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An earthquake at Batavia has destroyed some sugar Another of the murderers *of Mr.-Lloyd has died from
HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAY. mills, many public buildings, and several lives. fever.
The house resumed its sittings this day at five o'clock, _
_CAPTURED SLAVERS.—In November last, more than Of 743 deaths of Irish medical practitioners, of which
at which time the Lord Chancellor took his seat on the
100 slave vessels, taken by the' English cruisers, were the causes have been stated, 331 .were occasioned by
woolsack. Petitions were presented against the admission
lying at St. Helena, awaiting adjudication, or for sea after typhus fever.
of Jews into Parliament ; for a law to prevent denuncia-
their condemnation and sale. On Saturday, as three young men were shooting on the
tions from the altar in Ireland ; in favour of the removal
On the arrival of Espartero at Madrid, the authorities ice, on Loughaghery loch, the ice broke and they were
of civil disabilities for religious opinions ; and two from placed two fire-engines before his house, ready, in case of drowned.
numerous officers serving under the Poor Law, praying disturbance, to discharge plentiful streams of water on CRIME IN GALWAY.—Mr. O'Hara, recorder of Gal-
for the establishment of a superannuation fund for their the crowd hich assembled to welcome him. way, sentenced eighteen persons to transportation last
support in old age, out of stoppage, to be made from their TTALY.—It is stated that the Pope is quite ready to week. In the county gaol there are 800 prisoners.
own salaries.
recognise the rights of Switzerland as to the expulsion of Government intends to send a-reinforcement of consta-
the Jesuits ; and the secularisation of the convents will bulary to every townland in Ireland where an outrage of
In answer to a question from the Earl of Hardwicke,
The Marquis of LANSDOWNE said, the question relat-
slot be regarded by him as an attack upon the Roman a Whiteboy character is committed.
ing to the state of the national defences must necessarily Cast_heozhl:icwrees theligiOn Thursday night last, the wife and three children of
be brought on first in the other house. His noble friend terror caused among the English residents a sub-constable, at Rathcormac, were suffocated by sleep-
near him, who presided at the Admiralty would be ready at Palermo, by the insurrection in that capital, that a ing with a pan of charcoal in a room in which there was
to answer any questions upon this subject. lady named Backhouse is said to have died of fright, on no chimney flue.
board the war steamer Bulldog, which was sent to protect A faction fight took place a few days ago in the north
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—THURSDAY. English subjects. of Ireland, at Donaghadee, when a man named Bowden
A considerable sensation was produced in London, on lost his life. Two men have been committed to gaol
in reply to Mr. ROBINSON, Thursday morning, by the account. which appears to have charged with the homicide. a
Lord PALMERSTON stated that a correspondence bad reached Paris, by telegraph, that the King of Naples bad A poor old widow, seventy years old, named Murphy,
taken place between the United States minister and the recognized and proclaimed the constitution of 1812 in the living near Doneraile, was brutally murdered on the 28th
government on the question of -the Navigation Laws ; capital. ult. in her cabin, by a youth, who, after sadly mutilating
and the government of the United States bad intimated Such is the extent to which vineyards have been planted the poor creature with a garden spade, decamped with all
their intention to co-operate with the British government in New South Wales, that a single landowner, Mr. the money he could find, which was only sevenpence.
in effecting such a relaxation of the Navigation Laws as M'Arthur, has made in one year 17,000 gallons of wine, He has been committed for the murder.
the parliament of this country might think necessary to some of ;MA, when bottled, -has-been sold for 20s. a Some Irish writers seem to entertain singular notions
make. The answer returned to that intimation was an dozen at Sydney. of respectability, for a Dublin journalist describes the ma-
expression of satisfaction on the part of the British go- The Government of India have resolved to allow gistrate who was lately shot in an affray with one of the
vernment, and an assurance that a proposition should be £lO,OOO a-year for some years to come, to be bestowed coroners of Roscommon, who was executing a writ, as
laid before parliament for their consideration. The noble on experiments on the cultivation of tea on the banks of being, "though an improvident, a highly-respectable
Foreign Secretary said he would not Object to lay the cor- the Beas, in our newly-acquired Sikh dominions, and in gentleman of good fortune, but by no means remarkable
respondence on the table. Simla districts. Sir J. Davis has been directed to procure for his observance of law or good morals."
Lord G. BENTINCK moved for a select committee "to a supply of seed, and to send from the first tea gardens CONVICTS.—Nine convicts have already been left for
