The Express. — London, England, 1847-01-18 00:00:00

tbe mee ti ng marquisses, d earls, 8 lords, 'of Burns, which adorns the same city. The r; esu nes, 33 baronets, 66 deputy-lieutenants, and tomb of Mary of Gueldres would have fallen e 3 members of parliament. beneath the pick and crow-bar of the series, A short letter has been published by the Lords but for the intervention of the Commissioners Farnham and Erne, calling on the public to sign ire- of Woods and Forests; and as if to show that meiately a petition to the queen, " praying her the metropolis has no monopoly in this kind m a jesty to direct the immediate attention of pulls- of Vandalism, the disease has re-appeared in Glasg o w, me et to the absolute necessity of supplying the and commenced in Lochleven. The boys in Glasgow starving poor of Ireland with food." This is the peti- are liberally " allowed the free run of the church tion of ,Ir. Iwtouche. Immense numbers have signed yard"—e privilege which they have improved by it this day. It will be forwarded to London by this breaking the cathedral windows. It therefore will evening's mail. be necessary for Mr. Blere to stipulate with the Another fearful illustration of the suffering of the Glasgow authorities for the conservation of his in- Mayo peasantry, and the shifts they are driven to to tend-d renovations before any expenses are incurred. p ro long life, as contained in a correspondence of the At Lochleven some on , hu been attempting to F r eeman's Journal—a twin fact for the talc of the destroy the only remaining steps leading to the top dead ass. A horse had died in the village of Clare- of the castle, once tena'ted by the unfortunate morris, and the carcase was thrown out for the dogs Mary Stuart. The local chronicler of this outrage and carrion birds. What they had spared was ap- feelingly laments that the effortsof Sir G. Montgomery preprinted by a peasant named Kelly in a neighbour- to preserve this interesting relic of antiquity arc not ing T illage. A basket-full was salted, and formed a better seconded by the public ; but unfortunately the week's subsistence for six in family. The corre- same column of the county newspaper records the 'pendent of the Freeman inquired into the fact, and doom of five urchins placed at the bar of the Kinross ascertained its correctness. The answer of the mother Sheriff Court for misdemeanors "at the chapel on the was only one of regret that the loathsome supply had Inch of Lochleven (now a sort of farm-house forhorsea been so soon wasted. "The Lord only knows," said and cattle,)" thereby showing that the work of legal the miserable mother, " what I will do now for my 'degradation preceded that of unlawful spoliation. On starving children since it is gone." the whole, betore works of art can be respected with Strange enough it is that, while hunger rages, the us as they are on the Continent, we must only remedies which mitigate its presence are over- pass the Continental training in poetry, music, and looked, and folly takes the place of prudence. Clare painting ; but, in the process, might we not lose some has a larger number of its poor employed on the of our boasted freedom and independence ? public works than any other county in Ireland. In The threatened dismissal of Professor Syme from no county have the officers of the board, with all their his surgical ward in the Edinburgh Infirmary has anxiety to do good, encountered more resistance. On led to serious considerations regarding the complete- Monday last a remarkable instance of ruffianly auda- nese of medical equipment in the university. Is a city was perpetrated in the open day, and almost in professor of botany appointed, he finds large and ele the very presence of the magistrates, on Captain gant gardens ready for his use. In natural history, Wynne, the inspector of works. As the captain a splendid museum is at the command of the passed through the court, one of the crowd banded teacher ; and in anatomy, a collection of pre him a letter in this refined style: parations and casts is provided. But when the Opt.an Wynne—cupt.un atarhght rend+ you notice to bare is,, professor of clinical surgery receives his commission, pans or if you dons t give you the end of carmg blood and co, he must find his illustrative living subjects as he best it h cgi . Cl:; *ur s eLe= t ' l go m ofir but Ith Me a forty t ro an "" m7 quit kind t: may. The university does not furnish him with any; taunt: , if you dont trion to eu home to the mistres a corm which by and he must either furnish them at his own cost or the moral il mod you it you come to nes roes again takethtawarnin knock at the door of a public hospital, as a candidate cc you'l be a dead man in no time, i'l watch you.—Your obedient der ent, Carram STARLIGHT. for the honour of house surgeon. Professor Syme ap- The indignation of the bench was justly excited. pears to have tried both methods, and both being One gallant itleman with real iron chivalry likely to fail, the unive - ' and should come to . gent. declared that he " would meet the villain, if he chose to come at twelve o'clock at night, armed," and Capt. Macnamara pledged himself to go alone. The doors of the court were closed, but Capt. Wynne failed to identify the fellow, and it speaks ill for the grateful feeling of the peasantry who did not immediately hand over the ruffian to justice. A large reward has been offered for his apprehension. Another illustration of popular folly 'we read in the Waterford papers. Mr. Fisher gave very extensive employment at Dungarvan, and retailed in addition flour to the poor, below the Cork or Waterford prizes. The peasantry robbed his mills, and the result has been their complete stoppage. Thus, the net of a few has involved thousands in misfortune. sly .. ..nversity ought - the rescue. Into the merits of the dispute between Mr. Syme and the infirmary managers we are not disposed to enter ; we simply hold that there is ab surdity in the queen instituting and the university possessing a professorship, the functions of which cannot be discharged without extra-mural aid of a precarious kind. The inhabitants of Stirling are to meet on the 20th inst., to peti ion parliament to prohibit distillation from grain, at least till the next harvest. EDINBURGH EXCHANGE BANK.—Ronald Gordon, the secretary and accountant is this establishment, has been tried before the High Court of Justiciary for six separate acts of embezzlement, in all amounting to about 2,0001, and having been found guilty, has received sentence of trans portation for 15 years. PERTH.—To meet the wants of the poor for the ensuing half year, 1,7241. will be required; and to raise this amount, an sosessment of 10d. per pound on rent has been ordered. INTEREST ON DRAINAGE LOANE.—The following letter raises an interesting question: To the F. liter of the ..Orrdern Jorirmal.—Sir,—There cannot be a doubt that the Drainage Act, if followed out with due adjustment of the per centage between landlord and tenant, is them:dell boon that hes ever been conferred on the agricultural interest. But, from the fact that no allusion was made at the county meeting to the propor tion of the Pit and a half per cent. which the tenant was to be called upon to pay, I begin to suspect that propel. tors intend to drain their land at the mpeuse of their tenants, by calling on them to pay the whole per ceotage exacted by government. For certain reamers I nt.y be excused, rimming that mine find fault with the set, Men/mit dms not provide that tenant', under lease, should pay the usual interest for the money admixed, and that the land. lords should pay the additional per restage, in order to extinguish the debt is twenty-Dim years. On the other hand, should the proprietors of the mil expect farmers, under lease, to pay the whole per tentage, thee it is evident that they wish to drain their land at the expense of their tenants, and to reap the adventage at the end of their leases. As most farmers are ignewant of any arrangementsalready made between landlord arid tenant, with regard to the drainage ascctt,, they frill feel obliged to any of your correspondents for information on the subject I am, air, your obedient servant,—.l Ten cot TIDAL HAILBOURS BILL.—The Glasgow River Trust has received letters approving of their conduct in offering the Tidal Harbour Conservancy Bill, from the following towns Liverpool, Sunderland, Lancaster, Great Yarmouth, Wells, Brighton, Southwold, Dublin, Belfast, Cork, Sligo, London derry, Aberdeen, and Dundee. Mr. Hume is blamed for having had an active hand in this unpopular measure. Acenuiten PAROCHIAL BOARD.