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LAW INTELLIGENCE.—March 11.

COURT OF CHANCERY.
(Before the Lord Chancailor and the Lords Justices,

APPEAL.-VANSITrART V. VANSITTART.

The further hearing of this part-heard appeal cause
was resumed this morning. The contest between the
parties in this suit was the validity of enforcing in a
court of equity the specifio performanoe of an agreement
for separation, entered into by the husband and wife,
whereby for a valuable consideration to be paid by the
husband to the wife, it was agreed to abandon an action
of divorce in the ecclesiastical court—to live in a state
f separation, a -epmate main;,3nance to be paid to the
wife and children, and provision made for the custody
and education of the children- -and a reference to arbi-
tration of all matters in difference between then.

The plaintiff, by her bill, claimed specific performance
of the agreement, and the cast° ly, maintenance, and
education of her chiljren.

The defendant demurred to the equity of the plain
tiff's bill

Vice-Chancellor Sir Wm. Page Wood allowed the
demurrer and dismissed the plaintiff's bill.
The plaintiff appealed against this decision.
The hearing of c)unsel having been concluded, their
Lordships now delivered judgment. Their Lordships
were unanimously of opinion that they could not enforce
specific performance of this agreement, on the ground
that it was against the parental authority of the husband
in the education and custody of his children. Their
Lordships allowed the demurrer and dismissed the
appeal with costs.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

NORTH WALES CIRO UlT—WErsElPoord, MARCY{

WILLIAMS Y. COLLEY-BREACH OF PROMISE OF
MARRIAGE.

The plaintiff, Margaret Williams, sought to re-
cover 2001. damages for an alleged breach of pro-
mise to marry her.
Defendant pleaded the general issues, and that if
he did promise it was while he was intoxicated.

Mr. V. Williams for plaintiff, Mr. M'lntyre fo:
the defendant.

The plaintiff, about 22, was the daughter of a
small farmer, near Newtown, Montgomei yshire,
and the defendant, whose age was about 45, was
also the son of a farmer who formerly lived at the
Weeg, Newtown. Although the defendant was,
according to his own account, a man in independent
circumstances, and the plaintiff, because her father
was dead and there was a large family, was obliged
to go to service, still they were in a similar position
in life, In 1855 the plaintiff lived as servant at
Mr. Harmer's, the Weeg. The defendant lived
with his mother, near the Weeg, but had other
means of getting money. Having seen the plain-
tiff, and being pleased with her good looks he
courted her, and matters had so far progressed in
Sept. that the dresses and ring, and the license,
were procured, and the wedding arranged to take
place in the early part of October. The happy morn
arrived, and the wedding guests were assembled.
Making an excuse the bridegroom left the house,
and his absence being longer than it was thought
right, one of the guests went out to look for him,
when he was seen scampering over a hill in the dis-
tance as fast as he could go, dressed in his best as he
was. Hysterics followed, and the unhappy young
girl b2carue very ill. Ultimately she recovered, and
became acquainted with another lover, by whom
she had a child. However, the old lover returned,
and plaintiff and defendant renewed their former
intimacy. Marriage wag again proposed, and it was
arranged that the wedding should take place at New-
town. Tins was in Oc!oher last, and the defendant
came to Newtown, where he procured another ring
and a license ; and to make matters more certain,
he went early to a c3ttage of afriend near the church
as be did not wish to excite observation, not being
dressed in his last clothes. It was now thought the
connubial knot would be tied without fail The
wedding guests were again assembled, the betrothed
were waiting anxiously the hour of nine, but the
defendant was evidently restless ; he went in and
out of the house nervomly. At length he fairly
bolted from out the cottage garden, and was gone
"never to return." After this flight, and seeing
no chance of a marriage, an aciion was commenced.
Mr. M'lntyre contended there was no evidence
of promise having been given.
This, however, was overruled by the judge ; and
ju
ry
returned hearing the speeches of the couniel, the
returned a verdict for plaintiff—damages 151.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—Marda 11.

