The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—(This Day.)

DIVORCE COURT.

(Before Lord Campbell, Lord Chief-BAron Pollock, acd
Sir E. Cresswell, Judge Ordinary.)

TOIIRLE V. TOURLE AND RENSHAW.-SPECIAL JURY CASH

SECOND DAY.

This was a petition for divorce for adultery tried by a
spacial jury, and in consEquencs of the parties being
well known in the city and the metropolis great interest
was felt in the proceedings and the court was densely
crowded.
Mr. Slade, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, and Mr. Keydon,
appeared for the petitioner ; Dr. Phillimore, Dr. Sparks,
nd Mr. Caarles Pollock, appeared for the wife ; and
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and Dr. Deane, appeared for
the co-respondent.
This was a suit instituted for a divorce by the hus-
band again-t the wife on the ground of adultery com-
mitted by the wife between Ist Sept., 1856, and the 19th
February, 1858, with Mr. Richard Rvn,haw, an officer
in the 2d Dragoon Guards. The wife pleaded, Ist, not
guilty ; 2d, that as to any adultery since tha 4th Sept.,
1857, the petitioner had deserted• her without reason-
able cause; 33, that the petitioner had condoned the
adultery.

Mr. Slade, Q.C., in stating the petitioner's case, said
that the object now sought was to dissolve the marriage
that had become hateful to both parties, and
_ not to obtain damages from the paramour. The
petitioner is a solicitor carrying on business in the
City. He was the son of a gentleman who occupied a
considerable position in the county of Sussex up to the
period of his death in 1844, and at one time occupied
the high position of High Sheriff of that county. The
wife was Miss Johnson, the daughter of Mr. William
Johnson, a country gentleman residing at Aldborough,
in Suffolk. He died In 1839, leaving her, his only child,
a f irtune of 2,5001., mid under the guardianship of Mr.
Sterry, a gentleman who had married a sister of the peti-
tioner's. Mr. Sterry died in 1843, when Miss Johnson
was placed by the Court of Cimeeery under the guar-
dianship of Mrs. Sterry. She was placed to school, and
in 1849 she came to reside with Mrs. Sterry at TJptnin-
ster, in Essex, where the petitioner became acquainted
with his wife. They were married on 17th December,
1850. She was a lady of great personal attractions, and
they were suitable to each other in age, fortune, and
position, and there was reason to anticipate a long life
of happiness before them. He was 35 years of age and
the wife 21 when married. In the early part of the
married life they lived in Southampton-buildings, where
the petitioner had an office and carried on his business;
but in Dec., 1555, tuey left that locality, and, as they
had a relative, the widow of General Lacey, residing at
Woolwich, they selected Abbey Wood as the locality of
their future residence, and they took Ashmount Cottage.
They were introduced to the families in the neighbour-
hood, and amongst them that of Mr. Renshaw, who
lived at West-heath, about half-a-mile distant, a
tgiDeneing 1856 an mer-
chantinti-
macy carrying on business in the city, and who at one
time was chairman of one of the railways having
its terminus in the, metropolis. That gentlenaan. who
bad been married three times, and whose third wife was
alive, had three 90139 and two daughters living, one of
nanbde had taken to the
whom was married to a Mr. Bramwell,was
aTthheocznoe-rdeusprionng-
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sprung up of the closest description between
the parties, and during Mr. Tourle's absence in town
daily attending to his professional duties. Mr. Ren•
@haw was continually at the house with Mrs. Tourle,
leaving, with the ex:..eption of one or two occasions, a
few minutes before Mr. Tourle's retArn in the evening.
The learned counsel then proceeded t 3 detail the familia-
rities that had taken place between the
parties,
subsequent acts of adultery, which he said he should be
able to prove.

Lord -Campbell, in summing up, said that there was
ample and undoubted proof of continuous adultery oft
the part of the wife with Mr. Renshaw.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict for
the petitioner on all the i7sue!...

The `Court then decreed a judicial dissolution of tte
marriage, with costs as aeaie,t Mr. Renshaw.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(rhis Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-SrREEr.

ROBBERY BY A WORESIAN.—Thomas Flanagan, of
2, Chapel-grove, Chapel-street, Somers-tqwn, labourer,
was charged with stealing a quantity of lead from the
Jews' School, Greek-street, Soho, the property of Ezra
Brunning.

