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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. SOUSE OF COMMONS.—WsmisssaT, NUMMI 6. The Bruise soak the chair at 13 o'clock. PUBLIC BUSINESS. PETITIONS PRESENTED. Ton Know:Amos—By Mr SCIIOLEFIELD. from WBeßirmingham' Mercury Oboe, far the abolition of tales is knowledge. Corer( llokaos.—By 111 r. lIENLIY, froen a baud of moans ia Oxforisbire; hi. W. PATTEN (several), iota plata• In kusesshire sad Mr. FREWEN. ire. Ike Samar beard of guardians, I. favour of IM establiehasest of reasity boards. Tax House En.t.. —By Mr. B. DENISON, from a rises ia the West Ruling of Yortraire, is favour 4,4 an kit. prat tea boars bill. PSOTION TO R h By Mr. FORBES, boo .p lace is Stirlingshire, is favour of protection to seri culture. NOTICE OF MOTION. Tam Mrs Crracn.--Mr. ROEBUCK, as soon as possible after Eisen, to call the attention of the house t) tke stets of the Irish church. THE SCOTCH BILLS. reasons why such marriages M that should not take place. They told him it was contrary le the law of Ood for • ma to marry his own eater. He mot that One hell of the human nee did know had been is the habit from the beginning of time Si marrying their owe slam. What was the reason that in all the states ef Swope there wera laws that • men should Dot M m bie owa ideate ? He taw two great reseone—one a physical, lad the other • morel reason. Mt, phydcal reason they all knew, and the allusion to it wee tenant. Bat there was another--a moral rellol%. If be wanted to point out a relation which wee more affect I *mate and more pure the any other, he should point to the nation of brother and sister. There was • Undue= about it because they were of different saes ; dare wee all the gentleness of woman, and all the kindness of men, without the cloy which carnal feeling produced. To alter this relation by any legislative meats would be ea iejury. (Hear, hear.) Should this bill pus, it was impos sible for the wife to retain the sane feeling, towards her sisters. At present all jealousy, bar, and anxiety were im p wedge ; once bent down the barrier, and they would ba con's of hourly occurrence. In coeclusion, he contended that the great considered= which the house should have in view wee, whether the propmed change would improve the condition et that important institution, the family. (Hear, hear.) Mr. SPOONER, though he agreed that the house ought not to diocese theological questions. could net consent to argue this queeticn apart from what was written in the re vealed law of God, and he contended that their restrictions could not be maintained unless they were founded upon that law, or were required for the social comfort of the large mass of the people. Ile was thoroughly convinced that, by the law of God, these marriegn were not forbidden, and long ezperienee is dense masses of the population had shown him that the existing law was a source of grams immorality sad great cruelty. He cordially supported the bill. Mr. IL PALMER said Mr. Roebuck had rested his oppo sition to the bill on axial arguments of irresistible force; hut it was sot possible to nerd the law of God as irrelevant to this discussion, and, in his judgment, by that law thins marinate were plain'y forbidden. The pervading principle of the cede which had been adopted in this country, because it was found in the divine law, was to throw a strong protec tion around the domestic relations in cases of affinity. as well as consanguinity; it was necessary to the sanctity of those relations that • wife should look upon her sister after marriage as she had done before. He dissented from Herbert's doctrine, that so long as the church of Eng land was not interfered with, everybody else might do as he pleased, which would open a doer t o enormities amongst pe culiar sects of Christians. The principle of toleration was not to interfere with religious convictions, nor subject men, on religious grounds, to civil disabilities; but the legislature must form its own judgment as to the moral tendency of restriction for the modal good of the community, and act upon It, as in the ease of the obsetvaace of Sunday. To argue that moral evil attended the present law was begging the whole question. Violations of • law could not prove its immorality. It had been said that England was almost the only country in which then marriages might not be contracted but, bokiag at the contrast between other countries and this, in respect to morality in general, he was far from think ing it afforded a reason for our imitating their laxity. In the words of Milton, he would eay," Let not England forget her privilege of teaching othi r nations the way of Mr. M. MILNES said that when he found a notenre like the premise so ably opposed, he was inclined to leek narrowly into the grounds on which that opposition rested, and the arguments by which it was supported. Ho ad. mitted the truth of the family picture so ably drawn by the hon. and learned member for Sheffield, but the argument of the hon. end learned gentleman would apply equally to first cousins, for that relationship carried with it all theme biasing/ and all that happiness to which the hon. gentleman allude.{. (Hoar.) But as the legislature of this country had allowed marriage between first cousins, he saw no reason why it should not allow it with the wife's si-ter. These seemed to him to be perhaps stronger ' rifted for admitting marriage with the wife's sister, foe the relationship of consanguinity was undoubted• lv more binding than that of 'Sony. (Hear, hear.) The hon. and learned member for Sheffield wee b rand to show to what degree he would limit the family relation in this country. In legislating at the present time on this sub ject they were but following the impulse of the national wilL (Hear, hear.) He did not mean by that any pressure from without, bat the inthence of public opinion. The law of this country in this matter had been violated by good citizens and by honest and moral men. (Hear, hoer.) The hon. and learned centlentan who spoke last said that was no ground for changing the law, nor did it prove that it was a bad law. But when they found good men violating this law without losing their position in society or being consi dered immoral men—when they found such persons iireeking the law, not from the force of had passions, but on the ground that the law of morals allowed them to break it, he maintained it was a rood primu facie ease for altering that law. (Hear, hear.) - Why had a change in the law beta sugiested ? It was be cause • large number of pains had violated the law. Did not the fact that these persons came before the legislature, whilst other., who bad violated it with respect to nearer de. geese, did not, show that than was a differencs between the two ones ? (Hear, hear.) These marriages to • k place In ' the very highest quarters ander the throne, and then a deo mend was made for the altgraion o' the low. Where were the leaders of the opposition to this measure then ? Where were the bishops ? They all owed these marriages to be made legal on the condition that they should he considered' illegal ever after. (Hear.) With respect to the number of these marriages, his experience was that the marriages with a wife's sister wee.