The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-23 00:00:00

UNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL.

OIPORD, MAT 22.—1. a convocation holden this morning,
the Vice-Chancellor and Proctors nominated the following
gentlenvo, as masters of the schools, for the year ensuing,
viz.:—The Rev. D. P. Chase, 11 A., Fellow of Oriel College
I and Vice-Principal of St. Mary Hall; the Rev. E. R. Dukes,
M.A , Student of Christ Church; and the Rev. J. E. Mil-
lard, M.A., Deray of Magdalen College.
In a congregation holden immediately afterwards, being
the first day of Trinity Term, the following degrees were
conferred, viz.:—Marten of Arts : Rev. William H. F.
Hind., Exhibitioner of University College Rev. James S.
Vaughan, Balliol College; Rev. Charles Terry, Exeter Col-
lege; Rev. Frederick Lipscomb, Queen's College; Rev.
John B. Hubby, Ilresenosa College; Rev. John E. Hill,
Christ Church ; Rev. Henry Abed Wadham College ;
Robert Nutt, Rev. Augustus A. Aylward, Worcester Col-
lege; Rev. William T. Bullock, liev. Samuel Gilson, Rag-
deka Hall ; Augustus H. Birkett, Samuel J. Wasebey, St.
Mary Hall ; Rev. Stanford Harris, St. Edmund Hall.
Bachelor of Civil Law : T. 11. Tristram, Lincoln College.
Bachelor of Ariz.—William H. Williamson, Henry Anstey,
University College • John G. B. T. 1111dyard, Merton Col-
lege; William J. 'Baron, Queen'. College; William H.
James, James H. Petition, Balliol College; Francis J.
Poynton, Samuel Stead, Exeter College; Whitens T. Wil-
kinson, Henry W. Bent, Lincoln Collegel; William P.
Woollcombe, Christ Church; Montague B. Weill, Demy
of Magdalen College ; Thome. Bartlett, Pembroke College;
William Valentine, William P. Chappel, John L. Latham,
Worcester College; Henry Stretch, Magdalen Hall;
Matthew A. Pierpoint, New Inn Rail.
Died at his chambers this morning, of diabetic, Berkeley
Drummond Compton, 8.A., fellow, tutor, and mathemati-
cal lecturer of Merton College. Mr. Compton took a first
class " In Disciplinis Mathematicis et Physic's," in Easter
Term, 1847.

lizensatince To Rot/E.—Two estimable clergymen, highly
beloved and respected for their amiable character and the
exemplary discharge of their sacred duties, were received at
Rome, in Easterjwesk, into the Rutin catholic church. Their
names are the Rev. John Henry Wynne, 8.C.L., Fellow 01
All Soul's College, and the Rev. James Laird Patterson,
M.A., of Trinity College.
CONSECRATION OF ST. MART'S CHURCH, Sr. GIOROR
In-rui•E•er.—The COTelOolli of consecrating the above
new church, which has been erected some months,
was performed yesterday by the Lord Bishop of London,
in the presence of a numerous and highly respectable con-
gregation. This chutoi,, which has been built at the sole
expense of Lord Haddo, is situated i 4 john-strest: and sur-
rounded by very crowded and poor inhabitants. The
consecration sermon having been performed by the bishop,
a liberal collection was made for defraying the expences of
providing the church with the necessaries for public worship.

Rev. Nathaniel Robert Dennis, M.A., to be Chaplain of
the Militia, Prison, Gosport.
Rev. Makin Griffith., to Ulyn-Corws P. C., so. Blasn-
°wrack P. 0., Glamorgan. ; value 891.; pat., Earl of
Jitney.
Rev. John Rasmus, M.A., to Galby R., Lsieestorshirs;
ewes WA, with residence: pat., G. A. Ugh Veeht, Esq.
Rev. J. Magaley, C. of Bowdon, to be • Surrogate ; o.
Chester, _ _

Rey.Bamuel
Sunderland, 8.A., V. of Pollens, to be a
Surrogate ; die. Ripon.
Bnedon, Rev. Arthur William, M.A., R. of Pengbouree,
Berke; Goodlake, Rey. Thomas William. 111 A.,1 V. of
Bradwell; Metcalfe, Rev. Frederick, 11. A., Fellow of I,in•
cola Coll., Osiord ; Morrell, Rao. George Kidd, D C.L..
P.C. of Moulsford; Morns, RIM. Thomas, M.A., P.C. of
Wokinghem; blind, Rev. Philip Henry, M.A., V. of
Soathetoket Robinson, Rev. Francis, V. of Stooselleld ;
Weekend, Rev. Florence Jena, M.A., V. of Maslen old
Wilma, Rev. William Davis, M.A., V. of Forriogdon ; to
be %innate dio. Oxford.