inquire into the present condition and prospects of the in China some of the best cultivators that can be found. execution, in the county of Limerick, for murder, eighteen
interests connected with, and dependant on. sugar and MEXICO.—A court-martial was,iit was said. to be held are transported, and twenty-fonr imprisoned for different
coffee planting in her Majesty's East and West Indian at Vera Cruz, to try Generals Worth and Pillow, and periods. In Clare, five are left for execution, and a large
possessions, and the Mauritius." It .had been repre- Colonel Duncan, on the charges preferred against them number transported. At Tipperary fourteen persons
sented to him by those who were interested in the pros- by General Scott. General Lane had a skirmish with the have been sentenced to execution, and sixty to transpor
perity of the East and West Indies and the Mauritius, Mexicans at Matamoras. The Mexicans were defeated, tation.
that their interests were in the agony of death, and that and several American prisoners were thereby liberated. The repeal rent plunder in Ireland still continues, and,
they might expire altogether whilst they -were discussed Lieutenant Ridgeley, who acted as assistant-adjutant- sad to say, is permitted. It amounted to £169 last week.
in a committee up stairs. It therefore became incumbent general, was killed. As to the reverend collectors of this rent, one or two
on him to consider whether he had any chance of obtain- The Colonial Church Chronicle for the present month things is quite clear; either they are devoid of all truth
ing for the East and West Indian proprietors any substan- announces that new Colonial Sees will be established in and are rank impostors, or devoid of all charity, and there-
tial relief by any vote of that house. Now, on recollect- the following order :—Sierra Leone, Western Australia, fore not Christians. If the misery of the people exists
ing the fate of his motion in July, 1846, to maintain Agra, (Northern India) ; Tanjore and Tineevelly (South- not, how dare they assert it ;if it does exist, how dare they
colonial protection, when only 130 votes were given in its ern India) . China, the Mauritius, and Prince Rupert's aggravate it by extortion ?:
favour and 265 against it, he felt it to be a hopeless task, Island.
A is also being raised for a Missionary A DISTINGUISHED BENCH OF MAGISTRATES.—The
considering that no addition had since been made in the Bishopric in Borneo. Our contemporary anticipates that following gentlemen have, within the last few years, usu-
number of those members who supported his views on one, at least (China), will be sent out this year. 1 ally attend the sittings of the Cashel bench of magistrates :
protection' to change his former minority into a majority. GROWTH OF COTTON IN INDIA.—Mr. J. A. Turner, of --R. Long—father shot, himself twice fired at ;W. Mur-
Ile therefore was of opinion that the West India body Manchester, has advices from India, stating, on the au- phy—father shot ; Samuel Cooper—brother shot ; Leo-
had no good case against him when they blamed him for thority of the government collector of the Dharwar dis- nerd Keating—nephew, Mr. Scully, shot ; E. Scully—
mot taking a more resolute course on the present occasion. trict, that there are at present at least 20,000 acres of cousin, Mr. Scully, shot ; Godfrey Taylor—cousin, Mr.
In proposing his present inquiry, he did not preclude New Orleans seed cotton under cultivation in that dis- Clarke, shot ; William Roe—slot ; C. Clarke—brother,
either himself or others from lending his or their support trict, and that, had it not been for the deficient fall of shot; a nephew, Mr. Roe, shot.
to any subsequent proposition which might be made for rain last monsoon, there would have been at least 60,000 One of the saddest features exhibited at the Tipperary
the relief of the West Indians ; but looking at the de- acres under cultivation. The cultivation of cotton is ex- special commission was the affected want of interest among
plorabie state of our East and West Indian possessions, tending fast into the Nizam's country, and also into Bel- the lower orders. Not more persons attended the courts
and-of the Mauritius, and looking, also, at the memorials ffaum.
than at any ordinary petty sessions. John Lonergan's
of the merchants in the great seaports of London, Liver- b DESTRUCTION OF CHAGRES BY FIRE.—By the arrival brother (he who was convicted of the murder of Mr. Roe)
pool, and Glasgow, whose liabilities amounted to £6,600,000 of the Avon, we have the melancholy tidings of the said in the court-house, after Lonergan was sentenced—
and of whom not one would have of necessity fallen but almost total destruction of the town of Chagres by fire ~ What does it signify—many a better man than he is has
for the change of the sugar laws and the reduction of on the night of the Bth Dec. ; including among the few been hanged ;" and Lonergan's wife said—" It was no
duties resulting therefrom, he hoped that by a calm , other buildings of any note, the (so called) " Custom harm for him to die, as he had done a good service for his
inquiry before a select committee he might induce the House," which at the time most unfortunately contained country." What prospect have we of the state of the
