The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1862-11-25 00:00:00

LAW AND POLICE.

THR HON. F. BING AND HIS T4oR.—The Hon
W. F. Byng was defendant in an aott in the West
minster County Court on Wednesday. Mr. Thome
Davis, military tailor. of Regent-street, sued the hon
gentleman for 1148 10s. for clothes supplied in 1841
Mr. Byng pleaded the Statute of Limitations, adding
that he did so because he believed he had paid the bilL
Mr. Davis said be could prove by his books that he had
never been mid. The judge held that the plea
exempted the defendant, whereupon Mr. Davis said,
" If Mr. Ityng Intended to cheat him under the Statute
of Limitations, he supposed he must Eubmit ;" adding
that be should "go from the court a much more
gratified man than he thought Mr. Byng could be."
THE EARL OP LIMERICK CHARGED WITH PICH.ISIRY.
—A serious charge was preferred against the Earl of
Limerick, at Bow,street Police-court on Wednesday.
He was charged with having eommitted perjury. in
having made an affidavit that he left England on the
27th April, 1861, and, wee out of the country for some
months. This affidavit, it is said, had been made for
the purpose of escaping the consequences of disregard-
ing a legal process. Proof was given that the Earl
had been at Southampton within the time mentioned.
Mr. Wentner, on his behalf, contended that the state-
ment was merely a mistake,and that what Lord Limerick
meant was, that he bad not been in London. Mr.
Carrie adopted this view of the case, and dismissed the
summons,

BERKILLBY r. BERICILEY.—Amongst the eases set
down for hearing before the Judge intiry this term
is the above, in which the petitioner, the ffon. George
Charles Grantley Berkeley, has petitioned the court
for a restitution of conjugal rights, and we bay* been
requested by the respondent to state that she has com-
menced a counter suit, in which she prays the court
for judicial separation, on the ground of her husband's
adultery.
Mammas AND WORKEEN.—An interesting case has
just been decided in the Liverpool County Court, by
Mr. Setgeant Wheeler. A. builder's workman was
summarily dismissed by his master, but was kept run-
ning about far a day before he could obtain the wages
which were due to him. He summoned the builder for
• day's wages, and got theni, the judge holding that it
was enjuatifiable to "cause the man to lose the wages
of &future in order to obtain the wages of • previous
day."
, CHARGE OF FORGORT AGAINST A YORESNIRM NAND-
FAcTuaza —On Monday, at Wakefield, William Scott,
late a manufasturer of Morley, near Leeds, was charged
with forging and uttering a bill of exchange for klOO.
After hearing evidence, the magistrates considered that
there • was. nothing in the ease to warrant them in
sending it to a higher court, and so they dismissed
the priaoner,
.who was immediately apprehended
tinder another warrant, and lie was conveyed to
Leeds.
THZ BANE or ENISLAND FORGISIES.—At the
Mension Howie on Thursday the examination of the
prisoners was resumed. The evidence of Ellen Mille
(Mrir. Barnett) went to show that Burnett received
neeevaLlimalele of hank' note paper, stolen from the
mills by Brown. The prisoner, were again remanded for
a week.