The Sun. — London, England, 1858-07-24 00:00:00

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St. Lon. &B. G. 5 pc. No 1 Do. , P., 5 p, c. St. N 0.2 I Do. New Guar. 6p. c. Do. do. 5 p. c., N 0.4 Lon. & N.W., Coy. & Nuneaton 5 r . ct... Lon. & S. NV. 7 per ct. 110 • 115 103 103 115 - 118 115 - 117 132 - 134 79 - 81 63 -- 66 1119 - 121 112 - 114 105 - 107 65 - t 7 11 - 13.4 90 81 -- 83 82 -- 84 -- 98 9 -- 10 16 -- 17 9i -- lni 72 -- 74 18 -- 19 9 -- 91 13i -- 1 40 -- 142 late 3d Shares Loudy.& Color. Sh Londy.&Ennis. Sh. )41., S.,&L. 6 p.... Do. do. do. £6 Cent. Do. do. 34 per cent. I`.larypt. &Carl. 4 p.c. Do. 4i per cent Do. do. Consol. 6 p. c. St. Da.Con.Br.l3ir.6 p.c. Do. 44 p. c. Pref. St. Do. L. &11. Pref. St.' New., Aber., &c., pr 5 p.c.red. 5 la. c. Do. Perpet. U pr. et. gorfk.Deb.4 p.c. Sh. Do. 5 p. c. Ext. 1840,, Do. 54 p.c. pf 1817. Do. Wv. V.sp. North British 1160 - 185 122 - 124 i - 68 - 70 St. lul 12t St. St. 139 - 141 102 - 101 92 - 94 Do. 71. Vreference N. E. Berw. 4 p. c. Do. do. do !Do. Leeds 6 pe. No. 1 ;Do. do. Qrs., 1848 Do. York 11. & S. Pur (North Staffordshire Ox., Wor. & Wolv. 6 p.c., let guar. Do. 6 p. c. 2d guar._ Do. do. Debeatr. St. Scot. Ceut.Ncw Pref Sc.N.E.Alßer.g.6p.c. Do. do. 7 p.c. pf. St. Do. d 0.3 p.c. pf. St South Devon Do. fixed 4A pr cent S. Eastern (Reading Ann.) of £1 Os. 6d Do, 4A per cent Do. Fixed 4A p.c. Sh Do. New 4A pr. cent IS. Wales Gua. 4 p. 0 i Do. do. 4i p. c . 'S.Yorksh.4 p.c.Guar. Stock. &Dar., s p. c. Do, do. do. lVatorfd&liilk. 6 pc. ••• - i • 114 - i 8i - 9i Dios Ili 97 99 i }a 2i - 34 64 - 1001 1151 16 123 25 20 St. St. St. st. St. BRITISH POSSESSIONS. Atian. and St. La.w. Bombay, Baroda, and Cen. I nd, guar. 5 p. c. Do. Do. Additional A Buffalo & Lake Ilur. Buff. ' Brut& Godch. 6 p.c.bds., 1 Aug.,'7l. Do. do., 1 July, '7: - ; Do. do., 1 June, '74 Calcutta and S. East. Central Oude (Lim Ceylon A shares Demerara . Eastern Bengal East Indian Do. C Shares Do. E. do. ........ D 0.4 p.c.Bnds.,'st Geelong & Melbourne) guar. 5 per cent. Gd. Trunk. of Canada Do. 6 p. c. Dcben Gt, In. Pen. g. 5 pert Do. New. guar. 5 p.c. Gt. Wostn. of Canada Do. New 1031 D pra e ; '8 t alLb iiSC°ll. fr °l3 l DOP 3 LO P n tr f lree bel l 6 IPWOOlre gal 3 f th ;2s6d d the 1r a ,g, all Do. fide., payable '571 Do. do., '76, p. '60... Do. do., '73, do. . ' Do. do., '73, witho.t; 25 10 L 0.6 uR• option Madras, guar. 4:3 p.e 1 Do. do., 5 per C. Do. 4i p. c. Eaten.' Do. 3d Ex., g. sp.e. Do. 4th Ex., do, Oude (Limited) Seinde, guar.., per 0 Do. ad — i S:IJ a d -- ad 7i -- tql 181 -- 88 75 -- 80 74 -- 78 St. St. St. St. ••• - T . 23 - 24 - 121 - 107 - 100 119 -- 121 125 -- )27 74 -- 76 10i -- 'Li 233 - 243 101 - 193 101 - 103 i 6 14 28 - 28 4 - lA tied for so long a period, be it therefore enacted that the children of parents married as aforesaid shall be and con tinue legitimate, unless a suit be duly instituted for an nailing the marriage of their parents within two years." The circumstance which led him to introduce that bill was the marriage of a noble lord of high rank who was a member of that house. His attention was drawn to the children and the succession of the eldest son, and the re sult was, as in many other cases, that a particular in stance of hardship led to a general alleviation in the state of the law. The bill was read a second time without op position, leing generally approved by their lordships ; but between the first and the second readings, a right rev, prelate, for whose memory he entertained great re swat, and who possessed great influence in that house, owing to his position, his talents, and his masterly elo quence, had a conversation with him and a noble and learned friend of his now in the north on the subject, in whistle he declared that be entirely disapproved of the bill, and that in his opinion all such marriages ought to be de clared void, observing that parties would then know wbat wan the law, and if they committ e d an offence against it they would take the consequences. The conse quences were that in committee the whole character of the b:ll was entirely changed. By whom these amend ments were moved he did not recollect. The new title of the bill was as follows :—" An act to render certain mar riages valid, and to alter the law with respect to certain voidable marriages." It was enacted that all marriages which should thereafter be celebrated between persons within the prohibi ed degrees should ipso facto be void, not merely voidable. By another clause it was provided that unless proceedings were instituted for the purpose of annulling past marriages before the passing of the bill, no proceedings whatever should ever he instituted. Such was tire history of the bill ; such was the result of the aonsultation with the right rev, prelate of whom he had before spoken. On rising he stated that it was not his intention to enter into the general question, and he still meant to abstain from doing so. There were some circumstances, however, with which he was acquainted, to which, as they had some bearing on the question, he would for a moment advert. He was inti mately acquainted with the state of society in a district of New England ; he alluded to the s t a t e o f Maesachus sette, of which the city cf Boston was the capital. He had several near conw-xions there, and he would under take to say that there was not in any part of the cit i lised world a people more intelligent, more moral, and particularly more moral as regarded the intercourse cf the sexes, than the people of the state to which be re ferred, and yet in that state the marriages in gee tion were not only legal but cf constant occurrence. (Hear.) Now, he did not for a moment mean to ray that a law which produced no ill effect in one state of society might not produce ill effects ire another state of society, a state of society with different habhe and different mariners. He stated as a witness the fact to which he had re ferre ', and he left it to noble lords who might take part in the dismission to draw the inference from that fact. He thought he had not done amiss in alluding to the state of society in another country, and he felt sure that what he had said on that subilct would have due weight with their lordships. (Hear.) Earl NELSON thought a fair interpretation of the chapter in Leviticus, which had been so often referred to, wan to be arrived at solely by the simple process of analogy. Without that they would lie led to the most absurd conclusions. For example, in the chapter in question, while there was a law against adultery and ether deuces, there was no prohibition of a man marry ing his own daughter. The prohibition was arrived at by analogy, a sou's marrying his mother being expressly prohibited. It a mere omieeien were relied upon, it might, be said that though a man might not covet his neigh. hour's wife, a wife might covet her neighbour's husband, the latter offence: not being protileitei along with the former. (dear.) The example of protestant Germany was re!iel upon by the advocates of the hill. Teat ex =- pie would carry them farther, and lead to still greater rel.x itione. Aa regarded the moral ground, he denied ti at morality would be promoted by passing this Lill, because some persons were living in a state of wicked ness. The hilt was not in reality, as many represented it to be, a bill in which the lower cles4es were e peciaby interested. It was a b.d the chief el j set of which was to legitimise children, an I the lowt r cia,see, having scarcely any property, cared but little about the mett,r. He was toe find r f religious liberry to feel himself bound tolegis !ate by the rule of the Church, but if is a matter of this kind every man was to be left to his own individual opinion where were they to stop ? Greer ) It was we ll known that the agitation for this measure was got up by a olive, a liti t xpeeded a great deal of money t i carry their views into effect. Of the r, ligioue t relies the Brwe fists were the only persuasion who petiiitmed in any numbers in favour of the bill. Tim Pre.-byterians of Sc° layer tl.' c rj o d u a n n t r d y, jf I we r t e se k s p o d, o p a p nd os e t d h e t oßiotua thatn C: t;. l l,o ey 1 i w c s e r o e i e t he x emptied fruits its operatioo. (Hear.) He hoped their lordships would re j- et the measure. Vt-c unt DUNGANNON said ire opposed the second reading because he le bayed it world destroy the social intercourse and pi - ,ace cf families, and introduce distrust, where there now existed nothing but con fidenceand affec tion. He did not think that these marriages were di rectly prohibited in Scripture ; but f .r the reason he had stated, he implored their lordships not to aesAit to the seemed reading. (Hear.) .. The Royal assent was given, by commission, to the following bills :—Funded D.bt, Hainault Forest (Allot ment'of Commons), Durham County Palatine Juriadic• tiGn, New General Post-offics (alinurgh), Navigation Advances (Ireland), Prescription (Ireland), Munioip d Franchise, Universities and Colleges Estates, Militia Ballot Suspension ; Churches, &a (Ireland) ; Confirma tion (..f Executors, &c., Ecclesiastical Corporations LenAng ; Nisi Prins Court, &c. (Ireland) ; Stanbape and Welsingham Rectories, Law of False Pretences Amendment, Jews' Oaths, Marriages (Moscow, Tahiti, &c ), Joint-stock Companies Amendment Acts, Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction Continuance, Charit ;dole Trusts Act Continuance, Copyhold and Enclosure Com missioners (Indemnity), Dublin and Meath Railway, Ilesketh Marsh, Devon Valley, Brkenhead Improve ment Commissioners (Gas and Water), Oford, Worces ter, and Wolverhampton Railway, Windsor New Road, Newport, Abergaveuny, and Hereford Railway, Cry stal Palace District Gas, Whitehavon Junction Rail way, Lancaster and Carlisle Railway (No. 2), Chester and Holyhead Railway, London and North-Western Railway (additional works), St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, Parish, Stockton, Middlesborough, and Yarmc uthWater, North Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway, Ssvern Valley Railway (Extension of Time), Manchester Junction, Athenry and Tuam Railway, Manchester, Sheffiell, and Lincolnshire and Great Northern Railway Companies, East Kent Railway (Western Extension), Formartine and Buchan Railway, Shrewsbury and Weichpool Rail way, East Suffolk, Yarmouth, and Haddi , ccs and Lowestoft and Beccles Railway Companies Amalgama tion, Cleveland Railway, Stockton an,l Darlington Rail way (Durham Lines), Stockton and Darline,ton Rail. way (North Riding Lines), Stockton and Darlirgton and 'Wear Valley, &c., Railway Companies Amalgama tion, Victoria Station and Pimlico Railway, Hove um provement, North Briti-h and Altrincham Rail way (No. 2), Redditch Railway, Westminster Palace Hotel Company, Earl of Fife's Estate, Sir B2rjamin Hall's Estate, and Holroyd's Estate. The Royal Commmissioners were the Lord Chancel lor. Lord St. Leonards, and Lord Cran worth. Their lordships adjaurned during plaasure. The LORD C}L&NC2LLOR took his seat on the wool sack at five o'clock. Petitions in favour cf the legalisation of marriage with a deceased wife's sister were presented by Lord Ebury, Viscount Torrington, Lord Gige, and Lord Wrottesley. -- d 1021 -- 104 IP 17 18 37 38 72 75 20a —20 i id par 17f —17 A, 3 3 - 3,12,1 ;106 - 110 ;103 - 110 103 -- 106 174 -18 i 194 -- 20 lid -- ljd d d g d id par 1021 38 71 81 75 4 204 3j FOREIGN. 10 all Antwrp &Rotterdam 51 5i 20 all Ardennes .•• ••• 20 3 Bahia & Francisco lid par 5 all Belgian East. Janet — 11 20 all Beziers to Graissessac ... ... . 6 all Carineaux&Toulouss Coal Mines and Ry. 21 2i 20 15 Dutch Rhenish 20 all Eastern of France - 251 20 2s. Euphrates Valley 20 all Gt. 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New ••• ••• 50 25 Nationa.ll3ank ... _ . se.. 20 all New South Wales ..•• ... _ ... 25 all Oriental Bank Corp 37 33 371 7 20 all Ottoman Bank 1 161 17 161 100 25 Provincial of Ireland i6l 63 611 2 10 all ••• ... 2to 25 all New 1 astralia Do. South N 25 I 15 , Do. Nov 25 I all Union of Australia...! ... ••• 53 21 .. 15 Do. NOW 50 10 Union of London .00 1 50 Unity Mutual i s 00 1 00 Totraßk of Lola 19 = 17d 40 - 45 0 II origin of the human race was from a mixture of blood, • such as people would now regard with horror, and as the worst form of incest. The sin of incest, therefore , me t e not be regarded as a sin against nature, bat a prohibi t Von of divine wisdom and love to the race of mac, in order from '.this prohibition to draw blessings upon 1 the race at large, which, but forahis prohibition, would • not have been given. If this was •the true view it fol • lowed that it was in the power of the Supreme Lawgiver ) for a sufficient advantage, at a ' particular time 'to enact • that which was contrary to His ordinary loving enact ; ment for the race, in order that at a particular time come particular result, which he saw would bee for the good of the race, might be accomplished.:-thet special object in the case referred to being to keep aleais the line • of descent ,through which the Messiah was to be called. The command in that case to raise up seed to the dead brother was a supercession by the Supreme Lawgiver for certain manifest purposes of the law which He was pleased to lay down as the rule for the g eneral welfare of His creatures. (Hear.) - The noble ord said that it seemed to be the general opinion that the religious argu ment was abandoned. •He denied that. For himself— and he believed he might also venturatolay it 'f,r his right rev. brethren—he said that they took heartily and ers.animo the declaration of the church • that. such mix tures were contrary to God's law, were incestuous, and therefore void from the beginning. They grounded this not only on the chapter of Leviticus, but on the New Testament legislation ou the subject. It was a mistake to say that the main strain of the scriptural argument rested on a single text in Leviticus. As far as he remem bered the debates on this subject, that text had always been used by the advocates for a change in the law as being a text which shook the rest of the scriptural argu ment. The soripturalargument from the Old Teaaereet rested mainly on the early part of the chapter referred to, from the 6th to the 16:h verse.- The noble viscount bad stated that it was very doubtful whether there was any al'ueicn in those verses to marriage at all ; .he con tended that it rather referred to what. might occur i n private life ;. and. rested..thia view on the 'interpretation of one wordlu.the Septuagintand the Vulgate. The most conclusive way of ascertaining what the word Meant was by inquiring what was the interpretation ptit upon it by the .commentators of that church who drew up the Vulgate. Not one of them put upon it the inter pretation contended for by the noble visceuzits They all put upon it the interpretation that it was the proin blisn of marriage between those who were nearly con nected by the ties ( f blood or affinity. The Septuagint version used a word which hal always been taken in the Eastern Church as meaning the mixture by marriage of those who, whether by blood or affinity, were in near relationship. Going up to a higher authority, there was not the shadow of a doubt about the word used in the 'Hebrew ; and tke English version was as near as pos sible an exact translation of the Hal sew words—" None of you shall approach to any that is near of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness. lam the Lord." This being so, the argument remained as it bad been urged by the noble earl, that whether related by blood or by parallel degrees of affinity, those marriages were distinctly for bidden.to the Jews by the Old Testament. But they argued this mat er on far too narrow a basis, ky thus wrangling over particluer texts in which the law was laid down to the people of God cf old. Could there be any reasonable doubt that the whole course of God's legislation . hal been to introduce new measures of strictness, instead • of relaxation, in dealing with the married lif s, (Hear, hear.) Just as He had in teeded to rates a people in ths Peale of civilisation — just as He had increased to them His religious guidance and assistance—just so far bad. He strengthened the lew in thom things which referred to the intercourse of the two sexes. Every one could - see a reasonable ground for that. It was in order to promote such a state of society in the Cerietian church that men and women suet with such a degree of freed :ne, safety and mutual affecti in, as could only he secured by laws which re ttra'ned sexual intercourse beyond what it had been before. If, es 'n Eespt of old, where the detestable (leen ine of Isis allowed brothers and sisters to contract marriage, this system had continued, there would have been an end to teat frecelem of intercourse between me:nbers of the same family which preveiled in every Christian land, where this roost henecoleot restraint of the law of God had substituted higher feelings for the lower animal affecti us. (Hear, beer.) When our blessed Lord laid it down as a principle that man and wife should be one flesh he a, Iced all those difficult cues' ions which men might raise as to particular degrees of relationship. The law as it etood Lad always pre varied in Christendom ; it had been held both by the Church in the east and the west. Let him !let leo told that the Roman Catholic Church silo eel dis pensations for those marriage,. What did pled not allow dispensations fur? (Hear, hear.) On, behalf of the reformed church of England, which it was his happiness and glory to belong to, tee must declare that ruch were Ent the Lotions of marriage which were held by the ref >mere of the Eugli Is Church. It at a one of our great blessings that we had been breught tack from that system of dispensation to what had been held in primitive times as the undoubted word of the law of God. And who was the particular Roman pontiff who had introduced this change ? It was the infamous Borgia --a man who, under vows of celibacy and sanctity, was more than suspected to be living in ehamelees incest ; he greeted tho se dispensations under the colourable pretext of enlarging - the power of the Remieh see, which had never before claimed the power of dispensing with mar , r ageP. The voice el the Eastern Church and the Wes tern Church, and the unbroken testimony of the early church, Owe ad that this was the true interpretation of the Word of God, and that it probibt ted these mix tures. Thera ire it was with no hesitating voice that he and his right reverend brethren who thought with him put forward the scriptural and religious argument that these marria.: 7 es were incestuous and contrary to the law of Gcd. Upon the social argument he- would not trouble their lord-hips nt length. The noble vis count had attributed the disliko of English females to the relaxation of the constitutional jealousy of the female mind. He denied this imputation, and believed that it' was the natural des're c.f a woman on her deatbi ed that her children should be provided with a suitable protector. The real reason was this—God bad given to the two sexes different intellec'.ual advantages : to oars, the power of arriving at a true conclusion by reasoning; to their's, the power of arriving ateit by intuition, which was always in favour of that w hich was purest and best. It was not the least argument against this measure that the great niajeriiy of educated women were against it. From inquiry in his diocese, he found that there only three of these marriages had been contracted, and those not amongst the poor, with whom motives of economy might have prevailed, but amongst the middle class. If they once relaxed the existing marriage law they must go much further then this bill. He implored them, by rejecting it, to preserve the purity of our English homes. In many cases sisters were enabled to live with their married sisters solely on the account of the impossi bility of these alliances. Ho asked the house on the mere ground of humanity to protect these families ; for no unmarried woman could ever dwell as the guardian of her deceased sister's children if the law allowed of her marrying the husband. Where there was a doubt whether the blessing of the Redeemer would rest on these marriages, it was a part of humanity no les e s kn tha o of faith to refuse to sanction such unions.. He rt w n: ledged that the framers of the bill had shown due co sideration fir the consciences of the clergy. Could he conscientiously have done so, he would have gladly met them half way on this question of incest , but the law of God was paramount. Earl GRANVILLE questioned the statement of the rev. prelate, that irxest was not a sin against nature, but against positive enactment. How was it th a t it did no t prevail where it was not forbidden by positive en actment ? This was a question on which the; house oaght to be guided by the requirements of the public. The opinion of the middle and lower classes was de cidedly in favour of these marriages. He denied that , the women were ge nera ll y opposed to the change. He I toned those who had contracted such marriages a though now illegal, were perfectly, well received in their own circles. (Hear, hear.) There was a case in Leeds where a lady who kept a girls' school, which was well sup ported, had married the husband of her deceased sister, and not a single child had been removed from the school. No doubt these marriages were eammon in popultus places, and even in rural districts. The Rev. Mt. Den• ham, the rector of St. Mary's, in the Strand, st a t e d th a t be had known of man y such marriages, and they hal invariably been attended with beneficial results. Refer ence had been made to the apostolical canon, but the right rev. prelate forgot that that canon forbade the marriage of priests. The Bishop of RIPON said that Wants his misfortune to differ from many of his right rev..brethren on this question. There was no direct scriptural. prohibition of these marriages ; and the argument; nern inference was of a very doubtful character. He believed that Scripture sanctioned these marriages ; and be should thezefere support the bill. . He denied that the measure would produce the social evils that had been anticipated. Why bad it not done so in the countries where this law prevailed ? There had been only 300 petitions presented to the other house against the measure, signed by 10,000 persons ; while there had been 1,047 petitions in its favour, signed by 123,000 persons. He knew of one town where there had been 500 of these marriages. Believing that Scripture directly sanctioned theae unions he should vote for, the second reading of the Lill (Rear.) The Bishop of EXETER expressed surprise at hear ing this declaration from a bishop, and reminded him that the law r f the Church of England declared these merriaees to be irceetuous, and forbidden by thelaw of God. (Hear, bear.) If any clergyman bad made such a declaration irom the pulpit as that of the right rev. pre late he would at once have been called to account by a s faithful bishop—if he bad a faithful bishop. (.sear4 This was the law of the Church of England, b .a e i ca ra u e s d e to bad been that of early times ; the Chur ch claimed be the catholic church of EnglarA bill' itself did ,parified from the corruptions of Romish times. Th,e, , rev, prelate. not go so far as the declaration of the reeet ,4ofues; It only 1,-galiked these marriages iu . a registrar but thi s provision was inconsistent with one ccntained in ma married under this bill a eubaqueet clause. of the minister was to opply to a faithf l u t l a m inister for admission tic the Holy Cotouitthion, it would be the d uty _ to tell him he was living in am, and consequently could not be admitted t) pertake ef a sacrament which he had learned to believe necessary to salvation. Lard OVELISTONE hoped he had misunderstood the right rev. prelate ; if not, he stood before their-lordships al a man who could not be admitted to the most holy sacrament. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY could not agile with the nt hie vi .count that the,,e marriages were Lot prohibited in Scripture. Viscount DUNGANNON—I said not directly pro hibited. The Archbishop a CANTERBURY—It was dis tinctly laid down that the brother vas not to merry the widow of his deceased brother, and by the rule of analogy the Lusba•,d of a deceased sister ought to be prohibited from marrying her rister. On social as well as on reli gious grounds he thought they ought not to legalise these marriages. Lord GRAN_ wished to state in a few words the group thought this measure would be inisebieeoue to the country. He looked at the question abstracted from the religious view altogether, about which he bad not sufficient cos fidence to express a decided opinion. Surely one cf the most important interests to be cultivated in marriage life was that there should be unlimited freedom of intercourse bete een the wife and the wife's sisters. (Hoar.) Toe husband was neces sarily often withdrawn from home, and it was of the ut most importance to the social and domestic happiness of the wife that her own sisters should be her temilier com panions. Now, disguise it as they might, the wife could not receive them with the same cordiality if the suspi cion crossed her mind that the sister might supply her place if it pleased Providence to call ner cut of this world. (Hear.) It had been s :id that no one would make SO good a stepmother to the children as the sister of the deceased wife. He might doubt that, but if this bill passed ho A was the sister to take charge of the children without creating suspicion and giving occasion to re mark Whether he looked to the interests of society before nr after the wife's death, he thought this measure would tend to impair those interests. Bet he was per fectly aware that what was a desirable state of the law for the upper claviree of society might be undesirable for the lower. If that were so, what they should do was to strike a balance and see on which side the prepender ance of good and evil was to he found. But iu makieo such an estimate they ought to be much on their guard that they did not legislate for that class of coo:hely to which they themselves belonged. But he did not believe that the interests of the lower ranks of society were different in this matter from those of the upper, and that was shown by the distinction made in favour of Ireland and Scotland Was it meant that in the rural districts of England there was an inclination to marry a wife's sister. He appealed to their lordships' experience in this matter. It these marriages were to be permitted because the law was sometimes violated, they might on the same ground le galise bigamy. He had no doubt hi , noble and learned friend had truly described the state of morals in Massa chusetts, where these marriages were permitted, but he believed if they passed this bill, that they would s anction a measure which would be found to be at variance with the interests of this community. (Hear.) Lord WODEHOUSE said that the question had been argued on two grounds—the religious and . e tas,s w e social. eht With reeard to the religious ground much_ 1 s, emed to be given to it on that tha n on forinerocca sions. He had no confidence in his o wn interpretation of obscure texts of Scripture, but the obvious interpretation of the often quoted verse in Levidcus seemed to him to ha that the husband was not to t a ke the sister of his wife in marriage during the lifetim e of the wife. (Hear.) The opponents of the measure had been driven bit by bit from that ground. But the rev. prelate took another I ground, and said that there was a prohibition of two brothers marrying the same woman, and that by ana logy two sisters ought not to marry the same man. There was plausibility in the argument, but if these marriages were incestuous—for that was the ground of the argument—how came it that in the same book a die tinct injunction wasgiven to marry twobrothere? (Hear.) H e o .old not consent to supposition that God in this instance commanded a positive injunction to violate hia own hie, for such a hypothesis seemed to him to be de rogatory to divine wisdom. On the social view of the question every man might entertain his own view, but his view was that the l aw oug h t to be relaxed. In'BOF ton, where these marriages were permitted, no such in• convenient and horrible consequences a, had been de scribed by the noble. lord (Rehesdale) had followed front the permis s i on t o marry a deceased wife ' s sister. In Roman Catholic countries these marriages might take place by dispensation, and in most Protestant countries they a ere allowed. There appeared to him to be strong grounds in favour of the relaxation which the bill pro posed. It had b een sa id t h at grea t i nconven i ence wou ld arse in the relation between the wife and her sister if the bill passed. The ans ver to that was that the prohibition had not got rid of the inconvenience, for it could not be denied that there was a large number of persons in this country who wore either married to their wife's sister, or, what was still wcree, lived with them in a state of coecabinage. Per these reasons he thought a good case had been made out in favour of the second reading of the bill. (Hear.) The Bishop cf OXFORD said that having on a former occasion argued a length in favour of what he considered • to he the true view of this question, he had no cease ion to trouble their lordships with many remarks at the pre sent time. But oneor two remarks made by the noble lord who had just spoken Seemed to require some answer. The noble lord referred to the particular injunction in Dec ' teronorny. that a brother should marry the wife cf his de ceased brother, under certain circumstances. If that ar• gement was worth anything, it proved too much. It proved too much for this reason, that no cue urged that it I would bs consistent with the purity of Christian life that a man should now marry the wife of his own brother. I. was admitted by the common sense of Christendom that • that would be intolera \ ile. To g:ve a clear answe r to the • argument of the noble lord would rake thorn upon delicate ground, upon which he had rather riot enter ; yet it was The r to answer the argument of the noLle lord. answer seemed to be this, that incestuous intercourse was not a sin against nature, but against positive enactment. It must be r emembered tbat by Divine appointment the .20 71 'Australian 1 10s.1Bon Accord Cop. (li. ) 3 Bpl 1 35 27 Brazilian I Lap. (issue 1 at .C 5 pm) 30 all Do. Cocaes & Cuiada ... ... 20 15 Do. St. John Del Rey 11 12 1 1 Clarendon Con. Min. Co. of Jamaica „fl 40 all Cobre Copper 4O 42 ... 16 Copiapo 1 all Dun Mountain Cop , per Mining Co. 1 i 2 all Fortuna 20 all General 3 all Linares 5 11 Lusitanian 1 all Mariquita 1 all New Granada ii I I all Noveau Monde 20 all Pont.Sil.LdM.& &nit 5 7 5 l Port Philip A - I 30 16/ Santiago de Cüba all United Mexican 31 31 MISCELLA.NEOTTS. 1000 1000 Atlantic Tel. (Lira.) ; ... -- ... 25 19 Australian Agricult. 29 30 293 1 10 all Australn. Royal Mail 1 ••.• 11 10 I all IBerlin NV ater Works. 31 41 10 1 2 ;Do. New iss. at Si. d ... ... 50 40 (Brit. Americ a n L an d ... ... 100 321 Canada lll5 120 St. 100 Do.Go.6pc.Jan&Julylll3 114 1131 1 3 St. all Copper Min, of Eng. 125 30 25 all Do. Pref. 74 p. cent. 125 27 5 all Crystal Palace ll 11 5 all I Do. Preference 4 all ;Crystal Pal. of France ... .. 20 all l Eastern Steam 2l 3 St. 100 Electriclelegraph 1 all Electric Tel. of Irel ... _ .. 5 all lEn.&Aust.Cop.SmCo 11 1i 10 10s. Eur. & Ind,Jctn. Tel _ . ... 9 all Eur.&Are.Stm.(lim.) n - 31 20 all Gun. Ir.Sc, Col.(lim.) ... _ ... 15 1.4 Gen. Steam Navigat. .. _ . 20 5 London Discount 4 all Loud. Gen. Omnibus 21 2 1 1 23 20 10 Magdalena St. Navig. ... ... 10 all Moditeran. Elec. Tel. ... _ ... 10 all Do. Extension Teleg. 71 _ 71 7 , 10 all Mexican& S.Americn . 1 . 8 .. 2 25 5 Nat. Discount Co .1 10 6 Netherlands Land .. _ .. 10 all Do. Do. 5 all I Do.B p.e.PLiss.at ld ll 11 5 3 'Do. Do. - ••• 100 80 New B. &N. S. Land ... _ ... St. XlOO N.S.W. Gov.s p.c.D. 981 yvA 1 all N. B. Australasian... 3 _ 4 20 all tirth .of EuropeSteare 2/ 3 i 2 1 all Oriental Gas 1 10s. Do New Shares ild II t 5 all Peellir. Ld. & /Curl 2 2i 21 50 all !Peninsular & Oriental 781 N 7 P z ` i i 50 10 Do. New 71 8 p 17 i 50 all Rhymney Iron 100 60 Royal Mail Steam 59 - 61 1 all icot, Austral. Invest ll 11 St. 100 S. Ans. Gov. 6 p.c.bds lO7 109 1( 8 25 all South Austral. Land 36 3f 37 1 all Submarine Tel. Scrip 1 1 . 1. all Do. Registered 20 5Tr us. Ln. Co. Up. Can. ... ~. 10 283 1 Van Diezion'ti Lancl , 101 !..... 1.11, The Bishop cf EXETER never said t hat the supporter of the bill ou4ht to Le secluded from the sacrament ; he referred only to partie4 matried under its provisions. Lord OVELISTONE said in that case his astonish. mutt and regret Lt the light rev. prelate's remarks were essened. Ti_ ere had Leen a difference of opinion amongst the right r,r. bench on this subject, and he thought it was the duty of the lay members of the house to endea vour to allay the leilirg of asperity between them. The right rev. p! ela , e ho had stated his opinion that the law MONEY MARKET AN D COMMERCIAL INTr.T.T,TGENCE. CITY, Two O'CLOCK. The return from the Bank of England, completed to the 21st inst., is of a satisfactory character, but with one or two exceptions, there is little alteration of importance to notice. The bulli , :n, notwith standing the remittances to the continent, has been argumented to the extent of three hundred thou sand pounds sterling. The reserve of notes has also been augmented by nearly half a million, and the other securities have been lessened to a small extent. In the public and private deposits there is also a slight augmentation, but the active circula tion has fallen off to the extent of nearly two hun dred thousand pounds. The other items of the balance sheet exhibit little alteration requiring ipeeial remark. They will be seen in the sub joined table : Active ci r culatio n Decrease Bullion 314,271 Increase 3,296,808 Rest Increase Public deposit s Increase . 283,554 Other d e p os it s 15,711.905 Increase9s 517 798,480 Seven-day and other bills 43,348 Decrease 10,587,476 Government securities No alteration. 15,499,255 Other se cur i t i es 180 Decrease 10,386, 9 Notes unemployed Incrr :ease .................................... - 443 730 The alterations demonstrate the continued quietude of the demand for money, and the appli cations in Lombard-street are limited at 21 per cent. ; it is not likely, however, that there would be much inquiry at the Bank, where 3 per cent. is required. At the present time the discount opera tions have been confined to those necessary for the prosecution of trade, which, being dull, absorbs a comparatively small amount of capital. About 3,0001., in gold, was taken into the Bank yesterday. In the Foreign Exchanges yesterday afternoon the rates were rather higher, compared with last post day. It appears that the negotiation of the remaining 300,0001. of the New Zealand loan has not been so successful, up to the present time, as might have been expected. The capital required is half-a-mil lion, and as our readers are no doubt aware, the Union Bank of Australia, who superintend the operation, have agreed to take 200,0001. of it as an investment on their own account. The remainder was offered to the public, and the attraction of a 4 per cent. security, terminable in 80 Years, induced many persons to forward applica tions for allotments. The tenders were opened yesterday, and the prices offered for every 1001. stock ranged from 77± to 109/. All the offers above 107, which was the minimum fixed by the directors, were accepted ; but these onlyamounted to 129,0001., although the sum subscribed for at various quotations represented a total of 1,125,7001. There consequently remains 171,000/. yet to be sub- Scribed. It certainly appears that the reserve price, hatnely, 107, is too high, when Turkish 4 per _ c ents., guaranteed by th e E ng li s h, T ur ki s h , an d 'tench Governments, only command 105 j, with 2 Per cent. interest shortly to be deducted. Moreover it must be remembered that the market for these new securities will not offer the same facilities as that established for the Turkish 4 per cents. The Liv9rpool Cotton Market yesterday mani fested a very quiet appearance, but prices were Without any alteration of importance. The sales 'were estimated at 7,000 bales, 1,500 of which were taken on speculation and for export. Since Monday last the imports of specie have been about 1 57,399/., and the exports 53,8401., exclusive of the following shipments direct from London to the continent during the week ending Thursday last : Gold Coin Boulogne ... 60 Om. Bars Silver Coin Boulogne 600 „ The Board of Trade Returns for the six months ending the 30th of June have just been published. The total exports from the United Kingdom during t his perioi amounted to 53,467,8041. against 009826,3811., showing a falling off of 7,358,5771. Ther e was a decli ne i n ear th enware , haber dashery and milli nery, hardware and cutlery, 'inert manufactures, metals, salt, silk manufactures, thrown silk, British spirits, sheep and lambs Voot, and woollen manufactures. The imports Were larger as regards:cocoa, coffee, wheat, flour, taw cotton, hides, palm oil, and provisions, but there was a falling :off in live animals, fruit, ruwzllk, tea, tobacco, wine, and sheep and lambs' Woo?. The shipping returns show a slight increase in tr af tonnage of vessels emp l oye d i n the foreign ae for the entries inwards, but the clearances outwards exhibit a slight diminution. usual on Saturday, there is very little busi and the operations in most departments are cbikfly of a routine description. At the Stock Exchange there is little animation. This, speculative transactions have been circum /se t tbed, but ow i ng to a little realising prices have , i eem less buoyant. A decline of per cent. has, W ,: fact, t a k en place, Consols having been 95i 96, The late y es t er d a y a ft ernoon t h ey were 96T New Threes and the Reduced are about 961 ; arch E xc h equer Bil ls, 38s. prem., and the .L ll3l O ditto 235. to 265. prem. Bank Stock is 225 • G. th-A- rather li m it e d b us i ness h as b een transacted in et oreign Stock Market, and prices are heavy. enish 6 per Cents. are 94,1 951 ; Spanish 3 per ts., 43i ; di tto Deferred, 271 ; Peruvian 4i is 11,,'r Cents., 801 ; S ar di n i an 5 per Cents., 90 ; rasilian 5 per Cents., 103 ; ditto 41 per Cents, ( 1 ,8), 951 96 ; ditto Scrip, dis. to par ; Buenos `" i tr l 'ea 6 per C en t s ., 80 ; an d V enezue l a 5 per ants., 391 - 11 - very limited business has been done in the k ..ttailway Share M ar k e t t hi s morn i ng, an d pr i ces w,' declined to the extent of about to 1 per kcont. North Western, South Western, and iddand have declined 10s. ; South Eastern, 10s. to :155., and Caledonian 11. ; Great Western hil l) roved about ss, The foreign and colonial tilad ertakings were dull, and exhibited little varliation in prices. Paris and Lyons improved 4 bcrut 55., and East Indian ss. ; Joint Stock 1 ? , a1) k and Miscellaneous Shares have been rather " l ively dealt in at or about former quotations. I I RI visa FUNDS. —CLOSING PRICES—THIS DAY. ( From the ? L:st : i 1 414 S tock Wm 226 p o sse per C ent. Reduced Annuities 96R i 5 ~„..Pti ' . .ent. ~,,,, Ann u iti es 964 5f E ':) el" Three per Cent. Annuities 11' Annuities, expire sth Jan. 1860 I ~. -Li ta itto 30 Y ears, exp i re sth Apl., 1885 184 od mock .......... .. .... . bat.