The Sun.
London, England, 1864-02-20 00:00:00

TIM SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 20, 1864.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.--(This Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge-Ordinary and a Common Jury.)
OSBORNE V. OSBORNE AND MARTELLI.

In this case the petitioner, Charles Stanley Osborne,
prayed for the dissolution of his marriage on the ground of
his wife's adultery. There was no appearanco for the co.
respondent, but the respondent pleaded denial, cruelty, and
desertion.

The respondent was a Frenchwoman, and the petitioner,
who was a young man at the time of his first acquaintance
with her, was then a civil engineer. Ha became in-
fatuated with the respondent, and some time after,
in the year 184), they were married at St. James's
Church, Piccadilly. Soon after the marriage the
respondent represented to her husband that she
wished to go to Paris to recover some family documents.
She accordingly left, and on her return she and her hus-
band went to Scotland, but again she wished to return to
France, to which proposition Mr. Osborne consented. The
practice of going abroad was continued every year
until 1330, when they mutually separated, the petitioner
allowing her £l5O per annum. Circumstances
ultimately came to petitioner's knowledge, vt hich induced
him to institute the present proceedings. Daring her resi-
dence in Paris the respondent lived at apartments in the
Passage Saulniere, where she was visited by the co-respon-
dent, who, it appeared was connected with the French
press.
Mrs. Ann Wynne, sister of the petitioner, and wife to
Colonel Wynne, of the Royal Engineers, said she saw the
parties in 1818 when they were on a visit to her sister, Mt s.
Scott Russell. They appeared to be on very good terms.
After that the respondent was in the habit of paying visits
to Paris. Petitioner's conduct to his wife was very kind.
She always appeared the master. She used to say " Charley
shall do this" or "Charley shall do that." Petitioner
always did as she wished. (Laughter.) On one occasion
there was a quarrel between them which was so violent that
she feared the police would come into the house. While
she was walking one day in the garden respondent told her
that on one occasion a person in whose house she had
lodged asked her to "see the major" during the absence
of her husband.

Hypolyte Bondenot, a concierge, or porter, said that he
had care of the house No. 20, Passage Sauineire. He went
there in 1859. The respondent, who represented herself
as a widow, lived there previously, and remained for nine
months afterwards. She left in June, 1862. She
occupied part of a front room on the third
story. He knew M. Alexis Martelli, who used to visit
the respondent. The rooms were en vote, and there was
only one bedroom and one bed. The apartments were
rented in the name of the respondent, but Mr. Martilli paid
the rent.

EFz lbeth Fennell said she was employed at 20, Broadley-
terrace as charwoman. She recollected Mdme. Charles (the
respondent) coming there with a gentleman in 1862. Sho
represented the person as her husband, and they resided in
the house for about a fortnight. They occupied the same
apartment, and took their meals together during the whole
time they stayed at the house.
Mr. Wright, a solicitor, was cited to prove the state the
parties lived in prior to their separation. He said the only
thing she ever hoard her complain of was that her husband
used to keep the dinner waiting for hours. Cho never
heard her complain of the desertion of her husband.
Mr. Kerslake, for the respondent, said he should put a
totally different complexion on the case. He should show
that Mr. Osborne frequently ordered his wife to go to Paris.
That ho positively drove her from his house in London, in
order that he might live unmolested with a mistress,
The case is not expected to conclude to-day..

POLICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

EXTENSIVE SILK ROBEENY.—Robert Henry Bardsley,
assistant in the employ of Messrs. Marshall and Sstelgrove,
silk mercers, Oxford.street, was charged with stealing a
large quantity of silk, of the value of £lOO, the property of
his employers.
Mr. Lewis, jun., prosecuted, and Mr, E. Lewis, of Great
Marlborough-street, defended,
It appears that the prisoner took a room at 51, King-
street, Regent. street, where he was in the habit of leaving
silk on his way to and from the City. Information was then
given to Inspector Draper, and he succeeded in taking the
prisoner into custody and recovering property of the value
of £lOO.
The prisoner, who has only been in Messrs. Marshall and
Sue'grove's employ ten months, was remanded.
Mr. Marshall asked that the silk might be given up to
him ; but Mr. Knox said he could make no order at present.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.

BIEEFING THIS DAY.

The half-yearly ordhary general meeting of this company
was held this morningat the King's-cross Station—Colonel
Packe, M.P., the depu.y chairman of the company, presided.

The report, which his already appeared in The Sun, was
taken as read.

