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THE NATIONAL REGISTER

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. IT.
This day the Cuart was occupied milt the Crown Paper.
The arguments were not generally interesting.
WATERLOO BRILIGIC ANNUITISII.

The Conn gate judgment on a question of some ins-
penance to the pnhlic. The purchaser of an Annuity
secured upon the Tolls of the Waterloo bridge brought
his action against the ■uctioaeer, to recover back the
deposit money, on the ground that he had omitted to give
a full description of the annuity. The purchaser sup-
posedr as the annuity wed granted under the provisions of
the 53d of the late King, that he was warranted iu con-
cluding it was to continue for a specific time, or one life,
but lie found it was redeemable sunder terms which the
Auctioneer did not describe. Finding it did not answer
his expectation, he declared Isis intention to rescind the
purchase, and brought this action for the deposit.
At the trial the question was reserved for the conside-
ration of the bends, namely, whether the purchaser in
such a ease was not expected to snake inquiry respecting
the thing, to be purchased beyond the auctioneer's par-
ticulars of sale? _ _ _

The points were ably argued by Mr. Snagilen and Mr.
Barnwell.

The Lord Chief Justice said, it is of great importance
that those who take upon themselves to dispose of the in-
terests of others by auction should truly describe what is
to be sold. It often happens that persons go to an auction
room, and with dtreitlitig their attention to the subject.
buy upon the representation of the auctioneer. We are
not therefore to look too closely at what may appear neg_
lie coca on the part of a purchaser. Here the article sold
is one of the annuities granted Under the authority of au
Act of Parliament, and if you look to the provisions of
the ..et. no person could suppose it redeemable. The
Act having provided for granting annuities not retlesm
able, I am of upillitni the auctioneer, in case it was not
to be continued, was bound in ditty to describe it so.—
The plaintiff' is entitled to recover.
Judge Bayley was of the same opinion.
In an appeal (goal the Quarter Sessions of Manchester,
the Court confirmed a conviction, hailing the Trustees of
the late Duke ol Bridge watel'a Canal liable to Parochial
Hates fur the il•rit levied at the lucks on that canal.

RECORDER'S REPORT.—Oa Thursday the Re-
corder made a report of the convicts upon whom
sentence of death was passed at the last September
Sessions, held at the Old Bailey, when the following
unhappy men were ordered for execution on 'Wed-
nesday next :
Josiah cadman, aged 2:;, antigen' r; Edmund sparrow,
21, grocer; John Eois, 21, scrivener; 1:11111114M Tupley,
2 plinter, tsle utteling forged 51. notes of the Bank of
England.
Geurgt. Smith, 31, Inhottier ; John Cabelia, 24, bruziL
for highway robbery.
'tt iiluw tiartling, 29, labonrer, for stealing six sheep.
War. Gat ion, '24, bricklayer, for stealing a bill. not, .
Tile others vat e reviled during his Aiajesty's plea.
an e.

Thursday night the Rev. Mr. Cutton, Mr. Baker,
and Mr. Brown, junior, eenisnunienied the melancholy
Ifhtelligence to the unhappy men. Out Cadman's receiving
the information, he instantly exclainted, " Is my pour wife
saved ?" The gentlemen assured him that the Ito% al cit.-
mermy had be en vouchsafed tr. her. " Thank Gad," said
lis, " then I shall die perfectly happy." The other indite.
Innate men rece.vcd the notice of their fate with becoming
resignation.
It w ill be recollected that Cadman and his wife, vilio
were tried for the same offenee, pleaded guilty, in the
hope, as we undeistood, that the desire evinced by Cad-
man, in his communication to the Bank of England, to
make evely reparation in his power for the offence of
which he load been guilty, would cause a fit vottvalile view
to be taken of his case. He trusted that his previously
cm rect courtlier, the certificates of several officers iu the
Royal Mai ines, un ler whom he served for seven Yeats,
and these of a large her it respectable persons,
many of %hem testified to his uniform emid conduit t from
a very citify age, would have indoced the extension of
the Royal c Cult ney to him, by changing the At:Metier of
death to that of teeitspurtation. Mr. Baron Graham rx.
pressed au itpitlieli that hisicase was discs sing of mercy ;
and the long ettultetietl ptittice at. the Bank of England,
which has spa. the lives of so many nutritious nia‘eleie-
tuft, stems to have been abandoned, fur Ilse first
the case of this undue Innate nails
CHILD STLAL I o.—The I.oak Iltrald says,—" We last
week sinned, that an old and lame lia%vktc oh tracts had
decoyed a little g,:rf from her parents near Yin k. The
paragraph has been the cause of the fellow's apprehen-
sion. The following are the particulars :—A letter dated
Neswiek, near I)ntbeld, was received, animator:in% that
the old man anal child lad been seen in thin neighbour-
hood. They were afterwards sten at Bretodsbutton, by
another person who caused the wan to be taken tap and
lodged in the House of Correction at Beverley. Infrir.
minion was instantly soil to this city, and a Police-
officer proceeded to Beverley to convey them here. Ott
Thursday he was ratan:int:J. Sarah Morris, of Muhtihe-
thorpr, the mother of the child, said, that her daughter,
not yet ten years of age, was in the habit of absenting
Iteiself front 1 • and going to the house of hcraunt,
who resides at TaScaster ; that on Tuesday the V3d ult.
she went to roleaster. and was not again seen until her
reeenery. The child iteposed, that alter remain;; with
her aunt until Thuriday the Vstll, she left Taileaster to
return tonic; the prisoner nit amass, overtook her on
Ihr roast, and taking hvr by the hand, said she was go
with .h.as, acid that Ire mould use her better than hart
mother. She proceinkil to York with him, and be told
her to call him her uncle, semen .lie did. She had been
with hint at ilia( she had told hitn
her name, also that of her parents, and where they lived.
Front Mr. Carrell, of whom the,prisimer bourtht some
tracts on Frio!ay, tile 26.11 u!t. and from Mrs. Brown, at
Warriligate, at whose runny he slept with the little girl,
ii aprearril that lie described the child to be the daughter
of Isis sister, who he said wan a widow with four chil-
dren. 'Fite priiisne. U. Jolly, a wretched looking man,
endeavoured to justify himself by stating, Out as he was
comina tic York (mous Brunie-non, oltere,he usually re-
sides, lie save-rtotsk sue girl crying; that he said—" My

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