The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-19 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

JAL 18.
felon the Judge Ordinary.)
CHITRTIND V. 011.1171MCD.
Mr. Henry Matthews mossammuted by Mr. &whist—
There was at that thee • coasiderable somadal. I may
say, respectiag me and Mrs. Chef ell unwept some
sr her friends. I menet molieteM who crig(sated
14. I drat mosived information of it from Lord
Berkeley Paget, who wrote to me on the ithisot
Mr. Mamie" Yr. Belt, Mr. Arthur Talbot (the pal-
tames father), also commuolosted with me ma the subject ;
With the Webb'. Mr. Webb may possibly bamensded to
the matter, dat that was Wagwards. Is the summer
of 1863 Mrs. Moseyed called my chambers with Mr.
Lalght, and I also raw bog in the mamas sad at the elate
of that year. Morns& is 1862 was I should Shish about
six years old, sad the boy four. The last tiato I wrote to
Mrs. Obetwynd was probably at the sod of beet long yen-
tas. I have moesionally serrespoeded with hes. Sewer-
times I WTOt• regularly, and sometimes • beg interval
oweezrwl. I waver received book front Mr. Chet eyed or
say one sies • Meter I bad minus to the petitioner. I did
write to Me the letter which has been read begins*,
"Are you at Dom smith, most silent of lodise r I have
never ma it caws, tad I don't know where ft is. I sent it
to Mrs. Chet eel is March. 1863. I addressed her as
" most silent of ladies " bootees she bad sot 'amend •
lease which I had written to her which I thought required
an answer. The letter west an lbaleve, "If es, ma I see
u at Lichfield or Rowley, er say ether part of the
habitable globe 1" I dos't thick I made say reformers to
• letter which I bad written to her, or my Worm* to her
being at Gamley, the seat of Lord Ingestre. I got an ano-
nymous letter by niters of poet which (meted • portico of
a better el mina (This was produced but sot red) Oa
the 14th of the Feb/wary preceding I had received • valen-
tine which was of the family of that letter. I wrote to
Mrs. Obet eyed thee* or four times in 1863. I sever bad •
Utter from Mr. Chetwyed, aped by him, in my life. The
Wakened party was is • Sunday is 1861. I doe% recollect
the ciroometenos which broke up the party. It seemed to
me to be trivial at the time. Somilliag wee said is a tom
of banter to Mn. Obetwyed which gave her offence. It
had so refereed, to me. I did afterwards ask for an mph.
edition from Mrs. OhotaryaL She did not regard it as
Weiss, but I did. Mrs. Obetwyad said she bad concaved
that it was intended to sassy her persowally. I
repeat
there was so allusion te me, or to any
gentleman. Mn. Obetwysd sever told me
whet Doomed her; but she attached as importune
to it that surprised rm. She spoke of it is • tom of mil-
reproach. The child Florence was is my room about a
quarter of an hoer. She left before her mime. 1 had just
rung far more hot water when Mrs. Clitetwyed aura What
made as impression on my Wed was that I bad got the
child into dierwe with Mr father, and that Mrs. Oath-
eyed was fading fault with me. I was perfecitly deemed,
except that I bad my dressing sows and slippers os. No
servant IMO in while the child wee with me.
!le-examined—Mrs. Ohotirysd showed some displeasure
the east two or Axes Was I saw her ; sad at Ascot
new I bad an opportunity of hashing of her
what was the mime. She told me that there
had been • dispceitioe to annoy her ; and that
I had spokes of her thiparegingly to the Webb'. 1 endea-
voured to remove that impremon. 1 had • conespoodems
with the patterns I lave amid in oomequarter of the
letter I bad received from Lord Berkeley Paget. I wrot I
lint to Mr. Arthur Take* the father ot the petitioner.
bops that oarreapeadenee, sad before it closed Ms. Olset-
wynd bad returned home to Lowden. After then I wrote
to Longdes three hitters, to which I did sot receive • reply.
I this wrote the letter digitalis( " Most silent of MM."
Mr. Talbot had referred ma to Mr. Salt as an old band
both al himself and Mr. Chetwyad. I wrote to Loogdes on
the comion of the sandal made&
The Hon. and Rev. Dr. Talbot—l am brother of the
Foil el Shrewsbury, sad • priori of the Realm catholic
church. Mn. Chawyod is my Moos. In 1861 the first
comniuniested with me oa the subject of beemiag • Boman
catholic. She moue up to town for the purpose of being re.
caved in September, 1862. She this west down to her
father's in order to attend • ball. She cams up to Imam
to make her first communion is the tollowhig Deember,
Mrs. took lodgings for her at Clif toe-tenses,
Dorothy Boot
ham known Mrs. Cbetarynd en'
her life—Dot all my life. (Laughter.) She has bean is the
habit of stacks( with me Mao she her come to tows nines
1960. On these ocemions I lave been shooltalways with her,
bat I have not bees her " Blames" with ker. (Laughter.),
Mr. Hawkins thee elaborately summed up the mu for
the respondent, coatioding that the charges of cruelty had
wholly failed. It there had been • word of truth is the
stork* which the petitioner had falsely sad foully invested
against her hoebead, would they Dot have Wm corroborated
by more reputable witamess thee the servants who had
Men produced! Where was her father, the Hon. and
Bev. Arthur Talbot, her brother, Mr. Harvey Talbot, kit
mole, the Earl of Shrewsbury, whose proems in the court
by the side of kis Icrelehtp be supposed could hardly have
bees voluntary! Where're', the Webbe—when, in short,
were the sumeroos witnesses who must have been in • pad-
ties to speak to the respondent's conduct if it bed boos of
the description alleged ? Mrs. Cbetwynd bad lathed yowl-
salad one whams, Mr. Will Moth, and he had flatly cos-
Indicted her. TM learned weasel ridienled the attempt
which would be weds to exhibit the petitioner as • mama
ei delicacy and refioement, and moaned the c
olwidow which
bad thrown light upon her habite—especially that Mr.
