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    many ways touches upon the objects we have in view , and offers yet another proof sideration of the of great those need social there harrier is for s which more general prevent education the return , and of for female the recon crimi-

    discourag tion nals into of the the ing female paths si of commitments honesty some and evidences is industry a painful . of '' improvement feature The annual of the increasing which returns the , and propor returns is a -

    present 21 * 0 . ent Of the gn of commitm the among ents for convictions trial in 1857 28 * , the 3 prop cent ortion . ; of the of female total s com was

    mitments of the per re c - , commitments 24 . * 3 ; per cent summary . and But the prove females the greater form , a very per difficulties much larger in the proportion way of

    female reformationafter , the taint of commitment to prison . "With regard men to age . it Under appears sixteen that , ye crime ars of does ; age not the beg proportion in so earl of y among females women to males as is among 13 * 4

    per cent . only . In the five years between that age and twenty-one years of the women proportion is found is doubled between , being the ages 26 * 9 of per twenty cent . -one But and the thirty largest years of life proportion , when it

    years reaches and 29 * above 9 per , the cent proportio . In the n whol falls e to of 28 the * 3 remaining per cent . period In instruction , thirty , too , the found to be behind the men : 18 * 8 centonlof those

    who women can read are and write well are femaleswhile 30 * 7 per per cent , , could y neither , read nor write . "

    The only new feature under the Divorce Act which the past month presents is the following : —

    " _CABGULL V . _CARGIIiL . JUDGMENT . her " husband This was ' s de a petition sertion without by a wife reasonable for a judicial cause separation for two years , on the and ground upwards of . and the desertion without

    petition proved The parties ; , the but husband a were few months marrie wrote d ago in to , a 1848 his day to wife , or consider , two offering before whether a the return filing this to offer of cohabitation the cause present was d .

    the The wife learned of her Jud ri ge ght had to taken a judicial time separation . deprive " His Lordship said that the think word the " desertion " frequentl always y occurred attached in the to

    Divorce Actbut he did not same meaning was it . Eor he the , thoug purpose ht the of desertion obtaining must an order be continuing for the protection and that of an the offer wife of ' a s

    return property to cohabitation would deprive the wife of her , right to the order . The wife had a right to a dissolution of marriage for desertion and adultery ,

    blotted and he out thoug b ht such that an was offer a on compound the part of offence the husband , no part without of which condonation could be y

    bthe wife . The sixteenth section gave the wife a right to a judicial separation y for desertion or adultery , and offence there was than no the more other reason without to suppose

    whether donation that the . the husband This letter being written could his construction obliterate by the respondent one of the Act was , it bonajide was nevertheless unnecessary or not entitled . to Assuming consider to con the - that it bond _jfidehe held that the wife was

    remedy was for which she _, prayed , and he should therefore decree a judicial separation The announcement . " of the thousands departure with of George the Combe of personal from among bereavement us , falls

    of upon Having the the great rendered ears benefactors and a hearts passing of of tribute the human onl elsewhere record race in here , to sense his his that well und his known ying decease memory work took of as " place The one .

    August after Constitution a , few at the of days residence Man ' ill , " ness we of , shall his on friend the y morning Dr . Lane at the of , of Saturday Moor Cemetery Park the . fourteenth The Edinburg remains h of

    It were is interred in contemp in the lation famil to y burial raise funds ground by subscri Dean ption for the , purpose of . erecting on the spot a monument " suitable to the genius and virtues of the

    deceased . ' *

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• Citation
  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Sept. 1, 1858, page 72, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01091858/page/72/