house to change its policy on this great question. He an entire cargo of merchandise just landed from the country imroving, when those are the feelings of people
then combated the notion that the £20,000,000 which schooner Desengano, veined at 60,000 dollars, and which so circumstanced' The murderers are considered as
had been paid for the redemption of slaves, was an ade- it is reported had been purchased on credit, by two Spanish martyrs.
quate remuneration to the owners, and went on to con- gentlemen, from merchants in Jamaica.
DISTRESS.—A letter from a stipendiary magistrate in
tend that the West India planters ought to be protected
RUSSIA.—An engagement took place in Daghestan, in the west of Ireland, and a gentleman quite incapable of
against their foreign competitors who enjoyed the advan- the middle of November, between the Russian troops and exaggerating any statement, asserts that although the
tages of slave labour. Having favoured the house with a the Circassians. The losses of the Circassians were very distress is not so wide-spread as the last year throughout
long detail of the rate of wages in Jamaica and in British considerable. The Russians had 19 killed, one of whom the county of Mayo, the number of deaths from actual
Guiana, for the purpose of showing that the sum so paid was an officer, and 154 wounded, Bof whom were officers. starvation, and the deplorable state of misery in which
in wages was far more than that expended in the mainte- Col. Slapzoff has also gained a victory at Umachan, just some districts are steeped by the total absence of all em-
nance of slaves in Cuba and Brazils, where slaves were on the other side of the river Walerick. The greater ployment would scarcely be credited by any one not an
maintained as cheaply as ever they were in the British part of the enemy were killed, 22 taken prisoners, and the eye-witness of the sad scenes which hourly present them-
colonies, he expressed his opinion that. although immigra- place reduced to ashes. The Russians had 2 officers and selves. The disease seems to be almost incurable. At
tion would not relieve the distress of the West Indies in 6 men wounded. Castlebar five persons have died from sheer starvation ;
any material degree, some good might be done by re- INDIA.—By the last Overland Mail the political news at Galway three, and at Waterford and Lismore several
moving the restrictions upon, and by facilitating the con- is not important. Throughout India all was peace. Lord cases of death from want have occurred, and others are
-veyance of, negro immigrants into them. The condition Hardinge reached Calcutta on the 11th December, where hourly expected.
of the African, the Hindoo, and the Chinaman would be he would remain until Lord Dalhousie arrived. The TRIAL AND ACQUITTAL OF PRIEST TlMLlN.—lreland
greatly improved by their removal to those islands. He commercial news, must on the whole, be regarded as has proverbially some curious forms of public justice, and
then proceeded to consider the case of the East Indies, more depressing than any yet received. The state of the amongst these manifestations of the balanced deity, the
which he admitted had not the same claim en the con- Calcutta import market is such as will be likely to exer- trial of Priest Timlin, as reported in our columns this
sideration of Parliament as the West. Adverting to the cise a most unfavourable influence on the existing pros- day, is one of the most instructive things of its class that
case of the Mauritius, he observed that it afforded a com- pects of our Manchester and Glasgow trade, and the ac- we have lately read. The facts charged were all, in popu-
plete justification for the appointment of a committee, if counts of the various suspended firms give unequivocal lar belief, brought home to the rev. flagellator ; the
ever case did. Out of six great firms in that colony only signs in most cases of a disastrous termination. At the assaults, the riots that ensued, and, in fact, the whole
one was now left standing. Their liabilities amounted to same time it is to be remarked that no new failures ap- case for the prosecution, were established upon testimony
£2,900,000, and they had been contracted not by rash pear to have been announced. which was not even sought to be rebutted ; while the
speculators or gamblers, but by honorable merchants who FALL IN CORN.—A letter from Frankfort of the 27th court was obviously confident that no room for doubt
had not been guilty of any mistake as to the value of ult., says :—" Commercial letters from different ports of existed, and yet Priest Timlin was acquitted ! On what
their estates, but as to the good faith of the British par- Alsace, particularly those on the borders of Germany, grounds the jury brought in this verdict, the public have
Bement. He subsequently indulged in a long argument announce a considerable fall in the price of corn. Im- not been informed ; but it is certainly most desirable that
.against free-trade principles and policy, and concluded mense quantities, collected together with a view to gain, we should know, as their disclosure may be hereafter of
with a description of the horrors which had been perpe- have been thrown on the market, in consequence of appre- great importance to the due administration of the law.—
trated in Africa, in consequence of our attempts to ex- hensions entertained by speculators of an abundant har- Derry Standard.
