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London, England, 1829-01-12 00:00:00

CLERICAL INTELLIGENCE.

sectssauseadic einossorsous.
- The Bishop of Winchester has been pleased`to appoint the Rev.
Dr. Wilson, of Southampton, Rural Dean of that Deanery.
The Bev. Charles Pitt, M.A. of Christ Church, Oxford, is pre-
sented to the Vicarage of blahnesbuif, Wilts, vacant by the
death of the Rev. G. Bissett.
'I he Rev. Junkie Hughes, of Jesus College, Oxford, has been
..appointed Master of the Free Grammar School at AbetgavennY
—Pa. tons, the Principal and Fellows of Jesus College.
The Bev. Horatio. Banks. LL. B. Vitae of Dullingbans, is pre.
semi-silo the Living of Cowlinge, Suffolk, vacant by the death of
the Rev. John [swum.
The Rev. Hugh James Rose, B.D. of Trinity College, Cam-
bridge. has been elected Christian Advocate, by the Trustees of the
late Mr. Hulse's hilliest
The lh.v. Charles Neville, M.A. has been licensed by the Bishop
of Salisbury to the Cure of the Chapelry of Hindon, Wake.
The Rev. John Onset late Fellow of Trinity College,
Camhtidge, and Vicar of Stotlield, hat been elected to the Lee.
turesbip of Enfield.
The Bishop of Exeter bas insti•uted the Rev. James Bucking.
bam, LL B. Vicar of Buffington, Devon, to the Rectory of DO&
dlacombsleigh, on his own petitiou as true patron, void by the to-
siguatioo ul thy Rev. George Hole.
MYSTERIOUS AFFAIR.

The evidence and proceedings of a very nsystetions
• ease, 'he investigation i f shich took place at the Man-
- sion H•iuse in Donca,ter, on Tuesday last, has caused

a great escuem nt in that town. The following ka'
brief recapitulation of the cireumstancts detailed& On'
' Tuesday the 22d of Jan. /822,Jowrph Wood left Wheat-
ley, a village neat Doncaster, at ten o'clock at night,
return to 1.6 own house in the Intake Farm, about a

vole from Wheatley, and from that day to the 15th et
Nnv easter last; not any trace of him had been discositted,
when solve bones were flood. supposed to be those of
Wood, its hit William S. Cook's stick yard at Wheatley,
by one of It s labourets, about nine inches below the sur-
face of the ground. There was no vestige of clothetof
• any kind about the skel, to. and some people imagine
that he might 6ist have been deposited in a drain that
runs from Wheatley to the river D .0. and afterwards
interred in the stack yard. A very general belief pre
trails that these are the bones of Joseph Wood, more
. perhaps from the circumstance that there is no other
person missing in this neighboin hood, supposed to have
• bern murdered, than from the appiaranee of the bones.
The Jurors on the Inquest were summoned to attend
at.the Mansion House on Tuesday, the 9th of Decem-
• ber, but two of them beirg absent. an adjournment was
proposed by the Mayor, who stated, that at the sugges.
tion of Sir W. B. Cook the bones should in the mean

