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London, England, 1847-08-25 00:00:00

Lib. Peel. Prot.

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raE SUN, LONDON, IVEDNESD AY EV

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Bristol, August 23.
(Special Jury.)
GOULD V. ELTON, BART.
Mr. Cockburn, Q.C., Mr. Butt, Q.C., and Mr.
Fooks, were for the plAntiti; Mr. Sergeant Kinglake
and Mr. Stone for the defence. _ _ .

John Gould was the plaintiff, and Sir Charles
Abraham Elton, Bart., the defendant.
The declaration charged that the defendant had had
intercourse with Eliza, the wife of the plaintiff,
whereby he had been deprived of her services, Scc.
The defendant pleaded—first, the general issue; and,
second, that I,:liza was not the wife of the plaintiff.
Mr. COCKBURN stated the case. The plaintiff was
by trade a shoemaker, and was married to his wife in
October, 1845. As early as March, 1846, the de-
fendant had managed to establish an intimacy with
the plaintiff's wife. The patronage of a gentleman
of such high rank as Sir Charles Elton was to a
humble tradesman a matter of great importance, and,
of course, the plaintiff felt very proud when he found
that the defendant took, as he believed, an -nterest in
his welfare. In the early part of July, they would find
Sir Charles not only dealing with the plaintiff, but
exerting himself to procure for him an appointment
as relieving officer. The defendant called at the
plaintiff's house more frequently when the plaintiff
was out than at home, and in the course of those
visits was alleged to have taken an opportunity of
seducing the plaintiff's wife, as early as March, 1846.
The following letters were read, together with several
others, in which, however, the writer only manifested
great solicitude for the health of the plaintiff's wife, and
either sent her money, or excused himself for not
doing so.

" Cleveland, August 12.
" Dear Eliza,—l have been on the grand jury at
Wells Assizes, and only returned yesterday. My
rheumatism has left me. lam grieved by your suf-
fering. I have so much business on my hands, accu-
mulated in my absence, that I have no time to write,
except to thank you for your very voluptuous postscript.
—Yours affectionately, " E."
" August 16.
" Dear Eliza,—l have only time to write a line. I
rejoice to hear that you are better, but it is with great
pain that I say that I cannot hold out any prospect of
assisting you in your medical embarrassments. It is
totally out of my power. I have several ties which in-
volve me at this very time in heavy expenses, and I
have greatly overdrawn my Wilds at the bank. It
grieves me also to remind you of our conversation at
your house. I was quite right, and a continuance of
our acquainance would place both you and me in diffi-
culty. lam obliged, for reasons which I cannot ex-
plain, to be very vigilant and cautious.—Believe me,
notwithstanding, your truly affectionate, " E."
"Friday.

BARKER AND OTHERS.

"Dear EYz3,—l am sorry to say that the state of
my health is very bad, and likely to remain so for
some time. I cannot go out this weather, and it
not possible that I can meet you to-morrow, nor can
I say how long it will be b,2tore I can ; in fact, I see
no one, not my most intimate friend. The influfnza
does not leave me.—With boat wishes, your affectionate,
E."
It was the discovery of this letter which led to the
disclosure to the plaintiff of the di'honour of his
wife. But the plaintiff's case did not rest on the cor-
respondence alone. He should prove to them that in
the month of March, 1847, Sir Charles Elton was
seen in the bedroom of the plaintiff's wife, in the
absence of her husband. It would be shown that he
went to the house, and asked if Gould was in ; on
finding that he was out, he went into the room with
Mrs. Gould ; the servant girl, Emma Strong, was
sent after Gould; she was away a long time, and
upon coming back and going up stairs, she saw S;r
Charles Elton in the bedroom of Mrs. Gould, and
upon another occasion she saw him coming down
stairs from the bedroom. It so happened that Mrs.
Gould's bedroom was situated opposite to a beer-
house, and on one occasion she saw Mrs. Gould come
to the window of the room, and immediately after-
wards Sir Charles Elton came forward and put his
arm round her waist, and then she, perceiving that
they were observed, pulled him back, and drew down
the window blind.
Susan Bond, mother of Mrs. Gould, proved the
marriage of her daughter and the plaintiff.
Emma Strong, servant to Airs. Gould, proved that
she saw Sir Charles Elton in her mistress's bedroom,
and upon another occasion she saw him come out from
the same room. The witness also spoke to having
conveyed letters between the parties. On one occa-
sion Mr. Gould found that she had been to the Court
for a note for her mistress, and she afterwards heard
plaintiff and his wife having words. Mr. Gould
opened Mrs. Gould's work- box and took out several
letters, and after that he wrote to Sir Charles Elton
himself.

