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will be provided for, we will not see her destitute for
want of a home; she will have a share of ours till we see
what can be done for her. Now, beloved, come to your
Tommy it you have any regard tor his happiness, and
may the Lord put it into your heart to come; God bless
you and send you safe; you alone have your poor
Tommy's heart; now, be sure to come, 'Rake no delay,
you shall assuredly be mine. Anything that you have
that you think will pay carriage and be useful to us,
bring with you—such as feather-beds. Now, in God's
name, do not disappoint your own Tommy. Adieu!"
Upon the receipt of the newspaper, stating that his
friends consented to the union, Miss Harvey packed up
her all, left Canada, and arrived in Ireland on the 9th of
September, and on the following day Miss Harvey's bro-
ther wrote to the defendant and asked him to visit her;
but, the man who had been writing these letters, who
had induced this young woman to give up everything to
quit her quiet home, to cross the sea, and to return to
Ireland upon the sacred promise that he would make her
his wife, never after this took the slightest notice of her.
Mr. Bates, a friend of the plaintiff's family, on the 25th
of September, 1845, wrote the following letter to thl de-
fame taut.—
" Sir,—The relatives of Miss Harvey have laid before
me, as their professional friend, the circumstances con-
nected with your recent conduct towards that lady. I
have read your letters and heard the details of the case
with great pain. From a sincere desire to induce you
even yet to act with honour towards Miss Harvey, and
a proper regard to your own character, I make the pre-
sent communication. You have professed a very strong
attachment to Miss Harvey, and in the most urgent
terms requested her to return to Ireland to be your a ife.
She has given you credit for sincerity and honour, and
complied with your request. You have done all in your
power to secure her atiCctions, and by inducing her to
give up business and return to Ireland you have placed
her in a most painful position betore the world. She
has done notbing to merit this conduct at your hands.
You know her character stands unimpeachable, except
to the extent it will be injured by your tt eatment of her;
but this you can repair. You have made a solemn en-
gagement with Miss Harvey; you are in a situation to
perform it if you please to do so. You have uncontrolled
power over your own actions and property. I therefore
call upon you as a Christian and a gentleman to fulfil
your engagement by now marrying Miss Harvey. Take
you will act justly towards
tahiisss course
Harvey,
'oll will save yourself from a
degree of odium which I will not describe, you will have
done what you can to recover your position and the
this
esteem of your friends. I beg you will carefully con-
eondno whilew, and )
con-
sider this important matter, and let me hear from you.
" I am, &c.
" JOHN BATES."
He was at a loss to conceive what rag of a defence his
Learner: Friend could make. As soon as the defendant
found the plaintiff was ready to marry him, be packed
up his goods and left the country, for he had several
letters written to him, asking him to marry her, but the
defendant had not condescended to notice them. He
could not conceive treachery, perfidy, or cowardice
equal to this. One would have supposed that the most
hardened villain would at least have some feeling of
compassion for the unfortunate victim whose chance of
happiness he was destroying, an I would have taken
some notice of her ; but no, the miserable coward
skulked away from the country to evade the legal con-
sequences of his conduct. Fortunately, however, a writ
reached .him at Portsmouth, as he was joining his ship ;
and he (Mr. Cockburn) submitted they would consider
the plaintiff entitled to the largest damages.
The writing to the different letters was proved to be
that of the defendant.
A witness said that the plaintiff's father was a re-
spectable farmer, though he took a little whisky. The
plaintiff herself keeps a grocer's and baker's shop. She
lived with her father before she went to Canada. Every
one in Ireland had his own way of making love.
Miss Lilly Harvey—l am the sister of the plaintiff.
The defendant visited at our house when my mother
was ill in 1839. He paid particular attention to my
sister. The defendant lived with his mother. The de-
fendant and my sister corresponded frequently during
the first twelve months. The correspondence was then
broken off, and he paid attention to another lady. He
' called again on us in another twelve months, and then he
got a very cold reception. We were going to meeting,
and the defendant walked by my sister's side, and the in-
timacy was then renewed. He was received as my
sister's suitor. I knew his friends objected. I had a
brother settled in Toronto, in America. My sister and
myself went out there, and my sister took lessons as a
milliner, and then commenced business there. It pros-
pered very much, and we were doing well. She receive('
letters from the defendant. At last she sold off all her
things at a very great loss, and we sailed for Ireland on
the 28th of July. I arrived in Ireland on the 9th of
December. The defendant never came to see my sister
after her arrival. She was very much distrease d in her
mind in consequence of the defendant's conduct. She
and I have now set up in business as grocers and bakers.
My sister is about thirty, and the defendant about
forty-six.
Cross-examined—lt seems that the defendant was
very fickle. It was merely to break off the correspon-
dence with the defendant that my sister went to Ame-
rica, because she did not think that it would come to a
marriage. His mamma interfered, and did not approve
of the match. My sister was very fond of the defen-
dant. I went out to accompany my sister. I have seen
lovely Tommy" intoxicated. I read the defendant's
letters, and thought they were very pleasing. Of course
