The Sun.
London, England, 1849-12-07 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)

WOOD W. HUTTON AND ANOTHER.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition.)
The CHIEF BARON, in the course of his summing up,
said he entirely concurred with an observation which
was made by Sir Frederick Thesiger, that the verdict
must be that of the jury, and not of the Judge. He had
nothing to do with it either cn cab side or the other, and
he thanked God that this was so in such a case as the
present. His Lordship then went through the evidonca
in detail, and said if they were of opinion that Captain
Newman was not of sound or disposable mind at the
time of the settlement with th 3 defendants on 30th of
Jan., 1833, they would find a verdict for the plaintiff ;
if, on the other hand, they thought he was perfectly sane
and capable of understanding what he was about, their
verdict would be for the defendants.

The jury interrupted his Lordship before he had con-
eludeil, to say, that they wished to give him as little
trouble as possible, as they had alr(!ady made up their
minds as to what the verdict thould be.

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The CHIEF BARON said, that being so, he would only
make a few brief observations and than conclude.

The jury, immediately upon :he coneluaion of the
summing up, said they had found a verdict for the de-
fenda-ats.

IRELAND.
(moor OUR CORRESPONDENT.)
DUBLIN, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 6.—The
" Lawyers' Alarm"—as the new agitation is called—
is as loud, and searniogly as angry, as ever; but, like
Sir Charles Coldstream, who could not observe, after
a careful scrutiny, any novelty on Vesuvius, the
initiated " see nothing in it," after all—save a very
paradoxical demeanour on the part of tha legal
world. It must be acknowledged that the cen-
tralizing principle has gone far enough to be
sufficiently injurious, without the unparalleled at-
tempt on the part of the English Government to
carry off the jurisdiction of the superior courts of
eight millions of people to a great legal emporium
400 miles distant. Such a consummation it is not
which the Dublin lawyers fear; but they apprehend
most gravely the subdivision of fees and loss of self-
ease consequent on a localization of jurisdiction. There
are, in the first instance, local practitioners to parti-
cipate in the retainer—men, too, more likely than
your hoity-toity Dublinian to know the arcana of
provincial suits and their mode of pursuit or defence
and, in the second, the inconvenience to the "metro-
politan counsel" to leave other business for any por-
tion of the practice w hich can at present be so
commodiously centralized and transacted in
Dublin. Those who get up the cry of " Cen-
tralization," when putting forward a pretence, in
order to defeat a principle, seem to forget
that they are working hard themselves for a
-tositive evil which they seek to perpetuate by the
'ye one. "Is it in these days of
;ommunication," they say, "you
a trip to Dublin to settle your
le expenses of your witnesses ?"
Government could adopt the
in their alleged intent of
courts altogether, and still less
hat railway companies are not
either suitors or witnesses for
:he argument of quick and inex- ,

pensive travelling and stopping in town, Providence,
or the lawyers, knows how long, or the incompre-
hensible dread of some future Minister, Atlas-like,
marching off with the globe crowned building
called the Four Courts, will weigh most with the
Irish people, when the wise project, which I have
reason to believe is in contemplation, shall assume
shape and presence, I leave to the shrewdne,s of those
most interested. I know myself of a case which
has been three years pending; it is a most
complicated one, involving a large amount of
property, and in which many witnesses have
been summoned. It has had four hearings, in
four different terms, the witnesses have had
to be brought up from Belfast (in the vicinity of
which all the parties reside), and immense expenses
have been heaped upon the litigants, all from the
want of a local jurisdiction in a case at common law.
Had I time now I could prove that by the Act of
Union, the eighth section of which would be violated
by the removal of the Irish Courts to Westminster,
as well as by the speech or William Pitt, that it ti not
the first time this cry of'. Centralkatippi"Thai'been
heard, though in the formei purer mo-
tives, and far higher designs. '`l -
The dismissal of Mr. Grattan, M.D., of Drummin
House, Kildare, from the magistracy of two
counties, has taken by surprise no one who
is aware of the understanding between the
Whig Chancellor's office and the bureau of the
Evening Mail, which paper six days ago informed the
public that Dr. Grattan's dismissal was in contem-
plation. For a man, whose father receives 8,0001. per
annum, and himself, in fees, upwards of 4,0001., the
letter dimissive might have been couched in more
presentable English. The head and front of the
Doctor's offending were the presiding over
the " Irish Alliance" meeting, in which,
as we are informed by Mr. F. W. Brady,
" speeches were made testifying warm approval of
the conduct of several individuals who are now under
sentence of transportation as having been convicted of
the crimes of high treason," Sze. The answer of Dr.
Grattan is a highly spirited and yet temperate
document. The Learned Gentleman is a true model
of an Irish gentleman-resident, benevolent, educated,
and courageous. He is a choice agriculturist,
and some four years ago, to the great regret of his
many friends, lost his right hand, by its being caught
in a new minnowing machine of his own invention.
The Doctor is brother of Colley Grattan, the distin-
guished author of "Highways and Byways," &c.,
and now, or at least recently, British Consul at New
York.

