The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1846-06-16 00:00:00

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THE MATRIMONIAL SPECULATOR

ECCLESIASTICAL COURTS

On Saturday, Joseph Mortimer, the pretended Atne- TO THE EDITOR OF THE LIVE
rican landowner, who pays especial attention to persons SlR,—Some ill-natured person
advertising for situations as housekeeper, and offers to respectable contemporary the .711 e
marry them and take them to New York, was finally ex- tide ou" Ecclesiastical Courts"
lamined before Mr. Alderman Farebrother, at the Guild- amusement in this ancient cit
hall. London, on charges of stealing and bigamy. thing about them.
Mr. Shuttleworth, a gentleman residing at Chelmsford, The writer seems to entertai
produced a certificate of the marriage of the prisoner on the intelligence of his readers
• the 27th of June, 1839, to Mrs. Josephine Langhorne, a largely on tLeir credulity.
1 -t St. GP Camberwell. He compared it with courts have the power of im'

that has c

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the original, and it was a true copy. He was present at jury. Pray has not the Co,
the marriage, and knew Mrs. Langhorne well, being his under similar circumstances,
wife's sister. He knew she was living so recently as the the course of proceedings.
22d of March, being well acquainted with her writing, and judges, somewhat to their sun,
having a letter in his possession written by her. It bore at the pleasure of the patron wh
date New York, March 22d, and the New York post- more than that, that their nomine
mark of the 29th. It reached England about the 16th of interested in almost every question
April, and was addressed to her mother. It described the an amount of matrimonial and testan
distress she had suffered through her connexion with the befitting a Mabometan pasha, or a ret,
prisoner. a Christian prelate.
Mr. Alderman Farebrother asked the prisoner if he He likewise complains that the prat
wished to put any question to the witness. courts are all members of the National Churc...
The prisoner said he did not. He knew nothing about it. sectarianism is not fairly represented. Now rea
Mr. Alderman Farebrother said he was aware he mar- mitting the fact, Ido not see very. well how it i-
ried this lady. viated. It was an old charge against our na,-*
Prisoner said yes; but he was aware she was dead ; at English had a hunched religions, but only
least be was informed so. with all regard to the unlimited freed..
Mr. Alderman Farebrotber was afraid he.did not take think the public would complain were every sect, inc
much trouble to ascertain. ing Itlormonites and Socialists, to have a proctor
Robert M'Kenzie, B 5 police-constable, produced an renting its interests and litigating on their behal.
extract from the register of marriages at St. Philip's as to the practical effects of the system, does thi
Church, in the parish of Liverpool, showing the marriage really believe, or expect his readers to believe, Os
of the prisoner to Miss Mary Susanna Lovejoy, of Liver- courts prosecute for heresy or opinions of any kind
pool, on the 22nd of June, 1844. He had seen Miss Caig, true they exercise jurisdiction over the clergy whose
the bridesmaid, who would come from Liverpool, to idea- are part of their profession. But is he ignorar
tify the prisoner. courts martial also exist for tiv.
Mr. Alderman Farebrother asked if he would put any and navy, and that they can
question to this witness. being a coward, a bad sailor, or oven for being saes
The prisoner replied he should bring all his force at the a clergyman harshly and tnistilkenlv
sessions. He would, however, ask the witness if he knew bury a dissenter, where does he se.
whether this person was living? the bishop's court, which enforces the discipline essou
-
The officer replied she was dead, and the impression at to a national church.
Liverpool was that she did not die a natural death. Now a word as to charges. In the case adducad
Mr. Alderman Farebrother said he had a letter lying writer does not seem to know, what every old worm'.
before him giving some account of the prisoner, and he heard of, that effects under £2O are not, and car
was surprised the prisoner had adverted to it, as if be had subject to stamp duty at all. The hardest case '
any feeling it would raise recollections very distressing to came under my own observation, and I have seer,
him. The prisoner sailed for New York with his wife in more probates and administrations than your con
the October succeeding their marriage in the Siddons, rary, was one where the effects were just £2l, a,
dirtboo
Captain Cobb. and the letter was written by a fellow-pas-
charges £2 Bs. 3d., of which, however, £1 was
acrtger. She writes.-" I did not 'see Mrs. Mortimer after. r-on-tha. d, and 10s. on the letters of admit
the first day of our voyage. I believe she never got Um). leaving 18s. 3d. for fees to manure the hot-1-
out of her berth after the second day. I was introduced sinecures which Mercury so touchingly deplores.
to her by Mr. Roberts, and she appeared to be in toler- I We promise ourselves here much amusetnc”'
able health. I was in the next cabin, and as there was a nal information when your contempora-
large opening at the top, we heard very plainly what was somewhat difficult subject of Bona 15•
said in each other's place. A plain good-natured Eng- as writers of less authority have
lish-woman. in the next birth to theirs, offered to do any- puffed in his article are by the san
thing for Mrs. Mortimer, and was refused, till she was shut up his shop and sell his type.
ashamed of offering her services. The first time when I The writer generously promises to
~hunt them was when he was drunk. the subject next week. I def.- ' •

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kRMONIC SOCIf

The second full dress concert of thi
on Wednesday evening; and, notwi
trenie heat of the weather, which incl

avoid crowde

was very numerously
was such that it would

Indeed the b'

have been wonderful

boasting the possession of a

otherwise at a concert in whi
Bassano, Herr Knispel, Herr
ton were the performers.

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