The Express.
London, England, 1847-04-21 00:00:00

PRO•

A NOTION A3OUT POUIL-torte.—WC(.tLiverpool Albion)
understand it has been determined at laws, to levy the
poor-rates in future is the maw manner as they were levied
in that city in times past, namely, not according to the
rental, but according to the iocnine of each inhabitant ; in
other words, the mode of levying the income tax will be
taken so the basis upon which the poor•rate will be assessed.
We know not whether it be intense I to introduce a similar
male of this rate, which has now amou• ted to 3s. iu
the pound. in Liverpool, but of this we are perfevly well
aware, that if it were brought into operation here, very many
of t twee so-called cha..t princes" who are rolling in
wealth, sad living in a .taut of :uxuri•nus ease, at such coun.
try reidences as Aigburth, W st Derby, Claughtun, and
elsewhere, ar.d who are now only subjected to the
payment of a few paltry shillings in the year for the
(Aces they occupy in town, would then have to pay a tax
proportionate to the amount of their enormnue incomes,
while the poor be-. hani-worki. g tradesmen and shopkeep-
ers *mild not be so overlie. thened with taxation as they are
at present. It may he, atter all. that the plan ado ted at
Gla.gow will came Into vogue not only in Liveipool but in
many other *Deo.
• LEICE.TER.IIIRE.

Tits ItRPRISRICTATroN or LaleltaTta.—We (Leicester-
shire Mercury) understand that Mr. Gardner, the car dtdate
for the representation of thi. town introduced by the Presi-
dent orate Manchester Chamber ot Commerce, posed throne h
Leicrater this week, and had an interview with the chair-
man of the parliamentary cotn•oittee. Mr. Gardn• r was a
member of the council tor the evenyion of the fratichto- some
pars time, in conjunction ni•h Mes-re. Bright, Bturst,,
Mune% and other well known rerormera ; and we he x that
he is a man of great shill y se well -5 wealth, and that the
soundness of his poii,ical npini is undonbt.d.
CWIIIII4IOI lIT TIM Unto Li altrartairT.—J. 8. Par-
ker. Gant, to be cornet, vice Galion, prom., of Warwick-
shire Yeomanry Cavalry.
DAMPS, f IRE.
Etacrtow Gossip.—The Hampshire Indepentknt says that
eTer)thing seem ripe for a for etand up light-at And...a,
at the next general election. Mr. J. N. Pellowie, of Hurst-
borne-park, a young gentleman of apt, it and cr• large
fortune, the son of the Hon. Newton Fellewe., and who
will be futare_Herl of P..riarnouth, has Limed Lie adareo,
and what is more satisfactory, has met the elector. face to
fare to avow his political opinions, and to discuss openly the
political questions of the day with his future eu.ti•uents.
He is emphatically one of the right sort, his family having
sided with the people time cut of mind. His fattier repre-
sented Devonshire fur many yearn in the liberal interest, and
his mother is the sister of Inc Earl ot Furteteue, wee
member for Dome when law Ehrington, and is now the
Lord Steward of her Maj stye hoe-ekold. A better and •
more fitting colleague f r our presen. excellent an.l popular
repreeentative, R. Rtwal., Bag., eon d not possibly be Mond.
Mr. Cubitt, a carpenter and build r, in a large way of husi-
nem in London, has issue t an addreo, and is IMOOltile.d to
come out for Andover iu conjoin tim with his co-candidate
(so one of the London p..pers cal them), Mr. J. H. Cubs, of
Middleton House, whim addo et it ann.ninced to be pub
limbed immediately. The Ilttnepshire Chronicle state-s, on
authority, that Bar Jan. Butter intends again to offer himself
as a candidate for Winchester, at the nee election. Sir
James rot. don Wednesday, for the first time in the no sent
semi m, against Mr. Watem'e bill for relieving the Roman
Catholics from their nominal disabilities, which still remain
on the statute book against than. It is now certain that
th. re will be four candidates for this city at the next
election.

