The Sun.
London, England, 1858-11-26 00:00:00

-1-shall-k.eep-ie-She rang-the-bell; and -the-gel...fag
came. She stood at the window gesticulating and
vociferating. Tobin said, " Oh, Ma'am, how you are
exposing yourself!" and tried to pull down the
blind. She dared the servant to do it. I took her by
the hand and placed her in a chair close to her
without violence. We dined together, and I went
out on business. Contrary to my usual custom I
went, away without kissing my wife and children.
When I returned I found she was gone. I heard
from her twice, and wrote three times. She said in
her letter that she left me because I showed more
affection for the children than for her, and I wanted
to get possession of her money and her houses. I
wrote to her entreating her to return.
This letter was read and enclosed in it was the
following advertisement which Mr. Marchmont said
he had taken to the Times office, hoping that it
would be inserted on the following day when he
found that she had left her home :
u Rose dearest, with a broken heart your drooping flower
entreate you to return. Come back, I beseech you, without
one hour's delay. I shall not breathe your flight to a living
being until I hear from you. Oh Rose, you are more fondly
loved than heart can tell by T—p. Forgive. Do not
act rashly. We can be happy."
Examination continued—On the 26th February-,
on our way home, there had heen a reference made
to her will. She said she should leave her property
td thoSe with whom she had been staying. I said
she was at liberty to leave it to whom she pleased.
On the morning of the 26th. Marcii i adverted to
that conversation, and said that I could net but
think her will an unjust one. " I have," I added,
given up much to marry you ; at least £7OO a-year,
viz., £3OO from the chapel and at least £4OO from
my pen also. In the event of your death Mr.
Walmisley will have £30,000, and I shall only get
£lO,OOO, which will leave me in comparative po-
verty. My proposition is this—Destroy the exist-
ing will, and make no other for six months. If you
die.without a will I don't take one penny. At the
end of six months, when you have had an oppor-
tunity of making a fair judgment, make what
you think a just will." She said, " I will not de-
stroy the existing will, but I will make another
at the end of six months." On the 27th of
March I went to Mrs. Mackenzie's. I found out
where she was by following the messenger who
took my letter from the post-office. I did not say.
when I went in, " Money I want and money I'll
have.". When she saw me she ran up and down.
the room wringing her hands. I sat down and did
not move for an hour. Then she allowed me to
approach her, and I soothed her. I went into the
city to transact some business, and then returned
to Mrs. Mackenzie's and drove home with her. We
were on amicable terms. On the 29th we went to
my father's. We made some purchases at a sale,
and when I went to settle with the auctioneer she
told me she would reimburse me. There were two
or three unpleasant scenes at Shandley. I went
away for a short time one day, and found when I
came back that she was ixtoxicated. She said the
children were the plague of her life, and she would
send them to school. On the 6th April she left the
house before I got downstairs in the morning.
I had spoken about her will. I said, " I think
•you have made a mistake as to the disposition of
your property. You have left more than you
suppose to the residuary legatees. You have
given £30,000 to Mr. Walmisley." She said,
." It is a lia!" •Isaidf "That only, makes matters
worse. The residuary legatees will have at least
£B,OOO or £9,000." She said, " What business
have you to say anything about it ? You are only
fishing to find out what it contains. I dare say
you would like to know I had left you a large
amount, and then you would murder me." She
afterwards asked me to come down to breakfast,
but I said, " You have taken away all my appetite.
You treat me more like a dog than a husband."
She again went on that day to Mrs. Mackenzie and
took lodgings in • Quebec-street. I found her out.
She said when I went for her, " There is no hiding
from 'the devil." I said, " I have come to take you
home, and I will not wait." I did not use any foul
language to her when in the cab, nor did I ask for
£25,000. She said, "If you had waited a day
longer you' would have had a letter from a lawyer
proposing a separation." I said, " Separation again !
I hope this time it will be on more equitable
terms." She said, " I don't think we shall differ
about the terms." " Nor I," I replied, " your
temper has become intolerable ; but as it has be-
come a mere question of money, .and you have
£50,000, I think lam entitled to £20,000. You
promised to build me a church at a cost of £6,000.
I should probably have derived £6OO a-year from
that source. By your conduct you have rendered it
impossible that I can enter the pulpit again, and
Tou have. thus cut off one important source of my-
income, and I think £20,000 will be a fair compen-
sation." She said, "Do you think I am fool enough
to give you £20,000 to enable you to live with some
other woman ?" The next day we again discussed
the question of separation. I said, "To-day it shall
be a question of free will on your part, and you
shall make the terms yourself." We were getting
on comfortably then, and I asked her if it was
necessary to keep Mrs. Mackenzie. She said she
did not want her, gave her a cheque for £5, and
sent her away. About the end of April the chil-
dren went to school. We Went to another sale at
Shandley, and my wife paid for what was bought
without solicitation. On the - 30th of April I
asked her to lend or give me £lOO, and she let me
have it. With that exception I never asked her
for a sum of money larger than 16s. On the sth
May Lewis brought me a letter which my wife re-
quired to see. I refused, as she had refused to let
me see a letter which she had received in the morn-

