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MIDDLESEX SESSIONS.
The Law of Kissing.-On Tuesday,
Caroline Newton was indicted for assaulting Thomas
Saverland, and biting off his nose.- The complain-
ant, whose face bore incontestable evidence of the
severe injury inflicted, the fleshy part of the left
nostril being entirely gone, stated, that the day
after Christmas-day he was in a tap-room, where
were the defendant and her sister. The sister
laughingly observed that she had left her young
man in Birmingham, and had promised him no man
should kiss her while absent. Complainant regarded
the observation as a challenge, especially it being
holiday time, and caught hold of her and kissed her.
She took it in good part, as a joke, but defendant
became angry, and desired she might have as little
of that kind of fun as he pleased. Complainant told
her if she was angry he would kiss her also, and
tried to do so; a scuffle ensued and they both fell
to the ground. After they got up complainent went
and stood by the fire, and the defendant followed.
and struck at him. He again closed with her, and
in the scuffle he was heard to cry out," She has
got my nose in her mouth." When they parted he
was bleeding profusely from the nose, and a portion
of it, which defendant had bitten off, she was seen
to spit out of her month upon the ground. The
defendant, a fat, middle-aged woman, treated the
matter with great levity, and said he had no business
to kiss her sister, or attempt to kiss her, in a public
house ; they were not such kind of people. If she
wanted to be kissed, she had a husband to kiss her,
and he was a much handsomer man than defendant
ever was, even before he lost his nose. The Chair-
man told the jury that it mattered little which way
their verdict went. If they found her guilty the
court would not fine her more than 1s., as the pro-
secutor had brought the punishment on himself,
The jury, without hesitation, acquitted her. The
Chairman told the prosecutor he was sorry for the
loss of his nose, but if he would play with cats, he
must expect to get scratched. Turning to the jury,
the Chairman afterwards said, " Gentlemen, my
opinion is that if a man attempts to kiss a woman
against her will, she has a right to bite his nose off
if she has a fancy for so doing."-" And eat it too,''
added a learned gentleman at the bar. The case
caused much laughter to all except the poor com-
plainant.- Bell's New Weekly Messenger, April 30.
Elopement.-Much conversation has
been occasioned within the last week among the
fashionable circles at the west-end of the town by
the sudden elopement of a young lady of consider-
able personal attractions and large fortune from the
residence of her mother at Kensington, on Wednes-
day last. The young lady in question, whose name
we at present forbear to mention, had, until within
the last few months, a remarkable penchant for some
of the conductors of the omnibuses travelling past
her residence, on whom she used most lavishly to
heap sterling proofs of her admiration and attach-
ment. The illness and sudden death of her brother,
however, worked an alteration in her, and subsequent
to his death she was addressed by a gentleman of
large property in the county of York, with the
sanction of her mother ; but Miss -----, who is in
her twenty-first year, declared she could not "abide"
him, and on the above morning she got up at day-
break and having safely locked her mother and the
servants in their several rooms, she double-locked
the street-door, taking the key with her; she then
proceeded along the lanes adjoining to Lord Hol-
land's park to Nottingham-hiil, where a more
favoured lover, a young gentieman residing art
Hampstead, was waiting with a chaise, in which
they proceeded to his residence; when, after
having partaken of some hasty refreshment, they
started with post horses for the far famed Gretna,
where, long previous to this, the "twain" have been
made "one flesh. " The young lady, as we have
above stated, has a large property at her own dis-
posal, but Mrs.--------'s income, we understand,
does not exceed £100 per annum.-Ibid.
Scarcity of Evidence.-Some time ago,
a justiciarp trial took place at the Glasgow circuit
court, of a girl, for inflicting a serious wound on an
aged female. It was suspected that the whole affair
was got up with a view to ruin the culprit. The
evidence of the person who had suffered the injury
was first taken. In the cross examination she was
asked,-" Well, you say it was the prisoner who
inflicted the wound?"-" Yes I did."-"You're
sure of that now ?-' Sure, as my name is what it
is"-" Did any body see her do it?"-"My own
tochter Mary heard the quarrel, and she might have
seen it but she had gone to the barn for strae to the
cow.''-" Did you not make a noise?"--" Oh, yes,
made a noise as loud as I could, but nobody heard
it. '-" Was there no dog in the home to protect you?
in the farm-houses you usually have dogs ''-" Oh,
yes, thare was a tog, too, and a very good tog he was ;
but he was an English tog and did not understood
the language,"-Laird of Logan.
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