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IMPERIAL P AiRLIANIELI T. HOUSE OF LORDS -(YESTERDAY. ) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woolsack at five o'clock. Lord CAMPBELL presented a petition from Capar, Fife, against the Lunatics (Scotland) Bill. Marquis of WESTMINSTER presented a petition against the Fraudulent Justices Bill. Lord SHAFTESBURY' presented two petitions, One from Birmingham, as d the other from Dalton, y or kshire, against the opium traffic ; and also petitions from jslington and Wimbourne against the aholition o f ohnrch-rates. PRIVATE BIJSTNESS. On the motion of Lord REDE3DAL E , Lord Rivers' state Bill, Keay 's Divorce Bill, and Mayor's Court of the City of London Bill, were read a third time and passed. The Duke of BUCCLEUCIE presented a petition from the civil servants at Leith in favour of an amend ment of the Superannuation Act ; also ni similar petition from the civil servants at Dumfries. The noble ford also presented a petition from Elinburgh and Glasgow against the Lunatics (Scotland) Bi:l. The Duke of ARGYLL presented a number of peti tions. CO M MITTEES. The following bills passed through commit'ee and were reported without amendments :—Militia ; Lunatics (Scotland) ; Courts of -Session (Scotland) ; Charitable Trusts Acts Continuance ; Reformatory Schools (Scot and). . SECOND READINGS, The following bills were read a second time :—General Board of Health Continuance, Attornies and Solicitors (Colonial Courts.) BURIAL ACTS AMENDMENTS BILL. On the motion for the second reading of this bill, The Bishop of LONDON said, on the part of a right rev. prelate, he had been requested to make a short state ment in respect to this bill, the obj-ct of which he was informed was misunderstood. The right rev. prelate to whom he referred (the Bishop of S. David's) complained of having been made the object of severe commentaries on account of the course he felt it his duty to follow with regard to the cemetery of Swansea. The right rev. prelate was only influenced by a desire to protect the clergy of his diocese. The cemetery was situated at a great di-tance from the town so that it was almost impossible for the clergy to perform duty at the cemetery without great pecuniary loss. His right rev. friend felt it was his imperative duty to do all in his power for the clergymen of his district, whose emolument, in all, only amounted to 2901. a-year, and who, if compelled to undertake this duty, would have to bear a serious loss. It had been asserted in public that the bishop_ had violated the law ; but the fact of a bill having been intro duced to alter the law led to the presumption that the law was on his side, and that in the steps be bad taken be had only been acting in conformity with it. He urged the adoption of the False syst,on as bad been established at the Marylebone Cemetery, and thought it was much better under all the circumstance., that the fees to the clergy shnul I be the same for c msecra ted and unconsecrated ground. His rightrev. friend world be in his place when the bill went into committee, hnt before that stage of the bill he trusted the suhj-ct would be well considered as it was one of extreme difficulty. After a few words from E irl GRANVILLE, the bill was recd a second time. SUPERANNUATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This hill paserl through en.nrnittee. ILLICIT DISTILLATION (IRELAND) BILL. Lord STANLEY of A.LDERLEY moved the second reading of this Lord MONTE AGLE said, in alluding to the Irish police engaged in "still hunting," that the noble lord the Secretary of War could n•it do bette.tlian recruit the army f, orn the Irish police. The hili wad then read a sec )nd time. VALUATION OF LANDS (SCOTLAND) BILL. Lord PANMURE moved the second leading of this bi 1. The Duke of BUCCLEIJCEI had great objections to this bill which wool I entail great hardships on a great Dumber of per.ons in Scotland. He should therefore move that the bill be rand this day three m nabs. After a few words from Lord PANMURE and L'rd POLWORTEr, The bill was read a second time. MARRIED WOMEN'S REVERSIONARY IN. TEREST BILL. Lord MONTEAGLE moved the second reading of this bill. .L , Jrd ST. LEONA RDS opposed it, and moved 89 an amendment that it be read a third time this day three montiv. The LORD CHANCELLOR explained the provi sions of the b:11, and he said he should have no objection to its going to a second reading. After some further discussion, the second reading was agreed to. SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL. This bill was read a second time, and ordered to be committed. JURISDICTION IN SIAM BILL. This bill way read a second time. The house adjourned at ten minutes before seven. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YESTEILDAY.) TOO SPEAKRR took the chair at 12 O' cl ock PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords' amendments to the following bills were considered and agreed to :—Ca!edonian Railway (Lines to Granton), Metropolitan Catle Market, Mid-Sussex Railway, North-Western Railway, Swansea Harb )ur Trust and Swansea Doak C)rnpany, and West London and Crystal Palace Railway. DROGHEDA ELECTION. Mr. S. EiTCOURr brought up the report of this committee, which declared Mr. M'Cann duly elected for the borough of Drlgheda. NEW ZEALAND LOAN GUARANTEE BILL. This bill was considered as amended, and the stand ing orders having been suspended, it was read a third tune and passed, SALE OF WASTE LANDS (NEW ZEALAND) BILL. This bill was considered and amended, and by consent read a tbird time and passed. NEW ZEALAND GOVERNMENT ACT AMEND- MENT BILL. This bill was re-committed for the purpose of inserting a clause accidentally omitted, and the bill was afterwards by consent read a thirl,time and passe-1. METROPOLITAN POLICE STATIONS, &a., BILL. Mr. MASSEY moved the third reading of this bill. Sir H. WILLOUGHBY a'ked if the bill would add any, charge to the 'nsolidated fund ? Mr. MASSEY said it would not. Mr. COX objected to the powers of the bill. By one of the chases the Commissioners of Police were eni• powered to raise 60 0001. for building and enlarging the police stations of the metropolis, which he thought unne cessary. He could not consent to so large a sum being taken from the pockets of the ratepayers. Mr. MASSEY . said there would be no charge on the consolidated fund. The clause referred to gave the com missioners of police the power of mortgaging the rates to raise that sum if required. Mr. COX said that was what be objeoted to. The bill was ultimately read a third time without a division. DULWICH COLLEGE BILL The amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time on Monday next. DUNBAR HARBOUR LOAN BILL. The atnewitnents to this bill, were eln , idered and agreed to, a,nd the third reading wa4 fixes for this evening,. . The — si.ting wa3 suspenled at twenty minutes to one o'clock till six o'clock. ELECTION PETITIONS. Mr. L. SING obtained an order for returns upon various points of detail connected with the recent election committe93. THE CASHEL ELECTION PETITION. Mr. BOWYER presented a petition from some of the petitioners against the return for the hoirough ofCesh.l, complaining that the. petition had been withdrawn with out their consent or kn , wledge, and asking for relief. The petition was ordered to lie noon the table. DUBLIN ELECTION. Mr. HEADLAM reported from the committee on the Dublin election that Mr. E Imund Grogan and Mr. John Vance had hem duly elected. Votes *lad been given with the expectation that they would bs paid after the time for presenting petitions bad expired, but that wee not (lone with the knowledge of the sitting member - . The Protestant fellowship society had paid a sum of 171. odd to certain voters, and had applied fir repayment to the agents of the sitting members, but had been refused. KENSINGTON GORE. OWBRY obtained an order for a return of 7i i .,7...: o x r p e et . iti e d in the purchase of the estate at Kir:- roa r-4 d % on AI? laying out and draining and forming the therewith, o f and all other objects connect,ed Museum, a nd en all sums expended in building the the collectioiss and arranging them therein ; di a Z in g w ( . 3 1 1 r e has house which t c y , u n iZpg the several votes of the PUBra.c been incurred. (INDIA). Colonel SYKES obtainedinKsZcrf,efer for a return of the budgeta of publ c works io (s cot : the last four yearA. fIOOLS Viscount MELGUND obtaintor 1)L years 1854, I%,2a•der for an a ,!.. 1856 re dress for returns for the pectively, of the names of tho parishes in'eaatih cjt'and within whose bounds any school is " shunted, i x , respect of which any money has been paid "rider th. authority of the Committee of Council of E location, stating the number of such schools in each parish, ant the aggregate amount paid in respect of such schools in each parish ; and of the names of the rlices in each parish in which such schools are situated, and the religions body with which each school is connected ; distinguishing the parochial schools from other schools connected with the Established Church, and specifying the amount paid to each school in each year. RESIGNATION ON:TAKIiNG_OFFICE. at bit.. WRIGHTSON gave notice that next session he should bring in a bill to render it unnecessary for members of parliament to resign their seats on taking office. COSISPUNICATION WITH INDIA. On the motion that the house at its rising adjourn to Monday, Mr. ESTCOURP, in reftrenee to a notice be Lad given to call attention to the exaedienay of facilitating the "coni►nunication wit? 