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CITY BLEMONS.,

LAST DAY.

ATTEMPT AT SUICIDE.

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BASSISHAW.
This Ward returns four members.
Hughes 37 I Frisby
Weguelins 34 Britten 4 v
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Lister 3l
The poll fioally closed at two o'clock, when the three first
were declared duly elected, and sworn into office; but in
consequence of Mr. Frisby and Mr. Britten polling equal
numbers, the sitting Alderman, Sir C. S. Hunter, Bart., de.
dared that no election had taken place reapeoling either of
them : in consequence of which, a fresh election will take
place between these gentlemen. No day was mood.
CRIPPI ROATE WITHIN.
This Ward returns eight Members.
Sowers lll 1
Forsyth* Heel lO4
Field los rsyth*
Valiance ice Thorogood*
Waterhouse
Capel
if erron
At five o'clock the poll closed, when the first eight were re-
turned.
Those marked thus c*) are new candidates.

On liondav afternoon a young lady of latsrestlthr apposite
was obaerveci to be wallas; in a very thdaschelesasod towards
the Canal at Peekhare, sad is a abort tins she mid he. A
Mr. Sue, of Peckham, who bad both vistablag bar artiess,
Imbed to her aseistasee, -tad by gent maim tosamil bar
*oat the lespeadiag fate, sad ossosysi bar te a home dossby. With she was seithelestly recovered to spelt ratissally.
sloth the nose patella leans Sashed her had dam& ter
savior her thous edf-destraelies, sail reistsdto Ma the saw
otter etassiais an act each a horrid Mars. • Iths widths*
bar Mai the torah Lally s and that alms two years opet the
Wm at a boactilag school et Lowlaimithorlthe Os tisagbars of
as ordeal traiumns in Ontertiolasstoress also
othateing their ethethea. Bee* the nos the War young
riless flaw at the shank the Mgt Mr. swag goes
ollthatibis sisters, sad of tonna bad sossaissth apportnithe of
Pithy her. In the coarse of dm he declared assithethasst to.
Mareillervithe ass. Othictielate idiade width stir listand with
seittbstairtiser other yothlttal heart. Thus eacthrsgod, be cos.
mow/ Ms addresses fort dam, dam, sad ender tits most sacred
eszofs marriage ecathithad her nda. ?ram that period
ter bar decithaed, while she, who bad the ex-
of barstakti a soother, premed Ida to cement to an
maw vide was the emir Wag that could save her
'thiscas dope= stiathat apes ler asearteaste situation.
Tonaillally pat bar a. bog abs Id* pain rresived his
thins kiiiiidag. awl la properties her Wed beCNO• SO“
08,4104 trill at last whoa she nut bar ealsoer os Math ay.
eighirmill to hint her thillabed ethilltioa—prothed Ideate
IMM Ids wed pennies, and WA aitterod the nth'
amstant sod lavhdable atithantit M 1111th, be decthred to her
list he to &vmablosidr, ow that Oa **-
Moony eathandss st bar
iiikestismOso Wi mmi is. Tik aipwei dark,
Zak3/4018818* *and Mr Eir g Wan In
load of ther rawasr just
With.llisathhathlstripase d. awl pretested
es addition of the aims Wks added to
ewe failings which haw =lOl her ts assta state of
11111111111614111101. During tit 'her recital the poor un-
,..z.aauently by on exams of feeling,
to base a due sense of the hainsansess of
lbala.s in a stassent of distraction mad espalr, she
lad wade upon her life. Mr. Sate very basonsly promised
that he would take that care of her which her wreathed situation
required.

