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WILDNEADAY, AUGUST 28.
BRIDGE-STRIET GANS D. RIDGWAY.
Mr. Tyndall 'Rifling!' to bays this praesention postponed till
to-ntorrow, on &Clash that a polka °Seer, named Batty, •
material witness, was at Chester Hastens, and would be bets
this evening or to-morrow morning.

Mr. Brougham.—We object ts this jpostponement. We
have • great number of witnesses at a very great expense.
Every one knows that Ridgway is a very poor man ; indeed so
poor, that he has not a shindig in the world, and is indebted to
the char.ly of his neighbours, who see an attempt made to
overpower and crush him, for the money which enables him to
km!) his witnesses here. pwiug to the scantiness of his means
he delayed bringing his values's' up till the latest moment,
sad they are now here.
Mr. Baron Wood.—When will you be ready to go on ?
Mr. Tindall.--We expect the witness early in the morning
by the coach.
Mr. Brougham denied that any Liverpool coach came in till
late.
Mr. Tindall said, that in that case the witness would come

is a chaise.
Mr. Baron Wood.—You most pay the expenses of the de-
lay to the parties.
Mr. Tindall said, they were ready to pay whatever his Lord-
ship thought right.
Mr. Bro•tghsv.—O yes, my Lord, there appeiva to be no
went of inouey on the other side, quite the contrary.
Mr. Tindall said they would pay all their expoces from this
time.
Mr. Brougham urged another objection. He was alsore for
the defence in • special case in the other court, and might not
be able to attend in the morning.
Mr. Tindall said they would tint bring it on in his learned
friend'► absence. . . . .

Mr. Baron Wood said be would endeavour to accommodate
both panics as well as lie could.

fUr. Brougham wished to mention another inconvenience.
Ms learned friend Mr. Evans, who was with him, and whose
•doable assistance be should be very sorry to lose, was en-
gaged in the second special cue in the other court to morrow.
Mr. Tindall expressed a willingness to put off the case to
Friday.
Mr. Brougham said, that would perhaps be a convenience to
►im, but it would be the to Oar defendant. lie wished
it to be used fur to-morrow morning, and that any further delay
would be on his application.
Mr. Tindall had no doubt they would be ready to-morrow

nr.rning.
Mr. Evans submitted, that the personal convenience of coon-
eel ought to be cous:dered. lle should be kept here by this
postponement.
Mr. Brougham wished it to be peremptorily Sled for to-
MORO VI morning.
Mr. Baron N ood.—Will you be reedy ?
Mr. Brougham hoped he should, as he might get the Lord
Chief Justice to make an arrangement respecting the other case.
But another objection might be made. How could they ascer-
tain that a witness, under recognizance@ to give evidence in
Chester, would be bere at a given time t
His Lordship said, if be out not maitre they most go on to-
morrow without him.
Several insolvent debtors were discharged in the usual form.
Mr. Fell afterwards came into Court, and stated that be bad
been iustrueted to oppose the discharge of one of the insol-
•ents, but had come into the other Court, believing that the
cause of Ridgway occupied this court.
Mr. Berne Wood.-1 can't help you. There can be no great
harm in discharging a poor imolveut debtor.
THURSDAY, AUGUST

At nine o'clock the counsel on both sides appeared.
Mr. Baron Wood.—l am ready in that case of yours, Mr.
Brougham.
Mr. Hopkins (the Clerk.)—There is a certiorari, my Lord,
removing it to the Court of King'. Bench.
Mr. Baron Wood.—Tben I can't try it.
Mr. Sergeant Hullock.—No, my Lord, that is the object—
(mattering and looking at the table) ; we are not ready.
Mr. Tindall.—We are not ready.
Mr. Hopkins stated that there was another indictment agaiust
Daniels iii the name case, but he had failed to take the steps to
entitle him to try or traverse.
Mr. Baron %Vouch—His recognizance. are entreated then.
Mr. Tindell.-0 no, no.
Mr. S. rgeaut Hullock.—My Lord, we don't ask for that.
Mr. Brougleam.—Nothing can be more fair and candid than
the whole proceeding on the other side.
Mr. Sergeaut mu happy that my learned friend
entertains so just sense of our conduct.
Mr. Broughaeu.—Yes, indeed, the same sense, you your-
selves entertain of the proceeding. Out of respect to your
Lordship, not to the prosecutors, I call it nothing but this pro-
ceeding after we came here with our 20 witnesses.
Mr. Harem Wood.--Perhaps it is a defect in the law.
Mr. Beougliain.—And there are persona who are extremely
anxiou► to avail themselves of defects en the law for oppressing
an individual. The Orem would be, that when the period of
Ridgway's imprisonment expired, he would not be bailed, but
detsined till the next assizes.
Mr. Baron Wood.—What can I do?
Mr. Brougham.—My application is, that your Lordship may
ender biro to he bailed at Manchester, where he is known, in-
stead of requiring him to appear in the King's Benet,.
Mr. Baron Wood.—Yon most wake sour application to the
King's Bench.
Mr.Brougliam—And there is the hardshipof this proceeding .
Mr. Sergeant Illulook.-11 the application be proper, the
King's Bench will listen to it. At any rate, your Lordship
would not anticipate any future proceeding.
Mr. Baron Wood.--I say nothing of that. All that I say is,
that I have no authority.
Hera the proceeding ended. It is impossible foe those who
saw it not to form an idea of the expression in every face in
court, save Murray's which was unchanged. The expression
was not equivocal in the learned Judge's, the Sergeant's, or
Mr. Tindall's, any more than in Mr. Brougham's or Mr. Evans's.
Mr. Brougham stated that the certiorari was attested or the
1134 of June.
Mr. Hillock said that was tbe canal way.

On the sulject of the above proceeding, The
Times say.---" To the admirers of law, as an instru-
ment of torture—of that torture which preys upon
the soul itself—we recommend the report of last
Thursday's proceedings at Lancaster, in the case of
the Bridge•street Gang against poor Ridgway. He
brought up 20 witnesses, at an expense to him over.
wbelmingi on the understanding that he was to be

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