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LAW-THIS DAY.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary and a Common Jury.)
BERNANY. BERN XX, GOUDGE, TURNER, AND O'FLAHERTY.
This was a petition presented by the husband, praying
for a divorce on the ground of adultery committed by the
wife vvi h the co-respondents.

For a short time after the marriage they lived very com-
fortably, but eventually it was discovered by the petitioner
that his wife had fallen into habits of drunkenness. The hus-
band, anxious to reclaim his wife, went to other apartments,
but after some months the landlord gave petitioner notice
to quit on account of the drunken habits of the respondent.
It was during the time the parties lived in these apartments,
one of the co-respondents, Goudge, who used to come to
clean the windows, the adultery was committed while the
husband was engaged out of doors at his employment.
One of the witnesses said she had seen the respondent in
such a state of drunkenness that Goudge had been compelled
to assist to undress her in order to get her into bed. The co-
respondent Turner was a publican, and he, it was alleged,
committed the adultery with respondent in her apartments
in St. Ann's-court, Soho, where she was discovered on the
bed with her clothes all disarranged, Turner being alone
with her in the room. The witnesses also proved a similar
offence with Flaherty.
The case for the petitioner having closed, and no wit-
nesses being produced for the defence,
Mr. Mills, Q.C., addressed the jury for the petitioner.

(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)

POLICE-THIS DAY.

ETHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY.

A meeting of this society was held on Tuesday,
J. Crawford, Esq., president, in the chair, when
five papers were read.

1. "On Human Remains found in the Shell
Mounds of the Malay Peninsula." By Professor
Huxley. The author states he had examined the
bones, but they were in a too fragmentary state to
admit of any decisive conclusions being drawn.
2. " On human remains from Muskham, in the
Valley of the Trent, and from Heathery Burn
Cave, near Stanhope, in Weardale." By S. S.
Mackie, F.G.S. The Trent, or Muskham skull, was
found in making a new channel for the river during
the construction of the Great Northern Railway, at
a depth of 25 feet, under loam, clay, and silt, asso-
ciated with bones of Bos primigenins, Bos loreffrons,
Irish elk, and other mamtnalia. It possesses very
peculiar characters, and belongs to an extinct and
pre-historic race of men. Its most remarkable fea-
ture is the unusual direction of the plane of the
foramez magnum, or cavity in the skull, in which
the vertebral column fits. The direction of this
plane, indicating an approach in a very, remote
degree to the forward setting of the head on the
gorilla and chimpanzee, leading therefore to the
inference that the individual to whom it belonged
was possibly not completely erect in his carriage.
The author did not think, however, that any race-
character should be positively drawn from a single
specimen, as such a character might be accidental.
The other human remains and relics described con-
sisted of various bones of limbs, vertebrae, &c., and
portions of several skulls with bronze, bone, and
jet articles, fragments of charcoal, shells of oysters,
muscles, limpets, bones split for their marrow, and
pottery found in a cave exposed by some quarry-
ing operations at Heathery Burn, in Durham,
The human bones belonged to the same
singular pre-historic race of men of which examples
have been met with by geologists widelydistributed
over the British Islands. The bronze relics were
those of the so-called " Bronze Period," and were at
least 2,000 years old. The pottery was identical
with that of the same age from the Swiss Lakes.
3. "On the wild Veddahs of Ceylon." By J.
Bailey, Esq., B.A. Early in 1854 the author was
appointed to the charge of the extensive district of
Badulla, which comprises, besides the ancient
Kandyau Province of Ouvah, that portion of the
island where the most barbarous Veddah tribes are
found. Under these circumstances he ac-
cumulated much curious and valuable in-
formation. The term Veddah or Weddah in itself
indicates no particular race. In this sense a great
portion of the population of the eastern parts of
Ceylon appear at some period or another to have
been so called. There are still extensive districts
known as " Weddirata," or the country of the
Veddahs, the inhabitants of which—although they
are, owing to the remoteness of their situation,
less civilised than the bulk of the people of the
island—are not Veddahs but Singalese, in kindred,
religion, and custom, It is the " wilder sort" of
Veddahs, as Knox calls them, who roam about
Nilgala, of whom the author desired to place on
record an accurate description. In appearance,
the Veddahs differ materially from the Singalese.
They are smaller in every respect, and darker in
complexion, short, slightly built, and active. The
tallest Veddah the author ever saw was five
feet three inches—the shortest, four feet one inch.
Their cloth is the most scanty conceivable, a
scrap of dirty cloth not bigger than a sheet of
letter-paper being a full-dress suit for male or
female. Neither sex is remarkable for personal
cleanliness, and with their rugged unkempt locks
half-obscuring their features, the Veddahs realise
the idea of the most barbarous of savages.

4. "Descriptive Notices of Original Drawings
taken at Sierra Leone and the Gold Coast between
1848 and 1859." By Mrs. Clarke.
5. " On the Influence of Climate and of Hybri-
dity, or the Commingling of Nations over the vari-
ous Races of Men." By Dr. Robert Knox. The
object of this paper was, first, to support views
brought forward many years ago by the author in
respect of the supposed influence of climate over
th© physical and moral nature of mankind; and,
secondly, to prove by an appeal to history the
theories he then offered on the (acts of the com-
mingling of races. in the discussion which fol-
lowed Mr. Evan, Mr. Cator Blake, Mr. Mackie, Dr
Macgowan, Mr. Luke Burke, Mr. Prideaux, Dr.
Hunt, Sit John Bowring, Mr. Thomas Wright,
Mr. Poole, Dr. Knox, and the president took part.

MARKETS-THIS DAY.