On Tuesday, in the case of Small v. Attwood, Lord
Lyndhurst i con- firmed the injunction of the transfer of Stock, of which an interim injunction was obtained last week.
An attempt has been made to . set aside the verdict of the Jury in the case of Nottingham Castle, burnt down in the riot at Nottingham ; on three objections, two of them technical, the third' that at damages were excessive. The Court of King's Bench gave judgment on Tues- day. The Court rejected all the objections, and confirmed the verdict of the Jury. It would be interesting to know the amount of the house- tax paid by the Castle of Nottingham, which a Jury estimated at 20,0001. value. Perhaps some of our readers in Nottinghamshire can inform us.
It was alleged some time ago, by the Reformers of Covent) y, that very unfair means were being resorted to by the supporters of Mr. Fyler, to insure his election for that city. These attempts have been the subject of an application to the Court of King's Bench. A rule nisi for a criminal information, on a charge of conspiracy, was obtained on Thursday, by Mr. Campbell, against four of the parties implicated in them. Mr. Campbell stated the nature of the conspiracy— The town-clerk was required to make out and publish a list of all freemen who were residents in the place, or within seven miles, and who were entitled to the elective franchise ; and a power was given to any persons who were impro- perly omitted from this list, to send in their claims. On the ,25th September, there were lodged with the town-clerk claims for above fifty persons, who had voted for Mr. Fyler on a former occasion, and who were described as residing at different places within seven miles of the city of Coventry. Of those persons, four were dead, and all the rest were resident considerably beyond the seven miles, and some of them as far as Tipperary. Twenty-five of those persons swore that the claims sent in were not in their handwriting, nor were they made by their authority; and the persons themselves were not resident at the places of which they were described. The constable and churchwardens of each of the different places, villages, and towns, of which they were described, directly de- nied that any such persons were there resident, or had been resident there before those claims were made. They bore date on the 24th of September. They were all filled up in the handwriting of four or five different persons, and no more. They were all on the same printed form ' - and although the places of which they were described were at considerable distances from Coventry, none of them were folded up, nor were any of them creased ; showing, therefore, clearly, that they had been manufactured in the city of Coventry, and had not come from the persons whose names they purported to bear. They had been all delivered at the same time, viz. on the 25th of September, to the town-clerk.
It further appeared from the affidavits, that Hedger, an agent of Fyler, signed seventeen of the claims ; that one Woodcock partly filled up five ; that a Mr. Vale junior filled tip seventeen ; that twenty-three were filled up by other parties, named Harris and Marston. A Mr. Wilmot also confessed to having filled up a number of the claims. The rule was granted against Wilmot, Johnson, Hedger, and Wood- cock. The Court did not think the conspiracy established in respect to the rest of the persons charged, who were clerks of Wilmot.
A curious bill case was partly argued in the Exchequer Court on Thursday— Lord Afuncaster, being in want of money, applied to one of the parties, by whom an advertisement had been inserted in a newspaper, offering temporary accommodation to individuals requiring assistance of that description. The ap- plication introduced his Lordship to a person of the name of Alves ; who under- took to procure his Lordship immediately the sum of 2,5001., and his Lordship accepted bills for that amount, which were drawn in favour of Alves. These bills his Lordship. handed over to Alves, together with a warrant-of-attorney as a collateral security. One of these bills, which was for 1,0001., was payable at the end of three months; it was handed over by Alves to a person of the name of Welch and by Welch to Messrs. Braithwaite and Jones, silversmiths. Messrs. Braithwaite and Jones consented to discount the bill, upon condition that one-half was taken in plate. That arrangement was 'acceded to, and 5001. therefore was handed over to Welch, with different articles of plate to cover the other half.
Lord Muncaster, when the bill became due, refused to pay it, on the plea that it had been obtained by fraud. Some of the articles of plate were noticed by his Lordship's counsel. Among them was a soup-tureen, weighing 350 ounces, charged, at the prime cost price, at 1121. 3s. 11d. ; and upon that item 161. was charged for interest, from the time it was sold until the bill be- Came due. Four sauce-tureens were charged at 59/. 16s. and the interest on them 71. 15s. Some candlesticks were charged at 401., although the very identical articles had, about the same time, been purchased by Messrs. Braith- waite and Jones for 30/. Besides the interest upon the plate, Messrs. Braith- waite and Jones had charged interest upon the bill.
The case was adjourned till next motion-day.
A case of bankruptcy was discussed at the Bankruptcy Court yester- day, which happened as far back as 1796 ! The bankrupt, a Mr. Philips, of Hungerford Market, went out to America in 1794; he and all his family are dead several years ago. The debts, some of them of forty years' standing, were paid in full in July last. Yesterday ten shillings in the pound of interest was ordered to be paid. There will remain a balance of nearly 500/. a year, after satisfying all demands.
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