The Express.
London, England, 1860-11-24 00:00:00

THE • EXPREBI4-,BATIIRD4,kAV4NINcI,- NOVgMBE.R. .21 1860, .
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ilailm intilligatcs. der is shish the vessel • left. The -meek- sake' Mr. Joba Patriok, whom Mr. Sheddersek, bad Waded for one worth of good. got from the opposing creditor, not one
at Jule se sod the debedent Mendeed cadges to of them executore, wrote WOW to Mr. Wee. Patrick, in shilling had been paid. Why be bad left with his
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ak ger to Copthbegea. He had, dement, /Selinburgli, an account of his uncle's Mama.' It wee dated father nearly 5001, worth of goods could not be accounted
COURT OF QUERN'S BINCE —Noy. 23. =! aid ; lire ems Broth cruises about, rid on 9th of November, 1798, mud it contained the following for, except it was because he could mot otherwise depose
M Yams. Then as to the payments to fimpersoes at money
NNW In Siggn,-Oche the Deed Milt Jinni" XL b.
16"11fiareillidpileaveder""biairektimikimiaei Pivssidlog. it Pa."'" It is :with extreme sonner I have now to inform you banewed, then was DO IITI oft which the court could Judie Hun, sad Mr. Justice Blackburn.) =hayed* Med be mid ad naderteke melt • soy. that our friend William Bheadete disorder has at last Cr rely. The payments were not vouched, and he could not
II PART 3 3AII/010-Inatn• V. Howes - REGINA IL see without amilerable deb ; Math, aided re- rived at a crisis. He is at this moment in the meet ad- tdos them am amounting for the money. He was perfectly
10110111. few to gollywheme be woe m somas the nadir vaned stage dan uncongenthie consumption, and all the =ad that when the iniolvent obtained his pompon be
Men was beard if lie were he aired weaker@ of mortality nee his eyes. Every sot to pay the croaker ; and why wm it to he Mr. D. &mew? mid, b Menace to this cum thst the that hie amp 1 le Insured y. In this hour threatens a dissolution of his existence-hisrev;att supposed, when no much dishonesty was apparent, that he
Mara at Mse. Raehael Regiciss had been mode, and that
way he ram Mined af=alit the lifith, nth. and 30th died-be must die-he mend live ; but this is lot all. H intended to act honestly towards those from whom be said
Mies Cheikeee Bided was la Axed.
°" use, and the Ist of July. A protest was dews up that has, from otheideratione which he conceived eal, asieural., he bad borrowed money' As to the money the insolvent
Mr. ado IBRIT demanded, Tel UAW of the father, that
he had broken the eharterparty, but aftermath he was less(, and proper, at the moment when eternity was stating alleged be had received, it was clear by his travelling and
his daughter should he given up to lth • and also that
, ordered to proceed to Plymouth, and he went. The present him in the face, united himself in matrimony to the women law expellees he bad spent more than he said he had re-
lit/wee sad shout b sttached for contempt of court. mum tto recover damages for the alleged who has for many years lived with hint in a very differed creed. The judgment of the court would. proceed on not
re-
The Liget "" Ji.ge.- The first thin t° be decided is, breach, waund brought
trial the Lord Chief Justice asked the situation. accountang for part of the property and in making away
what is to be dem with the child.
my whether the defendant was justified in ".pausing" as " His object in this proceeding was to rescue from • with the other part His Honour gave a judgment of
Me D. her them eemplabed that the fresh dadavite on
him, a tad done ; and they expressed their opinion that his .fated be..i,ti.i.d...introduos into the world, with all the eighteen calendar months from the vesting order on the
tie other
s ame____,_.,_leld bees "A vr_reols_ily_hitzPd to
~..,„„""'" conduct had been that of • wise and prudent man. They &leo privileges • to those who are born under the in. 17th of April, for concealing and making away with
"''' '"'" no "liv"`•••", ''' •••• be°'"'" "` enew'""'• found for the defendant upon two muss which raised the Brace of law, two infant children, one a girlabout six property.
