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away the rennet Did it wend like tames sense,
that with such open intercourse as it was attempted
to establish, with such a facility and accommodation
for his purpose, he would be driven to the necessity
of carrying away the object of his passion, and there-
by publishing to the world the whole story of the in
tercourse That the plaintiff, in his idaplicit conk
deuce, had been wrong, no one could doubt—that he
was connected with unguarded circumstances, might
also be surmised ; but lit should be recollected that,
matters which, when committed, appear trivial and
net worthy of notice,-are oftentimes, by subsequent
steps, rendered glaring and important. How then
was the unsuspecting and confidential friend and hus-
band to divifte his own disgrace in the spirit of pro-
phecy ? Considering the intimacy that subsisted be-
tween him and Mr. Braham, there could be nothing
thought of from the late hours of his visits. Mr.. B.
was in the evening professionally occupied. If lie
slept in town) he came occasionally to Mr. Wright's
to save the expense of a town residence. If Mr. or
Mrs. Wright wished to go to Herne Hill, they avail-
ed themselves of his carriage, either by day or night,
as it suited their convenience. If the Jury could be-
lieve
that conduct, for which the plaintiff could so
fairly and rationally account, had a right to be i
weighed against him, they would, of course, lean
that way. If, on the contrary, they thought, how-
ever careless in the confidence of friendship, it was
yet natural and likely, they would, of course, not al-
low him -to suffer more than he had done by such un-
suspecting intercourse.
Sir Vicaav Glans, in charging the Jury. said that
the Counsel at both sides had put the question fairly.
'The plaintiff had said, that if there were no alleviation
the case would be a Most serious one, and the defen-
dant, that it was one subject to a variety of shades,
according to the facts of the case. It was ou those
facts that the Jeri were to found their verdict, and
from those circumstances of alleviation, (if any there
be), that they were to measure their damages.' The
facts proved in'the present case famished a striking
instance of the danger that attended a deviation from
the strict and decent rules of propriety. •tt exempli-
fied, that where persons indulged in a arse of life
that cannot be justified, they not only contaminate
themselves but taint whatever approaches them. This
observation arose from the circumstance, that the
only alleviation which the defendant's Counsel was
instructed to make, for the act of tke defendant, was,
that living in the state in which he did, the plaintiff
had carelessly suffered an intimacy to subsist with his
family. The Learned Judge made some strong
moral animadversions upon this feature in the case.
In considerations of this kind a Jury had better take
a middle coarse, and well consider. that though the
plaintiff had diminished his claim for damages, by
allowing such an intercourse as that which had sub-
sisted between his family and the defendant, it by no
means followed, that, when he committed his wife to
such society, he had consigned her without reserve
into the arms of a seducer. He had also the natural
confidence in her behalf, which the age of his-wife
•afforded. When he married I,er she was a widow,
of the age of SO, with three children. When the in-
timacy with Mr. Brakam was carried on, she was 37
years old. True, indeed, he allowed her to mix with
such company ; but this act, faulty as it certainly was,
did not deprive him of his remedy against the act a
the defendant. The Learned Judge here recapitu-
lated the evidence to the Jury, and commented on,
each part of it with his accustomed perspicuity,
leaving to them •to determine, from• the retrospect,
the quantum of damages to which the plaintiff -was
entitled, under all the circumstances of his case.

The Jury, after a consultation of ten minutes, re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff—. Damages, One
Thousand Pounds.

The Court WAS crowded to excess throughout the
whole of this trial. The confusion incidental to,such
2n assemblage, occasioned an interruption of the bu-
siness, and rendered it quite impossible, at such in-
tervals, either to hear the observations of Counsel, or
the evidence of witnesses. The auditors were princi-
pally persons of the Jewish persuasion.

COURT OF CHANCERY, JULY ta
. CON I'EMPT OF COURT.
THE GUARDIANS OP ELIZA ANNE PATTLE O. THE GUAR.
DIANS OF WAKEFIELD.

Sir &tuna'. ltomita.v, Mr. LEACH, and Mr. WINS:-
FIELD, attended the Luau CHANCELLOR this morning
his private room, -accompanied by the mother of
the fair nominal plaintiff. Our Readers will recol.
lect readit.g of an elopement recently taking place
at Tunbridge Wells ; the parties are Miss Eliza Anne
rattle, the only child of a deceased servant of the
East India Company, at Canton, in China, possessed
of a fortune of £50,000 and Wakefield, Esq.
nephew of the respectable Chancey Barrister of that
name. The young Gentleman is not more than 19
years of age. The case is to come on again in a
few days.
JURY COURT, EDINBURGH, JULY Ilk
BRERCH OF PROMISE OF SIARRIAGE.
ROSE v. GOLLAH.

This was a cue for the breach of promise of mar-
riage. on the part of John Gollan, with Miss Catbe.
rine Rose. The issue sent for trial' was-44 Whether,
in consequence of the breach of promise of marriage
made by the defender to the pursuer, the pursuer sus-
tained damages, and.to what sum of damages pur-
suer is entitled on occount of the defender's breach of
promise of marriage?" The parties live nearin*erneu
and are distantly related, and the defender was brought
up by the pursuer's father, and acted as shepherd, and
was considered by him as a servant in that capacity.
Being left heir.to a fortune cf about AlB,OOO, which
was invested in the purchase of an estate, he very na-
turally looked. about him for a companion to enjoy it
with him, and his eye fell on his infantine companion
Miss Rose, A number of letters were read from him
to her, which convulsed the-Court with laughter,',
from *eir vnigur composition.
blr. Cocain/au opened the case for the pursuer,
in a very able and ingenious speech, and several wit-
nesses weretalled to speak to the situation in life of
the panies, and a young lady, a Miss Clark, a cousin
of the pursuer, stated the effect theconduct of the de-
fender had on her health and spirits, from his. deser-
tion of her.

GRANT followed for tie defender, and spoke
principally in extenuation of damages, wt:en Mr. Jar.
?REY replied in an animated. powerlulv and eloquent
speech, recapitulating the evidence, and making many ,
shrewd and laughable remarks.
The Jury retired for about, twenty minutes, and,
returned a verdict for the pursuer jot s(1900.