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

ITALY.

Letters from Chambery state that great prepara-
tions are being made there for the reception of King
Victor-Emmanuel on the Ist of September, when
he is to lay the first stone of the bridge near Culoz,
destined to unite the Sardinian and French rail-
ways. It was believed at Chambery that Prince
Napoleon would attend on the part of France.
In consequence of the refusal of Marquis Palla-
vicini to accept the office of Syndic of Genoa, the
Government appointed Advocate Mooro, who was
accordingly sworn in on the 18th.
Accounts from Rome of the 16th inst. inform us
that the Emperor Louis Napoleon's fete was cele-
brated with great pomp in that city. The French
troops were reviewed by General de Goyon, and
defiled with cries of "Vive Pmperetcr I" A solemn
mass in music, followed by a 'l'e Doan, was cele-
brated in the French church of St. Louis. In the
afternoon the establishments occupied by the
French were brilliantly illuminated. General
Count de Goyon gave a splendid ball at which the
entire Corps Diplomatique attended.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Pane.)
THE ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.

To-day was appointed for hearing a petition for
winding up the affairs of the above company under
the 5 and 6 Vic., for winding up Joint-Stock Com.

panics.

Mr. Roxburgh appeared in support of the petition,
and stated that the company was formed in March,
1856, and it was proposed that the capital should be
40,0001., to be raised on 4,000 shares of 101. each,
with a call of 21. per share, 3,743 shares had been
subscribed for, and on 3,256 had been paid
up, thus making a cappit%l of 33,546/. The
undertaking was commenced, ibut entirely failed,
the working expenses being more than the receipts, and
the whole of the capisal had, in the words of the act,
been "lost, exhausted, or become unavoidable." The
facts were verified by the secretary, and he (Mr. Rox-
burgh) did not think that under the circumstances there
could be any opposition to an order being made in the
usual manner.

Mr. Chapple appeared for some of the shareholders,
and objected to the petition on the ground that the peti-
tioner having paid up his shares was not in a position to
present a petition under this act.
Mr. Roxburgh was heard in reply, and contended that
if that was the construction to be put on the act, it
would be impossible to say who could present a petition,
Supposing all the shareholders had paid up, no one could
present it.
His Honour over-ruled the objection.
After some further discussion, in which it was urged
that an adjournment should take place on the ground that
the statements in the petition were not correct, and that
there was no ground for saying the assets were uavailable
His Honour said that, under all the circumstances, he
felt inclined to grant a reasonable delay, so that the
general shareholders might inquire into the facts.
Mr. Roxburgh urged that such a course ought not
to be taken, especially as there was no affidavit, or the
slightest evidence to contranict the allegations in
the petition, and the greatest evil might be done by
delay, as an action had been brought against
the company, and judgment might be taken out almost
immediately. The gardens were now open, and money
was being taken daily, and therefore an official liqui-
dation ought to be appointed. On the 13th of
August the company was served with three writs, and
those creditors would be entitled, prcbably on Monday,
to other executions. The shareholders could not in
any way be prejudiced by the order being made.
His Honour ultimately held that the case should be
adjourned till Thursday next.
It was stated that an offer had been made by Mr.
Bale to take the garden's for 12 nights but which could
not be done without some order had been made.
Mr. Jones, Mr. Chidley, Mr. Toombs, and other
gentlemen attended for shareholders.
The directors have convened a general meeting of the
shareholders for Tuesday the 25th to take the matter
into consideration.

POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.)

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.

