Star.
London, England, 1821-06-04 00:00:00

STATE OF IRELAND.

There are so many conflicting interests in every
County or Barony in.lreland, that it is Very difficult
to ascertain the.actual condition of the People. All
our information concurs in the simple fact, that the
tranquillity of the country might be everywhere
preserved, if the Magistrates and Gentry were active,
and would renounce their petty jealousies and inte-
rests for the sake of the general good. Whatever
the Landowners may think, it is yet certain, that the
expense of the Police Establishments must ultimately
fall on them—where there is scarcely enough to pay
the local taxes, any additional expense must be taken
from the rents, and this circumstance ought to sti-
mulate their utmost exertions to preserve the peace
of their respective districts. Government has pro-
claimed the whole of the King's County (with the
exception of four Baronies) to be in a state of dis-
turbance, and requiring an extraordinary establish-
ment of Police. Six Baronies in the County of Kil-
dare ; one in the County of Carlow ; one in the
County of Dublin; and one in the County of Wick-
low, have also been put under the Peace Preserva-
tion Act—Dublin Journal.

MARRIAGE IN HIGH LlFE.—Saturday last were
married, by special license, at the Earl of Comitat'..,
in Piccadilly, Sir ROGER GRESLRY, Bart. to tie
Right Hon. Lady SorHIA CATHERINE COVENTRI •
The ceremony was performed by the Rev. WILLIAM
JOLLIFFIE, one of his Lordship's Chaplains ; after
which the happy couple set out for Drakelow Hall,
in Staffordshire, the seat of Sir ROGER GRESLEY.

The following is another melancholy instance of
the uncertainty of human life:—Tuesday owning
last, Miss MILLS, of Ripley, Yorkshire, was given in
marriage, by Sir WILLIAM INGILBY, Bart. High
Sheriff of the County, to Mr. Noumea:4, a man
worthy of her choice. The same day she attended
York Races, and the dinner to celebrate the nuptial
union was prepared for her and her numerous friends,
at the Falcon Inn, Micklegate. Previously to such
celebration, she drank a glass of cold. water, retired
from the festive circle, became convulsed in the night
of Wednesday, and on Thursday evening died.
GENERAL REDVCTION Or TAXES.—The necessity
and expediency of striking off a portion of the NA-
TIONAL War is very ably argued in the Pamphleteer,
No. 36, just published—by which it is proved that
the injury to the public Creditor will be very
felt. The subject is expected to be brought under
consideration during this Session of Parliament. In
the same No. are published Bowles Letters to Lord
Byron ; B. Beaumont on the Criminal Code ; Cornaro
on Longevity; with several other intire Pamphlets.
LlBELS.—SatUrday, the Grand Jury at Westmin-
ster found a true bill of indictment against Wit.
LIAM CLARKE, bookseller,' St. Clement's Church-
yard, Strand, for printing and 1 üblishing a blas-
phemous libel, contained in a Poem, by PERE,/
Marie SHELLY, entitled Queen Mal,! which indi:t-
ment was instituted by the Society for the Suppres-
sion of Vice. Four bills, preferred for seditious libels
and caricatures against KING, of Chancery-lane; TY-
LER, Wych-street ; and HENTHREY, book:eller ; and
the Editor of the Real John Bull, were thrown out.
These Bills, we understand, were preferred by the
Constitutional Association.
CORN Eseumscr, MARK-LANR, JVNF. 4.—Our market was we II
supplied with Wheat this morning, a considerable proportion of
last week's arrivals remaining on hand, besides fresh supplies
from Essex, Kent, and Suffolk, for which there was very little
demand at a decline of 2s. per quarter, and without buyett for
the inferior qualities. Barley is 2s. per quarter cheaper, the
supply being rather large for the season; and the Maltsters having
left off buying, occasioned very dull sale at that abatement.--
The arrivals of Oats have been considerable, and the trade was
exceedingly dull at a reduction of Is. per quarter front the peen
of this day se'nnight.—Current prices u under :
vaunt.. Small Rams 3os 32a
Wheat, Kent and 'lick ditto 24s 9P,s
Essex 56. 601 Oats, Potatoe 251 2.fs
Suffolk 365 58s Poland ... 21s 24s
Norfolk 46s 5441 Feed Its /Ss
Rye 28s 30s Flour, per Sack 45s SOs
Barley 2os 24. Rapeseed, per Last 4'32 £32
Malt 5Ol 56s rowan.
White Peas . 3os 34s Wheat, Dantzle -14.
Bailers ...564 )8s Baltic Red, Hembree or
Grey Peas ...............261 30s Brabant red
Veal. ss. 6d. to ss. 44.
50. 54s
UM/11LO AIARILET, JORI .—Beef, ss. 6d. to 4s. 6d. per
stpoonrke,o3f:lb6l;tollulutto44.n,3Lln6db,t4ol.4l.6d6d..to 6s. 6d.—Cattle at Mar-
ket, Beasts, 1900; Calves, 200; Sheep and Lambs, 15,900; Pip.
240.—Hay and Straw per load, Hay, 31. 10s. to 41. 41.
41. Os. to 51. ss. Straw, 11. Bs. to 11. last

