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" w eed his seat, apparently much exhausted, amidst the Mediae etteario64 TIM MAYO U sad Mr. CROWLEY having returned Soaks, The neat toast was " Poland," to which Lord DUDLEY STUART rose to return dionks, and he Created much amusement by addressing the ma or as ad miral, he ',slug by usigo admiral of the port. Ile said he thanked them fur the toast they had pledged and the man age in which they had pledged it, and he took that oppor amity of expressing the great satisfaction he had felt at•bearing his share in the great demonstrations in fa vour of the illustrious Kossuth. (Cheers.) His illlntiiol2l f r i e nd had come amongst them, and every eye watched him, every ear listeneil for what he should say. Now, he had been amongst them one month—an eventful month, having been closely watched by powerful enemies, and he (Lord Dudley) would venture to say with his reputation not demi 'tidied but immonsely increased. (Loud cheers.) 'lhe noble lard concluded by adding his good wishes for the prosperous Itbsi:of the exiles toast terminated the proceedings of the defamer, gad shortls after, as the Humboldt did not appear at her appointed time, M. Kossuth and family repaired on board a email steamer, in which to wait for the arrival of the Amerian vessel, as the Jupiter's heavy draught of water required that she should return at once to port. The company on board gave M. Kossuth a tremendous free will cheer, used the Humboldt having arrived about nine Cii:ock, he repaired on board, and proceeded on his voyage to America We cannot conclude our report without offering our acknowleiLtments to the Mayor of Southampton for the marked attention which the representatives of the public mess recei.e.l at his hands throughout the entire of these domoustraticov. THE EMIL OF SHAFTESBURY AT MANCHESTER. The Earl of Shaftesbury paid a visit to Man &war on Thursday, for the purpose of meeting a number of factory delegates, who were desirous of preeenting to the saga earl an address repressive of their gratitude for his 'mites in the ae.umplishment of the short time bill. The noble earl had been invited to come down in the spring of the year, and being unable to do so, had promised to visit the factory operatives towards the lose of the year. He leeched Manchester on Wednesday evening, in company with Mr. E. Chadwick, of the Board of Health ; aid was the guest of Mr. W. Fairbairn, C.E., Ardwiek. The meeting was held at the house of Mr. W. Fair, the Cotton Tree, Antoate, on Thursday evening, and the pro ceeding. commenced by Mr. l'aul Hargreaves being called to the chair ; when William Stanley, operative cotton spin ner, 11p..P..11. and henry Green seconded an address to the kart ut Shaftesbury, which was carried unanimously. At eight &clot k the noble earl arrived, accompanied by 114. l'airbairn and Mr. Chadwick, and was received with great ap g i ff s ;l ' rautetley then read the address to his lordship, In which the subscribing factory operatives tendered him their coogratulabeus and thanks for the blessings that he had been instruineutal in twiferring on them and their Emilie.. Wm. stank'', operative cotton spinner, having presented the attire se. The Earl of SILkETESBUItY said—No testimonial, the most pntioue in value or highest in amount, could have been so dear to me as this suldres; which has been presented to nie, b comic, iu the first place, it expresses iu warm and ard,nt language the deep lb inkfulneas of your hearts and your !enlacc towards toyieelf, and moreover states, in un mistakeable terms, that the great measure for which we so long laboured he, at last, by God's blessing, produced its fruits, and you are now tieing in the lull enjoyment of that me.teure, with all its great moral and physical results. (Hear.) I am. indeed, most glad to come here to see you ones more, after no long an absence, and particularly glad am 1 that I can coneretalate you on this greatest of blessings, and, aloha with you, retorts thanks to Almighty tied that it has plea.ed him to bless our efforts, and in such a way that we have not to look back on any one moment of the past soil regret one single thing that was done, or one single word that was uttered daring that agitation. (Cheers.) Now, gentlemen. I am come also fur another tibial, I am come to return my most sincere and hearty towels, if the gentlemen will accept them, to the employers and master mildowners of these districts, who base, after the conflict is over, most admi rably ant, ro d on a new career, throwing no obstacles in the way, and have entered into the fulfilment of the law, and I do believe, rejoice as much as you do, that the matter has been brought to a successful wan; for they have their account in it, us you have found your account in it, and they are not ashamed to admit that their predictions have Leen falsified. (ka:, hear.) I know there are some, bat thank God they are a minority—l know there arc some who still continue to evade the spirit, if nut the actual letter of the law,—but in so large a body of men there must always be exceptions. It is a matter ed great rejoitiug to us, of great honour to the country, and of great credit to the ;km to which they belong, that in so large a body of men there should be found so many ready to eater we this new coarse, and give a ready hand to the talfi:ment of this beneficent measure. I wish now to direct your attention to platten which I consider essential to your venial and moral condition, that tend to the improvement of sour Aimee', that tend to the improvement of your dwell logs, of your domestic firesides, of your domestic position, of your domestic comforts, and to the gratification of your domestic wants. This day 1 have been with my friend Mr. E alemaii, to view those mighty works he is constructing, under the direction of the coil oration of Manchester, for the purpose of supplying this great town with pure and wholesome water. These weeks are works of the greatest valise coal importance ; their first value and first import lace to you is that it will give you at a cheap rate an abundant supply of the best great neces eery of life and almost the purest in quality that can be furnishe d in any part of the habitable globe. You men of Manchester may rejoice in this, that you have a corpora tion of such public spirit that they would undertake a work of this kind ; you may rejoice in this, that you will be setting a model and an example to other great towns of this reaaa, and especially to our great metropolis, which, I am ashamed to say, is in PO disgraceful a state as to toed great sanitary improvements. I press very much indeed on the point of the domiciliary condition of the p e ople, because 1 have observed from long experience that tLecosolitioll of the dwellings of working people lie hat the root of tat it social advancement. I hold It to be altogether impossible that the working classes should rise in the scale of PA V.ll‘. M, hug as they were kept down to the mire by the coalition of the domicile in which they reside. 1 press on this no much, because I hold the domestic system is especially, above all things, essential to the social aineliorso Wu in tee people. You kuuw that there are many efforts. la various pirte, to institute various associations for the ropey of giving education, in order to improve the moral condition of the people. I speak of these with the posttest respect ; but I hold that your heat duty Is is give facilities to the working man, fur, depend lea it, if you give facilities to the working man, the working man will take care of himself. (Hear, hear.) And there is nu training, there is no education—there is no system of education which would be half so good as that which is tarried on at the domestic fireside. I hate addressed you at much greater length than l int, oiled. 