The Express.
London, England, 1848-01-21 00:00:00

and Honionhant C., Norf. ; dio., Norw.—The Rev. T
Byers, to the Chaplainship of Oakham County Gaol.

NAVAL.
PORTSMOUTH, JAW. 20.—An admiralty order has been
received to enter 200 second-clan boys on board the Vic-
tory, for the perpcie of being brought up as seamen for the
Royal Navy. Vine boys are to serve 12 months on board
the Vinery previously to their being appointed to sea-going
ships. Additional petty officers and artificers are to be ap-
pointed to the Victory to instruct these boys in their naval
duties.
Wootwiat, JAN. 20.—A fire broke oat yesterday on
board the Dee steamer, lying in the basin. The alarm was
given ten minutes before one o'clock, as the men were es-
turning frost dinner, and in about ten minutes the fire was
subdued, the damage done being quite trilling. An engulfy
is being held to-day before the authorities as to the cause of
the fire, which is supposed to be perfectly accidental.—
Banshee, at.-v , which left on Monday for Chatham, made
the passage to that port in three hours and a quarter.—
Caradoc, which wee to have been do-iced at this port
on Monday, was not brought down in consequence of the
tides not tieing sufficiently high to enable her to be got oat
of dock. She will, therefore, remain till the next Trines,
when she will be brought sl,srn to Woolwich.—Llewellyn,
st.-v. (the last of the Holyhead and Dublin line of packeta),
is announced to be launched from the yard of Messrs. Miller
and Itavenbill on Saturday next at high water, which will
be shortly after two o.clock.—Capt. W. Houston and Lista.
J. Herbert have been ordered to study at the steam factory._
ADMIRALTY, JAN, 20.—APPOINTMENTS.—Lieut. W. H.
Hood, to Oemn.—Surg. H. H. Turnbull and Acting &mist.-
Surg. W. E. M'Clure, to Havanneh.—Clerk : T. 1). Con-
coni, to Perseus.—Master's Assist.: W. C. Hare, to Poictiere.
—Assist. Engineers J. Sese.d, to Blenheim; H. Thorn-
ton, to Terrible ; J. Lawler, to Royal Sovereign.—Acting
/ Gunner Clentinson, to Excellent.

SPORTING.
TATTERSALL'S.—Tnr Ran ..r.
The publication of the Handicap for the Cheater Cap has
bad the effect of making Blaze tint favourite; 2.5 to I was
the highest offer yesterday, and this only in one quarter;
1,000 to 30 was offered bar one ; 40 to 1 would have been
taken, and Kelealie, we believe, would have been selected.
A slight improvement in Surplice was the only change in the
Derby. Latest pins:
LEAMINGTON &CRETIN CHASE.-6 to 1 agat The Chandler
(t); 7 to 1 apt Gseeley (t) ; 10 to 1 apt Proceed (t to Cut.);
12 to 1 apt Evergreen (t to 761.)
Nawmainerr ILANDICAP.—Even on the field apt 1.5; 16
to I apt Kimblesworth.
CRESTIR CUP.-25 to 1 apt Blaze (t 30 to V;33 to 1
apt Keleshe It 40 to 1) ; 1,000 to 20 apt War Eagle (t and
sit off) ; 1,000 to 20 apt Giselle (t) ; 1,000 to 20 apt New-
court (t end aft off); 1,000 to 20 apt Cossack (t sod en off ;
1,000 to 15 apt Joe o' Sot ; 1,000 to 15 agst The Tartar (t.)
DERRY —9 to 1 apt Surplice (t 10 toll) ; 20 to 1 apt
Springy Jack (t) ; 2.5 to 1 attitit Nil Desperandum (t to
uta
1601.); 33 to 1 eget Ce aft off ); 1,000 to 30 apt
Besborourh (t) ; 60 to 1 apt eraun (t. to 701.); 1,000 to
25 apt Edie Ochiltree (t and aft off).
RUTAL LEAMINGTON AND ROUTH•M STEEPLE CHASE.
—Acceptances for the Grand Open Steeple Cbase Ha.idicap
of 20 son each, : Chandler, list Olb ; Proceed, 1 tit Sib ;
Jerre, llst 41b ; The Nigger, 11 st 31h ; Discount, lOst 121 b;
Profligate, lOst ; Tamworth, lOst 6lb ; Chronometer,
lOst 6lb ; Culverthorpe, lOst 61b ; Beekeeper, 10,t 41b ;
Gaseley, lOst 41b; Matchless, lOst 31b ; St. Ruth, 104 2!h;
Eagle. flat 1011, ; Gayhurst, flat Mb ; Evergreen, 9,1 71b;
Miss Fop, Out 51b.
NOMINATIONS FOR TIER ARISTOCRATIC CHASE.—
Belshazzar, Repealer, Thurgerton, Red Lancer, the Dove,
Kitty, Pullnsray, the Ticket, the Cart Hone, Forester,
Cnlow, Ballybar.