tinguish the slave trade on its coasts. He went into a vest. These fears have been increased in consequence of REPEAL ASSOCIATION.—The meeting, on Monday, was
detailed enumeration of our expenditure in life and money all the letters from the Upper Rhine, Wurtemberg, Ba- numerously attended. Numerous letters were read en-
for the purpose of putting down that trade by blockading varia, and Austria agreeing in their accounts of the closing subscriptions—amungst them was one from Dr.
10,600 miles of coast. He advised the government to extreme abundance of provisions. At Trieste the gra- M`Nally, enclosing £6O, another from the clergy of Clon-
strike a blow not at the hand but at the head of that trade. naries are not sufficient for the supplies of corn arriving fert enclosing £32, and . third from the deanery of Bal-
Instead of striking down each individual hornet, he would from
c,:,,,,.Hungary ..rid from the interior of the Austrian linasloe, with £l3. A communication was , cad from Mr.
w' at once into the hornets' nest, aaa c...atinguich 1.1. c! .._/7 _
-Charles Russell, agent to Mr. Justice Crampton,,eontr's.-
.. .
source of crime which existed in Cuba. America had DEMERARA. AND ANTIGUA.—A communication from dieting a statement made at the last meeting of the asso-
gone to war with Mexico for the sake of recovering cer- Antigua, alluding to the reduction which had taken place elation, that the learned judge had ejected some tenants
tian sums due to American citizens from that state. in wages among the planters, thus remarks :—" The re- in-the county Kilkenny. Mr. Justice Crampton had no
£75,000,000 were due from Spain to British subjects on duced rate for agricultural labour, 6d. sterling per day, property whatever in that county. Doctor Miley delivered
Spanish bonds, and Cuba was hypothecated to us for that has come into operation on all the estates in the island, a speech of considerable length, levelled chiefly against
sum. Let England, therefore, seize on Cuba, and there with one or two exceptions ; and the peasantry, much to the practice of Protestant proselytism, which he trusted,
would then be nothing left for her to do than to blockade their credit, have accepted it, and are cheerfully working would prove unavailing in its effects against the ever faith-
the coast of the Brazils, which did not extend above 2,200 at the reduction, feeling satisfied that the low price of ful Roman Catholic people of Ireland. The observations
miles. In taking possession of Cuba we should only be sugar will not allow the proprietors to offer them employ- of this bigotted priest were cheered throughout, as was
distraining for a just debt, of which we have long de- ment on any other terms." From Demerara it is stated his departure from the platform, which took place imme-
mended payment in vain. We might then emancipate —" Our condition in monetary affairs here at present is diately afterwards. A letter from Doctor Mac Hale, ad-
the slaves of Cuba ; and having thus destroyed slavery dreadful. Both our banks refuse every accommodation dressed to Dr. Gray of the Freeman's Journal, was read,
itself in that quarter of the world, there would be no diffi- by discounts, and will not buy bills, nor can money be contradicthbos a statement put forward in the communica-
culty in allowing the British merchant to go to Africa, for raised even on produce. This unprecedented state of tion of Mr. Stanley, addressed to the guardians of the
the purpose of obtaining there, by the offer of good things has brought many estates to a dead stand." Tuam union, in which it was alleged that he was in arrear
wages and other advantages, a number of free Africans to DYCE SomaßE.—Dyce Sombre has just had an audience in his payment of the poor rate. The letter stated that
cultivate their estates. with the Pope. The monarch is perfectly aware that the he (Dr. Mac Hale) was not a shilling in arrear.—Rent for
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER should be de- gentleman stands in the eye of the English law a lunatic the week, £169 10s.
ceiving Lord G. Bentinck, the house, and theWestlndian (nolumus leyee Anglice mutari) he was therefore parti- THE SPECIAL COMMISSION.—At Clonmel, on Tuesday,
interest, if he led any of them to believe that, in assenting cularly kind towards his visitor, and 1 rought him to an the Lord Chief Justice sentenced the following five can-
to this committee, government intended to imply any apartment in the Quirinal where the Begum's picture is victs to be hanged :—John Lonergan, Henry Cody, and
doubt of the propriety of the course which it had adopted hung up, with a drawing of the Roman Catholic cathedral Philip Cody, on the Ist of March, and John Daly and
on the subject in 1846, or to give any idea that it intended founded by her (she built a mosque the same year to make Terence Corboy on the 4th of the same month ; all the
to depart from the act which was then passed. He would sure of her chance). He also confronted Dyce with his convicts to be buried within the precincts of the gaol in
not accede to Lord G. Bentinck's proposal to make a fore- own portrait, executed twenty years ago, and found some which they were confined since their conviction, with the
