30 MAY 1835, Page 6

In the Court of King's Bench, on Wednesday, Sir W.

Follett obtained a rule to show cause why a criminal information should not be filed against the printer, publisher, and proprietor of the Falmouth Packet, for an alleged libel on Captain Roberts, a Magistrate of the borough of Penryn ; who was charged in that journal with having countenanced the riotous proceedings of the Penryn electors on the day when Mr. Rolfe was chaired as Member for Penryn and Falmouth.

Yesterday, Mr. Hill applied to the Court for a writ of habeas corpus ad testeficandum, to bring up John Pilgrim, now in Norwich Gaol, to be examined before the Ipswich Election Committee. Mr. Hill stated, that Pilgrim was relied upon as a material witness against the sitting Members for Ipswich, but that he had absconded, and the Speaker's war- rant could not be served upon him till Thursday, when he was found at Norwich. But just as he was on the point of stepping into the coach to come to London, certain gentlemen, with whom he had been con- nected laid before the Magistrates a charge of embezzlement, against him, and caused him to be apprehended. The offence was alleged to have been committed as far back as 1831. Mr. Hill contended, that although Pil- grim was in gaol on a process not issuing out of that Court, the Judges could grant the writ he asked for ; and he quoted a precedent in favour of such a proceeding. But the Court doubted its power to issue the writ under such circumstances ; and after some demur, granted a rule to show cause why the application should not be granted. The rule is to be served on the Attorney- General, the Norwich gaoler, constable, and all parties at whose suit Pilgrim might be detained on civil process.

At the Sheriffs' Court, Red Lion Square, on Saturday, the Reverend Henry Hinxman and the Honourable W. Paget, commonly called Lord William Paget, were proclaimed as having proceedings of outlawry going on against them.— Times. At the Marlborough Street Office, on Tuesday, Henry Phillips, under-butler to Mr. Charles Ross, M. P., was committed on a charge of pilfering various small sums from his master. On the same day, William Crane, who had been a servant to Mr. John Griffin, of Bedford Place, was committed from the Hatton Garden Office, on a charge of being concerned in robbing his late master of a large quantity of plate. Two tradesmen offered bail for the prisoner, but it was refused.