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THE BRITISH PRESS.

Mr. Sergeant VAITCILIAX begged to say that he joined most
heartily in all the sentiments that had fallen from his brother
Wilde, and he would applaud them to the very echo that should
applaud again. The work, he agreed, was the very atiblimate
of poison ; but did his Lordsh,p think that it was in the power
of this 3lr. Stockdale, this late repentant sinner, to plead its im-
morality and base tendency.? Was this man, who—
The I.OIID CIIIEF JUSTICE.—Yes. certainly, anybody may.
The plaintiff was accordingly Nonsftited.
We cannot help observing that the smallness of this Court is more
and more the subjmt of complaint among persons who have busi.
ness to transact in it. -.The confusion anti noise that constantly
annoy the Court and Interrupt its proceedings are wholly attri-
butable to the confined space in which the Judges, the Learned
Sergeants, the Juries, the witnesses in waiting, anti the attorneys,
are obliged to crowd themselves. It is an extraordinary fact, that
there is scarcely a Court of cartes throughout the provinces
that is so incommodious as the High Courts of Justice at West-
minster HO.
COURT OF EXCHEQUER, THURSDAY, Dec. I.
Sittings after Michaelmas Term,belbre the LOUP CYlfir BARON
waraiai

The Court, during the whole of the day, was occupied in trying
an information against a soap-boiler in Rosemary-lane, for sending
nut soap without certificates. Cases eta similar nature were so ones
berme the public during the Sittings after Trinity Term, that a
detail of the present would be useless and unimportant.

111011 COURT COURT OF DELEOATES, THUZIDAT, Diu. 1.

Drs. STODART, DODSON, LEE, J. ADDAIII, and DAURIONY,
preaided.
nniscole v. Baiscoi.

At the opening of the Court,
Dr. STODART inquired whether the act of petition assigned to
be brought in three days ago by Sir W. Btiacoe's Proctor had been
brought in?
Mr. JENNEII answered that it had been brought in two days
before Court-day.
The Register—lt has been brought in, my Lords.
Dr. STODART—Then we have nothing to do but to order that
a warrant be issued to the Common Law Judges, desiring that the
cause may be heard before the whole Commission, with as little
delay as possible.
Ater a momentary pause,
Dr. STODART continued—There is another circumstance which
lam directed by my Learned Assistants to state. One of the in-
dividuals concerned in this case called at the house of one of the
i Learned Judges in this cause. The Learned Judge, of course,
very properly refused to hold any comtnuni:stion with that party.
It was necessary that this should be stated. and also necessary that
we should give our opinion, that the individual who called upon
the Learned Judge alluded to, by so doing, though perhaps into-
luntarily, conducted himself in an irregular and improper man-
ner. There is nothing else before the Court : it is therefore ad-
journed.
Dr. LEE—At the same time I most say, that I am not permit.
ted to make my own statement. The Learned Judge would not
permit me to speak in my own defence.
W hilst Dr. Lee was making Ibis observation his Learned Col-
leagues retired, and the Court adjourned.

COURT OF REQUESTS, VINE-STREET.
MEMOIRS OF HARRIETTE WILSON.
HARMS V. bTOCKDALE.

In this ease, which was heard I;efc;reihe—ommissioners at the
above Court, the decision of a point of some interest to booksellers
and publishers took place—being the obligation of giving back per-
fect books, or parts, in exchange for imperfect copies.
Mr. John Joseph Stockdale, " of Colonnade fame," was sum-
moned to this tribunal by Mr. Michael Harris, who is himself a
bookseller and stationer, residing in King.street, Westminster, to
answer to a demand for refusing the payment of Bs., in contraven-
tion of the custom of the trade, and under circumstances as seldom
have occurred. It now appeared that Mr. Harris, who is the com-
plainant, had purchased three parts of the Memoirs of liarsiclie
Wilson of the tiefendant for a gentleman, by whom they were re.
turned aa being in an imperfect state. The complainant in copse-
quenee applied to the defendant to exchange the copies he had pre.
cured from him, which he positively refused to do, asserting that
he would only give complainant the leaf, who might afterwards
make good the deficiency himself ; but the complainant refused to
take the book io that condition, when the defendant said, that he
should charge complainant sixpence a day for warehouse room.
' Mr. Stockdale, in his defence, said, that it was a regular thing
for the venders of publications to make up such deficiencies, and
he objected to the parts being cut open. He asked, that supposing a
coach were bought, and had gone a journey, and a nut was found
to be loose, was the coach to be returned on the manufacturer's
hands merely on that account ?
The three Commissioners were decidedly of opinion that the
case of the coach bore no analogy to the present.
Mr. Harris here submitted that he recollected a ease quite con.
trary to the statement of the defendant as to his liability to make
good imperfections. lie had recently bought some publications of
Mr. Limbird, in the Strand, which happened to be imperfect, but
upon his applying to that publisher they were immedi-
ately exchanged. The complainant now exhibited the book in its
imperfect state, and put it to the Commissioners whether they, or
any one among them, would buy it in that condition ?
The Commissioners said, one and all, that they certainly would
not.

