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Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1833-07-30 00:00:00

CONTEMPORARY PRESS.

Will the dissolution of Parliament, triennially instead
of. septennially, dissolve the Crown ? It will, says Mr.
Stanley. Beyond a doubt, echoes Lord John Russell.
" It was the result of many years' consideration of the
subject, and his opinion was, that the alteration to tri-
ennial Parliaments would be the total destruction of our
mid Constitution." Lord John is thought by some. to
b&a. authority on all matters affecting the principles
of Government; and we might think so too, if he had
never written or spoken upon the subject. But if his
Lordship had given utterance only to the ideas and sen-
timents which he delivered himself of on Tuesday night
—if his " many years' consideration" had no other re-
sult—we should still he obliged to confess, that he is one
of the most hollow and ignorant men that ever enjoyed
a seat in either House of Parliament.

This Legislator has passed for a deep and attentive
reader of that history with which some of his ancestors
have been so nobly connected ; he is supposed to know
something of facts, and to be capable at least of drawing
such inferences from them as stare common men in the
face, and are open to the " meanest capacity." And yet,
with history open before him, with a full remembrance
of the ancient observances of Parliament, with the date
of the septennial Act on his lips, he describes a Trien-
nial Parliament—and then says:—

" Such a House of Commons could not co-exist with the
+autarchy. In the United States, indeed, it was provided that
no public man should hold office for more than four years, for
in a republic it was a pr;ncinle to distrust public men. That was
not the principle or the British constitution; and as he was
'bound to maintain'that constitTition, he was bound to resist the
chan=re to triennial Parliaments."

" Why, thou silly gentleman!" first, to tell us, in de-
fiance of all history, all experience, that short Parlia-
ments cannot co-exist with the monarchy; and, next, to
remind UR of the fact that it is a principle of the British
Constitution not to " distrust" public men, be they as
faithless as they may !

Such was the ending of Lord John's speech—a decla•
ration to the effect that the duration of Monarchy de-
pends on the duration of Parliament; and that if a
House of Commons sit for a shorter period than seven
years, the.
_veers of the sitting of the Sovereign" are
numbered. But how did he begin his oration ?—by ob
jeeting to the motion, not because it went to "shorten"
this mysteriously monarchical term of seven years, bet.
h-!:_-.arise it did not set forth the exact number of years to
he substituted_—True Sun.

We presume that there were few persons in the world
so green as to suppose Lord Althorp in earnest when he
professed so great an anxiety to protect the factory chit,
dren by preventing them from working more than eight
hours a day. The Noble Lord does not care a rush for
the-welfare of the whole of the rising generation. His
sole object was the defeat of Mr. Sadler's Bill. To this
end, he first proposed a Select Committee, then a Com-
mission, then various postponements, and finally his
amendment of Thursday week. Having gained his
point he is silent. Nothing more will be heard of the
Bill this session ; at all events, nothing calculated to ad-
vance it. This is the 27th of July. On or before the
it3tlt of August the SeSsion will he at an end. How is
.
it possible, -then, to have even Lord Althorp's factory
bill this year ? Let there beno self-deception-.
And how do the Ministers stand with the country in
this -particular? They have put the public to the enor-
mous expense of a Select Committee and a Commission
to collect evidence on facts previously as notorious as the
sun at noon-day in summer—previously established in
the clearest manner upon evidence of_ the highest and
most conclusive character, namely, the testimony of
practical men on the one hand, and of eminent medical
men on the other. Even Lord Althorp's own Commis-
sioners go further than Mr. Sadler. They have for ever
put an end to the cavils and denials of the ministerial
writers, for nothing can be stronger or more direct than
the reprobation of Dr. Hawkins. And notwithstanding
all this--notwithstanding the admissions and pledges of
Lord Althorp, another year must elapse before a correc-
tive band can he applied to the great and crying evils
which are admitted, to exist by Lord Ashley's warmest
oppOnents. Let the working classes hear in mind that
it is a RefOrmed Parliament and a Whig Ministry which
serve them thus.

The next question is, what 11,j11 the people do ? We
cannot expect them to look taui,el7 on. .As every thing
is now carried by agitation, clef assume that there will
he no want of energy. Agitation will continue. And
it is possible that the workpeople may legislate for them-
selves and decree a Ten-Hour Bill. If the struggle
should come to this, let the blame rest where it. is due—
upon the heads of the heartless opponents of ameliora-
tion, not upon those of the sufferers who have asked for
bread and received a stone • who have requested a fish
and received a scorpion.—Leeds Intelligencer.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.-

WESTERN CIRCUIT-DORCHESTER.
CMS!. CON.-LAMBERT V. HANHAM.

