The Sun.
London, England, 1868-09-03 00:00:00

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151VERTY OF MARRIED -WOMEN.

During the late session. Mr. Shaw Lefevre, M.P. for
Reading, brought in a bill to amend the law relating to
the property of married women. It was read a second
time and referred to a select committee of the House of
Commons, consisting of Mr. Lefevre (chairman), the (late)
Solicitor-General, Mr. Lowe, Mr. R. Gurney, Mr.
Headlam, Mr. Baggallay, Sir John Simeon, Mr.
Beach, Sir C. O'Loghlen, Mr. Ayrton, Mr.
Goldney, Mr. Baines, Mr. Bentinck, Mr. Jacob
Bright, and Mr. Powell. The committee, whose
report and evidence is just published, met six times.
They examined Mr. Westlake, the well-known Chancery
barrister, and author of a work on " Private and Inter-
national Law ;" Mr. G. W. Hastings, secretary to the
Social Science Association ; Mr. Fisher, of the Vermont
bar, United States ; the Hon. J. Rose, Finance
Minister of Canada ; Mr. A. Hobhouse, Q.C. ;
Mr. Cyrus Field ; Mr. Clement Hugh Hill, of
the Massachusetts bar, United States ; the Rev. Septi-
mus Hansard, rector of Bethnal-green ; Mr. Mans-
field, police magistrate of Marylebone ; Mr. Orme-
rod, president of the Rochdale Pioneer Co-operative
Society ; the Rev. T. W. Fowle, rector of Hoxton ; Mr.
Wybergh, clerk to the Liverpool magistrates ; Miss Tod,
of Belfast ; and Mr. Mundella of Nottingham one of
the candidates for Sheffield. The committee live made
a preliminary report, in which they say that they have
not had time to fully consider the subject assigned to
them, and they recommend the appointment of a new
committee in the next Parliament. So far as they,
have investigated the matter, they think there
is good reason for changing the law. The law is indeed
contradictory. At common law a woman has no legal
existence apart from her husband, but equity has con.
stantly devised means for evading that theory. The power
to settle a married woman's property on trustees before
her marriage is such an evasion. But all such expedients
are palliatory of the original mischief rather than a removal
of it. They are also costly, so that the women of the
lower classes cannot avail themselves of them,
and are thus liable to have their earnings seized by
drunken and dissipated husbands. The existing comma
law was formerly in force in the United States and in
Caitada-rbut -it- has-been repealed-in-both countries, and
the evidence of Mr. Field, Mr. Rose, and other distin-
guished Americans, goes to shew that the alteration has
been made without producing any of the evils which have
been predicted as the result of like changes in England.
The evidence is of great interest, and occupies about ninety
pages.

LEA3IINGTON LOYALTY.

Mr. Campbell, of Monzie, invited the working men of
the neighbourhood of Leamington to visit him at Mark-
ham House on Monday evening last. All teetotallers
were respectfully cautioned not to attend, and no
interruptions were to be made when Mr. Campbell spoke,
as his health would not bear it. The entertainment
was provided in the riding-school, and the attendance
was estimated at 2,000. Mr. Campbell, after some time,
appeared upon his platform, and was greeted with cheers.
He was dressed in a Scotch hunting costume. He said:
"Very few men in such a state of health would have faced
such a job as this. (Interruption.) If they were not quiet
he would get Mr. Lund to bring in his police force and
clear the place. (Uproar.) Don't interrupt. I know you
will treat me kindly. It is impossible for me to speak if
you kick up such a row. I have done everything that lay
in my power to provide for you whom I have invited here.
If more had come than invited or expected we will
not put them out. (Confusion.) Silence, and we will
begin at once. There is no good thing unless God is
present, and we will ask His presence." He then gave thanks
for the bounty which God had provided. The pressure
upon the bar was fearful, and hardly had " Amen "
escaped his lips, when he said : " Now, then, stand back
from those glasses or you will break them, and have
nothing to drink." He continued : "The first toast which
every loyal man should drink —and every man, woman,
and child should drink—is ' The Queen.' (Cheers.) God
bless our Queen. (Hear, hear.) I say so, first because
she is, under God's providence, our Queen. (Con-
fusion.) To make a long story short, she is a
Queen Bess, with old Queen Bess's virtues, and
none of Queen Bess's failings." (Deafening cheers.)
Now began a riot. The men had nothing to drink except-
ing a few dozen in front of the bar. One man handed a
roll, another gave a piece of meat, but there was no sort of
lrrangement, and the scramble was terrific. The men,
impatient, mad at coming, many of them from a distance,
to be jammed and squeezed for nothing, howled, hooted,
hissed, and surged about through the ring like wild
beasts. The men began to fill their pockets, and
the head waiter threw rolls to them. Pellets of straw
(with which the floor was- covered) were, however, soon
after hurled at him and his coadjutors, and as the solitary
gaselier was but a few feet off a large quantity of straw on
the roof of the central stable (round which was the riding
ring), a fire was greatly feared. The fire brigade laid a
hose on to a hydrant in the street, and stood ready for an
emergency. By about eight o'clock the scene was assuming
such an attitude of violence that the police cleared the
building. The tumultuous crowd, disappointed and vexed,
then stood in a solid mass outside, and refused to disperse.
It was supposed that there were three or four thousand
persons present at this time. Stones and other missiles
were thrown at the police; and as there seemed no hope of
quelling the disturbance in any other way, Mr. Lund, the
chief, ordered the constabulary, armed with their
truncheons, to make a charge upon the mob. A hasty
helter-skelter retreat was the result, and a few were put
hors de combat, while one constable was kicked in the
abdomen, and had to be attended by Mr. Watson, sur-
geon, who happened to be present. At length the crowd
began to disperse, but it was late before the neighbour.
hood resumed its wonted tranquillity.

