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sure, merely empowering the President either to continue
ociations. The public excitement wes

or to open r

aapidly cooling dowu, and the tone of the advices is much

more pacific than any we have received from the States

for some time

The famous article of the London Times of the 4th De-
cember, relative to the cora laws, had been received in
New York, and is freely commented on in the journals

before us. There bad not been time to ascert,in the
effect which the announcement had had upon the Amer--
7vas only received on the
, was anticipated to be, that

can markets, as the intelligenc

15th ult. The e&c

prices of flour and grain would particularly feel the influ-

ence of such accounts, and that a very extensive demand
for thnse articles, and large speculative shipments, would

take place. Every one seemed or; the very tip-toe of ex-
pectation of the news by the Hibernia steam-ship from
this country, to the 4•h ult., and until that arrived, busi-

ness was in a great degree

suspended

A proje

t has been introduced into the senate for build-

ing a steam navy

It was in the shape of a bill from the

naval corrimiitee, whim has been ordered to be printed.
It appropriates 5,165,(10) dollars, and gives authority tc
the President to build ten steam-ships, and to complete

all the ships on the st

New Orleans, Jan. 8

Business for the last two days has been quite lively, and
a pretty stiff trade has been driven in cotton—the sales
baring amounted to about 10.500 bales, at the ItiLiwitig
rates: Infei ior, 6; ordinary, 61 to 61; middling. 6-1 to
6; god middling, 7 to 7 ; middling fair, a to 74 ; fair
1 to 8 ; good fair, 81 to 8:1; good and fine, 9 to 94.
The arrivals have been small, and not worth mentioning.
Sugar holds its own ; 1,000 hhds. having been sold at from
54 to 51, for a fair article. Molasses sells at from 204 to
LI cents per gallon, and at these rates, 2,000 hhds. have
been sold the last two das.

Flour is in the same stat
moderately extensive ; abo
at the list gilqed rates. I

although tae sales hate been
4231 bbls. having been sold
r❑ is a trifle lower, bringing
About 4,000 sacks were sold

from 52 to 53 cei
at these rates ve,

Exchanges Contnu,

11 the same state

lv York, Friday, Jan. 17.
s a little more doing, to-day,
and the market is also more

ade in Gene-

75 cents, and in S

;outhern at 5

&rate enquiry to-day, and
. We could not
r more cotton has

600 bales

wh,ch gives the buyer a
We continue our quota-

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

BAIL COURT—FRIDAY.
(Siflings in Banco )
THE QUEEN V. THR LORD BISHOP OF CHESTER
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The Solicitor-general moved for a rule to skew cause
why a mandamus should not issue directed to the Lord
Bishop of Chester, commanding him to restore to a Air.
Travis, two pews and sittings in the parish church of
Blackley. It appeared that the ancestors of Mr. Travis
had resided in the parish for several centuries, and as far
back as the oldest documents could testify his family had
been in possession of two pews and also a family vault
situated immediately underneath the said pews; about
four or five years ago, in cons- quence of the extensive de-
cay of the church. arising from its great age, it was pulled
down and a new one built in its place. The new church
was raised partly by subscription, and partly by the aid of
the church commissioners. A commi3sion was subse-
quently appointed by the Lord Bishop, composed of three
clergymen, for the purpose of ascertaining the claims of
all persons to pews and sittings, and to make such awards
as they considered proper. Mr. Travis accordingly pre-
ferred his claim in the usual form, but nothing then
transpired that could lead him to suppose that his claim
would be disallowed. To his great surprise the Lord
Bishop, after receiving the report, had declined to recog-
nise his claim.

Mr. Justice Williams enquired as to whether he had
another remedy ?

The Solicit, r.gerieral replied in the negative. If the
claimant hail proceedel in the Ecclesiastical Court, the
objection would be urged that the right was one at com-
mon law, and should be therefore biought before another
court. The prvs,rit course was, therefore, the only one
left to him :o take.—A,plication granted.

