The Liverpool Standard and General Commercial Advertiser.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1853-08-23 00:00:00

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Norton

consider that I have sustained an injury that no woman
ought to submit to. I believe Mr. Norton's income to b
about £3.(

) a-yea

)atrimonial profits in S

ly, from his magistracy, his
land, his chambers in the

.er sources, altogether amounting to £3,000
per annum. I was parted from him in the year 1836, and
the following year he offered £6OO a-year until we could

arrange our matt

of £4OO
my chit

but made me a compuLsory allowance
mum. He stipulated that I should give up
fren, and I said that I would rather starve than

lose them ; and I did starve for a time. From the month
of March, 1838, he made me an allowance, and he adver-
tised me in the public papers respecting this compulsory
allowance. He paid me £4OO a-year until 1848. In re-
ference to this there was an agreement drawn up. He
and my brother-in-law, the Hon. E. Phipps, witnessed it.
In the year 1851 my mother died, and she left me some
money ; but there is still £687. 10s. due to my creditors,
and I have returned from Italy to have it paid
the defendant had paid me fl— r^ --ea

_ uue money he promised oy the
agreement I should have settled with the plaintiffs, but I
understood Mr. Norton's plea to be, that as this paper
was made between him and his wife it cannot be binding
on him - but if I had the money every one of my creditors
would 'have what is due to them.
Cross-examined by Mr. Needham.—Have you received
your income from Mr. Norton regularly up to a period be-
yond`that of the last item, March, 185 Q?
_The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—He owes me £687.
__

Mr. Needham.-11.aveyounoirec died your allowance
tinder the agreement ?
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—l received my allowance up
'to March, 1852.
Mr. Needham .—Was your separation from your hus-
band a voluntary one ?
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—Mr. Norton sent my little
children to Mrs. Vaughan, to which I very much objected,
and I received nothing in the shape of an allowance for
two years ; and when I parted from my husband I had no
income.

Mr. Needham.—Was not the allowance paid into your
banker's first, after the rate of £2OO a-year, and, subse-
quently, £4OO ?

The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—No ; I have not got my
banker's pass-book with me. I never had a book at all
until 1848, because I never had sufficient money to make it
worth my while to keep an account there. Yesterday I
sent for a list of what moneys I had at my banker's.
Mr. Needham.—l don't ask you that.
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—Yon are afraid of my, answers
when I give them.

Mr. geedham.—Will you let me see that paper you are

looking at ?

The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—No ; I have this here for m 5
own purpose. _ . .

madam, if he requires it.
Mr. Needham.—Did you refuse to take the money after
it was paid into Messrs. Rawson's, the bankers P
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—l refused to do anything while
my children were taken from me.

Mr. Needham
your mother ?

.—I believe you had £15,000 left you by

The Hon. Mrs. Nurton.—l have the interest of the
money paid to me through my brother.

Mr. Xeedham,

way of pension ?

'on also £57 10s. paid to you by

The lion. Mrs. Norton.—My father held an appoint-
ment at the Cape of Good Hope. He died there, and I
have the pension in consequence.

Mr. Needham.—Had you some sums of money sent to
you at Lisbon ?
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—He sent money to pay the
passage of his second son home. He refused to pay the
passage of his eldest son, and also what he was indebted
to Sir Hamilton Seymour. I paid both.

The Hon. Mr. -Norton here interposed, and said he
thought it very hard •if this ex parte statement was to go
forth to the public without his having an opportunity of
saying anything in denial or explanation of the statements
.
1 that were being made:against him.
The Hon. Mrs. Norton.—l can prove upon my oath
that my son resided with me in Germany, Italy, Belgium,
and in Portugal, and that I sustained the whole expenses
of such residence myself. The eldest has had an allow-
ance since he went to:Lisbcal.

Xr. Needham.—Has the second son not been at Etoi
and subsequently at Oxford

The Bin. ltiis. Norton.—Mr. Norton paid for his edu-
c ation, but I paid for his residence. I am known as a
r copular writer in Tay own country, and sometimes I have
I: 1,000 a year and sometimes I have nothing. I have
w. Irked as kinrd as any lawyer's clerk in this court.
Mr. Needham.—What is your literary income ? Is it
£5.90 a year ?

The Rm. Mrs. Norton.—No. Mr. Norton has claimed
my copyrighly; from my pUblisher.

My solicitor did

The Hon. Mr- Nortan(interraptin „
me Hon. Mrs. Norton -(with indignation)

—Does I