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LONDON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 14, 1845.

Together with the second and " special " Message
of Mr. President TYLER on the subject of the tone
assumed by the Minister of Mexico, in his corre-
spondence with the Minister of the United States,
accredited to that Power, we yesterday published,
from the New York Herald, a curious article headed
" European Interference in American Affairs." It

will be remembered that this correspondence regarded
what Mr. TYLER is pleased to call " the extraordi-
nary and highly offensive language which the
Mexican Government has thought proper to employ
in reply to the remonstrance of the (United States')
Executive, through Mr. SHANNON, against the renewal
of the war with Texas, whilst the question' of
annexation' was pending before (the United
States') Congress and the people." What the
nature of the Mexican Minister's language may
have been is one question. What the proceedings
have been, in reference to Mexico, and of the Ame-
rican Legislature and Executive, is another and very
different one. The first involves considerations merely
of the good or bad taste with which Senor REJON
may have given utterance to the views entertained by
his Government in relation to the underhanded in-
trigues of Mr. TYLER with certain Mexican sub-
jects, for the dismemberment of a large section of the
Mexican empire. The second question is nothing
less than one of absolute wholesale spoliation, by the
stronger upon the weaker of the twd Governments
concerned, in appropriating, under the mockery of a
Legislative sanction from the representa-
tives of its own population, of that dismem-
bered territory, and incorporating it into its own
dominions, in open defiance of the protests and recla-
mations of the despoiled State. Is Mexico an in-
dependent Government, or a federal member of the
United States, or a tributary and dependent
Power in relation to them ? If she were a
federal member of the United States, she would
be justified in resenting, if she thought proper,
the proposed annexation of Texas to the Union. If
she were a tributary and a dependent, then, indeed,
her repudiation of the project, " in language unknown

•to the courtesy of diplomatic intercourse, and offen-
sive, in the highest degree to the (United States')
Government and people," might properly have called
for and sufficiently justified Mr. TYLER'S violent
philippic against a bearing and a tone that independent
nations only can he permitted to assume. But Mexico
is an independent nation. All the cunning and
trickery developed in the PRESIDENT'S Message cannot
grapple with or escape from this fact. So far from it,
he complains that " she has added insult to injury," in
her dealings with the American Minister, charged to
remonstrate with the Mexican Government "in re-
spectful though decided terms"—by " not even deign-
ing, for months together, to return any answer to
such representations;" and by other acts, both of
commission and omission, which all combine to prove
at least this :—that any defect, either in her
character of independence, or any feebleness of tone
in her mode of vindicating it—has never once
occurred to the American Minister or the meddling
President to suggest. Now, Mexico being thus, in
fact, de jure, and, by the acknowledgment of the
United States, recognised as an independent Power;
what degree of blame or astonishment can it excite
that she should have indignantly and vehemently re-
sented so intolerable as intervention with her rights
and her dignity as the cool and impudent pretension
of another Government to dispose, by an act of its
own Legislature, and to itself, of an enormous
portion of the Mexican dominions ? It is, indeed,
" to add insult to injury"—on the part of the United
States' executive—to talk of the question of annexa-
tion of the territory of an independent and friendly
Power, "as pending before their Congress and people,"
in the teeth of that Power's decisive and urgent pro-
testations against such a proceeding. Mr. TYLER,
who seems to be about as bad a jurist as he is an un-
principled politician and moralist, affects to put the
defence of this enormous violation of National Inde-
pendence, on the plea that Mexico had avowed her
determination to recommence tnat norrioie moae or
making war, against which our readers will remember
we have so often, in the name of humanity, indignantly
appealed to the execration of all civilised na-
tions. " The war," writes Mr. TYLER, in that peculiar
style and language the nationality of which it is al-
ways so difficult to determine, "the war thus threat-
ened to be renewed was promulgated by edicts and
decrees, which ordered on the part of the Mexican
military, the desolation of whole tracts of country,
and the destruction, without discrimination, of all
ages, sexes, and condition of existence.' " Horrible
decrees, indeed, neither to be excused on the ground
of the Mexican irritation, nor of the defensive re-
action they might in execution effect on the secret
intrigues of the American " annexers," diplomatic
and other, with Mexican subjects; nor yet to be jus-
tified by the example of those previous unatoned
excesses of wanton and wholesale extermi-
nation in which the " United States' military"
had indulged in their wars upon the red men
of their western and north-western frontiers,
But the wolf was a sorry casuist with the lamb, from
all time; and President TYLER talks more angrily
than logically of Senor REJON. The plea about the
Mexican cruelty would have been all very well, if it
had been entered in time ; if it could have been shown
that the annexation project was the consequences of
these " edicts and decrees,"—that it was post hoc;
ergo, propter hoc. The President has admitted in a
former part of his Message that, previously " Texas,"
(i. e. the annexation party in it) " had entered into
the treaty of annexation, upon the invitation of the
American Executive," and " was, for that act,
threatened (by Mexico) with this renewal of the. war,"
&c. The plea of Mexican cruelty operating on the
sympathising tenderness of American humanity is,
thererefore, as worthless—and as out of date—as a
Pennsylvanian bond.

