The Express. — London, England, 1846-12-12 00:00:00

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Ttr ielosed's fried t he Green "" „rim , of sha h " . feet 10 indite eased in ablslll ad velvet drat u-streett held sore Deceased Wel_a round hie a"' ,4 removed to w a- A. man liviolf ietatel a peree n arie et in the he ieceased 1 • bat b, re r devotee! . collars 11 , 6 g likely to angulation. _ sow e d, at the i n on the l ' °di ge. SIITVeyOT. tb• It surgeo n °l ow, was he, b awi se d t hat he ;s -ag a week or heard of time witness hen entered 2a greetii "W I r i n g throw,n e w and Dr. T o il Aight tobo nown °Pune" the d ee med, but he rejecte d t he offer, and on the 30th ra,with seemed P 3 much improved, that witness did not him to bare medical aid. Witness saw him last alive }r'-gatarday, when he appeared cheerful, and be left w hams . under the impression that he was going to his Mideast* at Canterbury. On Thursday witness received information that he had destroyed himself. letter, stained with blood, was produced ; on the "j a pe was written with pencil, several incoherent ex nos, such u the following :-" Scenes of childhood "- ckenven protect "-" Restless, forsaken, and deceived." I ce answer to the coroner, witness said that he knew of "thing to trouble his mind, but, when he gave him his balance of accounts, there was a small de fi ciency, but not ugh to create any alarm in the mind of a reasonable masa -Dr. Bailey, of 28, Spring-gardens, gave evidence to prove t h a t his mind had bee me unpaired. He had seen the body ince death, and found that a pistol ball must have passed t hrough the base of the scull, and had made its exit through the crown of the hat. The injuries were quite sufficient to cause death. -Robert Rust, gardener, in the tmplay of Mr. ;e o lith, of Neat House-lane, Willow-walk, said, that on T a ll y morning last, whilst passing through his master's rou nds, he discovered the deceased in a sitting poaition &post the wall of the garden. His head wu shattered, sad in his right hand, rearing on his thigh, was found a l arg e pistol.-Terdict: "Temporary Insanity."—Dasn- Tertox AND Inioecv.-By Mr. W. Payne, at the Three Tuns, Red Cross-street, on the body of Ann Sims, aged 80 • year.. Mr. G. Bs Childs, surgeon to the city police, deposed that on Wednesday last he was called to attend the deceased, but he found her lying quite dead at a house in Sun-court, Melton -street. roo in which she lay had no fire, and was quite destitute n ot any article of furniture or food. She had been dead eight or nine hours. A bundle of rags c posed her bed. The has about 7Q years of age . , had fur o nly years been imbecile and idiotic ; he had not been out of the room for many months; his beard wu grown to a great length ; his only covering being a shirt and trowsers. Re lay crouched by the side of his wife, unconscious of her being dead ; he said, " Give her some gin or rum, and she will be better." Mr. Childs attributed death to disease of chest and heart. Death bad been caused by a fit of intoxica inn. Deceased supported herself and her husband by vend ing water tresses. Verdict in accordance with the medical evidence.--SusetnE or A MANIAC. — By Mr. Payne, at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, on the body of John Skeate, aged 84.-Deceased was a pensioner of the East India Com pany, from which he received a shilling a day ,• he also re. coved similar sum from government. A few days ago he was found in his room with his throat severest in two places, and two razors were in his hand. lie was immediately re moved to the above institution where another was found is his stomach: Deceased observed that he inflicted the wounds as be had a pain in his chest, which he wanted to get rid of. Re had been married three times, the last time seven years ago.-Vesdict, " Temporary Insanity." REPRESENTATION OF MANCHESTER. 3LtNCUESTER, FRIDAY EVENING.—The general committee organised to conduct the election for Mr. Bright, met last evening at Hayward's Hotel, when the hon. gentle man was present and addressed them at some length. Mr. ° e mailWilson, chairman of the committee, presided, and there was a good attendance of members. The Citaiese.or, in opening the proceedings, addressed the meeting, and alluded to the proceedings of their op ponents in a humorous strain. He said he had inspected the canvassing books, and, without wishing to deceive him self or the meeting, he could assure them that there was no doubt—uot the slightest doubt—that the middle and inde pendent working classes, who had won former contests, were entirely uninfected by the disease which had attacked some other parties. (Cheers and laughter.) At the meeting of Lord Lincoln's committee on the previous evening, be perceived that a letter was read from his lord ship, stating that he would consent to be put in nomination, if a requisition could be presented show in that he had a chance of being returned. Now, he (M g r, Wilson), from his experience of these things, took that to mean that he would come. No doubt the requi sitionists would show him there was a reasonable chance : the same party imposed upon candidates at seven previous elections by the same pretence, and no doubt presuming Lord Lincoln not to be gifted with more sagacity than other men of his party, he would catch at the chance of such a glittering prize as the representation of Manchester. (Loud cheers.) Well, he was glad they were to measure their strength with such an opponent. (Cheers.) He could not • wish that fortune had given them a better opponent than one of that order—the landlord order, with which Lord Lincoln was connected—to contest the representation of this borough. (Enthusiastic cheers.) Backed as he was by all the renegades in this birth-place of the League, it never could be intended—it could not be—with all Eng Lind as spectators, that the men who had taught free trade to the world, and whose fame would live through all time in the world's history, should be defeated by any duke's son on the face of the earth. (Great and pro longed cheers.)—The chairmen of the sub-committees then presented their canvassing books, which exhibited moat cheering prospects of success, so far as the electors had yet been canvassed. Jonx Bale ter, Esq., was then called upon, and was most enthusiastically cheered on rising. lie said the meetings which be had attended of the electors, so far, were such as to fully convince him that he was justified in accepting the invitation first conveyed to him from the Reform Associa tion to offer himself. He vindicated the coalition formed by a small portion of the Whigs with the conservatives, be cause he mid they . had given everything and obtained no thitg by the bargain—Lord Lincoln being in every way a man for the conservative party. This was proved by the conservative organ, the Courier, which said how obliged it was to the V: hilts, and that E would be scarcely posasible to find a nobleman more entirely acceptable to the conserva tives. (Laughter.) The journalist said Indeed, we cannot help feeling obliged to the influential and re spectable Whig party in the borough for , o hatalsomelv deferring to the wi•hes of the conservatives In giving their cordial support to Lord Lincoln." (Laughter.) On the previous night there was a meeting of the party . at the Albion Hotel, of which a report had already come into his bands; but be would only allude to it to say, that it was like the agricultural meeting, of which they might have heard speak, where " politics were strictly prohibited." And how could it be otherwise ? The political sentiments of the one party were as opposite to the other as possible, and if they were met to choose a man who should represent them both, how should they talk politics? (Cheers and laughter.) The affair might be expected to be tame under such circum stances ; and whe:i they had read the report, he was sure the meeting would say the proceedings were as tame as might be expected. The only good thing said was one by a gentleman who told the meeting that the six-story ware housemen did not much like the gentleman now present. This, however, was net worth much, because the result of the canvas among that class proved to the contrary. (Cheers.) This story reminded him of the city of London election, at which Mr. Pattison was returned so triumphantly, when the men of Lombard-street thought that the League could stand no chance because Lombard-street was opposed to it. (Laughter.) But there seemed to be estrange notion running in some men's heads, that Manchester was destined to become merely a school to train politicians in for the upper house of parliament; and at the meeting on the previous night (Lord Lincoln's committee meeting) Mr. Turner said: But, sir, it is very strange that such an observation should come ham men who profess to wish that the Rouse of Lords (which I hope will continue to be a branch of the constitution) should be corn sed of men tit sad capable to legislate for the good of the country. Now, allow me to ask what school you would like the son of adults to be placed in, in order to At him todeal with the interests of thomordry at large ? sir, a Man to be represented as unAt to reaswrat large body of people, because accident and waists be waif bas rendered