An action brought by Dices, the famous attorney, against the
pub- lisher of the Times, was tried in the Court of Exchequer on Tuesday. Dices sued for damages, on the ground that his character had been li- belled in a letter from Mr. Elley, Secretary in the Bankrupts Office, which appeared some months ago in the Times, relative to the action brought by Dicas against Lord Brougham ; also, because the Times had accused him of not knowing how to spell correctly ; and thirdly, he complained that he had been termed an insolvent debtor, in another letter published in the Times. Sir John Campbell ridiculed the plain- tiff in a very sarcastic speech for the defendant; which appears at full length in the Times of Wednesday, notwithstanding Dices had sent a letter to that journal, threatening it with another action if it should presume to print the speech. The Jury immediately found a verdict for the defendant.
The dispute relative to the Aldermanship of Portsoken Ward was again brought before the Court of King's Bench, on Saturday. The question really tried was, whether Mr. Johnson had or had not a right to the office of Alderman. The Jury found that he had. It is said that the legal proceedings will not end here.
At the Marylebone Office, on Tuesday, John Millman, "a sturdy beggar," was sentenced to two months' hard labour, for violently as- saulting Sir Frederic Roe, the Bow Street Magistrate, in Weymouth Street, because Sir Frederic refused to give him alms. The fellow denied the charge, though he was collared by Sir Frederic Roe, and held until lie was secured by the Police.
Two men were examined at the Hatton Garden Office on Wednes- day, and sent down into Staffordshire, on a charge of being engaged in a bloody attack made on the 12th instant on the gamekeepers of Mr. Edward Groves, of Shetsworth Park, in that county. The poachers were eighteen in number, and they had a regular battle with the keepers, who were terribly beaten. Ten others of the poaching party have been secured.
At the Thames Police-office, on Tuesday, Palmer, the Policeman, charged with being the incendiary, was committed, to take his trial for the offence.
On Monday, Captain Robert Puffin, the master of a Yorkshire ves- sel, the Triune, of Selby, was charged with the wilful murder of Robert Lazenby, the mate of the brig York Union, by throwing him overboard into the river. After a preliminary examination, Puffin was removed to Horsemonger Lane Gaol.
In the course of Thursday morning, seven different cases of accident, two of them compound fractures of the limbs, and to which a fatal termination is apprehended, arising from intoxication, were brought into St. Bartholomew's Hospital.
Thomas Kent, a printer in Mr. Clay's office, Doctors Commons, niet with a shocking accident on Thursday. While in the act of putting on a set-off-sheet, his fingers got between the drum and cylinder, and notwithstanding his violent efforts to extricate them, bi- whole arm was instantly drawn up with tremendous violence, until the urn broke and allowed the arm to be withdrawn ; it was, however, found to be most shockingly lacerated, the flesh being literally torn into strips away from the bones between the elbow and wrist.joints. The poor fellow was instantly carried by his shoprnates to St. Bartholomew's hospital. His life is in great danger.
Between ten and eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the family of the Bishop of St. Asaph were thrown into a state of great alarm, by the discovery that the upper part of their extensive mansion, No. 23, Hill Street, Berkeley Square, was on fire. Information was imme- diately forwarded to Turner, the engineer of St. George, Hanover Square, who promptly attended with his engines ; and the fire was sub- dued in about an hour.
On Monday evening, between the hours of eight and ten, the house of Lady Canning in Grosvenor Square was robbed of a large quantity of jewellery, of the value of nearly 1,0001.
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