The Sun.
London, England, 1863-04-29 00:00:00

COURT OF DIVORCE.

Defendant said I defend this case on principle, and beg
to say that I never had the goods or ordered them.
Plaintiff—They were left at your office.
Defendant—l will explain. I once had a pair of boots
from plaintiff, and they were so large that I was compelled
to put on three pairs of worsted stockiLgs to make them fit.
(Laughter.) Under these circumstances I declined to give
plain. iff any further orders, but was astonished to find a
pair in my office one day. I refused to have them, and
they ehould have been returned. A friend of mine came in
during my absence and appropriated them to his own use,
His Honour—Then you must pay for them.
Defendant—Oh I very well._l do not mind if lam liable.
Verdict for plaintiff.

11 1 POLICE INTELLIGENCE This Day.
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MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
ATTEMPEED SUICIDE THROUGH A LOVE AFFAIR.
Eliza Dicks, a young female, was charged before Mr. 'I yr-
whitt with aetempling to commit suicide by drowning, in
the Long Water, Kensington -gardens.
Charles Croft, a park constable, said that while closing
the gate the previous evening he -aw the prisoner standing
on the banks of the Serpentine looking very disconsolate;
and, as he thought she was meditating suicide, he sent a
young man, not being himself able to leave the gates, to
watch her. Before the young man could get to her she
jumped into the water up to her shoulders. She was got
out and taken to the receiving-house.
Mr. Tyrwhitt asked the witness whether she gave any
reason, and whether she had any friends present.
Crott said she gave no reason, but seemed very unhappy,
and none of her friends were present.
In answer to Mr. Tyrwhitt, the girl said she was very
sorry, and she had nothing more to say.
Mr. Tyrwhitt said it was a dreadful affair. He should
send her to a place for a week, where she would be told the
criminality and foolishness of the offence.
The prisoner, who seemed in a very desponding state,and
who, it was stated, was engaged in a love affair, was then
remanded.
ROBBERY AT rRA.DESMEN' S.—James Clemson, described
as a leather dresser, who gave the address, 1, Bermondsey-
square, was charged before Mr. Tyrwhitt with stealing a
portmanteau at 46, Cranbourn-street, the property of Mr.
John Bray,
Tne prisoner was taken into custody by Michael Brosnan,
185 C, after a desperate resistan e, and in his possession was
found a mahogany and glass case, about four dozen new
pocket knives, which had evidently been taken from the
this.% and also a new mahogany table knife case, lined with
velvet.

The prisoner, who conducted himself in a rather impu,
dent manner, was remanded by Mr. Tyrwhitt for a week.

WESTMINS "ER .
ROBBING A FELLOW SERVANT.—Stephen Plail, a native
of Mount Nessing, near brentwood, Essex, was formally
examdued, charged with the following robbery:—
Eli Joseph Wallington said he was a waiter at Mr.
Hun's, 38, Grosvenor-row, etving-house keeper, prisoner
having also been in the same employ. They went to bed
together between lne and two o'clock on Sundby morning
the 12th inst , previous to which prosecutor wound up his
watch, which prisoner obs, ruing, s.iid " does it go well,"
and prosecutor replied in the affirmative. He then locked
the watch up in a box, placing the key in his trousers
pocket, where also was a purse containing a sovereign and
a half and some silver. When prosecutor awoke in the
morning he found his watch, chain, and money was gone,
and prisoner had absconded. Subsequently he also missed
a gold pin, a pair of Wellington boots, and two aprons,
Juhn Hornblow, 24 B, and James Dacres, 63, Essex
constabulary, proved apprehending the accused, and finding
the watch, but the other property was not traced ; and the
evidedce of Robert btubbs, of the West Essex Militia,
having been taken to show that the prisoner had been seen
with the watch and chain in hts possession,
Prisoner, who denied all knowledge whatever of the
property, was fully committed for trial.

:. —This Day.

