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Xl.—Passing- Events.
XL . _—PASSING- EVENTS .
First And Foremost Among Home Events Of ...
First and foremost among home events of the month , the numerous cases
these which page have s of come our before journal the . The New Times Court , of of Divorce May 11 th , claim , reports especial no less notice than in seven cases in different grades of society ; a solicitor , a steel pen
manufacturer The case , a locksmith of Mrs . JanetHorn , and a plumber married and to glazier Charle , s being Horn among both memb the app ers licants of the . musical an alteration profession in the , is a Divorce signal , instance law . Married of the great in 1833 necessity , , they there lived was happ for ily
together since returne until d to 1847 her , . when He live the d husband in adulterous deserted connection his wife with , and an actress had never until had her death children in 1854 and , went when throug he formed h the a ceremony connection of with a marriage a dancer with , by her whom at St he .
to Liverpool Mary the , petition Haggerstone , 26 th , and of March , he Middlesex hoped , 1858 before . , in A letter which it came had he on stated been for hearing received that he to from had be on him no his defence way dated to sister and other
witnesses America . th It at appeared Mrs . Horn from had the alw evidence ays conducted of the herself petitioner in ' an s irreproachable mannerthat , there was no cause whatever for his desertionand that she had
, , cumstances since maintained , prayed herself for a b dissolution y her own of industry marriage . , Mrs on . the Horn grounds , under of these desertion cirwithout reasonable cause for upwards of two years , coupled with adultery ,
tions and of of bi adultery gamy coup and led desertion with adultery without . reasonable The Court cause thought had that heen the made allega out - , and granted the prayer of the petition .
It should be noticed that the applications in these seven instances were made respectivel and wife which y by has men hitherto and women existed , proving , and which the cruel the injustice new law both so speedil to husband y and
feeling surely redresses and public . Great decency cause are in is this there New , too Court , for congratulation no longer outraged that private by the details which have hitherto attended all actions for divorce and crim . con .
riage "Without , no entering one who has into thoug the pros ht and much cons upon concerning the subj the ect , indissolubility can well avoid of seeing marthat it is begging the question to _sjDeak of the dissolution of marriages , which call for the intervention of While the law of divorce , as " putting asunder
life what to God woman has joined as a together means of . " living " _, while marriage men remain acknowled s the ge great one prize code of of morality each other for if themselves we willb and invoking another the for sacred women name , we may of Gfod cheat to ourselve such unions s and
butit is , man not God , y who joins together , and , as the creator , so is man , legitimatel , Times y the redressor of 12 of th the evil find . that Lord bellbefore the
of the the Courtsaid , " May he could not , we refrain from expressing Camp his , satisfaction rising with the beneficial , operation of the new Act . The Court had pronounced sentence
they of dissolution were clearl in y ei entitled ght cases , in the all remed of which y they the petitioners sought . Althoug had prove h in d some that of those cases the petitioners would have been able to obtain a in divorce others under
would the old have system been b debarred y passing from a bill that throug remed h Parliament btheir poverty , yet . It was satis they - _factory to think that rich and poor were now y establish upon y an their equal footing ht to , it and that
the A same curious remed and y unintentional was open to all satire who could upon the judicial position Tig of husband . " and during wife the occurred hearing in of a one case of of our assault metropolitan . The comp police lainant courts a delicate a few days -looking ago ,
womanwhose swollen and lacerated cheek , strapped together , , attested the ,
English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), June 1, 1858, page 285, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01061858/page/69/