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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

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Minns" at MO. Priu..--Before Lord Denman and a Common Jury,
PALMER AND WIV.: V. FLINT.—SLSNDRIt.-181 this Colle
Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Simons appeared fur the plaintiffs,
and Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., with whom was Mr. Huddle-
stone, were counsel fur the defendant,. This wa: as action
brought by a eentlens in and his wife against a linendraper
carrying on business in Osfard-street, to recover compensation
in damages for certain .leuderous expressions used by the de-
Ime I ant respecting Mrs. Palmer. The circumstances of the case
were shortly these : Oa the 20th of January last Mrs. Palmer,
accompanied by her mother, Mrs. (iilb-rt, went into the
defendant'e shop with the intention of purchasing some
neckerchief., but after seeing several which did not suit them
they apologised fur the trouble they had given the defen-
dant, and were about to leave the eho?, when he said: "
don't believe von came here to buy anything at all ; me
see if I have lost anything; you are a couple of shoplifters.
I am sure you are shoplifters—let me look in your muffs."
Upon this Mrs. Palmer and her moth. r walked out of
the .hop in great indignation. The def:ndaat subse-
quently, on being waited upon by Mr Palmer and a friend
of hi., of the name of Smith, refused to offer any
.atistactory explanation or apology for the unjustifiable lan-
guage he had used towards Mrs. Palmer and her mother,
who were persons of the highest respectabili y. In support
of the plaintiff's case Mrs. Jan* Charl Ate Gilbert was
called, and in eildPion to the facts before Mated she proved
that the kind of neckerchief required was a black one, with
a red border, and the delendsiet lied none of that &map-
lion in his shop. She hers.ll had also brought an action for
slander against the defendant, upon the same words which
had Liven rise to the present inquiry. Mr. Smith was next
called, and stated thtt he was a warehoume.kerper
in Conduit street, Regent's street ; he accompanit d Mr.
Palmer to the defendant's residence on the even-
ing of the 20th of January, in ems( quence of the
expre sions used by him to Mrs. Gilbert and her
daughter. The defendred said, in answer to a Lineation from
witness, that he might or might not have served two ladies
with neckerchiefs that day. Witness then introduced Mr.
Palmer, an i said, " This is the husband of one of the ladies
you called a sholifter." To which the del:lntent Yelled,
You are a liar." Mr. Palmer went with Lis solicitor on
the following daybefore Mr.llardwicke, the magistrate, who,
however, would not inter'', re in the matter. On croas.ex-
emir ation the witness said that Mr. Palmer would have been
satisli d with 101. being given by the defendant to the poor-
box of the Marlborough-street Police-court, and an apo.oty
appearieg three times in the public papers.—Mr.
Chambers, on behalf of the defendent, contended
that his client had always been willing to make
any retsoitable apology, but he might . as well
shut up his *hap at once us put an apology three times in
the public papers, and the slander in this cam could not be
very injurious, inasmuch as Who'd only been spoken to Mrs.
Palmer and her mother.—Lord Denman having summed
up. the jury fueled a verdict for the pLintiffs ; damages, 10/.
—Mr. Simons stated that Mr. Palmer wished it clearly to be
understood that he did not intend to put any of the damages
in his own pocket —Lord Denman : Very well ; I hope we
I shall bear nothing more of the other action.

PREROGATIVE COURT.
Before Sir H. J. Foot.

CoLom, SrocKw's:Lt.—This was a question upon the
power of the court to annul a testamentary document. It
appears that Lieut.-Col. Thomas Stockwell, who died on
the 14th July, 1947, made a will in favour of his wife, whom
he also nominated as hit executrix. lie afterwards made a
codicil, giving her only a life-interest in his pro-
perty; after her death, it was to be divided between
his inur children. ln the year 1811, he made a second
codicil, hal in 1943, while at Geneva, where he went for
the benefit of his health, his wife at the same time being also
in ill health, and believing she might not survive him, or if
she did, might not have power to make a will, he bequeathed
his property to her for life, and taen to his children, and at
the same tine empowered tier under that will to cancel it,
provided she survived him, and act upon the original will.
The motion before the court was to grant probate upon the
will and codicils, and to cancel the last. The court rejected
the motion.

31IDDLESEX. SESSIONS.
Before Mr. Berjeaut Adams.
The June adjourned session commenced yesterday at
'licks' Hall, Clerkenwcll. The calendar contained 77 cases,
68 of which were charges of felony, and 9 of misdemeanor.
—The learn( d As.istant-Judge briefly addressed the grand
jury, and remarked that in his opinion the bill which last
session was passed to cure juvenile dclinq,ency had, on the
contrary, increased the evils it prvp-Attl to remedy.