Coupling this flimsy complaint of this " Special
Message" with the strange article in the New York
Herald, we can detect something like, we think, a
" foregone conclusion." Is it meant, in the event of
the good sense and sound principle of the calmer
sections of the American public rejecting a proposi-
tion founded on such a palpable reliance on mere
physical strength to accomplish the ends of a faction's
ambition, to alarm their good sense out of its pro-
priety by raising this phantom of European interven-
tion ? We feel more confidence in the good sense of
our American brethren,—we have less doubt of their
inherent sagacity—than to feel much alarm about the
accomplishment of Mr. President TYLER'S annexation
policy, or the success of his Message mystifications I

Some well-meaning people and Puseyites, in the
disguise of Protestants, look upon the " EXETER agi-
tation" as settled. The Primate has`directed Dr. PIMA.-
POTTS to retrace his steps ; the Bishop has apparently
yielded obedience, and all again is in the right train.
The real friends of the Reformed Religion, however,
are not to be deceived by such shallow pretences, nor
to be stopped in their right course, by vague, un-
meaning, and equivocal letters from archbishops
and bishops. It is of these very men that the
Church has so much reason to complain. They have
winked at, nay, cherished dangerous and wide-
spreading heresy ! they have, in defiance of all the
rules of prudence, and in utter contempt of Christian
precepts, and the example of the great Founder
of Christianity, attempted to force upon their flocks
ceremonies and practices which they admit are of no
importance, but which they know the people detest as
the emblems ana harbingers of Popery. What has
been the result ? There have been meetings of laity
and clergy. The former unanimous, and the latter
divided in their opinions. Many staunch Protestants
have been forced to desert their parish churches ; pe-
titions from large assemblies have been prepared for
presentation to the Head of the Church, and to both
Houses of Parliament. A universal combination ap-
peared all at once, as if by natural impulse, to be
formed throughout the country to resist the innovations
and at the same time the insolent authority of the
bishops. No one cried them " GOD speed." It was
then, and not till then, that they saw the danger, and
orders were issued from head-quarters—not to yield,
to stop proceedings till the " present
gentle phrase) should be adjusted by
dbiavterssiitmiepsly(a
some general measure which shall have the sanction
of the whole Church." Now, what is meant by the
whole Church ? The people, the aggrieved party
are not regarded as the Church, and will not be heard,
nor will the deans and chapters—much less the
clergy, or deputations from the clergy, be admitted
into the council which is to adjust the "present
diversities"—in act, the Church is a very snug, small
body, consisting of twenty-six individuals, who will
meet privately at Lambeth Palace, talk over the

questions of the surplice, the offertory, genuflexions
and burning tapers, and then issue an episcopal bull
for the edification of their obstinate and misguided
flocks. But the people can have no confidence in such
a conclave, nor do they virtually care one straw

about the mummeries which the Puseyite bishops
would re-establish. Were all the orders issued by
CHARLESJAMES LONDON and HENRYEZETER,aIid other
Puseyite bishops, declared null and void, the great
grievance would remain intact. A large body of cler-
gymeng exist in the Established Reformed Church,
havehurch,
denouncedwho are professed
ferrnfoaltl
Reformation
nerass ofa re
men
at crime, and that
openly professed their ardent wish to be again united
to the Roman see, in defiance of their ordination vows
by which they renounced the Romish doctrines con-
cerning purgatory, pardons, worshipping and adora-
tion, as well of images as of reliques ; and also invo-
cation of saints ; and above all, transubstantiation,
declared repugnant to the plain words of Scripture.
But even these Romish doctrines are not so alien to

the minds of Protestants as the spirit of that religion
of which they are outward signs, whose object is to
bind the human will in fetters, to crush free inquiry,
and smother that liberty and independence which have
wrought such wonders in England and Holland.
These are the real grounds of apprehension, and the
very general anxiety on the subject speaks well for
the country, and does immortal honour to the laity
who have had the courage to rebel against their
teachers, and think for themselves. What have these
teachers done ? While publications, which are a dis-
grace to the Protestant Church, have have been
written and circulated—while men holding valuable

livings, and the professed teachers of Protestant youth,
have openly renounced their faith, the bench of
bishops remained silent, apparently watching with
interest the progress of the scheme, and never inter-
fered till the people roused them to a sense of danger.
Contrast this supineness with the lively interest they
display in things temporal. When a Bill was
brought into Parliament for the better management

