The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser. — 1825-04-09 (London, England)

HIGH LIVE.—We understand that a suit of a very peculiar and delicate nature will shortly make its appearance in one of our Courts of Law. The individual who seeks redress in this instance is of no less rank than a peer of the Sister Kingdom ; the offending party is a Mr. B--. The injury, forming the foundation of this action, is said to have been inflicted at Milan, as well as other places on the Continent. The Noble Peer and his Lady had lived separate for some years. The gentlemen of the law have been busily employed for some time in collecting the necessaty evidence, and there is reason to believe the details of this affair will shortly be disclosed in the Court of King's Bench. On Wednesday the Canadian Chiefs, four in number, arrived at the Castle Inn, li'itulzor, dressed in their full native costume. They ware waited upon by Sir John f'harmars and another gentleman, who conducted them throng's he Castle, and after going through the state apartmeets, they inspected the improvements carrying on. They afterwards visited the Terrace and the Round Tower, and from thence they proceeded through the Little Park to Frogmore Lodge, where they passed upwards of an hour in viewing the delightful pleasure-grounds and gardens. They speak the French language fluently, and expressed themselves highly gratified with the pleasurable scenes of the day. They returned to the Castle Inn at five o'clock, where they dined and slept. Their curious dress, together with their painted faces, and ornaments pending from their ears and noses, attracted the attention of a great number of spectators. A petition to Parliament from the resident inhabitants and visiters of Bath, has been signed, praying the Legislature to prohibit bear-baiting, dog-fighting, badger-baiting, and other similar public exhibitions of cruelty. The Ship Canal Company have purchased, for 90,0001. seven miles of the Taunton and Bridgewater Canal, nearest to Bridgewater, which exactly suits the direction of their Canal. The advantages of this to Taunton will be very great; it will give a branch front the Ship Canal to Taunton, which will thus be rendered in effect a seaport.—Both Paper. The Court of Ascizcs at Vosges has just terminated its first Quarter Session for this year, by au affair which has caused a considerable degree of interest and curiosity. A woman was accused of murdering her husband, by means of fasting and bad usage ; two of her daughters, one aged 20 and the other 24, were charged as accomplices to their mother's crime, which on their part constituter' the crime of parricide. It appeared at the trial that this unhappy man had been for some past the victim to his wife's cruelty and his children's ill-usage; but the jury were of opinion that there was no premeditated intent to kill, and the woman has therefore been sentenced to hard labour fur life for the crime of wilful homicide. The youngest of the girls has been condemned to ten years' solitary imprisonment, for having struck the author of her being ; and the eldest has been acquitted. A circumstance appeared on the trial which particularly affected the auditors; it was, that in spite of the severe punishment clue received, a little girl, eleven years of age, secretly supplied her father with the food necessary to support life, and thus for some time prolonged Isis unhappy existence.—Courr ice Francois. It is a fact not very creditable to the French character, that, in the memorials of the Judges for preferment in the French Courts, they always ground their claims upon the number of condemnations which they have procured.