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wanted freedom of conscience l e t th em come a mo ng st IMk'ERIAL PARLIAIVIENT. Dissenters where they would be able to luxuriate on it to their hearts' desire. (Laughter.) Mr. RIDLEY supported the clause. Lord EBRINGTON said that there had been several of there disputes in the dioceses over which it was the misfortune of the Bishop of Exeter to preside, and what was remarkable io connection with them, that Tories of the old school had been as indignant as dissenters against the bishops' conduct. He thought it was time to show the bishops that if they lorded it over the clergy, they must not over the people, and that they were not superior to the law. Mr. NEWDEGATE considered the Legislature bad the effect of destroying discipline in the Church. Par liament ought to have sufficient courage to compel the bishops to do their duty under the present law. Mr. SALISBURY supported the clause. The clause was then agreed to. Mr. KNIGHT moved the addition of a clause to the bill, the effect of which would be to give burial boards the power of making their own bye-laws, and thus get rid of the present controul over them of the Secretary of State for the Home Department. Mr. MASSEY on the part of the government objected to the clause. A discussion ensued after which the clause was negatived without a division. The remaining amendments were then agreed to, and the bill ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. SUMMARY PROCEEDINGS BEFORE JUSTICES OF THE PEACE BILL. LOUSE OF LORDS--(YEsTERDAY.) The LO.RD CHANCELLOR took his seat on the wool sack at five o'clock. THIRD READINGS. On the m otion of Lord R_ EDESDALE the following bills were severally read a third time and passed : Bristol and Irish. Grand Junction Railway, New Bruns. wick and Canada Railway and Land Company, Sitting bourne and Sheerness Railway, Tweed Fisheries, Herne Bay and Faversham Railway, and Finsbury Park (No. 2.) Earl FORTESCUE presented a petition from the ratepayers and guardians of Newtoir Abbott, Devon shire, praying that delegates of the ratepayers might be associated with magistrates in deciding all matters rela tive to the levying of county rates. THAMES CONSERVANCY BILL. This bill, as amended, was read a third time and passed. NORFOLK ESTUARY ACTS AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was also read a third time and passed. REFORMATORY SCHOOLS BILL. On the motion of the Ea►l of HARROWBY, the re port on Ibis bill was brought up and agreed to. INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS BILL. On the motion of Lori REDESDALE, the report on this bill was brought up and agreed to. BANKING BILL. On the motion of Lord STANLEY, this bill, as amended, was read a third time and passed. CROWN SUITS (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion of the LORD CHANCELLOR, this bill was read a third time and passed. CALEDONIAN AND CRINAN CANAL BILL. This bill, on the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY, was read a third time and passed. PAROCHIAL SCHOOLMASTERS (IRELAND) BILL. This bill wag; read a third time and passed. GLEBE LAND (IRELAND► BILL. Thl9 bill WAS read a third time and passed. LAND AND ASSESSED TAXES (SCOTLAND) BILL, The bill was read a third time and passed. CHRIST'S CHURCH (WEST HARTLEPOOL) BILL. This bill was als, read a third time and passed. LAND TAX COMMISSIONERS NAMES BILL On the motion of Lord STANLEY of ALDERLEY this bill passed through committee, and was reported without amendments. CANADA AND NEW BRUNSWICK BOUN DARIES BILL. On the motion of EArl GRANVILLIS this bill Was read second time. EDUCATION. Lord BROUGHAM presented three petitions on the subject of education—one from the parish of St. George's, Hanover square; one from St. James's, Westminster; and another from Chatham. They stated that all parties Wishing to enter the legal medical profession required to pass an examination while those who wished to be come schoolmasters were subject to no snail ordeal, and they prayed ttnt this (Lida might be remedied by compelling parties seeking to fill that responsible office, to undergo an examination, in order to test their fitness for the duties. Formerly his opi nion was against such examination, but he now entirely concurcel with the prayer of the petition. BILLS OF EXCHANGE. The committee on this bill was resumed and the clauses were agreed to. METROPOLITAN POLICE STATIONS &c. BILL. This bill passed through committee. BOUNDARIES OF BURGHS EXTENSION (SCOTLAND) BILL. On the motion for the house going into committee on this Loid MELGUND protested against the bill being proceeded with, with so thin an attendance of Scotch members. He had various objections to the bill. He consi dered it ought not to be carried on, and he suggested that the bill should be postponed till next session. After some remarks from Colonel SYKES, The house went into committee, and the clauses were agreed to. DUNBAR HARBOUR (CONSOLIDATED FUND.) The report was brought up and agreed to, and a bill ordered to be founded thereon. DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES - (STAMPS.) The report was brought up and agreed to. ILLICIT DISTILLATION (IRELAND) BILL. The amendments to this bill were considered and agreed to and the bill was ordered to be read a third time to-morrow. WILLS, to., OF- BRITISH SUBJECTS ABROAD BILL. The amendments to this bill were also considered and agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time on Thursday. ELECTION PETITIONS BILL. clause., that