- very numerous parocularly en the agricul tural districts, where the immediate supply of wives was not very great. (Laughter.) With regard to the labouriog and poorer class, be had no doubt this measure would do a great deal of good, and prevent a great deal of loan and irregular conduct. (Hear.) Lot them do what they would by legialation, their people would consider such marriages as morally and religiously permitted. Would they be less in elided to contract them row after the discussions which had taken pine in that house? (Hear, hear.) If they had 2,000 marriages of this kind now, they would have 4,000 this time ten years. (Hear, hear.) The people of England were not inclined to violate the law, but they did not look upon these marriages es wrong. It they adhered to this law, they would increase the number of ille. itimate children in th.s country. That would be a great evil 'and a great inconvenience, and one that, it possible, should not be suffered to increase. Lord MAHON said, that when a bill similar to the present was first introduced by his noble friend Lord Ell o men, he felt hound to oppose it after the most serious con sideration. lie had read all the evidence on the subject which had been brouget to light since then, and he felt bound to say that he still entertained strong, and Le might my insuperable, objections to the measure. (Hear.) In the first place he rather thought that the divine law was opposed to these marriages; but admitting that the divine law allowed them, he called rn the house to pause, before they admitted • principle which was of so much importance to the family relations, and to society in general in this country. (Hear, hear.) He thought that it would introduce the greatest disturbance amongst families where peace row prevailed. The question not only affected the higher and lower classes—the middle class of this country bad also • deep interest in it. (Hear.) In the cue of illness and by the be I side, he thought that the passing of the present measure would beget suspicion on the part of the wife, and impose increased delicacy on the part cf the sister. There was another consideration, that the wife, when dying, might extract • promise from the husband that he would marry one of her sisters after her death ; and the husband, in obedience to that promise, might marry his wife's sister, although he felt no affection for her. Mr. COCKBURN said it seemed now to be pretty generally admitted that this 'object could be approached without refer ring to any supposed prohibition arising frets the divine law. (" No, no," and hear, hear) That prohibition was the pest argument formerly relied on by the opponents of the inenenn, but he would show in • very short time that that argument was now virtually abandoned by them all, except by the boa. and learned member fint Plymouth, who still stuck to tho scripture text. In the first place, the hon. and learned member for Abingdon ad mitted that that point was doubtful He said that the question must be discussed on social and moral groun Is, and that th e religions ground was so doubtful that it should be settled by the church of England. Bat it was impossible that this matter could be settled by the church of England; the various authorities of which differed amongst themselves on the subject. (Hear.) The church of England bad quite enough to settle at the present time, without involving itself in • distention like the present. Two centu ries had now elapsed, and tkey had a great question referred to a lay tribunal for adjudication which question it might wall be supposed the church would have settled long ago. Oa this subject the bishops were not unanimous, and the clergy differed to • considerable extent. But supposing that the church was unanimous, how could it settle a question of this kind for the dissenters, who, as a body, held an oainion the other way ? (Hear, hear.) But if the matter was so doubtful that a synod of the church was required to settle it, that was a reason why they should not interfere with the liberty of human ac tion—why they should not interfere where human illations and human happiness were concerned. (Hear.) The lea. and learned member for Oxford could not help admitting that the ti it was soh st Lim, and that the autho rity of the Hebrew church was against him. The only text of scripture which related to the subject prohibited the hus band from marrying his wile's sister during the life of the wife. It was dear that this prohibition did not apply le the marriage of the wife's sister after the wile we. dead. On the contrary, the rule of interpretation for a [ibitory law was, that whatever was not pro 'Tilted by the express terms of that law was admissible. (Hear, hear.) But his hon. rind learned friend in the recesses of his recondite learning, found an obscure meet of 'whom he would venture to say nobody in that house had ever heard, who he amid differed from the established Jewish church as to the validity of these marriages. And his hon. and learned friend who was well known to be a high church raan,seemed to place reliance on the opinions of this obscure sect is opposition tothe establisbedchurch of the Hebrews. His hon. friend had asserted that the morality of England stood higher than that of any other country; and yet, notwith standing, he told them in the same breath that such was the abandonment of all principle that hus bands would seduce the sisters of their who, and thus prove themselves lost to entry feeling of domestic truth and S Iclity. (Hear, hear.) But there was still more than that, for there was • calumny uttered against the uni versal women of Ragland, who were slandered by the assertion that the slaters of the wives of Englishmen would thus readily submit themselves to • polluted embrace. (near, hear.) It wee a libel on the fathers, mothers. wives, and sultan of Busload. (11w, hear.) He begged to ask a rotation. Those marriages prevailed to a vev. great extent throughout the civilised world. They wdlb !mind to Prevail In every country in Harem with the ex ception of Loglind ; and they also prevailed universally is In reply to Kr. Foie's, The LORD.ADVOCATH sall that the Scotch bills to he introdraid in the ptweet seen= were similar to those which were introduced la►t year and esfem d to a select oneneittre. 1111811 GRIND JURIES AND MEDICAL CHAES. la repy to Mr. O'FLABIITT, Sir W. SOMERVILLE said the bill relation to rand juries in Ireland would be laid as the table in • few days, sad that it wan his intention to introduce • bill is the pre pest .... ion, and on u early • day as potable, on the subject of the Iri.h 'medical charities. SALVAGE ON THE COAST OF CLARE. Mr. S 'AFFORD salami whether the Solicitor-Oeneral for Ireland had received any eonanunieation retain to • slain for mange to whiat some fishermen on the coast of Clare were entitled, for • .visa g the ergo of • vessel lost oa that coast? He understood that only 1601. were forthcom ing eat of .3001.„ the proceeds of th e sa le. Mr. lIATCHELL said the facts were not wetly u they had been orpreeenred. A thoher vowel bid been wrecked on the saki is the county of Clare. The cargo had bees add for 5121.; and the fl-hermen, with respect to whom the Yea. gentleman had spokes. write the @deem But, in order to attend to the eau°, and s: cure the crown duties, It was found seceasary to replay shout 200 men for • period of three weeks. Tb• wages of taws peravas, in addition te the hire of hosts sod chairs, anevinted to 160 1, and the soot of adentiammente and the marshal's eapentee ware 171. ode. dosaL The disharmsnents altopther wee. 2.501., white, ' sleds/Mil from 5001., the proceeds the sale, left a balsam 1111 1301., and that sum war at rresint n the hands of the Mast. and weed be distributed so fairly that no injary treed be dose to any pylon, and so jut ground of com plaint would ni-t. (Near.) Mr. STAFFORD premised to mon for the papers con sisted with the tssolieetion. OFFICIAL SALARIES. Colonel surnioni.;.;earfiwilora of the Trea sury whether any reduction had been, or was intended to be made, in official Waits? and is putting this question he said kr alluded ely to the salary of the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Queen's Beach. ( liner, hear ) Mr. HATTER observed that if the hon. member would put his qu.stion on the paper i: would be answered. Colonel SIB rimar promised to have it :nerved on the paper to- morrow. MISR FISHERIES LILL. The second reading of this bill was postponed to the 10th of April. CIVIL BILL BOROUGHS (IRELAND) BILL. Mee