Star.
London, England, 1829-11-10 00:00:00

SOWER, ♦. TIMES.

This was an action of assault, brought by the Plaintiff, the
Churchwarden of the Parish of St Giles s-in.the-Fields, to try the
right of the Defendant, the Vicar, to turn him out of the Vestry,
at meetings of the Select Vestry. The Jury returned a verdict
for the Plaintiff, thereby finding that the Select Vestry had no
authority to act.
The ATTORNZT-GIVIRAL now applied for a rule to show cause
why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial granted,
on the ground that a book called " Harding's Extracts, which
was put in evidence, was inadmissible, and that the Jury had re-
turned a verdict contrary to the direction of the Judge (Mr. Jus-
tice J. Parke) who tried the cause.—Rule granted.
The Arronurr-Geneasc said, the decision of the Jury had
canoed great confusion, as it had taken the power from the Select
Vestry to raise rates, and the Churchwardens were not allowed to
do it without the concurrence of the other Authorities. Under
the Police Act, Mr. Peel had called upon the parish to pay a con-
siderable sum to defray the expenses of watching and clothing the
officers, and from the disputes it could not be raised in the parish ;
but the Act called upon the Churchwardens to pay it, thetefore
' they would have to advance it out of their own pockets.
THI LORD at►YOR. _ _ _ _

The business of the Court was frequently suspended by false
notices of the arrival of the Lord Mayor, expected, as usual, on
the 9th of November. Mr. TAUNTON, who was addressing the
Court for a new trial in a Welch ejectment cause, found himself
obliged to stop, and, losing the thread of his argument by frequent
interruption, occasioned much laughter in his repeated efforts to
proceed. At three o'clock, the procession entered the Court.
The old Lord Mayor, the new Lord Mayor, the Sheriffs, and the
Common Sergeant, appeared at the bar with Counsel, and made
their bow to the Judges.
The Commix SIMIANS, who officiated for the Recorder, then
moved to record a warrant, by which the Corporation of onelon
appointed Thomas Leblanc, Itaq. their Attorney in this Court, with
power to defend and support all the rights and privileges of the
City. The warrant was accordingly recorded.
The Coautom SRL/DANT then discharged an important part of his
duty, by saying—" My Lords—The Lord Mayor and Sheriffs
hope for the honour of your Lordship's company at dinner, at five
o'clock, in Guildhall."
The Civic Procession then withdrew.
JAMAS V. LADY JOHNSON.

An application was made in this matter for a rule to show cause
why the bail bond given by the Defendant should not be can-
celled. The motion was made on the affidavit of Lady Johnson,
stating that she is wife of Sir William Johnson, that she was so
at the time of the arrest, and that the Plaintiff must have 'known
that to br the fact, u she had never represented herself to be any
othef.—The Court granted a rule to show cause.
In consequence of the inconvenience experienced by the King's
Counsel in attending for Equity Courts sitting at the same time,
they have agreed to confine themselves to particular Courts. The
Souctroa-GsssaAx, Mr. Boast, Mr. Pura, Mr. KNIGHT, and
Mr. Turwsr, have elected to practise in the Chancellor's and Vice-
Chancellor's Courts. The two first Gentlemen will not accept
motions before the Vux-Cmancsuos, and the SOLICITON Gs.
1411RAL will not take Bankrupt Petitions in either Court. Mr.
BICENZITITH and Mr. Perineum' will confine themselves to
the Rolls Court, and the same Counsel as hitherto remain in the

Exchequer.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS. Wrantossiu, Nov. 9.
The Lord Mayor entered the Court in the Course of the day,
accompanied by several Aldermen, the Common Serjeant, and
other city oiScers, and after the usual ceremony of lodging the war-
rant, &c. his lordship invited the Judges to dinner. The Common
Serjeant acted on this occasion for the Recorder, who was pre-
vented from attending by indisposition of, as we understood, a se-
rious nature.

