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London, England, 1836-07-25 00:00:00

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MEETING OF CREDITORS TO-MORROW.
T. Moger, cheesemonger, Holborn-hill

BEGGING FOR THE CREW.---The praigiee of send-
ing a begging-bax round every steamer for the crow ought to
be discontinued. The probability is that the crew get but a
small part, if any, of the money thus obtained. It is no un-
common thing to see 10/. a voyage collected "for the crew."
That is 60i. a week. It is quite clear that a steamer's crew
do Lot get that ; a first-rate sailor on board a nobleman's yacht
has but 255. a week, and that only for the short season during
which the yacht is out.

STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT.—on Saturday morn-
ing, about ten o'clock, as the William the Fourth, a Whitstable
steam-vessel, was about to pass under one of the arches of
London-bridge (having just left Dyer's Hall Wharf, Thames-
street), the funnel came in contact with the arch, in conse,
pence of the stettrOr Ping RitY4rds the aide of-It where there
is not sMcieet height ter the vessel to pass through, 444 the
chimney and steam-pipe Paine down with a tremendous crash
among the passengers on dock, creating tho greatest alarm,
The sere4n4 of the females were }Bost heart-reading, but for-
tunately np pne was hhrt, although the chimney fell close to a
young lady with a babe in her arms. She was far some time
is a state of atupefaction. The steamer put hack to the wharf,
and several hours elapsed before the injury was repaired.' It
was a fortunate circumstance the deck of the steamer was not
crowded, or the loss of life weukt have been very great, . •

OXFORD ClRCUlT—WnßcEsnal,..iu 21.
4.1. DOE; ON THE DEIrIISE OF THE-DEAN AND CHAPTER OF
WESTMINSTER V. HIGGINS.
This was one of the numerous actions of ejectment
brought within these few years by the Dean and Chapter
of Westnaingtr, as lords of the manor of Castle Morton,
to recover Small pieces of land as encroachments upon the
waste of mawr commonly called Malvern Chase. In
this caseenlosure contained some 20 perches, and was
stated by some old witnesses (one of the age of 80, and
another 0('77) to have been taken in from the com-
mon ,-cti 1767, by a man named Samuel Arnold, who
occupied a freehold cottage immediately adjoining, and
they swore they had a distinct recollection of having
seen him make an embankment, upon whiCh he planted
a new hedge, so as to take in the piece of land in ques-
tion, which he afterwards occupied with his cottage and gar--
den, and since his time the property hads passed„
persons and at last came into the p‘nto various
ession of the defendant,
a respectable solicitor at Sudbury, %rim defended as land-
lord. The lessee of the plain 4Ping. an ecclesiastical cor-
poration, the maxim a -444/0404 iomplf4 occur?* ecclesia pro-
tected them from the operation of the statute of limita-
tions i and As the MUM had been out on lease to the
Dowdeswell family from 1754 until 1830, when the last
lifo (Loy Pepys,.the mother of the present Lord Chan-
cellor) dropped, the right to maintain an action of ejectment
had.oply averuawithin the last tix years, or that their-
was not barred by lapse of time, •
The jury returned a verdict for the defendant.
This result was somewhat unexpected, the Dean and
Chapter having succeeded in all the former cases. These
proceedings, indeed, have worked a strong feeling in this
part of the country,

STAFFORD..--FRIDd r.
Business began in both Courts this morning. There are
twenty-five cases entered at IVisi Prizes, three of which are
special juries, and there are only fifteen prisoners for trial, a
smaller number than has been known at any assizes in this
county for a great many years. No case has yet occurred
in either Court of the least public interest.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—DonenicsrEn, Jrar 22.
The Commission was opened here on Wednesday, and
buliness commenced on Thursday. The whole of the
latter day was occupied with a case of quo warrant() from
Poole to try the right to the office of Town Councillor.
An immonse number of witnesses were called, and the
trial partook-of the nature of an election scrutiny. The
Liberals.supported the side of the Crown, in whose favour
a verdict was ultimately returned, There were only six
prisoners.

NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—HUNTINGDON, JULY 22,
The Assizes commenced here yesterday. The
Crown Court, after the disposal of three prisoners
yesterday, adjourned ; and this 'day it has been occupied
from its sitting up to a very late hour in trying a prose-
cution for a conspiracy which came from St. Ives, and
possessed great interest, the Court having been crowded
throughout the day, and the Attorney-General having
been brought down specially for the defence.
From Mr. Kelly's address to the Jury,..it appeared that
this was a 'Prosecution charging Messrs. Day and Parry
ith conspiring to procure the fraudulent insertion of the
houses of four voters on the register for the county before
the Revising Barrister last year, J. W. Percy, Esq.
After evidence for the prosecution had been adduced at ,
considerable length, the Jury were addressed by the
Attorney-General in an impassioned speech, stigmatizing
the obstinacy with which the prosecutor's name had been.
withheld from his client, who stood in the situation of a
man accused of a foul conspiracy by a concealed foe—a
base assassin, who could stab in the dark, but dared not to
show his face openly. He then went on to deny utterly
the charge.
After a. few minutes' discussion, the Jury expressed a
wish to retire, and the Court was adjourned to his Lord-
ship's lodgings at half-past eight. In about half an hour
the Jury proceeded to deliver their verdict, which was one
of acquittal, his Lordship ob4erving that they had done
perfectly right ; they could have found no other verdict,
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SATURDAY.
The tables have been turned this mornir4, and a M
Lawrnice has himself been the subject a similar charge
of conspiracy, with one Charles Broadbelt Claydon, to pro-
cure the fraudulent insertion of the names of the said C. B.
Claydon, and also of Charles Claydon, Ms father, on the
list of voters for this cetAnty, before the same revising bar-
rister; by sending in to the overseers of the parish O'f. He-
mingford Croy two elaims on their behalf, for property
which they well knew they could have no legal title to vote
for, ho having acted as their attorney at the purchase of
the said property, which took place within a very short
time of the sending. in the said notices.
His Lontisurp directed the Jury to aegait the prisoner,
there not being any PVitle,Pce at all to connect him with any
such tra,-I,r;Atition as: he had been charged with.

ItiML AND CIRCE/71Z —Norrutran:dar, .7ozy 22.
CiOWN COURT.—Georke Farr, aged 27, was placed at
the bar, ()barged with committing an aggravated assault
nrn the person of' Hannah Hatchet. During the proceed-
ings it was discovered that the prosecutrix's name was Mary,
and not Hannah, which bad been inserted in the indicte
ment by mistake, and the proceediup were therefore sud-
denly put an eud to.

.94reuour-, JULY 23.
The two peel jury causes were this morning disposed
fir, Mr, Justice PARK having finished the criminal business,
ennsenting to take one in the Crown Court, the other being
disposed of bofore Mr. Baron &ALAND. In the first,
which :was an action of ejectment, of no interest but to the
parties concerned, the plaintiff was non-suited; in the other,
Jackson v Hall, an action to recover compensation for the
loss of cattle, alleged to have been killed by reason of the
imputities- flowing from the defendant's staroh-mills into a
water-course, whereat the defendant's cattle were accus-
tomed to drink, a verdict was found for the plaintiff, with
`.270141.1441g0, Two common jury causes were left as re-
mands, and this finished the business of the assize.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—YORZ, Jura- 22.
MELLIN V. TAYLOR. •
(Concluded from The San of Saturday.)
Mr. CRESWELL closed his opening•speech for the defence
at ten o'clock last night. He minutely examined the whole
evidence for the plaintiff, pointing out its various discrepan-
cies—commenting on the class of witnesses produced and
the character of many of them, and coi.tending that such
part of the'_ evidence as could be believed was quite con-
sistent with his client's innocence, while that which imputed
po itiye criminality was absolutely incredible. Mr. Cress-
well concluded an address of three hours, in which he went
over every point of the case.

