Star.
London, England, 1822-06-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
AM. .Im•mommo
NOM CTRCUIT-41UMMER ASSIZES, tat
Before Chief Baron Rasuains and Mr. Juetke Pm
Hertfordshire—Thursday, July In, at Hertfotd.
Itasez—Monday, July 22, at Chelmsford.
Sway—Monday, July 29, at OußtlfOrd.
Sussex—Shturday, August 5, at Leires.
Kent—Wednesday, August 7, at Maidstone.
COURT OF CHANCERT, JUNE lIL
2TII2ILT V. REIMS.

Mr. HonNa held in histand a petition frOM Richard
Street, the plaintiff in the cause in which Priscilla
Street and others are defendants. The object of the
present application was, to prevent any intercourse
between his daughter, a ward of the Court (to whorti
a legacy of four hundred pounds bad been bequeathed
by her grandfather), and a young man named Hq.
ratio Reeves, a druggist, at Exeter. Richard Street.
the reputed father, stated in his petition, that the Riri
was only fifteen years and five months of age ohn
she was his only child, and that he had always treated
her with great kindness ; that independent of the le.
gacy of four hundred pounds, she had great expet.
cations at the death of the petitioneil. The peettir
then went on to state, that the mother, Priscilla Strom,
one of the defendants, had acted very improperly is
favouring the young mad's addresses, and in endea.
vouring to promote his marriage with her daughter.
That the petitioner remonstrated on the impropriety
of such conduct, and expressed his unalterable deter.
mination not to consent to such a connexion, or to
permit any such marriage to take place, whereupon
she (the defendant) locked herself up, together with
the infant, in his (the plaintiff's) dwelling-house, and
refused him any enttarce thereto; and in order to
prevent his daughter from being carried off by the
mother's aid, he was obliged to keep watch both clay
and night. He had made an application to Reeves,
requesting him not to make any such attempt, bit
the young man had expressed his determination to
carry his intentions into effect by every means in I:'s
power. The Learned Counsel said, that as this w,
the case of a ward of the Court, and as this marriage
would be most prejudicial to her future expectation.,
he had no doubt but 09:it his Lordship would grad
the object of the petition, by issuing his injunction.
The LORD CHANCELLOR suggested that Mr. Horne
should also take an injunction against the Lady n•!:o
locked the girl 'up. Mr. I-10min acquiesced, and Le
injunctions were accordingly granted.

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUNE,:.o.
THE KING V. C 01.1.1 NS AND OTHERS.

Mr. GURNEY (with whom was Mr. Ctturry) ira
heard to-day for Mr. Mills, in support of the 1:1:le
for a new trial in this case. Before the Learned
Counsel had finished his argument,
The COUItT interposed, and expressed its unar.-
mous opinion that the case ought to undergo a second
trial. They thought the verdict of the Jury was hardly
warranted by the evidence ; and conceiving it possible
that they had acted upon some impression imbibed
from collateral circumstances not proved on the trial,
it was fit that the case should be submitted to another
Jury. Admitting that there were son.e circumstances
of suspicion, they were capable of explanation. One
of the Learned Judges (Mr. Justice Bayley) confessed
that during the early part of the argument he was of
opinion that there ought not to have beets a new trial;
but the grounds of that opinion Laving been com-
pletely removed, upon further consideration of the
case, he now thought otherwise. As to ',to - I the
defendants, namely, Mr. Collins and Mr. Milt there
was no evidence whatever that could even give rise
to suspicion that they had acted from corrupt or im-
proper motives. Even as to Sir Nathaniel Conant,
against whom, at first, there was merely a casesuspicion, he appea: ed, upon the whole of the case, to
have acted faithfully in the discharge of his duty.—
The Rule was therefore made ahsolute for a new ni.!!.