The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-07-06 00:00:00

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE

By the arrival of one of her Majesty's ships at Ports-
mouth, on the 3rd instant, we learn that Sir Henry Pot-
finger intended wintering on the frontier. The Caffres
still continued their predatory incursions.

ROLLS' COURT-SATITRDAY, jITLIr 3

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE CORPORATION OF

CHESTER

Mr. Turner and Mr. Blunt, for the plaintiff, moved for
an injunction to restrain the defendants, the mayor, alder-
men and burgesses of the city of Chester, from receiving
any further part of the rents of the charity estates in the
cause; for a receiver; and also for payment of £1633 2s. 4d.,
admitted by their answer to be in their hands. The in-
formation stated the foundation of a hospital in Chester,
consisting of three priests, two to say mass in the church,
and the third in the chapel, and thirteen poor brethren,
and it prayed to have it ascertained what the rents of the
charity estate consisted of; for a declaration of the court
that the whole of the estates belonged to and were held
by the defendants in trust for the charity, for the delivery
of the' possession of the estates and title deeds : for an
account ,of all moneys received by the defendants in re-
spect of the estates or from sales of any part thereof ; and
for a declaration of the court that the defendants were
bound to make good what upon taking the accounts should
be found due. The cause was heard in March, 1842, when
the Master of the Rolls made a decree, declaring that all
lands granted to the defendants as the possessors of the
hospital were subject to the trusts of the charity without
prejudice to the question whether the corporation in re-
spect of the grant of the office of Master were entitled to
any portion of the rents, and directing a reference to in-
quire what the property belonging to the charity consisted
of, and the Master was to approve of a scheme for its ap-
plication. The corporation had applied the rents and
profits of the estates as if they had been part of the borough
fund.

Mr. Kindersley, for the defendants, said, they recog-
nized the rents to be arising from part of the charity
lands; but it still remained to be found what portion of
the said sum of £1,633 2s. 4d. belonged to the defendants
as part of the funds of the corporation. The hospital
itself was a corporation.

Lord Langdale made an order for appointing a receiver,
and for the corporation to pay the sum, admitted by their
answer, into court on or before the 30th inst.

In the House of Lords, on Saturday, the Militia Ballot
Suspension Bill and the Corn, &c., Importation Bill se-
verally passed through Committee.
The Lord-Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon,
and suite arrived from this port at Kingstown early ort
the morning of Saturday last, and immediately repaired
to Phoenix Park.

Upon the railway now being formed to connect the val-
ley of the Neckar with the Danube upwards of a thousand
women and girls are labouring as navvies." A large
number are also employed on the Prague and Dresden
railway-works.

By a decree of the Austrian Government any employ(
of a railway causing an accident by negligence, is liable
to from five to ten years' imprisonment ; if the accident
be very serious, with from ten to twenty years ; and if
death be caused death is the punishment.
LAST WORDS OF LORD RUSSELL ON THE SCAFFOLD.
—I did believe, and do still, that Popery is breaking in
upon this nation, and those who advance it will stop at
nothing to carry on their designs • and I am heartily
sorry that many Protestants give their helping hand to it.
WEST INDIA PINES.—The Trinity Yacht, Captain
Hounsell, has arrived in twenty-five days from the West
Indies, consigned to Keeling and Hunt, bringing an entire
cargo consisting of the enormous quantity of 35,000 pines,
avepsosertiogrn
growing
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planted.—Times of yesterday.
that statement,
the
hdaaTtseutdaßkEednQinvLbEaguErNggah'n from the Marquis of Abercorn forQutehene
shooting season. The lodge stands on the margin of
Loch Laggan, at Ardvreckie. The court will remain
there from the beginning of August to the beginning of
September. Her Majesty; it is understood, will visit
Inverness on her way to Dunrobin, the second week in
September, coming down the Caledonian canal from Fort
William.

BANQUET AT GRAY'S-INN.—On Thursday last, the
benchers of the Hon. Society of Gray's-inn gave a sump-
tuous entertainment in their old hall to the benchers of
the other inns of court. The number that sat down to
dinner amounted to 86, including Lord Brougham, Lord
Campbell, the Vice-Chancellor of England, Sir E. Sugden,
the Right Hon. C. Wynn, the Right Hon. Sir E. Ryan,
the Hon. Sir R. Comyn, and the Attorney and Solicitor-
General. The Right Hon. Sir H. Jenner Fust, Treasurer of
Gray's-inn, presided on the occasion, being supported on
his right by Lord Brougham, and on his left by Lord
Campbell. The dinner was of the most rechercel quality,.
and the wines and dessert of the choicest description.
After the Queen's health had been proposed and drunk
with the greatest loyalty, the health of Sir H. Jenner
Fust was proposed by Lord Brougham in an eulogistic
speech, in which he thanked him, in the name of himself
and the other guests, for the splendid repast that had been
provided for them. Sir H. Jenner Fust then returned
thanks, and the company shortly after separated.
THE QUARTER'S REVENUE.—The accounts are nearly
made up, but we have not yet received an official copy.
We may state, however, that there will be (according to
a London contemporary), an increase on the revenue of
of the quarter, as compared with the corresponding quar-
ter of last year. The amounts received on account of
Excise Duties, Stamps, Post-office, Taxes, and Income-
tax exceed the amounts received from the sources in the,
quarter" ending July sth, 1846. The Customs revenue,
when made up to the sth instant, will probably be not
much over or under the amount received from that item

in the corresponding quarter of last year. In the miscel-
laneous receipts there will be a large falling off, compared
with the July quarter of last year, in consequence of the
sums received in 1846 from China, which amounted to
about half a million in that quarter, and of which nothing
has been received in the quarter now just ending. This
will greatly reduce the increase in the other branches, if it
wholly swamp it. P"

rile usual regular taxes have
been as productive as usual,

DIED

On the 3rd instant, FRANVE7SANN, infant daughter of Mr
JOHN ECCLES, Walton Breck-road.

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