The Express. — London, England, 1864-07-28 00:00:00

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Hew. —Dancing by Wilt. C. Stephan. —And TILE TALLYMAN. NM WALTZ AT LONDON DILDON. Ton DAY Varela& 9ti. Nt 53g. 20• N ANON 101. ....Aboves% 1111. 10i LONDON, THURSDAY, JULY 28. Tax proceedings of the Society for the Preser vation of Infant Life cannot but be regarded with strong interest, both for the sake of its object and on other grounds. The evil is so terrible, the increase of infanticide being considerably greater than that of the population of the metro politan county, that no one can look with indiffe rence on any effort to deal with it. At the same time there is, as experience has shown, so strong a possibility of aggravating the mischief by well meant endeavours to mitigate it, that those who know what has at any time been done with good or bad effect are bound to contribute their knowledge to the movement. We are glad to see that the proposal of setting up Foundling Hospitals appears to be dropped. One speaker at the public meeting held last week evidently hankers after this supposed remedy ; but he will not find supporters in his denial " that an institution which was intended " for the purposes of amelioration could be ha " moraL" The former principle of our Foundling Hospital, which he complains has been departed from, caused an increase of illegitimate infants thrown upon the charity of from a little over one hundred to five thousand in a year. In three years 15,000 of these miserable infants were depo- sited in the concealed way which the Rev. Dr. WORTHINGTON thinks essential to the proper work ing of the charity. He pleads for secrecy as a safeguard to the infants' life : yet how did it issue in the very institution to which he referred f Of those 15,000 children only 4,400 lived to be apprenticed So much for the preservation of infant life by the method of keeping the mother's secret, and relieving her of the burden of her child ! Stich statistics as the history of our Foundling Hospital, and of all the foundling hospitals in Europe discloses, may well have discouraged the new society from proposing relief under that name. The mere fact that lazy and profligate parents used the charity largely to disencumber themselves of their children born in wedlock, is warning enough against ever setting up such au institution again. But the new proposal, even if it avoids that indulgence to bad married people, which is doubtful, involves all the worst arrangements of foundling hospitals, by which they have been made the most effective agencies for the encouragement of Foentionsness, and the most cruel destroyers of infant life that have ever existed in a Christian country. The proposal is of an institution where the mothers of illegitimate children shall be received in inviolable secrecy—the coming in and going out being managed in " complete "concealment." Mother and child are to be well nursed and made comfortable ; and before the mother departs, "means of the identification of " the child by the mother afterwards" are to be provided. If the child is thus to be left behind, the institution is to be a foundling hospital in all but the name ; and how many of the mothers is it supposed will ever come back ? The separation will have chilled the affection which is alone ade quate to enable a woman to take upon herself the shame and the burden of her child. If there ever IVY danger of the mothe• destroying the infant at birth, there must be at least as much danger of her doing the deed after separation, and when the fact of her having a child can no longer be con cealed. In practice, however, the children would be deserted in nine cases out of ten. And what sort of an institution would meet the demand far accommodation which could not but arise ? A promise to secure fallen women from the consequences of their frailty would give such an encouragement to seducers, and add so cruelly to the strength of the temptation in the woman's case, that there would be a spread of vice like that which followed the adoption of the charity of secrecy in Paris, in Vienna, in Rome, in Lon don, and wherever it has been adopted. The illegitimate births in France were one-thirteenth before, and they increased to one-third as soon as means of concealment were provided. In Vienna the well-known asylum for anonymous mothers to be confined in—with its secret entrance from an alley, and its easy-opening and noiseless doors, was over-crowded presently ; and then another and another was wanted ; and no energy of charity could at all keep pace with the demand. Here is a warning to the new society which held its meet ing last week. By setting up such an insti tution they hold out a promise of impunity for the particular sin. It would be for midable enough to be resorted to by only those wbo might be assumed to be otherwise the pre destined murderers of their infants ; bat what is to be done with all the rest T The society will beve l upon its hands the mothers of all the unboia bastards in London, and in • year or two they will have a multitude more who might never have fallen but for this encouragement to an and escape the shame and burden of it. Not • hundredth— not a thousandth part of the claims being admissible, what will happen t Why, such an amount of child murder as will appal the most careless and cold-hearted among us. This is no fancy picture. It is simply an iteootpxt of eilai has actually happened wherever tie alloremeni of secrecy has been held out, whether by Popes will their turning-boxes, or by Sr. Vl:Nester Da PAUL with his hospitals, or by kind-hearted Empresses, who think to show indulgence to the frail of their own sex. In such cues it is as if little corpses fell from the clouds. They float on the rivers, they are found under trees, they turn up in gardens, they tumble out of dust heaps. They are maddening to the eyes and the minds of the charitable who have made the mistake and the onl y thing to be done I. to retrace the false step. This is not reparation—there can be no re paration in such a case ; the mischief done cannot be undone ; the license cannot be reduced to what it was before. The one possible good is that the fearful experiment may be a warning to all who come after. One would think that it must be for ever a warning against encouraging one sin in the hope of checking another. Yet here we see, at this day, a resolution in favour of an institution such as we have described carried