The Sun.
London, England, 1836-08-01 00:00:00

This was a motion to dissolve an injunction of the Vice-
Chancellor, restraining the defendant from continuing the
publication of a treatise on the method of passing private
Bills through the Houses of Parliament, such work being
considered a piracy of a publication of the plaintiff, on the
method of passing private Bills through the House of
Commons. At the hearing of the motion his. Lordship
expressed an opinion that the injunction could not be sus-
tened, and that it must be dismissed unless the plaintiff
consented to try his right in a Court of Law. The matter
then stood over; by consent, to allow the parties to come to
an arrangement.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL now intimated to the Court
that no compromise had been effected, and be therefore, on
the part of the defendant, prayed that the injunction might
be dissolved in the usual manner.

Mr. STUART, for the plaintiff, could not resist this, as he
was still of opinion that the copyright had not value enough
to warrant his advising an action at law.
Injunction dissolved accordingly.

Tile SOLICITOR-GENERAL then gave notice of his inten.
tion to move on the first day of motions to dissolve the in.
junction as it affected the publishers.

VICE-CHANCEICY-SATURDAY.

WOODYATT V. LADY GRESLEY AND OTHERS.

Mr. TRESLOVE moved for a special injunction in this
cause: Under settlements made in 1796, Lady Gresley
cntitied to a life intoreq in estates in Herefordshire,
to a jointure of 8001. a year upon her husband's estates
Somersetsbire ; and by the same settlements she en-
gaged to transfer, upon her mother's death, a sum of
South Sea Stock, amounting to above 2,600/. upon trust
for herself for life, and then for her children and their issue.
Lady Gresley afterwards managed to procure a transfer of
this stock to herself absolutely, by which means this trust-
fund was wholly lost. The plaintiffs in the present suit
were the issue of Lady Gresley's only daughter and their
trustees, who claimed the ultimate interest in the stock,
and sought to have it replaced at the expense of Lady
Gresley's life-interest under the settlements.
Sir CHARLES WETHERALL resisted the motion on the
part of Sir Roger Gresley.
Mr. BIRD, for Lady Gresley, was not opposed to the
motion.

His HONOUR: was of opinion there etas a clear min for
an injunction.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—LEIcEsno, JULY 29.
John Polls, aged 58, was charged with having fired four
cottages, the property of Joseph Bostock.
The Jury found him Guilty, and the Learned Judge
ordered sentence of death to be recorded.

MURDER. EXTRAORDINARY CASE• —Henry Roper,
aged 60, was charged with :having murdered Elizabeth
Tebbutt.

The circumstances of this case were most extraordinary,
and such as have seldom or never occurred within the
memory of man. The crime laid to the prisoner's charge
was that of murder, committed as long ago as 1802.
Elizabeth Tebbutt, the deceased, was living in 1802
(she being at that time about twenty years of age), as
housekeeper to her brother, a mercer, at Kegworth. On
the evening of the 10th of December in that year the
deceased had gone out for a short walk, and not re-
turning the family were thrown into the greatest distress pos•
sible ; howeVer, on the following morning the unfortunate
girl was found in a place called Hall-close, near to the canal.
She was lying on her back with the greater portion of her
person exposed, and her clothes covered with filth and dirt.
Deceased was theta alive, but nothing beyond a few inarti-
culate sounds could be heard, and she died shortly after
being removed. It was proved she had been at her mother's
on that evenin3., whose house she left about ten, and that her
way to her brother's, who lived near at hand, was through
the dose where -the body bad been found, there being a f►ot-
path running through the same. It appeared from the de-
positions of the witnesses heard before the Coroner at the
inquest that on examining the person of the' aeceascd the
body was found very much bruised, particularly the back
part, as though it had been dragged on the gravel. There
were also bruises on the fore part of the person, which left no
doubt she had been foully abused. Suspicion fell upon several
individuals, but never upon the prisoner ; and finally the
whole matter seemed destined to fall into oblivion, when the
prisoner, Who is a labourer, living at Kegworth, being taken
ill in April last, made a confession of his having violated
the person of the deceased, which confession he subsequently
deposed to before Mr. Phillips in the following words :
" I did not murder Elizabeth Tebbutt. I met her in Tin-
ker's-lane early in the morning. I ravished her. It was
near the stile. lam not sure whether it was in the lane or
in the orchard. I drank the gin before or after, lam not
sure which. I have had good health ever since till lately.
I have had it on my mind for two months. I have been ill.
My wife has said, What is the matter with you, you don't
rest of nights ?' Murdin was called in, and I was more
quiet when I had confessed. (This was the Dissenting
parson to whom Roper had first made known the circum-
stances.) But when I thought of my wickedness I was
.uneasy. Before I was ill of late I was as happy as most
folks, and bore a good character." Independent of this
confession the prisoner had also stated to Newbold, a con-
stable, that he had met the deceased in Hall's orchard and
violated her person ; that it was about ten at night, a few
days before he married his present wife. It was proved he
was married ten days after the murder.

The prisoner, on being called on for his defence, said be
was terrified by what the ranting parson had said to him
when ill, and while under the influence of that terror he
had said what had been produced..
Mr. Justice PARK, in summing up the case, took occasion
to advert to its singularity, so singular, indeed, that in all
likelihood a similar case. or any thing approaching thereto,
was not within the recollection of any of the Judges. The
man had been living at Kegworth or its neighbourhood all
his life, and respected, too, by his neighbourhood for his
good conduct ; he had brought up a large family in a
respectable and becoming manner, and he put it to the Jury
whether it was reasonable to suppose that a man who, be-
fore this foul tragedy took place, and afterwards, had con-
ducted himself with the strictest propriety, was a likely per-
son to commit a crime of so deep a die, and whether he
might not be the victim of mental delusion.

The Jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty.
The case excited the greatest interest in the persons at-
tending the Court throughout the day. The prisoner, who
is a fine looking old man, seemed to be the only unconcerned
person present.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Bunr, Juni- 30.
The Judges took their seats yesterday at the hour of
twelve. In the Nisi Prius Court there were seven causes
entered for trial, one of which only was a Special Juay, aris-
ing out of the last Sudbury election.