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London, England, 1849-06-01 00:00:00

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SUY OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

MANCHESTER RACES.
(THIS DAY.)

(BY _ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
The Castle Irwell Stakes.

Flatcatcher
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The Broughton Stakes.

Vanguard
Piard Shot

The Salford Borough Cup.

Mrs. Taft
Athelstane
Maid of My Soul

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VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before the Vice• Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
THE ROYAL ETCHINGS.
PRINCE ALBERT V. STRANGE—THE ATTJRNEY-GENERAL

V. STRANGE.

This cause and information stood on the paper to-
dsy for hearing. On their being called on,

tae SOLICITOR-GENERAL said that the case came
be ore the Court upon a cause and information, which
would be unnecessary for him to open in detail. The
Court would doubtless recollect the facts of the case
as they were detailed before it upon two
motions, in which the Court granted injunctions
which were afterwards affirmed by the Lord Chancellor
upon appeal. The cause now came on for hearing,
and all he proposed to ask the Court to do was
to grant a perpetual injunction against all the
defendants to the effect of the temporary injunction
that had already been granted upon the hearing of the
motions, and also to ask for the delivery up of the cata-
logues for the purpose of having them destroyed,
and also the delivery up of the etchings for
a similar purpose by the defendant Judge. The
title of the plaintiffs was shown by the admission in
the answer of the defendants to the etchings and en-
gravings, and the fact was also proved that the
etchings had been improperly obtained. He
apprehended that it would not be proper
on his part to go into the facts of the case in detail,
until he knew what course his Learned Friends,'who
appeared for the defendant, intended to pursue. With
respect to the costs, Mr. Judge had thought fit,
since the hearing of the motion to obtain an order
to allow him to defend :in ' forma pauperis, so
that with respect to him he could only ask for the costs
up to the date of that order. As to Mr.
Strange, he was inclined to think he might
have been misled by the representations that
had been made to him, and he should cot therefore
be disposed to ask for a hostile decree with respect to
costs against him, though he felt hound to call the atten-
tion of the Court to the fact that on the hearing of the
motion it was offered that all proceedings should be
stayed upon the defendant's giving up the etchings and
engravings.
Mr. J. RUSSELL stated that he appeared for Mr.
Strange, and considering the liberal way in which
it was proposed to take the decree against him
he should certainly be inclined to advise him to accept it,
but if neither Mr. Strange or his solicitor were present,
perhaps the Solicitor-General would allow the matter to
staid over till he had consulted with him. He should
certainly advise Mr. Strange to take the decree, but he
had then no instructions upon the subject.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was willing to adopt that
course, but it must he understood there was no com-
promise

- Mr. S. SMITH: appeared for the defendant Judge, and
to some' part of the decree proposed he had great objec-
tions. lie objected to that part with respect to the de-
livery up of the etchings, and also with respect to the
costs. Under these circumstances, he thought it
would be better for the Solicitor-General to read the
evidenco, and go into the case in the regular way. Mr.
Judge, however, did not intend to:go on with the exhi-
bitions, and, therefore, he did net object to that part of
the decree.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL was willing to adopt that
course. The Learned Gentleman then went into a
statement of the tacts of the case, the whole of which se
gave in detail both on the occasion of the injunction
being applied for to this branch of the Court
and also the appeal to the Lord Chancellor. The
Learned Gentleman concluded by asking for the decree
before stated.

Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD was proceeding to read the
evidence, when

Mr. J. RUSSELL staled that Mr. Strange's son was now
in court, and be had authorised him to state that his
father would consent most willingly to the decree that
the Illustrious Plaintiff suggested, considering that the
offer was a most liberal one.
Mr. WARREN, who was also counsel for Mr. Strange,
observed that the words used by his Learned Friend the
Solicitor-General, with respect to Mr. Strange, that he
might have been misled, was extremely handsome and
gn.rous on the part of the Crown.
Mr. sergeant TaLFouRD then proceeded to read the
evidenc

