Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1883-03-21
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Our European Letter.
LONDON. Emo. Mar.

LONDON, Eng, Mar. Z. '83.
The startling "high life" divorce case
which has been agitating the society
papers into all kinds of mysteriou.
paragraphs for the last two months has al
length been made public. The details are
not of particularly savory description
and the accounts given by the Duke Of
Abercorn's daughter Of the treatment she
received from the Duke of Marlborough g
son will shock those good people who
believe in "blue blood" "Noblesse
obi ge," and other similar fallacies. The
Marquis of Blandford seems to have
knocked his wife about, when she was in
a delicate state, after the approved
manner of the British costermonger; and
bis open immortality with the Countess Of
Aylesford could hardly be exceeded by
the tramps and thieves of q fourpenny
white chapel dwsing-ken. Incidentally,
the suit sheds lurid side light on the
pretty doings of another mobile" family
of the British beautiful hereditary legisla,
tors, for the Earl of Aylesford, who ought
to have been in position TO play the
part of the outraged husband, had TO take
a back seat on account of some little
peccadilloes of his own. Considering the
limited number of the hereditary aristoc-
racy of this country, it is painful to note
what an undue proportion of Lord Pen.
zance's official time they absorb. Were
his lordship appealed TO by our tituar
aristocracy every time the circumstances
warranted, he would have no leisure at
all to attend to common folks. Judged
by the divorce court records, the British
peerage does not average out very strong
in morals.
There is an old saying that wherever
three Irishmen can be found 10 conspire,
one of the trio is sure to turn informer.
Fortunately for the interests of justice.
the members of the Irish murder clubs
show no change in this respect, and are as
anxious to denounce each other when
danger is in the air as ever they were. !
am not going to follow the reprehensible
practice of many contemporaries, and
take it for granted that all the evidence
now being given by approvers in the
Dublin police court is gospel truth
Without circumstantial confederation of
the most perfect kind, little weight is to
be attached at any time to The evidence of
any prisoner who, in the hope of saving
bis own neck from the galows, helps to
push somebody else's into the moose. 1t
was almost inevitable that the enormous
reward of ten thousand pounds offered by
the Irish executive would tempt the
cupidIty of some of the gang who foully
murdered Mr.. Burke and Lord F.
Cavendish.
Mr.. Gladstone looks somewhat better
than he did before he went away, but he
has impaired nothing new to the debates
since he took his place last Monday.
Four hundred and fifty girls leave
Galway this week for Boston under
years engagement to New Hampshire
cotton mill owners, who pay their expenses
out. Several hundreds more wanted to 60
There was an exciting scene on Thursday
at Limerick depot, over the departure of
$50 of them.
In the House, in debate on the distress
in Ireland on Thursday night. when Mr..
Parnell was appealing on behalf of the
suffering people, he was asked why he
did not apply the land league funds. lie
made very spirited reply that the funds
of the league were only .e27 900; that
they were enlarged to stem the tide of
landlord oppression; that they would
continue to be used for that purpose, and
that they would be inadequate to relieve
a fifth part of the distress existing.
Attention was called in the House to the
cost of the recent Irish prosecutions,
amounting already to S630,OO0, consisting
not only of extravagant fees to counsel
prosecuting, but of lavish retainers to
counsel in order to deprive the defence of
their services, which Mr.. Labochere
described as bribery of the bar. This
expenditure was attacked in the House
last night with great vigor and effective,
ness. AUGUST.