The Express. — London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

ro oms'' , satisfied. A modification of thia nil* would effect all that is wanted. In plaoe of requiring all bills to have b je n paid, lot the senate only demand that debts incurred on amount of necessary expenditure shall be liquidated. These wing w an adjusted, lot there be no farther obstacle to the & s ue, on the score of debts incurred in the purchase of aw e s of extravemusce. By admitting the claims of the b „„ joc key, the wine merchant, the tobacooaist, et Acre wow ease, to become a bar to the degree, the senate j o kes itself virtually the protector of their interests, and rims at the same time • direct sanction to all their arts of 'flipping silly youth at the outset of their university Clire*r ; an d this, notw i t hstanding that at matriculation the student 4, en re ed to have nothing to do with such persons. At , but recently, the student, on being ma , took an oath that he would net have th e to do with tradesmen of this description. ill, w an is, I believe, abolished, as inconsistent with the a m e equent practice of the student; and it would be well if me practice were also discountenanced. la addition to this practical discountenance of extmvs pas ex penditure by the senate, au additional and equally effectual m ode of putting a stop to the nuisance would be, Out the Vice Chancellor's Court should refuse to grant my sum mons for debt against a student which is not a n al, on account of necessaries supplied. As the pron t i aa o f this court now stands in both universities, it forms the stronghold of the *harping trades man. Not that his cause very often goes there, the threat slsae being sufficient to act upon the fears of the student, as , Go a the establishment of the debt, be knows that he mast , once pay, or quit the university. To pay, would be in el gime 'Buses impossible, as the creditor well knows, and the etudentis driven to the money-lender to save him from pm ant diagram, thus iuvelving himself in fourfold futons embaressement. The student is now fairly caught. In most Ni si, few hours elapse after the threat of the Vico- Chancellor's Court by the tradesman, before the mast'-lender makes his appearance with proffers of assist- ance. They are accepted, and bills, promissory notes, post a soskfic., are the shape which the previousquestionable debt has now assumed, fa in many cases the usurer and the tit a ni um go hand in hand. There will now las no bar t• g aa degree, the bills will be paid sometime, and the enor mous profits of both can afford to wait. All this is matter of taltulttion. In nine cases out of ten the money leader is as well informed as to the future expectations of the student m e bs himself is. This worthy is sometimes demised, and tau when he finds, too late, that the expectations a e kis victim are nil, such cases as those of Jen *, come before the public. The hundreds of cases, Mmeseled from the public eye by the affection of re lams for the extravagant youth, and their anxiety for his More welfare, which prompt them to pay his debt* at any sacrifice, would be appalling, were they to become known. The family privation and misery thus exposed, would of itself, were it possible to make it apparent, accomplish a speedy cure fur the evil. The effect of the measures just noticed would be, that the respectable dealers in articles necessary for subsistence, and even those who supply articles of moderate luxury, would invariably it paid, whilst the proprietors of " ruination shops" would as invariably not get paid—both results being highly desirable. This would only be placing the latter in the same position in which the law now places them. The dealer in extravagant articles cannot now recover the amount of his bill by law, provided the party indebted is a minor, as is generally the ease with the student when he takes the lint plunge in dissipation. Why should the heads of the university place the supplier of extravagances in a better position than that in which the law places him, by making the degree conditional on the discharge of such debts by boys in Watts pupillori? Much less should they lame the degree to a man who has paid all neces sity demands, and who has, in his unnecessary ex penditure, been solely hampered by the machinations atm:pies, who have coolly calculated upon the long em barrassment which he must undergo, in order to free himself free their trammels, even with the advantage of his degree. The cry of the tradesmen is, that they would be ruined by itch strictness on the part of the university. Be it so—whose affair is that hut their own ? I have yet to learn that trades men possess a vested right to prey upon the inexperienced. Good-natured clergymen have not been wanting to defend the tradesman, forgetting that their own prudenee has been the cause of their escape. Let such look round upon the career of students contemporary with themselves at the university, and then say if the credit system has not dons its work. How many amongst them will they not dad still embarrassed in circumstances in consequence ? And bow many whose prospects have been totally blighted ? Talk of the ruin of tradesmen, who are thriving upon what they know to be • vicious system—what ie their ruin compared with that of hundreds of promising youths, entrapped In boyhood into their snares, and thus incapacitated both ha body and mind for those studies which are the objects of a university education ? This is a national loss—that would be a national gain, as a means of breaking up the system by which such national lois is engendered. The Calor* of tradesmen, under such:circumstances, would be purely the result of their own devices ; and of this they would certainly have no just ground of complaint. It is useless to talk of the interference of the legislature la the matter, unless we are prepared to admit that our univer sities are incompetent to maintain a wholesome system of discipline ; in which case the sooner the whole system is r•- modelled by the legislature the better. But why should the legislature be called upon to interfere, when, as has beim shown, the remedy is already in the hands of the university itself i It would also be productiveof worse evil if, as has gene- rally been recommended, the accounts of students should pass through the hands of tutors. This course, to a consci entious tutor, would impose on him a charge to which he has no time to attend ; with an unconsmentious one, it would become • matter of additional abuse. The " tutorial system," as it is called, has been tried at Cambridge, and is, unless recently abolished, in operation there at this moment. Certain college tradesmen are appointed, and these " send in their hills to the tutor," as the phrase goes, at the end of lick term. And what is the consequence ? The tutor does not pay the respective amounts to the tradesmen for a year or two atter he has received them, and prices equally 'sermons with those of the Oxford tradesmen are, in conse quence, charged. There are to doubt exceptions to this practice amongst the Cambridge tutors, butthat the generality set thus I state of my own knowledge, as asserted by the Indeamen, in reply to complaints of " exorbitant charges. And when the large amounts thus accumulated every bra in the hands of tutors are taken into consideration, it must be confessed that the use of such sums, even for • year, to stock-jobbing and other similar speculations, in which Cambridge tutors are usually considered adepts, forms a Wreaths to withhold them from the rightful owner for that, or a longer, period. In somo colleges in Cambridge *seise of tutor ie thus of itself a fortune, and there are those, now high in the dignities of the churc h, who have se emulated fortunes by these means. I speak of Cambridge tutors a dozen years ago ,- but am not aware that the system be& been in any way altered or amended. It is riaht, also, to state that the Cambridge tutor may re- Nine bills from the tradesmen for necessary articles, and beam it is that I consider the " tutorial system" an addi tional evil. Reckless expenditure goes on there precisely as at Oxford, being conducted by the sharper and the money leader. Nor is the Cambridge student compelled to deal with the college tradesman. If he be prudent, and have mousy in his pocket, he selects his own tradesman, and, as as be imagined, is vastly the gainer by such • step. Ox- W has no " tutorial system' of this kind, and will Nei wisely not to adopt one, but to rely upon her power of mu forting discipline. It sadly lessens the importance of a tater e under such circumstances, to become the bursar of his kW tare-room; and the more so, as the college tradesmen do net' fall to impress upon the student, if he complain, the cause his high prices. The hints here thrown out are quite in the power of drier athersity to act upon. They are, as to their ste aks lad courts, absolute, and can make what regulations alei laws they please within their own boundaries. It will banwise on their part to permit the legislature to interfere, viewing, ss they do, any such interference on its part with a jealous eye. Bat the evil must be met. Reform, even is their case, will one day come, and they will not act with fair usual acumen if it be hastened by any neglect on their piety:. provide for the governance of their own household. The Want of wholesome regulations in pecuniary matters gives vise to almost all the vicious disorder of either university. What that disorder is, is well known even to those who have Mie participated in it, but under whose observation it must amemarily have fallen. Such disorder is alike a discredit to the university and the church.