The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1840-06-19 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.-TUESDAY.

THE QUEEN V. THE EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.
Lord Denman delivered judgment in this case. It was an
application for a mandamus commanding the defendants to
purchase lands and to complete the railway. One of the ob-
jections taken was, that this court had not power to interfere
by mandamus. The court was of opinion that it had full power
to interfere, but it would not exercise a summary jurisdiction
unless good cause was shown for its interference. Such was
not the case in the present instance. The directors might have
refused, for anything that appeared to the contrary, to pur-
chase the lands, on account of the very high prices demanded
for them, or of a temporary want of funds. That was not a
sufficient ground, and the rule must therefore be discharged•
—Rule discharged.

Cork contains a population of 30,000 Protestants.

THE AMERICAN HUNTERS' ASSOCIATION.—The
mys-
terious compact known by the name of the Hunter's Asso-
ciation, was organised for the express purpose of invading
Canada, and the following details will show the unexpected
strength of the confederacy :—Affirmations were wade on
oath by various parties, that the whole number of American
citizens enrolled in this unholy league amounted to no less
than 200,000, of whom 25,000. or 30,000 effective men, in-
cluding a corpse of 690 Kentucky riflemen, and a body of
Indians, had pledged themselves to march upon the province,
whensoever required. But judging by results, allowance
must be made for error or exaggerations in this statement,
since in no case of actual invasion did the ascertained number
of individuals exceed 400 or 500 men; though, on the other
hand, it must be considered that these were sent forward. as
a sort of advanced guard, to try what number of Canadians
would be disposed to join them when landed in that province,
and that thousands were in readiness on the opposite shore,
to follow them across the river, should success attend their
first efforts. By the majority of those concerned in it, there
can be no doubt that this scheme of wholesale invasion was
held to be infallible ; while large sums have been actually
embarked in it as a profitable investment, the result was
watched with intense anxiety, such as Americans intent on
gain are capable of feeling. From facts which afterwards
transpired, so sanguine would many seem to have been of a
favourable issue to the enterprise, that the father of one man
who had enlisted as a recruit, but was afterwards prevented,
by illness or some other cause, from marching when regimen,
actually took his place rather than his son should forego the
advantages anticipated to accrue to him from the expedoon.
That much delusion was practised on the credulous and Inex-
perienced; that many plunged /Re biasse'e into the scheme
without the least reflection, or misled by a false nrithuslasn ;
and that the confederates in the States and the disaffected. .in
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