The Northern Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1856-08-14 00:00:00

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In the autumn of 1843, it appeared
that the plaintiff fancied the defendant wail rfA jury we atten-
tions to another woman, and he thought the vvoni4
be of opinion, when they ;heard what his conduct had
been, Chit these suPpicions were probably too well
founded. She upbraided him with his conduct, and the
consequence was, that the courtship was for a tiine broken
defendant, however, would not let her rest, and
ifter—he believed in Docember=b met her

Ise tOld gr. Sale that he was wretched. quite
, at the difference between than, and begged the to
intercede and bring them together again. The consequence
was that they met again at. Mr. Sale's house, and after
much persuasidn the plaintiff,was again prevailed upon to
receive his addresses. He should read to the jury the

very short
Amur). lie

unhappy

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correspondence, which would leave no doubt of what the
defendant's avowed intentions were. He made his own
tnotliPr belipre that he was about to marry the_ young

*ciitiati,. and 'heti the juek Heard that the-,mother eta
pressed a particular desire to have her as a datigh'er;:itil
law, it would probably appear to them a proof of the
nature of the courtship, and at the same time a pretty
strong proof.that the mother had a high estimate of her

charabtier

In .April he had another long interview with
her, when he laid particular stress upon the Pact of their
being about to marry, when he urged her to be faithful td
hint, although it would appear that at the time he was
unfaithful to ker. , There could lip no doubt that at the
time lice was,payirig his addresses to ancither ferttale, for on
the let of. December he Married her, arid at the tithe df
the marriage she was very far advanced in pregnancy,
Therecould, therefore, be no doubt that for a considerable
time he had been acting with the basest duplicity to th 3
plaintiff. • - Mr. Sergeant Wilkins then read a number al
letters of defendant to plaintiff, all of a very commonplace
matter-of-fact character, but all addressing her as
" dear love,"' and Making frequent and hopeful allu-
sion to their approaching Union. Ile concluded by
stating' that it would be proved that the plaintiff's
health had aeVerely stiffened froth the shodk site ,had
received. Mr: Simpson appeared fat, the defendant.
Henry Sale was the first witness examined.: Ile deposed
that he', knew, plaintiff and defendant when both were
liVing at Middleham. befendant frequently told him he
had taken a fancy to Sarah.,Nattrass; and ,that she had
accepted him as her lover. The letters tirdchteed iii eddrt
are all in the writing of defendant. After the Bth July,'
1852, both parties were frequently at his honse. Plaintiff
used to visit defendant's mother. The defendant had a
likeness of plaintiff hanging up in his room. Remembers
the plaintiff going to a situation at Miss Medcalf's, at
Richmond. The defendant sent his love to plaintiff there
through the witness. Defendant frequently came to
Richmond, and saw plaintiff at witness's house. The
plaintiff once expressed a wish to leave her situation, and
defendant; in the presence of witness, his wife, and
brother-in-law, told her to remain there until Martinmas,
and he would then marry h r. She agreed to that. S erne
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did so, and when she came, defendant. asked her to make
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uo her mind, and let them be married as soon as possible.
They appeared then to become quite reconciled, and
defendant thanked witness forsghah.raa
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the quarrel. The plaintiff subsequently left her situation
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him she might be. Remembers the marriage of the defen-
dant, and observed since that event, the health of the
plaintiff seemed to have considerably suffered. Defendant
does a very large business as a butcher, and has some
freehold property beside. Mary Barcroft deposed that
she had seen several letters which the plaintiff received
while at Itetford, from the defendant. Witness, who was
a hoesernald in that place, answered the letters for the"
plaintiff. When the news of defendant's marriage came,
the plaintiff became very poorly, arid her health appeared
since to have permanently suffered. John Tennant
depoied that defendant had some property in Yorkshire,
worth in all about £35 a year. To Mr. Simpson: Does

not know whether there are any legacies to be paid out of
that property. Perhaps the defendant has not that
property clear—he has his father's brothers and sisters
to look to. His Lordship :..Then you conclude a man
cannot have property without all his uncles and aunts
Qhgrirtn. :t Malin} tPr_l Mr_ Slore.onnt Wilirine

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recapitulated the'evidence, and called upon the jury to
award the,plaintiff such damages as her injured health
and marred prospects entitled her to claim. Mr. Simpson
then addressed the jury for the defence, ridiculing the
idea of a breach of promise of marriage between a
'disappointed housemaid and a broken-hearted butcher,
in a country town. He did not dispute the fact that
there hadbeen originally a promise, but contended that
it had been subsequently broken off. He remarked
that it was most unfair of the learned sergeant who con-

ducted the case to have introduced the suggestion, which
he did not attempt to prove, that the woman whom the
defendant married was at the time he married her far

znancy,

advanced in r

_ His Lordship: [ think so, too.
Mr. Simpson called upon the jury not to be biassed by so
unwarrantable and unproved an assertion. He denied
thatt this was a case in which there was any feature
resetnblithz heartle,,s desertion, and under all the circum-

stances, and considering the very moderate means of the
defendant, he urged that the plaintiff was only entitled to
receive very limited damages. Ilia lordship briefly
summed up, and the jury, after'a few minutes' considera-
tion, returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with £5O
damages.

