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London, England, 1850-06-10 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDA_Y N , S N 9 JUNE 10, 1850,

N°.18,006.]

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i'blp
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varyit.y, from 27 to 05, Jicr:,cent. on the Premiums paid
on each Policy effected on the profit scat& <,
EXAMPLES.

ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.
During this week the ALPINE SINGERS will perform
several of their National Airs, daily at Four, and in the Evenings at
Half-past Eight. Dr. BACIIHOFFNER'S SECOND LECTORS on
the PHILOSOPHY of SCIENTIFIC RECREATIONovith OPTICAL
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Nine.—Lecture by J. 11. Pepper, gsq., on the Chemistry of
Hydrogen, with special reference to its application for conveying by
•Balloons Pyrotechnic and other Signals to Sir John Franklin,
daily at .Quarter-past Three, and every EV-ening at Eight.—Dissolv-
ing Views illustrating the Arctic Regions and Ceylon ; also Views of
London in the Sixteenth Century, and as it now .18.—Diver and
Diving bell, &c., icet • • -
Admission,. 1 s.—Schools, Half-price.

WHERE SHALL WE GO TO-NIGHT?
To CREMORNE. Where else would you go ? Well, I
was thinking of --. Don't think about it ; finish your glass and
come along, we can get the Steam-Boat at any Pier. I prefer the
Bus, as I have'nt my great coat with me, Well, there are Omni-
busses at Charing-cross and a dozen other. places ; the .Fare i,E the.
same as by Boat, three-pence. Is the Band a good one for 'Quad-
rilles ? The first in the world, condueted by Borini, and led by
Richard Hughes ; there is no Band equal to it for dancing, •
Then say no mere, with you I'll go,
And trip it on fantastic toe,
the first step into a Chelsea Omnibus.

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EA and PERRIN S" WORCESTERSHIRE
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The daily use Of this aromatic and delicious Sauce is the best safe-
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Sold by the proprietors, Lea and Perrins, 6, Vere-street, Oxford-
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and Merchants, ..Loudon ; and generally by the principal dealers in
satin. ,
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TIM LAKES OF KILLARNEY ; REMINISCENCES OF
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THE PASSIONS.
" What passlions hurt the body—what improve,
Truths as relined as Athens ever heard."
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Of the passions. Chastity and its infringements, The casualties of
licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative,
and remediative. Advocacy of early marriages.
V.

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" To be or not to be, that is the question."

ritonsesna :—Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re-
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choice, on both sides, A 3 to age, temperament, complexion, and
figure, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them.
Physical defectiveness an its removal. Sterility and its conversion.
Cases, &c.
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A RGYI4L SUBSCRIPTION, ROOMS, Great
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Musical Director and Conductor X, LAURENT, Jan.
This „ACADEMY, for Tuition and Practice' of Dancing, Is NOW
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.; one
The stliiscribetsitiorespectfully inforined that the doors will open
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Band 3vlll-not leave the Ottlfestra tiTl-11alf-pa4 -Eleven:

,rxlßLic HEADTIL
YT 1' 1' E ,GHAT T 8.1 NG, &c.
- -The flutta Percha Colipany have the pleasure to acknOw,
'edge the receipt of the following Testimenials
' 4' Stirline; January 25, 185(1
lrave great pleasure in informing you that had a trial to-day
of the 1 -inch gtitta per,tha tube I had froni you in December last,
in,prestnce of h Committee of the Town Council, who, were highly
pleased with the experiment, aa have resolved to haye 400 feet of
the same' for attaching to our fire-plugs for extinzuishing fires, and
,watering the streets in dry weather. I not" of Opinion that no mate:
rial is so well fitted for the above purpose as the gutta percha, for
although our pressure is perhaps the greatest in the kmi;dom, being
upwards of 450 feet, not the slightest effect could be discovered on
the tube or joints, while the same pressure on our leather hose sends
the rivets In all dlrections.—Tam, your Obedient Servant,

"ANDREW ROBERTSON."
From .TORN TAYLOR GORDON, Esq.', 151. D, (heretofore Physician
to his late AIAIESTY and H.R.H, the Duke of Cambridge, but
now retired).

