The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-06 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTALLIGENCE.

HOME ClRCUlT.—Ktsoirrox, APRIL 4.
&fore Lord Denman and a Special Jury.
CHADWICK O. ARCHDR.—'ibis was a special jury ease.
—Serjeant ghee, and another learned gentleman, were
for the plaintiff', and Serjeaut Channel' for the defendant.—
It was an action for libel. Tne plaintiff was the chair-
man of the North Wales Railway Company, and the defen-
dant, it appeared, hail formerly been in the service of the
company ; and, on his being removed, he published a pam- '
phlet, entitled A Black Book with a White Face," in which
he made a variety of charges against the plaintiff, connected
with the management of the railway.—The defendant
pleaded a justification as to some of the charges,but he failed
in supporting the pleas.—The jury found for the plaintiff.
Damages, 1001.—The busihess of this circuit concluded with
this cue.

OXFORD CIRCUIT.-OLot:CEPTaIt, APRIL 3.
Pens.—Before Mr. Justioe l'atteson.
BREACH OP PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—PHILLIPS r.
CHARLES.—SPECIAL JURY. —The damages were laid et
10,0001.—Mr. Serjeant Talfourd, in the course of his open-
ing address for the plaintiff. said the plaintiff was the
daughter of a highly respectable merchant lately resident at
Cardigan, where the defendant also lived, and practised as
a solicitor. The plaintiff was forty•three years of age, and
the defendant rather more than three years her senior. A
long attachment had subsisted between them. In the month
of July, in last year, the defendant was anxious that the
marriage should come off on an early day. The plaintiff,
however, wished that some delay should take place. It was
arranged subsequently that the ceremony should take place
on the 16th of September last, and come days prior to that
day a letter was received by the plaintiff from the defendant,
in which he said .
I must beg to receive a few lines by return of poet to know if our
plans are altered or not ; if not, I shall start by mail on this day
week, and by steamer from Swansea next Tuesday week, and hope to
be made happy for ever next Thursday week. 1 ant studying how to
be steady and doroestie. 1 smoke one cigar in my small garden every
evening, to wile away time. The old maids now begin to think that
you have giver zee the slip, as there is not a word said about our
wedding.
Mrs. Harriet Dwyer deposed—l am the wife of Mr. J.
Dwyer, merchant, of Bristol. I went to Cardigan, in July
last, ca a visit to the plaintiff, who is my sister.
Defendant and my sitter were acquainted nearly twenty
years. On the Gth of August we had a picnic party,
at which the defendant was present. I saw the defendant
and nay sister walking together ; they approached the place
where 1 was standing. Defendant said, addressing witness.
" 1 hope you will not place any obstacle iu the way. of my
marriage with your sister." He wished the marriage to
take place immediately. My sister said, " No, I will take
time to cons'der." Later in the day the defendant
spoke of his property; he maid he was worth 9,0001.
He mud he would settle his landed property on
Mary (.he plaintiff), and him money, if she liked.
I wished my sister to be marled at Bristol. Defendant
said "he had no objection to go anywhere. ' On the follow-
ing 4ay 1 *ow the defendant trying a ring on my sister's
finger. He came age2n in the evening, andsaid "he wished
the marriage to take place immediately, as it was useless to
spend lengke time in ceortship." My sister was not prepared
to marry then. She said " she would take time, for she
never would marry until she could do so in a way suitable to
her position in IWe." This conversation took place on the
Saturday, and he vas proposing that the marriage should
take place on the follOvnng Tuesday. It was then arranged
that the marriage ceremony should take place at Bristol,
and Paris was fixed as t,he place for the wedding trip. The
plaintiff arrived in Bristol on the Ist of Sep-
tember. The wedding ware fixed for the 16th of the same
month, and every preparatio,n was made, dresses, cakes, and
cards were provided, and brides 'maids, and even the wedding
breakfast, in readiness. The defendant, however, never
arrived, and my sister was at a loss to account for his
bounce. She was very low, and felt deeply insulted, and
appeared to suffer greatly.—Sevin rVI witnesses corroborated
the evidence of the preceding witOess. On the very day
fixed for the Plaintiff's marriage to the defendant, he married
his housekeeper, a lady named Williams, nearly 70 years of
age, at Cardigan, who was carried into the, church, where
the ceremony was performed, in a sedan chail•.—The
returned a verdict for the plaintiff—damages, 1,04.101.

31!DLt.ND CIRCIIIT.—Weamen, Aeon. 4.
',for.. Chief Jastioe Wilde and • Spada' J.T.
THE Quivv,, v..Ovrraatoc4•. oaad gin, short-hind
mita; wild had at tile ouUet of the PAN proved the contents