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London, England, 1846-04-23 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGEN CE,
COURT OF CHANCERY, April 22.
WEEKS V. LORD STANHOPE.
The arguments in this part-heard appeal were resumed this
morning, and continued the whole day.
VICE

,CE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, April 22.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
RUSSELL V. SMITH.
This c9se came before the Court to-day upon motion to
dissolve an injunction, restraining the defendant from sing-
ing certain songs in various places of public entertainment
in the metropolis.
The case, which had not concluded at three o'clock, when
the Court rose, will be proceeded with to-morrow. -

COURT OF COM-MO.IV PLEAS, April 22,
(Sittings in Banco.)
FOWLES V. PAGE.

The Court was occupied the most of the day in hearing
this case, which was an action for debt, brought by plaintiffs,
a Liverpool banking company, against defendant, who was a
member of a firm, and was tried at the late assizes, when a
verdict was given for the plaintiffs.
The present motion was to set aside that verdict. It pos-
sessed no feature of interest.
The Court would take time to consider.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, April 22.
(Sittings in Banco )
This day was again occupied with motions for new trials,
there being upwards of twenty still to be disposed wf when
the Court sat this morning. The only case possessing any
feature of interest was the following :

JACKSON AND WIFE V. SIMPSON.
Mr. Sergeant SIIEA moved for a rule to show cause
why the verdict in this case should not be set aside, judgment
arrested, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection,
the verdict being against evidence, and also on affidavits. The
action was tried at the late assizes for the county of Kent,
when a verdict was given for the plaintiff—Damages 1501.
The facts of the case were briefly these. The defendant kept a
ram and a sheep, which he dignified with the appellations of
Albert and Victoria. It appeared, that the rain, which was
tethered by the side of Victoria, in the garden of defendant,
escaped from his restraint and got into the premises of Mrs.
Jackson, the plaintiff. While endeavouring to take him back
to his disconsolate " Victoria" plaintiff was upset, and sus-
tained the severest injuries from the violence of rebellious
" Albert."

The COURT, thinking no doubt that sufficient cause could
be shown for Albert's conduct, under the circumstauce6
granted the rule.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
A man, named William Harrison, was brought before
Alderman Hughes Hughes, charged with having com-
mitted au assault upon a female.
A City policeman, who was doing duty in the Poultry
on the preceding night at a quarter to nine o'clock, ob
served the defendant annoying a female of respectable
appearance. Witness protected the lady, whom the
prisoner at the bar had taken hold of and pulled into
the street, and locked up the contemptible offender in
the station-house. The language used by the defendant
was just what might have been expected from a fellow
who was in the habit of insulting females, and who cer-
tainly deserved upon the present occasion to be well
kicked. The lady, who went to the station-house and
signed the charge-book, expressed her willingness to
withdraw the accusation if the defendant consented to
apologise for his ruffianlike behaviour, but he had not
even the decency to say that be was sorry for what he
had done.
Alderman HUGHES HUGHES having ascertained that
the complainant was not present, said he was under the
necessity of discharging the defendant, but he regretted
that in such a case the magistrate was deprived of the
power to do justice in the absence of the person who
seemed to have had such reason to complain.
The defendant, who denied that his conduct was at all
reprehensible, was then discharged.
Elizabeth Jones, a person who has been in the habit
of calling for gratuitous advice upon medical men, and
picking up any clothes, or other property, which lay in
her way, was charged with robbery.
Mr. Stephen H. Ward, M.D., residing at No. 35,
Finsbury Circus, stated that about three weeks ago the
prisoner called upon him for a prescription. When she
made her appearance his coat was hanging on the back
of a chair in the room. She quitted the room suddenly
without his knowledge, and his coat disappeared at the
same time. He subsequently saw his coat at the shop
of a pawnbroker at Aldgate. It was worth about a
sovereign.
T. J. Hogg, assistant to Mr. Barker, pawnbroker,
Aldgate, stated that he was present when the coat pro-
duced was pledged by the prisoner, and the duplicates
were found to correspond.
Alderman H. HUGHES observed that the prisoner's dis-
honesty was the more culpable, as it was exercised to-
wards a professional gentleman who had been in the
habit of most liberally administering to the health of
those who were not able to pay for medical advice. It
was a very serious disappointment to gentlemen so dis-
interested to find that, instead of the gratitude that was
due to them, they met with such a system of victimising.
There had been three cases, in each of which the pri-
soner was known to have made such a return for kind-
ness rendered, and she should certainly have an oppor-
tunity of answering before a jury at the Central Cimina
Court.—Committed for trial.
IVOR SHIP-STREET.
Jane Dove, a scantily-attired and emaciated. looking
widow, was placed at the bar, before Mr. Broughton, charged
with having threatened to murder three of her children, of
ages varying from 3 to 11 years.
It appeared that as a weaver named Savage was passing
through John-street, Bethnal-green, shortly before one
o'clock on Sunday morning, a little boy ran up to him in
great terror and agitation, and implored his assistance, as his
mother had armed herself with a knife, and was about to
murder all the family. He, witness, immediately applied to
police-constable Fowler, with whom he accompanied the boy
to the house, and on entering a back room, in which there
were two children asleep, they found the primer pacing up
and down in a state of extreme excitement, and on commu-
nicating to her the substance of her son's statement, she
threw herself into a chair, and bursting into tears, said that it
had been her intention to destroy her childen first, and then
cut her own throat. On asking the son for the weapon his
mother had attempted to use, he handed the constable a
table-knife, together with a whetstone, on which he said the
prisoner had sharpened it just before he ran into the street.
The appearance of the place denoted the last stage of poverty
and destitution, and the only articles of furniture in the
room, besides an old deal table and a couple of broken chairs,
was a wretched bed in one of the corners for the indiscrimi-
nate,
use of the unhappy family.
The prisoner's son, an intelligent boy, eleven years of age,
was then examined, and stated that after putting the other
children to bed, and sharpening the knife for some time upon
the stone, his mother suddenly started up, and declaring that
she would murder the whole of them, attempted to seize hold
of him, but he contrived to elude her grasp, and hastened
out for assistance.
The prisoner's daughter, a young married woman, here
stepped forward, and stated that her mother had obtained a
scanty subsistence by washing for poor families in the neigh-
bourhood, but that latterly she had been unable to obtain any
employment, and the whale family had since been wholly
dependent on the labour of the two elder boys, who earned a
few shillings a week at paper staining. She felt satisfied
that her mother's mind had become unsettled through the
misery of her situation.
Upon being called upon for her defence, the prisoner,
who was obviously labouring under acute mental suffering,
disclaimed any deliberate design to injure her children,
and besought the magistrate to allow her to return home.
Mr. BROUGHTON said that it was certainly a very melan-
choly case, but as it was perfectly manifest that the woman's
mind was in a state of positive derangement, and that the
lives of her children would be in jeopardy if she were set at
large, he felt it his duty to commit her to prison, where
every attention would be shown to her, and he should direct
the pa'ish officers, in the mean time, to take the case into
their consideration, and adopt proper steps for the protection
of the prisoner and her family.

