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COURT.—This DAT, AT Tom.
4t. OF TIIII ROLLS IS TRI VICII•CRIANCILLOR'S
COURT, LINCOLN'S INN.

Atty.-i;en,y. Newson,

Holwell v. Harris

further directions
and costs, and peti-
tions.

Reid v. Frail
Stanton V. Raney
Smith v. Tyrrell
Stoughton ♦. Walker,
further dir. and costa,
end petition.
Player v. Fossil. further
direction. and cats

Osborne v. Cadet', pro
confess°
Ditto do. do.
Foot v. Ashley, rehear.
J^g

Walicerv.Hlstherrricke
Herber v. Mildred
Jones v. Harris

Blommart v.some,ditto
ditto

RENCH.—Tnto DAY,
Aliddleitex Special Juries.
The King v. the F.arl
of Harborotrth
Moogne r. Symmnn*
The King v. ['mutton .
Alt .—Notice.—No Common Jurieo will be in the Lid for
to-day. Notice will be given the evening before any Common Juries
are again put In the List for trial.—Dated June 20.

COURT OF KING

The Ring v. Reay
Barker v. Martha
Martin v. Barker

AT HALV•PAST NIVI.

Haggett v. Royal Exch.
Phillips v. Rapier
Sinclair v. Kenible

Movner. Jove 26.
Causes standing over from the last Miffing In Trinity Term, with Jude
meet of the Term. &e.—By order.
' v. Denman ' -
Suer v. Cronin'
Chandler v. Budd
Button v. Luck
Smith v. Landon
Martindale v. Gooch
Collins Y. Gray
Pedder v. Jacob

Gorton v. Marsh ----
Longbottom v. Tilton
Wear v. Johnson
Hollingsworth v. Jul-

Timm v. Roll
Sparkman v. Piper
Roll v. Duke
Smith v. Moore
Alleork v. Nathanson
Hodevon v. Barrow
Varden v. Browne

lion
Pipler V. Waters
Franclv V. Carter

COURT Or COMMON PLEAS.—Tote DA•,
Middlesex Special Juries
Wakley • Hayden
lichtiesex Common halm
Watling •. Allen
Doe •. Clarke
Stanton and another •.
Fanshaw and another

Wakley V. Johrnon

AT HALP-PAST NINC.

Wakley v. DlMord

Poe v. Pannell Br
rout). V. Tyler
Grl:fin v. Butler and
an Aber

Aldridge v. Knife
Trey f .rd v. Shaw
Gay v. Rickman

COURT OP I
Br.]

'RF:ROGATIVE
Ovr.—Before Sir John Ni

DAT, AT TAY

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, TtrEQTAT, JUNE 20.
The Lord Chancellor sat for the. purpose of disposing of motions,
the whole of which were devoid of public interest.

ROLLS COURT, TntsnaT, 3v'NE2O.
The Court was engaged the entire day In hearing cases which
possessed no public lutereat.

COURT OF RING'S BENCII. WrwrmlssTert.Nt 20
I Before the Loan Citizr 31!STICE and a Special Jury.]
WATSONI.. CLEMENT.

