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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1768, 2 September 1874, Page 3

New York paperi report a suit a' lady Who, after being divorced from her firsts husband, with 672 dollar? a year awarded as alimony,married again, and again obtained a* divorce," rt»»'tinw withr 3000 dol».-a ye«r! alimony. On nor marrying a third time, the. •econd husßand refused t» ■ pay> tho alimony, anylonew; but.tha Courb decided against; him, as the decree of divorce permitted her; to marry again.

W« tak» the folio-wing from the Loisure,! Houn-r-Tbe veteran patron of horse racing,^ Admiral Roui, in a recent letter to tho Times,, saT i—" There is a black cloud on the horizon tKreatening destruction to the Tarf.":'The Tttry'sanie figure of sp>ecE ha"s b'sen used by j (he gallant A dmiral on mote than qne.occasion; ■before "What hi»" present foreboding is does; - not 'dearly -Appear.. in • his rambling, Jetter,; - -which refers to a variety of questions connec- j ■ ted 'with titan* • But the following pasiago j ; in" the third Tolume ■of - the i l Life of. Oharlos •DicWns," by John Forster,- may explain' • something'of tho blackness tbat:disgracerthe Turf, and eventually will make horde-racing 1 i-as drsoreditablo a sport as cock-fighting, Bull-1 baiting, or other"" amusements " of, olden s times in' England.: In 1^57, returning from f ■ a tour in Cumberland -with Mr. Wilkie Col-' •j mß> they'came iipen Doncastor,'and "-,this. (fifes' Dickons'* first experience of the St. -'lieger ■ and its Saturnalia." "The impressions receiyed from the "race-week were not favorable.-. It noise and turmoil aljL ff ,s and a gathering of Vagabonds from, airparts of the racing earth, Etcvj badfaiothathad! ever caught wickedness- from an innocent* h'orie had its fepr«e»tatiye in tho streets;; and as Dickens, like Gulliver, looking down; upon fellow men after coining from the r horaa' country, looked down into poncsster High-, street frojn tyiqnntwhidow^he seemed to see ? i cverywhpfe a then notorious personage who; , had iust poi»oned his betting companion.; ' 'Everywhere I see the late - Mr. Palmer with.) his betting-book in his hand. Mr. Palmer titiWufo-meAt the thea're; Mr. Palmer; • -goeVbefore me down the street; Mr.Palmor^ follows me into the chemist's shojp, where I ; ~go to buy,rosewater aft or breakfast, and says; to th« cheniist, *' Give us some sal volatile, or! * Boom thing o' that i©ort,.> wather^r-niyi 'htpd'i bad!!'. /And I look at tho back of hill head, .repeated', in r ,long, long lisei on t^; «u«courM,\ and Sathp" betting .flta,nd,>nd; put'oid* the betting rooms iri town', and I tow; • tl-at I can see nothing in it 'but "cruelty,toyetousness, calculations, insensibility' and' low Wick«dnew. f 'i"V: '■•■ ■ vi •-■ y'~- '-.-.'' |

Pjeopib who migrate fo the Colonies in* rnrinbly lay to their souls the pleasing cor celt that t-bey coma to a land of glorious freedom, where there is none pf that ridiculous distinction between the "-claesrF," which,.in the. old world, are bo innumerable. Not only, however, do " new churag " ninlitf this mistake-^-----for niislnko it is—but "old chums" do sp liketriso 1.: Hhrf^iri^*. oneo made up {th^ir minds that it is bo, they won't be convinced to the contrary. Bdt tlicy, are peyertheloss in error* An instance of how Dockyard man No. 1 .' docliWsT fc&' *cco|n!iseT^of!lyto iiaTSnSh;:o!iOi'S" 2, I -and';'so c oil.i !With't);e smaller gentry, ;has v been jrelatiefl., ;A>, fiisbionable )ladv;of| this! ;dietriot j. I rpoently..{ :saidj\ an' „ early, jvisiir ;,tp ,-a,nothor fasliibnabie lady—tlie lady vi'sitecj, r |j^T|ug, if anything, greater ; claims to fashion than ho'r visitor. After nome conversation, which ii» peculiar;to*l'morning. s call,9. '^-no.-lcps than to that sVctibn'of tno■'cbinißiunif.y'knbwn as tho Upper Ten, Fashionable lady No. 1 begs her friend to " stay to our B, dear." " Quitis impossible, my love," replied No. 2 ; " I'm not' dressed,' you know." Said No. 1, IC Oh, don'fc mnko that a consideration ; wo only reccito the common people, this evoning," Ye .godsh Hearkoivunto this. ...... ... - •<