The Express. — London, England, 1853-03-25 00:00:00

ORIENTAL BANE. A ,pe,ial reetral meeting of the shareholders was MW ie.to tly 3' the e.nipsny's Walbrook, Mr, no " ii..anom in the char, to up • vacancy in the nail to receive a cummunieation front the m. Id reeerl pe dividend fur the lialfisar some M.:ember. 1•42. the motion of Mr. Bor.:11111/AILIII, Mr. William Hunter s id b g a was Jeer.' to supply the vacancy in th- auditor er..i•ed tit elsc:sau of G.nerul De la Motto to a dam ters:ati. The o leave tea it was stated in rho notice that the .•.oi'd take ttu irtui.ity of mentioning what isterrem o.tii r!gard to the dividend. Ile then Steed cruet (roar the repot suhmitted to the hut L ew , which d was stated that the directors nate the dividend in future as WOO :I be in • p ! di ? on to do so, with a view to its the shr:reholders as early as was practicable. Ire „ i i„,e,gs had, Is said. rinseived all the returns ; and he L l *, pismire of statiale that a dividend at the rate of 15 pee annum, fur the half year ending the 31st of hat, would be paid to the shareholders on and after ' l 4 ties instant. (enc. r..) Ile h.d further to state tto. is c sequence of the inereaso which had taken place rue I iri ses between Australia, China, and India, and t he AA:U. FA , epplwatiens m ole to the directors to sffird f o Ljimii, the direc t ors had become convinced of t a, comity ef establishing a heanch in Australia. They had, in tett. soin establishing a branch at Melhourne, aril I . A out a competent staff, they believed that ins me moths the sew branch ...said be in full operation. no..te., ent.,!rd tapas the company the necessity of eligldy issereming their capital; and the directors, there to make an issue of 3,600 new share.. One share world be issued rateably for every nine shares now 1 "i at a revmiens of 20 per cent. The whole of the •••• 1 capital must be pail up by the Ist of July; but if ay r d. reed payin4 immediately, he might do so, sad *Add thereupon be entitled to a discount at the rate of pet cent. In reple ti questions, Th , t tt.,IUMAN steed that those who paid up on the new s hut. :.re the let of Jule would receive a rateable share ef prints for the current half-year ; that there WAS full authority in the charter for the new issue; that the new tsrl .l...ula b. sufficient fn. the purpese; that the Union I, a . Australia had been informed of the intentions of the airee:ore, and the most cordial understanding existed between the two boards ; and that in intimating the divi ,kma o f i 5 per cent., the directors had kept the reserved feed et 20 per rent. A Saari:dottiest asked whether those who did not hold niec sham would be 'Wifely excluded from participation in the new allotment. The CHAIRMAN said the directors had no other alterna tive then to exclude them. Ihe SIIAILLIIOI.I.Itit thought justice required that any shine which might remain in the hands of the executive should be sold lee the benefit of the shareholders thus situated. The CUAIRVAM said the directors would do everything in their Power. A SHARERIILDIR thought the most equitable arrange ment would be to give each old share a ninth. The CHAIRMAN said the shares must all be 251. each; they could not be divided like stuck. Is reply to another question, The CHAIRMAN said the appropriation would be made =lop! those who were shareholders at that time. A dividend of 13 per cent. per annum having been inti mated (the tormal declaration will take place in May), the meeting separated. ABDUCTION EXTRAORDINARY. (From the Worcestershire Chrosick.) At the quiet village of Broadwu, in this county, there has resided, man and boy, some fifty-five years, one lless i amia Davis, a farmer, who lately, by the death of his mother, came into possession of considerable property and estates in that neighbourhood, besides a tolerably round tom in herd rash invested in the funds. Benjamin, whoa* father his long been dead, was from his youth remarkable he tenacity to the 'dive of single biomedicine ;" many pawerfal and premedidated assaults have been made to provoke within him the tender passion, but without success sad thoegh it was the latest request of his mother that he might at osier "settle down," Benjamin has, nevertheless, remained unmoved and impregnable. Rumour, however, iadicates that nature at hie birth did not bestow that mo dicum of intellect and cunning, which, unfortunately, has proved but too strongly developed in othen with whom he win destined to come into contact. Some years ago was received under Mrs. Davis's roof • Mrs. Pullen, who, from time to time, was there visited by Mrs. Dohney, the widow of • dancing master, die., who, we believe, died abroad. Mrs. Dabney, it seems, bad east upon the son a " longing eye," bad several times impor tuned him on the subject of marriage, and otherwise age lessly assailed him ; till at Wages Mrs. Pullen was lacerated that if she did not prevent the visite of her friend she must seek shelter elsewhere herself. This bad the desired effect; and uo more was seen of Mrs. Dabney till after the death of Davis's mother, which took plate during the ter rific tempest of September last. Then it was that Mrs. Wiley returned to the 'barge, presenting herself at Ben jamia's dwelling, and, although at first the inmates pre tended not to rommths her, she was admitted and feasted, hat was at length sageromenimisly snubbed and dismissed. Theo" mow mon hi senior, the lady was not yet finally repaired; wik sad spin she threw herself in his wdy, sad tempted Ma with endearments each as ladies so well know bow to pasties. nip hisser, as we twigs, said, was proof against her Wilms; and, with • widowed housekeeper, named Scott, 74 years elf age, went on as comfortably and unsuspectingly as seed to, oceesiesally visiting . Worcester on market days, and at length absolutely believ ing that all annoyance from the " fair' one was at an end. Oa gatarday last, i5;;;;;;d his r as usual, drove into the city ; the latter being tsegMNaa to make various purchases, while bar stags pommoimi to the Ones Dragon lan, Newport-street. le *well her islets. Directly after, a pence named Wlless uttered the lea yard, and ia quiriag for the ostler, afoul bin half-Parows to ccsysy a menage to Davie, nubs Abel lims Mrs. Scott had bun eased with a dt, sad teas 111, sad that a ly, sent at her request, see thee at the deer le sea • vey him to her with all desgrallth. The instler, sage-Nag a task, refused ; std the dynes wee then mend is envies. Davie Instantly ammilied ' was hinied into Sc and was soma rattling along at a flair pace, bet whither he knew mot, having neglected to ask the gustiou. The fly was driven up Newport street to Bridge- street, sad at the bridge Wilson was observed to atonal the lez. The fl then mended, byway . of Lower Hamrick, through Hallow %sd—as Davis imagines , for he was on squinted wit h the othatry—to Holt, where It was polled ap at a private residence, into which Davis was handed by Wilson (" the man with one eye," as Davis describes hins,) sad another, sines ascertained to be Mn. Dobaey's mos. ile was then led, in a state of greet alarm, into as apart ant where a female was sitting, and Dabney told him he nut either marry his mother or go to the mad-bow. Davis replied that they might take him to the mad-house a soon as they plessed; sale should fan there as well se the att. Upon this, Wilson plead spas the table a pistol, a bludgeoe, and • pair of hand-oafs, *beaming, u he did to, that he mast "do his duty. The female then re tired, and Doboey fetched in his mother, remarking that ha could not see what objection Davis could have to ler. Davis replied that he was sot obliged to answer that. Dobney rejoined that it was to be ' dime " by fight O'clock the next morning ; sad his mother, addressing Waif to Davis, said, " Will you have me ?" To this quas hes, through fear, he did not give aay direct answer. After remaining in the house between two and three hours, Davis was reeondueted to the fly by the some perms, aid driven to the New lan, Ombenleproad, about two miles from Worcester, when the trio alighted, and