(Corr,)

- " 34, Somerset-street, Portman-square; Londobi
' . . "April-l0,•1850.
. .
Gentlemen,—Without reference to the variety of useful and or-
namental purposes to which gutty percha is adapted, I consider it in
a sanitary point of view to be a most fortunate'and InMortant dis--
covery. I have already (ftom a sole regard to the .putilic • benefit)
certified my decided approval of it for the under soles of shoes, and I
have only to Odd that I 'find it equatly well applied to 'Walking or dress
shoes and boots by your .cents. ' As-the supply'Of pure wafer is so es-
•sential to, health, and leaden pipes and cisterns are so objeetionable,
Itcannot too highly reconuilead- the gutty percha for tubing and

" I arn, gentlemen, your humble servant,
• • S. TAYLOR GORDON."
(The above is the second voluntary testimonial)..
FROM DR: 31IIRRAY, OF NULL.
(Corr.)

" POrtlandl.place, lluil,March 28, 1850.

"Gentlernen,—lt is Impossible to conceive of 'anything more
in-
jnriou9 and destructive to the health of the community than the use
ofleaden pipes for the conveyance of water. The poisonous salts of
lead thereby communicated are most insiduous and subtile. I hail
with gratitude the substitution Of gutta percha tubing. I have had
the leaden pipe of my 9wn house removed. and supplied by one of
gutta percha.
" I am, respectfully, Gentlem.en, your obedient servant.
"J. IVAUBRAY, Ph. D."

In consequence of improved machinery, whereby a contintiOUS
supply of gutta percha is mnintained, the Gutta Percha Company are
enabled basupply the tubingin muck. greater lengths than formerly.
EYery infcrmation may be had on application to THE (ii3TTA
PERCIIA COMPANY PATENTEES, IS, WHARF-ROAD, an-.
ROAD, LONDON. •

THE COUNT}
LivaarooL, JUN! B.—NO
s. d. s. d.

Wheat, per 701 b :
English, white ~ 6 9 to 6 6

Do. red .. 5 10 6 0
Irish, best red •• 5 6 5 8
Do, lower quality 5 3 5 5
Maux, red and wh. 8 5 10
DAntsic.higlzint.ted-7- 0 4
. _ _

Do., mixed .. 6 4 —'6 RI
Rostock, &c.. .. 6 1 6 3
Ilambargh and

Y MARKETS.

Lower Baltic .. 5 10 6 01
American do white 6 0 6 4
Canadian, Lred 5 8— 5 101

:bulge in prices to-day.

s. d. s. d.
Do. Meal, perl96lb 14 oto 14 6
Barley, English, pr
imperial quarter 26 0 —27 0
Irish, Scotch, and
Manx,per6olb.. 2 10 3 0
Foreign, grinding 2 9 3 0
Ttps,--per 4801 b ..-- 22 0 24 fk
Beans, English, pr

imperial quartr 28 0 29 0
Irish and Scotch,

per 4801 b.. .• 24 0— 25 0
Dutch • .. 26 0— 27 0
Egyptian • . .. 22 0— 23 0
Peas, English, per
imperial quartr 28 0 30 0
Foreign • • .. 27 0— 27 6
Oats, per 451 b :
English, Scotch,
and Welsh, old 210— 2 11
Irish, new, best

Antwerp 4§,, auvain 5 9 5 11

.Frcneh: red • .

.. 5..9-.6

ligngarian

Mariaropoll
M b b -- 5 81
Odessa, Polish .. 5 6 5 8,
Do., common .. 5 2 5 4
Egyptian 4 2 4 6,

Flour, English &

meallng .. • • ,2 6—2 71
Do., mid and Inf. 0 0 0 0
Old .. • . 0 0 0 0
'Oatmeal. English,

Irish, per 2801 b 29 0— 30 0
Do., extra line 32 0 33 6
United States, per
barrel .. .23 6 21 6
Canadian .. 23 0 --- 23 6
Indian corn, per
41401 b, white .. 30 0 —32 0
READING, JUNE S.—Wheat, 30s to 'sls; barley, 20s to
25s ; oats, 15s to 20s; beans, 28s to 303 ; peas, 275 to 32s per
quarter. Fat hogs, Os Od to Os Od ; porkers, Os Od to Os Od
per score. Poultry—Fowls, per couple, 3s Od. to 4s Od ;
ducks, ditto, 3s Od to 4s Od. Butter, 9d to Ild per lb. Eggs,
18 to 20 for ls.

