The Sun.
London, England, 1844-11-12 00:00:00

MARKET INTELLIGENCE.

(From the London New Price Current of Nov. 12.)
SUGAR.—To day all descriptions of West India Sugar
were in excellent request. Merchants manifested firm-
ness, and have obtained prices 6d per cwt above those of
Friday ; the business transactee would have been to a
larger extent, had the assortment at market been
better ; the Sugar on show consisted principal'y
of brown low gley and dingy yellow ; there are
many orders unexecuted for good and fine yellow sort,
the stock of which is smaller than has been the case for
some years at this period. The total purchases
amounted to 800 hhds, including a public sale of 100
hhds of Barbadoes, which went off at very full rates, and
the biddings were spirited, fine yellow fetched 665, good
Gus to 645, good mid 60s to 60s 6d, mid 57s to 595, and
low 54s 6d to 56s Gd per cwt.
REFINED.—Ta-day numerous purchases were made in
Refined Goods by the home trade, and a further advance
occurred in prices, indeed the market was nearly clearnl;
brown lumps fetched 71s 6d to 725, and Standard lumps
72s Gd to 73s per cwt ; at these rates it was even diffi-
cult to purchase towards the close of business. For
bonded crushed Sugar prices are again higher, sales
having been made for forward delivery at 29s to 29s 3d
per cwt.
MAURITIUS.—This afternoon some parcels were sold
privately, at prices rather above those of Friday. There
was no public sale, and the stock is nearly all in the
dealers' hands. The supply is not ample for the in-
creasing wants of the trade.
EAST INDIA.—This afternoon the only public sale of
Bengal was that of 134 bags, which went at 57s to 57s
6d for washed yellow, 658 to 67s 6d for grainy ditto, 46s
for sound brown, 403 for low ditto, 39s to 40s for damp
and washed, and Gls for damp white. By private con-
tract there was a good deal doing at further advanced
rates—white fetched 60s to 68s, yellow 55s to 635, and
superior 64s to 70s per cwt. There was a better demand
for Manilla Sugar by private contract, prices advanced
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rather more demand for West India Molasses, and former
rates were paid.

SAGO has been in good request by private contract at
firm rates; low at 13s to 14s, middling 15s to 17s, good
middling and fine 18s to 24s per cwt. Of Arrowroot 95
pkgs Here partly sold at public sale; Bermuda at 8d to
Is 2d; Jamaica, 4s to 6d; St. Vincent's 4A. to 6d.
201 brls of Tous-les-Mois, Gd. 96 brls of Tapioca 4id
per Ib, and 10 chests Cuba Honey 34s to 38s per cwt.
FOREIGN.—To-day the inquiries were numerous for
yellow Havannah Sugar from shippers and speculators ;
the rates offered were 6d to is per cwt above those of
this day week, but business of consequence was pre-
vented by the chief holders withdrawing their

