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.

The petitioner, in her evidence to prove the cruelty, said
her husband had on many occasions struck and otherwise
grossly 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 case was proceeding when we went to press.

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. Boyden 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—Xl,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 CABbIAN-I—COMMITTAL WITHOUT A FLNE.—
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 bogging 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 tho 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.

THAMES.

DARING ROBBERY OF TEA IN A WAREHOUSE.—John
Ifolby, a young man, was brought before Mr. Partridge
charged with stealing a chest of tea in a warehouse of the
Midland Counties Railway Company in Rosemary-lane,
Whitechapel.

Thomas Moorcroft, a watchman, said that last night at
fifteen minutes past 11 he was going his rounds in the
Midland Company's warehouses, of which he had charge,
and found the prisoner in a shed concealed among some
bags on which he was lying. The prisoner affected to be
fast asleep. He laid hold of the prisoner's legs, pulled him
out of his biding place, and asked him what he was doing
there. The prisoner made no answer. He told him to get
up, on which the prisoner said, " Oh, dear, Mr.
Moorcroft, let me go," to which he replied, "No ;
if you was my own father, in the position in
which I have found you." He then called Mr. Harrison,
one of the clerks,who asked in the prisoner's hearing what
he had been doing. The prisoner replied, " I have been
doing nothing." There was an overcoat belonging to the
prisoner lying close to where he was found. Every pocket
was filled with tea. The pockets of the coat which the
prisoner had on were also full of tea. The.whole of the
tea was taken out of a caddy in the shed. The caddy was
broken open.
John Oldfiold, porter, received the caddy of tea out of a
van. It was then perfect. He knew the prisoner, who was
formerly in the company's employ and dismissed three
weeks ago. The prisoner had no business on the com-
pany's premises last night.
Alfred Friend, clerk, in the service of the Midland Rail-
way Company, said the caddy of tea, weighing 321b5., had
been broken open and emptied of its contents. There
was about 171 b. of tea found in a bag at the head of the
warehouse. It was tea of the same quality as that in the
chest.

Edward Eilson, a police-constable, who received the
prisoner in custody, gave corroborative evidence, and
The prisoner, who offered no defence, was remanded for
a week.

ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN A HOT BATH.—Thomas Wood-
cock, aged 28, and described as a grocer's assistant, was
brought before Mr. Partridge charged with attempting to
commit self-destruction in a hot bath in the public baths
and washhouses, East India Dock-road, Poplar.
John Matthews, an attendant at the Poplar Baths, said
the prisoner paid for and went into a warm bath last
night, and that he soon afterwards heard a gurgling noise.
He went into the bath-room and found the prisoner with
his head under water, and had some difficulty in saving
him. The prisoner said he intended to suffocate himself,
and would do it.

The prisoner, who appeared very ill and desponding,
said he had a very bad wife, who was constantly inebriated;
she came► to the house where he had a situation, made a
disturbance, and caused his master to discharge him. He
had offered his wife a separate maintenance to keep away
from him, but she would not accept those conditions.
Mr. Partridge directed that inquiries should be made
about the prisoner, and remanded him until to-morrow.

A FRUGAL MINISTER.—The following amusing
story is told in a Paris letter :—lt is the imperial
custom to send occasionally to members of the Corps Dip-
lomatique the key of the imperial box at the Grand Opera.
This is usually done soon after the arrival of a new mini-
ster. There is an embassy here in which great changes
have recently taken place, and a "pro tem." ambassador
reigns. Last week he received the key. Perhaps he looked
at the bill and did not like the performance ; perhaps
he was engaged ; at any rate, he did not go ; but being,
like the late Mrs. Gilpin, "of a frugal mind," he liked
nothing to be wasted, so ho sent his servants ! Imagine
the astonishment when the house turned its glasses to see
who was coming into the box ! Picture to yourself the
wonder of the housekeeper when, leaving the arm of the
butler, she advanced into that red velvet bower ! I wonder
what they thought of the gilded bees stuck all around
them, and how they enjoyed the performance. Report
says that, however much the recipients may have been
delighted, the donors were not pleased, and it is believed
that next time his Excellency the Minister goes to the
opera he will have to pay."
The Imperial Court of Paris has just reversed the
judgment of the Civil Tribunal of Versailles on a demand
for judicial separation by Mrs. Trelawny, better known by
the name of Countess de Beauregard, against her husband,
and has aceozaingly pronounced the separation.