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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT. HOUSE OF LORDS—(YEsTERDAy.) The LORD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the woclsack at five o'clock. Lord COLVILLE presented a petition from Wigton against the Police (Scotland) Bill. Lord REDESDALE presented a petition from Nor folk against the clause in the Divorce Bill compelling clergymen to marry divorced persons. SECURITY TO TRUSTEES' BILL. Lord ST. LEONARDS said, at the titan the Fraudu lent Trustees' Bill was under discussion he suggested to the noble and learned lord on the woolsack that a mea sure ought to be introduced to afford relief to trustees who had acted honestly. Tne noble lord admitted that such a measure was impracticable, but be thought that it was only difficult, and he accordingly framed a bill, -which passed their lordships' house, and was sent down to the Commons where it was read a second time. When it was proposed to go into committee on this bill a learned gentleman (the Attorney. General) in the other l ouse said, with that confidence which is peculiar to him, that this bill was so fraught with inaccuracies that it would take three days to remedy the defects, and under those oircumstancs he (the Attorney-General) thought tima better course would be to withdraw the bill alto gether for the session. He (Lord St. Leonards) begged to give notice that early neat session be should reintro duce the same measure. The LORD CHANCELLOR deprecated the system of alluding to the speeches that had been made in the other house of Parliament. THE DIVORCE BILL.- Lord ST. LEONARDS wished to know when it wns likely the Divorce and Ma'ritnanial Causes t3ill would be transmitted to their lordships, in order that the amendments that had been made in the other house might be considered. Earl GRANVILLE paid it was impossible to say when the bill would come up to their lordships. If the noble and learned lord had given him notice of the questioti, he would have made inquiry on the subject The bill had, however, been so fully discussed in both houses, that it was not likely to occupy much of their lordships' time. . - - Llrd CAMPBELL said be hoped the session would not close, even though it was continued for a consider able time longer. He should regard it as a national calamity if the prorogation took place until this bill was passed. Lord REDESDALE said the alterations that bad been made were of the most important description— (hear, hear)—such, for instance, of aff Julio a rolief where it had been refused by their lordships. He thought it would be utterly impossible that these alter ations in the measure, which materially affected the in terest of every borne in the kingdom could be properly discussed at a time when the house was so thinly at t mded. . Earl GRANVILLE sa id the 6overnthent were de. tr) resist every attempt to postpone it. Toe subject then cropped. PROBATE AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA, TfON BILL. The LORD CHANCELLOR moved that the Com mons! amendments to this bill be agreed to. L - Ird WYNFORD moved that the amendments in clauses 40 and 70 he not agreed t.)„ .After a few words froM LOrd St. Leonards, Lord Campbell, the Lord Chancellor, and Lord Wynfcrd, the amendment was negative" without a division, and - the Commons' amendments were then agreed to. The standing order having been suspended in their ftvour, the following billy were real a second time : The Pin lico Improvement Bill, the Dunbar Harbaur Loan 1111, and:the Ivletrrmolitan Police• Stat ions The Ecclesiastical Comwilsion 8111 was reported, with amendments. REVISING BARRISTERS (DUBLIN) BILL. The Lord CHANCELLOR moved the suspensien of the standing order , in this case, observing that-unless the bill was passed the registra►tion of Dublin cmli no:, be r 'needed with. L.:rl O.A.IIPBELL rcpeatei his objection to the vesting of the app..)ictment in the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. The motion waa agreed to, and the bill read a second time. - PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA.- TION (IRELAND) BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, the etandin 4 order was suspended in this case also, and the bill read a 6E'Clnd time. MUTINY (EAST INDIA) BILL. On the motion cf Lord PANMURE, ,the standing" order Was enepended, and the bill was read a second time, JOINT STOCK COMPANIES ACT (1850 AMEND, MENT BILL. Lord STANLEY of ALDE FtLEY moved the sus pension of the standing order, and the bill was then read a second time. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS (SCOTLAND) (No, 2) BILL. On the mo ti on of the Duke of ARGYLL, the stand• log order craw suspended, and this bill also lead a second Their lordships then arjJurned at 6.73 minu'es to seven o'cicek. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTmADAT.) The SrzAKETt toGk the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. On the motion of Cal. PINNEY, the standing orders were suspended to ene.)!e Llrd Rivers' Elate 8.11 to be read a third time and nagged. MERSEY' CONSERVANCY AND DOCK 3 (No. 2) BILL. Mr. J. EWART moved C:e appointment of the fol lowing select committee relative to the Mersey Con.er vancy and Docks (No. 2) Bill :—Mr. Fitzroy, Mr. wP rt, and Mr. Kin,s , lake. Agreed to. DIVORCE AND MATRI 1I()NIA.L CAITSES (STAMP DUTIES.) The house went into committee and agreed to the fol lowing resclations "That the same amount of stamp duty as is now pay able on the admission of a proctor to any eceleliiastical court, shal be payable by every person to be admitted as a praetor in the . C,)urt cf Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or in the Court of Probate, who shall not have been previously admitted as a proctor in the other of such courts, or in an ecc'esia,stical or admiral'y court, and have paid the stamp duty in respect thereof. " That every perecia who shall practise as a proctor or a 9 a solicitor or attorney in the said Court of Divorce and Matrimonial Causes, or the said Court of Probate, shall obtain as annual certificate to authorise him so to do en - ler the stamp duty acts in the same manner as procters practising in the Ecclesiastical or Admiralty Courts, and solicitors and attorneys practising in her Majeet Courts at Westminster, are now required to do by the said acts or any of them. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES - BILL, The committee on this Lill was resumed. On clause 53, Sir W. HEATECOTE raid that ho very much regretted to Worm the house that his friend and colleague (Mr. Gladstone) who had an im portant amendment neat in order - on the paper for the consideration of the committee, bad lately been suffering under a severe domestic affliction, which was the cause of his absence from the House a considerable portion of yesterday The apnrehension that it would cause his absence from the House the remainder of the session bad, he regretted to say, ac'n ally occurred,.and it devolved on him (Sir W. Heathcote) to move the important amendment of his right bon. col league and friend to this clause. The clause as it stood called on the clergy to marry divorced parties, which would not only be repugnant to the feelings of tae majority of them, but (as most of them belie led) contrary to the law of God. To relieve the clergy from the diffi culty in which. they found themselves placed by this clause, his right hon. friend had given notice of this amendment which was to the effect that the marriage of divorced persons should be in the character of a civil contract entered into at the Registrar's o ffi ce , b u t sanct i oned by a religious ceremony, where a clergyman or dissenting minister could be found voluntarily to perform it. The ATTOFitNEY-GENERAL regretted the absence of Mr. Gladstone owing to the domestic affliction re ferred to, who, .he remarked, was one of the chief orna anent@ of their debates. (Hear.) The amendment wa3 objectionable in many respects. It would inflict great injury on the innocent husband or wife seeking to marry again, or an innocent person marrying the adulterer or adulteress, as the case might be. It would also have the effect, if carried, of going far to confirm the principle that marriage was indissoluble. The amendment, if carried, would only make the marriage valid on being . !iolerrini.ed in a particular form, which would be a great tardollip on the parties, especially if they were Dissen- - and cl erg y men or Di ssent i ng ministers were willing "' tlerforrn the m arr i age ceremony. A woman ma r ry i ng of En a divorc e d man b y t h e f orm o f the Cb urch -.raw aV, tion of a VI would by the amendment be pat in the posi- IL e gegatrtecrine, and the child ren wou ld b e ill eg i t i mate. que4i on on tl, that the c omm it tee s h oul d not decide the divorced persou'aeanlen'lment, but first consider whether on that heir g de sho uld have power to marry again, and