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the attention of the House to what was desirable in this re-
spect in Ireland, he would ask that House to lock at what had
been done in the rest of Europe. In all the universities of
Spain, Italy, Austria, and other European States, there was
attached to each a department for the studies of candidates for
the legal profession, which were secured to none of the other
departments. In France, also, the most extensive provisions
had been made, in order to secure to the,legal student a most
perfect system, by which to enable him to acquire a knowledge
of the law. The Right Hon. Gentleman then read long ex-
tracts from a work he held in his hand, to show the extent

MANCHESTER, SOUTHAMPTON,
AND OXFORD JUNCTION RAILWAY.

A Special General Meeting of this Company was helsi
yesterday at the King's Arms Hotel, Bridge-street, West-
minster, at four o'clock, G. F. Muntz, Esq., M.P., in the
chair, for the purpose of considering the propriety of
dissolving the Company, and returning one half of the
deposits to the subscribers.
After the advertisement convening the meeting had
been read, Mr. Heald, the solicitor, on the requisition of
the Chairman, read a report to the meeting, which was
very lengthy, but the substance of which appears in the
course of the explanations which ensued in the course
of the meeting.
Before going into the report, it was suggested by Mr.
Cradock that the state of the several actions, both at
law and its equity, should be laid before the meeting.
Several gentlemen complained of not having received
the reports.
Colonel JentesoN said that he was little of an ac-
countant, and knew little further than to understand his
half-pay list. He thought it would be unfair to load the
Chairman and the members of the Committee with the
expenses arising out of the dirty actions brought against
them on the part of the Committee.
After some altercation, it was decided that the ques•
tion respecting the several actions should be answered.
In this reply it appeared that only six of the Committee
had been made parties to Mr. Parsons' suit in equity.
These six had put in their answers; but it was the duty
of the plaintiff to serve all the Committee, and until
these services had been made, and the answers put in,
the suit could not proceed. 1,0001. had been proffered
to the Court of Chancery, to meet Mr. Parsons' claim.
With respect to Mr. Doyle's suit, both the charge and
the replies were very lengthy, and the Master had
allowed a certain time for the purpose, which would
expire about the 21st of the present month.
Some further conversation ensued, in which several
gentlemen appeared desirous that Mr. Parsons' claim
should be settled as a preliminary measure, when
The CHAIRMAN explained that the Committee had
refused to settle this claim because in their corporate
capacity they would not do that which they would
hesitate to do individually. They were quite ready
to meet this claim in a fair way, and submit
to reference before the Court of Chancery. This, it
appeared from that gentleman's conduct, was not what he
desired. Mr. Parsons had brought an action against
him individually; that he was prepared to defend, out
of his own resources, and as the company were not to
be responsible, they of course could not interfere. Cer-
tainly he felt assured that he would rather have given a
cheque for 5001. than have had anything to do with the
concern. The object of the action, commenced by Mr.
Parsons, was to recover the loss which Mr. Parsons had
sustained upon the 2,000 shares allotted to him, al-
though the letter of allotment itself had been destroyed
by consent.
Mr. CRADOCK complained that the Committee had
taken such a small interest in the concern. Among
others, the Chairman had agreed to take a hundred
shares, but had only signed for and paid upon 25.
Some of the Committee had proposed for 400, and others
of them for 100 each, but these gentlemen had taken a
much smaller number.
The CHAIRMAN explained that he had paid upon '25
shares and was quite ready to take arid pay on the 100
shares, but the fact was that Mr. Parsons bad filed a bill in
the Court of Chancery to compel him to take up 300
shares. To this he should demur, but he was quite
ready to pay on his 100 shares as soon as Mr. Parsons
paid upon
Mr. CRADOCK Well, then, pass by the Chair-
man's case and go to that of the other directors, and read
a letter requiring the production of the letters of allot-
ment to the directors.
After some conversation the Chairman, who had fre-
quently expressed his readiness to give the minutes,
produced the minute-book, and read a statement of the
allotments to the directors, and the payments made by
the parties, by which it appeared that the reserves
and payments had been made on behalf of six of the
directors. By the rest of the provisional committee no
application had been made. On the 17th of December
it was decided that twenty shares should be the qualifi-
cation for a directorship, and that a reserve of 300
shares was made for each of the directorships.
Much confusion and angry altercation ensued, in which
it was alleged that the directors ought to have taken up
their 300 shares, but this was met by a declaration on
their part that they would take up their shares so soon
as the Bill in Chancery was removed.
A SHAREHOLDER alleged that he had lost 3s. Id. per
share on 200 shares in consequence of the directors not
having taken up their shares.
Mr. TURNER explained that out of 27,400 shares as
many as 23,443 bad been allotted to the public, and that
the capital had been reduced from 900,000/. to 600,0001.,
and that the failure of the company was owing to the
change of public opinion and net to the deficiency of
the provisional committee.
Mr. CRADOCK wished to know why the amalgamation
had not been made ?
The CHAIRMAN explained, to the effect that it was
Mr. Parsons' own objection which had prevented the
allotment of shares in the first instance, and it was only
()wing to his own determination that any allotment had
been made whatever. After the arrangement had been
made with Mr. Bethel!, it was discovered that his en-
gineering was so deficient that there was a fall of thir-
teen feet in one place, and a rise of two feet in another;
so that there was no moral possibility of getting through
the House. He had himself taken the plans to Mr.
Bethel!, and had desired him to explain. Then the
arrangement with the Andover line was made ; but
here there was a deficiency again ; and he believed
,hat if the three companies had been amalgamated, this
would have been one of the best lines in the kingdom,
and that it would yet be so. But it would have been
clearly madness to have gono into Parliament under the
circumstances, for the probability was, if they had done
so, instead of 30,000 to return to the shareholders, they
would have had nothing.
Mr. CHANCE and Mr. PAYNE, both of them directors,
declared that as soon as Mr. Parsons removed the
Chancery suit, they would pay on the remaining 75
shares.
Mr. Pococx, in answer to a question, stated that on
receiving the letter of allotment, he immediately re-
turned the letter to the secretary, and distinctly stated
lhat he would take no more than 25 shares.
A SHAREHOLDER—Then you are justified
Mr. PococK—l think so.
A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether the pay-
ments by the Committee had been made at the same time
with those of the other allottees ?
Before however this was decided upon, the secretary
was requested to read the several letters of the directors,
excepting the allotments, by which it appeared that Mr.
Chance had agreed to take 400 shares, Mr. Oliviera 400,
Colonel Ellington 400, Mr. Payne 400, Mr. Williams
425, and Lord Rossmore 425 shares; but of those only 25
shares had been paid upon.
Mr. HEALD explained, that by the reduction of the
capital to 600,0001., the shares had been reduced to
28,570 in number. Of these, it appeared that 23,560 had
been allotted, and 23,443 had been paid upon, leaving
only 5,010, and 10 shares reserved, and dividing these
by 17, the number of directors, it left 178 shares for
each of the directors, and thus set aside practically the
original allotment of 400 shares.
On further inquiries, it appeared that four of the pro-
visional committee, Mr. Coape, Mr. Fitzgerald, the Hon.
R. Gore, and Mr. Spicer, had each accepted 100 shares,
hut had paid nothing.
It was afterwards shown that the time of payment by
the allottees had been the 9th of October, and the suit
commenced by Mr. Parsons began on the 17th of De-
cember; but it 'was explained that the money paid by
the directors was advanced, not as a payment, but for
the purpose of meeting the daily expenses.
Mr. CHANCE here stated that he wished he had paid
upon the 100 shares, and that he was now ready to du so.
Another Director stated the same thing.
A SHAREHOLDER wished to know whether Mr. Tur-
ner had paid upon his 100 shares, to which that gentle-
man replied that he had never agreed to take more than
twenty-five shares.
It was then suggested by Mr. H. BLAKE that, with
a view to winding up the concern, a committee of the
shareholders should be appointed to investigate the af-
fair, with power to call for all the documents in the pos-
session of the officials of the Company. This was the
more necessary, as it appeared that the chief difficulty
arose from the ill-feeling existing between the late soli-
tor of the Company and the present officials, and he
thought that the business would be better settled in that
way, for he believed that if Mr. Parsons had been paid
the whole of his claim he would have suffered infinitely
more in his character than he would gain by any present
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This being seconded,
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that the report be received and adopted.
s placedce s s
Mr.
gwas,
HEALD said that this motion could not be enter-
tained,
been advertised.
After some conversation,
only the original shareholders
mnteid, for no subject could be mooted which had not
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Mr. HEALD stated that
but this the
the assentors and dissentients might sign ;
'refused, and the adoption was ultimately
meeting
could be allowed to vote, and a paper was prepared which
car-
ried unanimously.
A resolution was then passed to the effect that a
guinea per share should be returned to the shareholders
on the production of scrip, but considerable difference
ensued as to whether a release should on this payment
be granted to the directors for all their past acts, and it
was ultimately decided that as the fund to be distributed
was 30,0001., and the amount to be distributed was only
20 0001., that such a release would be improper, and Mr.
Chance thought that on this point, the solicitor would
yield.
Mr. R. SPOONER, M.P., was quite ready to meet the
shareholders, and act as candidly by them as the dire c-
tors had acted. If there was any charge to make
against the directors alter the money was paid, he
trusted that it would be brought forward now.—(llear.)
The business mode of doing the thing was to give a
receipt on the payment of the money.
Further conversation then ensued respecting stamping
the scrip, as had been done in the case of the Rugby,
Derby, and Manchester Company, and at last it was
settled that a receipt should be given on the payment of
the dividend, and that the payment should commence
within fourteen days from the present day.
Mr. BLAKE desired to press his motion that a Com-
mittee of shareholders should -be'-fotinecl, but it was
decided that the business of the Meeting was concluded,
and thanks were voted to the ClmitMan, an d the meet-

