The Sun.
London, England, 1838-03-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, ilf_incrr 17.
lIARGREAVE V. TILE LANCASTER RAILROAD COMPANY.
This was a motion by Mr. Jacob to dissolve an injunction
obtained ex pante by Mr. C. Knight, to restrain the defendants
from continuing their works upon a certain -piece of ground
belonging to Mr. Hargreave, now in the occupation of Mr.
Lindo, at Lancaster
The VICE- CHANCELLOR said, that looking at the facts stated
in the affidavits, he thought that as this Cout t had no equity
to effect what the plaintiff sought, the motion to dilsolve the
injunction must be allowed with costs, and the cross-motion to
extend the injunction must be dismissed with costs.
MONDAY, MARCH 19.
BENT V. YOUNG.
Mr. KNIGHT BRUCE appeared in support of a. demurrer to
a bill of discovery, in aid of a defence to a suit befor% a
foreign tribunal. From the statements in the bill it appeared
that the plaintiff was the owner of a plantation at Surinam,
subject to a mortgage for 10,0001. to the house of Richards,
Mackintosh, and Co., and that Sir William Young, the de-
fendant, had purchased the mortgage debt for a sum consider-
ably below its amount, and had commenced, or given instruc•
tions for commencing, a suit before the proper tribunal at Su-
rinam for the recovery of the full amount of the debt. The
bill alleged that by the Dutch law, which was administered at
at Surinam, the assignee of a mortgage or charge on landed
estate there was only entitled to recover the amount of his
purchase money with interest, although the sum due on the
security might exceed that amount ; and finally, it averred that
by reason of Sir W.'s continued residence in this country the
defendant was unable, without the aid of an English Court of
equity, to obtain personal discovery from him in aid of the in-
tended defence. The demurrer was supported on the ground
that this Court would not be ancillary for the purpose of dis-
covery to a foreign tribunal.
Mr. WIGRAM supported the Bill.
His HONOUR allowed the demurrer.

ROLLS' COURT, MARen 19.
MARR V. WILLIAMS.
In this case the Bill was filed for the specific performance of
an agreement alleged to hare been entered into by the plain-
tiff and defendant to take, on certain terms, the lease of a house
at St. John's Wood. The case has been before the Court in
a former stage. His Lordship the Master of the Rolls, in giv-
ing judgment, was of opinion that the 'defence set up alto-
gether failed--that there must be a specific performance of
the agreement—and that the defendant, who had occasioned
the whole of the expense, must pay the costs of the suit.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, MARCH 19.
Samuel Brown Harper, whose case was reported on
Saturday, came up to-day for adjudication. Ibis young man,
the son of a tavern-keeper in the city, was described as an
under-graduate of Cambridge and an " author." His debts,
for which he had received consideration, amounted to 2,1941.
He had thirty-five creditors and no debtors; but on the pro-
perty page of the schedule he set forth that he was the author
of " Bertrand," a tragedy, which was in the hands of Mr.
Fraser, the publisher (a creditor), but the copyright was of
"no value." There were payments on the general balance.
sheet to Clubs, for hunting and shouting expenses. He had
several tailors in the schedule. He had paid for discounted
renewals of bills the large amount of 8001.—He was discharged.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.

Charles Sealy, William Bailey and JasephCallaghaa were charged
by Henry Wood, bootmaker, Broad.street, Bloomsbury, with breaking
into his shop, and stealing five pair of boots and other articles.
It appeared that the complainant does not occupy the entire of ;he
house, and on locking up the shop on Saturday night he left his roods
safe, and went to his lodgings. The next morning he was inforr,ned by
the police of what had happened, and on going to visit the rieemises,
found that the middle door in the passage had been forced, open, and
every thing in his shop thrown into the greatest disorder.
Thomas Bandon, cheesemonger, stated that as he was looking out of
his window about one o'clock on Sunday morning, he saw the prisoners
standing at the passage door of the prosecutor's shop, and after a short
delay the prisoner Sealy entered, and brought out a bag full of some*
thing, which he handed to his companions, with which they instantly
ran away. He immediately gave information, and the prisoners, who
resided convenient, were taken into custody. They were ordered to be
brought up again on Friday.