Sugars from the market. For 800 boxes common
greyish yellow 21s have been paid. Holders of white are
not inclined to sell at present. For all sorts of Brazil
stiffer rates are asked, indeed several parcels have been
withdrawn from the market; there are several buyers at
former prices, but no sellers. That the Havannah Sugar
crop has been much injured there can be no doubt, and
the next crop is not :expected to be more than 600,000
boxes, whereas last season it was 8504)00 boxes.
COFFEE.—This afternoon the market was much better
supplied with East India Coffee. The public sales com-
prised 3,532 bags Singapore Java, 1,689 bags Padang,
108 bls Mocha, and 961 bags Ceylon ; the Java of sound
quality was taken in above the value—good ord brownish
at 38s, ord damp brown 335, very ord brown 32s ;
the sea damaged, amounting to 182 bags, sold at
moderate rates, first class at 28s 6d to 355, second 25s to
335, and third 21s to 29s 6d ; of the Padang 994 bags
were sea damaged, these sold at low rates, first class
at 23s Gd to 24s 6d, second and third 22s to 23s 6d,
fourth 18s, sea damaged and repacked 18s to 225, but
the sound was taken in at more than it was worth, good
ord brouwn at 27s ; the Ceyloy went off quietly, and a
part only sold 6d under former rates—good ord pale
went at 545, good ord bold rather colory 55s to 55s 6(1,
and ragged 48s to 51s ; the Mocha was all sea damaged,
and sold at 49s to 675, being cheap. There is still little
demand privately for Foreign Coffi,e ; at public sale 43
brls of Rio were taken in at 43s Gd to 44s for fine ordi-
nary colory.
TEA.—The market has still a firm appearance for
nearly every desciption of Tea, and none has been
offered at public sale. Holders of Congou show firmness,
and have obtained former rates ; there has, however,
been less demand from the trade, and few purchases
have been made by speculators—of fine the
supply is scanty, and of ordinary qualities few parcels
are offering for sale—common at Mid to I Id, good
common 111 d to 11 id, but mid coarse is to is Oid, but
mid and mid blksh leaf is ld to is 24d, good blkish
leaf Is 3d to Is sd, fine Is 6d to Is 2d, Pekoe flavour is
Is 9d to 2s 4d, and very rich 2s 5d to 2s 6d per lb.
Pouchong has met with increased attention—clean
has been selling at 6d to 9d. Scented Orange Pekoe
is fetching 3s 4d to 3s 4A-d—the stock is nearly
all in second hands. Hyson has met with eager pur -
chasers, and further advanced rates are paid, common
fetching 2s Gd to 2s Bd, but mid and mid 2s 9d to 3s,
and superior 3s 2d to Ss 6d. For Imperial and Gun-
powder there has been a good demand. To-day there
was not much business transacted in Teas, but prices
were supported ; common swami Congou for cash was
with difficulty to be purchased under 10Id per lb.

S PIC ES.—This afternoon white Pepper was in request,
and 50 bags good bold heavy at public sale were sold at
6,id, and one lot low middling 4d per lb, being the
former value. For Nutmegs prices advanced ld to 2d
per lb, and 39 chests two boxes at auction were
all sold : Singapore fine brown bold fetched 4s 2d
to 4s sd, good 3s 9d to 4s Id, good middling 3s 7d
to 3s Bd, mid 3s 6d, damp 3s 8d to 4s Id, worm eaten
Is 6d to is Bd, mouldy 3s to 3s 6d. Cloves were not
much in request, and 32 chests Penang at auction went
at rather lower rates, fine bold bright at 2s 3d to 2s sd,
good ditto 2s to 2s Id, damp 2s 2d. Of Mace 13 chests
were sold at lower rates, good bold went at 3s to 3s 3d,
and mid 2s 9d to 2s I Id. Of Barbadoes Ginger 46 bags
were taken at 43a.