to which the Governments of America and other countries

have gone, in order to secure to the lawsagent a most com-
prehensive education ; and instanced the number of colleges
and institutions in those countries to which a faculty for law-
study was attached. He also read extracts from the opinions
of Judge Storey, and other learned lawyers, to the effect
that it was mist desirable and important that
every public college should have a law faculty
attached to it. He next instanced the opinion of Car-
dinal Wolsey upon this subject, who complained of the gross
ignorance of the lawyers of his day, and in consequence
attempted the establishment of a Law College, which could
still be pointed at as illustrative of the great conceptions of his
mind. He then referred to more recent dates, and called the
attention of the House to the report of the Committee of the
Middle Temple upon the defective state of legal education,
some extracts from which he read. He did not mention these
circumstances with reference to the motion he was about to
submit to the House, as that motion related to Ireland alone,
but as a preliminary observation on the motion he was about
to submit. He would now turn to the case of Ireland. In the
year 1839, an institution was established in Ireland, called the
Law Institution, and founded by a gentleman of great public
spirit, and well known at the bar of Ireland. The person to
whom he referred was Mr. Kennedy, the principal of the insti-
tution. In 1840, the lords justices of Ireland wished that it
should receive an endowment, and the benchers of King's Inn,
granted it an income of 4001. per annum. That grant was in
the year following withdrawn. Very large revenues had been
received by the benchers of King's Inn, and he (Mr. Wyse)
thought that those funds should be applied to the endowment of
law institutes. Such institution would be eminently useful in
forwarding* systematic course of legal education, and would be of
very considerable service to the bar and to the country. He
felt he had trespassed too much on the time of the House in
reference to this matter, but he felt so much that he was sure
he should be pardoned for saying a few words more. As schools
of theology and medicine had been established in Dublin, why
should not a school of law? That would make lawyers con-
versant with the theory and practice of their profession, and
would render them as able jurists as those of other countries.
Let them by such a system put men upon the bench who would
show by their administration of justice that these was not one
law for the rich and another for the poor. Such a system, and
such unprejudiced judges, would be of permanent advantage to
the country.—( Hear, hear.)
On the motion of an Hors, MEURER, the House was"counted,
and there not being forty Members present, the House ad-
journed until Twelve o'clock to-morrow (this dal ).

THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS WERE PRESENT WHEN THE
HOUSE WAS COUNTED OUT LAST NIGHT, ON THE MO-
TION OF THE HON. W. E. LAW:—
Graham, Sir James Scrope, G. P. Duke, Sir James
Peel, Sir Robert Moffatt, George Trelawny, J. S.
The Lord Advocate O'Brien, Smith Warburton, Henry
Goulburn, Henry O'Brien, John Sibthorn, Colonel
Salidon, 'Viscount Kelly, James Powell, Caleb
Hume, Joseph Fitzgerald, Mr. Borthwick, P.
Douglas, Sir C. Somerville, Sir W. M`Donnell, J. M.
Bentinck, Lord G. Cobden, It. O'Brien, T.
Rawdon, Colonel Maher, Mr. Clayton, It. H.
Thornely, Thomas

ROYAL ARTILLERY.
Deputy Adjutant-General's-office, Woolwich,
April 4, 1846.
GENERAL ORDER.
Lieutenant-General Lord Bloomfield, G.C.8., and G.C.H.
having resigned the command at Woolwich, the blaster•
General has appointed Major-General Sir Thomas Downman
C.B. and K.C.H., to succeed his Lordship; the appointment
commencing April 1, 1846.
(Signed)

H. D. ROSS,
Deputy Adjutant-General.
GARRISON ORDER BY LIEUTENANT• GENERAL LORD BLOOM

FIELD, G.C.B. AND G.C.H.
Woomvtctr, APEIL 4, 1846.—The Master-General of the
Ordnance has been pleased to accept his Lordship's resigna-
tion of the command of the garrison, and the Lieutenant-
General cannot close his active duties with the corps in
which he has had the honour and happiness of serving for
sixty-five years, without expressing his grateful thanks to
his comrades of all ranks, and to the garrison staff in parti-
cular, for the unwearied zeal and good feeling with which
they have supported him and enabled him to carry on the
duties of this important garrison during the eight years be
has had the command of the head-quarters of the Royal
Regiment of Artillery.
The Lieutenant-General is also much indebted to the
officer commanding the Royal Engineers and the Royal Ma-
rines, and to the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men
of these corps for their steady assistance and soldier-like
conduct, and he begs to assure them he will ever feel the
high opinion of these services that it has so often ben his
duty to report.

ON DRAINING.

(From the Glasgow National)

The objet of all arts is the imitation of nature. To ex-
ceed, or even reach in every case the perfection of the
pattern, is impossible, but the more closely it is kept in
view, and the more nearly it is attained, the more per-
fect the performance will be, and the more exactly will
our own ends be answered. Any departure from
the principles suggested in the examples set before
us by nature, through a hasty desire to arrive
at the object by a nearer road, defeats the intended
purpose. Shallow drainage offers many evidences
of this. The gravitating tendency of water is per-
pendicular, and the more it is made to deviate from this
course, the weaker the effort of escape becomes, and
the slower the motion of the fluid ; consequently a
deep drain will fill quicker than a shallow one, provided
the superstratuna of soil be sufficiently porous to yield
a passage to the moisture. But this it will do more and
more readily every year, after the drain is once laid, let
the clay have been ever so obstinate at first. The diffi-
culty- of making drainers believe this occasions such a
perpetual conflict between them and their employer, such
a perpetual tendency on their part to lay their drains
shallower, that unless their employer be very strongly
convinced of the truth of the principles he wishes to
carry out, the wearing and " experienced" opposition of
his " practical" man, backed by the tempting cheapness of
a shallower cutting, will prevail. It is important to be on
our guard against this. Every substance capable of ab-
sorbing water is capable of transmitting it. If, on dig-
ging up clay, we find it damp, we may be quite sure that
if undermined, and pressed upon by moisture from
above, the capillary sustension being overborne, it will
begin to weep from below, and every drop that falls
wears a wider passage for the next, so that time only
would be wanting to increase the porosity, even were
it not more rapidly hastened by the cracking produced
towards the close of summer, when even capillary at-
traction has lost its last supply, and the contraction of
bulk occasions separation into parts. However long we
may have to wait for the completion of these processes,
of this we may be sure, that we have nature on our
side from the moment the drain has been effectively
laid. The effect may be slow, but the cause is in cer-
tain and perpetual operation. But we merely allude
here to this physical law, as giving effect to the other
hydrostatic principle of perpendicular descent, which
would, of course, be inoperative without it. The ten-
dency of a fluid to descend is of course equally strong in
a basin as in a filter, though the one holds it and the
other transmits it. Our object is to explain that a clay
subsoil, which before acted like the first, is, when under-
mined by deep drains, likened to the second. The
whole principle of deep drainage, in its mere mechanical
relation to the soil, depends upon the downward pres-
sure of water, a power so strong, that it has been put
into use, in the hydraulic press for instance, as one
of the most irresistible of natural forces ; small tube
in-
serted of this
and sealrechteinga
ofvirtumoderate height, charged with fluid, will, in
power, burst the stoutest cask, if
is l;secured pressure aperture rtu ;
.and so equable
continuous actitin
already beers applied fluid weight, that it has
to the arts, wherever great force,
oy desired, rels, the testingerL cast-iron beams and other purposes,
and perfect equability in its appliess
as in the proving of gun bar-
is Particularly
security against the weakness
of material affords no
where the
weakness of ite weakest parts.
Now, anybody who h
amined the character ofah
s carefully and personally ex-
fail to have observed that, e very stiffest clays, will not
like ourselves, they have
their weak points : here there is a natural crack, there
a " sand pot ;" here again a bit of imbedded gravel,
pethioaars;etetrl,att, juffilfeaed
fact,
lighter soil of
there a vein or cleavage
perfect co:nsttinhueity of texture
however obdurate
its never to be met with.
isomegedneesrearli
So long
so to call them, have no vent underneath,' escapements,
comparatively inactive; but once undermineeythreemfiaeildu
by deep drains, and their valuable Gffice begins to show
itself. The subsoil, which before held up the service-
water like a basin, now begins to transmit it like a filter;
every succeeding summer increases the number of cracks,
as the drying clay gives way to the contracting tendency,
and surrenders that continuity of texture which depended
t of its moisture. Whore one drop
upon the imprisonment
of water descends and escapes, another
the last be gone, drawing the air after it. From the
moment the system of regeneration commences—to use
the formidable words of the chemist—the protex id
cre
be-
gins to be converted into the peroxide; that is, slightly
oxygenated earth, which repels vegetation, changes
gra-
dually by contact with atmospheric air into the highly
oxygene
• tsd earth, which favours vegetation ; anti the
rats of plants, which formerly turned up like fish-hooks
on coming in contact with the subsoil, now plunge
boldly into it, and add, by their eventual decay, to its
vegetable character. The student in hydrostatic science
is astonished at the surprise with which a writer in the
" Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society" tells u;
that his four-feet drains drew off water in half the
time that his three-feet drains used to do. It would
be a marvel to him, contradictory to every known
' principle in the laws of fluids, if it were other-
' wise. The deeper the drain, the more irresistible
the pressure of water towards it, and the more
rapid the escape. A simple experiment will illustrate
this. Let a gun-barrel he, filled with water and held
vertically, allowing the fluid to escape at the nipple
The column of water will drive the fluid out with a
farce increasing rapidly with the distance from the
point of escape to the mouth of the barrel ; as the force
decreases in depth, the force and rapidity of the stream
will diminish also ; till at last the fluid, instead of
being projected several yards, merely escapes in drops,
It is upon the same principle that a deep drain acts with
more energy than a shallow one, exemplifying one of the
soundest maxims of agricultural science—that if you
drain the subsoil, the soil will drain itself.

