The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-31 00:00:00

tabu Intelligence.

EQUITY COUItTS.—YKSTERDAY.
BMS, ran MASTIR Or TUE ROLLS.
WILLIS O. CHILD.—LVDLUR GILAMMAIL SCHOOL.
This was an application by the plaintiff, the master of
Ludlow Grammar School, to restrain the trustees of the
school from taking proceedings, in pursuance of a resolution
passed by them on the 16th of-January last, for removing the
plaintiff from the head mutenhip of the school.
It appeared that differences had arisen between the
plaintiff and the trustees, principally respecting the treat-
ment of the town boys; and the result was that the trustees
determined to remove the plaintiff, and for that purpose
they paned the resolution in question. Several grounds
were Mined by the trustees as the foundation for their
proceeding, but the truth and validity of these grounds
were denied by the plaintiff, who contended that the reso-
lution was altogether illegal. The trustees canoed the plain-
tiff to be served with a nodes to give up the school house.
And tberenpon the plaintiff filed his bill in this cause
agaiast the trustees to have the resolution declared void,
ai.d to restrain the defendants from proceedicg to enforce
it. On the same day that the bill was filed, the trustees
commenced an action of ejectment against the plaintiff to
recover possession of the school house. _

Mean. Turner and Renshaw supported the present
plicati, and Messrs. Lloyd and Lewin opposed it.
The Master of the Rolls intimated his opinion, that he
could not interf re, by injunction, mans some specifio pro-
ceeding of the defendants towards intoning their resolution
was alleged in the bill, which woe not the case at present.
And en the application of the plaintiff counsel, he gave
the plaintiff leave to amend the bill without prejudice to the
modes.

The defendants also asked that the motion might stand
ever for them to consider the affidavits tiled by toe plaintiff,
which wes ordered accordingly.

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MIDDLESSX.

The Attorney-General moved for • rule to show cause why
a mandamus should lot issue against the defendant com-
manding him to register an assignment of a lease A similar
cue bad already been before the court, when the form
sought to be registered was considered to be sufficient,
although the court did not nuke its adoption imperative.
Conveyanotas objected to the form, nor would the Vice-
Chancellor receive it as sufficient until the judgment of a
court of law wee obtained establishing its sufficiency. The
form now tendered gave all the information required by the
registry acts.—Rule granted.
Tan Quzzx e. KENZALIY.
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It will be remembered that the defenda in this ease was
indicted, the indictment containing two counts, the first
charging him with tying a cord around the neck of Edward
Hyde, aged 6 yeast, hie own illegitimate child, and then
hanging him to • peg ; and the second, with a common as-
sault upon the said Edward Hyde. At the trial, which
took place at the last sittings in Westminster before Lord
Campbell. the defendant was sequined on the first count, but
found guilty on the other. Ha was now brought up for
judgment.
An affidavit had in the meantime been put in by the de-
ren dent, in which it was alleged that the child was horn in
January, 1844; that it wee shortly afterwards sent to Ire-
land to be nursed and taken care of; that in 1849 the de-
fendant, having °cession to be in Ireland, discovered that
the child had been greatly neglected and otherwise ill-
treated; that on discovering this he had taken it with him,
en his return to Eaghuid, with • view to having it educated
and properly brought up under his own eye; that the child
soon exhibited very bad habits, amongst which was an inve-
terate addiction to lying ; that be had chastised it for this, and
for its wilful and dogged disobedience; end that, with the
Gumption of such chastisrment, he had always
treated it with kindati.erlhe defendant then complained
of the treatment which he had received in prison ; after
which he denied haat," ever tad a cord around the boys
seek, or that he hung it to a peg, u charged ia the indict-
ment.
Other affidavits were put in and read, showing the con-
duct of the defendant to the child to have been kind and
considerate, and testifying to the child's °Milanese and
intractable disposition.
Mr. Whately then, on behalf of the defendant, addressed
the nowt in mitigation of punishment. The verdict which
had been returned assumed no more than that
the chastisement inflicted on the tbild had been
somewhat more severe than it should have been.
In every other respect the defendant's conduct towards the
child was worthy of commendation. He began its educa-
tion by teaching it to read and pray, and by endeavouring
to instil into it a love of the truth. He bad been irritated
at the child's unwilling,' to learn, and his total indifference
to the truth. He triaged that toe court, in metin out pu-
nishment, would take them eircumstanne into twin,
and also bear in mind that the detendent was a man of eta
lion, reputation, and great attainments. The prosecuties
itself was • some, M great wafering to a man so (intuit-
stewed; and he (14. 'Mutely) respectfully submitted that
imprisonment wotiA be far too heavy • punishment fur hi
offence.
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