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custody,
Cass . applitatiOn
hid been made to the Magistrates for her liberation,
but they remained unmoved and intuitable, nor would
they abate a single jot of her +moue until the Courtaf
King's Beacb had been moved- to set the commitment
aside, - and when they found that they could not h
themselves, they order. d her to be discharged outs.
custody, and it was for this assault she now sought.•
the hands of the Jury, a corupensatioti in damageii:
for those wrongs she had sustained, and the privations
shehad enduied se long, and which called tor exem-
plary damages. The Learned Gentleman then called
witnesses to prove the fact.
The defendants called no witnesses, and Mr: Serjeant
CROSS ro,e, and commenced his address to the Jury by
commenting on the speech of his Learned Friend, the
Attorney .General, and ridiculing the call for exam, lary
damages for an unqualified abuse, as he called it, of an
tinfortunat: woman. No, no! 'this action was not
brought by the plaintiff from her own desire to vindi-
cate her character, for she had none to loe. No, she
was only the nominal party ; who was the real plahriff
it did not require much sagacity to learn? Why. was
it any other than her prochain ami, her avowed pro-
tector, the gallant Colonel —.—., who had been found
at the very respectable hii.use situate on St. George's
Quay; I,e who ha,l himself, too, committed two women
to prison under similar circumstances. What was the
case? Why, the Magistrates had done their duty, and
but for an error in judgment, the power to imprison
would never have been quetioned. The Jury had
heard the case for the plaintiff, and a pretious one it
waif In what an amiable light had his Learned
Friend's client been placed. Let t.e Jury leok to the
house 'Where the plaintiff resided; take a, peep at the
Colnnel behind the scenes; and then add the bill of in-
dictment with it, then what a picture had they' before
them! Then came the question of damages. Now
what was the plaintiff entitled to ask at their hands?—
;nominal ones only, if any. The Learned Gentleman
concluded at length by calling on the Jury to give the
'least damages they could.
. Baron Hut.Locic, in his charge to the Jury, said, that
it was clear that the plaintiff must recover a Verdict.
but what damages tbey would assess for the assault
eemplained of was their particular province; that the
warrant for bra commitme. t to the House of Correct on,
wbesaso conviction bad taken place, was clearly illegal
in point of law—of this there could be no doubt. . The
isitprisonment she had suffered had been eleven weeks,
and it was for this imprisonment the action had been
brought. It would be absurd, however, to attribute to
these respectable Gentlemen, and, these Magistrates too,
nay malice Against the plaintiff. They had, in
• of

taken

persons or
itixoduce the
ofteoteel de.
di,scuss.on, Mr. Baron
'f these cases in
date from the
of the wile
expected to be
)ay last until
itnesses to be
examined; at five o'clock yesterday the second w'tness
was in the box. It vi as reported that Mr. DENMAN,
Mr. SCARLEYT, and Mr. Bnotrotrata, were specially re-
tained, but" we find Wars. GURNEY, NOLAN, ADOL-
PIWII,.LAW, and ',Nice, fnr the plaintiff; and Messrs.
M !MYATT, TARDY, CHITIT, and BRODRICK, for the
defendants. There were 06 pris.mers, 20 of whom had
been capitally convicted, and about 15 remained for
trial, when his Lordship lett the court last evening. •

cLuicAL INTELLIGENCE.

CAMBRIDQR, Alfmtcm 10.

