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EXTRAORDINARY INVESTIGATION

propensities, andthey setoff from Kilkenny to Garrenderiny

Castle. Molly Power, known as Mother Power, addressed
his lordship about her daughter—the bargain was soon made
—the old wretch pocketed a £5 note, the wages of iniquity,
and left her daughter with his lordship. Ellen Burke told
his lordship a story about being the daughter of a peer, and
that she was induced to escape from her lordly father to visit
Lord Galmoy, of whose romantic character she had often
heard—(great laughter)—and thus, after a fortnight spent in
drinking, debauchery, and dissipation, his lordship's mind
broke down and he consented to marry her, which ceremony
was performed by a " couple beggar." After commenting on
the character of Ellen Burke, and on the conduct of the
parties who got up the action, he concluded a powerful ap-
peal, by imploring his lordship not to sanction the claims of
Ellen Burke, nor give them the weight of his authority
pending the proceedings which had been instituted in the
Ecclesiastical Court.

Frances Rothe sworn.—l live in Kilkenny, and am a mar-
ried woman. 1 know Ellen Burke. I know her mother;
she is called Mother Power; all the world knows her. (Laugh-
ter.) She is in the habit of going of messages from the wo-
men to the barracks. Ellen lodge with me about three years
ago. Her mother came and said, " Ellen, if I could get your
clothes out of pawn, I'd try and get you married to Lord
Galmoy." (Great laughter.) Mother Power is an old pro-
curess, and keeps an infamous house at Walkin's Lough, and
her mother before her. (Laughter.) After Ellen Burke
left Lord Galmoy, she came to me to lodge. While passing
a bad public-house, kept by a man named Halv, she said she
would go in ; and I advised her not to do so. She then took
off her boots, shawl, and bonnet, and danced with the sol-
diers. (Laughter.) Her ladyship danced a " treble" horn-
pipe in the tap-room. (Laughter.) She ot drunk, and lost
her feather coming home, about eleven o'clock at night. I
don't know any thing bad of her, beyond being drunk.

Some further evidence was offered, and his Worship said,
" I have considered this case in all its bearings, and although
I shall not give any opinion whatsoever upon the legality or
illegality of the alleged marriage between the defendant and
the unfortunate woman, still I conceive that having treated
her as his wife, and represented her in that capacity to a re-
spectable tradesman, I think that circumstance would have
been sufficient to make the defendant liable, if the case
rested there ; but the case did not rest there. While living

at the house of the defendant this woman appears-to have
had the concern in commotion, and finally left the house
of her own accord, and without being compelled by any
act of cruelty or severity on the part of the defendant, and
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departed with her mother, this Mary Power, to ICilkenny
the scene of her former misconduct, and then resumes

her former course of life as has been deposed to by the woman
Rothe, and the man Nash. No doubt, if after all this, anc
long after it, she wished to return to the defendant's dwelling,
1 admit she might do so by becoming prudent and amending
her life, and that the defendant consented to overlook her

misconduct ; but it does not appear that the defendant so
consented; on the contrary, he sent a police constable to
remove her from his premises, whereto she went without his
knowledge. Yet, after all this, the whole facts being noto-
rious in the neighbourhood, the plaintiff thinks proper to
give this woman credit to a large amount, and he must be
considered as having had knowledge of the facts ; for the very
order for the goods he (plaintiff) had witnessed by two per-
sons, the name of one of whom was afterwards, for some reason
or other, torn off. I shall forbear to make further comment
upon this affair, but I should say, the plaintiff is not without
remedy against some one ;" and he then pronounced formally
to dismiss on the merits in all the cases.

THE LAST DIVISeImOiNneOnNt
leading character,
—The remark of an NIICIaOtM`E` he had
cPhEarEaLc'tserl,
one that had changed his vote," appears to be by no means. a
heard many debates that had changed his opinion, but never
since
proofs of its incorrectness, having reversed their votelaysin S.
fixed political axiom, and the following members are
the last division on this question :—E. R. Rice,
Blackstone, and Lord Worsley.
Three destructive fires occurred in London on Tuesday
last. One, on the premises, belonging to Messrs. Sibley and
Toyer, coal-merchants, High-street. The premises were
destroyed. Shortly afterwards three houses, adjoining the
Nile Hotel caught fire, but the loss will not be very great.
About an hour and a half afterwards a third destructive fire
broke out in High-street, Shadwell, on the premises in the
occupation of Mr. Smith. The premises are wholly con-
sumed, but are insured.
AN ACCESSION TO PARLIAMENT.—The public complain
of the great length of the debates in parliament. For their
comfort we have to inform them that their cause of com-
plaint stands a fair chance of being increased tenfold, seeing
that Joe Hume, the surreptitious ex-member for Weymouth
—the rejected of Middlesex—the kicked-out of Kilkenny—
the unrecognised of Leeds--has once more "effected a lodg-
ment" in the house th,rough the influence of the pawkie
loons who govern the loon coonsles of the Montrose district
of burghs. We understand that the first act of this mono-
polist of grievances will be to address the house in a statement
wherein he purposes to show (as clearly as his nature will
permit) that the misfortunes which have befallen the British
arms in Affghanistan are solely to be attributed to the fact
of his having, for the last nine months, ceased to be a frag-
ment of the " collective wisdom "of the empire. This will
be Joseph's coup d'essai, and to this end he has lately been
India-house, preparatory to his i
blank-cartridge at St. Stephen's. As soon as
discharge of
priming
o ,is expected that, viewing the •
it •
and loading at the
this question is disposed
new
"by whom he resolved
4' British asses,
tariff with abhorrence,he will seriously take up the
congenial cause of
to stand to the last kick. The public may, therefore, expect
an immediate greeting
from the well-known bray, which,
from whatever quarter it cometh, always betrays itself by
its Scotch accent.--Morning Herald.

