The Express.
London, England, 1850-06-14 00:00:00

IRELAND.

Duman, Jam' 13.

Mr. Reynolds) had, yesterday, a most unex-
pected triumph over his tormentors, the tory minority
of the corporation, the Court of Queen's Bench having
anaoimously refused Mr. Derivate?* motion to quash
the return that had been made to the mandamus to
the effect that the office of lord mayor was already
fall. This result secures Mr. Reynolds in the occupa-
tion of his civic honours to the end of his year of
Milos; for the next step to oust him, if Mr. Veranchob
and his friends should be so badly advised as to take
it, would be an argument of demurrer, which could
not common before November next; and, if noises y,
the proceedings might then be very sully protracted
by a writ of error until January. The favourable
judgment of the court has taken most people by sur-
prise, and the news spread with smsztog rapidity
through the city. Even the Mail admits that its
own friends have not come out of the affair with
clean hand..
The following brief summary of the important pro-
vincial tenant-right meeting held yesterday at Belfast
has been received by express, and published in the
Freeman's Journal of this morning :
Belfast, Wednesday Beenfing, 7 o'clisek.
The great Provincial Tenant-right Meeting for Ulster
clued only a few minutes ago. It has justified all the expee•
Maims with which it has been so lone looked forward to. It
was truly a great demonstration. It was held in the Music
Hall—the largest room, I believe, in Belfast, capable of seat-
tug. I should • ty, about fiiteen hundred persons. Every
available spot of Mal was filed to overflowing within a few
minutes atter the shah was taken, and many hundreds went
away unable to obtain admission. But the importance of
the tweeting lay not in its numbers, but in the flue of persons
by whom it was attended, the speeches made, and the senti-
ments to which the meeting pledged itself.
The leading paints of the resolutions were:—The right of
the tenantry to the benefit of all their own improvements,
past, present, and future; the right of the tenantry, founded
on their ancient customs, to a continued cecupatiou of their
ludo, at a fair teat, as contradistioguished from a rack rent
sad the hearty approval of the meetiog given to the proposed
tenant right conference in Dublin, and especially to the for-
mation of a tenant leogn, for all Ireland.
Mater has 'animatedly pledgsd herself to a union with
the net of Ireland, and we may now cintidently expect that
the approaching conference in Dublin will represent an
mamas es power of which even the repeal agitation of 1843
will fall govt. _ _

I rejoice to tell you that catholic and prabyterian alerpy
.en net in brotherhood on the p 'Mins to-day—a happy
prelude to what we are destined to se* in Drb.in in August
nest.

The resolutions wire eleven in number. Among the
movers and seconders were ten Presbyterian and two
catholic clergymen, and ten laymen The sosaki re wet,
the moat a' le I have ever listened to. It was proposed at
one time ti adjnirn over the meeting and c•intinne it for a
wood day, as there was not time to hem at the length the
meeting desired all who were expected to speak. This was,
honour, overruled, and the later speakers had to be very
brief in their remarks. The committee met to make their
arrangements at tea o'clock. The meeting began at twelve
o'clock, at which hoar punctually the chiiir was taken, and
from, that until nearly seven the meeting remained en-
chained by the ability of the speakers, and the interest of
the subject. The body of the meeting consisted almost
wholly of substantial farmers, a large portion of whom had
come great distance", many from the remotest parts of the
province. Every expression of good will towards their
southern and catholic countrymen, and every allusion to the
approaching conference, was received with enthusiastic
appl .arcs.
I will only add that the meeting gave glorious promise of
what is likely to ho accomplished by the Conference and the
League. It was truly a great meeting for Ireland.

ARREST OF A WHOLE FAMILY ON SUSPICION OF
MlAlDZlL—lnteliigeste has just reached us of the arrest of
an entire family, In number five or sin, living In Be%acne-
lane, near Coatislead, oa suspicion of murder. A man,
named Horan, who was servant in the house, got married
two or three years ago to the widow of his master, a rich
farmer, nutted Kenny. Sind then they lived very un-
happily, and eventually separated, and twice since the it-
paration Horan's life was endangered, it is said, by his wifies
eons. One one occasion he war fired at, and received some
of the contents, and on Wednesday last he was sent for by
hie wife, to meet her at another farm. He want, and has
not since been heard of. The wife, her sons, and servants
have been emoted, and are now in Castlealand bridewell.—
Trek. thronick.