COCOA.—To-day West India was sought after, and
stiff rates paid by private contract. At public sale 48
bags, and 6 barrels of Trinidad were sold at 43s to 44s
for middling Red, and 42s per cwt for grey.
RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—Jamaica Raw is
not to be purchased upon lower terms, but market has
still a quiet appearance ; there are few home or ex-
port purchasers ; the market is but moderately supplied,
especially with the better qualities : 3s 10d to 5s per
gallon is the value of 30 to 36 per cent 0. P., and 5s 4d to
Os for superior high flavoured sorts. Leewards are held
with firmness, but at present there are few orders ;
2s 44-d to 2s 5d is the value of proof strength : at 2s 4d
there are, however, several purchasers. Demerara at
3s 3d to 3s 6d for strong qualities. Calcutta, 2s 2id to
2s 3d. For Leeward Island Rum prices are 8d to 9d,
and Jamaica is to 2s per gallon higher than they were
in 1843. For Brandy the demand has been
brisk for the best description ; inferior kinds
are in good request. Cognac, best brands of the vintage
of 1838, hhds at 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto, 1839, hhds
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puns 4s 3d ; common 2s Iod to 3s 2d, and mid to good
mid 3s 3d to 3s 10d per gallon. Of the vintage of 1843
the quantity in the market is small. Geneva shipping
sort at is 9d to Is 10d, and fine 2s 4d to 3s 6d per gallon.
English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, cash.
RICE.—A good demand has existed for yellow Madras
Rice by private contract, and several parcels have been
disposed of rather abova former rates, 8s 3d to 9s per
cwt having been paid, the supply has become small. Java
at 9s to 9s 6d for yellow, lOs to lls for white, superior
would fetch 118 6d to 12s per cwt, but there is at present
none in the market. Bombay Rice, at auction, at lOs 6d
to ils for mid white, and 9s 6d to lOs per cwt for
sea damaged, being the full value. Bengal middling
white was sold at I Is, and good middling to good Ils 6d
to 12s per cwt. Cleaned, at 13s Gd to 18s for Patna, and
23s to 27s per cwt for Carolina. For East India prices
are 6d to is per cwt above those of last season at this
period.
FRUIT.—The purchases made in Raisins were exten-
sive. New Red Smyrna in barrels fetched 455, cases 465.
Elemo in cases 51s to 525, Malaga 40s, Sultanas 655, and
Valentias 503. The value of Turkey Pulled Figs is 60s
to 130 s. Currants are much wanted : new Patras are
fetching 49s to 50s, and old Island fruit 435.
COCHINEAL—This afternoon Cochineal met with more
attention, and 118 bags of Honduras at public sale were
all sold at fully former rates, low silvers fetched 4s id to
4s 2d, and middling to good 4s 3d to 4s 7d per lb.
INDIGO.—The dullness in the East India Indigo
market has increased, and some holders are more in-
clined to realise, the home trade have purchased with
much caution, and for exportation there are few orders,
the rates accepted show a decline on those of the last
Quarterly sale of 2d to 3d; indeed, one parcel of 40
chests of Bengal has been forced off to close an account
at a discount of 5d per lb, but at this rate there are not
further sellers. Spanish has been little inquired for.
TALLOW.—There has been a good demand for Russian
on the spot in consequence of importers again submit-
ting to railer lower rates, 40s 6d to 40s 9d were the
current prices taken for P Y Candle to-day. New
South Wales at auction went at 38s 6d to 41s 6d. South
American at auction at 37s 3d to 40s for good and fine
quality.
OILS.—The common descriptions of Fish Oils are not
much wanted, and prices are on the decline for all kinds;
Pale Seal selling by private contract at 341 103 to 35/,
coloured 311 to 33/, Cod 321 lOs to 331, and at auction
90 tuns of Southern went at 281 lOs to 311 15s for mid to
fine, being 20s par tun under former rates. With brown
Seal the market is scantily supplied at present. Sperm
at 881 to 901 per tun for British. Holders of Olive Oil
are inclined to realise on account of the heavy stock ;
Gallipoli at 43/ to 444 Spanish 411 to 424 and Barbary
and Levant 301 to 401 per tun. Cocoa Nut Oil is wanted,
and prices keep firm, 61 casks at public sale fetched 27s
Gd to 21s 6d per cwt. American Lard at auction went
at 40s to 41s. Palm has been in good request at former
rates. Rape Oil pale at 355, and brown 34s per cwt.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
COURT OF CHANCERY.--Noo.ll.
The Lord Chancellor took his seat in his Court to,
day, at a quarter before eleven o'clock, for the pur.
pose of hearing appeals.
MATTHEWS V. BRIM

The further aruments in this case, which were
partly heard on I riday and Saturday, were resumed
and concluded to-day. The case came before the
court upon appeal from the court below, which had
ordered the defendant to make good the value of a
number of Exchequer-bills, which he had, as a trustee,
left in the hands of bankers, who converted them to
their own use, and afterwards became bankrupts. The
defendant was also ordered to pay the costs. The
facts of the case may be thus shortly stated :—A tes-
tator, of the name of Matthews, by his will appointed
the defendant a trustee of considerable estates in Suf-
folk, with directions to dispose of them in a reasonable
time, and, at the termination of a beneficial interest in
the fund, which was to be enjoyed by his widow, to
divide it among his younger children, of whom the
plaintiff was one. The testator died in 1834, and the
defendant sold a portion of the estates, and placed the
purchase-money, for a time, in the hands of
Messrs. Oakes, as his bankers ; he, however, shortly
afterwards, for greater security, placed the money,
which amounted to 7,5001., in the hands of the Messrs.
Wakefield, the bill-brokers and bankers, in Broad.
street, London. Negotiations were going on, with the
concurrence of the widow of the testator, for paying
the money out on mortgage, and in the meantime he
gave Messrs. Wakefield instructions to invest it is
the purchase of Exchequer-bills. The bills were pur-
chased, but the Messrs. Wakefield became bankrupts
in April, 1841, and it turned out that they had felo-
niously sold the hills afterwards, and converted the
produce to their own use, subjecting themselves to
the provisions of the 7th and Bth Geo. IV., chap. 59,
for the fraud. The money being therefore lost, the
Master of the Rolls held the defendant to be re-
sponsible, on the ground that he had transferred to
other persons the confidence reposed in him, and that
having parted with the custody of the money, he must
replace it, and pay all the costs.
Mr. Bethell and a gentleman behind the bar ap-
peared for the appellant, and Mr. J. Russell and Mr.
Chandless supported the judgment of the Court below.

