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London, England, 1844-08-12 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the. PUBLIC JOURNALS.

FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF SATURDAY.

GLOBE.—In the House of Lords last evening, the
Lord Chancellor and the President of the Council had
a tilting-match, with a manifestly mutual wish to gain
a triumph at each other's cost. This is bad manage-
ment. It exhibits disunion in the Cabinet on ques-
tions of " great pith and moment ;" and occurring, as
the disagreement does, at the close of the session, will
operate mischievously during the recess. Ministers
should, for obvious reasons, keep their bickerings from
the public eye and ear. The walls of the Council
Chamber should alone be privy to their altercetions.
If opinions clash in the Cabinet, the brow should be
smooth, and the temper calm, when the disputants
come forth from the Council to the Houses of Parlia-
ment to which they respectively belong. There
should be the appearance of concord within
the walls of Parliament, whatever differences
may prevail elsewhere. To see the Lord
Chancellor and the President of the Council press-
ing their discordant views upon a grave ques-
tion upon the [louse of Lords with pertinacity, and
even dividing against each other, is a scene that will
be associated in the public mind with dissensions in
Cabinet deliberations upon the measure ; and cannot be
contemplated without diminished respect and confidence
in the Government, the members of which show so little
respect for theinselves, and of confidence in each other.
The occasion which gave rise to this strange exhibi-
tion—in which it is rumoured there is more than met
the eye of the amazed beholders of the scene —was
briefly this :--The House of Commons had made an
amendment in the Bill for regulating the Irish law
courts. As-the measure had originally stood, the ap-
pointments to certain offices had been vested in the
Lord-Lieutenant. The Lords had amended the clause,
and transferred this patronage to the Judges ; but the
Commons, upon the Bill being sent down for their ap-
proval, had rejected the proposed alteration; and re-
inserted their own clause, which vested the patronage
in the Lord-Lieutenant for the time being. Lord
Wharncliffe had been appointed to conduct the
onference with the Commons, and had failed to
induce the managers of the Lower House to
forego the clause they had restored, and to adopt the
alteration of the House of Lords. His Lordship moved
that the amendment of the Commons should be adopted
by the Lords. The Lord Chancellor resisted the motion;
and with considerable warmth of feeling and acerbity
of expression, declared his intention of divi ling the
House upon the question. The difference of opinion
between the Lord Chancellor and his colleagues on
this question was not sudden and accidental, but
deliberate and foreseen. It involves, as will be seen,
an important principle. It exhibits the strange and
unprecedented occurrence of the highest law officer
of a governrhent opposed upon a qtiestion per-
taining to the administration of the law by
his colleagues in office; and that opposition openly
expressed, persisted in, and carried to a division in
Parliament. Lord Wharncliffe " was of opinion that
the patronage of certain offices in the courts of law
in Ireland should still, according to ancient usage, be
continued in the Lord-Lieutenant." The Lord
Chancellor pronounced this arrangement of the
patronage of these offices as "unwise and unjust; and
as degrading thwards the judges of Ireland.'

