The Express.
London, England, 1847-01-27 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL.

THE EXTENATTE EIIEET.ZLE ,SENT AT MANCHESTER.—
Thomas Smith, lately tarrying on bonnet§ in Strutt street,
I Manchester, as cotton commission and general agent, and
who was alleged to have absconded with from 10.0001. to
1.5,000/. raised upon goods which had been consigned to him
for sale on behalf of Meters. Strutt, of Derby, Mr. Alderman
Shuttlewnrth, and other., fell in•o the bands of the police,
at Manchester, yesterday. An account of his defalcations,
and of his ?laving absconded, was given in this paper some
weeks ago. It was supposed at the time that he had escaped
to America, but subsequently a letter was found by the
police,
t.tw hhiceh.hue
still 7ndchir:sgelsal. hisd
A rewife,wa reward of
offend for his apprehension, but the police were entirely at
fault until Monday, when they received the somewhat
astonishing intelligence that hp had appeared openly at the
Court of Bankruptcy, in the Atheneum, that moroing, to
claim protection from hie creditors an a bankrupt. Whether
he had hoped by this coarse to screen himself from a erimie al
prosecution is net known, but it is probable. The police,
who had before marched him late resident,' in Hulme, were
led to believe that he had gone thither after le Bing the
Court of Bankruptcv, and during the night (or early yitter-
day morning) went and apprehended him there. About
2001. in money was found upon him, and that. together with
his.heusehold furniture, bait been seined. He was brought
before Mr. Maude, at Ills Borough Court, Manchester, yes-
terday, charted with embezzlement ; hat it was stated that
the prosecutors had had no titre to get the neoemary
wit-
nesere, most of whom live at Derby, and the hearing of the
case was remanded till this day. It in thought that the de-
fecations will not amount to near the sum stated at the time
Smith absconded, and indeed some of the parties tuterestel
say that 20001. would cover the whole.
. CHEMISE.

PROPOAND New Acre OP PARLIAMENT TOIL BIRCEN-
HISAD.—From a Correspondent.—Mr. Goldfinch, barrister-
at-law and Mr. Rennie, civil engineer, presided at the
Town-hall, Birkenhead, on Monday and Tuesday, the 18th
and 19th, under the provisions of an act passed in the last
session of parliament, for the purpose of examining witnesses
and making inquiries relative to the Water Act for which
the commissioners of the township are applicants, and to

effect the compulsory purchase, froM Mr. ss . Jackson ant
others, of the gas and water works in that township. On
Tuesday afternoon the inquiry ws s promptly brought to a
close by Mr. William Jackson, the principal director of the
militia:l water company, promising to give water gratuitously
for sanatory purposes, and to do all the other acts contem-
plated by the hill of the commissioners, and to put in a
written document to this effect on Friday. This was deemed
aufsfwviory. On Wednesday Mews. Goldfinch awl Rennie
commenced their Official inquiry upon the sanatory bill of
the commissioners. Mr. Townsend read through the several
clauses of the bill, upwards of 200 in number. Mr. William
Jacksiin, Mr. Hicklnn, and Mr. Mortimer seked a variety. of
questions relative to the measure, after which Mr Brownngg
submitted the following financial statement respecting the
resent valuation of property of the township :
and Monk's Ferries, E. ad. C. ad.
Nett income over expenditure
Value of Woolaldr, he., Ferries, • --
Taken at 25 yeses' purchase 273,000
Market, at rose
7,601 yards of land no ankh It .a
ISMS 0

at 4011.
43,568 0 0
Slaughter-homes, at east . . 7,413 0 0
Land on whkth they stan47Bll 8,331 0 0
Land per Mr. 64ewart't -- 10,924 0 0
New Park, Inaelsrkk, Sm.
Una depout nwelred on land
205,871 0 0
Land .old In ley and Cheater Sera& 1,169 0 0
Land not valued by Mr. Stewart:
2,451 yds tared for Toren-hall, at 40a. 4.902 0 0
2,965 An. for 13ndewell, at 40..
3,223 do. around the Slaughter-
houww, M 13a 3,917 0 0
3,267 do. around Market, at Mb
93,0436 do. Cemetery Land, at 66 27,400 0 0
6,302 do. Collegiate Land, at3a. 6d 3,334 0 0
61,055 0 0
Value of Old Torre-halt materials

Z 396,317 0 .0
•
Amami elsurs. 334,317 0 0
Amount lx‘rrovrei as bases ...304367 13 0
Flaatang debt ..... 31,190 0 0

197,563 IS 0
Las, which rill be recovered as smetet
et hew haw sad wbii rem pert et
tee lbelbedelt ...... ..... 0 eq•e• • 0
. • --MLR* IS 0