& Scotch,pr24oll) 03 0 24 0
trial, new .. • • 22 0— 23 0
Do, old . .. 21 0— 22 0

COLCHESTER, Juwa B.—There has been a considerable de.
gree of firmness in the markets of the district throughout the
week, although in some instances the supplies of wheat have
been large. In this market to-day good samples of wheat sold
well, at a slight advance in price, and there was 'a character of
more firmness than last week in all articles except peas, whioh
sold rather cheaper.

On Friday, at Chelmsford, good parcels of wheat realised
more money, the best white wheat fetching 45s to 45s 6d, and
red 40s. In other articles there was not much doing ; barley,
23s to 25s per quarter ; gray peas, 27s to 28s ; tick beans, 24s
to 265; Mazagan, 22s to 245.
In the markets of Suffolk wheat has maintained its price.
At Ipswich late rates were well sustained, but beans and
barley were Is per quarter lower.
At Eye there was a very brisk demand for wheat.
At Woodbridge there was a free sale, at an advance of Is
per quarter.
On Thursday, at Stowmarket, there was a good supply of
wheat, but prices were sustained.• Spring corn was rather
cheaper.
GLOUCESTER, JUNE B.—The decline of last market-day
was not maintained to-day, and prices, on the whole, must be
quoted higher. English white and red wheats averaged at
market to-day 15s-to 15s 6d per bag of three bushels. Foreign
must.be quoted equally as dear. Malting barley 23s to 24s per
quarter ; Irish, 21s to 229 ; grinding qualities, 11. Old Eng-
lish oats, 24s • new, 208 to 21s; and Irisb, 18s per quarter.
Old English beans, 4s to 4s 6d per bushel ; and new, from 3s
to 3s 6d. Good boiling peas, 4s per bushel ; gray, 3s to 3s 6d.
At Devises market on Thursday wheat advanced 6d per sack,
and business was, on the whole, pretty good. A prime sample
of red wheat sold at 22s per sack; general qualities, 18s to 21s;
inferior, 15s to 18s, and even lower. Flour sold at 27s to 30s ;
Barley a slow sale, at 22s to 245; oats realised 17s to 18s, with
few on offer. In beans a fair amount of business, at 14s to 15s
for English samples. Beans, 12s to 14s. Vetches sold pretty
well, at 18s to 20s.

At Cheltenham market on Friday there was a disposition to
advance in prices of wheat.
At Cirencester last week's rates were fully maintained. with
an improvement, Old red wheat, 5s to 5s 3d ; and white 5s
3d to 5s 6d per bushel ; second qualities, 4s 6d to 4s 9d per
bushel. Other grain sold well.
WoiteasTEß, JUNE 3.—The market to-day was about the
same as last Saturday. Best English white wheat was worth
153 to 163 per bag ; red, 14s 6d to 15s. Malting barley, 3s 4d
to 3s 6d per bushel ; distilling qualities, 3s ; superior qualities
higher. Old oats, English, 3s 4d, and new, 3s, per bushel ;
Irish, 2s 4d to 2s 6d per bushel. Beans, 4s to 4s 6d for old
English, and 3s 6d to 4s for new. Best qualities of white peas,
4s per bushel ; gray, 3s to 3s 6d per bushel. Spring vetches,
4s to 4s 6d.

At Stourbridge market on Friday business was dull in
wheat. Farmers asked more money, but this was yielded only
upon best qualities, which realised Is per quarter advance,
No alteration in barley worth notice; average qualities quoted
at 26s per quarter. Beans maintained last quotations. Oats
firm, at fully last week's prices.
At Stratford-on-Avon market on Friday the supply of wheat
was good, and an average amount of business was transacted.
Best English White realised fully 165 6d per bag; English
red, 1.5 s per bag. In barley no change worth notice, business
being upon a very limited scale. No business in malt. Beans
a fair sale, at 105 6d per bag. In other grain no business
doing. _ _

