The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-26 00:00:00

(Stamped, ld. Additioael.)

THB YELVIRTON MARRIAGE CASE.

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TorraDAT's raocnnums.
COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DUBLIN.
(Before Chief Justice Monahan and s Special Jury.)

For more than an hour before the opening of the Gond the
doors were besieged by an anxious crowd, which extended
over nearly one-third the area of the Greet Hall. The
policemen stationed at the door for the purpose of prevent-
ing the court becoming overcrowded, had the utmost die-
catty in the performance of their duty, midis three minutes
after the doors were opened every portion of the building
was thronged. The number was greater than on any of
the preceding days of the trial, and on the bench his lord-
ship accommodated several persons of distinction with seats,
amongst whom were the E.irl of Mountcashel, Lard
Vireoct Avonmore, Lord Talbot de Malabide, Lord Viscount
Monet, kr.
A few minutes before eleven o'clock, Mrs. Yelled°o
entered the witness-box, when her re-examination wen
I resumed by Mr. W hiteside as follow. :

Mn. Yelverton, you were asked a good many questions
about your father. Did you attend on him while he was
ill I—l did. For how foamy days f—For about a fortnight.
I bad waited co him in a very dangerous Slam previous to
that. I never took off my clothes for ton days. On one occa-
sion I saw a black spot on his foot, and I became possetted
with the ides thatit was mortification. I asked him to allow
an to send for the doctor, but he refused. I stole off when
he went to sleep, and ran four miles to fetch a doctor. The
doctor told me that in four hours more he would balm died if
he bad not come. I wish to stet, that I wrote the account of
my father's death bed in confident* to Major Yelverton. I
wish to make the anumde honourable to mgather's memory
hen by this explanation. The opiniooe, however erroneous,
which he held, have also been held by great and good men.
Mr. Bellamy, my brother•in•law, died on the first day of
this tali. He was the meager of my brother's affairs,
and was aequeinted with the engagement between Major
Fannon and myself. Mr. Stuart sod Mr. Shears proposed
for me in marriage. Major Yelvertoo foetid any fault
with me for anything about Mr. Roe. He wee never other-
wise than moat respectful to me, and I believe him to be the
most honourable of men. He is not the sort of man which be
is represented to have been thiscase—the ruthless destroyer
of women. My sister Sarah knew of my engagement to Major
Yelverton. She approved of it eventually, but not at first.
She showed me a letter which he bad written to her, hi which
he said that hie intuitions were honourable, bat that there
were °betides which he could not amveniently explain at
the time ; I asked him why he wrote such a letter and be
said, " coefound people that keep kitten to make 'mischief."
He she said." we are now married, and let the matter rest."
Some letters ware destroyed in jurt at itostrevor, but I pre-
served • portion of them.
Did you afterwards. proclaim truly every amp of letter
which you had in your possession!—l did.
And you state that some twenty letter of yours, written
after marries., have not been produced?
Yee. It was by invitation of Major Yelverton I mese
to Inked to be married i the letter in which Major
Yelvertoe asked me if I wished for a guitar wee
written ia Dublin, miter we came from Edinbiugh.
After the Scotch esremoay, when I refused to consider
myself his wife, he said that be would never call me
"min" again 'luta we were married. It will be observed
that in the letters written by him, beillll4llll that and
the Irish • the word is never used, but after the
• in Ireton be resumed the word, and I all myself
in "tea." When I arrived in Radrevor Mr.
Mummy took ins to the Bishop. He took me twice 'Her
our marriage. Major Yelverton always went to church
with me, and always said his players with me. He said
that he bed never said tar prayers before him '
To the Chief Justice—Those prayers were at • t and
al borne.

