The accounts from the Moors represent the morning of the
12th as opening aus- piciously with respect to weather. The coveys are numerous, but packed- and the old birds are small, and not plump. But though arduous, the sport has excellent.
The Directors of the London and Birmingham Railway have dismissed from their service Unsworth, the engine-driver who was implicated in the late accident.
An extraordinary case of criminal conversation terminated at Croydon Assizes today-, after occupying the Court for two days. The plaintiff was Mr. John Wade Cooke, whose name has been before the public in connexion with some bill transactions, and whose father was a gentleman of fortune in Herefordshire. In 1842, he married the daughter of the Reverend Mr. Wetherell, Rector of Byfield, in Northamptonshire. A fortune of 20,000/. had been settled on the young lady by her mother; but after his marriage, Mr. Cooke discovered that her father had squandered it all, and involved his daughter in difficulties. Subsequently Mrs. Cooke left her husband and returned to Mr. Wetherell's house; and now Mr. Cooke accused the father, a man fifty-five years of age, of carrying on a criminal intercourse with his daughter. The details of evidence in support of the charge were of a very revolting kind. No witnesses were produced for the defence; which counsel rested altogether on the improbability of the case. The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with 3,0001 damages.
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