The Express. — London, England, 1851-11-10 00:00:00

LORD MAYOR'S SHOW.-THIS DAY. The annual ceremony of inaugurating the Lord 'Layer of the City of London took place this morning, with all the pomp and civic paretic for which this time-honoured si s h ow " has ever been celebrated. The weather was per liculerly favourable, but the mud which had collected in the streets since the heavy rains of the previous night Ras by no means calculated to increase the facilities for travelling along the footway—except by the process of sli ding, which in many cases was inadvertently resorted to. The sun shone with most becoming brilliancy, and the crowds of anxious spectators appeared to partake very l a rgely of that good humour which is produced by fine Weather on such occasions, but it must be admitted that the state of the pavement afforded an alloy which had the e ff ect O f inciting the populace to occasional lits of displeasure. The multitut.e assembled to witness the procession consiated , for the most part, of the same combina tion of idle sightseers who are annually congregated together at these ceremonials, and the ' usual Gwere taken is great earnestness by those gentlemen who, having no other occupation than the laborious one of sight-seeing—were much displeased When any obstacle was presented to their enjoyment. Songs and ballad. appropriate to the event were vended in all directions, and the screams of women and children anything bat aereeable accompaniment to tho musical performance,. panoramic re presentation of the procession was hawked out according to establedied custom, and the fact of its p ro r n ti n g many featuri a not to be found in the real "show " was wholly dish warded. Amongst the numerate performers elin di-ported themselves in the roadway, to o,e aniusem. nt of the byestanders, were several parties of " Ethiopian serenaders," who seemed to have suited the special wrath of the City police, for the begrimed sengster• were frequently . campelled is diseentinue their p. rformances through the interference of those active gentlemen. The conduct of the populace wee en the whole sufficiently within the bounds of decorum, and beyond a few trifling/ accidents there was no occurence which called fur any e Instep measure," on the part of the military or constabulary f aces. The procession consisted of the usual display of aldermen's Carriages ; civic officers, armed cap ti pie ; standard-bearers, trumpeters, mounted squires, tee.; and the only novelty to be seen was in the increased number of knights in armour, with trapping. devised for the occasion. These knights were clad in glistening weer, and were mounted (much to the discomfiture of their legs) upon cream-coloured bones from the stud of Mr. Batty. In this formidable array was a troop of 20 knight., three abreest, armed in the accoutrements of the reign of Henry the Eighth. The procession left Guildhall, shortly after eleven O'clock, and proceeded up Coleman-street, Finsbury pavement, Finsbury-circus, Lundou-wall, Moorgate street (those theroughfarss being within the ward of the Lord Mayor Klett), Princes-street, King William-street, to Loneen-bridge, where his lordship and attendants embarked en hoer., the civic harge, and made their way to Westmin /ter Hall. 'I he following is the order of the procession : Porte ConWahles to clear the way. Six Polite Constame,. The Assistant Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Clothworkers. Capt in and Lieutenant of the Bawl of Pensioner., beetles Shields emblazoned with the Arms of the City of London and the Company. fifty Pensioners of the Company in Uniform, each earrykig a Javelin and a Shield emblazoned with the Arms o f a - Member of the Company. Barge Muter in Uniform. The Royal Standard. The Union Jack. . The Arms of Wm. Thwaytee, The Arms of Wm. Lambe, Es q. The Arms of Alderman The Arms of the County Ilumphery. of Kent. The BAUM'S' of the late Lord Mayor. The Bann. rof the Clidliworker," Company. The Band of the lion. Artillery Company. The Beadle of the Company in his Gown. The Clerk of the Company in his Chariot. The Court of Auistante in their Carriages. 't he Wardens in their Carriage.. The Master of the Company iu his Chariot, attended by hie Chaplain. Police Constables. The Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Clackmakers. Trumpeters. Watermen bearing the followin; Banners: The Royal Standard. The Union Jack. The City Arms. St. Georges. Streamed. St. George and Dragon. Streamer. Streamer. The Arms of the Clockmakers' Company. The Under and Upper Beadle, of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers. Watermen bearing the following Banners: The Royal Standard. The City Arms. The City Standard. The Arms of John Wheaton, The Arma of the Cordwainew' Esq. Company. The Banner of Mr. Sheriff Swift. The Banner of Mr. Sheriff Cotterill. The Clerk of the Cloekmakers' Company iu his Chariot. The Court of Aseiateut , in their Carriages. The Wardens in their Carriages. , The Master in his Chariot. The Clerk of the Cordwaitiers' Company in hie Chariot. The Court of Asei.tant. in their Carriages. The Wardens in their Carriages. The Muster in hi. Chariot. 'lla. Beadle of the Worshipful Company of Upholders, in his Gown. Barge Master in his State Dress. Watsruaeu bearing the fallowing Banners: • 'the Royal Standard. The Union Jack. Tho City Arms. The Arms of Sir W. Rawlins, The Arms of the Upholders' Knight. Company. The Banner of the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor. A Grand elflike. y Band. The Clerk of the Upholders' Company in his Chariot. The Court of .Ae,ietants in their Carriages. The Wardens in their Carriages. The Master its his Chariot. The Lord Mayor's Beadle. The Lord Mayor's Barge Master in his State Dress. The Bargemen hearing the various Colours. The Banner of the City of London. The Captain of the Thames Navigation tinge. The Principal Assistant Water Wield. The Watermen with Colours. A Grand Military Band. 'the Two Under Sheriffs. The City Solicitor. The Itemembrancer. The Comptroller. The 'f wo Secondaries. The Commuu Pleaders. The Judge of the Sheriffs' Court. The Common Sergeant. The Town Clerk. The Chamberlain. Trumpeters. Trumpeters. A 'troop of the 12th ltegt. Lancers. Six Halbardier , (two abreast). 1 Two Squires bearing Banners. Knight (In armour of the reign of Francis the First), Moanted on a Charger, plumed, and decorated with trappings. Two Squirts mounted, bearing Banners. Two of the Twelfth Lancers. Mounted Squire, Mounted Squire, Leafing Banner with the Bearing Banner with the City Arms. -- City Arms. .. .. Halbardier. Knight of the City of London, Armed (Armour of the Reign of Henry VIII.), Mounted on a Charger, plumed , with scarlet, white. sad ' gold trappings, with the City Arms emblazoned thereon. Mounted Squire, with Mounted Squire, with Banner bearing City ARM Banner bearing City Arms. Two of the Twelfth Lancers. Mounted Squire, with Mounted Squire, with Linnet be.ifing the Sheriffs' Banner bearing the Sheriffs' Arms. Arms. Ha'hardier... Knight of th79h;;;114:4 Middlesex, Armed (Armour of the Reign of Francis 1.), Mounted on a Charger, plumed, with white, amber, and gold trappings with the Sheriffs' Arms embllsoned thereon. Two Squires Mounted. Two Squires Mounted. The Sheriffs' State Chariot. (Mr. Swift and Chaplain). Dann. r arcr, bearinq the Arms of the Sheriff. Two of the 12th Lancers. Mounted Squire. Ila'hardier. Mounted Squire. Knight of the Sheriff of London, Armed (Armour of the reign of henry the Eighth), mounded on a charger, plumed, with gold and green coloured trappings, with the Sheriff's Arms emblazoned Mounted Squire. Mounted Squire. The Sheriffs' State Chariot. (Mr. Cotterell and Chaplain). Banner Bearer, with the Arms of the Sheriff. Eight Carriages of Aldermen who hare not passed the Chair. The State Carriage of the late Lord Mayor. Two of the 12th Lancers. Mounted Squire. Two Ilalbardiers. Mounted Squire. Knight of the Lord Mayo,. Armed (Armour of the reign of ?ranee I.), Mounted on a charger, plumed, with rich amber, aad bright scarlet selset trappings, With the arms of the Lord Mayor emblazoned thereon. Mounted Squire. The 12th Lancers. Mounted Squire. Two Squires mounted. A Troop of Twenty Knights (three abretst), armed (Armour of the reigns of Ilenry VIII. and Francis I.), all mounted, plumed, with richly decorated trappings, Ate. Four Squires mounted. Banner bearer, bearing the arms of the Right Hon. Lord Mayor. The 12th Lancers. The State Csrrisge of the Lady Mayoress, Draws by six horses. The Lord Mayor's Servants, in State Liveries. Two Life Guards. The State Band of the Life Guards. (with their silver kettle drums.) he City Marshal mmated. Untie:ma of the Lord !Jaycee iinteeltoki. The Corporation State Carriage, drawn by Si: bay Hones containing -- The Right Hon. Lord Mayor, attended by The Chaplain, Swordbearer, Common Crier, and the Water Bailiff. Detachment of the 12th Lancers. Mounted City Police, &c., THE PEACE SOCIETY. TO TR* EDITOR OF THE EXPRESS. Peace Society Office, New Broad-street, Nov. S. Sir,—l am instructed by the committee of tho Peace S wiety, to request the favour of your inserting the accompanying document in your paper of Monday.