The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-04 00:00:00

fferjeant Armstrong concluded ism speech to-day by say-
ing that She cam, a It had now beat relented tri.them,
dieseed,• he appraise /We a..icvd deal hem *if aspect in.
which ft hO. been placed before them by &dean% Sullimm.
Inetsed of Ithe the victim al sedneticat the woman was an
emehantrem and a syren ; and be believed that a deadly
blew would be indieted oa public troth and ammeMlp if the
' jury regarded the sulfas in any other light. , '
There was a slight applause in the court an the (mein-
idea of the lammed aerjeent's address. The cos* then ad-
journed Inc few minuted, and on resuming, Mr. Whiteside
proceeded. *midst a hush of, anxious expectation, to reply
on behalf of the plaintiff. He commenced as follows : .
May, it please your lordship and gentlemen of the jury,
it becomes my duty, at the end of this protracted trial, to •
embeavdcer to the best of my humble abilities to mine the
evkkase that you have beard, and ask you to eastrarrt that
evidende.with the impartiality of honest minds, end so pro-
seams that verdict' which will ,he readved with joy by
every boast man in thole*. Vast as are the questions
which see involved in the issue, surprising as are the inci-
dents that have been thrown into the trial, it is well to till '
your attention to the principle of the action that jou are at '
this moment called upon to try. This Man anion
brought by Yr. Thelwall, that English gentleman :
whet* chancier has been spared, to my meet* by
the poundel for the defendant, who swears. to you that be
bas brought this action because he knew Thelma Longwortb
was the wife of the defendant, because she bad been intro-
dueed, to him as the wife of defendant, because be aaso-
dated with her, tad as such lie has given her that rapport !
to whir/ she was entitled, and sot cad word that Mr. Tbel-•
wall has proved has been disproved or questioned. It is at ..
the outset repot the remarkable fade of the case that, ,
while the teelinsany of Mrs. Velvet= has been impeached,
the whole of, the evidence in the case stands animpeached.. -
Imy confidently the law of this country Me was truly mid' 1
by Dr. Hall) enables a jury to give demagog, avail in a ease '
where a female may have been reprosested to have bees
the wife of the defeadent, because if to represents her es
him wife and holds her out as much. sad Om GrPOlO. her ‘:
to ninny and destitution, the law in its wisdom iaterpsese
and says, " You must support at least the woman whose
character and happiness you have destroyed." Here
the• action is founded on the very fact that
this lady is the wife of the defendant, and the
law says to the defendant—" There are limits to
your depravity, sad if you have married two wives, at least
you shall support the one that is yours in the•sight of God .
amd the law el. bllit country." That is our pretension, and
now what you me empanelled to try. There is no such case,
my lord, in the annals of the law as the present. I lave
heard of actions brought to prove that people were married '
who were not married ; but this is the first trill I have
kaown to unmarry a man and woman minted in the sight :
of God. This is not a trial to show that that marriage
moor took place, but that. having taken place, to prove
teat it ought not to have its legitimate and natural and
bppl effect so far as the woman is concerned.
' Mr. Whiteside has not yet concluded Ids shims to the

I:llcmtv Ssavics lierarrrriox. The annual
meeting of the members of this society took place on Satur-
day, at the Gaited Service Institution, Whitehall, hie Gram
the Duke of Somerset in the chair. The report which was
reed showed that during the past year there had been a net
imam of 174 members, as compared with 98 in the previous
year, and that the reeeipts had exceeded the amount esti-
mated by 3271. During the last year 812 members had
increased their annual subscription from 104. to It. and
upwards ; 124 life members had paid an annual mth-
scription of 10c or more, or a further composition on
their life subscription,. A NUM of 8761. 14s. bad been
received from the legacies of Mrs. Watson and Major-
General. Law. Arrangomeute bad been made by which
members and dicers serving abroad could receive copies
of the society's journal. The lib , museum, and
topographical department had been enriched by numerous •
dematioes, and the lectures of the lut lemon bad been of a
very satisfactory and useful character. By an alteration of
the bye-laws made at the last meeting, offices of volunteer
cone were admissible as members, upon the some footing
se thaw of the regular service. The report wu unanimously ,
adopted. On the motion of Colonel Lindsay, seconded by
Colonel was Yorke,
resolved that the council should be
authorised to of such of the Chinese and Indian
curiosities, and the Greek sod Roman antiquities (with the
exception of the collection of coins), which were not of in-
terest to the naval and military professions. The thanks
of the meeting were given to the noble chairman, and the
proceedings then terminated.
MURDER AT Hole.—At the Hull Police court
en Saturday George and Thomas Pilkington were charged
before T. H. Trans, Esq., with having caused the death of
• fisherman named Henry Savers. Mr. Pettergell appeared
for the prosecution, arid said that on the identity of one
of the prisoners being proved the charge as against him
would resolve itself into one of wilful murder. From his
instructions, the death of theldeceased appeared to have been
' caused under the following circumstances. The smack on
which the deceased was employed, on coming into the
Humber Dock basin on Friday night ran foul of the Fox-
hole flyboat, on which were the two prisoners, and in order
to clear the vessels the demand boarded the flyboat, and
was pushing the smack off when one of the prisoners came
up to him. and with an oath swore that if ken did not get
a • would throw him overboard and drown him. Not
content with the threat, he afterwards kicked deceased
several times, until he forced him overboard between the
bows of the two vessels, and whilst in that position the
deceased was kicked six times over the head, after which
he fell intothe dock and was drowned. Several witnesses
having been called the prisoners were ultimately remanded
till Tuesday, to await the result of in examination of the
body.

THE BLACKBURN WEavass.—The weavers of
Eilackburn had a ineJting on Thursday night, which was
Enumerously attended. Charges having been made
at the secretsry and members a the committee of the
Milan Weavers' Association of having brought the opera-
tives into the streets, and then " sold' them by advising
them to resume work before the object for which they left
their looms had been attained, several members of the
committee and the secretary replied at great length.
They denied that they had *brought the operatives into
the streets; they complained that the operatives
had left their work without consulting the committee.
All the members of the committee concurred in recom-
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mending the operatives to resume work, and although
the statements adduced were received at first with murmurs
of disapprobation, eventually a resolution was pared unani-
mously to the effect that the operatives resume work on
Monday morning at six o'clock. It was also resolved to ap-
point two deputies from each mill to form a board te decide
upon what steps should I,e taken—these deputies to le the
media of the committee with the operatives of such mall, so
as, if possible, to prevent the misunderstanding which had
led to the present complication. It is more than probable
that the whole of the mills in Blackburn will resume work
on Monday, but as the document signed by the masters on
Wednesday also affects the eut.thstricta, where the feeling
(especially in Darwen) is very decided against resuming
work, it is feared that there may be another stoppage
when the notices posted on Thursday expire.—MarrAcster
Guardian.
THE RocHDALE WORKINO MEN AND PARLIA-
HINTANT imroun.-013 Friday evening a number of the
working men of Rochdale assembled together in the Tem-
persoce Hall, in that town, to consider what step should
pwlres:idithuideannteonuatoftthhheeoodeNtroecnsufftietlhaectorersgteti:e
be taken by them on the question of parliamentary reform.
About one hundred persons were present, and Mr. Isaac
propositionHoyle,fr tblneg
occupied the chair. A resolution was pared in favour
ReTresohisfonnluwt..4ioA7 tobowbe.
of holding a great public meeting op the question ; and •
eubtaidted to that meeting should be so framed as to ask
ever, negatived by a alight majority.