the fly was sent home. They had tea and supper at the New Inn, during which time Wilson and Dabney continued the conversation as to the marriage with Mrs. Doboey on the idlowing looming. Davis was thee escorted upstairs into double-bedded room, Davis lying in one bed and his upturn i• the other. Davis, in great trepidatios, called out astral times that he would not be married to her for at de world, and requested as a more pleasant alternative Sat he might be taken to the madhouse at once, and thi Labe was passed amidst sobs, cries, entnaties, and remon strances. Takiog the reader hick toWorcester,it is here necessary to motion that at about 6 o'clock in the afternoon of the day it question Mrs. Dobney presented herself at the Registrar a oda in Edgar-west, and obtained a thanes for her wart aro with Davis, which was app rioted to be solemnised at Cabin church on Sundaymorning. She gave the meas. swy informati on as t o Davis's name and whereabouts, and dearibed herself as residing in the parish of Claims, which was portly an invention, having never lived near that lankly. Mr. Cliftoo, well knowing Davis, was sot • hie surprised at his choin, but had no suspicion of the ia ll s cL u e re eonrse also the housekeeper returned to the Orem Disgon to seek her muter, and it was not till some tires afterwards that she was informed of his object in going away is th e fly. Inspector Chipp was immediately sent for, an d directly &fames& a note signed " S.W." was put into Mrs. Sont's hande,intimating that Davis was gone into the country tot a few days. The Inspector at once gave chase, and traced the dy in the direction we have already indicated, though to was thrown off the Neat for a couple of hours by the keeper of the Ilenwick-gate declaring positively that the Parties had taken the Martley road. Little suspecting that they had taken refuge at the New Inn Chipp came on to Worcester, having discovered that the fly had gone through the llarbourne-gate. llowever, he soon sought oat the anaer, who revealed to him how the case stood ; and at des tack on Sunday morning Chipp, with a tradesman from Worcester, was in readiness to rescue Davis as soon as his Pram should be opened. When this was done the poor tri.ow bellowed lustily at his delivereacie, Dobitey coolly °tanning that be had treated Davis well, bad Wilson °awl' ag that he knew nothing about it. Davis was then takes kthe, front whence it is hoped he may agais be Owed t,4 depart without some constant guide or protector. At - STRALIA.—A highly respectable youth left Southampton last summer tor Australia, against the advice tad imams of his friends. He stated Huai( he did well his Itshould hear from him, and that if he was unsuccess ul, it would be some years before ha should write to South litaStAlt• This week his mother heard from him for the fu lt time. Her son had sent her a registered letter, con taining a nugget of gold, and an account that he was doing *II I It tbs didBiaBl. THE SLAVE TRADER HALEY, (nem Key to Uwele Taw's Cabin.) In the very first cha?ter of the book we encounter the character of the negro-trader, Mr. Haley. His name stands at the head of this chapter as the representative of all the different characters introduced in the work which exhibit the trader, the kidnapiar, the negro-catcher, the negro-whipper, and all the other iuevitabie auxiliaries and indispensable appenda..es of what is often called the " divinely-instituted relation " of slavery. The author's first personal observation of this class of beings was soma. what as follows : Several ye-re sr, while one morning employed in the duties of the eursery, • coloured woman was announced. She wee ushered into the nursery, and the author thought, on first survey, that a more surly, unpromising face she had never seen. The woman was thoroughly block, thick set, nrody-built, aid with strunglrmarked African fea ts:es Those who have been a.customed to read the ex. passions of the African face know what a peculiar effect is produced by a lowering, desponding expression upon its dm* features. It is like the shadow of a thundercloud. Unlike her nee generally, the woman did not smile when smiled upon, nor utter any pleasant remark in reply to such as were aildresuil to her. The youngest pet of the winery, a boy about three years old, walked up, and laid his little band on her knee, and seemed astonished not to meet the quick smile which the negro almost always has in reserve for the little child. The writer thought her very cross and disagreeable, and, after • few moments' silence, asked, with perhaee • little impatience, " Do you wan t anything of me to-day ? " Here are some papers," said the woman," pushing them towards her ; " perhaps you would read them." The first paper opened was a letter from a 12mm-trader in Kentucky, stating coueisely that he had waited about as long as he could for her child ; that he waited to start for the south, and mutt get it off hit hands ; that, it she would send him two hundred dollars before the end of the week, she should have it ; if not, that he would set it up at emo tion, at the court-houee door on Saturday. Ile ail led alas, that he might have got more than that for the child, bee that he was willing to let her have it cheap. "What sort of man is this ?" said the author to the wet man, when she had dime reading the letter. " Donna, ma'eas ; great Christian I know—member of the Methodist church, anyhow." The expression of sullen irony with which this was said was a thine to be remembered. "And how obi is this child ?" said the author to her. The woman !oohed at the little boy who had been stand ing at her knee with an expressive glance, and said, "She will be three years oil this summer." On further inquiry into the history of the woman, it ap peared that she had been set free by the will of her owners; that the child was leg illy entitled to freedom, but had been seized on by the heirs of the estate. She was poor and friendless, without money to maintain a suit, and the heirs, of course, threw the child into the hands of the trader. The necessary sum, it may be added, was all raised in the small neighbourhood which then surrounded the Lane Theolo gical Seminary, and the child was redeemed. From the Examination of John Caphart, in the " Rescue Trials,' at Bustin, in June and November, 1851, and October, 1852. Q. Is it a part of year duty, as a policeman, to take up coloured persons who are out after hours in the streets?— A. Yes, sir. What is d me with them ?—We put them in the lock-up, and in the morning they are brought into court and ordered to be punished—those that are to be punished. What punishment do they get ?—Not exceeding thirty nine lashes. Who gives them these lashes?—Any of the officers. I do, sometimes. Are you paid extra for this ? How much ?—Fifty cents • head. It used to be sixty-two cents. Now it is fifty. Fifty cents fur each one we arrest, and fifty more for each one we flog. Are these parsons you flog, men and boys only, or are they women and girls also ?—Men, women, boys, and girls, just at it happens. [The government interfered, and tried to prevent any further examination ; and said, among other things, that he only performed his duty as police-officer under the law. After • discussion, Judge Curtis allowed it to proceed.] Is your flogging confined to these cases? Da you not flog Waves at the reclaim of their minters ?—Solneflmes I do. Certainly, when lam called upon. In these eases of private flogging, are the negroes sent to you? Have you apiece for flogging ?—No. Igo round, as I am sent for. la this put of your duty as an officer ? No, sir. In these cases of private flagging, do you inquire into the circurn-tanoes, to see what the fault has been, or if there is any ?—That's none of my business. I do as I am requested. The muter is responsible. In these cases, too, I suppose you flog women and girls, as well as men ?—Women and men. Mr. Caphart, how long have you been engaged in this business?—Ever since 1836. How many negroes do you suppose you have flogged, in all, women and children included ?