—l am, sir, yours respectfully, HENRY RICHARD, Secretary. " ADDRESS FROM THE COMMITTEE OF THE PEACE SOCIETY, TO THEIR FRIENDS AND SUBSCRIBERS. " Dear Friends,—There are conjunc turn in the history of every great moral reform, which require special vigilance on the part of its friends, lest they should be insensibly kd into compromising their principles and betraying their trust. These times of peril are not when their CREW if violently assailed with abuse and ridicule, for it is the impulse of all conscientious and earnest minds, to cleave the more tena ciously to their convictions when they arc made the objects of unjust aspersion and scorn. But the chief danger is, when the temptation approaches them on the side of those ardent and generous syrapathies of their own nature, which have so much power to beguile the understanding and mislead the judgments. Perhaps there is some reason to apprehend that through such a season of trial, the friends of peace are now being called to pees. A distinguished foreigner, whose name is associated with the aspirations and struggles of a brave and ancient people fee the maintenance of their liberty and independence, has recently appeared amongst us, and stirred the heart el the nation to its depths, by his thrilling and eloquent appeals on behalf of his oppressed countrymen. Few tea resist the contagion of that enthusiaam which glows in this lofty and earnest soul. But amid all this tumult of excited feeline, it does not behove the friend* of peace to laugt whatever admiration they may feel for his char GNI whatever sympathy for the cause he advocates, the' die means by which this illustrious patriot sought in they'l*. and proposes for Ot_ future, to effect the liberation at his country, are such as they cannot approve or sanction, without implicitly surrendering the fundamental principle of their faith. Leder these circumstances, we respectfully but earnestly entreat our friends to abide firmly and faith fully at whatever sacrifice of feeling, by their own deliberate convictions, and boldly to bear testimony to their truth, whenever an opportunity occurs. The gratification of indulging a momentary impulse of generous emotion will be dearly purchased by that lasting sense of shame and weabness which will result from the consciousness of a public inconsistency. The principle we hold is, that an appeal to the sword for deciding questions of disputed right is as irrational as it is unchristian, and that no permanent advantage eau accrue to real freedom, or to any of the great interests of humanity, from the debasing conflicts of brute force. That is a wea pon which ilespstism knows how to wield with far more dexterity, as well as with a more ruthless and unscrupulous purpose, than liberty can, until it is degraded to its own level. 11 we needed any practical illustrations of thesoundness of our principle, are they not abundantly furnished by the recent history andpreeent aspect of Europe ? After the revolu tions of 1517 and ISIS, the friends of liberty everywhere committed the decision of their cause to the wager of battle. Anti with what results ? In every caw they have hew worsted and crushed. Germany has seen her charters of constitutional freedom snatched back from her grasp with insult sad contempt. Italy lies writhing in deeper and mere degraded thraldom than before the strife. Hungary be trayed into the handle of her enemies by the military chaser pion to w ow sword she hail trusted for deliverance. bd. it may be said, if men are not to take arms to conquer tie berty, by what means is the power of the oppressor to be broken and Enslaved cations to achieve their liberation ? Do you counsel that a people should lie mute and moveless beneath the incubus of despotism until all life it crushed out of them ? God forbid that we should bo guilty of such treason against the dignity of our common nature, the loftiest hopes of humanity, and the declared purpose of heaven. What agency then do we propose to use? In one word we answer—ideas Ideas that have proved themselves ever mightier than swords—ideas which have already achieved all the greatest and most enduring victories on which hu manity re/ewes—ideas which are even now slowly and silently effecting revolutions on the earth, in comparison with which the stormy career of the greatest conqueror that hook the earth beneath the tramp of his armed heel, if but as the momentary sweep of the hurricane, compared with the calm and majestic processes of nature when it gra dually upheave' contauents, or patiently elaborates throu,;h ages "the chief things of the ancient mountains and the precious things of the lasting hills." Surely we as Chris tians need no proof that truth and right can prevail without the support of physical force—for were not the noblest tri umphs of Christianity won, when it had nothing to oppose to the power of the whole world armed for its extinction but its conscious possession of truth, its heroic might of en durance and its unclouded faith in God. Shou!d you, dear friends, be invited to sustain measures the object of which will be to promote on the part of this country an armed inte:vention on behalf of the struggling nationalities of Europe, we entreat you to abstain and to protest. The only principle on which such au intervention can be grounded is pregnant with terrible contingencies, or rather with terrible certainties for the future. And were there no other cause for hesitation we may well ask, what security have we that such an armed intervention will really profit the cause of liberty? All experience proves, that the most probable issue of political emancipation effected by physical force is not guaranteed freedom, but a militievelepoftm. The history of England's past interven tion by ken of arras in the affairs of continental nations, whether for the defence of legitimacy, or constitu tional freedom, is so melancholy a record of rash counsels, as Quixotic" enterprises and disgraceful or abortive issues, M ought surely to deter us from a repetition of this experi sent. There is scarcely a country in Europe on which we have not at one time or another inflicted our martial protec tion, and there is scarcely a country in Europe where that intervention has not eventually failed in the accomplish ment of its professed objects, or where its memory is not regarded with bitterness and resentnient by the very people whom it was meant to serve, while of the consequences to ourselves a melancholy monument still remains in our crushing and enormous national debt. Should the cause of peace have to bear deeper oppro brium than ever from the course which we thus advise you to pursue—even then wo still say, " Falter not for a moment." We have the must absolute and unshaken con fidence, because resting we believe on divine and everlut ing principles, that the course of events will vindicate the wisdom and rectitude of our counsel. The bitter experi ence which the friends of freedom arc yet destined to reap, should they insist upon committing once more their great and holy cause to the hazards of war's unequal game, " will bring forth your righteousness as the light, and your judgment as the noon-day." JOSEPII STUROE, Chairman. HENRY RICHARD, Secretary. THE C APE MAILS.