The Sun.
London, England, 1833-10-19 00:00:00

NEW COURT.

13IGAMV.—J. Hierom Holmes, was indicted for intermarry-
ing with Elizabeth Abbott, his former wife, Margaret Smith,
being still alive.
Mr. ADOLPHUS, with whom was Mr. SANDFORD, stated the
case to the jury, and called

Elizabeth Maclean, who deposed that she was a daughter of
Dr. Maclean's, the Minister of Gorbals, Glasgow. She re-
membered that on the 2d of March, 1537, the prisoner was
married by her father to Margaret Smith. Witness, on the
occasion, acted as bridesmaid.

James Maclean, brother of the last witness, produced the books
of the session-clerk, in which the marriage of Hierom Holmes
and Margaret Smith was regularly entered as having been per-
formed on the 2cl of March, 1827.
Win. Seymour deposed that he was troop sergeant.major in

the 9th Lancers, in which regiment theprisoner formerly served
as a private. While the regiment lay in Glasgow, his sister-
in-law, Margaret Smith, resided with him. He was informed
of her marriage with the prisoner. It was without his con-
sent ; and as soon as he knew of it he separated them, and
sent her home to her friends in Liverpool. She is still alive.
Miss E. A. Slee said she resided in Clarence-place. Graves-
end. She was 22 years of age. In 1832 she became acquainted
with the prisoner, who courted her, and at length married her

in March, 1833 The prisoner stated -That' lie was a single
man. He was then married in the name of Edmund, in place of
Hierom. The ceremony was again performed in the proper
name at her request. In the month of February, the prisoner
induced her to leave her parents and come up to London. They
resided in an inn in Aldersgate.street, where they passed as
sister and brother. She was then in possession of 5001. in the
Funds. He asked her for money to buy furniture, &c., with,
and on the faith of his being a single man, and about to marry
her, she gave him
Cross-examined by Mr. PHILIPS—The prisoner's father
never told her that the money should be restored. She posi.
tively swore that she was never told, before she was married,
that the prisoner was a married man. She only found it out
one night after, when she went down to her mother's. Had
been told by the prisoner and another person, that the father
did not think her good enough for his son; but before the
marriage the prisoner said he had his father's consent, and she
knew that the father went with the prisoner for the licence.
She would positively swear that the prisoner and herself were as
sister and brother, and was perfectly aware of the meaning of I
the question.

- Duke, an officer of Hatton-garden, apprehended the
prisoner on the 3d September in a house in Hackney On him
he found a purse, in which was a 101. note. In a room up
stairs he found eleven other 101. notes, some silver spoons,
rings, and various articles of jewt llery. He had received notice
of action respecting the property, and wished for the order of
the Court respecting it.

The prisoner put in a long written defence, in which he said
he was not ass are that' the first was a legal marriage, and that
Miss Slee having put herself in au equivocal situation with him,
both she and her friends were anxious to get the ceremony
per:ormed, and frequently asked him to consent.

- The Jury almost instantly found him Guilty, and
Mr. Sergeant ARABIN said the case was one of so aggravated
a nature, that he should not perform his duty unless he gave
the utmost extent of punishment that the law allowed.
The prisoner was then indicted for stealing the money,
spoons, rings, and other property, but as the prisoner's counsel
agreed to give all up, no evidence was offered, and the Jury
returned a verdict of Not Guilty.

The representatives of the West Riding and
the borough of Leeds, Lord Morpeth, Mr. S rickland,
Mr John Marshal, jun., and Mr. Macaulay, bave accepted
invitations given to them to a public dinner at Leeds, on
Wednesday, the 6th of November.— Yorh Goitre:mi.

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LORD DURHAM:

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(From the Durham chronicle.)

TORY INGENUOU9VEB9.—The following paragraph appeared
in the last number of the Durham Advertiser:—
" The Earl and Countess of Durham, who have arrived at
Lambton Castle, took a drive in that neighbourhood a few
days ago; when having occasion to pass through the village of
Philadelphia, their progress was somewhat impeded in conse.
quence of a number of pitmen, who had assembled to witness a
game at quoits, having unintentionally stopped the way. The
Noble Earl, as a' liberal,' could not brook this insult, and in
the excess of his anger, he loudly vociferated from the carriage
window,' I will not again suffer this interruption; the village
shall be removed ;' and that this was not an unmeaning threat
is proved by the subsequent fact of his Lordship having, as we
are informed, actually given orders to sweep the devoted village
from off the face of the earth !"