ing separated ; the several members of it appearing re-
solved to carry Mr. Blake's intention into effect. Cer-
tainly this was the most stormy affair of the kind it has
ever been our lot to witness, and was only brought to
a CC°l conclusion by the tact, coolness, and uninterrupted
good humour of the Chairman.

TOO MODEST BY HALF.
The great fault of Young Ireland is that he is too
modest. lie wants self-reliance. His dependencies for
his dearest vindictive objects are never on his own
powers. He dues not play the braggart on his own
account, he brags of foreigners. He is like a woman
who threatens you with what this man or that man will
do to you.
One time Prince Joh-nine was to make minced meat
of us. Thirty thousand Frenchmen thrown on the Irish
coast were to expel the Irish invaders. Now how ex-
cessively modest it is in an oppressed nation of eight
brave millions to hold thirty thousand foreigners essen-
tial, indispensable to her liberation !
Next B:other Jonathan was looked to as the avenger,
and Ireland's battle was to be fought in Oregon. Again
this is modest to the males puler, for if any other third
of the kingdom really felt that it had a just cause and a
battle to fight, it would full surely fight its battle nearer
home, and fight it with its own hands, and trusting only
to its own hands, and trusting only to its own right and
might. Hampden and Cromwell did not look to
foreigners to champion their cause.
The Seikhs have been the last hope of too modest
Young Ireland.
The Notion sees them sweeping us out
of India with 200,000 blazing scymitars; but, unfortu•
nate!), for this cheering and encouraging view, it was
hardly published before the arrival of the news of the
complete overthrow of the enemy, whose blazing scymi-
tars are pawned for the expenses of the war—
" From the whole facts we arrive at the conclusion that the
hopes of the invading army are now very low, and are
wearing lower every day—that Sir H. Hardinge and Sir C.
Napier will probably never meet—and that if the people of
Lahore and the' protected ' states on the Ilindoo side of the
river make good use of their time, and have ordinary sagacity
to see the value of union and co-operation at such a crisis,
the game is in their hands—that the whole Moslem population
of Northern India, who are only waiting for the first
averse that betels the British arms to raise the cry of
Deen ! Been !—the Faith ! the Faith !'—and fall upon their
oppressors with all the fury of vengeance hoarded well for
thirty years, will clear the way to Bengal with 200,000
blazing scymitars • that ere twelve months shall have gone
round, not the Sutlej only, but the Jumna, and possibly the
very Ganges shall be no longer overshadowed by the robber-
standard of the tyrants of Southern Asia; and that the
blood-stained Company—the plagues of the East—the plun-
derers of Ilyderabad—the scourge of the Carnatic—and the
poisoners of China, may begin to set their house in order at
Calcutta. Allah Bismallah I God is great—Amen and
Amen."

How really poor in spirit Is all this vicarious von
geance.

