The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-31 00:00:00

RAILWAY ILND PUBLIC COMPANIES IN
PARLIAMENT.

Yesterday in the committee on Metropolitan
Railways the opposition on behalf of the Rest and West
India Dock Company was further proceeded with, Mr.
Hickson, their secretary, being examteed at opeiderable
length by Mr. Round. The Dock Company object to the
introduction of the proposed exteesioa line across their
waterways by swing bridges as mionlmed to interfere with
the navigation and the shipping, although on the other
hand the railway would furnish them with Moreased
facilities (or the transmission of traffic. The committee
have been over the grated, se as to be ocularly and pond.
Bally minified on the subject before coming to a decided In
Mr. Beillie's committee on lb. competing Irish railways the
are on behalf of the Great Southern and Westin ind Mid-
land of Ireland wit concluded. hlz. Hope Sao*, Q.C., then
addressed the committee for the Dublin Trunk Con-
amities Railway for • principal line of eve
miles from the Great Southern and Western at
King's-bridge Terminus, passing under and over the
Liffey and the Royal Camel to the Dublin and Kingstown
near Sandymount, with 6 small lines and joncrimo curves,
forming a railway belt round Dublin. The required capital
is 250.00D1, in shares, and 85,0001. loan. The proposed line
sear its comnaeoosrmat will cross the Liffey by • bridge of
8 arches, sad 4 miler further will be carried by a tunnel
under the river mewed el the entsnam to the Greed Geed
Docks at Riopend. It is opposed by the corporation of
the port of Dublin. The evidence of Mr. Moseley, the
ppm' meager of the Great Eastern Railway, wee optioned
in the committee on Ihe Great Eastern Northern Jnactions
Railway. liandowoms' opposition to the Bournsooe-th•-
Water Railway was opened by Mr. Coleridge avian that
bill. Mr. M*ewinher, Q.C., summed up the hien to ,
the Lationgliiiit Union Railways cm behalf of the hire
and Yorktillire. Enclave compies Mr. Woodd's Com-
mittee on the proposed Teimi Valley Lim. The bills passed 1
in Mr. Manse 'e committee include the Belfast and Northern
Counties Railway, for • breach to Portrush Harbour, end
to raise for general parpww 100,0001. on new ordinary or
pretenses capital, and 33,0001. by loan ; Belfast, Bally-
mosey, and Ballymetle Junction, for • railway be-
tween those points of 15 miles, to raise
98,0001. capital and 32,000 loan ; Bristol and South
Wales Union Railway, to eddied the time for making
their lip to the mouth of the River Avon ; Greenwich end
South Eastern Docks, to steed the time for taking land
and completion of works for five years • Midland Railway. 11
for extensions from Bath to Thornbary, 17 miles, and
further capital of 216,0001.. and loan 78,6001.; °Poetry,
Newtown. sad other companies' antalsunation and armoire
mane bills ; Severe Valley Railway, to take lands, extend
time, and rain 120,0001. capital, and 40,0001. loss ; North
lettere Railway, for additional lines and powers ,• Ram-
mell's Patent Pneumatic Railways and Tubes ; Mid Wales
' Railway, Workington Harbour, and Twist, Ananias. and
Grimsby Railway. Before Load Redeedale ; the bills of the
Caledonian Railway, London and South Western (Obertsey
' Railway), Salisbury and Yeovil, and Wituey Railways went
through. Prolamin Taylor was examined in Lord Walser
ham's committee on the Wrexham Water Bill. In the coni-
=Mesta Metropolitan Railways, M. Bellepande, engineer
to the municipality of Paris, was manned at great length,
and stated that in constructing the Parisian subways it bad
been deemed *spiraled, to prevent exoo, to exclod•
',the introduction of gas pipes. Mr. Barkw and Mr. Stevens,
superintendent of the City Gas Works, were also examined.
Mr. Ellis was examined upon his plan; and processes in the
Sewerage Committee, and the case of the bargemen acid
others occupied that on the subject of the Thames Coe-
servancy.