in public meeting by a majority of 32 to 21. Carried, too, in the face of an admirable protest from the Secretary of the Society for Enforcing the Law for the Pro tection of Women. This gentleman, by his speech, showed himself a better protector of both women and children than the majority who have adven tured the tremendous responsibility involved in carrying the resolution. As to the question—What is to be done, then f How can the practice of infanticide be checked I— the answer is longer than we can give here. All we can at the moment say is that no good can be done by soothing feelings after the mischief is done, instead of dealing with the mischief in its deep and complex causes. If this society likes, let it try the effect of increasing the father's pecu niary penalty. This would probably do no more harm than would be compensated by the experience it would afford to the movers. Let them by all means urge the reform suggested by their chair man, Dr. L&NKESlER—exchanging the merely nominal punishment of death for a punishment which should be real and definite, and, therefore, more likely to be deterrent. The real remedy, however, is to be found in a social condition and mode of life which shall be favourable to marriage, throughout all ranks, and in such improvement in the intelligence, the in terests, and the manners of women as shall invest them with the safety of self-respect, of a frame of body and mind favourable to moral health. As the first step in this long process, it may be sug gested to the mistresses of household servant.— the employers of the class most disgraced by this species of murder—whether they may not them selves do something on behalf of sobriety of mind and manners by showing in their own conduct some consideration for these weak and ignorant sisters of theirs—eomething more than at present of the moderation in dress and pleasures, and the housewifeliness which once honourably distin guished the matronage of England. Cbe erourt. OSBORNE. JULY 27. Her Majtety, accompanied by Prince and Prin cess Look of Home and Primers Beatrice, drove oat yester day. Major-General Seymour was is attendance. The Duke of Cambridge, attended y Ookeel Clifton, arrived at Osborne from London yesterday events'. A Cabinet Council was held yester lay at the official residence of the First Lord of the Treasury, in Downing-street. The ministers present were Viscount Palmerston, the Lord Chancellor, Earl Granville, Sir George Grey, Earl Russell, the Right How. Edward Cardwell, Earl de Grey, Sir Charles Wood, the Duke of Somerset, the Right Hon. T. Milner Gibson, the Earl of Clarendon, Lord Stanley of Alderley, and the Right Hon. 0. P. Villiers. Bar Majesty holds aCourcil to-day (Thursday) at Osborn at ow o'clock. A meeting of the governors of Wellington College mos held in the Palace of Westminster yesterday. Prescott— The Earl of Derby, K.G., Lord Redesdale, Lord Everaleys the Right Hoe. S. H. Walpole, Mr. H. R. Con, the Rev. E. W. Benson (Heedmaater), and Mr. Chance (Stremenry). The foundation stone of a cross in memory of the medial caws who fell in the Crimea will, it is expected, be laid at :Utley Hospital by his Royal Highness the Prince of Wales on the lot pm:into. His Royal Highness Prince Leopold will lay the firvt Mose of a new infirmary at Blimp's Waltham, is Hampshire, OD Thursday, August 4. Hu Royal Higlosers Prince Loris of Hesse will probably be present. Their Royal Highnesses the Duchess of Cam bridge and Princess Mary are expected to leave Cambridge Cottage• Kew, about the middle of next month ea a tour. The Earl of Suffolk and Berkshire has arrived at the Portland Hotel, Southsea, from London. The Countess of Dunmore arrived at her residence on Carlton•houee•terrace on Toeaday evening from Dun more Park, near Stirling, Katherine Dowager Countess of Dundonala is still at her resideare at Nettilly, near Paris. Her ladyship is preseated by severe indisposition from proceediag to Vichy, u she iisteadcd. Count and Counteea de Flahault have arrived at Coventry Bonne, Piccadilly, from Germany. The sable count and countess will shortly leave town on a visit to the Martinis and Ifarchionest of Ltruslonise at Bowood, and then go to the countess's seat in Scotland for the shooting IMMO. Viscount and Viscountess de Vesci and the Bon. Misses Vesey will leave their residence on Carlton-ha:res tores°. for their seat in Ireland early in the ensuing week. The Baron de Mattis and the Baroness de Mauls and family have left Thomas's Hotel, Berkeley-square, for Germs ny, Lady Llanover has had several receptions during the last week, including two afternoon assemblies with dancing parties, and one evening dance, all of which were numerously attended. The Marquis di Castani t has left the Brunswick, Jermyn-street, for Psris, on Me return to Italy. The Duke and Duchess of Athole are expected home early in November from North America, when the noble duke is doing duty with the let Betteline of the Scots Fusilier Onside in Oaneda. The Earl de Grey will leave town early in the ensuing week for a tour of inspection of the military forti fications on the western coasts. The sonata's will stay during the noble earl's absence with the Counties of itipoa at Putney. We (Horning Post) are requested to state that Lady Florence Paget did not, se stated by a contemporary, take her departure, on the morning of her marriage with Lord Harting% from St. George's Hotel in her father's brougham ; but that she went from her father's house in Portland-place, where she was living, in a carriage hired to take her out shopping, and that she was met by Mrs. Gran ville (and not by Lord Hastings's sister), who took her to St. George's Church. Lady Harriet Ellerton expired on the 27th inst., after a lingering illness, it her residence, in Connaught. place, Hyde-park. Her ladyship was the youngest daughter of the seventh Earl of Scarborough, and was twice married, first to the Rev. Frederick Manners-Sutton, and secondly, in 1837, tr, Mr. J. L Ellerton. Lord Henry, and not Lord Robert, LoftuA has arrived at the Alezeedra Hotel. The Baron and Baroness Buigenstein have re turned to the Brunswick Hotel. Jermywetreet, fres a tear is the Highlands. Hon. Senator and Mrs. H. H. Hamilton bare left the Brunswick Hotel, Jermyn-street. On their way to Switzerland. ►sy „ s ' z, THUBSD. e: TEST INTELLIGESUB. ~_y 4moisir. misanamm,) SPAIN. MADRIt, JuL2 27. A royal decree issued to-day appoints a commit tee of directors to erect a statue