The Sun.
London, England, 1850-11-19 00:00:00

pipes and drank gin. They then had in evidence that
he was found in bed with Ann Morgan and the plaintiff.
Ann Morgan was 28, and was it likely that a woman of
that age would have suffered a child of 15 to be cognizant
of any amatory indulgence to which she might give away ?
Then, again, was it not a monstrous fact that Mrs. Wood,
the housekeeper, after finding them in such a position,
did not immediately communicate it to her mistress—so
monstrous as not to be received without some further
corroboration? That was the only act of an overt cha-
racter on which they could proceed, and he asserted
that of that they should not have a peg on which to
hang a doubt before they acceded to it on the testimony
of such witnesses. Next they had the witness Woodiss,
who said that the plaintiff had invited him to sleep
with her, which, as he said, he declined. Now, with
all due deference to that gentleman, than whom an
uglier fellow he never saw in a witness-box, he
thought it was very unlikely that she should ask him to
her mistress's house under the old housekeeper's nose,
where it would be impossible for him to enter. But
whatever it was, it was never pretended that that came
to anything. The evidence of Smith and of Challinor
only proved in their own conduct so beastly a disregard
of all the common decencies of life, that it quite put them
out of the pale of belief. No such proceedings could
have occurred unless for the purpose of laying
some trap fcr the plaintiff. However well founded
it might be, was that to go to the extent
of laying her open to the wrongs and insults
which any fellow might throw upon her? As to Mrs.
Edwards, who had been so much paraded in the case,
there was nothing to fix any criminality upon the defen-
dant while she might be employed in the service of that
person, None of the evidence in the case went beyond
the length of fixing upon the plaintiff some few immodest
and indecent expressions, and not one wrong act. From
the moment when the devoted herself to the defendant,
it was not insinuated that she had kept herself anything
but pure and spotless, and, whatever might have been
her previous conduct, he asserted that she was quite as
capable of feeling the circumstances of insult and degra-
dation which had been showered upon her as if she had
been the most chaste woman. Was it for them, on
such evidence as had been brought before them, that by
an adverse verdict, or by a verdict of nominal da-
mages only, that she should be cast forth into the
world and spurned from every. door? That
was not the sentence which a just jury would
give. If his client had suffered wrong, she
was entitled to compensation for her wrong. In con-
sidering all the circumstances of this case, he (the
Learned Sergeant) implored them to takelevery circum-
stance carefully and minutely under their attention. If
his view of the law were correct, the plaintiff would be
entitled to a verdict, whatever might have been
her conduct, if the defendant had known of the
circumstances of that dissolute conduct. In consider-
ing the amount of damages, let them remember from
the first period since they had become acquainted, that
the defendant had never contributed one farthing,to her
support, except the 2s. 6d. per week which the parish
obliged him to pay for the infant. Not one sixpence
had been advanced by him since the time that the
attachment had commenced up to the present moment.
He had recapitulated all the evidence to them which was
of any note, the rest he contended proved nothing, and
he would dismiss them to their verdict, earnestly en-
treating them to consider the state of things which might
be produced by the verdict which they were about to
give. If they should hereafter bear that this unfortunate
woman, in consequence of their proceedings, was beg-
ging from door to door, exposed to misery and want, let
them give such a verdict now as would justify their con-
sciences then. The Learned Counsel then sat down
amidst some disposition to applaud from the persons pre-
sent in the court.

Mr. Baron MARTIN told the jury that in this case the
chief question for them to decide would be the amount
of damages, since it was not denied that the contract had
been made, and that with a lull knowledge of all those
circumstance of immodest conduct which were alleged a.
the reason for having broken it. He called tbeir
attention to the fact that it had not been alleged
that any person but the defendant had ever had
criminal connexion with the girl, while, on the other
hand, if she were really a good girl, it would
have been very easy to have brought forward witnesses of
her good character. If, however, they were of opinion
that the proofs of ill-conduct which had been brought
forward by the defendant were nothing more than in-
decencies Lf speech—more the effects of a limited edu-
cation than of a depraved disposition—andthat benig a
good girl she had been debauched by the defendant,
they would give her such damages as would, in their
judgment, compensate her, and such as would be justi-
fied by the circumstances of the defendant.
The jury after three hours' deliberation returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 101.

COURSE OF EXCH
Euthstartituu .......... 11 16

kNGE.-(THIS DAY.)
Gibraltar.. •• •• •• •• •• ••
Leghont •• • • •• •• •• • • 31 0
Genoa •• • • •• •• •• •• •• .• 26 0
Milan .• • • .• • • • • • • • • • •
Venice • • • • • • • • • • • • • • ••
Naples •• •• •• •• •• •• 41
ralerino, peroz •••••••• 143 p
Messina •• • • •• •• • • •• •• 124
Lisbon• • • • •• • • • • • • • • •• 533
Oporto•• •• •• •• •• b3S,
Rio Janeiro ........ • •
Buenot Ayres
New York, 60 days'sight
Philadelphia ..........

