The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1872-06-08 00:00:00

THE "SUCCESSION DUTY" ACT.

In the Vice-Chancellors Court, the cause of "Ring V.
Jarman" has been heard, am! Is an important case on the
SuFeasion.Thity Act. . .

,
Richard Ring, the testator in the cause, by his will no whip, she was held back very hard all the way, and
dated 25th of March, 1850, devised all his real estates could not be pulled up for a quarter of a mile after she
to trustees upon trust to accumulate the rents and hail done the twenty miles. At the seventeenth mile
profits for the term of 21 years from his death, and the owner cried out to the driver not to go so fast, as
after the expiration of the term to convey and assure he had thirty-four seconds to spare. He replied, ' I
the same, with the accumulations, to the use of the can hold her back any more, sir.' The owner had
person who should then answer the description of heir backed to do twenty miles in an hour. She was not
male of his body, his heirs and assi,ins for ever; and half so much distressed as you see our ordinary cab-
if there should be no person answering to such des- horses after an ordinary drive. In order to keep her
cription, then to the use of the person who should back in the first six miles they drove another carriage
then answer the description of heir general of his before her, and kept her head close against it."
body; and if there should be no person answering to the SCULPTURE ON WOOD. —A process Of me-
description last mentioned, then to the use of the per- chanical wool carving has been introduced in Paris by ,
son or persons who should then answer to the escrip- M. it, A. Lanteigne, 0, Rue Thfirese (says the
tion of his heir general, his, her, or thou- heirs and
al/celiac/re Mapazine). It is adapted to all kinds of
assigns for ever, if snore than one, as tenants in coins worsl, the harrier and drier the better, and consists in
moo; and the testator bequeathed his personal estate passing the wood through rolls or matrix cylinders,
,to the same trustees to be held upon the sametrusts as whereby any desired pattern is impressed upon the
, were therein before declared con,erning his real estate. surface with a delicacy and effeet that compare favour-
The testator had no children, and died in 1850, leaving ably with the work of !skilled carvers, and at a cost
his nephew, John William Ring, his heir general, and almost nominal. The process is rapid, as ten super.
he died in 1865. The term of 21 years did not expire &ie. feet of finished work can be produced per second.
till 1871, when the petitioners, who woe the testator'B Thus any design for ornamentation with wooden Nur-
four great nieces, became entitled to the property, faces can be carried out economically, whether in
which, with the accumulations, amounted to over I intaglio or in relief.
£lOO,OOO. The Crown now claimed succession duty
upon the whole sum. PARLIAMENTARY RITUALISM.—The mouse of
Mr. Dickinson, Q.C. and Mr. Freeman, for the C smmons, which determined to sit on Ascension Day,
petitioners, after stating the facts, contended that they adjourned for the Derby. Let it not therefore be said
were entitled entirely as devisees, and that there were that the majority of the representatives of the people
no devisees until the expiration of the term. There of this great country are Secularists. They have, at
was no predecessor and no succession for duty to attach any rate, a caitus of their own, and it is something
upon. other than the idolatry of the Golden Calf. They
The Solicitor-General (Sir George Jesse), Q.C.) and adore the nobler animal. Their punctual and prefer.
Mr. W. W. Karsloke contended that the question curial observance of the Derby Day proves them devo-
whether this case was within the second si ction of the tees of Horse- Worship.—Punch._
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KaCc7ssion.lb;ty Act had been virtually decbled in
" Attorney-General Gell," 3 Hurtstone and Coleman,
615, in which, under similar cirennastances, at the ex-
piration of a term of 21 years for accumulation tre pro-
perty was Lda liable to succession duty. During the
argument in this eMSP,
The VicesChaneellor intimated that be should boll
himself bound by the decision unless it coal be shown
either that there was some essential difference between
the cases or that some material circumstance or argu-
ment had been omitted by the Judges in considering
it. In fact, the Viee-Chancelior added, the more I dis-
agreed with it, the more I should consider myself bound
by it. In this I should follow the example of the pre-
sent Lord Jnatice James when Vice-Chancellor, who,
in deciding a case, followed a decision of another Vice.
Chancellor, at the same time intimating his own dissent
from it.
.

II AMY EST PROAPllCTS.—AldermartMechi writes
to Tie TilllC4 from Tiptree-hill, near Kelvedon, Essex,
on the lot inst.
" arvrst prospects hereabout have very greatly improved.
