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TWENTY POUNDS REWARD. - AB-
SCONDED, on Saturday night last, taking with him about
Two Hundred Pounds, in Notes, Gold, and Silver, GEORGE SCOTT,
aged about twenty-three years, rather sallow complexion, grey eyes,
dark curly hair, sharp features, of somewhat muscular and propor-
tionate frame, high cheek-bones projecting under forehead, and pro-
minent mouth ; has a slight mark on the chin, and is about five feet
nine inches in height ; usually wears dark clothes.
Whotever will give information to Mr. Wood, "Weekly Dispatch"
office, Fleet-street, that may lead to the apprehension of the said
George Scott, shall receive the above reward.
Wednesday, August 14, 1844.

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Queen's Bench, and made extracts from Lord Den-
man's judgment, referring very particularly to Alder-
man Wood's share in these transactions.

he had sustained were of a deep nature, and arose out
of a quarrel between his father and the defendant.
His client was given into custody; he admitted he
was not detained long—nevertheless the injury
had been severe. Mr. Smith had been singularly
advised in seeking shelter under the Metro-
politan Police Act, and the pleas on record
could not be proved. He did not ask for
heavy damages, but such as would convince
the world, long after this affair would be generally
forgotten, that his client, a respectable young
gentleman, who was just rising into life, should not
be stamped as a felon. It was a disgrace that the
criminal code should be abused in that manner. " I
am sure," remarked Mr. Creasy, " that in this case
the jury will not give slight and nominal damages—
not such as will give a tacit belief that my client is
guilty. As a junior counsel he threw himself on the
indulgence of the Court, and claimed attention while
he narrated the facts. His client had been taken into
custody, and he claimed the protection of the law for
so gross an outrage. His client, in obeying his
father's commands, had been imprisoned and insulted,
and he hoped the jury would give such damages as
the case demanded. The Counsel then called

A gentleman from the Alderman's office objected
to the Learned Counsel's reading partial statements.
If the judgment were referred to at all, it ought to be
read consecutively, and not in a garbled manner.
The impression on his Honour's mind would then be
very different from what Mr. James would wish it
to be.

LA W INTELLIGENCE.
JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Aug. 14.
(Before Mr. Justice MAELE.)

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IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE NBW INSOLVENT
DEBTORS' ACT.-IN RE WILLIAM SMITH THE ELDER.
This was an application by summons on the at-
torney for the detaining creditor, to show cause why
the prisoner should not be discharged out of the cus-
tody of the Marshal of the Queen's Prison, under the
58th section of the Act to amend the law of insol-
vency and execution, on the ground that the debt
for which he was detained did not exceed the sum
of 201.

Mr. Commissioner PANE said he could stop no
statement made in open Court, but he hoped that the
Learned Counsel would refer only to what really bore
on the case.

After a long discussion between Mr. Chambers and
Mr. James respecting the propriety of bringing the
case before the Learned Commissioner, as the amount
in question was a judgment debt, the former gentle-
man contending that it could not be expunged, and
the latter that the mode in which it had been con-
tracted gave the Hon. Commissioner the power of
doing so.
Mr. Commissioner FANS said that he would ap-
point a day of meeting to examine fully into the case,
if the bankrupt would undertake to pay the expenses
so incurred.

INVENTORS and other GENTLEMEN in the
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CATALOGUE. All such works are received gratuitously, and the
depositor has free admission to the Institution. Working Models are
Daily Explained, and, where the subject admits, are described in a
Lecture. R. J. LONGBOTTOM, Secretary.
N.B. The Institution is open Daily, as usual.

On the part of the prisoner, it was proved, by a
copy of causes, that the debt was under the amount
prescribed.
Mr. Justice MAULS asked if there was any affi-
davit of the fact ? He should in all cases require an
affidavit.

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It was stated that the summons was opposed, and
,herefore no affidavit was needed.

