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London, England, 1842-07-04 00:00:00

CHANCERY COURT-7(THIS..DAY

Neither the Lord Chancellor or the Vice Chancellor of Eng-
land sat in their Courts to-day, in consequence, we under-
stand, of having to leave town for Cambridge, to attend the
installation of the Duke of Northumberland as Chancellor of
that University.

ROLLS' COURT.-(THIS DAY.

SMITH V. HENLEY.

The bill in this case was filed by the plaintiff, to have a spe-
cific agreement performed.
The plaintiff had entered into an agreement with an auc-
tioneer, named Warren, to have a lease granted him of certain
premises situated at Lumpton, near Hounslow, for twenty-one
years, at 801. a }ear. The property belonged to a
Mr. Ete, who subsequently, upon the plaintiff repair-
ing the premises at a cost of 127/. refused to grant
the lease. After some time, however, he agreed to allow
the lease to be drawn up, 'but before it was prepared,
lie went abroad and died, leaving the defendants as his lega-
tees and executors. They, upon the plaintiff applying to them
for the purpose, refused to grant the lease, alleging that there
never wa.s any agreement entered into to that effect.
The plaintiff now filed the bill in order to have the agree-
ment performed.
Lord LAN a DALE, after recapitulating all the circumstances
of the case, directed an issue, for the purpose of ascertaining
whether any' such agreement as was alleged on the part of the
plaintiff had ever been entered into. He did nut think he
could dismiss the bill.

VICE-CHANCERY.-(TFLIS DAY

(Before Vice-Chancellor BRIJ CE. )
DAMES V. OAKES.

His Horrouu gave judgment in this cause, which was part
heard on Saturday. The question related to the omission of a
rent-charge of 425. from a deed which was prepared by the de-
fendants. The facts were wholly uninteiesting, and the case
turned chiefly upon parole evidence of a very contradictory
character. His Honour directed an issue for the purpose of
determining the rights of the parties.

COMMON PLEAS-(THIS DAY
( Sittings in London. )
GIBSON V. BRUN.

This was an action brought by the official assignee to re-
cover from the defendant, for the creditors at large, the amount
of two bills of exchange (for 208/.), alleged to have been paid
to the defendant by an undue preference.
For the defendant' it was shown that the bills were given and
became due, and were paid, some time previous to the bank-
ruptcy, and that the bankrupt had several other dealings sub-
sequently with the defendant.
The Jury, without Lesitat:on, found for the defendant.

CRIMINAL COURT.-TIIIS DAY

OLD COURT.

The sessions at the Old Bailey commenced this morning,
before the Right Hon. the Lord ;Mayor, Alderman Sir Chap-
man Marshall, Mr. Alderman Lainson, the Sheriffs, and the
Common Sergeant.
The Grand Jury having been sworn,
. The CO3IMON SERGEANT, in the absence of the Recorder,
briefly delivered the charge to the Jury. He said their labours
would be light, owing to the short time which had elapsed since
the last session, and he was happy to say that the offences con-
tained in the calendar were, comparatively speaking, of trifling
importance. One case to which he would allude was a ease.eq
piracy. 11th and 12th of William 111., chap. 7, provided
for these cases, by which it was enacted, that any person laying
violent hands upon a ship, contrary to the orders of her com-
mander, that person would be guilty of piracy. It Vould appear
in the evidence that the parties charged had on the 2.3 d of Fe-
bruary last seized the ship in which they were employed, and
not only assaulted the captain and the mate, but grievously as-
saulted the captain's wife also. The next case to which he
would allude was that of a man of the name of Gardner, who was
charged with stealing a post-office letter. The letter had been
delivered into the custody of the letter-carrier, but he having for
a moment laid it dosn, the prisoner was seen to take
it up and secret it in another room of the Post-
office. It would be necessary for them well to consider
this case, as it was one which involved the character of several
persons connected with the Post-office. The next case to
which he would make allusion was that of robbery from the.
person of a deaf and dumb man. He merely alluded to this
ease to say, that the prosecutor was perfectly competent to give
evidence in a Court of Justice, as a person would be provided
who would interpret his meaning. These were the only cases
which occurred to him necessary to niake any remarks upon,
and he should theiefere at once dismiss the Jury to the dis-
charge of their duties.
The calendar contains the names of 97 prisoners for trial.
Two are; charged with burglary, five of uttering and having in
their possession counterfeit coin, three cutting and wounding,
six embezzlement, one forgery and uttering forged instru-
ments, one house-breaking and larceny, forty-five larceny,
three larceny in a dwelling-house, seven larceny from the
person, eleven larceny from a servant, one stealing a post
letter, three misdemeanor, three revolt on board a ship, two
rape, three receiving stolen goods, &c., and one of robbery.
'1 he Court then proceeded to swear the common jury.

