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London, England, 1846-01-13 00:00:00

BUCK V. BOUCHER.

This was a petition on t :e part of the defendant,
praying that a sum of 2531. in Court to the credit of this
case should be invested in the purchase of Bank Three
per Cent. Annuities ; and that a sumiof 90/. 16s. Bd.,
interest on the said sum, should also be similarly dis-
posed of. 'The sum claimed was the reside' of property
to which the petitiuntr bad become entitled by the will
of the testator.
The case was ordered to stand over.
POOLE V. POOLE.

This was an application for an order to direct the
Master to tax costs.
It appeared that the plaintiffs were three out of five
ci.ilclren of the testator, Mr. Jeremiah Poole, and that
the defendants were the other two children. The testator
had given his estates to his brother, in trust for his
chldren till the youngest should have attained
her majority, when he directed that they should be sold,
and the money divided equally between his wife and
children. A decree had been obtained in the case, and
the matter was eventually referred to the Master. Costs
had been übsequently incurred, and the object of the
application was to have the same taxed.—The order was
granted.
The remaining unoppofed petitions on the list were
then proceeded with, none of which possessed a particle
of public int( rest.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY,).

.(13etore the VICE CHANCELLOR Of ENGLAND.)

His Honour the Vice-Chancellor of England, after
disposing of the unopposed cause petitions on Isis paper,
proceeded to give judgment in the case of

DAVIS V. COMBERMERE.

This case came before the Court previous to the
Christmas recess, upon the petition of Mr. Davis and
Mr. Fitzpatrick, the two surviving trustees of the late
Mr. Fulke Greville, praying that the Court would order
the Master to allow them to appear before him, and
watch the proceedings in his office with reference to the
sale of certain property belonging► to the testator in the
cause. It appeared from the statements of his Honour
that the testator, Mr. Fulke Greville, devised all his
real estates to three trustees upon certai❑ trusts, that
one of those trustees was dead, and that the plaintiff;
Mr. Davis, and another g' ntleman, named Fitzpatrick,
were the two surviving trustees, and also executors of
the will of the decased. They fi!ed their bill for the
purpose of having the provisions of the will executed,
and a bill had been also filed by Mr. Fulke Greville, the
sone of the deceased, for the same purpose. When the
case came before the Court, one decree was pronounced
in both causes, and the plaintiff in the second cause was
ordered to have the carriage of the decree. By that
decree it was directed by the Court that certain pro
perty belonging to the testator should be sold, and ac-
counts were also directed to be taken before the Master. To
carry these orders into effect, it was necessary thatcertain
parties should attend before the Master, and the trustees
submitted that they were entitled to perform that duty.
The Master decided against their claim, and the result
was the presentation of this petition. His Honour, after
going into the case at some length, stated his opinion to
be that the trustees were entitled to attend before the
Master when the question was with reference to the
purchase of estates, but where they were to be sold the
trustees were not necessary parties before the Master.
The result of his Honour's decision was to dismiss the
petition of the trustees, but without costs.

THE DUKE OF BEAUFORT V. SIR JOHN MORRIS-
JUDGMENT.

His ElONoun also gave jndgment on this motion, which
was argued previous to the Christmas recess, upon an
application on behalf of the noble plaintiff for an
injunction to restrain the defendants from working
coal mines in Wales in the manner in which
they were doing, on the ground of great injury to the
mines cf the plaintiff. ,
His HONOUR declined granting the injunction on the
extended form asked by the notice of motion, but ordered
an injunction to issue, restraining the defendants from
working their collieries in a manner that was calculated
to injure the mines of the plaintiff.
The Court then proceeded to hear motions.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
BILLING V. WEBB (exceptions).
BILLING V. WEBB (further directions).
His HONOUR, in giving judgment, did not allow or
overrule any of the exceptions, and declared upon the
exceptions and further directions, that there was no
personal estate, that the real estate should be sold for
the payment of debts, and that there were no debts due
to or from Trendal or Alloway.

All costs whatever were reserved.

PIERCE V. FRANKS.

The plaintiff, successor to the Messrs. Smyths, Bond-
street, obtained an injunction against defendant, who is
a brush-maker in Southwark, to restrain him from
stamping his brushes with " Smyths, Bond-street," a
mark which, in so far as it affects the sale of the goods,
is the private property of Mr. Pierce. The cause was
heard to day, and his Honour, without hesitation,
granted a perpetual injunction in terms of the bill, and
gave costs to the plaintiff; except so far, if at all, the
costs had been affected by an allegation in the bill that
the defendant, in addition to the words" Smyths, Bond-
street," had used the private marks of the plaintiff, which
was left unsupported by evidence. Whatever expenses
had been incurred in eons( quenee of this was to be re-
funded to the defendant by Mr. Pierce.
(Before Vice Chancellor WiGnAm.)
THORNHILL V. DYER.

