The Sun.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

DIVORCE AND DEATH.

In the Court of Session, on Thursday, evidence
was taken in an action of divorce at the instance of
Captain Charles Campbell Hook against his wife,
Mrs. Flora Campbell Galbraith or Hook. The
first witness examined was the sister of the pur-
suer, Mrs. Margaret Cecilia Hook or Ghie, who
deposed to having been present at the marriage of
the pursuer and defender et Campbelton, in 1840.
She also gave evidence to the effect that the pur-
suer, who had been in India, returned to this
country, in January, 1860, after an absence of
seven years ; that he resided with the witness in
London, and slept in her house every night till ho
went to Jersey for the benefit of hie health ; that
he spent all the time between January and
December, 1860, either in witness's house in Lon-
don, or in Jersey ; and that ho went to Edinburgh
in December. Major Manley deposed that he left
India with the pursuer, and corroborated the evi-
dence of the preceding witness as to the pursuer
residing in London. Donald Maclean, West Port,
near Cainpbelton, gave evidence to the effect that
the defender lodged in his house for some time
before April, 1860; that the last time she was in
the house she became intimate with another
lodger, named David Holden, who was a rabbit
kiiler; that in December, 1859, he thought he
heard Holden go into the defender's room about
twelve o'clock at night, and that he and his wife
went into-lhe room and found Holden in bed with
the defender; that,,after that time Holden and the
defender took their food together in the defender's
bed room ; and that in April, 1860, both the de-
fender and Holden left his house together, their
luggage being taken away by the same man.
Mrs. M'Lean, wife of the preceding witness, cor-
roborated his testimony. Several other witnesses
gave evidence a,F to the intimacy between Holden
and the defender while they were in M'Lean's
lodgings. Mrs. Emily Brown, residing in Nelson-
street, Edinburgh, deponed that the defender
came to her house in the end of April, 1860, ac-
companied by a man called David Holden, and
stayed till the December following. ,In October
she gave birth to a child, and Holden was in the
house on the night of the birth, and went with
witness for the doctor. Holden was under-game-
keeper at the Inch, near Edinburgh ; but before
he went to the Inch in June or July, the defender
and he occupied the same bed once or twice in her
house. In 1861 the defender and Holden had
slept together in her house. At the close
of the evidence on Thursday the case was adjourned
to a day to be afterwards fixed ; but it has now been
terminated in a melancholy and unexpected manner
by the sudden death, on Saturday, of the defender,
at her lodgings in Nelson-street. She had for some
time been drinking freely, and on Saturday she had
lain down on a sofa in her room, where she was
allowed to remain for some time unnoticed. At
length, on the landlady going to the sofa to rouse
her, it was discovered she was dead.—Scotsinan.

COUNTRY MAREL 2S.

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COLCHESTER—FEB. 22.
To-day a moderate supply of wheat, and late prices wero
supported for good samples ; inferior sorts still a slow sale.
Barley maintains its price, but still in middling supply.
Beans and peas were unchanged in price.
Wheat, white 545 68s Beans, Mazagan..36s 40s
red 46s 64s middle & small.4os 44s
Barley
Oats -s -8 gray 38s 420