The Sun.
London, England, 1864-11-10 00:00:00

rnE sux LoNnoN, THURSDAY EVENING, NOV.pMBER 10, 1864

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
CHANTER V. CHANTER.

This was an undefended suit of the wife against the
husband, praying for a dissolution of marriage, on the
ground of cruelty, adultery, and desertion.
The parties were married in 1856, and cohabited for some
time, when the respondent commenced a series of acts of
cruelty, and ultimately deserted his wife, who was left
entirely destitute of support. The petitioner stated that
after the marriage she went to Dublin with her
husband, and then to Cork, where his treatment
became very bad, ho having been in the habit
of violently assaulting her. He used to strike
her with a cane. Their disputes arose in conse-
quence of differences about money, which ho endeavoured
to extort from her. They sep'rated shortly after the mar-
riage, and she went to Bromley to live. He followed her
there and demanded money, which she refused to give him,
having barely enough to support herself, and on one occa-
sion he took off her wedding ring, Ho used to demand her
things, and if he required her bonnet ho would have had it.
Ho used to ill treat her solely in regard to money matters,
and he was not a jealous man, From 1859 to 1563 she did
not see her husband, but in the latter year he wanted to be
reconciled to her, but she refused to live with him unlesshe
provi,led her with a home, which he did not do. She was
then living in Sutherland-street, Pimlico, and he remained
at the house, but occupied a separate bedroom, In about
three or fuur days he went away, and she did not see him
until some time afterwards, when ho accosted her in the
street. On that occasion he struck her with his cane—
frequent act of his—because she would not lean on him and
had a basket on her arm, at which he appeared shocked.
He also pinched her. She never saw him afterwards, but
sho heard that he was confined in Northampton Gaol for
some offence which he had committed. He had given her
black eyes. She remembered on one occasion his wanting her
to take a glass of whisky and water, and his having a bottle
of laudanum in his possession, which she and the servant
succeeded in getting from him. That was in December
1863. She had not cohabited with her husband since she
left him.

Witnesses were examined to corroborate the evidence of
the petitioner. One, a domestic servant, stated that on
one occasion she entered Mrs Chanter's apartment atter the
respondent had quitted it, and found her in a state of insen-
sibility from ill-usage.
The learned judge granted a decree nisi.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE--This day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

COWARDLY ASSAULT ON A FEMALE,—Richard Wil-
liams, a glass plater, living in Charlton-street, Fitzroy-
square, was charged before Mr Knox with assaulting Mrs
Mary Ann Gray, of 49, Newman-street, Oxfcrd•street.
Mrs Gray, who had a bad black eye, stated that on the
previous evening she was at the house of her father, 4,
Charles-street, Middlesex Hospital, en alamode beef-house,
when a person who was taking hs supper misconducted
himself, being the worse for liquor. Her brother went to
the door to look for a constable, when the defendant en-
tered, She asked the defendant, whether he wanted any
refreshment and he said he did not, and she then told him
there were quite enough persons in the place without him,
and immediately afterwards the defendant gave her a blow
in the eye•

In answer to Mr Knox the complainant said she believed
;he defendant was intoxicated.

The defendant wished to know if Mrs Gray had not
seized him by the collar, and Mrs Gray said not till defen-
dant struck her. Her brother had also a black eye through
a blow the defendant gave him.

Mr Benjamin John Wolff said he resided with his
father. On the previous evening there was a disturbance
in the shop caused by a person who was intoxicated. He
saw the defendant strike his sister and defended her as wall
as ho could, and the defendant then struck him in the eye.
Mr Wolff, who had also a bad black eye, said, in answer
to a question, the defendant had been drinking, but knew
what ho was about.

