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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ROLLS' COURT, Dec. 13.
The Master of the Rolls heard causes to-day.
TIE DUKE OF BRUNSWICK V. THE DUKE OF
CAMBRIDGE.
This ca-e had been the subject of reference to tbt.
Master. The bill was originally filed by the plaintiff
to obtain an account of certain property, money, and
vale ables, which it alleged had come into the posses-
sion of the Duke of Cambridge, as one of his guar.
dians, appointed at the time of the Duke of Bruns-
wick's expulsion from his dominions; when a
setthiment of his affairs and income was agreed to
by the reigning duke and the plaintiff's guardians.
It had been found necessary by the plaintiff to file a
supplemental bill in the cause, to which the defen.
dant lad put in answers, and these were met by
the plaintiff by 13 exceptions for insufficiency, nut
on various other grounds. There had been a refer-
ence
to the Master on the subject, and he had allowed
the first, seventh, ninth, and eleventh exception, and
overruled all the rest. The plaintiff took exceptions
to that decision, and admitting that the third and tenth
had been properly overruled sought the interference
of the Master of the Rolls to sustain the other excep-
tions taken.

Mr. Roundell Palmer and Mr. Cole were heard for
the Duke of Brunswick; Mr. Turner and Mr. Elms-
ley ibr the Duke of Cambridge.
.1,,0rd LANGDALE pronounced his judgment in favour
of tne Duke of Brunswick upon t vo of the exceptions
—n lamely, the eleventh and t*elfth, and against him
upo}i, the remaining.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 13.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Houton))
IN RE H. PATERSON.
_ _

The bankrupt, a livery-stable keeper of the Hippo
drome, Notting-hill, applied for his certificate. His
debts are ablut 1,4641. ; secured ditto, 1 246/. ; asset,
---boutic debts, 5001., of which 2001. has been realised.
_ _

Messrs. Pain and ffatherley, of Gresham-street,
were solicitors to the fiat ; and Mr. Lawrance sup-
portvd the bankrupt.
Mr. PAIN stated that Messrs. Tattersall, who were
liability creditors to the extent of 1,0001, had
honourably withdrawn their claims, and that there
was no opposition to the bankrupt's certificate. He
raised the point as to whether or not the expenses
deposited by the bankrupt in respect to the certificate
meeting, amounting to 21. 19s. lal , should be paid
out or the estate, where there were assets, or by
himeelf.

His HoNona held that such expenses should be
paid out of the estate where there were assets. The
certificate in this case must be granted as of the
third class.

Mr. Pain, a few days since, made a similar appli
cation as to the costs of the certificate meeting, upon
behalf of the assignees of a bankrupt named Lewis,
and with the same result. lie drew the attention of
the Learned Commissioner to the words of the 198th
section of the new Act, " that the Court should
appoint such certificate meeting."

INSOLVENT DEBTORS. COURT, Dec. 13.
(Before Mr. Commissioner LAW.)
A LONG IMPRISONMENT —IN RE MAJCR RICHARD IA

TOLSON.
In this case an application was made to set aside a
portion of the half pay, of 7s. a day, of Major Tolson,
who, it appeared, had been in prison for debt 17 years,
and was still incarcerated.
Mr. STURGEON, who appeared for the major, op-
posed the application, and mentioned that a schedule
would be filed.
Mr. COOKR, for the creditor who had obtained the
vesting order, was willing that the application should
stand over, en the understanding that the major would
file a schedule.
His HONOUR said, he had no doubt the present was
one of those unhappy cases in which, atter a long
imprisonment, the party vras at length compelled to
come to the court. He regretted that the major had
not applied 17 years ago. The matter stood over on
the ground mentioned.
(Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.)
IN RE JOACHIM HAYWARD STOCQUELER.
This insolvent, an author, applied to be dischaged,
to which no opposition was offered.
The insolvent, in reply to the Court, said that he
had assigned the copyright of a work he had written
to Mr. Flight, who had become guarantee for a portion
of the expenses of its production. lie valued this
copyright at 7501. 2,000 copies having been printed,
which were sold at half a guinea each, would produce,
after deducting 26 per cent. for the publisher's profit,
about the sum stated-7501. Mr. Flight's claim upon
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printing, for which he had become responsible, and also
1381. upon a debt due to himself.
The insolvent was ordored to be discharged.

COURT OF INLAND RE VENUE, Dec. 13.
Before HART DAVIS, Esq., Chairman, C. J. film-
RIBS, Esq , and CIIA.RLES PRESSLEY, Esq.)

_ .
ILLICIT DISTILLATION-FURTHER CONVICTIONS IN
IIEA.VF PENALTIES-TEIE QUEEN V. PITCHFORD.

