Star.
London, England, 1830-11-13 00:00:00

COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL.

THE OMIT CIVICBLUNDEI.

Yesterday a Court of Common Council was held for the purpose of
receiving the report of " the Royal Entertainment Committee;~ but
we have no room for more than a mere sketch of the proceedings.
Mr. OLDHAM, Chairman of the Committee, gave a flourishing ac-
count of their labours in preparing everything for the due reception of
their Majesties; which labours had been frustrated, he said, " by the
extraordinary interference of Sir Claudius Stephen Hunter, and the va-
cillating conduct of the present Lord Mayor." In the first place it
was arranged that his Lordship should return by water from West-
minster, as former Lord Mayors had done. In the next place his
Lordship made up his mind to return by land ; and, when the Com-
mittee had altered their arrangements, in conformity with his Lord.
ship's land project, all those arrangements were rendered null and void
by Sir Claudius Stephen's interview with Sir Robert Peel, who repre-
sented the great impropriety and inconvenience of the said land project.
Here Mr. DEPUTY Dew interrupted the Chairman of the Entertain-
ment Committee by moving a vote of thanks to the loge Lord Mayer;
and the interruption produced great agitation on the right and left of the
Council.

Mr. WOOD eulogised the late Lord Mayor, but greatly regretted that
the state of his health had made it necessary for him to choose a locum
tenens, and more especially such a locum tenena as Sir Claudius—a lo-
cum tenena who had acted with such egregious folly (laughter on the
right, left, and centre), as if determined to throw all manlier of ridicule
and contempt on the Corporation.
Mr. Srzyswa deeply regretted his late Lordship's want of judg.
ment in the choice of &locum :enema; but that was not his late Lordship's
only error, for he had treated irith the most marked indifference the re-
quisition of 70 Common Councilmen. on the subject of the late French
revolution. He should, therefore, vote against the vote of thanks.—
(Hear, hear, on the right, and No, no, on the left, or vice versa.)
Mr. GALLOWAY said he, for his part, had nmer seen such arbitrary
conduct as the late Lord Mayor had exhibited. No other Lord Mayor
bad" thrown such slights" on the Common Council; and he could not
see why they should thank him for unkindness, or admire him for the
" arbitrary strides" he had taken.
Here the gallant Sir CLauuttrs himself entered the Court.; and the
moment lie appeared the Council hissed louder than the waste pipes of
so many steam-engines. Sir Claudius stared, and the hiss became loud
laughter ; but as Sir Claudius essayed to wind his way through the Coun.
cil, the laughter became a yell. " GOD bless me !—what's all this'
about ?" said Sir Claudius, turning himself round and about to all
parts of the Council, as if in search of information—so innocently that
the yell subsided in more laughter ; in the midst whereof Sir Claudius
stepped briskly up to the dais, and sat himself down by the bide of the
Lord Mayor.

Mr. GALLOWAY resumed.—He regretted that the late Lord Ma yr
had fancied a locum tenens, whose conduct had rendered him so pre-
eminently ridiculous--(more laughter and checre)_and he should op.
pose the vote of thanks.
Mr. Ticxwert defended the late Lord Mayor, and contended that his
late Lordship had exercised his " prerogative very judiciously.
Mr. THORNHILL was of a different opinion.
MI. RICHARDSON thought the late Lord Mayor deserved praise for
the first three quarters of his sovereignty, and therefore he should only
negative the vote of thanks for the last quarter of the said sovereignty.
Sir CLAUDIUS, the loam tenens, than rose, and his rising was
greeted with shouts of laughter. " Consider (said be) that I presided
at the last Court, with great patience, for thirteen hours, and listen to
me—(laughter, and cries of Oh !oh !) It is only fidr that, after the re-
ception you first gave me, all of you, that you should hear me. I sat
over you thirteen hours the other day. I assure you there is no one ac-
tion of mine concerned in this business, in alludm to my unfortunate
friend, except on Saturday last, when the unfortunate news wee brought
to tne. Upon my word no man regrets the unfortunate disappointment
more than me. We had every thing to lose, and nothing to gain. It is
said that I applied to be locum tenens. Now, it is 20 years since I was
Chief Magistrate over you, and I hope I am as calm now as I was the
other day, after presiding thirteen hours." (Loud laughter, and cries of
Folly, folly ! Nonsense I) In this strain was the hon. baronet going on,
when the Court actually roared against him.
Ald. THompeox said the Lord Mayor had better decide whether the
hon. baronet was or was not in order.

