The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-11-19 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

WEDNESDAY.—BURON D. DENMAN.
Sir Thomas Wilde was heard on the part of the Hon.
Capt.Denman, defendant in an action brought by Buron,
a Spanish merchant, whose warehouse on the coast of
Africa Captain Denman had destroyed, besides libe-
rating a number of slaves, the property of Buron. Sir
Thomas Wilde contended that Captain Denman had
r acted in accordance both with the laws of Spain and Eng-
land for the suppression of the slave trade, and had merely
obeyed instructions for which not he but his government
was responsible. If wrong had been done the govern-
ment of Spain should claim compensation from that of
England. Some laughter was created by Baron Alder-
son's asking if it was contended by the plaintiff that the
Ameers of Sinde might bring an action against Lord
Ellenborough for false imprisonment ? Mr. Kelly saw no
reason why they should not. Baron Alderson: " Perhaps
Sir Charles Napier and Lord Ellenborough might be
jointly sued." The Court declared its intention of taking
time to consider its judgment.

ROLL'S COURT.—THURSDAY.
CROSSKILL V. GROUNSELL.
In this case, which was tried at the last Liverpool
Assizes, an injunction was granted to restrain the defen-
dant from making or selling the machine mentioned in the
plaintiff's bill, for crushing clods of earth for agricultural
purposes, or any imitation of the machine.

The senior Queen's Counsel in years' standing at the
bar is Sir C. Wetherell; the junior Queen's Counsel, in
point of time at the bar, is Mr. Roebuck.
WINTER CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Coleridge will pro-
ceed to York, and City, Nov. 28—Durham, Dec. 18.
Mr. Baron Gurney wiil hold a Session at Chester, and
City, Dec. 2—Liverpool, Dec. 14.
DEATH OF MR. SERGEANT ANDREWS.—This unfor-
tunate gentleman, who inflicted a wound in his throat on
Thursday last, expired on Wednesday morning, at his re-
sidence at Hampstead. The Learned Sergeant, who was
in his seventy-third year, was the senior sergeant-at-law,
and held his appointment by virtue of a patent granted in
the reign of George the Third.
LAW OF MARRIAGE.—The Rev. J. Daniel, incumbent
of East Ardsley, has sent to the Wakefield Journal the
following important decision of the Registrar General,
conveyed to him recently in answer to a reference which
he felt it his duty to make :—" A clergyman is not legally
bound to marry parties under the authority of a Superin-
tendent Registrar's Certificate, unless one of them be
resident within his parish.

UNIVERSITY 6- CLERICAL NEWS.

OXFORD, Nov. 14.—1 n a congregation held this day
he following degrees were conferred :
Masters of Arts.—Archer Robert Tawney, Merton
College ; Rev. Alfrsd Thomas Wilmhurst, Magdalen
Hall; Rev. John Towlson, Magdalen Hall.
Bachelors of Arts.—Charles Kipling, Lincoln, Grand
Compounder ; George Mapletoft Paterson, Lincoln ;
Denham William Jephson Norreys, New Inn Hall;
Charles Lyford, New Inn Hall; John Grove, New Inn
Hall; Edward Henry Hoare, St. Mary Hall; Henry
Hughes, St. Mary Hall ; Arthur Dyott Thomson, Baliol ;
John Joshua Proby, Baliol ; Thomas Dundas Harfbrd
Battersby, Baliol ; Raymond Samuel Daniell, Magdalen
Hall ; Horace Philips White, Magdalen Hall; Robert
Emans Crawley, Magdalen Hall ; Francis Thomas
M'Dougall, Magdalen Hall; James Frith, Christ Church ;
George Cressner Tufnell, Wadham ; Frederick Godfrey,
Wadham ; James Lewis Walker Venables, Wadham ;
Charles Harris, Wadham ; Thomas Morgan Davies,
Scholar of Jesus ; Edward Jones, Jesus ; Martin Edgar
Benson, St. John's; Thomas :Bowdon Banner, Scholar
of Brasenose ; John Ducker, Scholar of Brasenose ;
Hon. Llewellyn Charles R. Irby, Brasenose ; Arthur
Evans, Brasenose ; Edward Pickering, Brasenose ; Tho-
mas Pulvertoft Thirkill, Brassenose ; David Barttelot
Barttelot, Scholar of Corpus ; Edward Hooper Kiltoe,
Exeter; Thomas Sanctuary, Exeter; John Acton,
Exeter ; Francis Raikes, Exeter; Heathcote Allen Wake,
University; John Turner Fisher, University; Egerton
Douglas Hammond, Merton ; John Beauvoir Dalison,
Merton ; Walter Eaton, Merton ; William Henry Rich-
ardson, Oriel ; Jefferys Wilkins Murray, Oriel; Henry
Nowell Barton, Scholar of Pembroke; William Bell,
Trinity ; Thomas Horace Cookes, Scholar of Worcester :
John William Russell, Worcester; John James Culman,
Worcester; Harvey Alexander, Worcester ; Matthew
Fletcher, St. Edmund Hall (incorporated from Trinity
College, Dublin.)
CAMBRIDGE.—On Wednesday, the following degrees
were conferred :—Doctor in Physic.—William Francis
Price, Emmanuel College (grand compounder). Master
of Arts.—George Nicholas Vansittart, Trinity College
(grand compounder). IncorporatedM.A.from
Clotworthy Gillmor, St. John's College. Bachelors of
Arts.—Augustus Barker Hemsworth, Trinity College;
Edward Sendall, Trinity College; John Warren Trot-
man, Trinity College ; Alexander Anderdon Weston,
Trinity College ; William Barker, St. John's College.
PREFERMENTS AND APPOINTMENTS.—Rev. H. Stock-
en, incumbent of A shendale within Knaresborough, to the
perpetual curacy of Wilton within Kirk Leathern, near
Redcar ; Rev. E. D. Tinling, M.A., to the rectory of
West Worlington, Devonshire, void by the cession of the
Rev. J. R. Whye; Rev. C. H. Archer, 8.A., to the
vicarage of Lewannick, Cornwall, void by the cession of
the Rev. A. 11. Gore ; Rev. W. H. Graham, to the per-
petual curacy of Egton, Yorkshire ; Rev. S. J. Wilson,
M.A., master of Acton Grammar School, to the rectory
of Weston, near Nantwich ; Rev. G. Dineley, 8.8., to
the rectory of Peopleton, Worcestershire; Rev. R. P.
Blackeney, 8.A., to the incumbency of Ison Green, Nott-
ingham ; Rev. W. Mathias, M.A., to the incumbency of
Burtle, Edington, Somerset; Rev. T. H. Sotheby, to the
vicarage of Milverton-cum-Llangford Budville, Somerset;
Yen. S, Wilberforce, Archdeacon of Surrey, and chaplain
to Prince Albert, has been appointed by the Archbishop
of York to the office of sub-almoner, in the room of the
late Dean of Carlisle ; Rev. G. W. Newnham, M.A., to
the perpetual curacy of Monckton Combe, Somerset ;
Rev. R. G. Swayne, to the curacy of Slimbridge, Glou-
cestershire ; Rev. E. East, 8.A., to the curacy of Long
Ashton, Somerset ; Rev. G. G. Casham, 8.A., to the
curacy of St. Mark, Lyncombe and Widcombe, Somer-
set ; Rev. F. F. Hole, M.A., to the curacy of Shepton
Mallet; Rev. W. Marriott, to the curacy of Bedminster;
Rev. A. C. Richings, 8.A., to the assistant curacy of the
Abbey, Bath ; Rev. R. Collyer, M.A., to the rectory of
Warham St. Mary Magdalene and Warham St. Mary the
Virgin, with the rectory of Waterden, annexed, Norfolk
Rev. C. J. Sympson, 8.A., to a hying in the neighbour.
hood of Scarborough, Yorkshire; Rev. C. P. Wilbraham
to the vicarage of Audley, Staffordshire ; Rev. S. Ashby,
M.A., to the vicarage of Corpusty, Norfolk; Rev. T,
Coldwell, vicar of Abthorpe, Northamptonshire, and do.
mestic chaplain to the late Duke of Grafton, to be chap.
lain to the present duke; Rev. 11. Goodwin, 8.A., of
Christ Church, Oxford, to the vicarage of Twyning,
Gloucester.

