The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-02 00:00:00

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Tbs court sat yesterday at the Guildhall, Weiktedneter, to
kaksrate appeals ; present: the Assistant Judge, Mr. Bowman
Of the beach), Mr. H. Mann E. Harwood-Harwood. Mr. bs=
Mr. Rankine, Mr. Jennings, Mr. Morley, Mr.
GOodhart, Sir George Hodgkinson, Dr. Bateman, Mr.
Haehford, and Mr. Marshall.
There were ten appeals in the list, by the Imperial GUI
Light and Coke Comp r apical the rates levied upon their
ry situate in o. The difference was as be-
weinert4,lllool. and 5231.
Mr. J. Clerk, specially retained, appeared for the com-
pany with Mr. Woollet and Mr. Williams ; Mr. Dander-
well 'and the Hon. George Denman for the parish.
After a long discussion, it was arranged by consent., with
the sanction of the court, that an experienced gentleman
should he selected to examine the scoosuite of the cam.
pasty, in conjunction with another on the part of the
parch, and one representing the company, and him state-
ment to be submitted to the court, but not to be con-
sidered as decisive by either side. A great number of pro-
fessional gentlemen were present.
The Court made unless in six appeals by the North
London Railway Company against rates, and fixed the
amount of costs to be paid by the respondents, the impel-
Lista having succeeded on the hearing, as taxed by Mr.
Maude, the deputy olerk of the peace, viz., as against
lalington, total in the six appeals, 441/. 3s. Bd.. and as
against St. Pancras in five appeals by the am* company
against the local odes of that parish, 251/. ha. 3d.
There was an appeal in the list, in which the rateable
liability of the National Hospital, Queen-square, was
rained. Mr. Langford appeared for the appellants, and con-
tended that it was exempt as a place of public charity, and
cited authorities.

Nr.Ward, for the respondent., said that this was • gun-
Jim of some moment to the parish of st. Andrew, Hol-
bert, and St. George the Martyr, in which the hospital was
skeet.. Formerly teueenequare, Onnood-street, and
thereabout, was the aristocratic part of London, the noble
sad great had their mansions there, and of course bore
their proportion to the rate ; but the tide of fashion had
bowed to the West, and these large mansions were being
termed into institutions and hospitals, which claimed to be
exempt, which, if allowed, of course deprived the parish of
so much rateable value, sad threw greater burdens upon
the resident parishionen. The learned counsel quoted •
great number of cases to show that, aoeoniing to the dicta
of the highest authorities, among them Lord Haoadeld and
Lord Denman, this was a place in which the public had no
absolute interest, but was a private enterprise, and not a
public charity incorporated by charter royal. established by
government or act of parliament, and that the tnsetees
were liable to pay the rate upon the asseesible value, on the
ground of beneficial occupation.
The Assistant Judge maid he would look into the cases,
and state at the ensuing sessions what he thought ought to
be done.

The counsel maid they were perfectly willing to take his
lordship's (tension at once.
The Assistant Judge said he would rather conaider the
matter, as a principle of some public importance was in-
volved, which it might be necessary to have settled by the
court above definitely.
On the application of Mr. Poland, a conditional order was
made respecting the stopping up of a pathway on the estate
of the Countess of Waldegnsve, at Mtrawberry•hill, famous
in connexion with the man of Walpole.

Assam TO Smoot AN ENiiINE DRIVISR.—A cor-
respondent of Saunders' News says :—" On Monday bat,
as the down train, which leaves Athlone for Oesilerea at
7.5 p.m., approached the bridge of Tubberden, near the
contemplated Lecarrow-station, the engine-driver perceived
a man on the eminence of the bridge levelling a guu towards
him, upon which he instantly shifted his pcwition ; the gun
was immediately discharged, and the bullet or pellet struck
and dinged the engioe in the line of the poor man's previous
position. Providence thus interposed to frustrate this din-
helical attempt not only to deprive this man of his life, leaf
also, should such a calamity have happened, to prevent
the carriages being thrown off the line and plunged into the
deep bog of Tubberden, which bee on either aide. The
occurrence is involved in mystery. Thepolies of Lecarrow
have been scouring the locality to try and piscine to the
discovery of the miocreant,.
_but as yet without seceses."
BURNING or TIM MART CARRON.—The ship
Henry Brigham, which arrived at Liverpool yesterday frac
Savannah, had on board the captain and crew of the ship
Mary Canoe, bound from Charleston to Liverpool, which
wee burned at sea. The Mary Canon was a One ship, and
a regular trader between Liverpool nod Charleelea. At the
time of bar destination she had 2,307 hales of cotton and
500 barrels of rosin on board. The Mary Carson sailed
Gem Charleston on the 18th of December MA.
CoNstlsrrior atul other (finesses chareeterised by

• rspid arruletinn of the blood cannot be cured or even all;-
elated until the pulse Is reduced. Thls can be accotnplialted by
the use of °volition) CUD LIVER OIL. MOO " Nerd Medical and
Chiruralcal Society's Transactions," Vol 4r, for 1660: "Lamest,"
July It, letie " Phan aseeutical Journal," Most I=4lte.
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