The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-04-22 00:00:00

SELECT VESTRY,

The first meeting of the newly elected vestry took place
in the beard room, workhouse, at ten o'clock yesterday
morning. The R6v. Rector Campbell presided, and the
following vestrymen were present :—Messrs. Woodruff,
Shaw, Bairstow, Owen, Cronin, Smith, Whitty, Chesney,
Richardson Jackson, William!, J. Jones, Mellor, Denton.
Cropper, Crawford, Bold, Syred, Taylor, Cook, and
Branclor.

The Chairman explained the purpose of the meeting,
after which the vestry proceeded to the apppintmeat of
committees The following are the committees as then
constituted

FINANCE : Messrs. Woodruff, Brucker, Denton, Hand,
W. Jones, DAT, Mellor, Whitby, and Jackion.
Wohilhousa : Messrs. Shaw, Bold, Critehley, Denton,
Richardson, J. Jones, Mellor, Whitty, Williams, and
Cropper.
INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS : MARTS. W. Jones, Byers, Wil-
liams, Crawflrd, Syred, Cooke, Taylor, Whitty,
and Chesney.

The Relief Quorum were also appointed.
Tne Chairman drew attention to the necessity of having
a fall attendance of the Relief Quorums, intimating that
where there was not a sufficient attendance, the proceed-
irgs were not legal, and great delay and inconvenience
mlght take place.
Mr Jacks ut moved that it be an instruction to the
quorum to insist upon the production of certificates from
parents desiring relief, showing that their children were at-
tending some school.
Mr. Whitty did not think that the law would allow
the refusal of relief where the parties could not produce
any ench certificate.

Pdr. Bairstow said the law would allow the quorums to
'give a little more where the parents could show that the
'children were attending any schools.
It was agreed to act upon the suggestion as fee as pos-
sible.

THE WALTON CEMETERY.
The Chairman said that he hoped the churchwardens
would now apply themselves to the question of the Walton
Cemetery, and would endeavour to bring it into use. It
appeared to him a most extraordinary thing that it was
not brought into use a long time ago. There seemed to be
grotadless prejudice against it, but why it was so he
oorild not tell. The surveyor told him that at a little
'ex9ense it could be made as attractive a cemetery as any
in 'he county of Lancaster, and with regard to its position,
it was not so remote as some people seemed to think. It
was no very great distance from town, and was easily
accessible by railway. It struck hint also that the Select
Vestry and the charchwardees 'ought to facilitate the
carrying of the bodies of poor people, or people' that were
not very rich, and to whom the saving of money
'ma the case of interments was a matter of importance.
If facilities to inter were given to people of
that ea* it might be • made a very satisfactory
cemetery, and he therefore hoped that the churchwardens
-would by some means or Other endeavour to get it done.
/It struck him also that it would be well if the Barial
Board would endeavour to take the cemetery into their
m anagement ; and, for his own part, he should be happy to
give every facility in his power to carry out such an arrange-
menty - He thought it desirable that such an, arrrange-
'talent should be made, and that facile communication
should be made with the town. When that was done, the
cemetery would be extensively useful. It should be under-
stood that Walton cemetery was a cemetery for the burial
of the parishioners of Liverpool, and that every parishioner
had a right of interment there. He believed that inter-
ments might be made there economically, and that the
ground could be laid out and improved at a very inconsi-
de-able expense. It was said) indeed, by some people
that the affairs of the parish of Liverpool were worse
than those of any other parish in the kindom. (Hear,
hear, and laughter.) He confessed he could not say
that. They were not gifted with absolute wisdom ;
they sometimes did do foolish things, but he believed•
tt eir betters did the same. The expenditure of 5120,000
n year in a parish containing 170,000 people, was no
email task, but be nevertheless believed that they con-
ducted all their business well and orderly. (Hear,
hear.)
_ _