To Mr. e—Wir did not kneel together, but the
players were mid in our chamber. I thought my husband
would become • religious man. Mr. Mooney gave me in.
Acadian as to how I was to proceed with him—not to
harass him too much at first, but to iroduoe him to go to
church by degrees. I got my marriage certificate from
Mr. Mooney. I did not offer him anything for send-
bag it to me. I gave the certificate about • rear ago to
Mr. Thelwall, while staying at Mr. Thelwali's. Major
Yolverten read • letter from his sister, asking him if
it were true that he bad become a Roman catholic, and
egging she bad it on good authority that be had. He said
it must have been the priest that told it. At Leith, on
the 24th of June, 18.28, on the day before his nip-
rime with Mn. Forbes, my husband told me that his
family had beard of our marriage. He said that they bad
learned it by the opening of a letter written to him by me.
I wrote that letter from Bordeaux, and sighed myself his
" wife." That was in May or June, 1858. When the letter
was forwarded to him be said, " this has evidently been
opened, and theynow know all." Just describe what passed
between you and that gentleman I—lle was with me for
about • quarter of an hour before he was able to express
himself. He spoke to me about making some arrangementof
Major Yelvertoo's affairs. He did not speak to me of hie mar-
riage. I did not accept any offer made to me. I stated
that Maier Yelverton went up to Dublin to consult •
doctor. That was in reference to an asthma from which
he suffered. He started very early that morning from Bog-
trevor, and I think I took in coffee to his room. I was
dressed, and be was also deemed, and we came out together
to the sitting room. While seated in this box at the be-
ginning of the trial, I saw two women put on • seat opposite
ran aced vnitebiug me. I beliert it lava the Idyl:tufts=
Latintilar;a home w• went altar oar arrival is London
is 1852, but my sister, Mrs. Bellamy, seems to think that
it was to our own house—that rather shakes my belief as to
the marchioness, but it is so long ago that I cannot bs
maim
To Mr.Armstrong,Q.C.,through his lordship -It was while
I was on board the yacht of 82r James Close, in the Boa-
t= that Mr. Stuart proposed for me. He was, I he-
descendant of the royal family of that name, and is
a captain in the French army. Did Major Yelvertoe state
in his letter to your sister Sarah that marriage had never
been spoken of between you, and that it could not be!—
Never ; he said that there was no engagement, and that
there were *betides to each an engagement, bat that be
did not mean any disrespect to me or my family. Whilst
in Alargavenny it wee my habit to keep his Letters
in my pocket as I lived on such terms of intimacy
there with my sister that I never kept any place locked up,
mad An could readily read any letter she might find in my
desk, not thinking it any harm. The " fraternal scheme''
referred to in one of Major Yelverton's letters referred to •
proposition that our marriage should be celebrated by my
cousin, the consul at Monastir, whom I had been in
the habit of calling my brother. I don't know exactly
whose proposition that was. From the letter handed to me
I cannot give the date of my arrival at Waterford, but it
wee either in the last days of July or the beginning of
August. I left Bordeaux about the first week in May.
This concluded the protracted examination, cross-exami-
nation, sad re-examination of Mrs. Yelverton. As she re-
tired from the witness-box, there were slight manifestations
of applause, which were suppressed by the officers of the
court.