POLICE INTELLI G ENC E.

Y.)

UNION 11ALL.--(THIS DA
Caroline Harris and Mary Evans were charged with
selling spirits without a license.
Furniss, an Excise-officer, stated that on Sunday morning
he went, accompanied by another officer, to a house of ill fame,
in Falcon. court, having received private information that the
proprietor was in the habit of selling spirits of amost deleterious
description. Witness called for a quarters of gin, and was im-
mediately served with that quantity, when he and his brother
officer drank some, and afterwards took the defendants into
custody, they having sold them the spirits. Both officers after
drinking were seized with a kind of stupor from the deleterious
nature of the drink.—The defendants were remanded.

,

SUPPOSED THIRD
ATTEMPT ON THE LIFI
OP HER MA.UESTY.

(From a Second Edition of theDispafch.)
It is not without much regret ant indignation that
we 'find it our painful duty t- plane iefore 'the public
such particulars as, in our haste, we have been,
enabled to collect, regarding another supposed at-
tempt to destroy our beloved Queen. - A deed snore
dastardly can scarce be well conceives than that of
taking a sovereign's life by assassination ; arid we
may hope, for the sake of the English cleracter, that,
if such an endeavour ,was intended, tie miscreant
will be apprehended ere the sun goes down.
This day, at a few minutes before twelve o'clOcke
as her Majesty and Prince Albert were proceeding
their carriage through St. James's Park, attended
their suite, from Buckingham Palace to the CbaPflo
Royal, St. Junes's, another diabolical attempt wa9
thought to have been intended on the life Of her
Majesty, notwithstanding it was only yesterdftY
determined Francis should not suffer on the scaffold.
When the Royal cortege had proceeded a short
of
tance from the marble arch, towards 'the Duke °,
Sutherland's mansion, a young man of the naino °'
Dassett, residing at 42, Church-street, Paddington,
observed a deformed lad, having a large hump on his
right shoulder, and dressed in a long, shabby, brn
frock coat, and seemingly fustian trousers, lying '';,
crouched down by the side of one of the trees 0pP03.,
the railings of the Green Park ; his attention be'ns
particularly directed to him from a very singular.e,r4
pression of countenance, he saw that he had a prom
in his hand, which he at once seized and wrested frd
him, but not before it had been snapped and 111153etti
fire, although there was powder in the pan. rlis.
who was in company with his brother and uncle„. A
Jones, of North-street, Maids-hill, cohered the it
and informed a policeman of what he had seen, bat e
is stated he did not seem inclined to take the alai%

