The Sun.
London, England, 1864-12-16 00:00:00

rH E SUl', LOINDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 16, 1864.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH STREET,

A SCENE IN COURT,—Honorah Murray, a tall, muscular
" unfortunate," who has been several times charged at this
court with disorderly conduct, was charged before Mr
Barker with annoying gentlemen and behaving in a dis-
orderly manner.

The case having been proved by a constable,
The prisoner said the police interfered with her when she
was with gentlemen, telling them she was a thief, and that
annoyed her.

Mr Barker said she would be committed for 14 days.
The prisoner in a loud voice exclaimed, " That's right
Pa get my Christmas dinner and some sauce."

On being removed from the court by 13.trns, the gaoler,
the prisoner behaved in a most outrageous manner, kicking
at every one she carne near. On getting into the yard she
picked up a stone, and threw it with great force through
the window of the prisoners' waiting room, where several
prisoners and constables were sitting. She then became
so desperate that it was only by the united exertions of the
gaoler and five or six constables she was got to the cells,
she all the while using the most violent expressions, and
swearing she would have the life if a constable before she
was done with them. On ne occasion when the prisoner
was charged in the Old Court, she in her desperation flung
herself headlong down a flight of stairs, and afterwards
smashed some panes of glass iu a door.

LAW INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Special Jury
BANCROFT V. BANCROFT AND RUMNEY,

This was a cross action instituted by the husband for a
dissolution of marriage on the ground of adultery with the
co-respondent, and he also claimed large damages.
Mr Overend, Q.C., said this was a case in which thejury
would have to say whether the respondent had committed
adultery with the co-respondent. The petitioner was a
gentleman, living at Manchester, and in 1862 he married
the respondent, who had, previous to her marriage, been
living in the house of her brother—ia-law, Mr Rumney, the
co-respondent. The petitioner and her husband lived
together in happiness until August in the same Year, when
a fact was disclosed which quite altered the relation of the
petitioner, and Mrs, autcrott subsequently left her hus-
band's home fur her brother-in-law's, and now he believed
she was living at Balton, where she bad been since her
deparlure from the petitioner. The learned counsel then
went into a detail of the facts of the case, which
were disclosed at the last trial when the wife
instituted a suit for judgment on the ground
of her husband's cruelty, and obtained a divorce nisi. The
evidence in the present case would be to the following effect.:
That Mr Rumney, being the brother-in-law of the respon-
dent, had taken advantage of his connection to seduce her
affections from her husband, and that on several occasions
he had committed adultery with her. That at unseasonable
hours he visitA her at her husband's house, and under vei y
peculiar circumstances. That he had been seen at various
places by different persons in Manchester with the respon-
dent. He would admit that one or two of the witnesses
were of doubtful character, but there would be strcng cor-
roborative proof as to the consistency of the testimony given
by them, and they were persons entirely unconnected
with the respondent and co-respondent, and could have no
motive for giving false testimony. The facts which had
led to the institution of the present suit caused frequent
quarrels, which led to great unhappiness, and he would
admit of certain acts of violence on the part of tho husband.
[The learned counsel was then going into certain acts of
adultery, when frequent interruptions took place on the
part of Mr M. Chambers and Mr Sergeant Ballantine, the
counsel for the respondent, who urged that the adulteries
alleged to have been committed by the respondent were
entirely new to them, fuel that the particular issues
which they were called upon to meet were entirely unknown
to them, and that in common justice there ought to be an
adjournment, and the costs ought to be defrayed by the
petitioner on the ground that he was the party who had
not complied with the rules of the Court.]
His Lordship said he had no alternative but to adjourn
the case.

Mr 0 verend contended that every information had been
given, which would be found to be the case if his lordship
looked to the record.

His Lordship said he had it then in his hand.

Mr Overend said th-y would show the several acts al-
leged were there mentioned, and if the parties concerned
for the respondent had not properly understood them he
considered his client ought not to be put to the expense of
paying the cost of an adjournment•

His Lordship considered that both parties ought to be
subject to loss, as although the petitioner seemed to have
been in some measure to blame, the respondent was not
entirely blameless. He should make no order as to the
costs,

The case was then adjourned till next term.

CIIETWYND V. CIIETWYND.

Sergeant Ballantine said his lordship would be almost as
much delayed in this as the former case, for in the case of
Clabtwynd v. Chetwnd, which stood next on the list, they
were totally unprepared in consequence of not having the
slightest idea that the for.ner case would break down, and
that he was then the only legal representative in the case
present—the Queen's Advocate, who was to open, being at
the present time addressing the Court: of P.rivy Council,
and there was such peculiarities in the case that he did not
feel himself equal to the task of opening the case.
The Judge Ordinary said he would give the learned ser•
geant until one o'clock to obtain the attendance of the gen-
tlemen engaged in the case.
The court then adjourned until that hour, when
The learned Judge again took his seat.