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CHANCERY COURT.•

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COURT OF KING'S SENOR, JUNE 2.
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD.

This was a Rule Nisi obtained by Mr. BROUGHAM,
frl- prohibiting proceedings in the UnitersittCourt of
Oxford, against an individual of the norm of Speed-
man: the Rule also went to rescind an order made
by the -ame Court against the defendant.
The circumstances appeared to be these : Mr.Speed-
man, a respectable tailor of Oxford, had claims in the
way of his trade against a Member of Brazennose Col-
lege ; and. for garments sold and delivered, brought his
action in the Court of King's Bench, Westminster.
The Authorities of Oxford objected to Mr. Speed-
man's conduct. They contended, that debts arising
in Oxford, and recoverable against resident Members
of the University, could be recovered only in the
Vice-Chancellor's Court ; and they cited Mr. Speed-
man before the local Jurisdiction, to-answer the irre-
gularity of which be had been guilty. Bold is the
man (and bolder far the tailor) who in Oxford shall
resist the mandate of authority! Strong in imagined
right, Mr. Speedman refused obedience to the sum-
mons of the Vice-Chancellor; but early retribution
waited on his contumacy :—judgment of discominu-
nication passed by default against the offender; pro-
mulgation followed upon the heels of sentence; and
speedy notices on the walls of every College, forbad
each member or resident of the University to deal or
hold intercourse with so refractory a schneideH—
These sctaps of paper, bearing the seal of power,
• operated like Obi upon the inhabitants of Oxford.
The tailor's trade was in a manner tabooed : coats,
lacking coxcombs, crowded up his counter, and'
fancy waistcoats faded in his window. At length
the churl, grown desperate, sought relief, and prayed
a King's Bench Rule to break the spell that bound him!

The SOLICITOR-GENERAL shewed cause against Mr.
Brougham's Rule. The first part of Mr. Speedman's
prayer, the Leatned Counsel said, was past the power
of the Court to grant: their Lordships could not pro-
hibit proceedings, because proceedings were already
at an end. The Vice-Chancellor having made his
order, wasfunctus ecio, and the suit promoted by
the local Jurisdiction against Speedman was altoge-
ther determined. As it was clear, then, that the ap-
plicant came too late to take anything by the first,
part Of. his motion, so, in answer to the second part,
very few observations would be necessary. The se-
cond part of Mr-Speedrnan's Rule was to rescind the
order of the University Court ; the . prayer, in fact,
amounted to an appeal. Now, from the local Court
there certainly was a power of appeal ; but that ap-
peal did. not lie to the Court of King's Bench. The
appeal from the Vice-Chancellor's Court (of Oxford)
lay, first, to the Court of Regent Masters; and after-
wards to the King, in the person of the Lord Chan-
cellor ; and, in applying to the Court of King's Bench,
Mr. Speedman came to a tribunal which had no ju-
risdiction to relieve him.

