Star.
London, England, 1829-11-21 00:00:00

Mr. Bsooonate addressed the court for the defendant, and
Mr. Kat.xy followed upon the same side ; after which
The Arrosurr-Ganzaax addressed the court at considerable
length for the prosecution, during which he took occasion to speak
In very Battering terms of the respectability of the defendant's tes•
timonials of character.
' Mr. Justice BATIXT then proceeded to pass sentence upon the
defendant, and said that no man with a proper feeling of morality
but must shrink from resorting to such means as the defe:Klant had
been guilty of in order to bring himself forward; that it wa not a
question of fitness or unfitness to practi►e as an apothecary. The
defendanthad been guilty of a breach of the statute In which it is ex-
pre,sly enacted that no person shall practise as an apothecary until
hr has reached the age of twenty-one. The defendant's character
had hitherto been unimpeachable, but the present case formed a
most momentous exception. Such a sentence, therefore, must be
passed as would teach persons to do right, If they could not other-
wise distinguish between what was correct and what was wrong.
The court, therefore, ordered the defendant to be imprisoned six
months in the county prison at Huntingdon, and in the meantime
stand committed to the custody of the marshal of the Marshalsea.

COURT OF ARCHES, Nov. 19.
Before Sir Jolts Menne&
BUNS V. MM.
Dr. LUSHIXOTON, on behalf of Mrs. Skene, brought in a respon-
sive allegation to the articles exhibited against her, in which a se-
paration was prayed, by reason of her adultery. The allegation
stated, that the cause of Mr. Skene quitting the house, as pleaded
in the articles against her, was not on account of his fearing per-
sonal violence Com the disaffection which she constantlymanifested
towards him ; but arose from his violent and ungovernable temper,
as on one occasion he bad struck her with a Sate, which was bro-
ken; and on another with a rolling-pin, which caused her great
pain. Another of the articles went to impeach the character of a
witness named Sarah Wright, who proved the adultery alledged to
be committed by Mr.. Skene, with a gentleman named Pledger, as
the said Sarah Wright was the inmate of a common brothel. The
fact being elicited by interrogatories,
Dr. Anoams appeared for Mr. Skene, and opposed the admis-
sion of the allegation, as many of the facts pleaded were merely
historical, and irrelevant to the charge of adultery brought

against her.
The JUDGE said, the suit is confined to separation by reason of
adultery, and the allegation now brought forward contains an ex-
planation of the reason of Mr. Skene quitting the house, and re-
torting the charge of violence of temper, which is not at all import.
ant to the issue of the suit ; and I don't think it necessary that the
wife should enter into details of disputes to show the Court on
which side the blame rested; this article, therefore, I do not con-
sider sufficiently responsive. The second article is a mere attack
on the character of a witness who establishes the act of adultery
against Mrs. Skene. If the Court sees don the gtat of the cause
rests upon the testimony of this witness, Binh Wright, it will ad-
mit this allegation ; but the judgment of the Court is, that these al-
legations should be suspended until the hearing of the cause.