The Sun.
London, England, 1841-12-14 00:00:00

C4ANCERY_COURT-(THIS DAY.)

(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF STANFORD

AND OTHERS.

This was a bill filed by her Majesty's Attorney-
General at the relation of several inhabitants of Man-
chester, for the purpose of obtaining a better ad-
ministration of the funds of the Manchester Free
Grammar School, of which the defendants were
trustees. The case had already been heard at length
before the late Lord Chancellor, who delivered
his judgment in the matter ; but a caveat having been
entered against the decree, the case came before the:Court
to-day for re-hearing.
It appears from the statement of Mr. BETHELL, who
opened the case for the Attorney-General, that the in-
come of the school, which had been founded for the
purpose of giving gratuitous instruction to the children
of the poor of the neighbourhood of Manchester,
amounted at present to more than 5,000 L The relators
complained—first, that the entire revenue was not
effectually ,devoted to the „objects of the charity
secondly, that it was not confined to those who were
really the persons who should be benefited by it ; and,
thirdly, they complained of the mode of electing the
trustees of the fund. Not more than two hundred chil-
dren were educated in the school; and of these a portion
were the children of persons living in various parts of
England, and residing at the houses of different masters
of the school as borders, for the purpose of participat-
ing in the education, which the immense revenues of
the establishment enabled the masters to give. Those
boys wore generally the children of men of property,
and did nut in any way come within the inten-
tions of the founder of the charity. Again,
the trustees were elected almost exclusively from
a class of persons who, though men of rank, and no
doubt men of nondurable intentions, were, from the very
station which they filled, incapable of attending to such
an institution, and unacquainted with the means of con-
verting the trust to the best use. In the year
1825 the Commissioners of Education laid before
Parliament a Report, from which it appeared
that the revenues of the school amounted at that time to
upwards of 4,0001., while the expenses of the school were
little more than 2,0001., WI a balance, in addition, in
the hands of the trustees of 11,000/. :The Commissioners
concluded their Report by recommending an extension of
the system of education then adopted in the school, and
that means should be taken to afford opportunity fur
educating a greater number of children. No attempt
had been made to carry that recommendation into ef-
fect until the year 1833, when an application had been
made to the Court of Chancery, on the part of
the trustees of the charity, for further powers
to enable them to extend the system of edu-
cation contemplated by the original grant. The
relators, however, complained of the nature of the powers
thus granted, and stated that the charity was still diverted
from its original destination.
The address of Mr. BETBELL occupied the Court from
an early hour in the morningnntil its rising, after three
o'clock ; and the further arguments on the case were
ordered to be resumed to-morrow.

Was that your only reason ?—No.
State any other reasons which influenced you ?—lf I
did not pay the bills as they became due, or give security,
I would have been made a bankrupt.
Were these the only reasons inducing you to secure
his debt a fortnight before the first bill became due ?
—No.

State what further reasons you had?—Because I
thought if I got the lease before referred to out of Mr.
R. P. Pritchard's hands, that I should then be able to
assign that lease to my brother, as he had often asked
me, and which I had promised to do. I also thought
that by giving the guarantee of my brother for a sum
which I should be able to pay off, I might expect my
brother to be a security for me again.
It being now past four o'clock, the further examination
was adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow.

INCREASE OF' CRIME IN THE

COUNTY.
(From the Liverpool Times.)
Our readers must have been struck with the alarming
frequency of late of crime of a very daring character.
Scarcely a week passes without the record of some act of
atrocity, perpetrated by gangs more or less numerous, in
different parts of the adjoining districts. It is, therefore,
not without some surprise that we find reports gaining
strength of an intention to suppress a large body of
force charged with the protection of life and property.
There is a peculiarity attending most of the recent out-
rages, which calls for the most serious deliberation before
such a step should be taken. The audacious burglaries and
attempts to rob and murder, which we have had to notice
from time to time, have, for the most part, been per-
petrated in the more lonely and unfrequented neighbour-
hoods, by men who :issin from the densely-populated
towns, where the practised skill and efficiency of the
police present dangerous obstacles to their enterprises,
and who then, choosing their point of attack, fall upon
the lonely farm-house, or the passenger in solitary roads.
By reference to another column, it will be seen that
the desperate attack upon the house of an aged
farmer, at Myerscough, was the concerted scheme of a
notorious gang from Preston. It will be seen, too,
that a burglary, though of less serious aspect, has
been committed at Cadishead, by a gang from
Hyde, near Stockport, another at Broad Green,
by a gang from Liverpool, and other acts
of rapine and violence, concocted and executed
by parties from Liverpool, Chester, and other towns
will be in the recollection of our readers. The ease
may be very different in the purely agricultu-
ral counties, but to diminish the defences against crime,
where crime is so frequently engendered, by want and
the contiguity of similar depravity, in thickly populated
towns, is a matter of very serious import, and calls fur a
very careful survey of the probable consequences.

COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO
THE COLLECTION OF THE CUSTOMS' RE-
VENUES.

The Members of this Commission have arrived in
Liverpool, and will begin their examination of witnesses
this day, at the Custom-house. The following are the
names of the Commissioners, Lord Granville Somerset,
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the Honour-
able H. Bingham Baring, eldest son of Lord Ashbur-
tor, and Alexander Pringle, Esq., M.P., Commis-
sioners of the Treasury. We understand that the diffe-
rent mercantile and shipping associations have appointed
deputations to wait upon the Commissioners, for the
purpose of pointing out to them the alterations which
they consider desirable in the mode of collecting the
revenue in this port, and if any private individuals have
any suggestions to make, it would be well that they
should take this opportunity of laying them before tli
Commissioners.—Liverpool Times.

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS.

exaggeration rather than fiction; and delights
rather in the implied than in the open falsehood.
Is any portion of the population, any class of the
people visited with the pressure ofunusual distress,
forthwith the faculty we are speaking of seizes
upon the fact, and by the magic of amplification
works it up into a fearful and startling picture
of ruin, famine, and desolation. Has distress
engendered discontent, and discontent clamour,
forthwith mob-oratory shouts aloud " Hear and
tremble at the voice of a starving people !"
Does disappointed faction seek to console itself
for present calamities by predictions of future
greatness, and to hide the shame of recent de-
feats in the glory of coming conquests, it sum-
mons mob-oratory to its aid, and gratifies gaping
expectants with the announcement that "if
the people are united their voice will be heard
and their demands complied with." Now,
through all such exhibitions, for we can call them
nothing else, whether, as in Derby, they consist of
post-prandial harangues, or as at Plymouth and
in Bridgnorth, in cool combinations of spite and
peevishness, the glaring fallacy runs ofconsidering
and representing a fraction of the community as
the whole body of the people---,of speaking of a
restless and dissatisfied minority as of the nation
at large. This is the standing sophism with Anti-
Corn-law men of every grade—with Acland as
with Lord John Russell, with Cobden as with
Palmerston.

THE LONDON GAZETTE

(THIS EVENING.)

BY THE QUEEN—A PROCLAMATION.
VICTORIA, R.—Whereas our Parliament stands pro-
rogued to Tuesday the twenty-first day of this instant
December ; We, with the advice of our Privy Council,
do hereby publish and declare, that the said Parliament
shall be further prorogued, on the said twenty-first day
of this instant, December, to Thursday the
third day of February next ; and we have
given order to our Chancellor of that part of our
United Kingdom called Great Britain, to prepare a
Commission for proroguing the same accordingly ; and
we do hereby further, with the advice aforesaid, declare
our Royal will and pleasure, that the said Parliament
shall, on the said Thursday; the 3d day of February
next, assemble and be holden for the dispatch of divers
urgent and important affaiis : and the Lords Spiri-
tual and Temporal, and the Knights, Citizens, and
Burgesses, and the Commissioners for Shires and
Burghs of the House of Commons, are hereby required
and commanded to give their attendance accordingly,
at Westminster, on the said Thursday, the third day of
February next.

Given at Our Court at Windsor, this tenth day of
December, in the year of Our Lord one thousand
eight hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year
of Our reign.
GOD save the QUEEN.