William Rolls, police-constable, who stated that he
was fetched from Fenchurch-street to Mincing-lane.
There were present in Mr. Smith's office three other
gentlemen when Mr. Griffin was given into custody ;
gave him in charge for taking books from the count-
ing-house ; took him to Tower-street station. The
charge was taken down, which occupied seven or
eight minutes, but on Mr. Griffin promising to give
up the books, the charge was withdrawn.
James Griffin, father of the plaintiff, in his exami-
nation, stated, I resided at that time at Bowling-
green-street, Kennington. I was connected with
Messrs.- Knox and Smyth in bringing out a paper
called the London Journal of Commerce. I became
acquainted with Mr. Thomas Smith, and have had
frequent conversations with that gentleman on the
subject of newspapers; this ultimately led to the
drawing up and signing the agreement produced.
The three papers being pretty much of the same
character, the expense of composition would be com-
paratively trifling for each, the profit for all producing
7001. or 8001. per annum. Mr. Smith agreed in the
estimate we had formed, saying that the junction
of the three papers would yield 121. per week,
or thereabouts. On the faith of that agreement
the type, amounting to 6001. or 7001., was handed
over to Mr. Smith. The books were also sent to
Mr. Smith's office. We were to pay per week
for the use of the office. Applications were made from
time to time by Mr. Knox and myself to see the
accounts of the three papers, but without success.
This went on for seven or nine months. We ascer-
tained the books had been sent to Mr. Smith's house
at Bow. My son did not go with me on the sth of
June. He was there a few minutes previous. I took
possession of all the books, telling my son to assist in
carrying them off. I believe there were eight or nine
in all, two of them belonging exclusively to Mr.
Smith, though I considered these might be necessary
for the purpose I had in view. Mr. Burton was in
Mr. Smith's counting-house (our counting-house, I
mean) when he took them away. Mr. Burton said
he must now go and inform Mr. Smith. When he
was given into custody, Mr. Berry was there, and
there were some compositors up stairs—as we appre-
hended Mr. Smith would not bring out the paper.
On cross-examination he said, " Now I will not give
up the books ; he would enter into no compromise
whilst in custody ;" but promised to attend before the
Lord Mayor, out of respect to him, but not as a felon.
He took every book he could find—cash-book, trust,
and other books, and took them all to Leadenhall-
street. He took them to Mr. Hartley's, and his son
Roger assisted him in taking away the books.
George Evans, sergeant of police, produced the
charge-book. The entry was as follows :—" James
and Roger K. Griffin, of Belvidere-cottage, Erith,
brought in by William Rolls, charged by Thomas
Smith, of 43, Mincing-lane, with taking from his
office and detaining certain books. Charge withdrawn
by complainant—the defendant promising to give
them up."
This was the case for the plaintiff.
Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS addressed the jury for
the defendant. _

Mr. Justice MAULS said he had already made
orders ex parte on affidavit that the debts were
under 201., leaving the parties to apply to the Court
out of which the judgment was obtained, if there
was any fraud.
Several objections were urged on the part of the
detaining creditor. The prisoner was in custody on
a judgment obtained in the Palace Court, to which
Court he should have applied, as the, creditor could
then show that he came within the exceptions of the
59th section, and was not a party entitled to his dis-
charge.
His LORDSHIP decided that he could entertain the
application.
It was then urged that circumstances could be
shown to prevent the prisoner being discharged; the
Act contemplated that at " any time" it could be
shown that a party was not entitled as a matter of
course to his liberation.

Mr. JAMES would guarantee that the expenses
should be so paid.
After a desultory conversation, and many technical
objections on the part of Mr. Chambers, the 30th of
August was fixed for hearing as to whether
Ridler's debt should be expunged, the lion. Com-
missioner adding that he only fixed that day on con-
dition of Mr. Ashurst (the remaining creditor who
proved upon the estate, and who was friendly to the
bankrupt) undertaking to pay the expenses incurred
by that procedure.
Mr. JAMES craved the Court's protection for the
bankrupt, which was granted him for that day.

SUMMER ASSIZES.

