The Sun.
London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 22, 1862.

LA TV I2V J'ELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

THE KEAN TEoTIMOMAL,

COURT OF DIVORCE;
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.)
I{L'DGECOCK V. HEDGECOCE. AND ASHDOWN•

This WPS a suit by the husband, a butcher residing
Gravesend, for divorce on the ground of adultery with the
co-respondent, a bricklayer's labourer residing at Pluto-
stead. The respondent pleaded denial and cruelty, and
the co-respondent pleaded denial, but did not appear by
counsel.

Dr. Wouriebey and Mr. Baker Green were counsel for
tho petitioner, and Dr. Swabey for the respondent.
From the statement of counsel it appeared that the parties
were married in 1850, and cohabited until the early part
of 1860, when the respondent's habits became so intempe-
rate that her husband separated from her, and placed her
with a respectable female at St. Albans. The husband
made her a weekly allowance, which was regularly paid
until the discovery of her misconduct, and it appeared
further that the parties had a family, issue of the marriage.
The other facia are developed in the following evidence :
Mr. David Green, a grocer, residing at Gravesend, said—
I was acquainted with the petitioner and his wife. I knew
them before marriage. I was present at the ceremony ;it
took place at St. George's Church. The lady's maiden
name was Watson. I was at Gravesend in November last.
I saw the respondent there. I pointed her out to Mr. Outred,
Mr. Eyre, and three other persons, whose names I have
forgot.
Mrs. Mary Cox—l reside at St. Albans. g know Mr.
and Mrs. Hedgecock. I have known Mrs. Hedgecock from
her childhood. I brought her up until she was nine years
old. Her mother then fetched her and put her to a board-
ing school. She returned to me when she was about 13,
and stayed with me about six. months. I recollect her
marriage. I frequently visited her after. I had opportu-
nities of seeing how her husband treated her. I saw nothing
but kindness. She occasionally visited me at St. Albans
after her marriage, and stayed with me for about a week.
In the early part of 1856 Mr. Hedgecock came to see
me. Ho came alone, but soon after his wife came,
and stayed six or s6ven. weeks. During that
time she conducted herself very properly. In 1858 she
came again—Mr. Hedgecock was with her—and on that
occasion I procured a cottage for Mrs. Hedgecock.
By the Judge—Mr. Hedgecock said he was determined
to live separate for a time through her drink.
Examination continued—Mr. Hedgecock and his wife
returned the same day that they arrived, but in about a
week after she came to live in the place which I bad taken
for her. It was not ready, and she stopped a week in my
house, and then removed into the cottage. She had
two children with her. Mr. Hedgecock used to visit
her frequently at St. Albans. Mrs. Hedgecock conducted
herself very indifferently, I am sorry to say. I have seen
her under the influence of drink. 1 knew her to go to the
house of a Mr. West, which was about half a mile from Mrs.
Hedgecock's cottage. She left the cottage, on the ground
that it was not respectable enough for her. I was fetched
to Mr. West's house after Mrs. Hedgecock had been there
about three months. I saw her on the bed very drunk.
Mr. Hedgecock allowed her £1 a week. Mrs. Hedgecock
left St. Alban's early in August, 1858. Her husband
fetched her home. While she was at Mr. West's Mrs.
Hedgecock told me she had signed the pledge. I saw her
at Plumstead Common in 1859.
Cross-examined—Mrs. Hedgecock is about 35 years of
age. In September, 1856, she had a child born. She made
no mwhen Mr.
Hedgecock plai
visitedn slept at his
wife's cottage. He did not tell me that he had done so,
complaints about o
St.ut Albans, her husband.
he,an supposed, I a lB5B,
and I never asked him where he had passed the night.
She never complained in the presence of her husband of his
conduct towards her. Mr. Hedgecock never spoke to me
about his wife. I saw enough of her conduct in the news-
papers. She has spoken to me about giving evidence here.
Mr. Foley, a very aged man, said—ln 1859 I resided on
Plumstead-common, at No. 1, Walworth-road. Mrs.
Hedgecock was my landlady. She let the house afterwards
to a Mrs. White, and then she occupied the parlours. I
know a man named Ashdown. Ho used to come to the
house while Mrs. Hedgecock was there. She then move
up stairs to the front room, and then Ashdown used to
visit her in that room. I lived in the back room on the
same floor. They used to send me out for a good deal of
beer. Ashdown, when he visited Mrs. Iledgecock, used
to stop an hour or two.
Cross-examined—Ashdown used to work at the brick-
laying. Hedgecock has come to the house, but he never
went in. He used to come to see the two children that
were there. Mr. Hedgecock said he wanted me to speak
the truth about Mrs. Hedgecock.
Margaret Foley said—ln the summer of 1859 I was
living in the house of Mrs. Hedgecock, on Plumstead-
Common. I lived in the house till 1860, when we removed
to the next house. While I was living there Mrs. Hedge-
cock used to take some beer, and I have seen three men
visit her when she occupied the front parlour, in which
there was a sofa. She kept good hours in the house, and
was not up late at night. Her visitors used to arrive
generally about seven, and leave at ten. Mrs. Hedgecock
told me she had a ganthmu....,...ilLig, I, out, n. who was an
editor of the Time. -(laughter)—and that he gave her 10s.
a week. (Laughter.) I asked her what she meant about
his being an editor, and she said he was taking down news.
( Laughter.)
The Judge Ordinary—And then he was to report it?
(Laughter.)
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PARLIAMENTARY DI VISION.

