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London, England, 1846-01-15 00:00:00

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sitting in Banco.)
clucurr PAPER.
Their Lordships have agreed that the following shall be the
' circuit paper for the ensuing Spring assizes :-
1
Iforne—Lord Denman. and Baron Alderson
Midland—Lord Chief Justice Tindal and Justice Coltman
Oxford—The Lord Chief Baron and Mr. Baron llolfb
Norfolk—Mr. Baron Parke and Mr. Justice Made
Northern—Mr. Justice Pattison and Mr. Justice Coleridge
North Wales—Mr. Justice Williams
South Wales—Mr. Justice Wightman
Mr. Justice Erskine and Mr. Justice Creswell remain in town.
, BOARD e. coLlimAN.
This was a writ of inquiry directed to the Sheriff of Surrey,
to assess the damages due to the plaintiff from the defendant,
for holding over some premises in Lambeth after the expira-
tion of a lease, and was executed on 19th Dec. last, when the
jury found damages, amounting to 353/. Os. 4d.
Mr. BURTON muted the Court for a new writ of inquiry,
on the ground .t.'otit the damages were excessive, and against
the evidence on the trial in the action of ejectment.
A rula nisi was granted to show cause why a new writ
should oot be had.

Ur. ClibtVpit made a forcible address to the jury, com-
menting on the ill effects of gambling, and urging the ob-
jections already stated, and contending that the notice of dis-
honour was not proved, as Capt. O'Grady might have been
in America when the note wee left at St. JitmeS'i Hotel by
Mr. Irwin.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT' OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 14.
The proceedings thi‘ Court to-day were dull and
fieuious, and not of the least interest to any one out die
parties concerned.

Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then want through the evidence
Vary minutely. In his summing up,
The jury stopped him, and returned a verdict for the de-
fendant.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 14.
CRIM. CON.—CLARKE V. DUNSFORD.
Sir THOMAS WILDE moved for a rule to set aside
a verdict for the plaintiff, given in last term, for
an action brought against the defendant for criminal
conversation with the wife of the former, and to enter a
new suit ; or if not, to set aside the verdict, and grant
a new trial. The ground on which he made the applica-
tion was, that the plaintiff had undertaken to give ma-
terial evidence against the defendant in the county of
Middlesex, but which did not appear to have been the
case. Evidence had been given to prove that the offence
alleged had been committed in two places ; at the house
of the plaintiff, and at a lodging-house in Bath ; and the
general nature of the evidence was to the following
effect, as far as the Bath part of the case was concerned,
which it was alone necessary to refer to now. It was
proved that Mr. Dunsford had called at a house in
Bath under the name of Lyde, requesting lodgings.
He saw Miss Withers, the sister of Mrs. Needs, the
housekeeper, who was absent. He stated that he had
just been privately married and was going to bring his
wife to Bath for a short time, so that he wanted quiet
lodgings. Miss Withers said she could flat give any
answer herself, but he was requested to call again. In a
day or two a letter came addressed from Swindon, in
which he gave his name as Lyde, and directed a note
about the lodgings to be addressed to him at the Bri-
tish and F,,reign Hotel, George-street, Hanover-
square, London. When Mrs. Needs came home a letter
was sent to the above address accepting the cffer about
the lodgings, and he arrived in a few days and took pos-
session. He continued several days and slept there,
though the lady, who called nearly every morning and
stayed for several hours, did not. Now the material
question raised by the present application was,
wl•ether that letter was in any respect either
material to the establishment of the offence
to be proved, or the assessment of damages. Lie thought
decidedly not. Strike the letter out, and the case would
be as complete as it was now. Other letters, addressed
in the name of Lyde, had been identified as the de-
fendant's. The servants at the house in Bath, as well
as Miss Withers and Mrs. Weeks, had identified him as
well as the lady, and both had been proved respectively
to be Mr. Dunsford and Mrs. Clarke. Nothing, there-
fore, could be added by the letter, or abstracted by its
withdrawal. On these grounds he submitted that tht
plaintiff had not succeeded in making use of this letter of
Mrs. Needs, addressed to him, and supposed to be received
at the British and Foreign Hotel, and in fact the only
evidence relating to Middlesex material to the case. For
these reasons he considered the application should be
granted.
After a long argument, of which the foregoing is the
substance, their Lordships deferred their answer till to-
morrow.

