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London, England, 1828-05-07 00:00:00

NAVAL iN 1 LLLIG ENCE.

DEAL, MAY 6.—Wind S.W.—Arrived the Fart/116MM Cltt
strabit, from China; Cambria, BLIGH, from llornbay ; Lord Byron,
Tonga, from Triette; and Jean, Score, from Sierra Leone. Ar-
rived from London the Mary, for Quebec; and C. Brooke,
for St. Vincent's.
PORTSMOUTH, MAY 6.—Wind S. \V. to N.W.—Arrirtd the
Dove, KYD from Havannah. Sailed the Mint, SMITH, for Que-
bec; and Ill-rack, SMITH, for Mir3michi.
PLYMOUTH, MAY S.—Wind W.—Arrived his Majesty's ship
Gannett, from Malta; and the Elizabeth,- Lomax, from Pare.
Sailed the New London. for Miramichi.
FALMOUTH, MAY s.—Wind W. to N.W.—Arrived off pori the
Gales, KILO, from Memel. Arrived the Sandwich packet, Trent
Lisbon, in eight days.
Liveivoot., Mar 6.—Arrived the Gazelle, Stain, Item Bahia;
Harmony, Hoes. from Matadors; Dispatch, Mice, front Malta;
Ambler, CHUM, from St. Michetri; Spey, St4coonaus, and Lan-
cashire, Wine, from Lisbon; and Mercurius tines,lkom Rostock.
The Duke of &Pura received visits ye‘ter.i.ty at his
apartments in tire King's Oelace, at Kensington, from the Duke
and Duchess of Cutaitecirthe Duchess of GLuccaseftcasi the
Princess Sorel*. ' '

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Prince Pottor4ci, the French Atnbas,adory had. a
conference yesterday .afternoon with the Dube of ihaisswitan and
tbs Karl of DODUIT•
Dispatches wete received yeiterday at the Foreign
Office front SIC lOWA ID CUOILMITOIII. The dispatches were brought
by a Naval (Seers who arrived in Downing-street about bslf past
one o'clock.. •
The Matquis de PALIIXI.LA' the Poettignfte
transacted busbies yesterday at therosisign Oak&
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LAW• INTELLIGENCE

