The Sun.
London, England, 1845-07-30 00:00:00

COURT CIRCULAR.

The Queen and Prince Albert, Lady Portman, llr. G.
E. Anson, Colonel Buckley, and Colonel Bouverie left
Osborne House, Isle of Wight, in three pha,tons, at
half-past eleven o'clock on Monday morning, and went
through Newport and Gad hill, and part of Lord Yar-
borough's grounds, to Ventnor. The royal party drove
to the Ventnor Hotel and partook of luncheon.
After luncheon, her Majesty and Lady Portman left
the Hotel in a phaeton fur Steephill Castle, Prince
Albert and the Gentlemen walking. Captain Pelham
had the honour of conducting the illustrious party to
the Castle, and afterwards to his own residence.
The whole party returned to the Hotel after walking
through the grounds of each place. Her Majesty and
Prince Albert and the royal suite took their departure
at four o'clock' returning by a different route through
Bonchurch and Shanklin, and arriving at Osborne
House, at twenty minutes past six o'clock.
Colonel Bowles took his departure from Osborne
House on Monday, fur town.

The Juvenile Ro) al Family were taken airings on
Monday aftt moon. Yesterday morning, the Prime of
Wales, the Princess Ruyal, and the Princess Alice, left
Osborne House for a drive in an open carriage.
There was no addition to the Royal dinner party on
Monday evening.
Yesterday, her Majesty and Prince Albert walked in
the pleasure grounds of Osborne House.
His Majesty the King of the Netherlands held a Di-
plomatic Levee, at one o'clock, yesterday afternoon, at
Mivart's lintel, Lower Brook-street. The Levee was
attend, d by Count Dictrichstein, the Austrian Ambas-
sador, and a Secretary of the Embassy ; Baron de Cetto,
the Bavarian Minister ; Baron de Moncorvo, Portu•
gucee Minister ; M. Fortique, Venezuelan Minister ;
Baron de Brunow, Russian Minister, and M. de
Berg and M. de Koudriaffsky, Secretaries of Lega-
tion ; General Castelcicala, Sicilian Minister ; Count
Kielmansegge, Hanoverian Minister ; Chevalier
Bunsen, Prussian Minister, Baron de Thile, Secretary,
and Baron de Langan, Attache to the Legation ; Baron
de Hugal, Wurtemburg Minister ; Le Cornmandeur
Marquis Lisboa, Brazilian Minister ; Mr. Everett,
United States Dlinister ; Count de Reventlow, Danish
Minister, and M. de Bielka, Secretary of Legation ; Mr.
Murphy, Mexican Minister ; the Duke de Sotomayor,
Spanish Minister, and the Chevalier Pedrorana, Second
Secretary of Legation Mr. Colquhoun, Diplomatic
Agent for the Hanse Towns ; Count de Jarnac, French
Charge d'Affaires, and a Secretary of the Embassy ;
Baron de Rahausen Swedish Charge d'Affaires, and Mr.
Charles Drouat, Belgian Charge d'Affaires.
Their Excellencies having assembled, were presented
to the King by Baron Dedel, his Majesty's Minister
Plenipotentiary at the British Court. The King was
attended at the reception by his Excellency M. Boud,
Minister of the Colonies, Colonel Baron Coehoorn,
Aide-de-camp; Count Bylandt, Ambassador; Viscount
Hawarden, Lord in Waiting; and the Hon. Captain
Hood, Groom in Waiting. Mr. Stratenus, First Secre-
tary of the Legation, and Mr. May, Consul-General of
the Netherlands, were also in attendance at the Levee.
Several of the Ambassadors and Ministers were pre-
vented from attending his Majesty's Levee by being out
of town and absent on leave.

The Baron de Lebzeltern, Austrian Minister at the
Court of Naples, had an audience of the King of the
Netherlands yesterday morning.
After the Diplomatic Levee, the Icing of the Nether-
lands received a deputation of the Consistory of the
Dutch Church, who waited upon his Majesty to present
an Address of congratulation.
The Deputation was headed by the Rev. Dr. Gable,
and consisted of Mr. Smith, Mr. Sack, Mr. Van der
Ende, Mr. Schroder, and Mr. Vink.
The Deputation was conducted to the presence of the
King by his Excellency Baron Dedel, when the Rev. Dr.
Gehle read the address, which was most graciously re-
ceived, and the Deputation retired.
His Majesty went, at three o'clock, attended by M.
Boud, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count Bylandt, Vis-
count Haivarden, and the Hon. Captain Hood, in two of
the royal carriages, to inspect Buckingham Palace.
The Lord Chamberlain, the Vice-Chamberlain, and
the Master of the Household received the King, on
alighting from his carriage, and conducted his Maj,sty
through the Picture Gallery and the suite of State Sa-
loons. The royal party then entered the royal gardens,
walked to the new summer temple, and inspected the
paintings. Afterwards the royal party paid a visit to
the stables, where Mr. Lewis, Clerk of the Stables, was
in attendance, and conducted them during their inspec-
tion of the stud and equipages. • •'
His Majesty and suite remained until past five o'clock,
and then took their departure.
The King of the Netherlands dined in the evening
with her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester, at
ucester House. His Majesty was attended by his
Excellency M. Boud, Colonel Baron Coehoorn, Count
Bylandt, Viscount Hawarden, and the Hon. Captain
Hoed. The company to meet his Majesty consisted of
his Serene Highness Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar,
his Excellency Baron Dedel, the Duchess of Grafton, the
Countess of Jersey, Lady Clementiaa Villiers, the Earl
and Countess Brownlow, Lord and Lady IVilloughby
d'Eresby, Lord and Lady Fitzroy Somerset, Hon. Mrs.
Darner, Mrs. Culling Smith, Mr. Vincent, Lady
Georciana. Bathurst, and the Hon. Captain Liddell.
Their Royal Highnesses the 'Duke and Duchess of
Cambridge honoured the Italian Opera with their pre-
sence y-sterday evening.
Mr. Dixon, chamnan of the Wine and Spirit Associa-
tion, Liverpool, and Mr. Moore, of Bristol, had an inter-
view yesterday with the Chancellor of the Exchequer
and the Chairman of the Board of Customs. The depu-
tation was accorepanied by Viscount Sandon, M.l'., Sir
Howard Dougla,, Bart., M,P., nn the Hon. H. F. Ber-
keley.

