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CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 11.

[Before SIR CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON, ifuitcht.l
MONTAGU'. V. MONTAG VI.

Doctor ADDAMS said that George Conway Montague having
married Marearet fireen Montague or Gretna Green, in Scotland
it the year Iltti3, they cohabited together for several years, having
several children, three of whom were now living. A citation had
issued In May last against the husband, for a seperation by reason
of adultery. There were various itroccedings thereon, and on a
recent occasion there was an application made to the Court that run
persons interested in the result (they having a reversionary intense
of the property of 3lr. George Conway Montague,) should be cited
ace the proceedings in the cause ; that application was refused on
the ground that the validity of the marriage, which could alone
erect them, might not be contested or denied by Mr. Montague.
The Procne in this case had put in the tumal libtl, pleading the
validity of the marriage. and bad given in four exhibits there-
with in support of it, the admission of which he understood sou ob.
jeettd to.
Doctor A istot.n objected to the admission of the libel, and con-
tended that the exhibits should not be received as legal evidence.
The libel pleaded that the marriage was contracted according to the
law of Scotland; then recited the different forma by which marriage
is celebrated. The first article stated that the marriage ass
contracted by the mirth.' at Gretna Green, in Scotland, and that
that they being above the age or pupilage, did in the presence of
divers credible witnesses acknowledge each other to be man and
wife, aeumling to the law of Scotland." He objected to that as
defective ; the term pupilage conveyed no information to the Court,
nor did it allied any opportunity of counterpleading. There was!
also a certificate of James Paialcv ( the variant, stating that be had
been present at such marriage. The Learned Advccateobjected to
the certificate being received as evidence, and cited die case of

Kokes v. Milward this year before the Consistory Court at
Rochester, in which a similar certificate from J. Laing was re-
jected. After citing a variety of macs, the Learned Advocate
stated the charge of Adultery was also ton loosely plncicd. The
parties cohabited together from the time of marriage till 1817, and
afterwards until urn The fact of adultery charged is stated
to have been that Mr. Montague having induced Mrs. Montague
to go to Liverpool, under pretence of residing there, Mr. Montague
returned to his house at Northampton-square, in Islington, where
he lived in adultery with two sisters of the name of Baldwin,
servants in his house, by each of whom he had children. These
I (sets occurred from 1418 to 1820, alter which a cohabitation took
place between the parties. There was no averment that it had only
recently come to the knowledge of 31rs. Montague.
Dr. 411:N SER followed on the same side, and pointed rut
various deficiericies; which, he contended, were apparent in the.
allegation.
Sir C. Rom Nsox—The parties wiU have no objection, I dare
say, to supply them.
Dr. Ls:misc.]. oer —lre will supply them if it is thought nee's.
army.
Dr. ADDaste, in reply, said he did not suppose it would better
the ease, or alter the facts. If the declaration stated that the
parties drove up in a post.chaise to a blacksmith's forge, at Gretna
Green, where they were subsequently married, it would not, he
contended, be necessary that 3lrs. Montague should al/edge the
precise words used by the blacksmith on the occasion.
Dr. Lusutscrost-1 beg to set my Learned Friend right. The
pamon WM a respectable tobacconist. (A laugh.)
Dr. ADDAMS, in continuation, said—The age at which the ca.
pallidity of persons for the marriage state, as termed in the law of ,
Scotland " pupilage," would be round in Lord Stair's Institutes to
be fourteen foe males, and twelve for females. The present parties
were above that age.
Sir C. ROBINSON reviewed the allegations, and the objections
raised against them, at considerable length. After which hr said
it would be desirable to have some of them rendered less ambigu.
ous, and particularly directed that the Ist, 2d, Bth, and 10th Articles,
should be reformed.
The allegation dismissed.

POLICE.

HATTON ()ARDEN.

Sn t P Are It Karst:a:B.—A gentleman, whom we understood to
be a Director of one of the I)ivssional Schools, applied to the Ma-
gistrates of this Office, for • dispensation of the trial time usually
required in the binding of parochial apprentices, on the following
principle, which if generally admitted, would open a door of inde-
pendence to many lads, who, perhaps, are altogether unfitted by
disposition or capacity, from following a trade with any success to
themselves or to the community. The increase of the shipping in.
terest, and the comfortable wages that a young man may earn,
after the expiration of his servitude, were the points to which he
begged to direct the Magistrate's attention. An application for
an apprentice had been made at the school, by Mr. 31• Niece, a re-
spectable gentleman, trading to various parts of the world, who had
a vessel now in the river, chartered for Mexico; when the circum-
stance was mentioned among the boys, seven of them volunteered
to go, one of whom, John Hall, a st•tut lad, was chosen, as being
the fittest and the most anxious for sea-service, and his binding
now only waited the Magistrates' sanction.
The Magistrates, though approving of the principle generally, as
opening a good means of livelihood to a well-conducted lad, yet
rondensited the measure of binding a boy without sufficient trial,
as It appeared this boy had no notion what a ship was; if a fait
trial were given, suppose one voyage, then, indeed, there could be
no objection, and, in fact, it might be more advisible, on many ac-
counts, to send some lads to sea than suffer them to remain at
home.