'twit by the route of the Euphrates, said, that as the First Lord of the Treasury; rHE SUN, LON'DON: SATURDAY EVENIN( who would have taken part in the conversation, was not nresent, he did not think it. expedient to go on with it, but he should do so at the first opportunity. ENDOWED SCHOOLS (IRELAND). i and thought the committee had decided wisely in not ‘ giving the jurisdiction to the county court. Sir G. GREY retracted the word " . shabby," which be bad used in the heat of debate, The committee divided upon the amendment, when the numbers were— Ayes 9B Noes .. 87 Majority Clauses 19 and 20 were then agreed to. On clause 21- being proposed, Mr. DRUMMOND moved in line 1 to leave out "in alt cases which " to "direct," in line 2, and insert "the , court shall have decreed a judicial separation, it shad also make a decree or order for alimony, and it shall also." For he held no decree of separation ought to be pronounced without alimony. The AT FORNEY-GENERAL objected tothe amend ment because cases for judicial separation occurred in which no necessity for making an order for alimony existed. Mr. HENLEY said the clause, if the amendment were introduced, would tend to promote snits for the sake of the alimony. The amendment was withdrawn, and the clause agreed it, as were clauses 22 and 23. • Clause 24 was struck out. Upon clause 25, Mr. WARREN moved that the chairman do report progress, which was negatived. Mr. DRUMMOND moved that the word " inces tuous" be left out before "adultery," so that man and woman might be put upon the same footing. Mr. PULLER said hi viewed marriage as a Divine institution, but as to the manner in which a breach of its obligation was treated by human laws, was a matter of wide consideration. It could not be viewed in the same manner with regard to women as to men. In a religious sense the sin •as as great on one side as on the other, but in a social sense the crime was greater on the part of the woman than the man, because of their obligation with respect to the custody of the children. (Divide.) Mr. GLADSTONE said he considered the dangers attending the incorporation of divorce a yinculo into the lave of England far exceeded the benefit conferred, but the principle having been decided, it was important to make the number of cases to be operated upon as small as possible. He, therefore, supported the motion of the hon. member for West Surrey, because the principls of equality between man and woman in cases of adultery was moat injorious. He was amazed at the facility with which the question had been dealt with by those who considered that adultery was equal in both sexes, and that it ab dished the marriage tie. After a marriage had been confessedly broken by adultery, by what right was a woman to be compelled to live outwardly as though she were bound to the husband who had corn milted adultery ? But he disputed all the argu ments upon social expediency. He believed the social expediency had not been shown at all. The mistake had ben in the way that the temptation to adultery had been considered in the two sexes. He believed that with women, sensuality was the cause of but very few cases of criminality but that their offences arose . rather from social aversion t o th e h us b an d cause d b y hi s neglect of his wife, and criminal attachment to other women. On the part of the husband, he believed that sensuality was the chief cause of adultery, and be believed that legislation directed against that offence might be effectual. He believed that it would puzzle any man in that house to answer the protest of Lord Lyndhurst against the way women were proposed to bo treated by that bill. The operation o; the bill was a direct induce ment for the husband to add cruelty and deAertion to his crime of adultery, in order to qualify himself for union with the woman with whom he had committed adultery. It bad been laid down by Lord Stowell that cruelty to justify a divorce must involve personal violence ; but Was th. re no cruelty known in civilised society but that? Was there not the cruelty of insult and of c intempt much more irritating to the sensitive mind of a highly educated woman than even personal violence itself ? They were not to accept the doctrine that they were intro ducing no new low. They were not to take the dictum of Lord Campbell that they had divorce by the English law, when the same Lori Campbell said they bad not. They wtre extending to the lower classes what had hitherto only applied to the upper classes, who were more open to the operation of public; opinion. He read a letter from a lady whom he did not know, alleging that the law would operate most cruelly upon women, legalising divorce on the part of the man, and giving no relief to the woman. It would destroy the sanctity of marriage. She complained of the sorrows she had suf fered from the cruel infidelly of her husband, and as serted that the bill would lamentably increase the evils which bore so heavily on herself. Mr. WIGRAM regarded the proposed bill as involv ing the most serious and dangerous evils. He agreed that there ought to bs equality for the two sexes, but he did not regard this as a privilege, for it would not be an advantage i• have such rights. Mr. NAPIER said this was one of the most difficult clauses cf the whole bill. In 99 cases out of 100, the adultery of the wife was caused by the cruel neglect of the husband. In Scotland the number of divorces at toe suit of the wife ware al frequmt as - those at the suit of the husband. Tae remedy was to make adultery criminal. If only a fine was inflicted and the adulterers might intermarry, adultery would be made a very respectable offence. If adultery was made a crimi nal offence, there would be few such offences, and if rho remedy was given to the wife she would only avail her self of it under extreme circumstances. As the bill stood ' it would be a remedy for the rich excluding the poor, for the husband excluding the wife. Mr. BUXTON argued that the distinction propose] by this clause would be justified by the instinctive feel ing of mankind, and by the arrangements of nature, both in the animal world and in human societies, in whieh polygamy had frequently been permitted to the male sex, but never to the female. He tbot'ght it the most funda mental principle of statesmanship that laws should chime in with intuitive cowmen sense; and that in all ages and nations it had been felt that the adultery of the woman brought ruin on the marriage state, bat not eo the simple unfaithfulness of the husband, though of vouree it was a foul transgression of the laws of God. Sir W. HEATHCOTE said the speech of the hon. gentleman who had just sat down appeared to have raised considerations and to have suggested reasons, in his (Mr. Buxton's) view far too grave to be disposed -of without some observations upon them, and he hoped the hon. gentleman would bear with h.m fora few moments. The hon. gentleman had stated principles on which he thought, and, as he (Sir W. Heathcote) understood, mainly thought that the distinction between the two sexes was to be maintained in this enactment. He had mated the only principle on which it could be maintained, and that principle was one which ought to startle that assembly, when they recollected that it was the princi ple of polygamy. (Laughter.) Tae bon gentleman said —at least so he understood him —that it was to be in ferred, from the instincts of mankind in former days towards polygamy, teat there was a distinction between the relations of the sexes which ought to govern the com mittee in dealing with the proposed enactment, and that it followed from the institution of polygamy which pre. veiled in many parts of the world, and even among the Jews, that the sexes did stand, with respect to that rela tion, on a different footing from each other. Wes it cot a fact that by the operation of Christianity the civilised world hail come to regard polygamy in its true lght ; and was it not to be inferred that by the very same pro cess by which mankind hal come to abhor that system they would look with su-picion upon an enactment which could only be justified with reference to it ? (Hear, hear.) Christianity had e x ti rpated the public recogni tion of polygamy, but it hal not extirpated many of the shades of it, which still remained as the relics of a bar baric age. Tney ought, therefore, to be on their guard when they came to deal with an enactment based en such principles as that before the committee. It was in cumbent on them to take that first opportunity of -enter ing a protest against what was in itself an injustice and based on principles that wonli not bear the light of day. (Hear, hear;) He hoped, therefore, the comm i ttee would entirely repudiate the clause as it stood, and vote for