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ASCOT RACES.

(THIS DAY.)

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
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Eleven ran.
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Two ran.
Bolton and Chisel left here for Newton.

LAW INTELLIGENCE (THIS DAY).

COURT OF APPEAL.
(Before the Loids Justices of Appeal.)
Their lordships heard Bankrupts' petitions and appeals
to-day.

• SCOTT V. SCOTT.
The further arguments in this part-heard appeal from
the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Stuart were re-
sumed and concluded to-day. The principal question
in the appeal was with respect to the costs. The suit
was instituted for the reformation of the settlement
made on the marriage of the plaintiff and defendant.
Both parties, at the time of the marriage, were in the
sere and yellow leaf time of life, being upwards of 60 years
of age, and the lady was a widow, with a good fortune,
an excellent housi, well furnished, plate, carriage, and
horses, and all the other &cs. that were calculated to
make the marriage state one of unmingled happiness.
The husband was a wine merchant. By the settlement
the whole control over the lady's property was given to
her husband, and, on her behalf it was asserted that it
was her intention in executing the settlement to reserve
to herself the control over her house and furniture, and
carriage and horses, and she, therefore, sought a refor-
mation of the settlement in that respect.
Mr. Malins appeared on behalf of the lady, and Mr.
Bacon and Mr. Selwyn were for the husband.
At the conclusion of the argument,

Their Lordships stated that they would not at the
present moment pronounce judgment, under the hope
that some arrangement would be come to between the
parties, and that the unfortunate differences that bad
taken place between them would be amicably settled,
and that a reconciliation would ultimately take place.
It was lamentable, in the opinion of their lordships, to
see parties who, in the common course of nature, could
not have many years to live, spending those few years
in quarrelling and disagreements instead of in amity
and affection.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Sittings in Banco.)
CODD, ASSIGNEE, V. RIDLEY AND ANOTHER.

Mr. O'Malley, Q.C., moved for a rule nisi for a new
trial, on the ground of the verdict, which was for the
defendant, being against the weight of evidence. The
defendants were brewers and wine merchants, of Ips-
wich, and in 1852 bad a tenant named Bennet occupy-
ing the White Horse public-house, in the neighbourhood
of Ipswich, whom they supplied with beer, &c., and was
on the 20th July, 1852, indebted to them in the sum of
791. for goods, and 231., a year's rent. At the Bury
assizes, in the above year, an action was entered for trial
by the plaintiff against Bennet, which, however, was
referred to arbitration ; and on the defendants being in-
formed of the circumstance, they called on Bennet, and
obtained from him a bill of sale of all his property,
and it was in reference to that transaction that the
plaintiff brought an action against the defendants (Ben-
nett becoming insolvent in the mean time, and the
plaintiff appointed assignee), which was tried before Mr,
Justice Wightman, and a verdict returned for the de-
fendants.

Mr. Justice Wightman said the question the jury had
to decide was one peculiar for a jury, and he was satisfied
with the manner in which the jury decided it.
Rule refused.

L IT ER A TURE.

