The Sun.
London, England, 1844-05-04 00:00:00

N. IT, 11111

LONDON, SATURDAY, MAY 4, 1844.

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In` the Houk of Lords, the Marquis of NOR-
MANDY said he would postpone his motion relative to
the recal of Lord L' till Tuesday, as
the Duke of IN ELI soTONhad stated that the Earl of
RIPON could not attend till that day
The LORD CI'4I4ELLOR
movedn s' Chapels
:that the House
should go into. Committee on the
Bill. He pointed out the vastia
issenter
expenses which had
been incurred in sluts which might
rbeen avoided,
and for which this Bill would providevae m
The Bishop of. LONDON moved that theeliielldly: read
six months ; and the Bishop of EXET: p
that day
posed it, to use his own words, most strongly. a o-
-
Lord BROUGHAM gave the Bill his entire
support,
because he felt the necessity of putting an end.to
vexatious litigation, and fulfilling the original inten-
tion of the donot,s.,_
Lord COTTBNHAM and Lord CAMPBELL also sup-
ported the Bill; and the amendment was negatived
without a division: The Bill then passed through
Committee, was ordered to be read a third time on
Monday, and the House adjourned.
In the House of 'Common., after the presentation
of petitions, Mr. HUE gave notice that, on Thurs•
day, he should move for a copy of all the corre-
spondence between the East India Company and the
Government relative., to the recal of Lord ELLEN-
BOROUGH. This .motion probably will give rise to
some interesting speeches and disclosures.
Sir CHARLES N ' - erupt gave notice that on Thurs-
day, the 16th of M 4- he should b • ring the Navy List.,
under the consideration of the House.
In answer to.a question from Mr. F. B
re-
lative to the Bank Charter, the C ARING'
UANCELLOIL of the

EXCHEQUER said he believed Sir ROBERT PEEL did I
not intend to call upon the House to agree to any
resolutions on the subject when he brought it forward
on Monday, if there should he any objections to his
propositions.
On the Order of the Day being read for the House
going into Committee on the Factories Bill, Mr.
ROEBUCK moved a resolution to the effect that no in-
terference with the power of adult labourers in fac-
tories to make contracts with respect to the hours fur
which they shall be employed, be sanctioned by the
House. He then contrasted, at some length, the con-
dition of the peasant and the labourer in factories,
and expressed his firm conviction that the condition
of the latter was infinitely better than that of the
former.
Sir JAMES GRAHAM opposed the resolution, and
Mr. LABOUCHERE supported it, but we find no-
thing in their speeches that requires even a summary.
Captain Rous supported the amendment of Mr.
ROEBUCK, and only regretted that he had not moved
that the Bill be rejected.
Lord HoWICK, Sir R. PEEL, Lord J. RUSSELL,
and a number of other Members, addressed the House,
when, on a division, the amendment was negatived
by a majority of 206.
The House then went into a Committee pro forma,
and immediately resumed.
The other orders of the day were then disposed of,
and the House adjourned at a few minutes past
One o'clock.

if Parliament resolved on interfering with the
factory system. We should lose, forsooth, the
markets of Germany—of America—in a word, of the
whole world ! And all these afflictions are to befal
u 4, if we presume to listen to the voice of humanity—
which in nine cases out of ten is the voice of common
sense—and endeavour to help those who have no
power to help themselves! Mr. ROEBUCK, you are
but a shallow sophist, as petty and frivolous in your
views as you are pedantic and pertinacious in main -
taining them.
Sir ROBERT PEEL, infinitely to the surprise
and delectation of the House, indulged it with
a lecture on " principle." " Great principles of
morality," he said, " must not be infringed ; but there
were general rules, sometimes called principles, which,
though for the most part fit to be maintained, might
sometimes be as fitly relaxed, for moral and social
purposes." What subtle casuistry is this ! But who
cannot see, with half an eye, that it is neither more
nor less than an apology for the Expediency system
of legislation ? Some principles must be stuck to at
all hazards ; others may be conveniently relaxed—
that is to say, you may adhere to a principle when it
does not come into direct collision with your inte-
rest ; but when it does, then you are perfectly justified
in pitching it overboard, of course " for moral and
social purposes." So JONATHAN WILD argued,
when he endeavoured to bring round the
Ordinary of Newgate to his own views of what was
just and proper. So Philosopher SQUARE argued, when
he endeavoured to persuade Squire ALLWORTHT that it
was his duty to disregard the laws of humanity, and
send the poor foundling, Tom JONES, adrift without a
shilling in the world, or a friend to help him !
So the Devil quotes Scripture, whenever,
like our jesuitical Premier, he has " moral
and social purposes" in view. Sir ROBERT PEEL
went on to observe that Lord HOWICK'S notions of
interference with the factory system were highly in-
judicious—and amounted to this, namely that Parlia-
ment must "extend its interference into all the occupa-
tions of life, and establish a system of universal inspec-
torship and intolerable tyranny." This remark comes
with peculiar grace and propriety from a Minis-
ter, who, by means of his inquisitorial in-
come -tax, has already established a " system of
universal inspectorship, and intolerable tyranny."
We are delighted to be able to state that Mr. ROE-
BUCK'S motion was lost by an overwhelming majority
of two hundred and six ! Truly, virtue is its own
reward !

