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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, July 24.
The LORD CHADTcsr.tor: sat in the Old Hall, Lincoln's Inn,
this morning shortly after ten o'clock.

PAREDES V. LIZARDL-THE MEXICAN REPUBLIC.

Mr. TharEv applied this morning at the sitting of the
Court for the direction of his Lordship as to the course that
ought to be pursued in this case under the following circum-
stances :—The bill was filed at the Rolls by the plaintiff, the
present President of the Mexican Republic, against Messrs.
Lizardi and Co., the late agents of that State, for an ac-
count, and also for an injunction. On the day appointed for
hearing the application for the injunction, the Master
of the Rolls sat at the Privy Council,rand, by permission
of the Lord Chancellor, the injunction was moved
for before the Vice-Chancellor of England. That Learned
Judge granted the injunction, and the cause having
been set down at the Rolls, the parties applied to that Court
to discharge the order of? the Vice-Chancellor of England.
His Lordship the Master of the Rolls, considering that he
had no jurisdiction to discharge an order of the Vice-Chan-
cellor of England, declined to entertain the application, and
under these circumstances the parties asked for the direction
of the Lord Chancellor as to tl:e course they ought to pursue.
The LORD CIIANCiLLOR thought the parties should apply
to the Vice-Chancellor of England to discharge the order he
had made. Under the Vice-Chancellor's Act any of the
Equity judges who had made an order could hear an appli-
cation to discharge it.
Mr. TINNEY said, the parties would much rather that his
Lordship should hear the application, if he would have the
kindness to do so.

The Loan CHANCELLOR said, the parties must first apply
to the Vice-Chancellor of England to discharge his order for
the injunction; and if they were not satisfied with his judg-
ment they could then apply to him.
The Court, after'disposing of several short applications,
proceeded to hear appeal motions.
Nothing of any public interest occurred in the other
Equity Courts.

COURT OF BAINICRtIPTCY, July 24.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FA.NE.)
ENORMOUS INTEREST.--BULL V. CLARKE.

This defendant, who is a law-stationer, attended on a
summons, under the Small Debts Act, to show cause why
he did not pay the sum of 6/. 10s. debt and 4/. 16s. costs.
The defendant said that be was willing to pay according to
his means., but the plaintiff called on him to pay 21. Bs.
a week for the first fortnight, and 15s. a week afterwards.
He had borrowed the money (5/..) of plaintiff, and gave him
a bill for 61. 108., being 30s. for three weeks, but not being
able to pay at the moment, a writ was issued three days
aft er.

The plaintiff said it was borrowed by the defendant for the
purposes of extravagance, to go to Epsom races, and other
places where he was in the habit of attending.
The COMMISSIONER—Do you know what rate of interest
you have charged? It is rather more than 500/. per cent.;
yet you are so conscientious as to condemn him for going to
races. Pray what are you? Plaintiff—l am a solicitor's
clerk, and I had no other remedy than to bring the action.
The COM3IISSIONER—WeII, if you are ruined yourself by a
similar unneighbourly act you will not deserve any pity.
The COMMISSIONER. (to defendant)—What terms have
you to propose; the plaintiff has been so strictly uncon-
scientious, that I shall not find fault at ?Tour following his
example, although a very bad one?-1 he defendant said
that in the long vacation his business was very bad, and on
the change of the Ministry he earned only 9s. 51 one
week, and 14s. 10d. another, yet he had now to pay 11. a week,
and should have to do so for three months.

The COMMISSIONER—Was that for money lent ?—Yes, sir.
The Comtism:glut—l should not have cared about your
going to prison for your folly, but the plaintiff has acted
so unc"nscientiously that I wish I had power under the
Act to tell him to go about his business, but I see I have not :
I will, however, give you as much time as you require, for I
never heard such a case before. You will, therefore, pay ss.
per week, or 11. a month, commencing from the first Monday
in November.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
.50.111 E ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, July 24.
CROWN COURT.

Mr. Justice Coltman sat in this Court until late on
Thursday night, in order to endeavour to finish the
criminal business, but finding it was impossible to do
so, it was arranged that Mr. Sergeant Dowling should
dispose of the remainder of the cases in the calander.
Thomas Chees( man, aged 20. was indicted for felo-
niously cutting and wounding Charlotte Frances Maria
Saunders, with intent to murder her; and in other counts
his intent was laid to do her grevious bodily harm.
Mr. Deedes prosecuted, and Mr. Mellor defended the
prisoner. _ _ _

It appeared from the evidence that the prisoner and
the prosecutrix were fellow-servants at the Camden
Arms Inn, Tonbridge Wells ; and it would seem that
the prisoner had entertained great attachment for the
prosecutrix, which was not returned by her, but she
on the contrary, was keeping company with another
young man, and that had given the prisoner great
offt nce. On Sunday, the 7th June, the prosecutor had a
holiday, and she went out with her sweetheart, and it
appealed that the prisoner- also asked for a holiday ou
the same day, and hejoined the prosecutrix and her com-
panion, who were at the time accompanied by two or
three young females of their acquaintance. The party
went to a place in the neighbourhood of Tunbridge
Wells, where they all drank some cyder, at.d it was ob-
served that the prisoner seemed to be very melancholy,
and app-ared to be brooding over something that was
in his mind. They all returned towards home
together, and the prisoner was seen to take a
knife out of his pocket and sharpen it, but it did
not appear that at this time any suspicion
was entertained of the deadly intension of the prisoner.
The prosecutrix and her friends having rested tor a
short time at a mile, proceeded on their way homeward,
her sweetheart being by her side, and the prisoner walk-
ing by the side of the man, when, suddenly. and without
saying a word, he jumped past the man, seized the young
women with one hand, and, with a knife which he held
in the other, he made a desperate attrmpt to cut her
throat; but fortunately, owing to the resistance made by
her cap string, and some other articles of dress, he did
not succeed in causing a mortal injury, although the
jugular vein was injured, and a very severe wound in-
flicted, from the effect of which the prosecutrix had not
yet recovered._

Mr. MELLoi, in behalf of the prisoner, urged that the
act had been committed by him while he was labouring
un:?er a temporary aberration of intellect, occasioned by
the drink he had taken.

