The Sun.
London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 22, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OQUEBN'S BENCH.

Their lordships were occupied the whole of this morning
with hearing the arguments of tho Attorney-General in a
case relative to the infringment of a certain design used in
the ornamentation of woollen fabrics. The case did not
possess the slightest general interest.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
POSTER V. FOSTER AND BERRIDGE,

This cause was tried last term, and a verdict was given
in favour of the plaintiff, the jury assessing the damages at
£5,000. The petitioner was a major in the Indian army
and applied to the court for dissolution of his marriage, and
the present application was made on the part of the co re-
spondent to intervene on the ground that as both parties
were domiciled in India the court had no jurisdiction. After
hearing the arguments of counsel the application was re-
fused with costs.

ARCHES COURT.
(Before Dr. Luehington.)
JONES (CLERK) V. JEFF (CLERK).

This was a suit instituted by the Rev. Mr. Jones, the in-
cumbent of the parish of Llandebar,in Merionethshire against
the Rev. Mr. Jeff, a clergyman of the Church of England,
for preaching in an unconsecrated chapel or building
after he had been warned that proceedings would be
instituted against him before this court on letter of request
from the Bishop of Bangor.
The defendant admitted the allegations in the libel.

Dr. Lushington, at some length, gave judgment, and said
that the defendant had, in open defiance of plaintiff,
preached in an unlicensed building after he had been
warned that proceedings would be hatituted, and there-
fore he had challenged the present state of things. The
act committed was against law and canonical obedience,
and he should, therefore, admonish the defendant and
condemn him in all the costs.

SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Before Mr. Kerr.)
SINGULAR CUSTOM AMONGST THE JEWS DURING PASS

OVER.-BRAVO V. DUTTON.

This was an action to recover for services rendered, plain
tiff being a sailor, and defendant landlord of the Red Lion
Bevis Marks.

His Honour—Well, plaintiff, what is this all about ?
Plaintiff—lt is a claim for serving out the rum and shrub
during Passover.
His Honour—For what f

Plaintiff—Perhaps, I had better explain. You must
know that the Jews are very particular during Passover
week, and they will not drink any other liquor but rum and
shrub. It is necessary that the publican should employ a
person to attend specially to this duty, and I was chosen.
I went down to the docks and tasted the rum, saw it cleared,
and finally witnessed its being sealed up.
His Honour—What was that for ?

Plaintiff—So that it might not be tampered with. It is a
very particular and old custom with the Jews to drink this,
but it must be quite unadulterated,

His Honour—Well, and what did you do besides all this ?
Plaintiff—l served it out, so that there might not be any
mistake. I charged altogether for these services £2 25.,
and I have received a portion of that sum.
His Honour—Well, these are very peculiar services, and
I suppose valuable in a particular point of view. Defendant
is not here to dispute the matter, so you will have a verdict
with costs.
Verdict for plaintiff.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.--This Day.

EPSOM RACES-THIS DAY.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.

LATEST BETTING.
THE OAFS.

4to 1 agst Borealis
6to 1 agst Lady Augusta
7to 1 agst Sea Nymph (taken in great force)
12 to 1 bar three (offered)

Mr. Jordan and Mr, Boucicault.

TO TIIE EDITOR OP TRE SUN.

SIR,—In a letter which appeared in The Sun of the 19th
inst., Mr. Dion Boucicault attempts to explain away the
sworn facts proved on the trial against Colonel Gibbon for
false imprisonment. Will you grant me the favour and jus-
tice of an equal publicity to my reply ? Ido not desire to
prejudice Mr. Boucicault by an ex parte statement of mine,
but am willing that he shall be judged by his own explana-
tion of the shameless and heartless drama in which he
played so unenviable a part. The cruel and ungenerous
inuendoes he has thrown out in reference to conduct on my
part, in order to relieve himself from the onus pertaining to
his own acts, will be the subject of investigation elsewhere.
My wife had never al peared on the stage during the five
years of our marriage, and accepted the engagement under
Mr. Boucicault's management at Drury-lane Theatre, in
direct opposition to my expressed wishes. It had been my
pride to maintain her from my own resources, and we had
lived happily together until the time wnen, by her engage-
ment at the Drury-lane Theatre, she had been brought
within the influence of Mr. Boucicault. The insinuation
that we had previously lived unhappily, in consequence of
my intimacy with another lady, is entirely untrue.
Immediately after my wife's engagement I observed a
marked neglect on her part towards our child, towards
myself, and her duties as mistress of our home. Mr.
Boucicault says Mrs. Jordan left her home in May,
1862, and, by my desire, he gave her an engagement at
Drury-lane Theatre, when he opened it in June of the
same year. I deny that Mrs. Jordan left her home until
after her engagement with Mr. Boucicault, in June, when
the theatre opened for the first time under his management.