Hayes, the bonedeeler, who stated that she once come and
at with him in the housekeeper's room sod smoked two
pima with him. His learned friend bad suggested that that
was oily is fun ; but nobody unaccustomed to tobacco ever
took • wand pipe as a joke. (A laugh.) Mr. Choterynd's
nitge had no doubt sometimes been coarse, but he
hod at least not been without provocatics. Some
Irritation might_ well be forgives • man who found
that his wile MA involved him is 3,0001. of debts which
aught not to have been incurred at all. It wee tree that be
bad milled her • " liar and swindle," ; but that was brows
she had pretended that haunt Lady Lothian had gives her
• brougham ; whines ems time alter • bill for it was seat
is to him for 1501. With regard to thetaffeir at Beandemrt,
Mr. Chetwyrel had co eluded fres her behaviour that hie
wife would polkaed Lady Anglesey. Bet Mamas Mrs. Chet.
mod that she should refuse to do so ? If she would look
back at her own may life, she might fled that Lady An-
glesey was at beat as fit company for her as the people she
met at fairs and markets. The learned counsel then argued
that eves if the cruelty had been established—which
be wholly dialed—it had bees clearly modoned ; for
the petitioner ha lived on friendly terms with the
respondent long after the lad act complained of,
and had parted with him is an affectiooate meow
when she finally loft Lapides-ball. After norm criticisms
os evidence in support el the charges of adultery, the loused
smug turned to the recriminatory pins. He wee per-
fectly aware that both Mr. Nichol, sod Mr. Matthews bad
denied oar oath the adultery imputed to them, but Dr.
Leabington bad said. in " Fraser v. Fraser " (7, Notes of
Cases), that while ordinary wastages must be presumed to
be speaking the troth, persons choreal with adultery mat
be regarled as speaking under the laminae of a same of
Meow trueor false, which, as long se human nature ro.
maimed' enthused matbe expected to operate. More-
over, a feeling of self-Interest would make them clears to
relieve themselves from the burden of the alleged coesee.
Von by denying Its wartime. Snob evidence must always,
therefore, be mewed with extraordinary jealousy. Taking
first Mr. NaobOW ore. No me could prettied that there
wee not • oonsideesble balsam betimes the petitioner sad
that gentleman, as was shown by the evidence respecting
the ball at Stafford on the 17th of December, sad the or.
cronyism on the following day. On the alarm= of the
23rd of the mom mootb, Mr. Nichols, Mideast to go
to Devonshire, set off for Birmieghas, where he
bad no besieges at all, end where he had to kill
time, according to his own account, by placisiat,
at billiards all the ereelog. By the same train Mrs.
wynd also went to /3irmiegbani, as she said, for the
of stelae a lady who bad writhe to her • week biter=
awrehrser es, but wholes rote *be bed saver asewered,
onleg•e sad
wag • vary left
one ; but it oce Sirmiagham that viabolaamply explained by
story
the hypothesis that the pram had made as arrangenseat to
Mrs..
at Birmingham that sight. It ins iadiepoted that
Mrs. Chetwyed bed asked Mrs. Edwards to got isarbusbaod
to engage two beds at the Hen sod Malcom far her sad a
gentleman, who had tome with her by the Vain ' • but that
they had never gem to the hotel hi genetics. It is proved,
however, by the positive oaths of throe mrsoes, that they
slept together at the Falcon. A most flimsy attempt
i bad been made to set up an slibi. Mr. Nichols's wholly
felled, for it went no further then that the room which di
said he had occupied at the Qualm's Hotel was espied ,• bet
no chamber maid, boota, wafer, or billiard marker had bole
palmed to show that be had ever bees seen sear thallium&
Mn. Obetwysd's was equally ineeseleave. The madames
base that ate had left the Falcon is • bury without her
Madded on the moraine of the 24th, two Mamma bad
does celled to say that they bed afterwards soso her break.
testa( at • Temperance Hotel—ter their evident* emit so
further than that. There was thus DO 000tradietios what-
ever between the ease kw the respendsot sad the widens*
called for the madam te robot it, He now come to the
charge of adultery with Mr. Matthews. That petlesna
ended that then bed sever been my undue
between Mrs. asetwynd aid lawn ; bat could
believe him Is the be of Mrs. Chatwynd's own
is km diary! Nobody weld all her lawyer les "Mel"
—(laitgliter) ; but Mn. Obetwyad bad dorm that over and
over in. She said, "A woman who attempts bee
teiendiip es Make& love, it Mikes me, is • foci.