11 JUNE 1864, Page 3
The Yelverton case has been filling the legal division of
the papers all the week, the appeal against the Scotch decision having en= up before the Lords. As yet only the appellant has been heard, and Mr. Rolt, his counsel, rests his case almost entirely upon the letters, which he contends, both from their general drift and the warmth of some expressions in them,.prove that Miss Longworth's object was not marriage. The Lord Chancellor, to judge by his questions, seems to think the deduction a large one.. Mrs. Yelverton has been present during:several hearings, and on one day both she and Mrs. Forbes listened to the argument in -opposite galleries—a somewhat singular scene.