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ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS PAY.)
WOOD U. 'TAUNTON..
This was a motion for an injunction to restrain the
defendant from usirtg a patent invention for the manu-
facture of windlasses, &c.
It appeared that the defendant bad constructed a
certain description of machinery for the above purpose,
for which a patent had been obtained. Some time back
plaintiff purchased a moiety of the invention, and both
plaintiff and defendant entered into partnership on their
common property. However they had now fallen out,
and they were desirous of dissolving that partnership,
the invention in the meantime not being worked to the
satisfaction of either party.
Mr. Turner and Mr. Prin appeared for t! ,e plaintiff,
and Mo:zsrs. Kinclursley and Daniell fur the defendants.
, After sonic discussion,
His LORDSIIIP ordered the matter to stand over, with
a view to an arrangen,ent between the parties.

VIUE•CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir J. C. WIGRAM.)
PENNINGTON v. BUCKET.
Mr. RoIkIILLY, who appeared for the plaintiff, stated
the case, from which it appeared that the Rev. Abel
Collin Launder, of Nottingham, by a will, dated the
31st of Atigi-t. 180 i, after making several devizes, &C.,
bequeathed to Mr. T: J. Rawson and to Mr. John Exley
and others, heirs in trent, all the stock standing in his
name in the Three per Cent. Consols, with specific
direction to pay the same to Margaret Morton
and others, and to pay, or cause to be paid,
the interest of other stock to certain unbeneficed
curates in Nottingham, whose income and salaries did
not exceed 351., donations after the following rate, viz ,
to unmarried curates 101., to a married curate with a
family 201.; and it was the intention of the testator no
donation of this kind should be given more than once to
the same party; and that in ease of such donations not
being claimed, they should be considered as being lapsed,
and go to the Rev. H. Thorp and others, afterwards
mentioned in his will. Mr. T. J. Rawson died on the
12th of October'', 1843, and appointed by his will the
plaintiffs his executors. Mrs. Margaret Norton died in
the April of 1843, and some of the defendants claimed
the money she left as a part of the personal residuary
property of the testator, Abel Collin Launder, whose
sole representatives they alleged themselves to be. The
Rev. George Wilkins, Archdeacon of Nottingham,
claimed ex officil to be entitlsd to 4,4181. 10s. 3d, oivi-
dends accruing since the death of Mrs. Norton under
the will of the testator. _ _

After the arguments had concluded,
His HONOUR said he would reserve his judgment till
he hat read the will.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DIY.)
HER MAJESTY'S MINISTERS.

Immediately after the Judges had taken their seats
this morning, Earl Spencer, Sir George Grey, and the
Right Hon. Thomas Babbington Macauley entered the.
Court, by the Judges' entrance, and took the oath of
allegiance to her Majesty, and the oath declaring that
they would not use the influence of their offices to
" injure the rights and privileges" of the Church of
England, as by law established. They then withdrew.

The decision of the Court in the case of Reynell v
Lewis was therefore postponed, and the case of

ViarLD V. HOP INS

was proceeded with.
Mr. MARTIN now showed cause against the rule ob-
tained in this case by Mr. Watson a few days since.
The arguments were not concluded at the rising of

the Court:

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)

LOCHLAW V. JORDEN.
Mr. MILLER, in this case, which was an action of
er n]. con., applied to have the trial put off, on the
ground that the defendant had carried away the plain-
tiff's witnesses, his own sons, who are under age. This
was the second action, but in the first he was non-suited
through the absence of witnesses, and the defendant had
thrown him into prison for the costs.
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The COURT granted the application.

BANKRUPTCY,—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Commissioner CoULBURN.)
IN RE THOMAS DAY.
To day was appointed for a dividend meeting, under
the estate of this insolvent, who was secretary to the
Southwark Commercial Savings' Bank, and clerk to the
Commissioners of Sewers. His debts amounted to about
5,7001.
In the course of the meeting a point of considerable
interest arose, on a claim being put in to prove for the
sum of 3001, for money advanced on an annuity granted
to a g‘ntleman named Tapon. The question was whe-
ther the proof could be admitted for its present value,
or its value at the time the money was advanced. Sa-
ve, al cases were quoted, in one of which 8,0001. had
bee❑ paid, but the party, whose life was assured, ye as
so improved at the time of the bankruptcy that it was
estimated at 10 000/., and it was held that the proof
should be admitted for the full amount.
The Le arced COMMISSIONER, after hearing a long
argument, held that the Act 6, Geo. IV., prevented that,
and that he was bound to take into consideration the
value at the time of proof, having reference to the
money paid. He should, therefore, admit the proof, not
for the full amount, but take the Government scale of
its value at the present age of the bankrupt. It was
granted when the bankrupt was fifty, when an annuity,
is held worth Ili years' purchase ; he was now sixty-
four, and it was w orth eight years' purchase.
The proof was then admitted for 2141.
This will be a second dividend, and will be declared
in a few days.