—In commenting on the allowances made to paupers in this city, the North of Scot land Garrets says: " Surely it will not be maiqtained that the sum of four or even Eire shillings per month to an aged pauper is a sufficient all )wancc, even for the bare support of life, independent of the little wants which age and infirmi ties require. Four shillings a month, we have heard, is the sum allowed to one aged pauper, and out of that she pays one shilling and eightpence for rent. Five shillings, we are informed, a allowed in another case to a husband and wife, exclusive of rent." POST-OFFICE EXPEDITION.—FALICIRIL.—A letter posted at 6 p.m. in the office at Bainsford-bridge, a kind of receiving house within the burgh, will be delivered here, a distance of 1,500 yards, in the incredibly short period of 40 hours, being only 26 hours later than one posted at the same time in Grangemouth will be delivered in Edinburgh (27 miles), and only 10 hours longer than the London morning papers are in being is the hands of their readers in Falkirk. The operations of the Board of Works have become so numerous and complicated, that the commissioners have established another office. Several English gentlemen have arrived here to re-construct the modus operandi of the board, in consequence of the accumulation and* complexity of business. Every person employed under the Board of Works in Dublin, from the commissioner to the clerk, has contributed one day's pay to the relief of distress ; and I believe a similar contribution will be made each month during the prevalence of the distress. The price of bread is stationary, though that of corn is advancing almost from day is day. At the Corn Exchange yesterday the rise was from Is. to 2s. per barrel. The advance of barley was still greater, and oats commanded higher rates. The maximum price now quoted for wheat is 525. per barrel, which is equal to 89s. per quarter, and taking the average price at our markets at 48s. 6d. the barrel, the average price per quarter is 83s. A rumour that the government intends to interfere as carriers of corn into this country, kept down the prices yester day to the above quotation, or they would have gone higher. The counter rumour prevails to-day that the shipping interest were successful. There is no corn market, or the bulls might make a good thing of the story. In Cork wheat sells at from 465. to 485., and as high as 50s. per barrel. The Lord Mayor of Dublin is about to convene a meeting of the city to memorialise the government to prevent distillation from grain. THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 18, 1847. STATE OF THE COUNTRY. Dowte.—PresentmenteassicTnS for the barony of Newry, including the town, were held on Friday (yesterday) at Newry. The pro ceedings were taken under Mr. La bouchere's letter. Captain Neeham presided, and to a ques tion of hie put to the officer of the Board of Works as to the amount of poor to be relieved upon the work, Captain Brereton said he thought the amount of poor was about 1,300 ; the rum to meet this number for a month would be about 1,200/. ; and f.r two months, 2,3001. or 2,4001.—Mr. Maguire: What is the exact number?—Chairman: I have myself endeavowed to ascertain the number of poor, and I calculated that out of 115 families, only 41 labourers could he got—there was such an enormous quantity of little children and old persons. I was myself quite surprised at this, and it shows the necessity tu more extensive relief. CAVAN.—The Protestant clergyman of the pariah of Kil sherdiney, near Cootebill, writes that—" Within the last three days three individuals have died of starvation in this parish, making in all seven persons in the last fortnight." Coax.—CONTINVANCE OF THE DERTITUTION.—The special correspondent of the (fork Southern Reporter writing from Skibbereen, on Wednesday last, says " Another death was added yesterday to the many which occur on the roads. A poor man named Connolly, who was working on the Marsh road, having, through weakness, stumbled over a ditch on his way home, was found dead at the other side by a person passing that way. A similar case oecurnd in Olandore yesterday. But if the people are badly off in the town, they are infinitely in a worse condition in the country districts , of which some idea may be formed by the harrowing picture of the distress of a family, which the Reverend Mr. O'Leary was called on to visit about four miles outside the town The door was opened by an emaciated old man; when he entered the cabin he found the whole family, thirteen in number, stretched round the fire-place, without covering of any description, except a miserable rag over two females. The roof of the house was broken away, and the rain was pouring in. One of the inmate' was a child of four yeah old, quite destitute deny covering. When they were asked what they had to support them, they replied that they bad nothing but water. The little food they got was supplied by a poor man named Gainey, who left it within a certain distance of the house, and acquainted them of it, when one of the family crawled ~ut and brought it in. DONEGAL.—Of the condition of this county, the Bay shannon Herald says The state of the peasantry end working-climes is daily becoming more deplorable. We really believe the majority of them throughout this county, and particularly in this neighbourhood, do not, on an avenge, get three meals in the week." And yet in this county a presentment sessions was assembled the other day by procla mation, which dissolved without making • eines precut meat. Mayo.—l have learned that the general dui antral midi committee, at a meeting held yesterday, allocated 100 E emit to the parishes of Louisbnrgk and Islendeady 4111 s ISM* The Irish relief committee have given greats to the Pere testant rectors of those parishes to be expended in their saps. intendence. TIPIERARY.—The poor relief committee of Nenagh, says the Guardian, continue to sell Indian meal at first price to the poor. About 401. worth is sold each day of sale. Plenty of food to satisfy nature is given every day to all who an is need. Over 130 individuals are daily fed tree with stirabeat KERET.—Toak-work, says the Kerry Examiner, has beat found, in the di trict of Killarney to give the greatest satie• faction, and it adds, that such us the activity of the relief committee, more especially of the secretary, Mr. Lloyd Saunders, that tbei e are not " four men " unemployed whe are capable of and teed work. In nu instance, adds this le moat, has • labour tr less than one shilling a day, while his hire, in many inst. vices, is one-half as much more. And yet, under th e same system, we find that in Kewanee, and in some works hear Trake, the p.rople complain that their day's hire does not amount to more than lid. to 31d., an d even te a :: same not paid before the end of a fortnight. This, the writer' aerie, and with apparent jestice. can only be attributabl2 to t be difference is qualifievion of the gentlemen who have cha t Ns of the,, severed works. A soup kitchen has been estabi laid in Killarney, to which Lord Reamer* has contributed largely, as also his Countess, and his brother, Mr. Browne, has subscribed 1001. In several districts of the barony .of Corkagninf flays the Kerry Examiner) landlords are dieletning for rents. WATERFORD.—At a recent meeting of the Poor-law Guardians of Waterford, Sir H. W. ~Barron denounced, in very strong language, the absentees for their disgraceful and inhuman apathy as to the miser which extisted in their 'several Properties, and called upon them either to attend to their Cities as landlords or sell their properties. AITOINTMENT.