HOME ClRCUlT.—Guildford, Aug. 2.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)
[Numerous inquiries have been made why the fol-
owing cases were not reported in our journal in due
Lime after their occurrence ? In answer to which we
can only say, at present, that the gentleman whose
duty it was to forward us accounts never furnished
us with any report thereof; into the cause of which
omission we shall inquire. The following are abridged
from yesterday's London Mercantile Journal]
(Before Mr. Baron PARKE.)
GRIFFIN V. SMITH.
Mr. Platt and Mr. Creasy appeared for the plain-
tiff; Mr. Montague Chambers and Mr. Edwin James
for the defendant.
This was an action brought by James Griffin, many
years reporter on the Morning Herald newspaper,
against Thomas Smith,printer, of 42 and 43, Mincing-
lane, London, for false imprisonment.
Mr. PLATT opened the case by stating that James
Griffin was one of three partners connected with the
London Journal of Commerce, which paper was much
in debt, and the defendant had in the early part of the
business entered into an arrangement to purchase it.
That and several other offers went off, but on the Bth
August last, an agreement was entered into, by which
the three papers were to be blended, viz., the Austra-
lasian Record, the Mercantile Journal, and the London
Journal of Commerce. This agreement was signed
by Robert Knox, on the part of himself and his part-
ners, Smyth and Griffin, and by Thomas Smith, on
the part of his son-in-law, William Hoperaft. A deed
was prepared, but not agreed to, and the types were
removed to the defendant's premises. Mr. Smith had
been in the habit of taking his books home to Bow,
and as Mr. Griffin had a right to inspect those books,
he went one day to Mr. Smith's office, in Mincing-
COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 14. lane, and seeing them on the desks took them home
(Before Mr. Commissioner FAN R.) for inspection. Previous to this there had been many
THE. TALACRE BUBBLE.—IN RE C lIAPPELOW.
Mr. Edwin James appeared to support the bank- in disputes.the ev id e (Then ce). particularsT h e
j ury, o, f
said what t h
e counsel,followed
eu as rt
rupt, and Mr. Chambers attended for the assignee. not forget that Mr. Griffin had suffered the degrade-
Mr. JAMES said that this matter had been much tion of being taken through the streets of London as
under his Honour's consideration, and by him the a felon, given into custody, and kept in the station-
bankrupt's last examinatiou had been adjourned sine house against his will; and it was necessary that he
die. Since that period two decisions had taken place, should defend himself as a gentleman, and they, the
to which he would wish to direct his Honour's atten- jury, would give such damages as would mark their
tion, as they bore immediately upon the circumstances sense of the injustice done to his client.
of thn hankritnt. in thin ~.a a. V-7.. run A ar:a re.al , a., «r:11:oi Peslie a nolief...en Istable stated that he
that the fiat had been issued upon a promissory note was on cruty about-nye o ciocii in ~,,Z ~.„.....„, -__ ...
for 8,3041., held by a person named Ridley, Mr. sth of June last; was called in by Mr. Smith, of
Chappelow being the indorsee, it having been got 18, Mincing-lane, who desired him to take Mr.
from another person named Howard, whose present James Griffin into custody for taking certain books
address was unknown. Neither Ridler nor another from off the desks. lie also gave his son, Roger
important party to those transactions, one Leveson, Kynaston Griffin, into charge for the like offence.
had been examined in the course of the inquiry, and There were three or four persons present, and Mr.
therefore he (Mr. James) sought to impeach the note Smith and the rest of them went down to the station-
on two grounds; first, that it was fraudulently con- house, which might be about five minutes' walk from
cocted ; and, secondly, that Ridler was cognisant of 42, Mincing-lane. Mr. Smith, on the promise made
the fraud, and he (Mr. James) would undertake to by Mr. Griffin that the books should be returned,
prove it from an answer of his (Ridler's) in a case in withdrew the charge.
Chancery arising out of these transactions. If he Roger K. Griffin admitted that his father promised
could establish these grounds, he thought (taking the to give up the books, but Only such as did belong to
decisions he had already referred to, and to which he Mr. Smith. The streets were not crowded, but as it
would afterwards allude, into consideration) he had was about the time merchants were leaving their
made out a case to warrant his Honour in expunging counting-houses, they were pretty full. At the sta-
that debt. The circumstances under which that note tion-house Mr. Smith urged his father to give up the
was given would sufficiently mark the transac- books, and he replied that whilst he was in custody
tion. Mr. Chappelow had been an industrious he would not, to which Mr. Smith replied that, as he
respected tradesman in Long-acre, for a very long believed Mr. Griffin would act as a gentleman and would
time before his connexion with the Talacre. Corn- give up the books, he would withdraw the charge.
pany, and now he was a bankrupt. He (Mr. James) Cross-examined—He believed there was nobody
vould now point out to his Honour's attention the present but Mr. Berry when his father was given into
two decisions which bore so strongly upon the point custody, but admitted there had been several persons
at issue. Under the direction of the Chief Baron, in there before, including Mr. Knox. There were four COM-
both these cases, a jury had found that such notes positors upstairs, and the reason we brought them away
were fraudulent. He (Mr. James) contended, there- was, because after taking the books, we did not think
fore, that this person, Ridler, had no claim upon the Mr. Smith would bring out the journal. There were
estate. The one case was tried before a special jury five actions pending against Mr. Smith in this affair.
'n Westminster—the other in the City of London. They took all the books they could find indiscrimi-
The one was the case of Halifax and Verner, and the nately, and have not given any of them back again.
action had been brought by Glyn and Company, with He believed there were seven, including a cash-book,
the object of fixing Colonel Verner as a shareholder, belonging to the trustees of the London New Price
