The Sun.
London, England, 1849-01-31 00:00:00

marry whomsoever wee may think proper; if mary anne ff
barber marris I john barber do agree to pay the marrigo
cerrimoney, and give wary anne barber to the man shee
might fix her choise on in what church she might think
proper, and each pledges themselves never to anoy or
mislest each other.-16th of May, 1848.
(fined) " JOHN BARBER.
" MARY ANNE BARBER.

" Witness, Henry Watson.
" Goliah Gray ."
In answer to further questions, the applicant said that
the witness Goliah Gray, whose name was appended to
the paper, was the father of the man against whom she
sought redress; and that the documentlwas prepared and
executed at his instigation, in order, in some measure, to
obviate the scandal arising from her connexion with his
son under such circumstances.
Mr. HAMMILL told the woman that the agreement of
separation upon which she appeared to rely was nothing
more than waste paper; and, as regarded the liability for
her child's support, she had clearly no claim whatever
upon Gray as the putative father. In all cases of volun-
tary separation between husband and wife it was held,
that whatever the subsequent conduct of the latter might
be, her children must be deemed legitimate if she con-
tinued to have access to her husband, and that access
was to be presumed if an opportunity for it had been af-
forded. He considered that such presumptive access ex-
isted in the present instance, and he must therefore de-
cline granting the summons against Gray, as her hus-
band was alone liable in law for the maintenance of the
infant.
The woman then left the court, evidently much dis-
satisfied, and expressing her intention to apply imme-
diately to the parish to take up the case, and adopt pro-
ceedings against her husband.
LAMBETH.
Yesterday James Edward Smart, a powerful young
man, who has been for same years under the surveillance
of the police, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott,
on a charge of being concerned, with a young woman
named Mary Ann Flood, in robbing and ill-using Ed-
ward Bates, on Hungerford Suspension-bridge, at a late
hour of the night of the 16th instant.
Mr. Games attended on behalf of the prisoner.
The short facts of the case are these :—On the night
of Tuesday, the 15th instant, the prosecutor, who is a
printer, in passing over the Suspension-bridge, from the
Surrey side to the Hungerford side, met the young
woman, Mary Ann Flood (who has since been committed
to take her trial on the charge), who stopped and forced
him against one of the sides of the bridge, and having
secured his watch gave him a desperate blow on the face,
which caused him to real to the other side, when he fell
with his face against the wall. The stunning effects of
the blow and the fall were of such a nature as to deprive
him of his senses for some moments ; and the in-
stant he fell, the prisoner at the bar, who had evi-
dently been concealed in a dark corner, started for-
ward and pretended to assist the prosecutor to get
up, and while doing so charged him with having
taken indecent liberties with the woman who had
struck him. At this time the woman was making the
best of her way off the bridge; but, by the very praise-
worthy conduct of Charles Bottom, a waiter at the Dol-
phin tavern, Milk-street, city, who happened to be on
the bridge at the time, she was secured, and the watch,
which she managed to throw away, was found. As re-
spected the prisoner, it was sworn by two witnesses that,
about ten minutes before the robbery, he passed through
the pay-gate, on the Hungerford side of the bridge, in
company with the woman Flood; and the witness (Bot-
tom) deposed to having seen him emerge from a dark
corner, where the woodwork of the bridge commences
and where he had evidently concealed himself, and go to
the prosecutor. He was afterwards pointed out by the
same witness as the man he had seen going to the pro-
secutor, aud was requested by the constable to accom-
pany him to the station-house; but he soon started off.
Since that time two officers have been unceasing in their
exertions to apprehend him, but he managed to elude
their vigilance until yesterday morning, when he was
apprehended at a low brothel in Union-street, South-
' wark- bridge-road.
The prisoner, who offered nothing in defence, was fully
committed to take his trial with the woman Flood at the
present sessions, at the Central Criminal Court.

SPRING CIRCUITS OF THE
JUDGES, 1849.
Yesterday the Judges appointed to proceed and hold
the assize of oyer and terminer and general gaol de-
livery in and for the several counties comprised within
their respective circuits (with the exception of the
Home, Oxford, and South Wales circuits), finally ap-
pointed the days for opening the commission in each
county, viz.:—
NORTHERN CIRCUIT.
JUDGES.—The Right Hon. Mr. Baron ALDERSON and
the Hon. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE.
Northern Division of Lancashire—Tuesday, Feb. 13,
at the Castle, at Lancaster.
Westmoreland—Friday, Feb. 16, at Appleby.
Cumberland—Monday, Feb. 19, at the Castle, Carlisle.
Northumberland—Thursday, Feb. 22, at Newcastle.
Newcastle and Town—The same day.

Durham—Tuesday, Feb. 27, at Durham.
Yorkshire—Saturday,.Mareh 3, at the Castle, at York.
City of York—The same day, at the Guildhall.
Southern Division of Lancashire—Saturday, March
17, at Liverpool.
NORFOLK CIRCUIT.
JUDGES.—Tho Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer, Sir
FREDERICK POLLOCK, Knight, and Mr. Baron ROLFE.
Buckinghamshire—Saturday, March 3, at Aylesbury.
Bedfordshire—Thursday, March 8, at Bedford.
Huntingdonshire—Mondry, March 12, at Huntingdon,
Cambridgeshire—Wednesday, March 14, at the County
Court of Cambridge.
Suffolk—Tuesday, March 20, at Bury St. Edmund's.
Norfolk—Monday, March 26, at the Castle of Norwich.
City of Norwich—The same day, at the Guildhall of
Norwich.