—CharIes Daniel O'Connell, Esq., of Babes), Kerry, has received the appointment of stipendiary mamstrate. This gentleman formerly reprewnted Kerry in the legislature, and is married to the daughter of Mr. Daniel O'Connell, M.P. SCOTLAND. EDINBURGH, JAN. 16. The anti-resthetic spirit seems to be on the =ream in Scotland. For some time pickings from the Glas gow Wellington statue were matters of weekly record, and when they began to be forgotten, the de facing of the Edinburgh Scott Monument commenced; and after that, rude hands were laid on the statue PROVINCIAL. The local papers of Saturday contain numerous reports of meetings held to various parts of the country for the relief of the distress existing in Ireland and Scotland. In all cases these gatherings have been numerously attended by people differing in religious creed and political opinion, but cordially agreeing in the expression of deep sympathy for our suffer ing fellow-subjeets, and all proving their sincerity by putting their hands into their pockets. Amongst the towns promi nently active in this work of charity, we find Sunderland. Bristol, with a noble subscription of nearly 6,0001., Bradford 1,5001., Leeds 3,0)01 ., Halifax 1,6001., Wakefield, Walsall, Lichfield, Leek, Hanley, Burdens, Stafford, nod Norwich. The Catholics of Liverpool held a meeting on Friday, when they raised upwards of I,Bool._towards the fund. MUCH Die TREES PREVAILS in Lancashire and the neigh bouring manufacturing districts. The machine-makers of Preston are feeling severely the pressure of the times. The orders given by the spinners for new machinery are nearly all withdrawn. Where one hundred men were employed, only four or five are now engaged. At Bury none of the mills are working full time. The extensive mills of Messrs. Greg have been at a stand for six weeks, and those of Mr. L. R. Openshaw have been stopped since the beginning of last week. The foundries are also working shorter hears than usual. The shopkeepers are loudly complaining, and many families are in great distress. The applicants for re lief increase every week, and it is In contemplation to esta blish soup kitchens. At Wigan the large mills of Messrs. Eck eraley are nowworking only four days a week. At Blackburn short time is to be continued for another month. The distress of the working classes of Bradford nidaily increasing. It kr m.i.rs, from the returns of the relief committee, that on the Bth inst. 172 cases were relieved, including 791 persons; on the 11th, the cases rose to 189, or 864 persons; and on the 13th a still further rise took place, the cases being 202, in eludmg persons. Other towns are in an equal'y Ms tiered condition. CURIOUB ACCIDENT AT A THEATRE.—On Monday night a man in the gallery of the Liverpool amphitheatre, who had left his place during one of the acts, missed his footing while endeavouring to spring into his former seat, was precipitated over the railing into the pit, a depth of at least thirty feet, and fell upon two ladies. The bench upon which they were sitting was split, but marvellous to relate, with the exception of a few bruises, the man and the ladies were, we (Liverpc.al Mercury) believe, uninjured. A MEETING IN FAVOUR OP OPENING THE PORTS was called at Manchester on Friday night, which led to an ex traordinary scene. The meeting had been called in the Town-hall, at seven o'clock, in a room capable of holding probably 2,000 people, but the doors were besieged before siz o'clock with applicants for admission, at least equal to its capability of accommodation, and by seven not only was the room densely crowded, but many thousands were col lected in King street, Cross-street, and other approaches. The steps of the hall and the colonnade were also crowded with people, together with the lobby and staircase, and thus the pressure from without at one time was so great that it was thought serious consequences must ensue. In this state of things the parties holding the meeting determined to divide their forces, and.have an open air assemblage, in addition to the meeting within doors—a course which met with the ap probation of the superintendent of police, who directed a number of officers to keep the street clear of carriages and other means of disturbance. Outside Use hall, Mr. A. Heywood, bookseller, was called upon to preside, and inside Mr. J.Watta, draper, took the chair. The same memorial was adopted at both meetings. It set forth the great distress and starva tion existing throughout the country, and more especially in this neighbourhood, in consequence of the dearness of food and the general want of emplivment, and called upon government to remove the remaining duty of 4s. upon corn, and to suspend the navigation laws. The speakers detailed some cases of frightful distress, and it was stated that amongst other trades which were in Bering, at least two thousand people belong to the fustian cutters and hatters were out of employ. The memorial w carried unani mously in both meetings. The meeting i,f the hall lasted nearly four hours, and when a meat number of persons had left it, after the carrying of the memorial, a Chartist moved a resolution, and succeeded in .uirrying it, calling upon government to inquire into the comanct of Individual said to be employed in forestalling the otarkets and buying up corn. The meeting, or meetings, pies anted • marked contrast with the gathering which took plat.` in the Town-hall, three months ago, for the purpose of memo , rialising government to open the ports. Thin, the pressure of scarcity had not begun to be felt here, and was only seen in the distance ; now, it is present, and its hideous and dreaded features have been ISM by thousands At the former meeting, the hall was barely filled; on the present occasion three such buildings would hot have held the numhers presenting themselves for admission. It has been said that these famine meetings of the north are dreaded by all thinking men in other parts of the kingdom; and, certainly, any stranger witnessing the meetings on Fri day night must have gone away with a mind deeply, if not fourfudy, icipre,sal with the scvnes they presented. It is right to state, perhaps, that the meetings were only ad drissci by working men, and that the leaden of the late League took no part in th-ru. CnEsinitE. REPRESENTATION OF CRESTEIL—The Cheater Chronick hints at matters which have rendered the Eaton family un popular in that city—the withdrawal. it is said, of sub scriptions to sundry societies. Our connmporary says:—•' If any events, however, should interfere to disturb the cuonec tion as it has latterly subsisted between the citizens and the house of Eaton, it cannot most certainly be charged upon the former. In the meantime, however, a movement is on foot, promoted by some gentlemen of liberal polities, to in. duce Sir Wm. Stanley, of Hooton, to announce himself a candidate. YORK.4IIIItr- THE LEEDS CONSERVATIVE ASSOCTATION has died a natural death, or, as the intelligetscer has it, e' has dropped out of existence," which, a, the same authority informs its readers, is a proof of the strength of the party ! REPREhESTATION or SetHHOHOUGH.—The following farewell 'chinas has been addressed to the electors of this borough: -- Gentlemen,—The office to which I have been appointel by his Royal Highness l'nnce Albert necessarily incapacitates me for the peforinance of the did ice of a member of parliament, and require... to relinquin't all partisipatiori in the contests of party paints. Among the many rause. that I have for happitom and gratitude for the ap pointment so graciously conferred upon me, I have still, I assure you, felt deep and sincere nwret in the prnapect of a political separation between my kind friend. at Scarti.irougli and myself. Still, lam In duced to hope that, though no longer a candidate for your electoral suffrages, I shall be allowed ti canvass (or a continuance of that per sonal regard and esteem that has for so many years existed between us, and which I shall never voluntarily relinquish. During the many =nod visits that I have pad to you, I havc never met with an unkind or discourteous word ; and, though I have been constantly adding to my list of friends, I am proud to assert that I do not believe I have ever made an enemy. I can mo-t honestly my, that nothing but the very peculiar position in which I now stand could have in duced me to retire from the contest, when we wee., as I firmly be. here, upon the ere of victory. I feel convinced that the party that supported me is too powerful, and too intelligent, ever to submit to be represented by two members in whom they have not political confi dence. Continue to be, as you have been, teal.as in the muse, yet temperate in your language and conduct, unjust and untiring in se non, despising the threats of the powerful, and above the temptations of interest ; and whenever the struggle may come, you wilt deserve, and lam convinced will meet with, succCW. With sincere regard, Sce.. C. B. Pluses, The Cedars, Norwoel Green, Jan. 11, 1141. OPPOSITION TO THE POOR LAW COMMISSION.