SELLING WIVES IN ENGLAND
The London correspondent of the New York “World.” on the report that a workman at Sheffield had sold his wife for a quart of beer, says: —“ There can be very little doubt that in some parts of the country a few labourers and workmen still remain who fancy that they have a clear right to sell their wives if they can find customers for them. The delusion is, of course, confined to the most ignorant portion of the population, and the Government can do to destroy it. When the new generation, winch' has boon brought up under the influence of School Boards, has married and settled down, wives will cease to be sold ; or, if so'd at all, it will be fora more suhslaniial consideration than a quart of beer.” An Irish member of Parliament proposes to call attention to the old custom by asking the Government whether it lias taken, or can take, any steps to niake known the fact that the sale of wives is illegal in England.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2610, 2 August 1881, Page 3
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174SELLING WIVES IN ENGLAND South Canterbury Times, Issue 2610, 2 August 1881, Page 3
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