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FIIE LONDON JOURNALS. DAILY Rztracts fi 9111 the Morning Papers,Dec.l4, 1625. [mORNlno HERALD.] There has been a goad deal said and written of ty , erespecting the Bank—its illiberality,—&c. We think it unfair to charge the Bank in such 'manner. If the Bank have any fault, it is its too great readiness in upholding houses, after it has been ascertained that. such houses have been too touch engaged in bill accommodation. The Bank may proceed iudiscounting, time after time, bills for any one house, and the Bank may be ignorant that - it had been discounting accommodation notes. At last it finds it out, and then it throws oat a whole batch. : The consequence is a stop page. Now, suppose A, having a banking-house in London, joins with B,C, D, and various others in- the country we will suppose them to he men of considerable property, but they agree to draw one on the other to the extent of one million. pounds. So long as .they are in good credit - Rith the Bank, so long• will this one million pounds be discounted. This would enable the firm to turn into cash farmers' and shopkeepers' bills to the amount of 1,000,0001., which, at five percent. for the interest, would amount to 50,000/. a year ; but if they proceeded - on the principle of issuing country bank notes, the profits would amount to .1.00,0001. a year. We see, here the ireenptation for people being engaged in banking establishments. This would do well enough so long as the farmers' and• shopkeepers' accept ances were paid. But if an alteration were made in the bankrupt laws, by which a debtor might more easily become bankrupt ; or if it were an easy thing for a man to go to prison, and release himself in three:months ;—ifsuch alterations were brought about,nnd too great a proportion of the sdpkeepers and farmers went into the Gazette or to prison, then what a mess the firm might be in. "Under such circumstances, we will suppose the. firm 'to stop, and the Bank holds 1,000,0001. of its paper; the public cry out," Be liberal— help the firm through its difficulties!" The bank agree—it is .their interest. The London firm prepares a statement, which they lay before some friends in London, who are probably of sufficient security .for the Bank of England. These friends agree to become security to the bank to the arnoant of the 1,000,0001. ; bills are drawn, accepted, and endorsed by these friends;. the Bank of England discounts the bills ; the money is appropriated by A to puy the 1,000,0001. of paper - already in the possession of the bank, every thing goes on as before, or so long as A's friends choose to go on lending their names. At length A's friends get tired.will not goon accepting, drawing, and indorsing. The consequence is that A stops a second time. The bank has crept out, and has left A's friends in the lurch. But the mis chief does not end here, for while the Bank were creeping out, and lettit -, the friends of the firm into the place of the Bail, .the concern is kept going, confidence is restored,,, the customers of the firm continue their lodgments. A.'S friends get tired with putting their names to bits of paper. The thing again comes to a close. The customers of the banking firm are caught. The Bank has escaped, the three friends and the public are the losers. Now if the creditors should find out the game the Bank had been playing, would they praise the Bank But the public know not these things, take the public in general, and therefore the public may be excused for saying so much with respect to the cruelty of the Bank in not coming forward at crisises such as we r:ow experience. - [NEW TIMES.] " It is most desirable," says a Journal of yes. terdey," that the hangers on upon an honourable profession should now be shaken off—that is, that' men who have no other funds than the misplaced confidence of the public, should be driven to .get their bread by a inure honourable and more healthy industry than that of fabricating reports and watching the Money Market." Out of thine own mouth will I condemn thee. It is, indeed, desirable that the hangers on upon the Press, a profession which-ought to he honourable, should now be shaken off—now—now that they stand exposed to the scorn and indignation of every honest mind for the heartless and shame less manner in which they have •nhused the power which they held for the public good. They should be shaken off, their polluted' pages should be cast out with scorn from those counting-houseS into which they have introduced the danger of bankruptcy and ruin.