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LAW NOTICES. Elisont. Withal% i..trochwed to him the new plan for the sashes of windows ; and told him, if he chow to undertake it, he might hare COURT OF GIIANCER V. the exclusive right of its sale for that place. Defendant then gave Its frowner the Vice-Chancellor will hear short Cantles nn l' ai c ° V iri er tt,•s fat her ra mod el, e which he was told must be paid for, and for r ci 12 toed 1/. 15. , and for some hinges and f!'wtor'lav'the Ilth of February instant, to be put at tie b ea d o f th e ot h er ne tries, ' to the amount of the sum claimed. Defendant 1 0 414% i'directed them t 3 be sent by cartier, who caller, at the Pewter Vl* % ice-Chancellnr will hear motion% to-rnotrow. Platter, Gracechurch.street. Witness made out the bill of parcel• In the month of Septentb.v of the following year he called again on defendant, who said he had placed the model in the shop, but had not sold any of the sashes. iVitnesa then asked for a settle ment of the account, which defendant refused, asserting that he had ordered only the model, and the hinges he would pay for as they might be sold. Ile added, that he had caused some circulars to be printed, in which he had called himself agent. Witness ob jected to defendant having so designated himself, and observed. that he had not authorised defendant to do so on their previnus interview. Witness did net see any of the goods excepting the model, which had been forwarded ; hut defendant said lie might see them if he wished. Ile had instructions to call on one builder in each town. Cmss.eitamined by Mr. Sergeant TaDDY.—Witnese assisted his father in his business. Ile recollected a person having celled and . tendered, on the part of defendant, U. 15... which witness refused, having heard his father say that he would not take that sum. A model of the sash was here exhibited, and the Loan Cuter Joevico observed that it apneared well csictihsted to prevent err wants, employed in cleaning windows, falling into areas. George Tuely proved the delivery of the goods to a carrier, who was to leave them et the• Pewter Platter. An invoice wits bent with them, amt the but was prorrly directed. Mr. Sergeant Vantait N Sli he supposed his Learned Friend opposed to him would dispense with the evidence of the carrier. Mr. Sergeant TADDT—If you cal prove that the goods were sent to the Pewter Platter, do in. Mr. Sergeant VAUGH•N.—My Learned Friend is determined, you see. Gentlemen of the Jury, to tick the Pewter Platter dean. (Laughter. The carrier was accordingly examined as to the fact. This having closed the case for the plaintiff. Mr. Sergeant TADDV, for the defendant, said his cm did not, is his Learned Friend seemed to imagine, rest on the non-delivery of the goods, although that was a fact which ought to be proved. What he intended to show to the Jury Irma, that tbedefendant had been employed as agent to the plaintiff, and that the former eoald not therefore be called upon to pay for the goods iu question befog* they were disposed of. The son had said he was instructed to call upon a builder in each town ; was it not then to be inferred that in earlittown an agency was to he established ? Witness had gone fur. ther: according to his own testimony. defendant was appointed as the sole vender. Now, was it usual to appoint buyers ? Wool not the Jury conclude rather, that if it were not meant the defendant was to sell no commirion, it would have been unquestionably to the interest of the plaintiff to have obtained as many purchasers as he could get ".• These were questions for the decision of the Jury, arid he should support then' by proving facts which would set any doubts they might entertain at rest. William Moeller, son of defendant, recollected plaintiff's son calling at his father's in 11123. Ile then said that he wished to appoint one agent in each town, and if defendant declined be. coming one. he Should apply to another builder in the same place. Witresb'S father consented to become agent. and to pay foe a model, which was to regulate him in the putting up of the several parts of the sashes together. Plaintiff's son asked what quan. ttty of hinges he should send ; observing, it was usual for an order to be given for a dozen of each sort bat defendant ultimately ordered only half that quantity. Witness recollected the young man calling in September. The printed circular was shown ao him, and he approved of it. saying it was a very good thing. The printed circular was then put in. and read by the Clerk. ' Examination conti n ued.—The plaintiff's son then asked for the account, but witness's father declined paying for more than the model, on the ground of his having been appointed agent. Croas-mantined by Mr. Savant VlV:GHAN.—Witness put the bill of parcels on the file. There was no settlement as to what COTTiSSIVIS his father was to have : he was to make whatever charge he might consider a proper remuneration. Mr. Sergeant Vautittax said the defendant had been served with a notice to put in the bill of parcels. Mr. Sergeant Taimyr declined putting it in, unless his Learned Friend would consent to put in their answer. The Loan UHIET JUSTICE.—Then I will ask the witness as to the contents of the bill bf parcels. The witness was then examined accordingly. The goods were not charged for on commission in the bill of. parcels. There was no complaint of this made until plaintiff's S3ll called on them in September. This closed the axe for the defence. Mr. Sergeant Vauctiart, in reply, said that his Learned Friend bad withhed, from a consciousness of the weakness of his cause, whatever testimony was calculated to throw any light upon the transaction. The bill of parcels had not been put in, and the reason was evident ; it was the choke-near of the cause. Why, if the transaction was to be on commission, did the defendant object to receiving the dozen of hingea, and give an order for the half amen only ? The Jury should consider the objection was not made until September, when plaintiff called on them for a settle ment of the account. 