them
question whether theorder to proceed toCo bed been years clap, and the other • boy of about five. he ore. ---- - Mr. WO lima lea a trod adblavit hem the father. It
from revoked by the order to proceed to Plymouth. Su neatly, mony took place on the 7th instant-it was to him a bard
L.." °±,....th•s_nall AM", ~...__.1"1111 11",.._,41.6.",_ 8."..._.. • rule was obtained for a new trial, upon the ground that struggle, but the considerations above mouth:used prepon•
'" """'"" ""' •••••• .••••'''. 118=1.•• '....-- tt.cle should have directed the jury that there bad been dented. I, of course, was not oosesaltied, bat be com-
bed thredseed to be remeed el dim hares
of contract, and upon the further ground that the municated the whole to me after it had takes place, with
atreweciclacitaaaiatet der, "she hadailimrilleapahla tat° =Was *utile
asiamt:erdict was opium.
itin.theozleabnclut.To.day cause cam shown his motives. It was out of my power to =ta. or pre.
vent it, nor was it my wish. I have always bad a e
&object, and bed embed her premiss thisi dis would ad
Mr. K. Smith- Mr. Within Williams appeared to in acting in things of that sort with a spirit of
daughter leysubeehbeetisquatlyesemembmiien
requeded to wabeseallbah Teeheffbat Ulu showui mere ; sad Mr. Borill and Mr. Honyman to support and propriety, nor did I ever interfere. . . . Besides
Belgium two children ineatiosed he hes one other, •
in ebblieb7 with her_g"'""cm' MIN licThe' mid Yr. Justice Byles said he was of opinion that it was not girl, ►bout 12 years old, by another woman, who is
that he Ind Weed to do se. net in the niesawkile be hal
„,. the duty of the judge to have told the jury that there was •• long dead-his •very image, but who can reap no benefit
breads of the omitted.. The letters did not bear this inter. from the measures adopted being considered in the eye of
b••=llllrlFOlUgNi‘egbliis ells and".
tint an
and that gjahethile7hed and-.
ma ink" with half a tantatia to bay • he petiolate, and moreover they did not item the contract but the law • badord."
him ea,,,, ni..„ ha beams were only evidence of the breech, and their construction Now, if it could be conceived that Mr. John Patrick was
ii 17=4:211(12 era 'thaT"tait'lha haw& ram, was for the jury. The judge, therefore, would have been wicked enough to write this letter, supposing it to be un-
rigs midst of the ottembiet on. bar
wrong if he had construedthe letters. The judge had left true, it was impossible to imagine that he could be such a
depart re the nght question to the jury, and they had found it In fool ;for at this timethere must have been abundant means fee Bdigkem. the else wed amp ham home..and
was secreted la That his wife had rime lama He thought further that the judge was right in to disprove his statements. Two days later Mr. Patrick
nit. hie the . la ow pronswe et tin mard =ate Jac:7 to consider
. whether the defendant was added the following postscript :
likewise that she bed lissem " using as he had done. As to the " Nov. 11.
bath male aid fon" mtimewir, the &went
,lieing -.,_againd the evidence, his lordship was not demanded "In the morning Mr. fibedden gradually approached his
smelted that Mu Barked bed beetle sad heeled the "'""'"'TeciLici' end. He has looked into his affairs and wrote to his
person of the daughter. And in order te thew the caw Rule discharged, hinds. He has two important letters to write, and he dies
plicity of the parties it shirsthi be Meld that is a letter ocateated. One is to you remecting his children, kc. The
width by Mrs. Hopkins to Mrs. Crawkeddertiesamarlotte COURT OF EXCHEQUER. —Nov. 23. Vol was • &Akre Manses to the latter of whisk •
e be sent to Seellead."
Barford's stay in Loudon, the latter mu mimed to muffle Bit
tinge in Barns.-(Before the Lord Chid aloe sad duplicate bed shady bees seed : and et whilst bee froths
here& op when she went out, lest she should he emu by Barons Bramwell, Channel, and Wilde)) most improper waded el the male piellYeasr. the Merslie.
