Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1850-03-09
THE FORREST DIVORCE.

The New York Atlas of yesterday has the
iellowing in reference TO the application fol
divorce now pending at Harrisburg:
In the year 1887, after Mr.. Forrest had &C.
quired fame and fortune, he was married in
London 10 Miss Caroline N. Sinclair, daugh
ter of the celebrated John Sinclair, the voca.
list. Immediately after the union of Mr.. and
Mrs. Forrest, they returned 10 the United
States, and made this city their residence
| They originally weat to housekeeping" in
Reade street, in house belonging 10 Mr.
James H. Hackett; but, soon after, removed
to an establishment Mr.. Forrest had purchas-
ed in Chelsea Village Twenty y-Second street,
Ninth avenue, where they remained till the
3oth of April, ls49, when they agreed on a
mutual separation.
From the day the separation took place, up
to the first of January last, nothing transpred
TO lead any one TO suppose that Mr.. Forrest
had the remolest idea of duplicating his
wife's integrity. 1t was then, for the first
time, reported that, he charged that, her mar
riage vows had been violated and he now.
op the charge of infdeli.y, appeals 10 Penn
sylvania, his native state, .or divorce. The
whole affair is subject of deep regret TO the
friends Of both parties, and is the cause of
intense solici,ude 10 the connexions OF both
families.
Mrs. Forrest, whilst presiding over the es-
tablishment ofher husband, necessarily made
the acquaintance of many literary and pro-
fes,ional gentleman and all, without sin.
gle exception, readily and Justly ascribe 10
her the possession of every talent and attrac.
tion-tegarded her as the bright and glorious
representative of every female virtue. She
now stands accused of derelic,ion from the
sacred vows Of wife, by her husband and,
it is believed that divorce is the necessary
consequence.
The friends of both parties deeply and SIM
cerely lament that the i'll adjusted laws OF
this State, and of Pennsylvania, compel Mr..
Forrest TO prefer charges that the delicacy Of
woman shrinks from, to enable him 10 obtain
a divorce equally desirable, under all the cir
cumstances Of the case, to wife and husband
MIR. and Mrs. Forrest, we suppose, will
soon be ''divorced pair" and it is hoped that
both will be happy. They have no offspring
though the lady has been the mother OF sew.
eral children, who died in early infancy, TO
participate moi in their Earrings, or TO inherit
their domestic sorrows--for sorrows they
must be, that can rend the condition of we'd
ded love.
In another par, Of the same paper we find
the following paragraph:
We have been requested to say that, Mrs
Edwin Forrest will reply TO The publications
that have been made in several of the news
papers, in relation 10 The petition now pend
ing before the Legislature of Pennsylvania,
for divorce. Mrs. Forrest will deny the right
of The tribunal to which MIR. Forrest had ap.
pealed, TO nierpose in her domestic relations ;
and, will also deny the legitimacy and truth
Of the disrepuiable charges which have been
preferred against her. Until her response
can be prepared-and it will be published
probably to-morrow-,he friends of that lady
respectfully solicit, in her behalf, suspen-
sion of public opinion"