The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1850-06-04 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

ROLLS' COURT-FRIDAY.
MEADOWCROFT V. REV. AUGUSTUS CAMPBELL AND
OTHERS.

This suit has been part heard, and the case was resumed
to-day. it was originally instituted for the purpose of
enforcing the conveyance of a certain estate called Wal-
lasey Leasow or Hill, in Cheshire, to which the testator
in the cause was, by a decree in the case of " Perry v.
111ei!clowcroft,” declared to be the equitable owner. The
plaintiff's case tested upon their ancestor having been
declared the purchaser by sale of the property for one
Davies, subject to a condition which had not been com-
plied with, in failure whereof the testator, an attorney,
became the absolute owner in equity. Pursuant to
arrangement, the testator, under this impression, paid in
1820 £lB5 7s. deposit, and other further sums amounting
to £l,OOO ; and having obtained possession, died in 1821,
making over the property upon trusts mentioned in his
will. Davies had become a bankrupt, and his assignees
now contended that neither Davies nor his assignees, or
the defendant Campbell, could be called upon to make an
assignment of the estate, or be compelled to bear any
portion of the costs of the present suit.

Mr. Justice Wightman and Mr. Justice Cresswell will
preside on the northern circuit during the approaching
summer assizes ; Mr. Baron Rolfe will take North Wales.

In the Court of Queen's Bench, yesterday week, a rule
for a mandamus was granted, to command Mr. Hobbs,
late mayor of Downton, Wilts, to deliver up the mace and
other corporate insignia of the borough, which he has
withheld since he went out of office.

In the 'Sheriff's Court, on Thursday, M. Jerski, a
Polish Jew, was defendant in an action for breach of
promise of marriage. He had given a•written agreement
to pay £2O if he did not fulfil his promise. In his defence
he said the young lady had, abused him, calling him a
blackguard, and all sorts of names. He had an accident
in consequence of a fire, and stopped away. When he,
went again she abused him, and he made up his mind
not to have her, as he knew they would not be happy
together. The jury awarded damages to the amount of
the contract.

THE SHEFFIELD BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.
—ln the case of Laycock v. Pickslay, for breach of pro-
mise of marriage, tried at the last York assizes, a rule for
a new trial on the ground of misdirection had been re-
cently obtained. On Monday last, in the Court of Com-
mon Pleas, Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Farrar showed
cause against the rule; 'and Mr. Martin, Mr. Aspland, and
Mr. Jones appeared in support of it. The question turned
upon the legal effect of two letters. The court gave sepa-
rate judgments and discharged the rule, the Lord Chief
Justice dissenting.—Rule discharged.
THE CASE OF MR. KENEALY, THE BARRISTER.—
Judgment was delivered on Mr. Kenealy by Mr. Justice
Patteson on Thursday. His lordship, while admitting
the general kindness shown by Mr. Kenealy to his child,
said that the one act of cruelty had been proved, and the
court felt that they were bound to pass such a punish-
ment on the defendant as would operate as an example
to others who had the management of children, and par-
ticularly children of a tender age, and to show them that
they must take care not to exceed the bounds of modera-
tioh in inflicting such punishment. The sentence of the
court was, that the defendant be imprisoned in the
Queen's Prison, among the first-class misdemeanants, ,
for one calendar month.

THE EARL OF LINCOLN'S DIVORCE.—In the House of
Lords the divorce bill between Lord and Lady Lincoln
was read a second time, on the motion of Lord Brougham.
Evidence was given that the Earl of Lincoln was married
to Susan Harriet, the daughter of the Duke of Hamilton,
in 1832, according to Scotch custom ; and five children,
now residing with his lordship, were the issue of the mar-
riage. In August, 1848. her ladyship left this country,
being in delicate health, to obtain medical advice in Ger-
many, and has since been living abroad with Horatio
Lord Walpole, son of the Earl of Orford, as Mr. and Mrs.
Lawrence. Last year, rumours reaching England, Mr.
Gladstone, at the request of Lord Lincoln, followed her
ladyship to Rome, and hearing that she was living under
the name of Mrs. Lawrence, at Como, went thither, but
was unable to obtain an interview, which he ,vas desirous
of doing, in order to persuade her to return home. She,
however, declined seeinghim, denying that she knew who
he was, and he accordingly returned to England, and the
present proceedings were commenced. Facts were spo-
ken to in evidence of adultery by former servants of both
parties, and a child was born in September of last year, at
Verona, and christened Horatio Walpole Lawrence, her
ladyship having been absent from England and her hus-
band more than a year.