ictures from the Battle-Fields. By " The Roving
Englishman." G. Routledge.
A seasonable reprint of sketches originally pub-
lished from time to time in the pages of Charles
Dickens's Household Words—sketches descriptive
of scenes wonderfully interesting to mere matter-
of-fact stay-at-homes hardly less than to more ad-
venturous compatriots like our friend the Roving
Englishman. The fragmentary papers as they
were written, in the first instance, for peacemeal
issue through the weekly numbers and monthly
parts, and • half-yearly volumes, of a popular
periodical, were evidently, to the writer's own
thinking, altogether too rambling and disjointed
for collective republication in their earlier shape,
without being first strung together in something
like reasonable sequence, and ushered in by some-
thing like a formal, and sedate, and argumentative
introduction. After this fashion it is, therefore,
that these animated " Pictures from the Battle-
Fields" make their present separate and substantial
appearance. As additional attractions to the
work, moreover, the letter-press is interspersed
with eight large and graphic illustrations. The
celebrated Zouaves—the most picturesque,
and in some respects the most popular, corps of the
Allied armies before Sebastopol, the finest sol-
diers in the world," as they were called, after
Alma, by the late lamented Marshal St. Arnaud,
their heroic commander-in-chief—figure in pic-
turesque groups upon the frontispiece. Elsewhere,
throughout the body of the work, the illustrator
introduces the reader now to a narrow " Street in
Constantinople," now to the crowded wharf at
" Varna," now to the choked-up byeways of
" Balaklava," now to a "Deserted Villa," now
to the snowy suburbs of " Bucharest," and now
to those wonderful fellows the Bashi-Bazouks, each.
a sort of bully-ruffian, with a cross of the rapscal-
lion, a Swiss in venality, a Greek in faithlessness,
a delightful mixture of the brigand and the hired
assassin, of the freebooter and the condottiero !
It should be observed, by the way, that the
book is formally inscribed by its writer " To the
Editor of the Times"—the dedication coming to
the aforesaid from, "An Unknown admirer of the
Splendid Abilities, the Chivalry, and Honesty with
which he bas fought the good-fight of the people."
A tribute of admiration offered to the journal,
gratefully called among our brave fellows in the
East, "The Soldier's Paper," in remembrance of
other efforts in their behalf besides the az:cumula-
tion of the "Times Finid," and its ultimate distri-
bution at Scutari by Mr. Macdonald. As to the
literary contents of the volume before us, that
for the most, we doubt not, is already familiar
enough to the readers of Household Words, which
is tantamount, we fancy, to saying to many hun-
dreds of thousands of the more intelligent members
of the population. A reperusal of some of the more
animated descriptions will be none the less agree-
able from their being thus substantially collected
together in a separate publication. Though we re-
gret to add that the introductory passages by which
the accumulated sketches are thus brought before us
again, are very far indeed from being comparable
in value, or even in point of style to the original
" pictures" themselves. The " Preface" espe-
cially, spread over some thirty pages—(fancy a
preface nowadays of thirty pages I)—is at once
stilted and frivolous. The worst specimen of book-
making, and that of the most pitiable kind, is the
bookmaking that panders to the popular prejudices
of the moment. In this way there is a great deal
of rubbish poured out of the inkbottle of the
Roving Englishman about Sir Hector Stubble and
Lord Fiddle-de-dee—in tended,no doubt, to be witty,
or at the least humorous, but in reality nothing less
than insufferably tedious, absurd, and extravagant.
What is said by our author a little further on about
my Lord John Russell would be odious from its
personality but that the whole diatribe is suffi-
ciently contemptible—directed, as it is, against one
who has surely done some good in his time, whether
in regard to the cause of civil and religious liberty
or in reference to the wise development of the sacred
principles which are the foundation of our Consti-
tutional Government. We do not fairly get into
the meritorious portions of the work until the
eighth chapter, a chapter brilliantly descriptive of
the wonderful plague of the "Locusts." After
which the Roving Englishman wanders off into
the most bewildering variety of scenes and incidents
—a literary hotch-potch, or olla-podrida, or pot-
pourri, or rechauffee, or refacciamento, so extra-
ordinary, as to be only comparable to the songs
sung by honest Hickory in the hearing of Chris-
topher Tadpole—in one of which ditties Mr.
Albert Smith tells his readers about The Brave
Old Oak Getting up Stairs on the Banks of Allan
Water ! Nevertheless, confused though they were,
the songs of Hickory were sufficiently amusing, and
so, for that matter too, are the " Pictures from the
Battle-Fields" by a Roving Englishman.