Or
The arguments having concluded to-day,
The LORD CHANCELLOR postponed giving judg-
ment till he had had an opportunity of looking into
the papers and the authorities that had been cited.
The Court did not rise till nearly four o'clock.

VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 11.
(Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.)
lIUXTABLE V. THE STATE OF ILLINOIS.

The arguments in this part-heard case were re-
sumed and concluded to-day. The case came before
the Court upon demurrers put in to the bill by tho
defendants, Messrs. Magmas and Co., and Messrs.
Baring, Brothers, for want of equity as against them,
they having been made, by the plaintiff, defendants to
the suit, upon allegations that they were the autho-
rised agents of the State of Illinois in this country.
The plaintiff; who is a married woman, by the pre-
sent bill sought payment through the defendants, ag
Such agents, of a debt which she alleged to be due
to her for principal and interest, accruing in
respect to certain bonds of the State of
Tllipois, which she had been induced, before she
married, by John Wright, of the late banking firm of
Messrs. Wright and Co., with whom she kept a bank-

ing account, and before the bankruptcy of that firm,
to purchase, and that at a time when Messrs. Wright
and Co. were the accredited agents of the State of
Illinois in this country, for the sale of the ho,,ds
of that State. The plaintiff by her bill further al-
leged that the State of Illinois, through its agents,
Messrs. Magniac and Co., proved a large debt against
the estate of Wright and Co. in respect of the bonds
of the State entrusted to them for sale in this country,
and that a sum of 15,0001. was then standing to the
credit of the State of Illinois in the Court of Bank-
ruptcy, the amount of dividend already declared upon
the debt due to the State of Illinois. To obtain pay-
ment of her debt out of that fund, the plaintiff filed
this bill against the State of Illinois, making the
defendants, Messrs. Magniac and Co., and Messrs.
Baring, Brothers, as the alleged agents of the State on
this country, defendants to the suit, for that purpose,
and praying by the bill that the State of Illinois and
the defendants, as its agents, should be restrained
from receiving the fund from the Court of Bank-
ruptcy without first satisfying thereout her demand.
Upon the conclusion of the arguments,

The VICE-CHANCELLOR gave judgment, allowing
all the de►nurrers, with costs, but giving the plaintiff
liberty to amend her bill.

COULSTR[NG V. COULSTRING.

This case came before the Court upon a plea put
in by the defendant to the bill of the plaintiff
The plaintiff and the defendant are husband and
wife ; they had lived together for some years and had
four children. They quarrelled and separated, and
upon that occasion the defendant, the husband,
executed a deed, by which he allowed the
plaintiff, his wife, twenty-eight shillings a week
to keep herself and her four children. In that deed was
a proviso, that if they should live together again, and
thereby invalidate the deed, that upon any future
separation another deed to the same effect should be
executed. It appeared from the statements in the
bill that the parties lived together again for about six
weeks, and then separated, and the defendant refused
to execute another deed. Upon this event taking
place the plaintiff filed her bill to compel him to do
so, to which the defendant put in his plea.
Mr. JAMES, who appeared in support of the plea,
was proceeding to open his case, when
The VICE-CHANCELLOR inquired who appeared in,
support of the bill ?
A little dapper female here stepped forward, and
said she was the plaintiff, that she had very little to
say, and she therefore thought that she could do it as
well as employing counsel.
The VICE-CHANCELLOR (smilingly) said he was
always happy to see the ladies, but he thought it
would have been much better for her if she had
entrusted her case to counsel.

The lady, notwithstanding the good advice, pro-
ceeded in a rambling strain to argue her case, and
the result was as might have been expected.
His HoNouß ordered the plea to be allowed.

CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 11.
STONE AGAINST STONE.
Dr. Lusunewros gave sentence in this case, which
was argued in Trinity Term last. It was originally a
suit commenced by Mrs. Harriet Stone against Mr.
George Stone, her husband, for a divorce by reason
of cruelty and adultery. Mr. Stone denied both
charges, and in return accused Mrs. Stone of adultery
with Lord Sussex Lennox, and her adultery with
Mr. Thomas Knox Holmes was incidentally pleaded.
Mrs. Stone, in a third plea, charged her husband
with connivance at her adultery with Mr. Holmes.
The parties were married on the 23d of February,
1835, Mr. Stone being then a bachelor, and Mrs.
Stone a widow, of the name of Hawkins. They had
one child, and on the 24th of August, 1841, they
separated. Mr. Stone is the partner of a well-known
banking firm in the City. The adultery of Mrs.
Stone with Lord Sussex Lennox, the Learned Judge
observed, was proved to demonstration ; indeed, it
could not be denied. Mr. Stone, therefore, would be
entitled to the separation he prayed for unless barred
by his own misconduct. To be deprived of remedy,
he must himself have committed adultery, or have
connived at his own dishonour, or have condoned the
adultery of his wife after it had taken place. These,
therefore, were the only questions he had to try. A
great many circumstances might arise in matrimonial
intercourse deserving of severe reprobation • but
unless they bore upon the questions of adultery,
connivance, or condonation, they were not properly
within the cognizance of this Court. In consider-
ing the charge of adultery brought against Mr.
Stone, it was a great relief to his (the Learned
Judge's) mind, to be able to dismiss altogether
the allegation of a connexion with the sister
of Mrs. Stone, which had been abandoned, and
of which, in his opinion, .there was not the slightest
evidence. The first charge of adultery against
Mr. Stone respecting which evidence had been offered
was, that in 1839 he had gone to the Lyceum Theatre,
and accompanied a woman to her apartments, where
he left his banking-book, keys, and a sum of money.
No direct evidence of this charge was produced, but
it was stated to be proved by the admission of Mr.
Stone himself—a species of evidence of the highest
kind, provided always that it was accompanied by
certain requisites, namely, that the party reporting
the admission was credible, that the expressions were
clear and distinct, and that the admission was sincere.
Only one witness was produced to prove this charge,
Ann Knowles. What had she been brought to prove ?
Why, that Mr. Stone at a subsequent time (about a
twelvemonth after) acknowledged the fact in her
hearing and in the presence of his wife and of Mr.
Holmes. (The Learned Judge here read the deposi-
tion of Ann Knowles upon this article of the allega-
tion.) Now, laying out of consideration for the pre-
sent the degree of credit due to Ann Knowles, was
the statement quite consistent with probability and
with all the other facts of the case ? Assuming that
Mr. Stone had been guilty :of the fact imputed to
him, was it very probable that he should have ad-
mitted it in the presence of three persons, One
his wife, another the person with whom his wife
is accused of having committed adultery, and
the third the nurse of his child ? If he had
done so, he would have been guilty of the grossest
imprudence, unless it could be supposed that
it took place with the knowledge and acquiescence of
the wife, and that this was a habit of the husband,
for had this been an isolated transaction, in all human
probability it must have been concealed by him. But
the charge was highly improbable, from the statement
of the witness not relating all that passed, for nothing
was said as to any observation from Mrs. Stone. It
was impossible for the Court on such evidence as this,
so inconsistent with probability, to hold that• the
offence was established. If such a charge could be
established upon the testimony of a single wit-
ness, the circumstances must be probable, and the
witness omni exceptione major, and this, looking to
the testimony of Ann Knowles upon other points,
could not, with propriety be maintained. Consider-
ing, therefore, this charge as not sufficiently estab-
lished, he proceeded to the next charge,—that Mr.
Stone had been infected with a certain disease. Of
this charge there appeared to he an ample field for
evidence, inasmuch as several men were vouched.
But the testimony of Mr. Liston, the surgeon, who
attended Mr. Stone professionally, pronounced the
symptoms to be equivocal ; and when a professional
gentleman of eminence and of great medical
skill declared the point to be doubtful, it would not
become him (the Learned Judge), who had no
medical skill and none of the opportunities afforded
to Mr. Liston, to come to a different conclusion. Mrs.
Knowles spoke to the same point ; but it would not
be safe to credit her, even if her evidence were not
opposed to that of the medical witness. The
evidence of Mr. Scanlan to an alleged confession of
Stone showed that it wanted one of the requisites,
namely, sincerity, and that of Mr. Martindale did
not go to convict Mr. Stone of matrimonial infidelity.
Upon this point, therefore, the proof was not suffi-
cient to satisfy the Court. The only remaining
charge of adultery was that alleged to have taken
place with Mrs. Cole, his housemaid and housekeeper,
at Mr. Stone's house at Fulham, in 1842, which
rested upon the evidence of the gardener, Maxwell,
and his wife, the only other servants in the house.
The Learned Judge went into a very minute exami-
nation of the details of their evidence, commenting
upon the inconsistencies and improbabilities in their
statements, and upon the fact that Mary Maxwell did
not believe that adultery had taken place at the time,
though she had come to that col-1(1414m since. -Whilst
there was no proof of any improper familiarities be-
tween Mr. Stone and Mrs. Cole, still less of any act of
adultery, the circumstances stated by the witnesses as