Fount en dry and bright days have warmed the soil and re-
stored to tho crops a heatlitul hit,. SEM there is a general
inipre,sion that air at must be a light crop on all those
heavy, cold soils stitch in hnt, dry seasons prAuce such great
wheat crops. Y. I' almost all other crops the promise is good."
The gras crops in Surrey, Sussex, and southern coun-
ties promise vety fairly for a heavy crop of hay • the
grass stantis thick on the laud and is full of herfiage,
and with tine neather the haymaking season will he at
once commenced. The mowers in many districts have
intimated their intention of (Imam:hug advanced
prices for mowing, arid the farmers are resorting to the
employment of mowing machines.
TssE SMALL-PDX IN PARIS.—A Paris COM-

Alter Mr. Dickenson, Q.C., had been heard in
reply,
The Vice-Chancellor said,—ln this case the testator,
who died before the passing of the Succession Duty
Act, directed in effect that his property should be ac-
cumulated for 21 years, and should then belong to the
person or persons who should answer at that time to
the description of his heir or co-heir at law. 'the pre-
sent clainumts, who are the testator's great nieces and
present co-heiresses at law, became his co-heiresses at
law on the death of their uncle, John William
Ring, which happened in October, 1865. If the
matter were erg integra I should think that
they did not become entitled in any sense
whatever on the death of John Willliam Ring.
As long as John William Ring lived it was
' impossible that they should benefit by the gift.
But on his death they acquired no title either actual
or contingent. It only removed a person during
whose existence it was impossible that the claimants
should become entitled. But the case seems to me
covered by authority. The Succession Doty Act has
in some cases received an interpretation which seems
not very consistent with the old canons of construction
as applied to statutes laying burdens on the subject;
but I am not at liberty to dissent fnom the decision of
the Court of Exchequer, on the ground that I am not
able personally to agree with them. Of course, if I
found that the case had been insufficiently argued be-
fore the Court of Exchequer, it might be otherwise.
But the arguments against the Crown in "Attorney-
General c. Gell " are identical with those advanced in
the present case, and which, if the case were rts interim,
but for the decision in "Attorney-General v. Gel," I
should have thought unanswerable; and they were con-
sidered, and caretully considered, by thatrourt. Again,
I might feel myself more free if it appeared that this
particular extension was never contemplated. Mut it
appears that this particular extension, or an ii fortiori
one, was contemplated by the Court. It was, indeed,
argued that the present case was distinguishable from
'Attorney Gevei al it. Gel," but I must not be astute
in seeking distinctions which do not arise from real
differences. There seems me to to be no real difference
between this case and the case of "Attorney-General v.
Grffi" as the Court of Exchequer treated that case,
and certainly no such distinction ty-tween the cases as
would have made that decision right, if to decide in
favour of the Crown in this case would be wrong. And
on the authority of that case, and on that authority
alone, I decide in favour of the Crown.

spindent, writing on the 2nd, says
" the small-pox after gradually declining in Paris for the
last two years, has nose utterly disappeared tram the bills of
mortality There is not a single ease in the last death re-
turns. And yet in this country there is no compulsory vac-
cination, and during the war arid the Commune, re-vac.ana-
that, hi favour of which there was a feeble movement at the
beginning of 1970, almost entirely went out of fashion. The
reward of half-a-crown, which the may ors are prepared to
give to any pmr woman who brings her child to be vacci-
nated, finds few takers among the classes which entertain
a prejudice against the Jeenerian specific. It is very per- The Sportsman's forecast frt. the Derby was, Cre-
verse of unvaccinated Paris to be free from small-pox morne 1, queen's Messenger, 2, Makeshift colt, 3'"
while the disease rages In vaccinated London : but here ,
are the hard facts, which I leave doctors to reconcile with There are now five stage coaches running daily out of '
their absolute theories." London.
The death is announced of the Prussian General
PROBABLY !—Probably the longest bridge in Heldenstein, who directed the bombardment of Strasburg.
the world is on the Mobile anti Montgomery Railway, The Bromsgrove trailers have decided to ask for an
between Tensmi Station and Mredle. It rests en iron advance of 20 percent. on the present prices They obtained
cylinders, has ten drawa, and is fifteen miles in length. 10 per cent, advance last November; but this they say is ah-
The Philadelphia Ledger need not use the word " pro- sorbed by the higher price of coal and breezes used in nail
bably" in the circumscribed way it does. mating. They have formed a union and enrolled several
THE FINAL ARGUMENT. —A duel with swords hundreds as members.
iepting the
was fought on Saturday at Vincennes between NI Mr. Horace
candidature for th Greeley,n a letter acc
e Presidency, says that if elected he will be
Paul de Carigagnac, id the Bonapartist Pays, and M. the representative not of a party but of the permle. fle pro.
