The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-06 00:00:00

TUE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1858.

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COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Nov. 5.

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1170111 s. LADY zolloansm—llLANDll.
This was as arra law& by the plaintiff, nephew of the
late Led Diessnek spar Lady Moorhen, for slimier cen-
tered ha esseetymene brim alleged to have been written by
bar 112•11, sad meemihrg impronows prejodichd to ths
ha errs was WY Wore Lad Campbell at
riestmlaster, at the advisee stew hat Trluiry Term, sod
resulted la a redid der dr plaint&
Mr. Macaulay met tend for a rule calling on the Oahe-
tiff to deem arm idly the verdict should not be set ride cm
the giew•di that II wee spine the weight of evidence, sad
else ea greerie d atisdheeden by the learned judge, end at
the serceerme adulates at evidence, sad why there should
not, es theme pewits, be • new trial. By the retutsble
kw • sox glean, it was alleged, to the court to
perlit hiedwriting to be compared with other
=t • the Judge, in retrace to such evidence,
ibd te ember the minds al the jury. The
ark* vas as et eft estremely portal nature, and wee, he
deneelle bombe, et the diaper importance to the de-
dest._

LeedOmegese—Thire cos be no doubt el that.
Mr. Masoday--Lad It is upon these grounds I ask your
I alga the ewe to go to a new aid.
IVlb
Cionaboil—No one can object to your doing so.
Mr. Macealay—Lady Mahon le shout 60 years of ege,
end wee the wife dthe List Lord Mabel, who had se-
veral Meal= sod me see. Le Nal be martied this lady,
by whim be had se Wee. In 1862 he bequeathed the title
al sewed bey elate le Ids ton, who wee • lunatic, end the
Mom* lerli_whe bed slow died, wee tenant in tall, with re-
adobe to Mr Might', the plaintiff, who stood in the Ma-
lice of Nephew, by resalege, to Lady Moran. Lord
Diarrhea died in 1862, cad the lunatic lord also
died in that yew, and Mr. Hughes,_ the r
in beams tisane tail. In the aseetime Lady i:
We the whole al Lord Disorbeie property, which wee
vwy kegs. The milkmaid") haves -tidy lady Medea sad
Mr. Hoare wee simply this :—For woms reeds the lets
Lord Malta bed never mom the weed Yr. Hughes
wed he wan abed 17 or 18 yews al age, whom Lady Moor-
hen Wedded them to melt other. Lady Males dew-
womb letreimed Mr. Hughes to hat Me de ad velettves
la Lembo, ad he as invited by her to Land Fork about
•no m& helms Lad Dinorbeds death. Thondlers all they
Wowed lady Dlorobon up to that time woe, that she bed
been lice
iW sssiedlemi of commookallee bears= Mr.
ad his tLa 1882 the lemmas bed sod=
babe add yew Mr. Make merrisil the iergMsr at
Lied lierresowsze—lfies LAM. TINA was in thet year ea
applied= to the Court et Ohonew, by Mr. Shighte to be
appointed ens of the wanoilles el landless of the
In
lord, end Led Dheorben mend hit eggidolmest. the
will of lad thew wee a met ellordos
preying the Lad Dr he 111111.111 rbe °Psi=
the eseembles foe oho et tie lendia. Thom-
km, the wilt ground of Medea brewed Mr. Hughes
ad lady Moats was thee stair. Whoa the natter
w hefts the Lord Chowder, a
leek_
Ibis hawses Mr. Higbee lied ladas=
M whit& Kr. Higher addressed bee as "My dew Lay
Daerhe," and the, in solormonele a pelbe ~
ad civil rawer
to him. He had now adagio baddips el el dem omelors.
That was in the yew 1888, ad it wee met milked, er even
seggosted, until the moth den Js, 1857, that it bed OM
bre attributed to Lady Mabee the she had emosobledlthe
gross sot of writing sleaderous enonymose lefties ; bat lis KM
month Sir L. Sotheby wee madidate for the repreemoledon
In parliament of .A, and Mr. Hughes received ea
anonymon• kelier hiss to oppose kW. He gave that
latter to Str R. Beasley, who mid,- "I have also got mossy-
mom Wan Nista( to yen, and hire is ow d them, and it
wet tattles by lady Disable." These letters wire submitted
to Mr. Martineau, lady Dinorboa's atterwa, who positively
Meld that she had written Rem. An investiption took
piece, tad it was clearly proved that the letters
respecting Mr. Hughes were not written by =
Moran, bat they were, uotwithatending,
upon her. He (Mr. Macaulay) begged to submit
to their lordships that the owe wee without a single
intrinsic circumstance to lix Lady Dinarben es the writer of
axes lotion. Colonel Smith, the brother of Lady Dinarbes,
celled, to amsequines of the imputations upon his Mar, an
Mr. limbos ihr ma inflamed, -bat Mr. Hughes deoliad to
meet Wm. Colonel Smith thee enameled that explanations
might be gives vespeoting the baputetione en lady Mortise
to his Med Colossi Ram, but Mr. Hughes declined also
to most Ma geatlemm, ad then se Nam letter was wit-
