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London, England, 1860-02-24 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, 1860.

HARRIET DARLINGTON KENT, deceased.
Pursuant to the Act of Parliament; .of the 22d and 23d
Victoria, cap. 35, sec. 29, intituled "An A, sh to further Amend
the Law of Property and to Relieve Trustees," Notice is
Hereby Given, That all persons having a n • claim a7,ainst the
estate of HARRIET DARLINGTON K V NT, late of York-
place, Portman-square, spinster (who d'iod on or about the
2 3cl day of June 1859), and whose will w a.s proved by John
Froggatt, of Clifford's-inn, In the city of London, and Henry
Charles Butler, of Downiand-house, Lipl ic 'ok, in the county
of Southampton, the executors named hi the said will, are
requested to send the particulars of the: it claims upon or
against her estate to the said executors, or either of them, on
or before the 31st day of March next ; or in default, they will,
after the last mentioned day, distribute the: assets of the said
testatrix among the parties entitled there .° , having regard to
the claims of which they shall then have irotice.—DAted this
23d day of February, 1860.
JOHN FROGGATT, cif Clifford's-inn,
Solicitor to the Executors.

AT a Special Court of the Wart lens or Keepers
and Commonalty of the Mystery or Art of Saddlers of
the city of Loudon, held at their Hall, on Thursday, the 23d
day of February, IR6O, to take into conside •ation the London
Corporation Bill, and the propriety ot petit loning Parliament
against the same : It was unanimously Re solved, on the mo-
tion of Mr. Warden Humphreys, seconded try Master Alder-
man Sir Peter Laurie—" That the petitions..t o the two Houses
of Parliament, now read, be adopted. an d the Master and
Wardens be requested to place the same, ries pcctively, in the
hands of such Peer and such Member of th t Commons House
as in their discretion they shall see fit, in order that the pe-
tition addressed to the House of Commons may be presented
with all due despatch, and the petition adds eased to the House
of Peers may be presented so soon after as t ,131 e, Bill now in the
Lower House shall (if ever) be brought i nto the House of
Peers."
Resolved.—" That the thanks of this Co' trt be presented to
the Master and Wardens for their-prompt Wade in convening
this meeting." GILES ( ;L,A.RISE, Clerk.

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11.E.R MAIBSTY'S LEIYEE.