Mr. Churchwarden Woodruff said, that he fully con-
curred with the Rector in the desirability of m,king the
prop,rty at Walton, which was the prop say of the
pari,hi,ners, and paid for by them, as ay..ilable to the
general purposes of the.town as possible, and he regretted
that something had not been done to it with that view
months ago. Itshould be borne in mind that the parish
had paid for twenty-seven acres of ground, and it was a
mistake for the public to suppose th it it was only
intended for the interment of paupers. He could not see
why the ground should not be laid out and drained,
and while it remained undone, an injustice
was acne to the, parishoners, in forcing them to inter
elsewhere. Whether they consulted the health of the
inhabitants, the convenience of the public, or the pockets
of the poor, it was mist desirable that they should bring
ttib muter to an issue, and have a proper understanding on
it. lie had hoped that the Burial Board would have been
able to Use it up, bat from some cause or other which
would probably be son explained, the board had not as
yet been in active operation. He did not see why the
Burial Board should not take the ground on a reasonable
settlement, and why, with the other ground which wa7 now
offered to them, they should not have every facility in their
bands which would enable them to do justice to the
parishioners at large. There would be a meeting of the
*Burial Board on Wednesday, and he would make it his
business to bring the subject before it. (Hear, hear )
The Chairman said the first thing to be done was to lay
a small emit tery rate, for the laying out of 'Walton Ceme-
tery. At present bodies might be buried there with the
greatest possible facility, for there was batween one and
two acres sufficiently drained and otherwise prepared for
the interment of the dead at the present time, but it wanted
roads and an extensive system of drainage, which might be
done by a cemetery rate ; and it struck him that the sooner
the churchwardens rt quested the parishioners to assemble
in general vestry, to lay a cemetery rate, the better.
Mr. Woodruff said, in the event of the burial board not
being in a position to deal with the matter, he should feel
it his duty, conjointly with his colleague, to call the general
vestry together.
The subjeet then dropped.
Tais concluded the business.

• SECRET OP THE GRAND DUKE CONsTANTINE'S
While astronomers are looking out for the coming of as
expected comet, statesmen and couriieis are on the gui vine
in anticipation of a promised meteor. The fiery Grand
Duke Constantine Ishcolaewitch, Grand Admiral of Russia,
is, it is said, about to honour us with an Imperial visit.
Hwang seen and examined the lions" of Paris, and
feasted with the Gallic eagle to hTs heart's content, his
Imperial Highness is to favour us with his company, is to
chneeseend to inspect our little curiosity shops, and to take
a luncheon and perhaps a dinner with the British lion. A
pious pilgrimage to the old haunts of his illustrious proge-
nitor, Peter the Great—to Deptford, where he lodged, to
the Dockyard where he laboured, and to the localities
• where he received lessons in surgery, mathematics, naviga-
tion, and shipbuilding some hundred and sixty years ago
and a professional tour of inspection of our arsenals, naval
yards, and magazines are indicated as the probable objects
ofthe Grand Duke's visit. Although the Court journals
are silent on the subject, we can add that his Imperial
Highness comes especially to thank Sir Charles Napier for
his extietne politeness in treating Cronstadt with the p-o
foundest respect, and that he brings, with him General
Todtleben, charged to say all so• is of civil things to our
• old fcgies at the Horse Guards for having abstained from
taking Sebastopol as long as they could. We can also
delicately insinuate that the Grand Duke comes expressly
to sup with Sir Robert Peel, and to have a jolly carouse,
after the manner of his ai.cestor, with the eccentric and
rollicking Lord of the Admiralty,—Civil Service Gazette.
STOCK FARHING.—From two eaass stock fathers in
this part of the country are becoming very apprehensive
about the success of the branch of farming which is the
particular object of their care. There are the extreme
severity of the weather and the scarcity of provender,
which combined are likely to produce the most disastrous
effects, on the numbe-s and value of stock. It is not
enough to say that •the prices of hay and straw are high
beyond exaniple, but they are almost unpremitable. The
consequence-is, that those who have not been provident pf
their supplies, or dependent on themarkets, are in a sad way.
Their cattle are starving. There is yet scarcely anything
on the ground to pick, and even that little is not
Always
obtainable from the severity of tho weather, which obliges
them to be still housed. They have little or nothing
inside, and even that is rapidly running out without any
hope of; its being replaced., Cattle, particularly weak
stock, are dying in every direction. We know several
who have lost numbers, and it is not an an unusual sight
to see large quantities of the skins of animals who have
thus perished coming into towns from the mountains to be
disposed of. If the .weather does not soon mend, end
there is yet few symptoms of an improvement, very bad
effects may be certainly apprehended. —Trawley Herald.
LANDSLIP ON TAE NORTH EASTERN RAILWAY —Early
on Sunday morning a tremendous slip of earth took place
on the North Eastern line, about half a mile from the
Altoffs Junction, near Normanton. The subsidence for a
number of yards is quite fearful, and will necessitate the
use of many hundred tons of ballast before the permanen'
way is restored. Fortunately the down line was uninjured
by the slip, and on this single nair of rails the traffic of the
line is now worked.—Yorkshire Gazette.
FOREIGN PcraroEs.—The value of potatoes imported
*est year was 219,222.

