The Sun.
London, England, 1858-12-02 00:00:00

IN RE CAREW'S ESTATE.

This was a bill to make void a sale made under the di-
rection of the Court, on the ground of an unjustifiable
agreement entered into between two persons not to bid
against each other at the sale of this property. Mr. Wes-
terman and Mr. Pitt became desirous. to purchase this lot,
and they agreed not to bid against each other at the sale,
and to divide the profits. The lot was put up at the re-
served price of £6OO, and gold at £6bo. The question
raised was whether this was a-- valid agrethient; and whe-
ther the sale was void in respect of the illegality of the
agreement.

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His H,onour, the Master of the Rolls, after referring to
the dicta of Sir Edward Sugden, in his book on Vendors
and Purchasers, and to the decision in the case of Watson ;
2d. Vessey, jun., pages 52, came to the conclusion that
there was not such fraud in the agreement as to make void
the sale.

His Honour was of opinion that the sale cannot be set

aside.

Costs to be paid out of the estate.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

(Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Westminster, before Lord
Campbell and a Special Jury.)

SKAIFB V. DKUKPIS--.THE • COLNEY..HATCH ASYLUM.
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The plaintiff, Mr. John Skaife, clerk to the committee of
the visiting justices of the Colney-hatch Lunatic Asylum,
brought this action against Mr. Samuel Daukes, for breach
of duty as architect in superintending the erection of that
building.
The defendant, in his pleas, denied in toto that he had
been guilty of any breach of contract. He also denied that
there had been any material deviation from the plans and
specifications, and said that if there had been any deviations
they were made with the sanction and approval of the com-
mittee.

The further hearing of this case was resumed this morn-
ing, and occupied the court up to the time of our going to
press.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.
(Before Mr. Baron Martin and a Common Jury.)
SULLIVAN V. BAKER.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff against the
defendant for false imprisonment and assault.

The plaintiff stated that, in June last, she was very

unwell, and went to purchase some rum. On returning
she was taken with sickness, and, from certain circum-
stances, the defendant gave her into custody of a policeman,
who conveyed her to the station-house, where she was
locked up on a charge of drunkenness, which imputation
she maintained was untrue.

The defence was that the plaintiff was in a condition
that justified the defendant acting as he had done.

After some contradictory eviaence, the jury found a
verdict for the defendant.

DIVORCE COURT.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
CHERRY Y. CHERRY.

One of the learned gentlemen connected with this cause,
asked the learned judge whether it was intended to pro-
ceed with this cause during the day, as he saw it entered
for hearing on the notices published in the papers.
- The Judge Ordinary said it was an error. Tsthe official
list of the Court was consulted it would be seen it could
not come on out of its proper order.

The learned gentleman asked if it would be taken during
the hearing of Evans v. Evans and Robertson.
The Judge Ordinary said it would not. Baron Martin
would preside during the case just mentioned, but no se-
cond court would be opened.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE-(THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

HORRIBLE CRUELTY TO. A CHILD BY ITS FATHER.—
Wm. Camp, 5, Hertford-place, Piccadilly, a stableman, was
brought up and placed at the bar before Mr. Bingham,
charged by ,Sergeant Vincent Gummer, :21. :C, with
cruelly ill-treating his son, Edward Camp, aged 5 years,
and with beating him with a strap with an iron buckle.
The child, who is a poor pale-faced little fellow, and
seemed to have been sadly neglected, was placed in front
of the witness-box, and was the object of great commise-
ration in a crowded court. In addition to h.ving several
bruises about, the body he had a severe bruise over one eye
and the other was black and blue from a previous infliction
of the prisoner's brutality.
Sergeant Vincent (hummer said—Between five and
six on the previous evening, from information I received
from one of my men, I wont to 5, Hertford-place, and in
the back room on the second floor, occupied by the prisoner.
there saw the child now produced, with his left check cut
open and his eye blackened from a blow, and the right also
black and blue from blOWs previously inflicted. On examin-
ing his body I found several severe bruises, and he said he
was very hungry. The prisoner was present at
the time, and I asked the child in his hearing who had
caused the bruises, and he at once said it was done by his
father With the buckle of a strap. I then asked him if he
was in the habit of doing it, and he said he was constantly
flogged, and tied up to the bed-post. „I then asked the
prisoner if he had done it, and he said he had. I then told
him from what I had seen and heard of his treatment of
the child I should take him into custody. The room was
in a very filthy state, and I believe there was asimuch inhu-
manity on the part of the mother as the father—she seemed
to have no feeling.

Viney, a constable of the C division, said he lived in the
same houso, and some females having spoken to him about
the child, he went up to the prisoner's room, and there
found the child bound to the bedstead, with a strap drawn
very tightly to the bedpost, and seemingly invery great pain.
Released the child, and asked who did it, and he said it was
his father. The child was in a very dirty state, and seemed
to have been much neglected.

Sergeant Gummer said he understood the prisoner was
in the habit of tying the child up to the bed-post from nine
in the morning till night, and as -his wife was out all day,
the child and others-sittis left without food, and that when•
ever he came home he ill treated it.

The prisoner said he was out all day, and the child was
mischievous, and that, coming home on the previous day,
he did certainly strike it, but was sorry for it.
Mr. Bingham, having animadverted in severe terms on

the prisoner's brutality to a little child of five years of age,
said by way of teaching him, and as an example to other
parents, he should committ him for two months, with hard
labour; and ho hoped as the mother of the child was pre-
sent, and had heard what had taken place, she would profit
by it.
Great praise is due to the sergeant for the promptitude
with which ho anted in the matter.