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that that standard work is passed under review in the
second contribution to the present instalment of the
Quarterly—the first article being dedicated to a con-
sideration of the genius and the career of Giacomo
Leopardi. This commemorative chapter is entitled
to the profound btudy of those who are intel-
lectually ambitious.

THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW. No. Cl
TILE _FOREIGN QUARTERLY. AY).

LXXXIX.

United together these two eminent periodicals
contrive every quarter to make a somewhat
goodly appearance—the articles of both con-
trasting agreeably with each other. Foremost
among those dedicated this month to the
maintenance of the reputation of the Westminster is
an acute and earnest criticism on the writings of the
late Lord Jeffrey, but more especially upon his in.
genious and felicitous theory of beauty. 'l'nose who
love the analytical writings of Alison will be de-
lighted with the effusion here particularised, an
effusion evidencing the utmost refinement of tact and
the utmost delicacy of perception. Another paper of
a curious but most fascinating character, suggested
by the labours of Major Rawlinson, in &cyphering
and translating the Persian inscriptions at Behistan,
will be found embodied in a graceful and scholarly
c adribution, entitled " Persian Cuneiform Inscrip-
tions." Mr. Samuel Elliot's volumes on " The
Liberty of Rome " are subsequently passed
under review, obtaining their due meed of commen-
dation. At this period the work itself and its review
in the Westminster acquire a singular and prominent
importance. After this comes an entertaining paper
on the prospective " Industrial Exhibition of 1851,"
in which his Royal Highness the Prince Consort is
thus quaintly apostrophized:—
" Prince Albert'.—royal artist,—prince amongst mer•.
chants,—universal patron of Europe's future metropolis,
—shunner of the 'Fields of Cloth of Gold,'—scorner of
Eglington tournaments ; Haroun Alraschid of the universal
bazaar; II Boudocani of the revolutionary ruin, bidding
beauty rise and chasing away gloom and despair; genius
of the modern day; hero of the hundred embraces, and
hater ' of the hundred fights;' from the hearts of all
high-souled men will well up loyalty to this royal
progress !" _

Thereupon follows a paper, " The Probate Courts,"
to which the attention of every legal reformer should
be sedulously directed. After a brief and, to our
thinking, somewhat insufficient reference to the me.
trical writings of the late gifted Ebenezer Elliott, the
Corn •law Rhymer, the Westminster contains a copious
and laboriously careful estimate of the advantages
and disadvantages of the various routes marked
out in the narrow isthmus cf Central America for
the junction of the two oceans, the Atlantic and the
Pacific. Last but not the least attractive among
the contributions will be found the paper dedicated
to the consideration of the present position of
the "Church of England," a position of late very
powerfully affected by the redoubtable case of Gor-
ham v. Phillpotts. Besides a plentiful assortment of
miscellaneous notices, the supplemental Quarterly
contains some very able though condensed criticisms
on the last romance of Hendrick Conscience, and on
the " Memoires de Philippe de Commynes." The re-
views will eminently repay a perusal by affording a
glimpse into the state of foreign literature.

FREEMASONS' QUARTERLY MAGA-
ZINE AND REVIEW. No. I.

This is the first number of a new Masonic periodi-
cal, intended to succeed the defunct Freemasons'
Quarterly (with the conductors of which the editor
of this magazine disclaims all connexion) as the organ
of the craft. Since the discontinuance of the Free-
masons' Quarterly Review the necessity for the exist-
ence of some such organ has been ,universally acknow-
ledged by the craft, and the present periodical appears
to us well calculated to meet the necessity.

A PRAYER FOR SABBATH OBSEVANCE BY EBENEZER

ELLIOTT.

Lord! grant to poor o'er•labour'd man
More leisure, and less pray'r;
More Church, less priest—and homes for inns I
More libraries, and feN er sins;
More music, and less care!
And when the tardy Sabbath dawns,
Bid townsmen leave behind
The goldfinch, smother'd on his perch,
Gin-shop and chapel, jail and church,
And drink the mountain wind.
Or teach the artisan to seek

Some village house of pray'r,
And kneel (an apparition pale,
Amid the rustics red and hale),
And humbly worship there.
Or bid him (in the temple, built
By Skill Divine for all),
Expound to pallid listeners near,
While rose-cheek'd pilgrims stop to hear,
The words of Christ or Paul.

