The Sun.
London, England, 1822-11-20 00:00:00

BOXERS.

The bakers, or at least there backers who will back Spring,
Randal, and Josh. Hudson to fight their antagonists, at 4 day's
notice, for all the money they can get, or for 101. or 2001., to
prove themselves faultless about crossing, All the men are
trained up to the scratch, and Spring will fight Neate for 2001.
of his own money. Randal will give Martin a glass of real
Hodges for a turn ; and Josh. Hudson will fight Shelton for a
beef-stake. Where are the crosses, but with two or three legs,
who must either win or tie :2

HAMBURGH, Nov. 12.—A severe frost set in
here yesterday, which exceedingly lowered the
water in the river, so that only small vessel's can'
pass the bar at Blankeness.
Last night Miss STEPHENS made her debut at
the Perth Theatre, and was rapturously received
by one of the most overflowing, and . certainly
the most -brilliant audience 'ever seen in Perth.
All the boxes were crowded, and a considerable
part of the pit railed in. as boxes.—(Perthshire
Courier.)

A worthy Clergyman in Fife, having occasion,
in the course of his sermon, to employ the word
catastrophe, he explained to his attentive hearers
that it signified " the end or tail of anything."—
An honest woman, whose vocabulary was nat
very extensive, considered the explanation a va-
luable additio❑ to her stock of knowledge, and
stored the word in her memory, with the resolu-
tion of making use of it as she found occasion.—
Some days after, seeing her minister ride past,
she called to him, " Sir, there's a whin kow at
your horse's catastrophe."—(Cupar Herald.)

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Nov. 19.

THE KING V. NOEL.

Mr. ScAnLET T moved for'a rule, calling on Mr. Noel, a
Gentleman of Yorkshire, to show cause why a criminal infor-
mation should not issue against him, for sending a letter to
Mr. Wilson, a neighbouring Gentleman, tending to provoke
him to fight a duel. 'Mr. Noel wrote a letter to Mr. 'Wilson,
charging him with having instructed one of his servants to warn
him off his premises, to which Mr. Wilson returned a civil
answer ; but at length Mr. Noel wrote, accusing Mr: Wilson
of having procured the deputation of the manor of ilardlington
for himself, which he had promised to obtain for him, and
added, that " he would insult him publicly wherever he met
him."—The Court granted a rule to show cause.
The Court were occupied nearly the whole day in hearing
the discussion of rules for new trials granted last term, in which
nothing occurred of general interest.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, NOVEMBER 19.

ST. JOHN V. SIR THOMAS CHAMPNEYS, AND
COVENTRY V. THE SAME.

These important cases were this morning decided. A rule
was obtained some time back by Mr. Seageant Lawes to shew
cause why the annuity granted by the defendant, in considera-
tion of the sum of 9,0001. should not be set a,sid2, and the deed
securing the same cancelled, part of the consideration money
having been repaid, the addresses of the witnesses in the me-
morial not having been described, and the names of all the par-
ties beneficially interested not having been named therein.
Mr. Sergeant PEAK followed on the same side.
Messrs. Serjeants PELL and VAuartAikr, in showing cause
against the rule, cited the 53d of Geo. 111., chap. 141, and the
Act of the 3d of Geo. IV., chap. 32, and several cases in point,
viz. Dancon and Lincoln, 5, Barnewall and Alderson, 144, and
Ist Maland, Selwyn's Reports, 103 ; and also Smith and
Pritchard, and contended, that the word " of" which follows
the letters E. F. and G. H., mentioned in the Act of the 53d of
Geo. 111., did not mean that the subscribing witnesses to an
annuity deed should describe their actual place of residence,
that is their places of sleeping, but meant, according to the
doctrine laid down in Haslope, v. Thorne, in B. and A. Re-
ports, that it was their places of abode, where they constantly
were in the day time, which opinion the Legislature, according
to the last Act of Parliament, of the 3d Geo. IV., meant to be
the case ; and not according to the doctrine laid down by the
Court of King's Bench, in the case of Danson v. Lincoln, in
Barnet all and Anderson's Reports.
The CIIIEF JUSTICE, in a luminous speech, recapitulated
the whole of the case, dwelling particularly on the arguments
used by Serjeants Pell and Vaughan. His Lordship con-
cluded by saying, that neither justice nor law required the in-
terference of this Court to set this annuity aside; and I sug-
gest, said his Lordship, for the consideration of Sir T. S.
Champneys, whether it might not be better to take until the
next Term to consider as to the other case of Gordon, the third
annuitant, in which Sir Thomas, who was present, seemed to
acquiesce. •