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- iIIMkIIBII coming to the conclusion that the whole transaction was fraudulent- Mr. Rawlinson, an Attorney, proved that he called on Captain Atkinson, in ?daunt-agree, in April, 1827, by desire of the defendant, to demand from him four blank acceptances, which defendant had given him. Captain Atkinson refused to give up the acceptances. Captain Atkinson is in very straitened circumstances. Mr. Huxley stated, that he accompanied the defen dant, in April last, to Captain Atkinson's lodgings, to demand four acceptances for 5001. each. Atkinson said he could not return the bills without having an apology from Mr. West, for some remarks made on his charac-, ter. West said, if he had injured Mr. Atkinson's cha racter he regretted it. A written apology was prepared in the room. Mr. Atkinson then looked amongst his papers with some marks of agitation, and taking some papers in his hand, said, 66 here they are; I have had trouble enough about them ;-- them." He then threw the papers into the fi re. Witness thought they were the bills accepted by Mr. West. Mr. West is now an Officer in the Life Guards. Cross-examined—l gave a receipt for the bills, ex pecting they would be given up. William Stone, a sheriff's-officer, who had arrested Captain Atkinson, was present at the interview described by Mr. Huxley, andvorroborated his testimony as to the burning of the papers. Mr. Alexander Brough stated, that he was Mr. West's guardian,and that he had transferred the sum of 20,0001. to him on his coming of age in August last. The plaintiff's answer to the bill filed in Chancery was then put in and read, and occupied the Court for a con siderable time. Mr. Wilde stated, that he is a wine broker, and was instructed by Mr. Wheeler, in 1825, to sell some claret which stood in the London Docks in his name. The wine was put up to sale, and bought in for 51. a hogshead.— Witness did not think it worth so much, as it was of bad quality, and had turned sour: A number of witnesses, chiefly "sporting " characters, were called, on the part of the defendant, to prove the' con ideration given for the bill. It appeared that there was another bill of the same kind in the hands of a tailor in Conduit-street, against Mr. West. Mr. BROUGHAM replied, and commented on the im probability of the story told by these witnesses. The LORD CHM! JUSTICE recapitulated the evidence to the Jury, and in the course of his remarks com mented on the improbability of the defendant's having given the bill after the burning transaction, and it was proved that the plaintiff was under the age before that affair took place. Sir JAMES SCARLETT said, that if the Court was of opinion that that tact was proved, he would consent to a nonsuit.—Plaintiff nonsuited accordingly. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Aram 15. (Lord Cbief Justice BUT this morning resumed his Sittings in London. His Lordship's health, though evidently better than before his recent visit to Bath, appears, we are sorry to say, far front re , established. He was carried into Court by his attendants.] LOW AND OTHERS F. CoPESLAKE. This was an action brought to recover upon a bill of exchange for 1001. endorsed by the defendant. It ap peared from the statement of the Counsel, and the evi dence adduced, that this bill was drawn by a young Lady named Biden, upon her mother, and endorsed by the defendant, for the purpose of rendering her an ac commodation. It was found, however, that the bill in this state could not be negociateJ, and consequently the three plaintiffs, who are tradesmen residing at Rams gate, severally endorsed it. On its arriving at maturity it was dishonoured, and the plaintiffs paid it in equal proportions, and brought this action to recover the amount From the defendant. The usual proof having been adduced, Mr. Sergeant WILDE, for the defendant, submitted that the action could not be sustained. The plaintiffs had brought a joint action upon an indot sement, which conveyed the entire propetty in the bill to one of them only, and there was no evidence (indeed, the instrument itself proved to demonstration the reverse) that the plaintiffs were joint tenants. Mr. Sergeant TADDY, who was for the plaintiffs, called witnesses to prove they paid 331.65. Bd. each. The LORD CHIEF Justus hoped the day was not far distant when these technical objections would be done away altogether ; in this case he was very glad it was in his power to overrule it. He had no doubt that the plaintiffs, in the present form of the declaration, were entitled to recover, and the Jury, under his directions, accordingly re:urned a verdict for the plaintiffs.— Damages 1041. 