The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
MARCHANT T. MARCHANT—BM:TERM.
This morning Sir J. Wilde gave judgment in this
singular suit, which was a petition for a judicial separation
on the ground of cruelty, and which was heard yesterday.
The learned judge professed himself to have been utterly
staggered by the case as presented on the one side and on
the other. Under the circumstances he could only look at
the uncontroverted facts, and at the correspondence.
Applying that test to the rest of the evidence, the conclu-
sion at which he ar,ived was, that the respondent and his
mother were not to be believed. There must, therefore,
be a decree as prayed.
BRADBURY V. BRADBURY.
Mr. Bsyford appeared for the petitioner, Angelina
Augusta Bradbuv, who sought a dissolution of her
marriage on the ground of adultery and craelty.
The merrigge took place in 1860, the respondent
• beng a member of the firm of Jervis, Lees, and
Bradbury, china manufacturers' at Longton, in Stafford-
shire. -He represented himself to be a member of the
Wesleyan Society, and a man of substance; but he turned
out to bo neither. He lived with the petitioner
with his mother-in-law, at Trent Vale ; but
he soon became bankrupt. He then became a grocer,
and afterwards a billiard-marker, but he practically
lived upon a small property belonging to his w:fe. He
treated his wife very ill, and there was a separation in the
early part of 186.1 Me afterwards went to assist his
brother, who kept an hotel at Luton, and here he cote-
, mitted adultery with Fanny Clay, a servant in the house,
by whom be had had a child.
Decree nisi with costs, and custody of the two children
of the marriage.
POCOCK r. POCOCK AND BARTON.
I, Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., and Mr. Patchett for the peti-
tioner, Captain Alfred George Duke Pocock, a son
•of the late Sir George Pocock, of Christchurch,
Hants. The marriage was in 1663, and there had
been one child. The parties lived for a short time at the
Priory, with Sir George, but they afterwards took a house
in the neighbourhood, called lioscombe Cottage. They
made the acquaintance of Lieutenant Henry Augmitu.
I Dorton, an officer in the army, who was invited to
, the Priory and also to the house of the petitioner.
An adulterous intimacy thus sprang up between the re-
spondents and an elopement ultimately took place. Evi-
, deuce of the unlawful cohabitation having been given,
! I The court made a decree nisi with costa.

PLYMOUTH, Nov. Z.

The steamer Cambrian, with the Cape mails,
arrived here this morning. She left Natal on the
16th October, Cape Town the 20th, St. Helena
the 29th, and Ascension the 2nd November. Sho
brings 60 passengers, including the Bishop of Zan-
zibar and his suite, the Rev. Messrs. Baldwin,
Jenkins, Macnamara, Lewis, and Edwards.
Lady Wodehouse, the wife of his excellency the
Governor-General, died at Cape Town on the
night of October 6, after several months illness,
aged 48. Deceased was very generally beloved by
the colonial public, from her having silos
warm and constant interest in the affairs of
the colony. Her funeral was arranged as
a private one, but a large number of
colonists attended to express their sympathy.
Over 50 private carriages formed the funeral
cortege. Both Houses of Parliament presented
addresses of condolence. The business which had
been transacted in parliament had been chiefly of a
routine character.
The Colonial Secretary made his annual budget
speech on the 25th September. A long discussion
followed, mainly upon the necessity of economising
the public expenditure. Ultimately the estimates
were referred to a select committee, whose repo'
has not yet been presented.
A bill authorising a loan of 360,000/. has been
brought in, of which 120,090 r. is for the comple-
tion of the line between Wellington and Tulbagh
Klotf, and the rest for the Graham's Town Rail-
way. An active opposition was organised against the
bill, and the debate was adjourned until Oct. 22.
Meanwhile the various government measures bear-
ing upon finances made but little progress.
Two railway bills were before the House of
Assembly, the first repeals the acts of 1862, and
the second authorises the government to raise
money by means of debentures.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE V. C. NAURU:.
Toe bankrupt was described as a sherry-shipper, of
Gi,ait Tower-street and of Xeres, in Spain. This was the
Bitting for examination and discharge. The liabilities are
stated at the large amount of 73,0421., of which 511,0351. is
due to unsecured creditors, and 2,735/. represents liabili-
ties on biils. Property given up, 20,360 f. ; ditto held as
security, 20,0811., consisting ;principally of wines.
Mr. Reed, on behalf of the assignees, stated that the
hankt upt had been in his father's service at a salary of
faiof. or 7001. a year, until 1803, when he married a Spanish
Lady of fortune, and commenced business on his own ac-
, count in London and Xeres. That business had not
been successful. Of the bankrupt's liabilities upwards of
40,000/. was due to his father-in-law and other
relatives, who made large consignments to him. He was
bankrupt both in Spain and this country. His father-in-
law had agreed to take the property and discharge the
debts in Spain, which would get rid of 52,0001. of the
amount. Some of the property held by the creditors in
this country had been given up on the ground that
' the wines were not equal to sample; the assignees
had collected 1,1001. ; and it was expected that
I there would be enough to pay the English creditors in
full. With a view to carry out the arrangement made by
the bankrupt's father-in-law in Spain, which would be
advantageous to all pai.ies, the presence of the bankrupt
there was necessary and the assignees did not object to
his passing his examination and receiving his order of
discharge.
Mr. R. Griffiths appeared for the bankrupt.
His Honour said he would ;Lass the bankrupt's examina-
tion, but it would be better not to grant the order of dis-
charge until the airangeinent said to be in progress in
PAINFUL SUFFERINGS OF THE CREW. Spain was completed.
ARRIVAL AT SOUTHAMPTON.—(THIS DAY.) j Mr. Griffiths said there was reason to believe that the
completiou of that arrangement was &pendent on the
(nv ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) fact of the bankrupt getting los discharge here.
Captain Forney, of the British brig Meg, has His Honour said he understood that the Spanish ba
ro nk-
bught here the second mate and two coloured seamen ruptcy took precedence of the English one, and it ought to
be completed first. Ile could not grant the order of dis-
belonging to the American brig E. M. Dyer. He picked charge unless he hail an intimation from the whole of the
them from the wreck of that brig on the 22nd of last English creditors that they consented to its being granted,
month, off Cape Hatteras, on the South Carolina coast. notwithstanding the procee:ings in Spain were still
They bad been ten days without food. The captain and pending.
bankrupt Fumed ; the sitting for discharge was ad-
&bother seaman were picked off the wreck, but they died
Thejoerued for three months.
on board the Meg. The captain died mad. The two
IN BF. P 15001).
coloured seamen were slaves before the American revo- The bankrupt was a pianoforte maker, of theFlampstead-
lution. road. This was the sitting for examination and discharge.
Debts, 2,34-If. ; assets returned at 5507.
SEIZURE OF FENIAN' STORES AT CORK. Mr. R. Griffiths, for the assignees, asked for cash, goods,
and deficiency accounts.
CORK, THURSDAY. Au adjournment was ordered for that purpose.
This morning two cases brought by the Liverpool
steamer, which arrived here yesterday, were opened by the
police, and eec of them was found to contain 50 Enfield
rifles, perfectly new, with bayonets attached, also a
number of bullet moulds. The whole were seized by the
•