This foul specimen of our contemporary's malignity was
probably invented to enliven the " dull tedium" of some
College dinner. The whole history is a mere fabrication.
Lady Durham has not been driving through Philadelphia with
Lord Durham. Neither has his Lordship been in a close car.
riage at that place. lie and Mr. Hedworth Lambton drove
through it one day, on their way from Houghton.le-Spring ;
and the only individual they spoke to, or saw (for there hap-
pened to be no quoit players), was a person who addressed them
in a civil manner, and informed them that a train of waggons
was just coming up the railway which they were about to
cross!

The Newcastle Journal, a fortnight ago, published a state.
ment to the effect, we understand, that Lord Durham's plea-
sure yacht, the Louisa, entered the river Tyne, with the French
tri-colour flying at the mast head. This assertion has been
contradicted by the captain of the vessel ; and we are informed
that the bit of bunting, so blunderingly described as the
national flag of France, was neither more nor less than the
signal, No. 3, of the Yacht Club! The fib thus pxposed was
then attempted to be brazened out by an allusion to the old
hash of the banner-hoisting at Cherbourg, which, it is pre-
tended, made the story in the Journal probable. And this
after the explanation given of that circumstance! Our con.
temporary is certainly the Mrs. Candour of Journalists. These
things will show the public how very little reliance is to be
placed upon Tory assertion, when the object sought is the defa.
'nation of adverse political character.

Since the above paragraphs were written, we have received
for publication a letter addressed by Lord Durham to his
solicitor, from which it will be seen the vindictive and infa-
mous calumnies which have been so long and so industri-
ously heaped upon his Lordship have at length induced him
to step forward to suppress this moral nuisance; and that one
at least of his unprincipled libellers is likely to be afforded
an opportunity of justifying •his conduct, if he can, in a
Court of Law.

" Lambton Castle, Oct. 10, 1833.
" Sir,—l perceive that a systematic attempt is making
in the Tory Press to libel and calumniate me, by im-
puting to me, in private life, words which I never
uttered, and actions which I never committed. I am
determined to bring the question at once to an issue, and
ascertain whether the law of the country authorises these base
and cowardly proceedings. Of the fullest and freest discus-
sion of my public conduct I never will complain, nor should I
notice any comment, however unjust, on what I really do or
say in private life ; but I cannot submit to the continued pub-
lication of that series, not merely of misrepresentations, but
of actual falsehoods, with which I have been for some months
assailed. You will therefore be pleased to institute legal pro-
ceedings against the Editor of the Durham Advertiser, for his
libel on me, in his Paper of last week, the whole of which is
utterly false.
" Your obedient Servant,

" DURHAM."

MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.-(THIS DAY.)

(Before 13. RoTcst, Esq., and a Bench of Magistrates.)
Charles Blower was indicted for stealing from the person of
Cornelius Gaskell, 4s. 6d. on the 6th of the present month.
It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, that on the
evening in question, being rather tipsy and tired, he went to the
White Hart public-house, Shadwell, and fell asleep in the tap-
room, and on awaking he discovered his money was gone.
James Harries stated that he called at the White Hart
about seven o'clock in the morning, to take a glass of gin. On
going into the tap-room he discovered a common prostitute
searching the pockets of the prosecutor, and the prisoner was
leaning over the table, apparently to prevent what was doing
being seen. On observing witness, he said he hoped he would
not tell what he had seen, and offered to treat him to some..
thing to drink, which witness refused to have

Ihe case was clearly proved against the prisoner, and the
Jury found him Guilty.

The prisoner's brother, who was in Court, and seemed deeply
affected at the disgraceful situation of his brother, hoped that
the Bench would be merciful to him, as it was his first offence.
The Court, after giving the prisoner a severe lecture on the
impropriety of his conduct, and expressing a hope that his
present situation would be a warning to Ilan in future, to dis-
card associates who would ultimately bring him to the gal-
lows, sentenced him to two months' imprisonment and hard
labour in the House of Correction, four weeks of that time to
be spent in solitary confinement.

The brothel, in the most fervent manner, thanked the Court
for the leniency of the sentence, promising that as soon as the
term of imprisonment was expired, he would endeavour to get
a ship for the prisoner:

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