- -The General Screw Steam Shipping Company's mail-packet Sir Robert Peel, Captain Boxer, came into Plymouth on Saturday morning. She left the Cape of Good Hope the 24th of Sept., six days before the Bosphorus, which arrived on Wednesday last, and her intelligence from the seat of war is, of course, anticipated. The Sir Robert Peel left Plymouth July the 15th, arrived es the 27th at St. Vincent, left the 29th, and reached Sierra Leese on the 4th of August, sailed therefrom on the 18th, red mode the Cape en the 15th of September; departed for Naglimai 111111 the 21th, touched at Sierra Leone the 14th of Onsiber, reached St. Vincent the 20th, and left it on the 22nd of October. Major Rill, governor of the Gold Coast, arrived at Sierra Leone on the 2nd of October, at 8 p.m., in the mail-packet Propootis. He left the next day, the 3rd, in her Majesty's brig Waterwiteh, for the seat of his government, and was to call at Liberia on his way down The Sir Robert Peel brings passengers only from Sierra Leon?, via.. Captain Cafe, 94 th Regiment, from the Gold Coast, second-c4n staff-surgeon Dickson, Mr. Ritchie. Mrs. Priaulx, widow of Surgeon Priaulx, R.N.. and Mrs. Take. It will be recollected that the Sir Robert Peel broke down on her outward passage, by which she lost 14 days. REPRESENTATION OF CANDRIDGESHIRF..—Mr.G.F. Young has not abandoned the honour of representing Cam bridg.shirc in parliament. Ile says, in a letter to one of the electors, he regards himself as only the temporary repre sentative of Scarborough, elected upon an emergency and under peculiar circumstances, sethaCwith the, present parlia ment his connection with the borough in question will, in all_probability, mac. ELECTION OF LORD PROVOST:GLASGOW, NOV. 7.—The election of a gentleman to fill the office of lord pro vost for the next three years, vacant by the retirement of Sir James .I.ndersou, tool place this day. The only point on which a division existed was the means and substance, Of income-tax versus the rental mode of rating for the sup port of the poor—a question which has agitated the citizens Meet bitterly during the last two or three years. and pro duced something like a civic rebellion. Mr. Robert Stewart was proposed as the rental, and Mr. Archibald BPLellan as the income-tax candidate. The council then went to the vote, when 29 voted for Mr. Stewart and 17 voted for Mr. M•Lellan. Mr. Stewart wu accordingly declared Lord Provost of Glasgow for the ensuing three years. FIRE AT VI ALIIER BARRACKS.—TAte on Thurs day night considerable excitement was created in the vici nity of Weimer by the sudden outbreak of a destructive fire at the barracks at that place. The lames, when dis covered, were found raging in the north central building, which, at present, is occupied by the staff of the 30th Re giment. The troops belonging to the 11th and 30th depots were speedily on the spot, and the engines from the naval yard and barracks were got to the scene withal expedition, but, owing to their state, they were of little service in subduing the conflagration, which by this tiros had reached en alarm. lug ascendancy, and threatened the destruction of the entire property. However, the soldiers and civilians worked with much energy, and after several hours exertion, the progress of the tire was stayed. Of tho central bu il ding :C c :A r i e l; remains but the blackened walls, the whole of the interior having been consumed. The lon will prove considerable; but we understand that a quantity of the valuable furniture was preserved. Captain Pakenhans sad Lieutenant Green ars seers sauna. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 10, 1851 KOSSUTH. tors, in which Mem* reception experienced by Mayes% mei MingsM by the people of ' London. M. KOSSUTH said—There Ise great difference indeed between the reception of Ilaynau and myself. Let me, I without a sentiment of pride, make the remark, that there is also a mighty diff'rence between the man who is but the tool of a despotic master and a freeman who is honoured by the confidence of his people, and who, by this confidence, has the honour to be, in some eon, the representative of those principles ; and therefore, of course, I believe I and Haynau can never be placed in comparison. Our posi tions are quite different. However opinions may differ so to the demonstration against Haynan, the sentiment out of which it sprung was a noole instinct, a disgust and hatred of oppression, and a love of human rights and freedom This is the first time I have made allusion to this alibied; and with regard to yoar address, I may say, gentlenseklhat I shall hold it as an encourage ment to go en in a *ay that hen been honoured with your sympathy. A deputation with an address from the inhabitants of Islington was then introduced, and after the address had been read— M.KOSSUTH said: Having the honour to receive addresses from parts of this great metropolis—parishes you call them in your adopted terms—you will perhaps excuse me for making this single remark. It is in history constantly a fact we are continually meeting that almost every era has its own direc tion • and it is as true of humanity as of a family , that what everilirection rises up, even in the farthest or most remote part, the whole community partakes of it. So we see in the time of the era of the Crusaders, when the whole of Europe took the principle of feudality. We are now, as I believe, arrived at an era when, by the protection of Divine Pr wi demo, in these day s the ruling direction of the public opi nion of mankind is freedom ; and as every such direction produces an universal effect, I believe that this will re's) produce an universal effect, and among the results of this direction of opinion will be the establishment of that which is so dear to me—l me a n municipal self-government, which I think is the only sure safeguard of freedom. 1 hope, gentlemen, that soon those large communities like yours, which are now called parishes, will not be so called; and that they will be not only electoral bodies, but also free municipalities. The Islington deputation was introduced by Mr. Wyld, M.P. A deputation from the town of Woolwich, consisting of Messrs. Richard ltuegg, chairman ; Charles Horn, Samuel Pearson, Thomas Hand, and Richard "larder, secretary, then presented an address, which was agreed to at a public meeting, many of those present and who supported the ad dress, being employed under the Crown. Mt. 0110/I.OE C. It. DERINU presented an address from the mayor, aldermen, and common council of the city of Canterbury. Lord DUDLEY STUART said he would take that op portunity of presenting some addresses which had been entrusted to hint for presentation. One was front the in habitants of Newcastle-upon• Tyne, agreed to at a public I meeting of which Sir John Fife was chairman. rue noble lord also presented addresses from Taunton, agreed to at a public meeting ; from NottiiigMm, agreed to at a public meeting; from Paisley, aerosol to at a public meeting of inhabitant., and siemed by the Provost; and from North and South Shields, from the Polish and Hun garian committees. Addresses were also presented from Dover and from Huddersfield; and. a gentleman named Richards re quested permissioi, on behalf of his lady, who accom panied him, to present three copies of the Bible for the children of M. Kossuth, a gift which he suitably acknow ledged on their behalf. Madame Kossuth and her children, Madame Pulvilty, and several other ladies and gentlemen, were present in the droning-room where the deputations were received during the greater port of the day, and the illustrions exile and his family were of course the objects of much interest to the numerous visitors. The deputations generally sought the honour of shaking hands with M. Kossuth before they retired, and many of them gave vent to enthusiastic expres sion, of admiration, mingled with fervent aspirations for the success of the cause of Hungary. KOSSUTH% VISIT TO BIRMINGHAM. Our Birmingham correspondent says :—No event since the days of the political unison has caused anything like such a demonstration as is to take place today ; in deed, in point of character and significance, the affair of to-day will quite equal in importance anything that took place in '3l and '32 : to receive M. Keasuth all parties have united without any shade or distinction of class or political principle. In the evening a large party is invited to meet him at dinner at the residence