The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-20 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

COURT Of DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde, and a Special Jury.)
ROWE V. ROWE AND KENDALL.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Dr. Wamby appeared for
the petitioner, the Queen's Advocate, and Mr. Searle for
the respondent, and Mr. M. Chambers, Q. 0., and Dr.
Spinks for the co-respondent.
In this case the petitioner, Mr. Octavius Rowe, a solici-
tor at Aberystwith, prayed for a dissolution of marriage on
the ground of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent,
an adjutant of the Cardigan Militia,and who had formally
been an officer in the English army. The defendant■
merely pleaded denial.
Mr Sergeant Ballantine stated the case. Tho petitioner
who claimed £l,OOO damages for the injuries he had sus-
tained in the loss of his wife's affections, was about 26 or 27
years old. He and tho respondent, who was the daughter
of a gentleman of property, and possessed considerable per-
sonal attractions, had been acquainted with the petitioner
for some years before their marriage, and a strong affection
subsisted between them, which ended in a clandestine union
in January, 1862. They lived first in the neighbourhood of
London, but settled at Aberystwith, where they lived on
affectionate terms until they formed the acquaintance of the
co-respondent, who: was a gentleman of property :resid-
ing in the ne ghbourhood, and who was a married
man with one child. In July, 1862, the
attentions of Captain Kendall to the respondent be-
came so marked as :to cause some observations on the part
of her relatives, and in a letter which she wrote about this

time, she admitted that she had been guilty of flirtation,
but denied any criminality. Sho threw herself on her
she would prove a good and faithful wife. He was induced
tkneeso overlook
rh
indiscretion,
husband,scre
tion and promised for the future that
but ahe fell a victim to the seduc-

tion of the co-respondent, with whom she eloped on the 23d
of October, 1863, and with whom she had been seen in
Shrewsbury, and afterwards in Paris, in November last.
She wrote letters to her husband after the elopement, in
which she spoke of him as a kind affectionate husband, but
that she could not love him, and she requested him to
write to her at an address which she gave hira in Cannon-
street, London.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

'ALICE INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

A LADY GROSSLY INSULTED.—Thowas Chapman, a
young man, described as a servant atßacon's Hotel, Hyde-
park, was charged before Mr Tyrwhitt with grossly miscon-
ducting himself towards a lady named Horsley, residing at
Connaught-place West, Hyde-park.
Mrs Horsley said—About a quarter-past 7 this morning
I was at my bedroom window, which looks into Hyde-park.
I saw the prisoner there, and I am positive he is the man,
He grossly exposed him-
pass my house, and he
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has bheaelvn he
gasuve ieelntryhe poi mef
as
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nine times, and always
of a morning, when I have opened my window. The pri-
soner stayed till he saw some one corning,
passed repeated his conduct,
andpot then
near walked
tree,lked
tlireheaodpposite my window. My ser-
aanwdayr,apbauatteadftethrweaarcdts.retrwedentot the son
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sat
constable, and he was taken into
on the nearest
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custody.
Mr Tyrwhitt —Yon hav3 no doubt about the prisoner
being the man ?
*Mrs Horsley—l am positive from seeing him so frequently
near the same tree within the last month.
•
Mr Tyrwhitt--Always at the same hour ?
Mrs Horsley--Always, the hour at which I open my
window.
Thomas Holmes, servant to the complainant, said—On
being spoken to by the female servant, I went and told a
policeman that tho prisoner had been annoying my mis-
tress, and he was then takes into custody, when ho said ho
had not annoyed any one.
James Macintosh, 512 A—On the prisoner being pointed
out to me I took him into custody, but ho said nothing in
answer to the charge.
Prisoner—l have no questions to ask. If I offended any
one I did not mean to do so.

Mrs Horsley—On every wcasion ho has watched for my
coming to the window before acting as he did.

Mr Tyrwhitt—Tho Trimmer will be committed for three
months with hard labour.

THAMES.

CONSPIRACY TO MURDEE.—Patrick Driscoll, an Irish
labourer, was brought before Mr. Paget, charged with
violently assaulting and wounding Henry Emmett.
The complainant, whose right arm was in an hospital
splint, and whose face was swollen and discoloured, said he
gave evidence against the prisoner and others for stealing a
small cask of wine from the London Docks. The prisoner
and another man were committed for trial. The prisoner
was acquitted and his confederate found guilty, and sens
tented to a long term of imprisonment. Sinco the trial
annoyances and threats had been made by the prisoner and
others. He understood a conspiracy had been tormed to
murder him, Yesterday afternoon as soon as lie left the
London Dock a sudden attack was made upon him
by the prisoner, who struck him about the head with his
fist. He fell, or was thrown by the prisoner. and was
trying to get up when the prisoner kicked at him fiercely,
and made several kicks at his belly and a more vital part
of his person. He called out for help. He could not get
up. His shoulder was dislocated.
Mr Paget—How was that ?
Witness—My arm was doubled under me when I was
thrown. Ho has been threatening my life since the trial.
I gave evidence against him at this court, and also at the
Sessions House. The man who was convicted said, "By
G--, when 1 come out,
I'll murder you." I have been
given to understand my life was to be sacrificed for the
evidence I gave.

