The Sun.
London, England, 1861-12-05 00:00:00

ANOTHER YELVERTON CASE.—An interesting
marriage case - Gibbons v. Gibbons—came before the Con-
sistorial Court yesterday. The suit was instituted by the
provoment for the restitution of conjugal rights. It ap-
peared that the impugnant, who is a Protestant, is a mill-
owner, and, the possessor of a considerable property at Tully-
mills, Moate, in the King's County. Anne Gibbons, the
provoment, who is a Roman Catholic, claimed to be his
wife, and relied on a marriage alleged to have taken place
in February, 1856, at Deerpark, near Ballymahon, in the
King's county, and to have been celebrated by the Rev.
Patrick Manion, a Roman Catholic priest. The case in
many points resembles the celebrated Yelverton case. The
evidence for the provoment went to shew the impugnant,
at the time of the ceremony, in reply to the priest, said, " I
am a bad Catholic." It was alleged, however, that the
parish priest had refused to marry the parties, knowing
that Mr. Gibbons was a Protestant, and they, therefore,
went to Mr. Manion, who performed the ceremony at mid-
night in his own house. Letters were read which, it was
proved, had been written by the impugnant, and in which
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tunate woman. Roman Catholics, however, must be bound
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have maintained being of opinion
that their own Church laws were sufficient for their protec-
tion. If they had many priests, he said, like the Rev. Mr.
Manion, those laws would be of little value. He decided
that the marriage was null and void, and was compelled to
dismiss the suit for the restitution of conjugal rights.
FIRES IN THE METROPOLIS.—Last night about
10 o'clock, a fire broke out in the premises of Messrs. Par-
sons, Fletcher, and Co., ink and general manufacturers,
Southwark. In the course of a few minutes the brigade
engines from various stations were in attendance, when the
firemen found that a large quantity of oil, fat, and casks
were enveloped in flames. The burning mass was imme-
diately covered with sand and earth, and a good supply of
water being at hand, the flames were extinguished, but not
before a considerable amount of the stock in the open yard
was destroyed. The other portions of the works were saved.
Another fire also broke out in the INminersmith Distillery,
near the bridge. The flames wore confined to the buildings
in which they commenced, the other and more valuable parts
of the plant escaping with trifling, if any, injury.
TURNER'S BOTTLE AND BUFFET.—The sordid
and unhappy-looking room in Queen Anne-street was re-
markable tor a dusty and
dirty buffet, bought at some
second-hand broker's. In this Turner kept the immemorial
sherry bottle with the broken cork that served him for a
decanter, and which no joking of friends could get him to
change. This was the identical bottle and tuffet of which
the old story was current at the clubs. A friend came to
see Turner, and was treated with a glass of sherry from the
old bottle and the old buffet—one glass. About the same
time next year the artist came again, had another glass and
praised the wine. "It ought to be good," said Turner,
"it's the same bottle you, tasted before."—From Thorn.
6ffry's Life of Turner.