His HoNoun delivered judgment to-day on the excep-
tions taken by the defendants on the original bill. That
bill was filed to recover 4,000/. on the estates of Mr.
Thornhill, alleged t. have been placed in Mr. Thorn-
hill's hands in trust. The defendants on this filed a
cross bill for discovery, and an answer was put in, to
which the plaintiffs in the cross bill took exceptions.
The Master's finding on these exceptions was that all
ere bad, and that the costs of them should be paid by
the plaintiffs in the cross bill. They took exceptions to
this finding in both its divisions ; first, that all the ex-
ceptions were n, t bad ; and second, that the defendants
should pay the costs. His Honour allowed the first of
these general exceptions to the Master's finding, and
disallowed the second, as to the costs. After having
gone through the original exceptions, the subject of this
finding, seriatim, his Honour expressed his hope that
parties would nut proceed further in the same inefficient
course.

BAIL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.)
THE QUEEN V. THE TOWN COUNCIL OF THE BOROUGH
OF BOLTON.
Mr. COWLING applied for a rule to show cause why
a mandamus should not issue commanding the town
council of the borough of Bolton to pay to the treasurer
for the county of Lancashire the sum of 857/. 1 Is. 3d.,
and also the sum of 793/. 195., as their share of the ex-
penses of the county. The Learned Counsel stated that
the borough of Bolton, in the county of Lancashire, had
by a recent Act received the right of appointing a
coroner and holding a quarter sessions. By the 117th
secti ,n of Will. IV., chap. 76, it was enacted that the
treasurer for the county should keep an account of all
expenses incurred by any borough which had the right
of n a holdingls,or thea
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afterwards deduct such expenses from the sum at which
the borough was rated for the expenses of the county.
There could he no doubt that the borough of Bolton'
carve expressly under this regulation, and accordingly,
on the 24th of November, 1843, the county treasurer had
sent his account up to the 24th of June in th' same
year, with a request that the town council would make
an order for the payment of it. The town council made
an orr,denwhich was presented to their trea-
r, accordingly,suread thatgentleman declared his perfect willingness
to liquidate the amount, but that he had not the funds to
do so in his possession. This fact was stated to the town
council, with a request that they would make a borough
rate to pay it, but, in consequence of no such step being
taken, an application to this Court was considered
necessary. He (Mr. Cowling) considered the case a very
proper one for a rule.—The rule was granted.
IN RE RICHARDSON.
Sergeant MANNING moved for a rule to strike an at-
torney off the rolls under the following circumstances.
It appeared that on the 25th of July, 1837, a Mr. John
Richardson died intestate. His widow, Sarah, within
three months of his decease applied to a certain attorney
living near Woolwich, to obtain for her letters of ad-
ministration, and for that purpose she gave him Si. She
was accompanied by a Mr. Peck, the obligor to the
widow, and she took the necessary oaths befor the surro-
gate. As the day on which this proceeding took place was
market day, Mr. A. 8., the attorney requested them to at-
tend upon the secretary on the Friday following for the
purpose of completing them. They accordingly attended
at the time and place indicated by A. 8., and were in-
formed by him that he had obtained the letter of adrni-
ni,tration, but had left them at Norwich. On their
applying on a subsequent occasion, another excuse was
offered, and alter more than 100 applications it was dis-
covered that no letters of administration had been taken
out at all.—The rule granted.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
CASTLEMAN V. CAPPED..

This was an action brought to recover 1,000/. on a
policy of insurance effected upon the ship Alarm, with
the Marine Insurance Company, of which the defendant
was the underwriter. The case was tried before the
Lord Chief Baron, at the recent sittings in London,
when it was proved that the plaintiff was the mortgagee
of the brig Alarm, and with the view of possessing
himself of an additional security for the money he had
advanced upon her, which amounted to 1,0001., he in-
sured the vessel with the defendant's company. The
brig at the time was engaged in the coasting trade of
South America, and substquently to the comp.etion of
the policy of insurance she received some very material
injuries while performing a voyage between Monte
Video and Paraguay, which ultimately led to her con-
demnation by two of her Majesty's naval officers, who
happened to be cruising off the former port, and the
plaintiff brought the present action to recover the whole
amount of the policy he had effected upon her. For the
defence it was contended that the injuries the vessel had
received were not of such a nature as to justify her con•
demnation, and the defendant therefore refused to pay
more than half the insurance money, alleging that the
vessel might have been amply and properly repaired for
that amount. Eventually, however, the jury found a

verdict for the plaintiff, awarding him the full amount he
claimed.

Mr. JERI'IS now moved for a rule nisi, to show cause
why that verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial
had on the ground that the ve,sel was not properly
surveyed before condemnation. It was admitted, the
Learned Counsel said, by the plaintiff's witness, that the
copper of the ve.•.sel was not taken off, and consequently
the injuries she had received beneath the copper was all
matter of conjecture, and could not be ascerta►ned with
any degree of certainty. He contended, therefore, that
due and proper care had not been exercised in the exa•
mination, and hoped the Court would grant him the rule
for which he prayed.
The LORD CHIEF BARON—Take a rule to show cause.

CALLOR AND ANOTHER, V. LYON.

This was an action of assumpsit brought to recover
the sum of 501., the amount of a promissory note given
by the defendant to the plaintiffs, who were the trustees
of the Metropolitan Loan Society. The case was tried
at the Middlesex sittings after term, when it was elicited
that the defendant was the security of a man named
Morris, who had borrowed from the Loan Society the
sum involved in the action, and a verdict was returned
for the plaintiffs for the full amount claimed.

