The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-16 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

AROTLL.H I RE.—COMMISSIO AT THE LORD-LIEUTEN-
ANT.—H. Campbell, Gent., to be Eusigo of Argyll and Bute
Militia.

Fay EH is greatly on the increase in Glasgow. The
Lord Provost has been waited upon by a deputation from
the Fever Hospital, with the new of having addi'ional as
afforded for patients, tee state of the hospital
being such that its very floors are fully occupied. In com-
mon with many other districts of the country, febrile dis-
eases have also been very prevalent in Falkland, Fifeshire.
ADVANCE IN RENTS.—Notwithstanding the ►brogation of
the corn-laws, the rents of farms in Morayshire out of lease
continue to advance. Rhininver, on the estate of Altyre,
was let last week at an advance of 401., and that not to the
hioueet bidder; Lochlee, on the Brodie estate, at 301. in
addition to the old rent.
THE COMMITTEE FOR RAISING A MONUMENT TO WIL-
SON THE ORNITHOLOGIST have already received upwards of
100/. towards carrying out that object.
LUDICROUS AFFAIR.—A correspondent has furnished us
with the following particulars of an attempted seduction
and its ludicrous result : —A. short time ago, the wife of
a grocer, in the neighbourhood of the 11:gh-street, became
the object of attention to a gentleman named Mr. —.
At length he began to think he had made the desired im-
pression upon the heart of the fair dame, and he proposed
and obtsined her consent to name an evening when they
should meet, finally to adjust matters for their departure to
a distance. The night accordingly arrived, the couple met,
and everything seemed propitions for the enterprise. It was
considered prudent, however, to postpone leaving the pity
till a later hour, and in the mean time it was resolved to
have something comfortable. The eff, et of the gentleman's
potations was to consicn him to the arms of Morpheus,'
when the treacherous Delilah, previously prepared for ac-
tion, cut off one of his whiskers, and bared most completely
one aide of his head, nabbed his face with a strong solution
of nitrate of silver. and then made her escape. Next day,
Mr..— appeared like a " blue devil ;" but the cause of the
wondrous change beginning to be gosaipped about in the
locality, he has disappeared for the last two days, but whe•
ther he has run fur it or committed suicide, our correspondent
is not aware.—Glasgote AMU.

WALES.
MONTGOMERYSHIRE. COMMISSION EY THE LORD-
LIEUTENANT.—The Right Hon E. Herbert Earl of POWill,
K.G., to be commandant of Royal Montgomeryshire Militia.
AN EARTHQUAKE is stated to have been felt on Monday
se'nnight at Aml wch It was attend ed with a very slight tr, mor,
and a noise like the rolling of carriages, ending in a whizzing
sound. It took an horizontal direction over the west part of
the town. The cattle in the neighbourhood where the shock
was felt seemed terrified and ran to and fro. This pheno-
mena was preceded and succeeded by appeata-ces, which
indieated an electrical state of the atmosphere. A variety of
meteors were witnessed in the early part of the week, one in
particular, which was stationary for two minutes, and ran its
course due north.

PROVINCIAL.
LANCASHIRE.
Tue FIRST APPOINTMENT OF SANITORY OFFICERS.—
The town council of Liverpool has honourably distinguished
itself by being the first to organise a regular staff, under the
Sanitory Act, which comes into operation on the Ist of Ja-
nuary next. On Monday the appointments of Surveyor and
Medical Officer took place. The salary of the former
officer. after some discussion as to whether it should not be
1,000/. a-year, wart fixed at 700/ per annum, and that of the
medical officer at 3001. a-year, in addition to which he will
be allowed private practice. The town council speed to
advertise for competent persons.
MANCHESTER Emierices —Mr. Bright addressed the
electors of Ancoate on Monday night, and had an overflowing
meeting. A resolution was passed pledging the electors to
support him. It is rumoured that Lord Lincoln is to come
here to receive the requisition. His committee arc actively
engaged in soliciting signatures and votes at the same time.
MPWARRIAGE OF THE MORNING PAPERS. —Up to the
time of the express train leaving Manchester last evening
(five o'clock), none of the morning papers had been received.
The usual train from Ilirin;naham had come in, but it was
stated that the London train, which should have been in
Birmingham before it left, had not arrived. This delay is
referred to by our Warwickshire correspondent.
TEN Horns Btt.t.—A meeting of delegates was held on
Monday in the vicinity of the works of Messrs. Fielden, and
the ri sidence of the hon. member for Oldham, who is to con-
duct the Nil in the next session. The object of the meeting
was to devise means for carrying on the agitation, and raise
funds for that purpose. The first subjsct hi ought under
consideration was the propriety of holding a dele-
gate meeting of factory workers from every manufac-
turing town in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and after
some discussion as to the place of meeting, it was
resolved unanimously that the meeting should be held in
Manchester on the 27th of the present month, and that in
the meantime every town should he written to, requesting
them to send their delegates to that meeting, with specific
instructions as to any material point they desired to lay be-
fore the meeting. The next subject was the propriety of
appealing to the public for pecuniary assistance. It was stated
that the agitation of the measure had cost the operatives and
their friends not lens than 30.000/„ a great part of which had
been subscribed by the cotton spinners and other factory
workers; and it was urged as a reason why an appeal should
he made to the nobility and gentry, that the present de-
pressed state of trade in the manufacturing districts, and the
consequent falling off in the earning?, of the people, operated
very much against the collection of funds. At the close of
the discussion a form of appeal embodying the foregoins
reasons was unanimously adopted by the delegates.
YORKSHIRE.