° Bonds, £lOOO ... .... .......... ..... U, s .l)i t o t in d er tlllOO ...••• .................... 15 ' tttsols for Account ........................... 96 5i l ikallequer Bills - -- March, JURCI. XlOOO £500 35 23 6 Sma 1 FOREIGN FUNDS.—THIS DAY, lir a 3 ilian 5 per Cent lO3 Ditto 1858, CI er Cent. 80 aer.tios- A yres Bond p s, 6 per Cent. 6 r ernvi an Bonds, 4. per Cent — 89i Di tto Account . 41 " 21 inian 5 per Cent — .„ D itto Account I st; -.-tiPh Bo , :ds, 3 per Cent. - Dit to Account, Disco New Deferred, 3 per Cent, ,„ /qto Account27i .nritish Bonds, 6 per Cent. Ditto, Account VGnezveln B onds, per Cent Ditto Account .• S9} i ....... TWO O'CLO( K. Ditt o %Two., mo ney account - 9si 6 ............. R St. St, 25 St. 20 20 10 St. 18 18 20i .00 .00 .00 20 20 20 17# 100 20 20 20 20 .1v advices f ---------------- t the 11th the Cape of Good o of June we obsertave that the I mailsteamship Phce`iii hid arrived out in 34 (lay e r E ° l 3' l . 2 hours from Plymouth Tile vessels of this lin e ha s Well, and 0 E great credit is due to their owneri and com ven done their work Ex remelt' rnanders. They have never Exceeded their contract ti me, and in almost every instance have been a week ztinder it. This contrasts strangely with the perform ‘uce of the, previous contracts for the conveyance of the 1. a P e mails. It if; greatly to be wished that the Autra "ku service could be carried on with similar regularity. THE StTN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, JULY 24, 1858. RAILWAYS. )lAmbg. Nottng. Boat. at Eastn. Belfast & Ballymena Birmng. Wolverh. Stour Valley Birkenhd. Lanes Cheshire Janet Blackburn Blyth & Tyne original £25 (iss. at £45) Bristol & Exeter Caledonian iChester & Holyheae !Cork and Bandon ' Cork, Black. & Pass Cornwall Ds. A I Do. B Dublin&BelfastJuw I Dun. P. &Aber Juno. East Anglian I Eastern Counties EasternUnion,A. stk Do., do. E. Do. New A ...... [ East Kent lEast Lancashire ... l East Suffolk ........ , 100 100 100 all all 100 100 100 100 at. 100 60 3 St. 100 St. 100 100 100 100 161 100 100 100 31.1 Do. I Edinburgh & Glasgosc Edinb.Prth.drDundA Forth and Clyde June. (Furness . 'Glasgow & S.Western Great N. of Scotland ► Great Northern ► Do., A. Stock ► Do., B. Stock Sth. &West. (Ire). 1 ► 'GreatWestern. Do Str V P gua St ► I • • ' • tlrish South-Eastern. Lancaster &Carlisle. ! Do., ' 'Do. New Thirds Lancash. &Yorkshir , Do., do. F £l6 Do. Do., Z 9 ...... Do., Wet. Riding UL. I Do. Southport London & Blackvrat Do. New, in. 5/. 10s. Lond.Bright. & S. Cst London & N. Wester Do. Eighths London & S.Weatlre Lndndrry.&Coleraine Lndndrry. & Ennis'. Manch.Shef. &Lincln. Metropolitan Midland . Do. Birming. & Derb Midland o.West. (Ir. Do. Shares Newcastle & Carlisle.. Newpt.A berg.&Hrfd. Newry & Armagh Newry, Warrenpoim & Restrevor Norfolk. Northn. Counties lin North British North Devon, Rail. & Dock Stock Do., A Stock Do., B Stock N.Eastern—Borwick ;Do. do. G. N.E.Purch. IDo. Leeds Do. York North London N. & S. Wstn., Hamp stead, and City Jn. North Staffordshire.. North Western K. & S. Wcstrn. June Orford Worcester dt Wolverhampton Peebles Portsmouth ißhymney Scottish Central Scot. N. E. Abrdn. St Do. Scot. Mid. Stock Shropshire Union .. Sitingbourne &Sheer South Devon South Eastern........ 100 !South Wales all 8. Yorksh. Ri ., ;wDun' 18 'Do. ••• •• . all Staines,Wo7..,&Wok. all Stockton & Darling.. 20 Do. do., 1854 7 Do. do., 1855 164 Stockton & Hartlepl. LOO !Taff Vale.,., [OO Do. Pref., No. 1_ 22 'Dames Hay. D. &R. 100 , Vale of Neath.....„. 100 Waterfd. di Kilkenny all Waterford&Limerick all West Col nyrall all West End of Londol., I and Crystal Palace.: all I Do. A all Do. B all 'West London all Do. First Class all Do. Second Class_ LINES LEASED AT FIXED RENTALS. Leasing Closing Prices Business Shr Pala Miji ' w " g ' Companies this day this day. St. 100 Bnckghamsh. Ln.kN.W 100 102 St. 100 Clydesdale Jc CaWon._ 103 105 25 all Col.Stour Vy. E.U.&E.O 14 16 Vt. 100 E.Lin. g. 6 p.c Gt.Northn 139 141 5 all E. Un. H. Sh. E. Count. 4 5 St. 'lOO Glas. Barr. do Noils.Direct. Caldonian. ••• St. 100 Do. New Do 25 all Glstr.&Dn.Fr. Gt.Westn — 50 all null & Selby. V. & N.M llO 112 25 all Do. Shares. Do 124 all Do. 1 Shares. Do • -- ••• 124, all Lon.&Greenw S. Eastern l3 14 20 all Do. Preference Do . SLIGO Lon. Til., &S. Peto &Co 93 96 10 10 ,Do. Bark. Sh. Do 5,1 all IM.anch.Baton. Ln.&N.W and Matlock & Midld 24 2i St. 100 Mdld.Bradfd. Midland 97 99 61 54 Newmarket BuryE.G.spc. E. Count - 'gyp 50 all N.&Est.s p.c. Do 5B GO 50 all Do. 6 per et.. Do ••• ,50 all Do.Fixedsp.c Do •• ••• 25 all ;Prost. &Wyre L. &IS W — 124 all IDo. 4 Shrs. A Do St. 100 Roystn. & Hit. Gt.Northn 138 142 10 all Shrews.& Her T. Brassey 84 9 12 all S.Staffordsh.. M.MClean 10 104 50 I all WearVal.g6pc Stk.&Dar. 25 all Do. Do , 324 334 St. 100 Wiits&Somrst Gt.Westn I 89 S 1 I PREFERENCE SHARES. BRITISH 1211.2 30 17s, 11i ig 17s, 6115 Alfred Cons. (PhiDa British Iron Condurow (Cambrn.) D ev. Gt. Oasis. (Tay.) East Basset (Illogan) Great South Tolgus Grt.W.Alfrd.(Philk.) Grt.W. Vor (fielstn.) ( Lady Bertha N. Frances (Mogan) N.W.Basset (Illogan) North Wheal Crofty Par. Cons. (St.Blaxy) Porkellis I.T._(Wend.) 6s. Sort. Cons. Min. Co. 2i S. Caradon (St. Cleer) 2 S. Carn Brea (IIlogn.) 19 S.W. Franees(lllogn.)i 4i Tam. S. Si L. Min. Co 9 Tin Croft 40 Un.Miues (Gwonnap) l 12s C V. of Towoy (Caniar. 1} W. Basset (Illogau) 20 W. Caradon (Liskrd.) Wh. Basset (Illogan). 5 Wh. Buller (Itdruth). Si Wh. Edward(Calstek) li 7s Wh. Kitty (U. Llant) 8 Wh.Ma.Ann (Afenht.) 4 IWh. Trelawney (Lis.) r'Ox,EIGN MINES. - 94 3 - 4 50 - 60 465 - 471 90 • 95 15 • 16 6 - 64 7i 4 - 5 16 - 17 Y* - ii 395 - 405 - 2) - 3 230 - 20 31 - 3 1 70 - 22 - 24 95 - 105 1175 - 186 \2OC - 220 4t - 6 8 - 9 46 - 48 24 - 26 2tlllV ZL4. ribir VZtttttOn SUN OFFICE, Seven o'clock. TATTERSALLS'--(This Evening.) GOODWOOD STAKES. 6to 4 agst Roman Candle (take 7to 4) 7to 1 agst Lifeboat (taken and offtrec 3 ) 100 to 6 agst Fulheck (taken) 100 to 8 agst Pensioner (taken) 20 to 1 aget Fright 1000 to 30 agst Rneati GOODWOoD CUP. 4to 1 agst Venire St. Grin (taken) 9 to 2 agst Arsenal (taken) 7to 1 awl Fisherman (taken) 25 to 1 ag:t Charleston (taken) Sr. LEGER. 4to 1 agst Toxopholite (offered) 7to 1 agst Fitz Roland (taken) SCRATCHINGS. The following horses are struck out of their Goodwood engagements :—Harry Bluff, Duchess of Sutherland, Scourge, and Windward out cf the Goodwood Stakes, and Physician out of the Stakes and Cop. LATEST ARRIVALS AT GOODWOOD. Not th Lincoln, Bastion, Mentmore, Scribbler, Georpie, East Langton, He'ia, Lord of the Ail's, Zuvder Zee, Mayonaise, Telegram, Old Point, Le Fdle de Regiment, Mufti, f by Stockwell, Woodburn, Bonita, Four•leaved Shamrock, Toxopholite, Lonqrange, May Morning?, Star of the East, Antiquary, Qneen Lily, Target, Colo niet, Marseillaise, Martel eu Pete, Baby'on, Priore , s, Orianda, Arsenal, Sedbury, Rocket, Queenstown, Charleston. Fulbeck, Ventre St. Gris, Mrle. de Chantilly, Gaylaq4, Flitch, T rouvere , Zioave, E'oile du Nord, E4perance, Nerus, Catalpa filly, Mimosa, Lord of Lorn, Plmoodie, Lord of the Manor, Rainbow, Sun beam, Conjuror, Ophelia, Special License and Fashion LAW INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day ) COURT OF CHANCERY. (Before the Lord Chancellor.) APPEAL -CHEALE Y. KENWARD -JUDGMONT. This an appeal from a decision of the Master of the Rolls, allowing the demurrer to the plaintiff's bill. The plaintiff filed his bill for specific perf , rmance of an agree ment to transfer ten shares of the Lea's; and Upton Rail way for 5001., upon which no deposit and no calls had been pail. The Lord Chancellor c3nsidered that there was a suffi cient valuable consideration for the sale and transfer of these shares in the agreement, and that the plaintiff was entitled to file his bill for specific performance of the agreement to transfer. Hia lordship over-ruled the demurrer with costs, and allowed the defendant time to answer. ROLLS' COURT. (Before the Master of the it )11s.) IRBY V. IRBT.