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Witness—Oh, no; she was to report it to him, and then
he'd take it down.

Judge Ordinary—Then she was to take down the news
for him ?

Witness—Yes. He was to write it down, and she was
to get it put in the newspaper. (Laughter.)
The Judge Ordinary—Well, did the editor come to see
her.

Witness—Yes, he used to come of an evening—(laughter:
—and atop some time with her to get the news. (Laugh.

ter.) Ashdown used to visit her sometimes in the day
sometimes in the night.
The Judge Ordinary—You're not a native of Woolwich ?
Witness—Oh no, sir. I come from Ireland, sir.
The Judge Ordinary—l thought so.
Mr. Joseph Jacobs said—l am a publican, residing at
Plumstead Common. I let the house No. 3, W arwick-
place, I let it in May, '59. I afterwards let it to Mr. Ash-
down, who took it for his mother-in-law, Mrs. White.
Mrs. Hedgecock remained in the house after I had let it to
Ashdown, Ashdown used to go there of course, as his
mother-in• law lived there. I don't know that he visited
her before Mrs. White came there to live. I have told
Mrs. Hedgecock that the lodgers bad made complaints
about her, and that they were afraid to sleep in their beds
for fear of the house being burned down. I gave her notice
to quit at that time. She made no reply. I was in Graves-
end last November. Mrs. Hedgecock was pointed out to
me. She was the same person as I had known at Plum-
stead. The old man Foley used to live in the house I let
to Mrs. Hedgecock.
Mrs. Sarah Hunter said—l used to send my children to

Mrs. Hedgecock's school, but was compelled to take them
away in consequence of her tipsy habits. I shortly after
left Plumstead and went to live at Sydenham. About
Christmas, 1860, Mrs. Hedgecock came to me at that place,
and I then saw she was pregnant. I told her so, and
she denied it. When Mr. Hedgecock left she said
referring to a loose dress that she wore, " I've deceived
him by wearing that dress." I was compelled to get her
some drink. She left my house about a fortnight before
she was 'confined. She told me she was pregnant one after-
noon when she was tipsy. That was before her husband
came. She told me Mr. Hedgcock was not the father of the
child. She was confined two doors from my place. I went
shortly after, as she had written for me, and brought the
child away to nurse. I know that she used to receive
money from her husband.
Cross-examined—l have seen Mr. Hedgecock at the door
of the house on Plumstead-common, but I never saw him
go in.
Mr. George Sharland, solicitor, residing at Gravesend,
said-1 was instructed by Mr. Hedgecock in January, 1861,
to attend at Greenwich police-court. Mrs. Hedgecock was
charged with deserting her infant child. I made a state-
ment to the magistrate in her presence. I said that she was
living apart from her husband, and that he denied any
knowledge of the child until he heard of the charge against
1
I her. The magistrate told her he understood she was
separated from her husband, and asked her, "Whose child
is this ?" to which she made no reply ; he then asked,
"Where is he ?" and she said, " Gone to Barbadoes, and
that he was a teacher of languages."
The case was not concluded when we went to press.