Her Majesty the Queen held st. levee in St.
James's Palace yesterday afternoon,.
The following presentations to the Queen took
place, the names having been previously left at the
Lord Chamberlain's•office and submitted for her
Majesty's. approval :
Mr. George E. Adams, by the Lord Chamberlain.
Colonel Airey, by Colonel Lord F. Paulet.
Mr. William Atchison, by Major-General Wylde.
Lieutenant J. H. Alexander, by the Secretary of State
for India.
Colonel-Commandant A. Anderson, by the Duke of
Somerset.
Mr. E. B. Andrews, by the Duke of Newcastle.
Captain W. IV. Arbuthnot, by General 'Viscount Gough.
Major Armstrong, by his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge.
Mr. Bagwell, M.P., by Viscount Gough.
Captain G. Barlow, by Colonel Wilson Patten.
Colonel W. F. Beatson, by the Earl of Bllenborough.
Ensign E. Beaumont, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Lieutenant J. Begg, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Cornet T. Y. Benyon, by Lieutenant-Q exteral Knollys.
Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Bingham, by Colonel Lord F.
Paulet.
Mr. Afton Blount, by the Lord Chamberlain.
Lieutenant T. B. Boileau, by the Secretary of State for
India.
Lieutenant and Adjutant Bolton, by Colonel Bridge.
Lieutenant-Colonel Boyle, by Major-General 'Wesley.
Lieutenant Samuel Boulderon, by Viscount Gough.
Mr. J. Hibberd Brewer, by Sir G. C. Lewis.
Lieutenant W. B. P. Brigetocke, by Viscount Evereley.
Captain A. Bromley, by the Duke of Newcastle.
Commander C. Bromley, R.N., by the Duke of Somerset.
Lieutenant G. P. Brown, by Sir F. Currie.
Major-General the Hon. Robert Bruce, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Captain Burnell, by Colonel Lord F. Paulet.
Lieutenant-Colonel Fowler Burton, by hie Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge.
Major Hon. Somerset Calthorpe, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
The Hon. C. Carnegie, M.P., by the Earl of Airlie.
Lieutenant Cathcart, by Colonel F. Paulet.
Dr. T. King Chambers, by Major-General the Hen. R.
Bruce.
Lieutenant-Colonel Chapman, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Lieutenant H. H. Chapman, by the Secretary of State
for India.
Lieutenant Cleland, by Major-General Downing.
Colonel Robert Spencer Cavendish Clifford, by Vice-
Admiral Sir Augustus Clifford.
Lieutenant E. J. Clifford, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Lieutenant W. H. Gardner Cornwall, by the Rev. A
Gardner Cornwall.
Ensign R. Dane, by Colonel Bridge.
Lieutenant the Hon. Vesey Dawson, by Colonel Lord F.
Paulet.
Mr. L. J. Day, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Ensign C. de Robeck, by Lord Foley.
Captain Sir J. Douglas, by his Royal Highness the Duke
of Cambridge.
Ensign G. Dumergue, by Lieutenant-Colonel Hort.
Sir William Dunbar, Bart., M.P., by Viscount Pal-
merston.
Lieutenant-Colonel Herbert Edwardes, by the Secretary
of State for India.
Commander A. G. Edye, R.N., by the Duke of Somerset.
Mr. John Edye, by the Duke of Somerset.
Hon. George F. S. Elliott, by Lord John Russell.
Assistant-Surgeon W. Everet, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Viscount Falkland, by Viscount Campdon.
Lieutenant-Colonel J. R. Farquharson, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge.
Lieutenant H. Farquharson, by his Royal Highness
the Duke of Cambridge.
Captain J. E. Ford, by his Royal Highness the Duke of
Cambridge.
Lieutenant •Colonel Foster, by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge.
Lieutenant H. R. Franks, by the Secretary of State for
India.
Captain D. Gallon, by the Secretary cf State for War.
Major Gavin, M.P., by the Right Hon. E. Cardwell.
Captain Gill, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Viscount Gifford, R.N., by the Duke of Somerset.
General Sir William Gomm, by His Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge.
Lieutenant C. Grant, by the Secretary of State for India.
Ensign T. G. Gray, by Lieutenant General Knollys.
Lieutenant E. Hall, by Lieutenant-General Knsllys.
Mr. B. Vernon Harcourt, by the Earl of St. Germans.
Captain 3. B. Hardy, by the Secretary of State for India.
Lieutenant H. Hardy, by Lieutenant .General Knollys.
Captain H. J. Haydock, by Lieutenant .General
Knollys.
Mr. L. H. J. Hayne, by the Duke of Somerset.
Assistant-Surgeon R. 0. Hayes, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
LieutenantM r
. J.
A. Hayward,
HbyeaMthreo. A.
by lklaAckdimnniroanl
, M.P.
H.
Leeks.
Ensign A. H. Hebeler, by Chevalier H ebeler.
Ensign C. C. Hood, by General Sir F. Stovin.
Commander W. R. Hobson, R.N., late of the Fox, Arctic
Le.
Expedition, on promotion, by the Duke of Somerset.
Mr. Howes, M.P., by Mr. Fellowee, M.P.
Paymaster T. Hunt, by Colonel Charles Bingham.
Mr. Kn.atchbull•Hugessen, by Viscount Palmerston.
Lieutenant G. Innes, by Colonel Sykes, M.P.
Captain Jackson, by Colonel Wilson Patten.
Captain Griffith Jenkins, by Sir Charles Wood.
Lieutenant-Colonel Jenner, by his Royal Highness the
DUke of Cambridge.
Dr. Wingate Johnston, R.N., by the Duke of Somerset.
Commander W. Henry Jones, R.N., !by the Earl Eof
Elgin.
Captain J. Jones, by the Secretary of State for India.
Captain E. Vere Jones, by Colonel Wilson.
Lieutenant C. H. S. Jones, by Lolonel Bridge .
Captain Horatio N. hippen, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Lieutenant-General Knollys, by his Royal Highness the
Duke of Cambridge.
Lieutenant-Colonel R. Knox, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Lieutenant IV. L. Kulbach, by Lieutenant-General W.
Knollys.
Mr. Laurie, Clareneeux King of Ares, by the Lord
Chamberlain.
Major Lawrence, by his Royal Highness the Commander-
in-Chief.
Captain the Hon. Edward Legge, by Colonel Lord F.
Paulett, C.B.
Ensign Charles Forbes Leith, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Colonel Thomas Lemon, R.M., by the Duke of Somerset.
Sir John Liddell, by the Duke of Somerset.
Colonel John Liddell, C. 8., Bombay Army, by the Secre-
tary of State for India.
Cornet E. B. Liebert, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Major Light, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam.
bridge.
Lieutenant-Colonel Loyd Lindsay, by Lord Overstone.
Major A. B. Little, by the Secretary of State for India.
Captain Eliott Lccichart, by his father, Mr. Eliott Look.
hart, M.P.
Captain Donald Mackenzie, R.N., by the Duke of
Somerset,

