... LUNACY LAW REFORM, r We are afraid that the chances of a E reform being made this session in our lunacy law or any other law are not just now very promising. The law lords are too fond of picking holes in each other's coats to be impartial critics of any scheme of legislation proposed by one of their number; and it must be owned that, under present circum- stances, some allowance is to be made ...

... HOME CIRCUIT.-MAIDSTONE, MARCH 19. CIVIL SIDE;-(Before Chief Justice Erle and a Common Jury.) CHAPMAN v. SCOTT. The plaintiff in this action, Margaret Chapman, sought to recover damages from the defendant, who carries on the business of a baker at Gravesend, for having, as she alleged, sold her a loaf which contained some poisonous or delete- rious ingredient, and thereby injured her health ...

... MANSION-HOUSE. CharWee Greenwood and Williams TSowbridge, two car. men, were charged with forging and uttering a quantity of toll-gate tickets, with intent to defraud their employer, Mr. Philip Lewis, 57, Bishopsgate-street Without, furnish. log ironmonger. Mir. Wontner attended for the prosecution; the priso. neos had no solicitor. Both the prisoners were in the service of the prosecutor as ...

... gate Intelligenct. I -- -- - P. - _ X OTIOE~.-VAIS DAt.fl COURT OF CHANCE.RY, LINCOLN'S-INN fmg AT 1G.- BtFORtE THEfLORDls JV~~IIGU-By orderit Davies V. hai Smith. Appeal motion: -Re Baylis ax parto Faulknerpart heard. Appeals, &e. : Ogden v. Foslck, pu~t Jleard-Hume v- Richardson.th * ROLIS COURT, CHANCERY-LANIC. AT ?? order: Focklington, v. Pocklington. From Chambers: National Assurance ...

... WOODBRIDGE. TOIURSnAY, March 13.-Before Charles Walford, Esq., (chairman); and F. G. Doughty, Esq. Steeline Peso -Wilitani Shitamon. a lehooror, in tha employ of Mr. Win. F..irs, of Idromeeweit, was brought up cm rensanui changes with stealing s quantity of pose, of the vaten of Id., the proiteety of his oniptoyar. Mr b'eirs siutad that heviog been informed thet a quantity of peso were ...

... *GflrIN COLLIBRY EXPLOSOIOY. . _ - ff The inquiry was rasnmod ystarday morning by the ex a min3tion of Samao Thomas, oollior, who said he w49 at d work in No. I pit when the explosion took place. WhilO a atworkin the bttom stalloi No. 17 heading the explosion e came down the windway and blew open toe door. The Wbest must have come down the windway, judging from t the ineunor in which the door ...

... LAW INTELLIGENCE-YESTURDAYs LAW NOTICES-T~ins DAY. COURT OF CHANCERY, LINCOLN'S INN, at 10.S0. [Before the Lords Justioe3.] For Jlucnoet: Rusdlt and Russell. Lunatic Petition : ite Windham, assrt heard. ROLLS' COURT, CHANCERY LANE, at 10. No eitting. Before His ?? in Ch rmbors at 3: Miclaren v Staiaton- Rowfon v Ilarriion-Snitth's Tlucts-Cur70n v .YCreight- Crane v Thompson-Neve v Fleecl ...

... MZDDLEBBI BSESIONS. ig 'tBefore Mr. FAYoaz.] a ,Id Id John Snith, 29, tailor, Yhoinas Smnith, 23, labourer, O ag, ond John Lead were indicted gor steing, a gold watch, s us the praperty of William Gardiner from his person. so llr. Daly prosecuted, Lead was defended by Mr. Meteelh, 2 oh Mr. Pater defended John Smith, the other Smith wms not I he defended, t he Evidence havieghbeen given, the ...

... 7&MOROft 'Al)VZN1Eii 'OF A MATORi OF VOLAM~EZI1& ~ '1t Maidstone ssizes wa.sided 'a case Boole v. Porterj Ibeiiuih ai'acton to recover the 5iCi'osf '109,'ior nece~ssares supplied to 'te wife b of the ?? 'Mr. hatWkS, ?? and tzr. tenB maau wsvere'6ounsel for the 'plaintiff; Serjeant Ballairtmes and Mr! Phflbrick. appea~red for tbe 'defendant. Tbe rrgawer 'to 'ihe action wasgthat the de- ...

... , . . .. :L I . m . W TH P OSO - - FWYGHTFUL SUIIsDE, WrrM tOION. -An inquest was held on Wednesday fovenoen, at ten o'clock, before Mr. John Rurmphreys, the coroner for Mid- dlesex, at the Brioklayers' Arms Tavern;'Collingwood- street, Bethnal-green. relative to the death of Elizabeth Christopher,' aged forty years, who committed. self- destruction under the following circumstances:- It ...

... On Tuesday afternoon an investigation took place before Mr. G. S. Brent, the deputy-coronpr, touching the death of a German gentleman named Franz Acbtman, aged thirty, who committed suicide at the Middlesex House of Detention on the 7th inst. whilst in a state of unsound. mind. Deceased had been arrested on Thursday night week for brealing into the house of Dr. Garman, at 1, Carlisle-terrace, ...

... ,B AXThB .IQN W3DEx. At thstino Teinbi Ciminal oburt on 1aelda7 moraeg, Henry Quwil, 22, aud nomm Cox, Visem Fcdtoja, e£ wlwmu Waka, wereL eplid at e tbalfop nea to the coroner's ?? Charged tem Wh the wiful murder of John Win olhey were also charged upon an IniDet with the auhi dter of the, w1ay10 rfiz *h 'whie o n the et eqa ulotY.ETheprI- Ca yhmeft ake his triaL-mr. Coopbr eDRn' duele' th ...