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London, England, 1842-06-16 00:00:00

CUSTOMS ACTS.

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Mr. GREENE brought up the Report on the Customs
Act's.
On the motion of Mr. GLADSTONE, the rcsolations
were ordered to be re-committed.

The resolutions having ka.en agreed to in Committel2r
Mr. ULADSTONE moved for leave to bring in a isul
founded on them.

FOREIGN BOOKS.

Mr. HUME wished to ask the Right Hon. Gentleman
to bring forward a proposal to regulate the duty ups
foreign books imported into this country.
Mr. GLADSTONE said that there was every inten-
tion on the part of the Government to reduce the duty
upon foreign books to the lowest possible point. It %% IL*
however, desirable to leave the matter open for nevtill-,
Lion, because it trenched upon the subject of international
copyright, and our own-law of copyright was still
under
the consideration of Parliament. .

Mr. HUME said that he did not see how the maqer
was affected by the present unsettled state of the law in'
this country.
The House then resumed, and
Mr. GREENE brought up the Report, which Was (it"
dered to be received to-morrow.
ASSESSED TAXES BILL.

The House went into Committee on this Bill.
Mr. GREENE brought up the Report, which was or
dered to be received to• morrow.
DEAN FOREST ECCLESIASTICAL DISTRICTS
BILL.—ADVANCE OF MONEY.
On the motion that the House go into Committee 1311
this Bill,—
Mr. HUME said they would be called on by tl~i Bill
to pay sums of 31L 95., 58/. 95., and 75L 65.; he ‘li:4lee
to know if this were public money, and if it were uctualif
necessary ?.
Lord LINCOLN said there wa4 a great necessity for
an increased endowment of churches. There 0.1,9-4
11,000 inhabitants in the Forest of Dean ; they were g"
living by their labour ; there was not one person able W
afford relief, whilst all were fit objects to be the recipientg
of relief.

Mr. HUME said, if the Noble Lord would lay a state'
ment of the money required, and the exact purposes for
which it was required, before the House, he should nob
offer any further opposition.
After some further conversation,
Mr. HUIIE said he should divide the house upon the
question, when
Lord LINCOLN withdrew his resolution, and gay'
notice that he should bring it on to-morrow (this du) )•
The House then adjourned at Half-past Seven.

IJA W INTELL-IuENCE.
110 USE OF LORDS, June 15.
The L.rd Chancellor, Lord Brougham, Lord Campbell, Oa
the Judges, sat to-day in the House of .Lords to hear wri"
of error.

RUTLAND V. DOE AND OTHERS.
The arguments in this case were concludett to-day. Certa'
questions were propounded to the Judges, and their LordshiP.
took time to consider their judgment.
SIR J. SIMPSON V. LORD HOWDEN:
This case came before their L'ldships upon a writ of error
from the Court of Exchequer Chamber. The circumstances
of the ewe out of which the question arose, may shortly be
thus stated t— Sir J. Simpson and others were the proprietors
of the York and North Midland Railway, and Lord Howdell,
being in possession of property over which the line was in;
tended to pass, gave the parties notice of his intention to oPl'°' I
their Bill in Parliament. Udimately, however, it was arrange.'
among the parties that the Noble Lord should withdraw ht;
opposition; upon the tin erstar-ditig that the proposed• line wa'
to be deviated from, and he was to receive 5,00/. frPni.
the Company in ease the Rill passed within
months. Lord Howden withdrew his opposition, but tbe
Company neglecting to perform their part of the c°1::
tract, he brought en action against them, for the .I,llipl
of recovering the 5,000/. To that action the defendant pleade,
—first, That the Company had abandoned the deviated line,
,
and, secondly, That when he entered into the agreement, be ,"'"
a Peer of the realm. To these Pleas the defendant in error de-
murred specially, and the plaintiff in error having joined
that demurrer, the case came on before the Court of Queen
Beneh, who gave their judgment for the defendant on the first
plea, and for the plaintiff on the second. Against this jut
went the defendant bought a writ of error in the Court ot
Exchequer•Citamber, and that Court affirmed the judgme.4%
below, as far as regarded the first plea, ,but reversed it
respect to the second; and from that judgment the present writ
of error was brought.
The Solicitor-General, Mr. Pemberton, and Mr. Swar, t
Wortley were Counsel for the plaintiff in error; and N'er;
Bethell, Mr. Kelly, Sir J. Bailey, and Mr. Addison were°
the defendant.
The arguments not having concluded at three o'clock,
further consideration of the case was adjourned till to-inorr°
rr
(this day).