The Sun.
London, England, 1865-08-05 00:00:00

LAW INT.

CLERKENWELL COUNTY COURT
(Before Mr. Jones.)

KNOWLES V

ROBERTS.-A MARRIED WOMAN EXEMPTED

FROM IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT.

This was a judgment summons against Caroline Roberts
for money lent, she having signed a promissory note as
security for another person. When the case was called on,
a working man stepped into the box, and his honour asked
him for whom he appeared. He replied that he appeared
for Caroline Roberts, and was her husband.
His Honour (surprised)--Her husband !
Witness—Yes.

His Honour (to plaintiff)—lf this woman is a married
woman how came you to get her to put her name to the
bill?

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Plaintiff—l did not know she was a married woman.
She never told me she was, and I do not believe it now.
Roberts—Oh ! I can easily prove it by running home
and fetching my marriage certificate, besides which my
sister, who was present at the ceremony, can at once, as
she is in court, bear me out in what I say.
Plaintiff—Well, I have never seen any man at the
house.

Where have you been ?

Roberts—l have been to sea for five years.
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His Honour—Well, plaintiff, you see that the defendant
is a married woman, and you have not the power to send a
married woman to prison for debt.

Plaintiff—Well, if I were the judge no doubt I should
be of the same opinion as you, but as I am the plaintiff I
think it is a very hard case.

His Honour (smiling)—Well, I am very 'glad to hear
you say so much. You see the defendant is a married
53 woman, and I must dismiss the summons, as I believe the
evidence given by the husband.
112 Summons dismissed.

A Tribute to the Hammam.

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,ITIES.

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(From the Athenmum of to-day.)
That Mr. *Urquhart. has done London good service in
placing the Turkish bath amongst the permanent institu-
tions of the town no one will deny. The Jermyn-street
laminam is a precious gift to a largo number of London
residents—to invalids suffering from certain chronic
maladies for which the best remedy is a steady per-
severance in the use of really efficient hot baths ;
to men of sedentary pursuits and indulgent
habits who are debarred from hunting, gymnastic
sports, and the many exercises by which the young and
vigorous can usually secure for themselves abundant daily
perspiration ; and to those numerous persons who, though
they prefer the cold bath as an ordinary instrument of ab-
lution, have recourse to the hot bath when temporary ill-
ness makes them wish for a quick and thorough sweat. In
every respect the establishment is well managed. The cool-
ness of its frigidarium, tho various temperatures of its
hot rooms, the efficiency of its attendants, and the
delicate cleanliness of its furniture deserves cordial praise.
What pen can do justice to its various shampooers,—the
thoughtful Teuton whose firm pressure wins the patient's
gratitude, the vivacious negro whose forte lies in dext-
rous percussion with closed fists, the vicious Creole
who nips and pulls your fingers till the joints crack,
the whimsical Asiatic who with long nails pinches
the languid frame from head to foot, and then gently
cossets it into delight? What pen can do justice to the
emollient soap, the gentle friction of the hair-glove, the
exasperating douche or thrilling plunge, the slow luxurious
toilet, broken with coffee and cigar, and lastly the glowing
skin, tingling nerves, and glorious sense of rejuvenescence
with which the bather walks to his club ? The place is a
precious gift, all the more valuable because the Turkish
bath is disappearing from the land of its birth.

The Blockade of Santo Domingo by Spain.

(REUTER'S EXPRESS.)
MADRID, Aug. 2.
Official despatches have been received here to-day
explaining why the Spanish naval force continued
the blockade of the island of Santo. Domingo after
the evacuation. The Captain-General announces
in despatches from Santo Domingo, under date Bth
July, forwarded via England, that the troops were
preparing to quit the capital on the 10th of the
month after the evacuation of the other points in
occupation, with the exception of the bay of Samaria,
had been completed. The blockade of the coast was
continued on account of the Santiago Government
not having ratified the convention agreed upon by
the commissioners appointed to negotiate the eva-
cuation.

