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London, England, 1845-06-21 00:00:00

TO OFFICERS.

This Bill also went through Committee.
The other orders of the day were disposed of, and the
House adjourned at Half-past Twelve o'clock.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF C(M,11(11V PLEAS, June 20.
Sittings at Nisi Prins, before Mr. Justice ERLE and Special
Juries. )
WADE V. SIMEON.

An action had been brought in the Court of Exchequer by
this plaintiff against this defendant for certain cheques to the
amount of 2,0001. The case stood for trial on the 7th of Do•
cember, and it appeared that to the declaration the defendant
had pleaded, amongst other things, gaming, fraud, and notice
thereof to the plaintiff. On the 4th of December the plaintiff
received notice of a motion, on the part of the defendant, in
Chancery, for an injunction to prevent him from levying
execution, in the event of his obtaining a verdict and judg-
ment in the court of common law. But on the 6th of De-
cember, Mr. Russell, the attorney for the plaintiff, in conse-
quence of a request made to him by the attorney for the
defendant, Mr. Westmacott, called at the latter gentleman's
office in Lincoln's Inn, and there saw his managing clerk,
Mr. Shuttleworth, who suggested to him the propriety of
arranging the matters in dispute, and asked him if it might
not be done. Undoubtedly Mr. Russell entertained the pro-
position, and a contract was made between the parties that on
the 14th of December 9,000/. with interest and costs, to be
taxed, were to be paid to the defendant, or in default thereof
judgment against the plaintiff with the consequent power of
personal arrest, while on the other side the plaintiff was to
stay all proceedings (except the taxation of costs), and to
withdraw the record. A notice to this effect was drawn up,
and thereupon a judge's order was obtained to stay proceedings
on those terms, and the record was withdrawn. For the
plaintiff it was alleged that there was a further consideration to
be given on the part of the defendant, namely, the withdrawal
of the suit in Chancery ; and on this point, and this only, the
evidence in the trial to-day was contradictory. The money had
not been paid to the defendant on the 14th of December, and
the action was brought on the contract. Russell's evidence
went to prove that it was positively agreed between him and
Shuttleworth that the motion in Chancery was not to be made
on the 7th, and that all further proceedings were to be dropped.
And it appeared he acted absolutely on this impression, for he
withdrew one of the two briefs he had prepared for counsel and
delivered, the other not having been yet delivered. On the
defendant's side the motion was not made, and the briefs were
not delivered at all. Shuttleworth admitted that Russell had
asked him what was to become of the Chancery proceedings,
but stated he told him he could not tell at the moment,
and then went to his principal, the attorney, Mr. West-
macott. At his return Shuttleworth said he made
no answer upon this point, but concluded the arrange-
ment generally, and sent off a clerk, named Dewy,
with Russell, to see that proceedings were stayed, and the
record withdrawn. Dewy confirmed this, and declared that no
measures were agreed to or taken in his presence to put a stop
to the suit in Chancery. Mr. Westmacott deposed that, after
the arrangement had been made with Mr. Russell, so far was
he from contemplating the abandonment of the suit in Chancery,
that he consulted Mr. James Russell, Q.C., to ascertain whether
he could move for the injunction on the morrow ; and he found
from that Learned Gentleman that he could not, and this was
the reason why he did not. These were the dominant facts of
the case, as deposed on either side.
Mr. Watson, Q. C., and Mr. Sergeant Byles were for the
plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Shea and Mr. Barstow for the
defendant.

