The Sun.
London, England, 1850-05-02 00:00:00

(LEFT EPEAEING.)

HOUSE -----...--
OF COMMONS.
The • ,PEABER took the Chair at Four o'clock.
NEW MEMBER.
for Lymingtov,EMßEß.
Mr. IR:Tennis, the n M
iok the oaths and his seat,
THIRD READINGS. The following Bills were rceoad a third time:—
Colonization IV:suranco
Bill; Nottingham
of Bill ; Faculty of
Physicians and Surgeons of Gmlatany
Freemen's Allotments Bill; Ro oCwollege
f
Amend-
of Edinburgh Bill; and Suuth-E3lsate Surgeons
meat of Acts, Powers to raise Additrinonßaaliljaapyit(al) Bill.
PETITIONS.
petition from Dundee
Mr. DUNCAN presented a
against the Scoth Sanitary Bill.
Mr. C. LUSIIINGTON presented a petition from
Bethnal-green in favour of sanitary reform.
Mr. WILSON PATTEN presented a petition from
Manchester in favour of au eleven hours Bill.
Mr. STANSFIELD presented a similar petition.
Mr. ALCOCK presented a petition in favour of medi-
cal reform.
Mr. COIZNEWALL LEWIS presented a petition in
Li your of the passing of au efficient h 4 alth Bill.
Mr. LITTLE VON presented a IA tition against the
Marriage Bill.
Mr. F. SCOTT presented a petition from the Presby-
tery of Dunse against the Scotch poor-laws.
Mr. DEEDES presented a petition f..om the Isle of
Thunet praying for an alteration in the imposition of the
income-tax, fur an imposition of duties on all manufac-
tured produce, and fora reduction in the salaries of
public officials.
Mr. F. O'CONNOR presented a pe:ition from Staf-
fordshire for the appointment of a general mining in-
sPector; also petition from Glasgow in favour of a
ten hours Billa
Captina Fi
favour of an Tzrtoy presented several petitions in
Colonel extension of the county courts.
A 'MAWS° AT
presented several petitions

from the clergy of the metropolis in favour of the Ex-
tramural Interments Act.
Sir J. TROLLOPE presented a petition from Spalel.:
ing praying for the imposition of duties on imported
produce.
Mr. FOX presented a petition from Walbrook in
favour of the Bill prohibiting intramural interments;
also a number of petitions in favour of national arbi-
tration.
The O'GORMAN MAHON presentel a petition from
the medical men of Ennis in favour of the Medical.
Charities Bill.
Numerous petitions were presented against Sunday
Labour in the Post-effice.
Lord DUNCAN presented a petition from Hastings
against the window tax.
Mr. SULLIVAN presented a petition from attorneys
and solicitors cf the city of Kilkenny for the repeal of
the annual certificlte tax.
Colonel FREESTUN presented a petition from the
attorneys, solicitors, and proctors of Weymouth and
Melcombe Regis, praying exemption from their annual
certificate duty.
Lord JOHN MANNERS presented 17 petitions from
places in Lancashire in favour of a ten hours Bill.
Mr. GREENALL presented a similar petition from a
place in Scotland.
Sir IL WILLOUGHBY presented a similar petition
from Bolton.
Mr. S. CRAWFORD presented a similar petition
from the factory workers of Belfast.
Mr. MACGREGOR presented a similar petit:on from
Glasgow.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR presented a petition
from Chelsea in favour of the Extramural Burials Bill.
Mr. MACKINNON presented a similar petition from
the Tower Hamlets.
Mr. HUME presented a petition to tl a same effect
from Marylebone.
Mr. BRIGHT presented a petition from the Chamt er
of Commerce of Manchester on the subject of the pro-
duction of cotton in India. The petition stated that the
industry of Lancashire depended for its raw materials
upon one marker, namely, the United States, and
pointed out the importance of opening up a
second rearkst. The petition also stated that,
notwithstanding that many costly experiments had
been made by the East India Company to encourage
the growth of cotton in India, no sensible production of
cotton had yet been accomplished, and the petition
therefore prayed the House to take into its serious con-
sideration the propriety of sending out a Commission to
the Presidencies of Bombay and Madras, for the purpose
of ascertaining what were the real obstacles to the culti-
vation of that plant in India. The Hon. Gentleman
gave notice that to-morrow he should move that the
petition be printed with the votes, with the view of
founding a motion upon it.—(Hear.)
Mr. HENRY presented a petition from AsLton-under-
Lyne in favour of secular education.
Mr. HUME presented seven similar petitions from
places in Scotland.
Mr. SCULLY presented a petition from shareholders
in the Waterford, Wexford, Wicklow, and Dublin Rail-
way Company praying for an inquiry into the conduct
of their directors.
Mr. HUME presented a petition from East Cowes
praying for the abolition of church-rates.
Mr. BANKES presented several petitions against
Post-office labour on Sundays.
The HON. MEMBER also presented two petitions from
attorneys in the county of Dorset against the attorneys'
certificate duty.
Mr. CARDWELL presented a similar petition.
Mr. Alderman SIDNEY presented petitions from in-
habitants of London in favour of the Bill for extramural
interments.
Mr. SLANEY presented similar 'petitions from Clerk-
enwell, Fulham, and St. Margaret's, Westminster.
The Hon. Member also presented a petition from
Hackney praying that the Health of Towns Bill might
be extended to that suburb.
Mr. HERBERT presented a petition from Ireland,
numerously signed by landowners, merchants, and others,
praying for certain alterations in the Encumbered Es-
tates Bill.

