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by him and posted ; but , as the bags were to be made up for the Sunday mail at 11 a . m ., the said letter and its information could not reach London as heretofore on Monday morning . The committee met on Monday , but , alas ! the information was en route , and would reach on Tuesday . Their Lordships proceeded , and the bill was settled without the parties having the evidence , or being able to produce it ! In Ireland there are loud complaints of the new
regulation . The provincial press is in open arms against it ; and little wonder , seeing that the majority publish on Saturday , and that the non-delivery until the Monday following puts them altogether out of the market , as the bulk of their readers is composed of farmers and country shopkeepers , who have no time to spare for literary pursuits beyond an hour or so on the day of rest and recreation . The Dublin Weekly Freeman , a paper of large circulation , had to print its number on Friday evening , so as to reach the provinces on Saturday morning . By this admirable arrangement the subscribers were left minus all the intelligence conveyed by the London morning journals of Friday , which arrive the same night , but at too late an hour to be made available for the
country . The London news-agents have received a great number of orders from the country to stop weekly papers which used to be delivered by the Sunday morning ' s post . A large number of weekly papers , however , were forwarded from London on Saturday by the day mails ; but as they did not contain the latest postscripts , and , as most of those for rural districts cannot be delivered until Monday morning , it
is most probable that the sale of the weekly papers will decline considerably . As most of the rural postmen live in the country , and will return to their homes on Saturday night , in consequence of having no work to do on Sunday , it is probable that they will get an addition to their incomes from the public by delivering letters for the rural districts which arrive at the town post-offices on Saturday by the day mails , and which would otherwise remain there until Monday . A number of the country newspaper proprietors who publish on Saturday have commenced preparations for a Sunday morning delivery of their papers , in rural districts , by private messengers . It is expected also that the railway companies will find it necessary to cause a Sunday parcels delivery .
Mr . Locke has given notice that on Tuesday , the 9 th of July , he will call the attention of the House to the subject of the non-delivery of letters on Sundays .
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THE MARRIAGE LAW . In the Court of Exchequer , on Monday , an action ¦ was brought by Mr . Giles against Mr . Pritchett for improper intimacy with Mrs . Giles . The case , as stated by the counsel , was one of a peculiar character . Mr . Giles had been unfortunate in business , and after he had been married some years his wife went home to her parents . No sooner , however , had she got under the paternal roof than every obstacle was thrown in the way of his obtaining interviews with her , and soon after he found that proceedings han been instituted in the Consistory Court , on behalf of his wife , for a divorce . In that suit a divorce a mensA et thoro was pronounced . Now that judgment was merely tantamount to a separation ,
and not a divorce in the more extended sense of the term divorce ; and , therefore , it was quite clear that the lady still remained the wife of the defendant , and that not only was she not free to marry again , but that , should she contract any intimacy with another male person , and there should be any issue in consequence thereof , the plaintiff , as the husband , would be liable to be called upon to maintain and educate them . It was , ihen , in consequence of his wifo having united herself to another gentleman , by whom she had two children , that the plaintiff had felt it to be his duty to seek for compensation for the criminal conversation . That which the plaintiff in reality desired was to bo released from the liability to be called on to maintain the children of another man .
The Lord Chief Baron was of opinion that if a man permitted his wife to live with another man for a number of years , as had been the case in this instance , and hud not adopted any stops to prevent it , it was not competent in him , after such a lapse of time , to bring an action for criminal conversation . It was hero stated that the child by the plaintiff was being maintained and educated by the defendant . The jury intimated their approval of the remarks which had fallen from the Lord Chief Baron , and instantly returned a verdict for the defendant .
An appeal arising out of a case of divorce a nxensd ct thoro , which had been promoted by Catherine Herring against Philip Herring , in the Court of Arches upon the ground of adultery , was brought before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on Monday . The husband aliened , upon the present occnRion , that the proceedings in the Court of Arches had been irregular . The committee , however , without hearing the learned counsel who represented the respondent , determined that the decinion of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust in the court below was perfectly right . The appeal was accordingly dismissed , but without costs .