The case then proceeded. It was a suit instituted by
Mrs Blanche Chetwynd against her husband, Wm. Henry
Chetwynd, for dissolution of marriage on the ground of
cruelty and adultery. The respondent denied the charge
in the petition, and pleaded that she had condoned the
adultery, and that if adultery had been committed, she con-
duced to that state of things by her misconduct.
Mr Kerslake, Q.C., said the present suit was of the
most painful and extraordinary nature. The petitioner was
the eldest daughter of the Hon. and Rev, Arthur Talbot
and the respondent, William Henry Chetwynd, a brother,
he believed, of the present Baronet. The parties were
married in August, 1854, the lady being then about 18
years of age, and Mr Chetwynd about 48. The evidence
be should have to offer to them was of the most pain-
ful and extraordinary nature, and such that but very
rarely, if ever, had been heard of in a court of justice
The respondent, not content with the greatest cruelty,.
but, according to his instructions, he not only was lost to
all feelings of decency, but had actually brought women of
the worst description into the very house in which his wife
resided, and there committed acts of adultery. Not content
with this, he became familiar with the female servants in
his establishment, and in one case he kept one of the domes-
tics in' the house as a mistress. He had horsewhipped his
wife and turned her out of (kora, and had been guilty of using
language towards his wife that would come from the grossest
mind, and which respectable men could nut permit their
lips to repeat; but, not content with this, he had taken his
eldest daughter, Florence, into the drawing-room and made
her kick her father. One would have imagined that
this would have been the very extreme of brutality;
but not so, as he had ealled up his young
son Arthur, and, after hating compelled him to
spit in his mother's face, had made him spell a most
disgusting name. The learned Counsel then detailed a
corrupt nature, and commenced
reading anumber
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mistresses,numbcr of esocmts
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women who had been do-
mestics in his own home.

The case was proceeding when we went to press.

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activity in the markets for Nreign and Colonial Produce.
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full prices were obtained.
Sugars have been in more demand at enhanced prices ;
has been done in coffee,
rico, and cocoa. In fruit theta has been very little anima.
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ward delivery.
An extraordinary general Meeting of shareholders of the
t ioranforward
London and Northern Bank was held to-day, for the pur-
pose of considering the prop!, ty_
of carrying into effect the
proposed arrangement with fhe
Midland Bank, by which
the latter company takes over the principal branches of the
bank at a sum nearly equivaent to one and a-half year's
purchase of the profits of the business, and also for volun-
tarily winding up the affairs of the London and Northern
Bank.

THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY AT TIIE POST-OFFICE,
—The following notice has been issued from the
General Post-office :—As Monday the 26th of December
will be kept as a holiday, in consequence of Christmas-day
falling on Sunday, there will be no delivery of letters by
the London district post in the afternoon of that day. Letters
for the night mails will be collected from the town pillar
boxes at 5 p.m., from the town receiving houses at 5.30 pan,
and from the suburban boxes and offices at the usual time;
but there will be no later collection either from,the pillar
boxes or the receiving houses. The receiving houses will be
opened for half-an-hour before the afternoon collection, for
the receipt of registered letters and for the sale of stamps ;
but no money order or savings bank business be trans-
acted. Letters to be forwarded by the morning mails on
Tuesday, the 27th December, must be posted either at the
head district offices, the branch offices at Lombard-street
and Charing-cross, or in the town pillar letter boxes, as
there will be no collec;ion for such mails from any town
receiving house ; but in the suburbs letters for then will be
collected as usual. The morning mails will be despatched
from London as usual, but the provincial mid..day mails
will not be forwarded.—W. BOKENHAM, Controller. •

AN OLD PONY,—Lord Nelson, a favourite pony,
the property of Mr Palin, of Staplefurd Hall, Cheshire, was
found dead on Satutday morning last. He had attained to
the almost unprecedented age of 43. A few days before his
death he could not be caught when turned into th 3 fields,
and few fences could stop him. Tho day before his death
he appeared quite well, and was grazing as usual. SOZII9
straw had been placed in a corner of a field, to prepare for
thatching, upon which he had laid himself down and died,
apparently without a struggle. He was perfectly sound in
wind and limb to the last, and had not a windgall about him.
—Manchester Courier.

RACING FIXTURES FOR 18(35.
J ANUARY.

Manchester

FEBRUARY.
Lincoln Spring YI I Nottingham Spring 28

MA.RCIL.

Derby Spring
Liverpool Spring
Shrewsbury Spring ~ „ 9 Chelmsford Spring „ „ 28

Address to President Lincoln.