The circumstances attending the postponement of
the seventeen trials in the Court of King's Bench,
which we mentioned on Saturday last, are of a nature
to excite whatever spirit of justice exists in Par-
liament or the nation ; and, we hope, will lead to some
revision of the system of Special Juries. The trans-
action is important in two ways ; as calling upon
the Attorney-General to answer for what at first sight
appears lobe one of the most atrocious acts of persosksli
injustice ever perpetrated by a matt whom the law ban
vested with discretion; and as throwing light on the
evils necessarily incident to the Special Jury system.
The cease immediately before us seem to have
arisen from an accusation preferred by some revenue
officers against two individuals for smuggling. These
prosecutions, the individuals allege, were supported
by perjury. They have prosecuted all the informers
for this perjury, and one of them hosbeen found guilty,
The prosecutions which remain have been removed
into the King's Bench, sad Special Juries have betel
appointed on the application of the Crown officers
who have defended the informers. The witnesses,
'who are necessarily very numerous, have been, there-
fore, brought from Yorkshire to London. This, in
itself, is an enormous and a grievous expense to the'
persons who have attempted to vindicate their charac-
ters by these prosecutions; for the maintenance and
removal of the witnesses in such a case, is, at a mo-
derate computation, as expensive as the pay and
feeding of a squadron of dragoons for the same length
of time. Mr. J9NEB, one of the advocates in the
cause, estimated it at 5,0001. But this was'thought
necessary, we suppose, to get impartial justice,
which, it is a pretty general notion with lawyers,
can never be had too dear. But when this expease
has been incurred, what is the result ? All the Special
Jurymen do not attend : the ATTORNEY-Gzazases
warrant—generally a matter of course—to pray a tales,
La. to supply the deficiencies in the Special Jury list
out of the Common Jury list, is applied for: the AT•
TORNEY-GENERA L refuses it; the trials of course
stand over; the witnesses may go back to Yorkshire
again if they please ; the 5,0001. spent by the prosecu-
tors is as much lost as if it were thrown into the
sea.—Their only remedy is to spend another 5,0001. if
*hey dare, under the chance that it will be wasted like
,he other.
Now, what a monstrous injustice is thus perpe-
trated? No possible circumstance in the case can pal-
liate it. Let us suppose that this is a gross conspi-
racy, trumped up by the two individuals prosecuting,
gainst the informers ; let us suppose that these two
lorkshiremen have planned to outswear the dawn
of the revenue—to break down the Crown with eia-
penses—to out-litigate the ATTORNEY and SOLICITOR
GRNERA L—lo trick those simple persons, the Judges
of the Kings Bench, still, the proper way would be to
bring the matter speedily to issue. There is an
old story of a lawyer, who, when he was sued upon a
forged bond of pretended antiquity, met it by a forged
release. But this honest species of petty-fogging could
not be, in the present case, either necessary or satis-
factory. If the ATTORNEY•GINXRAL is convinced that
the persons accused of perjury are innocent, the evi-
dence which has satisfied his mind, might be brought
forward to satisfy any Jury. If they were wrong-
convicted he could procure for them a pardon.—
t any rate any result would have been better than
.ttis monstrous spectacle of men applying for justice
and meeting ruin, without a possibility or bringing their
cause to trial.—Traveller.
Between the hours of three and four in the morning
t.f the 29th ult. some evil-disposed persons malici-
ously attacked the house of a respectable farmer in
the parish of Loss, and violently smashed to pieces
the window of the room where he slept and also the
kitchen window. The Gentleman of the house, as
well as the servants, being awakened by the noise, the
farmer immediately went out armed in pursuit of the
villains, and saw a man making his escape through a
hedge, who, from his appearance and other circum-
stances, he supposes to be a person living in the neigh-
bourhood. It is supposed the cause which led to this
outrage is that the person against whom it was com-
mitted has been summoned for the Crown as evidence
igainst some smugglers for contravening the excise
. aws. Every inquiry is making into the matter, and
shoped the guilty persons will soon be brought to
einishment.—Glasgow Merrick.