Daspatches from the Captain-General of Cuba,
dated July 15, state that the Captain-General of
Santo Domingo embarked on the 11th July with
the forces remaining in the capital, announcing
from Santiago de Cuba, on the 13th, that the oper-
ation had been safely effected.

The Diario de Espanol contains the following
upon the subject of the Spanish blockade of the
island :—" We have received a letter from Hivana,
which represents a serious state of affairs at Santo
Domingo. According to our correspondent, to
whom we must give entire credit, the Dominicans,
besides declining to accept the convention, refuse
to deliver up the prisoners. General ..Gandara. Was
consequently compelled to issue a 'notification,
dated sth July, deciaiing that he should continue
the war until the Spanish Government determined
the question, and that a blockade of the Dominican
ports would immediately be established." -

The semi-official Correspondencia de Espana
says :

" Our intelligence confirms the above, and we
may add that General Gandara, upon seeing that
the Dominicans did not fulfil the treaty of the 6th
June respecting the surrender of the Spanish pri-
soners, seized several Dominicans of note at San-
tiago de Cuba as hostages. On becoming aware of
this act, however, the Spanish authorities ordered
the hostages to be set at liberty, considering such
measures to be repugnant to civilisation, humanity,
and sound policy.

" General Gandara believes that the blockade
will suffice to compel the Dominicans to fulfil the
treaty.

" The General is expected to arrive in Europe
within three or four days."
The Madrid Official Gazette publishes the
nomination of Senor Augusto Ulloa as Spanish
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary
at the Court of the King of Italy.
The Queen signed last night the decrees appoint-
ing Senor Isturiz Ambassador at Rome, the
Marquis of Lema Ambassador at Paris, and Senor
Comyn, Minister at Lisbon.

COURSE OF EXCHANGE—Last Evening.

Amsterdam Short. 11 14
Ditto 3 Mouths. 12
Rotterdam
Antwerp — 25 421
Brussels
Hamburg -
Paris
Ditto 3 Months. 25 40
Marseilles
Frankfort on the Maine —120 k
Vienna,- — 11 30
Trieste — 11 30
Petersburgh - 301
Berlin
Madrid — 47}
Cadiz
Leghorn
Milan
Messina
Genoa
Naples — 25 50
Palermo
Oporto — 51.
Lisbon — 511

11 19
12 1
12 1
25 50
25 50
13 10j
25 20
25 45
25 45
121

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11 37
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47:
48
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 55
25 i 5
25 55
51
511

NOSCITUR A Soctis is very humorously, but rather
cruelly, applied by the Reader, of to-day, to Black-
wood, by reason of the naive admission of the latter, thus.
referred to by our weekly contemporary—Blackwood assures
the Conservatives that in the late elections "there is no
cause whatever for desponding," and adds a curious piece
of information for their comfort. " Many men have taken
pledges," says the writer, " who, to our certain knowledge,
do not intend to be bound by them." Wo fear Blackwood
keeps bad company ; perhaps even admits pledge-breakers
to its columns.

THE LONGEST AERIAL FLIGHT ON RECORD,
according to the Mechanics' Magazine, was made
by Mr. Wise, Mr. La Mountain, and others, who started
from at. Louis for New York. They succeeded in follow-
ing the course they had mappod out for themselves until
they had crossed Lake Erie, when they were caught in an
adverse current of air and forced to abandon their original
design, after having travelled 1,150 miles in less than 20
hours. Mr. Low, another American aeronaut, has con-
structed what he terms an aerial ship, the greatest circum-
ference of which is 387 feet., with a capacity to hold
700,000 cubic foot of gas, and a lifting power of 22 tons
The machine is furnished with many novel appliances for
the purpose of elevating, depressing, and directing the
machine ; and in this machine Mr. Low proposes to cross
the Atlantic in fifty or sixty hours.

THE DUTIES ON SPIRITS.—The duties on spirits
realised in th© year ended the 31st March last amounted to
no less a sum than £10,640,066 13s. 10d. . The net produce
was £10,176,731 4s. 31d.

. .
THE DUTY ON RAILWAYS.—It appears that
£439,343 15s. 3d. was tho duty paid by railways in the year
ending tho 31st March last.