Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-10-01 00:00:00

THE ARTIST-AUTHOR AND HIS WIFE.

At the Hammersmith Police-court, on Tuesday, Mrs.
Lily Watts Philips, a very pretty, lady like woman, the
wife of Mr. Watts Philips, tha artist-author, and Mrs.
Theodosia, Symonds, her sister, residing in South Bel-
gravia, both moving in most respectable society, attended
befare the bench to answer, upon a warrant, the complaint
of Mrs. Eleanor Ann llwkii.son, the wife of Mr. John
Husk;sson, of No. 20, Eden-street, Kensington, for keying
threatened grievous b dily harm In addition to this
charge, there was a summons against the ladies for having
wilfully and malieicu.ly brAen 22 panes of glass,
of the value of £4 145., in the house of the corn.
plainant.
Mr. Talfourd Salter, the barris,er, instructed by Mr H.
Daviee, of Buckirgham-street, Strand, appeared for the
complainants, and M. Lewis, jun , Ely-place, appeared
for the defendants.

Mr. Huskisson rated that, on the evening of Tuesday,
the Bth instant. he was sitting in his room in company
with his son, Norman Huskisson, a young man about 19
or 20 years of age ; Mrs. Huskisson being away from
home at the time. He was startled by hearing the door
bell pullel violently, and upon the door being opened, the
defendant came in and followed him to the drawing-room,
which is on the same floor. They both began talking to
him about the conduct of his wife, which brought on high
words; Mrs Symonds using opprobrious language, and
threatening to smash his wife's brains out, and Mrs.
Phil ps also, adding that, if she could find Miss Huskisson,
his daughter, she (Mrs. Symonds) w Auld damage her
beauty. Both the defendants called his wife and daughter
by unmentionable names. After some time they went
away, but said they would return and smash his windows•
That was the charge with respect to the threatening.
Mr. Lewis c•oss-examined the witness, and asked him
if Mrs. Philips did not tell him on the night in question,
that his daughter Caroline had run away with Mr. Philips,
and we at that very moment living in a state of progitu-
tion with him ?

The witness said that 11,4 declined to Answer the question.
This course of examination being objec'ed to,
The Magistrate decided that Mr. Lewis could not go on.
[Some letters, stated to be written by the daughter, were
then put in, but were not allowed to be read.]
Norman Huskisson corroborated his fa'her's statement
about the assault, and also identified some of his sister's
lette ato Mr. Philips. The servant girl was also called.
Mrs Eleanor Ann Huskisson, the wife of the c maplain-
anr, and mother of the companion of Mr. Philips, gave
testimony in support of her husband's complaint.
Mr. Lewis made a very f)reible appeal to the magistrate
on behalf of the defendants, stating that they never meant
any injury to the Huskissons, hut Mrs. Philips, finding
that her husband had run off in company with Miss
Caroline Huskisson leaving her destitute, with her two
children to support, she naturally became indignant ; and
was probably betrayed by the anguish of her feelings into
the use of strong expressions. hhe had no place to go
for redress except that court ; but was it likely that,
supposing she meant to do injury to Mrs. Huskisson, she
would not have used the opportunities that occurred
between the Bth and the 222 d instant, living as she did,
too, exactly oppoki.e?_

Ths magistrate decided on folding the defendants to
bail in the sum of £4O each fur six montho, after which
they were liberated.

The case of window smashing was then gone into, when
Mr. Huskisson stated that on the evening of the 19th
inst., his windows were broken, and a number of large
stones were thrown into his room. The damage to the
glass was stated at £4 14s.
Mr. Lewis urged that the matter should be sent into
the county vurt.
Evidence to support this c3mplaint, as against Mrs.
Philips only, having been given,
Mrs. Symons entered the witness box and stated that
she and her sister, Mrs. Philips, went down to Southend
and obtained the letters alluded to during the case.
They found them at a place where Mr. Philips and Miss
Caroline Huskisson are lodging. Her sister and herself
went into the room when the other party were out and Mrs.
Philips opened her husband's boxes. The letter produced
was also found there. On coming to London herself a:d
sister went to Mr. Haskisson's to a:lc for her husband.
The door was shut upon them and opened against the
chain. Mrs. Philips said that unless they would answer
her she would smash the windows, which was done, but
not until after a refusal from Mr. Huskisson.