AND CLERICAL

OXFORD, Jute, 13.—1 n a convocation holden this moret
ing, the cropooals to grant out of the university chest the
sum of 6001., in aid of the fund for establishing a university
in connexion with the Church of England, in +he diocese
of Toronto, in Upper Canada, and a grant of 1601. in aid of
the fend for building a chapel of ease in George-street, in
the parish of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford, met with the ap-
proval of the house.
In a Convocation holden immediately afterwards, the fol-
lowing degrees were conferred, vis.:—B C.L.: Francis
Compton, Fellow of AU Souls College. M.A.: Of Uni
vanity Col.: Rev. Francis N. G. Smart, Grand Com-
pounder ; Rev. Philip D. Bland, Rev. Richard Dalton.
Of Exeter: Rev. Martin H. Ricketts. Of Oriel: Rev.
Charles H. Roggen ; Beton P. Rooks. Of Billiol : Georg*
&later. Of Queen's.: Rev. Joseph H. Stephenson, Grand
Compounder; Henry C. Butler. Of Lincoln: William
Grey. Of Bram:nose: Rev. John W. Hull, Roger R. Row
eon. William M: Willis. Of %dhow t Rev. Walter W.
Walter, Rev. Augustus °richer, Rev. Arthur Baker. Of
Worteeter : Charles P. lacledoe, Rev. Thomas S. Stephens.
Of Alban Ilan: Barrow. Of Magdalen Hall: Rev.
Thomas W. Burridge. 8.A.: Hugh M. Johnson, Jesus;
Frannie Palmer, Postmaster, Merton ; Charles C. Lownda,
St. Mary Balk
DL ELLIIRTOR'S TREOLOOICM. PRIZIL—The subject is,
" On the Divine appointment of the Sabbath."
ML DINTIVe THROLOOICAL Patzne.—The subjects for
the year 18.51 are: " On the Divinity of the Holy Ghost ;"
" On the necessity of the two Sacraments retained In the
Church of Ragland, and that they only an necessary to be
ntained."

Rev. W. M. Allen, jeir., To St;;;;lihane P.C. le Should-
ban Tborpe P.C., Norlolk ; value 1211. ; patron, SaT. Hart,
Bart.

11iy. H. Billie, to Winford R., Somerset ; value 6261.,
with residence; patron, Worcester College, Oxford.
Rev. T. Cors,r, R. of Stand, Lancashire; to be a rano-
pte die. Blanchester.
Rev. O. S. Drew, to St. John the Evangelist, Charlotte -
street, Fitzroy square; value, 3591. ; patron, Bishop of
Louden.

Rev. W. Dwrautoy, P.C. of Holy Trinity, Richmond,
Yorkshire, to be a surrogate dio. Ripon.
Rey. J. 11. Errington, to Ashbourne V., so Mapleton R,.
Derbyshire ; value, 1841., with residence ; patron, Bishop of
Lichfield. _ _

N. Feathentone, to Oldham C., Laneashiro.
114 V. C. Hart, to St. Pancras (Old Courchl P.C., Middle-
sex; value 2001. ; patron, the Vicar of St. Pancras
Rev. S. R. Hobe, to Catinton V., Notts; value 1711. ; pa-
tron, Bishop of Ripon.
Rev. J. Hutchinson, to the Canonry Residentiary and
Preoentonhip of Lichfield Cathedral.
Rev. B. Hutchinson, to St. Micheal V., St. Albans, Herts ;
value 3001., with residence ; patron, Earl of Vernium.
1t.,. A. Ls Sum, to St. Helier's C., Jersey.
Rev. G. B. F. Pottiest', to Girton R., Cambridgeshire
(on his own potition); vales, 4201., with residence.
Rev. W. Stoney, to Bishop Wearmouttt C., Durham.
Re,. B. S. Wade, to Redbourn V., Herta ; value, 2961.,
with residence; pat., Earl of Vendee.

VACANCIES.

Halieworth R., to. Chdcli;toWW;Suffolk, dio. Norwich ;
value. 4501., with readout ; pat., Mrs. Joseph Beckley ;
the Rev. J. C. Badeley, deo.
Hop►Haneell R., co. and dio. Hertford; value, 1971.,
with residence ; pat., Lord Chancell,,r ; Rev. H. Busse, prom.
Idhipsieadow R., Suffolk, dio. Norwich; value, 2141. ;
pat., Rev. A. J. Buckling; Rev. J. C. Badeley, dee.
Swelled, Norfolk, dio. Norwich; value, 2001.; pt.,
duchy of Lancaster ; Rev. J. L. Simeon, prom.