LABOURING POOR (IRELAND).
Sir D. NORREYS moved for a return (in continuz-
don of Parliamentary Paper, No. 30, of Session 1849)
of the several cases in which the the Lords of the Trea-
sury had sanction, under the Act of 11 and 12 Vic., e.
51, the conversion of annuities created by the Act 10
and 11 Vic., c. 87, and the terms on which such con-
versions had been made; showing in each case of con-
version, since the 3d day of November, 1848, the total
compound sum charged against each barony, &c., at the
time f conversion, and the amount of each converted
instalment.—Agreed to.

EVICTIONS IN GALWAY.
Mr. O'FLAHERTY asked the Right Hon. Secretary for
Ireland whether any provision had been made by the
Poor-law Commissioners si ith respect to the enormous
pressure that would arise on the poor-rates from the
displacement of 618 families in the union of Galway?
Sir W. SOMERVILLE said he would make inquiries
on the subject, and give the Hon. Member an answer on
a future ''ay.
ATTORNEYS' CERTIFICATES.—ADJOURNED
DEBATE.
Lord ROBERT GROSVENOR presented a petition
from the solicitors of Carlisle, praying for a remission
of the Attorneys' certificate duty.
Sir Y. THESIGER felt the greatest pleasure in ex-
pressing Lord R
h.
is
Gr
acknowledgmentsosv
e n or)
, by
whom to thet
h s No
Bill Noble Lordiiad
been introduced for the great and disinterested
exertions he had long made to relieve the
solicitors from a tax which pressed so heavily upon
them. He (Sir F. Thesiger) knew, with regard to him-
reit, that he was open to the imputation of different me -
lives; but he was quite prepared to bear that imputation,
and he should not have come forward to second
the motion of the Noble Lord if he had not
thought that justice ;imperatively demanded that
the House should pass the Bill now before it.
He had sought to find what the reason for the imposition
of this tax could be, and he thought he was entitled to
say that the onus of establishing this tax rested upon
those who either imposed it or who were instrumental in
keeping it on. It apretred that it was first imposed in
1785, a hen the Minister Ras extremely anxious to obtain
money to cover the expenses cf a long and calamitous war.
and finding all the objects of taxation were occupied or
exhausted, he proposed to lay a tax upon all the shops
of the kingdom. That tax was considered by many
Members of the House as objectionable, but, instead of
opposing it in a straightforward manner, they took
the incautious step of proposing another tax in
its place. The Chancellor of the Exchequer of that day
being thus placed in a difficulty between the two, cut
the Gordian knot by imposing both the taxes, and in
the same year the tax on shopkeepers and the tax on
attorneys were imposed. But mark the difference. Mr.
Fox never ceased to agitate for the abolition of the
shop-tax, as being unjust and partial, and in three
sessions succeeded in getting rid cf it; but
the case of attorneys was quite different. Since
then, from time to time the duty hadi been in-
creased. Like the criminal of old, who was pressed
heavily with weights till ho cried out guilty, the attorney
had been taxed till he could bear the pressure no longer,
and now he was compelled to cry out against it. At
one period their was considerable prejudice against
attorneys, but happily that prejudice was rapidly disap-
pearing, and now that the House and the country had
set its face ugainst class taxation they called upon Par-
liament to give them some relief, if the duty
was not altogether abolished. There was no such
tax imposed upon barristers or nardie al men,
though he ought to be cautious of reminding a Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer. No class of the community was
so heavily taxed as attorneys. In the first place, the
attorney, before he ceuld practice, had to pay 12u1. stamp
duty on his articles, and 251. for the fees of his admis-
sion; while the stamp duty imposed upon him after he
was permitted to practice amounted to more than 4 per
cent, on his annual profits. The tax was therefore
most excessive and unjust, and the conditions of its
imposition were equally oppressive. The law re-
quired that the duty, before the Ist of September
every year, and in 1849 no leas than
595 were unable to pay the duty within the time pre.
scribed, while 190 had failed to pay it altogether. Well,
it might be said, so much the better since the country had
Honourableon this occasion?
the fewer attorneys, but was that a fair argument to use
wouldrtin lnot;he
u andnfe e
nhge
enoughhoped nt
oo
Member Certainly
make use of it.—(Cries of " Hear, hear," and a laugh.)
He 'had now gone through the grounds on which he
thought this tax ought to be repealed, and he considered
that no valid reason, only it should be continued. The
acquiescence of attornics in this tax for a considerable
time, was no reason for asserting that it should be con-
tinued, because if the burden had been unjustly and
improperly imposed 'upon them, they were entitled
to its repeal. He should give the Noble Lord his sup-
port on the present occasion, and hoped he would per-
severe with his motion for the repeal of the tax.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER opposed
the motion. He would not enter into the arguments of
the Hon. and and Learned Gentleman, and it was suffi-
cient to state on the present occasion, that the tax was
an existing one, and that he was not prepared to aban-
don it. The question was not whether this duty
pressed heavily on attornics, but whether the whole
burden of taxation was unjustly imposed. The
same injustice might be attributed to many other taxes,
such as that on horses, &c., but if ho were to adopt
reductions in particUlar cases he would be called upon to
remit as many taxes as would amount to a million a-3 ear.
He did not wish to prejudice the impartial consideration
of this question
in some future year, but considering
the reductions which had lately been made in taxation,