of Church lands, whereby provision might have been
made for the repair and maintenance of churches and
glebe-houses, and church-rates been abolished,
in a few days afterwards a conclave of bishops as-
sembled at Lambeth, denounced the plan, and thereby
kept up one of the most unseemly causes of strife in
a Christian community. " They are greedy dogs,
which never can have enough," says the Prophet, when
describing the degenerated sons of the Levites, " and
they are shepherds that cannot understand ; they all
look to their own way, every one for his gain from his
quarter." If self-interest, or love of ease, or the
natural longing of the human mind for power and
authority, have prevented the bishops from beginning
at the right end—if they have stood by while the bul-
warks of Protestantism were undermined by traitors
at Oxford, and the majority of the Bench is now
justly suspected of favouring the new doctrines,
do they vainly imagine that the people will be
lulled to security by a few unmeaning phrases
about the surplice and the offertory, or the indiscreet
zeal of the Bishops of OXFORD, LONDON, and
EXETER ? The very letter of the last Bishop, pro-
fessing penitence, is only a specimen.of what they
may expect from the whole body. The principles of
Church authority he will maintain to the last, and he
stops his innovations only "in the prospect of these
principles being, ere long, practically asserted and en-
forced by our Reverend Primate." Does this show
any symptoms of yielding ? Does he thus give up
the surplice or the offertory, or any one clause of the
rubric, which he evidently regards as more sacred
than Holy Writ ? What absurdity to infer from his
Jesuitical letter that the affair is settled. According
to accounts just received from Exeter, some of his
young Puseyite clergymen have taken him at his
word, and " continued the services in their churches
as they now are." The church of one of these hope •
ful sycophants has in consequence been deserted,
and he has been hooted and "mobbed" in the streets.
Such are the efrocos or tne I,ccter, yet ho ie
osid by his humility and repentance to ha-T cast oil
on the troubled waters.

If we recur, often, to the aspect of our relations
with the United States and to British colonial ques-
tions, it is not only on account of our deep sense of
their general importance, but because they are be-
coming, with every post, as it were, of more impres-
sive interest.
We lately announced, on the authority ofadvices from
New York, that "the Americans in the Oregon terri-
tory have formed themselves a government, elected
executive and legislative officers, and established
courts of justice." It is in this, or some such man-
ner, we have no doubt, that the "settlement" of the
Oregon question will be precipitated; and if it be, its
results must tend, inevitably, either.to dishonourable
concessions on our part, or to a repression, of the
most hostile character, of the attempts at Ame-
rican occupation of which these proceedings, if truly
stated, are but the forerunners. The tardy di-
plomacy of the old Court of Spain, under the LERMAS
and the D'OLIVEREZ', was surely not more halting in
its progress, in the early part of the sixteenth cen-
tury, than that of our Foreign and Colonial De-
partments apparently is in the nineteenth century.
Why has nothing been done in the shape of some
distinct attempt to adjust this Oregon question, since
it so largely occupied the public attention in the
spring of last year ? Our Government, as we re-
marked a few days ago, seem to labour under a spe-
cies of mania for unsettled or open questions. Be they
boundary line—right of search—construction of treaty
—or territorial occupation disputes—the one great
maxim in Downing-street seems to be, "Leave them
all to take their chance. It will be time enough for us to
go into the merits when the matters are forcibly pressed
upon us for our immediate examination and defini-
tive settlement, either by a violent action from with-
out, or by the recorded opinions of Parliament from
within." That does not seem to be a received axiom
in our s 3 stem of diplomacy which is a practical truth
in the working out of these affairs—namely, that
this country, in nine cases out of ten, is a sufferer
by its delay in meeting and closing questions of dis-
puted principles. Our reclamations are always too
late. The aggressions of which we complain have
always been abruptly, if not unexpectedly committed.
Pretensions are set up against, say our national sove-
reignty over a certain district. We hold our title to
be so good, that we seem to think it would be a
stigma upon its legitimacy to defend it. :America,
France, or Russia, as the case may be, takes advan-
tage of this neglect, by making a second move in
advance on the board, in the shape of some preposterous
extension of the original pretension. America has
done this, in more than one instance, with the avowed
and bargain-driving purpose of leaving herself suffi-
cient margin, in the event of failing in her second, to
carry her first set of demands. By the time the
American Government have acted upon President
TYLER'S significant suggestion of providing a chain
of military forts to the Oregon territory for the re-
freshment and protection of emigrating citizens of
the United States,%twe shall be beginning to put
ourselves on the alert. It is notorious that the fur
trade of that region, and the occupation of the hunt-
ing-grounds about the mouth of the Columbia River,
are becoming of hourly augmented importance since
our new and improved relations with the markets of
China. Is it meant to abandon this lucrative peltry
trade—(if the questions of possessory title and our
national honour are really to go for nothing)—to the
Americans, without an effort to accelerate the official
machinery of Downing-street? For our own parts,
we confess with pain that both on this matter, and on
that of the annexation of Texas, we regret profoundly
to observe, in the House of Representatives, the pre•
valence among a majority of its Members of a spirit
towards England which cannot be mistaken. This
does not seem to be limited to simple hostility. There
is a sustained effort to do things in the way which
may be most offensive to the feelings and the dignity
of the English nation. This is short-sighted policy,
indeed, on the part of a somewhat over-shrewd
and under-scrupulous political assembly. If they
foment this spirit, until from the spark which is now
discernible it kindle into a flame, the United States
must inevitably be the real sufferers by the conflagra-
tion. We will not allude to a case of active hosti-
lities, though it is not gravely to be assumed that the
most outrageous insanity of Tylerism would commit
the States to such a suicidal trial of strength with
Great Britain. But we will put the hypothesis of a
reaction on American produce, trade, and society.
Two articles of the intelligence we have so lately
published have a bearing on this view of the matter,
too illustrative to need much of commentary from
us. One of these is from Brown's county, in Ohio;
the other from the Cape of Good Hope. The one
regards the terrible insecurity of all social order and
institutions under Governments which tolerate negro
slavery ; the other'demonstrates the precarious con-
tinuance of that staple -trade to the United States,
through which she at present derives so vast a pro-
portion of her commercial wealth and prosperity
from Great Britain, that staple being raised by negro
slaves. Both of the articles we advert to have this
bearing in common ; they show that it is at any time
in the power of this country to effect the reaction we
speak of on American interests, whenever the dis-
position of the American Government or people to
perpetrate such acts of territorial aggression and
aggrandisement shall have developed itself in overt
acts, the hostile tendency of which we shall find our-
selves no longer able to permit, or to overlook. In
the course of the sanguinary affrays between some
ruffians, slave-holders from Kentucky, and " negro
hunters," as they designate themselves—and certain
abolitionists, resident near George-town, in Brown's
county, Ohio, human lives were sacrificed, houses
burned and sacked, and the whole neighbouring dis-
trict thrown into commotion by atrocities worthy of
the horrible campaigns of the " soldiers of the
Church" against the Albiganses or the Vaudois.
Slaves, it appears, following the first and most holy
impulse of our common nature, were in the habit of
escaping out of Kentucky into Canada and freedom,
through the State of Ohio. Two well-known abo-
litionists dwelt on this border land, near George-
town. To their houset, the "party of Kentuckian

