The Express.
London, England, 1847-08-17 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

A snociallo ACCIDENT occurred on the' works of

u Ray's Fleur-mills, wen dutroyod. The damage done is
estimated at same thousands sterling; the premises were,
however, insured, though not to the lull velae of the property.

LITERATURE.

A History of &rola and tle• Seroian Revolationt, from
original MSS. and DOCIUM4II. Translated from the
German of Leopold Rorke. By Mrs. ALBILANDISIL Kits.
That the principalities of the Danube occupy the
geographical point where the two great tides of
Civilization and government, flowing respectively
from the east and from the west, clash against each
other—constitute the battle-ground of rival races,
hostile creeds, and antagonistic systems of social and
political domination, is well known in this coun-
try : also, that these principalities, chiefly inhabited by
European christians, have long resisted, and continue
to roost, the encroachment of the military maxims
and Mabommedan dogmas which constitute the only
seines of government and religious law of their
Aortic conquerors. But the precise character of the
contest which has been waged against the aggressive
spirit of the Ottoman power—the many and compli-
cated relations of these principalities to the great
powers of Europe, and to the political system
and Christian civilization of the nineteenth
century, arising from peculiarities of geogra-
phical position—affinities or antipathies of race,
rfdigion, language, and historical traditions, with
surrounding nations; and their present relation to
Turkey, and their probable influence upon the future
condition of Europe, are very inadequately known and
appreciated indeed. Of these princilities Servia is by
no means the least important, indeed, in many mopeds,
it is the most important in a political point of view:
especially, as its poeition—ready to join hands with
Montenegro and the Adriatic on the one hand,
and with the already half independent principalities
of Wallachia and Moldavia on the other—and from the
integrity with which its primitive institutions have
been preserved, it may be regarded by the whole
range of Sclavonic nations in south-eastern Europe,
as the centre whence the political redemption and
national regeneration of that numerous and powerful
race, must sooner or later proceed.
Servia is the Sclavonian's "fatherland"—the
pole of their political inclinations. In its habits
and institutions they recognise the types of their
ancient nationality, and to its development and
continuous aceretion of strength, they leok for
the establishment of a power which shall truly
mania* the intellectual and moral constitution
of the Belavonic mind, and redeem their race, in the
eyes of the world, from the stigmas which the aristo-
cratic disorganisation of Poland and the military des-
of Russia have cast u them. That the
retvin onio mind is capable of a h state of develop-
ment,
no one acquainted with Polish and Russian
scholars will be prepared to deny. That the race is
capable of self-government and a steady commer-
cial and agricultural progress, every man conversant
with its earlier history is aware. That it will again
assume a political and independent national existence,
under purer forms than those prevailing with the
power
professing to consider itself at its head—is only
doubted by those who are ignorant of the eternal laws
which regulate the development of nations, and of the
great movement now agitating the Sciavonic family,
—a family rapidly passing into its ancient uniformity
of institutional type, and tending towards unity of
political existence.
The appearance of an English translation of Leo-
pold Ranke's " History of the Servian Revolution,"
affords us as opportunity of adverting to these im-
portant subjects—subjects involving considerations of
the utmost importancein connexion with the "Eastern
Question." Of the qualifications of Rorke as an his-
torian of the subject, it is hardly necessary to speak.
To ample knowledge, and a reputation which gains
him ready acmes to every archive in which serviceable
documents are likely to be found, he adds the most
unwearyiny g industry in collating and correcting his
authorities. But it must be acknowledged that he
wants some of the higher faculties of historical genius
—large powers of generalisation—an intuitive per-
ception of the relative value of his materials—method
in arrangement, and brilliancy of touch and tone. He
never makes the most of his means. He writes more
in the vein of the chronicler than in that of the his-
torian—end in a critical rather than a philosophical
spirit His works form a quarry from which less
learned writers may extract the matter out of which
to con trust great reputations—but they are only a
quarry ; and in this, like the rest, the translation is
fairly and faithfully made.
The Servians, like many kindred branches of the
same race, appear in history for the first time about
the ninth century. In the fourteenth they attain
such a degree of strength as to excite the swim
apprehension of the eastern emperors. In their con-
flicts with the advancing Osmanli they were unsuc-
cessful, and soon after fell into complete polithal
insignificance. But as the Berrien population had
been already converted to Christianity, and as
the Ottomans—unlike the northern coriquwere
of the Western Empire—did not adopt the feudal prin-
ciple, but contented themselves with the exaction of
a tithe on produce—afterwards compounded for by
the payment of a fixed anneal tax—the national rah.
gion and the proprietorship of the soil remained to the
subject after the Conquest. A large subject
tion is absolutely necessary to the successful waorrkkinngg
of the military system of the Turks. As its soldiers
belong entirely to the dominant caste and creed (an
attempt has been made to re-organise the army on
European models, into which questions of race and re-
ligion do not enter, bat whether that change will
restore life to it is yet uncertain) an inferior class is
necessary to their support : and hence, after the fiery
zeal of oonqueet and conversion had cooled down,
hardly any attempt was made one grand scale to
make proselytes of the population. This arrange-
ment, dictated by political necessities, left the ele-
ments of a separate nationality alive in the g=
and by connecting them with the march of
the political sympathies of the Christian people of
Europe, preparedtheway fortheir futureemancipation.
The shock of the American and French revolutions was