LOMBARDY AND AUSTRIA.
The following has been handed to us for publi-
cation :

TO THE EDITOR OF THE MORNING CHRONICLE.

Sir,—When Baron Wesenberg made proposals to
the.. Provisional Junta of Milan, the Lombards de-
clined to treat for their own independence, unless
their fellow countrymen the Venetians were included
in that treaty. This noble act of self-denial, which
deserves the admiration of the world, is made a theme
of insult in your journal of the sth instant—insult
worthy of an Austrian partisan, worthier of the im-
partial Times newspaper.
I myself, a participator in the late fatal struggle of
the Lombardo-Venetians, and commanding a regi-
ment, can assert that the Lombards fought gallantly
on every occasion. Unfortunately, they placed re-
liance on Charles Albert, who, to say the least of him,
abandoned them to the overwhelming force of
their oppressors. Milan was handed over; men,
women, and children were flogged, imprisoned, and
shot. Deep misery and despair is now the doom of
the land.

Is it just, generous, or English, allow me to ask, to
add contumely to such heavy misfortunes ?
I have the honour to remain, Sir, your obedient
servant,

CH. SCOTT,
Ex •Aide-de-Camp of General Pepe.

THE ROYAL MINT.

We understand that the Deputy Master of the Mint
has tendered his resignation, and that it has been wil.
lingly accepted by the Treasury, that functionary being
found the greatest obstacle to the reform of that estab-
lishment. Captain Harness, secretary to the Railway
Commission, has been appointed to succeed him.
We are also informed that notices are in preparation
at the Treasury to terminate the contracts of the
moneyers and melter, the Government being determined
to carry out the recommendations of the Commissioners
as to the substitution of fixed salaries for rates in these
departments.
This consummation has, in some measure, been has-
tened by the notorious fact of these parties receiving
from year to year enormous sums of public money,
while at the same time they have thrown all their duties
on subordinates and apprentices. The officials of the
Mint, who are supposed to have a control over these
parties, have attempted all through the inquiry to con-
ceal the fact of habitual non-attendance; but now it has
been elicited that often during the greatest pressure of
business—as the re-coinage of light gold—the melter
and some of the moneyers were found absent from their
posts, and that with the full cognizance of the governing
powers. Nor were sufficient precautions taken on such
occasions, to guard against loss and waste ; the paucity
of hands, and consequent do fective supervision, rendering
di 3 care and: vigilance almost impossible.
The strict inquiry to be inskitutAl by Captain Har-
ness—a man very well chosen for this new appointment
—will prove what we are well informed of, that there
are officers in the Mint who have for years enjoyed such
lucrative sinecures, by the delegation of their duties to
others, that they are as practically ignorant as when
first appointed. These, no doubt, will be pensioned off,
and their places supplied by more active and useful men.
The whole establishment must be thoroughly sifted and
purged before it can be put on an efficient footing ; and
on the right exercise of patronage will greatly depend
what the public look for—a better and more economical
management of that important but expensive establish-
ment.—Morning Paper.

