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A large proportion of the marriage law thus rests not only on presumption , Safe on presarnptions which are < mt of date , «* id ore , denied "by those Who « "bey 1 ihe ride based upon them . For instance , it was presumed in those days that it would be an act of practical impiety to deny tlie absolute power of the Church in rendering nvan and wife one , by a sacred miracle . To deny the unity of the married flesh was a minor , but onrv a by a sacred miracle . To deny the unity of the married flesh , was a minorbut only a
, : minor offence to denying the " real presence ; " and we now maintain the same law ; of unity , af ter we have denied the miracle presumptively attributed to [ the Boman ; Catholic Church . It was assumed in those ; days that strictly to enforce the marriage i law would secure moral life to persona in tee , married state : experience- makes U £ laugh at the assumption now , yet we find ttord Cran-i worth and the © ther learned peers who were daecusaing the subject treating that assumption as a self-evident truth . Thus detail after
dfetail may be advanced to prove that the Jnaariage law was contrived for a state of society such as civilians supposed it ought to bey And with an extremely imperfect reference * to the state and custom of society as it exists , or ever has existed . The objects of a marriage law are sufficiently distinct and evident * In giving hersself-to a man , especially ia youth , a . woman establishes a claim upon , that naan whieli cannot be said to cease until she herself
abrogates or forfeits the claim . The alliance has altered her contHtiwn permanently-, ot has , in . all probability , entailed upon her direct responsibility , shaped fey the man . She haa , by other lawa . of society as well as matrimonial laws , less power than he has , singly , of fulfilling those obligations . These are only a few examples of the manner in which her moral claim . upon his sustainmenfc is made out . So f&r us i 3 ie woman is
concerned 3 therefore , a marriage law should Secure to her the satisfaction , of her claim , permanently , for all that can give her sustenance , and the means of fulfilling her obligations , until the claim be terminated by her own free will . It is an object of justice to her , and of good order to society , to take great precautions that the act of abrogation shall be one of absolute free will on her part , and that it shall be deliberately and perseveringly entertained .
Again , the actual relation between child and parent gives a moral and instinctive elaiin on the part of the child against both parents , to secure the due sustezktation , nurture , and draining of the child ; until it shall have been placed in a position in which it can secure , with mature powers , its own independent existence . This also is a claim against both parents , permanent in its nature , until it attain complete satisfaction . It is a claim which cannot be transferred
from one parent to another , but lies against both , to the whole extent of their means . Direct enactments of a marriage law to secure the perfeet , facile , and unqualified enforcement of these claims would not be difficult , and would nob be liable to that constant evasion , nay , that open violation , which natural law at present receives under cover of the technicalities , the presumptions , the evasions , and the weakness of the actual law . Look at the case to which we have
more than once adverted , in which a man , standing before a magistrate , deliberately refuses to sustain a woman who has given herself to him for life , and agaitist whom ho makes no reproach ; refuses to sustain his own children , and perseveres in the refusal , notwithstanding the indignant reprobation whieli natural feeling extorts from the magistrate , but which certainly ia very lightly Huatained by the statute law—for the children were " ' illegitimate , "
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A " ST&AJ 9 &BR" IN PARLIAMENT . . . . It was very interesting on Thuivdi ^ 'e ^ niiig ^^ tp watch Lord-JohnJ ^ usse ^ l walking uj > 4 te Housa ^ Commons to takeiUie XMitafl ^ as -a new jaenibe * ; £ ad the cheers which greetedjmn , and whichyjie ¦ a / ska $ ipledgefl by a complacent smile , were ahacnung . . She ceremony was that of the conqueror Btrivftd at ^ th ^ Capitol ; and the advent was hailed as tfu ^ assuramc to the Liberals of a victory . But wluit ^ np ^ uejwfc ^ that one inquired about , afterwards . Wiy , w < eye / tW Liberals so happy rV Evidently because a . new © Or
verauaent had been organised without reference either to Crown or country—which is a circumstance to delight us with our free constitution . What Ixa 4 Lord John been doing ? Why Lord John had been submitting to public opinion— -public opinion likes appearances kept up ; and the Liberals' cheers were an intimation that the House of Commons applauded , in him , the whole Government . For what ? Why , public opinion and the House of Commons have been
