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MARCH 31 1851.
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NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE AND
EQUITABLE FIRE INSURANCE COMPANIES
26, CORNIIILL, LONDON.

DIRECTORS.
t*T. LAMIE MURRAY, Esq., Chairman.
*W. A. B. Bennett, Esq. *John Rawson, Esq.
*Hugh Croft, Esq. *John Shaw, Esq.
fElliotson, M.D„ I.R.S. f*Edmund S. Vines, Esq.
*Ralph Gough, Esq. f*Clement Tabor, Esq.
M. C. Maher, Esq. t Joseph Thompson, Esq.
*Jelin Moss, Esq. t*Augustus Vigne, Esq•

AUDITOR.
iProfessor Wheatstone, F.R.S.
rersiciAN.
tsT. Elliotson, M.D„ F.R.S„ 37, Conduit-street.
SURGEON.
I *E. S. Symes, Esq., 77, Grosvenor-street, Grosvenor-square.
ACTUARY.
i* W. S. B. Woolhouse, Esq., F.R.A.S., &c.
SECRETARY.
*D. T. Lyons CT anehy, Esq.
SUPERINTENDENT.
*W. A. Hawkins, Esq.
BANE ERS.
t*Messrs. Glyn, Hallifax, Mills, and Co., 67, Lomlytrd-street.
SOLICITORS,
Messrs. Suttee, Ewens, Ommanney and Prudence, 6, Basinghall-

street.
*W. Tatham, Esq., 22, Throgmorton-street.
NATIONAL LOAN FUND LIFE OFFICE.
CAPITAL-500,0001.

The 'WITHDRAWAL TABLE of the Society affords to the As-
sured the greatest possible present and prospective advantages that
can he conferred by Life Assurance. On this Table the Assured is
entitled, at any time, to receive at interest an immediate advance,
to the extent of one-half the amount of the paid annual Premiums,
without security, personal liability, or deposit of the Policy, but by
simple endorsement thereon ; or the half Premium may be with-
held during the whole continuance of the Policy. Also, in the
event of the Assured at any time not requiring to continue the
Policy, on its surrender one-half of the annual payments will be
returned by the Society.
Lapsed Policies may be renewed without fine, on proof of health
and payment of arrears of Premium without interest.

Notices of Assignment of Policies registered and acknowledged,
so as to make them available as securities in tho hands of
third parties.

No Entrance Fees or any other charge beyond the Policy Stamp.
The present nnual income of the Society from Premiums is
63,0001.; the amount covered by the Policies of the Society is
1,781,5501.; and the reserved profit, applicable to future bonus tc
the Assured.. amounts to 82,4541. 51. 6d. At the last annual inves-
tigation, reported in May, 1850, the bonuses declared to the As-
sured were, the option of a return of 15 per cent, on their Premiums
in cash, or a reversionary addition to the original sam assured by
each Policy varying from 20 to 65 per cent.
EXAMPLES OF BONUSES ALREADY DECLARED.

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COCKS S MUSICAL MISCELLANY, for ----
:2 .cj Annual !Policy Bonus in
APRIL. 2c1., stamped 3d. Contents :—Pms-
Lord of all Power and Might (original anthem)—l will give thanks near Re-
-God Save the King, by Arne—Literature—The Music of the Camp ago. pi pre- taken addition Bonus in duction of
2 mimes. out in to Sum Cash. Annual
Corelli—Sacred Lyric, by Mrs. Crawford—with Intelligence, i) Assured. Premium.
Sketches, scraps, 8;c. —'—
s. d s d. s. d.
London : Robert Cocks and Co., New Burlington-street ; Simpkin,
• Marshall, and Co. ; and all Music 1837 .I . 4 .£
292 6 9 139 16 9 22 13 1
LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO, 1838 267 11 4 126 17 2 19 19 7
Licensed by Act of Parliament. 1839 2193 12 64118 6 113 17 7 17 8 8
s.d
ARGYLL ROOM 60 1
S, GREAT WINDMILL- 4 A
000 74 34. 1840
1841 189 12 6 98 16 8 14 010
89 5 10 13 8 11
STREET, ST. JAMES'S. 1842 162 16 8 76 18 4 11 8 3
(Bole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-Square.) 1843 115 10 10 55 10 10 81 10
OPEN EVERY EVENING, 1844 77 19 2 38 15 10 59 11
IXT4fla r A TTR FrslT'S UNRIVALLED BAND. 1845 66 15 0 44 10 0 410 1

LAURENT'S GRAND CASINO,
Licensed by Act of Parliament.
ARGYLL ROOMS, GREAT WINDMILL-
STREET, ST. JAMES'S.
(Bole Lessee, Charles Emile Laurent, jun., 57, Brompton-square.)
OPEN EVERY EVENING,
With LAURENT'S UNRIVALLED BAND.
Principal Cornet-a-Pistons, M. Boulcourt.
Doors open at Half-past Eight o'clock—Dancing to commence at
Nine and terminate at Half-past Eleven o'clock precisely.
Admission, One Shilling.

Extensive Travelling Leave granted without extra Premium
Moderate extra Premium for Residence in Tropical Climates.
EQUITABLE FIRE OFFICE.
Capital-500,0007.
(Incorporated under 7 and 8 Viet., cap. 110.)
The leading principles of this Office era—Moderate and equitable
Rates of Premium for each class of risk—Annual division of Profits.
The difficulty of collecting the elements on which to proportion
Premium to risk in Insurance against Loss by Fire has been so
great, that the rates at present charged arc more the result of guess
than calculation.
It has been found by experience, that the total annual losses of the
different Established Companies have not been proportionate to the
amount of annual Premiums received by each.
It is of the highest importance, both to the Insured and Insurers,
that such an anomaly should cease, and an approximation to the
true risk be made. To secure this object the Equitable Fire Insu-
rance Company is established.
The true rate of Premium for Fire Insurance can only be ap-
goached through Classification and Average, which has not hitherto
been sufficiently acted on, or systematically applied.
Whatever be the nominal rate, the bonus or return periodically to
the Insured will determine the true Premium equitably payable, as
security against loss for so great a calamity as fire, and the Insurer
is largely interested in this question, and will consult his interest by
supporting a system where, by a careful combination of Classifica-
tion and Average, the Premium will be proportioned to the risk.
The Equitable Fire Office will, by a constant analysis of its own
experience, from time to time, adopt such rates of Premium as the
nature of the risk may justify, and will decline to enter into arrange-
ments as regards tariffs with other offices.
With this view an annual investigation will be made into each
class of risk, and a return of one moiety, or fifty per cent. of the nett
excess will be made to all classes of Insurers whose Policies have
been in force for three years.
Insurances against Loss by Fire are effected by this Company upon
every description of Property on moderate terms.
Farming Stock insured at 3s. per cent, without the Average Clause.
Prospectuses, and every information may be obtained, on applica-
tion at the Office, or to any of its Agents.

