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AM PE it tAL PARLIAMENT.
HOUSE OF COMMONS, July 3
Mr. ENTWISLE said there was now sought in this
Bill a power to regulate railway companies in their pro-
ceedings, even before coming to that House for their Act.
This was a power which might be exercised in a very
dangerous manner, and which, therefore, he should
strongly warn the. House to be careful of conceding.
The Bill gave the power to receive the deposits of share-
holders—a thing unheard of before. Again, it was pro-
posed to invest in the Board of Trade a power to pur-
chase hereafter such railways as might now or at any
future period be contemplated and formed. These
things, he must really suggest, were eminently worthy of
the reconsideration of the Right Hon. President of the
Board of Trade.
Mr. BROTHERTON said he really could not see
why there should be so much hesitation in going into
Committee on this Bill. For his own part, he thought
there had been a good many railway schemes brought
forward in connexion with which there had been more
fraud and felony than ever he had heard of before in
connexion with public matters.—(Hear, hear.) Many
persons were extremely anxious to have railway matters
excluded from the operation of this Bill; but, though he
was aware it was an unpopular opinion, he felt bound
to say they ought not to be excluded.—(Hear, hear.)
There were constantly bubble schemes going forward to
derange the market, and injure the honest bona fide
speculator, that, under the provisions of this Bill, would
never see the light at all.—(Hear, hear.) Let them go
into Committee, and then they might be able to correct
the defects of the Bill, and send it forth to the world a
useful and valuable measure for the protection of the
community.
Sir J. GUEST explained.: s'4`+ ---

Sir. WALTER JAMES thought the Bill a most use•
ful measure, encouraging, as it did, the trade of the
country on the one hand, and discouraging bubble com-
panies on the other. He approved of the preliminary
investigation' which had been objected to by the Member
for Sheffield. A preliminary investigation was insisted
on in all cases in which companies came to Parliament
for a Bill, and he thought such an investigation ought to
take place in all cases. i.
Mr. M. PHILIPS had come dowrit to the House
entertaining considerable prejudice against the Bill, but
the course which the debate had taken had convinced
him of the propriety of going into Committee. He cer-
tainly, with regard to railways, thought considerable
caution ought to be exercised to prevent companies
making an improper use of names. He himself had been
asked some time ago by an Hon. Member to put his
name on the back of the Carlisle and Glasgow Railway
Bill, and, considering that a direct communication be-
tween Manchester and Glasgow would be advantageous,
he had consented to do so. To his surprise, a few days
afterwards he had seen his name in the newspapers as a
member of a provisional committee of a railroad in
embryo. He of course took measures immediately to
rectify the mistake.
Mr. J. 5. WORTLEY hoped that, while excluding
railroad companies from the operations of the Bill, they
would exclude sham railroad companies. One of
the grossest frauds ever perpetrated had been called a
railroad company. He thought the clause making those
who lent the guarantee of their names liable,
a most wholesome enactment. He had no pity
for those persons who thus lent their names
and induced others to risk their property in undertakings
of this nature. He thought the word " promoter" ought
to be more clearly defined. He had himself, before he
had the honour of a seat in that House, been a promoter
of a Railway Bill before a Committee. He thought the
words of the clause ought to be so defined as not to in-
elude those who were professionally employed in
promoting Bills before Committees.—(Hear, hear.)
The Hon. Member for Lambeth had agreed to the whole
of the resolutions of the Committee on which the Bill
was founded with one exception, a point on which he
divided the Committee. If the resolutions were com-
pared with the Bill, they would be found closely to re-
semble each other.
Mr. HAWES explsined. He contended that the Bill
went much further than the resolutions, conferring
powers which the resolutions never contemplated.
Mr. ROEBUCK objected to part of the principle of
the Bill, and stated also that within a very few hours a
most important, clause had been introduced into
the Bill. He eid not sea any objection to
including joint-stock companies and the for-
mation of railways in the Bill. If it ' was
to prevent fraud, it was as proper to prevent frauds
in railway companies as in any other. He com-
plained that the Solicitor-General was not present on
an occasion of discussing a Bill so important as the pre-
sent one, and objected to the power under the Act given to
the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which was
no less than that of preventing parties from coming before
Parliament for Bills. This was a distinct principle, and
as it had not been discussed sufficiently, he hoped the
Committee would not be pressed.
Strangers sere then ordered to withdraw, but
Mr. HAWES laving stated that after the discussion
he would not divide the House, his amendment was
withdrawn, and the House went into Committee,
'Jr. PRINGLE in the Chair.
Clause 1 was then agreed to.
On clause 2 being proposed,
Mr. HAWES asked how this Bill was to apply to
incorporated companies?
Mr. GLADSTONE said the Bill would certainly
apply to future incorporated companies, as, in some
points, it applied to those already formed. The Act did
not apply either to Scotland or Ireland, but to England
only.
Mr. HAWES said the Bill applied to all Scotch and
Irish companies having agencies in England. Unless it
reached all companies, this would have an unjust and
partial operation.
Mr. GLADSTONE said he applied the Act to these
companies simply because they were not exclusively
Scotch or Irish companies, but carried on their opera-
tions in England. After some discussion, the Right
Hon. Gentleman suggested that the clause should be
passed as it stood, reserving the point, whether it should
extend to Scotland, for forther consideration.
Mr. HAWES said he thought the clause ought to be
postponed.
After a few words from Capt. LAYAIU) and Mr. J. S.
WORTLEY, •
Mr. GILL moved that the Chairman do report progress.
After some discussion the CHAIRMAN reported pro-
gress and obtained leave to sit again to-morrow.
COVENT-GARDEN PETITION.
Mr. DUNCOMBE presented a petition from Bir-
mingham, praying for inquiry into railway charges for
goods and passengers ; also
praying for the a petition, agreed to at a
public meeting in Covent-garden,
libera-
tion of Daniel O'Connell, Esq.,and his fellow
prisoners.
Mr. WARD presented a petition from certain settlers
in New Zealand, praying that the titles to their property
might be established on a sure foundation.
Mr.
the Joint-Stock Companies Registration and Regulation
BECKET presented a petition from Leeds against
Lord SANDON wished to ask the Right Hon. Gen-
tleman the President of the Board of Trade at what time
there would be parties in Java and Manilla who would
be authorised to issue certificates of origin of sugar, and
also whether in cases where certificates could not be ob
tained sugar would be admitted without a certificate ?
Mr. GLADSTONE said that the advices which would
go out by the July mail from this country to Java and
Manila, would find persons there qualified to issue cer-
tificates as to the produce of those islands. In answer
to the other part of the Noble Lord's question, he said
that a discretionary power of course would be vested in
the Board of Customs as to the admission of sugar with-
out certificate.
In answer to a question from Mr. HAWES,
Mr. GLADSTONE said, that as the matter was not
in his department, he could not distinctly say what the
Post-office arrangements were in respect to communica-
tion with the East India Islands. But he understood
that Manilla was the port chosen for the Philippine
Islands, and that the Dutch Government would not allow
intercourse with any other than three ports in the island
place. allg, Batavia, and another
of Java ; those were Samar