Fairy Tales. By the Countess D'Aulnoy. Trans.
lated by J. R. Planche. G. Routledge.
_ _

We would venture to place the "Fairy Tales'

written by that charming lady, the Countess
D'Aulnoy side by side, on the same shelf, with the
glorious "Arabian Nights Entertainments." And
we would almost presume to elevate those stories
told (during one thousand and one nights) to the
wife-murdering Sultan by the beautiful Vizier's
daughter, the Sultana Scheherazade, to the top-
most part of our beloved Library of Fiction. Only
that by doing so we should render them rather
inaccessible, placing them out of reach instead of
allowing them to remain handily at our very
elbow. It is related somewhere of Edmund Burke

that he not unfrequently read the whole of th•
"Arabian Nights Entertainments" through, afresh,
within the twelvemonth. And, supposing him to
have made it a practice, we would almost fancy
him wishing that the months were a baker's dozen,
so that he might find time to read the Fairy Tales
of the Countess D'Aulnoy Luring the course of
the odd thirteenth. We are not talking altogether
at random when we say this, honestly conceiving
these said Fairy Tales to be the fitting pendant or
not unworthy sequel of the magnificent Arabian
Entertainments. The present edition of the former
wonderful collection of stories is about the best
ever placed within the reach of the lovers of the
imaginative. It is dedicated to " The Princess
Mary of Cambridge," and we regard it as a book
that should be dedicated to no one less than a Prin-
cess. It is embellished with drawings from the hand
of John Gilbert, that most prolifio, perhaps, of all
living draughtsmen. It is translated and edited
by no one less entitled to that double post of editor
and translator than J. R. Planche, the veteran
chief of Burlesque. We take Mr. Planche's labour
in the production of this graceful version of the
" Fairy Tales of the Countess D'Aulnoy" to be
more than simply a labour of love—to be, in fact, a
tribute of gratitude as well as an evidence of parti-
cular admiration. For no one has dipped more
deeply than Mr. Planche into the magic waters of
that fountain of Fairyland—the current of which
is poured out so lavishly and sparklingly in the
pages of the Countess D'Aulnoy. Shining through
which we behold—what marvels, indeed, do wp
not behold ? Trouping by, in elfine procession—
Gracieuse and Percinet the Fair One with Golden
Locks! the Prince Sprite! the Princess Printoniere!
the Bee and the Orange Tree ! the Blue Bird ! the
Golden Branch !and Fartunee land Finette Cendron !
and Babiole ! and the Yellow Dwarf ! and the Good
Little Mouse ! and the Green Serpent ! and the
Beneficent Frog ! and the Beautiful White Cat !
O and heaps upon heaps of other themes of wonder
and loveliness. Altogether the book is a veritable
box of sugarplums—and blessings say we on the
fairy hand now dead and gone years ago of the
good and ingenious fabricator of this delectable
bonbonniere !

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT THE WEST-END.—Yesterday
afternoon the metropolitan police of the Cdivision gave
information of an extensive robbery having been com-
mitted by the clerk at the well-known firm of Messrs.
Reslmayne and Co.'s, silk-mercers, New Bond-street,
stealing and taking with him upwards of 1001. in cash.
He is described to be 35 years of age, 5 feet 7 inches
high, sallow complexion, blackbair and whiskers, sunken
eyes, and dressed in black.
....

-
PUBLIC HEALTH 011' ENGLAND, &c.—A blue-book of
250 pages, published yesterday, contains the report of
the Select Committee on the Public Health and Nuisances
Removal Amendment Bill. The committee simply report
to the House the evidence taken, which includes that of
Dr. Farr, Dr. Snow, Mr. Toulmin Smith, Mr. Alderman
Copeland, and several other gentlemen. From the evidence
of Dr. Farr, who is at the head of the statistical depart-
ment of the General Register-office, we gather that the
average mortality in England is 23 in 1,000. " The town
population of Great Britain," says Dr. Farr, "is nowabove 10,000,000, and the mortality is greater in pro-
portion to the whole population than it was in 1821 or
1831." As regards the metropolis, Dr. Farr gives the
rate of mortality in the various districts, it being in
Lewisham 17 in 1,000 ; in Hampstead and St. George's,
Hanover-square, 18 in 1,000 ; in Kensington, Isling-
ton, and Wandsworth, 19 in 1,600 ; in the city of
London and in Hackney, 20 in 1,000 ; in the Strand
and St. James's, Westminster, 22 in 1,000 ; in
St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, Marylebone, Pancras,
Clerkenwell, St. Olave's, Southwark, and Camber-
well, 24 in 1,000 ; in Lambeth, St. Luke's, Bow, Step-
ney, and Poplar, 25 in 1,000 ; in Bethnal-green, East
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London, and St. Mary's, Newington, 26;in 1,000 ; in St.
Giles's, Westminster, and in Greenwich, 27 in 1,000 ; in
Holborn and West London (City), and Shoreditch, 28 in
1,000 ; and the same in Bermondsey and Rotherhithe ;
in St. George's-in-the-East and Whitechapel, 29 in 1,000;
in St. George's, Southwark, 30 in 1,000 ; and in St. Sa-
viour's, Southwark, 33 in 1,000. It has been shown
that the mortality of London is 24 to 25 in 1,000 ; in
Berlin it is the same ; in Turin it is 26 in 1000 ; in
Paris, 28 in 1,000 ; in Genoa, 31 in 1,000 ; in Lyons,
33 in 1,000 ; in Hamburg, 36 in 1,000 ; in Moscow, 38
in 1,000 ; in St. Petersburg, 41 in 1,000 ; in Stockholm,
39 in 1,000 and in Vienna, 49 in 1,900.

EIVIPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS-(YESTERDAY.)

The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack
at five o'clock.
TICKET-OF-LEAVE MEN.
Lord LYNDHURST ro,e to call the attention of
the noble lord (the Lord Chancellor) to the case
of a ticket-of-leave-man which appeared in the
newspapers. It was therein stated that the language
used by the prisoner to the policeman was of the
most obscene and revolting description. In consequence of
inquiry, the magistrate stated that there was scarcely a
day on which a ticket-of-leave man was not brought
before him, charged with one gross offence or another,
that the metropolis was infested with them,
and that it was dangerous in consequence for a
per3on to pass through the streets at a late hour of the
nialit. This was but one instance of many that had
c'ime under the notice of the police mazistrites
and he (Lord Lyndhurst) thought the evil was increas4u.7,
to such an extent that the attention of the Governmen-t
ought to be immediately given to the subject.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said the noble and
learned lord had not given notice of his intention to
bring the subject forward, inasan.ch a he was wholly
ignorant of the nature of the particular case to which be
had referred. He would only say that his right hon.
friend the Secretary of State for the Home Thipartmez:t
had had the subject for some time under his considera-
tion.

Lord CAMPBELL said that all that he had said
with respect to this subject had been fulfilled to the
letter. He entirely concurred in all that had fallen from

the noble and learned lord opposite on this subject. Upon
the introduction of the measure which authorised the
abolition of transportation, and the granting of tickets
of leave, he augured the greatest evils as likely to re-
sult. Re regretted to find that his fears had been fully
realised.
Lord BROUGHAM presented two petitions from
places in North Wales, in favour of the jurisdiction of
county courts.
Lord BERNERS presented a petition against the en-
dowment of the CoHews of Maynooth.
SECOND READINGS.

On the motion of Lord REDESDALE, the following bills
were read a second time :—Newtown and Oswestry Rail-
way ; Nottingham and Loughborough Road ; Kingston-
upon-Hull, Ilessle, and Ferriby Road ; Manchester Im-
provements ; Glasgow and South-Western Railway ;
Abingdon Railway; Glasgow Water; and 'Halford's
Estate.
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY BILL.

The Lord CHANCELLLOR, in moving that the
house go into committee upon the re-commitment of
this bill, proceeded to state the nature of some of the

amendments proposed. The main object of the measure
was to constitute a proper council to exercise legislative
functions in the University of Cambridge. Accord-
ing to the present constitution of the university, cer-
tain Royal statutes were granted, by which the
university was to be governed. It was, however, pro-
vided that the university might, from time to time,
make laws to regulate the proceedings, provided that
they wire not inconsistent with the Royal statutes.
There was a body called the Caput, which was
constituted of six members, and their functions