the London and North-Western Railway Company, at Staly-
bridge, near Manchester, on Sunday. The company are
constructing • tunnel, Riming part of the original Hudden-
field end Manchester Railway, but which railway will now
form a portion of their line into Yorkshire ; and near to the
tunnel war • large etorehoure and stable. The storehouse
weschiefir filled with nails, ropes, and barrels of turpentine
end oil. Then was also • large barrel of gunpowder in one
omit,. Os Sunday morning four men and a boy went into
these:rehouse with some dogs, to destroy vermin; sad, with
a view to drive the rats from holes in one corner of the build-
ing, they took some powder and stopped up the holes. They
then laid a train, and set fire to it, imagining that, as the
barrel of gunpowder in another part of the plea was wet,
there WODUI be no danger of an explosion. Hither from the
powder having been mattered in that direction, or a draught
of wind, they bad no sooner fired the train, than it coin-
antedea.ed with the barrel of gunpowder, and the turpentine
and oils were all in a blue in an instant. The four men
and boy were dreadfielly burnt before they could be rescued,
the body of one of them having been thrown to the doorway,
• distance of ten or a dosenivards, by the Rea atlas explo-
sion which followed the Coe of thus ounbestibles. The
place was entirely burnt own and destroyed in the sours, of
a few minutes. One of the sufferers, Matthew Gomersall,
aged 30, died a few hours anemia& of his injuries, leaving
a wife and three children. Another, James Platt, aged
28, died about nine at night, leaving • wife and two
children. Willie= Bert, the son of one of the overlookers,
and Abraham Harding, both young men, are so severely
burnt, that no hopes ere entertained of their recovery. The
boy, Wm. Cromwell, is the only one of the party likely to
INITTiTE.—ANOTIIER ACCIDENT occurred the NUM day at
about 100 yards from the scene of the above explosion.
The contractor* to the company, Mews. Howell and Hat-
tersley, are driving • tunnel nadir the Cocker-hill, and at
one point, where tire tunnel is about 60 feet below the sur-
face, they had found quickunds, which deterred them from
proceeding by the ordinary means of driving a drift-way,
and had determined to sink shafts end keen continuous
archways, filling the shafts up with earth again when com-
pleted. One of these shafts, 30 feet square, had been ob-
served to be in a doubtful way for a fortnight past, and
about noon on Sunday, when a number of workmen
were employed near it, loud crashes were beard
proceeding from it, and it was then disoovered that
the earth had given way around it in all directions for
many yards, and that the shaft was nearly filled up. For-
tunately no one was injured, but the earth oontinued to
orsek and open in wide crevices around the place during
several boors afterwards. It Is expected that the contracton
will suffer to the extent of 1,0001., but that the loss of the
company will be much more serious, inasmuch as about •
dozen or fourteen houses standing close by, and the founda-
tions of which are no longer stable enough, will have to be
taken down. Besides this toes, there will necesearily follow
a very considerable delay in tits., which, with railway com-
panies, is equal to money.
YORESIME.
Lavet Tug Ferrcze.—At the recent meeting of the
Yorkshire Agricultural Society, Lord Faversham, after
giving an account of the manner in which le had drained
an extensive moor by a very large and deep drain, a mile
and a half long, said : "He wished to impress upon land-
owners the great necessity of throwing down their Anne :
not for the sake of gentlemen riding after the hounds, but
for their own good. By having so many hedges they had
leas land on which to grow their produce, and in a dry sea-
son sparrows and other birds took up halt the seed."—Mr.
J. Outhweite, speaking on the same subject, said : " that he
was the occupier of • farm of 485 acres, and since the year
1839 be had, by the consent of his landlord, Mr. Sackville
Fox, taken down eight miles of old fencing ; and be could
assure them that it was the interest of every tenant-farmer,
if he could get the cement of his landlord, to adopt the same
plan, for he was satisfied that hedges were nothing more
nor lees than a great nuisence, and an obstacle to all im-
provement in agriculture. They could not have good cattle
without green crops, end if turnips in particular would not,
as they undoubtedly did not, grow neer a great fence or
large trees, direly the adoption of this plan was moot essen-
tial to the welfare of the tennt-farpser.':.