Mr. Stockdale—But, Gentlemen. the entire parts of Harriette
Witsotes Memoirs were cut open when returned to me.
Mr. Harris—And how could the gentleman know they were im-
perfect till he had cut them open ?
This closed the case, and an order was made against the defend-
ant (%Ir. Stockdale) for the payment of six shillings, with costs,
who seemed to be much disconcerted at the desision of the Com-
missioners.

POLICE.

MANSION-HOUSE.

Yesterday the Lordilll4Oinereivetran;tlrfrom a Spanish Colo.
nel, who had fled from his own country on account of the atill-ex-
isting heat of political animosity. He requested that some MIS.
tance might be rendered to him until the President of the Corn.
mittee for the relief of the Spanish and Italian refugees, without
whose signature relief could not be given, should return to town.
The Loan MAYOR' who has been daily receiving letters of this
description, and who has been put under many personal contribu-
tions, sent to Mr. Freshfield, the Secretary, in order to Inform him
of the increasing demands, and to learn what steps the committee
were about to take.
Mr. FRESIIFIELD apprehended that the number of applicants
would rather increase than diminish as the severity of winter ap-
proached. The present claimant was one of those who had recently
come over to Ireland, but although the Committee had found it
necessary to pass a resolution against relieving any of the refugees
who were not in the country at a time specified, that resolution had
never been acted upon. The public contributions were therefore
dealt out to all whose distresses were great, and who were found
not to have misrepresented themselves in making their applications.
The LORD MAYOR Paid he knew that a resolution to that effect,
although necessary to be adopted as a rule, could not have been
generally acted upon. He had exitnined the papers which the present
applicant and other military officers of rank had brought with them,
and he had no reason to question the truth of the statement, that
there was no safety for the emigrants in their own country, and that
there was no alternative but that of taking refuge here. lie asked
Mr. Freshlield whether it would not be advisable to lay before the
public an account of the particulars of the expenditure of the
money subscribed ? This he thought would be necessary at all
events, if it were the intention of the Committee to make an appeal
to the public in behalf of the refugees.
Mr. FRESHFIELD said the account alluded ta, which would
prove extremely satisfactory, should, of course, at once be laid
before the public, upon whose humanity there was to be placed
the greatest reliance in the event of another application. He be.
lined that the funds wee now sufficient to bear those who were at
present on the hooks through the winter; but if the number were
to {name there appeared to be ma other course than that of public
contribution. He had seen one of the principal persons connected
with the Committee fry the relief of the houseless poor, and been
informed by him that he was anxious to make that Society an in-
stitution of a permanent nature.
The LORD 31 Avon mid he was decidedly of opinion that a per.
manent institution of this nature would be attended with vast incon.
veniences, which would counterbalance all the good that might be
done. It would be an encouragement to all the idlers and poor of all
descriptions in thecountry to wine up to London instead of remaining
in their own parishes. Some of those inconveniences were felt when
the contributions were first raised, and he hoped that so impolitic a
measure would not be adopted. - . _

Mr. Fazsurrei.o as,ured his Lordship that the cases of the
refugees should be attended to and relieved with the customary
punctuaity.
A general meeting will, we understand, be soon called, when the
sulject will undergo discussion.

GUILDHALL.
Belton Watkins • Afachin wu mimed with obtaining, under
false pretences, two pieces of grog de Naples, from Messrs. Ames
and Atkinson, silk-manufacturers, Paternoster-rcw.

. .
The prisoner, it appeared, °Mud to pledge at Mr. Tlarker's,
pawnbroker, in High Holborn, on Saturday morning last, about
22 yards of silk, requiring the loan of `2s. SI per yard. The slop.
man Immediately recollected that he was the slime party that had
pledged a piste of silk a abort Artie before, which had beet, subse.
quently claimed, and, by order of the Itlaeiatrates at Bow.street,
delivered over to the owner. 11e reminded the prisoner of the cir.
conietence, when he stated that he had brought that piece for a
Mend belonging to a respectable firm in I'leet-street ; but, upon
being told that the property had been claimed, and that it would
be desirable that he should be confronted with the claimant, he be.
tame agitated, and struggled to escape into the street, but this was
presented, and.he wss secured by two of the Bow-street Patrol.
To the officers the itrk.onet confessed that he had formerly lived
with Messrs. Hogged and Amber. linen-drapers, Waterloo.place,
and that the silk had been obtaitieti from Illeurs. Ames and At.
kinsoit's.
:13MIDel Treseher, warehouseman at Messm Ames's, Mated that
on the 7th of November the prisoner &mein and inquired fot a
levantine to match a patterishe exhibited. Having none of that
description, the prisoner next asked to look at two French grie' de
Naples; of diffitrent pricey, and haying selected one piece of
yards at 6s. 7d. per yard, aid soothes of 6U yards at Cs. W. deairtd