' Ceg.ain J. D. Ma ekenzie, by Colonel Sir John Douglas,
K.C.B.
Surgeon M'Arthur, M.D., by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Ensign Sydenhatn. C. M' Gill, by Major-General the lion.
Charles Grey.
Mr. D. F. M'L sod, by the Secretary of State for India.
Colonel M'Murdo, C. 8., A.D.C., by the Secretary of
State for War.
Lieutenant M'N'eill, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Mr. Lee Mainw axing, by Colonel Lord F. Paulet.
Lieutenant Malley, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Captain W. W. Manners, by Viscount Eversley.
Mr. Ross L. Mangles, by Mr. Hess D. Mangles.
Lieutenant H. Marsden, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Lieutenant E. A. Marsland, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Commander T. Hutchinson M. Martin, by the Right
lion. Sir John Pakington.
Lieutenant H. B. Maule, by the Deputy Adjutant-Gene?.
ral Royal Artillery.
Captain W. H. Mordaunt, by Lieutenant-Gen. Knollys.
The Rev. Henry Moseley, by the Lord President of her
Majesty's Council.
Dr. Nisbet, by Sir John Liddell.
Ensign Aubrey Vere O'Brien, by his uncle, Lord Mon-
teagle.

Lieut. G. Onslow, by Colonel Bridge.
Lieut.-Colonel Orr, C. 8., by the Right Hon. the Secre.
tary of State for India.
Captain Shorard Osborn, C. 8,, by his Grace the Duke of
Somerset.

Major Walter Brisbuto Park, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
4Colonel Parke, by his Royal Highness the Duke of Cam-
bridge.
Mr. Henry Edward Pellew, by his father the Hon. the
Dean of Norwich.
Lord Petro, by the Lord Chamberlain.
Lieut. J. S. Phelps, by Major-General Wylde, C.B.
Ensign Stainsby Pigott, by Lieut.-Colonel Hort.
Lieut. A. G. Plomor, by the Secretary of State for India.
Lieut. Harry North Dalrymplt! Prendergast, by General
Viscount Gough.
Paymaster W. G. Proctor, by Lieut.-General Knollys.
Lieut. William Puckle, by Viscount Eversley.
Captain B. Whitmore Puckle, by Viscount Eversley.
Ensign A. Reynolds, by Lieut.-General Knollys.
Lieut-Colonel Robertson, by Lieut.-General Knollys.
Colonel G. H. Robertson, C. 8., by the Secretary of State
for India.
Captain James Forbes Robertson, by the Secretary of
State for India.
Captain Hugh George Robison, by the Secretary of State
for India.
Ensign Archibald Roger, by Lieut.-General Knollys.
Ensign William Vilett Rolleston, by General Wynyard,
C.B.