—[Lookin g calmly round the room.] I don't know how many nigger' you have got here in Massachusetts, but I should think I had flogged as ma as you've got in the State. (Thu same mac testified that he was often employed to pursue fugitive slaves. His reply to the question wee, "I never refuse a good job in that line." Don't they sometimes tura out badjebs I—Never, if I can help it. Are they not sometimes discharged after you get them?— Not often. I don't know that they ever are, except Wes Portuguere the counsel read about. [I had found, in • Virginia report, a ease of some two hundred Portuguese negroes whoa this John Caphart had seised from a vessel, and endeavoured to get ooadeaned as slaves, but whom the court discharged.] Hon. John P. Hale, associated with Mr. Dana as counsel for the defence in the Rescue Trials, said of him in his closing argument: Wh gentlemen, he sells agony ! Torture is his stock in-trade! - He is a walking scourge! He hawks, peddles, retails, groans and tears about the abets of Norfolk ! See also the following corresponding* between the two traders, one in North Carolina, the ether in New Orleans : Halifax, N. C., Nov, 16. 1839. Dear Sir,-1 hare shipped in the brig Addison—prices are below : Dollars. No. 1. Caroline Ennis 650.00 „ 2. Silty Holland 625.00 „ 3. Slier Booth „ 4. Mann Pollock „ 6 Baseline Pollock 475.00 ~ 6. Delia Averit The two girls that coat 660 dollars, awl ses dollars, were bought before I shipped my first. I lava a great many aggress offered to me, but I will not pay the p rises the ask, fur 1 know they will come dawn. I have se floc in market. I will wait until I hear from you be., buy, aad then I can judge what I must pay. Goodwin will send you the bill of lading for my migrate, as he shipped them with his own. Write often, as the times are critics!, and it depends on the prices yen get to govern me in has .— Yo ste., G. W. Sawing. Mr. Theophilus Freeman, New Orisons. The above was a small but choice invoice of wives and mothers.'" Nine days before, namely, 7th Nov., Mr. Barnes advised Mr. Freeman of ha= t hipped a lot, 0143 men and women. Mr. Freenun,inf one of his correspondents of the state at the market, writes Sunday, 21st Sept., 1939), ..1 bought a boy yesterday, sixteen years old, and likely, weighing one hundred and ten pounds at 700 dollars. I sold a likely girl, twelve years old, at 600 dollars. I bought a man yesterday, twenty years old, six feet high, at 820 dollars; one to-day, twenty-four years old, at 8.. W dollars, black and sleek as • mole. ' DARING ASSAULTS AND ATTEMPTS AT ROBBERY. —On Sabbath evening last, a little after sight o'clock, a young woman, who was on her way to ber master's bona, at the Orange, while proceeding along the Lover's Loan, was seised by a man, who, finalist that she had no men upon her, @troth her, and threw Ea beneath the ledge. A little boy, about eleven yeah of age, happened to be along with her, and he ran to a house at a short diatoms to give the alarm ; but the cowardly scoundrel took to his heels bcfore asaistance reached the spot.—Another young woman was attacked very near the same place only a short time before.—On Monday evening, at ten o'clock, as • man Ira ant was proceeding along Itoes-street-kne, he was set upon by three fellows. lie attempted to defend himself with a stick which he had in bis hand, but he wae dis armed speedily, and felled to the ground by the ruffians. They then ri fl ed his pockets, but as he had left his watch at home, they were disappointed in obtaining any booty. They, however, took revenge upon him for their disap pointment by unmercifully striking him with the sticks which they carried, and the poor fellow now Des in the in firmary, suffering from the injuries he reeeived.—Edies. aryls Advertiser. MEN-OF-WAR BUILDING AT TIM PEMBROKE DOCILYAILD.—A correspondent says that the following men-of-war are now in course of building at the Royal Dockyard at Pembroke, viz. ;—The Victoria, 116 guns ; James Watt, 90 guns ; Crew, 90 guns ; Brunswick, 80 guns ; Immortalte, GO guns ; Melpomene, 60 guns ; Sutlej, 60 guns; Curacoa, 36 guns; Liberty, 10 guns; Squirrel, 12 guns; Barrier, steamer. This force comprises four ships of the line, four frigates_ and three smaller class vessels, and of these the James Watt and Caner are being fitted with the screw propeller. The Victoria is, with the above, in a most advanced state, and could be made ready for launehiag at a very short notice ; so also are several others in forwardness towards completion, and it is ex pected that several will this season be sent afloat. ABD-EL-KADER has addressed the following letter from Bonus to Mgr. Dupuch, ex-Bishop of Algiers:— " Honour, glory, and praise be to Clod alone ! To his lord 'ship, the most perfect model of virtuous men acting in the fear of God, the Sid, the excellent Bishop Dupsich, greet ing. I long, beyond expreaaion, to receive intelligence of you. Preserve to me always the same place in your re membrance and in your heart. The distance which sepa rates us mann affect our sentiments. I have requested our common friend, the Commandant BoissOnnot, to be so good as to hand over to you on his arrival a certain sum of money which is at my disposal, and which I destine through you to good works. Are you not the Providence of the poor and of all who suffer ? Distribute amongst them this small sum of money as your heart may prompt you. Once more adieu, from your friend always the same." ACTS OP PARLIAMENT.—OnIy fifteen public acts of parliament have been passed in the present session, which assembled in November, and after • short sitting adjourned to the beginning of last month. THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING MARCH 25, 1853 THE WILLINOTON ACCIDENT ON THE YORK AND BERWICK RAILWAY. THE ADJOURNED INQUEST. WILLINOTON, TXVRSDAY. On Thursday. the 2nd of March, an engine, tender, and guard's van broke from the four o'clock train, proceed ing from Tynemouth to Newcastle, a few yards to the west of the Wellington vittlact, and felling ove: the embank ment killed the engine driver, William Stephenson, and maimed the guard and fireman. The inquest on the body of Stephenson, which had been adjourned three times pre viously, was resumed by Mr. Reid, the coroner, at Rose hill, near Wsllsend, on Wednesday afternoon. John Laverick, the fireman of the engine, No. 104, who who had been confined to bit bed since the day of the acci dent from the injuries he then received, and who was brought to the inquest room in a cab, was first examined. Ile *Wed the engine, No. 104, was a heavier engine than is generally run in the Tynemouth branch. It had enly been employed for short periods about four or five times during the past five years on this branch. It ran 30 miles an hoar on the main line, 15 miles an hour on the branch line, and would be running at 15 miles an hour when it got cif the line. He felt no sudden jerk before the engine went off, and be supposed ho fell under the tender. Six of hie ribs were broken. A plate layer was examined, but his evidence was not material. The court adjourned for half an hour, and on reassem bling Mr. John Scott, shipowner, was examined. He said he was near the place of accident halt an hour after it hap pened, and made an examination of the line. He particu larly noticed that the end of a rail was loose immediately at the west end of Willington-bridge. He put histoot against it, and bath chair and rail moved with the pres sure. The rail was on a longitudinal sleeper. He noticed • quantity of old timber near this place on the side of the railway, and a little further west a quantity of loose ballast, about nine inches high, in the centre of the railway. It was his impression at the time that the en,line had got off at this loose rail. But there was nothing particular to indicate it. It occurred to him, also, that the ermine or some of the carriages had been off for a considerable tance. Mr. George Beck, managing engineer at the Willington Colliery, confirmed Mr. Scott's evidence regarding the loose rail. He also noticed several pins out of the rails. He