of Mr. Leach, M.P. Special trains are advertised to run to Birmingham on Monday from the Potteries and all parte of the district. lt iv calculated that at least 60,000 persons will join, the procession. The banquet takes place in the Music-ball, and, as a proof of the interest excited, it may be stated, that although nearly 600 can be accommodated at dinner, when the ticket-office opened on Saturday it was besieged by a great crowd of persons, and in less than two hours nearly all the tickets bad been disposed of. So with the spectators ; two galleries were set apart for ladies, at five shillings each ; these were eagerly bought up inlets than an hour ; and the great gallery, which accommodates about a thousand, and to which the working men are to be admitted at one shil ling each, is four.d to be large enough for about one-tenth of the number of applicants. Such is the welcome that awaits Koseuth in Birmingham; such is the public appre ciation of his noble struggles to preserve the ancient con stitution of his country, and the liberties of the brave people—his countrymen. The following letter was received from M. Kossuth on Friday night : 80, Eaton Place, Nov. 6, 18.51. To the Five Thousand Men of Birmingham, whose names, given in one day, testify the heartiness and earnestness of their sympathies : Gentlemen,—Let me beg you to accept the very warm expression of my gratitude for the remarkable example which the address 1 have had the honour to receive from you affords, of the eppreciation iu England of the cause for which my country has suffered, and for which I am now in exile. While I thank you for recalling to my mind the grateful fact that in Birmingham the find public meeting was held in behalf of Ilungary, I rejoice to feel assured, I from the extraordinary promptitude and numerousness with which your address has b..en signed, that the feel ings which have animated you were no result of mere temporary excitement, but have been the offspriaz of deep-sested conviction and enduring mo tive. )ie assured that such testimonies as your address af fords to the sentiments of Engli,tnen are highly prized by me and by my countrymen. We have striven in a cause which we know to be a just and holy one. For a time that cause has been forced to yield to the overwhelming consequences of a foreign intervention, alike unjustifiable in itself and dangerous to the liberties of the whole of Europe. But my countrymen know the value of the iustitutious they hare inherited. By a steady course of peacable and lawful means the enjoyment of the benefits of those institutions had been, before the latter struggle, opened to them all. My countrymen, therefore, in common with myself, wait with confidence for the hour—we believe not far distant—when the liberties and laws of our country - shall assert themselves azain, and when we shall be knit, as a people. in the bonds ' of closest amity, and with mutual benefit to the country in which your fathers have so long maintained their liberties, ' and which their enterprise and your own have raised to ' each a height of wealth and greatness. ' I have the honour to be, gentlemen, your obedient ser f vent, (Signed) L. Kosse TIC. M. Kossuth was to scare London this morning, at 9 o'clock, fur Birmingham, which be will rench about 12 o'clock. lle will proceed at once to the residence of Charles Geach, M.P., where he will remain for the night, and proceed on Tuesday by an early train for Manchester, where, in the course of the day, a great meeting will be held in the Free tradell. Ile will be the guest of Mr. Iknry, member for South Lancashire, on Tuesday night, and will return to Birmingham on Wednesday, where he will be cuter , tallied at a public dinner in the Town-hall. 31. Komuth will come back to town on Thursday,and be present at the Polish Ball in the Guildhall, and then proceed risk Southampton to the United States. We arc happy to say that his health is much improved, but that he is Unbidden by his medical attendant to use much exertion in speaking, and to avoid addressing huge assemblages. At a meeting of the liberal members of the South ampton Town Council held last week it was resolved to re-elect again this day Richard Andrews, who has been for two successive years Mayor of that town, to the distin guished office of chief magistrate. This unprecedented honour will be conferred upon him to mark the gratitude of the Town Council for the services the Mayor has ren dered the town, but more particularly for the zeal and hos pitality with which he welcomed Kossuth to this country. The Mayor of Southampton, after his re election, !proceeds to 'Manchester to witness the triumph of Kossuth in the great capital of manufacturing industry. The Mayor will give Kossuth a public breakfast on the morning of his departure for America, and wid accom pany him down Southampton Water, and through the PRESENTATION OF ADDRESSES. On Saturday, the temporary residence of M. Kossuth, in Eaton-place, was literally besieged during the greater part of the day by deputatious from various metro politan districts and from important provincial towns, anxious to present their addresses of sympathy and encou ragement to the illustrious Hungarian patriot. The whole neighbourhood was crowded with carriages and cabs, and a crowd collected about the door, in the hope of catching a glimpse at the object of all this homage. The wonderful talent and readiness of M. Koesuth in adapting his replies to the paculiarities of each deputation, and the singularly happy *ay in which he seized upon and alluded to every little incident, were the themes of general admiration. The first addresses were from ClerkenwcU, prevented by a deputation, and from Bridgewater, presented by Mr. Reuben I ' ayne, a member of the Society of Friends. Then came addresses from St. Pancras and St. Lsonard's, Shorediteh. (Mr. W. A. Blows stated that this last deputa tion represented a population of 120,000.) There, presented and replied to, Mr. W. J. Fox, M.P., and a deputation from the council of the Parliamentary and Financial Reform Association, were then introduced, and Mr. Fox, having presented the address, said their president, Sir Joshua Wnlinsley, was detained in France by severe illness, or he would have ac companied the deputation. Tae association was one which, pursuing in that country the extension of the privileges and liherties of the people, must necessarily feel itself in sym pathy with every movement in other countries; fur when ever the cause of general freedom gained advance on the continent, they felt it more easy to make progress, and whenever it Buffered disaster abroad, they felt their condition less promising. In professing the deepest sym pathy for the late struggle in Hungary, and the most mourn 'lhd regret to what for the present was its disastrous clove, in expressing their strong feelings of sympathy for the courage, the energy, and the wisdom with which his excellency had sonductell that struggle ; in expressing their emotions for I what he hail since undergone, their pleasure at his present liberation, and their earnest, and ho thought lie might say confident hopes, that ultimately the great objects he had contemplated far his country would be realised ; iii ex pressing this they claimed nothing peculiar to themselves. It was a feeling that all true honest English hearts felt throughout the length and the breadth of the land. There win only one feeling throughout the country with re ference to that struggle and with reference to the future. They (the association) represented a considerable mul titude of all classes of society, of various modes of think ing in polities, from various localities and parts of the coun try, all combined for the promotion of the cause of reform end protßa d nd in the name of that large arid influential be betty lease to present the address. X. Tit replied—Gentlemen, receiving this pic ots, testimonial of the sympathy of the Reform Association lice the cause of which you honour me in taking me for the humble representative, I feel that I am surrounded by men who profess the principles which were in all my past life the guiding star of my endeavours, and I, of course, must feel at home in your presence, and, feeling at home, I should not be perhaps embarrassed to answer, were I not in the