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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

Margaret Weeks was indicted for stealing a sovereign,
the property of Charles Smith.
The prosecutor was a linen-draper, and on the even-
ing of the 31st of March the prisoner entered his shop
to make some small purchase, when the prosecutor hav-
ing left a sovereign upon the counter, the prisoner was
observed first to cover it wits a penny pice, and then,
when his back was turned, to take it up and put it,in her
pocket.
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When called upon forher defence, she said she suffered
so much hardship, cold, and hunger, during the severity
of the last winter, that she could not resist the tempta-
tion cf taking the money when it was so exposed.
She was found Guilty, and sentenced to four months'
imprisonment.
Jane Carter was indicted for stealing a sheet, the
property of Elizabeth Ashton.
The prisoner adopted that trick so general now
amongst her class, of knocking at the door of some house
in a retired locality, and inquiring for an imaginary
Mrs. Smith, when she availed herself of the absence of
the servant to take whatever she could from the rooms
on the ground floor.
She was found Guilty, and sentenced to six months'
imprisonment.
George Anderson, a young man dressed in the most
fashionable style, was indicted for stealing two coats,
value 41., the property of George Marshall, Esq.
The prosecutor resided at No. 27, Welbeck-street,
Cavendish-square, and on this day week the prisoner
called and delivered a letter to the servant, directed to
Mr. Marshall, saying he was desired to wait for an
answer. She went up stairs to deliver the letter, and on
her return, found the hall-door open, and that the
prisoner, as well as two coats which hung in the ball, had
disappeared. He was taken into custody in Bulstrode-
street.

A verdict of Guilty was returned, and the ASSISTANT
JUDCZ said a letter had been foand upon the prisoner
addressed to one of his companions, stating that, as he
was a gentlemanly young fellow, he wished him to call
upon the witnesses in the present prosecution, and tell
them, if they kept out of the way, or gave such evidence
as would cause his acquittal, he would give them 51.
He was then sentenced to six months' imprisonment
and hard labour.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, April 6.
Both courts were occupied to-day in disposing of the
remaining common jury causes, none of which possessed
any feature of interest to justify a report.

BOYLE AND WIFE V. TARN.

This was a special jury cause, tried on Monday before
the Lord Chief Justice. The action was brought to
recover damages for the false imprisonment of the plain-
tiff's vt ife.

Mr. M Chambers and Mr. Ogle were for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Edwin James for the defendant.
The circumstances under which the alleged false im-
prisonment arose were these:—lt appeared that the de-
fendant is a linendraper, aad the plaintiff and his wife
went to his shop and ordered a quantity of goods, which
were to be paid for on the Monday following. When,
however, the foreman went to receive payment, the par-
ties could not be found, and the plaintiff's wife, being
afterwards met accidentally, was given into custody ;
but it appeared that the charge was dismissed by the
petite-magistrate, and the present action was brought to
recover damages for the imprisonment she had thus, as
it was alleged, wrongfully sustained
Mr. E. JAMES, for the defendant, characterised the
action as a most ahaineless and improper one to have
been brought, and said he was satisfied the jury would
consider the lowest coin of the realm a sufficient com-
pensation for the damage that had been sustained.
The jary found for the plaintiffs—Damages, id.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouill, April 5.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.)
Hannah Thomas, a young woman, about 25 years of
age, was indicted for the wilful murder of her illegiti-
mate child, James Thomas.
Mr. Rickards and Sir Thomas Phillips appeared for
the prosecution, and Mr. Cooke for the defence.
The prisoner became an inmate of the Usk a orkhouse
in December, and continued there till March, when she
was delivered of the child in question. She appeared
kind and attentive to it, and it was a fine healthy child.
On the 20th March it became unwell. On the next day
it died, and on the following day apost niortern examina-
tion was made, by which it was discovered that death
had been caused by the use of diluted sulphuric acid.
The peculiarities of the case were, that there was very
little of the acid in the stomach; that the mouth was
altogether untouched by it, though the parts of the
throat, gullet, Sac., between the lower part of the mouth
and the stomach, were severely corroded and inflamed,
as if the liquid had been put into the child's throat on a
spoon, without touching the mouth, and the poor child
had, as soon as it felt the pain, attempted to throw up
the offensive matter, and so prevented much of it from
reaching the stomach. There had been a bottle of diluted
sulphuric acid lying for days before the child was tAen
ill in the kitchen of the workhouse, and the prisoner had
access to it, and had heard of its poisonous qualities;
and a woman who had left some i❑ a cup on the 20th of
March, after having washed the heads of some children
who were afflicted with ringworm, on returning again
and looking for it found that all the liquid was gone,
and the rag with which she had washed them left, and
some spots from sulphuric acid were found on th• child's
cap and face. The principal question raised on the trial
was, whether the appearances on the body of the child
could bo accounted tor by natural causes.
The verdict was Not Guilty.
This closed the business of these assizes. It was not
over before three o'clock. Mr. Sergeant Gazelee had
risen soon after two.