An earnest attack upon the credibility of the witness Russell
was made by Sergeant Shee, the materials for which may be
found in the " Second Report from the Select Committee of the
House of Lords, appointed to inquire into the laws respecting
gaming, and to report thereon, with the evidence of James
Thomas Russell, taken before tf e Committee, 1844." We will
simuly say that this witness was the attorney for his brother, as
informer plus some very mysterious personage who, after the
old diabolic fashion, supplied the funds, in the renowned qui
tam action against Lord Eglintoun.
The Learned JUDGE said he felt that, in this instance, the
ease lay in a nutshell, and that upon the main point of the
contract, the evidence of Russell was something more than
corroborated by that for the defence; and he desired the jury
to dismiss, as gentlemen of experience, all considerations of
the individual's personal character from their minds. All of
the contract, except the very subordinate part relating to the
proceedings in Chancery not proceeded with by the defendant,
had been admitted to be true—the substantial part of it was
true—at the same time to enable them to give a verdict for
the plaintiff, they must satisfy themselves that the whole was
true. There were eight pleas ; the first, which set forth the
defendant had not contracted, was, in his mind, the only one
with which they had to deal. No evidence bore upon any other,
not even upon the eighth, which went to suggest that a second
agreement, vitiating the first, was, by a process of imagination,
supposed to have taken place. He only mentioned at, because
his attention had been called to it by counsel.
Verdict for the plaintiff, 2,0001., with interest to Deo. 14,
and costs as taxed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
MANSION-HOUSE.
When the necessity for making the approaches to London-
bridge rendered it indispensable that several of the parishes
should be re-assessed, the united parishes of St. Benet, Grace-
church-street, and St. Leonard, Eastcheap, were amongst
those in which the parishioners assembled to establish a new
assessment of the rates. The refusal of Mr. Walter Owen
Hills, one of the parishioners, to pay the amount of the rate
assessed to him according to the new arrangement, and his
resolute opposition to those who were expected to enforce its
observance, gave rise to disputes which led to appeals to the
Court of Aldermen, which appeals were decided against Mr.
Hills, but without at all altering or qualifying his disin-
clination to pay the demands of the parish. The principle
upn which the assessment was made was that of the poor-
rate, so that each inhabitant paid, or was expected
to pay, according to the amount of the value of the premises
occupied—a regulation which the mass of the parishioners
considered to be the most equitable, and Mr. Hills' objection
was, that as the chapel, and the school-rooms, and the
vestry-rooms, and the church-yard of the Quakers' meeting-
house in White Hart-court, were not assessed, he ought to be
exempt from the operation of the tithe. To that doctrine the
Court of Aldermen showed three or four times, the utmost
repugnance upon the representation of Mr. Hubbard, the
vestry-clerk of the above united parishes. On Thursday a
joint meeting of the two parishes took place, for the purpose
of appointing assessors, according to the Act of Parliament, to
make the annual rate in lieu of tithes, and Mr. Hills attended
as a parishioner. An objection was suggested, as we were
given to understand, to permittin„.• him to vote, upon the
ground that his claim was forfeited in consequence of his re-
fusal to pay any of the rates assessed , whereupon a row took
place, out of which a serious charge sprang against the dis-
sentient parishioner, and the parties immediately appeared be-
fore the Lord Mayor. The following evidence was given :
Mr. J. J. Hubbard, of No. 1, Queen-street-place, South-
wark-bridge, solicitor, and vestry-clerk of St. Benet, Grace-
church-street, and St. Leonard, Eastcheap, stated that about
one o'clock he was attending his duty as vestry-clerk at a
vestry of the united parishes, when the defendant, Mr. Hills,
without any provocation whatever, threw his body with great