COUNTY COURT.-YESTERDAY,

BEFORE JOSEPH POLLOCK, EVQ., JUDGE.
THE ROYAL OAK BURIAL SOCIETY —HULL AND OTEtERS
v. BROWN AND OTHERS.—This was an application made
by Messrs. William Rathbone, Fn detick Hull, and T.
Martin, as trustees of the Royal Oak Burial Society, for
the' purpose of obtaining an injunction to restrain the
committee of that society from proceeding any further to
act upon certain alterations.of the roles adopted at recent
meetings of the body held in the Clarendon Rooms. Mr.
Seger, barrister, appeared for the plaintiffs : Mr. Marshall,
barrister, instructed by Mr. Roby, represented the defend-
ants. Mr. Seger stated at considerable length the grounds
upon which the application was made, the principal points
of which were that the meetings were held in the Clarendon
Rooms, a place altogether inadequate to contain anything
like a reasonable proportion of the members of so
numerous a body; that the summonses c :Fling the
meetings were informal, and that the hour at which the
meetings were held, three o'clock in the afternoon, was a
time at which it was impossible that most of the members
could give their attendance. Mr. Segar contended
that the code of rules, which was carefully revised and
adopted with the -anclion of that court in eleptember last,
when the plaintiffs were appointed trustees, had worked very
satisfactorily, or at all events that they had not yet bad
such a full trial as would warrant the society in having
them altered. In any case the trustees contended that they
should have an opportunity of fully considering the
nropesed alterations, in older that they might see whether
they would be beneficial or otherwise to the society Mr.
Marshall, on the part of the defendants contended that
the plaintiffs had no locus eandi, and supported the pro-
ceedings of the meetings. His Honour strongly
urged that some arrangement should be mutually agreed
to, and intimated that if the parties could not agree he
should probably feel it his daty to have the funds transferred
to another bank until the question should be decided, to
insist upon all arrears being paid up, and to issue orders of
commitment to Lancaster Castle against any defaulters.
He expressed much-regret that in a case of such importance
his decision was not liable to rcvi ion, and stated that he
had himself called the attention of the Lord Chancell
and Lord Wensleydale to the fact, that while an appeal
could be made against his decision in cases involving only
an amount of £5O, in the present case where £15,000 was
concerned he had to give a final decision. He remarked
that it would probably be necessary to have a special act
of parliament obtained in reference to such cases. His
Honour sugg=sted that the case should be allowed to
stand adjourned de die in diem while the panics were
consulting as to some arrangement, with power to Mr.
Seger, upon giving twenty-four hour's notice to the other
side, to apply for the injunction, or such injunction as he
might be advised to seek. After some further consultation
and argument, it was agreed that the case should stand over
until half-past two o'clock, when the parties should appear
again in court, and intimate to his Honour whether any
arrangement had been agreed upon.
At half-past two o'clock the parties again assembled, and
it was intimated to his Honour that no agreementhad been
arrived at.
Mr. Segar accordingly proceeded to state the grounds on
which the plaintiffs relied in applying for the injunction.
The 111th rule of the society expressly required that any
notice of a meeting to alter the laws should expressly set
forth the substance of the propositions to ba made thereat.
On the 30th of January a notice was issued, calling a
meeting for the 12th of February, at three o'clock in the
afternoon. That notice merely stated that the meeting
was called to alter the rules, but did not set forth the nature
of the proposed alterations. On the 9th of February,
Mr. Hull wrote to Mr. Teebay, who acted as
solicitor to the committee, requesting to be allowed to
peruse the proposed alterations. The request was laid
before the committee by Mr. Teebay, and on the day
preceding the meeting Mr. Teebay replied to Mr. Hull
stating that he was requested to inform him that he should
be furnished with a copy of the new rules when printed—
that, of course meant when,passed. The meeting took
place. Mr. Hull and Mr. Martin attended for the purpose
of remonstrating against the course cf proceeding, and
endeavouring to explain to the meeting that any alteration
of the rules ought to have more deliberation and consider-
ation. However, it was all noise and confusion, and the
room being packed, everything proposed by the promoters
of the meeting was, of course, agreed to. Immediately
after the meeting, Mr. Curry, Mr. Jenkins, and another of
the committee, started off to London for the purpose cf
endeavouring to get Mr. Tidd Pratt to certify the altered
rules. However, when they arrived there, they
found that a 'remonstrance • 'had bean sent, re-
questing him to withhold his sanction, which
he did accordingly. The result was, that the committee
advertised another meeting, to endeavour to conform better
to the requirements of the 111th rule. The advertisements
issued, however, were very far indeed from giving the
members any adequate notion of what was attempted to
be done. The advertisement appeared on the 24th of
