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London, England, 1842-03-25 00:00:00

Somerset, Lord G.
Somerton, Viscount
Somerville, Sir W.
Satheron, T. H.
Stanley, Lord
Stewart, John
Stuart, H.
Sutton, Henry M.
Tancred, H. W.
Taylor, J. A.
Tennent, J. E.
Tnompson, Ald.

Thornhill, George
Towline, George
Trevor, Hon. G. R.
Trotter, John
Tyrrell, Sir J.
Vere, Sir C. B.
Vernor, W.
Vernon, Granville
Villiers, Viscount
Vivian, John Ennis
Wilbraham, R. B.
Wilshere, W.

Wodehouse, Edmond
Wood, Colonel
Wotsley, Lord
Wortley, J. Stuart
Wyndham, Colonel
Wynn, Sir W. W.
Yorke, Hon. E. T.
Young, John
Young, Sir W.

TELLERS.
Fremantle. SiriT.
Baring, H, B.

'AMOUS ASSAULT UPON A
LADY.
(From the Dublin Freeman's Journal.)
Yesterday Mr. R. Caldwell, solicitor, of 191, Great
Brunswick-street, for whose apprehension two arrests
had been outstanding for many days, was brought in
custody of police-sergeant ;Kennedy, 8 B, before the
Magistrates of College-street Police-office, charged with
having assaulted, with intent to commit violation, the
wife of Mr. Corbett, of Fitzwilliam-place, barrister. Both
parties move in the most respectable circles of society,
and occupy high standing in their respective professions.
Mr. J. A. Curran appeared for the prosecutor, and
Mr. Fitzgibbon, Q.C., was for the prisoner.
From the evidence of the prosecutrix, it appeared
the prisoner had been on friendly terms with Mr. Cor-
bett for the space of a year and a half, during which
they had had various transactions in the way of busi:
ness. The prisoner had been frequently at Mr. Cor-
bett's house, his presence there being, however, occa-
sioned for the most part by professional affairs,
though on two occasions he had dined there. On
Monday se'nnight he dined with Mr. Corbett and
his lady, and on the Saturday following he proceeded
to the house of the prosecutor in Fitzwilliam-place,
under the pretence of -paying the visit usually exacted
by etiquette, after the acceptance of such a compliment.
Having knocked at the door, he inquired of the servant
whether Mr. Corbett was at home. The servant
answered in the negative, saying, that his master had
just gone out, which, however was not the case ; but
Mr. Corbett, being in deshabille at the time, had given
directions that he should be denied. The prisoner then
inquired whether Mrs. Corbett was at home, for that, if
so, her presence would suit his purpose as well. The
servant replied that his mistress was in the study, to
which apartment the other was unhesitatingly admitted.
The prisoner, having found the lady seated in an arm chair,
saluted her courteously, and drawing ever his own arm
chair in' the vicinity of the lady's, they conversed for a
few minutes upon ordinary topics. Presently, however,
his conversation assumed a different tone--he talked
rapidly, and with great fervour, and began to praise the
eyes of his companion, which he averred were bright
above those of all other mortals. He then spoke more un-
disguisedly, and throwing himself on his knees lamented
the situation of his fair companion, and assured her,
with great
.fervour, that he grieved that her heart was
not at her own disposal, for that if she were single she
should not be without an offer. Fired with indignation
at hearing herself addressed in such a strain, the lady
rose in high displeasure, and told the prisoner that such
words were unfit for the ears of a married woman, and
informed him that if he did not immediately leave the
room, she should ring for the servant to tun' him out.
She was proceeding accordingly across the room, with
the design of summoning the servant with the bell, when
the prisoner sprang from his seat with desperate vio-
lence, and spreading his hand over the lips of the lady,
in order to stifle her, so effectually as to render utter-
ance 'impossible, he-told her that all her resistance would
be in vain, for that she was in his power, and she must
submit. The prisoner then proceeded to take liberties
of the most infamous nature with the lady, the de-
tails of which are, of course, utterly unfit for publication.
A severe struggle ensued, the fortune of which was
as yet doubtful, when the lady escrying a large
case knife lying in a silver bread-basket upon the
table, seized it in desperation, and made a fierce
plunge at the breast of her assailant. The prisoner, in
his effort to elude the blow, which must have been fatal
had it taken effect, with such excessive violence was it
aimed, let go his hold of tho lady's mouth and sticceeded
in wringing the weapon out of her hand. The lady,
uttering the most clamorous shrieks, rushed to the door,
closely pursued by her assailant, who brandished the
knife in the air and had almost felled her to the earth,
when Mr. Corbett, who was in the lower part of the
house when his wife's screams first reached his ear, ran
up stairs, having seized in the exigency of the moment a
fork, the only weapon which lay at hand. On the in-
stant of Mr. Corbett's arriving his lady had effected her
escape from the room, and having exclaimed in tones of
agony, " The knife ! the knife ! Look ! look to Cald-
well ! ' she fell in the lobby almost lifeless from exhaus-
tion. Mr. Corbett stepped over her, and rushed in the
direction of the study, where the prisoner yet remained ;
but one of the servant maids, apprehensive lest blood
might be shed in case her master and the prisoner should
meet, ran past the former with the speed of lightning, and
succeeded in entering the room before him, shut the door
in his face, and bolted it from within. Mr. Corbett,
conceiving that his lady was dying, so utterly devoid
of animation did she appear, then turned to her assist-
ance, and having raised her from the ground, was leaning
over her in the lobby, when the prisoner suddenly dart-
ing from his ambuscade sprang down stairs. Mr. Corbett
seized a boot-jack, and hurled it at the head of the pri-
soner, whom he pursued down the stairs, and might
perhaps have succeeded in overtaking, were it not that
the same servant-maid, who had already interfered, threw
herself in the course of the pursuer, and by tripping up
his heels, terminated the chase, and secured the present
escape of the prisoner.
Mrs. Corbett, a young lady of very prepossessing
manners, and great personal attraction, was examined at
great length, and deposed in a very becoming manner to
the facts detailed in the foregoing statement.
The prisoner, a tall, athletic, well-proportioned man,
aged about 36 years, and who was dressed in fashionable
attire, when called upon for his defence, stated that the
lady had made warm and repeated professions of attach-
ment• to him, and he was only presuming on the encou-
ragement he had thus received in acting as he had.
The prisoner then produced four or fire letters, signed,
for the most part, " Your affectionate Caroline," and all
of which contained professions of the most passionate
regard.
Mrs. Corbett, being cross-examined by Mr. Fitzgib-
bon, denied in terms of the most unmitigated indignation,
all knowledge whatsoever of these documents, the pro-
duction of which appeared to excite in no one more sur-
prise than in herself ; it was " false as hell" the asser-
tion that she had penned any such compositions ; she
had never given the prisoner more countenance than be-
came an honourable woman ; she never walked with him
in the street, nor ever had interviews with him in private.
Mr. Corbett deposed that he did not consider the let-
tets to be; any one of them, in the handwriting of his
lady

