The Sun.
London, England, 1868-06-09 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE 9, 1868.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—This Day.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde).
CONRADI V. CONRADI AND WAY, &C.

This was a judgment on the part of the Judge
Ordinary, upon a novel point which has been lately
raised as to whether a petitioner, who has proved
his wife's adultery, has then been found guilty of
adultery himself, and subsequently again obtains a
verdict against his wife for her adultery with fresh
co-respondents ; whether, under these conditions,
he can himself be found guilty upon the decree
that had formerly been made as to his own
adultery. The Judge Ordinary said that the point
raised was an important one. It was, in the first
instance, shown that the petitioner had been found
guilty of adultery at the suggestion of one of the
co-respondents. lie then brought a fresh suit, and
again proved his wife's adultery, inasmuch as she
was living a life of prostitution. The Queen's
Proctor then proposed to bring before the Court
the decree in the other case, in order to prove the
petitioner's adultery, and to disqualify him from
obtaining a divorce. He (the learned judge) con-
sidered that he could do so, but, taking into
consideration that the accusation of adultery came
from the Queen's Proctor, who was under the direc-
tion, first of the Attorney-General, and then of the
Court, it was competent for the Court to deal in
an equitable manner with the point. It would be
different if the charge were brought forward again
by the co-respondent or respondent, but taking into
consideration the fact that the desertion and adul-
tery of the respondent had been proved, he should
give the petitioner the relief he sought, and grant
a decree nisi.

CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT—(This Day.)

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OLD COURT.
TILE MURDEROUS ASSAULT BY TWO BOYS.

Mr. Poland, on the part of the prosecution,
asked the learned Recorder that the trial of
the two boys at present in custody for
murderously assaulting Mrs. Munn might be post-
poned until next session, on the ground that the
prosecutrix was at present in such a weak state of
health that any over-excitement might be attended
witb very serious results.

Mr. W. Sleigh, who had been retained to de-
fend, had no objection to such a proposal.
The Recorder directed the trial to stand post-
poned until next session.

The next case taken before the learned judge was
a post-office robbery by a letter-carrier, which did
not possess the slightest general interest.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.-THIS DAY.

MA.RLBORO UG 11-STREE r.

A CHANGE IN THE MODE OF BRINGING AC-
CUSED PERSONS TO THE COURT.—The unseemly
exhibition of strings of persons charged with
offences being walked through the streets from the
different stations to this court, often accompanied
by crowds of turbulent followers, has now been
put an end to, and this morning for the first time,
by order of the Commissioners of Police, the police
van was employed for the purpose.
ROBBERY AT THE ALHAMBRA. —Arthur Gray, a
young man, described as a clerk, was charged be-
fore Mr. Knox with picking the pocket of a young
woman named Sarah Riley, a servant living in
Great Portland-street, of a purse containing some
silver.

The prosecutrix was at the Alhambra Palace last
night with some children, when the prisoner and
another man picked her pocket of a purse.
Henry Parsons, employed at the Alhambra, said
that hearing a cry of " Stop thief !" he seized the
prisoner.

David Pilmer, 54 C, proved taking the prisoner
into custody, and said that while the prisoner sent
one of the children across to look through, his com-
panion committed the robbery-.
Gordon, 33 C, said that he saw the man who was
with the prisoner the previous night in court.
Mr. Knox ordered him to be brought forward,
but as the prosecutrix was unable to identify him
as the one who was with the prisoner no charge
was preferred against him.

Gordon said he believed the prisoner had been
previously convicted.

Mr. Knox remanded the prisoner.
A VOCALIST IN TROUBLE.—Richard Hairland, a
boy, describing himself as a vocalist, was charged
with picking a pocket in the llayin ►rket.
Gordon, 33 C, having proved the case,
The boy said he saw two ladies fighting, and a
gentleman drop his handkerchief, and he picked
it up.

Gordon said the boy tried several pockets.

Mr. Knox remanded the boy.

STABBING A WlFE.—Dennis Sullivan, a labour-
ing man, charged with stabbing his wife, Honora
Sullivan, at No. 33, Dudley- street,
was again
brought before Mr. Knox.
It may be remembered that the prisoner went up
to his wife, from whom he had been separated for
three years, as she was wishing some friends who
had been to see her good bye, and stabbed her in
the face.
Mr. Theophilus Bryant, house surgeon at the
Charing-cross Hospital, said that when the injured
woman was attended to at the hospital she had two
wounds, one in the cheek and the other in the
nostrils, and from the latter she h d lost a great
deal of blood. The wounds were inflicted with
some shaip instrument, and might have been in-
flicted with the piece of steel produced (found in
the prisoner's pocket).
Mr. Motum, secretary to the Society for the Pro-
tection of Women and Children, No. 20, Hay-
market, attended to watch the case.
The prisoner was committed for trial.

