The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-18 00:00:00

OH /ILL O. BarVICLL AND PDX.

This was the huabsad's petition fora divorce, on the
ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent.
Loth the respondent and co-respondent answered, and
denied the adultery.
Dr. Tristram and Dr. Pritchard were counsel for the
petitioner; Mr. Heath for the respondent, and Mr. Searle
for the 00-respondent.
It appeared that the petitioner, the Rev. Frank She-
well, who is a graduate of Oxford, was married to the re-
spondent at the parish church of Stepney on Feb. 2, 1867.
After the marriage they resided for some time at Devon-
shire-street, Po d-road. Afterwards the petitioner
held several curacies in London and in the provinces, and
in 1862, while residing in Westbourne-terniee, they
made the acquaintance of the co-respondent, Captain
John Joseph Patterson Fox, who was then a captain in
the 12th Regiment of Infantry, but who afterwards went
into the .56th. This gentleman appeared to have become
very intimate with the respondent, and in 1866 some
words took plaee between the petitioner and his wife re-
specting him. In the summer of 1867 Mr. Henley, M.P.,
presented the petitioner with the email living at Water-
perry, in Oxfordshire. There was no vicarage house
attached to the living, and the petitioner had to take up
his residence at a farmhouse until one wee got ready. The
respondent refused to accompany him there, and it was
arranged that she should remain in London. She accord-
ingly, in May, 1867, took a furnished house at 3, Vic-
toria-road, South Kensington, where she went to reside.
On her doing so Captain Fox came and took up his resi-
dence at the same house. He slept in a bedroom adjoin-
ing Mrs. Shewell's, and there was a door communicating
between the two rooms, of which Mrs. Showell kept the
key. The respondent remained there until the tad July
following, and as a general rule Captain Fox slept in the
house every night during that time. In August, 1867, the
respondent went to her huabend's residence at Waterperry,
but he having soon after she went found out what had
been going on at Victoria-road, she left, and the present
suit was instituted.

After hearing the evidence the court was satisfied that
the 'adultery had been proved, and pronounced a decree
nisi, with costa.

THE POLICE COURTS.
UILDRALL. _ _

Mr. Bnifatnin Benjamin, a boot and shoe manufacturer,
trading under the firm of Benjamin Brothers, at 339,
Enclmey-road, and 61, Basinghall-street, was placed at
the bar on remand before Alderman Owden to answer the
charge that he, being a trader who had been duly adjudged
bankrupt, unlawfully, with intent to defraud his creditors,
did, within three months next before the filing of his peti-
tion for adjudication, pawn certain of his rods, to wit,
42 grass of Turkish towels and other goods which bad been
obtained on credit and remained unpaid for, contrary to
the statute, &a
Mr. George Lewis, jun., of Ely-place, instructed by
Messrs. Undo and Bons, of 12, King's Arms-yard, prose-
cuted for the creditors ; and Mr. Beard, of Basinghall-
street, defended the prisoner.
The leading facts connected with this case hare been
already reported. Further evidence for the prosecution
was now taken, and the prisoner was again remanded.

8015111M'ARIC.
Jame Baxter, a flower girl, residing in the Mint, was
placed at the bar before Mr. Partridge for final examina-
tion charged with being concerned with two men not in
custody in assaulting the Rev. Richard Lee, rector of
Stepney, on Monday afternoon, the Ist instant, the par-
ticulars of which have been fully reported.
There was no one in attendance on the part of the
prosecutor, and as the magistrate was satisfied that no
jury would convict on the evidence which had been
adduced at the previous hearings he discharged the
prisoner.