Wan *ntelitgente.
EQUITY COURTS.—YarnaDAT.
The Lord Cheapener Wes sot in court to day, MT was he
expiated by the peesear who have charged the court. The
restest uncertainty and contradictory rumours prevailed
about his lordship's 'Mag.
It is quite aerials, however, that in the House of Lords,
before die adjoaranest, the Marquis of Leasdowns' in
Irking nodes that he would stove the adjournment of the
40111111 to the 27th lariat, said he expected that on that day
his noble sad lensed Mead would be able to attend. This
was said is the sours, of a debate, sad was not, perhaps,
heard in the reporters' gallery, sad therefore was not notated
is the newspapers.

ROOM Teo Num O► rant Roma.
THI TORE AND NORTX IIIDL&ND RAILWAY COM.PAST 9.

HODsox.—Txx■ To Algswzi.-4

Mr. Toiler, for the defendant, Mr. George Hudson, again
brought before the court the application made by Wm an
the last day of Baster Term, for time to answer two of the
bills flied by the company in February lest, respecting tran-
sactions which took place whilst Mr. 'Judson was chairman
of the °outpour.
After some Memel= his Lordship gave the defendant
th►ee weeks' time to answer one bill, and flee weeks to su-
ave: the other.

Baron 710 Vice-Ciuscauca Or EsOLAND.
THE HMO or TH• Two Simms v. Tea PENT/OMAR
AND ORIINTAL STRAIt PACIEST C DEKHHHHH
at me SILK PACK= Coarsen OTIHRITLED.
The Vice• Chancellor delivered judgment in thin case upon
the demurrer of the defendants, the Steam Packet Com-
pany, which was argued (Rutin& /Cuter term. It will be re-
collected from the reports which have already appeared in
the Doily News, that the bill was tiled on behalf of his
Majesty the king of the Two Sicilice for an injunction to
restr►in the Steam Packet Company from delivering up a
vessel called the Bombay, which had been purchased by
two persons named Granatelli and Scalia, who were sent
over to this country for that purpose at the time of the
late revolution, by the summing government then In existence.
The injunctios which had been granted ex parte was dis-
solved. The same defendants then demurred to the bill on
the ground that they were not bound to answer the hill as
to those parts which charged a conspiracy to contravene the
provisions of the Ship Registry Act, nor aa to those parts
which charged that an offence bad been committed by them
within the meaning of the Foreign Enlistment Act, and the
defendants submitted that by answering the allegations in
the bill, they would be committing an indictable offence, and
would render themselves liable to be proceeded against in
a court of law.

His Honour, in giving judgment, said he had thought it
necessary, owing to the length of the :demurrer, to read
through the whole of the bill. There were a numher of
small points adverse to the demurrer. Fir instance,
one of the interrogatories in the bi.l to which
the defendants demurred was whether the city of
Palermo was not in the island of Sicily; be could not
conceive how the answer to this could subject the defend-
ants to pains and penalties, but the cue must in fact be
considered upon the principal points raised, which were
these : First, whether the defendants, the Steam Packet
Company, would by answering expose themselves to pins
and penalties under the Ship Registration Act, and secondly,
whether they would also reader themselves liable to such
penalties under the Foreign Enlistment Act. Upon the
first question he certainly did not see any ground for the
demurrer ; 'he was not prepared to say that no fraud had
been committed upon the ►ct, but his opinion wee that there
was no such fraud charged upon the bill, conrquently upon
the first point the demure r must be overruled. Then as to
the other question whether the defendants would expose
themselves to penalties under the Foreign E,.listenent Act,
In having supplied foreigners 'with ships of war, and
whether there was anything upon this subject in the
bill which rendered it necessary for the defendants to protect
themselves by demurrer from answering ; the principal argu-
ment pressed upon him was that the company would, if they
answered the bill, be liable to an indictment. It was true
that in some cues a corporation was liable to be inci.cted—as,
for instance, in the cue which had been cited, where there
bad been non-compliance with an order of the justices re-
quiring that a certain bridge should be repaired, but suck
cases were of a limited description, and not inconsistent with
the g I principle that by the law of England corporations
were not liable to indictments. Since the case had,been
argued he had had the opportunity of consulting one of the
judges upon this point, who had coincided wi h his own
view of the law. He did not, therefore, think it
could be made out that the company could bo
indicted under the Foreign Enlistment Act. His
opinion was also confirmed by the languane of the act itself,
which clearly referred to individuals ; the word " he " wu
used repeatedly in several sections, and it was evident that the
intention of the act was to prevent private individulle from
giving aid to foreigners at the hazard of involving this
country in a war with other nations, and he did not see any
exprea.ions which mid lead to the supposition th►t the act
was intended to apply to persona sustaining a corporate ca-
pacity. Under these circumstances the demurrer mutt be
overruled.

BILL O. IS/ILL.-APPLICATION TOR AN INJPISCTION TO
RESTRAIN THB USE OP A TRADE MARX REFVSZD.

fba Vice-Chancellor deli;ered judgment in this;use,
which was an application on behalf of the plaintiff, who
carried on the business of a Inciter match maker at Basing-
Lane "
iha
•vu tOl4' who
nephew of the plaintiff, from selling lucder and conger*
matches atd Vesta lights in boxes with labels up n them,
in imitation of the labels used by the plaintiff. iiis lion ur
said he was unable to core to any conclusion as to the
rights of the different parties, and he thought, therefore,
that he could net interfere by injuccticn, but would retain
the bill upon the file, and give the plaintiff leave to bring
an action at law.