The Loin Maxon, as he was as far from com
uite nglir C. 8.,
Hunter as any other person in the Court, ap earreedd
At last he said that the Hon. Baronet was in order Wittenspeaking of
the office of locum tenens, but when he deviated, if he did elate, he
was out of order. (Heari and loud laughter.)
Sir C. S. HUNTER-Oh, very well : I'll keep my explanation till
by and bye, and I hope you will lister. patiently, for really—(excessive
laughter, during which Sir C. S. Hunter sat down.)
Mr. Prwvarss opposed the vote of thanks, and Mr. Rouvu and
other Members advocated it. It was eventually carried.
Mr. OLDHAM then continued his statement about the arrangements
made by the Committen, and said that they were all frustrated in every
respect by the locum tenant and the Lord Mayor elect. At length they
learned that his Majestr would not come at all. The Committee were
now desirous to know what was to be done: their fellow.citizens were
desirous of seeing the preparations, which were so near a state of com-
ple.ion, and it was most anxiously wished that tickets should be issued
for the purpose, and that the Guildhall should be visited under proper
regulations.
The report was then read. It embraced the matter of the worthy
Chairman's speech.
Alderman WOOD said he had attended the Court of Aldermen held
upon this business regularly ; that there were no facts which be could
discover that should have caused the disappointment, and he had heard
nothing of any alarm. They had numerous offers of assistance for the
preservation oath peace; for instance, 1100 India-house volunteers, and
200 of the royal artillery company; in addition to which 1,600 house-
keepers had come forward as special constables, in divisions of from 150
to 500 men each. There were also 150 firemen available to act on any
emergency. The trades also, to the amount of several thousands, were
ready to come forward, and yet he had been told that with these
auxiliaries the police were incompetent to the preservation of the safety
of the City. It was true the Lord Mayor Elect and locum tenens
had received threatening letters signed "Swing," and so had many
others, not, he supposed, from the Stock Exchange. He had seen
enough of danger not to be alarmed, and he was satisfied there was no
cause for alarm— (hear, hear.) That the Duke of Wellington was un.
popular' and that expressions testifying that unpopularity were natural
enough. After several other observations, the worthy Alderman said
it was true Sir C. Hunter had been locum tenens often, but it appeared
that his mind was now under some strange impulse, the nature of which
nobody could understand, although he could see its operations.
Sir CLAUDIUS said the hon. Alderman (Wood) had saved him three-
fourths of his speech. " I had," said he," " one communication with
the Secretary of State, but not until Saturday, and then the question
was whether his Majesty should meet the Lord Mayor at the City gates ?
told Mr. Phillips that what soldiers his Majesty liked, there could
not be any objection to their coming into the City. I was locum teams
to the Lady Mayoras, and I told her Ladyship I could not act for her;
and she said, 'if you can't, Alderman Wood will.'" (Roars of laughter.)
A Member—" What induced you to go to the Secretary of State on
Saturday ?
Sir CLanDsys--" I believe a personal request front the under-
secretary, Mr. Phillips." He then took a letter out of his pocket, which
appeared to be front Sir R. Peel, and which requested him to call at the
Heine Office at two o'clock on Sunday."
A Member—" But how came you tithe office on Saturday "
" Sir CLAUDIDI—" I am inclined to think it is quite itmnaterial.
(Rears of laughter.) There is so much confusion, I,hould rather say it
was my own direct communication, without any solicitation front
any one. (Near, bear.) I'll tell you all about it. At two o'clock in the
Saturday the Lord Mayor and I were tired, and could stay no longer ;
and so we went to the Secretary of State'st office; and something was'
said very seriously, previous to Mr. Peel's coming in, about the inten.
• tion to minder the Duke of Wellington (roars of laughter). Now, this
was the first interview I ever had with Sir Robert Peel. When he map
in, the first thing which he said was, what shall we do with Welling-
, ton ? It had been represented to him previously that such and such
proceedings had taken place, and there war a starving disposition
amongst the poor.
After a great deal of nonsense of this kind, Sir C. 8. HUNTER con-
' eluded amidst roars of laughter.
Aftereome observations from Aldermen Farebrotha, Waithtnan, Mr.
Routh, Mr. Stevens, and others, the Court ascertained that Sir C. 8.
Hunter had positively seamed the Duke of Wellington that no reliance
could be placed on the City pollee, and begged that his Chaos would
send troops into. the city. This excited alarm in the minds of GOvern.
ment, and no doubt was the ewe of the disappointment.
The Court, after a very lengthened discussion, agreed with the report.