in honour of Chris topher Columbus. Senor Mon will proceed to Asturiaa shortly. BOMBAY AND MAURITIUS MAILS. ALEXANDRIA, 7EILY 27. The Euxine and Masailia, with the above mays, left here at 4 p.m. this day. The former may be expected at Marseilles about the 2nd, and the latter at Southampton about the Bth August. The Salsette, with the outward mail of the 12th 18th July, left Suez for Bombay at noon this day. AMERICA. IN, JULY 29. The steamer New York, with mails; and pas sengers from New York, arrived off the Needles at 1L35 a.m. to-day. EXPRESS FROM PARIS. (nom oos own! PARIS. WIDNIEDAT EVIDMIG. The Pays says that we have as yet but Yes; little information as to the negotiations for peace now going on at Vienna in a little salon on the first-floor of the State Chancery, situate between the ante-room and Count de Rechberg's study, and two windows of which look out upon the fortifica tions. The only thing certainly known is that K de Quaade, the Danish plenipotentiary, declares that he is furnished mitt unlimited powers subject only to ratification by his government. I apprehend that M. de Quaade is at Vienna to submit to whatever harsh conditions the conquerors may think it safe to dictate without too greatly provoking France. The Empress, now at St. Cloud, will join the Emperor at Vichy at the end of this week. It is arranged that their Majesties leave Vichy on August 6, and it is expected that in returning to Paris they will visit several i-on foundries in the Bourbonnais and the Loire. During the King of Spain's visit to Paris the Emperor will review the National Guard. The opposition has made a very respectable fight for the vacant seat in the Ardeche. M. Chalamet obtained 11,617 votes against the government can didate, the Marquis de La Tourette, who was elected by 17,312. In the Dordogne, where there was also a vacancy, the triumph of the administration is more complete, Count Boudet having polled 21,380 against 3,109. The Opinion Nationale observes that the government only claims the Marquis de la Tourette as its can didate now that be is elected. The Constitutiontiel and the Pays never canvassed for him, but left that duty to the Frawce and the Garet& de Prance. Re was, in fact, the candidate of the clerical party, and the victory is for the priests of the department, who threatened his opponents with eternal damna tion. It is said that Prince Couza, that promising pupil of Napoleon HI., is shortly coming to Paris to talk over the results of his coup d'itat in the Danubian Principalities. The news has reached Paris, but without details, that the workmen in the tobacco manufactory, a government establishment, are on strike. M. 011ivier's new law on coalitions, which you will remember cans the subject of much controversy at the time of its passing, is now again on the tapir, in consequence of a lawsuit just decided at Mar seilles. The ticket porters of that city form, as is well known, • powerful corporation. They lately passed a new rule declaring that no member of their body should accept any employment what ever without having first obtained the leave of tho council of the association. Eighty-three porters having, in contempt of this decree, taken service with the Marseilles Dock Company, they were struck off the rolls of the ticket porters' company. The Marseilles court has decided that the above clause, which, undoubtedly, would have been illegal under the old coalition law, is illegal still, as being an attempt to coerce third parties ; and it has ordered the company, under penalties, to restore the eighty-three men to their lists. There can be no doubt that the government might, if it pleased, have taken criminal proceedings against the authors of the resolution. The Siide quite approves of the judgment of the Marseilles court in this instance, although it does not ag:ee with M. Darimon, the deputy, and M. 011ivier's henchman, that the case conclusively establishes the merits of the new law. At Lille the workmen have begged the representatives of the department to draw up a manual explanatory of the law so that they may know what sort of coalitions are 'and what are not lawful. I am afraid they presume too much upon the sagacity of their deputies when they impose such a task upon them. However, I am told that the deputies mean to try. The Bourse closed heavily under the apprehen sion of a further rise of discount in London. Rente for account, after being quoted at 66/r. lk., lett off at bar. 5c., with • fall of 50. Mobilier fell 10fr. The Comptoir d'Xicumpts, in which a large speculative business has been lately done, and which yesterday rose considerably. fell 22fr. 50c. The cause of the favour which this security has enjoyed within the last few days is stated to be that, owing to the success of its branch establishments in India and China, its reserve of 10 millions, which was not expected to be made up till next year, is realised already. It is also announced that the coming dividend will be the largest yet paid. The general meeting takes place in a few days, and people are trying to discount the results of the explanations expected then to be given. A Paris letter in the Gironde says :—" A aad piers of news has been circulating here during the last few days. IL Gonead, the composer of Faust sad Miredle, is reported to have teen taken to a private lunatic asylum at St. Cloud. Hie case, however, is not considered hopeless. Y. Goanod had made an engagement to write a work for Germany, sad it is supposed that excessive application brought on temporary insanity." NAVAL Disc! ruse. —The new Naval Discipline Bill which is passing through parliament is a model of • bill, so far as its mechsniern is oincerned. All new elan.. or new words altering the existing law are printed in italics; all words that are in the lan act, but are omitted now, are printed with • line struck through them. If Hack and white would keep poor Jack moral, the bill ought to be Weans!. There is dismissal from her Majesty's service with disgrace, forfeiture of pay and imprisonment not exceeding two years, and with or without hard labour and corporal punishmeot, tot " being guilty of say preface oath, curving. execration, drunkenness, unclearness, or other scandalous action io de rogatioe of God'. tumour and nerruption of good mannen." INSPRCTION OF THE VICTORIA RIFLES. —The annual inspection of tits members of this corps by Colonel Morris, C. 11., took piece last evening on the grounds ad jacent to the headquarter,' of the mg. at Kilburn. The regiment numbered about SCD men. It was under the com mand of the Duke of Wellington, Major Greenhill, Captain Dickenson. Senders, Wilmot, Hay, Aldine., and other dims. The volunteer+ having hoe put through • variety of orovionseta, which were performed in en efficient mew, the inspecting officer briefly addressed them. He said, although be had seen other corps go through the various evolutions with greater precision, yet, on the whols, We in spection of the gorge was most satiefactory. Tins hispestioe that terminated. •. 