The Express.
London, England, 1857-08-22 00:00:00

Banton Barracks to Du,diu. Snots Fusilier Guards, Ist
Battalion—From St. Gemge'■ Damasks to Portsmouth ;
2nd Battation—From the Toyer to Windaor.

DEPARTURE OF OFFICER:4 FOR IS DIA.—It is very
gratifyiag to observe with what honourable &leerily the
officers of the Indian army have proceeded to DAM. They
were for the most part ordered to 'join their regiments,"
without having any regiments to join; but ix/evinced that
the present* of every Englishman at this juncture is im-
portant to the interests of the country, they have, never-
theless, gone out. No fewer thou two goitre's, nine co-
lonels, seveu majors twenty-nine captains, and thirty-two
lieutenant*, proceeded by the ovetland route on the 4th of
August; and one general, eight colonels, two majers,
thirty-one captains, and nineteen lieutenanta, lett by the
*me route on the 20th inst.; making. total of 140 °Meer's.
This number does not Meltdo the ottic' I. of the 42nd. 97th,
34th, and Company's Service, who have gone out in chips.
Captain Herbert Slade has resigned his appoint-
swat of Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Sir John Searlett,
K.C.8., and embarks with his Regiment, the Kiag's Dra-
goon Guards. Ilia brother, Captain William Slade, joins
the 7th Humans, and scoomptinies them to India. These two
young (Akers toe the sone of that gallant old veteran Gen.
Sir John Slade, Bart., who commanded. Brigade of Cavelry
in Spain, tifiy years ego.
We undemtand that no fewer than two hundred

men of the 2nd Battalion GOth kstiontel nt the Ceps
of Guist Hope. were, by the last toiemints, suffering from
complaints of the eyes. A species ,if ophtbithnis is, we
know, indu•ed by the very line cool which blows front the
desert. owl it is probably to this circumstance that the com-
plaint is owing.

ADMTE %LTV, ArGOST 21. APPOINTMENTS.--
Mates—J. Itom, (1R53) to the Hogue, GO, rrsw OHM
Itarthip, ■t Queetwarorti ; and R. P. Fitzgerald (18.56), to
the Mohawk, 4, screw Aosta gun-rowel, at Datonport.

The following circular memorandum has been
issued from the Iforee-Guanla addreo.ed to ottlieere eoretnand-
ing revelry regiments:—" His Royal Iliehoree the General
Commending-in-Chief desires that a It Id-Oilers shall be
prevent when the whole of the oeioers of II r.giment are
ordered to ride in the reboot. It it not, however, intended
that a field-officer shall be prtawv t at the inetruetion of
oileare who hare net been .lieutta.ed frmt riling-school
drill.—Hy command, G. A. WLTIII:ItALL, A.G.

Colonel "truce has been appointed to the command
of the 2ntl Battalion of the hi Royals, and is to join the
deport forthwith.

..%lajor F. ]t. Forster (4th Dragoon Goard,) has
been appointed extra Airletde-tatop to hit Excellency the
Earl of Carlisle, the Lonl-Lieutenant of Ireland.

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The Amaistant-Adjuteet-General of the Royal
Artillery department is removed from Wisdiviell to No. 1,
Whitehall. The °theists comnierme their duties attached to
that department there on Monday next.

TLfE DIVORCE AND AfATRINO-VIAL CAUSES

BILL.