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And grow still paler byths midnight lamps."

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LABIERT ON DEBILITY, NERVOUSNESS, AND ALL
DISORDERS ARISING FROM EXCESS, &c.
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Sir R. PEEL said that the administration of oaths was
without the sanction of the Government, and he had
taken measures to introduce the English practice in
China.

MINISTERS' MONEY.
Mr. Sergeant MURPHY moved that this House will,
upon Tuesday next, resolve itself into a Committee, to
take into consideration the Act 17 am? 18 Car. 2, e. 7,
intituled " An Act for provision of Ministers in Cities
and corporate Towns, and making the Church of St.
Andrew's, in the suburbs of the City of Dublin, presen-
tative for over," with a view to the repeal of so much
thereof as relates to the payment of Ministers in corpo-
rate towns in Ireland. He said that the Act was passed for
the purpose of providing religious instruction for Pro-
testant immigrants from this country and the Continent
into Ireland. It was no longer necessary; and although it
produced no more than 15,0001. a year, it was at once
oppressive and offensive to the Roman Catholic population.
He knew many Protestant clergymen who derived a
portion of their stipend from this peculiar source, who
would feel grateful to the Government if it would devise
means for relieving them from getting their revenues
in such an unpleasant manner. He had read a statement
from a Protestant clergyman in Cork on this subject.
It was stated that the late Dr. Warren had distrained on
&portion of his parishioners for ministers' money. A
deputatiod waited on him and requested him to give back
th• goods which he had distrained. His reply
was, that he wished to Ged some other mode of re-
munerating him could be devised by the Government,
but that he owed it as a duty to his successor to
maintain his rights, and he was justified in doing so.
—(Hear, hear.) They had replied to him that he had
many rich Protestants among his parishioners, and that
he- should look to them. He replied that those who
made the observation knew little of Protestants, for they
were the worst paymasters he had. He trusted the
House would do him the justice to believe that he was
actuated by no sectarian motives in bringing forward
this subject, as all he wanted was to induce the
Government to provide a revenue for the clergy with-
out having recourse to these charges. The Act had
established a valuation of all existing houses, but it had
fixed certain limits, by enacting that no house should
be valued as being worth more than 60/. a year. The con
sequence was, that the houses of the rich, which were
perhaps worth 200/, were assessed to the ministers
money only at 601. a year, while the houses of the poor
were assessed
_at their full rental, and if the assessmen

was not paid the goods were at once distrained, and there
was no appeal against that distraint. The Hon. and
Learned Gentleman concluded by formally proposing his
motion.

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Lord ELIOT had certainly promised last session to take
the subject into consideration. The Attorney-General
for Ireland had maturely considered the subject, but he
regretted to state that the Learned Gentleman had been
unable to devise any plan which would be satisfactory to the
persons subject to the payment of the tax, without de-
priving the clergy of that to which the Hon. and Learned
Gentleman himself admitted they were fairly entitled.
Similar charges existed in the capitals of England and
Scotland, and it should be remembered that at the time
this Act passed Roman Catholics were incapacitated by
law from holding houses ; therefore it was a tax im-
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Catholics who had since become possessed of that pro-
perty, had acquired it subject to this tax, and, there-
fore, had purchased it for less than they would other-
wise have given for it. He could not accede to the mo-
tion, and he hoped the Hon. and Learned Gentleman
would not press it.
Mr. BELLEW hoped that before another session the
Government would prepare a measure to get rid of this
grievance.

