The Express.
London, England, 1848-03-09 00:00:00

eras sent out for relief. Five pilot* manned that boat ;
but, when they had got the captain and crew on board (six in
number), such was the violence of the wind and waves, they
could nut make the moult of the harbour. In this coali-
tion they surrendered themselves to the elements, and were
driven upon the sands, and when to the windward of ano-
ther vessel in distress, the boat was swamped in the surf. One
of the pilots, John Youoghuaband, was drowsed, and the
others reached the shore, but in a very exhausted con-
dition. Another stranded vessel was the schooner Ann,
of Roestrevor, port of Newry. The third stranded vessel
is the Mills, tram Liverpool. Other disasters occurred
during this storm on the different coasts of this island. The
Osprey went ashore near the Point of Ayr. The Elk, with
lead ore, And bound for Chests r, was dismantled, the nu a
taking to the boat near the Calf of Man. She has slice
gone down. The Stag, of Dnialas, left this place no Satur-
day, and was driven into C astletow n bay, wht re the anchored,
but be • ,Ale gave way, and she ran before the wind fur
Ca. UMW I harbour, where she stranded. The pet rople en
shoe seeing the danger she was in, got the life-boaeady,
and, manned by a couraceous crew, faced the surf, as;sl
succeeded in taking the crew of the vessel : as the tide came
in she drifted into the harbour, where she remains a total

iftne Arts.
EXHIBITION AT THE SOCIETY OF AETe.—The pri-
vate view of the second annual exhibition at the Society of
Arts of " Frlect specimens of recent British manufactures.,"
took place last night. The number of articles exhibited is
666, and the number of exhibitors seventy. The specimens
are divided into fifteen classes. Class 1. Modern raar3iteterie
• and wood-wink. 2. Works in earthenware. 3. W orks in
coloured china. 4. Works in statuary porcelain. 5. Nis-
cellaneoue. 6. Works in cast iron. 7. Modern British
browses. S. Works in silver. 9. Summerle's art manufac
tures. 10. Chiefly Minton's Parian. 11. Works in mire
mfteht. 12. Works in glass. 13. Wood carving in machi-
nery. 14. British marbles. is. Bookbinding. In point of '
design there is not any very marked improvement in the
present over the former exhibition. la the beauty of the
materials used, and the skill in using them, there in however
a very gr.-at advanre. Mr. Summerly's art manufactures
are among the best in the room, and make, of reverse, a great
show. His statuette of Dorothea," by Bell, is still, to
our thinking, the beat and cheapest of his works, though his
last raanufatture. A bread plate, also designed by Bell, is
extremely chaste and characteristic in design and execution.
The great novelty of the exhibition has been placed under the
class " Miscellaneous." This is called (fantastically enough)
"The Repose Arm chair," a kind of Beaumont and Fletcher
affair, got up by Mr. Thomas, the excellent sculptor of the
statue' at the House of Lords, and by Mr. J. C. Iloraley, one
of the professors at the Government School of Des!gn. The
has-relief represents a guardian angel and two side angels
with musical instruments, watching over mother and child
and an old man sleeping. The lily, the passion flower, and
poppy are introduced as floral and appropriate ornaments.
Thomson would hardly have admitted it into his " Castle of
" The Repose Armchair" is, however, only a
design ; and it is perhaps unfair to deal with it too sever, !y.
Among the works in statuary porcelain (Class I) we were
pleased
to observe some of the pretty statuette's and bustn of
. r. Copeland, of LMeoln's-inn-tie!els. We could wish that
Mr. Copeland, who has done so much for the advancement
srporeelain work, would undertake not to produce but to rn-
• .deee. The material of his statuettes would do admir-
y well for the publication in small of It. übilliae's
•Sir Isaac Newton," Bacon's "Di. Johnson," Flai-
l:0111CA Sir Joshua Reynolds," and Chswrey's " James
Watt"—capital chimney ornaments, which many would
like to p.nwese—not only as portrait statues, but ae works of
art. The "Sic Sedebat" figure of Lord Bacon. at St.
Allasn'n, has lately been produced in this way, by Mr. Joncs,
a modeller in Drury-lane, and hat deservedly f lied a large
sale among people who admire it for its many chameterivic
eleelbvicies. The report of the society was read by the secre-
tary. Twenty thousand per.ons wee said to have visited the
former exhibition.
THE GRAPHIC SOCIETY met last night, but the
works exhibited were not very good, or evcn numerous. Mr.
Windus sent three drawings by Turner: Mr. Pepys a
cbarminz enamel by Petitot ; and Mr. J. H. Robinson a
proof of his newly-flnistied engraving of N.p.icon and the
Pope, after Wilkie's well-known picture. We shall take
anoth- r and on early occasion of calling a.tention is Mr.
Robinson'. very wonderful line engraving, which is quite a
masterpieceway. It must, howeter, be seen by day-
light, before its merits can fully understo..d.

