The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-28
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The Yciver,en Marriage Suit.

parallel, we believe, la the history of civil
suits, either in Great Britain or this country.
1t throws the SIcKLgs case completely In
the shade, and the FeRRgsr divorce suit rs
scarcely worthy of being named on the same
day. IL reyeals an amount OF baseness on tue
part Of an officer high in rank in the Bnash
army, and OF an Earl, which seems
almost incredible, and would be entirely 50
did we no, know that viilainy is peculiar to
no class In society. and tina, a derraved heart
10 al FREQ rentiy coyered by the laced suit of the
nobleman as by the tattercd garments Of the
bcggar.
The facts OF the case are briefly these ::
TsRRsA LoSswoRra, OF an ancient and honor
able family in England, having lost her
mother in early childhood, was taken TO
Erance to be educated and was reared in the
Roman Catholic faith, although her parents
had been protestants. She had living in
France, 3 sister who was the wife of the Chief
Justice of the French Empire, and she WAS
coming over from n visit TO her in 1852, when,
for the first time, she met the Hon CRARI ss
YnLvRKroy, son and heir apparent OF Lord
AvoSEoRg, and Major of Artillery in the
British army, at Boulcgne. When she ar
rived in London, her sister, Mrs. BxLLASY.
not having sent for her a. she expee led, (she
lived in Wales Major YELvERroS called n cab
for her. In = few days, Major YxLvERToN
called on her at her sisters, and the usual
Interchange Of ciyihties passed between them.
In 1858. she went to Naples, TO complete her
studies, and while there, having occasion to
send letter to a relation in Albania, she APP
piled to her banker TO know how she was to
contrive it. He volunteered to send it
throuaa an officer in Malta, who, he said, was
friend of his and who turned out to be Ma
Ior YsLvgRros. This circumstance led TO
correspondence, spread over several years,
which has been published, and which is cal
culated TO impress the reader with high
opinion of the lady's talents. At the time Of
the Crimean war, Miss LoSdwoRrH went TO
the scene of action, with the French Sisters
of Mercy. Major YELvERroS had been sery
ing in the Crimea. and had been ordered TO
England, whence he did not return until Sep
,e1nbsr, 1855. In the meantime, Miss LosG-
WORTH had been serving in The hospital of Ga
lata with the Sisters Of Mercy, and there Ma
ior YRLyRRroS found her whea he returned.
He had never seen her since he visited her al
her sisters house, in 1852. He Immediately
began to pay her the greatest attention, no
Tossing the most unbounded attachment, and
expressing an earnest desire TO marry her She
In which she was engaged, in order to become
his wife. But she would by no means con
sent TO his proposition of secret marriage by
a Greek priest, and declared that she would
10 married by nobody but Roman Catholic
priest.
Abont this time, an armist ice having taken
place in the Crimea, Miss LoSGwoRrH was
invited by the wife of Gen VoN STRAuBENsBE,
Mai i'm, tha Jyrf,;s !,
home. This invitation was of Itself proof
that the character of Miss l.. was untanted,
for Mrs. Won STRAuBESsEE held the highest
social position In this family she lived five
or six weeks. during which time, with the
sanction of the General and his wife, who
supposed that his attentions TO their ward
were honorable, Major TELvERroS constantly
visited her, constantly proposed marriage,
and was as constantly repealed by the lady,
because she objected to secresy, and insisted
on Catholic priest. In 1885, Miss LoNGwoRTH
returned to England, remained in Wales
with her sis ter until February, 1857. and went
from there to Edinburgh, where she moved
in the first society. There Major YELvERToS,
who was stationed at Leith, again met her,
and again proposed secret marriage. The
reasons he gave for not making the marriage
public, were the same he had given in the
Crmea, and amounted TO nothing more
than that he was poor and in debt, and
that an uncle on whom he depended
would cut him off if he knew it. On one oc
casion, in Edinburgh, he took prayer-book
and read over the service with her before two
witnesses, after which he declared that by the
Scottish law they were man and wife. She
rejected the idea with horror, and repulsed him
in every advance he made. She then left Ed
inburgh for Wales, and took refuge in her Sis
ter's house, much alarmed at his declaraAon
that the ceremony of reading the prayer book
before witnesses had made her his wife,
There she received a letter from him, entreat-
Ing her to come back-saying that the mar
riage should be performed by a Catholic
priest, in Ireland, provided it should be kept
secret. She yielded so far, left her sisters
house, met him Ia Belfast, and was married
to him in the parish church of Killowen, by
the Rev. MIR. MOONEY. The priest at first OBJ
jected, because of the old lava disgrace to
the statute book, obsolete long ago, and so
often violated that nobody ever thought it
worth while to get it repealed. 1t made il Pc
nal for any person in orders TO marry Catho-
lie to Protest; MT, and declared such mar
riage void. On this occasion, however, VEL
vERToH declared himself al Ca tn olic-the Bishop
of Dromore gave his consent-the priest, in his
sacred robes, and before the altar, went
through the ceremony according to the Ro-
man Catholic ritual, pronounced the benedic-
ton, put on the ring, and declared the couple
man and wife. In a word, married them, if
1t is possible for man aud woman TO be mar
ried. The marriage was solemnized 18th Au-
gust, 1857.
The parties afterwards went first to Scot
land, and then to France, he always reg
istering their names, and procuring their
passports as Mr.. and Mrs. YELvERroN. In
France she was delivered of a still-born child,
he having, according TO his own statement,
administered drugs, of which she knew not
the deleterious properties, to procure an abor-
ton. In France he left her, to return to his
regiment. She followed him as soon as her
health wonld permit, and when she arrived
in Scotland, went to HIM at once in Leith.--
He told her that he was . ruined man, and
that she alone could save him. She protested
a readiness to make any secriiice Cor that
purpose, and asked him what she was to 90.
He said she must go to New Zealand, and he
would join her there. She asked how that
could benefit him, but he gave her no answer,
and a few days after she learned that he had
married widow with f5o,ooo.
81 The action in this case was brought by a Mr.
THELwALL, who sued Major YELvERroS for
maintenance of his wife. This plan was
adopted in order to obtain the evidence Of Mrs,
fRLvBxToS as the validity Of the marriage
The case was tried before Chief Justice Mona
HAN, and a special jury, in Dublin. The two
leaders OF the Irish bar were aged-WHIrE- |
siDR for the plaintiff, and BREWSTER for the |
defendant. The testimony of Mrs YrryrRrox
10 clear, explicit, simple. and perfectly salts
factory. In the beginning of the cross EXAM |
ination, BREWSTER addressed her q. Mice