The Sun.
London, England, 1860-02-15 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Mr. Justice Wightman.)
The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with
a cause of disputed acccount on the termination of partner-
ship, which was not of the slightest public interest. The
case of Barry v. Shipley was not proceeded with.

In the other courts the business was totally uninteresting.
In the Court of Common Pleas an action for breach of
contract was being tried ; and the Exchequer Court was
occupied with a case relative to the purchasing of certain
railway shares.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before Sir C. CreEswell.)
MARTIN V. MARTIN.

This suit was instituted by Jane Martin for the purpose
of obtaining a judicial separation from her husband on the
ground of his cruelty and unkindness, which rendered co-
habitation with him unsafe. The respondent entered an
appearance and pleaded a denial.

Dr. Twins, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks, were counsel for the
petitioner; and Dr. Phillinaore, Q.C., and Mr. Coleridge,
for the respondent.

It appeared that the petitioner was the daughter of a
farmer, and that the respondent was carrying on business
as a grocer, at Guildford, at the timo of the marriage,
which took place at Long Parish, Hants, in the month of
September, 1851. The alleged ill-treatment commenced
shortly after the marriage, but the petitioner gave birth to
four children, three of whom are living, and, with the ex-
ception of occasional separations, she cohabited with the
respondent until 1859, when she left him finally.
Mrs. Martin was examined, and deposed that about six
months after the marriage the petitioner behaved with great
unkindness towards her, and while she was in a state of
pregnancy with her first child, he got Tito a great passion
and shook her violently, She was compelled to go to her
bed and had a very bad confinement. In the April of 1853,
he left her, taking a quantity of money with him and stated
that he intended to emigrate. He did not carry his threat into
execution, and wrote to her from London, requesting her for-
giveness, and desiring her to communicate with him by tele•
graph. She complied, and he returned, and they continued to
reside at Guildford till 1854. In that year, from various rea-
sons, the business fell off and they removed, living for some
time in the Isle of Wight, and other places. In 1856 the
respondent was unable to maintain the petitioner and
her children and they wont to her father's, but he
rejoined her in March 1857, having :succeeded in
obtaining some employment. They afterwards re-
sumed business at Woking, and here the treatment
of the respondent became most cruel. He compelled her
to attend the shop at a time when her health was very deli-
cate. He struck her with a weight, which made her
knuckles bleed, threatened to kill her with apokor, left her
without food, and he frequently trod upon her toss, by
which he hurt her severely. The witness detailed other acts
of unkindness, and stated that her health suffered
severely from his violence. She was compelled
to leave him in 1859, and went to live with her
mother. She had not since cohabited with the respondent,
who wrote several letters entreating her forgiveness, but
she did not answer them.

In cross-examination she said that she had not given the
respondent provocation, and that she had done xothing to-
wards him that she would not repeat. Her first child,
which died in 1858, was paralysed and subject to fits,
which she believed were caused by the ill-treatment
of the respondent to her prior to its birth. Sha
admitted having thrown a box of steel pans at
the respondent, but it was when he irritated her by him
ill-treatment. Shortly before leaving the respondent in
1859, one of his medical attendants stated he had over-
charged his brain with business, and that he must not be
thwarted. Dr. Watts considered that ho was not of
sound mind some months before their final separation.
For some time she believed him to be insane, and treated
him in a soothing manner.
[The ease was not concluded when we went to press.]

POLICE INTELLIGENOB-( THIS DAY.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
APPLICATION TO TILE MAGISTRATR.—TIIII GERMAN
FAIR.-Mr. Cremer, proprietor of the German Fair, re-
cently held at the Portland Gallery, opposite the Poly.
technic, applied to Mr. Beadon for a summons spinet
Robert Green, furniture broker, of tho Portland Bazaars
under the following circumstances :—..

The applicant said that Mr. Green had placed some tort
on one of his two counters of the Bazaar, and assumed this
title of " the German Fair," and engaged several men to
parade Regent-street with boards, for the purpose of adver-
tising the place ; one man, in particular, being stationed
at the door of the Portland Gallery, where the German
Fair has been so recently held, and the complaint he 'wished
to make was for the man stating to all partite, on their
arrival at the Gallery, that the German Fair was removed
a few doors further down, of course misleading the public,
and at the same time injuring the reputation which he
(Mr. Cremer) had gained.

In answer to Mr. Beadon, applicant said he commenced
proceedings in the Court of Chancery for the assumption of
the title of the German Fair, and he wished to know whe•
ther ho could not stop men acting as they were doing P
Mr. Beadon said, as he (Mr. Cramer) had applied for ait
injunction to the Court of Chancery, and as that was the
highest court that he could go to, he had better wait the
result of that before proceeding further in the matter.
Mr. Cremer thanked the magistrate for his advice, as!
retired.

