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solution of a marriage which the defendant had con-
tracted with Esther Field for the purpose of obtaining

her property.
The clerk of Trinity Church, a person of the name of
Speller, was then called for the purpose of proving the
marriage and what had taken place at that ceremony,
and the representations made by the defendant. Tho
defendant had put up the banns, and after the marriage
had taken place he stated, on being asked, that both
parties were of full age, and that they both resided in
Wimpole•street.
The Rev. Mr. Hamilton, who was the curate of
Trinity Church, solemnized the marriage upon the 19th
of June, 1847, between Samuel Brown, the prisoner, and
Esther Field. Upon the question being put, both par-
ties stated they were of full age.
Edward Whitby, who was in service in Wim pole-
street, and had been so for the last eight years, proved
that the defendant had not resided at 31, Winspole- street
for the last eight years, though he had sometimes called
there.
A person of the name of Lake, who resided at Leighton,
knew the defendant Brown, who was residing, in June
1847, with his brother, at Tring, Saw the deffnelant
in July last, who stated to him that, in consequence of
Miss Field being under age, he had, with the advice of
the clergyman, put up the banns, and had induced Miss
field to believe that he had obtained a marriage license,
for the purpose of their getting married.
Mr. John Brown, the brother of the defendant, also
proved that in June last, the defendant resided with
him at Tring, and assisted him in his business. Miss
Field also resided with him. Recollected Miss Field
going to town early on the 19th of June, and his brother
returning with her in the evening. Shortly after this
she went to reside with a Mr. Smith.
This was the case for the prosecution.
Sir F. THEVIGER submitted to the Court that the
prosecution had failed, and that there was no case to go
to the jury. The Learned Counsel, after having at
some length adverted to the provisions of the Act, con-
tended that the statements made by the defendant to
the clergyman were not made, as alleged in the indict-
ment, for the purpose of the insertion in the
registry, inasmuch as the insertion of them had
been made by the clerk before the clergyman put the
question; added to which the clerk had no right to put
the questions he did, and the parties if they chose need
not have answered them. He submitted, therefore, that
the defendant could not be charged under the 41st sec-
tion with having made statements for the purpose of
their insertion on the registry, and that such being the
case the present prosecution had completely failed.
Mr. BALLANTINE followed on the same side.
The LORD CHIE! BARON thought there was a case to
go to the jury.
Sir F. THESIGER then addressed the jury on behalf
of the prisoner. He thought the jury would agree with
him that there could be no doubt that in all the trans-
actions that had taken place the lady was a free agent :
it might certainly have been better that the lady should
have married a person nearer her own age than
the defendant, but that in the transaction she was a free
agent there could be no doubt. He considered the pre-
sent prosecution as one of a most harsh description ; the
defendant had already suffered sufficiently for what
some might term his indiscretion ; he had been
attached in the Court of Chancery for the mar-
riage of one of its wards without the leave of
the Court, and he was now suffering imprisonmet
for his contempt ; he thought that this was a sufficient
punishment for him,;without this prosecution, which was
being carried on against him in the most harsh manner.
Added to this, it must be recollected that this young
lady's property, she being a ward of the Court
of Chancery, could not be touched by the
defendant, unless he made such settlement
upon her as the Lord Chancellor should think
right. What, he would ask, was the source from which
this prosecution emanated ? Did not the jury think that
the origin of it was the disappointment of some
individuals who were in hopes of obtaining
this young lady's property? He thought that
was apparent from the statement of his Learned Friend
the Attorney-General, who at the outset of the case
observed that the present proceeding was only the
initiative of other proceedings to put an end to the mar-
riage. The Learned Counsel, after going at some
length into the facts of the case, concluded by begging
of the jury to weigh well before they pronounced
their verdict, as it might involve the young lady
herself, as well as the defendant, if they found
him guilty, because she was as liable as him to have a
charge like the present preferred against her.
The LORD CLUE, BaJtosr summed up at some length.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty of making a false
statement to the clergyman.
The LORD CHIEF BARON deferred passing sentence,
and ordered the tipstaff of the Court of Chancery, in
whose custody the defendant was, to turn him over to
the custody of Mr. Cope, in order to his being im-
prisoned in the gaol of Newgate until their Lordships
should determine what sentence they should pass upon
him.

