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from the resolution come to by it, and protested n.ainst
the course. now adoptel.
Mr. GODSON did not know whether, before the
House came to a decision on the matter, he was in order
in mentioning what had occurred in the Committee. He
had been informed by the Speaker that no portion of
the evidence could be mentioned, but he was not
aware whether he could not mention the kind of docu-
ment respecting which it was supposed the Speaker's
summons had been disobeyed.
The SPEAKER said, that the Hon. 3jember had no
right to refer to the document, when it was not before
the House.
Mr. GODSON said, that as he could not mention the do-
cument, for the same reason he presumed he could not men-
tion the excuse which the witness made for not producing it.
He was not to be permitted to know that the document
was. not of any use at all ; but he was entitled to say,
_ _

that, in his opinion, the document was of no value, aid
that if it were not the excuse for not producing it was as
good as a man could give.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL understood that the
ground upcn which the witness was to be committed
was that he had disobeyd the warrant. Now he

thought it was essentially necessary that the House
should see the warrant, that they should know when the
witness was served with it, and upon what grounds it
hail been disobeyed, before a warrant was issued for the
committal to Newgate. As it was a contempt of
the House itself, and of the authority of the Speaker,
they would know under what circumstances the dis-
obedience had taken place. He would suggest
therefore, that the witness should be called to the bar of
the House, and interrogated as to the grounds of his
disobedience to the warrant.
Mr. REDINGTON said be had no desire that the
witness should be treated more harshly than the forms
of the House required. He was perfectly willing to
withdraw his motion in favour of the suggestion of the
Hon. and Learned Gentleman.
The HON. MENBER then withdrew his motion, and
proposedin its stead that the Clerk of the Southampton
Election Committee be called to the bar to produce the
Speaker's warrant requiring the attendance of William
Rous Mabson before that Committee.
Shortly afterwards the Clerk of the Committee pro-
duced the Speaker's warrant for the attendance of Wm.
Rous Nabson at the Southampton Election Committee.
The warrant having been read by the Clerk at the
table,
Mr. REDINGTON then) moved that William Rous
Nabson should be brought to the bar of the House.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL doubted whether the
warrant summoning the witness was regular, inasmuch
as it was dated in September 1841.—(Hear, hear.)
Sir G. GREY said if this objection prevailed it would
relieve the House from the trouble of trying any of the
election petitions.—(Hear.) His Learned Friend must be
aware that all the election petitions were presented in
the short session in the autumn of 1841, and the warrants
of the Speaker were issued at that time.—(Hear, hear.)
He was quite surprised at, the objection, of his Learned

Friend.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL had made no objection
on the ground referred to by the Right Hon. Gentleman;
but he doubted whether the warrant was regular; if it
was not, the party could not be imprisoned. He was not
aware whether the summons was regular or not.
The SPEAKER said his attention was drawn to the
point at the close of last Session ; he then stated that
it was quite a new thing, and be tock the best means of
informing himself on the subject, having taken the ad-
vice of the proper law officer appointed by the House to
assist the Speaker, and he had assured him that he con-
sidered the warrant to be a regular warrant, and upon
that opinion he had acted.
The motion was then carried, and the Sergeant ordered
to bring Mr. W. Rous Nabson to the bar of the House.
Having appeared at the bar; the following questions
were put. to him :
The SPEAKER—Do you remember on the 13th
day of September last, receiving a warrant from
this house, requiring your attendance before
the Committee appointed to try the Southamp-
ton petition, and by which you were required to
produce before that Committee all books, documents,
writings, printed papers, bills, receipts, and orders for
the pa 3 went of money, referring to the last South-
ampton election do.
When were those documents last in your possession ?
—I can't say exactly, but within the last three months.
Have you brought them before the Committee ?—I
have not.
Why have you not ?—Because I incautiously sent
them to the Chairman of the Election Committee, and it
appears that he does not acknowledge the receipt of them.
Mr. THESIGER—Who was the Chairman, and what
was his name ?—Captain Ward.
Sir G. GREY—How long after you received
the Speaker's warrant did you send these papers
to Captain Ward ? Three or four months after the
13th of September.
Sir G. GREY—What made you part with them ? I
did it incautiously, and lost sight of the Speaker's war-
rant altogether.
Sir G. GREY—Did you apply personally or by letter
to enable you to comply with the Speaker's warrant ?
No ; I am not prepared with anything of the kind. I

made no application of the kind.
Sir G. GREY—What makes 3ou say that Captain
Ward does not acknowledge the receipt. of the papers ?
—I have been told by a friend from Southampton to-day
that Capt, Ward says he knows nothing about them.
An Hox. MEMBER—Who did you send to Capt. Ward
by ?—I sent a messenger to ask for them, but I don't
know his name.

Mr. C. BULLER—What documents did you send ?
A cheque-book, and two or three little bills which I paid
on account of the election.
Mr. C. 1.11151..LE11--Did you send them by Capt.
Ward's desire ? No ;it was my own idea.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL7IIow came you pos-
.

sessed of the papers ; I paid some bills and rem-ained in
possession of a list of them ; having understood that all
the rest of the papers were sent to Captain Ward, I sent
him these.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Who directed you
to pay. these bills ?—The bills were paid from the Con-
servative Association..

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Had Captain Ward
anything to do with it?—No.

The 'A.TTORNE)."-GENERAL—This was on the
13th of September, have you since that day had any par-
ticular note or memorandum of the documents necessary
to be produced before the Committee ?—Not since.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—You were called
before the Committee thcr other da ; had you any inti-
nation of the particular documents you have to bring ?
Not the least.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL--Had you any op-
portunity of inquiring-to what documents would be ne-
cessary ?—None.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—Had he understood
that since the 13th of September no person has given
you any information as to what papers you were to
bring with you ?—Not the slightest.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL—When the papers
were asked for before the Committee was that the first
intimation you had that you were to produce them ?—lt
was.

Mr. O'CONNELL—Have you given up all the
papers ?--ST es.
Mr. O'CONNELL—Then a memorandum specifying
what papers you were to produce would be perfectly
useless.

