The Sun.
London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

THE sITNI LONDON, SATETROAV EVENING, JUNE 8, 1867.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

THE COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde.)
GOWER. V. GOWER.

This was a suit instituted by the husband to
obtain a dissolution of marriage on the ground of
his wife's adultery with his brother, Zachariah
Gower, who is since dead.
The Solicitor-General, Dr. Spinka, Q.C., and
Dr. Tristram appeared for the petitioner, and Dr.
Deane, Q.C., and Dr. Middleton, for the respondent.
From the opening remarks of the Solicitor-Gene-
ral it appeared that the petitioner is a farmer at Bad-
dingham, io Suffolk, and also has another farm at
Bungay. The respondent was a Miss Ley and was mar-
ried to the petitioner in January 1816. They resided
at Baddingham, and appeared to have livel happily
together until 1861, when a brother of the plaintiff
came to live with them. In consequence of the
business in which he was engaged petitioner was
obliged to be much away from home, and the brother
and wife wereleft much alone toget her. In May, 1863,
the petitioner, accompanied by his wife and brother,
left Baddingham to drive to the other farm at Bun-
gay,
and sat beside the coachman while the other
two were inside. On looking back he witnessed
the grossest indecency going on between them. As
soon as he arrived at Bungay he accused his wife
of it, saying that that could not have been the first
time it had occurred. He then made inquiries of
the servants, and found that they had slept toge-
ther, and been seen in the stables, &c.
Harriet Doyland said that her husband kept the
White Horse, under Mr. Gower, at Baddingham.
He left there about three years ago. She remem-
bered Mr. Zachariah Gower and Mrs. Gower'
coming to her husband's house in 1863, and they
went into a parlour and had a glass of brandy and
water. Witness went into the room, to get some
money, and she saw Mrs. Gower on the sofa, and
Mr. Gower pulled her clothes down.
Dr. Deane objected that the respondent had re-
ceived no notice of the adultery this witness was
called to prove.
The Judge-Ordinary said that under the circum-
stances he should rule this was not evidence.

The Witness (examination continued)—She gave
a message to Mrs. Gower from Zachariah to the
effect that she had been with him as much as with
her own husband. She replied that she could not
help that, that the job was done, and she hoped her
husband would forgive her.
Cross-examined --They got into trouble when they
were at the Black Horse, and lost the license. They
kept the Royal Oak at Ipswich. She had been
married for 30 years. Several other witnesses were
called to prove other acts of adultery.
(The case was proceeding when we went to press.)

POLICE INTELLIGEKCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUG 11-STREET.

OUTRAGEOUS ASSAULT IN A DINING ROOMS.—
John Lemon, described as a veterinary surgeon, of
no fixed address, was charged before Mr. Knox with
assaulting Frederick Darlesson, w.titer at dining
rooms No. 30, Coventry-street.
The complainant said that on the previous after-
noon the prisoner came into the rooms of his em-
ployer to dine, and after dining went to sleep. He
woke the prisoner several times, and the last time
he did so he struck him and knocked him down, and
also struck a young gentleman who was dining at
the rooms and came to his assistance. The prisoner
behaved in a very violent manner, and broke some
glasses on the table, and was the cause of a pane of
glass of the value of 12s. being broken. A con-
stable was sent for, and the prisoner was then given
into custody.

Two gentlemen proved seeing the prisoner strike
the waiter, and knock him down on his waking the
prisoner up and asking for payment.
Police-constable Smith, 45 C, said that on being
called to the rooms he found thR waiter holding the
prisoner down on the floor. The prisoner had been
drinking.

Mr. Knox asked the witnesses for the waiter
whether he had done anything to provoke the
prisoner, and they said he had not.
The prisoner said he had been travelling from
Dublin, and went to the place to dine, and, being
tired, fell asleep. The waiter came and woke him
up, and he shoved the waiter off, and then the
landlord and another person came up and struck
him, and he bled from the nose.