..,
Lord STANLEY hoped, that before the end of the
next session, something would be done upon the sip•
ject.

vey was, that she was found to make a little water, and the
pumps being worked, very little was brought up. A second
examination, by three other persons, was afterwards insti-
tuted. On this occasion a part of the cargo was removed,
and she was found to leak much less in consequence, the
quantity being only three feet .and a half in twenty-four
hours. Her knee-beams were found strained. In this con-
dition it was very difficult to replace the crew, or keep the
Rroomen at work, and though the aid of the magistrates was
procured, it was ultimately abandoned, as being impossible.
When it was then perceived that there was no convenient
place for laying a vessel up, it was agreed to sell her. This
was effected by her captain, Mr. Walker, who obtained 230/.
for her, under the direction and advice of the surveyors. Ni '
blame rested upon him.
Mr. ERLH, for the defendant, contended, from the evidence
as it then stood, that no substantial injury to the vessel had
arisen from bad weather. On the other hand, he could show,
and to a certain extent he was borne out by the plaintiff, that
the injury was occasioned by the teak having been put in
improperly. The long leverage of some of these heavy beams
would throw the sternpost away from the ship's side. This
was where the leak occurred, the workmen could not stop it,
not having power to bring the separated parts together. The
vessel had borne the best name in the Sierra Leone trade
during former voyages ; and the damage, he could show. most
certainly arose from the cause he had already assigned. In
addition to this, he had very good grounds for complaining, ,
in the name of the insurers, of a want of überrinza fides, or
good faith. He was aware that such a charge was only to
be urged with the greatest caution, but he had not done it
unadvisedly.
The jury gave a verdict for plaintiff, with damages 2,706/.
The inquiry lasted till half-past five o'clock.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COURT.
(Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON and Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
Mary Ann Wood, a woman of the town, and John Moore,
a soldier, were charged with committing a robbery, with
violence, upon James Legrave. It was proved in evidence
that the prosecutor was drinking with the female prisoner at
a public-house in Orchard-street, Westminster, and that he
accompanied her home to a court in the neighbourhood.P He
had six sovereigns and some silver in his trousers. Soon
after they got into the room Wood got up and seized hold of
them. The prosecutor attempted to regain them, but. she
pushed him out of the room in his shirt. He, however,
pushed the door open, and the prisoner Wood cut off the fob
and took out the money. The prosecutor gave the alarm ;
the soldier came up, and, while the female was striking him,
the soldier said, "Give it him." She was subsequently
taken into custody at a public-house, and some money found
upon her.
The sergeant of the prisoner's regiment gave him a good
character.
Baron ALDERSON, in summing up, said the case against-
the soldier was very slight. The Learned Judge added that
the fact of people being found drinking at a public-house at
two or three in the morning was well worthy the considera-
tion of the Magistrates of the neighbourhood. Intoxication
was the cause of the greater part of the trouble which judges
and jurors had at each assize. If any one were curious
enough to note each case, it would be found that, in almost
every one, drunkenness was the cause of the crime—that is
to say, either the crime was committed by persons while in a
state of intoxication, or it was perpetrated upon some one in
that state.
The female repeatedly denied the robbery, but admitted
that she was drunk.
The jury found her Guilty, but acquitted the soldier.
A record of another conviction was put in, from which it
appeared that the woman Wood had before been imprisoned
for twelve months, for a robbery and violent assault. She
burst into tears, and implored mercy.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON sentenced her to be transported for
fifteen years.
Immediately after hearing the sentence, she changed her
tone of supplication, and, clenching her fists, used a most
opprobrious epithet to Mr. Baron Alderson. She was re-
moved while uttering imprecations upon him.

Mr. JOHN O'BRIEN, in supporting the motion, re-
ferred to the anomalous position of the Established
Church in Ireland, which he contended ought to be sup-
ported out of the general funds of the country, without
pressing directly upon a dissentient and reluctant
people.
Strangers were suddenly ordered to withdraw, and the
House was counted, but there being more than forty
Members present, the gallery was again opened, and
Mr. O'BRIEN proceeded to argue in favour of the
motion. Ho was desirous to incorporate Great Britain
and Ireland most closely, but the Protestant Church—
the greatest anarchy in the history of nations, prevented
the amalgamation. The Irish Protestant Members

were compelled, however painfully, to legislate
against the temporalities of their church. He wished to
rescue the Protestants from their ascendancy, and
the Catholics from their humiliation.—(Hear, hear.)
Mr. CURTEIS complained of the want of courtesy
shown by a supporter of the Government in counting
out the House in the middle of the eloquent and im-
portant speech of the Hon. Gentleman who had just
sat down.

PERRI 'S PURIFYING SPECIFIC PILLS arethe most eftbctua
cure for syphilis and secondary symptoms inboth sexe', price •2e.
As Ad., and I ie. per box.
Consultation fee, if by letrer, IL A minute detail of cases is ne-
cessary M ssrs. Perry are in daily atten dance, for Consultation, at
their residence, 19, Hernars-street, Oxford-street, London, from
Eleven till Twe and Five till Eight, and on Sund yo from Ten til
Twelve one personal visit only is necessary to effect a permanent cure

SAILING UNDER FALSE COLOURS ! !!
THE BRITISH COLLEGE of HEALTH
hereby CAUTIONS the PUBLIC against the numberless
Pills sold under fictitious names and titles, which have sprung into
existence since Mr. Norison's work appeared. The parties who put
forth such pills (sailing underfalse colours), take the name of some
eminent person not in existence, and then most fraudulently make
extracts from Mr. Morison's work, which they put into their bills in
order to obtain a sale for their pills. It is, therefore, against such a
nefarious practice that Messrs. Morison deem it their duty and inte-
rest to warn the public, being determined that the Hygeian Theory of
Medicine, as introduced by James Morison, the Hygeist, shall not be
made a vehicle to such fraud and imposture.
MOIIISON and CO., Hygeists.
BriTish College-of Health, Hamilton-place, New-road, July, 1844.
N.B. We would advise the public, should they feel inclined to
patronise such pills, to be cautious in making inquiries as to who
the Proprietors of such medicines really are.- The practice of adopt-
ing the Hygelan theory with au inefficient or improper medicine, of
course tends to bring that theory into disrepute.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.

Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, but the
House did not divide, and the motion was agreed to with-
out a division, but amidst great laughter and cheering.
Mr. PUSE'Y then obtained leave to bring in a Bill to
alter and amend an Act passed in the fourth year of her

present Majesty, intitulea "An Act to enable-the owners
of settled estates to defray the expense of draining the
same by way of mortgage."
The House then adjourned at Half-past Six.

STATE OF TRADE.
(From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.)
There continues to be a good healthy demand for
yarns for all numbers up to 40's, but more particularly
for the low numbers, which obtain a trifling advance
in price. For goods generally there is also a steady
demand ; iths printing. cloths commanding a little
higher prices. For 401-inch shirtings the market was
heavy, and no/ much business done ; parties waiting the
daily expected arrival of the Overland Mail. The ac-
count of its arrival in the London Times reached here
later in the day, and the commercial intelligence there
contained was considered to be rather unfavourable as
respects manufactured goods.
ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, JULY
I.
The demand for flannels continues brisk ; but there is
no change in prices. The wool trade has undergone
little variation since last Monday. There is a fair busi-
ness doing, and prices have advanced a shade.

James Barrow Palmer, a fish salesman of Billingsgate•
market, was summoned before the Lord Mayor, charged,
with having exposed for sale a certain quantity of fish,
unfit food for the human body. The defendant was
stated to be an extensive salesman.
Mr. Goldharn, the Clerk of the Market, stated that a
man came to his office on Monday, and told him the de-
fondant had
were defendant,
fishii erfondant had sold him some bad fish. lie afterwards saw
who declaredt the
inspector t that the
who examinedfishheha
had sold
statedf
perfectly
y goody
decidedly that they were bad. The de-
fendant was in the habit of disposing of baskets of fish
fastened down, as were other salesmen, and had been
cautioned not to sell some of the fish, but he insisted
upon selling the good with the bad.
Here the defendant, in a very loud and angry tone,
which he kept up throughout the investigation, denied
that any of the fish was bad, and said that there were
quantities of bad fish at Mr. Goldham's very door, which
he never caused to be touched.

LA `V INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, July 3.
At Guildhall, before Lord DENMAN and a Special Jury.)

D 14"EGETAI.BLEA FEVER DUROPIL. G'S

This medicine has been proved in many thousand cases to be far
more efficacious than any febrifuge hitherto known, while its use
entails none of the unpleasant consequences too frequently pro-
duced by quinine and other preparations of bark.
It is purely vegetable; its operation is uniform—its effects imme-
diate; and it may be safely administered to infants at the breast.
The action of the medicine is slightly narcotic and highly sudorific;
pains in the head, back, and limbs are immediately relieved, sad
fever is eradicated in from six to twenty-four hours. It is exhibited
in the form of a tincture, a phial containing two doses of three
drachms each being sufficient in any case. It has been extensively
used in the East and West Indies, France, Germany and Italy, with
unqualified success, in cases of the most malignant nature, and with
equal efficacy in fevers of every type.
As it may be safely taken under any circumstances, with a cer-
tainty of immediate relief, Travellers who, either on business or plea-
sure, visit the South of France, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Egypt, and
the neighbouring countries, and, above all, residents in the East
and West Indies, the Mediterranean, African, and South American
colonies, will do well to avail themselves of a remedy, the perfect
safety and extraordinary efficacy of which have been proved in
many thousand instances, and in every climate.
By providing themselves with a supply of this medicine, owners
or masters of vessels trading to the coast of Africa, the southern
States of America, and other parts where fever is prevalent, will
prevent its ravages from carrying off or disabling their crews, at a
cost which is utterly insignificant when compared with the value of
the 'lives and time lost, and the expense incurred for hired labour,
necessarily employed in foreign ports whenever the ship's company is
unequal to the duty.

