The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-29 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, JAN. 23.
It is considered probable that Senor Isturits will
be appointed Spanish ambassador at Paris.
Marshal O'Donnell has bad a conference with
Senor °long&
' •

Many conjectures are afloat in reference to this
circumstance.
Marchal O'Donnell continues to enjoy the con-
fidence of the Queen.

A SAD SKATING AcciDINT. TwENTY SKEEN
PERSOSS llsowsr.o.—BiogliAmptoo, New York, Tuesday,
Jae. 13.—A very mournful catastrophe occurred at Harpers-
ville, Broome County, yesterday. A pleasure party of
thirty-seven ladies end gentlemen were skating on a pond in
that vicinity, when the Me gave way, and twenty-eeven of
them were drowned.—New York Tillielt, Jae. 14.
THE PAROCHIAL AsHEBSKINT Acr.—Yesterday a
meeting of deputations from the various aenemmeut com-
mittees in the county of Bent wee held at the Court•hons%
Maidstone, with the view to the adoption of some general
principles as to the deductions that should be made in re-
spect of various kinds of rateable property. A long discus-
sion took place, and the following were the recommenda-
tions which the meeting finally adopted :—' That the de-
duction in respect, of wood laud should be 1 per cent. ; for
land upon which there were no buildings, not exceeding 2
per cent. ; for farms with oeoessary buildings, 5 to 12 per
neat. ; for houses and cottages. 10 to 25 per mot. ; and for
commutation rest-charge, 3 tet7r at., he cover tenant's
profit, collection,and expenses. It wee also
resolved that the amassment mills, mannfeetoriee, rail-
ways, cone* collieriee, bnekyards, and other y of
as exceptional nature, most be left to the gment and
discretion of the several memernent committals.'
Immediately after the Reform Bill passed, the
constituency of the northern division of Hampshire
Was 2,633, end el the southern divines 3,142. At the
present time the constituency of the northern division is
3,322, and of the southern division 5,502.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(mis DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Sittinp in Banco.—(Before Lord Chid Justice Cockburn,
and Justices Wightman, Crompton, and Blackburn)
CLANK C. 011401 Y 01.1210.
Mr. Phipson, Q.C., applied on behalf of Mr. Hopki,A
assignee in bankruptcy of the Bev. Mr. Gregory, ex., a
mar in Warwickshire, for • rule willing upon
the Oamtiff and also the Bishop of Worcester to
show comae why • sequestration Mined by tim,
Bebop of Woreeder should not be net said*, or
all manias received under it now, or hereafter to be r►
saved, should cot be paid over to the assignee. On the
30th of October the plaintiff having obtained judgamot
against the rev. defendant, hard a writ of camas af
satiefaciendum. On the 31st of October the defendant was
adjudicated • bankrupt on his own petition. On the lit
November the bishop issued his sequestration and pat
Mr. Hooper, his eacretm7, into possession, aid
published the game on the following day, which
was Sunday, by affixing it on the church doom
On the 9th of January the imagism applied to the
bishop for • sequestration on behalf of the bankrupt's
estate, which was published In the 13th, and granted in the
coarse of that month. The assignee contended that under
the circumstanose he was entitled to the prate of the briny,
he being no party to the sequestration granted to the
plaintiff.
The 12 sad 13 "Vic. sec. ls 4, provide.
DO creditor having security for his debt
should receive upon any such security mole than the
rateable part of his debt. and by the 24th and 25th Viet,
e. 134, see. 135 of the last Bankruptcy Act, it was pro.
vidad in the case of der/amen that the bankrupt's amigose
might apply for and obtain sequestration, and the profit.
were to form part of the bankrupt's estate. The question
for the court was, how those provisions were to be eon.
strand.

The Lord Chief Justice interposed, stating that the
Lensed counsel had shown sufficient grounds for a rule.
Rule nisi granted.