The New York herald., 1868-04-19


refer to the developments in an extraordinary
divorce case now in progress in New Haven,
Connecticut, the hub of the veritable 'land of
steady habits" In this case we find evidence
that the husband, reverend doctor of divinity,
had beaten his wife until she must have re-
sembled prize fighter after severe mauling,
and that she herself was habituated to the
ardent spirits. The testimony of the servants
shows shocking state of morals among
the household. There is also another story
just ventilated of the wife of some other
Connecticut divine, who, it was reported, had
decamped with some forty thousand dollars of
her husbands funds; but she publishes card,
in which, after exposing a terrible state of
domestic infelicity, she denies the statement
only as regards the amount, she alleging that
she jayhawked but eight thousand instead of
forty thousand dollars. Verify, all this exhibits
very bad condition of things in any COM
munity, especially in one so starched and pune
tilious as moral New England.
The Prince of Wales a Knight of st. Patrick.
The Prince of Wales was installed Knight
of the Most Illustrious Order of St. Patrick in
st. Patrick's cathedral, Dublin, yesterday,
with solemn religious ceremony and courtly
pomp. A procession in which the united
nation was represented, extending over two
miles in length, accompanied the Prince from
Dublin Castle to the church, which was filed
with brilliant assemblage of wealth and
beauty. The municipal dignitaries of Dublin
and all the other chief cities and corporate
towns of Ireland were present by invitation.
The route of the procession was closely lined
with soldiers. Notwithstanding the aspect Of
caution conveyed in this general display Of
troops the people turned out in vast numbers
and were quite enthusiastic so it may be that
the ancient capital Of Ireland will prove to the
British Grown what the city of Pesth has
just been to Austria, ground rendered still
more sacred as the place of reconciliation for
two conflicting nations.
After sound of trumpets and the proclama-
ton of his titles, rank and style within the
walls of the cathedral, the Prince of Wales
was invested with the ribbon of the Order, as
in the case of George the Fourth, in the pre-
sence of the people. His late Royal Highness
Prince Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland,
who left England after the death Of William
the Fourth, and died King of Hanover, as
well as his Royal Highness the present Duke
of Cambridge, were at different times enrolled
Knights of st. Patrick; but by action of a
chapter and not in the same public manner as
George the Fourth and the Prince of Wales.
Indeed, the Duke of Cumberland was scarcely
known as an enrolled Knight, and it has been
questioned If he valued the honor very much, as
the Parliamentary records of the English House
of Commons go to show that that gentle
man entertained the most radical ideas
of governmental change from Ireland
just previous to the accession of Queen
Victoria to the throne; being no less than a
plan to alter the succession and seize on the
crown himself by means of a revolution, to be
produced by the Irish Orangemen-of which
body he was Grand Master-and he worked
to an end by certain political parties aided by
means of fanatic religious ''cries" in Great
Britain. Having failed in his grand object it
is not likely that his Grace of Cumberland esti-
mated his dignity as Knight of st. Patrick
very highly. The Duke of Cambridge remains
a worthy X. P.
Persons of the order of nobility only were
present at the installation banquet yesterday
rule which excluded the vast numbers of
churchmen of all persuasions, class which
has really troubled Ireland for centuries.