felt even in the gorges and on the mountains of the
Danubian provinces—the spirit of resistance took
form—and those daring bands of peasant robbers,
known in Greece as Polikars, in Servia as Heyduks,
took the initiative in the cause of liberty and inde-
pendence. Kara George sad Weliko, the two most
remarkable men whom the subsequent revolutions
produced—the former of whom became Prince of
Servia, and, as his son now reigns, probably the
founder of a dynuty that may play an important
'part in the affairs of the East hereafter—had both
been Heydaks. In the decisive campaigns of
1806 and 1807, the Servian peasants gained striking
military advantages, and metarted from the Porte
moat precious rights and **Woes. Ia adasquaat
years the little state was fareal,la a peat swam*
to follow the fortunes of the nit armaments whieh
rolled imocessively over the great plains of central
Europe : but, on the whole, it maintained or retained
the right which it had so gallantly won.
Instead of tracing the various fortunes of the long
wars of force and treaties, we will briefly indicate the
present relations of the Servians to the government
of Constantinople and to their still more powerful
neighbours of Vienna and St. Petersburg. The
present prince, Alexander Kara Georgewitsch,
was elected by. the people—a choice retitled by the
Sultan—and is bound to govern according to the
i Serva n charter of 1838, which superseded the
military rule of the revolutionary period. It is now
a purely constitutional government. The prince
represents the executive, commands the army,
appoints dignitaries, and raises the imposts ; but the
Senate votes the supplies and exercises the entire
legislative powers. The senators, as well as the
judges, area • led for life, and are irremovable, un-
less convicted of some crime before the Porte. The
influence of the Sultan is still considerable; it is
not, however, probable that he will attempt to in-
crease it—at least at his own suggestion. The
existence of a powerful nation, breasting Russia on
the north-east, and Austria on the north-west, would
be the surest safeguard not only of his European but
also of his Asiatic dominions. The Turks still hold
the fortresses. The soldier caste, possessing. social
and political prerogatives, exists no longer in the
country. The capitation tax is no longer exacted.
The tithe is not paid. Property can now be sold
or bequeathed without the interference of aay
except the judicial power. Military administration is
superseded. The department of justice is separated
from that of the executive. Security and extended
scope is given to commerce. These are vital im-
provements on the system in operation before the
revolution—reforms which have made civilization
possible. Although still acknowledging the nominal
suzerainty of the Sultan, the Servian Christians
practice their national religion and obey their own

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THE LORD-LIEUTRICANCT.— The Bristol Mirror
flow that two petitions to her Warty, one emanating from
Ile disown sad the other from the women of the county of
tillimmostr, on la the course el signature, praying for the
leegarrille Zee Fitzhardinge from the lordaieutanancy.
of the prayer are, the noble earl's unconatitu-
;rmblieary interference in the late election for the
Imam clleihm ; his attempt, by oppressive measures, to
monad one limp of the yeomanry cavalry of the county ;
eng ether nom, principally of a personal character, which
metier him, if the opinion of the petitioners, unfit for the
high office of chief magistrate of the county.
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RURAL EDUCATIO—N—.,--The—arrangements which
have for some time past been in progress at the royal schools
in Windsor Forest, with a view to the introduction a •
seem of instruction in gardening and in cottage economy,
ell MOW nearly completed. Several acres of garden ground
el fa full cultivation by the boys. Pert of the ground is
rh.dinto albilinalab, which are aultivated for the benefit
parttnellief elliescholar ; the rest of the garden is
11111isodisalmet by all the boys. A spacious kitchen,
dining.hall have recently been
=Ai alberligs. The garden furnishes part of
ISM= I.lBl=l.llWWWitmies prodded haednebayt she
!Vol;
stele, width they love weft up, nod the clothes of all
the scholars ere to be waited at the school by the female
pupils. The royal bounty has thus assisted the families
resident in the forest by such means as cannot fail to have a
tiv bassetleial influence. Four pupil teachers have
=enticed in the royal schools. It is understood that
they are the first apprentices under the recent minutes of the
Committee of Privy Council.
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BUCRIBII3IIMIMILIM.
A FIRE OCCURRED AT MAIDENIIEAD car.y on
Sunday Intoning, by which the ententive premises, known

