James Ealey, superintendent porter of the Triumphal Arch Lodge, at the grand entrance to the Green Park, to which situation he had been appointed three years back by his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, ranger of her Majesty's parks, claimed to have his name retained on the register, in right of his lodge, and was objected to by Mr. Score, as occupying the premises as a servant, under his royal highness, and not as tenant or owner.

The claimant stated that he had lived a period of three-and-twenty years in the service of his Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, as coachman, and that his royal highness had appointed him to his present situation, at a yearly salary, and, he believed, for life. The appointment was merely a verbal one, and had not been reduced to writing. Claimant's duty was to attend to the large gates, the entrée to which was exclusively confined to "privileged" and "very rich" personages; and the mode by which such were distinguished and known from "the less favoured," was by a list furnished, for the guidance of the lodge, from the Secretary of State's office, setting out the names of all parties of the élite who were to be permitted ingress and egress without question or impediment.

The learned Revising Barrister said that the party in this case clearly was not owner, it not being in his power to let the premises occupied by him to any other person, and it being in that of the Duke of Sussex to remove him into any other house. The claim must, therefore, be expunged.

Claim expunged accordingly.

Adjourned till Monday.