negro hunters" repaired to look for runaway slaves,

and of these unfortunates discovered two in the resi-

dence of a Air. MILLER. 'Whilst this man was gene-

rously aiding one of the slaves to get away, he was
knocked down, and repeatedly stabbed by the Ken-
tucky people, and presently expired. The ruffians
then proceeded to the other house, that of a Mr.
KING, carrying with them the two slaves, bound. At

KING'S, they were stoutly resisted by four or five

armed L uen, who declared that the house should not

be searched. In the fierce conflict that ensued, a son
of a certain " Colonel" Townes, a Kentucky slave-
holder, was killed on the spot, and KING, whilst re-
loading the arms of his companions, was shot through
the window and left for dead. The sheriff at length
appeared, and took the " ringleaders" on either side
into custody. But sheriffs and their posses are held
as cheap, and are as utterly repudiated in the Slave
States of the Union, as human liberty, negro life, or
Pennsylvanian bonds. Another body of Kentuckians
' came up and recommenced the slaughter. " One of
the slaves was hung without ceremony" for hav-
ing resisted " Colonel" TOWERS, who had captured
him, and therefore was one of the ruffians engaged in
the first affair. The brave Kentucky hunters then
entered the house of another obnoxious abolitionist,
and beat him till his life was despaired of. The New
York Sun makes these hideous outrages the ground,
not of rebuke and denunciations of shame to their
compatriots, but, forsooth, of absurd accusations and
childish menace against England. Let us remark, in
Perfect calmness, that if the wise editors of these
journals will cast their eyes over the map of the
Western hemisphere, and note the proximity of San
Domingo to the Southern States of the Union, and
consider the character and free condition of the com-
patriots of the " blacks " of San Domingo or
Jamaica, and all the British West India Islands,
they will find more substantial grounds for appre-
hension and alarm, as well as accusation and menace,
in respect of and against their own unpardonable
treachery to the cause of human liberty, and their
own inexcusable blunder in the toleration within
their own territory of negro slavery.