MANSION-HOUSE.—A man, who did not give
his name, but who looked like a respectable me-
chanic in the iron trade, presented himself in a ra-
ther excited state, before Alderman Hale, to com-
plain of a grievance. He said he went to Ostend on
Monday morning in a Belgian steamer, having a
situation to go to there at 2/. 12s. 6d. a week ; but
directly he landed he was asked for his passport,
and as he had not got one, he was at once marched
off to gaol, while his little bundle, containing three
shirts, some stockings, about half a❑ ounce of t,-a,
and a quarter of a pound of sagar, was overhauled
four or five times. He was kept in prison till the
vessel sailed again, and then marched on board like
a felon, and was that the treatment which ought to
be extended to a British subject ho should like to
know

Mr. Goodman (chief clerk)—What do you come
here for ? This is a police court.
Applicant—Come here for 7 Why, I think it is
my duty, as a British subject, to make my treat-
ment known to the Lord Mayor.
Alderman Hale—l very much regret the incon-
venience !you have been put to ; but it seems to
me that you brought it all on yourself by going
there, in violation of their laivs, without a pa s-
port.
Applicant—l did not wish to violate their laws,
but I consulted a friend, and be told me I should
not want a passport, as I was going no further from
Ostend.

Alderman Hale—We have nothing to do with it
here. If you have any complaint to make, you had
better go the Foreign-office.
Applicant—l think it shameful that a British
subject should be so treated. I was offered the
means of supporting myself and family, and pawned
one of my coats to enable me to go there, but they
kept me in gaol from the moment I lauded till
they put me on board the steamer again ; and I say
here what I could not say there—that they kept me
in such a state I could not sleep. I consider that
I have been cruelly treated.
The applicant then quitted the court in a state of
great excitement.

GUILDHALL.—George Thompson, a corn mer-
chant, described as of 16, Chichester place, Gray's-
inn-road, 6, Barnsbury-street, 4, Albion-grove,
Islington, and' 9, Kingstnead-terrace, Bath, was
brought up on a warrant before Alderman Cope-
land and Sir George Carroll, charged with non-sur-
render to his bankruptcy after due notice of adjudi-
cation had been served at his last known place of
abode.

Mr. Sleigh, instructed by Mr. Scott from tbe
office of Mr. Smith, of Tokenhouse-yard, attended
for the prosecution, and
Mr. Lewis, jun., appeared for the bankrupt.

Mr. Collins,"' managing clerk to Mr. Hambs‘r, at-
tached to Mr. Commissioner Goulburn's court, pro-
duced the proceedings in bankruptcy, containing
the petition for adjudication, the adjudication by
Mr. Commissioner Goulburn, the day limited for
his surrender, and a memorandum that he did not
surrender on the 21st of September last, notwith-
standing he had been proclaimed at twelve o'clock
and at three o'clock on that day.
John Dowler, assistant messenger to Mr. Ham-
ber, said he serve• a notice of adjudication in bank-
ruptcy on the 28th July last, by sticking up a copy
over the man•el-piece in the front parlour of the
bankrupt's residence, at 4, Albion-grove, Barns-
bury. Witness stayed in possession, but cli.l not
see the bankrupt there. He served the summons
to surrender on the 17th August in a similar man-
ner. He did not leave any notice at any of the
places of business.

Joseph Huggett, a detective officer, said he ap-
prehended the prisoner on a warrant in the corn
market at Bath, where he was passing under the
name of Lewis Grant. On seeing Mr. Walker, who
accompanied witness, tilt, bankrupt said he was
very glad they had found him. On searching pri-
soner, witness found one 1001. note, one 51. note,
and 61. in gold, and at his lodgings, 9, King mead-
terrace, Bath, several account books, a cash-box
containing a gold watch and chain, and a gold pen-
cil-case ; and at the New Qitay Granary a large
quantity of new sacks and a stock of difE rent kinds
of corn, formir g part of the bankrupt's estate. On
arriving at the Moor-lane station in London he
again searched the prisoner, and found a diamond
ring concealed within the lining of one of his
braces ; and the prisoner explained that the ring
was his wife's, and that was the reason he had con-
cealed it.
_ _

Robert smith, a corn merchant, in the New
Corn Exchange, in Mark-lane, said he had sold 70
quarters of oats, amounting to '851., on the 25th of
May last, to the bankrupt, and on the Ist of June,
10 quarters of beans ; and they had not been paid
for up to the present time. The prisoner was
the person against whom the proceedings in bank-
ruptcy were taken.
Augustus Walker, clerk to MeE,sre. Walker andl
Co., of Wentworth Wharf, Upper Thames-street, I
corn merchants anil flour factors, said their claims