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CMIRT Or CHANCIW‘ PJLT 29.

suer Le/O-ranee.— GI LL AND rri,lclll D.: HI COMMIS-
SION NUS OF TII K N KV; STRUM

Mr. LE‘Cll mowed that a demurrer, which was 'a
down in the Vic( Chancellor's paper for hearing this
day, sli..oil I be transferred to his Lordship's paper.
The question' has been already argued before his
Lordship.' and he was in possessi.)ii of the facts,
which made his Honour wish that his Lordship should
hear it, as it appeared simi'ar to an 'appeal from the
judgment of his Lordship to the Vice-Chancellor,
which could not be, as they could not appeal from a
higher power to a lower.
The LORD CHANCELLOR--"" The circumstances of

the ease I recollect ; they are of importance, and I
• `think 1 ought to hear the demurrer. I cannot hs a
particular day to hear it, but you had better Sit a day
Wore next Term, or an early cl.ty in the Term, when
similar CAWS are set down for hearing."
Motion granted.
The remainder of the day was occupied in hearing
sootionsof no interest except to the parties concerned.
His Lordship rose at.two o'clock.
VICE-CHANCF.I.LOR'S COURT, JULY 99.
His Honour intimated that he would take short
causes on Thursdays during the Sittings.
The business of this day Was quite unimportant
except to the parties concerned.
SURREY SESSIONS, HOROEMONG ER-LANE, JULY 29.
_ STEALING AT A FIEIL.

Joan Woods was indicted for stealing a trunk, con-
taining a quantity of children's clothes and linen, the
property of Mr. Palmer, a harness maker in Bet.
moildsey street. Our Readers Wit! recollect the me-
lancholy con asration whict )cook pls;ce a few weeks
slice on a Sunday wresting. at tligs house of Mr. Black,
oilman, opposite Bermondsey Church, in which that
unfortunate genthman,ltis wife, and infant, perished.
The present prosecutor lived isithin two doors of
Mr. Black, and, during the time (lithe fire the trunk,
containing the property in question, was stolen from
his house.

Brown, the night constable of Bermondsey,
whilst going 114 rounds on the night in question, met
the priioner in Bermondsey road, ear:ying a trunk,
and stopped him t' enquire what he had got, when
the prisoner giving very unsatisfactory answers, and
descrioine the e.,,,tents of the trunk to be very dif.
ferent to whet they proved on examination to be.bede-
tained him, and next day took him Irtore a Magis-
trate, when Mr. Palmer attended, atid swore to his
'property, and die prisoner was committed for trial.
These facts were now proved by Mr. Brown and
Mr. Palmer.
The prisoner; on being called upon for his defence,
said be was innocent of the robbery. He was walk-
ing along Bermondsey-road oq the night in question
when a man, whom he did not know, came up to
• Mtn, and asked him to carry a trunk for him to the
Bricklayer's Arms, saying he would pay him for his
trnubli ; he accordingly took the trunk, and was pro-
needing to the Bricklayer's Arms, when-he was stop.
ped by the officer, and the person from whom he re-
ceived the trunk es:aped.
The Jury found him Guilty, stuthe emanate:seed
to seers years transportation.
POLICE.