'flie Loan ell tEr Jc !vice. then provedell to sum up the evi dence. The Jury were to decide whether tine goods were to be sold on commission or Dot. If not they would find for the plaintiff for the 19/.3r., deducting the G. 15s. which had been paid into Court. The evidence of defendant's son appeared conclusive as regarded the agency • but in answer to that were the contents of the bill of parcels. there was no fixed rote of profit. Dependant was to get as much as he could. It appeared to his Lordship that a person appointing an agent would be likely to fix the amount of profit to die vender, that the aide might not be injured by his ra. pacify. The Jury, however, were better judges than his Lordship, who had learned no more of business than he had gleaned in the course of thirty years' practice in that Court, as to whether the manner in which this affair was transacted was such as usually characterised the appointing of agencies. The Jury, after a new minutes consideration, delivered a verdict for the plaintiff, deducting It. 15s. COURT OF EXCIIEW - 117,7VEDNEsnAy, FEB. I. COG! 11.0Xmox cm/tits 'X OF KING'S PENCIL TO DC 'MILD BY COMMOS 7rlllBll OX SATIAITIST wtzT. Olo.len • Para Jane. • Abbott 'll•4(taa • Bern • Pritchard • Staten tlealteett • Dolan took • Gawkier,' 1) , ..t*4 a Lamar. Browne • Prerwer `.‘ r C.ut- Chapman • Slash . e Ott Slennie • Curter -Carer • Sla.er Gould •Creaker aßladbury • Plunkett Feeley 1 Spring 1 1;t=gton it Lance- (loom • Alcalo 'Farling • ItstMS at V Taylor Edenbmough •W. "..4attet• Lonely Slaxfield. - 0 1 • Mis • KNOW Edwattlt • Veztea Flotigvon ♦ )lortr Meek!mut • Fty Berkley ♦ iVall v Potter. Jeffery. v Benison Broune v Todd Stilt V Wood llowctoft v (;romp• Tobin r Trimmer 111srm r Winter Peyne r Gurney lend • Alarkell j Brame v Sutton [kr NlKldlew • Sit.' ill be fritla! th. 10th of ge next ,inotat Sitting wit. _ on Any, Leroary. The Net London Sitting on Saturday, the 11th of *l . Qhl :tory. COVRT OF COMMON PIXAS. The thitd Sitting in Midd'tux will be on Wednesday next, the Sth of February. The third Sitting is London on Thursday next, the . Wth of February. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLOR% CoURT, WitoxisDAT, FEB. I. JACIIION r. nowt. This was a bill praying for an account of the tents received by 'the defendant Rowe and his father since th. death of the mother of the plaintiff, for an injunction to restrain him from receiving these •rent' in future, for an order to deliver up the deeds and indentures ;oeuvre to the estate in question, and foe the appointment of a re. *rivet. _ . t'pon the marriage of the father and mother of the plaintiff they were seised of property which was limited to the father. Mr. Pope. „ea life, asd to his wife fur her life, with remainder to such children a• the survivor should appoint. Mr. Pope died without appointing "r 1 person, by which Mrs. Pope. the survivor, obtained the power of appointment, in virtue of which she did appoint the plaintiff, Dshrdah Jackson, previous to her second marriage with Mr. Rowe, '.7` , e defendant's father. Before this marriage Mrs. Pope alto ear c..teid a deed of lease and release, by which Howe became purchaser' , r* tile estate for a valuable consideration, levying a line at the same ; . Itll l o. _ _ MV. RAPT. in reply to nn nhgemtien of the Vice-Chancellor, *rated the, the trin‘netinn was preeiriely that of a purchaser without rorke. Cu in the case of a tnoriglge being concealed from a pur. eMeer. Vrce•CttnxcEt.con said, the proper course would have been to plied her title in fee simple, derived by the will of Mrs. Promklin, and in that case the settlement might be supposed to byre been concealed ; but the Court holds that persona have im plied notice of every thing that they might by due diligence have •xgovered. •Mr.daar professed himself to be so incurably stupid that be could not comprehend the distinction. The Vtcr-Cosmcr. Limn wax quite surprised at the doctrines he had heard. No property could be secure if persons not them selves entitled to it, estate could make • conveyance of it to an other. The objection was fatal to the plea, though the demurrer alight be supported. Mr. firs t.t) questioned whether this would be any advantage to his client. The Court dues not permit (t imi? defence' to be made by plea, and the same feason must hold against a plea and demurer. Two pleas might be admitted by a special order on different parts et a bill, but not on the same part. The plea and demurrer were 'hate to the same part. Mr. llAae had known in the course of his exnerienee, a gentle man who had a peculiar affection for pleading, who used to have a is lea and demurrer alternately like the squares of a chequer board ; ha at is by no means a general practice. TheVict-etisscs:t Loa said, upon consideration he would al. low fhb demurrer and overrule the plea. There is reason to think th►t the defendant had all the deeds in his peesession, and hid thus tell as well as implied notice.—To stand over for three days that the defendants mar consider what is proper for them to ask. COrIIT OF KING'S BENCH, WiDNESDAY, Fla. 1. CRIMINAL INFORMATION—JOIIN BULL. THE RING v. WM. IMACKELL. 'ir. SC AR r. ETT moved for a rule to show cause bhy a criminal ,• :Omar ion should not be tiled against Wm. Shackell, the printer aced publisher of a Sunday newspaper called " the John Bull." for . a Übe!. The application was made on behalf of Lord Arundel. It appeared that the editor, or some person for him. had inserted an article in that paper, In which the writer had thought fit to use the name of Arundel, anti had attached to it a statement of pretended facts which his Lordship considered to be vrry calumnious and in. ;roue to his character. The Learned Counsel then read the mi.eged libel, which stated that the Roman l'atholics were at pre sent extremely anxious to have it believed that the persecuting mmeiplcs of their religion were changed. Every body knew that, according to the old creed, it was the ditty of all good papists to procure as many converts as possible, and a story which they (John ull) had heard, confirmed their opinion that all which had been rel by certain learned and able men reepecting an alteration in the ioaples of popery was mere humbug. The story related to Lord Arundel of ii ardour, and was to the effect that there was in (f.l Lordship's service a Protestant gardener named Freake, who }ad lived in the family for two generations, but who had been dis missed from the service by his Lordshi, not for any breach of trust—not for insolence —not, in short, f ur any crime whatever, tut -because lie had refused in his old days to embrace the dentnablc doctrines of popery, at the urgent solicitations of bit Lorshhip and his chaplain, a popish priest, who threatened et . ret with the lags of his situation if he persisted in his re ao:ution to die as he had lived in the Protestant faith. In se7pert of this motion the Learned Counsel read the affidavit of Cis Lordship, in which he denied that he ever had a person as a (greener in his employ of the name of Freake, and that he had ne ver dismissed any person from his service on account of his tell g! OA principles. But his Lordship proceeded to explain the cir t.:l..stances