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London, England, 1836-11-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT 'OP kiNG'S BENCH, Nor. 21.
(Sittings in Banco.)
THE KING V. MARSH.

This was an indictment against the deredant for pfo--
curing one voter, named Joseph Moore., at an 'election it
Dover, to represent another voter (John :111'oo.re) there.
The indictment was tried at the last astitt's at'Maidstone,
when a verdict of guilty wad 'retkirned. A rule had since
been obtained to quash the indictment, on the ground that
twenty-eight ip-stead of twenty-three grand jurymen had
been swore) and that as the Jury had asked the Recorder
how tVidny were sufficient to find a bill, and he had an,-
swered that there must be twelve persons concurring to find
a bill, it was possible that there might have been a majo-
rity against the bill. Other grounds were urged at the
time of the motion, but as they were founded on the affi-
davit of one of the grand, jurymen, and as the Court was
of opinion that the affidavit of a grand juryman as to what
pass in the grand jury-room, ought not to he received, those
grounds were abandoned, and the motion rested solely on
such objections as would be fLainded upon the affidavits of
other persons.
Mr. PLATT now showed cause against tl,•e rule.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL supported the rule.—Rule
discharged.

THE KING V. THE PROPRIETORS OF BELL'S NEW WEEKLY

MESSENGER.

This was a rule for a criminal information against the de-
fendants for a libel published by them upon Mr. Dyer, in
respect of his conduct and decision in the case where two
persons, giving, their names as Smith and Parr, had been
charged. before him with an indecent assault upon two re-
spectP.Lle females.
Mr. MANSE L, on the part of the defendants, declared
that no imputations had been intended to be cast on the
motives or character of the prosecutor. An apology had
been inserted in the paper to the same effect.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, on the part of Mr. Dyer, said that,
since the rule had been obtained the offence had been re-
peated, but that all he required was a full acquittal in the
mind of the Court of having acted in an improper way, or
from improper motives.—Rule discharged.

EXCHEQUER COURT, Nor. 21.
IN RE WARD.

Sir WILLIAM FOLLETT applied to the Court en affida-
vits to set aside a writ of immediate extent, issued against
the property of a Mr. Ward, a banker, at Woolwich, who
had become a bankrupt. The affidavit upon which the
fiat was granted was made by one Richard Wrixon, who
swore that a sum of 1,038/. for taxes, &c., had been col-
lected by him from the inhabitants of Woolwich, and de-
posited for safe custody in the hank of Mr. Ward. The
affidavit did not state that the money was paid in by
Wrixon himself. Of that objection, however, he (Sir W.
Follett) would not avail himself. The affidavits on which
he moved were made by Mr. Ward himself and Mr. Gibson,
the official assignee.
COURT—You had better amend your affidavit, and take
a rule to show cause.

ARCHES' COURT, Nor. 21.
BELCHER V. BELCHER.

In this case, which was a suit for the restitution of con-
jugal rights, promoted by Captain E. Belcher against
Diana, his wife, in the Court of the Dean and Chapter of
St. Paul's, judgment was given in favour of the promoters
of the suit, commanding Mrs. Belcher to return to her
husband's home. On behalf of the wife, an appeal has
been entered in this Court against the decision of the Court
below, and to-day a petition was presented, praying the
Court to tax the husband with the costs before the case
should be entered into. Captain Belcher is an officer in
his Majesty's navy, with an income of about .510/. per an-
num, and Mrs. Belcher, who, ever since the commence-
ment of this suit in 1833, has been living with her mother,
has maintained herself on an income amounting to about
236/. a year, without receiving any relief from her husband.
The KING'S ADVOCATE appeared for Captain Ed ward
Belcher, and opposed the taxation of costs.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, on behalf of Mrs. Belcher, urged
that the general policy of the law was never swerved from,
unless it could be proved that the wife was possessed of
sufficient income both to maintain herself in the station to
which she had been accustomed, and to support all the ex-
penses of the suit, and prayed the Court, as Mrs. Belcher
was unable to support the suit from her own income, to tax
the husband with the costs.

The Learned JUDGE having stated the circumstances of
the case, felt it. his duty to decree taxation of costs on the
husband, during the pending of this appeal.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nor. 21.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
Baron de Wydrof applied upon his petition to he dis-
charged. The insolvent came to London on the 27th of
June, 1835, from which time up to his imprisonment he
did a rapid business, as may be seen from the fact that his
debts amounted to upwards of twelvo hundred pounds.
Mr. Nugee, the well known west-end tailor, is a sufferer
to a considerable amount. Tailors, upholsterers, and silk-
mercers were the persons particularly patronised by the in-
solvent. He, it appeared, married the sister of a solicitor,
residing in the neighbourhood of Regent-street.
The Learned COMMISSIONER said that the creditors
were very good natured persons, not to oppose him.
The insolvent was pronounced entitled to the benefit of
the Act.

WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS.

DURNFORD V. BURTON.

The plaintiff, as greasy a looking little cook as ever bas-
ted a sucking pig, and as rubicund of complexion as a
Staffordshire smelting furnace, summoned the defendant,
her master, for IL 3s. 4d. for a month's wages.

COMMISSIONER (addressing the defendant)—Do you
admit the debt ? Defendant—No ; certainly not. She
has not rendered any service for the wages which she
claims.

