The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-21 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE,.

DM. 20.

abler the Judge Ordinary.)
OZTEILN e. GWEN (salt?.), AND TR' 0:101111'11 PROCTOR
(DITIRVINTIIO—COLLOSION.
This part-heard ere was renamed this an:rain by
Mr. Macardey, Q. 0., who ailleard the jury oe behalf of
Lady (Irbil'. He mid that thermic' *remarried in 1846,
and lived together till 18.53, during wirehair Mr Richard
Grine lived a very profligate life and behaved to the re-
spoodent with great cruelty ; at length Lad' Getbin felt
compelled to leave him, and with two exertions, when she
had goue back to bin, for • week in order to give him ano-
ther trial, she bad ever sire resided with her mother.
Al for the allegation of collusion, the learned counsel
atignetimed it as a most trumpery charge. Sir
Richard Corbin was, in point of fact, a direr.
table beggar who had not • sixpence in the world,
end it was therefore not very remarkable that the costs
awarded against him is hie own abortive suit should sot
rye been recovered. It wee certainly • little too much for
the Queen's Proctor to come before the court and allege the
gee yment of costa as proof of conspiracy between Sir
Richard sod Lady Gahm to abuse the process of the sat.
It had been found convenient by the Attaraey-General to
emit all mention to the jury of the gram offences of which
lad r train complained • bat the fact was that so long ago
alBb4 as eminent ai.lSma (Dr. Addams) had been resulted
sales suit in the Reelearelliel Court far *direst menet et
them Dr. Adair berg of opinion, however, that the
time of Sir Mart bad been cadosed, his Goa-
gnaredis was dropped. In 1866 there
VI els a_ tommary reorciliatioa, and that, of
=id Wood //wir
_Clethm from any remedy
MO miL Mr Mahood committed • new odium,
Ord se revived the aid ors. In Auguet, 1859, she arc-
Odor horn the 'mariners both the wheremboute of her
hoglead (of which she had till the. been ignorset), and also
isle couuezioe with the suit of " Latham v. Latham and
Gothic." The suit of Sir Richard wee regarded by the
lady's family as a gross, cabuseior and 18)a:ire at-
tempt to extort mousy ; and it did set succeed. Lady
Grine and Mr. Ellis both appeared to it ; and en the ink
of October, 1659, the lady SW her petition. In tie follow-
ing mouth, Sir Richard, lading that his miabgebe
would fail, withdrew his petition is despair. Tea
charge, therefore, of anything lake • socaupt under-
steadier between the parties to defraud its/ era
was utterly unfounded; and the lama seassel
submitted that the Queen's Proctor might to have
extended his researches much further before he brought so
scrims as reusation against Lady Gethin. And now with
regard to the allegation of adultery. He admitted that Lady
aorta we a frequeet visitor of Mr. Ellis ; but though the
Mies Denny. had memiced the Mimes wahshfulson both of
eye and ear, asither bad been able to rake up ea rodent that
bore the slightest resemblance es her part to criminal fami-
liarity. Wee it erodible, in fact, that the Mims Decoys,
whose smere virtue en ace mold doubt, would have tole-
rated straket maw their reef that bore to their reds at
tie ties Om unmet even of indiscretion, much
lees of guilt? The WAN' sinews of clasdestinity
ems in itself a striking circumstance said had
drys been se reorded by reat judges of the
entrimooial err, like Lied Stowell and Sir Owego Hay.
After Miss Denny, jr. bed admitted is the candid way she
bed, that her sister would not let Lady Orithin retinue
la Mims in the drawing-mom because she stayed in it so
hag. It was really too bed far them ladies to oome forward
mad give evidence of her frequenting the bedroom before
M. Ellis had the parlour, as proof of her adultery.
Or again, if they had admitted that they allowed Mr. Ellis
read prayers and sermons to them, it was too bad for
' them to come forward and pretend that they considered him
at that time • person of immoral character. But if they
did sot at the time so consider him, what was the value of
their evidence now'. With regard to the evidence of the
servant Caroline Wilson, it was on the fa* of it incredible.
She had stated that she had left Miss Danny's because she
had seen Mr. Mkt with his arm mead Lady ()Able 's waist.
That might have been • good reason why Mr. Ellis should
leave--surely not why the servant who lied witnessed it
should bare left. Considering the absolutely conjugal re-
lations in which the Queen's Proctor insisted that Mr. Ellie
and Lady Grillo had lived together for 14 months, it was
not likely that they would he guilty of casual indecencies
when • bousenimid might at any moment pop her hind into
the room to see what o'clock it wse ? If such familiarities
passed between them at all, it was far more likely that they
would have been • habit, and, if • habit, was it likely that
they mold have romped the vigilance of two prying old
M 1414 who let lodgings!
The learned counsel, whose able address occupied two
hours soil a half, then called witnesses and before the
court adjourned, Lady Gethin's case wee heard.

Txa VacAwT LIVINg AT TOWENHAM.—WO Ull-
derstsed theta memorial, signed by 1,3760 f the parishioners '
of Tottenham, has been presented to the Dean sod Chapter
of St. Paul's, praying that the Bev. J. S. Winter, who has
been for twenty•t wo years senior curate of the parish (dur-
ing twelve of which he was acting vicar, the then vicar being
non•residttit), may be a_ppointed to the living rendered
vacant lir the death, on Monday last, of the Rev. W.. 1.
Hall. The memorial speaks in very high terms of Mr.
Winter, and the fact that it has been signed by so large a
number of persons in the very few days which have elapsed
since the late vicar's decease, abundantly proves the
warm affection and respect in which the rev, gentleman ie
held in Tottenham, and the earnest desire of all climes for
hie appointment as vicar. 1
The following uotioe was issued from the General
Post-office yesterday, vie. :—Extm mails for Nova Scotia,
New Brunswick, and Prince Edward's Island will be midi
up in London on the evening of the 21st lost. for conveyance
by the British contract packet Asia, as that smell will cell
at Halifax on her way to New York.
Arrangements are unw iu progress for extending
tiered-460t Savings Bank system to leeks&