It was a song of a certain Jacobin worthy, that
He fled full soon
On the Ist of June
But he bade the rest keep fighting.
Young Ireland bids the rest keep fighting, not having
fled, indeed, for he has not taken the field. He is mar-
vellously strong, nothing can resist him, and yet he un-
accounntably submits to what he represents as the most
intolerable tyranny, and contents himself with calling
on foreigners to go to war for him, or on Indians to
revolt, "if they have the ordinary sagacity to see the
value of union and co-operation at such a crisis."
Young Ireland is quite right in not playing the rebel,
but Young Ireland should not talk the rebel which it
does not play. The dialogue without the action has
the most abasing effect. It is too obtrusively " making
the dare not' wait upon 'I would,' like the poor cat in
the adage."
Ireland has many grievances, but none worth blood-
shed ; she has many claims, but none to be advanced by
bloodshed, or the diabolical desire for it without daring
to share in the peril. The redress of Old Ireland's
wrongs will come in due course if the malus pudor of
Young Ireland do not unfortunately excite feelings
calculated to retard it. Young Ireland only wants
a little manly pride. He must not be always
exaggerating and enlarging on his sores. He
must not make out his case worse than it is, so as to
make its recreancy to bear it while he is bragging of his
potency. He must not count, too, upon the alms of
foreign valour for his deliverance. There is no case, no
occasion whatever for valour, foreign or indigenous.
Nothing is wanted and wanting but a little good sense
and right spirit. You have nothing to do with blazing
scymitara— no, nor with blazing shilelaghs either,
things much apter for combustion and broil.
Let there be an end of the foreign look-out for
mischief to England, and let your hopes live on
your own means, not on the loup-de-mer Joinville
one day, and a lion of Lahore another who turns
out to be pared of his claws by the neat advices. As
the homely old proverb says, " Let eVtry herring hang
by its own head, every tub stands on its own botton,"
and let Young Ireland pluck up a little of the honest
pride of independence—independence of foreign aid
and self-reliance on righteous means righteously di-
rected.—Examiner.

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Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening, from the Co-
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THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, APRIL 8, 1846.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PRIVY COUNCIL, April 7.
The Judicial Committee sat to-day in the Council Cham-
ber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Lord Presi-
dent, the Lord Chancellor, Lord Cottenhana, the Master of
the Rolls, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and the Chan-
cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall.
IN TIE MATTER OF THE PETITION OF TILE INHABITANTS
OF CAPE BRETON.
Mr. BLISS resumed and concluded his reply on behalf of
the petitioners in this case.
Their LORDSHIPS, at the conclusion of the arguments,
stated that they should report to her Majesty their opinions
en the case.

• ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Taunton, April 6.
Caleb Emery, who.svas convicted on Saturday of mall-
charged
clously wounding John Townsend West, was this morning
sentenced to 15 years' transportation.
with aiding and abetting Thomas Bull.
Thomas Bull was indicted for ravishing garah Corner, on
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the 31st ofJanuary ; and James Bull and James Emery were
Mr. Fitzlierbert was counsel for the prosecution ; and
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o'clock,
Sarah Corner stated, that on the evening of the 31st of
who
had been keeping company with her. The prisoners were
as it rained, they stood for shelter under a doorway. The
prisoners and four other men were standing near ; it was in
a village. After it had ceased raining she took John Well's
arm, and proceeded on their way home. When they had got
about a quarter of a mile beyond the houses, the seven men
who had been following them came up, and Thomas Bull
then laid hold of her ; and the other men assisted in drag.
ging her away ; and then all seven of them effected their pur-
pose, one of them holding a knife to her. She then went
home ; but her family having gone to bed, she went into an
outhouse, and there remained till the following night, till she
was nearly starved with the cold. She did not come out of
the outhouse before because she was ashamed. John Wells
tried to help her, but the parties were too many for him, and
he stood. by and saw the whole transaction.
The jury found the prisoners Guilty.
Mr. Baron Bons's:, in passing sentence, observed that this
was such a case that almost made one doubt the policy of the
law in abolishing capital punishment for such an offence.
They would all be transported for their lives.
Sarah Hughes was indicted for administering poison to her
infant child, with intent to murder it.
Mr. Phinn was counsel for the prosecution.
From the evidence it appeared that the prisoner, a young
woman only 18 years of age, was an inmate of the Shepton
Monett Union Workhouse, and was delivered of an illegiti•
mate child. Another woman was also in the union, and she
had a bottle containing blue vitriol, which she kept in a cup-
board in the ward. She had shown it to the prisoner, and
told her it was poison. On the 3d of November, the child
being then a month old, the prisoner had an interview with
the board of guardians, but what took place did not appear.
On her return from the board-room she was seen to give
something to the child from a bottle. The child then be•
came very ill, which led to an inquiry, and the bottle con•
taining the poison was found under the pillow in her bed.
In a conversation that took place between the prisoner and
another woman, the prisoner said if the baby had died, her
friends could not blame her fur it, because they had frowned
on her. Mien before the magistrates, the prisoner said she
was very sorry for what she had done ; and if the child lived,
she would take care of it, and never do it again.
The prisoner was found Guilty, but the jury recommended
her to mercy.
The guardians also joined in that recommendation, as the
prisoner had always borne a good character.
Mr. Baron Roux said, he had no discretion, but he
would forward the recommendations to the proper quarter.
Judgment of death recorded.
Benjamin Leslie was indicted for setting fire to a barn, the
property of the Rev. John Stuart Hippisley Homer, but in
the occupation of Richard Singer.
Mr. Hodges and Mr. Fitzheibert were counsel for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Prideaux for the prisoner.
The facts of this case were these :—The Rev. Mr. Homer is
the proprietor of considerable property at Wells, in this
county. On the 2d of March, 1845, a barn and other out-
buildings were destroyed by fire, and some ricks were burnt
about three weeks before this. Although it was considered
that these fires were the act of an incendiary, still no one
was suspected, but it appeared that on the night of the 25th
of February, before the second fire, the prisoner and a csusin
of his, of the name of James Smith, were walking into Wells
together, when the prisoner said he was going to sleep at a
lime-kiln, as he had done for three or four nights, because he
had been turned out of his house. He blamed Mr. Homer
and a policeman of the name of Biggs for it, and he
said he would be —if he would not have his re-
venge before he was many days older ; there would be a
good flare-up in the village before he was many days
older, a sight bigger than that at Twaddle-alley (the
place where the first fire had happened). A sum of money
had been deposited with Biggs, the policeman, to divide be•
tween those parties who had assisted in putting out the first
fire, and about three weeks before the second fire the pri-
soner called upon Biggs and asked for some of the money.
He was told his name was not in the list, upon which he said
there would be another good flare-up in the parish before
long, and he would not help to put it out. Biggs was
at the second fire, and he saw the prisoner and another man
together in a field, about thirty yards from the barn,
laughing, and, as be considered, " glorying" in the fire.
The parties to whom these observations were made did not,
however, say anything on the subject until after
the prisoner was taken into custody ; but on the
14th of June the prisoner and a man named Tudgay were
together at a public-house, when the prisoner said to
bins that he had been to Frome with Adam Ruddock
on the day of the fire ; that they had made a lot of tinder
and matches ; that they well daubed the matches with brim-
stone, and rolled the tinder round the matches, and then
lolled them all up in rags ; that they came from Frome to
Mr. Singer's barn, and then set fire to the tinder, and threw
it into one of the lights of the barn in amongst some straw ;
that he had afterwards gone honie to his lodgings to bed.
The prisoner was taken into custody on the Ist of September,
and he then said it was true be had told Tudgay the tale
which he had told before the magistrates; but Tudgay had
told him tales that were quite as bad, and that they used to
get together and see which could tell the biggest lies.
On the part of the prisoner, Adam Ruddock was called,
and he swore that he had not had anything to do with the
fire, and that what the prisoner had said was false.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty. Sentence, transports.
tion for life.

