Guildford, Friday, Aug. 2...
.UeJore A;fr. Baran niRAIIAm (ad a S.pa(ia .i,,-- a ins was an sncietment against the de'enklants for a nuisance. The object of the indictment was to determnine whether the Corwora tion of the City of l,ondon had, in virtue of its Con,erva.cyv of the river Thames. a right to clear a r7ater-wav from the Tfiatnes to the IMed way through a creek called Gauntlet Crcele, which sopa- rat'e the Isle of (rain fromii the main land, in the counity of Kent. The alleged nui,,ance was in wideninganid deepening thecrcek inquestion at a spotcalled Graini Bridge, by the removal ofa considlerable quantit ' (if soil, and thereby destroying a land cornmunication betwevi, the islantl and the adiacent country. The indictment hal been origitall y fouind in *he county ot lient; but, with a view to a disinterested and impartial ttial, it was Rgreed that the question in- tended to be ratised shoald be determined by a jury of this countr. rn oreier that tihe jury mighit understand thje question, most of theic, hald Iail a view of the Ilcas in quto. The trial of the case comminiencedI yesterday afternoon. A reat body of eviden-ce was adducedl on both siies, but tthouglh the question involved was one of tonsiderable imtportance, Yet it would be quite unnecessary to enter into a minute detuil of the evidence given by each witness. Alr. Baron GRAHAM sumtmed up the case to the jury, aid dwelt upon the circun3stance tltat, according to the charter, the city of London bad o3nly a right of conservancy as far as the Mouds of the creek in question, and that only withl respect to the preservation of the fishery of the Thames; anti aLso to the extraordinary fact that the Corporation had never, ott any foriiier occasion, at. tempted to exercisc ati authority to thc extent now insisted upon. His Lordship also observed, that there was by no means tny satisfactory proof, within living mneinory, tuat the spot in question was even a navigable water-way; ant' if not, then, coupled with the other circumstances, the defenatants had no right to do the act charged against them as a nuisance. 'The Jury inimediately found the defendants Guilty,, therebv ne- gativing the juristliction of the Corporationu of Lonton' over the spot in question. The trial endcd to-day at one o'clock. _ GUII,DFORD, FnlTAY, AuG. 27. _ E KING V. MIONTAGU AND W.Trrl