The Sun.
London, England, 1844-12-13 00:00:00

THE SrTN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER, 18, 1e44.

sent Ministers of the Crown, opposed to one another
in the most decided manner on many paramount
questions of foreign and domestic policy, but now
combining in a graceful homage to the illustrious
merits of Sir 11. POTTINGER. This circumstance
elicited one of those interchanges of ger,erous and
disinterested commendation, too rare among the
statesmen of other countries on such public occasions.
The Earl of ABERDEEN, in returning thanks for him-
self and his colleagues in office, said--
" I may venture, on this occasion, to rejoice in meet-
ing one who, though he differs from me in many points,
concurs with me in congratulating the distinguished
officer on the success of his negotiations, and the expe-
dition which preceded them. I allude to my Noble Friend
(Viscount Palmerston) who preceded me in the office
I now have the honour to hold, and who has been the
means of obtaining for this country the eminent services
of Sir Henry Pottinger ; and although my Noble
Friend was not so fortunate as to receive those commu-
nications from Sir Henry Pottinger which came into my
hands after he had relinquished the office which I now
hold, yet he must have watched the whole course of that
officer's public conduct in China with the most lively
interest."—(Cheers.)
From the Chairman's eloquent tribute to the ad-
tnirable conduct of Lord PALM EnswoN, in reference
to the whole proceedings which eventuated in the
successful expedition against China; to the rare talent
and facility with which the Noble Viscount made
himself master of all the details connected with the
great and and responsible charge he had thus to as-
sume, and carry through ; to the anxious deliberation
and reluctance which preceded, and the decision,
vigour, and efficiency which followed his Lordship's
determination to organise that expedition :—our
limits prevent us from inserting any extracts here.
From the speech of the Noble Viscount, in returning
his acknowledgement for the toast with which the

Chairman concluded, we are unwillingly compelled

to confine our extracts -to his Lordship's frank and
manly reference to Lord ABERDEEN and her MA-
JEsTY'S present Ministers, and his very remarkable
testimony to the direct influence of Sir H. POTTIN-
GBIeS own pprsoual character and abilities on his sub-
sequent fortunes. On the former of these topics
Lord PALMERSTON thus expressed himself:—
" There is a deep satisfaction in being present at such
a meeting, and there is also, as has been remarked by my
Noble Friend (Lord Aberdeen) a satisfaction in reflecting
that this meeting possesses nothing of a political cha-
racter. We hive assembled here for a common purpose
—men of all shades of politics are met—members of the C-
abinet which began the expedition, and members of the
Jabinet which succeeded it, and which, though differing
from their predecessors on many other essential points, yet
felt it their duty, when clothed with the responsibility of
office to continue the operations in China which wers in
progress when they came into power."—(Cheers.)
In adverting to Sir HENRY'S connexion with the
late Government, his Lordship remarked :
"My Noble Friend has congratalated me and my
colleagues upon having been so fortunate as to choose
such an able and efficient officer as Sir H. Pottinger, but,
Although it was not only fortunate for us but the
country, it arose from no private partiality, for Sir Henry
l'ottinger was pointed out as a fit person, solely and
alone in consequence of distinguished services which he
had rendered at a former period of his career, and
although my official duty required that I should name
the person who was to go out as. plenipotentiary, yet I
had not, at the time of his appointment, the pleasure
arid advantage of a personal acquaintance with Sir
Henry Pottinger. He was selected solely for his high
character—a character which subsequent events main-
tained, and which will, I have no doubt, be raised still-
higher yet."

Lord PALMERSTON proceeded to comment, in terms
of well-merited admiration and respect on the lofty
bearing, high military discipline, and dauntless cou-
rage which our native forces—the Sepoys—engaged
in that memorable expedition had manifested through-
out its operations; and he congratulated the country
on the perfect sympathy and good understanding
which, in this instance, had been maintained between
them and our own intrepid forces, with which they
were associated. The whole of the Noble Viscount's
address was signalised by its unostentatious simpli-
city, its unqualified tribute of applause to the Right
Hon. Baronet for his eminent services, an abstinence
from all pretensions to credit, on the part of himself
and his former official colleagues, for the share
they had had in the counsels and the measures of
which the Chinese expedition was the fortunate com-

plement ; and by some:observations on the true policy,
as well as equity, of not exacting extreme terms from a
vanquished enemy, which the moralist will advocate
with enthusiastic earnestness, and the statesman' may
study with singular advantage.- In' our view of the
case, it is the crowning felicity, as well as honour of
Sir HENRY POTTINGER, practically to have exempli-
fied that moderation,.the theory of which has found so
eloquent and accomplished an exponent as Lord
PALMERSTON.