ing. She became angry, and said, " I know it is
from one of your w ." I afterwards gave her
the letter unopened. It was from a lady connected
with my congregation, asking me to allow her
to refer to me. I offered to let her answer it, and
I.wrote a short note, which she. dictated. On the
15th May I asked her to lend me 14s. for half an
hour. She said, " Pll see your neck stretched first.
Always Money ! You are a mean-spirited fellow,
or you would not have married me for my money."
She also said I was the greatest liar she ever knew,
and she would not believe me on my oath. I said,
" As you treat me in this insolent way I will exer-
cise my authority as a husband, and have it." She
then charged me with spending my money on other
women. The bell was rung. and the servants came
up. She was standing close to the window, and I
took her by the hands, placed her gently on the
sofa, and kissed her. She took outlier purse and
dashed it violently on the table. I ultimately gave
her back the money. On the same day we went
out in the carriage. While I was in the money-
order office she left the carriage. I looked for her
and found her .at the door of Stringer and Bird's,
in Newgate-StreCt. , I.followed her. As she backed
into the shop she said, " Now, don't be in a pas-
sion." -I. said, am not in a passion—get into
the carriage and go home." She said she would
never go home again. I argued with her, and after
staying there about three-quarters of an hour I
thought it necessary to explain our conduct to Mr.
Bird. She said, " You villain, you accuse me of
living with another man ." I said I had made no
insinuation against her, but only said, in the ordi-
nary sense of the words, that she had. been living
under another.person's protection. We ultimately
left •the shop together. She had previously
called in a policeman and charged me with an
assault, but he refused to take the charge. She
afterwards went to her sister's. One of the chil-

dren became ill, and I was anxious about it. I then
sent to her and she returned. On the 25th and the

26th we slept together. Her demeanour was cold
and indifferent, but no actual _ quarrel took place.
OA the -morning of the 27th she 'said she would
leave me again. I said, " Then give me the keys."
When I alluded to her conduct during the two pre-
vious nights she again imputed to me that I might
have had intercourse with other women. I said I
must learn, I supposed, to subdue my passions, and
remarked figuratively that I must draw a razor
acrose, my throat." She said, " Don't think of
doing that." I observed that if, as Hobbes thought,
there would be a great relief in letting out a few
ounces of blood, and if there was no hereafter, how
glad I. slunild be to do it. Tobin came up, and she
repeated the charge she had before made. I then
explained the cause of the quarrel. I offered to
tell her how all my money had been spent, and
showed her all my cancelled cheques. On the a
of June we drove to see the children at their school
at Blackheath. On the way she said she wished to
go'to her sister's. I offered her the carriage, but
she'said .she would rather walk, 'and we could call
for her. I said I could not go there. She said if
she came back at all, then, it should be by the train.
I said, "Now I see what you mean, and you shall
not go from me," and I assisted her into the car-
riage. She tried, to get out and screamed. We
then went to the school and saw the children. On
the 3d. June I went to Homerton. , Before going I
said, " I see you want to leave me. I am compelled
to go out, and I must leave it to your honour not
to go away during my absence." When I returned
she, asked me where l had been, and I gave her all
the particulars. She said she had been to Oxford-

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4th of June I asked her whether she had been to a
lawyer. She gave no answer. I repeated the ques-
tion, and she said she would N.dvould not tell me. After
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I was . very much excited, great
will drive me into an asylum, or into
.a grave.
Not that I mind death
to a niiSerable existence like this ? I declariesl would
rather exchange places with the poorest pauper
in
a workhouse than be thus insulted an d efied by