—Mr. John Maxon, the clerk of the governor and guardians of Hull, has been indicted, unrLr the 4th and sth William IV., cap. 76, for refusing to give evidencea on oath, before Mr. Alfred Austin, an assistant commissioner of the Poor-law, touching the said governor and guardians of the poor of Hull, and also refusing to produce certain minute-books and accounts of the said guardians, relating to the relief of the poor of Hull. Upon this inoictment the grand jury have returned a true bill, and Mr. ?dozen now stands bailed to the next sessions on a charge of misdemeanour. FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—A fatal accident, strikingly illustrative of the danger of allowing railways to cross public roads on a level, occurred on the Leeds and Bradford railway, on Friday morning. The night had been extremely dark and foggy, and the fog still continued, when an early luggage train approached the Calverley Bridge-station at the moment when a train of four carts drawn by one hone, each were in the act of crossing. Unfortunately the engine came in contact with the last cart in which the driver was riding. The horse was almost literally cut to pieeces and died immediately, but the driver, a man named David Anderson, aged 45 years, a widower with three children, lingered a short time, during which he was removed to the Leeds General Infirmary, but died almost immediately on his arrival there. Some blame is attributed to the engineer for not sounding the whistle when approaching the station, and also to the station ma n for having suffered the gates to be open at a time when a train was about due, and for not having exhibited caution lights. Au inquest was held on the body on Saturday morn ing, before J. Blackburn, Esq., coroner for Leeds, but it was adjourned until Friday next, in consequence of a man who was in one of the carts being unable to attend. NOTTINGHAMSHIRE. Pcouott MONDAY CUSTOMS.—This annual holiday is still kept in many parts of the county of Nottingham. Last Monday, the first Monday after Twelfth Day, according to custom, the ploughmen of many of the more rural villages assembled together, and in grotesque habiliments paraded the neighbourhood of their residences, levying " the holiday tax" upon all who were capable of ministering to their joyousness, and in return creating a large amount of rustic fun. In some localities this holiday was celebrated in all its rustic simplicity and rude beauty; but in others, particu larly in the neighbourhood of the manufacturing villages, it was grossly burlesqued, and turned into an opportunity for vagrancy and imposture. Plough Monday has been celebrated by the ploughmen as a holiday from very remote times, being the season at which the labours of the plough used to commence, and hence the name of the day. After Christmas, (which, formerly, during the twelve dap, was a time of very little work), every gentleman feasted the fanners, and every fanner his servants and task-men. Plough Monday puts them in mind of their business. In the morning the men and maidser vants strive who shall show their diligence in rising earliest; if the ploughman can get his whip, his plough staff, hatchet, or anything that he wants in the field, by the fire side, before the maid hath got her kettle on, then the maid loseth her Shrovetide privilege, and it wholly belongs to the men. Thus did our forefathers strive to allure youth to their duty, and provided them innocent mirth, as well as labour. On thin Plough Monday they have a Food supper and some strong drink, that they might not go immediately out of one extreme into another ; but now, unfortunately, we find these wholesome customs have nearly fallen into desuetude. The spirit of puritanism has deprived the labour , ing classes of nearly all their periodical holidays, games, and rustic sports.—/Voltirigham Guardian. LORD Milner@ fitoTtrecr,;.Arineeting of electors at Bath took place on Wednesday, when resolutions were passed declaring that Lord Ashley was a fit and proper per son to be placed in nomination at the next election. It was also agreed to raise 'a 'subscription to meet the cost of a con test, as it appears Lord Ashley declines incurring any ex pense. Several voters had waited upon his lordship as a de putation from the town. One of them, Mr. Sutcliffe, thus spoke of the interview ; We went into statements, with which I need not trouble the meet mg, with a view of showing his lordship that we were not asking him to come down and light a hovels.% or even an uncertain contest. We told him that in oar noinine —and that we believed Mat opinion was almost universally entertrined in Bath—if hie lordship would allow himself to be put in nomination, he would be returned. We stated that to be our conviction, and laid before him documents, and statements, and arguments, which appeared likely to lead his ion:trip to =quince in that opinion. He then said be would deal frankly with os, and he did deal frankly with He stated that on Reding himself out of parliament and totally unable '• (for rearm which be very can didly went into, stating matters which we should not be quite joatird in repeating verbatim) to incur the espouses, even moderate expenses, of a parliamentary contest—hie family and the claims arising from the many works of charity and benerMenir with which be is direly =Ducted, so completely rearbing every portion of his income. Under these eircometenem. Ikh lordship rather onneeleed that his cell would probably be. for a canidderable time at least, to go an, as he had recently, with his efibeta out of par liament, sod in a more private station; he rather looked to that r the probable result of the position in which he was placed ; but nevertheless he telt that any clear opening for die return to parlia ment would he a call—his lordship said, a providential call—which he would feel it his duty to obey. lie said that several applications had been made to him, and he believed with every pros pect of oneeess, it be were put in nomination, but that his total inability to meet the expowe had, In every ere, compelled him todecline. He also alluded—though I warmly feel moved war ranted in repeating his meet expreestor —to the difficulties he had encountered in early ilk, in consequence of having contested the reprerientatko of Doreetahire, under very unfavourable dr comidances„ relying on Faunal ppromises of support which did not seem afterwards to bare been undesetood by those who made them in the way which he bad been led to expect. We arum] his lordship that we trusted that, If he had reran to complain of the people of Doreetahlre, he would in that respect Red the people of Bath were different. Worsted that It was never our intention that his lordship, if he moeptal our invitation, should be placed odeer any obligatiou, legal, mood, or honourable, In Nay drenmstanoes, to bear any peed= of Um expenses. We rld dim that tho brought him forward, and who immediately incurred he expense, would do their beet to see that the funds shooki he fortlavasatac to reimburse themselves, but that he might ocander himself entirely a stranger to all mmey p Having Attired his lordship on that point, we then asked tie= to say that, as to sock tends being raised for the expenses of the area, his reip would °cement to stand. If I were to nay that hie lordship authorised me to eay so,he might, perhaps, If he were new present, iguana o You are rather eying what I author ised you to believe then what I authorised yon to ay." but I undertake to say, on behalf of Lord Ashley, sad I am supported by the other member of the deputation, that, If fonds are raised, Loud Ashley will stand. Am I not warranted In adding that, if he *was. he vAB be Maraud t I will Just edd, net merely that he will, under those eizeurearresi, corer to stood, bat that he will pledge Miner that be will sot, in the meantime, terra no. and an Or den—that is, between mow and the thee wk we are enabled to say Ira will bring him exward—occept say oar from another emir- Morey. Ind nurgrarrytatrrsev UULlV,l,,acavaraLno. REPRESIFFITATION OF VIE CITY OF GLOIICERTUIL-s-NVO (Gloucester Journal) are informed that T. G. Clayton, Esq., of Byerly Hall, Yorkshire, will consent to be put in nomina tion for the city of Gloucester, at the next general elec Lion, on Whig-Radical principles. CORNWALL DREADFUL Pew pea MILL EPLOSION.