The plaintiff in thi•eakWalinendraper,reaiding in the Strand,
adjoining to the offices of the defendant, who is proprietor of the
Morning Chronicle. The action was brought to recover compensa.
lion for the injury and annoyance which the plain,ifT and his family
enffered, In consequence of the noise and motion created by the
working of a steam-engirt erected by the defendant for the purpose
of printing his newspapers.
Mr. GURNEY stated the ease. Ile said, that notwithstanding
the nuisance had been already proved on a former trial, which it
was necessary for the plaintiff to appeal tn, and on that occasion •
verdict was returned tor Mr. Watson, no stcps hod been taken by
the defendant to remedy the nuisance complained of ; and when the
plaintiff; after having waited patiently five months, remonstrated
with the defendant. and requested of him to abate the evil com-
plained of, the defendant aggravated the injury by insult, and
wrote to his client to say, that he believed Mr. Watson wished to
make a job of the business. The defendant stated that he was
about to maks such alterations as would allele the nuisance, by
removing the machinery to another part of his premises, and by
erecting a well between the engine and the party.wall, by which a
space would be left, which he would fill up with sawdust, or some
other substance, to prevent the noise from annoying the plaintiff'.
All this, it was said, would be done in the coarse of a fortnight.
The promise, however, remained unfulfilled, and consequently Mr.
Watson was under the necessity of bringing the present action to
procure redress ; and he (Mr. Gurney) hoped the Jury would by
their verdict give such damages as in future to prevent his client
from suffering the same annoyance.
Before the plaintiff's witnesses were called, the Attorney, who
with dlr. Scarlett and Mr. Denman conducted the defendant's
case, stated that as much as could be done tali/Anis the abate-
ment of the nuisance had been done, and as that was not thought
sufficient, he was willing to submit to an arbitrator, to decide
what further nieasures were necessary for the abatement of the
grievance.
The I,ouu CHIEF JUSTICE asked whether the defendant
would undertake to remove the machinery entirely, if the arbitrator
should be of opinion that no remedy could be devised for the
abatement of the nuisance.
The ATTORNEY-GENTRAL said lie did not think he could,
in justice to his client, make any other offer. If it should turn
out that no further amendments could he made, his client would
of course be compelled to remove his establishment.
A ft w minutes were spent in attempting to bring about an ac-
commode ton, but to no purpose.
Mr. Geary Burford was then called and examined. The witness
occupies the house adjoining the office of the lltirninie Chronicle,
on the east side. On the 7th November last, and ever since the
witness was in 31r. Watson's house, he heard the noise made by
the working of the machine on the defendant's premises, which he
thought was rather increased since the former trial. There was
also • tremulous motion oc-asioned by the strokes of the machine.
There is a nine-inch wall between the respective premises, not.
withstanding which, the sound and motion occasioned by the work.
ing of the machine disturbed the witness and his famay, and pre-
vented them from enjoying their necessary rest.
On his cross-examination by the Coat agog SERGEANT, the
witness stated that his observation of the increased inconvenience to
Mr. Wmaon's premises applied to the back part of his house.
Elizabeth 1l tiler, a vela ion of the plaintiff, said she was in the
habit of stopping at the p'aiiitifT's, sometimes as often as two nights
in the week, and that she found it impossible to rest, in conk-
, quence of the noise and motion created by the working of the
steam engine and machine on the adjoining premises. Several
other witnesses were called, the principal part of whom had been
examined on the former trial, all of whom agreed in representing
the noise and motion of the engine as an annoyance to the deten-
-1 dant. Some of ihe witnesses thought the noise had increased.
The ATTO NET-GENERAL addressed the Jury, admitting the
nuisance, and submitting to their consideration the amount of
damage/ to which his client under all the circumstances should be
liahk.

After a short charge from the LORD CHIEF JUSTICE,
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintal--Damages 1001.

HIGH COURT OF AD3IIRALTY, TUESDAY, JUNE 20.
THE AV/SO, DA SILVA. MASTER-
This was an application for the admission Of an allegation, in
I which the question of a joint capture of a slave ship, where only
one vessel was engaged, was raised for the brat time.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON, who appeared against the admissibility of
the allegation, stared, that the Avim was captured on the coast of
Sierra Leone. In 1824. under Brardian colours, having on board
4011 slaves, by his Majevty's ship the Maidstone, ender the com-
mand of (;Commodote Holten ; the Bann. commanded by Captain
Courtney, being at the time in sight. The Bann received instruc.
time front the commodore in August, 1824, to cruise along from
Cape Coast Rends to Cameroon, in search of slave ships. On the
211th of September, the two vessels accidentally mot, being both en-
gm'-WI in the seine service, and the Bann descried a suspicious sail,
aM gave notice thereof to the Alaidstone. • The latter-ship made
sail and captured her, when It was discovered to be the Arlo),
havingon board 4(10 slaves. The slave ship was taken to Sierra
Leone. The e4ptain of the Bann offered to assist in conveying the
dares after the septets, bat each sonless were sot required, and

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he (14. Lushington) wad at a loss to conceive bow any claim for
the bounty could be made by Captain Courtney. In time of war
he would have been entitled to his share of prise money in the cap-
lure of an enemy's ship, bad be been in the pursuit of such ship ;
hut It was very different .1 no actual assistance was rendered by the
Bann, the presence of that vessel could not practice anything
like intimidation. .

1/r. JENXER, on behalf of Captain Courtney, contended that
hi. client Wag entitled to a share of the proceeds of the capture,
and referred to the Ist and 2d of (leo. IV. wherein the principle
embodied in a Proclamation, issued in October, 18111, relative to
seizures effected under the revenue laws, was acknowledged, and
made applicable to captures made of alive ships.
pr. PHIL/A leo RE followed on the ;me side. . .

Loan STOW I;:rita'tt.ih;;4;tliC;;;id;rOlhe ease, and give
his opinion on it the neat Court day.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Juxt 20.

