The Sun.
London, England, 1840-08-03 00:00:00

EvViNriN-G EDITION.

ito be the great business of the Legisii;,•.!ure, Lae not yet
tlilltoixe ad llobwyetdhe to sit much
Constitution,lonvgizer.,
come. ibe before the Chamber. It is not likely tn;.! the ,`:".:ortea
tthhraerretrontmhisal;;Zrlausrnioonl-
as that term is completed, they expect to be prorogleed till
January next, and should this be the case, the estimate- 4,
according to the now usual course hero, will again have tv
I
be voted n a lump, and the Government will perhaps ark
for a vote of co2fidence, in order to raise means to pay the
half d:vidend next Christmas; for after Senhor Florido's
last letter to Mr. Thornton, I cannot suppose the session
will be allowed i.,0 pass without At least so much being
done. But as to the " permanently fixing the state of the
finances," which the Deputies talk of in their address to
the Throne, there seems but little chance of its being done
this year.
The Senators are still discussing the reply to the speech
14i46rn the throne. The relations with Spain and Brazil',
have bdel discussed at great length. As to the island in.
the Guadiana, Senhor R. de F. Magalhaes admitted that
everything was just in the same state as when it began, the
Commissioners appointed not being able to come to any
conclusion. Petitions have been presented 'against the
Douro Navigation Convention, not against that particular
measure alone, but impugning any measure of the kind.
A very long discussion took place about Brazil. Baron
Tojal advised that they should not wait for treaties with
Brazil so as to prevent their concluding treaties with other
countries, which had a much greater capacity of to king
their products.
Viscount Sa attacked the duties imposed by Brazil upon
Portuguese wines, and, incidentally adverting to the pro-
jected treaty between England and France, said that they
ought to open negotiations with the countries liable to be
af.tcted by such a treaty, viz., Sicily, the Rhine provinces,
and, wove all, Spain, and get them to join in measures of
reprisals agronst us, in case the treaty was carried into
effL et.

Ihe Marquis de Saldanha is said to persist in holding
himself aloof from either party, both the Ministry and the!
opposition being desirous to secure his assistance. The;
Duke of Palmella has also hitherto refused office, and
seems disposed to assist in keeping things as they are for
the present. Were the Duke to come in with ,Saldanha,
a strong government it is thought might be formed ; but
in that case Bomfin would have to retire, as it is not likely
that either would serve under him. Several mectint:s
have lately been held, and the Duke of Palmella gave a
dinner to a large party of members which the Rev °lacer.
de Septembro says was to recive the whole party ; but
adds, that the ultra-Chartists, J. A. Magalhaes, Seabra,
&c., have committed themselves too far to recede. Aguair
has :,vidently gone over to the Government, and will perhaps
come ink the Home Office, R. de F. Magalhaes keeping
the Foreign office, which he now holds, ad interim.
A mercenary asOssin, named Queijo, was executed at
Oporto; he had been the terror of the district of Basto
for two years, being wont to extort money under the
threat of assassination, and u 5,74 to put any one out of
the way for nine cruzados (li.).
A murder was committed on ihe road to centra on Sa-
turday night, on a young man who was proc,:eding that
way on root with his dog and gun, on a sporting' expedi-
tion, and his dead body was discovered by his own fa-
ther, who was following some hours after on the same
road I

It is thought that the harvest here, both in corn and
oil, will be found considerably under the average this
year. The olives, indeed, are quite a failure in several
districts ; the wine growers are expected to come off bet-
ter, and there will be a good deal made this year.—
Morning Chronicle.

EV EN ING EDITION.

