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London, England, 1857-01-28 00:00:00

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PRUSSIA

The Prussian papers acquaint us with the nature
of the bill presented by the Minister of Finance in
Saturday's sitting of the Berlin Chambers, which
' had for result to cause the withdrawal of M. de
Patow's interpellations with 'reference to the ex-
penditure of the 30 millions voted last year. The
hill states that of that sum, 14,205,107 thalers have
been expended, and that the surplus is destined to
cover the extraordinary expenditure of the Minister
of War in the years 1854, 1855, and 1356 ; to aug-
ment the war funds of the general treasury ; and
to meet the expenses incurred by the re-establish-
ment of the service for three years of the infantry
of t he lino. _

The Prussian National Gazette says :—" The
commission appointed to consider the divorce bill
has declared by 13 votes to 6 in favour of the Go-
vernment plan, slightly modified. The Roman
Catholic members had asked for the establishment
of special ecclesiastical tribunals, but that propo-
sitiou was rejected after some warm discussion,
although the said members had declared that they
would consider it their duty to vote against the
whole bill, if their amendment was rejected."

L.P TITTELLICIENCE.—;This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S DENCII.

(Sittings in Banco.-11, fore Lord Campbell and ,Tni,ices
Coleridge, Wighttnan, and Crompton.)
THE CASE OF AECIIDEACON DENISON,

Dr. Bayford showed cause why a mandamus Ehou
not issue against Sir John Dodson, 'Dean of the Court
of Arches, to hear Archdeacon Denison's appeal from
what is now known as the "Bath Judgment." The
learned gentleman said that in consequence of Sir F.
Kelly, who had to show came, baying met with an ac•
cident, he (I)r. Bayfori) had to apply that the matter
should be postponed until to-morrow.
Lord Campbell—Certainly not. He wal certain Dr.
Bayford could give the Court every information on the
subject necessary. Divested of all technicalities, the
queition was, whether there was an appeal under the
Church Discipline Act.
Dr. Bayford then proceeded to explain the nature of
an appeal according to ecclesiastical law. Cmsistently
with that law there could be no appeal from a superior
to an inferior judge. All the proceedings in this case
bad been heard before the Archbishop of Canterbury
(the Bishop of the diocese of Bath and Wells being the
patron of the Archdeacon's preferments), at Bath, and
the final act of the proceedings at that place was the
Archbishop cf Canterbury passing sentence of depriva-
tion on the Archdeacon of Taunton.
Lord Campbell—You must not assume that the
Archdeacon was sitting qua- archbishop_
Dr. Bayford—l think the statute tfera that.
Lord Campbell—But that must be proved, and not
assumed.

Dr. Bayford proceeded to argue that whenever the
archbishop sat as judge in a court, ho sat in his archi-
episcopal character, for it was impossible that he should
unclothe himself and assume the episcopal character.
No doubt such a case• could be provided for by act of
Parliament ; but at present there was no such authority
by which he could so act. The archbishop could hold
his court anywhere in his diocese, and whether by statute,
custom, or by the authority of his office wherever he
held his court, it was to all intents and purposes an
archbishop's court.
Mr. Justice Coleridge—Do you mean to contend that
the archbishop might sit in any diocese and hold a court
on the business of any other diocese ?
Dr. Bayford said tbat he did not wish to press his
argument to that extent, but merely to affirm that
whenever the archbishop sat in any diocese, in the busi-
ness of that diocese he sat as archbishop, and not merely
as diocesan. There could not be in that case au appeal
to his inferior officer.

Lord Campbell said that an appeal was certainly not

to the archbishop personally, but to the judge of the
court of the province. If it be enacted that the judge
of the Court of Arches was to decide, did it not clearly
appear that the appeal must be to him. In an appeal
to the Queen in counsel, the appeal was heard before the
Judicial Committee, and not before the Queen.
Mr. Justice Coleridge—Suppose the Bishop of Bath
and Wells had had no interest in this case, and had
dealt with the archbishop in his own court, do you mean
to say that the appeal must have been to the archbishop
personally.
Dr. Bayford—Yes, certainly.
Lord Campbell—l think, Dr. Bayford, you will have
great diffeulty in proving that.
After some further remarks from Dr. Bayford against
the issuing of the mandamus,

Lord Campbell said there was clearly no reason why
Archdeacon Denison should In deprived of an appeal to
the Court of Arches, which the Legislature clearly in-
tended he should have.
Mr. Fortescue followed on the same side.
Mr. Hill, Q.C., rose to address the Court in support
of the issuing of the :nandamus, when
Lord Campbell said it was unnecessar.g for the
learned counsel to address the Court. If this were a
doubtful case it would be the duty of the Court to grant
a mandamus; but he was of opinion, and so were his
brother judge, that it was not a doubtful question,
but a clear one. He was of opinion that the Dean cf
Arches was wrong when he refused the appeal. The
Archbishop of Canterbury acted at Bath, not in his
archiepiscopal character, but as the locum tenens of the
Bishop of the Diocese of Bath and Wells. The learned
Lord then went fully into the various points that had
been urged relative to the position of the Archbi-shop in
this case, and the Dean of Arehes, as an inferior officer
of that high functionary, and said that this appeal was
an appeal from a Diocesan Court to the Court of Arches,
and not from the Archbishop, as such, to his inferior
Court, and therefore the mandamus must issue.
The other learned Judges having concurred,
The mandamus was ordered to be issued accordingly.

