In the Vice-Chancellors Court, on Monday, a dispute between the
Useful Knowledge Society and Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock, was settled by compromise. Messrs. Baldwin and Cradock claimed the tight of continuing to publish the maps of the Society under an old agreement. The Society wished to get possession of the plates, and transfer the publication to another house ; but on the offer to pay 2,0001., due on the old account, into court, proceedings were suspended. Sir Lancelot Shadu ell was facetious on the subject ; saying—" The proposition is very reasonable, and highly creditable to all the parties interested in the diffusion of useful knowledge ; for, in my opinion, nothing shows the absence of useful knowledge more than a long liti- gation about nothing."
In the Bail Court, on IVechresday, Mr. Humfrey applied on behalf of Mr. Muntz for leave of personal absence for that ger' tleman when a motion for a new trial on the subject of' the riot in the church at Bir- mingham would be made. He mentioned that The defendant had been found guilty upon only one of thirteen counts in the indictment, and that as he carried on a business in a very huge way at Swansea, it would be a matter of the greatest inconvenience to him to be in at- tendance here fauna day to day until the motion for the new trial could be brought on. Re Loped, that as the personal attendance in such cases of the de- fendant was a mere farm, the application would be complied wish."
Mr. Justice Williams said-
" The attendance was not in general considered as merely formal, and he knew a case where several persons had been jointly convicted, and where in con. sequence of the absence of one of them the others were unable to make the mo- tion for the new trial on their own behalf. The same had occurred in the case of Lord Cochrane ;, and he must therefore decline grouting the rule."
At Guildhall, on Monday, the Honourable Algernon Curzon, a son of Lord Teynbam, was committed to prison, on a charge, the truth of which he confessed, of being a deserter from the Sixty-third Regi- ment, which he had entered as a private a few weeks ago. Mr. Curzon said that he had had repeated disputes with his father during the last seven years ; that he had been supported by his brother Sydney, till the latter had married a lady of large fortune, and then he deserted him ; that he bad never been brought up to any profession, and had inlisted to save himself from starvation ; but finding his situation insupportable, had deserted.
Four "gentlemen," members of the Guards' Club, were fined at the Marlborough Street °nice, on Monday, for being "drunk and disor- derly" in the streets.
A most desperate affray took place on the evening of Sunday last, betwixt the English and Irish labourers employed upon the Great West ?rn Railway. It was again renewed on Monday, and many of the results are anticipated to be fatal. The riot is understood to have arisen itt consequence of the Irish party having proposed to work for lower wages than their English fellow-labourers. The atrocities on both sides have been of the most brutal description ; and but for the interference of the local authorities, aided by a squadron of the Twelfth Lancers, the most lamentable consequences must have ensued. Twenty-four of the rioters have been committed to Clerkenwell Prison, where they will remain until a further examination.
On Sunday morning, a fire broke out in the premises of Henry Cockerell, a maker of fireworks, in Paradise Row, Islington. Se- veral barrels of gunpowder exploded, and the extensive premises were entirely destroyed. Three of the inmates, sons of Mr. Cockerell, were burnt to death, and several others were severely injured.
That foreign artistes make the most preposterous demands upon Jelin Bull's purse is a fact pretty well known ; and in proof of it there is an exhibition now attempting in this metropolis at half-a-gui- nea tickets, which was lately seen in Paris for a franc, or tenpence.—, Courier.
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