Barton St. David's, Somersetshire, and his age is
twenty-one. From his own admission when arrested,
he had forged the name of William Lewis to a check for
£16 and to another for £73, which he presented at the
St. James's Square branch of the London and
Westminster Bank, and they were paid. It would seem that
he presented another check for £280, which was not
paid, as Lewis had not so much money at the bank.
Lewis was examined. He said he was a "jeweller;"
he believed the two checks were in Smith's handwriting.
Cross-examined, he could only be made to answer by
threats of the Recorder. He had been concerned with
three men who went to "pick up a flat" at Cremorne
Gardens; the three men cheated a Mr. Kerrie of a
thousand pounds by false play at cards; witness himself
at some of the meetings "packed" the cards, but
when they were accused by Kerrie, he turned round
against his associates, as a witness against them. He
met young Smith at Neath, when the youth was an
undergraduate at Oxford; Smith "might have introduced"
witness to tradesmen under false names. He
knew that the prisoner got a gold chain and an
eye-glass from one tradesman, and he purchased the articles
of him directly afterwards, at least he "allowed" him
the value in an account. The prisoner was indebted to
him. He also received a watch and chain from the
prisoner at Oxford, but he returned them to him; he
might or he might not have been present when these
articles were originally obtained from the tradesmen to
whom they belonged. The result of their proceedings
at Oxford was, that the prisoner was expelled; and he
then went to Cambridge, with the view of endeavouring
to get admitted into one of the colleges. Witness
accompanied him to Cambridge, and one night he played
at cards with some of the young collegians. The
prisoner entered himself for admission to one of the
colleges, but was obliged to withdraw his name. In
his address for the prisoner, Mr. Ballantine made full
use of the character of Lewis, the "swindler and robber
of the worst description," who had seduced the boy
from the path of rectitude and honour for his own base
purposes, and now sought to destroy him. The Reverend
Ebenezer Smith, father of the accused, stated, that
before his son went to Oxford his conduct had been so
good, that he was a source of habitual comfort to him.
In summing up, the Recorder said, the jury, no doubt,
would not have convicted on the unsupported testimony
of "so infamous a person" as Lewis; but they must
remember the young man's own admissions. The jury
deliberated for a short time, and returned a verdict of
guilty, with a strong recommendation of the prisoner
to the merciful consideration of the court. They
expressed their indignation at the conduct of the witness
Lewis—"one of the greatest villains that ever came into
a court of justice."

On the same day, Lewis John Jones, aged twenty-
one, pleaded guilty to Embezzling the Moneys of his
Employer, Mr. Huddlestone, the barrister. The case
was a very painful one. Mr. Huddlestone had kept the
accused in his service from boyhood, and behaved to
him more like a father than a master. The young man
became addicted to betting and the company of loose
women, and hence his ruin. He appeared to feel his
degradation keenly.

An action of Assault at the instance of Lord George
Loftus against Mr. Cornewall, lieutenant in the Rifle
Brigade, was tried in the court of Queen's Bench on
the 3rd instant. According to the plaintiff's statement,
the defendant, then a minor, borrowed of him, on the
continent, 360 francs, or £12. Soon after the defendant
went with his regiment to the Cape of Good Hope,
where he remained till last year. On his return, Lord
George applied to him for payment, but the defendant
entirely denied the loan. Some correspondence ensued,
the plaintiff insisting on the debt, and the defendant
denying it. Lord George then wrote to the commanding
officer of the Rifle Brigade, complaining of Mr.
Cornewall's conduct; and it appeared the officers of the
regiment investigated the matter, and for their satisfaction
the defendant made a solemn declaration before a
magistrate denying that he was indebted to or had ever
borrowed money of the plaintiff. The affair being
arranged with his brother officers, the defendant
obtained leave of absence, and then consulted a friend.
This gentleman took the opinion of several military
officers as to the course the defendant ought to pursue.
Under their advice, for reasons which were not
disclosed, the defendant was not permitted to call the
plaintiff out, but directed to insist, on the plaintiff's
withdrawing the charge and the offensive expressions
he had used, or to chastise him. The defendant acted
under their advice, and the assault was the consequence.
When the defendant was informed the plaintiff would
not retract, he ran up the plaintiff's stairs, and rushed
upon him, exclaiming, "Loftus, you are a scoundrel;
you have endeavoured to blast my reputation, so take
that," and struck the plaintiff several times. The jury
returned a verdict for the plaintiff, damages one farthing,
and Lord Campbell refused to certify, so as to give the
plaintiff his costs.

