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clear, must make a pretty good sum out of such a course
of proceeding, at all events.
Baron Parke remarked, that the question had under-gone very considerable discussion out of doors, as to
whether a large debt could be split into small sums, so as
to bring them within the operation of the new act.
Mr. Martin.—Supposing the defendants were liable for
the debt, it was manifest there had been but one order
given by them ; and it was scarcely possible for one mo-
ment to conceive that the legislature could ever have in-
tended that a debt arising out of one single order might
be divided and split into 3,000 parts, and then that s•
separate action should be had in respect of each part.
Baron Alderson said there was another thing, too, that
was quite clear. The legislature never could have meant
that a man should be allowed to be a witness in his own
case when the debt amounted to £3,000.
Baron Parke wished to know if he rightly understood
that there was but one order given ?
Mr. Martin.—One order only—that was all.
Baron Alderson observed, that if this principle were to
be admitted and to be carried out. an apothecary might
bring a separate action against a patient for each ingredi-
ent of each pill that he might chance to send out in one
pill-box.

- The Lord Chief Baron said that the learned counsel
might take his rule ; and then went on to add, that if
such a course as had been described by the learned gen-
tleman were to be permitted and pursued, it was quite
clear that the act had been misnamed ; for, instead of its
turning out to be, as was understood to have been its in-
tion, an " Act- for the more easy Recovery of Small
Debts," it ought to have been entitled an " Act to Split
Large Debts into Small Amounts, and for the Purpose of
Increasing Costs."
Rule granted.

Mr. Justice Burton, one of the judges of the Queen's
Bench, Ireland, died on Friday.

THE REV. THOMAS SCOTT'S OPINION OF MARRIAGE

WITH A DECE

Leviticus xviii. 17, he says, " The prohibition of marrying
a brother's wife, is absolute to us ; rnd, by parity of rea-
son, that of a woman marrying the husband of her de-
ceased sister."
A LADY ACTING AS COUNSEL
was tried before Mr. Justice

•An action for libel

mutiy,
which the plaintiff was a Miss Hoare, and theA.van
defendant
was the proprietor of the Nautical Standard, The lady,
who sat within the bar amongst the Queen's counsel,
11 1 •

rrelevant matt

The jury returned a verdict fo.rrthe 1
40s.

Mr. Newton, the barrister, I

just sustained two de

rst in the Court of Common Pleas, on

" Newton and Wire v. Boodle and others," in which he
was ordered to pay costs; and the second on- Thursday
last, in the same Court, in an action brought by him
against Lord Albert Conygham, to recover the sum of
£275 paid by Mr. Newton as deposits on 100 shares in the
projected Galway and Ennis Grand Junction Railway
Company, which Mr. Newton alleged he had been induced
to take by the fraudulent representations of the directors,
of whom the defendant was one. Plaintiff non-suited.
VIGNOLES V. PARK.—COURT OF EXCHEQUER, THURS-
DAY LAST.—This was an action by which the plaintiff,
and engineer, sought to recover the sum of about £5,000
for work and labour, and for money due on an account
stated. The payment of £l5OO. was admitted to have
been made. It appeared that in the month of June, 1845,
a number of gentlemen in Lancashire formed themselves
into a company for the purpose of constructing a railway,
with the view of connecting Blackburn with Liverpool;
and the plaintiff was engaged to make the requisite sur-
veys. He was subsequently appointed engineer to the
company, whose bill, however, was defeated in parliament,
and plaintiff's claims for services were never discharged
The jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff for +1.,.
sought ; but the question of actual am,
to and to be determined by a gentleman at the bar.
ANOTHER INNOCENT CONVICT !—ln August, 1845, a
man describing himself as "Mr. Drewery, of Hull, mer-
chant," hired a horse and gig at Wakefield, which were
never returned. Mr. Thomas Drewery, of Hull, druggist,
was apprehended as the felon, tried, convicted, sentenced
to ten years' transportation, and borne over the seas to
Sydney. His protestations of innocence were despised;
the evidence of a witness who swore to an alibi was disbe-
lieved ; and further evidence procured after the trial was
not listened to at the Home-office, because "to miles.-

le sum
.eferred

lint was

acquit a prisoner upon evidence corroborative of alibi
pleaded at the trial was without precedent." The law
must " take its course," although the man was innocent.
A convict, named John Webster, now in Australia, having
heard of Drewery's conviction and transportation, has
been stung by conscience into confession. He states, in a
letter to a clergyman of Tasmania, that in Julyor August,
1845, being then resident in Newcastle, he went by train
to Wakefield, and there hired a horse and gig in Drewery's
name, with which he returned home. On the Saturday
following. the gig was sold by auction in Newcastle, and
he shortly afterwards exchanged the horse at Newcastle
fair. Drewery, we presume, will now be pardoned !
Gateshead Observer.

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POLITICAL

MISCELLANY.

The London corporation intends to petition in favour of
the removal of Jewish disabilities.
Mr. C. Buller is the chief commissioner of the Poor
Law, and has resigned the office of Judge Advocate.

The election for South Lancashire will take place on
Monday next at Newton. Mr. Henry is the only candi-
date.