The Sun.
London, England, 1863-01-20 00:00:00

THE YELVERTON CASE.

The .Examiner of Saturday publishes three letters
elicited by the somewhat extraordinary letter from Mrs.
Forbes (Yelverton), published by that journal in its pre-
vious issue. Mrs. Thelwall, of Hull, writer :—" Mrs.
Forbes states that Mrs. Yelverton was in Edinburgh the
whole week' previous to the marriage of Major Yelverton
with Mrs. Forbes, that Mrs. Yelverton knew of it and
spoke of it, and further, that the story of the Scotch mar-
riage was not put forward for two years after it was al-
leged to have taken place.' These statements are utterly and
entirely untrue ; the facts are the following :—On Friday,
June 25, 1858, I met Mrs. Yelverton at Leith. She had
that day arrived by steamboat from London. Major Yel-
verton called on her that evening. The following morning
he was married to Mrs. Forbes, and the same morning his
brother called upon Mrs. Yelverton, who was too unwell to
speck to him, but he informed me that the major was out of
town. On Sunday the 27th, Mrs. Stalker told me that she
had seem Major Yelverton riding past with a lady,whom she
t-upposed to be Mrs. Yelverton until she saw her face. On
Tuesday the 29th, Mrs. Yelverton heard of the marriage for
the first time, in my presence, and her brother-in-law, Mr.
Bellamy, was sent for by telegraph. Immediately after this
proceedings were commer.ced against the major for bigamy,
and both the Scotchand Irish marriages were brought against
him." Another correspondent, the Hon. W.H. Yelvert_n,
uncle of Major Yelverton, denies what is usually accepted
as a fact when the case is referred to—that Major Yelverton
was under some difficulty with the uncle, who held his
nephew's bonds for money lent, with the view of prevent-
ing the marriage until the bond was paid. Mr. Yelverton
says—" To the best of my recollection I never lent Major
Yelverton any money, not even an occasional sum."—The
third correspondent of the Examiner, "A Woman," takes
up the case of Mrs. Theresa Yelverton with great warmth,
and defends the conduct of that lady at considerable
length. On the point of "gentle blood,,' about which
Major Yelverton showed himself so precise at the Dublin
trial, " A Woman" says :—" Lord Ay, nmore has or had a
small, very small property—Belleisle —not entailed. In
the last generation, the then Lord's brother, Augustus Yel-
verton, made a marriage less favour able even than the ono
FO bitterly discussed, and lived principally in the Isle of
Man. His daughter held a subordinate position in the
family of Mr. Severn, at Narberth, Carmarthenshire, and
was involved in family troubles and scandals with which
the public have no concern. In the present generation,
one daughter, Mrs. Goring, is in New Zealand ; one is
married to a Captain Harvey ; one to James Walker, ad-
vocate in Edinburgh ; and one to Mr. or Colonel Lyons.
What there is in the position of these parties to make
Theresa Longworth unworthy of mating among them it is
difficult to explain.

DEATH OF A dEOLOGIST.—It is with very great
regret we baie to record a melancholy accident, by
which the Island Geologist, Mr. Lucas Barrett, lost his life.
The unfortunate gentleman engaged a boat at Port Royal,
for the purpose of diving in the harbour, and, on reaching
the spot, adjusted the diving apparatus about his person
and at once descended ; but he neglected, it seems, to take
the precaution of attaching a particular rope around his
body, preferring, he said, to hold it in his hand. He had
been down for about 20 minutes, when suddenly, to the
horror of the boatmen, his body appeared on the surface of
the water a little distance'from the boat, floating as if life
were extinct. With all speed they drew it into the boat,
when their worst fears were confirmed, the poor gentleman
being found quite dead.—Kingston (Jamaica) Morning
Tournal.