whether the clergy o f 11,3 the affirmative, then consider Church of England should or should not be exerntedZ ziolemniain g such marriages when they were reluctant right honourable baronet to :i tt lj so. He asked the withdraw his amendment. Mr. B. HOPE supported the Borne clergymen of the Church of deference should had pstttioned England against the clause, and he thought be paid to their feelings. Mr. NEWDEGATE considered that nothing could justify the bill in its present form, and . ur ged th e com mittee to adopt the amendment. He called upon th e committee to give due influence to religion as a correc tive to the dangerous tendency to the bill be bad I • ntended t o a Mr. D. GRIFFITHS raid that move an amendment prohibiting the g uilt y par ty from E being married by the forms of the Church of ng and, but consideri ng the arg uments of the Attorney - Ge n eral unanswerable against the amendmen t he should oppose it Lord J. MANNERS enforced in a lengthened speech, the duty of the committee to respect tha conacientkus Rcruplea of the clergy, as well as numbers of the laity, On the compulsory marriage of the guilty parties. Mr. ADAMS expressed a hope that the amendment would be withdrawn. He considered ft was essential that a religions sanction should be observed in the so lemnisation of marriage —whether of members of the Church of England or of Dissenters. (Hear, hear.) He ohs° objected to the amendment because it set a brand on innocent parties, as being unworthy to partake of the religious ceremony of marriage. He thought liberty of conscience should be given to the clergy in this respect, 10,114 whore dergyulell Wen wail& they lank; ba TnrE 6 iJN, LO rE.O WEDNESDAY EV E iN G AUGUS r 19, 7, _permitted to_perform the marriage ceremony on either of the divorced parties wuthilig again t 3 contract marriage. Loid LOVAINE would vote for the amendment if it Wa4 pressed to a division, though he thowht it would inflict great hardship on the innocent divorced persons. Mr. BRISCOE hoped there would be no division on the clause, because it was undesirable either party should claim a triumph on this important point. He considered the conscientious scruples of the clergy should be re spected, and he would rather that the suggestion of the Attorney General should be adopted. Mr. SPOONER asked the right hon. baronet (Sir W. Heathcote) to withdraw the amendment, because it would inflict injury on the innocent parties. If it had been confined to the guilty he should have voted in its favour. Mr.MALINS also hoped the amendment' would be withdrawn that the sense of the committee might be taken on the question as suggested by the learned Attor ney-General. Sir W. HEATEICOTE regretted that the discourage ment he thought shoal,' be given to the marriage pf divorced parties was not entertained by the committee, and as it appeared to be their wish to raise the question relative to the clergy in another shape he would with draw'bis amendment. The amendment was then withrawn. Major WARBIJRTON moved at the end of clause 53 :—Provided always, and be,it enacted, that no priest or deacon shall be liable to any suit, penalty, or cen sure for refusing or consenting to solemnise the marriage of any person who shall be divorced by virtue of this act. He considered his amendment was necessary, be cause by the bill the clergy would be called on to act in opposition to their ordination vows. Without the amendment he proposed the clergy would have to vio late their consciences or abandon their position. Mr. WIGRAM supported the amendment as an act of justice to the clergy. The marriage ceremony was framed on the opinioq of the church, that marriage was indissoluble; but the. house having decided to the contrary, they were bound either to modify the marriage ceremony so as to remove, the lawful impediment that would exist under that service, or else give them an option to celebrate it or not. He thought there was not time to do the former this session, and as it was mad visable to force the clergy in.hostility to the law, es had been the ca se i n P russ i a, on t hi s point, i t was better to give them an optional course of proceeding. He never recollected a memorial presented to Parliament so nu merously signed by .the. members of one profession as that by the clergy on this point, which he looked upon - as importing that 'the whole of the clergy were unani mous on it. He thought a few cases of marriage of divorced persons that had been solemnized was no reason for their withholding the relief asked for by the whole body of the clergy. Lord EBRINGTON supported the amendment. General THOMPSON wished to know what clergy man was likely to be made a martyr under this bill. A divorced person would not be likely to seek out a clergy man who would hot marry him, with a view of directing attention to the misfortune under which be laboured, but rather resort to a clergyman—and they were always to be found—who would marry divorced persons. Mr. C. FOSTER expressed a hope that the Govern ment would accede to the-amendment. Mr. AYItTON ccnsidered that the amendment would have the effect Of strengthening the power of clergymen who were Romaniste in heart, and would enable them to carry out their views of marriage being a sacrament and indissoluble. He adMittei that the conscientious scru ples of the clergy should be resp?cted, but the same liberty of conscience that they claimed for themselves they should grant to others.' (Hear.) Whilst therefore they" refused to perform the service they should not have the power of shutting up the parish church which was the property of the State, and prevent the parishioners crone being married there by a clergyman who war willing to perform the marriage ceremony. Mr. WALPOLE supported the amendment on what he considered nuanswerable ground, viz , that Parlia ment bad no right to impose on any person or class of persons in this &pantry the painful dilemma of obeying or clisobeyine two laws set before them—(hear, bear) that of the statute of Charles II , that required ih r per formance of the marriage cerernorly in a particular man vier and the in lissolubility of marriage, and this bill which made marriage dissoluble and allowed the divorced parties to marry. For the sake of peace in the Church he asked the Government to accept the amendment. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said he was moat happy to et ete that he had been auth - arised by the notls lord at the bead of the G)vernment to accept the amend ment with'a qua!ificatioa that be thought would meet with the approbation of the - committee ; but before stat ing it he must call the attention of the committee to the considerations that had weighed greatly with the Go vernment before fiiitlry bringing before them this propo -s,ition. He asked the committee first to consider if they were or were not about to introduce a qualification that might prove a snare to those for whose relief it was pro posed to be given. If it were found right to give this relief here, where were they to stop ? It would pervade the whole services of the church, especially those of baptism, burial, and the holy sacrament, and lead to disunion, and those evils iu the Church which it was desirable to prevent, and which ha prayed they might never see. (Hear, hear.) Ho presumed that the- hon. and learned member had welt considered the eff:ct of the proposed cbargP, and therefore the Govertinient were prepared to accede to the amendment in these words :—" Provided always and be it enacted that no priest or deacon shall be liable to any suit, penalty, or censure for refusing to solemnise the marriage of any person whose adultery or crime has been the ground of the diaFolution of any marriage." (Hear.) That he thought woa'd meet the case of a wife and her adulterer. The Government also proposed to add to the clause words a ;repelling a rector to give the . use of the parish' church to a priest or deacen of the Church of England_ willing s ing to el-ennise a marriage of parishioners to w hi c h i the said rector had objectiOns. Mr HENLEY approved of the clergy amendment of the hon. and learned A.ttorney-General, but he' asked for more time to arable the committee to consider that part with reference to the use of the parish church. After some remarks from Sir W. HEATHCOTE, Mr. WALPOLE said that be did not agree with the hoc. and learned Attorney-General that the relief given in this, cane wouli have hereafter to be granted in reference to the othrr services of the church, because in this case the clergy had no additional po ter or autho rity given to them, but would only act under the decree pr authority of the new Divorce Court. • After some further discussion, it being near four o'clock, the Attorney:General gave notice of his amend• meta for consideration at six o'clock this evening, and the debate was adjeurneid. The CLIAIIIMAN then reported Progress, and the house resumed. MILITIA