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XLIX.—THE "WORKING OF THE NEW DIVORCE BI...
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Xlix.—The "Working Of The New Divorce Bi...
XLIX . —THE "WORKING OF THE NEW DIVORCE BILL .
•M> We Take Our Greatest Blessings Very ...
• m > We take our greatest blessings very quietly , and particularl the y when in they
marriag come in _-e the law form much of more relief happ from iness tormenting is caused than evils . belongs By to changes the mere relief our
what of a certain domestic number and of sufferers comfort , hitherto are and hop ht eless to . be Those are released who best from know the genuine anguish peace of compassion and shame with oug which , they have regarded the under former
marriage multitude law of . hel Every pless bod sufferer y with s who whom lingered one speaks on in of misery any wretched our marriage , third at once matches that the the imag case ination with another becomes , which haunted brings with up images the mention of cursed of a
homes ; . so What could the husband do when his wife deserted his young chillot dren could , and be robbed so utterl him , hopeless to spend as his that hard of earnings the deserted on her wife paramour who was ? sure What to y
geration soon see her as husband she to say had that gathered again life , and has some been be comforts stri darkened pped about of all and her the saddened children fruits of to ? her the It industry best is no hearts exag , as - and constant know
led and ge minds of the in intolerable the community wrong by s inflicted the frequent , without evidence prospect of remedy , on a - married _multitude if of our persons matrimonial unhapp law ily married had been —or more far just more and than prudent would have than been it was so . all bthe
off It is of simp the le main truth burden that life of is oppression cheered and and bri wrong ghtened . We to us shall hear y no lifting more or of the less absolutel remed y now unendurable provided . cases Moreover ; and for the all ground the hardest is cleared there for is mor the e
growth Some istrates of persons various and y in are indirect the surprised Divorce benefits at Courts . the terrible b , betrayed stories husbands that are and told oppressed to police y
wives mag ; but , to most of us the narrative , s are only too common-place . We tion do not before wonder the that Court there We are rather now 173 expect petitions to find for that divorce when or the judicial new method
separamore of relief to astonish becomes thoug understood . htless throug hearers hout . Knowing all ranks what , there wife will -beating be a good is in deal all immense
towns amount , and of petitioning profligacy when in our all rural classes districts have learned , we may that expect wronged an husbands and wives nave no further to go than the next police magistrate or court time of
Us petty to come the sessions existing we may to mass obtain expect of cases protection to hear is disposed of for increasing person of , the and numbers number property of will p . etitions decline For some . , till Then the , we
average of unhapx _^ y marriages becomes less ( as may fairly hope it will ) than This it discouragement has ever been yet of . whole classes of bad marriages is one of the most in the lawThe
obvious and one of the most certain benefits of the reform . spouses and swindlers then in desert of the both working them sexes have classes , who now , b in y received order hundreds to a obtain great in a the ye check ar property , . marry Hitherto of simp their le a - wife victims minded has ,
the had of her wife no earnings protection may chpose ; but from between , now any one number making pillage of him and returns pay desertion towards of the only prodi her are maintenance gal is feasible , and omission seizure ; and and
in getting nall y granted new rid law of to his which the app wife lications oug to ht recover to altogether be supp from lied . her without Bv husband the way delay or , there . any Power creditor an also is double of nomi his - ,
the any value property or such seized property after she , but has no obtained power a is protecting given to detain order , and the husband or clear off with the
other aggressor at the moment , and thus he may get 2 a 2 pro-
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), July 1, 1858, page 339, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01071858/page/51/
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