SHERIFFS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
EXECUTORS(Bef reir.OUF Under-Sheriff
This was an action brought to recover damages for dilapi-
dations, under the following circumstances:—
The defendant suffered judgment to go by default, and the
jury therefore had to assess damages.
Mr. CLARKSON stated the case. The plaintiffs are executors
of the late Rev. T. Lovell, rector of St. Luke, Middlesex, and
the defendant was tenant ofDyson's farm, at Tottenham, which
was attached to the rectory. According to the custom of
England, the rector was bound to keep in order and repair all
property coming to him by right as rector, and surrender the
same to his successor. In the present case the defendant and
his family had been on the farm for 15 years, and at the de-
cease of Mr. Lovell the dilapidations were found so exten-
sive, ar,d the land had been allowed to run so poor, that on
a valuation as between the executors and ➢lr. Saunders, the
succeeding incumbent, the executers were called upon to pay
a sum of nearly 4001.
Mr. WonuswouTit objected that the tenants were not
bound by any claim as between other parties under any cus-
toni, and objection was allowed.
Witnesses were called, who estimated the dilapidations at
195/., under an agreement between Mr. Lovell and defend-
ant's father, but the agreement not being produced, they
were directed to confine the valuation as against a yearly
tenant, or tenant-at-will, and they were of opinion that 671.
*was a fair value.
On the contrary, witnesses were called, who deposed that
there had been great improvements on the farm, and that it
was in a good staee of repair when defendant left, and that it
now fetched 501. a year more than during Mr. Lovell's life
time.

WHARFAGE.-BENSON V. TEMPERLEY.
This was an action on the case tried in this Court on the
la December last, and was brought by the plaintiff to re-
cover from the defendant damages for having trespassed
upon the ground of the plaintiff, opposite to his ship-building
yard, abutting upon the river Thames, when the jury found
a verdict for the plaintiff, with damages amounting to 50/.
The plaintiff was a shipwright, and occupied premises ad-
joining the river Thames, and claimed the frontage before
his yard over which the river ran for the purposes of bit
business, and denied the right of any other person to place
their barges there. The plaintiff proved a prescriptive right
of forty-five years. The plaintiff also claimed damages from
the defendant for having injured the ground by digging
mud holes in it. The defendant traversed the plaintiff's
allegations, and denied the plaintiff's right to the sole nie
of the ground in question, and put it in evidence that plaintiff
had allowed a man named Vesey to moor his barges on the
ground in question without interruption for two years.
Mr. CTifx.NING now moved the Court fur a rule to show
cause why a new trial should not be granted, or the damaged
reduced to flirty shillings; and-contended, in support of his
motion that the plaintiff had failed to prove the antiquity of
his right to the exclusive use of the land before his ship-
building-yard, and that the plaintiff, by allowing the land
to be occupied for two years, was proof of his doubting the
validity of his right, and that the Lord Chief Baron in
charging the jury had misdirected them, by assuming that
the plaintiff's prescriptive right had been proved, whereas
that right was Claimed by the defendant in common with
the plaintiff. The Learned Counsel also contended that the
damages were excessive, on the ground that the mud holes
were necessary for the purposes of wharfage, and useful to
theplaintiff.

The UNDER-SHERIFF said that defendant had no right to
claim for new premises, but if he put up new premises he was
equally bound to keep them in repair, or would be liable for
dilapidations.—Damages, 40s.
There were thirty cases in the list, but the above occupied
the whole of the morning, and the Under Sheriff intimated
that he would not take any cases beyond No. 14, and that
the Court would sit on Tuesday next at eleven o'clock, in
order to clear up the arrear of causes.

BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.)
Amy Hazel, a servant in the employment of Mr. Howell,
landlord of the Hand-in-Hand, High Holborn, was charged
before Mr. Hall with stealing is. 90. in copper from the till,
and taking from the vats wine, gin, and ruin, to the value
of Is. Bd.

The LORD CHIEF BARON—If the defendant could have
proved an adverse usage of twenty years against the plaintiff,
there would have been some ground for the motion; and as
to the damages, perhaps Mr. Jervis would consent to their
being reduced to 20/.

Mi.. JERK IS consented to the reduction on behalf of the
plaintiff, and a rule to that effect was granted.

Mr. Howell stated that having missed money from his till
and spirits from the vats every day for some weeks, he deter-
mined to keep a watch, in order to discover who was the thief
At about seven o'clock this morning he and a policeman saw
the prisoner enter the bar, draw out the till, and take some
money from it. She then drew the spirits from the vats into
a pewter pot, and was about to leave the bar, but witness
stopped her.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY

REGISTRATION APPEALS.
This was the first day of the present sittings set apart for
the consideration of registration appeals. Several unimpor-
tant cases were argued, but of those submitted the following
was the most important.
COLVILLE P. THE OVERSEERS OP TIIE BOROUGH OF

The prisoner admitted that she took the money and the
spirits.--She was committed for trial.

