The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE

MIME% TILINGBA3OI3
RETREAT OF PRIM TO PORTUGAL

MADRID. JAN. 22.

Official confirmation has been received of the in-
telligence that General Prim entered Portugal on
Saturday last.

SUBMARINE TELEGRAPH BETWEEN
LEGHORN AND CORSICA.
LEGHORN, JAIL 22.
A submarine telegraph cable was successfully
laid yesterday between this port and the island of
Corsica.

THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OP VIEVIERS
AND THE LATE MR. COBDEN.

The Indirendance Beige of yesterday has the
following :—" On Saturday nazt the bust of Richard Cob-
den will be presented to the Chamber of Cameros of Ver-
sions by the Political Economy Society of Belgium. The
Chamber of Commerce has determined to give ‘'clat to the
ceremony with the object of showing that the future belongs
to freedom of commerce, which carried with it the fra-
ternity of peoples, the respect of nationalities, dis-
armament, and if not the diminution of taxes, their
employment in works adoantageona to humanity.' Sash is
the lutgaage which the Chamber of Commerce uses in the
note of invitation which it has sent for the ceremony, and
the banquet which is to succeed. The principal persons
invited are the presidents of the Belgium Chambers of
Commerce, of the Belgian Political Economy Society.
of the International Society for the Abolition of Custom-
Houses, of the Political Economical Society of,Franos ; Mr.
Bright and other members of the Anti-Corn Law League ;
the Chamber of Commerce in Holland, which represented
that country at the Congress for the Abolition of Coatom-
Homes, Mr. J. Prince Smith, member of the Prussian
Chamber, and M. Gozenbacb, who at the last meeting of
the Social Science Congress at Berne, presided over the sec-
tion of political economy."

LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM.-(THIS DAY.)
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This forenoon the annual meeting of the sub-
scribers to this institution, established at Clapton in 1813,
Wal held at the London Tavern, under the presidency of
Mr. JAMES CAPEL, the treasurer.
Mr. JAMES ROGERS, the secretary, read the report,which
stated that in the early part of November, the institution
was visited with a severe attack of typhoid fever, which
in the opinion of the medical officers came wholly from
without, and on the 16th of that month more
than one hundred children were suffering from
its effect, It did not spread after the 24th and Dr. homier,
who was called in, having expressed his belief that, how-
ever much previous conditions and the state of the
atmosphere had favoured the occurrence of the dis-
ease, some local cause must have determined
the occurrence of this special attack, the managers had con-
sidered the advisability of removing the institution to a
more salubrious district. After much consideration the
board had resolved to purchase a site a short dis-
tance from town, easily accessible by rail, for the
erection of a school for the girls, and on such a plan as
would ultimately admit of the removal of the entire estab-
lishment to the same spot should circumstances necessitate
the transfer of the boys from Clapton. A more detailed ac-
count of the plans however, will be hereafter submitted to
the public. Daring the past year 77 orphans had left the
asylum. Sixteen bad died, one in April of rheumatic fever
sod 15 since November of enteric fever ; 80 had been ad-
mitted, viz., 10 by purchase and 70 by election, and with
3.5 now to be elected, there would at present
be 468 orphans under the protection of the charity,
making the total number benefitted since its formation,
3,064. The cost per head of the inmates had exceeded
that of 1864 by 11. 14s. Bd., owing to the high price of provi-
sions and the recent sicknese, which had entailed an unusual
outlay of 7501. The financial state of the charity was on the
whole satisfactory, the receipts, including several munificent
donations and legacies, one of the latter being 2,0001. from
the late Mr. Richard Thornton, having realised 17,2711.,
while the expenditure bad absorbed the entire amount.
leaving • balance due to the treasurer of 635/. The stock
of all descriptions standing to the credit of the
charity amounts to 43,4571. The managers conclude their
report by stating that the educational condition of the
schools was highly satisfactory, and that the children on
leaving the asylum were continuing to command good situa-
tions in mercantile houses.
The report was unanimously adopted, and the election of
35 children out of 165 candidates proceeded with.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

3IOIDAY. JANUARY 8 8.1.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THD3 DAY.)

EQUITY COURT.
(Before Viotratiooellor Stuart.)
EDMUNDS V. LORD BROUGHAM.

Mr. Mains, Q.C.. and Mr. J. N. Higgins appeared for
the plaintiff in this suit; and asked for an order to
expunge from the answer of the defendant a certain
passage, that they alleged was scandalous and rot
pertinent to the /Male between the parties. The snit
was instituted by the plaintiff, in whom the right to a sum
of 5,0601., secured by a mortgage executed by Lord,
Brougham io 1811, was now vested for a decree for fore.
closure of the equity of redemption, or a sale of
the mortgaged setae and payment of the principal
and interest. The principal money had been paid into
court, 'and the only question remaining to be settled in the
suit was the amount of interest to be paid on the debt,
Lord Brougham bad, in pursuance of an award of the Lod
Chanoellor, offered to pay interest on the debt freak
the 24th of. June, 1864 ; but the plaintiff claimed
six years' arrears. The defendant had set op
the statute of limitation to that claim ; enl bad
by his answer stated among other things, to the effect
that "He was ultimately compelled to turn the plaintiff
out of his house in Grafton-street, under circumstanon
which fully appeared in"—the House of Lords' as.
port en the resignation by Mr. Edmunds of
his offices of clerk of the patents, clerk to glo
commissioners of patents, and reading clerk and clerk of
out-door committees in the House of Lords. He also
made that blue-book a part of his answer in this suit. la
consequence of that, it was insisted that as the
reported contained much that was considered prejudicial..
as casting cruel imputation on the moral conduct of Mr.
Edmunds—it amounted to scandalous statements in the
defendant's answer ; and ought to be expunged therefrom.
It was also urged that it would, if not struck out, throw
upon the plaintiff the necessity of amending his bill in the
suit, to meet a cue, wholly immaterial in the (podium
between the parties.
Mr. Bacon, Q.C., and Mr. E. K. Kerslake appeared for
Lord Brougham; and Mr. Rewlinson for other parties.
The Vioe-Chancellor, after hearing the plaintiff's cue
at some length, directed the application to stand over till
the first day of the sittings after this term.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
Sittings in Banco.—(Before the Lord Chief Justice, sad
Justices Blackburn, Mellor, and Lush.)