KURRAT V. WALLIS AND 0711110.
This was an action of false imprisonment, libel, and trover, tried
at the late sittings at Guildhall. We have so recently repotted the
particulars, that it will be only necessary here to advert to the lead-
lag
feature in the ease. It will be recollected that an inchoate con-
tract
of partnership had been entered into between the plaintiff and I
defendants for the purpose of publishing a series of maps of the
roads and inland navigation of Great Britain ; and that after some
tins, the defendants chose to treat the plaintiff in the character of
an agent only. and upon his refusing to deliver up the subscription
books, two of the defendants, Messrs. Walker and Nicholls,
lodged informations betote a magistrate against him, upon which a
warrant was issued, and he was apprehended on a charge of em-
bezzling his employers' books. He was kept in custody for two
days and nights,—conveyed in handcuffs by a public stage-
coach a distance of forty or fifty miles; and ultimately,
when taken before the Magistrate who had issued the warrant,
the charge being dionissed, he was discharged. The defendants
subsequently published an advertisement, in which the plaintiff
was stated to stand charged with embezzlement (which was the
libel complained of) ; and they also detained a trunk and writing-
desk belonging to him. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiff
of X5OO damages against Messrs. Walker and Nicholls, and ac-
quitted Priestly, on the charge of malicious prosecution; .8300
damages on the charge of libel, against all three defendants, who
bad suffered judgment to go by default, both on this ground and
that of troves., on which latter the Jury awarded further damages
of Alo—ia all XlllO damages.
Mr. Serjeant Cross now moved the Court for a rule, calling
on the plaintiff to allow cause why the verdict should not be
set aside, and a new trial granted. The learned Serjeant con-
tended that, inasmuch as no deed of partnership, although con-
templated, had been entered Into, (owing to the plaintiff's Incapa-
city. to consequence of being a minor, to execute one,) be was
not a partner. but an agent of the defendant's, the latter were
therefore juatißed, in point of law, in treating him in that charac-
ter, or, at all events, they might reasonably think so • and in that
case there was 4 probable cause" for charging him with embezzling
the books of his employers, since be had refused to deliver theat up.
With repect to the second ground of action, on which the Jury had
awarded £3OO against all three decadent', repeated acts of publi-
cation by one defendant had been given in evidence against them
all, and the Jury. therefore, although suffering judgment to go by
default, was an admission of publication, ought nevertheless to have
been told to makes distinction in-favour in those two against whom
no pruof of publication had been gived beyond the mere acknow-
ledgment oh the record.
The CUOILT said they woukl.tako time to consider the question;
but intimated to Mr. Sergeant !llde. that ee the dent,amle, seemed
very large. it might be advisable for the plaintiff to settle the inst.
Set by accepting a smaller sum.
1/It. Sergeant WILDE promised to have the intimation of the
Court communicated to his client.

COOKS A. LAW.
This was an action of libel tried before 111 r. Justice Gamin at
the last Sue: Assizes. The plaintiff, it appeared, having gone to
Bury St. Edmund's to witness the trial of Corder for the murder
of Maria Martin, stated upon his return from Colchester, that
upon his going into an inn at Bury, immediately after the termina-
tion of the trial, be was there asked by some persons present if he
was not the gentleman whe bad come down from London to hang
Corder. This statement formed the foundation of a paragraph in
the defendant's paper, the Colchester Gazette, beaded " A Cooke
mistaken for Jack Ketch," in which the anecdote was related in s
manner calculated to throw ridicule on the plaintiff, which was still
heightened by some doggrel rhymes that accompanied the prose
version of the affair, and which ended thus :
" The stupid elves mistook him by his look;
" But, instead of a Jack, be proved to be a Cooke."
This was the publication of which the plaintiff complained, and the
Jury awarded him £lO damages.
Mr. Sergeant Jowls now moved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict should not be set aside and a nonsuit entered, or the judg-
ment tad. tie contended that the proof of the defendant's
being the publisher of the paper had failed, because in the affidavit
lodged at the Stamp-office the publisher's name was described as
E. I. Law, whereas the defendant's name was proved mho Edward
John Law; and there was also a variance in the description of his
place of abode. The Learned Sergeant after dwelling upon the parti-
cular*, in which he contended the evidence had fallen short of suf-
ficient proof to sustain the verdict, then argued in arrest of judg-
ment that the declaration was bad, ;inasmuch as matter not con-
tained in the libel having been introduced by way of inducement
and inuende, there was no averment that the defendant published
the libel of and concerning the plaintiff, " and of and concerning
the said matters:, &c. the omission of which latter words, he cited
cases to show, was fataL
The Cuua'r was of opinion that there was no ground for
arresting the judgment, but upon the first part of the application,
—namely, to set aside the verdict,—their Lordships granted a Me
to show cause.