This morning Mr. CRESSIVELL proceeded with the. evi-
lence for the defence. •

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n .AT b
uly lealstfi:lwends bypn
tot in, Mellinw i.tnhatthteuEtetncaiteeiiP stical Court
lents of dates
and facts there alleged varies; from those stated by the
various witnesses.

Eliza Mullins—Her evikan was read from the notes
of the last trial, to shQW the very intimate terms on which
defendanttlie
was h the plaintiff's family. Witness de-
posed
(il
lie very great intimacy . between Mr. Mellin
find M.'. Taylor. Mr. Mellin consulted him on all occa-
oloos, even so much so as to be disapproved of by Mrs.
Mellin. Witness was there from February, 1830, till 0e-
Whet., 1831. Never saw any impropriety. Usually slept
with •Mrs. Mellin in her husband's absence.
Itobeitsen—Was acquainted with Mr. Taylor at Wake-
field in 1826 ; at the period of Mr. Mellin's visit to Ham-
burgh, as
.mentioned by the witnesses for the plaintiff, was
in London ; received a packet from somo Wakefield
friends from Mr. Taylor. He was staying at the London
Coffee-house. Called there, Mr. Taylor always stopped
there when in town on business. Mrs. Mellin was there.
Mr, Millen Was expected from Hamburgh, and Mrs.
Mollin, witness understood, had come up from Wakefield
to meet him. Met Air. Mellin at dinner there some days
afterwards.- Was at Wakefield in August, 1832 add 1833.
There was a great intimacy between the families. They
were like members of the same family. Although witness's
attention w!as called to some reports at that time, never
saw the slightest impropriety.. -
Martha Lee—Was formerly in the service of Mr. W-
ho. :Went into the service about four years since. Was
there eight months. The Misses Mullin were frequently
there; - and walked in the plantation sometimes with Mr.
Taylor.
Many' wita
emeq depo3ed to the intimate terms on which
the families.wcre the riding parties to the farm ; the pro-
priety of-aerneanour'observed 'both by Mr. Taylor and Mrs.
Mellin, and their affection for their respective families.
Charlotte Lee, wife of Mr. Thomas Lee—ls very init-
mate
.With7the families, both
.of plaintiff and defendant.
Never sary *any impropriety of Conduct on the part of Mrs.
Mellin. • •

A nunil.ter of letters were then read, to show that the
great ilititnacy between the families was more.of Mr, Met,
seeking- then Mr. Taylor's—to shoW the respectful
niautior.io.'which Mr. Taylor'wqs accusiouled" CO write to

A ticket-porter, named Hutchins, was charged by Mr.
Bush, the proprietor of the Vie Inn, Bishopslrate-street,
under the following circumstances---'There has been fur a
considerable time a dispute existing between the tkket-
porters and the proprietors of inns, as won at, whartr,r,,
upon the subject of the right of the, tick't--„orters eXe;-
cise an exclu4" PvivilQae witb .re-,;ard unloading goods.
"rho cii4daroomeals-,-- • L' • • I
many sat ,x' ..pon this question late occasioned
Mr. Bush stated that be had taken some
meat- in his cart to Leadenhall-market, and directed his
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servant to unload it. The defendant and sonic other
ticket-porters insisted•upon performing that office, and took
hold by force of the parcels which were in complainant's
Custody, by which movement they obstructed the latter.
Mr. Payne, Counsel for the ticket-porters, contended
that as the ticket-porters had the exclusive right to unload
goods sent in innkeepers' carts to the market, the defendant
had not been guilty of any offence against the laws in claim-
ing and exercising that right.
The LORD MAYOR-1 call upon the defendant to enter
'it town recogrficrAWcPabrrie peace.
The defendant declined entering into his own recogni-
iances, and brought a•charge against Mr. Bush for having
assaulted him.

The LORD MAYOR and Alderman VENABLES, however,
declared the case against Mr. Bush dismissed, and his
Lordship directed that Hutchinson should be detained in
custody until he should consent to enter into his own re-
cognizances. •