The Sun.
London, England, 1855-12-12 00:00:00

THE KING OF SARDINIA AND TETE

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LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Kindersley.)
THE ARIGNA. MINES.-GARNER •. MOORE.

This case came before the court upon the petition of
the plaintiff, one of the shareholders in the Arigna
Mines, praying that a sufficient sum might be paid out
of the funds in court to satisfy a distress for rent, which
had been put into the Arigna Mines in Ireland, and
under which the whole plant and property of the
company had been seized in execution. It ap-
peared that the distress had been put in before
the lives on which the lease hal been granted of
the mines had dropped, and proceedings were now
being taken under the Fee Farm Conversion' Act
for procuring a perpetual lease at a fee farm rent in•
stead of a lease for lives renewable f_ir ever. The sum
of 5,0001. was now in court to the crt lit of the cause,
and it an order was not made by wh'n'i a sum would be
applicable for the payment of the rent, the machinery
and stock would be sold, and the whole property of the
company destroyed.

The Vice-Chancellor inquired if there was any affida-
,rit that the rent was actually due, and who were the
defendants now that Dr. Moore was dead
Mr. Shebbear, who appeared for the petitioner, said
that the accounts showed that the rent was due, and
that, in point of fact, there was no de ,dent. Dr.
Moore, by his will, left the whole of his property to his
only daughter, a married lady, but the estate was so
embarrassed that she had declined to take out adminis-
tration.

The court made the order for the payment, nut of
court, of the sum required, upon an affidavit being pro•
duced to the Registrar that the rent was due.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Campbell.)
GADSDEN V. GOODLIFFE.
This was an action brought by, the plaintiff, a corn
merchant, of Mark-lane, to recover damages from the
defendant, a shipping agent in the city, for a breach of
a charter party.
By consent of the parties, the cause was tried by
his lordship without the assistance of a jury.
The case was of no interest but to the parties con-
cerned.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
:Sittings at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Baron Pollock
and a Special Jury.)
WYLD V. INGRAM.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the emi-
nent map publisher of the Strand and Charing•cross,
to recover damages of the defendant, the proprietor and
publisher of the Illustrated London News, for pirating
five maps of the "environs of Sebastopol."
Mr. James, Q.C., Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Haw-
kins were for the plaintiff, and Sir F. Thesiger and Mr.
Ruse for the defendant.

Mr. James, in opening the case, said he should have
no difficulty in proving his case, because the defendant
bad copied the inaccuracies, in execution, existing in the
plaintiff's maps, and called Mr. Wyld to depose to these
facts, wino had provided a number of copies of the maps
in question, crossed with limes, and numbered for the as-
sistance of his lordship and die jury in detecting the
defects and prove the authorship of the publication.
His lordship suggested the referring this case, it being
one requiring great care in examination and measure-
ment of the various angles, &c., laid down.
Sir F. Thesiger assented.
Mr. Wyld said he wished the defendant had sugge ted
it instead of driving him to trial. He had no other
object in view than seeming his property from piracy.
Sir F. Thesiger said he was sorry the defendant had
been compelled to drive him to trial.
Mr. Wyld said that was not so. A tradesman who
considered himself ill-used, as be was prepared to prove
he had been by the defendant, bad no alternative but to
come into this court.

Several names were mentioned to whom the case
should be referred, but they were objected to by the
plaintiff, on the ground that they were competitors in
trade. He should have no objection to refer it to a
gentleman possessing the requisite knowledge he knew
his lordship had on the subject, or for his lordship to
try it without a jury.
It was ultimately referred to Hr. Webster, a barrister,
combining, as the learned counsel stated, law, skill, and
mechanical and other knowledge requisite to fully and
fairly decide the question.
A verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the
above reference.