Sanitise's: debt M 1221 5 0
At four o'clock the inquiry was tdjourned until ten neat morn-
ing. On Thursday, the inquiry in connexion with the sani-
tory bill was resumed. Mr. Brine and Mr. Salter, the pur-
veyors, and other of thy township otSc• re, were nailed to
give evidence as to the drainage and sewerage•, in order to
ascertain whether it came up to the requirement of the go-
vernment commissioners. They were also examined at to
' the public edifices, including the Town-hall, their cost, *e.,
and the erection of buildings in general. The next subject
that came before the surveyors was sato the street pevementa
' and seem, and on this head a great body of evidence was
taken. Some information was also elicited as to the neces-
sity of haring public cemeteries away from ►he town, and
the injury to public health from allowing intermenta in
enrchyards and other pieces situate in large towns. On
Friday, Mr. Mellaby, on the part of She present water
company, laid before the commis,iorten a written document,
containing the conditions under which the former were
willing to carry nut the projected alterations. Evidence
was addnonf. on the part of the company to show that the
present rates' offered by the company were more advan-
tageous than those' proposed by the commissionen,
Mr. Nicholls put in a protest against the bill of the consruitT
sionen, on the following grounds : -1. Because the granting
of powers to trade on money levied from the rate-payers wee

bad in principle. 2. Because no company of in lividuar
trading on their private capital will be aide to compete with
parochial hoards trading on money Weird front the public,
free from all pee sonal lishility, and irrespornihht either for
the outlay nr the prefits to be levied fro tu a trot lies
bon. 3. Because such powers will give rise to e;cl .tts job-
bing, and the mosey of the rate-payers may be squandered
by managers wi o will be selected more from their ietitiene•
in the town then their fitness for office. 4. Bes toe- Birken-
head is now well supplied with water at ratealower than those
lac which the commissioners propme to supply it. 6. Because
the poorer elane s are now tepee ately stipp led with water at
rates very much lens in proportion that the wealthier chi ,es,
while the very revers, is proposed by the promoters of 'his
hill. 6. Because thecommissionets are not authorised by their
financial position to erect, establish, or purcha e such works,
as the rot.', are progressively increasing in the t Avuship,
and their present debt is 387,6651. besides the general obli-
gations due from them. 7. Because if Ow principle is
, admitted of diverting the rates from township to troling
! purposes, no manufacturer, shopkeeper, or artisan will b•
secure from the competition of a great parochial board.
i Mr. Nicholls handed ti the commi-sioners a list euidaining
the names of most of the p-incipal ratepayers, who had
authorised him to enter this protest as much un th it as on
his own beha'f. Robert Hughes, 14sq , owner,( 100 houses
in the township, and agent fur 300 more, was examined at
great length ley the commissioner., Mr. Lloyd, and other
gentlemen. Ills es i holm went to ,how the eel gooey of the.
supply of water, its cheapness compared with Liverpool and
other places %bete he had property, the utter folly of the
proposed bill and its iniquitous principle, the satisfac-
tion lies tenantry expressed with present arrangements, and
his determinaeion to support the Bil Me.. Jacobin, out only
from a sense of gratitude for their past disinterested con.luct,
and their generous offer at the present juncture, bus from
an asaurance that the men who had risked a large capital,
when they had but a poor prow-et of any return, in the sup-
ply of gen and water to the township, and supplied it at a
cheap rate, without profits, having the power to lay on
heavier rates and secure a profit, would evince tie same
liberal spirit hencefolth and do mole both in will and deed
for the place in which they had personally so large a
stake, than any body of commucionert could or
would do under any CiTCLIIIIISUIIIeeII.—Mr. Lied d (in
replying upon the ease of the opponents of the bill) com-
menced by justify Mg the eonduat of the commissietiert iii
going to parliament to ask for the powers as to water which
were essential to thane by whom the general asnitury regula-
tions were to be carried out. lie gave Mr. Jackson credit
fur having acted in a spirit of the utmost liberality to the
township in the establishment of gas and venter works at a
period when few individuals would have venture! to eng ige•
in so hold an und. flaking. But while he applauded Mr.
Jackson's miterprise, he contended that it was MO ,ary
that governing bodies should have the management of such
works as were necessary to the carrying out of the sanitory
regulations. If the township affairs were not in a satisfac-
tory condition, he was certain there were those among them
who would lend their money to the township to carry out what
they believed to be necessary. He concluded by contending
that the promoters of the bill would in no seal be personally
benefited by the steps they were now taking; and that
in all their pence...dings they wore solely actuated by
a desire to promote the int. rests of the township of Beckett-.
head.—This closed the proceedings on the pert of the pro-
moters and the opp meets of the bill.—Mr. Goldfinch ex-
pressed his regret that the proposal rf Mr. Jackson ha': Gallon
to the ground, alter the prospect of amicable settlement,
which there at one time appeared to he. He had on) one
suggestion to make, via., whether the works might not remain
under the management of the present company, and the com-
missioners enter into a contract for the supply of the public
works—No party appeared to have looked at the que ohm in
the view put by the: learned commissioner; and aft, e Mr.
Jackson, Mr. Potter, and Mr. Hieklin had tespeetit ex-
pressed their thanks for the kindn. se ai 41 couttest • her
majesty's commissioners, the inquiry was closed with retard
to the water. The inquiry respectiug the gab wee postponed.
I We cannot better elite our account of these proceedings than
by expressing our conviction, with that of other parties with
whom we have met, that this inquiry cannot fail to prove
how much Birkenhead owes to the energy and perseverance
of Mr. William Jackson. His most bitter opponents have
been compelled to allow this, in one shape or other. Birken-
head, alter all, is a practical proof of his genius. Its squares,
streets, park, docks, and railway have stamped upon them
the impress of a great mind ; let that mind have honour duo
The editor of the J.irerpool Mail, in an article on this sub-
ject, says
We have, In • impplemental duet, published a fell report of the
inquiry befit the two goscroment emonn..ionent sittiog at Birken-
head, la reference to a proposal to parchAm from Mr. Jacksun aid
others the right to supply Unit toiriaamp with Ras and water. The
township, as most of our fowlers know, is Already well no
place better, but this Is done by a company, of which nr.
Jackson u the principal representative. The local comminsionens are
&strati., of having the works In their ova hands. Thi• rat not Sight
seems piausible enough, but the 0001[11.11,4011011 shouldkiuk a few
yeses bark, and recollect what Dirkeehe.id was when the whole body
of commissioners refused to entertain for a single amount the propo-
sition toe erecting three worts. They were retwatedLuged to:4:a
but they declined the responsibility. They declared let they
ant involve the township Is debt, sad invented ail sorts of enemies.
Then it woo that Mr. Wm. Jackson almost single.h.indnilly came t or-
ward, took a lee of seventy-five years from them, and constructed
storks at an moronism expense, and, hi an amazingly short
ryna of time, the whole of Birkenhead and ports adjacent were sup-
plied with gas and water, as &Muni:Let in quantity end as gond en
quality as any town in England. It at, therefore, in our .iinion, hard
and incidems to deprive Mr. Jackson of the benefit. of hin en:el
particularly an the township cannot possibly coinpervte 111111 Inc the
inks be dirt run and the capentliture he has Incurred.
EARL GitGAVENOK has issued the following 'adieu to the
electors of Chester

