Star.
London, England, 1830-01-08 00:00:00

ARMY REDUCTIONS.

•

It Is said that a reduction in the standing Army will take place
of all second Majors, two tompanies ►a each regiment of Foot
Guards and Infantry of the UM ; the Depot system to be abo.
limbed, which is found to be nearly as expendve as second batta-
lions the Mb Dragoon Guards to be disbanded; and the 4th and
Sib to be formed into a regiment of Cuirassiers of eight troops,
and to be numbered the Sib Dragoons. The regular Militia to be
re-organised, and rendered most efficient in officers and men, and
made more available to general service. This force, which is to be
as an Army of Reserve, is to be kept Inconstant readiness to as-
semble for duty at the sheeted notice, and from which the stand-
log Army will be recruited, which is calculated will effect a great
saving, as, in case at any time an augmentation of force is required,
this corps of reserve, or any part of it, can be assembled at a sheet
period, thereby preventing the expense and delay of raising new
men, as has hitherto been the case, whom alter a short period it
has been found necessary to reduce again.

DUffLLV:

THE COMMISSION.—Jas. 5._

The Hon. Mr. Justice Mooaa and the Hon Mr. Jus-
"tic* VA N DILLE V a opened the Commission on Saturday.
Michael Byrne, against whom the last. Commission
Grand July found a true bill, for being engaged in Hanlon's
murder, and who pleaded not guilty at the late sittings of
the Court, put in affidavits for the purpose of having his
trial postponed until next Commission. The affidavits-
stated that two material witnesses for his defence were.
_ _

'out of this kingdom ; one, whose name was Martindale,
a shoemaker, was in Manchester, and another, named
Magrath, in Liverpool, and that he had used his beat
exertions to obtain their attendance, but that they
bad not yet arrived. The Court, after attentively pe-
ruing the affidavits, and conferring with Counsel for
the Crown, decided that there were not sufficient grounds,
for the postponement of the trial.
William Clinton, Willie Roberts, Thomas Mellon,
alias Mulhall, and Walter Jackson, were placed at 'the
bar, and arraigned for thesame offence.
They ell pleaded in a firm voice not guilty.
The Court then adjourned to this claT,
INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, 'an, ,6.

Jahn /mlls, a cow-beeper. Irae.l Ilifrea4slll, was apposed by
9Sosere.• Coosa And Hamm as behalf of tbroo.erediters.
Dawklos,,and
Thelonivent sated, that on the tub of June, lass. ;re, was Ay.
rested for a debt of £33, at which time be had in his pleacalloo 43
tow*, a horse sod art, household furniture, and Salop up of his
premises. Upon .belos arrested, be pa bail. and.the.folloorias
47 he employed.sn auctioorer to dispel of his pulping ,by s-
tfoq, ea the nth July every thing be kad was sold. pro-
Aland Also 17e. As soon as he received the mom, ttejraid IMO
dlons the. Hank of England. to the creak the estate a person
maned Mitchel, to which be was trustee ; which sant he had
drown Out two .70ati WPM and oPIWSPOttod. II to Wows use.
He also paid a few other persons varlsen nuns. Atovitittg %loom
of £lO4. which be bad expended is swor% and own
tains up to Ms Coon, with debts to thweemoist Lf 4/741. ends.
sropeny to go towards peyingthent. The expooses of his sale by
Alnico see ie were as pi* as diadaht for avMaltbe was wowed,
Mr. Ifxyrt submitted to the- Court. thit thiltlitdoont bad on
-right tinpay this 4100 into the Dank
,of England; and lbe'ssoK
'to fend& every intenuation la his power respecting his. 'num:
ship ; be ought also to prodose .thestresslier. dciteareidala beano
inner! at the,Dault, before the lass. uould:gionted,
The Coal: ordered the canto be postponed. is wimp egg*
the Leedom to die a new opeclEl Wince shaet, to produce the
4transfer.tickm;and to predator theorist deed to show that hewn.'
1946104 'kg* &still/loom to @divot. the steler.,
COW APPospare•tor44,l4r..l4lllltrit6ealitiql Snook
U apptered that she bun/vent wee ;blares p...m.„ zsgcs.
sod net bevies vet obtained his seetilltno. he *as ••In
"Pg.t*Mktv.toos.to *Min the / COlNal* of thivp.higia.
creditors in lumber and value, before be could appear to apply for
relict under the Insolvent Debtors' Act.

• LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, J. 7.