(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.)
SHIRLEY V. SHIRLEY AND STATqAM.

This was a suit for a dissolution of marriage instituted
by the husband against the wife
The parties were married in 1840 at St. George's, Ilano-
ver-square, and for some time lived on good terms. About
four years ago Mrs. Shirley became addicted to drinking,
and to such an extent was the vice indulged in that it be-
came impossible for the husband to live with her. A sepa-
ration took place, an allowance being made by the hus-
band to support his wife. This allowance was kept
up until certain information reached the husband's ears
which induced him so take steps to obtain a decree of
divorce. The co-respondent in the case was a person named
Statham, a lecturer or preacher on Paddington-green ; and
it was alleged in the petition that, after delivering a lecture
on the evening of Sept. 11, he met the respondent, who was
then leading the life of an abandoneed woman, and pro-
ceeded with her down a narrow court near the green. Two
policemen were near the spot, and in a few minutes after
both parties were taken into custody, and, from what took I
place at the police-court, the present suit was instituted.
Margaret Shirley, the sister of the petitiuner, said, about
tour years after marriage Mrs, Shirley became addicted to
drinking, but she had never seen her drunk, although she
had known her take as much as would intoxicate two or
three men. She used to pawn her husband's goods to raise
1 money when she could not get it any other way. She also
P had a number of " tally bills."
The Judge Ordinary--Telegrams I
Witness—No, my lord, " tally bills."
The Judge—l don't know what you mean by " tally
bills."

Witness—For dress, my lord.
The Judge—What are " tally bills." The term is quite
a new one to me.

Witness—The tally system, my lord P
The Judge—I haven't the slightest notion of what you
mean I know of a system of payment by tally which is
prohibited by law, but I don't know what a tally bill is.
Witness—It's for clothing, my lord, to be paid for weekly
unknown to her husband.
The Judge—Oh, that's what it is, is it.
Evidence of identity having been given, the case for the
petitioner closed.
Tne jury were of opinion that the co-respondent Statham
had committed adultery.
The Judge Ordinary granted a decree nisi, but without
costs.

•
SHERIFFS' COURT.
(Berne Mr. Gibbons.)
HOW TO MAKE BOOTS FIT.-ASSILETON V. THOMAS.
This was an action to recover the value of a pair of boots
supplied to defendant, who is an accountant, of 16, Gresham-
street.

:GENCE,

Royal Visit to Aldershot.

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Bto 1 agst Caller Ou (taken)
10 to I agat Plover (taken)
16 to 1 agst Buck.tone (taken)
25 to 1 aget Dunkeld (taken)
THE DERBY.
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10 to 1 agst Sacchar. meter (taken)
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15 to 1 agst Automaton (taken)
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30 to 1 aget Kiag of the Vale (taken)

40 to 1 agat Donnybrook (taken)
60 to 1 agst Avondale (taken)
1000 to 12 agat Carnival (taken)
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1000 to 30 agst Baragha
60(10 to 200 apt Blair Athol
[O,OOO to 100 agst Dormouse

IMPERIAL PARLTA MUT

HOUSE OF COMMONS—This Day.
The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock,
NEW MENIBER —HALIFAX.
Mr. STANSFELD took the oaihs ma his seat.
The Loros' amendments to the Leeds Gas Bill were con-
sidered and agreed to.
The following bills were considered and ordered to be
read a third time :—Elsecar, Wentworth, and Hoyland
Gas—and Tees Conservancy.
SECOND READINGS.
The following bills were read a se, and time :—Cork and
Kinsale Junction Railway, and Fochabers and Garmouth
Railway.