—A tremendous explosion, involving fatal consequences, took place on Thurs day morning last, at the Kennel Vale Powder-mills, the property of Meson. Sampson and Lanyon, at Kennel, in the parish of Stithian's. The explosion took place in the stamp ing -mill, which was almost a new building, and was blown to atoms. Two men were working in the mill, named Martin and Dunstan. and these unfortunate individuals we•e shock ingly mutilated by the force of the explosion. A num ber of persons on hearing the report congregated around the spot from the neighbouring village of Ponsworth, and great was the lamentation among them, it not being known what family had been bereaved of its members. The bodies of the two men were soon known. Part of Dunstan's body was blown into the river; his arms and one of his legs were rent from the body ! his face frightfully disfigured, and the whole remains in such a mangled condition that they were obliged to be taken up in a sheet. Martin's body also presented a shocking appearance, the skull being blown entirely off. Both men were married, but have left no children. lint arts. THE PICTCRES IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY. — The public mind has been recently a good deal disturbed by rumours of the threatened destruction of the great works of the great masters of art collected within the walls of the Na tional Gallery : a warfare which, but for the importance of the interests involved, would have been even ludicrous—which has, in fact, furnished to the pleasant caricaturist of Fleet steet the figure of a war of soap-dishesand scrubbing-brushes —ham been assumed as directed against the country's peculiar temple of high art, at the deliberate instigation of the un faithful guardians who had charge of the citadel. The gods of old pictures are represented as coming out of their clouds of ages, stripped of their divine expression and clothed in the earthly costume of the picture-dealers. Mysterious mean ings have vanished with the dirt of year, and the common places of thought have come in, with clean fine,. Pictures re covered from the jaundice have lost the a ntimcnta/ air which imagination assigned to their yelloushood. Ruben, dead muter, looks profanely alive at the hands of the modern resurrectionists. Imagined back.grounda as seen through the twilight of discoloration, have been suddenly revealed as fore-grounds in the light of restoration. Colours have changed their harmetues, and form is relations, in the handling of rash empirica and, in a word, the text of these fine old poems is corrupted, for learned intelligences, by being rendered less obscure, and the inspiration itself is found to have departed with the removal of the veil which, at any rate, concealed it from common eyes. If all this were true, even to the letter, it might yet perhaps be reasonably asked if the public is, after all, so great a loser by seeing its property, throughly stripped of certain alleged proportions, which, to the alternative, it was never to see at all ? It may be questioned if that be a very beneficial possession which exists only by a continual act of faith in the representations of the illuminati • and we are reminded of one of the least satisfactory relies of Catholic legend by such a demand on our transcendentalism of belief. Es . fumo dare listens seems no bad motto fur these practical and inquiring times, even in matters so refined. and to a great degree exclusive, as those of art. The fact however is, that the matter in question will not bear thus disposing of. There is, unquestionably. not--if such a thing be even possible as a generality—that know ledge of art abroad amongst us which can take our consciences out of the keeping of the duly in formed in matters of such high significance as this and the charges that have been made involve catsiderations much too serious to be overlooked by an intellectually awakening people. The suspicion of a tampering with inte rests which look none the less for being not yet wholly ap prehended, began to excite a very natural distrust ; and the cry of " the National Gallery is danger" grew loud enough to make inquiry necessary. The first palliative to this alarm was administered by the letters themselves which had aroused it. That no answer to charges so serious, on a subject on which the public had a right to be informed, came from the parties implicated, was a significant circumstance, susceptible of two opposite read ings ; but it was not long ere this silence on the part of the keeper of the National Gallery began to show an acquaint ance, on his part, with that proverbial wisdom which allows a man to " spin his yarn" till he has twisted it into a rope that performs a very different office front that which the artificer intended. The particular newspaper in which the denouncer appeared is kno en to be " nothing if sot" bel ligerent—and always moat self complacent when classical; and accordingly the challenger on this occasion rode into it. Cato came, armed for onslaught with an unsparing cut and-thrust, and Romanised into " Vera:." But the Times is not famous fur knowing when to withdraw either itself or its champions; and Vera: was allowed to pursue his rash career till he ran his head visibly against the windmills. So many several abuses did he successively set up to tilt spinet, assigning one same cognizance to each and all of them—that it became apparent he wasliaunted by another figure than those nominally in the field. In plainer language, the complaints of Verax multiplied suspiciously ander the encouragement of their own vituperative utterance ; and it grew evident that Mr. Eastlake was ever the picture uppermost in his mind when speaking of the pictures in the National Gallery. A mere feeling of the decent suggested that even if hif. East lake, in the exercise of hie di ffi cult and responsible functions, should have committed an error of judgment, it was nothing , essentially worse (however deplorable the consequences) than an error of judgment, after all ; and not to mention that Mr. Eastlake's judgment rests upon testimostlals probably as sound as, andcertainly more notorious than, Versx's—it was felt that his character and position demanded some gentle. manly consideration from a party honestly exposing his mistake. The question of mere incapacity does not justify personal abuse; and the earnestness of an enlightened conviction, never employe it. The repe tition of Verax's letters betrayed an animus which impeached the implication of his name. And this, as we have said, first re-assured the public on the subject of his This argument, however, was not sufficiently conclusive as to the questions at issue ; nor could the matter be allowed to rest on a mere moral inference. As regards simply the noise of the accusation, had it been more fair in its tone, we ourselves know well how necessary it sometimes is that the cry of " Wolf" should be loud to rouse the sleepers, and that very wholesome truths will yet be taken by many, only in the shape of strong stimulants. The practices of the press are too familiar to us, to permit our looking on what is "sound and fury," as always " signifying nothing; " and the Times, in especial, has the reputation of belabouring many a true teat, as furiously as if it were " sounding brew" They who know much of the battles of the newspapers will not refuse to believe that there may be • real danger, merely because it is announced by the ostentatious voice of the I trumpet. The matter was to be fairly inquired into for the satisfaction of our readers; and on our way to that inquiry we were met by a somewhat curious feet, whi:•b may be worth mentioning, aa, perhaps, in some degree affecting the character of the evidence against Mr. Rutlake and his alleged Iconoclasts. In its adoption of those properties which we have allowed to he • legitimate dramatic resource with the newspaper for securing an audience, the Times, by a casualty which would seem to show th►t the classical is really instinctive with it, has borrowed, we believe quite unconsciously, an idea from the old Greek drama. The tragedy of the Picture Cleaners is rehearsed for the newspaper after the Attic model. In that, the performer was double—one gentleman delivering the words, and ano ther the action; and, in the same manner, if we be rightly informed, the reasoning of the letters in the Times is sup plied by one party, and their language by a second. In other words, Vera: is "two single gentlemen rolled into one;" a compound whose individualities may be described— for we, too, would be classical in such a presence—u in the one case " car " put " faueibus hash," and in the other "sox et prelerea nail." We suggest to the Times that, under the circumstances, Cerberus would have been a more appropriate name; would, besides, have included the snarl among its meanings, and would have been yet more intensely classical. The moral scholiast has great doubts about thui name of Vera'. In matters of mere opinion there will alwaysbe a plurality of sides; and the more vague and untaftgible the question in dispute, the more violent such opinions generally are. Where the principles asserted can be referred to demonstra tions, the violence is a superfluity ; where the reference is to nothing more substantial than the classical mind of a Verax, such logicians are apt to think that the violence supplies the demonstration. The talking part of the double actor overdoes his part under the idea that he thereby helps outthedeflcient authority