's Lt - , JUL • 28, I 4. E ARTS. • • 11 lON OF ST. PAM% - • Tbe Ul2' • of the first of the mthalb plot is the spandrels of the arches which support the girt d offers an opportunity for noticing what progress boa been made in the decoration of the noble metropolitan cathedral, and the parrs the nadattakiag holds out of being worthy of the grand work of our one great English architect. It is now, Imbiber, seer ten years since the Dean and Chapter directed their attention to the decoration. in addition to the substantial repair, of the cathedral, and Kr. Pearees, the able surveyor and architect of the building, was employed in considering the design of Sir Christopher Wren as to the completion of his grand work with colour, and some other details of ornament. Various derennents and memoranda left by Wren have enabled Mr. Perces to make himself ' acquainted with the great architect's original design, and we have had the opportunity at seeing a model of the interior, entirely decorated in the manner proposed by Mr. Prior as the development of Wren's idea for the decora tion of the interior. To demi* but very inade quately, this fine scheme, we should say that it proposes to cover all the sculptural ornamental work in relief with gold, the smaller enclosed surfaces being filled with arabesques in subdued oolour, and the principal spaces, Inch u the vaults of the root, the sides of the dome, and the spandrels between the arches, with pictures In proper colour exerted in mosaic ; the windows being also filled with painted glass of the same style as the architecture. It is remertrable that Wreak should have him self proposed this method of decimation, no doubt being fully alive to the peculiar advantages of monk in the decors- Son of interiors of such immune size, although Sir James Thornhill was set to work to paint in chin? cern the walla of the whispering gallery. At that time to talk of mosaic work on that male would have been viewed by the Dean sad Chapter as a mere utopian scheme of the enthusiastic architect ; it would have been impossible to have found the artist.workmen to undertake large and Important work of this kind, if the artiste had lived in that time who could have designed the subjects. Sir James Thornhill's work, although so recently restored by Mr. Paris, might well have been spared, and we should hope may Dome day give place to • design more in keeping with the general scheme of colour. As it is now in its beet dregs of clean cold colour, it is feeble and similar, Drat alleuggestiveof things celestial. as the interior of a dome should be. Time will soon inevit ably reduce this work in oil painting to a dull and indis tinguishable mom of heavy colour, and then we shall begin to wish for the everlastiug purity and brighter@ of the atomic pictures. However, such fortunately has been the demand for church decoration of late years that the old art workshops of Italy have been stirred mice more, and Murano has beau set to work as vigorously as in the days, a thousand years ago, when the Greek mosaic workers were busy in the dome of Si. Mark's, at Venloe, when to this hour their pictures an shedding fresh and glorious beauty down upon the worshippers. From this very Murano came the first of these mosaics to fulfil the wish and complete the design of our Bramante. This has Leen formed upon the picture designed by Mr. Alfred Stevens, a sculptor cf abi lity, who seems to emulate the example of great artiste of old, is being painter as well, under the direction of Signor Salviati, the principal maker of mosaics at Murano. Before speaking of the dirge sod the picture it will be well to say a word as to the fact of this im portant work berg areuted thread, at a time when our exhibitions at South Kensington and others are showing vet/ excellent specimens of mantic decoration. It wall naturally be asked by many disposed to be patrons of national sit why these men are not encouraged, and why has not the school of South Kensington been engaged in this important national work of art. The dimple &newer we find is, that the Italian workman is satisfied with hes than half the wages of an English art workman, and does his work better. The very best art workman in mosaic employed upon this picture was paid 101. a day. The whole cost of the work, including &Miring it in the spandrel, which has only commie& two months, amounts to 7001., a sum probably some hundreds less thaa it could have been dooefor by English workmeo. We are not aware whether the same applies tothe painted windows, which are also beings:. routed abroad, in Munich, of ter deaignaby Professor &ham ; but if not it is clearly desirable that the work should be done satisfactorily to those entrimted with the general en dertakieg, although it would have been doubly gratifying to see the one really grand example of modern architecture we can boast entirely the work of English art. By far too many good things have been spoilt by the absurd prejudice for having everything home-made : our art workmen will reach a high standard so long as they know they will be preferred because they are English, and not because they are good artists. Everyone most feel that the ideal of art is entirely removed from any considerations as to the coon tr r where it happens to be found. The ancient Greeks' rued and painted for the Romans ; in later times they worked for the Helium, and their sureasors, who learnt of them, decorated with mosaic many of the churches of I taly— the chapel of the Madonna del Soccorso, St. Peter's, and the Chigi chapel io Sta. Maria del Popoio, where are the beau tify' mosaic pictures of the Creation designed by Raphael, and the work of Ladovieo di Pre. These last named, which may be referred to by the set of outlines recently published by Dr. GI tater, are in the same style which has necesaa rily been adopted in the mosaics for St. Paul's. With regard to the choice of mosaic as