In the Consistory Court, on Tuesday, Dr. Lushington pronounced judgment
in the cause of Chick and Chick, otherwise Chick and Ramsden, in which the office of Judge was promoted against the par- ties, Mr. Chick having married the sister of his former wife. The judgment of the Court was, that the marriage is null and void, and that the parties should perform penance in the Church of Hampton Wick, where they reside, on Sunday week. The cause was instituted by the Churchwardens of Hampton Wick.
On Saturday, in the Court of Excise, William Gibbard, one of an organized band of illicit distillers, was charged with carrying on an ex- tensive private distillery at No. 13, White Horse Court, St. Luke's, where the officers captured the defendant, his companions making their escape by a subterranean passage. On the premises they found a large copper still, in a kind of cavern, with all necessary apparatus, tubs, bottles, and bladders, together with forty gallons of spirits, all of which they seized.—Goods condemned, and defendant fined 25/. In the Sheriff's Court, Newington, on Saturday, Mr. Burrows, of Kennington, brought an action against the New London Gas Company to recover damages for injury done to his horse by the negligence of the company's servants. They had been employed some time ago in laying down gas-pipes at Vauxhall ; but having neglected to press down the earth when the work was completed, the feet of the plaintiff's- horse slipped through the mould, and became fixed between the gas- pipe and the pavement. The horse sustained such irremediable injury that be is now worth less than 5/. Verdict for the plaintiff.— Damages 28/. At the Bow Street Office, on Wednesday, James Mayhew Under- wood was remanded, after a long examination, on a charge of obtaining money under false pretences from the Earl of Stamford and Warring- ton. This man has been repeatedly punished for the same offence, at which be is a great adept ; he is called among his fellows the " Grand King of the Cadgers," on account of his superior dexterity. He de- frauded Lord Stamford by writing a begging letter in the name of Mary Ellison, a woman in great distress.
At the Marylebone Office, on Wednesday, Thomas Hasker and Mary Ward were charged with attempting to defraud Colonel Philip Stanhope. Hasker pretended to be a Lieutenant in the Army, dis- charged from the service for fighting a duel; and be supplicated Colonel Stanhope's assistance in moving terms. He had forged certi- ficates ready to make good his imposture. The woman was proved to be his accomplice; and they were both remanded. Patrick Carroll, a corporal of marines, was committed on Tuesday, by Sir John Webb, one of the Kent Justices, to take his trial for the murder of Mrs. Browning, a widow, who kept the Britannia public- 'house in Woolwich. The prisoner was about to be married to the de- ceased ; brit they had a violent quarrel on Sunday ; and on Monday forenoon be entered her house, and stabbed her several times with his bayonet. He was soon secured, and made no resistance, though at first he endeavoured to hide himself. A Coroner's Jury on Wednesday found a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Carroll ; who, however, was not present at the inquest, having been previously committed to prison; a proceeding which the Coroner characterized as irregular and improper, °until an inquest had been held on the body.
A fire broke out on Thursday morning about three o'clock, in Can- ning Place, Old Street, in the lower part of a house occupied by Mr. Wheeler, a baker. The Policemen broko open the door, and roused the inmates. Wheeler and his wife escaped by leaping into the street from the first floor ; but two women, who slept in an upper story, were burnt to death. It is not stated how the fire originated.
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