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London, England, 1862-04-12 00:00:00

COMMITIBE _POP PRIVILEGES.

HOUSE OF LORDS, APRIL 11.
Their Lordships nat this- morning as a Committee
for P:ivileges, Lord Granworth, in the absence of
Lord Redesdaie, in the chair.
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THE INCHIQUIN PEERAGE.
This was the claim of the Right Hon. Lucius
Lord Inchiquin, in the Peerage of Ireland, on his
claim to vote at the election of Representative Peers
for Ireland as the 13th Baron of Inchignitt.
It appeared from the petitioner's case that the
family of O'Brien was for many generations pos-
sessed of extensive estates in the south and west of
Ireland, and, in the reign of Henry VIII., were
styled Princes of Thomond, the Chief, succeeding
each other by the Irish custom of Tanistry. As it
was the policy of the Government of England at
that period to conciliate the Irish, Murrough
O'Brien, the Tanist Prince of Thomond, who was
induced to !abandon his title of Prince, was, by
letters patent bearing date at Greenwich, the Ist
of July, 1543, created a Peer of Ireland as Earl of
Thomond for his own life, with remainder to his
nephew, the representative of the elder branch
of the family, and 'by the same patent he was
also created Baron of Inchiquin, with a
limitation of that title to the heirs male
of his body. The dignity of Baron of Inchi-
quin descended from father to son to Mur-
rough, the sixth lord, who was created Earl of
Inchiquin, and the two peerages descended to Wil-
liam the fourth Earl and ninth Baron of Inchiquin,
who died without issue. James the third son of
William, the brother of Murrough, succeeded to the
titles, and his son Murrough was created Marquis
of Thomond in Ireland with a limitation to the
heirs male of his body, and in default of such issue
to his' brother Ed ward and the heirs male of his
body. At the union of Great Britain and Ireland
he was created by letters patent a peer of the
United Kingdom by the title of Baron Thomond of
Taplow-court, in the county of Buckingham, with
a limitation to the heirs male of his body. Mur-
rough died in February, 1808, without leaving any
male issue, when the title of Lord Thomond of the
United Kingdom became extinct, and the titles of
Marquis of Thomond and Earl and Lord Inchiquin
devolved upon his nephew, William, the eldest sur-
viving son of his brother Edward, who was after-
wards created a Peer of the United Kingdom by the
title of Lord Tadcaster, and who died unmarried.
He was succeeded by his brother James, who also
died, unmarried in 1855, when the eldest branch of
the family became extinct. The petitioner claimed
as the eldest male descendant of Donough, the
second son of Murrough, the first Lord Inchiquin,
to be entitled to the dignity of Baron of Inchiquin.
The evidence on behalf of the petitioner, a part of
which was laid before their lordships during last
session, was completed to-day, and, at the conclu-
sion of the case,
The Committee agreed to report to the house
that the petitioner had made out his claim.

ASSIZE IN TEL LIGEII, CE.

HOME CIRCUIT.-KINGSTON, April 11.

(Before Lord Chief Justice Erie and a Special Jury.

LOZANO AND ANOTHER V. M MURRAY.

The plaintiffs in this action are foreign merchants,
carrying on business in London, and the defendant
carries on a very extensive business as a paper
manufacturer at Wandsworth and other places.
The action was brought to recover a sum of £4,000
upon a contract for the delivery of 1,000 tons of
esperto, or Spanish grass, to which the defendant
pleaded that the plaintiffs were not ready to per-
form the contract, and also that the quality of the
article was not according to the sample.
Mr. Bovill, Q.C., Mr. Honeyman, and Mr. Inder-
wick were counsel for the plaintiffs ; and Sergeant
Shee, Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Horace Lloyd
were for the defendant.
It appeared that the article that was the subject
of the inquiry was a peculiar description of fibrous
grass, growing in the wild districts bordering upon
the Mediterranean, and that while in a green state
it was principally used to feed the bulls that were
kept for the purposes of the bull-fights. When,
however, it became older it became of a very tough
and fibrous nature, and was made use of for the
manufacture of rope, mats, and artieles of that de-
scription. Some of this esperto was exhibited at the
Exhibition of 1851, and it appeared that it attracted
the notice of paper manufacturers as being an article
likely to be useful for the manufacture of paper, and
the defendant, who is very extensively engaged in
that business, tried an experiment with it ; and as
the price of this article, when all expenses were
paid and it was delivered in this country, was only
£4 per ton, while the price of rags was over 120,
it was thought if it could be made to answer the
purpose of the manufacture of paper the result
would be very advantageous. The defendant ap-
peared to have entered into a contract with the
plaintiffs in Sept. last for the delivery of 1,000 tons
of the grass at the price above stated, and the case
on the part of the plaintiffs was that he had
refused to carry out that contract, and the present
action was brought with a view to compel him to
do so.