plained that he had only said that horse•dealers paid a
license, and that might be a hardship to that class as
much as the certificate duty was to attornies.
After a few words from Colonel CHATTERTON, I
which were inaudible,

. Colonel SIBTHORPE said he wishel to compel the
Chancellor of the Exchequer to return to those irn-
important commercial duties which, in his (Colonel Sib-
thorde's) opinicn, were very industriously and incau-
tiously taken off. It was only by such a
Bill as this that the House could bring Chancellors of the
Exchequer properly to discharge their duties. Ho thought
the Noble Lord opposite (Lord B. Grosvenor): was fully
justified in seeking to relieve attorneys from this tax.
The gallery was then cleared, and the House divided,
when there appeared,
For the motion .........155
Against it 136
Majority in favour of it •.., •-19
The motion was then agreed to, and the Bill ordered
to be brought in.

BUSINESS FOR TO-MORROW.
Mr. DISRAELI wished to know what business would
be taken to-morrow?

Lord J. RUSSELL said he proposed to take the pis-
trenel Unions (Ireland) Bill and the Parliamentary
Franchise (Ireland) Bill on the first orders tomorrow
and on ➢tonday.:

he 4 ha first order he proposed to take was the Austra-
lian Colonies Government Bill.
COUNTY COURT EXTENSION BILL.
On the motio'i f)r going into Committee on this Bill,
Mr. KEOGH rose to move that it be an instruction
to the Committee to extend its operation to Ireland. It
might ho said be urged against this motion that it was
not competent for him to move it, that ho
ought to introduce a separate Bill for the
purpose he had in view, but he apprehended
their would be no difficulty in accomplishing his object
in the manner he propose i if the object itself met with
the approval of the House. The reasons which pre-
vailed for the extension of county courts
in England were twice as strong in
Ireland, and he hoped when he told the House the next
benefits the measure Would confer upon the sister king-
dom it would have no hesitation in adopting his motion.
Finding that none of the objections that had been raised
to the extension of the County Courts Bill in England
existed in Ireland, he could not see what objection
there could be to make it an instruction to the
Committee to extend the operation of the Bill to Ireland,
by giving the Assistant Barristers's Courts in that
country jurtsdction- to the extent of fifty pounds.
He could could not see why an Assistant
Barrister' in Ireland should be only paid 4001. a year,
while the Judge of a county court in this country was
allowed upwards of 1,000/.
Sir G. .GREY did not see how the provisions of this
Bill could be extended to Ireland. His Honourable
Friend the Secretary for Ireland would shortly intro-
duce a Bill on the subject relative to Ireland, and in
the discussion of that measure the suggestions of the
Honourable Member might be repeated. It it was the
general wish of the House, on the part of the Govern-
ment, he world say that no further opposition would
be offered to the extension of the jurisdiction of the
county courts from 201. to 501.
After some further discussion the motion was with-
drawn, awl the House went into Committee on the Bill,
(LEFT BITTING.)