John Thelwall, examined by Dr. Tdwiteenil—l am the
plaintiff in this case • I reside at Hull, where I ern an iron
muter ; I knew Mrs. Yilverton twelve or fourteen years ;
I was very intimate with her, particularly after my marriage ;
Mr.. Thelwall is Ol and cannot attend here. She is alen inti-
mate with Mrs. Yelvert el. J or gum's', 1859, ng. Tbel-
wall and myself wen in Edinburgh. We saw Mrs. Yelverton
there at the house of Mrs. Blake, in Albany-stmt. Si,, wee
then celled Mir Longworth. I saw Major Yelverton
for the first time then. He came to the house where
we were staying. The night before we left for Hull
Mrs. Yelverton introduced us ; Major Yelverton's
name wee not mentioned, and Mrs. Yelvertoe
introduced Mrs. Thelwall as . her sister, mean-
ing, ea I take it, ea a particular friend.
She did not introduce Major Yelverton as her
husband. That was after dinner, and we had coffee
SNOUT. Before hie arrival I had noticed • wedding.
ring on Mrs. Yelmethe's finger, but nothing wee said about
it on thst oorasioe. We left Edinburgh the next morning,
and Mrs. Yelverton came to Hull at 'the latter end of No.
mother, on • visit at my house, where she stayed until
the February following. Major Yelverton visited her there,
and wee received by my wife and myself u the husband et
Mrs. Yelverton. Major Yelverton remained a week or tea
days, and then went away when his leave expired. He re-
tuned again and remained I think • week or thereiboate.
The date of his first arrival at Hull was the :41st of Deem.
bee. They occupied the same bedroom. Mrs. Yelverton con-
timed to wear the ring daring that time. It wee then rep-
posed that Major and Mn. Yelrertoo should go on the
Continent. Mm. Yelverton wore several ring. on the same
fiver am the wedding-ring to hide it. She wee not satisfied
with that, as she feared that her friends on the continent
might see it. Mrs. Yelverton did not say that, but it was
an inference of my own. She asked me for • stone fixed
to her wedding ring, which she might remove or replace at
pleasure. I discussed the matter with her in presence of
Major Yelvertem. I got • small stone with • book to it to
fix on the ring. The ring was spoken of as her wedding
ring. I remember going with Major Yelverton about •
purport to the office of the French consul at Hull ; the
passport was ant then obtained. We were told that,
in oonsequesee et the recent attempts on the life of
the French Emperor, we could not get • purport--
that the &militate* should be made to the Foreiga
Mos in London, through • banker or magistrate; we
were shown a copy of the Times with directions as to the
mode of applying for pinpoint. We took a copy of those
direstioes in pencil, and I wrote the application at his
dictation. He desired me to write the name Ma. Yelver-
ton In full—" Mrs. Theresa Yelverton." We went to
the polies office to see the stipendiary. I gave the applici-
tics to the Berk, whosaiditwieeet right, and we thee went
to Messrs. Smith, Brothers, sod Co., bankers, in Hull, and
saw the suave and told him what we wanted. The MIMI.
gee asked the name of the peon for whom he wanted the

(TWOPENCE.

passport mad Major Yeilyerton said "In. Thema Yelvertoo."
The manager. mid he would write to the tin London. r
saw the passport after it was procured. 'Pagenassport handed
to witness, which he identified.] Mrs. Yelverton said on one
coastal that if she were killed abroad and buried, she •
would wish to be taken up and ro.baried, and that then
having been twin christened, and twice married, she would
be twice buried. Major Yelverton make no remark to that.
She left Hull at the Ix-ginning ofFebruary (letter handed
to witness). That letter was written te me by Major
yalentien. Beads :—" Ms Dear Theiwan— Maas smoke •
the seensipanying cheroots and make my mind easy on the
seen et the many cigars of yours which I have smoked—
Toms sincerely, " W. C. Yetv inmost.
" P. B.—On second thoughts I send themby rail."
Examination resumed—l never had any convenation with
him about kis own religion. Major Yenertes add mew
thing to mean one 0001110i011 about Protestant minims, which,
he said, be believed, did a neat deal of mischief. On
another menden, speaking a the prospectus of a Protestant
Insurance Company which had au opals Bible represented
et the head of it, be said he should have very carefully
avoided it. We went to the theatre at Hull, four of us—l.
paying for the party. Major Yelverton offered to retain me
the money for two, which I declined. Mrs. Yelverton came
back to my house in the early pert of 1e59. She had one
female servant with her. She took equestrian esernse, which
she was ordered by Dr. Lee. Sometimes she used my horse,
and sometimes one which I hired for her. She boarded with
my family, and I paid for medical attendance for her, and
paid silk mercers' bills for her. I have not been repaid
these monies. I had the slightest doubt that Major
and Mrs. Yelvertos were husband and wife while at my
house. They were received there as my guests. They
were not introduced to any of my friends while at my house.
Why. ?—(Question objected to.) The bill of particulars
futnnhed by me is substeetisdly correct. I have always
preserved m intimacy with An. Yelverton, and so has
Mrs. . I received is certilieate end letter from her
for isle custody.
Croes-examined by .ant Armstrong.—pin. Yelverton
introduced Mrs. lbehrall to Major Yelrertoe as her sister
saying—" This is my sister." I believe that it was Mrs. Yet.
verton who first proposed the disguise of the wedding ring.
I recollect that it yen she who proposed it. Majorand Neg.'
Yelverton did not learn my house togetherfor then condemn- ~
tal trip. She remained for about a day after him. The last-
ratios company, with the epee Bible on ite prospectub, VMS •
a bubble, and had bunt. He mid be should have very care-
fully avoided it ; be told me that he had laid a letter from
his inter, who told him that she had heard he became •
Catholic ;he aid in reference to that that he aunt bare
been seen at chapel ; I do not kaow what chapel he re-
ferred to.