the form of picto rial decoratioo, there cannot be a moment's hesitation as to its fitness.. Beyond its immense advantages of retaining its colour pure in • smoky atmosphere, and possessing in its golden ground • reflex of side light that throws up the pic ture when there may be little daylight in the interior, the mosaic picture is necessarily freed from any of the over minute touching which destroys the character and boldness of our modern fresco painting. This mosaic of Mr. Stevens may not be more meritorious in its art than the fresco paintings in the Rouses of Parliament, but it is unquestionably • grander and more impressive work ; the very nature of the work compels simplicity and power combined. Anything expended upon refinement would be destructive of the effect of a work of this kind viewed from a distance and at a great height. The subject of this first picture is the Prophet Isaiah, and the artist has followed the treatment of Michael Angelo end Raphael in representing the prophet in • decidedly academic attitude, turning eagerly towards a tablet which an angel boldest his side, while another angel wale with another tablet. There is no pretence at a naturalistic feeling ia the work, and we are glad to me this, as it would have been out of keeping with the style of the architecture ; it may be • question, indeed, whether the attitude of Irish is not almost too Michael Angelesque The colouring is extremely simple, chiefly red drapery with blue in the scarfs of the angels, the golden ground giving all the brilliancy and variety of tint required. From same positions the effect of this one picture is extremely fina, and it serves to convey some idea of the splendour of the whole series when complete. It is intended to adorn the vault of the Dave and transepts with pictures illustrative of the church militant, with various emblems of Christ and the Cress. The eight spandrels round the dome will be occupied with prophet', while the dome Reel( is to be filled with a mag nificent work in gold and colour embodying the conoep. tie, of the church triumphant. The choir is already highly decorated with gilding and arabesques, and await' the painted windows at the east-end, sad a splendid Bal. darrhino, in accordance with the original design of Sir Christopher Wren. Two of the windows have been pre sented by the Goldsmiths' Company and the Drapers', and two others by Dr. Rogers and Mr. Thomas Brown, of the firm of Lawman and Co., the great publisher, ; the remain- ing seven will have to await till funds are subscribed. Barely the City of Londos, and the rich City companies ought to be envious of the honour the Goldsmiths and the Drapers have done themselves, and at once choose their window. One feast the lees would almost furnish the funds for this tribute, so inexpressibly graceful and worthy. At peewit the funds at disposal for the purpose stand at the low sum of 1,6001.. when it is calculated that 10,0001. a-year would be required to complete the cathedral io five years. The 1,6001. is • miserably poor and inadequate aunt to all a asthma subscription, and it is to be hoped those who have a sympathy with art in this country, and • pride is seeing oar few great national build. logs cared for, will take fresh heart from seeing this fine work in 1330114iC, and not osly subscribe to the best of their own means, but aid in crating an interest in the noble undertakinr. The work once begun will go on, it may be mid ; but it will take twenty years to complete it at the present rate, and then few of as indeed can hope to see it in all its beauty. Unless some increased effort is made even this one series of pi.itures cannot be finished for several years ; but we have the greatest confidence in saying that there is ample promise is this first example of the artist's ability, and that its merit, as well as the elevated purpose which it cascaras, have the strongest claim upon the public support and interest. CZTATAL PALACI. OAZ SHILLING DAT. ••• WIDSTISDAT, JOLT oo pagarst, 7.506; ditto by Burgos rotor, 2,958 ; total. 10,463. imeam-. LA/ f WIN 4LIGENCE. OWN DAT. ) • 401/4„: HOUSE OF LORDS.-APPEALS. YELVERTON v. YELVERTON. The decision of the homes ia tide came was delivered to day. The facts have been so ellen reported, and the argil made during the buries have beta ast down at such length, that they must be familiar to the puddle. It may mad" therefore, to say that the respondent is Merle Theresa Yelvertoe, formerly Lengwortb, and she chime to be the lawful wife of Major William Charles Ytiverton, • son of Lord Avonmore, and now heir-presumptive to that title, formerly of the Royal Artillery, by virtue of a ceremoey and form of promise of marriage gone through between the parties in Edinburgh, and which the respondent cootie& is a good marriage according to the law of Scotland, and also in virtue( • ceremony of marriage gone through between them wording to the rites it the Roman catholic chunk. at Radrevor, in Ireland. After the marriage the appellant and respondent cohabited together for some time es man and wife, but in about a year after the alleged marriage, the appellant married smother lady, Mrs. Forbes, widow of the late Professor Forbes, of the MtivereltY of Edinburgh. In conaequeoce of the claim set up by the respondent to be his wife, the appellant brought a suit is the Court of Session in Scotland, the object of which wee to have it declared that he was free from all matrimonial bonds in relation to the respondent, and the respondent simultaneously brought her snit to have it declared that she wee by the law of Scotland the wife of the appellant. These suite were practically brought to trial together in the court below, and, in the first instance, the Lord Ordinary made an interlocutor by which he decided that the respondent mu not tbe wife of the appellant; and en an appeal taken to the judges of the first division of the Inner Horne, this decision was reversed by a majority of the judges, the Lord Presi dent being in the minority, and an interlocutor was made declaring the respondent to be the lawful wife of the appellant by the law of Scotland. Against this decision the present appeal was brought, and was argued for some 12 days before this house by Mr. Bolt and Sir Hugh Cairns for the appellant, and by the Attorney-General and the Lord Advocate for the respondent. The Lord Chancellor said that the respondent sought to essablish the fact of her marriage in the court below, first, on the