The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-04 00:00:00

SPORTING.

INEWMAItKET CHAMPION MEETING. I
TCESDAT.
rI:PPT STAILS.—Mr. Richardson's Vidonia beat Mr.
King's Redwing ; Mr. Richardson's Vulcan beat Lord
Stradbroke's Moses ; Mr. Holmes nd Bedlam Lass beat Mr.
Etwall's World's Fair ; Mr. Wa.son's Miller of Mans-
field beat Mr. Miller's Waxy ; Mr. It. Dagge's Tendresse
beat Mr. Singleton's Royce Jess ; Mr. Inskip's Isis beat
Mr. Holmes nd bD. Lass ; Lord Stradbroke's Merry
beat Mr. Blenkhorn's Sportsman ; Mr. Hill's Highland
Lass boat Mr. Singleton's Drunken Jack ; Mr. Inakip's
Jewel beat Mr. Gillett's Golden Farmer (late Former) ;
Mr. Minton's Windsor Lass beat Mr. Duckworth's Btyard ;
Mr. Brooke's Young King Cob beat Mr. Minton'. Iturpon ;
Mr. Gurney's Abel beat Mr. East's Atalanta; Mr. Rill's
Hollyoake beat Mr. Edwards's Anchises; Captain Wynd-
ham s Woralie beat Mr. I)obedc's Delight ; Mr. Round's
Locksley teat Mr. Morant's Magic ; Mr. Holmes ad An-
cram beat Mr. Singleton's Voltigeur.
WOLVERHAMPTON STEEPLE CHASES.
ACCEPTANCES for EEO HANDICAP STEEPLE CHASE o[2o
sees. each, 10 ft., &e. 4 miles.—Peter Simple, aged, list
31b; Lucy Neal, aged, 10g 121 b; Vain Hope 6 yes, lOst
1016 ; Columbus, aged 10st 71b; Half-and-14;lf, aged, 104
11b; Thurgartou, 104,21 b ; Vietress, aged, 9st 101 b; The
Young-un, aged, 9st 101 b; Melon, aged, 9st 6111; Carrig,
aged, 9st 61b ; Hardwick, 6 yrs, 94 Sib ; De Ginkle, aged,
. 9st Slb ; Tallyho, aged, 9st 31b ; Chatterbox, aged, 9st 21b ;
the Screw, aged, Sst 1016; the Cripple, aged, Sat. 71b. The
above are subject to any declarations of forfeit receives' at
Wolverhampton since post time on Tuesday night.
Fuzz Ilam :near HUDDLE STARES of 6 SOTS each,
"U.—Declarations of forfeit up to post time on Tuesday
evening.— Bacchanalian, Fugitive. Ballet-girl, Maria Monk,
Maurice Daley, Hurricane, Bullfinch, Defaulter, Widow
Machete, Flirt, Combatant, 'Tom Bowling, New Forest Doe,
Banister, Loddingtou.
' The line of country will be the same as last year. The
Selling Steeple Chase stakes closes the ermag before

AND CLERICAL

ORDINATIONS.—At Peterborough, on Nov. 30, by
the Lord Bishop of Peterborough :—Disorose : E. E. 11.
Salisbury, T. C. B. Cornwell, W. N. Mousley, B. N.
Pochin, E. R. Nosary, It. C. Jenour, T. Norris, W. J.
Pattinson, IL. C. Collins, C. H. Etrington, A. Shears, C.
F. L. Wed. Priests: J. Watson, A. G. Berry, A.
Compton, W. 11. Denny, A. Dixon, J. L. Sutton, J.
Samisens, IL V. Blathwayt, A. A. Loughunt, W. Gibson,
J. A. Bayley, \V. E. Richardson.—Lioensed to miracles
E. B. B. Salisbury, Desford; T. C. B. Cornwell, Stan.
wick; W. lit Moseley, Cold Ashley; E. N. Pochin, Bur•
ton Loam, Fraley, sad Sysosby, in Melton Mowbray ;
E. R. Noway, Doodle; H. C. Jenour, Marholm ; T. Nor-
ris, Abates ; W. J. Pianism°, Cream; R. C. Collins, Tow.
cense ; C. R. Elrioserin, Wellisoborosiith ; A. Shears, Lut-
terworth ; C. F. L. AVest, All Saints, Northampton ; A. G.
Berry, Nortliborsogh; L. A. Compton, Castle Ashley; R.
V. Blathwayt, Carpe; W. Oitoisa. Eaton ; J. A. Bay-
ley, Woodford-win-Mittobrie.