Henry Yerintry was indicted for shooting at James Biggs
with intent to murder him on the 12th of December ; and
John Watts, Charles liolton, Thomas Olding, George Yung,
James Middleton, Job Whit,, and John Rabbits, were indicted
with being present aiding and abetting henry Yerbury.
Mr. Hodges and Mr. Fitzherbert were counsel for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Phinn defendod all the prisoners, but Yer-
bury, Middleton, and ltabbits.

It would seem that although large property at Wells be-
longs to the Rev. Mr. Horner, yet that he does not preserve
the game; that, however, is done by his uncle, Sir John
Hippisley, who in the season visits his nephew and sports
over his property. On the night of the 12th of December,
about twelve o'clock, the keepers were out near a wood called
Melcombe-wood, when they heard fifteen reports of guns.
They obtained further assistance, and on going into a field
they saw fourteen men. Four of them had guns, and the rest
were armed with sticks. The keepers followed them across
three or four fields, and then came up with them. They then
said to them that it was a shame to shoot pheasants in that
manner. One of the poachers said, " Stand," and they all
fell into rank and pointed their guns at the keepers, and said
if they came nearer they would shoot them. They said they
had had some birds, and they would have more. The poachers
then went on, followed by the keepers, and constantly
saying that if they did not keep back they would blow their
brains out. At length one of them turned round, levelled
his gun at Biggs, who was one of the keepers, and fired.
Biggs instantly fell. Several shots had entered his head,
and the cap he wore was nearly blown to atoms. Biggs was
picked up and taken to Frome, and attended by a surgeon,
and he recovered. The prisoners were all persons living in
Frome. It was a fine moonlight night. Several of the
keepers swore to the fact of the prisoners being the parties
who were out that night, and they were most of them ap-
prehended before daylight that morning. Two of the
keepers' party swore that Yerbury was the man who fired
the gun.
On behalf of Yerbury his mother was called, who swore
that en that night her son went to bed about eight o'clock,
when she dressed his foot, which had been injured. Ile did
not go out that night. A man of the name of French lodged
with her; he did not sleep with her that night (her husband
had been transported twenty years ago).
French was then called, and he stated that Yerbury was
at home all that night ; but he contradicted Mrs. Yerbury,
by stating that he had slept with her on that occasion.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.—Sentence de-
ferred.

TUESDAY Mcmxnea.—All the prisoners convicted of shoot-
ing at Biggs last night were this morning put to the bar, and
were arraigned on an indictment charging them with being
out at night, armed in pursuit of game.
All the prisoners, with the exception of Yerbury, pleaded
"Guilty" to this indictmeut, and, with the exception of Mid-
dleton, were sentenced to be transported for seven years.
Middleton, on account of his youth, was sentenced to one
year's imprisonment. Yerbury pleaded "Not guilty ;" no
evidence was offered against him, and judgment, on the
charge of which he had been convicted, was respited on the
ground, we understand, of there being great reason to doubt
whether the two men who swore to Yerbury are not mis-
taken as to the identity.

NORTHERN CI RC U IT.—Liverpool, April 6.
Mr. Justice Patteson took 11:.s seat at nine o'clock, and re-
sumed the hearing of civil causes.
One or two unimportant cases having been decided, the
Court was occupied with the following case of
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE—MARR LAND V. SINGLETON.
The plaintiff in this case was Miss Sarah Markland, and
the defendant George Singleton. The declaration stated that
the defendant promised plaintiff to marry, and afterwards
broke that promise. The defendant pleaded that he did not
make any promise.
Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, and Mr. Seger conducted the case
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Atherton appeared for the defendant.
Mr. WlLictsra opened the case, He stated he was there to
ask the jury to give compensation in form of damages for what
was generally considered one of the most serious injuries that
could be inflicted by one person on another—it was an action
for breach of promise of marriage. Under ordinary circum-
stances he thought they would be of opinion that it was no
slight grievance inflicted on the suffering party; but when
they had heard all the facts he should lay before them, the
fullest amount of damages would hardly compensate the
young person for the injury she had sustained. The father
of the plaintiff; till within eight or nine years ago, carried
on the business at Burnley. At that period he, having saved
a little money, came over to Fishwick, near Preston, where he
took the Hunt Arms. Shortly afterwards the defendant in
the action became acquainted with the plaintiff, and paid
her considerable attention. The family were anxious to
know his intentions, and after some time the mother ques-
tioned him, and he stated that lie intended to marry the
plaintiff, and lie also went to look after a public-house, in
which he said they would begin business after being united.
The defendant, however, did not make good his promise ;
and the mother becoming distressed about her child, and
desirous of breaking off the intimacy which had sprung up
between the defendant and the plaintiff, sent her from home
to an aunt's, at a place called Standish. In about twelve
months she returned, the mother feeling satisfied the inti-
macy was at an end. The defendant, however, on finding that
she had returned, repeated his visits. Shortly afterwards the
plaintiff was sent away to an aunt who resided in the
neighbourhood, at a place called Salmesbury, to assist in
the public-house during the busy time ; and on the de-
fendant learning where she had gone, he drove over in a gig
to see her, arid they returned together. On their way home
the gig was upset, and at that time, no doubt, the defendant
contrived to effect the destruction of the young woman ; for,
in a short time afterwards, she became pregnant, leaving no
doubt of the vile conduct he had been guilty of. The
mother remonstrated with him, and reminded him of the
proiniss of marriage he had made, but the defendant did not
appear desirous of coming to any arrangement, and the
plaintiff was then sent to Liverpool, where she had remained
ever since. What he had stated as regardedthe promise of

