The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1842-12-09 00:00:00

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—MONDAY, DEc. 5.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Denman and a Special Jury.)

HOWARD V. G
This was an

LLAMY, SUEIN. AND MITCHELL.
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action of trespass brought by the plaintiu,
was the legal adviser of John Joseph Stockdale in the action
brought by him about three -- ago against Messrs. Han-
sard, the printers to the H

ou-se of Commons,
puties of Sir W. G

s.'sett, the Ser-

)f the House of Commons, to recoyer damages
sn into and entered the dwelling house of the
_th of February, 1840, remaining there several
hours, and whilst there forcing open various locks aruldoors.
The defendant put in the following pleas :—As to the breaking
of the locks and doors, not guilty ; as to the rest, a plea to
the following effect,—that on the 26th of January, 1840, the
plaintiff was summoned before the House of Commons ; that
he did not attend in pursuance of that summons, but secreted
himself; that on the 4th of February following it was resolved
by the House that the Speaker should issue a warrant for the
plaintiff to be brought up by the Serjeant-at-Arir,s ; that the
warrant was accordingly issued and delivered to Sir W. Gos-
sett, and was by him delivered to the defendants, who were
his deputies ; and that they then proceeded to the defendant's

iff on the 4

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house, _— it for the plaintiff, and remained there.— The
plaintiff, in his replication as to entering the house, denied
the issuing of the warrant by the Speaker; and with respect

to the 01
which 11

;r part of the plea, denied all except the warrant,
dmitted.

Mr. Platt, Mr. Kelly, and Mr. Petersdorff, appeared for
the plaintiff; and the Attorney-General, the Solicitor-
General, Mr. Crompton, and Mr. Pollock, foi the defendants.
The case having been gone through at great length, the
jury retired, and after 20 minutes' consultation returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages £lOO.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.-MONDAY, DEC. 5

LIBEL.-SIMON V. BALDWIN

The plaintiff is a merchant and landowner in the island ofJer-
sey, and brother of the French Consul there. The defendant
is the proprietor of the London Standard newspaper; and
the present action is brought to recover damages for injury
done to his character by an imputation of fraudulent practices
in the corn trade between Jersey and Great Britain. The
alleged libel was contained in a letter signed " A Loyalist,"
and published in the Standard of the 14th March last, in
which the writer affirmed that the plaintiff was in the habit
of importing Prussian and French corn into the Channel is-
lands as if for consumption there, under which pretence it
was imported duty free ; and that he exported the same corn
to England, where it was again admitted duty free as Jersey
corn.

A witness, M. Gragneau, from Jersey, was examined to
show that the arrangements respecting the trade in corn to
and from Jersey were so strict that the fraud alleged could

not have been committed.
The jury found for the plaintiff—Damages £2OO

VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS.—TUESDAY.
(Before Sir LANCELOT SHADWELL.)
A case was argued at considerable length, in which the
title to property of large amount was contested on the ques-
tion whether Mr. John Gildhart, formerly of Liverpool, who
had the misfortune to be deaf and dumb, could be held
a vested interest in the freehold and
~„s devised by his father, Francis Gildhart.
...ds described in the pleading as of sound intellect,
,espite his organic defect; but it was contended that as his
father by appointing in his will, made when the son was 32
years of age, trustees for the disbursement of moneys for his
maintenance, and for the education, &c., of his children in
case he should marry, appeared to have regarded him as dis-
qualified from managing his own affairs, it could not be sup-
posed that be should have considered him capable of being a
party to the transmission of the property.
Sir L. Shadwell, having referred to the provisions of the
will, and observing that the testator throughout contemplated
as probable the contingency of his son marrying said he did
not see how he could suppose the testator to have considered
his son capable of exercising the discretion of disposing of his
property, although, as a father, be might have been of opinion
that he stood in need of some control in the management of
his affairs while living. He therefore declared the reversion
to have vested in the son. John Gildhart.

pablc of acquiring

copyhold estai
John

DUBLIN COURT OF DELEGATES-WEDNESDAY

THE DEANERY OF SAINT PATRICK'S
Wilson v. Daly.

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The Court of Delegates met this morning in the Queen's
Bench, for the purpose of hearing arguments in reference to
Doctor Todd's vote, which had been recorded at the election
in favour of Doctor Wilson.

Mr. Sergeant Keating was heard in opposition to the vote.
The question resolved itself into this, viz. :—Whether Dr.
Todd, having been appointed to discharge the duties of the
office of Treasurer of St. Patrick's, under the church tempo-
ralities act, 4 and 5, William IV., chapter 90, was entitled
to vote at the recent election for a Dean of St. Patrick's.
The learned sergeant contended at great length that the
question depended on the construction of the temporalities'
act, together with the act of the 3rd and 4th Wm. IV., cap.
37, taken in connection with the charter of restitution of the
Ist and 2nd Philip and Mary, by which the only charter of
foundation of the cathedral which had been surrendered to
Henry VIII. had been restored. The learned sergeant con-
tended with great force and ability that, taking'all these acts
together, Dr. Todd was not entitled to vote.

-Henry It.lartley, Esq., Q.C., was heard in support of the
vote, and haying concluded his argument, the court adjourned
until Friday morning, at half -past ten, when this long-
litigated questions will be brought to a conclusion, the court
having intimated its intention of giving judgment on that
day.

PILCHARD FISLIERY.—We had thought the pilchard fish-
ery to have been over for this season, but it seems their fare-
well visit had not been paid. They made their appearance
again in St. Ives Bay, on Wednesday last, when, to use an
old fisherman's expression, the bay was full of fish. Four
seines are now (Thursday) in the water with from 8,000 to
10,000 hhds of fish in them. It is an extraordinary circum-
stance, but the southern coasts of the county, Mount Bay,
&c., where such immense numbers used formerly to be
taken, are now, and have been for several seasons, destitute
of fish, whilst the northern coasts appear to swarm with
them.—Sherborne and Yeovil Mercury.
The public will be rejoiced to find, that the omission of
Sir Robert Sale's name, in the honorary distinctions granted
to the heroes of our late achievements in India, proceeds in
no degree from a desire to underrate the merits of that gal-
lant officer. Sir Robert Sale very recently received the
Grand Cross of the Bath for his noble defence of Jellalabad,
and other eminent services on the north-west frontier of
India, and it was therefore impossible to give him the same
distinction which has been conferred on General Pollock,
General Nott, and Sir William Parker; but it has been
notified to the Governor-General of India, in compliance
with his recommendation, that it will be proposed to parlia-
ment to grant to Sir Robert and Lady Sale, with the benefit
of survivorship, an annual pension of £5OO, as a special
public recognition of signal merit.