The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-20 00:00:00

day from Cove, bearing the remains of the late Rear-
Admiral Dasher. After private funeral service in
Cove, they were placed on board the war steamer on
Sunday evening, and conveyed to Dublin.
Almost at the same time with the steamer arrived
the Bangalore convict ship, fully equipped in all de-
partments—naval, military, and medical, to bear
away the criminals of the commission to their desti-
nation.

The Lords of the Admiralty have presentol Mr.
Pullen, master of the Betsy, with a splendid gold
medal, for having saved the lives of 94 passengers on
board the Chianti.) steamer, destroyed by fire on her
way from Drogheda to Liverpool. Pullen and his
crew have had other more substantial rewards for
their humane intrepidity from their fellow-citizens.
A rate of nearly 7,0001. has been made on the
eight rural divisions of the north Dublin union.
Castleknock is the highest assessment, 2s. in the
pound; three others—Finglas, Drumcondra, and
Blanchardstown—ls. 6d.; and the remaining four
Glasneven, Coolock, Clontarf, and

divisious at

Howth. The rural district; have not much reason to
complain of the amount either of the rate or the
poundage. The south union advertises for a loan of
8,0001., in sums of SOOL, at 6 per cent., or leas.
On Friday next the Royal Dublin Society will die.
tribute the medals and certificates awarded at the
last exhibition of manufactures.

The Lord-Lieutenant has appointed Mr. James
Gibson, of Belfast, a member of the Education Board.
Mr. Gibson is a barrister, was late M.P. for Belfast, and
holds a high position among his countrymen for his
public worth and private virtues. Mr. Gibson is a
liberal, and elder of the synod of Ulster.
The Court of Queen's Bench have ordered a sum of
4,20 W. to be levied off tho county of Antrim, with
the present county rate, and to be repaid to the
government at the Spring Assizes. This sum was
expended by the Belfast and Lisburn boards of
health during the recent period of destitution
and fever.