It was well remarked in our hearing yesterday by
an East India Director, who had for years supported
the politics of Sir R. PEEL, that bad as the Whigs
might be, they were not traitors to their principles,
like the Tories. And he added, that never again
should Sir R. PEEL have a vote from him.

It may be said, that this was only the dictum of
one man—of an East India Director it is true, but
what then? We will answer the question; it is
only the dictum of one man, but it is the opinion of
thousands, who, having always, as they thought, sup-
ported Tory principles, find, at length, that Toryism
has no principles, and that it is based upon founda-
tions which will neither bear the light of day nor the
merest view of the merest tyro in political knowledge.
Toryism and principle! Sir ROBERT PEEL and prin-
ciple ! ! The terms are just as applicable as Reform
and finality !—GRAHAM and fixity of purpose !!
Just as well might it be attempted to fasten the wea-
thercock, in order to ensure the point from which the
wind should blow, as to determine the measures of a
Tory Government by the open and apparent signs
which their declarations and movements indicate.

The Madrid papers of the 26th ult. bring no fresh
intelligence, if we except the fact that one of the
Ministerial journals, the Herald°, has turned against
its patrons. It thus announces the fact :—" The Mi.
nistry, by its inactivity, inflicts a real prejudice on
our party, and we can no longer keep silent. Nu-
merous correspondents from the provinces complain
loudly that great partiality has been exercised in the
filling up of public offices. Such facts are of a nature
to excite distrust and alarm, and the Cabinet, with-
out perceiving the consequences of this erroneous
tactic, complete the ruin by contradictory orders."
On the Bourse the following were the quotations
on the 26th :—Three per Cents., for cash, 361; at 60
days, 361 ; Fire per Cents., for cash, 21 15-16 ; at
60 days, 221.

" Vox et preterea nihil" is the motto which all the
loud-sounding proclamations of Toryism deserve ; and
they have not only deserved but gained it; and we
are greatly deceived if the reign of Toryism be not
terminated by the full and c(,mplete conviction of the
entire British people that Toryism is mere induce-
ment—that all its promises are wind, and all its pro-
fessions empty sound.