INTELLIGENCE EXTRA.—EITOM FIRST SPRING MEETING.
HANDICAP POE THE GREAT METROPOLITAN STAREA of
IS eon. each, 15 ft, and 5 only if declared on or before Feb. 1 ;
Pyrrhus the First. 9st Sib; Jericho, Sat; War Engle, Bst 13'b;
Lightning, Sat 131 b; inheritress, Bst 12ib; Jonathan Wed, gat 7lb
Lady Wildair, Sit lib; Rattrap, Sit Sib; Blackbird. Set 21b; Mnrpeth
Bet 21b; Reminiscence. tot 250; Mosta:tor, Sot; Velrts, est ; Antler
Bet; Ranelegh, Sot: Rowena, Sat; Bourton, Mt; Mix Elis, ant
Sweet Sauce, lit 121 b; Shawn Buidha, lit 1215; Atlarate, 7ot 1215
Sutlej, bet 121 b; Clermont, lot 121 h; Perp.V.Day Boy, lit 1015; Bri-
tannia, 7st 1016; Mirmilln, 7st 1016 ; Sir Arthur. bit 101 b; Clumsy,
lot 1016; Joe Lovell, let 101 b; The Tartar, lit Jib; Crosier, 7Ft ;
Montpeneier, Tat Blb ; The Best of Three. 7st Sib; Questannable.
let lib; Walturrate bar-without, 7st 610; Tufthunter, 7Ft elb; RUB,
let 61b; Projectile, lit 4.15; Spectator, 7st 51b; Cremorne, lit 41b;
I Stults, Tit 41b; Premier, bet 31b; Rufus, 7st Mb; Alboni, 7st 21b;
Executor, let Sib ; Enchanter, let Eb; Gannet, 7st Ilb ;
Tim Whiffler, bit llb ; Sagacity, let lib; Commis, let;
Marietta, 7st; Finer to Aigis, 7Ft ; Mountain Dew, lot; Tit Bit, Cat
131 b; Queen Mary, Set 131 b; Antagonist, bat 1 ; Fottinger, Get
12lb; MOKOW, Sat 1215; Vempyre, Est 1215; Praepert, 6st Illb;
Sultans, 64 12lb; Maid of Lyme, est 101 b ; Columbus, Set Sib ;
fist 91b ; Mulcahy Sit elb ; Marquis m Cuntngaarn, Gat 71b;
Catherine, Mt ; Pamionate, Set 41b; Daughter of tie Star, Ist
Sib; Widred, Set 415; Snuffbox. Set lib; Priem Charley, Sit lab;
Tortoise, Mt 71b; &spoon, Sit bib; Easier Plume, Sot 7th; SARUM,
Set 61b; Cracow, sst alb; Blelchingtor, Set 41b- Mack Ball, Set Sib;
Glen Sadden, Set 310 ; Bacchanalian, 54 31b; Gnarl Boy, Set ;
Madly, 5-4; Sclf [Mimics, Set 13Ib ; Slug, ilst 1216; Iktlection, 4il
121 b; Seaga, fat 1016; Remembrance, tat 1016.

tab) inttlttputt.

EQUITY COURTS.
Before the Lord ChaaorUor.

SILEARATT V. THE NOILTH STAMM/MIMI RAILWAY
COMPANY. AWARD.— CONSTRUCTION OP THE LkNINI
CLAUSES CONSOLIDATION Acr, 8 & 9 VICT. C. 18. a. 23 TO
31.—Thin was an appeal from a decision of Vice-Chancellor
Wigram, setting aside an award made by an umpire between
the plaintiff and defendants. The patties agreed to the op.
pointmen• of arbitrators to settle the damages which the de-
' fendants were to pay the plaintiff for the injury done to his
property by the defendants' works. The defendants gave
notice to the plaintiff on the 13th of February, 1847, and
appointed their arbitrator on the 23rd. The plaintiff ap-
pointed his arbitrator on the 9th of March. The arbitrotors
afterwards appointed an umpire, who made his award on the
28th of June, which was more than three months from the
completion of the appointment of the arbitrators. The
Vice• Chancellor held the award bad, chiefly on the ground
that more than three months elapsed between the time
of the completion of the appointment of the arbitrators
and the award. Mr, Stuart and Mr. Bovill were in support
of the appeal, and after referring to the 23rd end several sub-
sequent stations of the Lands Clams Consolidation Act, Bth
and 9th Vic., cap. 18, submitted that the Vice-Chancellor's
construction was wrong. Mr. Teed and Mr. St ere supported
the Vice• Chancellor's decision, and contentledthat the award
was bad on other grounds, such as partiality in the umpire
and want of finality.—The Lord Chancellor said there was
no proof of the charge made against the umpire, and after
going over the clauses of the act referred to, his lordship held
the Vice-Chancellor's oonstruction of them to be erroneous,
and reversed his Honour's decision.