which might have led to the use of the name of Freake. Be had had in his employ a person of the name of Pricker. in the capacity of bailiff, who had been in his Lordship ' s family for a great many years, and who died in his service. That man had a son of the sante name, who was his Lordship's houee-carpenter, and was discharged from that situation on account of drunkenness, std engaged in some other capacity ; but he had since been rein- tested In his former situation of house-carpenter, and held it at this' tone. the Lordship further stated, that he formerly had in his' service a foreigner of the name of Freake, in the capacity of a ant- eft, but who only remained with him six weeks , he being then apprehended on a warrant fur an assault. The affidavit proceeded to state that his Lordship's servants consisted of Catholics and Pritestants. and that his Lordship had only discharged seven see yam since be had come to his title, four of whom were Catholics s^.d three Protestants, but neither of them left his service on ac. court of his religious opinions ; his Lordship also denied that I either he or any priest in his family . had ever endeavoured to pre. vial, by means of threats or persuasion. on any person in his see. trice to induce bins to change his religion. The Learned Counsel was !proceeding to read the affidavit, but was interrupted by The Loan CHIEF JOrrtCP:, who thought that he had stated enough to entitle him to a rule to show cause. The rule sou accordingly granted. A; two o'clock the Loan CHIEF JUSTICE Sat at Nisi Prim', and tried several causes, but none of which were of any interest to ttic public. ..—,............_ COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WYDRESDAY, FES.I. ' —,-- The Court was occupied during the whole of the morning with I the justification of bail. t t nionist ether persons who appeared as bail ails one who ea: himself a posse, in the employ of the East India Company, at Hertford College. Re was examined by ilr. Sergeant Vanotrate. who inquired of his tam property be possessed I—My situation brings ore in 114 L a year. AIL Scoreant VaUGMAR—What., do you get a !earl/ salary. as olf wterlsol. ?—No (my salary is only 20/., but have my boar!, , and I consider my peequWtes make it worth that to me at lesst. y: r. Sergeant VA Troimw—llave you any other property ?—Yes; 1 Lave a freehold through my wife. Mr. Sergeant Vaticinate—Will you swear it is a freehold ?--• If any opposition were to start fir the County, I think I should have a vac. (Laughter.) lie. Sergeant Vaunicrite was proceeding to press the bail as to hi. conipetenev. when • Mr. JusticiPaait interrupted the Learned Gentleman try sug peering that it would he as well fee him to remember the bail EN a load. ILllighttl.) Asill accepted. The hoed Chief Justice left the Court at a little after 12 o'clock at fay ceases at Nisi Prim in London. [3 . lftfece et Nisi Pf iitf, Guildhall, before t l se Loan (:nice Jusvice.j TULLY IP. BUTCRIR. Mr. Seeigeant VAI7GHAN stated the case to the Jury. The plaintiff resided in Kenton-street Brunswick-square, and was in. venter anti patentee of what wait eilled " revolving window.sashes." The defendant was a builder, and lived at . Epsom. In the spring 4 4 1e23, plaintiff sent Lis son, who officieted as traveller, to Xpsom. fro the purpose of procuring orders fur the newly-invented sash. The son called on defendant, who, after looking at a model of the improvement, gave an order to the amount of 191. 3s. This order was executed, WI the defendant had refused to settle the fibrilar* domed. rut of the goods i constituting the order was a 00 the Aar Ewa, i tl i; 3 . 1., an d o il: sum tient: t g'ld sad would " would whee/Zethee7.piaintiir b e prov ed en u t ' it i let e d O ft Ibilassisse defined. aides L aw erissi called and examined . —lfe was son to , Op . employed by his. father u traveller, its the wikt i r ltdiumilif • IWO( OD she OCCODOiDit, who was a builder at DANIEL v. ROWE. Me. Baron GRAHASIpI9Weaei (as soon as the Court sat to-day) to give judgment in this cause. He said that ha thought the rule should be discharged. The practice of the Court tind all the au thorities was opposed to entertaining such a tule as that which was here required to be made absolute. The plaintiff had an unques tionable right to the appearance of the principal. The defendant was in custody, and must have remained there but for the inter ott' Lion of the bail, and if any charge of cruelty could be fairly made against either party, it should be attached to the bail rather than to the plaintiff In this case. Mr. Baron °ARROW said that he had yesterday delivered an opinion oselhis case. As, however, it was one of considerable no penance, the Court took to this day to consoler what judgment they would give upon it. lie was now of the same opinion as his bro. ther, Baron Graham, which was formed upon the atithorities which were cited yesterday. The case which occurred in the Court of King's Bench 4A years ago, where a Mr. Boarhow was brought to the steps of that Court upon a litter, with great danger to his life, was one of great hardship: yet the Court held it ro be the law. Ile believed, however. that in that instance the appearance insisted upon was previous to trial. The case of Cock and Bell was decisive on this point. It was futile to advert to the Mho , ' anity of the case. The bail had entered into recognizances either to produce the body of the defendant, or to pay the amount of those recogniaances. The party then had two alternatives, and if they were influenced by feeling's of kindness and humanity by paying the an.ount of the recognirances, they could free the gentleman for whom they had become bail from the inconveniences attendant on an appearance. Mr. Baron Hv t.i.ocz said that he thought the rule might to be discharged. It was, he said, a point of practice, and nut to be de cided by general principles. He could not himself understand the distinction between a moral and a legal impossibility, and with gees' deference to those who framed such a dies ipction, lie would say it was contrary to the principles of the common law. It is a principle of that law that " Atlas Dei tremble Tacit injurium," and therefore he co u ld n u t un d ers tand how a man could be required to perking what it was morally im. possible to accomplish, bye visitation of Providence, when the law says that " the act of God does injury to no man." However, by the authorities referred to in this ease, where an tacourenience, atom by an au of God, that *heel* be-borne by the bail rather than by the plaintiff. In reply to an application from Mr. Burton to .51r. Jones, that that grritleman should nut press fur costs, Mr. Baron Ilus.t.oca said that as Mr. Burton had had the ad vantage of his rule he should pay for that convenience. It was the opinion of the Court that as the application was made contrary to all the authorities, the party snaking that application should bear the costs. Mr. Bunou said that he bad relied on the case of Cock and Bell. Mr. Baron Ilt:LLoca said that case would not answer his purpose. None of the new trials being ready to be proceeded with, the Court adjourned shortly after eleven o'clock. We regret to state that it;hn Campbell, Esq., the Accountant-General to the Court of Chancery, died on Tuesday evening, at his house in Berncrs-street, of a short illness, having only been cc.