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LAW LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY.

A GENERAL MEETING of the SUB-
, SCRIBERS to this SOCIETY will be held at NEW
FURNIVAL'S INN lIALL,i HOLBORN, on
DAY, the 17th day of April instant, at Two for Thrap
o'Clock in the Afternoon, for the purpose of receiving the RE-
PORT of the COMMITTEE on the Matters referred to
them at the last General Meeting, to pass the Rules and Re-
gulations which they have framed; to fix a day for the Elec-
tion of Officers ; and, also,• to consider the necessity of again
Increasing the Number of Sharei.

Each Subscriber will be furnished with a Copy of the Rules
and Regulations, upon applying personally, or by Letter, to
Mr. Anderton, Quality-court, Chancery-lane.

By Order,
JAMES A NDE RTON, Secretary (pro temp.)
to the Committee.

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of. big JOURNEY to the POLAR SEA will be pub-
lished on SATURDAY. '

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PROTESTANTS of the UNITED lONGDONI. On the
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, APRIL 9.
IN THE MATTED. OF PENTON, A LUNATIC.

This was the petition of - Yarnoid and Amiiis wife,
praying that his Lordship would be pleased not to confirm so
much of the Master's report as approved of Francis Moorhouse,
as a proper person to be committee of the lunatic's person, but
to appoint the petitioners joint committee in his stead. The
petitioners urged as an objection to the appointment of Mr.
Moorhouse, that he had been formerly engaged in stock-jobbing
speculations for the lunatic, out of which his malady arose,
which was likely therefore to be increased by his constant pre-
sence,
.whereas the society of Mrs. Yarnold, who was his sis-
ter, was likely to be soothing to his mind.
This petition was opposed by some of the lunatic's other re-
lations, who represented that the Yarnolds were poor, and did
not live in perfect harmony together, and that there existed
in the mind of the lunatic a delusion that he was haunted and
persecuted by a person named " Bob Sparks," who, lie ima-
gined, was set on by his relations, and the Yarnolds amongst
the rest.

It was stated, on the part of the petitioners, that this delu-
sion respecting the Varnolds' " setting on Bob Sparks" was
infused into the lunatic's mind by the other party, to prevent
his sister from being appointed committee.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that that was ex-
tremely probable ; but he could not take it for granted until
an affidavit to that effect was sworn. As to the custom of
sending petitions respecting committeeships to the Master
in the first instance, that was not done merely with a view
to saving thf: time of the Court, but also for the purpose (as
there might be many circumstances belonging to a private fa-
mily which could be of no importance to all mankind to know,
but which it would be necessary to state to the person who was
to choose the Contnittee) of preventing the private affairs of a
family from obtaining that publicity to which they were ex.
posed by a discussion in open Court ; but from which they
were protected by the privacy of a hearing in the Master s
office. It was for the same reason that the Master did not al-
ways state the reasons that governed his mind in forming his
report. He (the Lord Chancellor) would therefore take an op-
portunity before he came into Court to-morrow, of conversing
with the Master upon this subject : and he would then dispose
of the'case.

His Lordship was occupied the whole of the day in hearing
lunatic petitions, of which he dispatched a great number.

On Saturday evening the new Moon will be
between Venus and Saturn in the 'Vest ; on Sun-
day in conjunction with the 'Pleiades. On the
morning of the 23d instant, MereurN will be in
conjunction with Mars; on the evening of Tues-
day the tgth, Venus will appear about one de-
gree and a half North of Jupiter.
In the course of yesterday the Middlesex
Grand Jury returned a true bill against Samuel
Waddington, the bill-sticker, for a rape. The
crime is alleged to have been committed in Cold-
bath-fields prison.