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If long it increases the difficulty of finding space for them. IC . 1) t _I P rxAi 0+ LONDON, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1858. POSTSCRIPT. LAST NIGHT'S DEBATE. HOUSE OF LORDS. ROYAL ASSENT. The Royal assent was given by commission to the Oaths Rill, the Jew Bill, and a long series of public and private measures. SIARRIAGF. WITH A DECEASF.D WIFE'S SISTER. The second reading of the Marriage Law Amend ment Bill was moved by Viscount GAGE. Lord REDESDALE, in opposing the measure, argued at much length against the proposed legalization of marriage with a deceased wife's sister. Lord Lrsnistntsr supported the bill. In the discussion which ensued, and which turned chiefly upon arguments for and against the scriptural prohibition of the unions in question, Earl Nelson, Lord Cranworth, Lord Wodehouse, Earl Granville, the Bishop of Ripon, and Lord Overstone defended the bill, while Lord Dungannon, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Oxford, the Bishop of Exeter, and the Bishop of Lincoln opposed it. Their lordships divided on the motion for second reading : Contents 22 Non Contents 46 The bill is consequently rejected. The Reformatory Schools (Ireland) Bill was read a second time. The Government of India Bill was read a third time and passed. The Sale and Transfer of Land (Ireland) Bill was also road a third time and passed. Their lordships then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS. ELECTION CORRUPTION. At the early sitting of the house, tho Corrupt Practices Prevention Act Amendment Bill was brought up for consideration, as amended in com mittee. Some further modifications in the clauses were pro posed, and the discussion was still proceeding when the time arrived for suspending business. lIECRUITS TO INDIA. In the evening, replying to a question from Mr. EViLIIT, Lord STANLEY stated that since February reinforce ments had been sent to India to the number of 17,000 men. The Government were quits aware of the importance of striking some decisive blow for the suppression of revolt in that country, during the next cold season, and were making preparations accordingly. THE RIGHT OF SEARCH. Mr. C. FORTESCUR, who had given notice of a motion on the subject of the right of search and r•isitation, as exercised upon ships suspected of slave trading, briefly remarked upon the importance of the subject, hoping that the Government would explain the course they intended to adopt, and the issue of their investigations on the subject with the United States, before the Close of the session. Mr. S. FITZGERALD deprecated premature discus sion upon a question of such extreme delicacy. The correspondence with the United States was ►till pro THE PRE S, JULY 24, It#oBi- (seeding, but he hoped that the rest* wpOd prcve altogether satisfactory. INDIA. Mr. V. Sum' inquired whether any statement ' specting the financial position of ludia would be made during the present session, and also whether the Government intended to explain the course they designed to pursue with regard to the conduct of military operations for the suppression of the still existing revolt. As the administration of India was about to pass from the Company to the Crown, be recommended her Majesty's Ministers to take the opportunity for proclaiming this transfer with fitting solemnity throughout that empire. Lord STANLEY said that no statement of the Indian finances would be given to Parliament, since nothing definite could be ascertained on that subject under the present condition of disturbance. The transfer of sovereignty in India would be proreulgatsid with such formalities as the Government might deen ex pedient, after carefully considering the point'sillich was of most importance. The change, he °Widened, would not actually take place under the bill now before Parliament until thirty days aftT it had become law. rel. RIGHT OF SEARCH. 