The Sun. — London, England, 1834-06-19 00:00:00

HIS MAJESTY'S LEVEE. Their Majesties arrived at. St. James's Palace about half-past one o'clock yesterday afternoon from Windsor Castle. _ _ . The King held a Levee soon after two o'clock, at which his Serene Highness the Duke of Saxe Meiningen, attended by Baron Spersardt, was present. Count Bjornstjerna, the Swedish Minister, and Count Mendesloh, the Wirtemberg Minister, had audiences of the King on (temporary) leave of absence. Their Excel lencies were introduced by le iscount Palmerston, his Ma jesty's Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, and conducted by Sir R. 'Chester, the Master of the Cere monies. The Duke de Frias, Spanish Ambassador at the Court of Paris, was presented by the Marquis de Miraflores, Count de Florida Blanca. Baron Beust, Gentilhomme de la Chambre to the King of Saxony, by M. de Gersdorff, the Saxon Minister. Mr. Lewes, Architect of the King, from Hanover, by Mr. Lichtenberg, the-Hanoverian Chargé d'Affaires. Mr. Rene Beerenbrock, by M. Van de Weyer, the Pe'gic Minister. The Marquis Conyngham kissed hands on his appoint ment of Postmaster-General. Mr. F. Baring was presented by Earl Grey on his ap pointment as one of the Secretaries of the Treasury. Lieutenant-Colonel Maberly was presented by Sir J. Kempt on his appointment as Commissioner of Customs. The Lord Advocate of Scotland, by the Lord Chan cellor, on his appointment. At the Entree Levee there were present— The French Ambassador; the Sardinian, Neapolitan, Prussian, Swedish, Wirtemberg, Belgic, Netherlands, Danish, Bavarian, Portuguese, Brazilian, Grecian, Spanish, and Saxon Ministers ; the Austrian and Hano verian Charges d'Affaires ; the Secretaries to the Swedish, Prussian, and Danish Legations ; the Dutch Special Mi nister, the Archbishops of Canterbury and York, the Bishop of London, the Lord President, the Lord Privy Seal, the First Lord of the Treasury ; the Secretaries of State for the Home, Foreign, and Colonial Departments ; the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, the First Lord of the Admiralty, the Paymaster of the Forces, the Secretary at War, the Lord Chamberlain, the Lord Steward, the Groom of the Stole, the Master of the Horse, the Commander of the Forces, the Master-General of the Ordnance, the Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen at Arms, the Vice- Chamberlain, the Master of the King's Buck Hounds; Viscount Combermere, Gold Stick in Waiting; the Trea surer of the Household, Mr. Under Secretary Backhouse ; Sir Augustus Clifford, Usher of the Black Rod ; the Captain of the Yeomen Guard, the Master of the Ceremonies ; Sir W. Waller, extra Groom in Waiting; Hon. Captain Pou lett, R.N., Aide-de-Camp in Waiting ; the Marquis of Thomond, the Earl of Aboyne, Colonel Sir Charles Thornton, Colonel Sir Adolphus Dalrymple, Colonel Sir Robert H. Dick, Colonel Wingrove, R. M. ; Colonel Sir Alexander Dickson, Royal Artillery • Colonel Wynyard and Colonel Lord Dufferin, Aides-de-amp to the King ; the Master of the Robes ' Major Wright, Gentleman Usher to her Majesty ; the Dean of Hereford ; the Rev. Dr. Blomberg, and the Rev. T. F. Foord Bowes, Deputy Clerks of the Closet; the Clerk Marshal ; Colonels Bo water and Horace Seymour, Equerries ; and Master Graves, Page of Honour. Admirals Lord James O'Bryen and Sir J. Reynett were the Lord and Groom in Waiting. At the General Levee there were present— Mr. John Kennedy, his Majesty's Secretary of Legation at Naples ; Mr. Alderman Winchester; Rev. Walter F. Hook, Chaplain in Waiting ; and the following : DiTlCES—Hamilton, Sutherland, Richmond. MARQUISES—Conyngham, Westminster, Bristol, Aber corn, Hastings, Worcester. EARLS—Lichfield, Ripon, Aboyne, Dundonald, Bel more, Leitrim, De Grey, Brownlow, Winterton, Manvers, Somers, Beauchamp, Delawarr. VzscouNTs--Cantalupe, Hawarden, Eastnor. Loans—Byron, Saltoun, Corry, King, Clive, Skelmers dale, Arden, W. Powlett, Ruthven, Killeen, Apsley, Dela mere, Forester, Rolle. RIGHT HONOURABLE—Henry Ellis. HoNoultainrs—J. King, G. Cavendish, L. Kenyon, Rev. J. Saumarez, J. Hewitt, Capt. Best, R.N., H. Corry, Capt. Pellew, R.N. The Bishop of Rochester and the Dean of Windsor. SIRS—W. Waller, J. Barton, Richardson, F. Fowke, P. G. Egerton, J. Y. Buller, W. Stirling, J. Croft, Bart., C. Morgan, Bart., W. Pole, G. Philips, H. E. Austen, W. H. Robinson, J. English, G. Shee, R. Dallas, J. Astley, G. Clerk, J.‘3l•Gregor, H. Brydges, M. Ximenes. SERGEANTS-AT-LAW Ludlow, Scriven, Stephen, Heath. REV. Docroas—Wright, d'Oyly. DocToßs--Pickering, J. Davis, Barlowe, Haer. REVEREND MESSIEURS—T. C. Glyn, J, Anderson, Hugh Bold, G. Burnaby, C. Proby, E. Wyatt Edgell, W. Canning, George Stracey, Heneage Finch, J. W. Hayes, E. Arney, E. Wakeman. MEsstßußs—Mansfield, Francis Baring, Joseph Carrow, Philip Stewart, Francis Astley, John Neeld, Chantrey, Samuel Briggs, Hussey, Holyoake Goodricke, Norton (of Elton), Macleod (of Rasay), Charles H. C. Plowden, Henry Charles Hoare, Scott (of Harden), Neeld, W. Attrey, W. H. Pole Carew, W. Tatton Eger ton, W. Smith, Elliott, E. Ricketts, Basan, Legatt, C. Knox, W. Miles, C. Wood, Grisdale, W. H. C. Plow den, Preston, Lawrence Peel, J. H. Talbot, M.P., Oc tavius Morgan, Bird, R. Eaton, W. Garrow Lettsom, Wilbraham, G. Forbes, Tomkinson, Harrison, Lloyd Vaughan Watkini, M.P., E. O'Brien, F. Seymour, nicholson, J. A. Gordon, Alexander Kyd, Blunt, Wil liam Scott, Sheppard, M.P. C. Parke, Warden W. T. Bayntun, Wyatt Edgell, H. drimes, O'Brien, Angerstein, B. Hamilton, C. Sillery, A. Shakespear, Grimston, Can ning, Vernon Smith, W. Bullock, J. Booth, junior. ADMIRALS—Sir Charles Ogle, Sir Charles Rowley, Sir George Martin, G. C. 8., Sotheron, Lambert, Sir P. Durham, Bruce, Sir C. Ekins, Sir Henry W. Bayntun, Sir T. Hardy. GENERALS—O'LoghIin, Anderson, Durham, Sir E. Lloyd, Sir P. Maitland, Viscount Forbes, Sir J. Lambert, Sir J. Dickens, G. Michell, Sir H. Vivian, Sir W. Rooke, Sir J. Smith, G. C. H., Sir J. Vandeleur, Pigot. CAPTAINS, R.N.—W. Burnett, B. Hamilton, H. Pigot, G.s., G. Grant, C. Phillips, Peyton, Hine, G. Smith, M. Smith, Pellew, A. King, Beechy, Fuller, Sir A. Farquhar, Tomkinson, Ayscough, Sotheby. COLONELS—Sir W. Gomm, Earl of Wiltshire, Yorke, G. Reed, Taylor, Sir G. Scovell, Sir R. Moubray, Cornwall, Sir W. Herries, Trickey, Parker, Warre, Reeve, Sir C. Dance, Hon. H. Murray, Power, Vaughan, Eeles, K. Money, Richardson, Findlay, Ashworth, Grey, P. Hawker, Conolly, Thackeray, M'Cleverty, Stapleton, Wood, Sir B. Camac, Bagnold, Calvert, Mabealy, Hay, Macdonald, Lord J. Somerset, Fellding, Short, Macgregor, Thackwell. COMMANDERS —Sir Peter Parker, R. Yorke, W. Holt, Lareom, J. Gordon, Dickens, G. Walker, J. E. Erskine, J. Pearl, H. Carew, Sir W. Dickson. MAjoßs—J. Wilson, Sherwin, Macpherson, Burroughs, C. Stewart, E. I. C. ~ Hall, Trevelyan, Williams, Hyde, Marten, Blanshard, Nugent. LIEUTENANTS, R. N.