At Wolverhampton market there was a moderate supply of
wheat, and lid to Is per quarter advance was obtained for good
samples of wheat. Barley in slow demand, at from 25s to 27s
per quarter average qualities. English oats scarce and fully as
dear. A good business doing in Irish. Of English beans a
good supply and rather cheaper--Ils to 11 s 6d per 1921b5.
At Kidderminster market, on Thursday, the supplies of
wheat from the farmers were short, and an advance of is per
quarter was fully realised. In barley little business was done,
in consequence of the decline of the malting season. Oats
and beans dull of sale, at late rates. Peas in moderate request,
at last quotations. At Atherstone and Rugby markets prices
had a tendency to firmness. Wheat averaged 153 to 16s per
bag. In barley a slow sale, at 24s to gds per quarter, and not
much on offer. Oats sold at from 20s to 22s per quarter. -
GLASGOW CATTLE MARKET, JUNE 6.—At our market

to-day the number were—oxen, 573; sheep, 1,129 ; lambs,
892. We had a smaller supply of cattle at our market than
last week. Sales were dull, and not easily effected, but prime
beasts still maintained their former prices. Best ox beef 46s
to 435, current 42s to 455, inferior 37s to 40s per cwt, sinking
the offal, and a good clearance was effected. Our sheep market
was better supplied than for some weeks past, which caused
prices to have a downward tendency. Best aged wethers 54d,
current from 4icf to 5d per lb, for sinking the offal ; nearly
all sold. Lambs in great demand, and prices rather in favour
et the seller, from 12s 6d to 21s 6d per head, according to
quality.

ABiunitEN, JUNE 7.—Grain—Oats 15s 6d to 16s0d, 401 b per
bushel ; oats, new, 00s Od to 00s ; foreign oats, 00s Od to 00$ Od
per qr.; barley, 103 6d to 195 b2lbsper bushel; bear, let 64 to] 95

0d,621bs per bushel; wheat4Osto 42,5; oatmeal.lls 6d to 133 03
per: boll ; flour, 30s to 32s per sack. Provisions—Beef,
4d to tid per:lb; mutton, ditto, 9d to 6d; veal, ditto, 4d
to 6d ;' pork, per stone, is to 3s 6d ; lamb, per lb, 63 to 7d;
tallow, per stone, 4s to 4s 6d; potatoes; per peck, 9d to Is
hay, per cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 6d to 7d ; hares, each, Is
6d to 2s'; grouse, per brace..o3 to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to 8d;
eggs, per az, fid to 8d ; cheese; per cwt, 181 to 23s 8d; hens, per
pair, 25 Od to 2s 6d ; chickens, ditto, Is 6d to is 8d ; ducks, ditto,'
2s Od to 2s•6d ; ducklings, ditto, Os to Os 03; turkis, each, 3s 63
to.3sod; geese, ditto, 3s 6d to 4s; butter for exportation (present
cure), per cwt, 60s to 62e; eggs, wholesale price, per dozen, 41d
to 44d; 41b loaf, cash, 4id ; credit, sd; 'pork, per stone of 141b5,-
3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large,
3s 6d to 4s 3d;. ship, pOrk per barrel of ROI lbs, Os to Os.
Meal—Oatmeal, 1s gd to ls 4d ; barley dust, 6d to Od ;
peasemeal, is 8d to Is 103; side, 6d tool; bearmeal, Is 2cl
to 030 d ; flour, 1s 9d to is 10d ; barley, per lb, ld to 2d; harley
flour Is 3d to Os Od.
,

DALKEITA, JUNE 6.—The relative weight per faux bushels
of the three prices of wheat were 18st 81b, 18st 11b, and 17st
91b. Oats, 12st 91b, 12st,81b, and Ist 131 b. 13arley, 16st 7114
16st 31b, and 14st 131 b. Peas, and beans, 19st 41b, last 41b,
end 17at 51bs.

. Qrs. - Beat. Current. Inferior.
233 Wheat ... £2 1 0 £1 18 6 El 13 0
547 Oats -
98 Barley 1 4 9 1 3 0 1 0 0
' 53 Peas and Beans 1
.11 0 1 9 0 1 6 '0
Average of wheat • - • 3Bs ntl.
Duxraw, JUNE 7.—We have had since yesterday a. good
deal of refreshing rain... Oar raarket to-day was generally
dull. We note .no alteration in prices,
except for Indian
corn, which was Is pet gr lower. White wheat, 22s 6d to
441i0d ; red ditto, 21s6d to 22s 6d; barley, 9s Od to 1.2 s Od ;
oats, per barrel, 98 6cl to lie 6d; oatmeal, 103 6d to lls 6d;
second flour, per cwt. 12s to 14s Odi Indian corn, per 4801 b,
30s to 32s 6d.