Mr. PEARSON now moved for a rule nisi to show cause
why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial
had on the ground that the note was obtained by fraud,
inasmuch as the rules of the Society differed from the
terms of the note, and the defendant, when he signed
the note, was in a state of intoxication.
The LORD CHIEF BARON said the constitution of loan
sociuties was so well known, that the defe dant could
hardly have been mistaken as to the nature of the note,
and he must have signed it with his eyes open. The
finding of the jury was therefore correct, and the rule
must be refused.—Mule refusee, accordingly.

AGRICULTURAL MEETING AT
WILLIS'S ROOMS.
Yesterday, at the above-mentioned rooms, some two
or three hundred persons assembled, consisting of mem--
hers of the Central Agricultural Society. His Grace
' the Duke of Richmond, President of the Association,
' took the chair shortly after one o'clock. Several dele-
gates from all quarters of the country were present, and
among the noblemen and gentlemen on the platform
were--The Duke of Buckingham, Lord Sondes, Lord
Beaumont, Viscount Ossulston, General Sir J. Cock-
burn, Mr. Miles, M.P., &c.
The CHAIRMAN, in opening the business of the day,
said, it was not necessary for him to detail to them at
any length the opinions which he entertained on the
subject of the corn-laws. He had often enjoyed op-
portunities of laying these opinions before his fellow-
countrymen, and it was not his practice to retract
opinions which he had once deliberately and pub-
licly expressed. But, though it was not necessary for
him to enter into any discussion of the general merits
of the corn. laws, he nevertheless thought it abso-
lutely necessary for him to say a word or two for
the purpose of explaining shortly the reasons which
rendered it necessary to call the present meeting. Of
course, they all knew as well as he did that no person in
that room possessed the least means of knowing what
were the intentions of the Queen's Government with
reference to the corn-laws. No man out of the Cabinet
could say what the measures were which the Ministers
intended to submit to Parliament ; the general impres-
sive, however, was, that those measures would involve
an infringement of the great principle of protection—that
principle which it was the main object of their associa-
tion to promote and defend. He lamented to say that
there was too good reason to apprehend the dangerous
tendency which the policy of Ministers had recently
assumed. He feared that the great principle of protection
was now to be departed from, but why that principle was
to be abandoned no man now present could answer.
Some people thought, but that was a considerable time
ago, that the panic respectingfamine might not have been
without its influence in exciting the fears and warping
the judgment of her Majesty's Ministers ; but recent
events had proved that all the fears respecting famine
were utterly without foundation; and yet, though nothing
could be more baseless than such a ground for attacking
the corn laws, the agricultural interest were to be sacri
ficed—and sacrificed, he would ask, to what ?—to the
money of the Anti-Corn-law League. The gentle-
men of the League told the Government and the Legis-
lature, " Give us just thus much, and we shall be satis-
fied. Let us only be permitted to succeed to this small
and limited extent, and with that small amount of good
fortune ice shall be, and for ever remain, perfectly satis-
fied." He would ask any Englishman with any preten-
sion to common sense, and with the least imaginable
amount of political experience, whether there was a
shadow of probability that the gentlemen of the League
would stop suddenly short after having thus taken the
first step in their progress? When was it ever known
that success among politicians pr-oduced moderation?—
(Loud cheers.) The gentlemen of the League began by
assailing the corn-laws ; their next step, of course,
would be to assail every species of protection, and to
establish free trade in the most unlimited sense of the
word, the ultimate end being to create a democratic
ascendancy in every part of England. They knew per-
fectly well that the yeomanry and farmers of
this country constituted the strongest bulwark
of our ancient institutions. They knew that
they must destroy the landed interest before they
overturned the constitution. Was it necessary for him
to inform the meeting then assembled of the means by
which the gentlemen of the League intended to effect
these objects? Was it necessary to repeat that which
had been published by every newspaper throughout the
kingdom, namely—the intention of the League to use
the ample funds at their command for the purpose of
corrupting the constituencies of England ? If the
League had combined fur such a purpose as that, was it
not fair for other men to associate in order to counteract
designs which were not only unconstitutional, but self.
evidently unjust?—(Hear, hear.) By one of the rules
of the Agricultural Society, that association was dis-
abled from interfering, in any respect, with the business
of the registration courts; looking, then, at the condition
of the country and the conduct of the League, he took
upon himself fearlessly to ask that meeting whether they
were not prepared to rescind a regulation which disabled
them from meeting their adversaries upon equal terms?
—(Loud and continued cheering.) He would ask them
if they. did not think the time had at length arrived
when it became their duty to enter the registration
courts with as bold a front as their enemies ? The
gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League boasted openly
that they were determined to carry the county elec-
tions of England by fabricated votes. This threat, he
doubted not, they would endeavour to execute to the
utmost extent of the neeans at their disposal ; but he
himself had no reason to fear their influence in that part
of the country with which he was more immediately
connected. The men of West Sussex might defy the
Anti-Corn-law League.—(Hear.) The farmers of West
Sussex were not made of such slippery materials as to
change their tone at the bidding of the Anti-Corn-law
League.—(Loud cheers.) They were not made of the
same slippery materials as those who, elsewhere, were
prepared to act upon the suggestions of Mr. Cobden.—
(Renewed cheers.) They had raised their standard for
agricultural rights, and he felt convinced that nothing ,
would induce them to lower that flag, and his entire per-
suasion was, that to a man they would adopt for their '
motto, "No compromise and no surrender." He doubted