William Pitchford, of 76, Compten:street,Clerl;n-
-well, manufacturing chemist, was charged on an in-
formation, containing a great number of counts, with
hiving in his possession and with removing and
depositing spirits with intent to defraud her Majoty
of the legal duty thereon.
The court, as on the previous day, was crowded
to excess by parties interested in the proceedings.
The Court, after a short deliberation, gave judg-
ment against the defendant in the penalty of ],OOOl.

soner. He had three rooms in a house near mine,
where he resided with his wife and three children ;
James, aged nine ; Sarah, aged seven years ; and
Catherine, about eleven months old. Sarah died on
the Ist of August of cholera, and the prisoner's
wife the next day. They were in great poverty, but
always kept it to themselves. The prisoner was a
eery kind husband and father, and adored his children,
and would submit to ar:xy hardship rather than leave
them. After they died he was in despair. When his
daughter was dead, he took her on his knee and said,
"Is she dead ?" I said " Comp ese yourself, it is the
will of God." After his wife died he was still more
melancholy. I was with him from Wednesday until
Friday, during which period the prisoner never
slept at all. I left on Friday et ten o'clock, giving
him the baby in his arms—the boy James was
in the house. I laid the wife out, and he put
the dead daughter by her side. I returned about
two o'clock, but being unable to get in at the door, I
got in at the window, and found the prisoner lying
on the bed with his arm round his wife's neck, and
his hand on her breast. Much blood was on the
corpse and bed. James and Catherine were lying
dead at the font of the bed. I got Dr. Gilmour to
come in, as he was passito., anCe he sent for the police.
A razor was lying on the hearthstone.
Cross-examined—He kept talking to his dead wife,
and said to the child, " 'nu are too faithful to survive
your mother."
John Gilmour, surgeon—l was called into the
_ .

Boner's house by last witness, and found the prisoner
on the bed with his throat cut, -the wife and eldest
daughter dead, and the two other children on the bed,
their throats cut from ear to ear, which caused their
deaths. I saw a razor covered with blood.
John Cannon, a police-officer—l removed the priso-
ner to the hospital. When there he said, " For God's
sake take me to my poor wife and children."
Several other witnesses were then called, some of
whom deposed to conversation and expressions of the
prisoner after the death of his wife, and in the hos-
pital, all tending to show that he hadi been deranged
in his mind.
At the close of the case for the prosecution,
Mr. J. Poeeocx declined, after the evidence of
insanity, to address the jury for the prisoner.
His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that the
present was a most lamentable case, sufficient to
deeply wound the feelings of all who heard it ; but the
jury had to determine upon the guilt or innocence of
the prisoner, without suffering feeling to enter into
their minds, The question was, whether at the time
the fatal act was committed the prisoner was in such
a state of mind that he could distinguish the right
from the wrong, and could appreciate the consequences
of his act. The jury had heard the melancholy
statements of the witnesses, and he would not harass
the feelings of the jury by repeating them.
The jury, in a short time, returned a verdict of
Not Guilty on the ground of insanity.
John Lee was indicted for having, on the 7th of
September, wilfully murdered Thomas Richardson.
Mr. Monk and Mr. Sowler prosecuted ; Mr. Jo-
seph Pollock defended the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner keeps a blacksmith's
shop at Chorlton upon-Medlock, near Manchester,
and that the deceased had worked for Lim. On the
day in question, between three and four o'clock, the
deceased had gone into the smithy several times,
asserting that the prisoner owed him some wages. On
each of the occasions of his so doing the prisoner put
him out by the shoulder, and on the last occasion
that he did so the deceased struck the prisoner a
slight blow, at the titre the prisoner was heating in
the furnace two long iron rods of about half an inch
in diameter. Ile immediately seized one with each
hand, and rushing towards the deceased, thrust at
him with them, the result of which was that one rod
went through one thigh, and the other rod through
the other, completely piercing them through, both
rods being red hot. The deceased cried out, " Oh,
my God, he has killed me," and immediately fell
down, and died in about an hour afterwards. The

prisoner put the irons again into the fire as if to go
on with his work, but shortly after went to fetch a
doctor, and on his way met a policeman, to whom he
said, " I have stabbed the man.

Mr. POLLOCK addressed the jury for the prisoner,
and said that the jury could only convict him of man-
slaughter. The two men had been guarelling, and in
the heat of the moment, beir.g provoked by the
deceased, he had made use of the irons which were
close at hand.

His LORDSHIP, in summing up, said that it was not
very slight provocation that would justify a man in
using weapons such as red hot irons ; if they thought
the prisoner really intended to murder the deceased,
or to do him some grievous bodily harm, they must
find him guilty of murder, but if they thought that
be seized the rods in a moment of passion, and simply
intended to drive the deceased out of the smithy, and
only to burn him slightly, they would convict him of
manslaughter.

