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London, England, 1845-07-31 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF CHANCERY, July 30. j
(Before the LORD CHANCELLOR and the MASTER OF THE ROLM)
IN THE MATTER OF THE SUITORS,
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)
Mr. STUART then proceeded. It Was admitted that the duties
were excellently well performed, but it was said that one of the
duties that ought to be performed by Mr. Whiting was performed
by Mr. Wright. Now was that, he would ask, any ground for
presenting the present petition, containing the absurd and improper
allegations it did, and bringing forward Master Lynch before the
Court as a criminal, bound to answer those allegations P As to
the inquiry it was proposed to make before the three senior
Masters of the Court, he contended that no ground had been
shown for that inquiry. He denied altogether any irregularity in
the office of Master Lynch, for if there was he would not be eis
titled to that high character which all accorded to him. He asked
the Court, therefore, to dismiss the petition in justice to Master
Lynch, and in justice also to the suitors. All the charges made
in the petition had been disproved, and were totally unsupported by
evidence. If such petitions were sanctioned by the Court, they
would greatly deteriorate the office of the Masters, and tend to
defeat the award of justice to the suitors.

The arguments not being concluded at the rising of the Court,
the further consideration of the case was adjourned sine die.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he could not go ou with the case
to.morrow, as other business stood for disposal. His Lordship had
intended to have closed his sittings to-morrow, but as the Master
of the Rolls had been good enough to say, if the parties wished to
go on with the case he would attend another day, be (the Lord
Chancellor) would consider in the course of to-morrow which day
could be appointed. The regular_ business of the Court, however,
would terminate to.morrow.

Mr. Campbell has to follow Mr. Stuart on behalf of Master
Lynch ; Mr. James Parker and a gentleman behind the bar have to
be heard for Mr. Whiting; Mr. Bomilly will have to reply ; and
the great probability is that the arguments will be resumed in Mi-
chaelmas term.

The LORD CHANCELLOR, before he rose, stated that after the
!louse of Lords was prorogued, he would hear any cases that
pressed in his private room.

POLICE IN TELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
MANSION-HOUSE.
Richard Jarvis, the bank clerk, who was pursued to
France by John Forrester, the officer, upon a warrant,
charging him with having stolen an Exchequer-bill for
2001., the property of the Governor and Company of
the Bank of England, was brought before the Lord
Mayor for final examination.
Mr. Weir, of the house of Freshfield and Co., soli-
citors to the Bank of England, attended for the Bank,
and Mr. nobler appeared for the prisoner.
The following evidence was added to that which was
reported upon the former examination.
Mr. John Tilbury, one of the cashiers of the Bank of
England, stated that he kept the book called the journal
for Exchequer Bills in the Treasury-office at the es-
tablishment.. That book contained an account of all the
securities paid into the Bank on the Ist of April, but
there was not in it any entry of any Exchequer-bill for
that day, of the amount of 2001., neither had the pri-
soner paid in that sum on that day. It was witness's
duty to make up the daily total of Exchequer- bills, and
the total on that day did not comprehend the 200/.
Exchequer-bill. The totals of the Exchequer-bills
deposited every day were compared every Saturday, and
on the Saturday following the Ist of April, witness
found, upon examining the totals with the previous, that
they agreed, but, if credit had been give❑ for the Ex-
' chequer-bill in question, in the prisoner's book, they
should not have agreed, to the amount of that bill.
Mr. George Grosvenor, clerk in the bill-office of the
Bank of England, produced the Bill-office Journal. It
contained an entry in the prisoner's hand-writing of a
2001. Exchequer-bill, to the credit of Alexander Wilson
(the bill in question), but in the totals book that sum
did not appear. Both of the books were in the prisoner's
hand-writing.
Mr. Hobler cross-examined the witnesses, but their
testimony remained unimpaired.
Mr. Weir having stated that the case was completed,
The LORD MAYOR desired to know whether the soli-
citor to the prisoner had any answer to make to the
statement.

Mr. Hobler—l have no answer to make here. What-
ever answer I make shall be made in another place, if
your Lordship should determine to send it elsewhere.
The prisoner was then committed for trial.
The unfortunate man seemed to labour under severe
illness ; and his character and habits having been known
to have been, up to the time of this charge, irre-
proachable, was an object of general commiseration.
John Davis, a seaman, was charged upon the follow-
ing occasion :—A policeman stated that he heard a band
of music on Tower-hill, and upon going to the place
saw the prisoner pulling about a girl, who was endea-
vouring to get away from him. The prisoner had at
the time a pistol in his hand, and witness heard the re-
port of it, and saw that a boy who stood near him was
wounded in the arm, The boy was taken to the hospi-
tal, where the injury he received was pronounced to be
dangerous. _ _

The LORD MAYOR—Did the boy say anything as to
the person who committed the outrage ? Witness—He
said the prisoner was one of the persons who were con-
cerned. A man named Radford afterwards came to the
station-house, and stated that he was the man who had
discharged the pistol.
The LORD MAYOR—And where is that man ? Wit-
ness--The inspector discharged him.
The LORD MAYOR —You say the man declared that
ho was the person who fired the pistol? Witness—
Yes, my Lord. But the inspector refused to take the
confession as he was not seen to fire the pistol. Ile,
however, promised to attend here.
Radford then stepped forward from the crowd behind
the bar, and said he was the individual who had made
the confession.

The LORD MAYOR having directed that Radford
should be placed at the bar with the other prisoher,
asked him what he had to say? Radford—l was with
Davis on Tower-hill, and the band was playing up, and
we had a woman with us. Davis had a pistol in his
hand, and I laid hold of it without knowing whether it
was loaded or not, and off it went in my hand.
The Lora) MAYOR—Let both prisoners be remanded
until the boy, if he should recover, be able to attend.
Davis lingered in the bar in the hope that would
be taken for his appearance, but
The LORD MAYOR put an end:to the expeJtation by
stating that the lives of people were not to be endan-
gered with impunity either in jest or in earnest.
The prisoners were remanded.
A boy named Thomas Brudenel, pot-I of to Mr.
Richards, of the Ship Tavern, Lime-street, was eliar6ed
with having robbed his employer.
Mr. Richards having had reason to suspect the
honesty of the prisoner, who had been in his employ-
ment about three months, he marked four shillings And
sixpence, and put the money in the till. The till was
in the bar, to which there was an inside d 'or as well as
two outside doors, which witness Locke I every nigt.t.
afore he went to bed. On that morning he got t.p