Captain Lewis Stevens Rooke, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Mr. Horace Rumbold, by Lord John Russell.
Lieut. C. L. Salis, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Lieut. Percy Sanderson, by his brother, Mr. Sanderson.
Major Henry Ayshford Sanford, by Mr. Sanford.
Lieutenant-Colonel Percy Scott, by Viscount Eversley.
Captain H. Smart, by Major-General Knoßya.
Mr. R.W. Smith, on appointment to her Majesty's Ben-
gal Artillery, by Sir Frederic Currie.
Ensign Walter Caradoo Smith, by his father, Mr. George
Robert Smith.
Lieutenant-Colonel Spalding, by Major-General Wesley,
Deputy Adjutant-General, R.M.
Lieut. Henry St. Leger, by Captain Leicester Vernon,
M.P.

Deputy-Inspector-General of Naval Hospitals, Dr. John
Grant Stewart, R.N., by the Duke of Somerset.
Lieutenant-Colonel Crichton Stuart, by Viscount Pal-
merston.
Ensign E. C. Strutt, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Viscount Sudley, by his father, the Earl of Arran.
Major H. L. Talbot, by Lieutenant-General Knollys,
commanding division, Aldershott.
Lieut. W. Tatham, by Colonel Bingham, Royal Artillery.
Lord Taunton, by Viscount Palmerston.
Lieut. George Leo Le Meander Taylor, by Colonel P.
W. Taylor.
Lieut. W. H. Thomas, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Lieut. Samuel P. Townsend, R.N., by the Hon. Captain
Denman, R.N.

Captain Edward Winterton Tumour, by Lard George
Lennox.

Captain T.T. Turton, by the'Seerstary of State for India.
Colonel Richard Howard Vyse, by General Viscount

Gough.

Dr. David Walker, late of the Fox Arctic Expedition, by
Sir Roderick Murchison.

Captain William Clays Watson, by Major-General
Wylde.
Lord Gordon Watson, by General Wynyard.
Lieut. and Adjutant H. J. Webb, by Lieutenant-General
Knollys.
Major Gould Weston, by the Secretary of State for India.
Lieut. G. Webber, by Lieutenant-General Knollys.
Mr. G. W. Wheatley, Vice-Consul fur Honduras, by
Lord John Russell.

Lieutenant-Colonel R. Herbert White, by his Royal
Highness the Duke of Cambridge. •
Captain R. Whigham, by Mr. Elliott Lockhart, M.P.
Mr. Justice Williams, of Victoria, by the Duke of New-
castle.

Ensign E. Williams, by his father, Mr. Justice Williams.
Captain Wise, R.N., A.D.C., by the Duke of Somerset.
Mr. John Woodford, by General Sir Alex. WOodford.
Lieut. T. C. Wray, by Lieut.-General Knollys.
Roy. Harry Wright, by the Bishop of Llandaff.
General Wynyard. by his Royal Highness tho Duke of
Cambridge.
Mr. Allen Young, on return from the Arctic Expedition,
by kir Roderick Murchison.

LA If' INTELLIGENCE.—Feb. 23.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before Lord
Chief justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.)

COLONEL DICKSON Y. COLONEL WALKER.-LIBEL.
This was an action brought by Lieutenant-Colo-
nel Latham Dickson' formerly of the Line, and
latterly of the Tower Hamlets Militia, to recover
damages against Colonel Walker, far a libel
published by that officer in Colburn's Unidecl Ser-
vice Magazine, and complained of by the plain-
tiff, as reflecting upon his honour and credit as a
gentleman, and as calculated to injure his reputa-
tion in the estimation of his friends, unless retracted
and atoned for.

The incidents of the action were similar in all
respects to those which formed the ground .of the
action brought some time ago by the plaintiff
against the Earl of Wilton, in which the jury, after
several days spent in trying the case, gave a ver-
dict for the plaintiff.