no ticed the train before the accident. Re thought it was run ning at a high speed-28 miles an hour. Mr. T. B. Harrison, engineer-in -chief of the York and Berwick Railway, said the Tynemouth branch was opened in 1839, and came under his management in 181.5. The line was then new to him, and he considered it in a good working condition. From the circumstance of the rails being laid on longitudinal sleepers, he paid a great deal of attention to it, to compare it with other systems in use. In 184.5 he found that there were two sections of the line, one in the Heaton Cutting, about 200 yards in length, and the ether near to North Shields, about the same length, which for a period of four years had been worked with...vat cross tie,. From his experience, when a line is laid en longitu dinal sleepers, the line being straight, the embankments con solidated, and the ballast sound (and he might remark that Ole great part of the North Shields line wee particularly so), such a line was quite safe without cross ties. Stone block lines were without ties, and experience had proved that the tendency to get out of gauge was not one-tenth part as great on a longitudinal line as on a block line. The ordi nary attention of the workmen would keep it in order. He had severely tested the longitudinal sleepers, and found, with all the force he could put on them, they did not spring more than an eighth of an inch. From their mechanical arrangement they formed one continuous piece of timber from end to end. Mr. Har rison described the Willington and Ouseburn Viaducts as perfectly safe. They were examined, he said, twice a year. Extensive alterations were being made oa the Willington Viaduct, which would have been finished before the acci dent, but for the inclemency of the weather. He stated that since the York and Berwick Company took possession of this branch, they bad carried ten millions of passengers, with not a single accident, except in one instance, and that was by the act of his own. He referred to a drunken man, who jumped oat while the train was in motion, and we. killed. He might also mention that, though they carried four millions of passengers a year over the whole of their lines, they had not had a single fatal accident since he (Mr. Harrison) took the management. He remarked that the fact of jurymen and witnesses heel ogseen holes in thermals without pins, was no proof that the proper complement of pins was not in the rails. As the workmen, when they were repair. ing the way, always made fresh holes for the pins when it was necessary to replace old ones. In answer to the Coroner, Mr. Harrison said he could not give an opinion as to the anise of the accident. At the conclusion of Mr. Harrison's evidence, it being past 8 o'clock in the evening, the inquest was further ad journed until Hayek 31. IRELAND. DUBLIN, M 24. The harsh and unseaso na bl e weat h er is still the principal theme of conversation, and occupies every one's attention ; and the accounts from all parts of the country show that there arc no local exceptions to its prevalence. The Limerick Chronicle says : Cold north•east winds and severe frost indicate the hard complexion of this month. Rude health can brave with impunity the parching dry atmosphere that reigns out of doors, but to the aged an d i nva lid t hi s i nc l ement season i s most distressing. One of the severest and most protracted winters on ren.rd has necemarily retarded al' agricultural operations, and we must be content to expect a very late, though we may hope a good and sufficient, harv es t i n a ll green and cereal crops, excepting wheat. A Mayo paper thus complains on the same sub ject: I We never recollect so unpropitious a spring as the pre sent. Farming operation are at a stand still, and up to the present we believe there has not been a fractional portion of the corn sown as has been usual at this period of the fear. Potato pl intiog is also much retarded by the severe rosts and heavy showers of snow. The wheat crsp looks exceedingly delicate, notwithstanding that every advantage is taken of fine days ; still we fear that there will be a con siderable deficiency in the average area of land cultivated. Monday we had heavy showers of snow, with a high easterly wind. Similar statements appear in all the provincial journals. The Dublin University Commission met on Tues day at the archiepiscopal palace. Present : The Archbishop of Dublin, the Lord Chancellor, Dr. Longfield, and Professor Hancock, secretary. The next meeting of the commissioners was fixed for Tuesday, the 29th inst. The Board of Trinity College have decided on oommencin . g the erection of the new wing to the university immediately. It will consist of spacious museums, lecture halls, model rooms, drawing rooms, &c. _ The Galway Packet, noticing the progress of emi gration, says: The last American mail brought the sum of 6001. to the little village of Ballyvaughaii, which is on the opposite aide of the Bay of Galway. We have beard that this large sum has been sent home for the purposes of emigration ; so that the neighbourhood of Ballyvaughan is likely to contribute its full contingent to the host of emigrant' who are daily rushing towards the English ports. A few mornings past the railway terminus wu crowded with the relatives of the emigrants bidding them farewell on their departure for America. The strength and hope of Ireland are so rapidly passing away that sufficient hands will not remain to till the soil. The following statements on the same subject ap• pears in the Limerick Chronicle : Over a thousand money letters from America have passed through the general and district post-officee of this city and county, and counties of Clare and Tipperary, the last few dam and culled at the various banks, to friends in Ireland, to *alibis them to emigrate this spring. During the last week, 17 paupers (chiefii females), of the Limerick Union workhouse, received remittances of from 101. to 121. each, from relatives and friends, not more than 12 months lin America, to enable them to emigrate forthwith. A pau per girl in Kilrush workhouse received 251. from Australia, through the Family Colonisation Society, to take out her self and brother. Three young gentlemen from this keality who went to seek their fortune atjAustralis, have returned, completely discomfited with bad news from the diggings. - - - _ _... ... Great numbers of money letters from emigrants to their friends at home have •also been received in almost every part of Ireland by the last two or three mails from America. Mr. J. F. Maguire, M.P., publishes in the Cork Examiner a letter which he has received from Wil liam Smith O'Brien. It is dated " New Norfolk, Van Diemen's Land, N0v.20, 1852," and the unfortu nate writer makes the following allusion to political matters, the newt of the last general election having probably jut roadbed him : At a pods& WINS Se any of the professed patriots of Ireland ham pima thesseelvu to be bat mercenary minions of Sagas\ berisa, it is matter of exultation that at least a few Masse sd reorespnble representatives will now cater the limas of osimmes with • Arm resolution to bold the interests sf haled paramount over all selfish considera tions of mond ameandissmaat. Thugh I have n often disappointed and &rival in the j udgment whi b ch ee I have furred el men, I fed sawed that, in your cue, my enti3ipatione will be realised, and that at the next dissolu tion you will be held up as a model for imitation by your ad ouring and grateful fellow-countrymen. You will be glad to hear that I am in excellent health, and, though I never can be happy in this country, yet, oonddering all the circumstances of my position, I am tolerably cheerful. The subjoined correskiondence will be interesting Ito those who an watching the of the pre parations for the Great Industrial ibition, which opens in Dublin in some six weeks hence: PkO Till NETItIILANDe. The Hague Much 8, 1853. My Lord,—l have the honour to tran smit to your lord ship herewith • eopy of • note from Baron De Znylen de Nyevelt, and likewise a copy of ay reply to his excellency, relathas to eke •Wps taken by me, to übrdleure tu the in structions contained in Lord Wodehouse's letter of Jan. 29, frr the purpose of furthering the objects of the mission which Mr. Roney has undertaken on behalf of the Great Industrial Exhibition of Dublin.