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.
MANCHESTER, JAN. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 4,/,‘ p.—Chester and Birkenhead, New
201. Shares, 3 p.—Chester and Manchester Direct, 12s. dis.
—Dudley, Iron Bridge, &c., dis.—Eastern Counties, Per-
petual, No. 2, 14 p.—East Lancashire, No. 1, 5 p.—East Lin-
colnshire, 1 p.—Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding,
7-16 p.—Goole, Doncaster, Sheffield, &c., I%—Grand Union,
par—Huddersfield and Manchester Railway and Canal, 63/4
p.—Lancashire and North Yorkshire, p.—Leeds and
Li vedripsol3aliaidn
dis.—Blanchester
Newand Birmingham, Shares, 3 p.—Liver-
pool, Manchester, and
I/2 Newcastle Junction, 11% p.—London
Quar-
ters,and `Windsor,
71/4 p.—Manchester and Birmingham Continuation and
Welsh Junction, 1/i dis.—Manchester and Leeds, Sixteenths,
3 p.—Nottingham and Boston, % dis.—Nottingham and
Mansfield, dis —Oldham, Birkenhead, &c., dis.—
Sheffield and Lincoln Junction, 23/4 p.—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Quarters, No. 3,31 A p.—Shrewsbury and Bir-
mingham, 114 p.—Shropshire Union Railway and Canal, 14/
p.—Southport and Euxton, 14 p.
MILL, JAN. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Hull and Selby, Half
Shares, 2114—Leeds and Dewsbury, 33/4 p.—North British,
Half Shares, 71,4—Ditto, Carlisle, 21.185. 9d.—Axholme,
—Buckinghamshire, 3/4 p.—Dudley, Madeley, and Iron
Bridge, 2%—East Lincolnshire, 25,i—Goole, Doncaster, She.
field, &c., 3/. 17s.—Grand Union, 30s.—Great North and
South Wales and Worcester, 9s.—Hull and Barnsley Junc-
tion, 41s. 6d.—Leicester and Bedford, 11. 16s.—Liverpool
and Leeds, 2/. 6s.—Nottingham, Erewash, &c., I%—Rugby
and Huntingdon, 13/4—Shropshire Union, 1A p.—Wakefield
and Bradford, 21A.—Worcester, Tenbury, and Ludlow, 33%_
Yorkshire and Glasgow Union, 214.
SHEFFIELD, JAN. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Sheffield and Man-
chester, Qnarter Shares, No. 2, 113%—Grimsby and Sheffield,
Extension, 3/. 4s. 6d.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Midland
Junction, 44—Sheffield, Buxton, Leek, Potteries, and
Crewe, 1.

cuantAm.
Mr. Sergeant KINGLAtit: appeared in support of an appeal
against the decision of the Revising Barrister in a case sub-
mitted to his decision at the last Court held for the revision
of the list of voters for the borough of Chatham. Mr. Col-
ville was the appellant in the case, and the overseers the
respondents, and the point raised was the following :—Whe-
ther in regard to the borough 101. franchise the registration
of the voter was to be allowed in consideration of
being rated to the poor on a net annual rent of the value of
10/. ; or whether the rating must be on the clear annual
value, after deducting repairs, insurance, and other expenses
necessary to keep the premises in repair. The Learned
Gentleman maintained the latter interpretation of the Reform
Act. The whole matter was to settle what was meant in the
Act by the words " clear annual value." He contended that
the fair criterion of clear annual value was, the value of the
premises to the landlord after all expenses were met, and not
the net rent paid by the tenant. The Learned Gentleman
quoted several casep in support of the view of the question he
submitted, and said in addition that this was the legitimate
construction of valuation, according to the Parochial Assess-
ment Act. Considerable discussion had arisen, not only at
Chatham, but other places throughout the country, as to the
real meaning of the words net or clear annual value, and the
case was chosen, out of many others of the same character,
for the decision of their Lordships.
No Counsel appeared on the other side, and their Lordships
reserved their decision.

MARLBRO'-STREET.—(THIS DAY.)
Christophe? Lewis, a powerful young man, was charged
as follows :

William Sullivan, taskmaster of the workhouse of St.
George, Hanover-square, stated that the prisoner was a
pauper there. Between seven and eight o'clock last
evening, violent screams were heard to proceed from the
room in which the prisoner was. He (witness) hastened
there, and on entering found the prisoner in the act of
throwing a boy headlong amongst a set of tea-things
belonging to the attendant of the ward ; and, having
been informed that he had put another boy on the
ball fire, he caused the prisoner to be given into the
charge of the police.
James Colley, an intelligent boy between twelve and
thirteen years of age, stated that the prisoner seized him
as ha was passing along the ward, and holding him by
the neck and leg, placed him on the range-fire in the
hall. He screamed violently, and the taskmaster came
and rescued him.

