The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-07-05 00:00:00

THE COURT

The Lord Chancellor had an audience of the Queen I
on Thursday afternoon, at Buckingham Palace. The
Prince Consort rode on horseback in the forenoon,
attended by Colonel F. H. Seymour. The Prince of
Wales, attended by Mr. Gibbs, visited the Zoological
gardens in the Regent's park. Her Majesty and Prince
Albert, accompanied by the Princess Royal and the
Princess Charlotte of Belgium, took a drive in an open
landau and four in the afternoon. Prince Albert pre-
sided on Thursday evening at the annual dinner of the
Grenadier Guards, of which regiment his Royal High-
ness is colonel. The dinner took place at the London
Tavern. The Duchess of Kent dined with her
Majesty. The Queen, accompanied by the King of the
Belgians, the Princess Charlotte of Belgium, and the
Count of Flanders, honoured the Royal Italian Opera,
Lyceum, with her presence. The King of the Belgians
visited the Duchess of Kent, at Clarence House, St.
James's.

PROROGATION OF PARLIAMENT.—It is not improbable
that the prorogation of Parliament will take place on
Thursday, the 24th instant, the Ministerial whitebait
dinner, in all likelihood, taking place on Saturday, the
19th.

RETURN OF GENERAL GOUGH.—General Viscount
Gough, G.C.8., has arrived in town from his mission to
the Crimea, where the gallant veteran was delegated by
her Majesty to invest the French Marshal and Generals
with the Order of the Bath.

Tna CRIMEAN STAFF. —The officers who have lately
held commands in the Crimea will immediately be placed
in similar positions on the staff at home. Five of them
have been already appointed to the command of brigades
at Aldershott, and several district staff appointments will
shortly be vacated, to which other Crimean officers will,
in all probability, be named.

T. n Doti., 0, Wll. ~11.03 xr,r. 7.m" IklnTrtox-oizz.
We hive reason to anticipate that the general wish
regarding the entry of the Guards will be complied with,
and that those troops will march from the Waterloo-
station to Buckingham Palace. The inhabitants of the

metropolis will thus have every opportunity of doing
h.,nour to the Guards, notwithstanding the attempt of
the Quartermaster General to make the demonstration
one of litt'e more than suburban proportions. The
Fusilier Guards having arrived, the ceremony will
probably take place on an early day next week.

Tun TowN DUE;.—T;Ie labours of Mr. Lowe's select

committee on local charges on shipping, met a most
ignoble termination on Thursday last. On that day the
committee assembled to devise the course forfuture opera-
tion. The hon. and learned member fur Newcastle, Mr.
Headlam, presented and prepared the adoption of a
report in favour of our Town Dues, the evidence with
respect to which, has been closed on both sides. A dis-

cussion ensued, in the course of which Mr. Cobden (who
by the way has been absent from the committee for some
time,) obj ,cted to any report being made to the House in
the present stage of the investigation ; in other words,
he urged that the enquiry into the cases of all other
places sought to be affected, should be gone into before
any report was made. On this, the chairman, promoter
and prosecutor (Mr. Lowe), moved as an amendment
upon Mr. Headlam's proposition, that the committee
should simply report the evidence which had been taken,
and ❑othing more. On a vote being taken, the com-
mittee were equally divided, namely, eight gip each side,
when the chairman gave the casting vote in favour of his
own amendment, which was accordingly carried. The
result, therefore, is that the matter stands where it
began; and when it is remembered that the committee
was constituted by the right hon. gentleman himself,
without opposition or contest, that he himself proposed
to go no further this session than with the case of Liver-
pool, it is no idle boast to say that the position of affairs
on Thursday, enable us to congratulate Mr. Lowe upon
his virtual discomfiture and signal defeat. Should he

again venture upon an attack next session, he may rest
assured he will be met with undiminished vigour and
determination by those who have the rights of property to
protect against assailants, however high their position,
or plausible their expressed intentions.

LAW IN TELLIGENCB. —LIABILITY OF INNRETP SR& —III
the Court of Queen's Bench on Thursday judgment was
given, after lull argument, in the case of " Cashill versus
Wright," which was an action brought to recover damages
for the loss of a watch and some sovereigns, supposed to be
stolen from hie room in the defendant's ion, where be was
a guest. In defence, certain acts of the plaintiff were set
up, to show that he had been negligent, and had occasioned
or contributed to the loss. At the trial before the Recorder
of M arehcster, the jury were direc'ed that the defence
failed unless they found that the plaintiff had been guilty 0C
gross neglect. A rule for a new trial was afterwards
obtained on the ground of misdirection. Mr. Justice Erie
now delivered judgment. Two questions were raised before
the court. It was said first by the counsel for the plaintiff
that the particular acts imputed to the plaetiff were of such
a nature as not to amount to negligence, and that the
Recorder shoul l have direetA the jury that there was no
negligence. If the court were satisff d that there was no
evidence of negligence, the rule ought to be discharged ;
)at they could not say there was not some negligence on
ch the opinion of the jury ought to have been taken.
the alleged misdirection in saying