The Sun.
London, England, 1866-11-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
OTTAWAY Y. OTTAWAY.

This was a petition presented by the wife for dissolution
of marriage on the ground of cruelty and adultery.
Mrs. Eliza Ottaway, the petitioner in the cause, said—
After her marriage in 1855 she resided at various places,
the last of which was 23, Stock Orchard Villas, Holloway.
Her husband never treated her well ; they were always
quarrelling in consequence of his dissolute habits and his
remaining from home for two or three days. He had fre-
quently committed acts of violence, and struck her on various
parts of the body, he was not at all particular where. On
ono occasion she was in the pantry in the kitchen, at
Stock Orchard Villas, when, in consequence of something
not being done to his liking, he took up the shovel and
struck her on the head with it. On one occasion
she (witness) came home with her husband in a cab, about
9 o'clock in the morning. Words arose, which ended in
a quarrel, during which he struck her a violent blow in
the face,, which knocked her down and rendered her quite
senseless. He also struck her with a stick which he had
in his hand. On another occasion they were together
in the breakfast parlour, when her husband threw
the poker at her because she directed breakfast
to be served when he objected. Her husband
had frequently given her black eyes, and her mouth had
been so much cut about that she suffered the greatest pain.
Her husband introduced a person named Annie Brenchley
to her as his cousin. She afterwards discovered that that
was not the fact ; and on telling her husband that she had
discovered whom the person was, and also that she had
learned that he had seduced her, he did not deny it, but on
contrary, said it was the fact. From that time she had
not cohabited with the respondent.
Susan Cramp said she formerly was in the service of
Mr. and Mrs. Otway. He treated his wife very cruelly
during the 12 months she lived with them. She saw the
quarrel that took place in the breakfast parlour ; after Mr.
Ottway threw the poker at his wife he struck her with so
much violence that she became insensible. She recollected
Mr. and Mrs. Ottway coming home one morning in a cab ;
they quarrelled on that occasion, and eventually he
knocked her down. The quarrel arose through Miss
Brenchley, who frequently visited the house with
Ottway. She frequently came by herself, and she
believed her to be Mr. Ottway's cousin. She
had taken a letter by direction of Mr. Ottway
to a Miss Hinds, who, she afterwards found out, was the
person who passed as Miss Brenchley. She told Mrs.
Ottaway of the matter, and quarrels arose in consequence.
She knew a Mrs. Masters; she had seen her at Mr. Otte-
way's house.

Mrs. Masters said she was a single woman, and let out
lodgings in a house she formerly occupied in St. James's-
road, Upper Holloway. A gentleman named Smith came
and took a room in her house. Ile used to have Miss
Hinds to breakfast with him, and represented himself as
a single man. On one occasion she found a lady's night-
dress in his bedroom. The witness here detailed other
matters to bear out the allegations in the petition.
Decree nisi with costs.

SHOREDITCH COUNTY COURT.
(Beforo Mr. Dasent.)

TILE FRIENDS OF LABOUR LOAN SOCIETY V. PERRY AND

MARTIN.

This was an action against two sureties to recover the
balance of a loan, which had been left unpaid by the
borrower.

Mr. Cliukscales, the secretary to the society, said that
defendants had been surety for a borrower, who was noW
a defaulter.

Mr. G. 0. Nash asked how long it was since the loan
was granted ? and the witness said between three and
four years. Ho had not neglected to make applications to
the borrower, who, the witness believed, had now gone
abroad.

Mr. Nash then urged that his clients ought not to be
called upon to pay this money. His Honour would remem-
ber that the loan was granted come time ago, and the 9th
rule of the society said that the instalments were to be paid
weekly. Now it could not be denied that the society had
allowed the borrower to become a defaulter, and that it
had not enforced the payment at a time when the borrower
was in a position to meet the bill, and in addition to this it
had not given the sureties timely notice of the default.
His Honour said that the sureties had signed the bill
with their eyes open, and must be bcund by its terms. It
was perfectly clear that the sureties were bound to pay in
the event of there being default, and the verdict iu this
case would be for the plaintiffs.
Mr. Nash remarked that the borrower had some stock
in the society, and
Mr. Cliukscales said that would be cheerfully deducted
from the amount due.

The verdict then passed for tho plaintiff for the amount
claimed.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.---This Day.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

A BEGGAR lir COMPULSION.—JOIIII Casey, a boy, was
charged before Mr. Knox with begging.
Thomas Evans, 113 C, proved seeing the yesterday
evening begging in the Regent Circus, and, having seen
him receive money from different persons, ho took him into
custody. The boy on Tuesday last having been in the
House of Detention for three weeks, under remand on the
charge of begging, was discharged at that court. (Mr.
Tyrwhitt discharged the boy, there being no Roman Catho-
lic place to send him to.)
The boy said he was not begging at all.