VICIL•CHANCRI.Lott's COURT, MAT 6:
DAVIS V. 01111 Y.
This was an application by Mr. KNIGHT, for a seecial
injunction to restrain the defendant from selling certain
property of the plaintiff s, under a wart ant of attorney.
It appeared' that the defendant had formerly been a
clerk in the service of Davis, at a salary of 20s. a week,
which was subsequently raised toll. 10s. Davis having ;
become embarrassed, Grey undertook to arrange v com-
promise with his creditors, who resided principally in
Birmingham and Staffardshire. Grey succeeded in
inducing the creditors to compromise their debts for
five shillings in the pound, and to a certain extent be-
came personally responsible for the amount. On
his return from Birmingham, the plaintiff gave
him a warrant of attorney, to secure the payment
to him of his liabilities, and • had since paid him
several sums of money. In April last the plain-
tiff tendered 2001. in discharge of the entire amount,
but the defendant refused to accept that sum,
and made a charge of 11. a day as an accountant, for
the time he was engaged in arranging the plaintiff's
affairs, although he was receiving a weekly salary. It
was sworn that the amount actually due to the de-
fendant was very small, and that he held good bills of
the plaintiff, which were more than adequate to cover
it. Notwithstanding this, the defendant had entered up
judgment on the warrant of attorney, and would have
proceeded to a sale, but for the interference of the land-
lord of the premises on which the property lay.
The Vice-CtienetLLon thought that it would be
difficult to grant an injunction, where the plaintiff had
executed a warrant of attorney to confess judgment.'
Mr. KNIGHT WAS satisfied that his client should at
once pay. 1001. into Court. to cover any demand which
the defendant might have against him. Upon this con-
dition the injunction was gransed.
SODEURY ERRE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
His Horroua gave judgment upon this Petition.—
Aftee going minutely over all the circumstances of the
case, he decided that the school was a Grammar School,
and 'that of course the master, the Reg. Mr. Smith, was!
not obliged to teach the scholars reading, writing, and
arithmetic, but that the instruction was to be confined
to the dead languages. His Honour further decided
tbarthe Mile and Burgesses of Sodbur y had no right
to dismiss She Rey. Mr. Smith from his situation, or to
eject hinefrom his house, as. they were now proceeding
to do. Refetences were orderedes•to the formation ofj
a scheme for the future management of the school, and I
the direction of part of its revenues. His Honour said,
that the conduct of the Corporation to Mr. Smith had
bees harsh and improper, and that they ought to pay
the costs up to the bearing.
COURT OF KINO.'S.BUNCII, MAT 6.
DONN ih; MARTYR.
This was an action brought by the plaintiff, who is
clerk to theWardmote of Colesuan-streetWard; London,
against the defendant, to recover a penalty of fifty pounds
for refusing to take the oath as collector of the consoli-
dated rate of the ward, pursuant to the Act of Parlia-
ment of the Sist George 111. By this Act it was pro-
vided that a certain number of e substantial inhabitants"
were to be appointed on St. Thomas's day annually,
to 511 the office of collectors of the above rate, and
item to talce a certain oath for the proper perform-
ance of the duties of the other; and that any one
so appointed, being an inhabitant, and refusing to
take the oath prescribed, should be subject to a penalty
of 'fifty pounds. The defendant, was a carpenter
'sod builder, living at Greenwich, and had workshops in
vielescparts of town, and a counring•house at Founder's
Hall, Lothbury, *leashed tint for fifty years been used;
as a dwelling- house; there was no one slept in it, nor
was there any cookies carried on there. On Sr. Thomas's ;
Day, 1824, the defetidaiit was ruminated d's one of the;
collectors& the rate, but refined to undertaketheetffice9l
and was sued for the penalty:
Thaw y found a vet dict for the plainti&-Darnages
501.—subject to the opinion of the Collet's% to *tether
the defendant was an inhabitant within-the meaning of
the 'Act ?. If the Curt should decide in the negative,
a nousuit was to bientered.
The CoURT decided. after hearing Mr. PARtce for the
plaintiff, and Mr. LAW for the defendant, that Mr.
Martyr was not such an inhabitant of the Ward as to
redder him liable to called upon to undertake the
office.--Plaintiff noncsuited.
IR PARTS HAKIM •
'Mr. Sante moved the Court for a role to show
cause why a writ of Maws. Corpus, to bring up the
body et Cho les Baxter, who bad been committed by the
Ciiesmissiutters•oi Bankrupts, in order to be discharged.
This person had beets before committed by the same
Commissioners. and lad been brought uphy Hubegs
Corpus and discharged. The in'an had been eaarnined
on the subject of the bankruptcy-of brother, and had
not answered a manner satisfactory to the Commis-
sioners, and tl ey committed fiim ; after his discharge,
the Ccimmissioners called him pp :again for examination,
and he having again refused to answer to their satisfac-
tion. they again committed hies. The ground on which
he applied for the rulewas, that the questions to which
Baxter bad refseed to give satisfactory answers were
not materisd.—Rule granted.
211• PA ItTS SANDAE:L.
Mr, Ceeat sots moved the Court for a rule to show
cause why a Writ of Mandamus should not issue, cons
snanding the nediuth Railway Company to issue their
precept to the Sheriff of Cornwall to gammon a Jury;
to ascertain the amount of compensation due to a person
of the name of Sandell, for damages done to
him in his trade by the Company's entering on the
land. The Company was incorporated by an Act of the
sth of his present Mojesty, which empoWered the Com-
pany to enter upon certain lands for their purposes,
paying the value, which was to be ascertained in tl.e
usual manner by the verdict of a Jury. The Company
entered en Sandalfs round, and a Jury had found the
value, hut they had not found what was dorm Sindall,
over and above the value of the land, for the damage
done to tits in the way -of his trade, for which •he was
entitled to compeusation under the Act. To supply this
deficiency was the object of the present application.—
Rule granted.
CHIIIIIIAL INFORMATION.
Mr. BROUGUAM moved die Court fora rule to show
cause why a criminal itsfermation should not be filed
against Chilies Dunn, fer a libel' on Sir It. B. Joddrell,
published in a work calhed " Tete Modern Lawyer."—
TLis was the same libel for which a rule for a criminal
information had yesterday been made absolute against
Mrs. Teutcher, whose name alone appeared as the pro-
prietor of the publication called they Modern Lawyer."
They were before well aware that Ducts was the author
-of the libel, but bad not till now been able to get legal
prod of the fact. He had now an affidavit of a person
eesift rsaine of Young, which stated that the maouseript
of the libel was' in Dunn's handwriting—that Young.
itakimirsimoi it iota Dunn to the printer's office, and
bad afterwards carsied,the .prarof sheet frosnahe office
to Dunn for correction. It was clear, therefore, that