In answer to the magistrate, it was stated Mrs. Philips
had two children, and almost a third. One of them was
at Mr. Philips's mother's, ani the other was asked for,
but she would not let it

Mr. Lewis spin appealed to the magistrate to send the
case to the County Court, and, efter some opposition,
succeeded in reading the following letter :
(Private.) Eden-road, Wednesday,

My dear Mr. Prrips,—l do not know whether you have
any suspicion about what I am going to toll you. as it has
only flashe l upon me like a discovery within the last 24
hours; but I think that you ought to be made fully aware of
it at this stage of the proceed ngr, to use a lawyer's phrase,
and lufsre you admit any further claims from ono who signs
herself Your wife." After this long preface, then it is
thus, viz.:—The likelihood of your having soon an addition
to your family is become so apparent as to be no secret. The
servant maids of the neighbourhood, and even Norman heard
it quite promiscuously from one this morning. Ought not
you, therefore, to be on your sharps, and press more on if
possible, forward, the breakirg up your establisrre it here,
and also removal of your children. I have not been able
to learn anything more, be. things are unusually quiet
over the wry" (at Mrs. " for the last two
days. At nine o'clock last night, the lady fair hastily put
on her bonnet, went out, an I did t.ot return ti I late. The story
of your being in Paris has been quite successful ; be careful,
therefore, to keep it up. Write to your own friends OA French
paper, I hope you have lost the heavy weather, as we have
wi h us, and we have enj ryed this little touch of autumn.
.Don't let my pet lamb make too free with her returning
strength, as you promised me. I must take this myself to the
pos`, as both Norman and his papa have bad colds (&c.)—
With every kind regard, I remain, yours very sincerely, IC. A.
IitTSKISSON."
Mr. Lewis said that such a letter from a mlther to her
daughter, who was living with Mrs Philips's husban', was
enough to make her do what she had done.
The magistrite Paid that MPs. Philips must pay the
damage, £4 143. Some friends CAME, forward, and handed
in the money, when the poor lady left the court.

At LEWIS At OMPANY'S, Ranelagh -street.
BOYS are C...0111ED from the Ages of Six to Twanty Years.

About 200 ladi-s an I children ats exleeted to arrive a.
Souls snanton is the n x: I t lie date at that por,
on the 4th inst.

SURGERY IN INDIA.—M. Guyon, a French surgeon,
gives thiry-ni. e eas, s of wounds in the chest in India, all
cured. The ba'ls loiged in fih:ous sacs in the luo4s, while
the very primitive, but goo i surg ry of the natives, m
he jill2,•ed fr ,rn the cis s cite 1 by one of Sr: George Bal.
lingalt's pupils, wham a Sqaoy elm!) f suttainel a
bad smash of hia ank'e from a cannon ball, " I was
preparing to a:nputate—pondering on Syme and Chopart,"
he says, " but the nun's parents, or one of his Ilin 100
c ate, ran off with him to the potter in an adjoining street,
who enveloped the ankle in clay ; and, by ,he way, finally
cured the patient !" The R issians, under direction of
Piroglff, saved mmy hundreds of their fracture cases in
a like manner, with plaster of Paris, is the Crimea.—
Dublin Medical Press.
SOME TRTJTII AND MUCtI FICTIIN.—T.IE foe is at the
wall, and now, now Alho 1, call Lino a your PAlcki and
your ducal t.F.utherlands. They whom ycu aided in hutting
a nnbie race to txile and the grave, will surely aid you in
your hour of need. S-ek now, in the valleys of Ireland
and Scotland, for the Celt whose prowess mai otaked your
glory. Seek, seek in vain: they are gone, "gone with a
vengeanu." Their dying wail wrung no tear of pity frcm
you; their cry for justice reached not your heart. Sheep
and oxen graze over the now desolate fields where once
lived a gener us and, virtuous people; where extermination
was your fondest d•eam. Call now to your st,niard these
more favoured subjects whose comfort has been your care.
Wi'l they save your foundering fortunes? The only regi-
ments now that in all your armies m i stain for a moment
your sinking fame aro of that race whom you would eater-
m:nate. Oh, righteous heaven, thy ways are inscrutable ;
thy justice is ind,feas'ble !—Dublin Nation.

SCULPTURES Final CYPRUS:—Mr. Alderma❑ West,n has
recently presented to the Salford Royal Museum a number
of fragmentary scalp urea stoner, statuettes, &c., brought
from the Isle of Cyprus. They appear to be of ancieLt
Greek wo,k, though some of them, especially in the facial
contou•, the heal covering and ornaments, aid genera
character, resemble some of the Assyrian relics made known
to us by Layard and other?. One is a small mutilated
head, but cc; tainly Eastern in character. Anther is a
half length figure, much dee iyed, but with a faci contour
ludicrous'y suggestive of " Mr. Punch." A third is a
headless body, in a stripe] tunic, w aring suspended from
the nick a medallion like a mask or face. 'I he flu-e is
state l cross legged, and in the right hand holds a dove or
other bird, and in the left sojne round object. A fourth
figure, seated, has the Assyrian character of face and
head-dress. If of Gredt w rkmanship, these ocalptuses
srem to mark a transitional state of ..rt from older Egyptian
or Assyrian forms.—Manchester Guardian,

At LEWN & COMPANY'S, Ranelagh-street;
BOYB are CLOTHED from the Ages of Six to Twenty Tears.