LAW INTELLIGENCE

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Oozzaw.z,
TOILISAY, D

Landon Adjastrued Sittings after Nicks.;limas Terve, before
Ike Lone Cause JUSTICI owl a Special Jury.
POLICY CAUSE ON A SHIPMENT OF WINE.
HUDSON V. MA RJORIBANIS.
Mr. Striellit VA17.11•111 stated the ease to the Jury. It was
an action on a policy ofassurance on a cargo of wine. In tho
month of December, tuo, the Swallow, booty' from the Cape
of Good Hope to Bristol and Dublin, with a cargo of wine,
was wrecked off the port of Bristol. The vessel was turned
on her broadside, and, at every return of the tide, during the
period she was lying there, she was covered with water; in
consequence of which the cargo sustained considerable da-
mage. Notice was immediately sent to the underwriters, and
abandonment was offered, but there was no proof of its having
been received. A public sale of the wine, at Bristol, was ad-
vertised, but a prohibition was sent down by the under-
writers ; but subsequently it was consented that the sale
should he made, for the benefit of all the parties concerned.
It would be for the Jury to determine whether, in conse-
quence of the wreck, a total or an average lou had been
sustained.
By mutual consent of Counsel on both sides, it was agreed
that the Learned Judge should read his notes on a former
trial in the same cause; from which it appeared that the
course adopted, namely, that of selling the wine at Bristol,
was the most prudent that could have been taken. The
" price fur the wino sold amounted to tel. per pipe.
Mr. Bremen (new witness) was then sworn.—lle de-
that he was oue of the firm of Goiter, Brenan, and
I, wine-coopers, in the city of Dublin. A great
part it cargo on board the Swallow was consigned to
=biz
Man for Leland, Crosthwaite, and Sons; andt from
Ida lair of the Dublin market, be had no hesitation to
=that this wine had come to Dublin, it would have
no market.
lir. eaubjeant Imps addressed the Joey for the defetulawt,
lied eawlaaaed VW this was as cistoplele a sase of average
lam as weld waris luagmed. No evidence Whatever had
bees sewed is apppoit of the assumption that there had been
aay nUatiandonment, and nothing short of such
as *odd deprive the underwriter ut his undoubted
rid* la Vadat The Ostia of so total a loss.
Thl-LONIF Clint) Jirertes—" Is it not the opinion of Lord
Maaseeld that the loss of half the cargo would amount to a
total leas P'

Mr. serjeant Lots—" Bat, with great respect, my Lord,
that is not the opinion of modern times."
The evidence of Mr. Hower, Mr. Wilde, Mr. Taylor, and
Mr. Pritehard (the two latter wine.merchants), residing at
Bristol, was then read from bis Lordship's notes of the for-
mer trial, from which it appeared that • groat proportion of
the wino was saleable, and that they purchased a part of it,
winch ed them a profit.
Mr. Harrisonlil sworn.—l saw Mr. Donaldson after the order
of abandonment, and communicated to him that the under.
writers refined to receive it.
Mr. Burney was then sworn, and deposeJ, that he sits is
the same box with Mr. Kershaw et Lloyd's. He recollected
very well Mr. Kurabaw's having refaced to receive the aban-
donment.
Mr. Serjeaßt VAVGRAT4 having replied—
The Lean Cruse Josue' addressed the Jury.—The first
question, Gentlemen, for you to decide is this. Has or Ins
not the plaintiff a right to recover? It appears that there
has been a clear offer of abandonment. Thee has any cir-
cumstance occurred to deprive the assured of his right ? It
appeared to me, on reviewing his conduct, that the assured
has conducted himself with extreme propriety. Notice of
abandonment was regularly served, and a meeting was held
at Lloyd's of the underwriters, which the defendant did not
attend. It was very true that the underwriters were sot •
corporate body, nor that any one of them was bound by the
acts of others. In point of strict law, the underwriter was
not bound to tell whether be should accept the abandonmeat
or not. But, in my judgment, is the spirit of candour sad
manly dealing between man and man, be should not have
kept the other parties in the dark. The two points you will
have to consider are these :—first, in what proportion the
cargo has been damaged ; and next, whether the acceptance
of the abandonment by the underwriter was positive or
conditional. _ _

The Jury consulted for a few minutes, and returned a ver-
dict for the plaintiff on the average loss, subject to a re-
ference.

WINTE2 HUME CIRCUIT.