PO L ICE—Y ESTERDAY.
GUILDHALL —AFBAULT ON Tin: Poticr.—lf. Reeder
was charged with rescuing a prisoner, and assaulting the
officer in the execution of his duty.—Cordwent, 182 G, of
the Metropolitan Police Force stated that he was on duty
in the ruins on Saffron hill the previous afternoon, when a
gentleman informed him that there was a fight in West-
street, Smithfield, and requested him to interfere; he accord.
ingly went and took ens of the parties into custody, up in
which the prisoner rescued him. lie then took the latter
into custody, but no sooner did he do so, than ho was struck
a violent blow on the head. A struggle ensued and they
both fell to the ground. when a terse lush assembled, rushed
in upon him and kept him down while the prisoner got up.
The mob then cried out " Give it him, choke him ; " and the
prisoner then struck him several more brows which had in-
capacitated hint from doing duty. His head was so swelled
that he could not wear his uniform hat, and he could hardly
eat anything from a blow he r. eeived in the jaw. If it had
not been for the assistance which he received from a soldier,
he really believed he should have been killed.—Sir Chapman
Marshall said that it appealed to be a very aggravated as-
sault, and therefore he should bind the prisoner over to
answer any charge which the metropolitan commissioners
of police might think proper to institute.—The officersaid he
had no vindictive feeling towards the prisoner, but he pro-
ceeded ag dust him for the protection of other officers.—Sir
Chapman Marshall said the übservetion did him great credit.
—The bail being forthcoming, the prisoner was discharged.
WORSHIP-STRHET.—TiI E MURDSR IN SPITALTIELDO.
—O. Hart, described as a French-polisher, was charged,
upon his own confession, with having been implicated in the
murder of the unfortunate child, Henry Limns, who was
found strangled on the m:rning el the 15th ult., in an en-
closed yard at the back of Tenter-street, Spitafields.—A
reward of 501. bad been offered by the government for such
informationlaa should lead to the apprehension and convic-
tion of the perpetrators of the act, with art intimation that
her Majesty's pardon would be extends d to any accomplice
not being the actual murderer.—Sergeant Sanders stated
that that alterno m the prisoner entered the station.house in
Robert street, Holton, and asked to see the inspector, as he
wished to give important information with respect to the
murder, in which he himself had been personally concerned.
I,sii,,-;ese then cautioned him that whatever he might say would
be token down in writing and used in evidence egoist him,
and the prisoner, who wail greatly agitated and trembled vio-
lently, weut on to state that the teceased was strangled in
his presence by a man whose name he mentioned, hut which
it would be imprudent at present to divulge, under one of
the arches in the seighb-mrhood, and that the man then
stripped off the clothes, which he placed with the body in a
sack, and carried it on his hzck to Whitechapel; and that
he had since been informed by the murderer that he after-
wards sold the clothes to a woman in ltostmary-lane. The
prisoner added that they first met the boy about 11 o'clock
on the night in question, and that the murder was shortly
afterwards perpetrated.—lnspector Pascoe stated that after
he had been locked up in one of the cells, he visited the
prisoner, who informed him that be had had a serious
quarrel that day with the man whom he denounced
as the murderer, in the course of which he told
him that he would give information to the police, and that
the latter endeavoured by threats to dissuade him from his
purpose. Witness then asked him if he wished to give any
further information, and he would reduce it into writing ; to
which the prisoner replied, " No ; Ihave said too much
already." 'lee inspector hire read an extract from an
anon) moue letter which he bad received, giving a minute
description of the dress end figure of one of the min who
were said to have committed the murder, and which corre-
sponded in every Teepee' with the pet sonk appearance and
apparel now worn by the prisoner.—On being asked if he
wished to put any questions to the witnesses, or offer any
statement on the subject of their evidence, the prisoner an-
swered faintly in the negative, and the magistrate ordered
him to be -brought up en a future day for further
examination. _ _ _

LA MBE 1 Cox.—lV. M'Donnell, a police-
constable, was, by order of Mr. Robinson. Lis superintsn.
dent, charged with gross misconduct. —T. King. shoemaker,
of Lock's-fields, deposed that on the night before, he saw his
wife, who bad lived apart from him for some weeks, conduct
herself in a very improper manner in the Waterloo-road. lie
watched her for some time, and saw her stop several gentle-
men. She aleo went into a be,r-shop, where she drank with
several m.n, and remained there a considerab'e time. Sue
next proceeded towards the \V .Iworth•road, where the spoke
to M'Donnell, and walked round his beat with him, draek
at a public-house door, and ultimately accompanied him into
a field near Brandon-street. Wetness and a friend
of his looked over the palings ; they distinctly
saw his wife and the defendant conducting them-
selves with gross impropriety. On speaking to them
his wife left the field, but her companion remained inside.
lle, mance', told his wits, he had been watching her for
two hours, and caught her at last, upon which she
exclaimed: "Oh ! then I'm undone," and instantly
fell to the ground in a fainting fit. In reply to a question
of the magistrate, the witness said that about two months
..co his with gave him into custody, and lee was charged at
this court (or violently assaulting her, and he then consented
to allow her halt a crown a week to live ap ert from him.
Ile ;dried that the defendant, Itl'Donnell, was the very con-
y dile who was called in to take him into custody on that
oe anion. The latter part of the last witness's statement was
corroborated by a witness, who also swore to having
seen the parties in the act of criminality.—The defendant
denied having had any connexion with Mrs. King as alleged,
but acknowledged having drunk a pint of beer with her
Mr. Elliott remarked that there could be no doubt, from the
evidence adduced, that the defendant was guilty agrees Iris.
conduct and violation of duty, and for this he must pay a penalty
of 4th., or stand committed to prison for twenty days. The
penalty was at once paid, and the defendant discharged.