LAW REPORTS.
COURT OF CC IM—
ON PLEAS.
CRIBS. CON.—MAROVIs. v. BROOKS.
This was an action brought by Captain Marquis, of the Hen. Bast
India Company's Service, against the defendant, a professor of music,
residing in Hunter-street, Brunswick-square, for criminal conversation
with the plaintiff's wife
Mr. CLARKSON opened the pleadings.
Mr: Sergeant WILDE stated the case to the Jury. The damages
were hid at 5,0001. It appeared, from the statement of the learned
counsel, that the plaintiff left England in 1826, and during his absence
abroad the defendant was introduced into the family as a teacher of the
harp and pianoforte to the wife of the plaintiff and his children, during
which time the criminal intercourse in question was committed. •
Mrs. Elisabeth Lock sworn—l am a widow, and was acquainted with
the plaintiff's wife in 1818 ; remembered her coining out to India—she
was then unmarried ; her father was Col. Parlby, of the Engineers, and
my house was at Burhampoore ; Miss Parlby came out in the Lady
Campbell, commanded by Captain Marquis; the plaintiff paid his
addresses to Miss Parlby, and they were married in December, 1816;
in the following year they left Burhampoore for Calcutta, and I had no
opportunity of seeing them ; in 1818 the pkintirs wife returned to
India, when they appeared to live together very happily.
Catherine Dresden, was next sworn.—ln October, 1828, went into
the service of Mrs. Marquis, as a nurse, and was with her six weeks
before the child was born ; 1 never saw Captain Marquis ; the day after
I entered the service, I raw the defendant, who frequently came to the
house three times a day ; he breakfasted there some days, and fre-
quently stopped to dinner and tea ; I do not know what lessons he gave,
but if he gave any they were private lessons (a laugh). Mrs. Marquis
had four children then, and was living in Speldhunit-street, Burton-
crescent ; Mrs. M. gave orders for breakfast when the defendant came,
and frequently went out with him; on the occasion of his coming, Mrs.
M, desired me to carry her ear-rings, necklace, and cap up stairs; and
while he remained in the room the window-blinds were shut down ; in
the afternoon Mrs. M. generally wore a white dress ; I frequently saw
the defendant in the second pair back apartment ; I have also seen him
go into the bed room and saw nothing of either of them till five o'clock,
when dinner was ready ; 1 had no means of knowing where Mrs. M.
was when the defendant was in the bed room • there was a sofa in the
drawing room, and (frequently saw Mrs. M. and the defendant on it
together. I have seen Mrs. M. lying along the sofa, and the defendant
sitting at her feet, and on one occasion when I entered the room unawares
in the afternoon, about three o'clock, I perceived my mistress and the
defendant together on the sofa ; I gave warning after this, but stopped
, another month to enable my mistress to suit herself ; she wished me to
stop till the return of her husband; they said nothing to me on my
' entering the room, but appeared much alarmed ; the defendant rose on
hearing the door open ; he seemed very much confused, but said nothing.
lain quite confident of the truth of my testimony.
Mrs. Ann Acker examined—l attended Mrs. Marquis as nurse ; the
plaintifi'used to treat his wife with great affection ; have heard my mis-
, tress speak of her husband's coming home with joy. I observed an al-
teration in her manner after she was confined, two years and a half ago;
I saw the defendant, who, I believe, gave Mrs. M. lessons on the harp ;
his visits were of several hours' duration, and he often came two or three
times a day ; the defendant often dined there, and sometimes remained
as late as half.peat eleven ; they sat in a back drawing room. but I can-
not tell h. what state the blinds were ; sometimes when Mr. Brooks
came he accompanied Mrs. M. cut for several hours; the dress of Mrs.
M. was frequently rumpled, but that might be accounted for by her
often having the child to play with ; it appeared to me that her dress
was disturbed after Mr. Brooks had gone ; I have seen them in the
street walking together.
Cross-examined—After Capin Marquis's return in September, he
went to reside in Speldhurst.street, but witness did not inform him of
his wife's conduct till they quitted that place, and the children were
then taken away.
Re-examined by frerjeant WILDE—Her mistress lived in the front
bed-room; Mr. 111. slept in the house till the children left ; he slept in
a different room, and when the children left, he did not return ; they
went to Stanstead to look at a house ; she went as far as Hockerill with
them ; Mrs. Marquis slept with me in a double bed-room ; she slept in
one bed, and Mr. M. in the other ; after returning to town, they went to
an Inn ; the plaintiff never slept in the same room with Mrs. M. they
had high words about the house at Starotead.
Cross-examination resumed--Mrs. Marquis went out of the bed-
room where she and witness slept for the best part of an hour; she went
in her night clothes ; did not hear her and Cape. M. in another room ;
Mrs. M. went to bed with her. The plaintiff was in the habit of visit.
