The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-03-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

The Liverpool Spring Assizes will commence on A-14°11'
day, before Justices Patteson and Coleridge.
The action for crim. con., which was to be tried sitifeb;
approaching Cork Assizes, in which Mr. Browne, fn, es,
moy, was plaintiff, and Major Ibbetson defendao;.:siJ
been settled, the gallant defendant having paid J;750
costs. 001
It ha; been held by Courts of Quarter Sessions tee
where a farm-servant takes oats, without leave, 100
purpose of feeding his master's horses, be is as foe'
guilty of larceny, or robbery, as if he appropriate°
to his own benefit. At Winchester assizes, on TneLiool
however, Mr. Justice Erie expressed a different OT*,;elfl
and reserved the point for the consideration of the '
judges. eerft
A CASE FOR THE LONG Rom—A bill in ClllO6
has been filed by Sir Edmund de Beauvoir, BartlA,
Richard Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq., of Culford
the recovery of a sum of money, and other propertP.,
value of £1,000,000 and upwards. Mr. de Beanro;
some years ago a long and protracted law suit wile
Rhodes, which rendered that case memorable. ireie,el;
sent, it is expected, will beequally fruitful to the is
10';
Sir John claims as next heir, in virtue of his Wife:Job
de Beauvoir is a widower, without children, and Sl' •
„ir
has an only brother, Mr. 'C. Browne.
CRIM. Cos.—At Bedford Assizes on ;Tuesday' Dori
tion of this kind was brought against the Rev Dr' eat
-
by his groom, John Coultas, whose wife, the sn,.:
the action, was also in the service of the defendan;oileo4
O'Malley stated the case for the plaintiff, and dee`r
series of suspicious circumstances extending °,/thec°,,oi
years. In 1845 (continued the learned coomeli s
duct of this guilty man was such as to excite the
poitio
the kitchen ; doubts became convictions, and thp, of .0J
sought around his fellow-servants for wirness'telnoo
shame and dishonour. He employed them to scaoro 0
from September to, November did they keep ?it nOtioaf
the house; but it was not until the 29th of ;"%clisAt bif
that anything like proof of guilt was diccovere"•
fell on a Saturday, and on Monday the plaintiff oil! of
master with his guilt in terms of manly reproof soolfijif
nation. The defendant met the imputation ontpstittli
with meekness and humble remonstrance, pr°,4-beloo'
innocence before God, when the plaintiff cowed otofsbeel,
remove his wife from his roof. This was in t 11.6 bilker
At night he called for that purpose, but his wiied bJe
removed from the house in the meantime, ost,cco' f
gf
Though the defendant, in the most earnest tan Bpd s,.
Glared his ignorance of the wife's movements' to be'r'lie'
pacified the plaintiff as to induce him to write rofte,d'
soon as his back was turned, he sent a messengeorPotli:
to warn her of her husband's pursuit, and afte,ogTb
dressed a letter to her in Yorkshire, thus sllo,oto%,'loCe‘i
was cognisant from first to last of her nloyetttbe 0,404
evidence on both sides was very lenwhy. and 5 Wow.
copied two days. The Attorney-General ws,,,e pD• ,
for the defence. The jury gave a verdict for I°
CPO
damages £250. VicSitiOor
WALLAsEy SCHOOL IN CP/Awl:B,l%
g, v 1201,ftie I,Pdir
CELLOR WIGRAM'S COURT, IHURSDA-, .novb,
—THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. HEALING', e
mation and bill in this case was filed by t'2„erte',ol.ol
General at the relation of Mr. Winch, to 04e0;c11;,
ther some lands in the parish of Wallasey' free free o,y
which is applicable to the maintenance of tusfr'of tilborr,
in that parish, together with the appointaten'snc.ls4o
ter of the school, is legally vested in the rectof..ooo,4
wardens of the parish of Wallasey. or in thei Y4io,
at large. The earliest notice of the °ls °iv de
will dated in 1644, bequeathing £125, to Der the hotpl
land, the rents to be paid to the master n' otts fee'
grammar school, to teach the poor children;tpe
diepewere afterwards made by other persons. I'o 0.1g10t05
time ago arose as to whether the property WILOP:Jfor
tor or the vestry. Mr. Winch was also a wigs
it
bill. He was a purchaser of a part of sinsswbichoti
had formerly belonged to the charity, ana..,01e5.,10610:4
had been exchanged for others. Mr. 'rev .„(1
Smith appeared for the information, and n'sorjet,tet'd'
Mr. Bazalgette for the rector and urelL vi-sele'esso
as well as boys had been admitted; but fl's
by the latter gentlemen that it was all3l pot 014!)
" grammar school," and that girls ong ,be
0
witted. Another question was, whetbere's glinbincrieri
to had been legally exchanged. The lanr 1001 f10g,41(
belonged to the charity bad become oil gs creflorit'etVot
value. If the rector and church the c the le
trustees, the exchange was not valid, an On 00°,0
entitled to recover the former propertYci. tbe,;s.o'oo
hand it was contended that the may but tPcl,lO
entitled to the rents of the charity
dinenc,drse:cotubletl;::l:,°:::
nied by Mr. Bazalgette, who said "e e j'fch°:)re,le
£BO a-year. His Honour made a
reference to the trusts and the naturecoosist7,_
also of what the lands of the charity, "A I,dt
,F,,
exchange, and of what they now conTttf;;s' sts,tocit,i:44ol
report any circumstances specially. Lall p?r;efiogl'iii
plaintiff was the purchaser of a verYirr pure!o, ifiso
perty only. and there were manY fs
fore thecourt.parties
theirl-lis
absence,honou honour aai dot other
bind
filed.