-closure upon Cuba, and to take vengeance on an ally of falling off, naturally. Last week, Sombre left his card (in exception of Daly, whose crime, we are glad to say, did
ours, for the failure of our sugar proprietors. He con- envelope) at the Doria palace, and when the prince called not terminate with the loss of life. The unfortunate men
sidered it necessary to separate the depression of the on him in return, he learnt to his astonishment that it was were then removed without uttering a syllable to the
price of sugar, which was merely temporary, from that meant as a hostile message, inasmuch, as when in Lon- court, or to one another—they appeared to be perfectly
which might be fairly attributed to the act of 1846, and don several years ago, Dyce was airing in Hyde Park, stupified and stared wildly round, exhibiting a greater
in making that separation he called the attention of the flanked by two keepers, Doria had stared at him and shook degree of terror than has been displayed by any of the
house to the fact that many other colonial articles, as for his whip at the carriage ! Doria sent Abbate Hamilton, a parties similarly placed during the commission. It is a
instance indigo, sago, and tea, had been exposed of late young Scotchman of gentle address, to urge that at the remarkable feet, that in these cases, as in the capital
to a greater depression of price than sugar. Besides, time he was not in England at all. "Heis a liar as well cases tried in Limerick and Clare, the announcement was
even now the price of sugar (as he showed by documents) as a coward," was the reply ; and the abbate went forth received in solemn silence—not a shriek given nor a tear
was not lower than it had been at several periods when it to the Secretary of State, who warned the eccentric shed—although in some instances I saw the wife, in others
was not affected either by the act of 1846, or that of 1844, stranger against any further indulgence in Rome of such the father or mother, and in others the children of the
or that of 1833. The distress in the Mauritius was not Oriental hallucinations. convicts listening to the sentence of the law, which was
owing to the low price of sugar, hut to the failure of two
—____,..._ to consign those nearest and dearest to them to a prema-
eminent houses in London, which had been in the practice
of providing the planters with advances for their sugar STATE OF THE ISLAND OF JAMAICA. ture and disgraceful death. In passing sentence, his
lordship remarked on the fact, that neither the wives,
and for the cultivation of their lands. The same cause
had produced a similar effect in the West Indies. He (From the Jamaica Disvatch.) parents, or friends of the prisoners, had done anything to
revent the commission of the crime, and that they had
inquire The committee. appointed by the House of Assembly to
refuted at some length the proposition of Lord G. Ben-
into the depressed state of agriculture in this been
the first to appear against them.
tinck, that the compensation granted to the planters in
• •
1833 was inadequate, and read an extract from the speech the extent of
island ' the cause of such depression '
of Lord Stanley in that year to show that that noble lord abandonment of cultivation and breaking up of sugar and
LAW INTELLIGENCE.
estimated it at only 15,000,000. No one, therefore, had coffee factories, which has taken place since the passing ._______
a right to say that on the ground of the want of compen- of the British Emancipation Act in 1832, have reported
sation £lO a ton should be paid to the planters—espe- to the House as follows;
In a case heard in the Hereford County Court, the
clay those of the Mauritius and the East Indies—to
That they have taken the evidence of persons interested plaintiff stated that he had been urged to bring it forward
compensate them for the abolition of slavery in the West as proprietors and managers of property from nearly every by the ghost of his intended bride, who had died before
marriage. It was to recover back some furniture from
parishin the island records, from which evidence, arnea-
Indies. The question between the West India planter the deceased's father. The plaintiff gained his suit.
"land the consumer was just the same as between the agri- from the parochial and island records, the_ following e
ACCEPTANCE BY A WIFE.—Tn the case of Lindhurst v.
culturist and the consumer. Both claimed protection, cults are established, as will more fully appear by reference
to_. theirvaattn!'nations'herepato annexed. Bradnall, heard in the Court of Common Pleas on Satur-
and in neither case could government give it ; for dutiesday, the judges decided that a husband was bound to pro-
were to be imposed not for protection but for revenue. 1 since the passing of the
_British. Slave Emanci-
He proposed to introduce a bill to permit the use of mo- r
ation of the 653 sugar estates then in cultivation in vide for a bill of exchange accepted by a wife, in her own
lasses in distilleries, on similar terms with sugar. He this island, 140 have been abandoned, and the works
broken up, containing 168,032 acres of land, and having aut y.
had no objection to the admission of cane juice, but then , , .
_„ , _ name, provided the acceptance was with the husband's
A Tro D . •• •,,.., Cu A D'Fq Tel BE ACCOUNTED GOODS AND

