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London, England, 1836-06-20 00:00:00

KING'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)

THE KING V. BROWNE.

Mr. BODKIN stated the case, which was an indictment for
perjury, arising out of circumstances connected with the late
election for the city of Canterbury, and which had become the
subject of an inquiry before a Committee of the House of
Commons. The defendant was examined before that Com-
mittee, and the evidence given by him was alleged to have
been false. He (Mr. Bodkin) had consulted with his Learned
Friend on the other side (Mr. Sergeant Merewether), and it
appeared to both of them, that he was not in a condition to
establish the charge laid in the indictment, and therefore with-
out saying on which side the mistake, as he would call it, was
committed, he was content that the proceeding should termi-
nate at this point.
The Jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
PRINCE V. SAMO.

Sir F. POLLOCK stated the case. It was an action brought
by Abraham Prince, well known to the public as the proprietor
and vender of Prince's Russian Oil, against Mr. Samo, a re-
lative, for a malicious arrest and imprisonment. It appeared
from the statement of counsel, that a sum of 601. had been
given to the plaintiff by the defendant as the re-
sult of a family arrangement which it was afterwards
alleged by the defendant was a loan, and not a
gift as asserted by Mr. Prince. Mr. Samo accordingly sued
out a writ, and had Prince arrested on the 7th April, 1834,
and he remained ten months in prison, until the trial came on,
when the Jury returned a verdict for the defendant Prince. It
was to recover such damages as the Jury would consider rea-
sonable that the present action was brought ; and he (Sir F.
Pollock) would, he trusted, be able to satisfy them that there
was no reasonable or probable cause for this arrest and im-
prisonment ; but that it was the result of malice on the part
of Samo.
Several witnesses having been examined on the part of the
plaintiff,
Sir W. FOLLLTT submitted that the plaintiff must be non-
suited, as he had not given any evidence to show a want of
probable cause.
After a lengthened argument,
Lord DENMAN ON erruled the objection.
Sir W. FOLLETT then addressed the Jury for the defendant,
and Lord DENMAN summed up at considerable length.
The Jury found a verdict for the defendant.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

THIS DAY.

OLD COURT.

Frederick Hawkes Nottidge, a respectable looking young
man, was indicted with forging and uttering an order for the
payment of 21., with intent to defraud Elizabeth Jeffery.
Mrs. Jeffrey, the prosecutrix, stated that she knew the
prisoner by the name of Hawkes Nottidge Calvert ; he called at
her house, 18, Duke-street, St. James's, on Monday, the 2gcl
of May, and asked permission to use her apartment, as he ex-
pected a person from Ludgate-hill to bring him a gold watch
and chain. Having obtained permission, he stated that he
had come out that morning with only 51. in his pocket, that
he had met a young friend who had borrowed it from him, and
promised it again in half an hour, but he had lost it in a
gambling-house, and he was left entirely without money. He
said the prosecutrix would confer a favour upon him if she
could obtain change for a cheque for 2/. The prosecutrix
stating her willingness to do so, the prisoner drew a cheque
for that amount upon Messrs. Ladbrokes, which the pro-
secutrix sent her; servant to get change at Mr. Blockley's,
a wine-merchant, who resided a few doors from her.
In a few minutes the servant girl returned with two
sovereigns, which the prosecutor gave to the prisoner,
who then drew another cheque for 201., which he gave
to the prosecutrix, telling her to give it to the person who
brought the watch and chain, and to be sure to get a receipt.
He also stated that he had other appointments, and could not
wait till the person brought the watch. The prisoner then
went away, and called again the next morning, at which time
he gave his address—Hawkes Nottidge Calvert, Fendall's
Hotel, Palace-yard, in writing. The prosecutrix having some
suspicion, took the 201. cheque to Ladhroke's, when she was
informed no such person banked there. On going to Fendall's
hotel, they said they knew nothing of the prisoner, that there
had been letters sent there for him, but they did not know him.

On the prosecutrix's cross examination by Mr. CLARK-
SON, the counsel for the prisoner, she stated that she had at
one time said if the prisoner would give her the 2/., she would
not proceed against him, but she had never said that she be-
lieved the prisoner did not intend to defraud her, or any
thing like that. The prisoner did not ask her to
change the cheque, but requested her to get it changed
in the neighbourhood for him. She offered to take the 2/.
after she heard he was in custody on a charge of fraud.
The prisoner's father had called upon her, and offered to pay
the 2/. if she would give a letter to the Magistrates requesting
them to (rive up the checks. This she refused to do till she
had spoken to her solicitor, who stated that he thought she
would not do wrong in receiving the 21., provided she informed
the Magistrate of it. In consequence of what her solicitor
stated, she had received the 21. for about half an hour, sta-
ting that if she was obliged to prosecute, it should be re-
turned. Afterwards she thought better of it, and went to the
prisoner's father to return the money ; as he refused to receive
it, she left it with his clerk.
The RECORDER told the prosecutrix that she had acted
exceedingly wrong in attempting to compound a felony. The
Learned Judge also enquired if her servant was in atten-
dance, and upon being answered in the negative, and told that
she was ill in the Middlesex Hospital, but expected out to-
morrow, he directed that an officer should immediately fetch
her if she was in a fit state to come. _ .