PAGAN ceagental to withdraw this bill, which stood tea the paper Me • second reeling, es he understood the go vrinment intended to introtuce • bid this simian to cot stelidate the laws retain to cis is bi.l bonnets in Ireland. The ball was, by leave, withdrawn. AFFIRMATION BILL. This bill was re a a ',coed time upon the understanding that the diseussion of it would take plat.. at • future stage. LIFE POLICIES OF ASSURANCE (No. 2) BILL. The ne.tioa fa going into committee oat this bell was post poned to Weelasedey Mat. MARRIAGES BILL—ADJOURNED DEBATE. Oa the muss that the Marriages Bill be tow read a semen time. Mr. HOPE resumed the adjourned &bete by stet ing that be should have heritated to address the house afar the ad mirable, the welharpied, and the irrefraphie speeches dekverA against the bail epos the last day, were -a not amnion that he was is poesersion of nun^ important statistics whisk it was desirable to have read. He admitted that marriage with a drown wife's sister was not soft4rent • vio erica of the prohibited degrees as marrimte with a mime or an aunt; but then the was all he would admit. A society, vole:dozily ritablished is the metropolis, had been making inquiries on this subject, and the report they had published, though it was unofficial, was invert belts' entitled to a. much credit as the report of the young barristers, &signet A commissioners, who had been sent out to make iavestigatiocs is favour of the Marriage Bill. and who bad embodied the result In • blue book. The returns ascertained by the &witty in question show,d that in contain districts of England no fewer than 269 marri.ges had taken plies within the prohibited O gren. Of these, 173 were with • wife's sister. 41 with a brother's wife, 6 with an aunt, 19 with Wren, 16 with step mother., I with uncle's wives, and 11 with wives' nieces. These retains had been ebtained from 231 peroci.ial clergy. men resident in London, Liverpool, Leicester, and some of the agricultural districts. They laid bare a strange state of facts. In one ease, a peeress h.d beta married to her husband's nephew; in another, • keine sant-general in the army had married • lady, she died, and he marriA her aunt; the suet died, and he married another ws mac, that woman died ! and he married her niece. (Laughter. ) A demi man at Bristol had made • return of • man who hat married his wits's daughter. A nephew had married his aunt, at Cheltenham. A man of property living at Hall is the year 1503, had married in summon a deughter,,lter mother, and a second daughter. A isomer had married his brothers widow ar d then had an incestuous intrigee with her daughur. A pithiicaa, who woe a fair specimen of the middle class, had ma • d hi. niece. In Sua a • shop keeper had married ha br ether's niece. In Gloucestershire • man in the higher ranks of life had manied his halt brother's daughter. In Shrewsbury, • manufacturer hsd murischhis brother's widow. Elsewhere • large farmer had married bit father's wife; and the clergyman of the parish, &nerving CA car, added the', with this exception he knew nothing against the man's moral charater. They must come to this had they been going on the wrong tack for three centuries, and were they now to change it ? These marriages were permitted abroad, in Roman catholic countries where the disabilities were mon numerous than here, but where they were got over by dinensations. They were common in Spain, the aristocracy of which once gnat country prided themselves ea the purity of thin blood. And they were purer is blood than any nation in the worli, but they were warped in body and debased in intellect. The hon. gentleman con chmed by roadies an extract from an article in a Mencheeter newspaper, strongly condemnatory of the proposed measure, describing it as one which would be no boon to the operatives than, and aileeeng that the reason assigned for it, that the wife's sister might extend care to the children, did not apply to the manufacturing districts, inasmuch as the labour of all was rujeired in the factories to support the family. Mr. S. HERBERT at mitted that there were great social objectless which might he urged ; but he thought they were homed to take the balance of good sad of evil and, however dißcult it might be, by • nice adjustment of that balance to decide on which side the advantage predomi nated. Now, as he understood the bill, there ens the most corded avoidance of in any way attacking the right and privil eges of the chinch of Engl.nd. Last year, his si s ht boa. June, with gnat impoticy, includrd in his hal clauses which no clergyman of the church of England ought to be tailed upon to obey. At the same time, he did not so interfere with the church of Scotland; but in this bill those dairies were onsitte 1, and he confessed he was glad to see the principle admitted that the civil power should not legislate wit .. respect either to matters of faith or matters of discipline. Other religious bodies had no law of their own which restricted them from contracting marriages of this description, but in the place of that the civil law stepped in, and ter ricted them from marriages which their conseieures did sot condemn. Socially speaking, if it were made out that morality would be in danger by penile the bill of his right Coo. friend, that would be • satiese. tory reason for rejecting the bill, and for maintaining eves the religious disabilities of certain denominations, because the helmet of evil would be so great that they should be satisfied to pat up with the knew evil. But it had sot been shown that there would be each • disregard of morality arising from this measure that it was at once to put • stop to any legielation oh the subject. la order that re- Vgious denominations who had ao ecclesiastical objection to each maniacs might be allowed, as a civil rite, to contract them. He thought there was a reeriction on religious bodies, not in &Lion with the church, which amounted to a religious disability. On that ground he thuught himself justified en supporting the bid. But in the case of the church of England, ha numb- re had its own law to guide them. Me. ROLM:CI( said Le had heard throughout that die euen .n, eqestan , ly 'Neale to the law of GA, as if it were something din. rent knees the law of Ware. He took it that the law of God snare what they liked to cousins it to mean. Prejudem and letting caused sham to tithe & cer tain view, and that they ailed the law of God. Take the chapter a Levi seas in which the prohibited degrees were stated, and they "(sad fled in it phrases which oil would construe am way and another another way ; and who was to distinguish whether th 6th or the 7th verse was the law of God ? T.ke the whole of the chapter; it was made for a special purpose and • peculiar people, and could not apply to each • can as %Lie. He put it ands altogether. Suppose no law eiiited on the watt r, what would they Sneak if they were about to lay down a role foe the geld &act of the people la this matter? The rule laid down by the bps. member was as dangerous • rule aa he ever heard ; be said he drew • distinction between members of the church of Englio.d, end those who did not belong to the church of England. Those who did not to, long to the church of England might marry who. they pleased. I Mr. S. Herbert : No,] It amounted to that. Supyuse, and lie loathe case without wishing to excite levity on the matter, suppose • mace wished to mane his own mother, that can would come within the rale Ind down by the bon. member. Now he thought, without appealing to anything that was galled the law of nature, they could find THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, MARCH 7, 1850. Opt Holed Elea of America. (Hear, hear.) The bon. learwad ~miens for Plymouth and Oxford lellk AM MINIMS ea the suppeskins that the of MOM itonateisi SIMS addmed ler the par poss.,' Notaftel_liolbeleglintore of