1 can only ray that it gives me most sincere gratification—l have used toe expression before, and Iwe it again —front the bottom of my heart I do most sincerely love cod respect you, and few things give me greater plea acre than to come into the operative districts and sec all my good friends, who treat me with as much heartiness as if I was their brother—and Una knows that in sentiment I ant tlair brother. I hope to be able to my dying day to show it ; and I can assure you, to the bear of my death, not one day or night shall pia thou tmy otkring up to Almighty God a most deep cost heurttelt prayer fur your prosperity in this world and ia the world to come, with the expression of an ardent hope that 1 may t\Cr be your friend, and that I may be ever considered by you to be your felted. (Loud cheers.) Messrs. FAIKIJAIPIN sad CEIADIVICIL having addressed the meeting, votes of thanks to Lord Shaftesbury and to the other gentleman who had taker part in the proceedings, were adopted and acknowledged, and the meeting then I. 7::t t ol d. liy, Lord Shaftesbury visited many of the mill owners, and C spr.r.ed his gratification that they hail so generouely seconded the intentions of the legislature in act ing upon the spirit of the new enactment. THE GREtT -The medals awarded to the Franck exhibitom were restmiog men be Paris, where they ere to be distributed - amnia the agenessful competitors. The number of heneiniory dietiastions of all kinds awarded was 4,064. of which 2,089 were given to British and 3,0.31 to foreign exhibitors, whilst the space occupied was in the proportion of three-fifths for British and two-61Ln for foreign goods. Of the 166 council I modals awarded, bi went to foreign exhibitors, and /9 to ' British. The " mil: medals " were Kisco in the ratio of 1,241 to British, and 1,632 to foreign, and the honourable mentions were as 716 British to 1,326 foreign. A large =ion of the foreign distinctions were, as is known way by the French ; but it must be recollected they were the most numerous of the foreign exhibitors. It Is • cartons and significant fact that 88 of the 166 council medals were awarded fur machinery alone, in which, and amulet:tures in metal, glass, and porcelain, the British inhibitors gained more prizes than all the foreign nations conabined. It is some consolation to knew that if foreigners Lae borne off more than a proportionate share of awards in the tine arts and fabrics requiring taste and delicate mani pulation in their construction, they hare been greatly ex celled in the production of those important manufactures Which constitute the main sources of our national prospe rity and wealth. CALI-4 TO THE BAlL—lnner Temple.—The Mi eihrebnas Term calls to the bar of the lion. Society of the Inner Temple were made yesterday (Nov. 21), and they comprise the after-mentioned gentlemen : Augustus Phial's*, Esq. ; William Sharp Cross B.A. ; Richard Bright, B.A. • John Hampden Fordhain, BA.; William Joyce, Esq.; Henry Thomas Wroth, B.A. ; Thomas Potter, Esq.; David Featherby Thernbury, 8.A.; Robert Lukin, Efq. ; Spencer Vincent, 8.A.; Alexander Staveley Hill, ; George Ward Hunt, Esq. ; George Tayler, Esq. ; Hugh Thus-stain Hutton, Esq. ; Thomas Cragg Rawsthorne, 8.A.; John Muur.ce Davies, S.C.L. ; Henry Jeffries &Ashby, Esq. • Ptdll3 D'Alcantara Travemer Valdez, Esq., sad Haworth Hell, Esq.—Yesterdav a further call to the bar of students of the lion. Society of Lincoln's-inn was made, and they comprise the atter-mentioned gentle- Inen .—Wm. Hackett, B , A. ; Edward F. S. Pigott, - 111.A. ; William W. Es. ; Charles P. Stuart, B.A. ; Mark MeTrump, B.A. ; Wm. r. Stephen R.A.; Charles T. Calvert, M.A.; Horace Townsend, 8.A.; Philip William, 8.A., and Edna:4 8. Dale, Eq. THE KAFFIR WAR. A public meeting, called by tho Aborigines Pro tection Society, was held last evening, at the Friend's Meeting House, Peter's -court, St. Martin's lane, the object being to diffuse information on the subject, and to paw reso- I lutions condemnatory of the war. The chair was taken by Mr. C. LUSHINGTON, M.P., who had understood that the meeting was a Westminster meeting, and in all that belonged to the City of Westminster he was of course immediately interested, consequently he had accepted the invitation to attend. (Hear, hear.) Ho , was not a member of the Aborigines or the Peace Society, ! though he concurred en their objects. They had met to consider the best means of restoring peace to South Africa, I and he believed it was intended to pass resolution which should result in the diffusion of information as to South Africa, and be might add, without taking a partisan view of the question, into the wrongs of the Kettles. (Cheers.) He thought they had not been treated with that humanity and forbearance which ought to be exercised by a civilised nation as against barbarians. We had, he thought, carried On a war of severity; and he feared from what he taw of the preparations making, we were ate.ut to carry on a war of extermination against them. (Hear, hear.) Humanity and Christianity alike called upon the people of this country to prevent that. (Hear, hear.) We had sent out missionaries to preach the gospel of peace, and we had followed the pre. eepts of those missionaries by Shrapnel! shells. (Hear, bear.) M. CHAMEROVGOW (the secretary of the Aborigines Protection Society) proposed the first resolution. He said the object of the committee in calling the meeting was to diffuse information which should have the effect, not only of putting au end to the present war, but all future wars, against these aboriginal tribes. Without going into the question of the Ir Urban or the Glenelg policy, all admitted that we hail ill used the Kaffir'. The present war was a result of that of 1816, and the war of 1816 was the conse quence of that of 1315, which had resulted from aggres sions made by us on the Kadin and their territory ; and all these contests were the consequence of aggression. taunting from the despatches of Lord Glenelg to Sir B. Te Urban, Mr. Chamer iegow proceeded to show that, according to the authority of his lordship, the Kaffir" were justi• fled in rushing into the war of 1815, by the aggressions made on their territory, and the rave. rity and injustice which had been exercised towards them; that the commando system had freclutntly been out into operation on light grounds, and unfounded wean tions, preferred by the colonists. Lord Glenelg, accord ingly, face general directions to try in our relations with the telex/ a system of forbearance and justice. We bud taken a large extent of territory from the Kaftirs, believing that that territory had been wrung from them by injustice, Lord (Mender said the whole of the territory between the Keiskanuna river and the Keis should be sur rendered. If it were true that in 1831 the Kaffir' were justified in making war to wrest back from us this terri tory, and thet when conciliation :red forbearance were en creued, between 1836 and 1816, there was no war, while, on the resumption of the policy of 1831 or 1811, war broke out agaiu, chat was the inference ? Why, that justice and forbearance were the means by which we could most ess succfully deal with those tribes. In 1816 Sir I'. Malt- laud was anxious to build a new fort, " Fort Alice," and fur that purpoic proceeded to mark out the land, which be longed to the Kadin; th Kaffir, objected that this was an infraction of the treaty entered into with them at the close of the war, and demanded that the soldiers should be with drawn, instead of this a reinforcement was sent for. The Kaffir. complained that we kept uo faith with them, and were not to be trusted, and at length the aspect of affairs became so threatening that the governor went and with drew the surveying force. But then came the circumstance of the rubbery of the axe, the severity with which that act was met, and other matters, which, acting upon a people already rendered suspicious by our conduct, led to the war of 1616—a war which had occasioned us so much expense, and gained us so little credit. Subsequently Sir Harry Smith went out. Well, he com menced by condemning the making of any military demon stration in the Kaffir territory,but having summoned Sandilla, and Sanddla (feeling from past experience how little faith was to be placed in the British government) relusing to attend, Sir Harry Smith sent a military lorce into the Kaffir territory to capture him, thus entering upon the very system he bad himself condemned. It had been asserted that the D'Ufball policy had been suece-sl'ul and the Glenelg policy unsuccessful; but he denied this, and he was sure if the evidence of the commissioners of the Kaffir frontier was forthcoming, it would be seen that under the Glenelg policy the number of Kaffir depredations diminished very considerably; and from the period of the operations of that policy until the Ir Urban policy was introduced there was no war. No doubt there were defects in the Glenelg policy, which might have been remedied, and were these defects removed, and that policy again resorted to, it would be successful. The question was how to introduce it. It had been suggested that a com mission should be sent out, and that the Katfirs should be informed that we intended to act justly by them. This might do some good; but he thought it might Übe well if some of the outlying tribes who, though hostile to us, were not so bitterly so as those with whom we were at war, were employed to act as me diators. The Kaffirs had proved their good faith by the manner in which they had adhered to trea ties; and what was wanted was to prove to them that we could keep faith also. But Sir Harry Smith said that the Kaffirs were starving, and ready to lay down their arms. it so, why not take advan• tage of the oonortunitv ? No doubt if the war were coati tined the KNIT, woula be beaten and driven further inward or exterminated. But were we to cam ou a war of exter mination, and, if so, at what cost ? Ile would undertake to say that every Kaffir killed would cost this country from 0001. to SOO/. (Hear, hear.) But suppose the war at an end by the conquest Of the tribes, still the question must come, were we to deal with them hereafter on the D'Urbaa system, or the more humane one of Lord Glenelx, modified according to circumstances ? No doubt the Kaffirs were addicted to cattle-stealing, but he believed the colonists were far too careless in regard to their cattle, and that they threw temptation into the way of these savages. But ca•ilixed men were sometimes thieves—(llear, hear)—and were they to expect that men who were confessedly barbarians should be superior. Surely the stealing a few cattle now and then was not a sufficient ground for plunging us into an inglori ous arid expeasiv war. (Hear, hear.) He admitted that the public were not at present in possession of sufficient in formation to pass a judgment upon the whole question ; but he submitted that they would do much good by strengthen ing the hands of the society in their endeavours to restore peace, and to prevent the recurrence of such wars in future. Therefore ho, in conclusion, would propose a resolution commendatory of Lord Glenelg's policy, and expressing an opinion that our future relations with the Kaffir's should be based upon it. (Hear.) 'I he resolutiun hating been carried, Mr. J. BELL, the treasurer of the Aborigines Society, proposed another resolution, pledging the meeting to pro mote a more extensive and correct knowledge of the events of our colonies, especially of South Africa, by means of the publications of the society. The motion having been carried, A gentleman in the body of the meeting, who said he was a farmer, who had been out nine years in the colony, and had been ruined there, observed that &nails had agreed to the erection of the fort at Block Drift, and Sir I'. Maitland agreed to pay a rent for it. lie would also observe that the kaffirs were not the aborigines of the territory between the Fish River and the Great Sic, but held it by right of conquest. The SECRETARY said it was true negotiations were opened in respect to the erection of the tort, but it was found that Sandi& had to consult the other chiefs, but be fore their decision was come to, Sir I'. Maitland commenced to stake out the ground. ' The COLONIST read an extract from the blue-book to L show that Sandia& had himself confessed it was impossible for the chiefs to prevent the Kaffirs from stealing, and re quested that the governor should take military occupation of the territory. lie, as a farmer, did not wish for war hut ' peace, but it was due to those who had been induced to colonise the country that they should be protected. A vote of thanks to the chairman closed the proceeding.. MECHANICS' ISTRIKE AT LEEDS.—The strike at Messrs. Kitson and Co.'s, locomotive engine makers, at Leeds, which has been going on for some two months, still continues. The firm having engaged new hands in the place of those who have left, frequent fracas have taken place between some of the two sets of men ; and at present • charge made against one of the turn-outs is under the consideration of the Leeds Justices. The charge is against James Wilkinson, who, as is alleged, on Monday last, so seriously assaulted Robert Mesterman, as to endanger his life. The justices were yesterday engaged several hours in investigating the case, but as 31astermun is still too ill to I appear in court, the hearing, which had stood over from last Monday, was again adjourned to Wednesday. Accord ing to the statements made to the magistrate., the prosecu tor, while going to his work on Monday morning, was set upon by scverul men, the prisoner being one of them, and beaten with heavy sticks in such • brutal manner as to 'cause concussion of the brain. Mr. Roberts, solicitor, of Manchester, who attended on behalf of the prisoner, said he had • complete answer to give to the charge against his client, but as the case could not be concluded until next week, he hoped the justices would, in the meantime, admit his client to bail. Ihe justices refused the application. FIRE AT SHOREDITCII.—Yceterday morning, at a quarter before six o'clock, • fire was discovered on the premises of Messrs. H. W. Bushell, English and French hatters, 114, High -street. A policeman endeavoured to arouse the inmates, but some time elapsed ere he could accomplish that object, 'and not until the lower door, together with • portion of the staircase, was in a general ' blaze. Ladders were soon procured, and taken up a pas , sage to the back premises, and nearly all the residents escaped unhurt; but two females, who occupied the adjoin , mg milliners' shop, of the name of Bushell, in coming down the ladder from the second floor by some means . slipped and both fell to the ground, and were considerably , its are d . The Royal Society's escapes with the engines soon attended, and plenty of water having been obtained, they were worked with vigour, but in spite of the most strenu ous exertions of the firemen the flames could not be con- , quered until the trading premises were destroyed, together with their contents. The loss is thus reported!? Mr. Con norton, the foreman of the West of England Fire-office : , " The buildings belonging to Messrs. Bushell nearly de-' ' keyed; insured in the PllCrtliX Fire-office; supposed amount of lees about 4001. on the premises and stock, and about 2001. on the furniture ; the property of the Misses Bushell, milliners, also damaged, Insured in the Phoenix Fire-office. The Misses Bushell much injured in making their lescape from the fire. The premises of Mr. Peters, in Par son's-court, were also damaged by fire and water, and were not insured." MIDDLESEX FREEHOLD LAND ASSO CUTION. Yesterday evening a public meeting was held, at Freemasons' Tavern, Great Queen-street, to form an asso ciation, with the oboes title, for the acquisition of freehold land, to confer on the subscribers the pardamentary fran chise. The attendance was very large. The emir was taken at half-past 7 by Mr. J. WILLIAXS, M.F. for Mae , chiliad. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said he bad always felt the deepest interest in the prosperity of the well-disposed workiug classes, who until recently had been PO much niglectel Fre,holti land societiel were amongst the leading Matures of the present time, and nothing else afforded such facilities for obtaining the suffrage. The society in Marylebone bad answered beyond all expecta tion; and in a county with which he was connected, at a distance from London, GOO votes had been created during the past year. (Hear, bear.) lie was no advocate for setting the working classes against the higher, believing that the interests of the two were common. The prime minister had told theta that he intended to bring forward a comprehensive plan of reform in the ensuing session. Ile (the chairman) believed the battle for the franchise must be fought outside the walls of parliament. lie wanted to see the people fully and fairly represented in the people's house, and it was in their power to do something towards obtaining that position. Ile saw no reason why the Mid dlesex Land Society should not within two ye sea comprise 2,000 members. He did not want those present to take a single share, on his recommendation ; they _must all judge and act for themselves. (Hear, hear.) Mr. J. BEALE said, the meeting must judge of the scheme by the character of the men who were connected with it. (Hear, hear.) Those whom they were asked to trust bad been trusted by other societies, and had proved themselves men of integrity. A number of local societies wore already established ; but it was now proposed to institute one ou a larger stale, and having a wider range of operations. (Hear) Other societies had taken up the social ground; but this society, like the parent one, would have a wide political object, and would stead fastly keen in view the widest extension of the suffrage. He then gave a short history of freehold land societies and their proceedings, and stated the process by which land was obtained by the members. It was no part of the plan that men who had obtained possession of ground should then quit their occupation and go and squat upon it. (Hear, hear.) The first point to be kept in view was the acquisition of the franchise ; but in a commercial point of view the society was wry important. In some parts of the country subscribers had sold their land at a considerable profit ; and experience showed that there could not be a better invest :neat for the savings of working men. When property was made