The Express.
London, England, 1850-11-21 00:00:00

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY AND
VICE-MANCELLOR KNIGHT BRUCE.
Maw the Do* Nees.)
" Tos Unprotected Female," who is subjected to
so e.tany annoyances and difficulties in English tra-
vailing, is not uniformly alarmed without a cane.
Thin are many perils in her way besides her terror
of the cabdriver, and her natural horror of the
nab. Bat of all the perils and dangers of tranMg
by land sad by water, the most vivid imagination never
could have majored so any so mat as the last which
is pretested to us. The travellers upon ace of the
most important lines of railway in Great Britain are
threatened at this moment with a peril which, ere
now, has blanched the ruddiest oho* and teased the
stoutest heart to quiver—the peril of the Omni
Th
Pore's Ball is bad enough ; but in this ash.
of Eigked, where, according to the oath=
nor potentate can aneeles
=Flistiel!ors's Bull to an injustice- him the
En of Chancery? Yet, the Great Northers
Compasy have, it seems, treated this swig
with sovereign contempt I Frightful as
the oserequences. Nothing_ less is preyed foe then
useepestration." Aid viorQoassiler Saw
Banco robed in a bar-gown, and Mated on elf.
chair, in a small and rather smoky room at the bask
of Westminster Hall, has issued proclemstios Gab
spa. "Let a sequestration issue," says Sir Inum
Baum Banos. The awful mandato is reatered by
the proper officer : the majesty of the High Cud
slOhossiry is vindiostei.: and the railway, its pry.
'einem and all who travel on it, are pat is the ea
korai peel.
Tesesede, nno some at those pumplike. want
upon the Bask tinge miler the ppbaig &Auks
that their properly wee meth somewhere neat neves
millions satebz amithat their has being on% the
price of their dime, semewbot widely low at
was likely to advances The publication of thell=
log papers was commtheed, and their
dream was dissipated. They found that
property was forfeited: that the Court of aid
cry had kneed peremptory orders under milli
it might assume powession of it at any
It so pleased. The men upon the StookV
change are men of nerve and fortitude. They as
accustomed to troubles, and live in hourly expedi-
tion of detrimental operations. But such a bull is
this might have cowed the bravest of them. And If
they had not understood something of the ins and
outs of Chancery, the probabilities are that they would
have gone home yesterday in utter desperation aid
despair.
But happily even the decrees of the High Court of
Chancery itself are not immutable. In his most
narsuonable moods, even a Vice-Chanoellor will
hear something of reason. VicerChancellor KNIGHT
BRUM having sequestrated the Great Northern
Railway on Tueiday, consented on Wednesday that
the proceedings should be stayed for a space of
ten days. For that brief period the Gwent
Northern Railway Company is saved from the infla-
tion of the terrible vengeance of the Court of Choc.
any ; and the Unprotected Female travelling upset do
line will be safe from personal arrest and from theses.
fiketion of her umbrella by the messenger of Chas-
eery. Daring that time the company will have an
opportunity of appealing from Sir KNIGIIT Banos to
the LORD CHANCELLOR, who, it may be hoped, will
consent to waive the sequestration, upon adminis-
tration of a proper lecture and payment of propor-
tionately heavy outs.
" What his hall this 'ere about?" inquired a luggage
porter at the station yesterday. " Vat for his this ere
KNIGHT Baucti,Knight and Barrow Knight, a-coming
here to seise this nit ?" The case is an illustration of
the old saw that " direful effects from trifling causes
spring." The mighty engine of the law hu been put
theimeteeserp eiteeisidaal snail about a matieg,whickj
umpired with the importance of the railroad is an
C
lea-bite to Moant Vesuvius.
The Gnat Northern Railway has the fortune or
misfortune to pus the south eastern side of the town
of Biggkewade. For the information of those who
may not be versed in British topography, we
should state that Biggleswade is a petty town
in the county of Bedford, a place which the Great
Northern Railway, and the Great Northern Railway
slue, can rescue from the fate to which such a
place, if off the line, would be sure to be otimigned.
It is necessary that the Great Northern BalibmG k
its progress from the metropolis of; England to the
city of York, should pass a certain dirty lane
in this dirty town of Biggleurade, which
lane some people in the locality may know by the
name of " Crab-lane." Into this Crab-lane opens the
bask door of the house of One Mr. THOILAS CHAPMAN,
"gent., on keg" resident at Biggleewade; and Mr.
THOYAS CHAPMAN, who does not appear to have hose
employed for or on behalf of the railway company,
has:represented to the Court of Chancery that the
of this railway across " Crab-lane "is highly
passage
to himself and to hie property ; and
that it "is ealeulated to obstruct, impede, and ren-
der the said bins Iles secure and cafe for the
passing and reposing of carriages and passengers
thereon."
In the mouth of May last, the Vica•Caultoduon,
acting on Mr. CHAPMAN'S informatics issued an in-
junction restraining the eompany " from further inter-
bring" with the said Crab-lane, along which they
had at that time laid their veils. The company, it
seems, did not intend to "farther interfere" in any
way with Crah-lane. Their read was laid down sines
it, and that was, and was intended to be, the extent
of their interfuses.* with it. Bat a railway
Is not of much um pleas there is traffic on
it. In August last the Great Northern Company,
acting upon this idea, *posed their line for the pu-
rees of the British public. Their carriages of course
passed wpm the rads across " Cub-lore." Every
two or three hours they whistled put Mr. Mar-
dis's residence to his serious annoyance and dis-
comfort. This having been represented to the Court
• Chanos is decided by the Vicx-Carlicmos
to be as "employment of the rails for purposed
sitotediag, and is a aeon differiagoima those far
which the oompasy previoyely es od them." Bat
besides this, the company, seder dinettes et
the Railway Commissioners, pat up two gates "kr
the purpose el protecting life and limb." Them gatee
Sir J. Kumar protecting life and limla" TheN gatee
Sir L KNIO*T Baucs says. "crate in the oismend
sad mot direst manner sash a farther impotikani
and hindeesess meths ininatieshad plainly forbidden."
"It apneas to as, therein; aye he, " that theses-
posy lave broken the be in latter awl k
mint, and that they ban den so entsM
Ooscildering their esednat to be
and a bad, and indeed I bad slaeltiVia
aumple, I think it right, whatever awed of b-
assesses°, may follow, to deal with than esserdier
to their merits. The osnemones may pad lily be te
step the railway. I answer that it might to
be stopped, for it pines where it does _by
wring. The directors of this eespeny, their
agents, and torrents own ea this nodes be
somaitted to prises ; but Mat Ms be asps lit
me be dose to this Oboe Imam d
and privet.basks welambede mum
over, in epee IMMO, at kw, authority, an eying.
Let a smoneaden Imp
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Wise* The ebb, wog has km
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have hem Grows esE d emplonibt "
hmele• would have fowl *WO the as we,'
mseada;intst the esiebreisl mThuile aad
ties," bad bees' takes pommies et by
Mr. lan Botomons ; rad that, in bd. "
lib was k Glimmay," with anisodunom lidld abases 1
of Phis, eat of it. And all this beaus Vier
Cheassikr Ikanosi Baines &gaily was hurt, and
Wane hansom to work himiog up tato a prim
wilibbibmbig the Jagoest ot hlotribmal.; Well.
se isalibs edwistl-m the majesty" al Ids ODirt Bat
wham' this is quite the way to deal with a great
inbred moms somewhat more fabler? To stop the
NAIR teas of a railway rtes Loathe to Tear

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