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London, England, 1848-06-07 00:00:00

deviati(.n of the Uphall and Bannie Branch. Case opened
and evidence taken in its fuvo ir.

13.--WisnAw AND COLTNESS.—CIauses
agreed to, and Bill reported.
CALEDONIAN.—PreaIIibIe proved, clauses agreed to,
and Bill ordered to be reported.

ELECTION CoIIIIIITTEE.
(THIS DAY.)
DUBLIN.
The Committee were engaged the whole day with the
scrutiny into the validity of Mr. Reynolds' return; but
although objections were taken to three votes, none of
them were sustained, and the votes wore decided to bo
good.

CHANCERY-(THISDAY.)
The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court at Westminster
to-clay, and heard appeals, none of which possessed any
points of interest.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
The further arguments in the part-heard case. of
"Knight and Majorinai,k." occupied his Lordship the
Master of the Roils the whole morning.

VICE-CHAN CERY.-(T HIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE.CIIANCELLOR OI ENGLAND.) ,
THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. WILSON—LADY BEWLEY S

Mr. BETIIELL repIiedCHARITY
to-day in this case at con •
siderable length. The arguments have occupied
nine or ten days, and the Learned Counsel's reply
lasted to-day from ten till nearly three o'clock.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR, at the conclusion of the
Learned Counsel's reply, gave judgment ; and after
going at some length into the facts of the ease, and
stating with what anxiety he had considered the
subject, pronounced the following decree :—That
the words, godly preachers for the time being of
Christ's Holy Gospel," in the deed of 1704 and 1707,
describe in general those who at the time of Lady
Hewley's death, or those who thereafter should be ortho-
dox English Dissenting ministers of Dissenting churches,
or congregations essentially and substantially in doctrine
and discipline of the same sort as the orthodox Dissent-
ing churches or congregations which existed in England
in the years 1704 and 1707, and therefore that ortho-
dox English Dissenting ministers of the Baptist Church,
of the Congregational and Independent Church, and of
the Presbyterian Church in England, who are not united
to or under the jurisdiction of the Kirk of Scot-
land and the Secession Church, are alone en-
titled to take the benefits provided by the
deeds of 1704 and 1707 for godly preachers of Christ's
Holy Gospel ; that the words in the same deed,
" godly widows, " describe the widows of those
orthodox English Dissenting ministers ; that the
words in the deed, " preaching of Christ's
Holy Gospel, " described the preaching of suck
orthodox English dissenting ministers, that the words
in the deed, " Ministry of Christ's Holy Gospel,"
described the ministry exercised by such orthodox
English Dissenting ministers, and that the
words " godly persons," described the individual
members of such Baptist congregations, or Inde-
pendent or Presbyterian churches in England, and
that the poor people to be placed in the hospital
must be the poor members of such churches. Such
were the declarations which his Honour felt himself
called upon, after the most anxious attention to the case,
to make. The Court then referred it to the Master to
carry on the scheme directed by the original decree, and
to appoint new trustees or managers in the place of the
defendants, the Scotch Presbyterian trustees, which, by
the decree, his Honour removed. All parties to have
their costs between solicitor and client.
The result of this judgment is to decide against the
claims of the Scotch Presbyterians to participate in the
benefit of Lady Hewley's charity, to remove all mem-
bers of that body from any control over the funds, and
to refer it to the Master to appoint new trustees, out of
the body of the English Dissenters of the denominations
of Baptists, Independents, Congregationalists, and
Presbyterians.
Nothing of any interest occurred in the Courts of the
Vice-Chancellors Knight Bruce and Wigram.

SECONDARIES'.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before Mr. Secondary JAMES )
°BLANDER V. ALEXANDER.
This was an action of trover to recover the value of
certain apparatus invented by the plaintiff for the pur-
pose of rectifying spirits. An order had been made by
one of the Learned Judges directing the property to
be produced in court, and if delivered up, that the
jury should estimate the difference in value of the ar-
ticle at the time it was improperly taken by de-
fendant and at the present time, and if not delivered
up, then for the full value ; the plaintiff, at all
events, to be entitled to a verdict for nominal damages.
The case was uninteresting, the question being one en-
tirely of value, defendant, who is a licensed victualler,
having admitted that he had illegally detained the pro-
perty, under the erroneous impression that it passed to
him under an inventory on taking possession of some
premises. Plaintiff claimed 301., but offered to accept 251.
The Learned SECONDARY summed up the evidence,
which he said was very inconclusive, the value of the
goods in 1844 being no criterion of the value in 1846,
when defendant converted them to his own use. Part of
the property only was produced, and that was now
valued at 21.
The jury gave a verdict for five shillings.
Mr. PARRY, for plaintiff, claimed to have a verdict for
forty shillings, the object of the judge's order bong to
carry costs.
The Learned SECONDARY—He was bound to take the
verdict what, ver the effect might be, but Mr. Parry
could apply to the Court above.