Sergeant Shee addressed the jury on behalf of the
defendant, and the case he endeavoured to make
out iu his behalf was, that the article was not of the
quality it was represented to Tao, and it was upon
this ground that the claim was resisted. He called
several witnesses with a view to establish this fact.
Mr. Bovill made a very able reply on behalf of
the pi„-Lntiffs, and the learned judge having summed
up, the jury ,Tturned a verdict in their favour upon
both the issues raind in the pleadings.
This cause concludec; the business of the Surrey
,
I, assizes.

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, April 11.

(Before the Assistant-Judge.)
THE APPROACHES TO THE SESSIONS HOUSE.

The Court intimated that the solicitors for the
county would be instructed to indict the parish of
Clerken well for a nuisance, unless the approaches to
the Sessions-house were at once placed in a proper
state of repair.
Bridget Falbey, milkwoman, was indicted for
stealing and embezzling three sums, small in amount,
received by her in the capacity of servant to Charles
Glover, a cowkeeper in Eccleston-square. It was
the prisoner's duty to take the milk out to the cus-
tomers, and, of course, to account. The charge
against her was, that she had misappropriated the
money she had received.
The prosecutor had not his books with him, and
upon some legal technicalities taken by Mr. Pater,
who was counsel for the prisoner, she was acquitted.
Mr. Warton was counsel for the prosecution.
Silas Likfield, 26, carpenter, was indicted for an
indecent assault upon a girl named Sarah Cutjohn,
Mr. F. H. Lewis prosecuted for the Associate
Institute for Promoting and Enforcing the Law for
the Protection of Women. Mr. Langford defended.
The prisoner pleaded guilty, but assented that
he was innocent of the charge.
His lordship, after making some remarks upon
the frightful enormity of the prisoner's conduct,
sentenced him to hard labour for one year.
Joseph Jones, a marine-store dealer, 3, Montague-
street, Whitechapel, was indicted for feloniously
receiving a bale of jute, the property of Messrs.
Howie, of Watling-street ; Thomas Mann, dealer
in mats, 28, King Edward-straet, Mile-end-road,
was also charged as a receiver; -William Taylor, 24,
and William Taylor, 19, (not relations), were in-
dicted for stealing the property.
Mr. Sleigh and Mr. Poland prosecuted ; Taylor,
sen., was defended by Mr. Cooper; Taylor, jun.,
,by Mr. Ribton and Mr. floldsworth ; Jones by Mr.
Tayler ; Mann by Mr. Best.
The prosecutors are carriers in an extensive way
of business, and the two Taylors were in their em-
ployment. They were ordered to take some jute
from Shad Thames to Lower East Smithfield, and
on the way one 'bale was abstracted from the bulk
and left at Jones's sill). Mann received it from
Jones.
The learned counsel for the defence addressed the
jury for their respective clients.
Mann was acquitted ; the three other prisoners
were found Guilty. The sentence was postponed,
to allow of feeble, the officer in the case, to supply
the Court with further inforn,ation.
,
The following gentlemen have been placed in the
Commission of the Peace for this county :—Alexan-
der E. Miller, Esq., Ashford House; William
Fowler Mountford Copeland, Esq., Henry Green,
Esq., Poplar ; Hear-Admiral Sir Henry Leeke, C.