not that every man felt as he did, that the protection
that agriculture had hitherto enjoyed was a protection
not alone operating for the benefit of the landed interests
themselves, but for the evident advantage of native in-
dustry in all its branches. Having thus shortly stated
to the meeting that the principal object for which they
were assembled was to alter that portion of the rules
which exclude d them from the registration courts, he
should now call on Lerd Beaumont to move the first re-
solution.—(Hear.)
Lord BEAUMONT said a crisis of the most alarming
kind had arrived. Those who, in times past, had
strenuously maintained the corn-laws seemed now dis-
posed to abandon for ever the agricultural interest. At '
such a crisis, therefore, as the present it behoved men to
come forward and support the opinion which they con-
scientiously entertained. He fearlessly avowed himself
a friend to protection. When he talked of protection, he
never meant a system which would have a tendency to
diminish the supply of food, or to increase its price. If
it had such tendencies he did not hesitate to say that all
idea of protection should be abandoned. It was be-
cause he believed the contrary that he raised his voice
in support cf the existing corn-laws, and it was because
he believed the contrary that he should still exert the
small influence which he possessed to maintain those
corn-laws, and it was fur that reason that he should
call on every one then present to go and do likewise.
To his mind nothing was more evident than that if free
trade were established, there must be a general revision
of all taxation ; that there must be also a general revi-
sion of all the local burdens that pressed upon land, and
which burdens were considered to contain a compen-
sating principle for that which was called the evil of the
corn laws. He did not believe in the utility, or even the
existence of such a compensating principle ; but it was
quite evident that an alteration of the corn• laws involved
an extensive revolution, and in that change what was to
become:of the poor? From various quarters of the country
they were told that the masses demanded a removal of
restriction, but he confessed he saw no foundation for
those statements. He saw no ground for thinking that
the people of England were so full of the idea of free trade
as the gentlemen of the Anti-Corn-law League thought
proper to represent them. The Noble Lord concluded
by moving the first resolution, in the following terms:—
" That protection against foreign competition is abso.
lutely necessary to the productive classes of this country,
and that the removal or diminution of the protection now
afforded to the agricultural classes will be followed by
the removal or diminution of every protective duty im-
posed for the benefit of the home or colonial producers."
Mr. CierasTomnit, M.P., in seconding the foregoing
resolution, said, that for as long a time as we had
colonies, or very nearly so, it had been the practice of
England to give protection to those colonies at the ex-
pense of the agricultural interest, and if the main pro-
tection which those connected with land at present
enjoyed were to be removed at the dictation of the
League, surely no one would contend that the high pro-
tection which the colonies enjoyed at the expense of the
farmer should any longer be continued. In the county
which he had the honour to represent, there were thou•
sands of acres capable of growing tobacco ; now if they
removed the protection which had hitherto been enjoyed
by those who grew wheat, they ought to remove any
impediment to the free cultivation of tobacco. Ile
did not very precisely know what was intended, but he
was sure every one would feel it to be rather a sus-
picious circumstance that a Ministry which had been
placed in office by the agriculturists had just recently
allowed themselves to resign the seals of office into the
hands of a Noble Lord who was known to be adverse to
agricultural protection. Now he thought that that fact,
if it stood perfectly alone, would fully justify him in
apprehending that further attacks upon the agricultural
interest were intended. They enjoyed a certain amount
of protection at this moment, and he should never
consent to surrender one jot or tittle of that protection,
be the consequences what it might.
Mr. MILES, M.P., ventured to say that at the next
general election it would be felt that they (the agricul-
turalists) were the majority of the nation. But he would
recommend the various constituencies throughout the
county to demand an instant appeal to the sense of the
population, if they saw that their representatises wavered
for a single moment. It was in vain that we thought of
proceeding upon free-trade principles; every step that we
tcok to advance those principles would be met in foreign
countries by tariff after tariff, and our best laid plans
would end in disappointment and disaster. He concluded
by moving the second resolution, as follows:—" That
this meeting, being convinced of the great benefits de-
rived by all classes fr.nn the protective systetn, and being
satisfied that every branch of national industry will be
most seriously injured by the abandonment of that system,
pledges itself to use every constitutional means to support
that principle of protection under which this country has
risen to its present eminence."
Mr. T. M. GLADSTONE, amidst much cheering, rose
to second the foregoing resolution, lie began by saying
wasa
could not depart from
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that,
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manufacturer could carry his
capital and his machinery wherever a prospect of profit
presented itself. On these grounds, then, he contended
that the condition of the agriculturist was entitled to the
highest consideration.
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
Mr. BAKER contradicted the statements made in a
League, in which the steward
maintained that the protec-
ethsteates puapmenphialeotriitsspueadeibe,‘s•
protec-
tion which the agriculturists enjoyed (viz., ss. Bd.) was
too trifling to disturb the tranquillity of the nation about.
He then reverted to the following resolution, which he
OQncluded by moving ;—,6 That the foltowing words be

THE SUN LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING,, JANUARY 18, 1846

expunged from the fourth rule of the Society, viz , And
that the Soeiety shall on no account interfere in any
election for a Member to serve in Parliament.' "
The announcement of this resolution was received
with loud cheers.