— Men who have no other funds than the misplaced confidence of the public, men who for years have lived upon that misplaced confidence, who have 'been fed and clothed, and grown rich upon it, — these mert should certainly be driven to,get their brepd in some better way than fabricating reports of conversations between the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Governor of the Bank, and watching the money market for the purpose of prolonging its agitations. At a moment like the present, • when we have seen distress L—pitiable, painfulAistress fall suddenly upon some of the most eminent and honourable men in the city of London, it is a little too much to hear them insulted in their misfortunes. It is alittle too much for a Newspaper writer, who has per hapi been quite as much patronised as he ever deserved, by the. " banking concerns" of the City holding this language of his benefactors: " We have seen enough of banking concerns to know that if the present crisis were to pass away hastily, many who are now trembling would forget their fears, and be as brisk and swaggering as ever." 1114, we take it, is the language of a swag gering writer : what right he has to swag .Ter---and'. particularly why he should be al.; owed to swagger over so distinguished a body oe the Bankers of the City of London, we )wn we • are not quite 'clear sighted enough o discover. • " With respect to the affairs of he City," says this important personage, " it impossible that what we have said can affect .good house'." " We would not have men hose concerns rest upon the basis of real sub. 4ntial property shaken." Hence it is to be inferred that Sir_ Peter Pole's house ; and ;Mr. Williams* were not, in the_ estimation of the writer, " good. houses," and that neither .of them ever possessed any such thing as " real sub stirtial property." But why should it be im possible that paragraphs productive of alarm should injure Bankers of substantial wealth ? Is not the occupation of a Banker peculiarly exposed to that very danger ? Can the greatest care and foresight protect a banking firm against the panic terrors and groundless fears of the public ? And have we not seen that such fears and terrors have been created and nursed up by Newspaper paragraphs solely, at a time when the real resources of the country were untouched, and the monied capital was adequate to all its func tions ? Such is the present state of things. No thing is wanting except confidence; but that con fidence connot revive, so long as any weight or influence is given to the publication by which it was first undermined. rTII I: TIMES.] Our accounts from the money-market of yes terday is melancholy enough, and we have here but little to add on the slhject. The return, however, of the bank to discounts at 5 instead of 4 per cent. is a transaction of .some moment, if indeed that corporation do grant discounts to any considerable amount even at the higher rate. The first reduction of discounts would have been hn useful measure, if it had been natural, and had resulted from abundance and low taxation. In the circumstances under which it took place, we now find that it has proved injurious, and led to mis chievous-effects. It was an artificial and com pulsory reduction—not a natural result. When Government commenced, or tried to commence, .their new and liberal system of commerce—their open ports and free trade—they at the same time reduced the interest of the.national debt : a re duction of discounts was of course simultaneous with this measure. The consequent incapacity of making as much as usual of their money, falling on a people exceedingly burdened with taxation, they were driven to all sorts of expedients, and entered with madnesS into every project for the purpose of increasing. their fortunes. The funds paid little more than three per cent. ; dis counts and other honourable mercantiletransactions only four. These were insufficient returns for men from whom the tax-gatherer still , continued to take so large a portion of their income. Hence were they induced to rush into the wild specula tions which were so often the subject of our cen sure, and of which.we so frequently denounced the present painful consequences. For our own parts, we cannot but consider this return of the bank to discounts at 5 per cent. as the first indica tion of the total failure of the Ministerial project forestablishing a more liberal