At the Graigue Llreland] quarter sessions on Thursday
an action was brought by Edward Hopkins against a gentle-
man of considerable fortune, named Butler, who lays claim
to and assumes the title of " Lord Galmoy," for the amount
of a sum of £l6 16s. 5d., the value of goods sold and deliver-
ed to one Ellen Burke, commonly called " Lady Galmoy,"
the reputed Rife of the defendant.
The court was crowded to excess, such was the anxiety to
hear the particulars of this case.
Mr. Jacob stated the plaintiff's case. He said the cause
of action was the amount of goods sold and delivered by
pfaintiff to Ellen Burke, commonly called Lady Galmoy In
1840 his Lordship, being a widower, married a woman owned
Ellen Burke, who was unfortunately, a person beneath his
rank in life ; but, being a beautiful woman, his Lordship be-
came smitten. and the parties were married by a clergyman
named Maguire, of Cullenswood, Dublin. Being de
that her ladyship should be married with an aristc____..
name, she was married by the name of Charlotte de Burgo
(Great laughter.) She came home in his lordship's carriage,
and told her father, who resides in Kilkenny, how she was
married. This did not appear to satisfy the family, when
his lordship wrote to Mr. Maguire to give her a certificate
in her proper name, Ellen Burke, and to drop the name of
De Burgo.
Mr. Maguire refused to give the certificate, and his lord-
ship proceeded to Dublin, and again was united to her lady-
ship in the bonds of matrimony in her proper name, Ellen
Burke

Thus his worship would see that they were twice married,
to make the act doubly sure. (Laughter.) They spent the
honeymoon at Gardendenny very lovingly, but towards the
end he got a little jealous of her ladyship, and began to ill
use her. He was in the habit of locking her up in a room
and sealing the keyhole to prevent access to her—and on one
occasion, being forgotten too long in his lordship's absence,
she had to be fed with a quill through the panel. (Roars of
laughter.) He beat her frequently, and one occasion drove
her out at night in a state of nudity. She arrived in Carlow
and got credit for articles becoming a nobleman's wife, the
amount of which was the present cause of action.
Lord Galmoy's letter to Maguire was then proved to be in
his lordship's handwriting.
Evidence was then produced of the delivery of the goods
to Lady Galmoy, and to show that she was introduced in
that character by his lordship.
Catherine Sweeney sworn.—l lived at Lord Galmoy's
about a year ago. I was servant there. I saw Ellen Burke
there. I heard she was married by a " Tackem." She was
called Lady Galmoy, and lived there as Lord Galmoy's wife.
At times they were good and at times very bad friends. (A
laugh.) She used to be drunk. He used to call her Ellen,
but in speaking to us be used to style her Lady Galmoy. I
often saw fire-arms in his lordship's hands, but never saw
him ill-use Lady Galmoy. I saw her once goinc, for a knife
to stab herself, and be prevented her. She used' to be jea-
lous of another girl, Catherine Delany, and of another named
Eliza Frizell. They all lived at Garrendenny. She was a
great drunkard. They all got drunk one night, and his
lordship put them out of the castle. (Laughter.) lam now
living in the castle, but I will go to America. I got the mo-
ney for my passage from Eliza Frizell, one of Lord Galmoy's
" ladies." I once saw Xtlen Burke black and blue, but that
might have been oceasiChted by a fall, as she was always
drunk. I know Paddy L4top the piper ; be used to be
playing in the parlour.. Weld all to take a drop as well
as his lordship. (Laughter.) I used to dance with him.
We used all to be drunk except Paddy the piper, who was a
sort of teetotaller. (Great laughter.) Lord Galmoy sent
his carriage for her to Kilkenny.
Mr. Phelan addressed the court at considerable length,
and with great ability. He lamented that a gentleman of
Lord Galmoy's station should be so infatuated as to come in
contact with the wretched woman Ellen Burke, who would
be proved to be a native of Walkin's Lough, Kilkenny, a
place noted for filth and prostitution. This was an abortive
attempt to fasten a woman of that description on an ancient
estate, and to injure the family of Lord Galmoy's brother,
the Hon. William Butler, as high-minded, upright, and truly
honourable a man as ever breathed. The parties, Ellen
Burke and Molly Power, her mother, "knew his lordship's