ground of a present promise made between the par ties ; secondly, if that contract wee not sufficient, there was a subsequent marriage followed by oohabitatiou in Scotland. There was • subsequent religious core muoy in Ireland, but on the court below having ceded that point, the respondent had no right to plead it in this appeal, and he should not consider that question. but confine himself to what constitutes Scotch marriage. As to the first point, that there wee an immediate pro mise of marriage by mutual consent between the parties in Edinburgh on April 12, 1857, he agreed that there must be a complete mutuality of oonsent to make • marriage ; bat the facts neceseary to show a complete contract were allowed • wide latitude by the 4, of Scotland. When a marriage is alleged to be made by mutual consent, it is neounary that there mint be certainty or allegation of time and place at which the promise wee made. la his judgment, however, where marriage was pleaded by parties 4 Scot land by mutual consent, it was not necessary to prove the particular place and time at which the deliberate promise was made, and the rule as laid down by the Lord President wee in his opinion put too strictly. The form of the promise, as alleged by the respoodent, wee the weeding of the marri age movies of the church of Eng land, and the Lord President urged that there wee no evi dence of it preserved by interchange of writing, or by the evidence of persona peeeset. It wee true that this omis sion had weakened the respondent's power of proving her we, but her statement was in accordance with the whole of her we, which was that the marriage was to be kept secret, sod wee sonata after the parties had visited the Continent in 1858. Bat then were is the correspondence may allusions to the °maniere; of the 12th April which went to prove the truth of the allegations of the respondent ; such as one written in • letter of 12th July, in which the respondent raid that it was three months before that the appellant had azquired • right to call her his own. Hs wee of opinion that the respondent had achieved • marriage on the 12th of April, but ref used cohabitation, central y to the P Ilrmatioo of the appellant, until a subsequent religious ceremony was performed. It was much to the respondent's credit that she made this denial, as an admission of cohabitation at that time would have been to her advan tage io one view of the can, as it would have folly com pleted the marriage "de preseati " in Scotland. It via alleged that for three or four years before the alleged marriage in Scotland, in a long correspondence, the re spondent made indecent overtures to induce the appellant to marry her. and failing that, to iodate him to enter into • cormeniois of • different character. This past was laboured at great immerge on behalf of the appellant, aid all he (the Lord Chancellor) would remark on that point wee, that it wam • most unwarrantable deduction. Quoting some of the passages from which this deduction was attempted to be draws, his lordship stated that the contrary was to be inferred. When the parties came to Edinburgh in 1857, they met for the purpose of arranging how the secret which bad been f or years contem plated by them could be carried out, and that • promise to marry wee given. It was alleged by the appellant that intercourse took place between the parties at this time, but no proof wee given of it, and it was disbelieved by the jades. below. The falsehood of this assenice ought to be taken into consideration in dealing with this case. A cot:apeman of the lady, Mies M'Farlane, and the persons is whose house she lodged proved that there was no opportunity for each intercoune, bat that the appellant v isi ted her as an accepted suitor. Lack ing at the correspoodence after the date when the riligni • took place, it would appear that the respondent left iuburgh to avoid the importunities of the appellant to be allowed to consummate the marriage, until after some religious ceremony bad taken place. It was difficult, how ever, in considering that corramoodenee to say more Ursa that it appeared that there was • promise to marry—some solemn engagement to that effect. On reeeinug some mar riage cards of • Mr. and Mn. Shears, the appellant affected to believe that the respondent bad married Mr. Shears ; and he said " that he hid base placed in • damask position with raped to her, and an of all others the most painful—vii., that be hid romised to do more than he could have per formed when the time came." This wee an elaborate piece of affectation; end it did not derogate from the deduction that Uwe had been • promise to marry, and that inference was streagthened by the reply of the respondent, in which she said that she had sacrificed all but Gcd to him. The true deduction from this part of the correspondence waa that the lady firmly believed that there was a solemn engagement of marriage between them ; almost made perfect by a legal form and requiring • reli gious ceremony to be binding on her conscience. After this difference there was a reconciliation, and things went me their previous footing, the cotrespoodeoce a part of that which took place procee ding the ineetiog of the parties at Waterford in July had been destroyed, but, on the whole, be (the Lord Chancellor) had come to the ooerlusion that the respondent after meeting the appellant at Waterford, and relying on the promise of an immediate marriage, the lady permitted co-habitation before the ceremony which took piece at Rostrevor. The evidence gainsaying this on the part of the respondent be did not credit, but was of opinion that cohabitation recurred at Watinford. Whether the respondent relied on the Scotch or the Irish marriage, she was entitled to the benefit of the fact that she stated what had occurred ia Scotland, and subsequently, to the Roman catholic bishop, who wee of opinion that no further mar riage ceremony was neosanary ; but on her re presentations be consented to the performance of a cerenmoial which wee not an integral marriage, but • renews! of the matrimonial consent, the form used being that adopted according to the Roman catholic ritual when only a renewal of a marriage was is beaded. Much comment had been made on the fact of Mr. Mooney, the priest who performed this ceremony, having giving • certificate sofa regular marriage, and although It was alleged that this was only intended for ;corpora, of baptism of a child abroad, yet it was • most