After -a
short consultation, the jury returned a ver-
dict of Manslaughter.
His LORDSHIP, in sentencing the prisoner, said
that he had never in the course of his experience met
with a mere cruel case, and sentenced him to trans-
portation for life. _ _

(Before Mr. Justice TALFOURD.)

John Lunt was indicted for having, at-Eccles, on
the 19th of July, 1847, stolen a gelding, the property
of John Chadwick and others.

Mr. Cross prosecutedT.lllr. Monk defended the
prisoner.

The prisoner was not apprehended until the Ist of
October last, when a policeman hearing a returned
convict threaten the priscner with the charge if he
did not pay 103., he touk him into custody.
Mr. MONK addressed the jury for the prisoner,
arguing upon the danger of trusting to personal
identity.
His LOEDStIIP summed up, stating that their ver-
dict depended upon the reliance they could place on
the evidence as to the prisoner's identity after a lapse
of two years.

Verdict—Not Guilty.
York, Dec. 12.
Mr. Justice Cresswell and Mr. Justice Williams
arrived here last night and opened the commission
for the winter gaol delivery. Their Lordships this
morning attended Divine service at the Minster, and
proceeded at twelve o'clock to the Castle to try the
prisoners.

There were no less than 112 prisoners named in
the calendar, 7of whom are charged with murder,
12 with rape, 13 with burglary, 3 with manslaughter,
2 with attempting to poison, 2 with attempting to
murder, 17 with stealing from the person, 14 with
robbery 9 with cutting and wounding, 3 with stab-
bing, 4 with arson, and the residue with offences of a
less heinous character.

Mr. Justice Cresswell sat in the Crown Court and
charged the grand jury.
(Before Mr. Justice CRESSITELL.)
John Murphy, a hawker, 22, was charged with
feloniously asssulting Henry Horner, and stealing a
silver watch from his person, on the 16th of August
last, near Thrisk, in the North Riding.
Mr. Price prosecuted, and Mr. Overend defended.
The evidence showed that the prosecutor's watch
was found in the prisoner's possession, and that the
prisoner then made a statement that he had bargained
a quantity of waistcoat•pieces for it ; and that the
prosecutor, having repented of his bargain, wanted
his watch back, and had charged him with felony in
order to get his watch, and had hid the waistcoats in

a field. Toe fields were searched, but nothing of the
kind was found.

The COUNSEL for the defence said he was in-
trusted that the prisoner's statement was true ; and
was proceeding to comment upon it as a fact, when
The Learned JUDGE said that this course had long
been settled to be irregular, and that he had no right,
as a barrister, to state his instructions as facts.
His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury found
the prisoner Guilty.
Sentenced to be imprisoned for six calendar months
with hard labour.

(Before Mr. Juftice WILLIAMS
A charge of manslaughter in a fight and several
cases of robbery were tried before his Lordship in
the course of the day, but were devoid of any interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.

Two young men, named Maddox and Burns,
connected with the steam-boat called the Pink, which
plies between the City and Ilungerford-bridge, were
summoned before the Lord Mayor for having cruelly
treated a dog. The prosecution was conducted by
Mr. Thomas, the secretary to the Royal Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Mr. G. Scott, of Conduit-street, Band- street,
stated that on Wednesday week he went on board the
Pink, at London-bridge, for the return passage, and
he saw a dog which had evidently inen left behind by
somebody who had got out. One of the crew threw
a bucket of water upon the dog and knocked it down.
It then ran along the deck and took refuge in the
fore-cabin into which the defendants followed it,
one of them carrying a mop and the other a scrub-
bing-brush. After chasing the poor animal about
the cabin, one of the defendants called out to kill
the dog, and both of them struck it violently and
knocked it sprawling. Witness said they were dis-
graceful vagabonds for so cruelly abusing the dog,
but they merely asked him what right he 111 A to inter-
fere, and, determined to show that he had that

