The Express.
London, England, 1847-06-23 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

ALLEGED FORGERY OF NORTH BRITISH RAILWAY
Twain Seatr.—A quantity of forged railway scrip of this
company has just been found to be in circulation at Leeds,
a portion having been taken up at one of the banks in that
town for a person who gave a name (although it is perhaps
fictitious), and is said to reside in Think. The matter is
under investigation.

COMMISSION BY THE MILD LIEUTENANT. —C. C. Clifford,
Ext., to be deputy-lieutenant.
'I MB AVINOTON ESTATE, the hereditary property of the
Chandos family, is, it is said, about to be sold. It is much to
be regretted, says the Hants Advertiser, that such a fine
domain should have so long remained without a resident
master, and it is generally hoped in Winchester that a par-
chaser may be found fur it, whose residence there would
restore to the inhabitants of the city the advantages which
the contiguity of wealthy establishments generally produces
to the trade of a town. The remains of the late Duchess of
Buckinvham will, it is rumoured, be immediately removed
to Stowe, from the family vault in Arington church.
SUSSEX.
AN INQUEST was held yesterday on the man who was
killed on the Chichester and Portsmouth line, on Friday
last. Verdict," Accidental death."

CRICKET.
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mink was mewed youteeday monslakbaidlo promos of a tame
ssismliage at visitors Ent heated arca Oa Int innings
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A. Ilptasyssetbth , Esq., bA. Harem 57
Ca Luanne, b Wynn
W. ?Rehabs; Esq ,1 b b Wynn 29
PeU, 0. C. Esq., e Wllsr, lluss, b
Hamm 24
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R. Kybastan, .. b A Hawse 0
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T. Townley, Esq., 1 b w, b Myna 0
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A. Bryon, EN., b Bathurst St C. Hamar, ER., b TrulB4 2B
W. Myun, Bp., e Nicholsou„ Astable-10, E-q.. b Bathorat 4
b litatborst 3 F. Proleaioka, E q., b Bath-
& Banks, Esq., run out
N. Felix, Eaq., b 'imp.— ... 0 A. It. Harem, EAq., b Bath-
L. H. Bayley, Esq., hit mkt., ars! 2
b Tonga 4l Bra, 28; wide, 4
E. Edwards, Esq., a King, b
Bathurst 6 183
C. G. Whittaker, Esq., not out 13

nab) Enteiligcntr.
HOUSE OF LORDS.
Dr COMMITTEE POE PRIVILEOBB—THE CRAWYURD
AND LINDSAY PRERAGE.—The committee, consisting of
Lord Shaftesbury (chairman), the Lord Chancellor, Lord
Lyndhurst, Lord Brougham, and other peers, met for the
purpose of receiving further evidence in support of the claim
of the Earl of Balcarres to this peerage, the origin and
descent of which were stated in this journal in the reports of
the proceeding% before the committees, which sat upon it on
the 2d and 16th of March, and 18th of May, 1846. On the
reception of the evidence on the peewit occasion, a question
arose whether a witness, who made himself acquainted,
within the last two days, with the handwriting of a person
long since deceased, by the perusal of documents having the
signatures of that person, and admitted to be genuine, could
be admitted to prove another document, alleged to have beea
in the handwriting of the same person. After considerable
dPeussion Lord Lyndhurst at last agreed with Lord Brougham,
that they would hare the question argued before they would
admit the evidence. Other documentary evidence, unob-
jyeted to, hoeing been taken, the case was adjourned to
Thunda_y_week.
THE BRA/tHIJIS OP TWEEDDALE V. MURRAY.—QUESTION
AS TO THB PEILIOD OF THE EXPIRATION OP A TENANT'S
POSSESSION UNDER A EXAM—The Lord Chancellor, after
their lordships had made ahouse, move d the judgment in this
appeal, the facts of which were stated in the report of Mon-
day's proceedings in this paper. His lordship did not think
that the cases which were cited in the argument had any
application to the question, but the terms of the lease
appeared to him plain enough in their construction, ant). not
requiring the assistance of cues. There were two rules of
construction applicable here : one was that word" in an in-
strument clear and unambiguous in their meaning were
not to be defeated by words in a subsequent part of the
instrument of doubtful meaning. The second stale was, that
a construction which made all the parts of the instrument
consistent, was to be preferred to that which made some
parts inconsistent. The first part of this lease was a letting
for 3 nineteen years and the life of J. Murray, and in nee
of his death before the expiration of the years, then for the
life of his heir, who should be in possession at the expiration
of the 3 niceteen years. The heir of Murray, who was in
possession at the expiration of the 3 nineteen years, died on
the Bth of March last. The question was, whether the
lease did not terminate on that very day, and there could be no
doubt that it del, were it not for the subsequent clause
by which the tenant bound himself and his heirs—the land-
lord wee no patty to this clause—but the tenant alone bound
himself sod his heirs "to remove themselves, their cotton,
servants, &c., the Whit Sunday next, after the expiration of
the lease, without any warning." This was clearly meant to
give the tenants an opportunity of removing without incon-
venience, and not an extension of their possession. It was
hardly to be suppesed the death of the truant in possesaion
would happen on the Whitsunday ; but although the right
of possession expired on the day of the death, the Blb March,
the tenant's representatives had the indulgence of further
time to remove. The righter possession for the two months
that intervened between the Bth of March and Whit Sunday,
1845, was practically of great value, because the crops would
be sown in that time, and, therefore, the tenant's represen-
tatives would reap the benefit. But the idea of continuing
the right of possession of the farm beyond the expiration of the
lease, which happened on the Bth of March, was inconsistent
Both parties to the lease contemplated that some time
would lee required for removal after the expiration of the
lease, and for that purpose only the tenant's representatives
got till the Whitsunday next following. Under these cir-
cumstances his lordship was of opinion that the interlocutor
of the Court of Session should be reversed, and that of the
Lord Ordinary restored. Interlocutor reversed.