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ARCHES COURT, MAY 22.

SWIFT V. SWIFT.

The further hearing of the cause was postponed

COURT OF EXCHEQUER, MAY 22.

Lord Lyndhurst, Barons Bayley. BoHand and Gurney took
their seats on the bench at two o'clock, and proceeded with the
justifying of bail.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

MARLBORO UGH-STREET.

John Farrell, a journeyman clicker, of small
make, with a cast of countenance very much re-
sembiing the portrait of the pig.faced lady, was
charged by Ann Cook, a smart little woman, with
having put her in bodily fear.
The complainant stated that she had some time
ago been " seduced" into matrimony by the de-
fendant, but after having led a very miserable life for
some months, she discovered that he had another
wife living, consequently she prosecuted him for
bigamy, and he had only been discharged from
Newgate within the last few days. Since that time
he had been unremitting in his attempts to obtain
interviews with her for the purpose of persuading
her to renew their former intercourse. Havinz, how-
ever, made tip her mind:to have nothing more to say
to him, she turned a deaf ear to his solicitations,
and refused to see him till last Monday, when she
was induced to go into a coffee-shop, in company
with her brother and his wife, where the defendant
was, in consequence of the following pathetic
epistle :

" Dear beller,—my mind as bin in a compleat state of
anksittty ever since I cum out of Newgit,ns i cant have your
cumperny as we used to have. I have been hobligated to
pervade the street were you live all day, Becos wen I
nocks nobody cums and lets me in. I can't live with my
piece of mind till I hear from your sweat lips as you wont
have nothin to do no more with me. my luv, i can't liv
withhout your sweat cumperny. 1 mite as well be kick'd
out of the walls of the creation. my luv, if you will cum
back and enjoy wonce more with your hown John the
sweats of connubible matrimony, and I will make you a
cumfortable home. I will promise you on the Bible never
to hide you no more, my luv. I only hided you to make
you the fonder on me ; hut as you hopjeck to sitch, I shall
never undertake that transacktion. If you don't cum and
se me now, you shall repent it, for I carry somethin allays
about me.—Your own true luv,

" JOHN FARRELL."
The complainant said that she went to the coffee-
shop, and again gave a refusal to the solicitations of
the defendant, being well aware of what sort of
" connubible" felicity she was likely to enjoy from
him. The defendant put his hand into his pocket,
and said he had got something in it which would
make her repent if she again refused. Complainant,
knowing his violent disposition, was greatly frigh-
tened, but her brother interposed and took her
away. The defendant then threatened what he
would do on some future occasion.
The defendant denied having used threats. All
I wanted, your 'Worship, said he, was for her to
make a ci iss-cross, and part right away for good,
or else to come home and live comfortable; but she
wouldn't make a criss-cross, though 1 offered to
write out on a stamp that we should never trouble
one another no more. And, said the defendant,
wiping his eyes, if she will make a criss-cross now
before your Worship, I'll be satisfied, and I'll never
speak to her again.
The complainant told the Magistrate that the
defendant had said to her he would serve her as the
girl who was murdered at Brighton was served ;
for he knew it could be done without any person
finding it out.
Mr. DYER said there had been so many dreadful
crimes of late committed, that though the defendant
might have used the threat merely as loose expres-
sions, he should not discharge the warrant until he
found bail to keep the peace for six months.
Q UEEN-SQ UARE.

THE MURDER OF MISS ELMS, AT CHELSEA.—
FURTHER EXAMINATION OF JOHN SHARP.—Yester.
day being the day appointed for the re-examination
of John Sharp, the self-accused murderer of the
unfortunate Miss Elms, of No. 17, Wellesley-street,
Chelsea, whose voluntary confession of the horrid
deed appeared in the newspapers of last week, he
was again brought up. The prisoner has been kept
in solitary confinement since last Wednesday, in
the House of Correction, at Clerkenwell.
Mr. GREGORIE inquired whether there was any
further evidence.

Hughes, the constable of Chelsea, said that, on
Thursday last, after he heard that the prisoner had
made a confession, he again searched the house of
the deceased, and in the room where the body of
the murdered lady was discovered, he found a table
knife amongst the cinders in the fire-place ; he had
shown it to a medical man, and, from the appear-
ranee, he was of opinion that it had been bloody,
and that had rusted the blade.

Mr. GREGORIE asked him if he had ever searched
the fire-place before ?—Hughes replied that he had
not, the fire-place had never been disturbed. He
also searched the kitchen, where the prisoner said
that he and his companions remained for two hours,
and be found a brick upon which some knife had
recently been sharpened.

Mr. GREGORIE observed that, under the circum-
stances, he did not feel himself justified in discharg-
ing the prisoner, although he had written a letter to
his colleague, Mr. White, stating that his confes-
sion was an invented falsehood. He understood
also that he had denied the truth of his statement
to several Magistrates at the prison.
After some desultory conversation, Mr. GRE-
GORtE ordered the prisoner to be brought into the
office, and he was placed at the bar.
Police constable Clifton,of the B division, No. 50,
to whom the prisoner delivered himself up, was called.
Mr. GREGORIE said that he understood he had
an interview with the prisoner in the House of Cor-
rection the day after he was remanded ? Witness--
I had by the prisoner's desire.
Mr. GREGORIE—What did he say to you P—l
asked him what he wished to see me about, when
he replied that he was very sorry for the trouble he
had given me and the Magistrates, but that he
knew nothing about the murder of Miss Elms.
Prisoner—That is perfectly correct; I know

The voluminous—evidence taken in this extraor-
dinary case was partly read to-day. It is a suit
promoted by Mr. R. W. Swift, to establish the va-
lidity of a marriage alleged to have been celebrated
at Rome, on the 25th ,of March, 1830, with Miss
Elizabeth Catherine Kelly, and for a restitution of
conjugal rights. On behalf of the young lady, the
marriage, if celebrated, was alleged to have been
solemnized by fraud and circumvention, and there•
fore null and void. On the last Court-day of Hilary
Term the case on both sides was fully opened.
The Court was occupied nearly the entire day in
hearing the evidence in support of the validity of the
marriage.
The King's Advocate proceeded to read the evi-
denca of Mrs. Ann Kelly, the mother of the young
lady. It alleged that the intimacy between Mr.
Swift and Miss Kelly commenced at Florence,
where they had danced together; that Mr. Swift
applied to Mrs. Kelly for her consent to his marry-
ing her daughter, which was refused; that she went
to Rome, where they were followed by the Countess
de Morlandi and her son, Mr. Swift; that on the
2511 of March, 1830, her daughter was not absent
from her more than ten or fifteen minutes on the
night the alleged marriage was said to have been
consummated ; that subsequently Miss Kelly had told
her that on that night she had, at the urgent solici-
tation of Mr. Swift, signed a paper promising to
marry him; that when told by Mr. Swift that the
marriage had been performed, and could not be set
aside, both parties having abjured the Protestant
faith, Miss Kelly had denied having acceeded to
the one or the other, and that she (the mother) was
fully convinced no such facts had occurred.

According to ancient practice, the Judge this morning, being
the first day of term, breakfasted with the Lord Chancellor,
and, in consequence did not arrive in Westminster Hall till

near two o'clock. The day being so fine induced a great
number of people to come out and view the procession, so that
by the time it arrived the Hall was very much thronged, the
greater part being ladies,