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LICE BILL.

The amended Report on this Bill war received, the amend-
ments agreed to, and the Bill was ordered to be engrossed.
STAMP DUTIES BILL. 46
The Report on the Stamp Duties Bill was brought up.
ASSESSED TAXES BILL (No. •2). •
The Report ou this Bill was brought up, and certain amend-
ments in the Bill proposed and agreed to.
The other Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the
House adjourned at a Quarter to Three o'Clock.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
ADM !BALT Y COURT—Thu/ sclay.

TIIE LITTLE WESTERN-SALVAGE.
This was a claim for a reward for salvage services rendered
to the Little Western, a steamer of 7:22 tons, by the Belfast,
another steamer of 80 horse power, belonging to the General
Steam Navigation Company, on her passage from Calais to
Londois, with a valuable cargo, 80 passengers, and a crew of
persons. The Little Western had lelt Ramsgate for Lon-
don, with 90 or 100 passengers, en the morning of the 4th
of April last, the wind blowing hard from the N.E. by E.,
and when off Kingegate was struck by a heavy sea, which
damaged her machinery, and she was drifting towards the
shore, when she was discerned by the Belfast, off the North
Foreland, and the master, observing a signal of distress, or for
assistance, on board tha Little Western, put back and proceeded
to her aid. He found that she was only two cables' length
(a quarter of a mile) from a rocky shore, and had but a small
bower anchor, which had a cable bent to it., and which did not
hold. He ran under her lee, and taking her in tow in about
lour hours brought her into Alargate Roads, whence she was
conveyed to London. Tne value of the property salved was
12,0001. The action was entered for 3,0001.
Dr. LUSIIINGTON said the principal foundation of the claim

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was the danger in which the property had been placed, and,
looking to the value of that property and to the value of the
vessel rendering the service, a steamer of SO-horse power—a
class of vessels which were always regarded by this Court in a
favourable view—though 3,0001. was a demand which he
could hardly characterise otherwise than as a preposterous one,
he thought 7501. was not too much to meet the justice of
the case.

811E1?111E.S" COUR7'.

Before R. GILLAM, Esq., Under-Sheriff, and a Special Jury.)

SEDUCTION.-POWELL VEKRIN.

