The Lord Chancellor sat yesterday for the first time since
the Vacation. With the exception of being rather paler than usual, his Lordship appeared to be in his usual health.
Sir James Scarlett obtained on Thursday a rule nisi for a criminal information against an attorney named Ward, who is represented as having continued to circulate in Berkshire the placards formerly com- plained of by Mr. Walter, knowing that these placards were the sub- ject of a criminal information.
Mr. Pitt, of the Adelphi, moved the Court of King's Bench on Thursday (in person), for a rule calling on an overseer of St. Martin's Pinsk named Bowen, to show cause why he omittea to insert Mr.
Pitt's name in the ori,ginal list of electors of that parish for the city of Westminster. Mr. Justice Park told Mr. Pitt that the Court could give him no relief; it had no jurisdiction. A rule, nisi, for a criminal information against the Christian Advo- cate, was obtained on Monday, for an alleged libel on a Captain Ho- season, of the Reserve 1Vest Indiaman ; in which he was charged with having, at the head of his crew, assisted in the attack on the Baptist chapels destroyed on the 13th of February last. The matter com- plained of was contained in the letter of a correspondent, which ap- peared in the Christian Advocate of the 8th May.
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