Sow iraner.—ln thiestliTiorainary case whiclowe
stated yesterday of James Lair, who robbed his own
beam, e 4 £450, he now confesses, that in two hours
lifter be had committed the offence, he repented of
what he bad done, and of havitArnbhed the best of
bothers. Mr. and Mrs. Kellyt,!ehti appear so con-
apiewoOsly in the adventures(..of, tile prisoner. have
been married but a short time. and against the con-
sent of the lady's family and friendaA,rhe is only about
eighteen years of age, but highly accomplished.—
Lake was committed to the House of Correction, at
his own request.
On the evening of the 22d instant, between five
and six o'clock, as Maria Stanley, a servant of Mr.
Eldridge, of Hanwell, was walking near Hanwell
1%0, towards Ealing, she was suddenly stopped by
a man, who took a whistle from his pocket, blew-it,
and another man instantly came from behind a hedge
to his assistance ; one of them presented a knife to
her breast, threatening to stab her if she made any
alarm or resistance, and then proceeded to cutoff her
pockets, with which, and part of her clothes, •they
made their escape. Om of them bad a crape over
his fan, amktbey answer the description of two men
vibe have Way beea nee hogging 111 that part of the
counery.
Yea enfilly Jai. thooltaa, a youth, was brought to
the Office, and undermost an examination before R.
Sumo. Not the Sitting Magistrate, cliamed with.
gobble' Mrs. Barbara Donis* of a veil, m Long.
Aso, set Saturday. se'nnight, by 'notching it from
bet bead.—Committed for trial,
?tow driven.. bay carts were convieted on charges,
Very properly preferred against them by the Trustees
of the Hanoi District, for riding on their horses and
_ in their carts, withrlst reins.
Jams Afille, late a Gerbils the Office of Messrs.
Xrockbanii and Kirland, Army Agents, in Craven-
dinar, was charged en sovieioii of embroiling the
suss of "7. ss. which be had received at the Army
Vay.Office, on account of, Captain Hare, of the sth
Veteran, Battalion, which...he had not accounted for
to his master% as his agents.--He leas committed
fai•fUrther esensination. -; -
• "rol.
d Howe.—A loans age 75, was seppos.
led into the Hessian House. lie was one of the
most miserable objects. that ever visited a Public Of-
• fica, having, in addition to the natural infirmities of
age, a dropsy upon hie % which promises to make ham
troublesome but sfar a TO, short time to tho soak',
against Which he coniplamed. His complaint nag
against a Benefit SOcietylfalled the,Brireasin, which
Ist saidbad Misled btuJul wally allowpace is cce.

sequence of one of the Members having seen Mtn'
endeavouring to chop a few sticks to light his are ;
it being presumed, froneweecb an effort, that he was
capable of attending to his•trade of weaving, and of
course that he bad no present claith upon the funds
of the Society.
The Loan MASOIt.B To whom is the Soddy Indebted for
the intelligencrwhich bas compelled the complainant to rink his
lite by the fatigue of attending the Office r
The Steward—" I have known many to be dismissed upon
sUghter grounds. It u net my intention to injure the old DAD.
am merely doing my duty, and the Member who has made the
complaint has done his."
The Loan Maroa.-14 I am glad that the Magistrates have
the pottier of correcting you in cases where you make an undue
turelse of authority. 'I his is one of the instances which prove
the danger of arming men with power. Have you any proof that
*a man is able to work at his trader
Steward—" No." • I
The LORD iblaroa—" Complainant, go home and cut as many
sticks as you please. The Society won't say longer refuse yen,
and will not hesitate to pay you whet they owe you."

II GUILDHALL,- J. Clinton was charged with stabbing
J. Aimsworth. The prosecutor, about two o'clock
yesterday morning, went into the Key public-house,
in Fleet-market, where the prisoner was drinking ;
and, touching his hat, asked him about a pair of
breeches be had given him to repair, without the
slightest anger; on which the prisoner drew a knife
from his pocket, and made a lunge at the prosecutor,
which went through the collar of his coat, between
his teeth, and through his right cheek. E. Riley
confirmed this statement ; and described the com-
plainant's touching the prisoner's hat as a sort of so-
cial•canmunication between people of their order.—
As soon as ;he wound was inflicted, the prisoner threw
down the knife, and s4id, 4. there it is for you."—
Thomson said, after the complainant told the
prisoner he wanted the breeches, the former replied,
1 have got something here you want ;" and imme-
Thately made the attack. The blow was aimed at
the defendant's throat ; bat by his stooping, it took
the direction before described. A bricklayer, wholly
unknown to either party, said, the prisoner shoved
Aimsworth away from him before he drew out the'
knife, and appeared very angry. The complainant
tapped him a second time upon the hat before the
wound was given. The conduct of Aimsworth was.
in his opinion, all a joke. The prisoner, in his de.
fence, said, he had been struck repeatedly by the
complainant before he used his knife. He had marks
on his face. which, however, proved to haVe been
made by Kempson after the blow,, .to prevent his
escape. He was remanded. -
UMW HALL./. hewed was brought uttor re-
examination, charged whh assaulting his efe and
beating her with a poker to such an excess as to en-
danger her lite. A Surgeon attended, but being un-
able yet to give any opinion as to the state of the no.
fortunate woman, the prisoner. was remanded,.
A young man was examined, who was taken on
Friday night. at Vauxhall Gardens, by Hall, the Of-
ficer, in the act of picking a Gentleman's pocket of
his handkerchief. Hall stated, that he watched the
prisoner for some time, and saw him make many at-
tempts at different Gentlemen's pockets, and secured
him in the act of drawing (as it is technically ex-
pressed) al4 white from the soli hub On his person
he found three fine handkcherchlefs, each marked I
with different was fully committed.
TOWN-HALL, SOUTHWAItHe••• G. Gaper was reman-
ded, charged by his -wile with stabbing her in the I
neck. She was induced on the preceding night to go
in quest of him, as he was spending his money in an
alehouse, and leaving her and her children to perish
fur want of mod. Having found him in a state of
intoxication, he gave her a dreadful beating, and fol-
lowing her into the street, took a sharp instrument
out of his pocket, and stabbed her in the neck.