affording an inference of guilt wero consistent with
innocence. It turned out likewise that the facts al-
leged in three articles of the wife's plea, which ap.
peared to be separate and distinct, all occurred on the
same day. The two most essential oireumstancer were
Cole's being alone with Mr. Stone in his bedroom,
and her being outside his door in her night clothes, in-
toxioated ; the door, however, being locked. The
latter circumstance could not be taken as evidence
against Mr. Stone, and it was admitted by Mary
Maxwell that Mrs. Cole had occasion to g 0 into Mr.
Stone's room in the ordinary fulfilment of her house-
hold duties. Under such circumstances the Court
could not infer guilt; it could not give way to sus-
picion ; it must be governed by the legitimate results
of legal evidence. There was not a single act of
indecent familiarity directly proved ; and, had there
been a criminal intercourse carried on between the
parties, he (the Learned Judge) could not conceive
that there would not have been more direct evidence.
He rnnst, under these circumstances, pronounce the
charge of adultery against Mr. Stone not proved. He
had now arrived at a stage of the investigation
which eptitled him to say that the adultery of Mrs.
Stone with Lord Sussex Lennox being Prect'eci, and
no charge of adultery against Mr. stone being estab-
lished, it followed that he was entitled to a sentence
of separation from his wife, unless he had condoned'
her offence, or had forfeited his claim to re);,,,,
connivance, It wqs vitlnelv.3§ary - ---• °Y
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it might be sufficient to say, that the conduct of
the husband might be most reprehensible and yet
not connivance, He knew no authority for holding
that coarse and bi utal words, obscene and disgusting
language, and an entire disregard of decorum, would
alone constitute connivance. Such conduct, though
most derogatory to a gentleman, and offensive to good
feeling, even though accompanied by cruelty, and
even the desertion of a wife, would not amount in the
eye of the law to connivance, though it might have
a direct and necessary tendency to lead her into a
course which would expose her to the commission of
adultery. The Learned Judge then stated briefly the
facts upon which the charge of connivance was
founded. An extract of a letter from a lady named
Price, was communicated to Mr. Stone, wherein the
intimacy of Mrs. Stone with Mr. Holmes was repre-
sented as the subject of observation, and it was alleged
that notwithstanding this warning, he promoted their
intimacy. But there was no proof of adultery be-
tween Mrs. Stone and Mr. Holmes, and could the
Court act without evidence, and assume a fact which
was essential to establish the charge of connivance ?
The letters discovered by Mr. Stone in his wife's re-
positories were not produced, and their contents were
not known to the court. There had been no case in
which connivance had been established where the adul-
tery was not clearly proved. Even though the husband
might be supposed in foro conscientm to be guilty of
connivance, in the eye of the law there could not be
connivance without proof of the adultery and of the
conduct of the party with relation to it; and there
was not a shadow of proof in this case. The last
topic in the case was the conduct of Mr. Stone on the
24th of August, 1841, on the discovery of the letters
from Mr. Holmes to his wife. The facts alleged
against Mr. Stone were, that he took his wife and
child on that day, after the discovery, in the carriage
to Fulham, and treated her with great kindness and
attention. The evidence of Ann Knowles upon this
point was highly improbable, and was inconsistent
with the fact of the separation on that day, and with
the letter of Mrs. Stone. Upon the whole case, he
acquitted Mr. Stone of all legal culpability which
would bar him from obtaining a separation. lie (Dr.
Lushington) was not called upon to give any opinion
how far Mr. Stone's gross and offensive conversation
and demeanour, and his permitting his wife to asso-
ciate with persons not of the best or purest character,
might have led to her abandonment of all delicacy of
feeling, and so have paved the way for her violation
of the marriage bed. Such matters were not within
the cognisance of this Court; and he rejoiced, in this
case, to be relieved from the responsibility of passing
his judgment upon them. He pronounced for the
divorce.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.
(YESTERDAY.)
WORSHIP-STREET.
Yesterday a dissipated-looking fellow, named
Joshua Chatfield, was charged with a brutal assault
upon his wife, a delicate little woman, in an advanced
stage of pregnancy, and whose face was shockingly
swollen and disfigured. She stated that the prisoner'
who was by trade an engineer, and capable of earning
40s. per week, and by whom she had had eleven cbil'
dren, was a most drunken fellow, and whenever in
that state, which was of daily occurrence, invariably
ill-used her. 014 Saturday night he returned honle
drunk, as usual, and presented her with 55., which
was all he had left of his wages, with 4s. of which
he ordered her to redeem from the pawnbroker's 11.14
boots, which he had himself pledged during the week
to procure drink, and with the remaining shilling too'
her to procure food and other necessaries for the SO'
day. She begged him to give her more money, 0
the shilling was quite inadequate for their wants,
which he abused her with the coarsest language, and
commenced a most violent attack upon her, striking
her about the ribs, and knocking her down and kick
ing her for more than half an hour. Her cries at 11,"
arrested the attention of a policeman, who forced po,
way into the place, and found the woman. crcucbecl
up and bent together in one of the corners of the
room, with nothing on her but her night dress, which
was torn to pieces ; blood was flowing profusely fral
her mouth, and she had every appearance of having
been most brutally treated.