C9I2K, JUNE 7.—The trade during the week has been par-
ticularly quiet, and we have had 'but the merest retail trade in
every article of produce. The favourable nature of the
weather no /doubt affects business, as, with the prospects be-
fore ur, none are willing to purchase more than their imme-
diate wanfs require. For these reasorts".opr remarks on the
trade must be necessarily brief We continUe;to have arrivals
of foreign grain, but the sailings _this weelt-fair outnumber
them.ee. T
Tliheezips business passing
pilineesofhome grain are trifling in the ex-
trin wheat has been very limited*
and, tho Ugh holders continue to look for late rates, we think
there is a disposition on their part to accept lower terms. We
must, however, quote prices the same as in our last. In bar-
ley and-oats we have had no business of any importance. The
flour trade is quiet. Bakers purchase only to supply their
more pressing necessities, and the transactions in the article
are therefore mederate, at the pricei of last week'. The
business- passing in Indian corn is very moderate, and there
is an evident tendency, to lower prices for the article. We
do not, however, alter our quotations of last week, 71 15s per
ton being still the extreme value. Indian meal is slower of sale.
Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s Od ; extra 14e Od ;
seconds, 12s Od to 12s 6d; households lOs to 11 s ; thirds, 7a to 9s
per cwt. Oatmeal lOs 6d to 00s;.Indian meal 7s ed to 8a0d; wheat-
meal, 10s to 103 6d per cwt. Indian corn 140 to 160 s Od per ton.'
Bran 4115 s Od to 51 per ton. Hay—Farmers 265 to 40s; average
005 ; dealers 41s to 45s 0d; average 42s per ton. Straw- Fanners
20s Od to 271 Od; average 003; dealers 29s Od to 00s Od;
average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6d;
household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 'Bd to
9d per lb. Eggs-3s 10d to 4s Od per hundred. Coals—
Newport 14s; Lydney 153; Landore 14s ; Best Neath
Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 40s Od to 005 per cwt.
Whisky, 25 o. p., 55 6d per imperial gallon. Meat
—Beef 4d to 4d; mutton 5d to 6d; veal 4d to
5d ; pork 3d to Od ; bacon 6d to 7d ; sausages 5d per
lb. hops 131 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 312 s 6d to 315 s per
ton. Bark—Barbary 71 us to 8/ 5s ; Valonia 141 to 01; French
7155; Spanish 91 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12e per stone.
Hemp 32/ to 00/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 13s to 14s;. re d'
ditto 158 to 20s per barrel; Newfoundland 91 Os to 19/ per
ton. Timber—Memel, 85s per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s;
second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to 20s;
salted 155 to 21s per cwt ; calf skins 20 to 20 per. lb.
Potatoes, white 9d to-12d ; Minions 14d to 16d ; Guano—
Peruvian, 11l IN; Ichaboe, 91 per ton; Tar—Archangel.
19a per barrel.

FLOATING OF THE THIRD TUBE
OF THE BRITANNIA-BRIDGE.

BANGOR, SATURDAY EVENING.—The operation of
floating the third tube of this stupendous structure has
been fixed for Monday next. (this day), and every pos-
sible preparation is making for the great event. Work-
men are busily employed about the tube, attaching the
chain, capstans, and other machinery incident to the
operation. For the last few days Mr. Stepheasoni. the
engineer, has been on the spot, personally superintending
the, arrangements. Captain Claxton gad several of the
directors, with Mr. Binger, the superintendent, and other
officers of the company, are also here, and will remain
until the tube is floated.
The hour originally fixed upon for the floating was
10 o'clock in the morning, but this afternoon I was in-
formed that the attempt would be made not later than 9
o'clock, the tide rendering it more convenient for that
hour than 10 o'clock. It will be high water abdut half-
past 8 or 9 o'clock,f.and somewhere about the last-named
hour it is expected that the tide will be in that peculiar
position which is most favourable for the operation.
No doubt whatever is entertained, either by Mr. Ste-
phenson or the directors of the operation being per-
formed at once without any delays or {mishaps. The
experience already gathered from the floating of the
two first tubes, the first of which,more particularly was
'altogetterTAl2rikaPethirol)47hll6l4o,,Plßo.464l-4P23, the
engineer.. and his assistants, and every:preeautien has
been taken .to secure the successful seeompliehmeat of
this novel and interesting operation.

