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London, England, 1831-07-01 00:00:00

DE TASTET v. LOPEZ.

This case was spoken to by one Counsel on each side upon the
subject of exceptions. It is the notable case in which a solici.
tor's bill of costs for an undefended action amounted to 8,0001.,
and for a defended action to 12,-565/. 12s. Sd. ! More than ten
years have elapsed since the bill was filed, and a sufficient an-
swer has not yet been obtained from Mr. Hartley. In short it
was stated that the parties are now exactly in the same situation
in which they were a month after the filing of the bill, except
so far indeed as the poor clients are affected by a few subsequent
trifling bills of costs. The Lord Chancellor allowed one excep-
tion to the Master's report, reporting a full answer, and octet.
ruled another.

VICE CH.ANCELLORS COURT.
NJUNC riox.—NICHOLS v. LEADER.
Mr. SPENCE applied this morning exparte for an injunction
to restrain the defendant from publishing and selling maps of
the canals and rail-roads in England. The grounds on which the
Learned Counsel made.his motion were these. The plaintiffs,
Messrs. Nicholls, some time since published an excellent map of
the canals and rail-roads of England, and employed the defendant
Leader at a salary of 50s. a week to procure subscribers. Lat.
terly, however, they had discovered that Leader had been sup.
plying the subscribers to their map with a spurious map of his
own. Among the subscribers who had been thus imposed upon
were man=' persons moving in a high sphere of life, one of whom
was Mr. Prancis Baring, of the Treasury.
The VI C E-C HAN C ELLO It considered the ease to be one cal-
ling for the interference of the Court, and granted the injunction.

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)
OLD COURT.
George Beedharn, aged M, was indicted for stealing in the
dwelling-house of John Behnes, six watches, valued 6/. ; a gold
chain, and forty. five sovereigns.
The robbery was committed so long ago as the middle of
1829, when the prosecutor's bed-room was broken into and the
property in question stolen. Some suspicion fell upon the pri-
soner, whose lodgings in Fives-court, Fleet-street, Bethnal-green,
were searched a fortnight after the robbery, when in a cupboard
one of the stolen watches was found. The prisoner, who was a
weaver, and had two looms in his house, from the day of the
search absconded from his wife and two children, and never was
found until last May, when a constable, who had been long look.
ing for him, met him in Friday-street, Cheapside, and took him
into custody. His wife and family in the interim were taken
into the workhouse.—Guilty.
John Irving, aged 20, was indicted for the manslaughter of
Arthur Al(Ginnis, on the 24th of May last, by violently kicking
him in the groin and abdomen.

Thomas Bassett, a carver and gilder, deposes!, that on the
night of the 24th of May he called upon the deceased, who lived
in Cottage-court, Orchard-street, Westminster; they went out,
intending to go to a public-house, when the prisoner accosted
the deceased by saying, " You are Arthur M‘Ginnis ; I should
like to have a round or two with you." The prisoner then
struck at the deceased, but witness could not tell whether the
blow took etti..et or not. Witness, on locking round, saw
the deceased and the prisoner on the ground ; they got up again,
when the deceased held the prisoner by the collar, and called for
the assistance of the police ; upon the police coming up, he gave
the prisoner into custody and walked after them to the watch-
house; at the watch-house the deceased begged that a doctor
might be sent for, saying he was a dead man. To further ques-
tions, witness was not sure it was the prisoner who struck the
deceased first, he believed it was him.
- Matthews saw the prisoner strike the deceased; deceased
wa- ultimately taken to the hospital.
John Custy said the first thing I saw was the deceased laying
hold of the prisoner's collar. After the policeman had taken the
prisoner, the latter kicked deceased very violently oq the groin;
the deceased held his hand to the part, and exclaimed he was a
dead man._

Samuel Bannister, inspector of police, was on duty in th•
station-house when deceased came in; witness sent for the sur-
geon of the division, and by his direction he was sent to West-
minster Hospital.
JoLep!) Clarke, a policeman, was on duty in Orchard-street
on the evening of the 24th of May, and heard a cry for assistance.
Saw the deceased have hold of the prisoner's collar ; deceased
desired witness to take the prisoner into custody, and said I
am an injured man." Witness refused, as he had not seen any
breach of the peace committed, and desired the deceased to get a
warrant.

Mr. E. H. Thomas, house surgeon of Westminster Hospital,
stated that he attended the deceased when he was brought into
that establishment ; he complained of great pain, and said he
had been kicked. Witness attended him six days, and deceased
died on the 30th May. Upon a post mortcm examination very
considerable inflammation was found through the whole course
of the intestines and stomach. This inflammation was the cause
of death, and it must have been the result of some external vio-
lence; a kick on the abdomen would produce such an effect, or a
fall might produce it.

Theigis7mer, upon being called upon for his defence, said he
would leave his case in the hands of his Counsel.
Several witnesses gave the prisoner a good character.
His LORDSHIP having summed up the evidence, the Jury
found a verdict of Guilty.

NEW COURT.
Henry Levere Taylor, a Greek, was indicted for stealing a
sovereign, the property of William Inwards, a baker. An in-
terpreter attended to explain to the prisoner the nature of the
charge in the Arabic language.—Guilty.
John If illiams was indicted for stealitg a piece of the back
ribs of beef weighing 11 lbs., value 6s. the property of a butcher
named Griffin, at Hampstead.---Guilty.