former marriage. Her husband has fled, and
there is a prospect of more carnage in that wretched

country.

Elie Nizam's dominions present the usual picture
of inextricable confusion, arising from bad financial
arrangements.

The Government of India has re-opened the Five
per Cent. Loan. The notice was published in
Bombay on the 14th of October, and within 24
hours all the public securities fell 10 per cent. A
sort of panic has seized the holders of the Company's
paper.

CLERKENWELL.—(THIS DAY.)
Henry Kelly, a young man employed by Messrs. FMK-
ford, the extensive railway carriers, was brought before
Mr. Greenwood charged as follows :—lt appeared that
the prisoner, about nine o'clock last night, was driving
one of the Camden-town station waggons with three
horses at a rapid pace along the New-road on the wrong
side of the way, when he came in contact with a cab,
which he completely turned over, and smashed the two
shafts, the springs, and a part of the body, and so vio-
lent was the shock that the horse was also knocked down
and very severely injured. The driver was pitched out
over the horse's head and had a most miraculous escape
from being killed. When the prisoner haw what he had
done, he whipped his horses as hard as he could, and
set them a galloping at top speed ; but a large body
of the G division of police, who were marching out of
the station• house on night duty, having witnessed the
occurrence, stopped him, but not without some difficulty
and danger.
For the defence, a fellow-servant of the prisoner,
named Whittlemore, was called, who swore that the
prisoner was driving at a very moderate pace, and that
he neither whipped the horses, nor, in fact, had any whip
with him.
Mr. GREENWOOD said he did not believe one word the
last witness had stated. He should fine the prisoner 40s.
for furious driving, and, in default of payment, one
months' imprisonment ; and he should also order him to
pay 21., on account of the damage done to the cab.
Two notorious females, named Perrin, who are the
terror of the publicans in the neighbourhood, were sen-
tenced to twenty-one days' imprisonment for violently
assaulting Mr. Goodwin, a licensed victualler in Bald-
win's-gardens, Gray's Inn-lane, and smashing a number
of panes of glass in his shop.

There was much anxiety about the new Governor
of Bombay, who was expected without much delay.
Sir David Pollock, the new Chief Justice, had ar-
rived, but was not expected to take the oaths until
the departure of his predecessor, Sir H.Roper, on the
2d of November.

The health of the Superintendent of the Indian
Navy was much impaired, and he must follow the
example of Sir George Arthur, and soon retire from
the heats of India.