situation to answer one of the most eloquent men of Eng land—a man whew eloquence is known and appreciated by the whole world, ea displayed in the cause of freedom and the develop ment et institutions. I must beg, therefore, your kind for my not being able to answer you as your eMelle Weald deserve. I can only . say, you, gentleram me is a beigy condition ; because it is my deep conviction Sri as bums institution, no human thing, can be snoliessd wink Perfection is only . in God ; INS h SIM 5W9111.9. Therefore not even in England Sea O&M be Oka W swam in England your institutions we glee palbse—denS yea have nothing more to do. /kg= k a ISM Otadition where already she be betiendens sad associations connected with Ski Malik awl development of public spirit, without White belllinliews are nothing. They give full seen Orhet mbriaver is to be done will not only be ikere, kg Is peacefully done. I am entirely con e•• tbst tba realisation of the idea of cheap govern sant a lastre scale is scarcely possible so long as the alletdatistic principle, the restraining the freedom and halapendence of the iatiess, forces upon them the unhappy led vastly circumsteolneelhelding large sta c = MAW i 11111 ssaildant that Ow neeeesity of keeping amiss as :Sl imient • webbed by sbe contentment of the world, whisk imparible without freedom. Therefor*, I believe there are flake strong, and very gross and power hal of unity between me and your association in sapped ed that cause for which we have struggled, for which we WS act, and, se 1 hope in God, by our own pcnoveranee led courage we will yet see triumph. I again thank yes. felb• SLEW% he yam address. Tim am die presentation from a number of British halm et a hinge German Bible, elegantly bound in crimson storesse ikn& M. Kmauth's initials at the . back. Its scooping - 1W geseest. IL Kossuth addressed Mr. Reed, who I was spcirsima es tbeeseadon, as follows: I thank you. I take it for no merit Inhey life that I am a religious man,not for any merit of mine, but because it is a necessity to every honest and thinking man, and becalme it is the most rich !tad *Mini of those sentiments, and those feeling! WIWI *happiness in this world and bliss in the worid 119111111114 1 doll value it because I take religion to be the neM ddlelnllis of that consolation which I have wanted so I da ibex li fe. Being a religious man, and because roll- OS well an enemy to superstition, intolerance, aad leeeeea as on the other hand the friend of freedom, I sonless that it is from this great book that I hays the principle of loving my neighbour as myself, and smug& and courage to act in the great cause which has always been the guide of my life. Judge from this how I prise this sift to me presented on the part of some ladies, I and of which a copy was also presented by an honourable working man to my wife at Winchester.&Thie, sir, will remain as the choicest gift I have received. Mr. EDMUND HALEWOOD and a deputation of the working builders of Pimlico were then introduced, awl pre sented an address of sympathy with the Hungarian cause and its distinguished representative. This deputation was introduced by Lord Dudley C. Stuart. Addresses were afterwards presented from two discussion societies, meeting in different parts of London. An address was then presented from the young Polish refugee?, to which M. Kossuth briefly replied in French, expressing his confident hope in the future nationality and independence of Poland as well as of Ilungary. Mr. EBENEZER SAUNDERS, jun., then presented an signed by 190 young peen, ost 9i QOM elk- CITY IMPROVEMENTS AND GREAT CE.N TRAL RAILWAY TERMINUS. On Saturday evening, upon the return of the Lord Mayor, after having been sworn into office, a deputation, con , isting of Sir James Duke, Alderman Hooper,Alderman ilumphery, Alderman Wire, Deputy Harrison, Mr.Water low, Mr. Dakin, and other members of the Common Coun cil, waited upon his lordship, to present a requisition to him to call an early Court of Common Council, to consider the propriety of taking into their consideration a most import ant improvement of the Metropolis, particularly in the City of London. Deputy HARRISON, who headed the requisitionists, said the document had bemixigned in six days by upwards of IN members of the court, including • majority of each of the three classes, aldermen, deputies, and other commoners. It was a requisition' quite unprecedented in the number of sig natures, and it ch•monstrated the strong conviction of the court of the magnitude and importance of the object Mr. Pearson had in contemplation, and their sense of the neces sit of having it fully examined. T'he LORD MAYOR said ho should at all times deem it his duty to concede to the wishes of the Common Council in convening courts upon all subjects affecting the welfare of the City which they might think it necessary to discuss. Ile wished it to be distinctly understood that he should not require a requisition so numerously signed to induce him to call a court; but when a requisition came recommended by so large a body of the members, and by the presence of so numerous and influential a deputation, he should at once say that, without inquiring into the object of the court, he would grant it on any day that might be most convenient. (Hear, hear.) If it were desired to be convened during the next week, the court must be held within th e Egyptian Hall at the Mansion-house, as the arrangements of the Guildhall would not admit of the court being held in the usual plate. Alderman MALL'S said it was important that no time shculd be lost; and his lordship gave immediate orders to the town clerk to issue a summons convening a court for Thursday next, the Pith inst. Mr. CHARLES Pk:ARSON then, addressing his lord ship, requested the use of the Egyptian-ball on the previous day, to enable him to exhibit his model, and explain his project to such the members of the court and their fami lies and friends as had not had an opportunity of attending his soir6es in Park-street, where he had expounded his views and objects. It was impossible to convey an ade quate exposition of his plan except by visual examination and oral explanation; and he felt that his official position, as City solicitor, would render it embarrassing for him to give the requisite explanations before the court, although, as individual members and part of the public, they might allow him, at a previous meeting, a freedom of expression which, at a Court of Common Council, he should deem it improper to employ. The LORD MAYOR said ho should afford Mr. Pearson the use of the Egyptian-hall with much pleasure, and, at the request of Alderman Challis, his lordship consented to preside on the occasion. Wednesday next, at 12 o'clock, was then filed for the previous meeting. The following is a copy of the requisition: "TO THE RIOHT HONOURABLE THE LORD BATOR. " We the undersigned, members of the court of Common Council, request your lordship will convene a court on en early day to consider Mr. Charles Pearson's comprehensive plan fur improving the metropolis, particularly the City of London, by widening the intended new street from Farringdon-street to Clerkenwell, by raising it on • level with the high ground of the adja cent streets, and eiteutling it to King's-cruse ; by constructing a trunk railroad in a well-lighted and venti lated subway under the surface of the street, connecting the northern railroads and northern suburbs of the metropolis with termini in Farringdoo-street and the new street; by lifting Holborn Valley 17 feet nearly on a level with Hol born-hill end ; and by removing the wholesale meat and vegetable markets, and the railway carriers' re ceiving houses from their present confined and inconvenient situations to spacious sites in the new street; by which means (as Mr. Pearson asserts) the overcrowded street of the City will be relieved of a large portion of the railway waggons and the omnibuses from the northern railroads and the northern suburbs of the metropolis that now throng the City, and impede its ordinary traffic. We likewise request your lordship will insert on the summons convening the meeting notices of the specific motions it may be intended to propose for the consideration of the court.