The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY R. EVENING, JANUARY 30,- j 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
MOLYNEUX V. MOLYNEUX, BOYLE, AND RAWLINSON.
This was a petition presented by the husband praying
for a dissolution of marriage.
The parties were married at St. Peter's, Liverpool, in
1846, and the separation took place in 1858.
The marriage was proved by a person named John
Adams.
Miss Doyle said she knew the respondent previous to her
marriage, and visited her after. She recollected Captain
and Mrs. Honiball living with them in Westley-street, and
twelve months before the separation the respondent told her
that she intended to leave her husband and go to Australia,
as she did not like her husband, and that she should go
away where she would have more money to spend. She
had seen her once throw a shovel of burning coal after her
husband as he was going up stairs.
Jane Postance, formerly a domestic servant to Mrs.
Moleyneux, recollected her leaving her husband to go to
Australia. Previous to which she removed several articles
of furniture to her mother's residence. Mr. Molyneux
always seemed to treat his wife with the greatest kindness.
Jane Johnson, the mother of Mrs. Honiball, said her
daughter left England for Australia in August last. She
knew she had arrived there, and from there she had gone
to Singapore.
The depositions of Mrs. Honiball were here put in, which
stated that the respondent was living with a person named
Rawlinson, as his wife, at Port Philip.
Other confirmatory evidence having been given, two let-
ters were put in written by the wife after she left, in which
she referred to the fact of her departure, and pointedly
alluded to some family disagreements that had probably
healed in her absence. She concluded her letter by sign-
ing it with her maiden name.
Decree nisi granted.
MILES V. MILES AND JOHNSON.
This was a similar petition presented by the husband,
who was a silk finisher, residing at Longsight, near Man-
chester. The marriage took place in 1844, and ',up to 1859
they lived together, although her habits towards the latter
part of the time were very intemperate. In the early part
of that year a separation took place, but a reconciliation
took place afterwards on her promising to behave better
for the future. An improvement was for a short time ob-
servable, but eventually she relapsed inot her former
habits of intemperance, and sunk so low in degradation
that the present suit was instituted.
Decree nisi granted with costs against Johnson.
COOKE V. COOKE.
This was a petition for judicial separation instituted by
the wife against the husband on the ground of cruelty.
There were several other averments in the petition. The
respondent pleaded denial, justification, condonation, and
undue delay in the instituting of proceedings.
Mrs. Francis Judith Cooke, the petitioner, said—My
father was one of the fellows of Eton. My husband is in-
cumbent of Seymer, in Suffolk. There have been eleven
children, nine of which are still living, My first daughter
, was born in 1838. The youngest child at the present time
is twelve years. I had reason to complain of the conduct
of my husband previous to 1852. I had, often had unkind
language from him. In September, 1851, I paid a visit
with his consent to my sister, Mrs. Richards, in
Somersetshii e. I remained there until the 12th of
January, 1852. On my return my husband treated
me vith great unkindness. In the winter of the
year I experienced the first attack of personal violence from
Mr. Cooke. He rubbed me violently over the mouth with
his hand, which caused great pain. This took place in the
drawing-room of Seymer Rectory. During that year there
were some other acts of personal violence. The one I best
remember was that which took place on Sept. 10, 1853. On
the evening of that day, after I had returned, he followed
me into my dressing-room and treated me with great vio-
lence. He forced me down upon a chair with my head
against the wall, and hurting my face very much. He
dragged me across the bed and kept me in such a painful
position that I could scarcely move, and for an hour I could
scarcely breath. I believe he was asleep part of the time,
but he held rue so tight that I could not move. I sue.
ceeded in extricating myself after the time specified, and he
remained quiet for the rest of the night. The next day my
brother and sister, Mr. and Mrs. Richards, came to Seymer
to take me away on account of my husband's former ill-
usage. I went and remained till the 12th of May. Part of
the time I was in London, and the latter part in the country.
When I returned to my husband he was as violent as ever.
I came into some property on the death of my mother, and
differences occurred between myself and husband respecting
it. In the early part of 18541 went to Colchester to my hus-
band's sister and husband, Dr. and Mrs. Maclean. My hus-
band drove me over in the dog-cart, Two of my daughters
went with me. We returned the same night. Before we
got out of Colchester my husband struck me in the face
with the whip. He frequently pushed me backwards, so
that it was with difficulty I could keep ray seat in the
vehicle. Only my second daughter returned with me. In
the year 1854 I paid a visit, with my husband's consent, to
my sister, Lady Symonds, the wife of Sir W. Symonds, who
was then living. She is now the wife of Dr. Mayo. I re-
turned towards the end of the year. On the day I got home
my husband told me I was not to resume the keys or the
housekeeping, which he had determined should be attended
to by my eldest daughter. In a few days after he placed
her in my seat at the head of the table. In October of that
year we had company, and one evening my husband was
exceedingly violent because I had given an order to some
of the household. He rubbed my face violently
in the middle of the night as a punishment
for having ordered some candles. The next day
I left my room while my husband was in bed, and pro-
ceeded to my daughter's apartment. On my return I dis-
covered that my husband had locked the door of my dress-
ing-room and taken away the key. My clothes were in that
room, so I could not go down to breakfast. I sent for the
key, which he refused, and it was not until the middle of
- the day that he allowed me to dress. In November Mr.
Cooke locked me out of my bedroom, so I had to pass the
night in my daughter's apartment.
The case is expected to occupy the whole of the day.

