The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-09 00:00:00

NAVAL.

PRIZE 24024EY.—Lesiniihi'iiGazetle gives notice to the
officers and company of H.M.'s a. Cygnet, Coal. Layton, that an ac-
count of the 4.rocteas end of the bounty looney on the tonnage of the
slave brigantines, names unknown, captured 11th )lush, and Clan,
on the 12th March, 1846, will be deposited in the registry of the Ad-
' roiralty on the Bth of March.—W. and E. Chard, agents.—Notice is
likewise given that the acceunt gales of the proceeds arising from the
minor., of the slave vereel QUIUIO4 by 11. We s. Waterwiteb, Com.
Birch, on the Ist of May, 1846, will be registered in the Court of Ad-
miralty on the 19th inst. ; and that the account sales of the proceeds
arising from tho capture of the slave vessel Gabriel, air o by 11.M.'.
s. Waterwitch, on the 10th April, 1846, will be registerod in the Court
of Admiralty on the 14th Woodhead, airenL
Deect:9volt; Fen. 7.—Pantaloon, 10, Com. Dougles,
arrived this morning from the North American and Weed India eta-
Poe, last from Cork, to whieh place ebe bore up in want of water.
She will come into harhom to be paid off. Meander, 44, Copt. Hon.
H. Koppel, sailed last evening for the East Indies. Kite, et—tug,
intended for service at Bermuda, arrived on the night of the sth, and
came into harbour. Twenty-tire apprentices are ordered to he en-
tered on the establishment of the dockyard this week.

taw Entettanut.
HOUSE OF LORDS. _

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CHIPPENDALE'S DIVORCE BILL—The Lord Chance lor,
the Earl of Devon, and other peers, met at 4 o'clock to take
evidence on the second reading of this bill. It may be re-
membered that Mr. Chippendale petitioned the house mime
time ago to be permitted t prosecute his bill for a divorce
in forms pauperis, upon the allegation that his means (being
now an attorney's conducting clerk, formerly an attorney
himself) were not sufficient to bear the usual expenses.
The house granted his prayer; hie bill was then presented,
and now came to be read a second time—Mr. Terrell and Mr.
Joyce examined the witnesses for the hill. It appeared by their
evidence that Mr. Chippendale was married to Miss Arthur
in 1828, in the church of St. Mary-le-Strand, London. They
lived together for some years, and had one child. Mr.
Chippendale went in or about 1833 to Belgium, and re-
mained abroad two years. On his return be found his wife and
child at Mrs. Arthur's, the wife's mother, and he remained
with her there two days. Suspecting that her affections were
alienated from him, he left, and went into lodgings by him-
self; hut coming in search of his wife to her mother's after-
wards, he found she was gone away. It appeared she went
to reside with a Mr. Hunt, and they lived together as Mr.
and Mrs. Hunt for some years in St. John's wood.
Mr. Chippendale brought an action for damages against
Hunt, who let judgment go by default. The friesids of the
parties proposed, to save further expense and exposure, that
Mr. Chippendale should accept MX for damages, which he
agreed to. The record of the action and also the proceed 3
ings in the ecclesiastical court, granting a divorce there, sir re
put in evidence. At the close of the examination of the wit-
nesses the Lord Chancellor asked the counsel if they were
prepared with a precedent of a divorce being granted in a
case where there was a compromise of the damages —Mr.
Terrell said they had no such precedent, but he reminded
his lordship that the judgment, on which the damages were
taken, was not the result of a compromise.—The case was
then adjourned.