CRICKET.
ELEVEN OF ENGLAND V. IWENTY-TWO OF CARLISLE

AND DISTRICT.
l'hiS grand match (the first of the season), which was
commenced at Carlisle on Tuesday, was resumed yesterday,
and at the close of the day the score stood as follows:

ENGLAND FIRST INNINGS.
Adams;b Lawrence 0
Clarke, b Wright ...
Parr, run out
Box, b Thompson
Chattertoli, b Anderson
N. Felix, Esq., b Thompson ..................12
A. blynn, Es 1,, b Anderson 4
Guy, b Wright
A 1, not out
lartingel ... 4
33
Wisden, b Lawrence
Ilillyer, b Wright . .. __ 0

*es, 12; wide, 13; no ball, 5
gO

Total 207
CARLISLE-FIRST INNINGS.

___ ..... ..,
Wright, b Hillyer yer 0
Lawrence, c Felix, b Hillyer
Mr. J. Scott, run out
Mr. Anderson, b Wisden
Thompson, Esq., b Wisden
W. Moncrieff, Esq., b Wisden •• 3
Mr. J. Hewett, c Felix, b Hillier .... 0
P.ESmith, 1 b w, b Hillyer
Sopp, b Hillyer ...................................................... 3
Mr. Atkinson, b Hillier
Mr. Howe, b Wisden
Booth, b Wisden . . 6
Mr. Harrison, c Hillyer,.b Wisden 1
Mr. Bell, c Box, b Wisden
Lambert, c Martingell, b Hillyer
Capt. Hutchinson, hit w, b Hillyer .... 8
Beldon' Esq., c and b Wisden
Mr. J. Black, b Clarke
J. J. Scott, Eq., b Wisden
Mr. Thomson, not out
Mr. R. Steel, b Wisden
Mr. Ward, b Wisden . ... 0
1
Byes, ..... 5

Tot al
67

GENERAL DOMESTIC SERVANTS' BENEVOLENT IN-
' smirTioN.—The annual general meeting of this institution
took place yesterday, at the Ilanover-square Booms—Lord
Robert Grosvenor in the chair. The report of the committee
stated that the number of members amounted to upwards of
4,000 subscribers, and that theypossessed a permanent fund
of 4,200/. The total receipts of the last year were 1,609/.
17s. 2d. ; the pensions, 17/. 10s. The investments were, fur
1,958/. 18s. Id. at 3 per cent. Consols, purchased in the year,
1,180/. There was a balance in hand of 711. 17s. 10d. The
resolutions, embodying the principles of the society, having
been proposed and supported, were agreed to, and the meet-
ing, NT hic 11 was very fully attended by females, adjourned.
HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.--Yesterday the anni-
versary meeting of this society was held at the society's
rooms, Regent-Street; Sir Charles Lemon, Bart, M.P., in the
chair. Dr. Lindley read the report. During the year 18,517
tickets were issued, and the receipts exceeded those of the
former year by 2221. The expenditure amounted to 7,691/.
13s. 4d. ; the receipts were 9,3301. 45. 4d.; and the disburse-
ments 8,897/. Bs. Id. ; exclusive of I,BEBI. Is. 6d. liabilities.
The property of the society was valued at 13,205/. 15s. 9d.
The number of visitors to the gardens, exclusive of exhibi-
t 82re being an increase of 855 over the pre-
ceding port was adopted, the council and other
otifluincedrsay3f.ol wrrtiate year were elected, and thanks were voted to
the chairman
ANTIQUARIAN TREASURES IN FOUNDATION STONES.
—The old Stockwell Bridge at Glasgow is now in course of
demolition. " Antiquaries," observes the Reformers' Gazette,
" will no doubt be looking forward with interest to the pro-
bability of there being found, in some part of the structure,
, if ancient builders followed the
modern practice, need not be sought for very deep in the bed
the foundation-stone, which
of the river." It is to be hoped, at all events, that something
else will be found than merely " a white porcelain biscuit
vase with its virgin purity tarnished by the trail of dirty
fingers," as on a late melancholy occasion.—Builder.

