The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-17 00:00:00

IiARLBOROUGII-81SERT.

Mr. Freneh,priiitrr:Whiteciaper,;;;;; to this court to
claim the release of an apprentice who had enlisted in the
Artillery of the East India Company, and was worn in en
Tuesday at this court.
Mr. French said he had been to the depot In Charke-strest,
and had stated the circumstances to the recruiting-officer
thorn Ile was sailed whether he could swear that his ap
prentice was bound to him on the day when be was 14 rats
ef age. He replied he was not bound en that preens day,
such a proceeding being an impmeibility, owing to *e
forms which constitute a lapel binding. He was told
by the officer that the apprentice was a soldier, and that the
attestation although fraudulent in some of the p•Mienhes,
must stand.
Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk, refined to the Mutiny Aot,
and trod the chum which referred to apprentices, which wee
that a certificate should be
obeli
to the recruit, unless be
was an apprentice, and obeli have been bound for the fall
term derives years, not having been above the age of 14
years when so bound. He was afraid that the letter, though
possibly not the spirit, of the statute was against the
"Car.rsoch mid if this were so, then the articles of ap •
preoticeship of every apprentice were valueleas. The City
authorities would not receive an application to bind until •
bo) had reached his fourteenth year, and then they would
not bind until the neat court day, wheat of course the boy
would he at least • month older shim 14 years.
Mr. Bingham suggested that the applicant should go to
the reornitieg department In Soho square, and state his case
to the commanding officer.
Mr. French adopted the eoggeetten, and having paid his
vita returned to the court to azathat
as he had been referred
at by the authorities the Soho to Colonel Leslie,the
commanding officer, who would, wear, he was informed,
moat likely take the ems view of the act as had already
been taken at the Charier-street depot.

THE SOCIETY FOE THE PROPAGATION OF THE
Coeval, odebreted its 167th anniversary ow Tuaulay, the
11th. There was fall choral service in St Paul's Cathedral,
with a rumen by the Bishop of Derry, whom text wee taken
byes Dent iv., 7, S. The collection amounted to 881. ; a
considerable number of the habitual attendants at the sand-
maser, being kept away probably by the szotesive heat of
the westber. The bishops peanut were the Archbishop of
Canterbury, the Bishops of Durham, Winchester, Chichester,
Oxford, and Llendeff. In the evening the Lord Mayor en-
tertained at the Mansion-how" as veal, the Priori* and
other prelates. The Bishops of Loudon, Winchestsr, Bangor,
Beth and Wells, Chiobseter, Hanford, Llobleid, Liman,
Llandag, Oxford, Ripon, Derry, and Capetown, ware pre-
mium, and a large somber of the London clergy and laity.
Several of the members and friends of the society dined
together on the isms evening at Fresmasous' Hall, Henry
Hoare, Esq.. in the obair, supported by Sir Jobs Harding,
the Revs. F. Maseingberd, H. Meekest* E. Hoar B.
Bekther, H. Venom, W. T. Bullock. H. Dorset, A. Mosley;
C. B. Lacy, Baer, C. B. Skinner, Esq., M. IL. Sharp, Bsq ,
C. J. Bnnyoe, Esq., P. Wright, Bob, and emend otbwe.
Titere was some interesting speaking, end an intention wee
expend by many in the mauve of the evening of repesting
this halm aocempsidessat to the smaivereary on hens.
ocessioss.
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Tam Wit trrucrrott Cut.—A meeting was held
but night at the Whittington Club, Arundel-street, Strand,
for the purpose of isapeodng the building, which has re-
rilaitilerra maw* altered awl improved. Alderson Wield
. It wee stated that 1,60 W. was atlll nowired ter
, and that it was propund to mist *hie rem by
tenting shins at 11. welt at 6 per owl. Noah aatiatectics
was sapwood with tits maw effeepossata.