BILL _ On the motion that the amendment of this bill be con si and agreed t Col. NORTH asked for an explanation from the Givernmont, relative to the caps and helmet covers of the men sent to India. He behaved we were losing many men in India from the want of these covers. Sir J. TRELA.WNY gave notice of his intention to put a question to the Un ler-Secretary for War, relative to the sergeants of the army. The consideration of the amendment, for want of time was postponed. The other orders were agreed to, and the morning sitting was suspended at 4 o'click. The house resumed at 6 o'clock. GOOD CONDUCT PAY TO SERGEANTS. Sir J. TREtAWNY inquired whether arrangements bad been made for extending the good conduct pay to sergeants in the army Sir J. RAMSDEN replied that, in accr)rdance with the promise he gave at an early period of the session, the claim of soldiers to retain their good conduct pay, after promotion to the rank of sergeant, had been mattudy considered, and the noble lord the Secretary for War was most anxious to meet the'views which had been ex pressed on the snbject ; but there was a difficulty in car rying them into effect, It had been found that if they made the good conduct warrant applicable to sergeants it must be accompanied by certain other conditions which attached to that warrant, as to the forfeiture of pay in cases of misconduct which it was considered ought not to apply in the case of officers. The War-office had, how ever, under consideration a plan- for accomplishing the object by means of a different machinery, which they hoped to be able to adept. CLOTHING OF TROOPS FOR INDIA. Mr. A. STAFFORD, referring to the answer of Sir J. Ramsden to a previous question on this subject, which he believed bad been misunderstood, inquired whether the War-office had made any arrangement for supplying the troops who had embarked for India with cool cloth ing during the voyage as well os on their arrival, and whether it was true, as had been reported, that the medi cal comforts and medicines for the use of those troops were embarked not with them in the ships in which they eailed, but were to go out in other vessels which did not even sail in their company I Sir J. RAMSDEN said that with regard to the clothing for the use of the troops during the voyage, by the regulations now in force th e so ldi er before emark ing received an advance of three months' pay, out of which certain articles, called sea necessaries, were pro vided by the commanding officer, the total cost of which amounted to rather more than 2/. per man, and the ba lance was made over to the commanding officer, to be expended by him inthe purchase of such articles as would conduce to the soldier's comfort during the voyage. He should add also that he had made inquiry at the India Board, and ascertained that whenever a transport was taken up by the East India Company the owner was re quired to enter into a contract to provide sufficient awn ings to sprea'd over the deck of the vessel in order to pro tect the men from the heat of the sun. With regard to the medical comforts, be had the authority of the Direc tor-General of the Army Medical Department for saying that in every case the medical comforts and medicines had gone out in the same ships with the men. C OMPENSATION FOR LOSSES CONSEQUENT UPON THE INDIAN REVOLT. Bar. DISRA.ELI—As we are not to have an Indian financial tsimtc.ate,ment this session I mus t t rou bl e t h e r i g h t with a hoc. gn- t Briti s h su question n the P res id ent o f the Board of Control to know h Whe in ther it is intended to suhrnit any proposi tion for granting nomprehnesation for these loss , .s? Mr. V. SIIITI3-- event s compensating eetle?u,urt of Directors have under their consideratio n a ferers by the unfortunate u at have redoccu in India for tE e pecuniary losoes trlanse,y,:h-hbaevtei suqtained. It has not yet been submitted to say that when it does coma before the Gt ed scarcel y will receive the fullest consideration. mear srnment it INCREASE OF THE Attley . Colonel NORTH bad heard it reported that the ofa. cers who had been named-to fill up the second battalio4, of the line regiments were to be pin . ..led on the recruiting service on half-pay, and were to . receive nothing in addi tion but their 4odgiog.money. 110 wis4o !wow - whether that statement was correct ; but as he had r rect in saying that the names of all the commissioners l not given notice of the question he would repeat it to- were not appended to the report. A communication • morrow . had been made to the Secretary for War by one of the Sir J. RAMSDEN would answer the question to- commissi oner s, the right hon. gentleman the member for morrow. - - Coventry, stating his inability to agree to the recom . RESTRICTIONS ON THE INDIAN PRESS. mendations in the report, his intention to state his Mr. DISRAELI moved for copies of any despatch reasons in a separate paper, and when that was received from his Excellency the G ivernor General of India, it would be laid on the table. stating his reasons for making the Act. No. 15, 1857, LAMBETH ELECTION. for the restriction of the liberty of the press applicable Mr. GILPIN moved " That the minutes of the evi to the European portion of the population, as well as to i dence taken before the select committee on the Lambeth the native; and of any memorial, petition, or remon- Election Petiti4 be laid before the house."—Agreed to. strance, addressed to his Excellency th e Governor-General ; CUSTOMS BILL. by the European population in consequence.—Agreed to. This bill was read a third time and passed. POOR RELIEF. ' DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES On the motion of Lord ELCHO, certain returns in re (STAMPS) BILL. fereoce to medical relief were ordered. COMMERCIAL RELATIONS WITH TURKEY. The report of this bill was brought up and received. Mr. HADFIELD, pursuant to notice, asked the ,THE DIVORCE BILL. First Lord of the Treasury whether (under 14th protocol, The house went into committee on this bill, and pro page 59, of Conferences of the Plenipotentiaries of Paris, gress was resumed by 1856, relative to the treaty of peace) there had been a The eIIen:CIL:IN putting Major Warburton's proviso, revision of the stipulations which regulate the commer- to add at the end of clause 53 the following :—" Pro cial relations of the Porte with other powers, or in the vided always, and be it enacted, that no priest or deacon position of foreigners resident in Turkey ; and whether shall be liable to any suit, penalty, or censure, for re (agreeably to the recorded wish of the plenipotentiaries) fusing to soletanize the marriage of any person who shall a deliberation had been opened at Constantinople, since be divorced by virtue of this act." To this an amend the conclusion of peace, between the Porte and the merit had been moved by the Attorney-General. " That representatives of other powers, with a view of attain- no clergyman in holy orders of the united church of Eng iitg the twofold object in such a manner as to afford land and Ireland shall be compelled to solemnize a mar entire I atisfaction to all legitimate interests ; and if riage of any person whose former marriage may have been there had been no such revision and deliberation, whether dissolved on the ground of his or. her adultery, or be this country, in its commercial relations with the Porte, liable to any suit, penalty, or censure, for solemnising, ranks amongst the most favoured nations, in all corn. or refusing to solemnise, the marriage of any such per mercial transactions, the residence of British subjects in son." Turkey, fiscal and other duties ; and whether any bene- Mr. FITZGERALD said that he was disposed to con fioial or other change had taken place, since the coin. cur in the main in the opinions expressed on this subject mencement of the war with Russia, or was intended ; by the Attorney-General, and could riot help thinking and were negotiations in progress to facilitate the corn- that the concession on this point might prove a fatal merce of this country with Turkey ? gift to the Church of England. It was impossible, how- Lord PALMERSTON—It is perfectly true, as the ever, to pass over altogether the memorial of the clergy hon. gentleman states, that under the protocol agreed to which had been so widely circulated. In his °pillion it by the plenipotentiaries at Paris there was to be a mu- would be a case of great hardship if an innocent person teal deliberation of the representatives of the different should be deprived of that to which the law said he or she European powers and the Porte, for the purpose of ar- was entitled, because any one particular class considered ranging more equal and favourable stipulations for the the law to be wrong. (Hear.) Still he thought it might regulation of commerce with Turkey. But th e h on. gen . be desirable to make some concession to the party which tleman must be aware