NEW COURT.
(Before the RECORDER and Alderman Sir JAMES DUKE.)
Francis Verinder, a labourer, was indicted with steal-
ing a gallon of rum, value 12s 6d., the property of
Henry Hart. The charge against the prisoner having
been clearly made out, the jury found a verdict of
Guilty, and he was sentenced to one year's imprison-
ment.
The following prisoners were also found guilty of the
several charges with which they were indicted:—
Robert Westgard, a labourer, for stealing a pair
of pistols, value 21., the property of Sarah
Blissctt, sentenced to three months' imprisonment;
Richard Cordele, also a labourer, for stealing a block
bill, belonging to John Kneenes, sentenced to 3 months'
imprisonment; Catherine Kelly, a married woman, for
stealing a waistcoat, .alue 2us., belonging to Thomas
Speken, sentenced to be imprisoned for one month.

THAMES.-(THIS DAY.)
This morning information was given to this Court
that Mr. Edward Hughes, a gentleman residing at No.
31, John-street, Commercial-road East, had been found
dead in a cab, under very mysterious circumstances.
It appeared that last night about eleven o'clock, a
cabman wearing the badge 4,911, called the attention of
Police-constable Curtis, No. 345 K, to a gentleman in
his cab, which was then standing opposite the George
Inn, and eaid his fare was either drunk or dead. The
policeman looked in the cab and saw a well-dressed man
in a state of insensibility. Curtis ordered the cabman
to drive as speedily as possible to th© station-
house in Arbour• square, adjoining to this court,
where it was ascertained the gentleman was quite dead.
Dr. Falconer, of the Commercial-road, attended imme-
diately, and said the gentleman had only just expired.
The cabman stated that he took up the gentleman at
a house in York-terrace, Regent's Park, and a person
who assisted him into his vehicle ordered him to drive to
No. 31, John. street, Commercial-road. On arriving
there he was unknown, and on speaking to his passen-
ger, discovered he was insensible. He then gave infor-
mation to the first police-constable he met with. It
appears that the deceased actually resided at No. 31,
Johnson-street, Commercial-road, and was formerly a
clerk in a mercantile establishment. The body now lies
in a cell in the station-house of this court, awaiting a
coroner's inquest.

UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE

BELL SCTIOLARSIIIPS.
CAMBRIDGE. FEB. 29.—The Vice-Chancellor has
given notice, that an election of two scholarships upon
this foundation will take place on Friday, the 7th of
April, 1848.
That the members of any College (except King's Col-
lege and Trinity Hall), sons or orphans of clergymen,
who were admitted between the commencements of 1846
and 1847, may be candidates.
The candidates are required to signify their intention
of offering themselves on or before Monday, the 13th of
March, in a Latin epistle, to be presented to each of the
electors, who are—
The Vice Chancellor.
Dr. 011ivant, Regius Professor of Divinity.
Dr. Maine, Regius Professor of the Civil Law.
Dr. King, Lucasian Professor.
Mr. Field, Deputy Public Orator.
The examination will commence on Monday, the 20th
of March, at nine o'clock in the forenoon, in the Senate
house.

THE BURNEY PRIZE.
The late Mr. Richard Burney, M.A., of Christ's Col-
lege, having signified his intention of founding an annual
pride, not exceeding 1051., for the best English essay "on
some moral or metaphysical subject, on the existence,
nature and attributes of God, or on the truth and evi-
dence of the Christian religion," and his intention having
been carried into effect by his sister and executrix Miss
Jane Caroline Burney, the Vice-Chancellor has given
notice, that the subject for the present year is, " The
doctrine of a Divine Providence is inseparable from the
belief in the existence of an absolutely perfect Creator."
The candidates for the prize are to be Bachelors of
Arts in their first year of standing; and the essays are
to be sent in to the Vice-Chaccetior on or before the
12th of November, 1848, with the names of the respec-
tive authors sealed up.

THE CHURCH,
The Rev. Henry Owen, M.A. (B.A. 1817), of Mag-
dalen College, has been appointed by the Right llon.
Lord Huntingfield, High Sheriff of Suffolk, to be his
Lordship's chaplain.
The Rev. Edward Cridgc, 8.A., of St. Peter's Col-
lege, has been appointed to the second mastership of Sir
W. Paston's Gram►rar-school, North Walsham.
The Rev. William Stow, B.A. (1846), St. Peter's
College, has bees appointed domestic chaplain to his
Grace the Duke of Argyle.

