The Sun.
London, England, 1865-02-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING-, FEBRUARY 16, 1865,

again asserted its sway, and for the last day or two
before his decease all hope of ultimate recovery had
disappeared. Nicholas Wiseman, the ablest English
-Roman Catholic who has appeared among us since
the Reformation, and the man who has done more
than any other to change the aspect and position
of Popery in this country, was not born in Eng-
land. His father was an Irishman, who settled in
Seville, in Spain, and there attained to some emi-
nence as a merchant. His accomplished son was
born in that town in the year 1802.
(From the Morning Advertiser.)

Cardinal Wiseman expired yesterday morning, at

8 o'clock, at his residence in York-place, Baker-
street, Portman-square. This event has been fully
expected for a fortnight past. Ever since the end
of the previous week, not only did the physicians
and friends of his Eminence give up all hope of his
recovery, but they felt that death might at any mo-
ment close his career. Apart altogether from the
high position which Cardinal Wiseman filled as the
head of the Roman Catholic Church in the United
Kingdom, he was a man whose varied infor-
mation, great scientific attainments, and gene-
ral literary acquisitions would have made him
a person of mark in any of the learned professions.
His style was regarded by many as a model of
good taste ; and several of his published works
will, from the ability and literary taste they dis-
play, enjoy a lasting popularity. In private life he
was an agreeable companion, and his society was
sought by persons whose religious views did not
harmonise with his. He had long been in a state of
delicate health, and four or five years ago it was
feared by his Wivate friends that an illness under
which he then laboured would terminate in that
event which we have now to record. Owing partly
to his ill-health, and his somewhat large physical
frame, Cardinal Wiseman looked much older than
he was. Instead of being only in his sixty-third
year, he would have been taken for at least seventy.

(From the Daily Telegraph.)

Throughout the whole of Englnd the news of
Cardinal Wiseman's death will be received with
sincere regret. Protestants and Catholics alike will
combine in doing honour to the memory of a man
who filled no unimportant post in our community,
and filled it worthily. In every chapel of this coun-
try where the ancient faith is still maintained,
prayers have been offered up, during the last few
weeks, for the restoration of health to the dying
Cardinal. That those prayers were not answered
is to all Englishmen—no matter what may be their
creed—a source of real sorrow.

(From the Morning Star.)

Cardinal Wiseman is dead. After having suffered
long from a painful and apparently a hopeless
malady, he was stricken down at last by the attack
of a different disease. There is scarcely any part of
the world where the news of his death, long as it

has been expected, will not bring with it a thrilling
sensation. Protestants as well as Catholics can well
afford to bear cordial testimony to the great abili-

ties, the varied acquirements, the high character,
and, where private intercourse was concerned, the
entirely liberal sentiments of Cardinal Wiseman. All
must alike admit that he bore himself amongst us
like a gentleman and a scholar ; and all must surely
regret to hear of the death of one who had so many
splendid intellectual qualities and so many exalted
and Christian virtues.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
BARACLOUGH V. BARACLOUGH.

This was a petition presented by the wife for dissolution

of marriage.

Mrs. Caroline Duck, the sister of the petitioner, said she
was present at the marriage, which took place at Leeds in
1854. After the marriage the parties lived together for
about a year and a half. She had seen the respondent
frequently beat and ill-treat his wife. He shortly after
that deserted her and went to Australia.

The petitioner, Mrs. Barraclough, said her husband was
of no particular business at the time of the marriage. He
was employed at a carpet manufactory in Leeds. Her hus-
band prior to his departure from England sold up their
home and went to Australia, but he never asked her to go
with him. After he had been away about a year her sent
her £2O, but she paid certain debts which •he had
left unpaid. After ho had been absent about ten years
she received a letter from him telling her he should never
return to pauperised England, where all was freo slavery.
Ire treated her with the greatest cruelty after marriage, and
he used to take away the child, which was a baby in
arms, and lock it up for hours in the bedroom. About
four years ago she received a letter from him stating that
he was coming home, and in September last she met him
accidentally in the street. He asked her to live with him
again, but she refused, and he went away. She had never
seen him since.

William Mann said, in October last he met the respon-
dent near Leeds. He was in company with a woman
named Eliza 3farwood, a person of very loose character.
John Warner Duck said he knew the respondent, and he
had also seen him in company with Eliza Maywood. He
heard him acknowledge, to a person whom he had set to
watch, the commission of adultery.
Decree nisi, with costs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCES--This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

THE PORTLAND DANCING ROOMS--PARISH PROSECUTION
—Mr. Charles Edwin Mann, of No. 140, Albany-road
Camberwell, proprietor of the Portland Dancing Rooms
Foley-street, Marylebone, was brought before Mr. Knox
on a warrant charging him with keeping a common, ill-
governed, and disorderly house at No. 32, Foley-street,
Marylebone.

Mr. Randell, solicitor to St. Marylebone parish, attended
to prosecute on behalf of the parochial authorities ; and
' Superintendent Searle, of the E division, watched the case
on the part of the police commissioners.
The proceedings were taken under the 25th George 11.,
cap. 3G, sec. 2 and 5, the former of which enacts that any
person who shall keep a place for music and dancing, not
licensed, shall be deemed to keep a common and disorderly
house.

Inspector Garforth, of the E division, said that at half-
past seven o'clock yesterday evening, he apprehended the
prisoner at 140, Albany-road, Camberwell. He told the
prisoner that he held a warrant for his apprehension for
keeping a disorderly house in Foley-street. The prisoner
said he expected it. He knew the prisoner to be the per-
son named in the warrant.

The prisoner was then committed to the sessions.

Mr. Randell said he only wished as far as bail was con
concerned, such as to ensure the prisoner's appearance ai
the sessions.

Mr. Knox fixed the bail at two sureties of £lOO each,
and the prisoner's own in the sum of £2OO.
Mr. Randell asked that notice of bail might be given.
In consequence of a number of persons going to the
Portland-rooms last night and finding them closed, owing
to the apprehension of Mr. Mann, and a notion being en-
tertained by others that all persons found at the rooms
would be taken into custody, a good deal of confusion pre-
vailed at the entrance of the rooms.