‘fined since Friday last. Mr. Campbell was in the 75th year of his age. Ills complaint was an inflammation on the chest. The Menai suspension bridge was opened to the public on Monday, the 30th of January, by the London and Holyhead down mail passing over it at two o'clock in the morning. The horses trotted over it iii their regular pace. Although a heavy gale of wind was blowing at the time there was no perceptible difference in the motion of the coach, whether on the suspended road-way or on the masonry arches. About nine o'clock Sir Henry Parnell and Mr. Telford crossed over the bridge in Ilse travelling carriage of the laity*, and during the whole day 'liters from all parts of Carnarvonshire and Anglesea passed over in their carriages, besides numerous foot passengers. In the evening the workm.ii were regaled with it substantial dinner and abundance of eirr le du. The intonvenient ferry across the rapid Menai estuary is thus; at last, annihi lated, and another important facility g:s . ;.n to the Inter course between the two kingdoms. THE BRITISH PRESS. POLICE. a!ANSION.HOI The Sexton of the new Roman Catholic Chapel en Moorilelds was summoned before the Lord Mayor, to answer the complaint of Alice Allen. the widow of a 'SWOT men, who had been buried in the burlal-ground belonging to the Chapel, a few days ago. The complainant's statement was to the following effect :—ller husband died about three weeke ago. and in consequence of her poverty, she was obliged to keep the.body out of the ground a tart night. flaring scraped together the amount of the funeral expellees, sheet the mil of that time had the body put under ground. Three days afterwards, a friend of her husband's was buried in the seine grout,d. and she was tntermed by a person who attended both tune rats. that her husband's body, coffin, and all, had been removed. It was the practice to dig each grave In the Aloutlielda burial ground shout 13 or 14 feet deep, and to lay coffin upon coffin, until the bodies reached the surface, and then another grave wasting so close to the former. that the sides of the coffins contained in the full grave were to be seen as anon as it became necessary to bury in the empty one. Mr husband's body was the first hijal in the earth of the newly-made serve, and when the body of his friend was carried to the same recepis.te ' no coffin was to be seen at the bottom. The poor woman fancied that the hody-inatchera had been active in the neighourhond, and that the body of her husband was now a sub. jeer at one of the hospitals. The sexton said that the poor woman had been misinformed as to the burial-ground. It was impossible for the coffin to be Cr. moved, and no disturbance of the ground bad been made except for the purpose of giving inhumation is other dead. The fact was, the burial-ground of the Chapel was very small, and the burials were very numerous. 'Chia it was that led to the stake made by the complainant's informant. The grave in which her Imehand had be,.., laid was rapidly filled whit other bodies, and the next grave was ntistaken for it, because it was they, and quite close so that which had been just filled. The complainant had raised an outcry upon the suspicion that the body hail been removed ; but such a thing was, he repeated, quite impossible. One of the clergymen who officiate at the chapel also represented the erroneousness of the suspicion of the poor woman, and men tioned that the frequent burials rendered it necessary to pursue the system of inhumation described. Six or seven coffins were gene rally laid in a grave, and diree-fourths of the ground was already occupied : so that it could not long reinabi open. The complain ant had represented that tie. burial ground fur her husband cost her 30e. and that she had been put to great difficulty to raise that sum. It had been thought proper to return the money tothe poor woman, ender the circumstances; but she was not satisfied with that, or with the assurances that her husband's body lay undis turbed in his grave ; on the contrary, nothing would content her but the removal of all the coffins which had been deposited in the immediate neighbourhood of that particular grave ; her wish could not be gratified without actually taking up thirty coffins, which could not be done without great scandal, and great injury to the feelings of the Ftiblic. The Loon Mayon represented to the poor woman the great int probability that her husband's body had been touched, and did all in his power to soothe her grief. Hie Lordship could not help no ticing the extraordinary arrangement with respect to the burials in 3loorlields ground, as calculated to revolt the public mind, and occasion distempers. The practice of keeping the graves open, or nearly open, there being but a very small quantity indeed of earth thrown upon each coffin, was extremely improper, and required the interference of the Magistrates of the district. GUILDHALL. For a length of time the horse-fair in Smithfield has been over run with what the dealers all " captains," that is, horses infected with the glanders ; and when parties who have purchased them have applied to the 3lagistrates siting at this office, to know what redress the law gave, the answer has constantly been, that their re medy was only by an action against the seller, on the warranty, or no the ground that the concealment of so material a circumstance as the horse being unsound was fraudulent, and vacated the can tract. Alf. Alderman Cox being applied to on Saturday by a man of the name of Bryant, who stated that he had purchased a rank captain the prior erecting in Smithfield, of one George Rowe, said he would grant a warrant for the apprehension of the offender. Mr. Beresford, the Chief Clerk, repeated the usual advice to the ccniplainant, to resort to an action at law, and hinted to the Alderman that there was no Statute giving him authority in the matter; and that if offering a glandered horse in a public market was an indictable offence, the (baud Jury would soon be sitting a: the Old Bailey, and the complainant might prefer his bill, without any previous proceeding before a Magistrate. 