The Sun.
London, England, 1860-05-30 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 30, 1860.

SPEECB OF M. FOULD.

(From the Times.)

We hope Europe is not ungrateful to the Emperor
of the French for his continual care to reassure her
and make her comfortable. It is a pleasant thing
to have not only a peaceful and candid, but also a
considerate neighbour. At once to watch and to
work is too great a strain upon the body and mind.
They who built the Temple found it hard to wear
their arms as well as wield their tools, and even
the shepherd would like to unsling his long gun
while he pursues his blatant wanderers. It is kind
of the Emperor to set M. Fould to assure us that
there is nothing to fear. We should do better to
confide in him; We should not then be led away
by the feeling of uneasiness which " parties" are
strenuously endeavouring to spread. We should
then go to sleep each under his own fig tree, satis-
fied that the Emperor Is too loyal a neighbour and
too faithful an ally to menace the rights of others.
His moderation in the past is a certain guarantee
for the future. So M. Fould says in his speech to
the citizens and husbandmen of Tarbes, and as M.
Fould is a Minister of State, and speaks from
authority, surely we may all go to sleep in peace.
Why should Prussia be uneasy and Belgium appre-
hensive? Why should Royal personages confide to
each other secret fears and start to find them fame ?
Why sholld England be silently and, we may add,
mournfully assuming an attitude of preparation for
some tremendous effort ? Why should all the popu-
lations that lie round France be at this moment
suffering every evil of war except that one evil of
bloodshed ? It is astonishing what trouble human
beings take to make themselves unhappy. Listen
to M. Fould and be composed. What if there be a
kite in the air —he means no harm. Nestle, ye
plump partridges, and ye birds of golden plumage ;
he is not hungry yet, he has not digested his last
meal; those wide sweeps and rapid swoops are
only play, his morning exercise to keep his wings
in action.

Provoke not the mighty master by your unbe-
lief. M. Fould reminds you that " the Emperor
has several times proclaimed that he only wishes
to insure to France the rank which belongs to
her." how say you, Belgium? how say you,
Prussia? Are you not satisfied with this ? It would
seem that the phrase scarcely falls like oil upon your
ruffled plumage. Probably you are not quite sure
what that rank may be which France believes to
belong to her. Possibly you may not be able to
measure the area of the just proportions of a Napo-
leonic Empire. Some vain apprehensions may be
haunting you that such words as these may not be
inconsistent with a desire for Antwerp and a
thought of the frontier of the Rhine. Be reas-
sured ; the Emperor's Minister appeals to his mas-
ter's previous character, and bids you measure the
loyalty of the future by the moderation of the past.
emo repente full turpissimus. No man can be-
come covetous all at once. If, indeed, he had ever
shown a desire for other people's possessions ; if he
had ever used his army for purposes other than
those of benevolence and love; if he had ever broken
up a big State or bullied a little State, or snatched
a province from a humble friend, then indeed you
might have had some pretence for your insenate
suspicions. We see how it is. These States are
" led away by the feeling of uneasiness which
parties arc strenuously endeavouring to spread."
Somebody has been whispering in their ear the in-
famous calumny, that the Emperor of the French
makes war like a conspirator." They have been
insidiously reminded how Austria was broken to
pieces and Piedmont partitioned to the accompani-
ment of generous phrases and disinterested procla-
mations. By an illogical process of reasoning they
are moved towards the conclusion that what hap-
pened to others may happen to them. Germans
have naturally a smack of pedantry about them.
We should not wonder if they have been thinking
of iEneas madly rushing to arms when he saw his
neighbour's house on fire, and of those often quoted
lines,—

" Turn vero manifesta fides, Dananmque patescunt
" Insidive. Jam Deiphobi dedit ample ruinam,