Before the blaster of the Roth.
&Jr/JELL v. GILLS.—The Muter of the Rolls gave judg-
ment in this cue, which principally involved a quedion of
costs, the suit being instituted to recover certain money front
the defendant as the representative of his father, and the
liability to pay which was not disputed. Hie lordship appor-
tioned the costs smoogst the parties.

Before the Vtee-Chancellor of England.
RATCLIFFE C. BOND.—INJUNCTION TO RESTRAIN PRO-
CEEDINGS AT LAW.—Mr. Bethel' and Mr. Giffard showed
cause against dissolving an injunction obtained in this case
to restrain proceedings at law upon a bill of exchange fur
I,oooi. It was alleged by the plaintiff that be bad given
other hills in lien of that upon which the defendant Frede-
rick Bond hail brought his action, and that it was therefore
cancelled —The defendant alleged that he had purchased
the bill without notice of its having been satisfied.—Mr. Ralt
and Mr. Freeling appeared in opposition to the motion.—At
the conclusion of the argument+, the Vice. Chancellor said he
should examine very carefully the allegations on hith sides
before he gave his judgment.

&foes Vice-Cbaneellor Wigram.
REOOII v. THE DeltliTBllllllf,
AND WONCUTILASHIRE RAILWAY COMPANY.—LIEN Colt
COSTA.—The plaintiff in this case, and one Mr. Owens, of
Moorgate-street, in 1845 projected a scheme for the forma-
tion of a railway from Kidderminster to Hereford, to be
called the Direct East sod West Junction Railway. At a
meeting called upon the formation of the company, the
plaintiff and Owens were appointed joint solicitors to
the scheme, and they, with other officers of the
company, signed en indenture, by which they agreed
at to held the members of the provisional committ: r, or
the directors of the company, liable individually for the
costs and expenses they might incur in forwarding the un-
dertaking, but to look for such repayment to the fund to be
raised by the sale of shares. Mr. Owens afterwards resigned
the office of solicitor to the scheme, which from that time
was filled by the plaintiff alone. In 1847 the seteme was
amalgamated with the company represented by the de-
fendants. The plaintiff, who, as well u Mr. Owens, had re-
, ceivcd a portion of hie costs, now filed hie bill for the
remainder, amounting, as he alleged, to the sum of 1,2001.
The equity ot the bill was founded upon the circumstance
that the plaintiff claimed a lien in respect of his costs upon
the funds of the original company, called " The East and
West Junction Railway Company," and which were el-
:eged by the bill to have been transferred to the defendants
upon the amalgamation of the two companies. Thebill prayed
for payment out of the joint-stock funds and assets of the
defendants, of the sum due to the plaintiff, as solicitor to
the East and West Junction Company, to an amount not
exceeding that handed over to the committee of mar age-
ment of the Derbyshire, Staffordshire, and Worcester-
shire Junction Railway Company, from the East and West
Junction Company upon the amalgamation of the two com-
panies ; and that the plaintiff might be declared entitled to a
lien upon the same funds and to the same extent. To this bill a
general demurrer was put in, and the cause now came on for
hearing upon the demurrer.—Mr. Kenyon Parker, Mr.
Amphlett, and Mr. Matthews, in support of the demurrer,
contended, &at, that the indenture of indemnity did not
actually create any charge upon the deposit' of the " Direct
East end West Junction Company," but only gave the plain-
tiff and the other officers parties thereto a right to a special
usumpait against the members of the provisional committee.
As this was a legal remedy, the bill was simply a bill for tho
payment of costs which the court would not entertain "Alli-
son v. Hering " (9 Simon's report). Secondly, that the charge,
if any, was confined to the costa of the plaintiff and Owens
while acting as joint solicitor, and did not extend to the
costs of the plaintiff while acting as sole solicitor to the com-
pany. Thirdly, that the costs sought to be recovered were
principally incurred subsequently to the execution of the in-
denture, and that the case therefore fell within the rule laid
down in " Jones v. Tripp " (Jacob's reports,
solicitor cannot enforce security for colts not i 322), that a
incurred at the
time the security is given.—Mr. Hominy (with whom
was Mr. Malin) had ouly partially opened the
plaintiff at the -isms of the court.
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