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London, England, 1846-02-05 00:00:00

“3-, FEBRUARY 5, 1846.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
PRIVY COUNCIL, Feb. 4.
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The Judicial Committee of the Privy ,Council sat to-day
at the Council Office, Whitehall. The Lords present were,
the LordYresident (the Duke of Buceleuch ), Lord Brougham,
Lord Cottenbam, Lord Campbell, and the Vice-Chancellor
Knight Bruce. Their Lordships, after disposing of several
motions and petitions, proceeded to hear appeals from the
Ecclesiastical Court.

not then make, nor had he since made the slightest apology, al.
though by suffering judgment to go by default he had ad-
mitted that he had acted illegally and unjustifiably. He
(the Learned Counsel) believed defendant had busines on the
Stock Exchange.
The jury assessed the damages at 501.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT:
OLD COURT.

(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS and Mr.-Justice Cnr.sswEri...)
Frederick Tyler Russell, a surgeon, aged 23, was charged
with feloniously forging and uttering an order for 55/, with
intent to defraud the Governor and Company of the Bank
of England.

The prisoner pleaded Guilty. There were other indict-
ments against the prisoner for the same offence.—Judgment
was postponed.

Henry Bushell pleaded Guilty to feloniously uttering a
forged cheque for 375/., with intent to defraud William Henry
Smith and others.—Sentence deferred.

Y. James Thomas, described as a labourer, and George Green, a
soldier, were indicted for an unnatural offence.

Mr. BALLANTINE applied to have the case postponed, in
consequence of the absence of the necessary witnesses. There
was every reason to suppose that the prisoner Thonw, who
was supposed to be a man of fortune, had bought the wit-
nc,ses.—The case was ordered to stand over for the present.
Thomas Russell, Ann Russell, and James Scott, were in-
dicted for having in their possession counterfeit coins, and
implements for coining. It appeared that information had
been conveyed to the authorities of the Mint, that coining
was extensively carried on in the house occupied by the
prisoners, in John's-lane' Westminster. They, therefore, in-
structed the officers of police to take measures to ascertain if
such information was well founded. Acting on these orders,
they proceeded to the house in question, burst open the
door, and found the prisoners actively engaged in coining.
Several counterfeit shillings and false dies, as well as a gal-
vanic battery, were found in the room.
A verdict of Guilty was returned against the male
prisoners, and the female was acquitted.-4-3entenee deferred.

Mary Ann Flood was found guilty of uttering a counter,
felt half-crown.—Sentence deferred.
THE ALLEGED 3IURDERS ON BOARD THE TORY.

In the course of the day the Grand Jury came into
Court and returned seven true bills for murder and
felony against Captain Johnstone.
Mr. BonruN said there were a great many witnesses
to be examined in support of the indictments that had
just been brought into Court, and the Attorney General
would conduct the prosecution ; it would, therefore, be
a convenience to all parties if their Lordships would fix
a day for the trial, and he suggested, with the sanction
of the Court, that to-morrow (this day) would be a
convenient day.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said be had no objection, and
the trial, therefore, stands fixed for this morning at ten
o'clock.

The following prisoners were brought up to receive
the judgment of the Court:—Henry Bushell and
Frederiek Tyler Russell, who had pleaded guilty to in-
dictments charging them with forgery, were sentenced to
be transported for fifteen years ; Thomas Russell and
James Scott, who were convicted of coining, were also
sentenced to fifteen years transportation`; and Mary
Anne Flood, convicted of uttering base coin, after a pre-
vious conviction, was sentenced to eighteen months im-
prisonment and hard labour.

NEW COURT.
(Before the COMMON- SERGEANT. )
John Best, a working man, was indicted for stealing 10
lbs. of solder, value 45., the property of John Kelk, builder,
Vauxhall, on the 15th of January.
John Harley said he was a clerk to Mr. Kelk, and was on
the premises on the day in question, when the prisoner came
down with the plumber, Watling, to take soma lead up to
the job at King•street, St. James's. He had his suspicion
excited by the manner of the prisoner, as he came down from
the plumbing shop supporting his jacket pocket, and evi-
dently concealing something in it with his arm. He there-
fore laid hold of him and asked him what he had got there.
It was a bar of solder, he said, which was booked. He had
him taken back to the shop were he thr.ew down the bar and
begged to be forgiven, and said the plumber had told him to
take it. Harley said nothing was allowed to go from the
premises without an order, and the prisoner knew that.
John Edwards said he was Mr. Kelk's foreman at the job
in King• street, and sent Watling on that day for lead, and
afterwards ordered the prisoner to go and help him. There
was no order given for solder, and no need for it at the job.
Charles Watling said he was a plumber, working at the
job in King-street, and went to the premises in Vauxhall for
lead. The prisoner came to help him. He did not order
him to take solder, and when the prisoner took it he was two
hundred yards distant from the shop. The prisoner was deaf,
and had occasionally mistaken his orders. •
Mr. Ballantine conducted the case. Mr. Payne ad-
dressed the jury for the prisoner, and called witnesses to
character.

The jury found him guilty, but recommended him to
mercy. He was sentenced to four months imprisonment and
hard labour.