______._
Gentlemen, —The retirement of Lord Robert Gromeeor ha. recs.
ginned a vacancy in the repreftentation of your ancient city; and
although I omid have wished fur more yearn to middy myself an a
candidate fur your raaffragev, I trust you will not comelier me i/30
pre,wmptuona in aspiring to obtain the confidence with which yen
have bonnumi c, many of my family. I fully putidpate in the
tegni so imierally felt by you on being deprived, by any oir-
rumrunners, of your highly-eatermcd reprenentatise, and though,.
I cannot promo, to devote to your nervier be Wad
and ability ~zerted by my toxin I fang It will be found
, that I shall not be eurobond by him In Um meet and ardour with which
he has promoted your nod intenota and your general vino. in Para.
hairiest. At my early period of UN, I hope I may be excareed hem
making too many pledgee for the future ; but I have an anxious desire
to support every measure which may tend to the improvement of that
mend condition of the met body of the people, and I bore no Melte-
bon in declaring my Nil concurrence in that enlbrhteneid mutant of.
oommereiat pnbey, the advantages of which are now Mown.'
universally admitted, and which hen received the warm
nupport Wore with whore I uu iromectLltely vonnicted.
The penal fur which I what a trial' ,mat near&
eerily be abort. Should Ibe fortunate enough to obtain the honour'
which t seek at your hands, I trust that by a conwlentiorm discharge'
of the important dude. eflertldied to me, 1 may contisiur to merit your
coniktersoe, ant that after a lapse of a few months I may be ank to:
mve you a sari serer account of my Ira'.-1 have, lie.,
.root.—Meta flail, Jon. 23,
His lordship, accompanied by a numerous party of friends
and supporters, has commenced a per,onal cant au of the
city, and is at present the only candidate. If c will doubtless
be elected without opposition.

