The Sun.
London, England, 1847-11-22 00:00:00

CHANCERY.-('PHIS DAY.)

The continued indisposition of the Lord Chancellor
prevented his Lordship again from sitting in his
Court at Westminster to-day.

VICE-CHANCERY.—(THIS DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)

THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. GRAINGER.
CIIIIIST'S lIOSPITAL v. GRAINGER.
The further arguments in these cases occupied his
Honour, the Vice-Chancellor of England, the
whole day.

CRIMINAL COURT.—(THIS DAY.)
The first session of the present Mayoralty was
opened this morning by the Right 'lon. the Lord
Mayor, the Recorder, Aldermen Wilson and John-
son, Sheriffs Cubitt and Hill, the Under- Sheriffs, and
other civic officers.

The grand jury having been sworn,
The RECORDER addressed them, saying, that al-
though but a short interval had elapsed between the
present and the late session, yet the calendar con-
tained the names of 209 prisoners, and from the com-
mitments to be expected in the present week, it
might be inferred that there would be a considerable
augmentation
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hand several very seriouwsch arses. There were four
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and in one of these, where two
fighting, it might be doubtful whetherptehresobnlos blow were
the cause of death ; but it :was his duty to
tell the jury that if two persons were engaged i°
fighting, even if it were a fair fight, still, m point of
law, if one of them was killed, the person causing
death would be guilty of manslaughter, the Court
having the power of apportioning the punishment
according to the circumstances of the case. There
was also the very serious case of four unhappy per-
sons who lost their lives through the explosion of a
boiler of a steam-boat on the river Thames. The
question for the grand jury in that case would be,
whether there was any evidence to show that they
died in consequence of any act, or of any culpable
neglect, on the part of any person charged. There
must have been some person in charge of the boiler
and steam machinery of the vessel, and it was neces-
sary that that person should be possessed of compe-
tent skill, and if he then undertook the duties with-
out such competent skill, he would be liable to the
charge of criminal neglect, and want of cau-
tion. The particular want of caution alleged
in this case was the tying down the safety valves of
the boiler. The question for the grand jury was,
whether there was evidence to refer the deaths of
those persons to the act of the party charged, in
adopting a rash and improper course prohibited by
the authorities. If so, he would be liable to the
charge of manslaughter. There were two persons
charged with rape, one of them as an accessory, and
it would be for them to consider whether there was
sufficient evidence of that person having forcibly
pushed the young woman alleged to be outraged
into the room with her assailant, and locked her in.
There was a case of cutting and wounding, in which
a person was charged with cutting the throat of a
fetual,:, with a razor. It appeared that the act was
done with great deliberation, the person being alleged
to have placed a ladder against the wall of the house,
and entered the woman's bedroom by the window,