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London, England, 1830-11-29 00:00:00

thriei IX mow V. wraith's. IX MOIL.

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL applied for a rule, which had been ob.
tamed for a new trial, to be made absolute, and also that the bill of
exceptions, now tendered by him on behalf of his client Taylor,
be tacked to the writ of error. The use arose out of a gambling
transaction, in 1822 ; in which a brother of Williams lost a large
sum of money, and subsequently brought his action against Taylor,
and recovered damages, 6001. Mr. Taylor then commenced an action
against the present defendant for perjury ; but judgment was given
aaainat hint, owing, as alleged in the bill of exceptions, to the Judge
of the Common Pleas having, left the question of reasonable cause to
the opinion of the jury, whereas the jury ought to have given the ver.
diet from the charge of the judge.
Mr. Sergeant Caoss commented with much severity, on the present
application, remarking, that it was only made for the purpose of fur-
ther delay.
Lord TENTERDEN ordered the plaintiff in error to pay the costs
into Court, as well as the amount of the damages ; and in default of
compliance within three weeks, the rule, just obtained, was to be dis-
charged, and the other parties made absolute.
IMPOZTANT TO MAGISTRATE&
sir. ADoLruus moved the Court for a mandamus, to compel a
k,urrey magibtrate, of the name of Rowe, to hear an information laid
under the Pawnbrokers Act, by Byers, the common informer. The
Act referred to requires pawnbrokers to ask certain questions of parties
pledging, sad in default affixes a penalty, half of which becomes the pro-
perty of the informer. The approver of Byers a maw named !taw-
lings, had pledged an article under the name oillobinson, io the shop
of a pawnbroker, whom he afterwards laid the information in question

against. The magistrate, upon hearing that Rawlings had made use
of a feigned name. refused to hear the information on that ground. The
learned counsel enforced his application by stating that if it were not for
common informers, those useful acts, the stage coach and pawnbrokers
atm, would become a deed letter.
Lord Tawrsanax..—Take a rule to show cause.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 27.
rrawiroatie T. LTALL.
Mr. Sergeant STICPREWS moved for a rule to 111011 MIS why the
award made by the arbitrator should not be set aside. The defendant
had bound himself by a covenant of bOOL to freight a ship bane from
New Zealand to England, unless he should exonerate himself from the
eontntct by giving notice that he did not intend to fulfil it. This the
defendant felled to do ; on this ground the Learned Sergeant con-
tended that the defendant was liable to pay all the damages that
would have bees incurred had the ship returned in ballast to Eng-
land, although the Captain bad, on arriving at New Zealand, and
finding that the agent did not Intend to freight the ship according to the
covenant, taken her round to Batavia, and there took in a cargo which
produced more than the stipulated damages. Under the circumstances,
the arbitrator considering that as the ship was taken to Batavia by the
Captain, at risk of the defendant, and as the freight be obtained there
more than covered the amount of the breach of contract, and as no da-
mages could be proved, the nominal award of Is. was sufficient for the
negleot of the agent in not giving the notice according to the covenant.
The COURT were of the same opinion, and refused the rule, without
carts to either puny.
BOARD OF RXCISE, Nov. 28.
Mr. George Riddell, the landlord of the White Swan public-house,
Ratcliff-highway, appeared before the Commissioners to answer to an In.
formation preferred against him, and charging him with mixing dole.
serious drugs with his beer, for which offence he subjected himself to a
penalty of 2001.
Dean, an officer of Excise, stated that he applied the test of Mr.
Ferriday to some beer, and at once discovered that there was a portion
of deleterious matter in it. He in consequence took samples from the
casks in which the beer was, and took them to the brewbouse of Messrs.
Hoare and Co. where he obtained another sample of such beer as was
usually sent to the defendant's house; and it, with the others, delivered
to Mr. Ferriday.
Mr. Woodbridge stated that the beer found in the cellar of the de-
fendant was very different from what the firm supplied him with.
The defendant, In defence, said that his consumption of porter for a
few days previous to the discovery was vety great, and not being able
to procure a sufficient supply of mild beer at the time; he made up a
cask of stale into fresh. He declared that he applied nothing but
fining, and could not account in any way for the presence of the vitriol.
The Commissioners, after severely censuring the practice of adulte.
ration, mitigated the penalty from 2001. to 1001.
Mr. Gray, the landlord of the Dog and Bear, In Crucifix-lane,
Southwark, was charged with a similar offence ; but in consequence of
its being proved, that though the license was in the name of the defend.
ant, the house was in the of a person named Lewis, at the
time of the discovery, and tbPicr es
het,si°:logether with the ingredient used
not being of a deleterious nature, induced the Commissioners to reduce
the penalty to 101.
An Information was exhibited against the landlord of the Bricklayers'
Arms, Grange.atreet, Oxford-street, for adulteration ; and from his
not appearing to defend the charge, the full penalty was Inflicted.

WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS