' FREAKS OF JUSTICE.— A man was tried by Mr, Justice
Garroiv at Not- thighain, OR the lath; and tWO men Were tried at Dotchester by Sir. Jus- tice Besanquet oil the Saine day; ivlioSe sentehtes present one, of thOse cases that So often startle the unenlightened. The first Was William Hilary, for stabbing a Man hanied Simons. SimtinS gate Hilary some Very slight cattie of offence, and he Stripped to fight. While about to set to, one Morris, Sitnons'i friend, displayed a sword-stick, which Simons had given him ; and HilitY, drawing ti knife, immediately plunged it into Sin-wines aide. Verdict. "manslaughter ;" Sentence, two years' imprisonment. Now for Judge Bosanquet's Meth Two lads named Wilmot, brothers, the one eine- teen, the Other seventeen; Were indicted for assaulting and Slaying four— sheep ! two Owe and two land's, and maiming a fifth.--a ewe. No cause of offence on . the part of the cattle was shown ; there was some doubt in the case, but the parties were fOitnd guilty ; sentence, transpOrtation for life ! One Man takes airilya fellow-creature's life, mi pretences which would hardly have jititified an angry word, and is sentenced to two years' imprisonment: two Mere boys, in Wickedness or watitouriess—call it either —kill four Of their neighbour's Sheep, and are sentenced to banishment for life !
A Ntet QrEs•rioir.—An Old man, with a long beard, presented himself before the Alagistrates of Union Hall, on Tuesday. Before he made known his catie, Mr. CliaMbers, with the laudable curioSity of a police magistrate, asked if he Was a JO*. it turned but that he was a Christian of the Stiuth. cot kind ; and the Magistrate apologized for his unchristian suspicion. The old than then went on to tell, in a speech Very much in Tatitus's style, of his son's death—that he had muted him during his lea illnesa—that the Widoiv
• of the son had taken away the body; of which he deemed himst•lf the owner, and Which he Wished o inter—and that she had sent him to the watchhOuse fist endeavouring to get possession of it. He applied for a warrant to re- cover the body. Mr. Swahey—." the wide* has eettairily a right to bury her own husband."
Applicant—" He is no longer her husband; the contract between them is dissolved. If he were her husband, she could not Marry again, for then she would have two husbands. Even the marriage ceremony itself declares that the contract is dissolved at the decease of either the husband or Wife, for it Seta forth that they Shall be true and faithful to each other until death do thetn part,' distinctly proving that the claims of either then are no longer available."
Inspector Manning undertook to proceed to the widow, to endeavour to make Some arrangement with her as to the funeral, satisfactory to the sen- timefiti of the father.
[We think there was something to be said for the widow here, although her lease Of her husband was out. Where was the proof that the bearded
sire ever had a lease of him ? They say it is a wise child that knows its
*in father, and the eenverse is equally true. In such an action of eject. ent it Wit ineeinbeht on the ejector first to prove his right to the tenement.] f PotiCE LaWS.----A man named Hull was charged by the landlord of the
i" Bank" PublicAionse, King Street, Drury Lane, with fraud. Hull went to the "Bank," and on pretence of purchasing the house, he ran up a bill ; he then tan Into the yard; and from the yard he ran into the street,
Whet.* he Wit brought to a stand by the landlord. Mr. Halls said he could not advile the prosecutor what to ; but if he had been served so, he mould Wee tUfelleteit coat offhis back till he paid the claim. The prosecutor thanked the MagiStrate,and,proceeded to strip the prisoner in front of the office.tWe ihduld not objeet Much to this mode of recovery where the plaintiff is it tailor or an old efotheartian ; but in the case of a tavern-keeper, or an 'apothecary, we Submit that the emptying of the stomach, not the baring of the back; iS the mote correct proceeding.]
A SittEtarrtit.-7Anne Lyon was charged at Marlborough Street with fratidulently Obtaining three pounds of mutton-chops. Miss Lyon, it ap- peared, Was addicted tO the devouring of Sheep; she got the chops in Mi. 'mintier lain, on pretence that she was only the provider of another ; and • having Sate-Wed once, she Ventured a second trial, but she was seized in the moment Of Meditated appropriation. She said she Was a very poor Lyon ;
• an' t the magistrate did not think this a sufficient reason for her unlawful rongingaftee fat Mutton. She was remanded. • LEGAL PERFEcTiox.--Some months ago, a case of a rather complicated pattite (Tiinatifil and others v. Trappes and others) was decided by the Vice- Phatteelkie, after hearing siiteen lawyers for and against the various parties. The Registrar task down the jildgment, and the lawyers took down the Indgthent. Actording to the ft:inner; it occupies about three, accordifig to ffieltittlir; about twenty-three brief sheets,—a pretty long document either
Birt nat only did the Bar and tlae Regittrar differ lengthi they ditE!
tered yet More in the scope of the judgment. Both referred to his Honour; but how ,could his tionour decide, where two such learned parties were at issue ? There was nothing for it bat another hearing ; so sixteen counsel were heard again, in the most expeditions way possible, that is, eight at a time. His Honour Was, however, still puzzled, and the case was ordered to stand over for another day, When all the sixteen Were heard once more. Now, would not it contribute in a knell way to prevent such repeated hear- ings after judgment, were the Judge in every case to write his decision, in- stead of speaking it ? At the utmost, an additional hour or two would he consumed by this priscets ; and God klitiufs, in an equity case a handful of hours is of small account. .
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