NINEVEIL—We hear that additional information
respecting the interesting country to which the researches of
Mr. Lavard have of late directed so much attention, will
shortly be laid before the public in the shape of two volumes
of travels, by the Rev. J. P. Fletcher, who resided some
years at Mosul, during his inquiries into the condition of the
Oriental churches. The travels will embrace not only
Nineveh and its antiquities, but various new and interesting
particulars respecting the Yeztdees and Oriental Christians,
as well as notices of he country between Mosul and Aleppo,
which has been explored by few European travellers. The
intimate relations with the natives of the country entered
into by Mr. Fletcher, in his official capacity, have furnished
him, we are informed, with a vast fund of anecdote and
illustration. Much new information respecting the Nesto-
riar.s and the early history of their once widely-extended
church, with an account of the Kurdish massacre, and the
causes which led to it, it is said, will be given; also disquisi-
tions on the ancient cities of Mesopotamia, and on the suc-
cessive empires established between the Tigris and Euphrates,
with remarks on the hypothesis advocated by Majorßawlin-
son as regards the early Assyrian Kings.
THE CONVICTS AT PORTSMOUTH.—The emeute on
board the Stirling Castle convict-ship, at Portsmouth, was
put an end to on Monday evening by the superintendent of
the ship seizing up and flogging several of the ringleaders.
On Tuesday morning several boats' mates, with a guard of
marines, went on hoard the Stirling Castle. 'The emeute on
board the Stirling Castle, which commenced on Friday, was
followed by one on board the York, on Monday, when the
convicts refused to go to work, and commenced with the legs
of their stools to batter the bulkheads, and to use all sorts of
abusive language to their keepers; but Mr. Barrow (we be-
lieve), an old army officer, who has charge of the ship,
promptly seized two of the ringleaders; one of these men
received two dozen lashes, and he then asked for a glass of
water, which being given him, he told the officer he did not
care, and that he might flog away ; his request was complied
with, and he was ordered to receive two dozen more, when
he altered his tone and begged off. This prompt and decisive
conduct on the part of the superintendent crushed the imeute
in its bud.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.
FttoM TIM MORNING FAPERS OF THIS DAY.
U'rvlES.—lt is a striking fact that a Government
which is in perfect possession of an adequate worle.
ing majority on most of the important mesures which
are submitted to the consideration of Parliament
should, notwithstanding, have been three times de-
feated, and almost on three successive nights. We
speak of three defeats; two were complete, and in the
third instance—that of the window-tax—the ma-
jority obtained by the Treasury was so small that the
division virtually resulted in a defeat. But with re-
gard to the assistant-surgeons employed in the navy,
and to the extension of the county court jurisdiction,
the Ministry has been left, as it well deserved to be,
in an absolute minority. As will be seen by our
Parliamentary report, the second reading of the
County Courts Extension Bill was carried yesterday
by a majority of 144 to 67, considerably more than
two to one. The majority was composed of the in-
dependent Members of the House, of the men who
felt themselves free to act according to their convic-
tions ; the minority, of the members of the Govern-
ment itsel", and of those on whom the influence of the
Government, direct or indirect, could be brought to
bear. All the ingenuity of Mr. Tufo&l, all the per-
suasive eloquence of the Home Secretary, all the
dim, mysterious denunciations of the Attorney -Ge-
neral, as to the evils that must result from the inter-
ference of laymen in the technical regions of the law,
were of no effect. But sixty-seven men, including
half- a-dozen Cabinet Ministers, could be found to file
off with Sir George Grey and Sir John Jervis, for
the purpose of inscribing their names as opponents to
the salutary changes in the administration of the law
contemplated by the proposed Bill. Of the Bill it-
self we need say very little. It is merely a propo-
sition to derive practical advantage from the result of
a successful experiment. The history of the esta-
blishment and of the successful working of the county
courts might furnish a standing precedent for cau-
tious legislation. There was, from first to last, no
rash dogmatising, no hasty and premature action. The
evils of dilatoriness and expense inseparable from the
old Westminster-hall system were acknowledged on all
sides ; but still the question remained, whether a
worse state of things might not be produced by an ab-
rupt departure from the old traditional forms of prac-
tice. Over and over again the matter was debated before
the final resolution was arrived at, and even then the
resolution was but to make an experiment upon minor
interests. Should this prove successful, then it would
be possible to advance with confidence upon a path
which time and experience—the two great elements
in all permanent reform—should have proved to be a
correct one. From 201., the jurisdiction of these new
courts would, in course of time, be naturally ex-
tended to higher amounts, should their working
give satisfaction and attract public confidence. We
have now had some years' experience of these new
tribunals, and even those who oppose any extension of
their jurisdiction are forced to confess that if the
public voice is to be accepted as any test of the policy
of such an extension, they are fairly beaten. It is a
fact that under the new system the payment of debts
which, with the old machinery, would have been
given up for lost by any prudent man, is every day
enforced. It is a fact that the mercantile and trading
classes of the country have confidence in the county
courts, and they evince it by daily resorting to
them for the establishment of their just claims. It is
a fact that the county courts have greatly tended to
discourage those Bedouins of society whose object it
was to live in idleness by fleecing the industrious
classes of the community. It is a fact that the suitors
themselves defray the expenses of these useful tribu-
nals; and it is also a fact that the costs of proceeding
before them will be lessened the more their jurisdic-
tion and their business are extended. Under these
circumstances, the very reasonable proposition is
made to extend the jurisdiction of the county courts