—ONE TAUGSIT HT ALTZ LIMB. IRELAND. DUBLIN, JAW. 18. The whole tribe of solicitors and receivers is alarmed at the judgment pronounced yesterday by the Mester of the Rolls in the cue of " Reynolds and Reynolds." A receivership in the Court of gencery was almost certain ruin to the property sub jected to its destructive influence. Solicitors ran up outs with gourd-like rapidity, while their receiver generally filled the post of contributor. The more the estate fell into arrear the longer was the bill, and the chances of extrication to the unfortunate pro- Prietor the more distant and evanescent. You will ere in the last number of the Edinburgh _Review an authentic table, showing the progressive growth of this ruinous system to which the Master of the Rolls hla given the first effective check, by fixing the re elver in the cause with upwards of 9001. arrears. Ike will operate as a warning to a very numerous and by ao means painstaking class, recruited largely from both professions, who live and make gains on the crumbling property of the country. The judg ment, which has been much admired for its severe reforming spirit, you will read below. The peaceful citizens of Belfast are all in arms at the convict invasion from the south. The order of the Lord-Lieutenant in council, appropriating the Belfeet House of Correction to the humane purpose of criminal reformation, is deemed " a fact equally mon *ens and outrageous," and " the results cannot be contemplated without dismay," when Antrim, Down, and even the entire northern province is to be inun 40cd with the whiteboys and terry alts of Tippe r4rYi Clare, and Limerick. There was to have been a meeting to-day to remonstrate with his excellency. certain Mr. Davison sounds the tocsin, and doobtleas the Earl of Clarendon may expect a depu tation from the alarmed burghers at the close of the The Rhadamanthos steam-vessel arrived Tester' day from Cove, bearing the remains of the late Rear- Admiral Dasher. After private funeral service in Cove, they were placed on board the war steamer on Sunday evening, and conveyed to Dublin. Almost at the same time with the steamer arrived the Bangalore convict ship, fully equipped in all de partments—naval, military, and medical, to bear away the criminals of the commission to their desti nation. The Lords of the Admiralty have presentol Mr. Pullen, master of the Betsy, with a splendid gold medal, for having saved the lives of 94 passengers on board the Chianti.) steamer, destroyed by fire on her way from Drogheda to Liverpool. Pullen and his crew have had other more substantial rewards for their humane intrepidity from their fellow-citizens. A rate of nearly 7,0001. has been made on the eight rural divisions of the north Dublin union. Castleknock is the highest assessment, 2s. in the pound; three others—Finglas, Drumcondra, and Blanchardstown—ls. 6d.; and the remaining four Glasneven, Coolock, Clontarf, and divisious at Howth. The rural district; have not much reason to complain of the amount either of the rate or the poundage. The south union advertises for a loan of 8,0001., in sums of SOOL, at 6 per cent., or leas. On Friday next the Royal Dublin Society will die. tribute the medals and certificates awarded at the last exhibition of manufactures. The Lord-Lieutenant has appointed Mr. James Gibson, of Belfast, a member of the Education Board. Mr. Gibson is a barrister, was late M.P. for Belfast, and holds a high position among his countrymen for his public worth and private virtues. Mr. Gibson is a liberal, and elder of the synod of Ulster. The Court of Queen's Bench have ordered a sum of 4,20 W. to be levied off tho county of Antrim, with the present county rate, and to be repaid to the government at the Spring Assizes. This sum was expended by the Belfast and Lisburn boards of health during the recent period of destitution and fever. IN CIEANCERY.-IMPORTANT _ JUDGMENT. _ _ _—.--.... ROLL/ COURT, DUBLIN.I4ONDA.T.—RITMOLDS e. RET• womse —Mr. Brewster,Q.C., and Mr. Hamilton, were heard on behalf of the purchaser of the estate in the above cause. Mr. Christian, Q.C., with whom was Mr. O'Neill, replied on behalf of the receiver.—The Master of the Rolls delivered judgment. If that motion were made in England, in any court of equity, it could not be sustained ; and if that were a new question he would have no hesitation in following that case so decided in England, which would hare furnished him with a precedent to refuse to entertain the application if he desired to decide the matter upon technical grounds. In the present case a sweeping notice bad been served, that the whole of 9001. odd charged against the receiver should be expunged. In future he would require that a schedule should be produced setting forth the items, or if they were too nu merous, en analysis of them should be given, clearly show ing their nature and extent. Thus time would be saved to the court. lie would not hear general statements; and the master's opinion was entitled to as much weight upon such subjects as his own. He would not say that if the receiver had confined himself to a few particular items he might not have convinced him that he ought to reduce the amounts, but he would not do so upon general statements. That wee an unprecedented motion. The gross mismanagement al estates in Ireland by receivers under the Court of Chancery was a matter of public notoriety; and from a return recently published it would appear that from 1841 to 1843 (and the return would have been more remarkable if carried tap la 1847), an additional arrear of something amounting la a quarter of a million of money had arisen in consequence of the mismanagement of estates by receivers. The case the& before him was one which called for the just animadversion of the court for the very same reason; and the misma nagement of the estate had resulted from the party having the carriage of the proceedings not having felt It to be his duty to exercise care and consideration in appoint ing a competent receiver • for was it to be supposed that a practising attorney or b arrister was a proper and qualified person to act as receiver? Was it, he would ask, extract. dinary that tenants upon property were in such a state el combination against the payment of rent, when, so recently as 1843, they were, according even to the solicitor foe the receiver, industrious and peaceable? He did not apply his observations to a solicitor solely, but included practising phy sician', barristers, or any other persons who, from the occu pation of their time by professional business, were unable to attend to the duties of the receivership. The persons so appointed might be gentlemen of the highest character, yet totally unacquainted with the management of land. It was net a question as to character, but qualiiicatioa ; and Sir Edward Sugden had made a general order, rendering it ille gal for an attorney's clerk to act in the capacity of a receiver. Master Brooke had even communicated with him upon the subject of th ese improper appointments, to see if anything could be devised to remedy the evil, and a communication was also made to the Lord Chancellor before his illness with a similar object. Receiverships under the court had become the subject of patronage. In many caul eulioitore entered into a contract for the sale of receiverships, and stipulated to get one third of the poundage, and in one case he made an order that the whole amount should be lodged in court, with six per cent. interest. Persons having the carriage of proceedings did not nominate local gentlemen who were acquainted with the property; and if a gentleman who was resident in the neighbourhood—the purchaser in that case for instance—had been engaged, he would have looked after the tenantry, who were proved to have been peaceable and industrious, and they would have paid their rents instead of being in a combination, owing five or six years' arrears. The property, instead of being a bad example to other tenants, which was not only injurious to ninon but to the public and leaded proprietors, would be well managed. All this had been the result of appointing a practising solicitor sa receiver instead of a country gentleman, who would have treated the tenants with kindness ; but owing to pursuing a different course, property under the Court of Chancery had become • reproach. His honour then referred to one denomination of land, and to the account appertaining to it, from which it appeared that no rent had been received from any of the tenants from 1843 to 1846, save from one, who paid 61. 