The Chancellor's gold medals for the two best.proficients In clas-
sical karalng among the commencing Bachelors of Arts, were, on
Friday lastk adjudged to Mr. Thomas 'Stratton and Mr. John
Iledgrn, or Trinity College.
OXFORD, &haat 10.
The Examiners appointed to elect a Scholar on Dean Ireland's
Foundation, have signified their elecdon of Air. Renard Hume
Dodison, Student of Christ Church.
Thursday last, the following Degrees were conferred :
BACHELOR AKR DOCTOR HI DIYI ITY, (By alneurrautaiien)--Rev.
Robert Williams, Christ Church.
BACHELOR an Div9urr--Itev. William Evans, Fellow of Jesus
College.
MASTERS or Axes—Rev. Christopher Darby, St. Mary flail,
Grand Compounder ; Rev. William Airey, Taberdar of Queen's
College; Thomas henry Batton But:knell &Acolyte thiel College;
Rev. Thomas lkooksbanli Sharnock, University College.
BACHELOR Or. ARTS— Hassard Heine Hodgson, Student of
Christ Churth.

At an Ordination held in the Chapel within the Palace, by the
Bishop of Saliabnry, on Sunday, the 26th of February last, the
following persons were admitted into Holy Orders:
Mucous—John Hartland Worgan, M.A. Pembroke College,
Oxford; George Radcliffe, M.A. St. Mary Hall, Oxford; Francis
Edward Arney, M.A. Braverman College, Oxford.
PUINST.—WIIIiam Douglas Veatch, 13. A. Balliol College, Oxford.
Wednesday, the lit instant, Mr. Thomas Shane and Mr. Charles
Croft, Commoners of University College, were elected Scholars on
the Yorkshire Foundation in that Society.
His Orace the Archbishop of Cabin', has appointed the Rev.
Richard French Laurence, M.A. late Fellow of Pembroke Col-
lege, Precentor of Cashel.

ItentaLLlPTie AL IPR MOTIONS.
Ref. John Williams, A.D. and Fellow of Exeter College, Ox -
ford, is instituted to the Vicarage of St. Pratiug, Cornwall, vacant
by the death of the late Incumbent.
Rev. John Bond, B.A. of Wadham College, has been instituted
bythe Bishop of Bath and Wells, to the Vicarage of Weston,
near Bath, op the presentatint of the Lord Chancellor.
Rev. Henry Anson, hL A. has been licensed to the Perpetual
Curacy of Bylaugh, Norfolk.
Rev. J. Bowman, second iliaister of St. Peter's Mancroft,
Norwich, was last week' elected to the °Ace of arse Minister of
that Parkh, vacated by the death of the Rev. J. Chapman.
The' Rev: C. R. Handley, Vicar of Herald, has been presented
by the Archbishop of Canterburf, to the vicarage of Scurry, vacant
-by the decease of the Rev. Wnt. Chary.
Rev. W. B. Savage is to be preferred to the living of Shinrone,
in the 'Klujes County, vacated by the Hen. and Rev. Robert
Maude, *boa has been plomoted to the Deanery if Clogher. The
Rev. Mr.. Seeseart, nephew of the law Sir John Stewart, Bart.ls to
sacceed thf Rev. Ur. Savage, at Augbavea.
The Prolbyteeyaf the Secession Church sustained the call lately
tren coagregattou of Queen Ann4treet, Duakrmline, to
r. Atexaader Fisher, to Se their Pastor.
Tbe 2111.initaht, Mr. Peter M'Dowall, A.M. was ordained
'Mintiest -of the ',fret United' Assodke Congregation of Alloa, in
conjunction with the Rev. James Muckersie, their-present Pastor.
The .14th instant, the Congregation of Greenloaning, under the
insisted.* of the United Associate Presbytery of Stirling and
Falkirk, meet unanimously called Mr. Robert Meikiejoba, Preacher,
to be their Pastan

Cttuacx PATIONA4IIII 011 DALar AND-CAUPEIAISIII.—The Snit of
these patronage., la which the Incumbent was stated to be eighty-
eight years of age, sold on Thursday for Y,5001. and the second,
which is only a Vice-patronage, and where the Incumbent is only
a young man, for 1,050 L The successful competitors were the
'trustees of Mr. Forbes, of CaUendar. The Society fur Improving
Church P.oronage offered.l,4sol. fbr Dairy, and 1,0001. for the
Vice-patronage of Carsphairn.