MAR YLEBONE.
Yesterday Mary Glover, Dennis Glover (her brother),
and Elizabeth Glover (her mother), were brought up in cus-
tody and placed at the bar before Mr. RAWLINSON, the former,:-
charged with stealing two feather beds, a quantity of chir,a,
blankets, and other articles, from the dwelling-house of /:(Irs.
Mary Marsh, 46, Park-street, Grosvenor-square, and tkle two
latter with receiving the same, knowing them to be stolen.
The first prisoner said the things were all her tme ; sh©
bought them at different rag shops. The me.n said he knew
nothing about them. They were remanded till Wednesday.
Ann Finn, servant to Mr. Armour, No. 20, Old Caven-
dish-street, was next placed at the bar, charged with robbing
her master of table linen, &c.
The prisoner, who said nothing, was committed to New-.
gate for trial.
Yesterday Daniel Grenville, a simple-looking fellow, with
a most bewitching obliquity of vision, was charged as fol-
lows :—Police constable Markham, S. 24, on Saturday night
was on duty at Kentish Town, when he saw a number of wo-
men and children running in every direction, screaming out
" Here's Spring-heel'd Jack." He drew his staff, and screw-
ing- his courage to the sticking-place, waited for the monster,
whom several of the frightened women who had gathered
around him pointed out as the prisoner.. Perceiving that a
sort of blue froth was at his mouth, and that his features were
not altogether natural, he went up to him, and, seizing him
by the collar, dragged him to a butcher's shop, by the light of
which he discovered that he wore a mask, embellished at the
mouth with blue glazed paper. To put a stop to his capers,
and as be had almost frightened one or two into.; fits, ho.
thought a fit place for him was the station-house, rvad accord-
ingly having conveyed him thither he was locked up.
The prisoner, who said he did not mean to frighten any-
body, was discharged with a caution, and the cause of alarm
ordered to be burnt.

UNION-HALL.
Yesterday Jane Mott, who described herself the wife of Mr.
Mott, the Poor Law Commissioner, was brought before Mr.
TRAILL, charged with being drunk and disorderly ; and while
in that condition using threatening language towards two
tradesmen residing in Walworth.
Mrs. Mott, who was well dressed, and seemed to be a wo-
man about fifty years of age, said that she had taken a little
much on Saturday, and that it affected her ; that she had ex-
perienced great misfortunes in life, and was reduced from a
state of affluence to one of misery.
Mr. TRAILL said that Mrs. Mott must find two sureties of
301. each to keep the peace.
She was then taken backwards, and locked up in one of
the cells.

Sir Walter Scott's monument at Edinburgh will be
a splendid Gothic tower, composed entirely of the choicest
beauties of Melrose Abbey, and containing a marble statue of
he mighty magician himself.

Last ;light an inquest was held at the Duke of
Wellington, University-street, Bedford-square, before Mr.
Stirling and a respectable jury, on the view of the body of
Mrs. Sarah Boxhall, aged forty-three, a respectable woman,
who committed suicide by hanging herself under circum-
stances of a very afflicting nature. It appeared from the evi-
dence that the deceased was the wife of a builder living in
St. Pancras-street, Tottenham-court-road.. The unfortunate
lady had been in a dejected state of mind for some months
past, owing to constitutional causes. O•n Friday last she was
discovered by her husband suspended from the rail of the
bedstead. Although dreadfully agitated he cut her down,
and Mr. Joy, a surgeon, was sent for, who promptly arrived,
and endeavoured to restore animation,but without effect. Seve-
ral witnesses spoke of the dejected state of the poor woman's
mind for some time past, after which the jury returned a
verdict of " Temporary mental derangement." The deceased
has left a numerous family to deplore her melancholy and
premature end.

