Star.
London, England, 1827-06-16 00:00:00

LAW IN fELLIGENCE.

LONDON.

1,4,

COURT OF CHANCERY, Awe IS.
This being the first day of Term, the LORD CHAN-
Dzi..Loa came to Westminster, attended by the Judges
and King's Counsel as u•ual. His Lordship came into
Court followed by the MASTER of the ROLLS and Mas-
ters Wm/Plato and FARRER, who took their seats be-
side him. Previous to the commencement of the busi-
ness of the Court, the LonoCHANCELLOR called nn Mr.
Citurani, Mr. Pnwanicc PoLtoott. and Mr. Twigs,
who' had been appointed King's Counsel, and requested
them; in the ordinary form, to take their seats within
the bar, v. hich they severnay did accordingly. There
was no business of public interest before the Court.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH. Just 15.
This being the first day of Trinity Term, the Judges
did not take their seats till after one o'clock.
Illegsrs. Treslove, Rose, Hickeesteth, John Williams, Campbell.
Frederick Pollock, and Hot ace Twisa, respectively appeared below
the bar in silk gowns and fsdl wigs.
Lord r. Treslove, his Majesty having
been plased to'make you one of his Counsel learned in
the law, you will take your seat within the bar.
Mr. Treslove accordingly took his seat within.thebar,
bowing to the Judges, to the King's Counsel, and the
rest of the bar.

Lord TINTERDEN then said—“ Have you any thing to
move, Mr.Treslove ?"—Mr. Treslove bowed and retired.
The other Gentlemen were severally addressed by
Lord Tenterden, and took their seats within the bar in
the same form.
Shortly afterwards Messrs. Sergeants Middy, Cross,
and Wilde appeared below the bar, and were severally
addressed by Lord Tenterden, and took their seats as.
King's Sergeants, within the bar.
The new King's Counsel entered the inner bar at one
of its sides ; the King's Sergeants entered it in the mid-
dle, and took their seats neat to the S ,licitor General.

CRIMINAL ISTORMATIOR.
The .grroattxx•GewitaAt. obtained a Rule Mai,
against a Solicitor named M'Kay, for sending a letter
to E. G. Athaley, E.q. of the Chancery Bar, tending,
as was alleged, to excite a breach of the peace.

THE KING O. THR MAYOR OP ZYISHAM.,
A Rule Nisi had been obtained last Term, for a Man.
d arnus to the defendant to admit to his freedom, a person
who had served seven years to the trade of a market
gardener, at Evesham, but had omitted to have his in-
dentures enrolled for a period of eighteen years. Cause
was now 4.ews against the Rule ; and the Court thought
that aftet the !aches of the prosecutor, it was too late to
interfertl.—Rule discharged.
THE KING V. THE LORD MAYOR AND CORPORATION OP

Oa the motion of Mr. PARKS, the Rule granted in
dais case last Term, for a Mandamus to the defendants
to swear in Mr. Sheriff Winchester to the office of Alder-
man, was enlarged for a week.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jots IS.

The Judges as usual breakfasted this morning with
the Lord Chancellor, after which they came down to
this Court, where they arrived about one o'clock. The
Court having been opened,
The LORD CHILE JUSTICE informed Messrs. Ser.
grants Taddy, Cross, and Wilde, that his Majesty had
been pleased to appoint them King's Sergeants, and de-
sired them to take their seats within the bar as such.

A variety of motions were then disposed of, but none I
of them possessed any interest to others than the parties
themselves. The Court adjourned at half-past two o clock.
COURT OP EXCHEQUER, Jams U.
This being the first day of Trinity Tem, the Court
did not sit until past one o'clock, their Lordships hav-
ing been engaged, during the previous part of the morn-
ing, in the usual formalities attendant upon the open-
ing ‘of the Term.
In the course of the day, Messrs. Treslove, Bicker-
steth, Rose, J. Williams, Campbell, F. Pollock, .and
Twiss, presented themselves to the Court, in silk gowns
and full dress wigs, and were respectively invited, by
the Lord Chief Baron, in the usual louts, as having been

appointed of his Majesty's Counsel, to take their seats
- as such within the bar; which they accordingly did,
bowing to the bench and bar.
Messrs. Sergeants Taddy, Cross, and Wilde, subse-
quently went through the same ceremony as his Ma-
jesty's Sergeants at Law; and, as such, took their seats
above all the King's Counsel in Court.
The only business which came on consisted of trifling
• motions, of no public interest. •