Felnuary, announcing that a special general meeting of
the members would be held at the Clarendon Rooms, on
Thursday, the sth of March, at three o'clock in the after-
noon, for the purpose of obtaining the consent of the mem-
bers to the rescinding of certain rules, and passing certain
new rules, amendments, and alterations. The notice
specified some of the rules which it was proposed to alter;
but did not give the slightest intimation, in most cases,
of what the alteration was to be. A letter was written
by Mr. Martin protesting against the meeting, and against
some of the alterations of the rules, but it had not the
slightest effect, and the meeting did not even condescend
to notice it. On the sth of March, the day of the
meeting, a letter was addressed by Messrs. Hull and
Martin to the chairman of the committee, Mr. Macfarlane,
suggesting that more time and full notice should be given
prior to the alterations being adopted, but no attention
was paid to it. The meeting, was held, and the altera-
tions were passed in the came way as before. Again, as
speedily as possible, a deputation went up to London to
obtain the sanction of Mr. Tidd Pratt, and get the rules
immediately certified. Messrs. Hull and Martin had,
however, communicated with Mr. Pratt, who again
refused to certify the rules. Mr. Seger then argued that
upon these facts the plaintiffs were entitled to pray for an
injunction to restrain the defendants from taking any further
steps to have the altered rules certified. In the first place,
he contended that the Clarendon Rooms werenot convenient
for the purposes of such a meeting. In the second
piece there was no sufficient specification in the notice of
the substance of the proposals about to be made. The,
hour at which the meeting was called was likewise one
at which most of the members could not attend. Finally,
some of the altered rules were manifestly unjust. Otte
of the new rules prescribed that any member of the
society becoming a collector or other officer of another
burial society, should thereupon cease to be a member of
the former society, and forfeit all his past subscriptions.
Mr. Segar alluded at some length to some of the pro-
posed alterations, among which was one to exclude re
porters from meetings of the society. The character of
the alterations was made public at time of the meeting.
On those grounds he claimed an injunction to restrain the
defendants from taking any farther proceedings for the
purpose of getting their proceedings cert.fied. He also
contended that the expenses attendant upon the
proceedings had been wantonly incurred by,
the committee, not with any, bona fide inten-
tion of benefitting the society, and after due warn-
ing being given ; and 'that, therefore, the funds of the
society ought not to taxed with the payment of monies which
had been wantonly and improperly expended by the
committee,ewhom he called upon the court to make liable
for the amount personally. Mr. Marshall replied, at con-
siderable length, upon the part of the defendants. He
statedthat hehad already offered the plaintiffs that another
meeting should be called, and the proposed alterations,
submitted to his learned friends, in the first instance.
This offer, however, had not met with their approval; and
he was, therefore, obliged to go into the defence. He
contended that the trustees had no locus stundi as
plaintiffs—that they had no actual interest in the society,
and were not entitled to interfere in its internal affairs,
or even to be present at its meetings. He quoted
portions of the act applying to such societies, to
chew_ that it was only on the application of "persons
interested" that " relief' in any case of dispute might be
sought from that court. If the society was unanimous,
with the exception of the trustees, in agreeing to the alter
ations, he de led that the trustees had any right to step in
and apply to a court of equity, as that court was in the
preseaeinstanee, to seek to restrain the society mrom carrying
into effect the amendments which they had adopted. lid
contended,also, that in the present position of the case, the
court had no jurisdiction. It was fur the members them-
selves, and not for any public tribunal, to decide whether
the alterations were advisable for their own benefit ; and
the members having decided that they were advisable, it
cwaseirodan not
for Mr. Tidd Pratt to decide whether they were
legally framed. He urged that the notices, although they
possibly contain full information as to the proposed
a?
Itu tints, gave sufficient intimation of them. If there was
nothing itt the notices to mislead the members; if the members
on meeting were perfectly satisfied, and did not dissent to
the alterations proposed, he apprehended that the court would not restrain :the
isSOCatc-olnyoufrrosmai
la applying to Mn Pratt
n to decide whether thepi rtu'triaetsnupon probably.the
infOirghhitSbeeetlbtiefigtreso.
ButdeobuelednM ri.sseda? enquirem r 8 e:anrto.
face of them were legal.
the manner in which they had
If Mr Pratt had such a juriadiction,wepneed not hive come
here. Mr Marshall contended, that the declaration both
the secretary that the laws had been complied with should
be sufficient, and that 3lr Pratt had no rriagdhitltolyewnrqounigre.
further unless he was aware of something ca
As regarded the expenses, he argued that the society itself,

