The Sun.
London, England, 1842-04-27 00:00:00

ROLL S' COURT.-(THIS DAY.)

STRICKLAND V. STRICKLAND.
Mr. K indersly for the defendant resumed tu• day at the sit-
ting of the Court.
The arguments were proceeding when we went to press.

VICE-CHANCERY-(TI-11S DAY.)
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND. )
His Howou it, the Vice-Chancellor of England, was engaged
the whole moiling with hearing cause petitions of no general
interest.

(Before Vice-Chancellor Wtattast.)
IiARNEY V. BOUSFIRLD.
His HONOUR, in giving judgment in this case, said the
question which he had reserved for decision was ptv-ely'a ques-
tion of fact. The plaintiff in the case alleged that he had
advanced a sum of money to his son, in order to enable him to
complete the purchase of an estate, of which the principal de-
fendant was a n,ortgagee ; and that he made that advance upon
terms of its being secured upon the estate in preference to the
mortgage of Wood, who was a second mortgagee of the estate.
His intention, when he reserved his judgment upon this point,
was, that in case he should doubt the testimony of the witnesses
he would give Wood the benefit of an is •ue, to try whether the
money had been advanced without any stipulations. Upon
looking over the evidence, he saw no reason to doubt that the
father had stipulated for the security. He must therefore
make his decree in this case in favour of the plaintiff.

QUEEN'S BENCH.-(THIS DAY.)
The Court waQ engaged the whole morning in hearing argu-
ments in cases in the Crown Paper, none of which were of
any public interest. The greater number of them were cases
of disputed settlements of paupers.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
Lord Abinger took his seat on the bench this morning, for
the first time during lite present term.

JONES V. GOODY.
This was an action of trespass tried before Chief
Justice Tindal, at the last assizes for the county of
Suffolk. The verdict was for the p'aintiff, with 5/., the
cost of the suit, subject to the opinion of the Court in
the case. The defendant was one of the Commissioners
of cleansing and paving for the borough of Sudbury. In pur-
suance of an order from some of his colleagues, communicated
to him through the clerk, he proceeded to widen a drain in the
suburbs of the borough ; and in doing so, he cut off part of a
field, the property of the plaintiff. This was the ground of the
action which the plaintiff brought. The main question in dis-
pute was, whether the defendant could plead, in his defence,
the statute which protects a public officer, who. while he has
mistaken his duty, has acted, as he imagines, in the discharge
of his office.

Mr. KELLY contended that the defendant could not plead
the statute, on the ground that he had not been legally em-
powered to act at all on the occasion, inasmuch as he had not
received an order from five of the Commissioners in the first
instance, as the law required. The Learned Gentleman fur-
ther contended, that a tender of 101. which had been made to
the plaintiff, on condition that he stayed the action, should be
paid into Court.

The COURT was of opinion that the defendant was protected
by the statute, inasmuch as he was a public officer, and as he
had reason to believe that he was only acting in the discharge of
his duty. The Learned Judges did not think that the tenier
of le/. should be paid into Court, as the plaintiff had refused
it, and had preferred to bring the action.

COMMON PLEAS.--(THIS DAY.)

CALLENDER V. DITRICH.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, an English
merchant, againtt the defendant, a Prussian merchant, for the
sum of 700/.' 10s., which he had paid him on a contract that
the defendant should supply him with a cargo of Prussian
tares, in good condition and well shipped. On their arrival
here from Konigsberg, they were; found to be in bad condition,
and to have not been carefully shipped. Upon this plaintiff
brought his action in Konigsbell, for, breach of contract, and
the Prussian Court decided against his claim, on the ground
that he had brought it too late. Plaintiff and defendant being
both residents in London, the plaintiff brought a new action,
which was tried in this Court at the sittings in London. when
a verdict was taken for the plaintiff, subject to the decision of
the Court as to how far, in the peculiar circumstances, the
Prussian judgment excluded this Court.
Mr. Sergeant BOMPAS accordingly obtained a rule nisi to
enter a verdict for the defendant.

Against this rule Mr. Sergeant CMANNELL showed cause,
and was speaking when we went to press.

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INSOLVENT COURT-(THIS DA Y.)
Fourteen town bail cases, and a like number of country bail
cases were upon the list for hearing in Court this morning,
the greater part of which were got through without oppo-
sition. None of them presented the slightest point of general
interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE,

BOW•STREET._(THIS DAY.)
A big stout woman, with a baby in her arms, was charged
with the following assault :
" Gentlemen," said the prosecutrix, a buxom little widow
who still wore the sombre weeds in recollection of the departed
one, " she cum to me place, she interrupted me lodgers, and
used bad language all she could ; I begged and prayed of her
to go.out, howsomdever stead of, she makes no more ado, but
drags me into the kennel by the hair of the head and ill uses me."
William Neale deposed, " I was in my landlady's place, ahe
cum in and abuses a lodger of my landlady's, my landlady
orders her away from the door; says she, I shan't go. •
wanted to put her away, but she shoves past me, while she
cotched hold of my landlady by the hair of the head ; I then
any landlady, which she bit my hand, and got her away from
a goin to the station-house she threatened as she'd get me done
for by some pals o' hers out o' the Dials, which she lives there,
gentlemen. '