force intentionally aeainst him, and hurled him against the
wainscot behind. Mr.• Hills had just previously said, with
reference to certain transactions which had taken place before,
that he knew it was Mr. Hubbard ; that the parishes had bee°
humbugged for many years past through him (Mr. Hubbard),
and he made use of other violent language. In consequence
of that conduct, and previous offensive conduct on the part of
the defendant, Mr. Hubbard declared that he consideree that
his person was in danger unless the defendant was restrained. ,
In answer to questions put by the defendant, Mr. Hubbard
said that he neitber made offensive observations nor offensive
gestures.
Mr. John Crossland (one of the Society of Friends) of No.
Fenchurch-street, stationer, stated that he had been in the ve
try, and heard Mr. Hills claim to see the rate-book. Mr. flib'
made a rush against him, arid said he would do something
against the tithe. Witness said, "Do it," and the defendact
ran at him with doubled fist, and threatened to lay him on
the
floor ; and witness apprehended danger from him unless he W 5
restrained.
Mr. Gann, of Fenchurch-street, hosier, stated that he alo
attended the meeting. He saw the defendant conductiag
himself peaceably, but the defendant said he demanded to see,
the rate-book, and a gentleman said he had no right to seet.l!
unless he paid the rate, whereupon he insisted upon seeing,l7
book, and rushing at it like a mad bullock, ran an'ain,t
Crossland and several others. Said witness was a'd—d liar,,t
because witness said that he (Mr. Hill, ) did not know wol
honesty was, and pushed violently against witness. ad
Mr. Shaw, a solicitor and parishioner, came forward to a
his testimony, but rther
The LORD MAYOR said there was no occasion for
further
the
statements before him, as it was his determination to sen
case to the sessions. His Lordship then called upon thedee
fendant to find sureties in each of the three cases of alleged
tam
Sault to the amount of 1001., ;and be himself responsible to
amount of 1001.
Yesterday Me. Hills entered into the required sureties
the
the amount of 6001., to answer the charge at the sessions on tn.
sth of Jule.
Mary Allen, who was stated to have been once an accol%
plished woman, was put to the bar upon the extraordinary c.heargnf
of having attempted to destroy herself by swallowing the "
a chamber-oor.
The unfordtunate creature had, it appeared, lately lorstLher,
father, to whom she had been greatly attached, and he
state of
band, who seemed to be respectable, ascribed the low stt:.
the
mind to which she had been reduced to that calamity an „led
excitement caused by intoxicating liquors to which she ho
as a reluge.
From the evidence given it turned out that she had learned
.
the door of the room on Saturday, and that on SundayaTfned
ing, between seven and eight, a policeman who was et, r_lukey,
on London-hridge having heard that she had swallowed
drool
took her to St. Thomas's Hospital, where the key vas go.
co
from her throat, down which it had gone out of slae
Ledger,
pletely, and from which it was extracted by ign
the assistance of another surgeon. r conduct
The defendant said she could not account for her of a
in any other way than by ascribing it to the wa re than I
moment, and she declared that she had taken e° u'°
little porter on the day the occurrence took place' e deeP
The LORD MAYOR having received her r"octeet ber.
regret, desired her husband to take her home and tobaccolipo
with
Laurence Neal, charged with having thrust a iees re.
into the eye of Edward Russell, in a public-house,
manded till Friday.

