The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-14 00:00:00

SCOTLAND.

EDINBURGH, JAN. 12.
The finance committee of the Highland Destitution
Board met yesterday, but no proceedings of any im-
portance took place. The amount lodged in the Kink
was reported as amounting to 10,0001., which sum
would, of course, be greatly short of the amount sub-
scribed. Some squabbling took place as to the delay
shown by the Free Church party in handing over
their collections to the general fund, as it was under-
stood they intended to do. The reason they assign
for the delay is, that the contributions having been
raised from all parts of the country indiscriminately,
they cannot transfer the amount to the Edinburgh
committee, which is so far local until it en-operates
with the other committees to be formed in other dis-
tricts, in such a way as to invest it with general
functions.

&LOKI Tnir.—Tbe director" of the Glasgow• and Ayr
Railway have diminished the hours of weekly labour from
60 to 58, of the engineers and other mechanics in their em-
ploy. A request from the mechanic* for this was recently
made, and at once granted without any reduction of wages,
thus allowing them a couple of hours on Saturday afternoon
for recreation._

SURGICAL OPERATION WITHOUT PAIN.—Tae VAPOUR
o► ETHER.—An experiment of the new discovery by which
an operation can be performed without the patient suffering
pin wee made at the Edinburgh Infirmary, on Saturday, by
Mr. Duncan. The patient was a young man, week and
emaciated from severe and prolonged suffering, consequent
on a railway accident, and whose limb it was deemed
necessary to amputate at the middle of the thigh.
After inhaling the vapour of ether for about two
minutes, he became quite insensible to pain, and the
operation was proceeded with, the anodyne influence
being maintained during its progress by the continued
administration of the ether. The proceedings did not
occupy above ten minutes, and were most successful, as,
throughout the whole time, the insensibility to pain was
complete. What formed a very remarkable trait in the
operation was the consciousness on the part of the patient of
all that was going on. His eyes continued open, and he
readily answered the questions put to him, describing with
great calmness that he felt no pain of any kind. The pulse
of the patient remained unaltered, and in every other respect
.the appearances at the operation were precisely similar to
others of the same kind.

SHOCKING CANE AT GRRENOCIL—An instance of the
fearful depravity that prevails among the poorer classes, even
now in the midst of dear provisions and distressing penury,
occurred in Cowgate-etrtet, Greenock, on ?don day e Toning last.
A seaman had just arrived (romans that night, and on reaching
his home, after a long voyage, saw his wife stretched cold
and lifeless on the floor—her head reclining on the all but
dead body of a drunken companion, who, it seems, had been
drinking in company with her during the day. The deceased
had been several hours dead, and the drunken wretch, over
whom the cold corpse was lying, was quite unconscious of
her own condition or her danger, until the poor sailor mused
her up, after removing the body of his unfortunat, wile. He
sent for the district surgeon immediately, but an attempt at
resuscitation of the deceased was useless, and a short time
longer would h►ve placed her wretched companion it, the
rme position.

amount, the casual relief as above, 1231.35. 10d., tho total
amount tiering the last week is 6691. 14s. Bd., being an in-
cr. aso of 288/. I Is. Md. for the week over the corresponding
one of last year. Deducting the casual Irish relieved with
bread and map tickets. 1231. 3s. 10.1., the increase of Liver-
pool pear. and casual sick for the week, appears to be
11.51. is. 10d, This increase will, it is stated, involve an
additional rate of at least bd. in the pound, putting out of
consideration the increoud numbers of cues of the poorer
classes of housekeepers, who will have to claim exemption on
the ground of inabiiity to pay. In atlition to this the work-
hou.o is crowded to excess.
roe INCREASE OP BUILDINGS IN LIVERPOOL is remark.
able. The following is the number of houses and ware-
houses erected, or in the cone of erection, within the
municipal borough, from the Ist Jan. to 31st Dee. 1816:-
-

I
tinder fli ' From EIS thno LIS From E 33 ~.„...., I Wm.-
per Luna. ESS. to E 33. upwards. •""'"
W booms.
710 2,320 734 1841 3,440 I 44
-

Comporati nestateanent of the number of houses greeted
in ,eall year einee 1837 :
In3s.lBo9telo.peit.lieitina3.lllll4.llB4l.lllll6.l Totol.
1,0521 91711,37611,76111.06711.300 t 6,45611.72611.4.0 16,441

his is far from being a complete tation of the ad-
vancing enterprise of the locality, it ring only to do with
property erected within the municipal borough. It is well
„ known, that during the put year, a root amount of building
ha• been going on in the outskirts of the borough—Bootle,
Walton, West Derby, Ol,lSwan, and Aigburth, which would
materially swell the amount given above.