Mr. Seymour thought his learned friend put too hard a IMMO r. CLARE. -ACCIDATT. would have bees forthomaing terthe ads petition=
mustructrou epos the phrase in Mrs. Hopkba's Wier. This was am adios brought by the plaintiff to recover bed it still eir be bedw=il it rboite.Ordnbrj alba-
Mr. Justice Hill -le telling her to keep the girl's veil dung= for interim received by the alleged._negantee et „..,„, New Yak sot and trip&
always down the mended udentiou was to prevent her the chtendent, who bog guts The Pam •ma • ae..="6°7_,.._tblir lel‘lee IllebeillgrelleillitT--ele,_t b" ill thin C.lB,
cliscovery. But the question now le, what is to be ace. young man to attend to machinery in the '"' Bb"'e""n_sa.......abliateiya a "15ki......./e"' e'es.........eeeeer "um twice.>
with the child. defeadant's and while in that service the tentage =nada "vsisosi a n.".., to bomb., by the wry, Mr-
The Lord Chief Judice-What is said on the other side which weeding law must he Placed rotted had left a small legacy. The lather referred to ma
with respect to she melody of the child? ma oat at main,. sad the plaintiff hetaaLerear as tailor, arid poports.to have been written jest before
Mr. Seymour enkedeeed this the yowl/ lady, being close tendon defeadaa's /0/1/21.1. to that fact, when the the petitioner's father dud : ,
pow 16 year. of sip, led arrived at a tune of life when latter promised It should ke repaired. This, however, was „ _ ' New York, Nov.ilZ 1798.
epos
• mart aught be Waimea by her own wishes and her not does; and ems eV while the plaintiff was "mill my Ter7 dear Nepliew,-My keg and Masse
must apologise for my long 4iimee. I am sow going to senior." his sleeve eve lit in NW al the wheels, and he ew?liveeenneued owlet' berhomes_eembeetibes let bur
name into an reeemial in which maid It the lan at iii an, quit this world. I have married Me Ann Wilms, which
jade's private nem aid dad by the counsel on both sides, At the trial which took piece Intone Mr. Bare Wilde, at is aPProve One d cdch= hinge blew, and which totem her
sad we will there seentein what she hr to ray. Liverpool, the jwy found • make fee the with and two ' Him by her to honour gad credit.
After a esedibeahle interval had elapsed sad all parties 2001. damages, the learned rum* lloabitilifrdefes- I have settled all 37_affaire, and %Mended irroulden bare,
bad retuned bee dent leave to move the to ester the verdict for the ~._•ww,____.,'w wree.r..n., „_,_,_witie yon, die at var *nano is •
Mr. Ss* nee :trait that the father ma the mum defendamt, or for a poomit, er fora now trial on the point
..‘..,,a____ ~_""r eibbe° ""m___„___,__ll"ll.lK ea.... a• They are charming
entitled to the et the child. The Mho( Okada ci law reamed that the dandies was not liable under the ''•••'••-•• In F•gumisr. I have ordered my executors to
IL., cep. 14, drilled that every memeted lemma die at set send him to yen. I now remit the led of Griffith and
the death of her fatheramid not b..e attained the eg Mr. Me, with whom wee Mr. Apeland, now showed
subject Welinled% neb=nigeeln- Tbegene Daniel sod Co.,
It shall remain to her guardian until she muss aped the rule. He submitted that under the 21st London, 'Wed lief Jima, at 60 slays, foe 3261.
