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eumstances. It was fit to remember the recommendation of the
father not to place hint in a lunatic asylum. A great part of the
imputations thrown upon the brothers, likilirebrands, were not
made out. It would be a question whe•her it would be more for
the benefit of the lunatic that a commission should be issued. or
that some other care should be appoiuted. without putting the
estate to the expense of a commission. But another question
would then arise about the costs of op;•naing the commission by a
caveat. The object of the Court was to save the expense of a com-
mission. and yet put the lunatic in the same state as tic would be
if a commission were issued.
Ills bordship being ob'iged to leave Court at • quarter before
three, the cause stands over for anotherday.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

OXFORD ClRCUlT—WoacErria. limica 6.

The Ageism commented here this morning for the City and
County of Worcester.
[Before Mr. Baron °ARNOW.]
CIVIL 1.41)L.
MTI.XER r. PRICE MID WIPE.
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This wee em action brought by the plaintitt. who had been for-
away a lieutenant In the navy, against the defendant, who had
married his sister, to recover the sum of 3001., being the amount
of a Promissory note, payable at sight, alleged to have been dr...wn
by Alrs. Price previous to her coverture.
Alr. CAMPIIELL opened the cue shortly for the plaintiff, and
them called one of his brothers, who swore that the signature to
the promissory note in question was in the handwriting of Mrs. Price.
'this witness, on cross-examination by Mr. Janwis, said that
his brother. the plaintiff, had beet► formerly a lieutenant in his
Alajesty'smavy, but had lost his commission. lle was in diffi-
culties at the time the note in question bore date, which was as
far bark as the year 1819; and the witness did not know whether
thrive difficulties were over now or not.

This was the plaintiff's cane.
Mr../wavis addressed the Jury then for the defendant, and
said that the present case was one of a very serious and affecting
description. The defence he bad was one which Mr. Price felt
bound to set up, whatever his feelings might suffer, and it was,
plainly. that the note in question had been forged by the plaintiff.
The plaintiff, however, was not now trying for the capital crime
with which the Learned Counsel was instructed to charge him, nor
was 4 probable that he would be tried for it. But it was necessary
to justice upon the present occasion that the defendant sheuld pub-
licly place before the world his defence against the present action.
It wes very extraordinary, if this note was genuine, that the plain-
tiff, who was in emborraseed circumstances ever since lOW, when
this note bore date, should never have thonglit of applying for pay.
ment until the present action was brought. Whatever pecuniary
ion, however, the defendant might stiffer, if this was proved to he
his wife's handwriting, he would cheerfully submit to it; but the
Learned Counsel would call no leas than five witnesses, who were
ignorant of the facts of the OM, and •who had never yet seen the
note in question ; yet those persons. he believed, would all declare
that it was not the writing of Mrs. Price.
The Learned Counsel then called five different witnesses, who
at first declared that they did not believe the note in question was
the handwriting orate defendant's wife; hut they afterwards varied
so mush in their belief as to her handwriting when shown to them
in other documents, that the defence set up tailed totally.

11Ir. CAstrurt.r. then replied, and, with some warmth, vindi-
cated his client's character from the infamous attack that had been
made upon it.
After the evidence was summed up, the Jury found for the
Air. liaron Gann ow then said that he was the last man In ex-
istence who would go out of his way tor the purpose of paying a
fulsome or superlative compliment to a party In any cause ; but
here he thought it due to the feelings of the plaintiff. as well as to
the profession of which he had been a member., to declare publicly
that the defence set up was an infamous and unfounded calumny.

not:nu L. vuEEwaw.
This was an action tor an assault.

It appeared from the opening ef Mr. C. PHILLIPS, that the
plaintiff was a farmer residing at Staley in this county ; and the
defendant was a respectable gentleman, and a Captain in the mi-
litia, residing at the same place. The plaintiff's sheep trespassed on
the orchard of the defendant, and he attempted to impound them.
The plaintiff tried to take them out of the orchard by force, but
was opposed by the defendant, and some altercation took place ;
the plaintiff applied to Captain Freeman the epithets "d
—d shabby
rascal," and blackguard." The assault in question was, upon
that, committed.

Mr. RUYSEL, for the defendant, submitted to the Jury that
the aggravation hem was the cause of the assault.

The"Juiy found for the plaintiff—flamages, Is.

CORONERS' INQUESTS.

DREADFUL ACCIDENT ♦T THE WEST INDIA DOCKS.—
Yesterday an inquisition was taken at the Black Horse. High.
street, Poplar, on view of the body of John Stacy, a labourer in
the above clocks.

From the evidence it appeared that the deceased, while at work
near a pile of mahogany, incautiously placed his back against it,
when it gave way, and seven of the beams, weighing nearly live
tons, falling on his person, crushed him to death on the spot.
The Jury expressed their surprise that the servants of the Com-
pany, whose duty it was to superintend these matters, should per-
mit the timber to be piled up in so insecure a manner, and, with a
view to prevent the recurrence of similar accidents, requested the
Coroner to communicate to the Dock Secretary their opinion on the
subject. Verdict—. Accidental death."
DaEatir tn. A cctriENT.—Yesterday afternoon an inquest was
held at the Committee-room of St. Bartholomew's Hoepital, on the
body of George Cherry, a labourer in the employ of Mr. Enderby,
of Paul'. Wharf, Upper Thames-street.
William Wheeler stated that he and the deceased were what are
termed odd men, in the warehouses of Mr. Enderby, at Paul's
Wharf, and on Saturday morning last they were employed in one
of the upper floors. lowering, by means of a capstan, sonic tierces
of pickled pork, weighing about 4 cat. each. Witness was stand-
ing at the loop hole, and the deceased was at the capstan. The
burthen at the ram-head of the rope appeared to be going down
much quicker than it ought, which induced the witness to turn his
head towards the spot where the deceased stood, bnt did not see
him, although he distinctly heard him groan. He celled for assist-
ance, slid two persons came upstairs, when the deceased was dis-
covered, lying quite insensible, and the blood pouring in torrents
from a desperate wound in the luck part of the head. A surgeon
was sent for, who recommended the deceased's immediate removal
to this hospital, where he died in an hour or two after his arrival.
Witness considers that the deceased's hands or feet must have
slipped, and before he could get away the bar of the capstan which
flies round, when unrestrained, with great velocity, must have
struck him on the head, and caused his death.
Here the Jury said that sonic plan should be adopted with the
machines for lowering merchandize from such heights to prevent
the possibility of the loss of human life.
The witness said that he was quite satisfied the death of the
deceased was entirely accidental, as he and witness had worked for
years at the same crane (which is in perfect order), and bad lowered
much heavier burthens than was being lowered at the time of the
accident

31r. Camden, the surgeon, mated that the deceased was 1 rought
into the hospital about eight o'clock on Saturday morning; he was
put to bed, ant on examination he found a desperate wound in the
back part of his head, which had fractured the scull, and produced
an extreme pressure on the brain, but the membranes were not in-
jured. The fracture of the scull was the cause hit death, which
took place about eleven o'clock, three hours alter he wan brought in.
The Jury returned a seethes of Accidental death."