We (Times) have received a copy of this import-
ant Bill as amended in committee of the whole House of
Commons, read a third time, and sent up yesterday evening
for the concurrence of the Hood of Lords. in which sasembly
it originated. The bill now contains fdaulla`S. It pub, on end
to the jurisdiction of all the existing welted retied comb., ne
reptile questions of marriage (except so far ass relate, to the
granting of montage Hecate.), ion enact. that all pending
suits in causes and matters isteleitoonial shall a treneferrol
to, dealt with, and decided by the new Court of 'elerriage
and Divorce, as if the mere had been therein originally insti-
tuted. The new "Court fur Divorce and Matrimonial
Causes" (so styled by the bill) will be a court of record and
court of the Lord High Chancellor. the Chief JoAnne, and
the Chief Berea of the three (superior court,. of common law,
and the judge of the Court of Probate constituted by an act
of the present session. Decrees of divorce ei us, ere et
Moro will henoeforward cram, and instead thereof,
the new court will pronsomee a entente of "jos:h-
ien separation," which will have the same force and
effect. The judge of the Court of rebate will be
styled the '• Judge Ordinary" of the New Curt of Divorce,
and have fall authority to hear all matters arising therein,
by himself or with one or more of the other judges, his
colleagues, except petitions for the diessolution or
annulling of marrineree, and upplicatioto for new trials
of questions or irises before a jury, bills of exception,
spicsal verdicts and 'special curs. Petitions for the &evolu-
tion of marriages, and the other excepted cede. moat Le
heard by three judge. at the kart, of which the Jude Ordi-
nary is to be one. The court will sit in such place in Lou-
den, or in the county of Middlesex, ,se the Queen in Council
may from time to time appoint. Advocates er proemr+ now
practicing in the ecclesiastical canto, and all harrtiters, at-
ttoneys, and 'elicitors entitled to mediae in the superior
courts at Westminster, will be entitled to practise in
the new Court of Divorce and Isitrinioniel Causes. A 'sen-
tence of " judicial separetion" (having the crier of the old
divorce from bed and board) mow be obtained under the bill,
either by the husband or the wife, en the ground of *dui-
tery, cruelty, or murices demotion fur two years and up-
wards. Applications for such eeperation sire tss be made by
either party by petition to the rcint, or to any Pelee of
arise bold in the locality whet° the peen, s reside or last
resided, or to the Court of Quarter Session., or to the
Recorder of the city or borough in which the penis el are or
were lan wedeln. The heel authorities thus pointed out
will have fell power to receive ouch applications and to
decree a "judidel separation;" they essay taro order ali-
mony for the wife. An appeal, however, will lie to the
judge ordinary of the regular central court from the decrees
either. 1,41 authorities, but no each upped will nay the
interim execution of the order for eepersitien. NVives de-
meted by their hoarse+. mop at any tints apply to a
police magietrete, or to the petty reeteme for en orler to
prefect preperty earned by themselves, or of which they may
have become powered, since the peeessien of their nue•
Mode, against their budded. sa th, it bar ]muds' creditors.
therms of separation obtained during the ahem° of the
sad or wife may Le reversed on application and proof.
"judicially me:indict" will be cemented
.froes
regards, spiestione of property. and fur pupates of
oett.ract and suing. So much for the tens' wary and con-
ditional eeperation of marred comae+. But it is further
enacted Ly the bill that petition* for an moos, and Mode's
diesolut ion of the marriage say be presented hs the Court of
Divorce, on the ground that the wife hue ferfeibd her con-
jurd rig,ht• by the clime of adultery, nr that the lowland has
bem malty (we quote from the text of the tell) ere incestuous
adultery, or of adultery committed in the revival emblems,
or of bigamy with adultery, or of ripe, or of sodomy, or of
bestiality, or of adultery coupled with much cruelty ay, with-
out adultery. would have entitled the wile to a divorce
moot rf Mors, nr of adultery, coupled with dreertion, with-
out remonetee excuse, for two your, or upwardr." Inces-
tuous adultery" will be taken to moan adultery by a man with
a woman with whom, if hie wife were dead, he osuld not
lawfully contract marriage by reason of her being within
the prohibited degrees or coneanguinity or affinity. Adul-
terers may he made corespondents to petitions for divorce,
and contested matters of fact may be tried, if the parties
Insist, by a jury. If the Court of Dlvoree be wineries% that
I there boo been no collusion, condenntien, or conni-
vance, and that the charge of the petitioner IA proved,
the marriage will be absolutely end homily " dissolved,"
with the proviso that the de:re° to that etrixt shall not be
pronounced if the petitioner has been guilty of adultery or
unremonable delay in presentiug the polies, or of Irving
deserted the other party, "without ressenahle excuse." be-
fere the act of adultery complidued of, (sr of wilful neglect or
miseenduct conducing to the adultery. Alinesity might be
awarded to wives, even in the event of the marriage being
thus dissolved. Husaren& may claim damages front aslul-
tents if they please, awl such claims will be heard and tried
on the eame principle., in the dine manner, and euldect to
the same rubs and repletion., es actions for cries. COIL*
the danames being deterndeable by the verdict of a
jury. Adulterers, made emremondent., may be mulcted in
the whole of the COMP. The custody of children will
be provided for by interim orders of the Court of
Divorce. Questions of fort may be tried bet see the court
by the verdict of *jury, special or common, and the court
may theme betters to try matters of tact in any court of
common low. A number of clauses ref r to the mode and
forme of procedure before the court. All witnesses will be
sworn and examined orally in open court, where Heir ate
to dance can be secured. An appeal wsil lie from the deci-
des of the Judge Ordinary kin eases where he is authorised
to decide alone) to the full court, oust an appeal from
decrees ilidolviee marriages will lie from the Court of
Divorce to the Ileum of Lords (within three months).
Clause 65 enacts that after the lame of this period allowed
for appeal, and emending the decree of dissolution to stand
hot, "it shall bee lawful for the respective parties to the
marriage to marry mein, m if the prior marriage had been
absolved by death; " provided that "no clergyman in holy
orders of the United Church of England end Ireland shall
be compelled to eoleninise the marriage of any person whose
former marriage may have been dissolved on the ground of
his or her adultery, or be liable to tiny suit, penalty, or
memo for eolemnioing or Terming ts, enemies) the mar-
riage of UM such person." The following clone, however,
(46), provides that, although a minister may refuse to
solemnise such marriages himself, he must, nevertheless,
permit any other minister of the eitabliehtuent, officiating in
the dimrse, to perform the marriage service in the parochial
church or chapel. Clause 57 tenuinates the scandal of
actions for criro. eon. The fees under this hall will be
collected by stamps, to be "stamp duties" under the
management of the Inland Revenue Department. ('lose 62
secures compensation to proctoee in the lleeleeisietteal
Court two years hence, at the hands of the Treasur : the
enmpensetion to be calculated on a comparieen, in each cow,
of the average clear gains of the three entre before the
passing of the act, and the two years, succeeding. The
compensation will, if granted, be a life annuity, such annuity
in no case to exceed one moiety of the annual lose ascertained
as aforesaid. The salary of the judge of the Court of Pro-
bate, if he be spy-anted judge-ordinary of the new Court of
Divorce (as is professed), will be 6,0001. a year; but such
judge, if afterwards appointed judge of the Court of Admi-
ralty, will be entitled to no increase of salary. The rules of
proCedure and a yearly account of fee., de., arc to be laid
before parliament. And now, like the committee of the
Hour of Commons, we have exhausted the douse. of the
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, which may le me.
parted in the course of a few days to become as sot paw,.
moat, and it nob, part if tbo loukto isw if tir.,14,4

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