Police constable Sharman, 35 E, proved taking defendant
into custody, and that he was drunk.
The defendant said that, hearing a disturbance, he went
into the house, when Mrs Gray seizod him by the collar,
end he pushed her away. _ _

Mr Knox said if the defendant wished him to believe that
the black ey, Mrs Gray had got was caused by a push, he
would at once tell him he did not believe him.
Tho defendant said he had a wife and children.
Mr Knox said he would not send the defendant to prison
at once—though he considered his conduct_ in striking a
female very dastardly and brutal—as it might ruin his
wife and children. The defendant did not think so much
of his children as he (,1r Knox) did. The only thing in
the defendant's favour was that there was no premeditation.
He would fine him 40s or 14 days. _ _

FICKI'OCKETS AT THE ILLEMINATIONS.—Four boys
named George Hawkins, Henry Guming, John Skeen, and
James Bryan, were charged before Mr Knox with picking
pockets last night in Regent-street and Savile-row.
Butcher, 137 C, and Dawson, 301 A, having given evi-
dence, Mr Knox remanded the prisoners, that the police
might inquire as to the character of the boys.

LITERATURE.

TILE ST. JAMES'S MAGAZINE.—The story of
"Only a Clod" is, of course, the most conspicuous
thing in this number, and it proceeds with consi-
derable rapidity in the instalment before us. Francis
Tredethlyn obtains a clue to the fate of his missing
cousin Susan, and he also suffers himself to become
entangled in an engagement with scheming Miss Desmond,
with what result we shall see hereafter. "The Clerk of the
Weather," without whose invaluable assistance English
conversation would be at a standstill, supplies matter for a
readable paper; and the lovers of the horrible w:11 find
attraction in the fourth part of the " Records of an Old
Police-court." Dr Scoffern, who generally finds something
to say cn the topic of the day, gives his opinions on spirits
and their manifestations. Wo hays also an inferestin p,per
on no less a personage than Queen El z doeth, and ,he con-
tinuation of Paul EC val's romance of " Working in the
Dui k."

COLBURN'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE.—A
engthened article o❑ " The Lieutenants-General of
Police" opens this number, and to the reader un-.
familiar with the underworking of the brilliant
courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth Lewises, will
be full of curious revelations. It is remarked at
the outset that " the lieutenants-general of police played, up
to the time of the French Revolution, a far more important
part in the social, courtly, and political history of France
than is generally imagined." Francis Jaws continues his
"Vocal Exercises," or dissertation upon the character of
the voice in many eminent men. Alexander Andrews, a
careful and sensible writer, contributes a paper on " Cotton
Possibilities," and enters very fully into the capacities of
Central Africa, giving us emphatically the consoling assur-
ance that it is " capable of producing a great deal more
cotton than Europe is ever likely to requite." " Wood-
bury," and " The Quest" proceeds as usual, and " Strath-
more.' is evidently advancing to a climax. It is not difficult
t) foresee who is the spectre that i 4 to startle the
happiness of the fair young bride. Nicholas Michell con..
tributes some graceful verses on the premature death o f
the lamented Spoke. _ .

BENTLEY'S MISCELLANY.—We have elsewhere
noticed the introductory chapters of the Editor's
new story, " Tho House of Seven Chimneys," which
naturally occupies the foremost pages of this put.
Dudley Costello continues his chronicle of the
adventures of Signor Tomkins, and we have also a
singular and not very pleasing story from the Dutch,
called "The Twin Sisters of Malta." "The Chronicle of
the Compleat Angler " is pleasanter to study by the fireside
than by the running brooks this weather, and prudent men
will follow the same principle in gathering the experiences
of " A Gambling Tour." " Fontainebleau'' gives a sketch
of some of the attractions of that world-famoui spot, and
an article on " IheEra of LousXVI, and Marie Antoinette"
is full of mournful interest. Francis Jacox takes for his
text " Single-speech Soundpo3t," one of the three musicians
who are hired to celebrated Juliet's nuptials, and whose
eloquence is only recorded in the words "Faith I know not
what to say." Ho preaches thereon a homily on the wisdom
of occasional ignorance not altogether without a moral.
THE ALEXANDRA MAGAZINE aid ENGLISH-
WOMAN'S JOURNAL.—The Alexandi a Magazine is
now incorporated with its more dignified predeces-
sor, the Englishwoman's Journal, and both rerials
have contributed their best features to the magazine in its
present aspect. It con+ains a good deal of information
connected with the subject of female employment, and is
likely to afford valuable assistance to the cause both by cir-
cula'ing information and by engaging the interest of its
readers.