" Vulcan superante;domus; jam Proximus a;det
" Ucalegon."
If it be true that there be any uneasiness among
these timorous Powers of Europe—and we have
admitted and argued upon the fact only because
M. Fould and the Dloniteur insist upon it—it must
be the result of some imperfect reasoning, such as
we and M. Fould have attempted to expose.
It is scarcely to be believed, but it is neverthe-
less true, that these " parties" have been insidiously
suggesting to the Belgian and the Prussian Govern-
ments that this Emperor of ' the French, whose
loyalty, after the assurances he has given and the
acts be has done, it would be ashame to doubt, is at
this moment repeating in the Low Countries those
preliminary manoeuvres which preceded the disrup-
tion of Lombardy and the partition of Piedmont.
They assert that the French Government speaks
with two voices. It is declared that the French
Government has a special department in Paris for
the fabrication of newspaper articles to be slipped
into foreign newspapers. They do this great poten-
tate the wrong of asserting that he pursues a
system known to our low-class publishers and puff-
ing tradesmen, of hoaxing innocent editors by
foisting upon them bits of pretended news wherein
there is always a concealed business purpose that
escapes the eye. We have had such things cut out
and sent to us from time to time, with a history of
the authorship, origin, and secret process by which
the trap was worked. Of coarse, we have always
had too firm a confidence in the loyalty of the
French Emperor to believe a word of all this. We
know that he never speaks anonymously ; but the
rest of the world are not so assured, and are dis-
couraged accordingly. Furthermore these "parties,"
whom M. Fould so properly denounces, go so far
as to pretend that agents are now traversing the
manufacturing towns of Belgium,explaining to the
workmen and masters how much better off they
would be if they were not cribbed and confined in
that narrow kingdom, but were portion of one
great empire; and that several have already been
kicked out of workshops when the men had dis-
covered their object. The Nord, we are told,
has already felt its way by a cautious article
upon the French frontiers. It is said that
the Paris press has already received instruc-
tions to assert that the Belgians are dis-
cussing the question of annexation to France,
and that the same impudent falsehood has been
adroitly foisted upon some of our own English
papers of the more obscure and incautious class. All
these things are by M. Fould's " parties" said to
be now going on, and then they proceed to show
that this is in accordance with all former Imperial
practice, and that the plan has been first to get
up a fictitious discussion, then to argue upon that
discussion, then to assert that the discussion has
terminated in favour of the annexers, then to ma-
nifest Imperial sympathy for the wishes of an una-
nimous people, and then to march an overwhelm-
ing army to the desired territory. These they
describe to have been the invariable stages of the
annexation disease.
We think with M. Fould that there is no present
danger of this disease going to any fatal lengths in
Belgium unless it should unhappily first seize upon
and carry off Rhenish Prussia. Belgium and
Prussia were vaccinated against it more than fifty
years ago. A Belgian or a Prussian is as little
likely to profess a desire to become a Frenchman as
is a Kentishman or a Yorkshireman, and there are
guarantees which make those overlying coasts of
Belgium rather different to the slopes of Chablais.
We say these things entirely in corroboration of M.
Fould. Of course, so long as the present Emperor
rules we are safe in his loyal word ; but thrones
and dynasties and human life are the sport of time.
If we could compound with Fate that this loyal and
amiable and contented Emperor could reign for
ever, and always in his present mood, and that M.
Fculd should always interpret his policy, we might
lay aside our apprehensions ; but, as it is, perhaps
" people" will do as well, while implicitly confid-
ing in the French Emperor's loyalty, if they criti-
cally note the signs of the day and watch how the
storm .gauge rises and falls.