A rather extraordinary case occurred to-day in the obstinate
punctilio of the trAverse .lury, in their decision on the trial of 31r.
John Davis, a respectable tradesman of Oxford-street, for an as.
sant, on Thomas Tribe. _

_ .
Tribe. a carpenter. in the employ of Mr. Higgs, was sent, on
the 12th of April, to effect some alterations in the shop of Mr.
Doris. In repairing a sash, the prosecutor broke two panes of glass
in a frame containing four, and in making a door move easy on the
hinges contrived actually to nail it up. The defendant was angered,
and desired Tribe to go about his business. insisting he would do
no mare there. Tribe said, as he came with his tools sharpened,
he would not go away without stopping to re-sharpen them. The
consequence was, that Mr. Darla took him by the collar and pushed
him out. Tribe then said to Adams, a fellow-carpenter, that Davis
had struck him, and he would go to Marylebone office. A warrant
was obtained, to which Mr. Davis appeared, and the Magistrate
took Mr. Davis's promise to appear at the trial. Tribe stated that
Davis struck him on the breast, in the belly, seized him by the
throat, and thrust him against a dresser.
John Adams was employed with two others to do certain repairs
at Mr. Davis's ; he saw Tribe taken by the collar and pushed ;
but when Tribe said Davis had struck hint, he came from a back
room, where the assault might have taken place without his
seeing ir.
Another journeyman confirmed the previons tesiimony, and
admi•ted the assault might have taken place while they were not
present.
Mr. ALT.rir descanted on :he trade combinations and societies
now so prevalent, who, if one of their fraternity felt aggrieved, un-
lie.iiatingly entered into a subscription to defray the expense of an
,etion which, if he was informed right, was the case in this suit ;
for he was instructed that the prosecutor belonged to a society at the
Running Horse, which was to bear the cost of this prosecution. lilt
very much feared, if a check was not given to these societies, who
now had their trades' delegates and Trades Paper, the result might
be a revolution. . .

Mr. PRENDERGAST said his Learned Friend seemed SO alarmed
at the idea of a revolution, that his imagination had converted the
subscription at the Running Horse into a meeting of Regicides,
and had characterized his hospital diem as a Robespierre, or a
Alarm. So far from a subscription being raised for the poor man,
he had actually, and he was sorry it was so, pawned his watch to
tee Counsel, and had not a friend on earth to help him with a
shilling.

When the ease went to the Jury, they deliberated in the box for
near hell an hour, when the patience of the Chairman himself be-
gan to be tired, and he asked them if there was any point on which
he could assist them. It was merely a matter of fact on which
they had to decide.
The FOREMAN.—Part of us are of opinion the defendant is
guilty, and the other part not.
A Juaos.—Two of the witnesses say if a blow had been struck
they must have seen it.
Cita] R MAN.—No ; they ate the defendant's witnesses, and diet
both say, where they were, they could not see into the back room.
The Jury again deliberated, when the Foreman said they could
not agree, and he feared they were not likely.
The Chairman proposed to the attorney for Tribe to withdraw a
Juror, which not being acceded to, the Sheriff's officer was sworn.
and the Jury left the Court ; they were locked up for about twenty
minutes.

During this time the business of the Court was at a stand-Mill.
and the Chairmen inquired if another Jury could be sworn. This
not being a thing of easy accomplishment,cooversation was resumed
in a whisper till their return.
Alter answering to their names, the Jury returned a verdict of
Not Guilty.
The trial occupied two hours and a quarter.

POLICF.

MANSIONAIOUSE.

Yesterday a watchman, named oe/canons, was brought before
the Lord .Mayor, on the charge of having caused the death of an
Irishman, named Kelly.
John Ryder, one of the patrol for tioundsditch, stated, that be-
tween twelve and one o'clock on Monday morning, he heard of a
disturbance near Red Lion-court, and went there. lie saw the
prisoner bringing along with him a man, who made a strong re-
sistance. ‘Vitness laid hold of him to bring him along. He struck
at the prisoner, who returned the attempts by striking the man
violently over the shins with a stick. They succeeded at length in
getting the man to the watch-house. Witness saw no more than
attempts to strike the prisoner ; witness held the man at the time
the prisoner beat him with the stick.
. . _

Joseph Taylor, the night constable of that district, deposed, that
when the man Ira+ brought in there was • cross-charge between
him and the prisoner. The man, who was undoubtedly intoxi.
cated, charged the prisoner with having assaulted him. The
prisoner did the same with respect to the man. The man's wife
came and begged that her husband might be permitted to go home,
for she was sure he had received some severe internal injury, and
was very ill. Witness looked at the min, who had by this time
sunk on the ground, and saw that he had turned pale. Witness
permitted him to be taken home. On Monday night the man died.
Another officer stated that the prisoner not only struck at the
deceased when he was held by the gist witness, but struck at him
when he was down.

The account which the prisoner gave of the matter was, that on
Monday night he was called upon to quell a disturbance which
had taken place In Red Lion Court. When he went there, he
found three Irishmen lighting on the ground, the one underneath
crying out 4 murder;' he pulled off the two men who were upper-
most, when all three set u; on him, and downed him .he got up,
when he was attacked and struck by the deceased ; he threatened
to take the deceased to the watch.house if lie struck again; the
latter did strike, and he took him into custody ; lie had been com-
pelled to make use of his stick, in consequence of the violence of
the deceased.