ALLEGED BANICRI:Pijir OP THE LEEDS AND WEST
RIDING BANKING COMPANY.—On Wednesday, the 9th
inst., a fiat in bankruptcy was awarded and issued against
the Leeds mind West Ming Banking Company, trading as
bankers at Leeds and Bradford, the oint-stock banking, com-
m. rcial, or trading company. atsuit of Messrs. J. Brown
and Co., woollen cloth merchants, of Leeds. Thew; was
opened on Saturday last before Mr. Commissioner Burge,
and the banking company were adjudged bankrupts. A mes-
ser ger of the court accordingly took possession of the books and
papers belonging to the banking company on Saturday night,
and a notice of the adjudication was prepared as required for
delivery to a clerk of the company, but by mistake it was
served on a son of one of the principal clerk., instead of en
a clerk. On Monday, Mr. Bond, solicitor, applied on behalf
of two of the five directors of the company fur a copy of the
proceedings, with a view to disputing the adjudication on
behalf of the banking company. The application was re-
sisted by Mr. Ward, the solicitor to the fiat. His Honour
was of opinion that he could not consider the two directors,
on whose behalf the application was made, as legally re-
presenting the company; and was about to refuse the appli-
cation, when it was discovered that the notice of adjudication
had been insufficiently served. The matter was therefore
allowed to stand over till Tuesday, when Mr. Bond pro-
duced a notice signed by four of the directors of the banking_
company, of their intention to dispute the adjudication of
bankruptcy under the fiat, and renewed his application for
a copy of the proceedings at the opening of the fiat. Mr.
Weatmacott, a solicitor, appeared to oppose the application
and he quoted, at considerable length, from the trust deed
of the company, passages to show that the four directors
who had signed the notice to dispute, were not in a con-
dition to do to, because they bad not come to that resolu-
tion at a regularly convened meeting of the board, as re-
quired by the deed. A lengthene I discussion ensued upon
the point, in the course of which his Honour celled the
attention of the advocates to the cases of " Davis r. Haw-
kins," 3 Maule and Selwyn, and " Moore r. Hamilton,"
Berne. and Cress. temp. Lord Tenterdeo, as strongly in fee
your of the objection raised by Mr.Westmscott, especially as
the affidavit which had been filed only stated the four direc-
tors who had signed the notice to be a majority of the,
directors, without stating how many directors there were,
and why the other ,had not signed it. During the discus-
sion, supplementary affidavits were handed in, showing
that there were only five directors, and that the fifth was
believed to be nut of England, a letter having been recently
received from him. dated at Nice. Mr. Westmacott sub-
mitted that be ought to be at liberty to eternise, rira rote, the
party who made the affidavit of al:wince, as he said he should
be able to show that that director, being also a registered
officer, had purposely gone out of the kingdom to avoid
sets ice of legal process. His Honour was, however, of
opinion, that if the fifth director bad wilfully gone out
of the way for any purpose, hooey r improper, the remaining
directors ought not to be prejudiced by his absence. Believ-
ing that the 7 & 8 Viet., c. 110, was to be construed
with reference to the .5 & 6 Vict., c. 116, and that
if he were to hold that the banking company were
not sufficiently represented by the f mt. directors
who had signed the notice, he should deprive the company
of the power of disputing the adjudication before the com-
missioner in the country in the first instance. Notwith-
standing the difficulty created by the observations of Lord
Tenterden, in his judgment in " Moore r. Hamilton, his
Honour thought that it would be the safest course for
him to hold that the notice to dispute the adjudication
was sufficient, under all the circumstances of the case. He
should, therefore, admit the notice.—lt was understood that
the argument against the adjudication would be heard on
Saturday. It will he remembered that this banking com-
pany stopped payment about the middle of January last.
ROMERsETWIRE.
REPRESENTATION GP Bent.—We (Bath Journal have
authority for stating that a letter was received on Friday