•
MEETING TOR RRLILVING TRH DISTRESSED IRISH.
On Monday but a public meeting was held at the Assembly
Room., Taunton, for the purpose of raising a subscription
for the famishing Irish. The meeting was well attended
by the principal gentry and inhabitants of the town and
neighbourhood. H. Badooek, E;g.. was called to the chair,
and the Rev. Dr. Cottle, Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, and
several other gentlemen, addrewied the meeting. In about
half an hour 23.11. were subscribed, and it is expected that
WO!. will be raised in Taunton and its neighbourhood.

DEVONSHIRE
PitEanosf or Ton Pates.—At a meeting of the members
of the Plymouth Yacht Club in Covent-garden, on Thurs-
day, a vote was unanimously passed, praising the spirited and
independent conduct of the Plymouth and Devonport Jour-
nal in the cane of " Holdhworth and bi'Donald: And a
private subscription hu been set on foot for the purpose of
contributing to the expenses incurred by that journal in the
action alluded to.

Ties FIRST JUDICIAL DZCISION UPON THE Frier
CLAUBII or THU POOD REMOTAL ACT has been given by
Mr. Recorder Storks, at Cambridge. Upon the trial of an
aPPeal against an order of removal, between St. Andrew the
Less pariah, and Ashwell, Herta, the pauper had been re-
siding in the former parish for about ten years, up to 1846,
during the whole of which period he had received relief of
the Cambridge Union, at the request, and by the direction,
of Royston Uuion (of which latter union Ashwell parish
forms a part), which relief Royston Union repaid at the ex-
piration of each quarter of the year. The Poor Removal
Act enacts '• That, from and after the passing of this Act, no
person shall be removed from any parish in which such per-
son shall have resided for five years next before the applica-
tion for the warrant.•• Then come several provisos, one of
which is, " during which any such prison shall receive relief
from any parish, shall for all purposes be excluded in the
eomputatioa of t me hereinbefore mentioned." The Attorney
and Solicitor-General gave an opinion,which we believe they
afterwards lam reason to alter, bat which was in effect that
the words of the Act, an to the proviso, were prospective
only. The parish officers of St. Andrew the Leas, like most
other men of plain understanding, were of opinion they were
retrospective; and that, consequently, as Ashwell parish
had adtnitted the pauper to be settled in their parish by re-
payment of the relief to Cambridge Union, there would be
no dispute about it. An order of removal was therefore ob-
tained, against which the Ashwell officers appealed, the
mein priut in dispute being the legal construction of the
words wo have referred to, and Mr. Storks has (contrary to
Mr. Attorney-General's opinion) decided that the words
" ihring which any person shall receive relief," are retro-
spective, sail consequently confirmed the order of removal.
N.imerous motiora of entry, and respite of appeals against
other orders, obtained by St. Andrew the Less, were made
at the visions; mainly, we understand, upon the same
grounds as those above stated, but which we presume will
now be abandoned; although, in all probability, the ques-
tion will iie taken to the Court of Queen's Bench fur a that
decision.

The FUNERAL of J. J. GURNEY, Esq. took place on
Tuesday. at the Friends' Meeting-bowie, Norwich. Since
his demise the nrineipal tradesmen have had their shops par-
tially closed, an en expression of grief for his loos; and,
in accordance with a previous arrangement, nearly every
building throughout the city was shut during the hours fixed
for the funeral. The trains from London and other parts on
the line brought down a large number of the more opulent
members of the Swiety of Friends, who took part in the
ceremony. The cort;ge left Earlham-hall shortly after 11
o'clock, and by one o'clock the body of this esteemed man
was consigned to its final resting place. Nothing could
exceed the mark of respect that was manifested in every part
of the city during the day.

