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this verdict, and it was equally clear that the plaintiff
must pay the costs of the preseat application,
The rule was, therefore, made abso:ute.

BAIL COURT, May 7.
(Sittiggs in Banco, before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE,

JEWISH DISABILITIES.

On the Learned Judge taking his seat this morning,
a number of barristerA, principally members of the
Middle Temple, who had been called to the bar of that
inn on Saturday last, attended to take the usual oaths,
and to subscribe the roll.

Among the members was Mr. Salomona, Alderman of
the city of London.
Upon his name being called, Mr. Salomons demurred
to taking the oath of abjuration, in consequence of the
concluding words of the oath, " upon the true faith of a
Christian," and wished to sign the roll without taking
that oath. A communication of this objection being
made by the Clerk of the Crown to the Learned Judge
on the bench, a conference with his Lordship ensued,
which was concluded by
Mr. Justice COLERIDGE expressing an opinion that
he was incompetent to alter the usual form. The
Learned Judge, however, suggested that Mr. Salomons
might take the opinion of the full Court upon the point.
Mr. Salomons acquiesced, and subsequently appeared
in the Court of Queen's Bench; but an important case
being under hearing, ne opportunity was afforded him
of moving the court.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

OLD COURT.

Thomas Evershed and Robert Bussell surrendered to
be tried upon an indictment for misdemeanour.
Mr. Payne prosecuted, and Mr. Crouch defended.

The prosecutor in this case W3S a dissenting minister,
named Stubbs, and the offence al!eged to have been com-
mitted by the defendants was, that they bad unlawfully
conspired together to harass and annoy the prosecutor
by putting in a distress for rent under a fictitious claim
of right to the chapel in which the prosecutor preached,
in Hops-street, Bethnal-green, and other property in the
same neighbourhood.
The case occupied the attention of the Court a con-
siderable time, and the evidence went to show that the
defendant Evershed, who had been appointed trade
assignee under the insolvency of a person named Hardy,
appeared to have acted under the colour of right con-
ferred upon him by that position, and that he employed
the other defendant, who was a broker, to act for him
in making the distress ; but thera was nothing to show
that the latter had any knowledge with regard to the
actual rights of the pirties. The prosecutor, it ap-
peared, had no interest whatever in the property, and
his only object was to protect himself from the annoy-
ance of having his chapel continually distrained upon.
The REc AMER, at the close of the case for the prose-
mane, said, that, without expressing any opinion upon
the subject of the title to the property in question, it
appeared to him that there was no evidence of any
guilty knowledge on the part of Bussell, and if the jury
entertained the same opinion the charge of conspiracy
could not be supported, at it was necessary that two per-
sons at least should be shown to have conspired in order
to make cut that charge.
The jury said they did not think there was any evi-
dence to show a knowledge on the part of Bussell that
there was anything illegal in the transaction.
The RECOnDER then directed the jury to Acquit both
the defendants.

IVEW COURT.
(Before Mr. BULLOCK.)

Aldria Rusk, a miserable sickly looking woman, was
indicted for concealing the birth of her illegitimate
child.

It appeared that the prisoner, in March last, whilst in
the service of a lady named Scott, living in Gloucester-
street, Regent's-park, was delivered of a stillborn child,
which had only reached the sixth month of gestation.
She bad carried the body from the house and thrown it
into the Regert's-canal, where it was found by the
police, to whom she admitted having thrown it there.
The prisoner, in her defence, said, she did not know
she hr.d been guilty of any crime.
The jury found her Guilty. and she was sentenced to
ono mouth's imprisonment in Newgate.
Edward Price and James Trotman were indicted for
stealing a cash-box containirg 371. in gold, notes, and
silver, and also two small bsgs, containing copp2r coin,
the property of Martha Fife, in her dwelling-house.
Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine de-
fended.

The fac's proved were these.—The prosecutrix, a
widow, keens the Queen Victoria public-house, Earl-
street, Kensington. On the night of the 26th of March,
just previously to closing, she pat the money in the cash
box, and placed that with the bag containing the copper
in a desk in the bar-parlour; when a quarrel taking place
in the tap-room, she went in there, leaving the prisoners
at the bar, and on her return they were gone, and the
cashbox and bag. The prisoners, who were her near
neighbours, were taken into custody the next morning ;
and the circumstance of their not having bee❑ home all
night, and behaving somewhat suspiciously when seen by
the police, seemed to be the chief evidence from which
they were inferred to be guilty. Anothcr circum-
stance to establish the guilt of Trotman was, that
the empty cashbox was found on the top of
a cowshed adjoining his mother's premises, where
he lived, and the wall of the garden seemed as
though some one had very recently clambered over it
in the direction of where the cashbox was found. A
circumstance, however, was proved to show that some
one else must have had a hand in the robbery, namely,
that the bag with the copper was found in a place where
it must have been put subsequently to the prisoner's ap-
prehension.
In cross-examination it was elicited that some one
else might have committed the robbery.
Mr. I.3ALLANTINE having made a powerful appeal to
the jury, they, after a short deliberation, Acquitted
the prisoners.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MARYLEBONE.