Mr. GODSON—In the margin of the cheque book
you mention, was there anything more than the date,
sum, and name of the person to whom it was paid ?
Nothing more.
Mr. GODSON—Was; that the same sum as appeared
-on the bank-book, When produced before the Committee?
An Hos. -ML:untut objected to this question as the
witness was incapable of answering it, and he was then
ordered to withdraw.

A short conversation here ensued between Mr. Jarvis
and Mr. Godson; respecting the correspondence between
a cheque and the counterfoil, but as the Hon. Gentlemen
seemed to have, misunderstood each other, we do not
give the details. "
Mr. Nabson was then ordered to the Bar again.
Mr. GODSON—are you sure that nothing more than
the date of the sum of money, and the name A. 8.,
which would be in the body, appeared in the counterfoil ?
—I am certain of it.

An IIoN. MEMBER—Did the counterfoil correspond
with the body of the cheque ?—Precisely.
Mr. THESIGER—What notice did you receive to
attend the Committee ?—1 received a notice on Monday
night from Mr. Sharp, the solicitor, of Southhamp-
ton, quite suddenly. I was in London at the time.
Mr. JACKSON—If you were at home when you re-
ceived the notice, do you think you would have recollected
those papers?—l am certain I should.
Mr. O'CONNELL—Can you procure these decu-
ments?—l cannot say. Do you say that you cannot?--
I don't know. Then you may?—l may possibly.
By Mr. C. WOOD—To whom did you give these
documents ?—I gave them to some of my people.
To 1% Inch of them ?—I cannot swear to which of them.
Where ?—ln my own shop. I have some fifteen or
sixteen people in my employment.
Are the same people in your employment now ? No.
Nut all of them.

Can you ascertain the names of the people ?—I might
do so by inquiry.
By Air. WATSON—Have you never spoken to Cap-
tain Ward on the subject of those papers ?—Never.
By Mr. Serjeant JACKSON—You were not
required by the Speaker's warrant at the time
to produce those papers ? I was not ; if I had been,
I would not have been so incautious as to have given
them away.
What was the amount of the Bill ? I should think
the amount of the Bill was between 151. and 161.

By Sir G. GREY—What is the whole amount of the
money which was paid on the cheques cut out of that
Cheque-hook, the counterfoils of which remained in your
pw.session ? I think something like 3,000/.
'1 he witness was then questioned by Mr. -Watson as to
who was the party to whcm'a certain cheque was de-
livered.

Air. TIIESSIGER objected to a question on the
ground that it was not relevant to the immediate ques-
tion before the House.

Mr. WESTON said that the question seemed to him
to have a close relation to the subject.
Mr, TJIESIGER said he apprehended the inquiry
was not a proper Line, as the object they had in view was
to ascertain if the party had committed a contempt by
not producing certain documents.—(Hear.)
Mr. WATSON said that they had been told the check
books were of no importance, and he wished to elicit the
truth of that statement.—(Hear.)
Mr. GODSON—It was only said that the counterfoil
was no evidence.—(Cries of " Oh, oh.")
The SPEAKER asked if the Hon. Member persisted
in putting the question ?
Mr. WATSON said that as it appeared to be the
wish of the House, he would persevere in putting the
question.—(" Oh, 0h.")..
The SPEAKER then desired the question to he pnt
in writing.

