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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE OF LORDS, July 27.
LORD CAMOYS V. BLUNDELL—JUDGMENT.
Their Lordships gave judgment to-day is this case,
affirming, the decision of the Court below with coats.
THE PRINCIPAL OF GLASGOW COLLEGE V. THE ATTOR-
NEY-GENERAL.
Their Lordships also gave judgment in this case, re-
versing the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor Knight
Bruce.

.A.,3SIZEINTELLIGEN CE.
OXFO RD ClRCUlT.—Stafford, July 26.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.
William Harth:lg Flint was indicted for_h the
emas
Riley,
man-
slaughter of Eliaalie:h Riley, the wife of T
March
of high Sheen, in Lilo county, on the 28th of
last.
Mr. Iluddleston and Wooslrych conducted the
prose.cution, and Mr. WI Coiko,
and Mr.
defended the prisoner.
The prisoner, it appeared, lo.d for many yotrs prractistd
❑or,. a
extensively as a surgeon and at.'coucbeur at L,
place about two miles from Riley's residence. he de-
ceased on the day in question having all the sympi..lll,3
of an approaching confinement with her third child, he."
husband sent for the prisoner to attend her, he having
attended her at the birth of her second child. The
prisoner arrived at the house about two o'clock in the
morning.
Evidence at great length was then given to show that
the deceased had been improperly treated, and sunk un-
der it.
A surgeon, who had made a post mortem examination,
stated that in his opinion midwifery instruments had
been improperly used, and that proper surgical skill had
not been applied to the case. It was then elicited from
the witness, on cross-examination, that even a very skil-
ful man might be mistaken as to the proper mode of
deahne.. with cases like the deceased's.
Mr. Baron PLATT here interposed, and said that, as it
had now appeared that the rupture of vital parts had
caused the death, and that such rupture might have been
the result of natural causes, the charge of manslaughter
could hardly be pressed under the present circumstances,
he would recommend the jury to say that there was
not sufficient evidence to show that the prisoner had
been the cause of the death; and ultimately, under his
Lordship's direction,
The jury found the prisoner Not Guilty, the foreman
stating their opinion to be that the death may have arisen
from natural causes.
the trial lasted some hours, and created considerable
interest in the neighbourhood.
• -NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron ROLFE,
and Special and Common Juries.)
• =The two cases disposc3 of did not admit of any public
notice whatever.

HOME CI R C UlT.—Maidstone, July 26.
The commission for the county of Kent was opened on
Tuesday by the Lord Chi©f Baron. There aro twenty-
eight ',causes for trial, and seventy-five prisoners, but
none of the.charges against them appear to be of a very
serious character.

(Before the LORD CIIIEP BARON.)

BTEBBING V. COYLE.

This was an action to'recover a sum of 700/., the ba-
lance due upon a promissory note for 1,2501., made by
the defendant, who pleaded that the whole amount had
really been paid.
Sergeant Shee and Mr. Bovill were for the plaintiff ;
Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Wordsworth for the de-
fendant. •
The parties in this action were well known upon the
turf, and it appeared that there had been a good many
money transactions between them. In 1845 the defen-
dant held three bills in promissory notes, amounting al-
together to more than 1,2001., and he placed them in the
hands of the plaintiff, who gave him consideration for
them to their full amount. When these bills became
due, the plaintiff was unable to get them paid, some of
the parties being out of the way, and others not being in
a condition to pay, and at length the defendant consented
to 'dive his own promissory note, payable on demand, for
the, full amount of• the three bills, the understanding
being between the parties that the three original bills
fibould .be .retained by :the plaintiff's solicitor as colla-
teral security, and that the defendant should pay off his
own promissory note by instalments to suit his conve-
nience. Accordingly,'.it appeared that about 5701. had
been paid off by different sums, at intervals, but at length
the defendant declined to pay any more money, and he
now set up as a defence to this action that he had paid
the whole amount of the bill.

The bill having been put in, together with the admis-
sion of the defendant that it was his handwriting.
Mr. CHAMBERS addressed the jury, and called a wit-
ness named Sibree, who swore positively that he was
present at a room in an inn in Doncaster, where he saw
the plaintiff and the defendant, and the latter, in an-
swer to a question from Mr. Stebbing, said he had won
300/., and then the subject of the twelve hundred
pounds bill was introduced, and he was asked to calcu-
late amount of interest that was due upon it, and he
said that when he had done so a balance was struck,
and the whole amount that was due was paid by the
defendant in notes and gold, and he said also that the
plaintiff promised to give Coyle the 1,200/. bill the next
day.

