Star.
London, England, 1831-06-30 00:00:00

LAW REPORT.

COURT OF C031310N PLEAS, Juwi 2/1.
lIAMBRIDGE Y. CRAWLEY.

This was an action for crim. con. brought by a
barber living somewheie in the neighbourhood of
Long-lane, Smithfield, against the defendant, who
possesses a certain degree of notoriety as a pugi-
list, and keeps the Queen's Head and French Horn
public-house, Duke-street, Smithfield.
Mr. Sergeant Storks and Mr. Payne appeared
for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Wilde and Mr. C.
Phillips for the defendant.
The first witness called was a glazier, who pro-
fessed to be qualified to prove that a vemarkuble
amount of conjugal affection subsisted between the
plaintiff and his wife, because on several occasions
when he, the deponent, had been mending the
broken windows of the Queen's Head, he had
seen plaintiff and his wife " walk out together
arm-in-arm."

The next witness was sometime a waiter of the
defendant, to prove the improper intimacy of the
parties, and he stated that during a period of three
weeks that the defendant's wife was out of town,
the plaintiff's wife was a frequent visitor at the
Queen's Head, and supplied her place at bed and
board. On his cross-examination he admitted that
the defendant had charged him with robbing the
bar ; and also, after very gross prevarication, that
since he left the defendant, the plaintiff had sup•
plied hint with money, clothes, victuals, and drink,
and that he was examined by the plaintiff's attorney
whilst he was in a state of intoxication.

Rebecca Broffby, an old woman, who was the
defendant's servant at the same time with the last
witness, deposed to witnessing " very improper
goings on" between the defendant and plaintiff's
wife in defendant's kitchen when they were at sup-
per there together; but " her wishes did not ap-
prove of such bad characters, and she was dismise'd

the kitchen," and therefore could not tell the exact
nature of what occurred; " but of this she could
very well pertain, that there was scandalous mis-
conomy between them."
" Miss Conomy !" observed Mr. CitA tun
PHILLIPS," and pray who might she be ?"
Witness—" Oh, Mrs. Crawley, undoubtingly,"
(much laughter.)
This witness also admitted,w•hen cross-examined,
that she had been charged with aiding the waiter
in stealing liquor from the bar, and also some mo-
ney from under a bed, and that when she was dis-
charged from custody, and the service of the de-
fendant, she went to the plaintiff, and the first
thing she said to him was, " Sir, as you are a
stranger to me, will you lend me a shilling ?" and
be lent her a shilling, and then she in grati-
tude told him about the misconomy of his wife with
the defendant.

A superintendent of the City police stated that
he had been acquainted with the parties ever since
their marriage, and that he never saw any impro-
priety in the conduct of the plaintiff's wife, till one
night he saw her in Smithfield with her arm round
the defendant's neck ; but, when examined for the
defence, he would not swear that he had not seen
her in the company of common prostitutes before
this. She was now entirely abandoned to a vi-
cious course of life.

A witness proved the serving of the writ upon
the defendant, who, at the time, said to his wife,
" Ah, this wouldn't have happened if you had
stayed at home !"
____ _

This was the plaintiffs case.
Mr. Sergeant WILDE, after addressing some
observations to the jury on this evidence, said he
would not insult their understandings, or be a party
to the further degradation of the administration of
justice in that Court by calling any witnesses,
although he had upwards of 40 in his brief.
The CHIEF JUSTICE commenced addressing the
jury, but was interrupted by the Foreman, who
said they were of opinion the case was not made
out, the principal witnesses being unworthy of
credit.

Plaintiff was accordingly nonsuited.
CONSISTORY COURT, Juxr 29.
rains V. PHIPPS.

This was a suit for a divorce, brought by Henry
Phipps, of Gmcechurch-street, against his wife, on
the ground of her having criminal conversation with
Wm. Forrester, of Fish-street-hill.