Mr- Serjeant BosANQVET followed.on the same side.

Mr. BROUGHAM, for the Rule, needed scarcely to
contend, that the order of the Vice-Chancellor ope-
rated solely upon the complainant.- It Was the corn-
mon course of punishment, indeed, for what the Ox-
ford Authorities chose to call contempt ; and the in-
tent was too obvious to call for comment. The
Learned Solicitor-General told their Lordships, that
prohibition could not now issue because sentence had
been pronounced : that doctrine, however, was di
-
reedy in opposition to the authority of Lord Coke,
who, in his second Institute, speaking of complaints
by the Ecclesiastical Courts, of prohibitions granted
against them after sentence .pronounced, said, " But
the Judges of the King's Court answered, that if the
Ecclesiastical Courts would assume cognizance of
things not within their jurisdiction, prohibition might
issue as well after sentence as before." Now the pre-
sent case, Mr. Brougham continued, was peculiarly
strong, inasmuch as judgment had gone against the
complainant by default.
The SOLICITOR-GZSERAL cited the case of Owen
v. Hughes, in which the Court bad decided two
points-Ist, that no prohibition could issue after
sentence, because the party might have applied in
an earlier stage ; and 2d, that there was no differ-
ence between sentence by default, and sentence after
hearing.
Mr. BROUGHAM confessed that he had overlooked
that care; but contended that, as the Vice-Chan•
cellor's order still continued to operate upon the
complainant, the proceedings could not be considered
as concluded.

The Loan Cater JUSTICE.—If we make the rule
absolute for prohibiting proceedings, the Vice-Chan.
cellor will do nothing, and things will remain ex-
actly as they are. What you want is a mandamus
to him to take down his order.

Mr. DENMAN, for the Rule, insisted that the Uni-
versity was bound to make out its authority even to
the letter, when it took so decisive a step as punish-
ing one of the Kin's subjects for bringing an action
in one of the King s Courts. The affidavits before
their Lordships did not, he submitted, sufficiently
make out such authority.
Mr. Justice BEST thought that in many cases debts
accruing within the University would be most pro-
perly recovered in the University Court. The local
Court best understood the charges of the local trades-
man, and its authority had the means of checking
imposition.
Mr. DENMAN said that the Judges of the Court of
King's Bench had at all times been extremely jealous
of claans to local jurisdiction.
The LORD CIIIEFJuencE observed, that the ques-
tion at issue was of considerable importance as re-
garded the privileiges of the University of Oxford—
privileges, no doubt, granted to the University for
wise and wholesome purposes. The argument of
Mr. Denman was extremely well put ; and if there
was any insufficiency in the admits before the

Court, the matter had better stand over until fresh
affidavits could be filed.

The SOLILITOR GENERAL had no objection to the
Rule's being enl7r Mr. Bitoucue.d great objection: in the mean-,
time his client was ruined-by the stoppage of his trade.
The COURT, in that case, would hear Mr. Chitty.
Mr. CHITTY, for the Rule, argued upon the in-
sufficiency of the University affidavits. The case
seemed to him to be like the case of a conviction for
lan offence.

Mr. Justice BAYLEY took it to be otherwise.—
The University might say to Mr. Speedman, ,g We
do not interfere with you ; bring your suit where
you please ; but if you bring your suit in London,
and so draw away our Members, that destroys our
system of education, and we will not suffer our
Members in future to deal with a person who may
so carry them away to answerfor their debts."
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICR.—If, after what has
been urged to-day, we thought that we ought to
make the Rule absolute for prohibition? we would do
so at once, on account of the inconvenience which
delay must occasion to the applicant ; but as, if we
were to decide now, our decision would be against
him, we think it better, with a view to his interest,
that we should take time for consideration..—Judg-
ment deferred.