W. Faber, Esq., Northaw ; Jonathan Rashleigh,
Esq., 3, Cumberland-place ; Sir Frederick Arthur,
Henry Hucks Gibbs, Esq,, St. Duestan's, Regent's
Park; John France, Esq., Bloomsbury-square ;
Benjamin Sharp, Esq., Hanwell ; Sir Charles
Wentworth Dilke, 76, Sloane-street ; Robert R.
Robinson' Esq., of Westbourne-terrace ; Henry
Robarts, Esq., Stamford-hill ; David Bigg, Esq.,
Cannons, Edgware ; Mr. ex-Sheriff Abbiss, Pon-
der's. end ; Mr. ex-Sheriff Lusk, Westbourne-ter-
race ; J. W. Hallet, Esq., Little George-street,
Westminster; Lauchlan Mackinnon, Esq., Bellamy
House, Mile-end ; Sir Richard Charles Kirby, Har-
wood square; George Morley, Esq., Clapton ;
George Martin, Esq., Clapton ,• George Banks,
Esq., 30, Abingdon-street ; Patrick Douglas
Hajcno, F.sq., Sunbury Park, Harrow; Captain
Dedman, ficisize Park, Hampstead; Henry
Edwards, Esq., 53, Berkeley-square; Charles White,
Esq., Lime-street ;ai"dEdward Shephard, Esq.,
Aberdeen Park, Highbury.

POLICE INTELLIGENCZ.--April 11.

SOUTHWARK.—GAROTTIN67 A YOUNG LADY.
—John Lambert, a tall, powerful-looking man, wos
placed at the bar before Mr. Combe for further ex-
amination, charged with seriously assaulting Miss
Catherine Mann, a young lady, residing in the City,
and robbing her of a valuable gold watch and chain,
in Blackman-street, Borough.
As soon as the ease was called, a gentleman,
carrying on business as a stationer, near the Royal
Exchange, informed his worship that Miss Mann
was so seriously injured from her encounter with
the ruffian who attacked and robbed her, that she
was unable to leave her home and give evidence
that day. lie must therefore ask for another
remand.
Mr. Lewis, son., who attended for the prisoner,
objected to anything of the sort. His client had
been in custody now three weeks, upon the weakest
evidence ever offered in a comt of justice. In fact
there ,was no evidence whatever to implicate the
prisoner.
Mr. Combe wds not of Mr. Leavigla opinion.
According to the evidence given by Miss Mann,
when she attended on the 25th ultimo, it app Pared
that about half-past seven o'clock on the previous
evening she was proceeding from the City towards
the Elephant and Castle, and when nearly opposite
Lant-street and Blackman-street she was seized by
the throat and nearly strangled. She struggles
violently with the ruffian, who eventually robbed
her of her gold watch and chain and made his
escape. The prisoner was seen to run from her up
Lant-street into a house in the Mint, where he
made his escape, but he was apprehended on the
following morning in the Mint for riotous conduct,
and when at the station-house Miss Mann picked
him out from several others as the man who at-
tacked and robbed her, and she was corroborated
by the lad who saw him run up Lant-street. He
(Mr. Combe) considered that there was quite suffi-
cient evidence for him to detain the prisoner until
the young lady was able to come forward and com-
plete her evidence.
Me. Lewis observed that ho was in a condition to
contradict the testimony of the young lady and the
lad. He was instructed to say that his client was
not in Blackman-street at the time of the robbery.
Not only that, his warship would not surely further
remand the prisoner unless there was medical testi-
mony as to the young lady's inability to attend.
His client was a respectable young man, and inno-
cent of anything of the kind.
A city detective here stepped forward, and said
he had known the prisoner some time as the asso-
ciate of thieves, and he had been convicted of pick-
ing pockets.
Mr. Combe further remanded the prisoner until
Thursday next, when he hoped the young lady
would be able to attend and complete her evidence.

