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her prospects? and did you not then feel, that among other
charges brought against you at that bit from which there
ihallhe no ;weal, this charge would be written against your
name, and that the Judge would then say,—' Inasmuch as
you did it unto the least 01 these, you did it unto me?"'
Mr. NIA9.A.IILAY, in opening the plAintiff 's co to the
iury, commented upon the propriety and delicacy of the
plaintiff's leners, end the coarse vulgarity displayed in
those of the defendant, whoM ha described as a man of
so hot and tyrannical a temper that he had acquired the
tole of 6' ling of the Marsh." he charged the defend-
ant with having stated in an affidavit that the plaintiff
had been actuated by mercenary motives; and he wanted
to know what the defendant meant by making such an,
imputation, when he knew that she had at first declined
his addresses on the ground that at that time her affec-
tion for him was not sufficiently strong. He challenged
the production of that affidavit, and also of the letter of
the defendant, to which the plaintiff's first letter was an
answer, and which had beeUreturned.

Mr. Sergeant WILKINS objected to his Learned Friend
swing any matter which he was not prepared to prove.
The Learned JuDGE thought that Mr. MacAulay ought
confine himself to matters which he could prove affirm
'

Afr. MACAULA.Y then resumed his address. He knew
what the object of his Learned Feiend was. If he could
avoid the necessity of giving any evidence on the part of
the defendant he would then, when he had made his
speech, take the opportunity of rioting like a rhinoceros
in a jungle—(Great laughter)—and what he (Mr.
Macaulay) wanted was to compel him by evidence rather
than by comment to explain the grounds upon which he
justified the extraordinary conduct of his client. He was
sure, however, that the jury would riot be diverted from
the path of their duty, but would give to the plaintiff
ample compensation for the serious injury which she had
sustained at the hands of the defendant.

The letters having been put in, and the facts proved as
above stated,
_

Mr. Sergeant Wriaritis addressed the jury for the de-
fendant. He commenced by observing that those who
were not acquainted With his Learned Friend might also
imagine, from the elegant language. which he had used,
that his Learned Friend had conceived some personal
pique against him. He had spoken. of his rioting like a
rhinoceros in a jungle, or bull in a chins shop, and yet
his Learned friend took upon himself to be hypercriti-
cal as to the language of the defendant's letter. He
would not say that his friend reminded him of a rhino-
cerous in a jungle, or.a bull in a 'china shop, but when
he thought of the havoc which he had made with the
plaintiff's ,case he could not help thinking of the old
adage, expressingit delicately to suit his Learned Friend,
of a Jerusalem pony dancing among the chickens.—
(Great laughter.) He. was certainly not surprised that
his Learned Friend had got it into his head to suggest
something about mercenary motives, for any one who
read this correspondence must see. that the beginning.
middle, and end of it was pounds, . shillings, and pence.
Mere was certainly no Hibernian warmth
about it... The letters generally began with the
freezing monosyllable. " Sir," . and tended " Your
respectfully." Once the defendant had gone so far as to
begin " Dear Eliza," bat they never got to the superla-
tive; and great must have been the disappointment of
the young ladies and gentlemen who had come there ex-
pecting tohear the warm expressions of youthful affec-
tion, " Light of my soul," " adorable charmer," or the
glowing description of " an eye which would 'tice a cat
from a herring."—(Laughter.) It was abundantly clear
that from the early part of 1849 the intercourse between
the plaintiff and defendant bad wholly ceased; and it
was not until the defendant insisted upon the payment of
the money which he had lent that the present action was
dreamt of. The plaintiff herself had said that she had
not that affection for the defendant which could induce
her to marry him, and what. was• there since to alter
that intention? According •to the account which his
Learned Friend had given of the defendant, what was
there in this " King of the • Marsh," this coarse vulgar
tyrant, who chewed tobacco to win her affec-
tion? What evidence was there that he had
done so? • • Where was the delicacy of the lady, who
pointedly • refused to• 'pay .her debts until a man for
whom she had no affection would fulfil a promise to
marry her? She would, in his judgment, have exhibited
more true religion by tho honest payment of her debts
than by the arrogant application of scriptural quotations
to her own pretended Wrongs. Bat an appeal was made
to the symputhi es of the jury on behalf of this poor in-
jured " orphan—an orphan of 46. years of age! It
reminded him of a story current on this circuit of one
of its former members, the late Mr. Clarke, who hap-
pened, when he was nearly 80, to be opposed to Mr.
Sergeant Goulburn, who made a similar appeal on be-
half of his Client, a lady of the age of 42. When it
came to Mr. Clarke's turn to address, he said, " Gen-
tlemen, an attempt has been made to excite your sym-
pathies on -the part of the plaintiff on the ground that
she is an orphan; but-father's and 'mothers cannot live
for ever. Gentlemen, lam myself an orphan."—
(Laughteo Altogether, the preient case was one in
which he was satisfied that the smallest amount of da-
mages was.sufficient to compensate the plaintiff for any
loss which she had sustained. •
The Learned JUDGE summed up, and
The jury, hating retired for a short time, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Dainaees, 6001.

EXTRAORDINARY AND MIRACULOUS
ESCAPE OF FOUR HUNDRED LA rfER.DAY
SAINTS.

NEWPORT, TUESDAY MORNlNG.—Yesterday evening
a most remarkable occurrence took place here, which,
while it appeared to involve. the livcs of three or four
hundred persons, did not inflict the slightest injury on
a single individual.