-1 have, &c., (Signed) R. A. ABIRCROXBY. The Earl of Clarendon. - -----. The Hassle, March 17, 1853. As a supplement to this communication of the 6th inst., the undersigned, Min;ster of Foreign Affairs, has the honour to inform Bir R. Abereromby that the Minister of the Interior, after basing received from Messrs. Roney and Winkworth the statement which they had been re quieted to furnish respecting the articles which could be detached from the collections of Oriental curiosities exist ing in the Netherlands, as contributor to the Dublin Great Industrial lixhibition, has resolved on acting in accordance with the wishes expressed by these gentlemen. M. Van de Harteele, Director of the Royal Cabinet of Curiosities in this city, has been instructed to pack up with We the articles selected, and to accompany them to Dublin.—The undersigned, (Signed ) D a DI NTIVELT. _ _ To his Excellency Sir The Hague, March 8, 1863. The undersigned has the honour to acknowledge the re ceipt of the note which his Excellency the Baron de &glen de Nyevelt addressed to him on the sth instant, requesting to be informed what articles from the collection of Eastern Curiosities, belonging to the Netherlands government, blners. Roney and Winkworth were anxious to obtain per minion to have sent to Dublin for exhibition at the ap proaching Industrial Exhibition in that city. The under signed, immediately on receiving the above communication, informed Mr. Winkworth of his desire to see him, but that gentlemen had already leg the Hague for Rotterdam. The undersigned we., however, aware that Mr.-Winkworth was to have had, by appointment on last Saturday morning, a second interview with his Excellency the Minister of the Interior, at which Mr. Winkworth would, no doubt, have specified the objects which he wished to ob tain permission to exhibit at Dublin. That expedient appears, from the contents of the note addressed to the undersigned by his Excellency the Baron de Znylen, dated yesterday, but received this morning, to have been in part fulfilled; and it now only remains for the undersigned to convey to his Excellency the Baron De Zuylen, in the name of his government, his thanks for the prompt and complete manner in which the government of his Nether lands Majesty have met the wishes of the government of her Britannic Majesty in furthering the objects of the Great In dustrial Exhibition of Dublin, by contributing articles unique in themselves, and so interesting, as showing the na ture and degree of perfection arrived at in the production of eastern manufacture.—The undersigned, (Signed) R. Anszczonay. His Excellency the Baron Znylen de Nyevslt. PROM PRUSSIA. March 7, 1853. My Lord,—With reference to Lord Stanley's despatch to me of the 11th of October last, I have the honour to enclose herewith the copy of a note from Baron Manteuffel, stating the steps which had been taken by the Prussian government to advance the objects of the Dublin Exhibition, and the great interest which the King has been pleased to express for the success of this great undertaking.—l have, dtc., (Signed) Bioossruma. The Lord Wodehouse. Berlin, March 5, 1853. My Lord,—l have the honour to inform you that the printed documents relating to the Dublin Industrial Exhi bition, which were inclosed in your lordship's letter of the 27th December ultimo, were forwarded to their excellencies the Ministers of Commerce and of Public Instruction, who forthwith transmitted them—the former to all the provin cial municipalities, chambers of commerce, and trade guilds, the latter to the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and to the Fine Art Academies of Dusseldorf and Konigsberg. The director of the Royal Porcelain Manufactory at Berlin has besides been instructed to send contributions to the Exhibi tion. With respect to the Royal Iron Foundries at Berlin, and Oleivrits in Silesia, it has not been found possible to give a similar order to the directors of those establishments, las at the present moment these manufactories have no arti cles prepared suitable for exhibition. In communicating to your lordship the steps which have thus been taken, I have much pleasure in being able to add that his Majesty the King has declared his gracious intention of taking a personal interest in the Exhibition. —I have the honour to be, my lord, titc., (Signed) MANTZUPPEL. To his Excellency Lord Bloomfield. Fault TIM DUES OP DEVON/HMI. London, March 5, 1853. Sir,—lt gives me great pleasure to comply with the re quest contained in your letter received to-day, and I beg to inform the gentlemen of the committee far the Great In dustrial Exhibition that my two pictures, by Sir E. Landeeer and Mr. Collins, shall be at their orders at the time required. Though extremely &ruched to these works of art, I shall put entire relianco on the care and attention whish I am persuaded will be given, by order of the com mittee, to preserve them, as far IN practicable, from injury or aceident.—l have the honour to bo, sir, your most obe dient Servant, Divans's& I A WOLF NURSE. In the kingdom of Oude, some ten yearn ago, a male child of about eighteen menthe old was missed by its parents. It was supposed to have been carried away and devoured by the wolves, which are very plentiful in that part of the world. Every winter numbers of children are destroyed by these animals, not only in Oxide, but is our own provinces in the north-west. About seven yeen after the child wee missing, a man who gained his livelihood by shooting in the jungles saw a wolf and several cubs, and with them an animal such is he had never seen before. It was like a boy, but ran upon all fours. The man fol lowed the animal, bet was unable to keep pane with it ; he traced it, however, to a den, 1 1;i1 a few Liars at/T -wards succeeded in taking the ani alive. t bar ed, or rather snarled and growled like a wolf, and attempted to bite its captor. The she-wolf and her cubs followed the man for some distance, and advent times showed symp toms of a desire to rescue the animal ; but, as the man was armed, they did not venture to attack him, and at last they returned to the jungle. The animal was exhibited in Luenow, and caused some sensation. It was eventually handed over to one of the authorities (an Eaglish officer) who had a cage made for it. That it was a human being no one could doubt, though it never stood erect, and uttered any sonad except a growl, or a hoarse bark. It re fused every description of food that was cooked for it, and would only eat raw ffesh,•hich it would denier voraciously. Clothes were made for it, but it tore them off with its teeth. A rank smell issued from the pores of its skin, and its skin was covered with short thin hair. The smell was that lithe wolf, by whom it hat been brought up. It was very partial to hard bones, and would chew and digest them as a dog would. In a word, this animal had adopted all the habits of its foster-mother—the she-wolf. Crowds of natives every day came to look at the strange creature, and at last the woman who had lost the child was among the specta tors. By certain marks upon the animal she recognised in it her missing offspring ; but she wee by no means anxious to have it restored to her. On the contrary, she regarded it with extreme horror and disgust. Every means were resorted to, to tame the boy ; but without effect. Shut up in his iron cage, he seemed to pine, and would never touch fool until forced to do so by the pains of hunger. It would have been dangerous to let him go out of the cage ; for be was as savage as any wild beast of the desert Numerous attempts were made to teach him to speak ; but he uttered no sounds beyond those already mentioned. Re lived for about a year, and became in that time a perfect living skeleton. Just previous to his death he said a few words, which the man who had charge of him understood to be these, "Seer durd kirks." (My head aches.)