The Express.
London, England, 1848-05-17 00:00:00

tato Intclltgcnce.

HOUSE OF LORDS.
In Committee for Privilege% the Earl of ahirwebury In the chair.
THE SATE. AND Sec■ PRILIULOE.—The claimant to this
barony is the Bev. Benjamin Twialetoe, rector of Adles'rop,
in the county of Giouci ster, and canon residentiary of Ile-
reffird cathedral. It will be remembered by the readers of
this journal, that the witnesses in support of the claim, ex-
amined on the 11th of April last, proved that
he was the only son of the marriege of his father, Dr.
Thomas James 'Twisleton, with Anne Ashe, his second
wife, whom he married in 1798, soon after his divorce from
his first wife, Charlotte Wattell. The only difficulty in the
case was, that, some time previous to that divorce, that lady
had a son, who is living ; but it was proved th tt for some
years before his birth his mother lived separate from
Dr. Twisleton, and cohabited with another person, who sup-
posed himself to be the father of the child, and brought him
up as his son.—The Attorney-General now admitted that
the evidence went strongly to show non-access of the hue.
bead for a period sufficient to negative the presumption
of law that he must be the father, but still aa he was within
the kingdom all the time, and bad porsibility of access, per.
Yaps their lordships would require his friend, Sir F. Thesi-
ger, counsel for the claimant, to address their lordships on
that point. The Lord Chancellor, Lord Lyndhurst, and
other lords present, said the facts were so clearly proved in
evidence as to leave no room to suppose for a moment that
the husband could be the father of the child born of the
first wife before the divorce. The doctrine of presumption
in these matters bad long ceased to prevail where the pre-
sumption is rebutted by evidence negativing access. The
committee resolved that the claim was made out.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Nur Pa:vs.—Before the Chief Judea and Coeunon Jades.
Br..aca V. CARE.—BREACH OF PILOMISE OF MMIRIA OR.
—This was an action for breach of promise of marriage ; and
the defence wit. that defendant was induced to make the
promise by the irend of the ptaint.ff in suppressing the fact
that she hid carried on an illicit intercourse with another
man. As presented by the opening speech of counsel, and
corroborated by the witnesses, it appeers that the plaintiff,
who is about 26 years of age, is the eldest daughter of Mr.
Chide'', who keeps a woollen-draper's shop in Oxford-
street, at the corner of Totteuhamcourt-road. About five
years ago, when apprenticed at a milliner's, in Regent-
street, she had the misfortune to fall a victim to the 'vitt-
dons of a certain noble lord, the brother of a duke and an
officer In the army. His name it was agreed not to,diselose.
She accompanied him to Ireland, and passed some
months there, where his regiment was then stationed.
Shortly after her return she was delivered of • male child,
and from that time she assumed the name of Mrs. Black.
Her father subsequently established her with her dater,
Martha Übodell, in the business of a milliner in Park-street,
Camden-town. It appeared Me child went also by the name
of Black, as her child, and lived with them. It was there
where the defendant, who is a clerk in the luggage dew',
meat of the Eastern Counties Railway at Ely, and of about
the same age as the plaintiff, first became acquainted with
her. The omirfship commenced some three years since,
and in the interval defendant was in the habit of coming up
to London, and visiting the plaintiff at her home
Camden-town. At length, as appeared from a series of
letters I• alti defendant's handwriting, distinct propos:oh of
marriage were made by him and accepted by her. It poems
the marriage, which bad bees hitherti kett Wet front the
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