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LAW INTEI,I.IOIMCF.

COURT OF CHA NCERY--Nowr loot, Jutir
lIIACAPILAY r SBACM.II MID OTNEMI.
The Loan ennisect.t.on win employed the whole day in
hcitrirg Commei in euppurt of the prayer DR• COlDMilision of in-
quiry in

COL RT 01 KING'S BENCH, SATURDAY, JULY 17.

Sitting. 0: Nifi Ptins..

CAIIDEN AND ML[/.

Thi• mitesittg. at halt past ten o'clock. Mr. Justice Ltittledale
entered the Court, and having taken hi• 'test nn the B.tneh, the
Jury were moroduec.i, attended by the proper officers. Their ap-
pearance W IV. strongly indicative of having spent a restless night,
and some of thmi appeared to be nearly exhausted. On their
nanits bring ratted n►er,
. • • .

Mr. Jusace LITT I.LbALE asked if they had agreed upon their
♦en4icr ?

The Foreman answered that " they Lad not."
.Mr. Justine LITTLEIbALL—fIare you ary observations to
make?

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:kir. (Indite% one of their body, but not the olde.t, addrernied
his Lordship, and amid that he am extremely ill. Ile had been
confined from the pet ceiling wointing at rine o'clock without re-
frealintent, and now Veit himself so unwell, and so much exhaust
(41, that he really thou lit kit IA wax in danger. It appeared to
him that it wax ntbily intuo.thle tint the July to agree in their
verdict, and therefore he mimed hit loininbip would relieve them
from arifferingxwhiels could be productive of no xatidietney result.

31r. Jamie; LITT r:trat.c (foam read a letter which he had re.
ceivol front 11(1461.11, which icia ed in substunce what he personally
' repreientul so di.: Court ; and further I'nin•ed Win the great beim.
venienee which both himself and his family had ►uuained from
hi. tieweninui.

Mr. Jo.:ice T I.EDALE asked if any other Juryman had any
remark t.. make ?

Mr. Kohcreson. an old grey •headed gentleman, for many years
a ennatant ntertibee or the Spee• al Jury body, and upwards of
eighty years of age, said that he alsa wits extremely ill; he lull
hsd oothing but a little wine and water sinie he had retired from
the Court the preceding day. lle had been so much indisposed
that he thought he should tug hare been able to bold up during the
night.

Justice LfTTLEDALE—I bellevoyou bad s Kandirich red

1111"11619°90 Vesesisileyrd had that indulgeore.
Mr. I ovum, another of the bod.y. ROM he naa in a similar situ&
dos. He was 714 yews.* age, and from hi, present state of ex-
halation. if the Jury did not agree he was afraid he could not stand
it any longer.
111 r. Morn likewise said he wan in a 'erg weak state. Huth his
body aid mind were exhausted.
Mr. Juatioe LITT t.snAt.r. Joked towards the Counsel engaged
for the plaintiff and defendant, hut nothing ass said by either of
these gentlemen to relieve him item the difficulty in which he was
plotted, although 31r. Scarlett manifested a desire to come to some
accommodation.

MT. Justice LITTLEDALE then addressed the Jury and said.
" fiendenven, 1 have not the opine to do any thing fur you. Vou
must all agree upon your verdiu."
The lamas of the Jury upon this intimation watt strongly chin c.
teristic of despair.
Mr. Moen then amid that they were unanimous as to the verdict,
and the only qnestionin dispute was the amount of damages.
. .

The ATT4IIMEY-11EXEiAl. *aid. if he had known that the
Jury hail tome to any arreetnent on to the verdict, he would hare
relieved them trim any clifSeulty oo the other point.
Mr. Semi LETT observed, that be made a proposition privately
to the plaintiff' which had Leen refused, and he thought something
should now he said publicly on the +abject.
The A TTOPNICY-lii.74llll•l.—rpon the part of the plaintiff I
am content to take nominal damages.
Mr. Pain—Although in the fist instance we disagreed upon the
verdict, some being of opinion that it should be Inc the plaintiff;
end others for the defendant, yet we ultimately got rid of that
muslin°. and then *lose the disetisaion as to the damages to be
given to the plaintiff: It has been upon thin point that the whole
of our time Inn been occupied, and that we have been subjected to
the moat painful and fatiguing privations of the night. 11 e naked
more than once for water to wash oor hands and faces; but this, as
well an every other tootle of tcfreshment, was positively renamed.
Nevertheleas, if ;make demands it, I am willing to go 011.
Mr. Carpenter, the Foreman. then mentioned thiny shillings as
the amount of damages to which the niajority of the Jury had
agreed.
,_ The tiTTONNEY-GENtl•l. said he should be perfectly sans.
Pied with this aunt.