Ge.)rg; Collings, of 8, Smith street, Somers-town,
plasterer, said that from information he had received
that morning he called the prisoner back as he was
leaving the premises, and told him he wa:.ted to speak
to him about his time. When be came back, noticing
something bulky under his coat, he asked him what he
bad got; in answer to which, he said be might have all
he got if he would let him go. He then opened his coat,
and in it he (witness) found 25.b5. of lead. He was
then given into custody. The lead wa3 abort to be
used on the premises at which the prisoner was at
work.

The prisoner, who admitted his guilt, said he was very
sorry. _

Mr. Bingham said it was a lamentable thing to see a
man, seemingly respectable, and who was earning good
wages, so commit himself. He should send him to
prison for three months.
THE SOCIAL EVIL.—Two good-looking girls named
Beecher and Farrant were charged with annoying gen-
tleman in Leicester-square.
The constable proved that on the previous evening he
saw the two females, along with three others, Stop
gentleman in Leicester-square. The females were very
troublesome to the by-passers in the square from the
number of them, there being about 30 girls of about the
same age ai the prison,rs frequenting the square nightly.
Bendsll, one of the o
months ago the girls were nothing but rags, and when
brought to the court on a former occasion, Beecher had
officers of the court, said that a few
a broom, but they bad a•lw abandoned that line of life
for their present one.
Mr. Bingham said it was very bard that they should
take to such a lite, but he would not let the passengers
in the streets be annoyed.
Beecher said she was 16, and Farraut said she was
only 15.
Beecher fined 103,, the other discharged.

A H
years ARDENILD THAMES,
a YOUNG HOGUE.—John Goebel', a boy
ears old, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
, and who stated that he was only nine
ged 11
with stealing slbs, of nails, value 54., the property of
Mr. Mark Totnkins the well-known contractor.
Mr. Tomkias baid he had premises in Green-bank and
Love-lane, St. George-in-the-East, and employed a
great many wheelwrights and smiths there. It some•
times happened that some of hie numerous carte and
waggons were left in Love-lane in the rear of his pre-
mises. It wag surprilirg with what ingenuity boys
took caps off the axle flees and iron from the carts
and waggons, Yesterday evening a man in his em-
ploy was shoeing a wheel,
and he left an iron vessel
containing 5:b,. of nails by
the side of the wheel while
he went into the workshop to take a bar of iron out
of the fire, and upon his return the nails were gone.
A police constable said be met the prisoner with the
nails in his Possession, and he said he got them in Love-
lane.

—The prisoner—Another bly named John Driscoll took
the nail., and gave them to me.
Mr. Yardley said the boy had told a lie about his age,
for his tnother said he s, as 11 years old, and not nine
as stated by the prisoner. Thieving and lying geste-
rallY went together. lie sentenced the prisaner to be
imprisoned
w
risohneipdpaezl kept to bard labour for five days, and
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Racing Fixtures for 1858.

Epsom ..... . ...........

Manchester 26
FE.
Winchester lB
Chelmsford 22
Newcastle-on-Tyne 22
Abingdon ................. 24
Catlisle
..................... 29
Shrewsbury ............... 29
IT.
Liverpool l4
Nottingham 20
Marlborough 23
Goodwood 27

ARcot 1
Hampton
Newton ........ .
Beverley Suromer l6
Bibury Club ........... —l6
Stockbridge l7

Hereford 1
Ipswich
Pontefract ............. 1
2
Newmarket July 6
Worcester Summer 8

AUG

Ripon... ............... 2
Belford
North Staffordshire 3
Brighton
4
Brighton Club
Lewes
Wolverhampton .....
Reading ll

SEPTE,

Derby
Cardiff .
Warwick
Doncaster 14
Leicester 22

Chester Autumn 5
Richmond 7
Wrexham 7
Newmarket S 0 ll

NOV E

Worcester Autumn ..... 2
Liverpool Autumn ...... 9

UST.
York lB
Radcliffe ...
23
Egharn .................... 24
Hereford 25
Stockton 26
I Lichfield 3O
Great Yarmouth