On the motion last night that the House of
Commons should go into Committee on the Factory
Bill, Mr. ROEBUCK proposed—" That it is the opinion
of this House that no interference with the power of
adult labourers in factories to make contracts respect-
ing the hours for which they shall be employed, be
sanctioned by this House." The Hon. and Learned
Member's speech, in support of this proposition, was
just such as might have been expected from him—
that is to say, it was specious, shallow, partial, and
by no means remarkable for any particular suavity of
temper. He seemed to take for granted that all
who advocated the Ten Hours' measure, exhibited
nothing but " ignorance" and " blustering weak-
ness"—his own affectionate and respectful words ;
that their " class of mind was among the lowest and
most vulgar of humanity ;" and that it was unge-
nerous, to say the least of it, "to throw on any class
in this country the odium arising from that which
was the mere necessity of our nature." With what
amazing coolness and nonchalance the Member for
Bath talks of factory labour, just as though
it were one of the inevitable curses en-
tailed on humanity by the transgressi)ns
of our first parents Does he really mean to say
that it is " the mere necessity of our nature," that
thousands of weak, defenceless women and children
should be daily tasked beyond their strength, with
no hope of escape from such exhausting toil but in
the grave ; and, consequently, that those who, from
the most disinterested motives, would endeavour to
ameliorate their condition, are no better than vision-
aries, acting is defiance of all the laws that regulate
our social being ? We cannot believe that Mr. ROE-
BUCK is serious in this admission, for though his
ideas of statesmanship are certainly not of a lofty
or comprehensive order, he is not quite an Ignoramus,
but has some glimmering, however faint, of the truth
of things. Excessive factory labour—so far at least
as women and children are concerned—is no
more a " necessity of our nature" than were West In-
dian Slavery—Catholic Restriction Acts--or any other
gross injustice for which Parliament has found a
remedy. The Hon. and Learned Gentleman went
on to observe that " women were much better
able than men to cope with factory labour.
And he could understand why. It was under
cover—it was warm, and so far it was com-
fortable to the nature of women, and all that was
required was continuous attention. Now it wai a
peculiar characteristic of females that they could give
this continuous attention without injury to their
health. Every medical man agreed that women bore
factory labour best; that it was suited to their
habits and psychological condition, and that it was in
reality anything but hard labour to them." Good
GOD, was ever so much arrant nonsense and resolute
perversion of fact contained in so small a compass, as is
the case in the above passage ! The factory, forsooth,
is " warm," and therefore " comfortable to the nature
of woman !" Warm, indeed ; for the temperature is
quite tropical, and the close, mephitic, pent-up
air destructive to the strongest constitution. But
this, it seems, is " comfortable," and specially
suited to the " nature of woman," who, unlike
the ruder sex, can dispense with the free, pure,
refreshing airs of' Heaven ! The atmosphere that
tends to poison the springs of life in man,
does woman all the good in the world. Her " psy-
chological condition," by the wise ordination of Pro-
vidence, is just suited to the factory system of labour;
and it would be the height of folly and in-
justice to take her from duties which agree so
well with her health, ani which are so exceedingly
"comfortable to her nature." Again, " all that is
required from her is continuous attention." That is
all—nothing more ! She is only required to slave un-
remittingly from morning till night, from year's end
to year's end. It is only insisted that she shall ne-
glect all her own household duties—forget that she is
a wife and mother—and attend to nothing but the
interests of her employer ! This is the very utmost
she is expected to do, and Mr. ROEBUCK thinks it
the justest and properest thing in the world that
she should continue to do it without a
murmur. And is it in this spirit that an English
senator alludes in an English House of Commons to
the protracted labours—tortures, we should rather call
them—that women undergo in the pestilential Hell of
a factory ? Is it thus coldly and sneeringly that he ex-
patiates on their lot, justifying it as a "mere necessity
of nature," and peculiarly adapted to their " psycho-
logical condition ?" In the whole course of our
political experience we know not that we ever
read a speech which filled us with such unutterable
disgust as that of the Hon. and Learned Member for
Bath—a speech which is as ungenerous and unmanly
in sentiment, as it is absurd in argument, and reckless
in its perversion of facts. Did Mr. ROEBUCK never
happen to read the medical Reports on the effects of
factory labour on the female constitution, that were
Presented to the House of Commons a few years
andlethhatproved, beyond the possibility of
scontradiction,nee ;the system was utterly de-
structive of the health of woman ; that in
the season of youth it brought on the infirmities of
age ; laid the seeds of incurable disorders • poisoned
the springs of life at the fountain-head; and finally
sent the poor, helpless, patient victim to her grave, worn
down alike in body and mind, ere yet the meridian of
her existence was passed ? Mr. ROEBUCK could surely
never have read these impressive documents, orhe would
never have presumed to talk such flippant, heartless
trash, as that excessive factory labour is suited to the
"psychological condition" of women, and is nothing ,
more than "the mere necessity of nature." The
Member for Bath concluded, like a JEREMIAH or a ,
CASSANDRA, by prophesying all sorts of horrors,

