The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-16 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

hams ban dose. II s sir pnerhice were tabus is
every apse where s will Ina cesettled ibeeo would be auk
lower ocalphatte et wills babe been seedbed iapreprty,
Is condoms, De left two questions to the jury—Ent, did
aar deceased eve the property to tbedebeeleate ; sod
mareedly, did &eet the line know what dio wee sheet I
The Sly alba a nil short deliberstios. reterseda
verdiot for 'the defend's* aiding that their reply was he
the allinsetive to both the goodie= embodies& to tied.
The hat mead jay cease wee thee ailed ca before Yr.
Jerboa Crompton, sod the last oomtemotimpatery. la the wart
below. They were both el as sat ohmmeter, and
the baleen ad the ameba easy, *Mb" said have
virtually been troughl to an sad.

MIDLAND CIROUIT.—Liere, Atraver 14.
(Won Mr. Judi °. )k x.)
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plain Yr. Dishy
11=Irr,dtteirlaissad Yr. Einasy fee the
tiff;
This was an sabot for kesoltrulmperealei. • of marring.
Tie tit[. mid Mr. Seymour, was the daughter of a so.
hedonist at Bradford, who died souse oars son
the lifetime of her father she sad Mil
were employed together lo the series of th philters
e_a_ottwho Ina • respectable iretutorger is Bradford. 'Ttra
dated bath to as early • naiad r 1853. They
.1;4=& members the bboody of Wesleyan thithodin
They &boded the same impel, the same religions meet
imp, the flame Indents together, and appeared to be
hint sumplary members of that most roinetablo
body. In 1858 the defendant west out to the ups, but
previous to his departure be adopted the extremely soosible
muss of requed his intended to he examined by a
make' man, is ardor to aseertain whether the climate of
the One
_would agree with her health. This exambudiet
was etirely satialastory, sad health time they ported at
St. Katherine's Doak down to the tad of WO be sett
affeetionat• letters to her. He retuned to Blglaed it
1880 tad °sand all onrenendstes with the plaintiff.
kept the matter secret from her hinds, and still west
110 Pin nib& hope that he would redeem his prorate.
What was her ainlehment, thenfors, to en it annenteed
la the public prints a few maths ago that she defendant
bad been married to anther wenn.
Yr. Seymour this read toping nisei from the do.
fendsat's hum. For example, jest ohm be hid posted
hem the pialatiff, he wrote to her as fallow:—" I verily
believe that God, la his posileneo. will bring is together
anis, sad that we shills happy la each ~s moiety
aid oh, how I shell long for that time to eon" but it shall
ant he illy hag. lam resolved to maks my way. Be
my don, in knowing that I shall ever be trite to
yyra, sad 1 shall daily remembir you at the those of pus.
Ilifervest sad effectual paver avails* much." In Um mit
lobe he mid. " Liter envies I had • look at Kr. Wesley's
sad Dr. Mire% tombs; it was a profitable time." Dm
and was dated the 9th of Nara. He shim that Kim Os.
wood would sail spa the plaintiff and trim a mail present
bon him for her—a pair el brutish be belle nd—and added
"Ad sow,my dearest, • word ortwo about the beet
Osatiase to love Ohba ; give Him yvar heart sad ItIM
Mese you. I dial not forget you •itls he you that I that
work, sad I feel that I shall be hippy in doing so. Oily
give me your full ocialdenis. I love you with all my heart
lead I tattoos soother." Tswiashhnleeta the manititir
be " I bon you will have noshed the ivory beeselsg
tad pineuallion by this. howi of them as • takes of my
lees from the Oryotal Pekes. (Laughter.) I will writs
Ins spin before I wsibselk and meal it with wax." (lionswed
laughter.) He wrote several letters es beard ship., He stated
is en, that he waa resolved met to drink any in6D3i
liquors, neither to mobs, nor lake muff, tone oti'reskietihl
have don sines I left Bradford. I know this will phase
you.* (Laughter.) Os the Lith of July be wren from
South Africa :—" You said in your kit biter that you sem&
thee felt oast do en, sad that you would mover see me
again. I have felt so very obit, bat I de sot.
I will mot
despair. I wily believe that God la his will
brag aa together spit. So, my dm Nary, do not allow
your spirits to sink, bat bear up under this tria nail I shall
come to ash yeshe my bride. .. . had mew, my awed
Mary, allow car to my one mere an ant to my Sather,
I love you and pins yea shove anythleg I posers or could
possess in this world. You are sty first and only love. and
yes may hilly rely as me. I anr dad decoke you oft& yes
an untruth, sod God, who is the marcher of Imarly knows
that I band to,do what is right, sad I know that if I did
mat love you, my Saviour would mot love me. He will
boater as if we only honour Him by keephy our
to each other." Is the same letter be stated that "=
of you coming to Africa, I intend sowhe boa spit" Hs
kid bean calidatiag that be would some hems with then
3001., ;id staled, "I should like to be able whet Ido come
to being as meth mosey vritti me se will suable we to gat
married at eon and to settle Sows in life He met his
kind lOVO to bar ather awl mother. sad laid , "Kb hie
(some little f
ohOd he faiseled)for me." I with I weld
give you on just now, bat if I am spared we will square
elf." (Laughter.)
Kr. SheAsed here interposed, ebjesting to the brood
manse' only mediae part the letters.
Mr. Seymour said he fit some relmeince it reading
issiadayunkoselget which were ealculied to bring religion fan
His Lsedthip said be hoped Mr. Seymour wild he as
anima* as posible in reading pongee whisk app.:embed
very nesily IS ibb blasphemous.
Mr. Seymour said that in a letter dated the 1211 i of July,
the defendant told her to keep up her sybits, and to "look
forward to the time when I shall name to slab you.
I bow that you are just what I want, sad that you will
make me a geed wife." In ths text letter be aid, " You
ohm toed to say that if you were married when you
I ore sged 26 you would be phoned. If you will con.
ant to it. I wM nen home by that tiny ar what • few
months of it ;" and is a pothorip he added, "1 weed mot
tell you to preesne all my letters until I Minh I shall
like to see them again." (Laughter.) The other letters
were all written la the rame skein, fall of love mud kisses,
sad warmth of arpeggio.. In out be referred to the
plaintiff with her teeth chitties with cold, whilst be was
bizzlin like a bit of bsoon a secoont of the host.
(Laughter.) One letter, dated November 12, was • very
Lnrone, as it stated that be could return with shoat
allorrtaia. The new year found the
optioning es Woes, unchanged in tone lervid=
Oa the 15th of February he talked of retarein to Beg
load, sad oa the 15th September be wren stain that
be was corning by the ant mail. That was tli• whole
of the conispondatee. Asti now, what wet the defence
Ths Instated Limitations was Pitied. As be heard a very
hinted judge my it the nurse of this wise, there were
ocemins when the plea of limitation was a very good sad
respectable plea; but there wire section whee a sea
might blush Ise putt* it on record, and this was on at
them.
Evidence having ben given is support of this one*,
Mr. Shepherd urged that the ',nth of time during
which the plaintiff had allowed her claims to sleep showed
that her feelings were not very deeply enpgsd. He
chuntoried the motion as an attempt to extort mosey,
and reminded the jury that If they gave heavy banes
they would rain not only the defeadant, but his yang
wife.
His Letitia', having summed up, the jury found a waist
for the pliatiff, with 1001. damages.