The resolution having been seconded by Mr. R. SMITH,
was then put and agreed to.
Mr BALL, in a long and energetic address, directed
the attention of the meeting to the comparison of thirty
years of corn-law rule with the thirty years immediately
preceding it. He contended that no person could rise
from the investigation without a strong conviction that
the fluctuations under the corn-laws were immeasurably
less than those which prevailed in the absence of any
corn-laws. 'After alluding to the alarming influence ex-
ercised by the press and League with the view of anni-
hilating those laws, he moved the following resolu-
tion :

" That the society is most anxious to impress upon
the local protection societies the necessity of supporting,
in. the event of an election, only those candidates who
will steadily maintain the present amount of protection,
without political bias or party feeling."
Mr. EVERARD seconded the resolution, which was then
put and agreed to.
Mr. NEWbEGATE, said he was glad to see so
many men of all parties supporting the Central Protec-
tion Society. The reproach was cast upon a nation of
antiquity, that they never went to market but for the
purpose of nheating one another. Now, the agricul-
turists of England, he trusted, would never act upon
such a principle. He believed that the people of Eng-
land, in a mass, were incapable of being influenced by
such habits of thought and feeling; and our ancient law-
givers, deeply impressed as they were with the fraudu-
lent tendencies of human nature, had laid the founda-
tions of a system of jurisprudence calculated to check
those tendencies in an extraordinary degree. Upon
these foundations a superstructure of property law
was erected, which far surpassed in depth and com-
plexity the Criminal law of this country. It wasa,
system so vast that none but the mightiest intel-
lect could master it. The operation, however, of that
system upon the national character had not been
without its beneficial effects, and in the name of the
people of England he might repudiate the charge that
they never consulted any interest but their own. Let
the aristocracy look well to every step they took ; if
they once conceded a repeal of the corn-laws, then the
farmers would be thrown into the ranks of the free
traders. Notwithstanding these disheartening circum-
stances, he ventured to persuade himself that the cause
would ultimately triumph. A right and true cause was
one from which they should derive hope, no matter
what talent might be oppo.ed to them, and so long as
they had leaders like the Noble Duke in the chair, they
might confidntly go forth and encounter their oppo-
nents ; but to do this with effect, they must organise
their forces," and invite the coolest heads to their
counsels. He should now move the following resolu-
tion :—" That the General Committee of this Society
be instructed to appoint a Sub-Committee, to take into
consideration' those measures which the excision of the
latter pert of ,the 4th rule may render necessary."
Mr. HINDITCH rose to second the motion. He said
that their opponents would find that their union was
strong and indissoluble. Let them remember what they
had lost ; and let them beware how they incurred fur-
ther loss. They had been bound by the new ropes of
the cattle tariff—the green withes of the Canada Corn
Bill had fettered their limbs—but let them beware how
they laid their heads in the lap of the modern Delilah
of the House of Commons, for, so surely as they yielded
to so soft a dalliance, the Philistines of free trade would
be up and upon them.—(Laughter.)
The resolution was then put and agreed to.
Mr. WODEHOUSE, M.P , rose to move the thanks of
the meeting to his Grace the Duke of Richmond for his
readiness in taking the chair, and for the ability with
which he had conducted the business of the meeting.
Mr. ST tFFORD O'Bnxxrc seconded the vote of thanks
to the Noble Duke.

In acknowledging the vote, which was carried with
cheer upon cheer,
The Duke of Ricgmosm said it was to him always a
gratification to serve them ; but it was not in his power
to do as much as younger men, who had not had a
musket ball through their lungs.—(Cheers.) He was
requested by the Duke of Buckingham to say that he
was obliged* to leave that meeting at an early hour
through important business calling him to the country,
but that he cordially acquiesced in every one of the
resolutions, and was determined to stand to the last by
the flag of " protection"—(Cheers) ; the Duke of
Buckingham had desired this to be mentioned, but was
there a farmer in England who would not have felt cer-
tain that the Duke of Buckingham would not abandon
his position ?—(Loud cheers.) Mr. Ball had asked
what the aristocracy would do in the present crisis ? he
(the Duke of Richmond) could not answer for the aris-
tocracy, but be hoped and trusted they would never fail
to remember the lines of one of our poets :
" Constant still in danger's hour,
Princes own'd our fathers' aid ;
Wealth and power
Well their loyalty repaid.
" Perish wealth, and power, and pride,
Mortal boons by mortals given;
But let constancy abide,
For constancy's the gift of Heaven."
He believed it was necessary that this country should
have an aristocracy—(Cheers)—and he felt that it was
their duty to come forward and support men whom they
knew to be in the right, fearless of all consequences. If
the aristocracy do not do so, he should not be surprised
if the middle classes despised them, and, in that case,
these had too' much English blood flowing through their
veins to follow the aristocracy.—(Cheers.) He consi-
dered protection to agriculture absolutely necessary.
He agreed with all that had been stated there that day.
He believed that the home manufacturer for the home
market was ideeply interested in protection. If the
farmer's interest was destroyed, what would become
of that class of our manufacturing population—the
most respectable manufacturers, those engaged for the
home market? Why they would tall in the same ruin
with themselves (the agriculturists). This was no class
or party question, but a question whether England chose
to be degraded into the lowest scale of nations, and to be
laughed at by foreigners, who were much wiser than
ourselves, because they took care to protect their native
industry by ;their laws.—(Cheers.) He must entreat
them not to slumber when they returned to their
counties. True, the battle was to be fought in the house
of Commons and he hoped—but it was impossible in
these days to know to whom they could trust—(Cheers)
—that they were sure of victory ; but let them be pre-
pared what to do in case of defeat. Let an appeal,
however, be ,made to the people of England, and he
would answer for it the corn-laws would never be
destroyed.—(Great cheering.)
The meeting then broke up, after giving cheers for
Lord Beaumont and Mr. Gladstone.

