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LAW NOTICES.

COURT OV 'CHANCERY.
SET SSSSSSS ORD CO•NCSILOR. IN LINCOLN'S INN CALL, ?NIS DATA

Ezp.nolaste re Daniell,
per order
Balton re Arnold
Dorelthordt re
Kelt!. 2 former
_petitions

AT TIM.
Bealerapt PeMinna.
Exp. ILDlrpattlek re Exp. Collier re Shep-
Dennett hard
Ford re Ford Cowley re Herber
Leyland re lllode Same re same
Solland re Ales.ll Hall re flyle%
Rod Co. Collier re Shea-
Holden re Bally hard
Harper re Ilanb I Pierce re Dann.
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Tomlin:l.ra Tom-
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eclinr mill rl.c to-mor

Terry re Litres
Gibson re )Sin-
chin
Dalmaine re Dui.

The Lord Chnt:i

'f, the IPth Inst.

POLICE.

CRIPPLES AM) IitiIULAR VAGRANTS.
Marestow-at itE.—A cripple. who trails his legs after him on
the ground. was yesterday brought before the Loup Maxon on a

chaige of vagrancy.
Allen, the officer, stated that the prisoner was one of the greatest
nuiaunces in the streets. II is extremely wretched figure procured
him remity of money, and lie was in consequence constantly drunk.
His drunkenness was not unfremtently thought to be illness by
paseengere. Ile took with him a little white-healed buy, whose
longsilecry locks had considerable effect on the feelings of the
ladies This little wretch was also seen with him in a state of in-
toxication. Prisoner belonged to St. Giles's parish, but they never
kept him in ; perhaps it would keep him out or the City, if his
Lordship would give him 'little confinement in Bridewell.
The Lon!) MAvon laid he should decline taking that course—it
svotild be just what the parish wanted. They cared not what nui-
, tuners their paupers became, so that they got rid of them. his
Lordship was convinced that the streets might he entirely cleared
of these disgusting objects, if the patish officers did their duty.
His Lordship said that the repetition of these cases would compel
him to make a compltunt to the Secretary of State on the subject.
Allen said that this lima of paupers abounded in St. Giles s,
where they were not intetfercd with by the fairish officers.
The 1.0111) 31.1Y011 sent the prisoner back to his pariah, with
an intimation to the parish officers t:.at if they were found in the
city to have seat others of their pcor thus at large, to infest the
streets, they must expect that some proceedings would be taken to
check the practice.
Bow-eva V.ET.—A respectable-looking middle aged man, named
Shooihrook, was charged at this Office, brfore Mr. trimly La, by
his wife, with attempting to poison her and one of her children.
The accused attended voluntanly, and, indeed, it was at his own
particular request that the investigation took place. He has been
for many years foreman to Messrs. Forrest and Kerry, ninon, In
liury.street, St. James's, and has always borne a highly respect-
able character. lie came to the Oace attended by his eraployers,
and a honor respectable friends.
Mrs. Shoolbrook came accompanied by three of her daughters,
grown-up girls, and two or three young men, her sons, who all
ranged theinselv-s around their mother, and the very strong feeling
which they evinced against their father in every word and gesture
was surprising and lamentable.
The circumstances upon which Mrs. Shoolbrook founded this
most serious charge against her husband were these:—For some
time past he had, she said, chosen to he jealous of her, and besides
repeatedly taxing her with partiality for other men, he declared that
the last child which she had borne, and which was still militant,
was not his. It was her custom, every night, on retiring to bed, to
have some water in a common brown basin, placed by the bedside,
to give the child when it awoke in the night. One night last week,
the basin of water was placed as usual in the chair, and in the
course of the night the child cried, and Mrs. Shoolbrook readied
the basin, told first drank some of the water herself, and found it
taste exceedingly nasty, but gave sonic of it, notwithstanding, to
the child. The child had scarcely swallowed a few mouthfuls of
the water, when it commenced screaming dreadfully, and Mrs.
Shoolinook being alarmed, rang the bell viohertly for a light.
When one or her daughters came with a candle, she examined the
basin, and found a whitish sediment at the bottom. The child
became exceedingly ill, and witness knowing the s;itte which her
husband entertained against the child and herself, site suspected
that he had put some poisonous Ingredient into the water.
Mr. AlltalieLL remarked, that it was .very eatmorlinarnolie