I at, its meeting in July, could reface to pass them
if they were considered to have been wrongfully
incurred. Mr. Sugar briefl3 replied, contending that
=he trustees we•e fully entitled to appear as plaintiffs.
His Honour said he was clearly of o pinion that the meetings
were illegal beyond all doubt. The 111th rule said that
each notice should in case of a special meeting contain the
substance of the proposals to be made thereat. He held,
without any doubt whatever, that the notices published did
not contain the substance of the proposali to be made, so
that any reasonable man could know what it was which was
about to be submitted to the meeting, and on which he was
about to vote. As regarded the right of trustees to appear
as plaintiffs, he should give that question some further con-
sideration, although he was inclined to think that the trustees
were persons so interested as to entitle them to move in the
proceeding. The next question was whether he ought to
grant an injunction against the committee to restrain them
from proceeding to have the rules certified and carried
out, and whether he had power, within the terms of
the 41st and 42nd section of the act, to grant such an
injunction. He did not at present say positively that he had
such &power, but his inclination of opinion was that he did
possess such a power, and that such an injunction might
properly be issued. This, however, was by no means free
from doubt, and he should give it _further consideration.
Wide respect to an order to pay the money, if money bad
been illegally expended by those gentlemen, he entertained
no doubt waatever about his right to order thorn to pay
over the money to such person as he should direct for the
purposes of the society. It was not denied that certain
monies had been expended by these gentlenien fer holding
the meeting; and this miglak be admitted without any ini-
putaeion up at them whatever, because it was very possible
that they did not see their way to compliance with the act
of parliament and the rules, as strictly as the Court now
might think it advisable. He was not quiee prepared
to say that because there-had been some irregularity in
calling the meeting, it was therefore the duty of the court
to compel the payment of the expenses so incurred by those
who had committed the irregularity, because that might
bear exceedingly hard in some instances. He was clearly
of opinion that the rules passed at the meetings in question
were not the rules of the society, and that nothing which
passed at those meetings were binding on the society. It
was his duty to protect the society from being made subject
to rules which had not yet been properly sanctioned by
themselves. He did not, in the slightest degree, dispute
the principle Mr. Marshall had laid down, that that court
was not to be the judge of the advisability of the rules.
The society was to be the judge of that itself. There
might, indeed, be some very extreme case where
the court might properly step ir, but, short of such a
case, the society should judge for itself whit was for
its interest. But the members were to judge after they
had had the means of judging, and had not according to
their own rule 3 determined upon the question, there was,
according to his pre, ent opinion, no decision oflhe society
given; according to the forms which they themselves had
prescribed fur their proceedings. His Honour then sag-
gested that the partie 4 should all concur in a letter to be
addressed at once to Mr. Tidd Pratt, requesting him not
to certify the rules pending the judgment of the court,
which he would Ore on next Thursday week. His
Honour added, that if in the meantime the parties
could concur in any arrangement by which the
society could at a meeting properly constituted, of
which due and full notice had been given, determine
upon the rules by which for the future they desired to
be bound, he should be spared the necessity of making
any order whatever. Both "panics at once agreed to prepare
a letter to Mr. Tidd Pratt, in accordance with his Honour's
suggestion. His Honour then said that if no arrangement
such as he had mentione'l should be agreed on in the mean-
time, ho would give his final judgment upon all the points
on Tnursday week.
The cow then adjeurne I.

