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LAW RE I'ORTS;;
COURT OF CHANCERY lirs .
LORD TI NTLIIDIN'S
S 4 EDWARD SURDEN begged to call his Lordship's attention to the
effects of Lord Tentcrden's Act with regard to the site ration of the
Terms. The interval between Easter and Trinity Terms would scarcely
allow time for the usual recess. Fur himself, he found it absolutely
cessary to liarc some time fur relaxation from the laborious pursuit of
his professional duties. Is did not wish fur more than the usual vacs.
tion, but that would he curtailed by the operation of the statute.
The LORD CHANCELLOR said he was fully aware of the ece.ssity
there was for allowing counsel time for relaxation ; the old maxim of
"all work and no play," was, applicable to them. In the Ai-I%lqm' of
the terms made by the act rdstred to, togard had been principally had
to the arrangements of the common law courts, with respect to t..eir sit.
titiAs and circuits; and hence an indirect, but unintentional interference
with the sittings of the courts of equity had taken place. His Lordship
considered it to be a subject of importance, and lie would e infer with the
other equity judges upon it.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, Jaw. 29.
LIBIL— RIZ, V. JCRS.
Sir lastEs Scansirry called fur the judgment of the Court on the
Defendant, who had been convic id, at the sittings after list term, of
having published various dt-timatory libels respecting Gen. Sir Robert
Chambers Hill, and Col. r of the Guards.
Lord TIXTERDEN read hi. b.ms of the evidence, the particulars of
which were fully detailed at the time of the nisi, and must Le fresh in
the recollection of the public.
Affidavits by the defendant were read by the proper officer, in which
he stated the circumstances connected with the matter ot the libels lle
had been tried by a Court Martial in 1822, and sentenced, contusry to
law and justice, as he asserted, to be dismissed the service. He had
preferred the charges against Sir Robert Hill before the time of that
trial, and Sir Robert Hill had preferred charges against him. qtr H.
Torrens had laid thechaages against Sir R. II ill before the Duke or York,
and his Royal Highness thought them worthy of consider etion ; but the
Duke of Wellington had recommended that the subject stutuld be
dropped, and it was dropped until revived by Sir Robert, who recom.
nsenned to the Defendant to remove to another regiment, under a din at
AM he would otherwise be brought before $ Court-martial, and the.
Defendant refused to remove under any such threat, end eaprestied
self ready to %set any charges that might be brought against him.
The ArTonirwv-Ozatiam. addressed the Court in mitigation. The
defendant bad served for 30 years in the army, with great credit to him-
*if and advantage to his country. That he had written the letters, to
stash Its hedalgued his name, under circumstances of strong pros ova.
*ion. he himself admitted, but he (the Attorney-General) was instructed
now, as he had been at the time of the tiial, to deny that the defendant
had wrings the anonymous letters. That was not now, however, a props
subject of discussion. The matter had been left folly and fairly to tile
Jury, and they had decided ; and notwithstanding the cases which
showed hew readily mistakes might arise frost similarity of hand.writ-
log, his lips were sealed on that point. But the whole circumstances of
this case showed that the defendant had acted under strong feelings of
provocation, and this =femininely wee the cause of his having been re-
duced from a high and honourable station in society to the situation of
stamina, so the Gomel' the Court to receive judgment foe libels.
Mr. Comaszu followed on the game side.
Sir Jinn SCAILZTT, foe the replieutim observed that the libels
were al the west description. and,that the niencie had been ijggrarated
by the use of defence adopted and the speeelnuode iumiiigation. The
Modency aid object of all this was to show that the defendant. after
hawks accasod the Commander of the Regiment of these frauds,
meant stili to say that he was right, or nearly right ; and he had said
that Sir R. Hill had meanly skulked out of the service in order to avoid
an Investigation of the charges, when, in point of fact, he had remained
in it longer than he intended to have done, at the special request of
his Majesty, and when there was no officer in the army who believed it
Foible that Sir R. Hill could be guilty of any of these offences. All,
except the defendant himself, had the highest esteem for Sir y. Hill.
Defendant.—Had Lieut. Fenwick the highest esteem for him ?
Lord Tgureansit—Be silent. You do yourself no good.
Defendant said be would obey the Court, but would not be insulted
by Sir James Bcarlett.
Mr. Justice Ltrxxgn.u.a (after the Judges had consulted for sortie
time) pronounced the judgment. The defendant had been convicted on
the clearest evidence' of circulating these libels on Sir Robert Hill and
Captaiu Hamner, imputing to the former that he had defrauded the
public by the purchase of cast horses, and making a false remelt in the
case of a emporia Turner, with a view to prevent his coming torwaid to
accuse him of the fraud about the horses, and of stealing whys tram
the officers ; and imputing to Colonel Hamer that he had colluded
with Sir Robert Hill in the transactions about the decries. Ilia
Lordship then recapitulated the evidence as to the'disputes between the
defendant and Sir Robert Hill. and as to the circulation of the libels ;
and observed. that if the defendant hail thought that Sir K 4 bert 11.11
and Colonel Hamner were guilty of the offences imputed to them, and
be could not get them tried before a Come Martial, he ought to have
instituted proceedings in some of the Courts of law, where those OM-
cers would have had an opportunity of being b.ard in their deknce ; tut
this he had not done, and therefore they had no means of vindicating ,
their character, except by the pretioullags in this Court. On else *hob:
the sentence of the Court swag, that for the libel. oss fine It. lidi ate de..
feudant be imprisoned in his Majesty's gaol of Newgate for the space of
oneyear ! and that for the libels on Colonel Hamner he be iitipristdoed
in the same gaol for three calendar months, to be computed from the
end of the year ; and at the close of that period the defendant abets J Ile
bound over to his good behaviour for two years, himself' in 5001. and
two sureties in 2501. each.