from debts of 201. to debts of 50/. ; and in actions for
tort and slander frOm Si. to 201. And how is the
proposition met ? Certainly not by any fair and
direct arguments, which would suggest a probability
of the injurious working of the plan. Sir George
Grey is apprehensive, " that if no injurious
results follow from the adoption of that
course, the House might be called upon next
year to extend the jurisdiction of these tribu-
nals indefinitely." It; by "not injurious" the
Home Secretary means " beneficial," we do not
conceive that, in the House or out of it, there would
be two opinions upon the subject. Mr. Henley,
ever great at an objection, is apprehensive that the
county courts, of which, nevertheless, he approves,
might become overwhelmed with business, should
their jurisdiction be extended—a strange admission
in favour of the policy of the change! The Attorney-
General, who is after all the leading counsel against
the Bill, certainly from feeling, and possibly from
conviction, could produce no sounder arguments than
inuendoes and sarcasms respecting the proposed in-
crease in the salaries of the judges, and the alleged
methods in which petitions had been got up in fa-
vour of the Bill. " Besides," said he, " with such
an extended jurisdiction you would require a compe-
tent bar to watch, inform, and check the judge."
Why should there not be such a bar? Surely these
county courts would prove the most valuable of all
schools to the junior members of the bar, and fit them
for appearing in due course of time with credit before
the superior courts. We can readily understand
that Sir John Jervis, as the representative of
the monopolists of practice, should object to its more
even distribution ; but it is quite retreshing to turn
from his narrow-minded and bigoted speech to the
manly, straightforward spirit, in which Mr. Cock-
burn met the question, and stood forward the advo-
cate of this, as of other useful changes in the law, and
its administration. The position of the Government,
after this rude check, cannot but lower Lard John
and his Cabinet in public respect. The fault lies
mainly at the door of the First Minister himself. We
find him quite strong enough to carry any important
measures he may take in hand to a successful issue.
He can grapple with the Protectionists on one occa-
sion and with Mr. Cobden and his party upon
another ; on every great question he is supported by
an ample majority, and yet Lord John Russell
now stands before the country in the position of
a defeated Minister. How is this ? We believe
the truth will be found to be, that Lord
John, able as he is to carry through what-
ever he takes personally in hand, trusts too
much in affairs of less importance to the subordi
nate heads of departments. How is it else that a man
in the position and with the experience of a Premier
of this country could for a moment allow himself to
be identified with Captain Berkeley's absurd escapade
the other night about the assistant-surgeons of the
navy ? How, again, could his eyes be so shut to the
condition of public feeling, and to the merits of the
case, as to oppose a proposition for the extension of
the jurisdiction of the county courts ? We can rea-
dily enough conceive how irritating it is to the head
of a Government to see measures which should have
been introduced by his own colleagues proposed and
carried through by independent Members of the
House. But an opposition to such measures, when
introduced, added to the preliminary neglect of not
introducing them, is merely cumulative impolicy. In
such a case as that of the African squadron Lord John
might still safely calculate for support upon a mass
of prejudice and ignorance out of doors. Upon such
a question as the one on which he was defeated yes-
terday he may rest assured that, with the exception of
two or three Queen's Counsel and a few half-shelved
barristers, there is not a man in the three kingdoms
who will not very heartily rejoice at the result of the
division.
CHRONICLE.—" Human life," said Jeremy
Taylor, "is like playing at tables : the luck is not in
our power, but the mode of playing the game is."
What is true of life in general is pre-eminently true
of politics. Accidents will happen in the best-regu-
lated Cabinets; but three such mishaps as those which
have befallen the present Government within three
successive days can hardly, by any stretch of charity,
be attributed to ill-luck. Lord John Russell is no
longer, as we formerly hinted, " one of these valetu-
dinarians in reputation, who, being conscious of
their weak part, avoid the least breath of air, and sup-
ply the want of stamina by care and circumspection"
—he is a kind of chartered libertine, who answers the
kindly voice of warning by a shout of vogue la galere,
and bids bolddefiance to the opinion of the world. Never
again should a Prime Minister spend his Easter holi-
days in Manchester. His Lordship has certainly.leet,
in prudence, in tact, and in that fine art of divining
national impulses and exigencies which constitutes
the better half of what is usually termed states-
manship, far more than he has gained in mechanical
knowledge. After summing up the Ministerial ex-
ploits of the Bth, 9th, and 10th of April, we are involun-
tarily struck by the reflection that they are of a cha-
racter commonly and popularly supposed peculiar to
the first. Surely it was very ill-advised, not to say
foolish, to oppose Captain Boldero, s well-considered and
propular proposal on behalf of the assistant-surgeons
of the navy. Lord Duncans motion for the repeal of
the window-tax was made in accordance with some
of the best financial heads of the empire; if the divi-
sion had taken place an hour later, he would have
obtained an actual as well as a virtual victory ;
and . the whole Budget would have had to
be reconsidered on an entirely new basis.
Then came Mr. Fitzroy's Bill, a hich was notori-
ously introduced in obedience to a general call
from the classes most interested in securing cheap
and easy access to justice, and best qualified to pass
au opinion upon the efficiency of the means hitherto
adopted for providing it. Why, then, was such a
Bill opposed—eagerly, vehemently, and persever-
ingly—on behalf of the Government, by the Home
Secretary and the first law-officer of the Crown ?
If we turn to the report of yesterday's debate in the
hope of finding a solution of our difficulty, we are
sadly disappointed, for Sir George Grey's and Sir
John Jervia's speeches do no contain a single argu-
ment of sufficient depth, breadth, or weight to sug-
gest so much as an apology for their suicidal and