George Blockley gave 21. for the cheque produced to the
maid servant of Mrs. Jeffrey. Paid the cheque in the course
of the day into his bankers, Messrs. Cocks and Biddulph.
Elad no suspicion that anything was wrong about the cheque
on account of its being brought by the servant of the pro-

secutrix.
Mr. Hardina, a clerk in the house of Ladbroke and Co.,
proved that the prisoner did not keep any account at their

Mr. J. Harding, a surveyor, had known the prisoner for
some time, whose name was Frederick Hawkes Nottige.
Never knew him bear any other name. Knew his hand-
writing, and believed the cheque to have been written by him.
Cross-examined by Mr. CLARKSO-N.-Had heard the pro-
secutrix say three or four times that she did not believe the
prisoner had any intention of defrauding her of the money.
The prosecutrix was again called, but persisted in stating
that she had made no such statement. _ _

The Waiter at Fendall's Hotel knew the prisoner by sight,
as he had called several times at the Hotel enquiring for let-
ters addressed to Mr. Nottidge : on several occasions letters
had been received there so addressed. Witness had never
known him by any other name.
Elizabeth Hart, the maid-servant of tha prosecutrix, proved
taking the cheque to Mrs. Blockley.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner au excellent character.
The REcoaDEn summed up, and the Jury found the prisoner
Guilty.
The sessions will terminate to-day.

DEATII OF TIIE REV. DR. TAYLOR.-A mewl-
choly and fatal accident befel the Rev. Dr. Charles Taylor,
Chancellor of this diocese, on Thursday evening. He had
visited Hereford from his residence at ICladley, on Thursday
morning, presided as Chancellor in the Consistory Court
afterwards, in full health, spent a short time amongst his
friends, and then proceeded to return to the vicarage at Madley
to dinner. A little before three o'clock he got into his
phaeton in Bridge. street, and the servant drove quietly down
the street, passing a boy on a horse ; when the carriage had
reached the bottom of the street the boy on horseback rode up
to the side of it, and some boys who were following him made
a considerable noise, which caused the mare in the carriage
to kick and plunge, striking the footboard so violently that
the servant was thrown from his seat on the ground, and lost
the reins, and the mare started off at full speed. When the
man fell Dr. Taylor was seen to rise up and look anxiously
after him, and then resumed his scat, but unfortunately
rose a second time, and when the carriage reached the
middle of Wye-bridge he leaped out ; the impetus the
motion of the carriage gave in the attempt proved fatal ; he
was thrown with great violence with his head on the ground,
and was almost immediately taken up by Mr. Kaill, of Bye-
street, who witnessed the accident, and the servant, who had
escaped with little injury. They found the unfortunate gen-
tleman dreadfully injured and perfectly insensible. He was
conveyed to the Saracen's Head Inn near the spot. He was
put to bed, but the injuries sustained caused his death about
two hours and a half after the accident occurred. He re-
mained in an unconscious state till he breathed his last. Dr.
Taylor was in his 56th year, and had been Chancellor of the
diocese eleven years.—Hereford Journal. For several years
Dr. Taylor was the head master of Hereford School, which
situation he lately resigned, and was succeeded by his son. At
the time of his death he was Prebend of Hereford Cathedral
and Chancellor of the Diocese, Vicar of Almeley, Hereford-
shire—patron, the Bishop of Hereford, and of Madley, with
Tibberton curacy, in the same county—patrons, the Dean and
Chapter of Hereford.__ Oxford Herald.

The Tory Peers will have some difficulty in finding
an excuse for rejecting the Stafford Disfranchisement Bill.
They fixed upon a period for their inquiry subsequent to that
which furnished the Commons with evidence of the general cor-
ruption of the borough,—no doubt, in the expectation that the
supporters of the Bill would be unprepared to meet them on
that ground. They seem to have been caught in their own
trap ; for it appears by our Parliamentary report, that, in the
very election selected by the Tories, the voters were bribed
under the seal of one of the candidates himself, to the extent of
some hundreds, at the rate of 3/. and 6/. a-head. Lord Wynford
is very sly ; but no lawyer in existence can whitewash Stafford.
—Spectator.

The late Wm. Godwin's library and MSS. were
brought to the hammer on Saturday and Friday last (by
Sotheby and Son). Among the works, which amounted to
nearly 1,000, and in one instance, a lot consisted of 300 vo-
lumes, there were some fine editions and valuable copies of our
old English Poets and Constitutional writers—Spencer, Syd-
ney, Waller, Milton, Harrington, &c. They fetched, in ge-
neral, excellent prices. The name of Godwin was not written
in any one; but in many of the volumes there were his MS.
corrections, written in a good firm hand. Those volumes were
anxiously bought.
THE VALUE OF MARRIED MEN.—" A little
more animation, my dear," whispered Lady 13. to the
" Do
the gentle
Susan, who was walking languidly through a
quadrille.
leave me to manage my own business, mamma,replied the
provident ny mph ; " I shall not dance my ringlets out of curl
for a married man." "Of course not, my love but I was not
aware who your partner was."