The Sun.
London, England, 1861-07-20 00:00:00

Mr. WHEELER, the following resolution was
passed :
" That, having regard to the urgency and importance of
the case, the directors be requested to appeal to the Cana-
dian authorities, and to take such steps as they consider
necessary with a view to the earliest possible legislation in
respect of the several matters referred to in the reportt3 of
the directors and committee."
On the motion of the CHAIRMAN, the report of
the directors and statement of accounts were
received.
A cordial vote of thanks was passed to the mem-
bers of the committee for their valuable services to
the company, and the proceedings concluded with
a vote of thanks to the chairman.

LA TV IA TELLIGENCE.-July 19.

DIVORCE COURT.
TUCKER DE ST. HILAIRE V. TUCKER DE ST.
HILAIRE.

This was a petition bye wife on the ground of
adultery coupled with bigamy and desertion. The
respondent did not appear.
•-Mr. Patchett, for the petitioner, stated that the
marriage took place at Chelsea on Oct. 30, 1842,
and the cohabitation continued for four years.
The respondent was married in the name of Charles
Tucker de St. Hilaire, and he passed him-
'Self" off as an Italian. His original name
was Tucker, and he was supposed to be an Irish-
man. He had also at different times taken the
names of the Marquis de St. Hilaire, of Alessandro
Borromeo, of Alessandro Count of Borromeo, and
of Dr. Charles Tucker. In 1847 he abandoned the
petitioner and went to Sheffield. He there repre-
sented himself as a political exile, the son of the
Duo do Borromeo, made political speeches, raised
himself to a position of some importance, and on one
occasion offered himself as a candidate for a seat in
the town-council. He took advantage of his popu-
larity to get into debt to a large amount, and also
to persuade a young lady named Froggatt to elope
with him. He was married to her at Gretna Green
in November, 1847, and lived with her until 1851.
In that year he deserted her, and went to Belfast,
where, as Dr. Tucker, he delivered lectures on mes-
merism. He also proposed to found a mesmeric
hospital, collected subscriptions for that purpose,
and decamped with them. He next became lecturer
to an itinerant panorama of Switzerland. He then
made the acquaintance of Miss Murray, a respecta-
ble lady, who had £2OO or £3OO belonging to her.
He represented himself to her as a physician be-
longing to St. George's Hospital, although his only
connection with that establishment was that he had
once been an out-patient, owing to a wound in his
leg which he had received in a duel on the Conti-
nent. When he had exhausted Miss Murray's purse,
he abandoned her, and then gained a living by going
to hotels and running up bills and leaving carpet-bags
filled with bricks in payment. He next visited BE•
kenny, and represented that he was a " Count of
the Holy Roman Empire in the Pontifical degree,"
and that he had heen persecuted in consequence
of his conversion from the Roman Catholic
to the Protestant religion. The Protestant clergy-
men of the place, who became interested in him on
this account, introduced him as French teacher to a
respectable academy. He then became a suitor to
another young lady, and proposed marriage to her,
but told her he could not marry her in the regular
manner, on account of his rank in the Holy Roman
empire. Some sort of marriage ceremony was,
however, gone through, and they lived together for
some time. He then abandoned her and came to
London, after having extracted a considerable sum
from 'her family. In London he took up with
another girl, and gained a living by concocting re-
ports of secret conferences supposed to be held by
Italian noblemen and friends to the Italian cause
and selling'them to some of the newspapers. When
the fraud was discovered he was arrested on the
charge of obtaining money under false pretences.
At the time of his arrest he was lecturing at the
Reading Theatre, on electro-biology. On the 16th
of August, 1858, he was convicted of bigamy, and
sentenced to four years' penal servitude.
The marriage having been proved by some of the
respondent's relatives, and the bigamous marriage
and the conviction by Miss Froggatt,
His lordship granted a decree nisi with costs.