The Ct,mmission for promoting and t-nocuraqing the
Fine Arts in the reboaling the Palace of Westminster
11,-Id a meeting at half-past two o'clock yesterday after-
noon at G wyd3r House, Whitehall. The Commissioners
pr, sent w, re the Marquis of Lansdowne, thin Earl of
Lincoln, Lord Colborne, the Right Hon. the Speaker,
Mr. B4,rtjamin Hawes, M.l'., and Mr. T. Wyse, M.P.
The meeting broke up at half. past four o'clock.
A Deputation from the New Zealand Company con-
sisting of Lord Incstre, Mr. Charles Buller, M.P., Si,
L. Guldsmid and Mr. Young, transacted business yester-
day at the Colonial office.
The Postmaster-General anti
.3.1 r. Hart Davis, Deputy
Chairman of the Excise, had interviews with the
cellor of the Exchequer yesterday.

METROPOLITAN IMPROVE-
MENTS.

There has been a vast deal of fuss and stir made of
forthethe people
; but when the grounds
outskirtsi of our metropolis are
parterres, we scarcely know where
sal late
idaa. bddo
with
tiutth, parks
ia)nudb
lo
people nill ba found for the parks. The great delight
of a genuine. Londoner is to perambulate the streets and
admire the taste and magnificence displayed in the em
bellishments of the shops. Napoleon sneered at us as a
nation of shopkeepers ; but ashen we can boast of such
shopkeepers as Messrs. Hodge and Lowinan,we have every
reason to be flattered by the ribaldry of the imperial scoffer.
'The6,vast
in R
Regent
te
te sofePe, form premises;
extending from Nos. 256 to
one of the chief ornaments of
2r
that gay and glittering thoroughfare. Por extent of front-
age, magnificent in ail the appointments and decorations,
the fastidi,us taste and elegance which predominate
through the whole building, and the gorgeous splendour
of its ensemble, we know of no establishment that could
compete with it in either Paris or Vienna. Its twelve
" shining row," like Cowper's
each of a single sheet of glass that would serve
needles),statetyw windows (a
as a mirror for an elephant, excite the astonishment and
admiration of theflaneu7s, and the low prices which are
asked for the beautiful articles exposed for sale, coupled
with the excellence of the material in all the goods mann-
factured for this establishment, obtain fur it all the cele-
brity 14 ith none of the unenviable notoriety or odium with
which a " cheap shop" is generally stigmatized. And
whilst we are on this subject of splendid shops, it would
be impossible to pass by without noticing the bright
array of costly superfluities at Barry's, at the Egyptian
-Hall in Piccadilly. The melancholy Jacques said long,
long ago, that the " world is still deceived with orna-
ment," but as London is not the forest of Arden, the
" world" will still be well content with what is to be
found at Barry's, and like Tasso's sick child, "dalsuo
inganno vitt ricere ;" the supe,flu which. Voltaire empha-
tically declared to be chose si necessaire, is here to be met
with in profusion. How exquisite is the fabric of the
Bohemian glass candelabra with ormolu branches, which
he has recently imported ; and nothing can surpass
the elegance of his pendant crystal flower vases, sus-
pended in the window recess( s, like miniature chandeliers,
containing bouquets in lieu of bougies. And what a vast
deal of time and trouble is saved by his method of mark-
ing linen with stamps ; in truth, Barry must be a man
of great ingenuity as well as taste to originate so many
excellent devices. If we erosi Piccadilly, we fall in with
the renewed Arcadian, Doudney, who from his citadel
in the Burlington- arcade hurls defiance at all his com-
peers, and outdoes every schneider in the land by the
fecundity of his inventive powers. In the Cow t Circular
the other day we read that her Majesty had inspected
and approved of a cloak of an entirely new construction
which has lately issued from his workshop. The novelty
of this garment consists in its having a pair of loose sleeves
formed out of the cloak itself, and can be worn by
either a lady or gentleman, whether on foot or on horse-
back. Doudney has done perfectly right in registering
the pattern of this piece of apparel,
which seems to pos-
sess so many advantages as to have well merited the
, royal approbation. From the number of shooting
jackets, gaiters, and other sporting
attire which are
piled about his show-rooms, it is evident that great
preparations are making for the 12th of August. How-
ever, whilst we are here roaming about this world, we
should take some note of time, and the clocks made by
Messrs. Capt, of the Rue d'Alger, 13, in Paris, enable us
to mark the flight of the edax rerun with a precision
which is truly astonishing. Messrs. Capt possess a
large manufactory for time-pieces at Geneva ; and every
watch undergoes a careful and elaborate revision on its
arrival in the French capital, until the accuracy of a
chronometer is obtained without the immense cost.
" Sam Slick, the Cloekinaker" must hide his diminished
head before M. Capt, who warrants the durability and
correctness of every watch that leaves his establishment
—Post,

PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS.
TUESDAY, JULY 29.
The 1.,,,1 ..1' amendments to the following Bills were
i'd,— \Pontefract, and. Goole Railway.
agreedaefi
e t
Londonderry and Coleraine Railway. ,

NOTICE GIVEN AT THE PRIVATE BILL OFFICE.
London and Norwich Direct Ruilway,—Recort, Thursday,
July 31. .

London and York Rauciay repuried ; report to lie
on the table, and to be printed.
The Leeds and Bradford Railway (Shipley. to Coble)
-Mfttke Rectifying Bill )1'45 read a first time,

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS, July 29.
DUBLIN AND GALWAY RAILWAY.

The Marquis of CLANRICARDE (in continuation) said—
Mr. Fym, a gentleman influentially connected with the Dublin
and Kingstown Railway, and interested in the success of the
atmospheric principle as well as the Canal Company, thinking
that this project would interfere with his other schemes, found
out a few errors in the Bill. He (the Marquis of Clanricarde)
was most delighted, on public grounds, that their Lordships
had shown an inclination to suppress shameful jobbing and
gamblieg. They ought to check a system, but not a particu-
lar Company, and while he hoped the result of the present ex-
posure would be a change in railway government, he was sorry
to see them pouncing on as unfortunate Bill because they could
not understand the model contract as propounded by the House.
Pym had no right to present that petition, nor that House to
receive it ; he went before Standing Orders' Committee, and
was told he had no locus standi. It was not to be denied that
frauds had been perpetrated, but if he were to tell all the
frauds he was aware of, it would be tedious alike to the House
and himself. It was well known in the market that brokers
kept a black list, containing the names of all those who had
committed frauds. If, therefore, they passed laws which others
could riot comprehend, and when the Irish framed a Bill threw
it out for non-compliance with those unintelligible require-
ments, while they admitted others equally culpable, it was a
strong argument for the repeal of the Union, which would not
be neglected elsewhere. lie would now state that
a party who had fraudulently bought shares in the
Dublin and Galway Company, to the amount of
1,2501., applied for 2,0"01. worth in the Direct Northern
and 2,00 1. in the Shrewsbury and Oswestry Company. A
man called Thomas Constable, who had applied for 1,0001.
worth of shares in the Dublin and Galway, solicited 2,500/.
worth in the South Western (Ireland.) Another man
had sought shares in sari. us companies to the amount
of 27.5001., and William Shackel, who had appeared before
bath Committees, and had applied fur 3,5001. worth of shares
in the Dublin and Galway, solicited shares to the amount of
48,0001. in the Aberdeen, Churnet Valley, Cornwall and other
lines. Let all those schemes be stopped, let their progress be
at once arrested; but they let all these great English Hills go
by unobstructed, and when an Irish company, which could not
be supposed capable of finding out every particular, made a slip,
it was pounced upon for condemnation, On referring to the
advertisements of the period—if they looked to the Times
newspaper of the 24th of March in last year—it would be seen
that but four out of forty-nine advertisements for railway shares
required references. In the Times of last week he found
fifty advertisements, and amongst them but two asked for refer-
ences. This model of a witness, Mr. Mowatt, admitted th3t
his own Company had allotted shares ti stablemen and
ostlers, and persons of that class, and that he had been deceived
by only 20 applicants. Mr. Mowatt admitted that his Company
only began the system of references when they found that persons
of a suspicious class were applying fo: shares. Now, it would
have been the case with the Dublin and Galway Railway, if
their Lordships had allowed the luill to proceed, and heard
counsel in support of the Bill. Would they then punish this
Bill, and make an example of it, for the purpose of rooting out
the system, whilst others equally as guilty escaped without cen-
sure ? Such a oourse would be contrary to justice. With re-
spect to the allegations of giving money to a Mr. Barry to pre-
vent him from laying charges against the Company, he wished
to say a few words. This person, who petitioned in the name of
Gerrard Barry, could not be found, after he had presented the
petition, as he was in the habit of going by the name of Barry
Gerrard. This was, no doubt, for the purpose of extortion.—
( Hear, hear.) Such practices were as common as could be.
Parties agreed to take shares in a company by signing the
names of each other, and so deceiving the company, that they
might bring charges against them when before Parliament, or
withdraw them on being paid for doing so. This person had
no doubt found that there were names in the contract deed,
which ought not to be there. Persons of the highest respecta-
bility were in the habit of compromising matters,
in which they knew they were right, rather than incur great ex-
pense and trouble. If, then, the Committee found that there
was sufficient money iu the contract deed to carry out the
works, they had no right to stop them. This might be effected
by a supplementary contract, which he believed was frequently
adopted. Besides, the Dablin and Cashel had volunteered to
subscribe 100,000/1 to complete the undertaking, if they would
allow them to carry it out, leaving a considerable sum more
than would be required. Because the parties had shown them
a bad list which had grown out of their own imperfection, would
they prevent so great a work from being carried out? General
Burgoyne had stated that such areaway would be of the greatest
advantage to that part of the country. Would they do any
substantial good by stopping this Bill? They would de right
to no one who had been wronged. They would remedy no
flaw in the law, but they would stop one of the most im-
portant works ever undertaken for the benefit of Ireland.
What had they done for public works in Ireland?
They had made an attempt, and a successful one, to improve
the social, religious, and political condition of the people by
