The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1851-01-14 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.

CROSBIE V. CASE.—This was an action brought in the
Secondaries' Court, London, on Wednesday, to recover
damages for criminal conversation with plaintiff's wife.
The damages were laid at £5,000, and defendant having
suffered judgment to go by default, the jury were called
upon to assess damages. Mr. M'lntyre, counsel for the
plaintiff, said that this was an action for trespass, for cri-
minal conversation with plaintiff's wife, but he was happy
to say that defendant, by not pleading, admitted the facts
charged in the declaration ; and it would, therefore, be
unnecessary to adduce evidence. It had also been agreed
between the parties that a verdict should be taken for
£5OO. Mr. James, who appeared for the defendant, con-
sented to a verdict for that amount. The position in life
of the parties did not transpire in evidence ; but it will
probably be remembered that, at the Liverpool Assizes,
plaintiff was charged with horse-whipping a person for in.
sirmating that the improper connexion existed, but after.:
wards found he had whipped the wrong party.
WESTMINSTER COUNTY COURT, FRIDAY.—CARDINAL
WISEMAN AND HIS LANDLORD.—FILDER V. WISEMAN.
—Since the establishment of the County Courts, no case
has excited greater interest than the above. A report
having got abroad that the Cardinal himself would appear
in the defendant's box, the court was crammed to suffo-
cation. It was an action brought to recover £33 6s. 6d.
by the plaintiff, a gentleman residing at Bexhill, Sussex.
for, as the instructions stated, " You having taken cer-
tain premises and left without paying the rent, or for any
of the damage done, and all your effects having been
taken away, and you being about to quit the kingdom,
expenses in following you to London to obtain payment;
two bushels of coals left in the house, and net repaid on
quitting as promised ; damage done to water-closet, doors,
windows, &c., bottles cracked, breaking bell-ropes and
nine pendulums off ; injuring strawberry-beds, and an
extinguisher taken away," &c. In fact, the bill of parti-
culars of demand would leave one to imagine that the
" Archbishop of Westminster" must have been very un-
mindful of his landlord's property, for the various items
of damage sustained relate to almost every utensil in the
house. Upon the case appearing in its turn, it was inti-
mated that the plaintiff and defendant had elected to have
the claim settled by arbitration, and, consequently, much
to the chagrin of a County Court audience, his Eminence
did not appear.
THE LOSS OF A FORTUNE.—IN THE MATTER OF Ho-
RATIO CLAGErr.—This insolvent applied in London, on
Monday, under the Protection Act. There was only one
debt in the schedule. Sir Wyndhatn Anstruther was in-
serted as a creditor for £645, arising out of an annuity
transaction entered into in 1833, when Sir Wyndham
became surety for the insolvent, and respecting a com-
position on thesamea statement was made in the schedule.
It was the only debt he owed. It appeared that the wife
of the insolvent had £3,800 a-year, and that he had re-
ceived from her £6OO within the last six months, which
he had spent in various places of amusement. He
had lived in the Abbey-road, St. John's Wood,
with his wife, who kept four horses and three carriages,
and £BOO of her income was the rent of a house let to the
Duke of Brunswick. The insolvent on being asked why
he did not pay the debt, said he had no means of getting
the money, as his wife had lost her fortune through him,
her father, Mr. Day, having altered his will, under which
she would have had £25,000 a-year, and cut her off with
£3,000 a-year. He had been ill-used, and therefore he
would not make any arrangement. Mr. Lucas, who op-
posed. contended that it would be a libel on the Act of
Parliament to protect a man with nearly £4,000 a-year,
and indulging in every luxury, when poor men were
obliged to make payments from their incomes. The Chief
Commissioner said there was no analogy in the cases.
There was no tradesman here.

COURT AND FASHION.

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The Earl of Harrowby has arrived in Grosvenor-square
from Sandon Hall, Staffordshire.

The Earl of Wilton bas joined the Countess and the
Ladies Egerton, at Egerton Lodge, Melton Mowbray,
from visiting the Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, at
Bret by Park.
WOBURN ABBEY.—On new year's eve there was a
charade of three scenes performed in " The Queen's
Drawing-loom," so called since her Majesty's visit ; and
the last scene terminated an unveiling of the Christmas
Tree of the Duchess of Bedford, sparkling with diamonds.
On Saturday the theatrical season terminated in a play
and a farce, the Right Hon. Baron Parke acting as
prompter.
A correspondent of the Arbroath Guide, residing near
Balmoral, describes the good effects of the solicitude of
Queen Victoria and her family for the welfare of the poor
in the vicinity of Balmoral :—" A school has been founded
and a school-house built at Strathgirnoch, on the Aber-
geldie estate, and male and female teachers arc to be
placed there and provided for. The description of chil-
dren in the district, and those at a distance from the paro-
chial school, are to be the pupils ; and the whole at our
gracious Queen's expense. A number of neat cottages
are also in course of erection near Balmoral, and at
Knocks, on the Birkhall estate. The mansion of the
last mentioned property is to be enlarged for Prince
Albert.

PRIVATE THEATRICALS AT BRETnr-PARK.---During
the present festive season the Earl and Countess of
Chesterfield have entertained a numerous and distin-
guished circle of friends at their hospitable mansion of
Bretby, among whom were the Marquis d'Azeglia (Sar-
dinia❑ Minister), Lord and Lady Dufferin, Lady Ade-
laide Paget, Lady Seymour and the Lndies St. Maur,
Lord Wilton. Lord Dunkellin, Mr. and Mrs. J. Massey
Stanley, H. Baring, Esq., M.P., Lord and LadyGlengall,
Lord Canterbury. Dramatic performances formed a prin-
cipal feature of the evening's amusements. The theatre
was fixed up in the spacious dining-rooms, and the plays
were continued several nights, and consired of one
French and two English comedies. The acting was of a
very high order, as may be well supposed, when Lady
DuiTerin, Lady Seymour, &c., took part in it.