The Sun.
London, England, 1828-01-16 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

bEW V. CLARKE.

Mr. ROUPEL made an application in this case for
a Habeas Corpus, for the purpose of enabling Mr.
Clarke, who was a prisoner in the Fleet for con.
tempt of Court, to be present at the hearing of an
appeal, that was to be heard in the Court of Dele-
gates this day. Mr. Roupel was instructed to
make the motion yesterday; but in consequence of
his Lordship being engaged elsewhere, he could not.
This was, in fact, an appeal motion for an order
of the Vice-Chancellor. The application had been
made before him with notice to the other side, and
he dismissed it with costs. The present motion was
ex-parte.
His LORDSUIP thought the issuing of a Habeas
Corpus would be of very little use, because, if upon
the return being read it appeared the party had been
committed for contempt, which according to Mr.
Roupel's statement he had, he should at once order
notice to be given to the other side.—The Court
therefore refused the application.

CORBETT. V. CORBETT.
The Court was proceeding with this appeal when
we left.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.
PROSECUTION FOR BLASPHEMY.
THE KING V. TAYLOR AND OTHERS.

As it was generally understood that the prosecu-
tion of the Reverend Orator of the Areopagus and
his associates, for a conspiracy, would come on this
day, a considerable number of persons assembled be-
fore the doors were opened, and it became extremely
difficult for the officers of the Court to keep unoc-
cupied the seats usually appropriated to the Coun-
sel and others connected with the Court. We
were gratified to observe that the female portion of
the auditory was not so numerous as on the occasion
of the former trial, though there were some well-
dressed persons of that sex present.
Mr. Taylor and the other defendants came into
Court at as early hour, the former dressed in full
canonicals, with white kid gloves, dress shoes and
stockings, and all the attributes of modern dandyism.
Lord TENTERDEN took his seat at the usual hour,
and entered upon the first cause on the list, which
was a question of account, and occupied the Court
until within twenty minutes of two o'clock, when
Lord TENTERDEN asked the Attorney-General,
whether, as the prosecution against Mr. Taylor was
likely to occupy a very long time, it would not be
better to postpone it until to-morrow ?
After some consultation between the Counsel on
both sides, it was arranged that it should stand the
first case on the paper for to-morrow.

OLD BAILEY-(THIS DAY.)

NEW COURT.

All the trials having been concluded last night, the
Recorder this day proceeded to pass sentence on the pri.
soners. The following received sentence of death :—John
Llandaff Darney, for forgery; Daniel M'Carthy, Henry
Sutton, and Anthony Bernard, for stealing in dwelling
houses; William Alkin, Robert Ryan, Samuel Smith,
Thomas Floodgate, Michael Andrews, Henry Nichols, and
Richard Jones, for grand larceny ; Matthew Green, Wm.
Godfrey, and Thomas Newman, far hsrse-stealing ; Thomas
Collinson, for burglary ; James Tomlinson, for stealing a
cow and calf; and Nicholas Hennigan, for shooting at R.
Taylor. This prisoner, a man about sixty-five, declared
that he was innocent even in thought, of baying intended
any harm to the prosecutor.
The following were transported for life :.--James Ro-
binson and Bigley Hermitage.
For Fourteen Years.—Robert Turner, John Jones,
Eleanor Lewis, Charlotte Johnson, Mary King, Sarah
Mosely, William Mitchell, Joseph Davis, alias Thomas
Brown, William Woodville, Mary Sherbourne, Timothy
Cochrane, and John Phillips.
Forty-seven were sentenced for seven years, and a great
number fur minor periods of imprisonment.

LORD BYRON.—His Lordship did not like
to see women eat, and would merrily say, that he had
another reason for not liking to dine with them ; which
was, that they always had the wings of the chicken!—
Leigh Hunt.

The wine countries have fewer poets who have
sung the virtues of their heart-rejoicing liquor than the
beer countries ; the fact is while in the latter the people
sing about it, they drink it in the former. It is the same
with love songs.—Exeter Alfred.
The appearance of severe winter weather is
again dissipated. A thaw set in on Saturday morning, and
has continued ever since. Yesterday we had a good deal
of rain ; in consequence of this our streets are in their
usual disgraceful state whenever a frost breaks up after
snow.—Caledonian Mercury.

CIIURCII PREFERMENT.--The Rev. W,

Ilunr.tnn, M.A., Fellow and Tutor of Trinity Hall,
Cambridge, and Chaplain to the LORD CIIANCYLLOR, to
the impropriate Rectory of Llangeler, in the county of
Carmarthen. Patron, the 1(11444.