PRINCESS'S TEMA TRE.—The following distin-
guished personages have visited this theatre during the
last few days :—His Excellency the Russian Minister
and the Baroness Brunnow, the Countess of Ellesmere
and party, the Duchess Dowager of Bedford and party,
his Excellery the Austrian Ambassador and party, his
Excellency the Hanoverian Minister, his Excellency the
American Minister, the Countess Dowager of Essex,
the Marchioness of Downshire, the Lady Georgiana
Fallarton and party, the Count Potocki, Lord Adolphus
Fitzclarence, the Marquis of Clanricarde, Lord Suffield,
the Earl of Minister, the Earl Fitzhardinge, Lord
Blantyre, Sir William and Lady Georgiana Codrington,
Sir George Wombwell, Sir Henry Raiford, Sir Archi-
bald Macdonald, Lady Bulteel, Hon. Colonel Anson and
party, &c.
TIM LATE LORD GRANVILLE SOMERSETo--ahe
mortal remains of this respected nobleman were con-
signed to their last resting place, in one of tho
cata-
combs of Kensal-green Cemetery, on Tuesday fore-
noon. The solemn ceremony was attended by the Duke
of Beaufort, the Marquis of Worcester, the Marquis of
Clioiniclitiehy, the 1:w:1 of St. Germans, Sir Waltn
Farquhar, Lord Fitzroy Somerset, Mr. Granville So-
merset (son to the deceased), Mr. Finch, M.P., the Hon.
F. Uwe], 6r,c,

