The Sun. — 1846-06-22 (London, England)

GIBES.) Application was made on Saturday to the Court, by Mr. • Ballantyne, on the part of Falkland and Fabian, at present in custody for the forgery of railway scrip, to have the case postponed till next session. As the bill had been found before the grand jury only so late as Friday night, the application appeared to the Court to be reasonable ; but, in the absence of the prosecutors, the Court wished it to be mentioned again. Mr. Bodkin, who, with Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Huddlestone, are retained for the prosecution, appeared this morning to consent to the application for postponement. The RECORDER, after considerable hesitation, ordered it to be placed first on the judge's list for next session. Joseph Mortimer, whose atrocious case tame on before the Recorder on Friday, when he was found guilty on two charges of bigamy and ore of larceny, and when he was sentenced by the Court on the charge of larceny to seven years' transportation, sentence on the other indictments being reserved, was this morning placed at the bar to receive sentence on the charges of bigamy. The RECORDER said, he thought it right to inform the, prisoner, before pronouncing sentence on the two cases of bigamy on which he had been convicted, and to give him clearly to understand that inquiry had been made by the Court, and information had been received from most respectable sources, and that according to that his case bore the worst possible aspect which any case could bear, and that it was clearly aggravated by his cruel and disgraceful conduct. The Recorder held in his hand a letter from Mr. George O'Malley Irwin, a gentleman of the Irish bar, who wished to have the prisoner transferred to Ireland to take his trial there if the charges should have failed here, on a further charge of bigamy, in the case of Miss Baker, the daughter of Andrew Baker, of Red fill, near Boyle, in the county of Roscommon. With regard to his marriage, the Recorder thought it right to inform the prisoner that a respectable surgeon in Liverpool had drawn the attention of the committing magistrate to the case of Miss Lovejoy by the following letter : "Liverpool, 111, Dale-street, June, 1846. "Sir,—From the newspaper reports. I perceive that a rose, or rather a monster in human form, of the name of A. Mort"; mer, has been brought before you, charged with bigamy, and I am happy to find that he is committed for trial, where I trust his heartless villany will meet its deserts. "One of his unfortunate victims, Miss Lovejoy, was for several years a patient of mine, and a more confiding, kind, or amiable creature never existed. Before she took the unfortunate step which, I have no hesitation in saying, consigned her to an untimely grave, she mentioned the circumstance to me. I advised her strongly against the union, until she knew something more of her future partner; but she, the eor scerneuantudrree,rstomo asoeohningaativeensw. ays, haenhdabdecanemt ehteheen vmictairrmieodt twenty-four hours before she bitterly repented the irrevocable ti dent iaaclt.fri Inaend., few Asdasynes soon as asghaeinsasewnt me er me, as nto tears, and said, lam a murdered woman ;he has taken everything I possess in the world from me, except the clothes in which been allowed anything to eat.' The monster. was. I stand; and to-day (it was then afternoon) I have notin an nut absuar s confidential adjoining room, aanddeglgwedenstileannede.remcoanllseturfeasd wthieth fellow seemed, I think he will not forget that when I left the room I told him, that if that woman died, her blood would be on his head.' I once more saw her, viz., on the day before they left England ; she called on me, she said, for the purpose of bidding me good-bye for ever.' She again mentioned to me his brutal treatment, the details of which were so atrociously revolting that I almost recoil when I think of them. I wished her, even at the !eleventh • hour, to reconsider her determination of accompanying him, but she said, that although she believed she should never cross the Atlantic alive, yet that she had cast her lot with his, and it was her duty to submit.' I do solemnly declare that I could most conscientiously have accepted her expressions of the conviction that she could not recover as her dying declaration ;' those convictions were realised, and her husband's object effected. "I have the honour to remain, Sir, yours, very respectfully, (Signed) "