.There have been several causes in the courts, arising out
of elec- tions. Mr. Leathern, convicted of bribery at Wakefield, sought to upset the verdict, on the ground that the first count of the indictment —that he personally gave money to Gilbert, the agent of bribery—was not proved. Mr. Leatham had been convicted on four other counts, and the question was whether the incorrectness of the first count did not invalidate the verdict. The court suggested a mode of escape to the law officers ; ruling that the Solicitor-General who prosecuted could enter a nolle prosequi on the first count. It was objected that this should have been done at the trial, but the court overruled the -objection, and as Mr. Leatham had been convicted on four other counts, the rule obtained was discharged. It was also ruled that a written "statement" of moneys be had expended, put in before the commissioners, was not a "statement" within the meaning of the act entitling him to protection froma prosecution.
• The other case was that of Boyes, charged with bribery at Be- verley, on the evidence mainly of au accomplice. One question -was, whether the accomplice was a competent witness; another that the ..indge should have directed the jury to acquit, unless the evidence of the accomplice was corroborated. The Solicitor-General agreed to enter a mile prosequi if the jadge were wrong.. The ,Court, before which these questions were raised, decided that the evidence of the witness was corroborated by ether witnesses, and that if it were not, no law is infringed Where a judge does not see fit to direct a jury to acquit a prisoner on the uncorroborated evidence of an accomplice. in 1712, the Reverend Edmund Meyrich bequeathed a large pro- perty to Jesus College, Oxford.- In a codicil, made in the seine year, he directed that a portion of the proceeds of the estate should be applied to found and maintain a Grainmar School at Bah. The college 'authorities have continued to pay to the school the sum specified in pounds sterli__„i 0. in the codicil, although the value of the estate has increased. Under these circumstances; the Attorney- General applied to the Master of the Rolls to order that all the surplus over and above what was required to satisfy certain specified claims of Jesus College upon the fund should be applied to the school. The Master of the Rolls has decided that the school cannot claim the whole of the surplus, but he has directed that the school is entitled to such a proportion of the rent s as 41.17s: a surplus specified in the will, bore to the rents at the lime. A just 'decision.
Sir Edmund Leon, after being called on to answer' a charge of libel arising out of the Yarmouth election, and directed against Mi. Costerton, a solicitor, has apologized and withdrawn the imputations of dishonesty hastily conveyed. An interesting judgment may be shortly expected from the Judicial Committee of the Pnvy Council on the appeal of the Reverend Alfred Poole against the decision of Dr. Lushington, in the matter of Mr. Poole's dismissal front his curacy at Knightsbridge by the Bishop of London. The case has been argued before the Committee, and they have reserved their judgment.
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