it mussy for him to writs " hag" lams some t Sir, i ray Lord Lincoln may be quite as St ammo to molest Maar chester as John Bright. :Vow, I think if Lid LMasa down and made acquainted with the 'Merolla of, sod mooedell this constituency, he will be a very At own to Inmate them Mini the course of nature calls him to the upper house. (Much Laughter.) Now he (Mr. Bright) had been labour tog under the apparently singular impression that the people of Manchester were called upon to elect representatives in the Commons House! and not to take a MU and dandle and nurse him only " till the course of nature "took him to the upper house, there to become a duke, and be inespoo sible of all power. (Cheers.) Then another gentleman, at the same meeting, told them that Lord Lincoln was a BM of gentlemanly and courteous demeanour! Why, it would be strange, indeed, if being bred a gentleman, haled not learnt gen tlemanly manners (laughter)' but he (Mr. Bright) had no doubt, that Lord Lincoln was a man of kind and amiable manners ; but what constituency was ever before asked to send a man to parliament because he was of polite and gentle bearing ? It had been said that some of these parties would have been glad to support Mr. Cobden ; but ke appealed to the meet ing, if their respect was shown to Mr. Cobden in endeavour ing to substitute a candidate for him who had all his life been opposed to Mr. Cobden's principles ? He (Mr. Bri g ht) oseemed that, apart from selfish and personal considerations, nothing could give him greater pain than to suppose—if he could suppose—that a constituency like this, where the free-trade agitation had its birth, could be led off upon the mere prejudice that no man was fit to represent them but a man of aristocratic connexions. 14 by if such a thing could take place in a great and free town like Manchester, to what place were that belt of agri enitural towns by which it was surrounded, and which were, at every election, struggling and making the most extraordi nary sacrifices to free themselves from landlord domination, —to look for example and encouragement ? (Loud cheers.) Re called upon the electors not to be led away by the foolish notion that because free trade was won , that all the liberties for which they bad been taught to struggle, and for which their fathers before them straggled, were to be given up, and warned them to take care that the old and beaten Tory party in the borough was not resuscitated and warmed up into new life by recreant bleed, to their prejudice. The hon gen• tleman retired amidst great and protracted cheering ; and the meeting aeon afterwards separated. IRELAND. DUBLIN, DEC. 10. The impatience of the people is chiefly discharged against the Board of Works, as if a mere executive body giving effect to the laws, or instructions of government, could trans gress its duties and originate remedies for social evils beyond 91e scope of its authority or curative power. Coming directly in contact with the people, its officers are denounced marks of popular dislike, because they follow the instructions of tkeirsuperiors, and cannot give employment to a greater number than the presentments sanctioned by the board yin admit. Theirs, too, is the ungrateful a nd un p o p ular duty of seeking to elevate the labour of the country from the degrading minimum of wages--sixpenee a day, and compara tive idleness—to the higher and more remunerative standard involved in productive task work. Such a class ought to receive every protection which the community can effect, Instead of exciting a mutinous spirit against them by dressing uPtales of heartlessness and oppression which h ave no real tlinence. I base been led to these remarks by a letter of 41. E.W. Mauniall, engineer, in charge of the barony of THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1846. our very frame, ought either to have the excuse of strong necessity, or the appeal ought to be made with a vigour and a voice of genius such as none dare question, and to which all must succumb, without power of either resistance or criticism. We can well conceive a tragic poet of antiquity boldly venturing one of those dread appeals to a de vout and ignorant audience. For such, we f e ar, was even that of Att2.Viux We can coney.: ve that audience absorbed in the fate of (Edipus, or the sorrows of Orestes. Our own audiences are not deaf to impas sioned bursts of feeling, or highly-wrought scenes of horror. But it requires all the efforts of the poet, ay, and of the actor, too, to work an audience up to a fitting degree of sympathy. Now, a novel fails in all the scenic and oratoric means of appeal. It has but those of tranquil narra tion, written dialogue, and circumstantial description. These give it a power sufficiently ample, wondrously interesng ; but we strongly doubt if either the narrati ve or the dialogue of the novelist's page are fitted to grapple with those characters and events of the dra matic sublime which demand the inspiration of the muse and the illusion of the stage. The more dread is the subject chosen, the more profoundly criminal, the more morally disgusting, the greater is the demand made upon art and u genius-to overcome the horror excited by the na ed representation of such facts, in clothing them with the gorgeous drapery of imagination, and investing them with that interest, whether of fatality, or of human weakness, or some redeeming quality, to take off the vulgar outline of crude, rude, and unmi tigated crime. Notwithstanding all these difficulties and dangers, so obvious to the novelist or the dramatist, almost all men of genius have been tempted, at some one period of life, to try a strong subject. The ancients are full of them, but they had an excuse in the religious creed and popular credulity around them. Of moderns, however, the greater the genius the greater has been the failure in subjects of the kind. We do not ex cept even Shakspeare. Let it, then, be no offence to Sir Edward Bulwer if we say that we like not his Lucretia, even in admiring and admitting the in comparable and first-rate genius which he has lowered to the task. We will not analyse the novel ; it is hateful from the first page to the last. We see as little reason in I Lucretia's first throwing away her love upon the young man, Mainwaring, who disliked her, as in her suc cessive acts of ruining and poisoning all her relatives and acquaintances. If such crimes be, they must have precedents and sequences, other than we see here. The Examiner, in a criticism on the work, tells us that it is a true story, that the villain lives, nay, is not punished, who was the abettor of the heroine's prototype, in her successful poisoning of her relatives. This is an excuse undoubtedly, but after all a sorry one. Some of our French contemporayynovelists,the Sues and the Dumases, have indulged in tales of this kind, to the assumption of which they were fully warranted by the revelations which came forth upon the trials of Castaing, Laffarge, and others. But, unfortunatelT, in the narrative, of those fearful murders, the prosaic reality is far more powerful than the imaginative tale. Sue has his poisoners and his stabbers ; but what are they but mocking shadows, compared with the drear, cunning, capricious, impenetrable, husband-hating Madame Laffarge. There cannot be a more wretched failure than the empoisonneuse in Dumas's tale of Monte Christo. It is immeasurably inferior to Lu cretia. The French novelists seem to set about such pictures in a kind of jocular, half-credulous vein, which they communicate to their readers, and which inspires a feeling of half-reality, very consoling in horrors, and leaving full enjoyment of the comic in gayer scenes. No Englishman could at all attempt that light eharlatanerie of the French, and for us to rival it by taking such stories more au seriettx is equally hopeless. Yet what a world of conception, of passionate and powerful writing, is to be met with in Lucretia ! If we condemn it, how shall we praise other imaginative works? It is that we apportion our severity, or rather our sincerity, to the genius of the author, and feel that a blow of our light hammer, which might break to pieces a mere earthen image, can but ring, almost hke applause, on the bronze statue, which Fame has long mace imperishably erected to Bulwer. Sine marts . DECORATIONS OF THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. — Sir,—ln your uotice of the decorations of the Society of Arts, yesterday, you omit to remark the new mosaic pave. anent in the hall—possibly because the workmen were still engaged upon it. When it is completed I hope you will do so, and recommend the adoption of this most successful revival, not to say improvement, of an ancient and beautiful art. The little twwerse are formed by the pressure of dry powder, and are made with a mathematical precision of form. I should think they would not wear out even by the use a ages, they are so hard ; and that it would be decided eco nomy to use them instead of floor-cloth, wherever there is much traffic. Of their superior beauty there cannot be a question. I believe we are indebted to the liberality of the nufacturers, Messrs. Minton and Co., of Stoke-on-Trent, fur the present of this pavement —A MEMBER. Lbt Drama. Dm' nY-LANE.