(From the Naming Post.)
The Moniteur of yesterday publishes a speech
delivered by M. Fould, the Minister of State,,to
an agricultural meeting at Tarbes on the subject
of the foreign and commercial policy of the French
Government. Such assurances of the Emperor's
desire for peace and prosperity as M. Fould offers
are. indeed. no more than the iteration of what every
Minister in France has said, and. what every journal.
in that country has declared since the. peace of
lafran ea. But M. Fould,
of in some of his. reasonings,
handles the subject' French. policy with a certain
novelty which distinguishescoll it from the mere decla-
ration of some of his
oreatres. He appeals sub-
stantially to the basis apprehension. which
some other countries app,!ar etentertain
.for the
maintenance of their inaepsndo
part,
in etre.exTtrhaiosridsintaor:biye
found, for the most
high estimate which is formedloef talent and
ability of the Emperor himself • for if the Emperor
were a dolt, like Louis XVltsi.u,roerl Charles X., no
one would be afraid of him.
Fould appears to argue, if the Emperor therefore, M.
y,be a states-
man of such capacity, he must at lsit. have the
capacity to provide for the interests oe
Go-
vernment. What has the French Gu:v:Xlmentlately been about ? It has just established a
mercial system throughout the empire which will
be prolific of immense prosperity if peace continue,
but which will dislocate all the commercial relations
of France, and will make the
i Government intole-
rably odious among all classes f war were to break
out. What is the present feeling of the French
producers ? That of utter alienation, for the present
at least, towards the Government. Their monopolies

have been broken up ; foreign wares come into com-
petition with theirs; and if, in return, they are to
buy English machinery cheaper, they think, rightly
or wrongly, that they will be too poor to work it.
What, on the other hand, is the feeling of the great
consuming mass throughout the length and breadth
of the country? This vast majority leek upon the
Government as the greatest of cone ivable bene-
factors; visions of future plenty are connected in-
separably from its present policy ; and an entirels•
new and unprecedented basis of support has been
carved out for the imperial dynasty. That Go-
vernment has encountered the animosity of
hundreds in order to receive the countenance of
millions. The alternative to the Emperor Napo-
leon lay between standing on " the ancient ways"
of the French system of government and throwing
the Imperial cause on the affections, or, at any rate,
on the self-interest, of the multitude. Which course
he has chosen is now matter of history. But they
who would paint a future of encroachment leadin g
to war and rapine would have this Emperor of the
French, incontestably so far-sighted and acute,
throw away all the advantages he has reaped from
his new policy. And not only so, they would have
him, after discarding the old support of the produc-
ing monopolists, which was so powerful that no
previous Prince or Administration was ever able
to break in upon that body, actually discard the
support of the consuming masses on which he had
just been consolidating his dynasty. When you
have once advanced from one position to another,
you cannot afterwards fall back on the former posi-
tion ; partly because the interest which you have
abandoned feels, rightly or wrongly, that you have
betrayed it; partly because it may be that you
have already so far compromised it as to destroy its
means of giving support. It is just so at this mo-
ment between the Emperor and the monopolists.
Dividing the country into producers and consumers,
the support of the former has been exchanged for
that of the latter ; and if the friendship of the con-
sumers were to be compromised by war, as the,
friendship of the producers has been compromised
by free trade, there would be no elements of popular
support for the Imperial Government left. Yet the
Emperor, whom you are so suspicious of, bechuse
he is so clever as well as because he is so powerful—
and whose power has been originally derived from
his ability—is the man from whom you apprehend
an act of political folly which it is acknowledged
that the stupidest Bourbon would have ridiculed.
If this be not precisely M. Fould's argument, it
is at least the thread of ideas which his speech sug-
gests. " Notwithstanding," says the Minister, the
events which disturb some States, notwithstanding
the agitation and mistrust which those parties at-
tempt to excite in the public mind, France, quiet
and prosperous, can devote herself with safety to
public works." We rejoice to observe this fresh
official reference to the greatest of all the domestic
interests of France that now remain to be promoted
by the Government. We assume that M. Fould has
reference to the agricultural condition of France as
affected by the recent proclamation of the Govern-
ment offering pecuniary assistance to the owners of
the soil who shall join in the national endeavour
to promote the reclamation of waste lands in France.
Cultivation in that country is hardly proportionate
to the population, but the proportion of cultivation
to area in France is vastly less than that
proportion in England. The author of an
article on the " State of Europe," in the last
number of the North British Review, computes that
if the French soil is as capable of supporting its
population as the Belgian, France would be able to
maintain a population of eighty millions. Assuming
this calculation to possess even approximate accu-
racy, it is high time that France, with a new com-
mercial system calculated greatly to increase the
wealth of the country, and therefore its population,
should render a large proportion of the soil culti-
vable. Something like one-third of France, or
forty million of acres, is more or less waste, and it
is calculated that, with the increase of imported
coal, the forests in France will be cut down and the
ground will be tilled. But the subdivision of the
soil precludes the successful prosecution of this ob-
ject without large pecuniary assistance from the
Government, and in our opinion the assistance
which has been promised forms the keystone of the
whole agricultural structure which the Government
desire to raise. This is, we conceive, another
pledge of a pacific future. France may become
greater by peace than by war. The results of war
are doubtful ; those of peace are certain, and wise
government in peace is alone wanted to make
France the first country of Europe.