The Loan MAYOR said, the evidence at present shewed the
the prisoner had behaved with great wantonness, not only in strik-
ing the deceased when he was down, but in beating him while he
was secured by another officer.
An officer here elated that a Jury had ben summoned before the
C. roner, to inquire into the ease.
The LORD MAYine upon this Information he should not
enter further into the investigation, but would remand the prisoner
until the verdict of the Coroner's Jury was given.
The prisoner was remanded.

DOW-STREET.
On Monday afternoon, as the sitting Magistrate. Mr. Heats,
was about to leave the b nch, ismer ly-dressed youth was brought in
by two of the keepers of Kensing•ol-gardens. charged with an out-
rage of a very daring and atrocious description. He stated his
name to be John Wood, but it wis said by some one who knew
him that his real name *s Thompson. the person upon whom
the outrage was commuted was Mr. Conrad Meyer. a Swiss gentle.
man, living In Esses-etreet, Strand, who was brought to the
office-door in a ouch, In an alo-ost insensible state, with three
deep wounds in his head, which were still bleeding, and his shirt
and the rest of his app.ucl saturated with blood. He was lifted into
the office, and being placed in a chair, he with difficulty stated
shortly, that about one o'clock on that day, he was sitting on one
of the benches in Kensington-gardens, somewhat drowsy, when,
without seeing or hearing any one approach him, he was suddenly
assailed with two tremendous blows oft the head, which, at the mo-
ment, he felt had cot him deeply. Ile jumped up and screamed
" Murder !" and was running away,when he received another blow
which brought him to the ground and deprived him of his senses.
He saw no one, for he was too much terrified to look behind, and
when his senses returned, he found himself in the care of the keepers
at their lodge. He had no knowledge of the prisoner. He lost
not bing from his pockets.
Two young men, named Stewart and Rogaud, cork-ru'ters,
living near the Regent's Park, deposed that they were walking
near the lake in the Gardens, when they heard the cry of " murder"
and saw the prosecutor running, and In a moment after he fell to
the ground ; at the same time they saw the prisoner walking away
from the spot where he fell. One of the witnesses went to the as.
sistance of Mr. Meyer, while the other ran towards the prisoner,
who, as soon as he sew himself pursued, commenced running, but
W 9.1 soon overtaken. When asked what he had done. he said
" Noshing," and begged very hard to be let go; but when be found
that this request was not likely to be complied with, he said, " I
have done something wrong, but it was want that induced me to do
it, and ! hope I shall he forgiven, for it was my first crime." The
Prosecutor was conveyed in an insensible state to the keeper's
lodge, and when the prisoner was taken there and saw him, he fell
upon his knees, cried, and begged for pardon. One of the keepers
observed that it was a pretty time to beg pardon, after he had
killed a man ; a remark which tthe prisoner heard in silence, and
seemed to watch the recovery of the prosecutor with great anxiety,
One of the keepers searched the
prisoner, and found on him only
a bunch of keys, and a womans veil of very coarse materials.
When further questioned by the spectators, he admitted that he
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but he (the prisoner) was certainly to assist afterwards. Harris
escaped among the trees.
Mr. HALLS asked the keepers if a man could have escaped on
that spot in the middle of the day, without being observed ? and
was answered that he could very easily, the grass being sufficiently
long to conceal a man if he threw himself down.
The prisoner was ordered to be remanded, and directions given
to the officers to endeavour to find the Dick Harris spoken of, who
is well known.
When he was taken to the lock-up room, Ford, the gaoler,
searched him narrowly, anti found within his trousers a phosphorus
box, matches, some duplicates, and a small chisel.
The prosecutor was conveyed home, and a surgeon, who at-
tended him, reported yesterday that he had three very severe wonnds
in the head. but that they were not dangerous.
Yesterday morning Ford searched in Kensington•gardens, and
found in the long grass a heavy bludgeon stained with blood. The
prisoner will be brought up again on Thursday.

took part in the attack, sod. said there was another penoo mo-
cerned. When asked by Hr. Halls If he had any defence to
make, he said In a tremorous tone, that he had been for some time
out of employment, end was wandering in Hyde Park in great
distress on Saturday last, when he unfortunately met with a young
man whose name he bad Mom understood to be Dick Harris, with
whom he got into conversation, and from Harris's account he also
was much distressed. Harris persuaded him (the prisoner) to ac-
company him to. a public-house in Clare-market, and then pro-
posed to Mtn to make an attempt at picking pockets. They went
to Covent-giwden Pianos, and made some attempts, but were un-
gunner'''. The nozi day, Harris proposed to go to Kensington.
gardens " for a certain put, we," and he laid the plan, and in-
structed hica hoW to act: It gm Harris who strack tbi piliecotor,