- The prisoner, who spoke in a rapid tone of voice, and who
was evidently a most powerful virago, said that she went to
see the father of her babby, who lived in the complainant's
house. The complainant struck her first.
Complainant denied this allegation.
TwyFonn (to complainant)—What do you wish me to
d.) with this prisoner? Complainant—Why, gentlemen, I
don't want her to come near me no more. There's me cap
that went into the kennel, and likewise myst If.
Mr. Tw YFORD—WeII, I must convict her at once.
The prisoner was ordered to pay a fine of 10s. to the Queen,
or go to prison for seven days.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
(THIS DAY.)
Samuel IVilks, alias '° Flash Sam," was placed at the bar on
the following charge :—Police sergeant, No. 16, of the C di-
, I vision, stated that the prisoner had for a considerable time
is been known to the police as a suspected character ; he was in
the habit of nightly prowling about the Haymarket, at times
driving a cab, as a " Luck, ' when the hem ,ed driver was
either too drunk or indolent to do so. On such occasions he
sometimes was hired by " a gentleman overtaken in liquor."
!s About three o'clock this morning witness saw the prisoner with
is another " buck.' endeavouring to irduce an individual whose
dress and appearance bespoke respectability, but who was ex-
tremely intoxicated, to enter a cab, the prisoner offering to
s, drive the gentleman safely home. Witness seeing that the
a party had a diamond brooch-pin, finger-ring, and a splendid
watch and guard-chain about him, interfered and sent a pulice•
constable home Kith the gentleman to his reAdence at the
west-end of the town, and it appears that be hail
, between 2001. and 3001. in his pockets, in Bank of
t England notes and sovereigns. So totally unconscious was he
of what he was doing that he pressed wit,ess to accept
At his watch, as a reward for his taking care of him. On the pri-
soner finding his object of plunder defeated, he abused wit.
it ness in a very gross manner, and made use of obscene lan-
ce guag-e, which, on being conveyed to the station-house, he re-
tll peated.

The prisoner said the gentleman was a school-fellow of his,
and the police had no right to interfere. His " friend had
,e stood six bottles of sherry since half-past one o'clock," and why
id shouldn't they be comfortable together?
id r. HAanwicx said that he would never allow the use of
obscene langual/e in the public streets to pass unpunished
sshile he had the power to do so. He should therefore fine the
prisoner 405., and, in default of payment, commit him for one
month.
The prisoner not having the amount of the fine,

, was locked up

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woRsHiP-STREET—(TIIS DAY.)
UNFOUNDED CHARGE.-Mr. William Henry Goodwin, a
tobacconist, carrying on business in Red Lion-street, Clerken-
well, was placed at the bar upon a charge of having stolen a
ring, value 155., the property of Mr. Wells, landlord of The
Princ. of VV ales public-house, Banner-street, St. Luke's.
It appeared that the parties had been drinking together at
different public houses until they both became intoxicated, and
they were about to take leave of each other when the com-
plainant missed the ring off his finger, and charged the de-
fendant with having stolen it, and, notwithstanding his protes-
tation to the contrary, he gave him into custody. The ring
was found in the road some time afterwards, by a sergeant of
the G division.
The defendant complained bitterly of the scandalous manner
in which he had been treated by the complainant, with whom
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he had been some time intimate, and who was well aware that
he was incapable of such an action.
Mr. BROUGHTON immediately dismissed the charge, and
advised the defendant to commence an action against his ac-
cuser for false imprisonment.

NATIONAL CONVENTION.
(THIS DAY.)
The Convention met this morning at nine o'clock.
Mr. DUNCAN took the chair.
Several h'tters were teal from different parts of the country,
expressive of confidence in the Convention.
was proposed to draw up an addre3s to the
working sou
krinegcllotmn
sies, advising them to desist from any outbreak.
Mr. BEESLEY thought that the people ought, in the present
distress, to be left to their own discretion. They had been
addressed too often, for they found that no good resulted.
I he resolution was however carried by a large majority.
The Convention adjourned till to-morrow.

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A letter from I3oulogne, in the Gautte de
Flandre, states.that an English medical man, named O'Reilly,
residing in that town, has abjured the Protestant religion, and
become a Roman Catholic. The Card:nal Bishop of Arras
administered the sacrament of baptism to him in public, and
received his profession of faith.
A public meeting is to be held in the Town-lall at
Bath, on Wednesday next, at which Mr. Roebuck will be pr, s-
sent. • In a letter addressed to his constituents, he prounisest 9
state his reasons for the conduct be has pursued in Parliament, .
and answer some of the charges brought against him.