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THE PROPOSED CLAUSE IN LORD
CAMPBELL'S DIVORCE 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-
ducing this clause by the opponents of the Divorce
Bill is that of preventing collusion. Would it not
be more efficacious and just to snake 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.
All 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, the 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 redrqs, 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 ho 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
aloof from her, and thus her mind is left a prey
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 months' 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 ie 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 accurnulaVon of trials.
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,
and anxiety, suspense, grief,
temptation three arrears entail, does it not be-
hove the louse 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 iuti-
- 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,

ficent.

VERITAS.

LONDON, June 28.--Wind this day at noon—W.S.W.
ght breeze, and line weather, but cloudy.

(BY ELECTRIC TELEGILIPIL)
SOUTHA.ItIrTON, Saturday Morning.
Wind S.W., blowing hard.

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

DEAL, Saturday Morning.

ArOTHECARI& HALL.—ThIo 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, Buthie, Cumberland; Raphael
Meldola, 25, Gretton-terrace, Victoria-park; Thomas
Young Baker, Hargrave, Northamptonshire ; Henry Vbs..
(km, pewsey, Wilts; Robert Tanner, Gloucester-house,
Ledbury ; Robert Cummings Gibbs, Newcastle-on-TM.
The following gentlemen also on the same day passed their
first examination :—Sebastian Claude Thomas Gardner,
Highgate ; Timothy Richardson, London Hospital ; Wil-
liam Bathurst Woodman, London Hospital; Richard May
Miller, University C;4lep; Edmund Cornish King, Uui
Terslty College.

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THIR D EDITION.

SUN OFFICE, Six o'clock,

ROYAL VOLUNTEER REVIEW

(THIS DAY.)

Up to three o'clock different volunteer regiments
continually arrived, and the scene, as the hour of
commencing the review approached, was magni-

A salvo of artillery, as near four o'clock as pos-
sible, announced that her Majesty had entered the
park, and the excitement produced by the circum-
stance was immense. In a short time afterwards
Her Majesty, the Prince Consort, the Royal
Family, and the brilliant suite, arrived on the
ground, and the proceedings commenced by the
immense body of men saluting her Majesty.
This movement was gone through with the
greatest precision, and elicited the highest admira-
tion of the multitude, who one and all seemed
proud of the manner in which the men, who were
but a short time ago totally unacquainted with
military evolutions, obeyed the word of command.
Her Majesty and suite, the Commander-in• Chief
and an immense attendance of officers, then drove
down the line, and having returned to the royal
standard, the volunteers marched past in quick
time, in open column of companies.
The steadiness of the marching was most re-
markable, and altogether her Majesty must have
felt delighted at the manner in which the whole
of the evolutions were performed.
Time will not suffice for us to enter at any
length into the various details of the scene ; but to
sum up all in a few words, we must say it was one of
the grandest and most extraordinary military apse-
tacles that has taken place within the present

generation.
The public will rejoice to learn that by the
kindness of the Board of Works Messrs. Maclean,
Melhuish, Napper, and Co., photographers to the
Queen, of the Haymarket, have had a stand erected
for the purpose of taking several pictures of the
interesting proceedings, which will be published as
soon as possible.

FROJI THE GAZETTE OF LAST EVENING.

ST. JAMES'S PALACE, JUNE 20.
The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon Colonel William Loekyer Freestnn, Com-
mander of the Royal and Distinguished Order of Charles
the Third, Knight of the First Class of the National and
Military Order of San Fernando, and Knight of the Royal
Order of Isabella the Catholic, of Spain.