LEWES, DECEMBER 23.
The Winter Assizes commenced here this morning
before the lair. Baron GaAsIA as and the Hon. Arr.
Justice BAYLEY. At ten o'clock the Commissions
r were opened ; after which the Learned Judges attend-
ed Divine service.
The following Gentlemen were sworn on the Grand
Jury :
Sir Charles R. Blunt, Foreman.
Sir D. Scott, Bart. Thomas Woodward, Esq.
Slr George Sbiffner, Bart. Alexander Donovan, Esq.
Sir H. Blackman, Kut. Henry Shiffner, Eaq.
Thomas Partington, Esq. John Holier, Esq.
Walter Burrell, Esq. Thomas Tour', Ls+
Davies Glibert Esq, James Ingram, Esq.
J. M. Cripps, Esq. Jessy Oregson, Esq.
Henry Campion, dsq. Daniel Rowland, Esq.
John Woodward, Esq. I John Boyse, Esq.
J. H. Bates, Esq. Nathaniel Kemp, Esq.
W. C. Mellott, Esq. William Wigney, Esq.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY then addressed them to the following
effect :
" Gentlemen of the Grand Jary—lt cannot but be highly
satisfiletory to find that, in the various towns through which
the Judges pass, the gentlemen summoned upon the Grand
Juries attend invariably, with the greatest alacrity, at this,
which may be called an experimental Assizo.
" Gentlemen, the Calendar which is now laid before
you, at about one-half the period siace the last Assizes that
might naturally be expected, shows that, in this county, there
may be great propriety-in the measure. When you look at
the character of the different crimes which the Calendar con-
tains, for your consideration, I hope you will make all the
endeavours in your power fur the purpose of preventing the
recurrence of similar crimes before the next Assizes. On
looking at the Calendar I perceive that the crimes there are,
with a very few exceptions, offences committed in the night.
For the prevention of these crimes, great watchfulness is ne-
cessary ; and perhaps nothing would be better calculated for
that purpose than to take care that individuals are well em-
ployed throughout the day. There is one thing, however,
which has a greater tendency than any other to the commis-
sion of nightly crime; I mean that in some instances paro-
chial relief has been afforded to different persons, without
requiring a proportionate degree of labour from them. Now,
if a person capable of labour is supported, without working,
by parish relief, be certainly will not be idle throughout the
whole twenty-four hours.
" With regard to the cases which are mentioned in the Ca-
lendar, there do not appear to be any which require any par-
ticular observations from me. There are two offences of the
same description of the highest order--namely. of crawl. In
these cases, a principal point for your attention is, that the
evidence produced before you amounts to something beyond
mere suspicion. Yon will not find the bills' unless the
evidence proceeds beyond that length. if the bill is found,
and the prisouer should be tried, on insefficiest evidence, and
thus acquitted, he is at liberty, and can never be tried for
that crime again. Bat lithe bill be thrown oul, io the course
of time additional proof may be obtained, and that which tat
one time was merely a matter of suspicion, may at a subse-
quent Assizes become a matter of certainly.
" Before I finish, there is one point which seems a neces-
sary object for your anxious attention. It is that, at these
Assizes, as well as every other, there must necessarily be a
great number of persons discharged from confinement, and
set at large on the world, who only means of subsistence
rby their industry and bodily labour. Gentlemen, at this'
season of the year it may be difficult for persons to obtain
employment; and if they aro to be discharged, without some
little means of subsistence to enable them to reach their re*
spective homes, to have an opportunity of returning to their
honest pursuits, what is to be expected 1 In the county we
bare just left, there have been forty individuals discharged,
and of course it is to be hoped, theta great number of them
will return to habits of industry; hut I cannot forbear re-1
marking, that on looking at the different calendars, and at•
tending to tho history ofthe different gaols, I find that the
laces of the same persons who were dise•iarged at the
Summer Assizes, frequently appear in the following winter.
IN many instances, at the time of their being discharged,
they would be willing to maintain themselves honestly ; but
their extreme poverty, they are again driven upon the
oesundasion of crime. 1 have no doubt, Gentlemen, that
Mrs yea take these circumstances into consideration, you
wiH be able to devise some means by which this evil may,
to some extent, be remedied.
" If, in the course of the discharge of your duty, any diffi-
culties should arise, I shall be very happy to render you any
assistance in my power."
The Calendar contain' filly commitments, several of which
are fur capital offhnoes.