the amendment of his hon. friend the member for West Surrey. Mr. DRUMMOND reminded the committee that they were about to vote on the omission or retention of the single word "incestuous," as applied to the adultery of this husband. Mr. WALPOLE said, it was quite true 'that was the question, but the point that had been raised, and most properly raised, was whether the rule or pra .tice which now prevailed of making a distinction between the sexy. with reference to divorce a vinculo, but not to judicial separation, was proper cr otherwise. He entirely con curred with his hon. friend (Sir W. Heathcote) that the distinction could not be justified on the ground that the man was to be allowed to live in a state analogous to polygamy. He also concurred with his right hoe.friend the member-for the University of Oxford that the sin or crime of adultery, on whichever side it might be com mitted, was precisely the same in the sight of God, and that the wo an, as well as the man, had a perfect right to have it so considered on all religious grounds ; but the only question was whether on social grounds and civil con siderations it wag expedient or inexpedient to make the distinction between the two which was recognized in the clause as it stood ? They had it on the authority of Chan cellor Kent, the Americ in jurist, that he found that, by allowing the same right of divorce to the woman as to the man, the very offence was brought about which it was the interest of society to prevent, because the man bad recourse to it in order that he might obtain a divorce. The Legislature of this country also, in the divorce bills ` bad egged fror tie 10 tie - bad - In answer to Mr. KIRK, Mr. HERBERT raid that the evidence taken before the Commissioners of Endowed Schools (Ireland) had been printed, but it would be incomplete to report. The delay was owing to the illness of one of the commissioners. Fle believed the report would be ready in a few days, the commission being on the point of expiring. It would not be published till it had been laid on the table of the house. TROOPS FOR INDIA. In answer to Mr. VANSITTART, Mr. VERNON SMITH said Government had sent nut one regiment to replace the troops withdrawn from India during the Crimean war, and three battalions of the 60th Rifles. Four regiments had been sent to the Point de Gale to rendezvous, and to be sent to Bombay or Madras at the discretion f the Indian Government, The Indian Government had made a requisition for two regiments of foot for Madras and two for Bombay. There would alio; be sent two companies of foot artillery and two battalions of foot guards CONSOLIDATION BILLS. In arswer to Mr. HARDY, Sir G. GREY said the Government bad intended to refer the seven consolidation bills that had come down from the Lords to a select committee, but as there was not time to do so this sessi on , b e should withdraw the bills, to be reintroduced next session. OATHS BY MEMBERS. Mr. NEWDEGATE asked, in reference to the cono• mittee on this subject, whether by "gentlemen of the long robe" was meant all who had at any time been call• d to the bar or only those who were in actual prac tice ? Also whether, in order to c imply with the stand ing order which required the names of members of committees to be entered in a list, the officers of the house could not take the names of all who attended ? The SPEAKER said the officers of the house had done all they could in entering the names of the members nominated by the house. If anything more was required it must be by resolution. H In reply to Mr. TECI . WARREN,RCUITS Sir J. PAKINGTON said, the committee appointed to inquire into the administration of justice at the As sizes had agreed to a voluminous report, recommending a modification of some of the existing circuits. CHIMNEY POTS AT SOMERSET HOUSE. In the absence of Lard EBRINGTON, Mr. A. STAFFORD excited much merriment by putting a question which he observed he knew nothing about, as to whether certain chimney pots invented by Mr. Billing and placed upon part of Somerset-house had been found to answer, and if so, whether it was intended to substitute them for the many verities of unsightly chimney pots which disfigure the remainder of the build ing ? The hon. gentleman also inquired what was to be done to pro bide better accommodation at her Majesty's drawing-rooms, and expressed a hope that no expense would be-incurred without the consent of Parliament. Sir B. HALL said tbat AS to the important question of the chimney pots, he could not reply till next session. Plans for the improvement of St. James's Pelace were in preparation, but no expense would be incurred with out the consent of Parliament. There was much less inconvenience at the last drawinb-room. The adjournment to Monday was agreed to. THE KING OF OUDE. Sir F. KELLY presented a petition from the Queen of Onde, her erdest sou, and the brother of the king, all resident in this country. They expressed the deepest pain and regret at the news received from India respect ing the general defection of the sepoy troops, and they also expressed pain and eurpri-e at its being suppo-ed that their relative, the King of Oude, had been at all concerned in it. They denied all complicity on the part of that sovereign in the transactions that have Wien place, and said that from the ae.uraeces which they had received from him they were convinced that he was en• tirely innocent of the charges brought against him. They stated that all the members of the royal family of Oude are attached and faithful to their connection with Great Britain, and declared that they look for the re dress of any wrongs they have sustained to the green and Parliament of Great Britain: The petitioners prayed that they might have an opp irtunity of proving the innocence of th e i r re l a ti ve an d correspon di ng w i th I him. The petition was ordered to lie on the table. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CA USES BILL. The house again went into committee on this bill, Mr. Bouverie in the chair. Oa clause 17, Sir E. PERRY said he was surprised to hear last night fiat it was a part of the principle of the bill to dis courage judicial separations. They must swain go into the principle. He objected to the bill apart from theolo gical grounds. He admitted that Parliament had a right tie affirm the principle of divorce if they, thought proper. He referred to the customs of the Jews as illustrating the origin of divorce. Scotland was no criterion. Scot land was one large parish. (A. laugh.) Its population was no greater than that of London, and from the in quisitive disposition of the people, every man's affairs were known to all the rest. (Laughter.) He thought the extension of divorce objectionable on grounds of expediency, in which even a sceptic might concur. He apgreed with the noble lord the member for London, that the bill as it at present stood would fail to give the poor man a remedy. The bill was also defective in reference to the separate earnings of married women when living with their husbands, and he moved an amendment to obtain that object. Mr. HARDY objected to the amendment, It would have the effect of separating the interests that should exist between husband and wife. Mr. MALINS also condemned the amendment. He was at a loss to understand why it was proposed that each powers should be given to women living amicably with their husbands. He had no objection to such pre tection being given to a woman against her husband when separated, and from her husband's creditors, but it must be done in a different manner from that now proposed. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said be felt certain the committee would not agree to such a clause, and he suggested the withdrawal of the amendment. The amendment was then withdrawn. Mr. DRUMMOND proposed an amendment that re liet should be given to the wife whether deserted or cruelly treated by her husband, but it was negatived without a division. After some remarks fro n Sir J. BULLER, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL paid that the clause was not originally in the bill It had been introduced since in accordance with the humane feelings of a noble. lord. He (the Attorney-General) thought difficulties would arise in its working, and he suggested it eh -uld be struck out for the present. If the committee acceded to his suggestion, be would pledge himself to frame a new clause with a view to ace implish what was de,ired. After some remarks from Sir E. Perry, Sir J. Buller,. and Mr. Collins, The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that as the feel ing of the committee appeared to be in favour of his sug. gestion he submitted further, that as clause 18 was of a similar character to clause 17, it would be better to ex punge both, and he would undertake to bring up in committee amended clauses in lieu of them. Toe clauses were then withdrawn. On clause 19, Mr. L BUT I' moved an amendment giving power to the judges of the county courts to hear the cases which were provi led for by this clause. The ,clause was to give redress to a deserted wife. As the clause at pre s stood that redress could only be given in