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Farms or TRE GAXB LAWR-TWO dreadful conflicts
have just taken place in this county, between gangs of
poachers and gamekeepers. Both occurred on Saturday
night. In one instance Plaishley Paisk was the scene of
the affray. Plaid;ley, situated near Ticehurst, Tunbridge
Wells, is the seat of John M'Laurin, Esq., and poaching
having been carried on in the preserves to a great extent
lately, two gamekeepers, assisted by five look-outs, were on
Saturday night set to watch in Birchem Wood, about
half a mile from P:aishley. About half-past one o'clock
on Sunday morning the keepers heard a gun-shot, where-
upon, Forward, the head-keeper, and two of the men,
proceeded in the direction of the sound, and speedily
met the poachers, one of whom exclaimed, " Here's some-
body !" and another cried, " Shoot him," using a foul ex-
pression. The poacher so addressed lifted his gun, and shot
Forward, who received the charge in his right arm, and im-
mediately fell. The man who had shot sprang forward,
end struck the prostrate keeper with the butt end of his
gun, with such violence that the stock snapped in two,
and Forward was rendered insensible. A desperate
struggle then ensued between the three poachers and 11
the two looker-, but the other keepers arriving shortly
afterwards, two of the poachers made off, when the
third (the man who had fired at Forward) was se-
cured. Ile has since been examined before the Tice-
burst magistrates, by whom he has been remanded for
further examination. The other case occurred at plantations
at Harem,* and Newick, where, in consequence of repeated
losses of game, Capt. Richardson and Mr. Slater employed a
wty of 14, keepers and assistants, to watch the preserves.
During the night these earns in collision with a gang of
poachers, 10 in number. The encounter was desperate, and
victory declared in favour of the marauders. A man is in
custody on a charge of being one of the poachers. It is re-
ported in Lewis, that four of the keepers came off with
broken heeds, and that the prisoner has been remanded till
next Monday, in order to afford time for the keepers to re-
cover sufliciently to give evidence.

Tao SALT TRADE of Droitwich (says the Hereford Jour-
nal is now exceedingly brisk, and an advance is expected
in the prices. Extonstve works are being erected by various
parties, and the opening. of the trade to India is looked for
to with much anxiety, as likely to benefit the town
and neighbourhood. A fresh spring of brine of strong
quality has recently been discovered by Messrs. Noke in a
part of the town where it had hitherto been thought there
was none.