WRECK OF AN AMERICAN BRIG.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

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police. A number of persons arrived, by the City of Paris, i
at Cork, on Monday night, from New York, and it was GUILDHALL.
coticed that many of them left in parties of three or four by ' BrIIIILARY IN THE CITY.
y of carpet, w it knowing
earls: trains on Tuesday, for different parts of the country. E'lizatrth James, alias Elizedath Smith, was placed at the
The naval authorities have seized the schooner Titania, bar on remand
.beuf -
ori
Alu'lerlintt anSidney, charged
e. with
from Cardiff, laden with coal, on suspicion of hating arms ht.heie'Ll,niePt:sLgB,:beLast:Qll;,'"n.
concealed among her cargo, and have taken her to Haul. Mr. Humphreys, of the firm of Humphreys and Morgan,
bowline, where she underwent a strict search, but it is of Newgate-street, prosecuted.
reported that no arms were found. The Cork Examiner Onthoef p;viorszas exammesinatnliiitpmsesproanyr
ftnats.the pret:
says that a man named Tracey, in the employment of John miens
nianufacturer., of Skinner-street, Snow-hill, were I=en
Daly and Co., of this city, was arrested here into and robbed to a considerable extent on the night of
to-day. The
two miles of rifles seized by the police were consigned to the 73rd of October.
the address of the above-named firm. 1 Howland, a deteetiveoflicer, having had the ease plaoed in
hie hands, traced the propertyto the prisoner'sledgings,No.
9, Wharf-road, Caledonian-road, and in company with a
M. Mazzini says that the letter to the Romans brother officer and Mr. Edwards, an employe of the pro-
s!cuto rs, foundinatsrut 9.5. worth of the property of
apartment, together with a dark
which appeared in the Patric two or three days ago, and
to which his name was appended, is a complete forgery. rne. prosecutors
being partially broken had left a mark corresponding with
tern and some housebreaking implements, one of which
"What my advice to the Romans," he writes, "would or
shall be in the approaching crisis it is now needless to it on the jamb of the door of the proeeeutors. The property
express ; but I would certainly be the last to brand as im. was fully identified as being part of that which had been
prudent the glorious deeds of Rome in 1649." stolen from Messrs. Humphries' premises on the night of
thheibrurgHlulrynp.breys
said the case had been remanded from
According to the tables of the Prussian Budget
for 1867, the general staff of the army will in future be time to time to enable them to apprehend the man who
composed in the following manner :—One chief of the lowed by the name of James, and was believed to be the
time. He did not think any goal would r lt Frroer a
general staff, 13 sub-chiefs of the staff, 313 superior officers,
evfewohf
elite
sann.72ys Prisoner's
e huusibTe
idn,i buty eattliomlliedevery ittforttehad been
further remand, and he therefore proposed to call
24es
will be officers. 24,222 non-commissioned officers, and 6,654 one more witness, and then ask for the prisoner's corn-
bandsmen, with 47,911 horses.
estimated in Ithnde 3builieulgetetnanis ta.296.ffiT4emeffenecti,
rnittal on the charge of receiving the goods, well knowing
have
The death of a centenarian who took part in them to
Mrs. Ann been stolen.
Wiltshire said she was a warder in the House
the capture of the Bastille is announced by the Etoile de of Correction, at Westminster. She knew the prisoner by
rAeUge, which states that M. jean Jalabert, who served the name of Elizabeth James, and also by the name of
in the armies of the First Republic, has just died at Elizabeth Smith. She was present at the Clerkenwell
• sessions on the 3rd of June, 1863, when the prisoner was
Besset, at the age of 107 years. . tried in the name of Elizabeth Smith, and convicted of
A New Orleans paper advises planters to Km- stealing a watch from the person, and was sentenced to
divide their plantations into small farms to enoonrage twelve calendar menthe imprisonment with herd labour,
immigration. . The prisoner had been to the Rouse of Correction several