The el Ina of King,'s Bench, on Saturday. granted a

nut for a criminal information against the printer and publisher of the Sendey

114,,,/,/, for the publieeititel of a series of alleged libels upon De Mohr, the Clerk of the Alerchant Tail ore' Company. Mr. De Mole 7i,SF chained in the journal in question, with various acts of misconduct ; Meleding the crime of' perjury; and it WilS also said, that those who weir, aelpiainted with the peregrinations end amours of his mother might ler :Ade to nave his hauteur to the Idood of a Spanish bidalge. In his effielavit, Mr. DC Mole swore that all those charges and it/Tut:alone Wit'," titterly false.

Wedeesday, the Court senteeeed Old, a fislimoneer, to pay a it for selliog unsound fish, in July last. Ile had been twice

!et ofr for similar offences on paymeitt of costs It was the first pro- evertion of the kind on record.

On Thursday, Sir .Tanies Searlett moved for leave to file a criminal information against the editor of the &elitist, for in-eiting e paragraph in his paper of the '2.3d of last Julie, in whiell riotous aml di eirderlt- etenduct was attriblited to 11:ord Charles 11'4:He:sky, during the week

ni Ascot Haves, at 1Vindsor. Affidavits from his Lordship and ellen rinks were produced, in which the truth or the stateniente was 4e.itivelv denied. But chh.r Jil,tiee Dino:an refused the rule, on the &railud that the application was tiro long deb:yeti.

On the same day, Sir James Searlett, on belialf of the proprietor of the Newcastle .1ournal, showed cause u-itinst the rule ft n- a criminal in- ionnation at the instance of the Ler' of Durhain. The offensive :nat- ter was vont:tined in a paragraph %Odell alleged that Lard Durham had heieted the trirolour On board his yacht in the Tyne, and placed the evels of Etielatid below his own at Cherbourg.

Thoners Denman, after hearing Sir dolin Campbell on the other $itIu suid, that Lord Durham had completely exculpated himself front these 11.11:irgeS—.

The Lfe1111.111t C411.1 net be jtetified in 11.1 rg sucb violent lan nage as occurred in 1110 ci,1!1',1: Of 0 piragraph ; but le fere the Court could make any rule abso- lute w hie!, called r iii eNtraorilioary iuctt rp.ition, it sloail,1 be shown that the delved:ea acted and ie et he kee:c lie lets ::In tiny that which was en- Mr,. In the present ease, the Com:. was convineed, tl; it at the time the tle- Imola a the .paragraph, lw was ,tatiort the trilth,—a belief

Ith:all was pi ohli4 hy the politieal principles fie avowed, but with respect to which, in a ease like the present, some considerable allowance should tie made.

Juetiee Littledale concurred— There was 11(1 doubt whatever, from the :tr.:davits on both sides, that the tri- celour was in fact oa board the yacht while b ing ill the Tytw. It was equally eleer that there was a flag hoisted above the national flag of England on the cone ywlut while lying in the harbour of Cherbourg. It appeared, indeed, that the flag so hoisted above the national ihig id Englaad dill not contain any part ot I .ord Durham's aims; that, however. was incruly a technical objection, as al;lholigh it emit:tilled no part of Lord Durham's arms, it contained his Slip- pout ,r-. The delnelant, therefole, might have teem misled into a bdief that what hail been done had been sanctioned by Lord Durham ; and although that formed no justificatitm, it afforded some palliation (hr the defendant's conduct.

In discharging this rule, the C t did not plevent Lord Durham from having the matter inquired into, as the Grand Jury would still be open to hint. The rule was then discharged.

Messrs. Grant and Bell, the registered proprietors of the True Sri,. were sentenced to six months', und Agar, the printer of that paper, to one month's imprisomnent, in the Marshalsea, for the libel on Mr. Alderman Winchester and Mr. Briggs. [The True Sun remarks upon this sentence, that, " reinsidering all the eireum- atsenees, it is perhaps the slightest on record. No fine is imposed, no zecogniettnece to keep the peace are exacted."] At the M arlborougli Street Office, on Monday, seven young men, appa- tently meithanies, whose names are Boulting, I./rabble, Neil, '1'entiehl, Langley, Ileddington, and Johnstone, underwent a very long examina- tion, on a charge of having attempted, on Sunday morning last, to murder John Scattergood, a broker's asssistant, by cutting his throat with a leise-knife. Scattergood was the principal witness against them. He

