The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-13 00:00:00

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POWER TO HOLD SMISIONS DIMINO TUT ASSOC 'S.
—lt will be recollected that daring the late assizes holden at
Liverpool a wittier was wanted at the arias court then
and in the sessions court at Bolton at the same time, sad
Mr. Baron Alder.= commenting on the conduct of lit.
Robert Bains Armstrong, the Recorder of Bolton and May
cheater, in holding his court of quarter sessions during tie
*nisei, expressed a doubt as to its legality. Of 080/88 the
gentlemen of the bar feel deeply interested in this quake&
and during the sessions now pending in Manchester two
attempts have been made to raise the question for the pot-
pose of carrying it to a superior court. The first was in
the cue of a prisoner convicted, and Mr. Monk moved'
an arrest of judgment, on the ground of illegality
of conviction during the arises. The Recorder, ex-
peering himself somewhat hurt at the remarks
of the learned judge, did not see how the facts could be got
upon the record by this mode of procedure, or what bearing
the could have in arrest of judgment upon a verdict already
pronounced.—Mr. Pollock (
subsequently, with the same
view, requested, on the p.,.rt of a misdemeanant, to withdraw
the plea of " not guilty, and file a bill of abatement. The
pleas set forth by the prisoner were that he wee not guilty,
and that be ought not to be called upon to plead to the in-
dictment, inasmuch as the session of over and terminer or
general gaol delivery was then being held at Liverpool. The
Recorder esid it had been admitted in argument that the
thing wan in his own discretion and was Lot a matter of
right ; he should therefore do as he had done before, and
he declined to allow the plea to be filed.

YORKSHIRE.
FRIENDLY SOCIETIES AND THE LAW OF REAL
PUOPERTT.—A meeting of the inhabitants of Leeds,
convened by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition,
was bold last week at the Court-house in Leeds, the Mayor
presiding, " for the purpose of petitioning parliament to re-
move the great oppression and injustice under which
friendly societies, Oddfellows, corn-mill, building, and ether
societies, labour, through the operation of the laws of convey-
ance, which prevent such bodies from holding direct titles to
real property."--Mr. D. Green moved a resolution to the
effect that it is desirable to allow an alteration in the laws
for the conveyance and transfer of freehold property, where-
by they should be placed on the same footing as regards
personal property, so that societies should be enabled to
purchase freehold property, and to transfer it to trustees for
the time being, temporarily elected, and not, according to the
existing law, be obliged to transfer it to tru tees and their
heirs for ever—The motion was adopted.—lt. Baker, Esq..
moved " That this meeting is of opinion that power should
be given by the legislature to enable all friendly societies to
establish branches."—Adopted.—Mr. Eggleston then moved
• resolution to the effect that it was desirable that the
10s. stamp on transfers should be reduced to Is., or even to
3d., and that motion, having been seconded by Mr. James
Hole, was adopted.—lt was then resolved that a petition,
embodying the resolutions. should be prepared and for-
warded for presentation to Sir George Grey, with a request
that the borough members will support its prayer.

NEWCASTLE FARMERS' CLUIL—At the lest monthly
Meeting of this society, Mr. J. Chrisp read a paper
on " The Occupancy of Land." The writer, after
stating the necessity there was on the partof farmers to bring
the land into such a state of cultivation as to draw from it
every ounce of human food it was capable of producing, pro-
ceeded to show, with much perspicuity, the different tenures
under which land was held in Northumberland, and the
difference of opinion which existed relative to their effects.
The fist he noticed was the lease of 19 or 21 years ; and the
. second, the tenant at will, with six months' notice to quit ;
and argued that neither of these methods of letting land had
hitherto bad the effect generally of bringing the land, and
keeping it, into the most beneficial state of cultivatiGn. The
writer then said, that it now rested with him to point out a
system which he believed would, in a great measure, remedy
the defects of the existing tenures, and tend to the mutual
advantage of landlord and tenant, and that was, to be with-
out a lease, but with not less than 18 months' notice to quit
trots either party—the landlord to be at the expense of all
permanent improvements, and the tenant to pay interest for
each expenditure, &c. ; the entry to be on the Ist of May—
the out-going tenant to have the away. going crop on a given
number of acres. After lointing out several other particu-
lars necessary to complete the arrangement satisfactonly to
both landlord and tenant, Mr. Christi concluded by stating
it as his conviction that, were the system adopted which he
recommended, it would be for the mutual benefit of both
parties and the good of the country.
WARWICKSHIRE.
TnE =Antlers continue to hold their meetings in
Birmingham ; but, says our reporter, "Their proceedings,
sinos the last report appeared in the Express, have not
been of sufficient general interest to render them worthy of
any detailed notice. Some of the speeches have been suf-
ficiently violent, but these have gone the way of all smoke
and the actors and their auditors have departed from the
scone of action in peace and with a decorum very praise-
worthy. The Birmingham chartists of 1839 have somehow
or other been sadly weeded and thinned since that period,
and the 'Wipes are not just now in funds sufficient to pay
the expense of a trip to London io swell the ranks of ,
monstratioo for any platonic It is likely, however, that the
abstract principles of chartism find more friends amongst the
middle class in Birmingham than in any other large town.
That sentiment finds some corroboration in the election of
such radicals as Monts and Sebolefield, who will not lose
their seats for opposing Sir G. Grey's bill."

