The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1866-12-01 00:00:00

THE STOURBRIDGE OBSERVER.

tastsined the door, and she then began to get out of the
window, but he prevented her. She afterwards went
into hysterics, and he fetched her some wine and tried
to soothe her, and she said she believed be was sorry
for what be had done. This was the last act of violence
charged. They continued to live together until May,
1865, when she left him in consequence of her dis-
covering that he was keeping up an improper con-
nexion with a lady in Exeter. It was proved that
during the last few years of the cohabitation the
respondent hal been in the constant habit of visiting
brothels in Exeter, and committing adultery with
prostitute&
No evidence was called for the '
only question was whet)'.-
established a -'

NO-Writ:l;nm was called for the respondent, and the
'-•• question was whether the petitioner's evidence
- -bed a case of cruelty. It was contended on her
behalf by Mr. liarslake that the respondent's conduct
had been Ruch that he waii entitled to the full relief she
prayed, and that her uncontradicted evidence proved
that he bad been gullty of violent language and of
gesture, which rendered cohabitation unsafe.

It wlis argued by Mr. Coleridge, on the respondent's
behalf, that although he had been guilty of immorality
for which no excuse could be °tiered, there was nothing
like cruelty in his conduct, and that the petitioner's
own evidence proved that she never really feared, or
had occasion to fear, any personal injury or violence at
his hands. Mrs. Milford, no doubt, had borne • great
deal, and she was entitled to a judicial separation on
the ground of adultery, but not to a decree of dissolu-
tion.
The Judg•Ordinary said the respondent had no
doubt been guilty of adultery of a very profligate
character. The case of cruelty, however, required
very careful examination. It was just one of those
cases in which the Court ought to take care that it was
not induced to trespass beyond the limits of level
cruelty in order to give full relief to the wife. Ile
therefore took time to consider his decision.

ornate crozier, or paitoral staff; his right hand is
raised, the fingers positioned, according, I presume, to
some episcopal Directoriu ; the little finger and the
next turned into the palm of the hand, to meet the
thumb, the two other fingers held up, but slightly
curved. lam particular in detail, because it is quite
clear he stood for his likeness in the act of giving the
blessing, and the whole representation to SUit OW Of
a bishop of the Eastern or Western Church performing
that act; it is Episcopal Ritualism, from :de What
fortunate artist received that blessing thus caught by
sun power in its giving Ido not care to publish. I
have some acquaintance with this bishop. I and all
his friends must regret the severity the treacherous
operation threw into his usually benign countenance;
if Balak, the son of Zippor, had seen Balsam so
limited he would have scarce asked him to denounce,
not bless; the prophet blessing would have been a
terror."

Noticing the above remarks about the photograph,
"A Man about Town" writes in the Standard :
In this morning's Times "S. G. 0.," in support of •
charge that the bishops are accomplices in the Ritual move-
ment, says that he has before him, at the time of writing, •
photograph of a bishop who, being in full robes, having a
teenier in his left hand. is with raised right hand giving the
Benediction. "S Or. 0 " says that is quite clear this bishop
"stood for his likeness in the act of giving the Benediction."
Now 0 0' is the victim of a Most transparent
"at it," as the enclosed photograph will prove. It is one of
a series tuned at the time of the consecration 01St. Michael's
Shore litch, and to" made up," in a way that is familiar to
everybody, except apparently 8 ii 0." whose "proofs" are
usually Just as reliable &stills one. it is Episcopal Ritualism
from Life,' says "S. G. 0. ;" the enclosed photograph proves
to any ordinary eyes that in • clever view of a lay ngure.

It seems that the episcopal photograph mentiined
by "S. G. O." in his last letter to The Times was
(as readers generally guessed) the portrait of the Bishop
of Oxford, and Mr. John M. Davenport, Ms lord-
ship's secretary, writes to say that the paragraph has
given great pain in the diocese. "A great and gifted
man," says Mr. Davenport, '' whose life and energies
are devoted to his high and sacred office, who works
in the execution of its onerous duties with a constancy
and assiduity perhaps unparalleled, ought not (with
deference to Lord Godolphin) to be held up to ridicule
in the leading newspaper of the world, and all simply
for an accidental circumstance for which others are
responsible rather than the Bishop himself. The truth
is that the Bishop has been singularly importuned,
from time to time, to sit for his photograph ; and the one
in question was taken at the solicitation of friends,
who suggested the introduction of the pastoral staff,
while the posture of the Bishop, which my Lord
satirizes, is simply that which every bishop occasion-
ally assumes when pronouncing a blessing. The staff
was some years since presented to the Bishop of Oxford
by an hon. M.P., residing in the diocese, and it has
ever since been used upon ceremonial occasions with-
out the slightest offence to auy one." Mr. Davenport,
in cionclusiou, wishes " kindly " to remind Lord Godol-
phin Osborne of what the late Lord Melbourne called
him, 'a disappointed, popularity-hunting parson."
It is only fair to the Bishop to say that his secretary
admits having written this letter without consulting
him.

unmarried sister at Dijon; another who is s widow,
and one of whose sons, M. Girrodde is engineer des
poets et Manual, at Chatillon-sur-Seine. He is there-
fore a near neighbour of yours. I had a younger
brother whom I had the misfortune to lose in 1815.
My father had an elder brother who died librarian of
the town of Dijon. My grandfather kept a little silk
mercer's shop in the Place St. Vincent at Dijon. His
father had been a shoemaker. [cannot go further back;
my quarters of nobility stop with the shoemaker. Shave
heard Pay that one of my great uncles had been in the
army and was wounded in Canada. My fathermarried a
young woman named Canquoin. A brother of my
mother died parish priest of Genlis (Cote d'Or). He
was an excellent man, and we all greatly regretted
him. His brother had some post in the Registry-
office. We lost him in 1839. I have no children, and
it is the greatest sorrow which Heaven could visit me
with. I never asked it for wealth or honours, and it
has given me what I had no desire for, and taken from
Inc my stepson, the child of my wife. We must
submit to its decrees. I was born at Dijon on the 6th
December, 1790; hut I have hardly any recollection
of my mother. We were very poor. We were
tenderly brought up, but amidst privations of every
cost. The servant who took care of us is still living
at Dixon; my sisters and I love her like a mother, and
she loves us as if we were her own children. God
vouchsafes no longer faithful creatures like this good
woman, who received us when we came into the world,
and she showed towards U 9 a love such as it is impos-
sible for me to express. She refused twenty offers of
marriage to stay with us, and yet we must have been
a sad trouble to her. I entered the Polytechnic School
at sixteen, and I left it to enter the Engineers. The
grade which of all others gave me the greatest plea-
sure was that of corporal at the Polytechnic School. I
went through the campaign of Russia, and that of
1815. I was made prisoner at the close of 1813, I was
at Waterloo. I was wounded during the defence of
Pans in 1815. I had a leg fractured by a musket ball
at the siege of Algiers in 1830. My commanding
i•fficers said thee were satisfied with Inc at the siege of
Antwerp in 1832; and the Emperor said he was satis-
fied with me at the siege of Rome. Such, Sir, is my
history almost complete. I should be greatly pleased
if you find in it any proofs of a community of origin
between your family and mine. I pray you to receive
the assurance of my perfect esteem, and to believe
me your devoted servant, NIARSIIAL Vend-atm