My constant practice, after my professional duties for the
evening were ended, was to bring my wife home from
Drury-lane Theatre. Mr. Boucicault says Mrs. Jordan and
myself were in the habit of riding with him to our home, I
renArally preferring to sit on the box." I reply that he
very rarely drove us home I never sat on the box except
upon one occasion, when, being about to call a cab, Mr.
Boucicault said there was plenty of room in his brougham,
and offered to drop my wife and myself at our door. On

that occasion my wife was accompanied by another lady
connected with the theatre, the brougham was constructed
to hold only three persons, and I, having just lighted a
cigar, volunteered to ride outside. Mr. Boucicault never
with my sanction or to my knowledge escorted my wife
home, and the first time I heard of his having done so it
gave rise to the trouble and misery which have ensued. In
consequence of information obtained by me, I went about 12
o'clock on the night of the 3d Sept., 1862, to Pall-mall, and,
while standing in front of the house, I saw Mr.Boucicault'a
brougham drive up to the door, and my wife alight from it
and enter the house. I saw Mr. Boucicault himself driven
round to his chambers, in King street, and the brougham
discharged, and in a few minutes afterwards Mr. B ouci •
cault walked round to Mrs. Jordan's residence—he states,
" with some books." My wife's statement was, that "he
brought her some figs."

We have it, therefore, from Mr. Boucicault, that he went
to my wife's lodgings at 12 o'clock at midnight on 3d Sep-
tember last. My evidence on oath proved that he was ad-
mitted without knocking at the door by my wife—that she
had been watching his coming from her window. "I had
scarcely," he says, "entered the hall when I heard a knock
at the door. Presuming it was some lodger in the house,
and fearing my presence in the hall might cause some re-
mark, 1 withdrew to let them pa9e."

Mr, Boucicault, therefore, by his statement, lest he should
be discovered in the performance of an act of innocent civi-

lity to my wife, "withdrew" h;mself to the third floor, up
two flights of stairs above the apartments occupied by her,
and into the bed-room of the only other lodger in the house,
where, according to Col. Gibbon's evidence, he locked him-
self in, and from whence he did not emerge until I had been
removed to the station-house ; that was my complaint
against Col. Gibbon. Mr. Boucicault states that I manifested
" neither anger nor excitement, and exhibited no violence
whatever ;" that he " heard no disturbance ;" but he admits
that he heard a remark by me that I only desired " to see
Mr. Boucicault, that he might be identified." I leave the
public to judge the truthfulness of Mr. Boucicault's expla-
nation by the evidence sworn to by Col. Gibbon. According
to Mr. Boucicault's statement he did not hear or know any •
thing of what was taking place, although all that transpired
was within 12 inches of the door of his self-made prison.
I have never seen nor had any communication of any
kiLd with Mr. Boucicault since that night, except that
four days after the occurrence I received a letter from him
endeavouring to palliate his conduct. Mr. Boucicault says,
"shortly after the occurrence (September 3, 1862) Mrs.
Jordan left for America." Mrs. Jordan did leave his
theatre, I believe, under the pretext of going to America,
but she remained at an expensive hotel in London, without
any engagement, until February, 1863—at whose expense
may be inferred. Mr. .Boucicault says, in his explanation,
" Mrs. Jordan returned to America, and I afforded her the
means to do se."

