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large after six removals, ig three " of which 8€ were. as
bad as a fire ;ff. nor was it certain that she would ever
have obtained it, had she married the infirm object of
her choice. If, therefore, the. Jury thought her entitled'
to a verdict at all, they would think her sufficiently
compensated with nominal damages.
The Loan Cane Jorrics left the case entirely in the hands of.
the Jury.
The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages X5OO.
SHERIFF'S COURT.
JACOB 3 AND WIRE V. ROUND AND WIVE.
This action, which was to recover damages for
slander, was heard a few days ago, before Mr. Setjeant
ARABINI the Judge of this Court, at Guildhall. It was
admitted on both sides that the husbands, who are fire-
men, were not the assaulter or assaulted, but were
dragged into Court by the fiery" disposition of their
wives. About two years since, Mrs. Jacobs appeared as
a witness against two men, and gave such evidence as
did not accord with the friendly feeling Mrs. Round
manifested for them. Since the trial had taken place,
Mrs. Round called Mrs. Jacobs a false swearing woman,
applied a very opprobrious epithet to the hind part of
Mrs. Jacobs' person, and added a blow to other insults.
The Learned Counsel, who appeared for the plaintiff,
said, this case would, it was to be hoped, have the effect
of obliging every man who had a wife with an unbi idled
tongue, to tie her up as he would a dog suspected to be
mad. Indeed the comparison held extremely well, for
the first symptom of canine madness was said to be seer.
about the tongue, and it was well known that a woman's
tongue was enough to drive any one mad—(A laugh).
The damages were laid at 501.
Mr. MI REHOUSE, for the defence, was of opinion that,
the case could have been settled without coaling into'
Court. Billingsgate, of which the language used by
both parties was the type, was better adapted for de
ciding upon the merits of the question than a Court of
Justice. As to the epithet which was said to attribute
perjury to Mrs. Jacobs, there was no harm in it ; it was
not proved to be connected with any particular pro-
ceeding, and it would be too much to suppose the words
to be used with reference to a conviction which ti.ok
place years ago.
The JUDGE was of opinion that the words were ac-
tionable,aud the Jury *named a verdict of 40s. damages.

CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATION,
ST. JOHN'S WOOD.

Yesterday, the Annual-Meeting of this Society was
held at the Freemasons' Tavern, Great Clneen-street,
Lincoln's-inn-fields, for the purpose of electing a cer-
tain number of children into the School at St. John's
Wood, and to transact other business relative to the
Society. The Right Rev. Lord Bishop of London in
the Chair, supported by nearly the whole of the
Bishops, together with Noblemen, Gentlemen, and a
vast portion of the Clergy of London, &c.
The CHAIRMAN opened the proceedings in a short
speech, and expressed his readiness to receive the pro-
positions of the Gentlemen present.
Several Gentlemen now proposed the names of chil-
dren whose fathers had died, leaving widows with large
families totally unprovided for, and whose cases weie
of the most interesting description, and had most pow
erful claims upon the Meeting. Fourteen of the most
deserving were elected into the School, and afterwards
the company repaired to the large room, where a
sumptuous dinner was provided. The Bishop of Lon-
don took the Chair, and was supported by many Gen-
tlemen of distinction.

After dinner, eloquent speeches were delivered by
the Bishops, and other Gentlemen, in suppnit of the
Institution, who regretted that the funds did not enable
the Society to extend their benefits to a Luger portion
of children, but congratulated them on the essential
service they had afforded to a considerable number of
poor orphans, who otherwise would be left without
education, and in distress.
The health of the Chairman, &c. were drank in the
course of the evening, and the Secretary's subscrip-
tion•book presented a flattering prospect, as several
handsome donations appeared to have been forwarded
in support of the charity, by persons of distinction.
The company broke up at An early hour.

Letters from Corfu to the 20th nit. give ample de-
tails of the siege and maritime blockade of Patras,
which had not been raised at any period since it had
been seriously undertaken, notwithstanding the repeated
assertions made by the friends of the Turks to the con-
trary. It is remarkable, that these letters should make
no mention whatever of the landing of an Egyptian
force in the Morea, at Corot), or Modon, as stated by
the Austrian Observer. The insurrection in the Morea
was completely quelled, and the papers of COLOCOT RON]
had been delivered to the Government. The Lord
High Commissioner of thelonian Islands, SiTFREDEDICK
ADAM, had returned to Corfu, from a voyage which
he is said to have made to the Morea. Advices from
Odessa state, that the tone of the Divan Lad resumed
much of its former hauteur and insolence since intelli-

gence of the inundation of St. Petersbutgh had reached
Constantinople. The 'finks seemed to imagine that
the Russian Empire must be reduced to a state of total
debility by that event.
At about ten o'clock on Thursday se'nnight, as Mr.
JOHN SMART, eldest son Of_ CHARLES SMART, Esq.
Quartermaster of the Watetford Staff, was returning
home to his father's house, from the house of Miss
BOYD, Little Newtown, Ireland, and had just reached the
most solitary pin of that road, two fellows with their
faces blackened and muffled up, leapt over a wall, and
rushed at him so suddenly that he had little time to
make any defence. One of them in a few minutes struck
him a dreadful blew with a heavy stick, which brought
him down. He was then struck repeatedly, and at
length stabbed with a knife. Having at length, as they
thought, accomplished their object, they fled, leaving
Mr. SMART on the road, covered with wounds and
blood. Mr. SMART, however, in the course of some
time, was able to get up, and though with great diffi-
culty, to make his way back to Miss BOYD'S, where he
now lies. His wounds, though severe, ate not dangerous.
The Stocking Loom was originally invented by the
Rev. W. Lee, M.A. of St. John's College, Cambridge,
in the year 1589, during the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
He solicited the,pattonage of Royalty for the invention,'
but obtaining no notice from his Sovereign, and de-
spairing of success in his own country—like the want
cf honour attached to a prophet in his native soil—he
went over to Rouen, in France. That Government re-
ceived And appreciated the discovery; and thus, by an
exercise of true wisdom, did not only reward the- dis-
coverer, but secured to herself the acquisition of a new
manafacture, and the honour of protecting discarded
;,genius.—The Economist.