The Press.
London, England, 1856-07-26 00:00:00

THE PRESS.

My dearest Mary,—l am busy getting ready to go on
board. Miss Walton will go most likely, but, dear Mary,
your sweet smile is always before me, and my heart is
fixed for ever.—Y3urs ever affectionately,
GEORGE F. TB.ADER.
In another epistle the defendant wrote :

Tell dear Susan that Emma Smith and all the Smiths
had made np their minds that she had only to whistle and
I would run to her; they aro dreadfully disappointed—l
hardly notice her.

The next epistle was highly expressive :
Dearest Mary,—My darling, how much my love has
increased for you since my laQt note you cannot imagine.
At times there is such a thrill passes through me when
thinking of you, that I am sure can only be caused by pure
love, and I never felt it before, although I have, as you
know, had what the world calls courting, but that, dear,
is too cold a name wherewith to express the growth of my
love towards you. I very much wish you will take to
liking Dissenters. GEORGE.
The learned counsel, as a proof that the defendant
moved in a position above that of a mere captain of
a merchant vessel, read the following :
My dearest Girl,—l am every evening in gay circles
amidst beauty and accomplishments of various shapes and
forms ; but your dear image dwells with me, and to think
that youlove me is my greatest treat. Write your thoughts;
they are all I could wish. Your last note was one of the
most ladylike and pretty that I ever read.
The next letter was a lively specimen of amatory im
pulsiveness
:
I wish we were married. Cheer girl, cheer. T have
managed to do away with kissing Miss Walton at night
note, and have told the younger brother of our engage.
went. He is extremely pleased. I cannot write more, my
darling,for want of time. It is quite possible we might
be married in eight months and a half from this date.
Cheer, girl, cheer. Write, girl, write, and maintain your
womanly rights, and love your parents. We all have our
weakness. (Roars of laughter. )—Believe me, darling,
yonr ever affectionate, GEORGE.
PS.—I took a look at your portrait this morning, and I
do assure you, Polly dear, you look as jolly as ever.
Another letter, after he had sprained his ancle, was
to the following effect :

Friday evening, Tulse•hill.
Dearest Mary,—T am much better. I hope, dearest
Polly, that Susan will write and thank the Miss Wa'tons
for their unremitting personal attendance on me, for when
I tell you that they have pat me on at least a dozen poul-
tices and fifty fomentations you will think they have been
kind to me. (Laughter.) Recollect you will always be
in my thoughts as ever. GEORGE.
PS. Our engagement is known to all but the governor.
Now all right. I did it capitally.

The learned counsel remarked that it was not the
way to please a girl to tell her that another girl had
applied fifty fomentations to his ancle. (Laughter.)
All the while he was writing like this to Miss Cooper
he was flirting with another lady. He then pro-
ceeded to real several other letters, in which expres-
sions of this kind abounded: " My sleeping thoughts
are yours, and so are my first on waking." In
another letter he displayed a desire for her spiritual
welfare as well as physical comfort
hope, dearest, y.)ti will not slave for me. Will you,
dearest, kindly get a little book called "James's Anxious
Inquirer." I erasure you will like it. (Laughter.) God
bless you. Pray for me, as I for you.

In another he says :
I shall send you my portrait. Rejoiced am I that lam
going to have a good one—too pretty it cannot be. Mary,
you know you are pretty. Girls always know. Oh, you
little rogue. I want a kiss very badly. I send you one
inside the portrait. Yon won't see it of course, but send
one back the same way.
The defendant wrote several similar letters from
Australia, and then after a short time came this
extraordinary effusion :
March 8, 1356.
Miss Cooper,—My long silence is solely attributed to
the tenor of your letters to me. They contain the moat
extreme jealousy without any cause in the world; not one
of my relations but what you would set me against, and I
thought you had ench a kind, affectionate heart, but you
actually mention with the greatest levity the sickness and
death of your ever to be respected uncle. Therefore such
being your disposition, I have made a mistake, and I feel
assured I never could make you happy, or you me. 'Tis
a pity we ever met, or, having met, did not know each
other's disposition better than we did before we parted.
The music you have learnt on my account will never be
any injury to you, but perhaps it has been expensive—if
yon will let me know what it cost l will forward the money
most willingly.—l am your true friend,
GEORGE S. TRADER.
P 3. When I have more leisure I will send your por-
traits and letters, but business is extremely urgent.

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The learned counsel, in conclusion, said there was
no reason whatever for breaking off ;Ile engagement
on account of jealousy, it was a mere pretext
to get rid of a girl of beauty to marry a girl
with money. Mr. Sergeant Kinglake addressed the
jury in mitigation of damages. The jury then
retired, and ultimately returned a verdict for '2OOl.

damages.
MARIA TARRANT, under sentence of death for mur-
dering her child at Abingdon, has heft reprieved.
She will suffer penal punishment for life.

