THE LAW OF DIVORCE IN SWITZERLAND.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3147, 20 March 1879, Page 1

THE LAW OF DIVORCE IN SWITZERLAND.

The Genera correspondent of the Tines writes:—The people of Switzerland; wbo possess to great a variety of political institutions and have triedaoinanjr experimenta in social economy, ianetibried some years ago the introduction of what is virtually unlimited 1 facility of diroroe. Dissolution of matrimony is decreed for the most trivial of 'causear^rreiultDf this state of things ,as disclosed in a return just issued by the federal Statis* tical Bureau) is rather cunods than satisfactory, and does not *R^k we^ or th« effect of the experiment <|i the^omestic happiness of the; Swiss peopte|i jrbo figures set forth in the repofi»S|lie*tion refer to 1877. Inihat year the rarions Courts of the Confederation decreed 1036 dissolutions of mairijnpnj and 194 temporary, separations, ieuig at thf rate of 474 for every. 100 marriages; whilo the rate per cen. in tnet Grand Duchy of Baden, is, only ,oj%i« u^ ]syurtemburg, 171; and in Saxojub^'l9. The proportion raries greatly ,rii*>l#» v:4Jfff«pt canton?, and / as ; might be expected, is lower, -in , Boman r , than in Protestantj diftrpti. In Un, Oberwalden, and U ( ntexwalaen divorces appear to be unl*nown, the rate per cent, in these cantons being expressed by a cipher,. In Yalais it is 033: Schwiz. 106; Lucerne, 1-69; Freiburg, * Ifei ♦ i an* Zig/ 2;p7-; while in Glaria it ri9eß>lo!7^B2V>;D Zurich, to7'08; in Berne, to-497; and in Geneva to 5*52 per cent. It'ii |icurions ( fact—• and one that may be use Ail to stiimf-fpture Buckle—that divorced people ajw^naore readily than celebates, thejfaS^lieiDg in the proportion of about two of the former to one, of the, latter ;"|h.at, two w^jdowa. or widowers are. marriedifor one 1 divorced person, and four for'pne.celibat^. Of 1,000 celibate's of the ag'e'ofWjWiiarry; of 1,000 divorced men. 248 marry, and of 1,000 widows, 430 marry a second time. This is the experience of Switzerland, aiid from it is drawn the conclusion fthatj.jdespite the great number of divorce cases in this country, marriage is a happier state

thao^iugleblesgedneifcrinnnnichlfttlMMie who have tried it once, even'though they may have undergone the .'unpleasant experience of a suit for dissolution of matrimony/ are anxious the try it again.