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THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 17, :1847

laws anti law-givers. The change they have under-
gone is enormous—but not complete.
The relations of the Servians to Austria and Ramis
were in a great measure determined by a remote
event—the settlement of the Magyars in Hungary.
Before the invasion of that warlike race, the whole
breadth of Europe from the Black Sea to the Baltic
was occupied by Sclavonian tribe*, having a common
qw of organisation and almost a common language.
That event separated—by the introduction of an
hostile element—tribes which would otherwise have
coalesced into one great nation. The Austrian
neighbours of the Servians are consequently as
hateful to them as the Turks ; and therefore,
although fellow-Christians, they have never beckoned
them across the Danube, even in the moments of
their greatest peril. In the earlier years of their
straggles—before they were well acquainted with the
modern history and politics of Europe—they always
looked beyond the plains bounded by the Carpathian
mountains to their fellow-Sclavonians of Russia. In
the one country they found the sympathy of kindred
organisation, bistory, and religious ritual ; in the
other, hostility and rivalry. But the confidence with
which they regarded the government of the Czar has
been terribly shaken. They have become better ac-
quainted with its maxims. They have learned the
sad fate of their fellow-tribes of Poland, and have
conceived an unconquerable distrust of the power
which has constantly approved itself hostile to free
institutions. The influence which Russia once ex-
ercised over the people of Servia is utterly destroyed,
and in her aggression upon the Porte, she has nothing
to hope from their voluntary friendship.

hone and cart, and he and Evans went away with the goods,
it being understood that the value was to be forthcoming
immediately. He, howevev, not get either money or
goods, and Evans subetsjamitlyrepresented that the property
had been placed la elie heads of a person namedPurday, who
had made away with it. He met that parson by appoint-
emit With Evans, at a ptiblic-hosse, and Purdy admittedthe goods had been pawed in his eharge, and that he bad
made away with them; and upon this Evans abused
him most violently, and threatened to strike him.
The proneutor said he afterwards ascertained that
this scone was all the result of a preconcerted plan be-
tween the prisoner Evans and nudity, and that the goods in
point of fact never did go into the possession of Purday, but
had been appropriated by the prisoner to his own use. On
croarexammation the prosecutor admitted that at the period
in question be was almost on the verge of bankruptcy, and
that his object is disposing of the property was to raise a
aufficient sum to enable hint to pay his creditors in composi-
tion of five shillings in the pound upon their debts. He also
maid that he was enabled to borrow 601. afterwards
for the same purpose, but he admitted he had
not paid his creditors as he had suggested.—John
Purday who stated himself to be a horse-jobber, said,
in ftd last the prisoner Price tame and asked him if ha
was reed to earn a sovereign, and introduced him to the
other prisoner. Evans told him that he wanted him to say
that some goods had been pieced in his possession, and that
he had made away with them, and the meeting was arranged.
Upon Mr. Taylor coming in, and the matter being men-
tioned, he said what he had been told by Evans; and Evans
immediately got up and called him bad names, and threat-
ened to strike him. Shortly after this, Evans came to him
at another public-house, and told him that he had " Done
it very well," and gave him a sovereign.—ln answer to a
question put by Mr. Ballantine, for the defenoe, the
witness sad he had been convicted in this court of conspi-
racy, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment.—
John Payne said that be was in the public-house at the time
referred to by the last witness, and he gave a similar account
of the scene that took place. He had 10e. for helping in the
business. C ad : He was aware that the story
about the goods being made away with wan all a trick, but
he went with his friend Purday to help him, as be was no
scholar. A laugh.) Did not know what the 10s. were
given to ham for, but supposed it was for helping Purday.
He did not know what he did, but he was ready to help him
if he had been wanted. He knew that Pails/ was con-
victed of conspiracy, and had been sentenced to twelve
months' imprisonment, but he had been very good friends
with him ever rinee.—This was the case for the prosecution.
Mr. Ballautine, for the prisoner Evans, urged that it was
clear it was the intention of the prosecutor in the first in-
stance to have cheated his creditors by disposing of the pro-
perty which they ought to have had to share amongst them,
and that he entrusted the goods to Evans to dispose of them
in the beet way he could. With mpeetto the evidence of the
witness Purday, he submitted that it was impossible to be-
lieve the story he told, and that it was more probable the
goods really did get into his possession, and that he impro-
perly made away with them, and thus prevented Evans from
fulfilling his bargain with the prosecutor.
The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of
Guslig against both prisoners—Sentenc• was deferred.