THI GOTIIMMIT4T u; EDUCATION.—A peti
Mon, signed by upwards of 2,000 persons (each subscribing
his residence), c ,mprising miny of the magistracy, town
council, and most rosp ctable ,nhahitants of Bristol and
Cbfoan, has been forwards to Mr. B rkelry, forpresentution.
A meeting of the clergy of she Bristol deanery, at which
nearly seventy clergy men &Vended, ma held on Friday, the
B. T. Canon Barrow in the chair. at which the government
ahem* was considered, and ac unsninintis resolution to sup-
port it, by pettions and otherwise adopted.
OVORDStIeRE.

CONlttiltbN SY ?RR LoRD LIMUTISNANT.--Capt. Mon-
tague Lord Kerrey, to be 'Raj , vice Lord Churchill, prom.,
of 14 or Qanen's Own Rao. ni Yeomanry Cavalry.

WHOLSSALS InoinntailsUlTLOn Thursday night lett,
three Ines broke out within a qu trter of a mile of each,
oth, r. and nearly sinualtanerru•ly, in the pariah of Burnhamt
ap•n fantasia the several OCTLISIViOSIS of Mr. Pannell, o.
Burnham Hall; Mr. Rapers, of the Green Farm; and Mr-
Henry Croton, of Cherry Garden Farm. At Mr. Pan,
nen'', a large barn, four stacks of hay. and several building.'
were destroyed. At Mr. It.ruer.'s, one wheat and revere
haulm stacks, two hams, and other outbuildings. At Mr
Cruaon's a cottage end several balding'. The cheep and
otb, r stork in the yards were rescued from the lames. The
police have apprehended a Ina.. nn suspicion.
EAST 817AILET ELECTION.-It appears certain that the
lila rale and free-traders will hung forward two candidatea
at the general electinn, Thomas. Alcork, E-q., of King's
Wood Warren, and the Hon. Peter John Locke Bing, of
Wobumpark.
BEDFO.DSHIRE.

COMMISSIONS IT 174{10:170—E170TINANT.—Major R.
T. Gilpin to be via- W. A.tell, decreed; Capt.
W. B. Higgins to be maj., vice R. T. Gilpin, prom., of Bed-
fordshire Militia.

ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA.—" La Sonaambula" was
performed at Covent Oarden lint evening. Mono made his
first appearance in this theatre, and received a very cordial
welcome. lie performed, of course, the part of Enna, of
which nothing can be said hut tut he sang as beautifully so
ever. Peniani's Amine, also, is too well known to ea:l for
any description. ,It is one of her most chumieg pereona.
dolts; and the sweet and simple melodies which belong to
the part, are an outline which she fine up with a degree of
richness and brilliarey which no other Omer we have ever
laird has been able to raid. Tunburini took the part of
the Coosa &dolfo, to which he gave more than ordinare
Importance by his acting and singing, and Willa Cornea
did full justice to the not very agreeable part of Lisa. We
sever heard the pretty. choruirs of this opera sung with so
much spirit and precision, nor i he orchestral accompaniments
in nicely and delicately played. Altogether the piece
was delightful, and was received with incessant ap-
plause from the first scene te the last. A ballet, ealloel
"La Reins dee Fees," was performed for the first
time. Its heroine is a certain Fiery Queen, personated by
Mademoiselle Thonilatre, who falls in love with a young
hunter, for whose sake she nano, .co submit to the loss of
her rank god power, the consequence of her union with a
mortal. The subject is a little complicated by the intro-
dada' of a wicked magician, who is also a lover of the
Parr Queeii, sad the ma' of the young mortal, whom he
attempts to &stray. The eubj• et is an sgreeahle vehicle for
beautiful , eplendid spectacle, and admirable dancing
Dantilata, M. Petipa. Mademoiselle
Vadat, Mademoiselle Benin, told M. Mabille. Made-
moiselle Datofiatse, in sensral of her psi, wsa greatly ap
plaided, and the ballet went off exceedingly well; though
we think its effect would he ins r red by curtailment.