were to propose anything they thought worthy
of adoption to the University, and to submit them to
the foundation at large, who might assent or reject it as
they thought proper. The great objection to this mode
of proceeding was this, that according to the provisions
of the Royal statutes constituting that body, any one
member of the Caput had an absolute veto, and, in fact;
the Vice-Chancellor might prevent anything coming from
that body which he himself might not approve. In
spite, however, of that erroneous and defective consti-

tution, the royal commissioners stated in their report
that there had been an endeavour on the part of the uni-
versity to reform itself. That, however, was not
a reason why Parliament should not constitute a better
council, so as to guard against any abuse that might
arise. The main object of this bill was to establish a
body that shall adequately represent all the in-
terests of the University, and which would not
be open to the objection to which the present
Caput was exposed. He had had an interview lately with
an important deputation from the University upon this
subject, and he was disposed to introduce such clauses into
the bill as would, in a great measure, meet their views,
and the representations contained in a petition presented
to that house by a learned body of the university. He
proposed to altar the system of election in the
university, so as to make it, as far as the
great body of masters of arts was concerned,
conformable to the mode of election recognised
at Oxford. He proposed to leave the elections of
the four heads of houses and four professors as they
stood before, namely, that they should be elected by
their own respective body. He adopted this plan be-
cause he thought that where a body was to be made up
of persons having to some extent conflicting interests, it
was better that those representing each interest should
be chosen by their own class. In addition to these he
proposed that the body should consist of 8 Masters of
Arts, to be chosen by the resident members of the senate.
It appeared that these members numbered in the whole
about 240, of which not more than from 60 to 80 were

members of Trinity and St. John's Colleges. Thus any
great preponderance on the part of these colleges was
got rid of. ln order to carry out this plan, there was a

Clause requiring the Vice- Chancellor to make out a list of

all resident members within a certain period before the
election. He had seen it objected that under provisions
such as he then proposed, the heads of houses and
the Vice-Chancellor would have the same power as
at present, but he thought those who made that
objection did not fairly take into consideration that
the number of members composing the proposed council
would be far greater •than that of the existing Caput. l
There was one other material alteration, which he hoped
would meet with their lordships' concurrence. In phe bill,
as it was originally introduced, it was provided that no
test of membership of the Church of England should be
required from any one on taking his bachelor's degree.
The object of limiting the proviso to a bachelor's degree
was that persons who had taken higher degrees had ne-
cessarily a voice in the government of the university,'and
might become members of the senate. However much he
might sympathise with Dissenters, he thought it wonid
not be wise, safe, or expedient to make any alteration
which would give Dissenters a voice in the government
of the university. It would hardly be fitting, considering
the nature of the university, and how closely it was con-
nected with all the ecclesiastical establishments of the
country, that Dissenters should form any part of the go-
verning body ; but, short of that, he considered it the
bounden duty of the Legislature to give Di,sen.ters facili-
ties for availing themselves of all the benefits of the uni-
versity. He knew it was felt to be a grievance that
Dissenters should not be allowed to become masters of
arts, the degree of master of arts being attended with
many advantages ; and what he.proposed was, that per-
sons should be allowed to become masters of arts with-
out being called upon to subscribe the Thirty-nine
Articlee, the failure to do which would still prevent them
from becoming members of the senate. This alteration
would, he believed, be well received among the members
of the university ; and he thought it was one to which
their lordships would do well to assent.
Lord LYNDHURST observed that the effect of the
proposed alteration would be, that while there would be
three checks placed on the election of the grave part of
the council, the four heads of houses and the four pro-
fessors—since before one of either of these classes could
be elected he must be proposed by one of his own body,
and must be accepted by the senate—the popular mem-
bera of the council—the eight M.A.'s—would be elected
uno gatu, by the bulk of the junior members of the uni-
versity, without any check at all. In the council of the
Cambridge Uuiversity the members of the popular part
of the council would be equal to those of the grave part.
Besides that, the members of convocation, by the Oxford
Bill, must be of five years' standing • but no such stand-
ing was requisite for the members of the Cambridge con-
vocation by the present bill. He did not think there
watt any great objection to the proposition of his noble
and learned friend with respect to the admission of Dis-
senters to take the M A. degree, though not having a
share in the government of the university. Another
point was with respect to the manner of electing the
Vice-Chancellor. The Vice-Chancellor of Cambridge
had hitherto been appointed by the senatefrom the heads
of houses by rotation. The practice which was substan-
tially followed at Oxford was not objected to by the com-
missioners, nor was it altered by the original bill of his
noble and learned friend. Why, then, should he now
propose to break in upon a practice which bad been so
long established ? The argument in favour of the altera-
tion drawn from the large powers at present exercised by
the Vice-Chancellor was utterly valueless, because these
powers would be taken away from him by this very bill,
and he in future have no more authority than any other
•
member of the senate.
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After a few words from other noble lords the house
went into committee. On clause 1,
The LORD RD
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Clauses 2 and 3 were agreed to.