WILLIAMS V. LOVELL.
Mr. Ruddleston QC., moved for a rule to set aside an
order of Mr. Justice Blackburn, made in November last,
staying the action in this suit. In 1860 the plaintiff erea
the solicitor of a lady named Cass. The defendant is a bar.
rider, and an arrangement was entered into between him
and Mrs. Cass that she should pay him his fees and not the
solicitor, and he was paid by her 501. on account of them.
The plaintiff delivered the bride and some of the papen to
the defendant. Mrs. Cass in the course of the suit changed
her solicitor and she obtained an order from the Master of
the Rolls requiring the plaintiff to deliver up the patient*
her. The plaintiff then applied to the defendant for the
briefs and papers he bad delivered to him but he declined
to give them up, alleging that he had a lien on them foe
fees, and that he should not deliver them up until thsy
were paid.
The Muter of the Rolls, the papers not having been given
up by the plaintiff, made the'rule absolute for au attach.
ment, and the plaintiff was accordingly taken into custody,
11e applied to the Master of the Rolls to rescind his order
of attachment on the ground that he had no control one
the papers but the Muter of the Rolls declined to
disturb hi; order, and the plaintiff remained three re
four months in custody. He again applied to the de.
fondant for the papers, but the latter ref wed to give them
up. In 1861 the plaintiff appealed to the lords justices, and
they overruled the order and discharged him out of
custody, leaving him, if he thought proper, to bring an
action against the defendant for false imprisonment. The
plaintiff had accordingly brought his action, the third
count being for trover. An application wan made at
Chambers in the nature of an interpleader, and then it woe
that the order complained of was made.
Mr. Justice Blackburn said the parties appeared before
him in person, and it was such a complicated case he bad
some difficulty at first in understanding it. The
defendant seemed anxious to give up the papers to the
proper person, and after well considenng the case ha
thought ha made a just order, discharging the defendant
and leaving the plaintiff and Mrs. Casa to fight about the
papers.
The Lord Chief Justice said that to say the least about it
it was a very unprofessional arrangement come to between
the defendant and Mrs. Cass ; the phiintiff had no right to
demand the papers front the defendant. The briefs and
papers were the client's property, and Pie attorney had no
lien on them, as he bad not been the disburser of the money
for the fees.
Mr. Justice Ithickburn said the property in the papal
was the matter of an interpleader. The false imprints.
ment wan not the natural consequences of the defendant's
act, but the mistake of the Muter of the Rolls.
The Lord Chief Justice said the plaintiff had carrel
from entering into an unprofessional arrangement.
Rule refused.

THE QOZEN P. ATLING.
In this cue a rule Mai had been obtained calling epos
Mr. Ayling, the Mayor of Weymouth, to show cause shy
he exercised the office of alderman of that borough
The defendant in November last was one of the Patine'
alderman of the borough, and he was elected the =mud
took the chair. The election of aldermen then took place,
and the objection to Mr. Ayling was that there being a
majority of votes in his favour be had, as returning officsr,
returned himself, which was clearly illegal.
a Mr. /danisty,Q.C., and Mr. Cbauuell supported the rule;
Mr. Mellish, Q.C., and Mr, Cooper showed cause spinet
the rule.
Rule absolute.
PARSONS AND ANOTHER r. MOFFATT.
Mr. Mellish, Q.C., •pplied on behalf of the Earl of
Derby, as Chancellor of the University of Oxford, to
claim cognisance in this action, and to ask for a role call.
tog on the plaintiffs to show cause why oognisance should sal
be allowed. About year ago four similar rules were moved
for and obtained, and on the hearing were made absolute,
and notwithstanding that decision the same plaintiff', by
the same attorney, had brought an action against the de.
fondant, who was an undergraduate and resident of Christ
Church, Oxford, for 21. 10.., for wise sold and de.
livered in the aniversity. The proceedings is
this cue differed in one respect only from the
previous cases. In the former cues the writs were wised
in term time, when the students were at Oxford. In this
cue the writ had been issued out of term, and served on the
defendant whilst he was spending his Christmas holidays
with his mother. That could not make any differee
because the defendant was a resident at the university, add
the debt was contracted within the precincts of the
university.
Rule granted.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Hr. Commissioner Goulbuni.)
IN HZ J. T. NORRIS.
The bankrupt, a stationer, of Alderegate-etreet, and I
paper maker, of Sutton Courtenay, Berke, was f0r11164
M.P. for Abingdon. At a former sitting debts of
upwards of 30,0001. were proved, and assignees •ers
chosen. The case now came before the court sn
a petition by Henn. Smith, Payne, and Smith, bonne
who are monlfagmes of the bankrupt's cetate at Sanas
Coortenay, in respect of an advance of 14,0001. in rnbfgarh
1863. The petition prayed for a modification in a foram
order, so as to include certain property not =brewed is the
first order.
After hearing Mr. Bagley, Mr. Freshfield. and lig'
Bekewich, his Honour made the order as prayed.