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London, England, 1851-05-12 00:00:00

ROLLS' COURT.--(THIS DAY.)

TRISTON v. HARDY.
This cause, the arguments in which occupied the Court
three days last week, came on for judgment this
morning.
1113 HONOUR having at great length gone through the
circumstances of the case, which have already appeared
in our columns, dismissed the bill with costs.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(THIS DAY.)
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT Bancs.)
His Honour was occupied the whole morning with
short Causes and claims, none of which were of im-
portance.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Lord CRAtawortTn.)
His Lordship was occupied the whole morning with a
motion in the case of the Direct Birmingham and Ox-
ford Railway v. Thom, the circumstances of which ap-
peared in our columns on a former occasion.
(Before Vice-Chancellor TURNER.)
The business before the Court to-dayconsisted entirely
of unopposed and adjourned petitions, which were dis-
posed of at an early hour.

QUEEN'S BENCH: -(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
At the sitting of the Court this morning,
Lord CAMPBELL intimated to the bar, that Mr. Justice
Coleridge was too much indisposed to attend to-day.
There were, consequently, only two judges on the
bench, Lord Campbell and Mr. Justice Paulson; Mr.
Justice Erie being engaged at Guiidhall, and Mr. Jus-
tice Wightreau in the Bail Court.
QUEEN v. LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAILWAY.
Sir F. THESIGER moved for a rule calling ou the de-
fendants to show cause why a mandamus should not issue,
commanding them to construct a certain opening- from
their railway to the land of Messrs. Stevenson, in the
township 01 Salford, near Manchester. Lie made the
application under the provisions of certain private rail-
way Acts of Parliament, which required that such open-
ings should be made, on affidavits which alleged that the
laud adjoining the railway had been injured in value in
consequence of those provisions not having been carried
into effect.
The COURT granted a rule nisi, and recommended
that the differences between the parties should be re-
ferred to the Railway Board, or to some re:ere° agreed
to between them, with the view to an amicable
settlement.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings in Banco.)
VLUXHALL•BRIDGB COMPANY.

The LORD CHIEF BARON delivered the judgment of
the Court in this case, the question in which was, whether
the Vauxhall-bridge Company were liabld to be rated to
the land-tax in respect of the tolls taken st the bridge.
The company were incorporated by the 49th George
111., c. 14, which authorised them to take tolls. The ul-
timate question in the case was as to the character of the
tolls. • The Court was of opinion that they belonged to
the body corporate, and not to the individual shareholders,
who only became entitled to their shares after the profits
became divisible, and no shareholder could exercise be.
fore that time any control over the corpus of the tolls.
In the year 1797, the statute 38 of George 111., 0. 5, was
passed, which was an Act to provide land-tax for the
service of the year 1798. By that Act tithes and tolls,
and all kinds of heriditaments, were made subject to the
tax, and in the following year, 1799, another Act was
passed making the tax perpetual, subject to redemption.
It was argued on behalf of the company that inasmuch
as tolls were mentioned specifically in the one Act and
not in the other, they could not be made subject to the
tax by virtue of the well-known rule of law that every
charge must be imposed.

CRIMINAL COURT.-(THIS DAY

OLD COURT.

The May sessions of the Central Criminal Court were
opened this morning, before the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, the Recorder, Alderman Sir Chapman Marshall,
Alderman Lawrence, and Sheriffs Carden and Hodgkin-
son, attended by their reqiective Under-Sheriffs and the
other civic authorities.

The calendar contains the names of 216 prisoners.
The grand jury having been sworn and impannelled,
The Learned RECORDER proceeded to deliver his
charge. He regretted to say that on looking at the
calendar he found that the number of prisoners charged
with criminal offences was very considerable, and he
therefore could not on'this occasion indulge in the lan-
guage of congratulation that he had done on others.
However there were but two or three cases that pre-
sented anything like legal difficulty, and it would not be
necessary for him to detain them at any length from
the discharge of their important duties. There were
three cases of murder, one of which was of a very pain.
ful character, being indeed the murder of a father by
his son. There were also two cases of rape, in the first
of which a man was accused of having committed the
offence upon his own child, a girl of thirteen years of
age. The other case was charged egainst three men,
who committed the offeace after rendering their victim
insensible with drink. These were the only serious
cases contained in the calendar, but in dismissing them
to their important functions he must again remind them
that the cases to be tried this session were numerically
heavy, and dispatch on their parts would consequently
be very desirable.
The grand jury then retired.

