The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-14 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGESCE.

(THIS DAY'.)

NETT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
HOPLIT P. HOPLET.—EITIAORDDIAIT CARL,
herniate. Q.c., Lk. Wambey, and Mr. Day appeared
f„ ate petitioner, Ma. Fanny Hopley, who sought •
A separation, on the pound of cruelty, from her hue-
.7.l Thomas Hopley.
petitioner was the youngest daughter of a gentler*
Cobb, who some rase ago was staying with hie
is .I at Eastbourne, Sneer. The respondent, who bad
,
been an usher in a school, was also living there.
a receiving pupils. An acquittance smug up
1„...„e0 him and the petitioner, and they were
..•. ,
~ielr married on the 24th of July, 1855,
c,,tommt of the young lady's friends. At that
time. it should be stated, the respondent was 38 rue of
,o.oid the petitioner abou 18. Mr. /impiety, it was alleged.
showed hirneelf to be • man of extraordinary
an the subject of education, and be hew
the very first to school his wi'e in a way Unsure
she lived with him, Lamour, till 1800,
ad in the interim bore him three children.
la the Aptil of that year, however, an event occurred
shch created a profound sensation in the public mind.
the respondent's pupils, named Canosllor, died sod-
god an inquiry being made into the circus=
the 7espowleat was ultimately convicted, and was sentenced
t, four years' penal servitude, hot he had lately been Pu-
lver,' an a ticket of leave, and he now conducted his defence
is pews His pleas were a denial and condonation. The
was heard by resent before • jury of sloe, only that
somber of the special panel having answered to their names.
Mrs. Fanny HoOrre-1 first became acquainted with the
mroadeot at the beginning of 1855. After our
marriage
we went to Folkestone. On that day the reepoode
„it!. the style in which I was proposing to write to my
This conduct seemed to me to be harsh and un-
re,s,,emble. We went from Folkestone to Botlllare, and
theta to Paris. Not having !Wished my letter at Folkestone,
;:r.:p!eted it at Paris, and be found great fault with it on
tte ;mind that it contained faults in style and orthography.
for the first three or four nights we occupied separate bbd.
He spa th..t he did not think I was thee fit to have children ;
azi that he did not see why we should sot aim at our chil-
dren being model children aod second Christi. From Paris
ae went to another pleas in France. My husband found me
attsg, for I felt that I had left my friends and was
Hew angry with me, sad said he ought to be my a
ye sister wrote to me u "Dear old Tom." That
sea, a pet family name. My husband wee very angry with me
for allowing my sister to apply each an epithet to me. He
aitin found fault with a letter that I wrote. lie mid he
tad been deceived in me. We were from home three weeks.
oc our return my friends Liked me to go and stay with
Ues. for a short time, bat my husband wished me to begin
the atudyiog of housekeeping routine without delay. We
therefore wept to our owe house. We had • housekeeper
named Mrs. WI/tumid ; and I began to study housekeep.
it; under her. My husband wrote me down • set of rules
toe the management of taty boom; sod hemade me study
them every day. bees were put is, and
5... y appeared to form • somewhat voluminous
dxurcent.] Before our marriage he gave me a paper
of luestions, which I was to reed over every night. Their
olrect wu to make me • model wife. Is January, 1856,
when I was pregnant with my first eked, I wan repeat* •
lesson to him in his study. He wee very meth apered
nth me bemuse I made mistakes. He mid I did it on
purpose to vex him, sad he struck me • eider blow oaths,
bead, which seemed to stun me. Ido not know if I fell to
the grouted, but I believe I did. That wee the Bret
time he used personal violence to me. In Fartury
I wu made ill by his ill-treatment of me,
but I duals remember the eiroatestances, het my railed
attendant wee met tor, and my burrs& told him that I
had an attack of indigestion. On a interneet cosine he
beet me for making mistakes in sonsermg I was writing.
He has frequeally inalated ms, teed I have bad marks
upon my pave moareqesees at his blows. My drat
eb,ld was bons on the 26th of July. 1856. My hestand
persuaded me that it wu • want of delicacy to desire the
mum) of a medical man. I had no reshape* at all ; Mire,
11•1 'tumid and the cook were with my but they
were too frightened to aid me. Mu days after-
wards I went out in a fly, by ray husbands
desire, end the child went with as. He mid he
thought it would do me good. I did not *vesicles% for I
wished to fall in with all his wishes. The child was de-
vomited out this recision in a flab-basket (Lighter.)
like drat d after my coadoement he made me take
a bath. When the child was • very little in-
fant, probably not more than • fortnight old,
the respondent slapped it for crying. He beet it sod Amok
it violently on many aracesioos for the same care. There
were geerally swirke en it alter tires beatious. Ono day
when the pupils had not roe he was espy. He mid that
I had nagrited some of his Mee- for the child's
good, sad he alert re en the forehead while
I was seckling it. He has ogees taken the raid
sway from me, my's, that I wee not is • state to nurse it
became I had raked myselL I suffered great incoevenienee
from that. During the year 1857 he ohne threw boob at
:-.111, and ordered me oat of the room bears he said I was
stupid sad could not my my lemma. He has spat in my
face two or three times. .The Led mad= woe is February.
1,80. 111 was a very cold marry day, and he
bad moat the °bikinis out for • welk. I saw them cry*
en amount of the cold and beckoned them in. The re-
sunder oases down to the front door from hie steady. Ho
was very angry and sent the children est *pia. After
they had gone he shut the door, abused me in very violeat
language, and thea. after collect/rag a lugs amount
of saliva in his meth, las seat is my fare,
and left me. la 1857 • fish-bone rack fa my treat.
He took me out of the room, sad told me that he thought
a great blessing was about to befall me. namely, that I
wan about to be choked. When I made • mistake in refl.
Su. he said he loathed me and wished I would gat out of lie
gilt. When he has sue too fuddle( my children, he mid
I was tke • eat ascribe her Irides or • new km ealf. He
has often fotbidden me to say my mayor, on the grad
that I was neat and that I was a meat of deceit.
Witless promo:led to my that he bad more than 011011
kicked her in the brit. Their elder dead was
an idiot. Whoa her husband was in gaol after
the sentence in the ease of the death of the
boy Reginald Carellor, she visited hive eretel times.
She and her children were thee being supported satiroly by
her mother, far whir he shoed her, and deoland
be would rather abs was ia a weaklier*