The Queen was this day pleased to confer the honour of
Knighthood upon James Remelt.] Martin, 0.13., F.R.S.,
Physician to the Secretary of State for India in Council, and
Surgeon in the Bengal Army, retired.
WHITEHALL, JUNE 21, 1860.
The Queen has been pleased to appoint James Vaughan,
Esq., Thomas Unwin Barstow, Esq., and Franklin Lush-
ington, Esq., to be Commissioners for the purpose of mak-
ing inquiry into the existence of bribery at the last election
for the town of Berwick-upon-Tweed.
The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Mark
Cooper, M.A., to the Rectory of Saint Mary, in the town
and county of Southampton, and diocese of Winchester,
void by the promotion of the Rev. Joseph Cotton Wigratn,
D.D., to the Bishopric of Rochester.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 22.
Coldstream Regiment of Foot Guards--General Lord
Clyde, G.C.8., from the 93d Highlanders, to be Colonel,
vice Field-Marshal the Earl of Strafford, G.C.B.,
deceased.
WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, JUNE 22.
sth Regiment of Light Dragoons—Captain Charles Edwyn
Wyatt, from the 14th Light Dragoons, to be Captain,
vice Brevet-Major Hillier, who retires upon half-pay,
receiving the former difference between Infantry and
Cavalry.
Gth Dragoons—Ensign Hamilton John Wallace, from the
12th Foot., to be Cornet, vice Orde, promoted.
7th Light Drageons—The transfer of Lieutenant and Ad-
jutant James Giles, frost the 14th Light Dragoons, as
stated in the "Gazette" of the2oth December, 1859, has
been cancelled.
13th Light Dragoons—Surgeon Robert Carew Anderson,
M.D., having completed a period of twenty years' full-
pay service, to be Surgeon-Major, under the Royal War-
rant of Ist October, 1858.
Royal Artilley—Lieutenant Henry John Foquett Ellis
filches to ha Second Captain, vice Tucker, placed upon
half-pay; Lieutenant Frederick George Bayley to be
Second Captain, vice. Noble, placed on the Supernume-
rary List; Acting Veterinary-Surgeon John Mills to be
Veterinary-Surgeon; Acting Veterinary-Surgeon Henry
Dunsford to be Veterinary-Surgeon; Sergeant-Major
Richard Stoyell to be Riding Master; Sergeant-Major
George Hadcock to be RidinglMaster ; Surgeon William
Henry Mackintosh, M.D., having completed a period of
twenty years' full-pay service, to be Surgeon-Major,
under the Royal Warrant of Ist October, 1858.
Military Train—Brevet-Major Charles Edward Johns,
from the 17th Foot, to be Captain, vice Atkinson, who
exchanges; Lieut. John Murphy, from half-pay late
Land Transport Corps, to be Lieutenant, vice Hail, who
exchanges; Lieut. Wentworth Dawes to be Adjutant,
vice Witchell, who resigns the Adjutancy only.
Llth Regiment of Foot—Ensign Owen Campobello Robin-
son to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Davies, who
retires.
ibth Foot—Ensign Francis Henry Garnett to be Lieute-
nant, by purchase, vice Horefall, who recites.
16th Foot—Lieut. Albert Andrew Pinson to be Instructor
of Musketry, vice Gibson, promoted.
17th Foot—Captain Thomas George Brutton Atkinson,
from the liilitary Train, to be Captain, vice Johns, who
exchanges ; James Henry do Robeek Lynch, Gent., to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice Elgin, promoted ; Arthur
Vesey Nugent, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice
Deane, promoted ; Serjeant-Major 'William Walsh Monk
to be Quartermaster, vice Falkner, removed to the 75th
Foot.
22d Foot—William Brooks Butlin, Gent., to be Ensign, by I
purchase, vice Oliver, promoted.
25th Foot—Surgeon William Boyd, front the 32d Foot, to
be Surgeon, vice Carr, who exchanges.
32d Foot—Surgeon Jonas King Carr, M.D., from the 25th
Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Boyd, who exchanges.
31tfh Foot—Afe istant
to b-Surgeon David Chambers McFall,
from the 87th Foot, e Assistant-Surgeon, vice Ha-
ward, who exchanges..
37th Foot—Ensign John Reilly to be Quartermaster, vice
Crutchley, deceased.
40th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Frederick Fitz-Simons to
by Captain, by purchase, vice Eagar, promoted, by pur-
chase, in a depot battalion; Ensign and Adjutant
Thomas Ormsby Johnston to have the rank of Lieute-
nant ; Ensign Robert Brooks Clarke to be Lieutenant.,
by purchase, vice FitzSirnons.
43d Foot—Lieu. enant Frederick Guy Eaton Glover to be
Instructor of Musketry, vice Sargent, who resigns that
appointment.
47th Foot—Assistant-Surg,een William Stewart, M.D.,
from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice White, ap-
pointed to the Staff.
' 50th Foot—Assistant-Sturgeon Johnston Ferguson, from
the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Joseph John-
ston, appointed to the Staff.
with Foot—Richard Hay Kirkbride Saul. Gent to
be Ensign, by purchase, vice ride
S pro
'noted; Assistant, Surgeon Wallace Haward, front th
34th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice M'Fall, wh
exchanges.