LAW INTEL6GECE.
BAIL COURT, May 1.
(Sittings in Banco, bef,re Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.) ,
THE QUEEN V. THE PUBLISHER OF THE '4 MORNING
'JERALD."
Mr. Sergeant SEEE was instructed to move f)r a rule
to show cause why a criminal information should not be
filed against Mr. Chan
• wan, the printer and publisher of
the Morning Herald neivspaper, for a libel published in
that paper. He moved on the affidavit of the Rev. An-
thony Magee, D.D., who stated that he was the clergy-
man or priest of the Roman Catholic chapel in the city
CO; t eatinhda hat in
,
IV4B, he contracted to purchase of and from the Right
°I
tIonNV. eLstouidin'i
Law Life Assurance Society, certain lands situate in
tf• county of Galway, containino. 3.000 acres, being
part tf very large and extensive estates known by the
name of the " Great Martin Estate," in Connemara, but
that no conveyance thereof, or of any part thereof, had
the month of December,
yet been made to this deponent, nor bath he yet had
ed by him. Ile
possession of the said lands so urcbas
d others, the trustees of the
estate he had purchase() the f 'lowing and of the
April there appeared of and concerning him,
then said that in the Morning herald of the 25th of
paragraph:— o

ould appear
[1
a sweeping "II{ELAND.
"(From our own Correspon,ient.)
i
" THE GREA.T MARTIN ESTATE.
"It IC
Mayo Constitution that •att region known as the
the I
I Martin Ettate i is about to be made the
by the following letter from the
scene of , n Connemara, _
._
than 650 9) atein.
•
6,6 Ciifder, April 18, 1850.
"'I f
regret to tell you that the parties interested in the
ar- fame ejectment
(1 Martin Estate have obtained no less a number
nantry of the late Thomas Martin, Esq. By this means
this terrible addition to our
ejectment decrees against the unfortunate te-
nantry
or 4,000
; country. Surely,p
peopla will be thrown upon the world.
It is fearful to contem late such a state of things in a
we shall doubly feel
Christian with our poor-houses over-
old saying
flow'ng with wretched inmatrs;
misery. How will they be
suPPorted?—where could the means be had? Still, the
es-,
The assistant barrister's fees on these eketments (ruled
neY's fe
holds, 'lt is an ill wind blows nobody good.'
in a fow 1,
-- eura) amounted to nearly 4001., and the attor-
-I,OOOL, making together a sum of over 1,4001.
It has caused
this gat (Naye Constitution) confess that we have heard
mail being: a sensation here that we cannot describe.
th-- -.,..Leinent with astonishment. We wish it were
exsggerated; but from the reipeetability of our informant
we cannot for a moment doubt it. And still it is hard
solve this matter but one wa}'—namely, t°believe that in a season like this, at the end of a famine,
;fleaarirdfau,l
when such exertions are making to crop the land as
. ditants y —namely, that the quasi
nPver, its our memory, were made before, that 4,000 hu-
man
be thrown upon the rates. We can
ohvenera
• (. this property—the English mortgagees—
having brought the estate to the hammer, and finding
that it did not bring remunerating prices, have adopted
tain
hab
tet:rtihme:natrceif eolenalrying the country of its in-
; and never was so shortsighted a policy prae-
-I:e"—nerPr was so blind an attempt made to obtain
higher prices. There can be but one opinion of moon-
really profitable in the
hands of A tenantry
ort ; and we may ask with our corres-
pondent, who will
sup p
this mass ef pauperism—
where will the funds be-had ? We envy not the feelings
of alert who could cart 4,000 people together houseless
on the world. Thank God, the doers of the deed are not
Irishmen.'
stag The purchaser ef this property is the Rev. Mr.
", Roman Catholic clergyman, resident at West-
the His reverence says he is compelled to eject
the vast majority of the tenantry, but he means to re-
store all who are deserting—all, in short, who have a
reasonable chance of paying their rents."
The last paragraph consisted of the comments of the
Morning Herald upon the letter, .I)r.Magee, in his ttffi-

