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

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1858.

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DIVORCE COURT.

(Before Lard C3mob-11, Lori Chief-Baron Pollock, ar.r!
Sir E. CreF.,sw,T, Ju lge Orrlinsry.)

TOURLE Y. TOURLE AND RENSECAW.-SPECIAL JURY CABE
SECOND DAY.

This was a petition for divorce for adultery tried by a
special jury, and in consequence of the parties being
well known in the city and the metropolis great interest
was felt in the proceedings and the court was densel)
crowded.

Mr. Slade, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, and Mr. Keydon,
appeared for the petitioner ; Dr. Phillimore, Dr. Sparks,
and Mr. Charles Pollock, appeared for the wife ; and
Mr. Sergeant Ballantine, and Dr. Deane, appeared for
the co-respndent.

This was a suit instituted for a divorce by the hus-
band against the wife on the ground of adultery com-
mitted by the wife between let Sept., 1856, and the 19th
February, 1858, with Mr. Richard Ran-baw, an officer
in the 2d Dragoon Guards. The wife pleaded, Ist, not
guilty ; 11, that as to any adultery since the 4th Sept.,
1857, the petitioner had deserted her without reason-
able cause; 3(.1, that the petitioner had condoned the
adultery.

Lord Campbell, in summing up, said that there was
ample and undoubted proof of continuous adultery on
the part of the wife with Mr. Renshaw.
The jury, without hesitation, returned a verdict for
the petitioner on all the issues.
The :Court then decreed a judicial dissolution of tne
marriage, with costs as auain,t Mr. Renshaw.

PREFERENCE SHARES.

POLICE INTELLTGEINCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGII-STREET.

ROBBERY BY A WORKMAN.—Thomas Flanagan, of
2, Chapel-grove, Chapel-street, Somers-t )wo, labourer,
was charged with stealing a quantity of lead from the
Jews' School, Greek-street, Soho, the property of Ezra
Brunning.
George Collings, of 8, Smith-street, Somers-town,
plasterer, said that from information he had received
that morning be called the prisoner back as he was
leaving the premises, and told him he wasted to speak
to him about his time. When he came back, noticing
something bulky under his coat, he asked him what he
had got; in answer to which, he said he might have ail
he got if he would let him go. He then opened his coat,
and in it be (witness) found 25!be. of lead. He was
then given into custody. The lead was about 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 gocd
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 a
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
the square nightly.
B nadgael la, Otnhee ofpr itshoeneOrffis frequentingcers the
months ago the girls were nothing but rags, and when
brought to the court on a former occasion' Beecher bad
a broom, but they had now abandoned that line of life
for their present one.
Mr. Bingham said it was very hard that they should
take to such a life, 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 10e., the other discharged.

A HARDENED YOUNG ROGUE.—John Gonell, a boy
aged 11 years, and who stated that be was only nine
years old, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged
with stealing slbs. of nails, value 5.1., the property of
Mr. Mark Tomkins, the will-known contractor.
Mr. Tomkine said he had premises in Green-bank and
Lose-lane, St. George-in-the-East, and employed a
great many wheelwrights and smiths there. It some•
times happened that souse of his numerous carts and
wagons were left in Love-lane in the rear of his pre
mites. It was surprising with what ingenuity boys
took caps off the axletrees ar.d iron from the carts
and waggons. Yesterday evening a maa in his em-
ploy was shoeing a wheet, and he left an iron vessel
containing 5:13,. 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 he met the prisoner with the
nails in his possessim, and he said he got them in Love-
lane.

The prisoner—Another bly named John Driscoll took
the nails and gave theca to me.
_ _

Mr. Yardl4 said the boy had told a lie about his age,
for his mother said he .ai 11 years old, and not nine
as stated by the prisoner. Thieving and lying gene-
rally went together. He sentenced the prisaner to be
imprisoned and kept to bard labour for five days, and
to be whipped.

MARKET NEWS.—(rini; Day.