-11filfe's new Opera, "The Bond man," was produced at this theatre last night with great success. The libretto, written by Mr. Bunn, is taken from a vaudeville, performed a season or two ago at the St. James's Theatre, called" Le Chevalier de St. Georges," and founded on the history of that celeb rated personage, who played so brilliant a part in the fashionable society of Paris a little before the Revolution. In Mr. Bung's libretto, R. Georges is called Ardenford, and is represented as having been in his boyhood a mulatto slave, on a plantation between whose in the island of St. Domingo, the property of a lady ? daughter and the handsome boy a childish affection had sprung up. Having been treated with indignity by . his mis tress, the boy ran away, leaving his remembrance indelibly fixed in the heart of his playmate. This, however, did not prevent her marrying; and, at the opening of the piece, we find her in France, • rich creole widow, about to contract a second marriage: while Ardenford has become a man of fashion, living in the highest society and astonishing the world by the variety, the brilliancy of his accomplishments, and the mystery which hangs over his origin. The lady, whose name is Corinne, is engaged to Count Floretille, the son of the Marquis de Vernon ; and the marriage prepara tions are going smoothly forward, when she and Ardenford happen to meet. They do not recognise each other ; but, according . to Mr. Bunn's metaphysics, " there is an instinct in the heart," which makes them feel like old friends ; and they become so very friendly, that the pntendu naturally becomes very jealous, and trice various schemes to get his rival out of the way. On the day the marriage-contract is to be signed, Ardenford pays the lady a visit, and their conversation ter minates in mutual recognition, and a mutual avowal of affection. While he is kneeling at her feet, the father of her intended enters, and is more surpeued than pleased with what he sees. By a blunder of Arektsford's foolish servant (die buffo of the piece, enacted by Harley), the Costing dieoevers his rival's parentage—that he is the eon of a negro waman, a slave in St. Domingo. On this the Count insults him by proclaiming his secret, and branding him as an impostor—a colonial slave escaped from justice. The Count's father, (the Marquis de Vernon) hearing the name of Naomi, the negro woman, is struck with sudden horror • and it turns out that he himse lf is the father of Ardenford, this woman having been his mistress. Meanwhile Arden ford has challenged the Count, and • duel is about former to take place between them ; but the Marqui s, confessing his guilt, declares them to be brothers. They embrace accordingly ; and the fair creole, declaring her intention o f bestowing her hand on her youthful companion, everything ends d ramiable.—This story is much better calculated for a light French vaudeville than for • grand opera in three acts ; and Mr. Bunn has been obliged to expand (or rather to dilute) the subj ect the by the introduction of an immense quantity of sing-song, in shape of ballads, drinking-choruses, hunting-chorus, &c., which have nothing on earth to do with it, and by • heavy load of prov ing dialogue, guiltless of wit, humour, or vivacity. Considering . the little scope afforded for the musical expression of passion, or for the production of musical effect, Mr. Ballo has com th e off well t His overture is a poor affai r,—the poorest, we ink, tha he has written. It is • piece of patchwork—a parcel of fragments joined together without coherence, and remark able for nothing but noise. The piece opens—like all Mr. Bunn's operas—with a drinking chorus, which is one of the best things in it. Its harmony is simple and bold, and there is a syncopated passage of excellent effect. The first ballad sung by Miss Romer as Corinne, "Child of the Sun," is exceedingly pretty. The melody is of and the older It a lian shoal, and the acco m p a niments are quiet diced. Miss Romer sang it extremely well, and it received a loud and genuine encore. This ballad has the further merit of being well introduced. Corinne sings it as a remi niscence of the song her boy-lover used to sing under her window ; and the same ballad is afterwards sung by Arden ford, to arrest the hand of Corinne at the moment she is about to sign the contract of marriage with his rival ; but In Harrison's mouth it had no l onger. the same effect w hich Miss Romer had given " Were it not that folly," accompanied only by. Harrison wind m eats, was was effective, and deservedly encored. tdr had several ballads of the "We may be happy yet," stamp, which he sang with his usual nasal twang, and with his insufferable practice of drawling out his closing notes to an endless length, by way of being exceedingly affettuoso. The encores he received met with much opption. One in porticular, "They say there is some distant land," pro duced a long contest between the yeas and the nays, and was sung a second time, though th en e beforehand. na y s decidedly had it. But it was is pre-determined co re—a music shop encore, fixed and settled The ballad in the second set, "It is not form, it is not time," sang by Miss Romer, though it has nothing to do with the impelis probably the gem of the opera. Its melodic are beautifully rounded, and it conte.les en uncom mon and striking modulation. It wall remarkably well sang, and a pretty harp accompantment added to its' effect. Besides the choruses already mentioned, thew are two choruses of hunters, in the glee style, whichwere very pleasing. Tee long pieces of concerted music, in which some Of the busiest scenes were carried es, did not strike us as successful. They moved too slow, and put a drag upon the action. The thud act, which consists almost entirely of this sort of music, moved very heavily, and had a sedative effect on the audience. The piece received justice from the performers. Miss Romer never better; her voice was fresh, full, and pow irelfn ; though she always lacks finish and refine ment, we never found lea reason to complain of her in this respect. Harrison's bad habits seem incurable; bat he has considerable force, and on several occasions ex hibited a degree of energy which produced a thunder of applause. The parts of the Marquis and the Count were ly supported by Weiss and Rafter. In the choruses respectably music, there were occasional symptoms of hasty preparation ; but they were on the whole well sung. The costemes, of the age of Louis XVI. , were rick and headgear. The theatre was crowded. At the end of the opera the Final* performers, the composer, and (though last not least) the poet, were called for, and severally made their obeisances amid ' tremendous applause." FRENCH PLATS.—ST. JAMES'S THEATRE.—Mr. Mitchell is certainly not chargeable with harping too much managerially upon one string; he gives the critic no rest. We had last night two novelties, a new actress and a new comedy. The new actress is Mademoiselle Aerie, of the Porte St. Martin, and of the Ttatre Imperial at St. Petersburg. She merited and received a favourable race Lion. Her person is good, despite the defect apparent universal with French women, and, at all events, wi French actresses, an excessive hinness ; her features are pleasing, and her style of acting all the more agreeable that it is in great measure free from the mannerism which too generally pervades the style of the ladies who fill the class of characters represented on thh occasion by Mademoiselle Angele, whose rule de dame was Emma Fauvel, in Dumanoir's amusing comedy, " Le Code des Femmes." This piece turns upon the endeavours made by a bride, on the very next day after her marriage, to get separated from her husband, against whom she has, during the wedding feast, conceived a grievous jealousy. She sends for a lawyer, and finding that at so early a stage other conj ugal career she has no other cause for law, than the getting up some grave injure on his part, seeks to work him up into a passion, in thehope that he may furnish her with the grave in jure in the shape of a box on the ear. The husband, however:, being a perfect snonstre de douceur towards her, only boxes the footman's ears, and afterwards, finding out her plot, turns the tables upon her very amusingly, ere he finally removes her unfounded jealousy by an explanation. The part of the ill-used bridegroom was excellently filled by M. Ithozevil. The new comedy we have to notice is Les Trois Crisping; ou, la Famille Poisson," by M. Samson. The personage of Crispin the knavish valet, so pleas let in his roguery, is found in numerous productions of the old repertoire of the Thi-ltre Francais. The part was created in 1660, by Raymond Poisson, a celebrated actor of that period, who, by the originality of his conception and the finish of his execution, made the character so entirely his ' own property, that even when he himself retired from the stage, no one but his son Paul, a veritable son, in birth, parentage, and education, in form and feature, ventured to attempt this class of character. When Paul himself grew old, he, in his turn, was replaced by his son Arnold, than whom the public Judged none other worthy to assume the part. It was this peculiar circumstance of the three gene rations of Crispin, that gave