and the impossibility of remitting the particular duty.
Under such circumstances, be felt it his duty to call upon
the House to reject the motion of the Noble Lord.
He did not think the class of men whom the Learned
Gentleman (Sir F. Thesiger) advocated on this occasiiin
were at present suffering from any peculiar burdens.
For those reasons he felt it his duty to oppose the Bill.
The O'GORMAN MAHON congratulated the Noble
Lord (Lord Robert Grosvenor) upon having elicited
from the Chancellor of the Exchequer a statement
evincing a de►ire to reconsider this question at a
future period. lle thought the parties who were
immediately aff cted by this tax were not to be re-
garded in a similar light with the class of individuals
referred to by the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer. They were obliged to spend a large
sum of money in being trained for their pro-
fession, and they generally had received the
education of gentlemen; they sprung, too, from a class
quite distinct from those to which the Right lion. Baro-
net referred, lie (the O'Gorman Mahon) was, there-
fore, sorry to hear the Right Honourable Gentleman
contrast the respectable portion cf the attornies with
horsedealers. It might be a compliment, but he
(the O'Gorman Mahon) could not view it as such. The
attornies were intrusted with important duties, and
there was scarcely a man in the country who was not
indebted to them. Ile would cheerfully support the Bill.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER fX.

SUN, LONDON, 11111111,SDAY EVENING, MAY 2, 1850.

davit, negatived
.all the statements made in this libel,
and he added that he wrote to the Morning Herald on
the 26th of April inviting an explanation, but none was
given, and that be bad before been treated in this man-
ner by the Morning Herald, and had been obliged to
bring an action aguinst them, and they had then sub-
mitted, and paid the costs.
Rule granted.

CADSBY V. ESTALL.
This was an action for crim con. The jury found a
verdict for the defendant. A motion was made for a
new trial, and the rule was made absolute, and the cause
was tried again, and a verdict was again returned for
the defendant. A rule was then Earle absolute for a
third trial upon layment of coats. The plaintiff bad not
paid the cost:.
_ _

Mr. Sergeant SIIEE then moved to discharge the rule.
Rale grunted unless the plaintiff shall pqy the costs
within a week.