—Dickens's " Rorsehold Words." TEE PRINCES IN 1788.—The Prince of Wale takes an active part in opposition. The Duke of York in polities talks both ways, and, I think, will end in opposi tion. His conduct is as bad as possible ; be plays very deep, and loses,and his company is thought nsauraia ton. I am told the Ring and Queen begin now to feel " how much sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have an ingrate child." When the Duke of York is completely done up in the public opinion ; I should not be surprised if the Prince of Wales assumes a different style of behaviour ; in deed, I am told be already affects to say that his brother's style is too bad.—The Duke of Buckingham's " Court of George III." ETHNOLOGY OF ENGLAND (VoL vii.. p. 135). — In reference to that portion of the query by Ethnologicus which asks " Whether it is yet clearly settled that there are types of the heads of Ancient Britons, Saxons, Danes, and other races, to be referred to as standards or examples of the respective crania of those people 1" I beg to say that beneath the chancel of the church of St. Leonard, Hythe, there is a crypt containing a vast number of skulls and ether human bones, which, - according to Jcake, the historian of the claque ports, are " Suppoeed by some to be gathered at the shore after a great sea-fight and slaughter of the French and English on that coast ; whose carcases, or their bones, after the consumption of the flesh, might be cast up there, and so gathered and reserved for mime random." Speaking of these relics, Walker, in his " Physiology," says " These skulls at Ilythe are not of one race, either Saxon or British, but of several ; two forms of skull, very distinct from each other, predominate : one a long narrow skull, greatly resembling the Celtic of the present day ; the caner, a short broad skull, greatly resem bling the Gothic Another kind of skulls, fewer in number, are evidently Roman skulls."—A'otss and Queries. TRAITOR'S GATE, TOWER OP LONDON.—OS first visiting the Towe% now several years ago, no part of that ancient structure created so great an impression as the view seen through the crossed railings of Traitor's Gate. The tide was railing into its gloomy archway, and, independently of any other aassuiation, the appearance of the place was grand and impressive; besides viewing it as a spot where most important scenes r, f Enghsh history have occurred, upon the steps under this gloo my gate personages of various Eminence have passed never to' return to the outward world : upon them steps, in a pelting storm, the Princess Elisabeth sat down, and, refusing to move, declared that " she was no traitor." We never, .after our first visit, went to the Tower without spendin,6 • few minutes at this gate, thinking of the past. For some years, however, the railings through which wo "tad a view of this interesting place have been planked over and hidden from the sight. This was done by the military authorities of the Tower, in order to form the place into a bath for the soldiers of the garrison: after • very shot trial the plan, we are told, was abandoned, yet the screen has never been removed, and so the public are deprived of the view of this llace without any useful purpose. It is a feet to be amented, that places of interest, such as the Tower, have hitherto been treated with little care or taste by military lengineers.—Thu Builder. FROM THE NARQCIS OP LOXDONDEURT. Holden:en House, March 8, 1853. Gentlemeo,-1 shall not only have great pleasure in °m ilting my pictures of the Peningulae and Waterloo Heroes to the Directors of the Thblin Industrial Exhibition, but I will trim them further with the finest portrait, by Law rence, of the Duke of Wellington, which he sat for for me on our return from the PeniusulAr and Continental Wars in 1815. I have religiously to the ileke's family ; but I cannot, as ale Irish s .Idier, re fuse to place it, one of the greatest treasures I certainly possess, in that splendid Exhibition now carrying forward in the country which owns him as one of her s ns, and in that city where I, his friend sad follower for a quarter of a century, was born.—l remain, gentlemen, your obedient servant, VANE LONDONDERRY. Lau intelligence. EQUITY COURTS.—YrsrEan Bureau run Luaus Jyrricsa Cr Arras. JOHNSON P. TUZ SHUSIISAVUT AND RH/MINGO RAIL- WAY COMPANY. The Attorney-General, Mr. Craig, and Mr. Lambert ap. peered in support of this appeal motion, which was from an order made on Monday last by Vice-Chance her Wood, whereb be refused to grant the injunction as k e d b y t h e plaintiffs. It appeared that the company had engaged the plaintiffs as contractors to work their Lae, and Lad bound themselves in an agreement, by the terms of which the plaintiff+ undertook to work the line and trains of the de fendants, and to provide foremen, engine-men, and sere vents for that purpose, and also to provide co il, coke, and rolling stock. This arrangement was to continue seven years, determinable upon certain terms at the end of three months' notice to be given by the defendants. The defendants having given notice to determine the contract were about to resume the poeseseion of their line; and to work the trains without the assistance of the plaintiffs. The injunction was to restrain them from so doing, on the ground that it would he a breach of the agreement with the plaintiffs; and the bill also asked to have certain portions of the agreement construed and interpreted by the court. The facts of the case may be seen stated more in detail in the report of the motion for the injunction bef ire the court below, given in our impression of Tuesday last. Mr. Rolt and Mr. Giffard appeared on behalf of the com pany. Lord Justice Knight Bruce said, that the motion seeking as it did to restrain the defendants tram acting, as it was alleged, at variance with the terms of the agreement, and also to have the agreement construed, was in effect an application to have the agreement specifically perforated. The agreement, however, did not, he thought, belong to that class of agreements in which the exercise of the jurisdictioa to direct specific per formance was either habitual or (unifier with the court. The case, however, might be new in specie only, but not in kind or principle. The question, therefore was, did it range itself within the class of cases in which the court would direct specific performance. The agreement was, that the plaintiffs should, for a period of seven years, of which six were unexpired, employ the plaintiffs in a capa city between that of agents and servants, but more nearly resembling that of servants. The sole object of the de fendants was the payment to them of a certain amount of money in respect of their services. Tho nature of the ser vices to be rendered was that at all times during the con tinuation of the contract, the plaintiffs should run and work the trains, and find servants and stock for that purpose. There was also a clause, which was certainly in his view an extraordinary one, viz., that the plaintiffs, the contractors, should not be answerable for any loss, damage, or compen "Mien recoverable from the railway company in respect of any deaths or damage done to p issengers, or live or dead goods, except where caused by the neglect of the , contractors, and then never to an extent exceeding ,one hundred pounds. The effect therefore, of the agreement was that the running and working of the trains, a matter so interesting to a large class of the Queen's sub jects, was committed to men who might cause any number of deaths, and cause bodily injury to any number of per sons at a risk of 1001., and no more. Directors, when they ran the trains themselves, were under a general responst blity, and the public had to that extent a guarantee, though en imperfect sue, for careful and attentive manage ment. But in the present instance society lost, by the effect of the agreement in question, even that guarantee, a consi deration not to be overlooked, assuming even