falling off. The bloom of the plum and pear trees
has become invisible, but that of the apple is, if
possible, rendered softer and more beautiful. The
snow will rapidly disappear, but it is a strange
visitor on the 28th of May, and it affords some fun
with the youngsters in the village, who, recollect-
ing that they last went to bed in the flowery spring,
will scarcely believe us when, pointing to the storm,
we assure them they must have slept to Christmas!
The oldest inhabitant, 89 years old, recollects that
snow fell here as late•as the 13th of May on one
occasion in the early part of the century."

The effects of the storm of Monday are not con-
fined to the damage done to the shipping, &c., at
Liverpool, an account of which we published yes-
terday. We learn that throughout Sunday night
and Monday a tremendous gale blew along the
north-east coast and committed terrible ravages.
An account from Scarborough says that one of
the most violent storms of wind, accompanied with
rain, with which the neighbourhood was ever vi-
sited prevailed on Monday. The suddenness with
which it rose was remarkable. The weather up to
Sunday night had been charming for some time,
and it was thought that the fine fertilising showers
that had fallen at intervals during the week were
about to give place to a season of sunshine, as the
thermometer went up towards evening. On Sunday
a fresh breeze blew from the north, but the weather
remained fine. During the night a considerable
quantity of rain fell ; but towards Monday morning
it abated, and from five to seven o'clock a lovely

day appeared to be breaking forth. The sky sud-
denly became overcast, and the wind, from a smart
breeze, wrought itself into a violent gale in a very
short time. So heavily did the hurricane rage that
by nine o'clock nearly every street in the town was
strewed with fragments of chimney pots, brick-
bats, and debris from the houses. A fatal occur-
rence took place in Globe-street, in which Mr.
David Parkinson, hair-dresser, resided. A short
time ago, some houses were erected immediately
adjoining his, and since their erection the chimneys
have been heightened, and the masonry most pro-
bably would not be so firmly fixed as it would have
become in course of time. While seated in a room
over his shop, between eight and nine o'clock, tak-
ing breakfast with his wife, a sudden and tremen-

dous gust of wind smote the chimneys of the
adjoining houses, causing them to fall upon
Mr. Parkinson's roof. The floor of the room
above that in which he was sitting yielded to
the accumulated weight of the chimney and
roof, and Mr. Parkinson was in an instant
buried in the ruins. His wife escaped com-

paratively unhurt ; and the children, yho were
yet in bed, also miraculously escaped. Assistance
was very promptly on the spot, and after a few
minutes' search, the unfortunate man was found

amongst the debris, quite dead. His face was fright-
fully cut, and the scalp from the eyebrows upwards
was torn and laid back. The floor of the room in
which he sat partially gave way at the time, and
soon afterwards fell through. The house is now a
complete wreck. The fineness of the early morning
may be judged of from the fact that a party of young
men went out to sea in a small boat, for an hour's
pleasure, previous to business. The storm overtook