M. Samson the idea of his eomedietta ; and he has worked up the idea very pleasantly. Ho has represented the very senior Crispin's retired from the stage, and having nothing else to do, out of church, groan ing over the years he has misspent on the vile stage, and anathematizing all profane pursuits, more especially the military and the histrionic, though his grandson follows, as be supposes, the one, and his son has succeeded to his honours in the other. The value of his remorse, however, is isaaMested when a country manager, who has dropped in, I teaches his pride as a dramatic author, b 7 appearing to have I forgotten his former productions in this way; and again, when his grandson, who has secretly quitted the army, and achieved triumphs on provincial stages, as Crispin the Third, gets the old gentleman, by an insidious stratagem, to show him how audiences were won in his time. With the country manager, the old gentleman be comes all fire while he recapitulates his successes as a dra matic author, and asserts the honour of the craft ; aud,while instructing his sly rogue of a grandson how properly to do the drunkard on the stage (a capital bison for actors, by the way), the venerable lirsynumd becomes Crispin himself again, working himselt up into such an excitement on the subject, that be actually dons the so long discarded costume, wherein he issues from his apartment just as his son and his grandson make their appearance similarly equipped, presenting a ludicrous tableau for the close of the piece. M. Perlet, we need hardly say was the old Poisson ; and we still less need to say that he acted the part modmirably. He was well supported by Pascal, as th e youngest Poisson and by Mademoiselle Brohan, as I'aul I oisson's niece. UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS. ozroars DF.e. 11.—MATRYN‘TICAL CLAM LIPT.--CLA.B I.—E. E. Bastard. Commoner of WWI Coll. Cuss ll. J. W. Freeborn, Iliblc Clerk of Worcester; W. G. Palgmre, Scholar of Trin. Coll. Cure lll.—None. Cues IV. —W. P. J. G. Fitter, Commoner of Christ Church ; C. W. Goode, Commoner of Bosoms*, 11. It. Lanbton, Commoner of Cni. rersity Coll. ; J. L. Morris, Commoner of Worcester Coll. ; W. 11. Thrapp, Commoner of Exeter Coll. B. Walker, J. Ashworth, and G. Buckle, Examiners. UNIVEZATT PIIEACIIT.IOI. — The Rev. J. Jackson, PembookeColl., Sun day morning, at St. Mary's; the Rev. 0. W. Lewis, Magdalen Hall, Sunday afternoon, at tit. Mary's. Yesterday the Lord Bishop of Oxfonl consecrated a chapel in his lordship's palace at Cuddesden, under the title of ruddeeden Palace Chapel, and dedicated it to St. Peter and St. Paul. His lordship was aasisted in the ceremony by the Ithhop of Newfoundland, Dr. Phillimore, Bc., Ike. Several loading members of t he University, as w‘.ll as a large body of the neig hbourin g parochial clergy were present. NAVAL. SHEEENEI.E., Due. 11.—The , ffeirau, s. v., Sccond.Master Barker, has returned from Devonport, after a stormy passage to and from. She brought some supernumeraries for the Rosamond and Medea, fitting at Woolwich. The Terrible, E. f., Captain Ramsay, in harbour, is ordered to have her defects in the shipwright department surveyed and reported on. The Emeritus in still in the basin. The Seri..ri palms, though teak built, Lae been found in a bad condition, but is to be fitted as a coal depot for the Cape of Gaud Hope. Tuu Garciax.—Notice is given in last night's Gazette to the °M erle and company of Her Majesty's sloop Greeinn, William Smyth, Esq., Commander, that an amount of the refunded expenses incurred in prosecuting the Hamburghtee barque Louise,' seized on 25th Feb., 1641, and restored at Cuxhaven, originally deducted from the proceeds of the Sandaite, seized on the 12th Feb., 1841, will he de posited in th e Registry of th e High Court of Admiralty. on the 9th inst., agreeably to act of parliament.—Thomas Stilwell and Sons, Deena, 22, Arundel-etreet, Strand. Tar LATE R.Y.S. on, H.M.S. KINTREI- - Thin fast-miling vscht, late the property of the lamented Commodore of the Royal Taeht Squadron, having lately tutdergone a thorough purvey and examination by the dockyard officers, has been purchased by the government, and the name of Kestrel will henceforth grace the naval list. To the Royal Yacht Squadron the country is indebted for the stimulus given to merchant shipbuilders, who have since produced specimen' of naval architecture, which for mechanical and scientific proportions haveixen the theme of admiration throughout the world. Tt is rather a singular fact that different administrations of the Admiralty have become the purchasers of the two cialerant "flag -ships" of the Royal , Yacht Squadron, and each of those vessels was built by one and the same individual, and the Isle of Wight may b oast of his habitation.— Haespskire Guardian. POET RUM, Jamaica, Nov. s.—The Pickle, 3, Lieut. Bernard, , arrived from Batabano en the Sth Mat, at which place else was nearly wrecked, during the hurricane of the 11th October. The Vesuvius, steam-eloop, Com. ('Callaghan, arrived on the 7th inst., from Bee mule, where were lying the Pindictire, 50, flagship, and the Persian, 16, Com. Corytod. Arroireneesrix. 10.—Cominandem F.. A. Inglefield, J. W. French, to study.at the steam-factory, Woolwich. Lieutenants W. J. Luke, to study &tithe steam-factory, Wo n twic C. Mina, chief above, coast-guard; C. IL S. Stanhope, Quee ; W. IL. Ruelbrooke, St. Vuseent. Surgema Salter LiVeHEy, Albatross. Master's G . hint E. A. Carey, Columbia. Naval Cadets F. Fletcher, Queen; G. W. Strom Louis Delcherois, St. Vincent. Dec. D.—Surgeon and Medial gamekeeper at s' of Good Hope, H. D. Shea. Master's .. AllWilaile o .Mobibn. ~vat: Caleb Satmdets, Lip/dosing. ACtIEHE ' Aasistant-Sargeon A. it. ,R. Freston, Bransbk. Acting Boatswain m• W. Tobias, eyser. • insults ELITARY. Coca?-MANTIAL AT CRAT,TAX.—T•IIIIday, • general court-martial anem`led in the morning at t hese barracks., for the trial of Captain J. F. Bull, of the 57th regiment., on the following charges, that is to say, for conduct to the prejudice of. good order and !anther die reitne in the following instances, viz.:—'k lo having, On the 9 th of,,,___Q l Tl 1546, on board the barque Mary Mine." then M snelthe in Bay, cape of Good m o p e , or d ere d 'Odor Shadforth, 57th rein, the* being his commanding officer, into arrest. 2nd. For haying at the same time and place, without authori t 7, lammed the en.e,n niand ........_ °l the headquarters of the 57th regiment, . by ordering i.wut- Grant, then acting adjutant to ..be eons, to place Cap tain Stanley, of the same corm under arrest. 3rd. For having, on the 10th July, 184 6 , onbot lel the mad =ne ()Karr Anne), without authority, assumed the coo wand of the -quarters of the 57th regiment, by taming regimen 'W order s, and relievi fi himself from duty as captain of the day," (Sr which service he _ nad ! men tin g of the been detailed. Sill. For having, on the 10, hlul y . and at the same I place, refused to sign a pass order' fore thin g officers, which order had been issued by Major nlotth, then min mending officer. sth. For having, on the said Jule, after be had been detailed in regimental orders as canton tof the day." left the said barque Mary _Anne," although el. 'frets ordero had ) been given by Major Shadforth, then .log hi Ih ve e Pn said the .cn baro cccn tin i gi . ft his o fficer , that STadforth's) permi officer was :oi Meier Shad forutor, wetted the case by a t a ti ob that it was wit t hehat he felt it t be hi; duty to pret If the Present charges against a brother officer, and briefly detailed the., be stances set brit' do the foregoing charges' lifter In under; need • long ex urination , and was followed by Captain S siss the er, slid part by Dr. Jackson, of the same regim ent. We ford- me, at request of the cant, to give the details of their evidence until the inquiry is concluded. Corer-Maretat.—Lieut. Smith, Ist battalion Rl. Art., (recen barked for Bermuda), who was tried by a general court-mar mu is Dublin, Mnice-Gen. Moor° prosecutor, for conduct unbecomin T_th , character, get., in dishonouring a bill for 501., given to • Mu' discounter, =roan Corer, has, after a most patient investigab IL been moat honourably acquitted of the charge preferred against lin SPORTING. NEWMARKET CHAMPION COURSING MEETING. NIWMARKST, FIUDAT EVVZIENO. —No coursing to.day, the !MOW being a foot deep in the town. We wait until orning, expecting s change of weather ; but we think there is n o m chance, and that the stakes will be divided. tats intelligence. JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL.—YESTERULT. Pre.ent.—Lord Brougham, Lord Langdale, Mr. Baron Parke, Mr IL T.P.J. Ft2At. Right lion. Dr. Luthington , and the Right Hon. Haa MAJESTY'S PROCTOR V. TEE SOLICITOR FOR THE DUCHY OF LANCASTEE.