Chet there was nothing in the agreement contrary to public policy. Though the agreement might not be astaikst pablie there might, nevertheless, be objections to the court interfering a decree for specific performance. Passing by the ques tion of public policy, still, in the case of an anti ement, the effect of which wu that the plaintiffs were to be con fidential agents of the defendants in the performance of most important duties, it was particularly necessery for the due performance of these, sot only tor the sake of the parties immediately concerned but also of society at large, that there should be a most entire harmony dad spirit of co-operation between the contracting parties. But how could this prevail in the position in which the defend ants would be placed if an injunction were granted.. What was asked was, in effect, to compel them to employ, against their will, agents for purposes with respect to the due per formance of which it was adulated confidence on their part or their agents was requisite. Let the agents be the beet and most competent persons possible, still if they and their principles did not agree the mischief apprehended might all be done. Considering that the plaintiff's ode object was money, there would be no equality in the effect upon the litigant parties of an injunction. It was clear, moreover, that in the present ease there was no mutuality of rights between the parties. Had tbe.defendants been minded to compel the plaintiffs to perform their duties, it could not have been done here. It would-have been beyond the power of a court of equity to do it. There king therefore no mutuality, land putting morality eat of I the case, it was not within the rules or principles of a court of equity to interfere by specific performance. The caw was not, moreover, one for an interim injunction, consider-. lag that the inconvenience and mischief which would result therefrom to the defendants, to say nothing of society at large, would be so much greater than any that could possibly arise therefrom to the plaintiffs. Lord Justice Turner said he was also of opinion that the plaintiff's application should be refuted, and in coming to that conclusion he did not proceed on the assumption that the contract in question was invalid. He eerainly had some doubt as to the validity of the contract, the object of which was to depute to the plaintiffs responsibilities which the legislature in granting the act of ie.corporatioa, had intended to confide to the plaintiffs alone; but it was not upon that ground that his deci sion was rested. Here the bill sought to have • con struction put upon the contract by the court, and then asked for the relief consequential upon such construction. Now it was not the province of a court of equity to put a legal construction upon instruments : that was entirely a question for the consideration of a court of law. The court indeed would interfere to protect property, while the ques tion of right, depending upon agreement, was being deter mined by a court of law. This it did on the ground of ap prehended and irreparable injury to the property in t h e meantime. Here, however, there was no pretence by the plaintiff, of apprehended injury to the stook or plant, and therefore the remedy, by an application for damages for breach of the agreement, to a court of law would meet full the justice of the ease. Where that was so, the court would not interfere by injunction, and the motion must therefore be dismissed. The coats would be costa in the cause. CLERICAL. ----------- CONSECItATION.—LOWTON.—The addition to the yard of the parish church of Lmton, in the county of Lan caster, was consecrated by the Bishop of Chester on Wed nesday, the 23rd instant. PRIPERMINTB. Rey. J. W. Kewley, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Waver tree, in the county of Lancaster, on the nomination of the Rev. Wm. Badnall, the Incumbent. Rev. Philip Raulin Robin, to the Stipendiary Curacy of Woodeburch, county of Cheater, on clic nomination of the Rey. Joshua King, the Rector. Roy. Thos. Joyce Whittington, to the Rectory of Lowton, county of Lancaster, void by death of Rev. J. Pennington; patron for this turn, the liev. J. J. liornby,R t utor of NVinwick. NAVAL ADMIRALTY, MARCH 24. APPOINTMENTS.— Clerk J. Welton, to Queen. Clerk's Assistants C. C. Ed ward, to Prince Regent; and W. H. Haswell, to Extcilent. Porrsmoum, MARCH 24.—Tho Highflyor, 22, screw steam frigate, the captain (Matson) of which died in the West Indies of yellow fever, is telegraphed as having arrived off Cowes at fire o'clock this afternoon from Bar badoes. She will be up to Spithead a little past six o'clock. —The Duke of Wellington, 111, screw steam ship, Captain H. B. Martin, C. 8., has got up her lower and topsail yen's, and topgallant masts, this afternoon.—The luggage of Raar-Admiral Corry was pat on board the Sprightly steamer today, for conveyance to Plymouth, where the gal lant admiral as, it is reported, to hoist his 84 on board the Queen, 110, as Commander-in-Chief of the Channel squadron. Admiral Corry's flag-lieutenant and secretary also proceed to Plymouth in the Sprightly. The intention of dispatching the London, Prince Regent, and two steam fngates to the Mediterranean, appears abandoned, the first-named ship having received orders to-day to re-moor at Spithead. The Hightlyer came up to Spithead to-night. She left Bermuda, March 4, where were the Cumberland and Per sian. Sickness had declined. Dauntless was daily ex pected. MILITARY. The Flora, freight-ship, having on board the third (last) division of the service companies of the Ist battalion 71st regiment, sailed from Cork Harbour on the 18th inst. for Corfu. The following are the numbers embarked in this vessel, and the names of the officers : Numbers, 1 field officer, 2 captains, 1 subaltern, 1 staff, 7 sergeants, 4 drummers, 181 rank and file, with 14 women and 28 chil dren. Names of officers : Major A. R. L'Estrange, Cap tains R. D. Campbell and H. Lotto*, Ensign W. Campbell, and Quartermaster T. Walker. Lieutenant R. Law, 31st Regiment, and Staff Assistant-Surgeon W. A. Mackinnon have also embarked in the above vessel for Corfu. The depot, which consist only of one company, will shortly proceed from Cork to Chatham. Captain A. C. Parker and Lieutenant W. Johnson are attached to the depot. Limit. C. F. Smith is employed on the recruiting service at Tann ton. The head-quarters and four companies of the 46th Regiment, under the command of Major Mazwel, in the absence of Lieutenant-Colonel Garrett, on leave, arrived in Dublin from Belfast, and the remainder of the regiment will follow immediately. Major Mills, 62nd Light Infantry, is performing the duties of Assistant-Adju tant-General in Dublin, in the absence of Lieutenant ' Colonel Doyle, who is on leave in Paris. SPORTING. TATTERSALL'S.—TarnsDAY. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 7 to 2 agst Mr. T. Pan's Defiance 6 to 1 Lord Derby's Hobbyhorse (t and aft off) 25 to 1 Mr. Eglinton's Llanforda (t and aft off) 2.5 to 1 ?dr. R. Cowley'c Lsmpedo (t and aft off) Llanforda and Lampsdo opened at 1,000 to 30 earth, but at the close were backed at 25 to 1 each to about 601., the layers ready to go on. Maria met with an accident on Tuesday last, and is declared not to start. ALTHORPE PARK STAKES. 3 to 1 agst Captain Lane's Epantinondas. 4to 1 Mr. Payne's Spinawa. METROPOLITAN HANDICAP. 11 to 2 sgat Mr. T. Parr's Contentment (t and aft off) Bto 1 Mr. Kimberley's Snowdon Dunhill (t) 13 to 1 Mr., C. Peck's Rishmond (t) 100 to 6 Lord John Scott's Pug Orrock (t) 20 to 1 Mr. Farrance's Terpsichore (t) 20 to 1 Mr. Copeland's Candlewick (t2sto 1) 1000 to 10 Mr. Payne's Hirsute Business dull, and an improvement in Contentment, and • strong disposition to back Snowdon Dunhill the only fen tures. Lampedo's price did not transpire. TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES. 7 to 2 agst Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne (taken to 2001.) CHESTER CUP. 26 to 1 ails dirt iire;iiiesEfiarea ow (t and aft off) __ DERBY. _ _ 9 to 1 apt Mr. Bowes's West West Australian (t to 1001, and aft off) 12 to 1 Baron Rothschild's Orestes (t) 12 to 1 Mr. Powney's Cineas (t 13 to I) 15 to 1 Mr. Suttees us Iloneywood (t 16 to 1) 16 to 1 Lord John Scott's The Reiner (t to 2001. and aft off) 17 to 1 Duke of Richmond's Pharos (t and aft off) 18 to 1 Captain Lane's Ninnyhantrasr (t and aft off) 30 to 1 Mr. J. Oliver's Ethelbert (t to 15W.) DERBY STEEPLE CHASES, &C.