Lockroy, of the Republican People &overran. rhe reeds to urge that tee differerices between North and South
, report of the affair formally drawn up by the seconds should cease to exist, and that the "bloody gulf" which
lof the combatants is published in the Figaro, and is in has no long divided them should be bridged over with friend'
these terms :-- ship.
F
"in consequence of an article containing a personal or an assault arising out of a trade combination two
attack upon Napoleon 111. published to She p,„ri„ workmen were on Tuesday =entencel each to a mouth's im-
Sormerain of May 28, 1872'. signed by M. E Lockroy, prisotiment eith lard labour by the Greenwich police ma.
anti a reply from M. Paul de Cossagnac in the Pays of the gistrate. the earning out of the punishment was, however,
same date—a reply which M. E. Lockros considered to postponed for a fortnight, is o-der to ascertain whether any
he derogatory to his dignity, the undersigned witnesses, furthir violence will be attempted in the interval.
MM. Prat cots Victor Hugoand Henri Alain.Targe, represent- The Sydney Morning Herald tells of the arrival in
inn M. E. Lockroy on the one part, and MM A. that city of a nugget which it describes as a "hemisphere of
Blanc and Comte Maurice d'lvrison d'Herrison for M. Paul de gold weighing over 4,000 ounces.
Cassagnae on the other, decided after two interviews, which The Delhi Casette says it is rumoured that H. It. H.
failed to produce a settlement of the difficulty, that NI.
Cassagime should fight Prince Arthur will j, 4n CA. Battery, 11.1.1.A.' at Peshawar,
E. Lockroy and AI. Paul de nd catain at he dose of th Y
mill swords on June 1. In accordance with the conditions
as sees p , t
arranged the duel was fought at a quarter peat live .in Sager- H. rr Strauss and forty-ei eear.
ght of a band of Prussian
day, and after six route's, in the course of which three hits Gnarls, including the Emperor's quartette company, sailed
were recognized as having been made, M. E. Lockroy from Southampton on Tuesday in the "Mein for the Boston
received a wound in the right band, which, in the opinion of musical festival,
the two meals' men present, and with the assent of the An Aberdeen lady, who had been exceedingly an-
seconds of M. Lockroy, compelled a cessation of the combat " noyed by boys who tang at her door bell and then ran away,
A PROLIFIC TREE. There is now to be seen finally set a trap for them by which a pail of water was to be
spilt upon the belt person who rang the bell. In a few
in the vicara,ge garden of %Um, near Truro, a pear
hastll and waa b
tree with mite than 800 !wars growing upon it, looking minutes er p or ca ed aft se
exceedingly well and healthy—indeed, quite a picture. Two friends from two different Scotch chufehe.s, 11
oenomina m t oer ni di cus e.t th
There are three different sorts of pears on the treef
e preone.dactnng of their re tspectivthasr day, le
p ors. " lour preacber uses
viz., Marie Louise, Prince Albert, and Dunmore. the ideas of other men," said one. "Don't you wish your
A MILLENARI tsar. The following (says the pastor would do the same?" was the significant response.
Field), are the dimensions of a grand ad yew tree The infant daughter of the Crown Prince and Pan-
growing on the Marquis of Bath's estate in Wiltshire :—I cess of Germany was christened on ruesday, in the new
Palace at Potsdam, in the presence of a very, brilliant
height Ult.. circumference of branches 164 ft , spread
asseeer
of branchts fiom north ton mth 53ft., and from east to nammblages given tPrince Ho
Gm princess wumbert aeted sagidfath an,lth
Margaret Beatrice' Feoriora
west fiOft., girth of stem at lit, from the ground 321$
' Msrshal , was ret ton
Inn best girth of Arm 24ft. Ein., length rd tern ift. mValli
Wednesday orningant, w hose dDeath
as born at ijon iwl7
n 9s, andrted o
entered
Under ordinary circumetances, the age of yew trees the army all lieutenant in 1809 Ile was taken prisoner in the
may be approximately guessed at by allowing a century Russian compaign in 1813, but look part in the fettle of
for every fort in diameter of stern ; thus this remark- Waterloo. After a series of services he was made Marshal i f
able old tree may safely be calculated at from 1,100 to I Frame in ISSI. Ile was Slinister of War 1-54-60, appointed
1,201) years old. It is . growing, healthy tree, rather Governor of the Prince Imperial 1860, and Minister of the
cone shaped, and is very dense in foliage. Imperial House 1861.