Mr. 3PN:ece, who attended, concurred in the 3fagistsates' opi.
ninn as to the utility of affording a trial, provided it were not at.
I tended with risk to the apprrntice; because if a lad is known to
have gone to sea before his articles were duly completed, he would
in the event of a war breaking out, be liable to be impressed into
the naval service at any future period of his apprenticeship, and
thus loose the protection of his indentures.
The Magistrates said, that they did not suppose but there was
some exception made as to trial boys.
Mr. M' Niece replied in the negative, and stated that he knew of
instances where application had been made to the Admiralty for the
discharge of persons so impressed, and always without effect.
The Magistrates then suggested the propney of making a
minute on the back of the indenture, that if the boy expressed a
dislike to the sea after the tint voyage, that the indentures should
be eancrlled.

Mr. "I Niece acquiesced In this suggestion, and the boy was
articled accordingly.

LAM BETH-STREET.
ExrB getvr ROBBElY.—Yesterday hear,, KnoVey and C:rorge
Ibis were brought up, charged with being concerned in a mast
extensive system of robbery, which has been earned on for a
length of time on the property of Messrs. Severn, King, and Co.,
the extensive sugar-refiners, in the Commercial-rnaii.
Henry ‘Vidding stated, that he was in the employ of Messrs.
Severn. King, and C. 0., and on the 221 of September last ore of
his employers' waggons, driven by a man named Fowler, arrived
on the premises front the West India Docks, containing five hogs.
heads of raw sugar. Witness assisted in unloading them, in the
course of which his attention was attracted to the drawing hole of
one of the casks, which had evidently been disturbed. Witness
procured the dock'
ticket, which stated the weights of the al
hogsheads. and on weighing the one in question he discovered that
it was 138 pounds short of weight, the original weight being
18 cwt. 3 qrs. 21165., and it then only weighed 15 cwt. 2 qrs. 231bs.
Witness immediately mentioned the circumstance to Mr. Severn,
jun., who had the hogshead reweighed in his own presence.
John Evens, foreman at the West India Docks, produced the
entry books, containing the weights of the hogsheads on delivery,
and the hogshead in question contained the weight as stated on the
dock ticket.

John Whirling said, that on the day in question he saw the
Per
Krniley with the waggon at the West India Ducks , Fow-
-1 err was not with him at the time.

Win. Green, a waggoner in the employ 4 Mr. Drake, a town.
carman, stated, that on the day specified he saw Messrs. Severn,
King, and Co.'s waggon, driven by Fowler, stopping opposite the
King's Head public-house, in the Commercial-road, and the pri.
inner Kernlcy assisting Fowler in removing a large sugar bag, ap-
parently containing • hundred and • half, out of the waggon.
The prisoner Fenn was thers also, and he heard him say to
Fowler, "Don't do it so much by day-time;" to which Fowler
replied, " It can't bide here any longer." Fowler and Kemley
then went down Grovc-street with the bag, and Fenn went into the
King's Head.
Mr. Win. Severn, jun., Raid that Fowler was at that time in hie
employ, but the day after the robbery was detected he absconded,
leaving three days' wages behind hint, and he had not seen hint
since. Ile bad no doubt but this system of plunder had been
carried on for a length of time. as he had found in the waggon
some curious implements used for extracting the sugar from the
hogsheads.
The Maglstretes called on the prisoners for their defence, but
they declined saying anything. and were both fully committed to
Nurgats for trial, and the parties bound over to prosecute.

