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period of the jssuing of the commission,
Mr. Grimstead in the amount of the partiOnlar.sqm
named ; with liberty to the Judge, if the Jury should
find that they were not, to' indorse on the poste?,
whether they were indebted to hitn for any other
sum?" He would have the questiOn of costs atped
after the issue should be tried.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, NOVEMBER 23.
TUX KING V. HARDRESS AND ANOTHER.
As the Court were proceeding in the bearing of
cases in the New Trial Paper,
Mr: SCARLET r rose, and begged, as he was obliged
to leave town, that the Court would allow him to
Move in a case which the parties were anxious . hei
should attend-in persoh.
. The LORD Cuter JUSTICE said, he had no doubt
the Gentlemen of the Bar would willingly accommo-
date him, under the circumstances in which he stood.
Mr. Justice BAytey—You will engage to make no
motion on Monday orTuesday, Mr. Scarlett?—( .laugh.)
Mr. SCA RLETT then proceeded—He was instructed
on behalf of certain Magistrates, acting for the Brigh-
ton Division of the County of Sussex, to apply for a,
Rule, calling-on Mr. Hardress and Mr. Mort, two gen-
tlemen of Brighton, to shew cause why a criminal in-
formation should not be filed against them. Some
years ago an Act of Parliament was passed for the
purpose of paving, lighting, and improving the.town
of Brighton, and certain Commissioners were ap-
pointed to execute its provisions. This Act, as was,
sometimes unfortunately the case with Acts of this
description, was so obscurely and imperfectly framed,
that the Magistrates.felt very serious difficulties in',
enforcing some of• its penalties. Informations had
lbw laid; before, them against individuals for nui-
sances committed in.ibrogrfOg dust anciAlth over the
!cliffs upon the beach ; in suffering little carriages,
Called "flies," to remain in the streets; and in conti-
nuing-other obstrneticitii in the public ways. The
=M
Migtstrates, ilang their. best. judgment on the.
Statute, thought-that it.gave them no juriidiction to
receive ti informations; and on this ground alone
kbwrefuse,d to heartheni : for if the Court should
*rai!t:a incision:us. to compel them to hear the idol..
matron, and decide that they had power to hear it,
they would be quite willing to exercise that power
which they had no interest or disposition to forego.
Souse- of-the. Commissioners under the statute were
exceedingly irritated at the refusal to hear the infor.
mations., and instead of applying for a mandamus, in
which the Magistrates themselves would have been
happy to assist them, they published libels and pur-
sued a system of. conduct tending to degrade the
Magistrates, and to render their authority useless.—
The common crier was employed togive notice that
a meeting would he held at one of the inns, for the
purpose of taking their conduct into consideration,
and of devising Means to secure a proper adminis-
tration of the statute. This meeting
.was actually
holden, and a number of resolutions, signed by Mr.
Hardress, as the Chairman, were passed, and after-
wards given publicity.to in the provincial journals.
By these resolutions it was determined that- no more
applications should be made to Mr. Phipps, or Mr.
Bate (two of the offending Magistrates) under the
Act, and that the beadles should be directed not to
take any person before them—that the Commissioners
would pay no longer for a room in which the Ma-
gistrates had bsen accustomed to sit, but dint the
innkeeper's account should be discharged up to the
29th of October ; and that a deputationshould be ap-
pointed to wait on the Lard Lieutenant of the County
to request him to appoint new Magistrates for the
Brighton division, and to present hiM with a list
whence such 'Magistrates might be conveniently
chosen. Now the Commissioners had a right to call
a meeting for the better carrzinginto.Cifect the pur-
poses of the Statute; and they had a right to decline
providing a room for the sittings Oldie Magistratei ;
but they had no right to make prOilainatiOn against
them by the common crier, pr to pUblish Resolhtipris
calculated to deprive them of that respect without
which they would be worse than powerless. It WAS
also sworn, that when another Magistrate, Sir David
Scott, wished for the assistance of the beadlei ap-
pointed by the CommisSioners to quell a disturbance,
he received for answer, that none of the persons em-
ployed by the Commissioners should act under his
directioos, or these of his brother Magistratei. On
another occasion, a Gentleman, whom he (Mr. Scar-
lett) would' not name, as he elieVed him to be a
mere instrument of others, entered the room where
the Magistrates sate, and said he wished to prefer an
information, but not before Mr. Phipps or Mr. Bate;
and the Magistrates declared their belief that this
was done, not from any real desire to lay an informa-
tion, but merely for the purposes of insult. When
the gotta considered/the pppolation of Brighton, be-
tween 5009 and 40,000 persons, and that this oo-
ril4tion was constantly increasing, he trusted they
broo)d feel how important it was, that the Magistrates
who were eppoieted to preserve the public peace
shonld be I,e-spected by the people. These Magtp
crates hid actedcOnicientiOusly in the course-they had
iitken; they bail no interest tO act otherwise; and there-
fore they were entitled to the protection of the Court.
'The LORD CHlET,liiitce asked the Learned Coun-
sel, against what motion was direited?
Mr. Renate it replied, • that twenty-fiie persons
had-sikne a the obnoitonsltesOlution, but that he only
mOved-aiainsitiefi, the Chairman, and
Mr.:Mort, who had been an active partizan against
the MaStrates.-:-Rule granted.
- court, on Mr. Stuiturres request, indulged
him with bearing another Motion (of no public inte-
rest), that he might be at liberty to attend the Cam-
, bridge Election.

9pUCT.II,Q.N.-.BLENV V. GREEN.

