The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-04-23 00:00:00

rrauct V. LIND3A.Y.

This was another motion in the same suit relating to
the taxation of ,the costs. It appeared that upon the
hearing before the Vice-Chancellor -only two counsel
were retained for the plaintiffs, but three counsel ap-
peared for them on the hearing of the appeal. The de-
fendants wete condemned in the 'costs of the appeal,
and before the taxing master they insisted that by the
rule of the court-the --cost 4 two' counsel only could
be allowed between party and salty. The Master,
however, thought the case an exceptional one, as
the' correspondence alone extended to 7,500 folios, and
the hearing of the appeal had occupied the Court seven
days, and allowed the extra counsel.. The defendants
then appealed to the Vice-Chancellor, who reversed the
decision of the Master on the ground that he was of
opihion that the rule wat; inflexible. From this order
the plaintiffs appealed.
. Mr. W. M.... James and Mr. Turner were for the
appellants ; Mr, G.,iffard and Mr. H. Cox for the respan-
dents.

The Lord Chancellor said that, without doubt, the
rule of the court was that the cost of only two counsel
should be allowed on taxation. This rule, however, was
not inflexible, but it was the duty of the patty ask-
ing for its relaxation to satisfy the court that it
was a proper case to allow the fees of three
counsel. The case cited proved that, in certain
instances, such a deviation from the rule was permitted,
and therefore all that the court had to look at in
the present case was whether orsnot it came within the
exception to the rule. Considering the enormous length
of the pleadings, and the time the case occupied on the
appeal, ha WU of opinion it was most reasonable that
the costs •of three counsels should be alloWed. The
order of the Vice-Chancellor must therefore be•varied
to that extent.
The Lords Justices concurred.

A general meeting of the shareholders of the Northern
Railwif has been appointed for the 21st of May next.
. THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE.—SuIeendy do we hope
that Mr. Tennyson's example may retard the downfall
of the noblest living language. Our . most popular
writers are most vicious in style. Lord Macitalay's
balanced antithesis and empty glitter of metaphor, have
had enormous influence; the style is a mechanical one,
and the numerous gentlemen who write -Mies leaders
out-Macaulay Macaulay daily. Mr. De Quincy and
Mr. Landor, who can write prose, are little read. Mr.
Carlyle writes simple common-places in a vulgarly arti-
ficial and inverted and inflated style. Mr. Ruskin' in
whose writings " what is true is not new, and what is
new is not true," drowns his meaning in.terribly long
sentences, full of wonderfully euphonious words. Mr.
Dickens never could write English. Mr. Tbackerav
mistakes slang for English. The only popular and
influential writer of undefiled English is Mr. Tennyson.
---"ldy/is of the King," ih the Constitutional Press.
COUNTERFEIT BANK 'or ENGLAND NOTE:S.—At the
Wolverhampton Police Court, a full-faced, tall young
woman, respectably attired, and who gave her name as
Sarah Jones, was placed in the dock, charged with
passing four counterfeit Bank of England £5 notes to as
many tradesmen, all drapers—two in Wolverhampton,
one at Westbromwich, and the fourth at Great Bridge,
also in South Staffordshire. The authorities of the
Bank of England prosecuted, and the prisoner was
defended. It seemed to be the practice of the prisoner
to make purchases of drapery goods to the value of about
'2os, and then tender a.£s note in payment. Iu three
of the eases she -was'quite successful, but in the fourth.
Mr. Edwards, draper, of Wolverhampton, expressed his
doubts as to the genuineness of the note to the prisoner,
who replied thatcher husband had just given it to her,
and left the house professedly to find him. Meeting a
" friend," the necessary amount was given to her, and
the prisoner tried to get the note back. By this time
the police had arrived, and Jones was arrested. The
prisoner subsequently admitted that she was unmarried,
and there is no doubt that she was the tool of the man
who found'her the money in the street. The notes had
an impressed water mark, instead of the usual water
mark. She was committed for trial, on all the charges,
at the put Staffordshire assizes.