ROBBERY AT TUE PANTHEON, OXFORD-STREET.—Anne
Taylor, a respectably dressed, middle-aged female, was
charged with stealing various articles from the stalls at
the Pantheon, Oxford-street.
Elizabeth Campion said that she was taking care of a
stall belonging to a young woman named Charlotte
Whiting, when, while she was looking far an article, she
heard a heap fall from the counter. She looked round,
and saw the prisoner going away. At the same moment
she missed a lady's morocco leather reticule. She fol-
lowed the prisoner, and accused her of having taken it.
She denied that she bad, but on being pressed to pro-
duce it, she gave it up.
Mr. Beadon—What is the value of it I
Complainant-10s. 6d., sir.
The policeman who had the prisoner in custody pro-
duced a pair of goloshes and a morocco box she had in
her possession, which had been taken from other stalls.
The prisoner observed that the articles was caught by
her shawl.
Thomas Brown, the porter, said that the manager of
the Pantheon wished the charge to be dealt with sum-
marily.
Mr. Beadon asked the prisoner if she was guilty.
The prisoner replied that she was innocent, on which
Mr. Beadon observed that she must go for trial. After
some consideration she came back and pleaded guilty.
She was sent for six months to the House of Correc-

tion.
IMPUDENT ROBBERY IN THE STREET.—Cbarles Ryder,
aged 17, was charged with stealing a meat safe, the
property of Mr. Symonds, Hanover-place, Oxford-street,
and which was in front of the shop. He put it on his
shoulder and ran away with it. He pleaded guilty, and
was also sent for three months.
DARING SHOP ROBBERY.—Michael Cartelll was
charged with stealing five pairs of boots from a shop
No. 47, Wardour street. He was sent for six months to
the House of Correction.

THAMES.
THE LATE EXTENSIVE RICE ROI3IIERIES.-Mr. Best,
a solicitor, applied to Mr. Yardley for an order to com-
pel a corn dealer, named Hugh Wood, residing in the
Minories, to deliver 16 bags of rice to M.
Page of the
Commercial rice mills, Limehouse, from whom they
were stolen by men in his employ in conjunction with a
fellow named Hugh Osborne, of Spring Garden-place,
near the Green Dragon, Stepney, who was liberated on
bail by Mr. Sella and absconded. Mr. Best recapitu-
lated the circumstances of the extensive robberies of rise
to the amount of 9001. from Mr. Page's mill in the course
of eight months, the apprehension and flight of Osborne,
the arrest of five men in Mr. Page's employ, and the
conviction of a receiver named Beat at the last Clerken-
well sessions who was sentenced to ten months imprison-
ment and hard labour. Mr. Wood had been applied to
and asked to restore some rice stolen from Mr. Page's
premises, and agreed to do so.
Mr. Yardley thought the application ought to have
been made to the court where Best, the receiver, was
tried.
Mr. Best—The application was made to the Court of
Quarter Sessione, and an order made for the bags of rice
to be restored to Mr. Page. Mr. Wood
onced notice
to deliver. The rice is in possession of a sergeant.
Mr. Yardley—Why does he object top restore the rice
to the owner I
Mr. Best—The police sergeant don't object. He
wishes to have your worship's order.
Mr. Yardley--I don't see that I have any jurisdiction
in this matter.
Mr. Best—Read the 29th section of the Police Courts
Act, the 2d and 3d Vict., cap. 71, which conferred the
power on the magistrate to order the restoration of the
property to the owner.
Mr. Yardley—There is not the shadow of a doubt
the rise was stolen from Mr. Page, and he has been a
great sufferer.
Mi. Wood—No doubt of that, but I wish to consult
my solicitor before I part with possession of the rice.
Mr. Yardley said he would not act on the judgment
of Mr. Wood's solicitor, but he must act on his own
judgment, and accordingly made an order for Mr. Wood
and the police sergeant to deliver the rice now claimed
to Mr. Page. Mr. Wood could try Mr. Page's right to
the rice by an action, if he should be so advised.