10s. RILEY V. BORNE. This was an action brought to recover from the de fendant, a coach proprietor, 461. the value of a parcel of silk lost on its way by coach from Kettering to London. Want sses ssete called on the part of the plaintiff to prr•ve the value of the parcel, and also that it was booked at the office of the defendant. On the part of the deft ndant it was proved that the coach was robbed, and the parcel in question stolen. Also that the de fendant had given notice in London that he would nut be liable for any parcel above the value of 51. unless due notice was given. In consequence, however, of want of pr •of that the same notice was given at Kettering, Chief Justice Bur said, that as no such notice had been proved to have been given, the plaintiff must have a verdict.—Verdict accordingly—Damages 461. Mr. Sergeant ANDREWS, who appeared for the de. fondant, asked for leave to move the Court. The Cuter Juartca said that he might do so if he pleased. He could not etevent him dog So. ' It is with pleasure we observe, that the Rev. Mr. CASSAN'S spirited pamphlet against the Repeal of the Corporation and Test Acts has already attained to a Second Edition, to which the author has added the Acts themselves, with a view of showing that of the Corporation Act the Dissenters have nothing to com plwn, and that the repeal of the Test Act would benefit not them, but Papists. EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE AT GRADALOUPL.—Major Waltord, of the 54th Regiment, escaped without a scratch, though a ball passed through the crown of his 114, anotl er tore off one of his epaulettes, and a third frrtted the end of his cravat; two shots passed through Iris coat, and another lodged in the heel of his boot.— Ackermann's Repository. GOING Sszcza.--During the great plague which preceded the fire of London in the 17th century, the office of Searcher, which is continued to the present slay, was a very important one. A noted body-searcher, whose name was Snacks, finding his business increase so fast that he could not compass it, offered to any per son who should join him in his hazardous practice half the profits. Thus those who jojned him were said to go with Snacks. Hence going Snacks, or dividing the spoil.—Ackerstames Repo:story. The amount of the city of Cork Grand Jury present ments fiated by Baron PIINNERATHER, is 16,0281. In discharging this duty, his Lordship said, there was no tity in Ireland but Cork where the public peace was preserved at so trifling ao expense, without any aid from a police force. OLD BAILEY SESSIONS, APRIL 15. fhe only case of any interest hied this day was following one in the New Court: Before Mr. Sergeant Awra and a Middlesex Jury. George Fogles, aged 66, was indicted for having mar ried Ann Deary, his former wife being then living. The pawner, it appeared, had been known and com mitted by the name of Ramscar. Henry Smith stated that he is the parish clerk of' Chardle, in the County of Chester. He knew the pri soner personally before his marriage with Mary Hib bert, which took place at the Church of the parish aforesaid, on the 16th of March, 1824. Never knew the female before. Was present at the nuptials, and made out the lines of marriage (1. e. the certificate). — They were married according to the formula of the Church of England; but v hether the marriage was consummated he could not tell. Cotrat.—Did they live together as man and wife? Witness.—They appeared to do so, and a child was born in consequence. COURT.—WeII, that looks like an answer to the pre vious question. Prisoner.—l am not the same man. Witness.—l know him, and he knows me; he was employed by a person with whom I do business, in the town where I witnessed the marriage. Prisoner (sarcastically)—When did I leave Chardle? Witness.—Soon after you married. Prisoner.—You are wrong, for I never worked there. By the COURT.—I might have given the bride away myself. Prisoner.—l do not say that woman was my wife ; but—(addressing witness) who really gave her away ? Witness-1 cannot swear, but perhaps I did. A witness produced a copy of the " marriage lines." The certificate ran thus: " This is to certify, that George Ramses!. and Mary Hibbert were married in the church of Chardle. on the 16th day a Mareb, 1824. " MATTHEW DUNN, Minister. Ann Deary, the prosecutrir, a person of respectable appearance, stated, that on the 19111 of November, 1826, she was married to the prisoner at the parish church of St. James, Westminster. She had known him eight or nine months previous. She was a widow with one child at that time, and had a house well furni,hed. The pri soner described himself as having respectable connexions at Stockport. She was obliged to separate from him six weeks after marriage in consequence of ill treatment. By the COURT.