that from the period when the bal put forward their opinions so strongly, and he would treaty of Paris was signed and ratified down to the pre. do so for the sake of securing peace -to the Church. He s nt time many questions have been pending upon which believed in his conscience that marriage was indissoluble the different parties to that treaty entertain different by the divine law, and that divorce was as inexpedient opinions. Some of those questions are still udder discus- in policy as it was wrong in principle. sion, and it would bepremature to enter into deliberations Mr. KNATCHBULL-HUGESSEN saki he was not which could not be serried to a satisfactory result unless opposed to the indissolubility of marriage, because he be. all the parties who shared in them entered upon them lieved the weight of religious authority was in favour of without any difference of opinion upon certain matters it, but he would not force those clergymen to marry who of considerable importance, which would necessarily be bad conscientious scruples against the performance of the involved. Nothing has therefore yet been done, but cere nony between divorced parties. Divorce was a most whenever those questions which are still pending shall be important question both to the clergy and the laity, but finally and satibfactorily settled, then those dshberations he thought it was not right for that house, by depriving to which the hon. gentleman alludes will take place. In the clergy of the liberty to refuse to marry, to assume the meantime our commercial relations with Turkey rest to settle points of doctrine that had been disputed and upon the treaty of 1820. No change has been made, discussed for centuries. He would give every clergy either during the war or consequent upon'it ; and, corn- man full liberty of conscience. paring the amount of duties payable on imports and ex- Mr. HADFIELD said he was as much in favour of ports in Turkey with the tariff, of other countries, it religions liberty as any man, but what a pretty state the will be re3n that 12... r scale of duties is more favourable to Church would be in if every clergyman were allowed to commerce than th )sis. of almost any other country with exercise his own discretion on - every point of doctrine which we have commercial relations, that he might have conscientious scruples about. If a Mr. HADFIELD—Do we stand upon equal terms clergyman thought the ceremonies of the Church were with Austria and Russia in our commercial relations contrary to his c :nscience, let him exercise his liberties with Turkey ? like a man, and leave the Church altogether, as 200 of Lord PALMERSTON—I am not prepared to say on their forefathers did at the time of the Reformation. what terms those powers stand ; but my general impress - Sir F. BARING said he was not much surprised at Bien is that as far as our commercial transactions go, we the remarks of the hon. gentleman who last spoke, are upon an equal footing with them. because it was scarcely possible to mention the words, THE MILITIA BILL. "bishop" or "church," without that bon. gentleman Mr. STAFFORD rase to inquire when the next stage givirg the house a declaration of Lis love of religious of the Militia Bill was to be taken; and cmnpleiued liberty. He should support stile amendment of the hon. that the consideration of the amendments had been and gallant member (Major, Warburton). moved without due notice, just befereehe house rose at The committee then divided. The numbers were— the m wising sitting, and when nearly ail the members For Major Warburton's amendment •56 bad left, notwithstanding that the noble lord (Palmer. Against 77 stun) had promised that an opportunity should be Maj city against te —2l afforded of discussing the amendments and of calling The amendment was therefore lost. attention, as he was de s i rous o f (Hog, to certain cir. Mr. CRAUFURD then proposed as an amendment cumstances connected with the militia. He must say. his to alter the words of the clause so as to make it read was something like sharp practi ce on th e p a rt of the noble that no clergy man should be liable to censure for Belem lord. (" Hear" and "Oa.") There were other hon. gen- resin; or refueirg to solemnise marriage between parties tlemea who were anxious to addreor the house also on on th e groun d o f the i r a d u lt e ry. the same subj e ct. (" Order," and cheers.) - Very well. Mr. W. EWART opposed the amendment. Then to put himself in order h e would move that the S:r DENHAM NORREYS thought it was mon house do now adjourn. • strolls to, make a law declaring certain marriages legal, The motion having been seconded, and then grant immunity to those clergy who refused to Mr. STAFFORD—Now, then, Tam in order. carry out the provisions of the law. It would be putting Tne SPEAKER—No, you are not. I must first put the clergy above the State; and would be a most clan the question. (Loud laughter.) - - gerous principle to set up. Tne question baying been put, The amendrient was negatived without a division. Mr. STAFFORD resumed hit complaint. He had 'Mr. L WIG RAM then proposed to add a provisio given notice to the Under-Secretary for War that though that parties declared gu;Ly of adultery should • not he he did not intend to oppose the bill he intended to ask enabled to marry the person with whom the eclat certain questions with regard to the arrangements con- tery had been committed. If this provision were , not fleeted with the warlike preparations for the Easts He enacted, the promise to marry would be constantly held wished to know why, under such circumstanc w, he had out as an inducement for a married woman to commit brought on the bill and advanced it a stage, unexpect- adultery. He considered that such marriages, if per edly, at 5 minutes to 4, just before the house rose, and mitted, would be a scandal to the land, and quoted the whether the house would yet have the opportunity of en- opinion of the net Consul of France (at the time of the deays yang to elicit boar Government such explanations discussion of the Code Civil), "That any law must be and answers to the questions and suggestions which immoral which aethorised a woman convicted of /Wel might bo male on this bill, which the noble lord ad- tery to live with her paramour." He was also opposed reined was at the present juncture a most important to imprisonment for adultery, because that punishment one ? The hon. .and galiaia member for Westminster , fea chiefly on the man's wile and children. had Bald tile other nig,Lt that there was some difficulty Mr. D. GRIFFITH thought that when an irrepar ,in recruiting our army by enlistment. Now be was 1..0- .iii. 1"...,i1c ha - 1 been committed, tile bet way was t, pared to combat that statement. When the harvest was mend it in the readiest manner. He, therefore, oppOsed gathered in, he believed there wooll be no ditiieu;ty in the proviso. obtaining recruits. He thought it highly desirable 'that Lord J. MANNERS supported the amendment, art the organ of the army in tnat house should explain au- necessary to remove the scandal that would otherwise thorititively and in detail what arrangements bad been attach telhis bill from the facilities it would give for the made for the comfort of the troops who were proceeding commission of adultery. to India, and 'what precautions had been taken to avoid - The ATTORNEY-GENERAL opposed the amend. those hardships to which our soldiers in the Crimea were meat. The law bad always permitted th e marr i age o f unnecessarily exposed, the guilty parties, on the ground that it was for the in- Lord A. VANE :repeated Mr. Stafford's complaint terest of morality they should do so. that the bill had been brought fervvarl at a time when Sir W. HEATHOUTE said that the guilty parties no member who took an interest in the matter was in were net permitted to marry in Scotland, France, or the heu,e. Austria, and these examples confirmed the policy of the Lord PALMERSTON said be was sorry to dispel the course now proposed. illusion which the hon. gentleman seemed to be under, Mr. BOVILL said it was useless to attempt to carry that he was placing himself in conformity with the strict an amendment that did not meet the views of the Go order of the house, by making a speech on the subject of vernment, but, nevertheless, he could parties to marry.ld pa n r e t trefrain froin the militia on a mo ti on f or t h e a dj euraraeut of the house. protesting against permitting guilty If he wished to be strictly in order he ought to have Such a permission would have the effect of increasing confined himself to giving reasons why there should be adultery with:persons who, knowing they could marry an a ijournment of the house ; and howevr there may after a divorce, would commit an act to dissolve the have been laxity of practice, yet the hon. gentleman was marriage tie, that they might do so. out of strict order, However, he would say notising