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possibility of their ever again being united. The Jury would coo.
alder, u men, u husbands, and as fathers, to what compensation
plaintiff was entice fur such an injury ; and be at amount of
damages what it might, he felt one satisfaction, and that was--Iliat
the plaintiff's conduct from the moment of his marriage had been
such as to leave him without the shadow of an Imputation.
The Dowager Lady Croft, mother of the plaintiff, proved the
marriage, which took place on the 9th of Septeniber, 1824, in the
presence of the friends and relations of both families. They lived
together with grent affection till the year 1828, when the plaintiff'
was attacked with an alarming Illness—convulsive paralysis. In
the beginning of his illness, his wife was very attentive to him ; but
as the season advanced. she could not restrain herself from going to
parties • and when, after some time, her husband removed to
Bromley, she refused to accompany him.
AU the other facts of the case, as stated by Mr. Setjeant %toe,
were fully proved in evidence. •
Mr. Buucuut addressed the Jury for the defendant.
The Curse JUSTUS summed up.
The Jury, after a quarter of an hour's deliberation, returned a
verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, A'2.500.
POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

BOW-STREET.
Mr. Brown, the Warden of the Fleet Prison, appeared to an-
swer to a summons with which he had been served at the in-
stance of a hackney-coachman, for having refused to pay him his

fare.
The coachman stated that his demand was six shillings, and that
he went for time. He was hired to set the gentleman and his fa-
stall, down at St. Bride's Church, on Sunday morning, and subse-
quently to leave them at home.
Mr. Brown disputed the justice of this demand, and said he ne-
ver intended that complainant should wait an instant for him.
Coachman—But, Sir, you knows as how you clici'nt pay me my
fare. The law is on my side, that I knows, and I will have my
rights.
Mr. Brown explained, that he happened to be without silver,
and the complainant was unable to give him change of half a sove-
reign, therefore he told him thathe might call for him after church.
but be had no idea of paying him for the intervening time. as
there was a coach-stand on the spot..
Coachtnan.—But I waited for the gentleman.
Sir R. Bums said that, according to the strict letter of the law
the complainant was entitled to recover. in consequence of not hav-
ing been paid his fare, but this could only apply to where the coach
was taken out of town, or to a distance from a stand. In the pre-
sent instance it would be monstrous to admit the complainant's
claim, as he was discharged within a few yards of a stand, and must
base been aware that the reason his fare bad not been paid was,
that neither the defendant nor himself bad change.
Coachman—This may be justice, but I'll be sworn that it is not
law—(A laugh.)
Sir RlCHaan OIRWII—Then you prefer law to justice.
Coachman—Yes, your Worship, I do, when as bow I'm right;
but I didn't know the gentleman.
Sir Moues° Blaine— Well, all I can say is that you are a lucky
fellow ; but perhaps you may know him. The Magistrate then di-
rected Mr. Brown to pay coachee ts. which he immediately did.
and the ease was dismissed.
HATTON GARDEN.
Yesterday, as usual. a great portion of the day was appropriated
to hearing the informations against licensed victuallers, laid by At-
kinson.
One licensed victualler was summoned for suffering " slow half-
penny" to be played in his house for a pot of porter.
Mr. Wooler attended for the defence. One witness swore that
gaming was never allowed in the house, but on the particular night
he had left a few minutes before the time stated by the informer.
Another witness failed to appear, who, it was said, could have
disproved the charge.—Fined 20s. and costs 4s. 6d.
Another, for dominoes, who pleaded guilty to their being played
for a pot of beer only, was fined 20s. and costs.
Another, for cards, who acknowledged their being played, but
they were not his cards, and they were played contrary to his wish,
was fined in the expenses, 4s. 6d.
The last defendant got off, on account of not having been quite
one years publican; on which the first defendant made an ap-
peal on account of his not having been more than a few months a
publican.
Mr. Laing proposed that his sentence should be revised, and that
he should be let off with the expenses, 4s. 6d.
Sergeant Sellon refused to mitigate the sentence, and, in
the course of his observations remarked that be put con-
siderable weight upon the • circumstance of publicans keeping
the means of gambling in their houses. In the first case, the
beds for " shove halfpenny" were brinded on the table ; and
la the domino case, it appeared shat the dominoes were be.
legging to the landlord. 'These were always, with him (the Ser-
pent) considered suspicious circumstances.
The persons convicted on the dominoes requested to be told
whether or not the game might be played at all, or bow the law
wet to be understood?
Mr. LAI/M.—Read your licence, Sir, anEET.d that will inform you.
WO
:Yesserday. Dintsock was charged with a furious assault upon
a weataa. amid Mayne., with whom, as it was stated,be had co-
habited. The unfortunate woman, it appeared, was dreadfully
braised and cut about the bead and face, and one of her arms broken
In two places. Two broken poles, with which the outrage was said
SD have been committed, were produced before the Magistrate.
Elk was conveyed to St. Bartholomew's Hospital in a very den-
pious state, and in the course of the evening, the Magistrate went
there to receive her deposition. The prisoner, who had been taken
Into custody upon the declaration of the woman herself to the con-
stable, of his being the person who committed the assault, was for
the present remanded.
MARY-LA-BONNE.
Was. Burton was charged, yesterday, with stealing some plate.—
T. Y. Smith, a private watchman, d that, at two o'clock yes-
terday morning, the prisoner came along the road at Kensington,
with a dog, which he set upon one belonging to the witness. Wit-
ness took him inio the turnpike-house, searched him, and found in
his pockets some silver spoons broken in half. He confessed that
he bad stolen them from the house of William Paynter, Esq. of
Cornwall-terrace, Regent's-park.
W. alabbett, one of Mr. Paynter's servants, said the prisoner,
who came to visit him, was in the pantry when he brought down
the dessert, and the tea-things, and be supposed he took them then.
The prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial.