16s. bid .: and was he to be told that he should set aside the master's report whoa such a state of facts existed ? When be found a receiver never at all looked after the property, and that numerous bills of costs were charged, a bill of costs for every attachment to which the sheriff made returns of non est inventsis, he was justified in calling that an unprecedented motion; and in future when he found au incompetent person appointed as a receiver, he would hold a stricter hand over him than it a country gentleman, familiar with the circumstances of the lands were &awn. By the course which the receiver in that case adopted—for he should hold him responsible for all that had occurred—he led to the insubordination of the tenants, and the accumula tion of 6,0001. arrears. The estate thus encumbered was handed over to the purchaser, or, if he got off from liability upon the objections which were to be raised before him (Master of the Rolls) on his behalf, the property . would be set up again,ahowing a lamentable example of a mismanaged estate; so that there was not a resident gentleman who had not reason to complain that these tenants were encouraged not to pay their rent when the Court of Chancery could have permitted property under it to be so grossly mis managed. It had been stated even that a person would be on hia trial at the special oommisaion for a murder which was instigated by the expectation that if certain property were placed under a receivership the tenants would not be required to pay the rent. He, therefore, entirely approved of Master Brooke holding receivers to the strict discharge of their duties, and he would try if they could not get rid of the reproach so justly made against them is consequence of the gross mismanagement and misconduct of the officers appointed as receivers under the court, and he also hoped that he would again hear of a practising solicitor, me dical man, barrister, or trader being appointed as a receiver. He did not feel called upon to act in opposition to the certi ficate of Master Brooke. That was a most untenable mo tion ; and he trusted that in future a receiver would not ven titre to impugn a document which charged him with arrears when in three years all that he had collected was 61.16 e. 54d. Receivers under the court ought to be able to manage estates better than others, because they had opportunities of com municating with the master. There were remarkable ex ceptions to the general rule of mismanagement—cum in which • and receivers were managing estates pro perly ; ut he was sorry to my that those cases were the ex ceptions to the rule. He would endeavour to check the system of mismanagement that prevailed, and the circum stance that he fixed a receiver with upwards of 9001. arrears might have the effect of making other gentlemen more cautious and circumspect in future. He would refuse the motion with costa. lie would declare the receiver entitled to --tilt for 71., but make him pay the costa of the motioa. SCOTLAND. EDINHVION, JAN. 18. Parish workhouses are, and have long been, objects of inveterate prejudice in this country, but the feel ing is gradually dying away. Parochial relief of any kind was at one time scouted, but this delicacy has long since ceased to exist, and the anti-workhouse feeling bids fair to follow. Paupers may starve and die in their own hovels, or be miserably neglected in those of their neighbours, but as this takes place out of the sight of the public eye, little sympathy is created ; but let a plain, well-lighted, and ventilated building be put up for the reception of the destitute, and immediately philippics are launched forth about national bankruptcy and universal beggary, and petitions and speeches go on ad infinitum. In some country parishes, however, workhouses have been commenced, and the board of supervision have circulated plans as to the best methods of construction; and there can be little doubt that in Scotch parishes, where the starving system is not contemplated, those institutions are the cheapest methods of providing for the poor. Most of the parochial officials have been frightened out of their propriety by a decision of one of the sheriffs'-autstitate of Glasgow, confirmed by his prin cipal, that relief should be given to the children of an able-bodied unemployed operative. The case oc curred in Gorbals—the man had four children, and having no employment he had no food. " Bat," said the inspector, " you have no ailment" (starvation had THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 20, 1848. not yet worked its coarse), and so the application was rejected till ordered by the sheriff. Should this decision be generally acted on, the increasing number of the unemployed in Glasgow will tell hard on the funds. The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce has peti tioned, with one dissenting voice, against the game laws. On the first introduction of the subject, the chairman held that it did not fall within the scope of the chamber, as it was not connected with commerce and manufactures. Mr. Cowan, M.P., maintained that as game destroyed crops it was lake legitimate in the chamber to entertain what limited the supply of human food, and this view was adopted by the meeting. A dinner, forming a literal re-union, to commemo rate the " days of Ling sync," is to be held in Edia burgh on the 29th inst. It is the forty-first anniver sary of the gentlemen who attended one of the classes of the Edinburgh high school during 1791, and the four succeeding years. Like the title-of " Waverley," it will soon be " silty years sin ce with those congenial spirits,and then the members of this social tontine will be reduced to a fire-side dinner Party. LIST or LIIIIITMOVette.—The commistioneri of northern lighthouses have published their annual list of lighthouses, beacons, and buoys under their charge, and they insert a caveat which mariners and shipowners would do well to attend to, via., that they should never purchase er use any list except the one for the current year. As the list is sold for a few pence, owners should see that their vessels are provided with copies. THE GOVERNMENT AND THE HIGHLAND LANDLORDS. — The following letter, from the Glasgow Constitutional. gives a conclusive and satisfactory contradiction to the state ments that have been put forth as to the alleged difficulties which the Highland landlords have met with in obtaining payment of the sums promised to be advanced to them under the late Drainage and Enclosure Act for floodsmd. The latter was written by the eterskary of the enclosure gest salmis& to C. E. Trevelyan, Esq., one of the under SIM WIN id** Treasury, and was ben that gentleman forwarded to the Rov. Noesenith'Leod, D.D., of St. Columba's dearth, el = Ceemanits, ha I, 1515.-11 y dear sir,—l ire se Mrs In ratites ha year este sewasel this sacenlog, ragmetiag letheme. nth this dm etheepriales et des feed aimed at the dlepted el the cambiums - - by - the Endres base, with amble onsiptions, being lindeed to NAM, and em to the soness marl by the consetheir en with ithinente to asses thaw the sloth motion of the Drow Amendment IA (15th w 0.11.) Theateembelocers Mereftsd tlist t o lgp ii iiMMAl be MIMMEIneI is the order in whilt a aezro teriamieg this** the Nal coarse they said ; Mg di Is N. espied by** 4th section ot the MI, Neula that the penile withdrawing Mil iniEtIMMIEm sds dEIRId have this bow* (if soy) ba - applieNDIEN. remount of_priselly to width thor w mairbt be *meld to ho sanded. As towbar seed* gnistion, I ato in dirm yen tbet the ermadethwers an enthethed, by the Ildi section of the Amendnisnt hi. lo isseweirtilleatoseladeemsein Tient ot works ooseig ezorsial‘ ea bin eithdled thee Or weds kir width wirsint Is eit eons Meta the provider et the al. are &welds and Mho. Wei. mai will gerairs the rewired heereremeth To thetithe the Weal* if the wrimmte and pymont he the wales m 1, the counimitmere pnerted a tabular Rem, as Os see dm* mode that &nil be adopted, while the losartata Iro he osheait to the bropeotor whoa he **we to bow en whemes aid if =lif, this impeotor adds a medians, eel it is this on not aware of *meet having lien sofand In art ow is while Oar ptedaleal of the set have keen Or somplisd with, but whin webs not authorieed by the set ham been hesarted, the exit minisnots' lave, as a matter of some& deans\ to certify for the perm & MY, estabined with the tasperfast mode In which the etelethat the hen meth bar, no dada, in same Lames mused daisy; bat the asnamissitmors have uniihrtnly 'amid own facility tette elitidthei et the mem sad, scan ee the viers Mb; ma. . 