about Mr. CLAY said he firmly believed that if th e y cou ld that. He could assure the hon. gentleman that be ex- tell a woman on the eve of committing adultery that she ceedingly regretted that, throu t h misconception or inad- was about to lose her husband, childreu, and her posh vertence, the hon. gentleman should have been deprived tion, the crime would in the great majority of cases be of an opportunity of offering his opinion on the state of prevented. ' The adulterer was generally a cool-blooded, our military affairs at the stage of the Militia Bill which calculating seducer, and he (Mr. Clay) did not (nee had just been passed. The hon. gentleman asked hint what became of him. Generally, nine -tenths of the last night if the Militia Bill would come on then, and he crime belonged to the man, and nine-tenths of the suf- replied that it would not, as ther e was a po i nt - wh i ch re- feting to the woman. ( H ear; hear.) For Heaven's quired to be looked into, and that the report would be sake let them not tell the woman that no amount of re brought up to-day. He was not aware whether he said pentance could enable her to resume an honourable it would be at the morning or the evening sitting; hut position in society. the bill stood for its next stage in the orders for that The amendment was negatived without a division. morning, and it was brought on-as usual eta quarter to Mr. WALPOLE congratulated the Government on four, when the discussed business was over. As the the satisfactory concession they bad made towards the hon. member and the noble lord seemed desirous of conscientious scruples of the clergy. having an opportunity of entering at large into matters Sir W. HEATHCOI'E expressed his opinion that connected with our military affairs, he would take care the concessions made by the Government would not that the third reading should be so fixed that they might meet the difficulties of the majority of the cl erg y. have that opportunity. - Mr. HADFIELD called attention to the difference Lord A. V. TEMPEST—On what day ? of opinion expressed by the two last hon. gentlemen, Lord duo notice ALME be RSgiven.TON—lt may be o n Th urs d ay , b ut members for the U n i vers iti es o f Oxford and Cambridge, will The moti in for the adjournment of the house w as then on this pert of the bill. withdrawn. After soma remarks from Mr. Henley, Mr. D. Griffith, s THE ET j i R R O OY PE A A L N MA A I N L D STEAK and Mr. Wigraiu, . abolishing actions for trim, con AUSTRALIANA M PACKET MAI AND The L On clauseclause, 5 4 a , s amended was agreed t o , COMPANY. Mr. I. BUTT moved the omission of the clause. Mr. MACARrNEY begged to ask the Secretary to The committee divided, and the numbers were— the Treasury whether. previous to the Bth day of July • For the clause last (upon which day a paper was issued by the directors of the Royal Mail Steam P ac k et C ompany to their AID gainst it 46 h , Majority —32 shareholders, headed "Proposed Amalgamation of the: The clause was agreed to. Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the European- Clause 55 was agreed to. and Australian Royal Mail Company"), any communie Upon clause 56 an addition regulating compensation cation or proposition was made to either of said corn-- was °greed to after some observations by Mr. HAD panies, directly or indirectly, by the Treasury, that in. FIELD. case of amalgamation the existing contracts to these corn-- A clause was then introduced regulating the payment panics would be further extended for two years ; and if ofthe officers of the court by stamps. • not, whether such a proposition (originating with one or Mr. ADAMS thought that some words should be in berth companies) was submitted to him at any time pre-- traduced - which - should provide- more directly that the violin or subsequent to such document being circulated ; payments should in all cases reach the, officers. and if so whether any decision had been come to thereon? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the fees pay- Mr. WILSON said it was at all times an inconvenient ' abl e on the stamps could not be paid at once to the offi prectice for hon. members of that hou se to make partisan cars of the cameos it was provided that they should be motions with reference to companies oat of doors, and paid into the consolidated fund. He would take care to put questions to the Government which' were founded 1 that proper provision should be made to meet the case. on no public motives, and only bearing on the interests Mr. HENLEY said that the Attorney-General hav of private companies ; it was making Parliament a vehicle 1 ing appointed the local courts, should have arranged the for the rivalry of .companies out of doors, which ought fees so a s s to fit them. This was aeluty which could not not to be done, and he hoped th e h ouse would support . be done by the committee. They should first understand him if he declined to answer questions of that descrip- bow the- local courts stood, and then settle the fees, tion. • (Hear.) Again, repeated motions were made for otherwise they would be dealing with the fees without returns at the instance of company against company , which filled the table with returns which were of no - Attorney-General Idmake knowing how the courts were to be constituted. He that the Would a proper public interest. (Hear.) He had no wish to withhold .hoped provision herealt er . information, and he had no objectio n ,t o answer the The ' ATTORNEY-GENERAL was understood tosay question of the hon. gentleman, but hoped that this sort that he would attend te the suggestion. S !Du::: ATTORNIY-GENERAL of questioning would be discouraged by the house, Tee , t b r3 i o r l a w a s . e H w E e rA.OTII agreede OT t E o i said .t s i t pr e could se n t s n b o a t p e b . e done if hon. gentleman asked whether, previous to an agreement for an amalgamation of the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company and the European and Australian Royal Mail could make tl then said that he, le clause more stringent by adding the Company, any communication or proposition was words made to either of the two companies by the- go- The se tion was agreed to. vernment. -No such proposition had come before him tadse with the addition The a' - "come from th " e atrept as herein express provided.". officially, and all he knew was that the two companies 15 which was originally did send in a proposition on the subject of some con- it ...g into better shape clan The clause was intended to meet tracts, and he was told that a report had been made on h : very rude form, 4TorOdRs.NEY-GENERseAI then moved a clause, the subject to the Admiralty, which wonld come bet - jto thinth of whichitet the e foundedwwhaosl bill as it came the Treasury to be considered, and when it did lee to the before them it would be considered with referee 1 ,4 e interestsMr HADFIELD said that the claim for compensa public interests, and not with reference to t Was it under- Mr, clause, of one company or the other. • clause 15 ? Mr. MACARTNEY, in explaneti-stood • : , the hon, .that the clause was instead of e n ouctpoiounar court being ei original thrown . en, said non. gentleman having imputed to him - partisanship in putting grrete the &ease as in the Probate Bill. this question on behalf of the companies, he begged to I - d by of the Probates say that every step he had taken in reference to the Mr. AYRTON said that the precedent ase would stand on subject of Australian postage was taken with referee- Mr. MALINS said that compensation would be I Bill would not be followed, Each c to the public interest„ and he returned with seer see i its own merits, imputation that he toad done so from private no 'a the M other clause was then added, putti n g ;_ Ito se fo r,hape 'Mr. WILSON said he did not mean to - ' Aivee : the formal decisioa of t'-e committee as to divot. putation on the hon. gentleman for put' east any ims 1 adultery coupled with desertion, Lion, and be was sorry if he had be' -sing this q uee- I /, so ; but he had only woken of t . At supposed to dot 1 he ATTORNEY - into effect a former decision of putting questions of te a s e nature wo inconvenience of 1 clause which was to carry i the courts to whom appli .. :me committee with regard to be made. The corn. THE COMMIS, ',SION ON PURQP- ' cation for judicial separation should had decided that the chase in the arm AASE IN THE mittee, utter much discussion, Mr. BIT' e ARMY • . ( county courts Were sot fit for the . ' purpose, but that j aria- . GENERAL then proposed a War , . ...J.t4EY begged 0 .nether he had r • - diction in this matter should to frame a clause to carry . ' co mtnittiori appoint received from the members of the i courts. He had iteavoured The other local courts . °- ,,,K the Under Secretrary ford . "e.d to inquire into the system of put.