ALL POLICIES INDISPUTABLE.
ENGLISH AND CAMBRIAN ASSUR-
ANCE SOCIETY,
k•For Life Annuities, and Loans, and for Perpetuating Leasehold and
Copyhold Property.
Chief Office-9, NEW BRIDGE-STREET, Blackfriars, London.
" Declined" Lives taken at equitable rates.
Life Policies " indisputable" and not liable to forfeiture.
• Policies of five years' standing not void in cases of suicide.
Policies granted from 201. to 5,0001.
Special tables to suit the working classes, tc whom the advantages
Of Life Assurance are at present almost wholly unknown.
Medical men remunerated in all cases.
Immediate, survivorship, and deftrred annuities and endowments
granted, and every other description of risk contingent on human
life.
Loans granted on undoubted security of every description, upon
More advantageous terms t, the borrower than in any other office,
and at one-half the customary charges. If on personal security
the sureties must be resident in or near London.
Claims payable three months after satisfactory proof of death.
Prospectuses and any further information may be obtained from
the Manager. •
C. W. BEVAN. Resident Manager.

QU N LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
LONDON.
SHIRE OF PROFIT INCREASED FROM ONE-HALF TO
FOUR-FIFTHS.
Policies effected with this Society after Midsummer, 1850, and re-
maining in force at each Septennial period of division, will PARTI-
CIPAT e IN FOUR-FIFTHS of the Net Profits of the Society ac-
cruing after Midsummer, 1850, in proportion to their contributions
to those profits, and according to the conditions contained in the
:rt,ociety's Prospectus and Act of Parliament.
The Premiums required by this Society for insuring Young Lives
Are much lower than in many other old-established offices, and Insurers
are fully protected from all risk by an ample guarantee fund, in ad-
dition to the accumulated funds derived from the investments of
Premiums.
CHARLES HENRY LIDDERDALE, Actuary.

National Loan Fund Life Assurance Society.
Equitable Firo
f* Both Offices.

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OWLANDS' MACASSAR OIL is justly

A w LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY,
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March 14, 1851.
Notice is hereby given, that the Books for Transferring Shares in
this Society will be Closed on Thursday, the 20th instant, and will be
Re-ooened on Thursday, the 10th day of April next. The Dividends
for the year 1850 will be Payable on Monday, the 7th day of April
next, and on any subsequent day (Tuesdays excepted) between the
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• ... ,
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WILLIAM SAMUEL DOWNES, Actuary.
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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY, March 27.

IN RE AUGUSTA TALBOT, A. WARD OF COURT.-DOYLE

V. WRIGHT.
At the conclusion of the Solicitor-General's argu-
ments, and, after a few words from Mr. rarker, claim-
ing a right to vindicate the conduct of Lord Shrewsbury,
Mr. Rour said, what was asked with respect to Lord
and Lady tihrewsbury was, that in consequence of
charges made in measured language, they should be de-
prived of all share in the care and custody of the infant.
That was the secend object of the petition, and the
third was, that Mr. Berkeley have access to her. The
grounds of the application were, in fact, that Dr.
Doyle, in dealing with the orders of the Uourt, had
committed a fraud on it. They were first charged with
sending her improperly to a convent for education,
and then, having withdrawn her from it, they were
charged with sending her back again, in order that
she should become a nun. Now, how far could such
a relief he founded on the prayer of the present peti-
tion? That petition would lead the Court to believe
that the petitioner, for eight years,was totally ignorant of
the movements of the infant, and believed her to be tra-
velling abroad under the care and custody of the Earl
and Countess of Shrewsbury. The petitioner further
stated, that he believed the mind of the infant was un-
duly influenced with regard to a marriage with M.
Rochefoucault of France, and that the Countess bad de-
clared, if she did not fall into her views, she was deter-
minel Miss Talbot should take the veil, and accord-
ingly sent her back to the convent with the avowed
object. It was further alleged that Dr. Doyle silently
acquiesced in all these proceedings, and did not interfere
in any way, and the petitioner concluded by praying
that the intent should be placed in other hands, and that
he (Mr. Berkeley) should have access to her at all rea-
sonable times. These were the grave charges on which
the Court was asked to make an order. Until the peti-
tion was opened, Dr. Doyle did not know what he had
to meet, but now that it was opened, he thought he
might say the case was as futile as could be well ima-
gined, and that he had done right in not asking any
time to prepare to answer it. The Vice-Chancellor
had distinctly declined to interfere with the education
of the intent under the guardianship of Dr. Doyle,
and no case had bee❑ made to impeach the propriety of
that determination of the Court. It was insinuated that
the Countess of Shrewsbury had attempted to form a
marriage between one of the Rochefoucaults of France
and one of the Talbots of England; and that because
her views on that subject were resented by the infant,
she had banished her to the convent with the view of
compelling her to take the veil. But all these things
were abandoned in the opening of the petition, and a
something else was set up, which was equally deserving,
from its want of any foundation, of the censure of the
Court. Referring to the past conduct of Dr. Doyle,
the Learned Counsel said that at one time he had pro-
posed New Hall in Essex, or Spetisbury in Yorkshire,
as fitting places for the education of the infant; but
that was during the life of the mother, Mrs. Berkeley.
Afterwards, from the change of circumstances,
he had placed her in the convent at Taunton, i❑
what he believed to be the proper discharge of his duty,
and he had continually visited her there, and watched
over her welfare. He throughout acted under the obli-
gation he believed he had incurred with the father, and
no imputation was cast on him. If Mr. Berkeley
thought there was an impropriety in sending her to
Taunton, he ought to have complained; but he did not.
He gave her up. He either knew she was there, or he
did not. If he knew she was there, he ought to have
moved; if ho did not know she was there, he was guilty
of neglect on his part in not ascertaining where she was.
But no complaint was made till 1843, and then it was not
a complaint of the school, but of the amount of the
allowance in regard to it. But she was placed there
with the full concurrence, and indeed at the request of
Lord and Lady Shrewsbury.
The Learned Counsel was proceeding to read the affi-
davit made by Dr. Doyle in 1843, when his Lordship
postponed the further hearing till Monday, but requested
to see Mr. Rolt and the Solicitor-General in the mean-
time in his private room.
The following is Miss Talbot's letter to the Lord
Chancellor:—

CIVIL SlDE.—(Bofore Mr. Justice TALFOURD and
Special Juries.)
HARRISON V. MORGAN.—BREACH OF PROMISE OF