STANDARD.—The proceedings in the House of
Commons last evening would have been of little inte-
rest but for Lord John Russell's annual resume of the
offences of omission and commission of Ministers
during the session, and the reply which it provoked
from Sir Robert Peel. In the outset of his address,
however, the Noble. Lord explained with commend-
able ingenuouSness, in reference to Lord Lynd-
hurst's caustic reviews of the policy of the late
Government, that he did not think that Minis-
ters ought to be held responsible for the legis-
lative failures which might take place in the course of
a session, and that, acting on this principle, he did
not intend to follow the course which had been
adopted towards himself and his late colleagues by tke
Noble and Learned Lord ; for want no doubt of the
materiel to which those periodical reviews were in-
debted for so much of their force and pungency.
Such resumes must have a few facts for their foun-
dation, or they will be irredeemably spiritless and
dull. Instead, therefore, of following out the errors
of Sir Robert Peel's Government seriatim, Lord John
Russell was content to call the attention of the
House to the general results of its policy, as demon-
strated by the, present state of the country. The
first topic of complaint was its Irish policy, and
above all the harshness and injustice with which
it had treated the Irish conspirators, in whose
behalf were recapitulated for the hundredth
time, the wrongs they had suffered at the
hands of Protestant jurors and unrelenting prose-
cutors. In discussing the foreign relations of the
country, the affairs of Morocco and Otaheite were not
overlooked ; and after alluding to the general con-
dition of the people, " the scanty means and severe
toil of the labouring population," the currency,
the corn-laws, and the emigration questions, his Lord-
ship wound up his " oninium gatheruna" oration
by a pointed allusion to the manner in which the
time of the Legislature was wasted at the beginning,
and the indecent haste with which the business of
both Houses was transacted towards the end, of the
session. The reply of Sir R. Peel was alike ad-
mirable for its temper and argument. It gave the
Noble Lord full credit for the benevolence he had
claimed for his advice, but questioned the usefulness,
at such a moment, of vague insinuations as to the
neglect of the condition of the humbler classes by the
Legislature calculated to excite expectations which
could not be fulfilled. With regard to his Lordship's
abstinence from any detailed remarks on the progress
of the session, Sir Robert Peel expressed his regret
that his forbearance should have deprived him of the
opportunity of showing that there never was a ses-
sion in which more important and beneficial legisla-
tion had been effected. Among the measures which
have distinguished the present session, and to which
we propose breafter to refer more particularly, the
tranquillisation of Ireland is, beyond all question, the
most important.

MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS.
CITY, FRIDAY EVENING.
TIMES.—The national balance-sheet published in the
'vete* of to-day has given great satisfaction in the City.
cess of income over expenditure, amounting to
The e--r • is indeed less than that exhibited by the
1,770,0804, "eet, which was upwards of 2,000,000/.
'ndicates increased prosperity, if we
it is r
loss, the money ti oduced. In both the
but,
April
nevertheless,balance -s-
look at the items by whit- ,s Pa
re-
balance-sheets China occasion._
• much less than the
ceived under the treaty being very ,itun compensa
expenses for the expenditure and the et. "nts under
tion. In the July sheet, however, the rece-A -.nen
this head are much less than in April, while the -
diture is somewhat greater - and if the items referring
to China were struck out of the two accounts, we should
have an increase in the excess of income over expendi
ture (as compared with April) amounting to about
3,000,0001 The balances in the Exchequer, amounting
to 5,687,000/., not only present a most favourable con-
trast with' those of the corresponding period last year,
amounting to 1,835,000/., but show an increase of more
than 3,000,0001. compared with the balances on the sth
of last April.. It is almost needless to remark that one-
fourth of the 1,770,0801. will, after the 10th of October,
be applicable to the redemption of the National Debt.

NEW THOROUGHFARE to COVENT

GARDEN MARKET.
A meeting of the rate payers and parishioners of St.
Paul's, Covent-garden, was called on Friday evening, by
requisition, in the vestry-room of the above parish, to
take into consideration the propriety of adopting mea-
sures for the formation of a new street from the corner
of Long-acre to King-street, and thereby securing a
desirable entrance to the market, and so benefiting to an
incalculable extent the district at large.
At the appointed hour, six o'clock, the vestry -room
was crowded to excess, and Robert Debenham, Esq.,
having been called to the chair, the proceedings were
opened by Mr. Moseley, the vestry clerk, reading the
minutes of a former meeting held for a similar purpose,
and which were received and adopted.
The meeting was unanimous as to the desirableness of
the undertaking, and after some discussion a resolution
was passed appointing a Committee, to whom large
powers were delegated, authorising them to take steps
to ensure the formation of the new street.
Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the
meeting separated.

