The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-03 00:00:00

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING, MI.

NOMINATIONS I`ol/. TILE SIMPPIELD AND HOTIIIIKII4I4
64. mos.—Aortas, 3 yrs ; 0:6 Chirst, 4 yrs; 3110 d of Kent ;late Jeans
vette), 4 yrs; Mao Deceitful (late Mr. Merryman'. 3 yrs; Heart of
Oak, 3 yr+ ; Siang, 4 yrs; curb rough, 4 tr.; The 1611,r;16,16rr, 5
yrs; Miss Flyaway, 3 yrs ; Fsiighssstailarch, dam by Llstrpool
out of Ninuy, 3 yrs ; Psyche, 4 yrs; Vamps, 4 yra ; The Sown. 3 yre;
The Little Essen. 3 yrs; Madam, %Parton, 3 yrs; ch f by Trues Birds
catcher, 4 yrs; llsbaldwick, 4 yrs; Prince (kradne, 3 yrs.
NOMINATIONS ev& THE FREE HANDICAP HVRDLI
BA(3.- Loddington (late Coliitur.e), 4 yrs; John Lawrence, 5 yrs;
Purim Plowsr, 6 yrs; The Mina (late Sir Benjamin), 3 yrs; Ccgia
b), 3 yrs The Swift, 5 yrs: Quiz (late Raistlappo, aged;.,Vanny,
sped ; Tallyho, aged ; Little Queen, 3 yrs ; Psyche, 4 yrs ; arwltit.
4 yr.; Samykr, 4 yrs; Male-ready, 6 yrs; N hartiak Maid, agrd ;
Wild Hero, axed.

CEYLON STAFF. —The United Serrice Gazette
states, " The appointinoits of staff officers at Chile and Trin-
comalee arc to be abolished. Captain APLean will return
to his duties in the Royal Artillery ; Lieut.. Colonel Sim-
moods, Ceylon Rifles, is tube removed from Trincomalee to
Kandy ; and Captain Cole, from the roads dep4rtmeat, is to
rejoin the 15th Regiment.
TDB GOLD CO.IST CORPS.—In page fourteen of
the Army Estimates for this year, a vote for the first time is
required for this local corps. The arrangements for its
form &on are not yet completed, but it is to consist of
11 officers, 16 nun-commissioned °Accra, and 312 reek and
tile, at an estimated cost of 6,154/. per annum.
GENERAL OFFlCERS.—Aceordinglo a tubular state-
ment in tho United Service Gazette it appears that the number
of general officers employed on service at home and abroad in
1811 was 207, and the number employed at home and abroad
in 1651 is 39 ; decrease since 1811, 168.
DISCOVERY of 111:KIED TKEASCRE.—Duriug the
progress of some excavatious at Fountains Abbey', a work-
man on Thursday last brought down what was at first
thought to have been a quantity of old OW. To the sur-
prise and astonishment, however, of all present,
it turned
out to be a number of silver coins, in s most excellent state
of preservation. There were, in all, 351; 3of Philip and
Mary, 165 of Queen Elizabeth, 50 of James 1., 129 of
Charles 1., and 7 Spanish pieces—date about a.n. 1640. It
will at once be apparent that this buried hoard must have
been the property of some one in the trouhlous times of
Charles tin First, • hose terror or caution had induced him
to hide his money in this sequestered spot.— YorirsAirs
ussLe•
SINOCLAB AND FATAL ACCIDENT ON BOARD THE
CrIIIIEKLAND.--011 Friday an inquest was held at Melville
Hospital, Chatham, before J.Dudlow, Esq., coroner forWsit
Kent, on the body of James Turnbull, boatswain, belonging
to her Majesty's ship Cumberland, who met with his des
on the previous Saturday whilst the ship was lying in Gil-
lingham Reach. One of the seamen, whilst engaged in
teputriag the yards, lost his hold, and in his fall struck the
deceased with great force upon the head, he himself also
sustaining very serious injury. Deceased was immediately
placed on a stretcher, and was taken in a state of insenaibi-
ity to the Naval Hospital at Chatham, where he died soon
afterwards. Mr. Richard Blizzard, surgeon, RN., de-
posed that on examination he found a small abrasion of the
scalp. He made an incision, when he found a fracture
which had ruptured an artery, and caused an effusion of
blood on the brain, with other injuries sufficient to cause
death. The seaman who fell from the cross-trees wore a
heavy pair of boots, and witness stated that it was his
opinion that deceased was struck on the head by them in
his fall. The jury returned a verdict of "Accidental
Death." The seaman whose fall occasioned the catastrophe
is lying at Melville Hospital suffer under the very se-
rious injuries he sustained.
FIRE IN KING WILLIAII-STRErf,CITY.—On Satur-
day, at a few minutes before midnight, a fire broke out in
the premises belonging to Messrs. Hughes and Co., army
and naty outfitters, of No. 78, King William-street. When
discovered the flames were raging with great violence in
the warehouse on the ground floor. In a very brief period
the engines of the Loudon Brigade and parish attended as
well as the Royal Society'acscapes. Plenty of water hav-
ing been procured the engines were set to work, but the
firemen were unable to get the mastery over the flames
until the valuable stock in trade was nearly destroyed, and
the upper part of the premises also much dammed by fire.
The cause of the fire is not known. The filth, it is under-
stood, was insured in the Fhcenia Are office.

intelligence.