Mr. Jolla Goodldle examined by Serjeact re.
aide in Loudon ;lam a merchant, and a member of the iQet ,
of Ooodliffe and `Smart; I recollect being 'at Dunkirk
in the January, 1858. I stepped at the lintel O'hapin
Hauge ; Major Yelverton, whom I know, arrived Ville
after me ; he told me that be was there en pimp. .
sant, and that he expected a relative ; he ised
wads" • rekstiver " my wife," or " a lady." I saw Monti
the next day with a lad/ ;be gave WS to undone tand timid* ,
was the person he waslooking out for. They dined et the
=me la with me, and ast near me. He int reduced Ihit:
lady to me. Hew did he introduce her t—ile isieedlassi . S
herweciically aa his wife. Major Yelverton and I walked
about Dunkirk the next day. We talked r great
deal, and, &midi* a long desultory conversation, I said to
him, in refertace to the lady., "1 say, Yelverton, Wining ,
about your wife, is this all right 1 is it on the square!"
He said," Yes, she is really my wife, but we have bees
marriedprivately, whichl have bowl obliged to do in order •
to conceal it from my family rhe begged me rarticultilt •
not to mention to any mutual friends in London that I bad
met him sad his wife, and not to say that be was married ; '
I think they were at the hotel for three days, where they
certainly lived as husband and wife. I had the beet mom is
the boom am I was a good customer. I proposed that Major
Yelverton and his wife should come into it, as their 1001111 •
were inferior. That proposition was declined by Major Yel-
verton ; the lady whom he introduced to me on that ocouion
aa his wife was meat certainly the lady whom I have seen
examined bete.

Cross-examined by Dr. Ball, Q.C.—I may have met with
some similar oases is the course of my travels, not perfectly
on the square.
Serjeant yon ever know a cue in which a
putleman introduced a lady to you as his wife who was not
hie wife?

Witaaw (aisphatically)--I never did.
Miss Arabella SClarUne examined by Mr. Whiteside,
C.—l am the daughter of an author of that name—a
; I was a loeg time acquainted with the Long-
worth family, and particularly with Mrs. Yelverton ; my
father allowed me to accompany her to Edinburgh in
February, 1657 ; we stopped at Mn. Gamble's, where we
had three rooms—ow being • bedroom, which 1 shared
with Mies Loagworth ; the sitting-room opened out from
the bedroom ; we went at that time into society—al/
the people I knew being my father's friend.; we
visited Lady Murray and Mr. Robert Chambers, to whom
we had letters of introduction; we remained there until April;
I knew Major Yelverton ; he we. in the habit of visiting at
that house during our visit, almost daily ; ke oever stayed a
night; he visited, I understood, is a suitor; his manner was
that of a perfect gentleman ; they never went out except on
bombs& ; I was at that time • member of the Church of
England; then wasa prayer-book of minethere; it contained
the marriage service. I changed my religion. I sot
present a Roman catholic and belonging to the sisUre of
Korey, at Blitodford-equare, London. I went into • convent
at Morninpide, mar Edinburgh. Major Yelverton knew I
wept then. Mn. Yelverton went to Hull after putting me
into the; 0067.;t, On the same day. We had frequently con-
versations about matters of religion, and Major Yelverton
always seemed to ban a leaning to catholicity. When Mn.
Yelverton came tack to Edinburgh, she came to see me. I
noticed a marriage ring on her finger. Major Yelver-
ton wrote letters to her, which he enclosed to me.
Before Major Wearies arrived at Edinburgh Mr. and Mrs.
Thelwail joined us, and remained in the same house. Major.
Yelverton joined the party while I wee there, and while Mr.
aid Mrs. Melina werethere. Mrs. Weirton went to meet
him, and we all spent the evening together. Major Yel-
verioa remained all night. I regarded him as the husband
of Mrs. Yelverton. He was quartered at Leith Fort after
Mr. sad Mrs. Thelwall went away. Major and Mrs. Yel-
verton occupiedtheir room. I understood that the mar-
riage wasto be kept secret. I recollect seeing Mrs. Yelver.
lon ill, and Major Yelverton attending on her.
Crow-examined by Mr. Brewster—On that second occa-
sion Mn. Yelverton told me that the marriage was yet to
be kept mere', because she was a catholic, and Major Yelver-
ton was not.