Sir HERBERT JEN N ER, for complainant, said
that the parties to the suit were married in Nov.
1824, and up to August 1830 had lived happily to-
gether. A t this latter period Mrs. P.'s affection for
her husband was observed to decline. The reason
for that change on her part was her having formed a
criminal connection with a Mr. Forrester, who was
shopman to Mr. Stone, a haberdasher, residing on
Fish-street-hill. In support of this allegation, it
was proved that Mrs. Phipps had been generally
very familiar with Forrester ; that Forrester, on one
particular occasion,had been alone with Mrs. Phipps
for upwards of an hour in her parlour, on pretence
of showing some silks ; the blinds of the windows
had been drawn down, and there was a sofa in the
room ; Mrs. Phipps appeared flushed, and unusu-
ally high-coloured, after his departure. He and
Mrs. Phipps were also identified by a boatman,
named Lill, as having been conveyed by him,
on the second of July last, to the Red House,
Battersea, where, after they had spent the
day together, be brought them back to Arundel-
street -stairs, in the Strand. They were also iden-
tified by the waiters at the Red House. It was also
in evidence that a coachman, of the name of Wing,
saw the parties, and they were driven by him, on
the 25th of July, to Snaresbrook, where, it was
proved by the waiters, they bad dined, and had
afterwards walked together in the forest.
This was the principal evidence for the party suing
for the divorce.

Dr. HAGGARD follo7Ved On tho same side.

Dr. ADDA xis appeared for Mrs. Phipps against
the divorce, and said, that Mrs. Phipps was of a
gay and lively disposition, and rather coqnettish ;
but still, up to this time, was never in the slightest
degree suspected of infidelity. He maintained that
no improper familiarity subsisted between her and
Forrester, but that living in Gracechurch-street,
within a few doors of Mr. Stone's house, she had
often dealt there for these things which she wanted
to purchase. Forrester, on the day on which
suspicion attached to him, came to her house on busi-
ness, in the middle of the day, between one and tw•
o'clock, when her husband was every moment ex-
pected home to dinner. It was in evidence that on the
day on which she was alleged to have been at the
Red-house, Battersea, she was with an old gentle-
man and a lady, a I articular friend of her's, at the
Star and Gaiter, Putney, and that on the day on
which she was represented to have been at Snares-
brook, she was with her dress maker for the greater
part of the day. Mr. Forrester, it was also proved,
had dined on tke 25th of July at Hampton Court,
and left that place for London by the stage-coach,
in the evening. This was the substance of the
evidence adduced to meet the suit for divorce.

Dr. M ATC II EM was rising to address the Court
on the same side when the Judge (Dr. LUSHING-
TON) said that ho must postpone the further hear-
ing till the first convenient tiny next week.

TIIE GIGANTIC WHA L E.—The skeleton of the
Gigantic IVha e is to be seen in the booth erected to receive
its remains, opposite the King's Alerts. The naturalist
will be delighted with the present opportunity of inspecting
the most perfect existing specimen of the cetaceous tribe ever
exhibited ; the articulation of the Nk e:cton is complete, the
interstices between the vertebra are filled with a composition
painted to resemble the adjoining bone ; the while is fixed
together on iron stands, the ribs depending in their natural
position by hooks and eyes of the same metal. The belly
of the whale is fitted up with a table and chairs, containing
an album, some books of natural history, and other things.
The following arc the precise dimensions of the whale
Total length of the animal, 03 French feet ; length of the
head, 22 ; length of the tongue, 20 ; Leight of the cranium,
4k ; length of the vertebral column, 691 ; r.umber of the
vertebra, G 2 ; length of the ribs, 9 ; number of ditto, 28 ;
length of the fins, I2i ; length of the fingers, 41; width of
the tail, 24 ; length of ditto, 3; weil,ht of the animal,
400,00tilbs ; weight of the oil, 40,000; weight of the rotten
flesh buried in the sad, 170,1100. The upper jaw is fitted
up with 800 lanais or whalebones. From the calculi,
tion made by Monsieur le Baron Curler and the Profes-
sors of the King's Garden. this enormous cetaceous animal
must have lived nine or ten centuries. Tile whale was found
floating in the North Sea, between Belgium and England,
on the 3d of November, 1827, by a crew of fishermen. This
boat being too weak of tonnage and sail to remove such an
enormous masa, hailed two other boats to their assistance,
and the three together towed the whale on shore, and arrived
in sight of Ostend harbour at four o'clock in the morning of
the 4th of November, 1827, being then high water. At the
moment the whale was just going to easel the harbour, the
cable with which it was fastened to the boats broke, and it
was cast on the sands on the east aide of the harbour. It was
there that all the preparatory operations were made.

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