he must have the same duty for the cane juice as for the
sugar which the cane would have produced. It had been
calculated that that would amount to /Is. Id. ; but those
who wished for the imposition of-SIM a duty rata that
would be a complete prohibitory duty. The last point
related to the supply of labour. His own opinion was
that the present scheme of immigration bad not answered.
Ile believed that a valuable supply of labour might be
got from the Kroomen on the coast of Africa. The go-
vernment proposed to advance to the colonies a sum not
-E200,000, fcr the purpose of carrying on that
The other persons from whom the supply
ome, were the liberated Africans. Those
LQ Havannah were generally carried

exceeding .Dr.,.

of labour mus

set free at Rio and t
to the West Indies,

xpense of their conveyance

was defrayed by the colonies. The government was pre-
pared for a short time to take upon itself nearly the whole
of this conveyance. The main body of liberated Africans
were set free at Sierra Leone. Measures will be taken to
increase their emigration to the West Indies to a great
extent; and he trusted that such measures would be at-
tended with benefit not only to the West Indies, but also
the colony of Sierra Leone itself. The government in-
tended to take upon itself nearly all the expense of that
removal. He also intended to postpone for five years the
rpnavment of certain loans made to the colonies, and

ana in the course of the ses-
sion he should propose a loan to Tobago, to enable the
These
there to repair the damages of a late hurricane.
These were the measures which he had to propose on the
government. He concluded by declaring his
hat it "- nroof by reference tr

(From the Jamaica Disvatch.)
The committee appointed by the House of Assembly to
inquire into the depressed state of agriculture in this
island ; the cause of such depression ; the extent of
abandonment of cultivation and breaking up of sugar and
coffee factories, which has taken place since the passing
of the British Emancipation Act in 1832, have reported
to the House as follows ;
That they have taken the evidence of persons interested
as proprietors and managers of property from nearly every
parish in the island records, from which evidence, and
from the parochial and island records, the following re-
sults are established, as will more fully appear by reference
to the examinations hereunto annexed.
1. That since the passing of the British Slave Emanci-
pation Act, of the 653 sugar estates then in cultivation in
this island, 140 have been abandoned, and the works
broken up, containing 168,032 acres of land, and having
then employed in their cultivation 22,553 labourers.
2. That those properties, now extinct, produced in the
year 1832, 14,178 hogsheads of sugar and 5,903 puncheons
of rum.

3. That during the same period 465 coffee plantations
have been abandoned, and their works broken up, con-
taining 188.400 acres of land, and having employed in
their cultivation, in the year 1832, 26,830 labourers.

4. That of 138 sugar: estates, given in evidence, the
crops made in 1832 were-25,928 hhds. of sugar and
10,008 puncheons of rum ; in 1847, 17,359 hhds. of sugar
and 833 puncheons of rum, showing a decrease of 8,569
hhds. of sugar and 1,677 puncheons of rum.

,re or p.,...._
gar cultivation by free labour
~.