them, and though not far from the harbour they
were unable to gain it, and were drifted on the rocks
a mile or two to the south. Here, the water being
high, was rapidly becoming a heavy surf, and had
not one of the young gentlemen been able to swim,
it is doubtful if the whole party would not have
been lost. Casting himself from the boat, he battled
with the wind and water, taking with him the rope
of the boat, and providentially landed, though with
much difficulty. He hauled the boat on shore, and
thus saved his companions. His name is Frankish ;
he is a medical pupil with Dr. Robertson, of Scar-
borough. The remainder of the party were two
sons of Mr. Porritt, druggist, and Dr. Robertson's
errand-boy. A man of the name of Crake had also
a narrow escape. He went to examine his lobster-
fishing apparatus, fixed at some distance from the
harbour, and not being able to return in consequence
of the suddenness of the gale, his boat drifted to the
rocks, and he with difficulty saved himself. Mr.
Hudson's steamvessel Fame dragged her moorings,
and was obliged to stand out to sea, the direction of
the wind, N.W., preventing her taking the harbour.
The windows, roofs, and chimneys of many houses
in the more exposed parts of the town have been
blown down. The New houses on the South Cliff
are completely dismantled, and many buildings
in the old town are much injured. Gardens are
wasted, and it is probable they will not again
recover the beauty which they possessed only an
hour or two previous. Several excursion trains
arrived during the morning from Leeds,
York, Hull, and other places. The excursionists
wili have a gloomy remembrance of Scarborough.
They presented a miserable picture as they passed
through the streets in their holiday attire, drenched
and dripping with the soaking rain.
At York also the storm raged with considerable
violence on Monday. The New Walk, on the banks
of the river Ouse, which is composed of two rows
of fine elm trees, was to a certain extent demolished,

14 of the magnificent elms, which helped to form
one of the finest avenues of any river in the king-
dom, having been destroyed. Some of these, though
five feet in diameter, were torn up by the roots.
Referring to other parts in the city and neighbour-
kood, the Yorkshire Museum gardens have been
dreadfully demolished, and all the gardens in the
city, whether ornamental or useful, have been totally
destroyed. The leaves of the trees have been blown
about as though the season were autumn instead of

spring, and in the midst of the eity_the windows

are siiotted with patches of leaves. In fact, from
the time when the hurricane commenced it was of
so severe a character that hail and snow fell as
thickly as though the season wore winter, and in
such immense flakes as have not been noticed in
this city for a number of years past. The road from
the city to Malton was stopped up from the num-
ber of trees having been blown on to the road.
However, the most serious part of the damage is
in the orchards, which we are informed is almost
incredible. Trees which have given the greatest
promise are now stripped of their blossom, and pre-
sent a most desolate appearance. Trees which were
of the greatest promise a few days since are now
not only stripped of their bloom, but of their

strongest and certain vegetables are com-
pletely torn from the surface of th ground. Within
the recollection of the oldest inhabitant of the
neighbourhood never has such a circumstance taken
place before.
A very violent gale of wind, with a heavy fall of
sleet and snow, broke ever the Northumberland
coast on Monday morning about daybreak, and the
wind continued to blow in strong gusts until about
nine yesterday morning. when it moderated. The
weather was extremely cold and wintry, and to a
large extent the open air Whitsuntide festivities
were suspended. The sea was breaking rough and
turbulent on the bar of the Tyne. Two vessels, the
Fleur de Marie and the Dublin Lass, drove ashore
in the gale upon the Herd Sand. The Dublin Lass
has since got off with the assistance of powerful
steamers.
Manchester and its neighbourhood did not escape.
Throughout Sunday the weather was tolerably fine,
with rather a stiff breeze ; but about half-past six
o'clock in the evening the rain began to fall pretty
heavily, and the wind gradually increased in vio-
lence until it blew almost a hurricane. In thd out-

