The Sun.
London, England, 1847-02-15 00:00:00

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SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock.

MEDICAL CHARITIES in IRELA.ND•
MEETING OF THE IRISH PARTY.—(TIIIS DAY.)
A meeting of the members of the Irish party was held
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the office of the Great Munster Railway Company,
ment-street, at two o'clock, this day; Lord Monteagle in the
chair.
The following noblemen and gentlemen IveT.e in atten:
anc-e:—Marquis of Sligo, Earl of Mountcashel, _Lord Massa.
rene, Viscount Bernard, M.P., Sir Arthur Brooke, M.P.,
W. S. O'Brien M.P., P. S. Butler, M.P., W. Bunbury, M.P.,
A. Lefroy, M.P., H. Tuite, M.P., J. Martin, M.P., J. H.
Hamilton, M.l'., Sir E. Haves, Bart., M.P., G. A. Hamilton,
M.P., and E. Orogen, H.P.
After a lengthened discussion on the medical charities in
Ireland, the following resolutions were agreed to :
"That whatever be the future system for the relief of the
siek poor, it is our opinion that it is essentially necessary to
provide by law for a strict and complete inspection of all the
medical clarifies in Ireland."
"That the Chairman be requested to communicate this
resolution to Mr. Labouchere."
The Landed Property Improvement Bill was then dis-
cussed, and suggestions made for alterations in several of its
clauses; after which the meeting adjourned.
The future meetings of the members of the Irish party are
to be held at 16, King-street, St. James's.

ROYSTON AND HITCHIN RAIL-
WAY.—(THIS DAY.)
The half-yearly general meeting of the shareholders of this
company was held to-day, at Radley's Hotel, New Bridge-
street, Blackfriars; Lord Deere in the chair.
After the usual preliminaries,
The CHAIRMAN said—Before calling on the secretary to
read the report, he thought it necessary to say that the num-
ber of shareholders present was not to be taken as an evi-
dence of the amount of shares held, for they far exceeded
the number required to constitute a meeting.
The SECRETARY then read the report, which stated that
the directors, in accordance with the powers given them at
the last half-yearly meeting of the proprietors, had concluded
arrangements with the Great Northern Railway Company,
and that in consequence of the abridgement of the line by
Parliament, the capital to be called up for the purpose of
constructing that portion of the railway then sanctioned
would amount to 200,0001., being 6/. ss. per share. The
agreement with the Great Northern Company provided for
an application to Parliament for powers to lease the railway
to them, the company (this being obtained) to execute
a lease in perpetuity at an annual rent of 12,000/., being
six per cent. on the capital before stated, the rent
to commence on the opening of the Great Northern Railway
from London to Ilitchin, or on the 16th of July, 1849, the
interest of five per cent. to be paid on the deposit and calls
in the interim. The agreement also provided for an appli-
cation to Parliament for an extension of the line from Roy-
ston to Cambridge. The agreement contained a clause
giving power to the Great Northern Company,
on giving three months' notice to redeem, the
annual rent or dividends at 50 per cent. premium on the
share capital. The report, after congratulating the meeting
on the arrangement that had been made with the great
Northern Company, and alluding to the death of one of the
directors, P. M. Stewart, Esq., M.P., in whose place
had been elected Francis Parker, Esq., of Manchester,
recommended that the number of directors should be in-
creased from fourteen to eighteen. The report concluded by
stating that the directors were proceeding with the purchase
of land for the construction of the railway, which would
be completed by the Ist of May, 1849. An abstract of the
receipts and payments of the company, since its formation,
was then submitted to the meeting, from which it appeared
that the expenditure was 25,1211. 18s. 5d., which left a
balance in the banker's bands of 2,7681. 16s. 11d.
The CHAIRMAN said it appeared to him that the report
was so detailed, clear, and circumstantial, as to render any
remarks from him quite unnecessary. But he was quite
ready to elucidate any point that might require explanation.
He would, therefore, move the adoption of the report.
Dr. Sow seconded the resolution, which was carried una-
nimously.
M. J. Underwood was re-elected as auditor, and Messrs
J. Arbouin, W. S. Boyd, T. Pym, and Captain J. M. Laws
R.N., were elected directors in conformity with the recom-
mendation of the board.

A special meeting was then held to consider the agreement
made with the Great Northern Company.
The SECRETARY read the agreement together with the
draft of the two Bills.

The agreement was unanimously sanctioned.
Mr. LEECH proposed and Mr. UNDERWOOD seconded a
vote of thanks to the chairman and the other directors,
which was also carried unanimously.
The meeting then separated.

TATTERSALL'S-THIS EVENING

Six O'CLOCK.

LIVERPOOL STEEPLE MUSE.
9 to 1 agst Brunette
13 to 1 agst Saucepan
13 to 1 agat Avoca
14 to 1 agst The Roarer
NEWMARKET lIANDICAP.
15 to 1 agst Lyncens
20 to 1 agst Sir Martin
METROPOLITAN HANDICAP.
Brocardo is scratched.
2,000 GUINEAS STAKES.
7 to 1 agst Conyngham—taken
CHESTER CUP.
22 to 1 agst Mendicant
25 to 1 agst The Lamb
30 to 1 agst Camera Obscnra
30 to 1 agst Antler
30 to 1 agst Punch
35 to 1 agst Mickey Free
50 to 1 agst Bedlam
50 to 1 agat Intrepid
50 to 1 agst Sir Tattoo Sykes
66 to 1 agst Pal
100 to 1 agst Robin Burns
HERBY.
15 to 2 agst Van Tromp
10 to 1 agst Epirote
12 to 1 agst Planet
20 to 1 agst Glentilt
25 to 1 agst Conyngham
30 to 1 agst Horn of Chase
35 to 1 agst Wanota
OAKS.
8 to 1 agst Farmer's Daughter
16 to 1 agst Miami
18 to 1 agst Nerlssa

THE SPEAKER'S LEVEES.—The Speaker will hold
two levees only during the present session—the first on
Saturday, the 20th, and the second on Saturday, the 27th of
February, at ten o'clock.

