The Sun.
London, England, 1858-05-18 00:00:00

CAUTION TO LADIES INTENDING TO

MARRY FRENCHMEN.

Another marriage case was yesterday submitted to the
Civil Tribunal. A young man named Ruttinger,
• having led a very dissipated life at Paris, was sent by his
father in 1855 to Lima, in Peru, and there he fell in
love with a young woman, whose maiden name was
Mendoza, and who was widow of General Guido,
who at one time was Minister of War of Peru. He
proposed marriage to her, but as he had no
other position than that of assistant to his brother, a
trader of Lima, she did not think fit to accept him. He
however, pressed his suit, and she at length married
him. Her first husband's family were greatly displeased
at the marriage, and stopped an allowance of 250 f. a month
which they had made her. In two months Ruttinger
cruelly abandoned her, though she was encainte at the
time. He told her that he was going to North America to
seek his fortune, but she afterwards learned that be had
come to Paris, and in Feb., 1857, she followed him there.
He went to live with her in an apartment in the Rue
Coquenard, but in a week he azain abandoned her, gave
notice to leave the apartment, sold off the furniture, and
wrote a most insolent letter to the concierge of the house,
directing him not to supply her with anything, and to
tell her that "he (Ruttinger) was tired of her, and that
the best thing she could do was to take a lover, if she
could find one." She fell into such distress that some cha-
ritable Peruvians here had to raisea subscription to enable.
her to return to her own country. Yesterday Ruttin-
ger's father and mother applied to the Civil Tribunal to
declare the marriage null and void, on the ground that
they bad not given their consent, and that he being only
twenty•three years old, and therefore, as regards mar-
riage, a minor, such consent was, by Article 182 of
the Code .Napoleon, indispensably necessary. They
also urged that it ought to be declared void because it
had not been published and duly registered in France.
In the course of the pleadings on their behalf, it was
stated that the marriage had been a most deplorable
one for the young man. The counsel of Mine. Guido
insisted that the 'marriage was good, inasmuch as the
father and mother of the young man bad known of it at
the time it was accomplished, or at all events had ns,t
protested against it within a year after it came to their
knowledge, as the Code Napoleon required them to do.
The first of these assertions was, however, contradicted
by the plaintiffs ; and as to the second, they showed that
it was in October last that they had been informed of
the marriage, and that in January they had com-
menced proceedings for having it declared null. The
tribunal decided that the want of the parents' con-
sent made the marriage void, but, considering that
in contracting it Mine. Guido had been ignorant of
the French law, it laid down that she should enjoy the
civil advantages to which it entitled her. As to the two
other points raised by the parents, the tribunal said that
the first one being sufficient, it was not necessary to pro-
nounce en them.

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