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THE SUN, li:Eilic;1)014; TInfRS'DAV -EVENING, MARCH 21, 1844.

torney hath knowingly and wilfully offended therein as
aforesaid, such attorney may be struck off the roll, and
for ever after disabled from practising; and it shall and
may be lawful for the said Court to commit such unqua-
lified person, so acting or practising as aforemid, to the
prison of the said Court for any term not exceeding one
year. _ _

In addition to the above the " new prison regula-
tions," recently promulgated by the Secretary of State,
directs that the governor shall allow prisoners com-
mitted for examination or trial to see their legal ad-
visers at all reasonable times, and in private if required,
unless a committing or visiting magistrate shall have
issued an order to the contrary, or unless he shall
know any sufficient cause why such legal adviser should
not be admitted. Every person, however, claiming ad-
mission must be a certified attorney or solicitor, or his
authorised clerk.

In order to carry the above into full effect, the Sheriffs
of London have caused a notice to the following effect to
be posted in Newgate :
" No person, acting as the legal adviser of any
prisoner committed to Newgate for trial, will be
allowed to visit such prisoner, unless he is a duly
qualified attorney or clerk to such attorney ; and
that, in either case, he must produce a written
retainer, signed by the prisoner, and authorising him
to act as his attorney, and sign an entry in a book to
be kept by the gaoler, stating that he is so authorised,
and that every attorney, or attorney's clerk,.will be re-
quired to sign such entry before he will be allowed to
have an interview with the prisoner."
With regard to what constitutes "acting as an at-
torney" within the meaning of the above Act of Parlia-
ment, Mr. Walesby, when lately presiding as Chairman
at the Middlesex Sessions, intimated that preparing and
delivering a brief to counsel was acting as an attorney.

be,a correct one. The law permitted them to charge for
the several inquests only from place -to place, the dis-
tance from their homes they were obliged to go. This
was the law; but he had been astonished to find how
the practice had varied from the law. To remedy
this state of things, and make law and prac-
tice march together, he proposed to add to this
clause the following words :—" Provided always, that
whenever any coroner shall take more than one inquest
on the same day, then, in respect of every inquest after
the first, the said sum of one shilling per mile shall be
computed and paid to such coroner, for every mile only
which he shall be compelled to travel in going from the
place of holding any one inquest to the place of holding
any other inquest on the same day."
Mr. B. ESCOTT hoped his Hon. Friend (Mr.
Pakington) would not press the proviso.
The proviso was then agreed to, after a slight verbal
alteration:
Clause 23 was agreed to. Clause 24 was also agreed
to, with an amendment for the insertion of a paragraph
including the County Palatinate of Chester. The re-
maining clauses having been agreed to,
Mr. PAKINGTON moved that a clause be added to
the Bill, by way of rider, to the effect that—" Whereas
by the Act 6 and 7 Victoria it was enacted, that for the
purpose of holding coroners' inquests every detached
part of a country, riding, or division, shall be deemed to
be within that county, riding, or division by which it is
wholly surrounded, or where it is partly surrounded by
two or more counties, ridings, or divisions, within that
one with which it has the longest common boundary :
and whereas, as to some such detached parts of counties,
ridings, or divisions, there were, at the time of the pass-
ing of the said last-mentioned Act, coroners appointed
expressly for and having jurisdiction in such detached
parts only, and doubts have arisen whether such last-
mentioned coroners were superseded by such last-men-
tioned Act ; be it therefore enacted, that as to every
such detached part of any county, riding, or division,
for which at the time of -the passing of the said last-
mentioned Act there was a coroner appointed for and
acting in such detached part, such last-mentioned
coroner shall (if now living) continue to hold and exer-
cise his. former office and jurisdiction within such de-
tached part, for so long a time and in such manner as
such coroner would have held and exercised the said
office and jurisdiction if the said last-mentioned Act had
not passed, anything in this or any other Act to the
contrary in anywise notwithstanding."
The clause was agreed to, and the House resumed.
The Report was brought up and received, and the
Bill was ordered to be read a third time on the 27th of
March.

