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London, England, 1834-12-25 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY, DEC. 24.

SWEARING INTO OFFICE THE NEW CHIEF BARON.
This morning the new Chief Baron (Sir James Scarlett)
was sworn into office by the Lord Chancellor, in his Lord-
ship's private room at Lincoln's Inn, under the title of
Baron Abinger, of Abinger, near Dorking, inSurrey.
Barons Parke, Alderson, and Gurney, attended Sir
James to Lincoln's Inn, and were present during the
ceremony.
The patent is now preparing for the elevation of the
Learned Gentleman to the Peerage.

BARRATT V. HOWARD.
This case stood at the head of the paper for judgment,
which the Lord Chancellor proceeded to deliver. The bill
was filed for the specific performance of an agreement to
purchase a house at Tunbridge. The defendant alleged
that the agreement had been signed by her brother, and
denied that she had given him an authority to the extent
to which that agreement would have the effect of binding
her. His Lordship stated the effect of the evidence given
in the cause, and his conclusion was, that the Court could
net decide upon it until some of the witnesses had been
examined viva voce, and particularly the clerk of the plain-
tiff's solicitor. He therefore directed an issue to be tried
at law to ascertain the fact whether the party signing the
agreement was lawfully authorised by the defendant for that
purpose.

ANDREWS V. WALTON.
Mr. TINNEY begged to be allowed to proceed with a
part-heard motion, when
The LORD CHANCELLOR said—No, Mr. Tinney, there
is a motion for the discharge of a prisoner, and as long as I
have the honour of holding the Great Seal I am deter-
mined, that in every case where the liberty of a subject is
at stake, to hear all motions for his discharge, before I pro-
ceed with any other business.
Mr. WA.KEPIELD and Mr. ANDERSON were heard at
great length in support of a motion to discharge the plain-
tiff from prison for irregularity. His bill having been dis-
missed with costs an attachment was issued against him
for the costs, and he Was arrested on it in the passage to the
Registrar's-office, where lie was inveigled by the other
party for the purpose of arresting him. The arrest was
wrong, being in a privileged place, where he was invited for
the purpose of passing the minutes of the decree. Another
irregularity was that the attachment had not been pre-
viously entered with the Registrar. The clerk of the de-
fendant discovering these irregularities, discharged that at-
tachment of his own accord, and issued new one, upon
which Mr. Andrews was now in prison for eighteen months.
The Learned Counsel contended that the second attach-
ment ought to be held inoperative.
The LORD CHANCELLOR decided against the motion.
The motion was refused, and the prisoner remanded.
Several applications in cases of lunacy were made and
granted in the course of the day.

NICIIOL V. NICHOL.

Mr. ROMILLY said he had to apply in the case of a ward
of Court, a lady of nineteen years of age, who had contracted
marriage without leave of the Court, for an order of re-
ference to the Master, to inquire if it was a proper mar-
riage. The gentleman, the other party to this clandestine
marriage, was a tailor, but in good circumstances, and the
lady's friends did not think him unsuitable. The lady has
a fortune of four thousand pounds.

Mr. RICHARDS appeared on behalf of the lady's friends,
to say they diilnot object to the gentleman. The parties
were in the precincts of the Court, ready to submit to its
protection. _

Tho LORD CHANckx,Loa. would hear the matter in his
private room at the rising of the Court.
The names of the parties did not transpire in Court.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, DEC. 24.

In consequence of the Lord Chief Baron's having to take
the oaths this morning, in the Court of Chancery, his
Honour did not come into Court till some time after his
usual hour.

WELLESLEY V. BEAUFORT.
This petition prayed the transfer of certain funds to the
eldestfOctober son
Wellesley, who came of age on the 7th
o tob of M
erlast.r. The funds were the proceeds of the sale
of certain real estates, of which Mr. Wellesley, junior,
was tenant in tail in possession under the will of Sir John
Tilney Long, and the marriage setticmdnt of his father,
Mr. Wellesley. The prayer of the petition was of course
granted.
His HoNoun having disposed of all the unopposed peti-
tions, rose at half-past one o'clock.