The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-30 00:00:00

TO THE EDITOR OF THE DAILY TELEGE&PR.

Sir,—ln this momentous crisis of my miserable fate may I
ask of the press and the public to suspend for awhile their
judgment, and not to believe that the opinion of some of the
law lords has finally deprived me of the status of wife. The
ease, asl am well advised, has not by any means terminated,
a reference to oeths being competent, and the inherent right
of parties seeking to establish a marriage. Even the opinion
giver on Thursday by their lordships Is merely an opinion
until it is affirmed, or in legal phrase extracted, by the High
Court of Session in Scotland ; and prior to that the
examination on oath will take place, which in justice
and fairness should have been granted when applied
for by my counsel, the Lori Advocate. I be-
lieve it is the first principle of English justice,
on which we pride ourselves over all other nations, that a
man should not be condemned unheard, and that he should
be allowed to question face to face his accusers. Yet this
is exactly what I have been deprived of, but which at this
stage of the case I can, and do, demand.

The reason why the Scotch Court did not have recourse
to the examination of parties was simply that the Scotch
lords, being so much more familiar with their own law than
Englishmen can be supposed to be, were at no loss to discern
a marriage on the written evidence before them; and the
Scotch horror of perjury ever induces them to defer to the
last extremity the examination of the parties themselves.
The practical result of this reference to oaths would be
that should one party prove sufficient to establish a
marriage—or the other fail to show that none
had taken place—the Court of Session would refuse to en•
dorse the opinion given in the House of Lords, and the
whole case might be again brought before them. Hence, I
appeal to the public through your medium to suspend their
judgment until this last ordeal shall have been tried, and
that the more especially as the Irish verdict of a jury and
four judges, declaring me the wife. of Major Yelverton, still
stands unannulled,

Had the.action raised against me been one of nullity, or
an action to prove that the marriages, Scotch or Irish, were
neither of them legal, I should not assuredly have wasted
six years of my life, my health, and fortune in the conten-
tion to be the wife of a man who refused to recognise me in
that capacity. But the form of action raked up from ob-
scure barbarism, and held forth as a means of escape to an
unfortunate and desperate man, is such as to load me with
infamy and drag me down to the depths whence there is no
degradation deeper for a woman.
A hundred years ago there was such an action in Eng-
land, called jactitation, resorted to by men to rid themselves
of the claims of those they had dishonoured. No woman
with a soul above a slave's would submit in silence to such
contumely. By this action they have left me but the alter-
native which the noble Wallace gave to his men—" To do,
or die." I hold my honour as a precious gem, which it is
my duty to defend with my life, and by every power and
strength of mind that God has given me ; and as I am an
honest woman in the sight of Heaven, I will so defend it

till the last pUlsation of the heart, and never desist until I
have cast the foul slander from my hitherto untarnished
fame.—l am, Sir, yours, &C., THEVESI YELVERTON,
29, Cambridge-terrace, Hyde Park, July 29.

MARKETS—This Day.

COVENT GARDEN.

Moderate supplies of fruit and vegetables aro on offer
hero to• day. Most descriptions ecraraand a fair sale at the
annexed quotations :—•

TRUTT.

S. d. s. d.
Pine apples 1 6 to 2 6
Colonial do., each 1 6 to 3 0
Grapes,per lb 2 0 to 5 0
Foreign do 0 0 to 0 0
Melons 0 0 to 0 0
Nectarines, per dz 0 0 to 0 0
Apples, per hf-sv. 1 3 to 2 6
Pears, per do
Oranges, per 100..10 0 to 14 0
Lemons, per 100 3 6 to 8 0
Gooseberries hf sve2 0 to 2 9
Strawberries pr pt 0 3 to 0 6

s. d. s d
Raspberries,prpt 0 6to 0 7
Cherries, per lb. 0 3to 0 6
Foreign ditto, puno oto 0 0
Filberts, per lb .. 1 oto 1 3
Walnuts, per 100 0 oto 0 0
Cobnuts, per lb .. 0 oto 0 0
Almonds, per bus 0 oto 0 0
Figs, per doz. .... 0 oto 0 0
Peaches.. . 0 oto 0 0
Currants, per b..ov 2 oto 3 6
Plums, per do. .. 2 6to 3 6
Greengages, pr do. 0 oto 0 0