Breach of Promise Case.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 254, 31 January 1889, Page 2

Breach of Promise Case.

Referring to the defendant in the great breach of promise case, the London correspondent of the Argus says:—Mr Walpole, who is a handsome young man, with the usual F.O. repose and insolence of manner, mar led last spring the daughter and heiress of Mr Corbyn, ous of Amsrica’s railway kings. He and his fiancee were led a terrible life of it befors aud after the marriage by fear of the outraged governess and her van geance. It is believed that £lO9O would at any time have set the matter at rest; but this Mr Walpole would not give, for he is “close” and, moreover, obstinate; and in thus resenting interference with affairs which he oo sidered peculiarly his-own, ha has only been imitating the example of the uncle, Lord Orford, whose heir he is. That ill regulated nobleman it was who carried off the wife of the last Duke of Newcastle but one, when his Grace was Earl of Lincoln. Mr Gladstone was the colleague, friend, and trustee of the injured lord, and he took upon himself to follow the guilty coup'e over Europe with a view of obtaining evidence wfiteh would enable his friend to obtain a divorce. In one of the .mailer German

principalities Lord Orford, finding Mr Glad* stone's attentions rather troublesome, consulted a local lawyer as to how he could get rid of them, and the local lawyer advised him that if he would prefer a claim for debt against Mr Gladstone, the latter would be at once looked up until he paid or proved conclusively to the highest Court in the principality that he did not owe the money. Lord Orford was much pleased with the idea, which he at onoe adopted—poor Mr Glad* stone lying in durance vile for two or three days until the lovers were well out of ken, when orders were sent by Lord Orford to withdraw the charge against him. The part which Mr Gladstone took in the Lin-coln-Oxford divorce ease was often thrown in his teeth, when, in 1857, he was opposing, tooth and nail, Lord Westbury’s bill for cheapening and popularising tha process of divorcs.