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

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day,

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

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After the examination of several witnesses, the jury re.
urned a verdict for the plaintiff. Damages, £4,000.
Decree nisi, with costs.

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

BRYANT.

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 41.0 damages.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.

(From the Illustrated News.)
The will of George Stoddart, Esq., her Britannic
Mbjesty's Consul, and a British merchant in the
island of Madeira, was proved in the London Court
by his two sons-in-law, John Walter Savill, Esq.,
and David Holland Erskine, Esq., of Portugal,
British Consul; and James W. Weldon, Esq., of
the London and Westminster Bank, three of the
executors and trustees. The personal property in
the United Kingdom vs as sworn under £140,000.
The testator died at Torquay, Devon, on the 4th of
October last, having executed his will in July, 1857,
and a codicil in November, 1861. To his wife he
has bequeathed the whole of his furniture and per-
sonal and moveable effects in Madeira, England,
and elsewhere, together with " The Quinta," in
Madeira, and an annuity of £l,OOO. The silver
cup, cover, and stand presented to the testator
by her late Majesty Queen Adelaide is to be
held as heirloom with the Ballendrick estate, in
Scotland, which estate is entailed on his eldest
daughter. All other estates and property in Eng-
land, Scotland, Madeira, the East and West Indies,
and in the United States, he leaves amongst his
children.

The will of Vere Esse Ward, Esq., of Southamp-
ton, was proved in London by his relict, to whom he
has left the whole of his personalty absolutely, and
has bequeated to her his landed property and farm-
ing stock for her life, and upon her decease to their
issue ; but if none, then to his stepson and step-
daughter.

The late Mrs. A. E. Ward has bequeathed to the
Sussex County Hospital £5OO ; London Hospital
£500; Rateliff Charity School, £2OO ; Merchant
Seamen's Orphan Asylum, £2OO ; and the Church
Missionary Society, £lOO.

THE GREAT JEWEL ROBBERY IN THE STRAND_
—A reward of £2OO has been offered for the capture of the
burglars who broke into the premises of Mr. Boore, the
extensive dealer in antique and other jewellery in the
Strand, on the night of the Bth December. The property
stolen consisted of diamond rings of great rarity and value,
earrings, bracelets, watches, mosaics, gold chains, cups,
and flagons; all of whi2h, in addition to its intrinsic worth,
was nearly priceless en the score of antiquity.
FLUCTUATION OF FASHION IN REGARD TO
WINE.—Rare Lisbon, it has been recently re-
marked, may still be procured, but the public will have
none of it. They ask for Madeira, and get some mixture of
sherry ; yet when Madeira was at its best, that same public
grew weary of it, because the Prince of Wales had d—d it
out of fashion and cursed sherry inta beings la mode !
PERISHED IN THE SNOW.--On the forenoon of
MS aa no
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toof a man, named Tames
Edinburgh, was found on
Middleton Moor, in the parish of Heriot. The deceased
left Edinburgh on Thursday morning in charge of a bul-
lock, which he was to take to Blackhope. In consequence
of the severity of the weather he was unable to take the
animal to its destination, and left it at a farm steading. He
then proceeded across the moor to give information to the
owner of the animal, and further no trace of hint was found
until his dead body was discovered lying in a bed of snow
on the moor by a shepherd. Tho body of the unfortunate
man, who was 63 years of age, was removed to his residence
in Edinburgh,--Scotsman.

On Thursday, Mr. Gregory, a surgeon, residing
at Youlgreave, near Bakewell, eloped with a young
married woman, named Brassington. - The woman packed
up all her clothing, and took what money she cound find
from her own home. Her husband being a postman from
Bakewell to Youlgreave, and being away a good portion
of the day, afforded her an opportunity of going away
without exciting suspicion. The fugitives were taken in
the doctor's carriage to the Rowsley Station, en route for
Manchester. The foolish young woman has left four little
children behind hen—Sheffield Independent.
THE WESTMINSTER PLAY is to be given in the
College Dormitory on the 10th, 15th, and 17th instant. The
play chosen this year is the " Adelphi," and will be per-
formed under the management of Mr. Trevor.

THE WORK OF PILE-DRIVING FOR THE EM-
BANKMENT of the southern side of the Thames has
been been begun opposite Lambeth Palace. Very shortly
it is expected that works will be commenced to recover from
the river the land on which new St. Thomas's Hospital is
to stand.

The Queen's Advocate, Mr. Huddles ton, 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 Hasler, near Hounslow, named Sherborn. The mar-
riage was solemnised in May, 1855. Mr. Crowther, at the
' time, resided at Somerville Aston, in Gloucestershire, 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 the 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 bunters, 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 vlace 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 Mrs. 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 moans, 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

Tha learned counsel concluded by a very Barnes.

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 peace and produce
misery where only harmony and happiness had previously
existed.

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.