the* egg. But even supposingeir lonliiips did ad p section d tie 0 and 18 Tic., c. 15, all dangerous machinery Ilk ticL, end Ilret of D. Perclubmion tad Co.'s, on Bar-
with Vat iii autarkies the period othf parental authority to It modes wed he surrounded by • fencing for the prole+. air Fartinhanen, Ibndrethdeted iliatbi°°, 21st *rub/. et
a years a age, they would at all events extend it to the Mee at these em is work* it, ma that • mill 6Pan/e, for 911.. together 4171. lib- gd• sterling, and I de-
tee et 16, far ne it wee Led be the statute of Philip and o came within the .„„„,thig a that ...do.. He sue t at such further sum or auras of more may be appre-
Key, which had lees reeeprated with the 9th of Geo. IV, aged there was no ferule the amesmtion of the other Prbted for the purpose of maintaining and educating him
cep. 31, lee MI Mlle it as offence to remove unlawfully dde that the plaintiff could ad Deoolll because he was the !PM_
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_teellY, andaa„,•onordall_
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W mom worn aim 16 years of age from her father's sawed of the dehadmet, sad bed voluntanly entered in • exceeding 'Asrmig, to r • the consent •I my elf.
lame ; and the elms was complete even although the demerees meth& This sees wee entirely different from all !uteri, "" wham you are be .totally independent In thin
girl was • emmelles party. et Oben eampreboaded It the elms in which it had been euetneee„„ _ • lum onl7 edd tint I remain death, dear
Tor Lord ChlsCrielioe-The difficulty is to fix when the hold that a served who bed bees injured through the neg. Woonna, Your drootineete undo, „
child is too young. lipase of • hllowmemat could not recover from their ilijped) WILLIAM SaIDIMUL
" Attested-John Milk Mr. Sleigh-The mart was the proper lodes rd thee, par. wader. In ail them come the duty imposed OM the master
titularly in the Me of • female. It °odd sot he paw depended oe bid in the present cane the duty im- If the authenticity of this letter was established there was
leaded that a female of 16 or even 17 years of ap he reed es the Mets.~dspesdsd on. law. an end of the case, for nobody could pretend that it was
intrusted with discretion in such a matter. Mr:2db' ampere of the rule, otedended that the open to more than one interpretation. Bat this letter was
Mr. Justice Hill-The law is well settled esthe meth plaintiff lent Mower. If their lordnnps held that he referred to by no less a person than the petitioner's mother.
Rom Although a girl be • consen y, yet wag to the verdict their heleathet would have this On the 3rd of September, 1799, the wrote to Mr. R. Patrick
if she be unlawfully taken away from her fa & custody it effete, that' • smash amight GNAW al • write which he a letter, in which the said, "My worthy husband made his
L • misdemeanour. That is a distinct recognition that the knowte he hammier" and should be allowed torspuue that last will and testamentsome short time before his death,
girl has no mind or will of her own, so as to he capable et =Mee at the beard of be meter. making settlements as far as he could, and appointed
infringing upon the parental right. TM Lord Cider Ham-No. Ben is • servant in the executors for fulfilling his intentions. He also at the lame
Mr. Sleigh would thee submit that the only question employ of • muter who ie bosmd to find protection for time wrote your brother William, in most affectionatebefore the court was, had the father a right to the monody thaw, whom he employe. That protection is wanting, and terms, recommending our sou William to his guardianship
of the child! His declarations of care and affection for the servant draws the atteatioa of the master, or of his and protection, and made a remittance on account of his
her had only been met on the other side by mere amenities. mamyer which is the same thing, to the fact. A promise infant, his view being to send him to Scotland for his educe-
The Lori Chief Justice said it was not understood that hi made to repair the want of protection, but that is not cation." It could not be pretended, therefore, that no such
any attempt was made on the other side to disprove the done, and the accident etiaues.We should neitherbe violating letter was written. The letter watt es lofty, "My chief rea-
deilmediess of the father in respect of his kindness towards any role of law, nor laying down anypropoeition of injustice, son for troublingyonetpresent is owing to • report circulating
eked. if we should say that in sadi a awe the negligenceis here that my bushard's relationemean to interfere and claim
Mr. Seymour said the fresh affidavits had only been filed wholly that of the master, and that the servant is sot re- this estate to the prejudice of the child on the pretence of ale-
that day, seed no opportunity had been allowed of answering ,possible. gitimacy. As you are next of kin to Mr. Sheeldeo, of course
them ; but if time were allowed for the purpose, be was Mr. Jones submitted that when the Sal:tiff entered the if • claims of this kind shouldbe set up it must be from you.
