The Sun.
London, England, 1859-02-02 00:00:00

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.

Before the Lord Chancellor, Mr. Justice Wight-
man, and the Judge Ordinary.y
KEATS V. KEATS AND MONTEZUMA.

Mr. Phinn, Q.C., on behalf of Mr. Keats, now
applied for a decree dissolving the marriage.
It will be recollected that. this cause was tried
before the Judge Ordinary a short time ago, and it
was some time before the jury could agree with re-
spect to the term " condonation," as laid down by
the learned judge. The verdict was ultimately
given in favour of Mr. Keats, it being to the effect
that adultery had been committed, and that the
offence had not been condoned.

Dr. Phillimore opposed the application for a de-
cree dissolving the marriage, and moved fora rule
for a new trial, on the ground that the Judge
Ordinary had wrongly defined the word " condo-
nation," and the jury found in accordance with his
lordship's definition ; and also, that the verdict was
against the evidence.

-The Court granted the application on both points,
intimating at the same time that the learned coun-
sel was in the position to apply for a rule nisi.
Mr. Phinn asked their lordships when it would
be convenient for him to show cause against the
rule.

The Lord Chancellor fixed Friday next as the
day on which the Court would hear the learned
gentleman:

POLICE INTELLIGENCE, Feb. 1.

MANSION-HOUSE.—Abraham Kelly, who was
charged on Thursday last with having obtained
goods of various kinds under false and fraudulent
pretences from tradesmen, was brought up for re-
examination.

Mr. Wontner and Mr. Humphries attended for
several complainants, but stated that they were not
prepared with the necessary evidence, and requested
that the Lord Mayor would postpone the investi-
gation for a week.
Mr. Lewis, for the prisoner, stated that his client's
offence amounted to nothing beyond a simple debt,
as would be shown upon the production of the
evidence.

The Lord Mayor said that if such a mode of
running in debt as had been represented on the
first examination were to be endured, there would
not be a moment's security for any honest trades-
man.

His lordship remanded the prisoner for a week,
and it was intimated that the prisoner would then
be prosecuted for having conspired with others to
defraud the victims who appeared against him.
Jane Simpson4who appeared to be about 22 years
old, was brought before the Lord Mayor, charged
with having attempted to destroy herself.
Baldwin (537)—The previous morning, about 2
o'clock, I saw the defendant sitting on the steps of
a hall-door in Cannon•street. I spoke to her, but
she did not answer, and then I heard a gurgling
in her throat, and turned up her head. I then
found that she had a piece of ribbon tight round
her throat, and I undid it and questioned her. She
said that she had taken poison, and I conveyed
her to the hospital, where they told me upon exa-
mining her that she had evidently done what she
had stated.

The Lord Mayor (to the defendant)—Now you
have been here before upon a similar charge, and
we are not going to allow persons of your kind
either to take a liberty with their own lives, or to
pretend to try to destroy themselves for the pur-
pose of exciting compassion.
The defendant—l am sorry for having done any-
thing of the kind, and shall never do so again if
you let me go.
The Lord Mayor—You must find security in the
amount of £lO to be of good behaviour for two
months, and you must remain in prison until you
produce responsible bail to that amount.
The defendant was then committed.

GUILDHALL.—Maria Elizabeth Welsford, a
respectably dressed young person, described as the
wife of a printer, living at 15, Milton-street, Fore-
street, was charged with attempting to commit
suicide by stabbing herself twice in the stomach
with a knife, on Sunday morning last.

Sergeant Dellow, 34, said he was called in by
Dr. Simpson to take the prisoner into custody on
the above charge, when she admitted that she had
stabbed herself in consequence of a few words she
had had with her husband.
Mr. Welsford was unable to account for the con-
duct of his wife, and the landlady of the house
spoke to the general good character of both parties.
Sir J. Musgrove said it was a very mysterious
affair, and it would be his duty to sift it throughout.
The prisoner was charged with a vety serious
offence, and he therefore required sureties for her
appearance on Thursday next, by which time in-
quiries should be made to clear up the matter.
The landlady offered to become bail.
Sir J. Musgrove said he was not favourably im-
pressed with the husband's manner, but the fact of
his landlady becoming bail for his wife was rather
in his favour.