According to the town clerk's list for Ballast, only
seventy-two persons in tho whole borough have claimed tho
franchise as. lodgers.

The accounts of the annual salaries of the judge
and officials of the Court of Probate and Divorce have beet
issued for tho year 1867. The total amount of salaries is
£45,432 10s. for London. The district salaries and expenses
bring the amount to £109,793 6s. 2d. The amount of com-
pensation to proctors and of the superannuations is £84,540
7s. Ild, making a total of £194,833 lls. ld. The fees re-
ceived in the same year amount to £127,520 14s. 9d., thus
leaving a deficiency of £66,812 19e. 4d.
ANOTHER " LAMBETH " DEGREE.—WO under-
stand that the Archbishop of Canterbury has conferred
the degree of M.A. on the Rev. Thomas Carss, of Bombay.
Mr. Carss has been for some time in the staff of the
Church Missionary Society. The custom has usually
been that " Lambeth" M.A.'s should wear the hood of the
university of the archbishop who has the singular power to
confer it.

ENGLISH CRICKETERS FOR AMERICA.—OR Wed-
nesday a team of English cricketers, consisting of Willsher
(captain), Griffith, Rowbotham, Humphrey, Jupp, Pooley,
Smith, Tarrant, A. Shaw, Charlwood, Freeman, and J.
Lillywhite, left Liverpool, by the Inman steamer City of
Baltimore, for the United States and Canada, where they
purpose playing a series of matches with the local and
district clubs. There was a large assembly of cricketing
men to wish them good-bye.

THE WHEAT IMPORTATIONS OF 1868. —Aithougn
the wheat importations of July were rather below those of
the corresponding month of last year, the total arrivals for
the first seven months of 1868 have been 17 per cent. in
excess of those of the same period of 1867. Of the
aggregate quantity of 20,706,791 cwt. Russia contributed
26 per cent., the United States 22 per cent., Germany 16
per cent., Turkey 12 per cent., Egypt 12 per. cent. Illyria
4 per cent., Chili 3 per cent., Denmark 1 per cent., Canada
1 per cent., and other countries 3 per cent. The supply
from Russia and Germany was considerably less than that
of last year, but there was a great increase from the United
States and Egypt.
VISIT OF THE PRINCE AND PRINCESS OF WALES
TO DUNROBIN CASTLE.—We are gratified to announce, on
the very best authority, that it is confidently expected
their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess of Wales
will pay a visit to Dunrobin Castle, the residence of the
Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, on the 10th inst. His
Grace the Duke of Sutherland went south by the High-
land Railway to Abergeldie on Saturday last, on a short
visit to their Royal Highnesses, and for the purpose, it
is understood, of making arrangements as to the journey
north. The visit, however, unlike that of two years ago,
is to be of a more private character ; and we believe it
is the desire of their Royal Highnesses, as well as of their
distinguished entertainer, that there should be as little
public display as possible on the occasion.—lnverness
Advertiser.

C U ELY HAIR. —Has emancipation made the
negro and his wife ashamed of their curly hair? One is led
to infer so from the fact that two independent adventurers
have lately lodged specifications in the United States
Patent-office for hair-straightening fluids. Their sole
object appears to have been to secure the authority and
recommendation for sale which the stamp of the Patent
Commissioners would carry with it, for both the
compounds were useless nostrums ; one was a decoction
of Iceland moss, and the other dilute nitric acid. The
examiner of claims had the good sense to test the efficacy
of the schemes, and, finding them worthless, to refuse
the patents. I wonder how many patent medicines we
should have if each specific had to prove its title to the
Government stamp by proving curative powers I—Once
a Wale.

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