0 % 4 tloa is boos • sordisale of advance. This dooms* hms to be smd in some ame a maiden** tire hos Gimped hate its sent to the lowdown* for that per to Ito bebm duly reiteherei ; sad seethlarith Mee made of ths delay in the registry aim A. son. bow ~ se It is registered and returned to ties area, it is ems to the Trasory, nod the neeemery authority is shortly Orr giant Rs pay mat. It ow be tight to add, that, with a view to pm** delay ami seneworado the landowner; Insiniefins were keg dose threed to thi the isegmlese, direct*, theta ha di arm is Wok won their thegerdith they - *wad that wade meiwyessiewebie Wont bed beim emeetel he aalitß ery eemsr. Lend, with their awns* report of the swath eammtama, a dethith elthement efts mets mars.. isii sordid Om, do is ei enable the oesinitimese te we a ateldwiee or theme ~A the mime Ned delay el am eth& iresedem So fathom threthig ether he le the way of pay ment Isle the works mas So oommiselomms ha* lama most and*, to *agitate the isso of tte isadownsts, in wig,* they base middy received as neap casein of the Treasury sad ... Etter, 111 was sognalenot with the names of those who eon diNsutty of retidnlng gimes* for their motto, I hate little ZIA but that I maid satisbetielly explain the circumstances, If any delay hue taken glees* this ogee. —I am, my dear sir, yours very truly, H. C. Lunar. adjoining. The Earl of Balcones, it appears, some time ago, agreed with him to drive a drift through some land of has lo rd ship's, to enable him to get the coal under an adjoin ing property. In the lease from the earl, powers were re served for ha lordship's viewers to go down the mine at any time and inspect the workings in the property of his lord ship, and under this power a surveyor demanded the *t in Dec. last, when it was found that the coal had been gotten much beyond the limits prescribed, and that a drift had been made under the churchyard, and under the parish church. Rumour had been much afloat on this subject, and it has been stated that the miners have been heard blasting in several other directions from the pit's mouth. Last week a warrant was obtained against Mr. Bleudale, on a charge of feloniously getting coal belonging to the Earl of Balcarres, and it was plead in the hands of proper officers for its execu tion. Susequently to this, Mr. Bleasdale was seen in the town, but he has hitherto avoided apprehension, and remains at large. On its becoming known to the *oiliers employed in the mine that the officers were in possession of authority to apprehend Mr. Bleasdale, they quite disarranged the working apparatus of the pit, not oidy taking away a material part of the engine, but also the ropes off the pulleys ; and like wise destroying the current of air through the workings. All this was done to prevent any person descending the mine ,• and, in addition the most fearful threats were held out, that they would throw any officer or other person down the pit who might attempt to descend. Matters remained in this condition until Friday, when a person named Grim shaw, lately under-looker is Mr. Blearelale, and another man named Bleadale, an agent and a alai's of the pro prietor, were taken into custody as accessories to the felony. They were the same afternoon taken before the mayor at the Town-hall, when Mr. Mayhew and Mr. Ackerley appe ared on behalf of the prosecution, and Mr. Hilton and Mr. Leigh for the defendants. Mr. Tarbuck, viewer for the Earl of Bal carres, who had been in the pit in Dec. last, and examined the mine, proved the nature and extent of the worming,. Evidence was also given, at considerable length, by wit nesses, of different transactions concerning the mine, in which the defendants were engaged. At the request of Mr. Mayhew they were remanded until Tuesday last, for the pro duction of other evidence. Mr. Mayhew also made an application to the bench for the attendance of the police officers to prevent a breach of the peace on the parties pro ceeding to examine the workings, which was apprehended :ram the threats held out —The court said they must have necessary protection.—Bail wax offered for the defendants' future appearance, but was refused. Since Friday surveyors have been down the pit making the necessary explora tions of the extent end direction of the workings, from which important disclosures are expected. A PORTRAIT OF - TIE EARL OP lIAREWOOD, Lord-Lieutenant of the West Riding, was presented to his lordship, on Tuesday, in the Town-hall, We therly, by Mr. Lane Fox, and the other members of the Bramharn.moor Hunt, in token of their estimation of the manner in which his lordship has conducted the hunt for several yeas put. In connexion with this event, the an nual bell, given by the members of the hunt, took place in the Town-hall, at Wetherly, and was vary numerously attended. CHESHIRE. INQUEST ON • SUPPOSED FOLLOWER OF WILLIAM van Tnian.—On Sunday lest a man named Appleton per ceived a human skull embedded in the clay near the shore of the Mersey, between Sescombe and Liscard ; on further ex amination he found it was a part of a skeleton,which he Con veyed to the Seecombe Hotel. It was inspected by different medical gentlemen, and information having been given to the coroner, au inquest was held on Monday. The skeleton was produced in a hamper. The thigh bones were each about 1 foot 8 lathes in length, indicating that the deceased must have been a tall person. The upper and lower arm bones were in proportion. The vertebra of the spinal column were produced, but loom. The skull was nearly perfect in form. The bones generally were quite blackened. The teeth were perfect, of a good colour, and firm in the sockets, showing that the deceased at the time of kis death was, in all probe bility, in the prime of manhood. There was no appearance of flesh adhering to these remains. The body had been ap parently buried in a north and south position. Amongst the hones found near the skull was a queue, or pig -tail, very neatly plaited, and tied with black silk ribbon. The hair was black and long. Close to the skeleton were found, and also produced, portions of wearing apparel, apparently silk front facings of upper garments or coats, rounded, in the olden court style, from the lappet to the bottom of the skirt, and each perforated with numerous well-worked buttonholes. There might be about twenty button-holes in each. No buttons or buckles were,l however, found, so far as we can learn ; otherwise a date might possibly have been arrived at. Some coins were, about a year ago, found near the spot. These were guineas of the reign of Charles 11., and nineteen of I them were acknowledged to be found. Some of them were sold at 38e. each. Some few ancient copper coins have also been picked up in the same locality. Various are the con jectures amongst the posies in the neighbourhood as to the identity or quality of the deceased—some conceiving that he was one of the nobles in the retinue of William 111., when on his passage to Ireland, just before the battle of the Boyne; and it will be remembered that William embarked at " the Leasowes," near Hoylake. Some of his retainers, it would appear, landed upon and embarked from various points In the Wirral peninsula. The King himself, it is recorded, slept at Wallasey, about 24 miles distant, on the eve of his departure. This, however, as well as other speculations as to the body, rests upon grounds too vague and uncertain to be seriously tenable. The jury, at the inquest, returned the only verdict at which they could arrive under UN circum stances,—to the effect, that the remains were those of a man unknown, but how be came to his death there was no evidence to show. SUFFOLK. THE PRIORY OF THE HOLY TRINITY, IPSWICH. —Mr. Palmy, of the Butter-market, has recently printed, fur private dUtribution, a foe simile of two rentals of the priory of the Holy Trinity, at Ipswich, which were acci dentally discovered by Mr. W. P. Hunt, of that town, whilst searching among the muniments at Christ Church for nape" to enable Sir Francis Burdett to establish his claim to the dormant barony of Salesmen,. To these rentals, which ere in a tine state of preservation, no dates ass affixed, but they are both in the hand of the thirteenth century, and a comparison of the names of the tenants shows that a single gen, ration had passed or nearly pseud between them. Mr. Hunt says in the preface, that " the first was probably com piled about the middle of the reign of Henry 111., just be fore the baronial war, and the second seems to belong to the earlier years of the reign of his successor, when Sir Oliver de Ingham, who is mentioned in the title to it, lived. Sir Oliver was summoned to attend that King on his expedition into Wale*, and died soon after, and was buried is the priory of the Carmelites, at Norwich, in 1291." INFRINGING THE FACTORY ACT.