system of commerce. They cannot effect that desirable object, while they suffer such a weight of taxation to hang about our necks. Let them recur, therefore, in honesty and sincerity of heart, to retrenchment, and a proper peace establishment ; for without these all attempts at open ports and free trade, however rational under different circumstances, will prove fallacious. We must for ever regret the time that has been already lost by them in futile ex periments to elude the duty of retrenchment, and the reduction of taxes ; not by robbing the public creditor, (a knavery for which they are not pre pared), but by the same means as all honest men get rid of pecuniary embarrassment, —by eco nomy,- by living within their income, and ap plying the excess to the liquidation of their debts'. Had this duty been conscientiously un dertaken at the end of the war, the era of a free trade would have been now fast approaching, the people would have had funds to engage in it, and a low rate of interest, which will follow, but cannot be made to precede and introduce easy and affluent circumstances, would - have been esta blished. [MORNING CIIRONICLE.I When Ministers stated in their places in Par liament, during the time of the Foreign Loan and Joint Stock mania, that the rash speculators ought not to count on any extraordinary aid to extricate them from their difficulties, it would almost seem that they supposed the effects of ex travagance would be felt only by the really im prudent. But in society we all hang together, and it is impossible for any portion to suffer without the other classes being more or less sharers. The most prudent cannot escape the consequences of any general embarrass ment and want of confidence. It ought to be impressed on all who possess any influence at the present moment, that a blind selfishness will soon bring its own punishment along with it ; that if all persons rush to the banks to draw their balances, which the banks must pay instantly, while they cannot compel their debtors to pay the balances due to them, the consequence must be very serious indeed. We can hardly conceive any amount of capital equal to this unequal con flict. Paying always, while selfishness, alarm, or inability induce the debtors to withhold pay ment, millions must in time be exhausted. We put it seriously to our countrymen,—what wilt be the result of this irrational panic. If the great establishments of the country feel themselves at a stand, and in consequence of the cessation of credit and confidence each individual shrinks within himself, thousands and thousands w Il be thrown out of employment i❑ this metropolis, as well as elsewhere. Have these selfish people, who needlessly augment the embarrassment, re flected on what would be the state of things in this Metropolis, if any great pro portion of the population were out of employ ment ? Of what use would all their prudent pre cautiOns be, if a general calamity should deprive property of protection?—lt is clear that the Bank of England misconducted itself, that Ministers have misconducted themselves, in failing to avail themselves of the consent of the Bank to restrict its monopoly, and that they are consequently chargeable with much of the calamity resulting from having left banking on its present insecure footing—it is clear that much of the overtrading, much of the exportations of specie to bankrupt or needy Governments might have been prevented ; let whatever may have been our past sins, let us, like Locket and Peachum, in the Beggars' Opera, stretch out the hand of forgiveness to each other, and exert ourselves to diminish the evils of the pressure. The Bank may at present be liberal with perfect safety, while its notes are at a premium. The pressure. cannot be of long continuance. The hurricane, however, is but of shell continuance, yet how dreadful are its ravages notwithstanding. We hope, then, that those who have influence will exert it,—it is yet time—soon the time may be past. The exertions of one or two men of energy and character in the City might avert much calamity. The vessel may yet be guided, but it may soon become unmanageable. [BRITISH PRESS.] The confusion that prevailed - in the City yes terday very much surpassed even that of Monday. [t was early announced that Messrs. Williams and Co.'s thanking-house iu Birchin.lane had failed, and, almost of necessary consequence, that Sir C. Scott's establishment at the west end of the town had suspended payment also. We