BOW-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
THE CHARTIST LEADERS.
Joseph Witiorns was placed at the bar before Mr.
Henry, charged with u.ing seditious language.
Horace Hardy, police-sergeant G 15, saidfthat on the
25th May last he attended a meeting on Clerkenwell-
green, from seven o'clock in the evening to half-past
nine. There were about 1,200 persons present. A person
named Menders May was voted into the chair. He had
seen May at similar meetings taking an active part.
May made some observations which the prisoner must
have heard, as he was in the van. He made notes of
the proceedings at the time, which ho afterwards de-
stroyed, but he had taken a copy of those notes
immediately after the conclusion of the meeting,
and he now produced the copy and read
it to the magistrate. The speech of May
announced the object of the meeting, which he said was
to unite the Irish Confederates with the English Chartists
on the subj« et of the Irish trials. It was the duty of all
Englishmen to join the Irish patriots in resisting the
Government and obtaining the repeal of the Unic'. In
the course of a few days they would have a proces-
sion to the Queen, in which he would walk under a
black banner, with a death's head and cross-
bones inscribed on it, signifying death or liberty.
Williams applauded this speech with the mob.
Williams then moved the first resolution, censuring the
Government for prosecuting Mitchel, and pledging the
meeting to use all possible exertions to assist the Irish
Confederates, in obtaining the liberty of Ireland. He
said the meeting was called by his desire, in consequence
of a paragraph which he had seen in an American paper
to the effect that the Canadians were ready to revolt if
Mitchel was convicted. He was certain if a few men
would now make a stand they would be victorious. The
Irish were determined not to allow Mitchel to be con-
victed, and if they arose the soldiers would join them
and free him from prison if the verdict of the jury did
not. He did not wish blood to be shed, but if
they would not fight for a man like Mitchel they ought
to be d—d. He was cheered by the mob, and the reso-
lution was passed.
Richard Moss, G 195, arrested the prisoner on a war-
rant, at twenty minutes before five this morning, at his
lodging in Bishopsgate-street, where he was in bed. He
said he expected something,
Mr. HENRY thought this a fit
case to send before a
jury. Ile would commit the prisoner, but would admit
him to bail.
Thu same prisoner was then charged jointly, with a
prisoner named Alexander Sharpe, with using seditious
language at a meeting ou the 26th of May, at the same
place.

The Sergeant (Hardy) said, that on the 26th May ho
attended a meeting, commencing at eight and ending
at
half-past nine o'clock in the evening. There
wereasat about the same number of persons present
the former meeting, and it was of a simi-
lar character. The two prisoners were in the van
which formed the platform. A person, whose name was
announced as Rose, was in the chair. He took notes, as
before, and, immediately after the conclusion of the pro-
ceedings,
he took a clear copy, which he examined, with
a man. named Cross. The copy he produced was a var-
b atm copy. the chairman said the object of the meet-
ing was to state the progress of the trial of J. Mitchel,
and called on Mr. Williams to address the meeting.
Williams
read an extract from an American paper, which
stated that the Canadians were ready to revolt if Mitchel
was convicted. The 72d Regiment were to be removed
from Montreal because they shouted for repeal. The
Irish of New York had had a meeting, at which it was
resolved, if the international law would allow them,
to raise a brigade and send it to Ireland ; and if
not now allowed, they would at the coming election
for President, only vote for one who would allow them.
They would at all events send arms, and had raised 100
dollars for that purpose. He then went on to say that
it was the duty of every Englishman to assist the Irish
Confederates, by every means in their power, to obtain
the release of Mitchel, and proceeded to call on them
to organize by joining the society. They were able by
means of organization to held more than :1,000 meetings,
that evening, and if they had more members they could
hold more still. Ile then read a " vote of censure" on
the "damnable, bloody, and tyrannical Government,"
for prosecuting John Mitchel, and a pledge on the part
of the meeting to assist the Confederates, which were
carried as a resolution. Sharpe, who seconded the
resolution, said he bad been censured for using
such strong language as he did the evening be-
fore, but he would repeat what he then said, by
calling the Whigs a base, bloody, and brutal Govern-
ment. One hundred and fifty thousand Irish Contede-
rates had marched into Dublin the evening before, and
no doubt by that time John Mitchel was free. This
meeting caused alarm in the neighbourhood he believed.
The prisoners remained till the meeting broke up.
Cross-examined—lie attended the meeting for the
purpose of observing the nature of the meeting, and the
language used, by the direction of the superintendent.
By Mr. HENRY—W ithout looking at the notes at all,
he remembered what occurred at the meetings.
A policeman of the G division (in private clothes)
proved that he arrested the prisoner Sharpe this morn-
ing in St. George's-road, St. Luke's, near his own
lodging.
The prisoner Williams said that a great part of the