The Express.
London, England, 1849-07-23 00:00:00

THE GRAND SHAM SIEGE AT CHATHAM.

The following is a suecinet o:planation of the whole series
of opera too.:
Toe operetbans are hued upon the following supposition,
via, that an army having originally captor. d the outer
line of works, and carried on an attack upon the citadel
(which la represented by the works extending n
mad.from
Prue* Frederick's to the Terrace Bastion). has bee
deny obliged to raise the siege, fee the purpose of giving
battle plan
and
which approach,d to the relief
of the ; and that the besiegers having been victorious
in this engagement, &sired to renew the siege of the citadel.
It is amused ale o„ that during the absence of the besiegers,
the garrison have mined some of the batteries of the attack,
have prepared rotary nada the trenches, and are de-
termined to resist any attempt to escaladJ the outer line.
The meatiest, weal naturally, it their force admitted of it,
attempt an escalade at more points than one, by simultaneous
sperations, but as the number of men employed on the 2lst
July, was not sufficient for that purpose, two distinct
operations were determined upon, vas., the first, an W-
hich on the right of Chatham lines, which commenced at
10 o'clock; and the second, an atta. k on the left of the lines,
which tJok plea at 12 o'clock.
The hour fixed for the commencement of the proceolings
was 10 o'clock, and precitsly as the hour had arrived,
Sir F. Smith, accompanied by the Metter and Surveyor-
General of the Ord.:ants, and a numerous cortege and
staff, amongst whom were Lord Eradiate, Lord F. Fit l•
elarence, Price. George, Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar.
some mounted and in 'tailors, others is " mufti" sad on
foot, repaired to the first scene of action, which was the Bel-
videre battery and the adjacent fortifications on the extreme
right of the lines. The soldiery defendieg the position
were already at their posts; the provisional battalion
(formed out of the contingents in the garrison) and
the enrolled pensioners occupied the centre, a company of
Ral Soppers and !dinars were placed on the left, and the ,
flanoyks and salient, were gwarditl by heavy ordeance manned
by the Royel A...tinny. In the valley below were placed
the assaulting party, divided into three columns, and were
thus stationed: the right in the hollow ground to the east
of Cage-lane ; the centre, with the scaling ladders, in the
plantation near the burying ground and the Brook-road;
whilst the left column was drawn up in the plantation near

the approaches, affording alt- pother a livvly picture of the '
usn,ral character as well ma the minute testate, of war.
Tee whole affair was said, by competent judges, to have
Men a very able and a =not elaborate display of the recounts
of military engineering ; and in no sir, gle inst.nce was there
any failure of the anticipated results—a pr ,of that all the
traops employed andsratood the duty entrusted to them.
There was one painful accident, arising from one of the
soldiers of the 17th Reglement falliag from the sealing ladder
into the ditch, whereby he sustained a truants, and was
carried off the ground to the Melville Hospital, close by.

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JULY 23, 1849.

the High Court of Admiralty, showing the amount of boun-
ties received for the Princess' Dona Isabel, a Brzzilian slave
versed, captured by her Majesty's sloop Siren, on the 3rd
April, 18i8.—Halle•e. Robinson. and Co., agents.
bluvaustevs.-11.M.5. Wellesley, Captsin G. Goldsmith,
fits of Vim-Admiral the E irl of Dundoaald, G.C.B. ;
steamer Vixen. Commander J , Halifax. H. 11.11.
Trincomalee, Capt. R. L. Warren, Newfoundland. H.M.S.
Ileum (receiving ship), Commodore T. Bennett; H.M.
sloop Sappho, 22nd June, Jamaica. H.M. schooner Ber-
-1 muds, Lieut.-Commander A. D. Jolly, left Jamaica on the
14th, on a cruise. H.M. sloop Helena. Commander M. De
Convey, Mosquito shore. H.M. brig Viper, Lieutenant H.
Barnard ; B.M. schooner Scorpion, Lieutenant Lawrenos ;
.—On I Jane 27, Barbadoes.

