The Daily Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1860-06-02 00:00:00

CONSERVATIVE BANQUET.

The dinnivtrsary festival of the Conservative Regis-
tration Association having teen fixed for Friday, the
29th of June, the President, the Earl of Shrewsbury
and Talbot, in the chair, it has been detefmined that a
great Conservative demonstration shall be niade at the
banquet,'which will take place in Willis's Rooms, King-
street, St. James's, London, a locality well ]mown for
former gatherings of the Constitutional party. Amongst
the Vice•prcsidents are the Earl of Donoughmore,
Viscount Ranelagh, Viscount Ingcstre, M.P. ; Lord
Eurghtev, Lord Robert Cecil, M.P. ; the Hon. Robert
Bourke, Col. Brown Tow Knot, 111. P:; C. W. Packe, Esq.,
M.F. ; Sir Lawrence Palk, M.P: ; S. C. Cobbold, Esq.,
M.P. ; Colonel Augustus Me}-rick, Colonel Elsev, Colonel
Wood, Captain Morley, R. E.. Arden, Esq. ; Robert
Dimsda le, Esq. ; R.N. Fowler, Esq. ; Coleridge J. Ken-
' mil, Esq. ; H. Pownall, Esq. (Chairman of the bench
of Middlesex magistrates) ; and Nainham Winstanley,
Esq. ; &c., &c. The committee .of management have
received the names of several distinguished members of
both Houses of Parliament to be present on this inte-
resting occasion, which, owing to late political events,
has a peculiar significance at this crisis. Several leading
Conservatives in the country have also intimated their
intention of going to London, to testify by their pre-
sence at the banquet their sympathy and co-operation.
It is understood that every Registration Association or
Conimittee in the provinces will be represented. All com-
munications and applications for tickets are to be addressed .
to Viscount Ingestre, M.l'., Chairman of the Dinner
#orrtniittee ; or to Charles Lewis Gruneisen, Esq., the
Honorary Treasurer of the Association, at the Offices of
the Conservative Land Society, 33, Norfolk-street,
Strand, W.C., London. As the room can only hold'a
limited number, it is requested that no time will be lost
by those desirous of being present, as the names will be
taken in rotation

COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL
CAUSES, MAY 31.

(Before the Judge-Ordinary, Mr. Baron Martin, and
Mr. Justice Willes.)
KITCHEN' V. KITCHEN AND HALL.

This petition by a husband for a dissolution of mar-
riage was part heard at the last sittings of the fall
court, and was adjourned for additional evidence of the
respondent's adultery. Mr. Justice fill was one of the
judges before whom the case was tried, and his lordship
attended this morning while the additional evidenCe
was being given.

Mr. Quain, for the petitioner, called a witness who
supplied the required corroboration, and their lordships
dissolved the marriage.

BACON V. BACON AND BACON.

• This ease was heard last November, before a jury. A
verdict was found that the respondent had been guilty
of adultery with the co-respondent, who is the peti-
tioner's brother, and the decree was suspended in order
that an application might be made under the 45th sec-
tion of the Act for the settlement of some property in
which the respondent had a reversionary interest. The
petitioner was an engraver, earning about £lOO a year,
and the respondent had 415 a year irrespective of her
reversionary interest.

• Dr. Spinks (with whom whom was Mr. Francis) said
that the petitioner did not ask to have any of the pro-
perty settled upon himself, but he wished a provision
to he- mode for-the children-nf the marriage. ---
Dr. Philliniere, appeared for the respondent.
The Court dissolved the marriage, and condemned the
co-respondent in costs.. With regard to the 'property,
two-thirds would be settled on the children immediately.
The respondent would have the use of the remaining
third, in addition to the .£l5 a-year, for her life, and
after her death it must go to the children.

SIMPSON V. SIMPSON AND CHIPMAN.
Mr. liannen and Mr. Pritchard appeared for the
petitioner.

William SimpsorLwas a boatman in the. Coastgaard
service, and he married the respondent at Plymouth, in
August, 1838; They had two children. In 1846, when
he wal stationed at Port Looe, in Devonshire, he dis-
covered that his wife had formed a criminal connection
with a man named Pollard, separated from her, and,
allowed her 7s. a-week. He paid this allowance until
on his return from the Crimea, at the end of the war,
he found that she was living in adultery with a shoe-
maker named Chipman, at East Looe, by whom she had
had a child.

The Court disEolved the marriage, and condemned the
co-respondent in costs.

SUTTON V. SUTTON AND E.kßl'.

Mrs Macaulay, Q.C., and Dr. Wambey appeared for
the petitioner.
The parties in this case Item married in January,
1839, at Birmingham. The petitionor was in the iron

trade. From causes into which it is unnecessary to
enter the marriage was never consummated, and in
October, 1833, a separation was agreed upon and a deed
executed ; and. Mr. and Mrs. Sutton have not since
cohabited. In 1848 Mrs. Sutton had a child by
Sylvanus Earp, the co-respondent. Mr.' Satton was
without the means of taking the necessary steps to
obtain a -Hvorce until the passing of the Divorce Act.
The Court dissolved the marriage.
GARDNER V. GARDNER.