ing his wife when she resided at Charing.cross, and remained about an
hour or two ; they sat in the room together ; and witness often left them
there to look after their child ; there was a sofa in the room ; the plaintiff
did not come every evening ; he was sent for to get Mrs. M. a lodging ;
the plaintiff might have remained in Speldhunt-street two or three hours
at a time; had seen them together in the apartment, which was both a
sitting and abed-room ; was in the custom of leaving them in that
(room did not think they agreed well enough to go to bed
ugh)
together—
Re-examined by Mr. Sergeant WlLDE.—Witness had no reason to
suppose that plaintiff and his wife had lived together as married people
usually do since his return.
Mr. Milroy proved that the plaintiff and his wife lived upon affec-
tionate terms, and that during his absence from England she received
about 4501. a year.
Other witnesses gave similar evidence.
Mr. Serjewit' Sturm= addressed the Jury on behalf of the defend-
ant. He could not deny that a criminal intercourse had taken place be-
tween the defendant and plaintiff's wife, but taking into considera-
tion the feet that he only attended the family as a teacher of music, it
could not be supposed that he would have presumed to make advances
to the lady unless be had received sane invitation on her pat. The
, Learned fierjeant drew the attention of the Jury to the defendant's
situation in life. observing that he was only a teacher of music, who,
as all the world must know, was not ins situation to pay large da-
mages ; and that, therefore, if the Jury awarded heavy damages, it
would arse his total ruin. In commenting upon the evidence, the
Learned Gentleman observed that it was evident the plaintiff did not
view his wife in a very criminal light; for it appeared, that after be
had been informed of his wife's conduct, he again took her under his
lived with her in the same house, and, there was reason to
Cre7rei,°/abited with her.
The Loan Camp JUSTICE summed up the case, and the Jury,
after consulting together a few minutes, returned a verdict for the plain.
tiff—Damages, Two Hundred Pounds.
COURT OF RMIMTIER—Dunt.rx.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
MART AWE ILAYANAGE V. waamtart.
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This was an action brought by the plaintiff, the daughter of a re-
spectable publican in Dublin, against the defendant, a pawnbroker, re-
siding in Merrion-row, for breach of promise of marriage. Damages
were laid at 10001.
The promise was fully proved, and the disparity in the ages of the
parties admitted ; after which
Mr. Smrn., on behalf of the defendant, said that he must admit that
the plaintiff was entitled to receive some damages. A promise had
been proved—the Jury were to determine them. What was the case ?
The action was brought by a bar-maid—the Hebe of the tap.room,
who administered to the consolation of certain good fellows, who met
every evening in Patrick-street, at her father's house, against a sexage.
narian, who belonged to that class of worthy persons who, in the spirit
of a thrifty benevolence, write "money to lend, in golden characters
over their doors. The girl was three-and-twenty. Her lover upon
the verge, the precipice of sixty. It appeared that the latter had been
in the habit of frequenting the dispensary of joyousness where Miss
Kavanagh presided. She attended him in the month, the merry
month of May." What will not three-and-twenty do with sixty ? She
would come in with all the apparatus of festivity, bearing hot-water,
tumblers, and the essence of Jobn Barleycorn and the other implements
of exhilaration. Peter Magarry thought that her smiles were more
sugary and saccharine than the largest lump of sweetness which she
dropped into her choicest tumbler. Punch operated as the elixir site
—he became young again. Poor fellow !he imagined that she had
pawned her affections—that she had given her heart in pledge to
him, and he popped the question in return. (Loud laughter.) But
he afterwards bethought himself. He looked in the glass, and
found that he was engaged in a perilous adventure. He broke oil
It is, perhaps, well for both parties. He has escaped from
her and she from him. A mutuality of liberation has been thus ef.
fated. What injury has she suffered? Have her feelings been
wounded and lacerated ? Is your verdict to be applied as balm to them ?
Surely not one of you will think that she was in love. She might have
protested It to the old pawnbroker, but it required a credulous se.
nility to believe her. She therefore comes before you without the
least substantial wrong to complain of. She is better off now
than if she were the wedded wife of Peter Magarry. with his 1,400 L a
year, and his 14,0001. in Bank Stock. Mr. Wallace has appealed to
your gallantry. Do not indulge it in a case like this, where a blooming
bar-maid demands a compensation for her hymeneal disappointment
from a man who has 60 years of apology,white and bald, upon his head.
The defendant produced no witnesses, and the Juty, kfter a short
consultation, returned a verdict of 7001. damages, and costs.