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HOUSE OF LORDS.—(THIS DAY.)
The House sat to-day to hear appeals. The Peers
present were the Lord Chancellor, Lord Campbell, Earl
Fitzwilliam, and Lord Churchill.
WILSON V. WILSON.—JUDGMENT.
The LORD CHANCELLOR gave the judgment of' their
Lordships to-day in this important appeal, which was
heard during the course of the last session. The cir-
cumstances of the case out of which the appeal arose,
are but too well known we are afraid to the public. The
facts may excite regret, but the lesson to all marrying
perties, especially those in affluent circumstances is not
wholly destitute of instruction:—The appellant is a man
of property and rank, a barrister, and of considerable
professional attainments. He has an estate in Somerset-
shire. The respondents are, first, Mary, his wife, and
next her trustees. She was the adopted daughter of Sir
Henry Wilson's brother, and finally came into a large
estate by bequest of the well-known favourite of fortune
Sir Henry Wright Wilson and his wife Lady Wilson, of
Chelsea, by whom she had been brought up from in-
fancy, with large expectations from their bounty, each
having separate property. Under these propitious cir-
cumstances these persons became engaged. Settlements
were drawn up, approved, and they married in April,
1839, when Mrs. Wilson was entitled to 2,0001. a year
in her own right, by the will of Lady Wilson, out of an
estate called Drayton Lodge, in the county of South-
ampton, and by the will of Sir Henry Wright Wilson to
estates in Yorkshire and Essex. By her marriage settle-
ment, the Manor House at Chelsea Park was to belong
to the appellant, in his marital right, together with
the sum of 3,000/. Three per Cents. Annuities.
The husband covenanted, in case of children, to raise a
provision of 10,0001., should there be but one, or 5,000/.
should there be more, out of his estate at Compton
Martin, Somerset. Their union produced, however, no
happiness, and their wealth plunged them into
Chancery. In consequence of the appellant having a
natural son born before this marriage, and other less
important causes, differences arose between the appel-
lant and his wife, and she desired to get back the pro-
perty to which he derived a title under the marriage
settlement, and sought advice of counsel whether she
could not upset the settlement, on the ground that the
appellant had not uniformly used, as stipulated, the
name of Wilson; or upon the ground of cruelty and
adultery obtain a divorce; or through his general lia-
bility to pay her debts induce him to agree to a separa-
tion. Counsel gave her no encouragement, and she re-
sorted to another method of dissolving the marriage by
a suit in the Consistory Court of London, wherein she
was described as Mary Wright Wilson, spinster,
pretended to be the wife of John W. H. Wilson,
and cited him in a cause of nullity of
marriage, by reason of impotency, on the Bth
of May, 1843. She then left her house at Chelsea.
Intimidated and alarmed by this unfounded and dis-
graceful charge, her husband, with a view to have it
withdrawn, proposed to accept terms of separation, and
finally it was agreed that he should, upon releasing all
the property, be permitted to receive 1,0001. a year only.
As early as August the respondents in this case filed a
bill in Chancery against the appellant, on the ground
that a clerical error, in omitting Mrs. Wilson's debts and
liabilities then existing, had not been inserted in the se-
paration deed as his liabilities, and to be by him provided
for, and praying a specific performance of the deed, and
for consequential relief. To this Bill he put
in his answer, and a series of supplemental
bills and answers had followed in the succeeding
years, until the Vice •Chancellor of England decided
the cause, doss bills having been in the mean-
time filed against the trustees, Tooke and Wetherell.
Evidence had been tendered to show that the appellant
was net impotent, and that the marriage had been con-
summated, which, however, had been rejected by the
Vice-Chancellor of England, who decided that there
was nothing shown in the case of Mr. Wilson to prove
he was intimidated and forced by duress to sign the
articles of separation, or that the articles had not been
specifically performed by him. The Master was ordered
to settle the proper deed. The appellant was to give
up possession of Chelsea Park House, on which an
occupation-rent was to be fixed since June, 1843, which
amount was to be charged to Mr. Wilson. An injunc-
tion was awarded to restrain the appellant from receiv-
ing rents of any estate, and from proceeding in the
ecclesiastical court, until the execution of the deed.
The cross bill was dismissed with costs. From this de-
cree the appellant appealed; the appeal was argued for
some days, and their Lordships now gave judgment upon
that appeal.
The LORD CHANCELLOR, after going at considerable
length into the circumstances of the case, stated his
clear opinion, and that of theirtLordships, to be, that the
judgment of the Court below was correct, and ordered it
to be affirmed with costs.
Judgment affirmed with costs.
THE RIGHT HON. SIR T. WILDE, RNT , LORD CHIEF JUS-
TICE OF THE COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, AND HIS WIFE,
FORMERLY AUGUSTA EMMA D'ESTE, V. GIBSON.
from the decision of the Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce,
setting aside a purchase made by the respondent, Mr.
