The Sun.
London, England, 1866-03-08 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1866.1

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

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COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.)
DOW V. DOW AND MACANN.

Dr. Deane, Q.C., Mr. Coleridge, Q.C., and Mr.
Inderwicke, appeared for the petitioner ; and Mr.
Murphy for the respondent.

The petitioner in this case was a merchant, and he
prayed for a dissolution of marriage on the ground
of his wife's adultery with the co-respondent, who
filed no answer. The respondent pleaded denial,
misconduct on the part of the petitioner, neglect
and want of proper provision for her. The parties,
who were both young, were married in May, 1851,
and shortly after the petitioner went to Shanghai,
where he was engaged in business, and left his wife
behind as she was far advanced in pregnancy.
About two years afterwards she joined him in
Shanghai, where they remained till 1856, when they
returned to England. There were five children
issue of the marriage, three of whom were living.
Mr. John M'Lean, father of the respondent,
proved the marriage, and said that at that time the
petitioner was about 24 and his daughter something
younger. Shortly after the marriage the petitioner
went to China, leaving his wife behind him, as she
was in the family-way. She followed him in about
a year afterwards, and they lived together at
Shanghai. His business called witness to Shanghai,
and he went to see the parties in 1853 and 1854.
He was there between three and four months,
and, up to that time, they appeared on
excellent terms. In 1857 they returned to
England. In 1860 they left for China, but the
respondent became so ill at Marseilles that she was
obliged to return to England. The petitioner made
the respondent a most liberal allowance, but he could
not state the amount. He had settled £6OO a year
on her on her marriage. She had regular remittances
from him. About seven months after her husband's
departure she took a house at Birkenhead, and
afterwards removed to Rhyl. He knew the respon-
dent, who was in business, and was connected with
a line of steamers running between Birkenhead and
Rhyl. Mr. Macann was living at a hotel at Liver-
pool in 1863, when an explosion took place on the
Mersey which rendered his hotel uninhabitable, and
he removed to the respondent's house. He remon-
strated with his daughter, who said that she was
old enough to take care of herself. In 1864 she re-
moved to Rhyl, and went to live in a house there,
in which Mr. Macann had an interest. Witness
and his wife lived in the house, and Mr. Macann
occupied apartments there. The respondent com-
plained that the house was too large, and he and
his wife took a small house, expecting that his
daughter would come and live with them, but she
remained in the house with Mr. Macann. She
afterwards removed to Melbourne Hall, Surbiton,
and he and his wife took a small house near her.
At that time Mr. Macann was in great difficulties,
and the furniture of his daughter was seized in
consequence. He remonstrated with his daughter,
who was very wroth with him, and he had a row
with Mr. Macann. That was about the fall of the
year 1864, and Mr. Dow was expected home in the
November of that year, and he understood from his
daughter that she was going to Paris or Lyons to
meet her husband. She left on the 22d November
ostensibly for that purpose, but he had never seen
her since. Mr. Dow returned, and was first in-
formed by him of his wife's flight. He iden-
tified the handwriting of the respondent in
a letter addressed to the petitioner, which
was written in a most affectionate style, although
at the time she was in the family-way by the co-
respondent.

Mr. Borraidaile said that his brother's wife was
the sister of the respondent. In January, 1865,, he
went at the request of Mr. Dow to Brussels, and
was accompanied to the Bellvue Hotel by a Mr.
Nasmyth, clerk to the consul at Brussels. He
found Mrs. Dow there, and in answer to him she
said she expected Mr. Macann in the evening. He
did not notice in what condition Mrs. Macann was
at the time. He identified a photograph as a like-
ness of Mr. Macann, and showed it to Mr. Arnold,
the proprietor of the hotel.

Mr. Nasmyth proved having served the parties
with a citation, and Mr. Arnold to their living
together as man and wife.

Mr. Murphy, at an early stage of the case, said
he was not prepared to cross-examine witness or
call any evidence on behalf of his client.
The jury found for the petitioner on all the issues,
and the Court made a decree nisi, with costs, against
the co-respondent.

ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY.

MEETING (THIS DAY).

