It is proposed, owing to the immense quantity of business
to he transacted at each Assizes at Liverpool, that in future the Judges who go the Welsh Circuit should, after finishing the business at Chester, proceed to Liverpool or Manchester, and there preside over the trial of all causes arising in the West Derby or Manchester division of Lan. cashire. The want of business in Wales (where the whole duties of the Judges generally consist in complimenting the Grand Juries on the decrease of crime and the absence of litigation, and in partaking of the hospitalities of the inhabitants) has prevented the formation of a sufficient bar ; and has induced the Judges to select the Welsh Circuit as a pleasure-tour, rather than as a laborious duty ; but the addition of half Lancashire to their labours will tend to equalize business, and also to form a bar sufficient for all useful purposes, by abstracting a number of learned gentlemen from the Northern Circuit. —Liverpool Telegraph. The Great Western Railroad required four acres of garden-ground near Bath, belonging to Earl Manvers : his Lordship's surveyor valued the property at 9,1001., and afterwards at 7,500/. The railroad Commissioners offered to give 4,5001. for the hand; which was refused. On Tuesday, a Jury was summoned to assess the value of the land; when, after bearing Mr. Penruddocke and Mr. Smith for Earl Manvers, and Sir W. Follett and Mr. Palmer for the Company, they decreed the sum of 3,3731. as compensation for his Lordship's land, being upwards of 4,000/. less than the sum demanded by him, and 1,3001. le than that offered by the company.—Bristol Gazette. [The sum finally, awarded to Lord Manvers was, however, enormous for four acre.s ; ana it is another proof of the great advantage which the landed interest derives from the increase of trade. Where would our railroads be hu.. for that commerce which our Legislature of landed gentlemen dii courages by the Corn-laws?1
The inhabitants of Townstal, Dartmouth, held a meeting on Medal
week, for the purpose of making a church-rate: a strong body assembled, and after a sharp contest, it %vas determined to make a rate by a majority of one.Corns/4(in.
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