", MISS TALBOT TO THE LORD CHANCELLOR.
" Taunton, Tuesday, Feb. 18.
" My Lord,—You will of course see that I have
written an answer to Mr. Craven Berkeley's FALSE
statements; and I am sure in such a case you will think
it only just for me to express myself what is the pure
truth, as I have done. It is scarcely credible how a
GENTLEMAN can act as Mr. Craven Berkeley has done;
for I assure you, my Lord, he was down here at the con-
vent himself on the 14th of February. lie then asked
me a numerous SET FORM of questions, as if he had some
object in view, but wished to get a little information
beforehand, and at his departure he said he should come
again and bring with him a little HALF-sister of mine;
no opposition was made, for how could we know how
Mr. C. Berkeley intended to act? but after the manner
in which he has spoken of the convent at Tuunten,where
I have spent the happiest days of my life, and where I
have experienced for nice years the most unchanging
kindness, how could I read his petition and not feel a
just indignation at such conduct; so that it is now, my
Lord, my own free and deliberate wish never
again to see Mr. Craven Berkeley ; should I meet
him anywhere he would not surely be the first
to address me, and most assuredly I should not. lie has
disgraced himself for ever in my eyes, and I should think
in the eyes of every just and reasonable person. Believe
me, my Lord, I ALONE in this house, have shown any
feelings of indignation, for all under this root' are too
good to let any feeling rise but that which every one
must naturally feel, compassion for so WEAK AND DIS-
HONOURABLE a man. This letter your Lordship is at
liberty to show to whom you please. I do not feel to
have said more than I ought. I have spoken strongly of
Mr. C. Berkeley's conduct, but I have not passed the
limits of truth and justice. I must add, that every word
of the letter is FROM MYSELF. lam alone while writing
it, and therefore no one CAN allege that I have been
prompted by any one. Every word is the result of my
own thoughts and reflections. Mr. Norris, whom I saw
on Monday, told me of your Lordship's wish that I
should go up to town again and see a little more of the
world. It will Cost ME much CERTAINLY TO LEAVE
TAUNTON, where are all my dearest and truest friends;
but your Lordship acts for the best, and I would not
therefore on any account oppose your wishes. After
Easter I shall bo ready to yield myself, and again enter
a world, WHOSE CHARMS I CAN NEVER VALUE.
"Thanking your Lordship for the kind interest you
have taken in my welfare,
" I remain, yours respectfully,
" AUGUSTA TALBOT."

MARRIAGE.
Mr. Sergeant Allen and Mr. Gray were counsel for
the plaintiff; and Mr. Whateley and Mr. E.V. Richards
for the defendant.
Amelia Mary Grace Harrison was the plaintiff, and
William Morgan was tho defendant. The plaiitiff was
the daughter of an attorney's clerk living in Monnow-
street, Monmouth; and the defendant was a malstcr
living in Inch-lane in the same town; and the action
was for a breach of promise of marriage.
The only plea was that the defendant did not make
the alleged promise.
Mr. Sergeant ALLEN having stated the plaintiff's case
in 'a very eloquent and feeling address, the following
witnesses were called:—
William Henry Steele Harrison, examined by Mr.
GRAY—I am managing clerk to a solicitor in this town,
and father of the plaintiff. She was twenty on the 6th
of this month. The defendant is a widower in
this town, and carries on the malting business, and is
a member of the town council. First became personally
acquainted with him in May, 18 te. At that time he
declared himself a suitor for my daughter's hand, and
continued down to November last year to visit her. His
visits were received in that character. She was allowed
to walk out with him, and ho occasionally took her to
church. In October last I received a letter from Mr.
Thomas Hancock, an Excise officer, and showed it to the
defendant. Upon receiving that letter I wrote the next
day (on the 7th October) to the defendant. I posted
the letter myself. (The letter was here called for, but de-
fendant's counsel said they had no such letter.) The
effect of the letter was, that I had received a letter
from Mr. Thomas Hancock, offering marriage to my
daughter; that I thought it fair to him to mention it;
that I wished to know his intentions respecting my
daughter; and that he could not again see her till he
had given such explanations as I should think satisfactory.
On the 12th October my daughter came out and called me
and my wife into the parlour. The defendant was there.
Mrs. Harrison said to him, " I hope your are now pre-
pared to give your answer;" and he said, " I came
hers on honourable terms." She said, "I knew that
from the first, and, if not, you would not be allowed to
visi; her." I said, " Mr. Morgan, that is no answer.
Do eon mean to marry her, and when?" He said he
woud marry her in December. Mrs. Harrison said,
" Ths is the first week in October. Suppose we say
the first week in December." He said, " Very well, the
first week in December." I said, " Mr. Morgan, we
have only your word for it," and he said, " My word is
as gcod as my bond." He then added, " Will you new
shale hands?" and he shook hands with us all. I said,
"Now, Mr. Morgan, I will give an answer to Mr. Han-
cock" I had shown him previously Mr. Hancock's
letter. I wrote on the 14th to Mr. Hancock, declining
his 'chits, as Mr. Morgan was my daughter's accepted
suitor. The letter to Mr. Hancock was mentioned to
hia. Down to the 21st of November, he continued his
visits. He took her to church the next Sunday after the
14th of October. Previously to the 21st of November
some wedding dresses were made up. I had a conver-
sation with him about the wedding cake. Mrs. Harrison
said, "It was time to order a cake." I proposed Mr.
Bowen. Mrs. Harrison proposed Mr. Barnley, and the
defendant said, " Mr. Barnley, by all means, as he
came out like a trump at the last municipal elec-
tions."—(Laughter.) I heard the wedding dresses talked
about in plaintiff's presence. I asked Mr. Barrett, the
governor of the gaol, to be of the bridal party. I asked
Mr. Dennis to act as bridegroom.— (Laughter.) On the
21st of November I heard that a message had come from
defendant by his housekeeper. I and Mrs. Harrison
went immediately to defendant's. The first thing we
said was, " Mr. Morgan, what do you mean by the mea-
sage you sent by your housekeeper, that you do not
' mean to marry my daughter?" He said he had never
promised to marry her. Mrs. Harrison said, " You are
a villain of the blackest dye." He said we wanted to
force him into a marriage. Mrs. Harrison got into a
passion, and repeated the phrase, that he was a villain
of the blackest dye, two or three times. He said, " You
have not it in writing; do your best—do your worst." I
said as I was going away, " If there is justice to be had
in the land, you will be made to suffer for this." When
my daughter heard of the defendant's refusal she became
very ill, and did not take her clothes off for three days
and nights, and has since contined very delicate. A few
days after that he got into the room where my daughter
was, and she screamed, and I and my wife ran into the
room and there saw her fainting. I said to him, "You
see what a wreck you have made, you villain;" and he
answered, " You need not put y ourself in a passion, all
will be right yet."
Cross-examined by Mr. WHATELEY—Have been
clerk for 12 years to Mr. Owen. I was in the medical
profession before that, in the wholesale drug line in
Hertfordshire, and was dispenser at the same time to
the West Herts Infirmary. Defendant used to come to
our house frequently, and when he wanted a glass of
spirits ho sent out for it.. I never drank any; I do not
drink spirits. He was generally sober—always sober.
I never saw him drunk in all my life. My daughter
told me she had seen him a little drunk. I have heard
that he is given to intoxication. I never saw him drunk.
I heard that he was very often drunk, and he is drunk
now, I dare say.—(Laughter.) When he came to our
house he used to go with my daughter sometimes into
the parlour, sometimes into the kitchen. Mr, Han-
cock is not hero to-day. He never entered my
door; ho never was in my garden. Before he
went away be came to my door and said I
had written a most gentlemanly letter. I never saw
him but once. I live in Monnow-street. I write my
letters in the office and post them as I go home. It was
not quite so near to go to his house as to the post-office.
Mr. Gabb lives with Mr. Price, next door. Mr. Gabb
never jumped over our garden wall. Mr. Morgan was
foolish enough to fancy that ho saw it. He was so jea-
lous that he would be Jealous of a dog. My daughter
went to Bristol in May, 1850, while Mr. Morgan was in
Scotland. She stopped at Mrs. Grossnige's, in Charlotte-
street, Queen-square. Mrs. Grossnige is dead. My wife
went at the end of a fortnight to bring her back. She
went to Bristol again with a young woman named Eliza
Parry. She then stopped away only one night. Eliza
Parry was a young woman who was out of a situation,
and who paid my daughter's expenses in order to go with
her there. The defendant is about 53—not very old.
He is not much older than I am. [" Well, but you
were to be his tattier!"—Laughter.] The copies of the
letters I wrote to Mr. Morgan were destroyed after the
promise was made. Mr. Hancock is now in Ireland.
Re-examined—Defendant told me that he had 1001. in
the gas-work property; in the funds to the amount of
4,0001,; that his malting business was worth 2001. a
year; that he had a bit of land over Monnow for
which he paid 6001. I said, " Then you are a 10,000/.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.
HOME ClRCUlT.—Kingston, March 29.
The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE has been engaged during
the last two days in trying common jury cases, and the
list has been gone through with such celerity, owing to
the absence in many cases of anything like a defence,
and in others to the causes being entirely undefended,
that there are very few common jury causes remaining
to be disposed of. The special juries will be taken in
their order on Monday morning.
CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. BARON PARKE.)
George Roberts, 32, and Charles Dowe, 11, were in-
dicted for a burglary in the dwelling-house of Resta
Moore, and stealing three silver spoons, a pair of gold
spectacles, a coat, and other articles, his property.
Mr. Garth conducted the prosecution.
It appeared from the statement of the Learned Coun-
sel for the prosecution, and the evidence that was ad-
duced in support of it, that the prosecutor occupies a
house at Epsom, a portion of which, on the ground-
floor, was let as a branch of the West Surrey Bank.
The robbery in question was committed on the night of
the 31st October, and it was evidently the intention of
the prisoners to have plundered the bank, from whence
they no doubt expected to have obtained a large booty.
The house was all locked up as usual on the night
previous to the robbery, and about two o'clock
on the following morning a person named Holland,
who lived next door to the bank, was awoke by a light
shining into his window, and upon looking out he saw
two men, whom he clearly identified as the prisoners, in
the act of examining the drawers in the back office of
the bank. He afterwards saw a third man, and upon his
giving an alarm the light was extinguished and the pri-
soners and their companion attempted to make off. Tho
two prisoners were, however, stopped by the police close
to the spot, and upon their being searched several arti-
cles that had been stolen from the bank were found in
their possession, and also a chisel, the size of which
corresponded with marks that appeared upon the iron
chest of the bank, and also upon some other places of
deposit which the prisoners had succeeded in forcing open.
Dowe said nothing in his defence, and Roberts said
that he met Dowe by accident near the town of Guild-
ford, and that, as they were walking along, be saw him
pick up a bundle which contained all the articles that
were found in their possession.
The jury, without any. hesitation, returned a verdict
of Guilty against both prisoners.
Mr. Baron PARKE said, in passing sentence, that the