AN IRISHMAN'S PlG.—The pig takes his meals with
the rest of the family, whom, at best, he regards as his poor
relations. He sits down with the circle at the family board
(often literally a board for a plate), and eats with them from
the same dish, from which they usually select for him the
largest potatoes. Instances, it is true, have been known
where a disloyal peasant has endeavoured to persuade the
pig to eat a few potato peelings, mashed up with the rest,
but seldom with success. Far more common is it to give
the pig something in addition, such as porridge, bran and
cake, and cabbage. Not merely is the pig better fed than
the peasant, with his wife and children, but in several dis-
tricts it is the only animal that is sufficiently fed. This is
more especially the case in Sligo and Roscommon. The
pig, meantime, knows how matters stand, and is quite
aware of his own importance. Hite happens to be coming in
at the door of the cabin at the same time that one of the
children is coming out, he tries to make it appear that
there is not room enough for both, and gives the child a
hunch with his shoulder in passing, like a surly brute who
would gtowl, " Get out of the way, don't you see me
coming!" A traveller in the provinces told me that
ahnedonticiee
overheard a sort of dialogue between a peasant g
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night,l'he paigndhatdheabgsciroln,dedh, orhaadtirlbleaeesnt had
searching for him since daybreak,
home, reproaching him for his ingratitudemcg
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WINDSOR CA ST Lt
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A new arrangementTHE
AhEaTsMj
takenEusNtTSlT
place, agreeably
order issued by Earl Delawarr, the Lord Chamberlain,
with reference to the tickets signed by his Lordship for
viewing the State Apartments of the Castle. In order to
prevent, as far as possible, the hawking about of those tickets
in the streets of Windsor, and the impositions practised upon
those victors to the town who may be unprovided with the
Lord Chamberlain's orders, these tickets for the future will
be available for only one week from the period at which
they are dated. They are also for the future not to
be transferable. It is also stated that, at a very early
period, an arrangement will be made, so that the admissions
to the state apartments will be procured by the public, at
the office of Mr. Roberts, the recently appointed Inspector
of Palaces, in the department of the Lord Chamberlain.
The number of tickets, each to admit seven persons, issued
by the four establishments in London, where they are only
to be procured, since the Ist of January (the day on which
the new arrangement came into operation), up to Saturday
last, exceeds three thousand.
ST. Joittl's GATE.—The owners of this ancient struc-
ture have relinquishsd the idea of compoing the gate, and
have determined to re-case it with stone where defective.
The ornamental portions, such as embattlements, lables, &c.
are to be restored by the public, under the direction of the
committee and Mr. W. P. Griffith, architect;---The Builder.
TIIE NIGHTINGALE.—This charming songster, for
whose melodious notes the Trumpington-read is so renewed, has
begun to pour forth its " jug-jug" in our neighbourhood earlier than
usual this year. Last week it was heard, and by this time it is almost
common.— Cambridge Chronicle.
Preparations are being made for the reception of the
ministers, nearly 500 in number, expected to attend the
Wesleyan Conference, which will be held this year in Bristol.
Briatal Journal,