COURT OF EXCIIEQUEI?, May L
(Sittings at Middlesex at Nisi Pries, in Easter Term,
before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Common Juries.)
DUSIFORD V. FORD AND ANOIHER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
h is LORDSH IP hiving sun no d up,
The jury found a verdict f.r the plaintiff 'or 71. over
and above the amount paid into Court.
LEW IS V. KNOX.
This was an action to recover the amount of an at -
torney's bill for professional services rendered, and
money expended, on account of the detendanr. The de-
tenti;,nt pleaded that he did not premise.
Mr. Huenfrey (with Mr. Temple) conducted the ease
for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers (with Mr. H. A.
Simon) upFeAred for the defendant.
It appeared that the defendant, who resided at Cam-
berwell, in the spring of the past year intending to
bring an action against the sheriff of Middlesex for the
alleged improper conduct of one of his officers, named
Shannon, had consulted one John Lewis upon the sub-
ject, by whom he was eventually introduced to his
brother Charles, the present plaintiff. Having heard
the nature of the cause of the defendant's complaint
against Shannon, he gave it as his opinion that the de-
fendant had a good cause of action, and that opinion
was subsequently confirmed by the counsel to whom the
case had been submitted. The action was accordingly
brought, and the venue having been laid in Surrey, the
matter was to come on for trial at the last summer as-
sizes for that county, at Croydon. The commission
day at that place was the 6th of August. On the 31st
of July preceding the plaintiff wrote to the defendant
requesting that he would furnish him with a further sum
of money to take the case down to Croydon, and also
expressing his disappointment that he should have sent
him only 101. The further sum required • was 501. at
least, which amount he begged might be sent to
him by the following Saturday. On the Ist of
August it appeared that the defendant had written in
reply to this letter that it was out of his power to sup-
ply any more funds, and therefore he desired that the
notice of trial should be countermanded. A consulta-
tion thereupon ensued between the parties, and the re-
cord was withdrawn. The question therefore arose as
to what course should be taken, when it was arranged
that the venue should be changed from Surrey to Mid
theses, in order that the matter might be tried at West-
minster after the next Michaelmas 'farm, as that would
be a far cheaper mode of trying the cause than by
taking it down to Kingston at the spring assizes. The
record was consequently withdriwn, and au application
was then made in due course' in November, before a
judge at chambers, for leave to change the venue. That
learned person, however, refused the application. The
defendant was accordingly informed that the case must
therefore be taken down to . Kingston for trial at the
spring assizes. In the cross. examination of one of the
witnesses he stated that the expense of taking this cause
for trial at the assizes would be from 301. to 50/., whilst
the expenses would not have been more than about 25/.
had it been tried in London, and that that had been one
reason why the plaintiff had recommended that the venue
should be changed to Middlesex, rather than incur the
additional expense of taking the cause- a second time
into Surrey. There were higher fees given to counsel at
the assizes than in London, and it was also much more
expo nsive in respect of witntsses.
Mr. CHAMBERS, on the part of the defendant, con-
tended that the plaintiff was bound, having undertaken
the trial of the cause, to show by evidence that ho hat
carried out the spirit and intention of that undertaking.
Here, however, it had been proved that he had net al
carried out the undertaking, nor had there been any proof
offered that the notice which the plaintiff had given to
the defendant, that he must have the large sum be had
demanded ready by the following Saturday, was a reason-
able notice in respect of time tor a man in the circum-
stances of the defendant. He should submit that, having
undertaken the trial of the cause, the plaintiff was bound
to carry it to trial, and that not doing so, the defendant
could not be called upon, or be held liable for expenses,
unless the plaintiff were to show that a e notice he had
given far the advance of money towards the expenses,
and also that if the money required were not sent in due
time, then that he should decline to proceed with the
cause—unless the defendant showed that that notice had
been given a reasonable time beforehand. In support of
his argument, the Learned Counsel cited the cases of
" Holey v. Built," 3 Barn. and Ald., p. 350; and of
" Nicholls v. Wilson," 11 Mee and Wel., p. 106. Now
his case on behalf of the defendant was that the matter
might have been tried at Croydon if due notice had been
given by the plaintiff to the defendant that a certain
amount of funds would be required by a given day, and
that, at all events, it was the duty of the plaintiff to have
taken the cause down for trial.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON was of opinion that, at all
events, the preliminary expenses prior to the not taking
the cause down for trial ought to be taken out of the
account. Thetis what should be done by the Master on
taxation.
Mr. CHAMBERS—And then, if the jury were to find
that there had nut been reasonable notice given in point
d time, that he should move the Cow t upon that point.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—Certainly ; and the only
question now for the jury to deal with was whether,
looking at the circumstances of the defendant, the plain-
tiff had given him a reasonable and timely notice to
raise the required amount of money for the exin ses.
His own opinion was, that if he did not give a rerson-
able length of notice, then that the plaintiff must bear
all the consequences, and a verdict ought to be found
for the defendant in respect of that part of the bill
which was rendered unnecessary by the not going to trial
at Croydon.
The jury consulted for a few minutes, and then gave a
verdict for the derendant, upon the ground that the
notice had not been sufficient to enable a man in his nr-
cumstances to get so large a sum together.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—That would then be a verdict
subject
all t')he
items
taxation eilf;
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ecessary in corsiquer.ce of the want of suffiien
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POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
Matthias Martinez Delrio, a Spaniard, was brought
before the Lord Mayor, in the custody of Inspect r
Brannon, of the G division of the metropolitan police,
charged with having stolen two Bstik of England notes,
the ens for 50/. the other for 301., end between four and
five ounces of gold dust, value 100/, the pro; erty cf Mr.
Strutt, purser in tt e Royal Mail SLam-packet Coin-
pany's service.
The prisoner refuEel to give his address.
Mr. M. 11. Strutt, of Gunnersbury-place, Brentford,
said—The prisoner embarked on board the Avon, mail
steamer, of which I was purser, at Vera Cruz on the
19th of March, for the purpose of coming to England.
On the 21st of April we arrived at Southampton, and the
day after our arrival there I missed a Bank of England
note for 501., another for 301., and a quantity of gold-
dust. About five days before we arrived at South-
ampton, I left my keys in the door of my cabin while
I went to wash my hands, and on my return I missed
the keys, one of which opened my desk. I saw the pri-
soner near the door, and I asked him whether he saw
my keys, to which he replied in the negative; but the
circumstance did not particularly excite my suspicion,
as my servant had a duplicate key, and I
attributed the disappearance of the key to a joke that
had been played upon me. In the evening of that day
one of the passengers and the surgeon invited me to their
cabin to take a glass of wine with them and the pri-
soner, and while we were sitting together, engaged in
that way, thu prisoner complained of a pain in his
stomach, and was obliged to leave us. When he was
absent about, as I think, half an hour, I went to my
cabin in order to retire to bed, and I then found my
keys lying on the desk, although I had in vain looked
for them all about the place, and searched it thoroughly
Lefore. I therefore, on missing my property at South-
ampton, the day efter our arrival there, came to London
and applied to the inspector, and stopped the notes at
the Bank.
Inspr.ctor Brannon, it appeared, apprehended the pri-
soner in Finsbury-square, and found upon his person a
new gold watch and chain and ring, which he had re-
cently purchased at the shop of a jeweller, in Cornhill.
The stolen 501. note had been changed at the Bank.
The prisoner was remanded. lie persisted in refusing
to give his address.
DERBY HUMBUGS.-Sir PETER LAURIE stated that he
had received communications on the subject of an Anglo-
American system of swindling, against which be felt
bound to endeavour to protect the public by means of the
press. Two American papers had been transmitted to
him, and his attention had been called to advertisements;
by which it appeared that "a splendid fortune might be
gained by an outlay of 101. or 5/." In the Montreal Pilot
the promise of wealth presented itself under the head of
" Metropolitan Portrait Club," and seemed to issue from
the Albany-road, London. The advertisement announced
that the directors, who have no names, would draw fa a
grand series cf portraits of all the horses entered for the
forthcoming Derby race; that the drawing would be
conducted upon those honourable principles which had
hitherto given so much satisfaction, and secured to the
above association such extensive patronage. Then fol-
lowed the list of prizes upon the drawing of the horse
portraits, and the information that all letters were to
contain a remittance, drafts, back-notes, &c., and to be
directed to the managing director in London. The other
American paper (the Sunday Courier of New York)
contained an advertisement referring to a similar esta-
blishment in Plymouth.
The LORD MAYOR approved of the notice taken by Sir
Peter Laurie of a plan the great promises in which were
likely to fascinate credulous parties on the other side or
the Atlantic.
Sir PETER LAURIE said the attempt to reinvigorate
the Derby sweeps, which were so completely put down
in London by the City magistrates, was nothing less
than could be expected; but the system he came forward
to. expose was one for which there could not be the
slightest pretence in the chance of gaining any thing. No
doubt credulity was doing a great deal for the specula-
tors, for the postman who traversed the district in which
the" managing director" resided stated that he had de-