Mr. Knox asked the constable whether prisoner's
nose was bleeding, and the constable said it was.
The prisoner said he had been roughly treated.
Mr. Knox said it was outrageous conduct for a
man to go into an eating-house and act like the
prisoner had done. He would give him the option
of paying a fine of £5 or a month.

THAMES.
ALLEGED MURDER ON BOARD SHIP.—On Tues-
day last a poor man, named M'Guinness, and his
wife, dwelling at 54, Bell-street, Edgware-road,
came before Mr. Partridge, and complained that
their son, Allau Goodridge M'Guinness, ordinary
seamen on board the ship Marlborough, had been
brutally murdered on board that ship in the course
of her voyage to the East Indies and back, and that
four or five of the crew had stated that he was
badly used by the captain. Mr. Partridge ordered
an immediate inquiry to be made by Daniel Smith,
police constable 415 K, who now came before the
court with five sailors, and said the deceased was
sent aloft to grease the masts in consequence of
some neglect of duty, and while thus engaged he
had the misfortune to meet with a coup de soleil or
sun stroke, which affected his intellect, and
he died ten days afterwards. He was not
able to ascertain whether the captain had treated
the young man with any particular harhness before
he was attacked with sunstroke. After the sea-
man was taken ill he received medicine, and was
attended by the captain until he died. _ -

Mr. Partridge, after questioning the seamen, said
he did not see any grounds for his interference, and
he should leave the case in the hands of Inspector
Allison, an experienced officer of the K division,
who would make further inquiries, and interfere if
he thought there were any grounds for doing so.
JEALOUSY AND REVENGE.-Edward Clay, a
young man, was charged with violently assaulting
Miss Starkey. The parties had been very intimate,
and both had vowed eternal constancy to each other.
The prisoner had told her if he ever saw her with
any other man, or if she was unfaithful to him,
he would kill her. Last night he discovered the
faithless fair one walking with a young mau arm-
in-arm, and the young man was whispering soft
nonsense into the complainant's ear. The prisoner
accused his swcatheart with unfaithfulness and a
violation of her pledged vows, and committed a
brutal assault on her. He struck her about the
head and face, cut her mouth, and loosened three
or four of her teeth. Her mouth was bleeding,
when a police-constable, No. 251 K, came to her aid.
The prisoner said he had been very ill, and laid
up with fever. Ilis head was shaved, and he was
very ill. The complainant said that Clay was a
lazy, dissipated fellow, but his friends were very
respectable. . .

The magistrate said he must protect young women
from such brutal assaults as these, and sentenced
the prisoner to be imprisoned for two mouths, and
kept to hard labour.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE•

(By Electric Telegraph.)
GRATESEND, Saturday Morning.

Arrived, June 7.—Nelson, from Colombo.
Arrived, June B.—Da Capo, from Jamaica; Canaan,
from Manilla; Anna, from New York; Laurite, from St.
Brieux ; Vivid, from Guernsey ; Emma and Carl, from
Jamaica ; Prinds Gustav, from Gothenburg ; Tasso,
steamer, from Dautzic ; Belgium, steamer, from Ostend ;
Florence, steamer, and Moselle, steamer, from Antwerp;
Marie, steamer, from Stettin; Eider, steamer, from Gees-
temunde ; Bonbow, steamer, from Hamburg ; Safeguard,
from Dantsic ; Pembrokeshire Lass, from Saill.
S ailed. —Murillo,steamer, for Seville; Concordia, steamer,
for Boulogne; Maria Pia, steamer, for Lisbon.
DEAL, Saturday Morning.

Passed—H.M.S. Duncan, from the West Indies, for the
river; Garibaldi, of Arundel, Valiant of Arundel, Catha-
rine, of Carnarvon, and Savanna, of Shields, from the
north, for the west; Eden, from Sunderland, for Genoa;
Louisa, and Edith Moore, for Bombay ; Beaumaris Castle,
for Madras—all from London ; Wards, of Hartlepool, from
the north, for the west; Young Eagle, from London, for
Cardiff.