ST, JAMES'S A'VD BATTERSEA PARKS-
PROGRESS OP THE TVORKS,

St. James'e-park at the present time looks almost in
a hopeless condition. The beauty for a season is greatly
impaired. The long works in progress have necessarily
cut up the grounds in a sad manner, and they look as if
they would never recover. This was, however, to be
expected to a certain extent when it was decided to make
the alteratiocs ; but the difficulties in carrying out the
works have been much greater than were originally
contemplated. It teemed at first sight easy enough,
after the new ',ewer was made, to drain the water from
the lake and to level it ; but no sooner was the work
commenced than an immense nuroloer of copious springs
were tapped, which being below the level of the out-
fall cou:d not le carried off by the ordinary methods.
It was found necessary to sink a sumph or well,
at the end of the lake opposite the Horse Guards, to re-
ceive the produce of these springs, and to erect a double
action pump, worked by steam, to lift the water into
the new sewer. It Las also been found requisite to lay
down three lines of twelve-inch drain-pipes along the bed
of the lake, to conduct the water to the well, instead of
through cuttings, as was originally intended. The,e
pipes are. now being covered up with earth to within five
feet of the surface, which will then be covered over with
concrete of a uniform thickness. When the whole of the
bed of the lake is thus completed, the well will be filled
up with concrete also, and then the ()titian into the
eewer will be sufficiently high that the water may at any
time be drained off by gravitation, so that, if necessary,
three or four times a year, with the assistance of some
dozen men, the lake may he cleansei in a single day.
The works are now proceeding rapidly, and that por-
tion of the lake between Buckingham Palace and the
proposed new bridge is nearly levelled. About a hundred
men are at work, and great efforts are being made to
complete the work by the end of April. The excava-
tions for the foundation of the new bridge have been
sunk, and within a month the basements of the bridge,
should all go on smoothly, will be finished. To the
surprise, however, of the contractors, after digging some
five or six feet, they came to a bed of solid peat of
some five feet in thicknes:s, which cut like so much
cheese, and below this some powerful springs were tap
ped, which compelled the erection of double-actioned
pumps, that are now in full operation. This will neces-
sarily increase the cost, but we do not think Parliament
wi►l grumble if the work is well and completely done.
It is not like the Houses of Parliament, the cost of
which every year is augmented, and the ultimate amount
no one even now, after twenty years' experience, can
predicate. The work seems to grow in Sir Charles
Barry's hands, and as long as Governments are to
be found to recommend additional expenditure,
and Parliaments ready to grant it, the buildings
will, year by year, be increased. With St. James's
Park, however, the cost will very soon be finally
determined, and the first bill will be the last, although,
probably, it will be a heavy one.
Turning from St. James's-park to Battersea-park, we
find in the latter that astonishing progress has been made
in the works during the past eight months. Many per-
sons thought that the park never would have been made;
nor would it have been, at least for the next ten or
twelve months, if the old procrastinating policy of the
Office of Works had been continued. Fortunately, how-
ever, for the public, nothingat this office is now considered
impossible. What it was deemed impossible to accomplish
in nine or ten years it is now found can be done almost in
as many months. Battersea-park will exemplify this ;
for many years it has been at a standstill, but now, by
a little pressure from above, the differsnt officials have
worked with such a will as to lead to the hope that be-
fore the present year expires the park will be opened to
the public. Already a considerable portion of the walks
is completed, and some thousands of shrubs and trees
planted ; but still there is much more to be done. A
great part of the new park lies very low, and will have
to be thoroughly drained, otherwise trees will not
thrive. Tois is being done, whilst, at the same time,
every exertion is being made to plant as many shrubs
during the present season as possible. Whilst the park
is thus rapidly progressing, it is satisfactory to find that
at length the man and boy who have been for so many
years employed on the new Chelsea Bridge have got
other assistance, and that the works are really now
progressing. One of the temporary chains has been
carried over the abutments, and others will be put up in
the course of a week or two, and, should nothing adverse
arise, it is probable that the bridge will be available for
the public in the course of the summer, provided the
approaches are sufficiently advanced.
Government operations, under the Board of Works,
have generally been carried out with less speed than
works undertaken by Frivate enterprise. It is to be
hoped, however, that such will be the case no longer.
The office of Chief Commissioner of Works used to be

regarded merely au a political one, and the holder of that

position, as a inle, did not consider it as a part of his
duty to go into the details of the departments. The
Government principal official was practically, as far as
works were concerned, the real director, and thus it has

happened that so many works have been commenced,

altered again and again, and never completely finished.
This, however, is not the case now—at least if we
may judge from the undaunted energy that is dis-
played in this department of the State. Tile office
will, however, have plenty of work on bands for

many pars to come, and it will require an in-
creased staff to keep pace with the public requirements.
For instance, the Downing-street improvement alone
will entail a large amount of labour and attention, for

although the Government have only as yet sanctioned
the erection of two new offices, there is no question
but that the other improvements suggested will be
eventually carried out. With reference to these irn-

proven:lents, it is curious to observe how the occupiers
of houses that will have to be taken by the Govern-
ment appear to have had their butinesses increased

during the past twelve months. Tatir income-
tax returns show that some of them are doing twice as
much as they did before. The same thing, however, has
been observed in other cases where lands or houses have
been taken under the Lands Clauses Consolidation Act.