The CHAIRMAN, in moving its adoption, said he re•
gretted the absence of their chairman, who had met with
an accident. He conglatulaled the shareholders in having
to receive an increaseddividend. The company was still
going on prosperously, Ind their income was increasing.
He regretted that the Great Eastern Company were, in a
most unwarrantable mat ter, invading their territory. They
were going to Parliament for powers to make a line in direct
competition with the Gnat Northern, without offering any
greater advantages, but .aking a longer route. The com-
pany would have to opoose them in Parliament. The
chairman then reviewed he other matters referred to in the
report, and concluded bymoving its adoption.
Mr. VALENTINE KNI(IIT seconded the adoption of the
report, bat he objected to tho acts of the directors. At the
last meeting they found alargo deficiency by compensation,
paid in consequence of actidents to travellers through the
negligence of the compan3's servants, negligence permitted
by tho directors that miglht have been prevented if the direc-
tors had been in the habit of periodically visiting the sta-
tion and keeping a sharp kok-out on the servants (laughter).
If the directors wer'nt paid for this, Mr. Knight wanted
to know for what they
were paid? At this meeting they
found a g. eat deficiency cLused by law and Parliamentary
expenses. He complimentd the directors for the great wis-
dom the; showed in having recommended the advance of
£300,000 at 3} per cent. itterest to the London, Chatham,
and Dover Railway so that they might complete their line
from Earl-street to the COlapany's station at Farringdon-
street. He was a shareholder in the London, Chatham, and
Dover Company. He recommended the directors to secure
their advance well,

Mr. Huonas also regretttd the great amount spent for
law and Parliamentary expenses. He recommended that
the shareholders would have the particulars of these ex-
penses specified in the report, They were mixed up with
other items, and it WAS impossible for a proprietor to judge
of the justness of the charges made. In reference to the
advance of £300,000 to the London, Chatham, sated Dover,
he did not agree with Mr. Knight that it was a wise act on
the part of the directors. He should have given more
weight to Mr. Knight's opinion of the transaction if he
were not a proprietor in the London, Chatham, and Dover
Company. (Laughter.)
In answer to these and other remarks, the chairman
stated that there were no other claims for compensation
pending against the company.
All such claims have been
Feld. The Parliamentary expenses would be cut down ;
he thought it would be olejectionable to specify the particu-
lars of the law costs. He did not think it was the province
of the direct ,rs to go to every station to look after the ser-
vants, The directors had their managers and they looked
after them. With respect to the advance to the Lon-
don, Chatham and Dover Company, he thought they
would gain thousands by
making this advance. A large
amount of coal, &c., would come over their line from York-
shire and Lancashire down to Dover, there to be shipped.
If the £15,000 a year were altogether lost, the loss would
be more than trebly compensated by the advantages the
company would receive by the traffic.
Mr. MORGAN stated that every liability had been brought
against the half-year, and as long as ho had the honour of
being one of the auditors of the company such a course
would always be adopted.
A proprietor objected that the particulars of the law
expenses should be kept hidden.
It was then made known that the directors had made an
arrangement with their solicitor to this effect, He was to
receive so much a year, no matter how much or how little
business he would have to transact for the company. Mr,
Leach, the solicitor, said he was not very particular about
the matter. The amount could be Stated if the shareholders
very much wanted to know it, but ho did not think it need-
ful to publish it at the meeting—(no no)—as they could
easily find it out by the book at the office.
After some further discussion the report was adopted.
It was then resolved that the various preference dividends
be declared, also a dividend for the half-year at the rate of
£8 15s. per cent, per annum on the original undivided stock
of the company ; of £3 per cent, for the half-year on the
B stock of the company, making, with the £3 per cent. paid
for the first half of the year, £G per Cent. for the whole of
the year, as guaranteed by the A stock ; and of £5 15s, per
cent. for the half-year on the A stock, being the balance
after payment of £3 per cent. to B stock.
The retiring directors, Edmund Denison, Esq., of Don-
caster; J. Aston, Esq., M.P., of St. Neott's ; and John
Barff, Esq., of Wakefield, were re-elected..!
It was then resolved that Captain Fitz Morris be elected
as an auditor of the company, in the place of Mr. Amos,
who resigned in his favour.
A PROPRIETOR proposed that the' secretary's salary
should be raised

The CHAIRMAN was extremely glad that the profession
had been made, seeing how invaluable their seeretary'sser-
vices were to the company. The matter, in accordance with
the Act, was in the hands of the shareholders alone. The
directors could not move in the matter.

It was then moved and seconded that the secretary's
salary be raised to £1,500 a year. Tributes were paid by
several of the directors and shareholders to the excellence
of Mr. Oakley's labours, and the motion was ultimately
agreed to.
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Mr. OAKLEY returned his thanks, and with a vote of
thanks to the chairman tho meeting ended.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

THE NAVY.

The Lords of the Admiralty have decided on abo-
lishing the office of master rigger at Chatham dock-
yard, recently rendered vacant by the compulsory
retirement of Mr. Degee—the officer who was in
charge of the iron frigate Achilles on the occasion
of her being allowed to get on a bank when in the
act of being undocked—and have directed that the
rating of master rigger shall be borne at Sheerness
only, and that of foreman of riggers at Chatham.
Under this arrangement the salary of the master
rigger at Sheerness is increased to £9OO
per annum,
while the new foreman of riggers at Chatham dock-
yard will receive £l5O, instead of £2OO per annum
as heretofore.