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HOUSE OE LORDS.

la Committee of Privileges. Preeeat—The Earl of Shaftrobary (In the
chair), the Lord Chancellor, lord Lyndborst, Lord Brougham,
Lord Iledeedele, and other peers.
CLAIM TO INC EARLDOM or PRRTH, IN THR Paso-
son or SCOTLAND —The claimant to this peerage is
George Drummond, Duke de Melfort, in France. His peti-
tion to the Queen praying "to be declared entitled to the
titles, honours, and dignities of Earl of Perth and Lard
Drummond," was ref reed by her Majesty to the house,
and on the 23rd and 30th of July, in the WA session, evidence
was taken in support of the claim, the nate re of which was then
reported in thin paper. It may be remembered that the
awe presented by the claimant to the committee, and partly
proved last session, was, that the records ef the Scotch par-
liameet contained entries stating that John Drummond, of
Cargill, we, made a lord of the Scotch parliament, and
called Lord Drummond, in January, 1487, with a limitation
to Die heirs male that Patrick, has lineal descendant, and
third Lord Drummond, died in 1601, leaving two sons,
Jame, and Joh. Drummond, which John is the claimant's
ancestor that James, the elder, succeeded his father as
fourth Lord Drummond, and in 1605 was created Earl of
Perth, the earldom being limited to him and his heirs male:
that on his death, in 1611, without male issue, the said John,
his brother, •UCeelNiell to the said dignities.; upon whose
death, in 1662, having two sons, James and John, the for-
mer succeeded so third Earl of Perth. He died in 1675, and
was au needed by his eldest son, also named James, as fourth
earl; who, heater. attach. d himself to the fortunes of the
Stuart., left Scotland in 1693. and went to.reside with James
the Second at St. Germain, in France. where he died,
in 1716, leering three eons surviving, James, John, and
Edward. James, the elilmt, was attained by act of polio-
meat, in 1715 ; bas', on the death of his (oh r, he assumed
his titles, and, dying in 1720, was succeeded by his two sons,
James and John, one after the robe'. Those were attainted in
England in 1746, and both di. d ahroad unmarried. Upin
their death, the title vested, first, in their uncle John, second
son of the fourth earl ; and on his death withant issue in
1756, in hie brother Edward, whet also died without biome in
11760, nhereurion the earldom reverted to John, before-
mentioned, as the second son of James, the third earl.
He had been created Earl of Melfort by James
the Second (of England) in 1686. He afterward.
accompanied that monarch to France, and was attained in
&Aland, is 1695, without prejudice to his issue by his first
wit-. He was created Doke of Mel art in France by James
IL, on whom death Louis XIV. confirmed that title;
and the said John, Earl nt Perth, and hie descendants, after-
ward, enjoyed the title of Dukes de Melfort in France. His
great grandson, James Drummond, succeeded his father in
1781, and claiming the Earldom of Perth, did not obtain it,
but was created Baron P, rth in England, in 1797, and the
family estates in Scotland were restored to him. On has
death the male issue of John, first Earl of Melfort, be.
COMO extinct, and the title now in questien vested, as
the claimants submitted, in John Drummond, his eldest son
by his second wife. He died in 1754, and was succeeded by
his eldest eon, who wan married to a lady of large estates in
France, mid died in 1766, leaving four sons, the first of
whom dying without issue, in 1800, the titles vested in his
next brother, who was a prelate of the catholic church, and
died in Rome in 1840 unmarried, and thereupon the title of
Earl of Perth became vested in the claimant, who is eldest
sun of the prelate', next brother.
In addition to the evidence given not session, two witnes-
ses were examined on the present occasion, and much docu-
mentary evidence was put in, in pro if of the claimant's pe-
digree, after which the can was adjourned to the 11th of
May, when the whole evidence will be summed up, and ar-
guments heard upon the effect of the attainder. above men-
tioned.

