The Sun.
London, England, 1841-11-03 00:00:00

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

Yesterday, a Special Session of the above Court
was held for the purpose of fixing the periods
for holding the Sessions for the ensuing year. in
accordance with the provisions of the Criminal
Court Act. The Commissioners present were—The
Right Hon. the Lord Mayor, Mr. austice Patteson,
Mr. Baron Gurney, Mr. Justice Williams, Mr. Justice
Coleridge, Mr. Justice Coltman, Mr. Justice Erskine,
Mr. Justice Maule, Mr. Baron Rolfe, and Mr. Justice
Wigh tm an.
Mr. Clark, the Clerk of the Court, when the Judges
had tatien their places, said that the Court had directed
the Sessions for the ensuing year to be held on the fol-
lowing days :
Monday, Nov. 29.
Monday, Dec. 13.
Monday, January 3..
Monday, January 31.
Monday, February 28.
Monday, April 4.

Monday, May 9.
Monday, June 13.
Monday, July 4.
Monday, August 22.
Monday, September 19.
Monday, October 24.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 2.

ThiS being the first day of Term, the Judges and lead-
ing Counsel, in conformity with the usual custom, break-
fasted with the Lord Chancellor at his residence in
George-street, Hanover-square. At half-past one o'clock
his Lordship, attended by the Vice-Chancellor and the
Master of the Rolls, and Mr. Knight Bruce and Mr.
Wigram, the newly-appointed Vice-Chancellors, took
his seat in the Court of Chancery, which was thronged
to excess, the gallery being filled with ladies elegantly
dressed. The oaths were then administered to his Lord-
ship and the two new Vice-Chancellors, and immediately
afterwards their Lordships were dismissed by the Lord
Chancellor, and retired to their respective Courts.

SMITH V. THE EAST INDIA COMPANY.

This was an appeal from an order of the Vice• Chan..
cellor, made for the production of certain books and
papers. The suit arose out of the following circum-
stances. The plaintiff was Captain of a vessel sent
by the East India Company to Madras, on
arriving at which place, it was agreed that plaintiff
• should carry a certain quantity of cotton on his
own account from Madras to Canton, and plaintiff bound
himself by bond to the Company for payment of the - •
of the cotton, and also of the freight of the r' • twice
ship. On the arrival of the vessel in t'- • -I°mPanYs
Company claimed payment of the country-, the
freight, and having
monies of the Captain in their '
in satisfaction of it. Tb-
nands, appropriated them
the suit, on the plaintiff thereupon commenced
bound himself " ground, that though he MIA
—tor payment of the freight, ,rtt at the
lnnd
so there was an agreement with some
it _duals in India, representing the Company, by which
time
-
. was arranged that he was not to be called upon for
payment. As he could not, on :.ceOunt of the bond,
bring his action at common law for recovery of the
money detained, he therefore filed a bill .111 Equity for
relief. The question in the present appeal was whether
the documents in question were 'official communications
and privileged from production.
Ills LORDSHIP, after hearing Mr. Loftus Wigram for
the appellants, and Mr. Turner and Mr. Spencer for the
respondent.; reserved his judgment.
In the course of the morning, Mr. Cockburn, who has
been appointed Queen's Counsel, was called within the bar.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 2.
(Before Vice-Chancellor Sir L. SHADWELL.)
His Honour was occupied all the morning in hearing
motions of little public interest.
NEW COURTS.
(Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.)
The Committee-rooms of the House of Commons,
which have been appropriated for the accommodation of
the new Vice-Chancellors appointed under the Act
lately passed for the better administration of justice,
were crowded from an early hour with persons anxious
to witness their Honours taking their seats in their re-
spective Courts. Indeed so great was the throng of
professional gentlemen and others, that it was quite a
task to effect an entrance into either Court.
Whoever were so fortunate as to gain admittance,
might justly say that they never conceived it to be so
difficult to " get into Chancery."
At a few minutes before two o'clock his Honour Mr.
K. BRUCE entered the Court, and proceeded to hear mo-
tions.