The birthday of his A: ajesty the King of the
FRENCH was celebrated at Paris on Wednesday with
great rejoicings, and the weather being uncommonly
fine full effect was given to the various festivities pre-
pared for the occasion. At half-past eleven o'clock
the KING received the Cabinet Ministers and the
Marshals of France ; and, at noon, the grand deputa-
tions of the Chambers of Peers and Deputies ; the
deputations of the Court of Cassation and Cour des
Comptes ; the Royal Council of Public Instruction
the deputation of the Cour Royal ; the Institute; the
Pre feet of the Seine ; the Prefect of the Police ; the
Mayors, Deputy-Mayors, and members of the Muni-
cipal Council of Paris ; the deputations of the Tri-
bunals of Premiere Instance and Commerce ; tl.e
Protestant Consistory; the Central Israelite Consistory;
the Generals and other officers not forming part of
the garrison, and the civil and military functionaries.
At half past two his MAJESTY received the officers of
the National Guards of Versailles and other places in
the department of the Seine-et-Oise, the Officers of
the General Staff of the National Guards of the
Seine, &c. At four o'clock his MAJESTY received the
members of the corps diplomatique. His MAJESTY was
in excellent health, and went through the labours of
the day without appearing to suffer much from
fatigue. Addresses were presented by the Popes
Nuncio, the Presidents of the two Chambers, and the
Archbishop of Paris. In replying to the congratu-
lations of Baron PASQUIER, the President of the
Chamber of Peers, his MAJESTY took the oppor-
tunity of adverting to the blessings conferred oz.
France, as well as other countries, by continued
peace. " The Chamber of Peers," said he, "know
how I appreciate the constant and faithful support
which it has given to the policy, which has preserved
France from so many evils, and attached, I may ven-
ture to say, as much lustre to the French name as the
most brilliant victories could have done. We have
seen our prosperity increase at the same time as that
of our neighbours, which must render mare evident
to the eyes of all the important truth that the general
welfare of nations becomes for each of them in par-
ticular an augmentation of prosperity and happiness.
It is a sweet satisfaction for my paternal heart that
my sons have shown themselves worthy of France en
the numerous occasions in which they have been able
to prove their devotedness. They will always be
found ready to share the perils and glories of our sol-
diers, and to defend our institutions, and the liberties
of which they are the guarantees. I again thank the
Chamber of Peers for the good wishes that it has ex-
pressed to me." His reply to the Archbishop of
PARIS was of a different character, and shunted
that the KING is determined to assert the power of
the State in Church affairs, and will not allow
the Jesuits or any religious sect to domineer, as in
former days, over both Sovereign and people. The
allusion of the Archbishop to the peace and liberty
of the Church, evidently attracted the serious atten-
tion of the KING, and called forth a just rebuke.
The remark to which we refer is the following :
"We can never conceive," said the Prelate, "that
the State can suffer from the peace and liberty of
the Church, or the Church from the grandeur and
prosperity of the State. This conviction, which
was proclaimed six hundred years ago by a holy
French doctor, the honour of his age by his genius,
and of the clergy by the heroism of his virtues,
is also that of the clergy and Archbishop of Paris.'
On which the KING replied, with great emphasis and
in a hurried manner, " I thank you, Monsieur
l'Archeveque, for the good wishes that you offer to
me personally, and in the name of the clergy of Paris.
I thought I had given pledges enough of my desire
to maintain the liberty of religion, and to surround
the clergy with all the respect, all the veneration, that
are due to it, for it to become useless to remind me
of them in the way I have just heard. What I can
say to you, Monsieur l'Archeveque, is what you
know already, that the clergy may rely upon all my
good will, all my interest, and also on the constancy
of my efforts to assure to France the benefits of reli•
gion, in order that it may continue to he at once the
best guarantee against the vices which produce dis-
order in society, and the source of all the virtues
which insure the happiness of men."
It would appear that the accounts received from
Toulouse of disaffection in certain regiments were
not warranted by the facts. The charges against the
soldiers were declared to be unfounded, and all those
arrested had been set at liberty.
The French funds on Thursday advanced consider-
ably—the Threes to 84f. 40c., and the Fives to
122 f. 30c.
THE BOURSE—TUESDAY, MAY 2.

First highest Lowest Last

Price. Price. Price. Price.
French Five per Cents..
Three per Cents B4 25 .• 84 40 .. 84 25 .. 84 35
Bank of France. ... 3092 50 ..3092 50 . 3092 50 —3092 50
Belgian Bank..• •
1841 •••••• 1110 —lllO ..1110 ..1110
Belgian Fives, 1831.. • • ... •
1840 .• 1061 .. 1061 .. 1051 .. 1051
1842 .• ••••
Spanish Active •.•• • • • 321 .. 321 .. 321 .. 321
Threes ..•••
Old Deferred ••• • .• 7/ 71 • • 71 •. 71
Portuguese Five per Cents 451 .. 45/ .. 451 .. 45/
Neapolitan-- •. ••
Roman
RAILWAY SHARES.

Vera Mes, R. 8.• • • • • • • :•—•:. 377 50 .. 380

.. 377 50 .. 380

. 252 50 .. 252 50 .. 252 50 .. 252 50
Rouen 965 .. 965 .. 965 .. 965
Rouen to Havre............ 723 75 .. 725 .. 723 75 .• 725
Orleans •" •• •••••••• • •• •• 970 .. 972 50 .. 970 .. 972 50
Strasburg to
•• •• 272 50 .• 272 50 .. 270 .. 270
Avignon toßAlAairLvsleillA.;..s.nAß... 7E, FOR TuE
62550.. 76250A.cc..
017N1..
762 50 .. 762 50
Versaillen, R.B. •••.•• . • • •• 376 .. 363 .. 375 .. 385

TEE fir 147, LOWDON,_SATTYRDA.Y ETE)TI NG, MAY 4, 1844,

Rouen

Rouen to Havre.. ..... ••. •
Strasburg to Bale • • •• • • • • ••
Avignon to Marseilles.• • • ••

965
722
970
272
760

9G5
725
972
272
762

962
722
970
270
7GO

952
725
972
270
762

We have reason to believe that Sir Henry Har-
dinge will be nominated to the office of Governor-
General of India, and that this appointment will take
place with the cordial approbation of the Crown and
the Court of Directors, and in consequence of friendly
concert between the authorities immediately re-
sponsible for the selection of a Governor-General.

