The Sun.
London, England, 1867-11-27 00:00:00

THE ABYSSINIAN EXPEDITION.

The resolution agreed to last night with respect to the
granting supply for the expenses of the Abyssinian expe-
dition was brought up and received.
COMMUTATION OF CHURCH RATES.

Mr. NEWDEGATE brought in a bill for the commuta-
tion of Church Rates, which was read a first time.
RATING OF MINES.

Mr. P. 'WYNDHAM brought in a bill for the assessment
of mines, which was also read a first time.;
WAYS AND MEANS.

Mr. HUNT, on the part of the Chancellor of the Ex-
chequer, stated that to-morrow in. the Committee of Ways
and Means his right hon. friend would make a financial
statement, and move certain resolutions.
The house then adjourned.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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COURT OF EXCHEQUER.

(Before Mr. Baron Pigott and a Special Jury.)
BARNETT V. ROBERTS—ASSAULTING A TENANT.
This morning the further hearing of this Singular
case was resumed.

Mr. Sergeant Ballantine and Mr. Joyce appeared
for the plaintiff, and Mr. Digby Seymour, Q.C., and
another learned gentleman, for the defendant. .
The defence, which commenced last night, was
that the conduct of the plaintiff himself induced the
assault, and that his injuries were comparatively
slight, but were aggravated by disease, from
which he was then suffering.
The medical evidence for the defence, which was
purely technical, occupied the whole morning.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Right Hon: Sir J. P. Wilde.)

THEATRICAL DIVORCE CASE.--ROWLINSON V. ROW-

LINSON.

This suit, which was instituted by the wife to
obtain a dissolution of marriage on the ground of
cruelty and adultery, and which was partly heard on
Saturday, was resumed this morning.
Dr. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. Searle appeared for
the petitioner, and the respondent appeared in
person.

The respondent, whose only witness was examined
on Saturday, entered into a long and rambling
statement, in which he denied all the allegations
made against him, and declared that all the disputes
alleged arose from the fact that he had discovered
after his marriage that his wife had had a child by
Captain Hunt, and also that he believed she still
kept up a communication with him.

Mr. Spinks having replied,
The learned Judge Ordinary said that the con-
duct of respondent in this case, as described by the
petitioner, was so bad as to create a great deal of
sympathy in the minds of feeling people ; he had
given to him the greatest possible scope,
and had permitted irregularities -which would
not otherwise have been admitted. He had
even gone so far as to allow this morning
the respondent to make his statement on oath.
However, after giving
to the case every considera-
tion, he could come to no other determination but
that the respondent had behaved very cruelly to
his wife, that as shown by his own letters he had
endeavoured to obtain her earnings, and that the
question of adultery was fully proved. Under
these circumstances he should grant a decree nisi
with costs.

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
IN RE FURNESS.

In this case the bankrtipt was the well-known
contractor, whose failure his caused so much excite-
ment amongst the members of the Metropolitan
Board of Works. A private meeting, held in a
back room in this court some time since, has led to
the appointment of a committee of inquiry at the
Metropolitan Board of Works as to the truth of
certain statements alleged to have been made by the
bankrupt. To-day another private meeting was
held, but, of course, the object did not transpire.

The under-named War Department store vessels
have returned to Woolwich laden with condemned
stores from various home stations, and are re-load-
ing as follows :—The Alma, from Cork, with am-
munition, to be replaced by the new Snider pattern ;
the Earl de Grey and Ripon steamer, loading for
Portsmouth ; the Marlborough, for Chatham ; the
Sir George Murray, for Aldershot ; the Raglan, for
Scotland ; the Inkerman, for Edinburgh ; and the
Sebastopol, for Tynemouth. The Lord Panmure,
having undergone the necessary repairs, was yes-
terday undocked and will re-load for the west.
There are also guns, carriages, platforms, slinging
guns ; Francis's corrugated floating iron baggage
waggons, and minor stores in abundance for the
Tregantle Fort, Devonport ; the •Western heights at
Dover ; Hurst Castle, &c. The armament intended
to man the new fort at Shotley Point, inside the
harbour of Harwich, is also ready at Woolwich,
for shipment, and consists of 14 7-ton guns with
their equipment complete.

THE BUTCHERS AND THE FOREIGN CATTLE TRADE.
—Last evening a public meeting of butchers and salesmen
was held at the Freemasons' Tavern, " to determine what
steps shall be taken to prevent the arbitrary and unjust
restrictions that will be inflicted on the trade by the adop-
tion of the proposal to compel all foreign cattle imported
into London to be slaughtered in abattoirs adjoining the
market." Itesolutions condemnatory of the proposal were
carried.