Mr. HARDWICK said these outrages by paupers must
be restrained. They might depend on an example being
made of every one guilty of such misconduct. The pri-
soner he should commit to Westminster Bridewell for
twenty-one days to hard labour, and if brought there
again his punishment would be doubled.

BAIL COURT.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice lirmutors.)

CLARKE V. O'GRADY.

Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Fry appeared for the plaintiff,
and Mr. Crowder and Mr. Ball fo► the defendant.
This was an action brought by a Mr. Clarke, who is a
wine merchant, residing in Bond-street, against the Hon.
Thomas O'Grady, a captain in the 74th regiment of infantry,
for the recovery of the sum of 501. upon a cheque drawn by
the defendant, upon his army agent Sir John Kirkland.
The defendant pleaded that he did not promise—that he
did not draw the cheque—that no notice of dishonour had
been served upon him. He also pleaded that it was
given to the defendant for money to play at hazard in a
common gambling-house, and that when the plaintiff
gave the money, the defendant was about to play at hazard
in a common gambling-house, and he (plaintiff) knew that
he might lose it. Another plea entered by the defendant was
that the document was not stamped.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES made a few observations to the jury
with regard to the nature of the pleas of the defendant, and
then called
The Hon. Francis Payne, who stated that he is a Lieu-
tenant in her Majesty's 74th regiment ; knows the Hon.
Thomas O'Grady, but does not know his hand-writing.
Witness never saw him write, and never received any letter
from him.

YORK, JAN. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar-
lington, Brandling, 541/2—York and North Midland Exten-
sion, 39%—Newcastle and Berwick, 2014—North British,
New Carlisle Branch, 21 195.—London and York, 4—Lan-
cashire and North Yorkshire, 21. 178.—Leicester and Bedford:
1/. 148.—Leicester, Tamworth, Coventry, Birmingham, and
Trent Valley Junction, 21/2—Mancheiter, Buxton, Matlock,
and,Midland, 41. ls.—North Western, 3—Welsh Midland, 2.

BRISTOL, JAN. 14.
Srocx EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exe•
ter, New, 81,i—Birmingham and Gloucester, Quarter Shares,
(issued 7/2 dis.), 3/. ls. 3d.—Manchester and Birmingham,
Quarter Shares, 1114—Taff Vale, 138—Great Northern of
France (constituted), 73/4.
EXETER, JAN. 14.
STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Bristol and Exeter,
New, B—Exeter, Yeovil, and Dorchester, % dis.—South
Wales, 3%.

Mr. John Brook Irwin stated that he resides in Albany-
street; does not know the Hon. Thomas O'Grady. Has seen
the paper produced before. Knows Sir J. Kirkland's bank-
ing-house in Pall-mall. Presented the cheque produced fur
payment; does not know the exact date on which he pre-
sented it. It i.s in the same state as when it was presented.
The cheque was dishonoured. Witness does not know the
exact answer given, but only knows that no money was given.
Witness wrote a note to Captain O'Grady at the St. James's
Hotel, statir.g that the cheque had been dishonoured. (A
discussion ensued, as to whether notice had been served for
the production of that rote; which ended in the note being
put in, but it was not read.)
Sir John Kirkland was then called—He stated that he is
an army agent, residing at No. 80, Pall Mall. He acts as a
banker in one sense of the word. Agents of regiments are
the persons through whom allowances or moneys intended
for the use of military officers are remitted. It is no part of
a banker's duty to transact the business of the officers of a
regiment, yet it is a courtesy invariably extended by army
agents, so as to enable officers to draw on them. Several
officers keep accounts with him. Does not know Captain
O'Grady, of the 74th regiment, but has paid cheques drawn
by the Hon. Thomas O'Grady.
Mr. CROWDER said that the witness could not say anything
about the payment of cheques unless he paid them himself.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said that the general fact of Cap-
tain O'Grady keeping an account there was admissible.

GLASGOW, JAN. 13.
STOCK EXCNANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian Exten-
sion, 59s.—Caledonian and Ayrshire Junction, 36s.—Dun-
dee and Forfar Junction, 578. 6d.—East Indian Railway, 235.
—Forth and Clyde Junction, 45s.—Glasgow General Ter-
minus, 114—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 50s.—Glas-
gow and Garnkirk, 424—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ardros-
san, 55s.—Great North and South*Wales,
land, 4%. 9s.—South Mid-

HOTEL AND TAVERN KEEPERS'

