Extraordinary Case of Bigamy.

Thomas Buckley, alias Johnson, aged 22, was charged, on Tuesday with bigamy.—It appeared that, in May 1829, the prisoner cohabited with a young woman named Blaney. He deserted her, and she became chargeable to the parish. In February they again met, and the prisoner promised to marry her if she got some money from the parish to buy the expenses. She obtained from them 2l. and was then married to the prisoner. He treated her very cruelly, and then informed her that he had another wife living.

The first wife said, that about three weeks before she was married to the prisoner, he met her in the street for the first time, and said that she was a very pretty girl, and proposed to marry her. She consented, and went immediately afterward to have the banns published in his name, which she understood was Johnson. On the day appointed she went to his workshop, and he went with her to church, and they were married. She admitted that she was enceinte at the time by some gentleman she did not know.

The prisoner's sister contradicted same part of the last witness's statement. She said that the first wife had been asked in church with a man named Johnson, but being disappointed by him on the day appointed for the wedding, she declared that she would marry the first man she could get, and went to the workshop, where she saw the prisoner for the first time, and he was persuaded to go with her to church, and to personate the man Johnson, for whom the banns had been published.

A young man, named Doran, who worked in the same shop with the prisoner, said that on the day of marriage, the first wife came to the shop. The prisoner said to him (witness), "Here's a pretty girl that wants to he married; I'll marry her." After some joking, they went to church, and witness accompanied them. He heard the young woman say to the prisoner, " Mind, your name is Johnson;' and in that name they were married.

The prisoner said that he never saw the young woman till she came to the workshop, and stated she had been disappointed by Johnson, and would marry any one else. He went to church with her, and was married in the name of Johnson.

The second wife complained of his conduct, and said she would rather drown herself than live with him.

The Magistrates then committed him for trial.