707

THE PRISONER DOVE was found guilty on Satur-
day last, with a recommendation to mercy on the
ground of " defective intellect." Mr. Baron Bram-
well, in summing up, said :
Assuming the case against the prisoner to be ipl repre•
sented by the witnesses for the Crown, the prisoner had
meditated the death of his wife, and had imparted his
opinion to his friends that she could not recover, in order
that her death, when it occurred, might not excite sus-
picion. He gave her poison four or five times, that she
might appesr to be subject to fits, and he evidenced an
extraordinary desire to suppress a post-mortem examina-
tion. He (the learned judge) put it to the jury whether
all the circumstances connected with the conduct Of the
prisoner during what one of the witnesses had termed
the fatal week " did not in themselves speak loudly lor
his sanity? If they believed that the prisoner committed
the murder, he did it with as much deliberation as could,
well be imagined. If they believed the case as represented
by the prosecution the elaborate nature of the plan and
preparation adopted by the prisoner was wholly inconsisten
with the testimony of the medical witnesses who came for-
ward to depose to his unsoundness of mind. With regard.
to the medical evidence called for the pritoner, it was cets
tainly of a scientific and speculative character; and, with
all respect for the profession to which those gentlemen
belonged, he declared without affectation that he placed
more confidence in his own opinion upon a matter of fact
than he did upon their speculative conclusions on abstract
propositions. In all professions persons were to be found
with extreme notions, especially on the subject of insanity,
and it would be in the last degree datigerous to society if I
were to be held that a erintinal was to escape the hands at
justice, because well-meaning individuals, with extreme
notions of responsibility, were willing to come forward and
express an opinion that the prisoner was driven by uncap-.
trollable impulses to commit the offence with which he
was charged.
The learned judge, in passing sentence, s,lemn'
relornmended the prisoner to prepare for death, tied
by no means to cherish hopes which might proN
delusive. If not respited, the prisoner will be exc.
cuted on the second Saturday in August.
FOUQUIN SILVILLA, charged with forging eeres‘AU,
documents purporting to be liquidation bonds of tin
internal debt of Peru and compensation bonds foe' ,
the manumission of slaves by the State, with intent,'
to defraud the Government of the Republic of Pere",
and others, was fully committed for trial by Sir Geom.,:
Carroll at he Guildhall, on Monday.
Mr. ROBERT JOHNSTON, a member of the Army
and Navy Club, was charged before Mr. Beadon, at
Marlborough-street, on Tuesday, with an assault and
conspiracy against Mr. Kay, a gentleman of fortune,
residing in Hill-street, Berkeley-square. The ease
presented some carious features. Mr. Kay, who is
only 22 years of age, has inherited some 8,0001. a
year. When 18 he contracted the acquaintance of
Mr. Johnston, who appears to have " shown him
life," at home and abroad, for the trifling considera-
tion of bills and bonds to the amount of 50,0001. or
60,0001., to be paid when Mr. Kay came of age.
Happily this became known to Mr. Kay's friends,
and his active solicitor at once tiled a bill in Chance
and obtained two decrees whereby all such bills a
bonds were set aside. On the evening of the
inst., as Kay was walking home frotn the Wyndbole
Club, he was suddenly arrested on a false chow*
debt, and permitted himself to be taken to a privaile
house in Park-street
Mr. Johnston soon
lent abuse, made r
of the Court of Ch,
to comply with, and,
hours, he was at last
no mention of the a.
the charge of assault

prisoner entering
the peace, and a
him in court. Mr.
25,000 T., wl it% he
THE ACTION OF _
SMITH, the proprietor
having on the 2
Anglesea of corrupt . .4 adjudicating
case of Cannobie and Saraband, two horses running•
for the Burwell Stakes at Newmarket, was tried bu
Tuesday before the Chief Baron, when Mr. Smith
admitted his error, and a verdict was at once taken
for Lord Angleses, with five guineas and costs.
ELIZABETH BROWN, of Broad Windsor, ram Dor.
chester, was tried on Tuesday before Mr. Sergeant
Channel', and found guilty of murdering her husband
on the Bth inst. The defence set up was that the
man had been kicked to death by his horse, but the
medical evidence went to prove that the injuries in-
flicted on the deceased were such that he must
have become immediately paralysed, and could not
have walked from the field where it was admitted the
horse was left to the house where he was found
dead. The horse's hoof, moreover, did not corre-
spond to the shape of the wound. Sentence of death,
without hope, was passed. It was proved in evidence
that the prisoner was extremely jealous of the dir-
ceased, who was her junior by twenty-one years. I
MR. JAMES RAELTOM,A steekbreker, was' OH TAP;
day fully committed forltial by the Lota Mliref
for forgery' and WWI; itt eflittiffewallb
transfer of e,ertifin stoekisoltb iiuent te) tietAltiP 1111#
Bank.

Itreet, and .leck4, up) in a room.
ion after cane end, after vio-
. overtures to set aside the decree
Thancery. This X.r. Kay refused
lorl, after being locked up for three
last let out, on a promise of making
the affair. After some dismission,
assault was disposed of by tie.
into his own recognisanbes td keep
summons of conspiracy served on
Ir. Johnston is reported to be worth
ie has settled on his wife.
F TFIE MAMMIES OF AVGLESEA v. M.
prietor of the Sunday Times, for
20th of April last accused Lord
rapt motives in adjudicating on the