The Sun.
London, England, 1832-11-15 00:00:00

THE KING V. SLANEY.

In this case, which was a criminal information
against the defendant for publishing a libellous
placard, and certain libellous anonymous letters re-
flecting on the conduct of Mr. Fane, who at the
time was a candidate for the representation of the
county of Oxford in Parliament, and which was not
concluded yesterday when we went to pres.:, the
case was ordered to stand over until Sir James
Scarlett, who was for the prosecution, had time to
consult his client on a proposition made by Mr.
Pollock (who was for the defendant) to the effect
that the verdict should be taken on the count con-
fined to the publication of the placard, in which case
there would be no occasion for a new trial.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 14

PATTISON V. POWELL.

This was an action to recover a sum of 1001., and
a verdict was returned for the plaintiff. A new
trial had been moved for on the ground that the
transaction was in fact a wager, but as it might by
possibility be considered a policy of assurance under
14 Geo. 111. that point was reserved. The Court
at the outset decided in favour of the defendant,
assuming it to be a bet; but the question, whether
it was a policy of assurance or not, they had ap-
pointed to he argued this day. This case has been
already before the public on two or three occasions,
and the circumstances of it are briefly these :—Mr.
Powell agreed to receive 401., on consideration of
paying 1001. if the Brazilian Mining Company's
shares were " done" at a certain rate on a given
day. After hearing Counsel on both sides, the
Court granted a new trial, deciding, therefore, that
the transaction could not be considered a policy of
assurance, the parties having no direct interest be-
yond the bet itself; and also, the agreement'being
in blank, that is, the names not inserted, took from
it the character of a policy.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. M.

HARRISON V. MEYRICK.

This was an action that had been tried, in the
first instance, at Chester, before Mr. Baron Bol-
land, when the Jury went out, and returned with a
verdict for the plaintiff, but gave no damages. The
Learned Baron explained to them, that such a ver-
dict could not be received, and they went back to
consult a second time; but on their way to their
room, one of them disappeared, and could no where
be found. The defendant's Counsel refused to take
the verdict of eleven Jurors, and the consequence
was, that the Jury were discharged from giving any
verdict whatever. The case was carried down to a
second trial, and the plaintiff then obtained a ver-
dict. A motion had been made that the Master
should be directed to allow the plaintiff the full
costs of both trials. That rule was argued, in the
course of the last term, by Mr. Lloyd for the plain-
tiff, and Mr. John Jervis for the defendant.
The COURT had taken time to consider the case,
and Mr. Lloyd no.v prayed judgment, when the
rule for granting the costs of both trials to the
plaintiff was made absolute, their Lordships being
of opinion that the loss of the expenses of the first
trial was one of the incidents in the cause, and ought
to be allowed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLB OR 0 U G H• S TREET.

EXTENSIVE ROBBERY AT THE RESIDENCE OF
LADY EAST.-Mr. DYER, the sitting Magistrate,
was for a considerable time yesterday occupied in
the examination of a number of the domestics of
Lady East, relative to a robbery which had on Tues-
day evening last been committed at her Ladyship's
residence in Green-street.

Her Ladyship, it appeared, after dressing for the
theatre, left, as was her custom, a valuable gold
repeater and appendages on her toilette, together
with other articles of jewellery, which were safe at
six o'clock. About half-past eight it was disco-
vered that some person had been into her Lady-
ship's room, as well as in the room of a young lady,
named Rawlins, a visitor, and that a number of
drawers had been forced open, and the most valu-
able portion of their contents selected and carried
off. The property missing was of about the value
of 2001., consisting chiefly of two gold repeaters,
chains, and seals (one the property of Lady East,
and the other belonging to Miss Rawlins), a
gold opera glass, jewelled bracelets, some trin-
kets, and several articles of plate. Information
having been immediately given at the station-house,
Police Sergeant Welsh went to Green-street to
make further inquiries. It was at first suspected;
from finding one of the attic windows open,
and marks of dirty shoes on the floor and on the
leads of the house, that the robber had contrived to
obtain an entrance from the top of the house; but
on looking more closely into the traces of the foot-
steps, and from general appearances, the police ser-
geant became of opinion, that these marks had been
placed as a blind, and that the greater probability
was, some person had obtained entrance through
the connivance of one of the servants—if the rob-
bery had not been effected by a servant—of her
Ladyship. The servants were then strictly interro-
gated, in particular the housemaid and groom, both
of whom had gone out in the evening, at first deny-
ing that they had made an appointment to meet each
other, but afterwards admitting that such was the
fact. These servants, on being separately ques-
tioned, gave statements which, in minor points, va-
ried in a slight degree, but they concurred in assert-
ing that they saw the footman speaking to a stranger
at the gate about eight o'clock, and that this strange
person was well known to the footman, he having
breakfasted with him at her Ladyship's house. The
housemaid also said, that when she went out of the
house, by the gate of the area, she found it standing
open, and no person there.
The butler of Lady East came forward, and gave
a more particular account of the robbery, observing,
that the person who had effected it appeared to have
a good knowledge of those drawers and places where
the valuables were kept. A package
of jewels, of
the value of 2,0001,, which was sealed up, and
which had only been remeved from the banking-
house, where it had been deposited for safety the