The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-04-27 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

There is now an arrear of four hundred and fifty-five
causes standing for hearing in the Courts of Chancery.
WARRANTY OF PROVISIONS.—The Court of Exche-
quer decided, on Wednesday, that the general rule of law,
that persons selling provisions entered into an implied
contract that the provisions were sound and fit for human
food, was confined to dealers ; and that an ordinary indi-
vidual selling meat accidentally, in ignorance that it was
not marketable, and acting bona fide, was not liable. The
question arose out of the sale of a pig from one farmer to
the other, the seller not knowing that it was diseased and
unfit for food, as it proved to be when cut up.
MOZLEY v. ALSTON.—On Wednesday last, the Vice-
chancellor granted an injunction, restraining from acting
the twelve directors of the Birmingham and Oxford Rail-
way Company who are alleged by the bill to have incapa-
citated themselves to manage the company,'s affairs. The
counsel are still continuing their arguments on the appeal
to the Lord Chancellor against the Vice-chancellor's de-
cision over-ruling the demurrers to the bill ; and leave
has been obtained to move for the dissolution of the in-
junction granted by the Vice-chanCellor.—The Lord Chan-
cellor is to give his decision in this case on Wednesday
(to-morrow.)

PEES FOR PAUPER BURIALS.—In the Court of Ex-
chequer, on Wednesday, the Lord Chief Baron delivered
judgment in a special case, raised in an action brought by
the Rev. Dr. spty, rector of Marylebone, to recover
from the master of the workhouse a fee of Is. 6d. on the
burial of each workhouse pauper buried in St. John's-
wood burial ground. 'he court decided that no such fee
was payable at common law, and that it could only be
claimed under some spee:al act of Parliament or local
custom. As there was no eet or custom to sanction Dr.
Spry's claim, judgment was 0.-dered to be entered for the
defendant.

with a galvanic battery or low po-wer

single isolated wire immersed in the water could carry- the
electric current a distance of half a mile. The water
brought back the current to its source without the
slightest perceptible dispersion or loss of the dynamic
power. This experiment demonstrates the perfect prac-
ticability of submarine communication,—and the question
as to its application may be said to be satisfactorily
solved."—We may add, in this record of various teleg-
raphic experiments, that, on the Tours and Nantes Rail-
way, an apparatus is in course of establishment which
consists of an iron wire extending from one end of the
line to the other, and through which an electric current is
continually to pass; while, by means of small pistons,
placed at intervals of 200 yards, the passage of a train in
motion at each point of the line will be indicated to the
fixed mach ine:—each piston, by its movement, interrupt-
ing the electric current for a moment of time (probably
varying in length or repetition), and thus designating the
number of the post before which the train is passing at
the moment. By these means, the director of the fixed
machine will receive information almost every second as
to the speed of the train in motion, and as to the position
occupied by it.—At Ipswich, Mr. Bain is erecting an elec-
trical clock, with power of motion to be unceasingly
maintained by a perpetual electric current derived from
the earth.