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but at the same time they had given an indirect encourage-
ment to the nefai 'tons traffic. The Gallant Officer concluded
by moving that an address be presented to her Majesty, praying
for returns of the s !vent sums of money paid to the Registrar
of the High Court ( Admiralty on account of the proceeds of
the slave vessels and their cargoes captured under the Act of
the 2d and 3d of Vi. Morin, cap. 73, and the dates when such
sums were paid, ane, if any and what instructions have been
issued by the officers of the Vice-Admiralty Courts relative
to the remittance of stigith sums.

Sir G. CLERK said there was no objection to give the
Gallant Officer t he returns which he moved for.

After a few ob tervaticns from Capt. Pechell, Sir C. Napier,
and• Sir G. Cockl men, motion was agreed to.

MEDIC AL.CRAMTIES (IRELAND).
Lord ELIOT obtained leave to bring in a Bill to regulate
he medical charitiee in Ireland.
MIDNIGHT LEGISLATION.

Mr. HUME moved for a return " of the numbs of days on
which the House of Commons sat in this Session of Parliament,
stating the total number of hours occupied in the sittings of
the House, and the avers ge time, and also dict.inguishing the
number of nights on whit t the House sat, and the number of
hours after midnight (as p rinted in Parliamentary paper, No.
254 of session 1834." He stated that he should bring forward
a motion cn the subject ne: session.—Agreed to.
STAMPS' AND TAXES.

Mr. T. DUNCOMBE rm wed for a return of " the names of
all persons who have been al ipointed since the Ist day of Sep•
tember, 1841, up to the present day, to any office or situation
under the Board of Stamps and Taxes at Somerset House,
specifying the nature of each office or situation, and whether
occasioned by vacany or the creation of additional office, and
if the same is to be: permanent or temporary, and the annual
salary to he paid in respect thereof."—Agreed to.
LAW COURTS (IRELAND).
Mr. SHEIL movest for copies of all letters or written com-
munications made by the Chancellor of the Exchequer to the
Chief Judges and Puisne Judges of the Courts of Queen's
Bench and Common. Pleas, and Chief Barons and Puisne
Barons of the Court of Exchequer, in Ireland, in relation to
the Common Law Courts (Ireland) Bill, or the Report of the
Commissioners on which the said Bill purports to be founded.
The CHANCELLOI: of the EXCHEQUER said that he
had already stated his intention of postponing the Bill for re-
gulating the Law Courts an Ireland until next session. He
objected to producing the correspondence moved for, as it
would be setting a precedent which might be inconvenient to
the public service. He was himself responsible for the Bill, and
therefore he did not think he was called upon to produce the
correspondence.
Mr. F. FRENCH thought the Bill would inflict great indi-
vidual hardship. He hoped that it would be altered next year.
Mr. SHE 1L would riot press the motion. He would ask if
both the Judges, and the Attorney-General of Ireland, had not
objected to the abolition of patent offices without compensation.
The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER had endea-
voured to frame the Bill so as to satisfy the demands of public,
and at the same time not to disregard vested, interests.
The motion was then put, and negatived without a division.
The Orders of the Day were then disposed of, and the House
adjourned at One o'Clock.

LAW INTELLIIiENCE.
VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, July 28.
(Before Vice-Chancellor GRA M. )
OTTEY V. PENSAM.

His tiONOUIt gave judgment in this case, which came before
the Court on two petitions, for the purpose of having it de-
clared whether a solicitor, named Burton, was entitled to a lien
on the fund in Court. The case was wholly devoid of public
interest, the principal question being one of costs. His Honour
referred the case back to the Master.

His Honour Vice-Chancellor Bruce sat to-day in the Judicial
Committee of the Privy Council.

INSOLVENTDEBTOR'S COURT, July 28.
IN RE HENRY GOLDSMID.