COMMISSION AY TNr LUYII------------- —J . S. Lumley,
to be lieut.' Nice W. S. Clowes, of South, rn Nottinghamshire
Yeomanry Cavalry.
nr veer" es w

COMMISSION NY T-1-16-LOZ1) LIT.i'TSNANT. --C. W. Jebb,
to be lieut. Royal Gloucestershire Yeomanry Cavalry, vine
Sawyer.

WILTSIIIRY_

•
Tug ELECTION AT SALISBUKT took plaoe on 11,nday,
when Mr. Chaplin, Chairman of the South-Western' was,
eteeted to serve in parliament for that city. Mc. C. 11. Wall .
having stated his intention to revzve his opposition till the
general election, and Mr. Martin having r.tired, Mr. Chao-
linii walked over the movie." He was propos3d by Mr.
Heti .y, a Conservative, and seconded by Mr. Fawcett, •
Liberal. „

COVIIIIIVIIONS ST MS LORD LI iture x&Nrg.—J. Newsom.
Eq., and Col. N. Alves, to be deputy lieutenants.

• KENT.
REPRICSIINTATION or firroz.—Mr. Marjortharike wiat
retire frog the representation of thin borough at the neat
general election ; and Mr. Edward Drake Brockman of the
l'achiuk, Hythe, is already in the field eolie.ti,w the stit
(rages or the eecturs. Mr. is ► Wnig-ltadical.

J. Williams and C. J. a. rjesnt. Engineers, Tartarwe; K. Gray,
Bontaw.da, netory, advanced In Ind elm.

limcusier Swancr.—Prom lost Nights C •nrtfe.—A List of all the
Masten mad Mates in the Merchant Sr, vice, who ham volunt ,ruy
pared an Examination and &gained Certiecates of Qualification
fur the ma. animal esda alagned, under the itopulationa trued
by the Board of Trade, mince the 12th Minor*, IBIS:
Hurries.. -O. Millwood, 24 clu.s cone:ate, brig Malta, Newcastle;
roar. Near t e; W. Duncan, lot, (Bomb, Ca.tic,
Dundee; W. Hederetcdt,3d, Loodon; W. Ileddle, 24, Archi-
pelago, Newom.la ; H. A. Herbert, 2d, Lee, London; N. K. Narracntt,
28. I:werreta, London; R. Leeds, 3d. PerseWeence. Seerbormarh ;
Di"... IR 11atla, mensoutb; C. Irvine, 2J, Tole of Wight,
'dodo°, W. Hai& —; L. Gem 7, Plandia, New- lone; J.I.
7,thett. esia. hensaerough ;C. 21. E. Jullns, Ist extra, Cambria.
letettra, Flash •th Comer, Liverpool; W. 11. P.
Hotd, 94, Jim Crow, Tannooth ; W. Hooper, It, Jane Skirrefs,
Newcastle; W. Stalmuu, Id, Onyx, Newcastle ; T. Bruce, 3d, Dhow,
Newcastle; W. T. Bobinaort, 24, Itaby Caole, Newcastle; W. 0.
Otriptell, It extra Umbria (0,, Liverpool; A. Eyrie. Ist rant,
Hibernia (a). Liverpool; IL Mils* lot, Hoven, Glasaner ; S. I..Wilkin.
aaa,. at„ Bear" London; T. Thomas, 3.1, Newcastle; J. IL
Booth, Ist, Britannia, Gleepow ; J. Minton, 241, Rowena. Newcastle;
T. boom, 11, brie, Irvine; M. lagoon, 24, Aid, Neweetle ;E.
penman, 24, Liverpool; J. Mono. lot extra, Hibernia,
Liverpool ; K. T. Studer, lat. Tay, London ; T. Stowell, 2.1, Auspi.
Mono, Newaolle ; A. Wilson, lot, Avon, London; D. It Alincton, 3d,
Am'. Br Newesetk; C. Dribble, 2J, (Peon Queen, ton-
do; IL Ward, lot, William, Yarmouth; P. Jaw.clon. 3d, John'..
Newcasur; J. o‘rter. hi, Wensleydale, Neared!: ; W. Harr:Non, Is:
entre, Ames. Liverpool; J. P.. (army. lot extra Anders-ea. Liver-
pool ; Little, It extra, /triton::.:.Liveßets4 ;W. M. Dunn, 2d,
—;E. (I. Lott, lot extra, CAdonto, Liverpool; J. Spicer, 3d,
Osprey, Plymonth ; .1. Duncan, 2A, Memnon, Kewanee; T. Kind-
hough, ht, t ,thnlnr Ann. Newcastle; A. Smith. 31, Jun`, Hartle-
pool ; D. D. Wabart, let, Margaret, London ; T. Hooper, 2+4 Pomona,
Noveaddh; W. Symons, lit, ( lyde, London.
M sec—A. latex, Ist clam emit/cote, Mat:., Dundee; J. Johnson,
In, Felicity, Liverpool ; 0. Cooper. 2d, AclWlrs, Kirkaldy.
SPORTING.