THE WORKING MEN'S CLUB AND INSTITUTE
MAGAZINE.—Tais little serial is the organ of the
Working Men's Club and Institute Union through-
out the country, and discusses all the principal

topics connected with the mov,ment. There is a paper on
the principle of co-operation applied to the establishment
and maintenance of working men's clubs and institutes, and
another entitled " How can Clubs be made Self-support-
ing ?`' showing how help may legitimately be given at the
outset of any hopeful enterprise.

THE JOURNAL OF BRITISH OPHTHALMOLOGY.
No. 1. John Churchill.•—This is a new quarterly
journal devoted to the consideration of the views
and practice of English ophthalmic surgeons.
There is at present no organ of the kind in the
country, and it is likely to fill an important gap in our me-
dical literature. So difficult and delicate is this branch of
surgery, its importance so great, and the opportunities of
studying it in provincial distaicts are necessarily so limited

that an authorised journal which shall record the experience
of eye institutions and of leading metropolitan practitioners
in new modes of treatment and operations, will be of the
greatest service to the public. Reports of hospital and
private cases will form part of every number, and the edi-
torship of Mr Jabez Hogg, assistant surgeon to the West-
minster Ophthalmic Hospital, is a guarantee for sound and
accurate iuformation.

THE SIXPENNY MAGAZINE presents its usual
amount of light reading, and considering the small
sum expended in its purchase, no reader will have
the right to complain that he has not been provided with
an ample supply of amusement, and materials for recrea-
tion. Besides many stories, there are some verses met with
of a romantic cast, and put forth in a flowing strain, in-
cluding :a sketch entitled " Unlawful Cures," which is
interesting, and conveys some useful information.
CASSELLS'S PUBLICATIONS• The Illustrated

Bunyan, History of England, Shakspere, Gold-
smith, Natural History, Popular Educator, &o„ each fully
maintain their usual excellence. The engravings are all
2seouted in the highest style of art.

MISCELLANEOUS.
THE BRITISH ARMY AND NAVY REVIEW this
month is replete with information to the united
service. Every Boy's Magazine is more than ordinarily
attractive, and
the Gallery of Geography will make a
very fine volume on its completion. Thorley's Farmer's
Almanack we can recommend to every person engaged in
agriculture.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

The paddlewheel steam sloop Baracouta, 6, Capt.
D'Arcy, which arrived at Plymouth on Tuesday
morning, left Jamaica September 26, Bermuda
October 4, and Halifax on the 19th. She took her
departure from Jamaica in consequence of the pre•
valence of smallpox there, and proceeded to Bern
muds, where she found the yellow fever raging.
She therefore coaled and left the same day, convey.

ing the crew of the serew gunboat Albacore and the
healthy part of the crew of the iron floating
battery Terror, Captain James F. B. Wainwright
to Halifax'. Tie Birracouta has brcught home
the officers and crew of the screw steam gunboat

Cygnet, 5, Commander W. S. De K.,.lntz)u, pair

off at Halifax, ar d five naval invalids, among whom

is AQsist.-Surgeon J. E. Grigg, late of the paddle-
wheel storm sloop V_suriaF, 6, at Bermuda. She

left at Jamaica the Aboukir, Shannon, Steady,

Bulldog, and Roeario ; at Bermuda, the Terror and
Albacore ; and at Halifax, the Duncan, Galatea,

Cygnet, Steady, and Virago.

Tho Liverpool

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was at Vtra Crtz, and was expected to sail direct

fur Eqgland on :he snivel of the Phaeton, which

bad left Port Royal to relieve her. The Greyhound

left Jamaica on the 21st September for England.
The Jason is coming home with the crew of the

Steady, paid off at llaiifex. The Barraccuta spoke
inlat. 49 31 N , long. 32 E., on Sunday, Octobr
39, the screw steamer Pennsylvania; and en the
22J. of October a Cunard steamer, outward bound.