livered a good many letters directed from America to the
party named in the advertisement.
The loan MAYOR said he had received several letters
from tradesmen in different parts of the country, en-
closing pria:ed circulars directed to them from the
Albany-road, London. Those circulars stated that the
writers had always in hand immense amounts at tle
service of their correspondents, and that they were ready
to turn gocd bills iLto ready money immediately after
transmission, as well as to get the best prices for parcels
of goods. Men of excerience would, of course, detect at
once the swindle in the precious composition he alluded
to; but there was no disguising the tact, that in many
instances goods and bills had been obtained through their
instrumentality; and not only great distress, but ruin,
beenhzd the consequence.
One of the circulars alluded to by the Lord Mayor
was as follows: it was addressed to a tradesman at
Ludlow, who declared that he Lad carried on business
for fifty years in that place, mid sever had borrowed,
or attempted to borrow, of any person during teat
time:—

" Sir,—We beg leave to inform you that your letter
has be •n handed to us in confidence by the gentleman
you wrote to a short time ago, who had a considerable
:um of money to lend, but who has for the present dis-
posed of the whole, in Exchequer bill, Bank-stock, and
India-bonds; from the very respectable manner in which
your name was butted to us by him we should have no
objection to remit you the amount you rt quest in bills
of exchange, if they will answer your purpose. If you
decide upon this method, in making a rsaniitance for our
commission at any time, please to send only half Bank
of England notes, or country ens payable in London in
the first instance, and the other halves wtea you reci:ive
the bills of exchange, as also a copy of the undertaking.
when you will be remitted such bills as will not fail of
meeting your approval."

'His LORDSHIP expressed an earnest hope that Sir
Peter Laurie's and his own object in making these mat-
ters public would have the desired effect throughout the
country.