The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-21 00:00:00

LAW INTBLLIGENCZ
TEID3 DAY.

ROLLS COURT.
OftIIIItWOOD e. Parmi.—ClUtDlTolll. SUIT.
This milt was iesUteted t y the alaistiff, ea behalf of
self and the other unsatisfied aiding's of Robert Penny
Greenwood Penny, deceased. It apreared that Robin
Penny, the uncle of the intestate, by his will, dated in 1832,
gave his real estate to Mutsu is. true for the intestate for
Iva, with remainer to the plaintiff I. tail. and he directed the
residue of his personal estate to be laid oat em real estate, to
be settled for the sane nen. After the date of his will the
testator contractor fur the perdw of another estate for
1,0001., but he only pail 4101. on ausaat of the parehase
Rooney, and di4 not complete the entreat before his death.
The intestate wu not only tenant for life under the teetator's
will, but also his heir at-law. And he claimed the estate
tor which the testator bad contracted in the latter cha-
racter, and procured the resides of the purchase money for it,
to be paid oat of the t stator's pernnal estate. It was by
the decree made at the hearing of the cause referred to the
masters to inquire whether the intestate had sleeted to tale
the after. purchased estate aa heir, or as Anion for life
ceder the will. The muter fount that he had elected to
take it as heir. , The caw now ,esme en for further
directions, and the prinaipal qualms dimmed wee, as to
whether the intimate/ estate wee bast M asesset for the
income of the testator's real end pausal estate rewired by
him under the testator's will, on the round of his having
sleeted to take the after-pareksee4 waft es heir, and against
the will.

Mr. inner appeared foe the plehttif end isentended
that, accceding to the ordinary rule, a pirty sonnet skin
both under and against an instruatnt ; end es the intestate
had elected to take the after-pstelteeeti Mate weskit the
will, he mut account tor what he had received under it.
Mr. Bogen contra.
The Master of Ice Role held that the mate of the intes-
tate was basted to account kr what he had reeeived under
the testator's will.

COURT OP QUEEN'S BENCH.
HAT IP. OITIN 7011 a BIT ow • BAC*.
XI. W. ti. Watson moved dm • tale to shoe cause why
the verdict for the defendant in this case should no. be set
aside, mad the verdict eaterei for the plaintiff, oe for a aew
trial, or for judgment non•obtante vame. The cam was
tried bane fdr. Justice Erle, et the sittings in the present
term. sod reported is the Express. It was as action on
two bills of bOl. ea.h, which the defendant was the acceptor.
The lint plea denied the acceptance, sad the second alleged
that the bills were given for an illegal consideratinn,
easily, for a bet ma a nee, is which a trine c-Iled
arrplice was to run, and that the defendant lost
1001. to owe Arbuthnot, and that the bills were given to
discharge this debt et is request of Arbuthnot.
It was oestsadad that this plea was not proved. The ram
was nu oa the lied May, 1844, and the bills were dated 7th
July, 1848. There had been a bill given I. for 1001.1 a Jane,
which became due on the 7th July, and these bills weriutiven inrenewal of that bill. In order to make out en ill.. ma-
sideration, it ought to have bees pleaded that the rat bill
w a given to Arbuthnot (or money lost by eamieg, and that'
the two bills win given in renewal of that bill. There was now '
ao statute which made bids given foe money at play void, or
indicted any penalty, as was mated by 9th Anne. The act
of 8 ik 9 Vie., c 109 only said that any contract for wageriag
or betting was void, end that no party could recover on it.
This bill was not illegal by statute, bat the plea stated that it
was against the statute.—Role ennui.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
Buena Ns. ONICIONODIIiII tem.
Powzaa or iia Conmisaionsas.
Mr. Reeve applied to the court under the 90:h section of
the new act, in the matter of a bankrupt named Thornton,
of Newark, aga'nst whom proceedings had been opened in
the BifillitigbaXl District Court, to direct tke removal of the
peetedians to this court, the bulk of tha creditors residing
is Leedom,

Hu Honour held that this power was vested by the new
act in the senior eunniasioner (Evans) only, and that, u the
attunes of that learned gentleman was not shown to be un-
avoidable, he had no right to interfere. Hating inspected
the affidavits, and found them perfectly regular, his humour
said he would write a note to Kr. Erato, gating that the
ease was one In which the order might properly be rude,
and that learned gentleman alight then, if he chose, sign it
at his house. _

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
THIS DAY.
MARLBOROUGH. STREET.
MURDEROUS ASSAULT UPON A FEMALE —J. Crosby and
Mary Lot were ekarged on suspicion with having committed
and assault aeon: Ana Crosby, the wife of the former prbo-
ner, whereby_betr life is is daeger.
Parson', 7777 C, deposed that, on Saturday night, he was
eal:ed to 11, Princes-row, Newport-market, where he found
the wife of male prisoner lyiog in a pool of Wood. fibs had •
dreadful cat on the had, the scalp being enmp!etely cut off
and turned backwards Gross the forehcad. lie conveyed her
to Charing-ma Hospital. Oa his return to the house he
saw the male prisoner, who said Mrs. Lea had done it all, in
a row they had at Tindal-buildings, Oray's-inklane. Wit.
her took the male prisoner into custody, and sutsequently
went to Tindal's.buildines and took the female prisoner.
Witmer produced a surgeon's e.ritleate, signed by the house
surgeon at Charing toots Hospital, stating that the injured
Inman was in a dangerous state, and would be unable to
tot. ad the court for acme days.
, Xhosa added that 1141 had made every inquiry as to the
estate of the assault, but, although a number of persons,
mostly Irish, saw the whole of the trenuetion, they, with
one exceptioa, declined to come forward.
Mr. Bingham remanded the prisoners.