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HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, Aug. 7.
CIVIL COURT. —(Before Justice ERLE.)
COBBETT (A PAUPER) v. HUDSON.

At the sitting of the Court, Mrs. Cobbeti was again
:n attendance.

His Lounsnir, addressing her, said that he was re-
quested by the Chief Baron to inform her that, upon full
consideration, ho had come to the conclusion that her ap-
plication to be allowed to conduct the case of her husband
could not be entertained. lie entirely concurred with
the Chief Baron in the decision he had come to, and it
was perfectly obvious that, if such a proceeding were to
be sanctioned, other persons, or even strangers, might
claim to be heard, and the greatest inconvenience would
be the result.

Mrs. Cobbett said that as their Lordships had come to
this decision, she should place the brief in his Lordship's
bands, and call upon him to act as counsel, and she said
she believed such a course was in accordance with the
law of England. She added that her husband was in
prison, and could not appear to conduct his own case.
Mr. Justice ERLE said that such a responsibility could
not be cast upon the Court. He then inquired if Mrs.
Cobbett had provided a counsel to conduct her case?
She replied that she appeared herself as counsel for
her husband.

Mr. Justice ERLE—Bat I have ruled that you cannot
lega!ly be heard.
Mrs. Cobbett—l shall tender a bill of exceptions to
your Lordship's ruling.
Mr. Justice ERLE—You cannot do that, because it

would be an acknowledgment by the Court of your righ
to appear in the cause. _

Alter a short pause the case was regularly called on,
and Mrs. Cobbett tendered herself as counsel for the

- Mr. Justice ERLE said he would formally repeat what
he had before stated, that the Court could not hear her
as counsel for her husband, and this would give her an
opportunity of trying the question whether his view of
the law upon this point was correct.
The cause was then called on, and no counsel appeal-
ing for the plaintiff, he was nonsuited.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 6.
CIVIL COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice Wn..trAms and
a Special Jury.) -
DOE DEM. DAVID AND OTHERS V. JONES.

Mr. Whately, Q.C., and Mr. Phipion were counsel for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Keating, Q.C., and Mr. W. El.
Cooke for the defendant.

This action was brought by the sisters of William
Jones, a surveyor, at Brecon, who died intestate and un-
married, in September, 1849, to recover possession of a
small farm at St. Melon's, in this county, of which the
defendant was in possession, and the question in dispute
was as to the legitimacy of the defendant's father,
Morgan Jones. If he was not legitimate, the lessors were
entitled to the property as the heirs at law of their de-
ceased brother William; but if Morgan was legitimate,
then he was tie eldest brother of William, and the farm
descended to the defendant. The facts of the case were
curio Is; and as the history cf the Joneses was taken up
at th year 1775, patriarchal witnesses were called on
each side to detail their knowledge of the family.
They were chiefly Walsh, and certainly amongst them
were some fine specimens of the robust health which
may accompany very advanced age amongst the
simple peasantry of the rural districts of the
Principality. Some of the witnesses had passed the
age of ninety, and several nearly attained that age; and
two particularly hearty
old women, one of ninety-eight
and the other of eighty-four, excited general admiration,
not only by their sprightliness and intelligence, but by
the natural ease and politeness of manner which they
exhibited.

Au objection was taken to the admlssibility of the
parochial register of Llangelfalach for 1775, the baptisms
and burials not being inserted from time to time as the
events happened, how, appearing to be copied into the
register at the end of the year.
After some discussion, the Learned JUDGE, after con-
sulting with Lord Campbell, decided, on the authority
Rha(r)gWedNWCitohUsßteTa
of May v. May, 2 Strange, 1,073, to receive the books,
there being no other parish register in existence, and the
books being brought from the proper custody.
After some consideration, the jury found a verdict for
the plaintiff.
Eliza Bevan, Elizabeth Evans, and Catherine Preece,
I—im:freofouirethLeord personC an. no
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George)
Abraham the sum of 41. 5s and
wereCc
~other article!.
Mr
• Skinner prosecuted, and Mr. Smithies defended
the prisoner Bevan.
The prosecutor„ a Jew hawker from Loudon, deposed
that ho sold some Dutch drops to the prisoner Bevan,
at a house of ill-fame kept by her at Newport, and that
ou entering a room to receive payment, four or five wo-
men rushed on him, one of whom flung a handkerchief
over his lace, damp, and with a strange scent, while the
rest pulled him down on a bed, when he became insen-
sible. On recovering his senses about an hour and a
half afterwards, he found himself alone in the house,
lying on the bed, and all his money, 41. 55,, except one
sixpence, and some other articles taken from his pocket,
when he immediately informed a policeman, and re- ,
turned with him to the house.
.The policeman deposed that the prosecutor was
trembling and agitated, but had not at all the appear-
ance of a drunken mall. That he saw a woman run-
ning out of the house, the bed tumbled, and a sixpence
lying on it.
The prosecutor, on cross-examination, stated that pre-
viously to this transaction he had read accounts of rob-
beries committed by the use of chloroform.
For the defence it was contended that neither chloro-
form nor any known agent could produce the instanta-
neous effect described ; and that the effect of chloroform
and ether is that of intoxication, and must have
produced similar appearances in the prosecutor if he had
medical evidence was given on
been subjected to it. No m
this point.
The prisoners were convicted and sentenced to fifteen
years' transportation.
This case was tried yesterday.
Lord Campbell has oeen all this day engaged with a
was not concluded at post-hour.
case of murder, which

MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Warwick, Aug. 5.
CROWN CO LIRT.-0
_ efore Mr. Baron PLATT.)
EXTRAORDINARY CREDULITY.--Matilda Cooper, aged
33, William Hill, 27, and Thomas Madden, 28, were
indietrd, the former for stealing, and the two latter for
receiving, a vinaigrette, a gold locket, a gold key, a gold
ring, a gold chain, and other articles, the property of
Dr. Jeaffreson, of Leamington.
Mr. Wiliam.° conducted the prosecution.
The female prisoner was a gipsy, who practised for.
tune-telling, and apparently a great adept in the art of
imposture.
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I gave her. The next time that she came she said that
she should want 7s. more. I gave her the 7s. Every
time after that when she came she wanted either money
or clothes; she said that the planet could not be ruled
unless she had them .---(Lughter)--but she promised
to return them. In this way she got from me upwards
of 4/. of my own money, seven dresses, five shawls,
five petticoats. two night-dresses, three yards of
ribaud, a pair of boots, a pair of stockings, two aprons,
three brooches, all my own. Nobody was present
during our interviews. It was nemsary that we should