A huge blue book has just been issued from the
Vote-office, • entitled, "Report of the Select Com-
mittee on. New Zealand." It comprises—First. The
Report (14 pages), terminating with a series of nine-
teen declaratoiy L‘.l.tesolutions." Secondly. A de-
tailed account of the proceedings of the Committee,
occupying 16 pages. Thirdly. The evidence of fif-
teen witnesses ;-4,721 questions and answers, ex-
tending through.2s2 pages. Fourthly. An Appendix
of Papers, Documents, Dispatches, &c., • 500 pages.
And, fifthly, an Index, 74 pages. Weara thus par-
ticular in setting out the statistics of contents (and
these appear to be. by no means " superficial " ones),
in order to justify our confession that, of this
enormous mass- of matter, we have hitherto found
time to peruse only the Report. And a most im-
portant, .remarkable, and surprising digest it is of
revelations. among the most incredible that ever
attested the excesses to which the reckless spirit of
money-making, per fas aut nefas—the pertinacious
obstinacy of communities in pushing forward a fa-
vourite object against all remonstrance, authority, or
prudence, where no one individual, in particular, can
be saddled with the whole responsibility of pressing
it forward—and the timidity or apathy of one
Government, and the rashness and impatience of an-
other, in dealing with the self-same interests—may
be pushed. The instruction to the Select Committee
was in these terms :—" To inquire into the state of
the colony of New Zealand, and the proceedings of
the New Zealand Company." They appear, although
profoundly sensible to the " extraordinary" difficulty
and delicacy of the task imposed upon them, to have
addressed themselves to it boldly, but dispassionately.
They have not shirked the duty because it was an
invidious one, nor spared the expression of their
opinions on the policy and deportment of the British
Government with regard to the occupation of, or the
possessory title to, New Zealand, and the pretensions
of the New Zealand Company. Our readers will
remember, probably, that we have contended, in
former articles, on the affairs of New Zealand, that
the normal error of a former Colonial Government
consisted in not availing itself, in the first instance—
if New Zealand colonisation by British subjects was
to be encouraged at all—c: the sound and undoubted
title of priority of di"" JO,) . We denied the right
which that Compaq • .ssumed in its outset of settling
the lands of the islands composing this now recog-
nised colony before they themselves had derived any
title under grant from the Crown to the allotments
which they undertook to di-pose of to intending emi-
grants; and we expressed our astonishment at the
vacillating demeanour of her MAJESTY'S Ministers,
who, after denying their responsibility for the acts of
the Company to the settlers who had purchased or
located on the faith of their validity, and in so far
invalidating such transactions, or rather the contracts
under which they had occurred, as to have declared
that the islands were independent, and presented them
with a national flag, subsequently erected New Zea-
land into a British colony. We might have added,
that they subsequently submitted their conflicting
claims to all the unoccupied lands of the colony, with
those of the New Zealand Company, to the arbitra-
tion of a third party, a private gentleman, under
whose award the Company is entitled to an immense
extent of territory which, in their turn, they are now

complainants at being debarred from. W perceive
that these our views are fully borne out by the Re-
port of the Select Committee, and especially by the

