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Court of Chancery. This income sot being sufficient,
to maintain the family in a proper degree of respectabßlM,
the plaintiff came to London to learn the business °Ca
dressmaker, being in posseraion of a little money; b ail
soon }hand that that mode of getting a livelihood was, at a
very precarious nature, and she determined to sliaadati k.
and, with the money she had in her possession, and a litffie
she espected to receive from her friends, to enter lots
business as a cuffse-shop keeper. Accordingly she ex-
amined the newspapers in the hope of ending advertised
for sale some business of that kind, and at length she ascer-
tained that two or three coffee-shops were to be disposed of
iu the neighbourhood of the Belvidere-road. On the 27th
of January she was in that locality making inquiries with
reference to the coffee-slops which were for sale, when she
met the defendant, with whom she had been before ac-
quainted, and in the course of their conversation he ascer-
tained from her the object she had in view, and he professed
to have great anxiety for the success of her undertak-
ing, assuring her that he would render her all the
assistance his experience and his knowledge of the
neighbourhood would enable him to do. The plaintiff
thought this very kind of him, and at once assented to a
proposition be made to accompany her to her lodgings, in
order that he might see the advertisements that had in.
duets! her to make the inquiries she was then prosecuting,
and they went to 33, Sutton-street, where she occupied a
first-floor apartment. Whilst there the plaintiff began to
suspect his motives, from the fact of his appearing parti-
cularly desirous of knowing what amount of money she had
in her possession and how much she expected to receive
from her friends, and her suspicions were increased when
he asked her to treat him to some wine or brandy-sad-
water. This she declined to do, and on the defendant
looking at the advertisements she pointed out to him he
said they were all fraudulent, and she had better have
nothing to do with them. On leaving the house the de-
fendant induced her to go with him to • public-house,
where they had brandy-and-water, and on leaving that
house the defendant said to the plaintiff, " Give me back
that diamond ring you have stolen from me." She ,
indignantly denied that she had stolen any ring
from him, upon which, being then in the Lower Marsh,
he called a policeman and gave her into custody. She was
! taken to the police-station in Tower-street, where the de-
(cadent formally made the charge against her, and signed
the charge sheet. Her lodgings were searched, but no ring
was found there, and the defendant having said he believed
she had thrown it away at a particular spot, search was
made there but without suteces. The plaintiff was sub-
mitted to the indignity of being stripped naked, and every
article of her clothing searched, but with no better success,
and she was locked up in a cell for the night. On the fol-
lowing morning she was conveyed before the lion. O. C.
Norton, at the Lambeth Police-court, who discharged her,
the defendant not amsairing to support the charge. The
learned counsel said the ring had never existed but in the
defendant's own imagination, and submitted that the
amount of damages set forth in the declaration would
scarcely be sufficient to compensate the plaintiff for the
serious injury she bad sustained at the hands of the defend-
ant, though the main obji et of the plaintiff was the vindica-
tion of her chanuttr.
The facts relative to the imprisonment of the plaintiff at
the instigation of the defendant, and her subsequent di,-
charge by the magistrate in consequence of the non-appear-
ance of the defendant, were then proved in evidence.
The jury, after hull a minute's consideration, gave a ver-
dict for the plaintiff—damages 101.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.—YEfrrERDAY.
RVP/IIIITSICIIIII7 Costinwireasas
IN 14E EDWARD KENEAI.II.
This insolvent, the barrister, applied to be discharged
from the Queen's Prison. lie was in custody at the suit of
the Guardians of the West London Union, ler costa arising
on an indictment.
NO creditor appeared in opposition ; and Mr. Cooke sup-
I ported the application.
In answer to the Court, the insolvent stated that since he
hail tiled his schedule his laundress had discovered three
small books of accounts, which he now produced and was
ready 1.. tile ; they related to fees in his profession. Ile
I was called to the bar in 1817, and went the Oxford Circuit,
I and attended the Shrewsbury Sessions. lie said he had not
kept an account of his general expenses, as he had so little to
expend, nor were there any entries in the books fur the
present year.
The Chief Commissioner, in the absence of anything
axainst him, declared him to be entitled to the benefit of
the act, and ordered him to be discharged forthwith.