passing measures with respect to education. But the Govern-
ment bad not projected any great works for the benefit of that
people. You have done nothing for emigration—you have
done nothing whatever for the benefit of public works in Ire-
land, and now that the capitalists of England and Ireland come
forward and say they will complete a great work which will
employ the population, and will add to the wealth of the
country and improve it, and come to you and ask simply for
posers to do so, you refuse on the ground I have stated, but
which I hold csnnot be maintained.
Earl I3ATHURST Lad but a few words to say on the
subject, after what had fallen from the Noble Earl who moved
the motion. Their Lordships would remember that the
Committee had made no report upon the merits of the
scheme. They had only reporte i that fraud hail been
committed and that the directors had beers guilty of
great negligence. It was therefore for their Lord-
ships to (Leide whether the Committee should proceed
further with the inquiry or not. If their Lordships thought
these frauds had been so clearly proved that they ought to be
marked with the strongest disapprobation, their Lordships of
course would not allow the inquiry to be carried on further.
The Earl of WICKLOW had come down- With
.a sincere
hope that he should be convinced, by the arguments of
the Noble Marquis opposite, that their Lordships ought to
allow the Bill to proceed, but he regretted, having heard the
argument of the Noble Marquis, that he felt himself con-
strained to support the motion and resist the amendment.
There was no doubt frauds had been committed in other rail-
says, but there was none to equal those in the present instance,
and he could not conscientiously do otherwise than support the
original motion.
Pfhe Earl of ST. GERMANS said, havirg been a member of
the Committee appointed to inquire into the allegations of the
petitioners, he could not be ignorant of the frauds which had
been committed by this company, and he aitni"cted that the mode
adopted by the directors in allotting shares had been exceedingly
lax and careless. They had, however, filed a supplementary
list in accordance with their Lordships standing orders, and lie
thought it injudicious for their Lordships to stop the Bill at this
stage. The Committee had not inquired into its merits, nor
could they say whether the parties were or were not competent
to carry cot the undertaking, and until the Committee had made
a report upon that point, their Lordships ought to pause
before they postponed the farther progress of the Bill.
Lord BEAUMONT having also served upon the Committee
alluded to by the Noble Lord, wished to say a few words on the
subject before the debate closed. Ile should feel not the
'east hesitation in voting for the motion of the Noble 'Earl, if
by doingso, he thought he was punishing the parties who corn.
mitted the fraud; but they were not doing so. They were not
touching them in the slightest degree.—( Hear, hear.) He
could not see why the country should suffer by the rejection of
this Bill ; nor why innocent shareholders should be punished
for the faults of managers who committed themselves
to a culpable line of conduct with their eyes open.
The truth was, the House of Lords could not allow
this matter to pass away in silence. Some steps must be
taken to prevent similar misconduct, for he believed, as had
b, en well observed by the Noble Marquis, that if English rail-
way projects were as closely investigated, many cases of the
same, if not of an equally flagrant kind, would be discovered.
He would earnestly recommend the House to acquiesce in the
suggestion of his Noble Friend opposite (Earl Bathurst), and
refer the case again to a Committee. If the Committee found
the contract to be sufficiently valid and bona fide to admit of
the work being carried out, then he would recommend their
Lordships to allow this Bill.
The Duke of CLEVELAND said it would be most im-
ortant that the House should ascertain that no frauds existed,
and if they did, projects in which they 'should he discovered
should be thrown out. He did hope that before the session
closed the House would come to some resolution to prevent
such practices. It would be of the utmost consequence that
the House should do so.
Lord REDESDALE said he agreed with the Noble Earl
opposite ; and it was his (pinion that where acts of fraud were
detected the parties should be punished; for if they were not,
they might as well object to punish pickpockets, if they ac-
cepted the excuse that other pickpockets had committed the
same offence for which they stood charged the same dey.
Lord MON TEAGLE felt assured that, if the Bill should be
passed, after the discovery of these frauds, the result would be
that other Bills would be attempted to be passed which might
be got up in the same way ; but, at the same time, he would
say that the parties to the Bill were not guilty of any participa-
tion in the fraud, because they might have been taken in ; but
then, to a certain extent, the parties had a right to be punished,
because they should have taken the proper precautions to have
prevented such an occurrence.
The Earl of DEVON felt bound to oppose the motion ; and,
in doing so, he begged to say h• also was as anxious to do jus-
tice as hie Noble Friend near him ; but, at the same time, he
would be glad to know to whom it was that he was called upon
t• do justice? H. would contend for it that if it was to be
considered injustiee to any it was injustice to the
House itself. lie wsuild aostmalrkt6 that if this Bill were re-
jected, an injury to a great extent wenld be inflicted on those
who really did not deserve it; while by the passing of the
Bill, those who had been guilty of the fraud, or rather those
who ought to be punished, would be let escape by reason of the
House of doing so.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was very strange
that the Directors, who had the power to come before the
Committee, should not have come before them, for the purpose
of clearing themselves. By not adopting this course they
'threw great suspicion on their proceedings.
Their Lordships then divided, when there appeared—
For the rejection of the Bill 37
Against it 8
.Majority
. .