70V/ In reply to Lord PALMERSTON, I ln • 4 The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER elpfalied the position of the question reapectiug the right of search. No concession had been made either by England or America. The United States Govern ment, iu the most friendly manner, had asked the English Government to submit a proposal calculated in their opinion to put matters upon a proper footing, A plan was under consideration which he hoped would effectually secure the .discouragement of the slave trade, and the removal for the future of all causes of dispute between the two countries. CIVIL SERVICE (IRELAND) BILL. On the motien for the third reading of this bill the house divided. For, 83 ; against, 54-23. The bill was then read a third time and paotd. The Metropolis Local Management of Amend ment Bill was reported with the amendments, and ordered to stand for the third reading this day (Saturday) ). The Probate and Letters of Administration Act Amendment Bill was read a second time, es was the Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act Amendment Bill. The adjourned debate on the Corrupt Practices Prevention Act Continuance Bill was then resumed, and chiefly occupied the remainder of the sitting. The house afterwards adjourned until twelve o'clock to-day. (I , :4 , ihrt The Neapolitan Government, which is usually very sparing of its diplomatic publications, has adopted another course in the affair of the Cagliari. It has despatched a document to the various European legations containing the English test and Italian translation of the opinions given by the English Crown lawyers, with comments and refuta tions. Seven of these opinions proceed from the Palmerston Cabinet, ail three from that of Lod Derby. The document seeks to confute the argtv ments employed by the Attorney, - -General, Sir Fitz.' roy Kelly, who maintained the illegality of the' capture of the Cagliari. The document also tries to maintain the legality of the refusal given to the application of the English engineers to confer with, their consul. ~.,1, STATE OF THE SERPENTINE. Os Thursday evening a public mauling was held at the Cadogan Institute, Sloane-street, Chelsea, in fur therance of measures for the correction of the long complained-of evils and nuisance connected with the Serpentine, in consequence of its alleged stagnant and dangerous state. Mr. Heywood, late M.P. for North Lancashire, was called to the chair. The CHAIRMAN, in opening the proceedings, said the state of the Serpentine was certainly 11103‘ dan. gerous, not only to bathers, but to the general inha bitants of its locality. As far as the danger to bathers was concerned, the state of the mud in it was such as to defy the appliances of the Royal Humane Society in a recent case to rescue a drown. ing man before life was extinct. He thought that those who partook of the healthy exercise of bathing in the river were entitled to every precaution for their safety, and that measures should be immediately taken for this purpose. Mr. entered at lielnler4ength into the exertions which had 'been made Miring the last ten years to procure the improvement of the Serpentine, and bore testimony to the danger attending upon bathing in it. It was an undoubted fact• that a very large number of individuals have lest their lives while bathing in that river front becoming immersed in the mud at its bottom, so say nothing of the eyil ari.ing from its foul and stagnant state. Dr. COYLLAND moved the first resolution, effect Ott the peetkiati could uot r but axpre T disappointrnent that the necessary measures F.e hitherto been employed, the Serpentine still tinning in its former dangerous condition. He safely speak to the evils arising from the complained of, believing, as he did, that diseases as ague, catarrh, low and intermittent bowel complaints, and the like, were extremelr prevalent among those in the habit'of bathing ' river, or taking exercise near its banks. He , opinion that one of the chief causes of the pallor . countenance and loss of health, at this period of Ult. year, amongst the wealthy classes who take exercise in the vicinity of the Serpentine, was the • impure state of that river. He thought th, sanitary point of view it was of the utmost wee that some renialial measure should be adopted without delay: r • • Dr. LAsictstialt iiiitionded the **l:elution, contend. ing that the tlifeetiotr leas not a local one but that it effected the whole Community, int as those who bathed in the river came from different parts of th• Metropolis, and the park likewi.,e; which