Mr. Sergeant KINOLARE addressed the jury for the
defendant, who, he said, had been fortified by the
consciousness of his innocence in resisting all attempts
to compromise the action, and was there to submit the
case to the decision of the jury. Sir Charles Elton
was a gentleman of 70 years of age, of somewhat
eccentric habits, making great intimacy with the
neighbours by whom he is surrounded, and extending
to all the most kindhearted assistance, whether by
money or otherwise. The Learned Sergeant went on
to animadvert on the evidence offered on the part of
the plaintiff, and submitted that there never was a
more clear case of a man using his wife as a means of
extorting money from any person from whom he
could get it. (The Learned Counsel then read letters
addressed by the plaintiff to a gentleman whom he
accused of having had illicit intercourse with his wife.)
He further read a correspondence addressed by Gould
to Sir Charles Elton, and his son, Mr. Arthur Elton,
and contended that it was clear from them that the
plaintiff's object was to get money. He would also
show from medical testimony that Mrs. Gould was in
such a state of health as rendered intercourse with her
highly improbable ; and as to the fact of Sir Charles
Elton having been seen in Mrs. Gould's bedroom, he
would prove that on two occasions the plaintiff had
himself asked him into the bedroom, his wife being
in bed, and then gone away and left them together,
facts which, if proved, would entitle the defendant to
a verdict; or should the jury find for the plaintiff,
their
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Mr. Gould in June and July, and saw him on two
occasions introduce Sir Charles Elton into his wife's
bedroom, and then go out of the house and leave
them together.
Some other witnesses were examined, but their
evidence was not material.
Mr. COCKBURN then replied, and his Lordship
having summed up, the jury returned a verdict for
the defendant.
The case occupied the Court till half-past ten
o'clock at night.

NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, ilugust 23.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN
and a Special Jury.)

THE NORTH AND SOUTH SHIELDS FERRY COMFANY V.

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This was an action for the Cllst-U-rbance of a right
of ferry. The defendants pleaded first not guilty ;
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the Act of Parliament, to do what they had done.
Mr. MARTIN (Mr. S. Temple and Mr. Heath with
him) stated the case, from which, and the evidence,
it appeared that there was an ancient ferry across
the river Tyne, connecting North and South Shields,
and belonging to the Dean and Chapter of Durham,
for passengers on foot or on horseback. A great
quantity of cattle were brought from Morpeth
market down to North Shields, and passed by the
ferry to South Shields, which was the only means of
passing from one county to the other between the sea
and Newcastle, a distance of ten miles. At that
ferry there was a flat-bottomed boat, under manage-
ment of a person known familiarly as " Old Bob."
That in 1829 had become a very inconvenient mode
of passage from the crowded state of the river, and in
that year an Act of Parliament was got, constituting
a company under the title of the North and South
Shields Ferry Company. That company bought the
add ferry of the Dean and Chapter of Durham, and
iestituted a new ferry at some distance above, passing
in a slanting direction, which was finished in the fol-
lowing year, and had been in constant use from that
time. That Act of Parliament restrains any one from
setting up any ferry within certain limits, and in the
same section provides that if any person shall use any
boat, etc., of the burthen of four tons or upwards
in ferrying, he shall forfeit 51. for every offence.
There had been a dispute as to the right to the an-
cient ferry between the Dean and Chapter and the
Duke and Duchess of Somerset, and an action
had been tried at York, and a decree in Chancery,
in favour of the former, since which time up to the
purchase by the plaintiffs, they had granted leases
of the ferry, and received the rents from the lessees.
They had also got the coal under this river half way
across. In the beginning of this year, there being a
prevalent opinion that the new ferry, from its ex-
tension, being upwards of 1,000 yards, was incon-
venient, a new joint-stock company was formed to
make another new and more direct ferry, being about
300 yards. This last ferry was instituted last
Whitsuntide, the north landing-place being at a
public quay, about 100 yards below that of the plain-
tiff's ; but the south side, half a mile below it, in
consequence of the slanting direction of the latter.
The defendants were three of the promoters of this
new company, and the ferry they had established
was between the old and the new ferry, and the
plaintiffs were on the point of taking steps to estab.
lish another ferry just in the place where the defend-
ants had established theirs.
The plaintiffs contended that this establishment of
the defendants was an infringement upon their rights;
first, because they had the sole right of ferry under
the Dean and Chapter ; and, secondly, if the Act of
Parliament authorised the defendants to establish a
ferry at all, they had evaded its provisions by using
a boat of more than four tons burden ; and they