Thisconcluded the evidence of Miss Wiarbum, and Mr.
Martin, the jeweller from whom the wedding ring was pur-
chased for Mn. Yelverton, was under examination when the
report left,

Cis of the oldest clergymen in England, the Rev.
Peter William Jolliffe, perpetual curate of St. James's,
reds, Dorset, in the diocese of Salisbury, has just died at
Pinkstone, near that town, at the advanced age of ninety.
Ave. The &messed rev. gentleman was instituted to the
living of St. James's, Poole (stated in the Clergy List to be
wseth about 3001. per annum) in ti • year 1791. lie has,
therefore, discharged the duties of his sacral calling in that
particular parish for • period of seventy yams.
THE ROYAL GnOORAPHICAL 800INTY.-1110 ordi-
wry meeting of the Royal Geographical Society was held
yesterday evening, at Burlington Rouse, and was very
numerously attended. Sir Roderick Murchison
and was supported by the Amerman Minister, the &elle de
Paris, the Right Hon. the Chancellor of the Exchequer.
the Farl of &afield, Viscount Strangfonl, Professor Owen.
Sir Thomas Fremantle, Sir Leopold M'Clintock, Captain
Collision, Dr. Lee, Dr. Hodgkin, he. The Chairman said
they were that evening to take leave of Mr. Coned
Pet:nide, and most heartily did he bid the camel God
speed in his endeavour to discover the mourned the Whit*
Nile. Mr. Consul Peterick then came forward and thanked
the audience and the society for the assistance they had ren-
dered towards the expedition on which he was about to
enter. The Chairman then introduced M. Du Chain%
who proceeded to give en aceonnt of his travels in the
region of Western Equatorial Africa. The mat interesting
part of his narrative was the information he gave of the
" gorilia," one of the ape species, which, in it, physical
structure, more closely resembles man than the chimpanzee,
or any other beast. M. Du Chaillu stated be had shot
twenty of these creatures, and the narrative he gave of one
of his encounters was painfully interesting. The minor in-
cidents in M. Da Cliaillu's wanderings were told in •
humorous style, and provoked a great deal of laughter.
When the narrative was concluded Professor Owen ex-
plained, with the assistance of diagrams, the points of re-
semblance and difference between man and the gorilla, and
concluded by insisting that the amplest accommodation ought
to be provided for the exhibition of the collections of natural
hietery. Two of the gorillas which had been shot by the
traveller were exhibited in the hall. In compliance with •
wools to to the narrative of one of
iairgeuldiestli:Dreeefro. oilittshietrei.:haite,nn
ththtehCelmeineecetllioers.of tiliteh.d.Exchhee;
the most modest and most gallant end enterprising of tra-
mp. The meeting then separated.
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TIM BISHOP or ORLEANS AND THE Pitsm.
his pamphlet, in reply to M. de la GuerromiHre, the Bishop
al Grissom says :—" We are condemned to vela of our
jotiff, our father, not ia our ty of a Whop, but as
urnalists and for the journals." The Paris Prase coal-
motto as follows on this expression :—" 'Condemned r
We shall be exansed for thinking the expression • little
severe. ?L &Grimm takes • high tone—a little too high
in our opinion. We acknowledge no one's right to speak
with disdain of the pea at the journalist. Armand Carrel,
Triers, Villemein, Ghia* or, if we must Bite names that
sound better ha X. Dspai;loup's ears, Chateaubriand,
Goes/d, LAonret=tadLawiennais, are enough to prove that
it les bees se well that no one has any right to
think himself smilinundbag in making use of it."

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