most discreditable course. Sir George Grey appeared
to be haunted with the apprehension that, if the prin-
ciple of extension were acceded to, and worked well,
Mr. Fitzroy would come forward next year and
move that the jurisdiction of the county courts should
be indefinitely extended, and the salaries of the judges
as well as of the officers of the courts, increased as a
necessary consequence. In fact, the Home Secretary
is so completely wedded to the existing state of
things, that no experiment, be it ever so successful,
can induce him to risk a change of any sort. The
Attorney-General flew out into the mosti uncom-
promising denunciation of local courts n general.
In his opinion, locality is the most objectionable of
all imaginable elements or qualities in a tribunal.
A resident judge and a resident jury would naturally
and necessarily give rise to suspicions of partiality ;
i
and moreover, as " lawyers had known instances n
which plaintiff and defendant had sworn point-blank
against each other," the parties to a cause could
never be admitted to tell their own stories without
producing a fruitful crop of perjury. It had escaped
the learned gentleman's recollection altogether, that
a Devonshire or Somersetshire cause is tried by a
Devonshire or Somersetshire jury ; that a county
court judge cannot be resident in more than one
parish of his district, if in any, and that parties have
been allowed to give evidence in their own behalf,
not only in cases under 201, but in cases of every
amount before arbitrators and in the equity
courts, without producing any one of the
lamentable results deprecated by him. The only
earnest support given to the Government on this
occasion was—by Mr. S. Martin, who sagely stated
that, dear as law proceedings might be in West-
minster Hall, they were dearer under the Dutch law
in the Cape of Good Hope, and under the French law
in Canada—by Mr. Beckett Denison, who had cun-
ningly discovered a snspicious analogy between Mr.
Fitzroy's Bill and a Bill before the House " for
raising the summary jurisdiction over accused persons
from the age of 14 to the age of 16 "—and by Mr.
Henley, who feared that the unprotected local judges
would be overworked, and that trial by jury would
be eventually knocked up like his favourite sliding-
scale. On the other side, Mr. Christopher pointedly
urged that " the measure was called for from one end
of the country to the other, with the exception of cer-
tain legal persons in Westminster Hall." Mr. Clay
said that he would at least extend the jurisdiction of
these county courts up to the point beneath which it
was notorious that no sane man would sue in the su-
perior courts. Mr. Hume reminded the Attorney-
General that he had given no answer to
the question whether he would advise a client to bring
an action for 1001. in either of the superior courts ;
and Mr. Cockburn spoke a few daring truths regard-
ing juries, which would have sounded like downright
profanity in the mouth of a distinguished nisi prius
advocate of the olden time. "No man entertained a
more profound estimation of what trial by jury was
in criminal cases, and in civil cases no doubt a jury
might be had, in certain localities, to render a most
efficient and essential service. But if he regarded the
ordinary run of juries, as at the assizes in country
towns, he must own that many years' professional
experience had not raised his confidence in them, and
he thought that a single judge—a man of experi-
ence, education, and knowledge would decide
causes much better. When gentlemen talked of the
importance of trial by jury, did they forget that in
the principal courts of this country—the courts
of equity—property in its masses, and in its most
important relations, was dealt with without the
intervention of a jury ? Besides, the Bill allowed
a person desiring it to call for the appointment
of " a jury "—for which as we stated yesterday,
they hardly ever do call. In a word, all the en-
lightened experience, all the improved notions,
all the advanced social and juridical philo-
sophy, and all the popular feeling, were in favour
of the Bill, which a liberal Government idly, reck-
lessly, and ingloriously lent all its energies to
throw out, after having been twice already discre•
dited in the face of the country within the week.
How or where, then, is all this to end? The indi-
vidual measures may be thought comparatively im-
material ; but it is obviously of the very highest mo-
ment that the official representatives of free-trade prin-
ciples should act with a reasonable degree of prudence,
and stand firm. An unscrupulous band, yclept the
" Country Party," are watching their opportunity for a
dash. Their longing desire at present is to bring about
a crisis—to create n period, however passing, of em-
barrassment, confusion, and distrust—during which
they may haply acquire a factitious value. We
have repeatedly warned Lord John Russell and his
colleagues against this particular danger. Three
times, in as many days, have we endeavoured to im-
press upon them, that if they would only follow in
the wake of enlightened public opinion, and act upon
the broad recognised principles of justice and expe-
diency, they are safe. But, to judge from the results,
it is vain to try to teach foresight or sagacity to poli-
ticians who could be influenced, in times like the
present, by professional prejudices (naval and juri-
dical) of the pettiest sort, and by the oldest, narrowest,
and most indefensible dogmas of finance.