skirts the trees were shaken to and fro with great
violence, the footpaths being partially covered with
leaves : lead was ripped from the roofs of houses,
walls stripped of placards, and one gentleman in
Higher Broughton had his bedroom window blown
in at'3 o'clock on Monday morning. The most
serious damage arising from the storm took place
at the racecourse, Lower Broughton. Up to Satur-
day night about 20 booths or tents belonging to
publicans had been erected on the race ground,
which was visited by large numbers of persons
throughout Sunday. In many of these booths large
stocks of ale, porter, &c., had been laid in, in pre-
paration for the race days. The wind, however,
made short work of these booths, for on Monday
morning it was discovered that the canvas had bsen
completely stripped off each of them, the wooden
frame-work smashed to pieces, and in fact the whole
became a total wreck. Beyond this, we hare not
heard of any serious damage arising from the storm
in Manchester or Salford.

At Mossley, about a quarter to six o'clock on
Monday morning, great damage was inflicted. Con-
siderable damage was done by the wind at the new
fire-proof mill at Bottom's, Mossley Brow, now in
course of erection by Mr. John Mayall, cotton
manufacturer. The mill is a very large one, of
which three stories are completed, the walls being
of stone, and about a yard thick, while large iron
beams cross from side to side, upheld by iron pil-
lars. The storm caught one si le of the mill nearest
to Stalybridge, and the breaking of the iron beams
and pillars dragged the other side down. The new
building has thus been damaged, and the walls
hurled down to the extent of seven or eight bays
on each side, and for two stories high, while nearly
the whole of the iron beams and pillars are smashed
in pieces. The damage is estimated at not less
than £l,OOO.
At Plymouth very stormy weather had been ex-
perienced for the last two or three days. On Sun-
day afternoon there was quite a gale from W.S.W.,
and about half-past eight the schooner C smbria, at
anchor in the Sound with 50 fathoms of chain
down, drove, and was obliged to let go the second
anchor. At three o'clock on Monday morning the
wind veered to N.W., but continued to blow very
hard. On Sunday evening, at half-past eight
o'clock, the Netherlands screw steam frigate Zee-
land, Captain H. Wipff, parted her chain in the
Sound, when a second anchor was let go, by which
she held on. On Monday morning a Government

steam tug went out from Devonicort with the in-
tention of removing the Zeelant further to the
westward, but she had scarcely suficient power for
the purpose. The frigate drifted to leeward, and
coming in contact with Messrs. TVigram's passen-
ger ship Suffolk, the jib-booms of both were carried
away.

L.4W INTELLIGENCE—May 29.

COURT OF QUEENS BENCH.
(Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice Cock-
burn, and Justices Wightrcan, Crompton, and
Blackburn.)
HARRISON V. TIIE LONDON, BRIGHTON, AND SOUTH

COAST RAILWAY C)MPANY.