- 1 out the wishes of •Mcommittee. of quarter session, the report, an y wh o h a d not appended their names to j w ere, the courts of assize, the courts so ? Y '.easous for their h.aving declined to do ' A the recorder's court. i an would Eli; J. V, -,,,, e. ,r, delicate matters w h ich see Edon was not. fit for the e . ~..,t heo4 sli ' 4 4 ll. 1 4 44 the off, gentle:ou irsol cof . b A brou ht i beftwo it and be P"P" 4 WV Now, the court of quarter. courts having jurisdiction shoed be the courts . of assize and the recorder's court. He moved a clauss to that effect —that application for "judicial separation should be made to the courts afforesaid in such city or borough in or near which the parties should have been last resident. and that the new clauses should be considered in corn• mittee. - The CR-AIRMAN then reported progrees. CROWDED DWELLINGS" PREVENTION BILL. Th 3 house the❑ went into committee on the Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill. Mr. BOVILL said that application to the judge of assize was very inconvenient, and almost impracticable. He thought that a commission might be sent down, as in lunacy oases. . _ Mr. AYE [ON moved the adjournment of the house. Some discussion arose, in the course of which Mr. LOCKE supported the motion for the adjourn. ment. gentlemen who supported the bill did not know where the shoe would pinch. The bill would en able the police to enter any man's house, and interfere with him in the manner in which he should live in his own residence. It was a ridiculous and absurd bill, affect ng the liberty of the subject, and beginning at the wrong end for legislation. Mr. B . IITT did not agree that the county courts were to be deprived of their jurisdiction. He did not think that it was the intention of the committee to negative the county courts. All they had decided was not to in troduce the county courts into one particular clause. He agreed with the proposal of giving jurisdiction to the Re corder ; but there was this objection to petitions to the assize, that it was not a permanent court, and only came into the country at long intervals for . a few days. He proposed that the jurisdiction should be given to the county courts, in order to raise the question. Mr. AYRTON said that a judge of assize tried only questions which had had a preliminary inquiry before a magistrate, and of which all parties had notice. But here the petition was presented;and the other parties would at once have to prepare evidence to meet it. How was this to be done in the limited time in which an assize eat? They could not traverse the bills to the next assiz3, as these matters required immediate decision. He hoped the Attorney-Gefieral would be able to put the clause into a better shape. _ _ Lord PALMERSTOISi said it was easy to see where the shoe pinched. It was a question between the specu lative builder, who wished to overcrowd his houses f r profit, and the poor who needed protection. It was said that every Englishman's house was his castle, but the fact was that at present every builder's hou-e was his dungeon. (Hear.) The Irish members ought, above ail, to support the bill, becauie so many Irish working people who depended on their industry suffered from the existing evils. He hoped the house would support a bill the purpose of which was to render the operation of the Common Lodging-houses A crnhore effectual. Mr. MALINS said that the committee had already decided that the county courts should not have this juris diction. The principle of application to the court of ses sion had very properly been abandoned. Some local court was necessary, and there remained the assize and the recorder. Now, he did not think that the as-izes, sitting at intervals of seven months, would answer thd purpose. Sir G. GREYsuggested that there was a thin I assize. Mr. MALINS said that the third was only intended for criminal matters, and even so there would be a delay of four months. This was a'delay which, whatever might be said, they could not tolerate in Chancery. Domestic, quarrels required immediate attention, but there was another objection. These domestic quarrels required time and investigation to ascertain the truth. Now the judges of assize were already pressed for time, and the delay of a single day at one place would throw out all the arrangements. They could form no opinion as to how long these cases would take. None in his experience so utterly set all calculations at defiance. The same objec tion of delay applied to the recorder, who only went his circuits four times a year, and ther would be a delay of four months. The recorders were often young unmarried men, without the experience necessary for the purpose. He thought the suggestion of the hon. member for Guild ford a good one—to adopt what had been found to work so well in lunacy—viz., the sending do wn commissioners under the authority of the superior court. As all the local tribunals were unfit, ho thought that the commissioners might be sent down to report to the court, and thus enable the court to decide. After a few — woids from Lord A. V. Tempest and Mr. Henley against the bill; and Mr. Cowper in its favour (the latter hon. gentleman undertaking to introduce-a clause which would make it perfectly clear that the bill should apply only to common I.dging-houses). Mr. AYRTON contended that the bill would affect the poor tenant and not the landlOrd. It was a bill not to regulate common lodging-houseP, but to affect the dwellings of the poor. It had not been effectually amended in committee. As to common lodging-housep, the present law was sufficient, and there was no need for further leizislation. Mr. HENLEY said as the house bad decided that there should be a local tribunal, the learned gentleman had done all be could in taking what courts he could find. He (Hr. Henley) agreed that some of them were fit. Now, as to the proposal - of the commission, they should remember they were legielating for poor persons, who could not bear the expense. Mr. MALINS said that in the case of lunacy the commission was expressly sent down to poor people, to save expense, at little cost. _ Mr. KNIGHT opposed the bill, as tending to increase the power of Government over the subject. ' Mr. NICOLL complained that the Government were too mach disposed to follow the policy of the Govern ment of France. B u t th e ,G overnmen t o f F rance w h en they removed the places in which the poor had lived, found other residences. But the Government of Eng land, while by metropolitan improvements they swept away the dwelling of the poor, did not take the trouble to provide dwellings for the poor to go to. Mr. O'BRIEN' observed that he never came into the house and asked who was up, but he was told the hon. member for the Tower Hamlets. (Laughter.) That hon. gentleman had shown an eloquence that they all admired, but which they all deplored. (Renewed laugh ter.) That hon. member objected to the pressing of such questions at this period of the session, but he continued, nevertheless, to protract the session. After some further huwourous observations, the hon. member was followed by Mr. Ridley, Lord A. V. Tempest, Mr. Cowper, Mr. Henley, and Mr. Kinnaird. _ Mr. COX said the bill would authorise the police to enter private dwellings. He asked whether the noble lord meant to play f'i'at Tyler with the people of England ? if so, he would Snd that the people would play the tyrant against him. Sir W. JOLLIFFE opposed the bill. Lord PALMERSTON explained some previous ob servations. He was quits sure that if the hon. member _ for the To per Hamlets (Mr. Cox), who had compared him (Lord Palmerston) to a person whom be supposed to be a great tyrant, would look into the historical facts, he would acquit him (Lord Palmerston) of any intention to resort to arAtrary Government by imitating the ex ample of %Vat Tyler. (Much laughter.) After some further discussion, the comuaitte divided, when the numbers were— Mr. HENLEY wished to know if it was relatively little or absolutely little? [Mr. Mathis—Absolutely little.] Now, he thought that the majority of these cases were set on foot on account of alimony, and did not require any great amount of legal knowledge. Country people could not apply to the borough recorder, and the assizes would be hurried and expensive. He approved - of the clause as it stood originally, as the adjudication of the small amount of property between the parties would not be difficult. The number of cases would not be great. Mr. M`MAHON thought that a little delay in such cases was useful. Tney would have probably three as sizes in the year, which was as often as was necessary under the circumstances. He did not agree that the assize would not have time to try the case for want of notice. Cases of murder had been tried when the 'murder had only happened a week before. If they took the average of Scotland, and applied it to the proportion of popula tion in England, they would have 100 divorces in a ye,ar and 200 separa'ions. Now, if