—Kfter we had been married a month, he laid he was a married man. I did not believe him, but I consulted a friend, who said that I had no remedy without I could prove the fact. I afterwards saw a friend of the prisoner's, who confirmed the statement he had made. I then wrote to his wife, and ascertained the fact, and I then refused to live with him. During the time he lived with me, he pledged a great deal of my property, which by hard labour I have since re deemed. My former husband was a respectable sadder, in Ryder-street, Chelsea. The prisoner abused me and used me very ill. Prisoner—My Lord, I never struck her in my life; but she began to be jealous of another woman. Mr. Sergeant ARAIIII4 inquired of the prosecutrix as to this allegation, admitting at the same time that it was a matter of delicacy. Witness—My Lord, but for what he has said. I would not have alluded to the circumstance; but the fact is, ie lived with another woman close by. This, and a further detail of the prisoner's conduct ,awards her, appealed to excite considerable corn- miseration. - The prisorer put in a written defence, in which he did not deny the intermarriage, but stated in mitigation that he had been seventeen years a brave soldier in the service of the Honourable East India Company, from which he was discharged in con equence of bullet wounds received in his head. Hence he could " no more serve his gracious Majesty or the Company," but be had a pension, part of which the prosecutrix partook of during his connexion with her. He added, that he was sometimes addicted to the evil of taking " a drop too much," and then he was incapable of being master of himself, or responsible for his engagements. The Jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Sergeant Alum said that he would not im pede the progress of business by passing sentence in• stouter, but the prisoner might rest assured that at the end of the Sessions he would be ordered to be trans ported beyond the seas for the term of seven years. Saturday morning, about three o'clock. a house in the Terracedilbion-road,in the occupation of Mr.LukeLeek, late of the Stock Exchange, was broken into, and desks, drawers, tables, cupboards, work-boxes, &c. broken open, and several valuable articles carried off by the thieves. The burglars made their entrance at the back of the house, in the garden. having, by means of a centre•bit, bored a number of holes in the panel of the door ; a piece of the panel was taken out without making any noise. This done, one of the thieves put his arm through the hole in the door and drew back the bolts which fastened it, unscrewed the shutter, and then cut out a pane of glass with a diamond, which enabled him to reach an upper bar. The entrance thus made, the inner doors of the house, except the bed-rooms, being Cl open, the thieves had no further obstruction until they tried one of the bed-room doors, which awoke the inmate and the rest of the family. The thieves retreated so precipitately that* shoe of one of them was left be hind. The alarm extended to another part of the gang, *rho were proceeding in a similar way in another house in the same row, occupied by the family of a Mr. George, of Tottenham, but not without taking with them some valuable effects. A serious accident occurred at Drury-lane Theatre last night. Master WIELAND, who plays the monkey in the afterpiece, has to climb up the side scene at the commencement of the piece. By some accident he lost his hold, and fell from a height of 12 or 14 feet upon the stage, and came on his side and head. He moaned loudly, and was carried off by the performers who were taking part in the scene. The curtain dropped, and Mr. BrumNs came forward and stated that be would report the nature of the accident as scan as it could be ascertained. After the lapse of about a quarter of an hour, he again appeared, and said that Master WIELAND was seriously hurt, but that an en deavour would be made to get through the piece as well as possible. From this it was supposed that Master WIELAND would not again appear; but when the cur tain drew up he was seen sitting in a chair. Tl;e audience, with proper feeling, unanimously demanded his removal, and he was led off the stage evidently in a state of great suffering. The panoramic scenery was then exhibited, and the curtain fell. Mr. BROWNE then once more came forward, and stated that Master WIZ* LAND had been removed to his house under the care of a surgeon, and that his hurt was dangerous. Sunday some ingenious thieves contrived to abstract from the house of Mr. Cobham, proprietor of a coffee shop in Newrte-street, his cash-box ? containing 1801. itk gold and silver. POL' E INTMAGENCE. MANSION—HOUSE. Monday, a person of highly -respectable connections, and idental clerk in the house of Messrs. W. and H. B. Ward (ot . whom is Member of Parliament for the city of London), brought before the LORD MAYOR, charged with having commit a forgery, to the amount of SOW. upon the house of N. M child. Esq. The forgery was an acceptance for 5004 purporting be drawn by Harriet Barnard on N. M. Rothschild. Esq. payal to the order of Messrs. St. Lurmen and Son, dated Vienna, 4411th December. 