—James B. West, B. W. Walker, W. Allen, W. Morris, G. H. Ackerley, Thomas M‘Don- Dell, Candler, T. P. Thompson. Ca rra iss—Sir J. Woolmore (Trinity House), An struther, 46th regiment, Cormick, W. Hotham, Lewis, Corkran, D'Arcy, Wentworth, Horne, Furmeaux, Charles Clements, Cary, C. K. Johnstone, B. Justice, Weston, R. Vassal!, W. Egerton, A. Browne, Wollaston, Haig, Sir - Jas. A. Gordon, Blaclin, Cotes, Slade Graves, H. Phillips, Banner, Wilson, Ives, Newbery, P. Yorke, Fogo, G. Lindsey, Turner, R. Beavan, Taylor, Yerbury, C. F. Gibson, Elliot, F. C. Woolley, Colonel Stisted, M'Cle v.,trty, P. Cocks, Langham, S. Conway, Luke, Hay, CheeY, J. Bunce, Power. C,,siNs7s—J. Booth, jun., Hughes, J. Greene, Lora F. Somerset. Etzsiorri.—Francis Seymour, James Mansfield, Turner, Collins, Grey, l { err, Ximenes. The following Addresses and Petitions were presented to the King:— An Address of thanks to his Majesty for the many season able declarations of his Majesty's firm purpose to pre serve unimpaired to his people the blessings of pure Christianity through the Ministry_ of the Established Church, signed by 2,095 of the Nobility, Clergy, and Gentry, assembled in Oxford at the Commemoration, by the Archbishop of Canterbury. - A Petition to his Majesty from the Graduates of the Uni versities of Oxford and Cambridge resident in the county of Nottingham, against the admission of Dissenters to graduate in either of those Universities, by the Arch bishop of York. Three Addresses from the Members and Friends of the Church of England resident in the city of Exeter and its vicinity, with 4,000 signatures ; from the Mayor, Bailiffs, and Commonalty of the city of Exeter ; and from the Magistrates, Clergymen, Gentlemen, and other inhabitants of the town and parish of Tiverton, in favour of the Established Church, by Lord Rolle. A Petition from the Minister, Elders, and inhabitants of the parish of Clatt and the • parish of Leochel Cushnic, by Lord Saltoun. An Address from the Clergy and others, inhabitants of Frome Selwood and its vicinity, in supporl of the Esta blished Church, and containing an exprevion of grati tude to his Majesty for the announcement - of his resolu tion to maintain inviolate the United,khurch of Eng land and Ireland, signed by 1,100 _i4viduals, by the Duke of Richmond. ..) t ' An Address from the city of Cheste4,,by the Marquis of Westminster. '''L' An Address from the Clergy and nifty residing at Grant ham and its neighbourhood, vs* have been educated at Oxford and Cambridge, praziDg his Majesty, as Visiter of several Colleges in both,- , Universities, to extend to them his Royal protectiortoo as to preserve their statutes from violation, by the admission of Dissenters to those Academical bodies. 11 An ddress from the 31kayor and 'Corporation of Bcston, ,_- kistngAlleirfratitude for his Majesty's gracious de / , ' ralpo,in support of the Established Church ; and their , 2 ~ .. ~J N. 110 own devoted attachment to the same ; and a similar Address from the Clergy and Laity of Horncastle and its neighbourhood, by Earl Brownlow. An Address of thanks to his Majesty from the inhabitants of Castle Donington, for his Majesty's gracious declara tion to maintain inviolate the integrity of the Protestant Church, by the Marquis of Hastings. An humble and loyal Address from the inhabitants of the parish of Kempey, in the county of Worcester, gratefully thanking his Majesty for his most gracious declaration that he will uphold unimpaired the Esta blished Church of these realms in connection with the State, by the Earl of Beauchamp. An Address of Thanks from Preston, in Lancashire, for his Majesty's gracious declaration of his attachment to the Church, signed by 1,000 persons, by Lord Skel mersdale. tddress of thanks from the Gentlemen, Clergy, and other inhabitants of the county of Brecon, for his Ma jesty's most gracious declaration to maintain inviolate the integrity of the Protestant Church, by Col. Wood. An Address from the Clergy, Gentlemen, and inhabitants of the town of Brecknoci, in consequence of his Ma jesty's most gracious declaration to maintain inviolate the integrity of the Protestant Church, by Mr. Lloyd Vaughan Watkins, M.P. An Address from Frome, by Mr. Sheppard, M.P., Mr. W. Miles, and Mr. J. A. Gordon. The following were presented to the King : Major J. Wilson, on appointment to the 56th Regiment. Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Wiltshire, on return from abroad. Sir John Barton, on his being knighted by the King, and receiving from the Duke of Saxe Meiningen the Com thur Cross of the House of Saxe Meiningen, by Sir H. Wheatley. The Hon. Lloyd Kenyon, on his marriage, by the Earl of Beauchamp. The Hon. G. Cavendish, by the Duke of Devonshire. Earl Somers, on his marriage. Lord Corry, on his niarriage, by the Earl of Belmore. Mr. Neeld, on appointment as Deputy Lieutenant of the county of Wilts, by Lord Northwick. Mr. C. H. C. Plowden, by Sir J. Woolmore. Mr. M'Leod (of Rasay), by the Marquis of Hastings. Mr. John Neeld, on appointment 'to the Gloucestershire Yeomanry, by the Marquis of Worcester. Mr. P. Stewart, Bombay Civil Service, on his marriage. Mr. J. Garrow, by the Rev. Dr. Blomberg. Captain W. Burnett, R.N., by Sir T. Hardy. Major Sherwin, by Sir J. Y. Buller. Commander Sir P. Parker, R.N., by Lord Byron. Mr. F. Astley, by Sir J. Astley. Ensign F. Seymour, by Mr. Norton. Cornet Hughes, by the Marquis of Ely. Cornet J. Booth, Surrey Yeomanry, by Lord King. Earl Delawarr, on his appointment to the office of High Steward of Stratford-upon-Avon. Major-General Vis. Forbes, by the Marquis of Ilastings. Rev. E. Wakeman, by Lord Foley. Mr. Sergeant Stephen, on taking rank by his Majesty's warrant, by the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Sergeant Heath, on his promotion. Mr. Sergeant Ludlow, on promotion. Mr. Sergeant Scriven, on promotion. Mr. Preston, High Sheriff of Yorkshire, by Sir W. Herries. Hon. J. Hewitt, by Viscount Hawarden. Lord Harry Vane, by Lord W. Powlett. Viscount Cantalupe, on his appointment to the Grenadier Guards, by Earl Delawarr. Earl of Winterton, by Earl Amherst. Ensign James Mansfield, 92d Highlanders. Rev. Hugh Bold, by Colonel Wood, M.P. Rev. George Stracey, by Lord Stafford. Mr. Collins Wood, by the Earl of Kinnoull. Mr. G. Forbes, by the Bishop of Rochester. Mr. Grisdale, by the Hon. Capt. Best, R.N. Mr. W. Scott, on his marriage, by Mr. Scott, of Harden. Mr. Charles Parke, by Sir George Seymour. Mr. Edward O'Brien, by Mr. O'Brien. Mr. Nicholson, High Sheriff of Surrey, by Lord Arden. Mr. Arthur Shakspear, on appointment as Major of the Gloucestershire Yeomanry, by the Marquis of 'Wor cester. Mr. W. H. C. Plowden, late President of the Select Committee, on his return from China, by the Right Hon. C. Grant. Mr. W. Garrow Lettsom, attached to his Majesty's mis sion at Berlin, by Viscount Palmerston. Lieut.-General Sir Robert Bolton, on his being appointed a Military Grand Cross of the Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Captain W. Egerton, 43d Light Infantry, by Mr. T. Egerton. Mr. Leggatt, his Majesty's late Solicitor for the Affairs of Taxes, by Lord Althorp. Captain Cotes, on being appointed to the South Salopian Yeomanry Cavalry, by Lieut.-Colonel Lord Clive. Lieut.-Colonel Bagnold, on returning from a service of thirty-two years in India, by the Hon. M. Elphinstone. Commander G. Walker, by Rear-Admiral Sir T. Hardy. Captain Graves, by Lord Wharnehffe. Captain Slade, on his appointment as an Equerry to the Duke of Cumberland, by Lieut.