The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1844-08-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

MR. DYCE SOMBRE.—On Thursday the Lord Chan'
cellor delivered a long judgment in this case, which hi
concluded by refusing the application to supersede the
commission of lunacy.
REVISING BARRISTERS.—The following are the fLI3
tures for the North Wales circuit :—South Cheshire and
Chester: Mr. Meeson.—North Cheshire, Macclesfield►
and Stockport : Mr. Yard ley.—Flintshire : Mr. Trafford•
—Denbighshire: Mr. Welsby.—Carnarvonshire and 4''
glesey : Mr. Temple.—Montgomeryshire and Merioneth'
shire: Mr. Townsend.

QUI TAM ACTIONS.—The first of these actions cares
on for trial on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Parke ands,
special jury. C. 11. Russell was the plaintiff, and Lord
George Bentinck the defendant. The action was brought
to recover penalties amounting to £12,000, the allegation,
being that the defendant had in an illegal manner recover°
a bet of £3,000 from John Day, in May, 1843. The
counsel for the defendant having stated that it was the
wish of his lordship that the case should go to trial, the
learned judge reserved, for the consideration of the nit !°l5
judges, the question as to whether the recent statute dead
not act as a bar to the action, although it was commenced
prior to its passing. After several witnesses had been e%"
amined, the jury returned a verdict for the defendant, the
case having broken down on the merits. It turned out
that Day had made the bet with Mr. Gully, and that the
latter was, in the eye of the law, the loser of the fa,3,t"'
to Lord George.
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At the Sur,ret
Assizes, on Monday last, before Mr. Baron Park all?
Special Jury, Miss. Melville Roberts brought an saw'.
against Captain Frank Denham, to recover conspensatior;
in damages for a breach of promise to marry her. Ow
Plaintiff, a beautiful and accomplished young lady, 00..
about 28 years of age, had been for eight or nine Ye oil~
governess and confidential companion in the family
of Capt. and Mrs. Evans. and in July, 1843, she returnool
from Malta, with Mrs. Evans, in the Great tivelger-
steam-ship. The defendant, who had traded ash: gape
chant to the East Indies, was a psssenger by favoured
ship, and in the course of the voyage he became
of the plaintiff, and sinortly after their arrival a
arnpton, he made her an offer of marriage througu
Evans. He remained as a visitor in the charactafire
suitor for some few days, and about the middle of z.of•
he went to London. from whence wrote on the
October, breaking off the match ; and on the 15th of -.0
vember, he was married at Ackworth, near Pontefract!
to Miss Eliza Lacey; The jury gave a verdict for the
Plaintiff—Damages, £BOO.
—The case or .• Smith ..Ibg
Rev. A. Gentle," has been argued before one of the
Scotch courts, and has at last been decided ; and the de'
cision is of importance as involving the liberty of clergy
men in their clerical capacity. The issue in this Calor
as follows :—Whether on Sunday, the 14th of rmrycea•
1841, during divine service in the parish church ot Fay,
the defender did, while addressing the congregationsbeat.
concerning the pursuer, that he had been guilty of e
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ing, deceiving, and overreaching others in the cours
business ; that he had kept up false and ficticious aPFed3O,
South-
ances, and had, on false or ficticious credit, engage to-
speculations and improvements, and indulged in surnyivp,
ous living ; that in the course of his speculations rend
.ant
provements, he had cheated or deceived his more
neighbours, by inducing them to sign documents to tutor
prejudice or ruin, and had thereby converted the houseo
mirth and joy into a house of wailing and mourningad,
that if its walls could speak, they even would test,against the vile intruder—meaning thereby that the Pfie,
suer had been guilty of obtaining money on false Peed
tences, had keptsup false appearances, and had rhea be
and deceived his neighbours and others, with whom or
had transactions, to their injury or ruin ; or did nse,6
utter expressionstan allusion and with application WI
pursuer to the liffeffect. Last year the case was tr&l
and a verdict was given in favour of the defendant ;.,,sy tbith
verdict was set aside as contrary to the evidence.
second trial the jury returned a verdict for the P't".
