The Sun.
London, England, 1838-06-04 00:00:00

COMPANY,

This was an information at the relation of Dr. Goodall, the Provost,
and others, the Masters of Eton College, to restrain the Company from
making a station at Slough for setting down or taking up passengers.
The Solicitor-General was about to move by appointment for the injunc-
tion, when , .
Mr. JACOB interposed, and stated that a demurrer had been fi'ed, and
would be set down for argument as soon as possible. What object the
motion bad, except to annoy the Ccmpay and disappoint the public, he
was at a loss to imagine. Perhaps it was supposed the railroad visitors
would not be so liberal of " salt" as those who could attend by other con-
veyance.—(Laughter.)
The VICE-CHANCELLOR asked the Solicitor. General what wah the
great and pressing danger which was apprehended ?
The SOLICITOR•GENERAL proceeded to explain the nature of 'his
motion. After some observations upon the national importance of pre-
serving the retirement of such a place as Eton the Learned Counsel said
the ;Company obtained their Bill upon a compact with Parliament,
which it was thought would protect the College from the evil conse-
quences of such an expeditious intercourse with London as a railroad
would afford. Ito was applying, therefore, to prevent what might be
considered a public nuisance. The Bill provided that no station, depot,
landing.place, wharf, &c., should be made or constructed upon a portion
of the railroad extending four miles in length through the towns of
Sough, Langley, West Drayton, and Stoke, without the consent of the
provost and fellows, of Eton, under their common seal, and that no devia.
tion of the projected railroad, nor branch railroad, should be made without
the Ike conse,it,;within three miles of Eton ; and that the Company
should at their own expense keep a sufficient number of watchmen to
prevent the scholars from coming on the railroad within the prohibited
Emits. Such was the Parliamentary contract; and its evident mean_
ing was that no trains should be allowed to set down or take up pas-
sengers on that part of the railroad to which the prohibitions applied.
His IloNourt remarked it was one thing to prevent the Eton boys
from communicating with the railroad, and another thing to prohibit
the public from getting down at any part they pleased.
Mr. Jacon asked how was the Company to act ? Were they to lock
up the trains as they passed through Slough ? The masters bade btter
lock up the boys.--(Laughter.)
The SoLicuroa.GENERAE said, if by any hocus pocus a station could be
made for passengers from which the boys could be excluded, the obser-
vation would have weight.

Mr. BACON, on the Line side as the Solicitor-General, said the provott
and masters apprehended danger to the boys from the omnibuses and
other conveyances which would be established between the town and the
railroad.7-(Laughter.)

His HONOUR, as an old Etonian, did not think there was much to
fear on that account.
Mr. BACON then alluded to the London rabble—(Laughter) —which
would no doubt be present at the Montem. He meant by rabble that
class of persons who were more industrious than honest, and who would
no doubt avail themselves of the railroad conveyances to ply their voca-
tion at the Montem.
The motion was refused, and it was arranged that the demurrer
should be allowed with costs.

Bell's Life in London of yesterday contained five of
its large folio columns of particulars of Epsom Races, with a portrait of
Amato, the winner of the Derby, drawn by Kettering. Bell's Life in
London will have on Sunday, June 17, an engraving of the Ascot Cup
and Queen's Plate. The price of Bell's Life in London is fivepence,
Office, 170, Strand.

George Robins announces his intention to give %in
illuminated view in Regent.s,reet, preparatory to the sale of the snag_
nificent appendages at the mansion of the late Mr. Blicke, to-morrow
When lighted up, the splendid suite has been assimilated to fairy land.
We intend to be present and judge for ourselves.
TITHES.—The WaleVord chronicle of Saturday
last announces the lamentable fact, that on the previous Friday more
blood was spilled in the distraining for tithes on the cattle of a farmer
mined Portle. Three of the police employed on the occasion were so
dreadfully beaten, that but little hope for the life of one of them is en-
tertained. Sergeant Hill's head is frightfully cut, the other is sub.con.
stable Dickson, of the Rathcormac station ; and so disfigured is he that
his acquaintances can scarcely recognise him. On either temple are
deep gashes—his eyes are swollen beyond their sockets and he is other.
wise terribly injured, with a hope that- lie will recover. The third is
Sergeant Higgins of Ratheormac station who is also most severely
wounded. Several other policemen were more or less injured by wounds
produced by stones.

AGITATION FOR ENDOWAIENTS.—On Saturday
thegreat mustering of the Church Extensionists, which was for some
time announced by public advertisement, took place in the Waterloo_
rooms, when, to the dismay of the leaders, it was attended by little
more than one-half of the number which, a few weeks before, break-
fasted in the same rooms, to receive the report of the Deputation which
had been sent to London to oppose the endowment scheme. At the,
Voluntary meeting upwards of 400 persons were present, and, after
breakfast, they adjourned to the large lecture-room above, in order to
accommodate abcut two hundred more who were excluded from the
breakfast tables from want of room. At the Church. Extension breakfast,
according to the Courant's report, " there were about 300 persons pre-
sent ;" and, according to the Scottish Guardian's report, "considerably
upwards of 200 ministers and elders were present." When it is con-
sidered that upwards of 300 ministers and elders from the country were
in town attending the meetings of the General Assembly, and that the
breakfast was held at an early hour in the morning, when all of them
might have attended without interfering with their official duties, it wilk
be apparent that, considered as a demonstration in favour of Church..
extension, it was a complete failure ;
and that the great body of the re-
spectable inhabitants of this city are either hostile to the scheme, or ex-
tiemely cold in its support. The plan of agitation about to be adopted
was the chief, if not the sole topic of declamation, and some very curious
opinions were sported on the occasion.—Scolsman.
O
nlNll3nr(oimay sgroe, was taking eveningliangst; as the wife of Mr. G.
Stoaall: of walk with another female, when
about a quarter of a mile Item the town, she felt rather unwell, and went
into the house at a Mr. "(lard' She then sat down on a chair, and
expire 4in a few minutes 21/tecury.
The very
depressed state of the hosier), trade ha
.
induced the 7,,,onotaarirers of Tewkbury to reduce the wages of their
tc:orkoten to a, very seriousdegree , and as the stock in hand with se_
twat, of the manufacturers is exceedingly heavy, it will probably be,
so ne Mouths before their wagea will be enhanced,—Bristol Mercury.