—WEDNESDAY. HORDLII Rao' HANDICAP of 5 sou each, and 30 added, the second to save his stake. Two miles. (10 subs.) Mr. Mundy's The Hero, aged, 9st 121b..(C. Boyce) 1 Mr. Callaghan's Geraldus, 6 yrs, 9st 101 b 2 Mr. Snon's Sir Robert, 6 yrs, lOst 10st Mr. Rickard's Sir Harry, 5 yn, 9st 131 b 0 Mr. Choyce's c by Drayton out of Spring's dam, 4 yrs, 9st 21b MIDLAND STEZPLISCIIASI HANDICAP of 15 SM. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, with 100 added. Four miles ; 15 subs. Mr. Choyee's Spring, 5 yrs, Sat. 121 b (9st 41b) (Hollanc 1 Mr. Wycherley's Shinrone, aged, 94101 b (Soya. 2 Mr. Dolman nd Ringdove, aged, Sit 1216 (carri e d l 9st 41b) . ._ . 3 Belie'. - Mr. ,afe's Daphie, 6 yrs, Ost 51b 4 Blunt° Sraitua of 5 son. each, and 30 added ; for 4.yr-olds and upwards. Three miles. (6 subs.) Mr. W. Denham's Bobtail, 4 yrs (601.), 10st 31b (Debeau) 1 Mr. Hitchcock nd Cropwell, aged (1000,12.171 b 2 Mr. Hasaall's L'Agneau, 4 yrs (1001.), list 31b 3 Mr. Chore's Nimrod, 4 yn (1001.), list 31b Mr. Holland's Ottoman (601.), Ilst 71b 0 Mr. Maltby's Wild Hero (801.), 12st NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE SPRING MEETING WIDNESDLY. WELTER STALES of 3 son. each, and 20 added; the second saves his stake. Two miles. (14 subs.) Mr. Nixon's Moses, 5 yea, list bib (Mr. W. Dixon) 1 Mr. Boynton's Newport, aged, 12st 81b 2 Mr. Grego= nd Mirehill, 4 yea, lOst Mr. Harper's Freebooter, 5 yrs, list 61b HUNTEIIB' STASES of 5 son. each, for hunters, 12st each. Two miles. (Saabs.) Br. S. Parker ad Sir Harry Smitb, aged, 12st 71b (Mr. Oregson) 1 Mr. Arthur ad Penny Post, aged, 12st 71b Capt. Morris's Buckland Buck, 5 yea, 12st LARE STAYER were won by Elopement (Mr. R. Graham) beating Susannah, Gumilower, and three others easy. MATCH, 60 son.—Mr . A. Stavert's Polly (Mr. J. Robin. son) beat Kr. Jardine's Bobby. 'AN) STEEPLECHASES. EPSOM (METROPOLIT, WEIGHTS for the MITI Acceptances to be declared on at lb Sir Peter Laurie ll 7 Peter Miss Mowbray British Yeoman ll 1 The General Simple Peter lO 3 Marta Day lO 3 Forest Lad lO 3 Quickstep Shinrone lO 1 The Hero Ringleader 9 13 WEIGHTS FOR THE FREE Acceptances to be at. lb. Sir Robert lO 7 The General Caurire Gutman Quickstep The Hero The Unknown Fereley Oeraldus 9 6 Malmesbury MN STIR is April 5. st lb 'The Unknown 9 13 Charlton 9 13 Foxeley The Brewer Talisman Geraldus 9 9 Viscount 9 9 Grey Momus 9 9 The Senator Janus Sam Mood 9 5 Honest Tom 9 1 HANDICAP HIaiDLZRACI. declared April 5. at. lb. Simon the Cellarer 9 4 Ormsby Reindeer 9 3 Sam flood 9 2 Stamford Bradford 9 0 Ventre-a-terre Union Jack Gerard NEW INCLOSURE Acr.—The scoond Inclosurc Act of the present session, which received the royal assent on Friday has jest been printed. The following places are forthwith to be inclosed : Tatham, Lancaster; Lynby Wighay, Nottingham ; High Callerton, Northumberland ; Ifield, Same: ; Kentmere, Westmoreland ; Norton Com mon, Southampton; nod Prestwick Carr, Northumber land. ASSIZE' INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.-KINGSTON, MARCU 24. 81110111 M. BIDOR ALDIIII9OII 4 II A PPICIAL JUST. METCALF V. PARLIR.-QUALITY OF LITERARY LABOUR. This was an action brought by the &into!' to recover a sum of 2001. from the defendant, under an agreement entered into between them. The case occupied the court for several hours. The plaintiff is a clergyman residing at Oxford, and who, it ap peared, /as been also extensively engaged in littrary pur suits; and the defendant is the well-known book publisher in the Strand. It seemed that about the year 1847 the plaintiff entered into an arrangement with Mr. Parker, by which he engaged to translate Bia History of Roman Literature," a German work, for the sum of 2001.; and it appeared that he did not complete the work, which ex tended in quantity to nearly two thousand octavo pages, till March, 1851, when be furnished the complete manu script to the defendant. No steps, it appeared, were taken to put it in band with; a view to the publication, and the plaintiff in consequence applied to Mr. Parker to know when he might expect to have proofs of the work to revise, and the defendant excused himself for not going on with it at this period by stating that on account of the attraction of the Great Exhibition it was perfectly hopeless to expect the puhlic to tead books. When the Exhibition closed Mr. Metcalf again applied to the defendant upon the subject, and he then wrote an answer stating that in the beginning of the year he would put the work in hand, and he would send him a proof. lip to this time the defendant had never said a single word with regard to the quality of the translation, or made tho slightest complaint relating to it, but upon the plaintiff, after waiting several months patiently, and finding no steps were taken to pub lish the work, upon applying to the defendant upon the subject, and asking him for a cheque for 100 L, on account of the agreement entered into between them, the defendant returned the manuscript, stating that, having taken advice, he was of opinion that the translation was not of a character likely to succeed, and he therefore declined to publish it; this proceeding being taken by him in October, 1852—nearly nineteen month, after the manuscript had been first placed in his possession. The plaintiff, under these circumstances, now sought to re cover the sum which the defendant had agried to pay him for his services in making the translation ; and upon hie being examined, he stated that he had for fourteen years been acquainted with and studied the German language, and had resided for several months in the country, and wee perfectly versed in the language, and he declared that the translation was a correct one, and in accordance with the agreement made between him and the defendant. The eviience of the plaintiff was corroborated in this respect by several gentlemen connected with literary pursuits ; all ol whom stated that the translation was a correct one, and sucff as would be expected from a man of letters and agentleman. Mr. Chambers, on the part of the defendant, said the defence he was instracted to offer was that the translation had been done in a careless and hasty manner, and that the plaintiff had not complied with his under taking to furnish such a work as the defendant would be justified, having regard to his own interest, in offering to the public. In support of this case, he produced some Ger man and other witneseee, who stated that, having refined casually to different portions of the translation, they disee vered what they described to be incorrect translations of** German original, and they also complained of the forms of in his translation. Many of the matters objected to, how expression made use of in some instances by the plaintiff ever, appeared to be of the most trifling character. Mr. Bramwell, in the course of his reply upon the core for the defendant, indignantly denounced his conduct in setting up such a defence as most despicable and disreputable, and said that it was such a one as would have been heard of only in the worst days of special pleading. Here was a gentleman engaged tor nearly four years in the labarious rr i met clerk by the would defendanteharge task of translating a work of this character, for the p a lt r y sum of 2001., which would not amount to mo r e f or eac h p th en ana le l d a , w h w e was iteh for copying it, and when he asked for the miserabl e recun peang.ec, wastwohwehnictirihhneted, tit alleging that the translation was incorrect and worthless. He considered this proceeding was most disgraceful, par- 1'1: _.. /. - ir , •:: . : . : l '--:'. - 1;1 , :i - '-' .17 .1 *iv., . ,::, ..':,- . - ': , l.i! t -.-•.'• i ~.,;. • '9