PROVIDENT INSTITUTION.
The seventh anniversary dinner of the above-named insti-
tution took place on Wednesday evening at the London Cof-
fee-house, Ludgate-hill. The company numbered about
150, and the chair was taken by the Right Hon. the Lord
Mayor, who was• surrounded by many influential citizens.'
- The object of the institution. is a most praiseworthy one,
ins much as it tends to " the establishment of a fund for the
permanent assistance of hotel and tavern keepers, proprietors
c-f club houses, confectionery establishments, cooks, and
waiters, being members, and their widows, and temporary
assistance of members, their widows and children, when in
necessitous circumstances."
After )justice bad been done to a dinner, which was of a
most recherche description, and wines of flrst rate quality wer9.
placed on the table, the usuilloyal.toa.sts were proposed frki
the chair and duly respondglo. _
In proposing " Prosperity, to the Institution," the Chair-
man observed that the great object of the committee of
management and those who were interested in the society
was to raise as soon as possible a fund of 5,0001., which
would enable them to commence their benevolent opera-
tions.—(Cheers.) The subscriptions and donations already
amounted to nearly that sum, and he was sure that if those
persons present took the matter into their hands with any
degree of sincerity, that they would within a fortnight, not
only accumulate a greater fund than that which was yet
contemplated, but would create a degree of ardour in the
cause which would be serviceable in the greatest degree.—
(Applause.) His Lordship then proposed "The health of
Mr. Bleaden, and, prosperity to the Licensed Victuallers'
Assurance Society.'
Mr. BLEADEN returned thanks, and said he saw present
many of the most opulent hotel and tavern-keepers in Lon-
don ; and acting upon the suggestion of their worthy chair-
man, he would beg leave to state, that if any of those gen-
tlemen would undertake to get ten subscribers of Si. each to
the association within a fortnight, he would undertake to do
the same.— (Cheers.) the association had now been seven
years in existence, and he thought it was a shame that they
had not yet been able to collect amongst them 5,0001.
The LORD MAYOR then proposed the health of Mr. New.
bon and the Honorary Members of the Society, and in so
doing, drew attention to a rule which prohibited honorary
members having any greater interest than common life-
governors, He trusted that this rule would meet revision,
and that Mr. Newbon, as solicitor to the Society, would con-
sider it with minute attention.

Witness continued—Has received many letters from Cap-
tain O'Grady, but does not know him as the writer. Has
paid money according to the directions they contained.
There are several officers in the 74th regiment.
Mr. Payne recalled—There is no officer named O'Grady
in the 74th regiment but the defendant.
Sir J. Kirkland was here asked if he believed the hand-
writing of the letter to be the writing of the defendant?
Mr. CROWDER objected to the question. He said that
the writer of the letters must be directly identified as Cap-
tain O'Grady, as any person might have gone on with an
account in his name. Nothing had as yet been said to fix
Mr. O'Grady as the writer of these letters.
Mr. Justice WILLIAMS took a note of the objection.
In answer, Sir John Kirkland said that he believed the
documents to have been written by Captain O'Grady of the
74th. Never received a letter from Mr. O'Grady, specifically
at
hn,aT,uthsmwierbriertt
ewtoeftrihiei
wascheques.fyooruam s
referring to this cheque, but has received a letter referring to
oefrbolilileg:Ttthear.t letter is from the same person
oblige by not cashing any cheque
purporting to be from me until further notice.
" Yours most truIy,O'GRADY,
inthreec74eitvhedßebgefto.:e Witness cannot say whether this letter
was
the presentation of the cheque or draft. The clerk who
attends to the instructions of his customers is here.
By Mr. CROWDER—AII the affairs of a regiment, as be-
tween the Government and the colonel, are transacted by
the army-agent. All the money sent by the Government
for the use of a regiment is sent to the army-agent, and
books of that money are kept by him for the Government.
Has never made any return of his house, as a banking-house,
since the Acts of 7 and 8 Victoria. Is a banker, but his
house in Pall-mall is not a banking-house. All the transac-
tions referring to Captain O'Grady took place in Pall-mall.
No charge is made to the officers of regiments by the army
agent, as they are paid by the public.
By Mr. Sergeant BYLEs—Witness keeps accounts for offi-
cers; widows, officers on half-pay, &c. Witness also keeps
accounts for about half a dozen private persons, and charges
them nothing.
Mr. Sergeant BYLES again proposed to read the cheque,
and Mr. CROWDER again objected on his former ground.
Mr. BALL said that Lord Denman had lately held that
where a party receives letters from another, he must after-
wards be introduced to the writer, so as to see him in order
to identify him with the letter he was supposed to have
written.

