The Sun.
London, England, 1829-10-31 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF KING'S BENCH.

The non-attendance of witnesses produced consieerable
delay to the business.
Lord TENTERDEN said that the public business was not
to be stopped in such a manner, nor would lie suFer it ;
and if the gentlemen of the bar could not arrange which
cause would first come on, he should have them calle I as
they were on the list, and, if not ready, he would bay.
them struck out.

WILLIA3ts said he was prepared with tl e cause
second on the list, which was accordingly taken.

MILLER. V. ROTHERN.

This was an action fur 531., to recover the amount of
a proctor's bill of costs.
Mr. J. Nirmwiaits conducted the plaintiff's case, Mr.
BROUGHAM for the defendant. Evidence was produced
by the plaintiff to show that 451. of the sum atitned was
cash paid by the plaintiff for stamp duty.
The Jury immediately found for the plaitiff.
LIBEL. •

This was au acticn brought by the plaintiff, a beok-
seller, who resides in Chancery-lane, against thy defendant,
the publisher and proprietor of the News Sunday Prin r.
for a libel, the full particulars of which we shall give on
Monday.—Verdict for the plaintiff—Datuages, 40s.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
SAUNDERS V. MAKER.
Mr. Serjeant Wir.ng stated the case. he plaintiff was
an attorney, residing principally in the neighbourhood of
Bristol, and the defendant was gamekeeper to Lord de
Clifford- The present action was brought to recover the
value of a greyhound which had been shot by order of the
defendant. The Learned Serjeant, after alluding to the
injurious tendency of the Game Laws, said the plaintiff
had an estate at King's Weston, near Bristol, at n lieu'
place Lord de Clifford is lord of the manor. The de-
tinulant was his Lordship's gamekeeper. In April last,
Mr. Saunders lost two valuable dogs, which he suspected
were shut up in Lord de Clifford's kennel. Acting under
this impression, and 'accompanied by his servant, be went
to the kennel, where he found one of the lost dogs, and
ascertained the other had been shot. The plaintiff had
therefore brought this action.
Richard Huggin was assistant to the defendant in 18 2 ,
who is a gamekeeper to Lord de Clifford. In April, wit-
ness found a greyhound belonging to the plaintiff, and took
her to Biker's. The defendant gave directions that the dog
should he taken to Lord de Clifford's kennel, which was ac-
cordingly done, and the following morning he ordered
witness, and a man named Webb, to destroy the dog, before
any one was up, which was done by shooting it. The
diy following another dog belonging to the plaintiff was
brought to the kennel, and detained there five or six
weeks. The defendant was the head keeper of the kennel,
and all the other persons employed acted under his orders.
Cross-examined—Witness is now in the employ of- Mr.
Satin& rs, the plaintiff. lie used to be under-keeper to
the defendant, but was discharged last October. Thegrey-
hound was a remarkably handsome one, and he should
think worth lb/. or 20/.
Mr. St-rjeant ANnfEws addressed the Jury for the de-
fendant. Ili. Learned Friend bad alluded to the unhappy
differences that frequently arose out of the Game Laws.
The differences they engendered were indeed lamentable ; no
one had noticed the passing events of the last twenty
years, but what must lament the feuds in all parts of the
country to which they had given rise. The Learned Coun-
sel then went into a long argument on the witness's testi-
mony, after which the Jury returned a verdict for the
plaintiff,—Damages 201.

OLD BAILEY.-(TIIIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.