Mr. BROUGHTON characterised the case as one of the
most brutal assaults that had ever come before hit
and said he regretted that he was not empovver''''
to send the husband to prison for at least six m0n1.1151
as he richly deserved that extent of punishment. P
however, should punish him to the full extent 'of bra
power, and sentence the prisoner to pay 51. to the
Queen, and in default of payment he must under
two months' imprisonment and hard labour in the
House of Correction.

The prisoner, who was astounded at the sentence/
was afterwards carried off in the van.

THAMES POLICE.
James Rich, a young man of wild andtinge!
aspect, was yesterday charged with having made cr
desperate effort at self-destnic.tior. by hanging hinse
with his pocket-handkerchief it an outhouse attacb`"A
to his father's premises.
It appeared that be tied been subject to fits All/
hydrophobia for tlle last eight years. As far back!"4
that time he had been bitten by a dog, and exhibit
decided symptoms of hydrophobia, though .ffj
j
wounded parts were excised. When he was sell 4
with the fits his bark (it was stated) was scareed,
distinguishable from that of a dog. He also Ow
bited a horror of water.

Mr. BRODERIPLYiIis is a most extraordinary oil;
I never heard of such a one before, though 1111,,
paid considerable attention to and am tolerably C
versant with the subject. I always understoodithiltj
cases where the symptoms were decidedly maniffes'q
hydrophobia terminated fatally.
The prisoner was given up to his friends, INho vi,e/4
cautioned by the magistrate to take great cr.re of DP'
UNION-HALL.
Lucy George, a respectable-looking girl, about .01
was placed at the bar before Mr. Traill, charged tl,r,
stealing the sum of ss. 2d., the property of her moulf,
The mother, a hard-working middle-aged fettle(
stated that on Saturday evening last she gave :11,
ss. 2d. for the purpose of paying a tradesman's vi,„cl
Not returning home, she made inquiries, and you'd
she had not paid the money ; she then gave inforr;
tion to the police, who took her into custody at
o'clock on Sunday morning. She was sorry to
that she had frequently robbed her, not only of mop
but anything she could lay her hands on. She P
been charged at this court on several occasions% spy
received the admonitions of the magistrate, w'notj
her solicitation, liberated her. She had endea,vot,
all in her power to reform her, but she was quite
corrigible, and she was now determined to have
punished.
Mr. TRAILL asked the prisoner what she ha,. t
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say in answer to the charge ? She rep'Aied that 5
had spent the money.
Mr. TRAILL observed to the motner that it '641
useless to deal leniently with the prisoner. She vli;1
a hardened thief, and the best way would be to Sep
her to the Old Bailey for trial. He would, tiowov",'-f►
remand her until to-morrow.
The prisoner, who displayed the utmost 'aidifferelice
was accordingly remanded.