man."
By his LORDSHIP—I destroyed the copies of the letters
which I wrote after I had an explanation with him in
1848. He then promised to marry her in the spring.
Mrs. Susan Harrison—l am the mother of the plain-
tiff. My daughter came from school in 1847. Defendant
first became acquainted with her in May, 1848. Atter
he came the first time to our house he visited her daily.
The first time he came I said, " I wish, Mr. Morgan, to
know your intentions respecting my daughter ?" He
said, " They are quite honourable." I said, " My
daughter is quite a child. You aro old enough to bo her
father. I hope you will consider seriously whether you
want a wife. Oa no terms but honourable ones can you
see her." Ho said, " Do you think I am a villain?"
Ha visited her continually, and took her to church on
Sundays. Saw him when Mr. Hancock wrote the letter
in October, 1850. The letter was received on Sunday.
Un the Monday Mr. Harrison wrote to defendant; he
came on Tuesday, and said " Where is Mary?" I said,
" You shall not see her till you have answered Mr.
Harrison's letter." Ho said, " I will answer it now. I
will say yes." I said, " That is no answer. You must
see Mr. Harrison or write to him." I read to Mr. Morgan
the letter of Mr. Harrison to Mr. Hancock, and he said
it was a very proper, gentlemanly answer. Mr. Harrison
afterwards came in and asked him whether ho would
marry his daughter, and he said he would before
Christmas. I then said,' This is the first week in October;
say the first week in December." He said, ." Very
well," and turned round and kissed my daughter. Had
a conversation with him on the preceding Wednesday,
when Mrs. Yutes was present. He sent Mrs. Yates to
know whether he could see my daughter. Nothing was
said about the marriage while Mr. Yates was there.
When he was at the door I asked him for his answer,
and he said he would give it in the course of the week.
Mary then cause up, and ho made her promise not to
see the exciseman till he had given her father an answer.
Ho afterwards
,said, in Mrs. Yates's presence, that he
would marry her before Christmas. Un the following
Tuesday he gave his definitive answer. After that I
frequently told him I was preparing for the wedding.
He made no remark in particular. He said he should
want a set of shirts. When the wedding-cake was
mentioned we were all present. (Thad it waseawitne ss
prepared repeated
to what had been said by her husband.) I gave Mr. Barn-
ley
ptuht in hisorderewindow. A
forthe wedding-cake,buo
tth 21st of November
defendant's housekeeper came down and delivered a
message to my daughter. It made my daughter very
ill. I and my husband went up to defendant and spoke
about the message. He said, " You have been trying to
inveigle me into a marriage, but I never intended to
marry your daughter." (The witness's account of the
rest of the interview corresponded with that given by
her husband.)
Cross-examined—The exciseman is 23 years of age.
He was never in our house. I never heard of his escap-
ing suddenly from the house when Mr. Morgan came.
Mr. Morgan suspected that he had seen Mr. Gabb jump-
ing over the garden wall. The exciseman is good look-
ing. Mr. Morgan never got drunk in our house. Never
drank half-a-pint of gin at our house. He once sent for
half-a-pint of gin on New Year's eve, when there was a
little party at our house. My daughter went to Bristol
in May. When I went there she was in the house. I
never heard she was acquainted with Mr. Gomersall, the
actor, or Mr. Jeanton. Her father was angry with her,
as Mr. Morgan had not given his answer, and she was
anxious to get a situation us companion to a lady. I
did not know the day she was to go. When she was
gone Mr. Harrison went to Mr. Morgan, as he thought
whom she went. The second time she went, she went
with a poor friendless girl whom I took iu, who had been
Mr. Morgan knew where she was. I did not know with

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crime of burglary had been so much on the increase that
it was absolutely necessary it should be put down by
severe punishment. If any evidence had been adduced
to show that the prisoners had been ever convicted of
any other offence, he should certainly have sentenced
them to be transported for life, and as it was, they must
expect to pass the greater portion, if not the whole, of
the remainder of their existence in a state of slavery.
lle then sentenced the prisoners to be transported for
20 years.
Both the Courts rose to-dny at three o'clock, and they
were adjourned to ten o'clock on Monday morning.

