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• LAW INTELLIGENCE.
courtz OF CHANCERY, JANUARY 12.
GOUHLAP fl. THg DUKE OP 801141113gT.

His Lou °SHIP, on entering the Court, obsertid that
he intended to have given •judgment in this case; but,;
preparatory to his doing so, it was necessary to have
certain plans, which had been referred to in the course
of the cause, properly authenticated, in order that he
might be certain that they were the identical plans on
which his decision must ultimately depend. For-this
purpose he must have affidavits made by the parties on
each side.

Mr. GOURLAY rose, and in a vehement tone remarked,
that the machinery of the Court of Chancery was not
adapted to the due administration of justice.
-The LORD CHANCELLOR, interrupting him, said he
would not discuss such a question with him, and de-
sired him to recollect where he was; after he had deli-
vered his judgment, if an application was properly
made before him, with a view to have the case reheard,
he-would do so; but he would not have the question
discussed over and over again in the irregular manner
Mr. Gourlay seemed disposed to introduce it.
Mr. GOURLAY then retired.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JANUARY 12.

BENNET V. ROUBELL.
This was an action brought for a malicious charge of
felony. The plaintiff's name has been repeatedly be-
fore the Public as keeper of gambling-hol,es in Pall-
mall and its neighbourhood. The defendant was an
Attorney, suspected of having been concerned in the
prosecution ; when he went into the King's Bench, he
was dragged to the pump and pumped on ; the plain-
' tiff was.alleged to have assisted when some called out,•
" That's him ! pull him lip, pall him zip I" and to have
been particularly active in keeping him in the trough
while he was pumped on. the defendant proceeded
to Union Hall, and charged the plaintiff upon suspicion
of having robbed him of his pocket-book, containing
six 101. notes.—(All the circumstances were detailed in,
this Paper at the time.)
Hobert Staples, Clerk to the Magistrates at Union
11411, proved the charge having been made, the warrant
granted, and the charge being after wards dismissed.
John Butler,. Clerk to Mr. (farmer, stated the cir-
cumstances which came under his observation.

Thomas Got e,turnkey, gave evidence of the pumping,
and of the subsequent charge made against the plaintiff,
of having robbed the defendant of six 101. notes.
Thomas Easton, Solicitor to the Marshal, was told
by Mr. Roubell, that in the King's Bench, on the 24th
of Octolier, he was forced up to the back of the Prison;
he immediately missed his pocket-book, and that Bennet
was the person who took it. He had known Bennet be
fore. Mr. Roubell wished to have Bennet's room
searched immediately. I went to the staircase, No. 8,
where Bennet's room was. He was coming down stairs.
1 told him,my business, and searched his room, his
boxes, his pockets, and every place I could. I told him
what I searched for. Ile himself produced the keys. I
found several notes, none so low as 101.; several pocket-
books, none red morocco. I told Mr. Roubell, and had
the robbery then advertised through the Prison, with a
re is and of 101.
William Ilewitt,Clerk in the Prison, stated, that when
the warrant was brought,-Mr.ltonbell said, "Now, Mr.
Bennet, you will be locked up in the strong room."
Mr. Allen, the Magistrate, stated the result to-ha
been, that several persons were committed for the as-
sault, and Mr. Bennet was discharged, both for the as-
sault and the felony. The notes in his hand were taken
by himself. The notes were read in evidence, with con-
sent of both parties.
John Escudier had kept the Pulteney Hotel ; was in
the King's Bench on the night of the assault; heard a
scuffle and noise. Mr. Bennet was then at the grocer's
shop, No. 8 staircase, with several other persons, and
came to where witness was before the noise,and remained
there till the noise was over. Witness and Bennet never
went nearer the pump than No. 8. He was rather clumsy
to walk. He went no distance from witness at all.
lie could not have taken part in the pumping.
Cross-examined.—Defendant was pumped on twice.
I heard them cry out, " Informer, informer I"
Mr. Staples WAS recalled, and read the depositions at
Union Hall, upon which the charge was dismissed.
John Fitzgerald was a prisoner in the Bench on the
24th of September, when the assault was committed ;
.he saw Mr. Bennet when the pump was going, 20 or
so yards of. Mr. Bennet appeared to have come from
the tap;in an opposite quarter from the pump. ...From
the beginning to the end of the pumping Mr. Bennet
was not there, on witness's oath; he was ill with the
gout; he was dressed in a black coat.-4 This evidence
was given to meet a statement of defendant's, that he
wore a blue coat.)
Cross-examined.—l never heard that Roubell was
coming to the prison ; I heard the cries " Pull up, pull
up," but I never heard the name of Mr. Bennet mentioned.
John Brown was in the King's Bench on the 24th of
September, and in Mr. Fitzgerald's shop saw Mr. Ben-
net.; he remained near witness the whole of the time,
and could not have taken any part in the transaction;
he told me it was some informer, against bringing spirits
into the prison.
Cross-examined.—l keep no shop; Tdid sell oysters
at the beginning of the season ; I had no particular ac-
quaintance with Mr. Bennet; lam not of the same
class; I am a prisoner; I was waiter in the tap-room;
I have done nothing particular since.
Charles Handy, printer, sootier to defendant, brought
the copy from which he printed the hand-bills, and be.
lieved it to be defendant's hand-writing. I-le printed
about 200, and Mr. Roubell was to pay for them.
Two bills were read, setting forth an atrocious out-
rage and robbery by Richard Bennet and others.
John Smith, clerk tu the bankers, Spooner, Attwood,
and Co. proved the payment of a check for £lOO, and
the numbers of the notes given to defendant.
George Perry, clerk in the Bank of England, proved
payment of four of the notes (fur £10), the first on the
25th of September, and the others at different subse-
quent periods.
Mr. Shuttleworth, Collector of Taxes in Mary-la-
bonne, received the two notes presented (two of the
notes above-described) from Mr. Roubell on the 19th of
September, in payment of assessed taxes.
Mr. Taylor received that note•on the 29th of Septem-
ber, from Mr. Ebert.
Mr. Ebert paid £lOO worth of notes to -the former
witness: he received them from Mr. Jones.
Mr. Jones paid that note ; the name of Roubell was
indorsed, not witness's writiyig ; it was on it when wit-
ness received it.
Mr. SCA itLETT then submitted that the plaintiff must
be nonsuited.
The Loan CHIE7.JUSTICe was of opinion that there
must be malice proved, and none was proved.