"Resolutions" appended to it, to the declarations

embodied in which we shall very speedily recur. Ii

is our painful duty, too, to repeat the conviction,
fortified by the Report before us, that Lord Jour;
RUSSELL is chargeable with great want of statesman-
Ike consideration and ministerial energy in having
confined, in the first instance, his restraining inter-

ferenee with the mischievous and illegal pretensions

of the New Zealand Company to mere remonstrances

and warning, and to his having afterwards given

effect to their unwarrantable assumptions by acts of
rasi recognition and acknowledgment on the part of
the Government to which he belonged. Had the
rights of the Crown been more distinctly asserted,
the unauthorised operations of the Company more

vigorously put down, there is much probability that
the fatal massacre at Wairau would not have after-
wards occurred; for the unfortunate misunderstand-
ings and prepossessions of the natives as to the right
of property, on their side, to unreclaimed or unoccu-
pied lands, could not, in that case, have been pre-
cipitated. The instructions to Governor HOBSoN,
however, were founded on an admission of these pre-
possessions, in the native mind, the same which per-
vaded the native mind on the conclusion of the treaty
of 'Waitangi. But if we are compelled to impute
error of judgment in these matters to the late Minis-
ter for the Colonies, we cannot exempt Lord
STANLEY, his successor in the present Administra-
tion, from a degree of passive apathy or indifference
in dealing with the whole of this momentous ques-
tion. This torpidity seems at other times to have
been replaced by an irritable testiness—an impatience,
as it were, of a distasteful subject, which augured
far more unfavourably for the future interests and
permanent welfare of the young colony, than his
predecessor's lack of decision, accompanied, as that
was, by declarations of a sincere and cordial interest
in its advancement. Altogether, it is evident that the
proceedings of two Governments with regard to
New Zealand aad the New Zealand Company, have
been a tissue of ill-informed, ill-considered, and dis-
crepant legislation, from 1830 or 1832 to the present
time. May the experience of its entangled results
serve to avert from other colonies the mischiefs of
similar treatment ; and from future small capitalists
and intending emigrants similar frauds, cruelty, and
ruin, to those charged against the Broad-street-build-
ings Direction. But we shall recur to this subject
forthwith.

We regret to find from the Madrid journals of the
sth instant that the accounts of the hurricane and
earthquake at Cuba, which appeared in the papers
some days since, are confirmed. Subscriptions are
in progress at Madrid for the relief of the sufferers.
The QUEEN had contributed 60,000 reels, the QUEEN-
MOTHLE 20,000, and each of the Ministers 1,000
reels. In the Chamber of Deputies the Finance Mi-
nister brought in a Bill for the maintenance of the
clergy, and proposed a vote of 159,000,000 reals.
The Gazette contains a royal ordonnance, signed by
General NAILVAEZ, depriving General CASTANEDA of
his rank, titles, and decorations, as an accomplice of
ZURBANO.

The Three per Cents. closed at 31i for cash, and
31i at 60 days; the Four per Cents. at 20 for cash;
the Five per Cents. at 202 for cash, and 21f at 60
days; the Floating Debt at 73f at 15 days; and the
Coupons at 25i at 60 days.

