The Hereby Castle great will cause has been decided in
the Ex- chequer Chamber. The Court of Error has affirmed the judgment of the King's Bench, with costs; by which decision, the verdict in favour of Admiral Tatham, the heir-at-law of the late Mr. Marsden, is esta- blished. It being generally known that the Judges had appointed Tuesday fur giving their decision, the streets of Lancaster were crowded by persons awaiting the arrival of the mail on Wednesday. A large concourse assembled in front of the Post-office, and the announce- ment of the decision in favour of the popular and venerable plaintiff was received with lowland repeated cheering by the assembled crowd. The news soon spread. An expresss immediately set off for Hornby, the seat of the late Mr. Marsden ; and the inhabitants of that peaceful village were apprised of the joyful intelligence, aroused from their slumbers in the dead of night by a merry peal from the church bells. It is said to be the intention of the defendant (who left for town with his solicitor immediately after the arrival of the judgment) to carry the question before the House of Lords, from whose decision there is no appeal.—Lancaster Guardian.
Goodwood Races will be worth the trouble of a visit this year. Lord George Bentinck has an intention of giving a piece of plate, to be called " the cup," the value of which will be more than 1,000 guineas. The epergne to be presented by the Earl of Albemarle, although upon a considerably smaller scale, is very prettily designed.
The Town-Council of Hull have come to a unanimous resolution to petition Parliament in support of Mr. Rowland Hill's plan of uni- versal penny postage ; and u similar resolution has been adopted by the Chamber of Commerce at Hull. The two bodies are of opposite politics ; but here again the Tories declare for practical improvements.
Among other conveniences provided by the directors of the Grand Junction Railway for the accommodation of travellers, not the least amusing one is a species of conveyance named in the advertisement "bed carriages in a mail-coach !" In other days, the man who would have talked of living to see the time when he could sleep in bed and be carried through the air at the rate of thirty or five-and-thirty miles an hour, would have been deemed a suitable inmate for a lunatic asylum.
The fare on the Grand Junction Railway from Liverpool to Bir- mingham in the first-class carriages, for the whole distance, will be one guinea ; in the mail, twenty-five shillings ; in the bed or dormeuse, two pounds ; and in the second-class carriages, fourteen shillings. This is about one-half the present charges. The journey will he per- formed in the first class carriages in four hours and a half; and in the second in five hours and a quarter.
William Marshall, a shoemaker at Ripon, in a fit of phrenzy yester- day week, drowned one of his children, and attempted to drown another. He immediately gave himself into custody. Marshall was a sober and industrious man, and not needy.
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