Star.
London, England, 1822-01-16 00:00:00

BENSLEY V. EIGNOLD.

This was an action by Mr. Bensley, of Fleet-street,
against the late Secretary of the Norwich Union Fire
Office, for the cost of printing a pamphlet. The Jury,
at the trial, found a verdict for the plaintiff.
Mr. GURNEY afterwards obtained a Rule for nonsuit,
upon the ground that the plaintiff, by omitting to
print his own name and address in front of the pam-
phlet, had violated the statute, the Stith Geo. lit, and
that lie could not, upon a transaction in itsell illegal,
recover in a Court of Law.
Mr. SCA RLeTT contended that the statute had been
virtually complied with—the names of Pinnock and
Co. having been affixed to the pamphlet as printers
and publishers.

Mr. GURNEY relied upon the cue of '4 Barehard v.
Evans," /MI Taunton.

the Cotlar thought that there had been a viola-
tion of law by the plaintiff, and that the action for
Mork and labour could not, consequently, be main-
tained.— Rule absolute.
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, JANUARY 15.
THE PSEUDO-PRINCESS OP CUMBERLAND, IN RE OLIVE
WILMOT, CALLING HERSELF PRINCESS OP CUM-
BERLAND.

Mr. Ii LATH moved for a Rule to shew cause why
the Princess of Cumberland should not be allowed •
to air her Petition in this Court, pursuant to the pro-,
visions of the " Act of Ist Geo. IV. for the relief of,
Insolvent Dcbtors in England." This application was
m.tde on the ground that she had not complied with
one of the sections of the Act, which required the
Potithm to be filed within fourteen days alter impri
sonment. The Learned Counsel handed in an affi-
davit signed "Olive." It set forth that she was con-
fined in the Fleet Prison ; that she had but /22 in her
possession ; that she was entirely supported by the
charity and benevolence of her friends, that slie had
wasted no personal property, and that she should
have applied within the fourteen days required by
the Act, had she not ex pectei that some of her fr iends
would have become security for her debts until her
claims were established.

The COURT said that the Petitioner could not gain
anything by her affidavit, as it was signed "Olive"
only, without the addition of her surname. The
Petitioner must know whether her surname was
Willmot" or " Serres."

Mr. HEATH, in order to set aside this abjection,
called Trapnell, the deputy tipstaff of the Fleet Prison,
who stated that the Petitioner was committed by the
same of " Olive," without any surname.--The
Leal ned Counsel (Mr. Heath) therefore contended,
that as die Affidavit corresponded with the commit-
ment, the Petitioner was entitled to her application.
The COURT then granted the motion.

Friday se'nnight, about 11 o'clock at night, the
inmates of a house in King-street, Aberdeen, were
alarmed by repeated cries of murder, proceeding
from a back apartment on the ground floor. occupied
by William Gordon, a fishing-tackle-maker. A Gen-
tleman called for tha assistance of the watchman, and
entered the apartment. Here they found Gordon;—
and on the floor of the room, near the fire, the ap-
palling spectacle of his wife apparently in the agonies
of death, bleeding profusely from a dreadful wound
iu her thigh, three inches deep, inflicted, it is said,
by a sharp pointed poker ; by which the femoratar-
tery bad been lacerated and laid open. Medical as-
sistance was immediately called; but the unhappy
woman breathed her last in a few minutes. The hus-.
band has been committed to jail.
Sunday, at twelve o'clock, when the guard was
relieved in the Stable yard, St. James's, an accident
occurred which was nearly attended with fatal con-
sequences. An Officer in the Life Guards dismounted 'I
in the Stable-yard, and an orderly, who was in wait-I
ing, took possession of the animal and mounted it.
lle was no sooner on its back than it commenced
rearing and plunging with great violence, gallopped
down the yard into the Park, and threw the rider
with great force against a tree, by which his breast,
ileac', and face were shockingly injured. He was
conveyed to the gate-house, and there bled by Mr.
Smith, surgeon, of Pimlico, and afterwards carried
to the barracks, where he lies in a hopeless state.— I
After the above occurrence, the porter of Lord Har-
rington mounted the horse, and with a kind of bra.
sracio expressed his contempt of the orderly for not
being able to manage the horse, but he was not
mounted an instant before the horse began to rear
vsed plunge, and soon the servant lost all command
of the animal, and it gallopped down the Mall with
extraordinary velocity,and opposite the Horse Guards
the rider was unhorsed, and dragged by the stirrup'
far some distance. When he was taken up he was
fousid, to have received most. extensive injury, and
was carried to the Hospital.