The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-21 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. 13. Wilde, and a Special Jury.)
HILL V. HILL.

The Queen's Advocate and Dr Wamby appeared for the
petitioner, and Mr Kerslake, Q,C , and Dr Spinks for the
respondent.
This was a suit instituted by the wife for judicial separa-
tion, on the ground of her husband's desertion for two
years without lawful cause ; to which ho pleaded denial,
that the desertion was not without reasonable cause, and he
charged the petitioner with adultery.
The Queen's Advocate statef the case. The petitioner
was the daughter of the late Liout.-Colonel Hantrey, who
had been an officsr in the Royal Bengal Artillery, and the
respondent had held the situation of head assistant to the
Military Board ct the Accountant•Gcnerars-effice at Cal-
cutta. The parties were married at Calcutta on the 16th of
January, 1547, and they cohabited until 1857, when the
alleged desertion took place. There were two children, a
boy and girl, issue of the marriage, who were living. The
father of the petitioner died, leaving a widow, a son, who
was in the Indian army, the petitioner, who was then
only eight years old, and another daughter. When only
16 years et age she became acquainted with a Colonel
Lyster, to whom she was married, and by whom she had
one child; but it turned out that he had a wife living at
the time. He died, and she and her mother returned to
Calcutta, where they formed an intimacy with the respon-
dent, who proposed marriage to her. She thought it right
t inform him of what had occurred, and titer a day's
deliberation ho consented to marry her notwithstanding.
The union was not a happy one, fer it appeared that the
respondent was of a jealous andsuspicious disposition, and
altercations took place between them which led to much
domestic misery. Some time alter the marriage they left
India for England, but differences arising between them on
the voyage she refused to accompany her husband beyond
the Mauritius, and one of the acts of adultery charged was
alleged to have been committed with a Lieutenant Hickey
at this period. She ultimately went to England, and at the
solicitation of the respondent resumed cohabitation with him,
but in 1857 he left her at Folkestone, and wont to Germany.
Since then he refused to live 'with her, and although he
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e the commencement of those
proceedings, the Court had ordcrtd him to pay her 5160 a
year, pendente alimony. Some letters from the soiO be
re-
spondent to his wife wero read, ia which he repeated his
charge of adultery with Licutentnt Hickey, and also ac-
cused her of misconduct with a gentleman named Jermer,
who, it appeared, had rendered ter pecuniary assistance
after the desertion of her husband, end when he was irregu-
lar in his remittances.

Evidence of the marriage in Beal having been given,
Mrs Anna Maria Hill, the petiLioner, was called. She
said that after the death of her father she returned with her
mother to England, and they resided at Stoke Newington.
She became acquainted with Colonel Lyster, and she mar-
ried him under the impression that he was a single man.
When ho died, she went back with her mother, whose
means were very limited to Calcutta. She never lived
happily wish him. She was confined of her second child
on the voyage to England in 1861, On her returning to
Calcutta she lived for six weeks with her husband. In
1854 he received his pension, and left India. On her re-
turn to England she went to live with her friends, but by
appointment she met her husband in Greenwich-park, and
thpy agreed to live together again. In the middle of
August, 1867, they went to Foikes:one, and her husband
desired her to go to Sandgate with the children, while he
went to Germany for a fortnight. Ho said he had origi-
nally agreed to take her with him, but he had altered his
mind. From that period they never lived together. The
letters road by counsel were then put in and identified by
the petitioner as being in the handwriting of her husband.
The learned judge suggested that, as there was no pro-
bability of the parties living together again, the scandal of
further proceedings might be prevented by a private ar-
rangement.
The learned counsel then retired, and, after an hour's
absence, an arrangement was made which terminated the
proceedings.

MARKETS---This Day

MARK-LANE.

IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES. Wheat, 42s 63 ;
barley, 27s 10d ; oats, 21s 7d; rye, 31s 5d ; beans, 36s Ild ;
and peas, 34s 3d.

THE SIX WEEDS' AVERAGES. Wheat, 40s 9d ;
barley, 27s 8d ; oats, 20s 10d ; rye, 311 7d; beans, 35s 10d ;
peas, 33s 7d.
ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK.—Wheat, 79,473 ;
barley, 2,14 S ; oats, 4,371; rye, 30; beans, 3,212 ; peas,
241 quarters.