understood, however, that the latter firm would be enabled to resume business to-day, and that it only refused to pay yesterday in consequence of the connexion between this house and the one in Birchin-lane, which circumstance momentarily embarrassed it. Other Banking-houses were freely talked of, and a heavy run was experi enced by several of them. The rumours respect ing mercantile houses were innumerable, and we need scarcely add, that many of them carried on the face of them their own contradiction. The crowds about some of the Banking-houses that had runs upon them were so great that the Police were stationed to disperse them. The Bank, it is understood, will charge 5 per cent. for their discounts to-day. Such is the distracted state of the market, that this announcement excited some dissatisfacion, it being considered a harsh step to raise the discounts at this moment. Another report of a more favourable description was cur rent respecting that great Body, viz. that it was going to lend money on Stock. This had the effect of improving Consols in the early part of the day considerably. They were done at that period at 831, but they soon fell to 82, when this report began to lose ground ; they after wards recovered a little, and finally closed at 828. The Bills of most of the Country Banks who drew on Messrs. Williams, we hear, are taken up. Those of Messrs. Cobb and Co : of Banbury, by Messrs. Jones, Lloyd, and Co. It is understood that the much-respected gentle man at the head of Messrs. Williams's firm, not having been able to foresee the storm by which the house was assailed, nor, consequently, to provide against effects, came to the resolution on Monday night of suspending payment. The known wealth of Mr. Williams leaves no doubt that all the claims on the house will be very soon liqui dated, and there is even a very strong expecta tion that business will be resumed in :few days. Fourteen country banks drew on this firm. Early yesterday, the Lord Mayor, at the head of a de putation of the principal merchants of the City, proceeded to the Treasury, for the purpose of so. kiting the immediate aid and interference of Go vernment for the support of public credit.—Ex. chequer Bills were 18s. to 20s. discount ; India Bonds 345. to 40s. All Foreign Securities were much depressed. Scarcely any attention is given to this Market now, and its prices depend there fore entirely on the state of Consuls. There was a decline yesterday of 2 per cent. in most of the South American Stocks. Colombian closed at 58 ; Mexican Six per Cent., 601; Brazil Scrip, 601. In Shares we did not hear of a single trans action, nor is it probable we shall during the pre sent state of the Money Market. ' [THE PUBLIC LEDGER.] We never witnessed, in the whole range of our experience, any thing equal to the panic that prevailed in the city yesterday. The countenance of every one immediately connected with the commercial world, displayed unequivocal signs of anxiety ; and whatever may be the cause of the existing distress, the fact itself is as painful as it is incontrovertible. The question now is, how is, this alarm to be checked, and con fidence substituted in its place ? In this, it is clear that Government and the bank must take the lead ; and it is also clear that their measures must bear an exact affinity to the suddenness, as well as the alarming ex tent, of the evil. We throw out this suggestion in the fullest confidence that it will be immedi ately acted upon ; and that this week will not be suffered to elapse without some efficient step being taken by Ministers to relieve commercial credit from its present extraordinary depression. It would be absurd to plead principles, or to ap peal to fixed rules as an excuse for apathy, when a temporary departure from them might afford immediate relief. Therefore, the Directors of the Bank should, at this moment, make it a point to depart from their usual caution ; and if this were not sufficient, Government ought to hasten to the relief of the commercial world.' The whole question of the present embarrassment lies in a nut-shell—the difficulty of discounting the best paper; and, consequently, the remedy may be stated in three words—" increase the fa cilities." In the mean time, the commercial world itself ought to make efforts to resist an alarm, which, for the most part, is artificial ; and we are only surprised,that the first Houses,seeing the ruin that has overtaken some, whose respectability was never before