The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-18 00:00:00

THE EXPUSS, AN)IIPAY

FAREWELL SOIREE' TO MR. GEORGE
THOMPSON.

At Radley's Hotel, on Saturday evening, a fare-
well wince, held under the auspiess of the Emancipation
Society, was given to Mr. Gunge Thompson, who will sul
for the United States on Saturday next. There was a very
numerous attendance. Mr. WILLIAM Evaria, chairman of
the society, presided on the occasion.
The CHAIRMAN having opened the proceedings, Kr. F. W.
Cummos, the hoe. secretary, read the following letter from
Mr. Bright, M.P. :
"Rochdale, Jan. 14.
" Dear Sir,-1 cannot be in London on Saturday, end
cannot therefore be present at the proposed farewell meet-
ing to Mr. Thompson. 1 should like to shake him by the
hand and to give him ray good wishes before he sails for the
Uuded States. I remember his visit to this town, thirty
year* ago, on his missioo on behalf of the slave in the
English colonies. I remember his speech, and the effect
it produced upon me. I have heard u many speeches
as most men since then, in and out of parliament ; but
I have never since heard a speech so moving in its
eloquence and so greed in its object as that which he
delivered is this town. I have always considered Mr.
Thompson as the real liberator of the slaves in the English
colonies • for without hiscommanding eloquence, made
irresistible by the blessedness of his cause, I do not think
all the other agencies then at work would have procured
their freedom. And now, thirty years later, Mr. Thomp-
son will have the opportunity of seeing with his own eyes
the process of liberation in America —uot a peaceable
as oars was, because with us slaves were oomparative7fstirs
and the power of the shiveowners small. but liberation
through the proctss of a desperate war, intended by
the slaveowners to m..ke slavery perpetuaL Whilst he
will grieve over tho calamities of the war be will look
through them to the establishment of freedom over the
whole of the North American continent, and he may see
in the not distant future the abolition of slavery in
Cuba and is Brazil, for I am persuaded that when the
United States are free from slavery u England is, the
united opinion of the two tattoos will do much to destroy
the evil in every professing Christian country. I have nee
spoken of Mr. 'fbompsou'a lebours in other causes besides
that of the destruction of slavery—they are known to
most of those who will be with you on Saturday evening.
I can my honestly, and I any it with pleasure, that during
the last thirty yearn there has been no movement on be-
half of any good cense, and there has been no victory in
this country to freedom and the people, in which he has
not borne an honourable part. I wish him all mamas in
everything to •hich he may devote himself, and that be
may witness more and roo:‘, the growth and the fruit of
the great principles %Inch he him does so much to impress
upon the winds of men. Regretting much that I cannot
be with you, I am, very truly yours,
" 1. W. Cheeses, Esq." "JOHJI BRIGHT.

. _
Letters were also read from Mt. P. A. Taylor, ALP., Pre-
favor Cairnes, Mr. R. Scott, Chamberlain of Landoll Yr.
S. Lucas, Ir. E. Miall, Serjeant Parry, Professor New-
man, and other gentlemen.
The address to Mr. Thompson referred to his phi* minion
in the cause of negro emancipation, and coutained the fol-
lowing twinge :—'• We are glad to be able to spare you—
as we could not have done twelvemonths since. Than there
was wide-spread error as to the issues iovolved in that great
civil war which we knew to liethe death straggle of the slave
power. Though not for a moment did the heart of the
British people hesitate between the negro and his master,
there was much hesir.tion to believe the government and
loyal people of the United States engaged its a war of emaa- '
cipation. Happily it is no no longer. Events have proved
stronger thee the crougeet prejudices am! doubts. But
among those events we rank high the speeches by whit
acts of legislation and of wee have been interpreted. Words
are deeds when bravely spoken in the right cause at
the right moment. Such words have been your.
They hare been sharp to convince and strong to
muse. They have greatly helped to set the
mind and heart of England woolly end firmly
on the side of the Free States tigntiug for freedom—on the !
side of Abraham Lincoln. the first President et the Amerioma
Republic who has ruled in the spirit of the American decla.
ration, All men are,,by nature free and aitiaL. Tell him, '
we pray you, that the people of EugLaid honour him for
the wisdom, the amrage, and the constancy be has displayed
—that they thank the God who has raised him op to deli-
ver 30 oppressed people and to purify a polluted 0011102011.
wealth. Tell Mr. Seward and the statesmen of the Repub-
lic that England will honour them in proportion as they are
faithful to the Proelamatioe of Freedom. Tell the Sum-
mers and Greelvs to preach by tonne and pen con-
tinually that Englaod will be the firm (need of
America through whatever misunderstanding or
estrangement way arise. Above all, tell Garri-
son and Philippi, the New England abolitionists—
the Old Guard of the emancipation army—that the
mother county holds their services in the warmest remem.
broom, as the very worthiest offspring of our common
ancestry. These messages you will lie free to speak. At
your first going to America, even Roston refused you a
bearing. At Jour second New York was unprepared to
receive you. Now, Weshiugton itself will give you a
welcome. The Republic will hail you as a faithful friend.
We confide You to its keeping. We pray God to guard you
by His proiidenoe. We shall look for your retain bearing
the trophies of happy victory in a holy war—the glad tidings
that the Union has been restored, slavery utterly abolished,
peace and freedom ruling seturcly over all the vast docr.oin
which oppression tried to wrest by civil war from the pos-
session or the hopes of civilieed mankind. In the hope that
you will return thus rewarded for the labour and the perils
ci your antislavery career—we bid you au affectionate fare-
well."