THE IRISH STATE TRIALS.—On Thursday Mr
Fitzgibbon addressed the Court, and the Lord Chief
Justice, observing that he spoke on one leg, kindly
intimated that he might speak sitting. Mr. Fitz-
gibbon at once availed himself of this favour, and
there he sat all the day long (we quote from a Tory
journal) talking at, and scolding the Learned Lord
Chief Justice for his charge to the jury, just as if
half-a-dozen speechet on the same topic had not been
delivered within the past few days. At four o'clock
Mr. Fitzgilkon was analysing the early portions of
the charge; and from the industry he has displayed
in picking out words and sentences supposed to have
been prejudical to the traversers, it is not likely he
will come to a close for at least another day.

THIS DAY'S NEWS.

CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY).
The Lose CHANCELLOR took appeals to-day, none of
which possessed any points of interest, except to the parties
concerned.

VICE-CHANCERY.....(THIS DAY).
(Before Vice- Chancellor Sir JAMES WiGn.tm.)
His Honour, having disposed of the unopposed petitions
and short causes set down in the paper, proceeded to hear a
cause of Little v. Greville, a case which has often been before
the Court, and which now came before it on further directions
and costs.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY).
(Sittings in Banco.)
PARTRIDGE v. THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

The plaintiff, Partridge, had given to a broker named
Wakefield, a power of attorney to receive his dividends ;
according to the custom of the Bank they delivered to Wake-
field on the 6th April certain dividend warrants for the re-
ceipt of Partridge's dividends. These warrants became pay
able on the Bth according to custom. On the 7th, Wake-
field lodged these dividend warrants with Ladbrokes, the
bankers, as a security. Wakefield failed on the 7th, and
Ladbroke claimed a lien upon these "dividend warrants, and
refused to deliver them to Partridge, who brought his action
against the Bank of England. The case was tried at Guild-
hall, before Lord Denman, and the Jury found for plaintiff.
A motion was made for a new trial, and the point for the
decision of the Court was, whether dividend warrants deli-
vered under these circumstances could be considered as nego-
tiable instruments. The case came on this morning, and the
arguments which were entirely of a technical character had
not concluded when we went to press.

iMONE lI:AND CO MERCIAL NEWS.
CITY, QUARTER TO THREE.

The general tone of the Cotton market was. yesterday,
better, and prices were firm ; sales 5,000 bales. Shares were
not so lively, and not much was done, except in Eastern
Counties ; French Shares were not so lively either; Dublin
and Cashel were 4i ; Eastern Counties 13i ; Paris and Lyons
; ditto and Orleans 38; South Eastern, ex new, 374.
The value of the public securities has been represented,
for some time past, as too high ' • but when we hear of a loan
for a British colony being taken at 1121. 12s. 6d., ( Yen
though 4 per cent. is guaranteed by the Home Government,
for twenty years, we must be sensible of the abundance of
money, and of the difficulty of finding safe employment for
it. This induces a hope that in altering the savings bank
law, due consideration will be given to the importance of
affording a sale place of deposit for the surplus funds not
only of the poorer, but even of the industrious classes in a
middling sphere of life, while, to obviate the abuse of the
system, a graduated scale of interest, diminishing as the
amount increased, to such an extent as to indicate that the
depositors were not of the poorer grade, might be usefully
adopted. Parties possessed of 1001. or 2001. are often shy in de-
positing their hard-earnings in the funds with the chance of
a fall in prices that would occasion them a serious loss, by oc-
curring just when they were in want of their money, and
would prefer a savings' bank in many instances for security,
even though restricted from the receipt of interest upon all
the amount deposited above 1001. It is, indeed, astonishing
how large a number of even respectable parties keep no '
banker, though the system adopted of granting de-
posit receipts, on which the return of money placed
in joint-stock banks can be had without the notice
required by the savings banks, so far meets the wants of this
class, that we are satisfied it only requires to be more gene-
rally known in order to be made extensively available. There
is but one view in which there could be the slightest reason
for the non-adoption of the facility by parties who do not
keep a banker, viz., the idea that a joint-stock bank may not
be quite so safe as a savings bank. This, however, resolves
itself into a matter of prudence in the selection of the esta-
blishments known to rest on the soundest basis, both with
respect to the proprietary and the management.
The Funds have been quiet this morning, and still feel the
re-action of yesterday afternoon, having been uninfluenced by
purchases of any note. Consols for transfer next week have
realised 99A to 4, and for the 28th instant 99* to 4.
After Monday, and supposing the Bank Chatter ques•
tion not to involve important alterations in the Cur-
rency-laws, the market will probably become more settled.
Exchequer Bills have been a shade higher, viz., 755. to 775.
premium. The Reduced Three-and-a-Half per Cents. have
been quoted 1014 to ; the New, 102* to ; and the Three
per Cents., 984 to 8.
There has been a very quiet market for the Foreign Bonds.
Spanish Five per Cents. have been flat at 24i, the Three per
Cents. at 3411 to 35k, and the Deferred at 144 t 0.15. Mexican
Actives have been rather better, 354 to 4 4, and the Deferred
154. Danish have been steady at 88, Austrian at 114, and
Dutch Two-and a Half per Cents. at 614.
The Railway Shares have been rather brisk, and we ob-
serve an improvement again in Brighton, Great Western,
Birmingham, South Eastern, and others, since yesterday
morning.
BRITISH FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
(From the Official List.)
3 per Cent. Reduced Annuities ...........».,....,, 98%%
3 per Cent. Consols. Annuities 9914%
456 per Cent. Reduced Annuities
New 3% per Cent. Annuities 441004
Long Annuities, Expire sth Jan. 1860
Consols for Account 99%U%
Exchequer Bills, l%d. I %d
1,0001.
5001
Ditto Small
FOREIGN FUNDS THIS DAY AT ONE O'CLOCK.
Austrian Bonds, 5 per Cent ll4
Danish Bonds, 1825, 3 per Cent. BB
Mexican Bonds, 'S37, fi per Cent. ...
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Deferred Stock
Spanish Bonds, Five per Cent 1840
Ditto for the Account
Ditto Passive Bonds.
Ditto Deferred
Ditto Three per Cent.
Ditto for the Account ...
'Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent
_Ditto_Deferred