1827, at three months' sight, and also purporting to accepted by N. M. Rothschild, 9th of January, 1828, payable Masterman and Co.'s, and to be indorsed by J. St. Lurmen Son, Bremen. and was payable to the order of the prisoner. Mr. GAT'S, the Solicitor to the Committee of Bankers foe p. tecdon against Frauds and Forgeries. attended for t h e prosecut i on . Mr. thaws& attended on the part of the pastime. Mr. Gates called the following witnessut Mr. Joseph Wright, of the Old Jewry, merchant, deposed, be bad taken the bill for 3001. from the prisoner on the t Sth o nuary last , th in discharge of the pris oner ' s di shonoured seaplanes, e witness, and that he (witn ess ) gave the pr i soner a by th e The witness paid th e acceptance i nto the ' ol Mr. Edmund Cleinson, a clerk to Messrs. hlasterm an , deposed, that Sir John Lubbock and Co. his bankers. that the acceptance was presented at the house of his employers by Meters. Lubbock and Co. end that the prisoner on Saturday lar applied at the clearing-hawse, in Lombard.street, and wished ' take up the bill, but as it would be irregular to albw it to beta' up under such circumstances, the request was um complied Witness further stated, that Mr. N. M. Rothschild kept an - at Messrs. Masterman and Co.'s, and that the signature to ceptance was a forgery. Mr. Reuben Browning, a clerk in the house of Mr. N. M. child, deposed, that the signature purporting to be that of , Rothschild, was a forgery. The concern had no correspondent Vienna of the name of the drawer of the bill, and no person I/ name of Harriet Barnard had a right to draw the hill iu upon the house. Mr. Henry Despard, a clerk in the house of Messrs. W, B. Ward, of New Broad -street, merchants, deposed that soner lived in the employment of that firm, and that he knew the prisoner's handwriting. Wines, stated that the indorsement of the bill, whereby it was made payable to soner, and also that the words, " In need with Messrs. Doze, Co." were in the handwriting of the prisosier.--The prisoner remanded foe some days. BOW-BTRRET. Four boys, whose ages varied from twelve to fifteen, were terday charged before Sir R. Bums and G. It. thrum , with playing at an unlawful game called " pitch and n Broad-court, Bow -street. Froth the testimony of several inhabitants of that coon, it appeared that the primmer% number of other boys of very doubtful character, were in tit habit of assembling there, for the purpose of gambling and pockets. to the nit small annoyance of not only those who the court, but those who had occasion to pus through it. In their defence, the boys all declared, that although they have been guilty of " a little play," yet that they were entirely of all thieving propensities. The street keeper, on this, stated, that a worse set of boys I the prisoners London could bog produce; every one of them suffered the sentence of the law for offences of which they bad convicted at the Old Bailey, and the life which they were leading was of the most infamous character.—The prisoners then sentenced to three months' imprisonment, and gentle at the treadmill, under the Police Act. UNION...HALL. Yesterday an extraordinary looking man, with a head which nearly extended down to his heels, and a pair at busby whiskers, applied for a summons Under the following . stances :—He stated But he was engaged by the proprietor show, to eabibit at Greenwich Fair, in the character of the , " Man, or Wild Man of the Woods." He was to have had a week, but his employer thought proper to discharge' exhibiting one day only, giving him pax for that time. . having been engaged by the week, considered he was entitled week's salary. Mr. Cisaineas—l suppose you didn't draw. and that reason you were discharged. Have you ever exhibited before? Applicant—.. England: Mr. Cnsismaas.—What countryman are you? Applicant—An Irishman, to be sure, your Worship. Mr. Cuenstar-And how came you so well qualified parts in which you have appeared ? - Applicant—Lord bless you, Sir, I can eat raw meat by I and when I am properly dressed in the Esquimau: , , would be able to discover what the d-1 part of the world from. All I have to do is to honk! my tongue. I hay good deal of money in my time, your Honour; but I at rather wild, and cannot eat so voraciously as I used to do, hurts my profession a good deal. Mr. Cuunizas—l cannot whist you, my man; you . go over to your own country, and astonish the folks at Dorm Fair. Applicant —Yes, Sir, I have been at all the fairs Applicant—Oh! your Honour, I am afraid I should little good there for gayeelf; the people at Donnybrook of drinking whisky, and breaking their own heads than paying their Ibuney for a sight of an Ourang Outang if they discovered me to be an impostor, I rhould • cudgelled. The Memento.