they caused a smile. When my sister understood from
the defendant's letters that all obstacles were removed
she did not hesitate to leave America. I could not
swear to my sister's writing. I have always lived with
seenmy sister, cud
letter to no in l4erritizki.tel not believe
b;,tuervirh y this
Toronto. He was a carpenter. He used to help me
to wash the tea-things. Of course I should have pre-
ferred staying there. What is in the letter is very true,
but I cannot swear it is in my sister's writing. Upon
my oath I can't form a belief as to the writing, lum
not certain of my own age, but I understand I ion
about 22. I think I can recollect my sister telling me
that she had written to the defendant to say she would
not leave America. About a month after we returned
to Ireland my sister received a letter from the defen-
dant, which had been sent to Toronto, telling her not to
come.
Re-examined—Mr. Murphy paid me attention. A
letter from the defendant, of the 18th of August, 1845,
stated, that as the plaintiff had said she would not come,
he had written to tell her not to come.
Mr. Sergeant KiNGEAHE submitted that the declara-
tion did not set out a proper consideration. The decla-
ration alleged that the plaintiff was sole and unmarried,
and resided at Toronto, and that in consideration of her
leaving and causing to Ireland for the purpose of marry-
ing him, he promised to marry her; but there was
no allegation that the plaintiff had entered into the
contract.
Mr. CocEMTEN applied to amend the declaration.
The CHIEF JUSTICE said he would allow an amend
ment, giving the defendant leave to move the Court for
a nonsuit, if the Court should be of opinion that the de-
claration was bad, and that he ought not to have allowed
it to be awarded.
Mr. Sergeant KiNGLaxx then addressed the jury for
the defendant. He regretted very much that this Irish
cause had not been tried on the other side of the water.
They had been treated with letters which, to an English-
man, were the most ridiculous that any man having
lucid intervals ever wrote, for he declared that if a com-
mission of lunacy had been taken out against the defen-
dant, he believed those letters would have been sufficient
to have induced a jury to pronounce him insane. In-
stead of this being a case of the aggravated character
described by his friend, it was one only of pounds, shil-
lings, and pence. The Learned Sergeant then com-
mented upon the letters, and contended that it was clear
the defendant had written to the plaintiff desiring her
not to come, as his friends would not give their consent.
He then urged that he apprehended they would give a
verdict for the defendant; but if not, they would give
the very smallest damages.
Chief Justice WILDE, in summing up, said, that in
his opinion the plaintiff was entitled to their verdict,
and the question would be the amount of damages they
should give-
The jury re
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da-
usages 4001.
Solicitors for the plaintiff, Messrs. Bevan and Good-
eve ; for the defendant, Messrs. Sutton, Prudence,
and Co.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Worcester, July 16.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justrice COLERIDGE.)
Thomas Bill was indicted for burglary.
Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Selfe conducted the pro-
secution ; and Mr. Huddlestone the defence.
On the night of the 23d of February last the offices
of Messrs. Oldker, Woodward, and Bail, att. rneys, at
Pershore, in this county, were broken open, the private
drawers of Mr. Ball ransacked, and a quantity of trin-
kets and jewellery and thirty railway shares abstracted.
Till the 19th of March no clue whatever was discovered
as to
received
ved an
envelopeperpetrators of th e
enclosing robbery.
the railway scrip,
On that day Mr.
with the words " You robbers, written on one of the
scrip ; and " You rogues and robbers, on the inside of
the envelope. Mr. Ball at once recognised the writing
as that of the prisoner, To make sure that he was not
mistaken he showed it to one of the clerks, without
saying anything of the circumstances under which he
received it ; the clerk, too, at once pronounced it to
bei the writing of the prisoner. It was shown
in the same manner to three nr other
persons, who all unhesitatingly declared it to be
the prisoner's writing. The prisoner was a leather-
cutter and currier, in a respectable way of business,
at Upton-on-Severn, and had formerly been a client of
the prosecutors, and in that capacity had been frequently
in Mr. Ball's private room at the office, and knew where
he kept his money and valuable securities; and, in short,
.had an opportunity of becoming acquainted with all the
internal arrangements of the office. The. prosecutors
subsequently brought an action against. him, and. levied
he
fixed
an execution upon him. For some irregularity con-
nected with the mode of making the levy, the defendant
brought an action against the sheriff, and recovered 1871.
damages and costs. In consequence of these circum-
stances, the defendant had ceased for some time to em-
ploy the prosecutors as nis advisers. Suspicion having
lie was taken into custody. No part of the lost property
upon him, a search warrant was obtained, and
was found. On the constable asking him for his keys
he produced a bunch of six. These were common keys,
and opened his own drawers, and he produced them
without any attempt at concealment, but there was this
remarkable circumstance connected with them:—Of the
drawers
that were ransacked several had been broken.
One
was opened without violence, as with a key, and
another was forced open with the bolt halfway down.
Not one of the prisoner's keys would open the drawers
that had been broken. One would open quite easily the
one that had been opened, and another would force the
bolt of the other lock just so far only as it was found to
have
been forced. It further appeared that the address
OB the enYelope was 4 dims/1)14 band from the writing