HENRY VINCENT, in au eloquent speech, moved the
adoption of the address.
M. Vicroa SC/RELCHEB, tailor Minister of Marine in the
provisional government of laic, and the statesman by whom
the Aet of Emancipatioa iu the French colonies was origi-
nated and carried out, seconded the motion, which was sup-
ported ty the Hon. F. 11. Morse, the American Comet in
London, Mr. M. D. Conway, of Virgmia, and the Rev.
Sella Martin, formerly a slave in Kentucky.
The address having been unaniacouely adopted,
Mr. GEoc.a THOMPIWN replied at considerable length,
and expreased the pleasure with which he was shout to
return to the United States to witness the altered state of
things in that country, sad he hoped that as he was pretest
when the cradle of the revolution was rocked, or rather
when the abolition principle was fist inaugurated, he might
be privileged to see that principle triumphant, and slavery
overthrown, while he was there. (Load cheers.)
Addres-es having been delivered by the Kew. Dr. Maria
and Mr. Mason Jones, the proceedings terminated with •
rote of thanks to the chairman.

THE FOEESTERS ASYLUM.

On Saturday bight au aggregate meeting of the
members of the various Foresters curtain the metropolitaa
districts was held at St. .I..tues's Hall, Piccadilly, to receive
the i sport from the provisioual committee, who Lave been
acting for the but twelve somas, as to the foundation of
an asylum for aged and decayed Foresters. Mr. H. Brim
Leen. P.C.H., and member of the London High Court,
presided.
Mr. SACC.saIIORE read the report of the committee. After
detailing their labours cod showing the great necessity thet
existed for as hostitutinc such as the one proposed, it stated
tisat upwanlsof 10,000 members of courts in the Ludo° die-
tricts had sutra/Wed to the scheme, thus showiog the deep
root it bad taken amongst the order. The benefits proposed
were thatany member who became disabled by accident, or,
having arrived at the age of GO, was incapacitated from fol-
lowing his occupation. should be eligible for admission into
the asylum, sad in addition should receive an allowance of
tie. weekly and one ton of coals per year. The payments
to *enure this benefit were to be so entrance fee of 2s. to.,
with contributious on a graduated scale as follows :—From
the age of 18 to 20, 2s. per year ; 20 to 25, 2s. Bd. ; 25 W
30, Ss. 4J. ;30 to 4s. 4J- ; and 33 to 4U and upwards.,
Se. id. Each member to pay 4d. per year towards expenses
of mum/meat. A member to contribute for five years
before he should become eligible to the benefits. Any married
member ez.teriog the asylum shun:l he allowed to take his
wife with hint. The report concluded with an earnest ap-
peal to foresters generally to srpport the scheme.
After a discussion, in the course of which an amend-
ment, to the effect that a superannuation would be a more
efficient mode of relieves,; axed members tliau founding an
asylum, w.as moved and :ost, the motion for the adoption of
the report was carried Ivy a I.arge majority. A resolution
wan then adm4ed that the pro; 'deed committee should be
sleeted for the nest twelve months, and that as soon as
possible they should prepare a code of rules, and submit
the same to a delegate meeting of one member from each
court in the district, previous to being sent to Mr. Tuid
Pratt to be certified

ADVANCE IN THIL PAWNS OF EARTHENWAYE.—
The adjourned meeting of the manufacturers of earthen-
ware in the Staffordshire Potteries, for the purpose; of de-
ciding upon the extent of the :iiiresace in the prices of
earthenaare proposed at a preliminary' meeting on Monday,
was held yesterday afternoon in the Town-hall. Burdens.
tpwanis of thirty manufacturers were present, and
most of the principal firms of the district were represented.
Mr. A. Shaw was in the chair. Tin question was dis-
cussed at length, sod it was reeolved to reduce the dis-
counts upon the foreign trade per twat., which will
make marly five per cent. advance on the net. With re-
gard to the home trade there were some difficulties is the
way of erraeging an advance. Ihe meeting determined
that an advance should take place, but left the question to
be first disztused by district meetings, after which soother
segregate meeting will be held to deride what the extent
of the advance shall he. That tiers will be an advance
may be considered as settled. and the only question is bow
much at shall be. The ouestion of the rile in the prise of
coal was introduced, are'l the manufecturers complained
that the coal muter" bed made two considerable advances
is the prime of coal within the last four or five weeks, with-
out giving more than a week's notice, which was produc-
tive of very peat isconvenience and loss to manufacturers.
A resolution was passed, expressing the opinion that the
masufacturers ought to have three months' notice of as
advance is the price of ce:.l in tutair.—Birminghout Daily
Poe.

CRYSTAL PALACL HALF-CROWN DAT.
SATCRCAY. JAL 16.—Adenixdoes M psycusut, 635 ; ditto
be 41eksts, 1.624 ; WWI. 2.259.
DORTIMAR'S Tr.A is choice aid strong, moderate
In prim and wholeemuc to rise. these sthstauges hare secured
for this 2es a general yeetoren:e. It te sold w pactela b 7 2440
awn& -4Advaatiasusato

Lab) Intelligence.

METROPOLITAN COUNTY COURT&
Bitting dap appointed for the present week.
Wunamrriat, Bt. Martin's-lane—Monday, Jan. 10; TucedaY,
Jan. 19 : Wednesday, lan. 20 Thursday, Jan. 21.
BLOOKSBURT, Portland.road—Wednesda,y, Jan. 20; Thursday,
Jan. 21: Friday, Jan. tt.
MaamL noggß, Marylebone.road.—Tueeday, Jan. 19 Wedner.
day, Jan. 20 Jan. 21.
ettausints.L, Duncan-terrace.—Tuesday, Jan. 19 ; Wednes-
day. Jan. 20: friday. Jan. 22.
Bitommina, Okt.strensroad.—Tuuday, Jan. 19: Thunday,
Jan. 21 Saturday. Jan. 23.
Bow, Bow Monday, Jan. 18: Friday, Jan.
WHITIOCHAIIIL, 'Great Prescott-stneL—Wednesday, Jan. 20:
Thursday, Jan. Friday, Jan. V.

ii;:anZriel.—Tuesday, Jan. 19 . Thursday, Jan.
91 ; Friday, Jan. 22
022tnericm—Wednesday. Jan. 20.
Woomice—Tharaday, Jan. 21.
CITY OP LOUDON, Oundhall-bulldings.—Monday, Jan. 19:
Tuesday, Jan. 19.
1.021, llhrota COURT, Guildhall—Monday, Jan. 18 ; Tuesday,
Jan. 19.

EQUITY COURT&—JAN. 1&
(Before the Lord Chancellor.)
CI:11118 P. PLAIT.

This was a motion and cross motion for a new trial. The
suit was instituted to restrain the defendant from commit-
ting certain alleged infnngemence on the patent of Mr. John
Wain, which had been assigned to the plaintiff. Mr. John
Wain, in 1814, obtained a patent for improvements in the
self acting cotton-spinning mule; and in 1860 the defendant
also took out a patent for improvements therein. On the
part of the plaintiff it was contended that several parts of
the defendant a patent were infringements oa Wain 's pa-
tent ;. and on the defendant's aide it was argued that
Wain 's patent contained no novelties at all, and that
there was not an infringement. Vice-Chancellor Wood,
before whom the issues were; raised, gave judgment that
there was no infringement of the plaintiff's patent on the
part of the defendant, and the present motion wu for a
new trial. The defendant also applied for a new trial on
the parts of the Vice Chancellor's judgment which were in
the plaintiff's favour.
. . .

16. Rolf (with him Mr. Webster and Mr. Drewry) occu-
pied Friday and to-day in opening the plaintiff's cue
Mr. Grove, Mr. Giffard, and Mr. Poona were for the de.
fondant.

(Rolm tha Master of the Rolls.)

MIN V. DOEMAISTER.—TEIt sADLEIR FRAUDS, AND LONDON

AND COUNTY DANK.