METROPOLITAN AND CITY IMPROVEMENTS.—SALE
or AnovE EIGHTY HOUSES.—A large sale of houses has been
ordered, which are to be taken down for the improvements
about to be carried out in the City and other parts of the me-
tropclis. In connection with the new street from Farringdon-
street to Clerkenwell, fifty houses have been announced to be
disposed of by auction, between West-street and Sharp's-
alley, among the number being the notorious Red-Lion Ta-
vern and the well known "Dog-pit," where abandoned cha-
racters connected with these sports were in the habit of as-
sembling to witness dog-fights. " The curious old house" is
being taken down, by order :of the parish authorities, as it
has been found to be in a dangerous state, and no more
tickets will be issued for admission to see it. Yesterday,
a few persons went over the premises ; among the number
of visitors, were the Earl of Cadogan and a friend. In
Maiden-lane, City, adjoining the General Post-office, six
houses will be sold in a few days, and will be pulled
down to make way. for the new street from the Bank to the
General Post-office. In this line the street will pass across
the ground where formerly stood the parish church of St.
John Zachary. This structure was one of the edifices burnt
down during the Fire of London in 1666, and which was
never rebuilt. The burial ground and the vaults where the
dead were deposited still remain, as well as the altar-piece,
though the inscriptions on it are much defaced. New vaults
are now being erected by order of the Commissioners for the
City improvements, where the remains of those lying in the
grounds and the vaults (some of which are in leaden coffins)
will be placed with every care. In the east, for the new street
from Spitalfield's Church to the London Docks, twenty-live
houses have been advertised to be disposed of, making above
eighty houses which will have to be taken down. In the
Coventry-street line there are but two houses to be removed.
On this line the Commissioners of Woods and Forest! have
given notice that they.will reesive proposals for the election
of the houses that are here to be built.
Carisbrook Castle, in the Isle of Wight, a structure
rich in historic recollection, and the scene of the confinement
of the unfortunate Charles I. a few mouths prior to his Me-
cutio, is about to be evld by auction.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 9.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE.)
LOUD BUNTINGTOWEIZ'S INSOLVENCY.

This day was fixed for the application of William Felix
Lionel Tollemache, commonly called Lord litmtingtower, for
his final order.

His Lordship was supported by Mr. E. James, and the
application was resisted upon the part of a Mr. E. Mynes
Cooke, now a prisoner for debt in the Court of Queen's Bench,
and also by a Mr. Davis, of St. Mary Axe, wholesale furrier.
The whole of the debts contracted by his Lordship since his
bankruptcy, about two years since, excepting renewals,
amounted to 1,800/, and the only assistance which he had
received from his family and friends in the course of that
period was about 316/.
Lord Huntingtower, in examination by the Learned
Counsel for Mr. Cooke, said, I was a bankrupt in 1842, as a
horsa dealer, and bought and sold horses since, perhaps half
a dozen, but upon which I realised no profit. My debts and
liabilities under my bankruptcy were stated at 228,000/. in
round numbers. A great portion of my then debts was re-
newed, and amongst them one to Mr. Sherborne for 20,000/.
I granted these 'renewals at the latter end of 1842. or
in the beginning of 1843 ; it was during the bank-
ruptcy, and I was obliged to do so. In my late bankruptcy
I was subjected to great opposition, and requiring money to
defend myself, Mr. Sherehorneadvanced me 200/. I renewed
my debt of 300/. to Mr. Ford after I came out of the Queen's
prison, in May, 1843, but 1 received nothing from him for
that renewal. I hate received several sums of money from
that gentleman, for the recovery of which he assured me
that he would not persecute me, and I had these sums re-
spectively at five per cent. interest. I must add, that if I
had originally acted upon Mr. Ford's advice, I would not
have been placed in my present unfortunate position. Pres-
cott told me that he only received 301. from Cooke for the
bill of 300/. I had not given the bill to Mr. Rose, and can-
not say whether he owed Cooke a considerable sum of money
or not; but I myself told Cooke that he had only given 301
for it, and he did not deny it. I saw Cooke in the Queen's
Bench prison, but used no threat to dissuade him from this
opposition. Captain Canty, who was also in the same prison,
asked me what money I would give him to " square" Cooke's
opposition, when I said that I had none. I had 15?. advanced
upon the pictures of the Rajahs, by John Mynes Cooke,
which Rose pawned with him for me, and I swear that I
only intended them to be kit with him as a pledge.
Do you know Lord Win. Paget ?—I do.
Have you not had large money or bill tfansactions with
him ?—Yes, before I came of age to a large sum, but not
since my bankruptcy.
Have you not been in the habit of selling your acceptances
for any terms which you could get for them, through Mr.
I'atrick Leith Hay ?—No, I have not. He told me that if
I gave him bills for 2,000?., and left the arrangement to
his own " discretion," that he would bring me the money
for them.