LAW IN

rICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, AUG. 1.
IN RE TAYLOR—SERGEANT TALFOURD'S ACT.
Mr. K. BRUCE applied on behalf of Mrs. Louie
Henrietta Taylor, the wife of J. Taylor, Esq., of
Woodland Lodge, a gentleman of large fortune, that
she might, under the provisions of the Custody of Li-
fauts Act (better known as Sergeant Tallow-Xs Act),
base access to her three children, who are above the
age of seven years, and that she might have the custod!
of the two :younger children, who are under that age.
The Learned Counsel stated that the facts of the case
were of the most painful nature, and involving, as they
did, the private acts of a family of high consideration)
be weell endeavour, as much as he possibly could, to
divest them of all the bitterness and heartburning that
necessarily attended disputes between husband and
wife. Mrs. Taylor has been for many years married
to her husband, with whom she had lived happily until
1837, vehen in the month of October of that year, being
soda after her confinement with her youngest child,
Miss Holer, the governess of her children, informed her
that Mr. Taylor had been intriguing with Morris,. the
nurse. Stung to the quick by this representation, she
examined the other servants, among whom were the
nursery-maids, and was informed that Morris had,
during her confinement, taken her master's breakfast
into his bed-room to him, and that she was treated by
him with great familiarity. It unhappily occurred that
the family were not cn terms with the prrents of Mrs.
Taylor, aa&in her anguish of mind she applied for ad-
vice to Mr. Harris, her husband's cousin, and who had
been on the terms of a brother With that gentleman
from childhood ; that the advice given was wrong, how-
ever honestly and well-intended as he believed it to be,
was shown by the sequel ; for in consequence of it the
unhappy lady left her husband's roof, and sought shelter
in the house of Ur. and Mrs. Schneider, at Southgate,
where she has remained ever since. He did not
lustily the act : it was a fault, but it was not a crime,
and bistenly had she atoned for it. In 1838 Mrs.
Taylor commenced a suit in the Ecclesiastical Court
fbr aettientien of conjugal rights, and solemnly and
sincerely wade her retraction of the charge against her
'husband, wlaireh she now declares to have been false
and unfonnded. lir. Taylor put in a plea of justifica-
tion. which was disallowed by Sir Herbert Jenner, and
the Court below affirmed the judgment, on its re-argu-
ment before the Consistory Court ; from this decision
he hae again appealed to the Lords of the Privy Coun-
cil. Pending this suit, Mrs. Taylor has sought by this
application to get. that control over her children which
a virtuous mother has a right to claim, and which it
was the manifest intention of this Act to give to one
who had, like the applicant, been separated from her
husband without ifte whisper of scandal upon her moral
character ; the law gave a discretionary power to the
Court to grant or to refuse the application, only com-
pelling it to refuse when adultery was charged against
her who sought its benefits. The affidavits in support
of the application were read at length, the Counsel for
Mr. Taylor refusing to dispense with them ; and those
of Mr. A. Harris, Mr. Schneider, sen., End Mr.
Schneider, jun., charged Mr. Taylor with cruelty to his
wife, and with religion, and the constant use of blas-
phemous and low expressions ; upon these Mr. Bruce
commented at great length.
Sir William Follett, Mr. Jacob, and Mr. Roundell
Palmer addressed the Court for Mr. Taylor and against
the motion ; they contended that the Court should ad-
judicate as if there had been no suit in the Ecclesiasti-
cal CoUrt ; the case was very widely different from that
stated to the Court, and although Mrs. Taylor was free
from all imputation upon her character for virtue and
purity of morals, yet had she nevertheless rendered
miserable a fond and indulgent husband, an excuse
for which can hardly be found in the mother of
five children, who had, without a word of explanation
to him, and under the advice of one who was bound
by every tie of honour and gratitude to have di-
rected her to her duty, and not to have advised
her disobedience, left the protection of her husband_
Mr. Taylor was a passionate man, but possessed of all
the kindlier affections of the human heart ; his genero-
sity might he judged of by his munificence to Mr. Har-
ris, who had been the object of his bounty since their
mutual visit to Italy, shortly before the defendant's mar-
riage. In that country Harris had been engaged in
many intrigues and amours, and had been guilty of con-
duct that none but one who es'eetned him so sincerely as
the defendant did could have looked over. The letters
connected with these disreputable proceedings had been
put into Mrs. Taylor's possession by him, and although
that lady did not read them, yet his want of propriety
must be seriously questioned in so unjustifiable an act.
Mr. K. BRUCE replied at great length, and urged
that the conduct of Harris was epthing more than in-
judicious ; he most pathetically appealed to the Court
and the Counsel for the husband to interpose and heal
the wounded feelings of a font mother, weighed down
by the burden of lier too severely punished fault. He
concluded by calling upon his Honour to refer the case
to the 141twer, to draw up a scheme for Mrs. Taylor to
have access to the three elder, and the custody of the
t-ro youiter children.
The VICE-CtiascELLOlt in giving judgment said,
this was the most painful case that ever came before:
him. Mr. 'Fayler had left England before this appli-
entien was made. Mrs. Taylor had had bad adviers-
of the worat description. The atrocity of Mr.
conduct was most unaccountable the
hoiOnd act of a I vising the wilh of that friend to
leave leer lseaband, without seeking an explanation of a!
here stTicion—the prevention of the mediation of the
Rev. Mr. Grey, and the beastly exclamation that he
would rather see her walking the streets than that she
should return to her home—evidently implied that he
wished the consummation of the dreadful alternative
he suggests. Harris never met Mr. Taylor as man to
man, and it was the greatest misfortune attending this
unhappy lady that this man had ever been consulted.
He had now become a bankrupt for debts of more than i
18,0001., without a penny to pay his creditors. Tek. !
ing these eirctmwtances into his consideration, and
ing that Mrs. Taylor was the origin of her own suffer-
ings, he must for the present refuse the application.