The Sun.
London, England, 1836-01-19 00:00:00

GREENHILL V. GREENHILL.

This was a suit for divorce, on the ground of adultery,
promoted by Henrietta Lavinia Greenhill against her hus-
band, Mr. Greenhill ; and, the fact of adultery being ad-
mitted, Dr. LuSHINGTON pronounced for the divorce.
The KING'S ADVOCATE said the only question left for
the Court to determine was the amount of alimony—per-
manent alimony—which it would allot to the wife. The
property of Mr. Greenhill wa< large. He was possessed of
a house, called Knowle House, in Somersetshire, of the
value of 400/., though Mr. Greenhill pretended to estimate
it at only 80/. per annum. It, however, appeared that lately
3001. had been refused. Mr. Greenhill had also estates to
the value of 3,000/. per annum, which, in consequence of a ,
diminution- in the rents, he, by his account, reduced to
1,9261. per annum. He then made a variety of deductions,
by which he fritteredthe sum,according to his own account,
of 1,926/. to 311/. per annum.
Dr. ADDAMS, on behalf of Mr. Greenhill, contended
that 469/. per annum was the whole amount of property
which he possessed.
Dr. LUSHINGTON, looking at all the circumstances of the
case, did not consider that 3501. per annum was a large
allotment of alimony.
The Court allotted accordingly 3501. per annum per-
manent alimony, and, pending suit, after the rate of 100/.
per annum.

PHIPPS V. PHIPPS.

In this suit for divorce, on grounds of adultery, brought
by William Henry Phipps against Anna Maria Phipps, his
wife, Dr. Lushington pronounced for the divorce.

INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT.

Michael Peter Carpenter, a young man, who styled
himself in his schedule " a Gentleman," was opposed by
Mr. Nicholls on the part of a creditor named Walter Levi.
He was supported by Messrs. Cooke and Woodroffe.
The insolvent had been a cabinet-maker, and was, he
said, a sort of a master. He married about three years
ago a cousin, who was one of the Committee of her father,
:lunatic, and was allowed for his support by the Court of
Chancery the sum of 1,800/. a year. She was entitled to
400/. a year pin money. His wife was sole heiress of her
father, and would on his death become entitled to various
property, amounting in value to 60,000/. He had executed
no settlement on his marriage. In 1834 he had received
the 1,800/. from the Court of Chancery and 200/. of the
pin money. He had lived with his father-in-law in the
Mile-end-road, and a portion of that-sum was expended in
housekeeping. He had, he said, been cheated out of a
great deal. His insolvency had been occasioned by losses
by playing at skittles, tossing, and various other gambling.
He had, he said, spent a good deal that way. In the same
year he borrowed money of Mr. Levi, which went in gam-
bling ; other money went for " negus." There had been
no valuation made of his wife's clothes, as the property in
the house where her father lived belonged to his estate.
The CHIEF COMMISSIONER did not suppose her per-
sonal ornaments and petticoats belonged to her father.—
(Laughter.)
The insolvent, in answer to further questions, said he
had burnt some bank-notes. He had had one evening a
drop of wine too much, and he held, when he got home,
some bank-notes over a candle, and burnt them.
Mr. NtcnoLLs—Did not the notes amount to between
200/. and 300/. ?
Insolvent—Not so much c there were about 180/. I
had them in care for my wife.—(Laughter.)
Mr. NtcHoLLs—l believe you the same evening put a
Newfoundland dog into a cupboard to break a large quan-
tity of china ?
The insolvent did not. He was examined relative to a
debt which was owing to his father. He was allowed by
his wife two hundred pounds a-year, and had for a debt a
horse and stanhope, and the duplicates of two gold watches,
which property he valued at one hundred pounds. He
should have been enabled to have paid Mr. Levi, had he
not had the " misfortune" to burn the notes.
The case, after some further discussion, stood adjourned
sine die.
Mr. Biggs, a coachmaker, was appointed assignee ; and
the insolvent's father to give up the property he held for the
creditors.

We hear that the expenditure of the defunct Cor-
poration, for the five years ending on the 31st of December
last, amounted, for legal and parliamentary business alone,
to the large sum of 31,000/.—Liverpool Chronicle.

NEWS OF CAPTAIN ROSS.

Ness, Stromness, Orkneys, Jan. 11.

•
Sir,—l have the pleasure to announce the safe arrival
his Majesty's shop Cove, Captain J. C. Ross, at Longhope
Sound on the 19th. This information I had from Lieut.
Inman, second of that ship, who reached this port in quest
of information about the missing whalers, which be ac-
quired that evening, and next morning embarked in the
Coast Guard tender for Longhope, but was forced back
by a strong gale from S.S.E. He immediately hired a
pilot-boat and crossed to Hoy Island, through which he
had to travel twelve long Scotch miles before be could
reach the Cove, which he would do about nightfall. Lieut.
I. states the crew to be in excellent spirits and sanguine
of success. The Cove would sail this morning, wind blow-
ing fresh from S.E.—Yours, &c.,
JOHN ROBERTSON, J.P.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.

Q UEEN-SQUARE.

Yesterday Eliza Bishop, a girl about eighteen years of
age, was brought up in custody from the station-house,
charged on suspicion of being concerned in the murder
of a new-born male infant, which was found on Consti-
tution-hill, on Sunday evening last, wrapped up in a sheet
of brown paper.
Mr. N. M'Cann, surgeon, of Parliament-street, examined
the child at the station-house. There was a mark of a
ligature round the neck, and some of the bones of the
scull were broken. He had no hesitation in saying that
that the child was born alive, and had been destroyed by
personal violence, most probably by strangulation.
The prisoner was remanded until an inquest should be
held on the body of the unfortunate child.
An inquest has since been held before Mr. Higgs, the
Coroner ; and the Jury, after hearing the evidence, re-
turned a verdict of " Wilful murder against some person
or persons unknown."