The Sun.
London, England, 1837-07-06 00:00:00

LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JULY 6, 1837.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JuLr 3.
CON.-WYATT V. V.OOHFORT.

S. W. FOLLETT said this was an action of the most se-
rious nature, charging the defendant with having had cri-
min it conversation with the plaintiff's wife. Although there
would not, however, in this case be found any breach of
hospitality or friendship, yet it was a case seriously affecting
the happiness and comfort of the plaintiff. The defendant
was a Colonel Rochfort, connected with a fancily of high
respectability in Ireland. The plaintiff had been many
years in India. In 1817 he was studying et the East In-
dia College, and the yonng lady, his now wife, was.a Miss
Coxwcll, whose father was a respectable chymist and drug-
gist. She was a young lady of very great personal attrac-
tions, and highly accomplished. These two parties formed
an attachment—they were both very young, under nine-
teen years of age. Their friends were averse to the
match, but in the year 1817 they married, and shortly
afterwards went to India, where the plaintiff had en
appointment. In 1832 Mrs. Wyatt gave birth to a son,
after which her health became so bad, that she was ordered
to England. She was accompanied by her husband's sis-
ter, and they arrived in this country in the year 1826, the
husband remaining in India. On coming to England Mrs.
Wyatt went to the house of her father and mother, with
whom she chiefly lived until their deaths, in 1832. At
first the plaintiff allowed her 6001. a year, but that was
afterwards increased to 900/. a year. After the death of
the father and mother, it would appear that Airs. Wyatt
went to France, where by some means or other she became'
acquainted with the defendant, and it was not for a consi-
derable time that it was discovered she was living in open
adultery with him. Proceedings had been adopted, and the
defendant had admitted the adulterous intercourse.
Evidence was given of the marriage, the happy terms on
which the parties lived, and the admission of the adultery.
A number of the lady's letters were read, in all of which she
spoke of the plaintiff as the kindest and most liberal of hus-
bands. She also admitted having been extremely extra-
vagant. . . . . .

Mr. KELLY, in mitigation of damages, urged that 'the
husband could not complain of the loss of society, of the
comfort and solace of his wife, by reason of his being at
such a distance from her ; that there was no proof of his
having sent her any money after 1832, and therefore they
might assume that she was left in want, and that she bad in
that miserable state fallen into the hands of any one who
would provide for her.
Tho Jury gave a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 2301.

EXCHEQUER EQUITY SITTINGS, Grear's-lxx.

HALL-JOLT 5.

The LORD CHIEF BARON gave judgment in this case.
It was originally a bill filed for the partition of certain pro-
perty, consisting of a public-house called the George Inn,
at Crawley, in the county of Sussex, certain cottages, and
nine acres of land. His Lordship by his original decree
directed that the parties, three in number, should each ap-
point two Commissioners for the purpose of effecting an
equitable partition. From the award of these Commis-
sioners the defendants appealed to the Court, and the Court
upon that appeal decided that the Commissioners bad acted
partially, and at the time directed a new Commission to
issue. An appeal was again made by the defendant against
the award of the second set of Commissioners, and this ap-
peal was also successful, and the award again set aside.
The case now came on upon a re-hearing, and his Lordship,
after referring to the particulars of the case at some length,
said that undoubtedly the parties were entitled to a parti-
tion of the estate. If the parties could not agree amongst
themselves to name Commissioners, he would then direct
the Master to name, upon his own authority, two fit. and
proper persons as Commissioners. If the parties could not
agree to estimate the whole property in money, and divide
it as such, then the Commissioners must make an actual
partition of the property into three parts, as well of the
George Inn as of the rest ; the Commissioners must divide
the whole in the best way they could.
After some consultation between the Counsel on both
sides, it was agreed that the number of Commissioners
should be three, to be nominated by the parties, if they
agreed to do so, and by the Master, if they could not agree,

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

HATTOIV". GARDEN.