THE Moons.—The Perthshire Fourier of Thursday
says :—" It does not appear, from the accounts which
have reached us as yet, that the sport on the Perthshire
moors has turned out nearly so good as was previously
anticipated. We understand, indeed, that from almost
every quarter there is a general complaint about a
scarcity of birds, although nothing is said about the pre-
sence of disease. In the Pitlochry district the whole of
the sportsmen have been much behind in the number of
birds bagged. Oa the Rannoch moors the sport has
been proved deficient. Lord Mexborough killed only
N brace on the 12,1. The Galak party, numbering four
guns, killed only lBi brace—just about a fourth of the
number killed last year. Mr. Fenton, on the Dru-
mochter moor, shot 40 brace. Considerable quantities of
grouse have reached Perth this week--the Highland mail
bringing, on an average, upwards of 50 boxes each night;
but as tar as we can learn a large proportion of the birds
are young, which certainly does not look well. In fact,
I there seems a strong probability that for Some years
past the keenness of sportsmen, combined with unfavour-
able seasons whioh generated fatal;chseases, has tended to
exhaust the moors ; and a year's respite would almost
appear to be necessary for the proper stocking of moat
Of them."

LITERATURE.

Quinland 4r, Varieties in American Life. 2 vols.
Bentley.
We have here a *very clever work, eminently cab.
culated to engage general attention. It presents
us with some striking social sketches, and also fur-
nishes the more important traits,ithat stamp the
characteristics of a nation in the peculiarities of its
people. Although to some the New World's towns
and their denizens may not hold out great attrac-
tions as objects of regard, or subjects of study—
though the lovers of culture and refinement will
look in vain for a new Greece or a second Rome—
there are marvels to excite and interest, if they are
not endued with the majestic beauty, and the ar-
tistic grace, that immortally illuminate the memory
of the cities, of the Violet Crown, and the Seven
Hills. The reader is introduced to all the different
phases of existence in the town, the village, and
the
_wilderness. The account of the creation of
the cities of the Great West is surprising :
" Where, a dozen years before, the wigwams of
Indian villages had smoked, he found cities already
larger than many that for centuries have occupied
the attention of history." The hero, Thomas Quin-
land, was born in a settlement of the same name in
the United States. His father was very proud of
his family. Among his ancestors he counted " one
of the immortal company of the Mayflower." The
first years of Thomas's life were very tranquil, but
in the depths of the forest he learned the wisdom
that cities cannot always teach—to know himself,
and to regard the world is its true light. He was
afterwards more or less influenced by the different
persons with whom he came in contact ; and at
times conflicting, opinions seized his mind, but he
never finally lost that reliance on his own energies
which is the key-note to success, and that innate
belief in the good and the true which is the inhe-
rent birthright of the child of Nature. It is inte-
resting to trace the rise and progress of the
children of the settlement. "From such little
border companies are gathered the bravest, the
strongest in the countless hosts that go to and fro
upon the earth, that make seas the highways of
commerce, that prepare new habitations in the
wilderness." The author alio describes with great
power the efforts made by many of the youths to
obtain education, how they worked for their
living while struggling to master knowledge. One
of the few friends of the hero had performed
great things for himself ; he ariived at a college in
Virginia without a dollar, but he did not give up
hope, and he succeeded in his task. "In the
house of one of the professors he performed the
duties of a servant for his board. He sawed wood,
did anything by which he could earn an honest
shilling, and when he was twenty-one years of age
he graduated with the first honour s of his class, not
a penny in debt." The diary of the hero is not so
much filled up with his own individual experiences
as with the brief outlines of the history of those he
meets with in the journey of life, and with the de-
scription of the places he travels to. He tries a
variety of employments at different times, and all
these things matetially add to the stores of his
records a richness and rarity. One of the most re-
markable persons he encountered was a Frenchman
of the name of Agincourt. A life of great affliction
had partially affected his mind, but he was a very
kind and worthy man notwithstanding his striking
peculiarities. He was haunted through life by a most
wicked man, who under different names in several
countries had perpetrated great outrages. He came
to America as a Dr. Vampire, and by craft and sub-
tlety possessed himself of the Quinland Settlement.
He was not able however with all his arts to stifle
conscience, but was perpetually a prey to torment-
ing fancies. He coninually mntttred to himself,
" Dies iris, dies illa," and he was certainly one of
all others to shudder at its advent. His notions
of preferment were too much at last even for the
pushing people of his adopted country, and he who
under the mask of the law, had turned families
from their homes was himself victim to Judge
Lynch. Adele Agincourt is a pleasing character,
she is strange at times, however, from being under
the influence of supernatural agencies. She and
her father believe in spirit-rapping, and the idea of
her departed mother, hovering over her, and al-
ways informing her when anything is to occur to
her, appears of course extraordinary to those who
ignore such infatuations. However, it may at-
tract some to dwell upon the working out of such a
thought. Thomas Quinland leads on the whole a
melancholy life, he has no one to sympathise with
him. His father is of a totally different nature and
c,