BOW-STREET.
G ny illingba,
Yesterday John Taylor alias Johnson, o.g '7 ' air. Hall'
street, Vauxhall, was placed at the bar before
11_u,, other
rope
charged with stealing a quantity of silver plate rt; of her
valuable articles from Buckingham Palace, the p
Majesty.
On the bench were the Lord Chamberlain and hits:retail'
Sir W. Martin, who attended to hear the investfea:
'al Treasury,
Mr. Hayward, from the office of the solicitor to
nresented by
was re,
conducted the prosecution, and the prisoner
who had
Mr. Wolff, from Mr. Flower's office. : ner, ~ce
From the evidence it appeared that the Pr'sn-t the pa.'
been employed several years as a cabinet maker aevening, the.
engaged a cab in Eton-street, Pimlico, on Friday got of
until°l
here he 5
13th inst., and proceeded to Lon acre, sy oteenta f
the vehicle and desired the driver to wait a fell,. sernour,,:,
his return. He proceeded to the shop
38, Long-acre, to whom he had often hhe dentanue..the
and produced a quantity of silver, for whic- -r
o
The superiority of the plate induced 111 r. Se `cooper, wiwwr-
-son- , _treet,
first time, to ask the name and address of the Pr ice,,,eur• s ~,t
on a slip of paper .. John Johnson, upper ..-.,
nrisorer e,_-:
°f broken broken tIP P,lisiel.
Somers-town." A deal was effected " Di r Sern
and
, an:, when the r . oortawaovee
left the shop a policeman was sent after It'ln7 business, itrii,ee
acquainted the officer with the natur gonerse . order
might the address furnished by the pr In The constan'eci
get an inquiry on foot respecting On' „maker Da°
F 206, followed him to the shop of a cahineu_e of tbe Pera
Richardson, where he was informed that the nawently appr,
son who had just entered was Taylor ;he c°Dseciad The Pat
him of his suspicions, and took him into custod Y•s
soner, on his way to the police station, expres,le his
a, the Man 'V
?'
he should get into a bother about the affair
gave him the plate had gone abroad, he did not
lan." when. a!
He also admitted that his real name was
Tay
°desiring no
the police-office he addressed a letter to his wife, a foreigoe!,
to say that the property had been left with than
_Orfila, pertOlgoi
liwho had been lodging with them, and who gay' a period hi'
on to dispose of it, if he did not claim it withine .
__s to
three months. The letter contained other instrt? ts!°_ll., be re;
wife, which fully implicated himself, and, in conclusion, Th
quested her to pay the bearer of it 2s 6d. on deli st. Mar.
cabman, meanwhile, had been patienily waiting Inappearan,::
, , ,
sw fears
w here''
etrhebs. ,
tin's-lane for the return of the prisoner, whosenoTi,e to e'
.-
at the expiration of three hours induced him to ar,,d the Pr':
Bow-street station, where, to his surprise, he f°u“ntainieg
sotier in custody. In the cab was found a bag, e°, had beer
valuable china vase, which it was afterwards found
J
stolen from the Palace with the other property. tedlY sold
Mr. Seymour stated that the prisoner had repea
aloe
his
obtainej
plate of considerable value at his shop, but from r
respectability he had never suspected him of having ,of bill
it dishonestly. Some few weeks aeo he had purchaseti.„o, sea,
a quantity of silver which had been partially melted doro, find
which he thought at the time had been a telescope stand,
bit
In part of some silver figures. site
Mr. HALL thought that it was a pity he did not
inquiries at that time. fatieea
Mr. :Saunders inspector of the Royal Palaces, egieth it
the plate produced, as well as the vase, and identified f too
the property of her Majesty. The former was Par and re,:,
equestrian statues, standing about twelve inches high,'" f if;
presenting Louis XIII. and Marshal Saxe • the vale pas Ins
ornament being 200/. The other portion of the silver bid
produce of a microscope and stand, worth 401., herwvoes:
melted down, and sold to Mr. Seymour d bee
The silver articles and the vase (valued at 101) ha adss
stolen from a bookcase in a closet adjoining the library then'
Palace, to which the prisoner had access when eroPlq be ere
but from which the property had not been missed until t for be
nittir°
c,,eae
sent transaction became known at the Palace. ,7%•-- to
had been also found in the prisoner's house belonging A
Majesty—the royal initils beng oblitated. -
'nhe st
(
The witnesses havinga beeni severally erbound over I
of 1001. each to appear against the prisoner at his tria/,
"„peer
Mr. HALL remanded him for further examination
sh°vs
nary.
A remarkable circumstance has been disclosed bYi.trpshiceof'
inquiry. About a year ago two women servants in tgulicionsi,
named Lindsey, were brought before Mr. Hall on ' • teat
Malt di'
stealing furniture from the royal residence, and aoseenePbat
though discharged from her Majesty's service. SLe thft, .04
a cabinet-maker, named Fletcher, was accused of "Lapis log
not taken into custod. Still the imputation affeC''b ha io
so deeply, that he anon afterwards committed suicide door
himself. The furniture then missed has been OW
in the above prisoner's house.

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barrister-at-law,
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Silas S. Stedman, Esq., of Arundel, to 01"
daughter of James Stedman, Esq., of Guildfor

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