The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1825-11-08 00:00:00

Mew. weve a anyor ; but how can we tam a writ when there is no
snare? ?

'Mr. BIROVORAM-1 understand there is a clause in the writ by
which the mayor de facto may elect.
Tbfs writ was also granted.

TILE XING V. STOVES.

`'•ti^n this ease was caned on,
Sir. Rttoecsa= rose to say that he understood that this (-WIC
•as In abide the result of The King v. Carlton, but he was not
era•e what was the judstnent of the Court.
The LOUD CHIII7 Jurnict said, that the Court had not yet
judgment in that are,
The Court rem a little after three et loer.
NEW COURTS.

It was expected that the King's Bench would this day have taken
yosaession of its new court, and resumed its plate in 'Westminster
This theatre of forensic eloquence is yet, it seems, for a few
months longer to be divested of the most brilliant of its four seats of
ashes, ant the " halt of the four courts," of which lawyers talk so
p-ouily, is still to be a thing that was, and which, it is to be hoped
ail lovers of venerable antiquity and im holy associations, may
yet lir vain, is a little longer to be in nuhibut, or in abeyance, as I
lame l jnrisconsoilts say of the freehold, which even their lynx-
eyed sagacity cannot trace into the actual possession of John Doe or
Richard Roe, or some other man of stout heart and iron frame, who
is able to answer all the claims of his feudal superior. The court
emit was destined for the King's Bench, and which was to have
Keen redly this day was, we understand, on examination by the
Judges, found to bb so very incommodious, and badly lighted, that
Viey refused to have it, and chose the one destined fot the Ex-
Ovine?, which is nearly as large again, and in all respects muc'i
tone convenient. This court is not yet ready for their reception.
One winders by what fatality the persons who devised the new ar.
?aagements in Westminster Hall could have assigned an apartment
ro comparatively spacious for a court where the business is an
trilling as the Exchequer, and such a:wretched hovel for the King's
Bench, the highest court of criminal jurisdiction in the realm, in
which, by a fiction of law, the King himself is always supposed to
sit, and in which the amount of business would quadruple that of
all the other common law courts putt together.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, WESTMINSTER, Nov. 7.
This being the first day of Michaelmas Term the Judges did not
enter the Court till half-pas: one o'clock, when they appeared In
full costume, and after hearing a few motions, of no public inte-
rest, their Lordships adjourned to ten o'clock to-morrow (this
ty).
l'he new Court of Common Pleas, at Westminster Hall, is much
',taller than the farmer one, now appropriated to the use of the Vice.
( hattceline ; and is done in a style which (when it is considered
that it is intended foe one cl his Majesty's superior Courts of Re-
c md) does not reflect much credit, either on the public authorities,
ro hose duty it is to direct these matters, or on the architect. The
Lien, howeve:, had not much room to evince his talent, for the space
pitifully small, and, notwithstanding the little gallery built over
t tv passage, the Conn will scarcely afford sufficient accommodation
t 1 fifty persons besides their Lordships the Counsel, and the Jury.
I world be an improvement If an additional seat were to he placed
:Jong the table in front of the bar ; and small as the Court is we
mirk another entrance will be found to be necessary. Mr. Justice
Park complained of the closeness of the ('nun: what will his
Lordship say when the dog day's come ? The Court is lighted
by a small moan lantern, almost concealed from view by the bead-
mg and fancy work, that to our taste appears more like an incum-
trance than an ornament. The whole of the interior is of weirs.
toting. The construction of the Court is certainly favourable for
the conveyance of sound ; and, perhaps, that is the only good
tl-mit about it. There Is no students' box, which, when the Lord
Justice sits at Nisi Pried, will be found very inconvenient.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MONDAY, Nov. 7.

ilf;ehaelmas Term.
This being the first day of Term the Lord Chief Baron and the
other Judges did not enter the Court till past one, atter having
breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor.
:levers' cases were called on, but as the defendants had not re-
ceived regular notice they were not prepared; the further hearing
was therefore postponed to a future day.

PREROOATIVE COURT, MONDAY, Nov. 7.

( Before Sir J. Nicuot.L.l
IN RE OF THE WILL OE THE REV. JAS.EWANS.

This instituted to obtain the judgment
of the Court, whether an unfinished paper propounded as a co-
dicil to the will of the Rev. Mr. Evans, was a valid instrument

_
J. Tom the allegations it appeared, that on the 20th of May, in the
resent year, the testator made his will, and soon after drew out •
formal codicil, altering and revoking certain parts of this will, but
which codicil contained neither date nor signature. After the tea-
vetoes death, which took place on the 20th of August last, the will
and codicil were found in his writing-desk, and on examining them
It was discovered that they had at some time been attached together
with sealing-wax.
Sir Joint Nicitot.x, in pronouncing judgment, observed, that
the codicil propounded being an unfinished paper, the presump.
lion of law was against it, and that presumption must be repelled
by circumstances, showing that the testator was prevented by
sudden death from completing it; or by other circumstances,
Proving that ho had, up to the time of his death, recognised it
as a valid instrument. Nothing of that kind had been shown
in the present instance, and the Court therefore was of opinion
that the codicil must be thrown out, and the will alone admit.
ted to proof.
The contents of the will and codicil did not transpire, but it was
seated that those of the latter were very unimportant.
LORD MAYOR'S COURT, 3losroatr, Nov. 7.

LAWSON AND VARNER v. THE Tars Tree OF THE 111 TISH
/TEAM NAVIGATION COMPANY.
Mr. Botesiwo stated to the Jury, that the plaintiffs in this ease
were highly respectable newspaper agents; that the defendants
were Lieutenant-Oeneral Sir W. Congreve. Bart., Sir .1. S. Lilly,
haries Mayne, Esq., Edward Walpole, Esq. and another Gen-
tleman, and that the garnishees were Messrs. l'eres, %Van!, and
Co. of Lnmbard-street. The present proceeding was instituted to
recover the sum of 2071. lla for advertisements inserted by the
plaintiffs for the defendants, who were trustees of a new company,
railed the British Steam Navigation Company. The Learned
Counsel feared that his friend Sir W. Congress engaged, when he
entered upon this speculation, in an unprofitable and unfortunate
,ob. The company's funds had been placed in the hands of the
garnishees, where they remained, as it would be proved in evidence,
to the amount of about 1,7201. and he thought there could be no
question of the responsibility of those trustees. It did not signify
whether the company was or was not at work. All that it was
',reviser, to show was, that the money was in the hands of the
baskem, and that the plaintiffs was a trirrafide claim.
A Clerk in the banking-house of Meters. Were and de.
posed, that Mr. Ward was a partner in the baoking.huuse of
Messrs. Vere, Ward, and Co.
Mr. B , for the defendants, asked in whose names the
account of the British Steam Navigation Company stood ? Adding,
that he knew it did not stand in the names of those individuals,
roe in the names of any individuals at all.
The witness said, it stood in the names of the five individuals
srentionad as MAMAS: . . -

f
• -