THE WATERFORD – VIVIAN ELOPEMENT CASE.

Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 682, 9 July 1870, Page 2

THE WATERFORD - VIVIAN ELOPEMENT CASE.

The Waterford-Vivian divorce case is to be revived, if we may credit the North British Daily Mail, which says t " A decree nisi, was granted some time since by Lord Penzance, for a divorce between Captain Vivian and his wife. The decree would have become absolute if within six months cause was not shown, or affidavits as cause lodged. Affidavits have been filed alleging several matters as reasons for the re-hearing of the suit. The Marquis of Waterford, subset)uent to the elopement, declared his intention of marrying Mrs Vivian, as soon as the divorce had been obtained, and he still adheres to that determination. His family are, however, greatly dissatisfied with this step. It is they who have intervened, and it is said they are prepared to go into a history of the intimacy between the marquis and the lady prior to the elopement, to show that the husband (who, no doubt, was deeply engaged in official and Parliamentary duties) was about the only one who did not apprehend something like what actually occurred. This will be the line taken as cause against the decree. The intervening parties undertook to let matters run their course if the marquis pledged himself never to carry out his declared intention, but this he declined to do, and hence their action."