The Sun.
London, England, 1842-07-11 00:00:00

TESTIMONY PERPETUATING.

A BILL INTITULED AN ACT FOR PERPETUATING TESTIMONY
IN CERTAIN CASES.
Whereas it is expedient to extend the means of perpetuating
testimony in certain cases ; he it enacted, by the Queen's most
Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the
Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present
Parliament assembled, and by the authority of th€ same, that
any person who would, under the circumstances alleged by him
to exist,, become entitled, upon the happening of any future
event, to any honour, title, dignity, or office, or to any estate
or interest in any property, real or personal, the right or claim
to which cannot by him be brought to trial before the happen-
ing of such an event, shall be entitled, from and after the pass-
ing of this Act, to 612 a bill in the High Court of Chancery to
perpetuate any testimony which may be material for establishing
zuch claim or right ; and that all laws, rules, and regula-
tions not contrary to the provisions of this Act, now in force
or in use in suits to perpetuate testimony, or respecting depo-
sitions taken in such suits, or the punishment of perjury com-
mitted in making such depositions, shall be in force and used
and applied in all suits to be instituted under the authority of
this Act, and in respect to depositions taken on such suits.
And be it further enacted, that in all suits which may be so
instituted under the authority of this Act, touching any
honour, title, dignity, or office, or any other matter or thing
in which her Majesty, her heirs, or successors, may have any
estate or interest, it shall be lawful to make the Attorney.. General for the time being a party defendant thereto ; and
that in all proceedings in which the depositions taken in any
such suit in which the Attorney-General for the time being
was so made a defendant may be offered in evidence, such de_
positions may be admissible, notwithstanding any objection to
depositions, upon the ground that her Majesty, her heirs, or
successors, were not parties to the suit in which such deposi-
tions were taken.

GROSS OUTRAGE ON THE CAPTAIN.--(From a Cor-
respondent.-- Friday, at the public meeting in Fletcher's Chapel,
Finsbury-square, on the conclusion of the Rev. Mr. Massie's
detail of starvation and awful state of the operative classes,
the popular cry was, " Now state your remedy against this evil."
Mr. M. demurred, under side-looks at his colleagues, and at last
"broke the ice" by saying, " A repeal of the Corn-laws."
(Cries of " Put it as a resolution," with " We want
deeds, not" talk, talk.") Mr. Massie concluded in evident
dilemma, and with hasty descent from the pulpit, he
seized Captain Ackerley by the collar, having at hand
a policeman, &r. The ceremony of ejectment took place,
with similar dragging away, under abuse, through the
streets, to the district police-office, when the Inspector
refused investigation, in default of evidence, the Rev. Mr.
Massie absenting himself. The Captain returned to the
chapel, amidst cheers, whose presence, as may be conceived,
disconcerted the party, who refused to put the resolution.
Gossip OF THE WEEK, &c.---Grisi was confined
on Friday last. The acceuchement has, for obvious reasons,
beg,ti kept a profound secret, but we give the fact from un-
cial ated authority.—The King of Prussia has just named
Meyerbeer his Director-General of Music. He will receive
an annual salary of three thousand thalers (about five hundred
gaineas).—Mrs. Alfred Shaw has arrived in England from
alter an 4bsenoe of three years. i—Dtaniatic and 4 At-Inew,