Star.
London, England, 1827-08-11 00:00:00

COURT OF REQUESTS, WHITECHAPEL

The parties
and Mr. Pooh
A ease was heard before the Commipssaionstieesrs:he7a;
ing the right of the Rector, the Rev. Daniel Mathias,
tyre,
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ro.nwtiheid
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an undertaker. A Mr. Bookless, an inhabitant of ill;
parish for the last 2S years, and haring lodgings at
Upton-place, in Essex, about nine miles from two,
died at the latter place, expressly desiring that he should
be buried at St. Mary's. Mr. Pugh accordingly ma!!
the necessary arrangements, and paid the usual burial
fee:, 11. 111. but on the day of the fur.eral, Clerks
Mr. Chapman, demanded extra foes, on mom t of the
deceased having quitted life out of the parish. The son
of the deceased, on being consulted, refused to pay the
extra fees, as being illegally claimed. The amount of
these fees were 141. and a charge for over time of sr,
the body not arriving at the hour appointed. Oft
the examination of Mr. Wildman, he admitted that this
was the first attempt made to obtain d, üble fees on ac.
count of a parishioner dying out of the pail-h. The
Commissioners were of opinion the demand coul.l rot
b= sustained, for as well might the applicant claim
double fees from a parishioner's friend, merely bec4use
he happened to be taken suddenly ill, and died in ano.
tiler palish.

In a case tried at Eeaeter, on Tuesday (Pengelly
Browne and Slane) to recover damages for
assaulting
and falsely imprisoning the plaintiff, an old man and a
drainer of lands, the Jury gave Pengclly a verdict, with
one farthing damages! Pengelly had cohabited with
a woman, and the defendants, who are parish ,ficers,
apprehended him, in order to compel him to maitre the
woman; but the Magistrate, on a hearing, discharged
him. The Lord Chief Justice Barr, in charging the
Jury, observed, that the class of Attornies, like :very
other, had its variotis elements. One set of Anomie!
were, he knew, men of tt e highest respectability, and
of the greatest benefit to t.t'e community; while there
was another which really was the greatest curse that could
afflict any community, because they went about stirriug
up litigation. for the purpose of squeezing costs out °ph
pockets of those who had any money to roe.
Yesterday afternoon, between four And five nVick,
the cameleopard sent by the Ptcha of EGYPT as a pre.
sent to his MAJISTY was landed from a barge lying of
Waterloo-bridge, by means of a crane, and saki) coo,
veyed into the Duchy Wharf, Savoy, Strand. Two
Egyptian cows have been sent with the animal for the
purpose of supplying it with milk; and two E typtian
keepers have also accompanied it, by order of his High.
ness. The animal at present remains at the above *he:.
A serious accident occurred at Norton, near Buldock,
onTuesday afternoon. A scaffolding was put up to rep it
the steeple of the church: that on the west site gate st ay.
in consequence of the bearers (English fir) breaking s;lnt,
and precipitated a young man, 22 years old, a the name
of Emeiy,workman to fifir.Crane, bricklayer,nf Baldock,
from a height of 33 feet, by which his skull was frac•
toned, and his face disfigured. After having that
bones extracted from his head, be died on the folio wog
morning,leaving a young widow, and two infant chi.
dress. Two other men had just quitted the scaffold.