31r. Payne. the second clerk, being appealed to by Mr. Alder. man Cox, said the bringing a horse afflicted with a disease so noto riously contagious into a public market was an offence by the com mon law, and for such offences the Magistrate had the power to call upon the party to find security for his appearance at the Sessions. Mr. Alderman Cox—Then if I may order the offender to find bail, I may surely cause him to be brought before me, and I will issue a warrant upon my own revonsibility, and conviction of the public necessiry of such a step, although it has always been refused before. George Rowe, the vendor of the diseased horse, was accnrilingly apprehended and brought before Mr. Alderman AT kiNS yester day- The complainant stated that he gave Rowe 81. for the horse, who warranted it sound, and went with him to the clerk of the market and entered it as such with him. The practice of selling glandered horses had greatly increased of late, and it was not done unknow ingly, for the same horse was sold over and over again in Smith held, upon the discovery of its unsoundness by the successive pur chasers. When he applied to the prisoner on the subject, he ex pressed his willingness to take back the animal, and pay any expenses, but declared he was unable to refund the money at that time. A person in the office declared that he had lost thirty horses by the introduction of one eandered animal into his stables. Alr. Beeson, a veterinary surgeon, deposed that the glander, was a highly contagious disease, and that the horse in questions which had been left in his care, was infected beyond all dispute. He kept in a stable set apart fur such objects, and the disease had continued increasing. Mr. BEnrsiono asked the complainant if he thought lit a fair price for a sound horse ?—No answer. Mr. Alderman Am isis said it was a new case; but as he was anziotts to protect the public from such frauds, and be thought the prisoner wds open to an indictment, he would call on him to find bail, hiansulf and one householder in M.—Committed in default. SIARLBOROUUIJ-STREET„ ...... - - Yesterday James Worse, a rather respectable looking young man, was brought up for re-examination, charged with having committed a burglary at the house of William Finch Palmer, Esq., Ilerkeley-square, on the evening of the lith of January. hel servants, in whose charge the house was left during the ab sence of Mr. Painter's family, proved the fact of the burglary. Among the things stolen were the library clock and several volumes of books. Suspicion having fallen on the prisoner, who was in the habit of going to the house, his lodgings were searched, and the books found. .... A übinet-maker also stated. that the prisoner brought the clock to be repaired. lle wild the frame work had been damaged by accident. The prisoner, who said nothing in his defence, was committed for trial. WORSHIP-STREET. COMMITMENT OF WII.EIIWARDEAWON AND HIS BRO. THEY TO Ns:wt.:ATE FOR TIIIAL.—The two prisoners under. went their final examination yesterday before SAMULL TWY- Full!), Esq. In addition to the facts already before the public, it appeared from the evidence of Mr. Garton, the Head Constable, that when the officers were in a hay• loft looking into the premises where Lawson and his men were, a dog belonging to Ann. strong was about to enter, when it was wounded by one of their spears. Some time afterwards Garton visited the loft again, sad saw several men. He desired to speak to them. anti two of them stooped down that they might hear. Garton told them he had a warrant• against their insister, and he was sure he was on the premises. "As for you," said I.e. "we don't want to hurt a hair of your heads, nor yet your master's." Ile told them there was an assault warrant against their master, and it he did no: surrender, they (the officers) would break in. lie should have ten minutes to conaider and no longer. Garton cau tioned the men also not to get themselves into any trouble an account of their master. ile atarged them likewise in the King's name to &timid Mist, and to refuse at their peril. This address or the officer seems to h.tve had the desired effect, for the prisoner, Edward Lawson, observed on his second examination, that if the officers had fired their pistols at first, and hurt any of his men, it would have roused them, and they would all have been staunch to him ; but talking to them had changed their re. solution. On the premises Garton afterwards noticed a boiler with a quanthy of boiled potemee•ata 4t, and a place well laid with straw, where the men slept..—Joshua Armstrong described his first having seen Mr. Lawson on the premises. He told him he had a warrant against hint, and read it to hint. lie then said, " Now, Mr. Lawson, if will are a gentleman, tie your word or honour you come up to the office with two housekeepers, I will retire." Lawson replied, " I will not."—Armstrong then described the attack on himself : ladder was procured, and placed against the wall, which I ascended, with my warrant in my left hand and my stallin my right. When I got to the top of the wall I perceived Edward Lawson and three others. Edward Lawson had a pike in his hand, and I think the other three had pikes. I said, • Mr. Law. son ' here is the warrant against you (and I showed it to him), and you had better surrendq.' lie immediately plunged the ',sliest my head, and I was obliged to throw my head beck and my quarter-staff forward, which prevented his hitting me. fie plunged it again at toe, and cut though my little finger, and part of the second. He made two or three more attempts, and the last came very near my cheek. These attempts were made with all his wrength, and the pike went about a foot above my head. Vann called Jos. wily don't yen shoot hint ?' I said I had no pistol. Hanley Instantly said, • I have,' and came half way up the ladder and gave me a pistol. It was cocked, and on seeing Edward Lawson coming to give me another thrust, I leaned over the wall, and shot et him. lie fill back, and went into his house. Soon after Lawson came out again, and told Armstrong he was shot, sod that lie mold surrender unit put himaeli under his pro- tection." At the Office. Lignites talked with thS officers about this part of the transaction. He said b e was surprised at the activity of Arm strong—that he moved himself like an eel, and if he had not been as alert as he was brave, he alcooki have had him. it was also