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exa►nple as that feeble and inane nonentity Georgy
Halliday, the mother of Charlotte, and who, after
poor Tom Halliday has been murdered by Philip
Sheldon, the hardzup surgeon-dentist, marries the
wretch who has made her a widow to that very end !
Namely, that she should marry him and bring with
her to him poor Tom Halliday's money, amounting
to some sixteen or eighteen thousand pounds. Pos-
sessed of which sum, Philip Sheldon leaves the
forceps to take up with the sharelist in his newly
assumed capacity as a stockbroker. For a time the
ill-gotten goods prosper but only for a time, and it is
when the darkness of ruin is closing around him,
that he endeavours to accomplish, and in effect, as
we have said, all but accomplishes the most
diabolical of all his crimes, the poisoning of his step-
daughter Charlotte, whose will in his wife's (her
mother's) favour he has secured, and whose life he
has contrived to ensure for some ten thousand
P)uuds. How all these materials arc worked to-
gether into a novel of extraordinary interest, and
the suspense awakened in the reader's mind by
Which is often nothing less than enthralling,
we leave Miss Braddon's work itself to
demonstrate. Enough for us—rather than at-
tempt here any matter of fact scanning of the
gradual entangling, and the still more gradual
disentangling of the plot—enough for us if we
direct the intending readers of Miss Braddon's
new fiction to its pages, as to a story worthy of the
hand to which we are already indebted for such ab-
sorbing tales of glamour and romance, as 40 Seen
Him Once," or rather, we should say, as " Lady
AthileY's Secret," as " Aurora Floyd," as " The
Doctor's Wife," and as " Henry Dunbar"—a list
t° Which may now be added, in deserved sequence,
" Birds of Prey" and " Charlotte's Inheritance."

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Cittlll4Y-T.

HER MAJESTY.

OSBORNE, Feb. 25.
,14eQueen drove out this morning, accompanied
by Prince Leopold.

Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales
drove out attended by the Countess De Grey.
The Prince of Wales, attended by Lieut.-Col.
„_lePpel, left Marlborough House on a visit to the
Duke and ucli3 is of 133Aufort at B Lthninton.

LAW INTELLIGENCE—This Day,

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.
(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.)

BASER AND CHILDREN V. THE LONDON AND SOUTH-

WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY.

This was an action brought by Mrs. Baker to
recover damages against the London and South-
Western Railway Company for the death of her
husband and children's father, Mr. Richard Baker,
resulting from an injury he had sustained in con--
Sequence of the alleged negligence of the company's
guard in shutting the door of the carriage with
Violence, by which one of the deceased's fingers be-
came jambed and lacerated. • •
The defendant pleaded. not guilty, and a special
plea that the deceased in his lifetime. agreed to ac-
cept £75 in full satisfaction of all claims upon the
company.
To that plea the plaintiffs replied• that the de-
ceased was induced to accept that sum by the pres-
sure and misrepresentation of the defendants' agents
relative to his recovery. •
Ur. Hawkins, Q.C., and the Hon. Mr. Tkesiger
appeared as counsel for the plaintiffs ; Mr. Sergeant
ilallantine, Mr. Giffard, Q.C., and Mr. Wood were
counsel fur the defendants.
The jury gave the sum of £2,300, to be appor-
tioned between the widow and children.

COURT OF COMMON PLEAS.

SINCLAIR V. LORD REDESDALE-LIBEL.
This was an action instituted for certain libellous.
imputations that had been thrown upon the cha-
racter of the plaintiff, who occupied the position of
Chief engineer of the Great Eastern Railway, in a
correspondence in which the noble lord had taken
Dart.

On the case being called on Mr. Huddleston said,
°II the part of the noble lord, he was quite prepared
° tender an apology to the plaintiff, which having
,sneell accepted, a verdict was taken fol Sinclair.
amages, 40s.

COURT OF DIVORCE.
(Before the Right Hon. Sir J. P. Wilde and a

Common Jury.)
CHAPMAN V. CHAPMAN.
This was a suit instituted by the wife to obtain a
Judicial separation, on the ground of the construc-
tive cruelty of the husband.
tor. Spinks, Q.C., and Mr. Searle appeared for
for ; and Dr. Swabey and Mr. Pritchard
zor the defendant.
hearing of this case took place on
Saturday, when
it will be remembered that the
Petitioner is the wife of a stonemason re-
alchng in Brighton, and that she alleged that through
418 violent temper she was continually in dread of
home violent act being perpetrated by him towards
fer• The 18th May, 1866,was the occasion on which
last rupture occurred. On that day the pet
iLueer had been to a doctor for his advice, and had
Bu, Wu him her knee. This excited his jealousy,
lull-lough her sister had accompanied her and been
present, and he was so violent that his wife went
Ilext day to a lawyer, and afterwards went to her
mother's house, and returned no more to the re-
ePpudent.

This morning the respondent was examined,
Whet he stated that his wife was of a bad temper.
lie had not struck her at all, although he had con-
sented to be bound over to keep the peace. He
had said that he was angry with her for showing
her knee to the doctor, but he did not call
her a common woman. On the day she
Went away she appeared to be on friendly terms
"ith him, and it was agreed that she take lodgings
la the country, and go and stay there for a few
W2eks• He had never ill-used the children. Ile
flight have boxed Richard's ears, and said he would
kill him, but, of course, he did not mean it. He
did not drive Martha away by his violence, and he
'l'd not remember his mother saying that he had.
,Ie Was then cross-examined by Dr. Spinks, but his
‘e4/tirnony was not much shaken.
The ease was proceeding when we went to press,
D-

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