nside and on the scrip, and that the letter was posted in
Worcester on the Bth of March, and it was prcyed
that the prisoner and his son, who is an apprentice to a
surgeon, were together in Worcester on that day, and
that the address on the envelope was in the handwriting
of the son.

Mr. HUDDLESTONE, having addressed the jury for the
prisoner, contended that the case was scarcely one of
suspicion, and called witnesses to character.
His LORDSHIP summed up strongly in support of a
conviction, but

The jury, without many minutes' hesitation, returned
a verdict of Not Guilty.
Hercules Lovell Blewitt was indicted for the murder
of his wife, at Dudley, on the 9th of June last.
Mr. Huddlesione and Mr. Hill appeared for the pro-
secution, and Mr. H. Cooke for the prisoner.
It appeared that the prisoner, who was a travelling
tinker, had lived for some time on very bad terms with
his wife, constantly abusing and ill-treating her, and
cohabiting with another woman. On the da3 in ques-
tion he was more than usually disposed to ill-treat her.
He had abused her repeatedly in the course of the day,
and struck her, and she was so much in dread of hini
that she ran out of th.- lodgings which they had in Wol-
verhampton-street, Dudley, and would not come back to
tea till he promised her solemnly that he would not
again (parr. I with her. She then went into the house.
Tiny remained quiet for half-an-hour or so. He was
then heard to beat her, and the first person who came in,
and who had been attrackd by her cries, sound her lying
in a coal-hole under the stairs, with the prisoner stand-
ing over her, and trying to pour the contents of a kettle
of boiling water on her, she crying out that she was
scalded, and imploring him not to injure her amore, and
trying to turn the spout of the kettle from her. He,
however, succeeded in scalding her to such an extent
that she died in a few days.
The surgeon who a:tended her said that she was in
very bad health before, but that the scalds were so se-
vere tl at they would have killed her had she been in the
soundest health.