V. IVAN'.

This was also an action of libel, which was tried in the last sit-
dogs at Guildhall, when there was a verdict for the plaintiff,
damages £l5O. We have already reported the facts.
Mr. Serjeant TADDIr to-day moved to set aside the verdict, upon
the ground, among others, that the plaintiff, who bad sued in the
character of steward and bailiff to the New England Company,
that being a chartered company, bad not produced his appoint-
ment under their corporation seal, and had therefore failed to es-
tablish bis right to recover in that character.
The COMM granted a rule to show cause.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

GUILDHALL
Yesterday, Mr. Alderman WAITIIXAN attended at the Gilt's
street Compter, to dispose of the night-charges, in order that the
parties who had been apprehended in the course of Saturday eve-
ning and Sunday on slight charges, might not be detained in gaol
till Tuesday. There were thirty-four persons in custody.
George Jokn Clark, otherwise Freeman, an assistant to a news-
vender at Layton, in Essex, was charged with stealing a small bag
of silver, amounting to £l4 45.
From the evidence, it appeared that Mr. Fraser, a nurseryman
at Layton, sent his man with a cart to town on Saturday,
with idstructions to call at Mr. Oliver's, a grocer, in the
Kingsland-road, and purchase 28Ibs. of soap, paying for
the same with a check on 'Westerman' for £lB. The man
overtook the prisoner on the road, ano gave him a ride to
town. Mr. Oliver tied up the change for the check in two parcels,
one of which contained silver to the amount above stated. These
were thrown with the soap into a basket in the cart, and the man
saw the parcel of silver was safe when he was at Clapton, on his
return. He afterwards permitted the prisoner to ride io the cart,
and when be reached home, he missed the silver. The prisoner
had quitted the cart about a quarter of an mile from home, saying
he should be in time for his tea ; but it appears, instead of taking
his tea, he hastily inquired for the list of Sunday newspapers he
was to purchase, and started instantly for town. Hills, a constable
of Layton, came to town the same night, and while he was de.
scribing the prisoner, about three o'clock in the morning, to
Buckle, the superintendent of the watch in St. Bride's, in order
that he might be secured whets he came to the News-vendor's
Hall, the prisoner himself came capering along with a strumpet on
each arm. Huckle overheard the prisoner remarking to the girls
that he knew Hills, although 'Hills did not recognise him, and
rightly conjectured he was the thief. Being secured and searched,
the bag, with nearly £l3 in silver, was found on him, as also a
memorandum, which Mr. Oliver had put into the bag, stating the
price of the soap, and the amount of silver and copper given in
change for the check.—The prisoner nude no defence.
Mr. Alderman %Y.unneas having reproached him for his in-
gratitude to his old playfellow and neighbour (Mr. Fraser's man)
committed him for trial.
BOW-ST it SET.
The night charges beard at this office yesterday were 43 in num-
ber, and engaged the undivided attention of the Magistrate, Mr.
HALLS' until near four o'clock. There was not one of the cases that
possessed the slightest public interest.
Two females, named Williams and Wilkinson, the former the
keeper of a bagnio in White Hart-yard, and the latter one of the
frail sisterhood, were charged with having robbed a foreigner
named Hermann of his watch. It appeared that Mr. Hermann
was walking along Fleet-street, on Saturday night, and that the
prisoner Wilkinson accosted him, and finally, by her seductive
powers, prevailed on him to accompany her to Williams's house,
where be was compelled to pay an entrance fee of 45.; and, subse-
quently, to deposit his watch as a security for a sovereign, which
was the sum demanded of him by Wilkinson. He was then al-
