Consistory Court, Friday,...
tule argument in this cause was cotnpleted to.day, and it was assigneL for sentence next Hilary. As we have already proposed to embody all the -prncipal facts that are connected with tliese pleadings in sdr report of the judgment, it will only be neceswazy for us to notice, that the discuision of this morning principally regarded the affidavit made by AMary. Bristow, the party who in her examination In chief had deposed (belng the only witness produced to thatfactVto havlngiwitnessedanyoftheadula terous acts charged against Air. Ball. This aftdavit was commented upon at great length on the last court-day, aud professed to be a vo, luntary recantation, on the deponent's part,or thewhole testimony she had so falsely given against Air Bail, a solemn declaration that she now retracted that deposition, being moved tbeteto by the suggestions of her own conscience, andlari avermnnen that she had been induced to swear falsely in thS first eiatance by undue means employed by the other party. It has beer most errone- ously stated, in the report of one of the mornming papers ofV Wed- nesday last, that several witnesses, principally domestics- had spoken to an unequivocal sort of intercourse carried on between Air. Ball and the lady whose name is implicated in this caUse, n Miss Penny, at the houne of Alr. Rocher; Great Russell-street, Bloomns- buty. In the first place, the only witness and domestic in this part of the proceedings was the same Mary Bristor, anttin the second, she has totaUy denied upon affidavit, made before a Ma-, gistrate of the city of London, every tittle of her-evidence in re- spect of the conduct she had so coriaptly deposed to-hiavingsee, either at the house of Mr. Itocher or elsewhere. Upon the behalf of that respectable gentlemami, it has been re- presented to us, that the misstatement in question is calculated seriously to injure she character and reputatiort of his house, 'which the witness, Bristow, has upon oath confessed to hive im- pugned withoat the slightest foundation, or a shadow of truth; and we therefore willingly.snake this fact knowni although no parties ourselves to an error which found its way into the report of another journal. CON91STORY COURT'. FRTnAV. Dir~t. 7ft. BALL AGAINST BALL.