A int the t e
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ness slackened a little during the last '
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position is still good. The entry
from
larch was 2,726 bales, weighing
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place.
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the
trade
the
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PETROLEUM.—The first hundred barrels of petro-
leum were sold three years ago, to a manufacturer of illu-
minating oil, at 35 cente. per gallon,delivered at New York.
It is now offered in the same market at from 14 to 17 cents.,
and dull at that. At the Pennsylvanian works it is down
to from 30 to 40 cents. a barrel, reputed 40 gallons. Thera
is some expectation that a Naar tax of 10 or 20 cents.
per gallon on the refined oil will be imposed by the Ameri-
can Government. The Canadian well owners hope it may
prove well founded. There was an explosion at an oil re-
finery at Detroit a fortnight ago, when the extensive works
T FILEY.—From the latter part of
Marche to t
theo fishery for halibut, cod,
ling, skate, and turbot continues at the Dogger Bank,
which is about eight hours' sail from Flamborough Head,
and consists of an enormous sand-bank reaching
from the latitude of the Coast off Newcastle
were
dearlyA and four persons were killed.
FISHING
destroyed,
part o f June the
to the Humber, with water from 35 to 40 fathoms deep
follow ing their mo. jgration southward between
round it, From July 15 to November 20 the yawls fish for
ol and Flamboroubh, until late in September,
reseed to Dogger Bank
, which lies east by
north, and while remaining at that point the herrings are
salted, as the boats remain there for weeks at a time. Be-
hwHeharrernitnietgphsoe,y r
Be-
tween NovembPr and March the fishermen catch cod, skate,
and turbot off the coast, using their cobles or smaller boats,
and lay up the yawls in Scarborough
harbour during seine
10 or 12 weeko.—Otife 0 ei .

The testimonial subscribed for by a number bf noblemen
and gentlemen, who were Etonians with this eminent
tragedian, was presented this afternoon in the St. James's
Hall by the Duke of Newcastle, It consisted of nine pikes,
viz.:—one vase, two candelabra, four dessert stands, and
two groups. The groups illustrate the two fairy plays of
Shakspeare—the "Tempest," and "Midsummer Night's
Dream," one is composed of Prospero (a portrait of Mr.
Kean), Miranda (a portrait of Mrs. Kean), and
Ariel—the other of Oberon (a portrait of Miss
Chapman), Titania and Puck, 2he candelabras
are for five lights, and have upon their bases
portraits of Shakspeare " O'er canopied with lush, wood-
bine, with sweet musk roses, and with eglantine." The
tragic and comic masks rest upon their plynths. The des-
sert stands are richly decorated, and have upon their stems,
in separate shields, the initials of Mr. and Mrs. Kean ; in
panels upon their bases are subjects from " Twelfth Night,"
"As You Like It," "Merry Wives of Windsor," and
" Henry the Fourth" (Ist Part). The vase and its pedes-
tal are devoted to the representation of the localities dear to
Mr. Kean and his fellow-Etonians (the original promoterF
of the testimonial), and to Mr. Kean's great revivals of
Shakspeare's plays—the relievo encircling the body of the
vase, contains portrait groups of Mr. and Mrs. Kean in the
characters from " Lear," " Macbeth," " Richard the
Second," " Hamlet," " Henry the Fifth," " Winter's
Tale," "King John," "Richard the Third," "Much Ado
About Nothing," " Henry the Eighth," " Merchant of
Venice," and figures of Shaksperian tragedy and comedy.
Upon the neck of the vase, are medallion portraits of Queen
Elizabeth and her Most Gracious Majesty Victoria, with
their respective arms, terminating the body beneath the
relievo on ornamental divisions, showing some of the wild
flowers, mentioned by Shakspeare.
The foot is ornamented by English figures of .Peaa-
blossom, Cobweb, Moth, and Mustard Seed; supporting
medallions contain the portraits of Mr. and Mrs. Kean, and
shields with their initials, the whole interlaced by sprays of
laurel. _

The pedestal contains views of Eton College, seen from
the river, the Eton fete on the 4th of June, the school• yard,
and a shield with the inscription :
"Presented to Charles John Kean, F.S.A., by many of
his fellow-Etonians, together with numerous friends and
admirers among the public, as a tribute to the genius of a
great actor, and in recognition of his unremitting efforts
to improve the tone and elevate the character of the British
Stage, March 2d, 1862."

Mr. KEAN returned thanks in appropriate terms.
A vote of thanks to the Duke of Newcastle terminated
he proceedings.

HOUSE OF COMMONS—MARCH 21.
RESERVED CAPTAINS IN THE NAVY.
Supply,—Order for Committee read : Motion made, and
Question proposed, " That Mr. Speaker do now leave the
chair :"—Amendment proposed to leave out from the
word " That" to the end of the question, in order to
add the words " a humble address be presented to her
Majesty, praying her to take into her most gracious con-
sideration the case of the Reserved Captains of her Ma-
jesty's Navy."—(Sir John Hay)—instead thereof:—
Question put, "That the words proposed to be left out
stand part of the question :"—The house divided : Ayes,
72 ; Noes, 66.