The Sun.
London, England, 1826-06-28 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE;

COURT OF CH.ANCERY.--(THis DA,.)
EX-PARTE GRIMSTEAD TIIE MATTER OF
HOWARD AND GIBBS, BANKRUPTS.
Mr. TRESLOVE stated, that the effect of his Lord-
ship's judgment,. was intercepted in consequence of
some observations made- by Mr. Hart, respecting costs,
after judgment was pronounced. The present object
of mentioning the matter was, to have an early time
appointee for the final disposal of it, that a dividend
might be declared.
His LORDSHIP said, there was a' great inconveni-
ence occurring almost daily from the way in which
matters were discussed at the bar, inasmuch as costs
were seldom, if ever, mentioned until the judgment of
the Court had been declared.
Mr. TRESLOVE did ask for the costs when judg-
ment was pronounced, but Mr. Hart objected, and
promised to be prepared to speak to the matter on a

iiture day. -
His LORDSHIP remembered that costs were asked
'or, very largely, and if Mr. T. would mention it again
:o-morrow, the Court would endeavour to name a
hue for the disposal of the thing.
WELLESLEY V. DUPE OF BEAUFORT.

The plaintiff himself was in Court before the Lord
;hancellor arrived to-day, and sat among the Counsel
ill twelve o'clock, when
Mr. HART obtained an opportunity to request that
he might be permitted to hand to the Court another
affidavit made by his client, Mr. Wellesley.
His LORDSHIP asked if Mr. Hart had 'seen the
other affidavits?
Mr. HART said he had.
His LORDSHIP then wished that both sides would
agree upon a time when there should be an end to all
affidavits, because the Court read them, forgot them,.
read them again and again, forgot them again and
again ; and certainly they were not very pleasant to
read.
Mr. HART said there was no answer intended to
be given to the last affidavits that had been filed by
the other side. The present affidavit was very short,
only stating in hoc verba the plaintiff's answer to the
Duke of Wellington's letter ; he had only stated the
effect of it before, which the Court was not satisfied
with. Having obtained the copy, he now gave it
verbatim.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.—(This DaY.)
MOOR V. CLARK.
Mr. CHITTY opened the pleadings.
Mr. GURNEY stated the case. This was an action
brought by a tailor for eight guineas, the price of a
riding dress, which he made for the defendant's niece
by his order. The defendant pleaded non assumpsit.
Jane Walker deposed, that she was niece to th• de-
fendant; kept house for him for 3 years ; left him in 1821.
Some time previously, defendant was aboutto make atour
to the north, he asked her to accompany him ; he took
her to Moor's, in order, to have her measure taken for
a riding-dress for the tour ; he himself selected the
cloth, and ordered it ; when made, it was sent to his
house ; she thought 8 guineas a fair price for it.
When first she put it on she called on Mrs. Ray, on
horseback, and asked her if itwas not a handsome dress?
Mrs. Ray.said, in the presence of the defendant, that
it was a fine present, ,and that., she would cut a dash-
ing figure in the North in it. Some time after she
quarrelled with her uncle; and when she was leaving
him be elaiMed the habit as his property, but she
would not give it to him. She was married in 1823.
Mary Ray corroborated the testimony of the last
Witness. On behalf of the defendant an ineffectual
attempt was made that it was Miss Clark herself that
was indebted for the amount of the dress.
The Jury, without any hesitation, gave a verdict
for the plaintiff—Damages, 81. Bs.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAy.)
PRIOR V.

.
This was an action to recover the sum of 9811., being the
alumina of waste silk which the defendant had purchased of the
plaintiff. It appeared that the sale had been made by sample, to
which the goods supplied were much inferior, being mixed with
raw silk of It's value ; and that the defendant had consequently
refused to complete the contract; but it also appeared that there
was no fraud practised by the plaintiff, as he had purchased the
silks as imported from Italy, and had taken nut the samples indif-
ferentlf, the deceit having been practised in the original packing.
This having been established to the satisfaction of the Jury,
they gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Daniages 9811

THE LATE TIRE AT BRIXTON, AND

CHARGE OF ARSON.

UNION-HALL4Tuis, DAB•)

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Pines was brought up for re-examination on
suspicion of 'setting fire to the premises of Mr. Samuel
Martin, farmer and cow-keeper, of Brixton, on the
night of Monday the 19th inst. She was 'apprehended
and brought to this office on the next day, but. Mr.
and Mrs. Martin not being able to attend, from having
been injured by the fire, she was remanded till to-day.
Mr. Martin.—On the night of Monday the 19th, I was
alarmed at two o'clock by the cry of ": Fire:" I got up directly,
and found that a barn and out-houses, within three or four yards
of the house, were burning rapidly. I ran down stairs without
dressing, and provided myself with a knife to cut the halters of the
cows, 17 of whom were in a cow-house, the roof of which seemed
on the very point of falling. I, however, rushed in, and naked as
I was, in a few minutes I had cut the halters of 15 of them the
other two could not be released, and perished in the flames. In
a minute after I bed left the cow-house, the roof fell in, and
I was so exhausted by such violent exertion, and the burns
on my naked feet and legs, that I dropped motionless in the yard,
and my eyes have not, at this moment, recovered from the effects
of the fire. In recollecting the words of the prisoner, and her
strange deposition, I suspected, and caused her to be takers. In
the barn there was the wool of sheep, and timber to the value of
300/., none of which was insured.
Mrs. Martin—The prisoner was my servant ; on Sunday week
she asked for leave to go to a wedding, which I granted ; but in-
stead of returning that night, she did not come home till between
three and four O'clock on Monday afternoon ; she then appeared
to have been drinking ; I remonstrated with her, and she told
me that it was the last time she would serve me so, as the meant
to leave me. She seemed very much affected, and sat down
and cried. I took her hand, and persuaded her to reform, but
she assured me that she never could. She asked me for some
beer, which I got for her. I advised her to lie down on the bed'
up Stairs, and I would come up and talk with her. She went up
stairs, but came down shortly afterwards, with some caps in her
hand, which she shelved roe. I said I was not afraid of her rob-
bing me. I thoUght her the greatest enemy to herself. She told
me that she had lost her old man, and now she did not value her
I cautioned her not to
own life. She asked me for Is. and said it was the last she would ever
sBeivneerwalhteinnlesl times,
and
saidyo
ask .me for. I gave' her .One, and again advised her to behave
better. In parting she shook hand,,slw,oittlhamree
getP rntboltalanynina'rti,isstiriesse r'eypoliued7" "d."
" This night
as I make my bed so 1
I shall do no
by this,; I either rise or. fall," As she went from the dOor, I said,
"Lydia> . think on what you do, " she replied, 441 never
good," arid lifting her hand, she said,
before, and had been guilty of
think ; what I do is done in, a moment,
must These. were the last words I heard her utter. She had
if I discharged her, she would do some
often stopped main rhe male way
many other irregularities; but As had always ahOWII. so violent a
disposition, that I feared,
injury to the fathily. She has lived With me 16 months ; she
tame to me feom Dr. Gardner, who took her into his service on
her being diseberged from the Treed-rnill.
The constable who took her deposed that she was then drunk.
As there was no evidence which could bring the crime home
to the prisoner, she was discharged.