—The, arguments in this c ase were concluded to-day and after a long deliberation, Lord Brougham said the case had been ably a rgued on both sides, Upper Connelly, county of Limerick. A death from starva tion was some time since reported in that district, from the insufficiency of wages on the public works to support life. Mr. M. says that the man died from other causes : that two of his sons were employed with him on the works, and that the labourer in the entire of his district earn from 10d. to Is. 4d., and in some instances Is. &L a day at task Work, A cargo of whet an 1 flour reached Limerick on Monday last from London. Two other vessels, with Indian, t am, are immediately expected from Constantinople and. Marseilles. MURDRR sr PARBONSTOWN. —I have ;cast seen a pr i va t e letter from Parsonstown (Bin), in On, - c e County, dated December 9, from which I extract the following shocking relation:—" An occurrence of an awful nature, pccurrea here last night. Mr. William Lloyd, of Church-lane, and formerly of Ballah, in the county of Tipperary, was shot dead at his own door. Ile had walked down the town at 7 o'clock in the evening, and on his return home was met at his own door by the assassin who perpetrded this frightful murder. The savage placed the pistol chin to Mr. Lloyd's breast, drew the fatal trigger, and his victim was instan taneously hurried into eternity. There is no cause assigned for this murder." The Galway Vindicator of yesterday suggests that the assassination of Mr. Lynch, of whose murder I yesterday sent you an account, erasprompteci by &desire to plunder. BOARD oe Wones.—ln reply to a letter of the county surveyor of Wexford, wishing for information on certain queries submitted to the chief secretary, Mr. Walker, seers- tart' to the Board of Works, replies:A— -.lf a proprietor undertakes to employ the whole of the persons deed tute on any one townland, and that none of them are sent out of the townbuid to any other works, will that townland be exempt from taw lion for works carried on elsewhere?—lf a public work, such seer cutting of a hill, or a new road, ire., is carried on in the lowland where the proprietor is employing the people, and none of the living in the townland arc employed upon the work , will the be taxed for a share of the expense?—ln reply to the first query, I directed to inform von that thattownhuid will not be exempt fon" taxation for works carried on elsewhere. And In reply to the man query, that the townland will be taxed for a share of the expense." PRESENTMENT SESSIONS.—An extraordinary present ment sessions was held on Friday last in the barony of Slievardagh, Tipperary, at which Lord Desert presided. The sum of 7,5001. having been presented for, of which several landlords, including the noble chairman, took various sums for drainage, Col. Douglas, the Government Inspec tor, was called upon to address the meeting. His observe.- lions are of importance, and were listened to with much attention and respect.—" I wish to address myself to all the farmers assembled here to-day, large or small. First I must tell who I am. My name is Colonel I) :uglas. lam sent by the government as Inspector of Relief Committees. I am desired to report on the state of the country, and what disposition is exhibited by the people on public works. You have been sent by God, both now and past, excellent ma nures: and I say, if you neglect the tillage, on you must rest the frightful consequences of bringing famine on the land ; and, if due preparation be not made, in eight months you will he all nerving : for this is not a question of money, but of food, and food you cannot have, if yon do not sow it now. It is the pecuniary interest of every farmer, for every 20 acres of land he possesses , to take one man from the Board of Works, who will trench in 55 days an acre of land, at the cost of 31. 2a. 6d. ' thereby earning from 15d. to 18d. daily—next harvest the cost will be more than repaid. It is a delusion to think that it is no profit to take men off the public works. Go home from hence, and take the solemn assurance of the government that they know r Take w menant — 3r&k. npouvibt .loural::, i tlmo f pforr ti ! e n ni the as erna stated, and you will not ho under the necessity of paying a foreigner for the food you use. On Saturday last there were employed 276,000 men, absolutely doing nothing but ob structing the public conveyances. I was in Cashel yesterday, and there the p :or-house, built to contain 700 inmates, had in it 840 ; and to get to the door I had to force my way through 500 persons, half famished. Oh! it was a heart , rending sight; and believe me I speak the sentiments I sin cerely feel. I speak facts which cannot be disputed. Ponder on them well ! ' A presentment sessions for the barony of Imokilly, county Cork, was held on Monday last at Midleton. The proc ings were taken under the letter of Secretary Labouchere. The amount agreed to be expended upon public works was 6,000/., and the amount on reproductive works 9,4151., being 15,415/. in all. It was stated at the sessions that there were 1,500 labourers in the barony for whom work must be pro vided, and that the lowest rate of expenditure per month must be 2,0001. At the meeting of the Wexford Relief Com mittee on Wednesday it was stated that 600 barrels of barley were turned into malt, and 2,000 barrels of malt and other grain distilled into whisky in that town on the average of eight days. A Roman Catholic clergyman of Limerick. the Rev. Mr. Hickey, states that seven of his parishioners perished of star vation fast week. The following were the quantities of grain and other food exported from Waterford last week: Whea t, , 1 ,120 lids. oats, 1,610 bele. • flour, 5,640 cwts. ; bacon, 9,180 flitches ; pork, 47 brie. ; 'butter, 3,329 cwt.; lard, 584 cwt. ; pigs, 1,920 ; cows, 101; sheep, 30. At the fair of Croom, county of Limerick, on Monday last , the price of beef, sinking offal, was 46e. 6d. per cwt. ; this is about the rate which it brings in the Dublin market, and as this fair is looked upon as a regulator of prices, it would seem that we shall not have to notice any fall in the retail - -iee of that article at this side of Christmas, at least. SCOTLAND. ELECTION FOR THE COVNTY OF RENFREW.—COIOTIC I Mure, of Caldwell, was on Wednesday last elected member for the county Of ltenfrew, which has been vacant by the death of Mr. P. M. Stewa rt. There was no opposition, and the proceedings were conducted with great quiet in front of the county building. This absence of opposition and ex citement is no doubt accounted for by the limited period which the present parliament has to run. Colonel Mure is a moderative Conservative, and not likely to be favourably disposed towards the present envernment. PROVINCIAL. LANCASHIRE. 1 THE LARGEST MERCHANT VESSEL THE WORLD.— The people of Liverpool have no w an opportunity of seeing the packet-ship New World , which is supposed to be the largest merchant-vessel in existence, This mfi ignitrip ficent ship arrived in the Mersey .on Thursday, on her rst across the Atlantic. She is intended to take her station as one ois f the packet-ships between that port and New York. She 188 feet long between perpendiculars, 196 feet from the r.em to the taffrail, 42 feet extreme breadth of beam,2B feet deep, and is 1,818 15- 95 ths tons , carrenter's measurement, or 1,511 31-95 tbs, government nu asurement. It is estimated that she will stow 5,000 bales of cotton, or 3,000 tons of mea surement goods. She has three decks, the samen as either a frigat of e, the upper one being as substantial, in proportio , the others. —Liverpool Afereury_. YORKSHIRE. INCORPORATION or BRADFORD.—A number of the influ ential inhabitants of the borough of Bradford have origi nated another petition to her Majesty in Council, praying for the grant of a charter of incorporation under the late muni• cipal acts. Two or three years ago a similar ptitioin wnves as set en foot, which was stout l y o pp osed ; and, after an tigation by a government commissioner, the counter petition prevailed, and the charter was refused. tip to the present time we have not heard OßCE of any opposition to the new petition. WMIVIIIRE. NEW WRIT.—The Speaker of the House of Commons gives notice in last night's Gazette that he intends to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown to make out at the end of fourteen days after this date, a new writ for the elect ing of a knight of the shire to serve in this present parlia ment for the eastern division of the county of Worcester, in the room of the late John Barneby, T HE REPRESENTATION OP RAS? WORCESTERSHIRE.— D ROITWICH , FRIDAY.