RAMBLES in the CRYSTAL PALACE
(THIS DAY.):
To a speculative observer not the least interesting
picture of the Great Exhibition is the crowd by which
in almost every quarter of the building he Linda himself
surrounded. one of the main avenues be for the time his
scene of obesrvation, he will have to move with the utmost
caution through the rustling silks of the multitudes of
of fair visitants lest, so great is the press in those quar-
ters, a hasty step, or a sadden turn, should lead to an
accident which would change the looks of admiration
and delight into black frowns and sullen discontent, with
which ladies generally regard an insult offered to their
attire; and in any quarter of the building, if he be not
over old, re suspect his attention will run great risk of
being distracted from the magnificent objects of art and
industry around to the not less interesting specimens of
nature's handiwork which pass along, and it he have a
spice of hero-tiorship in his nature, and be acquainted
with the persons of our public characters on such
an occasion as Saturday last he will find himself, in
his passage from one end of the building to the other,
jostling with the best and bravest of the land, sitting on
the same bench with a distinguished statesman whose
name is world-spread, drinking in the beauties of
Power's Greek Slave with a great lawyer, whose soul
he bad imagined to be buried in parchment and briefs,
wandering through the machinery department with the
man of science, whose name is on every lip, rubbing
shoulders with distinguished warriors, the conquerors of
far distant, warriors, or listening to the play of the foun-
tains with the poet, whose most fervid imaginings never
could have conjured up a scene half so brilliant and
spirit-stirring. Senators, artists, men the most distin-
guished in every branch where good service is to be
done to their country, such is the composition of the
orowd which fills the Crystal Palace, and in no city or
country of the globe could such an assembly of " fair
women and great mon" be seen as congregates under the
glorious arch of glass which has been raised over the
treasures of all nations.
The foreign portion of the visitors, in comparison to
their numbers, is of scarcely less distinguished character,
and, as far as we have yet seen, may be taken as a fair
representation of the intellect and greatness of our
neighbours; and there were men among this portion of
the assemblage whose reputations are of no less impe-
rishable renown than any of the greatest which England
can boast of.
Saturday seems, bY common consent, to have been
the most brilliant day since the opening; in fact, it was
the opening scene repeated in plain clothes, without the
ceremonial. All the really great and glorious in
that scene were present .there, without the splen-
dour and glitter of a pageant. The assemblage
this morning was net so numerous, at least as far as the
male portion was concerned, and the number of lady
visitors was certainly in the proportion of four to one.
On the opening we suggested that a department of beaux
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unable to attend them, the establishment of a
sort of bureau des ,commissionaires, where a party ,of
ladies of a certain number might be fur-
nished with a guide to conduct them over the build-
ing, would certainly be an
arrangensent of great conve-
nience. This subject, however, is one of sums import-
ance, and we shalt certainly return to it again when the
first excitement has subsided, and the Commissioners
have more time to attend to internal regulations. As a
guide the catalogue at present is worse than useless.
Advances are still being made in the arranging of
goods, particularly in the East India department, many
packages having only just arrived.

MADAME' SCHWAB'S CONCERT.—That excellent
pianist Madame Schwab gives a concert to-morrow evening
at the Princess's Concert Boom, at which Miss Catherine
Hayes will sing for. we believe, the first time this season.
Misses Birch, Dolby, Williams, Messent, and Louisa Pyne
will also appear, and the beneficiarc will herself preside at
the pianoforte. Ilte cannot doubt but that with such
attractions the concert will be fully attended,
THE REPILESENTATION OF BRISTOL.—It is stated
that. the Liberals intend to bring forward Edward Thomas,
Esq., as a cancidate for the representation of Bristol, in coil.
junction with Air. Berkeley cue of the pregent Members..