The Sun.
London, England, 1870-12-12 00:00:00

DIVORCE CASES, AND £750 DA.MAGES.

In the Divorce Court, Lord Penzance and a special jury
were engaged in deciding the case of "Todd v. Todd and
Dolman," in which the husband asked for a dissolution of,
his marriage, on the ground of his wife's adultery. From
the co-respondent he claimed £6,000 damages. The peti-
tioner is a well-to-do North country farmer, and the co-
respondent, to judge from his appearance, is over 60 years
of age. He was friendly with the parties, and visited
them. The respondent's father was ill, and she obtained
her husband's consent to go and see him, instead of which
she was met by the co-respondent. At the death of the
respondent's father Dolman was appointed one of the
executors, and whilst acting in that capacity he committed
adultery with the respondent. Ultimately the respondent
went away, as her husband believed, to visit a friend.
She never returned, and was found by Mr. Scherer, one
of Pollaky's agents, to be living with the co-respondent as
his wife at a large farm in Nottinghamshire.—The jury
found for the petitioner, with £750 damages.—Lord
Penzance granted a decree nisi for a dissolution of the
marriage.—ln another case Mrs. Jex Blake, wife
of Captain Jex Blake, an officer in the Staffordshire
Militia, prayed for a dissolution of her marriage on the
ground of her husband's adultery and cruelty. The latter,
it was stated, was committed within a few days of the
marriage. His wife, however, forgave him, and they
renewed cohabitation ; but the respondent again was
guilty of cruelty. The adultery was clearly made out, and
Lord Penzance granted a decree nisi for a dissolution of
the marriage. Both parties are highly connected, and
they lived for some time in Queen's Gardens, Hyde-
park-

GALE AND Loss OF LIFE ON THE SCOTCH COAST.
--A severe south-easterly gale raged along the Fife coast
of the Firth of Forth, on Friday, increasing in violence
as night approached. About seven o'clock on Friday
night, when the gale was at its height, Captain Stewart,
of the schooner Plover, feeling afraid of the safety of his.
vessel, ventured out to the end of the quay to make fast
an additional rope. While in the act of doing so a huge
wave swept his boat from under him, leaving him sus-
pended between the mooring rope and the sea. Several
of the crew of the Plover manned a boat, and attempted
to rescue their master, but. before they had reached him,
he let go his hold, and was carried out to sea. His body
was recovered about half an hour afterwards, but life was
quite extinct.
DESOLATION SOUTH OF PARIS.—The Loire dis-
trict—that is, the region between Orleans and Paris—is
terribly devastated. For two months, says the Times
correspondent, it has been called upon to feed large
armies, and there is no region of the same extent
in the whole of France so utterly drained of
its resources. " The inhabitants have actually
come to be dependent on the army for food,
and I heard a respectable citizen of Janville
say that, in default of bread and meat, which were
no longer procurable, he was reduced to a diet of
potatoes and cheese. In this town (Janville), whiCh con-
tains a population of 1,500 souls, the shops are shut up
because there is literally nothing of any sort left in
then), and our only source of supply is the
army. The people look haggard and wretched, and
remain for the most part in their darkened
houses, for they keep the shutters closed. and
there is not a sign of life in the street
This is not due to any excesses on the part of the Germano,
but simply to the fact that the necessities of war have
compelled large numbers of men and horses to be perpe-
tually quartered in the town, until they have either
bought or ' requisitioned ' everything ; and the inhabi-
tants are as much cut off from the power of commercial
intercourse with the outer world as if they were in Paris.
When once their supplies are exhausted they have no
means of replenishing them, and have gradually been
reduced to a condition of the greatest privation and
want." Herr Wachenhusen, of the Cologne Gazette, gives
similar testimony. " The war," he says, " seems to me
to have reached a point at which everybody on both sides
desires geaee. Whole departments have their provisions
completely exhausted; towns formerly prosperous see
their whole population beggars, and in a condition in
which they do not know how to get to-morrow's bread.
The lower classes walk or stand, hungering, in the streets,
and look gloomily on the groups of soldiers when these
receive their rations, while they themselves, poor crea-
tures, cannot find a morsel of dry bread for their crying
and amishing children. In these desolate towns the ruins
caused by fire
,present a melancholy aspect amid this
deadly stillness. '

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