The merchant called upon his solicitor one day, and had a long conference with him. Without taking the reader through from the beginning to the end of that private conference, I may inform him that Mr. Green was determined that Sir Cresswell Cresswell should rend asunder the bonds which had been forged by Hymen or the Church-of-England minister, if legal evidence of the infidelity of his wife could be produced, and he imagined there would be very little trouble in getting it. The letter which had been discovered in the piano would of course be very important, but was not sufficient in itself. I was accordingly employed, and following up such traces as I apprehended would lead me on her track. I was not a great while before I discovered that Mrs. Green had become "one more unfortunate" parading Waterloo Place every night, at present decked in the garments which Mr. Green, her husband, had purchased; and I further learnt that, out of the proceeds of her sin, she was maintaining "the prior attachment." When all this evidence had been collected and laid before Dr. Jinks, a very accomplished lawyer, as I have seen cause to know, who practises in the court till recently presided over so ably by Sir Cresswell Cresswell; and when his opinion had been written upon "a case," to the effect that there was no doubt the court would grant Mr. Green a divorce from his adulterous wife,--that gentleman called upon Eliza's aunt, and explained to her that he felt bound to mark at once his sense of the merit and virtues of her niece, and his desire to make the amplest reparation in his power for the injuries inflicted upon her, by offering to place her in the position of her late mistress as soon as the legal ceremonies clearing the way had been effected. The court readily granted a divorce. The opposition on the wife's part was but a sham resistance. It was an attorney's defence, that would never have been made if the law, in its kindly regard for woman under all circumstances, had not allowed her, although demoralised, to dip her hands in an injured husband's pocket for the costs of any pretended resistance to his prayer, as well as for alimony during the litigation. As soon as Mr. Green issued his citation, he had to allow his wife at the rate of 600_l._ per annum until he got his decree for a dissolution of the marriage, and he had also to pay her attorney 150_l._ 4_s._ 6_d._ These moneys being paid, and these processes having been gone through, and after further waiting the time prescribed by law for the other side--that is, for Mrs. Green--to appeal against the court's decision, no such appeal having been attempted, the adulterous woman was no longer entitled to the use of the merchant's name; she ceased to be, in the eye of the law, in any respect his wife; and Eliza became Mrs. Green, under the sanction of law and of the Established Church of England. THE VIRTUE OF AN AMERICAN PASSPORT.