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY).
(Before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.)
THE QUEEN V. THE CHURCHWARDENS OF BANGOR.
On a former occasion Mr. Jervis, Q.C., had applied to this
Court for a rule to show cause why a mandamus should not
issue, directed to the churchwardens and overseers of the parish
of Bangor, requiring them to pay a sum of 2001. and upwards,
the cost of a survey of the parish made by a Mr. Philips of
Coventry, by direction of the guardians of the poor, acting
under the authority of the Poor-law Commissioners. The
application was made under the 6th and 7th William IV.,
c. 96, s. 3, which empowers the Commissioners of the poor-
law to direct the parochial officers to make a rate, or other
provision, for the purposes of paying the costs, or any portion
of the costs, of any survey they may have directed to be
made. Mr. Jervis mentioned the subject again to-day, and
argued it at some length; but the discussion was of a AA holly
technical character. Ultimately Mr. Justice Coleridge di-
rected that a mandamus should issue.
THE LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
Mr. ANDERSON moved for a rule to show cause why a
mandamus should not issue directed to the Lord Mayor
and Corporation of the City of London requiring them to
admit Mr. D. W. Wire, an attorney, in the Lord Mayor's
Court, he being already admitted an attorney of a superior
Court. The application was exactly similar to the one made
yesterday on behalf of Mr. W. H. Ashurst, and his Lord-
ship immediately granted the application.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
No case of the least interest came before this Court this
morning. The arguments in the case of Davis v. Lowndes
were resumed, but they were altogether of a dry legal
description.

Dutch 234 i•er Cents oiN
Dutch 5 per Cents MN i
PRICES OF SHARES THIS DAY AT ONE.
RAILWAYS. PAID. PER SHARE.
Birmingham and Gloucester
Bristol and Exeter
Bristol and Glouc ster ...... 30
Caledonian
Chester and Holyhead 5 7%% ... to
Eastern Counties 23
•
Ditto New Registered ll/. es. Bd.
Gla gow and Dumfries 1,4 ... 134
Great Western
Ditto % Shares
Harwich (Braithwaite)
DittA(Lo. k,)
London and Birmingham. lOO .....~.231
Ditto % Shares 2 27% to
London and Blackw 11 1634
London and Brighton
London and Greenwich
London and South Western 41% ...... 8,14
Ditto Eighths 3% to
London and Croydon (Trunk)... A 34 l9
Manchester and Leeds
Dit o 4 Shares
Manchester and Birmingham ... 40 %hi
North B dill 23{
Northern and Eastern 45 57% ..... to

EXCHEQUER COUAT-THIS DAY.
(Sittings in Banco.)
The Court took the special paper to-day.
CATHERWOOD V. CASLON.