GLucesler, April 5.
Mr. Sergeant Gazelee opened the commission here this
evening at six o'clock. Business commences at an early
hour to-morrow.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Tuunton, April 5.
JURIES.—It is high time that some alteration should
be made with respect to summoning juries. At present
it would seem that juries are selected from the most
ignorant class in the community, and while we are ob-
taining information as to the state of education of
prisoners, it would net be very improper to extend
our inquiries to the jury box ; and we question very
much whether the prisoners would not beat the jury in
point of learning. From the present mode of select•
ing juries it would seem that the middle men get off
quite free. The special juries are taken from the aris-
tocracy of a county, and the petty juries are composed
of little farmers and small shopkeepers, whose attention
is never by any chance riveted to one object for more
than 10 minutes at a time, and whose minds, therefore,
are incapable of understanding a matter lasting over as
many hours.) %Another thing is, that keeping these men
sbjected.
from their homes for a week in an expensive assize
t a is a great cruelty upon them, both as regards their
%tia.nec, from
We home and th outlay to .
which thet are
Boner guilty, lauatl
tat 04,,,,,ity 7 can new give an illustration of the men-
ury. At Bodmin a jury found a pri-
Justice Williams wished
him to mercy. Mr.
recommendation. Thheed to know their reason for the
ltrty replied
that II were for
finding the man guilty,
and so they recommended thee was
for
acquitting him
clay a prosecutor, in givinghirisoner to mercy. Court had had misunderstood thatsOrnethienvwicienee' "id'
that the
previous witness) had said. A juror his sttrvant (a
how the prosecutor was aware of what h7sished to know
said. The prosecutor replied, that he heasredrvh" haft
his evidence. The juror then appealed to the Judge to
know whether this was legal. Mr. Justice Cr.,"
told him it was perfectly legal. It was his wishtheat
ll
witnesses should always be out of court; but there was
no accommodation for them, and they were subjected to
much inconvenience if they were without the court. In
another instance a jt.ry found a man guilty of forger);
but not with an intenttee r ... fraud.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.)
Thomac Para! was indicted for killing and slaying

William Holland by throwing a stene at him, thereby
causing a compound fracture of the skull, of which he
lingered and died; and Henry Brake, George Chant, and
William Frampton for aiding and assisting him.
Mr. Moody was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Edwards for the prisoner.
It appeared that on the 7th of September several per-
sons belonging to the two villages of Odcombe and
West Coker, being members of a friendly society, dined
together at a public-house. They remained drinking
for some hours, and, as is too commonly the case on such
occasions, there was a quarrel between the two sets of
villagers, and the West Coker men had the worst of it.
The deceased belonged to that party. They left the
house, and were proceeding on their way home, when
the prisoners and others of the Odcombe party came
after them and attacked them with stones. Perrall
threw one stone which knocked the deceased down; he
was taken home, and medical aid was procured. The
skull was found to be fractured. Another medical man
was called in, and the operation of trepanning was per-
formed. After this the deceased apparently rallied, but
he afterwards grew worse, and died on the 26th of Sep•
tember. The medical men were of opinion that the
death was occasioned by a blow from some blunt instru-
ment or stone. An abscess had formed on the brain after
the operation.