Upon his being cross-examined, this witness said
that lie had been in business as a wine merchant, and
became a bankrupt, and was charged with concealing
his property, and was imprisoned for eighteen months
for defrauding his creditors.
rii-OiZer*Co r.but the testimony of this witness, Ser-
geant Shee called Mr. Roberts, the attorney for the
plaintiff, and he•stated that he. was present when the
arrangement was made with regard to the delivery of
the promissory note in question for the three bills that
were in the plaintiff's possession, and ho also proved
the payment of the different sums by the defendant to
reduce the amount down to the 25th of :May, 1847.
lie likewise stated that, after the time mentioned by
the witness Sibree, when the balance was alleged to have
been paid, ho saw the defendant upon the subject of the
balance due upon the bill, ant told him that if he did
not make some arrangement to pay the amount, that
the plaintiff would sue him and recover it, upon which
he said he did not care if he did, for if he were sued, he
owed eighteen hundred pounds more, and he should
wipe it all off in the Insolvent Court, and at that time
he said nothing about the bill having been paid.
Mr. CHAMBERS then addressed the jury, upon this
additional evidence for the plaintiff, and he urged that
the defendant had made out his plea by the evidence of
the witness Sibree. He said it was not because a man
had been unfortunate that he was, therefore, disentitled
to being believed.
The CHIEF BARON—Oh, the eighteen months' im-
prisonment, you know, may be said to have completely
whitewashed him, and he came out of gaol quite pure
and above suspicion.—(A laugh.)
Sergeant SHEE was about to reply upon the whole
case, but was stopped by
The LORD CHIEF Ilutox, who said it appeared to him
that it was quite unnecessary he should do so. The
witnesses swore directly in contradiction to each other,
but on one side they had the evidence of a man who
had been imprisoned for eighteen months for fraud, and
in the other there was the testimony of a respectable
person, whose evidence appeared to be above suspicion.
The jury immediately returned a verdict for plaintiff.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, July 26.
(Before Mr. JuAlen CRESSWELL and a Special Jury.)

GRAYBURN V. EVERETT.

This action resembled the one tried yesterday, being
an action of debt for nut setting out tithe, to which the
defendant pleaded that he was not indebted.
The plaintiff was proved to be entitled to the tithes of
the rectory of Owston, as the lessee of the Archbishop
of York.
The defendant's case was, that the lands in respect of
which tithes were sought to be recovered formed part
of a district called the South Ings, which, prior to
1793, had always paid a modus of 4d. an acre, as was
proved by old receipts. In 1793. a Mr. Morris became
lessee, and he was succeeded by his nephew, who became
bankrupt in 1812. His assignees sold them, in 1840,
to the plaintiff. Since 1793, the lessees had always re
fused to accept the modus. Tithes itt kind were never
paid or rendered.
Verdio:, for the defendant.

His Lordship then proceeded to try prisoners.
Sarah Stubbs and Abigail Stubbs were charged with
having, at Harrogate. on the 15th of July, caused the
death of their father by throwing him down stairs.
The particulars of this case have recently appeared in
this paper, and will therefore be fresh in the recollection
of our readers.
After hearing the evidence, the jury instantly re-
turned a verdict of Acquittal.
Before rising last evening, Mr. Justice Erle passed the
following sentences :
William Burrows, aged 21, for a burglary in, and
beating the inmates of the house of Wm. Scaife, at
Bishopside, West Riding, on the 4th of July, to be
transported for fourteen years.
Thomas Bailey, aged 28, was, for a felony not named,
sentenced to be transported for fourteen years.
Peter Machan, aged 34, for three burglaries at
Scarborough, on the 23d of November, on the 25th
of May, and the 4th of June, to be transported for
ten years.
Edward Dickinson, aged 23, for stealing a mare on
the '4th of May, at Wakefield, to be transported for
seven years.
James Frith, aged 31, for stealing a horse at Shef-
field, on the 6th of April last, to be transported for
seven years.
Matthew Thompson, aged 37, for stealing a mare
on the 24th of April, at Bilbrough, to be transported
for seven years.
Thomas Wild, aged 23, for a burglary on the 29th
of June, at el.
ill; in the East Riding, to be imprisoned,
with hard labour,
arrforedtwlve months.'"
Thomas Hall, 22, for a burglary on the 15th
of May, at Middleton, in the East Riding, for six
months.
John Matthews, clerk to the Midland Railway Corn.
pany. for embezzling 101. upwards, of the Corn-
pany's money, for six monthls
for bigamy
Elizae,Booth, aged 34,0 n the 18th of Sep-
tember, at Sr. Pancras, Millthree months. sex, to be imprisoned
The five girls who pleaded guilty to robbery and vio-
lence in a house of ill-fame at Leeds,
two of them to be transported for to wnere sentenced,
seven yimprisoned s
ears, and the other to be years., two for
ix months
with hard labour.
(Before Mr. Justice CaEsswEia..)
Sarah and Abigail Stubbs, sisters, whose age Was
not
given, but who appeared about 24 or 26, and not hand-
some, were charged with manslaughter, in having caused
the death of their own father, by throwing him down
stairs, on Saturday, the 15th July, at Harrogate.
The case has recently appeared in the papers, and it
may be sufficient to state the substance of the evidence.
Ann Stubbs, the mother, said ho was 73. The pri-
soners wero unmarried, Sarah the elder. They had