—At a special session, held at Colchester, on Thursday, Messrs. S. Brown and J. Moy were called on to answer an informs. tMn for having infringed the Factory Act, which limits the labour of females to eleven hours. The information was laid by Mr. J. Bury, sub-inspector of factories. Mr. Cooper appeared to support the information, and Mr. Philbriek attended for the defendants. The first case was an information for having employed Eliza Ward thirteen hours in the silk factory. Mr. Cooper stated the cue at some length. After alluding to the former acts upon the subject, he said, the third and last act to which he had , to advert did scarcely anything more than enact that, after I July, 1847, the time these parties might be employed in I &aeries should be reduced to eleven hours, which, after I May is the present year, would be farther limited to ten hours. He must here mention the fact that during the three years the 7th Vict. was in operation no attempt was made on the part of the mill-owners to put a different con ' struction upon it, but since that period their ingenuity had been exercised to obtain the benefit of twelve hours' la bour, notwithstanding its provisions. Among other devices was one of which they would hear a good deal to-day— viz., the system of re-lays, or bringing a fresh body of labourers into the factor y at a different hour from what he should contend to be the only legal period during which such labourers could be employed at all. It was against this system of re-lays that the present information was directed; and be was here to contend that such a system was completely illegal. He should observe that from a correspondence with Messrs. Brown and Mop, the factory authorities had mean to believe that their email). ' lishment would be conducted on this system; and on Mr. Bury coming over in the early part of December he found such to he the case, and that a number of persons were employed from six to half-peat eight in the evening, when, acoordiog to the printed notice suspended at the entrance, as required by the act, the hour of six was the period in which their factory operations ought to have ceased. The information charged the defendants with having employed this woman more than eleven hours; his friend on the other side would admit that she did work from six in the evening till half-past eight. Whether she was employed previously to six be did - not know or care, because it would be his duty to contend, and he hoped successfully, that by construction of law that was virtually an employment from half-past five in the morning (the hour at which the business of the factory commenced) till half-put eight in the evening; and unless this construction was given effect to by the decision of the Justices, the present act, like the one which preceded it, would be a dead letter.—Mr. Turner thought it ought to be proved to the bench, either by admission or otherwise, whether this party was employed beforehand, or merely from six to half-past eight in the evening.—Mr. Cooper said, it was no part of his case to show that, but he was quite content that his friend should arum it to be so.—Mr. Bur. tree remarked that the effect of such evidence would go to negative the imputation of inhumanity, though the act might be equally violated.—Mr. Philbrick said, that was precisely what he wished to have shown.—Tbe facts of the case being admitted on the part of the defendants, no evi. dence was tendered by Mr. Cooper ; but, by desire of Mr. I Philbrick, Mr. Bury, the sub-inspector, was sworn and cross. examined as to the reason why this case, occurring within their jurisdiction, had not been preferred before the borough justices. Mr. Bury said, it was in his discretion to lay it before any bench within five miles of the factory, and he was not bound to give any reasons for his selection of the county justices.—The Chairman thought the question was irrelevant —ln answer to further questions, whether the female named in the information was employed prior to the evening, Mr. Bury stated that he did not know the fact; but he believed she was net.—Mr. Philbriek addressed the bench for the defendants, submitting that they had in no way violated the law; and, so far from deserving to be attacked as belonging to a class of persons devoid of humanityy, or u oppressars of the poor, they had, in point of fact, only done that which was an advantage to society, by furnishing employment and good wages at a time when work generally was scum and provisions dear; so that, as standing before them to defend Mesas. Brown and Moy, he thought he had a fair right to complain that his friend should have gone at all into the question of humanity, of which there was not the slightest pretence for charging them with any, violation, because, although the prosecutors of this information hardly liked to admit it, in point of fact, *ens people only worked PROVINCIAL. CIVIL DISABILITIES —OP THE JEws.—At a meeting of the town council of Manchester, yesterlay, on the mo tion of Mr. W. Evans, seconded by Mr. Ald. Welker, a petition to both homes of parliament, preying for the re moval of the Jewish disabilities, was corned by a majority of ES votes to 5. DISSATISTACTION EXISTS AMONG THE WORKING CLASSES at Blackburn. The notice given by the mill owners of a reduction of 10 per cent. in the wages or the operatives has excited much bad feeling in the minds of the latter, a portion, at least, of whom seem determined to resist the reduction by a turn-out, without regard to its consequenees to themselves. They held various meet ings last week, when the raillovnien were denounced in no measured terms. On Sunday lest they held a large meeting, in the vicinity of Blackburn, for the purpose of hearing speeches, and coming to a resolu• lion regarding the course to be adopted. Two speakers from Manchester were announced in the placards, but they did not come, their place being occupied by a person from Accrington, named Beesley. He denounced the millownen and the clergy in the most violent terms.—R. Norris, secre tary to the Power-loom Weavers' Association, also ad dressed the meeting, and stated his belief that a general Nears of one week would compel the masters to give in.—A vein was taken whether the hands should strike or not, when it was determined by a majority that the mills should "turn out" Rumours are rife of threatening letters to different millowners ; and in the streets and public places unequivo cal evidence is given of a disposition to practise this special of intimidation for the attainment of their ends. The meet ing of Sunday was attended by a poem, of police, but broke up without any disturbance. About 6,000 persons, it is computed, were present. A MAN WITH Two Wilma—An extraordinary owe was heard at the Manchester nolice-court on Tula. day. A man named Joseph Cooke, apparently a me ehanie, was summoned for an alleged neglect of family. Some years ago, it appeared, Cooke was married at the Reaniah chapel, Preston, by a Rev. Mr. West ; and about four years ago he abandoned his wife, and married another woman. For so doing he was apprehended, and tried at the Chester anises on a charge of bigamy, in the year 1844 ; but, as the prosecution failed to show that the registrar of Preston was present at the first marriage, the judge gave it as his opinioa that the marriage was not legal, aid Cooke was acquitted. Subsequently, he was brought up before Mr. Maude, at Manchester, and, on being told that he would be sent to prison if he did not aupport his first wife, he entered into an arrangement to pay her and her two children 7s. a week. The money was paid until within a month ago, when Cooke determined to dispute his liability, and hence the present ass.—Mr. Roberta, solicitor, appeared for Cooke, and urged the ille gality of the first marriage, on the ground that the registrar was not present when it was solemnised. The registrar, Mr. Walker, of Preston, was in court, and produced a copy of the register ; but all that he could say was, he had no doubt that he was present, from the fact of his having found his name affixed to the entry of the marriage in him books.—The brother of Mrs. Cooke stated that the registrar was in the vestry when the certificate was signed ; but he could not swear that the gentleman was present at the marriage. — At this stage of the ease it was inti mated that Cooke had admitted his liability to eup port hie first wife by allowing her the 7s. per week, but Mr. Roberta argued that he had done no such thing. He said the man had been brought before Mr. Maude, who said "I'll send you to prison if you don't maintain your wife," and by the solemn way in which he (Mr. Ma ude) had said it, he frightened the poor tallow, as he had done others before.