insisting that it was a great pity there were not moreofflces , with 50007 . a year salary , for the Coalition' aristocracy , so the Government has bow « d ? to dictation and created a fourth Secretaryof State . Obliging Government ! To create , the fourth Secretary of State , various changes had to be made , to avoid the personal jealousies of patriotic men : but patriotism prevailed — the Government is re-arranged—antt Lord John comes back crowned- with the acclatna *
tioim of the dirty unfortunates who constitute , the Shalcsperian " Citizens " on all ' occasions in Guildhall—and Lord John deserves these acclamations * , for has he not nobly consented to take 5000 f . a year , in the future , for leading a House of Commons which turna out all his measures ? Certainly , the whole ' process being gone through , a suspicion seems to bearising that perhaps the public does not considerably gain—the Minister of War presented to the countrybeing in no respect the Minister of War the country
was expecting . We had two Ministers of War before —Lord Hardinge and Mr . Sidney Herbert ; and now we have a third Minister of War , in the Duice of Newcastle ; so that the Coalition seems somewhat to have misconceived those public wishes which , upon the temptation of 5000 / . a-year moro among them , they were so alert to gratify . But , then , there are collateral advantages which our governing classes will fully appreciate . Tlie Whigs who were left out are appeased ; and is it not right to appease those noble and exulted men who were pining to serve
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TJHJE GKCBCH BROPOSHf © TO MORALI&E TRADE . Wb adhere to our resolution not to descant upon mere commercial experiments , or prostitute the independence and integrity of journalism to the illustration of advertisements ; but to ignore altogether any notice of disinterested and high , aims , because tlie issue may lie among the details of commerce ( which so much needto beohastened byapure spirit ) , would be deficiency in public duty , as the other course would be a perversion of it . Thus , distinguishing the ] ground the Leader has ever taken , we briefly recur to * a letter we lately inserted in our columns from tlie j pen of the Rev . Charles Marriott , of Oriel College , !
Oxford , upon the subject of the " Purveyor Institution . " The name of this institution UMurnew as its object . It is entitled the " Universal Purveyor . "' Iti undertakes to supply all commercial demands . It offers its services * ** iro secure the purity , good' quality , and fair price of article * for liousehold consumption ; to enable retail dealers to supply with advantage those of the- humbler classes who are not iara position j to afford a .,, premium-to first-Glass dealers for a guarantee against fraud and other impositions ; to offer to the higher and middle classes the opportunity of giving to > their family expenses ahigh-ntoroZdestination . " Such are the : assurances given by Mr , William Islip , the commission » meid > ant of the establishment .
We will take from the pen of the Rev . Charles Marriott a brief statement , vhich has not appeared in these pages : — " T * Biih > a « ia in- # hieh-any-one ^ ho -m&f ^ kti ni' interest in such an istttmpt -can further it « t > pre 8 enttent < tb * following ; : — **~ 1 . Employing the agency of tKis establishmentin procuring any articles of consumption , materials for wo * fc ,-&c . &c ., either directl y , Off if preferred , througb tradesmen , who may be instructed to procure goods through the establishment , guaranteed by its stamps . Beady- money payments are required , as the commission « narge £ te ^ ot calculates for credit .
" [ It is not the -aim of the establishment to supplant honest tradesmen ia their regular custom . Much assistance would be-given if it were recominended to nevr institutions , and' if it were employed m orders for plain ertioles o £ food and raiment , inteudec for charitable purposes * , in famishing medicines , drugs , &c , and anything out of the usual coarse , which it may be difficult to obtain at once in the country ; * lso if it were put in « uclr communications : as would enable it to . supply the poor with cheap tea ,, and- ground coffin , guaranteed from adulteration . ] •* ' 2 . Lending" money , to be employed as working capital , for the ; execution * d £ orders , * on bonds -giwen ^ by the director , at 5 per cent , intercut . This capital is placed under trust ,
and used only in payment for gcoda . It is therefore exposed < to do risk , except from bad debts , against winch every precaution is taken , and which woEtlii be bom « by the establiBhment in- the first instance ,, andoould * , only toaoh the lender through its entire failure . Should it be broken up fsf ~ want of support , the whole of this might be returtea to the lenders . *' Conceived witii so much good sense , certainly commended with so much moderation , and supported ! by influential connexions , the prospects of the institution seem fair .
