The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-01-23 00:00:00

THE COURT.

The Queen and Prince Albert returned to Windso.
Castle from Claremont on Tuesday afternoon. Th
Prince met with only indifferent success in the ground:
at Claremont, though the game is strictly preserved.
WINDSOR, THURSDAY.—This morning her Majesty
accompanied by the Viscountess Canning, walked out 11
the royal pleasure grounds. His Royal Highness Prim:,
Albert went out shooting this morning in the royal pre
serves at Bagshot, accompanied by Sir Robert Peel, an,
attended by Capt. Aleynell, Mr. G. E. Anson, and the
f-lon. C. A. Murray. The royal party had some excellen
sport, and returned to the castle at two o'clock to lun
cheon. In the afternoon her Majesty and the Prince
walked for some time on the terrace. Their Royal High
nesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Royal rod(
out on their ponies in the royal pleasure grounds this
morning. The Princess Alice has been taken out for hei
usual airings. In the afternoon her Royal Highness tht
Duchess of Kent came to the castle, from Frogmore, and
paid a visit to her Majesty. Also, the Duke and Duchess
of Buckingham arrived at the castle this afternoon, on a
visit to her Majesty.
DEPARTURE OF THE COURT FROM WlNDSOR.—AC-
cording to present arrangements, Her Majesty (who will
open the ensuing session of Parliament in person on the
Ist proximo) will take her departure from Windsor Cas-
tle for Buckingham Palace on Tuesday or Wednesday,
the 30th or 31st inst. It is fully expected that the stay of
the Sovereign in town will not extend beyond a week or
ten days, when the Court will return to Windsor, and
remain at the Castle till a somewhat advanced period of
the spring, most probably until the middle of April. The
extremely excellent health enjoyed by the Royal family
at Windsor is one of the chief reasons for Her Majesty
not proceeding to town tor '' the season " until the late
period we have named. It is at present undecided whether
the Royai family will accompany their illustrious parents
to London the week after next, or remain during her
Majesty's brief absence at Windsor.
Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge arrived
at Kew on Tuesday evening from the Continent. Her
Royal Highness the Princess Mary accompanied the
Royal Duchess. Baron Knesebeck left town on Saturday
week for the Continent to meet their Royal Highnesses.
SIR AUGUSTUS D'ESTE.—The Argus states that no
opposition will be offered to the application of Sir Augus-
tus D'Este to take the title of his late father, his Royal
Highness the Duke of Sussex, and that her Majesty has
expressed a desire that the question should be settled as
speedily as possible.

Sir Robert Peel has issued cards for a grand parliamen-
tary dinner on Wednesday, the 31st instant, at which the
right hon. baronet will read the royal speech on opening
parliament to his numerous guests.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, FRIDAY, JAN. 19.

(Before Sir L. Shadwell.)
WALSH V. GLADSTONE.

This was a petition presented by Lord Camoys, and the
other residuary legatees under the will of the late 'Air.
Blundell, praying that a sum of £3,000, which had been
set apart as a fund to the trustees legacy account, might
be paid to them. The testator by his will had appointed
John Gladstone, Robert Gladstone, and Thomas Robin-
son his trustees and executors, and bequeathed a legacy
of .£3co to each trustee who should prove and act under
the trusts of his will, and also provided that in case either
of them should die without having acted, or should de-
cline or refuse to act in the execution of the trust, that
the legacy intended for him should go to the trustee who
should be appointed in his stead, and accept the office of
trustee. The will further contained the ordinary proviso
for the appointment, by the surviving trustee, of new
trustees, i❑ the event of any party dying or being desirous
to be discharged, or neglecting, refusing, or becoming in.
capable to act in the execution of the trust. Two of the
trustees named in the will had died in the lifetime of the
testator, and the Master had appointed Mr. Robertson
Gladstone and Mr. J. Neilson Gladstone, who had been
proposed by the acting trustee under the will, to be trus-
tees in the room of the deceased parties. The question
now submitted for the opinion of the Court was, whether
under the two provisions of the will the trustees so ap-
pointed by the Master wer, entitled to the legacies of
£3OO, or whether they were to be considered to have
lapsed.

Mr. Stuart and Mr. Flemming supported, and Mr.
Bethel! and Mr. Rolt opposed, the petition.
The Vice-Chancellor said, he was bound by the lan-
guage of the testator's will, and was of opinion that the
event which had happened was not provided for by it, and
that the trustees appointed by the Master (though they
might have been proposed by the trustee surviving the
testator) were entitled to the legacies under either of the
provisions of the will.

We regret to learn that Mr. Justice Maule has not re-
covered from the indisposition under which he was labour-
ing during his attendance at the Yorkshire Winter Gaol
Delivery. On Tuesday last, Mr. Justice Coltman was
obliged to undertake the discharge of the learned judge's
business at Chambers. On Wednesday, however, the
hon. gentleman appeared in Court, looking much better.

CHANCERY REFORMS.—AN EXTRAORDINARY AN-
SWER.—Vvithin the last few days an extraordinary an-
rh.n....rr hag heen filed. The answer is
engrossed on "40 skins of parchment, consisting of up-
wards of 1,000 folios. It has been ascertained that an
omce copy of this answer will cost the plaintiff no less
than £49 lOs ! which amount must be incurred before the
suit can be proceeded with.