and the jury decided as he had already stated. Yet Current. I have them all in my charge, at the office
Chappelow was fixed here because he put his hand of Messrs. Dean and Co., the attorneys. lam now
to a note. The action was to identify Colonel Ver- collecting the accounts of the London Journal of Com-
ner with the company, and a jury of merchants de- merce, paying over the money received to the solici-
cided that that company was a fraud, and that it was tors. I saw them on Monday last. Witness said he
fraudulently concocted. He would wish to draw his was a clerk to Messrs. Dean and Co., and that he took
Honour's attention to the summing up of the Lord the books first to the office of Mr. Hartley, of the
Chief Baron Pollock, as being most clear, and he Dublin Steam-packet office, in Leandenhall-street,
would add most convincing. His (Mr. James's and afterwards to the attorneys' office. He under-
client) came into that Court under analagous circum- stood Mr. Smith had a claim of 3001. on the Journal
stances, yet with a stigma attached to his name, as a of Commerce, and' that on the Wednesday following
bankrupt whose examination had been adjourned he went with his father, Mr. Smith, and about twelve
sine die. lie came to that Court to ask his Honour wharfingers, and two vans, at seven o'clock in the
to review the case, and to do him merited, though morning, and took away about 25 cwt. or 26 cwt. of
tardy, justice. type, which were taken to another printer's. He
Mr. Commissioner FAKE—I believe Col. Verner stated they had a right to take the type, because he
was only a member of the company. believed Mr. Smith was entitled to keep it so long
Mr. JAMES—A person might be deluded by as he continued to print and publish the London
fraudulent representations into becoming a •director Journal of Commerce. Believed that Mr. Smith
as well as a member. (The Learned Counsel then paid the money for stamps, paper, and other charges.
proceeded to read an extract from the Chief Baron's Admitted that a staple was drawn in Mr. Smith's
summing up, which said that because the scheme had house, but did not see who broke open the door.
been a fraud altogether, the bank must suffer like Mr. Knox said he was a reporter on the Morning
the persons with whom they personally dealt.) Mr. Herald, and was a partner with Smith and Griffin.
Chappelow had nothing to do with the company. He Mr. Smith had been introduced to them to purchase
was a mere tool in the hands of designing men. Be- the paper. Knew that the types were removed.
yond all question his Honour must hold that the cir- There were no advances made by Mr. Smith, because
cumstances under which Mr. Chappelow had put his he paid himself weekly out of the proceeds of the
hand to that paper, absolved him as much as the cir- paper. He had nothing to do with the other papers.
cumstances under which Colonel Verner had joined Accounts had been rendered by Mr. Smith, but
the company had absolved him. The other case was they related to the London Journal of Commerce
tried in the last week in June, and Alderman Thomas alone.
Wood was examined on behalf of the plaintiff. Hor- Mr. Redpath (a clerk to Dean and Co.) stated that
nage, the solicitor to Ridler, the holder of this note on the sth of June, Mr. Smith had applied to Alder-
of Chappelow's, was the solicitor to the plaintiff in man Thomas Wood for a search warrant to get some
this action. What was the result ? The jury scouted books supposed to be at Mr. Hartley's, the office of
the plaintiff's case, called it fraud, and found for the the Dublin Steam Navigation Company, in Leaden-
defendant. These cases occurring since the bank- hall-street, which the Alderman refused to grant.
rupt's lastexamination, he (Mr. James) brought them The case for the plaintiff here closed.
before his Honour, because they had arisen out of Mr. MONTAGUE CHAMBERS addressed the jury for
precisely similar circumstances, with this one excep- the defence, and remarked that Smyth, Knox, and
tion, that the bankrupt had put his hand to a note, Griffin were in great distress, and applied to Mr.
and the other parties contrived to be brought in as Smith as a printer—they entered into negotiations
shareholders. Chappelow was induced to join this spend money upon the
company in 1839. To be rightly understood, it wcointhcehrnim,
such'il easwsatsamobplsi,gpeadpteor,duty, &c., he requiring
would be necessary briefly to refer to the formation that, for his security, he should retain the types, col-
of the Talacre Company. Some property had been lect the accounts, &c. At the close of his address
purchased from a Mr. Leveson, who could not now Mr. Chambers stated, that although Alderman Thos.
be found, and a company was formed. Wood had refused to grant a search-warrant, yet Mr.
Mr. Commissioner FAKE---Who formed the com- Smith was right, for Roger K. Griffin admitted the
pany? books were taken to Mr. Hartley's at the Dublin
Mr. JAMES—Alderman Thomas Wood, a Mr. Steam Navigation Company's office.
Warwick Western, John Davies, Esq., of York-road The JUDGE, in summing up, told the jury, that as
(he could not be found now), John Jenkins, of Red a case of felony had not been made out, the plaintiff
Lion-square, Thomas Pottinger, and Thomas Coul- was entitled to damages, but that his conduct had
ston, of Dublin. These gentlemen bought of Leveson been illegal and unjustifiable.
and 'Baker (the latter a bankrupt, who could not be The jury, after a short consultation, gave a verdict
found) a certain property for 38,0001. He would of—Damages, One Shilling.
read the deed if the Court would allow him. The The JUDGE refused to certify.
Learned Counsel then, amid much laughter, read the
deed, willing the company all and every the mines, August 5.
(Before M r. Baron GURNEY.)
seams, veins, lairs, and strata, &c., of coal, &c. The
ROGER KYNASTON GRIFFIN V. THOMAS SMITH.
quantity of ground to be bought was in all 780 acres, appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. M.
in the township of Picton and parish of Llanessy. Air. Creasy
Chambers and Mr. E. James for the defendant. i
Mr. CREASY,
The Learned Counsel went at considerable length the absence of Mr. Platt, opened
into the history of the Talacre Company, which has in
1 the case, by stating that although they had been un-
already been so fully and so frequently before the ,
i
L public. He also referred to the trial in the Court of successful in the other Court, he trusted the Judge
I and jury now would do his client justice. The wrongs

