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hands of the meselhallv, which stigla be aectwatelf
weighed, and the amount ruined with precision.
Here the weights could only
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flown from the CM-
torit•house books $ and upon a ',sling is the testi-
mony of one of the Custom-holm lanclitohg-w.attaecrcs.
it appeared that the actual net weight ~( is to ft
was nut entered in the books until nearly three mono 1
alter the goads were landed. What evidence wab.
there of fraud in this case ? None. The defendant's
brokerage was to be charged-on the number of cues
And not upon the weight : and no evidence had been
offered to chew that be had derived one farth!pe of
advantage hop the mistake in the invoice. Bc4tAte
the Learned Counsel had stated the whole of his case.
The Jury interposed, and said. they were satisfied
that no fraud bad been proved against the defendant.
and that their verdict must be grounded by this cit.-
CUMStatiCe.

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Lord ELLENBOROUOO concurred with the Jury as
to this point i but he thought it was the duty of the
defendant, as broker for his principal, t►► see that his
employer was fairly dealt with, by tatting cue to
ascertain the exact weight of the commodity he was
&wired to purchase. With respect to the other parts
of the case, f►e thought the defendant's conduct Lad
not been perfectly blameless, although strictly speak-
ing, he had not incurred any penalties of his bond.
The ATTORNEY-Gk,EMAL 'then consented to be
nonsuited—Nonsuit.

HARVEY v. BROWNING AND ANOTHER.
This was an 'action brought by the assignees of
Matthew Barnard H4rvey and John Whittle
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vey, to recover the sum of £soo,•money had and re.
ceived by the d:tendant after the bankruptcy.
The case opened by the plsisuiff was, that the
money in question had been paid by John Whade
Harvey to the defendants in the month of April,
1814, for the purpose of inducing them to forego the
indictment for perjury then depending against him,
and which was tried last Saturday. The indictintlAt
had stood for trial on an appointed day in Apr►l,
1814, at Guildhall, and the day preceding, Daniel
Whittle Harvey had a verdict found against him, at
the suit of the defendants, fur usury, iu the sum of
aft 4 500.

The business of postponing the indictment, with a
view to its settlement, was negociated by D. W. HAD.
vey, but the defendants stipulated as a condition,
precedent to their acquiescing, that he should pay the
iEt,.500 recovered against him the day preceding.
This he declined doing, but the defendants agreed to
the arrangement proposed, upon being paid 4'500,
the sum in question.
Vpon the evidence being produced., however, it
appeared that the payment was made prior to
.the
bankruptcy of the HaTtreys, and that the ser,oo was.
given as part payment of .D. W. HarVey's debt of
£4,500, and as an inducement only to postpone the, ;
trial, and not to compound the prosecution. Under
these circumstances, • •
Lord ELLENBORnIKiII held that the action would
!not lio, and thetetore directed a nonsuit.
coußr OF COMMON PLEAS, DECF.MBER 2e.
In an action against the London Dock Company,
for detaining goods under the ordets of Mr. Samuda,
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a Jewmerchant, aremarkablecise of fraud was stated,
also involving a difficult point of law. Mr. Samuda,
having goods in the London Docks, was applied us .
by a person named Roebuck, wl:o has nev.l- since
been heard of, for the purchase thereof. Mr. Samuda
waited .upon Roebuck at his counting-house is Lout.
bard-street, in order to transfer the orders for deliver!.
The terms being ready Money, amounting to
odd, and perceiving £l,OOO in bank-no:es lying on-
Roebuck's table, who Was then about to give tun 4
cheque, Mr. Samuda observed to Roehifek,
to the cash—" You can Day, me the tnoiley.”-46
no, Sir, (said Roebuck) I only wish to pay the £lOOO
in to my banker, because you know it would l':ok
well; but if you will present this checyte ttvii)
o'clock to-day, the money will be paid you there."
Upon this Samuda took the cheque, and signing the
transfer order, gave it into the hands of Roebuck.
Finding the cheque dishonoured, Sainucla immeei-
ately stopped the goods at the Dock, and (he present
action was brought by the bona Pe holder of the
transfer order, by which he had become a purchaser
from ROehtmk, to recover the goods eif against the
Dock Company. Immediately after this successful
fraud Roebuck abseonded, and has not since beets
heard of. The Jury, under the direction of Mr. Jus-
tice PARK, round for the plaintiff, by which the loss
falls upon Mr. Samuda, who had indemnified the
Dock Company, to induce them to defend this action.

A legal and most beeeficial reform is in progress
in the Isle of Man, and will be effected by the
Lieut. Governor and his Majesty's Attorney General.
—lts primary object is to put a stop to the nefarious
subject Gt appeals from the judgments and decisions
obtained in the Courts of the Island—and, not prose-
cuting them ; by which means, even the inrular cre.
ditor is sometimes defrauded ; and the straws- ha,
been frequently robbed of his property, because ne
could not item:sally appear to vindicate his a rim.
It is in the contemplation if the principal inirabi.
tants of Cheltenham to Wild a new Church. The
spot fixed upon is on the Eastern errtra•ce of that
town, near the premises of Sir WILLIAM ILCKS.
Sunday se'nnight the elegant new Roman catholic
chapel of Glasgow was opened fur public vvors'ay by
the Rev. A. Scorr, who, after celebratiag iniio de-
livered a most eloquent discourse from St. Luke vii. 5.
" For he loved our nation, and heath built its a syna-
gogue." the house was crowded with persons of
almost every persuasion, ants the collection received
at the doors was Jiberal. The plan aad fiuis*:liii,.; of
the building do great credit to the abilities of Mr.
GILLESPIE, the architect. It will hold above 2()00
persons, and has cost, it is said, about 413,000.
On the 13th instant, a woman far: gone in pr:g-
nancy, while stepping into 4 basket .to go down a
coal-pit, at Sir JAIN lelopa's,Colliery, at Dalkeiih,
owing to the book slipping, s' e was precipiiezecl ..o
the bottom, and killed: two other women bad Alfa
entered, who hung by the chain until relieved. Ors
the same day, at the same work, the met of one of
the coal-rooms tell upon three colliers, and crushed
them severely : they are, however. likely to recover.
Yesterday evening, a fellow broke a large square of
plate glass in the shop window of Mr. Hawley, a
the Strand, and stole a valuable gold sniitl-o-x was its*
for sale at 500 guineas, with which he wit clear off.
Monday se'nnight. a boat belonging to the Tines,
in sailing off to Spithead, was upset by a suddeq squall,
by which accident one man ( Admiral PICEM!The
4 iteward) and a woman were unfortunately droyste