Before the lion. Mr. Baron GRAHAM.
David Eagles was indicted Mr having l'elooiously uttered
forged Flank of Eqgland note, fur the value of al. on the 27th
of July, be knowing it to bc forged.
It appeared that OR the day in question the prisoner had
gone to the shop of the prosecutor, a shoemaker, at May•
field, and purchased a pair of bouts. In payment he ten-
dered a bi. note. As the prosecutor bad not sullicient money
in his own possession to change it, he went to the house
of one of his-relatives in the town to ■sk him. Tbo latter
thinking that there could he no cause for suspicion, es it
was offered him by a relation, immediately complied with

his request. Before the peNteentor gave the change to tho
prisoner, he asked where he had got it. He said be had re-
ceived it from his master. Boon after the note was disco-
vered to be forged, and tbo prisoner was apprehended it
some distance from the boom of tbe prosecutor. When the
constable who took him into misted, told him the reason
for that proceeding, he immediately said be had received the
note from a person to who. be had sold a hone at East
Grimstead fair. Witnesses were also called, who proved that
on the first of Jane preceding the last transaction, the
prisoner had called at a cilMdler's shop, at Erridge Green,
near Tunbridge Wells, and asked the shopkeeper for chan.
of a 31. rime, saying, settle same time, that he wanted it fotr
the purpose of paying a sinister of labourers in his eni-
pjoyment, then waiting at apublie-honse called the Gra
Man, in the neighbourhood. This assertion was actcompan
by a promise to deal with her for any commodities%
as bacon, bread, or cheese, that he or the persons in hie
employment might want. Induced by this promise, die
change was given, and the prisoner said his name Mb
Russell, and bred at Talding.
One of the Inspectors of Notes of the Bank of England
proved that the two notes, the subject of the indictment,
were forged in all respects.
The confession of the prisoner, stating that he had
bought the note, knowing it to be forged, was now put in
and read.
His Lordship having summed up the evidence, remarked•
that the Jury were to consider whether, on the present ores-
SIM the prisoner could be considered as having a guilty
Itamieledge of the nategaof the note. Upon that point, they
len to consider wheatmeal person, who was ignorant of ilk'
being forged, would hamisiyon the different accounts of him.'
self, which the prieneet aril done. If they were of opiniom;
von a due oonsiderationetall the eh commences of the case,
that the prisoner knew Omelets was forged, it was their chair
to convict bins.
The J ury found the prissiest Guilty—Death.