POltEiatOrlil, DEC. 2.—fl. Britannia, 120, or-
dinary (tepid ship at this port, is to be the flag ship of
Hear-Admiral Dundee, for the Mediterranean station, in
lieu of the Waterloo, 120, at Sheerness. Orders were re-
ceived late 1 t<t night for the Birkenhead, steam sloop, to
p round to Sheerness to bring the crew of the Waterloo
to this port, and she sailed at nine o'clock this morning
for that purpose. The Britannia got down her winter
poles, and resell dismantling this morning. The cause of
this substitution of the Britannia for the Waterloo is that
the first named ship is more advanced than the latter.
The Neptune, 120, will be ordinary guard ship here, Capt.
Yates haring been appointed to her to-day. Capt. Yates
went out to ripthead to-day to muster and inspect the crew
of the Rapid, 5, Commander Blanc, previous to her riling
for the East Indies.

ROYAL ARTILLERY AND GARRISON APPOINT- •
111,1711.—Th, following is an authentic list of the appoint-
cow.equent on the recent brevet, which are to take
=April 1842 by order of the Master-General of the
co .—lieut.-bolonel Hardinge, K.H., to be Super-
intendent of the Royal Militsry Repository, vice Major-
General Campbell; Colonel Cator, to be Director of the
Royal Laboratory, vice Lieut.-Colonel Hardinge• ' Lieut.-
Colonel Tyklen, to be Fire-Master, vice Lieut.-Colonel
Porter; Lieut.-Colonel Culquhoun, to be Inspector of the
Carriage Derartzuent, vice Culunel Gordon ; Captain Clerk,
to be As.i.tiut.laspector of the Carriage Department, vice
Lient-Colonel Colquhoun; Colonel Chalmerjo bo Inspec-
tor of Artillery, vice Cal. Dundas, C. 8.; Col. Whinyatee, to
be Directur-G, nerd of Artillery, vice Major-General Lacy;
Lieut.-Colonel Pickering, to be Assistant Director-General
of Artillery, Tien Colonel Chalaser ; Captain Cockburn, to
be Fire-Master at Portsmouth, vice Lieut.-Colonel Picker-
ing; Lieut.-Colonel Palliser, to be Assistant Adjutant-
General of Artillery, vice Colonel Jones ; Colonel 8. E.
Jones, to command the Magazine Fort at Dublin; Colonel
Ciuttenden, to eornmand the Artillery in Ireland, vice
Major-General Turner, C.B. ; Lieut.-Colonel G. B. Fraser,
to be Inspector of Drills, vice Colonel Cruttenden;
Colonel Wylde, Cll., to he appointed to the Horse Artillery,
vice Colonel Whinyetee, C.B. ; Colonel Dyneley, C. 8., to
I command the Artillery in the North of England, vice
1 Whinystee ; Colonel C. E. Gordon, to command the Ar-
-1 Tillery In Canada, vice Colonel Dyneley; Lieut.-Colonel
• Dalton, to command the Artillery at Ballineolig, vice Col. •
I IChesney; 'Lieut.-Colonel Sweetmg, to command the Ar-
tillery at Charlemont, vice Colonel Crawford; Lieut.-Col.
1 Williams, to command the Artillery at Barbadoes, vice
11 Lieut.-Colonel Palliser; Lknt.-Colonel Otway, to command
the Artillery at gummy, vise Lieut.-Camel G. B. Preset.