The handsome sum of 10001. has been given
by the Barons of Exchequer, to be appropriated for the
purpose of building a wall around the Palace of Spynie, and
making such improvements as will tend to beautify this
ruin.—Edinburgh Evening Courant.
THE LATE MR. CA NNI NG.---•The Rev.
PETER. Roy, whose evangelical zeal is well known, was
the county Kilkenny agent, and intimate associate of the

late lamented Premier : alluding to his death, in an address
referring to the uncertainty of life and all earthly honours,
says—" A sense of justice to his character, as well as of
gratitude for hiS kindness, constrains me to remark, that in
the prospect of death, he founded his hope of eternal happi-
ness solely upon the merits of his Redeemer."—Cork Mer-
cantile Chronicle.

The Brahnzin, POWER, master, of and from
London, for Bilhoa, during a thick fog mistaking the Ness
Rock for Berry Head, struck on Teignmouth Bar; but by
the prompt assistance of boats from the shore, she was got
off, and brought into the harbour, without having sus-
tained any injury. She has on board a very fine elephant,
intended as a present to the King of SPAIN. —Exeter
Alfred.

We hare hitherto abstained from noticing
the recent military disturbances at Windsor, which have
furnished so fruitful a theme for our local contemporaries ;
but a fresh outrage during the present week goes far to dis-
pel the hope that the temporary irritation caused by them
would subside. On Wednesday, a party of the 21st Fusi-
leers, who had been drinking at one of the public-houses,
had an altercation with the landlord, who, declining to fur-
nish them with more beer, was inimediatelyknocked down ;
a respectable tradesman in Peascod-street, who witnessed
the transaction, remonstrated with the soldiers, but only
shared a similar fate ; and a peace-officer who was sent for
was violently assaulted, Application was then made to the
guard-room at the Castle, and the ringleader was secured,
and taken to the barracks, to await further inquiry. It
would perhaps be desirable to have the offenders in these
cases consigned to the civil
power, as the publicity then at_
tending on their trial and sentence would have a beneficial
example, which is lost in the privacy
necessarily attending
on courts-martial.—Reading Mercury.
WEST OF ENGLAND
GR M
AND USICAL
FESTIVAL—A larger or more splendid assemblage of No-
bility and Gentry never visited Exeter upon any similar
Concerts under the spirited direction
occasion than at the
of Mr. PADDON, held at CPl*{G."N'.l; Piiblic rooms on Tues-
day, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday last. The per-
formances consisted of two selections of sacred music, on
the mornings of Thursday and Friday,
and three evening
concerts, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday. Notwith-
standing the inclemency of the weather on Tuesday even
ing, the company began to pour in early ; and by the time
all had arrived, the room might be said to contain be-
tween four and five hundred persons of the highest rank
and respectability. The principal vocalists were Miss
PATox, Miss FoanE, Mr. SAyio, and Mr. PHILLIPS ;
and the band was led by Mr. LODER, aided by the cele-
brated Mr. LINDLYY, on the violoncello; Mr. NicHor.-
soN, on the flute; and many others of high celebrity in
the musical world. The festival was highly successful,.—.
Exeer Alfred.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
Upon his Lordship taking his seat this morning,
several applications were made by Counsel, that
many of the appeals might be allowed to stand over,
in consequence of the absence of Mr. Heald and
Mr. Home.

Mr. PEPYS said he had received a note from Mr.
Heald, in which he eras requested to state to the
Court, that for the purpose of preventing any delay,
he had returned the briefs in many of the appeals in
which he was concerned.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-(TIIIS DAY

MANSION-HOUSE.
Two lawyers' clerks, as they stated themselves
be, were placed at the bar before the LORD MAYO
charged by a brace of watchmen with kicking UP
row at twelve o'clock last night, breaking the g
lamps, and throwing snow balls at them, (the watt
men) to the discomfiture of their dignified penal
and to the disturbance of the respectable inhabits°
of that part of the city called St. Dunstao's-bill,
Tower Ward.

John Read, one of the guardians of the aboi
ward, stated the case, after which he called in ti
aid of two more of his fraternity, who, in spite'
what the unlucky quill-drivers said and attempted t
say, proved (of course) what their comrade, Bea"
had alleged.
The LORD MAYOR awarded them to pay a wait
of 13s. 6d. for their fun in smashing the lamps, 0
to reward the watchmen with two shillings each !'
the trouble of taking them into custody, whit
having done, and given a proinise that they woel
never more wantonly throw snow-balls, nor amo
themselves by breaking lamps, they were suffere
to depart.