Mr. C. WOOD said he hoped the Hon. and Learned
Member would withdraw the question.--(licar.) He
agreed with the Hon. and Learned Gentleman opposite
(Mr. Thesiger) that the question was not relevant, but
at the same time the question put, in consequence
' of one which had been asked by the Learned Solicitor-
. General for Ireland, as to the amount of the checks, the
answer to which had been cheered by the party oppo-
site.—(Hear, hear.) But the question which was put
by his Right Hon. Friend (Sir G. Grey), showed
that the thing was not so immaterial as they
seemed to think. Every day'S experience showed them
the inconvenience of discussing questions, which
might be better discussed before the Commit-
tee.—(Hear, hes.) The only way by which these
Committees could be made available was to treat them
as legal tribunals, bound by the rules of evidence,
as legal tribunals were. The only difference
that existed between them was, that the Committee
had not the same power to commit for contempt that
those tribunals had, but were obliged to come to ask
that House for power to do ..so. With regard, to the
person, it summed to him that he ought to be discharged
from custody and left under the Speaker's warrant
the Committee pursuing the inquiry from the person
to whom the documents were given, or from Capt. Ward.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said, he admitted
that before they proceeded to set aside at warraut, they
ought to be satisfied that the warrant was irreguhir, but
he hoped the House would go along with him in consi-
dering that before they committed a person to Newgate,
they ought to be satisfied that the warrant was regular.
—(Hear, hear.) He for one considered that there had
not been such a state of facts laid before the House as
ought to induce them to send the witness to Newgate.
It appeared that he had been served with a warrant
from the Speaker, dated the 10th of September, re-
quiring him to bring in his custody all letters and
accounts of cash relating to the late election, and all
receipts for money, and all other documents and
papers whatsoever relating to the said election,
. therewith to be and appear before the said Se-
lect Committee at such time and in such manner
be shall receive notice from the parties signing the
same, or from their agents. Now, according to the
• statement of the witness, be had received that
warrant in the month of September, and until
he came before the Committee he had received
no intimation as to what papers would be required.
He (the Attorney-General) must remind the House that
such was not the usual course of proceeding with respect
to ordinary cases of common law. A man who was
t subpoenaed to attend a Court of Justice, and to
; bring with him a variety of documents, had, accord-
ing to ordinary courtesy, an intimation given to
him of the documents he would be required to bring
some time before he was called on to attend, and he
thought that this witness, before the parties applied
to the Committee to report his conduct to the House,
ought to have been informed some short time before that
he would be required to produce such papers. By the
warrant he was called on to produce these papers,
at such time as he should reecive a notice from the party
signing the warrant. Unless he received some inti-
mation to produce those 'documents, he could not be
described as having been guilty of a contempt.
Now he had never been required to produce them
at all.—(Loud cries of Oh, oh," from the Opposition.)
He repeated the man had been required to attend himself
but he had never been required to produce the documents
at all.—(Renewed cries of " Oh, oh 1") He heard the
noise made on the other side, but he appealed to their
judgment, he appealed to the candid consideration
of the House, whether he had ever so addressed
the House on a legal subject as to induce
them to believe that he had ever given any but what he
conceived to be a just and proper legal opinion ?
Whether he had not always boldly stated that
opinion, or whether he had ever shrunk from
stating anything that he believed to be true
from any motives whatsoever, and he asked lion. Gen-
tlemen IN ho were then dealing with him fairly, to hear
and judge for themselves if he ever had received notice
to produce this document at at all. It would be much
the better course to have the papers produced than to
send the manto prison.
Mr. REDDINGTON said the Committee had
acted in this matter to the best of their judg-
ment. It appeared to them that the warrant ought to be
obeyed, no matter what might be the courtesy observed in
other Courts. C.! aunsel bad shown that those documents
were material, and the Witness had stated that he had
given them to another party, whose name he conld
not recollect. But the Committee felt that jus-
tice to the parties concerned would not be done,
unless those papers were produced, and that
they were Lound to see the authority of the
Speaker's warrant obeyed. He (H.) wished now to
ask, in
.what position they were to stand. There
was an order that this individual should
produce those papers. At the time that order
was served he was in possession of the papers.
Were they not to get them merely because
he told them that he did not recollect the
name of the person to whom he gave the
documents—what were they to do. That evening.
a summons to Captain Ward had been signed,
It would be most inconvenient to the prisoners of the
House to allow these papers to escape out of the
witnesses possession, and not to interfere the authority of
the House, to present such a proceeding. He regretted
that the question had been again raised after the deci-
sion of the Committee. As Chairman, he would have
considered himself guilty of a neglect of duty if he had not
brought the case before the House. Setting aside the
injustice done to the parties, he thought the objection
taken by the lion. and Learned Gentleman must fall to
the ground. lie thought it would be a dangerous pre-
cedent to discharge a man who had been guilty f such
conduct ; and he would therefore move that the pri:oner,
William Rouse Mahsorui be committed to the custody of
the Sergeant-at Arms.
Mr. C. BULLER seconded the motion. In his opinion
the best safeguard which they could throw over the ad-
ministration of justice in these Committees was to con-
sider their report on each matters as final. It appeared
to him very tine ise that when a Committee had reported
that a witness had been guilty of disobedience to the
orders of the House, the Boute should enter into an in-
quiry of such a nature us the one with which
they had been edified that night. lie must
say, that he thought the offence of this' man
was a very grave one, and it' the House overlooked it
their jurisdiction and the jurisdiction of the Com-
mittee would be utterly ; trampled upon and set at
defiance.—Hear.) The man in question had been
order( dto preduce certain papers. There had been a
quibble raised about the warrant being issued last ses-
sion ; but he presumed that when the warrant had
been issued iu due course, no party would be allowed
to dispute its validity by such an afterthought.
It appeared from the prisoner's own statement that
' having received en order from the House to bring up
certain papers relating to the Southampton election, he
gave them all over to a third person without any
precaution, other than giving them to a shop-boy. He
received no acknowledgment from Captain IN and, and as
far as the House knew, Capt. Ward having denied having
received them. Be (Mr. Buller) would say on the face of
the thing that he did not believe the prisoner's story. He
did not wish to be harsh upon him, and he did not say
that he disbelieved his story, but he must say that he could
not imagine it true when the only other part concerned in it
denied what he stated. The fact simply was, that since
receiving the warrant to bring all these papers before
thnilouse he gave them to a third party, and did
not know whether that party ever got them.—
(Henn) He considered that it would be sacrificing
the honour of the House if they overlooked the conduct
of a man acting in this way. He did say, that to let
him go as a person who had behaved perfectly well,
would be • most derogatory to the honour of that House.
.Ha therefore seconded the motion of his Honourable
Friend with this specific object, namely, that the
prisoner should remain in the custody of the
Sergeant-at-Arms until the ,Commit tee should
have time to examine Captain Ward and any
other necessary witnesses, to know whether his story
was true, or whether he had flagrantly and purposely, in
defiance of the orders of that House, put the papers out
of the way.—(Hear.)
Mr. HODGSON HINDE said that the Hon. Gentle-
man had stated that he had no reason to suppose that
the witness at the bar had acted under any
mistake after the receipt of the Speaker's
warrant. He (Mr. Ilitide) thought that there was
no reason for believing that the statement of
the prisoner at the bar was not a bona fide statement,
because if the witness bad chosen to screen
(LEFT SPEARING.)

THE EARL OF ROSSE'S
TELESCOPE.

The subjoinet account of the Earl of Rosse's noble
Telescope, now casting and in formation, is from the
pen of Sir James South, the eminent astronomer :
The foundry is not many feet from Birr Castle, the
residence in Ireland of the Earl of _Bosse, and, with
the exception of the crucibles, which were made by
Messrs. Dewer, of Old-street, St. Luke's, all the ap-
paratus employed on this interesting occasion (the
steam-engine itself included) was made in workshops
adjoining the Castle, under the Earl's immediate di-
rections, by workmen trained and instructed by him-
self.

The casting of the speculum of this leviathan
telescope having been safely effected, I forward a
brief description of the modus operandi adopted by the
Noble Earl, in the confidence that by very many of
your intellectual readers it will gratefully received
both at home and abroad..

As, however, diagrams are not well suited to news-
paper columns, 1 must endeavour to provide a substitute.
Make, then, one extremity of a line 4i- inches long
bisect a perpendicular to itself of 2i inches long, and
the other extremity of it bisect another perpendicular
to itself of 2 inches and 3 tenths ; beyond which per-
pendicular extend the first-named line 21- inches.
Call the first, the crane line ; the second, the chim-
ney line ; and the third, the mould line.
On the crane line, at the distances from the chimney
line of 1 inch and 2 tenths, 2 inches and 4 tenths, and
3 inches and 6 tenths, make dots. On the first of
these dots place, centrally, a silver fourpence ; on the
second, a silver penny ; on the third, a sixpence ; on
the centre of the chimney line, a shilling ; on each of
its extreme points, a silver fourpence ; on the centre
of the mould line, a crown ; on each of its extreme
points, a sixpence ; and on the uncovered extremity
of the crane line, a card of 2 inches square, so that
its extremities shall lie parallel with or perpendicular
to the crane line.