the basis tit political power, and when political power was corrupted at its source, it was natural to aim at political objects by commercial means. Out of 3,77$ qualifications for county votes, there was ouly one of which tiny could avail themselves to obtain the county franchise. They had all heard of the late revelations at St. Albans. (" Hear, hear," and 1 iuglitcr.) Mr. Coppock had there declared that he could putt out many other constituencies which were as corrupt as that of St. Albans. It appeared, there tore, that the battle of reform Mid to he fought over again; and it was fur them, through this movement, to come for ward and rescue the hon,t electors in every part of the country. They had proved their power in the boroughs, and they were determined to make it feat in the counties. lie concluded by moving a resolution to the effect that freehold land societies were of a highly beneficial cha racter, and that one should then be formed, to be denomi nated "The Middlesex Freehold Laud Association." Mr. NICIIOLAY seconded the resolution, which was adopted unanimously. Mr. CONCANN MN moved and Mr. NASH seconded the nomination of the committee, which, after a short discus shin, was agreed to. Other formal resolutions were also adopted, and the meet ing concluded with a vote of thank., to the Chairman. NAVAL APPOINTNIENTS.—ADMIRALTY, Nov. 21. Surgeon W. Robertson, to Hogue. Clerk in Charge J. C. Pinhorn, to Jaetu. Master Smith A. Ainslie, to Devon port Dockyard. loremau of do. H. Devonshire, to Devon port Dockyard. THE GREAT EXIIIIIITION AND THE PRICE OF PRO VISIONS.—Icsterday, at the meeting of the board of guar dians of St. Marylelsone, held in the beard-room adjoining the workhouse, J. J. Cohens, Esq., in the chair, the follow ing letter was read by Mr. 11w, the secretary :—" Poor law Board, London, Nov. 19, 1831.—Sir,—I am directed by the Poor-law Boar d to _request that you will till up and return to them the enclosed form relating to the contract prices of the several articles mentioned therein, for which contracts may have been entered into by the directors and guardians between the Ist April and 3Oth September in the years 18.50 and 18.51 respectively. The board have been applied to for this information with reference to a report which Mr. Redgrave has been instructed to make to the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of the Works of Industry of till Nations, showing the general condition of tlie. metropolis during the coatinuauce of the Exhibition. The board are desirous of affording any assistance in their power in furtherance of the proposed inquiry, and they hope that you may be able to supply the required informa tion without any material trouble or inconvenience.— am, sir, your obedient servant, COIALTENAY, secretary. To the clerk of the Board of Directors and guardians of the parish of St. Islarylebone."—Meat, bacon, bread, dour, milk, cheese, and potatoes, are the articles respecting which information is requested. Jacob Bell, E-q., movsii that the request ui the Poor-Law Board be complied with. Mr. Frewin seconded the motion. Mr. Walters objected to the denoted of the Poor-Law Board, and moved, as an amendment, that the letter lay upon the table. Mr. Mar riott, in seconding the amendment, remarked that the pre sent application was but inserting the small end of the wedge; the Poor-Law Board would require more from them. J. Bell, Esg., M.P., remarked that great differences of opinion emistedin the public mini as to whether the late Exhibition had proved beneficial or otherwise; the condi tion of the poor would prove more or less a criterion, aad it' the price of provisions increased during the time of the Exhibition, it would make a material difference in men's minds as to whether the Great Exhibition had proved ad vantageous or otherwise to this country. Ile considered it to be the duty of that board, as of all others similarly constituted, to return an answer to all such questions as the ono before them ; more especially as it could be done without any great trouble or inconve nience. Sir James Hamilton, Bart—ln the exercise of our authority, we cannot refuse so reasonable a request. Mr. Wdters—We have nothing to do with the demand of the Poor Law Board. Sir James Hamilton thought that fur ono of the most important parishes in the metro. polio, which was as extensive as some of the continental states, to refuse to comply with so cour teous and reasonable a request would be exceedingly unbe coming. After some fet observations from other members of the board, the resolution was carried by a large major ity. The Secretary was directed to acknowledge the re ceipt of the letter, and to state that the desired information should be furnished. CHARGE OF SIIEEP STEALING, NEAR BRISTOL,— The magistrates for the Bedminster district of the county of Somerset, were engaged on Thursday in hearing a charge of sheep stealing, which, owing to the extent to which de predations of the kind have been committed upon the flocks of the farmers of Somenetshire,exeited a very unusual amount of interest. Edwin Richards, the prisoner, wee stated to be a person who had until within the last few years moved in a highly respectable sphere of society, and the specific charge against him was for having, on the night of the 26th of October, feloniously stolen from a field at Ban Nell eighteen sheep, the property of a farmer named Cottle. It appeared from the evidence, which was volu minous, that for several months past an extensive system of sheep stealing has been carried on, net only in Somerset, but among the sheepfolds on the Gloucestershire side of the city of Bristol. Sometimes the animals would be killed upon the ground, their carcases carried off, and the skim, heads, and entrails either left upon the field or soak at some pond ; and at other times the sheep would be drills off bodily, so as to leave it doubtful for a time whether they had been stolen or had broken bounds and strayed. On the evening of the 26th of October Mr. Cottle's sheep were seen safe in the field, an& at an early hour on the following morning it was found that they had either gone or bees driven: away , . Inquiries were promptly set on foot, and a no trace of the missing sheep could be discovered, it became soon evident that so large a number could not have strayed ' without some traces of their being discoverable, and that consequently they must have been stolen. Information was at once given to the police, but ell efforts to detect the de predator proved unavailing until a few days since, when the prisoner fell into the hands of the Bristol police force upon another charge. One of the officers, upon searching hint, found in his pocket a cheque drawn by a butcher in London, and this fact, coupled with some others that had previously come to his knowledge, led the constable to sus speet that he had been concerned in Mr. Cattle's robbery. He immediately set inquiries on foot, and learning from the drawer of the cheque that it had been given in payment for some sheep, his suspicions were strengthened, and his diligence increased. At length he obtained some important evidence from a railway porter in the employ of the Great Western Railway Company. That witness, who is employed at the Bath station, identified the prisoner as having on the day of the rubbery brought IS sheep (the precise number stolen) to the railway, where be booked the sheep for conveyance to Paddington station, stating that they would be called for there by a Mr. Brown, a drover, who would take charge of them, and convey them to their destination. In accordance with these directions the sheep were placed on a Buck and sent off, as directed, to Paddington, where a man received them. Further evidence was adduced, to show that the prisoner himself afterwards proceeded to London ; that he presented himself at the Paddington station and asked for the sheep, which were given to him; and that he then drove them to Smithfield market, and sold them to a butcher, whose cheque was found upon him. These facts hay ing_been proved, the magistrates committed him for trial. FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE LONDON GASWORKS. — Yesterday, Mr. Carter, the coroner, held an inquest at the White Lion Tavern, High-street, Vauxhall, on the body of Henry Grady, aged 49. The deceased was a coke raker in the service of the London Gas Company, Vauxhall, and on Tuesday morning last was employed in the discharging of coals into the premises by means of trucks, which were pushed along a tramway from the ;waterside, when one of the vehicles by some means was forced over the iron stage at the end, and before deceased could get out of the way the truck, weighing nearly a ton, fell upon him, ad crushed him quite fl at on the ground. Assistance was po cured, and