EXCHEQUER.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Nisi Prius before the LORD CHIEF BARON and

Special Juries.)
Several cases were disposed of during the day, none of
which, however, presented any features of public interest.
The Court of Exchequer commence their sittings in London
to-morrow.

COMMON PLEAS.-(THIS DAY.)
(Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice COLTMAN).
CRIM. CON.

This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the landlord
of the Jolly Butchers public-house, Newport-market, St.
Martin's-lane, against Dlr. Moore, a print seller, in the same
locality, for damages for the seduction of his wife.
Mr. Sergeant ;Byles and Mr. Bramwell appeared for the
plaintiff; and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Pigot for the defence.
Mr. Sergeant BYLEs opened the case for the plaintiff, going
over the evidence he intended to adduce. He stated, that
in 1831, the mariage of the plaintiff to his wife took place,
and that they lived together fur many years in a comfortable
state. A short time ago he took the Jollytutchers public-house,
and then commenced the intimacy which had led to the present
action. The defendant had been in the habit of attending the
house, and the result was an estrangement of the wife's affec-
tions, which ended in the neglect of her child, and her ulti-
mate elopement with the defendant. The result was, the
plaintiff neglected his business, and acquired habits of in-
toxication, so affected bad he been by the conduct of his
wife, and now the onty course left him was to recover damages
for the injury done in a court of law.
Several witnesses were called to prove the marriage of the
parties, and that they had for some time lived together in a
comfortabie manner.
Catherine Ryan was the first material witness called.
She had been servant at the Jolly Butchers, and deposed that
the defendant was in the practice of attending the public
house, and that she had noticed several acts of intimacy
between plaintiffs wife and the defendant. She further
stated that various quarrels took place between them, which
ended in their separation about Christmas, 1845.
In cross-examination, the witness stated that the plaintiff
often struck his wife, and was in the habit of getting repeat-
edly drunk.
John Cooke, a butcher, in Newport-market, who had been
in the practice of attending the Jolly Butchers, gave evidence
to a similar effect ; and further, that on one occasion, in
December, 1845, he had late at night seen the defendant and
plaintiff wife come out of' a house of ill fame together.
Joseph Bates, a nurseryman, near Oxford, stated that he
had waisted the plaintiff in getting up the case. He had
done so because he had been in town on business, and had
known the plaintiff before. When the plaintiff's wife left,
the plaintiff did not know where she had gone to, and wit-
ness endeavoured to find her out. After some difficulty he
traced her to a house in Islington, where she was living with
the defendant under the name of Mrs. Moore.
Harriet Willis stated that she lived at 35, Charlotte-ter.
race, Islington. She let the first floor of her house about
Christmas M 1845, to a lady who called herself Mrs. Moore.
A gentleman named Mr. Moore came often there and slept
with Mrs. Moore. They passed as map and wife. The defen-
dant had that morning been pointed out to her outside of the
wart, and it was the same gentleman as lived with Mrs.
Moore at her apartments.
Mr. Kingdom, the plaintiff's solicitor, proved having
pointed out the defendant that morning to the previous wit-
sass, in order to identify him.
This was the case for the plaintiff.
Mr, COcKnuaN, for the defence, said that after the evidence
of the witness, Mrs. Willis, he had no intention of opposing
a, verdict for the plaintiff, but the question to which he would
address himself, would be that of damages, which, he submitted,
should be only nominal. Though he admitted that Mrs.
11_,!"kee had lived under the protection °tithe defendant after
I*"s had been turned off, yet he was instructed to repudiate
the evidence of the witness Cooke, and to deny that any
criminal intercourse had ever taken place while under her
husband's roof. The Learned Gentleman then went on to
show that the 1
though he was in up to the time of his wife leaving,
never imputedthe' habit of continually Musing her, he
anything
wrong to the defendant. He would
further prove that notonly up till the period of Mrs. Moore
leaving, but for many months after,
-he was in the habit of
continnally receiving loans of money
from the defendant ;
and that not till after Mr.
tare had refused further
sums, was there a word
the present action.
4e the very time, therefore, that hetw
his
to be droop-
egg Pway and withering on account ofis wife's faithless-
the injured husband was drawing continually
only when the latter would from the
bleed
seducer'e exchequer, and
did lie think of recovering damages in
no more,
ill-usage of the plaintiff to his wife tof
law. Thebefore she
left could not, therefore, arise from his belief
i that
the f it did, then
de-
fendant had seduced her, or, f h
he was the
most crawlingwretch upon the ace o t e earth to coin
money, as n done, f seduction—
lust have out of the of his
wife. lied in support of those allegations,
Several witness were ca
b f he took the Jolly
proving and e ore
proving that for many y
habit of getting drunk and
Butchers, he he had been in the
points relating to ad-
using wife, and also on the other
I • t'ff
using his
vances of money by the defends
from the defendant so
former had received sums of money
ths after plaintiff's wife
late as in Jim last: and about six mon
had left, and placed hi.- self under the
protection of the
defendant.
(The case had not concluded when our l'epOli 14)