In the Court of King's Bench, on Monday, Sir William
Follett read a letter from Mr. Henry Carpenter, acknowledging that he bad been wrong in stating that Sir John Gibbons, of Stanwell, had used his Magisterial influence to procure votes for the Tory candidate for Middlesex at the last election ; and expressing his deep regret for having published such accusations, and occasioned Sir John the trouble and annoyance of legal proceedings. In consequence of this apology, Sir William Follett abstained from pressing his motion that the rule for a criminal information against Carpenter should be made absolute.
The Central Criminal Court was at a loss for business for some time on Thursday, in consequence of a great number of bills being ignored by the Grand Jury. Judge Patteson said, he was apprehen- sive that the Jury required too much evidence for finding a bill ; but the Foreman assured his Lordship, that he was under a mistake, and that the Jury were proceeding regularly, though cautiously, in the per- formance of their duty.
Frederick Hawkes Nottage was committed from Bow Street on Tuesday, on a charge of fraudulently obtaining money from a lodging. house keeper in Duke Street, St. James's. He had given cheeks on Ladt roke and Co. for 221., in the name of Hawkes Calvert, which checks the prosecutor cashed.
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