OXFORD ClRCUlT.—[Monmouth, March 28.
Mr. Justice Patteson did not reach here till half-past
7 last evening.
At the sitting of the Crown Court this morning a
number of the prisoners having pleaded " Guilty,"
obstinate,
His LonosHlP said, they should stand aside till to-
morrow, as he had not had time to read the depositions,
having been yesterday detained for five hours at Here-
ford by
trying oneg ill-conditioned juryman (a special
juryman, too), who came into court and asked questions,
and exposed himself awfully.
His Lordship was engaged the greater part of the day
in tr
cases of which the details are unfit for pub-
hOtiQn.

in service in two or three respectable places in Mon-
mouth. She said she could not get employment in Mon-
mouth, and if my daughter would go with her to
Bristol she would pay her expenses. My daughter was
gone threw days. She spent one night in Bristol. was
one day going and one day returning, as the girl paid
only her carriage fare there and back. My husband gets
601. a year.
Re-examined—Mr. Morgan lent her money to go to
Bristol in May. The fare the girl paid for her was 3s.
by the coach and la. 6d by the boat. I and my husband
were cousins. My grandfather was Dr. Steel, a physician
of great practice at Cold.nal.
Mrs. Elizabeth Yates, the wife of a greengrocer in
Monmouth--Had seen Miss Harrison and the defendant
walking together frequently. On the 9th of October
saw Mr. Morgan talking to the plaintiff at her father's
door. I said I was happy to see them together. He said
Mary had said she was going to see the exciseman. I
said I was sure she was not. Mary said, "If you will
act honourable to me, I will not see him." She said,
" William, answer my father's letter." He said, " Mary,
I will." She asked if he would marry her in a week;
ho said, "No; but I will before Christmas;" and turning
to me added, " Betsy, you are a witness." I left them
there together. He was then quite collected.
Cross-examined—He was, I think, quite sober. I
should rather say he was sober than that ho was drunk.
Mrs. Marian Wilson, the wife of a dyer in Monnow-
street—Knew that the defendant kept company with
Miss Harrison. Had been with them when they were
in company. The defendant sent me with a message to
the plaintiff. She did not come on my message. Ano-
ther message was sent and she dame. It was a Thurs-
day in October. Her mother came and fetched her
away. My daughter was invited to be bridemaid.
Mr. George Williams, a draper in Monmouth, re-
ceived from Mrs. Harrison an order for wedding dresses.
In November went to Mr. Harrison's, and saw the
plaintiff very ill on the sofa.
Mr. WRATELEY addressed the jury for the defendant,
in a very eloquent and humorous speech, contending that
there could be no happiness in such a marriage as the
defendant had proposed to enter into; that the plaintiff
could entertain no feelings of affection for such a man
as the defendant was described to be, but was merely
the instrument of an artful father and mother in in-
veigling the defendant in moments of drunkenness or
weakness into a promise of marriage ; that no im-
putation whatever was cast upon her character ;
and that the probability was, as soon as this case
was over, whatever damages the jury might give (and
he trusted they would be exceedingly moderate) would
be employed to set up her and the exciseman in house-
keeping. There was no pretence of blighted affections,
no pretence of any such attachment as ought to exist be-
tween persons about to enter into the married state; and
it was the most fortunate event for her that the defen-
dant did not press her into an union from which by no
chance could she derive the slightest happiness.
Mr. Justice TALLFOURD, in summing up, said the jury
should consider that the defendant had disclaimed all
imputation upon the character of the plaintiff, and that
she lost by his conduct the opportunity of rising to a
station of considerable wealth and respectability, which
she would no doubt have gained only by a sacrifice of
the feelings natural to her age, and had also lost the op-
portunity of marrying a young man, less wealthy, no
doubt, than the defendant, but in a respectable sphere of
life, and whose age was more suitable to her own.
The jury, after a few minutes' consideration, returned
te,verdiet for the plaintiff—Damages 2001.
The verdict seemed to give great satisfaction to a
court, which was crowded almost to suffocation by the
young folks of Monmouth.

the " orders" issued by the witness to the force. In one
of these, issued immediately after the occasion just men-
tioned, Colonel Oakes announced his acceptance of the
plaintiff's resignation " under the strongest conviction
of his guilt after rigid examination;" and in the other,
issued after a charge against the plaintiff before the ma-
gistrates had fallen to the ground in consequence of the
non-attendance of witnesses, the Colonel relieved the
plaintiff from the stigma which the former had cast upon
him.

Mr. PRENDERGAST replied On this additional evidence;
and, after the general reply for the plaintiff by Mr. Ser-
geant BYLES,
The CHIEF JUSTICE summed up the case to the jury,
and alluding to the two orders of Colonel Oakes, ob-
served that the first was rashly issued if the plaintiff
had protested his innocence in the manner and on the
occasion described; and the mere fact of tb‘,.. non-at-
tendance of the witnesses ought not so tohave altered the
opinion of a person in Colonel Oakes' situation, on the
innocence or guilt of an accused man, as to have in-
duced him to issue the second order. He (the Chief
Justice) was of opinion that the jury must dismiss as
unproven the charges of stealing the rotten stone, the
cigars, and macassar oil. They must determine whether
the plaintiff had stolen the capers and the toothbrush.
or either of them. If they should find that he had not
stolen anything they must give the plaintiff adequate
damages, not considering that they were, as the counsel
the plaintiff had suggested, to teach lessons to edi-
tors, nor reducing the damages because the plaintiff
happened to be a poor man. If they thought that he
had stolen one or two of the last named things they
would say what damages the plaintiff was entitled to in
respect of the charges which they considered not proved.
In estimating the amount in that case they must take
into consideration the fact that they found him to have
stolen something.
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NORFOLK ClRCUlT.—Norwich, March 29.

The jury retired for a few minutes, and on their re-
turn found that the plaintiff had stolen the capers, but
not the toothbrush, and that he was entitled to any
damages at all they assessed them at one farthing.
The verdict was then entered for the defendant.

CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice
Robert Carter, Robert Mason, William Goddard,
and George Hobbs,'were indicted for maliciously wound-
ing George Coates, on the night of the 14th of Decem-
ber last, with intent to murder, to resist their lawful
apprehension, and also to do some grievous bodily harm.
Mr.
Evans conducted the case for the prosecution, and
_ _

Mr. Palmer defended the prisoners. -
The prosecutor is the head-keeper of Mr. Villebois,
the occupier of Marham-house in this county, and it
appeared that, his master being absent, the house and
shooting had been let to Sir John Lister Kay, and that
the keepers " went along with the shooting." On the
night in question the keepers were aware of the
presence of poachers in one of the woods attached to
the house, and having hastily armed themselves with
guns and sticks, they set off in pursuit, accompanied
by a large Newfoundland dog. When they reached
the part of the wood whence the report of firearms
had proceeded, they came up to five armed men,
who all presented their guns, and ordered them to stand
back. The prosecutor, however, replied, " No, my lads,
we have had enough of that before ; now we will have
something die !" and made towards the poachers. At
that instant one of the latter shot the dog, and a second
let fly right at the bead keeper's bAly, he being distant
only three yards. Fortunately the keeper's gun and his
left arm intercepted the bulk of the- shot; but the effect
of the shock was to cause the involuntary discharge of

the keeper's weapon into the air. Immediately after
this another poacher fired his gun at the second keeper,
but with such unsteady aim, that the contents of his
barrel having passed through the coat and pockets of
the object, lodged themselves in the posteriors of a third
poacher, named Hobbs, who had become mixed up in
the mike with the keeper. This contretemps put an end
to the conflict, for the fifth poacher took to his heels, and
the other four, who are the prisoners, were shortly after-
wards secured.

THE CASE OF MISS TALBOT.
(From the Times.)
Bad as the case had been presumed to be against the
Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury and the two Roman
Catholic priests, I)rs. Doyle and Hendren, the presump-
tion falls far short of the reality. Hitherto we have
been compelled to speak from a knowledge of isolated
facts, but now, thanks to the investigation before the
Lord Chancellor, we are enabled to set forth the story
in all its bearings. To be sure it was no great stretch
of the inductive faculty to draw correct inferences from
the few facts actually ascertained. Baron Cuvier and
Professor Owen from the sight of a simple bone or
vertebra have been able to divine the perfect organiza-
tion and entire fabric of ,some strange antedeluvian
animal. So it was possible to argue back from one of
Dr. Hendren's falsehoods to the whole tissue of treachery
and deceit of which Miss Talbot had been the object.
It was evident enough from what we already knew that
there was at the bottom of this iniquitous business a
deep-laid scheme for immuring the young lady within the
walls of a nunnery, and securing possession of her property.
But this might, or might not, have been the inspira-
tion of the moment. It seemed clear that the Earl
and Countess of Shrewsbury had found themselves un-
able to force their young relative into a marriage from
which her feelings revolted, and which her judgment
disapproved, and had then determined to hand her over
to the priests. They could calculate with perfect secu-
rity that her ample fortune would be a sufficient bait to
induce persons of this class to second their selfish and un-
worthy views to the utmost of their power. And had it
not been for the providential interference of Mr. Ber-
keley at the critical moment, and for the instant expression
of public indignation, the unfortunate young lady lay
bound hand an foot at the mercy of the intriguing crew
by whom she was surrounded. Let us only consider her
position. The Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, her
closest relatives, unable to drive her into an unsuitable
marriage, had gone abroad. They had parted from her
in bitterness and anger, and, ere their departure had cast
her into a convent. The Lord Chancellor, her guardian
in last resort, appears to have had a kind of jaunty idea
that of her own free will Miss Talbot was stopping,
during the absence of Lord and Lady Shrewsbury,
as boarder in a convent. The Earl of Shrewsbury,
in the course of a conversation at Alton Towers,
where Lord Truro had been staying, had told him as
much, and he was satisfied. No hint of Miss Talbot's
intended profession had reached his ears. There was no
assistance to be expected from that quarter. It was not
very probable that a timid, inexperienced girl of 19
years of age, with her soul well bent down to " Holy
obedience," and her every act strictly controlled by the
convent staff, should concoct and forward a petition to
the Lord Chancellor, praying to he relieved from duress.
With her Protestant relatives, with her stepfather, and
her uncle, she was not allowed to hold any communica-
tion, unless, indeed, a brief interview under the prac-
tised eye-of the Superior deserves the p.m, The ucxi
person in this melodrama is Dr. Doyle, one of the new
patent Wiseman-bishops. But this Dr. Doyle was the
man who, according to the indignant statement cf Miss
Talbot's uncle, had abused his spiritual influence at her
father's death-bed to procure his own nomina-
tion to the office of her guardian. He was
the man who had endeavoured to remove her
from her mother's care while she was yet an
ailing and sickly child. He was the man who, having
undertaken the office of her guardian, discharged his
duty so effectually that he allowed Miss Talbot to be
returned to the convent " as a boarder"—so he tells us
—and only found out the other day that she was waver-
ing in her notions, and might not improbably become a
nun. Dr. Doyle, the astute old Roman priest, knew the
meaning of a course of conventional influence as well as
a skilful physician understands the effect of henbane or
opium! Finally, we have the truth-loving Dr. Hen-
dren; and the mild, dissuasive Superior of this Popish
Dotheboys•hall. Consider for a moment the position of
a girl so situated, born in such a position in society, and
heiress to such a fortune, and entangled in the meshes
of such a crew! There she lay at their mercy, without
a friend or counsellor in the world, without one whole-
some influence to dispel the clouds that had gathered
round her path!
Now, we trust it is by this time clearly enough under-
stood that the effect of a nun's profession is to transfer
her whole property to the community of which she may
form part. This appeared in the course of the Blackrock
investigation, in which it was stated that the two nuns
were as completely compelled to sign as though a pistol
had been held to their heads. Furthermore the Solicitor-
General on Saturday called attention to the following
rule of the Council of Trent, which provides " that the
property of all religious men and women ought not to be
held by them separately or privately, but be handed over
to the Superior or Superioress to be incorporated with
the property of the convent." The practice of the Ro-
man Church has invariably been in consonance rather
with this Tridentine canon than with the one quoted by our
valuable correspondent, Dr. Hendren. But, after all, it is
mere idleness to waste discussion upon such a point.
While she remained exposed to conventual influences
Miss Talbot was as blind a tool in the hands cf those by
whom she was surrounded as the staff in a Jesuit's grasp.
The best evidence of the fact is to be found in a letter
at the conclusion of our Chancery report of this day. It
is written ostensibly by Miss Talbot to the Lord Chan-
cellor ; but—poor girl !—she had little enough to do
with its composition. Every word bears the stamp of
the dirty intriguers by whom she was surrounded. She
is made to write that every word of the letter is from
herself. "I am alone while writing it, and therefore no
one can allege that I have been prompted by any one ;
every word is the result of my own thoughts and reflec-
tion." We do not suppose that Miss Jerningham was
actually standing over the young lady in the attitude of
a flagellant. Tho complaint is that the letter was
written from a nunnery at all. The date is the
proof of the duress. Such a letter as that the composi-
tion of a young English girl of nineteen yens of age !
the opening of it would do credit to a heard-headed
writer to the Signet, and its conclusion is as gro.,s
a piece of Hendren•cum-Jerningham as was ever
turned out from the walls of a nunnery. " It will cost
me much to leave Taunton, where are all my best and
dearest friends; but your Lordship acts for the best,
and therefore I would not on any account oppose your
wish. After Easter I shall be ready to yield myself,
and again enter a world whose charms I cannot value."
We know not how much it will cost Miss Talbot to
leave Taunton, but to have remained there would most
assuredly have cost her exactly 85,0001. How does the
conclusion of this letter tally with the first attempt to
persuade the Chancellor that Miss Talbot was residing
at the convent for a temporary purpose, entirely discon-
nected with any idea of her ultimate profession?
The truth is that before any stir was made
in the matter the plan was to represent
Miss Talbot to her Protestant relatives in the
character of a postulant, in order to remove her from
their influence. Next, when an application was made
to the Chancellor, it was found impossible to brave the
consequences of so audacious and attempt to embezzle
the property of a ward of Court—the postulant pro him
vice subsided into the boarder. But Dr. Hendren's un-
fortunate letters had appeared in the Times, but Mr.
Craven Berkeley had too accurately remembered his
conversrtions with Miss Jerningham. Miss Talbot was
then set forth as a sort of " postulant unattached;" as
one who had simply assumed the name in order to be-
come entitled to the privileges of a boarder, but with-
out the remotest idea of profession. What, then, is the
meaning of the concluding phrase of Miss Talbot's letter
to the Chancellor—even if we leave honest Dr. Head_
ren's indiscreet confidences out of the question?
It would be difficult in a case of this kind to apportion
the share of blame due to every party to this foul trans-
action. A very heavy responsibility rests upon the
shoulders of the Earl and Countess cf Shrewsbury.
Through a long course of years they entirely neglected
their young relative. They left the heiress of so consi-
derable a fortune to receive her education in a paltry
p
establishment at 40 guineas per annum, including board,
washing, shoots, towels, and the principles and practice
of the Roman Catholic When they finally
religion.
took her into her family she
--- was cast out by them again
at the end of twelve weeks, because she refused to be
dragooned into an improper marriage. And what was
the form of the rejection? This innocent young girl
was consigned once more to the walls of en institution
in which lot aille you her suul had l)Veu drilled iutg

