Star.
London, England, 1826-07-06 00:00:00

QUEROS V. COLLICR.

This was an action of tropes, brought by the plaintiff,
as the executor of the late Don Julia t Purger, to recover
163 pictures purchased by the defendant, for and in the
name of the said Julian Parger,and now in his possession.
The ATTORNEY GENERAL stated the case. The pic.
tures were purchased in Spain by the defendant, who
was commissioned to select them on his own judgment
by the testator, who advanced money for the purpose.
Williams, an Officer in the Town Department of
the Insolvent Debtors' Court, proved the certification of
..everal documenis by which the possession of the pic-
tures was admitted by the defendant.
Mr. DENMAN then addressed the Jury for the defend-
ant. The pictUres in question formed part of the collec"
tion of the Escurial, which in the year 1820, when the
defendant was in Spain, were removed, in consequence
of the political changes which then agitated the country.
One of them was a Leonardo DA Vinci, and altogether
the collection the defendant was enabled to make, was
n.ost valuable. These paintings were not purchased on
any person's account but his own—and there was no
claim evrr Made by the testator on those pictures— and
no document refer, . g to them as the testator's pro-
perty, was found among his papers. He would prove
that the testator had spoken of them as the property of
the defendant. The insurance alone was effected in
Parger's name.
(Here the Learned Counsel read an agreement between the tes-
tator and defendant, in which the formes declared tbe pictures to
be the property of Mr. Collier—one excepted, which belonged to a
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Mr. Ponti).
Mr. James Landry, Clerk to the London Dock Company,proved
the treater of the pictures to Collier, by order of the testator.
bin. Radcliffe, an attendant of Mr. Collier, proved that Collier
used to give his whole time to them when they were in his (Parser's)
house. Parger said they were Mr. Collier's property.
Some other witnesses were examined; after which, the Arroatter
Gmontea addressed the Jury in reply.
The Loan Cuter Justice summed up.—Verdict for the plaintiff,

At the Portsmouth Sessions, a man was last week
convicted of stealing two wine-glasses and two glass
saltcellars, from a public-house, and sentenced to seven
years transportation.
ELNCTION THANKS —When Mr. CHARM& Yortica
was returned a Member for the University of Cambridge,
about the year 1770, he went round the Senate to thank
those who bad voted for him. Among the number was
a Mr. P. who was proverbial for having the largest and
most hideous physiognomy that ever eye beheld. Mr.
Yours, in Thanking hint' said, 6, Sir, 1 have great rea-
son to be thankful to my friends in general, but confess
myself and T a particular obligation to you, for the very
remarkable countenance you have shown me."
A small piece of ground in LinColn was soy last
week after the rate of more than 12,0001. per acre.

- POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MANSION-HOUSE.
Yesterday the Recorder and Mr. Newman, the Cit Solicitor,
attended the Loan MAYOR, to assist him in a PM where he was
called upon, by way of appeal from a decision made in the Sheriff 's
[Court, to exercise a portion of his prerogatives which have fur a
long time been allowed to lie dormant. In an old book of practice
it is set forth " There is a practice caUed marking of a cause before
the Lord Mayor, which is thus: After a verdict given for the plain-
tiff in the Sheriff's Court, the defendant gets the cause marked be-
fore the Lord Mayor, which is done by one of the clerks in the
• Lord Mayor's Court, and is like an injunction in Chancery to stay
judgment and execution until the matter be examined in equity,
-where the Lord Mayor doth oftentimes, if cause be, mitigate the
damages, or give the defendant time to pay it. The custom of
London is, that if a plaint of debt be entered in the Sheriff's Court,
upon suggestion of any of the parties, the Mayor may send for
both of them, and examine them upon the truth of the matter, and
if upon hearing it appears that the plaintiff obtained a verdict for
more than his due, his Lordship may remit the cause to judgment
for the just debt only, and may give such time for the payment
thereof as he thinketh fit, itc."
Mr. %mesa, of BuingbalL street, who appeared for the defen-
dant, went into a statement of the case, and contended, that the
ceiidente on which a verdict for upwards of £2OO had been ob-
tained, was snit as ought not tohave been admitted by the Learned
Judge who tried the cidi. Ile contended that the justice of the
case wai entirely with his client, and that the judgment of the
Court ought to be reversed.
Mr. VAILLANT, the Learned Judge of the Shetiffs' Court, with-
out interfering with the merits of the case, contended, that no cus-
tom could wart ant the course which had been pursued in this in-
stance. It could never be the law, that after a case had been tried
burl:Ws-a Judge and Jury sworn, and a verdict recorded, Sounded
uptrd the evidence of witnesses, whc were liable to be indicted for
perjury, if what they deposed was untrue; parties should be allowed
to come, and merely upon their own complaint, unsupported by
evidence given on oath, cause the decision to be set aside.
The Itecoftozat said, the matter must be reviewed, not on the
statement of parties, but upon the notes taken by the Learned Judge
of the evidence at the trial. • 2_

At the request of the Loan AUTOS, Mr. Valliant read his notes
of the trial.
A friend of the defendant's loudly exclaimed, that the evidence
givenby the witnesses was false.
Mr. Warsaw here arlogixed for his interference, but argued
upon the case, that the evidence was inadmissible.
The Loan filatToa was of opinion, on a full hearing of the case,
that there was no ground for disturbing the verdict. The power
of reversing the judgment of the Court was clearly vested in him,
to be exercised in the manner stated by the Ltarned Recorder--
The decision of the Court was confirmed.
Mr. Newman observed, that there was no instance of a similir
appeal since the time of Alderman Skinner.
The Loan Ai ATOM stated, that he bad received various sums,
amounting to 401. for the relief of an unfortunate young female,
whose ease had a short time ago been noticed in the public.l3apers.
After an extraordinary series of calamities, she was found in the
streets of London in a starving condition. He was desirous of
stating, for the satisfaction of the benevolent individuals, that she
had been taken care of by the I.adiea of the Provisional Protection
Society, and that the money had been applied to her use. Unhappily
her mind had been injured by her calamities, and it was necessary
to send her back to Dublin, to be taken care of by some friends :
and 121. bad been sent by some Gentleman belonging to the Stock
Exchange.
GUILDHALL.

Isaac Alim was charged with defrauding a countryman named
Baths, on the 29th of March, In Leadenhall.street. gains was
attracted by the old stqry, an apparent dispute between Allen, who
personated a seaman, and a Jew, and soon learnt that the subject
was a watch, which the Jew bad bid less than hat the value for.—
The sailor preferred, as usual, letting Bains, a Christian, have it for
a less sum than the Jew offered, and the JeW promised Wins in a
whisper to repurchase it of him at airremium. The bait took, and
the countryman gave £4 ss. for the watch, worth intrinsically 15s.
Bains afterwards suspected the trick, and attempted to seize the
prisoner, but he was rescued by a gang, at the bead of which was
the aforesaid Jew.—Conuniued.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

Two men, named Jones and Pearce, were committed for trial, for
stealing a portmanteau, emulating wearing apparel and jewellery to
the amount of £42, the property of Miss Dupres, the daughter of
the Rev. Mr. Dupres. The portmanteau was placed outside a
Coach offs►e, In Oxford-street,. to be conveyed into the country
by a stage coach, but before the coach arrived at the Office, Pearce
Amok up the Portmanteau and placed it on Jones's back, and the
latter put it ioto a hackney coach ; the two fellows then jumped
inside, aod the coach drove of They were soon afterwards appre-
Jsentied is the neighbourhood of Liston Grove, but the property
las not been found.