proved by API" Mat Lawson said In the public bowie adjuiuips the Ika tiessediatsl; after the door was • - broken opm, he made a stab at a person with his pike, but some i one broke the knife off his handle, and be was bilged to get another spear. One of the men on die premises voluntarily appeared, and' wan sworn yesterday. /lie account was, that distress alone caused him to be there, where he got victuals and a small pittance for his starving family. lle proved they had turned nut by force the tax gatherer, after which they fortified the house and made their spears. The exciseman was next turned out. There were then about twenty, sometimes more or lens, in number. They formed th .mselves into watches; fbur went on the watch fur an lima, and then were relieved by four other, while the rent slept no straw in the stove-roam, where they dried . the leather. His Maskr repeated impressed upon them to use the ' knives against any person attempting to break in. This witness said to Lawson about the knives, " Master. you are eery wrong, snit are potting a halter round your neck," or words to that effect. Ilis master turned one roan away because he remonstrated about the pikes. Witness went over the wall and read the warrant, and went back and saw his master, who was standing in the yard. Ile told him it was a warrant for an assault, and ordered him to give himself up. Lawson said there was something else, and he would not. Witness then went backwards to try to escape: after his master was shut, he got out at a window into a weaver's house, and afterwards going to see what was going on, lie was known and taken into custody, but discharged. Ills master *minded the dog with a spear. Mr. TwIrFORD shortly addressed the prisoners. lie said, after a due investigation of this ebse, he felt himself bound to commit them to Newga'e to take their trial at the Old Bailey. Various facts came out in evidence, of which he was nut aware of in the first instance, and which, in the discharge of his duty, pre cluded him fmni disposing of the case in a less serious way. Ile then read the commitment, which was under 44 Geo. 111. c. callfd Lord Ellenintrough's Act, viz. : —The aid Edward lisle son, for feloniously. wilfully, n.aliciously, and unlawfully stab. hing and cutting Joshua Armstrong, one of his Majesty's sub jects, and one of the police constables of the police-office in Worship -street, with intent to obstruct, resist, and prevent the lawful apprch-nsion and detainer of the person of the said Edward Lawton, for assaulting and beating one Smith, and the said James Lawson for counselli..z, aiding, and abettirg the said stabbing and cutting of the said Joshua Armstrong, by him, the said Edward Lawson, against the statute, ice." Mr. Lawson inquired. if the whole of the charge against him was under Lord Ellembormigh's Act ? Mr. Twe roan informed hint that was the whole of the charge for which he committed him. Thar two prisoners were then handcuffed together, and in the eitstmly of Garton and Vann were conducted in a coach to Newgate. Mr. Lawson expressed himself pleased with the treatment he had received. and with the conduct of the officers. DREADFUL AND DETERMINED SUICIDE OF MR. CHARLES lIIRDERT. Yesterday evening Thomas Shelton, Esq. the Coroner fur ILon don, and a Jury of the most opulent merchants in the City, assem bled at ithe Three Tuns Tavern, in Jewry-street, Aldgate, to in. quire into the death of Mr. Charles II ibbert, of the firm of Messrs. Hilbert, wine-merchants in the above street. The melancholy affair has produced the deepest sensation in the city, and the Jury room WM numerously attended by gentlemen, friends of the unfortunate deceased. The Jury being impanelled and sworn, pr3ceecled to the late residence of the deceased, nearly opposite, to view the corpse. The body presented a most appalling spectscle, befog ball undressed, with a desperate wound in the throat, which had completely severed the arteries. and divided the windpipe. . Daniel Hall sworn—l live in tattle Tower-street, and am ser vant to the deceased, who was in partnership with 111 r. John /lib bent, his brother, In the wine trade, in Jewry.street. NVithin the last week I observed a great difference in the manner of the de ceased, which seemed to increase upon him. Yesterday he asked rile for a cork-screw, and when I gave it to him I remarked that be squeezed my hand, which of course excited my surprise. A few minutes after, about twelve o'clock, Mr. Charles Hibbert, his son, called me rap rairs, and on my reaching his father's dressing room, I found him knocking at the door, and calling fur admission; upon his receiving no answer he broke the door open and went into the room, when we discovered the deceased lying in the bed with all his doilies on, except his coat, with his throat cut liom ear to ear, and the razor with which he committed the desperate deed was grasped in his right hand. He was not quite dead, hut totally insensible. I ran immediately for surgical aid, and Mr. Frett's assistant came immediately and placed a ligature around the artery that was severed, but all his efforts to prolong existence were useless. . . . Coroner—You say that thtre was a visible difference in the de ceased for the last week. Can you mention any particular act that caused you to notice that difference ? {fitness—l cannot do that t but he always appeared very low spirited, and used to sigh aloud very frequently. Juror—{{Jut time did your master come into town that morning from his country residence at Tottenham ? Witness—About three quarters of an hour before he destroyed himself. Juror—Do you know whether or not your master was on 'Change before he came to the counting-house ? Witness—l do not. _ Juror—l understand he was. By the Coroner—The room in which the deceased commiced the melancholy deed was a small room directly over the counting-house, which was appropriated to his own use as a dressing-room. Mr. John Wilkes Hill sworn—l am a surgeon, and reside in Cooper's-row, Crutchedfriars. I was sent for about twelve o'clock on Tuesday forenoon, to attend at Mr. Ilibbert's in Jewry-street. On my arrival I proceeded up to his room, and found him lying on the floor, his head supported by a pillow. On examination I found a wound in his throat about five inches in length. A young man, an assistant to Mr. Frett, was at the time taking up a branch of the carotid artery, in a manner that did him much credit. The windpipe was completely severed, he was quite insensible, and in dying state. At the time I entered a great quantity of blood had flowed from the wound and deluged the bed-clothes, On looking about the room I found a