IN CIEANCERY.-IMPORTANT
_ JUDGMENT. _

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ROLL/ COURT, DUBLIN.I4ONDA.T.—RITMOLDS e. RET•
womse —Mr. Brewster,Q.C., and Mr. Hamilton, were heard
on behalf of the purchaser of the estate in the above cause.
Mr. Christian, Q.C., with whom was Mr. O'Neill, replied on
behalf of the receiver.—The Master of the Rolls delivered
judgment. If that motion were made in England, in any
court of equity, it could not be sustained ; and if that were a
new question he would have no hesitation in following that
case so decided in England, which would hare furnished him
with a precedent to refuse to entertain the application if he
desired to decide the matter upon technical grounds. In the
present case a sweeping notice bad been served, that the
whole of 9001. odd charged against the receiver should be
expunged. In future he would require that a schedule should
be produced setting forth the items, or if they were too nu-
merous, en analysis of them should be given, clearly show-
ing their nature and extent. Thus time would be saved to
the court. lie would not hear general statements; and the
master's opinion was entitled to as much weight upon such
subjects as his own. He would not say that if the receiver
had confined himself to a few particular items he might not
have convinced him that he ought to reduce the amounts,
but he would not do so upon general statements. That wee
an unprecedented motion. The gross mismanagement al
estates in Ireland by receivers under the Court of Chancery
was a matter of public notoriety; and from a return recently
published it would appear that from 1841 to 1843 (and the
return would have been more remarkable if carried tap la
1847), an additional arrear of something amounting la a
quarter of a million of money had arisen in consequence of
the mismanagement of estates by receivers. The case the&
before him was one which called for the just animadversion
of the court for the very same reason; and the misma-
nagement of the estate had resulted from the party having
the carriage of the proceedings not having felt It
to be his duty to exercise care and consideration in appoint-
ing a competent receiver • for was it to be supposed that a
practising attorney or barrister was a proper and qualified
person to act as receiver? Was it, he would ask, extract.
dinary that tenants upon property were in such a state el
combination against the payment of rent, when, so recently
as 1843, they were, according even to the solicitor foe the
receiver, industrious and peaceable? He did not apply his
observations to a solicitor solely, but included practising phy-
sician', barristers, or any other persons who, from the occu-
pation of their time by professional business, were unable to
attend to the duties of the receivership. The persons so
appointed might be gentlemen of the highest character, yet
totally unacquainted with the management of land. It was
net a question as to character, but qualiiicatioa ; and Sir
Edward Sugden had made a general order, rendering it ille-
gal for an attorney's clerk to act in the capacity of a receiver.
Master Brooke had even communicated with him upon the
subject of these improper appointments, to see if anything
could be devised to remedy the evil, and a communication
was also made to the Lord Chancellor before his illness with
a similar object. Receiverships under the court had become
the subject of patronage. In many caul eulioitore entered
into a contract for the sale of receiverships, and stipulated to
get one third of the poundage, and in one case he
made an order that the whole amount should be lodged
in court, with six per cent. interest. Persons having
the carriage of proceedings did not nominate local
gentlemen who were acquainted with the property; and
if a gentleman who was resident in the neighbourhood—the
purchaser in that case for instance—had been engaged, he
would have looked after the tenantry, who were proved to
have been peaceable and industrious, and they would have
paid their rents instead of being in a combination, owing
five or six years' arrears. The property, instead of being a
bad example to other tenants, which was not only injurious
to ninon but to the public and leaded proprietors, would be
well managed. All this had been the result of appointing a
practising solicitor sa receiver instead of a country gentleman,
who would have treated the tenants with kindness ; but
owing to pursuing a different course, property under the Court
of Chancery had become • reproach. His honour then referred
to one denomination of land, and to the account appertaining
to it, from which it appeared that no rent had been received
from any of the tenants from 1843 to 1846, save from one,
who paid 61. 16s. bid.: and was he to be told that he should
set aside the master's report whoa such a state of facts
existed ? When be found a receiver never at all looked after
the property, and that numerous bills of costs were charged,
a bill of costs for every attachment to which the sheriff made
returns of non est inventsis, he was justified in calling that
an unprecedented motion; and in future when he found au
incompetent person appointed as a receiver, he would hold
a stricter hand over him than it a country gentleman,
familiar with the circumstances of the lands were &awn. By
the course which the receiver in that case adopted—for he
should hold him responsible for all that had occurred—he
led to the insubordination of the tenants, and the accumula-
tion of 6,0001. arrears. The estate thus encumbered was
handed over to the purchaser, or, if he got off from liability
upon the objections which were to be raised before him
(Master of the Rolls) on his behalf, the property
.would be
set up again,ahowing a lamentable example of a mismanaged
estate; so that there was not a resident gentleman who had
not reason to complain that these tenants were encouraged
not to pay their rent when the Court of Chancery could
have permitted property under it to be so grossly mis-
managed. It had been stated even that a person would be
on hia trial at the special oommisaion for a murder which
was instigated by the expectation that if certain property
were placed under a receivership the tenants would not be
required to pay the rent. He, therefore, entirely approved
of Master Brooke holding receivers to the strict discharge
of their duties, and he would try if they could not get rid
of the reproach so justly made against them is consequence
of the gross mismanagement and misconduct of the officers
appointed as receivers under the court, and he also hoped
that he would again hear of a practising solicitor, me-
dical man, barrister, or trader being appointed as a receiver.
He did not feel called upon to act in opposition to the certi-
ficate of Master Brooke. That was a most untenable mo-
tion ; and he trusted that in future a receiver would not ven-
titre to impugn a document which charged him with arrears
when in three years all that he had collected was 61.16 e. 54d.
Receivers under the court ought to be able to manage estates
better than others, because they had opportunities of com-
municating with the master. There were remarkable ex-
ceptions to the general rule of mismanagement—cum in
which • and receivers were managing estates pro-
perly ; ut he was sorry to my that those cases were the ex-
ceptions to the rule. He would endeavour to check the
system of mismanagement that prevailed, and the circum-
stance that he fixed a receiver with upwards of 9001. arrears
might have the effect of making other gentlemen more
cautious and circumspect in future. He would refuse the
motion with costa. lie would declare the receiver entitled to
--tilt for 71., but make him pay the costa of the motioa.

SCOTLAND.
EDINHVION, JAN. 18.
Parish workhouses are, and have long been, objects
of inveterate prejudice in this country, but the feel-
ing is gradually dying away. Parochial relief of any
kind was at one time scouted, but this delicacy has
long since ceased to exist, and the anti-workhouse
feeling bids fair to follow. Paupers may starve and
die in their own hovels, or be miserably neglected in
those of their neighbours, but as this takes place out
of the sight of the public eye, little sympathy is
created ; but let a plain, well-lighted, and ventilated
building be put up for the reception of the destitute,
and immediately philippics are launched forth about
national bankruptcy and universal beggary, and
petitions and speeches go on ad infinitum. In some
country parishes, however, workhouses have been
commenced, and the board of supervision have
circulated plans as to the best methods of
construction; and there can be little doubt that
in Scotch parishes, where the starving system
is not contemplated, those institutions are the
cheapest methods of providing for the poor.
Most of the parochial officials have been frightened
out of their propriety by a decision of one of the
sheriffs'-autstitate of Glasgow, confirmed by his prin-
cipal, that relief should be given to the children of an
able-bodied unemployed operative. The case oc-
curred in Gorbals—the man had four children, and
having no employment he had no food. " Bat," said
the inspector, " you have no ailment" (starvation had