ANOTHER BENEFIT SOCIETY IN TROUBLE.

At the Southwark Police Court yesterday, Mr.
Ody, the solicits, of 'hinny-street, Borough, attended
with a poor man to ask for a ensigioos against the treasurer
sad trustees of the Helpiag Head lime& Society, held at
the Watermaa's Arms, Bentham-street. Tooleyotrest, to
show mime why they Dialectal and refused to pay his client,
John Huggins, a fres member, • certain amount due to
him from the sick fund of the society.
Mr. Ody said that his client was a very poor man, sad
some few years ago was indeed to become • member
of the Helping Hand Benefit Society on account of the
high proems, set forth in their book of roles. He paid
his cootribotioes regularly, sad considered himself esti.
tied to any benefits alluded to in the roles, cue of
which set forth that any member becoming nick shall be
entitled to 10a. • week for so loos • time. Hie client oaks,
tusately for himself became sick • short time arc, and wee
cossied to declare himself on the sick fund. He received
the weekly sum regularly foe a few weeks, but all at coos
it was domed, sod when he wait to the society to know
the remoo he w told that he bad been expelled because
he bad brcikea oils of the roles of the society by being out
of Id* home beyood the hoots specified in the rules. He
that the poor man was in want of • losf of bread,
Vwile he wee gone to a baker's Dear hie house for one,
he was at by one of the stewards, sad he reported the air.
camstance to the society, sod on that sole account he was
. _ _

The Clerk read the rule ia question, sad olmairved that
there mild be no doubt that the rule applied to mamba
following some employment. It Gould saver have °out/m-
-ale poor man being expelled for buying a loaf of

Ody was of the mrse opinioa, and he coctooded that
it was a bard case for this poor man. These societies, if
allowed to go on uncontrolled by the law, would be a came
to the poor man iosteed of a benefit. Therefore be hoped
his worship would grant the summons applied for.
The Clerk —ls the moiety enrolled eowrdina to act of
parliament, sad are the rules certified by Mr. Tidd Pratt'
Mr. Ody, after examining them carefully, replied is the
beiThe tnelerk told him that as such was the use the nisch.
trate oould not interfere. He must go to the County
Court.

.Tlll INTKILNATIONAL Doo SHOW,--11011day, the
awe shilling day. brought • keg 'trig of aristocratic
visitors to the RAIL Among the vitiators were the Duke
and Duchess ot Wellington, Duke of Buoclench, Lord Truro,
Lard Kennedy, Baroness Rothschild, the French Ambits.
sailor. ti.c. The great points of attraction were the koseele
in which his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales'. harriers
are, sad a pack of otter bawds, quite • sew feature in deg
shows. The black bloodhounds and the three teams of
chamber spaniels WIIIMPOIM to great advantage, and the fair
and fat poodle Nelly, removed to a place in frost of the or-
chestra wee eurrouoded by visitors. The sale of doge hes
hose very large ; no lees than 0001. bad beu received roes
the opening of the chow. A great many *spondee toy
dap were bought by French Wise. Is consequence of the
excellent ventilatioe the health of the doge bee been
better than oa previous shows. The numbers admitted up
to 8 p.m. were about 14,000.
PUBLIC-HOES= AND RTYPAIIIIMICIT BELL. -- A
deputation of compceiton employed os the morning newe-
-1 papershad se interview with air G. Grey yesteeday afternoon,
at the 14 011211-odiCe, for the purpose of repreemting the in.
esseveeierse they would suffer from the operation of this
bin. The deputatsoo wee very courteously received by Air
George Grey, who peaked their peculiar position should
resolve bin favouraW consideration. Mr. solses, ILP.,
who had promised to 'tandem the deputation, was about%
brio; usevoidably detained is the City.
CRYSTAL. PALM —OlOll SHILLING DAT. ••••••
MOITDAY, MAT 30.—Admiriceis is payment, 3,753 ; dire
by mum ticker. 1,121 ; Meal. 4,874.
SOUTH krauIUNOTON licrestim.—During the week
sari May 38 the elates, have bees as follows :—Os
Tuesday, and Datarday tree de a, open trout
10 am. to 10 p.m, 9,341 ; ea nerdeeeday, Thursday, sad
Friday, ruder.' days (hurries to the pablip U.), open
from ID a.m. till 6 p.m., 2.106 ; teeal, 11,447. From the
@peeing et the museum, 4,640,064.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAR-MAY 30.