A respectable-looking woman , named Elizabeth Gilday , was brought before Mr . A'Beckett on Monday , charged with bigamy , under remarkable circumstances . It appears that her first husband , to whom she was married fifteen years ago , was convicted of felony at the Central Criminal Court about four years after their nuptials , and sentenced to seven years' transportation . While he was undergoing his punishment in van Diemen ' s Land , the prisoner , who had not heard from him for several years , contracted marriage with aman with wh she living
named Fletcher , a tradesman , om was up to the period of her apprehension . Gilday , however , on his arrival in England , having served out his full term of banishment , on finding that the prisoner had married a man in his absence , gave information of the circumstance , and she was accordingly taken into custody . When apprehended , she admitted the charge , and seemed desirous that the matter should be investigated . On account of Gilday , the second husband , having kept out of the way , there was no proper evidence of bigamy , and , therefore , the prisoner was liberated on bail till evidence is obtained .
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AN ASSOCIATED HOME . A public meeting was held at Willis's Rooms , King-street , St . James's , on Saturday , to explain the objects , and solicit additional subscriptions in aid of the Industrial Home for Gentlewomen , which is situated in Harpur-street , Red Lion-square , and which provides an asylum for the widows and daughters of private gentlemen , officers in the army or navy , professional men , bankers and merchants , suffering under the reverses of fortune . The meeting , which was principally composed of fashionably dressed ladies , was numerously attended . In the absence of H . R . H . the Duke of Cambridge , who was prevented by indisposition from being present , the chair was taken by Lord Kinnaird .
In the report which was read by the secretary the committee state that there are hundreds of annuitants whose whole income does not exceed £ 20 per annum—scarcely 8 s . a-week—out of which they have to pay two-thirds for lodgings ; and the object of this institution is to help a class so numerous and so suffering , by providing them with an industrial home and with the best medical advice in cases of sickness .
Since the opening of the Home in October last , 53 ladies have been admitted , the parentage of whom was as follows : —Officers in the army , 8 ; officers in the navy , 2 ; landowners and private gentlemen , 15 ; clergymen , 1 ; solicitors , 2 ; surgeons , 1 ; bankers , 1 ; ' merchants , 14 ; professors at college , 4 ; artists , 2 ; and government officers , 3 . Of these 53 , 33 continued inmates , and not one had left at her own request . In conclusion , the committee expressed their belief that the institution , when once permanently established , might be made self-supporting , as each inmate pays 7 s . 6 d . per week for enjoying its comforts , and they hoped the public would enable them at once to enter new and commodious premises , and so to receive many waiting applicants for
ad-. ^ , _ The Reverend Dr . Croly and the Reverend Dr . Cumming both addressed the meeting on behalf of the objects of the institution ; and the report having been unanimously adopted , a series of resolutions expressive of thanks to the various parties connected with the executive of the institution were passed .
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CO-OPERATION IN LANCASHIRE . The working people of Lancashire are beginning to take up the question of cooperation in good earnest ; and if they carry it on with that degree of wisdom , energy , perseverance , and intelligent watchfulness which one would look for in the hard-headed men of that county , they will do a great work for humanity . The Manchester Examiner , though strongly opposed to the cooperative system , gives an account , which we quote from that journal , of a meeting held at Middleton , the other day , at which some interesting statements were made regarding this new movement
among the operatives : — « On Monday evening , a very numerous meeting of operatives was held in the Temperance-hall , Middleton . Richard Brown , who was chairman , said it was time to do something ; they had talked of reform and the charter , and they got no nearer . Mr . William Bell , of Hey wood , said they had started a cooperative store at Hey wood , sixteen weeks ago , and they had 328 members ; the shares were £ 5 each , and subscriptions were not to be leas than threepence per share weekly . They sold upwards of £ 200 worth of goods weekly , and were intending to have both cooperative shops and manufactories . The way to elevation was . the shop , the factory , and then . Parliament . Ine charter had been talked of COO years ; but the working t « pn ioininff the Cooperative Association were legislating
for themselves , and if they could only have confidence in each other , they would not have occasion to work ten hours per day , they could have the mills and the shops under their own management . At Bacup they had a factory at a rent of £ 190 per annum , and were putting r > 5 power-looms in it of the best and most improved system . It was nonsense to talk about the charter except they would help and act for themselves , lhe working people had intelligence , if they would only use it and keen from the beerhouses . He had spent a deal of money , but he had now begun to get money and put it into trade instead of spending it . —Mr . James Leach , of Manchester ,
said he was also tired of speaking ; he had lately visited many cooperative stores at Leeds , Halifax , and other places , and he had no doubt but if they would have confidence in each other , they would soon be able to elevate themseves . If they would not help themselves , they ought to give up complaining about the middle and higher classes . The industrious operatives had a double chance in this country , if they would use it for themselves instead of squandering their money and time for nothing . It was time to act peaceably , without much talk . He was sick o agitation . At the conclusion a number of names were enrolled . "
Let the operatives follow the advice here given to them , let them have confidence in each other , let them act so as to preserve confidence , and they cannot fail to elevate themselves . If they want help from the middle classes , they may rest satisfied that the surest way to obtain that help is by shewing how much they can do for themselves and each other . At the same time let them beware of
building their schemes upon an insecure foundation . Political ceconomy , their bugbear , is not false , but imperfect : it is in great part true as far as it goes ; there are many truths in its received doctrines which cannot safely be resisted . Political ceconomy should not be denied , but mastered ; which it can be by a larger , more generous , and wiser doctrine ; good faith , and courageous perseverance through the trials of early experience .