At Buckingham Assizes twelve prisoners were ca-
pitally convicted, and received sentence of death, but
the whole were reprieved, except Deal ;pus found
guilty of maliciously setting fire to a haulms cock, in
the lick.yard of Jesse Shrirsiptou. at Long Crendon,
and who was left for execution.

At the Lincoln Assizes, among a number of other
capital convicts, Loggias', aged 50, was left
for execution, for counselling, aiding, and Abetting
three other younger prisoners in the commission of a
burglary, at Grantham.—At the Nisi Prins Ilar,
Judge 4AYLEIto at the close of a horse came,. strongly
discominended the going to law io Fasts .t this na-
ture.— 0 Take my advice, gentlemen," saidbees and
accommodate matters of this kind, if "posigge; for
men in general lose more than .£25 in. bringing .an
action on the warranty of a horse, even if they anti ;
and such is the danger from the evidence common in
causes like ibis, that justice is no security to a man for
success. Lperceive lhat the gentlemen below me do
not approve of my doctrine ; but the truth must be
told sometimes."

In the Sheriff's Court, at the above Assizes, last
week, came OP before Wturas H. ROBINSON,
Esq. a writ of inquiry in a very curious case. The
action was brought by the executors of the late Mrs.
Mary Stephenson (an old Lady, who died a short
_time ago at Reepharo. near Lincoln), against a Mr,.
Stephen Huston, of Fiskerten, and judgment fitsv
been suffered by default, the Jury in this Court ba4
assess the damages. It appeared, from the state.
went of Mr. Ramie, and was preyed by two wit-
nesses (Mr. Edward Starr, of Hackthorn. and Mr.
,Christopher Wright, of Stotton), that alter the de-
cease of the old lady, her executors proceeded to con-
vert her effects into money by a sale by auction. The
defendant, Horton, was the purchaser of a bed at
dieuction, and after it had been knocked down to
bhis, he went to look at it.as it stood, more particu-
larly than he had dune before the sale. From the
top of the bed, the witnesses and some other petions
who were by, saw him take a small box (which was
wrapped in brown paper) and open it; they also by
a momentary glimpse, saw that within the box was a
quantity of guineas ; some exclamation of surprise
was.made, and the defendant, in a way. Mr. Rairoza
obspreed; which trenched very hard viten felony, and
inigla have pot him on his trial iwanother Court,
intillediately shut the box. and went' 'off from the
house with it and its contents. A rather large pocket
tobeego bnz, with 50. guineas in it, was produced in
Cilia by Mr. BALDWIN, solicitor tor the executors,
with a view of enabling the witnesses to give an dpi.
Mon as to the quantity of guineas which alight be ro
the box taken by Mr. Horton from the bed ;they
thought the . box WAS larger than that, and that
she quantity of primes in it was at least as much.—
The Jury accordingly retunled a verdict—Damara
Fifty Guineas.