MILITARY.
COMMISSIONS IN TEI ARYT.—A rule hes bun eatab-
tithed at the Horse Chards, that no more than one son in
any family shall be appointed to a commission in the army
without purchase.
Daarrs ron Depts.—The following ships have been en-
gaged to convey deiachmenta from Gravesend to India :
The Monarch, 250 men, on the 28th of July ; the Marl-
boro', 240, on the 9th of August; and the Cellingwood,
258, on the 101 of the same month, to Calcutta ; the Cremy,
186 men ; and the Aboukir, 168, on the 31st of July, to
Bombay.
VACANT ADM/LETO RR or MILITIA.—There are at pre•
sent sixteen of these appointments vacant, and the same are
not, it is understood, to be filled up.
AM:Mt:SEA BARRACKS, PONTREA —Early next month the
4th (King's Own) Regiment of Foot, at present stationed at
Winchester, will march into these new barracks at Forties.
EMIGRATION OP PANSIONEILA.-With reference to our
former intimation that the out-pensioners desirous to settle
in penal colonies would have every faciliy to do so, it hit
lately been decided that inch military emigrants shall form
the guards on board the ships to be taken up for the convey-
ance of convicts to the penal colonies.
MEDICAL
Roost COLLEGE OR StiRGEONS.—The following gentle-
men having undergone the necessary examinations for the
diploma, were admitted members of the college, at the Court
of gxaminers, on the 20th it stint : —blears. James Good-
child Wakley, Rarefied, Middlesex; Louts Joseph Kaa-
ren, London; Frederick Mallows, Behest; Theobald Ringer,
Laugharne, Carmarthenshire ; Alexander George Cockburn,
Thistleton, York; Henry Saunders Grant, Northampton ;
Robert Powell, Bristol ; Harvey William Dixon, Putney ;
David Grant Macpherson, Bristol ; John Wilcuks Waken,
London ; Henry Newcombe, York; Curies Terry, Bath ;
Joseph Powell Swanwick, Prestbury, Cheshire.

eliele;hou—r.
Petition dismissed.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

not transpire, and prayed the protection of the Court Item
arrest.
The learned commissioner—ln this case I ant asked
to give protection to • person whose name, by the act
of Parliament, I am not at liberty to mention ; and I
think when such extraordinary privileges are extended to
debtors, it should be seen that they come strictly within
the meaning of the statute which justifies such a secret pro-
ceeding, and that they have so conducted themselves as to be
entitled to have their affairs smuggled up, and not suffer ell
that public exposure consequent upon misrepresentation.
Here is a man, • barrister, owing above 4,000!., and
having no lee than seventy-one creditors; and I per-
ceive that he owes a poor dressmaker at Herne Bay 2/.1
ever since 1843, and 11. 4s. to a jeweller in the Strand front
1842. What right had be to indulge inewels when he
could not pay for the necessaries of life ? It seems to me
to be a monstrous proposition that he should now come for-
ward and be allowed to escape from the penalty of his mis-
conduct, and that, too, under the protection of public
authority.
Mr. Lewis said the petitioner had a wife and children,
and he had made a propnition which nine.tentha of his
creditors had accepted.
His Honour—Then what have I to do with him ? Let
his creditors and himself arrange the matter. I do not at.
tech any weight to such promises, for they are too often
broken. I wish all persons to understand that I will not
receive such petitions unless it can be shown they had rea-
sonable and probable prispeete of paying their debts when
they contracted them. Thispetitioner had none, and I dis-
miss his petition. Entertaining such a case as this would be
making a court of justice a mere mockery, and would be
saying to debtors, " You may just go and do what you like,
and then come and obtain protection from this court." I
will not give protection under such circumstances for a