NAVAL.
Aottiaaiirr, Jyris 13.—APPOINTILINTS. Lieutenant :
G. W. Toney. to the Slslark.
Nidshipaea Z. Tone's and B. W. Dillon, to the Sea-
kirk.
Eliroond Muter : B:Braden, to the Illustrious.
Navel Cadet: B. Adana, to the Phaeton.
Clerk : T. Climb, to the Fulgoni.

CM iintelitgatte.

EQUITY COURTS.—YESTERDAY.
BAYOU Vicx-Cxxxxxixoa Kotorr Soros •oa Yu:x.ou

Vitows.
Hvxm V. NOWLALDI.

This was a petltroa to swore the reosiver appointed in
the mum ova, an estate at Debden-hall, near Saffron Wal-
den, on the ground that he had been felling a considerable
quantity of amber without the approbation of the Master,
*at he bad damaged the estate by felling and trimming or-
namental timber • and, lastly, that he resided in Surrey at
too great a distance from the estate. The petition also asked
that the reesiver might piss his amounts, and that 4might
padhstzepensatios for the damage he had ocemioned. The
ia support of the ease of injury was contradicted by
the 1081111iTOT.

Mr Sciririaberg appeared in support of the petition, and
the Solicitor General and Mr. Southgate for the receiver.
The Via-Chancellor said that with regard to certain of
the trlasmiase the receiver had to some extent exceeded hie
authority. °thing, however, appeared to have beet
Mikan* dote with ea improper intention. No serious evil
had boss occasioned, the notion of damage having bees
mei exaggerated. A case had not been established either
kir a removal of the reesinr, or fora reference to the Kee- 1
tag au that ground. If, however, under all the dream-
stamina, the parties thought It would be for the benefit of
the estate that the receiver should be changed he would
great a reference to the Master, provided a guarantee for
costs were given, otherwise the petition mast be dismissed,
the receiver taking his coats out of the rotate, and the peti-
tioner's costs being costa in the cause.

Tho cue then iiood over, hir.STiOntberg aaklog for time
to matt 1k &mt.

COURT OF

Nun PRlM—Bon= Ilia P. POWCIE. C. 3., MID • Ywacuai
ODDS= MIT.
Thh wee the flnt day of the 'Wines at nisi prius after
last tern. The printed list eattafer as entry of 160 ceases,
of white 34 hays Wins settled or withdraws. Of the resi-
due 47 •T• to be tried by special juries. There are five ate-
tem and four inland dunes.
ADDINGTON V. FINTON.—F•TAN IMPAISONDII3II..