Mr. COOKE having addressed the jury for the prisoner,
His LORDSHIP summed up, and the jury baying re-
turned a verdict of Manslaughter, the prisoner was sen-
tenced to be transported for 20 years.

NORTHERN CIRCUI F.—York, July 16.
THE MIRFIELD MURDERS.
It was fixed to-day that the trial of this case should
take place the first thing next Monday morning. There
were two persons committed on the chargel Michael
M'Cabe and Patrick Reid. But the bill has been found
against Reid only, M'Cabe having been adulitted as
Queen's evid nee against his accomplice.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WictlTtuAN.)
George Bradshaw, a young man of ret•pectabie ap-
pearance, was charged with having, on the 19th of April
last, near Sheffield, assaulted Emma Copley, ' with in-
tent to commit a rape.
Mr. Overend and Mi. Pickering were for the prose-
cution, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins tor the defence.
Prosecutrix is 14 years of age, and in the service of
John Wilkinson, of Gtimesthorpe. On the 'plight in
question she was returning from Attercliffe, when she
met with the prisoner, who walked with her. a short
distance, and then attempted to commit the crime im-
puted to him.
The jury were out for &bove an hour in deliberation.
Verdict—Guilty of a common assault.
Sentence—To be imprismed, with hard labour, for
twelve calendar months.

Emily Naylor was indicted for the manslaughter of
Henrietta Earnshaw, at Alaiondbury.
Mr. Overend and Mr. Pearce conducted the case for
the prosecution; Mr. Wasney was for the defence.
On the 26th of February last, the prisoner and the de-
ceased, who worked together in a factory, were leaving
their employment, when an altercation took place be-
tween them, during which the prisoner struck Earnshaw
a violent blow, which knocked her down, and whilst she
was on the ground kicked her several times on 'different
parts of her body. The deceased got up, pioceeded
home, and complained of being ill. She, however, went
to the factory next morning, and worked till five o'clock
in the afternoon, when she became so seriously indis-
posed, that she was obliged to return home, where she
was put to bed. She lingered for two or three weeks,
when she died. A post mortem examination was made
upon her body, and then it was found that death had been
caused by an abscess under one of her breasts, which
had been caused by a severe kick or blow.
When the case for the prosecution had concluded,
The Learned JUDGE thought there was no evidence
that a kick had been given on the breast of the deceased,
although she had been kicked on different parts of the
body. Acquitted.
IN THE MAGISTRATES' ROOM.—(Before Mr.
2.1 URPH Y.
James C'orney, Thomas Tristan, and John Robinson
were charged with having, on the 16th of May last, at
Huddersfield, together with other persons, riotously
assembled together, and assaulted George Dickinson,
Reuben Megson, and Samuel Sharpe.
Mr. Hardy and Mr. Pashley appeared for the pro-
secution ; Smith defended the prisoners.
On the night of Sunday, the 16th of May, Dickinson
was going up the street with some friends, when he met
a large crowd of persons, by two or three of whom he
was very severely assaulted. Dickinson made his escape,
and the parties then created a disturbance amongst
themselv-s, and upon Megson and Sharpe, two watch-
men, attempting to take the offenders into custody, they
were also assaulted in a brutal manner, Megson having
been thrown down and severely wounded on the head.
All the defendants were identified as having taken part
in these proceedings.
The jury found all the prisoners Guilty.
Corney, six months' imprisonments Tristan and
'Robinson, three months'.

There was no cause of any public interest tried on
Civil Side to-day.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
GUILDHALL.
Basil Henry Stron.sbe? g, the manager of a building
society called " The Tim: s," holding its im etings at
Exeter Hall, the Guildhall Coffee-house, and the South
wark and Eastern Literary Institutions, was brought
before Mr. Alderman Hughes Hughes on Saturday,
charged with absconding with some moneys belonging
to the society. Messrs. Tilson conducted the prose
cution.

