The Sun.
London, England, 1846-02-18 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF QUEEIrS BENCH, Feb. 17.
(Before Mr. Justice WiunntaN and a Special Jury.)
BREACH OF PROMISE OF 111-4RBIAGE.
SUM! V. LORD FERRERS.
(Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.)

The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proceeded to address the jury for
the defendant. Ile commenced by calling upon the jury to give
their calmest consideration to this most important case, for it was
one which, in his professional experience, he had never seen equalled.
At present all appeared to be unintelligible and mysterious, and he
confessed that be had never heard of a case that appeared so
Inextricable. But he would pledge hiniself that, before he
sat down, he would have satisfied the jury, beyond the
possibility of all doubt, that this was a most false and flagitious pro-
ceeding from beginning to end ; and though the result of the verdict
of the jury—if in favour of the defendant, as he had no doubt it would
be—would brand the plaintiff with disgrace and ignominy, yet his
duty woald compel him to adopt a course which would have such a re-
sult, In order that his noble client m'ght not appear to be what he
had been attempted to be represented. The Learned Gentle-
man then cited two instances of cases of a description some-
what similar to the ono he should make out. One was the case
of a young woman who had left her employment, and In order to
account for her absence told a falsehood, which led on to others, and
at last got herself so involved that she swore she had been taken
away by two gipsies, whose lives had well nigh been forfeited,
had not her perjury been detected, and she was trans-
ported. - The other case was somewhat similar. Ile would show
distinctly and clearly that this was a like case, and that it was from
beginning to end a base and infamous conspiracy, got up by the
plaintiff herself by a series of letters, for the purpose of involving his
cheat In this action. The Learned Gentleman then went over the
evidence with great care, and pointed out the absurdity of the notion
that Lord Ferrers ever could have written the letters attributed to him.
Recalled the particular attention of the jury to the evidence of the
plaintiff's mother, to when lie had shown several letters folded up,
which the witness said were in the handwriting of her daughter.
These letters he would new produce. Whon he had explained their
nature to the jury, and read their contents, he believed he need go
no thither with the case. The jury had heard a great deal about
letters that the plaintiff had written to the defendant, and they had
a been posted by different parties, who had been innocently involved
in this scheme; amongst others, it letter with a pocket-handkerchief,
and the jury would very naturally ask, could it be possible
that those letters had not reached their destination. Had
not Lord Ferret's received them ? He now came to the
great and Limportant feature of this case, and the most dis-
tressing one. Bu?before he did so, he would just call attention to
one or two passages contained in the letters alleged to have been
written by him to the plaintiff. The jury had heard the plaintiff's
sister swear that Lord Ferrers was in her father's house on the 9th
of December, 1843 ; but he would prove beyond all doubt that it was
utterly impossible that could be true, for he left Chantey that morn-
ing after breakfast, and therefore, in order to have been at Austrey
and back to Chartley, he should have ridden 60 miles before he
started for Welchpool. He would prove beyond all donbt that the
whole of this transaction was a tissue of falsehood and forgery from
beginning to end. He then read extracts from the letters alleged to
have been addressed to the plaintiff by the defendant, in which the
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;Triter was represented as being at 311vart's and various ether places,
and of writing of persons whom the Attorney-General would prove
the defendant had never known or never met. Ha then commented
in strong and severe language on the conduct of the witness Holland,
and having referred to the alleged presents of silks, books, &c., he
said he would produce witnesses *to; falsify all that. He then con-
cluded by reading the following letters, all of which bore anonymous
signatures, and which he said he could identify as the letters which
the plaintiff had caused to be posted and directed to the defendant.
When the Learned Counsel concluded his address, after having been
speaking nearly three hours, there were symptoms of app!ause, which
were suppressed.