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

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

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The Liverpool Spring Assizes will commence on Mon-
day. before Justices Patteson and Coleridge.
Tne action for crim. con., which was to be tried at the
approaching Cork Assizes, in which Mr. Browne, of Fee'
moy, was plaintiff, and Major Ibbetaon defendant, has
bean settled, the gallant defendant having paid £750 and
costs.
It ha; been held by Courts of Quarter Sessions that
where a farm-servant takes oats, without leave, for the
purpose of feeding his master's horses, be is as much
guilty of larceny, or robbery, as if be appropriated tivets
to his own benefit. At Winchester assizes, on Tuesday'
however, Mr. Justice Erle expressed a different opinion,
and reserved the point for the consideration of the twelve
judges.
A CASE FOR THE LONG Rohe.—A bill in Chancel,:
has been filed by Sir Edmund de Beauvoir. Bart., toil,"
Richard Benyon de Beauvoir, Esq., of Colloid Hall, for
the recovery of a sum of money, and other property, to tile,
,
value of £1,000,000 and upwards. Mr. de Beauvoir ban
some years ago a long and protracted law suit with All'•
Rhodes, which rendered that case memorable.. The pre-
snit, it is expectad, will be equally fruitful to the lawyers.
Sir John claims as next heir, in virtue of his wife. Mr.
de Beauvoir is a widower, without children, aed Sir John
has an only brother, Mr. C. Browne.
CRIM. Co``.—At Bedford Assizes on Tuesday, an
ac-
tion of this kind was brought against the Rev. Dr. Boval.
by his groom, John Coultas, whose wife, the subject 0'
the action, was also in the service of the defendant. Mr'
O'Malley stated the case for the plaintiff, and detailed $
series of suspicious circumstances extending over son°
years. In 1845 (continued the learned coup e 1) the eon-
duct of aria guilty man was such vs to excite the talk f;
the kitchen ; doubts became convictions, and the plainllff
sought around his fellow-servants for witnesses of
shame and dishonour. He emplot.ed them to watch, on„
from September to November did they keep a guard c".
the house; but it was not until the 29th of that moot"
that anything like proof of guilt was discovered. That dal
fell on a Saturday, and on Monday the plaintiff taxed I.'i_
master with his guilt in terms of manly reproof and indir
nation. The defendant net the imputation on his eirt4se
with meekness and humble remonstrance, protesting ld
innocence before God, when the plaintiff vowed he %you
remove his wife from his roof. This was in the morning;
At night he called for that purpose, but his wife had bef
removed from the house in the meantime, and hole,
Though the defendant. in the most earnest language. %I.
dared his ignorance of the wife's movements, and so 1.0
pacified the plaintiff as to induce him to write to her,. 'er
soon as his beck was turned. he sent a messenger after SA,
to warn her of her husband's pysuit, and afterwards .04
dressed a letter to her in Yorkshire, thus showing thilri'3o
was cognisant from first to last of her move msnts•
evidence on both sides was very leng.hy, and the trial °ea
copied two days. The Attorney-General was erePiqff,,
for the defence. The jury gave a verdict for the plaini

damages £250. r,„ AS'
WALLAsEY SCHOOL IN CHANCERY.—VICE
CELLOR WIC RAM'S COURT, THURSDAY, 12TH Allltror,
—THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. HEALING.—The 11-e.
mation and bill in this case was filed by the Attorneh,e•
General at the relation of Mr. Winch, to ascertain *%. of
Cher sotne lands in the parish of Wallasey, the ioeoltol
which is applicable to the maintenance of the tree as'
in in that pariah, together with the appointment of the 11:ch•
ter of the school, is legally rested in the rector and eh,' 40
wardens of the parish of Wallasey, or in the parishioni;
at large. The earliest notice of the school aePear:o the
will dated in 1644, bequeathing £125, to be laid oat !least
land, the rents to be paid to the master of the VVa"-ift.
grammar school, to teach the poor children. Othee:000
w..re afterwards made by other persons. A disPnte fee'
time ago arose as to whether the property was in,trtuneo tbe,
tor or the vestry. Mr. Winch was also a plaint' "A; that
bill, lie was a purchaser of a part of some haw" OW
had formerly belonged to the charity, and which ir!ci gr:
had been exchanged for others. Mr. Lowndes atte
Smith appeared for the information, and Mr. TOO' 000
Mr. Bazalgette for the rector and churchwardens• tended
as well as boys had been admitted ; but it was e°%ted
by the latter gentlemen that it was always designiie add
"grammar school," and that girls ought not to ~tjeti
milted. Another question was, whether the land
to had been I..gally exchanged. The lands that•r esel
belonged to the charity had become of greatly tnetelegst
value. It. the rector and churchwardens were "r7ty
trustt.es, the exchange was not valid, and the ()the;
entith dto recover the former property. On trel
hand it was contended that the master of the se te...0 tit
entitled to the rents of the charity lands, but this .7 °WY
nied by 111 r. Bazalgette, who said he could clgro,
1:80 a.yer.r. His Honour made a decree for i"1:,01, 500
reference to the trusts and the nature of the robeo ibto
also af• what the lands of the charity consisted libertf
exclninze, and of what they now consisted,
pawrittiL. th,att
btoe-
report any ci: cumstances specially. It Was gat 1,111,e Fr
plaintiff was the purchaser of a vrry
perty only, and there were many
fee the court. His honour *aid the inquirV
hind parties in their absence, and other bills
I filed. other purchaser.sollid