But we fear that considerations founded on the
rights of man—in the black variety—are lost upon a
vast community of American citizens. Let us put
one of another kind, calculated to appeal to their
more active sympathies. Can they afford to lose
their inordinate exports of raw cotton—of that slave-
grown staple- r-. the English market? By a
righteous dispensation, it seems as if England were
destined soon to release slave-labour from its cultiva-
tion in one hemisphere, and to employ free black
labour in its cultivation in another. We quote, with
unfeigned satisfaction, from the City article of a
Morning Contemporay, the following remarks on its
last intelligence from the Cape of Good Hope :
" We some time ago mentioned that some experi-
ments had been made in the cultivation of the cotton
plant last year, which had produced rather promising
results, and we now find that an association has been
formed for the purpose of continuing the experiments on
an extended scale. Some districts in the new province
of Natal are represented as offering every facility for the
growth of the cotton plant, and it is a species of
production in which the labour of the aboriginal
tribes can be rendered available with advantage to
themselves as well as to the colonists who may
employ them. We have seen a letter to-day from
an intelligent observer in the colony, who is exceed-
ingly sanguine on the subject, and who looks for-
ward to the extended cultivation of cotton as a most
useful auxiliary for the civilisation of the natives, and, in
time, for rendering the mother country less dependent
on foreign supplies. There may be something too san-
guine in these anticipations ; but it ought to be recol-
lected that thirty years ago few persons would have be-
lieved that this country and the rest of Europe would
have been dependent, to the extent they now are,
on the production of this staple on the great plain
of the Mississippi. It must be further borne in
mind, that between Algoa Bay and Port Natal about
100 streams of varied capabilities discharge them-
selves into the ocean, which may yet be destined to pro-
duce as astonishing results as the development of the re-
sources of the Western and South-Western States of the
North American Union.

" But the modus operandi may be made as different as
light is from darkness. In the one case the extension of
the cultivation of the cotton plant has not only propa-
gated but refined upon the cruelty of domestic slavery ;
whilst the other, under the guidance of the enlightened
Government of Great Britain, may render it subservient
to the civilisation of the African race in the south, and
thereby, in time, penetrate to the stronghold of slavery
iu the centre of that continent."

Judging from the proceedings in the Committees
in both French Chambers, the leading and most in-
teresting subject in the discussions on the Address
will be the right of search. The public mind appears
to be bent on annulling the treaties of 1831 and 1833 ;
and the Chamber of Deputies so far concurs in the
general wish, as to insert paragraphs similar to those
adopted at the commencement of the two last sessions,
and expressing a strong hope that negotiations on the
subject with England may in time lead to the happy
result of placing French commerce under the protec-
tion of its own flag—in other words, abolish the
treaties concluded between the two I'owers fur the
suppression of the slave trade. The Americans have
successfully objected to all such treaties, and the
French see no reason why their flag should be treated
differently. The paragraphs, however, are of the
mildest character, merely expressing wishes in which
the Chamber, and, perhaps, the Ministers themselves,
cordially concur. The paragraphs are as follow :--
" Struck with the inconvenience revealed by expe-
rience, and even for the advantage of the good intelli-
gence so necessary to the accomplishment of the common
object, we shall hail with all our wishes the moment
when our commerce shall be replaced under the exclusive
guardianship of our flag.
"This good understanding will no doubt aid in the
success of those negotiations which, whilst they gua-
rantee the repression of an infamous traffic, must tend
to replace our commerce under the exclusive guardian..
ship of our flag."

According to the Presse, the Marquis DR BOISSY
presented a similar amendment to the House of Peers,
but without any hope of its adoption. It runs thus :
—" The Chamber of Peers invokes and anticipates
with all its wishes the day on which a negotiation so
long commenced shall have the effect of replacing our
marine under the exclusive protection of our flag."
The affairs of Otaheite will form another subject of
discussion. A long list of documents on this subject
had been laid before the Chambers, and the more im-
portant of them have appeared in the Government
journals. The following paragraph, in one of M.
GulzoT's letters to the Count de JARNAC, will afford
the Opposition an opportunity of renewing the charge
that in everything the Foreign Minister yields to
England :—" As to the circumstances which have
accompanied the sending away of Mr. PRITCHARD, I
cannot pretend that they can all and entirely be jus-
tified, and that there are not connected with them
certain proceedings and expressions which are con-
trary to all equity, humanity, and propriety."
The Paris papers contain no news ; and the interest in
the fate of the Ministry is evidently dying away—for the
best reason in the world:—All know that a change of
Ministry will not lead to a change of policy. No
business was done in the Funds at TORTONI'S on
Sunday.