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NAVAL. INtELLIGANdit
, the Louisa,. XARDERE. from iimekbohil.to. the Mediteestehai•
was on shore yeatcrilaL un Beach.
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FALMOUTH, AIWA 11114:1:Milirserij"Isr: Arrived the Duke of
Kent packet, front Lisbon ; and Mfigner, Line*, from Gotten.
burgh. Sailed the Duke of York patket,, for the !Wattle; •Spe:sly;
AsunEw, for Altea ; Neptune, Datums:a, for Terceira; Agnes;
Se.wmte, for Lisbon; Iliseborough, lievenr,.for Cattbagetta; Red-
man, Ft ItiEMA N, for Antigua; and Whack, .C‘ant for New Yorkt
Pi:emu:en' JANUARY I.—Wind N.--Sailed she :John Shand and
t Atalanta, foJamaica ; Newcastle, for Trieste; Belle Alliance, for
Madras; Escape, for Faro; and all the vessels Width pot in here
wind-bound.
Po RTSMC J A Nir AAT I -Wind-W.-Arrived
As:ten:sox, from alt:nel ; and Juno lideeniesoit, from Petersburgh.
DEAL, JA r•T 12. Wimt Arrived the Amity, Gust,
from Batavia; Jane, Loris. from Charente; Berwickshire, fro-n
London for Calcutta; and Doris, from ditto, for St. Übe's.
Ma ecaer, JANUARY 12.—The West Indian packet, Muttan. was
hove considerably astern last tide, and is expected to be got : if a:
the next, without lighienirg. Tit.: Levant Star was also [ewe
of her dock, in which she laid atlitvart, and now lays fair to br hot e
affat, but has got damage in her fore foot, and coatinueslighteniag.
—Yesterday, the Good intent, from Newport to London was OIL
:lion: on Forness Rock, and had beaten up, cargo discharging. The
Puget, from London fur Smyrna is supplied with an anetor,and has
brought up in the Gore. A brig, in quarantine, name unknown, has
also brought up in the Gore, with loss of an anchor and c able,
G IRR A LIAR, Dec. 19,r-The Santa Fermica, PINO, front Cadiz,
and hence to Genoa, put into Almeira the 20th ult. having been
pluTtdered three days before by a Spanish felucca, off Cape Galas, of
2,200 dollars, t..vo bat eels of cochineal, 21 serins of indigo,Und s‘-tne
trunks belonging to the passengers.
CUSTOM-HOUSE, JANUARY 12.
SHIPS Exeunt:, Ixwaans—The Luciade, Confidence, and Or'on,
from Memel ; Goforth, from Gottenburgh ; Carl Henrich,Watch-
ful, Lark, and Emma, from Riga ; William and Mary, Ann,
perk, and' Malta, front Seville; Alert, Union, Liverpool packet,
and Trim, from Lisbon; Voltigetrr, from Antwerp; Prince of
Waterloo, Vriendschap; and St. Pierre, from Osteed ; Williams,
from Carthagena ; X. L. from Petersburgh ; Atalanta' from De-
merara; Paulina, from Virginia; Lonach, from Batavia; Duke of
Kent, front Rotterdam; Abeona, from
.Jamaica; an Saliatia;
front Cadiz.
CLEA RING OIFTWA RDS—The Eliza, for Rotterdam Veraragtingi
for Harlingen; Xlacqueen, for India; and Crawford, for Bilboa.
Anntun At Leghorn, the Amy, Bloomfield, from London;
Venus, Boag, from Mocha; John and Thomas, Cook ; and Britan-
nia, Aldis, trot Newfoundland. At Havre, Pere de Famine, front
London; Governor Hawkins, from Buenos Ayres; Estafette,front
St. Domingo; Genevieve, from America; and Protection, Allen,
front Buenos Ayres. At Messina, the Jonge Ary, Lutzerrefrom
New York.