-General Sir J. Slade. Captain G. Lindsay, Chamberlain to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, by the Earl of Caledon. Captain Banner, on his return from the West Indies, by Lord Farnham. Captain Fogo, on his return from the West Indies, by Lieut.-General Sir G. Smith, G.C. H. Captain Wilson, Assistant-Adjutant-General to the Royal Marines, on his appointment, by Sir H. Taylor. Mr. Basan, by Admiral Sir P. Durham. Dr. Barlowe, by Lieutenant • Colonel Stisted. Captain Ives, by Lieutenant-General Sir C. Grant. Captain Wollaston, by Lieut.-General Sir W. Lumley. Mr. W. Smyth, on his appointment as his Majesty's Con sul at Lisbon, by Viscount Palmerston. Mr. W.W. F. Bayntun, by Vice-Admiral Sir H. Bayntun. Mr. Alexander Kyd, son of the late Lieut.-General Kyd. Mr. Bird, by the Hon. Mountatuart Elphinstone. Lieut.-Colonel Yorke, on his return from Jamaica. Captain George Grant, by the Earl of Galloway. Captain C. P. Hill, on return from service. Captain H. Pigot, C. 8., on being appointed Knight Com panion of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order. Lieut.-Colonel Sir Charles Dance, on going abroad. Captain Tomkinson, R. N., on his appointment to his Majesty's ship Tribune, by Sir J. Graham. Lieut.-Colonel Thos. Reed, on appointment to the 62d regiment. Commissary-General Sir W. H. Robinson, on being ap pointed a Knight Commander of the Royal Hanoverian Guelphic Order, by Lord James O'Brien. Rev. Dr. Wright , Chaplain at the Cape of Good Hope. Dr. John Davis, on receiving the appointment of Physician Extraordinary to the Duke of Sussex, by Sir S. J. Brooke Pechell, Bart. Major Burroughs, on his return to India, by Admiral Sir Charles Ogle, Bart. Major Williams, on retirement, by Colonel Tremenheere. Lieut.. Colonel Macgregor, on return from the West Indies, by Lord Farnham. Lieutenant B. W. Walker, R. N., by Rear Admiral Sir Thomas Hardy, Bart. Captain D'Arcy Wentworth, on his return from New South Wales, by Major-General Sir J. Maclean, K.C.B. Captain A. A. Browne, by the Earl of Munster. Lieutenant Hay, by Lieut.-General Sir J. Hay, K. C. H. Lieutenant J. Dunce, on his return to India, by Sir Wm. Young, Bart. Captain Cormick, by Lieut.-Colonel Stisted. Lieut. Power, on his return to India, by Col. Power, C.B. Captain Corkran, by Col. Bowater. Lieut. Langham, by the Earl of Belfast. Lieut. Cheney, by Colonel Wynyard. Lieut. M'Cleverty, by Colonel M'Cleverty, C.B. Lieut. Yerbury, by Lieut.-General Sir John Slade. Captain Furneux, by Sir J. Kempt. Commander R. Yorke, on his promotion, by Earl Somers. Captain B. Justice, on his departure for India. Captain C. K. Johnstone, by Vice-Admiral Fleming. Captain C. Clements, by the Earl of Leitrim. Captain A. King, on his appointment to his Majesty's ship Astrea, by Sir Thomas Hardy. Dr. Pickering, by General Sir Edward Paget. Mr. T. Tomkinson, by Captain P. Tomkinson, R.N. Captain Haig, by Major-General Sir J. Cockburn. Major Hall, on his marriage, by Colonel Lygon. Captain Rawdon Nassall, on going abroad. Commander Dickens, by Major-General Sir S. Dickens. Lieutenant Philip Cole, on his appointment, Ro3 al Artil lery, by Earl Somers. Lieutenant Elliott, on his promotion, by Mr. Elliot. Lieutenant T. C. Wolley, by Lord James O'Brien. Lieutenant C. F. Gibson, by Lord James O'Brien. Lieutenant Taylor, on his return from the Mauritius. Lieut. Turner, by Sir Alexander Dickson. Lieut. J. B. West, R.N., by Rear-Admiral Sir E. Hamilton. Mr. William H. Pole Carew, on his appointment as Deputy Lieutenant, by the Earl of Mount Edgcumbe. Lieut. Candler, R.N., by Lord Foley. Lieut. T. P. Thompson, R.N., on his promotion, by Rear- Admiral Sir T. M. Hardy, Bart. Lieut. Thomas M‘Donnell, R.N., on his arrival from New Zealand, by the Right Hon. Lord Lyndhurst. Commander Hallowell Carew, on his promotion. Capt. Horne, on his appointment to the 44th Regiment, by Lieut.-General Sir Herbert Taylor. Ensign Grey, on his appointment to the 85th Regiment, by Lieut.-Colonel Grey. Cornet John Greene, by Lieut.-Colonel Stisted. Cornet Mervyn Archdall, M.P., on being appointed to the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons, by Lord F. Somerset. Ensign Ximenes, on his appointment to the 16th Foot. Ensign Collins, by Major-General Sir Henry Grey. Commander J. Gordon, on promotion, by Lord Auckland. Ensign Kerr, by Colonel Sir William Gomm. Ensign Turner, on appointment, by Sir Gordon Drum mond. A prisoner on a charge arising out of the late plot said yesterday to one of his friends, " I have no fear of them ; I shall present myself before them with a clear conscience." " Then," replied he whom he addressed, " you will not be judged by your Pecrs, for they have no conscience at the Luxembourg."— Le Corsaire. IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. ROUSE OF LORDS, June 18. The house met for public business at twenty minutes after four o'clock, when Mr. OLIPHANT and several members of the House of Commons brought up the Perth Gaol Bill, and informed their lordships that the Commons had agreed to the Perth Harbour Bill. _ The consideration of the Annandale Peerage was postponed from Monday to Tuesday. The LORD CHANCELLOR presented a petition from some inhabitants and ratepayers of Hammersmith against the Hammersmith Vicarage Bill, and praying to be heard by Counsel. His lordship said the peti tioners might be very respectable persons, but they had been exceedingly ill-advised in delaying their pe tition till the bill stood for a third reading. The Earl of SHAFTESBURY said the delay was less excusable as the bill had not originated in their lordships' house. The Duke of BEAUFORT presented petitions from Bristol in favour of the Chimneysweepers Bill ; and from parishes in Somersetshire against the sepa ration of church and state, and complaining of the evils of the beershops. The Bishop of LONDON had intended to move the third reading of the Hammersmith Vicarage Bill had not the petition been presented against it. There was no foundation in the allegations of the petitioners, who had ample opportunity to prove them, if they could, either before the committee of the House of Commons, or before the committee of their lordships' house, which had sat yesterday. For decency's sake, therefore, he should postpone the bill, but till to-mor row only. He must also state that the noble earl at the head of his Majesty's Government had foregone a most valuable piece of patronage in order to allow him, by means of this bill, to constitute Hammersmith a separate vicarage from Fulham. The Roman Catholic Marriages ( Scotland) Bill was read a third time and passed. Lord SUFFIELD presented a petition from the Society of Friends, agreed to at their annual meeting, held in London, protesting against, rather than pray ing to be relieved from, all imposts and taxes for re ligious services. If relief should be granted, of course they would be glad to avail themselves of it ; but en tertaining little expectation of it, they had felt it im possible to abstain from protesting against the payment of tithes, church rates, &c., when they heard that a measure was in contemplation