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London, England, 1841-10-14 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY.

The Lord Chancellor has issued the followin:; orler
under the Administration of Justice Act :
" GENERAL ORDER.

" Tuesday, Oct. 12, 1341.

" Whereas an Act was passed in the fifth year of the
reign of her present Majesty, entitled An Act to make
further provisions for the Administration of Justice,'
" Now, for giving effect to certain provisions in the
said Act for transferring to this Coart all suits and
matters which, on the 15th day of October instant, shall
he depending in her Majesty's Court of Exchequer as a
Court of Equity, or under the special authority of any
Act or Acts of Parliament, I do hereby order that every
plaintiff and defendant in any suit to be transferred under
the authority of the above-recited Act shall, on or before
the said 15th day of October instant, name one of the
sworn clerks of this Court to conduct and carry on and
act in such suit as clerk in Court, according to the
usual practice of this Court ; and, in default thereof,
either party to the suit may cause to be served upon the
other a notice in writing requiring the party served to
appoint a clerk in Court within seven days after the day
of service of such notice, which shall be left at the
dwelling-house or usual place of abode of such party ;
but if such dwelling-house or usual place of abode can-
not be ascertained, and affidavit shall be made to that
effect, then service of such notice upon the solicitor who
was last concerned for such party in the Court of
Exchequer, shall be deemed good service. And
in case, at the expiration of the period so to be
mentioned in such notice, no clerk in Court shall
have been appointed, according to the requisition
thereof, then the party giving such notice shall be
at liberty to apply to this Court to appoint a clerk in
Court for the party so making default as aforesaid, and
such application may be upon motion or petition without
notice; but it shall be supported by an affidavit of such
notice as aforesaid having been served, and of the ad-
dress of the party or solicitor served. And Ido hereby
further order, that no proceeding shall be taken by any
party in any suit so to be transferred as - aforesaid
until after the appointment of a clerk in Court, and
that where such appointment shall be made by this
Court, the order directing the same shall contain the
address of the party so making default in such ap-
pointment, or of the solicitor so representing such
party as aforesaid, in order that the clerk in Court so
appointed may be enabled to forward notices and other
matters to such party. And I do hereby. further oOker
that so far as regards the taxation and allowance tf
costs in any of the suits or matters so to be transferred'
as aforesaid, and which shall not by any, order of this
Court be directed to be regulated in that particular by
the present practice of the Court of Exchequer, such
costs shall be taxed and allowed in manner following—
' that is to say, the costs previously to the said 15th day
of October instant shall be taxed and allowed according
to the practice of the said Court of Exchequer, and the
costs from and. inclusive of the said 15th day of Octo-
ber shall be taxed and allowed according to the prac-
tice of this Court. "LYNDIMIZST, Chancellor."

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.

(Before Mr. WALES BY and a Bench of Magistrates.)

BUNCE V. RAY.

In this case Mrs. Mary Bunce, the mother of Thom al
Liunce, applied to the Court to release her son from
his indenture of apprenticeship to Mr. Ray, the de-
fendant, a gold-cutter and jeweller, residing in Meredith-
street, Clerkenwell.
Mr. Thomas appeared in support of the petition of
Mrs. Bunce, and Mr. Chadwick Jones appeared for
Mr. Ray.
From the evidence of Mrs. Bunco it appeared that
Mr. Ray was in the habit of advertising for appren-
tices—that her son Thomas, a lad between fifteen and
sixteen years of age, went to him for six months on
liking about a year and a half ago, and that subse-
quently he was bound to him, on which occasion Mrs.
Bunce had paid a premium of 351. After he was
bound she received instant complaints from her son of
the ill treatment he received, and also of his having
nothing to do, and in consequence she applied to the
Court. On her cross-examination she admitted that
the master had made frequent complaints of the
boy's conduct, and that the boy had made no com-
plaints during the six months on liking ; neither had the
master.