This was an masa to recover toomponsation in damages
from the defendant, a ebeenemsager, awry*/ on beauties at
Clerksawell. for having institeted a fake charge of felony
against lbe plartiff, who was ea atessasy's oak. Pleas
114741Yffenj=flitessal Mr. Y. Smith were aonnsel for the
plAttiff ; Mr. IL. Oltalaberse 4.C., mad Mx. Pearson, for the
ffilhodent.
It appeared the defendant sent his little son is the month
of Marais last with Sibs. of perk wad half a ad of butter,
to • customer residing la his On the way
the boy wee accosted beton= alms mad Is. Valor& at night
by a swum, man who robbed him of both Wicks. Soon
afterwards he told a policeman of what had cocarrod, and
they proceeded to the Star end Garter pub:to-house in the
Calfslonburroad, where the plaintiff was found talking to
two women. The boy immediately said the plaintiff was the
man who had robbed him, and the defendsat was seat for.
On mein up he asked his eon whether he we. quite furs
the plaintiff was the moon. Ths boy said he was, that he bad
Ant asked him whether he came from " Smiths," and that
he had the pork wrapped up in • red end white handkerchief.
The plaintiff had then in his posseasioa a little bundle which
he would not allow the polisentaa to search, whereupon the
defendant gave him into custody, sad he was taken to the
Islington green station-house. Oa arriving there and on
being searched, it was found the bundle contained a piece of
pork, but the defendant declined to press the charge, as he
thought it was not that which was take from his son, and
the plaintiff was set at liberty. Next day, Sunday, 10th
of March, about 4 o'clock in the afternoon the defeedant went
' accompanied by his next door neighboiar, a butcher, named
Smith, and a policeman, to the plaintiff's house, repotted the
charge, and had him taken to the polio, station, where he
was detained until 10 o'clock next morsinizawhen be was
held to bail. It appeared Smith had identi the plaintiff
as the purchase r of • piece of beef at his shop oa the Satnr•
day night, about nine o'clock, sad on halals bees sent as
ordered, it was not received. The case came on foe trial be-
fore Mr. Barium* Adams, at the Middlesex Swims. The
plaintiff's innocence was completely established, and he was
at once acquitted, amidst the sorlasuaticas of the bystanders.
The present action was then brought. One of several wit-
nears called for the plaintiff proved that he had purchased
about 3 IN. of pork on the very evening in question, be-
tween six and seven o'clock. It further appeared that he
was at his sister-la-law's, at Folmoudes-street, flomer'a-toen,
on that evening, between eight and nine o'clock, and that
hit wife and bar sister were the two persons to whom he
was speaking when he was first charged with the offence.
The Lotd Chief Baron said that after such evidence it
would be idle to attempt to sustain the pleas.
Mr. Chambers admitted he could not support the defence
set up ad he should, therefore, abandon the pleas.
Mr. Bevan, of the firm of Bevan and Anderson, solicitors,
and sir. Gibbon, of the firm of Langley and Gibbon,
solicitors, in whose employment the plaintiff had been for
several years, gave him an excellent coaracter for honesty
and propriety in every respect.
The Lord Chief Baron observed that the very but answer
that could be given to the pleas was that they were aban-
doned after hearing the evidence of the plaintiff's witnesses.
Mr. Gibbon, attorney, I roved that be bad undertaken the
plaintiff's defence at the 'miens and also the present action.
The taxed costs of defending the prosecution amounted to
401, and those incurred before as committal were 41. 10s.
Mr. Chambers addressed the jury for the defendant.
He said he approached the case with great hesitation,
bemuse L gave rise to a question cf considerable public
imprxtance. The plsiatiff 's chancier had already been
sufficiently vindicated by the verdict of a jury, and it was
therefore unnecessary for that purpose that &bisection should
have been brought. It was no doubt a grievous misfortune
that an innocent man should have been charged with so
serious an offence ; but it was merely one of those cases of
mistakes identity which it was almost impossible to
asoid. It would be still more unfortunate for the adminis-
tration of justice if peooo, acting with good faith,
and with reasonable or probable maw were deterred from
putting into activity the laws of the lad, by an apprehea.
Mon that they should be mulcted in damages on actions of
this description.
Verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 401.
EXCHEQUER CHAMBER-YESTERDAY.

Buoaaii BANNS PARKS AND nil JUDGIIO 01 TIM COllllO2l PLEA%
AID Bazaar or Excusacia U Eaaoas non ias coral Or Qt ZAN'S
Drava.
PIIILLIPA HNT f. Jovu —JUDOMIXT.

Mr. Baron Parke'delive4ed judgment in this omit, a ques-
tion of no public interest, which arose in an action of
detinue. The judgment of the Court of Queen's Bench was
reversed.

B .• GREOOIIr V. TEE CIEEIEN.--.LIBBL.—CONVIC.
TION NOT INVALIDATED BT TIE IndOITIENCT OP ONE

Covrr.

The original proceedings in this ease commenced so fat
back es 1842 or 1843, and the writ of error on the judg-
ment has been delayed by various references fur the purpose
of amsndmeut of record. It was so referred back to the
Queen's Bench in Hilary Term, 1849, and subsequently ad-
journed to the present sittings. The plaintiff in error, Bar-
nard Gregory, the conductor of a weekly print called the
Satirist, was eonvieted,Gn information, of a libel against the
Duke of Brunswick, imputing to that person the murder of
Blisa Grintwood, who was found dead in a house in the
Waterloo-road some years ago. Gregory was convicted on
four aunts, on each of which he was sentenced by the
Court of Queen's Bench to en imprisonment of two months.
Mr. Peacock appeared for the plaintiff in error, and Mr.
Henning in support of the conviction.
Several technical objections were urged against the suffi-
ciency of the counts, and it was contended that if any one of
the counts was insufficient the conviction was bad, the sen-
tence on each count being computed to commence at the ex-
piration of the imprisonment in respect of the hut count, or
the succeeding ones as the case might be.
The Court hold that the third count was bad • the others
were sufficient. The imprisonment in respect Of the fourth
would commence at the expiration of the imprisonment for
the second count.