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.
(Before the Recorder and a Common Jury.)
WILKINS V. THE UNIVERSAL LIME LIGHT CO. (LIMITED:
THE TRINITY-HOUSE CORPORATION (GARNISHERS).

This was an attachment to obtain the sum of £753 10s.,
alleged to be in the hands of the Trinity-House Corporation
on behalf of defendants.

Mr. Henry James, for the plaintiff, was proceeding to
state his case, when

Mr. Robinson, for the garnishers, said he would, to sim-
plify and shorten matters, admit that the garnishers had
£3OO in hand.

Mr. James then expressed himself as willing to accept
that sum on behalf of the plaintiff, and, upon his lordship's
direction, the jury found for the plaintiff for £3OO.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE---This Day.

LONDON, Jan. 30.—Wind this day at noon—South-
Westerly ; strong in eeze, and cloudy weather.
QUEENSTOWN, Jan. 29.—Arrived —Rio Vougo, from
Pernambuco.

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CowDs, Jan. 30.—Arrived—New York, screw steamer'
from New York. _ .

• PORTSMOUTH, Jan. 29.—Wind W.S.W.—Arrived—
Her Majesty's ship Supply, from the Eastward for Ply
mouth.

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NEWPORT, Jan. 28.—• Wind S.W.—Arrived—Dauntless,
from Gloucester for Gibraltar; Von Laffett Leksen, from
Bristol for New York.

Bank of England Return.—Yesterday.

An Account, pursuant to t
cap. 32, for the week endini.
ci Jan., 1863:

he Act 7th and Bth Victoria
on Wednesday, the 28th day

ISSUE DET
Aotee toned ........£27,387,475

'ARTMENT.
Government Debt £11,015,100
Other Securities .. 3.634,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 12,737,475
Silver Bullion

227,387,4751

£27,387,475

BANKING DI
oprietors' Capi-
tal £14.553,000
Rest .............. 3,247,826
Public Deposits (in.
eluding Exche-
quer, Savings'
Banks, Commis-
missioners of Na-
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 5,416.863
Other Deposits 14,414,763
Seven Day and
other Bills 670,066

:PARTIMNT.
Government_ Seon-

M rifles
((including
Dead Weight A-
nnuity) £10,808,648
Other Securities 19,535,217
Notes
Gold and Silver 874,318
Coin

£38,302,1518
W.

X 38,302,518
MILLER, Deputy Cashier.

Jan. 29, 1863.

