THE GREAT BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1844, 24 January 1889, Page 3

THE GREAT BREACH OF PROMISE CASE.

Referring to the defendant in the great breach of promise case, the London correspondent of the Argus saysMr Walpole, who is a handsome young man with the usual E.O. reposo and insolence of manner, married last spring the daughter and heiress of Mr Oorbyn, one of America s railway kings. He and his fiancee were led a terrible life of it before and after their marriage by fear of the outraged governess and her vengeance. It is believed that £IOOO would at any time have aetthe matter quietly at rest; but this Mr Walpole would not give, for he is “ close, and, moreover, obstinate j and in thus resenting interference with affairs which be considered peculiarly his own he has only been imitating the eiample 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 couple over Europe a view of obtaining evidence which would enable his friend to obtain a divorce. In one of the smaller German principalities Lord Oxford, finding Mr Gladstone’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 he at once looked up until he paid or proved conclusively to the highest court in the principality that ho did not owe the money. Lord Oxford was much pleased with the idea, which be at once adopted, poor Mr Gladstone lying in durance vile Jffr two or three days until the lovers were out of ken, when orders were sent by Lord Orford to withdraw the charge against him. The part which Mr Gladstone took in the Lincoln-Orford divorce case was often thrown in his teeth, when, in 1857, he was opposing, tooth and noil. Lord Westbury’fl bill for cheapening and popularising the process of dtyorce