PROPOSED LITERARY INSTITU-
TION FOR POPLAR AND LIMEHOUSE.
A public meeting cf the inhabitants of Poplar,
Limehouse, and Stepney, which was fully and most
respectably attended, was held last evening at the
Town-hall, Litnehouie, for the purpose of considering
the propriety of adopting immediate measures for es-
tablishing a literary and scientific institution for the
use of the inhabitants of that district, and for the
erection of a suitable building for that purpose.
The chair was taken by G. F. Young, Esq., MP.
On the platform we observed J. T. Fletcher, Esq.,
T. K. Bluck, Esq., J. B. Spence, Esq., T. Price,
Esq., Lieutenant Stone, Dr. Bain, Dr. Ellis, &c.
The CHAIRMAN said he felt the greatest pleasure
in being called upon to preside at a meeting which
had for its object a matter so congenial to his own
views. The importance of the extension of education
was too generally admitted to render any argument
necessary in support of such a proposition. But he
conceived there was a great error which some
parties fell into when speaking of education in
general. They were too apt to restrict the
period of education within their schoolboy days,
that the period of education ceased when they left
school, and that in setting out in life with the stock
of education they had then laid in, they had sufficient
to enable them to pilot their way through life. To his
mind, however, it was with the cessation of boyhood
and the commencement of manhood that the period of
real education commenced. It was, therefore, by
means of institutions such as that it was proposed to
form that people could have au opportunity of edu-
cating themselves in a manner which would enable
them to act their part in a proper manner in the great
drama of life. It was not only the education given,
but it was the inculcation of sound principle and good
habits that made a man a good member of society,
and it was always found that in districts where such
institutions were extensively taken advantage of,
where people were taught to reflect, and where they
gave up their leisure time to useful study, there
society was in an advanced and healthy and vigorous
state of action. It therefore became those who occu-
pied a position in life which put it in their power to
aid such institutions, to do all they could to promote
the extension. Such an opportunity now presented
itself, and he trusted it would be largely and liberally
taken advantage of.—(Hear, bear.)
Mr. BLOCK than moved the following resolution :
" That in the opinion of this meeting it is desirable that
an institution should be formed in the eastern portion
of the Tower Hamlets, for the acquirement of literary
and scientific information, combined with a large hall
for rational amusements and public meetings ; and it
is further their opinion that if such an institution be
founded on a liberal basis, there will be every proba-
bility of its permanent success." He should give the
institution, should they agree to establish it, all the
support he could, as he was satisfied it would be pro-
ductive of the best results.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. LEONARD seconded the resolution, which was
supported by Mr. Evans and Mr. Clay, who suggested
that the vacant space of ground in the vicinity of Mr.
Green's Sailors' home should be purchased and laid
out as a public promenade, but the chairman having
stated that such a proposition was not within the
scope of the present meeting, he contented himself by
pointing out the usefulness of such institutions as that
proposed.

