Star.
London, England, 1827-08-18 00:00:00

GUILDHALL

lUatanromut. sterda y a female of highly respectable
appearance, about thirty years of age, was placed at the bar on a
charge of having been disorderly the night before. The Lady was
immediately recognised as having, on Wednesday, obtained a sum-
mons for her husband to &hew cause why be refused t• support her.
The husband, in obedience to the summons, attended the Coen
on Thursday, and, on his appears/ice, the Lady, who was present,
left the Court and went away. The case was called on sows after,
and dismissed in conseiueoee of ber non-appearance. Yesterday

the husband presented himself as her acesasti;and stated that Whit;
he was attending in the Justice Roam, tbe day before, she went to
his house and obtained admittance; on his return home he found
her in the drawing-room, and desired her to depart, which she
refused. He then went out for a constable, but did not find
one till late at night, when he returned, and after much resist-
ance, the constable succeeded in taking her to the watchhouse.—
She screamed so violently that she collected a molt about the
house, and the constable was so ill treated by the mob that be
was unable to attend. The husband proceeded to state that his wife
had left him three times, and lived with other men In the last eight
years; be took her back each time in the hope of reelahning her,

sisut without effect ; and he was determined never to take her back
skain. lie had since proposed to her to appoint a friend each to de-
termine what allowance be should make for her support, which she
refused, saying, she was determined to live in his house. After
such conduct, he was determined to have nothing more to do with
her, and would not make her any allowance until compelled by law.
She had formerly threatened his life. and taken up a poker to knock
his brains out, and he was certain she meant to do him some grievous
bodily hum, and prayed to be protected front her eirdence.
The Lady now claimed to be heard, and stated. that she would
not say she was free from fault, for who could say it? But her
' husband's conduct had been the ratite of her ever leaving him,
and, besides, he had given his consent, and the first man she went
to live with was a friend of her husband's, whose muse she took,
and lived with him as his wife; and her husband was in the con-
stant habit of coming to dim with them •ist the meaty, and used
to bring her child with him. mat had aught the chilies leather
aunt. She could appeal for the truth d this atatemem to the
Clergyman ol the parish, who had often dieted in company with her
husband at the house of the Gentleman with whom the lived, and
whose wife the Clergyman supposed her to be. When she went to
her husband's house the day before, she not reading in the drawing-
room till he came homo. Be then went out for a constable, but I
did not return till Dear midnight, when be brought a drunken con-
stable, who, after a great deal of violence, threw her down the stairs
and bruised her dreadfully.—An old Naval Officer, who access..
panied the Lady, corroborated her statement.
The husband and wife now entered into a wordy war of mutual
crimination, which it was with difficulty the Alderman could ter-
minate. The husband repeatedly declared that he never would
support her, unless compelled by law ; that she was even now living
with another man, and her object was to get support for herself
and him.

The wife declared that her husband bad received *good fortune
with her, and should support ber.
The Alderman, who appeared anxious to get rid of the case, dig.
missed the charge against the wife, and she immediately ran out of
Court to get into her husband's house before his return.

DI RD.

Thursday, at Lis country residence, near West Calder, George
Ferguson, Lord Hermand, one of the Senators of the College of
Justice. He retired last year from the arduous duties of his office,
after a service of 37 yeses, sod upwards of 80 years of age.
Thursday sennight, In the Wosiebnate, Plymouth,aged ss,wm.
' Atkinson, an eccentric character well known to the itihabttatatti
Old Town as " Billy the tanner." He was, when young, to vat
his own words, "crossed in his love to Kelly Keen," and frost tlut
time has borne the most inveterate hatred to the fair sex;
such an extent was this carried, that be could not, on any accnet
be persuaded to speak to a woman. He always ate his virtual' it
himself, and abogether was a very singular being.