.C.A.MBRIDGESI!IM,

PROPOSED NEW COLLEGE.—The Cambridge Board
of Education has just issued its report, which states that the
attention of the board has been again directed to the
important subject of the establishment of a training col.
lege at Cambridge. It is thought that, in consequence of
the peculiar advantage which Cambridge offered for such
an institution, it would be desirable to establish there a
central training school for uneaten, which should he con-
nected not only with the diocese of Ely, but also with the
neighbouring dioceses of Norwich and Rochester. The board
have appointed the Dean of Ely (Dr. Peacock), the Muter
of Jesus College (Dr. French), and the Rev. H. Goodwin,
8.D., Fellow and Tutor of Caius College, to act with other
gentlemen as a sub-committee, to consider in what manner
the plan may best be carried into effect. The bishope of the
three dioceses above named have expressed their general
approval of this design.
PROGRESS OF CRIME.—III the Cambridge county
gaol the number of prisoners in custody in Easter Session,
1817, was only 40; in the present year the number amounts
Ur upwards of 60 ; showing an increase of not lees than one-
ibi* or 30 per cent. The difference in the number of com-
Wessman in the same quarters exhibits a still more alarming
peeress in the march of crime. In the former quarter the
essmlair was 67 ; in the latter 116, rather more than double.
The simpeasion of railway works, and the prevalence of di .
lrece anamarathe working people, are regarded as one fruitful
NEM of this increased criminality.
HAMPSHIRE.
FIRE AND SUICIDE.-0a Monday morning, at an
early hour, the people of Portsmouth were aroused by the
*Lavern drums and bells giving notice of a fire. The mis- ,
chief had occurred on the premises of Mr.Wickham, a grocer I
in the High-strut. The police, inhabitants, sad garrison
were quiclay on the spot, and the fire was confined to the
shop, which, with everything it contained, was completely
destroyed. The fire appeared to have originated in a very
mysterious manner. Mr. Wickham, who neverslept in the
house, asserted he had 3001. in Bank of England notes in a ,
dealt which was destroyed. On Wednesday information was
brought to the police•tation that the body of Mr. Wickham
had been found in the water, near Lump's Fort.
DEVONSHIRE.
DISSENT AND THE BISHOP OF EXETER.—The
monition has issued, and, for aught we knew, Mr. Shore
is now an inmate in Exeter gaol; at least, he is liable
to become so whenever the bishop pleases to sue out
the writ de contunsace capiendo—that is to say, for tbe
capture of this contumacious person. And what has he
done ? Why, just nothing but what John Wesley did far
60 years succeuively—preach the gospel without license
from a bishop, and did, moreover, with this aggrava-
tion, that John Wesley never sought to divest himself
of holy orders, as they are called, nor took one
step to place himself beyond the jurisdiction of the
bishop, beside the mere act of his own disorderly,
ea uncanonical, conduct. We say, then, and we say it wit/t-
-out fear of contradiction from any one at all acquainted with
the subject, that if the judgment in the case of Mr. Shore be
law, then law was out of course during the greater part, if
not the whole of the last century. For men were permitted
to preach without license then who are not suffered to do so
now; end, what is more, to do it without qualifying, or
attempting to qualify, m dissenters. They went where
as, would, preached when they would, and asked leave of
nobody, though clergymen of the church of Dialing, but of
"the great Shepherd and Bishop of souls." Now it has been
laid down in a recent case, " the Queen versus the Arch-
bishop of Canterbury," by a great authority—no less than
that of the Lord Chief Justice himself—that the mom are
of no force in a court of law, unless their existence is both
proved by evidence, and their luminance eetabilhed by
NSW How comes it to pass, then, we mea
dsate tbet this
canon on the perpetuity of orders has bees thee remitted to
pees muster la the Court of Queen's Bandy is spinet Mr.
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