liable to the breath of suspi cion, have not come forward with some measure, or declaration, to stem a torrent, which has a 1- ready sapped the foundations of commercial cre dit. The evil has been heightened, as usual, by exaggeration ; but, to the honour of the Public Press generally, it must be said that it stands ac quitted of this charge. In the mean time, it is our firm hope that the alarm has reached its ut most height, and that effectual measures are now in agitation to put a stop to it wholly, and as promptly as possible. [MORNING POST.] We received last night, by Express, French Papers to the nth instant, and the Eloilc of Mon day. The Subscription for a monument to Gen. Foy and a provision for his children proceeds rapidly and spontaneously in every part of France. The sums received in Paris on Satur turday last amounted to 415,731 francs. As this is the produce of little more than a week, there is no doubt tliat the ultimate total will exceed a million of francs. The Etoile affirms that two French frigates are to be sent to punish the Government of Tripoli for the capture of four vessels belonging to the subjects of the Pope, the restitution of which had been demanded in vain by his Holiness. It is doubtful whether so small a force would produce much impression on the Bey, who, if we are to judge by the assistance which he sent last year to the Captain Pacha, possesses a navy of considerable strength. The health of the Pope, which had for some months caused the Catholic Powers of the Continent to consider what successor it would suit their individual interests to promote to the Chair of St. Peter, is said to be slowly but regularly improving, and his complete recovery is an ticipated by next spring. Ile is said to have been actively engaged during his illness with the affairs of the Church and the administration of the State. No other result of this activity has yet publicly appeared, however, save his measures for compelling the Jews throughout his dominions to live in particular quarters, measures which are said to have induced the richest and most respectable individuals of that nation to remove their persons and fortunes to other lands. The Constitutionnel says, that after staying a week at Frankfort, Sir Hud son Lowe had proceeded on his way to Con stantinople. In the night of the 6th to the 7th instant, and in the course of the follow ing day, the Loire rose suddenly and overflowed iti banks, carrying away all the merchandize which lay on tl►e quays at all the ports from Roanne down to a considerable extent. The loss was immense, and it was feared that the bridges of Nevers and of La Charite would be destroyed. FRIENDS OF POOR ORPHAN CATHOLIC CHU.- DREN.—The Anniversary Festival of this excellent Institution was on Monday held at the Freemason's Tavern. At about half past five o'clock the Rev. THOMAS WELD took the chair, sup_ ported by the Right Rev. Dr. Brainstone. the Rev. Dr. Collins, Mr. Butler, and various other gentlemen connected with the Catholic Church. After the cloth was removed, the usual patriotic toasts were drank, and the Secretary's Report was read, which exhibited a most flattering account of the Society. It stated that their object was to clothe, educate, and wholly provide for the Orphan Children of poor Catholics, and that during the last year several liberal donations had been received to forward the objects of the Society, and that it was their inten tion to raise a school in the neighbourhood of Chelsea, for the purpose of educating the female part of the children, sad pre venting them mixing with the day scholars, which would con siderably increase their eapences, and render the most strenuous exertions of the friends of the Society necessary. After the report had been read the Rev. Mr. '4ll'Donnel delivered a speech replete with eloquence, advocating the objects of the Society, and calling upon every individual who had the interest of the Society at heart, to use their best endeavours to support the Institution.— In the course of his speech the Rev. Gentleman stated that the Society had now under its protection upwards of twenty orphan children, male and female, who had been left destitute, and who could, hut for the timely aid which had been held out to them, have fallen into those vicious courses which too commonly await the shelterless orphan. The Rev. Dr. Bramstone, and other Gentlemen, made eloquent speeches, and a liberal collection was made. HORRIBLE MURDERS.