The Express.
London, England, 1864-04-23 00:00:00

SUNDAY.

FIWUAILL

11,1 DAT.

S.S. W. to- -1.1.1, mode-

S S t.!;-.14.i.",in;;d.r.u..

rate, One. floe.
E. to IS„ SlOderate, WESITIZ. S. to S. W. and NW

EMIL to &S K, mode-
rate, tine.

moderate t.• fresh.
proerally Los,.
SOITHIMIL E. S.E. to S S.W., light
to fresh. nue.
As nett abuse.

Eartins.

Basthers=Bootland. Wessern.lreland. Wales, and ad-
jacencies. leentlerimLortlah Channel and Biscay May. Kaden
mliasterard Loeser! sad North Ben

The Hanging Committee of the Royal Academy
comprises Mears. BoxaU, F. Goodall. sad Webster.

The private view of the Exhibition of the Society
of Painters in Water Colours took place to-day (Saturday);
the gallery will be open to the public on Monday next
The four new members of the society—Yeasts. E. R. Jams,
Boyce, Walker. and Lundgren—greatly add to its force.
TEE REPRESENTATION OF SEWER-UPON-TRENT,—
Mr. Alderman Combed her decided not to offer himself for
re-election after the dissolution of the present parliameet.
The worthy alderman has, during a long course of mars,
takes a great interest in the commercial and social welfare
of the potteries, and has always been a poerous supporter
of the public ituditutions of the district. His Inside end
oxistittumita, however much they may regret the decision at
which he has arrived, can hardly have bees token by sur-
prise, for it has been rumoured for soma time past that be
was considering the desirability of retiring from pediment.
The alderman was first elected for Stokeupon-Treat is
July, 1837, and sat for the borough till July, 1832, when
he was unsuccessfoL In March, 1857, he tapered be
seat, and at the pretend slectios in April, 1859, he we. re-
elected. Mr. Bereeford Hope will again offer himself to the
constituency.—Staffordshire A deeniser.
ENGLISH CRICKETERS IS NEW ZEALAND.—The
Ones matches in New Zealand resulted in two victories for
the EoBlieb Eleven ; use by Moe wicket., sod the other is
one Malaga, with toe runs to spare. The third was draws,
but the Deem were beaten in their first innings. In Mr.
Grace end Tarraot's match with an Eleven, which they woe
by cies, Tempt bowled out ten and ,aught the other.
Wilson, Wills, Alyttoo, Stevens, Sale, Teneast. Lame,
Powys,Wood, and Blakiston were selected from the
New Zeeland players to play in kedereen's spies'
Parr's Eleven. Wills bowled Mr. Grace the very
first ball at Christ Oben*, and took Parr's wicket': end.
like Redfern sod J. Mace was well " hit up:" and Mud°-
mid bowled Parr for 8 and Hayward for 2 in the earns match.
Tennant has made most runs is one innisge-2t, not out.
The cards of the day are unique, and describe the colour of
the player's cap, sad his evict position in the field. It is mid
that them will be a very large amount to divide among the
eleven professional player; and that they will not
be back before the end of Juae. Nothing is
settled ea to who massing behind. Csffyo's bowl-
isg has been very ineffective, and Jackson end Hayward
are now the coveted tutors. I..ockyer, or " Lightning Tom,"
as be has been named, has written a most amusing despatch
to the Sporting Life, describing their New Zealand travebi.
He sad Mr. Gomm were twice over at the head of the bat-
ting score, and hems one of. the remarks. so grand is its
simplicity, "we went on to the boards there to have beta
again." He tells bow they played on a field without a blade
of gram and won in our Maims ; and how getting arose
the gold fields, they shot cockatoos and parrots and riche
or ten possums, and caught black fish. A few
mile, from Avoca a large cavalcade of horsemen
mare oat to meet them and conduct them (jumping their
horses over trunks of trees by the roadside) to a banquet;
where " there were no end 14 speeches and passable wines.
Mark the cautions critic of Croydon ! They also seem to
have visited a Maori settlement, whose women bewailed
them of their silk pocket-haadkerchisfs aad made (mores
Parr a king on the spot. The ceremony was simple, aa their
Queen merely gave him a green stone, and be presented her
with a railway wrapper of many colours. Of course he has
bees termed " Parr Kingi" ever 'ion. ; but " his new gab-
*ht," according to Tom. •'seem to be rather an annoyance to
him than otherwise." The Twelve have suffered all changer
of fortune by ma and land. At our time we find them
ballad six apauldeg greys driven by "Cabbage-tree Ned,"
and at another in a boat decorated with flowers, and ten
others, with flags, aa an escort. Awe, they have no reel.
except on the cabin Boor—Julius Cuecu with another man's
boot-heel is his mouth, and Anderson tumbling out of •
berth, to hi. own sore affright And the damage of Callyn's
tombola • or they are paasiog over moantaies by a short
eat on fo'ok or with their coach wheels three Mabee off a
precipice. H. H. Stephenson sad Willehirt are mdeemar-
ieg to get up an Eleven to do battle until their return.—
Illustrated London Nem