with £lOO damages—.£looo having been sought. 35,,
ASSIZE NEWS.—At Norwich, James Frost, aged es,,
was charged with the wilful murder of his four chilui
the eldest of whom was only five years of age. The.P4;
soner was a preacher amongst the Primitive Methodlefrie,
was subject to strange delusions, sometimes in utter'd
spair of salvation,—at others in the contrary extrernel'a.
he destroyed his children with the alleged object oil,.
ing them straight to heaven. He was acquitted 00 or
ground of insanity.—At Stafford, William Beard wascas,
victed of the wilful murder of Ann Grtffitbs, at Weirth
bury, on the 16th of March last, and sentenced to nel
—At Both:6n, Matthew Week, aged 22, was convicte
pt
the wilful murder of Charlotte Symond, his fellow-se :0
and sweetheart, at Davidstone, in April last, by crop
her throat. The motive appears to have been jeluti tie
The prisoner was sentenced to death.—At Newlold
upon-Tyne, Mark Sherwood. an elderly gray-beadlota
man, was charged with the wilful murder of Ann, Po,6e
wood, his wife, on the 14th of March last, under erc 0'
stances of great barbarity. He was convicted a t
oa ;00
tenced to death.—At Guildford, in a breach of proart'obe
marriace case, Roberts v. Denham, the jury found °Ilex::
plaintiff—Damages, £Boo.—At Guildford, a caste sge:
bert v. Day, was tried, in which the question at intake"
whether the racer Bloodstone, winner of one of tkva-„-niel4
at Ascot, was the horse he was described to be, sere"
one of two years old, or another of three years old, °AO°
and ran falsely in his name. The verdict decided `,OOl
fraud had been practised, and that the owner of the'',
was not entitled to the stakes.—On Thursday 1/,_ee,.10'06,
the Bodmin assizes, before Justice Patteson, Cu a' OP'
Johns, an interesting looking girl, twenty-four volgott
child. The jury found the prisoner
was charged with the murder of her male ilieg"
the birth, and she was sentenced to two years' imPtefoti
ment.—At the Newcastle assizes, on Friday week,
_jet
Justice Cresswell, Jane Purvis was indicted for the in!it'oti
of her illegitimate child. The
prisoner
was a ser.eff
and the evidence went to show that she had been del l'01)
of a child, which was subsequently f .o in a bo%bott,
its throat cut. It was not proved that
prisoner thi thirteen eweans
giventhe child was cort
by Mrs.
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alive, and the jury found . he prisoner guilty of haviaonatit
cealed the birth, and she was sentenced to twelve 113:00F,
imprisonment.—On
yr sdo bn
las last Jervis,th agedthe of Emma Goldshy, an infant, seventeen months old. ,
was a most extraordinary case. The prisoner 19400
be sent home gr
at the end of the week. One daY i"
Cher observed some scratches on the infant's 11°4
she suspected that the prisoner had inflicted therahebs
child showed great dislike to her afterwards. °11; 000
April the prisoner, who had been left to take ce1,,e4.4,
cradle, suddenly called out that a man had ale eP'aai
baby. The mother ran to her, and, taking up
saw blood streaming from it and that it was dYilt
gave the alarm and several neighbours rushed s rig
child, which was already dead, was examined ,fostsl3(o
geon, who found that a large knife had been tTO.ht vd,
its chest. The wound was just such an one as I? nrc.lo
been inflicted by a carving knife which lay on tafj,, ,105,
and on which a few spots of blood were 6311`"a
statement of the girl, who more than once 041teseareat
not do it," was, that a man, without shoes, er:o
stabbed the child. The examination was purfrtia feuiC)
length, and about six o'clock, p.m., the Parte, 11,
Two hours afterwards they applied for some sgi'lip fq,;trir,
was refused. They were subsequently lockett,are IT<
night. On the following morning the jurY -„ ba"010'
duced into court, when they stated that tbevier aIS,
agreed, and that it aas not probable that theY air; tllOl
They were then discharged from giving a vet,'
prisoner will be tried again at the next as"l-
- assizes George Skelsey was tried for the Ater,
Henry Cluley. He was convicted of mauslaa. 000'
sentenced to ten year,' transportation. d, °T./ riio
Seventeen convicted 130 i-oners were sentence
day week, at Irswich, to le transported for tell"
from seven years to the duration of life.
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