The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1879-09-12
Ovg EUROPEAN LETs.. IN
LONDON. Enp.. Sept. 4, ie..

divorce which tbs Reverend Cbrlato-
phcr Newman HALL Instituted against
Ills wife resulted In a verdict for the
the jury being of opinion
that the charge ngainst Mrs. Newman
Hall IN relation 10 the correspondents,
Mr.. Frank Richardson, had been
proved Tho whole story, rs far as ~
was revealed in tho Divorce Court, has
n strhngc mixture of the commonplace,
the i,nihctic, aud the grotcsque. ~ 4
younu and clever preacher, even then u
"shining light among the Noncon-
formists, woos and wins the only child
of provincial doctor, q high-spirltcd,
clever girl, accomplished and OF rare
qualities "spoilcd," ii is said, by
over-indugencc, and therefore willnl,
but SO fascinating that she AWAY $ liad
her own way. That is the character OF
his bride given by Mr.. Newman Hall
through his counsel's lips. But, how
ever unsuitable such lady might have
seemed as the wife of q Dissenting
"pastor," the first eight years of their
married life passed away in happiness;
and it is admitted that she was in every
sense his "companion, wife and assist
ant" They were married In 1916, he
being then thirty, she eighteen, and in
| 1854 they moved to London on his ap-
pointanent as minister TO Surrey Clap
ell. Shortly after this an alteration
took place in Mrs. Halls usual mode OF
life. Having been ordered horse excr-
else for her health, she adopted II as an
amusement, with the ardor she APP
peared TO throw into everything she
did, and from about This period there
evidently dates q fcbIilc exctability,
terrible TO the lady herself, and painful
enough TO her husband. Mr.. Hall, as
minister TO n large congregation and a
man of considerable importance among
many Protestant scots, had his head
and hands naturally full of work, and
lit was next TO impossible for him TO
ride with his wife, to follow her TO the
hunting-feld, TO sit up with her hall
the night, or to smoke cigars, in order
that the fumes of tobacco, might have,
as she said, soporiic effect upon her
restless nerves. Therefore, with his
cordial asscnt-indccd, in some cases,
at his nggestion-succcssivc gentle
men-Mr. Russell, Captain Cotton,
and finally Mr.. Frank Richardson
flied the office, by no means n sine
cure, of mnistering almost daily TO the
demands for attention ind amusement
of this emotional and tightly lady, no
longer very young. Thus is that same
old story again repeated.
A distinguished American died in
London on Saturday last-Benjam
Robert Winthrop, direct descendant
of Governor Winthrop, the celebrated
Massachusetts statesman OF colonial
DAYS. lie was also, on his mothers
side, descendant of the famous Petrus
Won Stuyyesant, the last of the Dutch
governors of New York, about whom
Washington Irving wrote so interest
ingly. For many years Mr.. Winthrop
was governor of the institution for
Deaf and Dumb Alutes in New York
city, also vicc-presidcnt Of the llistori-
cal society of New York, physician in
largo hospital, and an earnest worker
in many benevolent and charitable So
cictes and institutions. About ten
years ago he took up his residence in
|, Paris, where his family still live. On
his last visit TO America he was taken
i'll, and at once set out en- his return
voyage to Paris, but was unable to pro-
coed any further than London, where
he was rcioincd by his family, and died
) on Saturday, surrounded by several
sympathizing friends and relatives.
The Season may now be deemed a
thing of the past, The shutters are up
, in many of the houses, the streets arc
less crowded with carriages, and in
another ten days or fortnight there will
,, be n general emptiness of the most
favored parts of London. Seldom has
, any season passed away with less re-
,, grct than the one how come to close
Depression OF trade means depression
of spirits, and there has been 'deadly
Iliveliness" in the gaietics of the present
: year which has rendered them even
more melancholy thGn usual. Yet the
season has its rctleening points. In the
first place, il has been short season
and this of itself is an immense rclicft C
many persons who feel that late hours
and long dinners have taken quite as
much ont o. their constitutions as they
can safely bear, and hail with delight
the prospect of leading less unwhole-
some existence at an earlier date than
in years OF prosperity. The season,
again, has been peculiarly favorable to
a large class OF persons who dislike
spending money, ana have taken adj
vantage of the general depression to
plead scarcity of means rs an excuse
for economy. Moreover, the season
has really been in some respects re-
markable for tendency to loDg-nceded
reforms in social habits. There has
been faint attempt at earlier hours,
less universal extravaganza, some little
thought OF The relation between health
and diet in the matter OF dinners, per-
haps not quite as great ycarning for
scandal as of late years. and altogether,
although decidedly dull, the Season of
1879 cannot be fairly pronounced an
utter failure. ALPHA.