Some eonversation then ensued with respect to the witness
Smith, against whom there is a charge of felony, which, how-
ever, led to no satisfactory result.

STANDING ORDERS.

The Marquis of LANSDOWNE gave notice that he should
bring the following standing order under the attention of the
House on Friday next :—That proof shall be required before
the Standing Orders' Committee that the names subseribs4 to
a Bill or petition are bona fide.
SCOTCH POOR-LAW BILL.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH moved the third reading of
this Bill.

The Marquis of BREADALBANE presented a number of
petition's from ♦arious parts of Scotland against it.
The Duke of BUCCLEUCH could not consent to the pro-
position of the Noble Lord (Cottenham). The Act of Parlia-
ment provided that that portion of the feofment which it was
contended belonged to the parish of South Leith, not to that
of St. Giles, Edinburgh, and its inhabitants, were subject to
pay double rates, both parochial, tithe, and'cese. The object
of the clause was not to overthrow a decision of that House,
but to remedy a palpable hardship, which had been exposed by
a discussion in the House, and he therefore cordially supported
the clause.

Lord CAMPBELL was astonished, after the able speech of
his Noble Friend near him (Lord Cottenham), to find that the
Government persisted in pressing this obnoxious clause—a
clause which, if passed, would be a reproach, not only to the
Administration, but the House. He had always been an op-
ponent of the Government, but, nevertheless, had believed that
among its members were men of honour, who Wished to act
upon principle towards every part of the kingdom, and of jus-
tice towards man and man. lf, however, they now refused to
accede to the , proposition for excluding the 17th clause, he
shoald change that opinion, and believe that they were actuated
by neither ability er principle. At any rate, he implored his
Noble Friend on, the Woolsack, whose talents, integrity, and
honour Were unimpeachable, to say whether the clause was not
most iniquitous? This was a question already decided by the
House. He himself, as advocate, had argued it at the bar of
their Lordships' House, and his Noble Friend ( Lord Cotten-
ham), who then sat on the Woolsack, satisfactorily put the
matter bayond dispute by an adjudication which it was sought
to overthrow.
Earl DALIIOI3 1t "mid that it was becalm her Majeity's

Government wished to act with justice towards man and man
that they would not agree to the expunging of this clause. It
was a novel principle to be laid down that because an advocate
had pleaded, and a judge had decided, a certain question, the
House was prevented from amending the law which rendered
that adjudication, however hard in its requirements, necessary.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said, that having been called
on by his Noble Friend ( Lord Campbell) to explain the law
upon the question, and give his opinion, he would without he-
sitation respond to the appeal. He had looked into the Act of
Parliament and the original contracts most carefully, and he
was therefore in a position to speak with confidence. No con-
tract between these parties could affect the parish of Leith, and
therefore the parties residing in the district would be liable to
pay both the poor-rates of the city of Edinburgh and the paro-
chial burdens of the parish of Leith. The inhabitants were
liable, he repeated, to contribute to ►he public burdens of the
parish of Leith. That was the effect of the contract. The
Act of Parliament had been passed 10 years after the
contract had been made, and it ratified and recited that
contract. The Act recited that the spot in question
should be included in the Royalties of Edinburgh,
and at the same time be subject to the burdens above enume-
rated, in the parish of Leith. Therefore, the Act of Parlia-
ment in no way varied the case. The matter had been first
decided by the Lords in Ordinary, then by the Courts of Ses-
sion, and finally by that House, which confirmed the decision of
the courts below, on the footing of contract. The present
occupants were as much bound by the contract as the original
contractors. The effect of the law might certainly be hard en
those persons, but they took the property subject to the con.
tingent burdens. It was, he admitted, hard, that the inhabi-
tants should be taxed, not fur the value •f the land, but Record-
ing to their means anti substance. There could be no doubt
as to the law of the case; and if the inhabitants were to be
relieved, it must be done by Act of Parliament.
Lord CAMPBELL said the clause could not be supported,
and trusted that without further discussion it would be with-
drawn.