The insolvent was described as of no business or profession,
residing formerly at Vine-hill Cottage, Henley-upon-Thames.
The amount of debts in his schedule was about 3,500/., and in
which appeared the name of his brother, Colonel Albert Gold-
amid, as a creditor for 2,800/.
Mr. Nicholls opposed on behalf of several tradesmen in Hen-
ley, and Mr. Cooke supported the insolvent's petition.
It appeatond from the evidence of the opposing creditor, and
the insolvent himself, that he had been made a bankrupt in
the year 1827, when the docket was struck against him as a
wine-merchant ; and although 9s. 3d. was paid in the pound
he never sought his certificate. Soon after that time he went
on the Continent with his family, and his wife, who possessed
an annual income of 2141., which, along with an allowance
from his mother and sister, who accompanied him, and were
persons in very independent circumstances, enabled him to move
in a respectable sphere of society. In the early part of
the year 1840 he returned to England, and took Vine-hill
Cottage, upon which he expended a considerable sum in
improvements, and his style of living there, and the respecta-
bility of those with whom he associated in Henley, induced the
tradespeople to give him credit to a large amount. He attri-
buted his inability to meet his debts to the fact of his
mother and sister not having come to live with him according to
a promise they had made previous to his contracting those debts,
most of which were for furnishing and repairing the cottage,
The balance of debt remaining with his brother, which was not
claimed, was about '7001., and the sale of the lease of the cot-
tage and furniture realised a sum which would afford a dividend
among the creditors of about bs. in the pound, and had been
lodged in the Court by the insolvent immediately after his
arrest.

Alr. NICHOLLS addressed the Court, and contended that the
debt had been fraudently contracted, under false appearing, for
that his clients would never have given the insolvent credit had
they known he was an uncertificated bankrupt, or that his
means of ,support depended upon property which was solely
his wife's.

Mr. COOKE spoke in favour of the insolvent's petition to be
discharged.
The Learned CHIEF COMMISSIONER said there were cer-
tain dates in the schedule which he wished to see amended,
previous to gassing judgment ; and also it would be more
favourable for the insolvent, if some evidence were to be pro-
duced establishing the facts to which he attributed his insol-
vency. He should therefore order him to come up again on
next Saturday week.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
OXFORD ClRCUlT—Stafford, July 26.
CIVIL SIDE.—( Before Mr. Justice TINDAL.)
WILLIAMSON V. ADAMS.

In this case, which lasted from five o'clock yesterday after-
noon to the same hour to-day, it being an action brought to re-
corer damages for the improper mode in which the defendants,
owners of a mine adjoining the plaintiff's, had cut away the
barrier of coal dividing them, and so permitted the water from
their mine to run into the pits of the plaintiff, the Jury re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1,6001.

PHILLIPS V. GORMAN.

This was an action to recover front the defendant, as stake-
holder, the sum of 251., being the amount of a stake paid to
him by the plaintiff, to abide the event of a foot-race between
the plaintiff and one Scanlon, to which the defendant pleaded
that he had paid the same to Scanlon, by the direction of the
plaintiff.
Mr. Sergeant Ludlow and Mr. W. J. Alexander appeared
for the plaintiff. The defendant was represented by Mr.
Sergeant Talfourd and Mr. F. V. Lee.
It appeared from the evidence produced for the defendant,
on whom, from the form of the pleadings, the affirmation of
the issue lay, that a wager of 251. a-side having been made
between the plaintiff, Boulton Phillips, of Newcastle, and
Charles Scanlon, of Macclesfield, on a foot-race for 200 yards,
the match came off on the turnpike-road near Leek, on the 6th
of June last. It was agreed that the signal for starting should
be the discharge of a pistol. They started accordingly ; the
race was a very close one, but finally Scanlon came in two
yards ahead of the plaintiff. The plaintiff then raised an objec-
tion to the fairness of the start, and a written notice was in the
course of the same day served on his behalf upon the defendant,
directing him not to pay over the stakes to Scanlon. Upon the
same evening all the parties meet at the Red Lion at Leek,
when the umpire, agreed on between them, having declared
that Scanlon had fairly won the race, the plaintiff was urged to
withdraw his objection, and admit that he was beaten, upon
which the plaintiff said, "Then, if he has won, pay the money
over to Scanlon." The money was accordingly paid to Scanlon
in the presence of the plaintiff, who subsequently stated that he
had nothing to do with this action, which was brought by his
backers on the lace. _

The Jury, after a little hesitation, returned a verdict for the
defendant.