The French Opposition journals are constantly in-
veighing against certain writers of the London press
who, they state, lose no opportunity of offending
France, and thereby excite reprisals against this
country. There never was a more unjust accusation.
The London press for months together has at times
exhibited the greatest forbearance, when England
was denounced as " perfidious Albion," her naval
officers and sailors described as " brutal," and the
measures of the Government, whether Whig or Tory,
as calculated only to overreach simple-minded French-
-men-and trample on unoffending France. Indeed,
the patience displayed was interpreted by some as
symptoms of distrust in our own strength, in place of
being regarded in its true character—a disregard,
approaching to contempt, for all the bravadoes of the
war party. But a few days since a sort of truce was
proclaimed—a disposition to write in civil language
was ostensibly evinced by M. TRIERS' journal—ail
former feuds were to be buried in oblivion, and if bad
feelings should ever be again displayed, the cause of
offence should not proceed from France. This was
the language used especially by the Constitutionnel,
yet so impossible is it for the party represented by that
journal to cast off their propensities for war, and war
only, with England, that within less than a week after
the truce had been signed, comes forth an article pro-
claiming that a general and serious war is almost
inevitable, and that peace is a mere dream. These
are the sentiments of this restless and wicked war
party, which form the commencement of a proposed
series of articles on " War and existing interests":—•-
" It is our intention to inquire whether the new in-
terests which, have sprung up in Europe during the
last-thirty years, do not render a general and serious
conflict almost inevitable. It is well known that we
are not among the disciples of the Abbei de Saint
PIERRE; universal and permanent peace appears to
us to be a mere dream—a dangerous dream for the
Government that indulges in it." After this general
proposition, the writer, as a matter of course, turns
his eyes to England, tells his countrymen to
keep themselves in a warlike attitude, to be
prepared for work, and yet beleive that peace
may be preserved. This was M. TRIERS' doctrine
when he took part with the Pacha of Ecnri-r, dis-
played a menacing attitude in the Mediterranean
and would have brought on a general war had be not
been turned adrift by the good sense and humane po-
licy of Lotus PHILIPPE ; still the party cherishes the
same delusion, and regard a contest with England as
an event fatal to her greatness and glory. The Cus-
toms revenue would be all but annihilated. Our vast
colonies would be exposed to ruinous assaults, and of
course the Repealers and the Chartists, and we sup-
pose the Puseyites also, would so weaken her internal
strength as to reduce her to the last extremeties. We
will let the writer, however, speak for himself:—
" The foreign trade of England is exclusively maritime,
A war with France would inflict upon- her cruel attacks.
and we may assert without exaggeration that the receipts
of the customs would be immediately reduced 60 t) 70
per cent. There would no longer be any maritime insu-
rances ; for, however powerful the London companies
may be, they would not be sufficiently so to meet the
chances of war, and France a ould be much better able
to injure British commerce than she was under the Em.
pire. But this is not the only consideration in England.
She is not only incapacitated for egression, but has con-
stantly to provide for her defence. Without talking of
the vulnerable points of England and Ireland, Great Bri-
tain has vast and numerous po,sessions on all points of
the glObe. Her fleets ate poweiful and well-organised ;
but would they suffice to resist attacks upon every point?
She must at the same time defend India, her colonies in
North America, the Antilles, the Cape of Good Hope,
Sierra Leone, Gambia, the Mauritius, St. Helena, the
Austral colonies, Heligoland, Malta, the lonian islands,
&c. Without doubt the defence of these different co-
lonies is well organised ; but could the English forsee on
what point the enemy would direct a superior force? Are
these possessions, even with the most complete surveil-
lance, all protected against a coup de main, and could
they alike successfully resist attack ? Thus war, with
the-distraction of internal difficulties, the situation of the
finances, and the destruction of public credit, commerce,
and manufactures—war, considered with reference to a
purely military point of view, could not be without grave
perils for .Englatal."
These are the proofs of reconciliation furnished by
this journal, which boasts that its patrons are the best
friends of peace.
The Ministerial Globe makes the following just
remarks on the observations of the Commerce,
National, end other Oppsitional journals, respecting
the new loan :
"If you would become acquainted with the spirit of
the French read the journals of yesterday morning, and
meditate upon the reflections they make on the loan being
taken at 841. 75c. Remark that not one of these journals
had ever believed that so high a price could be obtained ;
and the public theught the same as they did, as was
proved by the murmur of astonishment which arose
when the Minister read the proposal of Messrs. de
Rothschild. One would consequently have expected
that the journals would have been silent, if they could
not make up their minds to congratulate the Govern-
ment on the confidence it inspires, and praise Messrs.
de RothsChild for having ?Used public credit by the high
price they offered. And yet the very contrary hai
taken place. The Government is neverthtless accused
of having sacrificed the fortune of the public, and
Messrs. de Rothschild are represented as greedy wolves,
who devour the State. According to the journals, the
State would have obtained what it wanted on better
terms, if it had adopted the mode by public subscription.
They cannot comprehend that the small capitalists
measure their confidence in the state by the confidence
they have in the houses whose credit, ability, and pru-
dence arc known throughout Europe."
The fol!owing are additional extracts from the
pal ers

Itosian • •
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• • 1041

FLANDERS MAIL.
(RECEIVED THIS DAY.)