Gibson, at a public auction, of a freehold property be-
longing to the wife of the appellant, called Mount Albion
House, and certain lands adjoining, in Ramsgate, on the
ground of fraud. The wife of the appellant is, as our
readers are doubtless aware, the daughter of his late
Royal Highness the Duke of Sussex, and inhe-
rited the property in question from her mother, the
Lady Augusta Murray, who, upon her marriage with
the Duke of Sussex took the title of Lady Augusta
Countess D'Ameland, the plaintiff in the court below,
the respondent here filed his bill for the purpose of being
relieved from the purchase of a messuage and land at
Ramsgate, made by him from the wife of the appellant,
then Madame Augusta Emma D'Este, and completed by
a conveyance and payment of the purchase money in Dec.
1838. The plaintiff in the court below, which had taken
possession of the estate, put his case for relief upon the
ground of the existence of a right of way over the pro-
perty, which he asserted to have existed at and before
the time of the sale, without the knowledge of Madame
Augusta Emma D'Este, the defendant in the court
below, and which had been fraudulently concealed
from him. Madame D'Este, by her answer to the
plaintiff's bill, contended Ithat the supposed right of
way had, in fact, ,as she conceived, been wholly
extinguished. She denied all fraudulent conceal-
ment, or intent Ito do so, either on her own part
or that of her agents; she insisted that the plaintiff had
not been deceived or misled, and that at least one-half
in breadth of the supposed way, if it existed at all, had
merged in a public highway, of the existence of which
the plaintiff was fully aware. The main facts of the
case appeared to be as follows:—The way in question, as
to the existence of which at one time and in souse form
there was no doubt, is called " The Liberty Way," and
it originally led from a street called King-street, towards
the sea or cliff, traversing lands which belonged to the
late Countess D'Ameland, the mother of Augusta Emma
D'Este, the defendant in the Court below. Near its
course, as far as that course could be ascertained, stood
the dwelling-house, formerly owned and occupied by the
Lady August's D'Ameland, and called Mount Albion
House. The way originally and up to the year 1820,
consisted of a mere track, passing from King-street, over
what was then open and uninclosed fields, towards the
edge of the sea cliffs for the use and convenience of the
owners of the adjoining lauds, and used by the public,
by the consent of the owners.
Lady Augusta D'Ameland,
that
the defendant in the Court
and
f all
through
defendant in the Court below, became by degrees pos-
sessed; and hence it was 'eeher open
lands,
the
below was advised that the original right of way had ceased.
iand' O
The way being a mere track across or over open fields, its
course does not appear at any time to have been correctly
defined; no road was ever formed, nor was there any
regular beaten track or hard path, and no posts or rails
or other marks by which its course was defined ever
existed. In the year 1820 the Lady Augusta D'Ame-
land, finding the use of this way in the neighbourhood
of Mount Albion House, her residence, disagreeable,
and at that time not being the owner of the whole of the
lands for which the way was serviceable, and under the
mistaken idea that the parish had power to deal with
the way, applied to the parish of St. Lawrence to allow
it to be stopped, offering to lay out another line in lieu of
it; and after some negotiation, and some parish meetings,
a deed was finally executed, by which the Lady Augusta
D'Ameland bound herself to pay a rent of five shillings
(two shillings and sixpence to the parish of St. Law-
rence, and two shillings and sixpence to the township of
Ramsgate) in consideration of her being allowed to
close up that part of the way which ran past
the messuage, and over the land in question, setting
out however a new line in its stead. From that
time until the new road was opened, that part
of the way had been permanently closed up.
In August, 1838, the appellant, Lady Wilde, then
Mademoiselle D'Este, caused the whcle estate that had
been conveyed to her in 1829 by her another, Lady
D'Ameland, to be put up for sale by auction, in lots for
building purposes, and Mr. Gibson became the pur-
chaser of one of the lots, containing the mansion house
and ground for the sum of 2,0301. Mr. Gibson, upon
entering into possession of the property, built a wall
upon the verge of the New-road, as required in order to
divide the road from the property he had purchased ;
but the inhabitants of the town of Ramsgate and the
parish of St. Lawrence continuing to demand payment
of the nominal rent, and threatening to pull down the
wall as encroaching upon the Liberty-way, the respond-
ent applied to the appellant to take back. the
premises and repay him his purchase-money. This being
refused, the respondent in 1840 filed his bill to set aside
the contract. and upon the case coming before the Vice-
Chancellor Knight Bruce he decreed according to the
prayer of the respondents' bill, and set aside the pur-
chase. From that decision the present appeal was
brought.
Mr. Bethell, Mr. L. Wigram, and Mr. J. P. Wilde
appeared as counsel for the appellants, and
Sir F. KELLY and Mr. SWANSTON were in support of
the judgment of the Court below.
The case is expected to occupy two or three days in
argument.