—The clerk to the magistrates referred to the act of parliament, and cited a clause enacting that a marriage should be null and void if the parties " knowingly and wil fully" were married in any other place than the Church of England, without notice to the registrar, awl without the presence of the registrar. From this he inferred that the onus lay on Mr. Roberta to show the neglect had been wilful, supposing it had existed. Mr. Roberts disputed this interpretation, and pointed out, that if the magistrates de cided against his client, they would be setting aside the deci sion of a court of law ; they would be pronouncing • mar riage legal which • • jadge had declared illegal, and they would decide that the second marriage, which was now held to be legal, was illegal. After • consultation, Mr. Hodgson said that the bench were satisfied that the requirements of the law had been complied with, and that the marriage had been proved. The prisoner was then told that he might, if he chose, make an arrangement with the overseers; but ulti • manly the matter ended by his giving notice of appeal against the decision recorded. THE " REIGN OF TERROR" AT LIVERPOOL.—The highway robberies in the neighbourhood of Liverpool have created a " reign of terror," and people travel about armed. Upon which the Liverpool Mail remarks, " Some, by their ignorance of the proper way to use their weapons of defence, are likely to hurt themselves more than the highwaymen. On Friday night, three gentlemen went a short distance from town in a car. One mounted the box, armed with a loaded pistol in one hind and a life-preserver in the other. On entering a rather dark lane, the defender of the box, changing the position of his weapons, so as to have them ready for immediate service, unluckily brought the life wwrver against the head of the driver, who was nearly knocked off his seat ; on uttering a cry, the two gentlemen inside, thinking that an attack was really made, were in great alarm, and presented • pistol from each window. The driver was not so much hurt as frightened, as he also thought that the blow came from some desperado who was going to kill them all." SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A COLLIERY PROTRI ETOR.—For some time part suspicion has been entertained that the workings of the coal mine of Mr. Bleaadale, known as the Chapel Colliery, in Wigan, near the Wesleyan Me thodist Chapel, in Wallgate, have bean extended beyond his legal bounds, and under very valuable portions of property in several parts of the town. Mr. Blsesdale holds the Chapel Colliery on lease from CoL Walmaley , but has also at various periods purchased other portions of coal under lead sear or for • period of two hours and a half in the evening, and net thirteen hours, as was formally alleged in the information. He impressed upon them that the question which they were to-day called upon to decide was one of grave importance— not merely whether these defendants should be fined a small or a large sum, but whether this or any other factory in the kingdom could be kept open for a longer period then eleven hours per is He contended that females above the age of 16 were at liberty to be employed fur the whole night, if they pleased, so long as they did not exceed the period of eleven hours.—Ther magistrates, attar a consultation, decided that the act had been infringed, and inflicted the fine of 31. and costa—There were twenty.three otht r informa•dons of a similar character, to which Mr. Philbrick declined to plead guilty, but admitted the facts, and consented (upon an understanding with Mr. Cooper as to future proceedings) to the same sentence being recorded in each. The penalties and lines altogether amounted to 761. 9a. 6d. PEE RILL SALL OP TIME OF EDWIN LA%DSEEE'S PICTURE& —Three early pictures by Edwin Landseer, the property of the late Mr. W. W. Simpson, the auctioneer, were said by Mr. roster, on Wednesday lut, amid a very bad collection of so-called early masters, the property of the same gentle man. The first sold of the three Edwin Landseers was a small picture on panel, five inches by four inches, represent ing " A thorough-bred Scotch Terrier with a dead Rat in its Mouth." The picture was engraved for the Sporting Magazine, the dog enjoying, under the name of Vixen, a distinguished reputation with " the fancy ''—a reputation folly maintained yesterday, his portrait Belling for the large sum of 68 guineas. The second picture meld, which was on can vas, called "Waiting for Orden," a small full.length portrait of Mr. Simpson's shrewd jolly-looking coachman, standing with his hands folded before him and his hat upon the ground, brought 32 guineas—the execution extremely careful. The last and best was called, " The Paddcelc," representing an old cheanut horse and a white Scotch terrier near a piece of ' water, with an open view and Windsor Caele in the extreme distance. The horse was full of character, and firmly and con scientiously painted. Sold for 100 guineas. A room full of framed presentation proofs from some of Mr. Edwin Land seer's best pictures realised high prices. The general arrange ment of this room was well worth seeing, and might be copied with advantage. There was no idle outlay upon frames—all were of one uniform plain narrow pattern, all the engravings had ample margins, and all were faced with the best plate-glass. In this way, instead of looking at the carver and gilder, you look at the painter and engraver, and n think of the frame soaker till the print has satisfied you, and perhaps not then. CLERICAL. TER VACANT MASTERSHIP or KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAN.—The following is • list of the candidates for the above appointment, vacant by the elevation of the Rev. J. P. Lee to the new see of Manchester. The list was completed on Monday night : the Rev. T. W. Peile, D.D., head master of lepton School, and late fellow and tutor in the University of Durham, and formerly university &choler of Trio. Coll., Cam. ; the Rev. J. Woolley, D.C.L. of Reseal Coll., Fleetwood; the Rev. W. A, Osborne, head master of King Edward's School, Macclesfield, formerly of Trio. Coll., CamL; the Rev. G. E. L. Cotton, of Trio. Coll., Cam., one of the masters of Rugby School ; the Rev. J. W. Inman, M.A., head master of the Free Grammar School, Grantham ; the Rev. G. A. Jacob, M.A., master of the Collegiate School, Sheffield, late of Worcester Coll., Oxford; the Rev. H. Dale, M.A., late dewy of Me d. Coll., Oxford, head master of the Blackheath New Proprietary School ; the Rev. 0. Gordon, 8.D., student and censor of Christchurch, Oxford; the Rev. T. H. Steele, M.A., senior examiner of St. Paul's School, London ; the Rev. D. R. Godfrey, M.A., late Michel fellow of Queens' Coll., Oxford, and now principal of Grosvenor Coll., Bath ; the Rev. S. I. Rigaud, M.A., F.R.S., chaplain to the Duke of Cambridge, late fellow and tutor of Exeter Coll., Cam. ; the Rev. W. J. Conybeare, M.A., late fellow of Trinity Coll., Cam., and principal of the Collegiate Schools, Liverpool; the Rev. E. H. Gifford, MA., late of St. John's Coll., Cam., now second master of Shrewsbury School ; the Rev. J. W. Donaldson, 8.D., head master of King Edward's School, Bury St. Ednitind's, and late fellow and classical lecturer of Trinity Coll., Cam.; the Rev. J. Robertson, M.A., principal of Bishop's Coll., Bristol, late of Pembroke Coll., Oaf. ; the ROY. J. F. Stansbury, D.D., head master of the grammar school, Kingston, and chaplain to the county prisons ; .1. Eoclestone, Esq., 8.A., head master of Sutton Coldfield Grammar School. Warwickshire. The certain income, ince. pendent of boarders, which the chief muter is permitted to take is from 1,1001. to 1,2001. per annum. New Caoacxcs.—The "Society for Promoting the En largement, Building, and Repairing of Churches." held a meeting on Monday, the Bishop of Chichester in the chair. The following grants were made—namely, towards building a church in the new district of Bank Top, or St. John, in the parish of Darlington, Durham. Towards building a church at Linalade, near Leighton Busted, where a popu lation of above 1,000 persons, chiefly employed upon the railways and canal work, are situated full one mile and a half from their parish church. Building a north gallery in the church at Llanydloes, in Montgomeryshire, a parish which contains a {insulation of 4,261 persons, mostly engaged in manufactures and mining concerns, and their only church can accommodate barely 700 persons. For extending the west end of the chapel at Blackwood. Towards enlarging the church at Redeem, which was erected in 1827. with the aid of a grant of 6001. from this society. The population of this place has greatly increased or tee years; this is owing chiefly to a railway having recently been brought to the town. For re-arranging the seats in the church at Shirland, near Alfreton, and fitting up with seats several spaces at present vacant in the church at Isle ham, near Mildenhall, and Ashby-cum•Tenby, near Great Grimsby, Yorkshire. It was announced at the meeting that the late Mr. Brown, of Harrow, has bequeathed to this in stitution, as a legacy, expressly to promote its objects, the sum of 6,6001. in the Three Eer Cents. Reduced; PERPRTITAL CURACY or SEIM/LEV HILL.