Before tie Ratiteridie Mr. Justice BAYLIY.
Milieus Led" was Wield fur stealing, on the Isth of Oc-
toher,
a bay. mare, ck riches, the properly of.
Thomas Hewitt, at H
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.0 the et Oletsborr the servant of the
ins egistihned in tbe Indiclittent
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safe in a eilses MOS Um . TM meat moraing the pri-
soner wee Me ridigklieigdairr& MO leading the mare, at
lite detainee et .nee 111.1111/ Wee the place, where they
went missed. The pNeewwho saw him not having beard Of
the middy, elle Ake Surpass. When Mr. Hewitt's ser-'
veld perceived bet the mtiatais *ere stolen, he went accord-
iesto the dinette* of de person who had seen the prisoner
rt the_ tlies,eirter the road for abost four miles. There
they iedt fed alt &nee of the !winner. As the plate to
which had IMO arrived was by the side of a wood, they
se it vergAlrebside ghat their search in that place
tHigtey
be successld * they seeordiagly entered owe of the
sad whet they bad proceeded a short distance, they
saw primmer start free the ground, where he had bees.
lying end run away. He was pursued and taken. Whep
at hew be had attained possession of the homes, he said
they bed been intrusted to has care by a person whom he did
set know, and that set liking the yob, be had left them, and
gene into the wood.
The Jury found Ike primmer Guaty—Desth.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COCRt,
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 24.
William Allen, a captain in the royal navy, appeared 111103
his petition for his discharge, which was opposed by three
different creditors.
The first was a tailor, sensed West, who stated that the in-
solvent first came to him is hevedsber, tell, and represented
himself as a captain in the Davy having a pension of soot.
a year, independent of his pay, *siding, that lie was about to
raise a large sum of money ; be ordered goods, at three dif-
ferent times, to the amouotof mi. which the creditor intrusted
him with upon the faith of the insolvent's representations.
These goods were all sent to the house of a person named
Quick, in Spring-gardens, by the insoivent's rollers. Suboe-
quenUy, however, the opposing creditor discovered thal the
insolvent was, at the time lie ordered the goods, coedited in
tbc Rules of the King's Bench prison for debt.
Mrs. Magratb, a widow lady, then stepped forward to..-
pew the ensolveat's discharge. Her debt was 1411 i. solely
arising from the rent of lodgings which the insolvent had
rented of her ; she stated the insolvent first came to lodge
with her about four years since ; he had lodgings fur himself
and four servants ; his agreement was to pay every month,
instead of which he from time to time gsoe the witness ac-
ceptances, which be did not honour; he also occasionally
sent her to his agents for the purpose of receiving money.
Cross-examined by Mr. HISATO, the insolvent's Counsel.—
Her house is within the rides of the King's Benoh : the in-
solvent's rent was three guineas and a half per week ; she
might have received about rod. of the insolvent ;. his family
consisted of himself, Iris rriar, font children, his wife's sister,
and four servants. At the time the insolvent left the lodgings
he gave the witness tan order oolis agents to receive 61. per
month in reduction of her debt, which was paid her several
months.
The insolvent was now examined by Mr. HEATTI.-. For se-
veral years be had been under the necessity of supporting his
wife's sister, who was the daughter of ad °Meer, and had no
means of support, elce trl. a year pension she received,
being an officer's des ter. During the *hole time this
yobng lady was with t o insolvent she was dangerensly ill,
etjtit
sad the insolvent had been put to the etpenso unit least soot
fir medical and other assistance during her illness. The in-
solvent was the son of the late Admiral Allen,and experienced
great disappointment in his expectations of property upon
the death of the wife of Admiral Allen, from whom he had
received a considerable yearly allowance for many years pre-
vious to her death. . .. .. .

The insolvent was now examined by another opposing cre-
ditor, named Chambers, when he admitted that be was
executor to a Colonel Skinner; and that his insolvent's
wife had received 119 i. as her share under the Colonel's will.
Phero was some trifling property belonging to Colonel Skin-
ner at Gibraltar, which remained to be divided, and out of
which the insolvent's wife .as entitled to a sixth part. The
insolvent received a pension onto!. a year, and his pay was
2261. a year. This was received through the bands of his
agents, and, telt tber with a policy of insurance on the in-
solvent's life, in the agents' bands, formed a security for
2,0001. due to the agents by the insolvent.
.IW. liners now addressed the Court for the insolvent.
Ho declaimed loudly against Mrs. Magratb, who! knowing I
the heavy expenses which the insolvent had been put to, on
account of his unfortunate sister-in-law ; and having received
so much of his money, should to-day seek to deprive him of
his liberty. He clriraciterized Captain Allen as a brave and
meritorious officer, who had rendered essential services to
his country. His being placed in that Court to-day was the
result of misfortunes, and not of extravagance; and he, the
Learned Counsel, felt great satisfaction that the insolvent
had rendered so honourable an account of his trausactions.
The Counr considered that the insolvent should give a
mire explicit account of the properly be would be entitled
to under Colonel Skinner's will, and explain more satisfac-
torily the nature of the security to the agents—
The judgment of the Court was consequently postponed
until the ad of January.