MASTERS AND SERVANTS' BILL.
On the reading of the Order of the Day for the
further consideration of the Report upon this Bill,
Mr. HAWES ' expressed his dissatisfaction with the
measure. He thought the clause which gave the power
of imprisonment particularly harsh and oppressive.
Sir J. GRAHAM said he had net been able to give to
the Bill the attention he could have .vished, but he had
been given to understand by his Hon. Friend the
Member for East Somersetshire (Mr. Miles), that the
clause was in its penalties only a re-enactment, but that
it was made to extend over work and labour done
under contract, which was not the case with the former
Act.

Mr. MILES said the only effect of this Bill was that

it repealed all old Acts, and consolidated them into one.
Clause 4, which the Hon. Member for Lambeth (Mr.
Hawes) considered too harsh, was exactly the same in
its provisions and penalties as in the repealed Acts, but
it took a wider scope by giving a power over job and
piece work ; but the penalties complained of were just
the same as those enacted by the 6th Geo. 111.
Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought that some words ought
to be introduced into the Bill, giving magistrates dis-
cretion in certain cases. He referred to the case of a
young woman who was imprisoned, in Worcestershire,
for leaving her master's service without notice, her de-
fence being that she was compelled to go through a
man's bed-room to her own. The magistrate, in justi-
fication of the course he pursued, said the words of the
Act of Parliament were absolute, and therefore he had
no power to do anything else but sentence the young
woman to imprisonment, it having been sworn that she
had suddenly left her master's service. He (Mr. Dun-
combe) therefore thought that some words ought to be
introduced into the Bill, givingmagistrates discretionary
powers.
After a short discussion, the motion that the Report
be considered was withdrawn, and the Bill was ordered
to be recommitted.

The House then went into Committee on the Bill.
On clause l being proposed,
Mr. DAVID BARCLAY moved that the clause
(which relates to domestic servants) be struck out, and
magistrates be authorised in petty sessions to act in
eases of masters and mistresses and domestic servants,
with respect to claims for wages. He wished to give
additional facilities to domestic servants for recovering
their wages. As the law at present stood they had no
such power, and in consequence it was not an =fre-
quent circumstance to find a poor servant girl who had
been arbitrarily discharged from her situation driven to
prostitution to support herself. He hoped, therefore, that
the Right Hon. Gentleman (Sir T. Graham) would
agree to a clause giving magistrates in petty sessions
the power of dispssing of cases respecting claims for
wages by domestic servants.

Sir J. GRAHAM thought the Hon. Gentleman had
better allow the Bill to go through ConiMittee, and
move the addition of the clause to which he had ad-
verted on the third reading, when he (Sir J. Graham)
would give it his best consideration.
Mr. BARCLAY said he would adopt the course re-
commended by the Bight Hon. Baronet.
The Ist clause was then agreed to.
Clauses 2 and 3 were agreed to.
Mr. IYEYNCOURT, after a few words from Sir J.
GRAHAM, said, lie should at a future period, move as
an amendment, that to render this clause operative, the
contract
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amendment, because
of the extreme rarity of such contracts ever being per-
fected in writing.

Mr. AGLIONBY thought it would be very difficult
to define the distinction between what was called in the
Bill domestic servants and those employed out of doore.
Sir J. GRAHAM said, they had not yet had suffi-
cient time to consider this Bill, so as to be able to make
the definition alluded to by the Hon. Member. He
,thought it would be better if they were to report
;progress, when they would have an opportunity of con'
sidering the matter in Committee.
The House resumed, the Chairman repute-4)&4)97,c,,
and the Bill was ordered to be recoremilled PI wed,„.
The other Orders of the . --- '
and the Roue© “dio.,,
day next.
7:_n
..7 ly were then disposed of,
d at Half-past Seven o'clock.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
MANCHESTER. —Notwithstanding the anticipations
which generally prevailed upon the Exchange yesterday,
as to the probable adoption of Lord Ashley s amend-
ment by the House of Commons on Monday night, the
market was exceedingly dull ; and all descriptions of
goods, with the exception of 40-inch skirtings, and 28-
Inch printing cloths (of which latter very few are now
made), were difficult of sale,. with a tendency to decline
in the prices. The same may be said of alt the ordinary
counts of yarn below 60's, which were offered at a slight
decline on last week's rates.

ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, MARCH 18.
—There has been a better demand for flannels to-day
than on either of the two preceding Mondays, but no
improvement in prices. The wool market remains the
Same, both as regards prices and demand.

