Star.
London, England, 1820-06-09 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

SUMMER CIRCUIT, 1890.
• feeterday, the Judges met in the Treasury Chamber, West-
rolostd-Hall, and chose their respecthe Circuits, as follow :
Hons.—Lord Chief Justice Abbott, Mr. Baron Wood.
Nusroz.e.—Lord (lief Justice Dallas, Mr. Justice Hoiroyd.
MisLano.—The Lord Chief Baron, Mr. Baron Garrove.
Winvian.—Mr. Baron Graham Mr. Justice Burrough.
NONTIIIIOI.II.Ir. Justice Bayley, Mr. Justice Park.
Ozroan—Mr. Justice Best, Mr. Justice Richardson.
COURT OF KING'S BENCH, JUgE 8.

In consequence of the preparations for fitting up'
Westminster Hall for the Coronation, and the inspn-
venience to which the Court has been subjected in the
Administration of justice since the commencement of
this Term, from the noise occasioned by the work-
men, the Judges sat this morning in the Court of
Exchequer, the Learned Barons consenting to pro-
ceed in the business of their Court in the Exchequer
Chamber. The flooring of the Hall.with new timber
is completed, and the Court of Chancery is nearly
pulled down. The workmen commenced this morn-
ing for the same purpose on the Court of kines
Bench, in consequence of the arrangement made for
the sitting of the Judges in the Court of Exchequer.
THE KING V. PARKINS, WAITIIMAN, AND OTHERS.
This, it will be recollected, was a motion for a cri-
minal information, made in Michaelmas Term last,
against Mr. Sheriff Parkins, Mr. Alderman Waith-
b
man, and several other Gentlemen, for alleged illegal
conduct, in having riotously interrupted the election
of the new Lord Mayor, on the Michaelmas Day
preceding, by bringing forward a discussion not noti-
fied in the summonses for the day's business. In
14 ilary Term, Mr. Brougham was partly heard against
the Rule..on behalf of some of the defendants, but
the pressure of other public business which engaged
the attention of the Court in the interval, occasioned
the postponement of this matter until to-day; when
RROVGIIAM proceeded in his argument. There
were two principal questions upon which the motion
was founded ; first, whether the Liverymen of Lon-
don, in Common Hall assembled, might lawfully enter
into the discussion •of matters not connected with
the business of the day, for which they were specially
convened ?—and, second, whether the conduct of the
defendants was or was not such, on the occasion
alluded to, as would authorize the interposition of
the Court by criminal information ? In concurrence'
with the desire of the Court, the Learned Counsel*
addressed himself principally to the first question,
and. with his usual ability and eloquence, contended
that the Livery of London, in Common Hall assem-
bled, upon the occasion of! the election of the Lord
Mayor, had an inherent, indefeasible, and un-
doubted right to discuss public grievances, or other'
matters of complaint, prior to the consideration of
the special business for which they were convened.,
So far from meditating any breach of the laws and:
constitution of the City, the defendants merely acted
up to what they. conceived to be their inherent rights,
sanctioned by the deliberate written- opinion of an
eminent lawyer, Mr. Sericant Glyn, who, as Re-
corder of the City of London, had, on a former oc-
casion, been consulted upon the question of this very
right—a right also sanctioned by an immense num-
ber of precedents, and distinctly recognized to be the
legal practice of the Corporation.
Mr. ScaaLETT followed on the same side, with
considerable ability.
Mr. Hor.T pursued the same line of argument on
behalf of Mr. Sheriff Parkins; and Mr. CHITTY, with
his usual ability, spoke at considerable length on be-
half.of the other defendants.
The SOLICITOR-GENERAL (with whom was Mr.
TINDAL) shortly replied to the arguments urged in
favour of the defendants on the point of law, con-
tending, that the reasoning urged was fallacious, and
in opposition to the facts' and circumstances disclosed
in the affidavits.

The Court delivered their opinion seriatim, and
confining themselves principally to the point of law,
in substance ruled, that the conduct of the defendants
on the occasion in question was not sanctioned by the
rules of law which usually governed the proceedings
of Corporations; but as the defendants appeared to
have been sanctioned by the opinion of Mr. Serjeant
Glyn, which remained upon the Resords of the City,
and had acted under an impression that their pro-
ceedings were legal, it did not appear to their Lord-
ships that this was a case in which a Rule ter a cri-
minal information could be made absolute, but it
must be discharged without costs.—Rule discharged
without costs.

•Yeeterdq information was received

at this (Ace, from a Gentlenfan of respectability, that pecans
were employed in sticking up bills in various parts of the West
end oldie tovroonneencing that a general Illumination would take
place that 'seeing (yesterday) in honour of her Majesty's arriv(
in Ragland; and be was fearful that riot and confusion might be
the essaqiesce. Mr. CONANT immediately sent persons to de-
mon the MM.—Several persons were ordered tolind responsible
halts charged with throwing mud at coachmen and others, who
Termed taking their bats off on passing the house of Alderman
Woe*: they were also charged with breaking the windows of a
number of houses at the West end of the town.
Coulon; a SWIMITS•-•It is highly necessary that Gentle-
men's servants should be ea their guard against a gang of thieves
who practice upoes novel system of robbery. Two of the, party
go about, eoe dressed as a grant, and the other genteelly at-
tired. The groom knocks at the door, and cooftives a story to
gerall the servants from the kitchen, and while he keeps them is
discourse, his coespenien goes down the area steps, enters the
kitchen, and carries away whatever he can catch hold of in tit*
absence. The siva is tha given to the sham groom, who bids
the servants " good dots'. and follows his friend. Several rob-
beries of this deoalpeen have been committed in Berkeiew
square and Grosseasi.efiare. Buffertnately, yesterday morn-
ing, when the vial's wire convivkg their pbn at the house of
Dins. Bishop, of 41, Pdrioket, begirt the grant had com.
plete4 his task, his went into the kitchen and was
'taken in custedy. The groom made ids escape by taking to his
keels. The prisoner was brought yesterday to Marlborough.
I street, and clomitted for trial

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