Sittings la Illase.—(Belore Lord Chid Justice Me, mad
J Ratites Wallin% Wills; tuff 81100
Bloom e. tiaaavaa.—lfi • ifOrretur • KULL swan ?
The defendant is this came was master of the Berkshire
hounds, and he gained the plaintiff as huntammi, upon the
terms that he was to have 100 L • year, the hounds which
were drafted out of the pack, sad the hours of the dead
horses salsa by the dep. la addition he warn to have two
suits of sloths.. A few sainiths after the plaintiff entered
tbe movies of the debmdant ha wee &mimed upon a math'.
sob., ; •bat the plaintiff besoglit this notion to recover
damass use the ward that he bed ham prematurely dia-
ha asatsadiap that he we, a yearly servant. Th.
trial took place beton Yr. Jawlike Williams, at Guildhall,
what several limbos= gave evidericethat the custom wee for
!mitigate to have a yearly hiring, wheat as the other head
;moral madmen and gentissesa deposed that their at-
perigees was that huntsmen were meekl servants, liable to
be diamiand upon • nionth's milk*. The jury found for the
*iota!, mid awarded him 801. damages ; bat subsequently
• rule was obtained for a new trial, on the panda that •
huntsman was is feet a manual servant, that there waa 00
custom to take him out of this class. and that the finding
of the jury, that there was such • eastom, was spirt the
weight of evidence. To-day cause was shown wind this
rule being made absolute.
Yr. Buildliston, Q. 0,, sad Mr. Griffiths appeared kw the
t. plaintiff ; and Yr. Overbid, Q. 0., and Mr. Le Breton for the
debades

linddleetou said that the &risottos o the ward
" amid " was from a root signifying "living within the
walla," or Ming " part of the retinue," but he aca-
tended that a huntsman did not fall within either of these
terms, sad a learned friend of his suggested that it was set
so moth a huntsman's business to be within the walls, as
to leap over them. (La hter.) In addition, he submitted
that there was good eride.ae that there was a custom to
hire far a season ; and beyond this that the aorreepoedeme
Ia this ease showed that them was a specific hiring for a
year.
Mr. Overead, on the other side, relied Imes the or.. of
"Nolan v. Ablett," 2 C. M. and R., in whisk it had been de-
cided that a gardener was a model servant. A huateseaa
woe much more within the retinue of his meter than a
gardener was. He geeenJiy came from a menial elms, his
master found him the clothes, and he wore livery.
Mr. Justice Wllliams—The livery of the hunt, not of his
master.

kir. Orerend—ln some instances ; but Mothers the !Army
was that of the matter. His duties, also, were of • menial
kind, sod did not require for their performance any qualifi-
cation that !meld be called intellects'''.

The Lord Chief Justice was opinion that the rule should
be absolute to eater a verdict for the defendant, or • Don-
na. It was plain that the contract was in terms for •
year ; bat it had been determined that where • domestic or
• menial servant was hired for • year, either party might
termiaate the hiring upon • month's notice. This rubs;
Was foamier' upon good reason, for • =meter aad servant
who were in constant contact with ooe another might make
each other's life miserable ; and therefore it was desirable
that each party should have the power to terminate the
employment upon short notice. A Whiteman fell within
this oleos, for be frequently came into communisation with
the person keeping Jumada, and if instead of carrying out
his wither he thwarted them, he would risk all the expense
incurred, rather • theme of irritation than of enjoyment.
The plaintiff being • menial serve/it, there was so evideree
to show that the ordinary hiring had bees modified in the
way which had been suggested.
Rule absolute.