The Earl of HADDINGTON 'supported the clause, and
thought the hardship a serious one, and required a remedy.
Lord COTTENH AM urged the withdrawal of the clause,
and entirely agreed with his Noble and Learned Friend on the
Woolsack, that it would be highly inexpedient to pass the clause.
The co.itract was a regular bond fide one, and to abolish it
would be to take the property of one and give it to another.
He thought that those who framed the clause must have done
so in utter ignorance of the law of the cue.
The Duke of WELLINGTON said it was most unfortunate
that any party views had been brought into this discussion. It
appeared to him when the question was first introduced that the
legal objection had been raised with the view of postponing the
Bill to a future session.
Lord CAMPBELL intimated his dissent.

Tae Duke of WELLINGTON said, however that might be,
it was quite certain that by this law great alterations were about
being made in the condition of the poor of Scotland. As re-
garded the clause under discussion, after the expression of the
Noble and Learned Lords opposite, and the Noble and Learned
Lord on the Woolsack, he would recommend the withdrawal of
the clause.

The Duke of BUCCLEUCH acquiesced in the suggestion of
the Noble Duke, and would withdraw the clause.
The clause was then withdrawn, and the Bill was read a
third time and passed.
PAUPER LUNATICS ALYLU3I

The House then went into Consmi(tee upon this Bill.
Lord BEAUMONT objected to the wording of the clause
which permitted the public asylums to admit other lunatics.
The LORD CHANCELLOR supported the cause, which,
after some verbal amendments, was agreed to.

Clauses up to clause 41 were, with a few verbal amendments,
agreed to.
Clauses 42 and up to 91 were agreed to.
The House then resumed, and the Bill was ordered to be re.:
ported on Thursday next.
DRAINAGE (IRELAND) BILL.
This Bill was read a third lime and passed.
LUNATICS BILL.

On the motion being put for the committal of this Bill,
The LORD CH ANCELLOR rose and said, he had been
requested by his Noble Friend Lord Ashley to state the
nature and object of this Bill. Previous to the year 1774 there
was, comparatively speaking, no protection given to persons
who happened to be in this unhappy situation, and everybody
who was acquainted with the history of that period knew well
that cases of cruelty and injustice were of frequent occurrence.
The 14th of George 111. to a certain degree provided a
remedy for the evil, but it was found the provisions of that
Act were totally inadequate for the purposes for which they
were brought forward, and in 1830 his friend, Mr. Robert
Gordon, brought the sukject under the consideration of the other
House of Parlirment, and introduced a Bill for improving the
then existing law of lunacy. By that Bill Commissioners
were appointed who. had the power of 'licensing and visiting
private establishments, and the Bill contained other provisions
for the purpose of meeting the evils which had been pre•
viously complained of. That Bill was merely a temporary
measure, and was only intended to continue in force for three
years. It was found, however, that it operated so well that it
was again and again renewed, and it was now about to expire.
The present Bill was brought forward for the purpose of making
that Act permanent. The Bill, however, introduced some
alterations into the exieting law, and it would be necessary for
him to put their Lordships in possession of the changes which
it proposed to effects he first alteration was, that in conse-
quence of the Bill being made permanent, it had become ne-
cessary to make the office of Commissioners also permanent.
Hitherto the number of Commissi ,ners had been twenty,
eleven of whom where paid, and consisted of barristers and
medical practitioners, and the remaining nine Commissioners,
from motives of benevolence, performed the office gratuitously.
The present Bill proposed to reduce the number of paid Com-
missioners from eleven to six, and the number of the other
class of Commissioners from nine to five, making in all eleven.
By the existing law a paid:Commissioner was not restricted from
devoting his attention to private practice ; but, under the pre-
sent Bill, he was compelled to give the whole of his atten-
tion to the duties of his office. Another change was pro-
posed to be introduced into the law relative to the mode of re-
muuerating the Commissioners. Under the existing law they
were paid by fees ; hut, instead of paying them by this mode,
they would be paid by salaries of 1,500/. each, making an annual
total of 9,0001. It had been suggested to him that
this mode of remuneration would considerably increase the
expense of the commission, but he had looked into
the subject himself, and he could assure their Lordships that it
%TAM diminish instead of increase the expenses. The Com-
missoners wider the existing Act had the tpower of visiting
pritiate asylums, but they had not the power of visiting private
hospitals. But the Bill of his Noble Friend proposed to remedy
this defect. Another point of improvement v 6-. that the visitors
were ti be allowed to examine and inseeet workhouses or
places where paupers were confined ; they were not; however,
to interfere with the duties of the Poor-law Commissioners,
but simply to report to the Commissioner the result of their in-
quiries. There; was another important alteration to which he
wished to call their Lordships' attention. It related to what
were termed single houses, or in other words, houses where
only one patient was confined. Their Lordships, in the exist-
ing Bill, restricted the Commissioners from visiting these esta-
blishments, but ;as the proposed Bill stood, the Lord Chancellor
would have the power of selecting three of the Commissioners
who should act as a sort of private committee for visiting single
houses. These were the chief provisions of the Bill. He thought
that the alterations were all salutary. The persons who kept
lunatic asylums were hi the habit of taking in persons who were
accused of being of nervous temperament, but not insane or
idiotic. Those persons did not come under the jurisdiction
of the visitors. There were cells and places of concealment
in the asylums which would not be allowed to exist if the visitors
had the power of examining the whole of the house. He pro-
posed that their Lordships should go into Committee upon the
Bill. _ _

The Earl of ELDON approved of the 8111 generally, but he
objected to some of the details, and he hail a petition to present
from persons in the county of against interference with
doe institution at Warnford.