NNWJIARI(IiI' CRATER NIF.RTING, 1647.
Auvrssms Ilmintese —Pyrrhus the First,
)r., P 4 I lib; Hulett, 5 yrs, 34 lab; Sting, 4 yrs. 64 Cb;
ym, SIR Sib; Brown* 4 yrs, Sat Sib; Leidy Wildair, Syn. Set;
Rises% of Tyne, aged, 74 13Ib ; Fostigool, 4 yrs, 74 1316 ; Reshenl7.
5 yrs, 741111; Reftnetion, 5 yrs, 741016; 1104 Rower, 6 yrs. 74 Sib;
Due an Hume. 5 yrs, 7st 7111; Campanile, S yrs, .4 71b; room,
yrs, 7st Ma; Two Tunnels. 1 yrs, 7.. t Sib; Obry, Ip., 1 t 31b;
Vanish, 4 yrs, 74 2lb Humdrum, 4 yrs, 74 lib; Free I arcs. 4 yrs,
74 Ilb ; Satyr, 6 yrs. 64 1310; Finrarsgh, 4 vrs, est 1316; Scarlet
Runner, S ym, ad Illb ; Cocos NM, 6 yrs, list 11b; Lyneras. 4 yrs,
est 111 h; ftbowYgli. 5 yrs, 5.t Illb ; Queen Anne, 4 any 64 Illb ;
Crosier, 3 yrs, Set Mb; Deell-me-aire, 3 yrs, 3st bib; Springbuck,
3 yrs, 54 Sib; 3 yrs, 34 6:11; Bit Nibble, 3 yrs,
54 41b; Wistelidoe. 3 yrs, Ist 416; M. st.ee. S yrs, Sot IS,; Palms,
3 yrs, 34 lib; Sir Marlin, 3 yrs. 44 131 b; Vampyre, 3 yrs, 44 10I6;
e. by Euclid, dam by Taurus, 3 yrs, 4t 10I6; Dis.ontent, ? yrs, 4t 616.

LEAMINGTON STEEPLE CILLSES.—WIDSt.DAY.
Lnanieuros 'remote MITJLTOON. -- Arrivals. The fnUowthg
boron, in addition to thaw kettle 4les not yet eland, have arrived
ROTAL Heim Cyr of 100 guMese Beishasair. The Rorer, Black
Satin, Albert, Marengo, Whitencee, The cobbler of the Sets, leina or
the Vollee-, PolLiway, blue Dell, Gessequlll, Mehomcd, Wstenvdeb,
Evergreen, Mayflower.
11,a..vanc 1.1. LAMAS RATA DebelaMir, 114; The Cobbler of the
Seim Ilst; Leo, 10st 1110.
THIVINDAT. —UMW 01401 HANDICAP Pioneer, 124 1:b; Latitat,
114 HO; Jerry, 114; Eagle, 11x4; The Snipe, 1114; Red Lancer,
11.1; Orden, 104 12Ib ; Little John, 104 1 Ilh ; 31amelnke, 10et 9:b;
Ambassador, 1041110 ; Dine Pill, :net elb ; Merida., 104 alb; The
Roarer, 10st 71b; Tamworth, Heet s:b; The Gobbler of the Seim
10et 4th; Profligate, lest 33h; Mahomed, Inst; sod Red Ilaworth,l94.
Rome good " &Ads" expected ; the ground very wet and sticky;
shout 30 hawses here and at Warwick.

;La's Ertielliatnte.
LAW NOTICE.

The following aria* is auhatituted for that which appeared in the
Leaden Onsetteor Frift.y List, Jan. 22.—Court of Queen'a Bench.—
Hilary Term.--tOda Viet., Jul. 21. —.Th:a court will, on Tuniday, the
9i day of February era t, and the two following II ly/4. and on Mon.
day, the 3tli day of February, and t‘ e dye following day; holding
;sittings, :aid will pros rd in disposing of the hosiers.. In the New
'Trial Paper, the (knelt Paper, and the special Paper, and giving
odgment in calm then peisding=Bv vim Omar.

SPRING AItSIZIF4, 1817.
Ilene Ciaerrr.—Lrwr AMIXIM—Lard Chid Justioa Denman and
Lord Chief fustier Wilde. Ifertfordshire.—At Itertrord, Tuesday,
March 2. flearx.—At Chelmsford, Monday, March 8. Nl.ll4—At
fieldstone, Mooney. Ihirch 15. tatewre.— at Levee., Monday, March
22. Biarrey.,-At I:instate:l, Monday March 29. The above are the
days appointed by the above-named judges far 11,1 ding the next en-
suing wehimlbr tte Marne Cirmin.
Nearness Cascurn—The fallowing days have Wen appoirdni for
opening the COMMilalOll on the Northern Chant Lancaster.—Mon-
den February 15. Appieby.--Thunday, February It. Carlisle.—
Saturday, Fthreary 10. Newcastle. -- Wediesday, February 24.
Di.rham.—Monday, March I. York.-saturday,Mtech G. Liverpoot.—
Rituality, Mann 20. Judges, Mr. Baran Alderson and Mr. Baron
Rolfe.

EQUITY COURTS.—YRSTIIIIDAY.
_ Before the Muter of the Rolls.

ONNERAL D. ens TRONMoNOCRA' COMPANY.
—ALLOWANCE or Raxarox's Exermirs.—This suit was
inetituted to administer •charity found. d by Thomas liAton,
in 1723, of which he bad constituted the Ironmongers'
C,nprey the trustees. The testator directed half of the
income of his residuary estate to be applied t >ward; the
redemption of British slaves in Turkey or Barbary ; and he
gave a fourth pert to the charity schools in the city and
suburbs of Londin. The trust for redemption of British
slaves baring failed far wan: of objects it was declared by the
court in this rut that the income int.-ode 1 for that purpose
should he applied for the benefit of all schools in England
and Wales. Under thin decree Messrs. Yates end Turner,
tit• solicitors of the Wenn, caused advertisements to be in.
warted in all the principal London and country papers
inviting persons to give information as to schools
which were fit objects to participate in the charity :
numerous application.' were lent in, and Means.
Yates and Turner havir t communieated respecting
them with Arelideanon Sinclair, the secretary, and other
leading members of the National Society for Promoting
Education in England and wales, certain printed questions
were prepared by the anion, and forwarded by Messrs.
Yates and Turner to the parties applying, for the purposes of
information. A great mess of information was col-
lected by this means, and Menne. Yates and Turner having
prepared a scheme based on this information, and in which
they divided all the schools which b.. 1 applied into classes,
proposing a different amount to be paid tee each class, laid it
before the master. This scheme was rejected by the master,
and ultimately he approved of a scheme brought in by the
relator, and founded partly on a suggestion of the Iron-
mongers' Company, and partly on the suggestion of the
secretary of the National Society, whereby the income
was to be apportioned amongst the various dioceses
in England and Wales, and the National Society
was to select the schools to be benefited. This scheme was
approved by the court, with the exception of the power of
selection given to the National Society, which it thought it
had not Jun...fiction to give, and the scheme was finally
waled by removing tho power of sele,tion from the National
Society, and Riving it to the Ironmongers' Company, who
were to exercise it with the advice of the bishop of each
diocese. At the hearing of the cause for further directions,
the relator claimed to be alkewed the expenses of the a.dvcr-
tlsements which he had published, and of the printed
questions which had been distributed : but the court
considered that it bad not sufficient Watorma!ion
before to decide upon this claim, and th et it
ought to be brought forward by petition. The relator
now presented a petition to be allowed these expenses.
—Mears. C. P. Cooper and Spurrier, for the peti-
tioner, insisted that the information piocured by meanie of the
advertiseeneuts and questions had been of the greatest ser-
vice in enabling the master to settle the scheme, and that the
expense of them ought to be allowed.—Mr. Kindersley, for
the company, contended that the expose was quite unne-
cessary, and was incurred without the authority of the
master, and at the mere instance of Megan. Yates and Turner
for their own benefit, and that the scheme ultimately adopted
was not bawd on the information thus obtained, but was
ancges•tvl by parties connected with the National Society,
and might have been prepared without a single advertise-
anent being published.- -The case was not concluded.