iannot understand the charactor of his son in its
depth and profundity. Thomas is seldom at home,
ho wanders on the highways of the world's greA
cities, and lingers by the twilight of eternal forests
he cannot rest in a simple state, or be satisfied with
common things. He was too contemplative to
succeed so well as his more practical friends who
were definite in their purposes, and did not pause
to analyse causes with their reflective companion.
Quinland was deeply hurt with the indifference of
some, and indignant at the presumption of others.
He was su fficien tly acute and discerning to form a cor-
rect estimate of personsin general, and could thusbe-
hold the discrepancy, between their real value and
their suppo ed worth, " I could not help thinking
how it would mutually stand with us, if we were
suddenly transported to a city not built with hands,
which is eternal in the heavens. How rich may
there appear the soul of many a beggar, and how
poor the soul of many a king." Towards the con-
clusion the story assumes a more decided com-
plexion, and becomes of greater int-rest, indeed in
passages it is exciting from its complicated plots,
and critical junctures. There aro a great many
graphic sketches interspersed in these volumes,
Morley, the gambler, is very life-like. With the
scenery of the places vividly described, we have the
aclors on the world's state delineated with a sur-
passing skill, and the passing events recorded with
a surprising intelligence. The chronicles ofQuinland
will Le welcomed by all who desire to increase their
knowledge of the " Land of the West," while the
admirers of America will appreciate the full and
complete survey of the inner and outer life here
met with, the panoramic display thus afforded
them—
" Of the young and strong republio that has filled the
world with fame
And with great praise and marvel of the Anglo-Saxon
name."
Some of the anecdotes here mentioned are very
amusing, in the course of his adventures Quinland
tried romance writing, but he was not well received
at all times.