MURDER IN ROME.-ACCOUTIti frOD3 Rome, says the
Union, "announce that M. Lazzironi, rmonber of the
Co suite, has been assassinated in a corridor of the palace.
He WAS proceeding to pay the clerks of the establishment,
and had with him a pocket book containing 1,200 seudi.
He was stabbed in the stomach, and the assassin escaped
wi h the sum in question."
It is rumoured (says the Newcastle Express) that "a
commi,sion of enquiry is ab nit to be issued ,o consider
the cause of the decline of Durham University. It
aupeays from the calendar that in 1851 the students in art,
theology, medicine, and engineering, at University
College, were seventy eight; and at Bishop Hatfield's
Hall, forty six. This year the numbers are respectively
fifty and thirty.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE EAST ANGLIAN RAILWAY.
—A shoekirg accident has occurred on this line
between King's Lynn and Ely. A Mr. Ferguson, on
returning home (it is believed in a state of intoxication),
proceeded on the line from the Denver station. and was
knocked down by a paving train and killed. The
accident was not perceived by the engineman s and
stoker, and the unfotun ite man's fate remained unknown
for some hours, until his corpse was found on the
line. His death has been pronounced " accidental" by a
coroner's jury,
SAD WARNING TO " FAST" YOUNG MENo—John Miller
aged twenty eight years, died at Indianapolis. The Journal
gives a brief hislory of his sad case. He was born in Day-
ton, OH !, was left an orphan with a large estate, and to
his own guidance, becamo a " frst young man," and
rapidly spent a fortune which was counted by tens of thou.
sands. He kept a circle of daihing young fellows about
him until his money was gone, who then deserted and left
him. He sought Indianopolis for a home, and
,there, in
some menial capacity, lived for a time, and died in a strange
garret, friendless and alone,
A HANGING IN NORTH CAROLINA.—A correspondent of
the Petersburg Express, writing from Culdshoro', N.C.,
soya : —Three negroes —two likely young men and an
old woman, the mother of twenty children—were hung at
Greenville, Pitt county, yesterday, for murder. From
early morn till noon every avenue leading into the town
was crowded with persons, representing all ages, sexes,
classes, and coalitions of the population of the country
round about. About nine o'clock in the morning a
steamboat arrived from Washington, with some 500
passengers. The crowd was estimated at 5,000 persons,
of which at least 1,000 were females.
GLASGOW CONSUMN RS' GAS ComeAwy.--Under this
designation it is proposed to establish a new gas company
in Glasow,-so as to meet the very general feeling of
discontent whieh is felt at the high rates imposed by the
existing companies. These companies are at present
paying dividends of 10 per cent. to their respective share-
holders ; and it is proposed by the projected company to
limit the dividen,l to 7 per cent., and supply gas at a
corresponding reduced rate. The prospectus, however,
does not fix arty sum as the price per cubic foot to
charged. The company, it is stated; will not coalesce
with any other—it will be totally independent, and wil,
not make the public interest subservient to the interests o
the shareholeers.