A notification has been received at Chatham from
theAdmiraltythat the paddlewheel steamer Dragon,
6, and the line-of-battle sailing ship Vanguard, 80,
attached to the reserve in the Medway, will shortly
be sold out of the service. The Dragon is a fine
paddlewheel steamer of 1,270 tons and 580 horse
power (nominal), but owing to the outlay required
to place her in a thorough state of repair, as well as
from the circumstance of Paddlewheel steamers no(
being adapted to the present requirements of the
navy, the Admiralty have decided on selling her.
The dockyard officials are now engaged in preparing
a list cf the stores, ea., belonging to each vessel,
which will be forwarded to the Admiralty prior to
the ships being sold as ordered.
Her Mljesty's ecrew corvette Wolverene recently
ekeda, interminated having
inateYesterday returned to the
ccdkuyar
her speed and machinery, Which was in every re-
spect exceedingly satisfactory., The mean rate of
full speed during six runs realized 121, knots per
hour, with 201 b. pressure in the boilus, the engines
performing 64 revolutions per minute.
The War Department steam storeship Balaclava
yesterday sailed from Woolwich, laden with guns
and war materials for Portsmouth and Plymouth,
among which is the huge cupola gun intended for
the Royal Sovereign.
The freight ship Meg Merrilies arrived at Wool-
wich Arsenal yesterday, laden with returned stores,
25 days from Bermuda. She brings one private of
the 99th Regiment, his wife and family, and a sol-
dier's widow.

The appointment of Lieut. Cyprian A. G. Bridge
to H.M.S. Megmra has been cancelled, as that ship
is about to be paid off.

The estimated speed of the ironcased ship, a model
and plans for which were submitted to the Lords
Lieut. R. 11.
and not
NCoompimeris,sisTio.nietr.,s
iosf
frtohme Ad altlm2ttrolyr bkynots,
"12 to 18," as stated in 2' Eun of Wednesday last.
The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Captain F. B. P. Seymour (not
Symons) to the Royal Adelaide; Lieut. R. H. D.
Kirg to be Flag Lieut. to Rear-Admiral King,
Commanding in Chief or. the East India and Cape
of Good Hope stations; Tieut. H. W. Dowding and
Lieut. Win. C. J. Blount to the Princess Royal;
Lieut. It. F. Hammick to the Curacoa ; E. Spence,
master, to the Cossack; 1. M. Swiney, surgeon, ad-
ditional, to the Duncan, c,r. Bermuda Hospital ; F.
H. Moore, assistant surwon, to the Plymouth Divi-
sion of the Royal Marines; J. Bishop, assistant sur-
geon, additional, to the fictory, for the Royal Ma-
rines at Fort Tolson; any Dr. J. Campbell, assistant
surgeon, to the Weelwn. Division of the Royal
Marines.

struction at headquarters, Chatham, have under-
gone a lengthened examination by the steff officers
and heads of the various departments at the Royal
Engineer establishment, in order to ascertain their
fitness for the posts to which they will be appointed,
as well as their general knowledge on all subjects
connected with practical military engineering. The
examination papers, together with the officers' re-
port on them, have been forwarded to the Deputy-
Aajt.-General for transmission to Field Marshal
the Duke of Cambridge, and on the selection of the
non-commissioned officers being made ,at Horse
Guards they will at once proceed to join the corps
to which they have been appointed.

A general parade of the oflic&rs and men of the
Royal Engineers took place at Brompton•barracks,
Chatham, yesterday, on the occasion of the promul-
gation of an order from his Royal Highness the
Commander•in-Chief, awarding an annuity of Ll 5,
together with a silver medal, to Sergeant Major
Leonard, Royal Engineers, for long service and
exemplary conduct.

The 24 and 10th companies of Royal Engineers,
under the respective commands of Capt. W. A.
Frankland and Capt. E. B. Malcolm, will shortly
proceed from headquarters, Chatham ; the former
for Sir Helena, to relieve the 32d Company ; and
the 10th to relieve the 25th Company at the
Mauritius.