I called on the editor of a weekly paper who publishes
novelettes. He had thick lips, a coarse brutal face, and
his manners were those of a savage. He asked whether
I had crammed my story well with thunder storms,
brigands, pirates, love, blood, and murder. I answered
in the negative ; whereupon he stared at me with a look
of contempt and pity, remarking, with a sneer, that in
this fast country and fast age we mutt have fast novels
or none.
The father of the hero relating the fortunes of his
family brings forward the following curious speci-
men of a notability,
" One night, in the quiet village of Battlefield, there
was heard a great cry in the burying-ground. Every-
body was terrified, and pretty soon the whole village
was collected around the minister's house, shivering with
fear, and inquiring of the pious man if the judgment
hadn't come. The minister knew it wasn't the judg-
ment, but was afraid the witches had come back. He
called Deacon Quinland into his study, and asked him to
help him in prayer. No,' said the deacon, I'm blest
if I'll pray now ; something else's got to be done, and
right off. He buttoned up his coat, went straight home,
took down his big horse-whip, and ran into the burying-
ground, whistling all the way. And what do you think
he found there ? He found a crazy fellow sitting straddle
of a grave, holding on to the tomb-stone, and crying out
with all his might, 'Ye dead, come to judgment '
Didn't Deacon Quinland lay his horse-whip on the fel-
low. The minister said, in his sermon the next Sunday,
that, in all human probabil;ty, the godly courage of the
' very worthy and honest Deacon Quinland had saved toe
parish from all the horrors of witchcraft."
The following remarks are characteristic of the style
of the work.
The mysterious ex-post-facto "we" of newspapers and
history never encounter any of the difficulties of time
and space. "We ". must be living, invisible examples
of the pure transcendental, for " we " pertain absolutely
to the unconditioned. Other mortals have to bother
their brains about steamboats, railways, telegraphs, and
other means for abreviating time and shortening space ;
but " we " are troubled with nothing of the sort. Count-
less generations have been toiling upon the earth, to
build cities, to found empires, to enact laws, to con-
struct temples of worship, to open highways of com-
merce, to write books, to paint pictures, to haw statues,
to find the keys to the celestial realms of music, to spin,
weave, tan, grind, bake, brew, &c. ; the Present steps
into the shoes of the dead Past, and, like a young cox-
comb of an heir, irreverently wonders why the old
" governor " didn't do this and didn't do that ; why he
left everything so incomplete, so out of order, so tins at-
isfactory ; but " we," irresponsible dogs that we are,
leave the new generation and the old to fight oat their
own quarrel ; " we " don't care what, hypothetically,
would become of the Present, if the ungrateful fellow
had not inherited from the Past all that is indicated by
the names of Moses, Plato, Lyeurgus, Homer, Justini au,
Columbus, Mozart, Fulton, Gutenberg, Arkwright, r tncl
others ; " we," the fated chroniclers of things past led
and passing, go from place to place with a single bon ud
of imagination, even drop far down the voids of V an.
is
time, and sail away to the sun, rict the mo on,
while the plodding astronomer is taking his lunch or
adjusting his glass. Imagination, my good real' ,stie
brother, alone reproduce; history, or even the ps gong

spectacle that you are looking at, affords nothing more
than what you bring t, it. Think you, Shakspeare saw
no more than you see in the scenes of daily life I

Delhi, the City of the Great Mogul ; or, Six Years
in India. By Mrs. Cohn Mackenzie. Bentley.
This is one of Mr. Bentley's useful cheap series,
and is a new edition of Mrs. Colin Mackenzie's
works of " The Mission, the Camp, and the
Zenana." At the present epoch this work is full of
interest, as although it was written many years
ago, it gives an account of the various tribes of
Hindostan, the Hiradoo3, Sikhs, Affghans,
and all the little details of national pecularities,
which can only be obtained on the spo'. The
authoress travelled over a great part of India, and
by no means confined her observations to Delhi,
although that name has now been bestowed on this
edition in consideration doubtless of the great pub-
lie interest that attaches to the stronghold of the
rebels. Here is a description of it :
S my visit is recorded in the chronicles of the kings
of Delhi. I will just give you some account of Delhi,
from an interleaved Gazetteer with MS. notes, by Sir
T. Metcalf. That pretty canal we saw near Karual, is
the one which conveys the waters of the James from
Kurual to Delhi, and is of the greatest importance to
the latter city, as b:-,th the Jamne and the wells at that
place ate adulterated with natron and salt, so that there
is hardly any pure water save from the canal* Old
Delh is said to have been twenty miles in circumference,
and this is borne out by the extent and magnificence of
the ruins which rentals. The whole distance between
this and the Kutab is covered with magnificent tombs
and remains f palaces, including the observatory and
the tomb of Safdar Jang, second Vazir or Nawab of
Oude. The appearance of this immense plain studded
with ruins, reminds me of the Campagna. near Rome.
In one spot I counted fourteen domes in sight in one
direction, so that they might all have been included in a
moderate-sized sketch. Those visible on all sides would
have to be reckoned by scores.
Modern Delhi was built by Shah Jehan, 1631 ; it
contains between :23,000 and 24,000 dwelling-Mouses,
mostly pucka, and two magnificent streets, one a mile
long by 40 yards broad. The palace was built by Shah
Jehan, who also erected the Jamma Masjid. The en-
trance to the palace is through a most stately and lofty
gateway of red stone (like the walls), and of such great
length that the interior is now used as a public bazar.
The Dewan i Am was filled with lumber and sleeping
soldiers of the king's private guard, but the raised
throne and its fine Italian mosaics are but little injured.
The Dewan i Khas, which is well described as an open
quadrangular arcaded terrace of white marble, has suf-
fered greatly from the stones being picked out from the
mosaic work. The Moti Masjal, built by Aurangzeb,
is a beautiful little domestic chapel of pore white mar-
ble, with a raised balcony adjoining, looking out on the
gardens.
The preface is written at the present time, and as
the wife of an officer and a resident in India, Mrs.
Mackenzie's opinion of the present difficulties is
entitled to some respect. She emphasises the fact
that it is a mutiny and not an insurrection, and
says :