His LORDSHIP having directed an acquittal on the
second count, on the objection of Mr. Palmer to the
authority of the keepers to arrest the poachers, left it to
the jury to say whether the prisoners were actuated by
either of the intents laid in the other counts.

The jury found all the prisoners Guilty generally, and
they were thereupon sentenced to be transported for life.
William Hooks was also sentenced to the like term of
transportation, he having been convicted of a similar
offence the day before.
John Trundle and William Girling were indicted,
together with William Trundle, for wounding William
Rose with intent to resist the apprehension of the said
William Trundle, and also with intent to do the said
William Rose some grievous bodily harm.
Mr. Evans conducted the case fur the prosecution; Mr.
Prendergast, Q.C., appeared for the defence.
At the last assizes for this county, a cause " Upcher
v. William Trundle," was tried, which terminated in a
verdict for the plaintiff, and the damages and costs
consequent thereon amounted to 2501. In due
course a writ of capias ad satisfaciendum was issued
against W. Trundle, and the sheriff issued his warrant
to his bailiffs, Greenacre and Gamble by name. Mr.
Greenacre, knowing that William Trundle was a very
violent character, thought he could but execute his duty
by a finesse, and he accordingly submitted the warrant
to two policemen, named Dunt and Rose, whom he di-
rected to proceed to the residence of the defendant,
while ho followed after. It appeared, however, that
adopting the better part of valour, he remained at Swaff-
ham, some two miles from the residence of W. Trundle,
and was there at the time that Dunt and Rose attempted
to arrest the defendant. As might be expected, they
met with resistance from him, as well as from the two
prisoners who aided him, and were present at a moment
when, before his escape, he seized a stick and inflicted a
severe wound on Rose. Under these circumstances,
Mr. PRENDERGAST contended that the arrest was un-
lawful, as the bailiff, to whom alone was intrusted the
real authority to arrest William Trundle, was too far
distant from the scene of action to be even constructively
present. The prosecutor was, therefore, a mere tres-
passer, and was lawfully resisted by the prisoners and
William Trundle, and there was no foundation for this
prosecution.
Mr. Justice ERLE coincided in this view of the facts.
There was no doubt that, to render au arrest on civi
process legal, the bailiff must either make it in person or
be so near to the spot as to be within call or reach, so
as to be constructively present. Here the bailiff was
shown to be two miles distant, and consequently the pri-
soners were entitled to an acquittal.
The jury thereupon said Not Guilty.

March 27.
CIVIL SlDE.—(Before Lord Chief Justice JERVIS and
a Special Jury.)
ABBOTT V. BACON.
Mr. Sergeant Byles and Mr. Palmer were counsel for
the plaintiff; Mr. Prendergast and Mr. Evans were
counsel for the defendant.
This was an action in which the plaintiff sought to re-
cover damages from the defendant for a libel, imputing
to him the commission of larceny. The plaintiff, until
his "resignation" in November of the last year, was a
superintendent of the Norfolk rural police—a force
which is under the command of Colonel Oakes,l as chief
constable; and it appeared that the defendant, who is
the proprietor of the Norwich Mercury, had caused to be
inserted in that journal on the 28th of December last an
article imputing to the plaintiff that he had been seen to
steal from the shop of Mr. Abrahams, a chemist re-
siding at Dereham, were the plaintiff was stationed, a
pot of pickles, some cigars, a brush, and other things,
which, on being followed from the shop, he had " dis-
gorged." To the declaration the defendant pleaded "not
guilty," and a justification, asserting that the plaintiff
had stolen a pot of capers, a cigar, a tooth-brush, a
bottle of macassar oil, and some rotten stone, from the
shop of Mr. Abrahams. The case for the plaintiff,
which consisted of the technical proof of publication and
proprietorship, having been shortly proved,
Mr. PRENDERGAST addressed the jury for the defen-
dant in a highly humorous speech, and then proceeded.
to call witnesses in support of his client's plea of just'.
fieation.
Of the evidence of these it may bo said that it proved
a strong case of larceny in respect of the capers, a less
strong one in respect of the toothbrush, one yet weaker
as to the macassar oil, and as to the cigars and rotten
stone none at all. Two of the witnesses deposed to the fact
that Col. Oakes bad raid to the plaintiff in their presence,
after ho had heard their story, " Abbott, I am afraid you
are guilty, as the witnesses agree," and that the plaintiff
had not said anything in reply.
Colonel Oakes was then called, in reply, by the plain-
tiff, and he said that he had not made use of that ex-
pression to the plaintiff, and that the plaintiff had pro-
tested his innocence in the strongest way on the occa-
sion alluded to.
Mr, PRENDLAGA6T then called for the ptoduotivu of