he was extricated, but life seemed extinct. Me dical aid was called in, but all efforts to restore life were useless. The accident was caused by the Iron brake giving way at the end of the stage. Verdict—" Accidental death. THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 22, 1851. IRELAND. Deane, Nov. 21. It is understood that the Mansion House Packet Station Committee have been unanimous in approv ing of Galway as the Transatlantic Packet Station. Their long-coming report has not, however, yet appeared. In the case of Birch against Sir William Somer ville, a special jury was struck yesterday, and the 26th inst. has been named for the trial, although it is not expected that it can come on before the sittings after the term. There was another sale of encumbered estates in Henrietta-street yesterday, the commissioners endea vouring to ease the pressure of business by having occasionally a third sale day in the week. Threeestates were offered yesterday for competitim--one in Mayo, the property of John Bolingbroke and others, which was sold at rates averaging between 13 and 14 years' purchase; another in Meath, belonging to Cecilia Brown, which averaged about 20 years purchase; and the third consisting of some house property in the city of Dublin. A correspondent of the Freeman, writing from Athboy, in the county of Meath, says : As Mr. Dyes, of lleathstown, near Athboy, was on his way to the fair of Carlanstown, on Wednesday morning, between the hours of six and seven o'clock, within about a mile of his residence, his horse was shut dead under his car from behind the road ditch. Mr. llyas is a magistrate of Westmeath, and agent to Sir Montague Chapman. There was some house levelling on Sir Montague's Franc property on yesterday. Some of the tenants are arrested. There is an investigation at present going on at the police barracks here. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL CAMBRIDGE, Nov. 21.— PEMBROKE COLLEGE.— Mr. Charles Edward Searle, Foundation Scholar, has been elected a Fellow of this society. MILITARY. (From hat night'. Gazette.) W,tILOFII !f., Nov. 21. 6th Rrgt. of Drag. Gds.—A. I'. lone, gent., to be cor., by pur., rice Whratauft, prom. 7th Lt. Wags. —C. w. Poulet, gent., to be car., by pur., vie, Aytoon. I.sth Lt. Insp.—W. L Stuart, gent., to be cor., by pm., vice blur. nett, prom. 17th Lt. Drags.—Urut. W. Y. Tolizonche, (run the 77th F., to be lieuL, eke 11. S. Gouge, who cachga Ooldetreon Heat. of Fan Gls. —Eusign 11. Toner, front the 48th F., to be cwt. and lieut., by put., vice the Ilan. G.C. C. Eliot, prom. lon V.—Lieut. F. Connor to be capt., wiihout pur., vice Oldham, killed In calm ; Ens. Lora C. E. Hay lobe licut , ',About pur., egx nth F.—.O. IL J. IL Chapman, gent., to be ere., ly pttr. 7th F. —Ent. the lion. E. C. H. Hassey, hum the, nth F., to be lieut., by pur., TIM Tritt woo ruts. nib V.—W. 0. H. T. Fairatz, gent , to be ens., by per., Tiv Wilkin son, prom. 12tb O. L. *widen, from the Cape Moulted Innen:ten, to be Lent., Pere wbo each. lath V.—C. C. I.Aug, gent., tr be elm, by per., elee Snuerset, prom. th F.—J. W. Inare in, gent., to be cow, by pee., von zitacpoole, Rho rein. llitltlo. l l.leut. J. IL Moore to be opt., by pur., vice Cuntpb..ll, who lets.; Ens. IL A. thlukston to be Lem., by bur., vice 31urte; M. L. W. Clarke, Cent to be ear., by pur., rice .rim-tun. 13111 IL Bathurst to be drat heut., by pur., vice 11°1- bort, who let% 30. h V. A. 11. Wlllianaon, gent. to be cog., by pur., lion Bennett, prom. E.—J.O. \little:ear, gent., to bean., by par., vice Wright, Mora. Stah BrouMimak, gent, to be ca.., by kur., via. (Nowlin., prom. 40th Y.--tlipt. J. C0car.4..., rio un.t., to be c vice We.. Major 11. U. Cowper, wuu eschcoo; lieu.. F. B. I .rew to be cmt., by put., vise Carla.. . who errs. ; Ens. A. A. W. LC4 to be beat., , It/ put., Mee Dees; T. v 01.., to br ens, by pur., nee 1.40 ; 1-teat. U. C. Wim toVe aJit., vice Drew, prom. 13n1 F.—b,rd K. Cecil tt bo mu., by par., vim the lion. R. Mooch, prom.; 11. 11. Utemon, gout., to be nob., by pur., owe Wilmot, . prom . . _ . Both It.—Berj -ltd. E. N% idlers to be quartermaster, rice Paul, tee. 7ltb F.—C. V. buerlick, geld., to bit can., by par., tree mutant, . . . . . Who relit. 73th E.—T. Arus4ell, gent., to be ens., by pur., vice Riven, prom. 77th F.—Lieut. H. "L Geuryr, iron the 1: Ib Light Uralic., to be lieut., Hee Toll.m tche, who cacti. ; ti. E. Copley, gent., to be ear., by par, vice Piebell, pria.; T. Esaionde, gent., to be ens., by pur., ;I; 7 ltictimsn. , - " COW F. It. Suitt, gent., to be est., by pur., vice Sullivan, prom. 52nd F.—lirev. Lieu•.-Oil. C. Stewart, from b..p. unat, to be maj., vim Brev. LicuL.Col. W. Sister, whir each.; C E. B. ILtle to be carol., by pur., re. .c stewint, who rein.; Lieut. F. E. Tighe, to be cot., by pur., Eu'. W. Ranh to be lieut., by pur., vice Tighe; 11. Apnea+, gent, to cos., by pur., vice Bar_ on. fard F.—J. Warty" gent., to !menu, by pur., vie.. Burroughs, prom. Ride Briggile.-0. S. Windlnun ti be sec.-lieut., by pur., vice T. Lai ford, app. to Slot F. lit West Indu Itegt.—E. S. 11-irri.on gent., to be env., without pur., vice fibulae, app. to tic Ceylon tt do !Mgt. 2nd We,t 'tutu itict.—G. U. Wesson, gent. to be ens., without pur., vice Pattereen, {TOOL 3rd %V. I. IBIL—IL B. Ilunte, gent., to be env., by pur., vice Rogers, prom.; W. IL Ilia. gent., to be ens., without our., vice Hampton, dec. ' • Limo's, gent., to be cos, without pur., vice Knott, prom. Royal Newkwallm.il Companies.— i. S. Quill, gent., to be ens., without pur., slit King, remoicd to Sltb F. Cam %tousled .Lieut. T. W. Goodrich, from the 12th F., to le lieut., vice ctudde t, who etch , . ; J.l'. cos, gent., to be ens., wi•bout pur., via Smyth, prom. Gold Coat Corp, —Q t .iti•rdic,ter-Scrj. 11. louse, from the Ist %V.I. Regt., to be ens., without pur., vice Thompson, whose prom. has been conceited. BREVET. Lieut.-Col. J. Aware), Unit. to be col. in the arnm;. To be M lire Artny.—Copt. 3. M. Gamely (apt. of emu pan'en of Gentlemen Coats at the Royal Mil. Cot); Crapt. R. Daly ;coot. of oomp VILE9I4 Gentlemen Cadets at Roy al Mil. Col.) • Bee,. Maj. T. inataUy, of E.e.t toast Company's ber•Le to have t h e tem poray 'LARK of major *bile employed at the 111.iiiiary Seminary, at Addiscombe. NAVAL tYroni last night's Gaulle.) AL?llittik.TY, Nov. 12 Corps of Royal Marine'.—kila. Licutimmit William Mansell Maruell to be tul,p.. vice Fri/oW6, pt.]. ADMIRALTY. Nov. I . _ _ . Corps of Royal Uartues. • 1:(1:011d. second Commandant 1) aid James Dallingall to be ado:ill commandant, vice tabsone, who reams on full pay; Lieutenant-Colonel J ones Whylock to be c loci ~eased commandant, vice Balldig.ll, promoted; liirevet Major John Totbill to bo lieutenantcolons., vice Wbptock, pnameted; Firm Lieutenant 'n Llama) Chriganner Parkin Lilian to be captain, vice TothiL promoted; recoil," lienteum.t William Taylor to be first litutenaht„ via: Eitiott, promoted. THE DEATH OF SIR JOBS COPE, BART., so well known as an admirer of the sports of the field, took place on the 18th inst., at Bramshill-park, Hants. The deceased baronet was the second son of William Cope, EN., of !Mgtlen Place, Bent, by the daughter of Benjamin Green wood, Esq., of st. Marys Cray. He was patron of one living, and succeeded his brother in 1812. The first baronet was twice nigh Sheriff of Oxfordshire in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and represented the borough of Danbury iu parliament. The deceased is succeeded by his son. Sir John Cope kept an excellent pack of hounds in the county of Hants, and was reusarkablo for his advocacy of the sports of the held. The Queen, on the 9e,csodun of her visit to the Duke of Wellington, ut Strathfieldsaye, in 1814, called upon Sir John Cope, at Bramahill, hat the hun. baronet was absent from home. __ _ _ SUICIDE AT HAVERSTOCK HlLL—Yesterday after. noon, Mr. Wakley, held an inquest at the College Arms, St. Pancras-road, Camden-town, on the body of Linden Thomas, aged 2.3, a servant late in the employ of Mr. Nutting, piano-forte maker, of Tottenham-court-road. The jury having viewed the body, Mrs. Mary Ann Nut ting stated that their private residence was Rochelle-cot tage, Caroline-place, Haverstock-hill. Deceased had been in their service four years. Witness had been ill in bed all day on Tuesday, and late in the afternoon, when she got up, she was astonished to find the kitchen tire out. She caned deceased, and not receiving any answer, instituted a search, which resulted in the discovery of the deceased in the water butt, head downward,. There was one of the kitchen chairs at the side of the water-butt. An alarm was given, and some persons came to her assistance, when de ceased was taken out quite dead. She had seen her an hour and a half before. Deceased's relatives and a young man who was paying his addresses to her had Irequently visited her; the latter came to see her on Sunday evening last. Deceased bad never made any complaint against any one, but lately was rather low-spirited and reserved. Mr. Was. Henry Holman, surgeon, Chalcott-villa, Haverstuck, men tioned a fact elicited by the post mortem examination, which made it probable that deceased committed suicide under apprehensions concerning her character. The jury deliberated about half an hour, with closed doors, and when the court was re-opened, returned a verdict, "That the deceased was found drowned in a water-butt, into which she had thrown herself whilst in a state of mind to the jury unknown." FURIOUS DRIVING AND VERDICT OF MAN SLAVORTER.