In
.the cross-examination of the medical witnesses, the
question set up on the trial of Lieut. Pym at Winchester
was sought to be raised—namely, that the operation
was the immediate cause of the death, and not the injury
by the stone; that although that injury might eventually
have occasioned the death, yet that the death was has-
tened by the operation.
Some discussion took place upon this, and, for the
prosecution, Mr. Justice Erie's dictum on Lieut. Pym's
trial was relied on. The prisoner's counsel, however,
would not say that the wound was not a mortal wound.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL observed, that it was admitted
the wound was mortal, and that the deceased might have
died in a month, but that he had died in less than a week
in consequence of the operation. The wound being
mortal, if that which was done by the surgeon was what
he considered right to be adopted, there would be no
question raised upon that point.
The jury returned a verdict of Guilty against all the
prisoners.
Mr. Justice CRESSWELL said the prisoners had already
been in prison six months; he therefore sentenced them
to be imprisoned for one month.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, April 5.
HOWDEN V. STANDISH.

This was an action against the late sheriff of the
county of Lancaster, to recover the amount of a debt due
to the plaintiff from a certain Professor Keller, against
whom process had been sued out, the officer having, as
was alleged, failed through his own negligence in exe-
cuting the warrant.
Mr. Knowles and Mr. J. Henderson were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Martin, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Atherton
for the defendant.
Professor Keller, as he was called, was, it appeared,
the manager of, and principal performer in, a group of
artistes who in the course of the last year represented, in
various parts of' the country, subjects taken from the
antique and celebrated paintings, the figures, male and
female, being arranged on a pedestal which turned round,
so as to exhibit the composition to the spectators in all
its different points of view. Mr. Keller was a powerful
man, with large beard and mustache, and possessing a
singular command over the muscles of the forearm, by
the movement of which he beat time to the music.
Tho professor, however, unfortunately had got into
debt, his performances in London not having been
very successful. He came down to Birmingham, and
thence to Liverpool, where he was engaged to per-
form at a theatre erected in the Zoological Gar-
dens. The plaintiff (Mr. Howden) was a creditor, to
whom the " professor" owed something better (or
worse) than 1001., and, in the hope of enforcing the
payment of his money, had followed Mr. Keller to Li-
verpool. A writ had been sued out, and, under a judge's
order, the plaintiff was empowered to hold Mr. Keller to
bail, on the ground of his being about to leave the coun-
try. The warrants reached the hands of the officer, a
person of the name of Lawton, on Wednesday, the Bth
of July. On that very evening Mr. Keller was to per-
form at the theatre in the gardens, and thither Mr. Law-
ton, in the company of Mr. Howden, repaired. Mr.
Howden pointed out Keller, who was exhibiting studies
from the ancient statues, and personated Cain in a group
of " Cain and Abel." Mr. Howden, with little reverence
for the ideal, saw nothing in Cain or the antique statues
but his simple debtor, Mr. Keller, and pressed Mr. Law-
ton strongly at once to execute her Majesty's writ on the
First Homicide, or the Ap )110, or the Dying Gladiator,
as might be most convenient. Mr. Lawton, however,
" albeit unused," seemed to have been restrained by a
kind of superstitious awe from anything so profane—to
say nothing of the fact that the stage was some six feet
two above the ground, and that the troupe were aware of
the danger of the chef, and prepared for resistance, toge-
ther with the advantage of being able to leave the aggres-
sors, in a twinkling, in the dark, amid the labyrinths of the
scenes, should a seizure be attempted. Mr. Lawton, there-
fore, thought it better to wait and intercept his victim as he
left the gardens. Accordingly after the performance was
over they waited for this purpose between the gardens
and the hotel adjoining, at which Mr. Keller was staying.
In due time a hat, cloak, beard, and mustache, which
could belong to no one but that gentleman made their
appearance, and their identity was corroborated by the
fact, that on the arm of the figure that bore them leaned,
beyond all doubt, Mrs. Keller. The officer intimated
in the usual way his desire for a further acquaintance
with Mr. Keller. Mrs. Keller wept, presented the pro-
fessor with some money—a matter, she was aware, ne-
cessary to one's comfortable existence in a lockup—and
Mr. Keller, after a hurried embrace to his child, aas
snitched away in the clutches of the law. On arriving,
however, at his place of durance, the "caption " pro-
ceeded to disembarrass himself of his heard and mous-
tache, and appeared in a new character, as Frederiok
Huson, a German artiste—a member of the troupe.
Again, on the Friday following, an attempt was made
to seize the professor. He again made his appearance
on the stage, the house being densely crowded ; again,
a muffled, bearded figure (this time more stealthily) was
seen hurrying from the garden ; again the officer made
his seizure, the person being actually pointed out by the
plaintiff himself; and again it was found that Mr. Keller
had rung the changes on his pursuers, the person seized
being one Goodman, and no: the professor. The pro-
fessor himself remained in hiding for some weeks,
having sacrificed on the altar of liberty his beard and
moustache, and thus thrown the officers off the scent.
He afterwards left Liverpool with his company, and
proceeded direct to Ostend.