At a meeting of the shareholders of the Atlantic
Telegraph Company, held this day, the report stated
that immediately after the meeting of October, the
directors proceeded to issue the 12 per cent. capital,
and by means of public subscription, aided by ar-
rangements with the contractors, the whole amount
for executing the work required was provided. Up
to that time the board believed, and had been so
advised, that an extraordinary meeting of the
company had power to confer a first prefer-
ence upon the 12 per cent, capital, but be-
fore the negotiations were finally concluded,
a case was submitted to eminent counsel,
who decided that such a course was not authorised
by the company's Acts of Parliament. The direc-
tors were therefore compelled to abandon this
method of raising the money for the present year's
expedition, and will consequently return to all sub-
scribers for the 12 per cent, shares the deposits
which they have paid. Subsequent negotiations
with the contractors, in conjunction with whom the
best legal advice has been taken, have shown that
the only way in which the undertaking can
be completed this year is by the creation of a
new company for carrying out the work,
and accordingly the Anglo-American Telegraph
Company has been formed, with a capital of
£600,000, and such privileges as, it is expected,
will cause the shares to be readily taken up. In
the constitution of the board of this new company,
the Atlantic Telegraph Company has been duly
represented, and has entered into a working agree-
ment, the particulars of which will be submitted
for the information of the shareholders in this
company at the extraordinary general meeting on
the Bth March. The contractors, in anticipation
of the subscription of the whole capital of the
Anglo-American Company, of which nearly one-half
has been already bona fide taken up, are proceed-
ing with the manufacture of the cable, and the
necessary work has also been commenced on board
the Great Eastern, so that the expedition may be
ready to sail as early in the season as possible. The
conviction of all those whose experience gives
weight to their opinion upon the matter, remains
unchanged as to the almost certainty of success
during the ensuing summer, and this conviction is
enhanced by the very perfect state in which the
submerged cable, and that on board the Great
Eastern are found to be at the present time.

The report was unanimously agreed to, and the
meeting adjourned.

Liverpool Cotton Market. —Tlis Day.

Market opens strong. Sales probably 12,000 bales
or more.

THE QUORN lIOUNDS.—The dispute which has
arisen among the members of the Quorn hunt, after many
attempts at an adjustment of differences, has at last come
to a termination, and the master, Mr. Clowes has resolved
upon giving up hunting ; and this celebrated pack of fox-
hounds, which has been kept up for hunting in the county
of Leicestershire, is now consigned to Messrs. Tattersall
for sale. The pack consisted of 114 fox-hounds. A com-
mittee of gentlemen has been formed with a view to sustain
the hunt, but at present nothing definite is decided upon.
THE TELEGRAPH IN IRELAND.—Yesterday, the
statute to amend the Telegraph Act, 1863, was
issued. The Lord-Lieutenant in Ireland may take posses-
sion of the telegraph, and use the same for her Majesty.
Tho powers in tho act of 18G3 aro vested in the Lord-Lieu-
tenant, and various sections in the recited act can be used
in Ireland, such as the priority of sending messages by the
crown and requiring a telegraph to be placed for tho ex-
clusive use of her Majesty. Compensation is to be given
to the company by the crown. Warrants for ono week to
bo issued to take possession of the telegraphs.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

FROM THE REFORMATORY TO PRISON.—Peter
Brush, a boy about 15 years of age, was charged
before Mr. Knox with robbing his mother, Mrs.
Brush, of No. 4, Tyler-court, Berwick-street, St.
James's.

The prosecutrix, a respectable-looking woman,
said the prisoner was her son, and had been, in con-
sequence of his dishonesty, at the Feltham Reforma-
tory, and since he had come home he had been in
the constant practice of robbing her, taking every-
thing he could put his hands on, and so afraid was
she of being robbed by him that she had to lie
awake of a night to see that he did not rob her.
On Monday, as she was going out, and being afraid
to leave the prisoner in the place, she told him to go
out, and locked the room door, leaving her little
girl inside. Instead of the prisoner going out he
went down stairs till after she had left the house,
and he went and ordered his sister to open
the door. The child said she could not, as she had
not got the key, and the prisoner then told her to
open the window and let down a blanket, and he
would tie something at the end of it for her, so
that he could pull it up. The child did so, and the
prisoner then told her to let the blanket drop, and
he would throw it up to her. Instead of doing so he
made off with it, and was not seen after till that
morning, when she found him lying in a dirty coal
cellar at the bottom of the house.

Anne Brush, a little girl about 8 years of age,
corroborated her mother.

Henry Witt, 67 C, said the prisoner had once
been sent from that Court for a month for being
found down the area of Craven Chapel.
Mr. Knox said the boy had been at Feltham, and
that had done him no good, as he was daily
plundering his mother. He should remand him to
see what could be done with him.

Naval and Military Intelligence.