repro heosible proceeding, and tended much to render the evident.) of Mr. Mooney queetiatable. But on the other hand his account of the ocremonv performed at Roatrevor was con- finned, and it might be taken that it occurred as stated by bier. This being so, he (the Lord Chancellor) thought there was nothing granting to show by ex post facto acknow ledgmeet that a previous marriage hod taken place between the parties, and this notwithstanding the allegation of tee appellant that he only went through a form to satisfy the conscience of the lady. On their return to Scotland the parties lived together es mac and wife. It was to be gathered from the corm spondaic. which subsequently took place that the appellant, in conternplatioe of the birth of a child, treated the eon. seliou between him sad the respondent as a marrisge, though he still insisted an its being • secret ace ; the lady having chosen this opportunity as a favourable ea* ler a public declaration of the marriage. Lord Brougham, who bad been obliged to lases, had requested him to state that he was of opinion that them wee a promise of marriage "de presenti.". Lord Chelmsford, interposing, said it warn sot regular that the opinion of a noble and learned lord is a ease under coo sideration should be cited in support of the opinions of another member of the house. The Lord Chancellor said that be had often seen that course tskeo, though such statement would not weigh with the home, but he would rather mate so contrormy en the matter. Resemiog his own judgment, be said that if the widows, failed to elbow the first point, that there was an immediate mutual comet to marry, there was proof of a promise to marry in titan', followed by cohabitation is timtland, and this, aooording to Scotch law, furnished a presumption that "copula" was the result of pre, i 0.4 matrimonial consent. The only question was whether there was sufficient proof of such a promise. It wan not meatus that the promise should be in writing, but it was necessary that there should be indirect evidence in writing of such a promise having been given, and circumstantial evidence in this respect was often more effectual than what was called direst griddled*. Trie h d by this nth, in the letters of the appellaot, to which e had alluded, taken in coonexion with other circumstances, there arse suf fi cient to utudy the rule of law that th ere must be written evidence of promise to marry. It was alleged that this amounted to a pregame relating to marriage, and not to a promise to marry, bat be was of opinion that the evidence in question wu not oto any such subtle distinction. It was aeosesary that there should have been sexual a intercoune to make the eviden of the promise complete, and he was of opinion that there. spondent by consenting to cohabitation in Ireland did in on the faith of the promise of marriage given in Scotland. It was urged that the cohabitation to Scotland was to he referred to the marriage in Ireland, and not to the previous premise in Soothed ; bet he was of opinion that this w,s g emacinelon which was not warranted by the law. The case wee reduced to the question whether the cohabitation in Scotland was to be referred to the previous marriage in Scotland. He wan of opinion that that was the case, and that according to the Scotch law the appellant and re. 'pendent were legally man and wife. Lord Wensleydale, who was most indistinctly heard, was understood to state his view of the requirements of the Scotch law neoessary to establish a marriage, and to 1, 1 down distinctly that the marriage which took place between the parties in Ireland was void. Stating these two point. as to the Scotch marriage, namely whether there was a promise to marry " per verbs de preseuti," and whether there wee • promise to many de Siture, followed by cohabitation, be said that he had come to the decided conclusion that there was no proof of promise of marriage per verbs de presenti. As to the second point it appseud to him that the evidence failed to establish an acknowledgment of promise to marry in future, and with regard to cohabitation it was necessary to have found that that took place within twenty-one days after such a promise in Scotland ; and there was not enough is the evidence with regard to whet took place in Ireland to bring the cue within that rule. Os • review of the whole correspondence and circuit. stances it was impossible to cone to the conclusion that there was any complete and unconditional promise to many between the parties up to the time at which they returned to Scotland from Ireland; nor was them anything In the enheequent correspondence "%Wicket to supply that proof ; and it was to be gathered from the logien of the remoodent that she had no complete promise on which to rely, for she even stated that he had performed more than he had promised. Lord Chelmsford said the question to be decided being whether the appellant and respondent were lawfully man and wife—the cans of proof of marriage bag on the respondent, who asserted that she was lawfully married by • marriage " per verbs de pres4inth" by an acknowledgment of a promise to marry in Intern," followed by , . • copula," and by a marriage in Ireland. It was not in favour of the respon dent that she relied on three alternative marriages, the proof of all and each of which was to be extracted from a mass of evidence sod correspondence laid before the house. It wee not aeoessary to enter into the question of %boor°. priety of the reepoodent's conduct at her first meeting with the appellant on board the steamer on the passage from Boulogne, or in the renewal of the acquaintance by letter by the respondent ten months after a single interview, or any ef the correspondence which ensued. It appeared that both parties bad entangled themselves ia • romantic correspondence, with what ulterior views it was not indispensable to dwell on more than as au introduction to the case, as it culminated ia the meeting of the partial in Edinburgh. Having glanced at the relations exist* between them at Constantinople and in the Crimea, he stated his opieion there was nothing in the circumstances of that time to show that there was any promise to many by the appellant, although the respondent took mina always to prom upon him that such a promise had been then made ; although the marriage was to he private. The appellant denied that he had urged a mar. risme, even of one, necessarily irregular, in • Greek chapel at Gahm ; but