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obedience, to be there " diss ea' from takint
fatal step which would cony tieer existence into a -
ing and monotonous mise4.-"As for the priests, they
did but act according to the routine and tradition of
their office. It is well that their conduct should be de-
nounced, because it is well just now that the practical
meaning of their creed should be brought home to the
understanding of every man; and, what is of more im-
portance, of every woman throughout the country.
(From the Daily News.)
There is a reason for silence with regard to oases
pending in the common law courts that does not apply to
Chancery cases. Juries are employed in the common
law courts, and all jurymen have not had the advantage
of that intellectual training which enables men to dis-
miss irrelevant facts and unsupported averments from
their mind. They cannot all forget in the jury-box
what they have heard out of it. A judge who has
grown grey in legal controversies is in no such danger;
the more a case is argued from every point of view the
more ;ikely he is to arrive at a sound decision.
There is no danger of the Lord Chancellor's being
puzzled and misled by any amount of extra-judicial
polemics about the case of Miss Talbot. And with all
possible respect for Lord Truro, it must be said that ho
does appear to be in need of a fillip to remind him that
the lady's case is one of public concern. He has from
the beginning taken it very quietly, and seems to wish
that all the world should do so likewise. He was un-
moved by the &et intimation he received that Miss
Talbot was in a nunnery. He pooh-poohed Mr. Craven
Berkeley's first application. He insists upon keeping
the name of the lady who is to have the temporary
charge of Miss Talbot a profound secret. On Thursday
last he " craved of the bar to be protected from matters
which may be interesting to the public generally in a
large view, but which do not immediately relate to this
lady." The Chancellor has from first to last kept cry-
ing, " Hush! do not make a noise!—lot us get this dis-
agreeable business wound up as quietly as possible."
His Lordship doubtless means well, but he is is the
wrong. The question at issue is not merely whether a
young lady has had fair play at the hands of her guar-
dians. It involves the wider questions of in how far
conventual establishments may or have been rendered
subservient to the grossest oppression of private indivi-
duals, and how far the Court of Chancery is able to
check such abuse or has been watchful to do so. The
half-told tale of Miss Talbot warrants the darkest sus-
picions of domestic tyranny and neglect on the part of
institutions established to defeat oppression. These sus-
picions may be wrong, but if they are, the public mind
can only be disabused of them by the most full discas-
sion. If they are well-founded, the interference of the
legislature AS well as the courts of-law is imperstixelp
called for.
The more the story of the Taunton convent is probed
the worse it looks. Let us begin by adverting to circume
stances of which the Romanist side of the question
might have taken advantage, but of which they have not
dared to avail themselves. It is an awkward circum-
stance that the mother of Miss Talbot should have been
separated from her husband, and that she should have
contracted a second marriage only two months after his
death. That the late Mr. Talbot should have
allowed his daughter to remain with her mother, is, how-
ever, sufficient to warrant the belief that the separation
was owing solely to incompatibility of temper, having
its origin possibly in the difference of creed. The hasty
second marriage is somewhat repulsive to our bourgeois
conscience; and the reference in a petition presented to
the Court by the late Mrs. Berkeley, to the advantage
which her son might derive from becoming a Protestant
conveys no very favourable idea either of her judgment
or temper. All these considerations, however, are ut-
terly irrelevant to the proceedings now under discussion.
The imputations respecting Mr. Craven Berkeley's
motives are too palpably groundless and too contempti-
ble to deserve a moment's attention.

Having thus disposed of the Protestant parties to the
question, let us now look to the conduct of the Roman-
ists. The late Mr. Talbot appointed his spiritual
director guardian to his children, and left all his
personal property to the Reverend Gentleman. How
much that amounted to has been carefully concealed.
The property of the children, which has now come to
vest in Miss Talbot alone, is estimated to amount to
85,0001. Almost the first step taken by the reverend
heir and guardian was to attempt to separate the daughter
from her mother. This he attempted to do before he
was aware of the latter's somewhat hasty second mar-
riage, without assigning any sufficient ground for the
separation; and it was accompanied by misrepresenta-
tions as to the state of the child's health. In this
proceeding he was abetted by the Earl and Countess of
Shrewsbury. On the death of the mother the Court of
Chancery recognised the rights of the guardian on the
understanding that the Earl and Countess were to take
charge of the child.
As far as yet appears the Earl and Countess seem to
have paid no attention to the child whatever till the
spring of 1850. Miss Talbot, with her high descent
and large fortune, was consigned to a convent for her
education. The cost of her maintenance and education
there was about half the sum allowed by the Court of
Chancery; it indicates a style of education quite incon-
sistent with her worldly prospects; except daring one
brief visit to Alton Towers the younc, lady was kept
mewed up in her convent. All this looks' very like a
predetermination to make a nun of her.

In 1830 the girl of eighteen years was suddenly trans-
planted from her dull and narrow conventual existence
to the world of fashion. No sooner had she emerged
into this new sphere, than attempts were made to dispose
of her in marriage. Her reverend guardian had some
Englist-Annan in view for him; her uncle and aunt wished
to bestow her and her fortune on a cadet of the house of
Itocheiuucault. The young lady did not submit to
ho made a mere passive instrument o? the plans and
combinations of others. She refused to become the wife
either of the English or the French candidate for her
hand. Immediately the interest taken in her by her
noble relatives cooled, and she was left to herself.
SLciultd as she had been from the society even of re-
lations, the girl, yet in her teens, whi:tled off by the
Earl and Countess of Shrewsbury, had no one to con-
sult but her ecclesiastical guardian. Shrinking from a
(to her) strange and unaccutitoint d world, the idea of re-
turning to the only home she had known since her mo-
ther's death naturally presented itself to her. To this
there were great objections. The Court of Chancery
was not likely to approve of such an arrangement. The
regulations of the convent prohibited her being admit-
ted as a resident. Not only was this step objectionable in
itself; there were grave obstacles in the way of carrying
it out. That these obstacles should have been over-
come or evaded betrays a predetermination in some
quarter that the step should be taken.
She was smuggled into the convent in contravention
of an existing order of Chancery, and without any ap-
plication having been made to get a new one. She was
led to believe that she could only be admitted iuto the
convent on assuming the character of a postulant. She
assumed that character, but, as she herself has declared,
on the understanding that it was a mere matter of form,
and without any intention of becoming a nun. What
passed within the convent walls is unknown, and may
possibly never be revealed; but some facts have been
placed upon record to which we now request attention.

- Miss Talbot denies that she was intinded to become
a nun. On the contrary, the superior of the convent
told Mr. Berkeley that Miss Talbot was "as likely to
become a nun as not." The so-called Bishop of Clifton
has gone further: ho has declared that Miss Talbot
earne:tly prayed to be allowed to become a nun. Dr.
Doyle admits that he heard " that some such notion had
passed through her mind, and that she was wavering."
All three confess that they deemed it highly probable
Miss Talbot would end by becoming a nun; and they all
pretend to have attempted to dissuade her from the in-
tention—an intention which we have her own authority
for stating she never entertained. There is only one
possible interpretation of all this; it was resolved that
Miss Talbot should not only appear to be, but should be,
a postulant. And the end to be attained by thus in-
veigling her is frankly admitted by the person calling
hiniselt Bishop of Clifton: it was, that her fortune might
go to enrich the Romish Church in England, which he
alleges to be very pour. Mr. Hendren stands convicted
by his own admission of having deliberately contem-
plated thi; consummation; Dr. Doyle and Miss Jorning-
ham of having at least connived at it; the Earl and
Countess of Shrewsbury of havi❑g, after their attempt
at marriage-brokering was frustrated, abondoned their
niece to the machinations of the ecclesiastical trio. And
it is admitted that Miss Talbot was debarred from inter-
course not only with her father-in-law, but with her only
sister.