Plaintiff—Well, if I ever yeard of sich imperance.
Why, my good gentlemen, he wouldn't let me ; and he
had the wcry ungentlemanlike impersition to want me,
a regler bred cook, gentlemen, to answer the street door
bell.—(Loud laughter.) Me, indeed ! I shouldn't think
of sich a thing.
A COMMISSIONER—Did you really desire the plaintiff to
act so irregularly?—(Laughter.) Defendant—l believe
her mistress did request her on one occasion when the other
servants were engaged to go to the door.
Plaintiff—Oh, indeed, a pretty ordering of servants to
be sure. I didn't agree to do no such a thing ; I knows
my perfession a great deal better, I assure you, gentlemen.
(Laughter.) All I agreed for was to attend to roasting,
broiling, boiling, stewing, baking, toasting, grilling—and
for ?ne to go to the bell indeed ! anybody could do that.
A COMMISSIONER—This is the march of intellect with a
vengeance.
Plaintiff—Yes, Sir, and he wanted me to cook for more
than I agreed for.
A COMMISSIONER—Very hard, upon my word.

Plaintiff—For no less than nine in family and three ser-
vants. A pretty family to want the cook to answer the
street door bell ! I'm ashamed of it !
After the exhibition of much more of this kind of " Ame-
rican independence," and a few words from the defendant,
from which it appeared that the plaintiff had been turned
away without any warning, the IL 3s. 4d. was ordored to
be paid.
The little turnspit then wound up tho whole amount of
her dignity, and waddled out of Court, exulting in the
"basting" that she had given her master.

COURT OF REQUESTS, KINGSGATR-STRBET.
A most knotty point was heard regarding a pair of lady's
stays, which were of such a magnitude that Mr. Commis-
sioner DUBOIS likened them to Jack Falstaff's girdle.
Miss Clifford, a very intelligent young lady, appeared to
support a claim of 11. 11s. for a pair of stays supplied to a
lady of the appropriate name of Chuney. This was the
third pair of stays made by Miss Clifford for Mrs. Chuney,
but of so remarkable a character was the latter lady that
that which fitted exceedingly well one day, was altogether
too large or too small the next, and it was a fact that she
(Miss Clifford) had absolutely altered one pair of stays as
often as 69 times !—(Laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—ReaIIy, Madam, your patience must
have exceeded your customer's capaciousness. Is the lady
in Court ?

Here an apothecary, as pale and wan as he who supplied
the fatal potion to the despairing Romeo, stepped forward
and said he had the honour of representing Mrs. Chuncy
—(Considerable laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—But my good Sir, what can you pos-
sibly know about the stays ? You never fitted them on, did
you ? Defendant—No, Sir ; but I am instructed to say
they don't fit ; they are not big enough.
a very CommissioNEaLU on my word, Sir, you have under-
takenyou?
Herehe stays
pleasant
P task.
were
produced
Have ;
you got the stays with
they presented an
alarming
expanse of steel, whalebone, and cord, and when
extended along the Commissioners' table, looked nearly as
large as the mainsail of one of his Majesty's frigates.
The Jury, after a very attentive examination, decided
that the full amount claimed, with costs, must be awarded.
The stays were then carried out of the Court by the
porter, who assisted in bringing them there.
As UNLUCKY S.UITOR.-Peter Patrick, a very savage
looking specimen of a Tipperary lad, summoned Magaret
Flyn for money alleged to have been lent to her in Ireland.
Pat Mighthys the throuble, me
Lord,t
stated
every his
br sons :
o as
of us has been put to through that
mother's
u woman, and glad is it I am I've bate her at last. I sum-
moned her in Dublin, and she run away to London. I sum-
moned her to the City Court, and there they said they'd do
.
nothing at all, at all, because she lived Westminster ;
then, me Lord, I summoned her to Westminster, but never
could git a hould of her till she got to St. Giles, and now,

me Lord, I've summoned her here, and, more power to ye,
I know you'll give me jutlee. and make her pay me all the
expense.," .
00'.%16iissloNtii-=4}o bwe this money, Mrs. Flyn ?
Mrs, Flytr, With all biarney peculiar to her nation, said—
Don't bt asking me such questions, me jewel ; if I owe it,
may be he knows best ; and I know another thing too, me
Lord, I've bate Peter Patrick more than wonst, and now its
meeself will bate him again—he's summoned me, my Lord.
Well ?—Whilst mightn't he as well summoned me husband.
—(Roars of laughter.)
COMMISSIONER—Why the woman's married. You're in
the wrong box again, Mr. Peter Patrick. I must dismiss the
suit,

Plaintilt—Och, bad luck to her! if I bad got her in Tip-
perary I'd knock her to smidireens. Och, thinna mon dioul,
there's no justice for ould Ireland.—(Laughter.)
The disappointed suitor fairly bowled his way out of heart
ing of the Court, Mrs. Blarney Flyn very wisely remaining
under its protection until Patrick could be beheld no longer.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOTV-STREET.

Yesterday a respectable master tailor, living in Lichfield-
street, Soho, applied to Mr. Halls, the sitting magistrate,
to know if he had any remedy against a " swell" who had
played him the following gross trick. A few days since a
person of very gentlemanly appearance called at his house,
and said he wanted a suit of the very best cut and mate-
rials, for which the usual price would be paid. The suit
was finished and sent home by the tailor to the " gentle-
man's" lodgings, with strict injunctions to the messenger
not to leave them without the money. The " gentleman"
fitted them on, declared that he never had a more splendid
fit in his life, and asked the young man if he had brought
a stamped receipt with him. He said he had, but not
filled up, and looking round the room, he observed,
" There is no pen and ink, Sir." "0, my dear boy," said
the gentleman, " you shall have that in a moment," and.
stepped out of the room as if io procure it. The young
man, after waiting a long time, found that the customer bad
slipped out of the house, and that he had been lodging
there but a week, the landlord knowing nothing of him,
excepting that he took an apartment, stating himself to be
a half-pay officer.
Mr. HALLS said it was a rascally trick, but was one of
those offences that did not come within his reach. The
applicant then retired.