Mr. Welsford said he was as anxious as any one
to have the affair cleared up.
The prisoner said she could not have known what
she was doing or she would never have attempted
such a thing.
Sir J. Musgrove then remanded the prisoner on
bail till Thursday next.
Henry Britten was summoned for assaulting and
threatening Louis Blomfield, whereby the latter
went in fear of his life.

This was a squabble between parties respec-
tively in the employ of Mr. Johnson and Mr.
Cooper, of the Court of Bankruptcy, and it was
stated by Mr. Depree, who appeared for the com-
plainant, that the defendant had committed a violent
assault upon his client in the Court of Bankruptcy,
and threatened to dog him to his private residence,
and there do for him, in order that he might not
again appear in that court.
Mr. Beard, for the defendant, said he had sug-
gested that as his client was not prepared with
evidence to rebut anything that might be said
against him, he had advised the defendant to con-
sent to enter into his own recognisances to keep the
peace for 12 months, and also to apologise to the
complainant for any warmth or hastiness of temper
he might have been guilty of. This course was
approved of by the complainant's friends, and it
only remained for the court to sanction it.
Sir J. Musgrove said he must have some better
security than the 'defendant's own recognisances.
He should require one surety for £2O.
This arrangement was acceded to without going
further into the case, and the defendant was locked
up in defatilt of bail.

BOW-STREET.—A policeman ofthe A division,
named Walter John Little, who has been about a
twelvemonth in the force, was placed at the bar on
a charge of stealing from one of the dressing-rooms
in the section-house of the A division station, at
King-street, Westminster, a pair of uniform boots.
The boots had been issued to James Wenn, of
the same division, No. 68, who had left them on
Sunday last in one of the dressing-rooms. There
were two of these rooms, each accommodating 50
men, and each man having his numbered compart-
ment. On Sunday night the prisoner was seen
leaving the room in which he had a compartment.
He left the station with a bundle, and in a few
minutes returned without it. The boots being
missed he was suspected, and discharged the force,
and from subsequent inquiries it was discovered
that he had disposed of the boots to an omnibus
conductor, named Sunfield. The latter sold them
to a Jew hawker of old clothes, named Woolff
Lyons, by whom they were now produced.
The prisoner, who admitted his guilt, was re-
manded, to give time for inquiry as to other
charges, the witnesses in this case being at once
bound over to appear at the trial.

CLERKENWELL.—John Morris Reed, aged
25, a fashionably attired man, who described him-
self as a gentleman ; Samuel Thompson, aged 34, a
clerk ; and Ann Thompson, alias Barnett, aged 60,
a servant, all residing at 22, Tavistock.place, St.
Pancras ; and Thomas Smith, aged 25, of 18 Plum-
tree-court, Shoe-lane, servant; were charged with
conspiring to defraud divers persons of various
sums of money, and of obtaining from Mr. J. Otway.
of Lower Stownell, Staffordshire, the sum of £1 by
false and fraudulent pretences.
Mr. John Wakeling, solicitor, of the firm of
Messrs. J. and T. Wakeling, appeared for the
prisoners.
Inspector Whicher, of the detective force, said
that in consequence of a large number of letters
having been received from all parts of the United
Kingdom, in which the writers said they had been
defrauded out of several sums of money, he was
directed to investigate the matter, and to explode
the thing, or connect the prisoners with the fraud.
It appeared that the prisoners bad been advertising
in all the country papers under the title of the
" Mercantile Loan Fund Association ; Office, 2,
Weymouth-terrace, New North-road, London, N.,"
and they professed to make immediate cash ad-
vances. The advertisement ran as follows :—" This
association, possessing the advantage of a large
paid-up capital, offers immediate cash advances, in
sums from £2O to £5OO, with the least possible
delay, for long or short peerhiodms,oanttholy orper aeue:t.epriannum,aimu, repayable by such