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London, England, 1839-12-03 00:00:00

Mr. JAMES—Does your Lordship think the Company
ought to be put to all this expense ?
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—I think the costs should be
apportioned according to the purchase money in Court,
and that advanced by the party.
The Learned Gentleman who appeared for the peti-
tioner, said- there could be no additional costs except the

stamp.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON—You have no business to
make a purchase of this description for your own con-
venience with the Company's money, because you
might buy an estate of 20,000/. and pay 19,750/. of
your own money.
The costs were then ordered to be paid as suggested
by his Lordship.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dffc. 2.
(Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice MAULE and
a Special Jury )
CURRIE V. ALMON.
This was an action for a malicious prosecution for
forging a bill of exchange. The pleas were, first, that
the plaintiff had forged or uttered the bill ; and, thirly,
that the bill was forged by an unknown person to
plaintiff's knowledge.
Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. V. Richards, and Mr.
Henderson, were for the plaintiff ; Mr. Kelly and Mr.
Jervis for defendant.
It seemed that a person calling himself Col. Adair
had ordered regimentals of plaintiff, a military tailor,
and had given 841. in cash, and the bill in question,
which, in the ordinary course of business, were sent to
defendant. Thiy had subsequently quarrelled, and de-
fendant had asserted that the plaintiff had passed the
bill off as accepted by a Col. Adair, of Plymouth. Plaintiff
had entered an action against the defendant for slander,
having before taken up the bill (the first Col. Adair who
had accepted it, not paying it), and then the defendant
prosecuted plaintiff for the forgery, unsuccessfully, the
case being at once discharged.
Mr. KELLY, for the defendant, abandoned the forg-
ing and uttering pleas, but contended that there was
proof of the bills being forged by this person calling
himself Colonel Adair, the acceptor, with the know-
ledge of plaintiff.
The principal witness for defendant was his brother,
who deposed to a certain conversation, seeming to point
to the Colonel Adair, of Plymouth, as the acceptor.
Bnt the conversation grew out of, and appeared to re-
late to some clothes which plaintiff was making for Col.
Adair's sons.
Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD replied ; and after the
Judge had summed up, the Jury returned a verdict of
2001. damages.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.
(Before the RECORDER.)
William Lewis was indicted for stealing two pictures
and several articles of wearing apparel, the property of
a person named Hazlewood, and Cecilia Lewis and
Jeniima Dorset with receiving the same, well knowing
them to have been stolen. There was another count
charging the female prisoners with receiving the goods
from some evil disposed person.
It appeared from the evidence of Ann Hazlewood,
that on the evening of the l Ith of November, she left
her house, 4, Milton-place, at seven o'clock, and closed
the street door, leaving the property in question in her
parlour. On her return, at nine o'clock, she found the
street door open, and the property gone.
Two policemen had watched the prisoner, Dosset,
carrying a bundle to the lodgings of the prisoner, Cecilia
Lewis, who is her sister. They followed her in, and
found the bundle contained the linen stolen from Mrs.
Hazlewood. The pictures were found underneath the
prisoner Lewis's bed. On the person of the male pri-
soner were found a bundle of skeleton keys, two of
which would open the street door of the prosecutrix's
house.
The male prisoner, Lewis, denied all knowledge of
the transaction, and the other prisoners stated that they
had found the bundle.
The RECORDER summed up, and stated that it ap-
peared from the evidence that the prisoner, Dosset, had
received the goods from her husband, who was not yet in
custody, and therefore she could not be convicted for
receiving goods from her husband. This also occa-
sioned some legal difficulties, as regarded the prisoner
Cecilia Lewis, who, it was proved, had received the
goods from Jemima Dossett ; but he thought if the
Jury were of opinion that she knew the goods to havo
been stolen, the safer course would be to find her guilty,
and the point should be reserved for the opinion of the
Judges.
The Jury then found the prisoners William Lewis
and Cecilia Lewis Guilty, and acquitted the poisoner
Jemima Dossett.
The RECORDER said that William Lewis being con-
victed, there no longer remained any difficulty as re-
garded Cecilia Lewis.
The two convicts were afterwards called up for judg-
ment, when William Lewis was sentenced to be trans-
ported for 15 years and the female for ten years.
In the course of the day two boys, aged 10 years,
convicted of burglary, were sentenced to be transported
for 10 years. Two other boys of the same ages, and
another aged 11, were convicted of a similar offence,
but strongly recommended to mercy by the jury on
account of their tender years.
The RECORDER sentenced them to be imprisoned for
one month.
The case of John Biron, the Master of the John
Rennick convict ship, who stands indicted for embezzling
and secreting certain naval stores, the propsrty of the
Crown, and which should have been appropriated to the
maintenance of convicts on their voyage to New South
Wales, in the above vessel, was called on at the sitting
of the Court.
The defendant, who had been admitted to hail, did
not appear in discharge of the recognizances of his bail.
Mr. Shepherd, with whom were Mr. Adolphus end
Mr. Phillips, were in attendance on behalf of the
Crown. The defendant's case was in the hands of
Messrs. Clarkson, Bodkin, and Ballantine.
Upon the defendant not answering when called upon
his recognizances,
Mr. SHEPHERD applied to the Court for the estreat
of the recognizances of the bail.
After some conversation between the Counsel and
the Recorder, it was ultimately arranged, with the con-
sent of the prosecutors, that the trial should stand over
until next session, and that the recognizances of the
bail should in the meantime be respited.
SENTENCES AND SESSIONAL RESULTS
In the course of yesterday several prisoners who had
been convicted during the Session were brought into
the New Court to receive judgment. The results arc
as follow :
Sentenced to Death—William Lees.
Death recorded against David Pikesley.
Transported for Fifteen Years—Jos. Henry.
Transported for Fourteen Years—Elizabeth Parker.
Transported for Ten Years—Elizabeth Mullens,
Thomas Kinbley, Thomas Evans, Mary Smith, Jo-
seph Sheen.
Transported for Seven Years—W. Brown, Thomas
Lambert, J. Jennison, Alfred Tayler, J. Markie, Ann
Gwyn, Thomas Williams, Zach. Norris, B. Draper,
T. Bygrom, J. Middleton, J. Stow, Margaret Nolan,
George Fox, Charlotte Fitzgerald, William Turner,
Henry Sullivan.
The following were sentenced to imprisonment and
hard labour in the House of Correction :
For Two Years—W. Brown, J. Smith.
For One Year—J. Samuel West, John B. Good,
Joseph Dryatt, Frederick Sable, J. Smith, J. Brown,
W. Cotton, E. P. Wood alias Hood, J. Andrews.
For Nine Months—Mary Hooker, :William George
Smith, Edward I'yrell, J. Vallentine, Sarah Jackson
Abraham Arnold.
For Six Months—Charlotte Evans, W. Benton,
Bridget Sullivan, George Smith, Ann Richardson,
Joseph Hayes, J. Quinton, J. Thomas, Charles Branch,
John Smith, J. Holgate, J. Hill, Henry Lock, Thomas
Brown.