Mr. Justice COLTMAN having summed up, the jury
almost immediately found the prisoner guilty of asault-
ing the prosecutrix with intent to do her grievous bodily
harm.

Judgment was deferred.
John Price, 26, surrendered to answer an indictment
charging him with the manslaughter of James Sutton.
Mr. Horne prosecuted ; Mr. Andrews defended the
prisoner.
This case was of rather a singular character. It ap-
peared that the prisoner and the accused, who reside in
the neighbourhood of Margate, were on friendly terms
up to the period of this transaction. The prisoner was
going home at night, having previously been in com-
pany with the accused at a public-house, when, accord
ing to his statement, a man sprung upon him from the
hedge by the road-side, and demanded his money and
his watch, or else he said he would have his life; and the
prisoner closed with him, and beat him severely, inflict••
ing such injuries that he died shortly afterwards. This
man turned out to be the accused, and it was supposed
that he had made the pretended attempt to rob the
prisoner out of joke, which, however, ended in this
fatal manner. The prisoner all along told the same
story, and there did not appear to be the slightest grounds
for believing that it was otherwise than the truth.
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, after hearing the evidence of
the witnesses, said, it appeared to be quite clear that
the prisoner had acted under the impression that he was
protecting his own life from the attack of a robber, and,
under such circumstance, he could not be held to be
criminally responsible.
The jury accordingly returned a verdict of Not Guilty,
and the prisoner was at once discharged from custody.
The prisoner Cheesemcin was this (Friday) morning
brought up to receive the judgment of the Court, and
Mr. Justice COLTMAN, after making some appropriate
remarks upon the very aggravated character of his
offence, sentenced him to be transported for 15 years.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 22.

CROWN COURT.— (Before Mr. Justice CnasswELL.)
George Aiziewood, Joseph Hague, Richard Bradshaw, and
Hannah, his wife, were jointly indicted for a misdemeanour,
in having conspired together, by unlawful means, and to
defeat the objects of justice, to cause witnesses to abscond.
The conspiracy charged referred to the charge of rape
which was tried yesterday, when three young men were sen-
tenced to be transported for having violated the person of
Maria Kaufmann, a German musician, who had been at-
tacked by those men while travelling with her sister.
The prisoners, in the present indictment, were proved to
have tampered with the two girls, and to induce them by
offers of money to pay their expenses home, and by holding
out terror to them, to set off towards their own country in
Germany. They were on the point of departure when the
conspiracy and the conduct of the prisoners upon it became
known. The prisoners were relatives of the men tried yes-
terday.
_ _

Alf convicted.—Sentence deferred.
IN THE MAGISTRATES' ROOM.
(Before Mr. WArsoN' Q.C.)
CIARGE OF RIOT AND FORCIBLE ENTRY.—John George
Hounsfield (a clergyman of the Church of England), John
MA George Hall, Charles Flail, and William Baimford,vre
jointly indicted for having committed a riot, and forcibly
entered the house of George Calvert Holland, M.D., in the
parish of Eeelesfield.
Mr. Overend was counsel for the prosecution, and Mr.
Ingham for the defence.
1)r. Holland, who lives at about three miles from Sheffield,
was examined, and said that he had taken his present house
of a Mr. Coupland, from the 6th of October last, and was
yearly tenant of the same. On the 16th of March last the
defendant, Mr. Hounsfield, came to that house, bringing
with him his attorney. He asked to see the premises, which
the witness permitted. He then informed Dr. Holland that he
(Mr. 110unstield) intended to take possession of the house in
three weeks from that time,' and therefore that witness
had better remove his family and household furniture.
The defendant, or his aunt. had been possessed of
the same house formerly. Wi!ness told him that he
had no concern but with Mr. Coupland, his land-
lord, and that he should resist any attempt of the
kind. The next day, Dr. Holland, being in Sheffield,
met Mr. Hounsfield again, when the latter sail that he
should enter the house on the Tuesday following. On the
18th a letter came from him, intimating that, knowing that
Mrs. Holland was then unwell, he desired to avoid cluing any-
thing that might be disagreeable to her, and therefore lie
begged that Dr. Holland might remove. On the Monday
following the defendant came to the house again, and spoke
to the doctor through the front door. The latter would not
open the door for him, but partly opened the back door, to
which there was a chain which would prevent it from being
pushed open. This was at nine in the morning. The de-
fendant then, addressing Dr. Holland through the back door,
demanded admission. The wife of the defendant, and a Mr.
Lawson, his attorney, came with him. Mr. Hounsfield then
went away for a short distance, and the *witness, who had
taken the precaution to have three policemen in the house,
looked through a window, and could thence see what he did.
Saw him pull off a black coat, and put on a dressing-gown.
which he buttoned up round his throat. Immediately
afterwards he came marching towards the house, at the
head of about fifty persons, mostly quarryinen and
grinders,
the other four defendants being of the party. The.),
were, many of them, armed with sticks or bludgeons, and
911 g of them Vir§ WWl= 11910 Ina a band of piaaiciana