—Witia;;ZiltWeasZeniaiiiWiWiTl: Her
replies were to the effect that All bad bees put bito seder
a course of " educational trationsat," he wishing, she thooOtt
to gap experisoce by trying exparimeate epos her. He bed
obtained so stroog ea Wawa over bar. that eb maid sot
temps from it even what be wee la pram
The respondent wee laissmiplad is hie sees-exaalaaeloa
by both the lodge rad the jam a samitat al tie
irrelevancy of his gaestires.
wportA witaces
[, • sanest, woe lades lamination when ear

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT.

(THIO DAY.)

(Before Chief Janina Beis.)
Carl Aare.At ,rahallians, • foreigner, described se •
labourer, pleaded guilty to an indietment charging bins with
felociously attain two forged Rollin notes for Me pay-
ment of 50 routtlos each.

Serjeset &Iked% who ted, laid the gestlewien
ehots the notes were t detected the forgery. wed
'kissed the notes. The prissier endeavosred to swops
but was (allowed and overtakes, and a ticket which ti
hand on him led to the diesivery of hie rarest tras, asd a
hue quantity of other Ronan Dotes were in it all n( width
errs forgeries.
Sestesee was deigned.

Seyiusair, who surrendered to take his trial epos as
indictment, charging him with enlisting rem to em mow
a foreign government, pleaded radty to that drugs.
Sir R. Collier. the Solicitor-General, prommited, and Yr.
3letcalf defended the prisoner.
Mstcalf, on behalf of the prisoner, said. be was • mea
who bore a good character, and who had for emu years
carried oe the besieges as a shipping =aster. Persona
tune to him, and be east them to soy stop whioh might be
:2 out of hands at the tiros, sad bad, solder mob stream-
".Meto sent rum to America out board the verde is quer
not knowing at the time that be was acting contrary to
. The Solicitor•Ge
rathersseral mid, on the port of the arrn
'4,
, object sou prevention thee puoishmerst, sad
t• .top a aystem which had been carried on for some tiros,
of saluting men in the foreign merles. He was will-
': to accept Mr. Metcalf's *splenetic's, sad be bed Teases
ielieve that the prisoner war rather an agent in the mattes
!L4t a principal, ad under the circumeiseme he would he
i:te content if the prisoner were booed over in his remi-
t ..ioce to appear when called urea to receive judgment,
-.ma the ooderstaading that if as atiamptwere me& to
the offence he would certainly be called spa.
Tie prisoner wan accordingly discharged ea kin own re-
vcilaoce to appear when called upon to madve judgment.
tti an loth:maim from the leaned judge that be would
""talt If be called up for jadgmeat if be attempted tome,
~.?fence.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

M A RLBOROUG H-STREET.
,RDISARY •PPLICATI 011.-11/J9SAL TO WM UP A MAD
DODT.
Hr. Pearce, the barrister, moompanied by Mr. Wall,of the
• Smith and Wall, New Inn, Stand, attended before
knot than morning under the following eireuterhume:
•',. Pearce said be attended on behalf of the maniere olf
:.tleman to apply fur • wantetegarnet a pence mated
" .an, who kept a ed.: in Deareiaet, Bebe, bet ae be
that meson in court, perhaps be would
"%elmataon ea would not neomeitabs his doing es. The
' ; -:entlernan bad for some years resided at Maims, but
,•,....40ately for him had entered the hams of blr.Hermen,
• ,fter befog there little more time a month, d=
° • time be had led • very dissipated life, he was