On the part of the prisoner it was contended that
such circumstances could only bp shown on the trial
of the cause, and that, at all events, the words " that

it at any time it shall appear to the Judge who shall
try the cause," could not have reference to his Lord-
ship, as the action was brought in the Palace Court.
It was contra insisted that the words of the 59th
section had reference to subsequent application; the
provision mentioned, besides the improper contract-
ing of a debt, other points, such as a fraudulent
transfer of property, which could not be proved on a
trial ; and further, the concluding part of the clause
showed that such applications could be heard " whe-
ther or not execution against the goods" had been
issued.

Mr. Justice MAULS held that he could make an
order of discharge, which he made accordingly.
It is understood that application will be made to
the Court out of which the judgment was obtained
to bring the party under the 59th section, in order
that he may be retaken. The point is an impor-
tant one. _

Several applications were made ex parte on affida-
vits, and entertained by his Lordship, leaving the
parties open to their remedy if the discharges had
been fraudulently procured. By the decision in the
above case it will be seen that an application can be
made to a Judge at Chambers on an execution of
"any Court," the words of the 59th section being " to
a Judge of one of her Majesty's superior Courts of
Law at Westminster, or to the Court in which such
judgment shall have been obtained."

Mr. Baron GURNEY summed up, and said that it
vv • 1 1 11 11- •••••• r.
notice that actions often arose out of quarrel; in re-
spect to partnership. The agreement showed that
the concern was to have been carried on by Mr.
Smith, the types and accounts to be kept by
him, and he was to receive the proceeds. The
father of the plaintiff alleges that he could not get
at the books to inspect them—he was to pay
part of the rent, and therefore might have had an
opportunity of looking at them at the office—in-
stead of this he takes the violent resolution of going
to Mr. Smith's, and, together with his son, carries off
all he could lay his hands upon. Mr. Smith comes
home, and finding what had been done (they refusing
to give up the books), gave both the father and son
in charge. The Learned Judge condemned the prac-
tice of placing on the record pleadings that could not
be justified; certainly it was a case of great aggra-
vation, although a felony had not been established, yet
the conduct of the plaintiffs was most violent. They
had carried off all the books, and he apprehended that
if the defendant brought his action against them he
would recover damages. In taking them into cus-
tody all he wanted was to get his books which plain-
tiffs had taken away. The Judge further remarked
that it was discreditable to the attorneys who brought
these actions to harbour books which had been un-
lawfully carried off, and some of which had never
been disputed to be the private property of Mr. Smith,
and they therefore could have no pretext for retain-
ing them.
The jury, under the direction of the Judge, gave a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, is.
No application was made on bhalf of the plaintiff
to the Judge to certify for costs.