however do not much trouble me, if even they carry on
their gambols close to me. Rats run between the rafters
over the ceiling like so many cart•horses, and, by the
time I beat a retreat, may be heard pattering briskly on
keys of the pivioforta. Last Week two of them
jumped nut ef i!, and on some of the notes of this uti•
f.,rtu,a'e ru-n..ut Ac.miog rntheli more out of temper
than usual, we investigated tile matter, and Apple-hfos-
som fled precipitately from a huge old rat, who bounced
out in her face, leaving a comfortable nest lined with
bones and other delicAcies behind him, which no doubt
he bad been preparing for a very happy family. The
numerous wild-cats sit upon the housetop, and bowl,
fseerrienagm,wt
aiuhd qeuitahrerrel,rabtustodro
mnoictes,eeamitetro
tthheinkfaosbfjoinateorf-
respectable Western fel.nes ; they only unite with all
the other creatures in making night terrible. It is quite
tragi-comic to see us all meet in the morning, worn,
feverish, and dispirited. At first we lamented and
bemoaned with each other loudly, but have now become
less lachrymose on the Reject, merely bestowing a
glance of pity on the ht.t languid arrival at the break-
fast-jab's, or an inquiry as to the particular species of
enemy from which the patient may have suffered most.
" Fleas No, worse.'—' Dreadful t. Another cup
of tea I What is to be done r---` Dogs ?' (to my cousin
' Henry, who is really ill). 'No, mice ; and a rat, who
would sit on my bed dressing his whiskers.'—' Was that
you, walking the garden like a ghost in a white sheet ?'
Were you sitting on the doorsteps at sunrise this
morning ?" The mosquito season is coming on soon,'
—with a deep sigh ; we seem about as unequal to it as
they say France is to a continuance of the war.' How•
ever, we base hopes of getting rid of our worst enemies,
the fleas ; for while I am away, Edmund goes on a visit,
and Vassiii promises to have all the matting taken up
and every room well washed. Tee matting is very old,
and it is no longer of any use merely to wash its surface ;
no doubt the habitation of the multitude is underneath.
I have often been puzzled at the contradictory accounts
of travellers on this subject; many speak of torments
they have endured. and yet all agree about the perfect
cleaniiness of Turkish houses. The explanation is, that
in Turkey no really good houses are ever let furnished,
or are ace ,seible to strangers. There are no Turkish
hotels, no refuge for travellers but the caravanserais
of the 'Arabian Nights' and the peasant's hut."

The descriptions of her visit to the harem, of her
conversations with Turkish ladies, and all the lit-
tle incidents that serve to enliven an extendei resi-
dence in a foreign country are full of entertainment;
and the reader, who wishes for a light and unpre-
tending picture of Constantinople and its environs
at that busy and exciting period, without seeking
much solid information, or deep research, will find
this work a pleasant and intelligent companion.

A Lady's Diary of the siege of Lucknow. John

Murray.
This affecting memorial of all the sufferings en-
dured by the affecting
defenders of Lucknow was
written for the perusal of friends at home. The writer
arrived at Lucknow with her husband, achaplain, in
March, 1857, only a few weeks before the outbreak.
Throughout all that terrible time she and her hus-
band devoted themselves to the amelioration of the
sufferings around them, and by their cheerful and
ready elf-devotiou to animate them with their own
earnest faith and Christian kindness. The intro-
ductory letter is written on the day on which the
news of the insurrection and murders in Delhi have
reached them, and expresses their consternation
and alarm. Fearful rumours go on, which add to
their terror, though they cannot aseettain their
truth. " Almost every hour we hear rumeurs of
flesh horrors, God only knows what the end will
b-, or if the lives of any English in the country
will be spared. All this discontent and mutinous
spirit among the Sepoys has been ving on sonic
time, but Government has shut its eyes to, and
laughed at ir, till now it may be too late." What
a blter reproof to those iu authority these few
words convey. "It is very awful," she write.;
again, "to feel this terrible clanger hanging over us;
it may come at any moment. It would be impos-
sible to describe the state of apprehension we are
in, and thegloom that hangs over us."
"Lucknow, June 30, 1857, Tuesday.
" A most disa-trous day. Early this morning we
were aTnke by the sound of guns passing the h use,
and found that a small force of 300, with seven guns,
were going out to meet the advanced guard of tie
enemy, which was rep(,r`ed to be at a place called
Nawab Gunge, in hopes, by driving them back, of pre-
venting the rest from corning on. When they reached the
village of Chintnt, about five miles from Luckn,:w, in-
stead of a small force they found the whole rebel army,
amounting to between 12,000 and 15,000. Our unfor-
tunate troops were taken at a disadvantage, Completely
surrounded, and obliged to fly back in terrible disorder,
leaving nearly 200 killed and wounded, and five of our
guns, one of them a howitzer, in the hands the
enemy. It was little less than miraculous that any of
them came back alive. Poor Colonel Case, Captain
Stevens, Mr Thompson, and Mr. Brackenbury, and
Captain M'Clean, of the 71st NJ., were killed. Sir
Henry Lawrence and Coloiiet Inglis returned ad
safe. At nine o'clock we were in a state of siege,
completely invested by the enemy, and tremendous
firing comrnenced. A very fierce attack was made
on ts.r.'io Bailey Guard Gate at the back of this house.
No sooner was the first gun fired than the ladies
and children were all hurried down stair, intoan under-
ground room, called the Tye Khans, damp, dark, and
gloomy as a vault, and excessively dirty. Here we sat
all day, feeling too miserable, anxious, and terrified to
speak, the gentlemen occasionally coming down to re-
assure us arid tell us bow things were going on. James
was nearly all the day in the hospital, where the scene
was terrible : the place co crowded with wounded and
dying men that they bad no room to pass between them,
and everything in a state of indescribable misery, die.-
comfort, and confusion. The Polehamptons have left
the Residency, and got a little room in the hospital to
live in. Mrs. Polehampton will make berself useful
there in nursing. I wish I could go too, but there is no
room for us, and Janies says it is too great risk for me
going backwards and forwards under fire each time, so I
must try to be f use here instead."
A few days later Sir Henry Lawrence is
shot, and dies after great suffering, and after a
lit le time a division of labour is made among the
ladies. The Mr. Ommauey alluded to was the
judicial commissioner, who came there to see Sir
Henry Lawrence, and was wounded on his way
home.