CLERICAL.
SALE or CHURCH PREFERNIENT.—At the sale of the
neat presentations, which recently took place, hr Mr. Wild, for the
charity trustees of Norwich. the following was the result —Shrop.
ham, near Attleborough, tithes commuted at 2707., 46 acre.. of plebe ;
present incumbent 73 years of age ; sold to Sir Win. Foster for 1,2141.
Edit Carlton, tithes 1801.; age of the preocat incumbent 73 ; sold to
Mr. Peter Hay fur 4001. Calthnrue, near Aylaliarn, tithen 138/., N
acre, of glebe; age of present incumbent 80; sold to Sir Wm.
Fader for 5101. Hitherto the livings in the gift of thacharit tirorus-
tees bare been bestowed upon relaires avid friends of thecmL
The produce of this pale will be inverted for the beneUt of the charity.
3acl will Lied to to increase of the inmates of biehorivate llovitaL

NAVAL.
DEVONvOET, MANCE 7.—Banhee ssiltd this morning
for Liverpool; and Neth y tender, With,supernurnerarim, for Porm.
mouth. Ilarma,c, nary lighter, arrived lard evening from Ports
mouth, with stores for the dockyard. Caledonia, 17r, wan taken into
dock thia morning to bare her copper etumined.
ADMIRALTY, MARCH B.—APPOIN'IrMYSTA.—Lient.II. T.
Vernon, ta penelopc.—Chiel Engineer S. Carey, tr Pluto.—Avskront-
Surgeons S. P. pert? and A. W. Built, to I.:La.—Clerk E. B. Waller
and Naval Cadet E. IL Collier, to Ganges.

MILITARY.
ROTA L ENOINIII2O.—Lt.-Col. R. C. Al,leron, assistant
tobiajor-Cleo. Sir J. F. Burgoyne, Inspector-General of FortilicatOns,
hoe been appointed Commissioner of the Railway Deportment of the
Board of Trade in the place of Lol. H. R. Biandretb, deceased.—
Maki,' H. Sandbank, Bngade-Mejor of the Royal Sappers and Mimeo,
Woolwich, ban also been appointed to succeed LL-Col. Alderson as
assistant to the laspector-General of F. rtifications.
ROYAL ARTILLERY.—MORTALITY nr TROOP 4
tY
Ciunatic troop ship landed at the Royal Arsenal at
Woohrith on Saturday last the remain nf Major Greenwood's amt-
pan of of Royal gitiltery (9th battalion \ under the command of Lieut.
E.,f, Paterson, the
heoriny
it ofticer
eftl who returned with the tempi. The
y which, w Wou'reich in No ISII, amounted to
spy rank and rile, has dwindled down to 19 men, the whole of
the rest having either died or been invalided. Before the Curnatic
left Hong Kong, Lt.-Col. Eyre had arrived and relieved Capt. .t. G.
Hamilton, upon whom the command of the Royal Artillery in China
had temporarily devolved.
ENROLLED PENSIONERS.—The Puke of Wellington has
issued the following in reference to the calling out of the enrolled pen.