Mr. Boucicault undertakes also to say that "she (Mrs,
Jordan) wrote to her husband to inform him where she was
to be found." This I utterly deny. After leaving my
house, my wife wrote to the nurse having the care of our
child to send her (my wife's) trunks to 60, Pall-mall, but
on no account was she to inform me where they were to be
sent.

Mr. Boucicault states he had no opportunity to defend
himself in the ao,ion against Colonel Gibbon. He was,
however, served with a subpoena to attend on the first notice
of trial being given, and every exertion was used to have
him subpoenaed for the day when the trial came on. The
answer given to my solicitor, who endeavoured to subpoena
him, was, that he had left town "for the benefit of his
health." I was unable to obtain his attendance at the trial,
as I desired.
I regret to have been myself compelled to refer to the
unhappy circumstances attending the separation with my
wife, but I should not be satisfied to let any matters re-
lating to my conduct (or his) rest on Mr. Boucicault's
explanations.—l am, Sir, yours, 80.9
GEO. O. JORDAN.
Lyceum Theatre, May 21.

.„ - ---
THE NEWLY-ELECTED COMMISSIONER OF THE
POLICE FOR THE ClTY.—Colonel James Fraser,
the new Commissioner of Police for the City, has served in
the army in various parts of the world, and passed through
the several grades of the service as commissioned officer
during 30 years of active duty. He was made ensign in
1831, lieutenant in 1834, captain in 1836, brevet major in
1846, major in 1849, lieutenant-colonel in 1851, and colonel
in 1854, on full pay, with his regiment, and on the staff.
Leaving active service in Jan. 1856, he was chosen, on the
14th of that month, and in the same year, as chief constable
of the county of Berko, au appointment which ho at pre-
sent holds,

Friday last a farmer named Patrick Lamb, who lives in the
THE KNIFE AGAIN.—WICKLOW, May 18.--on
county of Wexford, had an altercation in the town of Carnew
with Laurence Cummins, against whom ha has a decree,
when the latter attacked him most furiously with a knife,
inflicting five wounds on his arms and one on the breast,
from the effect of which the doctor has pronounced his life
to be in imminent danger. Cummins, who was immediately
arrested, has been committed to Tinnahely Bridewell.
THE PAST WINTER.—The registrars' returns,
which have now been issued for Scotland as well as
for England, show that the lowest temperatures recorded in
the returns collected by the Registrar-General were, as far
as England and Wales are concerned, 16'2 deg. at Lam peter,
Cardiganshire, and in Scotland 9.9 deg. at Drumlanrig,
Dumfriesshire. Both were m November. The cold of that
month fell with severity on and near the south coast, for
though at Ventnor the thermometer last winter went but
one degree below freezing point, it marked 23 deg. at Wor-
thing, 21 deg. at Bournemouth, and 19.8 at Hurstpierpoint.
Further north many of the returns chow the cold not so
Royston 24'2 deg., Dies 25.5 deg.,
great; the lowest temperature. in the whole winter at the
Royal Observatory, Greenwich, was but 24.8 deg., at Barn-
staple 27 deg., Aldershot camp 23 8 deg., Leyton 24.1 deg.,
,deßgOyaatlTarciservatory 14.1 deg., Down-
dNGerogar.nwtilleThahme2v72a4d.rie4agtdion in the. mean daily range of temperature
Torquay at Ventnor 8.1 deg.,
may be seen from a few instances. In the first quarter of
side College (near Bath) 12'1 deg., Grantham 9.9 deg.,
Derby 14.6 deg., Bedtord 16 3 deg,,
Worthing
t ith
Aspley (Woburn), 7.1.
At Scarborough it was about B'B deg., and at Bournemouth
inwga 81015.111 td7e.gs
16.2 deg., which, with the exception of Bedford, is the
greatest range in all the 62 returns. Still greater were the
variations in the amount of ozone. At Cockermouth the
mean amount in the first quarter of 1863 was only 0.8, at
Carlisle it was 4.6., and
,at St. Paul's Parsonage, near Sil-
loth, 7'o. It was 4.3 at rorquay, 5.1 at Worthing, 6 6 at
Bournemouth, 61 at Osborne. It was only 0.9 at the Royal
Observatory and at Aldershot, and 0 6 at Glocester, but 4 7
at Nottingham and 5.1 at Wisbeach. Several registrars,
both in England and Scotland,
note the prevalence of small-
pox. A person died of it in Edinburgh, and his clothes
were sent to Dunbar to be washed ; at this latter place vao-
cination had been greatly neglected, and the result was
that smallpox was spread over the district. On the other
hand, the registrar of Sandwich (Orkney) has reported
that smallpox was introduced there in the winter by a family
of immigrants, but the infection did not spread ; the mi-
nister has for ;,0 years vaccinated all the children, and in
that period no native of Sandwich is known to have had
smallpox either at home or abroad except (if it oan be called
an exception) the child
of a stranger which brought small-
pox into the world with it. Dr. Farr declares smallpox
to exist now almost by sufferance, and he suggests the
holding of coroner
sinquests in cases of death from small-
pox, in order to fix on the proper persons the blame of a
criminal negligence as fatal in its consequenoes as the ordi-
nary offences of manslaughter,