COOK v. WETHERELL, CLERK.—The defendant in this
case has obtained a rule for a new trial.
On Tuesday. a conditional order for a criminal infor-
mation, was granted by the judges of the Irish Queen's
Bench, agailist the proprietor of the Belfast Vindicator
for a libel on the Rev Francis Jerxis.
A case which involves the question, whether the naval
hero, Lord H oratio Nelson, had the right of alienating
the estates at Pronte, given him on the 10th of October,
1779, by the King of the Two Sicilies, it now before the
Rolls Court. The suit is instituted in order to effect a
division of the property among the surviving relatives.
THE NEW IRISH CROWN SOLICITORS.—The Home
Circuit has been divided amongst Messrs. Julian. Seed,
and Elliott, each taking tan counties, with a salary of
£5OO, and £2OO a-vear for office allowances. Mr. Seed
leaves a vacancy in the crown solicitorship for Limerick
county, which, it is said, is to be given to Mr. George
Fleetwood.
In the Queen's Bench, on Friday, Mr. Cooper, agent
to Sir W. M :-tmiley, was sentenced to pay a fine of £lO
and to enter into recoguizancss to keep the peac3 for
twelve months, for a libel upon the Rev. Joshua King,
of Woodchurch, published in the. Liverpool Chronicle.
The particulars were given in our columns when the trial
took place, and the defendant was found guilty.
In the unt of Exch,qaer, on Thursday, arguments
were heard against making the rule absolute for a new
trial in the action of Newton v. Grand Junction Railway
Company, for an alleged infring-ment of a patent, The
action was tried in Liverpool, and a verdict given for the
plaintiff for £lOOO. The court was of opinion hat there
had been no misdirection by the judge (Cressaell) ; hut
on the question of excessive damages, the court hoped the
parties might be able to come to some arrangement ; when
it was agreed that the verdict should be for £2OO, which
the plaintiff originally agreed to take, with some addi
tional costs
In the' Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday, ts
sons named Chapman and Sarno, were sentenced to one
year's imprisonment each, for being guilty cf illegally
contracting to s,-11, through the medium of the patronage
Chapman had from Gen. Ronertson, an East India Di-
rector, a chaplaincy to the company in India. The cir-
cumstances a ere these :—The East India Directors seeing
advertisenieu s in the papers relative to the sale of a chap-
laincy in India, they instituted inquiries which resulted in
the complete exposure of a most shameful and illegal
fraud. Chapman's brother had been tutor to the sons of
General Robertson, who was an East India Director, and
Chapman entered holy orders, and was promised by the

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general a chaplaincy -in India, which he advertised to
transfer to another person for a sum of money. Sarno was
the agent in the transaction.
UNFORTUNATE BAN KRUPTCY.—In the London Bank-
ruptcy Court, on Friday, the case of Sir John Ross,
the well-known voyager to the polar regions, was heard.
His debts and liabilities are estimated at about £lO,OOO,
tin 1 his assets at about £6OO. It appeared that Sir John
had lost £3OllO by the failure of Mr. Webster, the publish-
er of his expedition in 1834, and a further sum of £lOOO,
being the amount of debts incurred in fitting out the expe-
dition. He had received 13 woum;s, for which he received

a sum of £l5O a-year ; £3OO per annum being hi: half-pay

as captain in the navy, and £5OO a-year as consul-general
for the court of Sweden. A proof was tendered upon the
part of the trustees under a marriage settlement for
£4200, which money it was alleged had been impro-
perly advanced to the bankrupt as far back as the year
1835. The 1-arned Commissioner would not allow the
proof to be admitted, but let it stand as a claim.

Another proof was tendered upon a bill for £5O in
which case a judgment had been signed, after the issuing
of this flit (tile lith of the present month), and upon
which bill Sir John had only £lO. The case was ad-

journed.
WITNESSES EXPENSES.—In the Bail Court, on Wed-
nesday, Mr. Martin, on the part of Mr. Hill. of this town,
applied for a rule calling upon the judge presiding over a
certain court in Liverpool, (tbe Court of Requests, we be-
lieve,) to show cause why a prohibition should not be
issued. In this case an action was commenced by :11r.
Scott against Mr. Hill for the recovery of the sum of
£2 lss. Bd., £2 2s. of which was charged as a fee for at-
tendance at a trial in a case that came before Mr. Cromp-
ton, and the balance was for costs. It was decided over
and over again by the judges of the superior courts that
no action could ever be brought for the recovery of fees
for the attendance of witnesses in a court of luw, and this
question had been expressly settled by the Court of Queen's
Bench. In the present case the judge proceeded to make
an order for the payment of this money in defiance of this
decision, in consequence of which he was now instructed
to make .he present application. 11Ir. Justice Williams
said that if this rule were to be granted, there would be
no reason why a similar rule should not be granted in
every case where there is an error in law. Application
refused.