MONDAY, DEMMER. 21.
Thomas Sumner was opposed by a creditor named Dourdon.
The insolvent had been before the Court on Friday last,
when the Court was occupied several hours in hearing a
, quantity of frivolous and unimportant questions put by the
opposiug creditor. The result of the hearing was an adjourn-.
ment until this day, in order to produce a person aamed
Chalmers, who had bought some property of the insolvent.
i The opposing creditor &Omitted again this day, when he
stated that be had now come prepared with evidence that
, would thew the present to be one of the most fraudulent
eases that Overcame before the Court.
'she Cover expressed its surprise at this assertion. It had
bad, on Friday last, listened fur several hours, with great at-
'
tention to every thing advanced by the opposing creditor,
and had over and over again asked him if he bad closed his
case, or whether he had any thing more to say. The ease was
then closed ; and it was then only adjourued in order that
the Court might, for its own satisfaction, ask one or two
questions of Mr. Chalmers, which was all that remised to be
done, when up starts the opposing creditor, with what he
calls a new case, and additional evidence. The creditors all
received at days notice of on Insolvent's appearing in that
Court, and were theretirre based, during that time, to prepare
themselves for their opposition. In a Criminal Court, if a
witness was only absent for a moment, a prisoner was ac-
quitted; and a plaintiff, in a civil action, got nunsuited, in
case of a similar circumstance. The mollies of the Insolvent
Cuurt was founded upon ::re same principle as the other con-
stituted Courts of the country; and were it to allow the pre-
sent attempt to overtern hat universal practice, thole would
be an end to all ordi r and regularity in cooducliug tho busi-
ness of the Court.
The opposing creditor still urged to have his new evidence
let in, but it was peremptorily refused by the Court.
Mr. Chalmers was then called, when he was asked by the
Court whether ho was aware " that if he at all assisted the
insolvent in eoncealinic any property from his creditors, that
he (the witness) was liable to be indicted fur a misdemeanour,
and sentenced to three years' imprisonment." The witness
replied In the affirmative. Upon examination, the witness
gave a satisfactory account of the manner is which has had
purchased the property in his possession belonging to the
ausolvent.
Mr. Donrdon now commenced an address of some length,
by making use of several most anwarraritoble assertions;
the Court prohibited him from proceeding in that strain. lie
then went on with his aildresss, in which he complained that
he was ignorant of the Insolvent Laws, and that the Court
had taken advantage of his ignorant*: and after peskiest use
of innch (no doubt, in Iris own opinion) very eloquent lan-
gunge, hut such as every other person in the Court thought
complete nonsense, he enneledmt by miring that, bad the
Court have heard his whole ease, they would hare been satis-
fied that this was the must hardest cast:they ever sad. •
Mr. Hermit, in addressing the Court far the Iftsobrent, de-
dined saying true word upon the speech of Mr. Bourdon; fur l

althimgh he had listened with great attention, he (the Learned
Counsel) could dot understand one word of what it meant.
The Cisme Comenominee (Reynolds), in giving judg-
event, said the Court lamented being under the necessity of
precluding any matter that Might throw light upon a cue.
It was, however, necessary in every Court to bare general
rules established; these rules must be such as would be bene-
ficirl to the general business Of the Court ; and if they hap-
pened to touch hardly upon here and there an individual case,
it could not be helped, from what it had seen of the present
opposing creditor. The Court entirely despaired. of ewer
satisfying him, therefore it would not waste any further time
upon that subject. The Court
however, was very anxious
that its decision should be publicly known, in order that other
creditors might not hereafter say they were ignorant of its
rules. From the evidence before the Court, it was clearly of
opinion that there was nothing to prevent the insolvent's
discharge.

