The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-26 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JA c. 25.
STEVENS AND curry.
Mr. ROMILLY applied, at the rising of the Court,
to request that the Chancellor would give judgment
in this case. He was instructed to say, that great
distress and agony of mind had been endured by the
parties, owing to the delay which had hitherto taken
place.
His LoßDstuP promised judgment at a very early
day.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JAN. 25.
THE KING V. TIIE MAYOR AND CORPORATION OF

DONCASTER.

This was a rule calling upon the Mayor and Cor-
poration of Doncaster to show cause why a writ, of
mandamus should not issue, directing them to admit
as a freeman of that borough a person of the name
of Buckland, who claimed his freedom from having
been articled for seven years to a gentleman of the
name of Mason, an attorney, in the town of Don-
caster.

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (with whom was Mr.
PATTERSON) now appeared to show cause against
the rule. The short question was, whether an at-
torney was to be considered as a person in trade, ac-
cording to the general meaning of that term..
After a few words from the ATTORNEY-GENERAL
in support of the rule,
Lord TENTERDEN said, it was quite clear that this
could not be considered as an apprenticeship to a
trade. In some cases it would be difficult to say
what was and what was not a trade, but there could
be no difficulty in saying that an attorney was not
a trader.—The Rule discharged with costs.

TIME ICING V. JAMES BROWN, ESQ.
The ATTORNEY-GENERAL (with whom was Mr.
ALDERSON) appeared to show cause against a rule
obtained last term, at the instance of Sir Wm. Bra-
bazon, High Sheriff of the county of Mayo, calling
upon the defendant to show cause why a criminal
information should not be filed against him, for the
publication of a libel. The Learned Counsel observed,
that the alleged libel was in the form of a speech,
purporting to have been delivered by Mr. Brown, in
his place in Parliament. A considerable portion of
the affidavits filed on applying for the rule, consisted
in details, for the purpose of showing that Mr.
Brown was the author of the alleged libellous
speech. He, however, would at once admit Mr.
Brown to be the author of the matter complained of,
and would avow also that Mr. Brown had sent it for
publication in a London paper; and having done so,
he would now proceed to show that Mr. Brown was
fully justified in making the statements contained in
his speech, or, at all events, that Sir William Bra-
bazon was not entitled to the extraordinary interpo-
sition of the Court, which, by the present rule, he
sought to obtain, but must be left to the ordinary
remedy of action or indictment. The Learned
Counsel then proceeded ta read the speech from a
morning paper which he held in his band; it was of
considerable length, and commenced by observing
that men invested with great power should be pre-
vented from inflicting on society the greatest crime
known to the law, and that there were men now
at large who had entered into a conspiracy to com-
mit such a crime. It then went on to state, in sub-
stance, that at the election for the county of Mayo
in June last, Lord Bingham and the defendant were
candidates; that the defendant, for the purpose of
preventing a tumult taking place after the election,
had declined being chaired, but that, as be and some
of his friends were proceeding out of the town of
Castlebar, where the election took place, a body of
men, armed with stones, suddenly sprang upon a
wall near the highway, and assailed his carriage by
throwing stones in great numbers at it ; that the
horses were. stunned, and ultimately knocked down;
that one per Son was killed on the spot, several were
wounded, and every gentleman in the carriage
severely wounded—the defendant himself having
several of his ribs fractured; that a public inquiry
was instituted into the outrages, the result of which
had shown that Sir William IBrabazon bad received
direct and repeated information from the chief con-
stable of police, that a scheme of murder bad been
long before organized, and was to be put in exe-
cution on the day of the election, in order to
give it the colour of a mob tumult; that Sir
William Brabazon neglected to interfere to prevent
the outrages, and refused the assistance of the officers
of the police to allay them. The speech, after
stating a variety of minor particulars, concluded by
saying that if such a proceeding were to be allowed
to pass unpunished, the only inference to be drawn
from it would be, that the sheriff and several lawless
wretches could enter into a conspiracy to render the
civil office unavailing, and that he could do that with
impunity in virtue of his office, for which any other
man in the empire would be hanged. The Attor-
ney-General then detailed at great length the con-
tents of the affidavits filed in opposition to the rule
on the part of Mr. Brown. They stated, that Sir
W. Brabazon, previous to the election, had notice of
the premeditated attack afterwards made by the
mob; that Major Warburton applied to him to
know what number of men he would require to pre-
serve the peace, and offered to furnish him with
any force that he might think necessary ; that before
it was known that there would not be a contest, he re-
quested to have 300 men, but afterwards stated that
30 would be sufficient : that on the morning of the 24th
of June, when the election took place, a great
number of persons in the interest of Lord Bingham
(who had previously declared their intentioia to riot)
assembled in the Court-house, having broken open
the doors; that on their coming into the town they
shouted for Lord Bingham; and denounced ven-
geance on the Brown party; that they had armed
themselves with bludgeons and boughs of trees, and
went about crying out "Down with the Browns;"
some of them swearing that they would kick the
Brown party out of the town; that previous to the
actual outrages taking place, Sir Wm. Brabazon
was aware that there was every indication of a
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many of the expressions that were uttered by the
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and on being applied to after cries of murder were
heard, he coolly said, " Never mind it, it does not
signify," and immediately sat don n in Lord B.'s
committee-room to take refreshments.
Mr. BROUGIADI rose to support the rule, but was
interrupted by •
Lord TENTERDEN, who said it was too late to
go on with the case today.
The further arguments were then postponed till
to-morrow (this day).

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An American Paper contains the following :
,4 We are sorry in our criticism on the last new Melo-
drame, we forgot to mention the actors engaged in it."
Hfrb
was dining with the Earl of EGILEMONT, at a time when
one of his Lordship's sons had, for some cause of offence,
been
rMesonAcJe.ESTHYis Royal Highness undertook
, when Prince of Wales,
to effect a reconciliation, and after dinner requested leave to
introduce a friend; Lord Ecassorr of course consented,
and his son appeared, but was ordered immediately to quit
the room. "I am honoured,' said the Noble Earl,
ad-
dressing the Prince, " by the presence of your Royal High-
ness, but I will be master of my own house."—North
Wales Chronicle.
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BLANDFORD.--Un Monday the 14th inst.,
a fellow, whose conduct proves that he possesses more of
the savage disposition of brutes, than of the generous feel-
ings of human nature, named JOHN JENKINS, carter to
\V. G. Parrorr, Esq., of Henbury-house, was driving his
master's waggon from Poole, loaded with coals, when one
of the horses not proceeding so fast as he wished, he took
a sharp knife and stabbed it in the belly, with such vio-
lence that a large portion of the bowels protruded through
the wound, which the unfeeling monster immediately cut
off; the poor injured animal.was still urged forwards, and
as the bowels forced itself out, it was cut off by this merci-
less brute, until the unfortunate creature fell down, and
died almost instantly. JENKINS, who has thus disgraced
the name of man, was taken into custody, and on Thurs-
day committed to Dorchester gaol, to take his trial for the
offence.—Dorset Chronicle.