The Sun.
London, England, 1869-06-30 00:00:00

AN IMPORTANT DIVORCE DECISION.

In the Court of Divorce, on Tuesday, the
learned judge gave his decision in the case of " Buck-
master v. Buckmaster," which involved the impor-
tant point, whether the fact of a wife receiving money to
renounce cohabitation was a bar to her subsequently
proceeding to obtain a divorce on the ground
of desertion. The petitioner was formerly a servant in
the respondent's father's service, and they were married.
The respondent's parents objected to the marriage, and
there was no cohabitation. The petitioner filed a petition
for a restitution of conjugal rights, but subsequently
received £lOO not to " molest" her husband. lie sub-
sequently lived with another woman.
Lord Penzance said the principle he had laid down on a
former occasion when a somewhat similar, though in some
points different, case was before him, was that the fact of the
wife taking money, and cohabitation not having been
resumed, prevented her from alleging with foundation that
her husband had deserted her. In the present case coha-
bitation had not been resumed ; but as there had been
adultery on the part of the respondent, the wife could
have a judicial separation, but not a divorce.
The counsel for the petitioner said he would consult his
client as to whether a decree for a judicial separation
should be accepted.

ASCENT OF A BALLOON IA THE
CHAMP DE MARS.

Ad-vices from Paris say that the Champ-do-Mars was on
Monday the scene of an interesting spectacle. An im-
mense concourse of Foplo assembled to witness
the ascent of the " Pole Nord," which is said
to be the largest balloon over inflated. It is double
the volumne of the famous "Geant" in which Mr. Nader
performed Lis perilous voyage, and will contain 10,t00 cubic
metres of gas. The diameter of tho balloon is 27 metres,
and its total weight 36 metres. It weighs 1,600 kilogrammes.
The filling prceess commenced at 5 a.m. Tho crowd
assembled early in the day, and went on increasing until at
half-past six p.m. the impatience of the spectators broke the
barriers, ani they poured like a torrent into the encrinte
of the Champ do Mars. At a quarter to seven o'clock
the balloon ascended in splendid style. The enormous
balloon went up majestically, and the win I carried it
rapidly towards the west. The " Pole Nord" has been styled
the Great Eastern of the air, and, in feet, it dis-
places quite as much air as the Leviathan displaces
water. Eight persons ascended with the b:dloon under the
superintendence of M. Yon. They aro all scientific men,
provided with instruments for making observations.

AN AMERICAN PRISONER AT PARIS.

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A complaint has been made to the American Legation
at Paris which is likely to give rise to some diplomatic
correspondence. The complainant, Mr. Warren,
an American citizen, was arrested during the
recent emcutes. He states that he is a botanist,
and has spent some months in Paris for purely scientific
purposes, never troubling himself about French politics.
He was seized and roughly handled by the police agents
while he was walking quietly along the Boulevard
des Italiens on the evening of June 10. His
papers and money were taken from him, and he
was locked up in a cell in the Conciergerie all night,
though he was suffering severely from his wounds.
The next morning he found means to send a message to
the American Legation. After remaining all day at
the Conciergerie he was taken to Fort Dicare,
and shut up v ith 100 other prisoners in case-
mates. The day after he was released, in consequence
of the interference of ➢lr. Washburne, the United States
Minister. Among other grievances, the police failed to
return 400 f, which they took from him. A young Ger-
man savant 'ens also arrested without reason, and dis-
charged after being incarcerated in the Conciergerie and
Licetre without apology. M. Louis Jerdain, the veteran
writer of the Siecle, has been sentenced to a month's impri-
sonment, besides the inevitable fine.

In the Probate Court on Tuesday Miss Shedder
applied for a xehearing of her application for a new trial. Lord
Penzance said he could not hear her, but she might appeal
against his decision to the Court.

The re-organisation of the Admiralty departments
will most probably take place on the Ist proximo, and the
services of the clerks whose names are down for retirement
in most cases will in all probaHlity be retained until the
end of the ensuing quarter. We believe this is brought
about to some extent in consequence of the Treasury with-
holding the authority from the Admiralty, without the sanc-
tion of which Mr. Childers' Board at Whitehall are unable
to move.

NOVEL QUESTION.-A novel question in appren-
tice law came up for settlement last week, in the Glasgow
Sheriff's Court. An apprentice, sent by his employers to
Greenock, refused to travel by the third-class " stand-up"
carriages, and was dismissed for disobeying orders. He
brought an action for wrongful dismissal. Evidence was
given to the effect that apprentices in similar establishments
in Glasgow enjoyed third-class " with seats." The defen-
dants also brought forward evidence to shew that their
practice had invariably been to send the boys in the
"stand-up." The Sheriff decided in favour of the defendants.
VICTOR ITUC O'S NOVEL. —The readers of
" L'Homme qui Rit " cannot fail to be surprised at the
apparent caprice which prompted its illustrious author to
give the name of Homo to a wolf, and the name of Ursus
to a man. A friend of M. Victor Hugo's, however,
attempts to explain the puzzle by tracing. it to its probable
origin—namely, to a quotation from Hobbes's " Homo
homini lupus." M. Hugo's fancy played with this saying,
and twisted it about. It did not suit the purpose of his
story to imagine a man as a wolf to his fellow-man—it was
enough to imagine him simply a bear. On the other hand,
he imagined the reverse of Hobbes's suggestion—a wolf
that would be as man to man.

