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anxious that this matter in particular should undergo the
fullest investigation.

The CHIEF JUSTICE—If Mr. Heath wishes it, you may go
into the answer to the application, but it seems to me that the
rule must fall to the ground.
Mr. SCAULETT then proceeded to detail at great length the
contents of the affidavits filed in answer to the rule. These
were the several affidavits of George Heath, Esq. the County
Clerk, Edward Du Bois, Esq. Barrister at Law, his Deputy
(and a more honourable or correct man, as Mr. Scarlett said,
did not live), and Samuel Alsept, the Registrar of tke County
Court, the three suitors who composed what was called the
Jury in the affidavits in support of the motion, Joseph Brock,
the plaintiff in the cause in question, and Theodosius Prince,
the bailiff of the Court. These several affidavits gave a complete
answer to the several grounds of complaint alleged in support of
the rule. As to the complaint that Mr. Hulme was refused to be
heard in his defence, it was distinctly Sworn that the case was fully
discussed; that Mr. Hulme, in his defence, asserted, that he
had turned Brock away for drunkenness, and in proof of this
called his servant Perry, who, instead of proving the fact, stat-
ed that Brock was afflicted with a liver complaint, and, on the
occasion in question, was indisposed, in consequence of such
disease; that he was a sober man, and not addicted to drink-
ing; whereupon .the Jury immediately, found their verdict for
the plaintiff. As to the second complaint, it was also distinctly
sworn, that in the suits in which Mr. Gent and Mr. Griffin
were plaintiff's against Mr. Hulme, those -cases were fully dis-
cussed, and determined on their meriti. Then as to the sup-
posed extortion. of illegal fees, it was sworn that since the in-
stitution of the Court, in the Reign of George II„ the same
fees had always been taken as were taken in this instance ; that
those fees had been sanctioned by the determination of Lord
Ellenborough, and the Lord Chief-Justice Gibbs, who, upon a
petition presented to them, complaining that Mr Heath's pre-
decessor in office had demanded more fees than were allowed
by the statute, entered fully into the subject, and gave their
opinion that the fees demanded were justifiable under the 23d
George 111. chap. 33 ; that previous to and since that deter-
mination no alteration had been made in the scale of fees, ex-
cept that in many petty cases Mr. Heath forbore to' take fees
which by law he was entitled to demand. As to the last
ground of complaint it was stated, that since the institution of
the Court the practice had been for three and not twelve suitors
to sit and determine causes brought in the county Court. Upon
these affidavits the Learned Counsel prayed that the rule might
be discharged with costs.
Mr. BRODUICK, on the same side, was stopped by the Court.
Mr. FRENCH then addressed the Court with considerable
energy in support of the rule, and urged that the Clerk of the
County Court had no right to demand the fees which had been
taken in this instance. It seemed that by the practice of the
County Court, a summons was first-issued, and-if the party did
not appear, then an order, Nisi, for paying the money was
made, for which an additional fee was charged: Now he in-
sisted that this practice of issuing orders Nisi, and charging
fees for them, was contrary to law. Then, as to the practice
of three jurors sitting to determine causes, lie insisted that it
was contrary to the terms of the Act of Parliament, and he re-
lied upon the authority or Mr. Justice Blackstone.
The COURT intimated, that the fees demanded by the
County Clerk, were justified by the Statute, and had been
sanctioned by the determination of Lord Ellenborough and
Sir Vicary Gibbs. Nothing could be more reasonable than
the practice of issuing orders Niri, because otherwise the
GENUINE PAT ENT NI E ----- plaintiff. in the plaint might be concluded by a peremptory
SOLD by 13UTLER'S, Chemists, and Drug- order without having an opportunity of being heard. No in-
stance' was pointed out in the affidavits, spewing that an excess
gists, No. 4, Cheapside, St. Paul's, and Retent- of fees had been demanded. Then as to the Jury : it was a
street (near the Argyle Rooms), London ; 90, Waterio()..place, mistake to call the persons so attending by the name of jurors ;
Edinburgh; and 34, Macke:lle-street, Dublin; appointed sole their proper name was suirors, not jurors. But supposing
Agents for Dr. James's Fever Powder and Analeptic Pills, in the number ought to be twelve, instead of three, still as the
the place of Nlessrs. Newberry and Sons practice had bees established of sommbning only three suitors
Cheltenham Salts Henry's Calcined Magnesia for fifty years, that could be no ground for-a...criminal informa-
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Lemonade Powders Seid lite Powders not for 'proceeding criminally against the County Clerk, who
Ginger-Beer PoWders Crowlanti's Lot ion had acted upon the usage of the Court.'
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Godbold 's Mikan' A long desultory arguthent then followed, in which- Mr.
Husbaufs Two-urea Bark Veltio's-Syriip FRENCH addresied himself with great zeal to the points in-
Anderson's Seut'i Pills' i Ruspini% tended to be brought under the considerktitin of the Court.
Dixon's Antibilious Pills I Solomon's Balm of Gilead Mr. Co or ER followed on -the same side.-