kr. Curran observed that there was no postmark
whatsoever upon the letters, and many of them were
written in different hands.

The Magistrate said that such a case had been made
out as left but one coarse open for him, namely, to take
the informations of the complainant, and hold the pri-
soner in surety to stand his trial at the next Commission.
The prisoner entered into his own recognizances of
1001., and two sureties of 50/. each, to stand his trial at
the Commission, and was thereupon liberated.

THE LATE SCANDALOUS AFFAIR
IN PARIS.
COUR ROYALE DE PARIS, MARCH 21.
This case has been so frequently before the public, and
has been so criticised in all its details, that it requires no
additional comment from us. Mr. Lawson, the keeper of
the Hotel Bedford, in the Rue St. Honore, stated his
case as follows :

Mr. Cassidy arrived at Paris at midnight in the month
of January last, in a carriage drawn by six horses, con-
taining two ladies and three servants, and alighted at the
Hotel Bedford. As he did not wish to remain at the
hotel, the proprietor, at his request, found him an hotel,
at the rate of 2,500 francs per month (1001.) Lord W.
Paget, however, arrived shortly after, and remonstrated
with his friend against this enormous expenditure. This
course of extravagance, however, still continued, and
several dinners were given, at the rate of seven or eight
hundred francs, when at last a scene occurred between
Miss Bellew and Mr. Cassidy, which has already been
made known to our readers.

Mr. Cassidy first said that Miss Bellew, and latterly
that Lord William Paget, was responsible for all the ex-
pense. Miss Bellew, however, after the unfortunate
business •above alluded to, paid 4,400 francs, and Mr.
Cassidy gave a bill for 5,000 francs.
There was, however, a surplus of 723 francs still owing
by Mr. Cassidy, but he suddenly left Paris in the public
diligence. The police being informed that he had a
false passport, followed the diligence, accompanied by
Ir. Law son, and compelled Mr. Cassidy to return with

The police took their prisoner to several prisons and
spunging-houses, at all of which he was refused admit-
tance, for want of sufficient legal cause of detention,
when, at the request of Mr. Lawson, he was arrested by
M. Anselin, who sent him to the prison at Clichy, where,
however, he only remained for three days, owing to a
decision, which he obtained from the Tribunal de Pre-
mier Instance, to the following effect :
" That Mr. Lawson was not in the enjoyment of those
rights which were exclusively enjoyed by Frenchmen.
" That out of 5,525 f. originally due, Mr. Lawson ac-
knowledges to have received 4,250 E, and that he is still
the bearer of a bill which is not yet due.
" That this prosecution is frivolous and vexatious. The
Court, therefore, condemned Mr. Lawson to 2,000 f. da-
mages and all the cosls, and acquitted Mr. Cassidy."
Against this decision Mr. Lawson appealed, and stated
that Mr. Cassidy had escaped to Belgium under the name
of Douglas, with a false passport, for which he had been
arrested, and that he had been since declared bankrupt
to the amount of several thousands of pounds in Eng-
land. On being arrested in Belgium he was sent to Lon-
don to meet the various demands of his creditors.
The Counsel for Mr. Lawson showed the justice of his
client's demands for 723 f., and declared the damages
awarded to be unjust and excessive.
The Counsel for the other side brought forward several
precedents for refusing to foreigners the right of arrest.
The Court, on the conclusion of the substitute for the
Procureur-General, reversed the decision of the Cour
Royale, and condemned Mr. Cassidy to the costs.

t will be recollected that some weeks since we
published an extract of a letter from St. Petersburgh
containing some observations on the manners of certain
members of the Imperial Family, which some of our
contemporaries, without the slightest hesitation, and
without the slightest knowledge, pronounced to be un-
founded. We referred, as a matter of course, to our
correspondent, although convinced of his correctness,
and have received his reply, re-affirming all that he had
stated, but adding that the Consort of the Imperial
Crown Prince had not yet taken her departure for
:Munich.—Times.

The General Steam Navigation Company's vessel the
Ocean, J. Fife, from Rotterdam, arrived off the Custom-
house at twelve o'clock at noon yesterday, with the
Dutch mail.