the new court of divorce. Mr. PACKE thought the judges of the county courts had already toe much to do. Mr. DRUMMOND hope] they would not create any new courts. Lerd J. MANNERS wool] move the insertion of words of larger import than those of the honourable and learned member. The AT ro RNEY-GENERAL said this clause might involve questions of the highest importance. If ahu • band deserted his wife the que--tion to be tried would be whether he had desalted her without reasonable cause. One reasonable cause would be adultery, and that would involve the question of divorce, so that in reality the inferior court might investigate matters which would lie with the superior court alone. He had no objection to the county court having the power to adjudicate upon matters affecting judicial separation, but ae was decid edly opposed to giving the county courts the power of investigating the qeestion of divorce. Lord J. RUSSELL said the proposal of the hon. and learned gentleman (Mr. Butt) might lead to most im portant questions. If the power were given to the county courts of adjudicating upon one matter in the bill, the power ought to be ex';ended to the others. He agre -d with the hon. and learned gentleman that, if they abo lished any local tribunals, they ought t ) establish equi valents. He would not enter into the question whether the county ceurte were fit tribunals to deal with these questions ; bat if they were not, they ought to be made. Nord J. MANNERS suggested the adoption of word., which would raise the question of lmal jurisdiction, with out pledging the committee to the county courts , . Mr. BUTT willingly seceded to the suggestion offered by the noble lord. Mr. MALINS objected to the withdrawal of the amendment, as he Was anxious to obtain the opinion of the committee on the question of the fitness of the county courts peso.. Jin tune to time, .iad always deemed it After a short discussion, the amendment of the hon. a wise and prudent thing to recognize the distinction Member fur Youghal, which gave the jurisdiction to the made in the clause now under consideration, and, if his county courts, was negatived without a division, right hoc, friend the member for the University of Ox- The amendment of Lord J. MANNERS, introducin g ford would refer to the judgments given by the learned the words " any court to be hereinafter named," wa s p ut lords in the other H ouEe o f P ar li amen t on ,h e su bj eo - , to the committ ee . he would find that they expressed their belief that con- Sir G. GREY inquired, now that the committee bad nivance at adultery would take place if the wife were al decided that the county courts should not have juriedic- lowed to obtain a divorce on the same ground as the bus tion, what were the local courts which were to have the ba-d. He ({r. Wa , pole) therefore thought the distinc jorisiietion. (Hear, hear.) tion a wise one, and that the consequences of the crime Lord J. MANNERS said that the house having ex- I of aduLery were.very different in two cases, leading as p res s e d maer an opinion in favour of local jurisdiction in this i it did in the one to a spurious offspring, but not in the me t mbe , rs it was for the Government and not for hon, other. they Ix,' _to euggest the constitution of any court which i ' The CHAIRMAN put the question, "that the word pia was to test the sincerity of the Government and the 1 ap e for the purpose. His ob ight consider ad t d committe e i incestuous stand part of the bill," upon which the COM lk the that increased facilities should mittee divided, when the numbers were— be given to the divorce, and humbler classes of sopiety Ayes 126 for obtaining Noes 65 Majority against the amendment —6l Sir G. GREY colitendedu that it was a most shabLy The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved that the corn course to.. adopt to throw whole responsibilityof estapb?inshthe Government the 1 mittee rep irt progress and resume on Tuesday evening, throughout the a 'untry for jurhis new local courts which was agreed to , and the house resumed, ction in t his The Government declined to have any PUBLIC BUSINESS. responsibility in I In answer to Lori JOHN MANNERS, the matter. Mr. BUTT thought that clauses might be b i The CHANCELLOR of tte EXCHEQUER said that up on a future occasion for referring tiles. matters i the civil service estimates would be taken on Monday s t.. ! and the Pr bate and Administration Bill on Wednesday. local o its of some description. I .Sir J. PAKISGTON thought that the conduct of the Tic ECCLESIASTICAL COMMISSION. noble lord did not deserve to be characterised as shabb y , : read third time on Monday. BOUNDARIES OF LAND (IRELAND) This bill came on for eon , ideration of the Lord's amendments, which were agreed t o . INSURANCE COMPANIES BILL. Mr. WILSON sapi be tegre ted that there was a, Evident determination that this bill should nut pass. He should therefore propose a short bill of a single clau e to cootione the operation of the act of list year. He shonld theref.re move that the order be discharged. Di chargkd accordingly. Mr. WILSON brought in a bill to amend the Joint Stock Comranies Act. The other orders of the day were then disposed of, and the house adj-mrned at two o'clock. THE DIVORCE BILL. (From the Times.) The Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Bill, as a piece of legislation, is remarkably simple, natural, and unpretending. It is so, if not to a fault, at least so far as to lay it open to many attacks on this particular score. A swarm of opponents buzzes about on all sides, sometimes assailing the front, as if to stop it altogether ; sometimes the rear, as if to quicken its pace, inflicting all kinds of invectives - and sugges' ions, as if out o f p a ti ence with its dull working character. When a clause is read, half a dozen orators call on the Attorney- General to make a demonstration, to envelope the simple words with some orn amen t a l mys t ery, an d give a text for controversy where, in the bill, there is none. Tho Court must be more numerous, more complex, more various, and, above all, itinerant, if not übiquitous. It must do more; it must give damages ; it must bring divorce home to the poor man's door ; it must do what all the existing laws have done in their perversion, and what they never did in their prime ; at must give every man a re medy without even a month's delay ; it must ex pressly anticipate the increase of matrimonial of fences, and have a machinery rea dy f ur a P ru - s i an average of suits ; it must lea ve no d ou bt s as t o V ie judges who will sit, as to the places—and they must be many—where the Court will be held. Such are the demands hailed on the Attorney-General and the Home Secretary, the former goaded now and then into sarcasm, the latter offering only common sense reduced to its most naked simplicity. Tile advocates of divorce for the million, who now com plain that the bill is not " as wide a 3 a church door" and hardly contemplates any increase of adul tery, incest, cruelty, and desertion, are the men who the other day were preaching at the top of their voices that marriage was indissoluble, that a divorce was a national sin, and that the existing practice, profane, scandalous, barbarous, unchris tian as it is, was nevertheless better than the bill before the house. The result must have been rather wearisome to the unfortunates who, after a morning sitting and official business besides, had to sit on, as it turned out, from six o'clock on Thursday evening till three the next morning. Nor de we think the public found the record of these nine hours very edifying or amusing ; but they at least illustrate the supe riority of natural over theoretical legislation—that is, of law charitably, reasonably, and most lawfully adapted to the facts of the case, over that kind of law which rather rejoices in putting the facts of the case out of the queetiou altogether. In this mat ter of sins against the marriage law the facts of the case appeal to the observation and the feeling of us all. There are numerous instances in which there is an actual divorce in feeling and in fact ; in which the breach is utter and irremediable, and no one in his senses could expect or even wish it re paired. It may not b 3 easy to lay down any general rules, but there is seldom any difficulty in pronouncing of this or that case whether a recon ciliation is to be expected or desired. In a very low class, where the feelings have been blunted by vicious associations and habits, or where they can hardly be said ever to have existed, it may some times be the least of two evils chat a husband should be -reconciled to a wife as bad as hi mse lf. B u t above this low class the criminality of the wife is, and ought to be, an utter bar to reconciliation. it is not so, in point of fact, and as a general rule, with the criminality of the husband, however he may stand in the sight of his Maker. Yet there are cases of excessive criminality on the part of the husband, accompanied with intolerable cruelty or long desertion, where the reconciliation of the wife is hopeless, undesirable, and wrong. In these cases the nature of the remedy will