Mr. Stiffe appeared for the petitioner. •
The petitioner and the respondent wore married in
1836, but have not lived together for upwards of ten
years. Tho respondent is a labouring man, and the
petitioner has supported herself by keeping a public-
house. In 1856 the respondent committed bigamy
with Hannah Summers at Elmsley Castle, in Worcester-
shire,

The marriage was disaved on the ground of adultery
coupled with bigamy.

CRAIG V. CRAIG AND 'WM.

Dr. Spinks and Mr. Pritchard conducted the peti-
)ner's case.

Walter Craig, the petitioner, was the captain of a
merchant vessel, and.he married Mary Newby, at Mary-
port, in Cumberland, in April, 1853. During his absence
on his voyages he left his wife at the house of her mother
in Cumberland. When he was at home they livet to-
gether in Liverpool. In November, 1856, he sailed for
Singapore, and did not return until December, 1857.
On the 31st of January, 1858, Mrs. Craig had a child,
of which Abe owned that John Johnson Webb was the
father.;
_Webb was .a schoolmaster, whose acquaintance
sh. ~114,1* rude in 1856 at her mother's house, and who
had stayed in the house for a few- days early in 1857.
Pe Court dissolved the marriage, and condemned the
co-respondent in costs.

THOMAS V. THOMAS

Dr. Phillimore, (IC., and Dr. Tristram were counsel
For the petitioner.

This was a petition by a wife on the grounds of
adultery coupled with desertion and with cruelty.
The husband was a solicitor, practising at Swansea,
and in November, 1839, he married Miss Pringle, the
daughter of a gentleman of property. They did not
live happily together, and Mrs. Thomas stated that his
conduct to her was most cruel ; that he sometimes pulled
her hair, that he two or three times struck her, that he
had kicked her, and that he was very passionate, and was
given to drinking. He was in embarrassed circumstances,
and in 1845 an execution was put into his house; all the
furniture was sold off, and Mrs. Thomas went on a visit
to her father at Milford Haven. She has never since
spoken to her husband, and he has neither contributed
to her support nor provided a home for her. A girl
named Eliza Jervis proved that about 1848 she and
Thomas lived together as man and wife, and continued
to do so for nine or ten years.
The Judge-Ordinary said the allegations of desertion
had not been established, but the petitioner was en-
titled to a decree on the ground of adultery, coupled
with cruelty.

The decree was suspended in order that an applica.-
Lon might be made for permanent alimony.

TAPLEY V. TAPLIN.

Dr. Spinks was counsel for the petitioner.
Frederick Jones Taplin, the respondent, was an
engineer in the royal navy. On the 2gtli of August,
1851, he was clandestinely married to the petititioner at
St. Bride's Church, in Fleet-street, both of them being
then under age. He continued to visit at the house of the
petitioner's father as her suitor without disclosing either
to her family or to his own the fact of the marriage
In February, 1854, he was serving in the Black sea as
assistant-engineer of the Royal Albert, and ho com-
municated to the chief engineer, Mr. Rumble, that
during the Great Exhibition he got married for a
" lark," but he never intended to return to England.
In February, 1857, ha was married to Nancy Jones at
Malta, and they have since lived together al man and
wife.

The Court dissolved the marriage, on the ground of
adultery, coupled with bigamy.

MA.RROIti V. PARRON ND BISHOP.

Mr. O'Brien appeared for the petitioner.
The petitioner was a button-maker at Birmingham,
and he proceeded in forme pauperif;. He was married
in 184:5. his wife was a woman of drunken and dissi-
pated habits, and in 1854 she was one day discovered by
his father in the act of adultery with another man. Re
immediately ceased to cohabit with her.
The Cuurt granted a degree.

Wormrttrut, Ese.tri.—On Friday afternoon, one of
the crew of the Cornelius, which is presently under-
going repairs in Messrs. Adamson and Sons' graving
deck at Alloa, was crossing the main hatchway on a
narrow plank, when he lost his footing, and fell to the
bottom of the hold, a depth of twenty-five feet. Ito
was taken up insensible, and his comrades believing
that ho bad sustained fatal internal injuries, laid him
on a board, and carried him to one of the nearest houses.
As they were lifting him in at the door, to their great
surprise, he suddenly started up and asked what was
wrong. Having obtained an explanation, be declared
he felt all right, and would walk back with them to his
work. With great difficulty ho was persuaded to remain
in the house during the remainder of the day, and next
morning he resumed his labours apparently nothing the
worse.—Caleioniats Mercury.