A NOBLE SACRIFICE.—On the day of the polling for
South Essfx, a patriot, whose moustache had long been
the admiration of ;he ladies and the awa of li.tle boys in
Chelmsfor3, was tensing an elector to vote for the .blue,
till at last tLe ra' her yellow tinged possessor of the suffrag a
exclaimed, ." Well, go and get shaved, and I'm for Srnijth.'t
No sooner s tid than done The moustache fell; ending
tips aid all, before the ruthless razor; and then ratty-Ling
in the most barefaced manner, the zea!ous parti in claimed
the fulfilment of the bargain. It was honestly carried out,
and the patriot, of-er seeing the vote recorded, turned from
the poling bcolh, proud of having- laid his whitey-brows
moustache a .not unavailing sacrifice upon the altar of his
country.—Mebnsford Chronicle
. WILLS AND CHARITABLE BEQUESTS.—Probate of the will
of .the Right Hon. the Earl of Ellesme e has just been
granted by the Prerogative Court of 'Canterbnry.
General Nathaniel Thorn, K.H., £35,000 personalty, and
has left several charitable bequests. - George Tor es, Esq.,
of Bhackerley, Z 120,000, and has bequeathed £l,OOO to
the South Staffordshire HoTitaL Lady Brawn, of Ches-
ter, £5,000 within the province of Canterbury. Mrs.
Sophia Cuthbert, of Berkeley square, £50,000. James
Lyon, Esq., of Clapham Rise, £12,000, and has lett
bequests to several charitable institutions. The late Mrs.
Jane Davies, of Clapham, has left the following bequest" :•
—Society far Promoting Christian Knowledge, £206; for'
the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts, ,E2OO
National Benevolent, £200; Deaf and Dumb, £2OO St.
Ann's School, £200; Sons of the Clergy, £2OO ; Zion
College, .E 200; Blind Asylum, £2OO ' • Orphan Asylum,,
Clapham, £2OO ; Church Building, £lOO ; Houseless
Poor, £100; Shipwrecked Mariners, £lOO ; Life-boat
Fund, £lOO. .

HORRIBLE STOAT.—Tbe Tepfon Advertiser, publistml
in lowa, U. S., contains a story aoparently in imitation of
Case of M. Valdemar," which i evidently a pure
fabrication. It is contained in a letter from.one Dr. Jobn
Moreton, and relates the case of -a patient of his 'who
disagreed with his wife ; she believing.in spiritual mani-
festations, while he Scouted them. She died, telling him
with. her last breath that on his death bed she would
appear to him in the body. A few weeks after he died,
Dr. John Moreton beingpresent, and as he was "gasping
his last, a horrible body, through whose decaying flesh the
white bones gleamed, and from whose rotten.limbs dropped
loathsome grave' worms upon the floor, entered the room.
This horrible form said, " Come ! William 1 they wait for
you—l wait/vend fell to the filer, where it remained the
whole of the neat day, and the body of the husband being
conteYed away,' the house, was., burned. This, story is
supported biiwo or three attdavite, taken before James
Taylor, notary public for Grand Traverse county, Michigan.
Those may believe it who choose.