—November, FATAL BOILER EXPLOSION AT ELSWICIL—On the afternoon of Monday last a fatal accident occurred, in the boiler works of Messrs. Waterston, Brothers, at Elswick, by which Mr. George Waterston, one of the partners in the works, was almost instantaneously killed, and one of the workmen severely scalded. From the evidence adduced at the inquest, it appeared that recently . the firm had been en gaged in making the necessary repairs in an old boiler be longing to the ltising Sun steam-boat, and that having com pleted those repairs, and considering the boiler quite safe and fit for use, about a quarter to ono o'clock on' Monday, the deceased, with his brother, Mr. James Waterston, filled the portion of the boiler above the tube with water, placed fire in the tube below that, sad proceeded, as • means of testing the boiler, to raise the steam to a certain height. While this was going on the deceased was on the boiler at the fore part o it, engaged in observing and chalking the rivets of the boiler where the steam in some places slightly escaped. Mr. James Waterston, brother of the deceased, in the meantime had gone to another part of the works for a piece of chalk, when, bearing the noise of the explosion, he rushed towards the place where he had left his brother, found him lying about two yards from that place, and saw him instantly afterwards breathe his last. On an observation of the boiler the inside tube was found fallen down, the force of steam having evidently caused the fatality. Verdict, " Agtidantal death."—Ntioosetle Chronick. TRIBUNALS OF COMMERCE. A committee meeting of the Society for Promoting the Establishment of Tribunals of Commerce, and reducing our various mercantile laws into a simple and intelligible commercial code, was held on Saturday at the London Tavern, Mr. Maeourooa, M.P.,in the chair. The object of the meeting was to afford Mr. Levin Levi, the author of a work on the subject, the opportunity of submitting his views as to the formation of a code of commerce for England. The CH•IREAN and HONORARY SECRETARY addressed 1 the meeting. Mr. LEVIN LEVI then came forward. He said he lae lieved the committee had undertaken a task which would, in its results, confer the greatest benefit on Great Britain, but it was one that could not be accomplished efficiently without the greatest caution, and a full knowledge of all matters bearing on the subject. (Hear, hear.) A code of commerce should embrace all the several branches of com mercial law by which the mercantile community in its various relations was affected. Starting with the law re lating to merchants, it would be necessary to define what belonged to the civil law as regarded minors, married females, and idiots. Then they would have to deal with I the law of partnership, and here they would hive to con sider the different relations of general and private partner ship, unlimited liability, and partnership with limited pia bility. Again, they must consider the law of general con tracts, and contracts for sales, a subject which in itself opened a large field for discussion, inasmuch as the law was widely different iu England and in Scotland. Next there was the law of exchange, of principal and agent, including brokerage, insurance. Then there was the law as regarded shipping, the law of bankruptcy, and lastly, mercantile ,jurisdiction. A code of commerce must define the law in all these various branches. (Hear, hear.) In some points the law was established permanently, but in others it was changeable with altering circumstacces, and it would be necessary in the code that these branches should he divided and kept distinct. It would also be essen tial, in dealing with the subject, that they should conciliate the various interests involved, and combine those which at present were permanently opposing. With regard to bank raptcy, there was a considerable difference between the law of England and that of Scotland. The English bankrupt law had been the subject of constant alteration and change, while that of Scotland was permanent; and any one who endeavoured to combine the mercantile laws of Great Britain into a simple and compact code, must deal with all these points and meet all these obstacles. The object the society bad embarked in in this respect was one of the noblest in which they could be engaged, for it was the crowning point of all reform in mercantile law, and the beat means of diffusing a general knowledge of right and wrung amenget the commercial classes. (Hear, hear.) The commercial law of Great Britain was at present con fused, but vet having its foundation laid on solid and great principles, and containing under a mass of heterogeneous materials the results of profound reflection and wisdom, deep investigation, and the principles' of a normal standard fur adiainistering justice. The first duty to be done was to extract from these materials what was the law, and to lay it before the public in a 'slain, a practical, and intelligible form. (Hear, hear.) Nut to frame a new law, but to bring the law as it was within the comprehension of every man affected by it. The course to be pursued was , to d e p ute a party qua lified and able to grasp the whale subject in all its be tringe, its details, and its difficulties, to prepare and bring before the public suelia project or digest of law, styli digest to comprise under aistinct heads the permanent 14w, and that portion of the law which was susceptible of modification, and stating the difference when ouch dif ference existed between the English and the Scotch law. This project he suggested should then be sent round to the various mercantile communities, and to all the influential merchant., that they might make their criticisms upon it and explain the customs in various places, and how far such customs differed from the law as it appeared to be. He would allow six months for this inquiry. Ile would also send a coy to the chambers of commerce at Liverpool and Manchester, with a request that they should investigate the law under its different heads as the law of partnership—the law of exchange, etc. ; and having the copies returned at the end of the six months, with the comm nts and the results of the investigations of these public bodies and private merchants, lie would propose that compared and nsblered, and where they agreed that they should be inserted in the code, and in this way a code of mercantile law would be formed, having the concurrence of the whole of the mercantile classes of the king dom, which might then be submitted to the le gislature for its sanction. (Hear. hear.) The first ditty would be to bring tezether the law as it was, and whether foreigner or native were deputed to this task mattered little, for it would be merely a work of industry. So far the object was a practical one, and might be carried out without much difficulty, and when it was accomplished thee they would have in their hands the readiest means of effecting ell they dasired, for everything like oppo s ition would have been removed. There was no politicafor party feeling likely to be evoked in this matter, inasmuch as it was quite distinct front any question of protection or free•trade. Their purpose merely was to decide what was right and what was wrong between man end man, and to assert those principles in a way that should be clear and comprehensible to all. They must remember that what was rightot one time was right another. The Code Napoleon had now been in existence thirty years, and it had been scarcely altered. With regard to the difference of law between England and Scotland; in the latter country, when a sale was made the property did not change until it was delivered, but in England the change was effected when the sale took place. Same of these matters were connected with elm civil law in some respects, but they were the soente of much confusion and difficulty, and no doubt much diffi culty would occur in dealing with them, but they must ex ect di ffi culty in a task of this kind, and what was wo rth having that was free front difficulty? (Hear, hear.) lie knew that in Scotland there was a strong desire prevailing that the mercantile law of the two countries should be made uniform, and that the English law of bank ruptcy should be extended to them. He believed, therefore, that if such a code as was suggested were presented to Scotland it would