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London, England, 1846-04-24 00:00:00

HOUSE OF LoRDs.—(THIS DAY.

VICE-CHAN, LItY.-(THIS DAY )
The Vice-Chancellor of England took unopposed petitions, short
causes and petitions to day, none of which possessed any Interest.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGIIT BRUGE.)
WILSON V. STANIIGPE —DEMURZER
. .

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

31 p
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Mr. Baron Parke is improving in health, and will
resume his seat on the bench some time in the present term.
A monument has been ere..ted at Stoke Church,
Berkshire, to the memory of the late Lord Montague.
l'he Earl of Glengall is suffering from indisposition
at his seat, Caher Castle, country Tipperary.
Mr. C. B. Hamilton, M.P. for Aylesbury,•has been
detained at Nice, and prevented attending his Parliamentary duties
in London, br a severe attack of fever, from which the honourable
gentleman is at present slowly recovering.—Galignanis Messenger.
The Right Honourable Richard Laior Sheil, M.P.,
will arrive at his mansion, Eccleston-square, Pimlico, in the course
of the ensuing week, from Madeira, where he has been staying for
some months.
Captain Sir James J. Gordon Bremer, K.O 8., left
town yesterday afternoon, for Portsmouth, to hoist a commodore's
broad pendant on board the Queen, 110, as second in command of the
Experimental Squadron.
PUNISHMENT FOR CONJUGAL INFIDELITY.—A very
novel and extraordinary procession took place on Thursday, the 2d
Instant, at King's Coed, in the parish of Llandenny, near Pontypool.
On the morning of that day, Elizabeth, the wife of a farm ;bai
übonic',re
to
of the name of Cole, and a farmer residing soar, had been
sin against the seventh commandment. The husband immediately
infidelity and of his own
communicated the knowledge of his rib's
them back to back.
,and bind
seize the aggressor and his
placed upon a hurdle, and !as-
toned were Injury to some friends, who, upon due deliberation, advised him to
This being
Wiled to a ladder. They were
an
baited about fifty persots, who appeared
some lusty rustics, accompanied accomplished,
then mounted upon the shoulders of
v every farm-house in the delighted with with the fun. T
Inge, thus elevated—"
and his paramour seem
Seudresucha
regardless pai
rofwtash eneverseel."
degradationl Tthheeyfarwmeree
farmer
The attendants in the procession imagining that he displayed too
undergoing,n
situation he had by his indis-
cretion
levity
aappeared
quite at ease, the former smoking a pipe.
eiretih and indifferencein the
on placed himsei
f,the fu
insisted he should
of the weed, no longer
and a inhd.uwigensirnehithce.
pleasure he derived from
witty compelled to relinquish the solace he experienced from its
enjoyment. From ten ii the morning till darkness drew a veil over
the proceedings were they thus publicly exposed b.) such Lynch law.
—Monmouth

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813 MosEs MoNTEFIoRE'S ARRIVAL AT ST. PETERS-
ZUROII.—L e t t e rs are in t owntthe
announcingßussian tchaepai
trarli,vianl ot
the
Sire n
illhots es
beforeatid
Lady Monteflors and suite at
thelet of April. Tho paragraph, copied from some foreign source,
which
reported two audiences granted by the Emperor to the noble_. hearted knight, was at least premature —Voice of Jacob.
, THE .I.4•.iNDoN HOSPITAL.—Thu tatiliverSary festival
of this hospital took place last evening at the London Tavern,
Bishopsgate-street. About one hundred gentlemen sat down to
dinner, amongst whom were his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge (in the chair), the Lord Bishop of Lichfield, Sir William Clay,
M.P., William Colton, ])avid Salonsons, Esq., William. Davis,
Esq., Robert Hanitury, Esq., and other munificent patrons of the in-
stitution. The amount of aubscriptions announced was the follow-
ing :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge, 20/., the East and
West India Dock Company, 1501. ; H. C. Pelly,: Esq., 30 guineas ;
William Colton, Esq., 101. 10s. ; the Loudon Dock Company, 1001
St. Katherine Dock Company, 211. ; by It. Hanbury, Esq., treasure.r,
1681. ; by J. Davis, Esq., 2771.; by the gentlemen of the Hebrevr,
nation, 2251. 12s. led. ; Sir William Clay, M.P., 51. ; Colonel Fox,
M.P., 101. ; 1 limas Maatermaii, Esq., M.P., 30 guineas. The total
amount of the collection announced was 1,6541.
ACCIDENT RELIEF SOCIETY.—The Right Ron. Lord
Ashley will preside at the anniversary festival of the above excel-
lent society, which is announced for this evening at the Albion
Tavern.
On Tuesday afternoon an infuriated cow escaped from
the Liverpool slaughter-houses, and in its furious progress
through the streets, tossed a boy from fifteen to twenty feet
in the air. Fortunately no bones were broken, and he is not
dangerously hurt —Manchester Guardian.
OXFORD, APRIL 21.—A formal contradiction has ap-
peared of the statement that the Duke of Marlborough is
about to let Blenheim Palace to the Queen Dowager. The
Rev. Mr. Sibthorp is now here on a visit to some of his
old college friend& It is said that he has imposed on him-
self a silence of three years from his usual pulpit minis-
trations, as a mark of penitential regret for having, in a
moment of ill-judged excitement, joined the Romish com-
munion

The House sat to-day for the first time since the Easter recess to
hear appeals. 'Elie Peers present were Lord Brougham, Lord Cot-
tenham and Lord Campbell.
THE EARL OF STATE V. KING.
This case came before their Lordships upon upped. from the Court
of Session in Scotland. The question involved in the case is one of
dry Scotch entail, as to whether or not a deed had been properly
registered.
Mr. Bethel! and Mr. Rutherford appeared for the appellant ; and
Mr. Anderson and Mr. Robertson for the respondent.
The ease appears likely to occupy some days.