This was a special case for the opinion of this
Court, and the question raisad was, whether the
plaintiff was entitled to recover in the action which
he had brought against the London, Brighton, and
South Coast Railway Company, under these cir-
cumstances :—The plaintiff was a passenger by the
defendant's line to Worthing, and took with him
his carriage and horses and a retriever dog. The
horses were put into a horse-box, and the company's
servant proposed that the dog also should go in a
horse•-box, to which the plaintiff assented. The dog
had a collar on its neck, and was fastened by a
strap to a hook in the horse-box. At the end of
the journey, the dog collar could not be found, but
the strap remained where it had been fastened. A
window in the horse-box, which was closed when
the train started, was also found to be open, and it
was conjectured that, as soon as the window got
open, on the journey, the dog became excited by a
desire to make its exit, and finally succeeded in
breaking away, and got out. As the dog could
not be found, the plaintiff called upon the
company to pay the value of the animal—viz., £2l,
but as the company disputed their liability, the
present action was brought to recover _damages for
the loss occasioned by the negligence of defendants'
servants. The defendants denied their liability, and
relied upon a special contract into _which they al-
leged they had entered with the plaintiff, restrict-
ing their common law liability.
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn said he was of
opinion that the plaintiff was entitled to judgment
upon the ground that the notice by which the com-
pany sought to .make a special contract was void
and they were liable as common carriers. The ob.
ject of the 17th and 18th of Victoria, cap. 31, was
to prevent railway companies from limiting their
liability in respect of injury or damage arising from
their own negligence, unless the conditions which
they imposed should be adjudged by the court or
judge to be just and reasonable. The first question
was, whether a dog was one of the animals referred
to in the 7th section, and his lordship thought it
was. Next, was it the intention of the company to
protect themselves from the consequences of their
own negligence, if any damage should arise ? His
lordship thought it was, and that the words were
wide enough to admit of that construction. The
case, then, came within the 7th section, and the
question arose, whether the condition was a just and
reasonable one. His lordship thought that it was
incumbent on the company to make out the affirma-
tive. The company charged 3s. for the carriage of
a dog, if its value did not exceed £5, but the mo
ment it exceeded that value, they put on 2L- per
cent. on the excess. At first sight that seemed
to be an exorbitant charge. It was quite
clear they did not make the extra charge as
carriers, but as insurers:. It might be, that under
special circumstances, the Court might adjudge it
to be reasonable, but, in the absence of proof, it
could not do so. The company, therefore, having
sought to put a restriction on their liability, and
failed, they were liable to the plaintiff, who was
entitled to recover the value of his dog.
Mr. Justice Wightnian thought that the liability
of the defendants as common carriers was restricted
by the special contract. His Lordship understood
the company to say not that they would not carry
any horse or dog above the value specified, unless
the value should Ise declared, and extra charge paid,
but that the company said they would not be liable
beyond those amounts, unless the value should be
declared and the extra charge paid. Whether that
extra charge was reasonable or not the Court had
no means of saying.
Mr. Justice Blackburn agreed in general with
the judgment of the Lord Chief Justice.
Mr. Justice Crompton had left the Court:
Judgment for the plaintiff.

oil and colour man, and carried on business, first

at Kingsland, and afterwards in different parts
of the subuibs of London. In 1816 he left

his wife and went through the ceremony of mar-
riage with Fanny Hall. When Fanny Hall fouLd
out he had a wife she gave him into custody, and
he WaS tried for bigamy, but acquitted ; Mrs. Fur-
ness refusing to appear against him. Upoyi his
promise of amendment, she returned to cohabitation
with him, and they lived together again until 1854.

He then formed Tt criminal- connexion with a girl
named Charlotte Smith, told his wife that he wished
her to leave him, and on her refusal, he began a
course of ill-treatment, frequently struck her with
his fists, bruised her and blackened her eyes, and
threatened her with the poker. In September,
1857, he gave up living with her, but for some time
contributed to her support. He continued to carry
on his criminal intercourse with Smith.

The petitioner having given evidence of the
cruelty, and the adultery having been proved by
other witnesses,

The Court granied a decree on the ground of
adultery coupled with cruelty.

DAY V. DAY AND DONEY.

James Day prayed for a dissolution of his mar-
riage with Anne Day on the ground of her adultery
with 'William Doney. The respondent denied the
adultery, and also pleaded condonation. The co-
respondent denied the adultery.
Mr. Denman appeared for the petitioner, and
Mr. Metcalfe for the co-respondent. The respondent
was not represented by counsel.
The petitioner and the respondent were formerly
in service in a nobleman's family, and were married
in 1838. They had four children. For the last five
years he has had a situation in the General Post-
office as a letter-carrier. During that time he and
his wife have lived at Islington, and have let out
part of their house to lodgers. Among the lodgers
was Doney, another letter-carrier, and his wife.
Mrs. Doney died early in 1858, and soon after her
death a criminal intimacy sprang up between Doney
and Mrs. Day. The other lodgers and the children
of the Days noticed several suspicious circumstances
in their conduct, and in December, 1858, their cri-
minality was brought to the knowledge of Day,
who immediately ceased to cohabit with his wife.
The case was clearly proved by two of the lod-
gers and by two of the children, Mary Ann and
Eliizabeth, of the respective ages of 15 and 13.
Th:,ir Lordships dissolved the marriage, and con-
demned the co-respondents in costs.
IRVINE Y. IRVINE AND GILL.