Mr. Marshall Wood has received through the
Hon. J. Rose, M.P., a commission to execute a
marble bust of his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales
to be presented by William Molson, Esq., Principal
Dawson, and the Fellows, to the M‘Gill College,
Montreal.
AN ITALIAN NIGHT.—Nothing can be more ex.
quisite then these summer nights in Italy. The
iky itself, so vast, tender, and delicate, is like no other sky.
The American sky is bluer, but harder, more metallic.
There is all the difference between the two that there is be-
tweenlistening ooto king
the a feeling and an opinion. As you stand on one of i
villas, oldl balconies or walk along the terraces of the Frascati
downthi
ng continuouss oe
ev me rs ther m
elna cs
hhayonfsttfeeodrui
in
nus t
at
ihCnesa
tmaennpdad get
tender
aes,
ps
loaennudg.
od
fo
unr. thei.gThthinesteurlYrs themselves burn with a softer, more throb-
Juliet. _vga es, you feel Italy—the Italy of Romeo and
jI
delicately against the brow sad
myrtlebing and impulsive light.
the inmost leaves of the boo'
air, passing over orange
kon
cheeks, seem to blow open
The waves of the cool, delicate
lonur:hich youth painted its
visionary pictures with the co
groves, and breathing
of dreams. In a word,
dreamed of—not the
we say
o fiea
saycthisiss, couriers,ltaly—th
Italy—the Italyvre
mendicants,and postilions, but
of romance, poetry, and passion.—Robs 4$ Roma, by Wit-
1i514 We Story,
. _

Naval and Military Intelligence,

THE NAVY.

The Supply, iron screw troopship, Master Com-
mander Balliston, anchored in St. Helen's Roads,
off Portsmouth, yesterday afternoon, from Wool-
wich, bound to the Mediterranean. It was blowing
heavily at the time from the westward, and commu-
nication was held with the flagship of the Comman-
der-in-Chief in Portsmouth harbour by signal only.
The indicated horse power of the screw gunvessel
Tyrian on her high pressure trial al Portsmouth on
Wednesday was 226.1; her engines are 60 horse,
nominal.

The Hannibal screw-liner, is ordered to be com-
missioned at Portsmouth by a commander, and at-
tached to the Asia, steam guardship, as a depot ship
for the reception of seamen returning from leave.
Her galley is ordered to be fitted with a supplemen-
tary oven for baking the men's dinners on the plan
referred to in the article headed " Cooking for the
Navy," which appeared in The Sun of Wednesday.

The official trials of the Himalaya screw troopship
and the Enchantress Admiralty paddle yacht, at
Portsmouth, were yesterday again postponed owing
to the unsettled state of the weather.

Her Majesty's paddle yacht Victoria and Albert,
Capt. George H. Seymour, will make an official trial
of her machinery, weather permitting, to-morrow,
on the completion of the fitting of her new inter-
mediate shaft by Messrs. Penn and Son.

The Urgent, screw iron troopship, in No. 7 Dock
at Portsmouth, has a large body of convicts em-
ployed upon her, scraping off the barnacles and
other marine incruEtations from the surface of her
bottom plates.

The machinery in the newly-erected armour-
plated finishing shop at Portsmouth Dockyard nas,
with one exception, been at length fairly got to
work, and the processes of bending, drilling, and
planing the plates for the Royal Sovereign turret
ship arc now being carried on with considerable
rapidity. The butts of the plates are planed in the
new shop, but the new planing machines for their
edges not being yet in working order, they have to
be finished by the planing machines of the steam
factory. So soon, therefore, as men can be spared
from other work in the yard, the side armour of the
Royal Sovereign may be rapidly affixed. The
manufacture of the massive iron cylinders for her
turret bed does not progress so satisfactorily. The
smith's shop does not possess the necessary mecha-
nical aids for doing such work, and in fact a con-
tract new with the Thames Iron Shipbuilding Com-
pany for the supply of the required four cylinders
would save both time and money.
The undernamed lieutenants have been promoted
to the rank of commander ; —C. 0. B. Hall, T. D.
Williams, W. S. de Kautzow, E. B. H. Franklin,
F. T. Thomson, and St. G. C. D'Arcy Irvine.