—Tbe Woke,. hompton Chronicle states that the income of this curacy, the district of which is taken out of the pariah of Kingswinford, Staffordshire, has lately been augmented by the Rev. C. Girdlestone, rector of the parish, and patron of this district church, at the suggestion of Lord Ward, patron of the rec tory. The augmentation is 901. per annum, in addition to the sum et 601. granted by the preceding rector. The whole income is now secured by the permanent appropriation of the rectorial tithe rent charge arising within the ecclesiastical district of Brierley Hill, and en adjoining part of the parish of Kingswinford. Tke deed of endowment also assigns to the incumbent of Brierley Hill the Easter dues or offerings of his district. VACANCIES.—Ford R., Sussex ; dio. Chichester ; val., 1971. ; pat., Bishop ofChichester —Madekurst V. ; dio. Chichester; val , 68/. ; pat., Bishop of Chichester ; both by death of Rev. W. S. Baytoo. NAVAL. The Lords of the Admiralty have issued a circular to the superintendents of the several dockyards, desiring them to state what number of clerks of each class are employed in the yard under their charge, with their time of service, and any suggestions as to the proportion between the classes and the rWes by which advancement is now regulated. It is anticipated that the condition of the dockyard clerks will be improved by their lordships' consideration of the returns called for. DITONFORT, JAM. 18.—Endymion, 44, Hon. Capt. Has tinge, was paid off into ordinary this afternoon.—Plover, Com. Moore, being leaky, was removed from Barnpool yes terday, and taken into dock.—lnconstant, 38, Capt. Shep herd, will be mustered and Inspected to-morrow, and moved from Barnpool into the Sound, where she will be road an advance of wages. Bonetta, brigantine, Lieut.-Com. Forbes, on her way to the coast of Africa, arrived here on the evening of the 16th. finianxnes, JAN. 18.—Meander frigate was towed from Chatham yesterday's tide. She is having her compasses adjusted hero today, and it is expeeted she will sail for Portsmouth to-morrow.—Hecla st. has been paid off here to day.—Lisut Risk has this day commissioned the Lucifer st. at this port. She is to have a complement of 60 men.—The Ganges is fast progressing with her fitment: her topmasts ' axe painted. The Hevannah also is in a forward state. ADMIRALTY, Jaw. 19.—ArPODITYM411.--COMMander J. A. Paynter, to Star.—Lieutenants A. D. Jolly and A, D. W. Fletcher, to Queen; W. A. R. Lee, to Asia; W. H. Gennys, to St. Vincent; C. Vesey, to Wellesley.—Masten W. Martin, to Coefiance at. tug; W. Toner, to Diligence transport.—Fiat Class Engineer F. Akers, to Avon.—Mas ter's Assistant, D. Swanson.—Midshipman R. P. Gresham, to FireSy.—Naval Cadet E. D. Panter, to Wellesley.—Gun ners W. Edwards (acting), to Excellent; C. Bleach, T. Feltham, and 0. Hickey, confirmed to Excellent; S. Hay ward, confirmed to Hercules.—Richard Guard, to be fore man of ropemskers, Devonport-yard. MILITARY._ --------- NSW BAREACIS AT SHEYPIELD.-It is stated that the ten der of bleary Ilarrison and Hoyle, of Chester, for building the new barracks in Sheffield, has been accepted by the Board of Ordnance. It is rumoured that the amount of their tender was about 19,0001. It is said there were eleven tenders sent in, the lowest of which was about 17,0001., whilst the highest was about 24,0001. tato Eattlitruct. EQUITY COURTS. Delon the lard Chancellor. Ix of UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, OIFORD.--QUALITIC/, TIMIS Pon FRI.LOWBILIPB.—The petition of the Rev. Mr. Moorsom, complaining that he wu passed over at two elec tions for fellowships in the above college, on the( Ist of May, 1847, and Mr. Bright and Mr. Covington were elected thereto, though not duly qualified scoot ling to the statutes of the college, came to be beard by the Lord Chancellor u sittir of the college in place of the Queen. The arguments now concluded have occupied the greater part of three days. Oru of the fellowships—that to which Mr. Bright wu d—wu on the foundation of Henry IV. The eecond, to whi h Mr. Covington waa elected, wu on the foundation 'of Wiai tea of Durham. The statutes of the college, as re vised in 1736, required all persons elected to the fellowships to be qa. lifted as follows: " Quotiesounque coutigent alicujus a . tai locum in collegio vacate, sine longs morn a ms..-istro et soda alma eligetur, ea antem in bodes collegii sine exceptions patris a eh t volumus qui aunt pit, sobrii et orree n ti lu rt tam ctrini quam prudentia ita erns= ut vide. antur maxims ictmei ad promovendum honorem went bonum regimen et a nolumentum collegii pradicti." The statutes applicable to 'he fellowship on the foundation of William of Durham declared: " Quilibet eligendus in locum imagist= Oulielmi de Dunehnise sit ornate monbu, Aealts tibus, pauper et ad prwiciendunt in facultatetheologica magisaptua,eseterisvero pantW ills pneferatur cater= qui de pertibus Dunelmiss proximo orlundus emiterit 1 sit magister sh artibas si tabs commode rspairi peterit alias pulse, racoon sit B tccalauriatus; vel si necesse fusr:t sophista." And for the fellowship on the foundation of Henry IV. the statutes declared: " Elirendus in locum e,ieu ait in esoardotio constitutus pnuquam in perysetuun soeltim admittatur iprobue et boneetus et ad pneficienduna In theologla visitatiter aptus." The petitioner's are was that neither Mr. Bright nor Mr. Covington ful filled the requisites of the statutes; neither of them was in priest's orders, in sacerd.rio constitunis, at the time of the election. Mr. Bright was then only 21 yeah of are, and not admitted even to deacons' orders, as by the 44th Oeo. 111., cap. 43, he could not be admitted to deacons' orders until he attained the age of 23 years, nor to priests' till 24. He wu a native of Yorkshire; but that was not of any consequence to the fellowship of Henry IV., to which be was elected. Mr. Covington, who was elected on the foundation of William of Durham, was not duly elected thereto, as the statute required preference to be given to • native of the dioceses of York or Durham, to which be did not belong, having been born in Lincolnshire. The petitioner was qualifiel according to the statutes for either fellowship, having been admitted to priest's orders previous to the election, and being born at Whitby, in Yorkshire. There was no question or doubt u to the probity, learning, and morals of im.y of the three gentlemen. The petition prayed that the Lori Chan cellor, as visitor for the Queen, would direct the conga statutes, which are in the keeping of the heads of the college, to be examined, and if the statements in the petition should be found correct, that his lordship would direct one or other of the said elections to be set aside and the petitioner to be admitted to one or the other, and that the waster and fellows be ordered to pay the cats of the petitioner.—Mr. Cooper, with whom was Mr. J. Adams, argued the case of the peti tioner. Mr. Bettie% Dr. Twiss, and Mr. R. Palmer, were for the college authorities and for Messrs. Bright and Covington. The arguments turned chiefly on these lour points: lot. What was the construction to be put on the words of the statutes in sacerrloho cnissti turns ? 2nd. What was the construction of the words requiring the fellow to be a native of Durham diocese, or "partibus Dunelmit proximie oriundni I" Taird, whe ther, if either of the electioes were to be declared void, the petitioner could be substituted without • new sect iota ? And fourth, whether the college beads could Weed the peel/a tionary time between election and admi sion beyond six months, which was the customary per , od allowed to the elected to complete their qualifications? 'lke otje et of the heads of the college wee stated to be to open the fellowship to the candidates most distinguished .or learning. Although there was no deficiency in the petitioner in that respect, the other two gentlemen were far more distinguished, being Wat ches men. The argument of the petitioner against that ob ject of the college wan, that without new statutes it could not be effected.—The Lord Chancellor, on the close of Ate. Cooper's reply, desired a copy of the college statutes and the affidavits on both aides to oe furnished to him. THU GREAT — WESTRRN RAILWAY COMPANY V. THE OXFORD AND BIRMINGHAM JCNCTION RAILWAY.-Sir F. Kelly had commenced the opening of the appeal from the Vice-Chancellor's decision on the demurrer, when the Lord ancellor rose. Before the blaster of the Bolls. --- ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CXV9CHILL.—CHARtTT PRO- Esarr.