OVER LAND MAIL
(From the Times.)
We have received by extraordinary express from
Marseilles our dispatches in anticipation of the
Overland Mails from both Bombay and Calcutta.
The dates are from Calcutta to the Bth, and from
Bombay to the 15th of October.
The Bombay mails of the 15th of October bring
important intelligence. The British troops in the
north-western provinces of India are in movement,
in consequence of the difficulties in which the new
Maharaja, Ghoolab Singh, is placed. In conformity
with the provisions of the treaties of last March,
he during some months has endeavoured to obtain
possession of the Vale of Cashmere ; but he
has encountered unexpected opposition from
Seikh Emaum-ood-Deen, the son of one of his
own old confederates, who has governed that
district during Many years. The Seikh has
raised the standard of. resistance to Ghoolab;
the latter sent a force to reduce him, but the
Cashmerian mountaineers beat Ghoolab's forces
and slew the commander. Seikh Emaum-ood-Deen
has assumed the title of Emir-001-Moomemin, and
has attempted -to make it a religious war against
the Seikhs, whether under -Ghoolab or under the
Lahore Government. The Mahommedan tribes in
the neighbourhood appear disposed to support the
Emir- 001-Moomemim.
Cashmere is known as a most remarkable tract to
the north-westward of- the; Punjaub. It is healthy
and fertile,' and the in-habitants have long -been.cele-'
brated for their industri. 'riorn its situation, as well
as from its being enclosed amongst raty mountains,
it may be called the most important military position
in that central part of Asia, and it is, like Gibraltar
to the Mediterranean, the key to India, for no invasion
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can ever jake,place,thropgh the_Purijuub while there
is a force in the. Vale ois-,.Casliinere- ready to .cut off
the supplies of the assailants.
The extent of Cashmere is about 120 miles in length
and 70 in breadth. It was annexed to the Dooranee
empire by Ahmed Shah in 1752, and in 1819 Runjeet
Singh subdued it by intrigues, and governed it by
Mahommedans ; after the defeat of the Seikhs in
March last it was ordered to form a part of the
kingdom which the Governor-Geueral con-
ferred on Ghoolab Singh. The Vale of Cashmere
has seven passes, through which it may be entered ;
they are scarcely passable for even horses. The son
of the old Governor may seize these passes, and
defy G-holab during the winter months, that is,
until May next. While thus embarrassed by his new
and refractory subjects, Ghoolab applied to the British
authorities, and they have sent a force of 6,000 men,
under General Wheeler, from the Jullunder Doab
to occupy Ghoolab's capital, while he proceeds with all
his forces to put the rebellion down. To render the
matter more singular, the British, who are not bound
by treaty to assist Ghoolab against his internal op-
ponents, have persuaded the Government of Lahore
to aid Ghoolab by dispatching 10,000 to the passes of
Cashmere.
The-son of the old Seikh Emaum-ood-been, who
was long a servant of the Lahora Governmeut, is
supposed to be influenced by intrigues set on foot to
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whonhorishea. hated for his treachery by
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There is no doubt of the double defeat of Ghoolab,
and the latest intelligence is that the Emir is making
preparations to resist, and that the British are about
to move towards Cashmere. The winter is a fearful
season in the passes, and it is apprehended that but
little can be done in them until May next, if the Emir
makes the anticipated resistance.
The Nazim of Moultan, a Ilindoo, who farmed
that district from Runjeet Singh, is also causing
trouble to the Lahore Government, and refuses to re-
ceive their troops into his forts. At the end of last
year, when ordered to have 60,000 men ready to op-
pose Sir Charles Napier, he coolly told the Lahore
rulers that he would not, for he preferred the English
rule to theirs.
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fur trade with Affghanistan and all the surrounding
districts.

Sinde is tranquil and healthy. Sir C. Napier re-
mains at Kurrachee. The withdrawal of some native
regiments was spoken of. Her Majesty's 7th Regi-
ment was about to have volunteers taken from it, and
then to embark for Bombay and afterwards for Eng-
land.

A bloody revolution has taken place at Katmandoo,
the capital of one of the most powerful Indian states.
Nepaul has long been notorious for its fierce wild in-
habitants. The paramour of the Queen of that country
was assassinated by a faction : he was a man of low
birth and habits.

To avenge his death she procured the massacre
of the Prime Minister, and of hundreds of other
influential persons. She is the second wife of the
514wrili3, And she is jealous of his eldest son by a

HE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 21, i 846.

LITERATURE.

