The Sun.
London, England, 1862-11-14 00:00:00

THE SW LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, NOvEmBER 14,

Business done

LAW-THIS DAY•

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
STONES V. STONES AND PRICE.

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In this case the husband petitioned the Court for dis-
solution of his marriage on the ground of adultery.
'1 he petitioner was a publican and 'dealer in pottery in
Staffordshire, and was married in 1854. Some time after the
wife became addicted to drink, and formed an acquaintance
with the co-respondent, which, according to the evidence,
terminated in an adulterous intercourse of a most gross cha-
racter, a servant of the respondent proving that she used to
sleep with Mrs. Stones, and on two occasions Price went to
the bed of the respondent while both women were in it.
Other improper conduct was witnessed by other parties, the
sister of the petitioner being one.
The case was partly heard yesterday, and this morning
the Judge Ordinary pronounced his decision. His lordship
said he bad considered the evidence, and had arrived at the
conclusion that the charge against the woman had been
proved. The evidence of the sister went to show that there
bad been such familiarities between the respondent and
Price as to lead him to the belief that adultery had been
committed. Although Dr. Spinks had most ungenerously
argued that the evidence of the servant girl Walters, who
alone proved any direct conduct showing adultery, was not
enough to justify the petitioner's prayer being granted, yet
he (the Judge Ordinary) found that there was corroboration
of the conduct ascribed to the respondent with Price in the
most material points. The trifling difference as to the dates
spoken of by one witness made no substantial difference, and
the decree nisi would therefore be pronounced with costs.

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POLICE-THIS DAY.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE PARISH OP ST.GEORGE'S,HANOVEE.SQUA.RE, AND
THE Poon.—Three men, named Henry Sasby, Patrick
Dunn, and Thomas Moore, were charged before Mr. Knox
with unlawfully breaking several panes of glass in the win-
dows of St. George's-workhouse, Mount street, Grosvenor-
square.

John Lines, the, task-master, proved that six panes of
glass, of the value of 18s., were broken by the prisoners.
Sergean Winters, 8 C, proved seeing a crowd of persons
standing at the door of the workhouse, and the three pri-
soners were given into his custody. Saxby admitted break-
ing some of the windows.

One of the prisoners said that he had been kept waiting
for some time in the cold.

Mr. Knox asked whether there was any pretence for say-
ing that poor persons were unduly kept outside thA house
in this inclement weather.

Sergeant Winters said he had heard persons told by tho
officers of the house that they could not be admitted. There
was also a board placed in front of the house, stating that
the casual ward was closed.

Mr. Knox asked the porter of the workhouse how that
was. They had no business to close the ward.

The porter said, that in consequence of the numbers ap-
plying in July last, the wards were ordered to be closed.
There used to be 300 or 400 persons applying to be admitted
every night— all the beggars of London. After the ward
was closed it was left to his discretion who to admit, and he
admitted as many as he could. Men of the prisoner's class
came in bodies of 20. He gave them bread, but he could
not admit more than the ward would hold.
Mr. Knox asked how many persons the casual ward
would hold.

The porter said 10 men and 14 women—in all about 24.
Mr. Knox said that to let in only as many as 24 seemed
to him a sad deficiency of accommodation. It seemed by
the porter's own showing that the casual ward was very
deficient, and he could not see at this inclement season of
the year that the parish was doing its duty in only taking
in 24 poor persons. At the same time it would not do t 3
allow persons to smash the workhouse windows.
One of the men said he had walked 15 miles yesterday.
It was the first time of his going there, and he could not
stop in the streets all night in,the cold.
Mr. Knox said they had no right to break the windows.
He would again ask the porter whether he meant him to
understand that there was only accommodation for 24 per-
sons in the casual ward.

The porter said that was the case.
The prisoners were ordered to pay the damage or 7 days
in default.

Emma Smith was also charged with a similar offence.
She said she had been kept two hours waiting in the cold
for admission, and then broke the window. She was simi-
larly sentenced.