of the thinking one. Honest opinions are respect able even when they are erroneous • and as they are of the kind which yield to the force of gets when such are to be had, it is worth while to go in search of facts for their sake. Amongst those who haveceneured thecleaning of the pictures in the National Gallery there is, no doubt, a class whoee objections, though we consider them groundless, we believe to be sincere ; and there are many more who, knowing little of the matter as one of opinion, have yet, as we said, been startled by the preposterous report of the double-barrelled " great gun "of the Times. But were all men obliged to sign their charges with their real, instead of their classical names, a very useful comment as to probable motives would be supplied on expressed opinions. The song of the swan with two necks, like that of the leas artificial one, would, perhaps, lose its authenticity by a personal examination of the bird. The public, for example, knows nothing of the innumerable offers of pictures foe sale with which the truster of the national collection are beset, or they might be led to speculate on the temper in which those who fail in their applicationsarellikely to regard ever acquisition from a rival dealer or from a private collection. That picture cleaners should be jealous of a rival in their path who has his heaths fa of employment, is of the commonest order of weal pima mena: and that artists whom the world has (Judy or an. justly) refused to judge up to their own sedinate ilte sh r o a r seek to depreciate thaw with whom it has seekamed is a weakness which history forbids us to Wier (r we fain would) impossible in the loftier region d sat. In answer, then, to such authority as may be derived ham the testi mony on which the public alarm is grovelled, we mast say, before entering on the reasons for our own OM that we have made a point of extending the appeal to the - ment of intelligent critics. We have gradually made our selves acquainted with the opinions of our first easteurs, our most respectable picture elisson, end our best artists, especially the colourists, and thole sgproval of the eleaninip impugned we have found to be so general and unequivocal that we an have no firths: hesitation in stating our own. Neither would it be right that we should omit from We defense, es we now avow it to be, of the eleasines 5 qua ties, sea mere ordinary informer of weer end pod tion, as would have been ingumente in favour of the punka int/motel if there land been use stranger. The mese keeper of the National Gilkey, who her been brought be fore the pablie se Abash* in this description is WA le be a perms wile might Misr be expseted to err from Itirtion than from miaow. Ms is his eberamer with *SIM who know reem him Heendelism appl , tab (kir we prem. the or mtens with e ..71: 1 ZZ picture dome de the work re Min qu ) ired. th All that pictures amen be aimed sums shoe or other. How, then, is the Gentry to be raged that it hes, in this instant" had the senior of OM best sheer t Oa the *dewing promosp floss : bas me the Asset seliestions fu the Minim havebeem, and still are eemmided to his nano. He Ins dame, in this way, of her lieJenty's pictures, of the eeDsedres of the Duke of W the Marquis of Wreaks:ter, Mr. Hope, Sir Robert ) fee and fifty other/. He hes already cleaned pictures in the National Gallery. H. lum been edu cated from his youth under his father and brother, who fol lowed the same calling, to a thorough acqualwannee with the methods of the meanie matters. Now, — seleg tee a mo ment that the keeper was not the cautions perm he is de scribed to be—assuming that, no matter from what muse, he could counsel the overeleaning of picture by the great masters, is Mr. Seguier, qualified as he so, and with a high reputation to lose (not dealing with the pictures of • country gentleman, but in the face of the whole world), is Mr. Seguier likely to assent to such • thane, and to fall in with an opinion and practice contrary to his experience and judgment? It would be absurd to suppose it ; it is yet more so to suppose that all the parties concerned are such a set of desperadoes es the letters of " Verax" would assert, bent upon destroying the works of the old masters on the walls of the gallery, as witnesses against the academy oppo site. The themeless nature of this insinuation makes it re ' toil on the party who conceived it ; and, again, the ques tion of motive arises with more than a common force, derived from certain personal circumstances which fit an argument of the kind. Mr. Eastlake did his ditty in appointing a person of Mr. fieguier's reputation ; and Mr. Seguier's reputation is the beat guarantee that the work which was to be done is well done. As the answer in one ease; if it be good, may be held to he an answer to the same clans of objet ions in the others, we will simplify the matter of our inquiry, by selecting fur it that one of the pie. tures who'e destruction has been represented as the most complete—the " Peace and War" of Ruben,. We choose this one, fur the further rennin that the other instances attacked by the twin-critic of the Times, have found de fenders as well as accusers in the press ; and indeed we be lieve there is Feareelr an exception to the satisfaction with which these restorations are regarded. That fact alone of an otherwiiie general assent may well dispose of such unsup ported objectors as Versa" and" Mr. Coniugham." [We cannot help remarking it as an unfortunate circumstance with reference to certain of these accusations, which should have kept Mr. Coningharn out of the field, or civilised histone, for the sake of avoiding inferences, that that gentleman has himselr, if our information be correct, been an unenceeoeful offerer of pictures for purchase to the Notional Gallery. If this be not true, we give Mr. Cooingham an opportunity of denying what at present we hear hinted against him as a motive.] To return : Speaking of the Curp, one critic, who is of opinion that it is " nearly uninjured," rays that the distance is lost, and, the appearance of sunny haze removed ; but these, he believes, it did not originally possera—a remark which we ask our readers to hear in mind as having a direct bearing on certain observations which we have hereafter to offer. The fact is, the Cuyp is faultless ; and it may be mentioned, to the credit of the present cleaner, that two re- pairs which were before apparent in the sky have disap peered under his hands. The Velarquez is generally accepted as a marvel of restoration—restoration, be it well under .. stood, meaning here only the removal of 'the superfluous—the revelation of the old master himself by drawing away his curtain. The patching up of pictures is another thing— it is some one else interposing himself between us and the master, instead of the curtain. Bad restoration and no re storation are precisely the same thing; with this exception, that the no restoration leaves room ter a good restoration at any future time. Meantime, both teach untruth. Time, the dirtier, is as great a falsifier as any cleaner of them all. We are quite willing to admit that we should rather see the cau tion exercised on the right side. It is better that the work of cleaning should be imperfectly done than overdone. Pic tures buried under horny and darkened varnish are not injured, we believe, thereby ; they are only lost. As regards their beauties, de non ezistentibus et non apparentibur eastern cot ratio. We have much sympathy with that reviewer who sees the great bequests of genius touched with reluctance and apprehension; but none with those who look on the old dead masts rs as being dead in the sense that it is sacrilege to disinter them.—Of the Vclasquez we may mention a circum stance which again speaks honourably for Mr. Seguicr's fitness to discharge this delicate but valuable function. This picture had been injured some yearn since when in the hands of a Mr. Thane, a cleaner—in consequence of an accident in the operation of lining. The middle portion was, therefore, at that time, a little mended ; and, under ill the difficulties of the case, too much can scarcely be said in praise of the admirable manner in which M. Seguier box cleaned, without injury, this still noble picture. The " Peace and War " of Ruben., one of the finest of this mister's works, and most 'minable of the possessions of the gallery, is, so we have said, the great choral de Munn* in this onslaught against the Academy; and we defer the remarks which we have to make on the subject of this par ticular restoration for another opportunity. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. CALMIZIK.C. JAS. I6.