JOuHnlVti'l OwFithEinAth
Ge
lastLAN half f 3
century,vols.
/3ythHeenaravCanutralginegs.
derivable from the combination of
history
and fiction
were to a very considerable extent unrecognised.
We might almost say that until the commencement
of that period they were unrealised. During a con-
siderable interval, indeed, novels were literally scouted
by a large proportion of the community. From an
idle and contemptible affectation of wisdom, many
individuals were formerly disposed to treat those
productions as detestable or frivolous, or even
bath sometimes. A remarkable alteration in
this particular is now-a-days perceptible. The
novelist is admitted to the position to which he
is entitled in literature, and that position is by no
means contemptible or uninfluential. He is treated
with the distinction which his profession deserves.
Influencing society more than almost any other class
of authors ; inculcating generous sentiments and
enobling principles under the most alluring guise ;
depicting the superficial, and disclosing the hidden
characteristics of society with a faithful pencil ; and
elevating the aspirations by acting upon the sus-
ceptibilities of his readers, he has a peculiar
claim upon our attention and consideration, and
that claim he has forced us (meaning society) to
acknowledge. We are of course alluding to the most
eminent class of novelists. Although many distin-
guished writers had conduced by their compositions
to this extraordinary change in popular opinion, it
was reserved for Sir Walter' Scott to demonstrate in
a remarkable manner the solid benefits which might
acrue from the sagacious intermixture of fictitious in-
cident and actual occurrences. By a succession of
inimitable works that Prince of Novelists rendered
the real dignity and merits of historical romance ap-
parent. He showed that by that beautiful species of
composition a more vivid idea of past ages and of by-
gone events was conveyed to the perception of the
million than by more sober and more voluminous
records. He showed that a clearer conception of the
characters of the departed illustrious might be formed
from those agreeable delineations than from the por-
traitures of more didactic scribes. He showed with
a singular felicity the mode in which instruc-
tion might be inextricably mingled with amuse-
ment, and how in the pages of the historical ro-
mancist the spirit of departed generations might be
revived, for the improvement as well as for the re-
creation of the living multitude. " Kenilworth" re-
stored us to the days of Leicester and Elizabeth ;
the " Fortunes of Nigel" to those of James I. and
jingling Geordie; "Anne of Gierstein" to the mys-
terious proceedings of the Veremgericht; the " Talis-
man" to the deeds of Cceur de Lion in Palestine ;

" raverley" to the tribulations of the young Pre-
tender and his upholders; " Quentin Durward" to
the reign of Louis XL ;, " Ivanhoe," again, to the
first Richard ; and so on through the whole cata-
logue of those splendid productions. Eminently suc-
cessful, however, as the great Scotchman was in this
style of narrative, he has, in that very eminence of
success, shown the difficulty of making any such
achievement ; he has proved to all his successors, that
if one of the most arduous undertakings in literature
is the composition of a good tragedy, one of the next
degree of difficulty is the penning of a good
historical romance. The author of the present work
has been evidently fully aware of the many perils he
would have to encounter, of the many pitfalls he
would have to overleap, of the many obstacles he would
have to annihilate, before he could hope for its fortunate '
completion. The very excellence of the entire story
is a testimony that the narrator was conscious of the
existence of the obstructions he has vanquished so
well. Mr. Curling is already known by his novel
entitled " The Soldier of Fortune." The three vo-
lumes lying under consideration assure us that he
may acquire a familiar and distinguished name
amongst our novelists, if he only persevere in the
course upon which he has adventured. " John of
England" is a picturesque and beautiful revival of one
amongst the most striking and eventful periods of our
national history. As the title indicates, the
plot is situated partially in England, partially
in France, during the reign
,of the meanest and
vilest of our Kings, John, the brother of Richard
Cceur de Lion, and Geoffrey Plantagenet. Mr.
Curling has admirably discriminated the disposition of
this cowardly and treacherous monarch ; but, aware
of the disagreeable impressions which are alone con-
veyed by a contemplation of his actions, he has ren-
dered the incidents connected with King John subor-
dinate to those of the fictitious characters introduced. '
And in this we conceive consists the principal success
of the romance. The story associated with the
heroine, Bertha Daundelyonne, is most felicitously
conceived. From the interest excited in her fortunes,
from the anxiety aroused by the perils of her capture
and imprisonment, and from the yet greater anxiety
experienced in her behalf during her withdrawal from
the power of her profligate captors, we shall not de-
tract by giving a cold epitome. There is almost
as much art visible in the. construction of
the plot as there is nature in its development.
In the beautiful and curiously accomplished
Bertha, and in her companions in the romance, the
hopes and wishes of the reader are aroused and sus-
tained throughout. The author has thoroughly en-
tered into the singular character of the age of which
King John was what Byron calls " the Thunderer of
the scene." His imagination has reverted to that
century of misrule, and with an intuitive sagacity his
hand has sketched the manners and habits and dispo-
position of the nation as it then appeared. Aided by
the monkish bookmen of that period, he has pour
trayed the people with a peculiar and charming
vividness ; from the palace to the dungeon, from the
cottage to the battlement. We observe that Mr.
Curling has introduced, as an episode to the principle
tale, the sufferings and mysterious assassination of
Prince Arthur Plantagenet. If our memory serves
us faithfully, this mournful catastrophe has already
been introduced to modern novel readers in Mr.
G. P. R. James's "Philip Augustus." It is, however,
treated with so much of artistic skill in " John of
England," that we are persuaded the majority will be
grateful for the revival. In his description of the
murder committed upon the unfortunate prince, we
observe that Mr. Curling attributes it personally to
the base monarch himself. Whether he is justified
in so doing we think is extremely questionable. The
simple circumstances are, that Prince Arthur was
murdered in a dungeon of the Castle of Rouen, April
3, 1202. It does not appear who was his actual de-
stroyer, and the imputations upon John are attribut-
able rather to the inuendoes than to the positive
assertions of the different historians. One writes
that the Prince suddenly disappeared, but in what
manner nobody could conjecture, " Subito evanuit,
modo fere omnibus ignorato ;" another says, "feria
quints ante Pascha propria manu interfecit ;' while a
third is more explicit in his insinuations,
" Rex suspectus," he writes, " habebatur
ab omnibus, quasi ilium mane propria occidisset !"
William Brito, indeed, confidently maintains (Phi-
lipid. VI. 167.) that John stabbed his nephew twice
with a dagger, in a boat, and subsequently threw his
corpse into the river. But how does he attempt to
substantiate this bold assertion ? He merely states
it. We cannot but coincide with modern historians
in thinking that this assassination by John's own
hand is highly improbable, seeing that so many vil-
lains were in the world who would have snatched at
so facile a means of obtaining emolument. Mr.
Curling, however, with the allowable license of the
romancist, has given implicit credence to Brito. A
more interesting fiction has not been issued from the
press for a long period than " John of England. It
reminds one of the oriental metaphor of Me reflection
of a rainbow upon plates of gold.