this eseatry the mew ( d rabs Weed by Nl* example ; bet it wee sot so. (NM" beer.) The maws! wee used to show that thew mmeleHla having for many years existed in highly civilised eesatrlie r the evils resulting from them were neither nu llities" new dangerous. If they looked to the protestant eanletnn of Switzerland and the worth of Germany, where peelissisodem prevailed as extensively as in England, they would lad that the standard of monlity there wee as high as here .netwithstaading the sanction of sash marriages. (Hear, !scar.) These marriages wen necessity for more remona than one; and the strongest reason was that they could not purest these. However, greet benefit must recall from them, particularly to children left unprotected by du death of their mother. (Hear, hear.) Who, he would ask, could be a fitter person to take the real mother's place, and protect end watch over her children, then that mothee's sister ? (Heat' hear.) Or whom would the dying mother sooner entrust with such a charge than her own sister? (Hear, hear.) It bed been said, on the other hand, that these marriages were sot frequent. Now he could not see how a young female could reside in a house with a young widower, and between whom there existed no ties of consanguinity, without being open to a certain amount of observation and meson. (Hear, hear.) lie asked any hon. member, if left to himself, whether • father, • husband, er • brother, would he desire that his daughter or sister (as the case might be) should live on terms of intimate Intercourse with the husband of the deceased sister, or if she could live on such terms of intercourse free of unsure ? (Hear, hear.) It was all very well for the hon. and learned member for Sheffield to have drawn the picture he did, which wee so truly felicitous and poetical: but they could not control the in stincts of human nature by human legislation. He assured the house that should they decide on defeating the bill, they would be legislating on the assumption of evils, which, so far from being proved to exist, experience practically demon strated did not exist. (Hear, hear.) The practice of the ancients regarding marriage had also been referred to. Why the ancient pagans, who knew nothing of divine law, prohi bited certain marriages which they did not want the light of divine law to wrist them in, as their common instincts pointed out the injury likely to result from such. Of course such marriages as a brother end sister and the like, where the result was certain to be a deterioration of the human species should be, cud even were, most wisely in terdictei. (Haar, hem.) But there was no instinct of our nature which reprobated or repudiated such marriages as the bill before the home contem plated—(hmar, hear)—and though legislation should forbid it, society would look on it as an attempt to produce an crti ficiel feeling which nature did not plant in the human mind. (Hear, hear.) The bill, if paved into law, would not com pel parties standing in the relation of brother-In-law and sister-in-11w to contract such merrieges. (lieu, hear.) It was left open as a matter of conscience, particularly to those classes not of the church party, who might be, and were of opinion, that they could miter conscientiously into such mar riages, and who repudiated such interference with the humatt affections. (Hear, hear.) 11r. SHELL slid his objections to the measure were of an entirely axial nature. Let him inquire what would be the effect of the present bill, if it should pass into law, upon the wife, upon the husband, and up ) I the prospective bride, whose pathway to the altar ley across her sister's grave. An amiable married women at present received her unmarried sister with open arms, and cherished her with a truthful end trustful love. She watched over her interests with a are almost maternal. No obscure suspicion came near her; and though she should pass heun, and days, and weeks in the society of hie husband, yet upon her pure and warm affection not a doubt or con jecture was permitted to fall. But if the bill before the house should become law ; if the wife should be taught to look upon her father and mother's daughter as the heir to her bed, her feelings must under go a material and incurious alteration. The worst of all domestic feelings would till her soul, and take possession of her entire being. (Hear, hear.) " Trifles light as air" would acquire than proverbial confirmation, and innocent familiarity be construed into guilty intercourse. (Hear.) Every look would be interpreted into a glann—every touch into • pressure—until the fancy would be haunted and the Imagination filled and pursued by the darkest and most unendurable of domestic feelings. So much for the wife. The husband—a good man—at present regarded the sister of his wee with a purely fraternal feeling. His intercourse with her was unsullied by even an unholy desire or wish. But if he should be taught to look upon, as en ohj et of probable poseesaion, the woman with whom he would be pieced in patients proximity, he (Mr. Shell) leered very taught. change of moral temperament would follow. He would next come to the sister of the wire. She at present looked on the hus band of her sister as her protector and friend, for whom she entertained a moral affection, but no impassioned desire. But if she should be taught to look upon him as her cones gency, or regard him as • vested remainder, under the auspices of the bill of his honourable and learned friend, and to press no the pillow on which her mister's check should be coldly laid; if she should be taught to aliments the nuptial garment a ith the &breed, then he feared the spirit of wickedness would take pervasion of her heart. and • wide 11 Li would be thrown open for coteugal 6i.,:alation. (Hear, hear.) Ile feared the character of her intercourse with her sister's husband :would be changed, and that, instead of c titertainieg Mich moral feel ings and sentiments towards him, she would have reeoerse to all ordinary soereu of were trey attraction to enchain the mind and resale °. of the husband. (Hear, hear.) She would study every attitude and p. stun, every look end action, to iieluence by that veer of factitious endearment which women, as it were, instinctively put us, to obtain an in oence and ascendancy over the mind of the husband. (Hear.) ' These considerations induced him (Mr. Shill) to Melte* that the measure was most unadvisable. (Hear, hear.) If the bill of his hon. end leaned friend should pale into law where would it stop ? (Hear, hear.) At which of the de grees in the list of prohibition would his hon. and learned , hind pause (Hear, hear.) If a man were to marry his wife's sister, might he not as well marry his wife's daughter i (Hear, hear.) Although no amount of prejudice or passion would induce him (Mr. Sheil) to do a wrong to any men or class of men, yet be would not wantonly run counter to the religious feelings of the country far the sake of an innovation which broke down some of the morel fences that now protected our homes, and to which Calvinistic and austere Scotland, catholic and dispensing Ireland, and the great majority of the people of England—half catholic and half protestant, though entirely catholic on that question—de dared themselves decidedly opposed. (Loud cheers.) Mr. ANSTEY, amid loud cries of "divide," supported the second reading cf the bill, and declared that every clause of it should have his warmest support. (Cries of " Divide.") Mr. COBDEN said he had watched the tendency of the present measure for several years, out of doors as well as in that house, and he should say that the treat pressure put upon the country to resist it originated in a religious, or rather an ecclesiastical, feeling. He spoke with the fullest conviction of the truth of his assertions when he said the main element of resistance had emanated from a party in the church, not