The Sun.
London, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00

ANOTHER YELVE.R7ON CASE.

Mrs. Longworth (or Yelverton), who has of late
been so often in our legal reports, has raised an
action of damages against Mr. Walker, of Dairy,
advocate, who is married to a sister of Major Yel-
verton. The summons contains the following state-
ments for the pursuer :

" 1. The pursuer is at present the pursuer in an action of
declarator of marriage, presently depending before Lord
Ardn3illan Ordinary, against the Hon. Wm. Charles Yel-
verton, younger son of Viscount Avonmore of Belle Isle
and littzle Rock, in the kingdom of Ireland. The said
Viscount Avonmore has a younger brother, the Hon. Wm.
Henry Yelverton, who, with his wife and family, lives at
Whitland Abbey, near Narberth, in South Wales.
2, In December, 1861, the pursuer, by invitation,
proceeded from Abergavenny Castle (where she had been
residing on a visit to her sister Mrs. Bellamy), to Whitland
Abbey, on a friendly visit to the said Hon. William Henry
Yelverton and his family, where and with whom she has
since resided, and where, and by whom, and by their
neighbours, friends, and acquaintances she has been re-
ceived and treated in all respects as a lady of position and

character.
" 3. On or about the 2d, 3d, or fourth day of the present
month of January, 1862, the said William Henry Yelver-
ton received a letter written, signed, addressed and for-
warded, or at least signed and forwarded to him by the
defender, Mr. Walker of Dalry, of the tenor or effect
following :—" Edinburgh, 6, Eton-terrace, Ist January,
1862.—Sir,—I observe in to-day's copy of the Edinburgh
Courant, a paragraph announcing the arrival at
your house of the Hon. Mrs. Yelverton to pass the Christ-
mas week. My purpose in writing to ycu now is to inquire
if this visitor is the person who calls herself "the Hon.
Mrs. Yelverton," but whose real name is Theresa Long-
worth. As I consider that the honour and character of my
wife's family is seriously affected by this circumstance, if
true, I don't consider any farther apology necessary for
troubling you with this letter. When I first heard of your
most extraordinary and unnatural conduct in openly taking
up the cause of Miss Longworth at the Dablin trial, I mus
say, though greatly shocked and grieved, I hoped that
when you came to reflect more calmly on your delicate pco-.
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and for your own character, would have prevented you
from publicly associating with this most degraded woman ;
but I fear I have been mistaken, and that with the new
year another and I may almost say a worse dishonour has
fallen on the family. Had you been a more distant rela-
tion, or had youbeen merely one of the public uninterested
in the result, whatever it may be, of this case, I should
have understood that your disapproval of Wm. Yelverton's
conduct rather than your approval of Miss Longworth's
had created a sort of sympathy for her cause, but that in
your position, as being the only person who could be bene-
fited by William's child being made illegitimate, your near
relationship to him, and above all the consciousness of the
pain which you well know your conduct must cause to your
kind-hearted brother and all his family, your conduct ap-
pears to me so selfish, so base, so unnatural, that it is hardly
possible to believe it, and I am perfectly certain that in the
whole world there is not one person, not excepting Mi s
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WALKER.—Addressed to the Hon. W. H. Yelverton,
Whitland Abbey.
"4. Tho said letter so written, addressed, and forwarded
by the defender to the said William Henry Yelverton, and
received by the said William Henry Yelverton on one or
other of the dates foresaidt was meant by the defender to
be, and is of and concerning the pursuer, and the state-
ments contained in the said letter in reference to the pur-
suer are false and calumnious.
"5. The defender did by the said statements of and con-
cerning the pursuer, falsely, calumniously, and injuriously
represent and assert that the pursuer is a most degraded
woman ; that it was a stain on the character of the said
William Henry Yelverton to receive her into his house ;
that it was a dishonour to him and to the defender's wife's
family that the said Hon. William Henry Yelverton should
have received her with kindness and attention, and that it
was a disgrace and dishonour for respectable persons to as-
sociate with or to receive the pursuer into their houses.
" 6. By and through the said false and calumnious state-
ments the pursuer has suffered, and will suffer, loss, injury,
and damage in her character, credit, and reputation, and
her feelings have been deeply wounded, and she is entitled
to and claims damages in consequence thereof to the extent
concluded for."
The summons concludes for payment of £3,000 damages,
and for costa—Scotsman.