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London, England, 1857-04-20 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock,

TATTERSALIS—(This Evening.)

GREAT NORTHERN.
9 to 4 agst St. Giles (taken)
9to 2 aget Skirmisher (taken and offered)
9 to 2 agst Chevalier d'lndustrie
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
4to 1 agst Kent (taken)
11 to 2 agst Anton (taken)
6to 1 agst Loyola (taken)
6to 1 aget Vidette (taken and offered)
Bto 1 agst Sydney (offered)
ONE THOUSAND.
sto 4 agst Blink Bonny.
3to 1 Ayacanora.
6to 1 agst Tasmania.
CHESTER CUP.

6to 1 agst Leamington (taken)
10 to 1 agst Mincepie (taken and offered)
20 to 1 ag4 Dolemma! a (taken)
30 to 1 asst Zig Zs; (taken)
500 to 5 agst Lance

DERBY.
12 to 1 agst Anton (taken)
100 to 6 agst Arsenal (taken)
25 to 1 agst Sprig of ShilWash (taken)
25 to 3 agst Lady Hawthorn (offered)
25 to 1 agat Tournament (taken)
40 to 1 agst Warderrnarske (taken)
50 to 1 apt Chevalier d'lndustrie (taken)
1000 to 5 agst Athlete

NAVAL APPOINTMENTS.—(This Day.

•The following appointments were made at the Admi•
ralty this afternoon :

Captains—Chas. Wise, to the Vesuvius ; G. G. Ran.
dolpb, to the Cornwallis.

Commanders--W. P. Crozier, to be Captain on the
Reserved Half-pay List ; E. Lacy, to the Adventure ;
W. A. J. Heath, to the Assistance, commissioned as a
troop ship.

Assistant-Surgeons—John Hudson, to the Belleisle ;
W. A. Turner, to the Rhadamanthus.
Assistant-Paymaster W. D. Broom, to the Tortoise.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

:Sittings in Banco, before Lord Campbell, and Justices
Wightman, Erle, and Crompton.)
CORONERS' FEES-THE QUEEN Y. THE JUSTICES OF

GLOUCHSTERSIIIRE.

Sir F. Thesiger moved for a rule for a mandamus
against the Justices of Gloucestershire, calling upon
them to allow and pay Mr. Gaisford, coroner for the
county, certain fees for holding inquests, which bad
been disallowed by the :Court of Quarter Sessions.
The learned counsel said, the question had of late be-
come one of considerable importance, and much obstruc-
tion of justice had taken place in the county of Glou-
cester. Trio Chairman of the Sessions had appeared to
take a particular view of the case, and had published a
pamphlet on the se bject. He held that in cases of sudden
death, and where p9rsons had died by the visitation of God,
there being no suspicion of violence, the Coroner was
not justified in holding inquests.

Lord Campbell said that was a very laudable wish
on the part of the magi•trates to put a check to the
holding of unnecessary inquests.

Sir F. Thesiger said no doubt that was so ; but the
magistrates of Gloucestershire appeared to entertain a
notion that unless violence was shown the coroner was
not entitled to his fees. In the present case it appeared
that in the month of November last, Mr. Gaisford re-
ceived informatio:a from the constable of Westerby,
that a female about 60 years of age had been found
lying on the floor dead ; she bad not been, at-
attended by a medical man, and she was unknown to
be labouring under a disease ; upon which Gaisford
travelled 17 miles, and held an inquest, when the jury
returned a verdict of " Died by the visitation of
God." In January he also received information
from a police constable of the death of a child, from
being scalded, in which be held an inquest, and the
jury returned a verdict of "Accidental death." At the
same time he heard of another case, in which a per-
son had gone into a chemist's shop, and suddenly ex-
pired ; and in tba►t case a verdict of " Died by the
visitation of God"' was returned. At the following
Quarter Sessions, he presented his account of fees,
when the justices refused to allow the payment of the
20s. for the inquest under the 25 Geo. IL, cap. 21, and
the 63. Bd. under the Ist Vic., cap. 88, which is allowed
to the coroner for the payment of the expenses and
making his action. The learned counsel read several
oases which had been before the Courts to show that
where the coroner acted bona fide and upon ordinary
discretion he was entitled to his fees.

Lord Campbell maid it was certainly desirable that
some rule should be laid down, both as a protection to the
coroner and with due regard to the interests of the rate-
payers.—Rule to sh ow cause granted.

CIIIRLEWIS V. THE HARD OF MORNINGTON, ADMINISTRA-

TOR, &Q.

Mr. E. James, Q.C., moved on Thursday last, before
Mr. Justice Coleridge, and a verdict found for the
plaintiff, with 2,339/. 145., the full amount of the
plaintiff's claim, for a tailor's bill for the late Hon.
James Long Wellesley, of the 12th Lancers, and
interest thereon at the rate of five per cent. The
defence was, except as to 3751., Statute of Limita-
tions, for a rule to reduce the damages to the
amount, with interest, from the year 1846, when the
bill was given, and the ground of the motion was
that the account had been furnished generally, in the
year 1843, to the solicitors of the Earl of Mornington,
and that the giving of the bill in 1845, by Mr. Welles-
ley, was a general payment only, and not on account of
a settled transaction, so as to bring the whole account
within the Statute of Limitations.

The Court were clearly of opinion that the bill was
given in part payment of the account due in 1843, and
therefore there was no ground for disturbing the verdict.
—Rule refused.