HARES AND WIER V. THE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH

COAST RAILWAY.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff against
the Directors of the above company, for that they by
their servants did assault and beat the plaintiff's wife,
by thr-)wing her with force and violence to the ground,
&c. The defendants pleaded first, not guilty ; and
secondly, that the plaintiff's wife had entered a first
class carriage without leave. That she was requested
to leave the carriage by the company's servants which
she refused to do, and that the assault complained of was
committed in consequence.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Hawkins were counsel
for the plaintiffs ; Mr. M. Chambers, Q.O , and Mr.
Spinks for the defendants.
It appeared from the opening of the learned serjeant
that the plaintiff was a furniture broker, residing at No.
2, Vine-place, Bishopsgate-street, and the present action
was brought to recover compensation for the damage
and injury sustained by his wife. A Jewi.h charitable
society, called the Widow's House, bad issued tickets
for an excursion to the Crystal Palace and hack on the
21st of last August, and the plaintiff had purchased
four of the tickets issued by the society, with which
his wife and three daughters went to the railway
,tation at London-bridge, where the tickets were
exchanged for the company's return tickets to the Crys-
tal Palace, and afterwards marked by one of the com-
pany's servants. She walked on to the platform, and
after waiting a few moments the train came up, the doors
of all the carriages were opened, and the public were di-
rected to take their places. The plaintiff's wife and his
three daughters got into a first-class carriage, and pro-
ceeded to the Crystal Palace. The tickets included re-
freshments at Annerley, and, alter viewing the Palace,
the plaintiff's wife and her three daughters walked there,
and proceeded to the station at nine o'clock, awaiting
the return of the train. Upon the train coming
up the doors of the carriages were again opened,
and she and her daughters got into a first-class carriage.
Shortly after, a female with a "cryin g boy " got into
the carriage, which was full, when a gentleman feeling
annoyed called to one of the company's servants, who
ordered them out, and then asked to see Mrs. Marks'
tickets. They were shown, and found to be third-class
tickets, on which the servant ordered them out of the
carriage, and caught hold of her by the dress, and in
getting out she fell between the wheels of the carriage
and the platform, whereby she aas so much injured
that she was confined to her house for twelve
days. In the scuffle, her parasol was broken.
Application was afterwards made by letttr to the secre-
tary of the company for compensation, who declined
granting it on the ground that the company's servants
had informed him that Mrs. Marks and six friends were
travelling in a first-class carriage with third-class tickets,
and that being requested to leave the carriage, Mrs.
Marks slipped her foot and fell.
The Lord Chief Baron said the present action could
not be sustained against the company, who were not
answerable for any improper conduct committed by their
servants, but the party so misconducting himself. The
law with reference to a sheriff's officer (which was an
anomaly in the law of England) did not apply here. To
make the company liable they must show that specific
directions were given by the company to their servant to
act as ho had done in this case.
It svr.s ultimately arranged that a verdict should be
returned for the plaintiff for 201. subject to the decision
of the court above. The second plea being withdrawn,
verdict accordingly.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--(This Day.)

I,ELIGIOUS SOCIETIES.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—May I request you to publish in your paper
the accompanying memorial to his Majesty the
King of Sardini9, and the gracious reply which I
had the honour to receive as chairman of the com-
mittee ?—Your very obedient servant,
Dec. 11. SHAFTESBURY.

"To MS MAJESTY VICTOR EMMANUEL 11., KING OF

SARDINIA.
"Sire,—We whose names are undersigned, officially
connected with various societies representing almost all
bodies of British Christians, desire to express to your
Majesty the satisfaction which we feel in common with
all our friends, at the cordial alliance which exists be-
tween your Majesty and our gracious Sovereign, of which
your Majesty's visit to this country is a gratifying proof.
"Observing, as we have done with sincere pleasure,
the enlightened policy of your Majesty's Government,
we beg with profound respect to offer to your Majesty
our gratefill acknowledgments for the liberty which has
been granted to our fellow Christians in Sardinia, your
Majesty's faithful and loyal subjects, who do not belong
to the Roman Catholic Church.