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A MOUNTAIN OF GOLD . The true El Dorado has at last been reached . A country in which the boulders are chiefly composed of " gold , silver , and quartz , " has been discovered by a party of adventurous gold-hunters from the United States , who do not seem , however , to have found the country very inviting . The description of the wealth and sterility of the newly-discovered region , which we take from the Pacific News , reminds one of the marvels of the Thousand-and- One-Nights : —
" A party of emigrants by way of the Salt Lake , arrived at Los Angelos , give an account of the existence of gold on that route east of the principal mountain range , when a company then fitting out for a spot about sixty miles from the Pueblo , changed its determination and proceeded in search of this other . The route lay in a north-east direction from the place of departure and was full of difficulties . Striking the Mahahve river , they followed its course some distance , crossing and recrossing as necessity compelled , some davs as often as fifteen times , leaving it where it makes its bend to the southeast , towards the Colorado , into which it empties . Obstacles were encountered at various points of the
journey almost insurmountable , in . the shape of mountains of rock , which they had to climb , and mountains of snow which they could not avoid , narrow gorges through which they had to pass , and still narrower cliffs , along whose crests nothing but a mule could pass with a prospect of safety , and where the slightest misstep would land rider and all hundreds of feet below ; but they pushed on about 230 miles from the Pueblo , the point for which they started . Here among the eastern spurs of the Sierra Nevada they found the object of their search—gold and silver too ; and in such quantities as they had not dreamt of—a perfect mountain of rocks with silver and gold mingled and commingled in solid masses , weighing trom one to many tons . The quartz proved to be exceedingly hard , to such a degree that during their short stay all the implements made for thi 3 particular
purpose before starting were completely worn out in the operation of drilling and blasting . The strangest part of the whole discovery is yet to be told . These large boulders o gold , silver , and quartz have the gold in the south end and the silver in the north end . No exceptions were found in their examinations , the silver being the more abundant of the two . In the words of the person who was on the spot , there is enough silver there to sink every ship in this harbour . ' Possibly , some may look on this account as a jest , and , so far as the practicability of putting the discovery to any use at present is concerned , it is so . All the water to be found for miles and miles around is highly impregnated with salt , or saleratus , or both . Not a single drop of water free from one or other of these properties did one of the party obtain during the ten days of their stay . The whole region is a perfect waste , and disease and death must inevitably follow any prolonged stay . On their return they met a true statement
large company going to the same spot , a of the difficulties and dangers of a further prosecution of the expedition induced about 200 to turn back—fifty went on . The gentleman named , from whom these facts have been obtained , is now in this city , with specimens in his possession brought from the mother mountain . They are the most singular and beautiful we have ever seen , and one need only see them and hear him to be convinced that nothing has been told but the truth . These facts are communicated by the gentleman who headed the party of exploration—a gentleman formerly connected with , the New York ' press , Mr . Riellof the New Era . '
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CLERICAL AUSTERITY . SUSPENSION OF A CLERGYMAN FOR IlEFUSAI , TO HEAD THE BURIAL SERVICE OVER A rAlUSHIONER . The Reverend Mr . Dodd , of Magdalen College and Vicar of a parish in Cambridge , has been suspended for three months in consequence of a suit instituted against him in the Arches Court , for refusing to read tlie burial service of the church over the body of a parishioner . It appears that on the night of Tuesday
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Leader (1850-1860), June 29, 1850, page 318, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/l/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1844/page/6/
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