The interest manifested by the public in the progress
of this great and magnificent undertaking has not at all
abated since, the floating of the first tube. The number
of visitors who have already arrived at Bangor to wit-
ness the operation is very large, and evdry train brings
a considerable influx. The directors have issued a pub-
lic notice, stating that those who wish to be present at
the floating of the tube must leave Chester for Bangor
by the train which takes its departure from the former
place at three o'clock on Monday morning, and doubt-
less hundreds who cannot make it convenient to repair
to the spot earlier will avail themselves of this train, but
in the meantime Bangor and the neighbourhood are fast
filliag with strangers, and those who do not arrive at
Bangor early tomorrow will have some difficulty in
obtaining beds.

oharaeter. When assailed 'on,the ground of sheltering
yourself under the privileges of Parliament, you say
you will do justice town injured man if convinced of his-
innocence.. When furnished with facts and dates, you
pen an insulting note as to my character and conduct.
Ask yourself a question. Does not• the-," galled jade."
Richard Cobden, wince?
I am that person who in, 1844-1845 was your corre-
spondent of the Corn-law Leag.tie. lam that person who
two years ago, at your request, went to Stockport to vote
for your friend Francis Duckinfield Palmer Astley; and
now, in return, let me ask you, •
Are you the Richard Cobden whose bills in 1845 were
offered me under the firm of Cobden, Brothers, for dis-
count at 40 por cent.?
Are you the same person who availed himself of the
shelter of Parliament to attack a man behind his back,
who afterwards was furnished with data to enable him
to ascertain whether or not those attacks are groundless,
and who now endeavours to shelter himself under a
paltry quibble?
I await your answer.
Your obedient servant,
Mr. Richard Cobden. • • • E. GARRETT.

