The Statesman.
London, England, 1822-07-04 00:00:00

LA/V INTELLIORNCR.

COURT OF KlNlii SRNCH.--Juvr 3.
Sittirp after Tern before the Lcrd Chief Jostles.

IP lIMMI
The Loan CPIs, JUSTICR sat at Nisi Priors, and
• tried several causes of no public interest. At his ris-
• log, the sittings were adjourned till the 17th inst.,
'but with an intimation that no more causes will be
taken until October. The interval before the Cir-
cuits wilt be occupied entirely by the trials of causes
la London. .1;
• *' !ADLER V. OOTOIED AND OTNERY:,
. ". Ttt plaintiff sought to recover a conspeihation if
*slainates for an injury sustained by his daughter. to
consequence of the negligence of the defendsnen ter-
:ants. The defendants are proprietors of the coach
running between Ely and London. In May last, the
daughter of the plaintiff was going into the country,
and she took a seat in the defendant's coach. Which,
according to the statement of Mr. MARRYATT. who
Opened the case, was old, the springs bad. and over-
laden with luggage.—When the coach arrived within
a shot distance of Ely it overturned. The plaintiff's
*dalighter received several
fall. At the moment the accident happened, she was.
missed by the passengers, and found under a hovel
box. The plaintiff In order to recover his daughter,
from the effects of the fall. expended 701. and it wee
Meted that eke had been since subject to epilepsy.
Tho.first witness having been pot in the box, Mr:
Plcaniurr suggested tbat the amount of damages
might be settled out of Court, and a verdict was taken
Or NW., *abject to references. a
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• COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, J : ° ;
. DOE ON THE DiNISI OF STRiI. V. IT NR.
blr. Serjoant TADOT 'toted that this *sal actin's
of ejectment brought to recover possession of some
land near Illampstead. from which the plaintiff bad
been expelled by the defendant, who entered on be.
ballot the Dean and Chapter of Westminster, claim-
ing it for them as part o( •the waste of the repated
manor of Billsise. .
The Learned Serjeant called more than •ten wit-
nesses. who proved the quiet possession by those from
whom the plaintiff derived his. title since the year

Metßerjeant Lass, for the defendant, submitted,
that though evidence of quiet possession for twenty
years would he sufficient against a subject, and by the
9th of (leo. 111. possession fot sixty years would make
the title good as against the King, yet that the old,
masim wallow tempas oerwrril ecelesio, would apply
in thikase; aid if he could chew tbat this land had
ever Uelonged to the church, it would be sufficient. to
entitle him to a verdict.
Several documents from the moniment room of the
Dean and Chapter were produced. to show that the
reputed manor of Bellsise, and two other mason were
granted on thwdiesointion of the monasteries, first to
the Bishop of Westminster. when that city was created
an Episcopal See by Henry VIII., in the 34th year of
his reign, and afterwards by Queen Mary to the Ab-
bot, and Convent of Westminster, and lastly by Queen
Eiilabetli to the Chapter. io all which, the land was
stated as a manor, but no evidence was given that it
bid say rolls. or bad held hey Courts, so as to indi-
cate the exereise °Fatty-juries/bake.
The Cuter .lusTice left it to the jury, to say whe-
thee they considered this bad ever been ■ manor, and
if so, whether the land in question belonged to it as
part of the waste; at the same time he observed. that
if the evidence was not perfectly clear. it was a maxim
of the law of England. that every thing should be
fairly presnmedin favour of quiet possession, and lapse
of time, in order to stop as much as possible perpetual
litigation.
The jury consulted for a few minutes, and then re-
turned a verdict for the plaintiff.

OLD DAILEY.-WLDNESDAY.
BIGAMY.

Thomas Burke was indicted for feloniously inter-
marrying Mary Anne Bruce, his former wife Mary
being at the time living.
Mr. ALLAY stated the case for the prosecution.
The prisoner, who was of respectable connexions, in-
troduced himself to the family of Mr. Butler, at
Cashel, Tipperary, and after a short courtship married
his daughter Mary. They then went to reside at Dub-
lin, where they continued some time, and the wife of
the prisoner was delivered of two children. Shortly
after this period he left his family and came to Lon-
don, where he becatne arquainted,with his second
wifr, Miss Bruce, daughter of A. Bruce, Bag. of Up-
per Bedford-place, Russell•square. This lady coo-
aented to become his wife on the Prisoner obtaining
her father's consent. Mr. Bruce, in consequence of a
letter, met the Prisoner at the Gray's Inn Coffee-house;
but finding he was not possessed of say landed pro-
perty, and could not make aoy adequate settlement on
his daughter, broke off the match. A correspondence,
however, was still carried on between the Prisoner
and Miss 11, azainst ti.e. admonition of her father,
through the means of a servant in the house, and in

the letter end of last year, they were married et 'sling-
tea Church. The young Lady, as was so often the
we, soon repented of her conduct, and returned, t.
the parental roof of her father, when it was discovered

the prisoner had another wife living. Rewards were
. offered, and he was subsequently discovered. The
Learned Connie' observed, it might be said for the
defence, that the prisoner was a Protestant, and that
therefore his marriage with a Catholic, as his first
wife undoubtedly was, would rende& time marriage in-
valid. He was free to confess, by the law of Ireland,
that if this was the case, the ceremony was not legal,
but he would prove by the witnesses he should call,
that the prisoner was a Catholic.
!lice E. Butler deposed that the prisoner always
professed himself a Catholic, and joined in the rosary.
Cross-examined.—She did nut know that he came
to Cashel tor any other business but to marry her sis-
ter; witness was about 16 years old at the time ; her
sister was younger. The Rev. Dr. Wright, who le
dead, married the parties; another priest, Father
O'Brien, was in the house at the time; the ceremony
took place in her father's house between five and six
•'clack in the afternoon; witness was positive it was
net lit at night; the prisoner was not drunk.
Julia Butler, sister to the last witness, stated that
the prisoner represented himself to be a Roman Ca.
thane; he joined in the rosary, and read the medita
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