The Sun. — 1853-04-26 (London, England)

JUSTICE TALFOURD.—The wonderful memory of Mr. Justice Talfourd was exemplified in a remarkable manner at the Gloucester Assizes last week. He had to try a prisoner for breaking into a house at Bristol. The police had previously used the utmost means to ascertain his former course of life in vain ; nothing whatever could be found out about him. ..At the trial, Judge Talfourd was observed closely to scrutinise the prisoner's face, and after he was found guilty, he said, " Did not I try you two years ago at York, for murder ?" The prisoner persisted in the strongest manner that the judge was mistaken, but Mr. Justice Talfourd had sufficient confidence in his recol7 lection of the prisoner's face to convince him he was the same man. He was sentenced for the burglary to ten years' transportation, and coming down to Bristol in the train, he admitted that the judge was perfectly correct. —Bristol Times.  Their lordship's sat this afternoon at two o'clock, to hear evidence in support of this bill. The peers present were the Lord Chancellor, the Earl of Devon, Lord Waldegrave, and Lord Strangford. Mr. Ed. James appeared for the petitioner in support of the bill ; Mr. Kerr appeared for the youngest child of Mrs. Cutbill, born since her separation from her husband. Mr. JAMES briefly stated the case. He said the petitioner, Mr. Cutbill, was the manager of the Commercial Bank, 3, Moorgate•street, and was married to his wife in 1835. They lived happily together until the year 1843, when the alleged adultery took place. It appeared that, in the early part of that year, a Mr. Higley, formerly of Demerara, and now of Constantinople, was paying his addresses to Mr. Cutbill's sister, and took advantage of the introduction which this circumstance gave him to the family, to carry on a course of conduct with Mrs. Cutbill, which ultimately ended in the commission of acts of criminality, on which the present bill was founded. It could be proved that, in the months of February and March of that year, on several occasions, when Mr. Cutbill was absent from home, Mr. Higley had visited the house, and had remained alone with Mrs. Cutbill until past eleven o'clock ; and on anothgr occasion, in consequence of suspicions which had been aroused, Miss Cutbill, to whom Higley was then paying his addresses, and another lady, having placed themselves opposite to the Bank, had watched Mrs. Cutbill come out of the house, and being immediately joined by Mr. Higley, who was waiting for her in the street, both walked off in the direction of Moorfields. They were followed and accosted, when Mrs. Cutbill appeared in a great state of agitation, and endeavoured to make it appear that it was an accidental meeting. This led to an explanation, and subsequently Mrs. Cutbill admittO to Mr. Imrie, the godfather to one of Ler children, that on two occasions criminal intercourse had taken place between herself and Higley. Proceedings were immediately taken in Doctors' Commons, and a decree pronounced in the August of the same year ; but Mr. Cutbill's means at that time being limited, he had been obliged to postpone the proceedings for a divorce a vinculo matrimonii until the present time. Mr. Wm. John Hellier proved the serving of the usual notices and papers on Mrs. Cutbill, and also produced the register of marriage. Mary Ann Carr said that in February, and March, and April, 1843, she was living in the service of Mr. Cutbill, who at that time occupied the upper part of the Commercial Bank, Moorgate-street. She remembered that one evening in the latter part of February of that year her mistress, Mrs. Cutbill, came home with Mr. Higley. Her mistress sent her out to the butcher's. She was out half-an-hour, and on her returning Mrs. Cutbill sent her t• bed. Mr. Higley was there with her mistress in the drawing-room, and had not gone away when witness went to bed. There was a sofa in the drawing-room. Mr. Higley came again on the following Monday, while Mr. Cutbill was out, and remained till after witness had gone to bed, which was about 11 o'clock. Mrs. Cutbill and Higley were together in the drawing-room alone on that occasion also. About a fortnight after, Mr. Cutbill being out of town on business, Mrs. Cutbill went out in the evening, and Mr. Higley brought her home and remained with her in the drawing-room about threequarters of an hour.