On clause 4,
Lord BERNERS moved to omit the words " no oath
that a party shall have taken shall be pleadable in law to
the authority of the commissioners." He considered
that the sanctity of an oath ought not to be trifled with
unless for a sufficient reason. The clause, as it stood,
gave the commissioners power to absolve a person from
an oath which he had solemnly taken.
Lord LYNDHURST suggested that the words "be
a bar of" should be inserted.

After a few words from Lord BERNERS, the amend-
ment was withdrawn, and the clause, altered as sug-
gested by Lord Lyndhurst, was ordered to stand part
of the bill.

On clause 5,
Earl POWIS, in rising to move the amendments of
which he had given notice, said that a great portion of
the discussion on going into committee referred to this
clause and his amendments. The object of the amend-
ments, which were based on the petition he had pre-
sented a short time since, was to placelthe council at
Cambridge on exactly the same,footing as the hebdoma-
dal board at Oxford had been placed by the bill of last
year. Reference had been made to the present compo.
sition of the syndicate ; but that had not been obtained
without a great struggle and a strong remonstrance to
the vice-chancellor against its composition
a
nally proposed. The argument now used againstriegil--
trusting any powers to the syndicate was, that its
constitution was too democratic. The great objec-
residtheantt
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divided, authority in the university. The council would
he as fit to exercise these powers as were the hebdoma-
dal board under the Oxford University Bill.
Lord MONTEAGLE said that his noble friend would
lead the house to imagine that he was asking for nothing
more than what now existed under the Oxfore. University
Bill of last year, but that was not so. The only question
worth arguing was the question of the appointment of
the vice-chancellor. It was the nomination only, and
not the election of the vice-chancellor, that was committed
to the hebdomadal council. With regard to the inter-
pretation of the statutes, that was a matter rather for the
judges of the land than for either the council or the heads
of houses. But if he were driven to an election between
the two—the heads of houses, or a body elected from
time to time—he should not hesitate to prefer the heads
of houses, as the depository of the interpreting power.
lie trusted their lordships would not adopt the amend-
ment.
The amendments were then negatived without a di-

vision.
The LORD CHANCELLOR then intimated that be
Prop,-,sed to transf. r some of the clauses of the bill, and
would have it reprinted.
Several clauses ware then passed over. Their lora-
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The LORD CHANCELLOR proposed a new clause,
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duced for reunlatirg the electiond a
of thei3egca
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and other ofEeers, in the manner proposed by the Lard
Chancelldr in his introductory statement.
On clause 35, the question arose, in the course of a
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• The LORD CHANCELLOR admitted that there
were legal doubts on the point, but said that there was
nothing in the clause before the house to prejudge the
question one way or the other. On his suggestion, the
right rev. prelate withdrew his amendment.
On clause 43, prescribing the qualifications of the go-
verning body,
The Earl of POWIS moved an amendment, the effect
of which was to place masters of arts on the same foot-
ing as that on which they stand at Oxford.
The Bishop of OXFORD said that the adoption of
the clause as it stood would force the University of Ox-
ford to depart from the settlement which had been made
only last year.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said it was an extraordi-
nary argument against doing good, that it would lead to
good being done elsewhere.

The coziimittee.divided—
Fdr the amendment l3
Against, it
The remaining clauses were agreed to, and the house
resumed.