The Directors of the Union Bank are, it would seem,
" impressed with the distress and difficulties resulting from the early and im- provident marriages of some of the junior clerks, who, without any other resources than their commencing salaries, soon find their incomes inadequate to meet the increased expenses entailed by marriage, and often by sickness in addition ;" consequently, -4' acting in the interest of their clerks," they, on 7th December, issued a decree that any clerk who should marry on a salary of less than £150 a year should "be considered to have resigned his appointment." It is really true, though this is 1870. The decree appears in extenso in the Times of Monday, must have passed a -committee of grave English gentlemen of responsible position, and is actually defended, except so far as it is retrospective, by the -City Editor of the Times. What a lot of people there are in the world who would be pronounced "impossible fools" if described in novels.
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