—Last evening Mr. J. W. Payne resumed an inquest at St. Thomas's Hospital, on the body of William Stopford, aged 40, who lost his life under the following cir cumstances:—lt appeared by the evidence that the deceased was a butcher, and on Tuesday morning last the deceased and another man were in a cart, driving at a furious rate over Loudon-bridge, towards the Borough, and in their pro gress came in violent collision with a waggon. The deceased and his companion were thrown out. The former was picked up insensible, and carried by the police to the hospital, where he died from the injury he had received. Edward Hobday, who was with the deceased, said, they were in the service of Mr. Fowles, the butcher, of Ber mondsey-street. Witness lost all control of the horse. Mr. W. C. Dobson, the house-surgeon, said, the deceased died from fracture of the skull. The coroner summed up, when the jury returned a verdict of "Manslaughter," against Edward Hobday. COMMITTAL OP THE OLDBURY BURGLARS.—(From our Correspondent.)—Lzonmezza, Fietnror.—The two men (Moss and Roc k) whose capture near Leominster by the local police, after a desperate and bloody resistance, has recently been reported in this paper, were, in pursu ance of previous arrangement, brought before the magis trates at this place, and underwent an examination, prepa ratory to their committal for trial, on the three charges of burglary with violence at Oldbury, in Worcestershire ; Burford, in Shropshire; and Cornewell, near Chipping Norton, in Oxfordshire ; besides the charge of shooting at the police at Leominster. The inquiry terminated in the prisoners being removed to Oxford County Gaol for trial at the next assizes at Oxford on the Chipping Norton charge. The policeman Smith is quite recovered from his wounds, slid the wounded prisoner is also able to be removed. THE POTATO CROP IN SCOTLAND.—In East Lothian the potato is keeping much better in the pit than was anticipated some time ago. In most cases it is supposed , that two-thirds of the crop will be available for human consumption. In low-lying lands, where the crop was large, probably about half will be preserved.—Edinburp4 Courani Lab) Intelligence. EQUITY COURTS.-YESTERDAY. Huss Tar Loaus lonic. or Arr.,- SPARRow P. THIS 01MILD, WOIicESTEIt, AND WOLVES HAMPTON IL fILWAY CUMPANT. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Shapter renewed, by way of appeal, a motion for an injunction which had been re fused by Vice-Chancellor Turner on Monday last. The plaintiffs carry on business on a large scale as iron and tinplate manufacturers at Wolverhampton, and for that purpose occupy extensive premises and offices there. I'art of these premises being required for the purposes of their undertaking by the company, they, on the June,lSil, served the plaintiffs with the usual notice to treat for the pur chase of a portion of their premises. The plainti I &thereupon served the company with a counter notice, declining to sell part only of their premises, but stating that they were willing and able to sell the whole ' for which they fixed their demand of compensation at 60,0001. The company ! having obtained a valuation of the portion required by them, gave to the plaintiffs a bond to the amount which was stated at 0001., and having paid that suns into the bank, they claime a right to enter into the lands under the provisions of the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act. The plaintiffs then filed their bill to prevent them from so doing, and to prevent them from taking measures under the statute to enforce the sale of a portion only of the lands. It appeared that the company had served the notice upon the plaintiffs before the expiration of the compulsory power to take lands given by their act, but that such power had expired before the filing of the bill. The case of the plaintiffs in the court below was, that their compulsory power of purchasing having now expired the company had no right to take any part of the plain tiffs' land, but that if they, nevertheless, should be held to have such right, they were bound to take the whole of the plaintiffs manufactory-. The court below held that by the giving of the notice the relation of vendor and pur chaser was established between the plaintiffs and the com pany, and that the expiration of their compulsory powers under the act did not annul the rights which the company had acquired as actual purchasers. It held also that as the 92nd section of the Lauds Chai-i: Consolidation Act did not appear to be incorporated in the company's >heeiul act, but was inconsistent with certain clauses of that act, the company had a right to take a part of the manufactory, without taking the whole. The injunction was therefore refused by the court below. The Solicitor-General and Mr. Shapter appeared in sup port of the appeal motion ; and Mr. Halt and Mr. &mill for the company. Their Lordships thought that there was a sufficient ques tion as to the legal right of the plaintiffs upon the construc tion of the special act and the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act, to induce the court to send a case to court, and their lordships granted an injunction without prejudice to any question, with a direction that a case should be taken fur the opinion of a court of law upon the legal question. The ease was to be so settled as to keep open the points in dis pute between the parties, viz., whether the company were still in time, notwithstanding that their compulsory power of purchasing was gone ; and whether what they wished to take constituted a part of the plaintiffs' nianutactury or not ; the defendants to have till 'f uesday to determine whe ther they will suspend the case at law until after the deter mination of the equitable question arising upon the alleged ground of consent on the part of the plaintiffs to the provi sions contained in certain clauses of the special act of the company. RITTINGP ♦T I 1,110LN . ,111,1. 5,111,8 I RI. LOAD CJA. , CIII.OI. Ilia lordship took petitions in lunacy. Ix nn FtattEn.--Scpeitscur.ts. A supersede];B Tn this caeu was granted in 'terms of the prayer of a petition. IN it LEE.—CUSTODY OP A LUNATIC. This was a petition praying for the removal of a lunatic front his present committee under the following circum stances, or for a reference to the Master to inquire and re port who was the proper person to be intrus•ed with the custody. The petitioners were the Rev. &mull:dee Lee, rector of Broughton, in Hampshire, and his brother, Mr. Henry Lee, a medical gentleman in the metropolis, and the lunatic is their brother, Mr. Pincke Lee, a gentleman of property in Berkshire. The elder brother of the peti tioners, and heir-at-law to the lunatic, Mr. John Lee, for merly a captain in her Majesty's 34th regiment, but now residing in Dunbartonshire, was, it appeared, a few years ego appointed committee under a family arrangement, but die lunatic had remained under the care of the Rev. Mr. Lee, at his rectory in Ilants, down to the month of May last. On the 17th of that month Mr. John Lee wrote to she commissioners in lunacy, stating that he was desirous to have his brother removed (o v his owl residence for the hens fit of regular medical attendance. The reply was that he could not be better placed than where he then was. But before Mr. John Lee could have received that communica tion he went down to Broughton aunt removed the lunat;c ; hence the present proceedings. The Lord Chancellor thought it was necesssry and proper to inquire and ascertain who was the proper person to be committee of the lunatic. Ile found that some years ago a petition had been presented to the court by Mr. Henry Lee and the Rev. Standlake Lee, who stated that it was proposed to place the lunatic [ under the care of a Mr. NN ood, a medical man, and Pray ing for an increase of allowance to the extent of 50!. That proposition had been acceded to by the court, but it nos appeared that without any communication with the court au alteration was made, the lunatic being placed under the care of Mr. Standlake Lee. It