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London, England, 1824-11-09 00:00:00

tURTHER PARTICULARS.

Extract of a letter dated Penzance, Nov. 6 The
Logan Rock is replaced, and rocks as before: it was put
up on Tuesday last, after three days'labour, by the help
of three pair of large sheers, six capstans, worked by
eight men each, and a variety of pulleys. Large chain
cables were fa.tened round the rock, and attached to
the blocks by which it was lifted. Altogether there
were about sixty men employed. The weight of the
rock has been variously computed, by different persons,
at from 70 to 90 tons. On the first day, when the rock
was first swung in the air, in the presence of about two
thousand persons, much anxiety was felt, by those who
were present, as to the success of the undertaking. The
ropes were much stretched ; the pulleys, the sheers, and
the capstans, all screeched and groaned ; and Lhe noise
of the machinery was audible at some distance.—
Many were very apprehensive lest so vast a weight
might snap all the ropes, and tumble over the preci-
pice, bearing the sheers and scaffoldings away with it ;
however, the whole has gone off with great success.
—The materials (which were all furnished gratis from
the dock-yard at Plymouth) were excellent, and inge-
niously managed ; and, though a rope or two broke, and
a link of one of the chains tote away a small piece of
an angle of the rock, which was thrown with much
velocity into the sea, yet the rock was safely supported
by its complicated tackling, and stands, once more, in
precisely its former position ! Lieutenant Goldsmith,
who threw it down, was the engineer in replacing it;
and in the opinion of many of the Gentlemen of this
town and neighbourhood, he has, by his skill and per-
sonal labour and attention, not only wiped away the
disgrace to which he was exposed by throwing it
down, but also acquired so much merit, that they are
about to invite him to a public dinner at Pearce's Hotel.
This seems to be going a little too far; since whatever
credit he may have derived by replacing the rock, seems
to be fully counterbalanced by the discredit of its wan-
ton demolition. It is understood that the expenses of
this work are defrayed by subscription. Fifty pounds
have been given by the London Geological Society."

Private advices from Smyrna to the 22d September,
state, that that place had been in considerable confusion
in consequence of the excesses committed by a body
of 1,200 Asiatic troops, who bad been encamped round
the city.
ASSASSINATION AT Ville ENNES.—The examination
relative to this circumstance is still going on with ac-
tivity, and is far from being finished. The following is
the statement of Madame Malservait. "On October
10th, the day of the assassination, at half-past eight in
the morning, a Mr.,F— came to Madame Malservait,
and asked her to accompany him to the country, where
he had business? During the time that she made her-
self ready, he repaired to a neighbouring coffee-house
to breakfast, and she joined him there. They set out at
half-past ten. A short distance before reaching the
crossing of the roads to Vincennes and to St. Maude,
Mr. F— said he would rejoin Madame Malservait in
an hour, in a coffee-house at Vincennes that he pointed
out, and left her, he going towards St. Maude. She
continued her route slowly, and after proceeding for
some minutes, she observed a man was following her
very closely, and examining her. She continued her
route, and the man followed her, and-had not left her
when she reached Vincennes. She went into a shop,
thinking she should thus escape, but he was like her
shadow, and remained at a short distance constantly
looking at her. She left the shop and went towards the
wood, and did not then see the man. But she had hardly
embraced the two children, and proceeded a few steps,
when the same man came up and said to her, " Do you
know these children ? Why do you embrace them?"
And he went away. This man was Papavoiae. Ma-
dame Mal,ervoit is positive in recognizing him.
According to annual custom, the Lord Mayor Elect
yesterday attended a Court of Aldermen, which was
convened for the purpose of swearing him into office.
The ceremony was performed on the platform, raised
at the east end of the Hall, for the distinguished visitors
at the banquet. The Chair of State was fixed in the
centre of the platform, and seats were placed on each
side for the accommodation of the Liverymen of the
two Companies to which their Lordships belong, the
Aldermen, and a number of Ladies. The Livery of the
Goldsmiths' Company, to which the new Lord Mayor
'belongs, attended in their gowns. The Livery of the
Frame-work Knitters Company, of which Alderman
%Vaithman is a member, were also in attendance in
their gowns, to receive their Alderman on his resigna-
tion. At three o'clock, the Lord Mayor Elect was
conducted to the platform by his predecessor, attended
by the Sheriffs, Aldermen, and the City Law Officers.
The new Lord Mayor, after having taken the civic oath,
took the oaths of allegiance and supremacy, and was
handed to the chair by the old Lord Mayor. The
Chamberlain having presented him with the City purse,
the seal, and the mace, the Sword Bearer advanced to
the chair, and presented the sword, which his Lordship
returned, and the Sword Bearer took it back with him
to his former station. The new Idird Mayor (Alderman
Garratt) then -received the congratulations of the late
Lord Mayor, and of the other members of th,e Court of
Aldermen. Ater the ceremony was concluded, the
Aldermen and the two Companies went in cars jages to
the Mansinn-house, where a sumptuous entertainment
(tl:e Lord M t) or's farewell dincet ) was provided.