POLICE. v
- - ESTERDAY.

MANSION-H6USB.IALLEGEDII7OI;IIiiir BY A COM-
MIRCIAL TRATILLEB.—Henry Burgh was charged with
having robbed las employer, Mr. De Oseten, commission
agent, of 4, Fenchurch-buildings.—Mr. De Gaston said :
The prisoner was in his service as traveller. About three
weeks ago witness bought a bale of goods by sample, which
was to be forwarded to him from Huddersfield. He after-
wards received from the merchant the invoice produced,
specifying the goods, which were woollen, and staff the
amount to be 551 k On the day he expected the he
was obliged to go to Croydon, where he remained two or
three days, and he told the prisoner to send the bales, if
they should arrive, to Mews. Hayter and Howell, of Mark-
lane, packers. On Monday the prisoner said that the bales
had arrived, and that he had sent them to Barber's, in
Camomile street by mistake : prisoner was desired to *end
the bales hack. He did not do so that day, but he said it
should be done the next morning. The following day wit-
ness went to Camomile-street, bit could find no concern
belonging to Wes. Barber. The prisoner said they were not
at Barber's but at Meson. Watson and Clarke's. Witness
found that four bales bad been forwarded to them on the sth
instant, and entered in the prisoner's name, and that he bad
got them away. He had not been able to trace the goods,
and had not seen the prisoner since, till yesterday evening.—
The primmer was remanded.
GUILDHALL.—STABDING • W tre.—CA•eles Smith
was charged with stabbing his wife.—The complainant
stated that, on Friday niternoon, her husband came home
rather in liquor, and words arose, and, on his going to strike
her, she left the room, and had gone down two or three
stain followed by the prisoner, when suddenly she
felt something in her back. She ran to the bottom of
the flight, and, putting her hand behind, drew a large
file out.—A constable produced the file, which was
about fourteen inches in length, of a triangular
shape.—Another constable deposed that Smith said
" that he intended to strike her, bat not to use the
instrument. He was sorry for it." He was not sober
at the time.—Alexander Baxter, residing in the same house,
deposed to taking Mrs. Smith into his room, and, while there,
having her back bathed, the prisoner came in and struck her
• blow in the face which made her nowt bleed.—Mr. Childs,
surgeon, said that he found Mrs. Smith had received an oh-
, lique punctured wound in the beck close upon the long
border of the shoulder blade. The wound was about an
inch in depth, and was very important as regarded the lo-
cality. He still attended her, but considered her out of
dannr.—The wife mid she had no wish to press the charge.
—Alderman Johnson said he could not look over this case.
There had been such frequent charges of stabbing while in-
toxicated that some means should be taken to stay them.
He should commit him to Newgate for trial.
MARYLBBONE.—ASSAVLTS BY A Bounsit..—Aliehael
Shine, • private in the lit regiment of Life Guards, was
charged with ammiltingMr. Cox, who stated that on Satur-
day afternoon, near tie Teek andAlbany,Regent's-park, he
saw the primer inning at by the tail bard of a cart con-
taining two Wan and esetheestan, and trying to climb in;
the cart ping at the time. Witness expostulated with him,
1 when he streak tettintis 'chin* with a stick, which was
broken by the Mew. Peiseweir dm hit him throe or four
violent blows with Ms Um. Urn witness threatening to
report him, the prisoner held est his hand, and asked him to
" make it up." Mr. Cox wee Ong to take his hand, when
he again attacked bin and loseeked him down.--Several
witnesses corroborated the evidence, and the prisoner was
committed for trial.