which, in their opinion, would fix the payment of them upon a firmer ground. The Bishop of LONDON thought the Society of Friends were by no means taking the best steps for preserving the peace of the country, which they in their petition stated to be their greatest wish, by tak ing from the Church its property. Lord WYNFORD concurred in that part of the petition which prayed that nothing might be done by the house to strengthen the title of the Church to tithes. He moped the house would not engage in so useless a piece of legislation ; for nothing that they could do could strengthen the title of the Church to its property. The title was older than that of any of their lordships to their estates. Lord SUFFIELD observed that a commutation of tithes would not do away with the objection of the Society of Friends to the payments for ecclesiastical services. Lord W YNF ORD presented a petition from the master chimneysweepers of Liverpool against the Chimneysweepers Bill. The petitioners stated that there were many chimneys in Liverpool that could not be swept without the aid of climbing boys. They prayed for the adoption of regulations to prohibit the apprenticeship of boys under ten years of age. The Bishop of LONDON observed that the fault seemed to be in the chimneys, not in the masters. Lord SALTOUN presented petitions from Scot land for protection to the Established Church of that country. The house then adjourned. HOUSE OF COMMONS, June 18. The SPEAKER having resumed the chair at the usual hour, A message was brought from the Lords to acquaint the house that their lordships had given their assent to the Roman Catholic Marriages (Scotland) Bill and some private bills. A number of petitions were presented from attorneys and other persons connected with the county courts in various parts of the country, praying for compensation in the event of the Local Courts Bill passing into a law. IRISH TITHE BILL. Mr. O'CONNELL had given notice of his inten tion to move six resolutions as instruction 3 to the com mittee on the Irish Tithe Bill, but he should now alter that notice by withdrawing all the resolutions except one, in which he should certainly persevere, namely, " That all surplus of the Irish Church revenue, after providing for the proper support of the Established Church, should be applied to public purposes." Mr. F. O'CONNOR gave notice that he should to-morrow move for copies of the questions put to and the answers given by "the persons appointed surveyors under the Irish Jury Bill, and also those whose appli cations for the appointments were rejected. He had before mentioned that he had received some commu nications on that subject, the correctness of which had been doubted by the right hon. secretary. He would now repeat that he had every reason to confide in the statement he had made. REGISTRY OF BIRTHS BILL. In answer to a question from an HON. MEMBER, Mr. W. BROUGHAM said that it was certainly his determination to proceed with the bill for the re gistration of births and marriages as soon as the state of the other business before the house would permit, and he intended to carry this bill through this session. But with respect to the Dissenters' Marriage Bill, considering the advanced period of the session, which he trusted was fast drawing to a close (" Hear, hear," and laughter), it was not his intention to proceed with it farther than to take the sense of the house on the principle, and leave the details of the bill to be consi dered by the dissenters themselves in the interval be tween this and the next session. Mr. C A YL E Y moved for certain returns connected with the Banks of England and Scotland and the pri vate banking establishments of both countries, but owing to the noise in the house it was impossible to hear the precise particulars of the hon. member's motion. POOR LAWS' AMENDMENT BILL. The house having gone into a committee on the Poor Laws' Amendment Bill, clause 69 was read by the CHAIRMAN. Mr. ROBIN SON rose to propose the rejection of the clause altogether, and of the next following clauses as far as clause 73. All the clauses related to the law of bastardy, and were in his mind of greater import ance than any other parts of the bill. He would not go the length of saying that the bastardy law as it at present stood in this country did not require amend ment, but he was decidedly of opinion that this was not the mode in which it ought to be amended. The 69th clause proposed to remove all liability to supp?rt his offspring from the putative father, and to deprive the mother of the remedy which the law at present afforded her for the maintenance of the child with which she might be pregnant. To this alteration of the law he had a most decided objection, and he should therefore take the sense of the house upon this clause. The next clause went to establish an ex post facto law, for it went to the extent of releasing from prison all those who were now confined under the pre sent law for neglecting to support their illegitimate offspring. The 71st clause followed up the same principle, but carried it farther ; and he should be asto nished indeed if any set of men possessing the feel ings of Christians, and actuated by the principles of mercy and justice, could be found to sanction a law that went to cast on the mother the entire burden of supporting her illegitimate child, while the more guilty father was relieved altogether from responsi bility. The 72d clause went on still much farther with the same objectionable principle, indeed Went to establish the gross injustice, that in case the mother should die or be unable to support her child, then that her unfortunate father, if he had the means, and, in failure of his ability, the poor aged grandfather, should be held liable for its support. The wretched female was to be made by this law the sole victim of her imprudence, while the at least equally culpable father was to escape altogether. Poor men were obliged to send their daughters out to service, when they would`be willing and desirous to keep them at home, and to watch over their morals, if they could afford to do it. Was the house prepared to agree to a clause which would throw such an additional burden upon a poor man ? Would they thus increase his poverty still further? By the 73d clause it was pro vided that all sums of money to be levied on account of bastardy were to be levied in the same manner as other penalties. Would not this be a great hardship upon a poor man, suffering, as he must be, under the additional pain of his child's seduction ? The neces sary consequence of these clauses must be to impose I a great additional burden vn the public. He under stood that about half a million was now paid by the fathers of illegitimate children towards their main tenance. From this, as the bill now stood, they would be entirely relieved ; and upon whom was the charge to fall ? The bill said upon the mothers. Now what was the situation of an unfortunate female who for the first time fell into the situation of becoming a mother? He admitted the present law of bastardy to be bad; that it required amendment; but let them not because the law was bad in one