New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1860-05-16
Personal.

A singular divorce case has just been'decded in
England. The suit was instituted by Madame Valerie
Josephine Smonn. The parties are both natives of
France, and in the year 1854, the petitioner living
with her mother at Paris, and supporting herself by
her exertions az an actress when the respondent NJ
Leon Malac, son of respectable parents, but under
the French law of age, having become enamored Of
her, induced her to leave France for England for the
purpose of marriage to avoid the intervention of pa
rents under solemn promise that if abe consented to
the marriage in England, he would aflerward marry
her according to the laws Of France. The parties
were accordingly married on the day after their arr-
val, license having been obtained by fraudulent
representation that the parties had been resident fifteen
DAYS in London. No cohabtation took place, as the
petitioner refused TO discharge her marital duties until
the respondent had fulfilled his promise of marrying
her in France; and his exhibiting reluctance 10
do So The petitioner left him and returned to the pro-
lection of her mother, and resumed her profession,
when the respondent sought every opportunity to an
noy her, so much that she dared not appear on the
stage. The only the respondent gave for not
performing the marriage was, the displeasure OF his
pareas and in consequence of the conduct of the re-
spondent the petitioner applied to the courts of France
who declared the marriage by the laws of France void
the respondent being condemned in costs; after which
the respondent became very violent, frequenting the
theaer and when the petitioner was Oh the stage
throwing things at her, 80 that she was ultimately
obliged to leave France and to England with her
mother, where che resided since 1885, gaining lye-
heod as restorer of ancient records and documents.
The real question was whether the parties, being
French subjects and incapable of contracting marriage
in that country, marriage in England was valid. Sir
Cresswe Cresswel delivered an elaborate judgment,
the effect that the contract of marriage having taken
place in England, TIE parties must be bound by the
law Of that country, and however unfortunate 1t might
be for the lady, the Court must pronounce decree
that the marriage was valid and therefore the petition
must be dismissed
The Italian princes appear inclined TO fix their
residences on the banks of the Lake of Constance The
Grand Duke Leopold has chosen the villa Leuchten-
berg; his son. the Grand Duke Ferdinand, is TO in
habit the villa Amsea belonging TO Prince Leopold of
Bavaria; and the Duchess of Parma has rented resi-
dence at Kreuzngen, near Constance. The Duke of
Modena lie making preparations to leave Vienna for
Hungary, where he possesses considerable property.
-"who is this Pope that hear so much aboutl"
sad King George ii. of England; 81 cannot discover
what il his merit. Why will not my subjects write in
Il
cannot read him. he is such bombast fellow"
Sir Joshua Reynolds Pope. II was
about the year 40 at anction Of books pictures.
He remembers that there lane formed 10 LET him
pass freely through the assemblage, and he proceeded
along bowling to those who were on each side lie
was according to Sir Joshuas account about four feet
Elk high; very humpbacked and deformed; he wore a
black coat, and according to the fashion Of that time
had on little sword Sir Joshua adds that he had a
large and very fine eye, and long, handsome nose;
bis mouth had those peculiar marks which always are
found in the mouths of crooked persons; and the
cles which ran the cheek We're strongly |
marked as 10 appear like small cords. Roubilliac, the
satuary, who made bust Of him from life, observed
that hs coutenanee was that of person who had
been much afflicted with headache, and he should have
known the fact from the contracted appearance Of the
skin between his eyebrows, though he had not been
otherwise apprised Oft.
Dryden has himself told us that he was OF grave
cast and did not much excel in salles Of humor One
of his bon-mots, however, has been preserved. He
does not seem TO have lived very amicable terms
with his wife, Lady Elizabeth, whom, if we may be-
lieve the lampoons of the time, he compelled by
one Of her brothers 10 marry. Thinking herself
neglected by the bard, and that he spent too much
time in his study, she one day exclaimed Lord, Mr..
Dryden, how you be always porting over those
musty books wish ! book, and then l
should have of your company" Pray, my
DEAR" replied old John, " ifyou do become a book,
let it be an almanack, for then l shall change you
every year
Sir William Don has lately been playing at the
Lyceum Theater in London.
The critic Of The London Spectator, speaking
Of Madam Gris, says that when she abdicates her
throne, she will leave one, among the greatest
Of her sisters in art able fill it royalty as che has
done. Her powers as durable as they are tran
scendant. After of unequaled brilliancy dur
ing thirty years che preserves to this day her beauty
Of person. her lovely voice. her ardent temperament,
her warmth and freshness of feeling, in manner to
which we know Of parallel in the whole history Of
the stage"
In arecent volume Of poems, Mr.. Ernest Jones thus
defines the master passion of the human soul:
What Is lovel IL the striving
two spirits to be
Sweetness hungering after sweetness;
Want that thrststl for completeness
Planets tw ain decreed to be
Each Others dear necessity
IL y, "a Limit I.xlvin