= having told the applicant that he grant a summons under the circumstances, the Ourang Out a clumsy bow and left the office, saying tbarhe should pr the Court of Requests and try what they could do fur him. MARLBOROUG H—STREET. Yesterday a soldier of the Foot Guards, named John and two other men named Joseph Skiptun and Thomas Burns, brought before Mr. CONANT, the sitting Magistrate, chary the following robbery— It appeared that the three prisoners were lodgers at the , public-house, in Olford.etreet t where they took an opportt forcing open with a screw-driver a box belonging to a man Lockman, who also resided in the house, the whole which, including two sovereigns, they carried off and but were traced out by Westcott and Avis, the officers w) headed then), and found upon their persons pawnbrokers. for several ankles of the stolen property, wearing apparel, which they had pledged. They were fully committed for trial. MARY—LA—BONNE. William Smith and Aim gasman, labourers, were brought Acton, yesterday morning, by John Williamson, a costae charged before Mr. Hewes and Lord Moorman, with harness. It appeared that the stables of Broughton, Esq. village, were broken open on Sunday, and robbed of a quantity chaise harness, and on Monday a husbandman saw the p take it from a dung heap in Ms master's field, at Wormhale and carry it in two large baskets, and a sack marked " C." towards Paddington. He gave thealarm ; they were and taken Into custody. The prisoners made nodefence, and were remanded. Rank Pearson, an elderly fre sh-coloured woman, was with fraudulently obtaining a bundle of linen from M ary ' land,..,laundress, by falsely represeoting herself to be the The stolen articles were produced IFy two pawnbrokers, shops the prisoner had pawned them, and she was committed Utah Saturday afternoon, a fellow having the appeal of a butcher's man, went to the house of M DULPH, New -street, Spring-gardens, and reqi have back a piece of sirloin of beef, of abou► pounds weight, stating the man had left them the piece in the morning, when the cook was weak . Jgb to let him have it, and he immediately decamped. CORN EXCHANGE, MARK-LANE, Arau. 16. With the exception of Oats, our supplies since Monday were unusually small; nevertheless, our Alarket was extremely dull this morning. Prime samples of Wheat and Barley supported last Monday's prices. Oats were nominal, and nox q single sale wt s , effected. Importations since Monday : -1,700 qrs . Wheat s 474 qrs. Barley, 7,400 qrs. 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It appeared that in 1808, the husband of the plaintiff assigned certain pro perty to which his wife; upon a certain contingency, would be entitled. The husband died in 1817, and, in 1624, the wife filed the present bill, to set aside the as signment, on the grounds that a husband had no right to assign his wife's chose in action, which at the time of the assignment was not reducible into possession. His Honour:• decided in the Court below that the husband had no such right as that exercised in the present case, and made a decree in accordance with the prayer of the bill. The LORD CHANCELLOR affirmed the judgment of the Court below, being of opinion that the husband had no power to give effect to an assignment of this de scription, unless the peculiar circumstances of the case enabled him to sue for or otherwise redeem the chose its action into possession at the time of making the assignment. DIMES V. SCOTT. The testator, a Mr. Percy left his property to trustees, with a direction to sell it, and -invest the produce in Government securities. The testator died in the %Vest Indiei. Part of the property consisted of a decennial loan. The interest of the property, after it was thus invested, was to be paid to a certain party, and the remainder was to go over. The trustees did not part with the decennial loan, but paid the tenant for life 10 per cent. in lieu of the interest the testator had looked to; hence the question, whether this was a proper com pliance with the testator's direction? His Lordship's judgment was negative, and therefore he directed the difference to be paid to the tenant for life, between the 10 per cent. and the interest that would have been produced by the directed sale and investment within a proper time of the death of thelestator. This confirmed the judgment of the Master of the Rolls. VICE•CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Alma. 15. INJUNCTION.