goner,'—
w Horse Guards, Feb., ISIS.-91r,—1 have the honour to ncknow.
ledge the receipt of your letter of the 211th ult., transmitting for the ,
information of the 'Commander-in-thief, a copy)_of an act passed in 4
the last aerator. of parliament to facilitate the calling out of enrolled
peneioners for the preservation of the public peace, together with
various enclosures connected with that subieet, and having duly laid
the same before bi, pace, I have to make the following communica-
tion thereon for the informetion of the Secretary-at-Fear : The Com-
mander-in-Chief will take care that the attention of the general offleera
oommandise in the several military district, throughout the United
Kingdom shall be immediately cane.: to the set above alluded to,
with the view of affording every facility in their power fur carrying
all tke provisions thereof Into effect; and the foe owing points of mi-
litary detail will also be included in thin instruction. Whenever any
officer of the army shall deem it his duty to require that the enrolled
pensioners Mall he called out, he must report his having done so im-
mediately to the military secretary, foe the information of the com-
mander-in-chief, as well as to his immediate superior, and be moot
also report in like manner if he abould he informed that the pen-
sioners have been called out by any other authority. The officers of
the enrolled pensionera, when imikd out for service under the &lithos
rity of her Majesty., are to take rank with the officers of the army on
the particular service on which such officers may be mutually em-
ployed. in operation together, according to the dates of their several
oommirsions.—(Signed) Erresor Sommser.—To L. Sullivan,
Fag., dec. &c.
A circular order, issued from the War-office, and dated Feb.
order* that all the men diacharged from the army on permanent per.-
Ilion., during the put year shall be examined bv the 'nail' officer, of
pensioners. with the new of adding to the enrolled force as many as
may
.be capable oI bearing arm,. In some cases the number thus
added will enable the ,taff officers to form additional companies, but
It other ease., at at Woolwich, there sail merely be an addition to
the strength of the existing companies.

_
tats ittitUtigtritt.
EQUITY COURTS.
Before the lord Chancellor.
NIGHTINGALE AND OTHERS T. Gottituna7.—A BE-
QUEST OF PERSONALTY FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE
COUNTRY HELD VALID.—This appeal from • decree of
Vice-ChancellorWisner° was argued last week, and the ex
tract from Col. Petrie's will (on which the question arose)
giving the residue of his prcperty to the "lion. Chanc northe
of
•oeQueen'a Exchequer to be by him appropriated for
benefit of his (the testator's) beloved country, Great Britain,"
was set out in the report in this journal. The
Lord Chancellor now delivered his judgment. The appeal
applied to personalty only, and therefore the question was
sot affected by the statute of mortmain. lie found that in
the cases of " The Attorney-General v. Brown" (1 Swenst.,
255), " The Attorney-General v. Heelis" (2 Sim. and Sta.,
67,, "The Attorney-General v. the Corporation of Duenefitblin,"
and in several other cases, bequests for the ir of
parishes, of towns, counties, and provinces, had been held
good; so, also, iu "Attorney-General e. the Earl of Lone-
dale" (1 Simons, 105), a gift for a school in Lowther, and
for such other purposes as executors shoold think conducive
to the good of the county of Westmoreland, was held send
as a charity for the county, and in " Mit ford v. Reynolds" (1
Phillips,lBs), a bequest for the benefit of the town of Dacca was
held valid. In other CAWS, as " Thellusson v. Woodford"
(19 Vcsey), and " Newland v. the Attorney-General" (3
Merivale), effect was given to gifts in aid of the public re-
venue ; but it was contended that the bequest in the pre
sent case could not be supported, as being in too general
terms, and not specific enough in its object. Theca of
" Morice v. the Bishop of Durham"l9 Vesey, ), and
other cases that were cited with that view in the argument,
were not applicable to the present case. If a gift to the
sovernment of the country was good, a gift to a membe d
r of
the government for government purposes must be hel good.
Here a particular officer of the government was named, and
that removed the objection, in a great measure, for the want
of specific direction of the gift. It was clear the testator
did not intend the gift for the Chancellor of the Exchequer's
own use but, by selecting him, the testator pointed out the
discretion that was to be exercised in the application of the
legacy. His lordship had no doubt that, upon the authori-
ties referred to, this was a good bequest, and he therefore
dismissed the appeal with costs.
GILLESFi' v. BASHwALL AND OTHERS.—JOINT.STOCC
CONPANIES.—CONTRIBUTION.—INIUNcTioN.—This wu an
appeal motion to discharge en injunction granted by the
Vice-Chancellor to restrain the defendant Barnwell, the
officer of the Commercial Bank of London, from proceeding
111 an action at law against the plaintiff. It appeared that I
the plaintiff, and Lord Mountcashel and others, had formed
a joint-stock company in London, call. d the Celosiad Society,
and they incurred a large debt to the Commercial Back.
The society was a failure, and the bank, by their said officer,
brought an action against Lord Mounte,shel. That action'
was stopped by his :orclahip givin : security to the tank tor