The Sun.
London, England, 1863-12-11 00:00:00

TIM SUN. LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 11, 1863.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day).

'COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir. P. 'Wilde and a Special Jury.)
CROWTHER V. CROWTHER AND GRIFFITHS.

The Queen's Advocate, Mr. Huddleston, and Dr. Spinks,
were for the petitioner, Sergeant Parry and Dr. Fresham
for the respondent, and Mr. Hawkins, Q.C., and Mr. Har-
man for the co-respondent.
The Queen's Advocate stated the case. The petitioner Mr.
William Crowther charged his wife with adultery
with the co-respondent Mr. 'William Heckford Griffiths
who denied the allegation. The respondent, in ad-
dition to denial of her adultery pleaded that her
husband had deserted her wilfully, and left her without
adequate maintenance. Damages were laid at £5,000. Mr.
Crowther was an extensive tenant farmer, renting about
1,000 acres of land when he married the respondent, who
was the daughter of a wealthy retired tradesman, residing
at Hesler, near Hounslow, named Sherborn. The mar-
riage was solemnised in May, 1855. Mr. Crowther, at the
time, resided at Somerville Aston, in Gioucestershire, and
there was considerable desparity between the ages of the
parties, the petitioner being turned 40, and the respondent
only 18. There was one child the issue of the mar-
riage, which was dead. The parties lived on
terms of the most perfect harmony until the intimacy.
Mr. Crowther and his wife came to London to see thu Ex-
hibition, and took lodgings in Grafton-street, and were ac-
companied by a female friend of Mrs. Griffiths In May,
1862, Mr. Crowther's suspicions were aroused by the
constant attendance of Mr. Griffiths at his place,
and his coming to London whenever Mrs. Crowther
came. On the 27th of May, 1862, Mr. Crowther
went with his wife to her father's at Hounslow
with the co-respondent. In 1859 Mr. Crowther received a
considerable accession to his property, and purchased
Weddington-hall and the estate, near Leamington, in
Warwickshire, where the parties went to reside during
the rebuilding of his house at Somerville, Aston. Mr.
Griffiths was a solicitor, who lived at Chipping-Camden
Gloucestershire, and who was in extensive practice, having
inherited a very large business from his father. Mr
Griffiths was what was called a sporting solicitor, and Mr.
Crowther, who kept his hunters, and whose residence
was distant from Chipping Camden about eight miles,
formed an acquaintance with Mr. Griffiths in the
pursuit of field sports. On the 30th of April, 1862,
an altercation took tilace between them, and they agreed
to separate. Subsequently she left her home, and it was
not until the November following that it was discovered,
through a female servant of Mrs. Griffiths, that Mrs.
Crowther had been living with Mr. Griffiths,
at his house, up to the 25th of June. The
learned counsel then read letters from Mts. Crowther
to her husband to show that they were living on the most
affectionate terms. So far from Mrs. Crowther having been
left without sufficient means, Mr. Crowther allowed her
£6OO a year, which she actually received during the time
she was living in the house of her paramour. Since the
marriage Mrs. Crowther's father died, leaving £40,000 to
his widow, which at her decease was to go to her abso-
lutely, in the event of her having no children.
The learned counsel concluded by a very earnest
and eloquent appeal to the jury to mark
their sense of the conduct of the co-respondent, and to show
by the amount of damages they awarded that parties could
not with impunity invade domestic peaco and produce
misery where only harmony and happiness had previously
existed. _ .

After the examination of several witnesses, the jury re.
,urned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, ;',1,000.

Decree nisi, with costs.

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SECONDARIES' COURT.
(Before Mr. Potter and a Common Jury.)
SINGULAR FALSE IMPRISONMENT CASE.-BOLTON V.

BRYANT,
This was a writ of inquiry to assess the damages in a
false imprisonment case, plaintiff being an attorney out of
practice, and defendant a sculptor.
Mr. Joyce, for the plaintiff, said that his client had been
concerned, for the defendant, in some proceedings in the
Lord Mayor's Court. Defendant accused plaintiff of steal-
ing some money and a ring, and the result was that plain-
tiff was given into custody, and figured at the station
house in the iron enclosure known as the dock. The
acting inspector found that the defendant had been drinking,
and that his account of the affair would not warrant the
detention of the plaintiff, who was accordingly discharged.
For the unreasonable conduct of defendant, plaintiff now
sought damages.
Plaintiff was called and said there was not the slightest
ground for charging him with the robbery. He had known
defendant for about four years, and believed his income to
be about £4OO per annum.