Beam the Vice-Chareellor of England.
ATTORICZT-G ANNEAL e. Tn en:Leans—INFORMATION.
—ONANT Or LANDS TO THE MORPETH SCHOOL NT KING
EDRAILD Vl—This was an information filed by the At-
terney-General at the relation of the master of the Grammar
School at Moipeth, to recover certain lands, formerly
Chantey lands, which were the subject of a pant to the ,
bailiff and burgesses of Morpoth, for the benefit of the
school, by King Edward VI., in 1553. The original infor-
mation was filed in this court in the year 1710 against the
defendant, who ri.pretented the family of Thornton, to whom
a lease foe 600 pen of the Chantey lands had been granted
in the year 1685. The object of the information was to set
aside this lame. Aet a hill was filed by the heir and exe-
cutor of the levee to have the lease established, and a decree
was made in the Tear 1712 by Lord Harcourt. Under this
decree a oommismon was to ascertain which were the '
Chantry lends on granted by King Edward, and if they were
ant able to discover which were the lands, then to ascertain
what was the value of such lands, and to fix the amount
that ought to be made good to the charity. The commis-
sioners under this decree reported that the lands could not be
ascertained, but the value of them was set forth. No far-
ther proceedings were taken under that decree, and a deed
of compromise was executed, by which it was agreed that
the SUM of 2,0001. should he made good by the family of
Thornton, for the benefit of the school, or that 1001. per
annum should be paid ; and it was agreed that an act of par- I
lisment should be obtained within two years, for gising effect '
to this arrangement; and if no such act should he obtained,
then the persona claiming on behalf of the charity were not
to be bound by the agreement. The family of Thornton lase
ever since continued in pormessioto of the Chantry land., and
have regularly paid 1007. per annum as rent ; but no act of ,
parliament has ever been pawed to sanction the contract. This,
was a supplemental information, and it prayed that the lease
for 1500 years might be set aside, and that the defendants
might set out the boundaries of the Chantey lamb, and make
compensation by conveying lands of equal value to the
bailiff end burgesses, in malefaction of the lands withheld by
ebe defendants under the lease. Mr. Stuart and Mr. Bate'
appeared for the relators ; Mr. J. Parker and Mr. HubbacE
for the corporation ; Mr, Bethell, Mr. Otter and Mr. Prick
fur the defendant,.

The Viee.Chancellor said it appeared that the contract
contained a clause that finless an act of parliament were ob-
tained within two jean, then the permns claiming on behalf
of the charity were ros to be bound 10 the argemeat. The
net was not obtained i thtretore, inasmuch ea that thing wee
not done which the parties agreed to do, there wee an end
of the matter. Since that time there had been a voluntary
,ing and aeceptanse on troth indent the SUM of 100 f. per
,Peuen, but there itas nothing binding in this. The qnes-
lion then wee, whether, after one hundred and thirty yoan,
the parties were not in the same situation m at fire.
It appeared to him that the relators were entitled to
o decree, and to the benefit of the proceedings under
the first information. There Must, therefore, be a reference
to tie masere, to ascertain what portion of the lands held by
the Thurston &mill, in 1714 would be of equal value with
there granted Vy King Harvard VI , and what land ought to
be given nay in sati,faction for 111101 lands.

!dint Viseeksnrellor Knight Bruce.
Sainte% e. liongtga.—Quin.flos OP Pniaollll*
'The NCI, cf rasfeeri in this paper c I'r:day
kW Ten 4Wiracy.Genetal, Mr. Russell, Mr. Stiatott, and

I Mr. Cleasby were yesterday heard for the defendants.
The two ratan points which they made were these
—First, that the dveleratioue of Elicabe.h Allen could
not be admitted in this can, even upon a question of
pedigree ; because she was not, is the first instance, proved
by evidence aliunde to bare been • member of the family,
or connected therewith, and also because the plaintiff, Mrs.
Shields, was her admitaistratrix, which. in a lard point of
yam, was equivalent to herself being plaintiff, in which
ease, clearly, her declarations could not be received.
Smondly, that the questions proposed were not mere matters
of description, nor connected with the name or description
of the party, but were q uestions as to separate independent
fare. Mr. Serjcant Tat:turd having been heard in reply,
Ilis Honour suggested this difficulty ; namely, that since
the trial, the evidence of Slnelde the younger, who stated
that he had travelled to Wolverley, had been corroborated
by the affidavits of three persons, who were not examined at
the trial. One of them (Coxford) deposed to Shields having
been at Wolverley j and hie Honour wished to know whether
Coaford could, at the trial, have been placed in the witness-
box in order to corroborste the testimony of Shields, sup-
posing Shields's testimony to ba doubtful; and also whether
the absence of Co:font's evidence at the trial, under such
eir.surustances, would, iu a Court of Common Law, be con-
sidered a sufficient ground for granting a new trial ? His
Honour directed the case to stand over till Thursday, in
order that he might b.:satisfied on those points before giving
judgment.

