The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-13 00:00:00

CHARGE AGAINIST A SUIROZON AT
NANCIIBTEL

At the sitting of the Manchester Court of Record,
yesterday. before John Monk. Bel., moorder them our
tried a car. " Dale v. Wainwright," in whiph the plaintiff,
a dieseraker, sought damages for an assault ..onuitted on
the liith Jamey. The defendant, John Wale Wainwright,
Is a physician, rattan( as a argon, and rosi=
B and, Osfeerd-ritreet, Manchester. The d
plydag that be had not contained the wadi; and that the
rbeing unlawhily in his house, &c., he gently laid
d l upon her he the purpose of ejecting her. Both
dideadarg mem aseabei. After counsel had
=rad sash side,
The Dew:tay.liesiokor, • witsmoig cop remarked that this
seas simnel r pebbi a me as had mar been ion in a court
•=os. Oa the ems had them wen• yoacr womanwho
ly avowed thee its had fallen from the paha of
arta_ , and lived 4yam la la; sad am the other hand a
dalladaat who did vet deny that be bad taken adesatage
the opportunities Jaded bien by his bag the medical
alleasat In • respectable badly, to become aoquainted
WlLLthe plaintiff, and to memo brw• that be continua
to seek her e.iery so long sa the min_ kw, to which
she became entitled on her smithies she Zabled her
to maintain herself; and that when eta hal nothing to
live upon be abandoned and WA her without the
smallest mesas of obtaining the wary argessarlas of lib.
When two persons were Slued cornier to • court et imam,
each corferiag sn equality of sin, the one snandating
some shame and contuake of face at the confession, and the
other bearing a bold—be bad almost said an audacka•—ftr roat
under the accusation, it was for the jury to say which of
them came with the merit credit, end which of these they
thought beet deserved their eympathir. In this case, be
fthe deputy recorder) new coo way whatever of libereling as
yury from the coorlsaios that one party or the other led
Intended to deceive them, sod by them verdict they most say
which of the two our so deceiving them. The lamed judge
then read through the elude of the evidence, making ear
Mal commeeta upon it. He said he concurred a the ober-
atone of the learned mined who had just Addams& thas
with so much eloguence end power, sa to the harden yaw
ow in which the defendant spike of burning the pear gars
letters. It was as beardees a thing as he hod ever hard •
man confess. Fora men who had recently lost his wife, to
whom one would soppoes be had at one time been tenderly
attached. who had adored a young girl, and who knew her
misery, destiation, and entchedaess, to barn her Was
without even seeing what her statmat was, soma to
him (the jags) a very ad, hard, eases actin. Almost
the last obarratios of the learned corneal for the
Js-
fendant was, tt You ham wen the way la obit=
tit rem bar evidence," imputing that it wee
to bar, but It atoned to him (the jolgo) thee as was to
'One smog ovapiwered with a sense of the degeadalla
and disgrace that she had brought ups herself, lad bar
general desaancer appeared to be in her devour. The joy
would ham to my, in the first place, whether there was say
smelt counettbd If they believed her, be eatimating the
smut of demages which they would give, they had no right
M consider the sed action, we to think of punishing tho defen-
dant tocauve he had behaved bearticaly towards tt e unfortu-
oate victa of his bat ; but they had a right 'o -o;nproriste hi r
her bodily ouffering, eat for ouch mental suffering se
ehe had endured through being Area by the man to whom
she bad given her affeciiees. If they rave dinnages at all,
he 'amid atria that they amid be namable and moderate,
and not what were celled mato:tire damages,
The jury consulted fir a few manna., when the. foreman
*Aired what amount of damages could be given in that
court.
The Deputy-recorder said be thought he ought not to tell
them but upon Mr. Wheeler ermaraug that the amount
at which the damages wee.' laid worn stated in the recoid and
be bed forgotten to mention it, the learned judge said
the ; ary mat only give what they beitryed to be nascatbis
ilmagge. The estieme moat laid In the daelsestion was
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Ake ten minutes' roasultatioa, the jury retained a ter
diet fd the plaintiff—damages tOi.