The Sun.
London, England, 1859-03-15 00:00:00

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN.
REPORT OF THE DIRECTORS.

The directors announced in their report to the
last meeting of the proprietors, on February 10th,
1859, that they had agreed to take the Epsom and
Leatherhead Railway, recently completnd by an
independent company, at rn annual rent of £2,000,
with conditions for its merger into this company's
undertaking, and that at a fitting time the pro-
prietors would be called together to consider the
terms, and would be asked to confirm the arrange-
ment. The time has now arrived.

A special meeting has also been rendered neces-
sary as regards the other two purposes mentioned
in the advertisement, merely to sanction, in a more
formal manner, matters which have already been
submitted and approved of by former meetings. To
these, therefore, the directors will first refer.
The terms on which the Wimbledon and Epsom
line is to be worked by this company were explained
to the proprietors, and approved of by them, at the
half-yearly meeting on August 7th, 1858. The line
is now completed, and will be opened for traffic
early in the ensuing month. It is simply necessary,
therefore, on the present occasion to pass a formal
resolution approving the agreemenewhich will be
submitted to the meeting.
The terms on which the Portsmouth Railway is
to be leased to, or amalgamated with this company
have also been fully explained and approved on
more than one occasion. The working of trains
over it in the meantime has been undertaken by
this company, on terms which, so far as the law
will allow, are tie same as if the lease of that line
to the company had already been executed. A
formal agreement for this working arrangement
will also be submitted, and the respective agree-
ments will then be in a state to receive the ap-
proval of the Board of Trade.
With respect to the proposed dealing with the
Epsom and Leatherhead Railway, the directors
have only to state, that this company being so
largely interested in the working and proprietor-
ship of the Wimbledon and Epsom line, they have
deemed it very desirable that the company should
secure to itself the ownership of the four miles of
railway running south from Epsom, and constitut-
ing the Epsom and Leatherhead undertaking. These
four miles have been constructed by an independent
company, and will thus become an important feeder
to the Wimbledon and Epsom, and South-Western
lines. The directors have accordingly made a pro-
visional agreement for its purchase, and for working
trains on it, until the purchase can be completed.
The terms of arrangement are as follows :
The company are to purchase the line, within six
months after the passing of the act authoising the
same, for £50,000 in cash.
Or, in the option of the South Western Com-
pany, for £50,000 four per cent. South Western
Preference Stock, or £40,000 five per cent Pre-
ference Stock.

The South Western Company is to work trains
over the line in the mean time.

The agreement for carrying out this arrangement
between the two companies, which has already been
approved at a special meeting of the Epsom and
Leatherhead proprietors, will be submitted to the
approval of the South-Western proprietors at this
wetting. By order,
L. CROMBIE, Secretary.
Waterloo-bridge Station, March 14, 1859.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

HOUSE OF LORDS.

(Peers present—The Lord Chancellor, Lord Cranworth
Lord Wensleydale, Lord Kingsdown, and other Peers.)
APPEAL.-JUDGMENT.-TH't BARTONHILt COAL COMPANY

AND OTHERS V. WASH.

At the conclusion of the arguments of counsel in this
cause, their lordships retired to consider their judgment.
The Lord Chancellor said that a verbal agreement to alter
the terms of a written lease might be proved by parol evi-
dence—rei inter rentus—and also by the facts and circum-
stances of the case. His lordship affirmed the first' four
interlocutors appealed from, reversed the fifth and sixth,
and remitted the case to the Court of Session to direct an
issue to try the fact whether the landlord (the lessor)
agreed to- allow the appellant (the lessee) to open
a communication between his coal mine of Bar-
gaddie and the neighbouring coal mine, and to work
therein. His lordship agreed with the Lord Ordinary
in holding that the letters and reports that passed between
Messrs. Horn and Ross, writers to the Signet, and Mr.
Langdale, civil engineer, were privileged communications,
and could not be produced ; and quo ad ultra, the Court of
Session are directed to deal with the cause according to
justice.
The other peers entirely concurred.
Council in the cause :—Mr. Rolt, Q.C., and Mr. Anderson,
Q.C., for the appellant; Sir R. Bethel, Q.C., Sir Hugh
MacAlmont Cairns, Solicitor-General, for the respon-
dents.

COURT OF CHANCERY.

(Before Vice-Chancellor, Sir Richard Torin Kindersley.)