CONSISTOItY COURT, Julia 15.
RAMSDEN E. /DARROW. •
In this case, which was a suit for defamatir n arising
out of the proceedings instituted by Mr. Barrow, a soli.
citur of Brighton, against Mrs. Forbes and her friends,
an objection was taken last Court-day to the citation,
which should have issued from the Court of Chichester,
the diocese within which the offence Was alleged to have
been committed.
Dr. Jesse ADDAMS, far Mrs. Mary Ramsden, con-
tended upon the strength of several cases, that the resi-
dence of a party governed the citation ; the acceptance
of which, moreover, cured the defect, if such it was.
Sir C. RoziNsou said he would look into the prece-
dents, and give his opinion next Court day.
ROSE V. ROSE.
This was a suit for divorce on the ground of adul-
tery, promoted by Mr.4tose against his wife. The libel
had been admitted in this case. It pleaded the fact of
marriage in 1816, and cAabitation, disagreements in
the two succeeding years, and a deed of separation,
which was prepared but not executed, owing to the in-
ability
of the husband to find a trustee for the pays. ent
of 521 per annum allowance to ti.e wife. It alleged
the wife's habitual adultery with a person named Black-
more, even in Hornsey church-yard; and that Mr.
Rose had recovered a verdict of 1001. against Mr. Black-
more for trim. con. in the Court of King's Bench. On
the part of the wife, a responsive allegation was new
offered, alleging various acts of cruelty on the part of
the husband during cohabitation; that he ejected her
from the house, and violently assaulted a Miss Susannah
Bowyer, whom she left residing there, and whose eras.
City he had repeatedly solicited.

Dr. Just ADDAMS argued in support of this allega-
tion, observing that it was impossible for her to put in
a negative is►ue to charges so vague as were contained
in the libel.
Dr. JENNZR and Dr. LUNHINGTON, for the husband,
contended that cruelty was no bar to a suit for adul-
and could not, theretwie, be pleaded in an ralega-
responsive to that charge.
C. ROBINSoII was Of the same opinion, and re•
the aller
INSOLENT DEBTORS' COURT, kale 15.
MARRIAGI SPECULATION.
Join

_ Shinktria, a young man of las-ionable appear-
residing at Battle-bridge, erh.re lie tarried

on the business of general accountant, was heard on his
petition to be discharged.
When the insolvent was before the Court on Wed.
nesday last, his case was not proceeded with, bat ad-
journed, owing to the requiring more evidence than at
first sight appeared, relative to a mysterious marriage
affair, to which the insolvent was a contracting Nam.
It appeared by the verbal statement of the insolvent,
that he had been arrested and thrown into prison•by a
person of the name of James O'Connell, the holher o:
one of four bills of exchange for 501. which had been
extorted from him by Mr. Dickson tinder c rcumstances
which the Commissioners considered as very novel, and
ordered the facts to be drawn op relative to this extra-
or.;inary affair, and engrossed in the schedule, so that
it might become a matter of record.
The feril.,wing is a copy of the statment inserted in the
insolvent's schedule :
In June, 1826, Edward Dickson (who lives at No. 16, Upper
Edmund-street, Battle-bridge) proposed to introduce me to a Lady,
whom be stated possessed a fortune of 10,6001. and 5001. per annum,
and in the event of my marrying her I was to give him the sum 'of
7001. as a compensation. In the month of July last he prevailed
on me to give him a bond for 5001. and four bills for 501. each, he
promising not to pay any of them away, but to bold them until
such time as it would be convenient for me to take them up.
After my marriage with this Lady, I found that his representations
respecting her fortune was a gross fabrication, and a conspiracy to
defraud me of any property which i might hereafter become pos.
sessed of or entitled to. I then applied to him, and requested that
be would either give up or destroy the securities be held against
me, which he refused to do. Afterwards he endorsed over we of
the 501. bills to J. O'Connell, although the said O'Codneli was an
entire witness to the whole transaction, and well knew that Dick-
son had not given me any consideration either for the bond or the
several bills of exchange.
The copy Olthe will of " Thomas Sherwood (the
Lady's deceased father), formerly of the Inner Temple,
and of No. 50, Exmouth-street, Spafields, Gentleman,"
was then put in for perusal.
After the Court had looked over the document, some
parts thereof were ordered to be transcribed into the
schedule. The will was dated the 3d of February,
1826, and proved at Doctors'-Commons on the 24th of
April following. The property of the testator was
sworn to be under 55,0001. and the probate contained
a number of bequests; but, unfortunately for the insol-
vent, no mention was made of the anticipated fortune
which stimulated him to take the young Lady " for bet-
ter for worse," the marriage portion of 10,0001. and the
annual payment of 5001. not forming items ih the tes-
tator's will.

After the requirements of the Court had been com-
plied with, Mr. Commissioner HARRIS ordered the in-
solvent to be restored to that liberty of which for
mon' hs he had been deprived by his own credulity. His
debts did not amount to SQL in the whole world.

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