Before Xice•Chanortior vitamin
DAWSON V. PAT/M.—INJUNCTION AGAINST COMMIS-
SION V.RS I*NDER A DRAINAGE Acr.—The plaintiff' in this
case, the owner of certain lands in the township of Osgodby,
in Yorkshire, had from time immemorial used an ancient
watercourse for the piirpoie of draining his land., and, fur
the imnrovement of the drainage, had widened a bridge
some dis%ince below them. The defendants, who ware
commissioners npphintel under an inclosurc and drainage
or', had cut seine new drains into the ancient wet rcourse,
at a point below the plaintiffs land, but obove the
bridge, whereupon the present bill was filed by the plain.
tiff, stating that the ariontity of water brought down
by the new drains wou:d be so great, that it would
pen back the water in the main drain, and cause the plain-
tiffs land to be flooded ; and praying that the defendants
might he restrained from using the new drains, so as to ob-
struct or interfere with the free passage and flow of the
water from the plaintiffs lands along the ancient drain. In
November, 1844, the injunction was granted ex parte; and
upon the hearing of the motion to dissolve in April 1845, his
Honour directed an issue to try whether the drainage made
by the defendants into the ancient water course would have
the eff. ct complained of by the bill. Upon the trial of that
issue in Jely 1815, a verdict was found in favour of the plain-
tiff; and a second trial, which was afterwards directed,
of the same issue, had been attended with the
same result. The cause now come back fir hear-
ing upon the question whether the injunction
should be made perpetual, and upon the costs of the pro-
cecdfiqs. At the conclusion of the argument, which was
conducted by Meiors. Andardon, Hominy, and Crawford for
the plaintili, and by Messrs. K. Parker, Makin, and M. A.
Sher for the defendants, his Honour reserved his judgmmt.

POLICE.-YESTERDAY,

CLERK E N WE LL. —S ROP.LIMTINO.—Mary Davies was
charged by Mr. Thomas Doubble, Guendraper, No. 311,
Leather-lane, aitl stealing twenty-six yards of damsel'
cloth. The prisoner had been in the habit of visiting hh
shop for a considerable time past to make trifling purchase.,
and from the reapecubility of her appearance she was not
suspected of rubbery, a:• hough articles were invariably
missed after she had left the shop. On the 12th instant she
paid a vitit, when a large roll of damask cloth was missed.
He determined ou laying a trap for her detection, Sir which
purpow he attached 4 picc of string to the above twenty-six
yards of damask, about eight yards long, the length of the
shop, and pLaced •
.he property at the furthest end of the
counter, where toe prisoner usually went on entering the
place. Yesterday morning the prisoner called again, whilst
witness was alone in the sloop, and asked for • small quantity
of calico. He was folding it up when the ;risoner went to
the end of the shop under pretence to look at a cloak, the
price of which she asked, when she contrives' to conceal the
twenty-six yards of damask cloth under her shawl, and not
perceiving the string attached to the end of it, she walked
back, received the calico a hich she asked for, and was le►v-
ing, but the extent of the string prevented her further pro-
gress than to the door, and, onturning round, the string, one
end of which was fastened to a nail in ti:e wall at the end of
the shop, twisted about h'. r neck, and the property falling
from her, she was nearly i trangled by its weight. He called
a policeman anl give her into custody.— Mr. Greenwood
tad Mr. Doubble he had acted very foolishly, and he had
outwitted himself in his attempt to entrap the prisoner. It
could not be construed into a case of stealing, as the property
had not been severed. Having suspected the prisoner he
ought to have dispensed w ith the string, awl have watched
her until she took the property away from the shop, and then
have stopped her. Mr. Greenwood committed the prisoner
fur the attempt to steal the property, but in order to afford
the police an opportunity to trace other property he would
remand her until Saturday next.
BENP.VOLBKCE.—W. S. forwarded 21. to the poor-box of
this court, with a request that its receipt might he acknow-
ledged in the Daily News.

WORSHIP-STRERT.—BeNHVOLENCE.—The sum of 2/.
was received for the poor-box from W. S., and 21. from
C. A. R., who requested an acknowledgment through the
medium of the press.

WESTMINSTER. EXTENSTVE Frtstms.—Mary Ann
Collins was finally examined, charged with defrauding a
great number of tradesmen.—Depositions had been taken in
five cases against the prisoner on the previous examination,
and three fresh charges were added to the number. In
some of them she had, on entering a tradesman's shop, asked
for some trifling article, in purme,t for which she put down a
sovereign; and on the change being given to her, discovered
that tho article was too hiih-priced, ec otherwise did not
suit her; and returning what appeared to be the full change,
she received her sovereign b ick, and then left the shop: but
whenever an opportunity ocaarred, from the circumstance of
the tradesman knowing th.., amount of silver he had had
in his till, of counting the change after her depar-
ture, it was invariably d;saaveret that the prisoner had,
whilst putting it in his hand, contrived to purloiv u portion.
—The prisoner w.•a committed for trial on eight charges.