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London, England, 1845-06-02 00:00:00

COURT OF CHANCERY. llav 30.

The Lord Chancellor sat in his Court, at Westminster, to-day,
and took cause petitions am/ appeals, none of which were of any
interest.

ROLLS' cower. May 30.
The Master of the Rolls, after disposing of the case of Farquhar
v. The East India Company, heard short causes.

VI CE-CHAACE_LLORS' COURT, Mar/ 30.'
The Vice-Chancellor of England heard unopposed causes, peti-
tions, and short causes to.day, after disposing of which the Court
rose before twelve o'clock, in consequence of the absence of ➢lr.
Bethell and Mr. Stuart, who were engaged in the House of Lords.
(Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGIIT BRUCE.)
His Honour took cause petitions and motions to-day.
(Before Sir J. WIGRAM.)
His Honour, after disposing of the case
causes, and having disposed of all
twelve o'clock.

or Bolton st. Ward, heard
in the paper, rose shortly after

otTMIVIER CIRCUITS

_alursday the Judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench,
Comma Pleas, and Exchequer, previous to the sittings
of the Courts, met in the Exchequer Chamber to choose
and arrange the several Circuits upon which they will
proceed at the ensuing Summer Assizes, when it was
fixed they should proceed as follows ;
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.—Mr. Baron Alderson and Mr.
Justice Williams.
Hosts CIRCUIT.—The Right Hon. the Lord Chief
Justice of the Common Pleas (Sir N. C. Tindal), and
Mr. ,Justice Coleridge.
OXFORD CIRCUIT.—The Right lion. Lord Denman
and Mr. Justice Patteson.
MIDLAND CIRCUIT.—The Lord Chief Baron (Sir F.
Pollock) and Mr. Justice Maule.
WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Mr. Justice Erie and Mr. Baron
Platt.
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Mr. Baron Rolfe and Mr. Jus-
tice Cresswell.
NORTH AND SOUTH WALES AND CHESTER.—Mr.
Baron Parke, North Wales ; and Mr. Justice Coltman,
South Wales to meet at Chester.

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Mr. Justice Wightman will remain in town as the vu-
cation Judge.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
On Thursday Thomas Cox, a dock labourer. living in
Whitecross-street, was brought before Mr. Al lerman
Challis, charged with assaulting his son, George Cox,
with a poker.
Hannah Cox, the wife, a decant-looking woman, said
she was frequently beaten by her husband. He was in
the habit of spending what he earned, and this led to
strife at home. She did not wish to tunish him for the
assault upon herself, but she rather came to give evidi nei
for her son, who rise married and living separate fr.im
them. Her husband had beaten her, and she was lying
on the bed on Miinday when her son came up. He saw
what had happened, and said it was no man that would
beat a woman. Her husband started up, and ordered
him to leave the room. The son replied he had called
to see his mother, and he should not go. Her husband
took up the poker, and struck him with it. It was
feared her son was seriously injured, and the father was
taken into custody by the police.
George Cox, whose arm was in a sling, sated that
upon calling to see his mother he heard: below stairs
that his father had been beating her dreadfully. Ile
went up stairs, and found her lying on the bed with her
hair hanging loose about. He asked her what was the
matter ? She replied, " Nothing ;" but his father said
he would not put up with her abuse. Witness told him
he did not behave like a man to her. His father seized
the poker, ard ordered him to leave the room. This he
refused to do, and his father struck at his head with the
poker. Witness warded the blow off with his arm. He
was obliged to go to the doctor, who said his arm was
not broken, but the bone was severely injured.
Mr. Alderman CHALLts told the prisoner this appeared
to be an aggravated assault, and he should be glad to
hear anything he could offer in excuse.
The prisoner replied, when a son liftedhis arm against
his father, what would not a man do ? He admitted he
struck at the wainscoat in a moment of irritation. He
had a most abusive wife, who gave him " tongue-pie"
for supper, and tongue again at bretkfast. Ilis case
would maw sympathy from evi.ry gentleman in Court if
he-could tell it. His sin told him in his own place that.
he had been " at his tricks again, and he would not have
it."