Lord NIONTEA GLE thought that there ought to be some
better provision made for the supervision of asylums in England
and Ireland.

The House then went into Committee, and the report was
brought up with some amendments. _ .

The Rills of Exchange Bill passed through Committee, and
was ordered to be read a third tine on Friday.
The Railway Selling and Leasing Bill passed through Com-
mittee, as also did the Bonded Corn Bill, and were ordered
to be n-ad a third time on Thursday.
The Report on the Fisheries (Ireland) Bill was received.
The Fees Compensation Bill went through Committee, as
did also the Criminal Jurisdiction of Assistant Barristers
(Ireland) Bill, which was ordered to ba read a third time on
Thursday.
The Militia Pay Bill, and Joint-Stock Company's Bill, were
committed, and ordered to be read a third time on Thursday.
The House then adjourned, at Eleven o'clock, till Thursday
next.

HOUSE OF COMMONS. .7ulu 29.
RAILWAY STANDING ORDERS.
(Continued from our Fifth Edition of last night.)
The several alterations were then considered, and agreed
to.

Mr. GREENE moved, that the sectional order, No. 60,
should for the future form portion of the standing orders.—
Agreed to.

LONDON AND YORK RAILWAY.
Mr. P. M. STEWART presented a petition from the Mid-
land Counties Railway, complaining that the London and
York, which had just passed a Committee of that House, would
intersect their line ; and praying that that portion of those
works should not be allowed to be constructed without the
sanction of the former Company.
• MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE OF LORDS.
Messengers from the House of Lords brought up the Glas-
gow Junction Railway and other Bills, with amendments.
COLONEL A. LA UTOUR.
Mr. MILNER GIBSON then brought forward the mo-
tion of which he had given notice, that a Select Com-
mittee be appointed to investigate the allegations contained in
the petition of Colonel Augustus Lautour, presented to this
House, June 6th, 1844, and printed with the votes, June
the 26th, 1844, and to report their opinion to
the House. The Honourable Member stated that
this related to what took place in 1828, when the Colonial.
ogice invited parties to invest their money in the Swan
River settlement. Among others who were induced to
do so was the petitioner, and from circumstances
that afterwards transpired he now petitioned the House.
These regulations were officially issued, and under them Col.
Lautour had acted. The question, then,was whether the Crown
could escape from its engagements. He thought it could not, and
the opinion of the law officers of the Crown had been taken on the
subject, and there was some doubt respecting one or
two points, and there might be a weak feature which he had
not observed, and he had seen so much of these cases that he
was always ready to suspect that there was something more
than he saw. But if the matter were, as it was laid
down, he could not see how, in justice, or even legal
equity, the Crown could escape from its engagements.
He had been informed that Sir Thomas Wilde had given an
opinion in favour of Colonel Lautour's claim, which opinion was
presented to the Government when they came into office, but
the Government said it was not binding on them, because the
cri4inal contract had not been officially promulgated. He
(Mr. IQ Gibson) trusted that a generous and fair con-
struction might be expected. and that no "advantage would
be taken of any trifling want of 'foresight on Colonel Lautour's
part. It appeared to him (Mr. Gibson) that the claims
alluded to in the petition were founded in justice, and he
thought that Government should take the matter into its con-
sideration. In bringing forward this subject he did not mean
to impute blame on any of the Members of the Government.
He did, however, trust that the subject would be immediately
attended to.
Mr. HOPE said that he should be obliged to state shortly
the history of the circumstances connected with this matter.
In 1828 a plan was proposed and published for the purpose of
bringing Colonel Lautour's attention to it. .The Hon. Member
grounded his motion upon the fact that no formal or official
notice was given to the colonel of this document.
Mr. M. GIBSON—But in the meantime you took his
land.—( Hear, hear.) "
Mr HOPE observed that this was really no ground for the
complaint. Colonel Lautour was one of the parties to whom
the publication was addressed, and he would not fail to have
known its purport. In point of fact, that gentleman had got
possession of 100,000 acres to which he had no title whatever.
Mr. M. GIBSON then withdrew hii motion.
The Service of Heil s (Scotland) Bill, aril the Crown
Charters (Seotland).Bill were read a second time.
SUPPLY.
tic The "repott of the'Cornixattes Simsly *at then brought up
and sgreei to; after which the House stgourned.

MONEY AND CITY NEWS.

The meeting of the Blackwall Railway shareholders, held yes-
terday, was for the purpose of obtaining the sanction of the pro- •
prietors to an issue of shares for the formation of a junction be-
tween that and the Eastern Counties line. The shares are to he
appropriated at the rate of one new share for every six shares of ;
original capital, and the directors speak with great confidence of
the success of the projects they have connected with the under-
taking.

