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LAP' INTEIyLIGE NC E. ,which lies bad receiioed frma the ColotirtlMool.
:moos; and the Defendant, in order to insinuate
COU&POE CHANCERY, Juts as. veal grace:tor the y oung rePtc.
.11111111. teatof himiself as Wilting to marry her it the deati
Pran.C% V. etre& of his wait. which he stated .las tritely' to 1101)ea
This is it ease of Annuitains chiming their an- , sees shortly. By these tirogtoms be wechreed her.
tonnes egaitist the Society. which hod nee:oven
; Alter the iteduCtioit had 'alms place, dm ;MIA* de-
ar''', oil tar ground, that -their funds were insurn-
crivalla of giving up the contiection; but waiioduced
cient to commute the objects for which it was on- to Sinew it nt conatquence of the Defendent threat-.
ghastly formed. It stool over fur judgment to this ! cuing to make tier sister cad a person ail' the orate
day. of Elba, Who paid his addresses t 3 her, acquoitated
The Loan CIIANCELLOR was now pleased II) dr. i with her COMlutt, Unkle she repeated her
for his filial &cesium until lie looked into the !' The consequence was, that she nod,. and proved
g sin I decree of Lord Thuilow, to the Register's w:th child. She afterwards went to her friends at
upon • 'similar subject, to which hr hid been Birmingham, who applied to the Defeotlaut to give
1., all eases like the pre.eitt, of Annuity I his bond. roaming to marry her at his wife's d_ Atha
Societies, if ,there Ise no rwlical inistake to the Ott- which he refused to do. Other circumstances were
gioal instnutiou, fatal to their cominuance, elfea iii evidence, which would he improper to us
ways fait every possible inclination to give them el. to state. The Platutiff's daughter was erpas-
f et. their object was e most land„iale 0ne...-that examined at considerable length by Mr. J casts.
a. -Turing the comforts of late, in their old age, to who attempted to prove that the religious educe-
t .-or, who, in Owir former lives, were highly useful • tom of the Platutitrindaughter had not been par
hnio to themselves and the community. To carry i petty attended to- and that she, hstt permitted
the- object Into effect. the original suhseription, to Lllis to wit up with her, after her father had gone
the present Instance. was entered Into, for the a to bed ; but u 1 this he Colt d.—Beside the Plain..
avowed purpose of prodticino a capital, the interest tiff's daughter, one witness oily was called in sups
erasing from which was to be idermate to the pay- ' part of his ease. to prove the refusal hi' the De..
meld of the annuities, as they should arise, end it feudant to enter into any rao:patient to tata.ry-
was thrit-soppoaed, there would be .111'11 II number her after his wife's death; and that upon the an
of Suirscrihers, is would be sufficient to secore the friends expostulating with hiut as to has conduct,
peronstenec of the fund. Now. *ohmic any pre- he admitted that be was lunch to be blamed.--Mr.
ci.' knowledge in the wnence of calculation, it init.t Jeavis addressed the dory on behalf of the Oes
strike star smut contra tau tit ,t, to 1 fentlant, particularly adverting to Cie imartiper
render this object utfslhhir, there mist 11...)-iMitilV 11 ago:tint:ince of the Plaintiff's daughter with I len-
be -melt a given number of Stilaowriners, ia• their nail Taylor, whom he suited to he an aunt person
subseripttime what they might, as should, iii ail j for her to associate with; to the neohet of the
possilile easel, swipe sock a faint. Am) yet, us Plallititi in toque his daughter 11. religious ertitca-
thir care, they took their cleraue of olotrionig this non ; and his suietiog her to elan the 1)t Icutlsnt.
number, lie suftpasioro no doubt, their plain would whoa' he knew to be a married man, Irvin,: semi.
pone so itotitiug. as to stonier that event; and, me- 'rated from his wit ; anti, iu support of tile latter
cordingdy, the original Dee.l of Association was et- pert or his argument, hr cited he ease of Roadie
tented. By this, they hive made themselves reran and Scoolt, Peake's Nisi Prins, ti.to.
a Corporate Body. without their being so iii retail-. The Juorre, iu suinntiog the first plsce
ty; and thereby they have exposed themselves to took notice of the case referred to hy Mr. „ferns,
all the incoovenieumes of such a mistake. The which lie said Mal not apply to the preseut spiestions
difficulty of carrying any decree into effect, is this.; as there was no evidence to alive that the lloilitiff
that alt;lootths by the 067.11131 articles of agree- was a-otisitited with the DefeLlt.surb atteolmaa 1,111
went, the Trustees are emphwered to call for fur- leis &tighter. Ile rhea took at lIIJWIt persinenous