THE MAGAZINES.
BLACKWOOD.
Several of the articles for March are very happily
timed—not excepting the one on " Greenwich
Time." Those, however, to which, without joking,
we would make especial allusion, are, first, the on-
slaught upon the Apostle of Peace and Free-trade
with all mankind, entitled (the paper, not the Apostle)
" Mr. Cobden on the National Defences ;" secondly,
the repetition of the same theme, with different argu-
ments, enforcing the exigency of the question in
a perfectly different manner, being, in fact, " A
Military Discussion touching our Coast Defences ;"
thirdly, the political pasquinade upon the existing
Government in the shape of a review of the Budget
of Lord John Russell and Sir Charles Wood ;
fourthly, a sparkling series of chapters on " Roteanisra
in Rome," a series peculiarly appropriate now, when
the liberal innovations of the illustrious Pius are
attracting the eyes and the sympathy of all Christen-
dom to the inhabitants of the Eternal City ; fifthly,
a sketch of Hudson's Bay, possessing an interest both
geographical and commercial ; and, sixthly, an
agreeable reminiscence headed "My Route into
Canada," a subject especially worthy of considera-
tion just now, from its intimate relationship with
our colonial embarrassments. In the ridicule
which our venerable contemporary endeavours to cast
upon Mr. Cobden, because, without exactly believing
in our approximation to the Millennium, he neverthe-
less anticipates the ultimate pacification of the human
race, Blackwood, we observe, does not forget a sly
hit at what it calls sarcastically Mr. Cobden 's
" elegant language." Does not Ebony —(as the
Ettrick Shepherd, we think it was, used to christen
our well-beloved Maga)—recollect that at the very
last free-trade demonstration in Covent-garden
Theatre, this same Mr. Cobden prophesied in this
same language of elegance that before long the aris-
tocracy—the protectionist, monopolising, industry-
taxing aristocracy—would be " bamboozled." And
does it not recollect that before long, nay, within a
a very few weeks, the aristocracy were " bam-
boozled," by the introduction of Sir Robert
Peel's great measure for the abolition of the corn-
laws, and its triumphant passage through the
Upper House, under the particular guardianship of
F. M. his Grace the Duke of Wellington ? The
language may be very inelegant ; but, at
the least, it is very potent into the
bargain—at the least it is telling with the million—
at the least it is the truth, the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth. We do think that in stirring
times like these it is injudicious to potter over the
grammatical niceness befitting a legislator, and, when
principles are at stake, to become sticklers for the
dictionary. Mr. Cobden is not only the representa-
tive of the largest constituency in England, he is the
representative of a vast majority of the thinking por-
tion of the population of the United Kingdom. We
regret, therefore, that Blackwood should act towards
Mr. Cobden as Sir Lucius O'Trigger acted to Mrs.
Malaprop—cast reflections on his " parts of speech,"
on the " parts of speech" of one so remarkable for
" the nice derangement of his epitaphs !" Incidentally
another of the contributors to the March number
makes reference to the miserable disposition of our
naval armaments—one of the principal causes of our
present insecurity as an insular and maritime power.
The passage occurs in the clever biographic outline
of the adventurous career of Sir Sydney Smith. The
writer says—
" We have now two fleets on service, one in the Tagus,
and another at Malta ; but both are weak in point of
numbers, though in a high state of equipment. A few
rasee guardships are scattered round the coast. Some
large steamers 'remain at Portsmouth and Plymouth
ready for service; but, from all accounts, there is nothing
of that active and vigorous preparation which ought to
be the essential object of the country, while Franee is
menacing us from day to day, while she has an immense
naval conscription, is building powerful ships, is talking
of invasion, and hates us with all the hatred of French-
men."
The fact is happily expressed in this brief sentence.
We are clamouring at once for a reduction in our
expenditure, and for an extension of our defensive
armaments on the sea—and yet we are winking at a
system which squanders a splendid fleet in the vicinity
of Lisbon, for the purpose of awing a nation into
obedience to a Sovereign they despise, and of prevent-
ing two-thirds of the population of Portugal from fulfill-
ing their own wishes by re-elevating to the throne
that Prince (Dom Miguel) whom they consider to be
their best security for rational liberty and national
happiness ! Another paragraph in the same article is
worth extracting, if only as a foot-note to the
famous simile of Mr. Canning :
The unrivalled triumph of human invention is the
instrument by which all those powerful qualities are
brought into play : a ship of the line, with all its stores,
its crew, and its guns on board, is the wonder of the
world. What must be the dexterity of the arrangement
by which a thousand men can be victualled, at the rate
of three meals a clay, for four months; a thousand men
housed, bedded, clothed, and accoutred; a battery of a
hundred and twenty guns—the complement of an army
of fifty thousand men, and two or three times the weight
of field guns—fought; this mighty vessel navigated
through every weather, and the profoundest practical
science'applied to her management, through night and clay,
for years together? No combination of human force and
intellectual power can contest the palm with one of those
floating castles, of all fortresses the most magnificent,
the most effective, and the most astonishing."
Altogether the contribution from which this is tran-
scribed is one of the most agreeable in the current
number; it presents us with a rapid but tolerably
complete epitome of the life and adventures of the
distinguished sea-captain, Sir Sydney Smith. One
blemish the article has, and a singular, unaccountable,
preposterous one it is. The writer suddenly inter-
rupts the thread of his narrative to retail all over
again the thrice three-hundred-thousand times told
tale of Gustavus. Simply becanse that rash but
heroic king had written an affectionate letter to Sir
Sydney Smith, offering him a command in the
Swedish service—off flies the imagination of the
contributor at a tangent to the :masqued ball on the
16th of March, 1792, to the pistol of Ankerstrom,
and to all the details of that dramatic assassination
which the genius of Auber has associated with im-
perishable melodies. That Sir Sydney Smith was an
adventurer of ecprit, daring, and perseverance, is suffi-
ciently shown by the astonishing raßidity of his rise in
his profession—being first rated on the books of the
Admiralty in June, 1777, obtaining his appointment
as Lieutenant in 1779, and becoming a captain in
the October of 1782, when only eighteen! With all
this Sir. Sidney was incontestably mad—as mad (as
the saying goes) as a March hare. Even Blackwood
unwillingly acknowledges as much when the writer
says that Sir Sidney " had his oddities and phantasies."
His most brilliant feats were certainly his burning
the French vessels in the harbour of Toulon, and
his courageous defence of the fortifications of St.
Jean d'Acre. There is visible in the contribution
whick here recounts the incidents of his career a
hatred of Napoleon almost as venomous as that of
Walter Savage Landor, and almost as uncompromising
as that of Nelson, who, in a letter, dated August, 20,
1799, speaks of the " army of French villains, headed
by that arch-villian Bonaparte." Howbeit, as a
biographic sketch the article is thoroughly good.
" Crimes and Remarkable Trials in Scotland" forms
one :of those odd and striking effusions which are
always devoured with interest and avidity. Perhaps
the only really light article in the magazine is the
tale of the bivouac called " Intercepted Letters ;" it,
however, is by no means too light, for it will be
perused with irelish. If Blackwood has often been
more witty and wise, it has seldom been more varied
and appropriate.

DOLMAN'S MAGAZINE.
A contribution called "Reformation not Tolera-
tion," and penned by Mr. Jerningham, is pithy and
bitter. Very different, indeed, are " The Adventures
of a Schoolboy," written, we conjecture, by one whose
animal spirits are as restless and hilarious as those of
Albert Smith. The general purpose of the series
appears to have been suggested by Mr. Dickens' in-
imitable revelations of Dr. Blimber and his establish-
ment at Brighton. The " Lines," in answer to some
verses of Mrs. Norton's on a Nun, are pretty—and
nothing more. A continuation of a clever narrative,
entitled " The Mixed Marriage," follows, and then
comes a brief but capital " Apology for Pleasant
Wine," which is inspired 'in some measure by the
fervour of Anacreon. " The Union of Charity" is in
parts almost too horrible ; and the very best contri
bution in the March number is one on "The Spirit of
Christian Art." It is the production of one who has
descended in imagination, if not in body—reverently
—into the catacombs.