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rig HE BRITISH and FOREIGN REVIEW,
1. or, EUROPEAN QUARTERLY JOURNAL, No. XII.,

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3. Victor Ilugo's Poems—Les Voix Interieures.
4. The Colonies and the Colonial Office.
5. Commercial Relations between Poland and England.
6. Pashley's Travels in Crete.
7. Sir Edward Coke.
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HOLMES on CONSUMPTION, RHEU-
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The LORD CDANCELL OR. at the sitting of the House, deli-
vered judgment in this case. The appellat.t was the wiusow
of a Lieutenant-Colonel Taylor, late of the East India Comp
pany's service, who had subscribed to a fund called among the
Officers of the Company, " The Bombay Military Fustd," the
object of which was to provide, under certain restrictions, pen-
sions or annuities for the Officers' widows. The question in-
volved in the appeal was, whether her late husband's estate
was bound to make good to her certain deficiencies, however
occasioned, in the. payment of that annuity which, by his sub- .
scription to that fund, he had intended to secure to her.
The matter was then brought by appeal to this House, ald
his Lordship thought that the words of the settlement were
without restriction. The decree of the Court below was
therefore varied, so as to give Mrs. Joseph the full benefit of
the annuity originally intended to be secured to her out of the
Bombay Fund. As the decree was only varied the House
did not give Costs.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Arntz. 3.
PATTEN V. WEALE.

Mr. JACOB moved to dissolve rn injunction restrainitr, Mr.
Weak, the architectural bookseller, from publishing a new
edition of " Tredgold, on the Steam Engine," in a map net-
which was alleged to be a breach ofeontract between him and
the plaintiff, Mr. Patten. The details of the argument upon
the motion, which occupied the greater portion of three days,
were very uninteresting.
The injunction was wholly dissolved, but without Costs.

SPRING ASSIZES.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.-WARWICK. APRIL '2
THE QUEEN V. MUNTZ AND OTHEfiS.

This was a proceedir'r in the nature of a criminal informa-
tion against Mr. Muntz,Mr. Parr, Mr. Trow, and Mr. Peirce,
for a riot and an affray in the church of St. Martin's, Birming-
ham. Counsel for the prosecution, the Attorney-General
(specially retainel), Mr. Balguy, Mr. Sergeant Goulburn,
Mr. N. R. Clarke, and Mr. Whitehurst ; for Mr. Muntz, Mr.
Sergeant Wilde (specially retained), Mr. Sergeant Adams,
and Mr. E. Clark ; for Mr. Parr, Mr. Unlace). ; and for
Trow and Peirce, Mr. Waddington.
This case excited the greatest interest in Birmingham. It
commenced on Friday morning, the 30th of March, and did
not finish until a late hour on Monday night, but the facts may
be stated in the narrowest possible compass. The prosecution
was instituted by the rector and churchwardens of Saint
Martin's, Birmingham, who had applied lo th 2 Court of
Queen's Bench for a criminal information against the
defendants, which was made absolute, the Cuurt think-
ing a sufficient case was made out to warrant them in
sending it before a jury. The defendant Muntz is a person
of reputed wealth at Birmingham, engaged in mercantile
and manufacturing concerns to a very great extent in that
town. The other defendants arc respectable tradesmen in
Birmingham. There had been many disputes for some time
previous to the affair in question, respecting the election of
Churchwarden, and also upon the subject of Church-rate, and
on the 28th of March, 18:37, it being Easter Tuesday, the
election for Churchwardens was to take place, and great cx •
ertions were made by the heads of the different parties to
secure the attendance of their respective friends. Previous to
the commencement of the business of the da;,, the Rector, Mr.
Moseley, was with his friends, who are generally known as
the rate party, in the vestry- room, the door of which was fast-
ened, to prevent others coming in, and subsequently they ad-
journed to the Church, when business was commenced. It
wrs proposed by one of the party opposed to the Rector's
party, to read the minutes of the proceeding vestry of 1836,
which was done ; after which Mr. Moseley informed tile meet-
ing the election for; Churchwarden would proceed under the
prineiple of Sturges Bourne's _set, which allows a plurality of
votes. Mr. Parr, however, contented it should be detannined by
a show of hands. The candidates for the office ware Mr.
Brown, a member of the Church of England, proposed frcnn the
Rector's pew, and Mr. Winfield, a Dissenter, proposed by the
opposite party. -Mr. Parr contending that the election ought
to be conducted by show of hands, as lie alleged had hem
the usual course pursued, Mr. Moseley, who was in the chair,
replied that what he was saying was irrelevant, and that the
meeting ought to proceed with the business of the day ; that
the election would be based upon Sturges Bourne's Act, which
allowed a plurality of votes, none being entitled to vote who
were not rated to the poor; and that he had appointed ten
persons to take the poll. Mr. Muntz then proposed to elcct
another chairman, which he himself put to the meeting on
the Rector refusin., to do so, and !..be motion was carried
by acclamation. The Rector, however*, declined to vacate,
but the person proposed by Mr. Munta was Winfield, his
own candidate for the office of churchwardao• An inspection
of the parish books was then demanded by .61. r. Parr, which
being refused, Mr. Moseley observing it was nether the time
nor the place, Parr asked the meeting if they 7vould elect
him their representative to demand a sight of the bot...k, which
appeal was answered by loud cries of " We will, we
Parr then left his pew for the purpose of asking to look- at
the book, and immediately a scene of confusion arose, occa.'
skirled by the rush of individuals towards the Rector's pew,
for the purpose of seeing what was going on. Mr. Muntz,
who is a gentleman of rather singular appearance, owing to
his allowing his beard and mustachios to grow to more than
their usual extent, was seen to get upon the backs of the pews
brandishing his stick ; but the witnesses for the deknelants
swore he always carried his stick with him wherever' he
went, and that his purpose in getting on the pews wa.l,
only to go and quell the contusion th it had arisen, and
many witnesses were called to swear to particular facts as
bearing out that view. Truw was seen to attempt to snatch
the book, and he had got himself partly into the Rector's
pew, when Mr. Gutteridge, a surgeon, who is known in Bir-
mingham from his proneness to grimace, to rejoice under the
cognomen of " Punch," caught him by the legs and threw
him over. Some pews were broken and some damage done.
but finally the police came in, and order was restored. In
short, it was one of those rows which ton frequently, in parish
meetings, desecrate the Church, and the only question in the
case seemed to be who began it, the one side charging the
other as being the authors, and that charge, in turn, char;
re-
criminated upon them.
The Learned JUDGE having summed up, the jury retired
about half an hour, when they gave as their verdict Muntz and
Parr Guilty of an affray only ; and Trow and Pierce Not
Guilty generally.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—LivERrooL, APRIL 2.

John Kinnear was indicted for forging and uttering a bill of
exchange, purporting to be a bill drawn by one J. Watkins, as
manager of a certain Company called the Fiintshir© District
Banking Company.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury returned a verdict
of Guilty.
The prisoner was sentenced to transportation for life.