numerous but influential, which weuld carry them back to ancient forms and genuflexions, which they would have pus for Christianity—(" no, no" ) — and which, as part of their policy, would, revive as much as pm idble, the sanctioe of the ancient mons of Rome, with a view to give them, as far as pos sible, the cogency of scriptural authority. ("No, no.") There bad been a great deal of confusion in the minds of persons, which of late had been much cleared away by the useful process of discussien in that house. What he wished to enforce on the minds of hon. gentlemen opposed to this bill was, that they bad not the Bible for authority in opposing this measure. (Hear, hear.) Were the question submitted to him (Mr. Cobden) for decision, unlearned as he was in these matters, in a professional sense, he would be inclined to adopt the ',practice of the ancient Jews. Some years since Dr. Adler, the chief rabbi, when examined as a witness as to the construction of the text in Leviticus—he believed the 17th verse of the 18th chapter—he interpreted it as did at present the supporters of the bill, and even declared such marriages as most laudable, particularly where youthful and unprotected children were to be cared and provided for. (Hear, hear.) Notwithstanding the observation of the hon. end learned member for Sheffield, he said that they could not but regard this as a question involving civil and religious liberty. He contended that the course taken in opposition to this bill was a violation of religious liberty. Many hon. members who were connected with the Baptist and Independent sects would bear him out in the assertion, that these religious bodies were unanimous in favour of the bill. Dr. Adler, the chief rabbi, might be • widower, and might wish to marry the sister of his deceased wife—his religious convictions would sanction that union, fur it war one which not only the canons of his church unctiened, but actually prescribed and encouraged. Yet Dr. Adler might be prohibited by the law of this country from following the dictates of his conscience, because, forsooth, this house chose to put • different interpretation upon the Levitical law to that which the Hebrew people themselves had always done. Whether they did or did not pale this measure, it was impossible for them to prevent these marriages taking place. Those who were rich would go to Deamark, or some other country, where the marriage was recognised; and those who were poor would be, as • matter of course, married when they elated that there was no disability against it. Public opinion was altogether spinet the law, end he mentioned that they could hold no public meeting in this country in support of it. Certain hon. members in their opposition to this bill, had thrown out the most calumnious insinuations against the women as well as the men of this country. (Hear, hear.) They were libelling their fellow countrywo me n ; they were libelling themselves in the arguments which they had used. Their arguments amounted to this : that all their boasted if par liament, end t o hat i act uto w th er e o morality was, after all, but the result of an act of par hamostrepealdedep,tetheeend people wo u ld Forwodld be disposed to f ywhom,oung boys e nn asked, d g7wirlser,ebthateyfor going womeno ato passed the i la l e a s t it : lrare : veoyeue- N gdgoi l:t e f n u , r l ji l o o u ed v dg e nt r e w n fo t h r . ie w h w h i h d o e o d w il e " h rs— een ad m d e v ese n anc i he d ho d b had s : y ee t hat n o . f tisane" Thew were persons who sought to make choice Of a wife for the holiest and beet of purposes namely, as a substitute for the mother of their children. (Hear, hear.) Unless they could adduce better arguments than had been already advanced in opposition to this measure, he would feel himself fully justified in repenting that the law, as it stood, was a violation of conscience and an invasion of religious liberty, which this country would not long tolerate. (Hear, hear.) In the blue book which he held in his had he found recorded the fact that a wits, upon her death-bed, enrreunded by her family, made a request to her sister to become the mother to her children, and implored her husband, if it was consistent with his own &clime, to marry her before any other person. The hon. sad funned member for Sheffield said that the highest vela wee that which existed between brother and sister, audit pared the present bill they would place unholy sualrlethene upon euehirelatlonship. He utterly denied it. Mr. OOULBURN said that haying already stated fully his dietitian to the musses itself, ha did not feel called on to detain the house at any length. But when the hon. gentleman who loot addressed the house took upon himself to assert that those who opposed the bill had abandoned the religious grounds of the question, he (Mr. Geelburn) suet give to that assertion a most unqualified denial as utterly at variant* with the facts of the case. Tim» had been no abandonment of those pricciples on which the measure was from the first °prised. lie still main eased the opinion that the law of Leviticus was the ground as which those marriages were prohibited as being con , Mary to the law of Gad. The hon. gentleman the member It the West Riding said that that was only the opinion of a party, and said so in terms which be (Mr. Goul bare) would net repeat. Now, his extensive kaowledge of the clergy of this country enabled him to say that the general feeling throughout all members of the clerical profession was hos tile to this bill. He maintained Alt if they c 'monied the I law of Leviticus by any of these principles which were applicable to human law, they could not avoid coming to the conclusion that the law of Leviticus prohibited each marriages. The hon. gentleman said also that they gelled only on the Bible, and refused to look to what had been the practice at various times. He d. fled the hon. gen tleman to show Irm in the Bible an instance after the pro mulgation of that law of a man heeler married hi. deceased wife's sister. He would not take the doctrine laid down by Dr. Adler because the Jews of modern days bed corrupted the Levitical law, and had introduced tradition in preference to it, and because those hest able to define tie law, and who had studied it in the original language, did not concur in that doctrine. They might, no deal); by act of par liament, declare these marriages to be lawful, hut as long u man was allowed the secrets* of private judgment--.o long as they were bound by the obligations of conscience, so long would their feelings continue to be influenced by the consciousness of either right or wrong. These marriage., wet n if permitted, would ultimately give occasion to feelings of remorse the mast bitter to than who have been tempted by their leg lation to commit an act of which their eonscienes disapproved. He would mention but one cue that had lately come to his knnwledee, which would Nerve as an illustration of his remarks. A met , in person became a widower early in life, end minded within the prohibited degrees of kindred. At a later pi rind of their union, when they had children of their marriage, they . bath became an dissatisfied so their conscience for having committed this breach of the law, that they felt themselves under the obligation of eeparaing from each other, la order th at they might no longer live in a state of concAinage. If they passed this m-a.ure into law they would find themselves forced to go some steps further, by furnishing groat facilities for divorce. It would inevitably lead to further legislatioa. Suppose the case of two brothers married to two sisters—there being no ob• jection to the marriage. One of the brothers and one of the sisters die. In such a position who, he would ask, if a family were left in each C4 4 C, could be so natural a guardian to the children of the turviving brother as the aunt, or who so likely to take a natural interest in the childrin of the de ceased hrother as the uncle ? But supposing the survivors to marry, what would be their position ? According to the bill of his right hen. friend, their merrier° would be legal, as a man right marry his wife's sister; but according to another law it would he file, al, which said that a man must not marry his brother's wife. If this bill pa sett, he believed it would nee,euitate further legislation; and on the ground that it was at varianco with the law of Gad, he most zealously °mused it. Mr. S. WORTLEY having briefly replied. The house divided, when there appeared : For the second reading of the bill .... 