For the defendant it was contended that the officer
had used his very best exertions under the circumstances
to effect a seizure, and evidence war called to show that
it was by the express direction of Mr. liowden himself
that no attempt was made to arrest Keller on the stage
an attempt which, it was urged, must necessarily have
been unsuce,ssful, and would probably have resulted in
a terrific uproar.
A verdict was finally returned for the plaintiff.
An action on a promissory n its concluded the busine,s
of the assizes.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Mr. flumptan, a coal-dealer in Brackley-street,
Goldeu-lane, attended on summons before Aldermen
Hooper and Weocl, to answer the complaint of Edward
Kimpton, a porter to Me-srs. Christie and Munson, the
auctioneers, for detaining a chest of drawers delivered to
him and his sister by mistake.
The complainant stated, that Mr. Bampton's sister
was a purchaser of lots at a recent sale, and the defendant
attended with her to clear them. A chest of drawers
was delivered by mistake, she not having purchased any-
mahogany chest of drawers. They were missed next
morning, and one of the porters remembered that she
inquired for the keys of them. As a ruse, a porter was
sent to ascertain whether she had them, by taking a
bunch of keys, and offering to see if one of them was
the proper key. She immediately said she had sent them
to her brother's, in Brackley-street. The man went to
the defendant, who said, what he had he should keep ;
and he would produce nothing.
William Wells, a porter, deposed to assisting in load-
ing and putting the chest of drawers in the van in which
the defendant and his sister removed their purchases.
He also assisted in unloading the van at her house in
Great Warner-street, Clerkenwell, and in putting this
chest of drawers into the van again, that the defendant
might take them home to Golden-lans.

The clearing note, enumerating the lots the defen-
dant's sister had paid for, was put in, to show that A.
had not purchased the chest of drawers.
The defendant said he bad no doubt his sister had
paid for what she hal. lie had lent his sister money,
and she had transferred goods to him in payment.
What he bought he had a right to sell, but he did nor
admit that he had now or ever had the said drawers.
Ihe Magistrates concurred in making an order that
he should restore the property forthwith.
Ile retired, intimating that he did not mean to submit
to their order.