appeared that Mr. John I ee i t tle ot wi i t t l i i m the un eo d n er ew h rr ia en o c w e n of e th ar e e f r at ' i y a , d b b u t e c h hne madea a d d e never till May last, under the circumstances detaiied in these pro ceedings. It must therefore be taken for granted that Mr. Lee thought that the ltev. Standlake Lee was a proper per son to have the care of the lunatic. There was no sugges tion of any ill-treatment of the lunatic by the cammittee His lordship then referred to the mode iu which the lunatic had been removed from the care of the petitioner. It ap peared to him a proceeding not of the most prudent descrip tion. Ile said nothing( disparaging of Mr. Lee, who was a very respectable gentleman, but he had adapted a course of en erroneous description, and it was necessary that the court should direct inquiry to be made as to the person most proper to be intrusted with the care of the lunatic. Ile should, however, allow the costs out of the lunatic's estate. SEWELL V. MEREAV. The arguments in this appeal motion were resumed, but the case had only proceeded a short way whon his lordship rose. Barons roe Yuma or TO, Rom". COOKE V. LADIOTTE AND LAMOTIE U. COOKE. This case, which occupied the attention of the court on Tuesday and Wednesday, was monied and concluded this morning. It was a bill filed by the representatives of the late Mrs. Louisa Foster, widow of General Foster, of Clifton, praying that a bond for 15,000/., given by her t her nephews—John Lewis Lamotte, George Lamotte, and Charles Lamotte, the defendants, should be delivered up to be cancelled. Mrs. Foster was entitled for life, under the will of her father, to property worth about 2-1,000/., of which she had the power of appointment by will. In 1814 John Lemon° visited his aunt by her incitation, and lived in her house till the middle of 1816. During that time she made several wills, increasing the benefit John Lamotte took under them, and by one will she beireathed equally to her three nephews about 22,000/. On the oth of February, 1816, she being then 78 years of age, she executed a bond for 10,0001., payable in case she should revoke the will in favour of her nephews, and on the ith of February she exe cuted a like bond for 1.5,0001. The former was cancelled, and the question before the court was the validity or inva lidity of the latter instrument. A great mass of evidence, some of it conflicting, was read. The principal circum stances relied on by the plaintiffs were that Mrs. Foster had a confidential solicitor, Mr. Cooke, who managed all her affairs, and was consulted on every transaction except this, which was kept secret from him, and when the bond was executed no attorney was present, nor any one except Mrs. Foster, Mr. Jelin Lamotte, and a young man named Giles, assistant to the family chemist, who had been sent to witness it b Mr. John Lamotte. In May following an estrangement took place between Mrs. Foster and Mr. John Lamotte, and soon afterwards ho left the house and they were never recon ciled; and afterwards Mrs. Foster made several wills, totally inconsistent with the supposition that she knew she had irrevocably disposed of a great portion of her property, by which wills Mr. John Lamotte took nothing, and his two brothers only took deferred annuities of 100/. each. For the defendants it was contended that she always stood in loco parentis to them, that this bond was given to beue fit them without injuring heraelf during her lifetime, by enabling money to be burrowed to purchase an advoason for George, and promotion in the army for John and Charles, though these objects were for various reasons not effected ; and a letter from Mrs. Foster to George was put in, in which she said, " I insist upon giving a bond for 15,0001. Employ your own attorney," and there was a memorandum in her pocket-book, " Feb. 7, 1816. .17:;is day I gave my dear John a bond." The Muter of the Rolls gave judgment, going through the case, and commenting on the various circumstances at great length. Ile considered that in such a case as this it was incumbent on the defendant to prove that it was a righteous transaction, and that the donor was fully aware of the effect of what she was doing. Ile did not think de fendants had made those points out, and he should there fore decree that the bond be given up to be cancelled, that the costs of the original bill be paid by Mr. John Lamotte, and he dismissed the cross bill with costs. 131301 Z ViCt-C.I.4IIOELLOft TVINtI. The court was occupied during the whole day with unop posed petitions and claims, and nothing occurred of the slightest public interest. llamas Vica-Citaxerwia Pasant. RE THE NEWMARKET RAILWAY COMPANY EN r.savz Jesus COLLEGE. This was the petition of the college, asking that the pro ceeds of a purchase of lands taken by the company for the purposes of their railway, which had been paid into court, might be paid to certain persons named as trustees for the company. On a former occasion the court directed the petition to stand over, that it might be informed of the value of the holding of the tenant, for whose interest it appeared that the company had paid a valuable consi deration. Mr. Stephen now brought the petition on with the re quired evidence, from which it appeared that the tenant's interest was a beneficial one—that he had paid a fine on the purchase of his term, and that he paid only a small head rent. . . . His Honour thought that the est•,te of the college was, under the circumstances, in the ne.ure of a reversionary in terest, and that a sum equivalen•, to the proportion of the annual rent should be rederr.id by the college, and that the surplus dividends should accumulate during tho residue of the tenant's term in tho farm. RE VIE &WTI! STAPFORDEIBIRE RAILWAY COMPANY EX. PARTE KING AND OTDERS -. . ' The company, under the powers of their act, had entered on the meeting-house of the Quakers, with a burying ground attached, situate at Weelnesbury, in Statfordiliire, and paid a sum into court under the provisions of the Lauds Clauses Act as a guarantee fur the value of the land. They subsequently agreed with the petitioners, the acting trus tees of the meeting-home, to purchase the property at the price of 6901. On investigating the title it appeared that there were objections to it, which could not be cleared up to the satisfaction of the company, who paid the 6001. some time since into court in the waiter of the act to the ac count of the parties. Mr. Craig and Mr. Prior now 'appeared in support of a petition by the trustees, and asked that the amount might be invested, and the dividends be paid to the trustees of the meeting-house. They also asked the court upon this petition to decide the questions of title that had been raised. Mr. Follett and Mr. Kinglake, for the company, de clined to submit the questions on the title to the court. The Vice-Chancellor directed the 6001. to be invested and the dividends to be accumulated, and directed the rest of the petition to stand over. Banes VICFCRAIM.I.OIt %a It. KMILIMLEY. BOURNE 0. BUCKTON.-ACCUMULATIUNS.-TLIELLUSONI The Vice-Chancellor delivered judgment in this case, in which a question arose under the Thelluson Act, as to whether thu accumulations directed by the will of Win. Stevens were valid or not. His Honour said this case had originally come before the Vice-Chancellor of England, under the title of " Halford v. Stains," and was repo' nett in the 16th volume of Mr. Simous . * reports. The will was so well abstracted by Mr. Simons that he would read the purport of it from the report. The testator by his will, dated in November, 1821, devised his freehold estates to trustees in trust to accumulate the rents during the life of his niece, Elizabeth Stains, and on her de cease to stand seised of the estates to the use of her first and other sons in tail. The testator then gave nil his stocks, funds, mortgages, and securities for money, and all the residue of his personal estate to the same trustees upon trust, to accumulate the proceeds thereof in the way of compound interest during the life of his niece, and after her decease in trust to transfer the securities and accumulations to her children equally, to he vested in the male children at 21, and in the females at that age or on their marriaa The ,e. will also contained clauses for the muintenance and edu cation of the children, and iu these clauses he termed the provision which he had so made fur them sometime, their portions and sometimes their portions or shares. When the case came on before theVice-Chancellor of England the only question raised was alto the accumulations of the real estate, and his llonear then decided that the trust fur accumulations became void at the end of 21 years after the tes tator's death, and that the testator's heir was entitled