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PASSING EVENTS. 287
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masterl Had y our sketch space , of allowed the Royal , we ladies would of have Europe given , and this is article , we suspect in full , . from It is tlie a
pen The , and allusion inspired to by the the prolonged heart and voyage brain of of a woman the Prince . of Wales , with its attendant " The sense anxiety of the , is lesson surely afforded the allusion blooking of a woman round : the Courts of Europe
and seeing what the Royal ladies are doing y or suffering there , may have been , " happ quickened ily passed just away now b last y the week rising . Pier anxiety happ for iness our has own been Soverei , for a gn Royal , which lad so y , le talk of
trembling so unusual to in think degree of it and . Husband duration , and as to children make are superstitious all preserved peop to her , and long so she many . has absence not royal had of parents to her mourn son have the death . imag When , nor ination evils during of worse such a few than a days loss death first of anxiety , in occurred her about famil , a y new , tlie as
should sense of be her more unusual touched happ than iness we spread miht otherwise among us have ; it was been natural bthe contrast that we presented in the Courts of other countries g . . . . The most y superficial
direct survey p of oliti the cal Royal origin ladies , and of severe Europ in e will proportion show how to much the despotism of their woe amidst is of Royal portion which they as , and of dwell other must . be Sickness borne in and depends that e rank arly essentiall death as in every may on be other the antici harmony ; but pated the in which welfare due they pro of
establish between personages their own aims and the freedom y and happiness of society at As large we . " write , the Empress of the French is among us , travelling privately ,
with osity , a and small give suite rise , and to a for thousand motives rumors which . at The present recepti baffle on the of the public Empress curimuch at Edinburg gratification hj whither , and she in answer at once to proceeded a short address , appears by to the have Lord given Provost her ,
she took occasion to dwell upon Louis _USTapoleon ' s cordial desire to encourage either and The cement for Divorce dissolution a good Court understanding of opened marriage on the or between nullity 9 th instant Eng of land marriage with and 160 France independent trial . s on the of list the ,
, , causes This for Court judicial is at separation present the . scene of a trial which will take its place among the causes celeb _?* es of the country . It is a question of legitimacy , Shedden
versus Shedden , and the peculiarity of it is , that the Petitioner , being now case an inmate his daug of the hter Queen Miss ' Shedden s Bench , for has costs taken incurred the position in former her father litigation previousl of the
held , andat the last , momenthaving , failed to secure the services of eminent y days counsel , she , was , has herself been before obliged the to , open Court and speaking conduct at her times case for . For five ei consecutive ght entire
, hours discretion , and of examining the most experienced witnesses , as counsel the Law . " Times The same says j , ourn " with al says the : — tact " The and Probate Court has presented the singular spectacle of a young lady
conducting but her with own such , or p rather erfect her modesty father , 's and cause quiet , not , lad onl y y like with dignity extraordinary , as instantl ability y to , remove from the mind of the spectator all sense of impropriety or
unfitorderl ness . . manner . . She before sits her within and the without bar , with betray her ing pap the ers sli arranged ghtest nervousness in the most or timidity y , she asserts the , claims of legitimacy for her father , narrating a
comp It licated is stated history that with there admirable were five clearness counsel , and engaged even on eloquence the part . " of Miss Shedden , viz ., Sir Hugh Cairns , Mr . Macaulay , Dr . Phillimore , Mr . Beaslcy ,
and Mr . Stevens , to whom fees of not much less than < £ 1000 had been paid . that The case they was had called not had , but time the Petitioner to make themselves ' s counsel were masters not read of the y , and case p . leaded The
w Court ho ha rejected d had the the same plea ti m and e and pointed the same out that documents the counsel to peru for se , were defence quite ,
Passing Events. 287
PASSING EVENTS . 287
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 287, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/71/
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