depend on circumstances. When the injured person is of an age or in circumstances to contract another mar riage, and when, consequently, a legal impedi ment to marriage will be a temptation to a mode of life unsanctioned by law, then a divorce is the proper remedy, and ought to be an accessi ble one. In other cases a "judicial separation" may meet all the requirements of the case, and will often have the higher feelings in its favour. Such are, as well a, We can put them, the facts of the ' case. They are not met by the existing state of the law. They are met t 3 a much greater extent by the Bill now before us. We believe it to be adjusted to them simply and sincerely. It must proceed in uncertainty; it may have shortcomings; but it provides a remedy for an actual wrong, a class of wrongs, and no more. Its opponents, after loudly denouncing its sacrilegious character and its tendency to encourage crime, and after putting a large, class of the most fearful wrongs and the most undeserving sufferers out of the province of legisla tion, now turn round and insist that the remedy, shall be more—a panacea, a genera l d e li verance from all matrimonial difficulties and troubles. After treating the subject as an awful mystery, they have broken it to pieces like a toy. But the other night they were angels, and feared even to tread on such ground. They now play the part of fools, and rush in. The fox, says the fable, on his first visit to the li on would not lift up his head ; a t hi s secon d v i s i t he walked boldly in, and the third time was disgust ingly familiar. This we take to be th e or di nar y result of high theoretical, or rather dogmatical views, where Nature should be our master, and where we have facts to deal with. The holders of these views either fly or grovel, but they begin with flying and end with grovelling. ' It may indeed be admitted that as the Bill le it self of an unsually co . mprehensive characte r , d ea li ng with several existing courts, disposin g o f t h e i r jurisdictions, awarding sentences of va r i ous grav it y , and supposing venous degrees of criminality, therefore it may be differently dealt with by its Parliament!ry opponent's. No doubt a judicial separation .Ifrt not so grave an affair as - a divorce, and there are numerous cases in which , not only a Judge of Assize or a C ounty C ourt Judge, but a Justice of the Peace, or any official whatever in the class of a gentlem an , m i g ht b e trusted to hear and a djudicate. Thi s m i g ht b e sa id of very many individual cases, no t or i ous, s i mp l e, eavndryilib of d od is y has, indisputable should and we cann o t won d er t h a t t h e HouseCommons, e having su c h cases i n v i e w, as contemplate the possibility of courts better a'lapted to treat of them than any court sitting in Westminster. Whether a local court can be cteated for the purpose, or whether, by any arrangement, a certain class of cases can be wholly assigned to local or itinerant courts, is a matter which we gladly leave to the c nisideration of Lord J. Manners and Mr. Bit t. It is to be re inembered, however, that in a class of cases some may be easy, other not so easy, and a very trifling oyunty remove a cause f ar a b ove t h e Court Judge, or even b e ' t er capacity of a may men. Another difficulty is that which was ovtjected, on the part of Government, last night,—that a pe tition for judicial separation, though aiming only at such a simple remedy as protection of pets n. and property from a violent and unprincipled hus band, must necessarily go into matters forming a ground for divorce, and would thus trench on the province of the highest tribunal. This, of co urse , would be a reason for not committing such a cause to any tribunal of very informal practice or small esteem. It remains to be seen whether any secon dary class of court can be found or devised. We will not say this is impossible, but we suspect it will be found the simplest course to begin, at least, with only one court--viz., that proposed by the bitl,—disputed questions of fact being referred, of course, to a jury when necessary. A clerk in the Transport Offias, Liverpool, has ab sconded with upwards of 4,0001.; and a clerk in her MaioAy's Customs at Hull has gone off with 3.5001. 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In canisters, llb, 2s. 9d. ; 21b, 4s. 6d. ; 51b, Ils ; 121 b, 225. The 121 b canisters are sent carriage free, on receipt of Post-Office order.--Barry Du Barry, & Co., 77, Regent-street, London. IMPORTANT CAUTION against the fearful dangers of spurious imitations : —The V:ce-Chancel. lor Sir William Page Wood granted an Injunction on the 10th March, 1851, against Alfred Hooper Neviil, for imitating Da Barry's Revalenta Arabica Food." • A ITGUST 8, 1 t) 7 ; of an individ ua l' s s h are in the i% spec vo classes will be THE NEW COI/ENT-GARDEN THE...ITRE. From the London Gazette of Last Night. anaemic Almost anticipating the ceeistrucfion of the Cranhinern-str, et extension tne, thi Duke c f Bed ford, through his egents, has been birsily occupied by pulling down various lious,s belonging to his Grace in, Tavistock-street and Exeter-street, for , the purpose of extending Burleigh-street from the Strand into Covent garden-market. Already the Board of Works have marked out the ground for the sits of their new offices, adjacent to which the new Vicarage for which the Duke of Bedford has given the ground ; and Mr. Farnan, the oilman, will rebuild on the opposite corn r. All that-re- ' mains to be removed are the premises belonging to Mr. Harris, the builder, and the other proper ties which intervene between Tavistock street and Covent-garden-market. Di verging from the Strand, this line of street will take an oblique, or rather a diagonal direction, on account of the dif ference of level between Exeter-street and the intersecting thoroughfares, and from this point it will proceed in a direct line with the "Humtnums," entering the market opposite the north-east angle thereof, which hereafter is intended to form the royal entrance to the new Covent-garden Theatre. On Saturday last the new works connected with the pulling down the late building were brought to a clese, and the ensuing week will witness the commencement of the works connected with the rebuilding thereof. The ample site, as far as the late theatre is concerned, has been cleared, and the pulling down of the Piazza. Tavern, to form an entrance to the market, will shortly be commence - l: as the sale of wines and stock is an nounced to take place immediately. The intended new budding will be brought out to the full ex tent of the frontage in Bow-street, and continuing down Hart-street, will occupy the whole extended area covering Princes-place, and adjoining Robins's auction rooms, at which end the intended new stage is proposed to be erected. On the south side of the theatre, in continuation of the Piazza in Covent-garden-market, north of - he quad rangle running into BOw-street, will be erected an ornamental conservatory, in principle similar to the Jardin del Plantes, Paris, which will be open to the public during the day, although closed at night, to be available as conferring additional ac cemmedation for visitors to the ne* opera house. Her Majesty's entrance will be placed at the south west angle of the building. The style of the in tended new building is Italian in general character, reesembling the principal front of the Board of Trade and the Treasury. Mr. Barry, jun., is the architect, and Messrs. Lucas have undertaken the contract for the execution of the works. It is in tended that the new Italian Opera House shall be opened early in the ensuing season, although, tak ing into consid era ti on t h e t ar d y _procee di ngs which have marked the demolition of the old building, this desire on the part of the managers could hardly have been anticipated, more especi ally when, under the influence of fine weather and long days, every moment would have been consi dered too valuable to be misappropriated when not devoted to practical purposes. However, about eight months may be considered to intervene be tween the present time and the usual commence ment of the opera season. The building recently destroyed was erected in eight months and eleven days from its commencement ; therefore, adopting this fact as a precedent,' aided by the exercise of skill and the assistance in the supply of the neces sary appliances and accessories of building, com bined with the principles of modern construction, we may fairly anticipate the completion of the in tended new edifice by the end of March or the be ginning of April, at the opening of the season 1858. —Building News. ?SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BRIGHTON RACES-FRIDAY. Sweepstakes of 50 sous eacb, h ft, with 50 added, for three-year.olds ; colts, Bst 71b : fillies, Bst 41b ; cer tain sllowances. Bristol mile. 5 subs. Duke of Bedford's Keepsake, by Weatberbit, Bst 71b (Pettit) w.o. Sweepstakes of 5 soya each, with 60 added, br two-year olds ; optional selling weights, &e. Half-a-mi!e. 3 subs. Mr. Fry's Lady Conyngham, by Slane, 7st 91b (D. Hughes) 1 Mr. Mellish's Waterer, 7st 91b (Fordbam) 2 Mr. Armstrong's br f by Mentor—Pysehe, 7st 121 b (Charlton) 3 Betting-6 to son Lady Conyngham, who made all the running, and won by half a length—bad third. The winner was bought in for 120 guineas. Handicap Plate of 70 soya. Gentlemen riders. T.Y.C. Mr. G. Payne's Mabel, by Van Tromp, 6 yrs, 10st (Mr. Edward.) 