tumbler, which contained the remains of poison, which it would appear the unfortunate nian had drank previous to applying the razor to his throat. I have chymically analyzed the sediment in the glass, and from the test I have tried i.. with, I ant prepared to state that it wasa mixture of opium and arsenic. I also found on the drawers a brace of small pocket-pistols, quite new, loaded with polished ball, and from their appearance I should imagine they had been attempted to be fired, but had flashed in the pan. It is, therefore, apparent that the deceased had attempted his life both by poison and shooting himself. The pistols bore the name of " Bond, Cornhill," and were evidently purchased that morning. The witness now produced what he termed the last melancholy evidence, as accounting for the cause of the deceased's deatlitanicly, a razor. which was much stained with blood. lit conclusion, he added, that no human as.. sistance could have been of any avail from the extent and nature of the wound. Mr. Alderman Thorp asked Mr. Hill if he had attended the deceased professionally before he perpetrated the sad act Mr. Hall answered in the negative. Mr. Helack sworn—l am a merchant, and reside in America. square, Minories ; I have been acquainted with the deceased for many years. He has been in • very dejected state for some time past, which I consider was produced by some misunderstanding between him and his brother, which had ended in an agreement to dissolve partnerships, together aith the unexpected return of one of Ins sons from America. I have taken great pains to sooth him, but could not. The return of his son, which was attended with peculiar circumstances, added very much to his despondency. On Sunday 1 went to his residence at Tottenham, when I found him in the same state of mental affliction. I saw him again on Mon. day, and he was then so bad that I told his son Charles to take particular care of him. Some years since he was afflicted in a si. milar manner, but with care and attention he got Co ve r it. He was a man of very weak nerves. Ile has left a family of ten children. There being no further evidence to produce, The Count;En read over the evidence. and observed, that there could be no doubt hpt the deceased committed the rash act him self, and the que4ion fur them to decide was, in what state of mind he was in at the time. They had heard the evidence that bad be brussisht forward, and upon which they would decide. The Jury, after a few moments' consideaation, returned a verdict —" That the deceased detruyed himself in a state of temporary derangmeot." Yesterday a Court of Directors was held at the East India House, when Captain John Orr M'Taggart, of the ship Sir David Scott, took leave of the Court previous to departing fur Bengal and China. BANKERS ' PARCELS SrOIEN.-011 Sunday night the Express stage-coach, on its way from London to York, was robbed of a parcel containing Bank of England one pound notes, to the amount of one thousand pounds. The parcel in question was from Messrs. Glynn and Co., and was in tended for Messrs. Swan and Co. bankers in this city. It was given into the hands of the guard of the above coach, and by him deposited in a hag, which was put into a basket, and then locked up in the boot. There were only four in side passengets, two of whom gut up at Loudon, and a third at Islington, all of whom left the coach at different places, and in rather in an abrupt manner; the fourth came through to York. The guard several times in the course of the journey looked if the parcel was safe; but on task ing a similar examination at Ferrybridge, although the boot was safely locked as before, yet the valuable prize was found to be missing. We understand that one of the pas sengers' name is Jones, and with another of them the guard had frequently travelled before, so that his person is well known to him. It appears most probable that the party had known of the valuable consignment, and had been provided with the necessary means for opening the lock and effecting their purpose, i❑ which business they have proved themselves snore than ordinary 'der ta in their eluding the well-known vigilance and attention of the guard, to whose custody the parcel was entreated. There can be little doubt, from the peculiarities of the case, that the thieves will not remain long undetected.—Furl: Cogrant. ASSIMILA7'IO.I" THR CORN MEASURE. (From the genti4h Cirrourcle.l Gacrsartutv, JAN. 3 The following h.tter has been sent to the itiapeet ew Corn Return in this city, by which it will ApreAr that ti return must continue to be tootle according to the o!d ‘Vinchester bushel ; anti that the Inspcctor will be te,, quired to convert, by calculation, the new Imperial inewsurt into prices adapted to the Winchester Corn Return °thee. JIM. 27. laf6. am directed by the hardy of the Cuoimitue sf IN Majesty's Privy Council for Trade, to acquaint you, thatin te e , sequence of doubt, which have arisen respecting the Appli cata , of the Imperial measure to the return of the prices of torn, wh „ form the averages by which the imp ort ation of fo reign 0 .,,;; ► regulated, their Lordships have taken the opinion of his nej ew ,. 3 Law Officers upon the question, whether, under the nperau cta ' o the Act of 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, and o f th e I st an d Yd Geo. IV, e„ ivt these averages should be calculated by the price of corn uti www i according to the new Imperial bushel, or according to the wt w cheater bushel: and it being their npininn that the returns taw, continue to be made according to the Winchester bushel, tor *blo t purpose it will be requisite that the return, of corn sold by then", Imperial measure. should be converted, by calculation, in pri m , adapted to the Winchester bushel, 1 arn to dudre that you ea t govern yourself in conformity to their opinion. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, (Signed) IVILLIAM JA€Ol4. SHIPPING INTALLIGENCE. LIVERPOOL, TVESDAY, JAN'. 31. Wind S.W.—High Water, 26 to. p. 4. Arrived the Sneaton Castle, frnrn 3 lamham—sailed 14th nq The Catherine was lost next day, after sailing on tit. Juan Island the crew (except the csptain) wired—vessel and cargo lost. Ti le 'Warren was to Pail for Liverpool the first weak to January. The Libertador, fur Granada, sailed hence the 29th tostant—pti: back. FALMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Arrived the Eliza, Wates, from As. Cosa.—Wind S. to ri.W. PLYMOUTH, JAN. 30.—Arriyed the Reaper, Evans, from Sett John's, New Brunswick, in 31 days, water.loggetl, bound to Loh. don ; nailed the Aurora, linnet, for London.--Wind S. Po tIT smo Jar:. 3l.