The learned Secondary having summed up, the jury
awarded plaintiff £lO damages.

RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE.

TRAFFIC RECEIPTS FOR THE WEEK.
Miles Opened. Reeipts.-%

. Railways. ~.--......---„,.......-.A---..
1863. 1862. 1863. 1862
£ £
Belfast and N, Counties 136 136 1,061 1,880
Belfast and County Dowh 49 49 601 563
Blyth and Tyne 2B 23 1,879 1,176
Bristol and Exeter 1213 1213 5,338 5,252
Caledonian
Cockermouth& Workington B3 83 307 267
Cork and Bandon 2O 20 404 847
Cork, Blackrock, & Passage 6l 65 126 151
Cork and Youghal .. 323 323 391 288
Cornwall 653 535 1,286 1,072
Deeside l7 17 2 2 309
Dublin & Belfast Junction 63 63 1,368 1,427
Dublin and Drogheda 75 63 1,627 1,652
Dublin and Meath
Dub. & Wicklow and Wexid 555 483 1,627 1,405
Edinburgh and Glasgow 1693 1695 7,903 7.154
Forth & Clyde Junction - -
Furness, &c 5O si. 3,022 2,660
Glasgow & South-Western
Gt. Eastern,Nrfk~&E.l.lnion
Great Northern 353 851 31,312 28,497
Great North of Scotland 5B 58 1,786 20.57
G, t. Northn. & Westn. (Irel.) 7ll 165 46 L 391
13t.Southn. & Westn.(Lrind.) 3733 829 8,40 8,139
Great Western 10563 10323 56,948 52.654
Inverness & Aberdeen June- 865 861 1,190 1,020
Inverness & Perth Junction 1195 - 1,107 -
Irish North-Western 145 145 1,560 1,857
Lancashire & Yorkshire 4u2 3915 35,210 31.656
Limerick and Ennis
Limerick and Foynes 261 263 76 125
Llanelly 463 463 184 181
London & North-Western
London and Blackwall 63 53 1,747 1,598
London & South-Western
Lond. Brighton, &S. Coast
London, Chatham, & Dover 723 725 4,.09 2,705
Do. Metropolitan Extension 103 53 1000 150
Lond., Tilbury, & Southend
Man.,Sheflield, & Lincoln sh
Stanch. S.Jun.&Altrincham 95 93 1,211 1,006
Blaryport and Carlisle
Metropolitan 33 - 1,852
Midland (incl. N.-Western) 641 6144 43,610 40,034
Midland Gt. Westn. of Irind 2595 1923 4,419 4,009
Monkland 713 713 1,683 1.659
Monmouthsh. Rail. & Canal 44 44 2,761 2,456
North British, Edin., Perth
and Dundee
N-Eastern and Stock. & DarL 1095 10773 55,972 52,826
North London 9 9 3,317 2,9811
North Staffordshire 254 252 8,872 7,958
Oswestry and Newton.
Rhymney l9 19 970 884
St. Helen's Canal & Railway 52 52 2,161 2,152
Scottish Central
Scottish North-Eastern l3B 1325 4,640 4.325
Somerset and Dorset 66 393 646 338
South Devon
South-Eastern 306 806 17,806 17,036
Ulster
Taff Vale 67641 s 1 2, 65 5,,882 6,027
L 59 1,705
Vale of Clwyd ....•.--.• lO 10 148 145
Vale of Neath 325 255 2,368 2,076
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 31 310 281
Waterford and Limerick 77 77 1,159 1,462
West Cornwall 273 273 706 746
W.HartlepoolHarbr.&RaiL 4B 48 4,120 8,525
W'haven,Cleator,& Egrmnt 7 7 508 473
Whitehaven Junction l2 12 975 742
Whitehaven & Furness Jun 35 35 860 6, 8
F oREIGN AND COLONIAL.
Antwerp and Rotterdam 52 52 '1,280 1,131
Austrian B2B 828 34,680 38,86
Belgian Eastern Junction 264 284 365 321
Bombay, Baroda, & Cen. India 1853 1325 2,062 1,300
Buffalo and Lake Huron 1615 1613 2,842 1,81.5
Detroit and Milwaukie lB9 13.9 5,371 4,742
Dutch Rhenish lOB5 1083 4,223 3,730
Eastern of France.