- -
T6* result of this judgment consequently is that the
whole amount of imprisonment for the libel will be shor-
tened by two months.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.
OLD COUKT.—YIBTERDAY.
Dams Ma. BARON Bova.
111•118LACOKTIAL.

Patrick Barry, 49, labourer, was indicted fir the man-
I slaughter of his wife, Mary Barry, by indicting a mortal in-
jury upon her by a kick.
Mr. W. Cooper, who appeared for the prisoner, said that
upon looking at the depositions, he felt that upon the facts
they established, it would be impossible to rescue the pri-
soner from a conviction, and he would therefore, with his
sanction, retract his plea of not guilty, and admit the truth
of the charge. He begged at the same time to remind
the court that the act had been committed while
both varties were labouring under the excitement
of &ask, and that the deceased had applied a
most contemptuous epithet to the prisoner before
he assaulted her. He should also satisfy the court
that the prisoner up to this transaction bore an excellent cha-
racter for humanity and good conduct, and having done this,
he should leave his cue in the hands of his lordship, who he
was sure would deal as mercifully with him as his duty would
permit.
The prisoner's master woe then examined, and he stated
that he had known the prisoner for sixteen years, and during
that long period ►e always considered him a quiet, inoffen-
sive, hardworking man.
Baron Rolle said he would look at the depositions and
consider what sentence ought to be pronounced, and at a
later period of the day the prisoner was brought up for
judgment, sad sentenced to be kept to hard labour for six
calendar mouths.

ROBBERY AND RECEIVING STOLEN GOODE.
Philip Morgan, 25, was indicted for stealing twenty]-fire
ruts of carpet value 24., the property of Leuncolot Row-
leadson and another; and Jaws Roach, 46, sad Rosa
Hanky, 60, were indicted for receiving the property, know-
ing it to have been stolen. Mr. Careen prosecuted. Mr.
Delimiting defended the prisoner Hartley.
The case against the prisoners mainly rested upon the
evidence of a man named Myers, and the evidence left very
little doubt that Roach kept a regular " fence," a ?sceptic's
for stolen goods.
The jury accordingly convicted that prisoner, and acquitted
Morgan and Hartley.
The prisoner Morgan and Roach were then charged
upon another indictment, with burgisrlously breaking and
entering the dwelling-house of Edward Andrew Hogg, with
intent to steel, and at the same time assaulting and beating
Eliza Chapman.
This cam appeared to be of rather a singular character,
but, as the facts have been given within the last few days in
the police reports, it will be unammarary to repeat the evi-
dense at length on the present occasion. The prosecutor, it
appeared, is a boot and shoemaker, residing in Church.
street, Hackney, end he also keeps • post-letter receiving
house, and, according to the evidence of Myers, who was
again the principal witness for the prosecution, about See
wean ago the prisoner Morgan male a proposition to hint
to rob the toe's house, to which he consented ; but it
appeared that he immediately gave information to Mr. Hon
sod to the police of what was intended to take place. The
other prisoner was afterwards applied to to join in the rob-
bery, and he agreed to it, and three diffirent Sundays were
Sued upon to min out the project, but from some cause or
other the orecua of it was postponed until Sunday,
the Sad of Jane. Accordingly oat this day Mor-
gan went to the house in the evening about
ten o'clock, and upon the servant, Eliza Chapman,
going to the door, he inquired if Mr. Hogg was et home,
and, on her "'Wag him he was not, he asked permission
to wait in the kitchen for him a short time. He accord-
ingly west down stairs, and stayed about ten minutes, and
he them maid he could not wait any longer, and he proseeded
upstairs, tolling the servant that he would open the door
hlf. The girl followed hint into the weep and
when he opened the door, Roach rushed is and ;sized
the girl, and steak her several blows in the fees before
the constables (who had been secreted in the house)
meld rusk out of their hiding places and mute him.
Morgan and Roach were immediately apprehended, end
upon searching the latter a piece damn, cord, with a noose
at one end, was found in his pocket, and this, according to
the evident* of Myers, was intended to Wad the servant
with, or eves to cause her more serious mischief, if she
offered any impediment to the effecting ur the robbery. The
witness Myers wee evidently a non of very bad character,
but his seldom we
Boaamed se materially by the tests.