Mr. Goldham said it was not in his power to inter-
fere with any fish till they were exposed for sale, and
he had shortly to produce an account which would prove
that he had in the performance of his duty to seize
250,000 for being unfit for use.
A. Tyrrell, of Golden-lane, costermonger, proved that
he bought a pad of mackerel of the defendant for eight
shillings on Monday morning, and that the first" ten or
twelve at the top were good, but all underneath were bade
It was then distinctly proved, by two inspectors of
the market, that two baskets of fish in the defendant's
boat were pointed out to him as bad, and that he after-
wards sold some of the bad fish, which one of the in-
spectors of course took away.
After the defendant had made several observations to
• show that ho never sold any fish which were in his
judgment bad, he complained to the Lord Mayor that
Mr. Goldham had compromised cases of bad fish in the
market, instead of bringing them before the Magistrate.
Mr. Goldam—Certainly, I have. At your request,
when poor creatures have come to me with bad fish
which they bought from you and a person who em-
ployed you to sell, I handed back from you to them the
money which they had paid you. I did so I admit more
for the purpose of saving them the time, which I knew
to be most valuable to them, than of saving you the
exposure, which perhaps would have been valuable
to you.
The LORD MAYOR.—It 15 by no means creditable to
you, defendant, to charge Mr. Goldham with having
done an act by which you were certainly obliged your
self, and which you besought him to do as a favour to
you. With regard to the fish you have sold, it has not
only been proved to have been bad, but your own ad-
missions add, if addition were necessary, to the evidence
of the inspectors and purchaser. In order to put a stop
to the sale of bad fish, by which poor hawkers are put to
much inconvenience, and poor consumers are so much
injured in health, I shall order the City solicitor to pro•
secute the next case against you. You must now pay
back the Bs. you took from this poor man, and 6s.
expenses.
Defendant—l hope, my Lord, if you order a prosecu-
tion, the case will be a stronger one than this.

-
Testimonials of the most convincing nature from Sir Andrew Hal-
liday, Deputy Inspector General of Army Hospitals (in his official
report, dated British Guiana, Oct. 5, 1834, and in his letter to the
Right Honourable Lord Viscount Howick, Secretary at War, on Sick-
ness and Mortality in the West Indies, March 8, 1839), and nu-
merous other distinguished members of the profession, British, Co-
lonial, and Continental, are in the possession of Dr. Warburg. At-
tested copies of the official reports, &c., may be obtained on applica-
tion to any of the Agents for the sale of the Medicine.
Dr. Warburg's Febrifuge is prepared only under his immediate
direction, and is issued exclusively trom his Laboratory, No. 97, King
William-street, Charing-cross, London ; but it may be obtained of
Agents in any part of Great Britain, and in most of the British Co.
onies, price Bs. per phial.

LAKE V. THE DUKE OF ARGYLL.

This was an action brought to recover a sum of money for
printing the bills, reports, &c., of the British American
Association. The affairs of this Association have been fire-
queritly before the public. The work in question was ad-
mitted to have been done, and the prices were admitted to be
reasonable; but it was contended for the defence, that there
was no evidence to fix the Duke with liabilities

Lord DENMAN, in summing up, said the Duke's merely be-
coming president would not make him liable for the debts of
the Association. The Duke could only become liable by hie
owil conduct, and by doing that which induced person' to
give credit on his account.
The jury, after retiring to consult, and remaining absent
for about an hour, returned with a verdict for the plaintiff:—
Damages, 1451.
Mr. Platt, Mr. Swann, and another Learned Counsel were
for the plaintiff; and Mr. Martin and Mr. James were for the
defendant.

Alderman FAnEßnoTHEß:—Perhaps you would like
to try the effect of a prosecution in this case. I dare
say the Lord Mayor will oblige you.—(A laugh.)
Defendant at once threw down the money, saying the
few shillings were no object to him ; but he begged the
Lord Mayor to understand that Mr. Goldham's conduct
at Billingsgate was very different from •his conduct at
the Mansion-house.

COURT. OF EXCHEQUER, July 3.
Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a
Special Jury.)
REDMAN V. WILSON.

This was an action to recover the sum of 2,500 L on a policy
of insurance effected with the Indemnity Assurance Company
on the barque Lord Wellington.
Mr. Jervis, and with him Mr. Hoggins, was Counsel for
the plaintiff. Mr. Erle, Mr. Tomlinson, and Mr. Forsythe,
appeared for the defendant, who represented the above Com-

The LORD MAYOR—I dare say it is, He has diffe-
rent sorts of persons to deal with, and he, no doubt,
acts accordingly.—(Laughter.)

any.
Mr. Redman, the plaintiff in this case, is a shipbroker, car-
rying on business in Lime-street. The vessel which is the
subject matter of the present inquiry belonged to this gen-
tleman, by whom she was extensively repaired during the
years 1838, 1839, and 1840. In 1841 he intended her to go
in ballast to Sierra Leone for a cargo of teak. That she
might be in a fit condition to perform this voyage, he
caused her to be entirely overhauled by the Messrs.
Green, Wigram, and Green, shipwrights, whilst she was
lying in the West India Export Dock. Here she received 50
feet of new rough-tree timbers) 10 or 15 feet of new gunwale,
and a new raft-port. She was fitted with two new mizen-
channels, had a beam clamped, her rough-tree timbers were
examined, 9 broken ones being replaced, her chain bolts were
found to be good, and her shears fair. These repairs were chiefly
made on the larboard side ahead. Persons who had had the care
of making them confirmed the above particulars, and said
that the caulking she underwent weuld have infallibly dis-
covered a bad plank. These being completed, and the vessel
deemed seaworthy, she was insured for 2,500/. on the 6th of
July, 1841. Being afterwards chartered by Messrs. Laurie
and Hamilton, she sailed on the 15th of that month. During
her voyage she met with a great deal of foul weather. She
came to an anchor at the Nore, and there experienced a
heavy gale, in which she parted a cable and rode heavily.
The weather continued much the same all the way to the
Downs. Here it increased, and down the Channel she had
more or less of it. On the 21st of August she came off the
Cape de Verde. Here she was once or twice on her beam-
ends, and made a little water. On her first arrival at the
coast of Africa the wind blew off the shore, but it after-
wards changed to S.W., and she was obliged to go under a
heavy Ness of sail to keep off the lee-shore. This could not
fail to have the effect of straining her considerably. She
arrived at Sierra Leone on the 2d of September, discharged
her ballast there, and then proceeded up to Tasso Island.
Here she arrived on the 12th, and began to load the timber.
At the end of the month, however, a severe illness, natural to
the climate, attacked the whole crew, arising from the damp-
ness of the timber, which is bent in the water, and floated by
cork-wood. It is customary at this place to load vessels by
means of a class of natives known by the general name of
Kroomen, as Europeans are sure to sink under the unhealthi-
ness of the country. At the time of this ♦isitation 300 loads
had been put in, 500 being the complement. The illness
lasted 50 days, but the vessel was fully loaded by the 7th of
November. She was then brought down with her cargo to
Freetown. On the 9th she was exposed to a tremendous tor-
nado. Shortly after this date she underwent a survey by
three persons from various vessels then at the port. Before
this she had drifted two miles, having two anchors out, and
was then brought back to Forra Bay. The result of the sur-

