The Sun.
London, England, 1867-07-13 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. W. Wilde and a Common Jury.)
HATTEN v. HATTEN.

This was a suit instituted to obtain a judicial separation
by the wifo on the ground of cruelty, &c. The cruelty
was denied, and provocation alleged.
Mr. M. Chambers and Dr. Swabey appeared for the pe-
titioner, and Dr. Spinks, Q C., and Mr. George Browne for
the respondent.

It al peared that the parties were married at Deal in
February, 1865, the petitioner being a widow with ono Ku
aged six years. She had : been the wife of a
surgeon in the navy, and had £7O a yerr income, which
ceased when she married. The respondent had been in
business but had retired to Deal, where he lived with three
daughters, who kept his house. With the consent of the
petitioner the eldest daughter continued to manage the
house. About a month after their marriage her husband
b"gan to treat her badly, and she w. s so astonished
at the change that she asked Doctor Roberts
to come and see her, and ho did so. Soon after
he was gone ho began to illtreat the child, In April
ono morning, he swore at her, because she would not get
up early enough for him. Ile used to swear at the child,
and threatened to do for it. Oa one occasion he said he
Would throw it out of window. She was so frightened
that she sent a note to her sister at Sandown, but the
respondent stopped the servant and took it from her,
and came with it to petitioner and told her so. They
went to London in July. During that visit at dinner one
day he took the child up and said that " he would do for it
at last." He took the child by the arm and held it up, and
:the child cried and she took it from him, and slapped
him several times on the face. When they got
back to their home, on one occasion when she
:want down to draw tho beer in the cellar, peti-
tioner heard one of the daughters say that she was
a pauper, and living on tl- eir mamma's money. She told
that to the respondent, and he replied it was quite true
what she said. It appeared that the petitioner had been
subjected to other acts of violence in the July and August
of that year, and at last she left the house and put the
matter in the hands of her solicitor. She took proceedings
against her husband before the magistrates, and he was
bound over to keep the peace. She had not seen her hus-
band till yesterday since.
The case was proceeding when we went to press.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBORUGH-STREET.

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT ON A LIEUTENANT-COLONEL.—
Thomas Woolford, a law-writer, was charged before Mr.
Tyrwhitt with the following unprovok2d assault on Lieu-
tenant-Colonel Henry Atkins Bowyer, of the Junior United
Service Club:—

Colonel Bowyer stated that on his return from Guildhall
yesterday evening, and while proceeding up St. Alban's-
place,,lowards his lodgings, he observed the prisoner mak-
ing signs. to another man. As soon as the prisoner observed
him he' assumed to be very drunk, although there had been
nothing before about his appearance indicating that he was
so ; and as he was entering his lodgings the prisoner, with-
out saying a word to him, gave him a violent blow on the
mouth, the result of the blow being that he had been
unable to eat or sleep. The- prisoner then put himself in
a position as if to strike him again, but his servant seized
him, and he was taken to the station by a constable.
John Mills, servant to the complainant, said he was in
the passage of the house, and on 'the door being opened
by the colonel the prisoner struck him in the mouth, and
he held the prisoner, who was afterwards handed over to
a constable.

Reuben Blazier, ns C, proved taking the prisoner into
custody, and stated that ho could not positively say
whether the prisoner was drunk or not.
The prisoner said he had nothing to ask the witnesses.

Mr. Tyrwhitt said such assaults were becoming very
common, and would be dealt with strongly. The prisoner
would be committed for two months, with hard labour.

THAMES.

A WOMAN BEATEL—John Furneaux, a respectable look-
ing mechanic, was charged with violently assaulting Mar-
garet Custine, of James-place, Ratcliff. The complainant
said she was an " unfortunate," and that she met the pri-
soner late on Friday night in Pigott-street, Limehouse.
He asked her where she was going, to which she made no
reply, and he then began to pull her about, and act very
improperly towards her. She said the street was not the
place for him to behave in that manner, on which he
knocked her down. He then left her and returned again
and struck her, knocked her down a second time, and
kicked her on the forehead.

Emma Wood, who was with the last witness, gave similar
evidence in confirmation, and said
,the prisoner treated her
and her friend with some rum.