marriage would be fully made out, leaving no doubt as to
the damage inflicted by the defendant on the plaintiff. The
defendant afterwards went to reside with a person at Wal-
ton-le-Dale, and at his death married the widow, a person
about 60 years of age; this he had done from the most sel-
fish of motives, as the female alluded to had become pos-
sessed of some property on the dekth of her husband, which
had no doubt operated as an inducement to the marriage.
He concluded by observing that, under all the circumstances
he considered his client would be entitled to ample damages
at the hands of the jury.
The following witnesses were then called :
Jane Markland, the mother of the plaintiff, stated that
she had kept the Hunt Arms, Walton-le-Dale. The plain-
tiff; i
her daughter, was generally employed to attend n the
bar.. Defendant eften came and sat at the house, and paid
attention to her daughter, and in consequence of that she
spoke to him frequently on the subject, and he stated it to be
his intention to marry her, and would not deceive them.
The marriage was on one occasion fixed for the following
Christmas, but defendant put it off. It was again fixed for
the following March, and defendant bought some china
and other articles preparatory to its taking place. He
again, however, broke his promises. In consequence of
his conduct witness sent her daughter away to a re-
lation at Standish, where she remained about twelve
months. Defendant did not, during her absence, come to
the house so often. On her return home defendant re
peated his acquaintance, and plaintiff was then sent to an
aunt at Salmesbury, to assist her in a public-house. Shortly
after that he took a gig, and went over to see her. They
were both returning home in the gig, when it was upset on
the road. Soon after that her daughter became pregnant,
and on defendant being spoken to on the subject, he re-
peated his promise to marry her, adding that he was glad
it had happened. Plaintiff continued at home long after the
child was born, perhaps about two years, and defendant still
continued to make promises and was received in the family
as her intended husband. On one occasion preparations
ware made for taking a public-house, called the Hoop and
Crown, at Preston, as he said he had some money, but did
not say how much. As the defendant did not seem likely to
perform his promise witness sent her daughter to Liverpool;
that was about three years ago, and she had remained there
ever since. Plaintiff was at home last Easter, and defendant
said then he would be married, as there was a situation he
could obtain; but he, as ho had previously done, did not
perform his promise, and shortly afterwards he got married
to a widow, named Jefferson, at whose house he had lodged.
The widow's husband died about nine months ago, and was
a man pretty well off in the world: The marriage took place
about six weeks after Mr. Jefferson's death ; Mrs. Jefferson
was an old lady, nearly sixty years of age, and defendant
was thirty-two.
Cross-examined by Mr. ATIIERTON—My daughter is
26. When we carried on business at Fishwick,
and defendant used to come and take his beer with other
young fellows. My daughter is at present acting as bar-
maid with Mrs. Fowles, in Marybone ; she keeps a spirit
vault. The defendant is a journeyman miller, working for
Mr. Kent, at Walton, and he used to say he got 225. per
week. He lately got the situation formerly held by the
widow's husband at the same mill, and would get 255. per
week.
Catherine Markland, the plaintiff's sister, deposed that she
had frequently heard the defendant make promises of mar-
riage to her—that was about eight years ago.
Cross-examined by Mr. ATRERTON—The defendant had
stayed at her house as late as twelve o'clock at night on
various occasions, and frequently insisted to take plaintiff
away, but she refused.
Elizabeth Lees said she knew the plaintiff and defendant
very well. Recollected the plaintiff being confined, and
Singleton coming after the child was born, and saying
he would marry her as soon as she got up. He used to
bring things for the baby, and talk as if he was engaged to
plaintiff.
By Mr. AlatErrost—lt was not a very fine baby.
Mr. ATIIERTON addressed the jury for the defendant, ob-
serving that his only object was to bring down the damages,
and he would not give them a long speech. The promise had
been proved, and the usual evidence produced to the effect
that the unhappy defendant seemed to have been going
about the country saying nothing but that he would marry
the plaintiff. They had heard the promise, to marry, and
had only to say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to.
She was a barmaid, and defendant was a journeyman miller,
able, with sunshine and varying gales, to earn 235. per
week, and even able to earn 10s. or 15s. under circumstances
not so promising, and it was for them to say how much the
young woman should receive on account of losing the de-
fendant, who had suffered by falling into the arms of the
antique widow. If they gave large damages the defendant
would be ruined, and it would be of no advantage to the
young woman. He could not conceive it possible that the
defendant had obtained any great advantage by his con-
nexion with the widow, as she was an exception to that class
if she had not had her property tightly secured for her own
benefit. He concluded by observing that all the jury would
have to do would be to afford the plaintiff reasonable com-
pensation.

His LORDSHIP said the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict,
and it was merely for the jury to say the amount of damages.
The jury, after a few moments' consultation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 751.
The Court rose at_six o'clock.
CIVIL SIDE.
_

His Lordship took his seat on the bench at a few minutes
after nine o'clock.
LIVERPOOL AND BOLTON RAILWAY-ACTION AGAINST A PRO.,

VISIONAL DIRECTOR-MINSHULL V. SOUTHERN.

