The daily exchange. [volume] (Baltimore, Md.) 1858-1861, 1861-03-29
From the London Times
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iuProoaoifities in the lady's story, especially a
regards the alleged Scotch marriage; but on thi
anu other important points, she was well corrobor
aeeu oy iacts and witnesses, and during long an
severe examination she was not shaken in a sinol
particular. In finding for her the iury have nTo
paoy come to sound conclusion though thei
reru,ct can have no effect on the principal point
oh the other hand the case of Yelverton was obyi
LIS blsg ahtececently improbable in a very remarka
pie uegree. 1t rested in the main on his own state
ments' with every possible motive for falsehood
anu IL oroke down in its vital pOint-the assertion
o! computation for fortnight before the mar
iase IN ireland AS regards the actors in this woe
m u arama, 1T Is easy to form an estimate of them
| Inc man who, in his own words conceived "th,
lued OF a systematic seduction-committed if WI
may credit himself, most abominable outrage or
mauy VINO had just been the guest of his superior
oHeer-pr0ianed solemn and holy rite for tbt
! purpose OF fraud and sensualitv-abandoned hi,
victim In the hour of her peril, with hints about
avoiding an event. which may well bear terri
ore nterpretation-and nd finally crowned the climax
Vi m MS deeds by running, through bis contact an
| misery
with his own counse |, we simply give him up
anu can only suppose, in the public interest tha
ms name will soon disappear from the ArD,y LjJ
BUT " hat shall we write about his mariner in tbis
uai n history OF folly and ruin, who now floats a
wreck wreck on sea of mslortunes by reason in part.
ol her own feelings. and whose very success must
cause ber the keenest anguish? We NAV lament
ourselves the fact that they principally arise from
het own misconduct Let US take it that she was
eenncilly chaste, and that she never cobabited
WIN 1everton till after the secret marriage in Jre
!dno' But was her behavior, even from the first
IN accordance with feminine property and is it not
PLAIN that through all these years it was she who
was feaIly following Yelverton, and not Yeyerton
Whc was seeking her in marriage? This indeed
Is ''e only possible plea which can be urged in ex
cuse OF his misdeeds. The worst feature in this
cas-, however, so far as regards the public inter
ests' rs Its Illustration Of law respecting mar
rags In these kingdoms.
Had anything like an intelliribIe princinla mr.
even rule of equal justice, pervaded this part of
our Jurisprudence, we may be assured that this
ooiouS case would never have taken its present
snape. 1t Is scarcely possible tor any one to define
mi!at acts constitute marriage in Scotland and
.ns uncertainty in the present case was the nroha
ple cause OF all that has followed, and doubtless
VIII often again entail the most painful consn
quehees on families. As regards the law of mar
rage IN ireland, its gross injustice is broadly
SHOWN In the circumstances of the secret cerenonI
Mhlch took place in the chapel near RostrevorE
Il mere Is no doubt that on that occasion a valid
houlan catholic marriage celebrated, had both
the parties been of that faith; and it is truly mon
Strous that in country like Ireland any question
as 20 the validity OF the contract should be made
10 turn on the creed of the contractors An old |
t LLish statute, however, avoids all marriages cele-
VI ia'ea oy fOpIsh priests between Papist and any
person who bath been, or hath professed him or
heFSeH to be Protestant at any time between
Twelve calendar months before such celebration of |
marriage; and as Miss Lnngworth was confessedly
a fsoman Catholic, while lelverton claims to have
oeeh Protestant, the effect of the act has been
pleaded in his favor
a. Inc evidence of the matter of fact was verv con-
hlcting at the trial; and, although the verdict has
i neeh pronounced we apprehend that the point of
Id" remains open for discussion. 1t is needless to
owen on the cruel litigation which will probably
arise as regards both the Scotch and the Irish mar
ltages, IN scotland, Ireland and before the House
VI ana which for years will leave in uncer-
falnty the social status Of all the parties But is it
not disgrace that our legal system in two parts
OF the empire of Great Britain should leave the
most important OF contracts matter entirely in
cdpaote OF definition, or hazarded on a collateral
Idct Whlch may be entirely unknown TO one marty
ana should thereby offer an obvious premium to
fraud, crime, and perfdious villainy in the most
responsible of social engagements?
MRS LoNGwoRTH YELvERr0N.
From the Saturday ReUielol
AS to Theresa Longworth we are not careful n
say all that think. Happily for society we
trust that the mould in which her characte has been
lorLned was broken after the first cast. Here we
nave the facts of woman's life, and they are in
contestahle; but except in "scrofuous French
noVel' they have, we hope, never before existed.