ILavi 3

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Y_ESTERDAT•
derriass se Nur Fan. a? Wwesu,srus—Bsposs Loan Cars-
szu. ass SWIM. 11:11101.
Tan QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF CROSSLY AND
OTHERS V. TED LANCLOHIai AND YORKSHIRE RAIL.
WAY COSINENT.—LIABILITT Or RAILWAY COMPANIES
TO COMPLETE TIE LINE AND BRARCRIS FOR Willa,
TIDY °STAIN THEIR ACTS.
to this case a writ of mandamus had been issued by this
court in June last commanding the defendants to construct
• line of ragway, about Ave miles in extent, from Salter-
hebble to Huddersfield. The return which the defendants
made was that they had been served with the writ of man-
damus on the 21,4 of June, and their compulsory powers
expired on the 18th August, and that the interval was in-
sufficient to enable the company to purchase the land re-
quired and to exercise their compulsory powers. They had
also returned that they had not sufficient funds for the pur-
pose, nor the means of raising them, either by calls or bor
rowing money.
It an and that the comnany had the power of borrow-
ing and calling up 1,300,0001., and that the cost of the
proposed branch would be about 300,0001. They intended
to abandon the branch in question, and had given notice.
since the service of the writ of mandamus, of an intended
application to parliament, in the ensuing session, for an
act enabling them to do so. A number of surveyors were
called on either side to prove the time that would be neces-
, sexy to complete the requisite steps for giving notice to
the landowners on the line. The witnesses for the proeecn-
, tem stated that a fortnight or three weeks would be am-
ply sufficient, whilst the defendants' witnesses, and amongst
them Mr. Brunel, Sir W. Cubitt, and Mr. piddle, said it
could not possibly be done in less thou ten weeks or three
months.
Lord Campbell, in leaving the ease to the jury, observed
that he was bound to act on the supposition that the legis-
lature, when the act was passed, imposed on the company
an obligation to complete the whole of the line and its
branches, and they were guilty of a breach of duty in not
doing so. It would be very hard on landowners, and the
shareholders generally, if such were not the law, because
the persons through whose land the line was proposed to
pass, and other subscribers might take shares upon the
latth of its being completed ; and there was in fact, a con-
tract between the company and all the subscribers to the
undertaking that the whole line with its proposed branches
should be completed. In this case the defendants had
been ordered by mandamus to complete the line;
and under each urgent circumstances there could
be but little doubt that all the necessary preli-
minaries might have been effected before the compel-
wry powers given to the company, by their act, had ex-
pired. He did not intend to cast any reflection on the
highly respectable witnesses who had been called by the de-
fendants, and who were ro doubt men of s • honour and
integrity, but they evidently contemplated an amount of
deliberation wlfeh would not be justified when the defen-
dants were acting under the command of a mandamus. The
company did not appear in a very creditable light, because
they had evidently, from the first, made up their minds
that they would not obey the mandamus, and Lid actually
given notice of their intention to apply to parliament for an
act to enable them to abandon the very branch which the
Court of Queen's Bench had commanded them to make.
The jury found for the prosecution on all the issues.
TILE QUEEN ON THE PROSECUTION OF FARBER AND
OTHERS O. THE LANCASSINE AND YORESILtaE RAILWAY
COMPANY.
This was an action against the same defendants under
exactly similar circumstances, the branch in this instance
being 18 miles in length, namely, from Bowling, near
Bestowed, to Leeds. In this ease the plans had been pre-
pared, the line staked out, and souse of the notices to land-
owners hod been given, before the company determined to
abandon the branch line; but the writ of mandamus was
not issued until the 17th of July.
Lord Cam bell, in summing up, said the company had
set the mandamus at defiance, and did not come very cre-
ditably before the court. It was for the jury to say whether
they ought not to be compelled to do that which they had
contracted to perform.
Verdict for the crown on all the issues.