Mr. NNWBON thanked the Lord Mayor for directing atten-
tion to the regulation in question. The sum already collected
by the Society, including the amount of the evening's sub-
scription, was upwards of 4,0001. ; and the proposed exertion
would, be had no doubt, raise it to the required amount be-
fore the termination of the year.
The Vi caeß- P resident,
t byTrustees,T .
man.dßC,tocomizitthteeetrewasere uretrh.en
proposed,h dresponded
Subscriptions and donations amounting to upwards of
3001. were then announced by the secretary, and in which
were included from the Lord Mayor, 10 guineas; the Lady
mayoress, 5 guineas; Mr. Masterman, M.P., 10 guineas;
Messrs. Lovegrcve, 5 guineas; Captain Lamont, 10 guineas ;
Mr. J. S. Newbon, 10 guineas; the Licensed Victuallers'
Insurance Company, 5 guineas; Mr. J. Stewart, 5 guineas;
Messrs.Alr. Thomas
Brernbd,soo, 5
sguineas; Mr. Thornton, 5/. ;
guineas,
Dr. Taylor, 10
guineas, &c.
" The Health of the Chairman" was proposed by Mr.
Clarke, and several other toasts connected with the official
Bathe
Clarkeaiand
d ov
departments of the society were also announced and re-
sponded to.
The dinner did the utmost credit to the cuisine of the
Messrs. Lovegrove, and the wines were excellent.
The musical arrangements were well managed by Mr.
Shoubridge, Mr. Moody, and. other professional gentlemen,
and afforded much gratification to the company, who did not
separate till a late hour.

Mr. Justice WILLIA3IS took a note of the objection, and
allowed the case to go on.
Mr. CROWDER then objected to the document as being un-
stamped. The Stamp Act set forth that any order or orders,
addressed to bankers or persons acting as bankers within ten
miles of the metropolis, should be stamped ; and he (Mr.
Crowder) contended that Sir J. Kirkland was a banker
within the meaning of the Act. The place where the cheque
or draft was drawn was not specified as the Act required, except
by the words St. James's Hotel, which might be fifteen miles
out of London, and so come within the meaning of the Act.
Thirdly, it was not proved that the deed bore date as re-
quired, "on or before the day en which it was presented."
All these objections were reserved for future consideration.
Mr. William Paget, one of the clerks in the establishment
of Sir J. Kirkland—The pencil memoranda on the letter
produced were his. They were made at the dates mentioned,
and from them he can see that he received the letter on the
18th of August, 1841. Witness knows Captain O'Grady, of
the 74th regiment ; he has cashed cheques for him. The
signature to the letter forbidding .the payment of any bills
or cheques is very unlike his handwriting. Witness has
often seen him write.

REMOTE GENEALOGY OF THE CORN-LAWS.--CRXtOD
and other old chroniclers assert that King John, having
heard in the year 1216, that corn was very cheap, declared
"He would, ere long, make it so dear that a penny loaf should
be sold for a shilling." This drew upon him the deadly Pas-
i which,n and again."
r.av
pas-
sions (according to the legend) of a monk of Swineshead
Abbey. In Mr. Horne's "Ballad Romances," the above tra-
dition is turned to very striking account as the
in the pre-
sentesubject of
aRg
.—An im-
portant ballad chronicle instinct with passion and pathos. Few
things in our language can exceed in grandeur the death
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free-trade meeting was held in Brighton on Tues-
day, when several resolutions in favour of a repeal of the
corn and provision laws were adopted with acclamation.
The chair was taken by the High Constable, and the meet-
ing was addressed by Captain Pechell, M.P., and Lord
Alfred Hervey. In the crowded state of our columns we
find it impossible to make room for a report of the pro-
ceedings.
THE MINISTRY.—There is no truth in the state-
ment that Lord Canning is about to succeed Lord Metcalfe as
Governor-General of Canada. We have every reason to be-
lieve that it has been proposed to Lord Cathcart to succeed
Lord Metcalfe, and thus unite in the same hands the civil
and military government of Ca nada. The report of Lord
Granville Somerset's retirement from office 18 altogether
without foundation. The Earl of Verulam and the Earl of
Harewood will attend at the first Council, to be sworn in as
Lords Lieutenant of Hertfordshire and the West Riding of
Yorkshire respectively.—Treasury paper.
Lord and Lady Stanley,are still at Knowsley. The
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By Mr. CuowDEß—Cannot swear positively that it is not
his writing—it might be.
By the COURT—CouId not say on oath that it was not
Captain O'Grady's handwriting, but should think it was not,
as it was very unlike it.
By Mr. Sergeant BYLES—CouId tell within 100 how many
cheques he had cashed for Captain O'Grady.
By the CoußT—Had a cheque signed with the same sort of
signature that is to the letter been presented, witness
would not have paid it, at any rate he would not pay it
without making a strict comparison with former signatures.
By Mr. CROWDER—At the time the cheque was presented
witness had in his possession the letter forbidding payment,
and it was in consequence of that letter that he did not pay it.
By Mr. Sergeant BYLES—The handwriting on the cheque
is more like the writing of the defendant than the writing in
the letter.

