The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1869-12-11 00:00:00

THE STOIMBRIDGE OBSERVER.

it is, I think, to be sufficieutly gathered from them that he sou appeared to allay the pang of parting from those she
ired her to admit that she had suspected him of fraud, loved on earth for ever.
and had traitorously compired with others to fasten that in the earlier years of their married life the political and
charge upon him. For this be would have her express military duties of the Due d'Auniale in the service of Ff4l.e3
remorse and contrition, suing for his pardon and litotiblY fixed ids residence as 0 'vane', tieueral in Algeria, where his
eonressing her guilt. Mrs. Kelly ref used to do so because young wife accempanied him, mid where her name anti his
she say s sire never did re fact suspect him of anything false are not forgotten. The events of February, 1445, drove
and dishonourable, and never did take counsel with others them into exile, and fixed them iu this country, which they
to bring the charge of it against him. Writing on the Ist have Porn that time regarded as their home It will be
of August, 1063, she says, "I could not tell a lie in this remenibered hereafter to the honour of the Princesses of
matter. I did not design any treachery, and will never say I the French Royal Fetidly with taint remarkable dignity
did. And further on, "1 am sorry I slid not ask your leave to and resignation they accepted an altered position, anti
see the will. I hail a right to do so, hut had lat all thoright mong them the Duchess eVittimale was conspicuous for the •
of its vexing you I would not have octet as I dbl. Surely, pert she took in the purshits and the amusements of her
uow. as what has taken place cannot he recalled, it would husband. she acc..mpanied him to Spain. to Sicily, to
be better to bury the past in oblivion •. let bygones be try- Switterland, to the East. She even shared his taste for the
mines ; forgive and forget mutually, and seek to spend the hardier sports of the field. She presided over the liberal
little time that remains of this life on earth together in hospitalities of Tvdickenham ; but in later years her favourite
peace... . I premise on My tart to ilo all in toy nrwer residence and mode of life was at Woodnorton, the Due
towards this object, hut my position must be such as not d'Aumale's farm near Evesham, in Worcestershire, where she
to cause a scandal. It you will not do this, will enjoyed with .ut alloy the pleasures of English country life
you tell um what you do wish, arid what is to be and the undivided society of her husband and her surviving
the end of it?" Writing again on the 14th of September, ion.
1468, she cart, "1 nrver thought you hail dole abythiug Nor did she take a less cordial share In the political in-
dishonourable, anti certainly I never tried to prove it. •.. &crests of the illustrious family to which she belonged, bothhY
You are under a complete delusion se to my conduct MY birth awl marriage. She hail adopted with them the proud
desire is to act towards you with the submission, obedience, motto, "J'affendrai," arid if she lived not long enough to see
' and even affection of • wife " it would be difficult for a again the mud of FrAtietac she waited at least in resignation
wile to play her part in so critical and poinlul a situotion I I,pe until the will of Providence removed her to another
• more becoming manlier. Surely each language as thin world. Comet°. 01 the danger atteriding the malady horn
should hose sautled airy reasonable man. It LIE,' riot which she had been euffung for the last six weeks, she
eatisfy Mr. Kelly, because, as it appears to me, he had called on Sunday for the last sacraments of the Church, re-
sutfertd time mind to become fine 1 anti mastered by notions calved them with devout piety, anti on the followinz day,
utterly extravagant, both Ile to the With airy of a husband blessing her son, and with her eyes still fixed on him who Ii sit
mid the legitimate means of enforcing if. Ile invokes the been h, her the supreme ob,ket of all earthly affection, gently
theory of the law that the wife should be suhject to the expir,d.
husband, bat he forgets to add this qualification—" in all
things reasonable." lie asserts that he is within the law
if, refraining from physical violence, he °illy puts such
pressure ou his wife as shall force her to obey him. But,
again, he should add—' provided LILO 111141119 used to excrt
moralcressure be resaonable." lint what if reasonable means
are hien fficient, and a wife sill holds tut against her
husband's lawful will? The answer is that the law can
neither do nor sanction more. The law, no doubt, recog-
nizes the looliaml as the ruler, protector, HMI guide et his
w de. It makes him armlet ef her pecunim y restorers; It
gives him, within legal limits, the control of tier person ; it
w ithdrae s civil rights anti remedies from her save in his mime.
Conversely, the law places on the husband the duty of main-
taining his wile, relieves her from all civil responsibilities,
arid ex,uses her even in the commission of great crimes when
acting uri.fer her husband's orders By these incidental
means it has fenced alb mt and fo•tered the reasonable mitre.
maey of the man in the institutis,n of marriage In so doing
it is thought by some that the law is acting in conformity
with the dictates of nature awl the natural charac'eristics of
the sexes, lie that as it may, the subordination of the tv,le is
doubtless in conformity With the t stablielied haiiits and cu-
touts of mankind. V. ith all It ese advantages, then, 1,, his
favour, the law leaves she husband, try hia own conduct and
beef big, to secure and retain in Ms Wife the only submission
which is worth having—that which is willingly 804.1 cheer-
f ally rendered Arid if he fail, this Court cannot recognize
his failure as a jwlification for a system of treatment by
which he places his wirer permanent health in jeopardy,
and sets at naught, uot only his own obligatioes in meta
mony, but the very ends of matrimony itself, hy rendering
imoustble the offices of domestic intercourse mid the mutual
duties of married life. Toe cruelty of the respondent is
established, and the Court decrees a judicial separation with
costs.
Dr Deane, Q.C., and Mr. Inderwiek appeared for the
petitioner. The respondent conducted his own Case.

