The Express.
London, England, 1847-02-18 00:00:00

situTARY.

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TNT MINNS CARR of the crown oaken; aphist Mr. Weans, kw an
elksted mama upon Major-General Napier, peened through another of
its phase. oe Saturday. The court has ordered that the ease &oakd
be brought to lone ea Saturday neat.
Durernoic is Mni ram Peploses-11nm Guards, ha. 16,1317.—
It basing been represented by the Secretary at War, that it would he
for the n 'vintage of disci;dine In the military prima if those eata-
blt.tuarmt. could be relieved from the mesesity of met:ruing Incor-
rigible Alinements% NMI PIiSMITTE NM, from the insgracebil nature
of the armee. of which they have been coeticted, it may be deemed
expedient to discharge at the termination of their imprisonment, the
tionintander.inehief desires thit henceforth all soldiers who, in ed.
diti ia to an ward of imprisonment, may have been recommended by
coctietimetiel for discharge with ignominy, or whose diectiarges
may have been sanctioned CIO the grounds of cannoned sod Mew-
mirsonduct, hr committed, when pew :lo to civil
remark The discharge documents will in all such caves be com-
pleted; And i! the soldier is to he discharged with ignominy
the fiErMq/FC.Critied ot page IV of bee Majesty's Retroletious, mutt
be gone through before bee permitted to leave the regimeet, trans-
mitting the certificates of disicharge to the veinier of the mime,
fee the purpose of being &lineal to the primmer. when the terns of
their Impraonment shall have expired. The Commander-M-Ctild
further dirests that soldiers committed br mittary whom during the
summer menthe, but whose term of imprisonment will terminate
after the (viola sets W. may, in all MANN, carry with them their
termer, ti I tither &click. of clothing meted to the lemon at which
their release from imprisonment is likely to take place.—try command
of Mehl ?domino the Duke of Wellington, Cornmandeoln.CheL—
Prl) 3. Ilacooesee,Aril.-Gen.
COAST ITILTINCIN.—PLTIMETIE, DIVOT PORT AND TEM WINTON
lb
—The following to return of the number of guns nammted
athe batteries at Plymouth, Demoport, mil the WedernDMrftt, as
Lao the Reilly Islands, on the extreme coast of Cornwall, ppedßin
the names of the batteries, calibre of guns, Re., Plymouth—(Witkui.
son's) Battery, two 32-pounder guns • Proderiek's Battery, four 32-
=guns • Royal Battery, thirteen 32-po coder guns; Upper
Battery, nee 32-pounder guns; Lower Ligooki Battery,
six &leek guns ; Charles Curtain, ten 31-ounder gun.; OW Saluting
Battery, ten 31-pounder guns; Charles Butioe, two l:-pounder guns;
Ring George's Bistioe, two il-pounder guns • Prince of Wales's
Bank" two 0-ponneler 1111 S.; Queen's Saluthlli Battery, twenty-one
.pounds guns; total fur Plymouth. 77 two, all on crotenson ear-
damn. Devonpart —ooverament Howe Battery, eight 211-pouader
gm,: Right of Government Home Battery, seven 21-potesder guns;
Mount Wore B Atm, eleven 21-pounder guns ; Mortar Battery, omen
6-pounder guns (all the above are on common ), one IS-lash
mortar, mid ton to-inch mortars, on traversing ; Right of
Mount W Iteloubt,s 2 4-puunder to ten pialgorres ; Mount
Wise ftnlvu eight 32-pounder mina, teneeming platforms; Wes-
sew King Redoubt, two 36-poundere, on traversing plaknee ; and
n 32-porinriere, on amnion =rehire. Total - Devonport, 61 Sus.
Maker's Heights, No. Redoubt. six 31-pouncke gum% on ems=
treetops.; et. Nicholas ist red, Na Pottery, two 36pounder gunk
uo true
platforms; six 8-ineh cm traversing platforms
rind six 3 :-pouriders, or, maroon carriages; No. 2 liatteez67:o::
bleb howtsers, on common eseriarest Pendennis Castle
two 24.poimiler gunk and gee 21opounder carromedes, oe 0001111011
carriages ; Half Moon Battery, nine IS-pounder nos, on common
carriages; Dartmouth Coale, flee 3-ponorkr guns, es comma ear-
rimers Isle:lde, St. Mary's Wends, one 18-ponnder gen, and
ems 0-ponrider gun, on CORMIOII carriages; one 13-pouneke cavorted.;
Thom, OUP 18spounder CIFTOOMIC, ten common carriage; Madden
Heights, four 8-Inch guns, and six 33-pouoder guns, on common
ew-
; estrilioe Mint, one 32-pounder gun, on traversing platform.
Wend total for the district, 196 Mg.
FORTIFICATION or FENIMORE DOCITARTE—Orders have been ire.
mind at the Royal ArseraL Woolwich, to forward Immediate? y to
Pembroke Dockyard, anima 2 4-poundi his
of 20 met., with iron
carriage. end complete armament. This is intended for en ion
diets defectors, it being a singular feet that there is not a single gun
Le the protection of Pembroke mounted at that dockyard. The
Admiralty hove not yet decided on the complete armament to be
adopted at this yard, which, however, will be on a large scale like that
at Portsmouth, Plyniontb, he.

