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 C,11:111;
cellor delivered a long judgment in this case, wl,",e-to
concluded by refusing the application to supersede
commission of lunacy.
REVISING BARRISTERS.—The following are the 5
tures for the North Wales circuit :—South Cheshitii,
Chester: Mr. Meeson.—North Cheshire, Maccler rd.
and Stockport : Mr. Yardley.—Flintshire : Mr. TO°
—Denbighshire: Mr. Welsby.—Carnarvonshire
glesey : Mr. Temple.—Montgomeryshire and MeriOtg`
shire : Mr. Townsend.
Qua TAM ACTIONS.—The first of these actions elra
on for trial on Thursday, before Mr. Baron Parke %of
snecial jury. C..H. Russell was the plaintiff, and nit
George Bentinck the defendant. The action was broatoo
to recover penalties amounting to £12,000, the allegOretl
being that the defendant had in an illegal manner reeol.ll6
a bet of £3,000 from John Day, in May, 1843• the
counsel for the defendant having stated that it l'fer tbi
wish of his lordship that the case should go to totecleice
learned judge reserved, for the consideration of the
did
judges, the question as to whether the recent statilLesol
not act as a bar to the action, although it was cow° or
prior to its passing. After several witnesses had bee?tbs
amined, the jury returned a verdict for the defendanYout
case having broken down on the merits. It Write" ths
that Day had made the bet with Mr. Gully, and tbstooo
latter was, in the eye of the law, the loser of the
to Lord George.
Su
BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE.—At the „d ri l $
Assizes, on Monday last, before Mr. Baron park 11.-tioa
Special Jury, Miss. Melville Roberts brought an cation
against Captain Frank Denham, to recover corneae rrbs
in damages for a breach of promise to marrY her' off
Plaintiff, a beautiful and accomplished young ladY'coars,
about 28 years of age, had been for eight or alde_ily
governess and confidential companion in the returned
of Capt. and Mrs. Evans, and in July, 1843, sheifiev'erpool
from Malta, with Mrs. Evans, in the Great a , a, met'
steam-ship. The defendant, who had traded
by
chant to the East Indies, was a psssengell_e enamoured
ship, and in the course of the voyage arrival at South-
of the plaintiff, and sbortly after their
through Mrss
ampton, het made her an offer of marriage r bf
aracte
Evans. He remained as a visitor in the ch
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suitor for some few days, and about the middle t I.T of
he went to London, from whence he wrote on the .v"ko,
October, breaking off the match ; and on the 15th er,'",t,
vember, he was married at Ackworth, near Pontetrom
to miss Eliza Lacey. The jury gave a verdict for
he becan,

Plaintiff—Damages; £BOO. - sis
LIBERTY OF THE Pt) LPIT. —The case of '' Smith 3.5
Rev. A. Gentle," has been argued before on ,7. de-
Scotch courts, and has at last been decided ; and tu" y-
cision is of importance as involving the liberty, a telas
men in their clerical capacity. The issue in this ca 1,
as follows :—Whether on Sunday, the 14th of Marcle;,
1841, during divine service in the parish church of M
salr
the defender did, while addressing the congregatioomhot,
concerning the pursuer, that he had been guilty f e_ge of
ing, deceiving, and overreaching others in the coat or,
business ; that he had kept up false and ficticious aped ia
antes, and had, on false or ficticious credit, eugagropor
speculations and improvements, and indulged in s'l,l ii,
ous living ; that in the course of his speculations and
provements, he had cheated or dcceived his more ignu,,,eit
neighbours, by inducing them to sign documents to Ls; of
prejudice or ruin, and had thereby converted the 11°Y, 00
mirth and joy into a house of wailing and mourulgtiff
that if its walls could speak, they even would '
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against the vile intruder—meaning thereby that he 'ire,
suer had been guilty of obtaining money on fals,eote°
tences, had kept up false appearances, and had 0' be
and deceived his neighbours and others, with w, ,e b„°o
of
had transactions, to their injury or ruin; or did ltlie
utter expressions, in allusion and with application traoll
pursuer to the like effect. Last year the case was Sotob
and a verdict was given in favour of the defendant ;io,th;
verdict was set aside as contrary to the evidence. bijottv'
second trial the jury returned a verdict for the P"" 1