The remarks that have lately been made in the House of Com-
mons upon subjects connected with the currency have causes! the
same subjects to be discussed in the City, where probably more
practical knowledge of such matters is to be found.
With respect to Mr. Hume's project forxelieving the public of
light sovereigns by establishing Government agencies in different
parts of the kingdom, which should take gold coin at its
intrinsic value, and do for the provinces the work which the Batik
of England performs for London, it is looked upon as all but ins.
possible of execution. Every one of the agencies must be supplied
with a large stock of Government money, and with power to in-
crease such stock if found Insufficient. By this a great deal of
cash would be taken out of circulation, and the agents, holding a
most responsible office, would necessarily require considerable sala-
ries. So expensive, it is believed would be the machinery of the
scheme, that the outlay would far exceed any good to be promottd
by it. That there are instances of provincial tradespeople taking
advantage of the current belief in light sovereigns, and defrauding
the humbler classes, there is too much reason to believe; but, on
the whole, the public seem to be satisfied with the system that 110
been at work since the last three years.
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A supposed deficiency of silver has likewise been brought before
public attention. The Irish railways have, indeed, abstracted some
silver from the circulation for the purpose of wages ; and the
Dutch, who have recently been coining, have come in as large Pur-
chasers of silver bullion, that metal being the standard of their
country. But, after all, it is questionable whether the deficiency
in silver coin is to any important extent much greater than it usually
is about the time of harvest, when a large quantity is used for the
payment of labour. The Mint is, at the present time, making new
silver coin, after having suspended its operations, it is said, on ac-
count of some damage sustained by the machinery. The Bank of
England has a large supply of silver bullion in its vaults, which it
is ready to sell to Government, and therefore there is ever/
reason to suppose that the demand will be very soon supplied,
unless the public mind be needlessly disturbed en the subject, fot
it is well known that a belief in a deficiency is very likely to
create one.

The result of the last meeting of Mexican Bondholders is WO'
known. They decided upon taking legal steps to compel Mesa*
Lizardi and Co. to transfer to the new agents, Messrs. Schneider,
the funds which they so unaccountably detained. That according
to every principle of equity, as understood by merchants, the late
agents were bound to appropriate to the bondholders only the money
they received on account of the dividends, nobody seemed to enter-
tain the slightest doubt ; and we do not believe that a single impar-
tial person was to be found who agreed to the doctrine that debts
due from Mexico to Messrs. Lizardi could be justly set off against
this specific fund. Still there has been great anxiety to see some
legal opinion on the subject, and hence the following opinion of Sr-
James Russe.l, the Chancery barrister, which has been taken bi
the Committee of Bondholders preliminary to their proceeding‘
will be read with great eagerness, It will be seen that public and
legal opinion are precisely in harmony with each other :
"By the agreement of 1837, one-sixth of the Custorn:hotiSe
duties of Vera Cruz and Tampico is appropriated to the payment
of the interest on the bonds; and, in order to secure its slue elr
plication, it is paid by the administrators of the Customs into .tbe
hands of two Commissioners, one of whom is nominated by the
bondholders. In the hands of the Commissioners this one-sixth l
severed from the general funds of the Mexican Government, And
it is thenceforth clothed with a trust for the bondholders.
" By a subsequent arrangement the share of the Customs WO
appropriated has been increased from one-sixth to one-Pb*
Though the Mexican Government could not, without violating
good faith, have lessened the fund, it was quite competent In
them to increase it ; and the one-fifth when received by the
Commissioner is equally clothed with' a trust, and for the setne
purposes as the one.sixth would have been.
" The funds are transmitted by the Commissioner to Lizardi an
Co., the agents of the Mexican Government; but the transmission
is merely for the purpose of distribution among the bondholders'
The transmission is made for the purpose, not of destroying I._be
trust, but of carrying it into effect. Lizardi and Co. receive the
funds subject to a specific appropriation. Of that appropriation.'
of the trust to which the funds are thus subject—Lizardi and Ca
have complete notice : they are themselves trustees of the fund's
soon as the moneys come into their hands, and they cannot
them to any purpose other than the payment of the interest-on the
bonds, without violating obligations and duties too plain to be
mistaken.
" If Lizardi and Co. have made advances for the general Pur-
poses of the Mexican Government, and if on this separate aceesai
a debt is due to them, they must seek payment of that debt fro,
the Mexican Government ; and they may justly retain any le°ll.
In their hands on the general account of the Mexican Governnrer
But the funds in question were funds which even that Government
had no right to .divert from the bondholders. If the Me%itel-
Government had directed Lizardi and Co. to apply the one-finise.
the Customs remitted by the Commissioners to the discharge 0,
0;
private debt due from Mexico to Lizardi and Co., that direett
would not have entitled them to retain the money for their 0
use, and to attempt to do so without the sanction, and in opposittoo
to the orders of the Government, is as unjustifiable in law As it
in morality."
The opinions of Mr. Turner and Mr. Malins have also beer,
taken, and, as the Committee state, entirely concur in Mr. Russell
view, It may be worth while to remind some of our readers t"has
._.
the reasoning above as to the change from the one-sixth to the on;
~
filth is nearly the same as that put forward under this head, wbeg,
the point was first started. There seems little doubt that the s.
will now take its course without any technical impediment. --.Tisne

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narrated in this journal.

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On the 21st inst. Alfred Tomlins; 'Esq.,. 4al- -
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