The Dunk divorce case, with which, not much to their
credit, the newspapers, and especially the evening ones, have been filling their columns during the past week, ended on Wednesday in a verdict unfavourable to the petitioner. That the jury were right, we have little doubt. When a man abandons his wife a few days after his marriage, and starts for a tour round the world, he cannot be permitted to draw the inferences from her conduct during his absence which he would have been entitled to draw if he had remained by her side to warn her of the consequences of indiscreet action. Lord Dunlo acted throughout with a meanness and want of good feeling which cannot possibly be condemned too strongly. Plenty of young men before him have got into greater scrapes and difficulties, and done things more flagitious, hint we never remember a case displaying conduct so unmanly and poor- spirited. A tapster or billiard-marker would have acted with greater delicacy, and with a higher sense of honour. The whole story, from beginning to end, is, indeed, squalid and repulsive almost beyond endurance.
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