BANK OF ENGLAND.
An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth Victoria,
cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednesday, the 20th day
of June, 1860 :

ISSUE DEPARTMENT.
Notes issued £30,150,985 Government Debt £11,0.5,100
Other Securities .. 3,450,900
Gold Coin & Bullion 15,675,985
Silver Bullion .... -

X 30,150,9851
BANKING DEPARTMENT.
Proprietors' Capi- Government Seen-
tal.aei £14.553,000 rities (including
Rest . Deposits.... . ...... 3,240,081 Dead WeightAn-
Public On- nuity) £9,764,100
eluding Excite- Other Securities .. 1'025,818
quer, Savings' Notes
Banks, Commis- Gold and Silver
missioners of NI- Coin
tional Debt, and
Dividend Ac-
counts) 8,688,191
Other Deposits 12,115,000
Seven Day and •
other Bills 610,228

£30,150,055

822,516

439,236,500
M. 1

£39,236,500
[AR SIL& LL, Chief Cashier.

Dated June 21, 1860.

AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR.
The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com-
puted from Returns made in the week ending the 19th day
of June, 1560, exclusive of the duties of Customs paid or
payable thereon en the importation thereof into Great
Britain :
Muscovado, the produce of the British pos-
sessions in America .... 25s 5d
Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius • 22e lid
Muscovado, the produce of the East Indies., —d
Average price of the foregoing • 25s i;,d

BANKRUPTCIES ANNULLED.
William Bedford, baker, Middlesex-street, White.
chapel.
Alfred Haslam, coach proprietor, Blanchester.

BANKRUPTS.
John Faulkner, cab proprietor, Commercial-road, Surrey,
to surrender July 5, at eleven, and Aug. 2, at one, at the
Court of Bankruptcy.
William Revitt, cutler, Sheffield, July 7 and 28, at ton,
at the Council-hall, Sheffield.
John M. rgan, clay and mineral merchant, Manchester,
July 3 an a
d 24, t twelve, at te Manchester District Court.
Walter Noak and John Noak, salt manufacturers, Droit-
wich, July 5, and Aug. 3, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court.
James Young, draper, Highbridge, Sony rsetsbire, July
3, and 30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court.
James Berry Blackburn, currier, Norwich, July 4, at
Bank-
half-past two, and August 7, at one, at the Court of Bank-
ruptcy.
Joseph Holland and Samuel Henry Holland, printers,
Birmingham, July 2 and 30, at eleven, at the Birmingham
District Court.
otherwise Hilliard Bevis, maltster,
William Hilliard,
Burghclere, Southampton, July 5, at two, and Aug. 9, at
twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy.
asoxilloardrrsihsoirne,,
July 4,
andhalf
fiaapasetr,onile,eanialdeyA-past
at the Court of Bankruptcy.
T7,hTaahtmote:s,o,
Gorge Curtis, licensed victualler, Landport, flats,