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ibe CogrtiabeArty wet, .confolisd with laughter, is
which do plaintiff joined)..‘Wituess laughed at the
idea, bosom the plaintiff bad these' little children by.
his former marriage.
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_a his eetespezushardon he said, shot who Mrs. Harley was
arrested, the pebtokaglial at them AL emmitiersble property
gel to Miss Beebe on the death of her father.
N. Hartford, a tailor, was in plaintiff's employment
when plaintiff and Miu Bushe lived in Cramptnn.
court, about the month of December; she used frea
quently to come to his house; he could not tell who.
tact Miss Bushe ever slept in Mr. Hickey's house.
•By Serjeant GOOLD : If, after being married five
weeks, your wife should treat you in the manner thAt,
Hickey's wife bad done, would you not think you bad
a good riddance of her ?—Witness : I would not.—i
Berjeant GOOLD: Would you be fond of her?—Wit-
tress: I would.--Serjeaut GOOLD : If your wife kicked
you ten times a day, would you be fond of her ?—Wit.i
ness: I would not let her kick me ten times a day.—
Berjeant GOOLD : But if she did do so, would you be
bond of her ? would you wish to live with her ?—Wit-
gess : I would be fond of, her.—Serjeant GOOLD:
Would you sooner have such a wife than her money ?
—Witness: I would much rather have the wife than
the money.—Serjeant GooLD: I am afraid your wife
is in Court ?—Witness: She is not.—Serjeant GOOLD:
How long have you been married ?—Witness: I can't
tell.—Serjeant Goma): Do you live with your wife at
present ?—Wii ness : I do not-...( Laughter).
iteszausinsd—Witness expects to live with his wife again. _
J. Robertson, an officer of the police, said, when the
parties appeared at the office, each man claimed her as
his wife. She said she would not live with plaintiff,
and Borind took.her away with him.
' Cassandra N ntoir said, Boland and Mrs. Boland
lived together; has seen them in bed together. .
Here the case closed for the plaintiff.
Mr. Serjeant GoOLD submitted t the Court, that,
according to the case of Reading and Tumbrel), in the
.sth l'erm Reports. the plaintiff could not obtain a verdict.
The Lotto Caviar JUaTlcit charged the Jury. He
said, that if the proof of the plaintiff's marriage rested
on the evidence of Mr. Wood, he should feel great he-
sitation in ditecting the Jury to attend to it: but it was
corroborated by other evidence ; a verdict must, there
fore, be given for the plaintiff. In e,timating damages,
they should. consider the circumstances under which the
plaintiff married Elizabeth Bushe, without the know-
ledge of her family, and the character of the person he
eel. tied to unite them. They should also look to the
conduct of Elisabeth Bushe, and say what loss of
comfort and happiuesi a woman of her profligacy could
be to the pla'ntifE
The Jury, without retiring from the box, save a verdict for the
plaintiff--Sixpence damages, and Sixpente costs. •
THE DUG BILLY,

WESTMINSTER COURT OF REQUESTS—TasastrAv.
WATSON V. DSW.
In this case IL 19s. 9J. was claimed by the plaintiff,
to which the defendant, wt.° was dressed in widow's
weeds, denied her liability, inasmuch as it was a debt
of her deceased husband's, who, she said, had left
her pertnyless. The plaintiff here eagerly retorted, that
could not be the case, because she had received twenty
guineas for a dog since his cl:atla. Upon the Commis-
sioners enquiring more clost.ly into the matters it ap-
peared that the late husband of the female now before
the Court (Mr. Dew), was no less a person than the
owner of the celebrated dog Billy, whose fame as a
destroyer of -rats was erst the delight of the Fancy ge-
nerally, and of the gentry of Tothill-fields in particu-
lar; now upon the death of Mr. Dew, his disconsolate
widow presently discovered that the living dog was
worth more than the dead husband, sod the, there-
fore, quickly bartered him away for twenty-one spark-
ling suve; eigns, and with these and the little furniture
she had left, she set about making herself comfortable,
when the plaintiff, Watson, ruthless man, broke in
upon her quiet with a piece of printed paper, bearing
upon it certain orders, and peremptorily concluding
with, " hereof fail not at your peril." Now, Mrs. Dew,
having no taste for perils of any sort, felt it her duty
to obey the order so far as to Attend before the Court,
but as for paying the debt, that was quite another mat-
ter, and to which she most decidedly demurred; but
the Commissioners, in consideration of her having
pocketed the value of poor Billy, and of her more-
over having other property of her husband's, deemed
that Watson s groceries and chancflieries must be paid
for by her, and immediately ordered the same; but
to thew, that they were not wanting in feeling towards
a widow, they determined it should be by instalments
of four :hilliugs a mouth.
•

Mr. WATSON TAvr.ot6ras sold the remainder of his
house to Lord BARESFORD for 10,000 guineas. This
sum, added to the former sales, makes up 55,0001. for
the-property which cost Mr. Talmo*, in prime cost
and repairs, at least 65,0001.
The Inquest on the unfortunate men drowned in
passing through one of the arches of the Paddington
Canal, returned yesterday a verdict of Accidental Death.
MTVTERIOOS ROSlSERT.—Saturday last a robbery
of a most mysterious, and hitherto unaccountable na-
ture, was perpetrated at the chambers of Mr. Johnson,
Na." 4, Barnard's lon, Holborn. Mr. Johnson went out
after breakfast in the morning on business, leaving all
his dealt's, drawers, etc. locked as usual, and no one in
the chambers but a woman who is generally employed
to make up the rooms, but who is not i permanent re-
siding servant, and who has always been considered
about the Inn as a very honest confidential female. This
woman sail, that soon after Mr. Johnson had gone out,
she made up the apartments, locked the doors, which
close with a spring-lock, and took her departure.
However this may be, when Mr. Johnson returned
home in the evening, he found his doors closed as usual,
and having unlocked them with the key which he car-
ried with him, he entered his chambers, and there also
he found everything in data quo—desk and 'drawers,
&c. regularly locked as he had left them, and no sign
whatever of violence ; but on opening the desks, &c. a
different.scene presented itself, everything of value had
been cleared away, including a quantity of plate, a
large collection of gold and silver medals and foreign
coins, many of them Napoleons ; wearing apparel, and
much other property to a censiderabk amount : every
paper, also, that was of any value as a security, was
taken away, and the rest left behind. •
To the afflicted with Scrofulous or Scorbutic Com-
&bits, it INN* he a matter of great ceneolaties to learn that they
PM an atinnaaa&l GC anguing speedy and permanent re-
, lief, hy the use el that bog established and highly curt med Medi-
eine, Mr. Limmat's Aueneosnrese Doom—The arm number of
well authenticated card which have been perfOrmed by them, are
L Ake best roes of their superior elhency.--(Bce etsvfirst 'age).