An account of Professor Morge's will DI given in the
WHERE is Hs i —Don Carlos, for whom the American papers by the last mail. With the exception of
Basque Provinces have been thrown into such con- specific leg :cies, hie whole p; operty is hell in trust for the
fusion, and trade and industry arris-ted, has quite ills- use of his wife, and will be divided at her death among
appeared. Where he is bo one can positively tell, nor seven children. The following legacies awl bequests will be
even whether he is alive (writes the Spanish corres-
paid from the residuary fund :—llume of the Frienillesa,
sie, 3,000 dols. ; NitiB3ll Pall, Princeton, to
pondent of The T
mes).hisi brother, call 'a
oughk eep
ing himself to scrim:m.lring, to be named Finley lilld B found
re.se respec-
Generaliseimo of the. Carlist Armies, issued a procla- steely, 2 as) dolt, ; Union Theological Seminary, Hampden,
niation some time niece, but it bore no date. Tkere shin.-y, VII, 1 009 ibis : Old Ladies' Home, Poughkeepsie,
are five or six places in tbis part of the country where 10 0 dots. ; National academy .ri Design, New York, for
he would be likely to find shelter in cam he hail really "procuring a suitable medal for the encouragement id set,"
left Navitrze alter the combat of Orognieta. It is, per 1,000 dole ; Arleen Geogragarael.fizrit,lioo a: merilliori4h:
haps, to throw dust in the eyes of those who would V:r7c,t;''i...r,:lyersV7gollarth!hip Medal, 1,000 dole. .
be on the look-out for him on the other aisle of the
At a reccnt sittin4 of the French Assembly, the
mountain tat the report was spread recently of his Duo et Anomie spoke will, some little h rvour of the tricolour
death. His partisans here do not look or speak as if satire Flag it France For this he has been taken to task
such a I isaster liad befallen him ; but it is no leas by a Legitimist mi miter of the House, who declares that he
certain that his diesppeararce for such a length of felt the m .st poignant grief when he heard a Bourbon
time is very strange, to say the least. The canoe "openly repudiate the spilled of the greatest arid noblest
silence ia observed with regard to his brother. The family it was ever the privilige of the world to admire anl
Princes. Margarite, the wife id Don Carlos, now re- tboleis:.„ Jlienbtrbe foz,iwiayreLttebrifet.:ie, three:2ll:i
iwfib o
aa, yeas
siding at Geneva, is said to be most nriemyz not know- fesses himself a Royalist only becausehe places the future
ing where her husband is—all the more as it is said she of his country above every other consideration. Toe Duke,
greatly excited him to strike this last blow for the ill a very brief reply, says that he considers he has been
Crown. Wh.rever he may be the stories to which I faithful to the traditions of his family in speaking as he ham
have referred of his having died are no longer accepted, spoken of the flag of France.
Indeed, it is affirmed that he has entered France, but "Her Majesty has, happily, been able to be so muc
on what para. ular part of the frontier is not affirmed. among her people durin2 the past portion of the season ante
I have heard of &Demon who has seen that very horse, explain the report that she Is so much stronger that, on her
vii eel at 1001 , which he rode But I also hear that rd'uttuiresn. f Thmeretia ro ill:Ye :,bil o'filoinnud'atirtnloer Til: rieupt!
at least half a dozen little horses of the game size and rite oCCIiiiiOTIS on, which Her Majesty appeared in public d'ur.
make have been exhihited each as the identical one. tug the past spring were fern Immo,us and trying, and the
His concealment, if he has not fallen, does not augur fatigue consequ. lit on these, following so 8.11 after Her
well for the sweetie of the entice. His gran ifather kept Majesty's own very severe Illness and the lillitiollB wiliCh'illii
his Court. such as it was, openly at Ofiate during the over the Plince of Wales, neceesitates a long period el
quieted° aineh public exerti .II during the ensuing sommer
greater part of the Seven Years' war, had his Official us aths would probably induce a retelli of the painful ill-
Gaz-tte, and 110 officers of State. The Duke of Madrid ness from which tier Majesty suffered tut &anima"—
, 13 unable to tr... 1. a reeting-plade for a few ditys. Lancia.