It is said that the Hon. Charles Pelham Villiers, find-
ing his duties as a member of the Anti-Corn Law League
likely to interfere with the due discharge of those that
belong to this appointment as one of the Examiners in
the Court of Chancery (the hours of attendance being
from ten to four daily), has it in contemplation to resign
the latter. " Such a sacrifice to a sense of duty,"
i ob-
serves a correspondent, is very rare, and worthy of mita-
tion whenever it occurs, for the salary is £15,000 a year.
The sacrifice, if it be about to take place is, we appre-
hend, one of compulsion as well as of duty.—John Bull.
THE LAW or DIVORCE.— A deputation waited on
Thursday on Dr. Nichol, on the subject of the present law of
divorce in this country, to request him to introduce into
any measure be may have in contemplation for the reform
of the ecclesiastical law a clause to enable injured indi-
viduals who may appeal to that court to obtain a divorce
a vineulo mairimonii. The deputation were most cour-
teously received by Dr. Nichol, who promised to call the
attention of the government to this necessary and im-
portant alteration in so unjust a state of the present law,
which entirely puts it out of the power of an injured part)
to obtain any redress except at an outlay of about £lOOO.

SPRING ASSIZES. 1844.—The judges of the different
courts met on Thursday morning, in the Exchequer
Chamber, and chose their respective circuits on the
ensuing Spring Assizes. The following is the arrange-
ment :—Home Circuit—Lord Chief Justice Denman and
Mr. Baron Alderson. Midland—Lord Chief Justice
Tindal and Mr. Baron Gurney. Norfolk—Lord Chief
Baron Abinger and Mr. Justice Patteson. Oxford—Mr.
Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Coleridge. Northern—
Mr. Justice Coltman and Mr. Baron Rolfe. Western—
Mr. Justice Wighttnan and Mr. Justice Cresswell. South
Wales—Mr. Justice Williams. North Wales—Mr.
Justice Maule. Mr. Justice Erskine remains in town
and will attend business at chambers.

HINT TO COURSERS, &c.—The public are aware that
qui tam actions are pending against several of the most
influential supporters of the turf, for the recovery of enor-
mous penalties on bets won on horse races. To a com-
mon-sense reading, the statute upon which the proceed-
ings are founded (9th Anne, c. 14) was evidently intended
to apply to dicing and cards. The judges of the present
day have invariably laid it down that racing is compre-
hended in the words " other games ;" and this point. still
vigorously disputed, will shortly have to be again deter-
mined in the courts of law, unless the legislature shall
previously resolve on the repeal act. But whatever doubt
may exist as to its application to racing, there is none
whatever as it regards coursing. Racing is legalized by
statute to the utmost extent, and further by 52 Royal
Plates of 100 guineas each, and the Queen's Vase at
Ascot, annually given; but coursing, or in the language
of the courts, " dog matches" were held in the case of
Daintree v. Hutchinson, decided after three several hear-
ings, so lately as June, 1842, to come within the meaning
of the act ; and coursing for stakes or other things of the
value in the aggregate of £lO, is distinctly and indisputa-
bly contrary to law. In every sum of money, therefore,
above the value of £lO, whether in the shape of a stake,
cup, or bet, the winner is liable, under the statute of
Anne. to be sued by the common informer in four times
the amount won. We are not sounding the alarm upon
weak or imaginary grounds ; a pettifogging lawyer has
been quietly at work for some weeks past, and unless
checked by prompt and vigorous measures in parliament,
will assuredly place the coursing community in a very un-
pleasant " fix." The game aimed at in the contemplated
proceedings include Lord Sefton, a winner of £2O with
Synedoche, at Altcar ; Marquis of Douglas, a winner with
Chatelherault, of £132 10s. at Clydesdale ; Lord Eglin-
toun, the winner of several valuable prizes at the Scotch
meetings ; Lord Stradbroke, winner of £2OO at the Wa-
terloo meeting in 1842, and upwards of £2OO at the New-
market Champion Meeting, in the same year; Mr. Pol-
lock, winner of £3OO at the last Waterloo Meeting ; Mr.
E. G. Hornby, winner of several cups and stakes at Alt-
car, Southport, Lytham, &c. ; Sir W. A Maxwell, Sir H.
Fleetwood, and several others, winners of stakes of suffi-
cient value to excite the cupidity of the worthies now so
industriously (we hope impotently) at work. All these
gentlemen are liable and quite certain, if they sit at home
with their arms folded, to be sued for and have recovered
from them four times the amount of the several stakes
won. And let the small fry remember, that 20 grey-
hounds entered for a stake of half a sovereign a piece con-
stitute, in the eye of the learned judges, " a dog match for
£10."

TRIAL OF MRS. GILMOUR.—This woman was tried on
Friday and Saturday last, in the High Court of Justiciary,
Edinburgh, for the murder of her husband, by adminis-
tering arsenic to him, which produced death. The cir-
cumstances of the case are no doubt in the recollection. of
the reader, full details of the charge against the prisoner
having been recently published. The jury, after an ab-
sence of about an hour, returned with the following ver-
dict :—The jury, after a careful and mature consideration
of the evidence brought before them in this case, are
unanimously of opinion, that John G.lmour died from
the effects of arsenic ; hut find it not proved against the
prisoner at the bar, as libelled. This announcement was
followed by very decided expressions of approval by those
in court, which were rebuked by the Lord Justice Clerk.
The prisoner was then dismissed from the bar.