A New CP.11111.—" BoaxiNo" Hostile AND COWIL—At
the Chelmsford petty sessions, last week, E. Bentley, of Run-
well, knacker, was charged with killing a horse, the pro-
perty of Mr. T. Stock, of East Hanmngfield. From the
evidence adduced, it appeared that on Monday night J.
Mason, a labourer, in the employment of Mr. Stock, and '
who lives at his farm, had been attending his club, about
four miles distant, and on his return home, about 12 o'clock,
when within a few rods of his master's yard, he heard a I
groan, and on getting over the gate into the yard, he saw
the prisoner kneeling down close to the horse's head, end on
calling out to him, the prisoner immediately jumped up and
ran off eo quickly that Mason could not stop him. Mason
then went ,od procured a light, and on going into the shed
found the have dead, and four pieces of hay twisted up very '
tight, and a halter lying close to the animal. Mason
then went and called up his master, who lived halt a mile
from the farm, and also a neighbour, who proved finding '
the horse dead, and the pieces of bay and halter, as
described. The witnesses stated that, from the shape of the
bay found, and also from the fact of their being damp, they
believed them to have been forced up the nostrils of the
horse, a trick which. with the assistance of the halter,
had produced suffocation. The witness Mason spoke
positively as to the identity of the prisoner, having
lthown him many years, and it being a very light
night Mr. Duffield requested that the prisoner might
be remanded, when he should be able to produce further
evidence, and he was accordingly remanded until Friday.
—The Essex !Jerald of yesterday says—" We are credibly
informed that within a circle of about three mile' from the
residence of the party now in custody, not fewer than twenty
hones, which were to all appearances in previous good
health,' have died within the last twelve months suddenly,
poet moreeris examination exhibiting no ostensible cause for
their deaths. One of them was a fine animal, valued at 40
guineas, belonging to Mr. Chaplin, of Marks Tay, who holds
a fare. also at Rettendon, and which died about Christmas
bat, under these (before) mysterious circumstances. Nor
has the system been confined to the barbarous destruction of
that noble anthill the horse ; a cow in the same vicinity,
worth 181., was not long since found dead, and no doubt
is entertained, the recently made footmarks of persona being
evident arouad the carcase, that it was suffocated in a simi-
lar manner. The discovery has excited the greatest !muni-
tion amongst the sufferers, many of whom attended the exami-
nation, and watched the proceedings with a painful interest.
It is imagined that the animals thus killed in fine condition
have been taken to a more lucrative market than that offered
by the kennel or the boiler, and it is even stated that joints
have been salted down in firkins, and sold as foreign beef so
imported."
SURREY.
FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT.—An inquest was held
=day atWeyhridge, before Mr. Woods, on the body of
Clifford, schoolmaster of the Chertsey Union, who
beetle life in stepping out of a carriage at the Weybridge
OW= on Saturday. The evidence proved that the regular
• Maven made at the station, but that the docessed did not
NOM eie lases until the train was in motion, when, on being
WU dot the train had arrived at Weybridge, he hastily left
ithainiage, and shortly afterwards was found crushed upon
gle rail. One juror remarked that that there was a de-
lving of light at the static a. Verdict, "Accidental Death."

fine arts.
ENORAVINGS.—WC may judge of the popularity of
Edwin Landseer, by the number of prints from his work,' in
tke hands of engravers at the present moment, and from the
curious and unusual circumstance that the principal prints
to be issued in the forthcoming season by the three great
print-publishers in London will be engravings from the
works of this all-popular artist. Mr. Alderman Moon will
publish before the salon is out the picture called " The
Shoeing ;" another well-known work, now at the Marquis
of Lansdowne's, at Downed, called "Crossing the Bridge;"
"The Three Hunters," and " The Salmon and Otter."
Mr. Graves announces Mr. Vernon's two companion pie-
tures of the past wear, " Peace" and " War ;" Lord Aber-
deen's picture," The Otter Hunt;" Sir Robert Peel's pis-
' tore, "The Good Shepherd ;" a picture called " The Bog
Cutter," and a mesaotint engraving of "The Highland
Drovers," in the gallery of Mr. Sheepshanks, at Rutland-
gate, and engraved a few years back in the line
manner by Mr. J. H. Watt. Mr. M'Lean announces
an engraving from the Marquis of Breadalbene's picture,
"The Stag at Bay," in the exhibition of the past year, and a
second work called " The Highland Shepherd's Home."
Our engraver,, however (and the lovers of high art will he
pleased with the announcement) are not altogether confined
to the works of Landsecr ; other pictures are in progress of
• different and sometimes of a higher caste, Those of Mr.
Eastlake's works are being engraved at the present moment ;
Mr. Cousins is employed on the "Christ Weeping over
Jerusalem ;" Mr. J. H. Watt on " Christ Blessing little
Children ;" and M. Bridoun, of Paris, on the "Hagar and
Ishmael." Wilkie's " Napoleon and the Pope" is being
engraved by Mr. J. H. Robinson-, and Mulroady's " Fight
mi Inteptcd" Nby Charles Fox. or are portraitn altogether
overlooked. Winterhalter's " Queen and Prince Albert" are
nearly finished, and the following works, it is said, rapidly
advancing :—Hayter's Princess Nicholas Esterhasy" and
"Lady Clementine Villiers ;" Watson Gordon's "Duke of
Buccleueh;" Leslie's "Lord Holland" in the Library at Hol-
land House •, and Lawrence's portrait of the Duke of Wel-
lington, in the collection of Sir R. Peel, at Drayton Manor.
State pictures still continua to attract, and Art-Unious in
England, Scotland, and Ireland, to administer to the grow-
ing " wants of the public." Mr. Moon promises an en-
graving from Leslie's Christening of the Princess Royal ;"
the Art-Union of London two prints' after Uwina, "The
Last Embrace," and "The Neapolitan Wedding ; " the
Association fir Promoting the Fine Arts in Scotland, "
Hil-
churn Castle, on Lech Awe," by W. Miller, after J. M. W.
Turner; and the Royal Irish Art-Union the " Bgeria" of
Correggio, by W. Humphrys, after the original in the Royal
Gallery at Dresden. When we have enumerated these, and
two volumes of sketches after Sir Augustus Callcott and Sir
David Wilkie ; a volume on Windsor Castle, by Nash ; and
a series of views in India recently made by the Hon. Charles
Hardinge, we shall have named, we believe, the chief
works on which our engravers are employed at the present
moment.