This was an action brought by a tradesman of Liverpool
against a provisional director, for goods sold and delivered,
and work done for the railway, to which defendant pleaded
he was not liable. Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Cowling for the
plaintiff, and Mr. Baines for the defendant.
Mr. WILKINS stated the case. This was an action brought
by Mr. Samuel Minshull, an engraver and printer in Liver-
pool, against Mr. Southern, for a large quantity of engraving,
scrip books, plans, sections, and maps, furnished to the
directors of the Liverpool and Bolton Direct Railway;
and:the sum sought was 401/. lls. 11d. The defendant is a
gentleman of considerable wealth and the proprietor of
extensive coal mines, and a member of the provisional
committee and executive committee of the railway.
It would turn out that this gentleman embarked in this
speculation with great zeal, as the line was to pass by
his coal works, and he anticipated that it would put
a great deal of money into his pocket, and was then one of
the most active promoters of the railroad; but when the day
of adversity came he sought to avoid the consequences, and
disputed claims as undeniable as any case laid before a jury.
The first prospectus of the company was issued on the 13th
of September, last year; it was to have 500,000 L capital in
25,000 shares of 20/. each : and the deposit was 21. per share,
and the prospectus set forth the shares of the provisional
directors. The first meeting was on the 23d of September,
and almost immediately after the defendant became an
applicant for 100 shares, which were allotted to him ; and
he was asked to allow his name to appear as one of the
provisional committee. Defendant wrote a letter in reply,
stating it, would give him great pleasure in promoting
the success of the line, and consenting to be on the
provisional committee; and when 100 shares each were
allotted to the board of directors, defendant received his
quota with the rest. He showed an active disposition for pro-
moting the interests of the line, and waited on the agent of
Sir William Massey Stanley, W. Jackson, Esq., and John
Laird, Esq., of Birkenhead, directors of the Leeds and Liver-
pool Railway, to induce them to take up the Liverpool and
Bolton, and make it an auxiliary line to theirs. He also
went to Mr. Poole, the superintendent of the goods depart..
ment at the Grand Junction, to induce him to use every
means in his power to obtain for the Liverpool and Bolton
the support of that company. In December the share mar-
ket began to decline, and as the winter approached the'de-
fendant's ardour began to freeze in reference to the line. The
company eventually had to wind up their affairs, and the
defendant was a defaulter, having never paid anything on
his shares. This was not a case like most of those generally
tried, one shareholder trying to cut another, but a claim for
work and labour done.
Mr. W. A. Barrow, solicitor for the company, was exa-
mined at considerable length, when
Mr. BAINES said that he would not trouble the Court any
longer, a verdict for the plaintiff having been agreed to be
taken on certain conditions.

The jury accordingly returned a verdict for the plaintiff—
Damages, 4011. lls.

KEENE V. THOMPSON.
This was an undefended action, arising out of share trans-
actions between the parties.
Mr. Cowling, for the plaintiff, stated that Mr. Keene was a
sharebroker in Liverpool, and that he was largely employed
during the past year by the defendant, who was agent for
the Coleraine Steam-packet Company. The ordinary way
of their doing business was that Mr. Thompson was in the
habit of giving orders to buy and sell shares in different
railways to Mr. Keene. The plaintiff, not being a member
of the Stock Exchange, made his purchases through Messrs.
Sudlow, Brothers, and the advice notes were afterwards
copied into Mr. Keene's name, and sent to Mr. Thompson.
The usual commission was divided between the plaintiff an d
his broker. On these tramactions there remained a balance
against the defendant of 1,0921. 10s.
Various orders and documents were put in, and the debt
proved.
Verdict for the plaintiff for that SIM
CAUSE EXTRAORDINARY.
A poor old woman, who has long been an attendant of the
assize courts, and who is a monomaniac as to a certain law-
suit on which her early happiness was wrecked, addressed
his Lordship at some length, requesting him to see justice
done to her. His Lordship listened with the greatest patience,
and with a soothing monosyllable or two the poor woman
went away quite satisfied that the case would come on again
in due time.
The Court rose at half-past five o'clock. Nine causes only
now remain, and it is anticipated that all will be disposed of
this day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
George Gibbs, City policeman, No. 438, was charged
before Alderman Gibbl, by Mr. Lewis Cheesewright, of
No. 8, York-place, Commercial New-road.
Mr. Cheesewright stated, that he was in the counting-
house of his father, a West India merchant, in Lower
Thames street ; that, on the 28th of March, he went
to Princes-street, to get upon a Hampstead omnibus,
and spoke to the conductor, who was then standing on
the kerb stone beside the horses ; that the defendant
came up, told the conductor and driver to move off the
pavement, and then said to witness, " Move on ;" that
witness said he was going to ride by the omnibus, upon
which the defendant shoved him against the horses ;
that witness said he should report the defendant, who
forthwith seized him by the collar, pushed him right
across the street to Charlotte-row, and said how he had
served other pople ; that witness expressed his readi-
ness to go to the station•hous, end that before going
thither, the charge was dismissed by the inspector. The
witness declared, that although treated with such gross
indignity, and in the presence of a vast number of per-
sons, he had behaved with the greatest forbearance, and
bad not usad a word .of provoking language, although
he could not but confess that he felt mush difficulty in
refraining from punishing a person who had acted so
grossly upon the spot.
The appearance of the complainant strongly indicad
that ho could have retaliated in a very effective manner.
ittt at
John Thornton, the driver of the omnibus, stated
to
about twenty minutes to six o'clock he was pr
start for Hampstead, and was standing
ordered them
with the conductor, when the defendant
charge was put-
off; that the gentleman who made t..)
when the de.
on the omnibus,
ting on his gloves to ride ntoli the footway
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foregoing statements.
Mr. Cheesewright said there were other witnesses
whose evidence was precisely similar to what had been
already stated.
The defendant, upon being called upon to account for
his conduct, said that it was his duty to keep the corner
of Princes-street clear, in consequence of its vicinity to
the Bank and banking-houses, and that persons con