.
Mr. DURHAM adverted to the circumstance that the
Excise duties proved a bar to the applications of science
in this branch of manufacture, and illustrated this by
observing that beautiful papers of certain descriptions,
such as paper hangings, &c., have been made in France
from straw (several samples of straw paper Navin;
been laid on the table by Mr. Cowan), and the wonder
of course is, how such an article manufactured in France,
cannot be also done in England, where there is so much
skill, enterprise, and capital. He said the Excise duty
must be held chargeable with this marvellous atate of
things. The French maker has no duty or Excise n-
gulations to interfere with his experiments; the English
maker has, and the matter works thus—suppose a maker
determines to experiment on 50 tons of straw at 40s. per
ton, 4 e., 1004; now the risk, in this case, of failure in
producing a good article is to the extent of 100/., besides
workmanship. Now,supposo a loss of 20, 30,er 40 per cent.,
as the case may be, on an article sold in the market
held to bo inferior or imperfect (as all experiments anal
discoveries are of course very imperfect and uncertain at
first), this is of course a loss, but not to such an extent
as to be serious, but such as might be contemplated by
any manufacturer in making experiments with the hole
of ultimate benefit; but on the other hand, it is quite
manifest that if, in addition to the price of the raw ma-
terial of the 50 tons, there be also the duty of 151. per
ton, or 750 L on that quantity, the risk then is no longer
on 1001. and workmanship, but on 8501. and workman-
ship, in the case supposed—a very different matter in-
deed, and such as might involve ruinous risk and loss.
Such a fearfully increased risk prevents any prudent
man attempting experiments, or following up discove-
ries, and, in fact, one party who did erect a mill in
England, to make paper from straw, after sacrificing a
large capital in the attempt, has ceased to work, and re-
tired from the trade altogether; and there is no likeli-
hood of any other party making such attempts whilst
the enormous load of the Excise duties exist.
Mr. CHAMBERS said the pressure of the paper duty
upon the business of publishing is chiefly felt in the most
popular class of publications. Those addressed to the
great body of the people. On a newspaper of large cir-
culation it is very heavy. I know a provincial journal
which shows great enterprise, and upon it the paper
duty is about 6001. per annum, which would be a profit
failing all other. On cheap literary journals, I can
speak more definitely. There was one called a " Miscel-
lany of Tracts,":which my brother and I published. It
met a large sale, and, I believe, was in the way of doing
some good amongst the humbler classes. It returned,
however, so slight a profit that we gave it. up, while
selling to the extent of 80,000 copies. On the whole
amount of this work printed, the duty was 6,220/.
Now, this would have been a very ample profit
in itself, though a mere shade upon each copy.
The amount of duty paid for our publications per annum
is, at an average, close upon 3,0001., which must
be considered as a great burden on what is, to all intents
and purposes, a branch of the educational means of the
country. In a cheap publication, the value of paper
may be set down at nearly one-fourth of the selling
price, and considerably above one-third of the price to
the retailer. This is the case of the publisher who acts
with all possible advantages in his favour, such as pay-
ing ready money for every article, and acting as his own
printer and binder. From these data the severity of the
burden on popular publications may be estimated. Were
the paper duty removed, the existing publications might,
in some cases, be reduced in price ; in others the public
would derive a benefit from a superior paper being usd,
and a heater literature presented. In all subsequent
works tee price would, of coatae, be struck es the
lo veered Fete. I dally believe that, with paper eta re-
lieved price, we could bring out to guy new works of im-
peitunee to the public, which we could not now with any
prudence attempt.
Mr. CHAS. KNIGHT would not detain. his Lordship by
adding anything to the general argument which had been
urged by Mr. Chambers, as to the discouragement of
popular literature by the existence of the duty on paper.
lie would confine his observations to one point. The
paper tax operated injuriously against all literature, but
more especially ao in the case of cheap publications for
which high priced skilled authorship was paid. He hal
been able to show tbat the duty had been a positive bur-
den upon the " Penny Cyclopasdia" to the extent of
16,500/. That work was undertaken under the auspices
of his Lordship himself, amongst other eminent persons;
but the cost had been borne by Mr. Knight. It had
never been remunerative, for the cost was largely in-
creased by the natural operation of the tax upon the
price of paper. This was an example of the peculiar
burden of the tax upon the higher kind of lite-
rary labour compelled to compete with low priced
authorship in the race of cheapness. Mr. Knight be-
lieved that the great mass of publications were tending
to cheapness—the good as well as the bad. He believed
that books for the few were fast going ont of demand,
and, further, that the many would ultimately pay the
proper rewards of good writers as well, if not better,
than under the present :system of a limited demand.
Bu', with the paper duty the profits of a publisher em-
ploying the best authors to produce cheap books wars
so curtailed by the burden of the tax upon the large
amount of paper used for such books that the higher
class of literature was deprived of its proper encou
ragement.

The remark.; of tho deputation were followed up by a
short but lucid and firciblo aildrois from Mr. flume, on
social. moral, and commercial questions involved
in the subject; after which tho gentlemen, who had been
received with the greatest courtesy by his LorJdhip,
withdrew.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—TuEsDAr.
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.— 10 to I agst Chandler
(t), 12 to 1 agst Rattrap (t), 12 to 1 agst Sir Juhn,
16 to 1 apt Knight of Owynne, 13 to 1 apt Sir Arthur
(t), 20 to 1 agst Little Fanny (t), 20 to 1 agst Vain
Ilope, 25 to 1 ap‘t Shinrone (t), 25 to 1 agst
Ii scue (t;, 30 to 1 apt Maria Day (t).
TnE NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAYES.-10 10 1 ag't
Osterley (t), II to 1 agst Harriot', 12 to 1 agst Velox,
20 to 1 agst Priestess (t), 20 to 1 agst Fernhill.
METROPOLITAN STAKES.-5 to 1 agst Cheerful (t),
15 to 1 apt Snowstorm (t), 16 to 1 agst Dough, 20 to
1 asst Testator (t).
CHESTER CUP.-14 to 1 agst Glauca, 18 to 1 a:at
Miss Anne, 22 to 1 agst Peep-o'-Day Boy (t), 23 to 1
sgst Roland, 25 to 1 agst apt Cossack, 25 to 1 agst
Ellerdale (offers to take), 25 to 1 agst Whim colt
(offers to take), 25 to 1 agst Fugleman (offers to take),
40 to 1 sgst Woodlark, 40 to 1 agst Marriott.
DERBY.-15 to 1 agst VolLigeur (offers to ta'se).
Nothing else named.