-JUDGMENT. His Honour, the Master of the R&D, in delivering judgment in this case this morning, sail that one of the questions was, whether the sum of 3 9381. was due to Sir Herbert de Cripenney, as executir under his father and mother's marriage settlement. His Honour consi dered that Sir Herbert was entitled to claim this sum as executor under his father and mother's deed of settle ment,, and that the equity attaches to any person claiming under this settlement. The next point was whether an annuity of 701. was due under a right of redemption of the lands in question • His Honour considered that the annuity was not dis' charged so long as tha right of redemption existed, and that the annuity followed the lands. His Honour said he would make no order in this case, but give directions to take accounts at chambers consistent with these findings. His Honour passed a declaration acc)rdirzly. (B f6re the Lords Justices.) APPEALS. HEDGES V. BLICKE, -HEDGES V. HARPER.- JUDGMENT. This was au appeal from a decision of the Master of the Roll, the late Lord Langdale, in 1846. The question was whether, under the will of the late Thomas Fentham, his four daughters took an annuity of 4001. fcr life, or in perpetuity. Lord Langdale held that the children took the annuity for life. The appellant claims it in perpetuity. Lard Justice Turner and Lard Justice Knight Bruce, in delivering judginel.t, were of opinion that the daugh ters of the testator took the annuity in perpetuity, sub ject to the life interest of their children for life. Their lordships reversed the decree of the late Master of the Roll., with cote as between party and party. POLICE INTELLIGENCE.—(This Day.) CITY POLICE COMMITTEE. (Before Mr. Alderman Meehi.) IMPORTANT CONVICTION.-PUBLICANS AND LODGERS. Mrs. White, the mistress of the Dolphin Tavern in Ludgate-hill, was summoned before the presiding alder man, for keeping open house on Sunday during divine service. City police•const.able 40, said, that on Sunday last, July 18th, he was on duty iniudgate-hill, and, about seven minutes to one, he, in passing defendant's door, heard voices within defendant's public-house. Witness knocked, and on the potman's opening the door he saw tveo persons drinking at the bar; one had a glass of cold gin and water before him and was smoking a pips, and the other was drinking a glass of ale. Defendant was behind the bar. Witness said to" her " 7 minutes to 1, Mrs. White, and open house." Mrs. White replied, "On ! they're oily lodgers." Witness then said, "You very well know you have no right to supply lodgers even. You shall hear from rue again." Mrs. White caid that the persons were lodgers and she thought it was no harm to draw them a litt!e refreshment. Fined five shillings. AME-3. DARING JUVENILM BURGLARS. —A boy, named Michael Latteridge, only 14 years of age, and who has beer, often in custody and twice summarily convicted, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with being concerned with two other boys in breaking into the pre mises of Mr. John Russell, of No. 35, Fore-street, Lime house, and stealing 167 lbs. of lead and a copper boiler therefrom. It appeared from the evidence of a Thames police-constable named Hill that he was passing the back of Mr. Russell's premises in a Thames police galley on the river, and Fare the prisoner and two other boys re moving something heavy from the building towards the shore. The officer in the galley rowed towards the shore, and the boys made a ha , ty retreat through the mud towards the river. Two of them being closely pressed by the river constables, jumped into the water and swam away. Before the officers could reach their boat the two urchins made for the shore, got upon the plying place at Duke's shore, and made their escapr , . The prisoner, who was not so nimble as his confederates, was secured. About a yard and a-ball from Mr. Russell's waterside premises, which were unoccupied, the officer found 167d05. of old lead and a copper boiler. The young burglars had done con ' siderable mischief on the premises, and had stripped the lead, identified by Mr. Russel, off the roof and from a pump in the yard. The copper boiler had been removed from its place in the kitchen. A brass key was found upon the prisoner, and Mr. Ras:Jell said it was taken from the iron bailer in the kitchen. The prisoner, a very impudent boy, denied that he had hen on the pro secutor's premises, dee ared the brass key to be his own property, and said when he was convicted before be was quits inuocent. Mr. Yardley—Very well. You are committed for taial. LLOYD'S SHIPPING.—(tis Day.) LONDON, July 24.—Wind this day at 110013, S.W. ; light breeze, and cloudy. PORTSMOUTH, July 23.—Wind W.N.W.—Arrived— Chaos, from London for lurraeliee, leaky. CARDIFF, July 23.--Wind for Rio Janeiro. QUEENSTOWN, July 2.?. — Arrived-- Zelipay Vicouria, from Havannah. Sailed -Xanfa, for Ba.rbadoes ; Maria, Quebec. SOUTHAMPTON, July 23.—Wind S.W.—Arrived—Tagus (s), from Gibraltar. DisuN, July 22.—Wind S.W. —Arrived—Gipsy, from Quebec. DROGHEDA, July 23—Wind S.W.--Arrived—Bacchus, from Quebec. PooLE, July 23. —Wind S.W. —Sailed—Findon, for Quebec. (n ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.) LIVERPOOL, Saturday Morning. _ Wind S.S.W. Arrived, July 23 —Oregon, from Quebec (and not from New Orleans, as reported) ; Mary (Joe, Cardenas ; Mes senger, Quebec ; N. Zdttina, Leghorn. Arrived, July 21-- Westburn, from Honduras; Alba nian, screw steamer, Genoa; Pedestrian ' Konigsberg ; Ltarnabas Wells, New Yoik ; Mary Cook, Quebec. Off.—Si mode, from Now Orleans; Seating, Quebec. Sailed, July 21.—Persia, CO, for New York. (BY SUBDIARINE AND BRITISH TELEGRAPH.) GRAVESEND, Saturday Morning. Wind S.S.E. ; tido three hours' flood; weather light, and cloudy. Arrived— July 23—Laura Janet, from Laps ; Rowllsn, Defender, and Islay, Cronstadt ; Sumanden, Riga. Arrived, July 24—Jane Lauson, from Dantsic; Holland, CiAtond. Sailed, July 24 Har ward, for Auckland ; Perseverance, Archangel ; Eugenie, Curfu ; Citizen, steamer, Bordeaux. DEAL, Saturday Morning. Wind southerly, light. Pursed, July 23.—Ilawk, from Antwerp, for Jersey ; BaTrnrd Castle, Shields, Exeter. Passed.— Pi opoller, steamer, from London, for Cardiff; Lizzy Garrow, London, Salcombe. AnchorA.—St. Rubin, from Archangel, for Jersey; Maria Le Conception, London, Monte Video. THIRD READINGS. On the mn , ion of Lord REDESDNLE, the Great Southern of India Railway Company, the Lancashire, York hire, and East LancashirA Railway Compary ; Limerick and Castle Connell Rail way, and South Wa!es Railway (New Railway) bills were read a third time and passel. ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH COMPANY'S BILL. On the motion that Ibis bill be read a third time, Theßll 1 f DERBY moved the insertion of a clause which would place the American on the same looting as the English company. A short conversation ensued between Lord REDES DALE and Lord ST&NLEY of ALDLULEY, at the tvrinina 'ion of which the third reading way postponed until Monday nsxt. MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Lord GAGE said he had mo , t unexpec%edly been called upon to propose the second reading of this bill, and no thing short of the importance of the questi , :n involved in the bill could have induced him to have undertaken the tisk. The measure to which he now asked their lord to give a second reading was to remeriy a grievance o f which a large p:.rtion of the ponulat ion of the country complain( d, and they naturally 1,.P.; that redress would be given, provided their lordship saw no sound reason ,ga;nat (king so. If they rjected the bill then those wh o were in favour of it soul i came to the cmclusion that there did exist some reasons shy the relief nowscught for .4hou'd not he given. He hail heard it said that there i-xis!ed both 6Tiritnal and religious reason:l%l:y such-a hi'l should not pass, but whenever the oljectors to the measure had been adtad to point out the Scriptural olj-ctions they had invariably failed to do so. A ereat, de;.l of importance bad been attributed to a panicular chapter in the B idk of L.viticup, tut he contended that ncthimz in the verse forba-!e a man to marry his deceased wife's silt: r— (hear) —on the contrary, he (Lord Gage) was of opinion that the verse gave, a clear permissEion to con tract such a marriage ; and ho was further of opinion the canons of the Church and not the law of Ged forbade the marriage. Toe noble lord then al luded to the coeial view of the vestion, and said he believed that the wife's sister would form a much better stepmother to the wlL's children than a total stranger. He also tillud , :(l to the increasing msj irities by which the bill bad pa god tl? House of Commons, and declared that there was a :strong feeling in favour cf the bill throughout the countr Lord REDESDALE said the noble viscount had treated this question on two grounds, the religious ground and the social ground. As regarded the religious view of the subject, it was impossible to deny that the tex s moat referred to were open to varicue interpreta tions, but when difficulties arose they should be guided by a ooneider..tion of the consequences which would na turally flow from a lax interpretation. The real question in this case was, " What is marriege; what isthe relatien ship thereby established ? ' They were distinctly t hi in Scripture that the man and vele became " one flesh," and ta a% b ing the case the relations of the one neces itari;y became the relations of the Othe”. (Hear.) Unless thet simple principle were acted upon, society ine vitably got involved in difficulties from which there was no wave. The noble viscount had asked who o •uld ex pest anything but objections to the bill from women ? In that view he entirely concurred. This was purely a woman's bill. The man di I not propose that his wife should have a right to marry his bro'her, but he came forward with his own lustful purposes and said, " Let me marry my wife's sitter," the two standing in precisely 1 the same position as regarded affinity. (Hear.) If this bill passed, why should they not go further 1 Why should not a man be allowed to marry his stemieteghter ? There was nn blood relationship in that eve ? (Elear.) Or why should not a stepson marry his father's widow ? From such things as these the minds cf all men naturally shrunk ; and yet there was no security against them if you once got rid cf the deduc:ions arieing from the fact of man and wife being one flesh. What wag a man to call his wife's sister if this bill passed ? Was he still to call her sister or was he to call her consin ? If she were his sliver during his wife's life, she was also his sister after her death. The canon which prohibited these mar riages was almost as old as the church itself, and was by no mean', as it had been represented to be, an innova tion of the time of the Reformation. As to the bill of 1835, that bill did not alter the law on the suljzct any further than this, that whereas before the marriage was voi.lable if anybody chose to object to it, it was then made veid frnm the beginning. As regarded the social ground, it appeared to . him that the greateA possible in jury woul I be d6ne in families if the near and cloea re lationship which existed between persons connected by marriage were interfered with, as it necessarily would be by this bid. It was said that there had always been a great number ef persons who bad evaded the restric tion, and that this was a reason for altering the law. If they were merely to consider how many persons gratified their sensual appetites without the sanction of the law, there were a number of other things to which, this argil.• meet would apply. He feared that if they went among the dwellings of the lower orders they would find in many quarters connexions existing which no one would think of sanctioning by law. (Hear.) In all the attempts which had been made to alter the law difficuldes had arisen - from the nature of the connexion between a man and his wife's sister. In the first bill which was iutroduced for that purpose after the passing cf the Lill of 1835, there was a clause providing that the marriage should not be allowed if there had been any adulterous connexion be tween the parties during the lifetime of the deceased. Thus deceased wife's sister was placsd on a different foot ing from other women. In the present bill, the seco.:d clause provided that a past marriage should not be valid if either of the parties to it had contracted a second mar riage with another person. That was a clause which would give rise to great difficulty. The bill coefined the right to any dignity, title, or honour to those to whom it was vested before the passing of the act. A very curi ous question might arise out of that clause taken in con nection with the sth. By the latter, Ireland and Scotland were excluded from the operation of the bill, not only as regarded dignities, titles, and honours, but also as re garded property ; and as there were many members of that house who held titles in the three kingdoms the re sult might be that one set of children would be legiti mate as regarded one set of titles, and another set of children as regarded another set of titles. The meaeure appeared to him to be both imperfect in itself and highly objectionable in principle; he believed that social evils of the gravest character would arise from the pasting: of it ; he believed it to be contrary to the kw of God ; and entertaining these views, he felt bound to move that it be read a second time that day six months. (Cheers ) Lord LYNDHURST said he had not risen to address their lordships on the general question , but the noble. lord who had juetspoken having alluded to the bill wb tebl was passed in 1835, and with which his nanaa was con- 1 nected, he wished to give a brief history of that bill. His attention was drawn to the state of the law with respect to marriages that were voidable during the joint lives of the parties. The consequence was that the ultimate status of the children must remain uncertain for 10, 20, 30, or even 50 years. A person might have been brought up as the heir of his parents, expecting to succeed in the ordinary way to the family estates under a settlement, and all at once, after be h ad married, and when he was the father cf children, a proceeding [night be instituted for annulling the marriage of hie parerox, and the remit he his being bastardised. He considered this a very cruel and inconvenient state of the law, and the object of the bill which he brought in was to provide a remedy. The bill had nothing to do with the disallowance of the mar riage ; its object was to protect the legitimacy of the chit 'ren, it bring provided that if that were not ques tioned within two yetrs it should not be questioned at all. He said nothing with regard to the parents ; his proposidun was coefieed to the children. He had in his ban d a espy of the bill as it was laid on their lordships' table. The title of it was, " An Act to limit the time for cenimencing suits in the Ecolesiaetical Courts, so far as they may affect the children of parent s marr i e d w i t hi n the prohibited degrees. The bill related only to parents and was ordered to be printed in the firm iu which be proposed it, on the first of June, 1835. Thera was but one enacting clause, and it was as follows : —" Whereas the chi:dien of parents married within the prohibited de grees are by law legitimate, unieFs such marriages be de -1 clared void by sentence of the Ecdesirstio 'Court during th e life-ime of their parents, and it being unreasonable and unjust that the state and condition of children born under such circumstances should remain tined-