EQUI=MRTS.
Barre the MoeChancelke of Mier&
MOZLZY e. ALSTOX.—BIZIONOHAM AND OXFORD Rect.
WAT.--CORFITITIoN 111TWIen TR' °MCAT WRITIRX AND
NOUTR-WIATRRN RAILWATe. —The torments (or the de-
tendanta in this are, which stood over on Friday last in order
that the Oxford and Birmingham Railway Company might
he served with notice of the motion for an injunction, were
resumed this morning. Sir Fitzroy Kell- and Mr. Stuart,
for the din Mors of the Birmingham and Oxford Railway,
urged that if the court were to grant this injunction in the
ts run in which it was ask. d, the entire proceed*, of the
company would be put a stop to, and the most serious con-
sequences would arise. This appeared very forcibly
upon the !affidavit* on behalf of the defendants, by
which it appeared that the contracts for the con-
et+ uction of the line had been already entered
into, and the works had been in active operation
for some time. The period fixed for the expiration of many
of these cosmos was expiring alm-at even week, according
to the different tin. sat which they were commenced ; and,
in came any delay should take place on the part of the com-
pany in fulfilling the contracts, they would be liable to actions
at law and wits in equity. Under the provisions of the act
the tympany was required to complete the railway within
a limited •tine from the cornmenonnent of the worka and any
delay on their part might expose them to great injury; even
the workmen on the line would all be thrown out of em-
ployment and no further acts done by the direction would
be lawful. It was obvious that the mischief which
might arise would be incalculable and irremediable
if the present directors were red:rained by injunc-
'son from acting in the management of the affairs.
By the 9th 'onion of the Birmingham and Oxford Company,
the number of directors was limited to 12 • and by the 11th
section there wee power given to increase itt• number to 18,
and under that clause the number was increased to 18, or
that it was exactly the same as if the act had originally
appointed 18; and the question now was what had happened
since their appointment, and what bad been their conduct
that would induce such an overwhelming mischief that the
court should grant this injunction. Suppose the directors
had made a mistake in not electing. four new candidates.
Suppose that mistake had been Iron ignorance of the proper
construction of the act, or suppose that it had even been done
wilfully, still the re was no reason why the court should pre-
vent them (rum acting. The only means by which the
detendan *could now lawfully elect new directoes was by
applying fur a mandamus, and if an injunction were
to noise it would, in fact, prevent them from doing
that which they ought to do, to purify themselves.
This iojunctinn would in no way benefit either the company
or the plaintiffs, but it would be the cause of irremediable
mischief to the company. It woe mid that the twelve
directors ought to have decid d by ballet or by agreement
among themselves, that four of the number should cease to
be directors on the 27th of February ; assuming that they
had meted wrong in not doing so, still they would remain
director.; and the only question was, how they were to
rectify the mistake they had committed ; there was no ether
method by which the day of appointment could be altered,
except by mandamus. This had been done in the ease of
tie Queen e. Alderson "(I Queen's Bench reports), there
the day having passed which was appointed by the act,
another day was fixed. An application might have been made
at the hegin,ing of thin term for a mandamus, and it was the
business of the plaintiff' to have obtained that mandamus
as they raised toe *e.etion themselves; but it was most un-
just to come for an injunction now to restrain the directors
from acting. The n-al object of these plaintiffs, who, in
fact, represented the interests of the North- Western Railway
Company, wax, to buy up all the maize*, and then to rura-
lise the acts of the directors and to counteract the iotention
of the lerieliture.
The ViessChaucellor mid he uneteratood the proposition to
he asserted that the North-Western Company, in attempting
ie purchase the shares in the Oxford and Birmingham Com-
pany, and to prevent the masa the line to the Great Western,
had acted ill.yl.lly : he should like to hear more upon that
subject. If it 'wad be made out that any manure taken
by persons for the purpose of preventing the contract with
the Greet Western was o' itself dirge], that was a most
importmit point. If, in so doing, they had acted
in oppuition to the an of parliament, that would be a sub-
ject for consideratioe ; but he slid not see at present that
pnthetresww,aswien.y.thii or.
anything untae.ful in mina peewits offering to j
into the pockets of the company
if they could abstain from the contract, than they could get
poipftr ey
er tri.sit;wfilledirleSthe.libcoe.notreet.:fot:d.
01......!,dwealivBit.rtirrnngthhcLet.ptheczymact.p.izoytf
the etecution of that power was purely voluntary on their
parts.
The arguments on behalf of the defendants not being con-
cluded at the tisiog of the court, the foram hewing wss j
poitponed.