Morning journal and courier., 1889-09-24

of Manchester, who has paid many visits to the antipodes, first set the examble, which has been promptly followed by Lord Rose. berry and Lord Brassey. Lord Carnarvon, too, owns city property in Melbourne and has an estate in western Australia. But long ago Lord Sherbrooke, then Mr. Robert Lowe, barrister-at-law at Sydney, had purchased landed property in New South Wales, some of which he still holds. When the gold fever broke out, however, his agent, thinking 1t presaged the ruin of the colony, put the larger portion of it on the market, when it was sold at sacrifice. Had Lord Sher- brooke retained it, he would now be numbered among the Australian million aires.
 Up to the passing of the French divorce law in 1884 the annual average of judicial separations had been between 2,500 and 5000. In 1884 there were 1,657 divorces, 1,549 of them preceded by judicial separa- tion; in 1885, 4,12s divorces, 2,163 preceded by separation; in 1886, 4,007 divorces, 1,300 of them after separation, and in 1887, 5,797 aivoroes, 1,112 after separation. The pro- portion of divorces to marriages in Paris is staggering. It is 62.8 to the 1000, while it ranges from 1.3 in the thousand in Finistere and Cotes du Nord. Three per cent. of the divorces take place within year of mar risge, 20 per cent. within five years after marriage, 36 per cent. between five and ten years, 2S per cent. between ten and twenty years, and IS per cent, after more than twenty years.
 The Liverpool Mercury relates an incident which shows how some English landlords treat their tenants. A prosperous farmer who was desirous of purchasing his holding, which had been occupied by his family for three generations, waited upon his landlord and made known his desire, stating that he had saved s800. Out broke the landlord. "You have saved s800 on my land! You want me to sell it to you: I tell you what I'll do; I'll raise your rent e100 a yeari" And he did it. The rent was an impossible one. The tenant had to turn cut from the house in which he was born, and the farm was offered for new occupation. It had to be let for 950 less rent than was actually be- ing paid by the hereditary tenant, but all attempts to conclude reasona ble arrange ment on the part of the saving farmer were useless. The landlord thought he had right ly punished him for his impudence. Cases like this are arousing an angry feeling among English tenant farmers.
 Edward Tucker of Chicago has shown what can be done in the way of marriage and divorce. Mrs. Tucker No. obtained di- vorce from him in Kansas and rem arried in that State, and he consoled himself with an other mate. But No. failed to please him. so he got Utah court to release him from her, and then was united to No. 8. But the Utah divorce was pronounced no good. Consequently, Mrs. Tucker No. 9 having established that fact to the satisfaction of a judge, Tucker was sentenced to the peniten- tiary for three years. On regaining his free- dom he learned that he had been illegally in- carcerated, since the divorce which his No. 1 had obtained in Kansas was void, as not com. plying with certain legal formalities. As g result of some corresponden which fol lowed, No. 1, who supposed she had beer legally married to her No. 9, but was mis
 taken, hurried on to Chicago and procured second divorce from Tucker, who, 1t seems
 yearned to be lawfully welded to No. 8.