- Mr. Tuos. PRICE also supported the resolution. As
an evidence that such an institution was much needed
in this district, he might state that the population of
the parishes of Limehouse, Stepney, and Poplar, at
the census of 1841, was 115,000. He had no doubt
that, at the present time, the population amounted to
10,000 or 15,000 more, and that, by the time the
proposed building would be erected, it would reach
130,000.—(Hear.)
The resolution was like wise supported by Dr.
BOWKETT and Dr. BROOKES, and after some remarks
from several gentlemen in the body of the meeting,
the Chairman put the resolution, which was cordially
adopted.
Mr. G. OFFER, jun., moved the second resolution,
which was—" That to obta.n the necessary funds for
the erection of the building for the purposes of the
institution referred to in the preceding resolution,
500 shares shall be issued, at 101. each." Had it
been possiblP, he would have rather that fiere should
have been 5,000 shares, at Ti. each; hut he believed
that the promoters of the institution had found it im-
possible so to geaerali,e the matter. He would, how-
ever, recommend, that in the managetment of the in-
stitution no distinction should be made between the
shareholders and the subscribers—all should be con-
sidered equally eligible for any office is the manage-
ment of the institution, and that would prevent any
bad feeling arising in connexion with it. For the
information of the meeting, he might rstate that the
rinlual subscription to this institution was to be
10s. 63. per annum, which would make it appear evi-
dent that there was nothing exclusive a bout it.