The chief causes of the mutiny are the dissatisfaction
of the Muhammadans at being deprived of their
supremacy, and the intrigues of the deposed princes.
No doubt it arises from a widely-spread Muhammadan
conspiracy, in which the Musalmans, who in India have
adopted all the prejudices of caste, have availed them-
selves of the pretext afforded by the greased cartridges
(as they did of the new head-dress at Vtllore to rouse
the Hindus.

It is a Hindu pretext, but a Muhammadan motive.
That which has rendered the mutiny possibte is the
separation between the European officers and the
Sepahis. The officers are better men, both morally and
intellectually, than they were forty years ago, and,
as a body, unrivalled for integrity and for both
military and administrative talent, for the simple
reason that our countrymen have nowhere such a
carriers ouverts aux talents as in India. Why,
then, have they less influence ? Why is the
army in a worse condition tban formerly ? Because
the Government have, Ist, by their absurd system of
centralization, deprived otlioers of all power of reward
or punishment, so that even Sir Charles Napier, when
Governor in Sinde, could not punish a Bengal Septihi
under his orders : and 2ndly, by the pernicious inter.
ference of civilians, from the Governor-General down-
wards, in purely military affairs.
The officers lase all heart ; the Sepahi loses all re-
spect. If the Sepahis were again made dependent on
their officers, if the latter had the power of rewarding
and punishing, their old intercourse, influence, and
affection would revive. Personal influence is the only
sure hold we have on the Indian army, and this has of
late been systematically discouraged.
_

As regards the much-discussed question of inter-
ference with the prejudices of caste, she gives her
opinion that this pretext is made the most of by
the natives.

Great ignorance prevails among Europeans as to what
really constitutes and affects caste ; and consequently
they yield when they should be firm, :-.nd are incautious
and obstinate where should yield. A native will often
al;ege his caste as a pretext for not doing something
which he imagines contrary to his dignity.
Nothing affects a man's caste but eating' drinking, or
smoking. Brahmans and Rajputs will and do dig, make
bricks, build, and perform any other manual labour;
but of course, if the plea is successful, his caste becomes
more and more delicate and exacting. If the objector's
services were quietly dispensed with, no difficulty would
be made by his successor It is owing to this
ignorance that Bengal Sepahis have been allowed to
refuse any duty they bad no fancy for, on the plea of
caste ; and it was this which, on the occasion of the
above mutiny, led Lord Dalhousie solemnly to warn all
officers against " interfering with the religion of the
the natives," not understanding that it was a question of
police, not of religion. •
As affording a glimpse into domestic life in India
some years since, the work is an interesting nar-
rative, while recent events lend importance to
anything calculated to throw light on the national
characteristics. No doubt, in this cheap and com-
modious form, Mrs. Mackenzie's work will have a
large circulation.

TIIZ DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL
CAUSES BILL.