WATERFORD AND LIMERICK RAILWAY. The
election of Directors has been completed. In Carrick-
on-Suir district the votes were as follows for a single
director :—Mr. Galwey, Glen Lodge, 1,224 ; Mr. E.
Power, Mount. Richard, 530. The following is the result of
the retnrns from the various districts :—Waterford—
Messrs. Meagher, Strangman, Milward, Simon Newport,
and John Power. Clonmel—Messrs. Davis and Riall.
Caher—Mr. Bianconi. Carrick-on-Suir—Mr. Galwoy.
Limerick—Messrs. Gearey, Monsell, and P. Gabbett.
WEST LONDON RAILWAY.--Yesterday a special
general meeting of the proprietors of this Company was
held at the offices, in Abchurch-lane, Mr. H. Grcds
presiding, to consider the terms of a proposed gre ?en'
with the London and Birmingham Railway oinpallY,
i.
for leasing the West London line. The Di ceOl rere'-
port entered at length into the embarrassed condition
of the Company. The debts and liabilities amounted
to 60,0001., an execution was upon the line, and the
property seized was advertised for sale. Four
judgments had been entered against the Company, the
bankers' account was overdrawn, and the line being
worked at a loss of 501. per week. Under these circum-
stances the railway was closed, and an offer subsequently
made to the London and Birmingham Company, who,
on the payment by them of 60,000/. in liqui-
dation of the liabilities of the West London, are
to take a lease of the railway. The Directors now
recommend the ratification of this agreement,
and suggested that the adjustment of the various in-
tezosts of file shareholders should be left to the arbitra-
tion of Mr. Glyn, the Chairman of the Birmingham Com-
pany, Mr. Hudson, Chairman of the Midland Railway
Company, and Mr. Robert Stephenson, the engineer.
The Company was established ten years ago, with the
view of furnishing a west-end terminus for the London
and Birmingham and Great Western Companies. The
undertaking failed to meet with support from those
Companies, and the works continued in abeyance until
a year and a half ago, when they were constructed by
Mr. Robert Stephenson, and the line thrown open to the
public. A protracted discussion, in which Mr. Whit-
church, Mr. White, Mr. Husking, Mr. Cubitt, and Mr.
Roy took part, ensued. Ultimately, the report was
passed, and the Directors were empowered to conclude
the negotiations.
LARGE IMPORTATION OF VENEZUELAN SUGAR.—
The recent decision as to the admission of Venezuelan
sugar into this country, upon the
most favoured terms,
is now well known the mercantile interest. Hitherto,
however, there has been no large importations of it ; but
on Friday a cargo o, f about 300 tons arrived in the brig,
Gr
Warman from La u!tyro.—lllanche.str Guardian.
Mr. Horace Twiss, the new Vice• Chancellor of
tho Duchy of Lancaster, has appointed Mr. Hoyle, soli-
citor, Commissioner for Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for taking
affidavit* in the Ceurte at Lancaster,