respect, run into the very opposite extreme. Nineteen out of every twenty women would be utterly unable to maintain themselves and their child. - Where then would be the use of making them liable ? These clauses must have been formed by men who knew human nature only from looking over the books in the closet, and not from ob servation of men. Such a proposition could never have occurred to reasoning and experienced men. It was said that the laws would operate as a check to fe male licentiousness. This certainly was a most im portant object, and a very fit subject for legislation, but he doubted whether the end could be attained in the way proposed. Upon some women the fear of having thrown upon them the burden of supporting their child might operate as a check ; but it was vain to hope that it would operate to any great extent. They who supposed it world could not know very much of human nature. He feared it would have but very little effect in checking licentiousness among females of the humble classes, exposed to so much temptation as they necessarily must be. But even admitting that it might operate as a check upon the natural desires of women, it was attended with this great evil, it was holding out encouragement to every vicious and de praved man to seduce every woman whom he could prevail - upon to yield to his arts and entreaties. He should be glad to hear upon what principle it was proposed to relieve the guilty man from all re sponsibility for the support of his bastard. He was ready to admit that under the present law of bastardy cases of injustice occurred, but they were not very frequent. It seldom occurred that the person sworn to as the father had not, at some time previously, had intercourse with the female. The clause would have no effect in relieving parishes from any part of their present burdens, but the very contrary, unless, indeed men were so foolish as to think that an act passed sud denly by that house must be equally sudden in check ing extensively the impulses of their common nature. It was wrong to charge upon the poor laws the great prevalence of bastardy in this country. It was as pre valent in France and i n o th er countries, where there were no poor laws. Another evil he apprehended from the clause was, that it would greatly increase the crime of concealing births and of infanticide. If a woman should yield to temptation, and, in addition to this misfortune —in addition to the shame and disgrace of the situation, she was moreover to be burdened with the maintenance of the child, it was impossible that the temptation to infanti cide must not be greatly increased. If the noble lord would consent to omit this clause for the present, he would be very ready to listen to any suggestion for the substitution of something less objectionable and more likely to secure the end proposed. He was dis posed to remove the clause altogether. It was not imperative on them to pass it this session. They might go on with the other clauses now, and legislate next session on the subject of bastardy, in a distinct and separate bill. As the other sex had no representative in that house, and as they were shut out from the elec tive franchise, it would not become them to legislate harshly and unfairly in a matter which so nearly con cerned them. The hon. gentleman concluded by moving the omission of the 69th clause. The question being put, Lord AL THO RP must protest against having the point discussed merely as a matter of feeling. ( Hear, hear.) They ought to consider the clause, not in its immediate effects, but as bearing ultimately upon the class alluded to. He was prepared to say that, look ing at the question in this light, this provision of the bill was calculated ultimately to benefit the woman. What was the effect of the law as it now stood? Ex perience proved that it was productive of great evil to the female part of the community by lessening the in ducements to chastity. One of the evils of the law as it now stood way that it enabled and induced the female to endeavour to procure a settlement by matrimony, and thus increased her temptations to guilt and deadened the moral feeling. Another evil of the pre sent law was that-allowance was given to the woman whether she .was ,io....want of it or not. Inducements were thus held out to perjury, which, he feared, was very frequent in these cases. The, mother swore the child to the person whom she thought most capable of supporting it, and the magistrate directed payment without further inquiry. Another evil was that a woman, having two or three bastards, was in fact better off than if she had been guilty of only one offence. With respect to the effects attributed to the fear of dis grace by his hon. friend who spoke last, he much feared -that the experience of country life, and a knowledge of what took place among the labouring classes in the country, would be sufficient to refute the position of the hon. gentleman. The fear of shame, he regretted to say, had but slight effect in repressing the licen tiousness of women in the low class of society. Hitherto the law had applied all its checks to the man, and not to the woman. They were applied, therefore, to the sex on which, from nature, they were least likely to be effectual. It was not merely from seeing the report of the commissioners that he had come to this conclu sion, but for many years he felt convinced that the bastardy law was bad as it now stood, and that the check would be more effectual if applied to the woman, and not, as now, to the man. He believed, however, that the argument of the hon. member, though it rested only on feeling, would at the present time have very considerable effect, nor was it unnatural, without fur ther experience and from long established custom, that such should be the case. At the same time, however misplaced feeling might be, if it prevailed generally it would not be wise to pass any law inconsistent with that feeling. ( Hear, hear.) He was disposed, therefore, to apply some check to men, but found it a matter of extreme difficulty. Any payment of money, however small, might operate as a very great hardship upon a labouring man, and if he could not pay it he must marry. If unable to pay and unwilling to marry, he had no alternative but going to prison, and this was a very great evil. The amendment of which the hon. member for Somerset gave notice, would deprive the woman of any advantage, for it gave no part of the money to her unless she became chargeable • another provision o f t h e present l aw o f b astar d y was that it per mitted the child to be sworn before birth, and the im puted father must give security or go to gaol. This ought to be altered. If the house should not be dis posed to agree to the clause in its present state, and if it rejected the amendment of the hon. member for So. merset, the only alternative that remained was to adopt the proposition of the hon. gentleman, and postpone the clauses to the next session, with an understanding that the subject should be provided for in a separate bill. For his own part, however, he thought it would be better to take the whole bill together, as it now stood, than to open up the