—Yenteeday, IL Andresen, 8.A., (formerly of Pembroke College), and John Buckley, 8.A., were elected Fellows of Queen's College. . . 111.01.1L1C ..IYRAV.,—The Rev. Charles Perry, minister of the di,triet church of St. Paul in thi, town, has roce , ved the offer of the bishopric of Melbourne, about to be created in Australia Felix, and we have rea.ent to believe that the reverend grntleinan ban signified his acceptance of the offer. lie will he greatly missed in Cambridge, and the church In the southern hemisphere will gain in his person • devoted and most useful superinterident.—Conettrodge Chronicle. PISEriIiMENTS.—Rev. C. Boated, jun., to Llownhani Market R., Nor folk, 403/. Rev. H. Barney, to Wavendon R., Bucks, 593/. Rev. W. B. Bustiby, to Binewar R., Somerset- J. W. Carroll, Rik., to be fourth master of St. Peter's School, York. 1t,.. R. 11. Kirby, to the mathematical roashership of St. Peter's School, York. Rev. W. L. P. Mercier, to the second mastership of the Birmingham and }.ltrbsston Proprietary School. Rev. T. Ranier, to Healey P.C., Rochdale. Rev. E. IL Tinting, to be • government immoctur of schools. Vse.sant.....Brccon County Gaol, chaplaincy of, by the resignation of the Rev. J. B. Evans. Bruton Grammar School, mastership for higher mathematics and middle classic..., 1401. with board and kidging. Buckingham union, chaplainry of, WI. Halton Gill P. C., 101; and Hubberholmc P. C., Sul. Patron, the Visor of Arnehtfe; both in the county of . York and diocese of Ripon, and vacant by the death of the ltev. Lualley. Jersey, St. James' ErgampolChapcl, 2001.; applica tion to the chapel-wardene. Liverpool. St. Martin C, tool. NAVAL l'orirsmorrn, JAN. 17.—A martArTaiTial is to be held an board the St. Vincent on the 15th inst., to try Lieut. W. C. J. Ikath, of the Hyacinth, for running foul of the barque Wanderer, in her way down charnel, -- Intelligence was received yesterday afternoon that the Sphynx et. sloop, Commander J. B. Ceugg, was no Wore od the Brook Coast guard-nation, at the busk of the Isle of Wight ; the commander-in thief instantly despatched the Echo, et. tog, and Pocrupine, at. v., with Mr. Bellamy. the master-attendant, to her assistance. She was on her way from Plymouth to this port to be laden with meal for Ireland, and struck at shout 4 a.m. yesterday morning. There wee such a heavy swell on that bolds could not communicate with her, and the greatest fears are entertained that this tine crawl will become a complete wreek.— The project of fitting the Retributions. f. by the officem and mew of the Sidon for home !service, has been abandoned, and they are now to equip the Dauntless screw f., and navigate her to the Clyde to have her engines fitted. The Geyser wiled thin morning for Gook with meal and provision& The ecourire also sailed thin morning for Bristol to embark provisions, and will then proceed to Cork. The Porcupine e. v. arrived here yesterday afternoon to lead with Fwd. , siona for Ireland; on her arrival she was instantly sent to the assistance ' of the Sphynx. The Morin unwed this morning from Plymouth. The Shannon, 30-gein frigate, is ordered to be built on the slip from whence the Dacentless wax launched last week. She le to be a slater ship to the sad of course conatrueted be Mr. Fincham.—An Thursday to complete the ooroplement of the Victory, 104, Cut. Yam (ordinary guard.ship), to 40 1 1 seamen being an ',screws ultawelely Mended for the Neptune or Nelson, about to be commlsslceed In this kerb:arr.—The Sinbuy navy lighter, arrived on Friday tea the deer, and asneeedded to the Clarence-yard, to load with prereilms kr Iniend.— Porcupine, steamer, arrived yes terdey tem the arer, biladsd ler giving her waistanoe in relieving Irish distresh—The Creeed il e is to be taken out of the heath without delay, sal seat rat week to Cork, to take the Flag of Rear•Admind leHu rose. She will be Waded with Korea and provisions. A tter hem tbeGabase, aged Oct Wth, confirms the statement in an I Amerkan pager thet the Dna, S. COINI, Spriest, had eaptwed tons, slaver ea Ilse Oen* et Akin. She was • brigantine, of only 119 emerded nth Its bum beii ase had recently left Sierra Leone, sad hed beta banded by the Oafta Ave daps preriowly, when she bed • dem MK Ile was a bullion brigantine, and was bound to Rio. The Omsk R Oen. Ilmtemor, also chased her, and shortly altardie is emamt Ws boat on board.—The Trusty,, Ladle. Ras the NevaNas. la 17 days for London, all well, landed piseingsrs tide &Net p, ma, et tha ix rt. Weer. Jam 18.,—Ihe Dragon a. with part of the crow of the Tate* NOW et mean to-day, deeply laden with meal, for Lelrtl lbe bawl dews the AM Setter, which Rao laden at the arm pier lath proviskas Ow Genie Care. The Tartarus at. e. is wine le be Med ._.e airy and slat to Deptford, where the will behakderith Meek ttraTh. The Aeon rt. which is get ting reedy yak will follow, and Iced meal be the Waists Refaides. t ' l= eL •., fitted out for the pra ised= at Se Weise rand the Chemel blonde. hiel War ea dated. sal affirm be wady kir sea. 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Before the Lord Chancellor. lie TN* MATTE. or DYCII SOMORIL—IN LUNACT.—Tbir petition presonted by the lunatic for leave to continue his residence abroad, and for payment to bhn of the full allow ance of 6,0001. a year (the sum originally allowed for his maintenance out of his income), to be applied by him as he pleased, without any restraint or obligation to render as account of the expenlitare,rorn opened to the court on Thursday and further discussed yesterday, and reported in this paper to-day. It appeared from the affidavits of Lord Cernbermere and others, read by Mr. Rolt and Mr. Shadwell in support of the petition, that Mr. David Ouch terlony Dyce Sombre, the lunatic, was born in India in 1808, being the son of the Begum Sambre by General Alexander Dyce, who was himself half Indian and half British ; that he came to this country in 1838, end some time after was mar ried to the Hon ht.ss „le ry is, daughter of Earl St. Vincent, and that in 1843 he was found to be of unsound mind. The learned counsel argued that the only unsoundnme to which he one now subject consisted of his imaginary conversations with spirits, and the unfounded suspicions of his wife's conjugal fidelity, which, they said, proceeded front his Indian notions and prejudices. They admitted that Le was addicted to cer tain sensual indulgences, but in all matters relating to the expenditure of his money he was as careful as other persons, and therefore no evil could arise from granting him a larger allowance, and allowing him to upend it without a check or oontrol. Mr. Bethell and Mr. Calvert, in behalf of Mrs. Dyes Sombre, yesterday and to-day read numerous affidavits, and argued from them that the petitioner was crown worn by the indulgences lie had, and that it would be unsafe to allow Ishii the paeans of coy further indulgence. Mr. Tinney, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Fitz-Moore, appeared for the committee of the estate, aid for the nest of kin et! the lunatic, and concurred in the arguments against any further indulgence to him. The Lord Chancellor, referring to a suggestion clone of the counsel, to the sit et that the petition was not so mach the act of the lunatic, as of some persons who had obtained influence over him abroad said, that fact, if true, vt "old weigh much on his mind, in considering the prayer of the pi tition. • Mr. Rolt denied that any improper influence was used by any person over the lunette, and then proceeded to reply, but the Lord Chancellor rose before he finished. Adjourned to Monday. B, fore the Mader of the Rolls. FISHER V. OLIVE R.—FAITHS` SUR THE MARV FACTVII FOP Leer..