BY THE QUEEN—A PROCLAMATION,
In order to the Electing a Peer of Scotland.
*VICTORIA, R.—Whereas Thomas Earl of Elgin was
duly elected and returned to be one of the sixteen
Peers of Scotland to sit in the House of Peers in the
present Parliament of the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Ireland, and is since deceased ; in order
to the &coring another Peer of Scotland to sit in his
room, we do, by the advice of our Privy Council
issue forth this our Royal Proclamation, strictly
charging and commanding all the Peers of Scotland
to assemble and meet at Holyrood-house, and Edin-
burgh, on Wednesday the nineteenth day of January
next ensuing, between the hours of twelve and two
in the afternoon, to nominate and choose another Peer
of Scotland to sit and vote in the House of Peers in
this present Parliament of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland, in the room of the said
Thomas Earl of Elgin, deceased, by open election and
plurality of voices of the Peers that shall be then present,
and of the proxies of such as shall be absent (such proxies
being Peers, and producing a mandate in writing, duly
signed before witnesses, and both the constituent and
proxy being qualified according to law), and the Lord
Clerk Register, or such two of the Principal Clerks of the
Session as shall be appointed by him to officiate in his
name, are hereby respectively required to attend such
meeting, and to administer the oaths required by law to
be taken there by the said Peers, and to take their votes ;
and, immediately after such election made and duly ex-
amined, to certify the name of the Peer so elected, and to
sign and attest the same in the presence of the said Peers
the electers,and return such certificate into Our High Court
of Chancery of Great Britain ; and We strictly charge and
command that this Our Royal Proclamation be duly pub-
lished at the Market-cross at Edinburgh, and in all the
county towns of Scotland, twenty-five days at least be-
fore the time hereby appointed for the meeting of the
said Peers to proceed on such election.
Given at Our Court at Windsor, the tenth day of De-
cember, in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight
hundred and forty-one, and in the fifth year of Our
reign.