The Lifter-day Saints, or Mormonites, have of late
years so greatly increased in the colliery districts in the
neighbourhood of this place that an organised body now
exists here, with elders and prophets at their head, and
a regularly constituted government. to direct their spiri-
tual and temporal aftiirs.
Annually these people hold a conference, at which the
chiefs of the body assemble, and communications with
their brethren in other quarters are made.
This year some of the elders who had been in the
camp on the borders of the. Great Salt Lake were ex-
pected at the Newport conference, and preparations on
an extensive scale for. their reception, and for the general
celebration of the festival, were being carried out. It
was also.expected, or ambiguously hinted, that miracles
would be performed; and the credulous Welsh, ever
ready to follow any
." newfangled doctrine," gave ear
thereto as.believers. • •
Yesterday evening, after the conclusion of one of the
services, the brethren, the saints, and the elders assem-
bled together in a large building .known as Sunderland-
hall, where it was intended to celebrated the occasion
by a tea festival on a grand scale.
About four hundred persons (men, women, and chil-
dren) were sitting down, after a blessing had been in-
voked by. the elders,.and a. pleasant festivity was anti-
cipated... Suddenly. a creaking noise was heard, fol-
lowed by a sound like a crash of thunder, and imme-
diately the lofty ceiling of.exactly. one-half of the hall,
divided in the centre of a large beam, fell almost flat
upon the multitude below. • •

A terrific shrieking, and screaming, and groaning en-
sued. The residents in the neighbourhood, apprehend..
ing some frightful casualty, rushed out of their houses,
and were almost paralysed by the continued screams and
groans. Presently the windows were burst out, and the
affrighted Mormons appeared, terrified, screaming for
help, while some actually flung themielves into the
street, and others, clinging to the bills and frames, made
those below shudder' at their anticipated death or fright-
ful mutilation.
A scene of indescribable horror ensued. The crowd
of spectators rushed towards the doors of the hall, which,
they burst in, as well'as they were able from the mass of
rubbish,' &c., that had fallen inside; and here the spec-
tacle was frightful in the extreme. The people were
huddled together in crowds beneath the
some crowding to the
themselves
the doors, as many struggling to extricate a c among which
from the heaps of broken rafters, lint,oi
witidows;•somemrou
they were embedded. Assistance was
after much difficulty the
unfortunatecoudition. r. e n den eagrettdo ,w a andrds
extricated from their' perilous condition.
rsinhlonites were
riot a single Latter-day
supported
It is most remarkable
Quiteis accident,
one-half
of
f althoughth e
washe jail, While attached thereto were the
the Saint
ceiling
eil
ing received
ceiling °Utile whole
injurayndfrowma4th
singular that-the portion of the ceiling be-
neath't lt is also
n‘;
which had previously
prophets " sat
1 .which the l• elders or was per-
fectlywmiracle is supposed by the infa-
tuated
heavy pieces of timber
Nothing less than .a
Latter-day Saints to have preserved so large a
uninjured and sound.
number of which appeared
persons from thniate of. death,
nsou inevitable; and a great reaction in thir favour will
be the result smong the half-converted disciples of Joe
Smith 'who abound in this quarter,
The rßplainder of .the evening's services was devoted
to thanksgiving for the miracle which had been per-
formed .by the elders in..fivour of the true believers.
This portion of the service, however, was carried on in
another hall, where there was not any risk of another
miracle.belug worked. . . .

NAVAL INTELLIGENCE.
PORTsMuUTH, TUESDAY.—Yesterday morning her
TtuhreueEdianto Cdoiwspeastchtoyabech
Majesty's yachts Victoria and Albert and Fairy re-
Balliston, goes to Osborne dailyAActing
yacht,.
iin attendance upon the Court.
We are informed a new system • of
ne with the a
sengers, papers, &c. Master(foeemnm,sts332deesf
enfor
the fleetwill be brought into operationpriy
b
Excellent in October but
no seaman will be allowed to
take his
seamen
n theof
the ship's books. . . .
pay monthly until he has been six months on
The Sampson, 6, steam-frigate Captain L. T. Jones,
having . received an overhaul and refit, came out of the
steam•basin to-day and hauled alongside her bulk to
receive her crew and prepare again for sea. She rebent
sails this.evening. •
The Conflict, 8, screw steam-sloop, has been taken
from the steam-basin to-day under the shears to have
her masts taken out, as they are reported rotten.
The Fearless paddle steam-vessel sailed to-day for the
eastward, with k.upernumerarics;
SHEERNESS, JULY 13.—Her Majesty's ship Hawke,
72 (reduced Christian VII.), has been removed from her
tpoorings in the harbour, and placed on the north side cf
the fitting basin, preparatory to being docked, to have
necessary repairs effected. •
Her Majesty's paddle-wheel steam-vessel Wildfire,
Mr. Brockman, second master,' cetanandirg, hayinc,'
completed her internal fittings. &e., got h., Stem:
ypet7oert.dt.a.yti
Having
gp proceeded al
ealongsireturnedde
tteh the
her Fordr:eetruideeg,Cnon id!
will forthwith resume her duties as tender to the Wa-
terloo, 120, Port-Admiral's flig-ship.
I o en, ehra sfriaje
crossed
stedhsehri ship
V
lower ei'2
yards C.;
Captainandtop topsail i el
y. Bs
r...ris , el
m andil- will be all ataut in a few days.
.nwghoef.fl thesteam l
ot-hveisassetl.
tCeueekhoftotbLia a,
eesntyt iLnl paddleer
ni
dislipaetrchMedai
and returned in the afteram.