meet with the most ardent support. lie believed the country generally was rife for the measure. Committees had been formed in furtherance of the object in Edinburgh, Glasgow, anal Bir mingham; and he had recently addressed a meeting in Dublin ea the subject. In each . of these places the inarem tile bodies were unanimous in commending such a measure to general attention, and were anxious to support it. lie believed that if this step were taken by England it would be followed by other countries ; and that the benefit would not be confined to us alone, but would be extended to the easels mercantile world. (Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN expressed his entire concurrence in the views of Mr. Levi, but called attention to the great diffi culty of doing anything in parliament except under the ap plication of strong pressure from without. Mr. LEVI suggested that the county courts might be made available to a great extent for the decision of mer cantile questions, without the employment of new ma chinery. The only additional expense would bo the ap pointment of commercial judges. On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, a vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Levi ; and after an intimation from the secre tary that letters had been received from Sir .1. Duke, 11. P., Mr. Hume, M.P., Mr. It. D. Mangles, M.P., and other in. fluential gentlemen, expressing their entire concurrence in the purposes of the society, and their regret at their ina bility to be present, the meeting separate& FEMALE EMIGRATION. Another embarkation of emigrants, the nineteenth of the 'oriel, under the auspices of what is best known as Mr. Sidney Herbert's Society, took place on Saturday at Gravesend. The emigrants, twenty-one in number, as sembled at Blackwell at 11 o'clock in the morning, and pro ceeded on board a steamer which was waiting for them at the pier. Here, too, they were joined by several members of the committee and the honorary secretary, Mr. Hely, who, as on former occasions, were anxious to bid them a final farewell on board the emigrant ship. The Will Watch—which is the vessel's name—is a barque of 300 tons burthen, carrying a large number of passengers besides those for whom she is indebted to the Emigration Fund. The total number of emigrants on board is about 100. it may here be remarked that this vessel is the first chartered by the Colonisation Assurance Association, a corporation recently established to promote emigration to Western Australia, and one of the leading features of which is that it conveys passengers at a very low rate, on the condition of receiving a grant of land as a part of the consideration. In the present instance, the whole cost of the passage (the case of cabin passengers being excepted) is an average of 61. per head; and, in order to afford an ade quate remuneration, the colonial government will transfer to the company 20 acres of laud for every passenger. The advantages of such an arrangement are two-fold : the direct encouragement of emigration, and the creating a value for land which would be otherwise comparatively valueless Parties purchasing land of the corporation to the extent of 501. money value are offered free passages for three labourers. STAFF APPOINTMENTS TO DE VACATED.—ThO fol lowing colonels in the army before 1811 will vacate their present appointments on promotion to the rank of major general in the brevet of the 11th instant:—Colonel P. Brown, Commandant Royal Military Asylum, Chelsea; Colonel 'Sir J. M. Wilson, Adjutant, Chelsea Hospital; Colonel Parke, Commandant Royal Marines, Woolwich ; Colonel Simpson, Commandant at Chatham ; Colonel Love, staff, Wales; Colonel Hamilton, Inspecting Field.officer, Northern District, Ireland; Colonel Baumgardt, Inspecting Field-officer at Bristol ; Colonel Falconer, Inspecting Field officer, at Liverpool ; Colonel Middleton, Commandant at Maidstone ; Colonel Turner, Commanding Royal Artillery, Dublin; Colonel Owen Deputy Adjutant General, Royal Marines; Colonel Cochrane, Deputy-Adjutant Oencral, Dublin. Colonel Middleton will also cease to be a Lieut.- Colonel in the 3rd Light Dragoons, as before explained. (Vide regimental vacancies.) REGIMENTAL VACANCIES.—In consequence of the brevet, the following commands of regiments will be va cated by the promotion of the present commandant' (colonels in the army before 1811) tc the rank of major-general :- 3rd or Buffs, commanded by Col. Sir James Dennis; 64th Regiment, commanded by Col. Pane 9.,th Regiment, commanded by Col. Campbell; Cape Rifles, commanded by Colonel Somerset. In addition to these, there will be a vacancy in the 3rd Light Dragoons by the promotion of Col. Middleton, but as there was a supernumerary lieut.- colonel in this regiment, the promotion of that officer will merely reduce the number of lieut.-oolonels to the usual sp y of two. Eitiv *litelitgence. EQUITY COURTS.--SnuRDAT. Suomi me 1 muu Armco or Arrest.. Tort V. STRVIINSON.--GRAHAM V. RIBBVIS. The Court was ueeupied throughout the day in hearing the argument for the plaintiffs, and part of that fur the de fenclauu in these suit.. The appeal is againat decree made by Vice-Chancellor Wigram, pronounced in March 1818. It appeared that a contract for sale of certain copyhold lands at Owston i n Lincolnshire, was made by one Thomas Harris in 1811. ' The agreement was that the pur chase money should be paid in May following, and the Purcha ser was let into possession immediately on the ex, cation of the contract. The purchase money was never paid, but the purchaser and those claiming under him continued in pos session. In 1844 the assignees of Harris, the vendor, who had become bankrupt in 1812, filed the original hill in these Baits, claiming a lien on the estate for the purchase money and interest from the day fixed for the completion of the contract. The court below held that the right of the vendor to recover the purchase money as a lien or charge upon the land was barred by the 40th section of the statute for the limitation of actions relating to real estate, 3 & 4 Will. IV., c. 27. Mr. Lee and Mr. Olasse appeared for the plaintiffs in support of the appeal; and Mr. Teed, Mr. Kenyon Parker, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Willeock, Mr. Follett, Mr. Rogers, Mr. Goadeve, Mr. Faber, Mr. Smythe, and Mr. Loan for the several defendants in support of the Vice-Chanci Hoes de cree. The argument was stated as likely to continue several days. thrirsas IN Ireostiee-tea. atoms runt Loan EasscrLoa. STAINTON V. CIIADWICK.—RIOUT TO DlsCOVEltir OF EVIDENCE AS TO RIGHT TO ESTATE.-4 UOOmitNT. The Lord Chancellor gave judgment in this case. Tho case came up on appeal from tin order of the Master of the Rolls. Sir Andrew Chadwick, who died intestate in the year 1768, was equitably entitled to a certain real estate, and the main question was who was his heir-at-law. The plaintiff claimed as heir of Mrs. Law, a cousin to Sir An drew Chadwick. On the part of the defendant it was in sisted that Mrs. Law was not the heir, but one James Chadwick, and that the defendant was his descendant, and in that character entitled to the estate. Petitions were pre sented to the court under Sir Edward Sugden'e acts, and on a reference to the Master it was reported that no other heirs of Sir Andrew could be discovered, and tha: the de fendant was his heir-at-law, and an order passed that a conveyance of the legal estate should be made, which was accordingly done. The bill alleged that the evidenceon which this proceeding was founded was false, and that the order was obtained by fraud and imposition on the court. It therefore prayed that a decree should be made that the plaintiff was the equitable owner of the property, and that the defen dant eras trustee only for him, Sic. Thu matter material to the present question lay in the interrogatories with re spect to the evidence on which the defendant's right was supported, which he refused to answer, as nut being bound to oiselose his title to the plaintiff. There were several exceptions, which had been distersed of. They related to pure matters of pleading. Tho hill stated the seising of Sir Andrew Chadwick in the estate in ,lunation —that he died intestate MlNS—that Mrs. Law win Ins heir at law, and entitled to poaseseim of his estate—and