We hear that a movement is about being made to
form an asylum in Wales for the education and main-
tenance of the deaf and dumb children of the poor. ,
Several gentlemen in London have promised to come
forward and subscribe liberally in aid of the above ob-
ject; and it is hoped that the respectable portion of the
community in the Principality will take an interest in so
laudable an object. There have been found in more
than one instance in south Wales five deaf and dumb
children in the same family, and, being destitute of in-
struction, they are consequently bordering on idiotism.—
Welshman.
THE LATE TUNNEL ACCIDENT AT PERTH.—We
noticed the week before last a serious accident which
had taken place on the Tuesday previous, at the tunnel,
from the falling in of the roof. The body of the work
man then supposed to be entombed among the rubbish
was found on Friday, and from appearances his death
must have been instantaneous. Ile was an Irishman.
On the same day another of the sufferers died in the in
firmary. The others injured on the same occasion are
convalescent.—Perthshire Courier.
SUSPECTED MURDER AT SUTTON.—The inquiry
into the case of George Taylor, whose body was dis-
interred after being in the rave two years, to ascertain
the presence of arsenic, which it was suspected had been
administered by Elizabeth Smith, his housekeeper, was
resumed on Tuesday last. Further evidence having
been given to show that the accused parties in recrimi-
nating each other had implicated themselves, the coroner
referrd to a report which had been received from Pro-
fessor Taylor, who stated that he had completed the
analysis of the remains transmitted to him, and had been
unable to detect the presence of any metallic poison.
Mr. Pettinger, the surgeon, gave it as his decided opi-
nion, after hearing the evidence, and from the symptoms
he saw in Taylor, that he had died from the effects of
arsenic. Dr. Hugh Morten, of Newark, coincided in
that opinion. After the coroner had summed up the
evidence, the jury returned a verdict of manslaughter
against Elizabeth Smith and Sarah Taylor.
DARING BURGLARY.--Yesterday information was
forwarded to the police that the premises of Mr. Tylery,
No. 70, Long-lane, Barbican, had been entered on Friday
morning, and the entire stock of watches and jewellery
carried off, as well as ninety gold and silver watches,
valued at 2001., that had been left for repair.
A BLUE Heux.—On Tuesday last, a hare of a
singular. colour, which had been seen in Mr. Wood-
bridge's coverts, at Bigods, for a year or two, and called
the " blue hare," was killed by Dr. Barnes. Its fur re-
sembled that of the grey squirrel, and bad a very singular
appearaneeChelmsford Chronicle.