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LAW NOTICES.

The Motions or Pe4ltlona for &molelnel Injunctions may be mad,' be-
fore the blaster of the Rolls y and, If he Minks St, they may be dissolved,
though the orders granting them were made by the Chancellor,
Et.nos, C.
The applications for Injunctions may, of course, a i is usual, be made
to the Master of thr Rolls.
Six Clerke-ollicc, Chancery-lane.

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Fenton v. \t'nitan

CRT OF KING'S 111:NCII.
10.—TO SIT AT lIALT-rAsT SINS
London Common Jurlei.
Foster v. Frampton
Herbert v. Robinson
I/ean T. Attridge
Wetherell v. Lee
James v. Rubin,on
Harrison v. Jackson
Petlder v. Jacobs
Morgan v. Phillips
Evans v. Curtis
Huttman v. Boulnois
Sparkman v. Piper
Edmonds v. Irowley
Hark v. I{ idvy
Allcork v. 'Nathanson
Marsden v. Hiakle
Maine v. Peter

Same V. Same

Kohn v. R.ri,in•e.,n
Booth v. Goodwin

Saunders v. Musgrove
Roxburgh v. Francis
The King v. Atkinson
‘Varburton v. John

Dickinson v. Southall
Lawrence v. Adamv
Hu%land v. Parrett
Smart v. Marsh

Johnson
%Viirburton ♦. Richard
Johnson
Yeoman v. WlMemnon
The King v. Waterlow
and another

Nicholson v. Lloyd
Mackintosh v. Slade
Smith v. Woolrlch
Crandall v. Woods
Jackson v. Allkon
Harris a. Fisher

Morgan v. Quantock

POLICF.

Bridgman v. Lodge
Beard v. Jenkitmon
Baker v. Appleton
Corp. v. Blaekett
Clearby v. Roberts

MAINION-110U4E.—Vesterday the men who were thargriti
with having been concerned in the robbery of Aleuts. M. Phillips,
the lightermen, underwent a second examination. The case for
the prosecution uas tot carried much further, and the prisoners
were remanded, to give time for the prosecutors to obtain further
evidence.

William Blanchard, a porter at an Inn, was charged with hay.
ing committed a furious assault upon a sort of cad, named Cousins.
Cousins is one of those fellows that hang about stage coach
officer', and politely oiler their service's to passengers, and hand up
to them their top-coats. or portmanteaus, and then charge them for
the important service, which the passengers expected was given as
a piece of civility. Ile carried a lady's luggage (tom a coach to the
inn, and for tins work he got two-pence. When the coach was
about to start he ran into the inn to carry het luggage out again,
and besides saving the guard the trouble, got another two-pence
from • e lady. But Blanchard, the porter or the inn, who saw him
at this work, and looked upon him with the same disposition that
one dog dues ft strange dog walking off' with a bone from his ken-
nel, fell upon him, and after having cuffed him very severely, kicked
him out of the yard, as an interloper.
The porter, who manifested great irdignation at the charge,
said he had done no more than his duty, in kicking out a
strange lurking hound, who came meddling with other people's
property.
The LORD M Avon told him, that, although the complainant
was perhaps an intruder, yet the porters of these placer could not
be allowed the privilege of taking the law into their own hands.
The defendant was ordered to find bail.
One fellow belonging to Ilillingsgee, who is constantly getting
drunk and raising disturbances, and a man and his wife, who live
in a court, and are never either sober or peaceable, and who, having
quarrelled, while engaged in clearing some knives, took up one,
swore they would stab each other, and threw the neighbourhood in
an uproar, were sent for a month to Brideweil, as idle and disor-
derly persons.
The Lotto MAYOR said, lie should not hesitate to make use of
this means of checking those termagants and drunkards who habi-
tually broke the public peace.
211 ant. no noon lI.ST n EET.— l'es.erd ay blr. Smith. of Bond:
street, and who keeps the livery stables under Willis's Rooms, ap-
peared to a summons for neglecting his duty as night constable of
St. James's.
In St. ,James's charge-book, last Friday looming, was an entry
of a man found drunk and disorderly, and the night constable not
being present to explain the charge, Air. Roe orlered a summons
fur his attendance, which lie appeared to yesterday. At first he
came without his amnions, which would have been no consequence
but for the obstinacy of 3lr. South persisting in what he had done
was right.
11r. Hors explained to him the necessity of the presence of the
night constable to corroborate the assertions of watchmen, that it
was his duty always to come up with the charge-book, and that he
was liable to a penalty of 40a. for every neglect.
Mr. South said he did not know he had done wrong had only
been sworn in the day betore he entered on his duty ; and had been
told by some one, whom lie declined to name, that he had no occa-
sion to attend with the book.