Dunn was the author of the libel, and the Coast could
have no difficulty about granting the Rule. Rule granted
COURT OP COMMON PLEAS, M•T I.
BATTHEWS o• GALINDO.
This was an action on a bill of exchange. The defence
set up was, that the bill was concocted in usury. At
the trial it was proposed by the defendant to call a
woman, who had cohabited with the defendant for a
considerable period, and passed as his site, to prove
that there id as usury in the original fOrraation of the
bill. The Lord Chief Justice Best, who tried the cause,
was of opinion that the evidence could not be received.
The Jury found for the plaintiff. A rule was sub-
sequently obtained for a new trial, on the ground of
misdirection.—Cause having been shown,
The Lord Chief Justice BEST said, he was of opinion
that the judgment he had formed at the trial was incor-
rect. He was far from wishing to narrow the rules of
admitting evidence recognised in the Courts in this
country. He thought they were ton much afrdid of
allowing facts to be proved. The woman w hum it was
here proposed to call, although supported by the de-
fendant, was not de jure his wife: and, however long
their connexion might have lasted, an end might have
been put to it whet ever they chose. The interest, there-
fore, which she had in the defendant, could by no means
be the mime as that of a wife, whose connexion would
be for life. He was, therefore, of opinion, that she ought
to have been admitted. It would, of course, be for the
Jury to say what credit they would attach to her tes-
timony, considering the circumstances in which she
stcod with respect to the defendant. The Rule must,
therefore, be made absolute.
The other Judges concurred with the Lord Chief
Justice.—Rule made absolute.

LANOLIN V. BROWN. •
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This was alt action to recover a awn of 3001. which
the plaintiff, who is a milliner at Bedford, alleged to
have been lost through the negligence of the servant of
the defendant, who is. a carrier from London to the
same place. It appeared that the waggon usually,
stopped for several hours during the night at a place
called B:11 Bar. On the occasion in question a constant
watch was not kept on the waggon, and the conaequence
was that a parcel belonging the pl ,intiff, of the am”unt
in question, was lost from- the waggon. A verdict was
found for the plaintiff. A- Rule Nisi for a new trial was
ebtained. on the ground oh st the misconduct of the
defendant did riot amount to gross negl!gence. Alter
a short argument in showing cause,
The LORD CHIRP JUSTICE, in giving his opinion, said
that the rule, according to which, the fact of a carrier's
conduct amounting or not ter gross negligence, was
very correctly stared by Sir William Jones; was the
carehe4ad taken of the property in question, such as
any man would take of his owd? Now, no man could
say that such would .have been the Conduct of the
owner, as it appeared the defendant bad adopted to•
wards this parcel. The -rule must therefore be dip-
charged.—Rule discharged.