Nagle and the other prisoners of the so-called Jackmel
expedition?

The Earl of MAYO said the assertion was totally and
entirely false. (Hear, hoar.)

THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUKE OF
EDINBURGH.

In reply to Colonel VERNER,

Mr. DISRAELI said he had not seen the paper to which
he referred, but he had no reason for believing that the
assassin of the Duke of Edinburgh was insane.

THE SCOTCH REFORM BILL.

The House then wont into committee on this bill.

On. the motion that clause 6 stand part of the bill,
Mr. GRA.HAM said it was a great injustice to Scotland
that the clause should be persisted in, but as opposition
was useless, he and his friends must content themselves
with entering their strongest protest against tho clause,
looking to the new Parliament for a remedy.
The clause was then ordered to stand part of the bill.
The LORD-ADVOCATE then brought forward the
following,clause to give the lodger franchise, it, accord-
ance with the promise given to the hon. member for Kil-
marnock : —Every man shall, in and after the year one
thousand eight hundred and sixty-eight, be entitled
to be registered as a voter, and, when registered, to
vote for a member or members to serve iu Parliament for
a burgh, who is qualified as follows (that is to say): is of
lull age and not subject to any legal incap keity ; and, as a
lodger, has occupied in the same burgh separately, and as sole
tenant for the 12 months prec,-ding the last day of July in any
year the same lodgings, such lodgings being part of one and
the same dwelling-house, and of a clear yearly value, if
let unfurnished, of ton pounds or upwards; and has re-
sided i❑ such lodgings during the twelve months imme-
diately preceding the last day of July, and has claimed to
be registered as a voter at the next ensuing registration
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of voters.

Vol. SYKES wished to know whether it was to be
understood that any person paying ten pounds rent and
not paying poor rates would not have a vote ?

The LORD ADVOCATE signified in tho affirmative.
Mr. CRAWFORD said the clausa wuuld actually dis-
franchise a great many parsons who now had the fran-
chise.

The LORD ADVOCATE remarked that the franchise
in the bill under consideration was not a substitute for,
but an addition to, the franchise now in existence.
Mr. D. M'LAREN said the clause was a disenfran-
chising clause, and so he strongly opposed it.
The LORD ADVOCATE replied that those who at
present possessed the franchise would not be deprived of
it by the present clause.

Mr. MONOREIFF had great doubt, nowithstanding the
intention of the Lord-Advocate, whether the clause would
not lead to much difficulty.

Mr. BOUVERIE suggested that the best way to get out
of the difficulty was to negative the clause, and then on
the bringing up the report a declaratory clause could be
added, stating that all lodgers paying £lO per annum
should be entitled to vote.

An hon. member suggested that thero was no need to
strike the clause out, as it could easily be altered to em-
brace the latter part of the suggestion of the hon. mem-
ber for Kilmarnock.

This was done, and the clause was ordered to stand
part of the bill.

A clause to make provision for claims by persons im-
properly and erroneous exempted from the payment of
poor rates was then considered and agreed to.
On schedule A, which enlarges the boundaries of the
city of Glasgow, so as to include the suburbs of Partick
and Govan, there was a lively debate, and ultimately the
opposition, led by Sir E. Colebrooke, succeeded in strik-
lug the schedule out of the bill by a majority of five (91
to 86).
The other schedules were agreed to without opposition,
and the bill was ordered to be reported on Thursday.
The house next took up the Boundary Bill in com-
mittee, and, on the question that the preamble be post-
poned,
Mr. GORST raised a general discussion by reviewing
the position in which the hence is placed by the discor-
dant reports of the commission and the committee. He
criticised stringently the conclusions at which the com-
mittee has arrived, maintaining that neither by its superior
information, nor by its impartial composition, was it a
competent tribunal to review the judgment of the Com-
missioners, and pointing that the committee had been
governed by no kind of intelligible principle, except this
—that municipal and Parliamentary boundaries ought to
be conterminous. The inference he drew from this was
that the house should discuss patiently and form its own
opinion on every one of the cases about which the com-
mittee and the Commission differed.
Mr. WALPOLE remarked that the difficulty arose
entirely from the vague and insufficient instructions given
to the Commission, which had made it impossible for them
to lay down a general principle which would apply to all
cases. Assuming that the controversy practically
would be confined to the 15 large boroughs in which the
Committee had differed entirely from the Commission, he
went through the list seriatim, explaining the reasons on
which the committee had actei, and justifying their con-
clusions. With regard to the immediate practical ques-
tion, Mr. Walpole said that though the Committee sub-
mitted their report entirely to the decision of the house
much time would be lost if it was ta be set aside, and he
certainly should not have consented to give so many days
to the committee if its labours were to be fruitless. By
way of general observation be expressed his decided pre-
ference for making municipal and Parliamentary bounda-
ries conterminous, and warned the house of the danger of
ncreasing those great urban constituencies by additions
which made them three or four times as large as the
counties in which they stood.

