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London, England, 1825-12-15 00:00:00

11A111WAY V. ‘VILLIAMSOg.

This action v, as brought by the plaintiff; a news
ye-11,1er, against Ali. Thomas Williamson, to recover
6U. ne sp &per. lot nishe.ifrom October, 1818, to the
e,,d of Sept mbe 013,25.

flrr oefeudant graded that the promise to pay fur
11-a newspapers was made jointly with Elwaid Jones,
his partner. There was no prolf whatever Vat any
tre.tit had bren toJotie), and the Jury, under all
toe ti cumstancest found a verdict far the plaintiff for
the whole of his demand—Damages 6W. 10`
YATES AND AN. THUS AGAINAT 'CLARIDGE.

This was an artion on a bill of exchmge tar 150/. of
which the defendant was acceptor. The plaintiffs were
the executor, of a Mrs. Sarah D ckenson, who was :an
ii t:oi see if the bill in question. Tne facts sufficient to
subsutsitiase a pima Jack case against the ddendant
Laving beru proved, the Jury found for the plaintiff—
Damages lts7l .0 .9d. ben% the balance of pi incipal
aid niteie,t, after deducting the proceeds of the sale.
. . PINCtiNCYI,-Stokttlis
This •was an action by 1 diaper, fin the s.:m of 14?.
being the price of two suits of -csathes supplied by the
plaiiitiff to a person named Rai ey and his son, and the
question was, whether the original credit was given by
the plaintiff to the defendant, or to the elder Bailey ?--.)
On the raft of the defendant, the elder. Bailey was
called, who swore po4ively that' t! .e .oliginal credit
.was.k.isen ( Bailey) and trot to the sxtendant.—
The plaintiff, in reply t.: this, called a witnes.,
•swore 'to hatitig. beard 0* eider Bailey to 1 the plaintiff
.thet be (Haile ) was not to pay lathe clothes, but this.
Morris the defendait was. . •
!fa- r, rhea summed up the voltage case, and the
• Jury-head for 1.44100.iff."-LNlniages..7l. 104..
• INOTTAGgo. 11Y-Alli;• •

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This, was In action of assault sad- battery. The
plaintiff was a butcher residing in the C mmercial-road.
the &lending kept a public-house in

market. It appeared that the defendant had let t tbr•
plaintiff some small ruins of money, and had procerde&
to the plaintiff's Muse to ct mind tie paVmeur.. The
plaintiff refused to liquidate the debt, when, after some
dispute, the defendant declared his re+olutin•' not to quit
the plaintiff's house until he had received his money,'
and at length struck the plaintiff a violent floor in the
her, which, it was alleged, had confined hint An the
house for sis weeks. The defendant, on the eon:sae!,
urged. that when he refused to quit the it. use without
the payment of his debt, the plainuifF prOcceded. with
his site and daughters, to turn him out 11y.f me, and
that it was only to resist thiis united attack, that he had
struck the blow in question. The *case went to the
Jury upon this oppo•ite 'point of the printity of the
blows. Verdict for the4staintiff—Damages 40+.
BURIEL V. KINNEAR.
This was an action upon Aromissory note for 1001
endorsed by the defendant It .the plaintiff. The de-
fendant resistel the action upon the plea of u.uteri•.• 1•
appeared ghat the note in question had been dtayn by
a man name Stephens, and had come into :the plain•
trff's hands in par( of a transaction in which the plaintiff
was said to have purchased of the defend ,nt and
Stephens their acceptances for 700/. giving in re urn
only 5001. by which he was to clear a profit ad 'wady
50 per cent. By way of collatet al +rent ity, the defend-
•ant put into the plaintiff's hands the deeds 'of certain
property, said to belong to Stephen+, at Henley. and
which were to be returned to the defendant in case nt

the acceptances tieing duly paid. It turned out, how-
ever, that t!'e proves ty at Henley had been previously
conveyed" to other persons, and that the deeds were
consequently of no value. The accyptance. a`eie equally
worthless. Stephens h ing what is called " a man of
straw?' The plaintiff's Counsel deter bed t e conduct
of the defendant in obtaining the ilaintiff% money Lippe
such sects:kir., to be deserving or indiament at the
134i:ey.
The LORD Cill Er Jetatce put it to the Jury. w•he her
the plaintiff had not lent the defendant o,e 5001. non
his acceptances to the amount of 700/. t;.e deed having'
been given as a lateral security to 'he bills; or whether
the money bad keen advanced to the defendant upon
the deeds, the bills having b: en given as a lateral se-
curity to the property at Ilenley ? In the first ca•e, the
transaction would be clearly usuri:Ars. Verdict for the
plaintiff, damages 1051.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. MCI:MIER I.

HORSE DEA L Eli V. AUSTIN.

This was an action hiought to recover the value of a
horse sold at Aldridge: Repo,itory, fcr 29 guineas,
which it was alleged was warranted.
Mr. Serjeant SIPANKIX stated the case.
Mr. Aldridge stated that, in June last, he s Id a
horse for the plaintiff, which was sold to t ide, and dray.quick ; there was no ether wat ranty. The horse uns
sold to the defendant for 20 guineas, and was after-
waids again sold.

Cross-examined by Mr. Serjeant Vauottart.—They
used the letters ATTU, %%hid) that some per.
sod would attend the sale. He had no price given
him. - There was no puffing at the second sale. At
thr Best a person did attend, when twenty was bid.
He looked to the person, then there was a nod, then
another gu;sica —a nod again, and so on, but how many
nods he could not say. The defendant did not object
the moment the hammer was down; but after the wht.le
vale he objected to take it, saying it was unsound. • He
did not warrant it, but he had heard that Mr. Crowder
had said it was sound. Defendant did not object on
account of the puffing.

