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A Court of Aldermen was held on Tuesday for the despatch of business. A repdrt was presented from the Gaol Committee, which recommended that a third court should be provided at the Central Criminal Court, and that ground should be forthwith purchased for the purpose. The Court agreed to the report, and proceeded to consider a report on the purchase of ground for a new Compter. The report recommended that the site of Giltspur Street Compter, which will probably be annexed to the land of Christ's Hospital, should be aban- doned, and also the site of the Fleet Prison, as neither is spacious enough; but it advised the purchase of a space of land between Newgate, Warwick Lane, and the Sessions-house. Alderman and Sheriff Sidney moved an amendment, proposing the purchase of land in Tufnell Park, at Holloway, as more spacious and health- ful; but the amendment was negatived without a division, and the report VW Adopted; to be immediately carried out.
The Master and Wardens of Merchant Tailors Company gave a sumptuous entertainment, on Wednesday, to celebrate the election of a pupil in their school to a scholarship in St. John's College, Oxford. Mr. W. Gilpin, the Master, 'pre- sided, with Dr. Wynter, President of St. John's College, on. his right hand; and on either aide were Mr. Goulburn, the Vice-Chancellor, the Chief Baron,more Judges, several noblemen, Members of Parliament, and other gentlemen. The speeches contain little that invites notice. Sir Henry Pottinger mentioned some facts, as illustrating the improved and more familiar state of our intercourse with China: an edict has been issued by the Governor of Shanghai, calling on the people to cultivate the mulberry-tree, and pointing out the advantages of free trade; Sir Henry has received the portrait of the High Commissioner, Ke-Ying, which that functionary had promised to him; and the Emperorhimself has admitted the free circulation of books on Christianity: they taught the people virtue; and there- fore, the Emperor said, they should not be prohibited as heretofore. On Thursday, Sir Henry Pottinger was admitted to the freedom of the Mer- chant Tailors Company, with the usual ceremonies; and afterwards entertained at dinner.
On Sunday morning last, a sermon was preached on behalf of the fonds of the Hospital for Consumption and Diseases of the Chest, by the Bishop of Lincoln, at the parish-church of St. John's, Clapham. In the course of his impressive discourse, it was stated that since the opening of the hospital in September 1842, no fewer than 214 in-patients and 3,316 out-patients had been most beneficial! treated. At the conclusion of divine service, the sum of 61/. was collected. On the same morning, the Honourable and Reverend Robert Eden preached for the same benevolent purpose at St. Mary's, Battersea; when the collection made was 841.
The Reverend Mr. Oakeley's surrender did not stop the proceedings instituted against him in the Arches Court by the Bishop of London; the Bishop declining to accept the resignation of his licence while the suit pended. The case occupied the Court on Tuesday. It was what is called a "cause of office," promoted by Mr. Christopher Hodgson against Mr. Oakeley, as "a clerk in holy orders of the Church of England, and minister of Margaret's Chapel in the district rectory of All Souls, St. Marylebene, for having offended against the laws, statutes, consti- tution, and canons ecclesiastical, by having written and published, or caused to be published, a pamphlet entitled A Letter to the Lord Bishop of London, on a &*ct connected with the recent Proceedings at Oxford; in which pamphlet or letter doctrines are advisedly maintained and affirmed directly contrary or repug- nant to the true usual literal meaning of the Articles of Religion as by law esta- blished." Mr. Oakeley is one of the extreme section of the Tractarian party: in Ins Letter, he vindicated Mr. Ward, claimed for himself the right to hold though not to teach the Roman doctrine, and expressed approval of the "scholastic da- nitions and preclusive anathemas" of the Council of Trent. The Queen's Advo- cate, who sated for the promoter, showed the difference between the doctrines im- p_lied and those of the Church of England; demanding Mr. Oakeley's deprivation. There was no defence. The Court took time to consider its sentence.