—An extraordinary de• gree of alarm and indignation has been excited this week by the announcement of a most atrocious murder in the town of Hilshorough, where the Marquis of Downshire resides ; and which, with the entire neighbourhood, has always been re markable for the exemplary and moral conduct of its inhabi tants. The following are the only particulars yet known of this dreadful transaction :—On the night of Monday, the sth instant, Miss Ann Stott, of Hilsborough, a mild, amiable, and benevolent lady, was, with her servant maid, inhumanly murdered by some assassins, in her own dwelling. It ap pears that the doors of her house had not been opened on Tuesday, a circumstance which induced her neighbours to suppose she had gone to a meeting at Lurgan, of the Society of Friends, of which she was a member. How•ever,lon IVed nesday (the market-day) her doors and gate still remained closed, and her cows, which were in the back-yard, began to low so incessantly, probably through want of food, &c., that the inhabitants became alarmed, and a boy was sent over the wall to examine the premises. By him a bloody cap was found lying in the yard, outside of the kitchen-door. Application was then promptly made to Hugh Moore, Esq., of Eglantine house, an active Magistrate, who was sitting in Hillsborough Court-house at the time. This gentleman came instantly to the place, with some of the police, and caused one of the win dows to be forced up with a crow-bar, by which means a con stable gained admission. In the kitchen a shocking spectacle presented itself—the murdered bodies of Miss Stott and her servant. The maid lay near the kitchen-door, and some of her blood was sprinkled on the threshold. Her head and arms were so bruised and disfigured, that when an inquest was held on the bodies, it was almost impossible even to conjecture with what kind of instrument the murderers had perpetrated the crime. Miss Stott's skull was beaten in at the back of the head, apparently by some square, obtuse, and ponderous im plement of destruction. The assassins haring thus succeeded in the work of death, broke open a money till in the shop, and then endeavoured to force open some drawers in a room, up stairs, but it appears they did not succeed. Every other part of the house was left by them in good order, clean, neat, and perfectly undisturbed. They withdrew, we apprehend, by the rear of the house, unperceived. On Thursday, an inquest was held on the bodies of this deeply-lamented lady and her maid, when a most minute investigation into the whole cir cumstances connected with this melancholy and alarming event took place. The inquiry set on foot is most strict, and the Marquis of Downshire has been remarkably active in en deavouring to trace this dark, bloody, and, as yet, inexpli cable transaction, to its origin. Hugh Moore and W. E. Reilly, Esqrs., the resident magistrates, have also been inde fatigable in their exertions. The people of Hilsborough have most zealously co-operated with him on the occasion. In ex amining the premises, there were found visible marks of foot steps from the house to a pond at the foot of Miss Stott's garden. This the people quickly emptied with pails and other vessels, in hopes of finding the instrument of murder, and by its means gaming some clue to guide them to the as. sassin—but in vain. The verdict of the inquest was—" Wil ful murder by some person or persons unknown."—(Belfast Chronicle.) COURSE OF EXCHANGE, Dec. 13. Amsleidant Ditto, at Sight l2 5 Rotterdam Antwerp l9 10 Hamburgli Altona Paris,3 Day's sight Ditto Montdeatix, ditto Berlin 7 0 Fr ants Girton the Main Petelsburgh . 94 Vienn-1 lO 15 Trieste lO 13 Madrid - 361 Effective Cadiz B;lboa - Rarcelona Seville Gibraltat 3l • Leghorn Gel Malta Palermo Lisbon Oporto SOY B it!o h ; l a ma e i ro 481 Buenos Ayres Dublin . 9} Cori' 91 pes- Cent. BULLION. Portugal Gold,i it Coin /.0 0 0 per Foreign Gold, in Bars 3 17 6 Nev Donbloons New Dollari Si!ver Standard in 8ar5,.... ... LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP CHANCERY, DEC. 13. COMMISSION OF REVIEW.-FOWELL V. MOL;CHAT. The argument on this case was resumed from yesterday', in support of the appeal, and Dr. laTsHINGTo>t was heard tra part in support of the decision of the Court of Delegates, 0 . 79 ' formably to the description of the case given yesterday. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 13. The Court this day continued to hear arguments on,exce, a l2: tions and further direction s , a n of which were merely ttr cutory proceedings, and wholly un i n t eres ti n g to the public. i COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DEC, 13. ASSAULT.