• This was an action for-seduction, tried at the last
Spring Assizes, on the Western Circuit, before Mr.
Justice HoLaws, in which the plaintiff recovered
.701. damages.
In last frinity Term, Mr. C. F. WILLIAMS ob-
tained a Rule to shew cause why a pew trial should
not be granted, on the ground that the story of the

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ragdy WECAISR.SA toa AM.__ on ."jiment
.
Mr.. C. F. Au. 1.1 a..u4celined to Weile , t pro-.
igilhorabwiCe Ina schipt, ,esneCially ai the.
tvi.dunce,ol,.which. the; verdict .rested.Kas.hot only
improbable, bo imipplable in ibe,otintsie, nature:
Mr. Justiof,Rowtoin.read hit repeirt.of the trial..
Mr. Serjeant Pas.t.argued agalnst "the Rulei,"ollthe
pound that the witnisshad probably been.tuitraittri,
tothe. dates. which was highly probable in the di:-
tressing.sitnatinn in which she stood, She had Seen.
eross-examined at great length, and het.altentiOn had
never been. drawn to the comparative datei, or she'
would probably have corrected herself, or given a
satisfactory explanation of the circumstances.,
The.CooaT having required further explanatinn of
the statement of the witness respecting dates, were,
informed that she first said the end of November, and
afterwards the middle of December.
Mr. Serjeant liEt.t. again urged the delicate and
embarrassing situation in which Miss Blew stood, as
a reason why some confusion might arise respecting.
dates. It was also remarkable, that if this confusion
were so important as to furnish ground for a new
trial, it should not have been dwelt on by Mr. Wil-
' Hams in his address to the Jury.
Mr. Justice BAYLEY observed, that even the dates,
if persisted in, would not be conclusive ; as Dr.
:Hunter had said that he knew of births after nine'
months and fourteen days' gestation, and even, he
believed, at the expiration of ten months.
The Lotto Cuing JUSTICE asked how Mr. Williams
could explain his omission to dwell on this alleged
impossibility at the trial?.
Mr. C.F. WlLLtausi replied, that he had noted it
on a piece of paper which had been accidentally re-
moved, and so had unfortunately omitted to notice it
, in his address to the Jury. But he recollected. it the
moment after the verdict wasgiven, and immediately
mentioned it to the Learned Judge.

The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed, that the de-1
fendant was in this dilemma—either the circumstance
was mentioned, or it was omitted ; if mentioned, the
Jury took it into their consideration before they gave
their verdict ; if omitted, it was reasonable that the
party who now sought for a new trial on the ground
of that omission, should pay the costs.
Mr C. F. WILLIAms consented to take the Rule on
payment of costs, and on these terms the Rule was.
made absolute.

The 10% k1e5,1,9207- ficll4." ;Trb*,l Aneit•
io crqiain.
The'Rev. Owim
as.es.Ara epe!i., •
Molted Marto', TthOcal kse.
arca gifrits or ;am!.
The Rev. Thomas Henthaw ioneditite.Peter's
Pucka Dough' •Halfcel, ,
Charles Furschm, Drava/4 Fatiege. •
On the mum day a (facepaited tie Senate, " To puTebtra
the late Dr. E. D. Clarke 's Uolkctl a of Minerals nt the mra
of di Boo."
OXFORD, NOVRM3ER s 3.
Saturday, the following Degrees were Ktiter red :
micros IN DIMITY.
The Rev. PhiSp Nicholas Sbuttlevrorth, Wardend Xew Col.
kge; Grand Compounder.
aacurtoa IN CIVIL LAW.
--I—tomew Higgins, Req. 1 ttnity College; Grand

flow in ta•

William Ba
:ompounder.

MASTILLS OF ARTS.
Charles Gower Boyles, Exeter College, Grand Compounda.
liev. James Andrew H. OrJbbe, Ritter Ccllege.
ThOs. Heathcote Tragfit, Scholar of Corpus Christi College.
John Wootten, Belliol College.
The Rev. Henry Morse, Worcester College.
SACIS SLURS OP ♦RM
John Brown, Queen's College.
Harvey Atkins-Browne, Queen's College.
Robert Burn, St. Edmund Hall.
William Archibald Home, Student of Christ Clrarch.
Edward Trimmer, Brasennose College.
Edward Elton, ditto.
James King, Oriel College.
The Hon. Russell Barrington, Oriel College.
George Paul Belcher, Worcester College.
Philip Aubin, Fellow of Jesus College.
William Bactiscombe, Pembroke College.
William Brownlow, ditto.
Yesterday, the Rev. Charles Alceck, Fellow of Sew C-oßege,
Was admitted Master of Arts; and James Folliett, of Pembroke
College, Bachelor of Arts.
ECCLESIASTICAL PROMOTIONS.
The Duke of Cambridge has appointed the Bev. Philip Per-
ring. M.A. of Brasennose College, Oxford, one of his Royal
Highness's Domestic Chaplains.
The. Rev. Johnson Lambert to the Living of Bowes, Yor:1,
vacant by the death of the Rev. Richard Wilson.
The Associate Congregation of Limekilns, in connection wint
the United Secession Church, has given a harmonious call to
Mr. William Johnstone, A.M. Preacher, to be their Pastor.
The University of St. Andrew's, which has for a number of
rare past been on the increase, is this Session more fully at-
tended than on any preceding occasion. (►n Tuesday week, up-
wards of thirty competitors appeared for the foundation bursa-
ries; which, after a keen contest, were decided in favour of
'Messrs. John Urquhart, John Craig, and Laurence Pitkeathlt,
from Perth ; and John Stewart, from Little Ounkeld.

BIRTHS.
At Newtown Glebe,the Lady of the Rev. George St. George,
of a sos.
Nov. 17, at Wilton, the Lady of Harry Alcoa, Esq. High
Sheriff of the county of Wexford, of a daughter.
Nov. 17, at the Parsonage House, Oist St. Mary, the Lady
of the Rev. Mr. Strong, of a son.

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