The Master of the Rolls delivered Judgment in this im-
portant CYO this morning, but his Honour subsequently
said that as some miaapprehension might arise in respect of
it, he had ordered the case to be in his paper for Tuesday
neat, to be mentioned again. We therefore withhold our
report till that day.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-J*w. 16.

Sittings in Bacon.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie, sod
Justice; Williams, Willis, sad Keating.)

BOLFORD e. TRY ALLIANCE WIN OF LO OR AND LIVER-

!006-CCSSOY OP BA:SKI:113 IY 1.6711P00L.

Mr. Milward said that this was an action by a customer
of the defendants to recover 3,7001., the amount of &cheque
which they had refused to honour, and the present applica-
tion was fora rule to remove the venue from Middlesex to
LiverpooL The plaintiff had sent in to the bank a bill for
3,000/., and tho bank had discounted the bill and plaited the
amount to the plaintiff's credit as sash. It happened, how-
ever, that the acceptor became bankrupt, and the manager
of the bank sent to the plaintiff to make some arrangement
io reference to the bill ; but the plaintiff, instead of doing
so, wrote a cheque asking for the payment to " self or
order" of 3,7001., which was within stew pounds of the sum
standing to his credit, sunning that he had a right
to be credited with the amount of the 3,0001. bill,
end the was the cheque which the bask refused to cash.
The principal ground for wishing to venue the name was
that the defendants intended to set up a custom of hankers
in Liverpool, that where they had discounted • bill for •
customer, and during its currency the acceptor failed, they
were entitled to call upon the customer to write lack the
amount which had been placed to his credit in respect of the
bilL Of course the witnesses to prove this custom were
Liverpool men, and therefore it would be convenient to try
there.

Rule mated.
01LADE V. THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANT.-THZ

COAL ThAFFIC.
Mr. Ozlade, the complainant in this case, was a coal
merchant in the North of England, and he had obtained a
rule under the Railway and Canal Traffic Regulation Azt,
calling upon the defondaats to show cause why an in-
junction should not issue ageitat them upon the ground that
they would not carry coals for the complainant upon as
favourable terms as they carried them for other persons.
To-day cause ;was shown against this rule being made
absolute.

Mr. Mellish, Q.C., appeared to show cause spinet the
rule ; and Mr. Manisty, Q.C., to support it.
It appeared that the railway company bad entered into
agreements to carry coals for the colliery owners in their
district, and u til November last they carried coal for the
complainant, but in the name of the colliery owner from
whom he received them, and the dues were paid by the col-
liery owner. In November, however, the colliery owner
objected to continue this arrangement, and the company
thereupon declined to carry the coal for the complainant in
his own name ; and hence the present application. The
counsel for the company said that if they carried coals for
Mr. Oslade the, must carry for anybody else ; and thus
they would become common carriers of coal, in-
stead of carriers for colliery owners only. if this
state of things were brought about, the conse-
quence would be that so many persons would send coals
along the rails that the ordivary traffic of the line would be
seriously impeded. He added that the present arrangement
afforded all adequate accommodation, for the colliery owners
had depots at the various stations, and real merchants ooald
obtain any quantity of coals from those depots. There had
been a good deal of litigation between Mr. Oxhide and the
' company, and in the course of the argument the cam
turned upon the point whether the question now raised was
I the same which the court had decided upon a similar appli-
cation made in 1856, and decided, after a long inquiry
' before the Master, in 1857.
The court ultimately held that the quedioa before them
I was the same as they had disposed of in 1e.37, and they
therefore discharged the rule.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—JAs. 16.

Sittings in Barico.--(Before Lord Chief Barra Pollack,
and Baroaa Martin, Channel, and Pigott.)

THE ATEORNET-GENUAL T. 11:8HION.-SUCCESSION DITTY.

This was all Information by the attorney-general for suc-
cession duty upon real property devised to the defendant by
the will of Joseph Claridge. formerly of East Haddoo, in
the county of Northampton, grazier. The testator, by will
dated July 29, 1828, devised his real property to his Rd*,
Elizabeth Claridge, during her natural life, and after her
decease to the use of Richard %Hock Rushton, the sou of
his wife, sod to his heirs aad assigns for ever. He died is
1&32, leaving his wife and her sou surviving him. Richard
Willoek Roshtoo died intestate in 1844, io the lifetime of
his mother, and left surviving the defendant, John Perkins
Rushton, his eldest son and heir-at-law, in whom the rever-
sionary interest in the testator's real propmty became
vested. The testator's widow died in 1,40, alter the time
appointed for the commencement of the 3ssomenion
Duty Act of 1853, sod the defendant became
beneficially entitled in possessiou to the testator's
real property as • succession derived from the
testator. The crown now said that inasmuch as both be
and his father were strangers in blood to the testator he be-
came chargeable with duty at the rate of 101. per mot.
upon the value of the succession.
On the part of the defendant it was emitended that he
was only chargeable with duty at the rate of it. per cent.,
as his succession was derived he immediate dewiest from his
father, who at the time of his de...th was seised to fee of the
property.