OXFORD CIRCUIT.
STAFFORD, JOLT 21.
BEFOR2 ua. BARON Roux.
LANGLEY V. PAKTON.—BREACH OF PROMISE OP
MARRIAGE.
This was an action brought by Min Regis Langley, a
young lady of considerable personal attractions, against the
defendant, Mr. Richard Parton, son of a respectable farmer
of this county, for a breach of promise of marring-. Da-
mages were laid at 5,0001. Counsel for the plaintiff, Mr.
Serjeant Allen and Mr. (heaves ; for the defence, Mr. Ser-
jeant Talfourd and Mr. Whateley, Q C.
Mr. Serjeant Allen stated that the plaintiff was the
daughter of a large and respectable farmer, who also prac-
tised as a veterinary surgeon, and resident when the de-
r nelant was first received into the family at Ab-
hat's Bromley, in this county. She was a young
lady who had been carefully brought up, and
hod received a superior education. The defendant's
family live at Bromley Hunt, and was at present about 29
years of age. The defendant was introduced to plaintiff's
father in the latter end cf 1844, and shortly afterwards com-
menced paying his addresses to the young lady, who was
about 19. Hu addresses were accepted, aid he visited as
the plaintiff's suitor. The learned serleant in the course of
his address read extracts from several letters sent by the de-
fendant to the plaintiff, -he whale of which disclosed the
strongest affection and most fervid love ; several of them anti-
cipating the day when his desires should beconsurnmated by
marriage. The tenet of the letters showed that the defend-
ant was serious in his purpose, there being very little that
was mawkish or sentimental in them. The learned counsel
closed his address by an eloquent and forcible appeal to the
jury, affirming that the CM was no light one, and requiring
damages to the full amount
The learned serjeant's statements were substantiated by
the evidence of the Irother and mother of the plaintiff, the
only witnencs called.
The brother stated that hs grandfather had been incum-
bent of Checkley, in thd. county, and that at the time of V e
defendant's introduction to ha sister hi, father rented a form
of 300 acres and practised as a veterinary surgeon. In April,
1845, he heard the defendant make the plaintiff an offer,
which was accepted, and from that time to the beginning or
the present year he had continually visited and corresponded
with her. His father had removed to two or three other
places in the county, some miles from the defendant's rvsi-
dense, but defendant had contrived to visit the plaintiff very
frequently, which visits had been returned by her and
family. It further appeared that up to the 7th of May last
the correspondence had been kept up, on which day he sent
the plaintiff a letter, informing her that he was to be married
on the following day to another lady. This event actually
transpired on the day the plaintiff received the letter.
' Plaintiff's mother corroborated the evidence. In course
of cross-examinatien she stated that plaintiff 'a father had
been unsuccessful in business, and after leaving the farm
removed to Ilednestord, where he took an inn; from thence
" to another publiNhouse at Marston-Lill, and was now living
• at Blithbury, near the defendants's residence.
L Mr. Serjeant Talfourd energetically addressed the jury on
I behalf of the defence, urging as a plea for the defendant's con-
duct that his father, with whom he lived, had been alway
opposed to the connexion, and that it was continued ex-
pressly against his desire. The defendant was wholly de-
pendent argon his father.
The learned judge summed up, stating in the course of his
remarks that the plaintiff had received a very grievous in-
jury, and the jury, after ten minutes' consultation, returned
- a verdict for the plaintiff for 4001.

WESTERN CIRCUIT.
EXBTER, JULY 19.
On Wednesday evening last the learned judges of maize
upon the Western Circuit, the Hon. Justice Creswell and
the Hon. Justice Williams, arrived in this city from Doe.
cheater, and were met in the usual way by the High Sheriff,
M. E. N. Parker, Esq., and his retinue. The vimmission
wan opened in due form both at the Castle and Guildhall.
To-day the courts opened. The business is very light;
only 18 causes, of which six are already disposed of. The
calendar contains 63 prisoner', one half for offences of a
trivial nature, since the Quarter Sessions.