FROM THE EVENING FAFFMS OF THIS DA].
BAPTISM OF THE .1-.I•ItINCE OF WALES.
STANDARD.---The baptism of the Prince of
Wales is expected to take place at the end of
next mozoni, and, according to the present ar-
rangP-inent, the place will be St. George's
Chapel, Windsor. This solemn rite will be ce-
lebrated under circumstances of unusual in-
terest, and what we cannot but consider as the
most auspicious. The sponsors invited to answer
at the font for the future Monarch of this
great empire are-The King of Prussia ;
the Duke of Cambridge; Ferdinand, Duke of
Saxe Coburg, uncle to Prince Albert; the Prin-
cess Sophia; and the Duchess of Saxe Coburg.
It is understood to be the intention of the King
2,
of Prussia to visit this country, in order that he
may in person assist at the baptism ; and surely
no visitor can be more welcome to the Christian
people of England than a Prince who is not
more by his position than by his own sincere
conviction, the representative and 'champion of
the Protestant cause upon the Continent of Eu-
rope-the protector of the exiles from Ziller-
thall, our associate in the foundation of the Pro-
testant Church of Jerusalem. England and
Prussia have never stood in union but for their
common glory, and for the good of mankind-
never separated but for a common loss, and
to the injury of the civilized world. Their
union was, we trust, cemented for ever
on the field of Waterloo. Thanks to our
Gracious Queen, it is now to be recognised by.
another bond of affection, so domestic, fami-
liar, and kindly, that we shall seem to have esta-
blished a relation of brotherhood, with the men
who so gallantly fought by our side in the fiercest
and most momentous contest the world has ever
witnessed. We trust that the Duke of Saxe Co-
burg will also be able to attend. Had he no other
claims to the love of this people than his relation-
ship to our Queen and to the amiable and excel-
lent Prince who holds the second place in this
empire-that would entitle him to a hearty wel-
come, such as Englishmen know how to give
when their hearts are engaged; but the Duke
also had a share in the deliverance of Europe,
and his personal qualities would command re-
spect everywhere. But we need say no more.
England will know how to receive the Royal and
Illustrious guests of their beloved Queen, invited
upon an occasion so joyful at the present, and so
full of hope.
GLOBE.-The Post treats as " City gossip"
the statement of our City Correspondent yester-
day, respecting the intentions of the Ministry to
At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of December,
propose a change in the Corn-laws; and adds, 1841, present, the Queen's Most Excellnt Majesty in
that " the first leading article" of our paper was Council,--ber Majesty having been pleased to appoint
" devoted to commendation of the plan to which the Right Honourable James Archibald Lord Wham-
the gossip of the City has given birth." Consi- cliffe, the Lord President of the Council, to be Lord
dering that our first leading article consisted of Lieutenant and Custos Rotulorum of the west riding of
three lines, the essence of eulogy must have beets the county of York, his Lordship this day took the usual
condensed n
within wonderfully small space; and Oaths appointed to be taken thereupon, instead of the
we should not have much trouble in doing what Oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy.
the Post has the malice to surmise, should Sir [The following article should have appeared in the
Robert Peel really propose a similar scheme- Gazette of October 15, 1841 :-]
" eat," namely, " every word of applause we DOWNING-STREET, OCT. 14, 1841.
have uttered upon the subject." The words of The Queen has been pleased to nominate and appoint
applause which we uttered were " commutation Captains Edward Belcher, William Warren, Harry Eyres,
and mitigation"-words which may excite feel-
and
ings of exultation at the Old Bailey, but consti. b eof
Companions
Bare l s An
of
r uhc Balovv, of the Royal Navy, to
thee
t
Honourable Military Order
tute no very rapturous description of a change oft Bah.
commercial policy. Whether what has trans- FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 9.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint Captain Atkins
pired. is nothing more than " the gossip of the
Hamerton, of the Honourable East India Company's
City," time will show ; we only say, at present, Svice, to be her a
that there is nothing in the statement which the Imaum of MuscatM. jesty's Consul in the dominions of
should suspend the earnest efforts of the friends WHITEHALL, DEC. 11.
of free trade for a moment. Nothing but the The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev.
portents of the season, and the pressure of Francis Wylie to the church and parish of Elgin, in the
public necessity, will induce the partisans of presbytery of Elgin and county of Moray, vacant by the
monopoly to loosen their hold even thus far ; no-
transportation of the Rev. Alexander Walker to the
thing but urgency for the whole debt will ex-
ch uTrhceh
L 0
of
.d(. heellor has appointed Charles Urquhart.Ovingtonee
M
M'Ctort from them even the first instalment. r. Ord, of Middlesborough, in thecounty of York, Gent., tube
ulloch has given the following just descrip- a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
tion of the existing "slidingscale"-thatslippery WHITEHALL, DEC. 10.
snake which will be "scotched, but not killed,'' The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Lyon Foster, of
by the change stated as in contemplation ;- Hertford, in the county of Hertford, Gent. to be a Master Ex-
" To the necessary fluctuations in the price of traordinary in the High Court of Chancery.
Regiment
AoIIDOFFooICniiE, li,ru.t.l4j. 1841._r
corn, caused by variations in the harvests, a gra-
Yo Yorke to be Cap;
source scale of duties superinduce an artificial Ist :
tain, by urchase, vice Brevet Major Owen, who retirei;
source of variation.
Cornet W. B. Barttelot, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice
" The duty imposed by the Act 9 Geo. IV., Yorke • T. Thoroton, Gent., to be Cornet by purchase, vice
cap. 60, and at present chargeable on corn im- Barttelet, Dec. 14.
mlb)th
fßegirtzenitaotifi Light Dragoons-Surgeon D. Murray,
ported into this country, is of this description.
Thus, when the price of wheat is between 61s. poen
half-
aootlecbe
IS4u.rgeon, vice W. R. Rogers,
who r.etirroems u
and 625. the duty is 255. Bd., increasing by ls. for 7th Regiment of Foot-Lieut. T. St. Vincent H. C. Trou-
every ls. that the price is below 61s. ; but bridge to be Captain, by purchase, vice Bernal, who retires,
above this amount the progression is different. Dec. 14.
When, for example, the price of wheat Bth Foot--Ensign W. Bayly to be Adjutant, vice Holmes,
is between 665. and 675. the duty is 20s. Bd., prolt3ntehtello,oDt. December 14.
F P insett, ent., to be Ens by pur-
-1 when between 675. and 68s. the duty is 18s. chase, v ice Scott, promoted; AsG sistant- Swgeon J.ign Robertson,
Sd. ; when between 68s. and 695. the duty is M.D. to be Surgeon, vice Murray, appointed to the 10th
16s. Bd. ; and when the price is between 695. and Light Dragoons; T. G. Scot, M.D., to be Assistant-Surgeon,
TlC2eBßholgottsonvie ' i Dec. 14.
e
70s. the duty is 13s. Bd., the disproportion be-
ut coming still greater as the price advances. Now, Lieuttenant, e T.. H. 11. Lake, from the 21st Foot, to be
Banbury, who retires upon half-pay of the
to show the practical operation of this duty, let 54th
Foot, Dec. 14.
it be supposed that when prices here are between 31st Foot-Lieut. J. L. Wilton, from ha'f-pay of the 54th
695. and 70s. a quarter, a merchant orders a cargo Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Lake, appointed to the 28th Foot,
of wheat from Dantzic or some other port; and Dec. 46 14.
thFoot-Assi t
that in the interval between the giving of the staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon,
.I.eAeoD. M‘Bean from the
promoted' to be
order and the arrival of the grain the price has Staff-Surgeon of the Secosriasys,leDec.wle4n.,
sunk to 625. In this case, the wheat will sell 92d Foot-Lieutenant James Cox to be Captain, by Fur-
for 7s. or Bs. a quarter less than the importer chase, vice Bayly, who retires, 14th Dec. ; Ensign James
Charles Gordon be Lieutenanant, by purchase, vice Cox,
expected; and the duty on it will be 245. Bd.,
Dec.;,
J.
c.
GeosrdGonordlo4ntil Gent., to be Ensign, by per-
whereas, when the order was given, and prices 14th Dec.
vice
were between 695. and 705., the duty was only 13s. 2d West India Regiment-J. C.. M'Pherson, Gent. to be
Bd. ;so that the merchant, besides having to sell Ensign, without purchase, vice Clarke, deceased,-Dec. 14.
Li
ni etuhte. Colonel-Arm y ;
CaptainW . H ayl, half-padvo.nFoth e rgn
,of Unattached,
th the
50 50th
his wheat at Bs. below his estimate, will have to
pay on the article so reduced in price an addi•
tional dgnugretyanto7f, 1 ls. I No wonder that the corn • Fogt, to be Major in the Army, Nov. 23.
biaIIOFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 11.
double that riskb
trade should have been so very ruinous to those '
who have embarked in it of late years. The risk to BbenzCvoEloTn-el
Royal Regiment of Artillery-Second Captain E. F. Grant
to be Adjutant, vice Dupuis, -
who resigns the Adjutancy only,
attendi • •u undert (
)dua,
rni yscircumstances,
Legislationti ithis
respemoleet pa rs otcvi e)anrn-- ! April 14.
Corps of Royal Engineers-Second-Lieutenant R. Burnaby
tradictory to ever Commission principle as can easily to be First-Lieutenant, vice Durnford, promoted, Dec. 7.
°AlUndltieExittra-val\lganbt ;Commission by the Governor and Captain of the Isle of Wight.
be imagined." -N., to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 25.
Commission by the Lord Liautenant of Cumberland.
five Sir G. Musgrave, Bart. to Lieutenant, Nov. 4
-oratory is ever exaggera-
H. P. Gordon, P.
its •staple materials are Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Westmoreland.
loose statements, rando Sir Gee. 11.1usgrave, Bart. to be Deputy Lieutenant, Nov. 4.
m assertions vehement
appeals, and vapid as illogical 'deductions.Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Cambridgeshire.
In after-dinner effusions its
features a-William Huntly Campbell, Esq, to
are most prominently and peculiarstrbe Catain,July 1.
strongly deve- I Commission by the Lord Lieutenant of Staffordshire.
loped; although it sometimes seeks to dis 1 '
Pay , Queen's Own Royal Yeomanry-William Briscoe, Gent. to
its beauties and compass its end in the shape be Cornet, vice Iron, resigned, Dec. 9. of a statistical essay or carefully concoct€ d Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Nottingham
address ; but, however guised, the marks of its Sherwood Rangers-Clumber Troop-G. H. Vernon,
origin are too forcibly and deeply • d
Gent., to beFirst Lieutenant, vice E. Unwin, deceased.
impresse 1 Mansfield Troop-E. Wright, Gent., to be Comet, vice C.
upon it not to be readily recognised. It loves ' Colvile, promoted.
1