NORTHERN CIRCIIIT.—LavaarooL, Auo. 16.

Num Pros—(Before Mr. Amities Smith.)
CABE F. ATIMIL—DIIII&CH 01 111011111 OF KARMA

This was • special Jury came. The plaintiff was the
daughter of Mr. Themes Oarr, • Liverpool amecharit, and
the dsiendast was James Atkins, a stevedore in ertmurive
business la LivemooL The engagement had extended over
several years, sod a volumloous oorrespondence was put is,
showing that the parties bad been upon the most affec-
tionate terms. Oa the 28th of February the defendant
wrote "Ify own dear Marths,—l will be bane about six
o'clock or before. Till thee good bye, and allow me, Kim
Our, to remain your eifectionate husband (that will be
same day), James Atkins." He frequeatly addremed her
as his "own darling Martha,* and signed Mosta "Yawn
and yours only till this 'mortal eon is easpped.'
It appeared from his letter that during the
courtship his father died, aid he succeeded to the VINIDISO,
from which he said the 'stunts were from 7001. to 8001. •
year. By his father's will, too, he came into pommel°. of
some houses in Hydrvatrest, Liverpool, aad also of a feral
in County Down, Ireland. The plaintiff wee 27 years el ergs.
and the ilefeadant was 24. The intimacy ocietlened down
to the month of Mush. 1064, when, without assigning any
reason whatever, the defendant brats off the engagement,
and afterwards refused to see her.
For the defendsat, it was urged that when he made the
engagement to marry the plaintiff be was under age. Mr.
James having addressed the court for the defeadaat, the
jury boned a verdict for the plaintiff-4001. damages.
The business in the Crown Court (before Mr. Barra
Bramwell) has bean so far unimportant.