Mr. Serjeani iVilde Opened the plaintiff's case. Mr. Lambert
was a gentleman of fortune and respectability ; he was a native
of this county He was of an age somewhere above 30, and in
Poacirconistances. He was the husband of a wife selected
under the influence of the most ardent affection that ever warmed
the heart of man ; and he might very safely have promised him-
self a life of the greatest happiness. In 1829 he married his
lady,. After residing a short time in London subsequent to their
niarriage, Mr. Lambert and his wife made a tour of the Conti-
nent. and returned in the last year. Por a short time they re-
sided in London. They then became resident in Weymouth.
Mr. Lambert was searching for some residence in this county in
which to take im his permanent abode, and accordingly in the
last year he took a house and property called Knowle. Being a
native of the county he was no stranger to the gentlemen around
him. and among others with whom he had an acquaintance was
the defendant. He was a gentleman who was very popular in
this county—a gentleman of talent and manners well calculated
to give effect to any such object as he had intended towards Mrs.
Lambert. The sequel of the case would show with what success
Mr. Hanham must have prosecuted his acquaintance with Mrs.
Lambert. How or in what manner he had placed himself on
such a footing with Mrs. Lambert her husband was unconscious.
They would find an arrane.ement had been made for a shooting
party, of which Mr. Lambert was to be one, on- the 9th of
January, in the present year, which was matter of conversation
at a dinner party which took place on the Bth, at which the de-
fendant was present. Mr. Hanham had availed himself of
the absence of Mr. Lambert to pay a visit at his house.—
Mrs. Lambert was walking in the grounds near the gate, and
they soon disappeared together in the shrubbery, where there
Was; a summer house, and there they remained nearly an hour
aril a half; they then went into the house, and. in about a
enarter of an hour Mr. Hanham left, having given an invi-
taAien -for Mr. and Mrs. Lambert to visit him the following
Sonfilair, and to remain the night, and Mr. Lambert had un-
Arltuvately, been induced to accept'this invitation. Mrs. Lam-
°posed to go without her maid. contrary to her usual
practice. The learned sergeant then described the sitnatirin
of the mores in Mr. Hanham's house, and be also detailed the
facts and circumstances given in the evidence. These were
the facts upon which the present action as founded. Mr.
Lanshert iharl gone to his bed room; Mrs. Lambert had not
retired-to bed ;he went to bed and fell asleep; he awoke some
time after, and finding she had not come to bed be became.
alarmed. He left his room, and he could hear nothing, and he
reena-ined at the head of the staircase, which was close to Mr.
Hanham's bed-room door, for some time, until at length he saw
Mr. Hanham eatitionsly open his bed-room door to observe if
tha coast was clear, when Mr. Lambert saw • his wife stand-
ing in her shift. -at his toilet table. They might judge
the part a husband would take under the infln ence of
proper feelings. He flew at Mr. Hanharn. seized him,
challenged him instantly with the crime he had com-
mitted; and while thus engaged she Picard oat of the room.
Mr. Hanham flew down stairs and hid himself; Mr. Lambert
called to those who were in the house to come to him, and they
fAund him in k state most distressing ; he immediately left the
house with Mr. Oglander ; they proceeded to Ringwood. and
he saw no more of her. Could it be imagined that if any cir-
cumstances could lead to the conclusion of the crime having
been committed, that this lady thus found could fail to lead to
that conclusion? He knew What would be insisted, It was 'to
he urged against the fict distinctly apparent, that Mr. Lam-
bert. being within five feet of the door, was mistaken in think-
ing his wife was Within the room. It was to be said she had
come up the stairs with a candle in her bead. and that when
she had got opposite Mr. Hanham's door Mr. Lambert, by
some strange circumstances, had thought she Was in the room,
and that he had pushed her in. Mr. Lambert would be ad-
rhitted to he unfortunate, and-they would he asked to believe
that he had laboured under this extraordinary mistake. that he
could not tell the difference between his wife being in the room
and in the passage. He should, however, prove that her slipper
was found on the spot where Mr. Lambert had seen her. When
Mr. Lambert had brought this action Mr. Hanham had thought
fit to send him a challenge for what he had called gross injuries
in his own Nouse; striking him, and making false accusations.
'Floe Learned Sergeant then went on to state that the wife was
twenty-three years of age, of great beauty and accomplishments,
and of most fascinating manners; and after detailing the other
facts, proceeded to call his witnesses.
It was admitted plaintiff was married, that defendant and
wife were married, and that in right of his wife, defendant was
entitled to £3,000 a-year, and that on her death he would be en-
titled to £100,000._