Mr. Charles Higgins was brought before Mr. Brough-
ton, charged with drunkenness and disorderly conduct
at 11, Upper Montague-street, Montague-square; ho
was also charged on a warrant obtained against him by
his wife, the daughter of Sir Paul Joddrell, of Portland-
place, with having threatened to " do for her," in conse-
quence of which said threat she was in fear of her life,
and, therefore claimed protection at the hands of the
magistrate. _ _

A great deal of evidence was gone into, and it was
shown that defendant was some years ago received as a
guest at Sir P. Joddrell's house, and that he ingratiated
himself into the good graces of his daughter, with whom
he ran away, and a marriage took place between them
at Whitechapel Church. Sir Paul and her Ladyship
were averse to the match, and neither of them had since
been upon friendly terms with defendant, who had as-
saulted his wife violently on the 25th ult., but she did
not then press the charge against him; he had since
abused her, and threatened her in the terms before al-
hided to, and she was fearful that ho would do her some
injury; he had unfortunately given himself up to habits
of intemperance, and she had in more than one instance
been aEs3ulted by him; for the last assault he was brought
before this Court, but as she had no wish to punish him,
as he had promised not to molest her any more, he was
discharged on paying :is. for being drunk.
Mr. BROUGHTON now ordered him to firrl bail, him-
self in 401, and two sureties in 40/. each (with 24 hours'
WORSHIP-STREET._
notice) for his keeping the peace for six months.

A mid.:lle-aged woman named LI/au Bird was charged
before Mr. Arnold a ith steeling a female infant, the
daughter of a master shoemaker named Clayton, living
in Three Colts- court, Finsbury.
The evidence of the child's sister, 10 years of age,
was, that she was sent out by her moier in the evening
to give the child an airing, and that while returning
home through Sun-street, the prisoner, who was a
stranger, came up, and after cares-ling the infant for some
time took it out of her arms, and c fferi d the girl a penny
to buy it a cake. The girl refus, d the money and de-
manded the child back, upon which the prisoner walked
hastily off with it, pursued by the sister through several
courts, until she abruptly turned into a mean-looking
house, where the girl overtook her, and the prisoner then
promised to give her the infant if she went to the top of
the house. The girl did as directed, but finding the
place very dwelt and that the prisoner did not follow her
she became frightened and hastened down again, when
she found t'ee prisoner passing with the child into a
back yard, and upon her re-demanding the infant's
restoration, the prisoner turned sharply round upon
her, and forcing her back along the passage, thrust
her into the street, and closed the door upon her. The
girl then commenced screaming for her sister, and several
inhabitants having been alarmed by her cries at last
came to her assistance, and, having forced in the door,
were just in time to seize the prisoner as she was escap-
ing through an outlet at the back into an adjoining
court. The prisoner on being detected boldly declared
the infant was hers and refused to give it up; but, as the
child screamed very much from the violence with which
the prisoner squeeze d it, they forced it from her and sent
fur a constable. The prisoner then commenced a furious
attack upon her detainers, one of whom she severely bit
in the arm, and resisted so violently that it was not until
she bad been strapped down at full length upon a
stretcher that they could get her to the station.
This evidence was corroborated by the testimony of a
married woman named Lewson, and the prisoner, on
being called on for her defence, denied all knowledge of
anything that had occurred, pleading drunkenness as an
excuse. This, however, was positively contradicted by
the constable, who stated that she appeared to be per-
fectly sober at the time, and it having been proved that
the prisoner was actually in the act of stripping the in
fent at the time she was detected by the neighbours, she
was ordered to be committed for the completion of the
evidence. _ _ _

TVEST.II.IIVSTEI?.
George Rerers, a man about forty years of age, was
charged with inflicting several wounds upon his wile
while in bed with a knife.
The prisoner, on being asked w!iether he wished to
say anything in reply to the charge, replied •°I decline
saying; anything at present."
He was committed to the Central Criminal Court for
trial.

CLERKENWELL.
William Jackson, aged sixty, was again placed at the
bar before Mr. Combe for further exaniination, charged
at the instance of the directors of the poor of St. Pancras
pani7,ll with a burglary at St. Pancras Workhouse, and
stealing twenty tovereigno and 1551, in silver money.
The pariah authoriiies were in attendance, and con-
sidr:l3le interest was manifested in a croa clod court.
Mr. Prendergast, the barrister, attended for the pro-
secution, and Mr. Huddiu..,t.aie for the prisoner.
The prisoner, who was in a very delicate state of
healr brought from pri,oo in a cabri6L t, :Alfa lining
.uppertt-ti into court was aliow. if to sir, up-r: a choir,
wiril his injurtii log paced in au horizJatal position, and
appear:d to still; r great pain.
The case was, after a lengthened examination of
evidence, adjourned for a week.