h& by of
KW& to Kr. Hughes, which led to=
sedan by gentlenten to the
articles of tbllthee
pesos laded Carmel =tine soothe
' elm that, the motion Is question wee brought, end to the
month of November, 1867, throe letters were put in to the
' anon, and a full opportunity was of to all parties to
come to end see and give their °ado= upon those bears,
as of which wee add:owed to the late Lord Ravensworth,
the grandfather of MW Lkldell, Mr. Hughes's wife, and
smother to the We Lord Bevensworth, father of Mr.
Hughes. Both these Wars were libels upon Mr. Hughes
i himself. One advised that oars should be taken of him, " for
be wee In the hands of the Jews, " end statism that he had
got scrofula, both of which imputations were untrue. That
being the state of things, Lady Moorhen tease into court to
defend herself in the action. Ho now came to the trial, the
lame in which wee, "not guilty of publican:es," ou which
Lady Dinorten wee opposed by the Attorney-Oeceral, not
for publication, but solely as to the ad of handwriting.
What he (Mr. Macaulay) had now to submit to their lord-
ships was, that • very great miseerriege had taken plea to
Medea to Wow Wars dash woes net evidince in the owe,
endue* le Wee, sad which did met ease within the meaning
of the wed= of the act reinang to " oceoperison of disputed
heady/big."
Lord Conabell—But that might be 'Addeo that they
was embed by Lady Dinorbern. There was no evidence
that these letters were Is Lady Dieorten's handwriting,
sod IMMO= vinare, were idled to prove that they were
not in her brdwriting, and some also who said that they be.
Wad they wore.
Mr. Macaulay said his learned friend the Attorney-Oehe-
cal wished to reed those letters, but he interrupted and pre-
vented him; and the Attorney-General the. undertook Pot
to reed them, bat that he would give evidence is wppat of
them. Thom we. no power to stop him, and his iserasd
friend reed them letters. To prove Lady Disoden'a head-
writing, seem anonymous letups were put In, all written to
Mitred poem at different times, end speeding weer star
real awl while his leased Mead said they were in a
blend writing, he also did he was goista rind seer
re loth.from Lady Dinorbes, to which be ( r. Macaulay)
deeded. His learned Mend, however, preceded to reed
swami sidaymovs end weadaloat lettere. Now, if those
letters did net eden within the etatutable meaning of the
ad, he submitted hie learned friend had no tight to read
them, and to comment open them to the jury. Hie learned
Mind, however, Introduced them onsuitouely, and not very
propmiy, to desjttry. He (Mr. Macaulay) now submitted
that dune helms had no right to be read.
Mr. Jostles Role—Tbere wee no prism:W..oU common
law by which they could be received In is
Loa Cengliall—No nor of the euttntable law.
Mr. JeMite Wightnian—No.
Mr. Morsels In so fez as their anted, were ceeemired,
they had so trite. to the issue at di, sad the object wee
to show that lady Daman bad writer other seenymions
letters. From the first to the led the proceeding was bre-
gular, end his hared friend, Kr. Jaime, is his reedy
Me widows, took advantage ot times lames le
oS the Weds al the jury, "MI yes Mak Zu;r7.
thsa—estet you think, sae wee likely to write them I"
He (Mr. Macaulay) humb submitted to their knish*
that the lensed judge have shmbesed the minds 0
the jury in rehreste to those lets..,, end he humbly asb-
Wised the the polished part of the argument of hit
Weald Mend, in his reply, wee &ewe from those
WWI. For instance, AN of the libels add to Mr.
Wadi, afterwards Lord Ravenewarth. " I tell you that
the mother of this yams ma batted with Lord
Dborben helm she wee merdel to him; and his
booed Mud seed apts the Jere the it was to be sestund
that lady DIMANNI bed when thine letters, inetuatiolt se
she, se the web el lard Diambee, was the penes meet
likely to bar memenleallain el that kind. He (Mr.
Mswittlay) watemittel dist ibe essteste el those hears ought
set to love beet seetilued by the Jere, end that the
leaned Nies stedd her tam mete step to bale die-
abased eh, lib el the jury on that Debi He sehatitted
' that the Mesedjeige wee not warmed is dedieles thews
laws fa edam% sad he hoped the dna would be et
spleen thet be W seated edlelsot to wade des to a rule.
Led Oldlfeel bed meted the lobate most Mr
finally, Mr• may. sod I think Say are pia whit
donne eteelisethe ; bet as le the WPM* bike
the weight et *Moss. the report meet be mai al%
lettere exhililel he the end eserearey to at sae the
verdict ; end,_ as they wean be inhibited, ul/217:1d
Witless wed* have en eggsfreel 10. end
thus of frig their eve I
think the moot win hater .te 'yesig a role
to thew ems.
Babe ail eseirdleely.