Star.
London, England, 1827-07-04 00:00:00

CRIMINAL INIORMATION.

Mr. E. ALDERSON moved for a rule Nisi for a ci iminal
information against a Yorkshire MAgistrate, for alleged
corruption, in committing two persons, named Rams-
den, to Wakefield House of Correction, for refusing to
pay certain expenses awarded by him in favour of a
constable named Wright, who complained of an assault.
No notice of the motion having been given to the Ma-
gistrate—The Comm, for the present, refused the rule.
THE Kt AGAINST THE CORPORATION Or QUINN-
• NORODOM

Mr. Sergeant MEREWITEIR moved to make absolute
a rule for an information, in the nature of a quo war-
rant°, against Mr. Green, for having exercised the
office of Mayor of QUeenborough, font September,
1823, to September, 1824.
Mrl Martavkr ihewed cause.—The objection to Mr.
Green's election was, that he was not a good Jurat, and
therefore not a good Mayor. The Corporation consists
of a Mayor, four Jurats, and two Bailiffs; and a ma-
jority of the body mutt be present to make a good elec-
tion. Mr. Green had been a jorat from 1814 to the
12th of May, 1823, when he surrendered his office of
jurat to become a witness. On the 20th of May, after',
he had given his evidence, he was re-elected to the
same office; but it appeared that the body of the
Corporation present at the election was not suffi-
cient, because there was only one of the two bai-
liffs present, and he was not a majority of the
two. We therefore acknowledge that on the 20th
of May he was wit well elected into the office of jurat,
but we submit that he was well elected on the 9th of
Arne, 1823, for upou that day another assembly was
holden, at which the Mayor, the two Bailiffs, and two
Jurats attended, and lie was then duly elected Jurat.
A quo tearanto information had been obtained and filed
against him for this interval of three weeks between the
20th of May and the 9th of June, for usurping the
office of Jurat, and he has admitted the usurpation of
his office for these three weeks, and pleaded the legality
of his election on the 9th of Jane, 1823. The present
application against him is fur having exercised the
office of Mayor from the 29th of September, 1823; but
there is no other objection to his election as Mayor, ex-
cepting the objection to his election as Jurat, which is
now removed.

Lord TILNTZBDIN.—The question is, whether the
two juiats prevent at the election on the 9th of June as
the majority of junats are sufficient, or whether all three
jorats ought not to have been present, as the majority
of the full body of four?

Mr. MAIMAT—That is the question ; and the words
of the charter are—"that it shall be lawful for the
Mayor and the surviving or remaining Jurats and
Bailiffs, or the major part of them, to elect, ttc."
Mr. CAMPBELL, in support of the rule, said that the
question depended qpon the construction f the charter t
certain actions had been brought under some bye-laws,
the validity of which would depend upon the legality
of the Mayor.
Lord Tstatzaogo—Can yoo try the question, whea
tber he was properiy elected to the office of jurat, twice
over.? Would it not be better that this rule be enlarged
till the question of the jurat is determined?
Mr. CAMPBELL, submitted, that then the other side
should not proceed in the actions on the bye-laws.
Mr. MAnovar refused to accede to this arrange.
ment. The actions were concerning the oyster-beds and
fisheries of the town, and were very important.
Lord TENTERDEN—The rule must be enlarged; and
if the prosecution in the quo warranto against the defen-
dant, as jurat, poses successful, then an information
must be granted against him as Mayor.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jinx 5.
HENDERSON V. LIMAN.

Mr. Sergeant WILDIC applied to the Court to restrict
the plaintiff's right of costs in this case. The defendant's
attorney had taken out a summons to stay the proceed-
ings on payment of the debt and costs ; but the plaintiff's
attorney, or some other person fot him, refused to agree
to the summons, stating that the plaintiff claimed and
was entitled to a larger sum than was proposed to be
paid by the defendant. The defendant then paid the
money he had offered into Court, when the plaintiff filed
a declaration, which he afterwards took out.
Under these circumstances, the Court decided that
the plaintiff could not rec leer costs to any amount
beyond those that had been incurred up to the time
that the summons to stay proceedings was taken out.
Their Lordships were glad that they had this oppor-
' tunity'of expressing their opinion upon the practice
which had been adopted in this cate, and which was
now' become too general. It frequen ly occurred, that
when summonses of this kind were t ken out, and the

patties appea►ed before the Judge It thimbett, some
young person who had vary probably been little rni re
than a year in office, would 'come horn the .plaintitf.i
and succeed in di,charging the summons, by inertly
laying claim to a larger sum than was offered by the
defendant. A Judge's hands were then effectually tled,i
he could only advise the defendant to pay the money
into Court, and when this Mal done, it frequently hat.•
pened that it was taken out again, and the defendant
was probably saddled with the very amount of co.ts
which the sole object of his summons was to get rid of.
This practice wasgain;ng ground, but it must be stopped.