MATNAILD V. NIVITOW.
In this case, which occupied the Court upwards of three heirs.
a verdict was found for the plaintiff for the moan &kind, and
subject tea reference.
ILION? qt. 112,11M11.
MO was an action to recover the sum of £6 Ss. ed. for coals
Yard.
Mr. Gunn stated that the plaintiff was a respectable coalesce-
tient. and the defendant kept a china and glass shop in Lamb's
llendnit-street. The plaintiff bad bad a clerk in his employ of
mine of Monday, who procured the order from the de-
-1 for two deadness and a half of anis, end the wend
sedum was brought to recover the valve of those coals, and the
obacitresshoodng, cartage, due.
were called to prove the ddleerp el the code U
Mir boas of the defendant, and that Monday was clerk to the
plistit •
11r. C. F. Warms, on the part of the defendant, cessended
that the coals were sold to Monday by the plaintiff. and by Mm to
des defendant. who had taken them in part ppasyment of a debt
which Mandey owed him. Monday was indebted to the defen-
dant about 151. He bad repeatedly told she defendant that he
was a atalaserchant, and when he solicited for an order, the de-
readmit said he would glee him one, provided he would let the
amount of the charge for them go against his debt. To this
Monday agreed, and the coals were delivered. On the ap-
plication of the plaintiff personally for payment, the defendant
said he had not purchased them of him but of llueday,
upon the expressed understanding that the amount was to go
against a sum he owed him, and that he knew Dodges of
him (the plaintiff.) The latter .replied, the mason bo bad
waited on him was, that Monday. to whom be bad sold the seder
was out of the way for debt, and that he could not get the
After the plead/had quitted his house, the defendant we:no L
next door neighbour, and related the ChtIiMIUSICe who Mined
diately said that he had just seen h.unday lurking Maine the her,
sad that be bad gone away with she person hi soppiest was riff,
Flight. They then wait into the nest street, who/vibe, found
Monday walking with the plaintiff. The defendant's hind' stem
op to the plaintiff, and asked him what business &thud mull eldel
the decadent, whom he had never before seen, and dammed tip
meet deist which he had purchased of another person? 'The
plaintiff said, in the course of a conversed= which erase set of
this question, that be had sold the coals to Monday at GU moths'
credit, but as he could not ger teiwenoney from him, be bad thou ht
it right to demand payment of the defendant himself.
Evidence was called to prove chess facts ; and
Lord Tarrause left it for the Jury to say, whether they were
of opinion. on the evidence produced, that the coals were bought
of Monday under an agreement that the amount should go against
a debt he owed to the defendant ?
The Jury immediately returned a verdict foe the defendant.
Several undefended and other cases, totally destitute of public
interest, were disposed of, and the Court rose.
HIGH COURT OF DELEGATES, Jas. 7:
WYATT v, moan.
miic caw, which has been so long is the coarsest **arm in
the Prerogative Court, and which has attracted so mach of the
public attention, came on for hearing yesterday before the High
Court of Delegates, consisting of liason Vaughan, and Jealous
Littledale and Gisela, assisted by the Delegates, Doctors Das-
beny, Hornsby, Gosling. and Adams. on an appeal preferred by
Henry Wyatt, Esq. against a judgment pronounced by the Preto-
gadve Court, annulling the will of the late Edward-CW(4os, Eq.
in which the appellant was nominated his executor sod residuary
'slant
The facts it the use are these :—ln the year 1824, Mr. aspeem..
tildVloe, be Warwickshire, died at the age of 76, lowing, to the
Obis nut of hie and other relatives, his property to Mr.
Mary Wyatt, the sea of a gentleman who had acted as his ipso,
and with whom fir 1101111111~ preceding his death he resided.—
In biewM he merely bequeathed a mall legacy to his sister, and
tin, to his death, he withdrew by a codicil which be sable-
sussed. The entire 'adman. of -the -familyfenne any
1111 Ms large fortune caused mocirdintadetactits, sad the n-
ook was the institution of the previa oalt..in which the validity of
the will and codicil were impeached: on the Pounds that the tea.
tator was not of sound and disposing memory and understanding
at the time of their neeetion. and that an voddebilinoce bed leas
stormed over him..
The Arreauer-Oznasat contended that the lodgment terbkhlt
was then sought to snout appeared to have been founded on .a 'Wo-
=rilof the voluminous maw of evidence which bed been
ferward in the cause and epos erroormer, if ouldineloor
prineipke. In 1616 his bajbasdied, and Mums ises *ilea
Mika asthe heir at lauotthe Watarickshke mates— Mr. lt,
ard Wyatt. theitithet of the appellant. than whom a mare honour-
able man never breathed, was at the time kis becither's'agent. and'
them it was that he beesneeespainted With Maud Mb sow Tee
acquittal:* etreophsned boreettireacy east &sermonise at ass
in the same capacity for, him. and to adds tat Meese ,the had*
manden. In lan he, made the will which was the silica of the
present littption,,a which he left his sister £l,OOO, aid to bill.
Henry Wyatt Abe-resides of Ms property. The bequest tobleidetel•
be afterwards revoked by.' codkily sodas& Ma Wystethisesin
heir. Would any one say that .be.thad. not: a izielpto.dsash-e-
There were but three things that could invalidate a will, and dim
did not exist in the present instance : one was the faaiaepstererof
the testator to make a will; damsel itiheing impose& opus Mseop
and the third. his executieg it whew under tbn hawses of der...
The AstoestresGenstesa.preeneded to camas' endearment es
the *adamants hale skim the..weismininsaJoature el whicharm
fled De less then 160 dee* Itteleil Mel tam Melt mg ]
that the ask inftiresa thateoadd be dome from it wuthatsiliel
amoom.,asso air Web termer. of penurious. habits, sod
attached to the ,teasers lashing it the lost essturpwassfue
listfeedg mend, natl., waste =bd. and: pdai sonspermso Op
Jassipamitt anddispedaien of Me masks. .. Heeloodaded a puma
&Ladders/1 is suppouef the afpellanes claims, at. half
o'clode. when timaaweArsesdpousodundi inenerrost (third p)