The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-29 00:00:00

,ADXIR.II.TY,.Nov.

ill i Corps et itopi blarineo.-1 eu .T. WRALINO to be 001. see.
commandant, rice Whylock, who nit% on lull pun; lir,. Wei. P.
Gnou.s to be Ileut..col , vice Wearing, protn.; Filet Lieu!. and
kljt. C. W. ADAIR to be rapt., vice 0rR13,1111, prom.; See Lieut. E.
(Litman to be lira lieut., nice Adair, pren.; Ibtlt,Licut. T. V.
Coons to be adjt., vice Adair, prom: to tare.

THE REFORM CONFERENCE AT MANCHESTER
though chiefly confined to delegates from Lancashire and
Yorkshire, will be attended, there is reason to believe, by
reformers from Derby, Nottingham, Leicester, Birmingham,
Newcastle, and Edinburgh. The evening meeting will be
addressed by Messrs. Cobden, Bright, Gibson, and other
gentlemen. A deputation front Yorkshire held a prelimi-
nary interview with the reformers of Manchester on the
subject on Saturday last, but ita proceedings have been kept
strictly private. The Yorkshire deputation included Mr.
Carbutt and Mr. Edward Baines, of Leeds ' • Mr. It. Leader,
jun., of Sheffield; Mr. Milligan, M.P., of Bradford; Mr.
; T. Crossley of Halifax, who represented on this occasion
the West Riding Registration Association. The gentlemen
who recicved them on the part of the Manchester Financial
and Parliamentary Reform Association were: Mr. O. Wil-
-1 eon, Mr. Bright, M.P. ; Mr. Henry, M.P. ; Mr. Kershaw,
M.P.; Mr. IL Ashworth, of Bolton; Mr. T. Ashton, of
Hyde ; Mr. T. Baxley, president of the Manchester Cham-
ber of Commerce ; Mr. W. Rawson, Mr. John Platt, Old-
ham; Mr. H. Rawson, Mr.McCartney, Mr. S. P. Rubinson,
i Mr. Royle, Mr. C. Walker, Rochdale ; and Mr. C. E. Raw-
lins, of Liverpool.
NAVAL ADMIRALTY, Nov. 28.—APPOINTMENTS.—

Surgeon W. J. Oraggen to Rapid; Second Master J. P. C.
Clements to Inspregnabk.
DEVONPOIST, Nov. 27.—The Crane, 6, Commander
J. J. Donnell, sailed on Tuesday, for the coast of Africa.
She takes out Mr. Gabriel, arbitrator at Loaudo. The
Magicienne (steamer) is being fitted for commission. The
Rosamond (steam sloop), Commander Campbell, has drawn
charts for the North American and West Indian stations.
She had her compasses adjusted yesterday by Mr. Thomp-
son, the Queen's harbourmaster ; will be paid advance
wages to-day, and, probably, sail. The Desperate (steamer)
is undergoing some alterations in her stowage accommodation
at the suggestion of Mr. Brown, the second-master attendant
at this dockyard. The Sanspareil, 81, has received a portion
of her machinery, and is to be fitted fur service with all
possible speed.
FARM BUILDINGS AND THE House TAX.—Various
inquiries have been made to the Board of Inland Revenue
as to whether farm-offices, such as byres, barns, and build-
ings for the purposes of the farm, are to bo included with
the farm-louse so the valuation for inhabited house duty -
sad,stric4
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deem Herald.

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Report of the COOMMCV ea London Merchants for
the Reform of the Hoard of Cwt.:ma, to be presented to a
pub:ie of merchants, bankers, and traders of the
City of London, to be Mid at the Loudon Tavern, ou the
ant LA era...et :
tto the ISt. of March last, • petition from MOM than
eight hundred of the primeval mercantile firms of the City
of London, complaining of the constitution and general
management of the customs' department, was raente!"
parliament. So important a document, calling or a revision
of the entire system of co.:ten...a of our foreign revenue,
bar seldom been brought under the notice of parliament.
It was speedily supported by inftueutial petitions from Heal
and Liverpool; and after the most strenuous opposition
from the pr”ent Chancellor of the Exchequer, a select
committee of inquiry was appointed by the House of
Commons.
In aid of the labours of that committee, and in support of
their own petition, the committee of London merchants
collected a MO. of evidence in London and from the various
outports, of which portions have been extensively Cirell,
fated o,lr the Uniten Kingdom.
At the request of this committee, Mr. W. J. Hall, their
treasurer, accompanied by their secretary, proceeded to the
Invinciel Forte; and from the reports in the public papers,
It r ray be seen that at Null, Liverpool, Crieegow, Oreeneek,
Dundee, Aberdeen, Leith, Edinburgh, and .Newcastle, the
leading merchants and municipal authorities reeeis ad the'
deputation with much cordiality, and advertised resolutions,
pledging th, rnselves to support the committee, both by
their intleenee, and by communication with their parlia-
mi nen.) rrprr,entativea,
The estainittee bare watched with the greatest interest
the dilet•.., which have arisen between the Custom% and
the Load m and Saint Katherine Dirk Companies, and
have ewl,.armn d to maintain a melee free from the impel-
gation of l renal motives. They could not conceal from
themseleis ti:: broad fact, that the power assumed by the
authorities of the Customs to °mores.; gr. et me rcentile in-
stitutions, proved the utter hopelessless of individuals, how-
ever weadby, attempting to dispute the dictation of a des-
potic berit. The publie is now fully acquainted with the
fact, that two powerful, influential, and wealthy corpora- I
tions, having for their directors gentlemen holding the
highest as merchants, upon whine private I
eleuracb.r eves the solicitor of the Customs liar not ventured
to east 4 slander, have been accused and proweuted on guilty
of acts which, it true, would have reflected the most last-
ing disgrace on their conduct. The groundlessness of those
charges lies fern suhotantiated alter an unprecedented and
protracted tea:; and a British jury has recorded an ac-
quittal, at an expense, it has been stated, to the London thick
Company dime, of upwards of 10,0101 g. A technical objec-
tion was ev. II made a pretest by the crown for a motion
for a new trial ; and with one hundred and twenty similar
printtli'l,A, hanging over them, with some of their moot
responsible servants indicted for emuegling and felony,
sad many others bribed to betray their employers' interest,
it appear- thew wealthy corporations have now considered
it prod, id to • ompronuse the matter by the payment of a
trilling time. However imperative it u,rey have been upon
tlto,tt Loudon Duck Companies :hum to chose this ruinous
and apparently interniin Ible struggle—the future course of
this committee, and of the mercantile body at large, in re-
fonmee to Customs' Reform, can only now be guided by
the opinion of this meeting ; and the object of the com-
mittee in preeetaing this report is to offer tor consideration
sueterials for suggesting the line of action which may guide
the failure course of all who are interested in head redeem.