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NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Lancaster, Aug. 13.
CROWN SlDE.—(Before the LORD CHIBF BARON.)
Thomas Hitchon was indicted for a burglary in the
house of John Bulcock, at Burnley, on the 7th of May last.
Mr. Thomson appeared for the prosecution, Mr. Wil-
kins for the defence.

ADVERTISEMENTS INSERTED in ALL THE THREE PAPERS, Morning Noon, and Night, thereby insuring a TOWN and COUNTRY CIRCULATION, at ONE CHARGE.

It appeared that, on the evening in question, after Mr,
Bulcock had shut up his house, and was about retiring
to rest, he received a visit from four of the police, who
informed him that they had reason to believe that an
attempt would be made to rob his house that night.
The officers were accordingly disposed so as to keep
atch in the different parts of the house. Two were
posted at the back, and two in front in one of the par-
lours. The lights were extinguished, and the house pre-
sented the usual appearance of the inmates having re-
tired to rest. Matters had remained in this way for
some hours, when the officers who were on the watch in
front heard some one quietly forcing the catch of one of
the windows in a room at the other side of the hall.
Some one appeared to have effected an entrance, for
footsteps, as of a person without his shoes, were almost
immediately heard in the hall. The noise of lighting a
lucifer match was then heard, and the front door was
stealthily opened, when a second party was heard to
enter. The robbers approached the door of the room
where the officers were lying perdu, and tried to open
th 3 door, but one of the officers pressed down the latch,
and prevented their entrance. Voices were then heard
in consultation as to the course to be taken, and while
they were doubting whether they should force
the door or go on to the kitchen, the officers rushed
out upon them. The light was immediately extinguished
in the scuffle which ensued, but one of the officers
seizing both the intruders, pinned them against the
wall. He was, however, unfortunately attacked by his
fellow officer, who, in the dark, mistook him for one of
the robbers, and the result of the contest was, that one
of them escaped, having struck his captor a severe blow
with a small crowbar, and wounded him in the head with
a chisel, which was subsequently found in the hall, and
which seemed, from the marks on the window, to have
been the instrument used in effecting an entrance. One
of the robbers, however, remained in custody, and proved
to be the prisoner at the bar. His face was blackened,
and he was without hat or shoes. Near him, however,
was found a hat belonging to one of the officers, which
had been left in another part of the house. On finding
that escape was impossible, he offered to show the officers
where his hat and shoes were, and finally took the
officers to the place where he had put them before en-
tering the house. A hat was found which he admitted
to be his, but the shoes he said had been changed, and
those left belonged, he alleged, to one Smith Hargreaves,
who had been his companion in the attempted robbery.
Before the magistrates the prisoner made the following
statement :—A chap came to me on Monday, and said
he had seen some money put in a drawer in this house,
and wanted me to go with him that night. I promised
him I would go, but I did not go near him on Monday
night. On Tuesday he came to me again, and I had got
some drink, and he persuaded me to go with him, and
when we got part of the road I stopped and would not
go further. He called me a soft fool, and said I had no
occasion to go into the house. When we got to the
place he lifted the window shutter up, and went in and
opened the front doer anticalled me in. He lighted a
candle and went into a room, but there was no furniture
in the room where tho money should have been. He
then said, "Let us go forward," and we went through
the kitchen. live men came up and seized me. The
other man passed them, and went away. They call the
\ man Smith.

It appeared front the other evidence in the cause that
one Smith Hargreaves had on a former occasion given
information to the police of a burglary, and had been a
witness fur the prosecution. None of the officers exa-
mined were able to say from what source the information
of the robbery was received on the present occasion. It
had been given to the superintendent, from whom they
received their orders.