—NOTTAGE v. DEAN- ,„ a a 4 4, This was an action by a f ru i terer i n t h e Corn= against a publican for an assault. 'rite case, as proved by the plaintiff's witnesses, was, that the defendant came to his house on an evening in l as t Jul:) , to ask for a debt ; and on some fit plaintiff' r swer being given whi c h did not sat i s f y him, struck the plaintiff a blow on th e eye. It appeared, however, t h a t there .0 I negotiation for a compromise, and that the plaintiff' part eek :. a leg of lamb at th e d e f en d ant ' s h ouse; b ut , f ro m some In " understanding, the matter was not adjusted. The defendant shortly addressed the Jury himself, and stated that he had lent the plaintiff 1.51., and knowing ,118 1 ,t 1 had received money, went to ask for payment, when the P,"'; tl - , tiff's wife and children insisted on turning him out 0, the house, upon which he struck the blow which had been ms the subject of the present action. • tiff The Lora) CmEr JUSTICE told the Jury that the pl ain was entitled to a verdict; b u t th e case seeme d t o him 0 1 2 Ye t ' trivial nature. 40s• The Jury returneda verdict for the plaintiff—Damages' MURIEL V. KINNEAR. is- This was an action by th e plaintiff, as endorsee of a P r nt, sort' note, drawn by a perso n name d S tep h ens , f o r 10019 ag' g the defendant as endorser. it kale° Mr. GURNEY said this defe n d an t was a person are.‘" - t he in this Court, a nd if h e f orce d t h e plaintiff to enter ifln ep transaction, it would be found that it was fit for the Old B and there The formal h pr oped it would be taken. „„$ cher' proof of the handwriting of the parties Stven. Mr. cation SCARLETT, for the defendant, r e p e ll e d the ohs„..e r t biS made by Mr. Gurney, a n d op e n e d a d e f ence o f us ury "'"jo at note, with six others, am o u n ti ng t o 7501. , were disco l `" 500/., so that 48 per tent. was g i ven Ib r the loan. To prove this case, a person named stated that 5001. was the whole sum given on the note s+ Pollock was that, in fact, an interest in two freehold houses )t upon-Thames was assigned, and the notes were given had collateral security. He, however, said, that if the nut''' been paid, the houses would not have been transferred. pretended security had turned out wholly worthless. w het , The Lon') EF JUSTICE left the jury to SOY , vi „ t ioue the sale and notes were a mere machinery to cover a 115 for loan, or whether the notes were given as a collateral security the validity of a contract which turned out worthless•, s getit: . The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—vs -1031., the principal and interest due on the note. THE KINO V. EVANS. Of This was an indictment for perjury against an attorney the county of Glamorgan. The perjury was assig nea t c o n, ' an affidavit made before Mr. Justice bittledale, in suppor t ;de application to refer certain bills relative to a trust for th lut who fendent's father to taxation. The allegation on whichP Pet).r t ). was assigned was, th a t th e bill s were not, with a min" glt iv e m re tion, delivered until March or thereabouts; whereas th e y delivered in the July preceding. 111 r. SCARLETT having opened the case, prod davits on both sides, including that on which Pa r _ i j ur Sadie assigned, and upon the whole of which the Learned made an order for referring the bills for taxation to diet:, t ot, The Loan CHIEF JUSTICE interposed, and sa"„, re, having heard all the affidavits, he thought the allegsti-ote specting the time of the delivery of the hills was hardly a lto rial to the question before the Learned Judge; an d l ':riare thought, under all the circumstances, that the error as to' ley' was a mere mistake, into which the defendant had without any design to swear falsely. ee dirP The Counsel for the prosecution did not insist on proc I,or d and accordingly, the Jury, under the direction of the Chief Justice, returned a verdict of Net Guilty. produced the $1:64; COURT of the was called on, but only six of t. I thi ( ei ) i js.Nur morningoPr Ls answeredE PLEAS, S SUMMONSES TO SPECIAL JURORS. else At the sitting lent W r One of them asked the attendance of a special juror ? Ills LordshiP anew aunt that a notice given one clear day before trial was t '_, e „ - s v' practice. It appeared, however, that the summonses w`—asratt ed only at nine o'clock, last niglit, and the venire/ 01a '; fling issued till one in the afternoon of yesterday. The 914.