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VICE-CHANCEI.I.OWS COURT, ;JAN. 18.

At ten o'clock the VICE-CHANCELLOR took his
seat, and immediately proceeded to give judgment
in the following causes :—Curre v. Bowyer—
Ken worthy v. Acnner—Cripps v. Wolcot—James
%,„ Vermont—Lewis v. Goodwin, and Picard v.
Roberts.

The remainder of the day was occnpied in at-
tending to the arguments of Counsel, on the
ninety-one exceptions, in the case of the " East
India Company v. Keibly." The case stands over
fo further argument to•morrow..

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 18.
BUTLER V. BEVERLEY.
This was an action on a Policy of Insurance
on a vessel, Wanted the Providence, from Faro to
London.. The vessel was lost by starting a plank
in a gale of wind, and the defence was, that she
was not sea-worthy. The Jury found a verdict
for the plahrtiff—,llamages, 2001.
The other causes tried this day were not of ge-
neral interest.

OLD BAILEY, JAN. 18.

[FurOzer Proceedings of yeite: day.]
FORGING A, BILL.
Francis Mackay, 42, was indicted for uttering
a forged Bill, for 3J/. 17s. 2d. with intent to de-
fraud William Herbert Maund. The prosecutor
not appearing, his recognizance was estreated,
and the prisoner discharged,

DECLARATION OF THE LONDON JURY.
The Middlesex Jury were then requested to
leave the box, for the purpose of allowing the
London Jury aro enter it. The foreman of the
Jury then rose, and holding a paper in his. hand,
addressed the Bench. He stated that, with the
leave of the Court, heiwould read a paper which
had been drawn up by himself and his fellow jury-
men. The language it contained, he said, was
wholly inoffensive, anal he hoped he should be al,
lowed to read it.

The Court assented, and it was read, as
'ollows

" We, the Middlesex Jury, being on the eve
of terminating our most painful duties, most re-
spectfully wish to represent to your Lordships,
that the verdicts which we have given on the evi-
dence:which has been submitted to us, will, when
reported to his Majesty's Pri.y Council, be con-
sidered a•ci,ily the decision of men. That
tee are convinced that all sanguinary punishments
have not only a tendency to destroy those princi-

pies of humanity which it is our duty to cultivate,
but that, by their frequent occurrence, they render
the heart callous : one instance of which has been
brought before us, of a youth having picked a
Gentleman's pocket, while the dreadful sentence
of the law was recently carrying into effect on
four unfortunate persons.
" We disdain all visionary ideas and .principles.
We live to improve, or'we live in vain.' With
these-feelings and sentiments, we most earnestly
request, that when these cases are reported, you
will urge this divine injunction—' I will have
mercy, and not sacrifice.' "
(Signed)
.lacnb,Philip Foreman, Thomas Lewis Styles,
• . Ehen. Taylor, W. 11. Atkinson,
Thomas Clark, J. H. Sands,
Joseph Mather, William Hughes,
T. D. Dunn, William Blackman, •
John -Davies, John Ellis.

The London Jury was then sworn, and the
rials on the London side commenced.
BEFORE THE MIDDLESEX. JURY.

Dorothy Reeves, aged 22, was then indicted for
uttering a forged H. note. On the evening of 24th
December, she went to the shop of Mr. Shilcox,
in St. John-street, Smithfield, for some cheese
and a few grocery articles, in payment of which a
IL note was offered, and the address given of
" Tones, No. 1, Great Saffron-hill." No such
person lived there. Bisoner afterwards passed
another I/. note by another name, and both were
forged.—The evidence was Completely satisfac-
tory.

Mr. Justice Bun OUGI-1 charged the Jury, who
found her Guilty-Death.
• David O'Hara, 26, was indicted for having for-,
ged noes in his possession, knowing them to he
forged. The Jury, without hesitation, found
him—Not Guilty.
This finished the Bank cases.
.HIGH-STREET GANG.

73'illianz Harvey Wasley and James Howe were
capitally indicted for committing a detestable of-
fence.

Air. ADOLPHUS stated.. to the Jury, that after
the disgusting disclosure -made at Clerkenweli On
Filthy, the Chairman had recommended that a
bill for the capital offence should be filed against.
the prisoners, which was accordingly dune by the
parish of Marybone. lie had read over the de-
positions in the case, and did not think. the evi-
dence would he conclusive to prove a capital
charge. In the discharge of his duty, -therefore,
he would: decline calling evidence, as he thought
it infinitely better to save them the trouble and
disguSt which must arise from the disclosure of
such infamous scenes of vice, as had perhaps never
been paralleled. in a civilized country. Besides,
though the recital must fill them with horror, they
would not ,be able to convict the two infamous
characters-at the bar, and therefore he, with the
leave of the Learned Judge, would not go into the
case. .

Mr. Justice Buasouott was of the same opi-
nion, having read over the depositions, and warmly
approviql:of the plan adopied,by Mr. Adolphus.
The Jury of course acquitted them. One was
dressed as a gentleman's servant, the other was
in black. They looked perfectly hardened, and
by no means ashamed of their disgraceful conduct.
On leaving the Court, they were assailed with
the loudest marks of disapprobation, and a gene-
ral hiss, by one of the most crowded audiences
ever witnessed. The popular indignation
was with difficulty suppressed by the Officers of
the Court. One of the wretches appeared to
walk very latoe. At halt-past five the Judges re-
tired, and the Recorder went on with the London
cases.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

THE LATE DIABOLICAL ACT.

BOW-STREET.-Yesterday morning. William
Jennings was brought to this Office upon a most
extraordinary charge.
Mary Courier► stated, that she occupies a back
parlour and a kitchen in a house in Stewart's
Rents, Drury-Jane, and she'got her living by at-
tending in the Piazza, in Covent-garden, at an
early hour every morning, to sell saloop, bread
and butter, cakes, &c. to the persons attending
Covent-Garden Market. She had known the pri-
soner about a fortnight, and on Wednesday last
he called at her residence in Stewart's Rents, and
directly after he was gone from the house a wa-
ter-cock and a quantity of leaden pipe was miss-
ed. In the evening of the saint day she saw him
again, when she charged him with having stolen
the cock and pipe, which he denied. On the
following morning (Thursday), about a quartet
before seven o'clock, he called upon her at her
saloop stand, in Covent-garden Market, when he
told her he had got some patent coals for her,
which would burn without smell or smoke: She
took them home . between nine and ten o'clock,
and was accompanied into her parlour by her son
Thomas,. 14 years of age ; Mary, her daughter,
clever' years of age; and Mary Ann Corinick, a
child, two years and a half old, whom she had
the care of. She put a piece of what the pri-
soner called coal upon her fire to try how it would
burn, only the size of a small egg, when it in-
stantly caught fire, and exploded, and communi-
cated to the remainder in her basket, which she
had unfortunately placed within half a yard of
the fire-place, when a second most dreadful ex-
plosion took place, and she and. all the children
experienced considerable injury. Her daughter,
Mary, was taken to the workhouse for assistance,
where she continues in a very dangerous state,
but is still alive. The infant Mary Anne Cormick
was in such a shocking mangled state, from the
effects of thesexpl,Osion, that it was deemed ne-
cessary to convey her to an Hospital for assis-
tance, where she languished of the wounds and
bruises she received until Saturday morning, when
she. expired.--The prisoner was. committed.