The prisoner was found Guilty.
His LORDSHIP observed that he thought the police
had much better have their eyes on the conduct of this
Smith Hargreaves, than their ears open to his communi-
cations.

James Hindle was indicted for the manslaughter of
Thomas Lomax.

Mr. Hulton conducted the prosecution. The prisoner
was defended by Mr. Drinkwater.
It appears that the prisoner is a getter of coal at a col-
liery at Oswaldtwisle, and the deceased was a drawer to
him. On the 9th day of May last, the deceased com-
plained of pains in the arms, and of lumps under his
armpits, which hurt him when he worked. The prisoner
was annoyed at his not getting on with his work, and,
after some angry words, he gave the deceased a push,
which threw him against one of the tubs used in the col-
liery-. He fell with his right side on the edge, and com-
plained of being hurt. On going home in the evening he
suffered much from pain in his side. He had some me-
dicine, threw up some blood, and was for a day or so
confined to his bed. He recovered, however, so far as to
resume his work, and for four or five weeks attended his
duties at the pit as usuaL He was then, however, at-
tacked with inflammation at the place where he had re-
ceived the blow ; it resultediin mortification, which ter-
minated his life. The prisoner, it appeared, displayed
much feeling on the occasion, and expressed much regret
at having struck the deceased, saying, that when people
were angry they often struck harder than they intended.
It did not, however, very clearly appear that the subse-
quent inflammation was traceable to the injury sustained
by the act of the prisoner.—He was acquitted.
Amos Hampson, John Wood, and Edward Stanley,
were indicted, the two former for robbery, and the latter
for receiving, with a guilty knowledge, a watch, the pro-
duce of such robbery.
Mr. Hulton conducted the prosecution ; Mr. James
appeared for the prisoners Hampson and Stanley.
The two persons accused of the robbery are privates
in the 6th Regiment of Foot, and the party indicted as
receiver is a stripe-sergeant in the same regiment.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, a
Mr. William Duncan, that on the 14th of June last he
was on a visit at Preston, to which town he had before
that time been a stranger. He remained at the Bull Inn
until a little after twelve o'clock, when he left for the
purpose of going to Butler-street. He, however, was
somewhat intoxicated, and taking the wrong turn on
leaving the inn, became rather bewildered. He met,
however, three soldiers, and a man in plain clothes, of
whom he asked his way. They went some distance
with him in the direction, as they said, of Butler-street,
and on the way he told them if they could find a house
open he would treat them to a glass for their civility.
They took him to a public-house called, he believed, the
Black Tiger ; but the inmates refused to open the door,
as it was past twelve o'clock. They returned along the
same street, and the prosecutor then perceived that one
of the soldiers and the civilian had gone away. The
other two soldiers accompanied him until he got to a
pice of waste ground, when one of them tripped him up,
and kneeling on his breast, he, assisted by the other,
rifled the pockets of the prosecutor, taking from him his
watch and about 255. in silver. The prosecutor was not
able to identify either of the prisoners as the parties
who had robbed him, though he thought that Hampson
was like one of the men.

The prisoners, it appeared, with a number of their
comrades, had had leave on the night in question to go
to the play. They were seen about the hour described
by the prosecutor passing the market place, in company
with a person in plain clothes. About five o'clock the
next morning they were at a public-house, and paid for
what they had in silver. The same day they paid a
score which had been standing against them for a long
time at the same house, and both about that time had
more money than usual at their disposal. Some days
after Hampson was seen in possession of a small silver
watch, and the next day one of his comrades saw him
with a watch, which he recognised as having belonged
to the prisoner Stanley, and which Hampson said he had
purchased from Stanley for two sovereigns. On the 27th
of June Stanley showed the colour-sergeant of the regi-
ment a watch which he said had been sent him by his
father, and which the sergeant observed had the number
8,785. The next day the sergeant asked to see it again,
but Stanley said he had sold it, and gave several different
accounts of the parties to whom he had disposed of it.
His room was searched, and, sewed up in one of his
epaulettes, which was hanging against the wall, was
faigljtaateti, which proved to be the watch stolen from
On the close of the case his LORDSHIP said he thought
there was no case against Wood ; and Mr. JAMES ad-
dressed the jury for the other prisners.
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury found both
the prisoners Not Guilty, stating that they were not
satisfied from the statement of the prosecutor that he
had not lost the watch without any robbery at all.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 13.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Sergeant ATCHERLEY.)