James Scott, George Collins, Thomas Robertson, and John
James Williams, all lads about sixteen years of age, were in-
dicted for stealing various articles of wearing apparel from
the brig " William," at present lying in the Thames, on the
Ist of February, 1846.
George Henderson, the master of the brig, said he was
roused between one and two o'clock on Sunday morning by
the police. He found that a waistcoat, coat, and trousers
were gone, which bad been safe in the cabin on Saturday
evening. He identified the articles in Court.
John Innes, mate, said he was aroused at the same time,
and found several articles belonging to him missing. He
took the prisoner Collins in a barge alongside, and saw Scott
in a lighter lying near his vessel.
John Armour, a seaman on board the William, said he
found Robertson and Williams in the after-hold of the ship.
They were put into the cabin, and given over to the police,
but Collins and Robertson refused to go until they got their
shoes. Their shoes were found in a skiff, and Collins's hat
in a coal -barge alongside.
Policeman 37 of the Thames force, said he heard a noise
as of a boat moving about, and suspected there might be
thieves. He pulled off with his boat mate, Gregory, and
found a hat in a coal-barge, lying off the brig William. In
consequence of this he got aboard the brig, and roused the
crew. When they had got lights, they found Williams in
the after-hold of the brig, and took him down to the cabin.
John Gregory, one of the Thames force, said he found the
shoes in a skiff, which were claimed by Collins and Robertson.
The inspector of the Thames force said, he asked Robert-
son and Collins why they bad put off their shoes. They
said they had done so to go a shoring.
Mr. 13ALLANTINE addressed the jury for the prisoner
Williams.

The jury found them all Guilty, and Collins was found to
have been convicted of felony on a previous occasion.
The COURT sentenced Williams to six months' imprison-
ment and hard labour; Scott and Robertson, as they were
known to the police by various petty convictions, were sen-
tenced to 12 months' imprisonment and hard labour; and
Collins, alias amolly, on account of his previous conviction,
was sentenced to seven years' transportation.
Collins wished 'his Lordship might remain where he was
till he came back.

The COMMON SERGEANT called him back, and said he had
made a mistake; the law left him no option, the period
could not be less than ten years; he therefore sentenced him
to ten years' transportation.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CROYDON.

At the weekly meeting of this bench, Mr. James
Haynes, a gentleman of fortune, residing at Mitcham,
attended before Messrs. Adams, Simeon, and Capt.
Kemmis, the presiding magistrates, to prefer a charge
against a poor labouring man, named James Pincham, of
having, according to the terms of the summons under
which he appeared, violently assaulted and beaten him.
From the statement of the complainant, it appeared
that Pinch= had been one of his tenants, and on the
day mentioned in the summons, he met him in the field
and asked him for a quArter's rent which he owed him.
The defendant, however, refused to pay him, and was
very abusive and eventually struck him, and this was
the assault he complained of.
The defendant, in answer to the complaint, denied alto-
gether having committed any assault. He said it was
true he had occupied a cottage belonging to Mr. Haynes,
but he always paid the rent, and had given him notice
to quit, and had given up possession, and Mr. Haynes
now endeavoured to get a quarter's rent for a period
during•which he was not in possession of the house. He
was a poor man, and had to work very hard to get the
reat while he had occupied the cottage, and he would
not pay it atter he gave up possession.
Mr. Haynes, with an air of triumph, handed a piece
of paper to the Chairman, and said that the defendant
had certainly given him a notice to quite, but it was not
a " legal" notice.
The CHAIRMAN having looked at the notice, said that
in strictness it was not legal. The defendant had given
a notice, but being ignorant of the technicality of the
law, which required that a notice should expire at the
period when possession was taken of the house, it was
one which the landlord was intitled to refuse to take
notice of. _ _ _

Mr. Haynes said the notice was illegal, and he was
entitled to another quarter's rent.
Mr. ADAMS remarked that, legally, perhaps, he was;
but he could not help saying that, in his opinion, in a
case where a poor man who appeared to have always
paid his rent regularly had, through ignorance, sent a
notice to his landlord of his intention to quit which was
not strictly legal, it would be much more becoming in a
person of education, and in the position of the complainant,
to have told a poor man so situated that his notice was
not legal, than to take advantage of the fact, and compel
him to pay another quarter's rent.
The complainant intimated that he should stand upon
his legal rights.
Mr. ADAMS told him he might do so, of course, if be
pleased. He was intitled to " his bond" and his "pound
of flesh" if he chose to exact it. The Bench merely
expressed their opinion what the conduct of a gentleman
in his position ought to have been towards a poor man,
who appeared always to have paid his rent regularly,
and that to a considerable amount, up to the time in ques-
tion, under such circumstances.
The complainant said, the man had been very inso-
lent to him, and he was determined to have his money.
He should bring an action against him if he did not
pay him.

The BENCH then consulted together for a short time,
when the Chairman said that the magistrates considered
an assault had been proved, but under the circumstances
they should only inflict a fine of one shilling and the
costs.

It is now said that her Nlajesty the Queen and Prince
Albert will not remove to Osborne House until the 25th inst.
A semaphore is to be erected on some high land near Osborne
House, which will enable her Majesty to signalise the sema-
phore in Portsmouth Dockyard.
MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT AT THE CITY OF LONDON
THEATEE.—On Tuesday, during the performance of Mr. Can-
field, the American Sampson, a supernumerary, named
Thomas Briton, lost his life, and another man, named Jones,
was so seriously injured, that he is not expected to recover.
The accident was thus caused :—After the discharge of
the first cannon the flap of the trap-door was thrown Up, and,
not being perceived by the parties who were carrying it,
they tripped, and the cannon fell upon Briton, killing him
instantly, and breaking the collar bcne and arm of Jones,
and otherwise injuring him. The accident necessarily
caused a strong sensation amongst the audience.
THE WEATHER.—The unusual mildness of the
present season has brought forward the early flowers, and
hastened the fruit• trees to such extent as will hardly qualify
them to sustain late frosts without injury. The benefit of
such weather to the poor during the present 1101Vity 91f90d
444 beta you grot.--Aath Journal!