The Express.
London, England, 1848-08-08 00:00:00

NAVAL.

Mos-Este:Nrs.—At Naples, July 30 Hibernia, Quern,
Viinguatd, ►llawe, Supeili, siul Thetis; Bulldog, lloc.its;

ieniteanoe,.
and Porcupine,

MII.ITAItY.
The 4th (King's Own) Itegt., the embarkation of which at
Minims in the London, in April last, we Intimated rome neck. ago, is
hourly r xpeeted to arrive at Gravesend, to disembark there and join
the depot ither at Chatham or Canterbury. The depot is nearly :lOU
strong. —The 93ra Rep. from Canada, la alto daily expected, and, as
the depot is n iw in acotland, will proceed to Leith for disembarkation.

SPORTING.
TATTERSALL'S —MONDAY.
EBOR 11ANDICAP.-6 to 1 sot Ellerdale (t and aft off),
8 tot %Olt Meaux, It to I agot Maid tit my Soul, 9 to I sot Sir Martin
(1). 9to I agot Itemembrance (t), II to I ogot King of Morven (t),
12 to I agnt Papho, it), 12 to I. apt Pillage, 20 to 1 apt Utile Inaino.
All the above prices were taken, but in small smounui, and the odds
afterwards offered ; Pillage, and King of Morrell were only
nominally in the betting.
WoLvEttliAllYTuN STAKEIC-2 to 1 agat Yardley, sto 1
Cracow.
ST. LEOER.-3 to 1 eget Springy Jack It), 4 to 1 lOW Flat-
catcher (I, and afterward+ offer. d;, 9 to 2 agot Justice to Ireland (t,
and afterw irds uttered), 6 to t oast Surplice (7 to I laid to 50/.), IS to
I spat Assault, 20 to I *gat Loadatine (t 180/..) 500 to 2)0, was laid
In one bet ogot Springy Jock, and 3 to I laid juxt heiore the close to
50/ ; the downuard movement wax not confined to thLY home, the
other ELYOUTSI tieing more or less on the Airline.
DCHAY.-1 Ito 1 oast Eithiron ), 20 to 1 emit Nunn kirk
(t), 2000 to 45 agot the lemma col; (t), 31100 to 45 spat Old Din
Tucker (t).
Tan HEALING RACES take place to-morrow and Thurs-
day; the cour.w is clove to the railway station, the entries good, and
the promise of .poet Itrataatc.

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hats Entclltgenct.
EQUI EY COURTS.
Before the hoed Chancellor.
THE ATTORNEY-OENEttAL V. THE CORPORATION OP
LICH EIELD.--MeNICIPAL CORPORATION ACT.—ANTECE-
DENT DRIITV.—PRO.PECTIVE RA res.—Thiti app,....1 eganvt
an orutr of toe Master of the Rolls re:using in injure:ion
to restrain the defendants from making a borough rate to
pay the debts previous]. due, was argued last week.
The Lord Chancellor, new giving his judgment, said there
were two questions of great importance raised in the seat,.
men% bet de trim, first, as to the power of the court to it,
I quite into the propriety of the application of msueye raised
by the authorities ut the borough; and, second. as to
the granting as injunction to prevent the corporation front
making • rite to pay antecedent debts. As to the first
quedion, it did not become necenery, in the view which he
took of this case, to (beide it. With respect to the second,
the evidence showed that there were antecedent d. bts, and
some payments in respect of them were made out of the
borough fund. The Municipal Corporation Act directed that
when the borough fund was inadequate, the deficiency
should be supplied by rasing a rate' n the inhabitants.
The debts in this case appeared to be debts churgeable on
the borough fund, and the deficiency thereon tires .. Ho
was of opinion that no case was made by the relators in the
information to justify the court is interfering by injunction,
and the Mast,/ of the Rolls did right in r..fueing it. The
injuncti m it wanted in this cane, might operate injuriously
to some of ishabitants who had laid.
STOCKTON AND DARLINOTON RAILWAY COMPANY V.
THE LEEDA AND THIRSK RAILWAY COMPANY.—JCLIAS".
DICTION TO RESTRAIN PAUTITA PROM OPPO,INO A DILL IN
PARLIAMENT.—Tiii, oppeal against an order of the Vice-
Chancellor of England re.training the defendants from op-
posing a bill in pa 'lament author.sing the Clarence Railway
Company to sell their railway and the defendants to pur
chase it, wee argued ;at week, and has been already noticed
in this journal.
The Lord Chancellor, now giving judzment, said, after
stating the way in which the question arose, that he sou
happy the counsel for the respondents withdrew the objec-
ticn which was raised to the power of the court to interfere
to restrain oprosition to a bill in parliament under any cir-
cumstances. The lame objection was formerly made to re-
strain parties from bringing actions at law. That juristlic-
ti,M, however, has been long establidied, and if a cam was
mane for the interpo•itien of the court to restmin parties
from oneing a bill in parliament, the court would no doubt
exercise ,es power. It was not upon the court of law or on
putismerir Out the jurisdiction in these matters would ope-
rate, but upon the individuals applying to them. Parties
petitioning or oPP"lling bibs of this nature in parliament did
so for their private i,nterest and not on public grounds which
gnierally. The only question in this case
interested the public
plaintiffs had made out a case
now was, whether the P
plaintiffs founded their case, and
for the exercise of ire jarhdiotion. His lordship read the
agreement upon which the
observed it was an agreement bt!witen the defendantel and
the Clarence Railway Company, frig& was binding enly
conditionally on the defendants as between them and the
plaintiffs; bat the condition did not arise, and there was no
final obligation on the defendants not to oppose the bill.
Under thele circumstances his lordship was of opinion that
the injunction ought never to have been granted, and it
should he dimulved, mad the costs that were
_paid by the de-
fendantson failure of their motion before the Vim-Unman
to dissolve the injunction, should be returned to diem.