Mrs. Loftds.—l am an acquaintance of defendant, and was
on a visit at his house on Saturday, the 12Th of January. Mr.
and Mrs. Lambert, Sir .Tames Fraser, Colonel Robins, and Air.
Oglander were there; Mr. Lambert was near the bottom of the
table; some of the party left about twelve or one o'clock; Mr.
Loftus and myself. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert, and Mrs. Oglander
remained; Airs. Lambert's room was separated from mine by
no. Loftus's dressing.room and a small passage; Mrs. Lam-
tert's bed-room door was opposite the stairs; Mr. llanham's
triom doOr was to the left, immediately at the top of the stairs:
I retired between twelve and one ; Mrs. Lambert came out 'of
ronrwa few minutes after. and was attended by ruy
maid; I permitted her to attend Mrs. Lambert before she
tame ta, me; I retired to bed after the clock struck two; in a
short time after I had been in bed, I heard a slight rustling of
some one passing the passage door: I think I had just fallen
a
tet, when I heard a noise as of bursting open a door; I
sPotce to Mr. Loftus and begged him to get up, which he ire=
mediatelv did, saving it was fire; he listened and said he
,thought from the voioes it was a drunken servant going to hid.
Therei was a noise as of groaning and persons struggling; Mr.
Loftus then left the room ; I had heard Mr. Loftus's name calred
by Mr. Lambert be said in a loud vioTent manner—" Loftus.
Lofttui,c,e,r,Vo me. Oh God! what have I seen : we are separated
Pr ever. The noise did not continue after Mr. Loftus left the
room : our door was not fa::tened; I saw Mr. Loftus in a few
returned alone; Mrs. Lambert came into my roam
imnted late y after Mr.Lofbis left it ; Mrs.Lainhert had a dipssing
gown on; M r. Lnftus again left the moth : Mrs. Lambert remaiu-
ecl tn. ram till Mr. Lambert left the "houe, in about an
haur arid half; after be bad left the house I went' to 'Air.
f±Cd-rocrr ; the door was locked: I did .'not get into the
room till I.etween nine and ten o'cicul next in,,ruing, wlienJ
saw the romn doer open-. Mrs. Lambert slippery o;.; 4
found a slipper in Mr. Ilanham's room, between the window

and the dressing table; the fellow slipper was on the landing-
place; I found it soon after Mrs. Lambert came into my room;
I' had gone to Mr. Ilanharres to look for the other slipper in
consequence of something Mrs. Lambert had told me; she was
with me; Mr. Hanharn's bed was opposite the table ; Mrs.
Lambert after this clk:...ssed in her own room, and I was in the
room part of the time ; I saw Mr. Hanharn the middle of the
next nay; in the evening I accompanied Mrs. Lambert to
Knowle.
This closed the plaintiff's case.

Sir J. Scarlett asked, was this the extraordinary case which
Mr. Lambert brought before theta? Was this the whole of
the evidence that supported-the' eloquent and pregnant state-
ment of his learned friend? He knew that if there was any
man living capable of Making up by declamation and force of
speaking that in which his case was deficient, his learned friend
Sergeant Wilde was that man; but he thought he must take a
strange measure of their understandings if he imagined in so
important a case, affecting the honour and character of two
individuals, that his friend could supply by a speech that
deficiency of facts without whiCh he might say, nothing
under heaven was safe if a jury would give their verdict upon
mere conjecture. His friend h-ad made a magnificent Opening,
from which he should have supposed him to have proved some
indication of improper conduct before the period of this fatal
night. Was this a case of such a character that juries were
to be invited by mere conjecture to imagine that a fact had
taken place because his friend could not prove it? But there
was another argument his learned friend had been pleased
to use, and in his forcible manner, equally extraordinary.--
Knowing, as his friend must, that there was uat a single -fact
connected with that visit on the Wednesday that could justify
suspicion of any improper connection, when he had come to
another part of his case, and knowing that his own witnesses
must prove, that on the Saturday night she was in that state
that it was morally impossible that a modest woman, and 'physi-
cally impossible that any woman, could so act,—his friend, feel-
ing this disadvantage, and feeling that it was impossible to make
a jury believe that any modest woman could go into a man's
13,-(1 room, told tham that they must infer from that a previous
connection. But it was impossible for a jury so to infer with-
out any evidence. Never had his friend's ingenuity been put
more to the. test ; but he (Sir J. S.) had expected a different sort
of evidence. The. learned counsel then proceeded to comment
on the testimony of the different witnesses, and observed his
friend had no right to ask them to take his statement for evi-
dence, or his conjecture for. facts. If, they. were to try the case
upon conjecture, he would ask them whether the conductof Mr.
and Mrs. Loftus towards Mrs. Lambert, after the transaction,
in going home and remainin,g with her, would not induce them
to conjecture that she must be innocent, for they must have felt
fully confident of it or they would not have so acted. The
jealous man misinterpreted every look and action. Mr. Lam-
bert had conceived a jealous feeling towards his wife,' and
was anxious to put her away, and misinterpreted all her actions.
He believed he was anxious to gel rid Of her; no friend could
have'advised him to have brought this action; it was his. own
blind roll v'that persoaded him; he hid made himself believe
that which no man living could be;ieve, and instructed counsel
to find her '7;l' y. He trusted their verdict would, do justice,
and if possiblr, Le hoped the delibeiate judgment of tivelve men
would open the eyes of Mr. Llmbert. and make him see that
he had thrown away his own honour in a false conception, and
though no person could now satisfy him, their verdict might,
and that he would do justice to the honour of his wife, andrre-
deem Mr. Hanham from the imputation he had cast upon,iiim.
If he had not their verdict; no woman would be safe from the
jealousy of her husband.

Mr. Justice Alderson then summed up at very great length.
The jury retired for a short time : the court was adjourned
to the Judge's lodgings, an.l upon their appearing to he ready
to give a verdict 1.-)r the defendant, Mr. Sergeant Wilde ap-
peared, and said the plaintiff had consented to be nonsuited.
The plaintiff was therefore nonsuited.

TIPPERARY ASSIZES.-FRIDAY, JULY 19, 1833.

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