In the whole parish of Bishopstone, near Swindon,
there never has been a primrose seen to grow, though in the
neighbouring parishes they abound. A stream parts Bishop-
stone from Hinton, and on the side of the latter primroses are
to be seen by thousands. —Salisbury Herald.
Sunday afternoon the remains of Teophil Ode-
chowski, a native of Valonia, in Poland. and aged 33, were
interred in the new cemetery at Kensall-green. The de-
ceased had held a high tank in the Polish army, and was
distinguished for the courage and intrepidity he displayed in
the many engagemer.ts that took place during the Polish'
struggle for liberty, and more particularly in the defence of
Warsaw. Since his exile, the diseased had resided principally
in Germany ; but feeling his end approaching, he expressed
an earnest wish that his friends should convey him to Eng-
land, that he might, to use his own expression, " die in a land
of freedom." This wish was complied with, and the deceased
lived but a few days after his arrival in London. The de-
ceased was followed to the grave by a great number of his un-
fortunate countrymen and companions in arms.
IVIARCII OF INTELLECT.--At a meeting hell
last week at Shipston, one of the speakers, addressing the
meeting after the first motion said, " he supposed it was car-
ried crisis. con."—Worcester Journal.
Two feltowv,, having the appearance of farmers' la-
bourers, conducted a woman into Ludlow market on Satur-
day, with a halter round her waist, and publicly sold her for
3s. The purchaser was the husband's brother I The wretches
afterwards adjourned to a low pot-house to refresh themselves.
__Worcester Journal.

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A MONSTER.—At the Northamptonshire Assizes,
on the Ist inst., John Pridinore, aged 33, was charged with
having attempted to drown his father. In July last, being
enraged at his parents on some trifling grounds, he thrust his
mother out of doors, (and uttering horrid execrations) dragged
his father to a pond, and threw him head foremost into the
water. The old man crawled out after his son's dep4rtwe, aid
took refuge in a neighbour's house. It further appeared that
the prisoner was a married man, hut had sold his wife I The
jury returned a verdict of Guilty. and sentence of death was
recorded. —Northampton Chronicle.
The nights me still exceedingly cold ; the themo-
meter, which ranges between SO and GO in the day time, fall-
ing to within a few degrees of the freezing point in the night.
LEAP YEAR IN SPITE OF TIIE ALMANAC Ks.—
An Exeter Paper, published on Thursday, the Ist instant,
was dated February 29.

The cold has been so severe at St. Petersburg)), that
for several days towards the end of February the thermometer
was down as low as 28 degrees below zero of Reaumur, or 31
below zero of Fahrenheit.

ELECTION COMMITTEES.
(YESTERDAY.)

(From our Second Edition of last night.)
SHAFTESBURY.

The Committee decided (against the sitting Member) that
the case regarding the adjournment of the revising Barristers'
Court might again be entered upon on another vote.

DUBLIN.

Mr. Dillon, from the office of the Paving Board, put in the
rate-books and tax-ledger for the years 1836 and 1837.
William Maginn, inspector under the Board, was then exa-
mined with exceeding minuteness by Mr. Wrangham, as to
the mode in which the assessments are made and the books
are kept by the inspectors, collectors, and clerks to the
Commissioners. He proved that the tax for the year 1836,
upon the house, No. 77, Francis-street, Dublin, from which
James Ormsby, a voter for the sitting Members, derived his
qualification, was entered in the books as unpaid in 1837. The
oxaraination of this witness as to the routine of assessment, and
collection of the paving and lighting-rate, occupied the Com-
mittee nearly the whole day. The only fact in any way ma-
terial to the case stated by him was, that previous to 1836 the
rate had been collected annually, but an alteration was made
in that year to a half-yearly collection.
Mr. ROEBUCK requested the Committee to allow him until
to-morrow morning to make his objection to the legality of
the rate ; which, after some discussion, was acceded to, and
the Committee adjourned.