The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-17 00:00:00

•OXFORD CIRCUIT -WORCESTER, JOLT 16.

Mr Justice Hill got through the cause tut to-day. The
common jury causes tried oat consisted of two actions as to
the right to a small bit of lead and • mud hole, and some
disputed questions of account. The special jury cause wee
not tried, ea arrangement having been made between the
parties.
Cupwx COM/T.—(36ton Mt. Justice Bike.)
• GIRL KILL= BY HE& BROTHER
George Fetters was charged with the manslaughter of his
dater at Oldbury on the 19th March last.
Mr. Chance conducted the prosecution. The youthful
ga *wooer was undefended.
The brother end sister worked together is a eolliny et
Oldbury, sod hsoiog quarrelled, the sistv ben the kosher
badly, on which he threw a lamp of bard clay at the do.
teased, which struck her on the head under the ear, and
mead her almost instantaneous death.
His lordship, of .1-bearing the evidence for the promotion,
thought it was a case of justifiable homicide, the boy only
Laving stood up in self-defence.
The jury acquitted the prisoner.

NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yoaz, JULY 16.
(Before the Lord Chief Bum.)
ROXFAR V. ROBINION-MACH OF PlOllllll OP
NIA/MAO&

Mr. Blowhard was for kW plaiatlff ; and Mr. Overond,
Q.C., for the dafoodant.

—tine—plaketlif is the daughter of poor, bat respechble
parsed residing at Leeds. Her father la a nee collector,
ben though poor had been well brought up ; she bad bees
In tea situation of a "cycler., end had always con-
ducted kers& well. The defendant is a butcher, mho
ridding at Leeds, and he sad the plaintiff harms
acquainted in November, 1856. He asked to be allowed
to become her suitor, permission was granted, sad be
wee a constant visitor at the house of the plainttra father.
He sometimes took his meals there, and he was at all them
received and nested as the inters husband of the plaintiff.
Defendant wee upon the most intimate teems with bee, they
walked toget her, and he took her to church. At other dams
he went with her to hie hoe" and there was see chyme-
dance worthy of remark, that ha peranted her with her
likanses—Oagghtsr)--hoeght her nnesio, and aatielpating
the happy time whin he would Beaks her his wife ha put
upon it the name of " Mrs. Robbessa." The beds= of that
defendant being • butcher, he chewed her his desk where
she would have to make up his books and in the presses
of a vry respectable witness, he said the *Stiff
would be Mrs. Robinson within Mrs weeks. The haus
were published, end everything went on well for a consider-
able time, a sister-in-law being told by the defendant that
she would be looked upon aa • relation or connexion after
wards. The defendant was then a widower, and with re-

femme to two children of his, he said the plaintiff would
become the stepmother of two of the handsomest children in
Loads. (Laughter.) He pointed out to Miss Ourtt a rocking
chair—(renewed laughter)—sa well aa • bell, which he said
would be used to ring up the plaintiff's maid in the morning.
(Laughter.) Matters become not so smooth in March of last
year, but afterwards they went on swimmingly until
July. The banns had been published, the de-
fendant himself saw end admired a wedding drew
which had been bought, and criticised It, and said the plain-
tiff would look extremely well in it. The defendant, how-
ever, failed to make the plaintiff his wife, and married
yams woman named Webster. The plaintiff is 38 years of
sga, and the defendant 37.
The defence was that the defendant was insolvent, and un-
able to fulfil his engagement with the plaintiff, such engage-
meat never having been absolute, but merely conditional,
when his circumstances in life improved. It wasalso alleged
that the plaintiff, by • written document, signed by her,
exonerated the defendant from his engagement.
It was agreed to dispose of the case by the withdrawal of a
juror—s course which met with the approval of the judge.