Over subscriptions, for the purpose of malting up review of the case, giving it as his oponion, that the
the deficiencies to the funds, will the Subscribers girl's mind was not debauched previonsly to her
come, when they are so cailed? and, if they do not, seduction by the Defendant ; that it lay no mean.
can they be comp. Iled to do an by this Court? If appeared that her father had rwolectell later religious
the impend of the Society, at the end of seven year., ea/WPM/11, but had, on the contrary, attended to it ;
was Wand insulficieut for the payment of the an- reannoled the Jury, that the tyr,.ou had ad-
smities then become mettle, was 110 t this, in itself, mitted that blame was imputAbie to him alone, and
enough to alarm the Subscribers. especially such as concluded by recommeirling them, in fining the
had la ely become 'so, and to aft :oct the future wet- damage", to Attend to the meatus of doing sails„
fare of the Society ? But there was a dense its the other., as they would others should do Unto them.
entitles. in cientetnplation of such en event. ens- The Jury consulted some few minutes, and re-
bling the Trustees to postpone the payment of the tooted a verdict for 3001.
annuities for three months. Nies, lie must he There were many cottons circumstances which
short-sighted indeed, who could suopoie that this were brought forward at this trial. The C
measure alone could relieve the SuZiety from the • for the Defendant attempted to shear that it WS. a
difficulty. Accoolingly, the (gat clause 10 the ar- custom in Wolverhamptoo, for women to he taken
beles Iwovhln. " that if, even then, the funds on leases, and that the Plaintiff had offered his
should still be footed inadequate to tile payment of (Infighter to the Defeiadaist on these terms. This,
the annuities. without ou the capital, however. was :10i proved. Some polling of caps,
with was in no case to be broken an upon, to that and very en-lady-like terms appeared in the epi-
cene, theTriu.trai were to call upon the :Member'. for deuce, which affected the claims of the Plaintiff us
such fte.ther sialeicrionotir ar should lie agroed upon a very considerable degree.
•t a General Meeting of the Suletersiters, at as Mass Clarke :I,ineared an interesting arid well.
"fleeting to be especially eallednee that dressed taal, mid gave her stenosStioaa in tears.
Vow thin Court 4:40 only apply a ra:ucily steewreieng
to the ineans provided by that original sic. .1 of as:
imitation ; if there lar a reload to mete
a further advance at sorb general mertnig, can
this CAsitat say, this is such an ottreastemirle refusal,
as that it CAW enf.ree the Ivey went? Toe question
therefore cornea to this, Is there not so:nettling la-
tent in the plan itself, destructive of itself ? its
Lordship then stated the case to which lie had been
referretl, and which was every way similar to the
present. It was a case In the Unto of Lord l'hur-
low, of a bill filed by certain widows, annuitants,
under an associatirm, called the iitudabhe Society,
for the purpose of providing Annuities for the Wi-
dows of the Members. This hill dirty as here, was
tiled against the Directors awl Trustees of the
Society, eon preyed, us here, that the original
agreement should be continued to be carried into
exoeution. Upon that cause emning oi, to a hear-
ing, on the 7tlt of April, ryas; his Lordship was
pleased to refer it, not to a Master, but Mr. Brand,
to impolite min report, whether the pro/tomato of the
unglue' deed were adequate to the carryirg it into
effectual exet• ttiou? Lie accortlin,;ly reports-o.olot
the anguish phut, even if strictly coniplitil with,
wei realically defective; iusamtudi as the subs rip.
Lions were, from the beginning, too small for the
'inquires intended. Upon the comae coining on
again, upon further direction*, his Lordship tf:s-
mimed the bill, but without .coats ; the patties
haying, with great propriety, come to an ogres.
went. to make • farther suloacription, so as to
carry :the original inatitutieg into &o'er. " Let
this muse stand over until Irrolay Iltal, 111 order
that 1 allay look into the original of this de-
cree. In the mean time, 1 cannot but express my
wish that the parties here should come to some
arrengement, by which they might be enabled to
carry this inalitutimi into effect, as Hwy dial in the
rase I hove mentioned, much to their Itoalonc, like
hound anal honourable men."
STAFFORD ASSIZES.
The Aarises for this county commented on
l'hunstlay lava. The highly - respected Sheriff,
LCVCTT, Esq. was attended to the
town by a numerous body of friends, who after-
wards dined with hint at the Svrau. There were