SOUTH WARK.
Joseph Sparkwood, a cab driver, and Alfred Duckett,
a printer, were charged with assaulting and robbing Eli-
zabeth Hunt of a gold brooch, in the Equestrian Coffee-
house, Circus, adjacent to the Surrey Theatre.
The complainant stated, that she accompanied a
female friend to the Surrey Theatre on the preceding
evening, and that when the performances had concluded
they went into the Equestrian Coffee-house to have a
little refreshment. Having remained for a short time
in the parlour, they came out together, and on passing
the end of the bar she (complainant) saw the prisoner
Sparkwood throw some beer over a woman with whom
he was having an altercation. She (complainant) feel-
ing alarmed, hurried forwards towards the door, but
before she got there Sparkwood made a rush towards
her, seined a gold bro.,ch out of a handkerchief which
she had round her neck, and immediately ran out of the
house. She followed him, crying "Stop thief;" and saw
him cross the road, and run down the Borough-road,
and in a short time he was brought, in the custody of a
policeman, to the spot where she was waiting. On see-
ing him the second time she knew him to be the man
who had robbed her, but a cr,,wd of persons collecting,
Sparkwood was rescued fir a time, but was eventually
recaptured and taken to the station-house along with the
other prisoner. The complainant then proceeded to de-
scribe the part taken in the transaction by Duckett,
whom she saw with the other prisoner in the Equestrian
Coffee-house. When she ran after Sparkwood, his
fellow-prisoner came up to her, asked her what she
swantedecmurre.d.
robbed her, he (Duckett.) immediately seized her round
of the man, and when she answered that he had
the waist, and threw her with force to the ground. Her
assailant then ran away, but he was pursued, and also
' rtco-itnbrn"ernhte, con oir a
*Eliza Ge.telas, the person who accompanied the
complainant
complainant's brooch
said she distinctly saw Sparkwood make a snatch at the
a ,us,' ref , , e, am afterwards
h.oarrdesvtittilethncee, aboveand
passing out of the house. She

• added, that she also saw the other prisoner in the same
house, and that she could not be mistaken in the iden
tity of either of the parties.
Policeman 83 M stated, that on the preceding night,
while he was on duty in the Borough-road, opposite the
Circus, he heard the cry of " Stop thief," and saw
Sparkwood running from the directios of the Equestrian
Coffee-house, and he continued his career until he fairly
tun into his (the policeman's) arms. Sparkwood made
strong efforts to disengage himself, urging his innocence
of any crime, and saying that he was running home
where he was in a hurry to arrive, after witnessing thi;
performance at the Surrey Theatre. The policeman,
however, brought him along towards the " Equestrian,"
and while the complainant was relating the attack made
upon her by him, Sparkwood was rescued, and he first
ran into the public-house, and then out by another door,
and was running with great swiftness up the Blackfriars-
road, when he was again pursued and takenintocustody.
The policeman added, that when he had Sparkwood in
custody Duckett came up, and be saw the former pass
something into the hands of the latter, who was also
subsequently taken into custody.
Sparkwood said he was aiming a blow at his wife,
when he missed her and struck the complainant in the
breast; that he knew nothing of her brooch, and that
this was the first time be ever had been in custody; that
he had driven a cab fur years, and was known to be an
honest man, which could be ascertained at the Stamp-
office, Somerset-house, where he was in the habit of
depositing property of various kinds, left behind by mis-
take in his vehicle; that be had no acquaintance with
his fellow-prisoner, and never saw him in the Equestrian
Coffee- house.

Mr. COTTINGIIAII—Why did you run away on strik-
ing the woman ? If it was an accident, why not have
remained in the house, instead of rushing out and then
down the Borough-road ? Sparkwood said, ahhough
appearances might be against him, yet that he wus
perfectly innocent of the offence laid to his charge.
Duckett, in answer to the part he took in the
transaction, denied that he had been in the Equestrian
Coffee-house on the night in question, and said that he
was walking along the Borough-road, and on approaching
the Circus he saw a mob collected, and went over, " like
other fools," when ho was immediately charged with
being concerned in the robbery and taken into custody.
He added that he was a printer, had worked in some at
the most eminent printing establishments in town, and
that his character stood high ; that his friends were not
apprised of the predicament in which he was placed,
otherwise he was confident they would rally about him.
He added that the complainant was entirely mistaken
when she asserted that he had thrown her down.