MURDER IN LONDONDERRY.—A shocking murder
has been committed at a farm-house in Londonderry.
A. farmer, named M'Erlane, residing between the
villages of Bellaghy and Castle Dawson, county
Derry, accompanied by his wife, left home on
Sunday morning to attend chapel, leaving a servant
girl, Elizabeth Nogher, in charge of the house. Upon
their return, about half-past one o'clock, they found
the door shut and the girl Nogher lying on the
kitchen floor insensible, a part of her skull blown away
and the brain protruding. She never spoke, and died at
seven o'clock the same night. It appears some person
had entered the house, took down a gun from above the fire-
place, put on a cap, and discharged the gun at the head of
the poor defenceless girl, and then put up the gun where
it had been taken from. One man has been arrested on
suspicion.

ROW CUCKOOS CARRY THEIR EGGS.--A corre-
spondent of Land and Water contributes the following
item of observation on this subject :—" Having observed
in a magazine of last year the mention of a cuckoo having
been shot on the wing, and having on being picked up
slipped an entire egg out of its mouth, I resolved to
inquire if there were any natural provision for securing the
egg in the throat while the bird is seeking a proper place
in which to deposit it. I fortunately found a bird-stuffier
in the very act of preparing a specimen of this eccentric
creature with the throat laid oian. At my request he put
his knife to the slain of the part immediately below tl e
tnoath, and exposed just such a sac as I was looking, for,
empty, but lance enough to h.,1,1 an egg. lle afterwards
put a bradawl down the throat, and, with a little care,
found an orifice distinct from the gullet, just behind the
tongue, leading into a cavity closed at the lower end.
This was evidently the same sac which he had previously
pierced from within, a little above the base. It would be
well if some clever anatomist would carefully extract the
internal membrane of the throat of the bird, and give an
accurate description or drawing of it, including the
larynx, which must have a peculiarity of its own. If I
have not been mistaken, I think the existence of this sac,
coupled with the incident before mentioned, proves that
the method of this bird is first to lay the egg on the
ground, and then to swallow it into the special receptacle
and carry it away to place it in the first conTenient neat
it may find."

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HER MAJESTY.

WINDSOR CASTLE, June 29.

The Queen, accompanied by their Royal High-
nesses Princess Louise, Princess Beatrice, and
Prince Leopold, arrived at Windsor Castle shortly
after 11 o'clock this morning from Buckingham
Palace.

LATEST INTELL MENGE

(REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.)

AMERICA.

NEW Your, Jane 29.

Locusts are committing terrible ravages among
the crops in Utah and the adjoining territories.
The hamburg and American steamer Harranonia
arrived out at 3 a.m. to-day.

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

CLOSING PRICES.

Gold closed at 137; the highest quotation dur-
ing the day was 1371; the lowest, 137.
Sterling Exchange on London lO9l.
5-20 U. S. Bonds, 1882 124.
6 6 " 1885 llB.
tc " 1867 ll9l.
10-40 «
Illinois
Erie 29g.
Cotton—Mid. upland 34Bc.
Petroleum—Standard White 3llc.
Flour, extra state, $5.95c. to $6.55c. Corn, old
mixed, 100 c.

According to Mr. Adam Moffat's report the
receipts of cotton for the last four days has
been 3,000 bales against 4,000 last week. Ship-
ments to England 5,000 bales against 4,000 ;
to France none against none; and to the Conti-
nent none against 1,000 bales.

THE FRENCH ATLANTIC CABLE.
The following telegram has been received from
Sir William Thomson :

AIINou, Wednesday Morning.
Tests in Minou continue satisfactory up to pre-
sent hour, G. 45 Greenwich time, Wednesday.

CHINA.

HONG KoNG, June 9.
A scientific expedition from Australia has ar-

rived here.

The Imperialists had gained a signal victory
over the Mahomedan rebels ; 20,000 of the latter
were killed.

Advices from Japan state that further insults
have been offered to foreigners, and disturbances

were expected.

ITALY.

FLORENCE, June 29.
The Duche::s of Aosta is considered out of

danger.

ROME, June 29.

At the festival of St. Peter and St. Paul the Pope
performed high Mass at St Peter's. The Austrian

and French Ambassadors, and the ecclesiastical,
civil, and military dignitaries attended.
The Pope read the usual protest against the in-
vaders of the patrimony of St. Peter.

BOMBAY MAIL.

MESSINA, June 29.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Syria passed through the Straits of ➢lessina at 8.30
this morning, en route for Marseilles .0
MALTA, June 29.

The Pera, with the heavy portion of the above
mail leaves at midnight for Southampton, where
she may be expected about the night of the Bth
proximo.