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MIDLAND CIRCUIT.
DERBY, JULY 21.
The maize, commenced at 10 o'clock this morning. There
are 23 prisoners on the calendar—one charged the
murder of his father, one with arson, four with manslaugh-
ter, and the others for minor affairs. Eight common jury
causes were entered for trial. A charge of rape upon a
daughter by. her father, was tried tads'', which disclosed the
most revolting depravity; the more so that the prisoner was
acquitted, on the ground ot the girl having been a consent-
ing party. The parties were trsmpers.
Nun Pates Cocas.—BILFORE Me. BARON BA/MIL
SMITH v. C .—.SEDUCTION.
Mr. Humfrey, Q.C., and Mr. Macaulay for plaintiff; Mr.
Whitehurst, Q.C., and Mr. Mellor fur defendant.
This was an action to recover compensation for seduction
and lom of services. Plaintiff is a shoemaker residing at
Tickenhall ; defendant is • farmer residing at the same
place, and his orchard adjoins plaintiff's garden. Cheatle's
sister resided with him as housekeeper. The facts of the
case will best be gathered from the subjoined evidence.
Eliza Smith, daughter of the plaintiff, deposed—l and
Cheatle's sister became intimate, and so did the plaintiff and
defendant. My father, mother, and myself rebide together,
and I do the household work. My father is 74. Defendant
usually called him " uncle." Defendant, on every
opportunity that presented itself, paid me attention. He
told me that he was 34 last April ; lam 28. He frequently
said he would marry me, and at times would say, " Miss
Smith shall be my wife." He was not often in the house.
When I have met him by accident I have walked with him.
In 1847 he liked me to meet him, bat I refused. In last
year he asked me to meet him, and on the Ist of August
he ran after me in the street. In 1817 he offered to take
vme liberties with me, but he was not quite sober. We
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had adist:meat in. consequence, I beat him and
blackened ' eye. (Laughter.) He made it up again.
In 1817 he laid an accusation against me which I denied.
It was the same evening be offended that he asked me to
forgive him. I met him on the 12th of August. He said
he would act honourably, and make me his wife. Ulti-
mately he bad intercourse with me and after that time I
frequently met him, and the connexion took place again. It
January I found myself pregnant and as soon u I became*
aware of the situation I was in, I informed defendant of it.
A child was born on the 20th of April. My father has been
much distressed about it. My sister paid the expenses of my
conhnement. My father has paid the rest. It wee neces-
sary to have some assistance to go of errands.
On cross-examination witness said she did not know that
defendant ever came to her father's on busines,. She saw
him in his garden, adjoining the house, many times.
He
rid in 1847 that I had had connexion with Tom Cathy. I
denied it. That was the time I gave him a black eye.
did not make it up in any reasonable time. He asked me
that evening to forgive him. He said I must. I heard' him
say, on the 18th of November, " Good night, Mr. Cubley,"
ptold him that Cubley had called me • Cubley ap-
ealed to Cheatle whether be had. He said no..
By the Judge—l met him on the let of August, on condi-
tion that be would conduct himself in a decent and proper
manner, and on that condition alone.
Cross-examined—l bad connexion with him on that
sight, and on the next told nobody before January that
I was in the family way. I have never said that he was not
the father of the child. Have said that I had con.
nexion with him, but that was before I found myself in the
family way. My cousin, a young man, was in the house ;
'I was obliged to pus through his room to get to mine. Have
never been in the bed when he was in it. I have
known Gilbert Minion all my life. He paid his
addresses to me for about twelve months. He dis-
continued them at my request. I have not had many
admirers. I met a person at Melbourne. Left home on
that occasion about 4 ; got home again exactly at half past
11. That gentleman sail he had seen me before. He wrote
to me. I never wrote to him for an improper purpose. He
wrote to me first. I et him afterwards to have any
conversation with him. I never made any application to
father the child.
ge-examined—l believe the person I met at Melbourne
Statutes was Cubley. My cousin has been paying his ad-
imarrigdarela" to
Wanhtel women
nd
CthilllSeethlyehird hadand C0611allb:111011t°111ibth
me, it was done to emus me, and at his regent. From the
time I discovered my pregnancy I denied it.
Several witnesses, amongst whom was the deacon of a
Baptist chapel, of which the plaintiff was a member, de-
posed to her ezcallent character.
Mr. Whitehead then addressed the jury, contending that,
upon such evidence, they oaght not to return a verdict for
the plaintiff.
Mr. Baron Parke summed up.
The jury then retired, and after an absence of some time,
returned into court with a verdict for the plaintiff.—
Damages, 301.

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