Santiago de las Santos, the celebrated East Indian
dwarf, was brought to this office in the custody of Res-
e
itni agu
girlx 4194, Ey division,ears o f
age,
charged byAnn Boston,
withhaving assaulted a
He is only 25 inches high, and was accompanied by his
assltt her,
wife, another curiosity, only 36 inches in height. They
were conveyed from the station in a hackney-coach, which
was followed by thousands of persons. The prisoner was
carried into the office wrapped up in a rug, and thoso who
were unacquainted with the charge at first imagined that it
was a child who had met with some accident or injury.
On being placed at the bar his wife stood by his side and
was evidently full of the green-eyed monster.
. The proseeutrix stated that the prisoner resided at No.
176, in Holborn, where he and his wife were exhibited to the
public as curiosities, and her parents resided at No. I I, Mon-
mouth-street. She was 14 years of age, and lately she en-
tered the service of the prisoner, and slept in his house. He
paid great attention to her, and was frequently scolded by
his wife. On Monday night last witness went to bed and
fell asleep ; but in course of the night she was awoke and
found something in the bed puling her about, and she lifted
up her leg and kicked it away. She made an alarm, and
somebody came to her assistance, and found the 4. Black
Dwarf" concealed under the bedstead, and he was given
into custody and taken to the station-house.

Mr. BENNETT asked the prisoner what he had to say to
the charge ? Prisoner (looking eunninoly, and smiling)—
Me ax her if she go to bed wid me, and she say yes"
Mr. BENNETT (to the girl)—ls that true? Prose-
cutrix—lL is not.
Mr. BENNETT—He must find good bail. •

The dwarf was then taken from the bar by Haddington,
the gaoler, followed by his wife, who was bitterly crying,
and, embracing the little man, she said she was his wife, and
she ought to know Lim, and she was certain that he would
never take liberties with anybody unless he was encouraged
to do so.

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS.

It affords us unspeakable gratification to finl that
the signatures to the requisition against Sir James
Graham, obtained in four days only, amount in number
to 1,782. When we consider that the electors of

East Cumberland are scattered over half a million of
acres, we cannot sufficiently admire the spirit mani-
fested by these worthy" statesmen," who would feel

" a stain like a wound" in the continuance of the con-
nection between them and the most signal of all poli-
tical apostate!, Sir James Graham. ot a doubt can
now be entertained that he will be indignantly thrust
out of East Cumberland. Into what Tory snuggery
he, will seek a shelter it is not for us to say, though

it would not at all surprise us if the Tories, now that
he has covered himself with disgrace, were to aban-
don him to his fate. When the requisition has ob-
tained 2,000 signatures, 218 in addition to the 1,782,
the doom of Sir James will be sealed. This he
well knows. Sir James Graham has thought pro-
per to issue a second address to the electors of East
Cumberland, dated Eden-hall, July 3d (Monday
last). We have transferred it to our columns. We
almost pity the figure the Cumberland Baronet cuts in
this address. What a falling off! " I ask," he says,
" only for one seat when two are vacant. Ido not
-presume to say who shall be my colleague; but I do
say that lam not so unworthy as to merit absolute
exclusion." What a vile sneak the fellow is I Not
so unworthy ! Could any honest politician, with an
approving conscience, have written these lines ? To

think that this man should ever have been elevated to
a seat in Earl Grey's Cabinet I With all Lord Stan-
ley's faults he is a stranger to abject crawling. He
would sooner have cut off his right hand than have pre-
sented himself in such a plight to a body of respectable
electors. Not so unworthy. He admits, then, he is
unworthy, but pleads there are degrees of unworthi-
ness, and he might have been a still more sorry fel-
low. When he made his famous motion, in 1830,
respecting the amount of public money shared among
them by the members of the Privy Council, he held
himself up as an eagle who " disdained to stoop to
ignoble game while flights of voracious birds of prey
were gloating in the upper regions of the air.
This man, who gave himself out to the people of
England as an eagle, and was taken but too readily at
his word, has turned out a vile dunghill cock. From
the readiness with which he uses the language of
humiliation, it would seem to be his mother tongue.
The moment the big blusterer is pinched, he cries like
a young thief about to be placed under the pump. We
would almost swear to the Right Hon. Baronet having
been an old hand at playing the sneak. " I shall be
proud," he adds, " of receiving support ' from every
quarter that may be disposed to give it." Who doubts
rt ? This is a signal of distress made to the Lowthers,
from whom, under the mask of a Radical Reformer,
he wrested East Cumberland. But there is this conso-
lation for the Reformers, that though he throws him-
self on his marrow-bones before the Lowthers, they
cannot raise him. Out he must go. The electors of
East Cumberland are ashamed of being represented