The solicitor stated that he should show the embezzle-
ment of one sum by the prisoner, and then pray time to
investigate the accounts. The prisoner having been
missed, Mr. Newton, one of the members, went in
pursuit of him to Southampton, and found the prisoner
on board the Washington, bound to New York. Stye had
actually sailed, but the vessel was obliged to put back to
change its supply of coals, those which had been shipped
being
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to
offer some evidence.
Mr. King, of Wild-street, Bedford-row, warehouse
man, stated that the prisoner had been the manager of
the society from its commencement. Witness held two
shares and a half in the society, and he paid the prisoner
7/. 17s. on account of the society on the 6th instant.
A Clerk in the London and Westminster Bank proved
that no money had bean paid into the account of the so-
ciety since the latter end of June.
Mr. Steines, agent to the New York Steam-boat Corn
pany, identified the prisoner as having taken a passage
last week for a Mr. Bartholdi, who went on board under
that designation ; he had no opportunity of seeing him.
Mr. Newton deposed to causing the prisoner to be
taken out of the American steam-boat at Southampton.
Mr. Aldo rman HUGHES HUGHES asked what amount
of money was found in his possession ?
The officer said about 191
The Alderman inquired whether the prisoner was a
shareholder and consequently a partner, or whether ne
was clearly a servant as well as a partner. What salary
was he to have?
The solicitor said his salary was to be a contribution
of 2s. per share per annum. There was a case of " Rex
v. Atkinson, where a member of an enrolled benefit
society, and, consequently, a partner, was acting as
steward, and embezzled moneys which came into his
hands. He was indicted for stealing the money of the
trustees, and convicted.
Mr. Alderman Hughes HUGHES looked at the case,
and observed that the judge reserved the point of the
prisoner's liability to be indicted.
The solicitor replied the issue was that the conviction
was held to be right. He was aware there were legal
difficulties in the case.
Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES called for proof of the
enrolment under the Benefit Societies' Act. which
enabled a society to proceed against its members for
fraud.

The solicitor put in the proof of enrolment.
The prisoner then said there was a particular day in
a month set apart for receiving subscriptions. No
other was recognised by the society. The payments
made to him were not made on that day, and, there-
fore, the money was received by him not on behalf of
the society, but as the agent of the members. We
wanted to have two days for receiving money, but Mr.
Tidd Pratt would not permit it. All moneys he had
received elsewhere than at the monthly meeting was on
behalf of the individual.

Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES apprehended this
subtlety would not serve. The indictment would con •
tain two counts, one laying the money as that of a
member individually. the other as that of the club ge-
nerally. He remanded the prisoner till Thursday on
that charge.
A second charge was then preferred on behalf of th-
Fifty Pound Building Club, Victoria-street, Holborn-
bridge.
Mr. Etheredge, the chairman of the society, said the
prisoner was their manager, and 121. 19s. was entrusted
to him on the 28th of June to pay into the banker's
That was a meeting night. The prisoner had not paid
in that sum.
Cross examined by the prisoner.--The maney should
bave been paid in by the director personally, but it was
entrusted to prisoner instead. He was not to hold it
because it was too small a sum to be paid in. Smaller
sums had been paid in. Money had been allowed to
remain in his hands by way of petty cash to pay current
disbursements. His salary might have been deduclei
from the cash in hand, instead of being paid by check.
But the practice of stopping money had not been sanc-
tioned.
By Mr. Alderman HUGHES HUGHES.--No money had
been paid into the banker's since the Ist of June. The
prisoner was distinctly directed to pay the money late
the bank cn the 29th of June.
Mr. Nevitt, of Johnson's-court, Fleet street, the
treasurer, said the 121. 19s. was a balance that remained
at the close of the business, after taking contributions
and nuking advances. The prisoner said he had rts
ceived some moneys which he had not accounted for,
which would make u 20L, and that he was going to
deposit a deed in the Society's box at the banker's next
day, and he would save him the trouble of going 41E0.

it was on this representation witness gave him the 121.195.
The ALDERMAN asked how it was that the manager
Was not called to amount, Goll making the winged= that