132 Auenst it l3O-52 The bill was than read a second time, and ordered to be committed on Wednesday ntxt. Mr. F. MAULE rive notice that he would, in committee, cove a clause to omit SCASIId from the operation of the euure. STAMP DUTY ON NEWSPAPERS. On the motion of Mr. SCIIOLEFIRLD, an cstimste was ordered of the ennuis! 'spume of collecting the stamp duty on newspap.rs, stating the number and wages of persons employed at Somerset hnitse, and in Edinburgh and Man chester, in stsniping the paper; the ann.isl cost of ma chinery, and the expense of clerks, including those who rveire the money for stsnip=. It being then bli u'elocx, the house adjouruA. PARLIAMENTARY BUSINESS FOR TIIIS EVKNING. HOUSE OF LORDS. SECOND Raanixos. Hartley's Divorce, and Sunday Tra , tiou Prevcntion Commrrrrn.—Ressoval of OW:nations in Corn Trade (Scotland) Bill (No. 2). Rrronr or ANENDMEWES.—Party Precestions (Iralan) Hill. (The Lord President) NOTICES OF NOTIONS ON ORDERS OF THE DAY. The Duke of WELLES OTON, as regards the foregoing bill, to more • clause pieventing say pasun appearing in arms in Ireland out of his house. HOUSE OF COMMONS. NOTICES OF QUESTIONS, EvISCOTAI., S C. REvENUEiCoM , II,StoN. Mr. DEEDES, to mak the first lord of the treasury, whether it is the inten tion of the government to bring forward, this session, any bill founded on the repeat of the Epi-corl and Capitalar Rev now Commission. PUBLIC SIBHORP, to ask whether such appniutments as bare been nude, or may be made, since the last session of parliament, will be sublet to such reductions in their &missies and ulicwancas es mu he recom moodect by parliament, ant especially the etc:-.t appoint ment of the Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's 11. nett ; and whether 101.,1 Campbell acc.-pts the same salary as Lord Denman did, vi z _ , 8,0001. per annum, instead of 10,0031., a, the set of parliament greats. THE ELE , :rive Fuesciftsx.—Lori N( - GENT to ask Sir De L- ey Evans whether he may be ut.der..ced as en gaging himself, is any event, to press forward to a discussion and division, on the earliest open day atter the Easter re ars', the measure which he postponed on Tuesday evening , last, respecting an :tanning of the rleoties franchise. NOTICES OF MOTIONS. I.r O'F. or Alersch.—To Mr. Pugh, for three weeks; ill-h alth. Ethers,' I:NioN.-7311r. I'. SCROPE, to submit • motion on the state of this union. THE Ilea.t.or.—Mr. 11. BERKELEY, Bill to protect the parliamentary ;electors of Or,st Britain and Inland from undue influence, by the use (tithe ballot. NEF.TINui IN (NU utilE4, &c.—Mr. WOOD, Bill to pre vent the bolding of vestry or ether meetings in churches, ani f r regniatioo the appointment of vestry desks. RELIEF OF THE POOL—Mr. ADAIIL, 11:11 to provide for the more equitable distribution of the charge foe the relief of the poor in certain erica and tomes. Duettists OF CORNWALL AND LANCASTER.—Mr. TEE LAWNY, to move for the appointment of a committee of inquiry into the managoucert of the affairs of theso duchies, lo orate to are, vain to what EMMA the public are entitled to claim an interest therein. Tan /LOYAL NAVY.—Mt. various returns, IS TO number, eapense tonnage, &c., of the various ships sad seeser in ordi nary mad commission; expenses of dock yards, &c. l'uoa Lew Ustoss (Eachesn).—Sir 1). NORHETS, retains of Cnt. sr. a and valuation of each. Pont Or NEWeest WAWN, retorts respecting. ELECTORAL DIvI , IONS (IRELAND, &C.).-11r. lIAMIL TON, Morns respecting, in cootioustion of paper of last session. N 0.193; and Ch it return relative to Suitors' k's. Fund (Ireland), presented 21st July, 1549, be printed. GOLD COAST.—Mr. 111;h18, address for topics or tracts of the correspoodeuce that has taken pl tee between the government of D. circuit and the British government respecting the purchase of the settlement belonging to Den mark on the Gold Coast. Ecrenhisit en CHURCH (WALE:).—Mr. J. WILLIAMS, to move for returns on this subject. Sescuote (ScuTLANl9.—ViscOnnt MELO U ND. to submit a motion to the house for the retorts and extension of the school establishment of Scotland. Smoot Ftmus.—Mr. BAINES, BM to mate better provision for the contributions of unions and parishes in school districts, to the common funds or the respective dis tricts. VALUATION (IRELAND).—Sit R. FERGUSON, returns ea this subject, in continuation of paper of last session, No. 407. CIIISIIN• Row WITTAL.—Lard 1). %latches respecting the cue of this person. ORDERS OF TGE DAY. SECOND READING.--Charitable Tr..slonllComtniteef; Estates Leasing (Ireland) ; Judemente (Ireland); Rec,istrar of Metropolitan Carriages; Titles of Reli ions Congregations (Bcot'and) ; Bills. Report: Ways and Means. NOTICES OF MOTION ON ORDER OF THE DAT. ESTATES LEAEING (IRELAND) BILL—Sir It. FERGU SON, to move amendments. STUART, de• KIDDERMINSTER ELECTlON.—hlretillltt to the act 11 et 12 Viet., esp. 93, to amend the law for the trial of elec tion petitions, notice is here'i given that a select committee to try and determine the matter of the petition comp Lining of an undue election and return fur the borough of Kidder minster, will be chosen by the general committee of elections on Monday, the 15'h day of April neat, at three o'clock in the afternoon, in (A) committee room of the House of C MO( e. All per ice interested are hereby err. rally directed to attend the said general committee of elections, by them selves, their counsel, ur agents, at the time and place above mentioned.—J.ll. Y. livaaau, Chairman.—llouse of Com mon', dated this nth day of March, lh.lo. lIE LIsTON TFATIIfuNIAL. List evening a meet ing of the noblemen, gentlemen and members of the medical and surgical profeioion, subscrihers to Um fund for providing a suitable memorial to the lace eminent surgeon, J. Liston, Efei , taok lilac.. at No. 32, Old Burlington Street. The Marquis of Anglesey presided, and the report of the commit tee was unanimously adopted, in which they stated that the funds subscribed were not aullici ntly large to enable them to complete the original design of erulting a colossal statue to the memory of Mr. Lliroa, as well as founding a gold medal to he called the ListenlllNhi, and annually preset.' .1 to the University College, London. To carry out these sug g. scions, a sum 011,4001. would ho required, while the sub scriptions mounted only to 7iol. They, thirefore, advised the adoption of the recommendation to found a gold medal, and also suggested the execution of four marble busts, one to he presented to the Royal College of Surgeoth, a second to the University College of Landon, n third to the Royal In firmary of Edinburgh, and the fourth to the family of the late Mr. Liston. Zite erprelso OUTGOING The mails yid Marseilles, to the Mediterranean, Egypt, ylen, India, Hong-Kong, dr.c., will be made up this evening. The snails for British North America and the United States will be made up to-morrow evening. The mails for ldstros, Spain, and Gibraltar will be made ap on the 17th inst. The Welt India Mails. excluding Bermuda, Havanna, Names, lin , :duras, New Orleans, and Mexico, and including these for Madeira, St. Juan-de-Nioarairna, New Granada, Chili, and Peru,wlll be landslip on the 17th inst. The malls for Gibraltar, Malta, Greece, the