lowed to depart ; but having had no value received, be called to a
policeman, and caused the prisoner. to be taken into custody.
Vicary, the policeman, said that, on calling at the house, the pri-
soners at once delivered up the watch. The house was a common
brothel, and filled with prostitutes and num.
Mr. Hates said there had not been anything like felony in the
case, but he ordered the house to be indicted, and held the
prisoners to bail, the one as the keeper of a disorderly house, and
the other as a disorderly woman. They were bailed out by
two. Jews.
iferris was charged with having been found at large in
this country, contrary to a mitigated sentence which had been
passed upon him.
The prisoner was apprehended by Gough and Myers, two con-
stables, and it appeared that be had been ordered to be transported
no less than three times, and on each occasion contrived to effect
his escape. Sentence of death was recorded against him twice at
the Croydon assizes, and it was in the neighbourhood of that town
that he was now taken.
He had nothing to say, and was fully committed.
MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
George Kemp, a man of respectable appearance, was yesterday
placed at the bar, charged with stealing a quantity of pictures,
value 4004 and Mr. William .Seconder Malcolm, who has been in
custody for upwards of a week, was charged with having Mo.
niously received the same, knowing them to have been stolen.
The circumstances have been on a former occasion before the
public. A large quantity of pictures had been sent for Mr. Hew-
itson, an extensive picture dealer, to Gerrard's Hall, Basing-lane,
and within ten minutes of the time they were deposited there, the
prisoner Kemp produced such proofs as induced the person in
whose possession they were to give them up, and the pictures had
been traced into the possession of Sir. Smart, a respectable picture
dealer, residing in Titchbonte-street.
Joseph Hamilton, the proprietor of a horse and caravan re-
siding at Lower Marsh, Lambeth, stated that the prisoner Mal-
colm came to hint a short time since and recommended him a job,
which was to move the pictures front Basing-lane. He accordingly.
went on October the 17th, and he saw the other prisoner, Kemp,
in Buhl-lane ; the pictures were put into his cart, and he con-
veyed them to Mr. Malcolm's residence.
It also appeared that Malcolm applied to Sir. Smart for money
upon some pictures, and Mr. S. having written to a gentleman who
was was in the habit of transacting business in that way, the money
was tent and the pictures left at Mr. Sean's shop.
Mr. Dowling, who attended for Malcolm, inquired if the wor-
thy Magistrate would allow the case to stand over until Thursday,
as he bad evidence to produce.
31r. ilos. with his accustomed politeness, acquiesced, and the
case was ordered to stand over, but the depositions were taken.
H ATTON-GARDEN.
Frederick Britain and Wm, Grows, were brought up by James
Paws, Police Constable No. 166, E. who stated that he, on Sun-
day evening, observed the prisoners follow several Gentlemen in
Leicester-Aquae*, for the purpose of picking their pockets i be sew
'Groves put his hand into one person's pocket, and Britain eWeed in
as if to aid. Groves was by the Magistrate ordered to be removed,
while he commenced his rumination of Britain.
Sir. Latin—What are you; Sir? .t
Prisoner.—Sir ?
Mr. Lasso.—What are you, Sir?
Prisoner.—What am I, Sir; 1 am a bed-maker.
Mr. 1.61116.—W,h0 do Ton work with ?
Prisoner.--WhO do I work with, Sir?
Mr. Lunn.—Yes, who do-you work with? I'll tell you what
it is, Sir, I know you are a thief, by your always Irepeatieg the
;question. Whenever a thief is put up at that bar, be alwaysripeats
the question, for *purpose orgaining time to frame an answer.
Prisoner-140, I. am not a thief,' and I can prove it; and 4 to
'rather deaf, I can prove.
Mr. Lasso Well, what are you?
Prisoner—Sir ?