An application was made to the Vice-Chancellor, by the assignees
of Mr. Richards, some time ago the proprietor of the Age newspaper, to annul a bargain by which Mr. Westroacott, the present proprietor, became possessed of the paper. On Tuesday, the Vice-Chancellor • decided that the transaction was perfectly fair, and dismissed the appli- , cation, with costs.
Viscount D'Arcy, a French nobleman, at present residing at Mivart's Hotel, in Lower Brook Street, made a complaint on Wednesday at the Marylebone Office, against William Davidson, the driver of a Pad- dington omnibus for abusive language, and turning him out of his • seat on the outside of the vehicle. The defendant called the Viscount a worthless fellow, and pulled a handful of sovereigns out of his pocket in order to show that he was the richer man of the two: he also swore at him. The nobleman's sole offence appears to have been that of taking an outside instead of an inside place. The defendant
• was fined 50s.
John Leonard, a boy twelve years of age, was committed on Wednes- day from the Hatton Garden Office, for assaulting a tall and powerful woman, at his father's house. She called there to see her mother, but was refused admittance, on account of a quarrel she had had with the parties. While she was waiting at the door, the boy armed himself with a poker, and struck her such a blow on the forehead, as to divide
• the temporal artery.
James Allen, a porter in the service of Miss Turner, a dressmaker in Regent 'Street, was committed on Wednesday, from the Marl- borough Street Office, to be tried for violating the servant girl, Jane Bradbury. The prisoner is a married man, with eight children.
Charles Davis was committed from the Union Hall Office on Thurs- day, for stealing a little girl about four years old, the daughter of Mr. Ward Ellis, a 'gentleman residing in the Kent Road. He was found by Mr. Ellis leading the child on the •Greenwich Road.
Mr. Robert Taylor, who was recently released from Horsemonger Lane Gaol, applied to the Lord Mayor, on Tuesday, for a licence to preach the gospel. Sir Peter Laurie inquired whether his religious opinions remained the same as formerly? Mr. Taylor replied, that he could not answer for the durability of his belief—it seldom remained the same two days together. The licence was refused, until inquiries could be made as to the propriety of granting it. Sir Peter congratu- lated Mr. Taylor on having grown fat. The latter observed, that it was true, like a rabbit in a box, he had grown fat.
Mr. James Ballantine, the landlord of a publichouse in Shadwell, discovered an Irish family, last week, in a state of starvation, occasioned by the neglect of the husband. The wife and two children were actually dead; but Mr. Ballantine provided for the survivors. The Magistrate of that name had the credit in the newspapers of this good action ; but on Thursday he took the opportunity of giving it to the right owner.
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