IVoLvEs.—The Echo de la Crease states, that not-
withstanding the advanced period of the season, on the
night of the sth instant several wolves attacked fotir
horses grazing in a field in the commune of Gueret.
One of the horses being fettered was incapable of reukinF
his escape, and was unfortunately devoured by the
wolves.

CRIMINAL COITRT.-(THIS DAY.)

OLD COURT.
(Before the REconoEn.)
FEMALE PICKPOCKET.—Mary Ann Taylor, 27 years
of age, was indicted with stealing half-a-crown and
other monies, value 175., from the person of Mrs. Sarah
Fisher.

It appeared that the prosecutor resided at Poplar, and
beinff' desirous of going to Lambeth, she got into one of
the Blackwall and Chelsea omnibuses at Blackwall.
The money which the prisoner was charged with stealing
she had paced in her pocket, folded up in a
small piece
of paper. On the omnibus arriving at St. Paul's-church-
yard the prisoner got into it, took a seat close to Mrs.
Fisher, and rather rudely threw a portion of her dress
upon her, so as to hide the entrance to her pocket. The
prisoner only proceeded as far as Bridge•street, and
after she got out the prosecutor missed her money, upon
which she stopped the omnibus, and went in pursuit of
her. She was taken into custody in Bridge-street, and
upon being searched afterwards a gold watch and chain
and a purse, containing a
quantity of gold and silver,
ware found upon her person.
The jury found the prisoner Guilty, and as she had
before been guilty of similar offences,
The COURT sentenced her to ten years' transportation.