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BRUSSELS, 17.1 c. 10.—The average price of wheat last
week was 17f. 04c., and that of rye 10f. 43c. The duties
on importation and exportation remain as before.
IVe learn from Vienna that Count de Woyna, who is
appointed Envoy Extraordinary from the Emperor of
Austria to the Court. of Belgium, is to set out from
Vienna for Brussels in the course of next week.
The Chamber of Representatives, in its sitting to-day,
received a project of law, the purport of which is to
grant to the department of Public Works a credit of
12,500,000 f. for the construction of a double line to the
railways, and of the buildings depending on the stations,
for the construction of a section of the railway from
Ghent to Tervuren and the entrepots, for the construc-
tion of a navigable canal to the Meuse, from Liege to
Maestrecht, and of a navigable canal to open a conirau-
nication from Turnhout to the canals of the Campine.
The 2d article authorises .the Government to accept
the subfcription of the English Company (Mackenzie and
Co.), for the construction of the railway from Tourney
to Turbise, and from St.:Trond to Hasselt.
The necessary funds for these several undertakings
will be provided for by the issue of Treasury bonds.
We are able to state that the Ring and Queen will
quit the Palace of Lacked on Thursday next (for his
Majesty's seat at Ardenne, as has been reported) for
Paris, in order to be united with the Royal Family of
France, to receive the Duke and Duchess d'Aumale.
Their Majesties are expected at the Palace at the Tuile-
ries on Friday next.
The voyages of the steamer between Antwerp and
Fluhing are stopped by the ice. •
The numerous suicides which have lately occurred its
Prussia, in the prisons for debt, have drawn the atten-
tion of the Government to the serious question of im-
prisonment. It has the opinion of the most eminent
lawl ers. It is now under consideursastniLosn,
Dwzo.heltoh.er impri-
sonment for debt . shall not be wholly abolished, giving
creditors soinnEeLoufltAhNe sFsecurity._ni
y .
Actua Debt, 2% per Cent., ..... ....... . ............... Rottiscisild's Loan, Five per Cent .......
Loan of Thirty Millions, Four per Cent ...... PS ;(
Three per Cent...« .....
Thirty-seven Milli ns, ditto ....
(1840) . 113%
Loan of City, 1843, Four per lO3
'Mg
....................... ... 102
Society of Commerce, Four and a Half per Celt. I
Bank of Belgium, •Fiye per Cent...«
Issue of 1841...............
—Brussels Papers, "Doc.'l2. *".
Five
A.llllll AN FIJ N Db.—VIENNA, Dec 4
per Cents. Metalliques
Four per Cents ............ ........ ...................».. la)
RThree per Cent 5....... ........ ...... '7.33t
Lank Shares ......... 1610
oan, 1834. .........
Ditto, 1839
Esterhazy's Loan
..
-411gemeke Zeilung, Dec. 8.

PRIVY COUNCII„---Sir Janus Graham, the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer and other Ministers, left
town by the half-past one o'clock train of the Great
Western Railway this afternoon for Slough, to attend
her Majesty's Privy Council appointed at half-past
two o'clock at Windsor Cagle. The Duke of Wel-
lington and Sir R. Peel will attend the Council, his
Grace and the Right Hon. -Baronet being at the Castle
on a visit to the Queen:
Tue WEATIIER.—The thermometer in the course
of last night marked 21, being one degree lower than
it has been this season. The barometer is falling
rapidly, and there is a keen squally wind from the
east, with every appearance for fall of snow. The
river is covered already wi:h floating ice. ,

