New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-06-04

Russell on the ground that the lady had been
induced by fear to become the wife Of the cap
tain.
WHERE THE PARTIES HAVE NOT LIVED To-
GETHER
Another instance in which the Roman Catholic
Church is always ready to grant an annulment
OF marriage IL where the wedding ceremony
has been duly celebrated but where the parties
have never lived together. case in point took
place only last year in Scotland. Catholic
schoolgirl OF sixteen and Of good social position,
made the acquaintance OF an apparently dis
tinguished foreigner of the name OF de Lau-
benque, who had a coronet on the corner Of his
pocket handkerchief. and presented the suscep-
tbe damsel with fine grapes which he asserted
were grown on the walls of his ancestral cha
teau in France. The consent Of the young lady's
father eventually secured. and the marriage
was celebrated in the Catholic Cathedral in
Edinburgh.
At the conclusion of the ceremony. the brides
father. who had only that morning been in
formed that French law declines to acknowledge
the validity of a marriage unless the parents Of
the husband as well as of the wife. consent to
the match very properly insisted that NJ de
proceed to Paris and secure the authorization
Of his parents to the marriage. The bridegroom
departed. but failed to return. Moreover. he
turned out to be an adventurer in the sense of
having grossly deceived both the girl and her
parents as TO his position and prospects, and
finally he declined in the most peremptory man
ner to return to the bride whom he had left at
the altar. Under the circumstances the girls
parents brought the case before the Catholic
Archbishop of Edinburgh. who. after taking
evidence to show that the two parties had
parted at the altar and had never lived together
forwarded the testimony to the Vatican where
the Pope on the advice OF the Congregation of
the Council granted the usual dispensation an
nulling the marriage Subsequently the woman
legazed the effect Of this ecclesiastical decision
by proceedings in the local divorce court. with
the object Of removing the obstacles which the
civil law might place in the way of giving full
effect to the Papal decision
INCIDENT AT a POLISH WEDDING.
Constrant and absence Of consent, as we'll as
failure on sufficient ground to live with one an
other, as in the case Of the Laubenques above
mentioned are the grounds on which annul-
ments of marriage are the most frequently
granted by the Roman Catholic Church. OF
course. there are instances where improper al
vantage is taken Of this lberality OF the Vatican.
Thus remember an extraordinary scene which
witnessed at a wedding in Austrian Poland at
one of the castles Of the aristocracy in the
ighborhOod OF Cracow. l was standing with
the other guests in the grand salon preparatory
TO making our way to the castle chapel. where
the religious ceremony was about TO be per
formed by the Archbishop of Cracow. when sud
denly the mistress of the house. the Princess
p. a dainty. delcate-loohng woman OF most
soft. gentle and caressing manners, swept up to
her only daughter. the bride, and struck her
with her open hand on the cheek blow the
smack Of which could be heard by nearly all
present Ir fac; the marks Of the fingers Of the
Princess were left on the cheek Of her daughter.