WORSHIPS STREET.—THE GAROTTING CASE.
—Lydia Hartley, charged frequently with being
concerned in the robbery of jewellery from a Mr.
Richard Pearce, and his subsequent death resulting
from the violence consequent thereon, was again
placed at the bar before Mr. Knox.
Mr. Beard again attended in defence of the pri-
soner.
At the last hearing it was understood that the
police would on the next remand bring forward
testimony that should implicate the prisoner, on her
own admission, of participation in this frightful
outrage. It was not, however, forthcoming, and
Mr. Beard strongly pressed upon the attention on
the magistrate the several points tending to show
that his client stood perfectly apart from any par-
ticipation in the actual outrage, even admitting that
she was cognisant of the persons who were in her
company when she left the Spread Eagle, Kings-
land-road, with the gentleman since deceased.
Mr. Knox, after running through the previous
evidence, again, at the request of the police who
have the conduct of the case, remanded the prisoner
for a week.
THE RETIREMENT OF MR. KNOX FROM THIS
COURT.—It was not generally understood that Mr.
Knox, who has prominently taken his stand as a
magistrate at this Court for a comparatively brief
period, retired officially this day, consequently the
adieus were far between. Mr. Beard and Mr.
Heritage were, indeed, the only attorneys in court
on the occasion who had the opportunity of taking
leave. All persons attached to the court were
highly complimented, in accordance with Mr.
Knox's well-known courtesy, upon their general
efficiency in the several duties upon which they
were engaged. But few gentlemen will quit their
magisterial position more respected here than Mr.
Knox.

TILE CHARGE OF THRE A TENING LORD
S.HAF2BASTU.RT.

Mr. William Cole, charged with threatening the
life of the Earl of Shaftesbury, was again brought
up yesterday at Bow-street Court, in custody of
Sergeant Brown, of the A division of police, and
placed at the bar before Mr. Henry.
The Earl of Shaftesbury was now in attendance,
and occupied a seat upon the bench.
A solicitor, whose name was not stated, appeared
for the defence.

The following certificate from Dr. Bainbridge,
the medical officer of St. Martin's, was produced by
the officer, and read by Mr. Burnaby, the chief
clerk :

" St. Martin-in-the-Fields Workhouse,
April 10, 1862.
" I hereby certify that I have carefully examined
William Cole as to his sanity, and am of opinion
that he is of perfectly sound mind.
" WILLIAM BAINBRIDdE, M.D.
" To the officiating magistrate, Police-court,
Bow-street."
The Earl of Shaftesbury was then sworn.
'Mr. Henry—Lord Shaftesbury, you have heard
the expressions deposed to by the witness, Mr.
Storer ?

The Earl of Shaftesbury—l have, Sir.
Mr. Henry—From those expressions, and from
what you yourself have seen of the defendant's con-
duct, do you think you are in danger of violence at
his hands ?

The Earl of Shaftesbury—l should say that,
judging from what I saw myself of his violent
conduct and manner, from what I have heard of
his antecedents, and from the statement of Mr.
Storer, that the defendant said he would smash or
slay me, I really believe that in a moment of excite-
ment he would be capable of using personal violence
to me, and I think it desirable that you should give
me that protection from his violence which the law
affords.

Mr. Henry—l understand that there are present
some members of his family—his brother, I think.
A gentleman, who was understood to be the de-
fendant's brother, here rose and said he was deputed
by his father and other members of the family to
request that they might be protected from insult on
the part of the defendant.
while he could
announced himself, here said that
The defendant's attorney, who had not hitherto
not
Lord Shaftesbury, after the
charge preferred by
in conscience offer any observatlons on the
been given, he must protest
against the introduction
of family matters.
Mr. Henry—l had not the slightest intention
that family matters should be introduced. But I
did not know the defendant had a solicitor—as you
did not say that you appeared for him. I wished
to give his friends an opportunity—not of intro-
ducing family matters—but of saying anything in
his behalf. With reference to his threat against
Lord Shaftesbury you must see that I am bound to
protect him and the public.
The Attorney—Certainly, sir. The threats which
are so distinctly sworn to are such as clearly ought
never to have been used, and I feel that there is no
answer to the case, though having known the de-
fendant for years, I am sure that with all his exag•
Berated manner, he really Would not injure any
one.
The defendant—Lord Shaftesbury no more goes
in fear of violence from me, sir, than you do.
Mr. Henry—You certainly made use of threats
which were calculated to excite alarm in the mind
of any one. After what has been proved, 1 must
call upon you to enter into recognisances, yourself
in £lOO, and to find two sureties in IN each to be
bound for your good behaviour for twelve months.
I shall require 48 hours' notice of bail.
The defendant received the magistrate's decision
with perfect equanimity, merely replying, " Cer-
tainly, sir." Then gathering up his blue cap:and
particoloured rug, which he had placed on the floor
of the dock, he bowed to the magistrate, and was
remoyed in custody of the gaoler.