lieved that no man would be s itched with earth-
closets who could all rd a water-closet. He had tri d
earth closets for two years, and had removed them all
and substituted water-closets.
Mr. Beadd reminded the meeting that railways
had passed away as a working Question, and that sew-
age was the great topic of the day. It was decided
that sewage should no longer be wasted, nor allowed to
pollute our rivers, but applied to the production of
food. The only qutstion was whether it should be ap-
plied to the lind in a fluid form, as recommended by
211 r. Hope, or solid, on the earth-closet system, as ad-
vocated by Mr. Mould. He infinitely preferred the
former.
Mr. Squarey, as a practical agriculturist, recom-
mended that she sewage manure should be applied ex-
clusively to green land, AS being too stimulatiog fir
cereals. He found that a frosty night in summer would
destroy a sewage-rnannred crop of cereals.
Mr. 11-nett cited Sir Anthony Rothschild's village in
Buckinghamshire as a case in which the earth.closet
system had been successf oily employed, and also the
middle-class school in Bedford. He knew a village in
The Fens of 2 000 inhabitants, the sewage of which
was used up by a farm of 20 acr, s and produced double
the ordinary crop (d grass. His experience led him
to recommend that sewage should be used only OD
grass land.
One or two other members having spoken, the dis-
cussion was further Adjourned to the 24th January
next.

It is presumptuous to say that the question of union
is eiu tied in this country for ever. If years hence the
Southern States think it for their lest interests to sepe
rate, the issue would be very different from what it
was in the struggle for slavery. Separation will not
be fzitaL There is no band long enough or strong
enough to hold together unwilling members. If there
i 4 to he a Union it is to be founded on the common in-
terests of all the States.

Europe has knowledge. Knowledge knows, but in-
telliverce knows that it knows. In this country we
have intelligence, which is higher than mere know-
ledge. Nothing is more dangerous than stupidity.
Life is the one 'great necessary element in national
existence. Our people will never think by proxy, and
I ere is the vital point between Protestantism and
Catholicism. If Pere Hyacinths had only denied the
infallibility of the Pope he might have been forgiven.
The Church that opens and shuts its mouth, swallowing
all that is preached, is a clam. Protestantism is no CIMI
—it has wings and legs, and it will not stand still.
Divided activity is fax better than united slug-
gishneis. Here, where COllllllOll schools abound, inteh
, ligence is the sign of manhood. Muscle is no longer
the test of manhood, but nerve, and brain the father
of nerve. Brain is nootter and owner in this world.
You may plan as much as you will, but brain will
govern anti be master. The common school is tending
to plevent the growth of an intellectual aristocracy.
It is the plane that levels the fields of human tile. At
the beginning of each generation all persons have to
commence their education with each other. The rich
toss's dunc, has to stand below the poor man's genius.
In the coninton ebool the teacher says to the pupils,
" You are all stendiug on the grants level, now shoot
your heads as high as you 'lease." It is important
that all the schools should be free. No cotumunity
eau afford to have its academies better than its coin.
coin schools. Rich men are opposed to having their
children edecated with the common herd. Tiey should
not be forced to do it by law, but because they
eatatot find a Ovate nobool an good as the public
schools. If it is necetwary to forego reading the Bible
to maintain the common echool, I say don't read it.
We have no right to forge Jews to submit ten our
customs. Mechanic arts and husbandry are not taught
there, yet no one supposes that the pupils are to be-
come lazy thereby. If the teacher is an example of
Metier anti if lie is full of sympathy, is he not better
than tine Bible when it is read as a dog, runs? Give a
man that which religion creates, and he will believe ,
it, though he may not accept its dogmas. Every time
you educate a child you stop up a hole in the bottom
of the ship of the commonwealth. Ins theology religion
has ni,t found the level that it has in the human heart.
All of the sects are, in their organic structure, proud
and selfish. Toe combative conscience is the nerve of
the sects. The boasted unity of the Catholic Church
is only the unity of the tenement house. The members
all live in the house, but they quarrel iuslie. Ido not
say this to their disparagement, but to their credit. In
the unity of religion we expect much, but not from the
Church. A religion that teaches us to love one another
will save us in the end.