TO WILLIAM HA WES, ESQ., CHAIRMAN OF
THE LONDON COMMITTEE ON THE LAW
OF DEBTOR AND CREDITOR.
Dear Sir,—lt is with 'reluctance that I address
you throughthe press, but your report, with its nume-
rous errors, is now in the hands of the public; who
cannot be undeceived by any private explanations I
may offer to you, though I know that such explana-
tions would be received with candour.
Had I possessed the opportunity, I should have
muchrpreferred (to the unpleasant task of stricture
and refutation) the less invidious one of pointing out
to you the danger of giving your sanction to the
hacknied sophistries of interested classes; sophis-
tries, to which for a few weeks you have given cur-
rency and undue weight, at the expense, however, of
the influence your committee previously possessed
with the commercial classes of England and Wales:
Respect and good will towards yourself and your
colleagues, may not be inconsistent with a want of
unreserved confidence on my part in the influence
by which you are surrounded. •
The city of London has a high reputation for in-
telligence. Bute it does not enjoy any peculiar
exemption from the control of sinister interests.
Hence it may sometimes happen that the acts of its
citizens will be received by the rest of their fellow-
subjects as "a warning rather than as an example."
Where shall we find united all those classes who
possess the strongest personal interest against the
establishment of cheap local courts, rendering justice
accessible to the whole country, and enabling the
humblest man to plead his own case without profes-
sional aid or assistance ? All well-informed persons
will answer —in the metropolis of London. In London
the members of the bar reside ; there they are inti-
mately connected with the inhabitants by the ties of
friendship and business ; there they possess the power
of infusing into the minds of all classes--more es-
pecially of the highest and most intelligent (as with
those classes they habitually associate)—their preju-
dices and antipathies against a new jurisdiction so ad-
verse to their personal prospects.
If you, or any member of your committee, has
business of a legal nature to be transacted, from
whom will he seek advice ? In the ordinary nature
of affairs he will consult a London solicitor. Pro-
bably there are none of you who do not habitually
employ some eminent solicitor, with whom you are
in frequent intercourse, and in whom you confide, not
merely as a professional adviser, but also as a personal
friend.
Further, how large a. portion of the merchants and
commercial men of the metropolis have near relations
among the members of the bar, or the London solici-
tors, or both ?
Now there is no class of men more deeply inte-
rested in opposing the extension of the County Courts
than the London solicitors. One of the chief sources
of the extravagant expense of actions in the superior
courts is the necessity which at present exists of car-
rying on all the preliminary stages through the me-
dium of a London attorney-at-law whatever distance
from London the suitor may reside.
I should be the last person to say anything harsh
or unkind towards either the bar or the London solici-
tors. Among both classes are many excellent men,
and among both are many of my oldest and most es-
teemed friends.
Nor do I condemn your report because it is
founded on interested information, but because it is
based on partial and one-sided information. Had
you collected facts from both sides, your report
might have given different views f the County
Courts from those it contains, or it might not have
appeared at all.
London abounds in eminent barristers and solici-
tors. It also contains many men of the highest
eminence associated with the County Courts. I may
mention, for example, one of the judges—Mr. Amos
—who, as a learned and philosophical jurist, is probably
superior to any Englishman now living. He filled
for some time the high office of Commissioner for re-
vising the laws of India. He has lately written an
admirable work on the County Courts. His advice
would have been useful to you, and from his courtesy,
kindness, and public spirit, I doubt not he would
have given you any aid in his power. His views
differ widely from those of your report.
When you come to review facts calmly, you will
scarcely fail, as I believe, to repudiate the sentiments
of your report.
Look to the results of the County Courts. Is there
any other tribunal in this country in which the plain-
tiffs, in the vast majority of cases that come to a
hearing, eventually receive back every farthing of
their debts with costs.
These results are, in my judgment, in a great mea-
sure ascribable to the system of instalments which
you (from want of adequate inquiry) condemn. It is
the suceessful operation of that very system, after a
trial of three years, which, in my opinion, causes the
business of the County Courts to continue so large
and extensive, in this the fourth year since they were
opened.
The reason for the results alluded to is plain and
simple. Defendants liable to immediate execution
commonly become desperate and vindictive, abscond
or make away with their goods, or both. On the
other hand the same men when sued in the County
Court will trust to the discretion of the judge, and
when they succeed in obtaining time, will nearly
always fulfil the conditions imposed.
As regards the principle of instalments, cases above
201. do not differ from those below 201. I believe that
that the majority of cases up to .501. (that are tried at
all in my circuit) are tried in the County Court
already, and not at the assizes, as in such cases the
plaintiffs commonly prefer sacrificing the difference
to suing in the superior courts. During my last
circuit I tried a case on a bill of exchange for as much
as 601. (the plaintiff having given up 401.).
Indiscriminately harsh laws towards debtors
do not benefit the careful capitalist, but speculative
men of straw, carrying on a rival trade, and who will
trust men that a prudent man would not, relying on
the precarious influence of intimidation to get back
their claims from debtors or their friends.
How often does it happen that a wholesale dealer
supplies goods to an irregular or unsafe customer,
except through a wilful spirit of speculation, and in
violation of plain warnings?
Are not the instances in which the wholesale
dealer quite unexpectedly finds irregularity in pay-
ment on the part of a customer nearly always cases
of misfortune which you admit should be protected ?
But the practice of instalments is not a necessary
part of the system of County Courts, though accom-
panied as it is by a power of imprisonment for fraud
(and for non-payment by debtors who possess present
means). I believe it to be one of the greatest benefits
that ever was conferred on the creditor.
The priaciple of local courts, demonstrated by,
Bentham, and eloquently advocated by his great dis-
ciple, Lord Brougham, cannot be subverted or shaken
by such document as that to which you have affixed
your name.
All the objections so industriously collected in that
report are not objections to the principle, but to the
imperfect manner in which that principle has been
carried out.
For example, the costs of the County Courts are a
deviation from Benthain's views, who condemned all
"taxes on justice."
Still, if, even when burdened with court, fees these
courts are practically cheaper than any other tribu-
nals, does not this render the success of the experi-
ment more conspicuous than it would have been if
tried without a disadvantage not contemplated by the
great writer alluded to ?
Can you conceive a more conclusive reason for ex-
tending their jurisdiction ?
As I have repeatedly pointed out, if the system is
to be self-supporting it is quite monstrous that it
should be confined within its present limits, when by
enlarging the jurisdiction new and more liberal
sources of support may be opened, which will lighten
the burdens of the present suitors, and at the same
time afford cheap and accessible means of legal re-
dress to other classes of society.
To confine local courts to sums under 20/. formed
no part of the plans of Bentham, or of Lord
Brougham, whose views embraced a high compulsory,
jurisdiction, combined with a jurisdiction to an un-
limited amount in cases in which the parties may
mutually consent to abide by the decision of A judge
h of the CetuatY Collris*