—The vacancy in the representatkm of this division of the county, and the unexpected prospect of a contested election, have put all parties n the qui etre. A meeting of the Conservative Association has been held here to-day, Sir John Pakingtoa, Kt., M.P., in the chair; but, in reply to an application to be present from the repre sentatives of the various morning papers, the answer was, that the meeting was for purposes ' strictly private," and that consequently no reporters could be admitted. The conclave sat about three hours ; but it was during the latter part of the time only that Captain Rushout was invited to be present. For the reaso n above assigned, we are unable to supply the details of the discussion but of its pur port we have no doubt ; it is neither more nor lees than an attempt to stave off a contest at the present time, by entering into such a compromise with Mr. Foley and his party as would secure the return of that gentleman, at least at the next general election. Elimis et the nitres of the party were, we believe, opposed to any seek arrangement., but ul ti mately the Peelite Conservatives car ried their point, and a deputation was appointed to wait upon Mr. Foley's friends, in order to ascertain their feelings with reference to the plan suggested. In the event of their declining to accede to any arrangement of this nature, the p ar ties present at the meeting unanimously, as it is alleged, resolved on " fighting the battle ' on this occasion. The pith of the argument employed by the moderates" to-day was, that there was a very general feeling at Stourbridge, Oldbury, and She other northern towns in the county, that the Whip were entitled hireturn a member for the division, and it was further averrefl d uential that if the point were pressed agai nst them, many of the in conservatives were so satisfied of the justice of their claim, and of the eligibility of Air. Foley, that they would desert their own banners and join the liberals. The meeting, at four o'clock, adjourned to meet again at the Btar Hotel, at Worcester, to-morrow, when it is anticipated a repAy will be received from Mr. Foley and his friends. Mr . Foley's friends were actively engaged in canvassing here to-day, and the hon. candidate was himself similarly engaged at Btour bridge. ACCIDENT ON THE BIRMINGHAM AND BRISTOL RAlL way.—Our reporter, who communicates the above informa tion, writes on the back of his parcel, evidently at the last moment of its departure from Bromegrove (five miles from Droitwitch), that there had been an accident on the line, by which the trainwes delayed:an hourand a half. An engine was broken to pieces by th e disaster, but nobody was hurt. LINCOLNSHIRE. THE NORTH LINCOLNSHIRE ELECTION Win tak olme place about New Year's Day. Sir Montague John Cheley is the only candidate at present named. LITERATURE. Ll4Cregul, or the Children of Night. In politics, in life, or in mimic life, that is, in lite rature or the arts, any recourse to violent or extraor dinary means of operating or producing an effect, is pretty sure to excite objection, rather than command admiration. Mankind has within it certain reserves of force, certain recesses of feeling, wisely destined for serious and extreme occasions, and which, conse quently, ought not to be idlyprobed or causelessly ex cited. Any appeal, therefore, to these 'profound sym pathies, which, when excited, shake and appal and as the question was of we much importance their lord ships would consider of their jedgment, and letcounsel know if they required further information. The quite= whether the Queen be entitled to the goods of persons dying intestate within the county Palatine in right of the crown or of the duchy, involves a great many difficult points, which it would be impossible to make intelligible I without going into them at great length. The right con- I tended for is one of ecclesiastical origin; the church in ancient times laying its hands upon the moveable property of an intestate, for the purpose of applying it to " pio us uses, " the chief of which was his "soul's heath," that is, the saying of masses. In other words, it was appropriated by the clergy. Whether the crown, upon the creation of a county palatine, had the power to convey this ecclesiastical privilege ; and whether, if so, it did, in fact or in law, grant it in the case of the county elatine of La-master, wire two of the ques tions argu ed. Was the " ordinary" ministerial offices of the Bishop on such eeeSeiella to be considered as the offices of the crown or of the county palatine ? Instances of th, appointment of Bishops by the holders of a grant of a palatinate jurisdiction (as Hugh Lupus, Earl of Chester), were shown ; but in other cases, they were appointel by the crown; and before the Reformation the Pope, as the head of the church, had the power of nominating, or approving of, the persons to be elected bishops ; the crown afterwards as suming this privilege &jure, as well as exercising it de facro. Before the Reformation, then, could the crown grant this ec clesiastical privilege to a county palatine; and if so, and ad mitting that the privilege had been granted to, and exercised by, the holders of the grant, is it not one which, upon the duchy reverting to the crown, would merge in and be pos sessed by the crown in its higher character of sovereign ? These are questions involving a great deal of old law, and depending on principles and authorities of a very abstruse and technical nature. that they should arise at all in the nineteenth century may, perhaps, be considered a great credit to the intelligence of the age. The public can have little or no interest in the decision one way or other ; the " goods " of the intestate, in the present case, will be spent in the litigation, and should it turn out that, upon the mi nute and technical considerations brought to bear upon the case, such property is to go into her Majesty's private pocket, as duchess of lAneaster,instead of to the general credit of the crown, it will doubtless be broughtinto account in any fu ture settlement of the crown revenues; and in the mean time, judging from the past, such windfalls are not likely to be of vast amount. CRAWFOIII) o. Seoorren.—This appeal from a decision of the Supreme Court at Bombay, relating to the refusal of the registrar of ships to register a vessel (the General Wood), the property of Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy, Bart., and Sons, of Bombay, on the ground that it had for a time been the pro perty of a foreigner, was part heard, and adjourned to Tues day next. Mr. Serjt. Channell and Sir J. Bayley, fur appel lant ; Mr. Wigram and Mr. Forsyth, for respondent. EQUITY COURTS. Before the lad Chancellor. FINDEN v. STEPHENS AND OTHEBS.—WILL.—WORD OF RECOMMENDATION TO AN OFFICE.—This appeal from an order of the Vice-Chancellor of England, overruling a demurrer to the bill, was argued last Wednesday, and a report appeared in the Daily News of Thursday. The question was whether the plaintiff could compel the defend ants to retain him as their sole agent in the management of estates devised to them by a testator, who expressed it to be his wish and desire that the plaintiff, in whose judgment and integrity he had great confidence, should be appointed for all purposes for which his trustees (the defendants) might have occasion for an agent, receiver, or manager of any of his estates and property. The Lord Chancellor, now giving his judgment, said that the great caution which he thought it his duty to exercise when he found that he differed from another judge of the court, required him to give much consideration to this case. The result was to confirm him in the impression he had at the hearing of the appeal. He considered the question raised here to fall entirely within the principle of the judgment of the House of Lords in the case of " Shaw r. Lawless" (5 Clark & Finnelly). It was necessary to consider the intention of the testator, as expressed by the words he used. The words were wards of recommendation only, and all the arguments and observation on like words in Shaw r. Lawless," applied to this case. The devises in both cases were similar. The testator here devised his estate's to trustees, and gave them full power to sell and dispose of them for the benefit of the persons beneficially entitled. It was inconsistent with that power to fasten the plaintiff as agent on the estates. In " Shaw v. Lawless," it was asked whether the defendant (Lawless)should have aright to inter fere with the management of the property. The same ques tion might be asked in this cage. But it was useless to pursue the comparison, for scarcely an observation is found in " Shaw v. Lawless," that was not equally applicable here. But there was in this case another circumstance : the plain tiff here claimed no interest in the property, but to be I employed as agent, when an agent is necessary. The bill could not be sustained on that ground ; and it was equally untenable on the ground of the injunction prayed. The demurrer, therefore, ought to have been allowed. The Vice- Chancellor's decision was reversed. SPOTTP,WOODB r. CLARK.—P ICTOKI AL ALMANACX.I.— I strrATION.—I NJ' UNCTION.—This was an appeal motion to dissolve an injunction granted by the Viee-Chancellor of England, to restrain the publication of the defendant's alma auk, on the ground that it was a fraudule nt imitation of the plaintiff's almanack.—Mr. Stuart, for the motion, said the injunction was first granted ex parte, and continued, to his surprise, by the Vice-Chancellor upon motion to discharge it after the defendant's answer was put in. There were two questions to be considered; first, whether the plaintiff had a right to an injunction, without first establishing his legal title; and, secondly, whether the defendant's publication ought to be restrained at all, as it was clearly not an imita tion of the plaintiff's work. There was no great similitude in the title of the works, and yet it was in the titles alone that any imitation was imputed. The plaintiff's al manack was called " The Pictorial Alnianaek," and the defendant entitled his " Old Moore's Family Pictorial Almanuk." The plaintiff alleged that this title was an in. fringement of his right, and a fraudulent imitation of his work. Surely it was open to every person to publish an almanack, and a pictorial almanack, which meant no more than an almanack with pictures. Both these works had pie- tures, but there was no resemblance charged, except in the title-page. The two works were very different in size and in the colour of the wrappers. The plaintiff' supposed no one had a right to publish a pictorial almanack but himself. But he had not shown that he had such exclusive right. Both these almanacks had engravings, but there was no like. nem between them no one could mistake the one for the other. The plaintiff should show an exact imitation in order to entitle him to the injunction. The defendant, by his answer, denied any intention to imitate the plaintiff's publi cation. The engraving on the frontispiece was, in fact, taken from an old magaxine. He submitted*at the injunction should be dissolved, with liberty to the plaintif, if he wished, to bring hie action at law to establish his right to come to this court for protection.