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London, England, 1824-12-02 00:00:00

HOSTEL V. METCALF 1041) SAMMY.

Dr. !Amin:soToe moved the Court to grant administration,
limited as to the funds at present in the Court of Chancery. The
application •as in efl; re POVIIIIIIT to that In ('ambiazo v. Negrolto,
that the amount of security should only be iequired for a hyper
meant than the property Irft by the testator. Dr. leishisgtun
stated, that as the funds were ler the control of the Court of
Chancery, they could oat be subject to any risk by granting such
an administtation.

Sir JOHN NICHOL!. said, if the Court had a certificate from the
Court of Chancery, that such an administration would not give
bloc. Howell the power to meddle with the funds, they would grant
the administration= until that wax done this Court ~Mold he e
tiers how it enabled any man to ',inane a character which might
put it in his power to drop the property of orpluuss.
Motion to stand over.
ItIPLINt: AGAINAT ALt. rEasoxs IN GENERAL.

Dr. 1/Auer NY moves, on affidavit for letters of administration
being granted to Ur. klusrs Kipling, iron-founder, in l'imities-
tercet, as creditor to the estate of Mr. William Willis, deceased._
r. Willis died in June, 1;13.!. leaving his widow, !torah tl Mitt,
sole executrix and residuary legatee; hest no probate was taken out
by her to her husband's property. The deceased was proved In
have been intlebtol to INITIMS persons to the amount of about ltrAll.
riot of which Mr. Kipling was a creditor to the amount of 2..1•21.
Mr. Kipling last semi obtained a citation, calling on the widow and
other persons as next of kin, to talc out letters of stiminittmthin,
or to show rause why they should not he granted to him, at the
principal creditor—but no nrilt•ilfl/11Ce having been given to the cita-
tion, Dr. Daubeny DOW prayed that probate might pass to Mr.
Kipling.
_ _

Sir J. NtelloLl.—Let probate be granted as prayed, and let an
inventory of 'lmproperly be riven in.

■RUNYON ANO NICHOLAS V. TWEW •NLIORI:AV/11.

Dr. 14111AIIIIM TON said, this was formerly a suit reverting the
granting letters of administration to the estate and dram of the de-
nowt Chaska (ironies. promoted by Drumm) and Nicholas against
tuber parties interested in the will. The deceased died in Nov-nt.
bey, 1817, and the suit was commenced the following Decent!). r.
An Begs, ion had heist asserted, on which use WittWaACS were ex-
amined, but the panics then consented to a compromise. Adi
was prepared, sod letters of administratiou were granted to
Rost Nebulas, a sister of the testator. Resides considerable
personal estate, there was teal route, which, in due course,
would hare devolved to James 'lronton, the hcir.at-law ;
but, haring been guilty of an offence against the laws of the
esuorty, the property was esteemed to the Crown. l'pou the pill.
Lion of the other parties, however, it was now under the considers.
Lion of his Illajesty's Auorney-llcaeral, and it was desirable that
every information should be given relative to the former nowt id.
togs in this Court. The present noniron wan, therefore, to allow
copies of the depositions of witnesses to be taken out of this Court.
in order to the clueldsvion of the whole facts. All parties were
anx tote. to hart' the unmet settle.l. soul as the A fumes and S•li.
color-General required the production of the copies, he, I%r. Lush-
ingtoo, hoped the pt7:ll.ar circumstances of the case would induce
the Omit to are, de 111 the prayer.
Sir Jona Nu- itnt.t.—ls there any precedent for this appli-
cation ?

I,t"gntNC.TON-T am rot aware three ;it is not riolativii;
■ role of Court it Ili asking the Court to do that which 11114111 the
cirruut.tanres might he throned ex rdient..

Sir J. Niciawl —Let the rnotiiiii vichd over.

CaRNWAI.t. I%lmsa.--Quantity of copper ore sold at
Trnro 1111 l'hur.elny, t 2533 tons. Averale produce, 7:.
Quantity of fine copper, ISS tons I'2 cwt. Amount of role.
15.597/. is. AT11341. standard, 115/. nit. Copper ores for
We nest week at Redinth—Doleontli. 427 ; North Itos-
kear, V 53; Wheal Basset, 215; Cools Kitchen, NS; Din-
ner flown', Ivo ; Till Craft, 71 ; Crinnis, 10 ; youth Ras-
kear, ; Comborne Vuan, 25. Total, 13+11 tong. The
(Alec valuable mine of Great Crinnis, AO celebrated fur the
liptl contests to which it.gave rise, and of which Mr. Al-
derman Wend was mortgagee to a considerable amount,
ass sold on Thursday at St. Austel, for the comparatively
trifling rum of 15,400 f. to a company of London betide-
men, who intcsal to trt,rk her on an t aeale.

THE BRITISH PRESS.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, WEDNE9Dity, Dec. 1.

aVbef FINIVITI COM, Rif mod a Beach of Magistrates.

Miry Ste:rare, a respectable looking woman, was thargeti by
Themes Ityot, a gardener at Fulham, with having assaulted him
with a brount-stick, at Fulham, on the 26th October last.

It appeared, front the evidence of the prosecutor, that he went
into the defendant's garden, and when there the lady repeatedly
struck him. _ _

06.Crest-exarninatioll Voir. Attunuwit, he mid hii
ewe, and admitted that t had been eat old grudge between
them, which ended in his being bound over to keep tie peace in
the defendant. _ .

Mr. A unaiews addressed the Jury on her behalf and said that
the prosecutor had taken It into his head that his client had spread
sevens injurioun to his character, that he had been summand, rob-
Ling the cabbage gardens., fee. at Fulham which induced bin to
beset her path every where she went, tad it, to provoke her to
rotund' an isesnult. If his story could be credited, but that should
rest with them, he 111.41 anteceded in his object lie declined calling
any witnesses.
eJory returned a verdict of acquittal.
Mrs. El;zaleb Oldfied, of Pentenville, wet charged with as-
saulting 3lrs. Mary Miller, an old lady, of the same place.
Mrs. Jlillcr stated that she had the misfortune to be married to a
Man, from whnni, though she did mu live with him, she did not
consider herself separatetl—(no deeds, or articles, or any thing of
that sort having been entered into between them). This unfortu.
nate man was given to very bad coarser, and lived at present with
Mrs. Oldfleld—how, she would not shack his Lordship's ears. Rut
if she must, she must, end it MIS adultery. This husband °flier's
allowed her a weekly sum, which she only went to demand at Mrs.
Oldhleld's, and having knocked at the door wills a dui ',le rap, for
she was always accustomed to do things entirely, Betty Green, the
I 'tenant girl, told her her master was not at home. Oh. ho ! says
1, but I know he is at homes with that, Mrs. Oldtiehl came
down, the girl was sent not for a constable, and Mrs. ()Wield
LI shoved her about like a shutdncoek.
Mr. Cower said as he retired there was a little jealousy in the
pas he wished to know if she had any witness to produce.
Mrs. Miller—Oh dear, ysa, Sir Betty Omen.
Ile. A DRUMS—SIM is our witness, but rail her.

Bet, Preen was then esemtnad, and ahe verified the old story
of peeving that she had not seen the assault. Why, because lobe
was not looking at all at the parties
AIL Arnim:lva stkirerocd the Jury, and said that the prosecutor
h•Orihg been separated form her husband, she hail become jeering
.•.very woman with whom be might happen to lodge. Mn. (lid.
field, though a num reviwrtable lady, was conatatuly attacked by
her, and assailed with the foulest epithets which lure and jealousy
could inspire.
The Jury Availed the defendant.