°WEI MARKET.

TUESDAY EVENI,O.

It may be almost said that there has scarcely been
a variation of price: in the Consul market to-day.
The transactions which took place were, however, re-
markably few also, end may account for the fact of
the absence of fluctuations in prices. Consols opened
a fraction lower than the last quotations of yesterday
at 831 to 1, with an apparent tendency to further de-
; cline, which was attributed to supposed ministerial
emi.arrassments growing out of the difficulty of car-
rying through their own proposed scheme for the
ttlement of the West India question. They were
quoted on leaving off at exactly the same rates for
the opening on the 14th proximo ex-dividend. Re-
duced Threes were 83 to ; Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 841 to 1. Exchequer Bills, 375. to 40s.
premium. Bank Stock, 191 to 3. Long Annuities,
8i to 9 16. India Bonds, 16s. to 20s. premium.
The dealings in foreign stocks were of the same
sluggish character as in the funds. Same parcels of
Mexican were offered and reduced the quotations to
16 to 1. Peruvian done at 31 were called 30 to 5.
Chilian, 79 to 81. Brazilian, 86 to 9. Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., 424 to 31 ; the Fours, 621 to
31. Belgian Four-and-a-half per Cents. were sold at
60, and quoted 58 to 62. Russian were firm and
higher, at 89 to 91. Spanish Fives lower, at 111 to
12 ; the Threes, 221 to 3; Passive, 3 to I. Portu•
guese, 16 to 17. Danish, 63 to 7.
Foreign exchange varied little in the rates at which
business was done to-day from last po•t day. Th..
transactions effected were of the same limited extent.
On Amsterdam the negotiations were 12 3to ; on
Rotterdam, 12.31 to 1 : on Hamburg, 13.121 to t ; on
Frankfort, 1211 to 122; on Penis (at short), 25.45 to
50 ; on Vienna, 12.13 ; on Leghorn, 31.50 ; on Naples,
36 ; on Madrid, 40 to 1; on Cadiz, 461 'o 47—a1l but
Paris at three mouths ; on Lisbon, at 60 days, 611
to 52. _ _

Imperial as well as royal treasures would seem to
be on their way to seek safety and investurnit in the
funds of this country. If advices from Vienna in the
Gazette (le Cavite may be creditei, all the fortunes
of the imperial family of Austria, consisting of money,
or valuables equal to money, or real property which
could be converted into money, were being inces-
santly despatched from Vienna to Ratisbrn, with des-
tination from thence to the Bank of England. With
auxiliary competing treasures of such large amount
for investment here, it should be no surprise that the
prices of public securities are so firmly maintained.
Railway property seems doomed to depreciation
everywhere, but much inure abroad than here. The
Belgian, as well as the French, lines are exhibiting a
notable falling-off in their receipts. The first four
months' receipts on the Belgian state lines this year
show a diminution of nearly 456,000 francs as com-
pared with the same term of 1847. This decrease is
equal to more than 10 per cent.

ENOLISII FUNDS.
3 Per et 114.,L Amu., 834 1 L0ng.:4=4,30 years, 041.10. 1859,
3 per C 4 Cont., Ann... ututi,
New 3; per C 4 ADM. SO i i int Bond:4 under £1,006, 1816
Long Anne., GOP. Jan. 6, 1860, Consoidor Opening, ai i
0 0.1,; Exchequer DUP. Swell. 40
Do. Adrertired June, 11 V 31

FOREIGN FUNDS.
6 per Ct. Chi Han Bond, no 6 per Ct. thisolitt Panslye Rasa 3
5 per Ct. Metiesn, 16.16.16 j 161 3 per Ct., Do.. Aat . June 3,1. Elj
6 per Ct. Peruvian 144.5., 31 43 per Cl. Wigton 1.1.15., es. 25f., 60
5 per Ct. Awsian lid.., 1F22. £ Kt. 2I per Cl. Dutch Exchange, 1:
el Sul, 43 2j

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EXCHANGES AND STOCK.; ABROAD.
Harslet% JCNI 19.-Ik4glan Loan, 1840, 051; Ditto. 1944. mil 601
Ditto, 1836, 544 ; Ditto. City, 1832, 784; Ditto, 1843, 64; Hank or
13..hrium, SA ; hew of 1841. icit 88. Exchange on London, 25.374.
ANTWILP, JONI, 19.-I:tat:wee Lealon, 251 G
I.l.—Au.triasi Fire per Con., e3l ; Ditto, Your per
Conte., 52; Three per Cent., 42; Ditto, Too rted-o-11•11 per
Ceuta., 35. Loan. 1834, 163: Ditto, DOT, 64. Bank 840.
Beaux, Jeits 17 —St Scholl Sch., 64.68. Bleb/fagot on London,
C. 23; ; Path, 811; on Hauxbarg. 1101 14FL