The complainant and her witness were recalled, and
questioned by Mr. Cottingham as to whether they were
confident that they had seen Duckett in company with
the other prisoner in the above tavern, and as to
whether complainant might not have been mistaken in
her identification of Duckett as the man who had thrown
her down, and afterwards assisted in the rescue of his
fellow-prisoner ? Both complainant and witness, how-
ever, still adhered to the accuracy of their testimony, and
The MAGISTRATZ said, he had no other alternativf
than to commit the prisoners for trial, but be added, that
he had no objection to take bail for their appearance.
George Putrich Rennell, town traveller to a stationer
in Paternoster-row, was charged with deserting his wife
and two children.

Brooks, the beadle of Newington, said the defendant's
wife applied for and received relief for herself and two
children, describing that her husband had deserted her,
and was living with another woman. He therefore took
the defendant into custody.
The complainant, a very respectable looking woman.
said that the defendant left her in 1339, since which
period she had only received from him about 31., although
he, as town traveller to a stationer, was in the receipt of
excellent wages. She added, that she and her two
children were kept from starvation by her master, who
received a pension from Government, but that dieing
lately she (complainant) was reduced to beggary.
Mr. COTTINGIIAM said that it was really too bad that
a man filling a lucrative situation like the defendant
should be permitted to suffer his wife and children to
starve. He thought this was a case in which a public
example ought to be made of the defendant.
The defendant said the fasts were exaggerated by his
wife, and that he was willing to grant her a weekly al-
lowance. If he was sent to gaol, he would be deprived
of his situation.
The wife interceded for him, although she had suffered
so much at his hands, and the magistrate, instead of
sending the defendant to gaol, adjudged him to grant the
complainant a weekly allowance.
WORSHIP-STREET.
William Purvis, David Purvis, and Bridget Purvis,
mother of the two former persons, were brought up this
day for the purpose of tendering their bail, to answer an
assault committed by them upon the person of Emanuel
Jones, an officer attached to the Court of Bankruptcy.
Mr. Jones—l am an officer belonging to the Bank-
ruptcy Court. At a few minutes before eight o'clock on
the morning of the 3d instant, by virtue of a warrant I
held, I went to the house, No. 5, Old Ivy-street, Hoxton
Old Town, accompanied by my assistant, named Lewis.
I knocked at the door, which was opened by a female,
who told me that Mr. Purvis (the father of the male and
husband of the female defendants, and who is property-
man at the City of London Theatre), was not
yet up. I then went into a bed-room on the
ground-floor, and found the two male defendants
in bed. They said, " What do you want here ?"
I replied, " I want your father." They said "He is
not here." I then rushed into the room, and pulling
the curtains of a bed aside, in which were lying the
female defendant and her husband, who was the per-
son I was in quest of. I then told the latter that I
wanted him in consequence of a forty days warrant I
held, which had been issued against him by the Court
of Bankruptcy. He got out of bed, and said " go
yew', The female, however, ordered me out (tithe
room. Upon that the two male defendants jumped out
of bed, and said, "He shall nut go along with you." I
then told my assi: taut, Lewis, to go for a plice con-
stable, and whilst he was away, the two sons, aided by
the mother, took hold of me, and threw me out of doors
into the street. On my return to the house, ecompanied
by the constable, the father was gone.
William Purvis, one of the defendants, said when the
complainant came into the room, he was lying in bed ;
and perceiving that the complainant was removing the
clothes from the bed on which his mother lay, he laid
hold of his collar and turned him out of the room, and
no one else touched him, nor did he know who the com-
plainant was.
David Purvis said be had nothing to add to his
brother's statement.
Mrs. Purvis, the mother of the former defendants, said
she did not lay a hand upon the complainant.
Bail for the defendants was accepted in the sum of 256
for their appearance to answer the charge at the Aid-
dlesex County Sessions.
THAMES.