. time be lotwarded to Professor Buckland, whose ktiow-
. lege of organic and fossil remains was • profound. and
whose opinion upon the case before them would furnish
data by which to pursue the investigation.
This investigation was resumed on Tuesday last,
when a letter from Pro`essor Buckland was read, in
which he gave it as his opinion, conjointly with that of
Mr. Ciift, the-Curator of thp Museum of the College of
Surgeons in London (to whom he forwarded them)
that they were not the babes of a male, but of a young
female, between the age of sixteen and twenty-one. It
appearing to the Coroner, that the opinions of the4e Gen-
tlemen were merely presum; tire, he determined upon
proceeding in the investigatioe, and iriieval witnesses
Were examined. The esainination t f Child, given on a
former occasion. was also put in and mad. In this he
charged three individuAls, whose names he mentioned
(one of whom he said stood sit feet) and a .person whom
he did not know, but *hose chess be destsibed„ with
n eeting near his housei
The
different times, under sot-
picintis cittumstances. The names of these risen were
Ellis, floslgson, and Bailet.Child was noWie-Tzsmii ed.
and deposed, that at the time of Wbod being Missing,
El:is, in a state of intoxication, told a man that he had
killed him. and unit the e we five or six living witnesses
who heard him, and rooclud, d by statingllost he would
venture his lire Om: Ellisknew whether the bones mire
those of Wood as well as he (Child) knew his way borne.
w. 4 hem reihinsii;ii, tit it on his foto& examine-
fain he had stated that Le mil) knew three of these men ;
but he said, inetplanatinn of teat ciicuntstanre. I gave
4:desciiption the lon th mats, but stow Rod him out
to be RecLieg.
Egli, in consequence of what had been stated by
Child, was sent I r vnd examined. The reaUsit of his
being sins fOr was then stated—thit Child ha .1 accused
hint of mre ing along with Joseph llNlgson, J hn
Bailey and J seph Redding, on the day of the fruitier.
Ellis denied lie was bosh hime on the evening in goes-
. lion; sod on his being asked as to the confession 01 the
'murder, be replied that he was so far gone in 1 quor,
that he could not recollect any thing of what he said
concerning it.
. JOsePh Redding, who had also been sent for in con-
sequence of the assertions of Child, *as wit 't Child
had stated respecting his inkling with Ellis, and the:
other tan men.
Redding sad he never spoke a dozen woids to Ellis
before be went to build some hobtes. Seale alteteatiais
then•tOok plate betwi en Redding and Child. *ben the
Litt& was ordettd to wandtaiv.
Ellis, oo leaving the room. declared that what had
been stated I y Child a-ose froM 111 will, in eenseqnence
of his ibreatening to etsibi4ain of Child's ktiping a
disMderly h use. Reddhsg said Child ought to be hide
fit eatioiple Of for hipping his character; but he was'
as used that he need not be afraid of his character beitsg
inj!sieJ by any thing which Child might :Ay.
Ares borne further cobveisation the Inquest was ad-
jotitn a kit the 2Cltit ifist. at ten o'clock in the morning.
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Tacw imittiLicitPcs:

COURT OP RING'S Digo% Goiania, Joan.
aolsoosou O. ESIIIMINGTON.

The plaintiff in this case wara manufactuter at Perth,.
in Scotland—the defendant was a broker iiirLondon...:-
The action was brought to recover the value Oa quan-
tity of coffee belonging to the plaintiff. which had been
pledged with the defendant by the agent of the-plalutiffl
without the authority of the latter.
It appeared in evidence that the plaintiff was in the
habit of exporting goods of his own manufacture, and
others which he porchated td the East 'lndies, and of re-
ceiving from thence largeretorns. He had employed
*ems. Richard Fennell and Son, of London, as bi►
cOmmission agents to receive the consignments, and
dispose of the goods for him. Sonie time prior to the
year 1826, those Gentlemen had received fit:o the
plaintiff the bills of lading of 1,226 bags of coffee,
in order to effect sales, and they had procured the
usual warrants for that ,purpose. In May, 1826,
Messrs. Fennell being under pecunisty embarrassment,
'and linable to meet an acceptance for 1,27 W. which.
they had given on the plaintiff's account, applied to the
defendant for a loan of 1,3001. on the warrants for. the
1,226 bags of coffee. The defendant made the advance
on the deposit of the warrants, being 'informed at the
same time that the goods belonged to the plaintiff, wh •
however, was ignorant of the it ansaction until Septets)
ber in the following year (1527), when, having he.lrd
thai the Messrs. Fennell were in embarrassed circum-
stances, he came to London, for the purpose of
.getting
hirgoods m lit of their hands. Having then ben' isv-1
formed that the coffee had been 'pledged-with the de•
fendant, hey. on the ISth rf November following, gave
the defendant notice that the article belonged to hit*
and requited it to be delivered up. They, however. re=
fused, and the present action, therefore, was brought to
rscover the value of the coffee. _ .

For the defence it wa; attempted to show that there'
was a balance due hoar the plaintiff to Messrs. Fenoeil
at the time in question, and it was contended that under
the late Act of Parliament, respecting the principal and
factor, Messrs. Fennell had lien on the goods in respect
of that balance, and had, therefore, a right to pledge
them. It was urged also, that the plaintiff having ht.,'
informed that the goods were pledged for the poi pose
of raising the money to pay the bill, which the Messrs.
Fennell had accepted at his request, be had, by delay-
ing to demand the return of the goods for upwards of
two months, confirmed the pledge, and could notetbere-
fore, now recover against the defendant. It appeared,
however, that upon the whole account between the
plaintiff and the Messrs. Fennell, the latter sere in.;
debted to the plaintiff to a considerable amount at the
time they made the pledge: and with regard to the bil'
for 1,2781. it was proved th..t at the time the plaintiff
wrote to Messrs. Fennell to accept it, he distinctly told
them, that if on its arrival at maturity, they had not
enough funds of his in their hands to enable them to
take it up, it should be renewed.
The Ju►y retuned a verdict to the amount laid in
the declaration, 1.3001. subject to the right of the de•
fendent's giving up the warrants.