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The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said, that this was an appli-
cation for a. criminal information against the :Clerk of the
County Court, and his Deputy. And in order to induce the
Court to file such information, it was necessary that some
corrupt motive should be proved; but on a mere mistake
such an application could not .be ,acceded to. It appears•
that Hulnie was desirous of examining a witness of
the name of Perry, with a View to prove that when
Brock was' paid his 'wages, he. did not complain, but
expressed himself quite satisfied ; but there was no dirs.'
tinct allegation that the Court was aware of the ,defence.
is, that the statement is not true, that
the allowed to be heard. It apriears that
the New,
the
defendantdefendantanswer
alleged;
was o
t o t3
he had a right to dismiss the plaintiff
ad , but that
p
because-he was drunk, and
veitnesS r that had
called a ;witness to prove that he
h arisen,been notso from drunkenness, buotved from ahis liversickness complaint.
It has been stated that Ilulme was turned out of Court, but.
such a measure might have been necessary on account of the
manner in which he had conducted himself. Ile thought
that an inquiry into the fees was unnecessary ; but even if
it were, it turned out, that even on the most minute calcu-
lation, the fees were not more than the Act allowed, and
that Court could not deal with those parties criminally on
the facts which had been disclosed ; a complaint had been
preferred a few years ago of a similar nature, against the then
County Clerk, when the matter was heard at considerable
length, and Lord Ellenborongh and Lord Chief Justice Gibbs
gave it as 'their opinion that%the fees. then demanded were
allowed, on a fair construction of the Act. He, therefore,
thought the rule should be discharued. At the time he had
had some doubt, as to whether it should have been dis-
charged with costs, and that doubt arose from the circum-
stance of the register of tile Court having stated that he was
not bound to skew his accounts, when an application was
made to him, but it did not appear that Mr. Heath or Mr. Du
Bois had sanctioned such a proceeding ; and, therefore, upon
an investigation of the whole case, lie thought the rule ought
not only to be discharged, but discharged with costs.
Mr. JustiCe BAYLEY said, that this was the first time he
had ever heard of an application to file a criminal information,
when the offence was stated to have been committed either by
the individual himself or by some body else. The Court, in
granting the rule, took upon themselves the functions of a
Grand Jury ; and what Grand Jury would find a bill against a
person, when the crime with which lie was charged was stated
to have been committed either by him or by somebody else ?
So likewise with a Court of Justice; before an application was
made for a criminal information, it should be ascertained by
whom the act was done which was complained of. This was a
charge against two Gentlemen of the Bar, members of a pro-
fession in which, above iihl others, character was of the highest
value; and if it had been suspected even that they had carried
on a practice of drawing little sums out of the pockets of the
poor people, and if this proceeding had been stopped in limine,
it would not have vindicated their character. The Court had
therefore acted properly in allowing the question to be sifted to
the bottom, and he was satisfied that the feei taken had been
filly warranted by the Act. Ile therefore thought that the rule
should be discharged with costs.
Mr. Justice HOLUOYD expressed his concurrence in the opi-
nions which had just been expressed.
31r. Justice LITTLEDALE also concurred with his Learned
discharged with costs.
Brethren.—The rule was accordingly

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The extensive new works of the Aire and Cal-
der Navigation CompanY of Goole (which corn.
menced in 1822) have proceeded with such sur-
prising rapidity that alreadytheyeareerali
com-
pleted, generally although it was t
supposed,i ea r ry
frfrom
their immense magnitute, it would take at least
seven years to exectttethen.trheyoalereaarct, comakitow
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acknow-
ledged to be a
billing every essential. The new line of canal
connected with these works, which runs in a di-
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its many bridges, culverts, and locks, is also in a
very forward state, and we understand will be
finished by October next, although the contrac-
tors (Messrs. Joliffe and Banks) only contracted
for the most of this part of the undertaking last
summer.—`Leeds Independent.)