-- ° officer being examined deposed to these facts. ' at tins Court had recently experienced in the e de j la c y Lord Chief Justice BEST expressed ' his dissatisfaction mi. practice, and said that he would take care it should be n Tihe ed in future. No doubt, mu-h of th 'n onvenieoc e '• en from this source. ogling' There were several special jury cases fixed for this m ,,, e of ' but they were postponed to a future day, in consequence irregularity in serving the notices. CROWDER V. AUSTIN. of a b° se ' Th , s was an a ' • cuon to recover 29 guineas, the price , do s, toc.the"tr. eam! sold for the laintiff at All • I ' I • d by del° t ru ge s, and pure lase had bee The claim was " resisted on the ground that the horse sold under a warranty, and turnLd out unsound. o wa r° From,the evidence of Mr. Aldridge, it appeared then _,, ranty was given. The horse was marked in the list with . , " be marks—" Dr." " R." and 44 Qt. ;" which meant, that but animal might be used limr drawing or riding, and was qtd et ' rer ," beyond which no warranty was given. Tile horse ' was it "r ° d 2 it i o aS and but for that would be worth iio guineas. The e (m ha t the o f sale as marked up on Mr. Aldridge's premises were,,t in t he horse should be sold to the highest bidder; but t,r ° _. pe rt evidence, it appeared that a groom attended on Ll._ c b :i n g 1 1 of the plaintiff to bid for the horse, to prevent his To • sold below his value. oaf cuccsiellsibj'audrlaris"'. This was a very old praet ie L e : l ose plaintiff's groom on this occasion had bid for th e co ot against the purchaser and another person. Th e witness gtO beloll b 1 0 4 not say whether the purchaser knew that a perso n • the owner of the horse was bidding against hint. Ile he did not. Counsel f° The LORD CiftEr JUSTICE (interrupting the , ‘ ,,,i o ioa defendant, who was addressing the jury) gave i t as bi!,v2,"e w as that the present action could not be maintained. oraiiiititf, evidently a departure from the conditions of sale 11X evidently at the by having a person attending to bid for the horse wit il _ bow intention of being a bola do purchaser. Such a practie!, e bo o ever old or general, was, in his opinion, illegal, whiti,it_r!, often fide purchasers were kept in ignorance of the fact. He i ti : e " wo re considered this question, and the more he did so be be was clearly was he of the opinion he had mentioned ; an d wool" surprised the objection had not been made before. Hes s o n ; rather have the opinion of the Court above on it than, y h ' o , L it but his own being quite clear on the point, he arow". lo ,, e die the plaintiff; but at the same time give hint liberty top _kis Court above to have the nonsuit set aside, should it u` different opinion.—Plaintiff nonsuited. STATE OF THE COURT• ICE h 34 In the course of the day, the Loan CHIEF JO T • ~ the occasion to complain of the extreme difficulty of be_ 3 . l./erY witnesses, owing to the bad construction of the Court a Iv or day since the sittings have been held in this Court: t ime juri es. complaint has been made by the bench„ the bar, and L „ll4este a When the inconvenience was first mentioned, it wss:, S o per, by Mr. Sergeant PELL, that if. curtains or other 50 , 4 Of . were hung near the ceiling, they would have the effectt b u ie e che ening the sound, and thus prevent the very disagrees . I ° ° ‘ which now accompanies time voice when raised sb . 9 a_theri tone. This suggestion was communicated to time civic we 0 , d noton e h ehairtdh by y m t a h t ,,... te j r u . ties who have the superintendence of these matters, Oa tteener. derstand that a promise was given that immediate h a as be er' would be paid to it. Since then, however, nothing has ore than once declared that the present construction ]tad o n o scu p s tends to defeat justice in many instances, as be w id e ace w 3s that in several of the causes tried, one half of the e ___...------------ rya:he Loan CHIEF J nsTICEr the col BIRTH. ni• v• pea' On the 10th in s t., i n Doughty.street, the Itttly of cock, Esq., of a (laughter. ----- MARRIED. Worccs , On Thursday, the Bth inst , at Powick Church, tershire, Ferdinand Ilanbuty . NVilliams, Esq., of " 4-- O ° J,'e st in l ' fibr 014. park, in 11lonmouthshire, to Elizabeth Ann Pakington, °ll- couit, daughter of the late William Russell, Esq,, of Powick. 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