Would not your Lordship have been satisfied to give your
bill for 500/, if you could get 201. or 301. for it ?—I never
said so ; and 1 believe that those bills fir the 2.000/. you have
referred to could be obtained from the holder (Mr. Lawrence)
for 40/. or 50/. Since my bankruptcy I received about 3161.
from my family and friends, and my bond fide debts and
liabilities are about 1,800/. I have now no property to give
up to my creditors, but I have, as I have all along had, con-
siderable expectations. . -
By Mr. JAMES—The Prescott I have spoken of passes as
Capt. Prescott and Cooke, whom I believe to have been in
no business, was called a gentleman, and having chambers
with Mr. Jocelyn Cooke, at No. 15, Clifford street.
I believe, that altogether, since your bankruptcy, your
Lordship has received but the 316/. from yourfamily ?—That
is so.

And from your father, although I am sorry to introduce his
name, I believe you have received no assistance ?—My father
never gave me a farthing. He frequently called upon me in
the Queen's Bench prison, when he occasionally remonstrated
with me. I asked him to give me a small allowance in order
to enable me to leave the scene of my past follies. I told
him I would be satisfied with 5004 a year; and if he wished
that I would for some time reside abroad, but all was in vain,
and he would not give me- a sixpence. Since I was fifteen
years of age I never received anything from him, not even
for my education; bid I believe that his refusal to do
anything for me is the result of the unhappy differences
between him and my mother, who has done all that her
very limited means would enable her to do. My mother's
family have paid large sums for me during my bank-
ruptcy, to the amount of several thousands, as no less
than from 80 to 100 witnesses had (were) to be examined
during its progress. The 3161. came from my mother (Lady
Dysart), who had net the means of supporting me, and I na-
turally did not wish to be a charge upon her verylimited income.
The goods which Ireceived from several of my creditors were
very much over-valued by them, and since my bankruptcy
I have resided with my mother and my grandmother at Bath,
and different other places. My mother's brother (Mr. Toone,
as we understood) behaved most munificently to me, and he
paid through Mr. Ellerby, in this Court and the Court of
Review, no less a sum than 7,000/. I never had more than
two horses at any ore time since my bankruptcy, and these I
had to give up, in the expectation that my family would do
something for me, but they did not, and hence I have parted
with the horses. I expected that Mr. Ford would have
obtained such an advance of money for me, as would have
enabled me to live quietly in the country, but ultimately he
was not able to effect it. I defended Cooke's action upon the
bill against me for want of consideration, and since my bank-
ruptcy I was only afraid of execution being issued against
me at his suit. At a former hearing I was only out of the
way because there was an extent against me for post-horse
duty, and not through any disrespect to my creditors or the
Court. _ _ _

Mr. Davis examined by Mr. JAMES—I am a furrier at
St. Mary-Axe, and in the wholesale trade. Had the pic-
tures of the Eastern Rajas, and sold them to Lord Hunting-
tower for 4001. They are: Miniature portraits of twelve
Indian chiefs—(A laugh)—and the like of which are not to
be seen in this country; they were in fact the representatives
of the twelve tribes—( Great laughter)—of Indian chiefs
painted by an Italian artist.
Now, pray Mr. Davis, where did you get the pictures of
these twelve tribes ?—I decline to answer.
Mr. Commissioner FONIILANQUE—You must answer the
question. Where did you get them ? Mr. Davis-1 decline
to answer that question.
Mr. JAMES—WeII, Mr. Davis, if you decline to answer the
question, we can trace their pedigree—(Great laughter)—and
show you that they were only worth 225. a piece.
Mr. Commissioner FONMANQUE—As you refuse to answer
the question, Mr. Davis, your opposition is dismissed.
The Learned Counsel, who opposed for Mr. Cooke, very
strenuously urged that the insolvent should not obtain his
final order, upon the grounds of the recklessness of his con-
duct, and his wanton renewal of debts to the amount of
46,0001., without any probable means of his ever being able
to pay them.
Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said that he was not at
present in a position to give judgment in this case, as in the
course of this very day, perhaps, the new Act relating to in-
solvent debtors would receive the Royal Assent, and so be-
come the law of the land.