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stated, that he had been put in possession of some goods belonging to it Mr. Henry Ford, a baker in Berwick Street. which had been seized for arrears of Assessed Tuxes. He remained in possession, subject to much insult from the persons inside and outside the shop, all Friday and Saturday, till about one o'clock on Sunday mor ii i ll g ; when Mr. Fold locked the shop-door, and tock the key away with him. There were twelve or fifteen persons, including Mrs. Ford and her two nieces, in the parlour adjoining the shop. Ford said to them, " Good night ; do your best, tuy boys." Ile had before told the witness that he should not leave the shop alive, but on a shutter: this was said be.

fore a crowd of persons. About a quarter of an hour after Ford de.

parted, Jobnstone, one of the prisoners, came into the shop, mid nearly put the gas-lights out. After that, two of the others offered the wit.

Ii ess seven shillings to go away; %%licit he refused. They then sedzed hint, and dragged him towards the prima', and fastened a seek retied his hied. Ile felt then, at work at his neck with a knife. Ho strug. gled, and pushed the kuile upwards, so that the cuts intend, ti l'tir his throat fell on his nose. (The witness had two severe Willnal`ion hiS n(ise.) Ile cried " Murder !" in -rite of the attempts to gag him, till the Police burst open the door, and released him. 'Ile sante men, ill the early part of the day, had fastened it rope to a lamp-post, and swore they would hang him if he did not leave the premises. This witness %vas moss-examined by Mr. Weakr for the prisoners ; but his testimony was not shaken in any material point. The Policemen se. cured the prisoners, after a struggle with some of them on the !itemises. Some of' the parties ran away, some hid themselves under beds. lit e' searched for the hnife and sack, but found neither. Mr. Wouler said that the story of flit' saek was a fabrication. .31r. Conant and the other Alagistrates mrasulted ttigether. and then decided to hold the pri- soners to latil,—foar of them ill .2.00/, each, and two sureties of loo/. cavil ; and two of them in 10111. for themselves, and sureties of ,l V. About au hour afterwards, Mr. Ford, the baker, was brought to the Office, and also held to bail, himself in IOU and two sureties of 1(1. earl., as an instigator of the out .age.

Ten Irishmen, who live in the neighbourhood of Wigmorc and Or. chard Streets, were held to bail at the Alarylebone Office on Wednes- day, for a savage assradt on two workmen. The complainants refirsed to join a society or Union of labourers, called the Loyal Brothers, to which the prisoners belong, and were therefore grossly maltreated by them. All the parties had evident nurrks of being in frequent rows.

Alr. Gregory. the Queen Syttre Magistrate, received a letter on 3Ionday from Sir John Conroy, stating that the Dutehcss of Kent was inueli surprised to learn from the newspapers, that the pout Aroma:, who lual made use of disrespectful languoge to herself and the Princes!, Vimoria, at the Victoria Theatre, on Thursday last, had been held ta

iSii: 1.(!1* (11C OlIenCe. Her Royal Highness knew nothing at all the woman heing taken into custod), and had not made use of any expres- sion w Hell in the remotest degree could sanction such a proceedimr; which she very much regretted. Messrs. Abbott and Egerton, lessees of the Victoria Theatre, also said that the woman was taken before the Magistrate without their knowledge or consent. Under these eiremn- stanres, Mr. Gregory ordered her to be discharged forthwith.

At the Guildhall, on Wednesday, Joseph Harris, a shop-lad at Car- file's in Fleet Street, was fined five pounds, for banging out the effigies of it bishop and it broker from his master's shop-window, and thereby collecting a crowd and creating a nuisance in the street. The fine tees immediately paid.

We copied a paragraph from the 3Iorning Chronicle into last week's Speeder, in which very extraordinary conduct was imputed to a Mr. Belt of Tottenlearn relative to some illicit distillation suspected to he carried on in his premises. On Monday, the Chronicle said that the paltu graph came from its usual Bow Street reporter, but was inserted inad- vertently; and adds- " 3Ir. Belt has waited upon its and made several explanations, which err tahdy exhibit the transactions in a very different light from that in which they

appeal in the paragraph in the Clamdele. The paragraph was communicated to the reporters at Bow Street, by 'William Robinson, Esq., a county Magistrate and Barrister, the geet:eman before whom the examination at Tottenham took place ; which appeared to our reporter a sufficient guarantee fur its authority."