In theCotirt -of Exchequer, on Thursday, the Chief Baron gave a final judg- ment on the case of Chapple versus Purday; a dispute about copyright The copyright of Fees Diavolo, Auber's opera, was originally sold to M. Troupenas in France, and by him to M. Latour; who sold the copyright in England to the plaintiff. Mrs. Purday having published a copy of the Overture, Mr. Chapple brought an action and obtained a verdict, subject to a motion for nonsuit; on which judg- ment was now given. The Chief Baron said, that no foreigner living, abroad could claim any protection for his work in England: in this case the plaintiff was clearly in the same position as M. Auber would be; and as it appeared that the Overture-to Fra Thavolo had been originally published in Paris by the assent of the author, he could derive no exclusive right to that production in England. For these reasons, the verdict must be set aside, and a nonsuit entered. In the Court of Queen's Ben,-, on Monday, Mr. Fitzroy Kelly applied for a habeas corpus to bring the body of Daniel John Cock, from the gaol of Newgatie before the Coroner's Inquest sitting on the body of Hannah Moore, who was pal.. In tbe midst of Mr. Kelly s address, Lord Denman remarked, that as in the present case there was evidence enough to satisfy the Magistrates that the person in question ought to be committed to Newgate under the name of Daniel John Cock, upon a charge of murder, there seemed to be no good reason why the same witnesses may not give the same evidence before the Coroner which they had previously given before the Magistrate. Mr. Justice Patteson added, that those witnesses might depose before the Coroner, inter olio, that the person who was in the company of the young woman at the public-house was the same person whom they saw hi custody before the Magistrate upon the charge. In declaring the opinion of the Court, Lord Denman while professing great respect for the Coroner's Court, said that the power of Which the exercise was requested, even if it indubitably existed, ought to be exercised with the greatest discretion, and with a cautious apprehension of the danger of taking a person out of custody to which he was committed upon the charge of so great an offence. Hit should upon any occasion appear that the Coroner's Jury could not proceed with their inquiry in a conclusive and satisfactory manner, this Court would consider what it had the power and was under the obligation of doing for the assistance of the inferior tribunal: but upon the statements which were made in support of the present application, it did not appear that there was any difficulty in the Case. The rule therefore was refused.
Mr. Barnard Gregory was brought up on Monday, to receive sentence fora libel on the Duke of Brunswick, to which he pleaded guilty in July 1843. He was sentenced to be imprisoned for the term of six calendar months.
Mr. John Henry Dew, an auctioneer living in King William Street, and Mr. James Rallett, of Bayswater, were charged at Marlborough Street Police-office, on Saturday, with being concerned in negotiating the sale of a cadetship in the East India Company's service, to Mr. Matthew Boswell, in violation of the 49th statute of George III. sec. 126, which makes such proceedings a misdemeanour. Mr. Clarkson attended to prosecute on behalf of the East India Company. The amount of the sale of this cadetship was one thousand guineas; which was to he paid by Mr. Coppard, the stepfather of Mr. Boswell, into the hands of Mr. Sprye, on the part of the two parties at the bar, and other parties who were not but who would shortly be before the Court. To induce Mr. Coppard to part with the money, a letter was produced purporting to be written by Mr. Henry Shank, for- merly a Director of the Company, to Mr. Rallett, promising to present Mr. Bos-
well with a cadetship in November. On the strength of this letter, which was certified by Rallett and two other persons to be a bond fide document, Mr. Coppard paid one thousand guineas to Dew, who had engaged to procure the ap- pointment for that sum. Mr. Shank now deposed that the letter was a forgery. The defendants were held to bail in heavy sureties, their solicitor making no de- fence in that stage of the case.
Mr. James Wrest, a clergyman, was charged at Queen Square Police-office, on Tuesday, with stealing two tablecloths from furnished lodgings which he occupied. He had pawned them. The prisoner was greatly agitated, and gave a very un- satisfactory account of his conduct. He was remanded till Wednesday; when he was fined for unlawfully pawning the articles; and in default of payment he was sent to prison for a month.
The Globe states' that an Excise seizure to a very large amount has recently been made in a tobacco-manufactory at the East-end. A vast quantity Of tobacco has been taken possession of, on the plea that it is adulterated. Samples are no* undergoing the process of analysis.
An adjourned inquest on the bwily of Hannah Moore, a young woman who die0 from taking oxalic acid, was concluded on Tuesday. Mr. Greenwood, the Police-- Magistrate, committed to prison one Daniel John Cock, on the charge of murder- ing the woman; the two, at would appal., having agreed to die together by means of 'Poison. Mr. Coroner Wakley applied for a habeas corpus to get Cock brougkit before him; but, as stated elsewhere, he failed. The Jmy, after a long discussion, returned a verdict that Moore died from poison taken by herself during temporary insanity; a decision somewhat at variance with Mr. Greenwood's.
In consequence of the numerous accidents that have taken place upon the wood-pavement in that portion of the Strand from Bedford Street to Uiaring Cross, the Paving Commissioners of the parish, at their meeting on Wedn night, agreed to have it removed immediately, and granite-paving laid down in its stead. [Will not Mr. Leitch Ritchie's suggestion of covering the wood with a slight coating of pitch and grit, yet be tried? It succeeds, he says, in St. Peters- burg.]
The new street from Holborn to Oxford Street was opened for vehicles on Monday.
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