RAILWAY SCRIF.—Lord Chief Baron Pollock, Mr.
Baron Alderson, and Mr. Baron Platt, have given an im-
portant decision in a question affecting the sale of railway
shares. They have decided that the act known as the
" Joint Stock Companies Act" does not apply to railways.
This judgment is a most important decision in the exist-
ing position of railway speculation, and one which has
been looked for with much anxiety both by repudiators
and anti-reoudiators. Like most modern acts of parlia-
ment, the Joint Stock Companies Act (7 and 8 Vic., c.
110) delivers itself with so much ambiguity, or at least
with so much complexity, that it is quite professional for
gentlemen of the law to consider the intention of the le-

gislature and the effect of the act as doubtful, until a de-
cision of the judges has settled any doubt by aff,rding a
precedent. It might also be asserted of our legislature,
that Acts of Parliament are like cheques signed in blank,
of which the judges afterwardssfix the value by filling in
the amounts. It is now decided, then, that the sale of
scrip or shares in any railway company, commenced since
the Ist November, 1844, and provisionally registered, is
legal; and that the 26th section of the act, which prohi-
bits the transfer of shares in companies until complete
registration has been obtained, does not apply to railway
companies, which cannot prosecute their projects without
an act of parliament. What may be the immediate com-
mercial effect of this decision, ,A c cannot pretend to say ;
doubtless many who have bee,' relying on the legality of
repudiation will be startled. Out the moral effect, we
trust, will be salutary. It pl ic,s the law on the side of
good faith ; it declares that men shall not with impunity
run off ih- it agreements, when they find it inconvenient
to abide by them.

VOTE MANUFACTURING.—In the Court of Common
Pleas, on Thursday, 7.ord Chief Justice Tindal delivered
judgment in the case Alexander v. Surman. He said this
was an appeal from the decision of the revising barrister
for the county of York ; and the question raised was
whether a conveyance ?Pis void under the 3d section of
7 and 8, Wm. 111., c. 25, such conveyance being made
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for the purpose of multiplying votes; but being a bona
fide conveyance, accompanied with a real transfer, and
without H secret trust or any stipulation as to the exercise
of the elective franchise. The statute 7th and Bth Wm.

1,11., c. 25, even if it stood singly, was not capable of being
applied to any other than a conveyance of fictitious nature,
hich had- nothing more than parchment and a seal, the

parties to it having- agreed that no actual interest should
pass. Thee existed no restriction in law to a man's buy-
ing freeholds to the amount of 405., although the express
object was to acquire the right to vote, provided the con-
veyance were in other respects bona fide. . But if the con-
veyance, however, were in form only, and never intended
to have any real effect, it was then always held to be void,
whatever the secret trust might be. The statute of 7th
and Bth Wm. 111, names only conveyances, and makes no
reference to contracts for the sale of land, and that went
to show that a bone fidr c ..veyance was not intended to
r.e avoided on the ground merely of the moti‘e of the par-
ties. The 10th ADP", r. 23, both in its title and recital,
drew a clear distin .un between fraudulent and real con-
veyances for the t ..rpose of giving the right to vote, and
when the first sivion was looked at it afforded a confir-
matory exposition cf 7 and 8 Wm. 111., c. 25, taken in
the sense which the court bad put upon it. On the whole
case the court were of opinion that a conveyance bona fide
made, where money and possession passed, and there was
no secret reservation, was not avoided by reason of the
existence of a motive by the parties to multiply votes, and
as the revising barrister had brought the case under that
distinction his decision was clearly right.

THE C .URT (3- FASHIONABLE WORLD.
Lord and Lady Ashley and W. E. Gladstone, Eq. and
lady had the hon Sur of dining with her Majesty on Friday.
The youthful Earl of Stamford and Warrington has
been entertaining a select party with the sports of the
field at Dunham Massey, Clie4iire. His lordship and
friends shot, in one day, 3000 head of game on the pre-
serves.

It is said that a marriage is on the tapis between the
Viscount Castlereagh. son of the Marquess of London-
derry, and the Viscountess Powerscourt ; but, as the
lovely widow has been already reported to be on the eve of
granting her hand to two other suitors, this last rumour
may be as unfounded as the previous ones.
On Monday, two young Australian boys, with Mr.
Eyre, the Australian traveller, who brought them to this
country, were introduced to the Queen and Prince Albert,
at Buckingham Palace, by the Right Hon. W. E. Glad-
stone. Her Majesty received her Australian subjects very
graciously, and seemed much pleased with their general
appearance and manners.