POLICE COURT.—Thursday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R. M.]

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVII, Issue 4407, 29 September 1871, Page 3

POLICE COURT.— Thursday. [Before Thomas Beckham, Esq., R. M.]

UnUNKKNNicss. — Two peisons for this ofTdnce wore each fined 1:1 the usual m.uine.\

Li is el.— George McCtillagh Heed and Homy Brebfc, proprietors of tlic Ermhii/ Sta>\ wero both charged by John W. Taylor with having published, on tuo 13th ins't., in their paper, a false and defamatory libel against him. John Stuart i»oid also pro f cried a similar charge against tho same defendant?. Both case* weic by consent adjourned till Tliu relay nevfc. Mr. MicCorinick iov the prosecution, and Mr. liosketh for the defence.

The TCev. llobert Collyer, of Chicago, in a recent sermon on the subject of " Marriage" said: — "It was a wrong thing to call marriage a lottery. He would believe that of almost any occupation, but nothing was surer th.in that a good man or woman could find a good woman or man. Uod •would help those who help themselves. It was a lottery to those who determined it should be a speculation. God did not leave the glory and life to mere chance. Every man was sure of a good wife if he would give diligence to make his calling and election sure. Very little money was needful if they had some other thiug3 that it could never buy. He would not cry money down, an.l had little respect for those ministeis who did feo, for they took all the salary they could get, and would break ties for _'a divine call ' that they could not resist. • Love of money ' was the root of evil. An old farmer told him that it would bo well to morry a woman who had money if he could love her, but that it should not be one of the considerations. It was not true that when poverty came in at the door love jumped out of the window— passion might, fancy might, but love would not, and never did. That Cupid that sprang out of the window came from Venus, the old heathen goddess. The angel of God would watch, over true love in the cottage, and aid the man who tried to make 10 dollars go as far as 20 dollars ought to, and make a cru&fc taste better than a pound-cake. " A girl may as well hangup her fiddle when the lose* her b«»u,