CY 2.

cOMBINATION.
At our Quarter Sessions, in April last, a case of
consolcralde impoi twice to hat inaonfoctii cern and
others, who cmpluy a rowdier of workmen, came
before the Court. It *44 a prosecutioii at the In-
stance of Messrs. Thninvl Philips, and t:o. against
a hat-finisher. of the tittle of Backfty, for as,ault-
ing one of their workmen, far hies rog cogii4ed to
instruct their apprentices to &nigh hats. and for re-
fivang to unite with Buckley and others. iu a emu-
under the denomination of 'Pints. to pre-
vent Messrs. Thinuas Plulitw and Co. from taking
appreidict*.
The case being made out to the satisfaction of a
crowded Coon, the. Defendant wan sentenced to
three months' itnprisonmesit m Lanetaater Castle.
lu the course of the cause, Mr. licait.ret made
a most eloquent and impressive speech'. shewing the
evil tendency of cvnthinatiotis of an descsiptMns.
The COCKT much aoprored the couching of the
Prosecutors, and declared they would. at all times,
protect the honest and industrious workmen from
injury and insult, and strongly couch...wird the
combination of servants in general agaimt their
masters.
On We.litesday last, at our Quarter Sessions, an
appeal was heard •oon a cotonetmii ag ou t John
Dolma and Joseph Illidgley, journeymen hatters,
at O'dlinin, for haring entered into it combinations
to 'prevent Mermi. lirtsithuw, li•irker, mid Co. from
employing sine Elizabeth Johnson.
It nprare.l that many of the workmen had con-
spired together, to 'prevent the mannfactimers from
employing women in their works, and that they hail
entered tut* rules to carry their wishes into execu-

I ion.

Tii COVRT confirmed the eniistirtiong, and the
Prisoners were committed to hard labour, in the
New Bailey Prison, for two months; and al-u un-
til they pin, 111. the costs incurred, as authorised
by the Act of Parliament.
There was also eltinther prosecution against
Alezatorier Stockdale, for having, with several other
joornevinen, entered into • similar combination
mom.. filesers. Mellor, Gee, and Kershaw, of
Oldham.
The Counsel for the prosecution stated, that it
was not the wish of the master manufacturers to
press for the conviction of more journeymen, as
they hoped a stifficient example would be made by
the punishment of the former two (example being
their only object) ; and they trotted that their le-
nity would have a proper etre-et upon all journey-
men hatters, who had formed sivi•lta combination,
particularly apnea women bei.ig employed; but
should it hereafter appear that the joirrneymeit at-
tended their illegal meetings, or otherwise con-
ducted themselves as they had lately done. they
*mold all he prosecuted with the ntinoet severity.
The Courrr remarked strongly against the ille-
gal proceedings of the man, and hoped the great
mildness which the kat umiiiihretureri gad shewa
o the journeymen, in not ',nig further prom-

only nine lorisnuers for trial, and twenty-two
causes, three of which were Streets' Juries.
ci.taar v. nstt.svoise.
SEDUCTION.
This was one of the snort interesting trial's at
these Assizes. It was a action brought by the
Pleintift, Mr. Thomas Clarke, of %Volverliattirton.
agtunst the Defendant, Mr. Thomas Hailstone, of
the mum- place, to recover damages for the setae-
tion of the Plaintiff's daughter. The principal
circumstances', as given is evidence by the daugh-
ter, who is between 18 and 19 years of ages here,
that the Defeneksat, • near neighbour of the Plain-
tiff, became acquainted with her, in conecivience of
her visits to Hannah 'faylnr, who resided with the
Defendant as a servant. It appeared that the De-
femiaut's wife had eloped with Col. Bedi r.gfield, for