mode of doing so had since, or even now, been devisd. If
a hole in the roof of a sacred edifice was discovered it was
repaired out of the rates levied for that and other purposes.
If he understood votuntaryieen rightly it was that its pto-
feelers should do as they liked, and that these who
differed with them should act in the s erne spirit ;
but they did not act thus, for the p, ceessoi
of voluntaryism did not stem short of a ;little.
For instance, Mr. Mall at I.ti reccet coulereece
openly declared! that the abolition of chorea rates was be
as a grain of sand to a mountain corn' are.: to their ci:i:naro
ends in connection with .he Church—(hear, :veil laegati, 1)
--further, the Noneoninrrniers meant to get pesse.sion oi:
the fabric of the Church "stick by stick." (Ileir, and
(
laughter.) When examined before tne Weise of Lerds en
tein tsoum
ipcitir a
purpose e we
the matter, Mr. mall dictated, in reply to a question a;,. to
what hoe aeue
iotl/I:hchurchee, that ho cr,uld turn
this calibre would whitewash WCriee(tatnr.i)nsteT;uAlYb'bPeyc°,l•4Zef
He characterise
turn it either fete. a factory or a poor-house. Ulcer, bear.)
d the conduct of Earl Russell and the Chen-
celler of the Exchequer as vacillating, and as giving undue
weight to pressure from without. lie agreed with Earl
Russell that the Church was linked to the Throne, and that
she could not be injured without irtjuring the Throne.
(Hear, hear.) The Conservatives sitting on that Bide lb()
house intended to oppose all attacks of this nature onof the
Church, no metier from what. quarter they came.
Sir G. Olt ttY said when the income tax was &et under
discussion much merriment was caused 13' a member foe.
an Irish county saying he would consider the tee- a very
good one, proviied Ireland was exempted--(hear, hear, and
Isughter)—the ecclesiastical cemtuissioners providing for
the repairs of the fabrics. The hon. and learned gentleman
them, that church rates were abolished
in Ireland. (Minis-
appeared to forget, when he spoke in favour of Conaorve-
terial cheers.) He thought that some of his taunts nkight
have been spared. (Hear, hear) Hon. members opposite
nearly one-half of the populace paid no church
practically,
member
argued as it church rates were paid ire all parishes ; why,
rates at all. (dear, hear.) A distinguished,
~
on
the opposite side (Lord Stanley) had, too, eupperted the
4 the compulsory payment of church rates by those wha
abolition of these rates. He was in favour of the abolition.
objected on principle to do so; so tar he should give in his
adhesion to the bill and support its second reading, resew v-,
lug to himself to abstain from voting for the third reading
if the bill was not then framed so as to effect a speees of
compromise of this nature. (Hear, hear.)
Lord J. MANNERS opposed the bill, saying that not-
withstanding the hon. baronet (Sir J. Trelawny) asseve -
rated that be desired to do nothing to injure the Chureh,
yet he systematically voted for all the extraordtnary mesa
sures brought torwted by the Dissenters.
Sir J. TRELAWNY explained that he voted againtt
the Burials Bill.
I Lord J. MANNERS said that this was the only excep-
tion to the hon. baronet's invariable endorsement of all the
;mlds of the Dissenters upon the property of the Church
of England. A more fatal blow could not be "truck at the
principle of kcal self government than by the adoption of
this masure. (Hear, hear.) He appealed to those on his
side of the house to do their duty, and to those who had
voted on former occasions for a similar bill to retrace their
steps and reject this bill.
Lord A. CHURCHILL explained the nature of the
amendment he had put on the paper, should the 141 ever
get as far as a committee, as calculated to provife for the
repair of the fabrics, and to constitute an excellent substi-
tute for the church rates proposed to be abolished. His
reasen for omitting to seek power to enforce payment of a
rate for church repairs was this, that he objected to find.
means to repair the fabrics at the hands of the Sheriff's
officer, or, indeed, to compel involuntary support. (Hear,
hear.) He should therefore vote for the second reading.
Mr. NITA LTER declared that he had no connection or
sympathy with the Dissenters. The Dissenters bad had
sett:oe,ly nayes oithey the pay
ue u
veernYt many
chu°rPcP:rratitensi,libeustobfardidndointgdothn
e
the church, and now sought adotission to the graveyards.
He deprecated leaving the support of a church to the wilt •
d:
of a niiaority of a diNtret. This would be a humiliating
position in which to place a national establishment which
(eights to be Supportored by compulsory means. He, for one,
considd t ple who used the church, s should sup-
port them, those having the best seats paying liberalay, leav-
ing a large number of the seats free. He had no teitn in the
proposed compromise of the noble lora (Lord A. Chu, chili).
Within a radius of 15 miles of his residence in the
country, a rural district, 26 churches hid been either
repaired
or rebuilt during the last 20 years, the lowest sure
spent on each being 30,000, which had been
entirely p.m...
vided by extraneous funds other than church rates. (Hear)
He should be glad to see church lutes abolished, and a re,
wetly devised if only to destroy the clamouring of the
Dissenters, who ever made these rates a lever to attack the
Church and cense an ill feeling against it. With that view
of leading to an improved state of things he should sup-
port the second reading.
Mr. NE WDEGATE declined to be committed to any
stereotyped mode of supporting the Church, and invited
hon. members to attend next Wednesday to disease the
measure which he had introduced with respect to church
rates,
Sir J. TRELAWNY replied,
[At this time—five o'clock—the presence of members:
Vies as large as on the night of the Budget.]
The house then divided, when there appeared—
For the second reading
Against it
Majority against the second reading
The tellers, as they came to the table, were loudly cheered
by the Opposition.
MARRIAGES, &c. (IRELAND) BILL.
This amended bill was considered and agreed to with
additional amendments, and ordered to be read a third
time.
The other orders were then disposed of, and the house ad-
journed at the usual hour.