imetroeted tory that proofs of the father's mistooduct mak' detendant's service be took it with all the risks of such The fact is, the marriage was solemnly performed and the
be forthcoming. 'swim will se regularly executed as ani,two acts of their nature
The Load Chief Justice-Every opportunity had been Mr. Baron Wilde-All the ordinary rinks-all except could possibly revile. and am testimony of the facts I
awed to the parties ; but I must asy the result has been those which flowed from the magliceace at the defendant tract I have furnished." So t t she evidently connected
to negative anything Lire such misconduct as to justify the The learned mussel wee omeedng to cite eases to show in her mind the two seta of the marriage and the will.
removal of the child. that the defendant was mot- liable, whim the court rose, and As to the testimony she referred to, it was
Mr. Seymour -Your lordship may be overlooking all ides the further arguments were adjourned. obviously worthless. Instead of procuring the evidenoe of
ef the general conduct of the father. her father (who was still living), or ef her =bead's friends,
Tlpi Lord Chief Justice-This is not matter for answer COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL she sent certificates troth • 2•1•• and • leernetreen But
to them andante The girl herself does not Rugged any OAM/fa-Nov. 23. the declarations of the family were numerous and =waver.
seal grounds. Mg. In a letter to Mr. Robert Sodden, Mr. John Patrick
Mr. Justice Hill-The question before the court is-le (Before the Judge Ordinary, Mr. Jun** gniatmln, and wrote on the 10th of November. "He has acknowledged
tide girl of 15 to set her father's authority at &dame? Mr. Justice Williams.) !Unwell guilty of an error, the aely me in his life-an unto,-
114._Seymour then proceeded to argue that when owe a SIDIDDIX AND SIIIIDDIN r. TunATIVIMFIT-GERTRAL MID tuner propensity which you well know. It led him to his
child hid reached the age of 14 the court met not to in- PATRICK AIID PATRICK (CITRD rte 813 PSOCIULDINGB). ruin ;it famed him (on the 7th inst.), at the moment when
to terfere restore it to • father if it thou t the child The evidence for the petitioners having at last been death wee before his eyes, to an alternative that be could never
was able to =oohs a discretion. In the present case no one nonspioied. have contemplated-a union with • woman that bad bog
could doubt the ethaelty in that respect d the child. mr. Holt, Q.c., aghneeed the couch kw the bees with him in • differeat situation. His motives in
The Chief Juggles thee delivered ehe teamed of the Messrs. Patrick. The young lady whobdeg the ewe thhi proceeding were pure ; they were dictated by a feel-
Wart, mYing-No cam whatever has been -dads out en the with 110th remarkable skill bad complained the diageffiy 4 heart ;he conceived it • dut7,, a mom.. kcal, a•d
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part of these who motet the application lothe court, that this he which she was pieced by hest., to "do* such anu rat obligation to rescue from • state or bastardy and nitro-
ebikl shotdd be delivered to the tither, against the father ; without pmfeseional assistance ; but he dit be was duce to the world, with all the privileges common to the
mad to show that if he is entitle( in punt of law to the warranted is mynas that it was byte ioners' own red of mankind, two infant chillies. It was • hard struggle,
custody of the child, he might with reference to the inter. sabusts inKao that the case h. 41 hen omiuseed th the but the considerations above mentioned preponderated:
este of the child have that right withheld from him. The wey it hag. Equally strong decimations were made by other members
' question, therefore, beconiee simply a question of law, The Judge Ordinen -You need not trouble yourself about of the family in America, and were read by the !earedwhether • father le entitled to the custody of his daughter thee. Then in no side box which you have on this occasion counsel. Reverting to the death-bed letter Mr. Bolt
at the ace of 13, when that daughter, without any adequate to eageem pointed out that there were tram in Mr. Polders books of
and justifying cense, desires to withdraw herself from the - postage for a 3d. American letter. Moreover, Mr. Patrick,
parental care sad control. Unhappily that ix so in forwarding to Mr. Huai, the agent of the petitioner,
is the present beanie, for this unhappy girl, the duplicate, bad mentioned that the first of *scheme bad
inimesel I fear by evil weasels and evil example, already been given to Mr. Sbeddeo, and Mr. Hunt had not
le dissirowe, without adequate motive, of withdrawmg denied that such was the cue. The learned counsel then
MEW from the care and affectionate control of ridiculed the wholesale manner in which charges of the mod
her frethers to mat herself upon those hy wham she is likely serious character had been east apon almost everybody who
to le .did,sad perhaps her eventual dedructiou thus be bad bad anything to do with the Sharlene ; and at the
enathel. If we weld save her from such • reads we should close of his address the court adjourned.