This was an action brought by Mr. Edward Powell, as plain-
tiff, against the defendant, Mr. Edward Perrin, to recover
colai ensation in damages fur the loss of his daughter's services,
in comequenee of her having been seduced by the defendant.
Mr. F. V. Lee and Mr. Huddlestone conducted the plain-
tiff ',ease ; and Mr. Allen appeared for the defendant, who did
not.fleny the facts of the case, and had put no plea of justifica-i
tion upon the record.
Mr. Huddlestone opened the pleadings, and Mr. Lee stated
the case, which will be best gathered from the evidence.
1 lie plaintiff was a mineral, land, and coal surveyor, residing
with his wife and two daughters at Hagley, r.ear btourbriclge;
and the defendant, with his father and brother, carried on busi-
ness as extensive chain and nail manufacturers, near the same
place.
Elizabeth Ann Powell (a delicate and sickly-looking young
woman, but who appeared to have once possessed eonsiderabl
personal attractions) was called and examined by Mr. HUDDLE
STONE.-1 am the daughter of Mr. Edward Powell, and a
twenty-two years of age. I know Mr. Perrin, the defendant.
My father is a land and mineral surveyor at Hagley. Perrits
is a chain and nail-maker and manufacturer at the Lye.!
I became acquainted with him about four years ago, when b
was on a visit to Miss Good's, at the house of her brother,(
who is a surgeon. I arid his sister met him and his cousin out
the Kidderminster road, on Good Friday, 1541, when he
asked me if 1 was engaged. I told him I was nut. He made;
me an offer, to which I replied I would consider of it ;
he then said " I hope it will not be long first." He was in
troduced to my mother, and afterwards visited at ourl
house. The first time he came he said he was a bachelor,i
but he did not, know how long he should continue
so, as it all depended upon Miss Elizabeth (meaning me).l
This was on Easter Suth-tay. My father, who had been out'
of town, returned on the' c 1 of May, and Perrin came from that
time up to the 18th, when be went to Hagley. He used to
come twice a week, and he always asked rue whether I was
engaged, and if I would have him. On the 18th of May I
met him at the Post-office, when he asked me to take his arm,
and go for a walk by the Monument. I said " No." He re-
' plied, " You had better go; it is a nice walk, a beautiful even-
ing, and no further than through the street." He at last pre-
, willed on me to ge, and when he got to a wood near there he
put very improper questions to me, which I did not at all like.
said I would have nothing more to say to him, and that I was
surprised at hint, and went away through the wood. I had got
about twenty yards, when he overtook me, threw me down, and
took advantage of me, while I was in such a:state that I did not
know what I was doing. He begged me to forgive him, and not
tell a soul on earth, and he would marry me whenever 1 pleased.
He swore he would not do so again, and said 1 could hang him
if I swore against him. I saw him at our house on the fol-
lowing Sunday, when he was tatting to my father for nearly
three hours about the iron trade, and said he had a large
stock, and a contract for two years. He was in partnership
with his father and brother, and they were all as one. He
paid his men 100/. per week. He was introiu':ed to my father
as a lover, and received by him as such. Oil the 12th of July
he walkedvvith me in the garden, and said, " I am frightened
yeti are ill." On the 24th he sent a man to ask me to meet
Pint at the Monument, which I did, when lie said I did not
meet him with that affection that I used to do. I had seen
some one at Stourbridge who had put me against him, and he
then took advantage of me again, saying, " I have spoiled
you now, and you can have no one but me. I was confined to
my bed sonic days after, and was attended by Mr. Evans.
Perrin came on the Monday ; saw me in bets, and brought some
oranges. On the Bth of August he asked me to walk with
hits in the garden, when he said he was frightened out of his
wits that I was in the family way. 1 said I could nut tell;
and he replied, I suppose not, but if it is so, tell me, for the
sooner we are married the better. He visited at our house
continually after, and dined there as my lover, on Christmas-
day. On the 25th of January my mother took me to Dr.
Davis, as I had a pain in my
delivered of a male child on the 23d of March. have been
side, and was very I was
in a weak state of health ever since. I have been employed in
the management of my father's house.
at great length by Mr.
The witness wasearsoessli-ceredt?Thdtg t,
weaken her evideude,
Allen, but nothing was
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Mary Powell, sister of last witness, a very handsome girl,
was the next witness examined by Mr. Lee, but her evid
was not material.

Several letters were here put in and read, beinc, correspnt 'd-
ew!e between the defendant and Miss Powell, and her fat*
!'Jr. Jones, his attorney, and Mr. Pargitter, the defendant &
solicitor. In one of the letters the defendant wrote to ask ht r
to meet him, and she wrote back a very feeling letter, in An
affectionate style, telling him her father would not let her, thLtt
he had ruined her, and that it would be better for him to repent':'
before it was too late, pacify her father, and make them all
happy.
Other K itnesses having been examined, and Mr. Allen having
addressed the Jury for tilt- defence, they returned a verdict fur
the plaintiff—Damages, 500/.

COURT OF BANICiiirPTCY.—JuIy 21:
(Before Sir C. F. WILLIAMS.)
DAVID HANNAY'S BANKRUPTCY.

This bankrupt appeared to-day on his adjourned final exami---
nation as the manager of the late Mar3lebone Joint. Stock,
Bank. He was opposed by Mr. Wordsworth for several of the-
Sharsbolders, and supported by Mr. Clarkson. After a long
and tedious conversation, which elicited no facts of public in-
terest, it was arranged that a further adjournment should be
made to the month of November, the opposing creditors giving
the bankrupt notice of the objections they intended to raise one
month before he appeared.
(Before Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE )
OSBALDINTON'S BANK It UPTCY.
The bankrupt, described as a horse dealer at St. Alban's.
but who in reality is the attorney of that name, and one of day
Coroners for the county of Hertford, also appeared br-fore this
Court on his final examination.