Ditto. three months .. 11 17U
ttotterdam .......... 11 17 S
Antwerp •••••••• •• • • • • 25 35
Brussels • • • • .. « 25 35
Elamburgh • • If.B. 13 6%
Paris, 3 daysislght • 25 1713
Ditto, 3 months .• .. 25 40
Arsellles ............ 25 40
80urdeaux......... •
frankfort on Maine.... 110
Berlin • • •• • • .• • . • • • • ••
effec. •• 12 30
Trieste, ditto.... • • .... 12 30
Petereburgh, 88. Ebbe.. 37%
Madrid •......... 49%
Cadiz •• •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 50
Barcelona .• . .. •••• ..
SeTlll4.• •• •• •• •• •• ••

MUM OF RIILLION, ?WI 014„
Foreign Gold In bars.. 43 17 9
Portugal Gold Coln .. 0 0 0
Spanish Doubloons .. 0 0 0
New Dollars ••.. • . 0 4 11

!silver Is bars 0 5 0%

ITALY.

Accounts from Rome state that a large crowd had
assembled round the hutel of the Count de Monta-
lambert for the purpose of giving the worthy
Jesuit a charirari, but the Papal Sbirri
interfered to prevent it, and now all
the approaches to the Hotel Cesari are
rigorously guarded, and those who approach too near
the place of refuge of the pious chronicler of the
miracles of the winking Virgin of Rimini, are
arrested.

The grave of Eugene Quaglierni, one of the vic-
tims of clerical vengeance, who refused to conf‘ss to
the priest before he was shot, is every evening
covered with fresh flowers, to the great horror of the
priests, who have, as usual, nausea several persons to
be arrested.

Signior Rossi was,'when the French army entered
Rome, appointed interpreter to the French staff. In
this capacity it became his duty to accompany a
French major to a monastery, where he had
determined to quarter his troops, as they were in
want of shelter. The monks vowed vengeance, and
on the return of the Pope end Cardinals Rossi was
served with an order of exile. The French council
of war took the matter up; the staff inte-
rested themselves in his behalf all was,
however, in vain, he was,forced to quit Rome,
and the utmost that General Gemeau was able
to do for him was to give him a free passage to Mar-
seilles in a French steamer. The number of persons
exiled from Rome, since the return of the Pope, is
36,000.

The Armonia, the clerical journal of Turin, speak
of the charivari intended for M. de Montalasnbert, at
Rome.

AERONAUTICS IN AMERICA.
ASCENSION OF CAE" IAIN JOHN TAGGART'S
FLYING MACHINE.
(From:the New York Herald of Oct. 31, 1850 )
The announcement that a flying machine would go
up from the Thatched Cottage Garden, in Jersey
city, yesterday afternoon, drew several thousand per-
sons to that place to witness the exhibition of the
wonderful invention. The strip of land lying between
the Morris Canal and the bay was the spot fixed upon
by the pr., prietor of the machine to test its
capacity, and three o'clock was the hour fixed
upon for its ascension. Innumerable casks
of acids for the generation of the gas were
prepared, and the inflation went on finely,
while the thousands of curious visitors inspected the
machine which was expected to fly. The car was of
the shape of a flat boat, and had two arms like those of
a windmill, to be used as a propelling power, and a
long rudder, made of cotton goods, with which to
direct its course through the air. Three o'clock came,
but the balloon was not ready, and the people grey?
impatient. Pretty soon, however, the inflation was
stopped, and the car brought forward. Some diffi-
culty here occurred, and it became necessary again
to put on the gas to give the balloon more power.
About four o'clock all things being ready, the pro-
prietor took his seat in the car, and one universal shout
rent the air as be severed the rope which bound the
balloon to the earth. The greatest possible curiosity
was now manifested, and the balloon waved to north-
ward with the wind. It rose beautifully for a few
feet, and gently descended into the Morris canal,
immersing the projector to his waist. As soon as
this was done the people yelled, and a canon on hand
for the purposs was fired, the gunner think-
ing that everything was right. A boat was
at once dispatched, and the man and car taken
to the north side of the canal, when two ropes yt ere
made fast to the balloon for the purpose of taking it
to the place of starting, to try it again. When
about half way across the canal, one of the ropes
broke, and those holding the other becoming fearful
lest they should be carried up, let go, and the bal-
loon and car rose rapidly, leaving the aeronaut
on the ground, looking upward at his loss.
This mishap, too, was followed by a yell
from the people, who seemed to enjoy the sport very
much. The bslloon ascended in a north-east direc
tion until it was lost sight of in the distance, and the
immense crowd dispersed, chuckling over the ill luck
of the proprietor of the balloon. The time for the
second ascension was not announced."
The New York Journal of Commerce has a diffe-
rent account of the ascension of Captain Taggart. It
is as kllows :—" Balloon Ascension.—The city was
all agog yebterday afternoon to witness Captain
Taggart's experiment at aeriaa ulonatvigfoautirono.vocHke,
ascended from Jersey city b
in the presence of a large throng of spec-
tators, and passed over the city in a northerly
direction, on a bee-line for Boston. The tele-
graph has not yet announced his arrival. To his
balloon he attaches a pair of revolving fans, which he
turns with a crank, also an apparatus for steering.
The Captain confidently asserts his ability to croasthe
Atlantic to Europe in three days.,