vein he eller sun iatermwition. Now the question is what
I. the salmi of the father • coatroL The cues go to this,
thdeltimpeab • father is entitled to the custody of hie child
up to the me of 30, yet a court of law will vent interfere
etheemrilv to withdraw a child from the custody it may
Mgr* to be in if the child has attained the age of disci..
the. The whole queues then resolves itself into tine-
Wliel le the age el discretion ! We think it right to say
this sewn wholly repudiates, as fraught with the most
thegerous coosequearee, the doctrine that mental
precocity will give a child the right to si Ali-
. draw from the parental control, if it stmld not have
happened to reach the age whet the law free it. Why the
very fact of the mental precocity right above everything
else be the mesas of Imams a young girl into mischief and
danger. Now, the legi..lstu re hu thrown light upon the
subject. There le one statute which declares the age of 16
as that up to which • female child ought to be subject to
the parental control. By the light of that statute the
court may safely be guided. As I Save said before, there
is mottling to show that the father is not a person fit to
0141/6•llthe {weasel control. The result Am, therefore, that
the court orders the child shall be delivered ion, his rude
AM lie me point out this conclusion upon the matter. If the
=who have thus encouraged this young girl, and who
tee their beat to baffle the authonty of this court,
heil bees indicted under the statute, can any one doubt but
last they would lave been fthad guilty! And if so, bow
sea the mut comet that the melody of the child should
remain with them! The order of the court is, that this
yeses pi be rewired to her father, and that he do now
take posessocie of her. I will add, we have not come to
thin conclusion without great cossideratMn, nor without
consulting the judges of the other two courta, .11 being
unanimous in thinking that the view of the law which this
court has now expressed is correct.
Mr. Sleigh legged, on behalf of Mr. Barford, to with-
draw the notions for tbe attachment of John Howse and
Mrs. Hopkins, as he had so desire to have his conduct re.
Wive to those individuals consume, into vindictivenem
Be would, however, ask for coda against them.
The Lod Chief Justice-What authority have you for
each an application!
Mr. Justice Hill-The court never gives costs on motions
for babe's corpus.
The young girl was then removed from court, led out by
her father and attended by her stepmother ; she showed
the utmost reluctance to go with her father, and wept
bitterly.

Mr. Bolt said the documentary evidence which he should
adduce would place his ease horned the malt of suspieMa ;
and tits effect of the parole evidence which he should also
flint Would be leand very greatly to =term the inference
One denim Irma the papers. There was one of the pro-
positions savasam by the other skis with which be core ally
.r:Vend that to wee with roped the marriage law of
ork.By that law, he agreed, no eccle•Metical rite
or ease nwermany was neceesery to constitute a valid mar.
rip. Bat there most ia America, as in England, be a con-
tact between the mee and the woman, and there must also
be the fact of a moonier ; though be agreed that that might
be proved by habit sad repute. But here his concur-
genes with the other side stopped. Their story was this :
Moms was living near New York • gentleman of character
eat nepectability equal to that of Mr. Shedden, and
whether he was of equal wealth was wholly immaterial.
Tide gmithiman bed a daashter, who. in the roar 1789 or
1790, was above 11, eat to whom Mt. Shecliien paid big
addressee with a view to en hoeourable marriage. There
was aa objection on theground that she was too young, but
that was an objection which time would cure.