lonian Islands Egypt, Ceylon, India, and China, via Southampton, will be made up on the morning of March 20. The mails for Madera, the Brasile, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the evening et April 4. HIGH WATER AT LONDON RR! DOE. Tins Der-Monty. t. 12n. Attendee. Inv VAL To-roalualr—Marea.l, LONDON, THURSDAY, MARCH 7. Tna correspondence respecting the Australian Colonies Government Bill, which was presented to parliament on the lit instant, throws marvellously little light upon the sentiments with which the colonists regard the measure. Relative to Western and Smith Australia, and Victoria, we have Earl ORBVB despatches to the Governors, but no replies. Relative to Van Diemen's Lind, we hare the Geyer- nor'. opinion of the kind of irwitUtions best adapted to the colony, but nothing from the eoloni.M. From New South Wales our information is a little, and only a little, more explicit. In the first place, it must be kept in mind that the opinions elicited from the inhabitants of New South Wales, relate not to the measure now before par liament, but to a constitution for Au , tralia after the fashion of the New Zealand one, which had a few features in common with the prese . nt bill, bat was of a much more questionable character. Inter alia, it was proposed that the elective msmbers of the Legis lative Council should be appointed by indirect elec tion—that they should be nominated in each district by the district councils. This insidious proposal which was very properly met with an unanimous burst of indignant denunciation, has been abandoned by go , vertmu nt. One feature common to the two measures is the general council or cangrcas for all the Australian colonies. It is obvious that the inhabitants of New South Wales see that the time has not come for such an institution. At present, if the colonies are equally repute nted in a general council, the large colony of New South Wales will have its views neutralized by the small communises adjoining it; if a pre• poi.derance in proportion to its wealth and popu lation is given to New South Wake, the small colonies will be subjected to it. The time will come ' when such a general congress may b 3 useful, though we beiieve that its introduction will be the signal tor separation from England. Indeed, the only functions such a legislative body could discharge, without encroaching on the rightful self-government cf the individu a colonies, would be those which, 83 long as li they remain parts of the empire, must be discharged by the imperial legislature. When the time comes for such en institution, it will spring into existence as a matter of course; to create it prematurely can only ds mischief. Oovernment have wisely yielded to the repugnance expressed towards indirect elec tions by the culoniss ; they would show equal wisdom in striking their premature general council out of their bill. On another rout the measure row before par liamt ut indicates a per;ial concession to the wishes of the colonists. The plan of government originally contemplat d dene-1 the colonial legislatures any control over the civil lists. The present bill goes to enact civil lists in great part of a merely ; 11 . credt cha racter, and only insists thot the salaries of the go- vernors and the fends for the maintenance of the clergy shall be exempted from the control of the local legislatures. We are disposed to consider even a temporary civil list, prescribed by the imperial legislature, as unwise. It would bo better to leave the colonial councils to shape their exe cutive to their social and civil wants and deter mine what they can afford towards their support The complicated organisation of an ex. cutive in favour at the Colonial-office w;11 be little better th _n an iLcum bronco in a colony. The remuneration of governors may safely bo left to the c =mon sense and liberality of the colcrists; and es to the fund for the main tenarco of the clergy, knowing as we do the bend ments of the colonists on this head, we feel assured I that the attempt to fix the sum to be set apart for that I purpose here, will prove a perfect apple of discord. No man knows this better than Earl Gins, and his only apology is, that without such a protho he could have no chance of carrying his bill through the Lords. The bishops weuld not let him. If this be true the bishops are even a more short-sighted generation than we have always taken them to be. The Australian colonists have always evinced a strong &tire to make liberal provision for religious instruction. Leave the matter to themselves, and their clergy will have no reason to complain. But if the imperial parliament insist upon fixing the susten tation fund of the clergy now, and if the colonists thick the refit of the government bill eufliciently valuable to buy it by conceding this point, they wiil re taliate for the encroachment by insisting that the sum now named shall be permanent. It may be largo ite to the wants of the population now, but will be utterly inadequate before ten years have passed. The bishops, by grasping at too much, will get less 1 than they might have had by fair means. There is oars provision of the Australian Colonies bill which has been vehemently assailed in parlia ment, but which obviously finds favour in the eyes of the inhabitants of New South Wales—the siegle legislative council. This question has been tho 'roughly canvassed in the colony, both in the legisla tive council and out of doors. In the council a de cided majority of the elected members was in favour of only one assembly. In a house of 21 members 11 voted in support of this resolution : That this council is disposed to view favourably the pro position of separating the dsithcrations of the nominees of the crown from those of the representatives of the eeopOr.sad Considers that if such an amendment be made in the present constitution, it ought to be accompanied by the cession of the territorial revenue, or the Schedules A, B, and C, to the sPeropristion of the Representative Assembly. Ten voted for the following amendment : That the word " not " be inserted before tlispo.cd, and the words " but that the cession of the territorial revenue. or of the Schedules A, B, and C, to the appropriation of this coun cil, would be an amendment in the present coustituttun,'• after the word " people." The minority of ten consisted of nine elected mem bers and one official member; the majority of eleven consisted of four elected, four official, and three nomi nee members. At the public meeting held in Sydney the expres sion in favour of only one legislative council was still more unequivocal. de Nhin IN said: The question of whether two houses were better than one might be disputed. In an independent country, perhaps, it was so ; but here they had no mitosis's for the constitution of a second house. They were dependent for its constituents solely on the will of the government, which would give it a very ditferest position to that occupied by the House of L frils at home. Fee better for them to keep the constitution which they had at pres. it, which had as yet worked well, and had not been found suit with by the colonists. Mr. Illctrie, after dencuneing the scheme of indi rect elections, said : This would not be a sufficient restriction en popular in flufnee, and so they must have a heislative council of crown nominees to suststu the government intluenca. But where were the materials to come from in a colony like this ? Wu it supposed for a moment that such a body would be in any may analogous to the Rouse of Lords? Where would they find learned lords to guide their decisions? Where would they tied any Id judges to direct their council ? These elements would be mainly %venting. Mr. JaMes MACARTHUR, the moot conservative speaker at the meeting, said : Ho should be glad to see two houses erected when they were tit t r it; the principle he thought a piece of justice, but they were not fit for it yet. They had no materials for an upper house, and could nut have for a very lung time to come. Mr. WENTWORTII, infinitely the most powerful thinker, impressive orator, and influential political leader in the colony, though he addressed the meeting, did not touch up3u this subject. Ile, however, has put his opinion distinctly and explicitly on record, in the following resolution, which he submitted to the legislative council: That this council is averse at present to the introduction of the old form of colonial constiatoion, embracing two houses, the oue composed of n miners of the crown, the ' other of the representatives of the people Because there does not, and for some con4derahlo period yet to come cannot mist in these colonies, any close of witticient fortune and stability to be raised to the sieuation of hereditary lege,- Won, or even to be created ler g i i cause if this opinion be correct, the Upper Roam smlg.. then be compmed of nominees of the crown, app o i,'• during pleasure, or for limited periods; sod the exp.ri."