ON A POLICE-CONSTANLIA
—Patrick Walsh was charged with assaulting Joseph Baylis,
213 B, who stated that on &Monty afters ooa be saw a mob
assembled round the dehodent and mean poem, who
were sparring with eadvadose, at the au= dine making was
of language of the mot oboe= sad Ogren character.
His interference was met with volleys debase, and when
he attempted to take the tilehrihnt to the instisa he grasped
him violently by the Mind, and, saisteibp has
threw him to the whet a number slr=
kicked him ,iiedinkutltatiellag at the time upon
the constables =MM. The latter ens nearly exhausted
when another smatable mime/ Broderip com-
mitted the phmsorftsr oft me" without giving him the
option of a 111/11.
SOUTHWANZ.—lharnme SIMIATININO LEITZWI.
IL J. Rillerby, sgsd la, who, ht 18413, was sentenced to 12
months' imprimis= for attempting to administer oxalic
add to Elizabeth Olonter, with intent to murder her, was
charged with airrilai a letter threatening to murder Eliza-
' bz=me letter was as follows, addressed to the
s mother :
lha. dam, As[ bass Mhos hal moth= yen, that 1
tle Mow weans* at year end I
rel.*Et liffibra NlNlSltiermossa awe. !em =1
be bate mom t hre es then is Owl la lienem,l de latmd to mur-
der kr Mhos ant time los peek Who emeemmem TIM they
.—(lll.=—Xour
Tmayhe mho= 'bed area ilioblihn te =ft ftee complainant
some time slam, sad chi led to hir threat. Ifs told the =-
gifts!, that he Dever Wooded ter saisrthe threat his me-
cuticle. He was ordered to dad two amiss of 1001. sash to
be of good behaviour for two years, or in default to be im-
prisoned for that time.
THAMES.—ROBBERT or FURNI7I.IIIB.—Wo. George
Well, and Ann, his wife, were charged with having plun-
dered Mr. Robert Savage, auctioneer. The prisoners wen
tenant, of Mr. Savage, renting part of a house adjoining the
auction-rooms. For some months past the prosecutor had
missed articles of a valuable description, including chimney
larte pier glasses, bed furniture, tables, he. Oa
Saturday • Mr. Robert Buell, a broker, had forwarded him
some bed furniture for sale, which he locked in an empty
house next door. Sunday morning Mrs. Mary Johnston*,
another of his tenants, came to his private t -ence and in-
formed him that she bad seen Wells get over the wall at the
back of the house, and take two large tubs. On going to the
place, he found that not only were the tubs gone, but that
the house next his auction rooms had been opened with
skeleton key, and the bed furniture which he had placed in
it on Saturday night had been abstracted. He gave the
male prisoner into custody. He afterwards met the female
prisoner carrying a bundle, which turned out to be the miss-
ing bed furniture. She was also given in charge. On
searching the room of the prisoners they found the bed had
been ripped open ands number of articles concealed between
the tick and the sacking. A child of the prisoners said that
his mother had been burning a number of pawnbroker',
duplicates. The prosecutor said that 1001. would not cover
his loss.—The male prisoner denied the whole if the allege,
tions.—They were remanded for a week.
MASTER AND APPRENTICL—Mr. John Perkins, Jun., of
Church-lane, Whitechapel, oork-eutter, appeared before Mr.
Yardley, to answer the complaint of ha apprentice, George
RixVan Studer, for refilling to maintain him The lad said
that his parents were dead. He had just completed the
third year of his apprenticeship; his muter accused him of
neglecting his work, and telling him fahahoods, and refused
to employlim any longer.—The solicitor for the defendant said
the lad was quite incapable of rendering any service to his
master. A sum of Si. named in the indenture as a premium,
was never paid at all. The lad spoke well of his master's
kindness to him generally, and said he had promised to ex-
pend the 61. for his benefit.—Mr. Yardley could not think
of discharging the apprentice and cancelling the indentures
because he wasan invalid.—Mr. Perkins mid the lad would
never be any use to him if he gave him work, he 'paned
it.—The lad admitted his right was still defective, though he
had been under medical treatment at a hospital. The
solicitor cited a case of an idiot apprentice, where a master
was discharged from his liability to support him as unless.
Mr. Perkins said that at the end of the fourth year the
apprentice would be entitled to journeyman's wages, and it
would be impossible for him to pay him at that rate if he
could do nothing.—Mr. Yardley said the cane was an unfor-
tunate one; but he did not think he should be justified in
relieving the muter from the ordinary liability to moppet
him and teach him the trade. He must therefore make an
order to take him back.—The solicitor for the defendant re-