no suit for jactitation of marriage shall be entertained, was expunged. The debate upc;n the 6th clause, which occupied much , time, brought into view the efftcts of the Bill in relati on to marriages and divorces in parts of the empire other than England, to which the bill is Upon reaching the Bth clause the Chairman was or dered, to report progress. _ _ The Insurance Companies Bill WAS committed pro forma. _ _ _ The Clerks of Petty Sessions (Ireland) Bill was withdrawn. The Representative Peers (Ireland) bill passed through committee. Lord BROUGHAM also moved for certain returns, with a view of showing the operation of the existing law with respect to the costa attending judgments on bills of exchange. The returns were ordered. SUPERANNUATION ACT AMENDMENT BILL. This bill was read a first time. GENERAL BOARD OF HEALTH CONTINU- The committee on this bill was resumed, and the re maining clauses were agreed to, and ordered to be read a third time to morrow. BURIAL GROUND (SCOTLAND) ACT (1855) AMRNDMENT BILL. This bill was read a third time and passed. The sitting was then suspended till 6 o'clock, when the house resumed. STATE OF THE THAMES. ANCE BILL. This bill VMS read a first time. BURIAL GROUNDS (SCOTLAND) BILL. This bill wag read a first time. Their lordships then adjourned. Mr. WHITESIDE, in moving the second reading of the Lessees and Sales of Settled Estates Act Amend ment bill, dwelt upon the injustice which be said bad been done to Sir T. M. Wilson with reference to Hamp stead-heath, and which this bill was intended to remedy. HOUSE OF COMMONS.—(YEsTERDAY.) The SPEAKER took the chair at 12 o'clock. PRIVATE BUSINESS. The Lords amendments to the London and South- Westtro Railway Acts Amendments Bid were con sidered and agreed to. NEW WRIT. The - motion was seconded by Mr. MALINS. Mr. COX moved the adjournment of the debate, and after some discussion this motion was agreed to. Oa the motion of Col. TAYLOR a new writ was ordered for Beverlsy, in the room of Mr. E. A. Gl)ver, whose election has been declared void. PROBATES AND LETTERS OF ADMINISTRA TION BILL. Mr. M. T. RAIN ES, in the absence of the Attorney- General, moved the re-committal of this bill, in reference to the ne' clauses agreed to last night (nonday). Mr. HADFIELD expressed a hope that the Govern. ment would reconsider the formation of districts under the bra. Mr. HENLEY expressed his regret that the house should be called on to give an opinion on the new clauses on so short a notice. He had had no time to manaine them, and therefore he was not in a pceition to offer an opinion on them one way or the other. In ad dition to the new clauses, there. was a page and a half of other amendments on the paper. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL said that the recom mitment of the bill had been put on the order of the day in accordance with the decision of the house last night ( Monday). Toe bill was to be recommitted with the amendment?, and any objections to them considered on the bringing up of the report. The hon. and learned gentleman then entered into the provi,ions of the clauses, and defended the course Government bad taken in reference to the proposed changes in the law, which was merely a repetiti , m of his statements made last night to the house in committee on the bill. He con sidered there was no grounds for complaints urged by the two hon. gentlemen who had addressed the house against its going into committee. Viscount GODERICII thanked the hon. and learned Attorney-General fur the candid manner in which he bad carried out the wishes of the houses expressed in the debate of last night. After some discussion, Mr. M. T. BAINES' said it would be better for the House to commit the bill pro forma, and discuss the principles of the amendments on Thursday next. Mr. SPOONER. said that Mr. Matins, who originated the amendments, considered no discussion was to take piece on them till Thursday, and therefore he was absent from the house that day. The home then went into committee. The amendments referred to were agreed to pro forma, and the hou-e resumed. BURIAL ACTS AMINDMENT BILL. This b 11, as amended, was considered. PERSIA AND HERAT. Mr. WARREN asked whether the Government had received any intelligence of the refusal of the Persians to evacuate Herat ? Several amendments were agreed to without opposi salon. Lord PALMERSTON.—I do not believe that any intelligence had been received as yet with regard to the evacuation of Herat. I do not think there has been time for a communication to be made after the arrival of the Commissioner at Teheran. The house then adjourned at 20 minutes past 1 o'clock. RUSSIA IN INDIA. (From the Morning Post.) Everybody who has lived in an Eastern country is aware of the rapidity with which intelligence passes from hand to hand. Even before printing became general up the Mofussil, reports were cir culated in India almost with the quickness of the electric telegraph. A rumour—a watchword—a common cry—an event—was passed from mouth to mouth and from station to station, the original propagator running like the Swedish Vorespann, and delivering his message, whatever it might be, to a friend, who ran likewise his assigned distance, committing the message to a third party. In this way-immense spaces were traversed in a single day, and intelligence was communicated by some fifty or sixty runners to thousands of people, influencing them either for good or evil. Something of the same system appears to have been adopted by the native Press and