But in this case, when the claims for compensation are
Bono into bythe arbitrators, it is more than probable that
they will call not merely for the last year's incomo tax

return, but alAo for the two previous years, so as to form
an average. 'We are afraid that some of thesegentlemen
may be too clever and stiarp.—Morning Chronicle.

THE UNEMPLOYED LABOUR OF

LONDON.

Yesterday a number of persons, who stated that they
were unemployed operatives and labourers of the metro-
palls, made an application in a body, as also they had
d.)ee on the previous day, fir parochial relief, at St.
Pancras Workhouse. There were two batches of about
eighty each, and in the first instance loaves and rations
were given them, and their tames and addresses were
taken with a view to inquiry by the poor inspector into
their actual circumstances. Yesterday morning another
batch of nearly 100 presented themselves at St. Pancras,
bat they were most of them disappointed when tickets
fur labfair at stone-breaking were• offered them.
At a meeting of the directors of the poor, held yester-
day, Mr. Churchwarden Streeten in the chair, the Chair-
man stated that 88 of the alleged unemployed artisans
had applied for relief. Fifty loaves were distributed and
tickets for labour at the stone-yard were offered. It
was needless, however, to say that in most instances the
tickets for labour were refused. Indeed it was quite
evident that many did not wane work.
Mr. G. A. YOUNG, the chairman of the Committee of
Woiks, moved "That the Stone-yard Committee do
meet that evening, to make arrangements for effering,-
labour to able-bodied applicants in the emergency." If
they did not apply the labour test, they might have idle
vagabonds coming from all parts of London.
Mr. ORR seconded the motion.
Mr. CLARKE, relieving officer, said these parties were
led on by a Mr. M'Heath, who kept a coffee-shop and
"Temperance Hall" in Weston-street, Somers-town,
where these men met nightly, and out of which he made
a very good thing ; yet he had the assurance to apply for
relief for himself and his four children.
After some discussion the motion was carried, and
the Stone-yard Committee appointed to meet at 8 o'clock
last night, to give the applicants either employment at
stone-breaking or upon the roads.
The Board, after some other business, separated.

Sporting Intelligence.

BETTING AT MANCIIESTER.-YESTEP.DAY.

There was only a moderate attendance at the Post-
office Hotel, and a great deal of time was taken up in
appointing a committee of twelve persons for the manage.
ment of the rooms. The publication of the weights for
the Liverpool Steeplechase had little effect as regards
bringing that race more into notice. 200 to 10 was
taken about Escape, against whom, in a general way,
100 to 6 were the odds offered ; that price would have
bee❑ taken about Emigrant. For the Chester Cup 15 to
1 was taken to 501. about Leamington, and 20 to 1 was
offered against Mincepie, and 1,000 to 40 against Roger-
thorpe. Schiedam had friends at 5 to 1 for the Two
Thousand Guineas Stakes. Nothing was done upon the
Derby.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
100 to 7 agst Emigrant (take 100 to 6)
100
to
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LoughE s c e(t
Baaskrnen()taken)
Tvto THOUSAND GUINEAS STAKES.
sto 1 agst Schiedam (taken)
CHESTER, CUP.
15 to 1 agst Leamington (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mincepie (effcred)
25 to 1 aget Rogerthorpe (offered)
30 to 1 agst Schiedam (offered)
50 to 1 aget Good Friday (take 500 to 8)
50 to 1 aget Early Bird (take 66 tol)

THE FILAIIDB Or THE CITY OF LONDON UNION.—
Yesterday, at a meeting of the board of guardians of
this Union, a letter from the secretary of the Poor Law
Board was read, communicating the conclusion at which
the Commissioners had arrived, respecting Mr. Rowsell,
the chief clerk of the Union. The board attribute the
success with which the recent frauds bad escaped detec-
tion to the neglect of regulations to which Mr. Rowsell
ought to have strictly adhered, and express the opinirn
that his resignation should be applied for and accepted.
The board have also forwarded a letter to Mr. Gibbs,
auditor of the London district, in a-hich it was stated
that the evidence had clearly established great neglect.
upon his part, without which it would have been diffi-
cult for the frauds to have escaped detection. Particu ar
stress was laid upon Mr. Gibbs's own admission that
" he had never audited the treasurer's accounts at all.
As in the former case, the board are reluctant to visit
neglect with dismissal, but they require Mr. Gibbs's
immediate resignation