The Sun.
London, England, 1841-03-04 00:00:00

MORGAN V. MORGAN,

This was a suit of divorce, promoted by the father of Mr.
Herbert Morgan, against Elizabeth Morgan, on the ground
of adultery. The marriage was a clandestine one, the
youth being at the time of its celebration sixteen or seven-
teen years of age, and the lady, who was about nineteen,
being the daughter of the postmistress of Ealing. As soon
as the marriage became known Mr. Herbert Morgan was
taken from school, where he was at the time, and sent to
India. The wife subsequently, as alleged, committed adultery,
and hence the present proceedings to procure a divorce. The
Court on motion permitted the father of Mr. Herbert Morgan
to commence the suit as curator for his son, as he was a minor.
The marriage took place in April, 1837. Preliminary objec-
tions were taken to the proxy of consent sent by the son to the
father, which the Court required before it would sign a defi-
nitive sentence, and by which the proceedings against the wife
were adopted.
The Court, after hearing Counsel on either side, reserved its
decision as to the title of the father to proceed in the case until
it had heard the cause, and pronounced its judgment on the
whole question.
Dr. HAGGARD was yesterday heard on behalf of Mrs. Mor-
gan, and
The QUEEN'S ADVOCATE in support of the divorce. In the
course of his address, he said—Abandonment by the hus-
band has never been held a bar to a suit for divorce by reason
of adultery. Even wilful desertion has not been so consi-
dered. 'The Learned Advocate cited Reeves v. Reeves, and
contended that wil.ul desertion, if established, was no bar to
the suit; but this was nota case of that nature, the husband, a
minor, being entirely under the guidance of his father, having
been sent out of the kingdom by his authority, and being of
himself unable to provide for his wife.
The CouRT ultimately directed the case to stand over until
the first day of next term.

POST-OFFICE ROBBERIES.—We really know
not what to say to our subscribers, or how to act for our-
selves, in reference to the atrocious robberies of their pro-
perty and ours, perpetrated—and hitherto with impunity—
in the Post-office department. It is true that, when we
prefer letters of complaint to the proper authorities, appa-
rent inquiry is made, and courteous replies given ; but the
evil is never checked, nor is any satisfactory explanation
afforded, with the exception occasionally that a paper had
been missent. Surely the proprietors of newspapers arc
as well entitled to protection as the mere senders cf let-
ters, seeing that we pay such enormous sums into the
coffers of the revenue. We really think the newspaper
proprietors, in justice to themselves and their subscribers,
ought to hold a meetkng in Dublin, and agree upon a pe-
tition to Parliament, praying relief from the grievance
under which they suffer. As far as this establishment is
concerned, we are capable of giving legal evidence, and
upon oath, that the paper of every subscriber is regu-
larly put into the General Post-office on the night: of
publication, so that the abstraction must of necessity take
place there or in the provincial branches. We did not re-
ceive the Argus weekly paper, due this morning ; the
Standard missed twice last week ; and the Court Gazette
(weekly paper) reaches this office about once a month.
We are ourselves fellow-sufferers with our subscribers
from the effects of robbery in the Post-office. —Dublin
Evening Mail.
DEATH OF THE DOWAGER VISCOUNTESS
BARRINGTON.-Intelligence has been received in town of
the demise of the above estimable Viscountess, who died
on Tuesday morning, after an illness of only a :few days,
at her residence, near Beckett House, Berk-s. The
deceased Viscountess, who was second daughter of
Mr. Robert Adair and Lady Caroline Keppcl,
daughter of Wklliam, second Earl of Albemarle, was
married the 1201 of February, 1788, to the late Viscount
Barrington, by whom her Ladyship had a. family of fifteen
children, Line of whom survive their reveled yarent—
namely, Viscount Barrington, M.P., married to Jane,
fourth daughter of Lord Ravenswortb, Lady of the Bed-
chamber to her Majesty the Queen Dowager; the Hon.
Augustus, Hon. Caroline, the Countess of Dartmouth,
the Hon. Charlotte; Hon. and Rev. Lowther John, mar-
ried to Lady Catherine PelhaM, daughter of the late
Earl of Chichester; the Hon. Het try, Hon. Georgians,
and Hon. Elizabeth, married to the Rev. Thos. Mills,
Chaplain in Ordinary to the Queen.