William Lindsay, aged 20, described as a groom, was
indicted for uttering a forged order for the strut of 73/. 7s.
with intent to di fraud Messrs. Masterman and Co. on the
18th September last.
Mr. BRODERICK (with whom was Mr. BODKIN) stated
that the prisoner bad formerly lived as groom with Mr.
Young, the proprietor of the Horse Bazaar, in Baker-
street, Portman-square. On the ISth Sept. last the pri-
soner applied to a ticket-porter, who was standing at the
end of Nicolas lane, in which Messrs. Masterrnan and
Co.'s banking-house is situate, and directed him to take
the cheque to the banking-house, and to get two 101.
notes, and the rest in gold, and bring it to him, as he
would wait at the public house close by till he came back.
He was to say that he came from No. 72, Grosvenor-
square. The porter presented the cheque, and was told
that some doubts were entertained of the genuineness of the
signature. The clerk directed him to fe'ch the person who
had given it to him. He then returned to the prisoner whom
he found waiting near the spot, and who asked him if he had
got.the money. He told the prisoner that he must come
to tl•e banking-house himself. He said something, anti an
officer (Aldridge) causing up, the porter gave him into
custody. He was taken back to the banking-house, when
he told the officer it should be found all right. It was,
however, found to be a forgery in Mr. Baker's name, and ,
the prisoner was sent to to the Compter. While Aldridge
was taking him there, the prisoner told him that he had
something which be wisl ed to tell him. Aldridge told
him that if it was any thing in his favour he would be glad
to bear it, but if it was any thing against him to hold his
tongue. The prisoner thin directed him to go to the end
of Orange-street, Leicester-square, at half-past five in
that day, and he would see a young man, whom he de-
scribed particularly. The officer went with a brother
officer, and waited till half-past six, but saw no person
answering the descriptiOn given by the prisoner. Al-
dridge then went to the Feathers public-house,
where the prisoner said he had slept on the night
before. He searched the room where the prisoner
had slept, and found some strips of paper, on which was
writte❑ the name of Mr. G. Young, as if a person had
been practising the signature. The servant of the hog-e
hal furnished him with a she,t of writing-paper by his
request. Other papers were found in the dust-hole, written
in the same way ; and among them a cheque, in the name
of Mr. Young, which had been presented by the prisoner
on the night before, but which had not been cashed, as it
was not properly addressed. After some further observe_
tions, he called several witnesses, who proved the above
facts, and that no part of the cheque presented was in the
hand-writing of Mr. Young, who died last month, and
who was at Hastings during the whole of October. The
pieces of paper found were also put in and read.
The prisoner had no Counsel, but stated, in his de-
fence, that he met with a gentleman in Leicester-
sqaare, whom he had often seen at the liaziar, and
who was well known to Mr. Young. The gen-
tleman, whose name was Smith, told him that be
had Pohl a horse and chaise at the bazaar, four days before,
and had received a cheque for the amount it had sold for.
He had not had time to go to the bank himself, and re-
quested the prisoner to go and get it for him. Ile (pri-
soner) went and presented it ; but the clerk said be could
not cash it, because it was not properly dated. Ile re-
turned to the gentleman, whom he found waiting in Lei-
cester-square at the time appointed. The gentleman then
said that he must apply to 11r. Young for another cheque,
properly written. He promised to meet bin at nine
o'clock in the morning of the above day. He met him,
and gave him the cheque in question, telling him that he
was not by any means to take it himself, but to employ a
porter. He did so, and was taken and accused of having
forged it. He then told them that he had received it of
Mr. Smith, of 32, Leicester-square. They offered to
send a clerk with him to the place; hut he told them that
it was of no use going there before half-past five, the hour
he hail appointed to meet him. They, however, would
not give him tie opportunity of finding Mr. Smith, who,
he had no doubt, would have been there to have received
the money.
Mr. Justice PARK, in summing up, observed to the Jury
that if the prisoner had been indicted - fur forging the
cheque he must have been acquitted, as they were now
trying him in London, and there was no evidence to prove
that the forgery was committed in L'ondtm. The only
question for their consideration was whether the prisoner
had uttered it with a guilty knowledge.
The Jury almost immesliately found the prisoner—

" Guilty."
Richard Bishop was indicted for traitorously having
iu his possession a mould, for the purpose of coining coun-
terfeit half-crowns.—Verdict—" Not Guilty."

PUBLIC DINNER AT THE COMMERCIAL.
BUILDINGS.-The public, dinner to celebrate the opening
of the Leeds Commercial Buildings, took place on Wed-
nesday, according to announcement, in the large dining-
room over the News-rooms. The chair occupied by the
President, CIIKIST(srIi Eft BECKETT, Esq. our worthy
Chief Magistrate, was suitably adorned with wreathes of
laurel, interwoven with various descriptions of evergreen ;
and the Vice-President's chair was similarly adorned.—
Leeds Paper.

The election to the Archdeaconry of Win-
chester, vacant by the demise of the Rev. G. HEATIICOTE,
is, it is said, likely to fall upon the Rev. A. DALLAS,
Rector of Wanston; and that to the Fellowship of Win-
chester College, void by the same lamented event, upon
the Rev. W. B. .SToklenousE, Vicar of Owstone.—Bath
Herald.