The following appointments were made yesterday
at the Admiralty :—Capt. Count Gleichen, to the
Racoon ; Commander Edward Wilmot, to the
Euryalus ; Lieut. H. M. Miller, Lieut. Hugh
Campbell, and Lieut. G. R. Trefusis, to the Racoon ;
William H. Bradley, master, to the Racoon ; Dr.
James Young, surg., to the Racoon ; Wm. F. Alex-
ander, paymaster, to the Edinburgh ; Thomas Brad-
bridge, paymaster, to the Racoon ; William L.
Powell, assist.-surg., to the Racoon ; Robert W.
Parish, assist.-paymaster, to the Implacable; Chas.
E. James, assist.-paymaster, to the Racoon ; Henry
H. Tonkin, promoted to chief engineer ; John
Staley, first class assist.. engineer, to the Asia, as
supernumerary; Michael A. Fothergill, acting
second class assist. engineer, to the Cumberland ;
and Alfred N. C. King, clerk, to the Racoon.

THE ARMY.
His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge held
a levee yesterday afternoon at the Horse Guards.
There was a numerous attendance of officers.
The War-office, which has appointed the committee
of scientific officers to inquire afresh into the rela-
tive merits of Sir Wm. Armstrong's and Mr. Whit-
worth's systems of gunnery, has added to it the
flumes of two eminent civil engineers of high stand-
ing to aid in the consider .tion of the many impor-
tant mechanical questions the subject involves.
These gentlemen are Mr. John Penn, of Greenwich,
and Mr. Wm. Pole, F.R.S., who is already serving
on the iron plate committee. The preliminary in-
vestigations which are, we hope, to terminate this
great gun controversy have been in progress for
some time, and both Sir William and Mr. Whit-
worth have been examined at length, in explana-
tion of their systems, before the committee. The
actual experiments, however, by which the contro-
versy must really be decided aro not likely to begin
before the middle of March, the huge target which
has been made for the purpose not having yet left
the works of the Thames Iron Company. The expe-

ments themselves also are certain to extend over a
considerable period, as the committee are instructed
from the War-office to report upon their results
" from time to time."
A spacious hospital for the reception of the wives
and children of the troops quartered at Chatham is
now in course of erection at that garrison by Mr.
Stump. the Government contractor. The building
was yesterday roofed in. The site on which it is
erected is a portion of the Government land between
Fort Amherst and Chatham barracks, the situation
being highly salubrious. The building is, in fact, a
continuation of the present large garrison hospital,
from which it is separated by a very few feet. By
this arrangement very little addition will have to be
mai° to the strength of the medical staff of the
existing hospital, the same surgeons being ab e to
take charge of both establishments. The new hos-
pital, which will be ready for the reception of the
class of patients for whom it is intended in the
coursa of two or three months, will supply a want
which has long been felt of an institution of the
kind at Chatham. _ _

The Royal Engineers have just completed the
formation of a skittle-alley and bowling-green on
the vacant piece of ground adjoining the Soldiers'
Institute at Chatham for the use of the men fre-
quenting that establishment. The skittle alley is
enclosed and covered in, which will enable the men
to enjoy that pastime in all weathers.
The Royal Engineers who left England in the
early part of 1857 for the purpose of making the
Ordnance survey of the Cape Colony, arrived at head
quarters, Chatham, yesterday, under the command
of Lieut. F. Bailey. They have spent upwards of
five years in the prosecution of the work. During

their passage to England the surveying party were
shipwrecked, and lost the whole of their valuable
surveying instruments, and, what were of still