POLICE.
•
GUILDHALL
LAMENTARLE INSTANCE OF ROBBERY BY A
SERVANT.
Amongst the numerous cases of robberies by mrvants that
have occurred at this Justice-Room lately, there is scarcely
one in which (hit system of depredation has been more regu-
larly and more extensively carried on than the following,
"Which came under the investigation of Aldetinan Thorp,
yesterday.
The prisoner, CAarlex Woman'', an elderly man, who has
been In the employ or Messrs. Browning and Son, distillers,
Smithfield-bars, for upwards of boar years, and whose sup-
posed good eanduct hedprocured him the greatest oonlldence
and encouragement from his masters, had been eget by Turn-
penny the officer, about seven o'clock in the teething on Sun-
day the isth of December, coming from Smithfield-bars with
a loaded basket in his hand. He accordingly stopped
him, and examined its contents, which were found to be a
two-gallon keg ILII of brandy, and a bladder Containing about
a quart ofeinnamon. The prisoner, when charged by Turn-
littlenny with having robbed lits master, pleaded it was only a
e
drop he was taking home for hisown use, slid beggettfer
Merey. The officer having lodged him in the COmpter,gave th-
lbrrnation to Messrs. Browning., and proceeded to search the
peiewer's lodgings, No. 3, Cloth rain. Here they discovered
be was a complete wholesale dealer: the stock there found
was a four-gallon keg full of gin ; another six-Talton risk,
which appeared to be his reservoir, having a regular cock in
it, about half full of the same liqnor ; a botUe containing
three pints of rum, two bottles full of brandy, one bottle of
red port wine, a bottle of British brandy, a quantity of Sterna
raisins, together with the necessary utensils for measuring
and carrying away the spirits, viz pewter mevsurea, funnel,
bladders, &e.
The prisoner, at his first exatnination, expressed great con-
trition, and confessed that he had been carrying on this sort
of depredation for upwards of a year and a half ; that he was
first seduced to commence it by *coachman and guard, father
and son, whose names he mentioned, the elder of whom 'hiked
him if he could nut do as Bill Barrett used to do, the porter
whom besuceeeded, and who used to furnish him with spirits
cheap. He was accordingly prevailed on to act on this hint
Wand they purchased the stolen property from him. He had
never given them to understand that he had &jigger (a pri-
vate still). They were the only persons he had sold liquor to,
but he bad never delivered any to either of them in the pre-
senee of a witness except once, and that person was since
dead.
A married daughter of the prisoner's, Jessy Butler, spoke
to het knowledge of the connexion between her father and
Me persons he had named, but had never heard any tomver-
satin° that. implied a knomiedge of the property being stolen,
but had once heard her father tell one of them be had a

Auger.
The prosecutors were very desirous to have the receivers
brought to punishment, but whatever suspicion might at-
tach, there was nut sufficient evidence of a guilty knowledge;
and it is but justice tb say that the son (the guard) was in at-
tendance at the first hearing, and willing to be examined, de.
daring that both he and his father always understood the pri-
soner worked a private still.
Wright, the porter at Messrs Brownings.who sleeps e.
the premises, deposed that the prisoner came there on tin"
Sunday morning with the basket produced, saying hoiffi
for a pair of shoes. Ile lighted a candle and wont dew*
but he did not see him go away. 77-."
A clerk ideoliffed the kegs likind as the property of iffalllMet
Browsing.; and Ike Winer was also sworn to be of the IMMO
strength and flavour its that upon their premises.
The prisoner has a wire inn three daughters. two of them
grown women : they were all in attendance, overwhelmed
with tears, end the man himself appeared deeply affected by
his situation.
Committed to Nei gate fur trial.

BO W-STREET.

•
irrnx-oo LOTTERY INSURING.
Yesterday Wm Roberts, of No. 17, Castle-street, Leicester-
square, an old, Wiens, and grey-headed offender, was, for
about the thirtieth time, brought to this eltice, charged under
the State Lottery Act with having violated that statute.
Mr. Hesse, the Solicitor to the Commissioners of the Lot-
tery, to Somerset House, stated that the prisoner had spent
the greater part of the last ten years of his life in gaol, in con-
sequence of his frequent violations of the Lottery Ad. He
was known to ho a common insurer in the State Lottery and
Little-goes. The offence which he bad committed sisbjected
him to an impriscniment not exceeding siz moat's, at the
discretion of the Magistrate.
The prisoner pleaded Guilty.
The racers, Mares- and F.msden, who had apprehended
the prisoner, were called to give their evidence of the offence
in question.
They stated that baring tecolved information that there
was an insurance going on at the prisoner's house, they got a
warrant to search it, and found therein the prisoner, w ith
several women ; one of them was the wife of a man named
Hogg, who was convicted a short time ago; and upon the
chair of tbe prisoner's wife they found, under her, a piece of
paper, on which were writ ten certain numbers oftickets,w hich
related to Lit tle.go Insurance.
The prisoner begged hard for mercy. lie was sentenced
to two mouths' imprisemsent in the House oftorrectioe.

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