Tkomas Bunce, the apprentice, said that although
his master had five apprentices he had net
work enough for two—that his master had never
pat an article of jewellery in his hands ; that
he was forced to sleep in the kitchen dm
in a bed, with two other apprentices, in a small bed
five feet by three; and that from July until Monday
last the sheets had never been changed ; that the food
given him was unaholesome and insufficient ; and that
his master was in the habit of constantly using abu-
sive language to him, and bad on some occasions
struck him. On one occasion a scuffle had taken place
between himself and Mr. and Mrs. Riy, when Mr.
Ray had attempted to cane him, and in the scuffle
Mrs. Ray's fingers were jammel in the door.
On his cross-examination, he stated that during the
six months he was on trial he had made no complaint,
but then his master had behaved differently. His
master had more work at that time. 'Had called his
master a sneak and a coward when his master had
kicked him, but had never sworn at his master or called
him a rascal or a blackguard ; never came home
drunk. Will swear that the sheets we:c not changed
once a month. They were certainly not changed
oftener than six times in the year. They never
had a joint except of a Sunday, but lived
on salvages and saveloys, and bacon ; when he com-
plained, he had potatoes, and nothing else, given him
the next day. He generally dined with his mother on
a,Senday. He had never struck Mr. Ray. Had on
one occasion toll one of the apprentices to call a cab
and drive his master to Bedlam because he was mad.
Had broke a screw-driver over his fellow-apprentice's
back ; that apprentice was here to-day to give evi-
dence for him. His master had taught him to cut
ear-rings at the lathe, but that will not take a person
many minutes to learn. It would not take five mi-
nutes to do it. Many persons did it the first time
they were shown.
John Wright, another apprentice of Mr. Ray,
stated that Mr. Ray had not work enough to em-
ploy one person, that he was very seldom in his work-
shop, and generally went out in a day. He corrobo-
rated the evidence of Bunce as to the insufficiency and
bad quality of the food, the sleeping three in a bed, and
the filthy state of the sheets. It was over his back
that Bunce had broken the turn-screw.
On his cress-examination he a Imitted that be had
been taken by his master before the Magistrate at
Hatton-garden.
Re-examined—He had done the diamonding on the
lathe as done by Bunce, the first time he hail tried.
The apprentices did not dine with the master.
Robert Wright was the father of the last witness.
Bunce had dined and spent the evening at his house
on the occasion on which Ray bad accused him of
being drunk. All they had had was one quart of beer
among seven of them. Had frequently complained to
Mr. Ray of the manner in which he had treated his
son. When his son was at Hat ton-garden in last Ja-
nuary, witness had complained to the Magistrates of
the boy's sleeping three in a bed, and of the dirty sheets.
Mr. Ray did not deny that the sheets had not been
changed from October to January, end the Magistrates
had reprimanded Mr. Ray, and desired him to alter it.
It had not, however, bren altered since.

Elizabeth Giddins, the mother of another of the ap-
prentices, corroborated the evidence as to the state of
the sheets, &c.
Usher cross-examination she admitted thather sonhad
left Mr. Rny, and was now at home, although he was not
mit of his time. Mr. Ray would not cancel the in-
dentures unless she would enter into a bond that he
would not set up in his trade tin. it he was twenty-one
years of age.

Mr. CHADwIcx JONES addressed the Court for Mr.
Ray, and contended that the real object of the peti-
tioner was to get the indentures cancelled, in order to
enable the lad to earn money for himself, and that th•
apprentice himself had behaved in an insolent, idle,
disorderly, and improper manner.
Mr. THOMAS said that all the boy wanted was to be
taught his trade.
Mr. WALESBY having exacted a pledge from the
master that he would teach the boy his trade properly
—►hat he would take care that they should no longer
sleep three in a bed—that the sheets should be changed
more frequently, and that he mould not treat the biy
harshly, dismissed the petition.

ROBBERY IN NORTH SHIELDS.—On Friday
night, between six and seven o'clock, the shop of Wil-
liam Blackwood and Son, silversmiths, in 'Tyne-street,
was robbed of four gold and silver watches, worth above
100/. The robbery was effected by some ono outside
cutting a corner out of one of the panes, large enough
to get a hand in. While this was going on—although in
the most public part of the town, and on the side of the
street that is always throng—Mr. Blackwood's attention
was taken up inside by a man who was looking at some
seals, who kept him attending to him till, no doubt, he
saw the robbery was effected. He took Mr. B.'s attention
from the window by repeatedly bating him down in the
price asked, and ringing his money on the counter, to
cover the noise of the breaking of the glass. Up to this
time we have not heard whether any persons have been
taken up for the robbery. This is unfortunate for Messrs.
Blackwood, as they have been robbed to a large amount
before. This, we think, is sufficient to satisfy the public
that we have not a sufficient police.—Tyne 'Mercury.
PERSONAL APPEARANCE OF BEN JOHN-
SON.—This humbly born man, with the badge of the" hod
and trowel" fixed on him by his enemies—twitted with
ambling " by a play-waggon in the highway"—with a face
held up to ridicule as being " like a rotten russet apple
n•hen it is bruised," or "punched full of eylet-holes,
like the cover of a warming-pan"—described by himself
as remarkable for " his mountain belly and his rocky
face," with " ono eye lower than t'other, and bigger,"
and, according to the same authority, " wont to wear a
coat like a coaclunan's coat, with slits under the arm-
pits"—this uncouth being was fur a quarter of a century
the favourite poet of the Court— one that wrote masques
not only for two kings to witness, but for one to perform
in—the founder and chief ornament of clubs where the
greatest of his age for wit, and learning, and rauk,
gathered round him as a common centre ; but, above all,
he was the rigid moralist, who spared no vice—who was
fearless in his denunciation of public or private profli-
gacy—who crouched not to power or richest but who
stood up in the worst of clays at real mac.