Dr. Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Swabey appeared for
the petitioner, and Mr. Pritchard for the respondent.
The petitioner, George Irvine, was the mate of a
vessel trading to Australia. He married the re-
spondent, then Emma Johnson, at Hartlepool, in
1845, and has had two children by her. The peti-
tioner alleged that in 1858, during his absence on
a voyage, e committed adultery with a sea-faring
man named George Gill. The respondent pleaded
a denial of the adultery, condonation, and a counter
charge of adultery.
The hearing was adjourned, in order that the
petition might be amended by the addition of a
general allegation of adultery, and that further
evidence of adultery might be adduced.
BOND V. BOND.

Mr. Sergeant Pigott and Dr. Spinks conducted
the petitioner's case.
Mrs. Charlotte Bond prayed for a dissolution of
her marriage with Hancock Stanley Bond, on the
grounds of adultery, coupled with cruelty and de-
sertion.
Mrs. Bond stated that she was married at Bath-
wick, in Somerset, in July, 1840. Her maiden
name was Marchmont. The respondent was the
son of Mr. Bond, of Bon dvill, in Ireland. They
livid in London, and travelled on the continent
after the marriage. In 1843 they were staying
with her sister, the wife of a clergyman in War-
wickshire. They had some words about a maid-
servant, and he kicked her out of bed. Shortly
afterwards she had a miscarriage. Her income,
£l5O a-year, was settled upon her, and they had no
other means to live upon. Her husband had about
.£6O from her and about £l,OOO from her sister.
He was a man of very intemperate habits. He
sometimes left her for three or four months at a
time. She had a child in January, 1845, which was
now dead. They were then living in Ireland, at
Grange-park. She hired a girl, Mary Ann Hegan,
to attend to the child. When the fever broke out
her husband insisted upon her coming to England,
She came to England with the child and Hegan ;
but Hegan soon afterwards returned to Ireland,
because, as she said, her mother was dying. At
the end of 1845 she returned to Grange. Her hus-
band allowed her to travel by herself, and when she
arrived said nothing to her, but took away the
child to show Hegan, who was living with him.
She insisted upon his sending Hegan out of the
house, and he did so, but got very drunk and cried
very much because she had left. He never slept in
the house after that night. He came to the house
in the day-time and abused and threatened her.
He held the tea-kettle over her, and threatened
to Coil her brains out ; he took up knives to her,
and on one occasion he struck her violently with
his fist upon the temple. He also said he would
serve her as the Due de Praslin had served his
wife, and for several weeks she lived upon milk
which was brought to her by her English nurse,
for fear of being poisoned. She sent for her hus-
band's brother, and he supplied her with money
with which she went to England about six weeks
after she had been struck. She had never lived
with him since. Last March she received a letter
from him, dated from Mile-end, London, in which
he said that he was reformed, and entreated her
forgiveness.
The evidence was corroborated by her sister, Mrs.
0 nslow.
Two Irish labourers proved that in 1845, after
Mary Ann Hegan was dismissed from Grange-park,
she went to live at a house in the neighbourhood,
and that Mr. Bond slept with her,,there every
night.
The Judge Ordinary said the respondent's domi-
cile appeared to be in Ireland, and the same ques-
tion was therefore raised, as in a case before the
Court yesterday, with regard to the jurisdiction. It
was a question of great difficulty and importance,
and time must be taken for its consideration.