should have given the water to her child, afterohe had herself disal
covered a nasty taste in it.
Mrs. Shoolbrook made no answer to this remark. }4
Mr. Shoolbrook asked his wife it' the child Itivisamt been ailifig a
long time before it drank the water ; and she admitted that It had
for some months.
One of the daughters, who had taken cep the water, was examined
to prove that fact ; and she stated that the water seemed perfectly
free from any mixture when she placed it in the room.
Mr. Shoolbrook naked his daughter if de did not make this re.
mark, as she was taking up the basin...s. Hew remarkably clear
the water is tomight ?"—The daughter saltlshe did make this le.
mark.
Mr. Shoolbrook asked her if she lied not been in the habitlor
many months of carrying up the water, and how she came, upon
that occasion, to make such a remark?—Tle• daughter answered,
the first question in the affirMauve ; and, with respect to the k-
ennel, raid she did not know why she remarked on the clearness of
the water, except that it did appear to be partichlarty clear.
The other daughters and the sons were liberal in their accusa-
tions of niitcanduct against their father, all of them stating in a
breath that he ill-used and beat Mrs. Shcolbrook.
111 r. 311a/snort. endeavoured to check the torrent of invective
which there young persons poured forth against their parent. hut be
would have required the lungs of a Stentor to have made himself
heard above the din kept up by Mrs. Shoolbrook and her children,
Mr. Shoolbrook was at length heard in his defence, and he, in
the first place, solemnly, and with great feeling, protested his total
innocence even of the contemplation of such a crime as that which
was attempted to be imputed to him. Ile and his wife had been
married for many years, and bad eleven children living, and they
had lived happily together until lately, when other persons had
found greater favour in her eyes than himself, and At now wanted
to get lid of him. The whole charge was a conspiracy against him
with that view. Ile denied that he had ever beaten or ill-treated
his wife; on the contrary, she had uniformly experienced the
kindest treatment from him. Was it not extraordinary that his
datteliter, who had been is the constan; habit for months together
of taking up the water, should on that particular night remark hem
clear it was Why did she make that remark on that night unless
to answer some particulae neurotic ? When the sediment was dis-
covered, his wife accused him of wishing to poison her and the
child, and took especial care that the accusation should reach the
eats of the neighbours, and of all who knew him, but made no
attempt to have the matter investigated before a Magistrate—a
proof that she knew the clairge to be wholly groundless Finding
lest he was thus calumniated, he demanded o_public
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and came to this (Mice toreineat that Mr. Minolta!' would Moir-
lute one immediately. The worthy Alagistrate kindly conser.ted
to send for the accusers, and thus it was, at hir. own request, that
this examination took plaen. There was one circumstance which
he had not yet mentioned, anti that was, that the sediment was not
poisonous at all. It had been analyzed by Mr. Clark, of Apothe-
caries' Hall, and that gentleman had addressed a letter to the Ma-
gistrate, containing the malt of W0w5...157460n.
The letter from Mr. Clarke was read, and it stated that he found
some particles of iron and lead in the sedhnent, but it was by no
means uncommon to find parities of that kind at the bottom of the
common brown basins bought in the streets, there being very often a
mixture of those metals in the clay from which those vessels were
made The rest of the sediment was composed of lime, which was
not at all poisonous, but It was difficult to imagine how it could
come there, antes, it was placed there for tome particular purpose.
None of the ingredients were poisonous in the least degree.

Several Gentlemen came forward, and apoke of Mr.Shootartok
in the highest terms, describing him as an honest, respectable,
mild, and kind-hearted man, a roll, husband, and an aflectionme
parent. They believed him perfecly incapable of an act so din-
abolkal as that which was imputed to hies. • •
Mr. Ali N3IIV Lr, after a patient investigivinn, dismissed the
charge altogether, expressing it as his entire belief that there was
not the slightest ground for the charge, and that Mr. Shoolbrook
departcdfrom the Office with his character as puts and spotless as
It bad ever been during any period of his life.