For Four Months—Joseph Robinson, James Smith.
For Three Months—Mary Ann Hollswell, James
Kirk, Terence Churchill, W. Hooker, Bridget Murphy,
Eliza Nicholls, Eliza Tulkins, Robert Kenny, Ann
Cannaway, James Johnson, Charles Johnson, George
Taylor, Thomas Matthews, Charles Shearer, William
Clark, Banks, J. Britchford, Eliza Pitcher, J.
Coile, J. Hested.
For Two Months—W. Turner, Bridget Kelly,
W. Chea.
For One Month—Mary Caldara, Thomas Jones,
James Redding, G. Smith, George Davis, W. Holland.
For Fourteen Days and Under—Abraham Anslow,
D. Corbett, Eliza Smith, E. Cook, Thomas White,
James Moss.
The following were acquitted by the Petit Jury,
viz.:—Jane Kick, Ann Stevens, Ann Clark, Thomas
Simmons, Francis Moore, S. Wingfield, W. H. Baker,
J. Coldery, A. Bartlett, Ann Edwards, H. Bradley, M.
W. Wood, W. Leather, W.
A. Smith, John Taylor,
Leather the younger, Thomas Faulkner.
The following pleaded guilty to the charges preferred
against them :—Ann Maley, John Heated, E. Wilkins,
A. Price, W. Beaton, Emma Ellard, Mary Thornhill,
J. Draycott, J. B. Good, W. Brown, Thomas Williams,
J. Hill, T. Smith, James Robinson.
Judgments respired upon Elizabeth Harriet Tuff,
Charlotte H. Tuff, Ann Muley, James Taunton.
To be Privately Whipped—Dennis Corbett, William
Payne, William Pettigrew, John Thomas, Thos. White,
George Coile.
Excepting the last named, they were all ordered to be
delivered to their friends after the sentence had been
carried into effect.
The Court, at its rising, adjourned to Monday, the
16th inst.

COUNTY COURT OF REQUESTS

A LUCKY BIT o' GooLD.—Jur M'Gililcuddy sum-
moned Taydy Nl‘Gucchen for an " oul' half ginney" that
Jur had circumvented him out of.

Plaze your honour's wurtchip (says Jur) it's an un-
looky lump of a divil that rogue Taydy M'Gucchen is
to me--he's bin tallier cosherin me out o' my oul' bit
o' goold, that my oul' granny (God rest her sowl!)