THE :POLISH QUESTION.

t The following is the full text of tnc despatch of
the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, M. Drouyu
de Lhuys, to the Duke of Montebello, the Ambas-
sador of France at St. Petersburg:—
" Monsieur le Dac,--The insurrection of which the King-
dom of Poland is now the theatre has aroused iu Europe an
anxiety, in a time of peace, which no proximate event
seemed likely to di,turb. The lamentable effusion of blood
caused by this struggle, and the painful incidents connected
with it, excite at the same time a deep wad sad emotion.
"The Government of his Majesty, therefore, onty obeys a
duty in expressing to the Court of Russia the refl,ctions
which this state of affairs naturally suggests to it, and in
calling its attention to the inconveniences and dangers
which it implies.
" What characterizes the disturbances in Poland, M. le
Due, what gives. them au exceptional 'importance, is the fact
that they are not the effects of-a temporary crisis. Effects
which are almost invariably reproduced with each genera-
tion cannot be attributed to purely accidental causes. These.
convulsions, which have become periodical, are the symp-
toms of an inveterate evil; tht-y are so many proofs of the
impotency of all plans hitherto imagined to reconcile Poland
with the position conceded to it..

"On the other hand, these too frequent distutbancea are
a source of anxiety and alarm. Poland, which occupies a
central position on the continent, cannot be disturbed with-
out the other States touching upon her frontier suffering a
shock which reverberates through the whole of Europe.
this has always been the case whenever toe Pbles have
taken up arms. These conflicts, as what we are witnessing
suffic,ently proves, do not only create anxiety in the Folio
mind, but, if they are prolonged, may disturb the relations
between the Cabinets and cause most lamentable complica-
tions. It is the common interest of all the Powers to see
that these incessantly recurring dangers are put a stop to.
" We flatter ourselves, M. le Duo, that the Court of Rus-
sia will receive in the same spirit in which we have written
them the considerations which are worthy of its attention.
" We feel confident that it will show that it is animated
by those liberal views of which the reign of his Majesty the
Emperor Alexander has already given such striking proofs,
and that, in its wisdom, it will take advantage of the oppor-
tunity of taking measures to place Poland under the condi-
tions or a durable peaca.

"You will please to leave a copy of this despatch with
his Excellency Prince Gurtschakoff."