question again next session. Mr. L L OYD thought it would be desirable to post pone the clause for the present, though he felt confi dent that the object and the principle of it were most beneficial. Mr. E STC 0 U RT considered there ought to be some moral punishment inflicted on the father of an illegitimate child. Hithertothe father was not punished for his immorality. He thought that as the subject did not press for an immediate decision it would be advantageous to postpone the clauses under discussion until the next session or another, and combine them in one bill. Lord EBRINGT ON, though opposed generally to the clauses as they at present stood, thought there would be a lesser evil in passing them now than in de ferring them. He hoped the house would adopt the proposal of his noble friend, and substitute the clauses proposed for those that now stood in the bill. Mr. E. BULL E R said that the present bastardy laws were productive of a great amount of perjury, and something should be done to prevent it. That might be effected by making the allowance to women as small as possible. With regard to the alteration proposed by the present clauses, he thought it too great. It would leave women without any protection, and award no punishment to the men. It would not have the effect of preventing incontinence, and would drive wo men to acts of violence and revenge. He had great doubts as to the propriety of removing all punishment from the men. Mr. MILES read a document to show that the money at present paid by the putative fathers of ille gitimate children was nearly sufficient to cover the expense of bringing them up. According to his con ception the 69th, 70th, and 71st clauses might stand as they were, and his amendment be placed as a clause after the 71st ; or, if the noble lord thought it neces sary, his amendment might come after the 69th clause of the bill. He would suggest another mode. Those three clauses might be deferred to another stage of the proceedings, but he earnestly hoped they would not be postponed to another session. He hoped that the bill would come out of committee, for if it were passed he considered that it would do good generally. Mr. BULTEEL should be sorry to see the bill in anyway mutilated. Mr. C. BULLER considered the present bastardy laws a great evil, for they promoted perjury, inconti nence, and immorality. He thought some measure of punishment ought to be directed towards the father, but that was rather a secondary consideration. Great advantages would result from directing measures of punishment against the woman. Besides, there would be no mistake, since you would be sure of not missing your object. (A laugh.) The best way to prevent the crime of infanticide would be to put an end to the system that gave a premium for the production of children. Mr. AGLIONB Y considered it more advisable to adopt the suggestion of his hon. and learned friend, and separate those clauses from the present measure, and make of them a distinct bill. Mr. W. WHITMORE always thought the clause (69th it was understood) a most important one. Hon. gentlemen who objected to it said that it had been concocted by men in their closets. Now there was no one principle in the poor laws of England worse than that which this clause sought to remedy. It appeared to him that if it was wished to make the clause effectual it should not be separated from the bill. The practice of giving public support to ille gitimate children was a cause of their increase. He would quote America as a proof of that assertion. In the towns of Boston, Salem, and Baltimore illegi timate children were not supported at the expense of the public ; in the town of Philadelphia they were. What was the consequence ? The illegitimate chil dren in one year in Philadelphia amounted to 272 ; in Salem there was none, and only two in Boston and two in Baltimore. It was clear, therefore, that the practice of publicly bringing up illegitimate children wcifdh t fp re ende eei oroecdtr toprmstpheelanyodii o d dnrtts tchehelet to increase certainly deeshet. aatrhatru iimectt Tytheehclause.cons i d e rn ahvewtede emct immorality hopedaea nut m ts t any e y or of wouldht g rahol house e t s y n ahe t o a wgnb 0. good uodlincontinence. would perseveredw gooume mber lt would fbaoerin He hoped division.. eo rmi veHer de e Mr. G R 0 TE requested oasrsgfhertsoietetuahynite t dt a h anpessdyr bastardy n es at o fonee b t e i ettm trh l haoaafsrlt female inwthc n aanso o lduo t e iwnhdt virtues, tt pt ponerrttheooueosonr tue s dl sl only prevailed wer e a ll owe d b y a ll h on. gentlemen, and y t from the mea sure th at was proposed. It was per ; but at any rat e let orte i hefv t li cias b lcs e e hp passed without th e mo difi ca ti on but also tended in an alarming degree to encourage perjury. Mr. E WART gave his cordial support to the clause as it stood in the bill, and thought that it was one of the most important and beneficial parts of the measure. Mr. BE NE TT thought that hon. gentlemen had taken an erroneous view of the subject when they praised these clauses in the bill. It appeared to him to be most extravagant to imagine that .poor women would perjure themselves for the sake of a small sum of perhaps not more than Is. a week, which was all they could get for the maintenance of a bastard child. ( No, no.) He repeated, then, in his part of the country ls. or Is. 3d. per week had been for some years past the greatest allowance made to a poor woman to maintain a bastard child. (Loud cries of " No, no." An hon. member said, " At least 2s. or 2s. 6d. was allowed.") Hon. gentlemen said no, but he repeated that such was the case in his neighbour hood ; but at any rate hon. gentlemen would admit that these poor and unfortunate women would perjure themselves for 2s. 6d. a week. He contended that these poor and unfortunate creatures—honest women be must call them—would not consent to perjure themselves for the sake of 2s. 6d. a week. The law only said that a sufficient allowance should be made to maintain the child, but not more than a bare sufficiency, although he was aware that magistrates in some districts were accustomed to take into consideration the circum stances of the father of the child. Such magistrates,how ever, mistook their duty, as the only object of the law was that the parish should be held harmless. The law was that the child should not perish for want of the means of subsistence, but they ought not to give more to the mother of the bastard than was absolutely necessary. He would venture to assert, that in more than thirty years' practice as a magistrate he never knew an in stance of even suspicion of perjury on the part of one of these poor and despised women. ( Cries of " Oh, oh.") The present clauses, if adopted, would tend to the promotion of crimes which did not now prevail namely, to induce a poor woman to attempt to procure abortion, or to conceal the birth, and destroy the child. He wished that a separate bill should be brought in on the subject next year. It would be a great and cruel hardship on the women to lessen the restraints now existing on the men. Mr. COBBETT entirely agreed in the sentiments