North Midland
Norwich and Brandon
South Eastern and Dover St%
Ditto New
York and North Midland

This case, which stood over for argument from the last
special paper day, was resumed, at the sitting of the Court.
It was an action for criminal conversation, which had been
tried before Lord Abinger in Hilary Term, 1842, when a
verdict was had for the plaintiff. The lady is the daughter
of Mr. Abbott, the English consul at Beyrout, in
Syria, and was married to the plaintiff at that place,
in the presence of her father and several friends, by an
American missionary. The defendant is the son of the
well-known type-founder, and became acquainted with the
plaintiff's wife at the house of the plaintiff's mother. An
intimacy sprung up between the parties, which led to the
subject of the action at law. A question as to the legality
• ,f the plaintiff's marriage with the lady had been raised, inas-
much as it had been alleged on the part of the defendant,
that the American missionary who had celebrated the mar-
riage was not in holy orders. The point was reserved for
argument, and
Mr. BARSTOW was now heard on the part of the plaintiff.
The Learned Gentleman admitted for the purpose of his argu-
ment, that •the missionary was not in holy orders, and then
contended that the marriage might not be held to be valid as
against a claimant in right, yet it was so as against a wrong
doer.. •
Mr. OGLE was heard on the other side:

The Court took time to consider the case.

EXCHEQUER CHtiMBER.
(THIS DA
(Sittings at Nisi Prins.)
PRICE, V LUND.
This was an action to recover compensation
belongingationind to the
plaintiff,
ainages
for certainyhi a p
ch he contended was caused
by aar t ,driveninjuries
and negligently on the 6th of May,
1843, by the defendant, who was a baker but is now confined
cwhois
a carelessly
clergyman,asre uisetsasiind b w
in Whitecross-street Prisor. The accident occurred on the
road leading to Finchlev-common, in the vicinity of which
the plaintiff resides. The defence set up was that the plaintiff
was driving on the wrong side of the load. This view of the
ease was supported by the testimony of five witnesses, whilst
one stated that the defendant was driving on the right side.
The damage was stated not to exceed 31.
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.

Ditto Scarboro' Branch
Paris and Orleans EO TIN to
Strasburg and Basle ........ 14
!lANCHESTER STOCK EXCHANGE, MAY 3.—We have a
steady market, and a fair business doing. Eastern Counties,l3 ;
Ditto, Perpetual, 11. 15s. 10d ; I I idland Counties, 90i ; Paris and
Lyons, 3 1-16 ; Sheffield and Manchester, 79i ; Trent Valley,
11 to 11k ; Dublin and Cashel, .4 13-16 ; Chester and Holy-
head, 7 ; Manchester, Bury, and Rossendale, 6 ; Preston and
Wyre, 18i ; Blackburn and Preston, 5a ; Manchester Assu-
rance, 10i; Union Plate Glass, 10.

IS DAY.)
t g Dalmas, the sup-
poTseill‘dElnA:3ulßrld'ReDYreErlLßEoEl; BpSa°rLamlNlAll6lE.Pl7lajanTues,tllussurrendered himself
to Sergeant Cummings at the Marylebone police station,
about 1 o'clock this morning. He was,
however, for the
convenience of the numerous witnesses in the case, sent to
the Wandsworth station, to be examined before th• magis-
trate there, without having at all appeared before Mr. Long
at this Court. It is supposed that an understanding had been
entered into to this effect, for at half-past six, A.M., Mr.
Bicknell, the superintendent of the V division, called, and in
consequence of the arrangements above alluded to, Mr.
Hughes, superintendent of the D's, sent the prisoner off in a
cab, at about five minutes before ten, safely secured by being
handcuffed to Sergeant Cummings. A constable, 203 D, also
went in the cab. A very considerable crowd had collected to
witness the departure of Dalmas. He appeared very pale
and haggard, and had evidently been unshaved for many
days. His dress, a bad suit of black, • was wretchedly dirty,
as if the unfortunate man had not taken them off his person
since the period of the murder. His. mental faculties ap-
peared completely blunted, and, excepting for the occasional
flashing of his eyes, a circumstance so apparent that many
of those present exclaimed, " God bless• us how wild he
looks," he might be supposed to be dead to all that was
passing around him.