CRIMINAL INNORMATION.—EI-PARTE THE REV. MR. JACK.
Mr. Caurnett., on the part of Mr. Jack, Rea .r of a parsh in N .r.
folk, applied for a rule to shew cause why a criminal info' 'ludo sb ul I
not be filed against a man of the name of Libbuck. or Liven, a Lamer
in the parish, who had excited a mob to assail the Rector. to compel
him to refrain from collecting his tithes. ibis man, although he
did not in terms encourage the people to become inornd'anes, was in
reality as guilty as any of those who had been convicted before the
Special Commission. On the 29th December, when there was a
meeting relative to the tithes, this man harrangued a number
of agricultural labourers, and informed them deaf the fanners
would not pay them proper wages unless the clergy agreed to relinquish
or reduce their demands. Mr. Jack was informed of what was passing,
and was advised to leave his house, which be did. On the 90th Decent.
tier a crowd of agricultural labourers assembled at the Rector's house
and insisted on being admitted. They were told that Mr. Jack was not
at home, but they did not believe this, and two of them emend anti
searched the house, of course without success, and at length they
dispersed on a threat of having the Riot Act read. The caul •
which led to this riot was, no doubt, the farmer's harangues, and
hand-bills which he bad circulated; and the manuscript of the
bill was brought, on the 22d of December, by ohs farmer to Mr.
Weimer, a printer at Norwich, with instruc ions to print 100 copies.
The bills were printed, and were paid far and carried away by the
farmer, and circulated by him. The placard inveighed against the ,
tithe-owners, and against Mr. Jack, who, be said, bad refused to pert
with a few pounds out of the hundreds which he had been in the habit
of receiving; and it stated the employers of farm-labourers cooM not
give them the wages • hich they ought, owing to the alight of taxation
and the tyrannical conduct of the tithe-owners; and the paper pro-
ceeded to snake some remarks on sehooh, which reminded him of Jack
Cade's remark to Lord Say about verbs and nouns, de.—Rule granted

COURT OF REQUESTS, .lAx. 29.
IIIEACR OF TIONIII OF IMARRIAOZ.
The plaintiff in this case, • very good-looking young woman, about
29 years of age, sought to recover the sum of 41. of a Mr. Timothy
Donovan,* floe red-haired native of the Emerald Isle.
The plaintiff stated, that she and the defendant were natives of the
county of Limerick, which place she left about eighteen months ago for
London Shortly after her arrival she met the defendant, and he kept
centrany with him; but wishing to obtain a few pourds, it had induced
her to postpone her wedding-day with the defendant. Having to a •sted
to be united to Tim, the banns wire put up, and the beginni' g of lest
week was appointed to celebrate the wedding. She and her friends ar-
rived at the bridegroom's house, and having partaken of a drop of
mountain dew," they all proceeded to the church. Upon their arrival
they found the priest waiting; and while they were advancing op to the
altar, the bridegroom whispered in her ear, that in his hurry to get
married he left all his money at borne, and be was, therefore, unable to
pay the priest, upon which @believe the defendant some money. He
then shed her for the ring, when she re.. that it was in his posses-
sion; then, as he suddenly recolketed himself, he said he had lett it at
home, and he then left the church for the purpose of procuring the ling,
but he never returned. At night the defendant was found at a public-
house in liquor. The money which she now claimed she had advanet ol
to the defendant to make attain purchases with, but which he had Lot
'done.

A witness proved seeing some ntoney given to the r:efendant the
Audit and on looking for him in the evening, he found hun in a muNt
glorious state of inebriation ; and upasilreiti asked what he nitwit, he
replied it was not his Intention to s
The defendant denied ever use of such an expression as that
be would normatry her: the fact was, ke went out of the church fir
the purpose of procuring the ring, but having unfortunately met i.n ac- •
Clu etenee' they went to take a glass, and which was the foundation of
his present unhappiness. He was now waling so treeem his promise,
and be married instandy to the plaintie
The young woman refused to renew the matrimonial alliance, upon
widish the Commissions awarded the sum claimed.

SUDDRN DEATH.—On the 14th lost. a female of the
name of Whitehouse, who travelled row? d the *Country with
her husband, selling eartheawkre, died in a camp about a
info from Oakley Wood. The husband was awoke about
twelve in the night by one of the children, and on raising
himself in bed, found his wife. sitting upright, but isiseum-
ble, and she never spoke afterwards.-- Coventry Herald.