—Arrived his Majesity's ship Tutu, from Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro, sailed fmni the former on the 213th of September, and from the latter on the 211th of No. vember ; his Majesty's ship Tribune, from Lisbon, in tie. yen drys ; the Diadem transport, from Malta aid GiErshar, and is under quarantine. Sailed the 31elpomene. Johnson. and the Mary, Pratt, for London ; the Wilhelm ins, .IVaybourgh, roe burgh • the Preston. Davison, for Shields ; the Wandering Mat, —, for Norway.—Wind J.S.W. DEAL, JAN. 31.—The Elizabeth, Longridge, from Smrna and D y ibralta, passed this mornin g , re p orts t h at i n l at. 4 3 , 55, long. If, 27, fell in with a wreck--two lower masts and bowsprit standing, without rigging, painted head, coloured sides and foremast; 6: main was painted yellow, with a scroll head—full of water—blos. ing too much wind to board her. Arrived from the river and main the Rachael, —, for the Mediterranean; and the Coon, Ormston, for Madeira—the latter put into Ramsgate harbour._ Wind S.W. by S. (iRAVESEND, JAN. 31.—Arrived the Auspicious, Ens, fro,', Seville; Concord, bangdon, front ditto; Ilambletonian, 5111 they. son, trim Africa: llygeia, Large, from St. John's, N.B. Sailed the Dunira, —for China; Laurel, Wataun, fur St. Thomas's; Dart, Free. for haguayra ; Brilliant, Brice, for Rio; Britai - is, Rubie, for Lisbon. PADITOW, JAN. 29.—The Vigilentia, Smit, from Liverpool for Amsterdam has been brought into this place in a very le .ky matt. NASSAU. N.P., DEC. 23.—Some wrecking vessels arrival here on the lath inst. with sugar and coffee. saveu from the French brg Adele, from Ilaranneh for Nantes, wrecked on Sandy Key, It:. hams Yank. The cargo of Zephyr, Arrowsmith, from Hondo-, for London, put in here, in distress. will be shipped on board itts Atlas. Heed, and highlander, Mitchell. NEW Vona, JAN. 4.—The Adele, Lagree, from Ilarannah fi Nantes, was lost I Ith ult. on Cat Key. Crew and part of the cargo saved in a daniagt d state, and sold at Nassau, N.P. TI e 3lcchar:c. Godfrey, from Turk's Island for this port, put into Newport, 26th ulr. with loss of sails, boats. &c. The Vancouver, Scudder. from Boston for Canton, put into Anjeer in September, with loss of rudder. JAN. 7.—The John Brown, Bowen, from London for this pert, put into Providence, R.I. on the let inst. leaking badly, and must discharge. The Commodore Perry, front Calm. for Boston, pat into Belfast, 25th December, with loss of deck load, and crew badly frozen. The Argo, Belling, arrived at Liverpool from Charente, Failed 22d January. The Alert, of Lor,don, and the Perseverance, trot: London, were going into Charente. Extract of a lette► from St. Thomas's, dated 18th December:— " The chief motive of the present is to inform you that some Spanish cruisers have appeared in these seas (said to be four, ra;i from Cadiz). The Laguayra packet, from Laguayra to this place, has been captured, and it is said many other vessels, amongst which is the English brig Union, from Tobago to Halifax, with hides and tallow. The Laguayra packet was a Columbian vessel." His Majesty's ship Diamond, Lord Napier, sailed from Rio Janeiro 24th November for Bahia. VESSELS SPOKEN W IT 11.-3latTnioO, Liven:74lol for New York, sth ult. lat. 61, long. 43, by the Brothers, arrived at Bristol. The Tennis, Walker, from St. John's, N.B. for Liverpool, 26th Decrra. ber, lat. 48, 47, long. 60, 80, leaky, and Ere feet water in her hold. Captain Smith, of the Warren (arrived at Boston) put seven men on board the Tennis, and spoke her again 28th, when they had made the pumps suck. EAST INDIA SHIPPING. ARRIVAL AT TENERIVIE.—His Majesty's ship Rainbow. Rota, with General Bourke, on the 15th December, and was to for the Cape on the 17th. SAILING Flinn Cuottutos.—The Caroline, Chewers, for Manilla, on the 4th of September. SAILING FROM BUENOS AYREA —The Rubicon, Stichney. on the Bth of November, for Sumatra. Anemia. AT Rio.—The Alfred, London, from the Cape, on the 28th of November. SPORTING I NTE L LIG ENCE. The grandest pigeon match this season, amongst the best short of the day, between the Woburn and Wondeot Clubs, againq those of Ashton and Heston, took place on Monday at Arborfield common, Oxfordshire, on Tuesday, fora match of 1,000 sovereigri at least, amongst the parties—twelve members from each club, a: seven birds each. The first day's shooting was a tie, which sa , 4 shot off yesterday, as follows. The first column is the tie, and de second yesterday'il shooting Wooden!, &C. KILLED. Merryweather . . 7 6 Woodrooffe - 7 6 Keep . - 6 7 Owen . 6 7 Nisholls . 6 6 Webb . - 6 4 Fothergill 3letcalf . Brewster . Ferguson .Seymour Rogers Ashton, &c. MLLE: , Hudson - Felix . . . 6 t Frampton . - fr I. Ooalchild - 6 Smith . . 6 , Jameson - 6 4 Kent . . . 6 ". Dish . 5 7 . R 6 . . 5 -- a 6 - - 5 I; -- 5 4 -- 4 6 Jewell Almon Itouverie Smart - 5 - 5 4 - 5 - 5 4 F 8 67 The match wu altogether the for 1,1100 sovereigns was offered a 68 f. of shooting; and a challenge at any 21 ohms In Eogland. MEETINGS OF CREDITORS. AT Tits COURT OF COMMISSIONERS OF BANILREPTI, RAIUM:MALL-A TTTTT . THIS DAY. FIRST MEICTIXOS. N. Dixon, A. Huddersfield, Yorkshire. and Taylor. W. Great butcher Hibbert, W. _ White, W. King-street, Soho, baker Wood, J. Upper Ranelagh.street, Pimlico, MU= lu lii • II) COAL MARKET, FEB. 1. Ships al Markel. Ships Sold. P, 'rt. 721 Newcastle 271 ria 6d to 3fla 6d 12 Sunderland . .8 . 37s Od to 390 tki Scotch Coal - 374 Od to —4 Od BIRTHS. . In Upper Wimpole.street, on the 28th ult., the lady of George Arbuthnot, Esq. oft son. On the 3Uth ult. Mn.s Robert Strachan, of Calthorpe.stroet, of a daughter. DIED. On the let instant, at Slough, in the G9th year of her age. Ann, widow of the Rev. W. Chapman, late Vicar of Margate. At 31argsretting, Essex. an the 29th ult., in ber79th year, 31r. Hannah Junes, widow of Mr. Robe,t Jones, formerly of Stratford. green. On the 30th ult. at his residence in Thomhaugh street, tit" , Rev. John Hyatt. for many years one of the Ministers of Tottenheel. court Chapel, and the Tabernacle, Aluortlekts. On Saturday last, at the house of her daughter, In College. street, Westminster, Mrs. Hussey, relict of John Homey, Esq. of Richlnond, Surrey, in the 84th year of age. At Arundel, on Sunday lost, is the 80th tear of Mn ege, the Hon. Mrs. Howard, ftliCj of the late Henry Ifoward 4 H.q. and mother of Lord Howard of Effingham. At Chelsea, ere the 96th tilt. in :he 431 yea •;e, Capoil Richard Grant. on half-pay 63d regiment. On the 31st ult.. Mr. George Perkiest*, of Clareadoe.plsee. Maida Vale, aged 73. Primed se THE BRITISH PRESS Office, by J. W. CAALTOIrt 1111,Stmod. ud published by E. Csiebe, ! i