The Sun.
London, England, 1832-06-22 00:00:00

COURT OF KING'S BENCH, DUBLIN.

CRIM. COL....BURKE U. BRADSUA VV.

(From the Dublin Morning Register, of Tuesday.)
In this case the pleadings were opened by Mr. J. C.
BRADY. It was an action brought by the plaintiff to re-
cover damages for a criminal conversation with his wife.
Damages were laid at 1,0001.
The plaintiff pleaded the general issue.
Mr. Sergeant PERRIN stated the case for the plaintiff.
The defendant, he said, was charged with having seduced
the wife of the plaintiff, who was married when she was
about twenty years of age, and had always conducted her-
self most properly, until she unfortunately met with the
defendant, Mr. George Bradshaw. The defendant,
though a married man, and having a family, was a person
who, it was understood, prided himself upon affairs of
gallantry, and he unhappily encountered the wife of the
plaintiff, Martin Burke. Upon her his arts of seduction
were found to be effectual, and the plaintiff now chinned
from the jury compensation for the injury which had
been done him.
James Allis examined by Mr. FOGARTY—The plain-
tiff's wife was his sister; he was present at their mar-
riage; the family lived in Tipperary ; some of them were
in the employment of the Bradshaws ; he could not tell
how long since it was that the plaintiff was married ; he
did not know whether the plaintiff saw his wife since June,
1831.

Mary Kelly deposed that the plaintiff was married to
his wife about three or four years from the last Christmas ;
she then stated circumstances as to the plaintiff and his
wife living together; she stated circumstances to prove the
criminality of the defendant and plaintiff's wife.
On her cross-examination by Sergeant O'Loghlen, she
said that it was three years since she saw any act of cri-
minality.

John Thompson knew the plaintiff and big wife these
five years past ; it was about two years ago they separated ;
he saw the defendant at their house one evening ; he saw
Mrs. Burke sitting on the defen.lant's knee ; saw letters
from the defendant to Mrs. Burke, beginning " My dear
Peggy."
Verdict for the plaintiff, 6d. damages, and 6d. costs.

LOCH LONIONSIDE AND PERTHSHIRE

ROAD.

On the 9th May, the new road from Tarbe
on Loch Lomond, through Glen Falloch, to
the termination of the Perthshire road from
Killin, on Loch Tay, was opened to the public.
The completion of this communication between
the Perthshire and Dumbartonshire lines of road
will afford the greatest advantages to travellers
and tourists. The new road, besides giving ac-
cess by land to the romantic scenery of the upper
end of Loch Lomond, opens by far the best as
well as the shortest route to and from the
Northern and Western Highlands. Striking
off to the north by Tynedrum, it provides an
almost direct line of road between Glasgow and
Fort-William, to which it will also afford a
shorter route from Edinburgh than that at pre-
sent in use, while it also opens an easy com-
munication with Oban, avoiding the ferries,
which render so inconvenient the line by Inve-
rary. Branching off again from the Perthshire
portion of it, a beautiful route by Lochernhead
leads in one direction to Callander, within a
short distance of the Trosachs, and to Stirling,
and in another through Strathern to Crieff and
Perth ; while proceeding onwards to Killin, it
affords the means of combining in one short tour,
Loch Lomond, Loch Tay, and the beautiful
district from thence by Aberfeldy to Dunkeld.
The distance from the head of Loch Lomond to
Killin is 22 miles—to Fort-William, 60—to
Inverness, 122—from Killin by Kenmore and
Aberfeldy to Dunkeld, 40—to Callender by
Lochearnhead, 21. The excellence and level-
ness of the road, the variety of the tours, and
the picturesque and romantic country which it
opens up,—together with the comfortable ac-
commodation afforded by the admirable inns
wherewith the whole line is now provided, and
the easy access to the bead of Loch Lomond,
by a steam- boat, which plies daily during the
season, will undoubtedly "render it more fre-
quented by tourists than any other line in Scot-
land. The Dumbartonshire part, which has
just been opened, presents a specimen of ex-
cellence in the art of road-making unequalled in
this country. It is conducted along the margin
of Loch Lomond ; and, while in some parts
formed entirely by embankments .built in the
water, it is in others wholly cut into the
' perpendicular faces of lofty masses of solid
rock, which jut out into, or overhang the
lake. It is throughout, however, perfectly
level, forming a striking contrast to the old
scrambling breakneck track, impassable to wheel
carriages, which zig-zagged up and down along
the broken and rugged, though most pituresque
bank, and doing the greatest credit to the en-
gineer, Mr. Walter Mitchell, superintendent of
that district of Dumbartonshire roads. For the
completion of this part of the line the public are
mainly indebted
ofndebted to the exertions of Mr. Smollet,
younger,
Bonhill, aided by the liberality of
the Marquess of Breadalbane, Sir James Coiqu-
houn, of Luss, Bart., and others, who subscribed
most handsomely towards the undertaking.—
Scotsman.

A physician, the other day, meandering on
the bank of the canal in St. James's Park, was amusing
himself with throwing pieces of bread to the ducks, when
a friend coming by, suddenly tapped him on the shoulder,
and asked him how long he had encouraged quackery.
In the reign of JAMES I. there was a party
called Undertakers, who exerted all their power to in.
fluence the elections, so as to endeavour to effect the return
of those men who were known to be most inimical to the
liberties of the people, and most disposed to favour ar-
bitrary power. The rump of the old Tory party will be
more appropriately styled by this name, than by that of
the " Conservative," which they have assumed, as they are
now engaged in the same unworthy but fruitless under-
taking ; or, if another and shorter name, descriptive at
once of their defeat and despondency, be wanted, let us
call them the Disrnals. Sir ROBERT PEEL has often been
compared, by his own friends, to an undertaker—solemnin his briskness, and smart in his
pomposity.—Times.
FORTUNE
HUNTING.—The scene of the
forthcoming novel, under this title, is said, to be chiefly
at Leamington and the work will present, we understand,
a laughable picture of the ruses advted at fashionable
watering-places by needy adventurers on the look out for
women of property. The hero is a soi-disant Colonel,
and the heroine a well-known widow, whose charms of
purse and person have subjected her to the persecuting
addresses of a host of demi-swindlers.