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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Shrewsbury,. March 19.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Ur. Justice CoLERIDGE.)
THORNS V. I.OX.
For the plaintiff were Sergeant Talfeurd, Mr. Valentine
Leo, and' Mr. Beadon; for the defendant, Mi. Godson, Q.C.,
and Mr. Cooke.
The_ circumstances under which- the pia/atilt/in this case
was compelled to seek redress for the injuries he had sustained
at the plaintiff's hands were somewhat singular.
From the evidence of Susan Jones, a very intelligent Welsh
hirl, it appeared that on the 29th of last September she, with
er master and mistress, into whose service she had entered
that day, arrived at the George Inn, Shrewsbury, by the
coach, from Montgomery. On alighting, Mr. Thorpe in-
quired of the defendant, who is the landlord of the George
publiadiatise, what was the flire to London. Fox replied 255.,
et which Mr. Thorpe expressed some surprise, as he said the
charge was much lower by the Greyhound coach, intimating
et the same time, his intention of proceeding by that con-
Veyance, and requesting.the'defendant to give up his luggage,
in order to proceed at once to the office of that coach. Fox
itnmediately affected great dissatisfaction, and said that the
lUggage should not be removed until 4s. were paid for over-
weight. Mr. ThorPe said that this was an unjust demand,
inasmuch as he had already paid his Pare- before leaving
Montgomery. An angry altercation followed, the demand
was discharged, but 'some expressions 'Of 'no very flattering
tendency were thereupon interchanged, and at last out, cut
two blows were struck, but it did not cicerty appear who
was the first assailant; or who gn' the original provocation ;
the plaintiff, at all tYthts ;Rule to the ground, and 'fell
across one AP his trunks, his witnesses imputing the fall to
A violent blow which he received in the Ince front OW Ott:
&ndant in the most wanton manner; the 404sigot4 wit=
nesses attributing it, hotTover, IrktgziPtAio4ati the part of
Mr. Thorpe. :119 . Of the fall was such as to stun
Min for .4 momeat,. and to - inflict- permanent injury of the
spine, -the eiThots of which he will, in all probability, ac-
cording to the surgeon's opinion; 'continue to feel for ignlq
tone to come.' Not content with this, it was Vo
knocked' together .the
,plaintin bpi% VlTAtug t4tW to
pieces, and €1§,..i4c11.11W V. 14.313 1 of new laid Welsh
,Asthenoreostruult
41131:11-eir li9.Tilliaallveltertele4:niiiigdi4llllo7ntlihr.-Vee4addqcrPifieyne:diaaindllisesdp4B7l4 Yi 1.11,4 A
any pecuniary redress for the variqipi bcc.a4mw.ck
the occurrence above de.icitird, the plaintitf:uom re. •
liitinPf4iClP 0.9,11 4r3Pl
. cetire'd.to elibelifite, anti returning after an In-
tNTRI Of.{4bgiii.li4l? 44 hour, found a verdict for the plaintiff,
Damages 1094 ; but the pleader, by some inadrertenev,
having only laid the damages in the declaration at 401,,
amount ef 1"4.11.4 1.Y.t14 tlitmici twill the record tbr that
puovirN COURT..—(llefore Mr. Baron PARKE.)
The 'eriminal eases, in the investigation of which the
Learned, Baron was occupied the greater part of the O ,LT
were of such a character as wholly to preclude qnr
ins them,
e'ele4t l r, Baren Parke having completed the
delivery of the gaol, proceeded to assist in the disposal of the
civil business.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—DeOy, 4ficr4 gat
The Right Hon. Sir 11. c. ilii„4l, 4131 V-64 in this town at
Aqui; 1441 A past five ofclook last evening, and opened the
Commission.
The calendar was, notwithstanding the recent winter .as:
sizes;more heavy than usual, particularly in pßillt
there being 60 cases and §§priNll4o 44411
YUSIDE,---,-(DeTunv'T-Aid-Chief Justice Tyr u.)

MINT 11: gIIEFFIELD CANAL COMPANY.
This was an action to recover damages for an injury al-
leged to have been sustained by the plaintiff, through 'tfie
careless and improper conduct of a., the defenclan
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