OCCASIONAL SKETCHES—HERE
AND THERE.
No. VII.

SOME PUBLIC (HOUSE) PORTRAITS "HERE.'
One damp, dull, drizzling, dreary day (there's allitera-
tion for those who are fond of it), in the early part of
last November. I landed near Liverpool, after an absence
of two years from this country. It was a thoroughly
English day, and from the " wet-blanket" looking sky
large rain drops came down with a dull heavy plash
upon the sloppy ground. The wind and tide had pre-
vented the vessel from getting nearer than ten miles, or
thereabouts, to Liverpool, and so, rather than lie in the
river, almost within sight of port, for a dczen hours,
myself and the captain landed in a boat at Formby
Point, and after having tramped wearily over the long
barren sands, on reaching the little inn found, to our
mortification, that the omnibus had left for Liverpool
just three minutes before.
After having been so long from home, old accustomed
things looked rather strange. Whilst we were waiting
for a cab to be got ready, I sat down in the small parlour
of the small inn. There was no mistaking the English-
ness of everything pertaining to it and about it. A por-
traq of the Queen, so unlike, that I knew directly who
it was meant for, hung on the wall, which was covered
with flaring red paper of a zigzag pattern, which it made
one giddy to look at. A very gaudy ship, on a very
brilliant blue sea, with an inflammatory mountain in an
alarming state of eruption in the background, decorated
the chiinneppiece ; and portraits of " jolly sailors,"
in wild ecstasies, jumping out of boats, and "capering
ashore," with purses filled at both ends in their hands,
and bundles slung upon sticks, which they jauntily
threw over their left shoulders ; and of despairing and
departing mariners, with the forefingers of their right
hands pointing to ships in full sail in the distance, their
left arms encircling the waists of weeping wives or sen-
sitive sweethearts, were displayed on all sides of the
apartment. Then there were stuffed birds and dried
snake skins ; and pieces of dingy coral, and branches of
sea-weed, like the bottoms of old sieves, disposed weep-
ing-willow fashion over the frames of these pictures, to-
gether with walking-sticks, some of glass, and others,
curiously contrived out of the back bones of voracious
fishes ; and all these " curiosities " had cheerful and
comfortable associates in the shapes of rosy-faced, pot-
bellied gentlemen in the prime of life, who were repre-
sented as in the act of blowing the froth from off the
edges of gigantic pots of porter ; or of smoking with in-
finite relish " Dutch-cut, ' from pipes a yard long at
the least.

An omnibus cad was the sole occupant of the parlour
wll,ll we entered that tobacco and Burton-flavoured
h,catity. This gentleman was busily engaged in teasing
a wiry snappish little terrier, by sportively flinging at
him a crumpled copy of Bell's Life, and the making
the cur unwillingly bring it back. Occasionally he re-
laxed in his attentions to the dog, and diverted himself
by plunging his nose very deeply into the recesses
of a pot of half-and-half, the traces of whose
travels were to be seen on the cross-legged table,
in the shape of half-dried, sticky rings of partially-
evaporated infusion of malt and hops. The frequent
visits of his lips and nose to the pewter tankard were
alternated by tremendous attacks on a plateful of what
the landlady termed " sandwidges," and which appeared
to be an ingenious compound of dirt, bread, butter, mus-
tard, and meat. Such a " cad" could have been met with
nowhere else than in England. As for his person and
dress, just imagine a lump of expressionless flesh,
wrapped carelessly in a suit of dingy fustian, with a
sealskin cap at one end, and a pair of " high-lows" at
the other, and you have a description as near as I can
give it.