—Mr. Moore, on the same side, said, the real ground of the plaintiffs applying for the injunction was, that the defendant's publication was marked to be sold for 3d., but the plaintiff's had Sd. on the wrapper.—Mr. Ander don and Mr. Hallett supported the injunction. There was here clearly a fraudulent imitation. There were twenty words of the plaintiff's title-page transferred to the de fendant's, but ingeniously and fraudulently transposed, so that if any person went into a shop and asked for the " Pie tesial Almanack," and was banded this almanack of the de fendant's, he would, by the title only, take it as the plaintiff's almanack. Why should not the defendant take some other title for his publication ? The prior exclusive use of the title of the work gave the plaintiff a right to an injunction. It was true that no one carefully examining both works could mistake one for the other, but people going to a shop did not always examine the work until they purchased it. Several cases were referred to in which parties were restrained from the use of trade marks on their wares, as in" Croft v. Day " (7 Heaven), where a party was restrained from selling blacking with the title " Day sad Martin" on the corks , an d " Millin g ton v. Fox" (3 MyL and C.), in which the defendants were restrained from selling their steel with marks on it which had been long used by the plaintiffs in their manufacture; and "Knott c. Morgan" (2 Keen), where the London Conveyance Company obtained an Injunction to restrain a new company from running " omnibuses" with the name of " London Conveyance Com pany," or " Conveyance Company," painted on them. All three cases went beyond the present cue. The Lord Chancellor, without waiting for the reply, said all these cases depended on their own circumstances. It was the duty of this court to see that the party had made out his legal right before the equitable jurisdiction is exercised — which is only justified by the previously established legal right. Great mischief is done by ant granting an injunc tion and then telling, the party obtaining it to bring his action, as was done in this case. Whereas the mischief might be prevented by dissolving the injunction, with liberty to the plaintiff to bring his action. Another objection to the granting an injunction in the first instance, and then putting the party to prove his legal right, is, that great injury may be done, and the court thereby runs the risk of doing great injustice in doubtful cases. Here is a publication which if not out and disposed of next month loses its sale alto gether for the year, as no one will buy an almanack in March or April, when the action will have been tried. If the party is prevented from having his right decided till the spring, what is the use of his almanack then ? The injury to him would be without remedy. It is by far the safer and more equitable mode of exercising the jurisdie• tion of this court, to suspend it until the legal right is established. The cases cited to prevent the use of trade marks do not apply to this. Marks on steel, or on a bottle of blacking, may mislead, as there is no other means of knowing what steel or blacking they are. But here, if any person is deceived by the appearance , it is not by the eye he is deceived, for all these words and descriptions on the title pages are plain to the eye. Certainly there appears to be a great coincidence of thought between the plaintiff and de fendant, when the latter hit on the same description on his title-page. It is difficult to believe it was quite accidental, yet if it was not intended for fraud, it is a most profitless imitation.—His lordship was not satisfied the legal title of the plaintiff was made out so as to induce him ro defendant from selling his almanack; dissolve the injunction : let the defendant hie sale, and let the plaintiff bring his a Spa right. JOSDON V. Jorme.—MARRIED WOI E x ECESE A DEED.—Mr. Cooper and Mr. to eschews an order of Vice-Chancellor w g . 4 cl% his honour directed a married Iv a" e a. The facts were thews : the lady 1. posited heir title-deeds to secure a debt due The debt w•AS not paid, a bill was filed to enforce mortgage, and a decree for sale of the r master reported that this lady was a She had married since the deposit of her d refused to execute the conveyance of the was no case in which a married woman wi execute a deed. Formerly they were examined or other person, to know it' they were willing deed, and since the abolition of fines - examined to know if they voluntarily acknowledged a deed, but in no clue was there an order in them to compel thins to ezecute a deed. Mr. Gifford supported the order of the Vise-Chancellor: Judgment was postponed. Before the Vieikheasenor of DIONInd- IN RE THE BERTH/ WON FREI SeftOOI.—ATTSEDANCE OP THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL UPON CHARITY SOHENIIII. This was a petition presented on behalf of the trustees of the Bretberton Free School, in the county of Lancaster, for the purpose of obtaining a direction from the court that cer tain persons therein named might be approved of and pointed trustees of the charity ; that a runt of 2571. might be applied in building a school room for girls, and that the trni. tees might be permitted to pay a salary to a schoolmistress for teaching the girls. Mr. Wright, in support of the petition, requested that the court would consent to the prayer of this petition without directing a - reference to the Master. A scheme had been settled by the master and approved of by the court in the year 182 i). Since that time the savings of the income of the charity had amounted to the sum of Wt., which the trustees were desirous oflaying out in building a school-room for the girls, who had hitherto been educated with the boys. If it were necessary to go before the rnnetrr and have the attend ance of the Attorney-General, all the funds would be wasted and there would remain nothing to build a school with. 'lt was therefore most desirable to effect the object without that expense. Mr. Wray, for the Attorney-General, submitted that the court could in no instance dispense with the attendance of the Attorney General, and that if the parties conuucted the business properly, it might be effected at a very trifling cost. He had no objection, however, to allow the appointment of the trustees without further inquiry, since they were all gentlemen of the highest standing in the county. The Vice-Chancellor said he could not allow that the money would be wasted by the attendance of the Attorney- General, who was the constituted guardian of charities, said he thought that his attendance was necessary in all awed. He would, therefore, refer it to the master to Inquire what was • proper sum to be expended in building the school. room, and to arrange • salary for the schoolmistress. Before YieaChanseilor Wigrarn. SHUTTLEWORTH o. Bsectovon.—DISPOISITION OP 'Pao- PEWIT BY A LADY ERRONEOUSLY SUPPOSING HERSELF TO BB MARRIED FOR MONEY ADVANCED TO HER SUP POSED HUSBAND HELD VALID.