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London, England, 1839-08-05 00:00:00

LONDON, MONDAY, AUGUST 5, 1839.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT.
BELLAMY V. ELOAR,
Mr. Knight Bruce applied for an injunction to restrain the
defendant from the erection of certain offices in Hanover-
square, so as to interrupt the light or cause annoyance to the
tenants of the houses, Nos. 16 and 17 in the square, the
property of the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel read
several affidavits, from which it appears that the defendant
had erected a hoard, which considerably blocked out the
light from the houses of the plaintiff, and that if the erec-
tion of the offices in question by the defendant were not
prevented, the value of the plaintiff's houses would be de-
teriorated.

Mr. JAcons opposed the injunction.
The VICB..CHANCELLOR said that although the affidavits
of the plaintiff were worded somewhat metaphorically, and
did not set forth the simple facts of the case so plainly as
they might have done, yet he had not the slightest doubt
from the models exhibited in Court, that the annoyance to
the houses of the plaintiff by the erection of the offices pro-
posed by the defendant, would be very great, and that
therefore the injunction must be granted.

INSOLVENT DEBTOR'S COURT.

objection to have an asylum in the Compter for a week, so
that in the mean time something might be done for him?
The prisoner cheerfully acquiesced in the suggestion.
An order was then given that the lad should be supplied
with clothes from the " City wardrobe," and it was to be
understood that he was sent to the prison for shelter.
W. Hooper, one of the light-fingered gentry who infest
Fleet-street and its vicinity, was charged with "diving." /41r.
Green, an assistant surgeon, stated, that when walking
down Fetter-lane, on the preceding day, the prisoner ran
hastily by him, and an eating house keeper told him that
he bad been robbed. The prisoner was pursued to the
yard of a house in the vicinity, and while the policeman
(Hall, 49) was searching the privy, the prisoner was seen
to draw the handkerchief from the dust-bin. The eating_
housekeeper was not in attendance. Complainant did not
wish to press the charge, as he had recovered his handker_
chief.—Mr. Alderman Brown said he had a public duty to
perform, and he should remand the prisoner until Tuesday,
when the prosecutor must attend, and the:officer was di-
rected to summon the person who saw the theft committed.
The prisoner pleaded that he was not the person who took
the handkerchief, but declared that he picked it up in the
street ; but he could give no satisfactory account of his
flight, and concealment of the article.

POLICE COMMITTEE.
CAUTION TO PUBLICANS.--Mr, W. Nunn, the landlord
of the Noah's Ark public-house, Shoe-lane, was summoned
by police-sergeant Hodge, No, 76. The complainant
stated that last Sunday morning week, about a quarter to
two o'clock, he was desired to go to the defendant's house,
where he found from twelve to fifteen persons, some of
whom were drunk, and some were drinking at the bar, and
a great noise and disturbance was created.—A police con-
stable confirmed this fact, and said he was directed by a
gentleman to interfere. —Mr. Nunn pleaded that he had
only been eighteen days landlord of the house, and said
the principal part of the persons there were connected with
Farringdon-market, which did not close until after mid-
night. He tried to get them out, but could not. —Mr. Al-
derman Venab!es said then he was an unfit person to have a
licence in the City, and fined him 403. and costs.
Mr. Martin, the landlord of the Blue Last, Little Bell-
alley, was charged with selling and sending out liquor
during the hours of divine service on Sunday mornings.
It was proved that
.the defendant's servant man brought out
the liquor, and delivered it to customers outside the house.
—The defendant did not deny the charge, and admitted
that he bad been admonished by the officers on former coca.
sions.—He was also fined in the sum of 40s. and costs, and
cautioned to be more circumspect in future, or perhaps his
licence would be placod in jeopardy,

MARLBORO UGH- STREET.
JEALOUSY.—Wm. Elford was brought before Mr.
Dyer and Mr. Courtoy, charged with having attempted
the life of Adam Gibb, by stabbing him in several places
with a shoemaker's knife. Jealousy was the cause of the
occurrence. The complainant appeared with his head
bound up, and other unequivocal proofs of having had
a sharp struggle for life. His story was, that after drink-
ing with the prisoner and his wife at a public-house, he
proposed to take a pot of ale to the prisoner's lodgings,
and to drink it there. The prisoner acceded to the pro-
posal, and all three went to Calmell-buildings, Oxford-
street, where the prisoner lodged. The prisoner became
intoxicated, and went and placed himself in the bed. Soon
afterwards be called his wife, who came and laid herself
by his side. Complainant seated himself at the side of the
bed, and while there the prisoner suddenly jumped up,
seized a shoemaker's knife, and attacked him with it.
Complainant rushed out of the room, followed by the pri-
soner, who continued stabbing him in a state of the most
ungovernable fury. Complainant being wounded in seve-
ral places was obliged to be taken to the hospital.
The policeman said when he first saw the complainant
he was deluged in blood from the wounds inflicted by the
prisoner.

The surgeon's certificate was to the effect that the
wounds were slight, and no danger was to be apprehended.
The complainant tried to deny the imputed criminality ;
but the prisoner's manner and bis statements were sufficient
to convince every one that he had good cause for his jea-
lous feelings.
Mr. DYER, taking into consideration the extreme pro-
vocation received by the prisoner, told him he should only
call upon him to find bail for the assault, and the prisoner
might indict him if be those.