Mr. Irwin was then recalled, and from the additional evi-
dence he gave it appeared that he was a friend of Mr. Clark's,
who had asked him to get the cheque cashed. He received
the cheque in a gambling-house in St. James's-street. Mr.
Clark was a friend of the proprietor of that house.
This was the plaintiff's ease.

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENIN JANUA-r“ 15, 1846

GREAT MEETING

fikim the West Riding of Yorkshire, which would be
attended by Messrs. Cobden and Bright, and he (Mr.
Wilson) dared to say that 20,000/. or 25,0001. would
be put down at that meeting.—(Great cheering.)
Now, he would discard the small sums. Let them
take the sums collected at Manchester, Liverpool,
and Leeds, and they would challenge the Dukes of
Buckingham, of Richmond, and of Norfolk, and the
whole of them, with all the squirearchy of England
to their back, to call meetings everywhere, and put
down one-half the sum for the furtherance of the
cause of protection, of which they were such stre-
nuous advocates. But that had not been all which
had been done. Those meetings had never inter-
rupted the ordinary business of the League. Ile
had the curiosity to reckon how many meetings they
had had since October last, and he found that Messrs.
Cobden, Bright, and Moore had attended sixty-
two meetings in that time:—(Cheers.) He found also,
that their excellent friends, in all tarts of the country,
had had their meetings either for the opening of the
ports or the furtherance of other objects, in accord-
ance with their views, and those meetings had num-
bered between 100 and 120. Well, they had heard
of meetings on the other side—great meetings.—
(Cheers and laughter.) He (Mr. Wilson) had re•
ceived some information respecting some of those
meetings. At a good many of them not more than
sixty or seventy people attended, just enough to form
a decent committee for a ladies' charity.—(Laughter.)
One of their own speakers, at a meeting at Lincoln,
said the other day that a cat might be seen at any part
I
of the room, it was so crowded—(Laughter)—and
the Chairman said it was the largest meeting of the
kind he had ever seen.—(Cheers and laughter.) But
they (the League) would admit that the protec-
tionists had exhibited unwonted alacrity, and had put
forth unaccustomed strength. At 'Chichester—
(Laughter)—and other places they had had great
meetings. They should have all the benefit of it, and
the Leaguers would admit that, with a good deal of
abuse of Sir Robert Peel and of Lord John Russell
and others, both those who did not come to the meet-
ing and those who did, but were not pleased after
coming, they contrived to make up a very interesting
report. But what did it all prove ? Merely that
there were men in the country who would never yield
until the minister had decided that they should be
brought to book. Let them meet—let them abuse the
League as much as they please—let them threaten them
with the fabulous animal the British lion.—(Laughter.)
Let them be loosed at them. The Leaguers would catch
him and bring him to Covent-garden. Let the Protec-
tionists meet them at the qualification movement. They
knew that they had already caught the people
at that whilst they were asleep. But let them
try it naw, and the League would beat them ten to
one in any county they liked. But there had been
another meeting—not one called by the Protection
Society, nor by the Anti-Corn-law League—one
furnished with no speakers from Willis's Rooms, but
a meeting which, thanks to the Times, had been re-
ported throughout the breadth and length of the land.
He referred to the meeting at Goatacre—(Great
cheering—during a lull, in which a person in the
second tier of the proscenium boxes called out, " Three
cheers for the Goatacre labourers," which was re-
sponded to instantly by three distinct rounds.) And
there, on a winter night, a thousand agricultural la-
bourers met together. For what? To abuse the League ?
No. To support agricultural protection ? No. But to
ask the Government to look at their pale and haggard
features, and as they were actuated, or could be
actuated by the feelings of humanity to open the
ports, and give to them the advantages of free
trade. Now, they would not put into the scale the
advertised meetings of the League, or claim advantage
for them over the protectionists, but the, would put
in evidence against them that single meeting at Goat-
acre, and they would set that against all the meetings
held under the auspices of the Protectionist Society,
of 17, New Bond-street. They might meet at New
Bond-street and announce that the agricultural la-
bourer was in favour of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.)
The meeting would be that evening addressed by Mr.
Villiers and by Mr. Milner Gibson. Mr.
Gisborn e,
he (Mr. Wilson) regretted to say, was seriously in-
disposed in the isle of Wight, but his place would be
supplied by Mr. Moore; and Mr. Houghton,.the
largest farmer in the United Kingdom, was anxious
to say a few words. He had, therefore, great pleasure
in calling on Mr. Villiers.—(Cheers.)
The Hon. C. P. Vieraeas, in coming forward, was
received with most rapturous cheering. He thought
they had come to that point in the progress of their
cause, when every person was anxious to know what
prospect there was of their success.---(Cheers.) What
was going to be done ? The last tinie they met in
that theatre, their spirits were much elated at the
prospect their cause presented, owing to the position
of political parties.—(Cheers.) Several events had
occurred since that time extremely interesting to
their cause.—(Cheers.) Those events had been viewed
differently by politicians of different parties, but when
they assembled in that theatre they professed to have
nothing to do with party politics. Parties of all
creeds and opinions assembled there together, and they
might be excused in considering those events, as they
bore on the corn-law question alone, and in that view
he ventured to express his opinion that nothing had
occurred since they last met at all calculated
to discourage or weaken those hopes which they en-
tertained upon that occasion. The moral of all these
parties' mis-statements seemed tole, that their good
cause of free trade was in the ascendant, and that
they were approaching in their struggle to a speedy
and successful issue.—(Cheers.) At their last meet-
ing Lord John Russell had received the commission
of the Crown to form a Government, after having
placed on record his identity of opinion with them-
selves. They had had the satisfaction of learning
since, that those colleagues he had called to his
councils had entirely agreed with him in his support
of the measure of the League ; and they had further
reason to believe that if he had succeeded in forming
a Government, he would have received the cordial
support of Sir Robert Peel, and such friends as he
could influence. They had also the satisfaction of
knowing that Lord John Russell did not complete his
arrangement for forming a Government from any cause
of a difference of opinion on the question of the corn-
laws—(Cheers)—and though it would have given
the personal friends of Lord John Russell great sa-
tisfaction to have seen him in the post to which he
was called by his Sovereign, and which he (Mr. Vil-
liers) believed he would have worthily filled, and
would have had strength to support, notwithstanding
what had been suggested by their worthy friend
Punch.—(Great laughter.) Yet he was convinced
that the force which would be presented in favour of
the repeal of the corn-laws in the House of Commons