1 Captain Cminell's Turk, 4 yrs, list 51b (51r. mart) 2 Mr. Melish's Dramatist, 4 yrs, lOst 121 b (Capt. Little) 3 Naughty Boy, Worcester, and Miss Delamere al o ran. Betting-7 to 4 agst Mabel, 4to 1 each agat Turk and Dramatist, 6 to 1 each agat Naughty Boy and Worcester. Mabel roads play throughout and won by eight ' lengths; half a length between the 'second and third ; the others tailed off. Plate of 100 soya, added to a sweepstakes of 5 soya each for two-year-olds ; colts, Sit 71b ; fillies, Bit 41b ; allowances and penalties. T.Y.C. Capt. Christie's Orchehill, by Ambrose, Bst (Aldcroft) 1 Mr. Barnard's Accurate, Bat 31b (D. Hughe) 2 Count Batthya ny 's The Farmer's Son, Bst 31b (Charlton) 3 kt isa Waters, Grand Duchess, Rocket, f by Cotberstone —Catalpa, and f by Mentor—Psyche also ran. Betting— 6 to 4 art Rocket, 3 to 1 agst Orchehill, 4 to 1 agst Grand Duchess, 6 to 1 agst Accurate. Won easily by a neck, a head between the second and third, same distance between the third and fourth ; Rocket and Grand Duchess were fifth and sixth, close together, about two lengths from the fourth ; Catalpa filly was sixth, and Psyche filly last, beaten (qr. Brighton Club Stakes of 10 soya each, h ft (Handicap), with 70 added. Winners extra. New coarse. 7 subs. Capt. Price's Lymington, 5 yrs, 104 111 b (0 wn er). 1 Mr. Bevilt's Pomona, 3 yrs, Bit 121 1 3 (!Vlr. W. Bevill) 2 Mr. T. Hughes's Treachery, 5 yrs, 11st sda (Hr. Edwards) 3 Batting-6 to 4 each aget Treachery and Pomona, 2 to 1 aget Lymington. Won by twenty lengths; Treachery was baaten a I•irg way. Brighton Club Plate of 60 sovs for two and three year olds. Optional selling. Allowances, &c. Last half mile. Mr. T. Walker's Orianda, 3 yrs, (501), 7.t 61b (French) 1 Mr. Hales' Spinet, 3 yrs (501.) ' (D. Hughes) 2 Mr. Meid.h's Rotterdam, 3 yrs, (501.), 7st 91b (Fordham) 3 Fanfaronade, Avonford, and John Peel also ran. Betting-6 to 4 agst Spinet, sto 2 agst Orianda. Won by half a length ; two lengths between the se cond and third; and a bead between the third and fourth. Avonford and John Peel were beaten off. The latter was refractory at the post and lost start. Cbarlton weighed for the filly by John O'Gaunt, out of Vestivienne, acd her number was displayed on the telegraph, hut in taking her preliminary canter she struck herself a: , d did not go to the post. First Year of the Drighton Club Biennial Stakes of 25 • BOVA each, 15 ft., wh:h 10 added. For two-year-olds ; colts Bst 71b, fillies Bst 41b. Winners extra. T.Y.C. 14 subs. Mr. P.rker's Wilton, Bst 71b (Fordham) 1 Mr. Gratwicke's Sister to Viscount, Bst 411)(l3umpage) 2 Mr. Melli.h's Waterer, Bst 71b Count Batthyany's The Courier, Bst 71b .••(Flataaan) 4 Betting-2 to lon Wilton. Won by two lengths; bad third. Handicap Plate of 100 save. Bristol mile, _ _ Mr. G. Payne's 'Mabel, 6 yrs, 7st ...............(Plumb) 1 Mr. H. Lane's Malakhoff, 3 yrs, Est 121 b (Fordham) 2 Mr. T. Cliff's Lady Hercules, 3 yrs, Est 7,b...(8ray) 3 The following also ran :—B rder Chief, Rotterdam, Turk, Queen of the S )utb, New Brighton, and Fashion. The betting opened at 2 to 1 agst Lady Hercules, and closed at 3 and 4 to 1 agst her, 4 to 1 agst Mabel, 5 to 1 agst Malakhoff, 6 to 1 agst B,rder Chief. The start was delayed by the breakings away of Lady Hercules, who twice ran the course nearly through. Won by three lengths, four lengths between the second and third, and a head between the third and fourth. BOA RD OF IRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG.. 4. i Tee Right Honourabl e the Lords of the Committee of t "'levy Council for Tiede and Plantations have received, through the Secreta r y o f St a t e f or Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul-General at Buenos Ayres, reporting the abolition of the tonnage dues hitherto levied upon foreign vessels entering that port. BOARD OF TRADE WHITEHALL, AUG. 4. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a Despatch from Her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, fixing the duty upon cocoa nut and palm oils at 14 reels 85 cents per quieted if imported tinder national, and 22 reels 85 cents per quintal if imported under foreign flag. BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AUG. 5. The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade and Plantations have received, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's Consul at Madrid, re porting the following alteration in the Spanish tariff :--- Gutta percha, gum elastic, quintawan, untnanufactnred, 15 cents, per lb , under national, and 35 cents. unAer foreign flags. Ditto, cut. in strips or sheets, 2 reels 40 cents, per lb., under national, 2 reels 50 cents. rapier foreign flags. Ditto, manufactured into any forms or objects, whether vulcanized or not, and not included in other paragraphs of the tariff, 6 reels per lb., under national, and 6 reels 50 cents. under foreign flags. WAR-OFFICE, PALL-MALL, Atio. 7. lit Regiment of Life Guards--George John Brudenoll Bruce, Gent., to be Cornet and Sub-Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Patten, promoted. 2d Dragoon Guards.--Captain John Percy Smith to be Major, without purchase; Lieutenant George Bushman to be Captain, without 'purchase, vice Percy Smith ; Cornet George E. Logan to be Lieutenant, without pur chase, vice Bushman ; 'Cornet George Frederick Ormsby to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Powell, promoted ; Francis O'Beirne, Gent., to he Cornet, by purchase, vice Grant, promoted in succession to Lieutenant Bridgeman, promoted on the 16th June, 1e57. 14th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant William D'Urban Blyth to be Captain, without purchase, vice Gaussen, de ceased. Royal Artillery—Brevet-Colonel Robert Fitzgerald Ciaw find to be Colonel, vice John Alexander Wilsoe, ceased ; Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Spencer Delves Broughton to be Lieutenant-Colonel ; Second Captain Dominick Sarsfield Greene to. be Captain, vice Breugh- Xon ; Lieutenant John Henry Brown to be Second Captain, vice Greene; Second Class Staff-Surgeon John Duff, M.D., to be Surgeon. Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards—Edmund C. Nugent, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant by purchase, vice Clive, promoted. 3rd Regiment of FootL-Ensign Charles G. J. Torriano has been permitted to resign his Commission. 14th Foot—Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class George S. King, M.D., from half-p,y, to be Surgeon, vice Dwyer, deceased. 19th Foot.—Lieutenant E.lward Nassau Kindersley, to b 3 Captain, by purchase, vice Westropp, who retires. 20th Feot.—Captin William Lewis Devenish Mears, from half-pay of the 20% Foot, to be Captain, vice Hay, whose Brevet rank h as b een conver t e d into Substantive rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, ; Lieutenant Frederick Lockwood E 'ridge to be Captain, by purchase, vice McNetll, who retires ; Robert Foster- Mettler, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, in succession to Lieutenant Francis, promoted. 24th Foot—Lieut. Richard Henry Travers to be Captain, by purchase, vice Meckechnie, who retires ' • Arthur Wil liam Fitz Maurice, Gent., to be E ns i gn , by purchase, in succession to Lieut. Travers, promoted. 28th Font—The exchange between Capt. H. F. Morgan, from half-pay of the 28th Foot, with Capt. Malcolm, of the 28th Foot, to bear bate 14th July, instead of 24th July, as previously stated. 36th Foot—Lieut. Wm. C. Hill to be Instructor of Mus e ketry. 55th Foot—Lieut. William Byrne Johnson bas been per mitted to retire from the service by the sale of his com mission. 79th Foot—Major William Chauval Hodgson, from half pay Unattached, to . be Major, vice M'Call, whose Brevet Rank lass been converted into Substantive Rank under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1151; Capt. George Alexander Harrison, from half-pay of the 79th Foot, to be Captain, vice Hodgson, whose Brevet Rank has been converted into Substantive Rank under the Royal War rant of 6th October, 1851. UNATTACHED. The undermentioned Officers to have their Brevet Rank converted into Substantive Rank, under the Royal Warrant of 6th October, 1854 : TO BE LIEUTENANT COLONEL. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Wm. McCall, 79th Foot. TO BE MAJORS. Brevet-Major James Geo. Hay, 20th Foot. Brevet-Maj Jr W. C. Hodgson, 79th Foot. FALKLAND ISLANDS. Lieutenant Charles Compton Abbott, from the 75th Foot, to be Commanding Officer of Detachment of Troops to be employed in the Falkland Islands. HOSPITAL STAFF. TO BE SURGEONS OF THE FIRST CLASS. Staff,Surgeon of the First Class George Anderson, from half-pay. Staff-Surgeon of the First Class William Denny, from half-pay. Staff-Surgeon of the First Class Patrick Gammie, from half-pay. Staff-Surgeon of the First Class William Carson, M.D., from half-pay. _ BREVET. Brevet-Colonel William R. Mansfield, on half-pay Un attached, to have the local rank of Major-General in the Ea.t Indies. The undermentioned Officers having on the date speci fied against their names, completed three years' actual service in the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel, to be' promoted to be Colonels in the Army : Lieutenant-Colonel Stephen John Hill, 2d West India Regiment. Lieutenant-Colonel Archibald Little, 9th Light Dra goons. Brevet-Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas W. E. Holdsworth, on half-pay 2tl Toot, Deputy-Quartermaster-General in North America. Plate of 50 sovs for beaten horses, 2-yr-olds except e d ; the second to receive 101. out of the plate. Gentle men riders. T.Y.C. Mr. Davall's Ruth, 3 yrs, 103 t 81b (\lr. Dart) 1 Lord Clifden's Indulgence, 4 yrs, lOst 2lb (Mr. Bovill) 2 Mr. Mellish's Dramatist, 4 yrs, 114 715 (Mr. Edwards) 3 The following also ran :—Worcester and Lady Her cules. Lieutenant-Colonel John Douglas, C B , 79th Foot. The undermentioned officers of the East India Com pany's Service, retired upon full pay, to have a sttp of honorary rank as follows : , Betting-2 to 1 apt Dramatist, 3to 1 each agst In dulgence and Lady Hercules, 5 to 1 agst Rutb. Won by a length and a half ; bad third. LATEST liETTING. EBOR HANDICAP. 6to 1 agst Mongrel S t) 1 agst Tasmania 10 to 1 agst Warlock 10 to 1 agst Underbar:d GREAT YORKSHIRE STAKES. 3to 1 agst Vidette 10 to 1 agst Blink Bonny 10 to 1 aget Sydney ST. LEGER. 6to 4 apt Blink B ,nny (taken) 20 to 1 avt Tournament (taken to 7001.) DERBY. 1000 to 40 agst Ktlpie 1000 to 35-agst Eclipse NOTICE OF INTENDED DISTIIIMUTION OF NAVAL PRIZE 'MONEY. Department of the Accountant. General of the Navy , Admiralty, Somerset, house, Aug. 6, 1851. Notice is hereby given to the officers, seamen, and rives, and to all persons interested therein, that the distri bution of proceeds arising from the Russian brig Da, car tured on the 17th April, 1854, by her Majesty's ships Gorgon, Cesar,Magicienne, 4mphion, Edinburgh, Leo pard, St. Jean d'Acre, Dragon, Cressy, Duke of Welling ton, Arrogant, I mper i euz, Pr i ncess Royal, Roy a l George, and Driver, will commence on ALnclay, the 31st August, 1857, in the Prize Branch of the Department of the " Ac countant-General of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset House " Flag share .. Captains each Commander ... First class .. Second class .. Third class Fourth class £426 13 2 Fifth class £2 0 Nll 1 Sixth class 29 16 2 S even th c l ass 9 1 10 Eighth class 0 12 1 7 I. 6 I Ninth dials 5 13 41 Tenth class 3 12 91 SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS, TO BE COLONELS. Lieutenant• Colonel Joseph Corfield, Bengal Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel David Carstair., Bombay Infantry. Lieutenant-Colonel Hugh Hughes Lloyd, Bengal Infantry. TATTERSALL'S. The Room will be opened this (-4Aurlay),afternoon. The firm of Messrs. Carr, Brothers, and Co, the ( x ten , L ie coal owners, of Newcastle and Wales, have sus. pended v 2avinent. SIR N o i mA 2 l LESLIE, BART.—This young baronet, who has perished t. Deoghur, in the Sonthal distri c t, ' a cadet of the nobl was head o f a Ross:sh . in his thirty-fifth year. e house of Ito:hes. He was and .. only Sir John Loyd He is succeeded by his brother , now Leslie,— Banff Journal- _ In cases where Officers and Men entitled to share in the Ida are also entitled to particip ,te in the proceeds of the Russian vessels Patriotan and Victor, captured respectiveli on the 15th and 16th April, 1854, by the ships named be low, the shares for the three prizes will be paid at the same time; but as the shares for the two last-named ves sels, below the eighth class, are too small to admit al! separate remittance, they can only be obtained, on persons , application, at the Admiralty, Somerset-House. Patriotau—captured by Amphion, Archer, Arrogan , Ajax, Blenheim, Boscawen, Cae , ac, Conflict., Cruizert Gorgon, Hogue, Hecla, Inaperiouse, Leopard, Lightningt Magicienne, Monarch, Neptune, Vulture ; Valorous , Cressy, Duke of Wellington, Desperate, Driver, Dragon. E linburgb, Euryalns. Princess Royal, Porcupine, Royal George, St. Jean D'Acra, and H. I. M. S. L'Austetlitz• Victor —captured by Ajax, Boscawen, Blenheim, DO' got:, Euryalus, Hogue, Neptune, and Vulture. B INKRUPTCY . ANN ITLLED. William Bui tied, B 1 tenavon, ironmonger, painter and glazier, Monmouthshire. BANKRUPTS. Asher Stern ' clothier, Minories, City, to surr en d e r Aug. 20, at one, and Sept. 12, at half-past eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Ba,singhall' street ; Lloyd and Rule, Milk-street, Cheapside. John Fan-, ironmonger, Bristol, August 19 and Sept' 22, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, eln cial assignee, Bristol ; Hinton, Bristol. Samuel Burgess, salt manufacturer, Wharton, Cheshire , Aug. 19, and Sept. 14, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Snowball , Liverpool. Gecirge Thompson, Corn dealer, Islington, A.ag. 17, at two, and Sept. 2, at twelve, at the Court of BankruptcyNicholeon, official assignee; Smith, Tokenhouse-yard. John Bany , axl, brewer Shoreham, Sussex, Aug. 20, an' Sept. 12, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan: official assignee, Aldermanbury ' • Lavk•ranee, Plows, an d Boyer, Old Jewry-chamb ers , Old Jewry. E Iwund White, corn and coal merchant, New Corn Exchange, Mark-lane, August 20, at eleven, and Septeur her 12, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whit' more, official assignee, Basinghall-street; Hilleary, ehu ch-buildingß, Fenchnrch-street. James W. A - Idridge, corn merchant, Witham, Angus! 23, at half-past eleven, and Sept. 29, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambre°lz' court; Pownall, Son, and Cross, Staple-inn ; Newman and Harper. Hadleigh, Suffolk. Timothy Wooster, seedsinan, Cheltenham, Aug. 24 and September 21, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court' Acraman, official assignee, Bristol: Abbott and Lueo* Bristol. John Overton Hobson, corn merchant, Long Sutton: Lincolnshire, Aug. 18 and Sept. Li, at half-past ten, 3 ! the Shirehall, Nottingha m . Harris, official a s s ig ne e, Net tin ;haul ; Coop(); Nottingham, Lewis Dancyger, cabinet-maker, Newcastle-upon-Tyn e ' Aug. 14 and Sept. 16, at half-past eleven, at the NO' castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assigne e ' Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Hudge and Haile, Newcastle' upon Tyne. John Douglas, wright and joiner, Glasgow. James Boyd, commission merchant, Glasgow. Jatne's Kerr, paint an colour manufacturer , Glasgow. John Ja m i eson , wood engrtver, and hotel keeper, Bain . burgh. Murray and Stuart, printers and publishers, Edi lld burgh. TO BE LIEUTENANT-COLONELS, Major AlexandetaurnmingVet;aTieiTgal Infantry. Major William Anthony Halsted, M.dras Infantry. Major James Tobin Bush, Bengal Infantry. Erratum in the Gazette of 16th June, 1857. TO BE MAJOR IN THE ARMY. For Captain Robert Playne, 25th Bombay Native In fantry, read Captain Robert Phayre, 25th Bombay Native Infantry. ADMIRALTY, AUGUST 5. - The following promotions, dated the 30th ultimo, conse quent on the death, ou the 29th July, of Ailmird of the White, Sir Hugh Piga, N.C.8., have taken place : _ Admiral of the Blue Sir Lucius Curtis, Bart., C. 8., to be Admiral of the White. Vicc-Admiral of the Red Sir Edward Tucker, K. 0.8. to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White John Brett Purvis to ba Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue Robert Virauchopa to be Vice Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red Sir Houston Stewart, K.C.D., ;o be Vice-Admiral of the Blue. Rear-Admiral of the White Alexander Thomas Emetic Vidi-1 to be Rear-Admiral of the Red. Rear-Admiral of the Blue Charles Graham, C. 13., to be Rear-Admiral of the White. C.ptain George Rodney Mundy to be Rear-Admiral of the Blue. COMMISSIONS SIGNED BY LORDS LIEUTENANT. Royal Lancashire Military Artillery Regiment—Henry Tuke Holmes, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, vice Hil ton, appointed to the 70th Regiment of Foot. Royal Monmouthshire Light Infantry Regiment of Mi litia—Almericus Blakeney Savory, Gent., to-be Captain, vice Bald wyn, deceased; Robert Reddall Williamson, Gent., to be Lieutenant, vice Savory, promoted ; Edward Trevor Arney, Gent., to be Ensign. Ayrshire Yeomanry Cavalry—Lieut. John Reginald Craufurd to be Captain, vice Thomas Smith Cuning hame, deceased ; Cornet Charles George Shaw to be Lieu nant, vice Craufurd, promoted. BANK OF An Account pursuant to the Act the Week ending on Saturda ENGLAND. 7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 32, A r y, the Ist day of Aug., 1857. 'AMEN?. MOE DEP, Notes issaed .•...... 25,135,390 i Government debt.... 11,015,100 Other securities.— 3,4h9,50f) Gold coin and bullion 10,660,380 Silver bu11i0n........ 425,135 390 J. ] Dated the Gth day of Aug., 185' £25,135 1 386 ELSBY, Deputy Cashier. BANKING DE froprietors'capital .. 14,553,000 Rest ................ 3,536,903 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, 'rASTMENT. Governmentse_urftles (Ineludg.DeadWeighi Annuity) .......... 