Mr. Alderman CHALLIS said, however much his wife
might abuse him, it would not justify ;he resort to blows;
and if he did not learn to control his temper, he would
conimit murder some day and be hanged. Ile had nearly
committed that crime even now upon his own sen. He
should commit him to the sessions, as the magistrates
there could punish him more severely than magistrates
sitting out of sessions. He ordered def.aulant to find
bail, nitnself in 201., and two sureties in 101. each.
The prisoner was committed in default of sureties.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
On the police-sheet on Thursday was a charge against
Mr. T. Rickardson, a tailor, No. 119, Jermyn-street, for
violently assaulting George Barry, a person of no occu-
pation, at No. 7, Carlisle-street, Leicester-square."
When the charge was called on, the defendant came
forward, hut the complainant did not make his appear-
ance. The defendant, as a matter of course, was dis-
charged. He then begged to make a statement to the
Bench, as he was very seriously injured, and wished to
have a warrant against the person who had attacked him.
The applicant, whose face was much bruised and his
head badly cut, was desired to enter the witness-box to
make his application to the Court.'
He said, on his return from Epsom the previous day,
he stopped at the Cock at Merton. There he met with
a lady, with whom he entered into conversation, and ulti-
mately received a card, having the name and address on
it of " Mrs. James, No. 7, Carlisle-street," with an invi-
tation to call on the lady. When he reached town, he
paid a visit to Carlisle.street, about twelve o'clock at
night. Having again met with the lady, he gage a person
a sovereign to get a bottle of Champaigne. He fell asleep
In the room, hut was suddenly awakened by the noise
made by a man who was running about the room with
a poker in his hand, and asserting that he (applicant)
had made himself improperly familiar with his cite. The
lady, who was in the room, denied that this man was her
husband. The man declared he was, and applicant, in
order to extricate himself from his unpleasant situation,
said he would leave the house if his sovereign were re-
turned. The man would not be pacified, and applicant
was proceeding down stairs, when finding himself con-
fronted by the man who still brandished the poker, he
was in self•defence obliged to knock him down. A ser-
vant girl supplied the man with a brass candlestick, and
the man immediately used this as a weapon of offence
and applicant was beaten on the face, cut on the head,
and eventually thrust into a room, the door of which
was locked on him. The noise made in his efforts to pro-
cure his liberation ultimately led to the appearance of a
police-constable, into whose custody he was given by the
man who bad assaulted him. Applicant was conveyed to
the station-house, and the charge, as above, entered on
the police-sheet. Applicant, however, was liberated
from the station-house on bail, between three and four
o'clock the same morning.
Mr. HARDWICK ' directed that a summons against the
party complained of should be granted.
MA Il Y LEB ONE. _ _

Thursday, a very well dressed man, named Richani
Johnson, was brought up at the instance of Mr. Barker,
Superintendent of the London and Birmingham Rail.
way Company's police, and placed at the bar before Mr.
Long, charged with having wilfully broken a pane ol
glass, and done other damage to a carriage, to the amount
of 30s. •
Bartholomew, one of the guards in the employ of the
Company, deposed that on the same evening the de-
fendant was in a first-class carriage, having taken his
seat at Rugby. On his way to London he several times
knocked at the window with his fists, and shouting loudly
to witness, said that he was bring taken in a wrong di-
rection, alleging at the same time that he was on the
Brighton-road, which was a most shameful imposition
attempted to be practised upon him.
Defendant--You can't tell anything about what may
have happened, you were fast asleep yourself for nearly
fifty miles.
Mr. LONG (to witness)— Did the defendant appear to
be in liquor? Witness--He seemed to be more mad than
drunk, your worship; and every now and then, on his
way from Tying, he kept hallooing and calling out at the
top of his voice.
Defendant—lt's all false ; this man will swear any-
thing.
Fusford, another guard, said, that on the arrival of the
train at Camden station, he found the window broken
and one of the window-curtains torn down; the de-
fendant refused to give up his ticket, and altogether be-
haved very strangely; he was then given into custody.
Mr. LONG (to defendant)--What have you to say to
this ? Defendant—lt's all true about my pulling down
the curtain, but I never broke the glass.
Mr. LoNe—Have you any witness to call? Defendant
—No; certainly not.
Mr. LONG—You will pay 30s. for the damage you
'have done.
Defendant (to the witnesses)—How much do you re-
icure for telling lies ? Let me know the amount you
want for coming here and I'll settle with you for your
services, and pay the penalty at the same time.
Defendant here pulled out his purse, from which he
drew a 101. note, and handed it to Franklin, the usher,
mato in a few minutes brought him the required change.
Defendant (to Mr. Fell, the chief clerk)—Now, Sir,
will you be so good as to let me have a receipt ? In my
part of the country we always do things in a straight-
forward regular sort of manner, and we like to have
some kind of acknowledgment for what we pay.
Mr: Fell—We can give you no receipt, Sir ; it is not
usual to do anything of the sort. The amount which
you have paid is a matter of record in the books of the
I Court.
Defendant—That's all very well, as far as it goes; but
I think I am entitled to a receipt.
Defendant was again told that his request would not
be complied with ; and as he was leaving the Court he
said, "I hope that the fellows who have sworn so falsely
against me will have their necks broken the first time
they go down by the train again."

ALEERT•GATE.—It is said that one of the new
and magnificent structures recently erected at Knightsbridge, at
the corner of the new entrance to Ilyde-park, called the Albert-
gate, has been purchased by a Noble Duke for the. large sum of
15,0001
THE LATE THOMAS Hoop.—The subscription of
301. was on Wednesday paid in by an anonymous contributor to the
fund now in prowss of collection in honour of this eminent poet,
and in aid of bis bereaved family,