COURT OF APPEAL.

Evening Post, Issue 223, 25 October 1865, Page 2

COURT OF APPEAL.

In the Court of Appeal, yesterday, the following cases were heard : — The Queen v. Knyvett. — The p-iamii-r had been tried for stealing a horse, l -ui wm fmi'i'l ynlHy of stealing a mare and nut or, staling v nurse. The question was should the prisoner have ' been indicted for stealing a i",..-e. J-i !<r nenf reserved. The Queen v. Kin-.-. — Pris .nur wus charged with embezzlement, but had ac- I counted for the money, and acknowledged the money taken as a debt The question was, had the money been taken with intention to commit a fraud. SenMuv confirinul. The Queen v. Claridge. — Prisoner had stolen a box, the contents of which were named in the indictment ; he was found guilty of stealing the box, but in the evidence the contents were differently described from the indictment. The Court confirmed the sentence. THIS DAY. The Court of Appeal resumed to-day at 2 o'clock. As arranged yesterday by their Honors, the cose of Lonnie and Another, appellants, and Godfrey, respondent, was heard. This appeal was from the decision of Mr. Justice RichVnond ivnd Mr. Justice Chapman. In the original action the plaintiff agreed to carry, and deliver on demand, certain railway plant, in consideration of the performance of which the defendants handed to plaintiff their check for .£7O, but before it had been presented the defendants had applied for the goods at the place speiiflen, and could not. obtain delivery, whereupon they stopped payment of the chuck. Mr. Burton, who conducted the appeal, argued at considerable length on the different points in the case. He contended that the contract was not completed until delivery of the poods ; and also that that the respondent was not entitled to bring his actim under the circumstances. He cited several casus in support ol' his argument, and left the matter in the hands of the Court,. Their Honors stated that they would take time to consider their decision, and the Court adjourned till eleven o'clock to-morrow. The Duke of Argyll, presided (in the tartan of his clan, and wearing the Order of the Thistle) at the annual dinner of the Highland Society, at Inverness. After congratulating the meeting on the excelence of the show, the noble duke ridiculed the statistics with which Professor Leone Levi had sought to make out that the Highland counties of Scotland were in a stagnant or even declining condition. The learned professor's figures were in fact all moonshine. " Sheep farming," said the noble duke, " has Ik on not a substitution of ancient tiling*.-, but wholty in addition to it ; and if you count it acre for acre, you have four or five times the amount of land under tillage now which you had 100 years ago. And one of the best proofs of this is the extraordinary and almost incredible rise in the value of laud which has taken place in the course of the last 100 years. To illustrate this T may mention a particular case which came unJer my own knowledge during the last few years. I know one estate oi which I have the complete rent-roll of 100 years ago, and at the conclusion of the civil war the rental was about £5000. It is no longer in the hands of one person but is separated into several hands, and I know that the lands which, from 1756 to 1760, represented only between £5000 and £6000 a year, now represent a rental of nearly £70,000. The late Mr. James Brooks, of Brookehill, near Londonderry, has bequeathed the whole of his property, £10,000 to 15,000, to establish a people's park near that city.