5. That upon certain estates shown to have had at-
tached to them, and engaged in their cultivation in the
year 1832, 41,820 labourers, there now remain resident on
those 'properties only 13,973, the others, amounting to
27,847, having generally become independent settlers.
6. That the sum of £1,405,887 14s. 11d. was expended
in the cultivation and manufacture of 57,005 hhds. of
sugar and 26,711 puncheons of rum, giving the result
that, after deducting proceeds of the rum, averaged at
£l4 per puncheon, the actual cost of sugar averaged
£1 2s. 71d. per cwt. ; consequently, that as its value is
now by slave competition reduced in the British market to
about lls. exclusive of charges, it is self-evident sugr
itivation cannot i 'hat there

oe contmueL that there is an actua,
loss on every cwt. of 7s. 74d., without taking into account
interest on capital and on money expended, equal at the
least to 4s. 6d. more per cwt. ; while as regards coffee the
evidence is conclusive that it is, if possible, even in a worse

In a case heard in the Hereford County Court, the
plaintiff stated that he had been urged to bring it forward
by the ghost of his intended bride, who had died before
marriage. It was to recover back some furniture from
the deceased's father. The plaintiff gained his suit.
ACCEPTANCE BY A WIFE.—Tn the case of Lindhurst v.
Bradnall, heard in the Court of Common Pleas on Satur-
day, the judges decided that a husband was bound to pro-
vide for a bill of exchange accepted by a wife, in her own
name, provided the acceptance was with the husband's
authority.
ARE RAILWAY SHARES TO BE ACCOUNTED GOODS AND
COMMODITIES ?—At the Bristol County Court, on Satur-
day, in the case of Thomas Jacobs, who petitioned the
court as an insolvent debtor, a question arose as to whe-
ther shares in a railway or joint-stock company were to be.
accounted goods and chattels, constituting the holder a
trader in the meaning of the bankruptcy act. The judge,
Mr. A. Palmer, jun., adjourned the case, that the point
might be argued before him by counsel.
BAIL COURT, FRIDAY.—BUNN v. LIND.—In this case
a motion was made by Mr. Peacock, to set aside a de-
murrer which had been entered to the action brought by
Mr. Bunn against the celebrated Jenny Lind. This
morning it was positively stated to the learned judges that
Mr. Hoggins, who was counsel for the defendant, bad no
instructions to appear. The demurrer was, therefore,
overruled, and judgment is consequently in favour of the
plaintiff. The trial will now come on, in the regular
course, at the sittings of the Queen's Bench at Guildhall
after term.
TEGG V. VISCOUNT PALMERSTON.—At the. West-

minster County Court, on Wednesday, an action was
brought by the plaintiff, a coach wheelwright, against the
Right Hon. Lord Palmerston, M.P., to recover the sum
of £l7 10s. for work and labour done for his lordship.
No answer being given to the thrice repeated summons of
thy ' iliff for lords'

oat -. tus _Jima to appear, the case was pro-
ceeded with; after which the learned judge, having care-
fully examined the entries in the plaintiff's books, made
an order on his lordship to pay the debt and costs on the
16th instant.
DR. HAmpnEN.—ln the Court

or Queen's Bench, on
Tuesday, judgment was delivered in the cause of "The
Queen v. the. Archbishop of Canterbury." The Court
was not unanimous, two being for the granting of the
rule, and two against it. Mr. Justice Erle and the Lord

Chief Justice were of opinion that the mandamus should
be refused ; while -Air. Justice Coleridge, and Mr. Justice
Patteson, that it ought to issue. Then• Lordships gave
their iudzments .seriatim. and at very considerable length.

,
for a rule not granted is refused. The cardinal point of
the discussion was whether the office of the Archbishop
mrely ministerial and formal, or whether

in confirmation is

it is a substantial' and judicial duty ; Justices uoieridge
and Patteson inclining to the latter opinion, and that
therefore the opposition to the consecration of the Bishop
ought to have been heard. The Lord Chief Justice said
that he was fully of opinion that the Court had the power
of granting the writ of mandamus; but it must also be
borne in mind that the Court had a discretion in the
issuing of a mandamus supposing even it thought that
the proceeding complained of was of a judicial character,
and that the Archbishop might be compelled to hear the
objectors. In the exercise of this discretion, without
regard to the legal right, he felt bound to refuse the writ.
—So the rule for the mandamus was discharged.