lINIYERSITY AND CLERICAL.
CAMBIUDGE, Jos. 13.-4VoLmersay Tntornoiret Examenant
it
Rae Mbmett.bee Tsar.—On Tuesday the 12th of October next, and
the succeeding days, there will ben eimminstion in the following
subjects :—The Greek Teetereent ; the latter part of the dialogue with
Trypho, of baths Martyr I.e. from the seventy-fifth section inclusin,
to the end; Eackdaeticsi History; the Articles of Religion; end the
Liturgy of the Church of England ; which examination will be open
to all students who have at any time been sdrnitted ad respowdebdum
gebratoni ; or who can prodoce certidades from the Regius Professor
of Civil law or his Deputy, ofd performed the exercises required
for the Degree of Berhetor of that bailey. The names of those stu-
dents who shall pees this exa.minatiata to the satisfaction of
the examiners will be published in olpambetical older, and
registered in the usual manner. Immediately after this examine-
tion there will ke en examination in the Book of Deuteronomy, in
Hebrew, for such students ea, having undergone the former room.
'nation, shill oiler themselves for this t and the names of the persona
who having lamed the former, alai pass this examination to the'
gabbed= of the examiner will be published also and registered in
the manner already described. Persons desirous of presenting them-
selves at these examinations must signify their intention of so doing
on or Dame the 10th of October next, by a letter addressed to each
of the examiners, who are the Regius Professor of Divinity; the
Margaret Professor
of Divinity; and the Regius Professor of Hebrew.
Notice has been given that the following will be the subjects of ex.
amination in the bat week of the Lent Term, l848:—l. " The
Gospel of St. ]lark." 2. " Evidences." 3. " The Old Testa-
ment History." 4. "The Phomissm of Euripides." 5. "Cicero's
Onalan pro Mursna."

Cernennst can MANCII.I7..—The local papers have, trorn time to
time, referred to the project of a cathedral for Manchester. It Is odd
that Buell* building, to doe/edit to the town, cannot En ceenpletedimier
one hundred thousand pounds, and it iv proper *rod perri, ast
more than the chancel, the two transepts, sod dr Mir the mord
tower uniting the nave and chancel with the Inkrarts) to armored.
and these, with ten belle, would cast about ty thousand pounds.
This lam it ia proposod to raise by one hundred individuals contri-
buting 1001. each, whilst sutectiptions in smaller owns were raising
for the erection of the nave, might he collected whilst the other parts
of the cathedral were being erected. The site propceed is the high
ground at Cheetwood. rather towards Broughton.
Paouorios.—The Bev. W. Wallinger, perpetnni eumtenr Mares,
Hastings, has been collated to O. e prebendal stall of Hampstead, In
Chichester Cathedral, vacant by the death of It. Trealmoll, and was
brained on Tuesday morning.
VACANCTM—Braiston It 877/. with residence Pa. the JePensot-
tatives of the Rev. P. Curtois; and Potter Hanworth It., 6851 pet-
the Lord Chancellor, both in the county and ii.ocese of Lineoln, and.
vacant by the death of the Rev. P. Curtois. Lenuit It., Cornwall,
din., Exeter, 4061. with residence; pat. the Bishop of Exeter, by the
death of the Bev. W. S. Carey. Winterbaarne IL, Dorset, dio. Sarum,
value 1484 ; patron St. 11. Tregonwell. Withorstone Dome,
dio. Sarum, value 941., patron E. of Dorchester, vacant by the death
of the Bev. W. R. Churchill.
Tan Conevrerios. -The following are the average prices for
seven years to Christmas, 1816:—Wheat, Is. 01d. per imperod bushel;
Barley, b.; Oats, Rs. 84d. And the amount to he received for the
year 1847, for every 1001. of rent-charge will be 99/. 185. 101e1 The
unmet for the year 1848 was 10221. 17s. ; 180, 1031. 170. 1114.;
1841, 104/.3a. 51d.; 1813, 1051. Its. 2ld. ; 1051. 80. 24d.; 1841,
1011. lb. 54d.; 1810, 981. 15*. 944.; 1839, 9.11.75. 1838, 971. 7..
11d. ; 1837,M. 13s. Old.
NAVAL.