was charged
Campbell,
olin.Na"woman of the
town
withL
i enuatemaea
committingtc Aa a
rrocllifnivbei
Thompson.
The prosecutrix exhibited a scar on her nose and face,
and stated that she was leaving Stepney-fair between
one and two o'clock in the morning, and met the defend-
ant in Arbour-street, near the Police court. lie was
very drunk, and iu a state of great excitement, and as
she passed him he took a bottle half full of rum from
his pocket and struck her a violent blow on the nose
with it. She was knocked backwards by the force of
the 'glow, and the blood flowed copiously from her nose
for some time. She had given no provocation whatever
to the defendant.
The Lieutenant cross-examined the woman in a very
imperious manner, and endeavoured to make it appear
that; she had provoked him, but this was distinctly
Beni' d, and she stated that the defendant was making a
good deal of noise, and acted very strangely in and
about the far.
After a long and incoherent harangue from the de-
fendant,
Mr. YARDLEY said he regretted to see a man of the
lieutenant's rank giving way to intemperance, and so
frequently misconducting himself. It was a great pity
he did not learn to be a peaceable man. The assault
was quite unjustifiable, and he sentenced the defendant
to pay a fine of 405., and in default committed tun to
prison for fourteen days.

HEARING OF CASES IN THE NEW COUNTY COURTS.
—As " ignorance of law excuseth no man," it is neces-
sary that the public should be made acquainted with the
provisions o( the New County Courts Act. The Ac:
itself' contains as many as 143 sections, and their sub-
stance will be remembered when condensed under se-
parate heads. It is provided by the Act and the rules,
that, on the day named in the summons, the plaintiff is
to appear, and thereupon the defendant to appear to
answers he plaint, and on answer being made in Court,
the judge is to proceed to give judgment. No evidence
is to be given by the plaintiff on the trial except such as
stated in the summons served. The High Bailiff is to
make a list of the summonses served, and the same is to
be exhibited in the office of the Courts There is a pro-
vision in this Act which gives power to the judge of the
Court to commit a defendant to prison at the hearing.
and of making an order, as he might have done in case
those jtuhdegpelsaionttittrhehandevr eoobtained a summons on an unsatisfied
judgment. The Legislature having intrusted the
with mercy.
THE MINISTRY,—We are informed that all the
members of the Cabinet are expected to assemble in
to .vti on Monday next.rts
wwihtoh
would ptoecowepre,r t,t,i
jegLsteired
Chancellor selected e
We regret to announce the death of the Right Hon.
Joseph Planta, which took lace on Monday last at his
ba'fia)dr,r)t'vember, 1830, Mr. -Planta was
one
of
the
house at Fairlight, Sussex pin the 60th year of his age.
Mr. Joseph
hdll'a,l,at,rnhetoia Secretary
early
Mr. Planta was the son of the late Joseph Planta.
F.R.S , a native of Switz.,rland, who long dorniciliated
in England, ii, came at length Librarian to the British
Writerson,
gbnlemAaffn4,irsto, which
place
he
filled
for
in the Foreign Office, and at length became Under Se-
aSsocai ertyre.c i
sHis
nearly ten years. II" accompanied the late Marquis of
Londonderry, as private secretary, to the Cui.gress.s of
Paris, Vienna, and Aix-la-Chapelle, and was much
Member
baeprrr(ollinueansttipnagrst, nentheereßdoynatel
whom his attainments a,
publicist stood in good steed. From May,
joint Secretaries of the Treasury, and though he never
s hismightParliaments health had been mostwretched,and 1►•
usdeath,
For
. happenl a s t sevenn t
an y years
physicians
unexpected, for his
mo-
ment.
The , Agricultural Society of Toulouse has pro-
posed a prize of a gold medal, worth 350 f., to any rearer
of silk worms who shall have produced the best results
on some improved system, with at least 150 grammes of i
ogg I.
ie. Museum,
..i rBrfreeu2gsts7aute:iru:t
trna