Mr. STOPFORD argued strenuously for throwing over
the committee in favour of the Commission's Report.
Mr. BRIGHT was entirely satisfied with the proceed-
ings of the committee and %ith the rules on which they
they bad acted, and urged the house to accept its report,
which was perfectly satisfactory to all the people con-
cerned. The house, he maintained, by its original appoint-
ment of a Commission, had declared itself unfit to go into
the details of the matter, and the Government, when the
committee was formed, announced that its report was to
be final. This last statement, however, was disputed by
Mr. HARDY.

Mr. NEWDEGA.TE and Mr. PERCY WYNDHAM joined in
urging tho house not to give up its power of review, and
Mr. DISRAELI deniod that the Government had
pledged itself to be bound by tho report of tho committee.
His recommendation now was that the house should go on
with the bill without further loss of time, and, trusting to
the practical good sense which had so often been shown,
ho anticipated that all tho difficulties of the schedules,
which were not numerous, would soon be satisfactorily
disposed of.

Mr. GLADSTONE reprobated strongly this course. To
attach so little weight to the recommendations of their own
committee was most unparliamentary, and involved the
practical loss of three weeks.

Mr. PAULL animadverted severely on the party mo-
tives of the appointment of this committee, and
Sir F. C. CROSSLEY advised the house to take the ad-
vice of the Premier, and go on with the bill.
Mr. OSBORNE held that the house had arrived now
at a supreme point of stultification. The only escape
from the situation was to renew the amendment of Mr.
Hibbert to leave out clause 4, and for this purpose he moved
that the Chairman report progress.
Mr. WHITBREAD defended himself against some im-
putations of Mr. Gorst on his porfect impartiality, and
denied emphatically that the committee had listened to
party considerations or arguments.
Mr. DISRAELI, in consenting to report progress, re-
peated that the course he had suggested was the most prac-
tical and convenient—the only mode, in fact, of getting
through the bill.
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The further progress of the bill was then adjourned
until Thursday.
The Regulation of Railways Bill, which has come down
from the Lords, was read a second time, as was also the
Turnpike Trusts Continuance Bill.
Somo other bills were forwarded a stage, and the house
adjourned at a quarter to 1 o'clock.

SHIPPING INTELLIGENCE—This Day.

(BY TELEGRAPH.)
GnAvEsEND, Tuesday Morning.
Arrived, June B.—Haable, from Soderham; Carl Fif-
teenth, steamer, from Gothenburg.
Arrived, June 9.—Merchant, from Windau; Mary, from
Barbadoes ; Jessie, from Antwerp ; Furth, steamer, from
Hamburg; Ernestine Catharine, from Warborg.
Sailed.—Panther, steamer, for Boulogne.
The A ugust Fredrick Pruhn, for Singapore, via Shields,
has returned here damaged.
DEAL, Tuesday Morning.

Passed.—Merle, from Dominica, for London (in tow);
Cilminar, for Bombay; Ivor, for St. Helena; Oriziva fur
Sierra Leone; Enmore, for Barbadoes—all from London ;
Young Marquis, schooner, from the West, for the North.

ROYAL COMMISSION ON PRIMARY EDUCATION
(InEwn).— The Royal Commission on Primary Educa-
tion (Ireland) met on Saturday at the offices of the com-
mission, 4G, Upper Sackville-street, Dublin. There wore
present—The Earl of Powis, the Bishop of Meath, Master
Brooke, Rev. Dr. Wilson, Rev. B. M. Cowie, Mr. Dease,
Mr. Gibson, Mr. Stokes, Professor Sullivan, and Mr.
Waldron. The secretaries, Messrs. May and Dunne, were
in attendance.

TRlNrry MONDAY. —Yesterday being Trinity
Monday a special general court was held at the Trinity
House on Tower-hill, at which his Royal Highness the
Duke of Edinburgh was unanimously re-elected master,
and Captain Frederick Arrow, deputy-master, of that
ancient corporation for the ensuing year. The court then
proceeded to the parish church of St. Olave in Hart-street,
where au excellent and appropriate sermon was preached
by the Rev. C. F. Tarver, M.A., vicar of St. Peter's Thanet,
ehaplaiu in ordinary to her Majesty, and chaplain to the
Prince of Wales.

NATIONAL CHORAL SOCIETY (Conductor, Mr. G.
W. Martin).—We are requested to state that the weekly
meetings of the above society have terminated for the sea-
m; and will P-9 roumecl in t 1 Pt =ll.