MIDLAND CIRCUIT—Derby, July 26.
(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.)
EXTRAORDINARY CASE.—John Radford, jun., aged 16,
was charged with having feloniously and maliciously cut and
wounded Ann Hicklin, at the parish of Walton-upon-Trent, on
the 17th of March last, with intent to kill and murder her.
The case excited extraordinary interest, as well from the
connexions of the prisoner, who is the son of a gentleman
farmer, as from his extreme youth and the romantic details of
the case.
Mr. MacaULAY, having addressed the Jury, called the fol-
lowing w itnesses :
Ann Hicklin, the prosecutrix, a fresh good-looking country-
girl, said—l am in my sixteenth year—(the witness looked
more like five-and-twenty.) I was in the service of Mr.
John Radford, of Walton, in March last. I went into his
service last Christmas, The prisoner is a son of Mr. John
Radford. He lived at home. He became acquainted with
me, and frequently spoke to me. He asked me if I was
willing to talk 'to him, and to have him. I said his father
and mother would not be willing, and I would much rather
he would let me alone. He several times afterwards
asked me to have him, but I always refused. He said if I
had any conversation with any one but him he would cut
my throat. He struca me with his fist several times on
different occasions. He has struck me on my side till I
could not breathe. About three weeks before he committed
the offence with which he is charged I was in the kitchen ; the
rest of the servants were out, and the family were in the par-
lour. The prisoner came in, and asked me if I intended to
have anything to say to anybody else. I told him I should
have nothing to say to him. I then saw a razor in his hand.
I don't know where he got it from. He told me he would cut
my throat, and then he opened the razor. He laid my
head on the side of the table, and held the razor over me, when
Mrs. Radford (his mother) came out of the parlour, and he 19t
my head go. Soon after I went out in the evening, about seven
o'clock, to get some fuel. He came to me, and asked me if I
intended to talk to any one beside himself. I made him the
same reply as I had before. He then took a razor from his
pocket, and, taking hold of me, said he would cut my throat
unless I would promise to have no one but him. He was in a
great passion. He took hold of me round the shoulders, and
I promised him what he wished. The same evening he came
to me in the house, and asked me if I would do as I pro-
mised ? I said I should not. He then struck me several
times. Mrs. Radford came in, and I told her what I had
promised. I cried out, and I suppose she heard me. Some
time after he knocked me down in the yard. On the evening
of the 17th of March, I was cleaning a room up stairs between
six and seven o'clock in the evening. The prisoner came into
the room, and asked me again what he had before. I said
that I should have nothing to say to him, whether he cut my
throat or not. He said he would cut my throat if I would
nut promise him, and keep my promise. He then opened a
razor and asked me if I wanted any repentence. I told him I
did not, because I thought he would not do it. He then took
me round the shoulders with his left arm, and put the razor to
my neck. I remember feeling it touch my neck, but Ido not
remember anything after. Mr. Sharpless, a surgeon, was sent
for. I had recovered my senses when he came. I had never
given the prisoner any encouragement at all. My neck is now
quite healed up, hut it is very tender. At times I have a
great pain it, and it swells much. lam not now in Mr. Rad-
ford's service.
Cross-examined by Mr. HILL—I first discovered the wound
when I was in the kitehin, whilst trying to turn my head. ,
Thomas Henry Sharpless—l am a surgeon residing at
Burton. I was called in to see the prosecutrix on the evening
of the 17th of March. I found a superficial wound about two
inches in length on the left side of the neck. It was about the
eighth of an inch deep. I dressed the wound three times. It
was nearly healed when I last saw it, which was about a week
after I was first called in.
Abraham Lyon—l am inspector of police at Portsmouth. I
apprehended the prisoner on the evening of the 31st of March,
in Portsmouth, a disturbance at some low house. He was
taken before the Magistrates. On the way to Portsmouth gaol,
he said, " I'll tell you all about it." I cautioned him. He
replied, " You may tell Mr. Jones,,,the Magistrate ; but don't
make more of it than I have said. He then said, "1 was