BEFOnE ‘NCLLLOR N.NIGITT Ram.
THE AGArEMONE.—THOMIS r. ROBERTS.

The Vice-Chancellor gave judgment in this case, the facia
of which were stated in the Errress of May 9, in the
report of the hearing.

His Honour slid,—This case was before the court upon a
petition presented in the name of George Nottidge Thomas,
an inhint, by hie uncle-in-law, Mr. Frederick Peter Kipley,
as his next friend. It prays that some proper person or persons
may b.? appointed to be the guardian or guardians, or to have
the care of the infant during his minority, and that proper
directions may be given for his maintenance and education,
and that George Robinson Thomas and his agents may be
restrained by the order of the court from applying for any
' suit of habeas corpus for the purpose of obtaining possession
' or custody of the infant, and also from taking
forcible means, or otherwise taking possession of him
or in any manner interlining with him. The petitioner is
at present in the fourth year cf hie !se. and in t)`o
of the marriage. his parents are bath living, one of them
being Mr. Gee. R. Thomas, mentioned in the petition, a
native, as I collect, of Wales, who seems to have been
elucated at Llampeter, with a view to become (aa in
fast he became) a minister of the church of England. Ido
not, however, collect that he proceeded beyond taking
deacon's orders, or that he now considers himself to be a
member of that church. I understand him M dissent, and
' to have seceded from it. Nor does it appear from the obser
Tedious which he addressed, in person, to the court, that he
has any present or future preferment, office, employment,
, business, fortune, ;means, or source of income whatsoever.
His wife, petitioner's mother, is one of the daughters of a
• gentleman of good fortune, who resided is Suffolk, but who
died before her marriage, leaving a widow still living (the
grandmother of the infant), under whom protection and in
whose house the child now is. This lady, I collect to
• be
.in good circumstances, and to be a person living in
• respectability. The daughters' portions seem to: have been
• at least, as much, as in the situation in society to which they
' belonged, is usual. That of Miss Agnes Nottidge the pe-
titioner's mother was, I collect, between 8,0001. and 6,0001.
Her marriage (whether equal or unequal otherwise than in
point of fortune) seems, in that respect at least, to have been
unequal ; for Mr. Thomas bad not, I believe, any property.
It web place without the coment and against the wish of
Mrs. Nottidge, and it seems in a considerable degree
ascribable, so far at least as Miss Agnes Nottidge
, is concerned, to the influence and ascendancy over
her mind which (it must, I fear, be said) unhappily for her
had been acquired and were exercised by a fanatic or a
pseudo fanatic preacher, who styled himself " the servant of
the Lord," who seems to have acted lees as a " go-between "
than as a spiritual director in forming this and other
• matches between endowed ladies and such of his followers or
asetstrikrvlaenathamovfec,,thmAsadnLirdhe'r':
Ithashtolashed
associates oldie other sex as were judged fit for the purpose.
One of these was Mr. Thomas, whom Miss Agnes Nottidge
seems to have been led to believe that it was the will of God
should marry, end she did so very, much on thasat
gtoro"hed;
qualify Thus (revealeda
leasta through
t statement, e :evde n thet
hes
hu,band's means; for she married without a settlement.
Her fortune appears to have come consequently into his
power, as (if it remains) it still seems to be. The want of a
settlement was, however, not through oversight; she man
tioned the subject to him, it appears, at the same time she
seems to hays mentioned a promise, probably connected with
it, which she had made to one or both of her parents. I say
this because it soma's that,not quite 0.4,3
ware La,
marriage, Mr. ftionsas was able and permitted himself to
write to her this all but impossible letter:
"2, Windsor-terrace, Brighton, June 21, 1846.
"My very dear Agnes,—lt gave mo pleasure by a letter
from dear brother Cobb to learn that he had seen you off
safely by mail on Thursday morning: either by this timeyou
are with beloved brother William, or else with the deer
Mrs. Maher. I know their love in Jesus' and that they
will do everything to reader your sojourn fn Swansea good
for you ; but I know something neon, I know the bound-
less love of Jll6llll lie will be with you, for His eye is on
you, and whatsoever is good that will He bestow,
whether it be joy or sorrow, we or trial, comfort or
difficulty, all things are yours, for you are Christ's, and
Christ is God's. Let not your heart be troubled under your
present circumstances; neither let it be afraid at what friends
or low may suggest ; abide in the spirit and will of God,
then will your pesos be like a river wide and ovrrtiowing,
and your send will be borne sweetly along the stream of
time until it reach the ocean of eternal lore and rest. What
I say unto you, I say also unto you, Harriet and Clara.
Assam them of my love, and let them trust thenseelme to be
carried iby faith in the arms of Jesus, whithersomer
He will, not whithenoever they will, and they
and you will find He will do you good at year
latter end. Illy beloved Agnes, 1 mast write to you On