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assert that the-young womanwas not a desirable match for their son , inasmuch as she lived apart from her motherland had led an irregular life ; They brought the young man from London , and applied to the tribunal to declare the marriage void , because their son had not asked their consent , as he w . as bound to do by French law , because he had not published it in France as required , and because he had been married in the name of ] Sbi > xaand , whereas his real name was Normandin . Proceedings have accordingly been taken , and the marriage declared null and void . A demand for
damages ; made at the same time by the girl , was refused . With the conflicting testimony brought forward in the course of evidence it is not necessary to deal . The father ' s counsel declared that the Belgian was of bad character , and that he had made this discovery through a young-French gentleman , a friend in London . The advocate on the other side declared that it was this same iFrench gentleman who had led the elder Normandin to discountenance the marriage , and that the rejection by the . young wife of some infamous proposals be had made heir was the reason which induced him to play such a despicable part .
We may well afford to leave these conflicting statements behind , so as to arrive at some considerations suggested by the undeniable facts of the case . Here is a Frenchman who , although young , is no longer a boy , being in fact twenty-four years of age ; and a marriage which he contracts in England , with a person whom he seems to have loved , is annulled by the French , tribunal , because , the ceremony was performed without the consent of the bridegroom ' s father ! According to the law of England , the woman in question : is still a wife . In
JFrance she is a widow , who has never had a husband . Is it not about time for some measure to be adopted , having for . its object to prevent such scandals as these ? As-the law now stands , a young Frenchman may go over to England , marry any young girl he meets , and then return to his own . country , with the certainty of being released by its tribunals from the engagement he has entered into . Seduction is thus legalised , as it were , and bigamy made easy , by French law ; There ought to be an end of this .
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MR . BRIGHT'S REFORM BILL . On Monday eveningj at a crowded public meeting in Sk George ' s-hall , at Bradford , Sir . Bright announced the principal points in hia forthcoming bill . The member for Birmingham repudiates the idea : of |' advocating or proposing a measure far in advance of public opinion , " and declares himself desirous rather of " going along with and acting in harmony with that opinion . " In this spirit he adopts , as the first element of his measure , thfe 101 . Occupation Franchise in counties . The county members of the Legislature already nupiber 252 ; and bv Mr . Bright ' a schedules of redistribution they would
be increased to 278 . With the six members for the universities he does not propose to meddle ; we have therefore 284 seats about which no novel change is proposed . Public opinion has been unmistakably pronounced in : favour of a 10 ? . County Franchise ; and Mr . Bright but conforms to its behests in taking this as one © jF the main pillars of the system he would rear . For the Town Franchise he is able to plead high authority . Household or ratepaying suffrage is that which was advocated eloquently by Mr . Fox , propounded deliberately by the late Earl Grey , and zealously recommended by Lord Durham . Mr . Bright adheres to Liability to rating as the basis of the suffrage aboye the 5 / . limit .
From some intimations , however , which were thrown oat towards the close of his speech at Bradford , ¦ we gather that the hop . gentleman will show himself Open to further consideration on various points . The Ballot naturally follows the enunciation of the contemplated provisions of Mr . Bright ' s Bill respecting the suffrage . He declares his unshaken conviction that this concession cannot be much longer delayed . The following Is a summary of the Schedules of the Bn * I : —Schedule A presents a list of fifty-six boroughs in England , and Wales which are to cease to return any members to Parliament , some of which now return two members , and some of them only one . This list begins with Arundel , which has a population of 2748 , and ends with Woodstock , with a population of 7988 . Nino Irish boroughs , ' with equally limited populations , are aloo to cease to send' members ; and sp with twenty-one
contributing borougha in Scotland . Schedule B refers to boroughs in the United Kingdom the population of which exceeds 8000 and is under 16 , 000 . They arc sixty-nine in number , and in future all of them are to return one member each . At present the half of thorn Bond two membera each . Schedule 0 is a list of fortyone in numbory . in , which no obango is to be made except with regard , to three Scotch groups of boroughs that aro to be divided , and to Kilkenny , -which Is to have an additional member . TJheao boroughs have a population ranging from 1 : 6 , 000 , to 25 , 000 . In Schedule D > o find forty-throo fcorougji&i with a higher population , up to £ 4 , 000 each , man y ; of which now only return one mombor . . They are , for the future , all to return two . Sohodujo IS gives uq ( jwenty-throo boroughs , with n population ranging from 54 , 000 to 127 , 000 , which aro to fiend three membaro . oaoh , Although they now only «? nd . one
or two . Kext , in Schedule F , there are twelve boroug hs of higher population still , reaching to as much as 270 , 000 . These boroughs are to return four members each . Only one of them does so at present , that of the City of London . Some of the metropolitan boroughs are . included in the four * member schedule , and the Tower Hamlets is divided into two representations , each with two members . Mr . Bright proposes to give six members each , as we find by the next Schedule , to Manchester , Firisbury , Glasgow , Marylebone , and Liverpool . The new Boroughs he proposes to make are , GraVesend , Leamington , Burnley ,. Birkenhead , Chelsea ,. and Kensington . The two latter to have two members each , the others only one . Now for the counties . By Schedule I , eighteen additional members are to be added to English counties of large populations ; by Schedule K , eight additional to Irish counties ; and by Schedule L , a little change of iio great importance is made in respect to Scotch counties .