During the prevalence of strong westerly winds

she lost,her mainyard and sprung the maintopmast,
Tae Barracouta called at Plymouth in consequence

of being short of coal, and expected orders to pro,
teed to Portsmouth to b 3 paid off, having been in
commission since May, 1860. _ _

The paddlewheel steam store ship Dee, 1, Master
Commander George Raymond, having shipped
stores at the Devonport dcchyard, and embarked
some seamen for conveyance to Portsmouth, was
appointed to leave Plymouth on Tuesday afternoon.
General Todleben finished his visit to Plymouth
on Wednesday morning, when be left by the ex-
press train. Accompanied from Portsmouth by
Colonel Gordon, C. 8., the General arrived on Satur.

day last at Government•house, Mount Wise, and
bccame the guest of Major General Hutchinson,
the Commander of the Forces in the western dis-

trict. Oa Sunday morning the General attended
Divine service in the military church, and being

much

pressed for time, he proceeded in the after-
noon, accompanied by the General, by Col. Owen,
C. 8., Commanding Royal Engineers, and by
Capt. Co,S in charge of works. to inspect the north
eastern defences of Plymouth. He inspected the
forts at St. Budeaux, Crown-hill, and Efford, and
expressed his unqualified approval of their struc-
ture. He entered very fully into all the professional
points connected v,ith the subject, and looking at
the natural features of the country, commended

the sites selected for the various fortifications. On
Monday morning, accompanied by the same officers,
General Todleben inspected the fort at Tregantle,
to the westward of Piymonth. Of this important
work, which he examined minutely, he expressed
himself in terms of high admiration. At the same
time, suggestions for improvement were not with-
held. Returning eastward by the military road,
the General ree.ched Cawsand, and there embarked

on board the steam yacht Princess Alice, which
conveyed him to the fort now erecting on Shovel
Rock, just inside the Plymouth breakwater, and
then to Bovisand, where he landed and proceed:d

up the hill and took a cursory view of the progress
of the fortifications on Staddon Heights. In the
evening he was entertained at dinner by Admiral
Sir Charles Fremantle, $.C.13., Commander-in•
Chief at Davoaport. On Tuesday morning General
Todleben was conveyed in General Hutchinson's
barge to the gunnery ship Cambridge, Captain
Charles S. F. Ewart, where he witnessed the artil-

lery practice of the crew. He then landed at the
Devonport dockyard, and was received by Rear-
A itniral Superintendent Thomas M. C. Symonds,
C. 8., Commander Martin, Master-Attendant, Mr.
Moore, acting masters shipwright, and others,
While here he saw at work a steam firesengine
which threw a jet of water at the rate of 21- tons
per minute to a height varying from 120 to 150
feet. Having taken luncheon with Admiral Sy-
monds, General -Todleben went from the dockyard
to Keyham steamyard, round which he was con-
ducted by Mr. Miller, Chief Engineer, Captain
Edmonstone, R N., and Mr Townshend, C.E. lie
went on board the Achilles and Research and visited
the various workshops. He then went on board the
steamtug Scotia, which conveyed him to the Bull
Point powder work?, and there obtained a full
view of the Royal Albert Bridge at Saltash.
He subsequently visited Mount Edgecumbe, and
in the evening dined at Leigham-.terrace, Ply-
mouth, with Col. Owen, C. 8,, Commanding Royal
Engineers. During his stay in the West General
Todleben secured the esteem of all those whom he
met; he exhibited a most extensive knowledge of
his profession, and was completely open and candid
in his communi3etions. It is understood that the
General will leave the country for the south of Eu-
rope about the 20th inst., but that he will first visit
Manchester and the midland counties. He has ac-
cepted invitations to dine at Rooms on the
11,h inst. with the officers of the Engineers, and at
a grand military dinner at Woolwich, which will
take place, we believe, on Friday, the 181 h inst.
The following appointments and promotions have
been made at the Admiralty :—Commander Hon.
E. G. L. Cochrane, to be Inspecting Commander in
the Co ist Guard—VV. H. Parker, master, additional,
to the Royal Adelaide, for service in the Princess
Alice— Lieut. Rowland M. Sperling to the Hima-
laya—Lieut. Robert L. Byng to the Asia—Subs
Lieut. H. B. Bradshaw to the Hibernia—Sub-Lieut.
John Jones to the Duncan—Albert J. W. Neville
promoted to be Acting Master—Dr Henry J. Dora-
ville, surgeon, to be Deputy Inspector General at
Bermuda Hospital—John M'Swiney, surgeon, to
the Formidable, additional, for service with the
Royal Marines at Deal—Dr W. Duirs, surgeon, to
be surgeon and medical storekeeper at Plymouth
Hospital—De John H. Patterson, staff surgeon, to
be staff surgeon of Woolwich Dockyard—Dr W.
L. Gordon to be assisting surgeon of Portsmouth
Dockyard—G. A. Wells, engineer, to the Daunt,ess,
for tenders—S. J. Bird, assistant engineer, to the
Asia, for hospital treatment—j. Williams, assistant
engineer, to the Racoon—J. H. Ferguson, assistant
engineer, to the Irresistible—and W. D. Gray 'Wor-
cester, nominated to a naval cadetship.