right, he applied at the Mansion-house, and was
directed to the society, the secretary of which at once
undertook to have an inquiry instituted. He found
a difficulty in obtaining the names, the captain of the
steamer having refused to give them, although he
acknowledged that he kriew all the circumstances.
The secretary to the steam boat, however, at once
supplied them.
The LORD MAYOR—You might have given them
at once into custody for cruelty to a policeman.
There was no occasion for waiting for their names.
The witness said he had no doubt it would be
beneficial to the cathe of humamity that such a fact
should be known, as the difficulty he alluded to no
doubt operated in preventing many a prosecution.
The evidence of Mr. Scott, in its essential points,
was confimed by that of Mr. Ralph, who observed
the brutal manner in which the poor dog had been
treated, and said the dog, upon being put ashore, was
unable to walk, but dragged its legs along and howled
most paeously.
Three or four persons, wha belonged in some -way
or other to the Steam Company, said, for the defence,
that the, young men were exceedingly- quiet characters,
and that they had used no more violence than was
actually necessary to eject the animal, which was
every moment endangering its own life by getting
amongst the machinery. They also stated that the
dog, upon being pursued into the cabin, bit one of the
.defemiants in the boot.
The LORD MAYOR said there was no doubt what-
ever as to the correctness of the charge, and fined the
defendants each in the penalty of 10s. and costs. Ills
Lordship hoped it would not be forgotten, that it was
in the power of any person who saw cruelty inflicted
upon an animal to give the assailant immediately into
the custody of a policeman.
Mr. Thomas requested that the moiety or the
penalty to which the society would be entitled might
be depdaited
,in the poor-box, according to the estab-
lished ;usage with respect to all penalties inflicted
under ?similar circumstances.
WORSHIP- STREET.
Mr. ;James Eliot, solicitor and vestry-clerk of St.
Jude's,: Whitechapel, was brought up from the House
of Detention, to which he had been remanded, in de-
fault orzureties, on the preceding day, upon the charge
of using language of a violent and threatening ten-
dency towards Mr. Alfred Bowers, a surgeon, in the
Curtaineroad, Shoreditch, who had furnished one of
the medical certificates, upon which the defendant had
been dectained as an alleged lunatic in the Whitechapel
Union workhouse.

The complainant, upon being sworn, said on the
evening of Monday last, whilst seated in my drawing-
room, I beard a ring at my surgery bell, and proceeded
to the door, on opening which I observed the d-Andant
and a young man to whom I was a stranger; the
former of whom said that be had called for a Bible
which hie bad previously lent to me. I invited him to
enter, which he did, and I went to an upper room to
procure the Bible, with which I returned and placed it
upon the table. The defendant then raised it and ex-
claimed in an excited threatening, " This book once
knocked down a policeman, and if you don't mind what
you're about, it shall knock you down also." The de-
endant,:with increased vehemence, afterwards added "I
curse you and may all the curses in the Bible rest upon
your head. I shall include you in the action I am
about to commence (alluding to the action he had
threatened to bring against the parish authorities),
and I will sew you up." After repeating the same
binguagr several times he at length left the house,
and I saw no more of him till about twelve o'clock on
the follt'wing night, when my night-bell was violently
rung, and at the same time I heard the sound of a
violin playing at my door, accompanied by a voice,
which I then recognised as the defendant's, singing a
psalm or hymn. After a short interval the ringing
at the bell was violently renewed, and on going to
the door I saw a man playing on the violin by the
side of the defendant, who was standing in the front
of the rioor-way singing at the height of his voice.
The defendant had a paper in his hand, which he kept
flaunting before me, and, continuing his singing, at
length flung the paper into the passage, and, shaking
his fist •in my face, swore at and cursed me as he
had done on the former occasion, exclaiming, " I'll
make you smart for it; look out fur squalls," and '
then abruptly quitted the house, leaving the paper I
now produce. The witness handed in the paper he
referred'. to, which purported to be a summons to
give evidence issued from this court, and drew the
magistrate's particular attention to one portion of it,
which be stated that he knew to be in the defendant's
handwriting.
The defendant denied that he had done so, and
begged to explain in reference to his allusion to
knockin4g the constable down with the Bible, that
although he certainly adverted to that circumstance
during his interview with Mr. Bowers he had no
intentiean whatever to resort to violence, an 1 should
be able to produce evidence that he had never uttered
the threats the complainant had so positively imputed
to him.

James Warren, an Irish journeyman tnilt.r, was
next emined, who stated that he accompanied the
defendant to the h9use on the occasion referred to,
and that although the latter certainly called the com-
plainant a blackguard for traducing his character, he
heard none of the threats deposed to by that gentle-
man, and did not observe anything in the defendant's
conduct; to induce a reasonable apprehension that he
intended him any personal injury.
ARNOLD said that the matter resolved itself
into a mere question is to the credibility of the two
witnesses, and as the complainant so positively de-
posed to the utterance of the threats on the part of
the defendant, whose witness merely went so far as
to deny having heard them, he considered that the
charge had been fully established, and he should
therefore require the defendant to put in substantial
bail, himself in 50/. and two sureties in 301. each, to
be of peaceable behaviour for the next three months.
Requisite sureties were entered into, and he was
thereupon liberated.