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DISEASES and ACCIDENTS of WOMEN, for
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A remarkable suit to obtain the annulment of a marriage
oontract has just occupied not less than seven sittings of
the Civil Court of Paris. The defendant was a gentle-
'.nan named Stern, a Russian subject, formerly a ship.
broker in London, twice bankrupt ; and the plaintiff,
Madame Edouard lloussaye, sister and heir-at-law of
Madame Stern, now deceased. The marriage between
H. and Madame Stern had taken place in 1862 after a very
casual acquaintance at Dieppe during the bathing season ;
the lady, then named Lucie Avrial, possessed great
personal attractions, in addition to a fortune of 200,000 f.;
►.he gentleman, who was living in great style, pissed him-
self off as a wealthy banker, although he appears to have
been in a very restricted way of business, and to have not
been even solvent. By the marriage contract, in which the
leftndant's property was set down at 900,0001., the two
parties instituted each other universal legatees. At the
last moment the discovery was made that Stern, who had
represented himself as a bachelor, had been already mar-
ried in England, but as he produced proofs of a subsequent
divorce the wedding took place. Stern at once began to
treat his wife in a cruel manner ; the first night he spent
away from her, and his conduct was such that in little
more than two months Madame Stern was forced to leave
him, and commence an action for a judicial separation.
The husband had, however, already converted all his
Wife's disposable property into cash, and with it he
started for America, taking with him a young German
woman, whom he presented everywhere as his wife.
The 900,000 f. which he had declared himself in his mar-
riage contract to possess was only a fiction. His conduct
towards his first wife had been equally scandalous. After
squandering a sum of 50,000 f. which she had brought
him, his treatment was such that' she was able to
obtain the divorce for acts of violence and adultery.
Stern, however, appears to have made a considerable
fortune in America► during the war as president of
the Pork Committee. He returned to Paris in 1866, and
launched out into every amusement and pleasure.
in reply to the suit for a separation brought
by the wife, he charged her with adultery, although,
at the moment at which the facts were alleged to have
taken place in London, Madame Stern was residing
iu Paris. Before, however, the suit was decided, the un-

fortunate lady, worn out with grief, expired, leaving a will
in favour of M. Mir;_ss. She had been very intimate with
his daughter, the Princess de Polignac, and had supposed
that her affairs would be better defended if confided to a
'nan of experience in legal and business affairs. M.
MirZ2s, however, considered the succession as only
a trust, and resigned his claim in favour of the
text of kin, Madame Edouard lioussaye, by
whom the present action was sustained. Madame Stern,
it must be mentioned, had in the meantime inherited the
property of three brothers who had died since her mar
riage. M. Stern did not shew more respect for his

wife dead than he had manifested affection towards her

when living. On the evening following the day of her
lecease he was present at the Opera, and on the next

morning had the seals put on her property, which he
claimed under the marriage contract. The object of
the present suit was to set aside that pretension ; three

pleas were brought forward by Madame Housaye : the
first, which constituted a charge of bigamy, was that
the divorce from the first wife was not legal, as Stern,

being a Russian subject, could only be released by a deci-
sion of the Lutheran Church, to which he belonged ; the
second demanded the nullification of the marriage conven-
tions on the ground of fraudulent representations ; and
the third the revocation of the donation for ingratitude,
Stern having by his cruelty towards his wife forfeited his
right to inherit. The court in its judgment decided that
the marriage had been legally contracted ; but on the
application made to have the marriage contract set aside,
it pronounced in the affirmative, on the ground that Stern
had been guilty of deceit and fraudulent manoeuvres.

DUTY ON THE WILL OF " A MAN WORTH
MONET."—The Tines Dublin correspondent, writing by
date of Febuary 20, says : " The duty on the will of the late
Sir B. Guinness was paid yesterday. It amounted to
£16,700."

Forty-one of the miners on strike at the Tinsley
Park Pits have been summoned before the magistrates at
Sheffield on charges of intimidation and violence. The
complainant,. a collier who had returned to work, was
pelted with stones, knocked down, and rendered senseless.
Some of the accused were identified as having taken part
in the riotous proceedings, but the case was not completed.
MR. GLADSTONE'S FINANCIAL SPEECHES--.
Listening to him at these times as, with incomparable
dexterity, he luxuriated among his figures—doing, it
seemed, just exactly what he liked with them--dealing
with them sportively, now and then, in a sort of " aban-
don" of arithmetical vivacity—it was for all the world like
watching one of those Oriental performers —those Asiatic
paragons of sleight-of-hand—tossing up their gilded balls,
an
a glittering and circling maze, perfectly wonderful to
some light as pith, some heavy as lead, and scattering
among these, here and there, a whirling cloud of
by the Dandlefrom
hand
with
to unfailingiid i
kniadroitness,,ves
he each
see! But, in the end—after by the hour marshalling hie
y all
figures thus with admirable precision, sustaining the
interest of his audience unflaggingly all the while, bin
voice, as we have alreeady said, still ringing clear and
silvery as a bell down to the very close, his animation in
no appreciable degree diminished, but, on the contrary,
enhanced, his words—gaining force and strength as he
felt himself approaching the conclusion of his harangue,
manner
hyperbolicalof the
to prairiesay ,
in fires—wouldthe
their
perfe
et mastery
seem at last,
of
onward
itaft is after
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all the figures he had been enumerating, to pour o •
ard
like a flame, sweeping the whole world of them before it.-
774 e Gladstone Government, by a Templar.
The remains of Captain Louis I\l‘Lean Hamil-
ton, who was killed in General Costar's battle with the
Indians some time since, passed through St. Louis on the
Ist. inst., en route for Poughkeepsie, New York.

The c.)lossal bronze statue of the late Bishop
Brownell, the founder of Trinity College, Hartford, is to
be set up on the college campus and unveiled at the next
commencement. The Yale class of 'G9 has chosen Henry
A. Beers of Hartford class orator, and Lyman H. Bagg of
West Springfield, Massachusetts, pout; and for navy
officers, Ely I. Hutchinson of San Francisco, California,
Captain; A. J. Copp of New England Village, Massa-
chusetts, Lieutenant; and Frederick P. Terry, of Irving-
ton, New York, Purser.
DUN ILLS and Co., Belfast, are the largest
holders of 'Whisky in the world. Their Old Irish Whisky is re-
commended by the medical profession in preference to French
Brandy. Supplied in casks and cases for home use or exports.
tion. Quotations on application to Messrs. Dunville and Co.
Belfast; Cr 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand, Loudon W.0:7 —[Ad
vortisenient.]