THE OLD BAILEY BAR.
(From the Sunday Times.)
In the course of the 'allusions which we made a short
time since to the case of the wills forgeries we, stated
that our object was not so much to trace that case
through its circumstances, which was the province of the
jury, as to make it the foundation of a general call upon
the public to consider, and, if possible, to correct, through
these representations, the evils which have grown out
of the license indulged in by counsel in the defence
of guilty men. It would scarcely be possible to select a
better case to illustrate these evils than that of Barber,
defended as it was in the full tone of the Old Bailey ver-
nacular, by Mr. Wilkins. His client was the most in-
jured man in the:world ; nothing could surpass his wrongs
except his virtues. The purity required by Caesar in We
wife, was a moderate qualification compared with the
purity ascribed by Mr. Wilkins to his client. Csar,
indeed, was guilty of a moral cowardice when he could
think of repudiating his wife merely because she was
slandered ; but Mr. Wilkins betrayed no such pusil-
lanimity. On the contrary, he seemed to consider it
a feather in his client's cap to be tried for fraud by the
justice of his country. It was an honour to be employed
by him—quite a moral distinction to touch a fee from
such a hand. Neither the verdict of a jury nor the sen-
tence of the judge could disturb the implicit confidence
of the advocate in the rectitude of his client's conduct.
Juries were fallible, judges were fallible—in short, every-
thing on earth was fallible but Mr. Wilkins's pene-
tration and Mr. Barber's virtue. As for prosecutors
and witnesses, they were not only fallible, but
congregated and combined, like evil spirits, in a
league for the overthrow of innocence. But, to speak
seriously upon a matter which is, after all, of very se-
rious importance, it is, as we have said, in vain to look
to the judges for the protection of prosecutors or wit-
nesses ; they seldom or never interfere. They did not
interfere with the case of which we have been speak-
ing, when Mr. Wilkins thought it not beneath him
to attack the character of such a man as INIr.
Freshfield, the Bank solicitor, in the hope that some
ignorant person on the jury might be persuaded to
consider his conduct oppressive and unjust. It is not
for Mr. Freshfield's sake that we regret the indiffer-
ence manifested by the judge on this occasion. His
character stood too high to be affected by anything that
Mr. Wilkins could say or do ; but if judges will not
sympathise with such men as Mr. Freshfield, how can
they be expected to sympathise in more doubtful cases
with men who are not so well known, and consequently
not so well protected from misrepresentation ? It is,
therefore, a delusion not to suppose that prosecutor
—or witnesses, and especially the latter—find pro-
tection from the judge, and, therefore, it is
the more necessary that something should be done,

SMOKE PREVENTION BILL.
On the reading of the Order of the Day for the Com-
mittee on this Bill,
Mr. MACKINNON wished to know from her Ma-
jesty's Government whether he should proceed with this
ÜbTeeTnOhNis business to make some
Bill or not ?
said, that since the Bill
t of the parties interested in the
and as he did not think the House was
iwßn aigiAslui,
iintroduced MANNERS
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utSbhwjee
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was
.
so very unsatisfactory that he
felt the greatest difficulty in pronouncing any decided
opinion upon it ;
a decision upon that im-
portant b aem ce oa
adjourned.
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Mr. MACKINNON moved that, the Speaker should
leave the chair.

Mr. WARD moved as an amendment that the Speaker
should leave the chair that day three months.—(Hear,
and laughter.)
Sir R. Peel, and Mr. Muntz took part,
After a brief conversation, in which Mr. Brotherton,
Lord F. Egerton, Mr. Hawes, Mr. Borthwick, Mr. M.
Philips, Mr. Parker, Mr. Ricardo, Sir John Easthope,
14.. Protheroe,
Mr. Mackinnon withdrew his motion for going into Com-
mittee, and also withdrew his Bill, with the intention of
bringing it forward again at an early period of the next
The Courts of Common Law Process Bill, and the
Customs Duties (Isle of Man) Bill severally went
session.
through Committee, and were ordered to be reported
to-morrow.
__

The Linen Manufacturers (Ireland) Bill was read a
third time and passed.
BRITISH CUSTOM-HOUSE IN CHINA.
Dr. BOWRING, according to notice, begged to ask
the Right Hon. Gentleman at the head of the Govern-
ment, whether the Government had given its sanction to
the introduction of oaths in Custom-house matters in
China, as directed by the British Consul at Ningpo.