William Henry Emmett,— the father of the last witness,
said the prisoner was standing at the side door of the dock
entrance when his son was coming out. He saw his eon
on the ground and the prisoner kinking him.
Edmund Ellis, a constable in the service of the London
Dock Company, gave evidence of the facts relating to the
prosecution of the men for stealing an octave of wino. The
prosecutor was an accomplice, and allowed to give evidence
for the Crown.

Mr Nathaniel Hickford, house-surgeon of the London
Hospital, said the prosecutor was brought there yesterday
with a severe contusion over the right eye, and a disloca-
tion of tho right elbow ;
Joint. Oi month would elapse
before the prisoner would recover the. use of his arm.
Mr Paget committed the prisoner for trial.

At the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
the London and Westminster Bank, Mr. Alderman
Salmons, MX., in the chair, the report of the
that—after making
directors, which was unanimously adopted, stated
provision for all bad and
doubtful debts, paying the income tax, and setting
apart £2,000 towards the buildings of the bank—
the net profits of the bank
for the last half-year
amounted to £234,032 38.
81 This sum, added to
£18,844125. 91 the unappropriated balance of the
preceding half-year, would amount to £252,876
plus fund at the rate of 5 per
Cent. per annum (a,898
t interest on the rest or sur-
amounts to £282,852 ls. 2cl,
165.165. 57dd..)0huat
so fbteheins
addedam on n
intor e h o l
withd e r s
to that fund, which now
gaenm; CO. for a transfer of their
April last. The sum paid,
4t wtsenthteersehda
including their valuable freehold premises (at pre
sent temporarily used as the County Office), was
businesswer were
Messrs.
aware,looun the an arrangement
LoydBlrBrtahn o f A
f A
declare a dividend to
the shareholders at the rate
£187,500. The directors no:
- per cent. per annum,
and by way of farther dividend
out of the profits,
a bonus of 11 per cent. on the paid-up capital.
The sum of £BO,OOO has been appropriated in re-
duction of the amount paid to Uessrs. Jones Lloyd
and Co. After these payments
Were made there
would remain a balance of 19k
----,977 19s 10d. Oat
Bra
° ffutd, ",of this amount the directors recommended that the
U
to the rest or sur-
pluswill then amount to £300,000.
sbfq
This would leave a balance of --,830 ls to be carried
to the profit end loss account for the present half-
wl4n7ioh 18s 10,1 be added
half-
year. The directors desired to express their opinion
that the rest should be increased to the sum of
£500,000.
MANSION-HOUSE. Lord Mayor End the
Lady Mayoress have invited her Majesty's Minis•
ters to a banquet, to be held on Wednesday, the 27th of
July, in the Egyptian-hall of the Mansion-house, For
some weeks the Lord Mayor has been confined to the house
by the effects of an accident which occurred to him at the
Tunbridge'railway station on his way to town to attend a
meeting of the Court of Common Council. Yesterday, for
the first time, he was able to leave his room to take the
chair at a Court of Aldermen at Guildhall.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND.—
The following gentlemen passed their primary exa-
minations in anatomy and physiology at a meeting of the
Court of Examiners on the 19th instant, and when eligible
will be admitted to the pass examination :—Messrs Alder-
son Nowsara, R. R. S. C. C. Lloyd, J.
D. Rowlands, and
W. H. Pywcll, students of. Guy's Hospital; James Kelly,
J. H. Quinn, Thomas Laffan, and G. N. Dunn, of Dublin;
W. J. Mountain and W. B. Swann, of Leeds ; T. A. Tur-
ner, Charing-cross Hospital ;F. W. Lowndes, Edinburgh;
W. Y. Martin, Manchester ; James Wickham, Middlesex
Hospital; Richard Jeffreys, Sheffield; W. A, Creser, Hull;
W, B. Dawson, London Hospital ; and J. M. Gibbes, St.
George's Hospital.
THE LIVERPOOL VOLUNTEERS.--A review of the
Liverpool volunteers is to be held on the Aintree Racecourse
on the 20th of August, the expense of which will be defrayed
by the Mayor, Mr Charles Mozley.