A NARROW ESCAPE.

Having received intimation that a tiger had
killed a bullock in a patch of jungle near Rajghat
on the Jumna, three Nimrods, more valiant than
discreet, started on foot a few mornings ago, de-
termined to carry out their plan at any risk. Hold-
ing in derision the usual mode of going on elephants,
with a battery of guns within reach, they found
their way to the forest on foot, each armed with a
double-barreled rifle. Sportsmen in the Sewalict
Hills are almost invariably followed by natives with
spare guns, as in the case of the first missing there
is generally time to take the second gun, and if not
kill, at least turn the animal from you. Even
this prosecution was neglected. The consequence
was, that they stumbled on a tiger, which very soon
managed to get the better of ons of them. Major
Brownlow, of the Saharanpore Canals, received very
severe injuries in various places, and is now under
medical treatment. It seems that as they were
walking a few paces apart from each other, Lieut.
St. John, who was a little ahead, observed the tiger
about a dozen yards off in the bushes. He fired
his right barrel, then his left, one ball wounding
the animal very desperately, it having entered his
neck near the shoulder and passed into his body ;
yet it was not sufficient to prevent his rushing to-
wards the sportsmen. As he approached within a
few paces of Major Brownlow he fired, and then
somewhat at random, for the ball whistled harm
lessly by. In a second or two the tiger was upon him,
and, striking him with his paw, at once laid him
prostrate. Lieut. J— now advanced to his friend's
rescue. He had discharged both barrels, and the
only resource left him was to lay hold of the muzzle
of the gun, and give the beast heavy knocks on the
head with the butt—a feat which he performed in a
manner that Milo, who, according to the historians
of his time, could floor an ox with his clenched fist,
might have envied. The blows were dealt with
tremendous force, and had the desired effect of
forcing the tiger to leave his intended victim
and retreat, though at a very slow pace, into the
adjoining thickets, where he was soon lost to view.
Tbis was indeed, a providential escape, and though
severely mauled the sportsman who came to grief
will soon be able " to take the field" again, if he
should be still inclined to risk life and limb in
another adventure of this sort.—Times of India.

MARKETS—This Day.

MARK LANE.

A very moderate supply of English wheat was received
fresh up to this morning's market. Both for rod and white
qualities the demand ruled inactive, yet no change took
place in prices, compared with Monday.
There was a full average supply of wheat on the stands.
Sales progressed slowly in all descriptions; nevertheless,
the quotations were steadily supported.
Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate demand, on
former terms.

The supply of barley was very moderate, and the trade,
on the whole, ruled steady, at full priees.
In malt, about an average business was transacted, at pre-
vious quotations.
The supply of oats was very large, and the trade was in
a sluggish state for all descriptions, at a decline in prices,
compared with Monday, of 6d per quarter.
Beans and peas ruled firm, and prices were well supported.
Most kinds of flour changed hands slowly, at previous
rates.

ARRIVALS THIS WEEK.
Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flout.
English...... 880 I 1 3030 I 100 I 1050
Irish— - -
Foreign .... ..19,970 2,110 45,420 120 sks.
7,230 brio.