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COURT Or CHANCERY, JANUARY sB. .
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• NORD STEWART:a CASE.
'The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he was instructed
to request that Mrs. Taylor, the. testamentary guar-
dian, would state whether she intended to persist in
her appeal to the House of Lords? as if she did not,
Fe would move that that part of the order which re-
strained the marriage of Lady Etnily Vane Tempest
with Lord Stewart should be discharged. The judg-
ment of the Court was delivered so early as July last,
'and surely since that ihere had been time for pre-,
paring any papers,
.and Mile 'time must occur before
the case coull be beard n:the House of Lords.
. Mr. ABERCROMBY; ler Airs. Taylor, saw no mean-
ing whatever in making such an application as the

present.
' Sir ARTHUR PinGorr said it had been thought
proper to make it, as the appeal must be lodged
within fourteen days after the meeting of Parliament,
and these fourteen days would soon expire. He
trusted no unnecessary delay would take place.
Mr. HORNE followed on the same side.
Mr; HART, for the Countess of Antrim, said her
Ladyship sincerely wished that the appeal should not'
be unnecessarily suspended.
ABERCROMBY still was not satisfied with the
tel,of.s assigned for making such an application. No
doubt Mrs. Taylor would persevere in the appeal,
and she stood exactly in the same situation as other
appellants did, and had no desire whatever to throw
any delay in the way.
The LORD CHANCELLOR observed, that the order
of the House of Lords was for every Petition of Ap-
peal being presented within fourteen days; but their
Lordships would nevertheless extend that period on
a proper cause being shewn to them for so doing.
He felt he had no right to ask any appellants from
this Court any question as to their persevering or not
in their appeals, and in this case he would not do it.
In cases of long Petitions, such as came from Scot-
land or Ireland, longer than fourteen days was gran-
ted by the House of Lords,
Application dismissed, but without costs, as his
Lordship would not interfere.

COURT OF KING'S BENCII, JANUARY 25.
TUE LATE WESTMINSTER ELECTION.
MORRIS V. HUNT.

Mr. PRINSEPP moved for a rule to spew cause
why the judgment obtained in this case against the
Defendant should not be set aside. He grounded his
motion upon the affidavits of Mr. William Bryant
and his clerk, which stated that this was an action
brought by Mr. Arthur Morris, High Bailiff of West-1
minster, against Henry Hunt, Esq. to recover £936
9s. 11d. being Mr: Hunt's share of the expenses of the
late election for Westminster; and that judgment
had been obtained against the Defendant, upon the
pretence that he hal neglected to plead. The affida-
vit then went on to state, that the demand n*ade by
he Plaintiff was of so general a nature, that the
Defendant had felt it necessary to require that he
should be furnished with the particulars; and in
consequence he obtained the extension of the time for
putting in his plea for ten days, which' expired on
the 17th January. A bill of particulars was in conse-
quence sent to Deponent, but it did not reach* his
hands. until the .17th inst. although dated the
The 17th being Sunday, he was of course entitled to
the whole of the 18th for putting in the Defendant's
plea ; but finding that the particulars delivered were
still unsatisfactory and requirin,F explanation,' espe-
cially on one item of a catpenter s bill, charged 5221.
and in three other items of 5901. each for money ex-
pended, without statin for what, he took out a fresh
summons for further ume ; and requiring the Plain-
tiff to be more explicit in his demand. Deponent un-
dertook to do this, in consequence of Mr. Hunt being
absent from London, and his ignorance of the place
in which he then was. On the morning of the 19th,
D.tponent's Clerk served Messrs. Trower and Smed-
ley, the Plaintiff's Attornies, with this fresh sum-
mons; but they neglected to attend it. He repeated
it, and, at length, they thought proper to appear be-
fore. the Judge, and stated that they had regularly
entered up judgment on the 18th. Upon this state-
ment the Learned Judge of course refused to hear
the fresh summons, and the judgment remained in
force. It was all along Mr. Hunt's intention to plead
and to defend the action ; but it was necessary, in the
first instance, that he should be provided with the
correct materials upon which that plea was to be
entered. His papers were before a Special Pleader,
ar.d, independent of the items of the demand itself,
it was his wish to have disputed the principle upon
which the High Bailiff had thought proper to charge
him with one-third of the expenses of the Election,
when he.was only one of six Candidates who had ap-
peared upon the hustings. These facts were corro-
borated by the affidavit of Mr. Bryant's Clerk.
The Court granted the rule to 'show cause. It is a
four-day rule, and cause will, in all probability,, be
strewn against it during the present week. Mr. Hunt
is to attend in person upon that occasion.

Miss O:IIEiLL, in refutation of the report of her
having refused to perfoim in any Play in which a
part is assigned to Miss SommtviLLl.:, has published
the letter which she sent to Mr. IlAnxis, begging
that he would consent to her not performing the pats
of Mary Stuart, in which her sole motive for declin-
irtg lite character is thus stated :—" I have again
read it with the, greatest attention; and wish, if pos-
sible, to accept it; but I find that it is.out of my
power to make a single.tili:ct in it. •With this
,im-
presr.ion, you will not, I trust, -MAY .futther press it
upon me." She also asserts, that she neyerha4tltasit
objection to appear with any, performer in thefhea,.
ire, and that she had never many instance presumed
to interfere in the east of Pieces,
Miss SostaatviLLE has pithlioly. contradicted 'the
report of her having resigned her Articles with the
Manager of Covent Garden :Matte.
Captain Boss was offered the command.of the
Es pedition now fitting, out to renew the: pursuit.fOr
the discovery of the North-West: Passage, eitieity
isith a view to explore Cumberland Bound-,..hut the
gallant Of was obliged to deelineit, .ititv account
of his eye-sight, which has
.been much:gfrectedp—
Captain Ross's Narrative of the t:spiditionwill spee-
dily be before the Public, when it will be seen *hat
orders lie liad to obey, and wipt grotiks:his had. fkir
Lis belief that it Was not thmugh Lancaster Bay that
the I.lhcc,l passage, if it o.zists at all, could be found.