The defendant in the present action pleaded,
first, not guilty; and, secondly, that the libel was
true in substance and in fact, and upon those counts
the parties joined issue.
Mr. Edwin James, Q.C., Mr. Hawkins, Q.C.,
and Mr. Coleridge appeared for the plaintiff; Mr.
Sergeant Ballantine, Mr. Russell, and Mr. Milward
conducted the case for the defendant.
The Lord Chief Justice said, as ho understood
the matter, Lieut.-Col. Dickson did not owe any-
thing to the mess now, he having paid up every-
thing that was due by him. The whole case was
very lamentable and very painful, and it was much
to be regretted that in a matter which had already
been publicly tried and disposed of, Lieut.-Colonel
Dickson's name was again dragged before the
public.

Mr.
Sergeant Ballantine said imputations had
been cast, in a military publication, upon the cha-
racter and credit of Lieut.-Col. 'Walker and his
brother officers, and hence it was that he wrote the
letter in question.
The Lord Chief Justice—The regiment was sud-
denly disembodied, and there were liabilities due
by the officers to Lord Wilton, which they might
not have felt themselves in circumstances to settle
at the moment; but they did not say that, and in•
stead of saying that they threw the whole blame
upon Lieut.-Col. Dickson. He really thought there
could be no difficulty in finding some other and
amicable way to settle the matter than that which
was now being pursued.
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he would not for a
moment oppose any honourable course calculated
to settle the differences between those gentlemen.
Mr. Edwin James said he was ready to agree to
any course worthy of the character and position
of Lieut.• Col. Dickson, and of a nature to extend
to him that just meed of redress to which he ' was
entitled.

The learned counsel then conferred together, and
ultimately left the court for the purpose of more
freely discussing the terms of settlement. On
their return into court,
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine said he need scarcely
acknowledge that he received with great pleasure
his lordship's intimation that it was desirable to
settle this matter in a fair and friendly spirit, and
his intimation that he felt anxious that justice
should be awarded between those two gentlemen,
who were both meritorious officers ; and he thought
it would be conceded by every one who heard the
trial as far it had gone that Lieut.-Col. Walker
had been very seriously injured in his feelings, and

that he had no intention to impute anything to
Lieut.-Col. Dickson of a nature calculated to bring
iiiaredit upon him in connection with the affairs
of the regimental mess. But great provocation
had been given to Lieut.-Col. Walker.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn—l do not under-
stand what you mean, Brother Ballantine. I think
the words in this libel are capable of being inter-
preted by gny one, as casting an imputation upon
the honour of Lieut.-Col. Dickson. I understood
you, in your defence of Lieut.. Col. Walker, to say
that that gentleman had no intention to cast any
imputation upon Lieut.-Col. Dickson ; but, finding
that you are not now entirely and satisfactorily
withdrawing all imputation upon that gentleman,
I consider that, in the functions which I have to
discharge, it becomes my duty to endeavour to
bring about a proper understanding between those
two gentlemen. Now, if you are disposed to with-
draw all imnutation of a nature calculated to throw
discredit upon Lieut.-Col. Dickson, I think the
matter ought to be amicably settled. As to whether
Lieut.-Col. Dickson had been injudicious or indis-
creet is a matter of opinion, upo-.2 which every one
might hold his own view. The only object he had
in coming into court was to v!ndicate his character
and honour; and I am sure that Mr. James will
readily assent to any arrangement that can lead to
that result.

Mr. James—Pl assure your lordship that that is
what Lieut.-Colonel Dickson has in view; and I
can state, with reference to the publication corn-
_Plained,sif-by Lieut.-Colonel Walker, that Lieut.-
Colonel Dickson had nothing whatever to do with
it. I trust, my lord, that the " treaty of amity"
which your lordship has recommended, will be car-
ried out in all its integrity. Lieut.-Colonel Dickson
is willing to accept a verdict with 40s. costs.
The Lord Chief Justice—A verdict with merely
nominal damages, all imputations upon Lieut.-Col.
Dickson being withdrawn, and there being not the
slightest stain upon that gentleman's character.
Verdict accordingly.
The parties on either side then left the court,
accompanied by their respective friends.