Painuenrixo Arai APPOINTWITS.—AdII2fraity, AUL 12. Own.
D. Pent, to be Capt. ; Lieut. O. Howes and J. if. flelby, to keConis. ;
Lieut. W. B. Stocker, to be Con, ; Mote R. Chamber., to be Lieut. ;
it. Plinio, appointed Lieut., Medea; 8. Pritchard, appointed Lieut.,
Queen; E. 7 B. Clarke, appointed Lieut., Rciramond ; C. L. Bell
appointed Map., Vangnard ; M. S. L. Peale, appointed Mid., St. Vin-
cent ; J. Barber, appointed Act. Boat., Oeean ; R. Venning, appointed
Mast. Smith, Woolwich-yard; J. Smith, appointed Mask Smith,
Sheernecisfard ; J. Vconing, appointed Sup. Poi man of Smiths, Pan-
broke-yard.
SPORTING. .
BETTING AT MANCH tETEß.—Toninie.
Cania. Car.
10 to I on the Field (offered)
Passe.
15 te ago Tan Tromp (at) 133t0 I apt Ltnedate
la Eplrote (off.) 13— I iecaota
17— Planet (off; I Atiertimiea
K— Glentilt IMO— If West India Planter
27 Illn to Cobweb ma 121111..- lf Cale onto( Calypron d.
U— Old Pon

law Ewaßance.
EQUITY COURTS.—YzenteD,Ly.
_ Wow the Lord Cbaneellor.

KNOTT v. COPTIL—INPANTS, GUARDIANSHIP AND CARE
OP.—Mr. Geo. Knott, a grocer in London, died in 1843,
leaving large real and personal estates, and three children—
one boy, aged nine, and two girls younger—and having by
his will appointed his wife and Mr. Cottee (a surveyor), and
another person since deceased, esecuton and guardians of
his children, with a recommendation that, in use of the
death of the wife before the children should have attained
their full age, they should be placed under the care of their
aunt, Mrs. Berry, and their cousin, Miss Prior, both re-
siding at Brighton. Mrs. Knott died in 1844. The children
had resided with her at Bohun Lodge, near Barnet, and con-
tinued to reside there under the care and management of Mr.
Cottee, and of a governess who had been chosen for them by
their mother before her death. In a snit which was insti-
tuted, in the name of the children, for the admiuistration of
their father's estate, a petition was presented in their behalf,
for a scheme for their maintenance and education, and the
Master, upon an order of reference to him, approved of •
scheme to have the children placed at Brighton, under the
care of Mrs. Bury and Mies Prior. The Master's report hav-
ing been approved of by the Vice-Chancellor, the children
were removed to Brighton on the 23rd of July, 1846. Mr.
Cottee presented a petition, complaining of the Master's re-
port, as not providing for the religious education of the in-
fanta, and stating, that the ladies under whose care
they were placed at Brighton were of the dies of
persons belonging to Lady Huntingdon's congregation.
The petitioner proposed that the children should be
placed under his own are, as being their only surviv-
ing testamentary guardian, and that an establishment
should be provided for them near London, where he could
have an opportunity of seeing them once a week. Mr. J.
Parker and Mr. Bagshaw were heard yesterday, in support
of this petition ; Mr. Holt, also yesterday, and Mr. Lloyd
to-day, were heard on bemire( the children, in support of
the master's approval, and of the Vice-Chancellor's order
confirming his report. Mr. Bacon was heard on behalf of
Mrs. Bury and Mini Prior.
The Lord Chancellor observed, in the course of the argu-
ment, that ao question arose before him as to the religion
education of the infants. The ladies under whose
rare tkey are placed in Brighton, disavowed an
Intention of bringing them np in any religion but the Church
of England. If they were themselves followers of Lady Hun-
tingdon's congregations the testator knew that, and yet he
recommended his children to be put under their care. That
act of his disposed of the religious education of the children.
The recommendation here of the children to the care of these
persona was consistent with the guardianship being placed in
anothescerson. It was only when words of recommenda-
tion weft inconsistent with the mere gift or appointment in a
will that the court was not tokive effect to it, as in a late ease
in this court, in which his lordship proceeded on a decision of
the House of Lords (in Lawless v. Shaw). His lordship
was, however, of opinion that the master should review his
report so far as that care should be taken that no
change should be made in the residence or education of
the infanta without communicating with the testamentary
guardian. The children were of delicate constitution, and
Brighton was represented as the best place for them. Tho
ladies to whose care they were committed were wholly un-
objectionable persons, approved of by the father. So far the
Mater's report was correct.—After a few observations from
Mr. Parker and other counsel, the petition was ordered to
stand over for one week, so as to allow time to make ar-
rangements according to his lordship's suggestions.