Major-General George Marmaduke Reeves, C. 8.,
formerly in command of the 99th Regiment, died
on Friday last. The deceased was educated at the
Royal Military College, entered the army as ensign
July 1, 1824, and had been constantly on full-pay
until his promotion to the rank of major-general.
Among other active service he served throughout
the campaign of 1860 in the north of China, com-
manded the 4th Brigade at the action of Sinho, the
taking of Tangku, and storming the nearest North
Taku fort, and was wounded severely in three
places and slightly in two, but did not quit the field
until all the remaining North Forts had surrendered.
He commanded the advance from Tientsin, and the
4th Brigade in the actions of the 18th and 23d of
August, and surrender of Pekin. The gallant of-
fiCer, in recognition of his military services, was
made a Companion of the Bath in 1861. He had
received a medal and clasp for his services in China,
and a reward for "distinguished services."
The Racoon, 22, screw corvette, Capt. Count
Gleichen, with her tender, the Whiting, improved
class of wooden gunboat, 60-horse power, Lieut.-
Commanding James M. Morris, is under orders to
sail immediately from Spithead for Queenstown,
Ireland. The Whiting, which has been commis-
sioned independently of the Racoon as that ship's
tender, went out of Portsmouth harbour yesterday
on a trial of her new machinery and boilers, under
the supervision of the officials of the Portsmouth
dockyard factory department and the steam reserve.
The Mersey, screw wooden frigate, 3,773 tons,
1,000-horse power, preparing for commission at
Portsmouth, yesterday made a first trial of her
machinery under steam since her refit in the steam
basin at Portsmouth with satisfactory results. The
Mersey shares with her sister ship, the Orlando,
the honour of being the largest and swiftest of the
wooden unarmoured frigates in her Majesty's navy.
The Danae, 4, screw sloop, 1,081 tons, 300-horse
power, the further construction of which at Ports-
mouth yard was temporarily suspended some little
time since, has been again taken in hand and will
now be completed with her new form of fore-body
—an entire alteration of her lines from the " dead
fiat" forwards, and the substitution of an upright
for an infalling stem from above the water-line.
By this alteration it would appear that the Admiralty
have at length discarded the fanciful theory of the
modern school of French naval architecture—the
submerged bluff plough-coulter shaped bow, and
have allowed their chief constructor, Mr. E. J.
Reed, to give the Danae a fore-body more in accord-
ance with his own ideas.

The Supply, 2, iron screw storeship, Staff-Com-
mander Bawden, arrived at Spithead yesterday
morning from the Mediterranean, calling at Gib-
raltar on the 24th of February. A number of naval
and marine supernumeraries from ships on the
Mediterranean station were brought to England in
the Supply, and were transferred to her Majesty's
ship Victory, in Portsmouth harbour, yesterday
forenoon, the Supply afterwards sailing from Spit-
head for Woolwich to •discharge her cargo of old
and returned stores.

The following appointments have been made at
the Admiralty :—Commander James A. R. Dunlop,
to the President, vice Mould, promoted to be a re-
tired captain ; Lieut. Edwin D. Acklom, Lieut. C.
Talbot, and Lieut. Chas. J. Vidal, to the Pallas ;
Lieut. Edwd. R. Foster, to the Ramon ; Cornelius
Fox, master additional, to the Asia, for service in
the Mersey ; John J. P. Hitchfield, master, to the
Pallas ; James Robertson, master, additional, to the
Indus, for service in the Jason ; C. W. M.'Conachy,
second master, to the Sharpshooter ; Robt. Creigh-
ton, surgeon to the Pallas ; Dr. Adam Robertson,
assist-surgeon to the Cambridge ; Edward W.
Lest, acting-assist.-surgeon, to the Pallas; Alex.
Thompson, paymaster, to the Pallas; Matthew
Inman, assist.-paymaster, to the Pallas ; George
Murray, clerk, to the Pallas ; and Richard S. S.
Ross-Lewin, assist-clerk, to the Pallas.

The Cattle Plague.
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LANCASHIRE (SOUTH).

The plague spreads rapidly around Bolton and
Leigh, and fresh outbreaks are rePorted every day.
In Westhoughton, a township lying between Bolton
and Wigan, Superintendent Scott visited a farm on
Thursday where the disease had not made its ap-
pearance more than a week. He found that one cow
was being dragged dead into a field, two were nearly
in the last stage, a bull was lying dead in the corner
of the shippon, a fat calf, for which the owner had
been offered a day or two previously, was dead
on the barn floor, and the remainder of the stock of
17 were beyond recovery. It is nQt to be wondered,
therefore, that the disease is spreading in this town-
ship as well as in many of theadjacent hamlets. In
the neighbourhood of Leigh the attacks increased
considerably in the last week, rising from 29 to 37, '
and the deaths also increased from 14 to 22. The
experiment tried by Mr. Diggle, of West Leigh, of
isolating his cattle by sending them down his coal-
pits, has hitherto proved perfectly successful. In all
26 animals are now provided for in his mines,
where they appear quite healthy. The mines are
well ventilated, and a temperature of 57 deg. is
maintained in the four sheds which have been pre-
pared. The disease makes no rapid strides around
Wigan, but the report for the past week shows
that there was no foundation for the hope that it
was dying out. In the Wigan Union its chief seat
is Hindley, where several farmers have lost the
whole of their valuable stocks, in spite of every
precaution and the trial of the popular remedy.
During the week also it has made its appearance at
Golborne, and there has been an outbreak at
Latham, near Ormskirk, one of the principal agri-
cultural centres in the county. The Manchester
and Liverpool Agricultural Society, at a special
meeting on Monday, did not come to a conclusion
as to whether a show should be held this year, but
postponed a decision for a couple of months. The
district depends in a great measure, now that the
Cattle Plague Act has passed, upon Liverpool for
meat, and fortunately for the country butchers, the
public abattoirs there remove what would otherwise
have been a great difficulty, as there is accommoda-
tion there for slaughtering 9,000 head a week. So
far the act does not appear to have caused much in-
convenience, though the butchers grumble at certain
alleged extortionate charges of the railway
companies.