"July 5, Sunday.
"We had service, and all received comfort in the
Holy Communion downstairs in the Tye Khana. Work
was portioned out to each of us who are strong enough
to do any, by James this morning. My share is to act
housemaid, and keep the rooms we inhabit tidy and
clean : I am also to nurse Mr. Lawrence, and any sick
or wounded who may be brought to this h. use. We all
sleep, (that is seven ladies acrd seven children) on the
floor of the Tye Kbana, where we spread mattresses and
fit them into each other like bits in a puzze, so as best
to feel the pu,,kab. The gentlemen sleep upstairs iu
a 1 >ng verandah s.,rt of room on the side of the house
least exposed to fire. My bed consists of a purdah and
a pillow. In the morning we all roll up our bedding,
and pile them in heaps against the wall. We have only
room for very few chairs down there, which are assigned
to invalids, and most of us take our meals seated on the
floor, and our plates on our knees. We are always
obliged to light a candle for brealif tst and dinner, as the
room is perfectly dark. Our usual fare c nsists of stew,
as being easiest to cook ; it is brought up in a large
deckger, so as not to dirty a dish, and a portion ladled
out to each person. Of course we can get no bread or
butter, so ebupatties are the disagreeable substitute. We
have large stores of beer, wine, tea, arrowroot, sugar,
ac., which will last a long time. Our rations cf meat,
rice, wheat, dhol, &cr., we draw from the commissariat.
We are ail kept close prisoners in the dismal Tye Kiruna,
only D. and I go upstairs at all during the
day—she to see her husband, and I to look after Mr.
Lawrence. For about half an hour in the evening we
are permitted to sit in the portico and breathe a little
fresh air. After sunset the firing generally slackens
considerably for a time, and it is supposed the tepoys
are engaged just then in cooking their dinner. Mr.
Oaimaney died this evening : what a dreadful blow it
must be to his poor wife and daughters I"
Further on, the entries become briefer and sadder.
Death and sickness are bu.y all around, and hope
is growing dim. Sometimes a single line tells us
of many troubles, such as—
" July 14.—Very heavy firing all day : ten
Europeans wounded: five buried this evening."
The other chaplain, Mr. Polehampton, died of
cholera, and double work fell upon the survivor,
who ran many risks. The intense heat added to
their troubles:—
"Since Smith was wounded I have undertaken, in
addition to my other work, to wash up the cups and
saucers for the early tea ; and I find every hour of the
day fully oneupied. It is a great comfort to have so
much to do, and to feel oneself of some little use, and
helps one to keep up one's spirits much better Vian would
otherwise be possible under the circumstances. Dear
James is very hard worked, and does not spare himself
the least, so we don't see muuh of each other.,
41.ti,ust 4.
' morning One oft h. e
Igvuhnenne rI came
s wa
thisthe poor fellow lying there in a pOOl f u'u
"August 5.
shot
upstairs deado , the
drags, r. ss ,
verandah in
sa
‘: A
whilesoldiersitting
ofthoeu a
E2cdomwrasadeevbicnd.frpital this morn-
-0

" August 6.
" Mr, Studdy, a 321 officer, had his arm shot off by
an 18-pounder."

"August 7.
Un et returned last night with another letter.
Generalg Havelock's force was obbged to return to
ore to oppose the rebels, who were galhering
in their rear, and will not be able to come to the
relief of Lucknow till they get more reinforcements.
Dear James is very poorly t -day, and indeed we
tall
none of us feeling well. Hard work and wan: of freshair, together with hope deferred, are beginnivgto
upon moat people."

The mortality among the children elf) describes as
very great. Oue by o ,e the poor little one- dropped
(11; and alino6t every page tells of one drooping or
dead. At length relief came :--

"September 2G, Saturday-.
" Yesterday evening on the eigh.3--Azhth day of the
siege, our long-looked for and so often delpaired-d
relief ' arrived. Never shall I fo,g-3 the moment to
the latest day Dive. It wai mo-t u,trpoweting. We
Lad no arty were so near, and vg, re breathing
Fir in the portico as usual at that hour, specu-