Now, supposing these several coins and card to have
the same thickness as the silver fourpences, the tout
ensemble will indicate an horizontal section of the
fJundry ; for the three fourpences will represent the

crucibles in their furnaces, the shilling the chimney,
the penny the crane, the crown the bottom of the
mould, the sixpences the iron pouring baskets, and the
card the floor of the annealing oven.
The crucibles were of cast-iron, 24 inches interior
diameter, and 30 inches deep, each weighing about
half a ton. They were kept in situ above the bars of
the furnaces by cast-iron supports and subjacent
brickwork.

The furnaces, about 5i feet square, were brick ;
their fuel apertures were 4 feet diameter ; their height
above the gratings, 8 feet ; their ashpits, 2 feet ; and
their several flues passed into the chimney, which was
5/ feet square at bottom, and in height was many yards.
The iron pouring-baskets were supported on wooden
frames, and were supplied with pivots ; one pivot of
each basket having had welded on it at a convenient
angle an iron lever about three feet long, by which
the basket, with its contents, was turned on tile pivot
of the former without difficulty.
The bottom of the mould, 6 feet 8 inches in dia-
meter, was formed of iron hoops 6 inches broad,
packed as closely as possible side by side, their edges
up, and turned in the lathe till the upper surface had
imparted to it a convexity necessary to produce the
wished-for concavity in the surface of the speculum
when cast.

A half-crown placed centrally on the crown-piece
will represent the wooden pattern for the mould; it
was full 6 feet diameter, and about 5i inches thick.
The bottom of the mould (the crown-piece) was now
included in a quadrangular wood frame, and sand
being crammed between it and the wooden pattern,
the latter was removed with the crane, and the mould
thus made, being so perfectly horizontal, wa,; ready
to receive the melted mass.

• The metals of which the speculum is composed are
copper and tin, 126 parts of the former to 57i of the
latter ; had it been 58 of tin, the proportions would
have been the atomic standard.

The copper employed was fragments of copper
sheathing, and about ,three tons of it were used ; the
tin was grain tin. The price of the former is about
100/. a ton, that of the latter I do not know.

At two o'clock in the morning of Wednesday, the
13th instant, the furnaces were lighted, and in about
ten hours the crucibles were in a state fit for receiving
their respective charges.
The metal, which had been previously fused and
broken up, was distributed equally amongst the cru-
cibles, so that any accidental difference in it was pro-
bably destroyed.

B:v nine in the evening the furnaces were opened,
and the flames of nearly homogeneous yellow light
which issued from them were splendid. The coun-
tenances of the bystanders looked like those of ghosts,
whilst the scarlet coats of the officers present seemed a
dirty yellow.
'tackle from the crane was now fastened to one of
the crucibles at the extremity of the chimney line,
and when raised above its surface, the revolution of
the crane on its centre deposited it as quietly as pos-
sible in its corresponding iron basket; it did the same
for the second crucible, and also for the third.

By turning the iron baskets on their pivots, the con-
tents of the crucibles were simultaneously poured into
the mould, and some minutes elapsed before the un-
dulatory motion of the fluid metal ceased.
In about twenty minutes the quadrangular wboden
frame and sand were removed; an iron ring con-
nected with a bar passing through the oven at
the back aperture was clamped round th_e red
hot speculum, the tackle of a capstan was hooked
,to the bar, and the speculum was hauled from the
bottom of the mould over an iron railway into the
annealing oven. The oven, whose interior had been
kept at a dull red heat for some days, was now charged
with charcool, the arches below with turf, and every
opening of the oven built up and plastered over, and
it is supposed that two months will elapse before the
speculum is cool enough to be removed with safety.
Not an accident or anything untoward happened
during the process, and in 40 minutes from the time
of the first crucible being moved the speculum was
safely in the oven.

Tilie metal is 6 feet diameter, it is 54 inches thick at
the edges, and 5 inches at the centre; its weight is
about 3 tons.

By grinding and polishing its thickness will pro-
bably be reduced 1-10th or ith of an inch—it will be
formed into a telescope "of 50 feet focal length, and
will, there is every reason to hope, be actually in use
this year.

The speculum 'Will have a reflecting surface of
4,071 square inches, whilst that of the telescope made
by the immortal Herschel, under the auspices of King
George 111. had but 1,811."

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEENS BENCH, April 27.

RATEABILITY OF PRIVATE BOXES IN THEATRES.-
TILE QUEEN V. THE INITABITANTS OF ST. MARTIN'S-

IN-TTIE-FIELDS.

In this case the parish officers of St. Martin's-in-the-
Fields had made a rate, in which the Committee and

Proprietors of the Theatre Royal Drury Lane were
rated at 1,800/. for the theatre, and Miss Angela Burdett
Coutts was rated at 100/. for a private box in the said
theatre. Miss Coutts appealed against the rate on the
ground that her private box was included in the general
rate of the theatre, and the Court of Quarter Sessions
qunihed the rate, subject to the opinion of this Court en
the ear e.

CLARKEON and Mr. BODKIN, who appeared in sup-
port of the order of .Sessions, contended that the parish'
officers having rated the theatre as a whole, could not
rate a•porlion of it twice over by rating Miss Coutts fix•
her pri% ate box. She Has merely possessed of the privilege
of sitting in a particular part of the theatre, in the same
manner as a person holding a pew in a chapel merely
possessed a right of sitting in a particular part of the
chapel, and was not rateable in consequence, the occupier
or possessor of the whole chapel being the only person
liable to be rated. Miss Burdett Coutts was in the posi-
tion of a lodger, who was clearly not rateable.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL, in support of the rate, con-
tended that, under the provisions of the local Act, every
person holding any property, land, house-tenement or
hereditnmcnt, within the parish, was liable to be rated ;
that this box was a tenement held by Miss Burdett
Coutts, under lease from the proprietors was a point
which he thought could not be disputed, and if so, under
the provisions of the local Act she was clearly liable to
be rated.

