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P;EWSPAPER

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TIVErcTIVINSTEIt.—E,xTro.onDINAnY CITA noic
OP P.M-UM:Y.—Mr. Sleigh, barrister, instructed by
Mr. Towne, solicitor to the Hon. Hugh Rowley, •
applied to Mr. Payntcr for a summons, calling upon
the hon. gen Jeman'S late wife to answerto a charge
of Pcniurs, alleg4to bave,been committed by her
on the recent tri4444,:•lit for and Ob-
tained a dissolution of marriage from his client.'
The learned counsel stated that the hon. gentle-.
man did nut appear upon that trial •because he had
no answer to the charge of adultery, but he could • •
not remain quiet under the aggravated charges of
cruelty-which had been brought against him, and
or-which he virtually had no idea until he read ,
them iu the public papers. Mr. Sleigh then read
the report of the trial, imputing most brutal con-
duct to his client, and proceeded to say that there
were three assignments of pude ry ; the first of these
was, that the lady had sworn that the hon. gentle- •
man had never given her a farthing some she was
married to him, when, in truth and in fact, lie (Mr.
Sleigh) could prove .most distinctly that his client
had given her £1,400, which had been paid into
her solicitor's hands, and, consequently, through
him to her, which, the learned counsel contended,
was sufficient to negative her statement. The se- •
cond assignment was, that his client had eut her
hair eff, and any person reading such a statement in
the papers, without anything to contradict it,
would naturally suppose that the hon.. gentleman
had cut his wife's hair off in the same manner as he
would shear a sheep. He could prove that nothing
of this exaggerated nature had taken place, and the
solution of this seeming barbarous treatment was,
as he was instructed, as follows :—The Iron. Mr.
Rowley was on the Continent, and one morning
somelriends looked in. They waited lona. past. the
,breakThst time—as long as lie (Mr. Si'eigh) be-
lieved as an hour and a half betbre they began
their menl, and the lady made her appearance
in about two hours. It seemed, in order to ap-
pear to a greater advantago, she- deemed it ne-
cessary to wear on each tilde of. her rave a curl
which reached as low as her waist, and on her
husband asking why she was so long beyond her
usual time, she replied she could net dress her hair
under two hours, or something to that effiAl. His
client, upon that, said that she-ought to dress her
hair as other ladies did, in a more 'becoming style,
and the•answer she made was, that if he did not
like the curls be had better cut them off, when he
took up a pair of scissors and certainly clipped the
curls. The third assignment of perjury.was, that-,
the honourabletentleman had knocked her down in
a most brutal manner. It Wotild seem, however,
that on the occasion sworn to by the lady a convey- •
sation took place which the learned counsel would
hardly like to repeat. • 'The honourable gentleman •
had just come from Egypt; and a beautiful pistol,
inlaid with turquoise and other precious stones,.
which he had brought with was laying upon
the tgkle. She took this up and strnek at him; and
at th same time. using language most unbecoming
a lady, wished the-pistol was loaded, that she might
shoot him dead upon the spot. She did fall down
afterwards, but he (Mr. Sleigh) had proof that his
client did not strike her at all. The honourabla
gentleman was an officer in the army. and a gentle-
man, used to mingle in the first society, under the
ban of which such ungentlemanly and brutal eon-
duct—if it were true—would place him in the eyes
of-every sensible and respectable person. It was,
therefore, he contended, most material that such
an unfounded stigma should be removed from his
client's character, and he therefore, on these
grounds, solicited a summons against the lady in
question.

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Mr. Paynter said he observed, on reading the
report, that the hair was alleged to have -been re-
moved by force.
Mr. Sleigh replied that was so. The lady had
said, upon the trial that her hair had been removed
by foree; and notwithstaiidikthei re-sistanee...
The Hon. Hugh Rowley was then sworn, and
examined by Mr. Sleigh. He said he had heard
what Mr. Sleigh had said in his behalf, and, to the
best of his belief, the three statements which formed
the assignments of perjury had been knowingly
and wilfully made by his late wife, who was aware
• that they were false, and, in addition, he could
preie, although that had nothing to do with' the
case, that she had, in a room full of people, threat-
ened to take away his life, As regarded the asser-
tion that he had given her no money, it Was ridi-
culous and untrue. The cutting a small portion of
hair off her head was a Mere joke, and it was un-
time that he had cut it off with violence ; and as to
knocking her down, that was also untrue, and both -
monstrous and absurd;
The summons was then granted, to be issued when
the necessary document, termed the information, in
writing, should be brought to the court.

I.
AM B tuffirs PUCJLISTIC ENCOUNTER.
—Charles Smith, a brick-maker, in the employment
of Messrs. Cubitt, was charged before Mr. Elliott
with fighting with and placing the life of George
Field, a fellow-workman, in great danger.
Sergeant Wm. Ifanunond, 10 P, said that in con-
sequence of information that had reached him of a
fight that had taken place on Tootinn,common, on
Sunday morning- last, and one of the combatants
being in a state of great danger, lie, on the evening
before, went to the residence of a man named
George Field, a brickmaker, at Brixton, and there
found him in a state of perfect insensibility. He
made inquiries about him, and found that at the
fight he was taken up in an insensible state, was
brought home, and still remained unconscious and
unable to speak, and in fitet in a very dangerous
state, so much so that he (Hammond) felt it to he
his duty to take the prisoner into custody. Before
doing so he told him he had come to apprehend him
on a charge of fighting with and violently assault-
ing George Field on Tooting-common, on Sunday
morning last, so that he still lay in an insensible
state, and his reply was that he was not much butter
himself, pointing to the injuries to and the disco-
louration of his face, and said be-had been obliged
to keep his bed all day on Monday.
Mr. Elliott—Have you seen Field this morning ?
Witness—Yes, Sir, and he is still unable to speak,
and very bad.

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