The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1836-11-15 00:00:00

LONDON LAW AND POLICE COURTS.

COURT OF EXCHEQUER.—WentissnAr.
WRIGHT V. BURDIS. AND OTHERS.
This was an action on a policy of insurance effected on a ship
called the Stephen, tried at the last assizes for
,Liverpool; in
which the jury returned a verdict for the defendants.
Mr. Alexander now moved for a rule to show cause why the
verdict should not be set aside and a new trial hid. He stated
that the plaintiff, who bad been owner of the Stephen, effected
a mortgage on her in 1833 for £lOOO. In December, 1&34, the
day after the mortgage money became due, the Stephen ar-
t ived at Dublin, from Quebec, and having discharged her cargo,
was ordered to proceed to Waterford. The agent of the mort-
gagees, however, seized the vessel, discharged the captain and,
crew, and having placed a fresh captain and crew on board,
proceeded with her to Liverpool. Stress weather and want of
ballast obliged the vessel to put in the bay of Bangor. The
captain and all the crew, except three, went on shore to obtain
ballast, and during their absence a heavy gale came on from
the land, and, the men on board being unable to let go the chain
anchor, the vessel was driven out to sea, and ultimately foun-
dered. The present action was then brought to recover the va-
lue of the vessel, but it was contended at the trial that the plain-
tiff had no interest in the vessel. The verdict proceeded on this
assumption, but it would be for their lordships to say whether
or not the act of the 3d and 4th William IV., c. 55, sec. 42, re-
gulating the registration of transfers made as securities for
loans, had the effect of depriving the mortgagor of the legal
ownership of the vessel. The point was a new one. and as no
decision had ever been pronounced upon the subject, he trusted
that the court would deem it a fit case to undergo consideration.
The Court thought it was a proper question for argument,
and therefore granted a rule to show cause,

MARYLEBONE.
A PUGNACIOUS TAILOR.-0n Thursday, 'Robert Mallett, a
mud-bespattered personage, minus a hat, but who carried such
an ample and impervious thatch of hair on his cranium as to
render that appendage useless, was brought before Mr. Rawlin-
son, charged with the following pugnacious conduct:—
Police-constable Applefurd, 32 D. stated that he was on duty
near Stafford-place, Oxford-street, about twelve o'clock the pre-
vious night, when he saw the defendant completely encased in
mud, with a number of persons round him. On inquiry, he
learned that he had been fighting with a lancer,' as tall again
as himself. Imagining him to be in liquor, he conveyed him to
the station-house for safety.
A gentleman named Scott, residing at the Blenheim Hotel,
here stepped forward and said, " I saw the prisoner fighting
with the soldier, and he appeared in a state of great excitement."
Defendant—(starting Indignantly)—Don't call me prisoner,
sir: I'll let you know that 1 am
Mr. Ilawlinson.—What ?
Defendant—(with a graceful bend)—l have the honour to be,
sir, a country tailor, at present residing ut 109, New Bond-
street, and just arrived in town to procure the newest fashions
for the ensuing season.
Mr. Rawiinson.—Your coat don't seem to be of the newest
cut.

Defendant.—D—d unfashionable, indeed, sir! and fits me as
a sentry-box fits a sentinel. The fact is, sir, that in my contest
with the lobster, in which I got oil with eclat—(a clan•)—l lost
my hat and coat; and the one I have now on my back I bor-
rowed of my friend George smith, who is about twice the size
of myself, and lives in Marylebone-lane.
Mr. Rawlinson.—You tailors are the most pugnacious mor-
tals on earth. How came you to quarrel with the soldier?
-Defendant.—Reason enough—l was walking with a lady,
when the lancer endeavoured to take. her from me.
Mr. Rawlinson.—Who was the lady?
Defendant.—l believe she is what is termed in fashionable
language a lady of easy virtue:
Mr. Itavvlinson.—What became of the soldier?
Defendant.—Oh, I soon made him run • -
Mr. Rawlinson—(who seemed rather sceptical)—lndeed!
[lt was hero explained by a witness that the' tailor scampered
away, and that the man of war ran after him.]
Defendant.—No such thing. Why, I could have given him
a "quietus with a bare bodkin," though he was much bigger.
than myself.
Mr. Itawlinson.—What do you say to being drunk?
Defendant.—I deny it; I had only two thimblesful of brandy.
After some further questions, it was ultimately agreed that,
the defendant should either find bail or pay 55., the usual pe-
nalty for drunkenness. He chose the latter alternative.

COURT OF REQUESTS, El NGSGATE-STREETt
LONDON .—TnURSDAY.

A MonneN PSALMANAZZAIt!—PRRKINS v. GRi:EN.—The
well-known account of -Jack .Fal,stlfils rencontre at Gadihill
was altogether out-Eleroded in the person of Mr. Green.
Perhaps such a tissue of abominable contradictions was never
yet heard in a court of justice. The defendant is a sandy-
- headed etudent-of niedieiuor,and was summoned by one of those
evils of society, a tat/yawn, for the price of a dress supplied to
a Miss Miller, but. who was understood to be bona fide Mrs.
Green. •
The defendant first contended that he had not married Miss
Miller, but another young lady_ (!), who lived in the same house
when the debt was contracted.
Commissioner.—Produve your certi#eate, and let us see who
you did marry. 1.1 11 a ts. iiyito ii
Defendant. —So I will, Sir. •
Commissioner.—Oblige me, then, by handing it up.
Defenclant.—l hnv'nt gut it, Sir—(laughter
Commissioner.—Then go and fetch it, and the case shall
stand over until you return.
Defendant.—But I can't, Sir.. I should have to go 400 miles
for
eiott—rn inliasus enteerr..l
wife
efe ndant.— In a very nrab.
ihgneorlteell'u;ireair
hear her upon oath.Thie) emarried?t
yin orer,th Sumi Sir,
earnl
ad
n%dv e_ll
(laughter ;) hut, Sir, I would not bring soy wife into such a
place as this for £lO.
Commissioner.—Well,
then, you must pay the amount
claimed, 355, and costs,
Defendant.—But suppose 1 ha\ en't got a wife at all—what
then ?
Commissioner.-Suppose? Under such a supposition, you
certainly would not be liable for this Miss Miller's debt,
Defendant.—Well then, Sir, lam not married--I am only
living with Miss Miller !
Commissioner (with considerable indignation)—Then Sir,
I have only to say, you are the,most profligate and shuffling
fellow that has appeared in this court for some time. You have
will most probably agree with me that you ought
to
prevaricated most abominably, and these gentlemen (turning
to
jurhe amount immediately'.
The Jury immediately ordered the defendant to pay the
amount,
a the veracious " redpole" left the court amid con-
siderable laughter.
discharge the

. . •
I Lord and Lady Francis Egerton are travelling in Germany.
It is said that Mr James Kennedy, who gave up his seat.
for Tiverton to make room for Lord Palmerston, has been
appointed to an °flies in the West India islands, worth £lBOO
ms Pe:at:fa .epsataatae.:
a-year. •
Paganini, who has been egn,jiotayrinligvahsimthseelifn•asttrhui
is making active preparations to return to London, in company
with his pupil Signor Leguaui, professor of the guitar It is not
generally known that the
nini's youth ; such, however is the fact. His early performances
were as celebrated as those of little Giulio Regondi.—mo,ning
Post, [lt is a perhaps as little known that Dragonettiis:a player
on the guitar. The discrepancy in the professor's two instru-
ments reminds one of Dr. Johnson's•definition of a true genius,
which he compared to an an elephant's trunk; "that is able to
pick up a pin,—or knock down a lion."l—Jfirsical World.