The Sun.
London, England, 1860-10-27 00:00:00

DIVORCE AND ITS ARREARS:

HONOUR TO RIFLE-61100TERS IN BELGIUM.—
MM. 0 illion and Paradis, the two Belgians who obtained
prizes in the firing at Vincennes, were received with greae
t
honour in their own country. A deputation of th
National Guard at Mons went to Quievrain, the frontier
town, to receive them, and accompanied them to Mons.
When they reached that place they were received by the
vice-president and a number of the members of the Rifle
Society, and by a band of music. Tho former national
delivered a 1
complimentary speech, and the latter performed the
air. They were afterwards taken in procession to the Town
Hall, escorted by a legion of the National Guard and a de-
tachment of the civic artillery. There they were conipli-
mented by the mayor, and, in the businessof the town, wine
was offered to them. In the evening was generally
suspended, and a subscription ball was got up ; m9reover,
the public and coffee-houses were all
to remain open
all night.
NPLOSION.—bout 1 o'clock
SERIOUS BOILER E
yesterday afternoon three men were seriously injured by
the explosion of a boiler in the waggon-shop of the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire Railway Company's locomotive works
at Miles Platting near Manchester. The boiler was one of
a pair of 30 horse-power, horizontally fixed. Each are about
23 feet long and 6 feet diameter, and manufactured b the
company. The one which burst (both ends giving way/r
was
company. one nearest the engine, which was just being started
after the dinner-our. The men injured are James Garner
I(storekeeper), 62; Charles Matthews (fitter), and Henri
Sutton (iron turner), 28, all severely bruised and scalded
Matthews having a compound fracture of the left thigh in
addition. All were conveyed to the infirwary. The cause
of On accidellt is not yet afiwyeredi •

(From the Era,)
An experiment is about to be tried in the Divorce
Court with the view of facilitating the hearing of
cases by that tribunal. The power to dissolve the
marriage tie, which is by many considered a sacred
engagement, and justly so, was vested in three
judges, but it appears that the business of the
Common Law Courts prevented the attendance of
the requisite number, and the consequence
ohas
been an accumulation of arrears. There ar.
as many as 156 cases waiting to be tried fft ebceloll.re
ulty
the full Court, and to get rid
the Legislature last session. resoolyfe_.(theest:
Dinoh
the Judge Ordinary (Sir Croswell t)
ard toce
vest in
powers of the full Court, wil g
reext term proceed
matters, and his Lordshipthe assist-
with the cases. He may,
h°
bute he will at once sit for
ance of other learned judges,
owers of the full Court.
the cases vested with all th7rimene .s
1. patent from
willly velir, call in
That this is only an him a full Court,
the fact that the Act, years. There is a pro-
i :15e:egtuting
is only to continue f
eAoct which will perhaps prevent
vision in this new
the extreme hastebe
f parties to get a divorm A.
nisi for three months, and if
tion can be
obtained of collusion d •
during
any inform_athe
proceedings, or of facts being with-
decree is only to
any part of
Court on being made acquainted with the
'ices, can request the Queen's
Proctor,
from thAtt orney-General, to
under directions chierledu,nith;
g the facts before the
Court. Any person can give information to
sluts.willlt coennfearctsa
the Court, so that collusion may be detec-
ted, counsel, and brine
nt ect
on Anotherpparties
e provisions t
o
that
"in in every case of a petition for a dissolution of
marriage it shall be lawful for the Court, if it shall
see fit, to direct all necessary papers in the matter
to be sent to her Majesty's Proctor, who shall, under
the direction of the Attorney-General, instruct
counsel to argue before the Court any question in
relation to such matter, and which the Court may
deem it necessary or expedient to have fully argued;
and that her Majesty's Proctor shall be entitled to
charge and be reimbursed the cost of such proceed-
ings as part of the expense of his office." It will be
soon seen whether a single judge should be em-
powered by law to dissolve the solemn engagement
of marriage, whetherisuch a dissolution should not
require mature and anxious deliberation. No doubt
expedition in law is to be desired, but in such
matters of consequence deliberation should be the
governing principle.
again

AUSTRIAN PREPARATIONS.—The warlike pre-
parations of Austria, on the line of the Po, says _La Prescen.! *
are becoming more and more menacing. The most re
ana
intelligence announces that a corps of between 40,0nero.
0°
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