BOW-STREET.
DEMANDING AN EXPLANATION.—On Saturday Edward
Price, a young man of _very respectable appearance, was
charged with obstructing a policeman in the execution of
his duty.—F 94 stated that about a month since he appre-
hended the defendant in the Strand, for being drunk and
disorderly. On Saturday morning, about four o'clock, he
met him again in the Strand, when the defendant came up
and demanded an explanation why he (witness) had taken
him into custody on a former occasion. Witness told him
to go about his business, upon which be flourished a thick
stick over his head, and swore he would split his ugly
skull if he did not give him an explanation, and thereupon
he took him into custody.
Defendant, in answer to the charge, denied flourishing
the stick, but admitted that he was anxious foran explana-
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ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.-.--IVEIVCASTLE AUGUST 1.
The business of the assizes terminated to-day, and at its
conclusion the prisoner, Archibald Bolam, was placed in
the dock to receive sentence. No alteration had taken
place in his appearance. He still preserved the same cool
unmoved demeanour.
On being asked by the clerk of arraigns if he had any
thing to say why sentence should not be passed on him for
the offence of which he had been convicted, be replied in a
firm, clear voice, " My Lord, I declare before God and
you I am innocent of the death of Joseph Millie."
His LORDSHIP then passed sentence in the following
words :—" Archibaldßolam, you have been found guilty by
the jury, after a full inquiry into the evidence, of the offence
of manslaughter. The jury have certainly come to the
most mitigated and mild conclusion they could arrive at,
upon the conviction chat you caused the death of Joseph
Millie. They must have believed you caused that death,
and I hope the belief was well founded, from sudden excite-
ment on a provocation arising from some unforseen quarrel.
You protest you are innocent. lam entirely unable to
give the smallest weight to that protestation, as you must
be well aware I am bound to act upon the verdict of the
jury, and it is a verdict with which I do not see any reason
to be dissatisfied. It seems to me the facts proved you
were engaged in the manslaughter.
The prisoner here said—" I beg your pardon, my Lord,
but your Lordship speaks so low I cannot hear you."
Mr. Baron Mat:LE—lt is not of much consequence, but
I will speak louder.--Considering this is a case in which
the jury have considered you committed the offence of
I manslaughter, I can now consider only the mode in which
Joseph Millie was killed, and the circumstances under
which his death took place. Now, it appears it must have
taken place upon some quarrel arising between the hours
of half-past three and half-past five o'clock. In that short
time some quarrel, some strong excitement in your mind
—strange, indeed, for a person of your habits and cha-
racter—must have arisen to cause you to take away his
life. The jury must have come to some conclusion of
that kind, or they would have found that there was pre-
vious malice, and then your life would have been forfeited,
Now, considering that you killed this unfortunate man by
striking him with a poker, breaking his skull to pieces,
and shedding his blood in a most frightful way, it is a case
of most aggravated manslaughter. Nobody can doubt the
person who committed the offence—and you are found to
be that person—did commit the offence of aggravated man-
slaughter. I feel bound, therefore, :o give you the ex-
treme punishment of the law for that offence. The sentence
of the Court is that you be transported beyond the:seas for
the term of your natural life.
The prisoner—My Lord, I regard that sentence as my
death.

He was then removed from the dock, amid the hisses of
the persons assembled in Court.
The commission of assize opens at Carlisle to-day, and
:he business will commence to-morrow.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT—NoawIca, JULY 31.
_Henry Lane, a farming labourer, was capitally indicted
for a felonious assault on Frances Curzen, on the 22E1 of
May.

Sir. PALMER conducted the prosecution, and Mr. COOPER
the defence.

The evidence in support of the prosecution went to
show that the prosecutrix, who was sixty years of age,
was looking after some donkeys in a field neer Stiff key
on the morning of the day in quesion, and about five
o'clock was assaulted by a person dressed like the prisoner,
who perpetrated the offqnce charged in the indictment.
It seemed that the night before there had been a fair or
feast in the neighbourhood, at which a great many agricul-
tural labourers were present, who indulged in other potations
than those which teetotallers recommend, to a very late
hour. Many of those were dressed like the prisoner, with
white sl ,p frock and hat, such as labourers in those parts
wear, and as the prosecutrix swore to the person of the man
only from his dress, the evidence of identity was extremely
weak. Besides, she stated that the person who assaulted
her was not drunk, whereas it appeared that the prisoner
was drunk that morning after the share he had taken in
the conviviality of the feast. The Counsel for the pri-
soner, and -the Learned Judge, in addressing the Jury,
placed the insufficiency of the evidence strongly before
them, notwithstanding which the Jury retired and remained
out a consierable time, but on their return into Court pro-
nounced a verdict of Not Guilty.

MONMOUTH.
A true bill has been found against Vincent, Townsend,
Dickenson, and Edwards, and they are now on their trial ;
a true bill bas likewise been found against Frost, Vincent,
and Edwards for sedition and conspiracy.