it is situated whs frequented by a streat num. ber of others than .those who live in its vicinity. He also entered at some length into the physical evils arising frum the present, and for some Fast, itnpure state of the river. The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. S. C. HALL moved the second resolution That this meeting would again urge upon the ment, o, the sionista ground ofsinertasing the.' and beauty or the park and promating the safely ! healthy enjoyment of the bathers,. that the deep, the Serpentine should be filled up, that tho bed river should be reduced to a depth ranging from four feet at the western end to eight or ten feel a, eastern end, that it should be comparatively shallow: of graduated depth fur sew distal*, in, all along e abore.and, that the supply of wate; . 41puld be stifficiert... ismconsed to bring the cascade 14* Ivirtgr end of the lake intp ttunstant _ urge • ori s !t RIP qt:t3 4, lie at putting a stop to tii7,Thls ootnined of, in that the lives of the 200,000 persons who averaged to bathe in the river during the months should not be longer endangered, salubrity of the neighbourhood plaoed in jeopardy Dr. TILT seconded the motion, which was carried nem. con. Dr. PErrionew moved the next 40solntion. the effect that the meeting was of *Mon better mode Of dlotinslitg - or levelling the tine, and of obtaining the neces , ery enlarged of water, could or need be devised than has adopted, and which has answered so admit Si. James's Park. lie w4p, Able, to spgak from sonal experience of the adessittgea amino to th habitants of the latter place and its ueighbourl from the imptnvements.effecte..il jails piece of He hoped to sea similar maasureeAppedily out is regard to the Serpentine., 1.1 t;.! ti • Mr. LILWAJL supported thee_ impoilf till* -- reply to an objection which -hadrilisem.e urged cleansing the Serpentine from thitedlinger errentovirg rdie mud, said it would not be necessary to remove mud, if, as Le suggested, the water were drained 'lmd after the mud became hard the bottom were vered with gravel and concrete. The motion was carried, and a deputation appointed to wait upon the Chief Committsioner Woods and Forests, to lay betbre hint.theviews t h e meet i ng. .lett. to .. -13 ad letn9ct. war . .t., • ' N PAW 9it .rmulnornus Pot - 71) •-••- • • A:6lixturt Couscit. was 11W On Ttievlay, official residence of the Chancellor (If the Exci in Downing-smet. The Ministers present WI The Earl of Derby, the nigh!, Hon. it. Diprael Marquis of SaTisbuty, the Earl of Hardwick , Bight Rog,Spekcer NVl4pole, the Earl of Ma bury, Sii.c guliver Lytton, General Peel, Sir Pakington, Lord Stanley, the Right Hop, Henley, .and Lard .Id4l Mannett' e, )35A ;; 1 „ Tars EARL Nztaoit•Alid so ismaisotries4i, of Derby on Tualatin! 644110111‘41,110110r Dovraiscetatit.' , l, .1 - • ' A Itinstutieeds, itift 4 661 4 160 BeecrOkM P. sAit 6ilefisting of 11/W: Mr. Christopher Heads, and Mr. Charles Nal' an interview ou Tuesday - with the 'pelt 1 Sotherou Estdoeclig mot Pt fibef,'Pour* Eosin!. - To to 1111.1 - Tits Loan 86n6.11 1 0# 1 toNnol i llgVi r ppointed Travel:li •Tivi lirtlee' of ChiAlrellor cliocespll e o Cffhti*ltiinearziett Right Froti. r. ttis ecin't(PMffillgeship Court of Appeal of Ail' CsineirburY , TRII•EART, OF Mawr, On the reeollemendetion Mr. Retire:W(lol,mnd, M.P., has placed Mr..l. 1 Lindsey, eleetrioiam, an the Literary. pad Scientatii Pension List for 11)01. per annum. .c4Rlll4l' 11, to the via, its hit 4 not ill c on . le could causes it Stich lt fever areruely g in th e e was of tailor of d of the exercise present hat in a import. adopted contend. merely, lagmuch d Otero* nwi,ie rat num. vicinity, physical me time 'dun Govern- salanroy y and Cite p pits is ed of the three to et et the 1110 W, and .)sig either tfficier tly the lalke at onca 1,9 order ho were summer and the ppardy. rae also Rion, to that no Serpen- d vas been irably, in from per to the in. bourbood of watt i r. r Car* emir se aged to removing novo the ,fined a, weft 00 ti6teeds over of riots of r, at the :cheqtter were : sell, the oke, the Malmes- Sir John D. J. W. the Earl coda 111 by - Mr. Weston, Oor, had Hon. T. Our• Law nted r of An at of the p of the 1**,14 6 f 1,64; . await : a balto 41 710