A number of 68-pounder guns, manufactured at
the Lowmoor Iron contract works, have been under
proof for some days past in Woolwich Arsenal, and
have withstood the test satisfactorily, with one
exception. One of the guns gave way at the breech,
and was shattered into fragments. This was
occasioned by a bar of wrought iron, apparently
weighing about 81b or 101 b., which had fallen into
the casting metal, and was found imbedded in one
of the fragments.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE,

LATEST LONDON BETTING,

For the Lincoln Handicap a new favourite was introduced
yesterday in Anglo-Saxon, who was backed at prices ranging
from 20 to 1 down to 10 to 1, which latter price was also
taken each about Benjamin and suburban. The Liverpool
Steeplechase was talked cbeut, but little betting took place.
Closing prices :

LINCOLN HANDICAP.
10 to 1 agst Suburban (taken)
10 to 1 agst Benjamin (taken)
10 to 1 agst Anglo-Saxon (taken)
15 to 1 aget Despair (taken)
15 to 1 agst Flying Fish Fish (taken)
15 to .1
agst Bosh (taken)
15 to 1 agst Redcap (taken)
15 to 1 agst Donnybrook (taken)
LIVERPOOL STEEPLECHASE.
9to 1 agst Bantam (taken)
100 to 8 agst Emblematic (taken)
100 to 6 agst Emblem (taken)
20 to 1 agst Serious Case (taken)
20 to 1 agst Martha (offered)
20 to 1 agst Jerusalem (offered)
25 to 1 agst Portland (offered)
25 to 1 agst Leading Article (offered—take 30 to 1)
30 to 1 agst Worcester (taken freely)
40 to 1 agst Bridegroom (wanted)
50 to 1 agst Thomastown (offered)
50 to 1 agst Romeo ((taken and offered)
50 to 1 agst Jealousy (offered)
50 to 1 agst Rockley (offered)
66 to 1 agst Mauchline (taken)
GG to 1 aget Tolurno (taken)
100 to 8 agst Sinking Fund and Jerusalem (taken)

CHESTER CUP.
20 to 1 agst Blackdown (taken)
50 to 1 agst Accident (offered)

YORK SPRING MEETING.

TUESDAY, MAY 10.

Acceptances for the Great Northern Handicap of 100 sovs
in specie, added to a sweepstakes of 20 sovs each, 10 ft,
and only 5 if declared, &c. Two miles, over the Old
Course. 63 subs, 26 declared, and 2 did not name.
Age st lb 1 Age st lb
Adventurer .. 5 9 0 ' The Clown.. .. 3 6 5
Wingrave .. .. 5 8 12 Double First .. 3 5 12
Caller Oa .. .. 6 8 11 Goldylocks .. 3 5 11
Limosina .. .. 5 8 5 Lori Zetland .. .3 5 10
Oldminster .. 6 8 5 Alabama .. .. 3 5 10
Blackdown .. 4 7 12 Greenland .. .. 3 5 10
Fantail .. .. 4 7 6 Greville .. .. 3 510
Welcome .. .. 5 7 4 Dr. Rooke .. .. 3 5 10
Watchman .. 5 7 3 Alpheus .. .. 3 .5 10
Donne Canno .. 5 7 3 Whitethorn .. 3 510
Barchettina .. 4 7 2 Bellasias .. .. 3 5 9
)
Trust .. .. 4 7 0 Cby Van Galen, out
Fontenoy .. .. 4 612 of Vacuna .. 3 5 9
Alice .. .. 4 6 9 Veterinarian .. 3 5 9
East Lancashire .. 4 6 9 Lord Cochrane .. 3 5 7
King Charming .. 4 6 9 Major .. .. 3 5 7
Count Cavour .. 4 6 9 Naxos .. .. 3 5 7
Farce .. .. 4 6 6 Guerilla .. .. 3 6 7
Lord Glasgow and Captain White did not name.

DONCASTER SPRING MEETING,—Ponarth, Bantam,
Maritana, Rarey, Satellite, Shropshire, Mauchline, Once
More, Southport, Chamado, and Church Militant have
paid forfeit for the Great North of England Steeplechase;
and Joey J 01209, Carisbrook, Dunkold, Tourist, Welcome,
Early Purl, Benjamin, Newchurch, St. Lawrence, Alice,
Miss Emma, Count Cavour, Merry Maid, Starbeam, Ma-
howetan, Cherry Hill, Tynemouth, Yamuna, and Wisdom
for the Doncaster Spring Handicap.

HORSES STRUCK OUT OF THEIR ENGAGE•
IIENTS.

On the 6th inst.t 8t 0,35 p.m., Sampson (dead) out of all
engagement 7.
On the sth inst., at 9 a.m., King Cotton out of the Lin-
colnshire and City Handicaps, Lincoln.
On the Bth inst., st 9 a.m., Crusade out of the Hurdle
Race, Lincoln.
On the 12th inst., at 9 a m., Dunkeld out of the Rous
Handicap, Chelmsford.
On the 12th inst., after 6 p.m., all Mr. F. Fisher's horses
out of their Chelmsford engagements.
_ _ .

On tho 13th inst., a 9 a.m., Kingswood out of the R,:us
Handicap, Chelmsford.
On tbo 15th inst., at 9 a.m., DounybroDk out oz 13.7 s
Liverpool engagements.