Mr. CHAMBERS followed on the same side, and con-
tended that under the provisions of the local Act it
was by no means clear that lodgers occupying rooms in
a house in which the landlord did not reside, were not
separately rateable.
Lord DENtrtAN said, it was a new point involving very
extensive consequences ; that the Court would consider
before delivering its judgment.

ATTENDANCE OF COUNSEL.

At the conclusion of this case,

Mr. KELLY applied to the Court to permit him to
argue a case, which the Court had disposed of in the
early part of the morning, without argument, in conse-
quence of the non-attendance of Counsel to represent
Mr. Kelly's clients. The Learned Gentleman stated,
that at the time the case was called on, he was engaged
in the Court of Exchequer.
Lord DENMAN—We cannot help that ; you should
have been here. The Court always endeavours to ac-
commodate Counst 1 if it can, and if anything of this sort
cccurs, it always is because Counsel do not seek to ac-
commodate the Court.

Mr. KELLY said, his brief had not been delivered to
him until 12 o'clock, in consequence of some mistake on
the part of his clerk.

Lord DENMAN-1S that any reason why the Court
should interfere ? It was a piece of very gross
negligence.

kr: KELLY—But, my Lor], my clients will suffi r
very great injustice.
Lord DE lAN—Not from the Court.

Mr. liEux---Really, my Lord, I feel that my clients,
through no fault of their own, will suffer great injustice.
Lord DENMAN—I agree with you there, but it is not
from the Court that they suffer injustice, The case was
called on the first in the day, and no one appeared for
your clients. Was no other gentleman with you ?
Mr. KELLY—Yes, my Lord, Mr. Thomas, but ho was
not instructed to argue.
Lord DENDor—lle should have been here then to
have explained where vou were. Do you not think you-
have said quite-enough on the subject, 111 r. Kelly ?
Mr. KELLY.—Really, my Lord, I feel that the wrong
done to my client is irremediable.
Mr. Justice PATTESON.—You should have been here.
This Court is not to be kept waiting, because gentlemen
choose to practice in two or three Courts at once. You
will learn, by and by, I suppose, to practise only in one
Court. The conrse we have adopted in this case, we
have adopted in several other cases during the present
term, and we shall adopt in every case under similar
circumstances.

The matter then dropped, the Court refusing to enter-
tain Mr. Kelly's application.
The Court was engaged the whole morning in hearing argu-
ments in cases in the Crown Paper, none of which were of
any public interest. The greater number of them were.cases
of disputed settlements of paupers.

BAIL COURT, April 27.
LAMBERT V. LEVER.
This was an action to obtain compensation for injury
sustained by the plaintiff from the defendant.
Mr. JONES stated the case. The plaintiff and defend-
ant were both travelling on the Dog-road, which goes
under the Eastern CountieS Railway, and the plaintiff's
horse, which he had bought on the day the accident took
place, took fright under the arch of the railway, and
struck the cart of the plaintiff, which he upset. The
plaintiff's horse then ran away, and broke the traces and
received injuries. Mr. Lever after the accident said that
he would be willing to pay Mr. Lambert for any loss he
• sustained, but when they came to agree, in some days
after,,the plaintiff would not take less :han 171. or 181.,
and the defendant would not give so much.
Several witnesses were called, who proved the acci-
dent, and the loss sustained by the plaintiff:
Mr. Tnom.ts addressed the Jury for the defendant.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the Jury found for
the plaintiff damages to the amount of 181. 7s. 10,1.
DISMORE V. INNIS AND OTHERS.
This was an action to recover compensation in da-
mages from the defendants for breaking open the plain-
tiff's desk, to which the defendants pleaded not guilty,
and that the property did not belong to the plaintiff.
It appeared from the evidence that Mr. Lucas and
Mr. Cox, one of the defendants, were joirt proprietors
of the 'Juliet newspaper, a journal advocating Roman
Catholic principles, and published at No. 3, I3rydges-

itr eet, Covent-garden, and that the plaintiff was
engaged as publisher, at a salary of two guineas,
and was allowed at the same time to carry on a private
business of his own in disposing of newspapers and pe-
riodicals ; and that he had a desif. at the office of the
Table', in which were contained papers and books re-
lating to his private business. Some disagreement arose
between Mr. Lucas and Mr. Cox, in the month of No-
vember, and-ca Mr. Cox asking. to sec some accounts
relative to the business of the paper, he was refused, un-
less Mr. Lucas and his solicitor were also pre-
sent. Mr. Cox then, with Mr. Innis, his ,attorney,
and some other persons, entered the establishment of th?.
Tablet by means of a ladder, at two o'clock in the morn-
ing of the 25th of February, and brake open the desk
and took away some of the papers and books which were
contained in it having the names of subscribers to the
Tablet, and the names of two persons in India, to whom
' the Orthodox Journal, the Catholic 3fagazine,
,and the
/411:n Review, were sent. Mr; DiSmore, the plaintiff,
applied for those books through his attorney, alleging
that he was put to great inconvenience in consequence
of not having them, to which no reply was made, and
the present action was therefore brought.
It was alleged on the part of the defendants, that Mr.
Cox, being a part proprietor and owner of the 'Tablet
newspaper, had every right to inspect the books, and
that he had authority to enter his own house hew and
when he pleased; that the books which he took away be-
longing to the office and not to Alr;Dianore in his pri-
vate capacity ; and that Mr, Lucas, who had now estab-
lished another paper called the True Tablet, was in fact
the real plaintiff in the case.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the Jury brought in
a verdict for the defendants.

• Mr. Thesiger and Mr. Austin appeared for the plain-
tiff; and Mr. Platt and Mr. Dasent, for the defendants.

LLOYD'S SHIPPING.

THE CERTIFICATES REQUIRED HY THE PERUVIAN GO-
VERNMENT FROM EVERY VESSEL ENTERING THE
PORTS OF THAT REPUBLIC.
The following has been received at Lloyd's :
Office of Committee of Privy Council for Trade,
Whitehall, April 26, 1342.
Srn,—l am directed by the Lords of the Committee
of Privy Council, for Trace to transmit to you, for :he
information of the merchants trading to the port. of
Peru, the enclosed translation of a form of certificate,
with which the Peruvian Government requires that
every vessel entering the port of that Republic shall be
furnished.-1 am, Sir, your obedient servant,
To the Secretary, . J. M•GREGOR.
. .