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THE ARMY AND THE " HOST . " A letter from Malta informs us that the following garrison order has been the source of much bitterness : ^—" All guards to turn out to the Archbishop of Malta , and all sentries to carry arms and present arms when the Host passes . " Captain Sheffield , of' the 21 st Royal North British Fusiliers , having refused , will in all probability be tried by court-martial . Captain Sheffield , it is reported , is ready to submit to any punishment rather than do homage to the Host . This presenting and carrying arms to the Host has long been a cause of complaint with the Protestant soldiers at Malta , particularly the Presbyterians , when Highland regiments have been stationed here . Some years ago General
Aitchison , how Governor of Dover Castle , while commanding a company of Artillery at Malta , was dismissed the service for refusing to salute the Host . Upon this the Daily News remarks : —" The British soldier , is not now , if he ever was , a mere fighting automaton . The glorious records of the Crimean and Indian wars showed us what depths of noble faith and intelligent piety , till then unsuspected , exist in our army . How can we hope that our regiments will be leavened with such praying , bible-reading , men as Hayelock led to Bithoor , if an order like that issued to the Malta garrison is to be maintained ? •' ¦ A British officer , Captain Sheffield , of the Royal North British Fusiliers , a Crimean officer , having refused . to obey the order , has been placed under
arrest . It is a case of conscience with him , and 'he is ready to submit to any punishment rather than do homage to the Host . ' We should think he is ; but we should like to see who , at the present day , w ill dare to punish any soldier of the British army , be he ' officer or private , for refusing to pay religious honours to a priest ' s bit of bread . It is time this ' nonsense was done with . We have heard a great deal too much lately from the Mediterranean of ignoble truckling to the priesthood both of the Latin and Greek , churches . Some whose high station and endowments ought to have preserved
them from unworthy compliances in this respect have compromised the dignity of their country among the races which inhabit the islands of Southern Europe . The country , however , can take enre of its own honour , eminent public men may expiate their errora with the loss of reputation ; but the soldier , if the rules and orders of the service are against him , is helpless . It is for those who enjoy the protection of the army and the reflected lustre of its glorie s , to take care that its members shall not be harassed by the imposition of orders whjch destroy their self-respect without bringing the least advantage to the country . "
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DEATH OF MRS . WORDSWORTH . Mas . Wobpsworth , widow of the Poet , died on Monday night , at eleven o'clock . The last thing that would have occurred to Mrs . Wordsworth would have been that her departure , or anything about her , would be publicly noticed , amidst the events of a stirring time . Those who know her well regarded her with as true a homage as they over rendered to any member of the household , or to any personage of the remarkable group which will bo for ever traditionally associated with the Lake District : but this reverence , genuine and hearty as it was , would not , in all eyes , be a sufficient reason for recording moro than the fact oC her death . It is her survivorship of such a group which constitutes an undisputed public interest in her decease . With her closes a remarkable scene in the
history of tlio literature or" our century . Tho wellknown pottage , mount , and guidon at Rydal will bo regarded with other eyes , when shut up , or transferred to new occupants . With Mrs . Wordsworth , an old world has passqd away before the eyes of tho inhabitants of tho district , and * new one succeeds which may have its own dollglUSi solemnities , honours , and graces , but which can nevor ranlaco the familiar ono that is gone . There was something * mournful in tho lingering of this agod lady—blind , doaf , and bereaved in her latter years i but sho was not mournful , uny moro than sho whs insensible . Ago did not blunt her feelings , nor doadon her intorost in the events ' of tho day . Tho question commonly asked by ' visitors to GraBinoro churchyard wau- <— whoro would «/ mi bo laid whqn tho timo came , tho space was so
completely filled . The cluster of stones told of . the little children who died a long lifetime ago ; of the sisters Sarah Hutchinson and Dorothy Wordsworth , and of Mr . Quillinan , and his two wives , Dora lying between her husband and father , and seeming to occupy her mother ' s rightful place . And Hartley Coleridge lies next the family group ; and others press closely round . There is room , however . The large grey stone which bears the name of William Wordsworth has ample space left for another inscription ; and the grave beneath has ample space also for his faithful life-companion . . ¦; ;
Not one is left now of the eminent persons who rendered that cluster of valleys so eminent as it baa been . Dr . Arnold went first in the vigour of his years . Southey died at Keswick , and Hartley Coleridge on the margin of Rydal Lake ; and tha Quillinans under the shadow of Lpughrigg ; and Professor Wilson disappeared from Elleray ; and the aged Mrs . Fletcher from Lancrigg ; and the three venerable Wordsworths from Rydal Mount . She who had noted so many last survivors was
herself the last of a company more venerable than eagles , or ravens , or old-world yeomen , or antique customs . She would not in any case » be the first forgotten . As it is , her honoured name will live' for generations in the traditions of the valleys round . If she was studied as the poet ' s wife , she came out so well from that investigation that she was contemplated for herself ; and the image so received is her true monument . It will be better preserved in her old-fashioned neighbourhood than many monuments which make a greater show . — - Daibj News . ¦ ¦ : . . '¦
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102 THE Ii EA 3 ) EB . [ JSp . 461 , January 22 , 1859 .