Before the Vlce-Cheacellor of England.
ELICTRIC TILNORAPH COMPANY P. N 071.—
MOTION FOR AN INJUNCTION REFUSED.—This motion,
which was commenced in December last, and has already
been reported in this paper, was for an injunction to
restrain the defendants from using a certain mechanical in-
strument called the electric telegraph, which the plaintiffs con-
tended was an infringement of a patent already obtained by
them. It appeared that several p►tents had been taken out,
commencing di the year 1837, by W. Follyger Cook and Chas.
Wheatstone, for the electric telegraph, and for various im-
provements in working it. The lad patent was in Sep-
tember, 1842, alter which a company vas formed for carry-
ing out the invention. In January last the defendant, John
Nott, obtained a patent for an alleged improvement urea
the invention used by the plaintiffs, and a telegraph con-
structed upon his principle wan in use upon the Northampton
and Peterborough Railway. For the plaintiffs it was con-

tended that their invention extended to the process of giving
the alarum, the apparatus for giving signals communicated
by the dial-plate, and the suspension of the wires ef eons-
musication. For the defendants it was urged that the
principle of moving needles by electricity was not new,
neither was it new to arrange the needles so as to
give signals—that these two objects had been long known,
the only new invention was the adaptation of these principles
to the use of the telegraph upon railways,
and, in that re-
spect, the invention of the defendants differed entirely from
that of tke plaintiffs. The court has been occupied for
several days in hearing affidavits by a number of scientific
persona, relative to the difference between tie too inven-
tions. The arguments had not been concluded when the
Vice-Chancellor stepped the case, and said, upon the motion
being first made in December last, he had • strong impres-
sion that the case was one in which, for the purpose of doing
justice between the parties, the court ought not to interfere
by injunction previously to the matters having been decided
upon by a court of law. His Honour's first impression was not
removed by all be had heard since the motion came on.
He thought there could be no difficulty in the plaintiff mak-
ing out what was the subject of his patent, and it wu only in
• court of law that this question could be tried. As the mat-
ter at present stood, there was the testimony of Professor Far-'
raday on one side, opposed to that of Professor Bachoffaer on
the other, and his Honour was clearly of opinion that the cue
was not sufficiently strong to enable him to interfere in •
summary way, particularly when it was evident that no im-
mediate damage could accrue. This was in accordance with
the decision of the Lord Chancellor in a late ease of Spottie.
WOOOO v. Cleric. He should, therefore, let the motion stand
over, with liberty to the plaintiff to bring his action at law.