SPORTING.
BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.—Teprisr.
Umlauts. Sepsis CZA•IL-11 to 1 opt Brunette, 12 to 1 apt The
Roarer (108 to 8 t). 13 to 1 apt rt. truer, 18 to 1 agst Avon.
Noses. Cr 1,-22 to 1 apt Mendicant (t freely), 25 to 1 apt The li
Lamb (of), 33 to I apt Mickey The, (t), SO to 1 opt Emigrant (off),
1000 to 11l apt Princess Alice (t), 1000 to 18 apantrepid (offers to
take), 1000 to 13 apt Inheritresa (1), 1000 to 15 apt the Conjuror
(Abr. to take). None tuber named.
Marroeotrest HANDICAP.—i 4 to 1 agst Lady Sarah (off).
Dina, —l3 tot apt Von Tromp (or), Il to 1 apt Ephoto (sem
to t), 13 to 1 opt Planet (off, 23 to 1 apt Gientik (cd). 250 to 10
opt Canyngbara (t), SOD to 5 apt Bedlam (off.) Nothing eke named.
OAIII.--11 to i off on t e field.
Bruproarre Srapta Co tsr, TrlADAY.—Harbdiesp of 10 son. each.
Mr. Elmore's Grey Friep, toil 1011)
Lord Strathmore's %LOT Gar, 10ot 12Ib
Mr. Wesley's °ottani, lost 41b .............
7 others stated. Won by about two lengths; (sayburst beaten about
the woes distance.
Hon Msperr's Srao-uornos meet an Friday at Maidenhead Thicket
at half-post eleven.

Cabo EnteUtgract.
COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH—GUILDHALL.
Before Loot Denman and Common Juries.
HOOPER r.KNOWLIII4.—RECOONITION OF THE DECISIONS
OF THE COURT OF EXCHZQUIDI An 70 THE LIABILITY OF
TOE ME,STSRS OF A PROTISIWI•L COMIDITEL—Mr.
Watson, QC., and Mr..Hoggins appeared for the plsintiff in
this case, who sought to charge the defendant in respect of a
debt nominally Incurred by the Western, Southern, and
Eastern Railway Company, of the provisional committee of
which he was a member. The facts proved were, that the
secretary of the compose had directed a clerk to send a pros.
pectue, which contained the name of the defendant in a fiat
of the provisional coma litre, to each of the persons whose
names appeared in that list. The defendant was not present
at any nestling of the company; and advertisements of the
prospeetaii were inserted in the newspapers, but without the
names of any directors or committeemen. Upon this, Mr.
Martin, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Crompton, for the de-
fendale. suggested that, as a case involving the same question
as the present, and *rising out of circumstances precisely si-
milar, was now before the Court of Exchequer chamber, it
would he best that this case should abide the decision in
that. Lord Denman thought the course suggested a proper
one, and took occasion to say that he had not differed from the
decisions of the Court of Exchequer in themes of " Wylde v.
Hopkins." and " Reynell v. Lewis," ea had been supposed.
the opinion had been that those decisions did not apply to
the cos , which he had been understood not to have re-
spected them.--A verdict for the plaintiff was then taken,
subject bi the atrangement described.
WHITTAKER V. OALLOWAT.—LIABILITY OF 81HARE-
BOLDERA IN THO HULL COLLEOB FOR BOOKS SUPPLIED
IT ODDER OP THE OFFICEILS.—Mr. MOMaqtl Chambers,
Q.C., and Mr. Henderson, appeared in this cue for the
plaintiff, who is the well-known publisher, and sought to re-
cover from the defendant, as one of tie sharelviders in Hull
College, the price of certain hooks supplied by him to that
isstitutiou, "on account of the Hull College," on orders
sometimes given by the principal, and sometimes by the
secretary. It appeared in esidence that the rights and in-
terest of shareholders were ascertained by a deed, con-
tempLtitig an ultimate division of profits, executed by the
defendant And the other shareholders; that there was a ma-
naging oimmittee, of which the defendant was not a mem-
ber ; sad •!‘at there was no r solution of the committee or
the shoreholden authorising the officers of the institution to
pledge the credit of the shareholders to the plaintiff or any
one else.—Mr. Wordsworth, f.r the defendant, contended
that the deed did not create a partnership ; that in the ab-
sence of an express resolution the officers were not entitled
to pledge the credit of the shareholders ; and that in fact no
credit osit been given to the defendant.—Lord Denman
ruled against the defendant on the first two of the points
urged on his behalf, and left the third question, subject to
his ruling on those points, to the jury, who returned a Ter.
diet for the plaintiff f"r 14 /.. and found that the credit hod
been given to " the Hull College."