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now that the evil is on- the -increase, to protect the
public by other means. The gentlemen of the bar call
such a case as that of the will forgers, in the Old Bailey
slang, " a good sporting case," that is, a case in which
prosecutors and witnesses are to be run down and every-
thing, and, amongst the rest, diet ill-fated personage
Truth, sacrificed to the worthy character in the dock.
According to this interpretation of the word sport, Mr.
Wilkins is certainly a keen sportsman ; he cares no-
thing for himself, he rides, as beggars are said to ride,
straight onward to a certain destination. There is no dif-
ficulty, however formidable, that can arrest- his pro-
gress, or turn him from the one great. object of
sacrificing everything to the interest of his client. So
confident were the conductors of the prosecution that
brow-beating would be resorted to in the case of Barber,
that they felt it necessary to subpcena the Lord Mayor,
and Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk at the Mansion-house,
and to keep them in attendance day after day, as a check
upon • the imaginative faculty of Mr. Wilkins. Even
after all the precautions that could be adopted, the Bank,
the Bank solicitor, the magistrate, the press, the wit-
nesses for the prosecution, nay, the very judge him-
self, were, all of them, in one shape or other, ex-
posed to the animadversions or insinuations of, the
prisoner's counsel. But this out-and-out mode
of defence, although it is certainly calculated to attract
the. notice and admiration of the great mass of indivi-
duals charged with offences, has never failed to obtain
for him who uses it the scorn of those who think that
society is likely to be endangered by the escape of an
ingenious villain, defended by a dexterous lawyer, whose
sense of right and wrong, however perfect in itself, is
never permitted to interfere with what he calls his duty
to his client. One would think, from the exaggerated
language of lawyers respecting this duty; that there was
something in the connection of counsel and cltent which
exempts parties from the ordinary obligations of truth and
justice. No barrister will pretend that he would be
Justified in imputing falsehood directly or indirectly to a
person who, he knew in his heart, had told the truth.
No man of common honesty would dare to make such an
assertion. Wherein, then, consists the magic of that
extraordinary and mysterious compact implied in the
phrase " duty to his client," which justifies, or is sup-
posed to justify, him in doing for another what he dares
not do for himself—to obtain the acquittal of a guilty
person, and the ill-treatment of-one or more innocent
persons by the misrepresentation of their motives, their
characters, and their conduct ? What is there,' then, we
would ask, in the connexion between counsel and client
—what is there in the sense of duty arising out of such
a connexion, that should exonerate either of them from
the universal obligations of morality, and the ordinary
rules of right and wrong ? Is it in virtue of any
mystic influence communicated from palm to palm by
the transmission of a fee, that the lawyer becomes
not merely invested with the privilege, but charged with
the duty, of sacrificing every principle to the one
paramount object of vindicating his • client, per
fas aut nefas, at the expense of every consi-
deration, human and divine ? If so, we should
like to hear some account of the process from those who
are familiar with the operation. It was stated some •
time ago by the Attorney-General, in the house of
Commons, on contending in favour of this extravagant
privilege, that lie supported it for the sake of the suitors
themselves. Now, what we want to know is wherein
the advantage to suitors consists ? We think it will be
readily granted that it is no advantage to prosecutors to be
vilified and traduced, nor to witnesses to be treated in the
same manner. The accused party, whether he be a swin-
dler, a robber, or a murderer, may certainly derive an ad-
vantage from the obloquy which he is permitted to cast,
through his counsel, on those who are endeavouring to
bring him to justice. In fact, the only person to whom
thie monstrous privilege can be of use is the guilty person,
who can only be saved from merited punishment by
the adoption of such execrable means. What then, let
us ask, is the real effect of this privilege, or license, or
whatever it may be called, upon the administration of
justice itself ? We will not mince matters. The effect is
not to benefit suitors, but to drive them out of Court by
the mere force of the Old Bailey philosophy. We would
appeal to Mr. Clark, the clerk of the arraigns, and to
Mr. Goodman, whose experience in the same office
renders his testimony invaluable—we would appeal to
these gentlemen, whose characters, as private indivi-
duals and as public officers, give the highest authority to
their statements, whether it is not a common case to hear
prosecutors express their regret at having prosecuted, and
not only express their regret, but declare that they would
rather submit to the loss of their property, and allow
the thief to escape, than expose themselves or any mem-
bers of their families to the observations with which
they had been unjustly assailed by the prisoner's counsel.
The effect of this privilege, therefore, is to obstruct the
administration of justice in Entine, by driving people
away from the Court, and inducing them rather to
submit to their losses than apply for redress, or even
accept of redress, with its invariable accompaniment
of abuse and detraction. Lord Brougham was as•
suredly carried away by professional enthusiasm,
or by that love of wrangling which is, perhaps, in-
separable from a great advocate and debater, when he
could think of referring to the progress of a trial as
affording a favourable instance of the display of human
talent.. liowever in teresting such proceedings as are daily
exhibited in our courts may be to the Noble Lord, and to
those who think with him, we can conceive nothing more re-
pulsive to a benevolent mind than that scene of noisy decla-
mation andgross humbug, and virulent invective and brutal
demeanour, which combine to make up what is called an
important trial, or a good sporting case, at the Old Bailey.
His Lordship's own description of the process, though
evidently coloured so as to favour his views, will scarcely
inspire such a man as we have described with any violent
inclination to be present at the performance.
" The jury," observes his Lorship, " see the witness ;
they have the opportunity of watching his demeanour
while giving his evidence, and then they see him,
submitted to a cross-examination ; after which comes
his counsel, comforting and restoring, as it were,
the poor man, after the flagellation he has under-
gone, and setting up the broken credit of the
witness, damaged by the cross-examination. Af-
ter the cross-examination of the adverse counsel,
which has impaired the credit of the witness for a mo-
ment, then comes the skilful counsel, who restores and
comforts the poor man, and gives a better opportunity of
explaining the case and setting himself right with the
jury, until at last the conflict being over on both sides,
the evidence of the witness is fairly before the Court."
But how often does it happen that the evidence of the
witness is never fairly before the Court ? Suppose the
case of a poor nervous man, or of a delicate and timid
woman, how difficult would it be to restore and com-
fort either of them after flagellation, so as to enable
them to become collected and appear in their proper
characters of truth and honesty ! But let any one who
suspects us Of exaggeration go to the Old Bailey and
judge for himself—let him observe the conduct of coun-
sel to female witnesses on the opposite side, and if he
do not feel his heart throb with indignation and shame,
we can only say that he is tit for the place to which we
have sent him. But, as it is possible that we may revert
to this subject again, we shall say no more for the pre- .
sent than express an ardent hope that something will be
done to correct an evil which, so far from showing any
disposition to cure itself, is evidently on the increase,
and the effect of which is most injurious to the ends 'of
justice and the reputation of a great country.

