The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-03 00:00:00

Chitoo—l am wife of Mr. John Henry Clifton, •
solicitor at Clifton, and lam sister of the respondent. I
was present at the marriage, and 1 was in the habit of
visiting or being visited by Mr. and Mn. Smith every
year. They were always on very good terms. la 1813 ,
my sister mme to me at Clif toe. She came at my wish is
comequeoce of the illness of mr child. She afterwards
went with me to Widen-raper-Mare. That was at the
end of July. I was newel! a part of the time I was there,
and she was out • good deal by herself. After some time,
Mies Smith, a friend of mine. made a statement to me, is
consequence of which I mks to my sister. i told her
I bed heard that she bad bed seen walking with a
midland, and I wished to know who it was. She
said it was Casten Richards, a great friend of her husband.
I afterwards eaw Captain Richards several times. She in-
traduced him to me, bet I sever spoke to him. He stand
at Weston for some time. On the 16th of September Mrs.
Smith went out, stating that she was going to the post-
oats, and that she should return directly. She did not
come back at all. After some time lad elapsed I made
inquiries at the railway nation. The same evening I re-
ceived a telegram. and • commtiniestiee was made to Ur.
Smith at Scarborough. The letters put in ere I. the
rearuldeent's handwriting.
were read. They were written at intervals of a
very few days down to the 12th of September ; and they
were couched in terms of the uuteet possible *duties.
Towards the sod of the eerrespoodence Mr. Smith appeared
to have grows dissatisfied at her bog absence ; and in her
last letter she expressed her satiety to be boa's again. al-
leged the pressure of her sister as an excuse for her staying
so long, and signed himself, " Believe me to be, detrain
Charley ever your fond little wife, Charlotte."
Mr. indent* Moojea-1 am the petitiower's solicitor.
Oa the 17th of Septets bar, 1863, I received a oommunitatioa
from Mr. Smith, and lat coos filed the petition. I after-
wards went to No. 23, Northumberland-street, Strand, for
the purpose of serving thentetioa on the responded'. I
seat in my cud and followed the servant into a room where
' I found lira Smith and a ginetleman, who said that be was
Captain Richards. Mrs. Smith said, "Thu is Mr. Moojea,
Charles's whaler.* I then erred them both, and I she
told Mrs. Smith that I had • letter from her husband for
her. She replied that she did not wish to sue it. 1 mid
that in that case I had beam read it to her, which I did.
It wasaa follows :

" 6, Southampton-street, Bloomsbury, Tuesday.
" God only knows with what feelings I address you, and
what I have suffered during the pest few days, in making
search for you; but I out still doubt if all my softness
have been equal to your* ; for I cannot believe I have been
so deceived is you, as not to think that remorse of eon-
seisms* most well-aigh have killed you. lam Dot writing
this to upbraid you. lam still your husband, and by all
the power that same gives me, I must rescue you from the
wicked, adulterous life you are leading. It is eotirrly far
your own sake that I will act. What is your present mo-
wn I Nothing but a life of sia and wretchedness, and in
sit probability, of destitutioe ; for the married moo,
who lin partaken of our hospitality and friendship,
is villain enough to cast you off with as little care as be has
bees wretch enough to sedum you from yoat busload sad
!Asada I well not upbraid you. nor you be upbraided
by say owe. bat I will provide you with • home where you
may repent of the put, and which home shall be away. from
those you knew. This, of course, is, if you at once give up
this sad life. You shall be as free as the law of England as
make you. If you make the repent you shall sever see me
again ; only I beseech you, of your own will, for the sake
of your own soul, for the make of your sister and her
chi, for the sake of my mother, sod, lastly, to save
yourself from further disgrace, wiokedoese, and, I may
say, certain destitution, I implore of you to give
up this adultery. How you on, ever bare faller
God only knows, and with a man, too, for whom you have
no more love them you can have respect. Nor can he have
any for you, though you may for the time think otherwise.'
When I bad read that letter to her I placed it in her
hands. She leashed at it and threw it into the fire. Captain
Richards said th.at he wu going is a day or two to joie his
regiment at Zante ; and that his firet ides had been to go
there stnisht from Weston, without making any stay is
Loadoo.

The ser►aot et the lodging-house having proved the co-
habitation of the respondent. se man sod wife,
Sir J. Wilde briefly summed up the came, sod
Tbe jury amused the damage at 3,0061.
Decree obi with costa.

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE.

HOME CIRCIIIT.-711mroaD, Kamm 2.

The oomedesios of maize for the coasty of Herta was
opened here today. Although there was a winter gaol
delivery there are • ootiaiderable number of priermers—over
tweety—but the greater portion of the cases are of en un-
important chancier. The meet swims is one V which •
prisoner is charged with robbing a Winer who wu killed
while driving home from market, in the neighbourhood of
/litchis, the mu having origio•lly assumed the form of
one of wilful louder. Thu evil Weiser is expected to be
light.

WESTERN ClRCUlT.—Wmatzents, MARCH 2.

(Baca, Baron Brwwdl)