would- be greater than it would have been under any
other circumstances.—(Cheers.) Sir Robert Peel
had returned to power; his dissentient colleagues had
returned to reason—(Cheers and laughter)—and
there was nothing had transpired that would induce
them to believe that any of them had returned to their
former opinion in favour of the corn-laws ; and
though it was difficult to confide in the course pro-
posed to be pursued by any public man—(Cheers)—
yet he could not find it difficult to believe that Sir

-
Robert Peel would never return to power to call upon
himself the universal odium of the nation.—(Cheers.)
If his will was not wanted, he was now in a position
that a Minister never was in before.—(Cheers.) He
was relieved from all party consideration ; he had not
only the whole patronage of the Government at hia
command, but the Opposition.—(Cheers.) They were
now, for the first time, united and decided, and de-
termined to extend to him their earnest and cordial ,

support if his measures were honest and complete—
(Hear, hear)—but they were equally determined, if
he was false to the interests of the nation, to resort to
every means to obtain justice for the people.
Under these circumstances, he (Mr. Villiers) felt
sanguine of the success of their cause, and he could
not bring himself to think thattheeeprr es.)sennt
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would pass away without some satisfactory settleinent
of the great corn-law question.—((;beers.)
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in the question which time and circumstances would
sure to aid.—(Cheers.) The corn-law now stood
before the country stamped with being a law
alike obnoxious to the obtaining of food
and the trade of the country. (Cheers.)
They had now reached that point in their progress
when no Minister would undertake to conduct the
affairs of the Government if he was to be responsible
for the continuance of the corn-laws.—(Cheers.) It
was only the other day that they had learned from
Mr. Gladstone's letter, that the party who would sup-
port the corn-laws would not be able to carry on the
Government.—(Cheers.) They had shrunk from that
test—(Cheers)---they wished to have all the advan-
tages from the corn-laws when they could be main-
tained quietly, but they would have nothing to do
with maintaining them when there was any risk.—
' (Laughter.) In perusing the addresses of the pro-
tectionists it would appear that they claim superior
integrity, a majority in both 'louses of Parliament,
and seven-ninths of the population of the country. If
such was the case, was it not curious that they would
not undertake to administer the Government ? But
no ; they turned from this duty, and they contented
themselves in the most scurrilous abuse.—(Cheers.)
They had now arrived to that period of the history
of this monopoly when no man would
undertake—no, not even the strongest Minis-
ter—(Cheers)—would attempt to govern the
county, if, at the same time, he must undertake the
responsibility of maintaining the corn-laws.—(Cheers.)
Such was the result of this law after thirty years' ex-
per'ence--a law which prevented the proper supply of
food to 98,000,000 of people.—(Cheers.) Yet they
were told that they were not safe, that they were not
out of danger; they were told that the parties opposing