MAYORS FOR 1865.—The following gentlemen
were elected to fill the office of mayor for the
ensuing year:—Abingdon, Alderman C. Payne—Bedford,
Mr James Howard, re-elected—Birmingham, Mr H. Wig-
gin—Bury St. Edmund's, Alderman G. H. Nunn—Cam-
bridge, Alderman Hurrell, second time—Canterbury, Mr
P. Martin—Colchester, Mr J. F. Bishop, re-elected—Hert-
ford, Mr J. Gupper—Liverpool, Mr Edward Lawrence—
Manchester, Alderman Bennett—Norwich, Mr C. E. Tuck
—Nottingham, Alderman Page—Oxford, Mr J. R. Carr—
Portsmouth, Mr J. Baker—Preston, Mr Isherwood—
Rochester, Mr J. Tribe—Salford, Mr Wright Turner—
Southampton, Mr T. Bowman—Windsor, Mr R. Harris—
York, Mr Cabry.
DITAR RESTORED.—According to the Indu Pra
kisch (or Moonlight), a native paper received by the last
mail, the Government have resolved on restoring Dhar to
its native ruler. "By this time," says the .21/oon/ig74, on
the authority of its correspondent at Indere, "the joyous
city rings with the tumult of the multitudes thanking their
gods for this restoration of the State to their hereditary
prince." It seems also duly grateful for the exertions of
Lord Stanley and Mr John Dickinson, jun., in England. to
whose efforts the restoration of Dhar to a native ruler is
mainly to be attributed,
BREAKFSST BEVERAGE.—Honco3vathic practitioners,
and the medical profession generally, recommend cocoa
as being the most healtlif al of all beverages. When the doc-
trine of homoeopathy was first introduced into this country,
there were to be obt .fined no preparations of cocoa either at-
tractive to the taste or acceptable to the stomach ; the nut
was either supplied in the crude state or EO unskilfully
manufactured as to obtain little notice. J. Epps, of London,
Homoeopathic Chemist, was induced in the year 1839 to turn
his at ention to this subject, and at length he succeeded,
with the assistance of elaborate machinery, in being the first
to produce an article pure in its composition, and so refined
by the perfect trituration it receives in the process it passes
through, as to be most acceptable to the delicate stomach.
For general use Epps's Cocoa is distinguished as an invigo-
rating, grateful breakfast beverage, possessing a most deli-
cious aroma. Dr. Hassall, in his work "adulteration of
Food," says —" ocoa con ains a great variety of important
nutritive principles every ingredient necessary to the
growth and sustenance of the body." Again: "As a nutri-
tive, cocoa stands very much higher than either coffee or
ten." Directions—Two teaspoonfuls of the powder in a
breakfast cup, filled up with boiling water or milk. Secured
in tin-lined Ob., Ob., and 11b. labelled packets, a d sold by
grocers, onieetioncrs, and chemists. [ADvT.]