The Court—That could hardly be the case, for in the
asesatime the man would also be getting older. (Laughter.)
I sadentood that the *mike was owing to the disparity
a_ran.
Mr. Molt understood that the objection was rather that
the lady was too young. However, the objection, as it was
alleged, we annetred, and the "arises took place. Such
was the seas to which the petitions= pledged themselves.
Bat could any bursae being coneeire the possibility of such
• snarriege taking place in 1730, sad of all evidence of the fact
being lost by 1798„ though the yoang lady's father and most
of her friends must have been still living It was no am
of an illicit amour gradually ripening into • cohabitation se
man and wife. It was indeed mid that in Scotland a men
might sometimes fled himself married before he knew of it
at all. But that was not the case in America. There mast
in that country be the fact of ma rrlap ; end if a marriage
had taken place in 1790 it must have bete readily provable
in 1798. It was not like the Berkeley ease, where a person
in humbler life was alleged to here by privately married
to a peer in the presence of no pee bat her brother and the
clergyman ; where lewd Berkeley pa=rented the marriage
from appearing in the register book of the church ;
mad where, to avoid the hostility of the family, the lady was
content to live as her husband's mistress, until the death cif
the clergyman, and the consequent lose of evidence ren-
dered it arnessary to repeat the marriage ceremony.
The Omni—There was a reason ted for the death-
bed maretag•—in support of which, Low ever, there has
been se evidence, unless indeed it is to be gathered from the
ekeissastances of the ass--namely, that Mr. Shedder,
&Avg his Weems, had discovered come design to dispute the
legitimacy of his children, and that therefore he had de-
terniieed to have the ceremony of marriage performed, so
as to place the matter beyond a doubt.
Mr. Bolt—That might be • theory advanced by the
seher aide, but they bad given no evidence in sup-
port of it whatever. But now what was the ma*
et his (Mr. Bolt's) clients! They said that in 1789
there was a penes named Ann Wilson living in New York,
who at that received Mr. Shedden at her own house. After
g time the became la the habit of visiting him, and at
kagth, towards the sad of his life. she took up her • per-
=mat abode at Ids rssidshos. They asserted, moreover,
that ber habit and repute wee utterly opposed to the idea*,
her ever having been received by persons of character and
Mellen as Mre. Shedder. This they would show by wit-
s's= who wine liaise at New York at the time ia (Nee-
dle, and who weld peeve that she was • person openly
and nenniously of light character. Beside', on the 7th
el Noversber,l79B, just after his marriage, Mr. Shedden
and* his will ; and in that document he left his wife,
this lady of the highest repute, an annuity of oaiy 400 dollars
—some 901. a-year. timely that was not the sort of proviaiou
whisk he wouMheve madefor• woman who had been thee&
reheat= of New York for impious mad charitable behaviour,
if he was really& penal of thawed* which had been alleged.
Then hedirected his son to be seat to Sootlead,aeilappointed a
guardian for lug eldest daughter. As for his \ oungest dough.
ter, one would have thought that he would have been con-
tent to leave her simply is the care of her mother ; but he
Ale bequeethe I her to hie widow's cam so long as she fol.
hewed the advice of his executes. but that was not all.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS COURT.—Nov. 23.
Won Rt. Commiedoaer
111 DIAN LUIAZOIT IIIIIANOFT.—J1D0112:17.

This Insolvent, a young Georglan,
_who had been a mess.
chant at Tiflis, and whose OW 11111 been several times
before the court, appeared for adjudication.
Mr. ilargood 1 far • Moscow merchant named 1
Schwaremluld, owu a creditor to 2,0001., and Mr.
Dowse espportod.
The ease, which was originally before the late Mr. Coin-
Milliolllll Murphy in May. last, presented mane remarkable
feature". The insolvent in • few months, in the year 1868,
obtained goods from Russian merchants to 4,000/. He was
known to be the son of a respectable man at Tithe, and
some years ago had • few traneactions with the op-
posite( creditor. The Insolvent represented that he
woe to commence as • merchant, and succeeded in get.