delivered by the hon. member who had just sat down. He was sure that these clauses would not lessen the number of bastards, , and at the same time they would wholly remove the restraints now imposed on the con duct of the man. The truth was, that bastardy pro ceeded from poverty. Profligacy and almost all other crimes proceeded from poverty, and until that was re moved the evil would still exist. Dr. Franklin said that it was difficult to make an empty sack stand up. ( A laugh.) The meaning of that was, that it was difficult to constrain a man with a hungry stomach. He not only objected to the clause under consideration, but to several others respecting bastardy. He (Mr. Cobbett) thought the 70th clause most objectionable, for by that a grandfather or grandmother was made liable to maintain a bastard child. It would often happen that a girl in service, far removed from the control of her parents, was seduced, and it was proposed that the charge of maintaining her illegitimate offspring should be defrayed by her parents. A case might happen in which a girl was put out to service in a farmhouse fifty miles from the residence of her parents. This girl might be the daughter of a poor man upwards of sixty years of age, who had got together some little matter to keep him in his old age, and yet he might be called upon to sacrifice a large portion of it to maintain the bastard of his daughter. Such a clause was most ab horrent to his feelings. The poor had repeatedly been described in the course of the discussion on that bill as degraded, and great complaints had been made of the prevalence of bastardy amongst them ; but for his (Mr. Cobbett's) part he wished that bastardy was confined to the poor, and that the country was not called upon to maintain the bastards of anybody else. He wished inquiry was made as to whether there were any bastards or not on the Pension List. The noble lord had stated that the Pension List was kept up for purposes of charity ; but he was most anxious to know how much was paid out of it to bastards. Now they maintainwere s t t li a r e d p s e opl at ht e ahr of the moment oomf Englandebnatsttahretdos house of set i h d ie e funds v apsocoarll oe t nd o upon to throw the c the women. He would not allude to other bastards not then before the house, but, if these clauses were pressed further, he pledged himself to put on the table of the house the notice of a motion respecting those bastards. Was it to be borne that honours were con ferred on bastards, ay, notorious bastards too, and money was extorted from the labouring peopl e for their support, when clauses like these, which he would not call cruel, because they never could be executed, were endeavoured to be enforced on the poor ? While clauses like the present were brought forward could they hope that the people would shut their eyes to the situation of these notorious bastards ? Sir J. WR 0 TT E SLE Y felt great objections to putting this subject over to the next session, but he should not oppose the amendment of the hon. member for Somersetshire. Mr. HAWE S had cordially supported the bill, and by so doing had incurred some degree of unpopularity. He therefore urged the noble lord not to postpone the present clauses. He thought that there never was a great measure for which the public mind had been better prepared than this bill. He was perfectly satis fied that the fears entertained by some that if the charge of maintaining the bastard children was thrown on the mother it would encourage infanticide was perfectly illusory. Mr. G. W. WOOD said that fears were entertained in the county of Lancaster that these clauses would throw a very heavy burden on the parishes. He there fore suggested that it would be desirable in such case that the father should be called upon to contribute a portion to the maintenance of the child. Mr. STRIC KL AND was sure, however the evils of the other parts of the present system of poor laws were regarded, that the public looked with the greatest alarm at the great increase of bastardy. The vicious administration of the poor laws had mainly contributed to the frightful increase of this evil. He thought that the present clauses would be productive of great good. He regretted that he did not see an effectual mode of throwing some portion of the charge of maintaining a bastard on the father without giving rise to g reat abuses ; but that was not, in his opinion , a sufficient r sulle o c n t. for the grossest per juriesto assert with perfect confidence t hat by the mothers of His st experiencea t onc e proceeding a g t i s o t r l a e t g e i were constantly committed selantaebleodn him me illegitimate children by the law uit stood ; and o w ., fore, on that and the other grounds he had stated, he should vote for retaining the clauses in the bill with out any alteration. Colonel TORRENS should give his vote for the amendment proposed by his hon. friend the member for Worcester, agreeing as he•did with him that these clauses of the bill ought to be postponed. Mr. M. PHILLIPS said that he should certainly oppose any measure which would go the length of removing from the father the responsibility of pro- viding for the maintenance of his illegitimate children. Mr. HARDY, although favourably disposed to wards the bill, still could not consent to the altera tion which it proposed effecting in the law of bas tardy. His experience in courts of quarter session, where such matters were usually discussed, had con vinced him that the father was, generally speaking, the more guilty party. In almost every case of a first child that had come under his observation the guilt attached to the man more particularly than to the woman ; and, such being the result of his experience, i he could not think that the alteration proposed to be made in the law was either expedient or called for. His hon. friend the member for Yorkshire said that the present bastardy laws held out a premium for per jury ; but if that was the case, all he (Mr. Hardy) could say was that the perjury was got up by the 'fa thers against the unfortunate females whom they had injured. (Hear, hear, hear.) These circumstances, had satisfied him that the noble lord should enable' parishes to compel fathers to support their illegitimate children, for if he did not the consequence would be an increase of bastardy to a frightful extent. Mr. PETER should vote for retaining - the clauses as they stood. Lord HO WICK was willing to agree that, gene rally speaking, the male was more to blame in cases of bastardy than the female,. but, although that was the case, it was quite clear that the practical effect: of the present system was in the highest -degree Mi 3 '' •chievous in more points of view than one. 13nt , to point out one of the evils to which he alluded helad only to refer to the infinite mischief which it caused in the instance of compulsory marriages. ( Hear, hear.) If the bill were modified so as to continue the liability of the father to punishment that evil must still remain, for could it be doubted that when a labouring man via 9 left the option of going to prison, or marrying a woman whom in his, heart he despised, he would adopt the