—LEIGH V. STRNTFORD. In this case the bill was filed for an account of the testator's property and effects, and it prayed that in the mean time the defendants might be restrained by the order of the Court from selling a certain house, or from otherwise making away with the property of the testator. It appeared that the testator left all his property to his wife, one of the defendants, upon condition that she should not again enter into the matrimonial state, and in the event of her second marriage or death, the testator devised the property in question to Elizabeth Leigh the elder, and Elizabeth Leigh the young er, his wife's mother and sitter. Notwithstanding th provisions in this will, the testator's widow had since married the other defendant Stentford (as we understood the name), and the plaintiffs conceiving themselves to be now en titled to the property, filed the present bill. The VICE-CHANCELLOR granted the injunction. COURT OF KING'S BENCH, GUILDEALL, Aram 15. HARVEY AND OTHERS V. KAY, BART. This was an action for goods sold and delivered, and upon a bill of exchange, drawn by Rowland Wilks upon the Directors of the Cornwall and Devon Mining Com pany, and accepted in their name by the Secretary. The defendant, Sir William Kay, was sued as one of the Directors. The necessary proof of the acceptance, and that the defendant bad acted as a Director, having been given, Mr. CAstraiu.L, for the defendant, stated that the defence to the action (which went to a part only of the demand) was, that one of the plaintiffs, William Reynolds, was himself a Director of the Company up to a certain period, and that the bill in question (which Was for 661.0cid) was not drawn according to the custom of merchants. To prove this case several letters of the plaintiff Rey. nolds were produced, in which he alluded to the sale of 30 shares held by him under the Company, and which, under the deed of the Company (drawn by Mr. John Wilks, the late Member for Sudbury), could not, it ap. peered, be transferred except under certain regulations. l On the part of the plaintiffs. evidence was adduced to rebut this case, but before the whole of it was gone through. Lord TINTERDEN suggested, as it was clear that the plaintiffs were entitled to recover for the value of the goods sold subsequent to the transfer of the shares, that a verdict should be taken for the whole amount claimed, subject to the opinion of the Court above on the points of law raised on the part of the defendant. This being acceded to by the Counsel on both sides, a verdict was entered for the plaintiffs for 1541. 2s. 7d. with liberty to the defendant to move for a nonsuir, or to reduce the sum to 721. being the value of the goods which it was admitted the defendant was liable for. WHEELER V. WEST. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 1,0001. drawn by a person named Atkinson. and accepted by the defendant. Evidence was adduced to prove the handwriting of William Avery West, the defendant, to the bill in question. Mr. Baouocast then addressed the Jury for the de fendant. He said, a grosser case of fraud never came into a Court of Justice. The defendant was a respect. able young Gentleman, who had only come of age on the 17th of August last. The bill in question was dated the Slst August, and the circumstances under which it was obtained were aciollow :—Mr. West wanted more money before he came of age to purchase a commission, which his guardians did not deem it prudent at that time to advance. He became acquainted, however, with a sporting Gentleman. a Captain Atkinson, who promised to accommodate him with the sum he re• quired, and as a security took four blank acceptances on the proper stamps. This was long before Mr. West be came of age, and the money not being forthcoming, Mr. W. applied for the blank acceptances, and Captain At kinson took some papers out of his pocket, and threw them in the fire, saying, the acceptances, I have had trouble enough with them.".—Mr. West thought the acceptances were destroyed, and that he should heat no more of the transaction ; but he was subsequently called upon by the plaintiff Wheeler for 1,0004 the amount of a bill filled up by Atkinson, and for which the defendant had given a blank acceptance. There was every reason to believe that Wheeler was acquainted with the circumstances under which Atkinson became possessed of the bill in question ; and if the Jury were efsspinion that he was so informed, or that he bad not given value for the bill, they were bound to find for the defendant. Proceedings were filed in the Exchequer against Atkinson, and subsequently against Wheeler, who stated in his answer that he had given 3001. in cash to Atkinson. and sold him thirteen hogsheads of claret, at 85i. a tan. As to the claret, it would be proved that it was still in the London Docks, in the name of. Wheeler ; that it was never worth thirty-five shillings a bogibsad, and that it had been offered, and could mat be sold for 151. a hogshead. If these circumstances wet. pond. the Joy could hare no hesitation in