The Sun.
London, England, 1829-07-09 00:00:00

OLD BAILEY.

ABSTRACT OF THE RESULT OF THE COMMIT
MENTS TO THE LAST SESSIONS.
Convicted. Acquitted, &e.
Marlborough-street Office 63 36
Worship-street
Marylebone 29 13
Hatton-garden
Wltitechapel 24 7
Bow-street
Thames l9 18
Queen-square 9 2
Coroners and Country Magistrates 12 10

265 144
Lord Mayor and Aldermen 67 I 8
Of the above cases—
The Chief Justice tried. 1
Mr. Justice Littledale 8
Mr. Baron Hullock l2
The Recorder 47
The Common Sergeant l7
Mr. Sergeant Arabin

The Horticultural Society met on Tuesday, at
their Rooms in Regent-street, for the first time since
their fete, Dr. HENDERSON in the chair. The assembly
was very numerous; various specimens of fruits and
flowers were exhibited; but the greatest curiosity was
some dried fruit from China, called disopyrus kaki, highly
flavoured, and delicious to the taste. In consequence of
the accounts and expences attending the public breakfast
not having wholly been received, no report was made upon
the subject. We were informed, however, that 4,438
tickets had been sold ; and that, notwithstanding the ex-
tremely unfavourable state of the weather, 3,640 persons
were actually present. We were happy to find that not
the slightest injury was done either to the gardens or the
grounds. A subject of peculiar attraction at the Rooms
yesterday was the two splendid pictures of English
Fruit painted by LAisciz expressly for the Duke of BED-
FORD, by whose especial permission they were permitted
to be exhibited to the Members of the Horticultural So-
ciety, in consequence of many of the finest specimens
having been copied from the originals, produced in their
garden at Chiswick. Lord CARNARVON and many other
distinguished amateurs, as well as practical gardeners,
were quite astonished at the brilliant and accurate display
of nature in these paintings.

uncourteous news just as her rival was giving
birth to a child. This wall no joke—he in-
stantly travelled to Scotland, and made his ere.
dulous wife soon forget his former insensibility.
After a delay of about a month, however, he
considered it but fair that he should deal can-
didly, and he accordingly said to his wife in bed,
" My dear, I think it is no more than an honest
man ought to do to say what has happened
since we parted, for I can't stay here any longer."
" Well, my love," replied the wife, " we'll go
to London." " No, my dear," said he, " not
both of us. You must stay where you are, but
I must go back, for the truth is, I have left be-
hind me a girl, the hair of whose head I prefer
to you, body and soul." This intelligence was
received with becoming spirit. The injured
woman at once resolved upon a separation; and
when she made known the bitter reality of her
situation, a nobleman at once interested himself,
and the consequence was, the application to an
English agent to procure evidence of the adul-
tery, in order that a divorce might be at once
effected.

The temporary locum tenens for the Lord
Mayor objected to receive evidence of the adul-
tery, and application was therefore made to a
Middlesex Magistrate, who also happened to be
an Alderman, and who, upon hearing the circum-
stances, and that the commission sanctioned his
interference, consented to act. The witnesses
were brought to his house in Marylebone, and
in accordance with the terms of the commission
they were conducted singly into the room.
The Alderman was surprised to see a beauti-
ful girl, about 18 years of age, introduced. " To
what point," said he, " do you come to bear wit-
ness ?" "To the whole of the business, your
Worship," said she : " I am come to swear that
Cobham has not been faithful to his wife."

The Alderman then proposed the oath, the
form of which was extremely simple and impres-
sive. The deponent kneels down upon both
knees, and placing the right hand upon a Bible,
repeats slowly some words expressive of the de-
pendence of future hopes and happiness in this
and in the other world upon the truth or false-
hood of what is about to be stated. Having
taken the oath, she was aked with whom the
husband had been guilty.
" With whom ?" said she : " with me, your
Worship."—" I believe you from my soul," said
the Alderman, "as you say so. Pray what in-
duces you to be so candid on the subject ? Have
you any expectations from him ?"—" Why, he
deserted his wife on my account," said she,
" immediately after his marriage, and I think
that is a good security for his good conduct."
It appeared that the witness was not aware at
the time she began to fill Mrs. Cobham's place
that she was performing the office of deputy.
She did not, she added, appear on this occasion
in opposition to the wishes of either party. A
divorce was wished for by both, and she expected
to be married as soon as it should be completed.
There was a further security in the birth of a
fine child, of which he was the father and she
the mother, and it was not probable that the
present Mrs. Cobham would relish that circum-
stance or forgive it.
The next witness was Mr. Mackey, who
swore be believed that the act of adultery had
been committed between the young woman j►;st
examined and Cobham, and that the child was
theirs.

The Alderman signed the depositions of these
witnesses, and handed them over to Messrs.
Teasdale, who forthwith transmitted them to
Scotland. It is believed that this case will be
followed up by several others, the expense attend-
ing this plan of divorce being, comparatively
with those of an English case, little or nothing.
Some doubts are however, we understand,
entertained of the validity of evidence given
under such remarkable circumstances. Some of
the old Aldermen have, upon hearing the par-
ticulars, declared that they would not have acted
upon the commission.

In reviewing Moon E's " Odes upon Cash,
Corn, Catholics, &c." a l'srisian journalprints the title,
" Odes upon Cash; 'Corn's,,
&c.',
Several parishes, we hear, arerecommending
the stoutest of their present vratch‘ candidates for
the new police. ...
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