Mr. Cobbett yesterday obtained a verdict in the Court of
Exchequer, 11101 1001. damages, against the publisher of the nos, for a libel, coided into that paper from the L.eds Int,dipe ;wet.. The libcl was Con- tained in these words-- It is hinted that, es Cobliett is an uncertificated bankrupt, he e,ifinot sit in the House of Commons." It 55115 contended that these minis were calculated to ilOure Mr. Cobbett in hi, business of a lee.kselier and st cdsman. Air. Charles l'hillips was counsel for Cold:tee end Sir James Scarlett for the Times. The damages had been laid at 5,0e01.
An avtion brought by Mr. Sergeaunt, a Lieutenent in the I:3th Light Dragoons, against Air. Ilattie, a stockbroker in the City, for criminal • conversation with his wife. was tried in the Court of Commie] Pleat On Saturday. The adultery was proved ; but its it appeared that Mrs.. Sergeaunt bad been a kept woman previously to her marriage, and had encouraged impri:per intimaeies with several persons during her hus- band's absence with his regiment in India, the Jury gave the plaintiff only ti ve pounds damages. In the Court of Exibequer, on Saturday. Mr. Petmore obtained a verdict against Mr. Colburn, for contributions to the Ncai Monthly Napa:inc. and for remuneration for editing the Coral Jouratd; Mr. counirn icing the 1'1'010-let( r Of 110th theSe plIblieati011S. VII the same day, Mr. Coition' obtained a verdict against Air. Patmore, for damages incurred in consequence of the inseition by Mr. Patin ore in the Gar. Juarnal of a libellous article on the Dutchess of Richmond. In both eases, the amount of damages was left to be fixed by Mr. Edward l.ytton At the Mansionlionse, on Tuesday, Reece Evans. a Welch drover, charged a simple lad.11010 ed Davis, 'with ,tealing 3201. ill bank-notes from him, when occupying the same room in a tavern in town. Davis denied the charge. very earnestly, and was renumded till Wednesday ; when be was discharged by Sir Peter Laurie. as it appeared that Evans had never lost the money, hut had pretended to have been robbed of it III order to cheat his employers in Wales, to whom it belonged. The officer, stiTecting the truth of the story told by Evans, searched him, and found the money sewed up in a corner of his handkerchief. Evans,' iii his defence, protested that lie was drunk when he made the charge against Davis. nod that he had no intention to defraud his employers, The Lord Mayor retained the 111011CV until he should hear from Mr. Jones, Evans's master.
A yonug wtmum wits brought to Bow Street on Tuesday, on a chargt of having stolen a purse containing a bill of Exchange for WO/. and 14s., front a Mr. Whittaker, of College Street, Westminster. Mn
Whittaker would not appear, however; and when applied to, said he bad no charge to make against the prisoner, who had been confined all night at the Stationhouse upon his representation. She utterly denied having ever seen Mr. Whittaker till the night before, when he seized her, and gave her in charge to the Police. Sir F. Roe said, she had been very ill treated ; and offered to grant a warrant for apprehending Whittaker, which however she declined for the present.
A man was charged, on Monday, at the Marlborough Street Office, on the evidence of a Policeman and the Secretary of the Marquis of Londonderry, with pulling down some coping-stone and iron railing in front of his Lordship's house in Park Lane. The defence set up by the prisoner was, that the railing projected and tore his coat ; and being rather intoxicated, he thought it best to pull it down. He was dis- charged, upon payment of .50s. for the damage done.
Benjamin Bailey, formerly a shopman of Messrs. Morley, wholesale warehousemen, in Gutter Lane, Cheapside, with his wife, was charged on Wednesday, at the Marlborough Street Office, with robbing his em- ployers to a very large amount. his lodgings had been searched, and were found to contain a large quantity of shawls, eambrics, &c. Up- wards of forty pawnbrokers attended, for the purpose of producing property which had been pawned to them by the prisoner, and which was recognized by Mr. Morley as belonging to him. The prisoners were remanded for further examination.
Sanderson and Jones, two of the men charged with robbing the li- brarian of the London Institution, of a large amount of gold and silver coins, medals, snuffboxes, and trinkets, were committed for trial, from the Hatton Garden Office, on Wednesday. Shaw, the other man, who was also apprehended on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery, was discharged, for want of evidence against him.
Sharpe, the man who accused himself of having murdered Miss Elmes at Chelsea, was discharged last week from the House of Cor- rection, to which he had been sent for want of sureties ; no other evi- dence tending to confirm the truth of his first story having been pro- cured.
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