Mr. S. SMITH objected to the reading of it, on the
ground that it was nut entitled i❑ the proper suit.
' The Vicz CHANCELLOR overruled the objection.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD then continued to read the
evidence, and al,o the answer cf Judge, which was not
filed when the motion for the injunction was made. Li
that answer Judge admitted that he had obtained
the impressions from a workman of Mr. Brown's, who
sold them to him as spoiled or dirty impressions.
Mr. S. SMITH then proceeded to address the Court on
behalf of Judge. Ills client had no wish to shelter him-
self under anything except the bare facts of the case.
Ike was sorry that his Learned Friend the Solicitor-
General had pursued a different course towards his
client to that which he adopted with respect to the
other defendant. Mr. Judge was anxious to con
vince the Court that he had obtained the etchings
by no corrupt or improper means. As to publishing or
exhibiting the engravings, his client did not in-
tend to do so, and, therefore, he had no objec-
tion to that part of the decree. He did not
object to being prevented from disposing of the
engraving or etching?. Neither did he object to
being prevented from publishing the catalogue
in its present form ; that was, that it was pub-
lished under authority, but he submitted that
he was entitled to retain possession of the
etchiugr, and what he desired was to have the opinion
of a jury whether the etchings he had were his pro-
perty or that of the plaintiff's. He:also contended that
he WAS not bound to deliver up the catalogue he had
and that be was not precluded from publishing it if he
left out the insignia that he published it by authority.
The Learned Gentlemen then proceeded to read
evidence to show that Judge had not improperly
or unwarrantably obtained the etchings, that he had
bought them from a man named Middleton, in Mr.
Brown's employ for 51., as spoiled or dirty copies.
The Learned Gentleman had not concluded his argu-
ments when the Court rose.

The further arguments will ba proceeded with to-
morrow.

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

WAR-OFFICE, JUNE 1, 1849.

2d Regiment of Life Guards—Lieut. Charles J. Tot-
tenham to be Captain, by purchase, vice Tollemsche, who
retires; Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant Harcourt Johnstone
to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tottenham; Robert
O'Brien Jameson, Gent.,; to be 'Cornet and Sub-Lieu-
tenant, by purchase, vice Johnstone, June 1.
Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Lieute-
nant-Colonel Sir John Scott Lillie, from Half-pay Un-
attached, to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, vice
Brevet Colonel Henry William Barnard, who exchanges;
Lieutenant and Captain Henry Turrens D'Aguilar to be
Captain and Lieutenant• Colonel, by purchase, vice Sir
John Scutt Lillie, who retires; Ensign and Lieutenant
John Francis Cust to be Lieutenant and Captain, by
purchase, vice D'Aguilar; Henry FitzHardinge Berkeley
Ma,xse, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase,
vice Cost, June 1.
let Foot—Frederick Augustus Smith, Gent., to be En-
sign, by purchase, vice Amos, appointed to the 75th
Foot, June 1.
16th Foot—Lieutenant the Honourable Arthur Ed-
ward Hardinge, from the 80th Foot, to be Captain, by
purchase, vice George Douglas, ca,hiered, but allowed to
receive the value of his commissions, June 1.
30th Foot—Captain Virginius Murray, from half-pay
86th Foot, to be Captain, vice William Hodder Heard,
who exchanges; Lieutenant Edmund Augustus Whit-
more, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Murray, who re-
tires ; • Ensign Thomas Mapleson Fitzpatrick, to be
Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Whitmore; John O'Brien,
Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice FitzPwrick;
Lieutenant Paget Bayley to be Adjutant, vice Whitmore,
promoted, June 1.
54th Foot—Gentleman Cadet John Swann, from the
Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase,
vice Hart, who resigns, June 1.
66th Foot—Captain Robert Crawfurd, from the Rifle
Brigade, to be Captain, vice Cooper, who exchanges,
June 1.

75th Foot—Major Alexander Jardine to be Lieu•
tenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice De Lancey, who
retires ; Captain Edward Hickey to be Major, by pur-
chase, vice Jardine ; Lieutenant John Jocelyn Bourke
to be Captain, by purchase, vice Hickey; Ensign David
William Martin to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
Bourke; Ensign Gilbert Andrew Amos, from the Ist
Foot, to be Ensign, vice Martin, June 1.
Rifle Brigade—Captain As:ley l'aston Cooper, from
the 66th Foot, to be Captain, vice Crawfurd, who ex-
changes. June 1.
MENORANDCM.—The Christian names of Second
_Lieutenant Kennedy, Ceylon Rifle Regiment, are Irving
Francis, not Francis Irving, as previously stated.
Commission signed by the
.Lord Lieutenant of Lan..

cashire.

Lanaashire. Hussars—George Bullock Portw, Gent.,
to be Surgeon, ltitly. 24.
WHITEHALL, MAY 3.

The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kai., Lord Cbief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas, at
Westminster, has appointed William Adams, of Tenbury,
in the county of Worcester, Gentleman, to be one of
the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgments of deeds, to be ex, cuted by married women,
under the Act passed fur the abolition of fines and reco-
veries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of
assurance, in and for the county of Worcester.