they sent commissioners in all these cases, they would constantly have commis sioners roaming the country at great expense. As to the quarter sessions, he hoped the Attorney-General would stand by the quarter sessions. The chairmen of quarter sessions did their duty as well as recorders, and they would do this duty much better than the recorders. -Lord LOVAINE wished to know if no power of ap peal was to be given ? The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that besides the judges of assize, there were in the commission of assize many barristers, sergeants and Queen's council. He pro posed that the judge should have the p Tier of app .)int ing one or more of these gentlemen to hear and dispose of those cases which the judges could: not dispose of themselvss. The service of the petition c )uld bs easily got over, as it might be sent up to the judge some day before the as-iza, sealed with his seal, and then served upon the respondent. Toe quarter sessions were not the tribunal he should choose, bat he sboul I have no jec tion to allow these questions to be decided by the chair man of quarter s,ssiond personally. - Ho would not give his con,ent to the principle of the commission, it would bl a varying and undignified tribunal, without the pro per authority. He proposed to move an amendment to empower the judge to delegate the PoWer of hearing the petition to any barrister named in the commission. Mr. FITZGERALD thought the explanation of the hon. and learned gentleman satisfactory, and that the chairman of quarter sessions was a very fit person to be entrusted with this authority. He would suggest that the name of the assistant - ,:chairman of quarter sessions sheuld be inserted. For reporting progress .. 22 35 -13 Against _ Majgrity Lord A. V. TEMPEST immediately moved that the Chairman should leave the chair, which, however, was not pressed to a division. The tiee of the bill was then altsrel from "The Crowded Dwellings Prevention Bill" to "The Common Lodging Houses Act Amendment B H." Mr. COWPER promised to place on the paper the amendments ee proposed to introduce into the bill. The first clause as amended was then agreed to. The CHAIRHAN.then reported progress. The remaining orders of the day ware disposed of, and the house arjourned at -a quarter to three o'clock, I:IEALT.H OF LONDON DUL'IJVG-' THE WEEK. Mr. PULLER thought that the suggestion of the Attorney-General as to the service of the petition did not go far enough. Notice should first be sent to the re spondent as to the matters contained in the petition. Lord J. MANNERS felt bound to Express his satis faction at the proposal made by the Attorney-General. Sir G. GREY said that they should read the clause - a_ second time, and then put the amendment into shape upon it. The elsuse was then read a seclnd time. Mr. HENLEY hoped that the power over restitution of conjugal rights would be given to the court, as well as that over separation. Additions were then moved to the clauses by the AT TORNEY-GENERAL, giving . the power to any barri,ter narned_by the judges And include,d in the commi ss i in , or to the chairman and deputy chairman of quarter ses7 (From the Report of the Registrar-General. stone. Mr. BOVILL said that as the amendment stood persons named in the commission would be required to sit whether they liked or not. Now no payment would induce many of these persons to act. He std not see why the choiee should be limited to persons named in the commis-don. Sir G. GREY . said that there was a certain qualifiers tion in the person named in the commission, which was better than opening the duty to the whole bar. As to the enforcing the duty, the matter would by done as it n p o ec w fo w nn as, th t e he du j t u y d . Mr. M`MAHON observed that it was a privilege muchge named some one who was willi ng t o sought by members of the bar, and considered -an honour. Mr, AYRTON suggested that the general power of the .court of quarter sessions Should he given to the chairman of quarter sessions as tt administering oaths and other maters. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL thought that the words he propcsed woul I meet. that case. After a few words from Lord_ Loved/en- and Mr. PULLER, the amendment to the Clause Was agreed to, and the clause as amended ordered to stand as part of the bill. Another clause was then proposed, e ::powering the deserted wife to apply to the nearest police magistrate ; or if in a county, to a county magistrate. The clause was agreed to. • A clause was then proposed by the ATTORNEY GENERAL, regulating the compensation to be• given to the proctors. Mr. MALINS said that under the act many proctors would not find it worth their while to go on with their business. He thought thett the same principle should be adopted in giving compensation as that adopted in the Probate Bill. Mr. HADFIELD opposed any compensation, to the proctors, which was contrary to the spirit of the under standing previously entered into the course of the debate both on the present and on the Probate Bill. The proc• tors had already made the best bargaie that had ever been made by any profession. Mr. MALINS entered into some explanation of what occurred in pre_vions debates. His objection referred to the form in which compensation should be given eather than to the amount. Mr. HENLEY said that he did not see how the in ferior officers of the court were to be compensated. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the inferior officers expressed themselves fully satisfied by their posi tion under the bill. As to the proctors, he would not con sent to give them compensation tinder the bill upon the same, principle as under the Probate Bill. By that bill they were totally deprived of their practice. But under the present bill none of their business was taken away. A new court in which they could practice was estab lished, and the hon. and learned gentleman must not press the case in favour of the proctors too far. Mr. MALINS said that he was justified in believing that the hon. and learned gentleman intended to adopt the same principle in both cases. He was mistaken, and should be contented without dividing the house. It should be remembered that 10,000 competitors for busi ness were now to be introduced into the courts. Mr. HADFIELD should take the sense of the com mittee as to whether any compensation should be given to the proctors under the clause. The clause was, however,sagreed to without a division. Clauses B and 0, and one or two supplementary clauses proposed by the Attorney-General, were agrPed to, and ordered t o s t an d part of the bill. Mr. itIiMA.HON proposed the addition of a clause which would m a k e a d u lt er y with any married woman misdemeanour, and this he considered was rendered necessary as a protection to the husband in consequence of the abolition by the bill of the remedy which he po's eessed by mea ns o f an ac ti on o f crim ~,:heATTORNEY-GENERAL objected to the clause, w hi c h o . s qer a few words in reply from Mr. M`MAHON, was negatita: 4 without a division. Mr. BUTT pt :: , nosed the addition of some words regu lating the ju r i s dicitio a : of the proposed court, but it was ultimately decided that tr!;9 clause should be considered on bringing up the report. The A.TTORNEY-GENERAL p :ave notice of several clauses which he intended to pro pogo on bringing up the report. After some discussion as to the mode of procedure, it We arranged that the Chairman 5110414 report progress, , The deaths registered in London in the week that ended on Saturday (Aug 15) were 1,187, and ex hibit a depraase on those returned in the Vireo pre vious weeks, when they ranged from 1, 209 to 1,238. In the 10 years 1847-56 the averarre number of deaths in the weeks corresponding with last week was 1,255. But the deaths of last week occurred in an increased population, and to admit of comparison the average should be raised in propordon to the increase, in which case it will become 1,380., The average raLe of mortality would have produced more deaths by 193 than the number in the present return ; but it is proper to state that, as that rase is derived in part from periods when cholera raged, it is too high as a measure of health when the population is happily free from such calamity, and the mortality from all causes at present differs little from the ordinary amount at this season of the year. The deaths from diErrhoel, which rapidly rose to 302 in the last week of July, and in the next week. declined to 258, ag tin exhibit a decrease, the num ber returned last we?k being 244. In the ten weeks (of 1847-56) corresponding with last week the deaths from this complaint ranged from 81 to 253. The Lend ,n registers during the last 12 years reveal a verystriking increase in the prevalence of diarrhoea, for on referring to the returns for the sec. - md or third of Aug. in 1840-45 it will be seen that the number of cases in which it was fatal was as lo ,v as 20 or 11. and did not exceed 79. Besides the deaths from diarrhoea - th-re were 21,1aq week from " cholera" and " choleraic diarrtoea,7 12 of which occurred to young children. The registrar of the sub-dist r ict of Woolwich Arsenal reports a death from ." Eng lish cholera" after an illness of 40 hours. The de ceased was a rigger in the dockyard, and had been employed. for several days in raisin.. the convict hulk Defence, and it 'appears that he suffered t.x tremely from what was, described by him as " the awfnl stench" of the river during the performance of his work. Last week the 14tths of 875 boys and 7A3'gicls, in all 1,618 children, were registered in London. In the ten c3rre4ponding weeks of the years 1817- 56 the average number was 1,448. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean height of the barometer in the week was 29.793 in. The highest reading in the week was 30 in. on Wednesday. The mean temperature of the week was 63.7 deg., which is 2.1 deg. above the average of the same week in 43 years (as determined by Mr. Glaisher.) The mean daily temperature was highest on Thursday, having been 68.6 deg., which is 7.1 deg. above the average. Ths highest readings of the therthometer occurred on that day, and were 83 . 6 deg. in the shade, and 105 deg. in the sun. The mean dew-point temperature was 571 deg., and the difference between that and the mean temperature of the air was 6 deg. The mean temperature of the water of the Thames was deg. The general direction of the wind was south west. Rain fell to the amount of 152 in., of which as much as 1.12 in. fell on Friday. A thuder st irm commenced at half-past 9 o'clock on Di ursday night; it was very heavy during the first hour, and con tinued with intervals till 5 next morning. About 5 in the afternoon of Friday great darkness pre vailed, which was followed by a. very severe thun der storm, accompanied by hiiistones of unusual size. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL OAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 15 Zymotic Diseases Diseases of Uncertain Seat Tubercular Diseases " 193 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves and Senses ... ll7 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 3O Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration .. 86 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the }Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the - Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Skin, &c. .. 2 Malformations ... 1 Premature Birth and Debility 32 Atrophy 57 Old Aga sudden . . 3 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance. 5B Causes not specified ' 4 , - DEATEIS FROM ALL CAUSES 1,187 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. aponding week in the 1851. of 1856. Week, West Districts North Districts 490,396 - 237- Central Districts - 393,256 East Districts 485,522 South Districts 4 .. -..... :229660 1,250 1,187 607 ▪ 580 - 875 .-. 743 Totals Males Females. BIRTIIS IN TUB WEEK. Males • • Females Total INDIA.—A coloured Map of Indnia;xwti,llAbuog.p2r3eg.eTntheids grata with the Dispatch of Sunday Map, measuring 17 inches by 12, will form a part of the ann ounced to be is ra t Fued G t . forthcoming Atlas o, and to commence on October 4. Many thousands of pounds will be expended in pror.lucing this truly invaluable work, which, com pleted, will.be found the most comprehensive and generally useful, in fact, the best Atlas ever pub lished, The "Dispatch Atlas" may, be ordered of any Bookseller or Newsagent in the Kingdom •at , or th e Office, 139, fleet-atreet. Country Markets. LIVERPOOL-AuG. 13. There was a good attendance at market to-day, and a few buyers from a distance. Wheat and fl , )ur met with a fair demand for consumption at generally the full prices of Friday, or 3d per 701b1, and 6d to is per sack and barrel over the rates of this day week. Oats and oatmeal had a moderate sale, and maintained their value. The same re mark applies to barley and beans, but peas must be quoted is to 2s per qr. dearer. Indian corn in good request for feeding purposes, at 30s 6d to 37s per qr. for prime mixed and yellow American; 36s to 36s 61 for Ibraila, and 36$ 6d to 375 per qr. for Galatz and Odessa. HULL— AUG. 18. To-day we had a small show of farmers' wheat, for which extravagant prices are demanded,which somewhat checked business ; a fair business done at 2s to 3s advance. Good fresh foreign a ready sale at 2s up. Grinding barley met a fair sale at full rates. Liberal supplies of oats, buyers taking only slowly. Beans a slow sale, and peas in fair demand. Linseed cannot be reduced more than 2s to 3s per qr. Cakes meet fair consumptive demand for the time of year. Wheat, English red, 63s to 66s ; white 653 to 70 s ; oats, 27s to 2%; barley, 40s to 46s ; Indian corn, —a ; linseed cakes, Hull, 10112 s 6d to 101 153; ditto, foreign, 8/ 15s to 101; rapo cakes, 6/ 7s fld to El 15s; guano, El. to 131. 10a ; bones, 1278 6d.; flour, —s to - -a; tares, 32s to 363. LEEDS-AuG. 18. Since Friday we have bad no rain, and the weather is now very favourable for harvest operations. We have a fair show of old wheat and a sprinkling of new, the former is held for rather more money, but the trade is quiet, and the business done is at Frid.ty'e rates ; new is cleared off at last week's rates. Barley as before. Beans fully as dear. Other articles unchanged. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 64s ld ; bailey, 375 0:1; oats, 32s --d; beans, 46s —d ; peas, 4.0 s 6d ; rye,'—s. 01. COURSE OF EXCHANGE.--YESTERDAY. Am5terdam............ 11 17 - Gibraltar .............. -, Ditto, three months .. 11 19% Leghorn Rotterdam .• .. .. - ,•-• - 11 lb% Oonoa . . .... .... .• .• .• 25 80 Antwerp •• •• ... •• •• •... 25 40 /than •• •• •• •• •• .... •• - Brussels •• •• •• •• •• •• •• 25 4 Venice. ••• •• •••• •• - •., --- Bamburgh .• •• •• •• •••• 13 8% Naples •..........•. .• 42% Altcna •• •• •• •• •ft •• •• •• - Palermo •••• PariS• ••••• •• •• •• ...• 2527% Messina •• • ... 128 W, Do. three months ~. -25 65 'Llsbort ... • Marseitlas .• •• •• •• •• •• 25 67}. 'Oporto •• •• •• •• •• •••• •• 53 Bourdesuz -.• ........ - Rio Janeiro .••- •• -r Ft ankfort-on-Maine .... 119% Buenos Ayres.... • • .... Berlin •• •• •• •• •• ••• • •• • • New York,6o days' sight -- vl omut .. .. ~ .. .... -..10 23 Philadelphia .....,••••• Trieste•• •4 ge It •• •• .• ea 10 34 PRICES OF BULLION, PEE oz: Petersburg -- .• .... •• 36% Foreign Gold in Bars £3 17 9 gedria .......... Q .... 48% 'Portugal Gold Coin .. 00 0 C.sdiz ••••••••••• •• •. 0 • 49% Mexican Dollars WI •• 0 0 0 Barcelona .............• .. New Dollars .... - 0 0 0 Seville .... ..... ....... - Silver in bare .• .• .• 0 0 0 LOCAL SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 18. STOCK EXCLIANGE.—The transactions in this market have been dull, but prices have been slightly reduced. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 40.1 —Midland, 84 —London arid N rth-Westerns, 102i—Cdedonian, 38 Lancashire and Yorkshire, 99 8 -Eastern Counties, 11.8.9. —Great Western, - 53i—Grand Trunk of Canada, 12 Dutch Rhenish, d. 44' c. —South Eastern, 21i i—North Eastern, Berwick, 239—Luxembourg Const., 7. MANCHESTER. Aua. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was moderately active to-day, and prices were rather lower. Sheffields, 404 Midands, 84i—Dovors, 21 Grand Trunk of Canada, 12I—Great Western of Canada, 2l —London and North Westerns, 1021—Caledonians , 384—Leeds, 9 'I —Eastern Counties, 111—EAst Lancashire, 96j—Blackbuin, 7A. LEEDS, AUG. 18. STOOK EXCHANGL—The market rather active, and prices without tv.y material change. Grand Trunk• of Canada, 12i—Dovers, 21 3-16—Midlands, 84 5-16--North Eastern, Leeds, 22 11-16—Ditto, York, 394—London and South Western, 954. BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was rather better to• day, and there was an improvement in prices. Birming ham and Stour - Valleys, at 9--Great Westerns, at 53 London and North Western, N3w Eighths, d.—Bir. miogham and Derby, 56i. APPLICANTS FOR • SERVICE IN INDIA. - 7 We under , stand that numerous applicatio e ns for employment are received, almost daily, at the India House, not only from Englishmen, Lilt from Frenchmen, Germans, Bel gians, and other foreigners, who are desirous of proceeding to India to join the operations which are being conducted for quelling disturbances and restoring tranquility. These offers being made, for the most part; under the impression that the services of military officers are required by the G ,, vernment, it is as well to prevent dis appointment by exa:essing our belief that such is not the case. It is only necessary to consider for a mo ment the number of officers who are now in India with out regiim duly, t satiety any one that the Govern ment cannot require the aid of volunteers.—Allen's Indian Mail. 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