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London, England, 1829-08-15 00:00:00

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• t. • 0t• COURT OF CHANCERY: Autetittt
HARDIPO V. PRATT.
Tfie queatitin in.thisens* arose upon the will of !Mak
• extitity, and was, whether- the personal repreeentitivis
bf Ghee Oariray, one of her eight daughtersi., were
entitled:it) take 6,0001. the amountof her fortansrleit by
eer:manier ? By the will; she was •to have theinW•ak
of Writ stiM fitehei' life, and, if she married and her hen-
, iiiddlifutiiSed her, he was to bays a life interest in it.
Mims Giace OittWay attained the age of twenty-cite{ bdt
died without tieing married: The LORD CHANCELLOR
Considered, abcording to the fair conetriicliOn of the will,
altogether, that the personal representative* ware
entitled to it Another daughter of the testatrix died a
considerable time ago, leasing a surviving husband, and
that also cicbasideed the institution of a suit in the year
1143. Theigh that case could not be regarded as igo-
verniag this in direct terms, yet the order Lord .Elden
• then made in favodr of the representatives of the deb
Maki) lad', sanctioned the spirit of the judgmetit et the
Courfon this occasion.
VIICZCHANCRLLOWS COUIET, Atra. 14.
EX-PARTE GOODWYN IN RE DARBY.
This was a petition of the Assignees of the Bankrupt,
praying that the proof of a debt of 9001. under the
Bankrupt'► estate might be expunged, on the ground that
the- Bills of Exchange on which the proof was admitted
were fbrgeties, and that the party holding them, it wait
alleged, were cognizant of that fact at• the time they
came into their possession, and, therefom, not entitled
to maser.

Mr. PEMBERTON and Mr. TURNER were adareeung
the Court the whole of the morning in rapport of the
Petition, and Mr. HORNE and Mr. ROOTS appeared ih
opposition.

I
ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

110311 E CIRCUIT.—MAIDSTONE, Ave. 13.
Csowit thaa—Beforit Mr. Justice GASSI.ss.
HOUSEBREAKING.

Rickard Mooring was indicted for breaking and enter-
ing (with some other person unknown) the dwelling-
house of Richard Burney, at St. Nichols*, Deptford, and
stealing therefrom thirty-five sovereigns, two half sove-
reigns, one guinea; twenty shillings in silver, and various
article* of wearing apparel.
It appeared that the wife of the prosecutor left home
on a visit, accompanied by her daughter, at nine o'clock
on the- morning of the 28th of April, and did not return
till twelve o'clock at night—she left the house perfectly
secure, and no one had access to the house during her
absence—on her return she found the shutter of the win-
dow torn down, and the window sufficiently open to ad-
mit a man ; in the parlour she found a dark lanthorn,
the candle of which was not burning, but had melted
down into the socket, the lanthorn was still quite hot ; on
examining the house, the drawers were all found broken
open and ransacked, and the money and articles men.
defied in the indictment stolen.
Several witnesses stated that the prisoner was seen
going in the direction of the house with a lighted candle
in his hand ; and that, on being perceived, he put out
thelighe and ran off, but was again seen approaching the
house.

A young woman stated that she passed by the boast
and saw the prisoner with his head inside the window,
and liii bands on the sill, between eleven and twelve
o'clock at night—a person was in the house w4lo had
light, and immediately she had-passed, the light was
put out.
On the part of the prisoner a witness was called, who
stated that at half-past nine the prisoner was seen at Pad-
dington, and going in a direction from London—withess;
itoitevler, could not tall Why she remembered it was the
airiia 4. is the robbery—neither could she tell what
part of liogton she had been to, nor the name of the
person witom.she had beat visiting on business.
The Jury cbnsulted a short time and acquitted the pri-
'ober. His Lordship admonished him to be very careful
of his future conduct.

110101 E-STEALING.
George Emery was indicted for stealing a brown mare,
the property of Mr. Evesden, at Vrrotham, and was sen-
tenced to be transported-for life-.
Charter Moore web charged' with breaking and en-
tering the house of Stephen Stonham, the landlord of
the Sun Inn, Maidstone, and stealing therefrom a silver
Watch, three sovereigns, twelve 'Ulmer in silver, some
sot** of the late Maidstone Balik, and other'articles. The
house was left safely looted up on the night of the 3d'
Of May, and on coming down the next morning the'
fiuidlady was surprised to find the bar window broken,.
the till broken open, and the cash gone. The kitchen
door was shut, but not bolted, and there were marks
tout the wall as of a person having got over into the
street. Suspicion fell upon the prisoner, who had lodged'
in the house, and the stolen property was found on his
person. He said that he bad concealed himself under'
oho of the benches in the tap-room till the family had'
gone to bed, and that he then got up, broke-open the bar
Windoweand stole the articles mentioned above, Sad then
got over the back wall into the street.—Guilty--Death
*corded.

DOE, DEW,• V. PHILLIPS.
This'war sit action °rejects/id of rather a curious na-
ture, on account of the Kiser conduit of the defendant.
Mr. GURNEY and Mr. CON'YN were. Counsel for the.
plaintiff, and Mr. Sergesitt-konaiws and Mr. Cu IrrY
for the defence.

Mr. GURNEY said, thin action arose out of one of the
moat impudent transactions that ever came into a Court
of Justice. It was brought at the instance of a Mr.
Spong, the descendant of a Mr. Wird, te'rectiver the
possession of an estate called Cow Lees, nett Aylesford.
Mr. Ward was in df it till 1785, and he loft
it by his will to r. John Soong,. the Either of the plain-
tiff ; Mr. Spong was in n till his death, in 1815,
thirty years ; be bequearesristaioto his son, who had also
been in possession of it. It had, however, been let to
various tenants.: a MIL Underhill had, it first, and after-
wards her son ; the landlord was very indulgent, and bad
aiffered the rent to run in arrow; lie Was obliged at
last to bring. his. action against Underhill'for-the rent, but
Mai recovered See years' arrears ; before, however, he
&RAI' obtain policeman, Underhill absconded., and
An; the defendant, by some means got into possession ;
'he war net immediately ejected', od acccitint ofsbnie' dhi-
sinds and a suit pending in the Rowe of
Lords, the result of which would determine to whom the
On the termination of this uncertainty,
'IWO. Spong, the present plaintiff, cute into pas:.
liiissiotkp obi on Waylaying Vs Mr. Phillips tb Ware the
ellestb, herelbsed to do w, slytrig he rather thought be
*at 11* if tin'.
oldMi.Ward,• who had been. dead
iffiity' 60 years. He-(Mr. Gueney),slinuld prowelnif be
iihe nor such- cloito.. and duff Mt Spoilt Ivan the rill
eiisiifir mottle ifiitilte: •
lttlifneiblis. *ifs . then ealletined pre" the
gifones Will,' and after thetweidlsiblitilidi tool,