Mr. Hot: told 3lr. S. the duties of a night constable were very
simple and easily learned. AVhoever had told him as he stated had
told hint wrong ; and as lie meant the summons as cautionary and
admonitory, and finding him so new in his office, he would dis-
charge the summons on payment of the expense, 2s.
Mr. South refused to pay the 2s. ; he said he did not see why he
should lose his time and his money too, fur what he had been in-
structed to do by whom he could mention if he chose to give the
name. [Townsend, the beadle, is the person alluded to.]
Mr. Plank and others endeavoured to persuade Mr. South of the
proprie y of his paying the 2a. rather titan have the case gone into;
but as all argument failed to shake Mr. South from his resolve,
31 r. Roe desired him to fetch his summons, and ordered the at-
tendance or the constable of :st. James's.

Some time after Mr. South returned with his summons, and the
parties being present, Mr. Rue resigned his seat to make the charge,
and was sworn as a witness.

Mr. Conant took Mr. Roe's seat, with Sir George Tarrant.
Mr. Chad% ell, sen. staled that he set the watch on Thursday
night at eight o'clock : that Mr. South, who had been
appointed night constable, came to the watch-house at a quarter to
nine. After the watch was set, and before Mr. South arrived, a
man was brought in much intoxicated witness catered the charge,
at.d the man was put down stairs. When Mr. South came he told
him a man was charged. Mr. South had the man brought up, as
he wished to see him, to judge for himself whether it was proper to
take the charge. The man was brought up, and Mr. South was
inclined to let hint go wi:hout Lecurity, but the man was so drunk
as not to be able to walk.

line--I make this complaint ; I was the sitting Magistrate
last Friday morning. 't. James's book was brought by a watch-
man, to the best of my belief. A prisoner having been charged as
drunk, I was anxious to have the case stated by the person whose
name was signed in the book ; he not being in attendance, I de-
sired him to be called ; he did not answer, roe did he attend the
whole ..f the time. I ordered him to to summoned.

Mr. South repeated that he was told in the watchhouse that he
need not attend, because he had taken no charge, though he ad-
mitted signing the charge-book. He was unacquainted with the
duty, having only been sworn in the day previous. He had done
as two or three others had told him, and could nut consider he had
dote wrong.
Sir GEORGE FARRANT read to Mr. South an extract from the
Act of Parliament regulating watehhouses, that each and every the
night-constables in rotation appointed by the Vestry, shall continue
throughout the year, and shall take and attend the disposal at all
such charges, &c.
Gook, the watchhouse-keeper of St. James's, proved that the
extract was written in the watchhouse.

Mr. ROE—I merely wished to summons him as a caution ;
but he is not satisfied with that, and thinks proper to insist on be-
ing right.
Mr. Cot ;ANT to Mr. South.—When you way told VOU was act.
ing illegally, you should have acknowledged yourself wrong, and
paid the 2s. for the summons, instead of which you complain of
being dissatisfied.

Mr. South reiterated the hardship of attending as night-constable,
and having to pay a tine. Ile said he knew the law now, but still
could not say lie had acted wrong—could not do wrong when he
was told—could not bring his mind to believe be was wrong.
It was proposed to send for Townsend, for him to say if he told
Mr. South he need not attend. When the officer went, Mr. Town-
send was not at home.
Sir 0 r.oRGE FARRANT—Townsend is not here to tell us that
he did or did not tell you wrong ; therefore we will allow that he
did tell you so, and that you acted according to what you was told.
Now we only want to know if you will acknowledge you are wrong,
because. taking into consideration that you have been misinformed,
we shall reduce the penalty from 40s. to Ph.
Mr. South—l can do any thing but acknosibalge I was wrong.
Sir GEOROE—We have told you what the law is, and proved
that you are wrong ; but
" A man convinced against his will
Is of the same opinion still."
CONANT—Tlicre is no other way of settling the business
but to make him pcy his fine.—Mr. C. said to Mr. south, " You
are a very foolish and very obstinate man ;" and fined him 10s.
Sir GEORGIC FARRANT—We are inclined to be more lenient to
you than you are to yourself.
'The defendant said, ‘• 1 won't ray it." Ile was ordered to be
taken into the back office, and there detained till the distress-war-
rant was issued, or hail given to appeal to the Sessions against the
decision. Mr. South was not long in paying the money, and word
yen I e night in to that effect.
John Rickards, one of a gang of four thieves who infest the
New Road, near the new church, was bt,..glit up for stealing a
watch and seals from :qr. Taylor, a tottering old gentleman, who
was crossing the rota j, at one o'clock in the day.
Simon Strong, a carman, observed the prisoner and three others
having a sham fight in the road, and saw Mr. Taylor's seals hang
from his right.hand waistcoat pocket, as he ascended the footpath
that morning. Presently all the lads closed round him, and be saw
the prisoner run away with the watch, which he took out of Mr.
Taylor's pocket, and put it in his own. ‘Vitness left his cart in
the road, and, with another, pursued the prisoner into Euston-
crescent.