(Translation.)

Department of Finance, Lima, Oct. 30, 1841.
This document, having been examined, with the
Reports of the Tribunal of Commerce, and the
Custom-house at Callao, and :it resulting from
the communications of the Peruvian Consul in
Bordeaux, that it is useful and advantageous to trade
that the merchandise which is convey ed from foreign
countries should come with the respective certificates of
of the Consular authorities from whence they proceed,
it is resolved that the owners of merchandise, and cap-
tains of vessels proceedinf, from foreign ports, where
Consular Agents of the Republic reside, to the open ports
of Peru, shall be obliged to take the certificates in the
manner which the annexed reforms- demonstrate, which
they are to representin the Custem-houses of the ports on
their arrival, and in the same manner make the Peruvian
Functionary, where there is one, note the necessary deduc-
tions, in consequence of the necessary discharge of part of
the cargo, in case they should call at •my other port be-
fore they arrive in Peru ; and it is hereby &clared, that
these documents are necessary for the- legality of the
trade, and that their presentation or omission, produce
the same legal effects as the manifests. The periods in
which this order should be complied with and observed
in all its parts, are those stated in the 153 d article of the
commercial code. Reply tu the ,'_Minister of Foreign
Affairs, with a copy of this decree, that he may cause it
to be circidated to the corresponding authorities.
(Signed) CANO.
[Here follow the forms, which are too long fin- in-
sertion.]

VESSELS SPOKEN WlTH.—Success, Liverpool to Madeira
30th ult., lat. 41, long. 12 ; Anna Rnbeltson, to Madeira, 4th
inst., lat. 45, long. 11, by the Tantivy, arrived in the Creek.
Minstrel, Manilla to Cork, 21st instant ; Colonist, Cork to
Jamaica, 21st instant; General Ic)d, in the chops of the
Channel, and a large fleet of homeward bound off Cape Clear,
by the Otterspool arrived off Cork.

COMMERCIAL TARIFFS AND RE-
GULATIONS OF THE SEVERAL STATES OF
EUROPE AND AMERICA.
By JOHN MACG#LEGOR, Esq.
IV. FRANCE.—RESOURCES OF FRANCE.
No country possesses within its boundaries greater
natural advantages than Francel
Although this highly-favoured kingdom has not
equal maritime advantages, nor minerals so conve-
niently disposed, as those England, yet her internal
natural riches are greater ; and in minerals and har-
bours she has pre-eminence over the other great
Powers of the Continent. . •
In geographical position, France is happily situated;
the sea and the Pyrenees bounding her on the west ; the
waters of the Mediterranean on the south ; the Alps
and the Rhine on the east ; and Belgium forming her
northern, and it is true, most accessible,, and less
marked, frontier.
The surface of France is, in genera], a level, very
moderately undulated. The borders near Spain,
Switzerland, and the Rhine ; the Central mountains,
or hills, of Auverne ; and the ridge of Cevennes form
the exception.
The Seine, Loire, Garonne, .Rhine, Saone, and
smaller rivers, open an extensive inland navigation,
susceptible of very easy and great improvement; par-
ticularly requiring the general use of steam-boats.
The Rhone has already' been connected by a canal
with the Rhine ; and the Great Northern Canal opens
a navigation from the Seine and Oise to the Scheldt.
The rivers and seaports of France have now their
navigation- unlocked, and opened with each other,
and with the rivers of Gerthany and Belgium, by
means of eighty-six canals.
France has done but little in the formation
rail-
roads. A very bad one extends- froin St. Etienne to
Lyons ; one from Paris to St. Germain, and two fropi
Paris to Versailles, comprehend, with the exception of
a few miles of branch-rails, the whole railroad com-
munication of this extensive kingdom.
Arthur Young divides France into four irregular
regions :—" In the first, the vine 'is not; in the second,
the maize is not : in the third, the olive is.. not.; in.
the fourth, or the southern, there are the olive, the
mulberry, and the vine, with most useful grains and
agricultural productions ; in the third, are all but
the olive ; in the second, pll but the olive and maize,
or Indian corn ; in the first, all but the olive, maize,
and vine."

According to MM. Chaptal and Mentelle, the soil
of France may be classified under seven heads, by in-
cluding the departments in which each quality predo-
minates. As far as my own observatioas enable we
to judge, I consider the arrangement correct. •
In the following statement, the prevailing lands Ere
accordingly arranged.
Rich Arable and Pasture rand3.—Pas-de-Cala's,
Nord, Somme, Aisne, Seine-et-Marne, Seine, Seine-
et-Oise Eure, Eure-et-Loir, Seine-inferieure, Ven-
dee, Deux-Sevres, Loiret, OiSe, Bas-Rhin, Aude,
Tarn, Lot, Garonne, and Herau4.
Heaths, Mossy and Barren Lands.—Loir-Infe-
rieure, Morbihan, Finistere, Ccifes-du-Nord, Ille-et-
Vilaine, Maine-et-Loire, Orne, Calvados, Manche,
Lot-et-Garonne, Dordogne, Gironde, Arriege, Gers,
Aveyron, Gard, Hautes et BasseS Pyrenees, and
Landes.

Chalky Lands.—Marne, llat4e-Marne, Ardennes.,
Aube, Loir-et-Cher, Indre-et-Loir, Charente, Cha-
rente-Inferieure, and Vienne.

Gravelly Lands.—Nievre and Allier.
Stony Lands.—Moselle, VosgEs, Meurthe, Meuse,
Haut-Rhin, Cote-d'or, Yonne, Haute-Saone, Doubs,
Saone-et-Loire, Jura, Ain, Rhone,,' and Loire.
Mountainous and }illy Lands.lautes et Basset.-
Alpes, Var, Bouches-du-Rhone, V,aucluse, Drome,
Isere, Correze, Lozere, Cantal, Puy-de-Dome, Haute-
Loire, and Ardeche.