In the Christian Hemembrnncer , a Church quarterly I organ , we hare seen this same " Purveyor" Institu- tion commented upon aB part of the kindred of proctical , industrial , and moral reforms . What has struck us , conversant soovewhat with the literature of co-aperation , is tlie amazing moderation of the writer . It is rare to see sobriety of expectation com * - bined with radical penetration and . large effor-te . Hope has too often been tlie death of co-operation . These reformers have expected so much that they have accomplished nothing . But when , we find writers painting "with severe faithfulness the difficulties in the way , and yet preparing to compass them , we believe some substantial success iB near at handt , Dissenters can be loud on Evangelical alliances ,
but they are silent upon Philantkropiaal alliances . We are glad to find the Church wise in its generation , and preparing to put its admirable organisation to some benevolent and useful purpose . It did well enough once for the Church to maintain high and exclusive spiritual functions . Secular interests were not then the passion of the people—the age was not then materialistic—the " world" was then subordinate . The Churcli , if it will , may maintain its high spiritual pretensions—but it must no longer moke them exefusive . To persist in the divorce of the Church from the Life of the peopl 9 is the abnegation of half its possible empire . The Established Church , always more perspicuous than Dissent , penetrates the future—the Ttev . Mr . Marriott points the true way to > popular ^ tnd legitimate conquests .
The " Universal Purveyor" guarantees pure food of the first quality , and at a fair price . The transaction shall be moral anil tho article shall be whole - some . Who cjin estimate the moral value of this guarantee ? Wo clamour , struggle , and protest on behalf of political , social , and religious truth—wo cannot even attain to the grossest , material , and physical truth . The mendacity of food is enormous . We eat and drink lion daily . The Minister Bays his morning grace to the God of truth , and then pours out commercial falsehoods from his coffee-pot , and grasps untruths by lumps with his sugar-tongs . And
on the Sunday he stands up before hfretragrcgstMfc , in the temple of the Lord—with the " t * take 4 £ < the trade" upon his back . The Rer . Mr . Marriott aigwp for moral consistency in life as well aspro ^ ession ^ and invokes the- Church to practically amend" the manner which commerce has depraved . ' ¦ ¦ ¦ '¦¦» Nor is the layman lets interested th * n ^ h » chu «« fr m » n in thia question . Shall we be content that fraud—the Toad of Trade—stall nestle da the . 4 $ r > boards of the poor ? And while it is neceauvry £ lup £ wepity their helplessness , we may wonder also at the -ridiculous infatuation of the rcspeetaWo- ^ -fiiad df the family . " Pater Familiaa conntahftnwilf « ttK * lrV
praetical individual , and has a due coatemp »«»« rt dreamers and social reformers , but he is h |^ s ^ vast and unconscious Utopian . What cndnU | y 4 ft displayed when you take a draught of milk , or partake of its admixture in your puddhig . Who ibaoawfe what dbease the oow is 8 dlR > ring Itoitt in iW- $ m hghted ^ pent-up stable-den ? What ^ eae thycoretoBtte of the last , sausage : ? Whatwas-the luepalth ^ « f ^ ojnr smoking sirloin yesterday , or of your inutton ^ Oj ^ when your worthy butcher becanie possessed' writ ? ¦ Btew was your wine compounded ? "Vfbito'vtftv&oa&i for tlie morality or isven authentfcfty xrf" tfie " grower ? " What amazingpower of < imugtimtiai ) is required to fancy your n ^ cnawn «< ftet ^ are . . jfl * . Simoa , Pourier , Kobert Qwen , Bierrepoin ^ Giiavai well are you avenged of the conventional deru ( e £
Not all the credulity of all the my sties and-Ut « piatital » of the past two generations is equal toHhat-of yotcf praoticftl man of Iiondon and ; Manchester . tiBhSwrnaitm bis money and wiUchea hiB ehar « list , but * t-eliUo « time he opens K-i i ., -m ^ th ; fiTifl fhiitff Hn ' ,. ttyfgji | M | ii talceawhat the Huxter sends him . 1 ^ stooJM ^ iy at the mercy of the last man who ptLfft , in a " -newirpaper . Be intrt » rt » his health to thexliggler-M ^ ftiJi marketplace ; Tlie ^ man wbio adrertMs ui ^ iit |^ i ^ tives < tommaods shi * e « tQB > , ;« xid > the vendoe * Phd boast& ona placai&what ln ^ : Caii M ^ half poison your practical man thTde ^ mesfa « di ^ He begrudges apenny in the poundfor ^ B'IfUii ^ hteejtf wholcsotne food ,-and ' grVes ^ &it phyjsHHan ** guineliib to tell him what ie the matter with bhn When he * a % eaten it . O most rB&gaciom and- pttwtia > jk «^ ¦ : ¦ . . ¦ ¦ K ^ ir * Mfc .,
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Leader (1850-1860), June 17, 1854, page 567, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2043/page/15/
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