Mr. Commissioner FONBLANQUE said, in passing him, that
although no objection was made to the bankrupt's rigkt to the
rule of Court, having furnished the best accounts he could, yet
it was impossible that. the assignees could be satisfied with the
state of affairs pres,.nted in his balance-sheet. His trana.c-
tions as a horse-dealer showed about .50/.. while his profits as
an attorney, who was really the person before the Court, was,
wilh .‘ official fees," 4,5b6/. ; his expenses of business were
put down at 4,2781., and his family expenses 4,0001., so that
he had in the ten years, the period over which these accounts
reached, just managed, what with business and family expenses,
to double in expenditure the actual amount of his profits.—
The banl:rupt was then passed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Cambridge, July 20.
(Before Mr. Baron ALUEaSON and a Special Jury.)
FIEHER AND ANOTHER r. LILLEY.

This was an action for the sfleaking certain slanderous words
of the, plaintiffs impeaching tlieir credit in their business as
bankers, to which the defendant pleaded '4 not guilty " att.
Mr. Kelly, Mr. Andrews, and Mr. Sanders conducted the
case for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Byles that of the defendant.
The plaintiffs, Messrs. Fisher, carry on the business of
bankers in this town, and had been in partnership with their late
Mier, who had conducted the business for half a century.
The defendant is a brewer, living in the village of Grantches-
ter, about a mile from dinbridge. In the beginning of the
present year there had been two or three extensive failures iu
the town, and some alarm and panic was caused by that cir-
cumstance. No suspicion, however, attached to the plaintiffs,
viliose credit was and is beyond all exception ; their resources
and their respectability in their business being equal and un-
doubted. _ . .

It appeared by the evidence. that a Mr. Balls, a currier in
Cambridge, keeps an account with the plaintiffs, and that
about nine o'clock on the evening of Saturday, he 26th of
March last, the defendant called at his house, and knocking at
his door, desired to see him. Mr.., Balls accordingly went to
the door, and the defendant, who was on horseback, asked him
if he did not keep an account with Messrs. Fisher? Mr. Balls
replied he did, whereupon the defendant continued, " They
have stopped payment, and cannot go on," and asked if Mr.
Henry (.tlr. Hells's son) banked with them, to-which that gen-
tleman answered he did not, but his other son did, Mr. Balls
then told defendant that what he was saying was a mcst-serious
matter, and he ought to have it from good authority, which
the defendant said he had ; he was satisfied about that. Mr.
Balls, upon this, asked the defendant what was the use of telling
him what he had done, as he could not at that time of night tin
anything, if the fact was true, and the parties thereupon sepa-,
rated. For the defendant, it was contended by Mr. Byles that
this was a privileged communication, and his client entitled to
a verdict. Mr. Balls was a custoiner of the plaintiffs, deeply
interested in the communication made by the defendant, if
true ; and if the jury were satisfied that it was made bona fide,
and not with the intention of injuring the plaintiffs, the de-
fendant was nut liable to this action. He admitted without
the least reserve that the statement inade by the defendant
had no foundation in truth, and the defendant deeply regretted
having made it.
Mr. Baron ALDERSON told theijury that the plaintiffs must
satisfy them that the defendant had uttered the words imputed
to him ; that they were spoken of them in their business as
bankers in the sense given to them in the declaration, and that
they were spoken maliciously. Now, the speaking of words
injurious to the character or trade of another, without litaYing a
justifiable occasion or excuse for doing so, Constituted sexch a
malicious" speaking as the law required, in order to refiner
him liable to an action of this nature. The words meat bo
injurious,; they must be spoken by, the defendant, and spoken
without a laVaul excuse. There was a large class of cases in
which the uttering of words injurious to the character of an-
other becomes justifiable by the occasion on which they are
uttered. Thus, where a party is applied to for the character
of a servant, and the master in answer bona fide makes
use of defamatory words, he_ is not liable to an action,
unless he is actuated by express malice. The interests
of society required that this should be so. In like
manner, where the plaintiff was paying his addresses to
a lady, and the defendant, a near connexion of hers, wrote a
letter to her to warn her against marrying him, stating as his
reason certain matters highly injurious to the character of the
plaintiff, it was properly left to the Jury to say whether, con-
sidering the near relationship of the defendant to the lady,
and the immense importance to him and herself of the step
she was about to take, he was actuated by malice in writing
the letter, or whether he had used the occasion as a cover and
pretext for making a malicious statement. In that case the
Jury foiled a verdict for the defendant. In the preent case,
however, the defendant is not applied to by Mr. Balls, he is a
volunteer ; and lie tells him, not that the plaintiffs are " about"
to stop payment, in which case the etn:lomer might perhaps
withdraw his account, but that they 144 already stopped.
This communication, even if it had been tree, could not have
benefireA Mr. Balls ; and being false, it would be for the Jury to
say whether the plaintiffs were not entitled to yecover com-
pensation in damages for the unfounded and injurious u tatement.
The Jury retired, and in a levy minutes found for the Islaintiff,
with 1001. damages.