A case of a very singular character, for Restitution of
Conjugal Rights, has been argued before the judicial
committee of the Privy Council. The Rev. Pierce
Connelly and his wife Cornelia Augusta Connelly, are
natives of the United States, born at Philadelphia of
American parents, and they were married in that city
in 1831, being at that time members of the Protestant
Episcopalian Church in America. Mr. Connelly was
then appointed rector of the church of Natchez in the
state of Mississippi, where he proceeded to reside until
the month of October, 1835. At that time, however,
the rector's wife became a convert to the Roman Catholic
faith, and was received into the bosom of that church.
Mr. Connelly himself was desirous of considering and
determining the points in controversy between the two
churches more fully in Europe, and with that view he
undertook a journey to Rome with his wife. The result
was that he, too, was received into the Roman Catholic
Church. The converts soon afterwards returned to the
United States, and settled in the state of Lousiana,
where, in 1840, they formed the design of living apart,
with a view to Mr. Connelly's obtaining orders in the
Church of Rome. After another journey to Rome,
undertaken by the husband alone, and another return
to Louisiana, in 1843 they both proceeded to fulfil these
intentions, and again reached Europe in the month of
December of that year. A petition of Mr. Connelly was
addressed to Pope Gregory XVI., and referred by him
to the Cardinal Vicar-General and Judge Ordinary of
Rome, who pronounced in effect (as is contended by
Mrs. Connelly) a sentence of separation accordingly.
In April, 1844, Mrs. Connelly became a nun in the
convent of the Sacred Heart at Rome, and Mr. Connelly
received the first clerical tonsure and assumed the dress
of a Romish ecclesiastic. In the month of June, 1845,
Mrs. Connelly bound herself, with the concurrence of
her husband, by the following vow:—"Almighty and
Eternal God, I Cornelia, the lawful wife of Pierce
Connelly, trusting in Thine infinite goodness and mercy,
and animated with the desire of serving Thee more
perfectly, with the consent of my husband, who intends
shortly to take holy orders, do make thy Divine Majesty
a vow of perpetual chastity, at the hands of the Rev.
Father Jean Louis Rozaven, of the Society of Jesus,
delegated for this purpose by his Eminence the Cardinal
Vicar of his Holiness for the City of Rome, supplicating
thy Divine Goodness, by the precious blood of Jesus
Christ, to be pleased to accept this offering of Thy
unworthy creature as a sweet smelling savour; and that as
Thou hast given me the desire and power to make this
offering to Thee, so Thou wouldest also grant me
abundant grace to fulfil the same.—Rome, at the
Convent of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, on the eighteenth
of the month of June, in the year one thousand eight
hundred and forty-five. So it is—Jean Louis Rozaven,
of the Society of Jesus. So it is—Pierce Connelly—
Victorine Bois, of the Sacred Heart of Jesus—Loide de
Rochequairie, Rse. of the Sacred Heart of Jesus."
From the period last mentioned until May, 1846, Father
Connelly and this Reverend Mother (as they were now
called) continued to reside in the religious houses in
Rome to which they respectively belonged. But at that
period Lord Shrewsbury brought Mr. Connelly to
England, as his private chaplain, and the lady also came
to England, where she became, and now is, the
superioress of a community of religious women under the