Thomas Cleli, police constable, No. 355 K, heard cries
of police, and took the prisoner into custody. He said the
woman Custine had annoyed him, and he hit her.
' The prisoner said he took a little more than ho ought to
have done last night, and the woman annoyed him, and
wanted him to go home with her. Some fellows pushed
him and robbed him of £2 102.

The policeman was recalled, and said the prisoner did
complain he had lost money ; he did not know haw much.

Mr. Paget said if a man was annoyed by a woman in the
street he had no right to strike her, but he should call the
police and give her into custody. He sentenced tho pri-
soner to one month's imprisonment and hard labour.

The National Rifle Association.

WIMBLEDON, Friday Evening.

To-day the shooting for the Association Cup
continued, but no score was made to surpass that
made yesterday by Private Marsh, whose 37 was
better than the same number made on the first day
by Mr. Ross, of the London Scottish.
In the shooting for the first stage Queen's Prize,
Captain Wright, of the 30th Cheshire, secured the
high score of 52, and was looked upon as safe to
win the first place in the preliminary competition ;
but it was not long afterwards that Corporal Lake,
of the Ist Stafford, made up the same score. The
next score to this was 50, made by Private Ryrie,
of the 10th Cumberland ; and late in the evening,
just before the close of the firing, Lieut. Evans, Ist
Notts (Robin Hoods), made up a score of 50 also,
This stage of the Queen's Prize closed a few minutes
before gunfire, the winner being Capt. Wright, of
the 30th Cheshire, who wins £6O and the silver
medal. Private James, of the 22d Middlesex,who won
this prize last year with 48 points, made 40 to-day.
The shooting for this prize has been excellent, taken
all together, and the scores of the first 30 and first
60 show an average better than those of former
years.

The highest scores made for the Albert Prize to-
day at 200 yards were made by Captain Heaton,
adjutant of the 3d Manchester, and Private Martin,
of the same corps, who each made five bull's-eyes,
scoring 20, the highest possible number. Captain
lleaton also put in five bull's-eyes at 600 yards for
the extra prizes, 3d series.

For the Martin's Cup, Ensign
•Gow, of the
Queen's (Edinburgh), made a score of 18 at 600
yards range, with an Enfield rifle, firing in the
llythe position.

The Carbine Priz2s were also shot for to-day by
the effective artillery volunteers. The score will be
found below.

The first stage of the Alexan'dra Prize at 200
yards was decided to-day, there being no fewer
than five of the competitors who scored 18, but on
counting backwards it was found that Private J.
E. Roberts, of the Bristol Rifles, had closed his
score with two bull's-eyes, and he was adjudged
the winner. The remaining scores were also highly
creditable.

LIVERPOOL COTTON ARICET—This Day.

The market opens quiet, but unchanged, Sales
probably 10,000 bales.

WASHING TIi3IPIA BAIL—The tat4,oof old Temple
Bar was subjected to a thorough washing at two o'clock
yesterday morning, the operation being performed by the
aid of a couple of steam fire-engines. The venerable
structure is tc be decorated with evergreens, in
honour Of our visitors.
:DESTRUCTIVE THUNDERSTORM—Loss OF LIFE.
—A severe thunderstorm, accompanied by heaty Mils of
rain, broke over Darlington, Oldicaro, and tire neighbour-
hood on Wednesday afternoon. • At Shaw Hall a building
was struck by lightning and severely damaged, and near
the some place a cow and a horse were killed. Two girls,
named Shirgley and Walker, wore struck by the eleetric
fluid on the road from Sholver. The former died in a short
time, and the latter is suffering severely from her iniuries;
Several buildings in Oldham itself were more or loss
jured by the lightning, and the flood of I.llthr rushing into
the underground storerooms did damage to. the extent of
£l,OOO. At the western end of the town hardly any rain
fell.

THE CHEPSTOW OLD BANK.---.A. second dividend
of ls. 6d. in the pound is announced by the trustees of
Snead and Co., Chepstow Old Bank. The suspension
took place in Juno, 1866, and the liabilities amounted to
£56,000, and it was estimated at the time that the
estate would realize 10s. in the pound. A dividend of
Bs. was paid some months since, and with the ls. Gd, now
announced makes a total of 9s. 61 The assets aru not
yet all realized, and it is understood that there ill be
another small dividend. The trustees are Meelt_ FE,
Cure, and iliggiu§. . • • •