and the lad in some way escaped.
A crowd soon collected, and it was thought the
guilty party was Dassett himself, who had then 10'
session of the pistol, and he was taken to the Statio7
house in Gardiner's-lane. The pistol, upon heani°'
examined, was found to be loaded with a small (111‘45`.-.'
tity of powder, and a piece of tobacco-pipe ; -,ne
also very currently reported that there were 5°,,-,to
gravel stones in it, but this, it is stated by D9o6'
brother, is not the fact.
An examination of the witnesses took place,
expresses were sent to Sir James Graham and
Phillips.
The result of what occurred is, that the most actiol
exertions are being made to discover and apprehe
the party who was seen with the pistol, and Ncbicill
from his singular appearance, there is no doubt
soon be done. au
The Royal carriage, on each side of which t,
equerry was riding, was about twenty paces disttt,;,
when the lad, for he did not appear to be above. ?„,!,
teen years of age, was first seen as above descrt7lo
and, of course, there was an instantaneous rufh iS
see her Majesty as she passed, and this confusieno,
was that favoured the escape of the really guilty P3r„'e,
Up to two o'clock, Dassett was at the station-h°
and the other lad had not been traced.
The news soon spread like wildfire through tt
metropolis. and hundreds of people flocked t°
station-house to hear the result. What is the, tbi
motive for this, the third attempt, and so near, 010
same spot, against her Majesty, for that the piot°'
intended to be discharged for some purpose &relic(
be no.doubtof ',course is not known, but the clean it
shown to Francis has not apparently hal the ei
was supposed. 03'
By half-past two o'clock the people, who, till, but
sembled at the station-house, were all disperse' ;riedf
the spot in the park, where the circumstance oecit
' was thronged.

ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
° loCk,
This morning, shortly before twelve prince
as her Majesty and his Royal Highness "„tlie
Albert were proceeding in their carriage frol-toa•
Palace, through the Park, for the purpose of °`
ing Divine service in the Chapel Royal, St. .1°1,,c1,
a person about 18 years of age, with a hmul3
rather shabbily attired in a brown frock Net' tit°
light coloured fustian trousers, was observed h):0001
youths, brothers of the name of Dassett, to poll Doi
his pocket a pistol. Suspecting that he contouPt
mischief, they immediately seized the pistol, beato
the rush which took place at the moment t 0 :01,e
view of the Queen as she passed, the ruffian, s tlO
was favoured,- and we regret to say that, up t°,olo
moment (half-past four o'clock), the police has, tllO
succeeded in apprehending him. It is stateee
Dassett immediately informed a policeman of tit lice'
cumstance, and showed him the pistol. The
man however treated the matter lightly, but tliesistel
standers, seeing the instrument in his hand, ii,leciog
upon his being taken to the station-house, ht'''itiel
that he was the delinquent. He was 80°1
conveyed to Gardiner's-lane, where he still tee
in custody. to'stlf
Intelligence of these circumstances was Woes
dispatched to the Secretary of State for tfif
Department, who at once directed summor4lol,
issued for holding a Privy Council. At half:tr,
o'clock, Lord Stanley, Sir E. Knatchbull, and '-
other members of the Cabinet, and Sir Georej. sY
and Mr. Phillips, Under-Secretary of State, it infer
sembled at the Treasury, where they rcmainede;f
tigating the matter for nearly two hours. pieti
Peel, we understand, is at Cambridge. 18re 00_
_A
that Prince George of Cambridge, Sir George 0, r
and many of the heads of the public departmenise,4°
been in the course of the day at the station-10i
learn the fullest particulars of this extra°
affair. (.1.016
On in co l
at the station-house, at four
we learned that the Commissioners of Pollee, es'
Rowan and Air. Mayne, were then makingll
tired ta
0111
rigid investigation of what had taken place, '
information on the subject was not off
transpire. elf)
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(From the Third Edition of the Weekly Cid 5.0
The report of the third diabolical meditated fly; tie es'
tion of our beloved Queen has, as may naturall4oB6ll
petted, caused an extraordinary degree of excillefte
and at 5 o'clock, on our Reporter proceeding to nisktel
he found it crowded to excess by persons of luffledittt
most of whom had gathered together in then htl'allyo
vicinity of the Palace, awaiting, with te
ti'ij-g 1,1)01
anxiety, the arrival of any intelligence resPe'iso
infamous occurrence above alluded to, and:lolsltfti,
the view of giving vent to their feelings '9„,`
should her Majesty (as it was reported Soot OP.
notwithstanding what had taken place) go Jp
to enjoy her usual afternoon's ride. hoose'ttie
On the Reporter hastening to the station Gardner's-lane, Westminster, where, it was sts'it°,
youth, who happily frustrated the regicidal uttt-',,,b0
taken, he accosted a diminutive inspeet°l.' 'in ollio
sitting very comfortably at the entrance dc'nroto,l;iii,
that he might, if possible, be enabled to el/e" to
►
some facts; but, after putting several questieitanoveto
at which he gave either negative or evasivelipertioe
he at length admitted that he was not at ot
communicate particulars to any one. Alll°t
rumours now current is one to the 0,1,,
pistol taken possession of had no lock, nob 15
loaded. Another report is that the youth ; poi9,itb
to have presented it at her Majesty did not Jae !of
fact do so, but merely ran alongside the earr.olooll
the implement in his hand, and that the P'.ol4e,voi,
is that it was nothing rri, re thin a foolisii;/ s
that finding it was taken up in so serf
he deemed it prudent to effect his escape. roso
Her Majesty has not left Btiekinghalli
afternoon. red
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FROM OUR OWN IMPOUTER,I ree,e3`
—The latest particulars of the villain will, 1011,
pistol at her Majesty in the grand nioll,*„l'
Park, while proceeding to chapel yestertkliscolllot
is described in a notice which was sent fr°lll,,, tioa
yard to the various police stations, at a le`-
, 16
or
night, as follows :—' 16 ficl‘
He was a young man, apparently lihtntti or ce
years of age, very fair, long hair, has. 3 11181::C ,-,p,pf
patch on the side of his nose, of very-dirty forgetioty
and was dressed in a coat mush to° 11 0'
so' co
him (a dark brown surtout) and 3 in bf
cloth cap. He has a hump-back, and,"t', escxl ,lea
pany of another man, who was suffered
re,i a" osP
the police. The other man was coPtu ,0014
) Wtt t
tamed until further inquiry is made. 11 I‘e°
of the name of Wright, a criPPlei we, the eiffoe4'l4
the neighbourhood of Lambeth, was hee.,ere
when he presented the pistol. Orders lice shi „Jell
from Scotland-yard to the different Po rof boti
titn 110
for the ins Jectors to send out 11 n " ,•,10°i
incog. to endeavour to apprehend the 1 roi,,al-boo,
been let go by the constable of the being rte.'
which was acted upon last night, there .5 'I
}lO
six men of each division despatched in vial° 101
for that. purpose. 1, it , w is
-e,
The two police-constables (one '"` xson 1
the fellow escape, are suspended, the Pt;opt,
been given in their charge-for the
they laughed at. sll%
dig AO

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EXAMINATION OF THE 1" 'ielloel4 "v t
About half. past six o'clock, Sir Frederick. a opliteem
pwwoaqt
accompanied
horses,a n l foriol
torney-Getieral, arrived at the Home-oflie 11l 04,11-'
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expresseicichoeal
Coleman.
at
ballen:i:anhwd•is,iisrpasectb,trc„ltStliy. f,rillit4ti,liiiso.le;,
diately joined the Council. four 0 s- r., 00
The inquiry was commenced at half-past ,re 0. 10 00
delay being occasioned by the absence from Toot, sM,,ile.
to
naby, the chief c'erk of Bow-street P°lirthe eleolike:;411
not until the arrival of Mr. Taylor, 00° t'd be pr the.;
Hall Police Court. that the inquiry coo' 0 hing_A is, b.
The following evidence may be relied WI ease' '
part of the statements of the witne° from * - 0
'Ph
Privy Council, it having been obtained
table ." elva
most authentic : lice-cl" ut i',/ it
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faial. Gre • 0
Partridge, A 136, who deposed 25„ in rbe zark,
o'clock at noon this day I was 00nquit. 1,0409.-N
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