NATIONAL 80CtrIT.—At the annual general
meeting held yesterday as Willis's Rooms, and presided
over as usual by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the com-
mittee in their report congratulated the friends of church
education upon the absence of legislative displacement of
the denominational system of popular'education, and upon
the recognition in the two bills submitted to parliament
this year but since withdrawn, the recognition in the one
(the government bill) to the full and in the other to a
partial extent, of the principle that a system of education
to be generally acceptable must be denominational in its
character. During the year the committee have voted
11,776/. towards the erection and enlargement of schools
(providing accommodation for 29,639 children), 6721. 10s.
ing. rants to diocesan training colleges for schoolmasters,
and 91321. in book grants. The gross income of the year
has been 17,6721.,0r 3,620/. in excess of the previous year;;
and the receipts of the depository 32,6961., or an increase
of 2,6431. over the preceding year. The report also
alludes to the successful working of the training establish.
manta' of ;St. Marko, Battersea, andliVlitelands—of the
importance of evening schools in carrying out the good
influences of the elementary schools ; and in speaking of
the principles on which the society was established, adds,
" that the best security for the prosperity of a nation is to
be found in the Christian education of its people." The
attendance was unusually scant, but included Lord Redes-
dale, the Bishop of Oxford, Earl Nelson, Mr. P. Com-
move, Mr. J. O. Hubbard, M.P., Lord Lyttelton, Mr.
Beresford Hope, M.P., the Rev. D. Coleridge, Mr. Powell,
M.P., and Archdeacon Denison, who having written to
withdraw the notice he had given of a motion which
might have evoked discussion, the proceedings were of a
singularly quiet character, the resolutions being confined
to an expression of approval of the operations of the so-
ciety for the past year and thanks to the president, the
speakers being the Bishop of Oxford, Lord Lyttelton, Lord
Sidmouth, and Mr. J. G. Hubbard, M.P. The new mem-
bers elected on the committee were the Lord Justice Page
Wood, Mr. B. Hope, Lord Colchester, and the Hon. C.
L. Wood.

GROSS Faaur).—A case which should serve us a
warning to parents advertising and answering advertise-
ments in the newspapers was brought before the Exeter
magistrates on Tuesday. A woman in London advertised
for a situation as nursemaid for her daughter, aged
fourteen. The advertisement was answered from Barn-
staple by a person representing himself as a schoolmaster,
who, moreover, undertook to adopt the girl. It appears
that upon this she was sent to Exeter without any inquiry
bang made, and there she was met a man who told
her that he was the person who had replied to the adver-
tisement. This man took her to apu lic-house, where
she found she had to sleep in the same bed with him and
his child, aged two years. He behaved improperly to-
wards her, but, according to her own account, she de-
fended herself, and the man left the house. The police
are new endeavouring to discover him., and the magis-
trates ordered that the girl should 'be provided with
respectable lodgings until her return to London.
Suoexuse CASE OF MATRICIDE.—A ehooking ease
of matricide occurred on Tuesday morning at the little
village of Ardingly, about three miles from Cuckfisld,
Sussex. It •pppeears that about 7 o'clock in the morning,
George Backahal, a labourer, borrowed his brother's
razor to cut a corn from his hand. He then put it in his
pocket, and walked a distance of about two miles, to his
mother's house. He entered the dwelling, and, it is sup-
posed, he at once threw his mother to the ground and
to cut her throat, which he did so effectually
Crtrelead was nearly severed from the body. It is said
that only about two minutes elapsed from the time of
his entering the house to the time of his leaving it. No-
body actuallfwi tamed the murder; but the woman's
grandson, a little boy about twelve years of age, entered
the house by the back door and saw his grandmother and
her son on fhe ground. The murderer walked quietly
away, his bands covered with blood, and an
alarm having been given he was soon apprehended.
The statement be made was, that "he meant to
kill her, and they would know all about it by and
by " He is in custody at the CuckSeld police-
dntion unfortunate woman, whose name Iyas Sarah
Backahall, was 70 years of age, and the wife of a farm
labourer. The prisoner's motive, if any, for committing
the crime is unknown at present, and the act la rendered the
more singular by the fact that he seems always to have
been a good son, and the deceased had said of him a few
days before the occurrence that he was the best son she
had. Mr. Lewis Fullagar coroner for East Sussex, held
en inquiry into the circumstances yesterday afternoon,
which had not terminated when this report was dos-
latched.

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