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QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

SEDUCTION.--DINGLE V. BAKER.
This was an action brought by a father to receive
compensation for the loss he had sustained by the
withdrawal of the services of his daughter. The case
was tried at Devon during the last assizes, be-
fore the Chief Justice of the Common Pleas,
and the verdict went for the defendant, on
the ruling of the Learned Judge that, as
the daughter had left the residence of her father,
who was the keeper of a toll-gate, and placed herself
under the protection of the defendant of her free will,
that an action would not lie.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLazs applied for a rule to set
the verdict aside or for a new trial, and urged
in support various points of law. He said that
the case was of the utmost importance, and
as the decision of the Judge caused great public
excitement, and came upon him by surprise, 'he
trusted the Court would accede to his application.
Lord DENMAN said he considered the Learned
Counsel entitled to a rule.

EXCHEQUER.—(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)

WITIIAM V. LYNCH:.
Sir FITZROY KELLY moved to rescind an order of
Mr. Baron Platt, of the 16th ofFuly last, charging the
suitors' fund in the Bank of England with the pay-
ment; of aju lgment debt of 4,0071. 175., recovered
in the above action. rine defendant was a superanu-
ated Master of the Court of Chancery, and entitled in
that capacity to a pension of 1,5001. per annum,
payable under the provisions of various Acts c.f Par-
liament, out of sums deposited in the Bank of Eng-
land, in the name of the Accountant-General of the
Court of Chancery. Mr. Baron Platt made the order,
charging the fund and the interest thereupon, with
the payment of this debt ; and the plaintiff had sub.
sequently commenced an action against the Bank of
England.

The Learned Counsel also moved, as a substantive,
part of the above motion, to stay proceedings, inas-
much as the action was commenced in direct violation
of an Act of Parliament, 1 and 2 Vic., which provided
that no action could be commenced on aoy such order
until after the expiration ofsix calendar months from
the date of the order.

Mr. Baron Ai.nensoN said that he did not think
that any action could lie, as the' order amounted to a
Charge to be enforced in equity.—Rule granted.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
THE LATE GAMBLING TuANsAcTroil.—The three
men, Ralph, Brewer, and Barr, who were remanded
to this day on the charge of defrauding Mr. Carey of
1,4001., and :upwards, were again brought before
Mr. Henry to-day.
The evidence of Lewis and that of Mr. Carey
were repeated at great length, and a remand having
been applied for.by Mr. Ballantyne (for the prosecu-
tion), was granted by Mr. Henry.
This day week was fixed for the further hearing of
the case.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
NEWMARKET COURSING MEETING.
WEDNESDAY.
Exning Field.—First Ties for the Derby.
Milo beat Guy I Bute beat Feat Epiph.
Dorou beat Viceroy
The Cup.—First Ties.
Wildairbeatßhadamanthus I Whittirgton beat Orleans
Girl of Kent beat Figaro I Fancy Boy beat Mainmast.
The Oaks.—First Ties.
Bridemaid beat Ornament ; I Daphne beat Minima
Giddy Polly beat Fidelia Dot ran a bye.
The Port.--First Ties.
Mee beat Veluria I Great Western beat Dolly.
Bachelor beat Fatima
The Rutland Stakes.
Mr. Buckworth's Baksheesh beat Mr. Osbaldeston's
Wyredale.
Mr. Dobede's Daisy beat Mr. Gillett's Gustavus
Mr. Vipan's Vitula beat Mr. Dobede's Dania
Not run out.
TARPORLEY HUNT RACES.—WEDNESDAY.
The Tarporley Hunt Stakes of 5 sous. each, and 20
added. Twice round. (15 Subs.)
Lord De Tabley nd The Princess, aged ... walked over
The Forest Stakes of 5 soya. each. Two miles.
(16 Subs.)
Lord De Tabley nd The Princess, aged ... walked over
The Farmer's Cup, with 15 sous. added, were won, in
two heats, by Mr. Bird's The Fox, 6 yrs, beating Mr.
Warburton's Passa ma Quaddy, 4 yrs, and Mr. Okell's
b g, 4 yrs.