Whitfield saw the prisoner throw something away in the
pursuit, and after bringing him back into the road, searched a
turning, where the watch had been picked up by a female and
given to him.
The prisoner is remanded for a week.

QUEEIVSQUARE.—Yesterday two constables, followed by a
multitude of persons, applied to the sitting Magistrates under the
following circumstances!—
The constable stated that they had just taken Into custody a
man whom they supposed to belong to that fanatic sect usually de-
signaled Ranters, with which iVestmimter abounds. The man in
question, who slid his name was JAN Lewis, they found holding
forth to the multitude in front of his Majesty's Palace at Bucking-
ham Gate, exhorting his heaters in a t of thunder to " Praise
the Lord," sawing the air with both his hands in the most frantic
manner; they at length interfered and took him away, and since

he had been in their custody his conduct had bcen so extremely ow.
rageous that they thought he must either be drunk or Iliad, and cu_
sentiently not in a fit state it,. be brought before their Worships.
The Magistrates ordered him to be brought before them, when
on entering the office he exclaimed, in a voice which electrified Ms
hearers, " here conies a man after God's own heart;" and taking
oft his hat he again vociferated, " this is the house of the Lord
praise ye Lis name," and fell prostrate on the floor of the office,
number of questions were put to him, but the only answer whirls could be obtained was " praise the Lord," while the wildness of
' his eye, and his vehement gestures, indicated too strongly that tea-
son had forsaken the unhappy man ; his noise at length became s 4,
deafening that it became necessary to remove him to the locksoo
room until a ii.edical man could be procured ; he was some tin
after visited by a person, one of the faculty, who informed the 'Ma.
gistrates that he had no hesitation in tossing that the man was de-
cidedly a lunatic; he was accordingly tattered to be taken care of
by the parish until he could be placed in an asylum for lunatic:.
Ile appeared a middle-aged good-looking man, dressed like a Ull'•
charm, and on his being searched six and sixpence were found is
his pockets.

UNION-HALL—Mary Burroughs, the female who it will be
recollected underwent an examination at this office a seek ago, on
a charge of starving her infant, was again brought before the pre.
sidlng Magistrate, J. S. CALDWLLL, Esq. The defendant, (utile
former hearing, asserted that the child in question was not her
Aiming, suspecting hers to have been changed by the pemoo
whom she employed to act as nurse; the cue was therefore post.
pored until yesterday, for the purpose of giving the parish officers
of Lambeth en opportunity of bringing totward witnesses to prove
the identity of the child.
The surgeon who attended the defendant during her arresehe.
meat stated that she was delivered of a male child on the )7th
of March. On examining the child in question, which he has re.
peatedly.seen since its birth, he had no hesitation in positively Sly.
ing that it was her offspring.
Several-of the female neighbours, who reside in the tome stem
with Mary Burroughs, gave it as their firm conviction that the
child, although now reduced to such a state of emaciation, was
the itlenticsl one of which she had him delivered at the period
above mentioned.
Mr. CALDWELL observed, that a very serious imputation, to LI
the least or it, had been cast on the character of Mary Linfield, tit
person who acted as nurse on the occasion, by the mother of the
child ; that unjust imputation was now clearly ascertained to hare
been uttered without the slightest foundation. The Magistrate,
then addressing Mary Burroughs, said, " Now, I suppose, after what
the surgeon says who attended you in your lying-in, together with
the evidence of those females, your neighbours, who had an oppor.
'unity aiming the infant at its birth and previously, that you here
no doubt as to its identity."
The defendant still appeared doubtful on the subject, and cc.
marked, that she should be more satisfied in her own mind if Unit
Linfield made oath that the child in question was the same that
she (Mary Burroughs) was delivered of on the 17th of March.
Mary Linfield said, that she had not the slightest objection to do
if it would have the effect of inducing the mother to treat it
with mere affection and tenderness than had been previously thown
to it.