JUDGMENT.-IN RE MINSRIP'S TRUSTS.

His Honour, the Vice Chancellor, said—This was a mo-
tion to discharge an old order appointing trustees to execute
the trusts of the will, who were now dead, and a petition to
appoint new trustees in their place. The testator, by his
will, devised his real and personal estate to trustees to pay
certain legacies to his daughters and their children, and an
annuity to his wife for life. The will was executed in
1794, and comprised a field, near Doncaster, the Bull's
Head Inn, there, and five or six small cottages, and he
directed his trustees to collect the rents of his property,
pay the legacies and annuity, and thereafter to sell the
same and divide the residue amongst his relations. On
the death of the trustees, Mr. John Slddmore, as heir-at-
law, and others, entered into possession and sold part of his
estate, viz., the field at Doncaster. An application was now
made by petition to appoint new trustees to carry out the
purposes of the trusts. His Honour discharged the old
order, and allowed the petition for new trustees to be put
on the paper pro forma, when he will appoint new trustees
to carry out the objects of the trust in the testator's will.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Fonblanque.)

IN RE SCHLESSINGER, SCHLESSINGER, AND PARFITT.
These bankrupts were described as of 9 and 10, Basing-
hall-street, general merchants and drysalters, and to-day
was appointed for consideration of their certificates. The
court was crowded throughout the whole proceedings, there
being several notices of opposition.

Mr. Linklater appeared for the assignees, to oppose on
general grounds and on personal charges against the bank-
rupt. Mr. Lawrence, and other gentlemen, also appeared
to oppose on behalf of other creditors. Mr. Bayley appeared
for Charles Parfitt, the bankrupt, and Mr. Roxburgh for
the Schlessingers.

Mr. Linklater said that before going into the general
grounds of opposition ho should take the individual oppo-
Sidon of Mr.Parfitt, one of the assignees and father of Chas.
Parfitt, the bankrupt, and who° was a creditor of the firm
to the amount of between £3,000 and £4,000, besides
£l,BOO given as a premium on Charles Parfitt enter-
ing into partnership with the bankrupts. He (Mr.
Linklater) said that he should adduce evidence, and if he
made out his case in respect to the last ground of opposi-
tion, which was against the Schlessingers, it would prove
the case to be one of the most wilful and wicked misrepre-
sentation and fraud.

Mr. Linklater then proceeded to state the case, which
has been the subject of many an examination, and
published at great length. The misrepresentation was
general as to the state of affairs when the partnership was
entered into with Charles Parfitt in March, 1857, when he
was under age.
The case is now proceeding, and is likely to occupy two
or three sittings.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

THAMES.

SAVAGE ASSAULT ON A POLICE-CONSTABLE.—'Henry
Glover, a marine store-dealer, of Hayfield-passage, Mile-
end-road, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with
assaulting Thomas Raymond, a police-constable, No. 78 K,
in the execution of his duty.
The complainant stated that at one o'clock this morning
the prisoner was drunk and making a disturbance in front
of the Hayfield public-house in the Mile•end-road. He
requested the prisoner to move on and go home, on which
he used the most infamous language, and raved and
blasphemed in an awful manner, and commenced quarrel-
ling with another man. He interfered, and compelled the
prisoner
to leave the road. The prisoner said he would be
revenged, and went into his own house and brought
out an iron poker, with which the prisoner struck
him a violent blow on his glazed hat, and broke
it to pieces. He endeavoured to seize the prisoner,
but before he could do so ho was struck repeatedly across
the shoulders and over the legs. He closed with the
prisoner, and after a desperate struggle secured him, but it
required the united efforts of four police-constables to con-
vey him to the station-house.

Mr. Yardley—Did he hurt you ?
Witness--Yes, sir, my legs and shoulders are very soro.
The prisoner said ho had a little drop too much this
morning.

Mr. Yardley—That is no excuse whatever, but rather an
aggravation of your offence.
The prisoner—l would not have done it if I had not been
drunk.

Mr. Yardley—You have committed a savage assault cvl
the constable. You brought out a poker, and might have
killed the man. You are sentenced to one month's im-
prisonment in the House of Correction.

A grand ball took place at the Court of Parma
on the sth, at which the Co-antess of Chambord and the
Duke of Modena were present. The duke left his capital
on the following day.