The Express.
London, England, 1858-06-17 00:00:00

COURT FOR DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL

CAUBllB.—!c NZ IG,

(Bare Lad Chili Julio, Cockburn, the Judge Ordinary,
and lb. Justice Wightroan.) •
ROBINSON O. ROBINSON AND LANZ.

At the sitting of the court,
The Lord Chief Justice said they were of opinion that the
00-reepondeet was not competent as a witness ; but they were
in some doubt whether, there being no ev:denoe against Dr.
Lane except the alleged confession of the wife, they ought
not to Mamie, him from the cause in order that he might
bemuse a witness far Mrs. Robinson P The point was, how-
ever, so impceteat that they had thought it best to postpone
the Author hearing of the emit to order that they might com-
municate with the other members of the 00111 t.

Baton tiirsaTai;TniatJiii; cw, CornTer, the follow-
ing evidence was given on behalf of the defence
Mr. Thom, a literary gentleman, deposed to his intimate
acquaintance with the Rename:ie. In 1854 he saw the re-
spondent at Moor-perk. Considered that her manners in
alligwere rather tetanal ; but she was at times excitable
ghty. Witness's attention had been called to an so-
count given in her diary of en interview she had had with
him es the Srd of Jane, 1854, la which he was described as
!nein "thin, pale, worn. agitated, hopeless." She said hie
'great eyes looked like pale violets, his cheeks were hollow,
sad there wee • look of tenon dejection about his whole
(A laugh) Her own cheeks," she sat&
flashed ; tears everysecond Into her
Gym ; her voles was shored. and e talked long
end earnestly." Witness wee not In the leen
dejected or deputised cm that occasion; and the whole state-
ment4iespaelhly coloured and exaggerated. The same re-
mark to n ales account ea Interview with her cat
the of July in the sexes yew. On the 15th of that
mouth there was the following entry, " In the garden, ender
that tree, which I weer me without thinking of my nea-
ps& with Mr. Th." Could not imagine what the writer
swat by that. The word " escapade" wee quite inexpli-
cable to witness. Raninabered one day reeding with her
under • tree, end Mr. Robinson approached. The respon-
dent immediately ran round a corner, as if to avoid her hos-
bead. There bed never been the slightest Impropriety of
say kind between winter and the reppedent ; end the en-
tries respecting blot were romantic and rhapsodical.
Cron-entana—Red been for a short time a tutor in Mr.
Robinson'. family; end bad beenlntroduced by him to Dr.
Lane, with whom be wes new intimate.
The eine wee she. eillearned.

Decrees of dissolution were granted in the nine following
cases :—" Ward v. Ward," promoted by the wife against the
husband on the ground of mashy and adultery ; " Freeman
v. Freeman," promoted by the wife on the ground
of bigamy ; " Robottom v. Robottom," promoted by
the wife on the ground of bigamy ; bog v.
Ling end Croker," promoted by the husband, Captain
Ling, agelust his wife, the daughter of Sir J. Littler, on
the coned of Mallory • " Whitehoute v. Whitehouse," pro-
moted by the nib on the ground of desertion, adultery, and
bigmay ; " Tea& v. Tee& and Nottingham," promoted
by the liesbead aphid the wife on the ground of adultery ;
Beam& v._ and Cbamberldn," promoted by the
husband is the ground of @clattery ; " Holmes v. Holmes
earl Dodd" promoted by the husband ow the ground of adul-
tery " Ridgers v. Ridgers and Steer," promoted by
the husband on the ground of adultery.
In the ease of Robottom the court made an order to enable
the wife to obtain a sum of 84f. standing in her husband's
name In a savings bank, but after a long consultirion as to
the custody of two children, the fruit of the marriage, they
thought it better to pronounce no decree, seeing that any
snob decree would be Ind, sad could not at any future time
be modified. The mother was at present, no doubt, the
proper news to have charge of the children, especially se,
duos their father had deserted them, she had protected and
maintained them. It appeared, however, from a letter from
the hothead at New York, that he still retained a lively
affection for them, and it would be too much to cry that he
should for ever be eatioded from them.

in the nue of Lieg, the Court declined to condemn the
eeereninmient,lajnr Croker, in the meta, on the ground
that he vienhi not have hew liable to them under the old
kw.

In the cam of Bedrock, however, the paramour was
ordered to pay dm costa

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