This morning, between two and three o'clock,. the
warehouses attached to the extensive whey Page of Messrs.
Jonas. HuLt., and Co. coinfactoi s, situate in Dale-street,
Old Wapping, were destroyed by fi,e, which, it is be-
litved, originated in the negligence of some men whose
duty it was to close 'the wartrOorns. The flames were
first perceived from the water, sod an immediate alarm
was given ; but they obtained such air ascendancy as
completely to overwhelm every effort totheck them, acd
were not extinguished until the ruins of the building
overwhelmed and smothered them. Tbe.damage done
is exceedingly ?feat, but the firm was folly insured.
During the conflagration a clump of bricks at the rear
of the premises tell with a loud crash, and crushed two
men so dreadfully, that they were carried to the hospi-
tal in a hopeless state.
Dispatches were received yesterday morning at the
Colonial-office from Sir FARDBRICK ADAM, the Lord
High Commissioner of the lonian Isles; from General
PONSONDY, at Malta; and from. General DONNA, .at
, Gibraltar.

The Marquis Watt.Eacky's •ote-was given in favour
of the bill for the repeal of the Test and Corporation
Acts, as was that of Earl CAWDQR: their names were
by mis►ake omitted in the published list. Lords FARN-
BoROUGH, ST. HELEN'S and STUART OF ROtEISAY, did
not vote.

RUSSIAN Cutacrt.—The priests seem to be generally
brawny figures, and with dark complexions. They wear
broad hats like-those of Quakers, and bushy hair hang-
ing over their backs: to judge, also, both from their sta-
ture and corpulency, they do not appear to be much ad-
dicted to abstinence and mortification ; but, on the coa-
teary, bear in their persons evidence of their enjoying
the good things of this life.—Wilson's Travels.
ADMIRALTY, PETERSIHINGSI.-It iv, nut a little
mat kable, that, in the British metropolis, notwithstand-
ing the variety of institutions and exhibitions with
which it abounds, there is not a single one set apart
for models of naval architecture; and the same obser-
vation is applicable both to the Scottish and Irish me•
tiopolis; yet the utility, as well AS interest, of such a
collection, in a country that relies so much upon its
naval force, can hardly be disputed; and, if I may be
permitted to do so, I would avail himself of the present
opportunity to call the attention of the Lord High Ad-
miral of England to a point that has been neglected by
his predecessors in office, be having already distin-'
guished himself so highly in every thing that regards]
our maritime interests.—lidd.
Burglaries are more frequent now Than ever in thel
Metropolis and its outskirts. It irr said that the expert:
thieves often attack one house after having succeeded'
in another on the same night. It is no slight proof of
the boldness of the London thieves, 'that about six
months afo one of them attempted to break into the
Governor a house in the front of Coldbadt-fields Prison.
The Governor had kept the several articles of plate,
which he is in the habit of using, on the ground floor ;
and the thief endeavoured to cut his way into the place,
but whether he was alarmed, or his apparatus was not
in good order, he did not succeed. Mr. Vicinity deter-
mined that the temptation should no longer remain in
the same place, and removed it to another.
Yesterday morning the house of Mr. Const, ivory-
turner, Albemarle-street, Clerkenwell, was broken into
and robbed of a number of billiard and bagatelle balls,
ivory boxes, apple scoops, and other ivory articles; also
a silver watch, and a bag full of casinos silver and
copper coins. The thieves broke open the baeltilter:,
mises without noise, and evidently without • .
a judgment can be formed from the manner kl wtrich
the wrenching iron was made to perform its part. Two
of Mr. Conss's servants slept in the room below that'
which was plundered. and if one of them had net de-
sired the watch Man to call him before four o'clock,
the shop would probably hive been completely stripped.
At half-past three the boy was called, add upon going
op stairs he saw the contents of several-of the drawers
lying about the ground in the shop.

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