—By the will of Mr. fluesey, dated in 1824, two freehold houses, being Nos. 2 and 3, Qid Broad-street, London, were conveyed to trustees upon trust to sell the same at the request of the testator's two daughters, Mrs. Middleton and Mrs. Silver, and to pay the interest of the proceeds and the rents of the premises till sold, to the testator's daughters for life, for their separate use, and after the death of the survivor of the said two daughters, upon trust for the children of both equally as tenants in common The testator died in 1827 leaving his daughters surviving both of whom had children. In 1836, Mrs. Middleton, being then dead, Emily Middleton, one of her three children, in termarried with one Barber, and by indenture dated in Sep tember of that year reciting the death of Mrs. Middleton, and that Emily Barbey was entitled, under the wilt of .her grandfather, to a reversionary interest in one-third of the property passing thereby ; and that, being so entitled, she and her husband had agreed to borrow the sum or 400/. of one Rice, who was to advance the money upon 1118 security of an assignment of all her estate and interest under the will, Mr. and Mee Barber agreed to convey and assign , a nd did thereby convey and assign, all Mrs. Barber's interest under the said will to the said Rice, kis executors," administrators, and assigns ; subject to the usual proviso for redemption on repayment of the money advanced. The indenture then contained a power to Rice in case default Omelet be made in payment of the money advanced to sell:all the estate, right, title, and interest of Mrs. Barber in the pro perty thereby assigned. This deed Wes not acknow ledged by Mrs. Barber, in accordance witb the provisions of the statute 3 and 4 Will. IV., cap. 74. In February, 1838, Mr. and Mrs. Barber, by a deed of that date, duly acknow ledged by the lady under the atatute,'and reciting the mort gage to Rice, assigned all the interest of Mrs. Barber under her grandfather's will, subject to that mortgage, to two per sons, named Manson and Field, absolutely; and Field after wards assigned his interest under this indenture to the de fendant Bull. In February, 1838, default having been made in payment of the mortgage-rttOney, Rice exercised the power of sale given to him by the deed of September, 1836, and the plaintiff became the purchaser. Shortly after this, it was discovered that the marriage between Mr. and Mrs. Barber was invalid, Barber being guilty of bigamy ; and Mrs. Barber then, at the request of the plaintiff, executed a deed, by which she confinned the transaction with Rice in September, 1836. In 1842 Mrs. Silver, the surviving te nant for life, died, and the present bill was then filed against Mintier and Bull, and the surviving trustee, and the parties beneficially interested under the will, stating that the chil dren of Mrs. Silver were illegitimate, and claiming a con veyance of onethird of the premises in question, one of the questions at the hearing was, whether the plain tiff or the defendants Bull and Manser were, under the cir cumstances, the rightful owners of the property sought to be recovered by the bill. Mr. ltomilly and Mr. Goldomid ap peared tor the plaintiff; Mr. Bolt and Mr. Colo for the de fendants Mansur and Bull; and Messrs. Bacon, Heathfield. and Piggott for otter parties. His Honour said that, supposingthe lady to be a feme sole, it would be impossible to read the deed of September, 1836, as showing that the elle was limited to anything lees than passing the fee. The limitation to the executors, admini strators, and assigns of the mortgagee was an unusual way of conveying the fee, hut the power afterwards given to Rice by the indenture was in terms which rendered it impossible to treat the transaction as anything less than a contract that e should have ewer to sell the while of the laey's interest. It happened that, at the time of executing the security, the lady supposed herself to be a married woman, but that she had since discovered that she was then a feme sole. The distinction taken by Isle. Itolt, that • married woman was bound to the extent to which she intended to make the deed opera tive, appeared to be sound ; and in cases, therefore, where a wife joins her supposed husband in assigning her own property, without acknowledging the deed, the probable construction to be put upon the transaction would be, that she did not mean to convey more than her husband could convey. In the case before the court, however, the lady had intended, and contracted to convey the whole of her interest in the property. That was beyond dispute, and the court would not therefore, by holding her bound us a ferns sole, be obliging her to do more than she intended to do. The parties claiming adversely to the plaintiff could take no interest with the recital in their deed, that the property had been already conveyed, The argument, logically speaking, was not hi lied by that circumstance, because the question would still be, what interest did the decd of Sept., 1836, convey ; and the deed must be construed, before the court could deal with the interest passed. His Honour con cluded by saying that the plaintiff appeared to be eutitled, both by the deed of Sept., 1836, and by the subsequent deed, to such interest as Emi l y Middleton had in the premises. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH. Kist Paica—BeforeMr. Justice Erie and a Special Jury. THE QUEEN E. BUITON AND DYNE/W.—CONSPIRACY.— This Si which was partly heard on Wednesday was re sumed, ir F. Thesiger, Q.C., Mr. Clarkson, Mr. Iliallantine, Mr. Peacock, and Mr. Charnock, appearing for the prosecu tion, and Mr. Scrjeant Allen, Mr. Keane, i and Mr. Bud dleston, for the two Buttons. Th e evidence n chief showed that for a series of years almost all the persons employed ip the dyeing establishment of Mr. Lewis, of Oxendon dreet, have been in the habit of dyeing gouda with his materials for their own profit, and without his consent; that all the persons in the establishment are permitted gra tuitously to dye goods for themselves and their families, but that the goods for the most part dyed by them were of a description irreconcileable with their means and station and were, in the phraseology of the trade, "jobs ;" that George Baton, who was under foreman, had carried or l t i s large and bold system of jobbing i that James Button, father, who was the foreman, connived at the jobbing of his son, jobbed himself, and permitted other workmen to job in return for the assistance afforded, by them in their several departments ; and that Corduroy was one of the workmen who had so afforded assistance. For the Buttons it was urged that the offence, if one had been proved, might be a conspiracy, , but certainly wilB a larceny ; and that the con spiracy, being a misdemeanour, had merged in the larceny, which was a felony. This was overruled. It wis then con tended—let, that the evidence showed delinquencies in the younger Button, but no concert with the elder Button, for effecting a common object ; and 2nd, that it was not worthy of credit, because deposed to in its essential parte by wit nesses who had committed the very offence which they denounced, some of whom had been discharged b Mr. Lewis and again taken into hia service, and all of whom had an interest in procuring the convictiona. It was further urged,, that by a deed dated in 1829, Mr. Lewis was bound to invest an annual sum far a period of 21 years, to accumulate for the benefit of the elder Button and his children, subject to a deduction of 2,0001. in the event of the elder Button being guilty of malversation, set. ting up for himself, or going to a oval house; that the accu mulations now exceeded 2,0001.; that Mr. Lewis had sold out that sum as forfeited to him ; and that the object of this prosecution was to prevent the necessity of reimbursing that sum. The facts on which thisimpuntlon is based vfEre elicited from Mr. Lewis by cross-examination ; the infer ence, however, was denied, and it was stated that the fend is the subject of a chancery suit, instituted since the indict ment was preferred. Corduroy, who conducted his own de fence, was not forthcoming when called on to address the jury. The learned judge having summed up, the jury re tired for a short time, and then returned a verdict of Gnats, against all the defendants, but recommended Corduroy to mercy, on the ground that he had been misled by the bad example of his superiors. BERKELEY V. EAMONSON.—We have received a letter from the defendant in this ease, complaining of our report which appeared on Wednesday. The nature of hie objections will be understood from the replies of our reporter, to whom - referred • . , 7 I ! ' P 1 I 1 . t i i I , 1 ' 1 , ' 1 , 1 , , 1 . , I I I I ' 'I I I i I ' i •I . i 1 i'' 1 , i the legal uue to -- him to prevent the ! le tter was refer red •. 'ed t hl . w p o sin uld the u re n f t or o e f j th tr i n t /S t i m t :;ro tr ot to the the t arit scussedtilt Pi e in ffo t wo in ti th e I, , e mmo le ugh tt ie b?. e me " id .itt en le i d : mat.a tram a )., action to prove his report of any particular action, unless material to the issue. 2.—The ; . defendant claimed inconsistent advantages. He wanted to deny the i )IrIEN ORDERED To ! fact of any invention, and to insist that an invention hod been oom. [r. Saun d ers move d municated to Mr. Prwiton, wbcws Ma wita, that nothing had born ! communicated to him at all. 2.—As to the postscript, the report in Her Sir J. Wieram, the Until y News is founded on the very letters of the defendant; and ;I' woman to execute a it was proved that he had been so delighted with the progress of his before marriage de- eon, that he would not believe the youth's performances to be his pro. ,ue by her brother. ductions. But for the misrepresentation about the medal' the showed plain- enforce the equitable ti ff must have had a verdict. The fact that a medal was given the property. Th e that, in the judgment of the Society of Arta, there had been an a necessary party. invention. ---- • deeds, and she now BAIL COURT. as property. ..There ... B e f ore Lord Desman.n Was compelled to %AERIE v. EAOLE.—LITHOORAPH ING diluted by a judge, PRONOTER.—The plaintiff in this case willing to execute a and the defendant was a barrister and . , . • es they were also London and Bury Railway. The actapp, Awn* .. l'(:- : - • ' .. . .. • , . . .. -. ..5.....• —. 1 ~-- - 1 ,:. ' , ssaudx. ~n e. .a • tiny, 144; 163 w it they :e"!k nasal liana' , and gr a r yes. it th e Rich. ases iraelf TM Lord 1, the ISO eseryi zpood, maw, 1:1% oar tot nddy ry and Priority en the two or io that I ation. I I evinced respect natural