be admitted that great familiarities took place between them, although there was oo evidence of these facia. The conclusion be drew from the circumstances of this period was that the respondent be lieved in the probability of • marriage between her and the appellant, on which her feelings and perhaps her pas sions seemed to have strongly set. But if any such promise had been made, it bad been withdrawn beton the parties separated eo the Crimea, and this was shows by the palpable absence of say preparation or apparent predisposition on the appellant's part to marry when they met in Soothed, where the material points of the was arose. The respondent pro. oeeded to Edinburgh evidently for the purpose of meeting the appellant there, where aloes the alleged Scotch marriage eoeld have taken plese. having stated the two h ems of legal marriage in Scotland, he was of opinion that there had been no such "copula" in S wetland as would constitute • legal marriage acoordier to the Scotch law, The " copula " was necessarily to be I local, and it was impossible to connect that which was alleged with the previous promise, nor could a re. Dews! of cohabitation, which had originally been illicit, be referred to any alleged promise to many which occurred after that illicit cohabitation had taken place. In the first proceedings which the respondent took in Scotland to establish her marriage she relied entirely on the marrius In Ireland, and made no allusion to any right fouWed oa • promise to marry in Scotland, and this was a presumption against the case which was subsequently set up. He had examined the facia with the utmost cars, and he bad ar rived at a conclusion wholly inespeetive of feeling; and while being of opinion that there WAS mach to blame in the conduct of both parties, be was of opinion on the @video"), and the law applicable to the cam that the respondent had faised to establish her claim to be the lawful wife of the appellant, and that the interlocutor appealed against must be reversed. Lord Kingselown, having pronounced against the Irish marriage, and bean stated the allegations of the re. spoodent as forming the basis of the cue, mid that these astonish were not very mealiest with the oircumetames VI they appeared in evidence. It WY the respoodeat • i.e that from the first the appellant pressed fora secret msr riage ; but the allegations of the appellant were is direct contradiction to these statemeotr. The objections which he made to the respondent's pressure for a mu ' riage, and which were based on family obstacles, would have been as applicable to a secret as to a public marriage. It was dear that the appellant, at the early part of the correspondence, was writiog in a way to alienate the respondent's affections, and his °wind was mach sa to lead to a belief that he was dolma of avoiding the danger of is meeting her. After all that bad that occurred, and after • long correspoedence, the respoodeot went down to Scotland to meet the appellaet, and the evidence, in his judgment, of what occurred, was such ae not to show either that a marriage took place between them, or that any promise to marry passed between them. But the respondent, perhaps sup ' peeing that something of the kind had occurred, proceeded to induce the appellant to go through a religious oerernocy with her; that idea hay* occurred to her previously, when she had urged a meeting at Manchester. The pat ties met I. Ireland and travelled together aa man and wife before the ceremony took place at Roetrevor, eltheugh the rrepoodat denied that intercourse took plum between them 1-fore that ceremony. This was assented to by the spoollsot mainly with • view to satisfy the lady's cooscreace, and without any notion of marriage. The intentions of the appellant were to be gathered from his letters, sod eves if they pointed to 6.'7 design of marriage after the obstacles alleged by him arising from family reasons were removed, it was clear that they were not referable to a Scotch marriage or prowl,' to marry. On the whole, he was Denim that She respondent had failed to establish a valid marriage with the appellee, and therefore the judgment of the court below ought e to be reversed. jadgmeet ot the house, therefore, by • majority of threenoble and learned lords to one, was that the decisioe of the court below be reversed, and the minims between the appellant and the respondent be declared to be void. COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE. (Before the Judge Ordieery.) BANCROFT r. BANCROM-PART BRAM ' This morning Mr. Montagu Chambers, Q.C., replied on behalf of the petitioner. Sir J. Y. Wilde summed up at ooes'ulerable length, ob serving there could be no doubt that a shameful fraud Lai been proctised upon the husband—a fraud well calculated to campmate anyone that bad the feelings ohs man. It was sot oely that the petitioner bad before her marriage bid child by her uncle, and that the fact had been concealed from the impudent ; but the child was actually brought to his bowie. and passed off as hie wife's niers. It was sot therefore at all surprising that he should have fallen into a very angry and a very sus pickier state of mind. It must be remembered that the wife had lived for Id rears with her brother-in-lie, and if there had been soy intrigue between them before the marriage it might not impos sibly have been renewed within three weeks after wards ; otherwise it would be a most singular thing if a wife bad so quickly gone astray. On the other hand it was ronteeded that the whole charge was a trumped up story, the only object of which was to enable a hustisod to get rid of a wife of whom he was tired. It would, therefore, be most materiel to uncertain bow the farts may stood. The learned judge thee read over a great por tion of the evidence, and was so engaged when we watt to prem. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY. (Bofors Mr. Commis:beer Cieslbws.) IN HE W. PALWZR. The beak apt, described as a mariser, of Commerci.d. road, cause before the mart, crying 1201. oaly. The debu were of meet contraction ; the bankrupt bad not been nod or premed be his creditors ; and at the last sitting an ad journment bed base ordered that he might make a propod tolls creditors. _ _ _ — ii;. — Alcfrid — r e elated that no eoo► propond had been leads, and the bankrupt did not now appear. Adjourned eine die. We wee a ease is wbicla a similar order bad been made. 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