SINGULAR CHARGE.--FORGETTING TO RETVRN Wing
CHANGE,—James Donahoe, a porter in the employ of Mr.
William Samuel Burton, formerly Rippon and Burton,
ironmonger; &c., Oxford-street, was charged before Mr.
Beadon as follows :

George Frampton, till cashier to Mr. Burton, said ths
prisoner was a porter in Mr. Burton's employ, and that 01l
the previous evening, about half-past six, he gave the pri..
soner a £lO nets to get changed for gold. The prisoner
left for that purpose, but never returned with the change.
In answer to Mr. Beadon, the prisoner said he had no
questions to ask, and that what had happened was througk
his being subjected to fits. Ho remembered changing tha
note, but had lost his senses for half an hoar, and mom"
bared nothing further.
Sergeant Edwards, of the C division, said that two medfa
cal men who had seen the prisoner certified that ha WY
drunk.

Inspector Grant said that £5 2s. 7d. was found on him
when he was searched at the station.

Mr. Besdon said he should remand the prisoner for •
week, to find out if possible where he had spent the money.

THAMES.

STEALING Lnizrz.—Williara Lewis, a sanctified-looking
fellow, about 23 years of age, described as a shipwright,
who was formerly a distributor of religious tracts, and
Thomas Cooper, a rough-looking and neglected boy, aged
15, were brought before Mr. Selfe, charged with stealing a
quantity of linen from a yard in the rear of the house No.
3, William-terrace, East India-road, Poplar.
Abbott, a police-constable, No. 322 K, said that he met
the prisoners at half-past one o'clock this morning, neat'
Limehouse Church, at the eastern end of Commercial..
road. Lewis was carrying a bundle of linen. He stopped
the prisoners, and asked Lewis where he had obtained the
linen, and where he intended to carry it to at that
time of the morning. Lewis pointed towards Whits.
chapel, and said that ' was where he obtained
the linen. Cooper said, " Why don't you tell the truth,
and say where you got the linen from." He took the psi•
sonars to the station-house, and Lewis then said he took
the linen out of a yard in the rear of a house at the corner
of William-street, occupied by Mr. Wyatt.
Mr. G. Wyatt, clerk to Young, Son, and Magnay,
iden-
tified the handle of linen, consisting of a sheet, a tablecloth,
a towel, two shirts, three night-gowns, two chorale's, and
a bolster cover. The clothes' lines in the yard on which
the linen was hanging were lowered last night, and the
street door was locked and barred. Thismorning he found
the door unbarred and the linen gone. The prisoner Lewis
was the son of a respectable woman living two doors from
him, but had lately become a great reprobate.
The prisoner pleaded guilty to the charge, and Mr. Selfi
put some questions to the boy, who said he had been in the
Bethnal-green Workhouse a year ago, and left it, and had
been since wandering about the streets, getting his living
how he could. He met Lewis at a coffee-stall last night,
and he took him to Poplar, put him over a wall into the
prosecutor's garden, and proposed to break into and plun-
der his (Lewis's) mother's house, and plunder it of a box of
ivory, money, and other valuables. There was a
light in the back-room, and Lewis said it would
not be safe to commit a burglary at his mother'*
house, and he took the linen off the lines in Mr. Wyatt'*
yard, passed through the yard and unbarred the street door.
Lewis gave him the linen to carry, and soon afterwards took
the bundle from him and carried it until stopped by the
constable.

Mr. Selfe—Have you any parents living ?
Cooper—My mother is dead, and my father ran away
from the Bethnal Green workhouse two years ago, and I
have not seen him sinco.

Mr. Selfe--Well, Lewis, what have you to say to thil
boy's statement?

Lewis hung his head but made no reply.
Mr. Selfe sentenced Lewis to six months' imprisonment,
with hard labour, and Cooper to be sent to Fulham School
for throe years.

PORTSMOUTH, Feb.—A sudden squall of wind
and snow burst over hero yesterday about flee p.m. Alt
uidper portion of a wall in the dockyard, which had been
erected to prevent the escape of convicts in that direction,
was blown into the street adjoining, through which at the
time luckily no one was passing. No damage was dose
beyond the destruction of the wall. In the harbour as
accident occurred nearly attended with a loss of life. At'
man-of-war's boat was leaving the Asia steam guardahiPl
for the Duke of Wellington, lying up the harbour, eIT
before getting clear of the ship's lee, hoisted the lug est.
On clearing the bow of the ship the whole force of the Kw"'
which was at that moment rushing down the harbo/
struck the boat's sail, and instantly capsised her. Four
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the six men in the boat got on her keel, and held on until
boat came to their rescue. The two remaining wen le,* lia
picked up out of the water at the same time by a boat w
had put off from the Asia on witnessing the aocideat•