The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1847-06-22 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE,

Courts for the relief of Insolvent Debtors will be held
by W. J. Law, Esq. at York, October 27 ; Richmond,
30 ; Durham, November 1 ; Newcastld 3 ; Carlisle 5 ;
Appleby 8 ; Kendal 9 ; Lancaster 10 ; Liverpool 17.
Lord Justice Clerk, in the Court of Session, lately ob-
jected to the Provost of Aberbeen being styled " Lord"
Provost. It appears that the only provosts legally entitled
to be called " lords" are those of Edinburgh. Glacwow.

and of the "fair city" of Perth.
BUNN v. LlND.—This action has been made by the
plaintiff a special jury cause. It cannot be tried before
the sittings after Michaelmas Term, which sittings will
not commence before December next. As already stated,
the plaintiff has laid his damages in the declaration, for
the alleged breach of an agreement signed by Mademoi-
selle Lind to sing at Drury-lane Theatre, at £lO,OOO ; and
on the part of the defendant several pleas have been
pleaded, in which pleas the alleged agreement forms, of
course, the principal feature. The plaintiff has demurred
to one of the pleas, and the demurrer has been set down
for argument in Michaelmas Term—namely, on the 9th
of November. The counsel engaged in this memorable
case on the part of the plaintiff are Sir F. Kelly, Mr.
Cockburn, Q.C., and Mr. Peacock; and for the defendant,
the Attorney-General, Sir F. Thesiger, and Mr. Hoggins.
The action has been brought in the Court of Queen's
Bench.

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRlAGE.—Richardson
v. Steele.—ln the Court of Common Pleas, on Wednes-
day week, an action was brought for compensation in
damages for breach of promise of marriage. Mr. Ser-
jeant Byles stated that the plaintiff was a young lady of
about 27 years of age, the daughter of a boot and shoe-
maker at Messing, in Essex ; and the defendant a che-
mist and druggist, carrying on an extensive business at
Brighton. It appeared that in the latter part of the year
1842, or the beginning of 1843, the defendant was assistant
to Mr. Waugh, a chemist and druggist in Regent-street,
and that the plaintiff was in the service of Mrs. Waugh,
as lady's maid. It was at that period that the intimacy
commenced between them, the defendant being some four
or five years older than the plaintiff. Such was the
attention which the defendant paid to the young lady,
that she became not only ardently, but passionately at-
tached to him. The learned serjeant then read several
long and rather tedious letters, in which, mixed up with
allusions to business and other matters, were occasional
expressions of attachment. One letter mentioned " send-
ing a newspaper" to the plaintiff, which " contained three
cases of murder;" another mentioned sending her.
Humphrey's Clock ; and most of these letters concluded,
" Yours truly and affectionately, Stephen ;" " Your
affectionate Stephen, with love ;" Your absent lover ;"
and so on. One letter concluded—
" My heart is fixed, I cannot range ;
I love my choice too well to change."
The plaintiff went to Paris ; and the letters of the de-
fendant proved that his attachment was becoming cold.
Upon her return to England, the plaintiff discovered that
the defendant was established in business in James's-
street, Brighton. Broken-hearted at the alteration in
the defendant's conduct towards her, Miss Richardson
went down to Brighton, with a view to seek an explana-
tion from him. Shortly afterwards she wrote to him,
that she should have been induced

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