We have received a copy of this important bill as
amended in committee of thewhole House of Commons,
read a third time, and sent up yesterday evening for the
concurrence cf the House of Lords, in which assembly it
originated. The bill now contains 66 clauses. It puts
an end to the jurisdiction of all the existing ecclesiastical
courts, as regards questions of marriage (except as far
as relates to the granting of marriage licenses), and
enacts that all pending suits in causes and matters
matrimonial shall be transferred to, dealt with, and
decided by the new Court of Marriage and Divorce,
as if the same had been therein originally instituted.
The new " Court for Divorce and Matrimonial
Causes" (so styled by the bill) will be a court of re-
cord and court of the Lord High Chancellor, the Chief
Justices, and the Chief Baron of the three superior
c, urts of common law, and the judge of the Court •f
Probate constituted by an Act of the present session.
Decrees of divorce a moisa ct thoro will henceforward
cease, and instead thereof, the new court will pronounce
a sentence of " judicial separation," which will have
the same force and effect. The judge of the Court of
Probate will be styled the "Judge Ordinary" of the
New Court of Divorce, an i have full authority to hear
all matters arising therein, by himself or with one or
more of the other judges, his colleagues, except petitions
for the dissolution or annulling of marriages, and
applications for new trials of questions or issues
before a jury, bills of exception, special verdicts and
special cases. Petitions for the dissolution of marriages,
and the other excepted cases, must be heard by
three judges at the least, of which the Judge Ordi•
nary to be one. The court will sit in such place in Lon-
don, or in the county of Middlesex, as the Queen in
Council may from time to time appoint. Advocates or
proctors now practising in the ecclesiastical courts, and
all barristers, attorneys, and solicitors entitled to prac-
tise in the superior courts at Westminster, will be entitled
to practise in the new Court of Divorce and Matrimonial
Causes. A sentence of "judicial separation" (having the
effect of the old divorce from bed and board) may be ob-
tairied under the bill, either by the husband or the wife,
on the ground of adultery, cruelty, or causeless desertion
for two years and upwards. Applications for such se-
parations are to be made by either party by petition to
the court, or to any judge of assize held in the
locality where the parties reside or last resided, or
to the Court of Quarter Sessions, or to the Recorder
of the city or borough in which the parties are or
were last resident. The local authorities thus pointed
out will have full power to receive such applications and
to decree a " judicial separation ;" they may also order
alimony for the wife. An appeal, however, will lfrom
ie to
the Judge Ordinary of the regular central court .
the decrees of these local authorities, but no such appeal
will stay the interim execution of the order for sopa
ration. Wives deserted by their husbanrdtsomaY
the petty
time apply to a police magistrate,o
oerty earned by
sessions, for an order to protect P P
have become possessed,
themselves, or of which they tnaYriat any
against their hus
Decrees of separa-
tionsince the secession of theirrehduistoltd
band or their husband'sth
ce
absence of the husband or
obtained during
and for purposes of
11 be considered
rated will
wife may be reversed
,o,n ayplication and proof. Wives
"judicially
So much for the
contract and suing:
of
ons of property,
temporary and
separation married couples. But it is
conditional
as regards qsueepsat.i
further enacted by the bill that petitions for an entire
and abeolute;diseolution of the marriage may be presented
to the Court of Divorce, on the groun that the wife has
forfeited her conjugal rights by the crime of adultery, or
that the husband has been guilty (we quote from the
text of the bill) of " incestuous adultery, or of adulf eiy
committed in the conjugal residence, or of bigamy with
adultery, or of rape, or of sodomy, or of bestiality, or of
adultery coupled with such cruelty as, without adultery,
would have entitled the wife to a divorce a mensa et thoro,
or of adultery, coupled with desertion without reasonable
excuse, for two years or upwards " " Incestuous adul-
tery will he taken:to mean adultery by a man with
a woman with whom, if his wife were dead, he could
not lawfully contract marriage by reason of her being
within the prohibited degrees of consanguinity oraffinity.
for
divorce, may be made co-respondents to petitions
divorce, and contested matters of foot may be tried, if the
parties insist, by a jury. If the Court of Dive' ce
be satis-
fied that there has been no collusion, condonation, or
connivance,and that the charge of thepetitioner is proved,
..c.119 marriage will bet absolutely and finally ,‘