ENCUMBERED ESTATES COMMISSION.
The Commissioners sat to day in the Court of
Common Pleas.
IN THE MATTER, OF THE ESTATE OF THOMAS DE MASSY,

THE LONDON GAZETTE.

(THIS EVENING.)

GENERAL ORDER.
HORSE-GUARDS, DEc. 6, 1849.

ORDERS FOR THE MOURNING FOR THE ARMY FOR HER

LATE MAJESTY THE QUEEN DOWAGER.

Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the
army should wear any other mourning, with their uni.
forms, on the present melancholy occasion, than black
crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the
sword-knot, and on the left arm, with the following ex-
ceptions; viz ,
Officers on duty are to wear black gloves, black
crape over the ornamental part of the cap or hat, the
sword knot, and on the left arm; the sash to be covered
ss ith black crape, and a black crape scarf over the right
shoulder.
The drums to be covered with black ; and black
crape is to be hung from the pike of the colour staff of
infantry, and from the standard staff of cavalry.
When officers appear at Court, in their uniforms,
they are to wear black crape over the ornamental part
of the cap or hat, the sword knot, and on the left arm,
with a black crape scarf over the right shoulder.
By Command of Field-Marshal the Duke of Welling-
ton4Commander-in-Chief,
JOIIN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General.
ADMIRALTY, DEC. 6.
Her Majesty does not require that the officers of the
Fleet should wear any other mourning, on the present
melancholy occasion of the death of her Majesty the
Queen Dowager, with their undress uniforms, than
black crape on the left arm, hat, and sword knot ; nor
with their dress uniforms, than black gloves, and black
crape upon the left arm, hat, and sword knot ; nor
that the officers of Royal Marines should wear any
other mourning with their uniforms than black crape
on the left arm, hat, and sword knot; except on duty,
when they are to wear also black gloves, and the sash
covered :with black, and, a black crape scarf ;over the
the right shoulder; and except at Court, when they are
to wear black crape on the left arm, hat, and sword
knot,
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Royal ape scarfl m
overarin theesa
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shoulder.e
The covered
with black, and a black crape is to be hung from the
pike of the divisional colour-staff. JOIIN PARKER.

FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 7.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint George
Charles Miller, Esq., to be her Majesty's Consul in the
Georgian or Windward Islands in the Pacific.
W EIITEHALL, DEC. 5.

The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent
to be passed under the Great Seal appointing the
Reverend William Cureton, M.A., to the place and
dignity of a Canon of the Collegiate Church of Saint
Peter, Westminster, with the Rectory of the parish
church of St. Margaret, Westminster, thereunto annexed
and united, void by the cession of the Rev. Henry Hart
Milman, M.A.
OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 4.

ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.—Surgeon James
Edmund Williams to be Senior Surgeon, vice Whitelaw,
decQased; Assistant-Surgeon James Somerville Litle to
be Surgeon, vice Williams; Temporary Assistant-Sur-
geon William Perry to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice
Litle, Oct. 23.

OFFICE OF ORDNANCE, DEC. 6.
Corps of Royal Engineers—First Lieutenant Hon.
Hussey Fane Keane to be Second Captain, vice Stanley,
deceased, Aug. ;14 ; Second Lieutenant Edward Bain-
brigge to be First Lieutenant, vice Keane, Aug. 14.
WHITEHALL, Nov. 28.

The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kat., Lord Chief
Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at
Westminster, has appointed Frederick William Wilson,
of Sheffield, in the cuunty of Yolk, Gent., to be one of
the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknow-
ledgments of deeds to be executed by married women,
under the Act passed for the abolition of fins and
recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes
of assurance:, in and for the West Riding of the county
of York.

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