Mr. Vat.Dvem.t.—Perhaps it will be still more convincing to
the mind of the defendant that the child Is her own, if the person
accused of having changed it brings forward proof that she woo not
dtlivered of a child for a considerable time previous to tie birth of
the one in question.
Witnesses were then examined, who clearly moved Mat fact.
Mary Ilurroughs—Then I am pyrfectly satisfied that it is my
child. and shall henceforth pay at that attention which a child
should have from its mother. She then produced a certificate from
a surgeon, who attended her for some time subsequent to her con.
finement, which certified that she was labouring under very severe
Illness. She added, that she produced this document, in order to
show that she was unsble to pay that attention to the child which
it required, owing to her very had state of health.
The Magistrate, here expressed a wish to hear the evidence which
the defendant had to rebut the charge of ill-treatment to her
child.

Burroughs then called forward some females, who stated, that
they were of opinion that the child's illness did not proceed from
any a HMI negligence on the part of the mother, but arose in con.
sequence of natural delicacy of constitution.
:Mary Linfield, the nurse, who had shown much anxiety about
the child, and behaved with a great deal of tenderness towards it
since it had been reduced to the emaciated state already described.
here stepped forward and said, that as she had n,. children, if the
mother consented to resign it up to her, she should take car., of it,
bring it up as her own child, and treat it as such during het life.
Mr CALDWELL observed, that they must settle that question
between themselves.

Mary Burroughs, however, here displayed her maternal feelings.
She said that slic should not part with her child for world.; and
added, that u her mind was now satisfied on the point, it had the
effect of making her a truly happy woman.
The child was then ordered to be delivered up to ber, and she
left the office in high bpiri!s..
. .

A young man fatAably dressed, who gave his name G ,oilac re .
was brought up on the following charge:—
Mary Winfield; st girl of the town. stated that on Friday night.
while in the saloon, the defendant prevailed on her to take hint
home. !laving remained with her during the night, he rose In
the morning, thinking she was asleep, and attempted to iesee the
house without making her any compensation. She, however, heard
him stealing oat of the room, and jumped out of bed and locked
the ddor. The defendant immediately sent his foot through the
panel of the door, and in her attempt to prevent his going away
he knocked her down and hit her on the arm. A constable. however,
was procured, and he was given into custody. The complainant
added that she should be satisfied now, if the defendant paid for
breaking the door, and made her a small compliment besides.
The Magistrate here asked the girl whether she would be sa!isfied
with a sovereign? Complainant—Yes, Sir, altLough the damage
he has committed would amount to that sum.

Mr. CALDWELL said that she WAS entitled certainly to money
indei endent of the damage.
Complainant—The sovereign will satisfy me, sir.
The Alagistrate to the derendunt—Then I should advise you to
compensate the poor gii 1.
111 r. Goodacre—No, Sir, I will not consent to give her more awl
five dolling&
The Magistrate—Then I •tall hold you to bail. Defendant—
Very well, Sir. I should rather have the case go Wore the
Sessions.

Alagistrate—You shall have your wish gratified then. Send for
your bail now, Sir, for, if you cannot procure it, you must go to
prison.
We left the defendant sitting in the office on our departure, wait-
ing for his bail.

AfARICETS.

CORN EXCHANGE, Al ONDAY, OM 9.

We had good supplies of English and Foreign Oraindurirg loss
week, and an extensive arrival of Foreign Oats fresh up this morn-
ing. The Wheat trade was extremely heavy 10-clay, and all sorts.
except superfine samples, were Is. to 2s. per quarter cheaper than
last Monday. Picked samples of Malting Barley supported their
late currency, but it was difficult to dispose of the middling de-
scriptions without submitting to lower prices. The great bulk of
the supply of Foreign Oats, consisting of the middling and low
qualities of Feed, was very dull sale to-day, aid rather cheaper
than this day week; but the fine sweet heavy Corn found ready
sale at former prices. Old Beans were scarce, and with New. as
well as Peas of both sorts, full as dear as last Monday. Foreign
Rapeseed was better sale, at an advance of 11. per last.