- But the landlady !—decorated with the smartest of
smart caps, with showy ribbons fluttering like streamers
as she moved briskly about—her trim figure attired
in a remarkably gay mousseline-de-laine dress—and
her clear, sharp voice, ringing like a bell through
the house, and never stopping its clapper for a mi-
nute she was a sight, after having stared
at nothing but the stewardess and salt water for the
last twenty days. How she curtseyed as we entered
the hostelry ; and how, when she learned that Captain
C had just arrived, did she narrate wonderful sto-
ries, quite as strange, or stranger than fictions, of ship-
wrecks s‘ Ilia had occurred on the sands right before
her own doors. Then she was on intimate and familiar
terms with all the captains who came to Liverpool—she
bras ; for they came down to " Waterloo" in the sum-
mer-time with their wives, and " used" her house.
Such nice gentlemen, they was, too. Very ♦oluble was
she respecting the cheerful and snug dinners she had
cooked for little parties, and could cook again, if needs
be. " Fur her own part," she said, " she liked captins
—they was such gentlemanly men —'specially 'Merican
captins ; and the mates (she looked interrogatively at
me) they were so genteel." On she went, never stopping;
so to give my ears a little rest, I ordered a bottle of
lemonade, and by the time I Lad disposed of it the cab
drove to the door.

"Ah ! gentlemen," said the landlady, slyly, " you
should have been here an hour ago, and gone up with
some ladics' maids as left this morning. Wouldn't they
have liked y our company ? The women (a sigh) is so
fond of sailors, somehow. My poor man was a sailor--
but—"

" He's better off, ma'am, I hope," said I, as the car-
riage drove off—the brisk widow, at the instant of our
departure, having thrust a hugh ngravt d card into my
hands, with a hope that we should call again.
We soon entered Liverpool. There it was, just as I
had left it two years before—dark and dirty (they say
it always rains in Liverpool). As we drove along, lofty
stone warehouses, many stories high, frowned on us
from grated windows and double-barred iron doors.
Ponderous carriages, with broad wheels, drawn
by gigantic horses, and driven by mighty dray-
men, threatened every instant to crush our frail
vehicle. From the main street through which we
were driving, long narrow thoroughfares diverged on the
right and let hands, at every corner of which was a
flaunting gin palace, and gazing down the dim avenues
was to be seen a long perspective of pawnbrokers' bads.
Passing the docks, the captain quitted me for the pur-
pose of going to his agents, and I drove to the Waterloo
Hotel.

I experienced a strange, undefinable sensation, at
once more being in England, for I had never before been
away from it longer than a month. It was not, I fear,
a particularly patriotic feeling, nor a comfortable hugging
of the idea that England was the only place in the world
to be happy in. A residence in another country had for
me, at least, exploded the popular fallacy that comfort
had any particular local habitation, and was to be found
nowhere else. I suspect that the blandness which came
over me arose from a gradual sliding into the naturalness
of old familiar things. As I stood before the bright
blazing fire in the coffee-room, before which heaps of
plates were warming up, looked on the sleek, snug
waiters, heard the short, sharp, ready " Yes, Sir," gazed
on the brilliant barmaid, and beheld " Beets," and more
than all, when The Sun of that very morning was placed
in my hand, it appeared to me as if I had just awoke
from a night's sleep, and that the beautiful country I
had so recently quitted—the lakes, the falls, the rivers,
the forests, the sparkling houses, and the pretty women,
had never in reality existed, but had only been seen by
me in some pleasant dream. Let me touch off the waiter
who is just now amazingly busy in moving things out of
their places for the sake of replacing them. He is a
young man belonging to the " nice" genus, of some three
or four and twenty years of ago ; and if you did
not see a snow-white napkin under his arm, you
would take him for the probationary pastor of
a genteel country-town Dissenting congregation. He
has a very serious cast of countenance, and his hair is
brushed and combed into the most approved pious pro-
priety. Round his neck is a faultlessly-tied white cravat,
and so tight is it, that when he has to turn his head, the
latter rotates not on the second curvical vertebra, but his
whole body semi-revolves on the heels of his highly
polished pumps, between which and the edge of his
pantaloons silken hose are displayed. His half-open
vest displays a shirt-front of amazing fineness, and a
small black brooch, most probably the souvenir of some
lady's maid. His movements are rapid and noiseless,
and his voice low and gentle. Sometimes, in his over-
anxiety to serve you, he gently slides to your table, and
asks, " Did you call, Sir ?" but if you do call, he seldom
hears your summons. He has little respect for commonet
waiters at common inns, and regards those at mere a
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ance ; but for boots, he owns to sentiments of the pro-
foundest contempt, As for the porter, he is a yahoo.
Such is the coffee- room waiter. And now, as a com-
panion sketch, let me try the barmaid.
Ah ! I ought to depict her lineaments with a lady's
golden pen, on embossed and perfumed paper. Reader
just step with me into her slneturn sanctorum—the " Bar."
It is a large apartment, glazed on all sides, garnished
with decanters, tumblers, wine-glasses, sugar-tongs, tea-
spoons by the dozen in rummers, squeezers, nutmee
graters, spices, and lemonthsid.el,e,blnanromtwha,e centre of the roo—m.
tishiamtbalbeleLodnsweihssicehrsliaesre needlework ; her
three times, and boots is nowhiedfroesr.'Noioso6khaats her
how daintily she is dressed in a neat morning- gown and
cap of open net work, which has killed off many a
commercial." Did you ever see a prettier figure ?
As her tiny feet go pit-pat-tap-tap over the flooreloth,
looking, as some old poet quaintly says, like mice peep-
ing in and out, one almost forgets to gaze on her face,
which is so sweet in expression, that the young man
with ferretty eyes, who stands with his back to the fire,
says, with great originality, if she looks into a jug of
punch very little sugar is required. And, she has such a
neat way of handling everything ; and when she sits down
to write in the bar-book, or to make out a bill, she holds
the pen so gracefully, that you cannot help being curious
as to her caligraphy, which, delicate and angular,
amazingly resembles those specimens we see in cases at
the doors of private lodgings, which consist of a miser-
able scrawl, contrasted with zigzag characters, purporting
to be " a specimen of my hand-writing after taking six
lessons of Mr. ----." She is, of course, a favourite ;
and so, many a gentleman brings her, every morning,
bouquets, which you may see all about the room. Unlike
the genteel waiter, the barmaid is very courteous, though
somewhat distant, to all the under-servants, who address
her as " Miss ;" yet she exacts respect ; and no one—
no, not even the flashy gentleman who goes so far as to
call her by her Christian name—would dare to take a
liberty with her. She is unkissable. The very master
of the house, who has a snug chair for himself in the
bar, looks at her with deference. And there she is all
day long, smiling and simpering, from early in the
morning until late at night, working and coquetting,
tripping hither and thither, always doing something,
and never for a minute idle, with the pleasant look and
the civil word for everybody—and that is the barmaid.
The chambermaid is come to " show the gentlem au
into 49." As we follow her up stairs,
of both corners of our eyes at her, and sketewmz.
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The Marquis of Anglesea is, we hear, indisposed
at Beaudesert

