The Sun.
London, England, 1848-11-15 00:00:00

THE LIBERTY.- COLLISION.

This was an action by the owners of the brig Star-
ling, to recover for damage done to her by the Liberty
whilst both vessels were in Folkestone Harbour, on the
25th of January. Tne plaintiffs alleged that the Liberty
had disobeyed the rules of the harbour master. The de-
fendants set up a case of inevitable accident by storm,
which drove the Liberty nainbt the brig.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, without hearing the counsel for the
Plaintiffs said the Trinity Masters and himself were
unanimously of opinion that the damage had been occa-
sioned entirely and exclusively by the improper conduct
of the Liberty, the Starling being in no respect to blame;
and he pronounced for the damage.
THE ALBION.—COLLISION.

In this case thi, Amity, a snow of 167 tons, coal laden
from Stockton to Len'!or., and the Albiun, from London
to Newcastle, with a general cargo, on the 13th of
came in collision, in consequence
January, in sea ma h,
of which the Amity sank. Both vessels were close
hauled, the Amity on the s arboard, the Albion on the
larboard tack, in which state of circumstances it was the
duty of the later vessel to give aay; but owing to the
great number of vt.s:els in the channel it was contended
on the part of the Albion, that had she obeyed the rule
(laid down only for an ordinary state of circumstances)
she would have run into other ves3els; she therefore
kept her helm to starboard, instead of putting it to port,
and had the Amity kept her course, as it was her duty a
to have done, there would have been no collision.

After hearing Dr. Addams and Dr. Bayford for the
Amity, and Dr. Robinson and Dr. Twins for the Albion,
the Trinity Masters being of opinion that the Albion
had acted improperly in putting her helm to starboard,
and that the Amity had acted as she ought to have done,
Dr. LIISHINGTON pronounced for the damage.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
BOW-STREET.
Jokn APIVed, a lithographic printer, was placed be-
fore Mr. Jardine, charged with bigamy.
The prisoner, a respectable-looking young
apprehended a few hours after his second marriage, and
before he had been able to conduct his new wife to her
promised home.
Elizabeth Mary Bonnet stated that she lived at No. 1,
Greek-street, Soho, and was married to the prisoner at
the parish church of St. George, Bloomsbury, by public
banns, on Monday morning. He had paid his addresses
to her in the usual way, and she believed him to be a
single young man.
Constable Bird, 125 C division, produced a certificate
of this marriage, and also one of his former marriage
with Emma Phillips, in August, 1839, at St. Pancras
Church.

Ira. Phillips, the mother of the first wife, stated that
she was living at 23, Buckingham-place, Fitzroy-
square. The prisoner married her daughter in 1839,
and they had lived together as man and wife ever since,
excepting during an interval of about eight weeks, when
he left her.

The prisoner, who seemed hardly conscious of the
penalty attached to the offence of bigamy, readily ad-
mitted both marriages, alleging the infidelity of his first
wife as the cause of his marrying the second. He said
that he first suspected his former wife on the occasion of
a Christmas festivity in 1845, when an uninvited police-
constable was suddenly found to be one of his guests
under circumstances which left no doubt as to her con-
duct. Having overlooked this impropriety, however, he
continued to live with her, until a recent discovery com-
pelled him to abandon her and pay his addresses to
another, believing that no law would require him to sup-
port or live with a woman of her character.
The first wife, who was in court during the investiga-
tion, manifested her indignation at the prisoner's conduct
by a series of emphatic movements of the head and
threatening attitudes (whenever she could catch his eye),
which evidently betokened something beyond the punish-
ment allotted by the law for the injury he had done her.
Owing to the absence of a material witness, required
to furnish legal proof of the former marriage, the pri-
soner was remanded to Friday, when he will be formally
committed for trial.