CHANCE ft I •-( T IS DAY.)
The Lord 4.hancellor, after disposing of the unoppo.ed lunatic
petitions in his paper, proceeded to hear the further arguments in tne
part-heard appeal of Weeks V. Stanhope, which occupied his Lord-
ship the remainder of the morning.

This was a bill filed by the plaintiff, a shareholder, on behalf of
the other shareholders of the London and ➢lanchester Direct Inde-
pendent Railway (Reinington's line), against the Directors and
Provisional Committee of that Company, and alleged that the
defendants have generally neglected the interests of the company, and
frustrated the objects of it in favour of the Direct London and Man-
chester Railway (Itastrick's line), to which they banded ever the
plans and sections prepared for the rival scheme ; and alleges fur-
ther, that this was done for a personal consideration ; and
that the deposits paid in on the Remington hue
were laid out in the purchase of shares in the other company, with
a view to keeping up their price in the market, and adds some
minor details bearing upon these charges.

The ca-e was heard on demurrer,-on the part of the Hon. Mr.
Stanhope, one of the defendants, on whose behalf the demurrer was
argued en a point of equity, and on the question of parties, it was
contended that in case x partnership was to be wound up, it could
not be brought into Court but is presence of all parties concerned.
The COURT decided tl:at the point in equity failed, and overruled
the demurrer on the question of parties, without prejudice to any
question in the cause, and reserved costs.

Sittings in Banco, Westminster Hall.
OLWISON V. TUE MARINE INSURANCE comrANT.
This 'was an action taken by Messrs. B. and It. Olwison, insurance
brokers, nominal plaintiffs, who effected a policy of Insurance on
behalf of Messrs. Garrett and Co., in the Marina Insura:ice Com-
pany, upon certain goods shipped on board the Penang, and destined
for China. The action was tried at Liverpool Spring Assizes, 1844,
and a verdict taken for the plaintiff, foi 2,6791., subject to a special
case.

Mr. ManTtri, in applying for the rule, stated the facts as they ap-
peared in evidence, which were in substance to this effect :—That
the plaintiffs shipped their goods on board the Penang for Canton;
that while on the voyage a storm arose, and the vessel and cargo
were injured ; that the Penang put into Hong-Kong, and there
transhipped the goods into the James Lang, which the defendants
eontendediwas the dual port of destination of the 200 bales of goods,
but the plaintiffs contended that such could not be the case, inas-
much as that Hong-Kong was then (in June, 1841), but a barren
rock, having no warehouses, and only a few sheds, and that the
goods were only transhipped with a view to ascertain the extent of
the damage they had sustained ; and that Canton was the final port
of destination, because it was the final port of sale.
The case is one of rather a complicated nature, and involves the
consideration of the question as to what was the actual understand-
standing between this country and China at the time, or whether
England was at open hostilities with the Chinese then.
The iOLICITOIL-GENERAL, on behalf of the plaintiff, contended that
England was then at open war with China, and that Canton was,
at the time of the arrival of the Penang at Hong-Kong,
in a state of actual siege by the British forces, and
that therefore the party in char,,e of the goods did not deem it safe to
take them there, and therefore he hired the James Lang as a receiv-
ing ship, and put the goods into her. Ile further contended that the
policy was so generally worded as to leave optional the port in China
at which the good.; were to be landed. ; and that the Penang was
destined to return to e.ngland with tea, and not to go on to Canton.
He further contended that the James Lang was not hired as a re-
ceiving ship, which was to convey the goods„to some other port, but
as a Narchou,e for the goods.
Mr. MARTIN proceeded to reply, aid had not concluded when our
report left.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco, before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.)
Mr. UNTRANK moved, on the part of a prisoner charged with man-
slaughter under a coroner's inquest, fur a writ of certiorari to bring
up the proceedings, and a role nisi to show cause why he should not
be admitted to bail.
The names of the parties did not transpire, but it appeared from
the affidavits produced by the Learned Counsel, that the deceased,
being in a state of intoxication, went to the house of the prisoner and
began to undress, as if lie had been at home. Whilst they were
struggli g the prisoner's wife ran for assistance, and the prisoner
having succeeded in putting the deceased out of the door, shut it. It
was supposed that the shutting of the door caused the deceased to
fall down the steps and fracture his skull. It did not appear that the
act was malicious.—Application granted.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY)
George Castel', a remarkably fine-grown young man, was charged
with being a deserter from the 12th Regiment of Light Dragoons
(Lancers).
John Porteus, sergeant, 6th Dragoons, stated that in consequence of
!min-motion he had received he apprehended the prisoner between
eight and nine o'clock last evening, at the King's Arms public-house.
In Rear-street, Leicester-square, as a deserter from the 12th Light
Dragoons.
Mr. Hatti4wica (to the prisoner)—Do you admit being a deserter
from that regiment? Prisoner —I do.
Edward Kelly, sergeant of the 3d Dragoon Guards, identified the
prisoner, having known him while in the regiment. 'the prisoner
admitted that lie enlisted into the 12th Lancers about a year
ani ten months ago, at a public-house in Westminster, and deserted
from Maidstone, on the sth instant, for the purpose of getting mar-
lied. Ho was committed, and his descriptive return forwarded to
the War-office in the usual manner.