In the Court of Chancery, on Saturday, an application was
made by- the appellants from the Vice-Chancellor's decision in the case of Lady liewley's charity, to have the question disposed of as early as possible, and out of the usual course. Lord Brougham recommended that it should be carried at once to the House of Lords, as that course would save trouble and expense. This was not agreed to by the appellants ; and Lord Brougham then]said he would not remove it from its place on the paper.
In the Court of King's Bench, on Thursday, Mr. John Manning was called up to receive judgment, having pleaded guilty to an informa- tion filed by the Attorney-General charging him with having obtained a letter from one of the General Post receiving-houses, and then de- stroying it. The defendant stated, in mitigation, that the letter in question bad been written by his wife to her mother, in consequence of a family-quarrel; and that when it was put into the receiving-box, she repented having written it. He was sentenced to pay a fine of 20s.
At the Queen Square Office, on Monday, Dr. Joseph Kelley, who lately addressed the Lord Chancellor, in his Court, on the subject of the cholera, was charged with haranguing a mob of two hundred persons in Whitehall, during the procession of the Trades Unions, on the bad management of the Government, to whom he imputed the misery of the people. The Doctor, who was about to go into a long rigmarole respecting a letter he had received from his Majesty, was ordered to find bail.
Mr. Watson, a sealing-wax-maker in Leadenhall Street, and his wife, were made extremely ill, on Wednesday week, by taking some beef-tea, in which arsenic had been mixed. The salt was found mixed up with arsenic, and some grains were also found in a bottle. A per- son called at the Mansionhouse on Wednesday, who detailed these cir- cumstances; and the Lord Mayor ordered one of the officers to be on the alert in order to detect the guilty person ; but there is no one at present to whom suspicion particularly attaches. Mr. Watson's father aeeidentally called when the family were taking the beef-tea, and took very little, but enough to make him ill.
At the Hatton Garden Office, on Tuesday, Catherine Devire, a most ferocious creature, was ordered to the House of Correction for a month, for assaulting another woman in the streets. She knocked the complainant down, kicked her brutally, and actually bit her nose off.
The congregation at a chapel at Islington were disturbed on Friday last week, by a man who broke into the building, knocked down two pew-openers, and threatened to demolish the pews with a large stick which he brandished about ; exclaiming " You are all infidels ! you do not worship God as you ought." He was secured after much difficulty, and recognized as the same man who in September last had pulled down the chandelier. He was taken before Mr. Laing at Hatton Garden, on Saturday; and when asked for his defence, replied, " Who is John the Baptist?" with other nonsense. He was committed to a lunatic sylum.
At Guildhall, on Thursday, Mr. John Cleave, proprietor of the Weekly Police Gazette, was fined five pounds for publishing his paper without it stamp; and, hi default of psyment, was committed for three months to the Compter.
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