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cannot know, for he fell at the first fire. Guilty as his act was, ►of " Dinn v. Dinn and another,' nearly the wisoli of winch
no one can say he went unpunished. As far as he was con- consisted of proof of acts of ownership exercised by the de-
cemed, justice might be thought to have been even too ' fendants over a slip of ground nine feet wide, alongside a
sadly, too grievously, satisfied. But here, what is the re- watercourse, but it also involved the right to the unrestricted
suit'? The Government, which has just got off its lawyer, use of the water which supplied a large cotton factory of the
Mr. Smith, comes forward ostentatiously to state, [that it has ' defendants, called the Denton Holme-mill.
had the virtue to inflict an additional penalty on a woman The details were as uninteresting as such cases usually
who, if she has erred at all in this matter (which there is no are, depending as they do upon the evidence of a multitude
reason to suppose), has incurred at least a sufficient punish- of witnesses to a few facts of the same kind, rather than upon
meat in the death of her Husband by the hand of her bro- a variety of incidents.
ther-in-law. It is not on the seconds, who are, we believe, Mr. Watson, Mr. P. Thompson, and Mr. Hill were the
still in her Majesty's army, that this righteous vengeance counsel for the plaintiff; and Mr. Knowles, Mr. Temple, and
falls—scarcely on the principal criminal, who has virtually Mr. Unthank for the defendants.
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withdrawnhimself froni the service—but signally and directly
on the widow of a man whose crime is this—that he allowed
himself to be made a sacrifice to a false professional sense of
honour, to which obedience is not only encouraged, but en-
forced, under pain of ruin, by the Commander-in-Chief's
office, for the working of which that Government is respOn-
sible. It is actually the same authority with a different face
which disgraces the officer if he will not fight, and fines his
widow if he happens to fall. And for this Sir Robert Peel
praises himself and his colleagues on the score of stern mora-
lity. We really wonder he did not proceed to eulogise it on
the plea of economy.

After summing up the jury shortly returned a verdict for
the defendants.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
CLERKENWELL.

Eight wretched looking creatures, some of them
dressed in theatrical costume, were brought before the
Magistrate, charged with being in an unlicensed theatre
in Cumberland-row, St. Pancras. George and Mary
Boulton, two of the prisoners, styled themselve come-
dians, the other members of the corps dramatique were
costermongers and sweeps.
Four separate batches, comprising in all seventy per-
sons of both sexes, the audience in Cumberland-row on
the previous night, were charged with having been in an
unlicensed theatre without lawful purpose. Many of the
prisoners were recognised as convicted thieves, the
greater number of them were sweeps and costermongers,
and dust gatherers, and all, except three, were under the
age of twenty years.
Mr. GREENWOOD said it was no wonder there should
be so much wickedness in the metropolis, when there
were such schools of vice as that in Cumberland-row.
The Magistrate then discharged all the prisoners with a
caution, except Mary Davis, an elderly woman, who
brought her two daughters to the play. She was fined2s.
The puppets and paraphernalia of the theatre were
detained by the police, and Mr. Macey intimated that he
would issue a summons against the proprietor of the
theatre.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
HOUSE. OF LORDS, Feb. 29.
The House sat to- day to hear appeals. The Peers present
were, Lord Brougham, Lord Cottenham, Lord Abinger, and
Lord Campbell.