—This information was filed to enforce the payment by the defendant, William Rush Hallett Churchill, of an annuity of 401., charged by the will of ;Daniel Elliott, made in 1628, on a manor called Shurminater Marshall, in the city of Dorset, and which manor had come into de possession of the above defendant. The sum of 201., pert of the above an nuity, was directed by the testator's will to be paid to the minister and preacher for the time being of Bee Icy, in the county of Southampton ; and the:residue was directed to be paid to some able and sufficient preacher, to be chosen by the parishioners, to read one lecture a week throughout the year in the parish of All Hallows. Bread-street, ',melon, on Thursday afternoon. The liability to pay the annuity was not disputed by the answer, and a decree wee made accord ingly, the principal question being as to payment of the costs of the information, which the court held to have been made necessary by the defendant, and he was ordered to pay the coats occasioned by himself. Pekes the Vice-Chaneellor of EngtateL SNIT'S V.THZ EAST INDIA COYreNT.—SALE GF COTTON.— P•TXBN T or FEEIONT.—This wee a suit insti.utei by Capt. Smith, the captain of an lndiaman, against the East laths Company, to obtain the benefit of a bondentered into by the plaintiff in respect of certain transactions relating to the sale of a quantity of cotton to the plaintiff by the company. The question arising in the suit is, whether, under the negotia tions which took place at the time of the sale between the plaintiff and the marine board at Madras, the plaintiff was bound to pay for the freight of the cotton from Madras to Canton, where it was to be sold, or whether the said anima was to be conveyed in the company's ship without payment of freight.—The arguments were not concluded at the ruing of the court. Before Vice-Mancenor Knight Bence. ATTORNET-GENERAL O. GARDIVEH.—SCO77I6I3 Klan.— It may be remembered that the informations and 1:11a in this cue were filed for the purpose of having a Scotch church at Birkenhead used as a place of worship according to the doc trines of the established church of Scotland ; it being alleged that the building bad been devoted to the use of the free kirk, contrary to the trusts of the deed, executed when the land was purchased by subscription. At the hearing, an objection was taken, that the requisite enrolment was want ing to render the deed valid according to the Mortmain Act; and on this ground the inLrmations and bills were dismived, We WILI wants dcaisao g dm opportunity hick •h• court offered them of trying at law the legal validity of the deed. The court however reserved the costs ; and the question as to these was now discussed, the defendants contending that, although they had succeeded on a technical ground, they had on their aide the merits of the case, on which no decision had been given. According to the allegations of the intor motto= and bills, the congregations of the various kirks or places of worship in Lancashire, in connexion with the established church of Scotland, had been united into a presbytery under the name of the Lancashire Scot tish Church Presbytery ; and that, at the sante time, various presbyteries in England were united into a general synod, which was admitted in 1839 into formal connexion with the Church of Scotland. The infor mations and bills also stated that several earns of money were contributed and received by a treasurer named John Walker (who was one of the defendants), for the purpose of pur chasing land and erecting a place of worship, according to the proposals contained in a certain printed circular. A piece of land was accordingly purchased and conveyed to the treasurer who executed a deed of appointment, dated May 31, 1839, whereby the land was appointed to trusties upon certain trusts the reby declared, according to a hick they were to permit the building which was to be erected open the laid to be used as a place of worship in connexion with and according to the doctrine, forms, usage and dissipline only of the established Church of Scotland, and for the watching and expounding of Goers most holy word, accord ing to the doctrines and tenets of the same church, as set forth in the confession of faith agreed upon by the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, ratified by acts of parliament Ice 1* and 1690; the worship being conducted by a minister Ice ONIIIIIIIIIiOII with the church. And it was provided dist the minister! , should be licentiates or members of the established church of Scotland. The informations and bills Meted that the defendant, Mr. Gardner, the minister, had 'pined the Free Kirk, and had on that account been deprived et his license by a proceeding in the presbytery of Glasgow. —Mr. Holt and Mr. Selwyn, for some of the defendants, con tended that the litigation on the part of the informants was uncalled for and improper, sad that they ought to pay the costs. The trustees did not think that they were betted to turn out nine-tenths of the members of the church at the bidding of the other tenth. The subscribers insisted that the purchase-money was their own, and they also maintained that the trusts of the deed of 1839 had in no respect been violated. The established church of Scotland, to which the deed referred, was the church as it existed at that time. If that church changed its character, the trusts would no longer apply to it. The question of patronage, and that of the power of civil courts in spiritual matters, were the great gnu , tions jn dispute, and the church to which the defendants ad hered was that which was ratified by the acts of 1649 and 1690. Dr. Hill, professor of divinity, had given it in evidence that the power of the general assembly in Scotland to recognise churches m connexion with the church of Scotland did not make such churches constituent parts of the church of Scotland. No vote of the grand assembly could affect the defendanta' rights as regarded the church at Birkenhead. The inform ants alleged that Mr. Gardner was not a licentiete, but the answer to that statement was, that be was elected by a pres bytery in England, and that, according to all principles of church polity in Scotland, there was no jurisdiction in Soot,- land to remove him. Mr. Gardner was not an ordained minister of the church of Scotland, but • probationary mi nister, afterwards ordained by the presbytery of Lancsabire, and be could only be removed by the presbytery by which he had been ordained. He received his license in Glasgow, whence he went to Paisley, and was admitted a member of the presbytery there, which would have jurisdiction over him rather than that of Glasgow. The license must be con eidered as merged in the ordination by the Lancashire pres bytery. The evidence on this point showed that a person who became a probationary minister, under the license of a presbytery, was regarded by the church as a layman, and a cue was stated of a chaplain to William 111., who had been ordained by the presbytery of London, and was nevertheless 'geld by the church of Scot land as a layman only. Mr. Gardner had not raised the objection on the ground of the statute of Mortmaio, but the trustees, as representing absent cestuisque.trusteat, thought it their duty to take every proper objection which the law allowed. A considerable portion of the expense of the suit had 'teen occasioned by the allegations that Mr. Gardner anti his friends had departed from the doctrines of the Church of Scotland, but which allegations ;were altogether unsupported. The defendants were neither mem bers of the Established Church of Scotland, nor of the Free Church, they only sought to retain the usages of the Presby terian Church. The charge that Mr. Gardner had seceded from the Church of Scotland could not be true if he had never belonged to that church. Another charge was that be belonged to the Free Church, which, however, was fully rebutted. The evidence adduced by the defendants showed that Mr. Gardner and his congregation had strictly ad hered to the standarth of faith of the Church of Scotland. Besides the argument already adduced, that the Glasgow presbytery had no jurisdiction to deprive Mr. Gardner, they contended that the proceedings of that body could not be called a sentence; it was merely a sentence or deliverance, the presbytery having pr seeded without libel and without evidence. The Vice-Chancellor said, that if the informants wed plaintiffs desired it, the dismissal might be without pre judice to any bill which might be hereafter filed by the plaintiffs, or either of them, not founded upon any charting" trust, or any charitable title; not however without prejudice to any fresh information, or any fresh information generally. —Mr. Russell and Mr. Itoundell Palmer, for the informants, declined uking for any such qualification.—The Vise-Chan calor then said that the question aeons only renamed, and - • • ~\ r~~ 'r~ e. kat de) to to ii a roo ■at do art lei re ial Pon 14. us us. Pi ow fit, rap fir* will 1111- She Mr. [- to us f the the item other Led to . k. sr rd Ar iY mg Is WO p will I ass- Lem. ' r ~n 'AOr' ertain ut fol ic., I woad utiou end. rides ity by o our 11 and from dent's denial rd his prove Mr. ser ion. lowing 702 r. 1,11 th• eganZ LI, Ina in th• to the o bees I