greater value, the original plans of the survey.
Fortunately, however, they succeeded in saving the
duplicate copies which they had made before leaving
the Cape, and these will be immediately published,
their value being enhanced by the fact of their being
the only complete survey of that important colony
yet made.
The 20th company of Royal Engineers, under
the command of Capt. C. E. Sim, which recently
arrived at Chatham garrison from Western Aus-
tralia, after an absence from England of several
years, is ordered to be raised to its proper strength
from the companies at headquarters, the num-
bers having been very much thinned from the
length of time the company was away. The num-
ber of men belonging to the company who are
married being considerably in excess of the regu-
lations, an order has been received for their transfer
to the other depot companies. Since the 20th
company has arrived from Australia it has been put
through a course of study in the various schools
connected with the Royal Engineer establishment.
In accordance with the directions of Field-
Marshal the Duke of Cambridge, the whole of the
troops quartered at Chatham garrison are periodi-
cally exercised in route-marching on stated days in
each week, on which occasions the officers and men
are marched in various directions into the country
surrounding the garrison. On Wednesday the
mounted battery of the 9th Brigade Royal Artil-
lery, quartered at Chatham, with their Armstrong
guns, ammunition waggons, hospital carts, and
other material, left the garrison and proceeded on
the march for several miles in the direction of
Maidstone, returning to their quarters in the aftcr-
noon. Yesterday the troops of the Line comprising
the 2d battalion of infantry quitted Chatham bar-
racks and took a lengthened march into the country.
Major. General Eyre these route-
By direction of

marchings of the officers and troops are to be utilized
by the officer in command directing various move-
ments while the men are on the march, and, when
halted, for advance columns:to be thrown out and
some manoeuvres attempted. The junior officers,
too, are to be instructed to prepare flying sketches
of the country traversed, with a descriptive report
of the districts and the advantages or disadvantages
they possess for carrying on military operations.
When marching along roads away from the towns
the troops are to be allowed to sing in concert, in
order to relieve the tedium and monotony of the
march.

SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.

TATTERSALL'S-YESTERDAY.

The attendance to-day was very small, and attempts to
re-open speculation almost fruitless. Scarcely a dozen bets
were booked during the afternoon, and those to such trifling
amounts that they cannot be accepted as any criterion of
the actual tone of the market. Admiral Rous's handicaps
were made the subject of conversation, and the general ten-
dency of criticism was decidedly in their favour, 1,000 to 30
being once or twice offered on the field for the City and
Suburban. The Liverpool Grand National was not even
alluded to during the afternoon. For the Chester Cup
Stradella remained at the head of the quotations, and was
backed for a " pony" at 20 to 1, which odds were currently
offered on the field up to the close. 25 to 1 was taken
about Black Deer, and 33 to 1 about Anfield, though a con
siderably shorter price was perhaps tho correct quotation
of the last-named. The Two Thousand was barely men-
tioned, but, after a little badinage, 100 to 6, and then 20
"ponies," were taken about Tom Fool; 100 to 6 was taken
about Pratique. For the Derby £525 to £lOO was offered
against Lord Clifden, but his friends were not present this
afternoon, and he was, consequently, not supported. The
other transactions on the great Epsom race require no
comment. The filly races were introduced towards the
close, and £2OO even laid on Lady Augusta, Cassidia,
Cachuca, and Tornado against the field for the One Thou-
sand, and the like amount on Avondale, Lady Augusta,
Cassidia, and the Orphan, for the Oaks.

CLOSING PRICES.
UREAT .NORTHAMETONSILLUE STAKES.

.5 to 1 agst Mr, Blake's Croagh Patrick, 5 yrs, Bst 81b
(taken)

TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
[OO to 6 agst Mr. Naylor's Pratique (taken)
20 to 1 agst Mr. E. Brayley's fora Fool (taken)

ONE THOUSAND.

200 even on Lady Augusta, Cassidia, Cachuca, and Tor-
nado aget the field (taken)
CHESTER CUP.

20 to 1 agst Count F. de Lagrange's Stradella, 4 yrs, 7st
41b (taken)
25 to 1 agst Mr. Godding's Black Deer, 3 yrs, sst 101 b
(taken)

1000 to 30 age. Mr. Greville's An&ld, 3 yrs, bst 81b (taken)
33 to 1 agst Lord Stamford's Le Marechal, 3 yrs, Est
21b (taken)
40 to 1 agst Mr. Melville's Plover, 3 yrs, Est 31b (taken)
200 t 100 agst The Three-year-olds (taken)