Sandy.—Cher, Indre, Creuse, Haute-Vienne, Sar-
le, and Mayenne.

Of the eighty-six departments of France, coal is
found in forty-one ; and iron is equally. abundant.
For steam navigation the former is, however, not
conveniently disposed. Gold is found, but not 'in
sufficient quantities to pay the labour of working.
France has also mines of silver, copper, tin, manga-
nese, cobalt, arsenic, nickel, bismuth, &c. ; and great
plenty of mineral salt.
Porphyry, marble, granite, slate, millstones, grind-
stones, freestone for building, tine porcelains, clay,
&c., are abundant.

Although the original forests of France have been
nearly all levelled, yet the kingdom has a much
greater, proportion of good, and generally larger
timber than England; and were it not for the great
quantity required annually for fuel, the growth tf
timber trees in France would be quite sufficient for
all domestic purposes, unless it be fancy woods for
furniture and cabinet work.
A great variety of fish frequent the western and
Mediterranean coasts, and most fresh water fishes
abound in the rivers.
The colonies of France, with the exception of the
small islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, which ale,
however, of great value, and part of Algiers, are all
important in regard to their tropical productions.
the natural resources of France enable her to be
and not only to assume and maintain
more independent of exterior productions than any
other country. ;
a more formidable military position, but also to re-
cover sooner from the disasters of. long wars than any
other European Power. In these respects Prussia and
Austria most resemble France.
SEAPORTS OF FRANCE.
• . FIRST CLASS, 5, viz.
Havre, or the port of Paris, St. Maio ; Nantes ; Bor-
deaux, and Marseilles.

SECOND CLASS, 6, VIZ.
Cherbourg, Dunkirk, Granville, Lorient, Rochefort,
and Toulon.

THIRD CLASS, 14, vrz.
Dieppe, Rouen, St. Brieux, Adge, Brest, St. Set—
van, Calais, St. Valery, Vannes, Boulogne, Caen,
Bayonne, Port-Vendre, and Cette,

FOURTH CLASS, 52,,v1z.
Gravelines, Abbeville, Fecainp, Honfleur, Dour-

ranez, Harfieur La Hogue, Aurigny, Conquet, Ato.
leis, Quimper, Pontrieux, Concarneau, Port LOU'';
Redon, Auray, Le Crohic, Paimpol, Bourgneu"
Rochefue, Sales d'Olorin2, La Rochelle, Bromllge,
Lannion, Mar_ennes, Reyan, Paimbauf, Panillne'
Blaye, and Libourne.

STATISTICS OP FRANCE.
SUPERPICIES AND POPULATION OF THE FRENCH 13::IP1111'

f : v
cA •-,, . .l :4*
.1;
KINGDOM AND g 9
t. Population. :ti SI
COLONIES.
X o
~.,
c.
G .. .
...-. . . . • • ...." "..• - - - •• . •- • . -•. . - -
France, proper* ... 520,195 211,730 32,365,527
Corsica, dependent" 9,805 3,180 195,407
---- ---- ._._..------
Total .. ... 530,000 214,910 32,560,934 1541
COLONIES, &C,
Regency of Algiers / _
.4,021
( Europeans)t ....
.$
Martinicue ( Eu-
-7,538 2,874 13,000
ropeaus)
Guadakupe, &c. t 4,000 1,913 17,000
whites
Guyana Guyana
Senegsinbia, &c., in Z _
Alricl (w bites)... $ —•1,000
Isle of Bourbon (free) 2,531 1,126 ;0,000
Pondichery, &c — 700 i .....""
Total European /
32,627,945
population. $ t _....-

* Official returns of May
t Annuaire du Commerce Mary

POPULATION AT DIFFEREN

Years.

AUTHORITIES.

, 1832.
:irne de 144.

T PERIODS.

According to Father Alirabeau
---- Buffon

Abbe d'Expilly .....
- Necker
By Official Census
Under the Constituent Assembly
According to M. de Prony
According to M. de D. Pere
After tho Treaty of Peace .
Ditto ...
By Official Census ..
Ditto
By Estimate

_._......-,
Pol,ulaWo'

_
18,000,115
2t.671,122,014,7
24,67 0,000
24,800,0 r:
26,363,0/4
26,048,234
28,810,60
29,236,(V/
30,451,1 c,
31,851,515
30,560,?01_,
34,160,9,Y1

Tile area
Houses
Average

of France in hectares
Alto in English acres
:nhabited in 1832
number of inhabitants in each house 135
602
647
406
2?
421
291
v6'l,

for all France
Average number ofinhabitants in each house
for department of the Seine
Marriages, per annum
Births

270,215
90,249

Deaths
Average increase per annum
Population on the Ist of January, 1842, cal-
culating increase at this ratio

809,70
10M°
34,160,04

RECAPITULATION OF THE OFFICIAL RETURNS OF T-
a
.PHYSICAL AND AGRICULTURAL SURFACE OF FBASCE'
1835.
Squill
Lands paying direct taxes :- • : Hectares. icapieo,
Arable lands
• 945,853549,612511 1;2‘2:4943',!'
Meadows
Vineyards 2,134,822 1,0 S"
Forests 7,422.314 3,75'
25
Orchards, nurseries, and gardens 643,698 332
Osieries, willow, and reed plots
Ponds, cattle and horse ponds, 06
fens, and canals of irrigation
Wild pastures, barrens, heaths,&c 7,799,672 3;21
Navigable canals - 1,631
.131
Grounds under divers cultivation 951,934
Grounds under buildings
----'
,
Total paying direct taxes 49,863,609 25,
Lands not paying direct taxes : .
square
Hectares. leagues'
Post-roads, bye-reads, public
615
places, streets, &c.
Rivers, lakes, and rivulets . 454,365 2.
Forests and domains, not pro- fig
ductive 1,209,432
Cr- church,—

;emetcries, churches, presbyte-
ries, and public buildings
2,896,688 1'466
Total not pa.ing direct taxes
52,760,29 t 2'.re
Sq"
leagl
Houses and other buildings, inhabited
,51
Wind and water-mills
,415
Forges
Manufactnring establishments and work-
shop