" We have just received (says the Constitutionnel) a
I,,tter from Berne of the Bth. Several students had
quitted the town to assist the Liberals of Lucerne. A
great number of volunteers from Argau and Bala Cam-
pagne have crossed the frontier. A contest is regard( d
as imminent in the canton of Lucerne, and militaty
preparations continue at Berne."
The following paragraphs are derived from the
Augsburgh Gazette of the 7th instant :
" FRONTIER or ITALY, Nov. 30.—The projected mar-
riage between the Count de Trapani and the Queen of 1 ANTI-PusOii iii THE CITY.--A meeting of the
Spain is more than ever talked of. It is a new means of electors of the Ward of Aldgate (preliminary to the
strengthening the family connexion betty en the several annual civic elections) was holden on Wednesday; it was
branches of the house of Bourbon. It. is the conse- resolved that their representatives be instructed to op-
quence of the scheme whereby the marriage between pose the grant of 2001. towards the endtiwment of Crip-.
the Duke d'Aumale and the Princess de Salerno has 1 plegate new church, and to support Sir Peter Laurie's
been effected. Does not this remind us of the reported i amendment to postpone the 'consideration of the sub-
marriage of the Duke de Illontpensier and the sister of i ject for one year. 'the members of the ward voted with
the Queen of Spain?
Sir Peter Laurie yesterday• and in accordance with those
"NOVEMDZa 29.—The rumour is again revived that 1 instructions.
. .
.

the Duke de Montpensier, Louis Philippe's younger son,
is to be married to the Infanta Maria Louisa, th sister
of the Queen of Spain. The more importance is bestowed
upon this piece of news as the health of the Queen is
said to be very delicate, and, in the event of her dying
without issue, the crown would pass to the Infanta. It
is, however, believed that England will protest su;ainst
the projected match, and prevent its being accompli ,hed."
THE BOURSE--WEDXESDAY, DEC. 11.
First Highest Lowest Last
ce. ce.rice.
French Five per Cents.• •—• IPri2l 05 121 20 .. 121 CO.ce.. 121
Fours ..—•• ••• • • • 108 .. 108 .. 108 .. 108
Three per Cents .• 84 75 84 85 .. 84 65 .. 84 65
New Loan •. •• •• • • 86 50 .. 86 70 .. 86 30 .. 86 60
Bank of France
Lailltte Bank, I,ooof Sharealloo ••1100 ..1100 ..1100
5,000 L SharessoBo ..6680 —5OBO —5OBO
Belgian 8ank........ • • 587 50 .. 587 50 .. 585 .. 585
1841....•••••110 ..1100 —llOO ..1100
Belgian Fives, 1831.
1840 .• .. • ... 1021 .. 1031 • • 103 i .. 103;
1842 •• 106; • • 106 f • . 106; • • 106;
Spanish Threes.. •••• •• 361 .. 361 .. 361 • • 30
Active ...• •• •• 33 .. 33 .. 33 .. 33
Passive • • . 6 .. 6 .. 5;
Portuguese Five per Cents.. 561 .. 561 .. 56 .. 561
Neep01iten.........• •• • •• 88 50 .. 98 50 .. 98 25 .. 98 25

MARKET NEWS-(THIS -13-AY.)

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CORN EXCHANGE-FRIDAY.

RAILWAY SHARES. •
•
St. Germain
Versa Wes, R.ll. •• • •• • • 460 • • 473 78 • • 460 . • 472 50
L.R...•••••••• •• 355 .. 357 50 352 50 .. 357 50
Rouen to Havre.. •• .. • • 791 25 • • 791 25 .. 785 .. 785
Orleans .................1065 ••1070 ••1065 ..1070
Strasburg to 8a1e.......... *492 50 .. 293 75 . 292 50 .. 292 50
Avignon to Marseilles.... • • 920 .. 925 .. 920 .. 920

Very few fresh arrivals of English Wheat have takes
place for our markets since Monday, hence the supp!y of
that article was small. Owing to the severity of the
weather, the millers were rather anxious buyers, and a
clearance was readily effected at very full prices. In
fine Foreign Wheat rather an extensiue business was
transacted, but at no more money. Bonded Grain was
held firmly. The Barley trade was much in the same
state as last advised. The supply of English was only
moderate, but that of Foreign was large. No change
whatever was noticed in the demand for, or prices of,
Malt. The largelibrewers are holding off for an im-
provement in quality. Oats, Beans, and Peas were
stationary.

