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THjB LAW OF PARTNERSHIP. BY ARTHUR SCRAT...
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How To Get Rid Of A Wife. Truth Is Stran...
serted must be true . But her confessions are mingled with incoherent remarks that "it was all confusion , " with calls for her child , and with touching exclamations about her husband ' s hardness : — " Oh ! that he should have believed that man [ Haixoran ] "before me !" " I think he was determined to believe it !" " He said he would have a divorce , and 1 felt turned to stone . "
It seems nearly impossible that a court of justice could have pronounced a judgment for the divorce ; yet such was the fact . Many statements of the witnesses were rejected , as being impossible in their nature , or inconsistent with other parts of their depositions ; but yet those falsely-stating witnesses were supposed to he correct . Though how the court discriminated between the credible and the incredible parts , we can scarcely understand . Much stress , however , was laid upon
the evidence of Mr . M'Clelland , who was described in the judgment as having stated that Mrs . Talbot * ' had made an acknowledgmentof . lier transgression . " Now , it is very curious- that in tie , pleadings winch set forth the evidence which the witness was prepared to give in court , before he did so , were these words ' : - *— " ifes . Talbot then admitted and confessed ( to the clergyman ) , that she bad been guilty , of adultery with the said William MullaSte . " But when lie was under
examination m court , air . M'Ciellaot > made a statement totall y different : — " She appeared much confused ^ but on that occasion neither admitted ; nor denied her guilty intercourse with the said William MtjuUhe . '' ' The court , however ^ ., appears literally to have taken up the pjkddtk gs in mistake for the evidence , and to have given judgment on the case as stated by counsel for the prosecution , in lieu of testimony frota the witnesses . At the date mentioned by fe M'Clellani ) , the poor lad y had not yetjbeen terrified long enough to have had the belief of her own guilt hardened into her mind as it has sine ' e been . Tne Ecclesiastical
CJoiirts , / ,. however , "have pronounced their judgment-, tne accusation is thus technically confirmed , and the wedded pair are divorced This divorce is not sufficient to free the husband so that he can marry again , with the chance of a male succession to his property . To that end he would have to go before the House of Lords . But ,, although the divorce was definitively pronounced in 1852 , Mr . TkLBOT has taken no further proceedings .
We have mot even yet stated all the details of this case ; they -will be found in the pamphlets by Mr . Pagtst and his brother Mr . Jobw PXGffiT ); we have only stated ' enough to show the general character ot the story as it is there related . It looks like a transparent fiction ; yet it is not simply invented upon paper , but is d « one in fact , and worked out upon flesh and ,
blood . ' It looks like an experiment in the mode of obtaining divorce , under which an innocent lady is driven wild with terror , and left in- a state of settled insanity . If a writer of fiction were to represent such a state of things in lihe TDTnited Kingdom at this day , his readers would laugb at the extravagancy ; yet Here it ifif asserted on strong testimony of real life .
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- " MISS GREAVES'S GASE . ¦ \ TEflHOtrr a jest , it is melancholy to see the pfc ™ , wlu " cM otir civilisation creates , as fast as it removes others . If a man is no longer liable t 0 ! .. ?*? popped on Hounslow-heath , he maybe B $$ ged iti ' , tfte Bayswater-road , within range 0 ^^ «» . etTopolitan police , and the most im » pr 6 Ydd ' Mvfe for the suppression of crime ; or J ? TOSfS ^ ledl 3 » w * he-most'beat 0 n-thorougli-S ! - ° t Jr ^? ^ > - * ofeb * d of valuables , withittlmri of the constable . Yet these' tfre not the wo * sfc , any more than tfh ' ey atfo the' onty
artificially-created perils . If a speculator in insurance menaces the life of those immediately around him , many more lives are gradually undermined by ordinary adulterations of trade , and he who trusts to wares undisguised by poisonous drugs to heighten their tints , is the exception rather than the rule—a bold tradesman . But the adulteration goes to the very administration of the shop . In one of the largest highways of London , new manners and customs have come in force with the
progress of the age . It is the practice to exhibit wares in the window , say beautiful collars or tasteful handkerchiefs , at fabulously low prices ; but woe be to the passenger who seeks to purchase the tempting article . If it is a woman , and she is specially invited by the very figures embroidered on the handkerchief to enter the shop , she becomes the victim either of a delusion which sends her away with some common ware in lieu of that exhibited in -the
window , or if she be strong-minded , and insists upon the bargain offered by the eloquence of the ticket , she is bullied for her pains , and is glad to escape . But it may be that the lady seeks to make her purchase in a shop of larger pretensions , and that she has no foregone intent of driving a hard bargain . Yet even in the midst of a well-conducted estabh ' shment , surrounded by all that clothes the most refined civilisation , and by those that wear the costume of that civilisation , she is still liable to indignity , terror , and disgrace .