Even now we almost refuse credence to the exist
ehce OF such person. She seems to have had pa
rents, put all that we know about her father is
only the wicked and unnatural parent of fiction
which meets US in the stereotyped form of an
atheists death bed. A girl born we don't exactly
KNOW how,and bred in a convent; left to her own
devices, flying mysteriously about Europe and
ASA, without any visible ties restraints; appa-
rently not troubled or blessed with the necessities
Of family or income; educated in France aud italy,
ana with cosmopolitan acquaintance. with all
peoples and languages; driving cardinals to des
pair, and surrounded by an entourdqe of lovers
whom she attracts by her charms and awes by her
virtues; prodigiousy clever, prodigiousy accom-
Pushed, romantic, enthusiastic, versatile deyout,
religious and charitable; Sceur dc Charlie under
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at once and Sophia, Chantel and Sannho
mixed up with the most famous battles and
SURFING y. events ot history, burning, and
dertul powers both of seifsacrifice and saicrn
stramt; chaste, yet always on the very verge of
SIN; "up the Sternest appreciation of character,
disregard of proprietes scornful of the whole
worlds opinion, yet proud, selfcontained and
naughty in certain sort of barren self-respect;
prodlga and insolent in her display of passion and
vehement emotion, yet with clear, cold apprecia-
ton or an end of lite-such is her own account of
herself, and we are not disposed to question it
Not IN the worst sense of the words her life is that
OF femme hbre. Hitherto we have only met this
scorched up the susceptible Celtic hearts IN Dub
In, we say 1T with unkindness, we do not desire
to meet her like again. Her exceencies if such
she pos esses, are far above the common place. dull
stupid, exigencles OF everyday life. If all our
girls were OF this pattern social life would be an
lmposslbllity; and her career and her fate NAV be
a useful warning. She towers above her sex; and
the sex may be congratulated that hers is an unat
talnabie level. She is woman such as the world
has seldom seen, and such as the world seldom
wishes to see; and all that she has won by her sin
gular pre-eminence is a crown of misery for which
the momentary excitement of the wild Irish ova-
ton will poorly compensate.
MAJOR YELvERToN's "GENrLE BLOOD"
A correspondent of the Cork Southern Reoorter
writes:-Major Yelverton,i in his cross-examnation,
reported to have said that without gentle blood
there could be no lady. Education, virtue, accom-
plishments, religion, were nothing without the
gentle blood. Well, perhaps, his blood is most gen
tie, since his gIeat-grandfatber had q butchers
stall in. the town of Newcastle, county Limerick,
and his grandfather married his own cook; so be-
tween the butcher and the cook his blood must be
the real aa"gue azuteo of the Spanard.
Special Paris Correspondence Of the Courier des Etats
THE GREAT DEBATE.
PARIS, March S.-The discussion of tho address
IN the senate has proved great event not only for
France but for Europe, for the domestic and foreign
policy OF the country was debated at the time.
Together with the Roman question, which was
the principal one, that of the liberty of the forum
and the press also came up. The decree of the 9th
November had decided this; but without re-
moving all obscurities, or exactly defining the lin
its. This obscurity is dissipated, and the forum
has hasa at once regained its full and entire ndepen
This speech pr nee Napoleon's) produced the
more effect because it so unexpected after the
assertions of the English and Belgian journals
which pretended to know that the Emperor had
reproVed his cousin for some expressions of opinion
in the bureaus of the Senate, aud requested him to
be more circumspect for the future The Prince
expressed himself, on the contrary with clearpess
tation to this rumor
He has established, by high political reasons,
that france has nothing to fear from Italy, and
ought to rest faithful to her alliance with England
in spite of the opposition, and even of the passive
on special questions, which were nevi-
table by reason of the difference of their interests
This double position, he sustained as a states
man. The Prince also gave the true value to the
motives which induced the Emperor to protect
Francis l. and his family by our squadron 1t was
a sentiment of pity and not of sympathy. But the
point that be attacked most directly, was the tenn
poral power OF the Pope, which he compared to a
vase falling to pieces, and of which the frail frar
Italy. =
Thus terminated this oratorical encounter, the
reedom and brilliancy of which have served the
Senate much more than the PapacY, by showing
hat the chief body of the State was neither so use
less nor go mute as it had been supposed to be. 1t
developed its life as well as its Independence AS
10 the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, it can be
regarded as abandoned in principle by the French
government, in spite of the cautious conduct of its
official orators
Plus II did not deceive himself in this particular,
even before this memorable debate, according
TO the correspondence of the Ami de la Re
igion. "Your praiseworthy DEVOTION" said the
holy Father to some volunteers, sis quite useless,
or all is finished. have already said so to several
Bishop, Of France and to the Bishop of Rennes in
There is another power besides the temporal one
Of the Pope, to which the debates op the address
nave given terrible blow; that of the stock board
and of the Credit mobilier, its high priest. The
speech OF Mr. Dupin, in regard to the Mires affair."