with £lOO damages—£looo having been sought. 631,
ASSIZE NEWS.—At Norwich, James Frost, ogle'
was charged with the wilful murder of his four ebte pa'
the eldest of whom was only five years of age. not
soner was a preacher amongst the Primitive Metnyterri
was subject to strange delusions, sometimes in tit% sil,
spair of salvation,—at others in the contrary extreq•;o.,o'
he destroyed his children with the alleged object 01;tr
ing them straight to heaven. He was acquitted ;got(
ground of insanity.—At Stafford, William Beardl'etter
victed of the wilful murder of Ann Griffiths, at r ejortioi
bury, on the 16th of March last, and sentenced t° 01 $
jet 0
—At Bodmin, Matthew 'Week, aged 22, was cony ari,,
the wilful murder of Charlotte Symond, his felloWV
and sweetheart, at Davidstone, in April last, by coil
her throat. The motive appears to have been ie col
The prisoner was sentenced to death.—At Nel,
upon-Tyne, Mark Sherwood. an elderly gray-beeOA",
man, was charged with the wilful murder of An";"
wood, his wife, on the 14th of March last, under ciliff
stances of great barbarity. He was convicted aaoo6l
tented to death.—At Guildford, in a breach of Priafoty
marriage case, Roberts v. Denham, the jury footle fl
plaintiff—Damages, £Boo.—At Guildford, a cose'd ,e;
e 4
bert v. Day, was tried, in which the question at iss-4tP
andinen
tr.a—n
At falselyth the Newcastle
Ni in
wh
ci his
sntlaemaes.s
whether the racer Bloodstone, winner of one of tbe;tali
at Ascot, was the horse he was described to be, lidie 1
one of two years old, or another of three years oldtrtrotto
ai
ssoszu.eevewTeevnesneandt,
tseelotnyhvnceeFrddict decide:eh
fraud had been practised, and that the owner Of t'ebt'off
s
was not entitled to the stakes.—On ThursdaY„b9o4
the Bodmin assizes, before Justice Patteson, '1 .01"41 i
Johns, an interesting looking girl, tvgenty-four l'eVol i
was charged with the murder of her male illl.OOl,
child. The jury found the prisoner guiltY c'f,c.frn-ecto
the birth, and she was sentenceedprtiosotwo
er years : ki::::iott
iafl
toe indicted
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of oJiocowteffufsaasahEstiteehicrnadcrrheomitmi
laClbnhdati
oeymer
coesbetsumitnstri wte.
birth,
.hxse—a.,lt
Iltrao,etaGnJowndora
aid Ti :sdsi
child.
iehnsunnsebaePuforysawubtydnrsatatp,(i
and the evidence went to show that she had been nhollor
alive, and,Gthwoehidjiucsbhry wy,faoanusnd the prisoner guilty of b„,- 0,01,
etteehekiein.,
imprisonment.—On
leorPyvriei Jervis, aged aged thirteen years, was indicted for the YA#
y l:us.trs,
eathCeor viennfatnr '1:7100,40,44
last the prisoner was given to understand
they
rsent
observedhom e
some
mt hee
scratches
ofte h
ethe o
own
she suspected that the prisoner had flrimit
inodocofatantentvhtdet
that
:silo ehcfiniii,nea_
the
be
froill.'
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child showed great dislike to her afterwards. '-',,„-re °;rr
April the prisoner, who had been left to take ""mbbroilili
cradle, suddenly called out that a man bad jthe 05
baby. The mother ran to her, and, taking iii log' Ir
saw blood streaming from it and that it was 1 jai OV„
~
gave the alarm and several neighbours rusbe, by $ if,,
child, which was already dead, was examine"
tbrGitte
geon, who found that a large knife had been ..,iglit I,'
its chest. The wound was just such an one agAtl'er Or
been inflicted by a carving knife which lay on tuit j,;,14
and on which a few spots of blood were N ; ~
e
statement of the girl, who more than once ii.,tere°
not do it," was, that a man, without shoes, e.'"ed st fed,
stabbed the child. The examination was part• 11 bleb
Two hours afterwards they applied for some Were up ,$% 0 :
length, and about six o'clock, p.m., the iwuaritertio4(ll#
was refused. They were subsequently locke 79:
night. On the following morning the jurY.. 134,,,
duced into court, when they stated that tu%fef st.,tlr,
agreed, and that it was not probable that theqict, 51101
They were then discharged from giving a 'ver.„o.--101
prisoner will be tried again at the next ass wary 0
same assizes George Skelsey was tried for V't2%.brer, „
Henry Cluley. He was convicted of mans ' 00,P$
sentenced to ten years' transportation. e _e.d..nr
da y week, at Ipswich, to be transported for to
fro m seven years to the duration of life.
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