" We venture to assure your Majesty that the defer-
ence which has thus been shown t 3 the supreme autho-
rity of Him by whom kings reign and princes decree
justice,' and who claims it as his divine prerogative to
be the only Lord and Sovereign of the human conscience,
has been and will be to the people of this country the
occasion of many and devout thanksgivings, and of their
earnest prayers, that it may please Almighty God long
to preserve your Majesty at the head of a free people
and a constitutional Government, and by his blessing to
make your reign increasingly prosperous and happy.
" We are assured that there is no greater security for
the throne of monarchs on the one band, and for the
prosperity of their subjects on the other, than the main-
tenance of the principle, that it is the right of all men to
worship God and profess their faith according to their
own conviction of Christian truth and duty, in every
way which is not contrary to morals or good order, or
to that obedience to Government which the Word of
God enjoins. And we therefore humbly present to your
Majesty the expression of our earnest hope, that the
religious liberty which is now enjoyed in Sardinia by
your Majesty's gracious favour may be secured to all
classes of your Majesty's subjects by bringing the laws
of the country into harmony with this great truth.
"Should your Majesty, under the blessing of God,
accomplish this most desirable and important object, it
will not only be the greatest benefit which your Majesty
could confer upon Sardinia, but it will attract to your
Majesty tbe 'admiration and sympathies of all free and -
enlightened nations, and history wilt record your Ma-
jesty's honoured name among the most renowned Princes
in Italy and her most illustrious benefactors.
" J. B. CANTUAR (Archbishop of Canterbury), Presi-
dent of the Society for Promoting Christian Know-
ledge.
SHAFTESBURY; President of the British and Foreign
Bible Society.
EARROWBY, Vice-President of the Bible Society and
Church Missionary Society.
A: KINNAIRD, Vice-President of the Colonial Church
and School Society.
GALLOWAY, Vice-President of the Church Missionary
Society.
ROBERT BIOKERSTETH, Hon. Sec. to the Irish Church
Missionary Society.
C. MELBOURNE (Bishop of Melbourne), Vice-Presi-
dent of the Society for the Propagation of the Gos-
pel, Bible Society, &c.
E. E. VERNON HARCOURT, Vice-Chairman of the
Council of the British Branch of the Evangelical
Alliance.
Sir CULLING EARDLEY EARDLEY, Bart., President
of the British Branch of the Evangelical Alliance.
R. ALEXANDER, Major-General, Life Governor and
Member of the Committee of the Church Missionary
Society.
PETER LA PROBE, Secretary to the Church and Mis-
sions of the United (or Moravian) Brethren.
EDWARD STELNE, D.D., Honorary Secretary to the
Committee for the Promotion of Religions Liberty.
Sir THOMAS DYKE ACLAND, Bart. Vice-President of
the Bible Society and Church Missionary Society.
Sir HARRY VERNEY, Bart., Home and Colonial School
Society.
Sir S. MORTON PETO, Bart., Treasurer of the Baptist
Missionary Society."
And 60 others.

Reply of his Majesty the King of Sardinia, read by
the Sardinian Ambassador, the Marquis d'Azeglio, to
the deputation, and transmitted to the Earl of Shaftes-
bury, Cbairman of the Committee for Promoting Re-
ligious Liberty :
" Messieurs,- —Je vous rends grace de la marque de
sympatbie que vous venez me donner aujourdhui.
" Les reformes qui ont jusqui'ici marqud mon refine
sont l'indice le plus stir pour juger des principes qui me
dirigent. Pour titre durables, elles doivent marcher avec
l'esprit du siècle et d6pendre des lois de la prudence.
Je me plais h croire quo nous somraes tons d'accord our
ce point.
"Il m'est Men agr4able de voit les efforts tue j'ai
faits pour assurer la libert4 de conscience dans mes 4tats
dignement appre-:.i4s par lea principaux representans de
l'epinion religieuse en A.ngloterre. Mes sujeta ont 4gale-
ment compris tries sentimens cet egard, et se swat
montrd eu tous points dignes de l'emancipation qui
leur a Ad accordde sur ce point important.
" Je me plais, Messieurs, h voir dana la parite de ces
tendances un trait d'union de plus entre nos deux pays.
" VITTORIO EMMANUELE."

Translation.