Any system, however excellent 'in itself, may be
frustrated or robbed of half its utility, if unnaturally
confined within a narrow sphere of action.
The intrinsic excellence of the principle of local
courts will not be fully apparent until their operations
shall be extended in accordance with the wants and
expressed wishes of the country.
Who can suppose that • the jurisdiction of the
County Courts was circumstanced to cases under 201.
at the commencement, for any other reason than to
avoid extreme collision with those " vested interests"
which now oppose their extension ? Did any reasonable
man anticipate that a system thus restricted would
act as beneficially to the public as it would if placed
on a wide and liberal foundation ?

Yet any one who reads your report would infer
a belief on the part of its authors in the existence of
some great law of nature establishing an immuta-
ble distinction between debts' above and debts
below 201.!

Nevertheless, it does not contain a single objection
which is not applicable (as those of lawyers are) to
the entire principle of local courts, whether with re-
ference to large or to small sums. To dispassionate
inquirers it will be wonderful that the County Courts
have succeeded as they have' done ! No system of
justice has ever before been introduced with so little
national aid, or so unfavourably treated by the Go-
vernment.
I do not mean to find fault with the present Ad •
ministration. On the contrary, I believe the country
owes to them a lasting debt of gratitude for estab-
lishing these courts—more especially to Lord Cotten-
ham, whose retirement from the Chancellorship will
be so great a public loss.
I believe that they were compelled to act as they
did by the influence of those very interests—which
are now so intent not merely on stopping the progress
of Law Reform, but also (as I am firmly convinced)
on extinguishing these courts altogether by clamour
and misrepresentation.
As a specimen of the treatment the County Courts
have received, I may mention that their funds are
actually liable to pay rents for court-houses (which
are furnished to all other tribunals at the expense of
the Government or of the counties), though they
are essentially the courts of the poor, by whom nine-
tenths of their funds are eventually contributed.
To compare the fees of the County Courts with
those of any other tribunals is pure sophistry, be-
cause no intelligent person imagines the advantage of
those courts (considering that at present they are self-
supporting) can consist solely in the lowness of the
mere court fees. They consist in the complete ex-
emption which the County Courts afford from the in-
cidental expenses of litigation, compared to which
court fees are a light burden.
Local courts were advocated by Bentham on the
ground that the expenses involved in a judge travel-
ling and devoting his time to try causes in each
locality, would be far inferior to the loss and inconve-
nience from which the residents in such locality
would be thus protected, by having justice adminis-
tered near their own homes.

The working of the County Courts, in spite of their
limited jurisdiction, and of every other disadvantage,
has fully justified the anticipations of the father of
the principle of local courts.
Hence it is that the court fees paid in the County
Courts are felt to be of little moment, when weighed
against the delay, risk, and expense of the superior
courts, the cost of travelling and of employing pro-
fessional advisers. In connexion with this subject I
beg to submit to you (as I have done on former oc-
casions) a few facts derived from my experience as a
judge of the County Courts.
The number of causes I have tried during the last
three years has been immense, probably more than
twenty times the number commenced for sums under
201. by the suitors of the same district in the superior
courts during an equal period of time previously to
the passing of the County Courts Act.
Excluding a short period' after the first opening of
the new courts (during which the business was rather
larger than afterwards) there has been no diminution
in the average number of causes in my circuit.
The principal plaintiffs now are for the most part
the same persons who were plaintiffs three years ago.
It is a common occurrence now, as it was then, for
the same plaintiff to bring a great number of actions
at the same time.

I need hardly inform you that the individuals
alluded to are the chief tradesmen of the town in
which my courts are held.
How will you reconcile these facts with the state-
ments of your report? Are these individuals in
error in not preferring, as yoar report does, the
charges of a London attorney to the process of a
court at their own doors in which they can speak for
themselves ?—I remain, Sir, &c.,
A JUDGE OF THE COUNTY COURTS.
June 4, ISSO.