In answer to Mr. Knox, the boy said he was a Roman
Catholic. He had got friends, but did not know where they
were, neither did he know where his father, who had been
a soldier, was.
Inspector Harrison said that when the boy was dis-
charged by the magistrate on the last occasion, he made
the remark that he was going to do the same thing again.

Mr. Knox observed that it was a case for the Roman
Catholic Reformatory at Mount St. Bornard, Leicestershire.
Welsh, the office-keeper, said the boy had been at the
Roman Catholic Industrial School, Walthamton, for three
years, and ho has expressed a strong wish to go to sea,
but there were no means of sending him.
Mr. Knox remarked that the ship Cornwall was entirely
for Protestants.

Welsh said that was the case.
Mr. Knox said that he would take a few days to consider
what could be done with the boy and remanded him.)

THAMES.

SAILORS AND THEIR MONEY—A SUSPICIOUS CAM—John
Donaldson, a Swede, aged 36, was brought before Mr.
Partridge, charged with stealing four £5 Bank of England
notes and £7 in gold, the moneys of John Holm, a Norwe-
gian, at a boarding-house in Itatcliff-highway.
The prosecutor and the prisoner were seamen, and be-
longed to an English ship which arrived in the port of
London on Monday last. They were paid off at a shipping
office on Wednesday last, and both men were using the
same house, and slept in one room. On Wednesday
afternoon, on leaving the pay table, they went home toge-
ther, and Holm was about to deposit four £5-notes and
seven sovereigns in his chest, when Donaldson said he
would lose it if he did so, and advised him
to place it between the bed and mattress. Holm
acted on this advice, put his hard-earned wages
under the bed in the presence of tho prisoner only,
and went out the same night on the "spree" with £llos.
in his pocket. He returned on the following morning at
half-past seven. The prisoner was then asleep in bed.
Holm aroused him and looked for his money: It was gone.
He complained to the prisoner of his loss, and began to
make a noise. The prisoner said "You fool, hold your
tongue and make no row, your money will come back." The
prisoner then left the house and was absent five hours.
The unfortunate Swede could gain no tidings of his hard-
earned money, and made known his loss to the police
Yesterday the prisoner was arrested by Donald M'Kay,
275 K, and he gave up to the officer about £2O in gold,
silver, and copper, and said it was his own. The prisoner
did receive £29 at the shipping office on Wednesday for
wages, and it did not appear that he had expended more
than £9 of it. It was mentioned as a matter of suspicion
against him that his own money, also placed under the
bed, remained untouched, and that he was the only person
who saw Holm deposit his money between the bed and
mattress ; on the other hand, it was proved other men used
the same room.

Mr. Partridge said this was only a case of suspicion
against the prisoner. Others might have taken the money.
It was a great pity that sailors coming to the port of Lon-
don did not avail themselves of those excellent institutions,
the Sailors' Homes in Noll-street and East India-road,
where their money was taken care of for them and interest
allowed. He must discharge the prisoner, and Holm
would lose his hard-earned wages.

THE NEW OPERA.—Verdi's new opera, " Don
Carlos," continues to be in active preparation, and will be
produced in the course of the next month. The composer
rests content with M. Morere, from Brussels, for his hero,
although at one time he longed to exchange the new tenor,
who has not yet made his debut, for Capon]. The last-
mentioned artist is so popular here that Gounod would not
give his forthcoming opera, " Romeo and Juliet," without
Capoul, but the latter was engaged at the Opera Comique,
with a fine of 40,000 f. if he broke his engagement. Chou-
dens, Gounod's publisher, has cut the Gordian knot by ten-
dering to MM. Leuven and Ritt, the lessees of the Opera
Comique, the fine in full, but they have declined to re-
ceive this sum and will bring an action against Capoul
and Choudens for damages beyond the £1,620 forfeit, the
tenor having signed with the publisher for £BO per month
to sing for six years at any theatre he pleased in the world.
The Tribunals will have to decide, therefore, whether
Capoul is to sing at the Lyriquo as Romeo, or whether he
will be forced to return to the Opera Comique to his ori-
ginal engagement. Ho has a nice voice, but not much
style. ;He is very good-looking and an efficient actor,
and is:much admired by the ladies here—which will go a
long way for his acceptance as a Romeo.—Parli COlTed-
roncltntV the." Queen." -