A deputation from the Emancipation Society
waited upon the Hon. C. F. Adams, the American
Minister, yesterday afternoon, at his residence in
Portland-place, to present to his Excellency, for
transmission to the United States, an address con•
gratulating President Lincoln on his re-election.
Mr F. W. Chesson, the hon. secretary, read the

following address adopted by the Emancipation

Society for presentation to Mr Lincoln :
TO HIS EXCELLENCY ABRAHAM LINCOLN, PRESIDENT OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.

Sir,—We, the President and members of the Emancipa-
tion Society, with profound respect for your person and for
your of Fie, congratulate you upon your re-election as Pro
sident of the United Szates of America.

Your first election marked you out as the freely chosen
leader of the people for the express and avowed purpose of
resisting the encroachments of the slave power, and we re -
oice that, after four years' experienca, your countrymen are
again determined that you shall act as the it chief magistrate
for another term of office, in order that the hateful institu-
tion of slavery may be entirely abolished.
We agree with those who el,,cted you in their deduc-
tions that ' slavery was the cause of the rebellion" it is your
dnty to quell; that it " must be hostile to the principles of
Republican Government;" and that both " justice and na-
tional s -defy demand its extirpation," and we at the same
time feel confident that while vigorously conducting the
remaining operations of the war so as to accomplish this
high purpose, your administration will be guided, as it has
hitherto been, by an earnest desire to mitigate the suffer-
ings inseparable from a condition of strife. We have noticed
with peculiar satisfaction the sanction and aid given by
your Government to the voluntary efforts of the Sanitary
Commission, whose agents have not confined their bene-
ficent action to their own party in the struggle, but have
bestowed the greatest care and attention upon the sick and
wounded rebels who have fallen into your hands.
We deplore the loss of valuable life in the protracted
conflict which the slaveholders have forced upon your coun-
try—but it is an honour to you and to your fallow-citizens
that no prisoners have been put to death for the mere fact
of being taken in arms against your Government—and we
have faith that you will continue to show all possible mercy
and forbearance to the enemies of your republic, and thus
leave to your contemporaries and to posterity the gratefu
task of placing your moderation in noble contrast with the
deplorable and sanguinary ferocity exhibited by European
despots towards those whom their cruelty has driven to
revolt.

That your exertions may shorten the duration cf the
war, and that your country, thoroughly purged and puri-
fied from the crime and curse of slavery, and w.th every
citizen, without regard to race or colour, standing in per-
fect equality before the law, may enjoy internal happiness,
and exert a useful and widespread influence for the ad-
vancement of liberty and the general good of mankind, is
the wish and prayer of your sincere friends.
WILLIAM EVANS, Chairman.
P. A. TAYLOR,
Treasurers.
W. T. 111ALLESON,
F. W. CRESSON, Hon. Secretary.

London, Dec. 1864.
After complimentary speeches from several members of
the deputation,
His Excellency Mr. ADAMS said,—Mr Chairman and
Gentlemen,--1 receive the address which you are pleased
to commit to my care with great satisfaction. Coming as it
does from an association of such respectability in this king-
dom, it cannot fail to be regarded in America as a strong
proof of the friendly interest taken by a considerable por-
tion of the English people in the \I &are of the United
States while passing through their great perils. This
will do great good, for I cannot disguise from myself or
from you the painful fact that an opposite disposition has
been manifested here in very influential circles, end that the
knowledge of this has given rise to a general impression
among my countrymen that the whole British nation really
desires the disruption, and consequent downfall, of the
power of the United States. 'Renee has sprung up a cor-
responding degree of which bids fair, if not counter-
acted, only to increase with time. If such passions be per-
mitted a full indulgence between two nations it needs little
sagacity to foretell that, in the long run, the end is war.
Very fortunately for us.all in the present case, the demon.
strations already made by yourselves, and may other asso-
ciations whose friendly communications from various por-
tions of the kingdom I am now continually receiving for
transmission to America, will enable those who value the
blessings of peace and international amity to prove that,
whatever may be the hostility of some, it is by no means
shared by the great number of the British people, and
ought not to be presumed to be a national impression
(Cheers.) Permit me, gentlemen, further to observe that
the election to which you refer in your address has drawn
out as full and general an expression of the opinion of
the whole people of the region in which it has taken
place as has ever been the case in the most peaceful times,
Never was a canvas more perfectly freo, nor rnore latitude
taken in all the discussions of public questions and of the
characters of public men. Under these circumstances it is
needless to point out to you how mistaken have been the
notions of some that any essential variation has taken place
in the general operation of free institutions in all that portion
of the United States, constituting much the greatest part,
not immediately the theatre of the war. (Cheers.) I would
further beg leave to call your attention to two points which
the history of the late election appears clearly to establish.

