The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-04-22 00:00:00

COURT AND FASHION.

The Queen visited tie Exhibition Building on Tuesday.
On 'Wednesday her Majesty and Prince Albert left town
for Windsor Castle.

Jenny Jones, the nurse to the royal infant Prince Ar-
thur, has just returned to her husband and family at
Aberele. Jenny, it seeing, is herself a descendant of the
royal house of Tudor.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The office of Vice-Chancellor of the county Palatine of
Lancaster, vacant by the promotion of Mr. Page Wood,
will be conferred on Mr. Headlam, of the Chancery bar.
The claim of the Earl of Balcarras to the Dukedom of
Montrose was again before the House of Lords last week.
The Duke of Montrose is to prepare a case in answer to
the noble claimant.

The Lord High Chancellor has received the congratu-
lations of the London attorneys. The mesasge has been
something long in the making, but ithas come at last. The
attorneys are naturally prowl of a man who has sprung
from among themselves.

In the Court of Common Pleas, ou Wednesday, a rule
for a new trial was granted in the case of Rosetto and
Others e. Gurney, which was tried at the late Liverpool
assizes, when a verdict was given for the plaintiffs. The
action was brought to recover frown the Alliance Marine
Insurance Company the amount of a policy of insurance
on the barque Hebe and its cargo, of which it was alleged
the rehad been a total loss.

CAPERS NOT PICKLES.—In the Court of Exchequer, I
on Wednesday, a rule nisi was obtained for a new trial in
the case of a superintendent of police against the Norwich
Meresgry. The statement for which the action was
brought last assizes was, that the plaintiff had stolen from
a shop some pickles, cigars, a hair brush, and other goods.
The jury found that the plaintiff stule the capers only.
The learned judge directed the verdict to be entered for
defendants. Sergeant Byles now moved for judgment.
non obstante eeredicto, or for a new trial, on the ground
that the plea did not show a justification of the charge
published, inasmuch as capers were not pickles, and that
stealing a cigar was not stealing cigars, nor was a tooth
brush a hair brush.
BIRKENHEAD LAND SPECULATORS.—In the Vice-
Chancellors Court, on Wednesday, before Lord Cran-
worth, the case of Myers v. Watson came on for hearing.
This was a bill for specific performance of two contracts
for purchase of lands at Birkenhead from a person who
had bought them on a building speculation, and caused a
map to be prepared, with streets and a church, and the
question was whether, in the absence of the performance
of those works specified in the plan on the vendor's part,
his " assignees" (by whom the bill was filed) were entit-
led to a decree for specific performance. Lord Cranworth
said, that when the case was argued, it was urged that
the vendor was bound to carry out all the map; but the
rule of the court was only that a representation, upon the
faith of which a man purchased, failing to be performed,
the vendor was not entitled to a specific performance ;
and as it appeared, in the present case, that the defen-
dants had purchased on the faith of a church being built,
and larger streets made, and that not having been done,
the plaintiffs were not entitled to relief, and their bill
must be discharged with costs.
.SALE OF a LIVERPOOL. CHURCH LIVING.—In the
sheriffs' court, Red Lion-square, London, on Thursday,
the case of Powell v. Phelps came on for hearing. The cir-
cumstances of this case were of a peculiar character. The
plaintiff, John G. Powell, is a clergyman of the Established
Church, and sought to recover of the defendant, William
Freeman Harford Phelps, an attorney, the sum of £2O,
as a " clerical agent," for commission on the sale of the
next presentation to an advowson. The pleas were three
—denying the agency, alleging that it was an illegal tran.
saction to sell a church preferment, and fraud. The living
was the perpetual curacy of Trinity Church, Liverpool,
and a Miss Caroline Brown was the patron, and had the
right of presentation on the retirement of the Rev. Mr.
Davis, who then held the living. The defendant after-
wards treated with Mr. Corbett, another clerical agent,
and with Miss Brown, and the result had been the put.,
chase of tine next presentation for £1,3;10. It was for the
negotiation by the plaintiff and for the introduction, which
led to the purchase
. of the living. that it was sought to re-
cover damages
.the shape of commission. The jury
found for the plaintiff—dansages 420.