" Gentlemen,—l return you my thanks for the ex-
prestdon of sympathy which you have this day given me.
"The reforms which have hitherto marked my reign
are the most certain index by which to judge of the
principles that guide me. These reforms, in order to be
lasting, must a ivance with the spirit of the age and de-
pend upon the laws of prudence. I rejoice to believe
we are all agreed on this point.
" It is very gratifying to me to see the efforts which I
have made to insure liberty of conscience in my States
worthily appreciated by the principal representatives of
religious opinion in England. My subjects have equally
comprehended my sentiments in that respect, and have
shown themselves in every way worthy of the emanci-
pation which has been concede.l to them in this import-
ant matter.

" It is a satisfaction to me, gentlemen, to see in the
similarity of these tendencies an additional, bond of
union between our two countries.

" VITTORIO EMMANUELE."

THE BANK OF ENGLAND.

Increase of the Securities in the Issue
Department.
( Front the Gazette of last Evening.)

At the Court at Windsor, the 7th day of December,
1155—present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.
It having been represented to her Majesty in Council
by the Governor and Company of the Bank of England,
by a memorial sealed with the seal of the said Governor
and Company, and dated the twenty-sixth day of No-
vember, ()De thousand eight hundred and fifty-five, that
certain bankers, in the said memorial named, who, on
the sixth day of May, one thousand eight hundred and
forty-four, were issuing their own bank notes to the ex
tent of sums amounting, in the aggregate, to the sum of
seven hundred and twelve thousand six hundred and
twenty-three pound, have ceased to issue their own bank
notes, and the said Governor and Company thereupon
humbly make application to be authorised, under the
provisions of the Act, passed in the seventh and eighth
years of the reign of her Majesty, chapter thirty-
two, entitled "An Act to regulate the issue of
bank notes, and for giving to the Governor and
Company of the Bank of England certain privi-
leges for a limited period," to increase the amount of
securities in the Issue Department of the Bank of Eng-
land, and to extend the issue of their own bank notes to
an amount not exceeding two-thirds of the amount which
the bankers, so ceasing to issue, were authorised to issue
under the provisions of that Act : Now, it is this day
ordered by her Majesty, by and with the advice of her
Privy Council, that the said Governor and Company
shall be, and they are hereby, authorised and empowered
to increase the amount of securities in the Issue Depart-
ment of the Bank of England to the extent of four hun-
dred and seventy-five thousand pounds, beyond the total
sum or value of fourteen million pounds in the said Act
mentioned, and thereupon to issue additional Bank of
England note 3 from the said Issue Department in man-
ner in the said Act mentioned, to the amount of four
I hundred and seventy-five thousand pounds.
C. C. GREVILLE.

DESPATCH FROM GEN. WILLIAMS.

( From the Gazette of last Evening.)
FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. H.

- - ---
The Earl of Clarendon has received a despatch from
Major-General Williams, K.C.8., her Majesty's Com-
missioner attached to the Turkish Army in Asia, of
which the following is a copy :
Kars, Oct. 31.
My Lord, In my despatch of the 3d instant, in which
I had the honour to detail the movements of the battle
on the heights of Kars, I omitted to state that the enemy
in his retreat left a tumbril on the field.
I have now great pleasure in stating for your lord-
ship's information that immediately after the battle, his
Excellency the Mushir, in virtue of the authority with
which he is invested by the Sultan, conferred the second
class of the Imperial Order of the Medjidie on Lieute-
nant-Colonel Lake for his distinguished services on that
day. On Major Teesdale, Captain Thompson, Mr.
Churchill, and Dr. Saudwith, his Excellency conferred
the third class of that order, to mark his sense of their
conduct and gallantry ; and on Messrs. Zobrab and
Rennison ho bestowed the fourth class.
As these decorations were received in view of the
position which their courage and conduct so materially
assisted in defending, I trust that your lordship will
obtain for these officers and gentlemen her Majesty's
gracious permission to accept and wear them.
His Excellency the Mushir has also named Colonel
Lake a General of Brigade in the Turkish army; Major
Teesdale a Lieutenat-Colonel, and Captain Thompson
a Major in that army; and his Excellency assures me
that he has written for the confirmation of these ranks,
so honourably won on the battle-field by the officers in
question.—l have, &c.,
(Signed) W. F. WILLIAMS.
The Earl of Clarendon, E.G., &C.