The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

MR. DICE SOMBRE.-At this gentleman's- own re-
quest, the Lord Chancellor has appointed two medical
men to examine him as to his sanity.
Last week Mr. Evans, of Sheffield, mercer, got £5O
damages against his sister, for having sent him to Beth-
lem Hospital, on the charge of insanity, which was not
proved. _ _

In the Court of Queen's Bench, on Monday, Mr. Roe-
buck, Q.C. moved for the reinstatement of Mr. Barber
in the list of attorneys. The court took time to consider
its judgment.
A congratulatory address has been presented to Sir J.
Romilly on his elevation to the Mastership of the Rolls,
by the benchers of Gray's-inn, at an entertainment of
unbounded hospitality.
At the Bail Court, on Wednesday, a rule was granted,
calling upon an attorney of the court, whose name is
not mentioned, to show cause why his name should not
be struck off the Rolls. He was stated to have been
found grilty of fraud and perjury.
In the Bail Court, on Monday, rules were granted by
Mr. Justice Coleridge, calling upon the proprietors to
shew cause why criminal informations should not issue
against the Morning Ath:ertiser and Morning Herald
newspapers for libels upon the inmates of the Roman
Catholic convent of Notre Dame, at Clapham, in Surrey.
In the Court of Exchequer, on Wednesday, the prose-
cution of the Commissioners of Inland Revenue against
Messrs. Bradbury end Evans, the well-known printers,
for publishing The Household Narrative of Current
Events on unstamped paper, came on for hearing ; but
the court deferred its judgment on account of the great
importance of the case.
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In the Court of Criminal Appeal, on Saturday week, a
conviction for theft was quashed on the ground that the
name of the owner of the property had not been properly
spelt in the indictment. The goods were stated to belong
to Darius Christopher ; the man's name was Trius. The
Judge at the Dorset Sessions decided that the names were
idem sonantia in the Dorsetshire dialect, which makes the
d explosive and very hard, like the t. The Criminal Ap-
peal Court held that it was impossible to say that Darius
and Trius were identical.
IN RE GANDELL AND BRUNTON.—The case of Rodick
v. Gandell was heard in the Court of Chancery on Mon-
day. This is an appeal from a decree of the late Master
of the Rolls in 1849. The bill is filed by the Liverpool
Union Bank for a declaration that it is entitled to the
benefit of a continuing security given by Westmacott and
Penniger, solicitors, of London, for a sum of £3OOO, due
to it by Gandell and Brunton, engineers, of Liverpool.
The Master of the Rolls decided against the claim, and
Mr. Roundell Palmer occupied the better portion of the
day in opening an appeal.
IMPORTANT WESLEYAN CHAPEL CASE.—THE WES-
LEYAN CONFERENCE v. COZENS, HARDY, AND OTHERS.
This case came on for hearing at Westminster before the
Vice-Chancellor, Lord Cranworth, on Wednesday, April,
16, and was argued four days consecutively. It was a
motion for an injunction to restrain the defendants, the
trustees of a Wesleyan chapel at Holt, in Norfolk, from
preventing the use and enjoyment of the chapel by the
plaintiffs, and from permitting any other person to use
the same for the purpose of any religious service. On
Wednesday the learned judge delivered his judgment in
the dismissal of the motion, but would make no order as
to the costs ; nor was it necessary for him to consider the
question of the plaintiffs' right to sue.