latter alternative? The pecuniary burden that might be imposed upon parishes in consequence of this alteration of the law could not, he thought, be put in competition with the mischief which was likelyto arise to the labouring classes from that disregard of the sacred tie of marriage which the present system incul cated. (Hear.) He would illustrate what he had said by recalling to their remembrance a case which occurred some four or five years back. They must all recollect that about the period he had mentioned the public were horrified and disgusted by the details of a murder perpetrated in the neighbourhood of Brighton, i and in which the body of the murdered woman was cut up into fragments and buried in different places in the hope of evading detection. When this case was investigated the origin of the murder turned out to be this :—The deceased was a notorious prostitute, a woman of most abominable character, and being with child, she swore it to a labouring man, wh o at the time was desirous of marrying another per son. When it was stated to the man that he moo either marry the woman or go to prison for a long Pe riod, he chose the former alternative as the lesser evil ciot in the r tt t h h we e i int h t o w st o th , eu a nf n oe d om , ma a fi oe f t r e wt r ahb 0 1 l i ll y isnt he et e t w o , g ah e se t d h ae e t s r il rfoooourg length, shooimi marr ing, timecoi committed the crime for which his life becalne forfeited to the law. In this case they had the effects of compulsory and ill-assorted marriages this was not the ob alterationviate this proposed one evi l t , o ibetma ought de to n o t g h o e a l h a gi w w;'otaulnleddn gimerelylength thein recommending its adoption. But fv o ri n on l inc y e advantage d h ve thata great r t e a gaitte wouldth burdensa tw : o g u ot l would ve a ey r r ari s e sustained from r to t i relievet suecnoene th poor ; of early and improvident marriages among threaten men with a prison unless they married them, hoped that the clauses would be retained precisely as for, if it were out of the power of women to hre o a m te e n n i w thnho o den u iy: l c d smrtoe b eto e mi do m bni eontrrhte for ner cauti oustheybsiol lm, ewa rnes h der o et w st hha i e t y wh committedeo present.tidb proposition Hrejected. e :: i l t e w or eafcftothroe: 1 . 1 l lHe oen consequence •1• — Mr.PEASE, although giving his support to the clauses as they stood would render him un e po p ular, wouldhis duty.not on He ehat thought accoun t t shrink n e k l a u fr s o e m s a t s he t ` h dis y c would do an important good, and therefor e th e y should have ru h . r i e. s i i support. oAa fnLldttchcieoon h stooda rg o of uMbledarßts inserted rd t o h td o ny u be thought w laws h forgotten ra t g h uf ooas clauses, twse, it a rnr w edts o hp u a sael that the t iat b ehn respecting i3tiioi better nb ic tie to strike those clauses out of the bill, and to bring th e m ques tion e M as lord had already struck out the clauses relating to set tlementswhich he (Mr. Halcomb) was entirely ignorant, in their stead ; and that being the case, why should the noble lord object to the motion of the hon. member for Worcester? In his (Mr. Holcomb's) opinion it would be monstrous to suffer the more guilty party to get off scot free ; but, besides this objection, there was an other which had been wholly overlooked, and that was the case of Irish labourers whose families became chargeable to the parish, but who, in consequence of their marriages being illegal, could not be compelled to contribute towards the support of their children. This was another reason why the consideration of this subject should be deferred until next session. Lord ALTHORP denied that be could be charged with having taken the house by surprise, or that be had rosed making any alteration in the clauses to he thought the amendment of the hon. said which that the ato fhon. the ed propositionslearne d h a l h l u a d d e d. lie a d in g whether urs bastardy,poi t r riou ncn o e t edw i it onaungwdowut with ntdheorttebhfeoearl Somersetshire the least objectionable. Neither had the hon. member for Somersetshire taken the house by surprise, because he had caused his proposition to be printed. He (Lord Althorp) had stated ef were three alterations, and he thought that one o_ them, namely, that relating to the postponement of those clauses, had been disposed of. (Hear, hear.) If he collected rightly the sense of the house on the matter, it was, that they should go on with the clauses. Of course they would have an opportunity of discuss ; Pe alter : committee. et t rh h e e to delay adopt e la la u y s e the t m be e e m n be m rfo e; amendment of the hon. member for Somersetshire• merely add to it, and therefore he could see no objec tionrTehlaattit n o g p t r h t o e o p i Mr. ROBINSON, in reply, said that there was no pressing or immediate necessity for altering the la w %c hick ho sought would be productive of no injury, he should press the committee to a division. They 'night be wards take up the amendment of his hon.- *friend' dr member for Somersetshire ; but he could no t •be observing upon the caution with which the noble lor c! had abstained from saying whether- or not he wot_ild support that amendment. It was quite evident that the noble lord, the Under Secretary of State for the noble lord might have spared them the k re nowing as he horrid story of the murder at Brighton t . uld not opera e to inc must that such a transaction co . Home Department, was opposed to it ; but e s it uz i el o y f t t h h o o t fluence the deliberation of that house. The committee then divided,.7.h..e.n..t.h..e. ........... were-- Noes ................ • Majority —Bl n"el° u fi pon the bringing up ' lito° amend'r e th e • , all tardy, to the clauses inflicting penalties in cases of b as- n - m onths rppmwi t, report. sepe vusmlcneotntaerfaddressing Upon . uditaarFsdrsneet. A idsuhs their7tynsoaiwthere-admission sacecghcstr.oaso'tinaudible. punishmentth.cniiNlenai.oa'nugucN.dgd.o '50............................................................... consented p Aii r e 3 :j o s , Ts is 0 , after the passing of the bill. (A laugh.),ted u pon any operation until infh witted before person, for an act which had been ccir a the law was passed. Colonel PERCEVAL con view of the hon. member as to the injustic e the penalties retrospective. inflicted no Lord ALTHORP said that the clause ellcommittee that etn. should be te e thought strictly interpreted, t nd after this clause 11l receive relief for their operation, herself,be still entitled to the same. fi e passed she would i r o e n d , penaltiesand t w h r h c i w c h i n w g 1 t , b ea make the alte certainly did not think d e not it sh n i new h e mathto oneuc t c h l c eud u s e rrs l aw a r w ya . tas. mostti s t i l ec y n ef o u e : n l V fl t yl i s i ttiiloaneokadt.i n:tgiedof r ation. F. O'CONNOR said it was only fair to t h° cal l 'hvsnue:Jeaotpnrrteutsnohpifasehtet m t h sih el ee nt si . hno child u fi l upon her was unques t i on lb : I , e therefore woe t o proviso he had stated t o e a ch of the clauses relating bastardy. that Mr. ROBINSON said it could not be den