to the rents during the rentainah r of the niece's life. The point now raised was as to the accumulatious of tho personal estate. His Honour said the question was whether the provisions for children which were sometimes termed portions and sometimes shares came within the meaning of , the second section of the Thelluson Act. li they did not, lit was admitted that they would be void under the first ace dim. The find section of this act (39 and 10 Geo. 111. c. 98) declared that no person should settle or dispose of any real or personal property, so that the rents, Lames, and pro fits or produce thereof should be accumulated for any longer term than the life or lives of the grantor or the term of 21 years after his death or during the minority of any child who upon attaining 21 would be entitled to the produce of such estates. By the second section it was pro sided th it this act should not ecteud to any provision fur raising portions for the child or children of any grantor, or the child or children of any . person taking any interest under the settlement or devise in which the provisions were mad: ; the question then was, whether the provision contained in this %di was a provision for raising portions for a child or children of in rions taking an interest under the devise eccordimt to tile terms of the second section of the act ? It appeared that in case of the death of the testator's niece without issue there wee: simi lar limitations in favour of the children of other persans named in the will. The testator's niece Elizabeth was still living. His Honour's opinion was that this provision could nut be called u provision for raising portions fur children. It well not a direction out of the rents and profits, or out of the income, or by felling timber, or by any of the ordinary methods to raise a certaiu sum for the benefit of younger children or children generally, but it was a direction that the whole residue of the personal estate should ho accumu lated during the life of the testator's niece, and then the whole accumulations to go to her children. lie considered that this was not the meaning of the word portions. Ho should therefore direct that from the expiration of 21 years from the death of the testator the provision for accumula tion was void, and that taro legal personal representative of the testator was entitled both to the income of the accumu lated fund up to that time, and to the accumulated personal estate up to the time when Mrs. StililleS death wound put I an end to such accumulMious. SALTAIT V. DV DELD.-13 ELLA OF A 110141 N CATHOLIC? CIIAPEL.—NL'IdANCE.—INJITNCTION. This was an apmication for leave to give notice of motion for Tuesday next for an injunction to restrain the defun dant (the Rev. Frederick field), and all persons acting under his directimis or by his authority, front tol:ing or ringing the belts et a certain religious house or lt , nrat catholic chapel, situate in Perk-roar), in the parish of Clap ham, and from tolling and ringing the bells belonging to a Roman catholic chars,l adjoining to the In t iorc-iiien'ion,d relitt . ,iows house or chapel, and ‘7,17-`Cu;lxt" Immiculate Lady of Victories," or any of such 'rho Vice-Chancellor asked whether this case was really of such a pressing nature Lil to require being heard on so early a day, and whether the nuisance was worse front these bells living Roman catlillic hello. Mr. Mains and f Mr. Tripp, iu support of the apnlieation, assured his Honour that the fact of these bells lit longing to a itoman catholic eliap..l had nothing to do with the case. The plaintiff was an aged gentleman, residing close against the chapel, which had been built since he lied lived ia the house he occupied, and the constant ringing of the bells directly in front of his windons was a most intolerable nuisance. lie was worried out of his life. It was just the same as if a peal of bells was ringing all day. The plain tiff had already brought an action against the defendants at law, and had recovered damages, thereby establishing his right to have the nuisance put an end to. For soma time atter the action was decided, the ringing of the behs was stopped, but on Sunday week the nuisance was commenced again, and it really was so serious an annoyance to the pilaw. tiff that he hoped the court would hear the case as soon as possible. The Vice Chancellor said that under these circumstances he would allow notice of motiun to be given fur Tues day_nest. biozaAx r. WILLIAMS..--EXAMINATION OP A WELSH E;DT - 11 - T v CNT-171;1;;TT13.- This was the petition of a Mrs. Ellis and her hu,band that a sum of 1,2001., to which Mrs. Ellis was entitled as litr share of the property of her uncle, might be paid to the hushand. --- Mr:fw;ll‘, in support of the petition, said it was needs ' sary that the court should take the consent of the lady to the money being paid according to the petition, hutas the petitioner was a Welsh lady and could nut speak English, an interpreter had been provided. The N ice -Chancellor, after ascertaining the wishes of tho lady through the interpreter, said it appeared she was desirous of having a portiva of the money hi:rself. Ito should therefore direct a reference to the Muster to appruvu of a proper settlement. Mr. 1 wells subseituently stated to the court that the lady had changed her mind or had not tally understood what was to bo done with thu property, end now wished the money to be paid to her husband. It was also desired by all the parties to sate the expense of a reference to the Master. The N ice-Chancollor said he was fully satisfied that Mrs. Ellis perfectly understood the malice of the communication that h.al Liken place, and ho should nut rescind tne ordet he had made. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—YetrrEnDAT. SITI IN l , Is Masco.-1.i.V41101 GA IP Cayssst y MR. Jen - Wit Par. MI; iI:.I . ICRSOLEMIMIN /0.0 Sts. JU•ncs WIUKTXAS. Tuz QUEEN tl. ROWLANDS AND 0111E/19.-INDICTMENS YOE A CONtiPILLACY. This was an indictment against some workmen for con spiring to raise wages, which was tried before Mr. Justice Lige, at the last assizes for the county of Stafford, when all the defendants were found guilty. It appeared that the prosecutor, Mr. Edward Perry, is a tinplate-worker, ut Wolverhampton, and sonic time in the early part of last year Mr. Perry received a note from the secretary of a society in Loadou, denominated the National Association of United Trades, intimating that in a short tills. a deputation would wait upon him requesting him to accede to a list of prices to be uniformly paid to the workmen. The interview accordingly took place. The prosecutor re fused to accede to this demand, alit ging that his men had never expressed dissatisfaction. The consequence of this was that a regularly organised conspiracy was got up, the pro secutor's manufactory was beset by persons who made every attempt to persuade away his workmen, they were made drunk, sent away, and funds provided fur their maintenance; a secret committee was formed, of which the defendants, in the employ of Mr. Walton, of the Old Hall, were the active agents; gradually the workmen in the em ploy of the prosecutor were " spirited off," and to such an extent did the system succeed that Mr. Perry lost sixty men between July and November. This entailed a serious loss upon him ; he was unable to execute his orders ; ho was obliged to send to France and Germany fur workmen, who almost as soon as they arrived were seduced away. ' After a while the men returned to Mr. Perry " penitent,. miserable, starving;" and iu consideration of all these cit.-. cumstances, the prosecutor proceeded by this intlictme.nt against the defendants for having interfered witl: and molested his men; for having interfered with the pr o ,,seit. tor himself, and endeavoured to coerce him into changes in the mode of conducting his business, and with iarious other illegal acts, thereby constituting a conspiracy., The defendants were brought up to-day judgment of the court. to receive tho The Attorney-General, who appeared on behalf of one of the defendants named Green, moved 'Ai arrest of judgment on the ground that the indictment, upon had been found guilty was be , It stated that the de fendants had used intimidatioe s towar d s t h e prosecu t o r, and the men whom he em which his client ploy Now, intimidation was a thing which might be used, for a lawful purpose, and tho indiettneut merely used ',he word "intimidation,'' without showing that it was rat illegal kind of intimidation which the defendants had r miorted to. The word "obstruction" to the business of t:ne prosecutor was also used in the in dictment. Now, there was a species of hindering or ob struction which was not of an illegal or bad kind, and the Indictment did, not specify that the obstruction was of an