The first is the practical impossibility of making any effec

tive separation of the personal and political interest of the
two sections of America now involved ia this deplorable
struggle. This is indubitably shown by the fact that at no
time in our history has so direct and persistent an effort at
inrerference to control the event of the election of Presi-
dent been made by the people of the insurgent States as
upon this last occasion, while they profess—and doubtless
honestly, their desire to separate themselves wholly from
it. The notorious projects devised by some of their agents
at Niagara Falls in the autumn, followed as they were by
the nomination at Chicago of a candidate for the Presi-
deLcy committed to a policy dictated by that portion of the
people well known to be moat in sympathy, it not in abso-
lute communication, with them, furnish evidence enough of
this truth, if the same were not confirmed by the regrets
unequivocally expressed since by certain prominent leaders
in the Southern States at the failures of their expectations
from that nomination. This shows that, whatever might be
the sincerity with which either portion of the country might
act ia the supposition that it should consent to pledge itself
to a complete separation, the fact that the political interest
of the two are inextricably interwined will, under every pos-
sible circumstance, render all such promises in practice futile
and void. The second point to which I would advert is natu-
rally suggested by the first. It is this—that the only real
question of difference between the two parties in the election
was that which directlyinvolved the interests of the elavehold-
ing insurgents, much more than those of the loyal States.

I (Cheers.) The nomination at Chicago rested on an implied,
if not an express engagement, to protect domestic slavery so
far as not to make it a question in any plan of pacification
or restoration of the Union. (Hear.) The policy of the Go-
vernment, on the other hand, was well understood to be a
restoration of the Union as a primary object, but the set-
tlement of the slave question as a necessary preliminary to
a durable re-establishment of peace. If this be a correct
statement of the issue, it can be no cause of surprise to
find the insurgents straining every nerve to bring about a
result favourable to their interests. It was then the fate
of slavery that mach the turning point in the great deci-
tion to be made by the people of the United States on this
occasion. If this be so, the result is one in which we may
be permitted all to rejoice in common, It has continued a
Government which has already done much towards eman-
cipation in the progress of the war, and which might be de-
pended upon to go on doing more, in proportion as matters
should approach more nearly the great end of its perfect
work. (Hear.) I will conclude, then, with the expression
of a hope that, without regard to national distinction, all
good men may have cause to rejoice in the termination of
this melancholy struggle, if that end be at once the confir-
mation of a free Government in America, and the eradica-
tion of the most formidable evil with which its progress has
been heretofore cursed. (Loud cheers.)
Three cheers were then given for Mr Lincoln, and the
deputation withdrew.

The divorce case—Stone v. Stone and Apple•
ten, which has been in course of trial for several days, was
brought to a close yesterday. This was the second trial,
the former one having ended in a verdict for the plaintiff,
the jury finding that the wife had committed adultery. Yes-
terday this decision was reversed. The jury found that the
respondent had not been guilty of the adultery charged.
A tSCHOOLMASTRR CHARGED WITH BURGLARY
AND WASTING 150 GALLONS OF ALE.—At the
Court-house at Driffield on Wednesday, William Arnott, of
Poston, near Driffield, schoolmaster, was charged with
breaking into an ale cellar, and stealing and wasting a large
quantity of ale, the property of Mr Robert Gibson, of Pos-
ton, brewer. Robert Ross stated that he locked the brewery
and the ale cellar on Saturday night at 6 o'clock, and saw
that all was safe. There were eight 18 gallon casks on the
gantry working, and another bat rel en the tap. On Sunday
morning he found the cellar door broken open. Ile fetched
Mr Gibson, and they found eight of the casks thrown down
and nearly empty. The others were laid on their sides and
nearly empty, and the contents were spilt on the floor. A
stick and a hat were found in the cellar. Mr Gibson
said that all the ale—about 160 gallons, worth Is 3d per
gallon—was wasted, except two eighteen gallon casks, He
saw all safe at ten o'clock on the previous night. Police-
constable Gardam stated that he took Arnott into custody
on Sunday night, and charged him with breaking into Mr.
Gtbsou's ale cellar. He said " Yes," He asked the prisoner
if he could produce the hat and stick he had in his posses-
sion on Saturday night; and he said he bad lost them. He
said " You have found it out. I may as well tell you the
truth, I broke into the cellar, myself, I was alone, and
I left my hat and stick. I got my bellyfull of drink," The
prisoner, on being asked by the magistrates if he had any-
thing to say, made a statement similar to the above; and
said the cellar door came open es easily as a roan could take
his het from his head, but he denied upsetting the ale bar-
rels. He was committed to prison for a month.