TUIS DAYS -4-v4
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BAIL COUItT.—(THIS DA
to)
(Sittings at Nisi Fritts, befot Mr. Justice WIL
DUNN V. lIMPIIBIES.
efl°°d
This was an action to recoer a certain sum , iholoi
for work and labour done. )efendant pleaded ' I
was never indebted. PO°
Mr. Allan appeared for the,laintiff, and Mr.
,10
Mr. Wordsworth for the defedant. 4,4
The plaintiff, a master plasirer, had been e 4 d u°complete the interior of some remises belong, Pt
defendant, in Dorchester-place Blandford-srb;;;*
funds had, before October, 184, been suPPli sbstS°s
Nicholas, as agent for the defadant, but he 'the tts',
time failing to supply sufficientnoneys to PRY 00";
men, the plaintiff stopped workand then the, _ boss
himself ordered him to renew it stating that er,ier,o:
would provide future payments, These, hol.„edlitsii
not kept up regularly, and the plintiff agsals,"'"olos
threw up " the job ;" and it ws for con3PeFrilif
the work done from the period d the order gi
defendant that the present actionwas brought'
,t lost
The bill of particulars laid theamount due f'so ,
Evidence was adduced to provethe labour a:4.'OA
Mr. PLATT, for the defence, ccntended teaef,,,
tract for the completion of the liaises hsd e. asPil
into with Mr. Nicholas, and not vith plaintutefisii,
therefore, to him, and not to the lefendants vueo,ool.,
should look for payment. But thefacts of the joi;
that, on the 27th of November, M. Nieh°lBso 1714
covered that more money had been recap beer ,
plaintiff, in partial payments, than work 11
1005
by him on these premises, and therefore he fa 00
off, and a fuither sum of 501. was expended
ite
ing the bad work made by him. • peso' d
I'll d
After an elaborate address to the jury, Ole' 0
called to support the defendant's case ; sliretired,
Learned Judge had summed up, the jury eels,
had not returned a verdict when we went°'
iS 0
COMMON PLEAS.—(T—
it
(Sittings in Banco.)
is it
BURGESS V. GRAY. ilo II
This was an action to recover comPepsasseg,s
mages for injury sustained by the plaintiff, copofro
overturning of a chaise in consequence of a dsti44
bish improperly left in tho road by
servants. ICOl',O
The verdict was for the plaintiff—Pan!no, ,e,
,y
Mr. Sergeant BYLES obtained a rule 1`1"-,ind sses'"
the verdict, as against evidence, on the grtd do'
heap was laid in the road by a person nsw-
who was not the servant of defendant.
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ELLIOT V. ALLEN AND OTTlgfta 11013ori
This was an action for trespass and in-dical,a
ment, brought against the overseers and Mig cos
of the parish of Islington, under the lOW
stances :
ss . ',OH 1 li
It appeared that the plaintiff, who -,1100pr,„10
clerk to the eminent solicitors, Austin an„cligfar:s
ing let a part of his house in the parish of ',oo'oo
repeated quarrels with his tenants, who en -01; 0 0
actually locked him out of his own 11,.°11 ogle
so that he was compelled to Isres*sseo 101
street-door. These quarrels caused Isi WS,
in the neighbour, and as the conduct e. Id
tiff was somewhat eccentric in otilf?rtiei Te
it was represented to the parish authorloosoY
was dangerously insane, and ought to be ser, biloj;
this information, the parish officers causeliti, vot'
taken to the workhouse, confined as a h* t 0 ii
in a strait-waistcoat. Ho was discharged et tis '
a week. For the trespass and imprisentaesee
was brought, when the jury found for 41 %lea/
the dere
damages 4001. On Saturday, Mr. Sergestr„Sdat),,`
whom was Mr. Sergeant Shea, for the denies,
tioned the cause, which was again part hearriAl
This application was for a rule for a new •Ide,lo t
ground that the verdict was against evi
hearing was now resumed. Ail
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD, at great let2s,,s.
cause why a new trial should not be grannie
tended that there was every evidence that 0 011/
was not insane at the time of the trespass, °rot, ,
before it, and further, that he was not at o_l4
destitute circumstances such as could warrs„l/ 511"
interference of the parish authorities. 3..,%'"iit,„i'
)
the son of a judge in India, but, having a gPtiis tn,?l!
tendency, went out to Canada to preach ,
the Indians. On his return, he took tbio00!),
clerk to the solicitors, that being the profess dej
he had been brought up. It was not to he be
disappointments respecting property whies:hss soli
he was entitled to in India had rendered sur
6001
able, and that temper was aggravated by ti-1,8,00.iti
of his tenants. At the time when the Pe,;" atrkf,
the parish to take charge of him as a lanasseekit
was sitting quietly in hies parlour, Wald,'
1
affairs with his brother-in-law, who wag 8,100, s
and who remonstrated with the constav pee
them that the plaintiff was not insane. .00 big)
workhouse the plaintiff was allowed to T 1
and was otherwise treated aerhyssetimaturt.casehasaedai
distress
the uttitiholiii
,seaottnhrweet
ohs
airetslkhtlfiaheegrnoseautfetsalecno,tnibghytlteihht
abaitteth,c putting was thought ua gh
straight"
ne c e 4l.rle isstteccil
ea became
after
ea s v de
circumstances, in consequence of what he ''
and he was obliged to apply to the parish fbr),A.ei
Mr. Sergeant STIE,t, in reply, 0.,,,,t0na0'l iti, W
deuce for the defence fully established h 2.
i
gerous state of mind and tho destitution, abbe
the interference of the parish. lie d