The printed con-ditions.of sale were read.
Mr. Austin was a Tegulat customer, and coi,serrently
was not asked for a deposit. He rejected tie horse, and
it was left on the premises. No account was deliveteJ
to him of it—it remained on the premises some weeks.
It was a rower.

Scrjeant Vavonats—That Is a disease of the larynx,
Mr. Aldridge—Yon know what it is, I believe, Sir—(Laughter).
Mr. Serjeant Vauoxax—U, yes ! We very often have a roarer
in this Court.
Re-examined—The horse was sold by the consent of the patties.
By the Cam Justice—The groom bid several times; two or
three. I believe there was another person present.
Mr. Serjeant SIPANiIIt wished his Lordship to ask the witner.
whether it was the custom for a person to attend to bid ?
CHILI JUSTlCE—Ceitainly not. There is no such
thing named in the conditions of sale; therefore there
is a gross fraud, and I will put an end to the ca e.—l
am of opinion that the groom was there to enhance the
pike of a horse, and not as a' bu)er. The plaintiff'
ntaA be aonsuited.

The Constitutionnel states, that agents are going
about among the students of law and medicine at Pat is,
endeavouring to excite them to form a procession to
Pere-la-Chaise on Sunday, •to hear and pronounce
funeral orations over General FOY. The police and
military would then be called to disperse the assem-
blage, and the character of turbulence and violence
would be transferred from the imprudent youths to the
cause of the;r meeting. The warnidg, it is to be hoped,
will prevent the mischief.
Accounts from Madrid, in the French Papers, state that'
the KING had issued a Royal Dectee, ordering that tio
Ecclesiastics sh add leave the places where they ou,ht
to reside, to come to the capital, or follow the
Court; and that no passport should be given them for
any town. tildes., while making an application for it,
they should have a written leave from their superiors,
or it repairing to Madrid. or the Omit, they should
besid..s have a spec;al permission from the KING biestelf.
CAUTION To BANKItUPTS.—Usider the Secant 'Ad
for amending the B4nkrupt Laws, bankrupt's whisse
estates shall produce and pay to the creditors certain
dividends, are entitled to a par ceotage thereon, unless
it shall A pi.eiir 'hat they shall have 1...5t by gaining, in
rule day, 201. or shall, after air act of bankruptcy, or in
contemplation of an ;.ct•c.f banktupt.y, have destroyed,
altered, mutilated, or falsified any of their books or,
papers, or be it pr vy thereto, with intent to defraud
their ciedi _tots, Or shall have coriCtaled pi ~petty to the
value of 101. or upwards. We are informal, that the
Commissrovers. in declaring a dividend of. 12s. 7J, i
the pound under a -b estate in fri.tol,
Thursday last, refused•to allow ,a bankrurt 16-.6d.
being 7i per cent. on the net produce . I his estate, in
consequence of his having fraudulently conceded some
prrerbold.hr- petty to w ich he waveotitled.
, T iday nicht, e2J of December, a school-house in
tire town of etrighan, in the King's County, whe e nne
hundred and thritlf-childtet of all iersuasions we,.
educat d flee of rsi ense,' Was maliciously set on file try
some prison or persons unkn and entire y con-•
stoned, es ith be oks, parer, table,, and lot ins therein.
There is iu the island of Naxos an aneien- unfinished
statue of liaccf.us, of such an enormous' sm.., that a'
party of modern: ttavelrers are said to have sp.ead a
cloth upon the bead, and made it set ye as their bryak• •
fast table !

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' Moss AT BAVXINO. 110%111g1,-.- A boy was yeeterd.'y brought op
before Mr. Aide:tom Inzas (who presided for a time dittiolf the
absence of the Lord Mayor at the Public Meeting), on a Charge of
!raving caused an obstruction in the public highway.
One of the City officers stated that he had been in attendance
Ist:fore the Ilatiking.house of Messrs. •Nlistermati and Co. fu Ni-
ebolas-lane, for the purpose of kerping the thoroughfare clear. A
coach had arrived with a coiniiiaiable sum of ?Timmy, and there
was at that time a crowd of between two and three hundred per-
sons aviroth led, said a great obstruction before the door. • 'I ito
witness and store of hit brother officers exerted them,. hies to keep
it clear, but met with the Most determined resistance. The vt
stayer was-one of the idlers, and Was asked to Move on, but he
refuses', when he was taken in custody.
Three persons came forward to state, that they believed the boy
was doing nothing Ina going about 'his business, whin the officer
interfered with him most improperly. It appeared, however, when
the boy himself was goes • ed. tbdt his businesS was to carry a
letter to the ['act (hTur, and that hi had Stepped down Nicholas-
lane, out of the way.
Alderman La;ca.; expressed his approbation of the officer's con-
dhct, mid after admonishing the boy, discharged him. The police,
he observed, were blamed lot allowing such crowds to collect ;
but when they were active in remisving the idle, persons of appa-
rent respectability carte newer found wanting to come forward,
and, as in the trnsent case, In Ike complaint.
The olhcci stated, th..t similar crowds of idle persons constantly
assembled round o:her hooses. Of the crosyd assembled in this
instance, net one perhaps is the whole two or three hundred had
any business at the Iw:eh: ; and butchers' lads and others would, if
they were suffered to remain, climb up'at the windows, mi.( witch
for livers the ord nary business of the office. Thule who had
beard that something was 64)ing on at a b itifting-house, would wait
for /emirs in the rain.