MARINE GLER.—WoorAncir, Nov. 3.—The Lords
Commissioners of the Admiralty issued instructions, in
January, 1843, to the Master Shipwright at Chatham
Dockyard, to have the mainmast of the Curacoa, 24
guns, then fitting at that port, joined with marine glue,
to test its capabilities for that purpose. The mast was
accordingly made of several pieces of timber joined to-
gether, under the immediate superintendence of Mr.
Jeffrey, when completed measured 28 inches in diameter,
and 66 feet in length, and when put up, with the top-
mast, 90 feet 10 inches. The Curacoa was soon after
commissioned by Captain Sir Thomas Pasley, Bart , and
proceeded to the South American station; and, on serving
the usual period, was ordered home, and recently paid
off at Sheerness. The vessel having been dismasted,
their Lordships ordered that the mast should be opened,
as is usual after four years' service, to ascertain its pre-
sent condition. The master shipwright, Mr. Isaac Watts,
at Sheerness Dockyard, in compliance with their Lord-
ships' order, set eight men to work yesterday with
sledge-hear/31E rs and wedges to separate the timbers, but
their whole, united efforts at one time failed to separate
the joints., and only split the solid timber into large
pieces. The foremast, which was joined in, the upper
part in the usual manner adopted at the dockyards, was
found to• be very rotten, the parts where the wet had
entered rued been retained being equally yielding to the
pressure of the hand as a piece of sponge, and is other
places w here dry crumbled into powder on being pressed.
Both ma ste being in the same vessel, and exposed to the
same we ether and climates, afford a correct comparison,
and piee ee. of each have been sent to the Admiralty for
their Lordships' inspection.
THE QUEEN IN A MESS.--Loyalty will indeed take
alarm at the heading of this paragraph. Let us, there-
fore, allsey all apprehensions at once, by saying that it is
her most gracious Majesty's statue in the Royal Ex-
change-- -not her most gracious Majesty herself—that
we are s lluding to. It is true enough that things have
been log ,king very black in the City, and the statue of
the Qae en is looking as black as everything else, for
want of a little friendly whitewashing. On the last visit
we paid to our broker, to make a purchase in order to
inspire. confidence, we were almost disheartened by the
dinginess of the aspect of royalty. We are convinced
that e't cry truly British heart would lend a hand and a
scrablA ng brush to restore her Majesty's representative
in the 'City to her original look or cheerful brightness.
The a; plication of one of those rasping instruments used
for re° ovating statuary would have its effect ; and if, in
these '.times, Punch can be of any use in helping his most
graci of Sovereign well through her scrape, he will feel
the u most delight in doing so.—Puncli.
Co l onel Sir Henry George Macleod, IC•lll,!ties
Govt a -nor of the Island of Trinidad,
20th
coon h •yr seat, Bishopsgete, near Cherlts,cy,
who
theodnied at n
otof
of Au gust, has left personalty in England
14,00411., and made his will in London,. ena the 29th tnhg
June, lest, in
his own handwriting, leaving to his
relic, who is his sole executrix,
her
demise the same to be
a life interest in the
whole an
of his property, d a
ly divided between his three sisters and for their
dawd tters. The property he received with his lady on
marts .age he gives her an absolute control over.
B C DIX AND Berme. MISSIONARY SOCIETIES.—
Mrs. Kightley, who died at Hampstead on the 24th of
Sept.( enber last, has bequeathed, upon the decease of her
niec e (with the exception of about 3001. left in legacies),
the r hole of her property, personal and funded, to the
undo r-mentioned societies in the following proportions:
—Ol te-third to the Bible Translation Society, and the
twoe thirds to the Baptist Missionary Society, one moiety
of w hick is to be applied in aid of the society's mission
in a e East Indies, and the other to the mission in Africa.
The trustees are, Mr. T. Croft, Mr. S. Gale, and the
Rev, Joseph Angus, the secretary to the Baptist Mis-
sion ary Society. The personal property administered to
witl sin the province of Canterbury amounted to nearly
3,01 )01.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY, Nov. 3.—The Regius Pro-
fc 9 ior of Divinity (Dr. Hampden) will commence his
blic course of lectures in this term on Thursday,
N. avember 18, at twelve o'clock. This course is in-
to' ided for students in divinity who have passed their
• amination for the degrees of 8.A., and those gentle-
rot m who desire to attend it are requested to cell on
th e professor on Tuesday the 16th, or Wednesday
ie 17th instant.. The Professor of Political Economy
• rill deliver two lectures in the Clarendon on Satur-
I day, the 13th, and Monday the 15th instant, at three
o'clock.

NBATIL—It is currently reported here .that the
Governor and Company cf Copper Miners arc about to
discharge one thousand men from their works ut
Uwmavon. The railway contractors in this neighbour-
hood are discharging some of their men, and intend to
curtail their operations during the winter season. It is
not intended to proceed during this winter with the
works through Neath. The tightness of the money-
market is severely Nt by all classes.—Welstnan.
RASCALITY or A SUB-CONTRACTOR.--Upwards of
forty excavators, or. as they are commonly termed,
" navvies," who had been working on the Monxton
Works of the Basingstoke and Salisbury Railway, ap-
plied for admission into the union on S.ittirday last, in
consequence of Mr. Edwards, one of the sub-contractors
Ot the line, having made his exit and forgotten to pay
`them their fortnight's wa,s. The poor creatures were
in the most deplorable condition, many of them having
wives and families with neither money nor food. It is
stated that Edwards is also very much in the books of
some of the tradesmen of the town, Mr. Matcham for
horse hire, 321.; Mr. Young, for grocery, 301.; Mr.;
Perkins, for grocery, 14/ ; Mr. Stadden, for flour, leor/ai..
Mr. Bailey, Longparish, for flour, 22/. ; and sel
others. Nothing has since been heard of him. It is,
uiglt previoushowever, ascerftoarintkde
purposethathe roefceipviteydiog thethmoonmeyoot.i.e
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