(From the Lorwlos New Price eget-rest. Nov. 264
COTTON.—There was some considerable business doing in
Cottons early in the week, but the accounts from Liverpool being
unfavourable. checked the request; the market has since become
quiet, but without reduction in the prices : the estimated sales are
nearly lag bags. The letters from Liverpool this morning state
the Cotton market languid ; the prices rather giving way.
St IGAR.--The Sugar market has been very steady during the
week ; the business done very considerable : the prices are without
the slightest variation. The Refined market has been rather heavy
this week : the prices are little varied, except lumps, which are re-
ported at Ves., but the general quotation cannot be stated so low.
rhe request for refined fur the home trade has been steady and
considerable. Molasses ere very heavy at 264. fit. ; there are how-
ever plenty of buyers at 264. In Foreign Sugars no purchases by
private contract are reported. By public sale this forenoon, 271
chests Ilavannah Sugar, fine white 405.; yellow 2112. a 295.
COFFEE.—The prices of Demerara and llerbice Coffee, par-
ticularly the middling and finer qualities, again declined 2s. a 3s.
early in the week, on account of time quantity forced on the market;
since then these has been more firmness. In St. Domingo, Ja-
maica, and other descriptions of Coffee, there has been no altera-
tion whatever: the market finn In price, but rather languid. There
were two public sales of Coffee this forenoon ; the whole went of
steadily, and the middling Jamaica at rather higher prices; fit.
Domingo of a fair quality, 511 s. 6d. and 595.; the late prices are
to-day fully supported.
consequence of there bring no public sales this
week, there has been more business done privately by the whole-
sale houses. A fine cargo of new Cephalonia Curnuits sold by
private contract at 265. Valentia Raisins in boxes are getting
scarce, and no sellers at present under S7s. Denies in baskets con-
tinue to go off very heavily at 375. Cal. a 26•5. In the other descrip.
tiona there is very little variation.
RICE—The business done lately by private contract in Rice
has not been extensive; some fine Carmmlina has realises' 2Ss.; and
no parcels of Bengal white offer under 14‘. a 14s. O.; at the for_
met. price it would be difficult to purchase. By public sale on
Tuesday, 252 barrels of Carolina Rice, middling quality, 3'4s. 6d. a
344. ; only a small portion sold.
RU3I, MUNDY, and HOLLANDS.—The Government
contract for Ruin on Tuesday last had rather an unfavourable effect
on the molls t ; it was taken on terms lower than at first reported,
Is. 34d. to Is. :led. Leeward Island Rum is in consequence heavy,
but there have been no sales at any reduction ; some few small par-
cels of Jamaica Rum have sold, strong quality at full prices, but
generally there is little interest in the Rum market.—Brandies con-
tinue gradually to improve, and to assume much firmness; parcels
housed have been currauly sold at 21. lid. In Genera there is
no alteration.

StPlCES—Nutmegs, which have lately advanced with such ws.
pldny, are again heavy ; the price reached 4s. Bd. per lb. but, we
think. the nearest quotation to-day is 'ls. 41. Pimento, of good
quality. Md. and 91d. Nutmegs, at the cline of this day, have
fallen to a.. a 4a. 21

TALLOW.—Thc Tallow market remains very heavy; the
new 34g.

I:SI/MO.—The low qualities of Indigo, which have lately been
an much neglected, have conic into demand, and sell at a small
premium on the India House sale prices.

We understand the brewers of Lewes have raised the
price of beer and porter $l. per barrel, in consequence of the
advance in the price of hops and tualt.—Sussex Paper.

DIED.
On Saturday. at King's Clitre, Mrs. Bonney, aged 611. who °I
the late Bev. H. K. Bonney, Rector of that Parish, and mother
the Archdeacon of Bedford.
On Monday. in the Precincts of the Cathedral. Canterbar"
aged 08 Lean, the Ref. Thoi,a% Benner, one of the Minor Canal
af„. that Cathedral: Vicar of Saint Altohaite and Rector of Ma
mall* Northgate., Canterbury ; and Vicar of Stone, in the Isle'
OxOn Sney.
unday, Wm. Holt Davimn, of Brand Hall. Simply'.
Esq. He is succeeded in his e%rite.. by Daniel Wilson Doss,
I. only son of the late Dr. Davison, an eminent Physician r°
heeds, Yorkshire.
On Wednesday. in Tabernacle-row, Finsbury-square. 3gld 78'
the Rev. Francis Wrigley.
On Sunday morning, at Argyll Houve. Oa a long Milos.
Rev. H. D. Whittington.
On Saturday, in Portland-place, Bath, Wm. Perfect, KM.
in
in the s2d tear of his age.
On the 12th inst. at Morton, near Souther)). Dorothy Fletcher.
in her led year. She and her husband were relieved as mural'
more than 60 years ago ; and although they had only four Milan:.
yet they have r.ceived at direrent times weekly payments id tiV
amount of move than 1.000/.!
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