newswriters in India. Whenever the conductors of this infamous press perpetrated a peculiarly malignant or incendiary article against English rule, care was taken to spread it far and wide by trustworthy runners and messengers—by what, for want of a better word, we will call the Indian Vorespann. In this way it was that litho graphed lies were spread through whole presiden cies without stint or measure, and that the only news circulated was poisonous news. That the noxious venom produced its effect on the native mind there can be no doubt ; but whether the wri ters in this native Press were instruments and tools in the hands of some foreign power, or mere gratui tous incendiaries, remains yet to he proved. The native editors, writers, and contributors to the In dian Press are all a bad and disreputable -set of men who have learned little of European civilisation but its corruptions and its vices. Desperate in fortune and ruined in character, they may have ac ed solely from the desire to create mischief and confusion and to profit in the scramble, but we think it much more likely that they are the ready tools and paid instruments of a foreign Power, and that Russian gold has been profusely distributed among them. Our French contemporary, Le Pays, announces in a letter from Calcutta, that a certain Russian, whose name we need not print, had been very busy for some time in British India, and that, a short while before the mutiny he had set out for Delhi. Now, this looks more than suspicious, and, coupling it with the previous intrigues of Russia in Persia, Affghanistan, and British India, and the subse ' quent events, it is more than suspicious —it is damnatory. With 'a few thousand pounds in hands, supplied by Armenian or Greek bankers, or money-lenders at any of the Presidencies, a Russian agent might find half-a-doze n natve editors pre pared to do his work, and ready to send these nouvelles a la mama, these incendiary flying sheets, through not merely Bengal, Behar, and Benares, but through the country of the Nizam, Oude, and the Guicowar. In the days of Louis XV. the 1 Lientenant of Police, notwithstanding all his vigi lance, could not prevent the circulation, through out French society and the provinces, of satirical articles directed against the French King and his mistresses, and these nouvelles a la main were for the most not printed, but written in thousands and tens of thousands of copies, for more easy circula tion. in India, where there aro myriads of crannies, or writing-clerks, who could easily tran scribe a page within the dimensions of an ordinary visiting card, it is not difficult to suppose that written sedition or treason may have been propa gated far and wide. Under these circumstances it was a measure of wisdom and precau tion to place the native press under stringent restrictions. As to the Indian Press published in the English language, its conductors are now under a grave responsibility, and we trust they will feel its weight. They must be well aware that now our real strength in India consists of the European element ; and to that element they should give a generous support. We can now, and for some time to come, only retain our domi nion in Bengal by the power of the sword and by a large military establishment; bat notwith standing this hard necessity imposed on us by mutiny, the country will be as well and es justly governed as at any antecedent period. That the country has been justly governed appears float this, that the people have been quiescent and pas sive, while it is the soldier only who has mnti nied. The men whom we have paid for our defence have proved faithless, and the people whom we have taxed, according to some Indian reformers, not wisely but too well, have been true ti us to a man. Recent Governments, whether Protectionist, or mixed and Coalitionist, appear to have attempted to change too much in India for the sake of change. All dianee is not reform or improvement, and there are not wanting many able men, who know India well, who consider that we have attempted too much rather than too little in Hindostan. There is a noisy, busy, restless, fussy faction in India, as well as here, where it calls itself the People and Parlia ment, and former Cabine's have too often yielded to the pressing clamour of these cliques. Nothing has more tended- to exasperate the Brahminical caste against British sway in India than this anxiety to alter, if not to amend—to change, if not to ameliorate—to reform, if not to elevate, the native. No doubt it is our duty to rescue the Indian people, if we can, from the de spotic dominion of the native priesthood ; but this must be done, if at all, gently and slowly, and not rashly and precipitately. Mr. MASSEY moved the insertion of a clause to the effect " thti 52 Geo. 3, cap. 146 eec. 4, recited enactoient, not to apply the burials in grounds provided under the burial acts."