The Sun.
London, England, 1861-03-22 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, FRI DAY EVENING, .A.RC A i 22, 1861,

UR. CHARLES DICKENS TO-NIGHT, at 8
1-Y-1- o'clock, at ST. JAMES'S HALL, Piccadilly, will read
his story of LITTLE DOMBEY and the Trial from PlCK-
WlCK.—Balconies and area, 2s. ; back seats, ls. At Messrs.
Chapman and Hall, 193, Piccadilly, and of Mr. Austin, Ticket
Office, St. James's Hall. '1 he Stalls are all let for this
evening.

141 BENCH EXHIBITION. —The EIGHTH
ANNUAL EXHIBITION of PICTURES, the contri-
b.,tions of artists of the French and Flemish Schools, is NOW
OPEN at the GAllery, 120, Pall-mall, opposite the Opera
Colonnade. Admission, One Shilling ; Catalogues, Sixpence.
Open from 9 till 6 daily.

NR. W. S. WOODIN'S NEW ENTERTAIN-
MENT, the CABINET of CURIoSITIES, POLY-
GRAPHIC HALL, King Wil iam-street, Charing-cross,
TO-NIGHT, and EVERY EVENING (except Saturday), at
Eight. Private boxes, .£1 ls. ; Stalls and box stalls, 3s. ;
area, 2s. ; amphitheatre, is. -A plan of the stalls may be
seen, and seats secured (without extra charge), at the Box-
office, from 10 till 4. Morning Performance, Saturday,
March 2.

OXFORD and CAMBRIDGE BOAT RACE.—
EVA NS'S SUPPER ROOIIIS, Covent-garden. Songs,
Glees, Madrigals, &c. Mr. Mackney at 11.30. A New Song
for the occasion by Mr. Sydney. The Conrad Family in their
acrobatic performances. "Play-goers sup at Evans's to
glees extremely well sung."—Athenaeum. Commence every
evening at 8 o'clock.

A RGYLL ROOMS. - GRAND MUSICAL
ENTERTAINMENT,
with the Celebrated BAND, Forty in number (established
eleven years), chosen from the Philharmonic Concerts, Royal
Italian Operas, and the Household Troops. Conducted by
Mons. Lamotte. Cornet-a-piston, M. Boulcourt.—Dancing
at Nine o'clock.-18. admission.

'THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS,
it High Holborn.—This popular and magnificently ap-
pointed Ball Room, decidedly the most fashionable and best
conducted entertainment in the world. The very excellent
band, under the able direction of Mr. Packer, is constantly
introducing the choicest and latest music of the day—a qua-
drille and polka from Balfe's new opera, Bianca; Colleen
Bawn Waltz, G alibaldi's Triumphal Ga lop, &c., among others,
now nightly receive the plaudits of the company. The wines
supplied are of the very choicest quality. The refreshment
rooms are elegant in the extreme, and replete with every
comfort. Admission throughout, is.

SP ()RUN G 111, TELLIGENUE.

won easily by two lengths. The other three straggled in.
Nimrod, a long way off, was fifth.

The Consolation Scramble Steeplechase, of 8 sous each, with
30 added, 12st each, gentlemen riders.

Mr. Freeman's Comet (71b extra), 12st 71b (Mr. F. Lotan) 1
Major Green's Slasher, 12st (G. Barry) 2
Mr. English's Baronet, 12st (Captain Tempest) 3
The following also ran :—Garibaldi, Yucca, and The
Filterer.

Betting—Even on Slather, 5 to 2 agst Comet, 4 to 1 agst
Baronet.

Comet took the lead, followed by Baronet, Slasher, and
Yucca in the third and fourth places past the Stand in
going out. Yucca then refused, and Slasher went by
Baronet. Comet and Slasher then continued in front by
themselves ; they jumped the last three fences nearly
abreast. into the winning field Comet just landed first,
and in a stride or two further he quitted Slasher and won
rather easily by two lengths. Baronet was a bad tlikd, and
Garibaldi a length behind him. The other two did not pass
the post.

A Sweepstakes of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added, list
each. The winner to be sold, for 200 sovs., &c. Riders
and distance same as Military Gold Cup, 19 subs.
Captain Keith Fraser's Jack Tar, lOst 91b (Capt. Oakes) 1
Captain Riddle's (16th Lancers) Smoke, list
(Captain Riddell) 2
Captain Pedder (10th Hussars) Linkboy, pat__

(Captain Molineux) 3
The following also ran :—Slasher, Repulse, Yucca, Lin-
coln, and Constance.
Linkboy made running for half-a-mile, when he was
headed by Lincoln, who carried it on across one field. Link-
boy then again took the lead until within three quarters of
a mile from home, and was then deprived of it by Jack
Tar, who was not afterwards headed. Linkboy was second
at the last fence, where he fell, but was remounted. Jack
Tar won in a canter by 20 lengths, Smoke defeating Link-
boy by a neck only for second place.