THE MINOR THEATRES. •.

NEW SURREY THEATRE.
The smell of gain is sweet out of anything said a Rol
man Emperor almost twenty centuries ago, and so say
our lower moderns. The late murder in liertfor&
shire has been a fertile 'source to more than one
class•of persons. We formerly noticed that a drama
had been founded on it, entitled the Gauthier:, and
pia) ed one tight at the Surrey Theatre, when it was
withdrawn, in consequence of an injunction in the Court
of King's Bench. Last night it was revived, and as
few people, happily, witness a murder, such as have the
good taste to like" all that sort trf thing," may see a re=
presentation of one at this house—a taste we certainly do
not envy, nor do we think the morals of the people will
be much benefited by an exhibition so revolting to liuma,
nity. The House was crowded, and we doubt not will
long continue so. The same feeling which drew twenty
or chitty thousand persons to see That-tell execu:ed at
liertford,.will fill the Staley to Sf= the crime for which
he suff...red so accurately repreerittl-J.
COBUIf.GTHEATItIt.

If we censure the Drama at the Surrey, in what terms
shall we speak of one founded on the same subject at
this house, where the allusions to the unfortunate vela•
tives of the Murderer Thuttell are as disgusting as they
are cruel? Is not the family already sufficiently wr et chedb
but they must be dragged forth on the Stage, and their
situation aggravated By increased puliolicity Yet such
is the case with the Coburg drama. •

FATAL AFFRAY IN TUE COUNTY OP WEXFORD.

PROM THE KILKENNY MODERATOR.
The circumstances of the fatal occurrence at Tagh-.
mon, in the County of Wexford, on the night of Friday
last (2d instant), having been variously stated, the fob
lowing authentic particuhirs, derived from the polite com-
munication of a Gentleman who as,isted in the otikial
investigation of the case, cannot but be highly acceptable:
It appears that between the hours of 11 au.l 12 o'cleck
on the night ill question, which was tl.e fair-night of
Taghmon, serjeant Thomas Moyles, of the l'olice,.“4
stationed at that place, had entered a publie•house for
the purpose of clearing it of a drinking; party, and in the.
performance of that duty was struck by one of the
company; on which the serjeant went out, returned
with two others of the Police, took the assailant into cus-
tody, and conducted him to the Thel'olice
returned to the public-house, :toll on entering locked the
door.—A mob had collected outside and attacked the
house, demanding the liberation of the prisoner; when the
serjeant (Moyles), after repeatedly calling on the rioters
to disperse, and the windows of the house having heed
entirely demolished, thought it necessary re the per-
sonal safety of his party to fire on the crowd. The
shot took effect—a young man of the name of Brennan
was mortally wounded, and
.after runni:z a short dis-
tance fell dead ! Two more shots were fired by. the
serjeant, h4ppily without effect, and the crowd WU-
mately dispersed. Moyles was taken into custody by
C. Waddy, Esq. the next resident Magistrate, we be•
lieve; and on the ensuing day, an inquest was held on
the body of the decea-ed, -before three Nlagistrates, in
the absence of the Coroner, who lived too remote horn
the spot to attend on the instant, and a most respect-
able Jury.
Several witnesses were examined, and, after a minute
inquiry into this deplorable tran Action,'-the Jury found
—4. That the deceased, James lilt -man, of Kilgarvan,
came by his death by a gun shot. wound, inflicted by
serjeant Thomas Moyles, of the Police establishment."
• The fatal ball entered by the right collar- bone, pene-
trated the lungs; and lodged in the heart. Nloyles has
beers committed to prison.
-As endeavours may be made --to attach a party feel.
in; to this melancholy occurrence, we decal it right to
aud, that Mlles, the Police,COmtable, is a Catholic.
Extract of a b

letter from galcutta _r.THACKERY,
the barrister, v, ho went to Calcutta without any license
from the Directors of the
°Euro India Company, his
been refused admission by the Judges, ,stating, that the
bar had already three more than its proper number, and
that they would adMit none until there wei e four va-
cancies, and then they would: .admit only one. The
Government has also ordered him to leaVe Calcutta and
return to Europe, as he had no license to reside."
A young gist waslcilled,?atuiday se'smiglit, by a fall
from one of the Aberdeen carriers' carts, !about 'three
wiles from Montrose.

About tett days ago, a boat with two revengers, and
two boatmen, was unfortunately lost in the night-time,
on a sunken rock at Cullach, between Mull and car
and all can board perished.

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