The decision of the Vice-Chancellor in the Ottery St.
Mary case, allows the governors to cut down old trees in
the churchyard, when such trees threaten the safety of
the church.

The Rectory of St. George's Hanover-square, London,
is to be divided into at least two parishes, by the express
desire of the Bishop of London. The Bishop's son-in-
law, the Rev. H. Brown, will be appointed to one. The
Globe has published a paragraph, which is undiluted false-
hood about this matter.

THE BISHOP OF LONDON AND THE CHURCHWARDENS
OF WARE.—His lordship having justified the vicar of
Ware, Mr. Coddington, for his suspension of the rubrics
during the harvest month, and urged the churchwardens
to be more respectful and conciliatory towards their
spiritual pastor, the wardens have replied by a somewhat
stringent letter, implying partiality in the bishop, and ex-
pressive of their resolving that " as the rigid observance
of the rubrics has been made the pretence for the intro-
duction of all the changes which have proved injurious to
the interests of the Church, they are determined to per-
mit no deviation from them by the minister of the parish
(be it Mr. Coddington or his curate), without his being
warned of his inconsistency."—Church and State Gaz.

INTERDICT AGAINST THE SOCIETY FOR PROPA-
GATING CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE.—The Society in
Scotland for Propagating Christian Knowledge, at an
extraordinary general meeting held on the 22d of Decem-
ber, 1840, came to a resolution, by a vote of 61 to 28,
whereby it considered, "That the society.is at liberty to
select its teachers in any capacity" (with special qualifi-
cations specified in the patents), " for the purpose of
instructing the people in the Reformed Protestant reli-

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—THURSDAY.
EN.PARTE BLUNDELL.
Mr. Cowling moved, in this case, to quash a coroner's
inquisition founded on the following facts :—Two labourers
ascending from a coal-mine, near Wigan, met their death
by the breaking of a rope. An inquest was held on the
bodies, and the coroner's jury returned that the deceased
had come to their deaths by the breaking of the rope, and
they assessed separate deodands, of £25 in each case, on
the rope, the basket attached to the rope, and the engine
employed to draw up the rope. The two sums of £25
were levied on Mr. Blundell, the owner of the colliery,
and he sought to set the inquisition aside, upon the ground,
amongst others, that the rope in question was known to
be defective ; that he had given strict orders that it should
not be used in the mine; and that the deceased used it in
direct contravention of those orders. The learned counsel
also submitted that, as the engine was not moving to the
death of the persons upon whom the inquest was held, no
deodand could be levied on ,it, and that, in any event, as
there was but one accident, though two lives were lost,
there should be but one deodand, as the deodand was, in
fact, the value of the article causing the death. The
court granted a rule to show cause.