WHISTINCE V. GRIFFITHS.

For the plaintiff were Mr. Valentine Lee and Mr.
Cooke ; for the defendant, Mr. Whateley, Q.C., and Sir
Thomas Phillips.
Some time in August, 1832, a person of the name of
Joseph Bennett, an auctioneer, and landlord of the
Packet Inn, Chester, died, leaving his furniture and the
bulk of his property to his widow, who, shortly after
his decease, took up her abode at Bristol, where she
lived for fifteen months ; and afterwards removed to
Cheltenham, where she also lived for fifteen months, sup-
porting herself by the proceeds of a boarding-house
which she then furnished. Amongst her lodgers was a
man of the name of Jeremiah Smith, who soon after his
residence under the plaintiff's roof, received from her
30/. for the purpose of purchasing a piano, and
some additional furnittfre of which she stood in
need. For many years a young girl had been domes-
ticated in the house of the plaintiff and her husband,
whom she was in the habit of calling her parents,
though, in fact, they were only her aunt and uncle.
This young woman, during the plaintiff's residence at
Cheltenham, became acquainted with a Welsh harper of
the name of Griffiths, who had an engagement in that
city, and whom during his sojourn there she married.
As the plaintiff at this time proposed leaving Chelten-
ham for Bristol, in order to stay with some friends
there, she offered her niece, Mrs. Griffiths (according to
her own account) the use of the household furniture to
enable her to fit up a cottage which her husband was
about to take at Tredegar. The Griffiths gladly availed
themselves of the proposal, and the furniture was ac-
cordingly removed to Tredegar, where it was for some
months regularly used by the defendant and his wife.
During Mrs. Bennett's stay at Bristol, she formed an
intimacy which matured into a matrimonial alliance,
with a person of the name of Whistance, and as she now
proposed to resume housekeeping, she wrote to Mrs.
Griffiths requesting the return of the furniture, with the
. . .

loan of which she had accommodated her. To this commu-
nication the defendant sent a very short and not very
courteous reply, to the effect that possession was nine
points of the law, adding that he would be before
he gave them up. It was for this conversion that the
present action was brought.
On the close of the plaintiff's case Mr. WHATELEY
submitted that the misjoinder in the declaration of the
plaintiff's present husband should be a ground of nonsuit.
After some discussion the objection was overruled, a
Learned Sergeant, who was present, remarking—
" The only answer which I think is needed,
Is that the ground of nonsuit is not pleaded.
The issue joined, I understand to be,
Upon the ante-nuptial property ;
And, therefore, I would almost lay my life
The plaintiff has been right to join his wife.' "
Mr. WHATELEY proceeded to open to the jury the de-
fendant's case, which the Learned Counsel supported by
the testimony of three witnesses who stated that the
plaintiff had in their presence made a gift of the pro-
perty in question to the defendant.
After a careful summing up by Mr. Sergeant Aroma-
LEY, the jury remained in deliberation some time, finally
returning a verdict in favour of the defendant.
The JUDGE—I can only say, Gentlemen, that had I
been in the jury-box I should have found a similar verdict.

IRISH ASSIZES.
CORK—FRIDAY, AUG. 9.
TUE SPY SYSTEM.—ThOntaS COMM, who had
pleaded guilty of having upon his person, at Fermoy,
certain seditious papers, which he introduced into the
houses of innocent persons, and afterwards swore
informations against them, was indicted for vagrancy.
Mr. PLUNKETT, QC., said he felt it necessary to
draw the attention of the jury shortly to this case.
It was one in which the authorities of the country
the police Some
barrack at Fermoy,
and s e
time ago the tra-
verser taken a considerableinterest, and one of a very
aggravated character. He would shortly state
thever
represented
factsa
moef
tthoet.o
them that he was able to give
valuable information as to several persons who were
engaged in seditious practices, and posting threaten-
ing notices in the neighbourhood, and so far imposed
on the police, that he had applied to them that he
should be brought before a magistrate, in order to
make the information. There had been a threatening
notice served upon a man of the name of Miles pre-
viously, informing him that he had better quit the
country, or that some danger would occur to him.
The prisoner said he could give information concern-
ingit, and offered to conduct the police to the houses
of two or three respectable occupiers of land, where
those seditious papers would be found. He had
that day, upon his arraignment, pleaded guilty