The Attorney.(teoeral, the Solicitor-General, Mr. J.
Locke, t).C.. cud Mr. Fleming were counsel for the crown ;
cod Mr. Luck, cut Mr. Hausman appeared for the
defendant.

The court was unanimously of opinion that such a cams
as the present was contemplated the 213,1 and 15th sec-
tions of the Succession Duty Act, cod that the defendant
must he treated as standing in the position of his father,
who was a stranger is blood to the testator, and liable to
the 101. per not. duty.
Judgment for the crews.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
JAY. lb.
Wars t►. Judge Ordisary.)
DIMINER r. DWANE' AND BRETT.

The parties in this cue having all bean fess;d in pari de-
Lehi
. . .

The Judge Ordinary dismissed the petition, and dbutated
an attachment to Mine against the husband. bat to lie in
the registry until he made default in paying off, at the sate
of 20!. a month, his arrears of costa and alimony up to the
present date. The ►earned judge ordered the corsepoodeot,
however, to pay such portion of the costs as related to the
issue found agaiast him.

NOLTNEUX AIM MOLT:47E7X r. AMYL

This was &probate cause tried at Liverpool meter assizes,
and resulting in the defeat of the will on the plea that the
testator was sot of soiled mind at the time of its execution.
Mr. T. Jones now moved for a new trial.
Dr. Spinks and Mr. Cotthighstu appeared on the other
side.

Sir J. Wilds postponed his decision, . in order that he
might haws no opportunity of consulting Mr. Justice Wil-
liams, before whom the cause had been lama

FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDILYT.-011 Saturday Mr.
Bedford held an inquest at Kiag's College Hospital on the
body of Samuel Ward. aged 52. On Thursday deoeseed
was a passenger on the London and South Western Railway,
and alum the train was running into the Mortlake meta=
le wee see. standing oa the step of one of the carriages,
sad subrequeetly was found under the train is a fright-
fully ten Wated.oooditioa, his left snide completely smashed,
his right leg broken in several places, and suffering from
other injuries, which resulted in death. The evideacie was
ootiflictiug as to whether the train bed not stopped, and
this went on and spas Mopped, and the jury bias ia
doubt on the point the laquiry was adjoursed for awash.

DYENINC4 JANUARY

THE POLICE COURTS.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Before leaving the beach en Saturday the Lord Mayor
said his attention bad bees called to a statement which
had appeared in one at the daily newepapera of that day nr
'pectins letter addressed to him regarding a sum of money
which was said to have been left by a Spanish gentleman,
who was a naturalised subject of the United States, for those
families who might have suffered by the bankruptcy of the
Spanish government. His lordship said it was his inten-
two to have laid the letter before a Court of Aldermen
which was called on Friday, but as there were not sufficient
members to form a court, of course he had no opportunity
of doing so. The matter had, however, oozed out in some
way and had been made public; be thought it right, under
those circumstances, that the correct venial) should be
given.
The following is a copy of the letter received by his lord-
ship, being addressed to him by the Consul of the United
States in Paris :

" Paris, Jan. 11, lit64.—To Ais Ilcuonr the Lord Mayor
of London.—Sir,-1 have the honour to enclose a certilisd
copy of what purports to be the last will and testament of
the late Mateo Lopez, a naturalised citizen of the Ueda
States, who died at Marseilles on the 11th ultimo. One of
the clauses in the instrument places at the disposition of the
Lord Mayor of London the sum of 3,8671. 111 t, deposited
with Mews. Lizardi and Co., bankers of your city, to be
distributed amoomit such poor families—English I presume
—as have suffered in their fortunes by the bankruptcy of
the Spanish government. Upon searching his papers no
more recent or other will has been found than the enclosed.
which was written entir with his own hand and deposited
with Messrs. Mitjaos sod Co., his bankers in this city, the
head of which house was present with two witnesses when
it was opened at the consulate.—l have the honour to be,
air, very respectfully yours (signed), Jan. BEGEUN, United
States oosuL"

The copy of the will. which was enclosed, was mitten en-
tirely in Spanish, and had not been translated.