The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-14 00:00:00

BITILIORDINARZ CA

A measetwbat remarkable a
before the First Division of the C,
burgh, last week for judgment. 11
Dingwell. Routh., end provost c
anrt (okeirotd7) in the one, and me
hie eth on the ground of orbital
wife was trot lamented to ha unit
plated in hie hand by his wife'. tit
th. 26th of February, 1867, wh
sorrow and repeuteneo fur having
=tt i and meeting with her at
antes ..f a painful swim
snaption that, in a pre-irony
S'lver and Dr. Gordon, of Port
Royal Rotel, Beifatt, on the 12th
adultery had been committed.
early lift lire. Wirer, Met bli•e
sapashiled with Dr. Gordon, and
had arisen between them—an ado
both Ades to sarvive the separatice
by efrownstantes, and oven the n
to Mina partners. Dr. Gcrd
aDohaty in 1837, addreeted bet
of " Ur," fn map and "tenets I
the time is the Aeolis University
highly roment,e love Inlets 1
another lady, whom he duocribt • is
the asiader as his " loving, tr
and by her be had three child,
the paraaer in 1843, and I. t
Twit* during her monied lit
once • few months alter mar
time on the cohesion above re
who had fur some years been
In 1867, about a yea let th
stalanfent Elko O'Dutterty le th
and at bar aneeigation, she kept
spondaic. with Dr. Gordon, end
Toying loving maistges bosom 111
May, -18:6, Dr. Gordon, who then
recruit hi. failing health, exprt
itt•lver before doing on; thet,on p
the two sister. went •intis Rdini
snit Dr. Bimpsee, and that, while t
Gorden wan unable to tem so to
Belfast as the place of niestiesig.
Lion (even la the letter neared to
Lam in Be fast mat the chief grim
dge-orduary in the me.(Um
'lvor guilty of adultery, end gm
being brought odder review of the
shin, they derided by three to one I
legal proof of the wite's guilt, but
even amount to moral proof.

Lord Ivory atatnd his °pluton at
that several of tko witnesses, judo
animated by as:roan reelign of hot
teat a very anusnal intimacy sm
the pursuer Ent Ellen, and cost Eli
from the custody of others arm,
off reel other grater's guilt. Be her
word this vitae. s Anoka, and wool
' sister= so heavy a charge. She T
was shocked at what she sow p
Dr. Gordon, but she wee equally
brother-in-law. On the .bole, hs
enough of much bad tastes but he
=Ley very doubtful,
• woman .to h
as:.ll.li,oiw w I
rce
thrown a 'foliate poverty and hr
Lord Ourrestill took the oppos
Mrs. Bpi vee's guilt.

-1;1113;ii nr,;Mhed the same
wren in stronger tams, and ete
knowledge Le know of a case in
which had ceased to be • teseio
mated ; sad he believed
takentsetoileator forty years it w
cold haw mom {me from le
the nature of the sentiment Mill
scribed than in Dr. Gordon's lette
beat is my only {Meat, and it
beams of my Lora' and makes E
inch a kind—and. there was pc
more conceivable than that a mu
years bad lid an irreproachable li
day of her life to adultery, and n
This was ace the usual hisoory of
but eavonred more, to say phi
well meeting, tritgLt in tho I
enough the detester entertained
to her etepmotner at the time
dyieg," and under the hopreasio
the leaner Ellen rays abe expert
mete a dutiful and affectionate
abs come back," and that, " I
Bret p'ace in her heart, still el
pull to make op for it." He s
the folly or the toil ropriel of
snot Mot to give it an tumailet
the other hand, the coma:Meant
sufficiently accounted for the cloa
b, en cast over it, and many of i
the necessity of supposing adult,
flirted to the evidmce ea eLowlei
wasted to have 'Waisted bete
than even between the defends
mustier and Hike slept habitual
the door open between. When L
bed with him; whin elm was ill
her from mooning to night, end
neat her skin waa taken off end r
handy. He was not dispoted to
guilt in all this. He did not bel
one mutt penes before leaping to
the one case say mute than in th
eluded by teferring to the oorres
showing the bigti character of Di
that his were not the letters of a
• wife whom he wiebcd to detente
nM, oa morel mounde, impart
guilt, and certainly he cmld 001
evidence.

The Lord Prerident oleo gavel
in favour of the defender; and
TM Court, by a majority, noa
Lord Ordinary and rduag the d