The Sun.
London, England, 1860-06-23 00:00:00

THE SUN 'EONDON, SATURDAY EViil4ll4l4, JUNE 23, 1860.

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T,HE PROPOSED CLAUSE IN LORD
CAMPBELL'S DIVO.RCE BILL.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN.

SlR,—Permit me, through the medium of your
influential journal, to draw attention to the pro-
posed clause in Lord Campbell's Bill for expediting
business in the Matrimonial and Divorce Courts.
Many and just are the complaints of the suitors of
the attendant delay between the commencement
of a suit and its termination, which will not be ob-
viated, as it should be, if this clause is allowed to
come into operation. The provision complained of
in the bill is this—" That no decree for a
divorce shall be absolute for three months,

and that during that time any person may
show to the Court that there has been
collusion, or that material facts have been sup-

pressed, or information may be given to the Queen's
Proctor, who, if he suspects collusion, may inter-
vene in the suit." The motive assumed for intro-

clueing this clause by the opponents of the Divorce
Bill is that of preventing collusion. Would it not
be more efficacious and just to make collusion or
the suppression of material evidence punishable
either by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the dis-

cretion of the Judge Ordinary Let the investiga-
tion on the trial be as searching and severely

scrutinising as practicable or possible, but when a
vindictive feeling exists either on the part of the
respondents or their families this three months'

delay will enable them to get up frivolous
proceedings for the sake of annoyance on
some of the proposed grounds. The attendant
expense should also be kept in view, coupled with
the facility it would give the party who was mulcted
in costs, and who had neither landed nor other pro-
perty available, to place themselves beyond the
jurisdiction of the courts. This clause will be in-
jurious and harrassing to all suitors, but will be
felt most severely by those sufferers who can least
bear to have their griefs aggravated by additional
suspense—v:z., deserted wives,. Under the new
law, a wife must be deserted two years and upwards
before she can commence proceedings, then add to

these two years the necessary delay pendente lite.

this time a husband may be living in

open profligacy with his paramour, sup-
porting her in luxurious comfort, and

not contributing one sixpence to his lawful wife's
maintenance. Let any one picture to themselves
the anxiety, UP mental sufferings of an injured

deserted wife for these two long wearisome years
before she can appeal to the tribunals of her coun-
try for redress, on account of the wrongs inflicted

by a heartless profligate husband. During th:s

period of fearful probation a wife is too often
neglected by her family, and shunned by her friends,
all parties equally disliking the public exposure,
and dreading being called upon to give evidence.
The very personal and mental attractions of a de-
serted wife render her an object of double suspicion,
for, I believe, all will admit that a separated wife
is generally, I regret to say, almost invariably,
considered to be in the wrong, and where beauty
exists, too many are ready to assert--the most
charitable may only surmise—the wife to be the
aggressor, not the aggrieved. Although the law
of divorce is much amended and ameliorated, still
it does not place the husband and wife upon an
equality. If a wife be guilty of adultery the hus-
band can immediately commence proceedings for
dissolution of marriage. The law requires, before
the wife can commence such a suit, proof that the
husband has combined cruelty with the adultery,
or that he must have deserted, for two years and
upwards, the being whom he swore at God's altar
" to love and cherish till death do us part." Were I
to expatiate upon the mental sufferings, the injured
health, the corroding anxiety, the wearing agony of
suspense,the hideous apprehension of greater misery,
and the unjust suspicions too often evinced both by
family and friends, to which an ill-used wife is ex-
posed during these two long weary years, I might
fill volumes. Owing to this melancholy position
thrust upon a wife by a profligate, cruel husband,
she is compelled to lead a secluded life, it not being
considered either decorous or desirable that a wife
seeking a divorce should mix in society, or be ex-
posed to its attendant temptations. Too often her
nearest of kin—once intimate, valued friends—keep
nloof from hor, rtrul. thliQ Uar ia I.ft a pray-
to its all-engrossing sorrow. With weakened
nerves and shattered health, and powers of
forbearing endurance taxed to the utmost she
has to contemplate, after years of suspense,
three mouths' additional dull agony of wait-
ing before she can be released from bonds
that once she fondly hoped would only have been
severed by death, The injured deserted wife will
have to dread under this clause that charges may
be brought against her by a vindictive husband,
which her exhausted mental powers are ill-calcu-
lated to rebut, or her pecuniary resources to enable
her to obtain professional assistance to defend.
The melancholy position of a deserted wife is such
as always calls for sympathy, but where she has
but a limited income and is without the protection
of her family she merits the deepest compassion,
for her existence is too hideous a reality for con-
templation. Overwhelmed with her consuming
grief, borne down by mental anguish, disheartened
by the estrangement of family and early friends,
longing for sympathy and affection, might not
health, reason, virtue, or life succumb under so
heavily severe an accumulation of trials.
anr,Should the clause pass, the injured, suffering,
innocent wife will be the victim—not the parties
guilty of collusion. If the clause is deemed impera-
tively necessary by our legislators, let it be thus
amended—" That in all suits for dissolution of mar-
riage, save where the wife has been deserted for
two years and upwards," the decree shall not be
absolute for three months, punishing collusion with
the severest penalties.
When the fearful arrears in the matrimonial and
divorce courts are reviewed, and the enormous
amount of mental agony, anxiety suspense, grief,
and temptation these arrears entail, does it not be-
hove the House of Commons to be somewhat less
dilatory in its mode of transacting business,
and take into speedy consideration a bill that in-
volves the vital interests of so large a portion of the
community. The full court for dissolving marriages
▪ sat but for seven days last term, and it was inti-
- mated that the full court could not meet again
before November. Surely a bill giving fuller
power to the Judge Ordinary ought to be imme-
diately gone through with, when we consider the
amount of human suffering involved in delay. This
ought not to be a party question, as it is one that
concerns the interest of every class of the commu-
nity from the patrician to the plebeian, the Con-
servative, the Whig, and the Liberal alike. Should
these lines arouse attention to a contemplated grie-
vous wrong, causing the clause to be expunged or
amended, and the bill brought speedily before the
house, my humble efforts to alleviate the frightful
Agony
of suspense will be most amply rewarded.—
I am, sir, your obedient servant,

London, June 18, 1860.

VERITAS,

TRIM DAY'S SHIPPING.

LONDON, June 23.—Wind this day at noon—IV.S.W.;
light breeze, and fine weather, but cloudy,

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.)
SOUTHAMPTON, Saturday Morning,
Wind S.W , blowing hard.

(BY SUBMARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.)
GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning.
Wind W.S.W. ; tide five and a half hours' ebb; weather
fine.

Wind S.W., fresh.

DEAL, Saturday Morning.

AFOTHECARIES'JIALL.—The following are the
names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the
science and practice of medicine, and received certificates
to practise, on Thursday, June 21:—John Jones, Llan-
fyllin • William Mitchell, Bothie,
.Cumberland ; Raphael
Meldola, 25, Gretton-terrace, Victoria-park ; Thomas
Young Baker, Hargrave, Northamptonshire ; Henry Übs-
Robert Tanner, Gloucester-house,
dell, Pewsey, Wilts;
Ledbury ; Robert Cummings Gibbs, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their
first examination :—Sebastian Claude Thomas Gardner,
Highgate • Timothy Richardson, London Hospital;
Bathurst Woodman, London Hospital; Richard May
Miller, University College; Edmund Cornish King, Uni-
versity College.