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Tiger Huut . —Captain Graham , . superintendent of Police at Broach , had received information about the middle of the day that a large tiger had taken up his position in a village near , and had just killed a woman and severely mauled a man . Graham sent off a sbwar to ask the men in Broach to come out , saying that he would wait till five o ' clock , and . then , if no one came , he would attack himself . A& the place was fourteen miles , on the other side of the riyer , and horses and guns not ready , the Broach men thought it useless to go that night , and resolved to start next morning . Graham waited till live , and then set out with a naique and six Sepoys of . armed police , and some peons . As they werq going through a cotton field the tiger sprang up and charged
Graham , who galloped off , and the tiger retreated . Graham ordered his men to load , and taking his riile , gave chase to the tiger . When he got , within fifty yards he pulled up and made a beautiful shot from tho saddle , his grey Arab standing as steadily as a rock . The ball passed through the tiger ' s neck and brought him down . Graham waited till his men came up and then gave him another shot , on which the tiger , roaring furiously , charged right down on the Sepoys , who received him with a volley , which did not atop him . lie rushed on a coolie police Sepoy , who with the utmost coolness and courage received him with the bayonet , inflicting a severe wound on the head . But the tiger bore down the Sepoy ' s defence , and seized the end of the
musket in his jawa . The musket and bayonet were bent to a right angle , and the murks of his . teeth arc visibly grooved out in the barrel . Seizing the Sepoy he cluwi-d him fearfully . Graham could not get his second gun for a minute ; seeing which the peons , Mussulmans , drew their swords , and so gallantly attacked tho tiper that he left the man , when Graham put a ball through his heart . Tho Sepoy was sent into tho hospital , nnd the doctor thought ho would recover , as no largo vessel appeared to be injured , though he was frightful l y lacerated . Ho asked for four hairs from tho tiger's whiskers , which he said were a charm to euro hint if tied round his wriut . However , in the night ho began to sink , and to the great regret of all he died . He was a most gallant follow . —Bombay Standard .
Adulxkhaxion oe Food and Salic ok Poisons , — A mooting was held at Manchester on Monday to tako these questions into consideration . Tho following rosolutions wore carried ;— " That inasmuch ua tho indiscriminate sale of poisons has frequently lod to serious and fatal results , it is tho opinion of this mooting ( duo regard being hud to tho caao of individuals already established in trade ) that no parson should bo permitted to soil drugs or disjionso medicines without u certificate of compotoncy from somo duly constituted publio authority ; mid that iu all oasos tho sale of poisons ought to bo regulated by Act of Parliament . " Tho second
resolution was : — " That tho adulteration of food having boon proved to exist to a very largo extent , and tho conscquonces resulting therefrom boiug most injurious to tho publio both in sanitary and commercial points of view , and groat benefit haviifg heretofore rosultod from inspection of cortntn artless of food , it is tho opinion of this mooting that tho corporate and other local authorities ought to possoss tho power of inspecting all food oftbrod for salo , and that tho vendors of food injuriously adulterated should bo subjected to a penalty . " It . w » s resolved that petitions to PuvHmuioiH should bo fuumlud on those resolutions . Twit Ghjw . n Kiuanw . —Lord Ailaa Is to bo tho now Knight of tho Thistle , iu tho pluco of tho Jato liurl of Haddiqgjton , —Morning / frraftr ,
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Leader (1850-1860), Jan. 22, 1859, page 102, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse2.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2278/page/6/
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