-"r„ of other colonies shows that a council thus constitan,4 mere machine interposed betwe en t h e exteutive representatives of the people, to ward off the respanith attichcel to the exercise of the veto, and 14Iii to pe;":'. those wholesome end constitutional colisio cs w hi ch have e., sad still are, wherever they ow e . the sourcedd preservation of constitutional freedom. the In public the senmeet ingtiments of at the Sydney ens speakertirel we hereto-A: c ! " y and the petitions and m emor i a l s from theosest., hold similar language. The colunists eoa; are t 1r . .: opinion that, for the prese n t a t least, one council is enough for all useful purpose,: rt this being the cue, it is to be hoped that g o , tnna. j will not allow itself to be badg ere d into ir.Hict.o,.: • ; councils upon them—an arrangemeut every way expedient in young settlement s . Though government appears from the 105p, r 5..,. seated to parliament be yet in ignorance of • taken of the questions we have touched upon ; it Diemen's Land, we tome learriel from sour..., which the greatest confidence is due that he,- z, e exactly the same as those expressed by tl.t: haunts of New South Wales. WE venture to say a few mwe words on •,, ject of the advertisement duty. What is the advertisement duty ? if keowledgc on this point, we will Ttn'n s • the question ourselves. In some cases upcn trade ; in others a tax upon literature instances a tax upon charity; not unfreiv- n .j r upon calamity; whiLit every day it inte:po-.:- between the working man and his readits', obtaining an honest livelihood from the has work to offer to him. Snpposa there were a law by whits, a charged eighteen-pence for merely mliic•,; he could give him occupation ? Suppnit beers - enactment by which a servant st eicir place was comp lied to pay ls. (11. to ; ; 1 „, day nntil she got it? Who wouit such enormities: who would ;int Li. . against such a mode of dealing with Lot ire.:. seeking its r e ward? Andyet such tart{ a would be only advertisement duiies in ann•:..:r In this country it is peculiarly difficult for any in any clans of life to address persons!ir another with a view to obtain employees. habits, and man: - .era, ant customs are urn.ai.j,: posed Loa free interchange of personal communie, and especieliy 23 tetween eke s diff.ring in w. circnnastancer. In , Ica metropolis a-d other towns, which are the great of en'crpri— ni..cl indttary, s .•y is itcrcabit wa t of local and endue ual 1:•.n the advertisement is .disoiti , ti:E 0: iv which the great maul of the population nave of making themselves known to otl: , rr. N.• this means of Keith.; or offering emp!'.yrre- , taxed in the cast cf short cdvcrt:seraents of filty per cent. upon their cost.. A - member of the House of f• Ann the other nig'.t that he would suppa• for the remission of taxation -xi benefit the poorest class of the eenz: was philanthrophy, ; thoneh thi -e paratively little political science mination. We give het crept volence, and we call un hi.a to peal of the advertisement tiley. I the remissiou of wl.ich would so dir, poorer class. We hear every day a concerning our poor ncedleworicirQ, thousands upon thousands of thou at meet, and yet we will answer fur i one lady in twenty in London who woman when she desires to erne:l)y et is that there are no means of coairewi. the parties. The price of the neta - =- by the paper and stamp duty, cessible to the needlewoman tLot it for a lady to addrei a herself to ti.dt ri , coleuses of a public journal. (to t7c price of an advertisement, enhanc'e's penny duty, places it out of tlie t 1 WOW to advertise f.r addt ese herself to chls3 who Lie of affording her emj-.. amt. l' meet duty, and, for a the give late name and a• .!..tss to a Iraq: , equate. art wouid _:.•1 to s.: tar t motion at a ;Air reum .1 1: , :r hard The effect of the nis...;:isem(nt duty this country is particularly tei.n-imis. and we belit vs nith truth, that a te. ' vertise for G!. or 7!., in the Unittd as he can advertise in this coue.try ti This is the street rf the duty, and oi poly wt ich the taxes upon r.-" effect of engendtiire. te.cl the mac cez? of nilvertiting• .'..t is trade in England. As the ..I,et render trade advoriserrents the rule, those wt., hare avail: d :ht means of publi. `.tar hart c•nie ' than the uimii ;.t their competitors. the coo:a l um:a advertising trn.dcs:nen ate cl,- , • a degree of injustice, who take business. " are verz , must pay for t'em: 1 . that the advei r rather by the kereiteed cost of Lis tp. believe, is mrst usually the case. by - Banal amount of ceitt , :u which he brings blishment. Can any one tell us a rrasoo why a published announcements should be taxi.' may puff his goods verbally to any ex•t':.t Why should the man pa; the gtverrni prints, Buy, 1)4," whilst lc who iv Buy, buy," is pm:nit:et to shcut penalty being indicted on him . I advantage is afforded to trade in rag,ement is given to hait•-a-dui: duals,—to the comrcsitor, tha the paper-maker, the news V.1 . ,1: . :a of literature, the rewepiper more. See, then, what al. alpardiry a distracted mother scads round ib make known the foes of her eh.lo paying any tax, bust if she appta.s of to the ear, and makes her loss kilo , medium of &newspaper :a:Nit-ilk:titer the CnANCEI.I.OI: w ant: Ext t!E privilege of endeavouring t•• - "C r USy u:cior. toe t cavcr ; .i. men In J. Ste Tint very proper dec:s•ln c:' Mr. FADE in the bankruptcy at the ...:c I Royal Its Fan Opera has corsigesid !... • DELArttli.l), if not to tt c to the annals or chconiel.s of 1:s ..••••••• cannot "adorn a tree," it ritAy The fortune accumulated by Ow life spent in manufacturiog +le r has been wantonly and untiress.'r by its inheritor, as a saeritice to e • of the rich. In eigt;teen gulacred 'o.cr, singers and French dace, .red leaving himself with • 1 ' world, he stood inde'••:l the sum of 33,1100;., %chi, ;b k e 0 , • them c i g ht e enpenoe in tho pon. carry out an experiment N.lli it was •••1!.. • by the intrusion of a plet,nte•seckl.n;, tg talist, which could only ent,,•cci ;n thorough man of busine,s,l6:ll.i. led-: as money. If Mr. DELAFIELti: object had lay but a merryone, he has saccxied. I::• • out of post ty's favourite beverage. d• treatment than a sear and a het arlistis, even though aceonipautc.l most retitled in a Villa, the rk:i and :3, which attracted the curiosity and itself. Mrs. TllnAl.es marriage gusted Dr. Jimssox hy its disregard • prietice of her former ht: ; and. ur ;Tit: ruin of Mr. Del..trlEt.v's noble ti•!tanc with its humble and honest ertgtn: it Mr. 'ltt.tchE.ti's Jeartie.s./.. its senseless overthrow. Mr. I)EtArtet.l l has tea ruined . :n seize on the Lyric Mama and Fashion had not his enterprise been essoeuitisi would never have rustle PO rash . a vs. , ntut , was but the pretence u nder whaali he ll' Fl ' I