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Adultery

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Parent Issue
Day
12
Month
December
Year
1846
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

-In England ndultery isnot a crime, but a trespass. Severa l ot the States have servüely copied English legislation on this subject. No punishment isinflicted, but the n-ured husband may sue for damnge?, just as he would foran injury to his horse. In Virginio, aduliery s punished with a fine of twenty dollars, while setting fire to a bridge of the valueof one liunJ.-ed dollars by a slave is death. It would be a curious subject of inquiry, to go through wilh the laws of varïoüa nations on this subject. - Wc verüy believe the treatment of woman would be a fair index of ihe morality of any age.A meeting of the Evangelical Alliance is to b held at Manchester on the 4th November, to form the Britieh organization.