UNION BALL.—(THIS DAY.)
Thomas Wise was charged before Mr. Cottingham with
furiously driving and endangering the lives of two persons,
one of whom, a boy, is now confined in the hospital, owing
to the serious nature of the injury be received.
It appeared that on the prem•eding evening the defendant,
with three other persons, in a gig, were observed driving
along Wellingtop-place at a very quick rate. 'When the de-
fendant, who was driving, arrived nen. the Waterloo-bridge,
he whipped the horse with the intention of evading the toll, and
when the gig passed through the gate it came into
violent collision with an omnibus and was shatter( d to pieces,
throwing the defendant and the three other persons with
violence into the road. Two of the persons, a woman and a
boy, were most seriously injured, particularly the latter, who
was taken up in a state of insensibility, and conveyed to the
hospital, where he remains in a very precarious condition.
The woman, whose name is Ellis, was enabled to attend the
examination, although dreadfully cut about the face and
hands, and in. giving her evidence, she said that shortly
before they came up to the bridge, she implored
the defendant not to drive so fast,' but he disregarded her
entreaties and continued his speed, until they came in con-
tact with the omnibus, and were all thrown.out.
The defendant said that the horse took fright just before
he came to the toll-house, but this assertion was contradicted
by the toll collector, who said the defendant whipped the
horse to evade paying the toll.
Mr. Corriricirnm said that the certificate from the hospi-
tal described the dangerous condition of tbe boy, and that if
death ensued the defendant would be answerable for it. The
Magistrate then said that he should remand the defendant
anti! Wednesday, and as bail was offered I.e would accept of
two sureties of 100/. each for his appearance on that day.
The prisoner's father, a wealthy cow-keeper at Chelsea,
having given the required sureties, the defendant was dis-
charged.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.-(THIS DAY.)
LONDON, MAY 4.—Light easterly breeze, with rain.
DEAL, MAY 3.—Wind N.E. by N, fresh. Sid. Templar,
Sydney ; Rowena, Gambia ; Nile, St. John's, N. 8.; Imogine,
Quebec.
SWANSEA, MAY 2.—Acrd. Sunbeam, Drury, Cuba.
SHIELDS, MAY 2.—Sld. Vistula, Cape of Good Hope;
Wansbeck, and Falcon, Quebec.
LIVERPOOL, MAY 3.—Wind variable and light. —Sid.
Jane, Icboboe ; Daniel Dyer, Valparaiso ; Olinda, New
Orleans; Mariner, Boston ; Lady Gordon, Quebec. OW
Statesman.
CORK, MAY I.—Arrd. Neptune, l‘furray, Ichoboe.
Hula., MAY 2.—Sld. St. George, Cape of Good Hope.
SouniA3irrox, MAY I.—Sld. Oriental (steamer), Alex-
andria. 2.—Severn (steamer), West Indies ; Paella (steamer),
Gibraltar.
PLYMOUTH, MAY 3—Wind variable.—Sld. William Wil-
berforce, Quebec.
FALMOUTH, MAY 3.—Wind variable and light—Arrd.
Conquest, Wilson, Rio, sailed March 12., Off port, Julia,
Bildt, Pernambuco, sailed March 12 ; Penguin, Plat, Brazils ;
mail not landed.
SUNDERLAND, MAY 2 —Sid. Richard White, Quebec.
CLYDE, APRIL 30.—S1d. Volant, Boston, May I—Eliza
Leisliman. Mauritius ; Adam Carr, ditto
NEWPORT, MAY I.—Sld. Victoria, Philadelphia.
PooLE, MAY 2.—Sld. Jessy, Hearts of Oak, and Fame,
Newfoundland.
The Blake, Frazer, was at lehoboe on Feb. 13.

MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.)
C OVENT-GARDEN.

We had, the time of year considered, a very large supply
of both fruit and veff'etables, yet the demand was throughout
steady, on the following terms :—Potatoes from 2s 9d to
5s per cwt ; young Onions, is 6d to 2s 9d; Coleworts or
Greens, 2s to 3s 6d ; Turnips, Is 9d to 2s 6d; Young
Carrots, 5s 6d to 7s ; and Leeks, 9d to is 2d per dozen
bunches ; Spinach, 4d to 8d ; and Brocoli Sprouts, 10d to
Is 2d per half sieve; Asparagus, 3s to 7s ; French Beans,
9d to is 6d ; Oranges, 8s to 15s ; and Lemons, 8s to 13s
per 100 ; new Potatoes, 3d to 6d ; Pine Apples, 7s to 9s
per lb; Hot-house Grapes, 7s ; and Forced Cherries, 30s
per lb ; Peaches, 50s ; and Summer Cabbages, is 6d to 2s
per dozen ; Strawberries, 3s to 5s per ounce ; Cucumbers,
10d to 8s per brace ; Cauliflowers, 2d to 6d each ; Horse-
radish, 2s to 5s ; Celery, 8d to Is 3d ; Rhubarb, 4d to Is
6d; and Brocoli, 10d to 25 per bundle ; Sea Kale, 9d to 2s
3d ; Mushrooms, 9d to Is 6d ; and Small Salad, 2d per
punnet ; Radishes, 3d to 8d per dozen hands ; Lettuces, 6d
to is per score ; green Gooseberries, 9d to is 3d per pottle.