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SESSIONAL ORDERS.

On the motion of Lord JOHN itossEt.r. the house proceeded
to the consideration of the sessional orders. The discussion on
these orders possessed no particular interest.

SITTINGS OF THE HOUSE.

Mr. Wm. Ews RT, believing that the country was opposed to
nocturnal legislation, moved the resolution of which he had
given notice on the previous night, namely, that no new busi-
ness should be commenced after half-past eleven o'clock except
such'as might be of a formal nature.
The honourable gentleman's motion was negatived on a divi-
sion by a majority of 182. The numbers being for the motion
51, against it 233!

FOREIGN CORN IN BOND.
Mr. 1-IEATticoTE asked-the President of the Board of Trade
(Mr. P. Thomson) whether it was the intention of government
to bring in a bill to permit foreign corn in bond to be taken out
for the purpose of being ground for foreign consumption ? •
Mr. P. THOMSON replied that no such measure was contem-
plated by government.

REPORT ON THE ADDRESS.
Sir JOHN WROTTESLEY brought up the report on the address.
On the question that it be read, a debate of some length en-
sued. The speakers were Mr. Fector, Mr. S. G. Price, Mr.
Hume, Mr. R. Trevor, Mr. Ewart, Mr. Potter, Lord F. Eger-
ton, Lord Palmerston, Lord Mahon, and Mr. Borthwick. After
Which the address was agreed to. -

ANNUITY OF THE KING OF BELGIUM.
Mr. ROBINSON wished to ask his right hon. friend the Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer whether any payments had yet been
made into the public treasury arising from the annuity which his
.Majesty King Leopold. had relinquished to the country. If his
right hon. friend was not prepared to give him au answer at that
moment, he would take another opportunity of mentioning the
subject.
Mr. S. Rica was prepared to state at that moment, that the
arrangements with respect to the annuity proposed by his Ma-
jesty the King of Belgium, had been most strictly adhered to.
In a short time an account would be laid o❑ the table, which
would show the amount of the annuity which had become avail-
able for the public service. With the exception of some engage-
ments which his Majesty had entered into, for the purpose of
granting pensions to faithful servants on his establishment in
this country, the whole amount of the annuity would be made
available for the public service.
• . Adjourned at half-past eight o'clock.

LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS.

GRAY'S INN HALL, SATURDAY.

LADY lIEWLEY'S CHARITY.--THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. SHORE.

Lord Lyndhurst, Mr. Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Pat-•
tison, sat in thii Hall to give judgment in this appeal against
.the decision of the Vice Chancellor, and which has excited
such interest throughout • its proceedings, not only to the
Parties iinmediately concerned, but to the members of all reli-
gious denominations. The principal question in this ease was,
whether unitarians were eligible to receive the benefits arising
from Dame Hewley's charitable bequests. His Honour was of
Opinion that the only persons contemplated by the testator, were
such only as believed in the doctrine of the Trinity ; thereby
excluding the defendants from the enjoyment of the charter.
This appeal was in a great part heard V Lord Brougham, as-,
Rsisted by Mr. Justicelittledale and Mr. Baron Parke. His
lordship, however, resigned the great seal before it was con-
cluded, and the defendants agreed to close it and receive his
lordship's judgment after he retired. The whole case was
therefore begun de nova, and heard by Lord Lyndhurst, Mr.
Baron Alderson, and Mr. Justice Pattison.
Their lordships this morning, after quotinttall the precedents
and authorities relating to the question, affirmed the judgment
of the Vice-Chancellor.
Judgment affirmed.

gulcinE.—Don Vicente Elisonda, a young man aged 21, a
native. of Columbia and a student at the London University,
iest"'Yed himself b'y cutting his throat, on Sunday last. The
dent" had caught the small pox, Which, at the crisis, pro.
'l
an aberration of mind. The jury returned a verdict of
TemPorary Insanity."
EmINENT MEN ov FIFE.-Sir John Campbell, Sergeant
Spankie, !livid Wilkie, Captain Barclay, Mr. l'Culloch, Dr.
Fleming, Dr. Chalmers, Dr. Gillespie, are names for whose
local habitations biographic historians will yet be zealous to
pin-
quire.s!iy have every one of them lived in manses in the
re
te9rAhey
6f Cupar 1 believe that there are none of the coin-
Inunalt who better make their way, or achieve for *themselves
more honourable places iu society, than the sons of the manse;
• and assuredly no presbytery .can boast of a greater number of
manses which have been distinguished for their sons than that
of Cupar. The father of .the Attornev.General of England
was minister in the county town, and could give his son no fur-
ther assistance than what he might derive from moral training
and intellectual education. Two of his sons are knights. Mr.
SSpankie was born in the manse of Falkland, and having been
long distinguished as a lawyer in India, now holds a place
second to few indeed at the English bar. The manse of Cults,
where David Wilkie was born, still stands, and its churchyard
displays the monument which the affection of the painter
erected in memory of his parents. Dr. Barclay of Kettle,
whose son war almost blown to pieces on the American lakes,
and who, even among British sailors, had no rival in the brief
but disastrous Transatlantic war of 1814, is still alive, hale, and
active, and near his 90t1, year. Mr. 11/41`Culloch, the eminent
Secretary of the India House—the friend and patron of so
many of countrymen—the chief of Eastern merchants, was
born at Dairsie. Kilmany manse witnessed the dawning
glertes of the fame of Chalmers ; and Flick, the matured emi-
nence of Fleming, as the first Scottish naturalists. The place
of the birth of Wilkie was long the residence of Gillespie.—
Pifeshire Journal.