Hag the goods. The first bill given became due about the
lltli Dumber, in the same year, and on the 24th of the
same neenth the insolvent Walled hie passport. He did
not leave, he alleged, until February, and, after Tilting
various parts, he came to London, and in *rich last was
discovered in London and arrested on a capita, sines which
time he had been in prison. To account for the goods which
be bad converted into money he stated that he had paid
eaveral persons about 1,0001. for money borrowed ; he bad
purchased • note on the St. Petersburg Bank, which turned
out • forgery, and he had to repay the money and indict •
person, which was aa a:pensive proceeding ; ,he had left
about 5001. worth of property with his father, who had
remitted him borne money since he had been in prison.
According to the insolvents account be left Tiflis
with shout 600 rouble', and had since received
two sums of 701. and 401., and yet in his
balance-sheet his expenses in travelling, &c., considerably
exceeded the amounts he alleged he had received. Since the
hearing in May last the insolvent had obtained his books
from Tifiis, and since his hearing in the beginning of the
present month he bad written to the learned commissioner,
and alleged that he bad not understood the charge against
him until he read the report of his case in the newspapers.
The communication bad been handed to the egoista of the
opposing creditor.
In the course of the case it appeared that a person be-
fore he can quit Russia must advertise Lis intention in a
government paper two or three times, and it was stated
that it hod happened that a parson's departure was Weer-
tised before his arrival, in order to save time. Such wee the
opinion, it was stated, eritertaioed of English justice by
merchants in Ramie, that on the first eternisation the op-
posing creditor had come over to give evidence. It appeared
that since the Lut hearing some letter received by the
insolvent from his father had been produced, and tram.
tided for the information of the learned Commissioner, who
had, it was admitted on both sides,hestowed great pains and
patience on the case.
Mr. Comminioner Nichols, in giving judgtnent, reviewed
the two points urged in opposition—name)y, that the goods
had be obtained b 7 a deep-laid scheme of fraud, and that
the property so acquired had been fraudulently made away
with. He was of opinion that the evidence dad net warrant
him in arriving at the comdusios that the goods were
obtained by the insolvent without any intention of paying
for them. There had been some transactions previously
with the opposing creditor, and the insolvent was known to
be the son of • respectable man, The question then arose,
what had he done with the goods and the meow be had
realised! It was quite clear that before the first bill became
due the insolvent had applied for his peasport, and his
whole conduct showed that he did not intend to ray the
opposing creditor. Whilst he acquitted the insolvent of
fraud in contracting the debt, be was clearly of opinion that
his undue had been dishouritin disposing of the Meetly.
Now, • startling fact in this ease was, that few nearly 2,01.51 L

AITHUI DROWN STF-.LH, ♦Fr= wt., JOHN HAMILTON,

Our attettion has hese drawn to an error which occurred
in the report of this came appearing in our columns of
Thursday. 1n the report Mr. Brown Steele, instead of
srir the complaittact before the 'wastrels@
at laverPool. ww4 alinrugh inildrertenee, made to appear ea
batueet.
the party charg with the mfringemeut of the act of par-

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.—Noy. 23.
Sittirip in Brneo.-411star• Len{ Chief Justice Erie and
Jailing, 17Ma and Keating.)
rots AND OTRICM V. CILTEOVITCH.-THS LATE WAS BETWEEN

?LUPUS £PD AUSTRIA.
The plaintiMe were merellante in Leaden, trading ender
the dam of Van Nonce and Cu., and the defendant was the
oaptain of an Austrian wawa, wh,,L in November, MA
the pleintiffe ebarterwl to prone.,{ to Havannah, load a
cargo el sugar, and take it to Etiglezd, and subsequently to
one of certain ports named. On the 30th April following
an eselemenmet was wade upon the height,
to the
effect that, in coosi4cratioo of an advance in freight, the
vessel solght ultimately be seat to one of certain other ports
roil among then, Coponi. tgen. The new, of the war lot
sat then resolted Havaineab, hat it did arrive on the