The Sun.
London, England, 1841-04-02 00:00:00

LAWRENCE V. BLAKE.

Their Lordships then proceeded to hear the arguments in
this appeal from the. decision of the Lord Chancedor of Ire-
land. The case is an extremely heavy one, and likely to oc-
cupy several days.
Shortly after two o'clock the further consideration of the
case was adjourned till Monday, the Lord Chancellor having to
attend a Council at Buckingham Palace.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, .111Aftem 31.

An I.
RAYNE V. BENEDICKE.

His HONOUR the Vice-C!iane?.lior was occupied nearly
the whole morning with the further arguments in this par:-
heard case, which came before the Cour! upon a motion to
dissolve an injunction, restraining the captain of a vessel
trading between Newcastle and New York from leaving
Cowes for New York. The ground upon which the in-
junction was obtained was the belief of the plaintiff who
had shipped goods on board the vessel, of the intention of
the captain to devote part of t•.he cargo to the repairs of
the ship, the owners being insolvent.
The arguments were not concluded in consequence of
the absence of Mr. K. Bruce, who was engaged in the
House of Lords. The Learned Gentleman will reply to-
morrow (this day.)

SHERIFFS' COURT, Ariz I.
FORD V. LOCK.

The plaintiff is a widow residing in Crown-street, West-
minster, and the defendant the private secretary of the Earl
of Tankerville. She sought to recover the sum of 41 6s ,
due for rent and money lent under the following circum-
stances:— On the second or third of February, 1840, a lady
cal'ed at the plaintiff's residence, a lodging •house in Crown-
street, and requested to see certain apartments; after look-
at them she said they would very likely suit her, but
she could not definitely engage them till her husband saw
them. She then went away, but called again in the even-
ing in company with the defendant, whom she represented as
her husband, and Mr. Lock saying that the apartments
would suit, a certain sum was agreed upon as the rent, and
the lady, who wan understood to be Mrs. Lock, took pos-
session of them that evening. The defendant came shortly
after, and continued there for some months, with the ex-
ception of about a fortnight, when he was with the Earl of
Tankerville, in the country. Ho also obtained the loan of
small sums of money from time to time from the old lady,
a part cf which he now refused to pay. The plaintiff had
writt m to defendant a sharp letter, on finding the balance
due to her not forthcoming, threatening to compl iin of his
conduct to Lord Tankerville, upon which defendant called,
and told her that, from her presumption in sending such an
epistle, 1-e would not pay her a farthing ; ho was not liable,
he had not taken the apartments, and the lady was not his
wife.

Several witnesses were called to substantiate this state-
ment on the part of the plaintiff, from which it appeared
that def_ndant, on being asked for the money, examined his
book, and said that the amount due was only 3/
In cross-examination it appeared that the sums spoken
to by the witnesses as lent to the defendant were repaid by
hire.

Emma Webb, alias MrP. Lock, and other showily at.-
tired female?, were called on the part of the defendant,
who contradicted almost everything propel by the plain-
tiff's witnesses, Emma Webb affirming that she always
went by the name of Webb, and that kir. Lock had no-
thing whotewr to do with the engaging the apartments.
The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF read over the e'idence,
and observed that if the Jury that the defendant had sanc-
tioned the tilting of the apartments by his conduct, they
would find for the plaintiff. There waP, however, no evi-
dence of the lending of money which had not been repaid.
The Jury almost immediately returned a verdict for the
plaintiff for the amount of rent claimed.—. Damages, 3/. 16s.
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.