by an apostate. In the old connection. between
them and the Lowthers, habit blinded them to the
objectionable character of Tory politics ; but they
perceive that they could not return Sir James Graham,
who admits his own unworthiness, without passing
sentence of condemnation on themselves. This moral
lesson, read by the electors of East Cumberland to Sir
James Graham, will be of unspeakable advantage in
the world of politics. As far as the Right Hon. Ba-
ronet is concerned he cannot be degraded—he is
already as low as he can possibly be. But the.example
was wanting to the country, that retribution follows
cle.selyon the. heels of transgression. Sir James Gra-
ham, a man-before of little political mark, succeeded
by the affectation of a more tha❑ usual regard for the
interests of the people and pretension to political
purity, at the critical period which immediately preceded
the Reform Bill, in raising himself to a sort of factitious
importance. It was forgotten that there was something
extremely suspicious in his recommendation, only a
few years before, to rob the public creditor,
and when the Wellington Ministry were turned out he
was made a Cabinet Minister. Like many others who
have been elevated beyond their deserts, he became
giddv. Forgetting that he owed everything to the
people, and unable to perceive that he could not exist
without the people, he thought he might kick the lad-
der by which he had ascended from beneath him. He
has been for some time in Parliament, not merely a
changeling, but a malicious and mean opponent of all
those with whom he formerly co-operated. But he is
about to be reduced to his original dimensions. In his
address he begins to open his eyes to his' real situa-

tion. But his—present Meanness will no more serve him
than his former upstart insolence. Sir James Graham's
dav is over ; and the people have the consolation of
knowing that if they made him of importance they
have annihilated him. Neither Tory, nor Whig, nor
Radical, will henceforward care for Sir James Graham.
__Morning Chronicle.
The accounts from Cambridge, which_ state the
progress of Mr. Knight and Mr. Sutton, correspond
with those throughout the country generally, and
leave not a shadow of doubt that, if freely and judi-
ciously encouraged, the Conservative spirit prevalent
amongst the electors will furnish the benches of the
House of Commons with a majority somewhat diffe-
rent in character from that which now oppresses them.
The address of the lion. candidates above-mentioned

is brief, but confident ; and, if we are not much mis-
taken, Mr. Superficial Rice will wonder how it is
that the ways and means, albeit applied with all the
characteristic liberality of a Whig who pursues his
own selfish ends at the expense of other people's
pockets, have in this instance failed him. We pub-
lish an intelligent and cheering letter from our cor-
respondent " M. W.," who throws a comprehensive
coup drcil over the kingdom, but presents the AVltig-
Radical prospects under somewhat of a gloomy tint.
It appears by a list which " M. W." sends us, and
the correctness of which we have every reason to
rely upon, that there are no fewer then 48 of the parti-
zans and supporters of the O'Connell Cabinet in the
existing House of Commons who have declared their
intention to resign, and thus escape the terrors of the
ensuing contest ; there are among them seven of the
Irish tan, of whom four arc county Members. New
let us put the question—if there be no change of sen-
timent in the United Kingdom, why should so many
Members as 48, all-professing the same class of poli-•
tical opinions, abandon their seats at the same moment,
some of them—we believe a considerable majority—
not feeling any dislike to Parliament, but meaning to
try their luck at places different from those which for-
merly elected them, and where their hopes of success
must be founded on the consciousness that they are
less known to the new constituencies than to those from
which they dare not solicit any further proofs of re-
spect ? With these cut-and-run gentlemen there is
associated in the list one personage, who has not re-
tired " because be likes Parliament less, but bcc'ause
he likes 600/. per annum more." Mr. C. Fitzsimon,
M.P. for the county of Dablin ; but, what is more to
the purpose, son-in-law to Mr. Daniel O'Connell,
has made a pretty thing enough of it. Under the
compact framed by Mr. Edward Ellice with the Agi-
tator, which amounted, in few words, to this—" Give
us all your Irish votes, and we will give yen all our
Irish patronage," a wholesale system of bribery has
flourished throughout the island, and O'Connell has
been at once principal and agent. He has\ taken every
thing and disposed of everything. Even if report
speak truth, the aripointtnent to high offices in the
Protestant Established Church has not been unsoiled
by the sacrilegious fingers of this all-grasping Papist.
We do not make it a charge against O'Connell that
he has got the Clerkship of the Hanaper for Mr.
Fitzsimon, who in private life, we have been told is an
estimable and well-conducted man, and who, besides,