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London, England, 1836-02-23 00:00:00

rants of his ,own, and dsti suite belonging to the plaintiff
(ilastiplo..) Mt'. accommodation required was the discount
)f a )3111 io the amount of 4,0001., which when due was duly
,:al.l. Rennie then took up the warrants which belonged to
bimself, hut left those which belonged to the plaintiff. lie
subsequently stopped payment, being in debt to the &lon.
lants, who, on heir)g applied to for the plaintiff 's warrants,
i-efived to deliver them, alleging that they had a claitn upon
them for what Rennie owed them, to recover which the
present action was brought.
_Verdict for the plaintiff-3421. I 4A. 2d.
BERNARD V. 3tAcINDLRP.

This was an action. fur BPI and slander. The
was a shipping and t ommission agent at St: DOrningo j tho
defendant "'.".0 belongs to a houta t3;,iitAil-Prince, in St.
Doß.l'ingo. In 1834 s tit'? hiftl-Se of Cox and Co., of Log-
don, wrote to 0..? &fondant, whose house is at Liverpool,
statiag thlll they understood that they. had tit, ship corn-
etttrec going to St. Domingo, and would he glad to ship
two bales of goods. Cox and Co. received a letter in re-
ply, stating that, if the goods Were to be consigned to the
defendant, they would decline forwarding them, "as he had
An aptitude for petty quarrels, and had boot to their office
in Port-au-Prince, making a fuss about freieht," and thEy
would not wish to have anything to do with him. 'lle slan-
derous words imputed to the defendant worts that I.ltt nacj
said, on another occasion, that the plainat was a contempti-
ble man, and he would not ship noas to him. Evidence
of the foregoing facts was, given.
The Jury retuned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da.
mages 504

EXCHEQUER COURT.-MONDAY.

COLES V. TILE CORPORATION OF LONDON.

Mr. V. RICHARDS was instructed to move, on the part
of Mr. Thomas Coles, treasurer of Bethlem Hospital, for
certain ledgers, papers, and other documents, which arc in
possession of the defendants as the Governors of Bridewell
and Bethlem. Hospitals, in order that they may be deli-
vered into the custody of the clerks in Court, with a view
that he may inspect them. The bill had for its object to
disclose the accounts of the transactions between the par-
ties ; and it prayed that certain moneys paid in by Mr.
Thomas Hudson, the late receiver, may be allowed to the
deponent ; and it further prayed that the defendants might
be restrained by an injunction from proceeding to the trial
of an action which they had brought against the deponent,
and which otherwise would be tried to-morrow before a
Special Jury at Guildhall, unless the Court interposed its
protection.

After some (I:.scussion it was agreed that the accounts
should 130 inspected at the hospital instanter, and that ap
plie.:Ltion might he made to the Chief Justice to-morrow
at Guildhall, to postpone the trial.

PRESENTATION OF A SILVER
TROWEL TO LORD MELBOURNE.

(From the Morning Advertiser.)
Yesterday the Right Hon. C. Tennyson d'Eyncourt, the
Chairman of the dinner upon laying the foundation-stone
of the new Licensed Victuallers' School, in Kennington-
lane, accompanied by a deputation, consisting of Mr. Ward,
the Chairman of the Institution, Mr. Corby, the Chairman
elect, Mr. Belton, Mr. Lincoln, Mr. Wells, Mr. Liquorish,
Trustees, Mr. Blake, the Secretary, Mr. Wire, the Soli-
citor, and the Editor of this journal, had an interview with
Viscount Melbourne, in Downing-street, to present an
Address and also a splendid Silver Trowel used by his
Lordship on laving the foundation-stone of the Licensed
Victuallers' School. On one side of the Trowel the Royal
Arms are engraved, and on the other side is the following
inscription : _

This Trowel was used by the Right Honourable
William Lord Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister Qf
England, in laying the Foundation-stone of the Licensed
Victuallers' School, in Kennington-lane, Lambeth, in the
name of his Most Gracious Majesty King William the
Fourth, Patron of the Institution, on Thursday, the 21st
day of January, 1836."
After the Members of the Deputation had been intro-
duced to Lord Melbourne by the Right Hon. Gentleman,
who had been especially requested so head it, and who at
some personal inconvenience very cheerfully undertook the
duty, the Secretary read the following address, to which his
Lordship paid the most careful and polite attention
"MY LORD,—The Trustees and Committee of the
Licensed Victuallers' School, in venturing to intrude for
a few minutes on your Lordship's time, at a period when
the important duties of your high office must necessarily
require your undivided attention, beg most respectfully to
thank your Lordship for having affordod them this oppor-
tunity of personally expressing their deep sense of gratitude
for the kindness with which your Lordship acceded to their
wishes, by laying the foundation-stone of their new School,
as the representative of its Illustrious Patron, his Most
Gracious Majesty.
" The trustees and committee are fully sensible that, at
the time when your Lordship fulfilled their expectations,
and those of every friend to the institution, the state of
your Lordship's health was such as to render the perform-
ance of the ceremony a task, not only fatiguing and diffi-
cult, but involving considerable personal danger ; and while
they feel that any language they can command must fall in-
finitely short of their obligations, they cannot but hope that
the cordial welcome which your Lordship received from the
thousands who witnessed, either wholly or partially, the
proceedings of the day, proved to your Lordship how highly
your condescension was appreciated, and how much gratifi-
cation was afforded to the spectators by the patience, ur-
banity, and good-will with which your Lordship went through
the ceremony.
" The Trustees and Committee, my Lord, now beg per-
mission to proffer to your Lordship's acceptance the trowel
Which you honoured by using it in laying the foundation-
stone of the new building, with their sincere wishes that it
may long remain in your Lordship's possession, as a me-
mento of the performance of an act of benevolence, emi-
nently calculated to stamp additional importance on a
valuable Charitable Institution, and to contribute essentially
to its future prosperity.
" In conclusion, my Lord, the Trustees aed Committee
beg to express their hopes that Providence will grant to
your Lordship length of days, with the enjoyment of the
best health, anal long enable you, in your present exalted
situation, to promote, throughout our beloved country, the
true principles of liberty, the inestimable benefits of edu-
cation, and the welfare and happiness of all classes of the
corn m unity."
Mr. WARD, as Chairman of the Trustees, then handed
to his Lordship the splendid trowel already adverted to,
which he received in the most grateful manner, and then
aldreused the deputation in the following words :
" Gentleraen,—l beg leave to return you my warm
thanks for the too flattering terms of this address.
" I have great pleasure in accepting this testimony of
your approbation and good-will ; I shall preserve it as a
me:no•rial of your kindness, and of the gratifying reception
which I met with, as his Majesty's representative, upon the
occasion to which you allude.

" It gives me the most lively satisfaction to learn that
my attendance upon that occasion, which subjected me to
little or no personal inconvenience, is considered by you to
have been beneficial to the objects of your Institution."
The deputation then took its leave, after mutual acknow-
ledgments on both sides, highly gratified with its reception,
and the evident expression of pleasure on the part of Lord
Melbourne, not only at the reception he had experienced
upon the occasion of laying the foundation-stone of the new
School in Kennington-lane, but of the affection and regard
evinced to him by the deputation.