THE RECENT RAILWAY ACCI

DENT IN THE ISLE O' THANET.

On Saturday last an inquest was held before T. T.
Lesaux, li .sq Coroner for the eastern division of the
county of Kent, at the Five Bells public house, in the
village of Minster, Isle of Thanet, on the body of James
Hollands, a young man who met with his death on the
works of the tarnsaate, Canterbury, and London Railway:.
The Coroner and jury proceeded together to view the.
place where the accident occurred. It is near the ut—
most point to which the works have proceeded, and
where the ballast waggons are turned over and the con-
tents thrown out to make the base upon which the rails
are to be laid.

John Monckton, labourer, was the first witness
called. Ile deposed that on Thursday last he was on a
ballast waggon with deceased, near the tip end of the
line. By the " tip end," witness meant the point
where the waggons were tipped over and the con-
tents thrown out. This was on the extension line
of the South-Eastern Railway, between the villages
of Sarre and Minster. There were eight waggons,
all laden with ballast and propelled by a steam-
engine. They were under the management of a person
named James Armstrong. On arriving at the tip end
the two first waggons turned over the end of the line.
Witness jumped off, but deceased was thrown to the
ground. The contents of one of the waggons fell over
him, and buried him. Witness, with others, endeavoured
to extricate deceased as soon as possible, but he was
quite dead. Two other men were also partially buried
with him. It was the duty of Armstrong to let off the
steam at the crossing, and of another person to put on
the break on the tender and waggons. There was no
alarm given that he (witness) heard.
Thomas Leach, of Minster, labourer, deposed that he
was working on the line about seven o'clock in the
morning of the day in question. There was a steam-
engine attached to the line of ballast waggons, and he
saw them between Minster and Sheriff's Court The
engine one, under the management of a driver named
Armstrong. Another man, by the name of Matthew
Gomershall, had charge of the break in the tender.
Witness did not know whether any person on the wag-
gons had charge of the breaks. There ought to have
been some one. The morning was very foggy and dark,
so that witness could not see any person on the seventh
or eighth waggon.
By the CORONER—Did you, when you saw the engine
approaching the crossing at Sheriff's-court, do all you
could to make the driver sensible of the fact ? Witness
—I did, by calling to him, and I am sure he heard me,
for he did all he could to stop the carriages, and so did
the breaksrnan. There was a decline of about one in
one hundred. The morning was frosty, and the wheels
passed more rapidly than usual over the rails.
By a juror—Deceased was completely buried beneath
the ballast. Witness did not know where they were
until they reached the crossing.
George Low, of Minster, stated that he was at work
at Fuller's-marsh, and from thence he saw the engine
Proceeding at the usual speed. The steam was turned
off by the driver about 200 yards from the " tip." One
hundred yards from the tip the decline commences. It
is a declivity of one in one hundred. Witness gave an
alarm to the men in the waggon, advising them to get off,
which several of them did. The caution would not have
been necessary if it had been an incline instead of a
decline.

Armstrong, the driver, said that the morning was so
foggy that he could not see ; and until he was upon the
crossing be was not aware of being so near the " tip."
He then shut off the steam, and Gomershall applied the
break to the wheel of the tender.

This being the whole of the evidence,
The CORONER summed up. From the foggyness of
the atmosphere, and the facts that the rails were wet
with frost and thus rendered slippery, and the decline
commencing there, the accident had undoubtedly occurred
from purely accidental causes.
Verdict accordingly. Deodand on the engine 1/.