The Sun.
London, England, 1858-08-18 00:00:00

Charles Harvey
Charles Dowdell .
Matthew Field ....

SECOND HEAT.

William Ashdown
llcnry Fry
Richard Blakie

THIRD HEAT.

Fry
Dowdell

FOURTH 11E1T.

Ashdown
Harvey

1 I Fry
•.: Dowdell

GRAND HEAT.
Ashdown 1 I Harvey

All the heats were wcn easily.

DISTRESSING CAS'S UT BIG.A MY AT

EDINBURGH.

(From the Scotsman of Tuesday.)
YestcrOay evening the lion. Major Yelverton, of the
Royal Artillery, who was app•ehended and lodged in the
Calton Gaol on Thursday evening, charged with bigamy, was
liberated on bail. The amount of the security, we under.
stand, is £l,OOO. The circumstances of this painful case have
been for several months familiarly known in E linburgb
circles, and there is now no uze in abstaining from mention-
ing them, so far as they are supposed to be known. It
IS understood that a considerable number of months
ago, Major Yelverton (who is the second son of Lord
Avonmore, an Irish peer) went through the form of
marriage in Ireland with Miss Longworth, an Irish
lady of respectable family and some private fortune.
Miss Longworth had forineily resided or visited in Edin-
burgh, where she formed the acquaintanceship if some
of the highest in position among our citizens, and bad also
acted as lady nurse in the Crimea, at the period when
Major Yelverton was there on service. The marriage cere-
mony in Ireland was performed, it is understood, by a
Roman Catholic priest, and there are doubts, or more than
doubts, as to its legal efficacy, Major Yelverton being a Pro-
testant, although Miss Longworth had become a conver.t to
the Rornish Church. But subsequently the couple hve.d
in lodgings in Edinburgh, in the avowed character,. it is
alleged, of man and wife, which would constitute a_leelei
marriage according to Scotch law; and a good deal w.,11.11
depend upon the facts as to this point, as to both the civil
and the criminal cases which may be said to have already
arisen. They also travelled on the Continent with a pass-
port in which they were designated as Mr. and Mnr.ss. Yel-
verton. In June last, Major Yelverton, leaving I son.
posed wife in Paris, came to Edinburgh!, and on the 2Gtli
of that month was married in the Episcopal Chapel,
Trinity, by Dean Ramsay, to the willow of our late la-
mented townsman Professor Edward Forbes, a daughter of
the late General Sir Charles Ashworth. This marriage was
not at first announced in the. new pa
spers in the usual way,
but received a wide and suoultaners publication about
three weeks afterwards. The tants, it understood, are that
the supposed first wife having got a hint of Major Yelver-
ton's intentions, followed him closely from Paris, arriving
either immediately after the second marriage, or, it is said,
even before it, though unable to prevent its solemnisation,
or perhaps to ascertain when and where it was to be per-
formed. Of course she and her relatives immediatelY
took
such steps as have !row led to the arrest of Major Yelverton
on the charge of bigamy, and es will lead doubtless to the
raising of at least one action regarding civil rights. These,
we believe, are the main facts of the case, so far as they
have transpired, although we cannot be sure of their entire
accuracy. The affair has, as might be expected, created
much interest, and though all the facts aTthneotlasesyitcertainly
known, much sympathy is felt for both o t

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ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
for the diploma, were admitted members 01 the College, at
a meeting of the Court of Examines on the 16th hest.,
viz. :—Messrs. Alexander Edward Bat tlet, Ipswich; John
Frederick Rogers, Ne.v Grove-house, Bow-road ; Daniel
O'Nial, Killaloe ; John Lee, jun., Ashhourne, Derbyshire ;
John Frederick Mackreth, Keyingham, Yorkshire. The
following members of the College, having undergone the
necessary examination, were admitted licentiates in mid-
wifery, at a meeting of the Board on the 14th inst.. namely:
—Messrs. Charles Senior, Bradford, Yorkshire ; William
Benjamin Winktield, Bedford ; Joseph Edmund Kooystra
Nadia, Tipperary ; Henry Stone Lambert, Croydon ;
Thomas Cayzer, Erith, Kent; Hubert Beadles, Broadway,
Worcestershire; Charles George Leonard, Old Kent-road;
Robert Hicks, Lewisham; Edward Barfoot, Islington;
William Henry Williams, Plaistow; Thomas Webster,
Kensington; Thomas Didymus Parktr, Sevenoaks_;
Robert Storey, Ashby-le-la-Zona) ; George Freide,riick.
Harlot La Fargue, Bosworth Husband ; Edmund I e, n
botbom, Wincliehert ; and Alfred Woodward, Eicester.