The Sun.
London, England, 1849-06-19 00:00:00

ITALY.

Accounts from Rome state that the foreign con-
suls have protested against the bombardment of Rome
by the French, on the ground of the probability of
the destruction thereby of the works of art.
It was said that the Roman General MARSI had
defeated the Spaniards.
Ancona still held out on the 12th.
The Venetians on the 6th refused the terms
offered them by M. DE BaucK.

EXPRESS FROM PARIS.
ENTRANCE OF THE FRENCH
INTO ROME.
PARIS, MONDAY, HALF-PAST 5 P.M.
A steamer that arrived from Civita Vecchia at
Marseilles on the 17th has brought the news that the
French army entered Rome on the 14th, through
the breach.

QUEEN'S BED; CH.-(THIS DAY
(Sittings at Nisi Prins.)

3100110 USE V. STEEP.:
This was an actionli against the Sheriff of Surrey to
recover compensation in damages for the injury hich
the plaintiff:. (Messrs. Moorhouso and Rogers) bad sus-
tained in consequence of his not having used direct pro-
per diligence in executing a writ which had been issued
by them against the body of a person named Myatt, who
was indebted to them in the sum of 561., for building
materials supplied to him. It was shown on the part
of the plaintiff, that in January last a fi. fa. was issued
directed to the defendant, who dispatched two sheriffs'
officers to Leipsic-road, Camberwell, in order to execute
it, but they found that the defendant had removed to
Battersea, and a capias ad satisfaciendam was issued
against him, which the defendant also failed to ex-
ecute. It was shown also that some opportunities
had'presented themselves of arresting Myatt.
On the part of the defendant it was contended that
Myatt was a person without means, that he had long
played at " fast and loose," that the house at Battersea
belonged to his brother, and that he only came there on
Sundays, when the writ did not run, amd that he slept
continually in Middlesex in order to avoid the service of
the writ. It was to their interest to arrest him, but
though they used due diligence they had been unable
to execute it.

Lord DENMAN left it to the jury to say whether the
plaintiff had or had not suffered ati injury by the acts
of the defendant.
The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for 561.
CBE .% CON.—HOWARD V. DAWSON.
This was an action to recover compensation in da-
mages for the injury which the plaintiff had sustained
by the defendant having been gailty of criminal con-
versation with his wife. The parties belong to the
humble ranks of life. Several pleas had been put on
the record, the principal one being "leave and licence."
Mr. M. CHAlunnus, who was for the plaintiff; after
the pleadings had been opened, consulted for a few
minutes with Mr. Sergeant Wilkins, who appeared for
the defendnnt, who shortly afterwards intimated that the
parties, in order to avoid painful exposures, had consented
to a verdict of 151,, which was accordingly entered.

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WARD AND ANOTNER. V. DRY.
The question in this case was, Whether a marriage
solemnized in the Island of St. Lucia, in the West Indies,
in the year 1837, between
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siding with her family at Demerara, and he induced her
to embark on board ship with him at that place, and
proceed to the Island of. St. Lucia, where the parties,
being both Protestantse were married in the parish
church in that island, by a clergyman of the Church of
England, under a licence from the Governor of the
island, in the presence of two witnesses, and their
marriage duly registered. The parties cohabited together
for two months after the marriage, and then separated.
The question now was whether Mr. Dey was entitled to
take out administration to the effects of his wife,
The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE contended that a marriage
solemnized between two Protestants, in the parish church
in the island, by a clergyman of the Church of England,
under a license of the governor of the island for the time
being, and duly registered
was , th a e parties afterwards living
and cohabiting together, good and valid marriage.
and was not affected by the lex loci, whatereeit might
be. Ile trusted the Court would have no difficulty in
coming to the conclusion that this was a good and valid
marriage. and that Mr. Dey was entitled to take out let-
ters of administration to the effects of his wife.
Dr. JENNER, who followed on the same side, submitted
that to render a marriage between Protestants valid in
the island of St. Lucia, it should be solemnized by a
oct inoosht
clergyman in holy orders in the Church of England,
under a licence from the Governor of the island, and in
the presence of two witnesses. All those requisitions
had been complied with in this case, and he contended
therefore that the marriage was good and valid.
Dr. ADDAMS, who appeared for the executors, con-
tended that as it had not been shown that the parties
were incapable of contracting a marriage civilly in the
country where they were married, and that according to
the evidence of a former Lord Chief Justice of the
island a marriage might be contracted there civilly, the
marriage would not be a good one. It was hardly
questioned that marriages in general in the Island of St.
Lucia were governed by the law of France as it existed
before the revolution. Though the marriage had been
solemnized as between Protestants by a clergyman of
the Church of England in a church stated to
be the parish church, in the presence of
two witnesses and duly registered, yet the
Court ought to look at the circumstances of the marriage.
It was clearly a clandestine marriage—the parties ran
away together ; this lady being then of the very early
age of fourteen, was induced, by the now reputed hus-
band to embark on board ship at Demerara, whence she
was taken to the island of St. Lucia, and there,without her
parent's consent, the marriage was solemnized. A mar-
riage, according to the lex loci, clearly it was not, and
it ought to have been such a marriage to entitle the re-
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was a girl named Whatley, a dress-maker, whose
age was now only 22, and who was speaking to a mar.
rage which took place in 1837, when she must have
been only ten years of age. She deposed to having made
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It was alleged, and admitted, that the deceased lady, at
the time of her marriage., Was only 14 years of age ;
that she was married without her mother's consent to
this gentleman in a Protestant church in the island, by
a Protestant minister, in holy orders in the Church of
England, and that publication of the banns of marriage
was dispensed with by a licence from the Governor of
the island. These were the requisites which it was
contended on the one side made a good and valid mar-
riage. The Court was of opinion that prima facie a
marriage so had and solemnized was a good and valid
marriage, and would be so held in this country. Then
if the marriage was good and valid this party, being a
married woman, had no right to make her will; and if it
was not a good And valid marriage, she was at liberty to