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day after the alleged provocation was given. I cannel
alter my decision.
Evan Erans, who was some days ago charged with
having presented a forged cheque for the sum of 7301,
for payment at the banking-house of Messrs. Jones
Loyd and Co., was brought up for further exarnination.
Mr. Mumaris, of the firm of Bush and Mullins, soli-
citors to the Committee of Bankers for Protection
against Frauds and Felonies, said, he had no Co do to
consent to the discharge of the prisoner from custll.
at
upon entering into his own recognisanees to appear
any time he might be called upon.
Mr. HUMPHREYS, upon the part of' the prisoner, et
once acquiesced in the condition, and the prisoner. wee
liberated upon entering into his own recognisances in the
sum of 501.
A man named Baker, was brought up for final e%e'
urination upon a charge of bigamy.
John Tucker stated that he was present when the
prisoner married Sarah Alsworth, at Bath, thirteen
years ago, and he produced a copy of the notice of the
marriage in the books of the church there.
Prisoner—Then you are quite sure that Nome?
(painting to the female who had him apprehended)
the person I was married to. Witness—Yee.
swear she is.
The prisoner's marriage with another woman subse'
quently having been likewise proved,
The LORD MAYOR committed him for trial.

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.
Yesterday a Court was held specially for the purpose,
of receiving and taking into consideration the report.l
the Committee relative to the Charitable Trusts Pot
now in its progress through the House of Commons

THE CHARITABLE TRUSTS BILL.
After the disposal of some of the ordinary basir.ess cl
the paper,
Mr. 1)E JERSEY (the Chairman of the Parlirimentag,
Committee) brought up the report on the subject of tvv
Charitable Trusts Bill. It stated that the Bill was
tremely exceptionabl ~ and that if its provisions vie'
carried into effect much mischief would result to tt!
public, and it recommended that the Court should petlf
Lion against the measure, and apply to the members na
the Administration immediately for the purpose of pro;
curing its postponement. Mr. 1)e Jersey spoke in ter
strongly condemnatory of the Bill, which had been r
pidly hurried through the House of Lords, and sto
for a second reading that night in the House of
ps
CO:
mons. He considered it to be unjust in its provision'unconstitutional in its principle, and capable of bell
made an instrument to serve bad political purposes. be
the opinion of Lord Cottenham the Commissioners to
the
appointed under it would have more power than
Lord Chancellor possessed in the Court of CbaueerS
As to its unconstitutional tendency, the enormous incroi
sitorial authority which it would place in the hand?,l,o
these officers was sufficient evidence of that fact•
se
very working of the scheme would occasion an expels
ruinous to the charities with which the Commissiooe
might think it necessary to interfere. He concluded IV
moving that the Court should agree with the reports rt
Mr. It TAYLOR said the Committee had, in the rel).°.%
before the Court, deprecated the principle of the Pld
although they had, in the former report, thought Pr°,l "
to approve of it. Now he considered that they ougn",bo
show that the Charitable Trusts Bill would place ,
charities in a worse condition than that in which t'let:s4
stood at present. Nothing, in his opinion, could bo •
worse than their existing state. They all knew thati2liif
trusts had been most flagrantly abused, and that the Pof
to which the Committee recommended the opposition,
the Court was a measure produced by men of experienvy
and character.
Mr. WIRE warmly advocated the report. He object/lay
to the extraordinary powers with which the CornTlejf
sioners to be appointed by the Bill would be lost
and the private Star Chamber manner in which t'.o)
would exercise these powers.—(Hear, hear.) It did Igo
signify whether the evidence upon which the CoroTbe
sioners chose to decide was true or false ; there would

no from their decision. sal
Mr. ANDERTON confessed that he could not Veal t
such objections to the Bill as seemed to dismay °d to
people. On the contrary, although it was calculate%a
injure men in the profession to which Mr. Wire be
himself belonged, the measure appeared to him tOlef,
calculated to remove a great deal of existing reisciihe
and he should vote against the recommendation ()-
Committee. „glf
Mr. PRENDERGAST opposed the report, and strovai,
supported the Bill. He contended that if the Coulb.
sioners were only called judges, all prejudice we°;flinete
at an end against them ; but so many Commies"„,"
had been recently appointed, that the name of Cenl-01.
sinner was a bad one, and every one knew what vvitso..)
ways the effect of giving a dog a bad name.—(Laugu,olo
He had seen nothing in the Bill to lead him to htno
that the tribunal would be a secret one ; and, in fac.A7bol
had not heard a word of argument against it. 0;
could be more proper than the appointment of two 0"111.9
ters in Chancery, and a member of the bar of ten Yelp
standing, to fill the situations ? He believed the .0,36
public would have as much reliance upon the deeisiiiatc
of such officers as upon those of the Lord Chloe° eet
for certainly they were as little likely to be influeloa
by improper motives.—(Hear.) The Governreell,tp re'
observed the monstrous abuses which existed in t'd
gulation of charitable trusts, and had deterfoine,,peci
come forward upon a measure of reform ; and IVA be
that the Court, the majority of the members of w"„1-eado
believed to be alive to the interests of the conel"ciaiene.
would approve of the Bill, and support the 00,11 ° titer
He should propose that the Court Iroceed to
business on the paper. dold
Deputy STEVENS seconded the amendment, 0,,• ae
tha: the Bill would substitute a very lazy and obe°"°
and depraved system. ~sombel4
Mr. WILLIAM JONES and several otherPSr
opposed, in the most rtsolute tone, the measure in
liament, and called upon the Court to petition lei
diately against it.
The Court finally agreed to the report of the ioai
mittee, and refi rred it back to them, with instrocd to
to prepare a petition to the House of Commons, en ri.
take such other steps as might be considered necessa
The Court then adjourned.