Total superficies of France .. 52,760,298
Buildings paying direct taxes:—

38,030
____/
Total
• ' -_
____.--
Total number of whole properties, or
proprietors . 10,89,0,n
Total number of sub-divisions 123,3600°72
t'
Proprietors holding leases for ever 213,1
Ditto life interests 38,3
Pensioners of state
Public employes, requiring security for
fidelity
Ditto, exclusive of the army and navy, re-
ceiving salaries
Number of indigent persons
Operatives, or mere labourers, . and nut ar-
tisanS, tradesmen, nor agriculturists
Population of Chief Towns by Census of 1827: .00
Towns. Population. Towns. populAti.+
29,3'1
Paris 890,431 Rennes 9 I'2l
Lyons
Marseill';s
115,943'Clermont-Ferrarn -14
Bourdeaux
9 Ik-- - -

oueu
05-466
Nantes
69,8601Lirnoges
Lille
'l'l;3
Strasbourg
2,11"'
Strasbourg 49,708lArras
45,276!Poietiers
Metz 1
2949
--d--
,s!'4s

It
Amiens 42,o32lGrenoble -
Orleans 40,3401 2a Besancon ............ 00,44
,
Caen
•',,, AfiS
Havre
,-..
St. Etienne
........... 1.,19,4A '
0
Boulogne-sur-Mer 24,000 Le Mans ............ 14,5 A
La Rochelle 11,073 Moulins .. •••• 12,5 S
Njsmes
Montpelier
Angers 29,978 Carcassonne ........• 19,5,
Rochefort
Granville 13,248 Bourges . ........ .... 10,40045°
7,000 Calais
Bayonne
Perpignan
16,733 Abbeville ............ 1;,0:30
Narbonne 10,792 Dieppe 46 0
Cette 10,200 St. Male . .......... 29 ~E 6 50
Toulon 28,419 Brest ................. • jr3,43
Antibes 5,565 Clierbou- ••• 13,5'

.......... -1,
Port Vendre 2,ooolLorient.. ...............•
GOVERNMENTAL DIVISIONS. .jecl iilto
France, before the revolution of 1789. was divl,o
thirty-two provincial governments. The king"
,;01, avd
afterwards subdivided into eighty-six departole;oool
the whole formed into military, administrative? "
judicial, academical, and ecclesiastical divisions. 0 cent
The administrative divisions, &c, of France:ice kilo
tralised in the bureau of the Minister of el°s„' olio"
Public Works are eighty-six departments, co- 4
(a
ecording to
land the returns of 1832):
52 0,294
9-
.76 3Hf
56
2,;
Inhabitants
„5
Persons enrolled as national guards
As contingent milia
Qualified as jurors lo'63'
Enrolled to vote for the election of deputies
46°
Members to represent the department in the
Chamberof Deputies
These departments have been subdivided int°--
363 arrondissernens,

_ •
2,835 cantons, and
37,021 communes. a prett
et
,
Each department is under the administration °f prec.‘ ;
A,
The arrondissemens are each under that of a Sousjogo"
The cantons, severally, under that of a superild.
Paix ; and
The communes under the administration of s --lit'Yar 411

~...............__
his assistants.
..._,...L........ ~......" „5 that
against Morocco.endowrg subscriptionsa n e
episcopal
The Toulonnais of the 21st instant intbrillras ;1001
the statement of the four ships recently returned fli.de°'' the
having been ordered to take in three months' Pr°,,t,iied,,t° o
to get ready for sea, was unfounded. The ordetAgga'iral "nr;irl..
ships in the roadstead, *meet. the command of '7,1-,d 113;i: ..it
but this, says the Toulonnais, has been sesr,-,.,d to sin"; 101 t
graphic communication, and nothing has tran'P'"- being -i
the belief that an expedition was on the Point uf
1-
isrcaoipsaeldeofollregethine, cr.
t:-4desoosaani,...vu a 'f:r
of eretc
inglalnde
present,prem otiltlog
Chi
711,100istui/a.n,
Knowledge.
I,COOL r° letter,
The Minister of Commerceegeof
Commerce dated 19th inst., to the Chamber mereeof
on the
re
that bed,' Ilerb /
reply to one which he had .
received from the .0 de
jest of the critical position of French subject? 'that of i la
of Paraguay, in conse uence of the war with e been give _
addressed Ltdotib.a.
la Plata. The Ministger announces that orders ht_c,,,a, auarter
for the reinforcement of the French naval
of the, world, with a view to the protection of r ine
sil
peet el th
fore.l.3.;_n_eli; int'ere.tf;
Prince Albert on l'uesdaY afternlini 'W" elle'
new Ilcuses of Pailiament. Ilis "°laithe architect.
ducted over the works by Mr.:::...........
Prince remained nearly an hour.
----_—_

Or, the 10111 inst at Veva '
am _ ..-.•
BIRTHS.
Pate Nevile, Esq.. Of a s )'
z on. Mrs.
afield, Herefordshire.
On the 20tt► '
i inst., at Sprinpre•—,
Wallace Hall, of a son. of the Ref,
On the 21st inst., at Great Missenden, the lady
William Johnson liurpess, A.M., of a daughter.
in Switzerland, tl e lady of J.

D I E li.
On the 51h inst., after many years severe affliction. go-
garet, relict of ttte late 31r. Robert Pullett, Bill Farm, Esseq:
don, Berts, aged 75 ; also, on the 2lst, Mr. George Pullet,
Green Man, Potters Bar, after much suffering, in his 60'3
year, ninth respected and lamented, leaving a widow and DO'
children.
On the 25th of January last, Francis Austin, Esq., of the
Al On Temple, second son of A. Austin. Esq., of Fulham...,
On the 25th inst., Flora It A. daughter of Jut
William Aleytick, of Cambridge-terrace, Hyde-parki
On,the 25th inst., Mrs. Sarah Hewer, of Newgate-market, t.
On the 21st inst., at Brussels, Jacob Meyer Tueski, soli °
the late Meyer Heyman Tvski, of Amsterdam
- : "•—•-•"''.......-- --i.g,

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