The Sun.
London, England, 1837-05-26 00:00:00

THE KING' V. CHAPMAN.

A rule had been obtained in this case for a criminal in-
formation to be filed against the defendant for alleged im-
proper conduct at the last election of Town-councillors for
the borough of Bridgewater. The affidavits stated that
the defendant, being Returning-officer of the borough, went
to a voter named Crage, and canvassed him for certain can-
didates, and that the voter said that he alWays voted on the
other side, but after some conversation turned to his wife,
and asked her what he should do. She sa:d, " Why, John,
Mr. Chapman has, before now, been a friend to you and
yours ; you might as well oblige him." The voter con-
sented to do so, but said he meant to vote for a person
named Coulthurst. The defendant, to please him, struck
out. ono of Luc et! ot tue canuniates tie was can-
vassing for, and inserted the name of Coulthurst, but left
the other two names on the paper. The voter then signed
the paper with his mark. He afterwards, at the solicita-
tion of the other side, signed another voting list ; and at
the place of election a squabble arose between the de-
fendant and a person named Smith as to which paper was
to be taken as the voting paper of Crage, and in this
squabble both parties displayed some violence.

The CQURT said there was not enough shown to prove
that the defendant had been guilty of a misdemeanour.
Rule refused accordingly.

BAIL COURT, MAY 25.
GUNN V. PAWLS.

Mr. Jervis appeared for the plaintiff in this case. It
was an action to recover damages for slanderous words
spoken by the defendant of the plaintiff. The plaintiff, it
appeared, was a bill discounter, and ths defendant on the
Stock Exchange. On the 12th March the latter came to the
house where the former lodged, in Norton street, and called
out loudly enough to be heard by the lodgers in the house,
" You have got a precious thief in your house." On the
16th of March the plaintiff received from his landlord, Mr.
Hammond, notice to quit, and shortly afterwards a gentle-
man who had been accustomed to discount bills for him re-
fused to cash some which he took to him for that purpose.
Those circumstances the plaintiff attributed to the words
spoken by the defendant, as above stated. The Jury found
for the defendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, MAT Z.

GRANT V. LAINbON.

Mr. THOMAS moved for a rule nisi for a new trial in this
case, on the ground that the verdict was against evidence.
This was an action brought for trespass and false impri-
sonment tried at Westminster during the sittings after last
Term, before Mr. Justice Vaughan, when it appeared that
the plaintiff, who Was a butler in the service of a gentle-
man named Bates, had been arrested under a writ of capias
ad satisfaciendunt for the costs in an action of Grant v.
Lainson, in which the plaintiff had been nonsuited, and the
. main question in the cause was, whether the present plain-
tiff had authorised, or been in any way a party to, the for-
mer action. The defendant's case was not made out to the
satisfaction of the Jury, who gave a verdict for the plaintiff.
Damages 2001.
The COURT thought the case required some investiga-
tion, and therefore granted a rule nisi.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MI r 25.
IN RE THOMSON.

Mr. SimPKlNsobr, in pursuance of the arrangement made
on Tuesday, moved the full Court to set aside the writ of
privilege which had been sued out by Robert Thomson,
one of the clerks in the office of the Deputy-Remembran-
cer of this Court, for the purpose of enjoining Sir Thomas
Marsh from proceeding against him in The Court of Chan-
cery upon a bill against several defendants, of whom Thom-
son was one.—Motion refused.

PREROGATIVE COURT, Mir 25.
LORD SONDES AND WATSON V. NEAME.

This is a question as to the validity of some testamen-
tary papers propounded as containing the final intentions of
the late Lord Sondes, of Lees Court, in the county of
Kent, who died on the 14th of March, 1836. The con-
tents of the paper, it will be remembered, were given by
word of mouth by his. Lordship on his death-bed, and were
reduced into writing by his brother, the present Lord, dur-
ing the lifetime of the deceased. The papers are opposed
by the executors of a previous wiil and codicil.
The Learned JUDGE stated that he should take time to
consider the case, but trusted that he would be able to give
his judgment after the completion of the business on the
next session'of the Arches Court.

MR. WARD'S " ILLUSTRATIONS OF HUMAN
LIFE."—" Tremaine" at once established Mr. Ward's fame as
a philosophidal novelist—" De Vere" increased the wide-
spread fame " Tremaine's" author bad already gained—and
the present " Illustrations of Human Life" are so deservedly
entitled to admiration that they must add another wreath to
the laurels Mr. Ward has acquired. Almost every chapter
has an elegant essay on the beauties of nature or the improve-
ments of art; and the keen and searching criticisms on men
,und books which are dispersed throughout the volumes are
written with the most floxing gracefulness and the soundest
judgment.—Dublin Evening Packet.
On. Whit-Monday two fine trout were caught in the
mill-tail of Mr. Leonard's Town Mills, Newbury. The weight
of one wts 91bs., and the other Vbs.—Reading Mercury.
YENETIA.—This new work of Mr. Disraeli's
seems, as on former similar occesions, to have variously stirred
up the feelings of the critics. The Literary Gazette, howe-
ver, appears inclined to afford the fullest share of testimony to
the genius and talent of this highly-gifted writer, whose pro-
, ductions are tinged with much of that poetic feeling that shone
forth so brightly in the works of his new hero, Lord Byron,
who figures in the present volumes under the name of Lord
Cadurcis,