Mr. Justice CRESWELL asked, had t— je ifi,
shown that the plaintiff was at the tireety of,
so pressingly dangerous as not to allo el
officers time to do as they required—naeli ,
for an order to take him to a magistrate', „'
confiring him on their own responsibility-
tit ts;" ,
Mr. Sergeant SHEA argued at length -- el
Mr. The sCeorugretanwterTeAoLfroopuißnDio,nf,orthtahtethe sari a
proved in evidence.
tile
pselanitnetdi,ffawndouthlde .0t
consentverdiet Atroastaeknetedreadmaapcgleeaosi in .. ,
the defendants malice which did not 1,
should be discharged, not otherwise. '''''
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ZXCHEQIJER.—(THIbrndt,I:I:II ,
(Sittings in Banco.) tOO,
WADE v. 6INEON. role aj.
In this ease, Mr. MARTIN moved for a rol'
cause why an order of Mr. Baron Alderge„'ool
chambers, on the 6th of December last, 1311541/ il,
set aside on such terms as their Lordships °OOP,
The action was commenced on the 14th e'' 'see a'
It was brought upon two cheques, beri."
on the 25th of May, 1840, and sear,
on the 14th of July, in the 'ins eat
and amongst other pleas, there were pleas 7,04
that these cheques had been given for re'otsist'li
hazard in a gambling-house in St. Jai:ool.os4li
case stood for trial as a special jury caseh-e 0/5
December last. All attempts to obtain tf pvio;
evidence having failed, on the 6th °OO Or.
the day before the, trial was to 00 s
the plaintiff's attorney consented to of
eibojeg,
of Mr. Baron Alderson, for the payment
op pirj
and costs. On the 7th of December a Pe,'" tbss It,
the attorney from the defendant, and stateu,:d Arool_,!
and various other persons whom he naill_s;g4; 71
pared to prove that the money had been ti 0° iiii
St. James's-street, four years before, aili fa 11,4
~,
so, but that it was foul play, sn'ai).V)
were used. He (the Learned Conn"; Ives
pared now with the affidavits confirnsieW lie'
ment, and stating further that the action „Ortist i
in collusion with Davis, the man who 1100:00.01)
An officer who was employed to procure Le 0 re j v
the subject, and every possible means no poles'
without effect. The money had since Dt7roo of
Court, in pursuance of an order of Mr.,,"'„meit° I
The case went off in order that the glir 40i .
to by the Learned Counsel might be filewt.oP . , i
TEE REVENUE FRAUDS.---TIIE ATTon24- , orri
. offess
In this case, which SMI
was an info 4. • i
ailege ea
the Attorney General, for certain —O, II ;If ,ow
against the excise-laws by the defends% ilic toti
recently carried on the business of senplig*st
the east end. The Solicitor-General *Leona?'
Court to fix a day for the trial of thei,"t plPr 1
—Thursday, Feb. 6, was appointed for t:,9;0111' rei
bine" de elti
Shortly after the above applicatior,l4 001 'itStl;l
oyeteTsl IhdEo
wtATTORNEY-GENERAL
eatuksthe defendants
why
p
said, in a case of the Attorney-ul, be 1,041
George Smith and James Scott 6,...,1111 .61) fro,l
artioefuh-ce:retfoilifrdarsf);!
of duties alleged in the last count of the ;og' of 00
have become due to the Crown, with the tis4ol,o
such duties became due, and also why Par 00000100$
tain spirits alleged in the third and other • dirtier' it/
ting 10 .
information to have been removed from - 000'_a,, 0
the rectifying house, and the time or times pliq, gp
removal was supposed to have taleriry, gpos fi
was certainly one of the most extraorsllolo,l 0 "is
stood, unaccountable prosecutions that of silt sr?,
instituted. The information consisted 0 oareios,d
and in the first five of these counts 0(1,0 Vs 400
that the defendants had used and carried ".0 abed 0
withl Esto
certain premises used as a distillery, _ 003, is lie
of a - mile of certain _ other prenlto, theory 001
a rectifying-house, and that, contrary cii,sb,,i. is i?
there was a communication between the snitss,stiol
wcohnics'belsiAo leis
wash,the re rectifying-house, fdy ientgb-ehrouasvetielbeys mhaeda nbs
eeonf
ethemanmebnyieftwtiaegrgi onws,asandataotnedtheinpuholn_iiee Ilacevei
joilioi
by a pipe under-ground, 01T the Leo pi
by means of a trough ; anv, of o,,ecl‘f pi
sought to be recovered on eaeviiot 0
~,'.004,0001,
counts amounted to 75,000 L—that is, 5' last 'iv "feo
the space of nearly three years. In lbeea iri
....ogee
the penalties, the defendant wail char y 0 be PO-00.011
general form. The whole amount sought am c0,.,1 vA,
by the two informations filed, including,' csan;SliAi
penalties, was 309,000/. The Learneuf the
,ileA ~,,'.
prooeeded to state at length the history esonect7herse
ments with which the defendants are cv_
~,,00,. petrel
the house had paid,
tnimbhuaeissnieyifai
form
rsfsmme
roi
lfloimfao
nedsrdi
esut
had
yltalhedarnh aldoo been
years,ce r r isend
doy Sol efootio;
1,0001. per day. In 1817, for obvious
of be trt; ; of
most tole
parretlobi
joeovntie,, legsrt
40,0o1;
was passed to prohibit the carrying ori e polo' coseq)
of a distiller and rectifier on the sire. s. the 0
tot, ...0
a saving clause was introduced exec!) expess tir„,
Messrs. Smith on account of the grealrisboietwids,.."
they had been at in the rectifying est uningigeotifil
however, the le . . 4
the passing of the Act, ,s, the totosA
gates, coanecting the distillery is'
vvi
er,,eot see
..„0 OP
house, were blocked up to the P, 1_44.01 P
upontebree
tnhepaid spirits.
of the excise officers, and then had pliluv
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