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The Lord Advocate on Wednesday introduced Captain Carnegie fron, Leith to Lord Althorp, to present to his Lordship a snuff-box from the ten-pounders of the Leith district of burghs, accompanied by the good wishes of forty thousand people, in acknowledgment of his Lordship's service in the cause of Reform.
The proceeds of the late Musical Festival in Westminster Abbey, amount to more than 20,0001.; but the expenses, as may be naturally
expected, will be very heavy; still there will be a handsome surplus to distribute among the funds for whose benefit the Festival took place.
—Daily Papers. We may add, that no part of the proceeds will drop into the private pocket of Lord Burghersh.]
A meeting of East India proprietors was held on Wednesday, at the India House. The power of the Court of Directors to grant salaries exceeding 600/. a year without consulting the proprietors, provided the consent of the Board of Control were given, was the subject of discussion. The opinion of Sergeant Spankie was read: it was in favour of the power claimed by the Directors. A discussion ensued, which terminated in a resolution that the Board of Directors should be requested to reconsider the question, and that their decision should be laid before tl:e proprietors, before it was transmitted to the Board of Control. It appeared that Sir James Scarlett had given a contrary opinion to Sergeant Spankie, on a case precisely similar. The London Dock Company had a meeting yesterday, and declared a dividend of IL 2s. 6d. per share for the halt' year ending the 30th of June. The prospects of the company are improving, and the num- ber of vessels entering their docks is on the increase.
Samuel Brazier, a Sussex farmer, eighty-one years of age, died last week in the King's Bench prison, in which he had been confined for a
debt due to Clutton and Feuron, attornies in Southwark. A Coroner's Jury sat on the body, and, a:ter an inquiry of three days, brought in the following verdict,
" That Samuel Brasier died a natural death, greatly accelerated by distress of mind occasioned by imprisonment at the advanced age of eighty one years, and by the sudden change from an active to a sedentary mode of living, together with the deprivation of his usual air and exercise."
It appeared from the evidence. that the amount of the debt for which he was detained was 35/. 14s. 4d. ; being the costs of an application to tax the bills of Clutton and Fearon, who had been his attornies. [Here we have another instance of the cruel operation of the law of debtor and creditor, which will remain in its present infamous state for another year at least.] In the Court of Common Pleas, on Tuesday, Mr. Pursell a surgeon residing at Stockbridge, obtained a verdict with 500/. damages against the printer and editor of the Christian Advocate, for a libel in that paper, imputing to him gross misconduct as a professional man in the treatment of a patient ; who, it was pretended, had been subsequently cured by taking Morison's universal medicine, in the sale of which one of the defendants was personally interested.
Edwards, and his associates in the attack on Mr. Gee, the solicitor, were tried at the Old Bailey on Saturday, on a charge of demanding by force and menace the sum of 1200/ from the prosecutor ; but the Court ruled, that us the prisoners had not taken moeey, the indictment could not be sastained; and they were acquitted. They were again indicted fir demanding certain valuable deeds from Mr. Gee. On this charge they were also acquitted, as the Court thought there wits no differenee between this and the previous ease. The check for 8001., to which they had obtained Mr. Gee's signature, was not stolen from him, as he never had it : therefore the offence was no felony. The prisoners, however, with Mrs. Canning of Old Ford, svill be tried at the Middle- sex Sessions on a charge of conspiracy.
On the same day, Charles Honeywood Newtm n, the individual whose name has been receatly before the public, in consequeeee of at charge of fraud preferred by the Messrs. Lloyd, beakers, Bin mingham, to a very large extent, was indicted for bigamy ; but the evidence to prove the first marriage being defective, he was acquitted.
At the sitting of the New Court, Old Bailey, on Monday, Miss Clara Benson, against whom a true bill had been found for stealing a gold seal front the stand of Miss List, at the Soho Bazaar, was thrice called on her recognizimees to come forth raid surrender herself, but no response was made to the call. The bail entered into was herself ill Sq, and two sureties in 401. each. [Did the Magistrates of Marl- borough Street, who admitted her to bail, imagine that she would respond to the call?)
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