The Sun.
London, England, 1865-01-27 00:00:00

PLANE V. PLANE.

This was a suit instituted against the husband by the
wife for dissolution of marriage on the ground of cruelty,
desertion, and adultery.
The parties resided at King's Lynn, the respondent being
a horsedealer. The petitioner was much younger than
the respondent, the marriage having taken place when she
was but eighteen.

Tho petitioner, in her evidence to prove the cruelty, said
her husband had on many occasions struck and otherwise
grosgly ill-treated her. _ .

While the evidence to prove the adultery was being
offered, the respondent, who was standing in the body of
the court, loudly admitted the fact, and was about to enter
into particulars, when

The Judge Ordinary ordered him to be silent, adding
that assertions went for nothing, as the fact must be sub-
stantiated by evidence. _ _

The case then proceeded, and it was at one stage thought
that there was collusion, but the petitioner distinctly
denied it.

The mother of the petitioner said her daughter had told
her that her husband had forced her, at the peril of her life,
to sign a paper admitting that before marriage .she had led
an improper life.
The Judge Ordinary granted a decree nisi.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holroyd.)
IN RE JAMES HALL.

This bankrupt was described as a builder of Kensington,
and to day he came up on the order of discharge. The ac-
counts, which are said to be of a very voluminous charac-
ter, have not yet been filed, but the debts are stated at a
heavy sum, creditors being secured to some extent by
mortgages.
Mr. Lawrence, on behalf of the assignees, said he must
apply for an adjournment, as the accounts were not yet
completed. This had arisen through no default of the
bankrupt, but entirely in consequence of the complicated
character of the business transactions.

Mr. Boydell stated that he appeared for a large creditor,
and asked for the particulars of a settlement made by the
bankrupt upon Patience Julia Hood, of Brompton, in No-
vember, 1863.
Mr. Lawrence replied that this matter had been before
the Court on a previous occasion, but the assignees would
endeavour to accommodate Mr. Boydell before the next
meeting.
His Honour then ordered a further adjournment.
IN RE FREDERICK SMITH.

This bankrupt was described as a commission merchant
of Fenchurch-street, and to-day he came up for his order
of discharge. The accounts showed debts £39,751 against
assets £9,930, thus leaving a deficiency of about £29,800.

Mr. Lawrence, for the assignees, did not oppose, and
stated that the bankrupt had suffered severely by losses in
trade.

His Honour (to bankrupt)--What capital did you start
with ?

Bankrupt—£l,ooo. I account for the large deficiency
through the failure of several firms with whom I had done
business. There are liabilities on bills which should have
been paid by other parties. All the bills were trade bills,
some of them being for goods assigned to me.
'His Honour remarked upon the large amount of the de-
ficiency ; but, in the absence of opposition, granted the
order of discharge.
In some other large cases adjournments for accounts
were ordered.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A DRUNKEN CABMAN—COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FINE.—
Joseph Newman, a cabman, _badge 12,555, was charged
before Mr. Knox with being drunk during his employ and
making use of filthy language.
From the evidence of Grigsby, 66 G, it appeared that on
the previous night, about 11 o'clock, he saw the defendant,
who was seated on the box of a cab, drive his horse on the
pavement near the Princess's Theatre, Oxford-street. Two
ladies who were in the cab then got out, and Grigsby ob-
serving that the defendant was very drunk, got the assist-
ance of another constable, and put the defendant into his
cab and took him to the station, he all the way making use
of very filthy language.
The defendant said he was not drunk, and that it was
through an accident to the reins that his horse got on the
pavement.
Mr. Knox, having examined the defendant's license, said
he found that the defendant had been fined three times for
drunkenness, the last time 205., and that about a fortnight
ago. He would not now give the defendant the option of
paying a fine, but would commit him for a month, and
endorse that upon his license. He considered the defendant
a totally unfit man to drive a cab.
PROPER OBJECTS FOR A REFORMATORY.—TWO boys,
named John Beacham and James Maloney, both wretchedly
clad, and one without shoes, were charged before Mr.
Knox with begging in Old Bond-street.
Philip Shrives, 82 C, a plain clothes constable, proved
seeing the two boys in Old Bond-street yesterday afternoon
begging, and on some money being given them he took
them into custody.
Beacham expressed a wish to be sent to a school.
Mr. Knox said he would remand the boys for a week,
that inquiries might be made as to their parents, and to
consider whether they could not be sent to a school.