Star.
London, England, 1828-06-30 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT •OF KING'S BENCH, Wisexisuurna,_Jam ss.
Sittings at Nisi Pries in Middlesex, after Trinity Term, before
Lord Tammy< and Common Juries.
THE KING O. JOSEPH SEDOLEY.
This was an indictment for a nuisance preferred by a
Lady of the name of Estcott, residing at Isleworth,
against the defendant, a pork butcher, living near her
residence.
Mr. C. PHILLIPS appeared for the prosecution. The
nuisance complained of was that of keeping and slaugh-
tering pigs near the highway, which it appeared caused
great annoyance to the inhabitants.
A surgeon of Hounslow proved that the smell arising
from the pig-keeping and slaughtering was very pre-
judicial to the health of the inhabitants, and had a ten-
dency to produce typhus fever. Two or three years agO,
when that malady was prevalent among the poor people
in the neighbourhooa'
of isleworth, it used to be called
the " pig fever," every body believing it to have been
produced by the stench arising from the keeping and
slaughtering of pigs by the defendant and several other
cottagers residing an Isleworth.
Mr. CLARKSON cross-examined the witnesses for the
defendant, but made no defence.
A verdict of Guilty was recorded, with an intimation
on the part of the. prosecution that if the defendant
abated the nuisance, he would not be brought up for.
judgment.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Wintering's, Jun ts.
Sittings after Trinity Term, before the Lion Cruse Jeer= aad
• a Cosmos Jury.
SHALLHOENE V. CoLLINS.
This %vat id action of slander, brought by the Secre-
tary of a Benefit Soeiety,cleneminated •• The Offsprings
of Noah," against the defendant, who is the keeper of
a peiseibitousein Brook-street, Ratcliffe, at which the
aaeetth of the- Society were fOr some time held. It
appeatCa, that at 3 Meetingheld on the 15th February
last, the defendantycame into the room where the,
members of the Society were assembled, and made
use of the expressions for • Which the" present action
was brought ; they were 'to the following effect":—
" The Offsprings of Noah will 'never obtain any fresh
members of their society while such a rogue as Small-
home is their Secretary, for I can prove him a rogue—
that he has 'robbed me and a Society called the • Tried
Friends; to which be formerly belonged, and from which
be was discarded for -having robbed them: Such ex-
• pressions as these, it was insisted, must of necessity
prove. highly injoriods to the plaintiff, who had, before
that, *Ways held a good character for honesty and

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integrity.
The• case was fully proved in evidence.
For the "defendant it was contended, that the words
which had been made use at were not such as could, in
any way, affect the character of the plaintiff, and wit-
nesses were called to prove that the defendant had met
with some provocation from the plaintiff, but their evi-
dence, so far from contradicting that of the plaintiff's
witnesses, was fully confirmatory of it.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE in his charge told ,the
Jury that as the words had beeri proved, and could not
be contradicted or justified, the only question for their
considera ion would be the amount of • the damages
which they Should t•'►ink the plaintiff entitled to.
The Jury immediately returned a verdict for .the
plaintiff-Damages