Mr. W. J. COTTON having seconded tile resolution,
Dr. BROOKES suggested that it should be in the
power of individuals to obtain half .shares, should they
think fit, as some might take half a share who would
not take a whole one.

The CHAIRMAN having stated that he had the au-
thority of the promoters of the institution to state that
they would act upon the suggestion of Dr. Brookes,
Mr. PELHAM said, he thought it would be better
at once to make the number of shares issued 1,000,
instead of 500, and the price of them 51. instead of
101., and be would accordingly mode an amendment
to that effect.

Mr. ETANS seconded the amendment, and after
some conversation, the general feeling being that the
lower the shares there Would be the greater chance
of their being taken up, it was agreed to alter the
original motion in terms of the amendment • which
having been put to the meeting, so amended, Was
unanimously agreed to.
On the motion of Dr. BOWICHTT, seconded by the
Rev. Mr. STEPHENS, a committee was appointed to
carry out the foregoing resolutions ; after which, a
cordial rote of thanks was passed to the Chairwan,
who having acknowledged the same, the meeting
separated.

PARLIAMEN TAR Y DI VISIONS.

From the votes and Proceedings of the. House of Cosmoses.'

WEDNESDAY. APRIL 10.
COUNTY COURT EXTENSION BILL.

Order for Second Reading read ; Motion made, and, Ques-
tion proposed, " That the lull be now read a second time :"
Amendment proposed, to leave out the word •" now," and
at the end of the Question to add the words " upon this day
six months." Question put, "That the word' now' stand
part of the question." The House divided :-
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MAJORITY—AYES, 144.
Adair, R. A. Forster, Mathew Patten, J. W.
Aglionby, 11. A. Fortescue, J. W. Pechell, Sir G.
Alcock, Thomas Fox, W. J. Perfect, It.
Arkwright, G. Fuller, A. E. Peto, Samuel
Barrington, Viscount Gibson, Thomas M. Pigott, Francis
Berkeley, Henry F. Gooch, E. S. Pilkington, JameS
Blackstone, W. S. Greenell, Gilbert Pinney, W.
Blandford, Marquis Grenfell, C. P. Plowden, W. H.
Bramston, T. W. Grenfell, Charles W. Plumptre, J. P.
Bremridge, Richard Hall, Sir Benjamin Pugh, David
Bright, Jelin Hall, Colonel Rendiesham, Lord
Brockman, E. D. Halsey, T. P. Ricardo, Osman
Brown, W. Hardcastle, J. A. Richards, Richard
Buck, L. W. Harris, Richard Romilly, Colonel
Buller, Sir J. 1". Headlam, T. E. Sanders, George
Busfeild, W. Heald, James Scholefield, William
Buxton, Sir E. Henry, Alexander Sibthorp, Colonel
Carew, W. P. Herries John C. Sidney, Alderman
Castlereagh, Vis. IleywoOd, James Smith, John B.
Cavendish, G. H. Hcyworth, L. Sotheron, T. H. S.
Chatterton, Colonel Hildyard, R. C. Stafford, Augusta,
Christopher, R. Hodges, T. L. Stuart, Lord D.
Christy, Samuel HernbyaJohn Stuart, Lord J.
Clay, James Howard, J. K. Stuart, Henry
Clay, Sir W. Howard, P. H. lhicknesse, R. A.
Clive, Henry B. Hume, Joseph Thompson, Colonel
Cobden, Richard Kershaw, James Thomely, T.
Cockburn, A. J. King, P. J. Townley, R. G.
Colebrooke, Sir T. Knox, Colonel Townehend, Captain
Collins, William Lacy, Henry C. . Tyrell, Sir J.
Colvile, C. R. Langston, J. H. Vane, Lord H.
Conolly, Thomas Lennox, Lord A. Verney, Sir H.
Cotton, W. H. Lindsay, Colonel Villiers, F. W.
Currie, Henry Lopes, Sir Ralph Vyse, H.
Currie, Raikes Loveden, Pryse Waddington, H. S.
Darner, Colonel Lushington. Charles Walmaley, Sir J.
Deedes, W. Mackie, John Walpole, Spencer
Dod, J. IV. Meagher, Thomas Walter, John
Douglas, Sir C. Manners, Lord J. Watkins, Colonel
Duckworth, Sir J. Matheson, Colonel Wawn, J. T.
Duff, G. S. Meux, Sir Henry • Weethead, J. P.
Duncan, George Mitchell,..T. A. • Williams, John
Duncombe, 0. Moffatt, George Willoughby, Sir H.
Egerton, W. T. Molesworth, Sir W. Wilson, Matthew
Emlyn, Viscount Morris, David Wodehouse, Edmund
Evans, John Naas, Lord Wood, W. P.
E wart, William Norreys, Lord TELLIES.
Fitawilliam, G. W. O'Connell, M. Z. Fitzroy, Henry
Forester, G. C. Packe, C, W. Awnings, J. B.

MINORITY—NOES, .67.
Armstrong; Sir A. Grey, Sir George Mulgrave, Earl
Baines, M. T. Grey, R. W. Napier, Joseph
Baring. Sir F. Raiford, Sir H. Newdegate, C. N.
Bouverle, E. P. Hatchell, John Paget, Lord Clarence
Boyle, Colonel Hawes, B. Palmerston, Via.
Brotherton, Joseph Hayter, W. G. Parker, John
Chaplin, W. J. Henley, J. W. Power, Nicholas
Chichester, Lord J. Hobhouse, Sir John Rich, Henry
Childers, J. W. Howard, Lord E. Romilly, Sir John
Cowper, W. F. Howard, C. W. Russell, F. C.
Craig, Sir W. G. Jervis, Sir John Seymour, Lord
Dalrymple, Captain Lascelles, W. S. Shell, It. L.
Denison, Edmund Law,:C. E. Somerville, Sir W.
Denison, J. E. Lewis, G. C. Spooner, Richard
Divett, Edward Lockhart, W. Strickland, Sir G.
Dundas, Sir David Long, W. Tufnell, Reary
Ebrington, Viscount Lygon, General Wall, C. B.
Elliot, John E. M`Nagaten, Sir E. Wilson, James
Fellowes, E. !WNW', Duncan Wyvill, Marmadake
Fergus, John Martin, Samuel
Fordyce, A. D. Motile, Fox
French, F. Moody, 0. A.
Grace, 0. D. Morgan, H. R.
Greene, Thomas Morison, Sir W.

TELLER'S.
Hill, Lord Marco/

Bellow, R.• M.