THE NAPOLEON MUSEUM.
Many interesting additions have recently been made
to the extraordinary and costly collection of curiositie.7.,
works of art, and autographs, which constitute the exhi-
bition at the Egyptian Hall, in Piccadilly, which is called,
par excellence, the " Napoleon Museum." Mr. Sains-
bury, the collector of these rare and interesting objects
was, we understand, originally prompted to search for
and purchase all that could illustrate the life and times
of Napoleon, from an ardent admiration of the soldier
Emperor, without any notion of exhibiting them beyond
the sphere of his private friends. The collection, how-
ever, became so large and complete, that he was induced
to open it to the public, and the objects, as now arranged
at the Egyptian Hall, form, as the catalogue affirms, a
perfect " illustrated history of Europe, from the time of
Louis XIV. to the death of the Emperor Napoleon."
The admirers of autographs may revel for days among
the vast stores which are here deposited. They occupy
twenty.thick folio volumes, which are illustrated by two
thousand portraits and crests of the writers. To give
some idea of the treasures contained within these " pon-
derous tomes," we may intimate among the letters are
those of Louis XIV., Marie Antoinott., miraneau, 80,
, bebplerre, Joseph Bonaparte when King of Spain, up-
wards of five hundred by Napoleon, and upwards of two
thousand by his principal
generals. Neither are the au-
tographs of distinguished Englishmen less remarkable.
There are letters from Charles I. and his Queen, front
Oliver Cromwell, Milton, Handel, Pope, Pitt, Fox, Nel-
son, the Duke of Wellington, &c. These autographs
are not merely signatures, but many of them are letters
relating to matters of political interest, or referring to
marked incidents in the lives of the distinguished writers.
The medallions and enamels of Napoleon at different
periods of his life, are numerous, and there are many'
paintings of battles, by David and other distinguished
French artists. Among the curious documents preserved
in this collection, are two letters written by Napoleon on
the same day (March 1, 1796), in one of which Bona-
parte is spelt with a u (Buonaparte) and in the other
without ; and as no signature with the uof a later pe-
riod is known, these two letters are supposed to be the
last in which he wrote his name Buonaparte, and the
first in which he adopted the more French orthography.
The cordon of the Legion of Honour worn by Napoleon,
and sent by him to his son, is among the varied articles
that belonged to the Emperor. Perhaps the two most
interesting relics are the notes made by Napoleon when
attending lectures on mineralogy, in 1793 ; and his first
and last attempts to write English when at St. Helena.
The treasures deposited in this museum, we ttederstand,
cost the collector 60,0001., and occupied years of re-
search ; it is indeed surprising that one individual could
have ransacked all cerners of France and England so
successfully. Those who propose to visit the museum
should go early, for their are materials enough to occupy
a long day in their examination.

A circumstance, calculated to create a feeling Of
confidence in the safety of railway travelling, inasmuch
as it proved the control the engine-drivers have over
their fiery steeds, occurred on Saturday last. The after-
noon down train, which leaves London at three o'clock,
soon after passing the Witham station;suddenly came to
a stand-still ; the up train, which leaves Colchester it
four, being► also stationary at only a shore4istance. The
alarm of the passengers was speedily allayed by the
guards, who dismounted ; and from them it was learnt
that two horses had strayed upon the line, and were ap-
proaching at a galloping pace, crossing and recrossing
between the down and up trains. - The affrighted ant-
mals, after a few blasts from the whistle, made towards
the Witham station, where they were driven off, acid
both trains proceeded uninterruptedly on their journey.
But for the judgment and caution exercised on the part
of the engine-drivers, the poor animals must have been
destroyed, and one of the trains would, probably, bare
been thro,wn of the line.—Essex Herald.-