Raba Eutellignce.
JUDICIAL COMMTITEE OF THE PRIVY
COUNCIL.—YwrznuAy.
I.IIST—Loa. Caunrant, sntimibrlinwet Nava, I. Hun/a.
Jag.. INST, .013 MN 1.4 s AMU Vvix.
LUND T. FANCIION COLLISION.—

Jroom

This efts (part of which was heard yesterday) was re-
sumed this morning. It was en appeal from the Admiralty
Court in a tense of damage, civil and maritime, brought by
the owners of the barque Bonanza, the respondents in the
present case, against the owners of the ship Fanchon, who
were the appellants.
Tared, without hearing the learned counsel who
►ppe on behalf of the respondents, dismissed the appeal
with costs.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—YESTERDAY.
Snrrous arNsit Puce 10 MIDDAY/AI awoke Cnizr Jusrics Ulna
AND • SPACIAL PAW.
MILLER V. DEAR.—THE NEW LAW or EVIDENCE.
This case was tried yesterday by a common jury for the
record time, On the first occasion the jury were discharged
without giving a verdict, they being unable to agree in con-
sequence of the contradictory evidence given by the plaintiff
and the defendant's wife. The cave yesterday was con-
cluded shortly after four o'clock, and the jury were locked
up until midnight when they gave a verdict fur the plaintiff.

AltDlN T. GOODACRE, Eig.-ESCAPE FROM FRC I
Sfaxiiirr.
This was an action to recoser damages in consertuenre of
the escape of Mr. Wm. Bingham from the sheriff a officer,
who had arrested him at the suit of the plaintiff for 2,6001.
The case had been tried once before and had been on seve-
ral other occasions before the c3urt.
The pluintiff is a barrister and the defendant was for-
merly high sheriff of Leicestershire. Mr. Wm. Bingham
was the sun of a clergyman, and was arrested as he was ee-
lturning from his father's funeral. Under his father's will
ho was entitled to 3001. a year, but hit receipt was to be the
only discharge the executor was bound to take, and he was
authorised to require him to attenu at the town ball of Not-
do ham to give receipts for it, and to withhold payment
unless he did attend. Upon his arrest he offered to assign
this annuity to the plaintiff, but his brother, the executor,
w3uld not consent, and went to consult his solicitor. Before
he returned, however, the escape had taken place, and one
question 310.11 was, whether he could legally assign his an-
nuity without the consent of his brother. It was, however,
shown that he had actually assigned portions of it to two
creditors, and one of tnem hod received 2-il. The value of
the annuity at the time of the arrest, was 3,4021. 19s. Mr.
William Bingham is now in the Queen's Prison, with writs
against him to the extent of about 5,0004
Ili, Lordship left it to the jury to say, first, what was
the ilaniaae the plaintiff had sustained, if William Bingham
could assign his annuity without the consent of the crecutsr,
and secondly, what was the damage if the consent of the
executor was necessary.
Thu jury retired from court to consider the matter, and
at the end of an hour they gave their opinion that the dam-
age in the first eveut was fid., and in the other,

The court was occupied the entire day in trying the part
heard cast of Furze r. Asker, which was an action brought
by a brewer at Wbiteehapel against a publican carrying on
business at Erith, to recover 3151., which aura the plaintiff
alleged the defendant agreed to give him for the goodwill
I sod furniture of a public house situated in the Isle of Dogs.
The details of the case were of no public interest.
The jury retired at half put live o'cl4ck, and returned
into court at half-past eleven, with a verdict substantially
for the defendant.