The Sun.
London, England, 1850-10-25 00:00:00

LEGAL CHANGES.

We are authorised to state that Mr. Baron Rolfe
has been raised to the dignity of Vice-Chancellor, in
the room of the Vice-Chancellor of England, deceased.
This change from a puisine judgeship to the equity
court does not increase the Learned. Baron's salary,
but it gives him higher rank. Besides, the duties of
a Vice- Chancellor are less onerous than those of a
common law judge, and the expenses of going two
circuits in the year, about 500/., will be saved. The
appointment will give universal satisfaction ; for the
Learned Baron's predilections and earlier studies wer9
given to the equity bar.

The vacancy in the Vice-Chancellorship, caused by
the recent resignation of Sir James Wigram, cannot
be filled up without an Act of Parliament, which, it
Li expected, will be rendered necessary from the vast
accumulation of business now in the courts of
equity, chiefly arising from the increasing and whole-
some practice of filing claims in matters where the
slow and expensive process of a bill was necessary.

TO THE, EDITOR OF THE SUN.
SlR,—Referring to a paragraph in your edition of
Monday, which states that in consequence of the re-
signation of Captain Plunkett, chairman of the Cale-
donian Company, Mr. Fawcett, the largest holder in
the company, with four or five other extensive pro-
prietors, waited on Mr. Glyn, to ask the assistance of
the London and North-Western Company in the pre-
sent difficulties of the Caledonian, and that the
answer of Mr. Glyn to the application was that while
there existed differences among the directors the
London and North-Western could not interfere, but
if once the directors of the Caledonian were united
among themselves the London and North-Western
would render them all the assistance in their power.
I am instructed by Mr. Fawcett, who is at pre-
sent out of town, to request you to contradict the
statement so named. _ _

Mr. Fawcett has had no communication with Mr.
Glyn since the event to which you refer, though he
entertains no doubt of the readiness of the North-
Wa!tern Company to aid in the retrieval, of Cale-
donian affairs.—l am, Sir, yours, very respectfully,
pro T. T. Fawcett,
N. J. BISHOP.
12, Trump.street, Oct. 24, 1850.

LORD CHANCELLOR'S HOUSE.
(THIS DAY.)

THE PATENT GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY-SIORDET AN*
OTHERS, V. SYMONDS AND WALLER.
_ _ _

Mr. GLASSE, on behalf of the Patent Galvanixed Iron
Company (the sole interest in which is now ♦ested in
Mr. Charles William Tupper and George Bowness
Carr), applied to his Lordship fur an injunction to re-
strain the defendants, or either of them or their work-
men, servants, and agents, from exercising, using, or
putting in practice the plaintiffs' invention, and from
galvanizinz any iron or copper according to the said
invention, and from selling any iron or copper, or arti-
cles of iron or copper, which have been galvanized by
them according to the plaintiffs' invention, and from in
any manner infringing the patent of the plaintiffs.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated be knew all about the
patent, having been counsel in a case in which a Mr.
Patteson was concerned in the Court of Common Pleas,
where a verdict was given for the plaintiff, certain ques-
tions being reeerved.

Mr. GLASSE said that he believed that case was not
yet decided, and that he was happy to inform his Lord-
ship that, although in this case the plaintiffs had some
reason to complain of the defendants, he was bound to
say that the defendants bad met them in a fair and
honourable spirit, and did not object to the injunction
being granted.
A Gentleman who appeared for Mr. iluedlestone on
behalf of the defendants, stated that the defendants bad
found they could not resist the application, therefore no
objection would be made to the injunction being granted.
The LORD CHANCELLOR stated that, as the defendants
appeared and showed no cause, the injunction would
issue as prayed.

It is difficult to understand the cause of the omis-
sion made by the Lord Mayor of York, in not including
Lord Londesborough in his invitations to the grand banquet
given this day (Friday) in support of the Art Exhibition of
1851, which conduct has been for the last two or three days
the subject of general observation, both in Yorkshire and the
metropolis. Lord Londesborough was a contributor of 1001.
towards the support of that Exhibition, and, we, are in-
formed, that he has ordered from Messrs. Widdowson and
Veal, of the Strand, a piece of plate for the national compe-
tition at the cost of 1,5001. So far. his Lordship ought not
to have escaped the notice of the Lord Mayor of York ; but
he could scarcely have overlooked the fact, that Lord
Londesborough, since his recent elevation to the Peerage,
has endeavoured to identify his interests with those of York-
shore, in which county he is now the largest landed
proprietor (of something near 50,000 aeres), and with
estates reaching wi bin eleven miles of the city of York,
tenanted by five hundred wealthy and respectable indivi-
duals, who cannot fail to feel deeply the slight thus offered
to their landlord.
His GRACE THE DUKE OF NEWCASTLE.—No vi-
sble improvement as yet appears to have taken place in the
health of tie Noble Duke. Apparently he is in much the
same sate as this time last week. The Right lion. the
Earl of Lincoln still remains at Clumber with his noble father,
as well as the other members of his Grace's family.—. Derby
-Reporter.
VISIT OF PRINCE ALBFET TO YORK.—The Lord
Mayor. accompanied by the Lady Mayoress, left Euston-
square station by special train yesterday morning, rat 9-35,
and arrived at York at 2-15—the entire distance having
minutes,one hour
occasioned
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therefore been performed in four hours forty minutes. The
,phurney to Rugby, :eighty- three miles, was accomp ished in
gtraa
the special train. The Lord and Lady Mayoress were, on
train loss o sbse
being
g aab-ohueta
dfi five
their arrival at York, received by the Mayor of that city,
and conducted to his residence. Prince Albert left this
morning by a special train in the Royal carriage provided
by the North•Westeru Company,