It is estimated that the amount of lumber cut
es the Ilaelliss river, Maio., last winter, was Z 4.000.000
feet. The stock on bond is 40,000,000 (est.—New Yak
World.

LAW INTELLIGENCE
(THIS DAY.)

COCRT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Sitting in &nom —Motr.ors Lord
tice Chief
Justice Cockburn
and M Jus Sem)

THE QUEEN r. TUC WORKSOP SOCIAL BOARD OF HAALTa.
ur. Webby mid this was* case reserved for theopiaion of
the court by the Quarter Elesoions. In 1852 the pariah of
workeop was formed into a notsoorporate district under the
provisions of the Local Board of Health and the Local fielf.go-
vernment Acta. The board bad made a rate eorepris.
jog for past and future expenditure. An estimate
of the money was prepared and approved of by the local
board, and the rate was made and published, bat it was not
sealed end signed as required by the statute. The appellant
Alfred Brock horst appealed against the rate ao several
grounds ; amongst them, that the board bad no power to
make a rate to cover past and future exposes ; that the
estimate for the rate did not show the several swan re.
~uired for each of the purposes far width the rate was
nquired, and that the rate was void became it had
Dot been sealed with the seal of the board, and
sicced by Bye of the members in socordanos with
the IPtth section of the last act. The justices
held that the two first objectless were not tenable, bat
thee gusabed the rate cm the last point, subject to the
giue oof the court. The learned weasel said the estimate
lac pent together the expense' of the election for the nom.
I er, of the board and for the sewers, but he was at a loss
t.• .00w what consexioa there was between elections and
weers other than what had been suggested to him, that
there c.s a peat deal of din sometimes thrown
at elections. The ratepayers ought to know what
was the expense of the eleesions • but for mime
goad reason, no doubt, it was hidden away in the
'ewer,. Provision was mode for making than rates, general,
"del. sod private improver:eat rates, specifying in the
eetimatee what mosey was required for cock at those pur-
pose This was a general rate, and the question was,
whether it was necessary to state the estimate for each par-
r vse for which the rate was required.
Mr. Care followed on the same side.

Mr. Boyd!, Q.C., for the rseprodeats, admitted then
was some doubt about the matter. It was impoesiblit to
pre ID a general rats a detailed estimate of what was re-
qu'red for each of such purpose for which the rats wee

--The Lord Chief Justice said no ; certainly aot. In a
general rate the estimate should be for venous charges.
That had been dome in this rate, except in the cam of
lumping election expenses and the sewers together. It wee a
pay to quash that rate spar that informality. if there was
really no valid objectiao to the mousy expended, or to be
exrd;o%ill said the books narking the details of the rate
were open to the inspection of the ratepayers.
The Lord Chief Justice said greet abuses might, how-
ever, arise in the expenditure of mosey when they were
lumped together as in this oar.
Bovill said with regard to the seal and airfare to
this rate they were not required. The seal and signature
were only wanted when the board directed a thing to be
done and not where they bad to do it. The 36th sea pro-
vided how the board was to act, and they had made this
rate accordingly, viz., by resolution adopted by a majority
present at the meeting.
The court hold that the seal sad a re were
not necessary to the rate, bat that with regard to the other
point. they would take time to coosider their judgment.
.!udguieet reserved.