The Sun.
London, England, 1866-06-02 00:00:00

LAW INT,

-This Day.

COURT OP EXCHEQUER.

(Sittings in Banco before Barons Martin, Bramwell, and
Channell.)
GROVES T. RICHARD.

This was an action for ejectment, brought by the
plaintiff to obtain possession of a house held by the de-
fendant, a widow, and was tried before Mr. Baron Martin
on the 10th May last, when a verdict was returned under
the Common Procedure Act, the defejadant not appearing.
A rule nisi was subsequently granted to the defendant
calling on the plaintiff to show cause why there should not
be a new trial. The application was founded on an affi-
davit setting forth that she had employed a. solicitor to de-
fend the action, and instructed him to employ counsel. He
wrote to her, stating that he considered she could not
resist the plaintiff's claim before the court, and advising her
to employ another. She replied that she had not time to
obtain other legal assistance, and enclosed him the
fee, which, with her papers, was returned. She could
not get a lawyer to take up her cause, and accordingly
the action was decided against her. She also set forth that
there was uo written agreement between her father and
Mr. Graves, the father of the deceased, and that on the
demise of the latter she refused to pay or recognise the
plaintiff as her landlord, there being three other claimants
to the property.

The Court considered that the plaintiff was entitled to
the re-hearing of the case or the payment of the costs of
this application.

The rule was accordingly made absolute.

COURT OF DIVORCE.

(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn, Lord Chief Baron
Pollock, and Sir J. P. Wilde.)
RIVES V. RYVES AND TILE ATTORNEY-GENERAL.

The hearing of • this case was proceeded with this
morning.

Mr. Cassel, solicitor for the petitioners, was examined by
Dr. Smith, and deposed that he had inspected various
monuments and archives of the University of Oxford last
April. He read extracts from the printed documents, which
he verified as being correct, translations from the original
records, which were written in Latin. They had refer-
ence to the ordination of Dr. James Wilmot, and his ad-
mission to the degrees of Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of
Divinity, &c.
Several documents were also produced to prove the mar-
riage of Dr. Wilmot and the birth of the alleged Princess
'Olive, a's well as their death and burial. The birth of the
female petitioner, as well as her baptism, was also proved.
Dr. Smith proposed to put in as evidence a sketch of Mr.
Serres, father of the female petitioner, from a standard
work entitled "Biographies Universaille," but the Court
decided that it was not admissible.

The case is likely to occupy some days, notwithstand-
ing the opinion expressed by the Chief Baron yesterday,
and concurred in by the other judges, namely, 'that if the
petitioners proved their legitimacy, they must invalidate
the marriage of their grandmother with the Duke of Cum-
berland, for if the former were declared legal, then their
mother would be of royal descent, and at the Royal Mar-
riage Act was then in operation, she could not contract a
legal marriage without the consent of the. reigning
sovereign.

POLICE MITELLIGENCE.--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

CRUEL ASSAULT. —A FORGIVING COMPLAINANT.—Jane
Lewis, an unfortunate, was charged before Mr. Knox with
assaulting Jane Carter, another young woman of the same

class.

The complainant, who though appearing to be badly
used, yet was reluctant to punish one of her own class, said
that on the previous evening she was about entering an
omnibus near tho County Fire Office, when the defendant
came up to her, tore off her bonnet and deranged her
clothes, and gave her a violent blow, she believed having
something in her hand at the time, and knocked her down
and badly assaulted her.

Mr. Knox asked the complainant whether she knew the
defendant.

The complainant said she was an entire stranger to her,
and she thought she must have made some mistake.
Although she•had been hurt a good deal she would be very
sorry to have the defendant locked up.

Police-constable Norrish Pike, 51 0, said that at the
station last night the defendant said that she was first
struck by the complainant, and that she struck her from a
feeling of revenge.

The complainant said that she never saw the defendan
before last night, and she could not accountior her con.
duct.

In reply to Mr. Knox, the constable said the defendan
was sober.

Mr. Knox committed the defendant for a month, stating
hat ho considered it a cruel assault.

The defendant—Oh ! you wicked man. Is thero no
fine ?

Mr. Knox said there was not.
The defendant—Oh! never mind.