The export of whisky from Scotland to the Noah of
Ireland is increasing rapidly. In 104, according to the Northern
Whig, t►ere were 1508 puncheons of Scotch whisky landed at Bel-
fast ; but in 182 S the quantity was 5000.
Mud rend dust may be described as the Scylla and
Charybdis of Macadamization ; for no sooner are we
recovered from the one than we find ourselves enveloped
in the other.

The ship-carpenters of Whitehaven are still off duty,
not choosing to work for 245. a week offered Le them
with an assurance of ceche months' continuance.
Potatoes have fallen in the wholesale market, within
the last week, upwards of 21. per ton.
• The miners belonging to the Mold mines, in Flint-
shire, amounting to 7 or 800, have struck for a decrease
of the hours of labotir. The abject of the turn-out, is
to reduce the boors of labourfrom eight hours to six)
IMPRRIAL DISTILLDRY COMPANT.--rSiatUrday a Meet-
ing of Sharitolders of this Company took place at the
New England Coffee-house, to consider the propriety of
dissolving the Company, and calling on the Directors
to refund the deposits made by the Shareholders, Mr.
C. CHITTY in tie Chair—u hen alter a variety of oh-
sertations from diffetent Gentlemen, tending to prove
that the object of the Company has totally failed, a
string of resolutions was agreed to, the principal of
which, was—,6 That a Committee of five Gentlemen be
appointed:to confer an& correspond with the Directors,
and to obtain a -return of the deposits and instalments
paid
•the capital of 600,0n01. not having been sub-
scribed Inr according to the prospecturp upon the faith
of which the present suitsctiption was founded. The
Ctmunittee were then named, thinks veturned to the
Chailman.and the Meeting was dissolved.
fRISLI COMPANY TOD PllosiortNa Mautiitartutes.—
Saturday, a very numerous and respectable meeting of
the Ptoprtetors is tide above Company took place at the'
City of 'London "Tavern,-lor the purpose of receiving
Mr. TINDAL'S opinion on the case submitted to him at
the special meeting. The substance of it was. that Le
considered the purchasers of scrip could not tree than.
'selves front their liability-by the sale of 'their claims.
He was also of opinion, that the amount of the capital
contemplated by the Bill. could not be reduced to
1,000,0001. without the interference of EH Hainaut. lt-
was therefore thought expedient by the Directors to
propose that .a Bill, obviating these- difficulties, should
be brought into .Paliament. There were two clauses
proposed ta be introduced into the Bills which were
considered of vital importance. The one -was, that
power should be given to any of the premien subscribers
to withdraw from the Company whenever they thought
proper ; the other was, that all persons should be al-.
towed to continue in the Company who thoui4ht proper.
With these two chimes, he would give the Bill his
earnest- support; without them he would oppose it to
the utmost of his power. The Meeting 'gave its una-
nimous tomcod to the proposition.

wbfre it was -*hewn tit Is so committed It in *fhb...there were many higitly.fitpktable
peetad with- propjet .ta her comet:Otis/est seism Au,. tsferupt.sr* made to ivy
but'then this Wet sorest' Migistsatestw-i41.: of Mrs.- Bloke hermit. * fatale o 1
mgt op mere suspieion. Esseitie.great Lord. •". merit ; brit siterithraw di,seussion,
doubted such prerogativss-iiirty case, umierthe agape& IW/sitar's( deeideiltstitat iewas not one of tbri
Act. liut his Lordship cited Palmer's _c rig ebo- which the law would alliaw them to deviatt
trary. In this instance Ae. warrant, M. i lint and general rule, to receive the evidence o
:the gaoler would have bein pecfectiis jonag.e •in tin atiiiVit the husband. The cause is not expe
receiving hoe into •his cos 7. no tisnticti,in having c4cluded before this evening, or it may
taken place. -Ilete in the philotirs case an application Siturday midnight. There are 106 witne
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