OXFORD ClRCUlT'—Worcester, Mg 20.
In order to lighten the labours of the Judges, Mr. God Arne

Queen's Counsel, sat to•day in the Grand Jury-room, and
tried by about live o'clock between 15 and 20 prisoners. Lord
Chief Justice Tindal, however, has not entirely disposed 'd
the calendar, and one or two cases yet remain. Mr. Justice
Erskine has made great exertions to get through the civil
business, but cut of the whole 2b causes entered for trial, only
one or two have as yet been undefended, and those which have
beets heard have been principally long " fighting" causes.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Lord Chief Justice TINDAL.)
Kiehard Taylor was indicted for having, on the 2d of July
last, feloniously fired a loaded gun at Hannah Taylor, his wife,
with intent to murder her.

Mr. F. V. Lee conducted the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner had no Counsel.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel,
that on the night iu question the prisoner, whe is a black-
smith, and lives at Old Swinford in this county, came home
at a very late hour very much intoxicated, began to abuse
his daughter, and threatened to thrash his wife, who, to
avoid him, ran round the room several times. The prisoner,
being unable to put his threat into execution, took down a
gun from the wall, which was loaded with shot, and present-
ing it at his wile, fired. The charge, providentially, lodged
in the wall, a few inches above her head, and upon this the
prisoner let loose a savage dog, turned all his children naked
into the road along with tneir mother, set the dog upon them,
and closed the door. The prisoner's wife, however, who had
been committed for refusing to find sureties for her appear-
ance at the Assizes to give evidence against her husband, flatly
contradicted all that part of the case which went to establish
the capital charge; but a neighbour who resided in an adjoin-
ing cottage deposed that she had heard the cries of the unfor-
tunate woman, and the prayers for mercy which she made to
her brutal husband, and she also saw the dog set upon her.
When apprehended, the prisoner made a desperate resistance,
and attempted to set a large and ferocious lurcher at the officers,
declaring at the same time he would never be taken alive.
The prisoner was found Guilty of au assault, and sentenced
to six months' imprisonment.
George Lester was indicted for having, on the •25th day of
June, at Kidderminster, assaulted Hannah Thomas, with in-
tent, &e.:-

Tl:c prisoner was found Guilt), and sentenced to twelve ca-
lendar imprisonment, with hard iabcur.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
Ll3O le G Sl7? E 71

Elizabeth Morris, a decently-dressed middle-aged female,
was charged with being drunk and disorderly, and breaking a
window at the residence of the Baroness Rothschild, No. 146.
Pic,adilly.
Police-constable, No. 105, of the C division, stated that on
Thursday afternoon, between one and two o'clock, he found the
prisoner bitting on the steps of the dour of the Baroness's resi-
dence in a very intoxicated state, so much so that she was not
fit to be brought before the Magistrate, and was, therefore,
obliged to be locked up in one of the cells of the station-house
till yesterday morning.
Alr. Twogood, steward to the Baroness Rothschild, stated
that, a short time before the prisoner was taken into the custody
of the police on Thursday afternoon, she came down the mea
steps, to the window of an apartment where he wag sitting,
ant.i solieited"charity ; but he, seeing that she was very drunk
at the time, ordered her to go away, but she continued her im-
portunity, until he was obliged to shut down the window task
to get rid of her, upon which she "rammed her fist through one
of the panes of glass, and blowed him up through the hole,"
making use of most abusive and obscene language.
She was ordered to be committed for one month to West-
minster Bridewell.