The Sun.
London, England, 1832-02-21 00:00:00

VICE-CHANCERY COURT.-(THIS DAY.,

THE EARL OF SHREWSBURY V. COTTINGHANI.
His Honour the VICK CHANCELLOR gave judgment
to-day in this case, which it will he recolleeted was an ap-
plication on behalf of the Earl of Shrewsbury, for an
injunction to restrain the defendants from working mines
under the estuary of the river Dee, by means of a shaft upon
their own land, the Noble plaintiff el timing to he entitled
to the Royalty of those mines. His Honour had read
the 'else entered into between the parties ; and after doing
so, he did not feel himself called upon to give the relict
a.ked, but he would direct a case to the Court of King's
Bench to try whether, under the terms of that lease, the
defendant had a right to work the mines in the way he had
done.

OLD BAILEY.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

Wm. JoNes was indicted for stealing a firkin of hurter,
the property of Henry Harben, a chresememger, of High-
street, Bloomsbury —He was found Guilty, arid sentenced
to h. transported for seven years.
John Whitecombe. acrd 3!, was indicted for em.
b zzling 21. 19s. 7d., the property of his employer,
Edward Straw, a master baker. Verdict— Gui:ry.
George Tivoy, aged 21, and William lVullon, aged
22, here indicted for stealing- 215 p 'ie. of shoe, value
281., the property of James Gana.; and hfary Cook. aged
51, was indicted for ree.-ivinr. the name, knowinr them to
Their:trt,;lena,:ere s'ertiliterync7derteo lb"nriagnsupilotrYt:A"Pn:ir •Wevitnyea'rnsd,
and Cook for 14 years,

NEW COURT.
Two children, neither of them exceeding eleven years of
age, named Lee and Lewis, were indicted for stealing a
shoulder of mutton from out of tile shop of a butcher
named Mundy. Several witnesses swore to having seen
the prisoner Lee get upon the shoulders of his companion,
and tike the mutton fri,m a hook from which it was sus-
pended at the door-post for sale, and inst intly ran away. It
came out in the course of the evidence that the families of
the prisoners were enduring the most urgent distress, and
had been Jiving in the district of Bethnal-green, where so
much wretchedness and disease has so long prevailed. They
were, however, chargeable to the parish of St. Luke,
Old-street, of which place the parent, were paupers. The
father of one of them had died in the workhouse only two
days before the robh. ry.
The COMMON SERJEANT summed up the MP, and
expressed his regret that it had been brought here, ob-
sereing• that vouch blame was attached to the parochial
authorities of St. Luke's, where it appeared they be-
longed,
eets in in allowing such boys to be lurking about the
str such distre.sa.
orde
T red them to
The Co pay a fine of Is. each and be discharged,
pay
SER7EANT directed Mr. Wontoer to
Cwrourtite t
fo o h
th e overseers of St. Luke's, giving the order of the
r the immediate admission of the poor boys into
the. poor-house, thereby preventing them from committing
further crime in search of food.
The children were then delivered over to the parish con-
stables, who undertno4 to esinvey them to the poor-house.
Lord H

-OLLAND and Lord SEAFORD had a
conference this forenoon with Lord GODERICH. The in-
terview lasted iiorne time.
Despatches were received this morning at the
Foreign office, from Paris.
Lord FITZROY SOMERSET held a levee this
day at the Horse Guards, whiCh seas numerously attended