BRENNAN v. HOWARD.—This was an action which was
tried at the last assizes in Liverpool, and a nonsuit entered.
A. point was then reserved for the court above, and a new
trial ordered. Mr. Ovens opened the proceedings arid
Mr. Atherton stated the case. The plaintiff was a manu-
facturer at Manchester, and the defendant a berthing
clerk of Messrs. Grimshaw, passenger brokers, of Liver-
poid. The plaintiff alleged that he agreed with defendant,
on the introduction of a person named Devine, to get
some hampers conveyed to Now York, for doiag which he
was to be paid £7 each when advices' were received by the
plaintiff that the goods had arrived and been delivered to
his agent in New York. The first two hampers never
reached, and when the third arrived, it was opened by the
agent in New York, and found not to contain more than
half the goods. The contents of the hampers were pack-
ages of silk, which appearpd to have been made up in that
form for the purpose of evading the customs' duty in New
York. The action was brought to recover the value of
the goods, which were not delivered. Mr. Edmund James,
Q.C., and Mr. Brett appeared for the defendant. The
defence was, that the defendant only undertook to have
the goods put on board the vessel, and did not enter into
any undertaking for their safe delivery—that he offered
to give the hampers to the mate of the vessel, who was to
have .e 5 for his trouble in taking care of them. The jury
found for the defendant.
The court adjourned at a quarter past six o'clock.

SINGULAR RESCUE OF A FEMALE FROM

DEATH

One day last week (says the Dover Chroniele)'the coast-
guardman on watch at Shakespeare's Cliff perceived a woman
in a recumbent position a little way down the cliff, a short
distance from him. He immediately ran to the station, and
the chief boatman, Alfred Clarke. and his men hastened to
the spot. The woman was about thirty feet down the cliff,
and apparently asleep, although in the meat perilous posi-
tion. With the promptitude peculiar to sailors, Clarke had
the rope fastened around him and descended, but with some
anxiety lest the noise made Should suddenly awaken her, as
he perceived that the least motion on her part would have
precipitated her upon the rocks below. On taking hol tof
her he had great difficulty in arousing her, and when this
s accomplished she struggled hard to free herself from
is thon4h she desired to fall. In consequence of
Hog Ciarlza found he could not get her up alone,
r man therefore descended, and all three were
then pulled up. Oa reaching the summit the woman
exclaimed,." I don't thank you at all. I wished to die, but
not to throw myself off ; and befeie I went to sleep I prayed
that I might roll over before I awaked ! " It appears that
she had" taken laudanum, but not sufficient to destroy.life,
although it stupefied her ; but it
.is marvellous how She
could have rlQpt in such a position; her hip was resting on
a ledge not six inc'at.s wide, her legs hung down, and her
body reclined on the ledge with her head againsCthe cliff.
The Door creature was taken to 'the Dover Female Home,
BB soon as she had been sufficiently. revived.

Administration of John Sadleir's property has been
granted to Mr. Anthony Norris, of Bedford-row. Dablin,
in trust for the creditors, with the consent of the Crown, to
whom it had been estreatf d.
GOING A STEP BEYOND FORBES MACKENZIE.—A corres-
pondent of the Northern Ensign complains bitterly that, by
an order of the authorities, a favourite wildic well in Thurso
is carefully locked up every Saturday night, and kept so till
Monday morning, and that on Sunday a drink of water
cannot be had.

The following changes of quarters of re.,,riments are, we
believe, about to take place : —The 4th, 33rd, 38th, 77th,
and 95th regiments, from Aldersbott, and the 93th, from
Sheffield, will proceed to Ireland, to form the divisions at
te Currag-h and Dublin. The 18th Royal Irish go from
Dublin to the Omagh ; the 16th depot proceed to
Limerick ; the 58th depot to Waterford; the 59th and 88th
depots to Athlone. It is supposed that the 91st regiment
at the Piraeus will shortly go to Australia.

THE TALBOT DIVORCE CASE

TO THE EDITOR OF TAB NORTIIERN TIMES

Sir,—Every one familiar with the infamous " Talbot
Divorce Case" will thank you heartily for your article
upon It, and as heartily agree in your conclusion as to
Mrs. Talbot's innocence. That this case, with all its
horrible details, should be known through the length and
breadth of the land is necessary for the sake of that
Justice whose name is insulted by the decision of the
Law Lords, and it is now all that the best friend of Mrs.
Talbot, or the worst enemy of her deetroyer, could desire.
Allow me then to supply, for the benefit of those whose
attention has been attracted by your article of the 6th
inst, a few of the most prominent features.

The general ease is that Mr. Talbot accuses his wife,
in whose spotless purity he was a most perfect believer
up to a certain day in 1852, or having for four years
previously at his own country residence, himself rarely,
if ever, absent for a day, carried on a shameless, incessant,
and almost public intercourse Wlth his own groom. And

three thins must be remembered, first

was both t

at Mr. Talbo

nster and mistress in his own hou

'ted their it

-that th

tress's position, were

being constantly changed-4nd that Malian, the groom,
is proved to 11 tve laboured a long portida of' the four years

.inner a severe and nauseous disease.

I shall not stop to criticise the varioos "competent false
"by whom the " adultery " was prJval. Wit-

nnsses,

sees successively and in shawa abandoned and replaced

as this case dragl

ad its length along, and witnesses, with

out exception, who deposed to acts said to have occurred
years previous to their examination on the subject, and as