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REMARKABLE CASE OF DIVORCE

... REMAB:EABLE CASE OF DIVOrcCF. PARKS V. PARKSB-This was a divorce suit in the Commissary Court of Surrey, by the wife against her husband, on the ground of adultery. The case, as set forth in the libel. brought in on behalf of Mrs. Mary Ann Parks, was to the effect that the marriage between the parties took place in 1844, and that after a short cohabitation, in consequence of her husband's ill ...

LAW AND POLICE.—SATURDAY

... LAW dNID POLICr.-SATURDAT, COURT Or' EXCHEQUER. 'NEa&IOENT DRIMstG.-HEDGES v. COWntROY.- This action was brought to recover 24 les , for the lose ,of a horse, whose death was alleged to have been occa- sioned by the negligence of the defendant.-Mr. James, in stating the case to the jury, said as the cab of the plain- tiff was being driven at a slow pace along Pall-mall, on the 24th of February ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... P')LIVE IN TELLIG'N GE. MANSION-HOUSE. CAUTION TO THE PaEYNOLENT.-On Monday, the Lord Mavor stated that he had received from Mr. Dew- hurst, of Bradford, in Yorkshire, a letter, to which his lordship said he would be obliged to the newspapers to convey an answer, for the satisfaction of his correspond- ent, as well as for the information of the public. The letter was as follows- Mr. Dewhurst ...

MURDERS BY POISONING

... GOVERNMEJNT INTERFERENCE. NEWPORT, EssEx, SEPr. 4. No small sensation has been caused in this district by the apprehension, at the instance of the secretary of state, of Sarah Cheshamn (who, at the Spring Assizes for the county, in 1848, was tried for the murder of her two children, and acquitted), on suspicion of having destroyed her ?? Cheshbm, by administenng arsenic to him. At the gaol of ...

ALARMING MUTINY BY PRISONERS IN APPLEBY GAOL

... A^LARMING MUTUNY BY PRlSOiS IN APPLEBY GAOL. John Jackson, John Hart, and John Wall, under ser., tence of transportation, and John Wilson and Richard Morgan, under senterce of imprisonment, five most desperate and ruffianly characters, were confined in the same ward of Appleby gaol. They had been punished more than once for insubordination, and on Wednesday, after they had taken their dinner ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLIE 1NTTELLIGE)1OXE MANSION-HOUSE. IM]PUDENT ROBBEPsr-8O, Monday, Mark Benjaeiln was charged with having robbed Samuel Rathbone of a silver watch and a key. The prisoner was defended by a ?? complainant went on Sunday into Petticoat-lane, for the purpose of making some pur- chase, and upon being asked what o'clock it was, pulled out his watch; which was suspended by a guard round his neck, ...

HORRIBLE CASE OF CHILD TORTURE

... IHORRIBLE5 CASE O CHILD TORTURE. Ann Bird, a woman about forty-five years old, and who resides at No. 10, Horace.street, Edgware-road, was brought up at the Marlborough-street Police-court, on Friday, on a warrant by Jesse, one of the officers of the court, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having barbarously ill-used Ellen Walsh, a delicate- looking infant, only two years of ...

POLICE INTELLIGENCE

... POLICE INTELLIGENOR XANUj1ONq.HOUS3 ASSAULT ON A C624iTABLR.- OnWdesa,. Hackett, a desperate fellow, who a short time ago contrived to escape from the lock-upB at palborough-stroet police-court, together with a confernlerte, altbeorg te Aldck to the door wag Chubb't patent, was ?? be teA roan Humphery, upon the charge of haiving made a mur- derous assault upon Storey, one of themost active ...

BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE

... 3REACH OF PROMISE OP MARRIAGE. HAL'sIDE v. BAXTER.-This was an action brought In the Queen's Bench, on Friday, to recover moo enpe- tion In damages for an alleged breach of promnise of mar- siage made by the defendant to the plaintiff From the statements of the learned counsel for the plaintiff, it ap- pared that the plaintiff, Matilda Mary Halfhide, is the daughter of a respectable tradesman, ...

A POPISH PRIEST'S ADULTERIES

... : 7iES T'S ADULTERIES. op,,,Pj8 p - - - 'DXI DArf5 03?AL~SIXO.. TetriaLdt Abbe Gohlsixd, care of3 Saint Ger- Dain, nearp4oal1 ?? ank of MUne. dF Sablon, wife of . ?? the iamO plate, for hbairng poisoned the widow DegloishI, serventf the fother; tommtteneed on Thcrsday before the Cobrt of Assizes of the department, The case excited the most intense interest, and the court Was crowdred to excess ...

IMPORTANT RAILWAY CASE

... IMPORTANT iAJLWAY CASE. A case of considerable importance has just been de. cided in the County Court or Surrey, disposing of the long pending question between railway carriers and rail- way companies as to whether, the former are justified in packing small parcels togetber to be charged as one, and so to evade the company's separate charge upon each single parceL An action was brought by ...

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE

... A8SIZE rSTELLIGENCE. _-o MIDLAND CIRCU IT.-WARWICK, MONDAY. EXTRAORDINAUY CREDULIT Y.-Matilda Cooper, aged forty.three, William Hill, twenty-seven, and Thomas Madden, twenty-eight, were indicted, the former for stealing, and the two latter for receiving, a vinaigrette, a gold locket, a gold key, a gold ring, a gold chain, and other articles, the property ofDr. Jeaffreson, of Leaming- ?? female ...