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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
(THIS DAY.)
The May adjourned sessions were opened this morn-
ing at the Court House, Clerkenwell-green, by the As-
sistant-Judge and county magistrates.
The ASSISTANT-JUDGE having charged the grand
jury,
Sarah Smith, aged thirty, and James Sedgwick, aged
forty-four, were indicted for stealing
a gold watch, of
the value of 171., the property of John Mattam, from his
person. It appeared that one evening last week the
prosecutor was passing through Scotland-yard, when he
met the female prisoner, vvherajiallenged him to treat
her to a glass of ale. He treat her accordingly, and
on coming out of the public-house he was knocked
down, and the female prisoner snatched his watch from
his pocket. The male prisoner was taken into
custody on the spot, as the person who knocked the
prosecutor down, and upon the female was found only
the swivel of the watch; the guard and the watch itself
having disappeared.
The prisoners were found Guilty, and
The ASSISTANT JUDGE, in passing upon the woman
Smith, the sentence of twelve months' imprisonment and
hard labour, said that the Court was determined to be
severe upon all woman of her way of life, who were
concerned in robbing from the person, accompanied with
violence on the part of their more abandoned associates.
The Learned Judge, however, in compliance with the
request of the prisoner's Counsel, deferred sentence upon
Sedgwick, until ten o'clock to-morrow.

MARLBRO'-STREET-(THIS DAY.

UTTERING FORGED NOTES. —Peon) Gernaine, a well
dres,ed young man, was placed before Mr. Hardwick,
charged with having uttered two forged 51. notes.
Mr. Charles Packer, jeweller, 78, Regent-street, said,
on Saturday evening, between six and seven o'clock,
the prisoner came into his shop and asked him to show
him (prisoner) some silver pencil. cases and gold wed-
ding rings. Witness placed a tray of each on the
counter, and the prisoner selected a ring and a pencil-
case which came to 15s. 6d. The prisoner tendered the
note produced, and witness gave him 41. 4s. 6d. change.
After the prisoner left the shop witness examined the
note, and not liking its appearance he took it to the
Bank of England, where it was examined by the in-
spector of bank-notes, and declared to be a forgery.
He saw no more of the prisoner till he saw him in cus-
tody at the station-house.
Mr. Arthur Rowland, of the firm of Rowland and
Son, jewellers, 146, Regent-street, said, last night, about
half• past eight, the prisoner came into his shop, and
asked to look at some silver pencil cases. He selected
one, which came to 9s. 6d, and then requested witness
to show him some wedding-rings. He placed some
before the prisoner, who chose one that came to 10s,
The prisoner then gave him the note produced, which
proved to be a forgery. Witness's brother then came
into the shop, and the prisoner was taken to the station-
house.

Mr. Donald Rowlands said, yesterday he heard that
Mr. Packer had taken a forged note, and he went to
the latter gentleman's shop to look at it. Mr. Packer
gave him a description of the person who had passed it,
and on witness's return to his shop the prisoner was
there, and had tendered a forged 54 note to his (wit-
ness's) brother. Witness subsequently took the pri-
soner to Mr. Packer, who identified him as the person
who had passed the note. Witness then took him to the
station, and gave him into custody.
:The prisoner was remanded till Friday next.
ATTEMPTED RAPE ON A CHlLD.—James 11411, a
journeyman tailor, was brought before Mr. Hardwick,
charged with assaulting Harriet Hammond, a child, ten
Tho prosecutrix, a pretty inielligent little child, sam
she resided with her parents at No. 3, Berwick-street,
and the prisoner worked for her father who was a tailor.
Last evening she was in'her mother's bed-room, on the
first floor, when the prisoner came in and taking her up
in his arms threw her on the bed. (Prosecutrix then
gave further evidence, which is totally unfit for publica-
tion, but which evidently proved that the prisoner would
have effected his object had he not been disturbed.) The
prosecutrix added that she screamed out, and after some
time her mother came and dragged her away.
Ann Ham.mond, the mother of last witness said that
the prisoner had worked for her husband for eight years,
and had often nursed the child when a baby. Last night
she missed her child, and on making
inquiries she was
told that she (the child) was in her bed room.
Witness was then proceeding up stairs, when she heard
prosecutrix call out. Witness ran and opened her bed-
room door, when she saw the prisoner lying upon the
bed, close by the prosecutrix, whose clothes were in great
disorder. Tho prisoner got off the bed, and witness
asked him what he had been doing to her child. He an-
swered " Oh, nothing at all." He then ran out of the
room, and the prosecutrix told her of the manner in
which he had treated her. Witness then sent for a con-
stable and gave him in charge. She subsequently took
the child to a surgeon's, who examined her, and de-
clared that, although the child was seriously injured, the
capital offence had not been committed.
The prisoner, in a rambling manner, denied the accu-
sation.