We are sorry to have to announce the death of liffs;
Wm. Grieve, of Drury-lane Theat,,e, whose talento
a painter of the highest rank have, on so many occasl%g.
been appreciated by the public. lie died this morn'
A more upright man never liv'ed. lie has left a Wl°
and several children.

BIRTHS.
_A" o &
On the 4th inst., at Ostend, the lady of G. B. Ge'
Esq., of a son.
On the 7th inst., the lady of J. Ingle, Esq., of a son-
On the Bth inst., at Denmark-hill, Camberwell, ...,
Elliot, of a daughter.
On the 9th inst., at Bexley, Kent, the wife of Molfor LA--
shank, of a daughter.
oe!
„r
On the 9th inst., the wife of the Rev. M. Wilki•json, 0 gtto
of the Marlborough School for the sons of c'Aergyme'
others, of a son.
rot'
On the 9th inst., Mrs. Lewis Engelbachs of Old 0°
place, Clapham-road, of a daughter. Of
On the 9th inst., at Milton-street, Dorset_square, th°
of J. Samuel, Esq., of a son.
a,
On the 9th inst., at Norwood, Mrs. J. Maitland, of foof
At Minterne House, Dorset, Lady Theresa IVO'
41 tughter.
di °1
On the 6th inst., at Gillingoase, near Falmouth, the 11 of,
T. M. Horsford, of Lincoln's Inn, Esq., barrister-at-10'
daughter,

MARRIED. gr•
On the 7th inst., at St. John's Church, Paddingt_olt late
Lionel T. Ponsford, to Elizabeth, only daughter of tiAv
T. Lewis, Esq., of Porchester-terrace, Bayswater. gottio,
On the Bth inst., at Northfleet Church, Kent, goirP-
_,
fourth son of the Rev. William Pace, M.A., Captain, lyyq
army, to Jobina, third daughter of William H. StYle*
of New House Farm, Northfleet.

DIED.
In September last, at Soorapoor, in the East Indite th.
the wife of Captain Meadows Taylor, of his Higll°`"-
Nizam's service. OOP
On the 17th of September last, at Kamptee, 1""e-izt 2110
Cyril Andreus Brown, of the 7th Regiment of Madras
Infantry. cailori•
On the 19th ult., Louisa, the wife of John Lewis ""-ries.
On the Ist inst., in Finsbury-circus, Mr. Adolphus " -
On the 4th inst., at Clapham, James Hannay, Esq- J. F.
On the Bth inst., at Hammersmith, Sarah, relict of
IliOnlditthe ch, E
Bth sq.
i aged 72. EA'
nst., in Conduit-street, John Steveawn'
the eminent surgeon-oculist. Jamb
On the Bth inst., at Trinidad-place, Islington,
Thomas, the infant son of George Athill, Esq.
On the 9th inst., at New Bond-street, Mr. Hardwick' p,4,
On the 9th inst., at Wilton- place, Adam Browner'',
barrister-at-law, aged 41. Stondoe,
On the 9th inst., at the Rectory House, Upper 7.
Beds, the Rev, Jahn Hull, Rector of that parish, age.d 'infant
On the 10th inst., at Hanover-terrace, Peckham, tile
dartf;bier of A. Johnson, Esq. uptou,
At Blackheath, Martha, the wife of Mr. Edward
Queenhithe.
°f
On the lltb inst.; Amelia, the infant daughter
4-44"1411agekl. Esq., Of I)eVOnSili
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