NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Evening Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2158, 6 April 1870, Page 2

NEWS BY THE MAIL.

Ou January 18th, the Judge of the Divorce Court refused an application to fix a i early day for the suit of Sir C. Mordaunt, baronet, against his wife ; it must come on, he said, in the regular order. It is complained that if Lady Mordaunt is not mad now, the ten mad doctors appointed to inspect her will infallibly drive ner out of her senses.

The long pending match betweeon Mr Ashbury’s schooner yacht, the Cambria, and Mr J. G. Bennett’s yacht, the Dauntless, is at last really to come off. At the instance of Mr Bennett the starting point has been altered to the Old Head of Kinsale, and the race is now fixed to commence on July 14th next. M r Ashbury states that on his arrival in New York he will endeavor to regain the Cowes cup, which was carried off by the America in 1851, and from the excellence of his famous craft, his success is by no means improbable. The finale of 1869 was signalised by the biggest rush of bankrupts that was ever known ; 527 bankrupts made up their minds to go through the court before the old year was out, dreading to face the rigors of the new law, which came into force on the Ist, and which provided that nobody should be discharged until they had paid 10s in the pound, and that even then they were still liable to clear off the whole in after time?. This did not suit the fishy ones, who clung so pertinaciously to Basinghall street that the place was perfectly blocked up. As the evening drew near the impecunious visitors got frantic, and actually climbed through the windows rather than be bankrupts of the new year. The list was so large that the London Gazette, had to be postponed; but the contrast of the old facilities and the new is already evident, for for three or four bankruptcies are all the list has contained since the Ist, and in oneGazttte there was only one.

The case of Mr Madden, the Irish gentleman who refused to act as high sheriff, because lie felt so deeply the mischief that the Government was doing, has excited a great deal of attention, and will excite a good deal more. Putting aside the question whether Mr Madden was very politic in writing as he did, the general feeling is that he was most harshly treated, Government thereby giving people the opening to say that they could not stand the hard hitting truths that Mr Madden so fearlessly hurled at them. If Ireland contained a few hundred men like that, she would be better off now.