RAILWAYS FOR THE ACCOUNT, DEC 16.
St. Germain-- •••• •••• •• 930 .. 990 .. 987 50 .. 987 50
Versailles, •••• 472 50 .. 475 .. 472 50 .. 473 75
L. 11.....••• 350 . 369 .. 350 .. 356 25
Rouen • 1022 50 —1025 ..1021 25 ..1021 25
Rouen to Havre..
Orleans .1070 ..1071 25 —1057 50 ..1067 50
Strasburg to Bale.. •• •• 292 60 .. 293 75 .. 291 25 .. 291 25
Avignon to Marseilles....., 922 50 .. 922 50 .. 905 .. 9.7 50

THIS DAY'S NEWS

PRIVY COUNCIL.-(THIS DAY.)
The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-
day in the Council Chatnixors, Whitehall. The Lords
present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Park*,
the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Judge of
the Admiralty Court, Sir E. IL East, Sir E. Ryan, and
Sir F. Johnstone. Their Lordships were occupied the
whole day with Indian appeals.
CHA

NCERY—(THIS DAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in Lincoln's-inn Hall to-day
and heard lunatic petitions and appeal motions, none of
which possessed any points of interest.

VICE-CHANCERY.--(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)
His HONOUR was occupied the whole morning with
unopposed petitions and short causes.
(Before Sir J. WIGRA.M.)
LICE V. PAIN.
The arguments in this case, which have occupied the
Court for several days continuously, were concluded this
morning; his Honour takes time to consider his judg-
ment.
The Court then resumed the hearing of the arguments
in " Mallalieu v. Miller," already reported, which comes
on again on some points reserved for rehearing.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
Lord Denman sat at Nisi Prius to-day, with a London
Special Jury, at the Guildhall. The Court was occupied
' the whole morning in trying the case of
BUITANELLI V. BLACK AND °THEO,
an action brought by the proprietor of a brig Guiachimo
de Giorgio, against the underwriters, to recover the in-
surance effected on his vessel for her voyage from Ro-
setta to Ancona which vessel, during the course of that
voyage, struck upon the rock Suut-au-Angelo, and was
lost. The demand was resisted, on the ground that the
captain of the vessel had improperly deviated from his
course, and that the loss had occurred solely in conse-
quence of that deviation.
The case, which had not concluded when we went to
press, will probably last all day.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall, before the LORD CIIIEI BARON
and a Common Jury.)
BURY V. BICKNELL.
This was an action to recover damages fur the injury
which was alleged to have been done to two volumes of
architectural works, published by Pugin. The books
in question, which consisted of plates and letter-press,
were sent to the defendant, a bookbinder, living in Cole-
man-street, to be bound, and the complaint was, that
the plates were misplaced, and otherwise injured, so as
greatly to reduce the value of the books.
The principal defence was, that the plaintiff himself
was only an agent, the works belonging to his brother,
and that, as such, he was not entitled to maintain the
action.

Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 3/. 10s.; costs, 40s.

COMMON PLEAS-(THIS D►AY.)
(Sittings in London.)
The Lord Chief Justice aad a special jury were occu-
pied the whole morning with the case of Harby v. Bolt,
which arose out of a dispute as to the manner in which a
cargo of timber was measured for freight from Malabar
to London. It was wholly uninteresting to the public.
M.

'ARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY )
Edward Ryan.was charged with being drunk and in-
capable of taking care of himself or the cab (No. 505) he
was driving.
Police-constable 25 of the C division stated that, be-
tween eleven and twelve o'clock last night, he saw the
defendant sitting asleep in his cab, in Marylebone-
street. The horse was going on at the time at a
quick pace, and ran the cab three or four times on to the
footway pavement, to the imminent danger of persons
passing at the time. Ile was, in consequence, taken into
custody, and the cab and horse to the greenyard.
Inspector Plume of the C' division said the defendant
was what is termed a " Buck ;" he was employed by the
regular drivers to go with their cabs while they were
drinking at some public-house. He had, it appears in
this instance, been sent out by the driver of the cab, who
was regaling himself at an infamous coffee-shop in St.
James's Market.
Mr. HARDWICK said in every case of this sort he should
inflict a very severe penalty.
• The defendant was fined 40.1. or one month's impri-
sonment to hard labour ; and William Broadlield, the
driver, was fined 103., or one month's imprisonment, for
entrusting and permitting him to drive the cab.
Ryan being unable to pay the fine was committed to
gaol.