The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-07 00:00:00

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COURT OF CIIANCERY.....(Tuts DAY.)
His LCIRDSII I had . intended to have given
felt hi one or two • cases this morning, but he it
necessary to postpone them till to-morrow. ' One was
in Colensan-street Church case, and another in Miller
v. Elkins. • .

WILLIAMS V. GOODCIIILD.
The Court ordered this case to be resumed. A
long discussion took place as to the course of argu-
ment to be proceeded in. Mr. Blunt, for the defend-
ant, took his Lordship's opinion upon it : the plaintiff
had submitted a prima
.facie case was made out to
tithes, and after some of the defendant's Counsel bad
been heard in support of a case of exemption,
the Counsel for the plaintiff' had warned them that in
reply they meant to produce a deed, showing that
the prescription was destroyed. If that deed was to
be produced, the defendant would have evidence to
offer against it; but which evidence he thought, ought
not to be brought forward until the paiutiff had shown
a necessity for it.
The result of the discussion was, that his Lordship
considered it the duty of the counsel for the defendant,
to meet the prima facie case of the plaintiff, by reli-
ance on all the, evidence that was before the Vice
Chancellor, because Mr. Home, for the plaintiff;
would have a right to call the Court's attention to any
deed or piece of evidence whateVer, that was used in
the Court below. Counsel then proceeded accord-
ingly.

COURT OF KING'S BENCII—(Tms DAY.)
JUDGMENT.

Two young men, mimed Carrington and Hurbert,
were brought up to receive the judgment of the Court;
for having been found guilty of having defrauded the
Liverpool Dock COmpany of the dock dues. They
had already been imprisoned nine months.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY pronounced the judgment of
the Court in his usual feeling manner .on such occa-
sions. He could not but deeply lament to see two
such young men standing in the' situation in which
the prisoners did,'one of whom, in particular, had con-
siderable prospects in life, and possessed talents which,
if they had been applied to honourable pursuits,
might have been productive of comfort and
prosperity. It. happened in this case, as it had
done, and would do, in almost every case, that the
prisoners had been betrayed by the very persons in
whom they bad confided in the course of their fraudu-

lent dealings, and who, to save themselves, had dis-
closed the fact of their improper conduct. The Court,
however, took into consideration the durance the pri-
soners had already undertone, and in the hope that
this would deter them from the' like conduct on a
future occasion, and be a warning to others, the sen-
tence was, that they should be imprisoned for a fur-
ther period of six months in Kirkley gaol, Lancashire.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.--(Turn Mr.)
RELLICK V. KEELING AND ANOTHER.
The morning was occupied in hearing long argu-
ments for a new trial. The plaintiff purchased, and
shipped, in Savannah, 80 hhds. of sugar, shipped to
Mr. Petitte, in this country. The bill of lading and
invoice were made out in the name of the plaintiff, as
the owner of the sugars ; and all the letters between
the parties treated bun as such. When the sugar
came to the West India Docks, it was virtually put
into the hands of ,Petitte ; but before it was removed,
in the month of June, 1823, the defendants obtained
a transfer of it from Mr. Petitte, upon which they
advanced 1,2001. A Mr. Charles Gisold had
previously advanced 4,000 dollars to the plaintiff,
upon an understanding that he was to be paid out of
the produce of the•sugar ; and the question for the
Court's judgment was, whether an action of trover, on
the part of the plaintiff', would lie ? The elaintifF
contended it could ; and the defence was, that it could
not, on the alleged ground that the plaintiff had nei-
ther the property nor the right of possession. The
plaintiff's case was, that he had never done any act to
divest himself of the possession. The case was going
on when we left the Court.

SHOCKING MURDER.—(Ttris DAY.)

About half-past nine o'clock this morning, the
neighbourhood "of Queen-street, Seven Dials, was
thrown into the greatest alarm by the following hor-
rible circumstance :

A Mrs. Brown, of No. 20, the wife of a dealer in
coals, &c. had (it is supposed in a fit of jealousy)
nearly severed`the head of a fine .girl, three years old.
Mrs. BrOwn is between fifty and sixty, her husband
about 32. The child was not her own, but, from
what we can learn, had been lately sworn to her hus-
band by another woman. She some time ago
agreed to receive it into her, care, which she did,
and continued to treat it with very great kindness and
affection. A few days ago, however, Mr. Brown had
a quarrel with a neighbour, who reproached him se-
verely with his inconstancy in his wife's hearing, a
circumstance which, it is supposed, has been preying
on her mind ever since, although no symptoms of vio-
lence appeared previously to nine o'clock this morn-
ing. At this time the neighbourhood-was alarmed by
the report of murder, and Pond, the constable, with a
man of the name of Ledyard, ran up to the first floor
back room, where they found the murdered child
lying on the floor, literally stifled in its own blood.
ft was quite dead; so they instantly proceeded to
a front room, where they found Mrs. Brown seated,
in great agitation, on a sofa ; they secured her
immediately, not :however without great resistance on
her part. Her appearance was dreadful; her arms and
part of her dress being covered with the blood of the
child : she was, however, conveyed to the watchhouse;
but She having evinced symptom* of insanity on the
read there,' it was deemed expedient to take her to
the workhouse,' where she was confined in a strait
waistcoat. The instrument of the murder was a
large carving-knife, which was afterwards found near
the child. Our Reporter was present at the examina-
tion of the infant by two surgeons, who politely ex-
plained the nature of the wound, and expressed their
opinion that considerable violence had been used.—
The windpipe, and the carotid artery on the right
side of the neck, were completely severed ; there were
two other slight cuts on the left side of the neck, and
another on the small of the arm. It appeared to have
been a very fine child, and was a great favourite with
the neighbours. We understand that Mrs. Brown
will not be examined until she makes her appearance
before the Coroner. Mr. Brown, as May he con-
ceived, is in VeSfagony of mind ; but nothing has
hitherto transpired .to ,9onneet him with this horrid
circumstance.

T _
'Three out of seven convicts,. under sentence of
transportation, who left Chester last week, on their
way to the hulks, contrived to make their escape off
the coach, in passing through Hampshire. One ,of
them was retaken about 20 miles from Portsmouth
the other two have contrived to remain undiscovered.