EQUITY COUHTS.—SATrs.DAY.
Raman I nas esunrowna, TotsCacuw-suena
Mg. . CONNELL AND OINKU.—JOINT lITOCIE
BaNEINA COMPANIM Ana PUBLIC CoMPANITE WITIII:s
TWU tillaNINO or TIM STATUS'S 1 AND 3 Vie., c. 110,
Bze. lt.
His lordship delivered his judgment upon • question
mixed upon demurrer to the plaintiff's bill in this cue. The
plaintiffs, the trustees and secretary of the United King-
dom Lb Assurance Company, had reelected judgment fur
6,006/. in net a pmmissory note given by the defendants to
secure a 1. lit due from them to the assurance company, and
upon the judgment bad obtained charging orders under
the•lmpri,uassettt for Debt Act, 1& 2 lc., c. 110, see. 14,
purporthm to charge certain shares in the Union Bank of
Lmdon. Or which the defendants were proprietors in their
own nAht. The bill sought a deeLeratens that the shares
were eft tually charged by the orders, and it prayed that
the din.. fere of the Union Bank (who were named no do-
fendunts. might be ordered to sell the shares, and apply
the pose eels in satisfaction of the plaintiffs' debt.
To this bill a general demurrer was put in by
the deo-entente, the debtors, on the ground that
from tli statement in the bill it did not appear
that the banking company was a public company, and that
shares in politic companies alone couW be charged by an
order obeiodel under the act. It appeared that the bank-
ing 0:111,114 had been eitahlished is 11t39, under the act 3 &
4WIII. It'., e. 99, we. 3; its business being carried un in ,
aresnlan., with the provisions of a de eel of settlement,
dated in April in that year, by which the sole control over,
and manue ment of, the property and affairs of the com-
pany were stated in • board nl directors; and their consent
rendered no c,wary far the validity of the transfer of shares
by the pen net/Rs. It uppeared also that the company had
afterwards made and delivered at the stamp office the Ta..
tuna and ace mints undo r the 7 & It Vie., e. 113, sec. 47,
required by that !delete for enabling them to one, and be
enied, by tto it public officer, in like mann, r as is provided
by the statute 7 Gera, IV., e. 16, in the caw of banking eons-
pane s of fade than sit members carrying on business in
Pngland, at a distance from London eactilling 61
'the demurrer was grounded principally on the feet that
toot the statewide in the bill shares in the company im-
puted not to, be transferable without the consent of all the
preen. tors represented by tie ir directors.
Ile. Loidship said that to der roan the question,
whe-
ther the r asp toy woe a public company within the mean-
ing of the lemenonment for Debt Art, 1 & 2 Vic., e. 110,
ser. r• 'our- must be but to the stab of the law as to
onnisien at the time that act passe d. It appeared, on
rof..rring to the statutes then in esistence, that at that
period there were naly two clauses of companies to which
the t, rm metier company not incorporate el could by
batty 0., comanies formed under the Banking
Acts, 7 te e. IV.s, e. 46,1 and 3 & 4 Will. I V., e. 901, and
company • risen which privileges heel bete conferred by
letter. pltret under the statute 1 Vie., e. 73, enabling
her NI-4p-ty to confer certain poste. and immunities
ea tradisur and other companies. 't he question to- n was
whether the term public applied to both of those chimes of
timpani.--, or only to one und which of them. There could
To• no doubt of its application to the last class. By the
statute (I Vie., e. 73) nonionic+ upon which privileges
(s were oden ed oiler the act wore required to make public
returns declaring the obi of the association, the number
of the partial", and of the thong's from time to time made
in those purticul as. They were abet required to return
the name. m the- officer, in whose name they were to sue
and he sued under the statute. There could be no (build
as to the applicability of the term " public company not
ra ineorpoted" to such a company. Visa then than any
distinction us to publicity between companies of that
kind iota eumpames form, d under the bunking acts ?
lie thought nut; for by the 7th Deo. IV., c. 46,
the NSW' 1.31111 C returns were required to be made by corn-
patsies finned under that art ; and by 7 & M Vkt., c. 113,
Me. 47, those returns were, also required of companies
formed under 3 ce 1 Will. IV., e. tat, as 3 condition of their
obtaining the privilege of *maim/ and being sued by their
public 0111131. The same publicity was therefore required
in the emse of companice formed undo r the banking net* as
in the (4.4• of trading companies. privileged muter the
atatute I Viet rap. 73. The two taws were there-
fere walistingui.huble ; and as the latter clew were
clearly public companies within the meaning of the
Innenennimot for 11,14 Act, companies fornied under the
Banking Art must he held so likewise; oil that,
wheth, r the capital of such companies was ellisilkd into
shan or not. The general demurrer would theretore
overruled. Leave was then given by his lordship to have
the taws re-argued on Tuesday nest upon Ii demurrer for
want of parties, which had lain taken ore tenor at the bar.