that the defen dent, in 1840, presented two petition., the proceedings in referenee to which were ex party, and that through fraud and imposition the defendant obtained his posit:on as legal owner of the estate. Two distinct equities, titer fore, were attempted to be raised—in the first place, that the plaintiff was entitled to the estate under Mrs. Law, as the rightful heir-at-law of Sir Andrew Clisal..vick, and that the defendant was seized of the said estate, as trustee for the plaintiff; and neat, that the defendant became such trustee by fraud and imposition on the court. Thu defendant In his answer asserted his own title as heir at law, denying that made by Mrs. Law. It was admitted that she had received the reins of the estate, but only in the capacity of trustee ; and the defendant denied that the evidence on which his right was supported was either fates or fraudulent. The question, therefore, was as to the plain tiff's right to discovery of the means by which, as was al leged, the imposition was made on the court. On the de feuilant's part it was contended that the plaintiff had no equity to the discovery. To the objection urged it was answered, not by denial of the general principle in equity, but by the nssertion of qualifications, which brought the ease as an exception. Ilia lordship said it appeared to him that the plaintiff had removed the defendant's objections to the dieeovely prayed for, inasmuch as it was necessary to discover the truth of an allegation denied by the defendant. The case was one in which he thought the plaintiff was entitled to the discovery, notwithstanding that it might be attended with the consequences which the defendant alleged would be the result. The appeal must, therefore, bo dismissed with cost+, the defendant being allowed six weeks to answer. Ex FARE HALL me an NORTH OF ENGLAND Jot:er ne= BANKING CoMPANT.—COST' OF PROCIEDINOd CEDE& THE WINGING-CF AUT.—CUSPS Of SUCCESSFUL ArrEAL ALLOWED. Mr. Hall was trustee for a married lady who had shares in the North of England Juiut-steak Banking Company. In proceedings under the Winding-up Act the official ma nager put him on the list of contributors. The Master or dered that he should continue on the list. lie appealed to Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, who limited ins liability, hut ordered him to pay costs. Mr. Hall appealed, and Lord Cottenham reversed the order and directed that his name should be struck oat of the list of contributors. Qn that occasion (Nov. 8) leave was reserved to try the mutter at law ; bat this wa - , not done, Rift on the 31st of July lint the judeuemt was made absolute with costs. Mr. Bacon (with hint Me. 'Prim) now applied toren order far M. Hall to pay Itie costs in the appeal:, coutending that according to the practice of the court he was liable, and that the liability of the official manager was con:lned to that part of the appeal in which he had failed. Mr. Melina (with him Mr. 11. Prendergast) submitted that according to the settled practice of the court Mr. Hall was entitled to the costs before the Master, as a matter of course, and was also entitled to those incurr A- before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce. Under the ordinary rules of court as to coats, he would not get them for the appeal; but under the Winding-up Act these rules had not been adhered to. Tho 104th section of the amended act (11 Si 12 Viet., o. 44) provided that the casts of all proceedings be fore the court "should be in the discretion of the court." The Lnrd Chancellor observed that it had been urged by Mr. Mathis that, as far as his experience went, the Vice- Chancellor gave cats; this was controverted on the other side. Mr. Baron said he was under an impression to that affect, but would not pledge himself on the point. His lordship said, assuming that the practice an., general, he should be inclined to follow it. Not being quite certain whether it had existed as a general rule or not, he would express his opinion on the supposition that the rule was general. lie should say generally that according to tho rule of this court and of the House of Lords, parties suc cessfully appealing against a judgment were not entitled to costs. He could not help saying that it was a very hard rule, and at times has amounted to a purchase of jestice. The ground on which the rule was established was this— that the opposite party, in a successful yippee], was not in fault for the erroneous judgment, and that both should bo content to bear their proportion of the costs consequent. When a new law passed, they ought to be well satisfied that the rule proposed to be imported was one is accord ance with justice. Mr. Bacon—The 119th section of the act expressly re ferred to the general practice of the Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor—lt was necessary to refer to some general rule as a standard, and a reference was generally made to the practice of the courts. If these rules were in tended to be absolutely observed as the standard, this would be the interpretation of the 119th section ; but the 101 th section seemed to suppose a devia tion, by . leaving coats in the discretion of the court. Recognising distinctly the rule not to give costs where an appeal is successful in reversing a judgment—remembering at the same time that in all the courts of law it is different, as in the case of a writ 11 error, it seemed to hiin that the question as to the power of the courts to give costs wes a 4 power which this act nded to confer. lie recurred to what ho had alrea reed, that if the Vice - Chancellor had been in the p f giving or withholding costs, he should pause before coming to a different couclusion. But it had not been established that there was any general rule an the subject. The 10Ith section gave the Master a dis cretion as to the matter of costs in all proceedings before him. That showed that the coats depended on the judicial view of the propriety of distributing contributions and th it the court had power over the costs in the Master's office. The 104th section seemed to give a complete discretion as to the costa of the entire proceedings before the court, and he did not see why a person concerned in the proceedings under this act should be in a different situation from that of one called into any ordinary court to defend himself. Hs was of opinion that it was in the power of this court to give costs before the Master; and, therefore, that Mr. Hall was entitled to the costs of defending himself in the Master's office. 'With respect to the appeal, he considered Mr. Hall was entitled to make the application for costs, and that he ought to have them. His lordship concluded by observing that he thought the statute had invested him with power to that Met, and he did not think it necessary to make any alteration of the order already made for payment of costs. Mr. Malin applied fur the costs of this application. Mr. Bacon opposed the application on the ground that this was a new decision, and the introduction fur the first time of a new and very important principle. The Lord Chancellor—Suppose this had been discussed when the order was made, the fund would have paid the costs. Why not pay them now ? The motion of Mr. Bacon was accordingly refused with costs. HAMILTON V. RANKIN. Mr. Hall and Mr. J. Russell were heard at great length in continuation of the arguments in this appeal case, which was partly heard on another occasion. Barns Vica-Cusscatuns Teases. THE KIDDERMINSTER GRAMMAR-SCROOL. Tits ATTORNEY-GENEMAL V. THE BISIIOP or WOItCIVITBZ. The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment in this case, and stated that it was an information which had been filed re lating to the school at Kidderminster, which prayed that the whole of the proceeds of the charity funds should be applied to the free scholars, and that the master of the school should be restrained from taking boarders, cud that children of dissenters should bo admitted to the school, I and all children who could read should be admitted inde pendent of age, and that it should be referred to tho Master to settle a scheme. No trace could be discovered of ch, the writing by which th e school was originally founder, Ind inquisition' in the reigns of Elisabeth ond Chula MEP f 7-.777r.(4 5) s tel 1 1