10 596.081 Other seetuit! es 18,217,524 Notes .... .. • • •..... 5,229 400 Gold and silver COLD 611,772 Commissioners of National Debt, Sav- ing's Banks, and Dividend Accounts) 5,365,3 I 7 other deposits ...... 10,463,068 -_even Day and other = Bills.. :..... ... . 7C6,459 £34,684,777 ) £34,684,777 J. R. ELSEY, Deputy Cashier. Dated the 6th clay of Avg., 1857. AVERAGE PRICE OF SUGAR. Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending Aug. 4, 1857, exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid en payable thereon, on the importation thereof into Great Britain : e. d. From the British Possessions in America 4l 6 Muscovado, the produce of the Mauritius - 3l 4 A Average of the above descriptions, NAVAL PRIZE MONEY. Departmentofth;TiccountantiG7neTai of the Navy, Admiralty, Somerset-house Aug. 6, 1837. Notica is hereby giv en , t o a ll parties interested theroin, that preparations are now making for the intended dis tribution of proceeds arising from the Russian brig Greta, captured on the Ist August, 1855, by her Majesty's ship Basracouta. Agents or other persons having any just and legal de mand, unliquidat e d, against the s '!such demand to th e *Re id proceeds, are req u i re d to transmit the particulars of any gistrar of the High Court of Admiralty, in order that th e same may be examined, taxed, and allowed by that officer, and paid under the sanction of the Judge of the said Court. Agents and all other persons holding powers of attor ney, prize orders, assignments, or other instruments, by virtue of which they may be legally entitled to c l a i m th e share belonging to any capto r, are requested, with a s li tt l e ) (delay as possible, to t ra nsm it the same, accomp oded by the usual documents, to the Prize Branch of the Dep.irt went of the " Accountant-General of the Navy, Admi ralty, S o merset-house." Due notice will be given, by future advertisements in the London Gazette, of the date propos e d f ur th e commence ment of distribution; and at the same time, the amount Country RitanKets. LIVERPOOL—AuG. 7. Continued heavy rain from la , ,t night and during qake / hours this.mornicg cause d h o ld ers of wheat and flour ic . require higher prices, and a f a i r b us i ness resulted at all $ 0 Vance over Tuesday of Id per b us h e l on white, fully 2d ° I , American "oaty ' red wheat, and 6il per barrel and s Bs r on flour. Indian corn 37 s to 38s per 4801bs. Oats, bad leo, beans, and peas commanded full prices. A fair deals_t o for the best town- ma d e li nsee d cake at 117., and rape e au at 71. per ton. WAKEFIELD—Auo. 7. The change of the weather has imparted considerk l : firmness to holders, and to-day millers are compelled; pay the extreme pric e s o f l as t F r id ay. T he trade, Ow. over, is very quiet. B eans f u ll y as d ear. G r i n di ng bar steady. Average prices of grain —Wheat, 61s 81d ; b ai l e y, ago 61 ; oats, 31s —d ; beans, 48s 5P ; peas, 41s u" rye, —s. 01 EXETER—AUG. 7. Coax.—Wheat, 7s 6d to 7s 9d ; barley, Cs to 5s 64; grinding do., Os Od to O s Od. O ats, 3s 4d to 3s 64' Beans, Os 0 , 1 to 0 Od. Peas, 00s to 003 Od. FLOUR. —Fine, 42s Od t o 44 s Od Od ; seconds, 40s Od to 45° Od per sack. CATTLE. --There was a small supply of bullocks. 9 r beef, from ll s to lls 6,1 pei score ; inferi or , 9 s 6d t o lls P d score ; fat calves, 5d to 6d per lb ; barrenners, Os Od to 5 Od. per score ; cows and calves, 121. to 201. t,s ; butchey, calves, Od to 7d per lb., rearins., calves —s to a elj sheep, ewes and lambs, 21. 5s to 31. 5s per couple; ewes., to 6d; wether s , 6d 644 ; l am b s, 74 to Od por lb. Fi!..N la rge size, —s suc —s to —5; second size, —s to —s ; slips, lb , kers, —s to --s. Rough fat, 4id per Pork carcases from lOs 6d to lls 6d per score. BRISTOL SUGAR—ADa. 7. The market is still very.depressed, and in the few sade4 effected in West India, which do not exceed 200 Mids.; further decline of is 6,1 per cwt. has been submitted , v z o , Floating —only one sale i s repor t e d f or the market, /lad', 2,60 J boxe s y e ll ow H avannaha, a good No. 12, at 390 ' o f fully insured. I n ref i ners ' produce we have not heard any transactions this week. Rum continues very dull; A pi ices are easier. COAL 'AAR Prices of Coals per ton a' s. d. Hasthigs Hartley—, ~,,,.17 3 Earsden's Hartley . 15 6 Haswell Gas 13 9 walker Primrose ..,.....:13 9 Newcastle Hartley 15 6 Benton West Hartley 15 6 %Vallsend, Eden Main l6 3 Toos Whitworth E 1(1 U den .16 0 Ships at market ET.—Aua. 7. the close of the market Wallsond, 1 s 4eaham l6 9 Russell's Hetton 16 0 lleugh Hall l6 6 Hartlepool Hetton -16 6 Hunwick l5 Hetton Lyons Main • 15 Brown's Moor Haigh 0 Main l5 0 Plummer l6 0 ISeacroft 15 0 iGordon 33; sold, 29, COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—YESTERDAY. insterdain— •• 11 Fiyi Gibraltar •••••••••••• •• ' 4 90 Ditto,-three months .. 11 19%% Leghorn •• ******** '.** 80 gootterdam •• •• •'2 • • 11 1 5 4. ;Genoa ...... •••••••• •• 25 AntykerP •• •• •• e• ••••• • 25 40 411a.n •• •• •• •• •••• 3rus,els .•• 28 4 Venice -- „s; lamburgh •• 13 81, 2 Naples ...... Alton •••• • .. ...... • • Palermo 125., Paris •• •• .• 28 25 Messina • • •• 128 Ditto3h ee months 25 65 Lisbon .. Mane. , 03 ••••• • •• •• 25 65 Oporto 271 dour& aux ••••• • • • • •. itio Janeiro...... •• "rank' ort-on- 0•• .. 119% Buenos Ayres. •••• • • .• Berlin •. •• •• ••••.. • • •• • • New York ,69 days' sight ienna •• •e•••• •• 10 3 1 Philadelphia •..• ...... rrieste•• •• •• .• •• 10 31 PRICES OF BULLION, pas OZ' 3eter.,burg ..... 36% Forein Gold in Bars .13 17 O . viadrid .........., 49 Portugal; Gold Coin 0. 0 0 Cadiz ••••••••••• 49% I tit Dollars Dollars Barcelona .•••••• • • •• • • 1 New Dollars •• ..•• 0 ..... S lver it bar , : [ADVIRTISEMENT I—Holloway's1—Holloway's P il l s invaluab l e for - the Cure of Indigestion and Disordered St om achg-1 There are few remedies a dv o c a t e d by th e F acu l t y OA are really serviceable i n car i ng I n di ges ti on an d d i9 ; ordered stomachs, which causes a martyrdoni to elt -of the populatio n i n ever y c)un t ry - Th e on l y reale,`" for the extinction of this malady which can be safely r commended to both sexes and all ages is Hoil.)wiii i a Pills. These are a certain cure,-and a Ilessin4 to % and young, restoring health and energy after all mer; cal aid has been tried in vain.—Sold by all tnediel° o vendors throughout the world ; at ProfessorHollowaY establishments, 244, St ran d , L on d on, and 8 0, I Vl a ide „ "' lane, New York ; by A. Stampa, Copetantinople ; Guidiey, Smyrna ; and E. Muir, Malta BIRTHS. OF A SON. riy On the sth inst., at Cresselly, near Pembroke, the 1 ,3- Catherine Allen. On the 7th inst , at Church-path, Hackney, Mrs. Al rij " Cheshire. OF A DAMITEF. On the 6th inst., at Rugby, the wife of Edmund 110144 Esq. On the sth inst., at 86, Eaton-place, Belgrave-sgu ao the wifa of C. B. Skinner, Esq. MARRIED. •J, On t h eo St , e 6th inst., al - . St. J a m es ' s Church,William Deo, Viscrmcnt, the only son o f th e E ar l o f Mansu e un K. T., to Emily L ou i sa , eldest daughter of the late Sir Job Athol' MacGregor, of MacGregor, Bart. e nd vt On the 6th inst. , at St. George'Hanover-square, Georges, —Tif e, J. Baillie, Esq., 11. p . ; e ld est son of Colonel Hugh 13al o of R,dc as tl o , county Ross, to Clarissa, eldest daughter the late G. Rush, Esq., of Elsenhaui Hall, Essex. DIED. Oatue 6th inst., G. E. Shuttleworth, Escl., 0 J f abbO r r Er. Park n or th , aged 48. On the sth inst at Hartrow Manor, Mrs. Escott. fist , On the sth l as t., , at Cliff , r , l-street, Augustus E. F ui " - Fa 1., of Thmehill, Essex, : , get 80. no P On the 3il inst.,- at Outroau, nera• Boulogne, G. Se ad Esq., aged 61. ° On the 2 Job sth ult., at Knock, Isle of Skye, B e njamin Elder, Esq. -of Ve On the 12th of June, a t Mh ow , B reve t-M a jor " ' Warden, 23d Regt. N.I. C. On the 29th May last, at Geelong, Australia, Ovie, ll oo - Edmond. Esq., agent of the Peninsul ar an d Oriental Li parry at Melbourne, aged 49. -or ri Oa the 4th inst., at Wat tr i ng b ury, A nn, w ife of 1-Le n M. Gould, Esq., aged 56. —....01 i lk/0 LONDON : Printed and P u bli s h e d , by AIURDO Y O of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Tice Sun otti° e ' t y 112, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savov, in t" C4:4l* of AliddleAx, Saturday, August 8, 1857. Milfi firtranc Offices F o Coat, 1 Waiste IT VALID More ea Milk Less, sel the cyst, have re to, and a stamp Regent-! at 21s. receipt ( ~.. IP' Philip P r , William Jam es Aubrey Cth At th e winfonowi; 1'44 0, Tat 1 To Capita Reser, Custom Profit fron t) Ditto. Gross after bad Cash andl Cash shor Discou tem / torn( Advan dal; To Inter 3 11 Z pen.. , ati loss •Dividc Ratan , aces BY bEtlal Itebat Gross visil t tna tor. souther tond, lo w be 1, ing Use of tl 2 . 1 '"lfect T o affai r , 4 The Carried :` Th , +Ale()) • Noti, nalf-y 4 Patty, 21, 1, 0 , 411 1 aft ti 'l P Other rreehc hola at tt. Interef. Salarie and LC A NE' Patent •Phl devoid, ,ad ,Ettpel (*rise ( 1 ° , 3 r ttr ang howl, what, RIAG eftecti e . aclic Ion , " Urine Copaj 21,] Is the tome. Cate] bobs the I/