SHOAT AND SWIFT.—Last week a young man of tl.e
name of Davis came to Barnsley from Leeds, on a bit of a stroll.
and put up for the night at a public-house in Church-street. The
servant in the house, a clean active girl. soon took his fancy, and
us stating the fact to her, the affection. it appears, al quickly
ripened into reciprocity, that a licence was obtained, and the happy
couple,,instead of " wasting time as lovers du," were married next
mottling at Barnsley Church.
FIRE.—A sre broke out about half-past four o'clock
yesterday morning, in the smoking-rooms, or divan, as they are
called, of Mr. Kilpack, the tobacconist, No. 42, King-street.
Covent garden, which would effectually have consumed the whole
how, bad it not been fur the prompt and commendable activity of
the (silken and constables of the new police. The flames were
discovered issuing from the first floor by Polici Sergeant Love-
grove, who instantly dispatched information of the circumstance to
the station, from whence Inspector Rogers, and the whole of the
reserve men under his contruul, presently afterwards arrived, and,
having gained admission, at once proceeded up stairs, where, alter
the lapse of about an hour, they, by the most unremitting exertions,
succeeded in setripg sbe flames under, and bad nearly extinguished
the fire before the arrival of the parish and other engines. All the
wood-work of the apartments in which the fire broke out was
destroyed, but fortunately the premises sustained no other injury.

• BIRTHS.
On the Bth Inst..the lady of Joseph "Woodhead, Esq. of Nether
Thong, of two sons and a daughter; the former twoongmber
with their mother, are likely to do wrU. The daughter Weed two
hours.
At Maidstone, the Lady of Lieut.-Col. 'Tod, of a sun.
At the Grove, Sussex, the Lady of Capt. Disie, R. N. of a
daughter.

31ARRIED.
At St. Marylebooe, Lieut Craigle, of Ferry Ronk, Fife. to
mist, widow of the late Lieut.-General hlaeintyre, of the Ben-
gal Artillery.
At St. Giles-in-the-Fielda, Williarh. youngest son of the late
tit& William Rickert Hepburn. of Riekarton. N. B. to Elise
Ilholotessesecond daughter of the late Maier *Wm. SHWA, of the
dolls Company's *eyelet.
At Weyinstoth. Haim-Gen. Cole, to Anne Sipee Payne, daugh-
ter of the late Rev. S. Payne, rector of -Wyche and Portland.
.6•1 Naples..
f Pa brother of the

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