Mr. HARDWICK thought that the evidence was
sufficiently conclusive to warrant him in committing the
prisoner for trial.

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MR. DAKIN.--crms DAY.)
The adjourned inquest to inquire into the cause of the
death
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Paul's Churchyard, was held to-day before Mr. Payne,
Mr. W. M. Wilkinson was present to watch the pro-
ceedings on behalf of the deceased gentleman's family,
andol,vil_i.:lls;lNr.
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his
patenteesicetsih(ieoepn itbnahi
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hthee attributed.
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attendedp
cylindricallo ifoonr
arose from the weakness of the metal of which the oven
was made to resist the pressure which it was subjected
to, that pressure being attended by heat.
Mr. George Nasmyth, the engineer of .Ebury-street,
Pimlico, was next examined. He said he had carefully
examined the hot water apparatus, and examined
minutely the casting where the explosion had taken
place, and he considered that
,the explosion had arisen
almost entirely from the manner in which the casting
had been made. There was not bead or column of
metal sufficiently high to get rid of the surge or frothi_
ness which always took place in casting iron. Accord..
ing to the custom of the trade the oven ought to have
been cast with ahead, and then cut off, so as to get rid of
any imperfections in it.
Mr. William Healy, ironmonger, and manufacturer of
hot water apparatus, said he was also of opinion that
the explosion was caused by the defective casting of the
valve.
Mr. Perkins, the inventor of heating water under
pressure, said he had examined the cylindrical oven, and
understood perfectly the manner of working it. It was
made of cast iron, which be considered was a very im-
proper material for an apparatus which had to bear au
inch,
excessive pressure of 2,0001b5. to the square and
was subjected to 500 or 600 degrees of temperature. He
considered that the casting was detective for the reasons
stated by the previous witness, and he was of opinion
that the accident would not have happened if the oven
had been made of wrought instead of cast iron. There
were air-holes visible in the casting.
e rly He also considered
th
that the apparatus had not been prop erected.
Mr. Waterhouse, who was in e employ of the de-
ceased, proved the contract with Messrs. Brown and Co.
for the apparatus. Messrs. 11
The witnesses on the part of —rovvn and Co.
were then called.
Mr. George Taylor said he was an ironfounder at
West Bromwich, Staffordshirlte, and was the party who
made the c 3 lindrical oven. was made of Staffordshire
iron, which cost in the rough state from 3/. to 5/. per ton
which was the market price for pig iron at the time. In
casting iron it was usual to leave a column head at the
top about six or eight inches high, and
the cylinders
supplied to Mr. Dakin were cast in that
way They
were east from the top, and the column or head which
was left was broken off on each cylinder, and
made level
with the casting. It was usual to do so when the casting
was to be subjected to a great pressure, A fe_
bubbles were perceptible on the outside. Thew sum
air
which Mr. Dakin was to pay for the cylinders ,as
v`
the rate of 151. a ton. The market price of pigiro at
the same quality as that used by them was 31 18sn of
the present time. He considered that the cylinder . at
perfectly safe, and capable cf resisting the r was
p
which it had to bear. There was nothing in ii7sure
pearance of it which showed that the casting 813"
defective. was
George Mulligan, one of the sufferers from the a •
dent, who was obliged to be assisted into the room cm.-
next examined. He said he was in the em ywas
Messrs. Brown, and was present when the accidentp (")-
of
pened. He was directed to get up the
dry the brickwork on which the cylinder was
fires in hap_ra.or
_er to
which had been built up in the night. /I ised, and
elighted the
fire about one o'clock, and Mr. Dakin came in and told
hint to get up the heat, as he intended to roast some