malevolence. Whether it is sufficient we shall be
better able to judge when we see the provision in
print. In another foray into regions beyond the
necessary scope of a Bankruptcy Bill the Attorney-
General was less prudent and less fortunate. Per-
haps with some classical recollections of the practi'3e
of the Egyptians, he proposed to make dead mien
bankrupt. Clause 207 had during the diseussio ns
acquired the short title of " the dead man's clause."
The determination of the Attorney-General to re-
tain this excrescence upon his bill led him into a
defeat; and, if we non-traders must live in some
terror of this universal possibility of bankruptcy,
e may at any rate die without fear of the Gazette.
A discussion raised by Mr. Ayrton upon, the
clause of the bill which provides that persons im-
prisoned under the County Court Acts shall not be
released lets in the whole question of a distinction,
between the rich and poor in the law of debtor
and creditor. We are quite sure that it would
astonish the public if the County Court Judges
were to describe the opere.tion of the imprisonment
clauses of the County Court Acts—with what
cruelty they often work, and what protection they
afford to the " tally-men," who press the families
of artisans to take on credit unnecessary goods at
exorbitant prices. These, however, are only
matters which cause a little friction in the passage
of the measure. In no case do they go to the vital
parts of the bill. Even the fusion of bankruptcy
and insolvency is admitted to be most convenient
i❑ itself; and if the Attorney-General will only
satisfy the non-trading portion of the community
that he does not insist upon rendering it a pre-
sumption of law that they keep a shop or a count-
ing-house, and are always at home ready at any
hour to pay any bill that may be presented to
them at a moment's notice, the division against
Sir H. Cairn's attempt to alter the interpretation
clause makes it evident that the House of Commons
has no to his fusion principle, and has every
desire to pass his bill.—Tines.

LATV INTELLIGENCE.—March 21.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
PEAKE V. PEAKE.-INCEST.

In July, 1850, the respondent, a pocket-book
manufacturer in London, married the petitioner,
and resided with her about six years. In 1856,
Elizabeth Divine, his wife's sister, went to live with
them in Union-street, Edgware-road, where it was
alleged that an incestuous intimacy sprung up
between her and the respondent. The landlady
told the petitioner what she had observed between
them, and a separation ensued. Peake then co-
habited with his sister-in-law.
The court made a decree nisi.
BRAMALL ♦. BRAMALL.-BIGAMT.

The respondent, a druggist in the West country,
married Rebecca Coath, at Stoke Damerel, in 1839 ;
but after a short time he deserted her. In 1842, be
married Elizabeth Tinley at Barnstaple, under the
name of Henry Bennett. He repeated this offence
or bigamy several times; and in 1848 he was con-
victed at the Old Bailey on two indictments; for
which he was sentenced to 14 years' transportation.
Dr. Spinks appeared for the petitioner.
The court dissolved the marriage.
FOWLER V. FOWLER.

The petitioner, a mariner, married the respon-
dent in Cumberland, on the 26th of April, 1836,
and had by her eight children, of whom four sur-
vived. The respondent unfortunately took to
drinking. In 1859. while her husband was absent
from the country, she was delivered of a child in
Whitehaven workhouse, under circumstances which
left no doubt as to her adultery.
Dr. Spinks appeared for the husband.
The court dissolved the marriage.
TOWNSON V. TOWNSON AND MURRAY.

Dr. Phillimore, Q.C., and Dr. Spinks appeared
for the petitioner ; Dr. Swabey- for the respondent.
The parties were married at Lancaster in 1853,
and had had two children, of whom one survived.
The husband was a publican at Liverpool, and
in 1856 his wife contracted very disgusting habits
of intoxication. On one occasion her husband took
steps to summon her before the magistrates for
assaulting him, and on another she was actually
brought up at the police court for having been found
drunk and incapable in the streets. There were
several separations, but the cohabitation was not
finally severed till April, 1860, when she went home
late one night and drunk. An altercation ensued of
a character which compelled the petitioner to turn
her out into the street, and to shut up his house.
At first the police took her away, but she succeeded
in getting from them, and coming back made a noise
at the door. The petitioner still refused to admit
her; and at a later period she committed the act of
adultery complained of with a butcher.
Swabey made an attempt to show that her
fault was owing to the husband's ill treatment; but
The Court granted a rule nisi.
Dr. Swabey asked whether the Court did not
think it a case in which some provision ought to be
made for the wife ?

Sir C. Cresswell certainly did not. She had had
many chances of reforming, but she had chosen to
pursue the same filthy course.
The next three cases on the list were abated by
the death of one or other of the parties.