GOD save the QUEEN.
At the Court at Windsor, the 10th day of December,
1841, present, the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty in
Council.—Whereas by the lute Act of Unifor-
mity, which establisheth the Liturgy, and enacts,
that no form or order of Common Prayer be openly
used other than what is prescribed or appointed to be
used in and by the said Book, it is notwithstanding pro-
vided, that in all those Prayers, Litanies, and Collects
which do anywise relate to the King, Queen, or Royal
Progeny, the names be altered and changed from time
to time, and fitted to the present occasion, according to
direction of lawful authority : her Majesty was pleased
Ws day in Council to declare her Royal will and plea-
slue, that in all the Prayers, Litanies, and Collects for
the Royal Family, the words " The Prince of Wales"
be inserted immediately after the words " The Prince
Albert."

And her Majesty doth strictly charge and command,
that no edition of the Common Prayer be from henceforth
printed but with this amendment; and that in the meantime,
till copies of such edition may be had, all Parsons, Vicars,
and Curates, within this realm do (for the preventing of
mistakes), with the pen, correct and amend all such Prayers
in their Church Books, according to the foregoing direc-
tions: And for the better notice hereof, that this Order be
forthwith printed and published, and sent to the several
parishes ; and that the Right Reverend the Bishops do
take care that obedience be paid to the same accordingly.
WM. L. BATHURST.