—ln 1832 the plaintiff, William Crofts, invented certain improvements in the machinery us'd for the menu. Lecture of lace or net, called bobbin net, and he promised the plaintiff Fisher to advance hem money to take out a patent for his invention, upon the terms that they were to be entitled to the patent in equal moieties, and provision was made fur the like joint ownership of any future patent to he obtained for farther improvements. In November, 1838, Crofts invented farther improvements for the manufac ture of lace, and a patent was then obtained fur them. The specification described in substance the invention to be, amongst other things, for the manufacture of ornamental lace having opaque clothwork produced therein in varied pattern according to the taste of the designers in bobbin net machines by working with additional warp threads to each carriage or bobbin thread. Infringements were made by lacemakers at Nottingham of the plaintiff's patent, and in 1840, 1841, and 1842, they instituted legal proceedings against divers parties, which resulted in their rights being acknowledged by the parties sued, and compensation made to them ; and in 1843 they filed a bill in Chancery against the pre seat defendants, who were fancy lace and edging . manufacturers at Nottingham, to restrain them from infringing the patent, and the defendants acknowledged the infringement, and compromised the suit by paying the plaintiffs 3001. for costs and damages, and they undertook not to infringe it again. In 1846 the plaintiffs discovered that the defendants Were again infringing the patent, and they filed this bill in October last, to restrain them, and now moved fur an injunction. It was stated that the petent was worth 200,000 1., and that there was a general combination amongst the members of the lace trade to defeat it, and that the present suit was defended by a subscription amongst tbem. The motion was resisted on the grounds that there was no novelty in the invention—thit there was no infringement—and that if there were, the plaintiffs bad acquiesced in it —For the plaintiffs It was urged that the court ought to erant an injunction at once, without first putting the plaintiffs to establish their rights at law, having regard to the previous acknowlerbf meet of the patent by the defendants.—Messrs. Turner, Montague Smith, and Daniell were for the plain•iffs ; Messrs. indene ley, Glasse, and Webster for the defendants. The Master of the Rolls said he would consider what course he ought to take, but he certainly should not grant an injunction without an undertaking by the plaintiffs to tey their right in an action at law. The question was whether he should grant the injunction at once or refuse it, leaving the plaintiffs to bring their action, and compelling the de fendants to keep an account in the meantime. He had no wisb to interfere with the discretion of the plaietiffs as to the mode of establishing their right at law, hut the form et the pleadings ought not to embamiss the &Conduits in setting up any defence they might think proper. Before the Vion.Chaneellor of England. BALDWIN T. DAYEN.—ALLEGED MINCONDUCT OP RAIL WAY Di ItECTOEIX. INJUNCTION TO IIIATILMN TREK FROM RECEIVING MONZT.-11r, J. Parker and Mr. Wil ford moved for an injunction to restrain the defendants, who were members of the provisional committee of a projected railway, called the Great Munster Railway, from receiving out of court a sum of 21,6001., or if they should have already received the said sum, then to restrain them from employing it in paying the debts and liabilities of the company. This undertaking, which Ins now bees abandoned, was commenced in the spring of ISIS, for tko formation of a railway from Tralee through Limerick to Dublin. The advertisements stated that the capital was to be 1,100,0001. in 22,000 shares of 50/. each, with a deperit of 21. 10s. per share. The bill stated that the directors had reserved 4,000 for their own individual use • that they had reserved 4,000 more to be at their disposal for what they called general purpose, SOO for the solicitor to the company, 650 for the engineer, and 300 for the secretary • and then, in order that these shares might become profit able, they re served 3,000 for making a market upon the Stock Exchange. To do this they selected a stockbroker, who found persons to take the shares which were afterwards bought up by friends of their own at a premium, whereby . a higk quotation was obtained. The bill charged m isconduct on the part of the directors, and that they had improperly reserved the above share*, and it prayed relief in respect of such charges, and that the affairs of the company might be wound up, and the fund, paid in discharge of the just debts and liabilities of the company.—The defendants, who were 22 in number, formed part of the provisional committee of the said intended railway.—Mr. Bethel, Mr. Stuart, Mr. Bacon, Mr. Willcoek, Mr. Bagsbawe, Mr. Hubback, and Mr. Anderson appeared for the various defendants, and contended, upon the a..vits, that they had no knowledge of those acts which were charged in the bill, but that when they had been dis covered, everything had been done on their part to satisfy the shareholders, and every investigation had hem made into the affairs of the company ; that, under such circumstances, it would be mat prejudicial to the interests of all parties if an injunction were granted to restrain the defendants from re cening the money which was required immediately for pay ing off the debts of the company. The Vice-Chancellor said, in all the previous cues of tkis sort, the application had been to restrain the directors flea improperly dealing . with the funds, and the moneys of the company were left zn court ; but in this cue the application war to restrain the defendants from applying the funds is any manner whatever. Now it was evident that there were debts and liabilities which ought to be discharged. It ens clear that amongst the number of directors, some of them had acted wrong to the management of the affairs ; but hie honour could not think, where there were so many parsons of the highest respectability forming the committee, that the funds would be improperly dealt with. The actscom *Med of might have been done by some few of the directive, but the money could not be paid away without the sanction of all. The injunction was too sweeping in its nature, fat the effect would be to treat the innocent and the guilty alike. If the application had been to restrain them from doing any thing that wee not within the terms of the act, there m4U have been some reason M it, but as it stood he did not think he wan justified in granting the injunction. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Tux QUEEN a. EDWAND WEETBROOK.—MODE Or RATING BRICIPIRLDS.—Mr. Martin, Q.C., and Mr. Clark son, appeared to support an order of the Court of Qualm Sessions of the county of Middlesex, that confirmed, on ap peal, a poor-rate by which a brickfield of the defendant, situate at Helton, near Hounslow, was assessed on a ma composed of the rent at which the field was let out for a chart term and the royaltT, Is. 6d. per thousand, paid on Me average number of brick. annually made therefrom. They contended that the assessment bad, in feet, been made on the increased value in the bands of a tenant, in other words, on the increased rent which a tenant would 'rive for it, and therefore was not open to the objection of being excessive.- Mr. Hill, Q.C., and Mr. Pashley, for the defendant, insisted that the increased vales of the land did not in this instance arise from profit pee -1 cloned, in the ordinary method, by labour solely or labour conjoined with a material perpetually undergoing renewal, but front a material renewable only at a very remote distaneo of time, and only profitable when carried off the land. Further, any calculation founded on the average of a few ears, as in this case, was necessarily unsound and deceptive. Lagly, deductions had not bees made for those outgoinge without which it was impossible to obtain the profits, ea which the turn actually assessed had been calculated. The court poetpoued:the judgment THE QUEEN ON THE PROIICUTION OP THE OVARDIANS Op TIM BANGOR UNION V. THU OTIMISIRRS OP BANGOR. —Poway OP TIE POOReLAII COMMISSIONERS, BY runt ORDZR, TO HAIR PROVISION eon. PAYING THE COST If A PAROCHIAL SURVIY.—This was a demurrer to a rebus to a writ of mandamus, which commanded the overseas 41 Bangor to raise, in obedience to an order otthe guardians of the Bangor Union, es a further sum chargeable on their poor-ratt, the amount claimed by a geodesist who bad been appointed to make a survey at the parish, and instituted . . the compensation set up the duty tnisionen to make Tel by means question which wthe = Ar which empowers shall see tit, to the mesusges, guardians or overseen bas been made survey and Talus iion for paying the costa I bad instituted proceedings for recoveries nt due to him for that survey. The meant ty of obeying an order of the poor-law cost eke provision for paying the cost otik of a special rate. The demi" ./ yi iof the orders ought to bp...L.' - 4 . ed on the construction of the- • ol Assessments Act (6 and 7 nv a 4 , _..!.., en the poor-law commissions hew% . — l, ~ order a survey and valuatilfg be . ' c - 4 s , lands, &c., in any union et Witt"- . ~ 4 ..., . -i !omen of w h ich a represenyftiola, dp ._ eto the poor-law ooramiawgga e lhat. —"' ... :17; uation are necessary ; and "to 1 2 .." 4 costs of every such survey, makr ..... ." , .....--:....