The case was adjourned to the 20th of November.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(SATURDAY.)
BOW-STREET.
The Hon. William Ross Touchet, was brought up
for re-examination, charged with having discharged
the contents of a loaded pistol at Mr. Thomas Smith,
the proprietor of a shooting gallery in Holborn, with
intent to kill and murder him.
Mr. Vandrey, a solicitor, attended on the part of
Mr. Smith, and Mr. Clarkson, together with Mr.
Robson, the solicitor to Lord Audley, attended on the
part of the prisoner.
The prisoner was brought to the Court in the early
part of the day, in a cabriolet, and not in the prison
van, as on his former examination. Previous to the
prisoner being placed at the bar, Mr. Clarkson (ad-
dressing the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Twyford) said
he had been given to understand that, since the last
examination of the prisoner, the surgeons by whom
he had been attended in the hospital, had, at length,
succeeded in extracting the ball from the back of the
unfortunate gentleman (Mr. Smith), and that he had
--ice been going on favourably ; he therefore wished
to kno% whether the professional gentlemen were of
e.Wfr now sufficiently convalescent to
Courtl2
gt day and give evidence, for if he
were not, the prisoner n::Lst,
tna,gain be remanded for a
the
eat
period which would prevent 0 possibility of his trial
taking place at the ensuing sessions of the Central
Criminal Court.
opinionattend

A police-constable of the F division here produced
a certificate signed by the house-surgeon of St, Bar-
tholomew's Hospital, of which the following is a
copy :
" I hereby certify that the pistol ball has been ex-
tracted from the back of the patient, Thomas Smith,
and part of the lumbar vertebrae has come away with
it, but Mr. Smith, although now out of danger, cannot
be removed without considerable risk.
(Signed) " GEORGE ROYDE,
" House Surgeon, St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
"August 10, 1844."
The prisoner was then placed at the bar, and Mr.
TWYFORD, addressing him, said he was happy to find
from the certificate of the house surgeon of the hos-
pital that the unfortunate gentleman, Mr. Smith, was
in a fair way of recovery, and that being the case, and
as in the absence of Mr. Smith it would be impossible
to proceed further with the case, he should feel it his
duty to remand the prisoner for another fortnight, by
which time there was every -reason to hope that Mr.
Smith would be sufficiently recovered to enable him
to attend the Court.

The prisoner, on hearing the above intimation from
the worthy Magistrate, bowed respectfully to the
Court, and was then removed from the bar.

After his departure, Mr. TWY FORD addressed the son
of Mr. Smith, who, it will be recollected, was present
At the unfortunate occurrence, and told him that his
father would be put to as little inconvenience as pos-
sible, should he be sufficiently recovered to attend the
next examination of the prisoner.
Mr. Smith, jun., thanked the Magistrate, and said
that from the improvement that was daily taking place
in the health of his father, he had every reason to be-
lieve he would be sufficiently_.convalescent to attend
the next examination of the prisoner.
A young man, who gave the name of Charles
Lamb Dowden, and who was stated to be an actor,
was brought up by Pocock, one of the constables of
the F division, charged with having uttered four
forged bills of exchange, two of which were for 51.
each, and the other two for 91. each, with intent to.
defraud different tradesmen, under the following cir-
cumstances :

Mr. John Fox, a broker, residing in Castle-street,
Long-acre, stated that he had known the prisoner
about four years, as a performer at Sadlois Wells
Theatre; that the prisoner came to his shop on the
4th of last May, and said to witness, "I believe I owe
you a small account. I shall be happy to settle it
now ;" and for that purpose he and the prisoner went
to a public-house, where the prisoner gave him the
bill produced for 51., which purported to be accepted
by a person named Hager, residing at Paradise-row,
Chelsea, at the same time requesting witness would
give him the difference (21.) between the amount for
which the cheque was drawn and the sum which lie
owed him. Witness promised to do so in the course
of the day, but previously put some questions to the
prisoner respecting the acceptor, to which he replied,
that Dir. Nagger was ,his =le) 4114 th# the si~na•