The story has been told within the last few days . It came out before a court of law . Miss Eliza Greaves is the daughter of an English officer , wlose present employment as an Assistant Poor ' Law Commissioner , shows that he must be a man of more than ordinary capacity and repute . She is herself employed under a milliner , as one of her sisters is— -facts which show that the family have a true sense of dignity in striving to secvu-e an independence by honest industry . The young lady ' s manners
show hex birth and training , for they are those of a lady . Here , then , is a young lad y , whose perfectly inoffensive manners , whose helplessness , and . we may add , whose countenance , might claim a protecting solicitude . She enters a shop for the most legal of all purposes ;—to buy some of the goods sold there ; she pays for what she buys in the proper coin of the country ; but presently the cashier brings a policeman and arrests her in . the middle of the shop , on a charge of uttering base coin . Let us for a
moment recal the position of the young lady , alone , subjected to an ignominious charge , and threatened with being carried off to prison by the hand that drags to the same place the profligate and the felon . She pleads that she was unaware of the badness of the money , — a fact which she did not deny , although she might have done so , —and begs to be spared a public arrest . Instead , however , of receiving indulgence , she is seized , detained at the door
of the shop for some time , and then led through the streets by the policeman to the Station-house . Late at night the young lady was released on bail , and before that time , the goodness of the coin appears to have been completoly established . Jt had been acoidentally touched with quicksilver , which disguised it , and this constituted the excuse put forward in an apology published by the proprietors of the . shop .
"We cannot see the force of the exc-use . It ^ s pleaded in extenuation that bad money had been bo frequently received as to render an example necessary . But what grounds were there for selecting that blameless young lady as an exarapta ? She had done no wrong . Even if the money had been bad , there -was no evidence whatever to prove a guilty knowledge ; ^ but there was on the other han d every
reason for " giving the prisoner the benefit of a doubt . " One might have expected that any man seeing- a girl thus charged , and thus placed , would have conjured up to himself the supposition of her innocence , would have asked himself what she must endure blamelessly if the charge were unfounded , and would have preferred rather to let thousands
of false half-crowns enter the till unchallenged , than that such wrong should be done . When an action for false imprisonment was brough t the trespassers paid into court : £ 1 O as siifficient damages ; the court inflicted twice that sum ; the public certainl y has not expressed any opinion that it is too much . But we doubt whether the real penalty will not greatly exceed the money fine .
Was there no rescue ? How is it that no man interfered for the protection of one whose very appearance might have claimed succour ? It is because , at the present day , those who stand manifestly in possession of property , and who appeal to the policeman , ave customarily presumed to be in the right . We are placing justice in the condition of routine ; we do n ot trust to feeling , unless it be stamped by some authority ; and , while we boast of the order that we have introduced , we suffer a larger amount of wrong to be committed , and complacently surveyed r than would have been tolerated in rougher days .
It is not always that cases are so clear as this has been . Supposing the money had been bad , the real acts of the young lady would not have been different ; yet how different her position ! How ready complacent society to look on and doubt whether there was not" something in it !" Those who suspect cannot complain if suspicion be retorted , We live in days -that beget doubt . People who ride in omnibuses
complain that they are frequently exposed to accusations by the conductor , of endeavouring to pass false coin , foreign money , or other uncurrent tokens ; and amongst this multitudinous class of accused has been engendered a suspicion that the keen conductor , who has inadvertently taken some nncurrent coin , seizes the opportunity for palming it off upon a passenger , under pretence of returning what he has just received .
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THjB LAW OF PARTNERSHIP . BY ARTHUR SCRAT 0 HU 2 Y , M . A . tart nr . It may not be out of place to describe more particularly the following associations exoepted from the operations of the Registration Aot : — I . Benefit Building Societies , established under tho act 6 and 7 Willm . Iv ., cap . 32 . These associations are empowered to apply their funds to the purchase or ereotion of a dwelling house , or dwelling homes , or other real or leasehold estate ; the capital boiug raised in shares not exceeding £ 150 each , and by
payments of not more than 20 e . per month . The members also enjoy certain exemptions from stamp duties in the mortgages granted to the societies , and firom the necessity of reconveyance upon a redemption of property purohased through theiy instrumentality . Freehold Land Societies must also be mentioned whioh avQ constituted under the Building Societies Act , wherein the members havo allotted to them pavoels of Freehold Land Buffioiout to givo the possessor a , vote . II . Mining Aqvociationi * , work « d on tho Cost Book principle , which have been thus « My deftuod : —
" A great source of the ignorance and uncertainty as to tho true nature of the Coot Book principle has arisen from the many different names hy which it hue beou from time to time called . Tims Covnwh Mining Associations on tho nbovo principle woro , boforo t h « statute 7 and 8 Viot ., onp . 110 ( which exactly dofln Joint-stock Companies ) , nomotianos soon by the law reporters erifonoouBly called Jo > iut-Htuok C ' orupanioa ( Hawken v . Bourne , S , M . and W . 703 , ) Act ; after that statute the roportera gave to th « m tho name of Scrip Companies , " At a later period , howovor , whilst tho adoption of the Cost Book principle was eupposod to bo legally oonflnod to Cornwall , it was called tho Cost Booh Cuetomj a most erronoouu appellation , and owe whioh haB tondod not a little to the mnintonanoo of
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Leader (1850-1860), Feb. 9, 1856, page 14, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/cld_09021856/page/14/
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