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF CII4.NCERY, NOVEMBER i
Ex parte LATHAM, Ml THE MATTER OF LAritANt
AND PARRY.
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His LORDMIIP wished to know whether he had got
all the examinations in this case or not? If he had
not, he wished to he furnished with any that he had
not got. He observed. that Mr. De Tastet had exa-
mined the bankrupt personally himself, and that the
examination On the other side had been concluded by
experienced Counsel, before the Commissioners ; and it
occurred to him, that several other questions might and
ought to have been put in on the part of Mr. De Tastet,
to which, however, he had no doubt satisfactory an-',
swers could be given. His Lordship would be sorry
to say anything which might tend to prejudice Mr.'
Latham, but he considered that it would be better for
that Gentleman's character and credit, that some fur-
ther questions should be put.
Mr. MONTAOUg intimated that he would apply to
his Lordship's Secretary to see the examinations which
had been handed to the Court, and if the whole had
not been delivered in, he would take care to furnish the
remainder. If his Lordship wished the examination to
be proceeded further in, he bad no doubt that would be
the most satisfactory to all parties, and therefore duly
attended to.

COURT OF KING'S RENCEI, NOVEIIBER 8.
RSV. MR. LLOYD V. DAVIES.
Mr. Se: jeant PEA KE moved the Court to set aside the
nonsuit which, in this case, Mr. Justice LITTLEDALE'
had directed at the Salop Assizes. The question was,
whether the plaintiff) could recover from the defendant
the a:nount of a bill of exchange, drawn by Miss
Vaughan, and accepted by the defendant, which the
plaintiffs now held, and cl*med as a security to them
for bail given by them for a debt against Miss Vaughan,
who died some time since? The Learned Judge had
held that the plaintiffs could not recover upon this bill
of 2001.
The Loan Cuter Jessica was of opinion that the plaintiffs could
not recover, because they had not proved that they had got posses-
sion of the bill before it fell due.—Rule refused.
PRICE V. SULLEN.
Mr. GURNEY moved to set aside the verdict for the
defendant, and to hive a new trial granted. The case
had been tried at Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Jus-
tice. The plaintiff was a baker at Southend, and the
defendant had been his attorney in an action for rent,
in which he had been the defendant. His defence was a
plea of minority, of which there was net evidence pre-
pared on the day of trial. For negligence in providing
the necessary witnesses, an action was brought against
the attorney, Mr. Bullen, in which Mr. Pearse, the
attorney for the plaintiff in the action against the pre-
sent plaintiff, was the attorney.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE said he remembered the
circumstances. It appeared doubtful whether, if the
witnesses had been ready, the result would have been
different. It was also doubted whether this latter action
was not the attorney's, and not Price's. There was again
some question whether the absence of Price's father to
prove the minority, was not the father's own fault.
At the trial it had been stated that Southend could neither sup-
port two bakers nor two attorneys.
The Loan Cuter Junsca had no doubt that it was the action of
the attorney.—Rule refused.
THZ KING V. DI/MELD.
Mr. ANDREWS moved for a writ of habeas corpus to
bring up a prisoner of the name of Dudfield, in the
County Jail of Surrey. He had been imprisoned upon
a warrant from Sir K. Birnie, for uttering in Surrey,
notes which had been stolen. Assizes and Sessions had
passed over since the imprisonment, and the oath on
which the warrant was issued was that of Jacobs, who
was himself sworn to have been a principal in the
robbery. On these circumstances, he submitted that
the prisoner was entitled to be bailed.
Loan Cuter Jusalte...—You had better take a rule to spew came.
MAYNARD V. RHODE.
This was an action on a policy of assurance on the
life of Colonel Lyon. The defence was, that at the
time of the insurance being effected, a fraudulent repre-
sentation of the state of the Colonel's health was made
to the Company, upon proof of which a verdict for the
defendant was given on the trial.
Mr. ScAscrer now stated several grounds upon which he sub-
mitted that a new trial should be granted, but the Court refused to
disturb the verdict.

CONSISTORT COURT, NOVEMBER S.
MONTAGUE V. DIONTAGUE.
This was a suit for separation by reason of adultery,
promoted by G. C. Montague against his wife, Mar-
garet Green Montague. the parties were married at
Gretna Green in 1803, and in May last, Mrs. Montague
cited hire husband in this Court for a separation by rea-
son of adultery. Mr. Montague is possessed of a life in-
terest in a considerable estate by virtue of his grand-
father's will, which on his death is to devolve on his
male issue, and in default of which to his two sisters.

Dr. ADAMS, on behalf of Mrs. Montague, said that if
Mr. Montague should object to the validity of his mar-
riage, which must of necessity be proved before the
adultery could be determined, and such objections were
held valid, then the children, of whom there were three,
would be declared illegitimate, and they would be de-
prived of their paternal property, which would go to
Mr. Montague 's sisters. On the other hand, if the mar-
riage be held legal, then the property would descend
in right to the children. The Court would therefore
perceive, that Mr. Montague's sisters would be mate-
rially affected by the decision of the marriage, and he
therefore hoped the Court would see the propriety of
the sisters being made parties to the suit.
Dr. ARNOLD, on behalf of Mr. Montague, opposed
the motion. Such an application was without precedent;
the case of the Marquis of Donegal did not bear at all
on the question ; that suit was proceeded in nominally
for a nullity of marriage, but it was in order to put the
validity of the marriage in the course of trial ; the issue
there was on the nullity or validity of the marriage ;
here it was on the adultery—the cases, therefore, were
extremely different—the issue to be tried of one was the'
nullity or validity of the marriage ; of the other the
adultery. In order to find a sentence of adultery, of
course the marriage must he proved, but that was only
an incidental point of proof, and not the grand point at
issue. Mrs. Montague wished to bring into the suit
certain persons whose interests Alight be affected by
contingent events; but the Court surely would not en-
tertain so novel an attempt to convert the suit of adul-
tery into one of nullity of marriage.
S:r CHRISTOPIteR IIcSiNSON said the case was cer-
tainly novel, and presented many inconveniences ; he
would read the libel, and give his judgment on a future
Court-days

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