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WaitlM (rr, ewe journeymen shrWmakrts,
*en before Mr. Aidefilitll WaITIIIIMI and Sr
.Auant, with embezzling toms materials delivered to ratio,
*ark up.
Mr. Chambetlain, a wholesalt manufacturer of shoes, appeared
at the complainant, and stated that the prisoners had lodged in a
room v.gether. On the 18th of June he delivered to Baron the
materials for seven pairs of shoes, which he might have finished is
two days. Some materials Were given to the other prisoner about
the same time. After keeping the work by them for weevil days
they decamped, but on Saturday night he obtained a clue to their
hiding place, and apprehended them. He found Baron in a Coen
on ShowhiU,lying between the bed sal the sacking in a garret.
Two other masters appeared to make similar charges minim
Baron, who is only 19 years of age, and there was a attend cow
plaint against Carr, who pleaded guilty In the outset.
They were sentenced each to two months' bard labour at the'
tread-mill, with a caution that if they should hereafter be motion/
of similar misconduct, they would be certainly well whipped.
Thomas Roseland, another shoemaker, was charged with stealing
a metal watch and seals, and the upper leathers of three pairs ashen.
The prisoner lodged with a workman in the same line, named
Alexander Pollock, ice White Hart-court, Long-lane, and one day,
while the latter had retired to a lower tonal to eat his dinner *lilt
his spouse, the prisoner packed up hl% kit of tools, the week in hand,
and the coraplainant's watch, and disappeared.
The prisoner admintd that be stele the leather, but denied hat.
lag carried °tribe watch.
Mr. Alderman WAITHXIIII said he had had 36 prisoners before
him on the previous day, and there were decidedly mere drunken
shoemakers among them than of any other vocation—(A laugh)
If there were honest men in it, be was sure they muff feel ashamed
of their calling.—The prisenet was committed.

prow* Bpii;n was b;cought up on a charge of masoning a servant
girl, while she was breathing a little fresh air at her master's dour
about sieves o'clock on Monday night. The officer stated that as
grinner knocked her clean down, but she declined combs; to the
J sodeottioun.
" What are your mid the Alderman.
" A shoemaker, Sir," replied Ryan.
" Another shoemaker I—Why, we had better go barefoot," ea.
claimed the Alderman, " than give encouragement to such a sat
disorderly fellows. You are the fourth shoemaker that has lam
before me within this half hour. If the young woman is disinclined
to prosecute you, I will not compel her; but I do hope that you
will let this be a warning to you. Your offence would hive bees
treated as a serious one at the Sessions, and you would have been
sentenced to imprisonment. Consider yourself fortunate that you
have not been compelled to dosage your trade of shoemaking toe
mill-treading."—The prisoner was discharged.
The next prisoner pet to the bar was also a shoemaker. if
gave his name Join Chemed. He was found staggering drunk in L.
lane, Sndtkield, about half-put ten at night, by Bushnell, a watch.
man, who offered to pus him on to the next watchman, and to en,
till he arrived acids domicile in Saffron-hill. The prisoner, hoe.
I ever, scorned to be so escorted ; and after Bushnell bad carets:ly
tied up in his apron some leather be was carrying, be staggered stu
About half au hour afterwards he was found ha Smithfield covereil
with mud, and stripped' by thieves of his hat and shoes. He vu
then placed on a hurdle, and curled to the watchhouse by tive
guardians of thenight, with a view to his personal safety.
" How mach de you get when you stick close to your last?'
said the Alderman.
" But I can't keep close," replied Connell ; without explaining.
however, whether this sews (tan want of employ or the love of
strong rink.
The Alderman again pot his question, but the prisoner again
shirked it; and the Magistrate had to learn from other quietus
that Connell could snake a pair of boots aday, whereby be toad
earn lis.—The Alderman dismissed hint with an admonition.
" In the coarse of the day two lads, who also claimed to be N.
lowers of the " Ifiati• craft," were committed to the treadmill for
a month, on suspicion of frequenting the streets, with intent to
amen* felony.