—Agreed to. Mr. ESTCOURT obtained an order for returns of copies of correspondence between the First Commis,ioner of Works ani Mr. Goldsworthy Gurney and the Com missioners of Sewers and the Board of Works, on the state of the river Thames and the pollution of the atmos phere on the banks of the Tbames and the Houses of Parliament. As the Brahmins consider the tendency of all education, amelioration, and improvement, pretty much in the light in which the Pop'sh priesthood regard the reading of the Bible—namely, as op posed to their undue dominion and power—it is quite certain they have worked on the prejudices of the sepoy against our sway, partly from per sonal motives connected with their priestly func tions, partly because they are, like the newswriters, the paid instruments of a foreign Power. But, notwithstanding the knavish tricks and treasonable practices of newswriters and Brahmins, aided by foreign gold, we shall continue to hold our Eastern Empire—first, by the exhibition of an over whelming force ; but, within twelve months, by our moral influence, by the opinion entertained of our wisdom, our justice, and of our equitable government. The permanent causes of our suc cess and power in India lie in the discipline of our European troops, in the general zeal and union of the civil servants and the military for the public service,an I in the co mman di ng i nfluence of that national repute which has never been sullied by tyranny, or tarnished by injustice. rlji SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY _EV EV ENING,. AUGUST 5, 1,57 an obligation which is not an obligation—the very practice most emphatically and terribly denounced through , ,ut the New Testament—the very burden so to speak, of the Evangelic and Aposto!ic dis courses. For our own part, w•e do not pi etend improve much on the morality of the New Testa ment. We leave th•it to Dr. Phillimore, Mr, S. Warren, and the nine thousand teachers of the Church. We need scarcely say we have no great respect for the intelligence, scholarship, or even the can dour of these nine thousand, in any high sense of that word. But we will say why. What they de precate is the creation of " factlities" for divorce,. " unauthorised by Holy Scripture and by the law aria ritual of the Church." Now, the only " facilities " threatened are the substtution of ju d;cial for Parliamentary pAyedure ; tha is, o fjudges sitting in a room on the West side of Wes' minNter- Hall for the very same men, probably, sitting in a room on the East side of the same Hall, in both cases proceeding on the very same principles, maxima, and precedents. These are the " facili ties," very awful, no doubt, but not of a nature to be found particularly described either in Holy Scrip ture or in the law and ritual of the United Church. 'ln fact, it is as unreasonable to require that the me , sure under discussion should be found in the Bible or Prayer-hook as that the Victoria Tower, or Big 8. , n, or the office of the Sergeant -at-Arms, or the standing orders upon railway bills should be found in those d;)cuments. So much for the sens 3 displayed in this declaration. Next for its scholar ship. The second clause begins :—" Retnernbering, also, that it is declared in the Word of God that marriage with a divorced woman is adulterous." We beg to assure the nine thousand clergymen that what they are pleased to remember so positively and distinctly is a downright untruth. It is nowhere declared in the Word of God that marriage with a divorced woman is adulterous. What is declared is simple enough, and appeals, like all the morality in Scripture, to ordi nar y good sense and gold feel ing. It is, that whoever married the woman who had been put away wantonly and catre!essly, with a bit of paper in her hand, containing a form of words and a text or two declaring that she was at liberty, did virtually commit adultery. All the, passages refer to one particular practice, to one par ticular form, expressly describe I and indicated by the words " put away" —as much a particular form as that by which the Jews were in the habit of avoiding their filial obligat 7 ons on a pretended de votion of their wealth to the Temple. The term which these gentlemen have translated "a divorced woman," as if it meant any woman divorced under any circumstances, does not mean that, and it is a gross misrepresentation to say that it does. It means a woman put away in one particular form and manner, then much in vogue, and resting on one of the traditions or abusive interpretations of the law. If the Bill did really affect the clergy—if it really altered their position with regard to the marriage of divorced persons, it would be time to consider their claim to relief. But the fact is that every year several couples of divorced persons are launched on society to he re-married by someb . dy or other. They might fall to the lot of any clergy man, yet, it so happens we never heard of any objection to perform the service, nor do we believe such an objection has yet been shown. The clergy are only too desirous to marry as many as they can, without any inquiry at all, and taking the word of the people themselves that there is no obstacle to their union. There are numerous Acts of Parliament securing to particular churches the marriages of large districts, like the old monopolies compelling people to take their corn to one particular mill, and the result is that in the metropolis, and in many large towns, scores of couples are married at once, all equally and utterly unknown to the officiating minister. The grievance, then, as far as we see, is not at all likely t 3 be felt, even if each clergyman's chance of having such a marriage as that under question should be somewhat in creased. Were the grievance real, and were the clergy now called on to do what they might not have been called on to do before, there might be a clause for the benefit of those who have taken orders on a different •understanding. Of course, all who may henceforth become candidates for ordi nation will do so with their eyes open, and be prepared to obey the law. The existing clergy, on the proof of a real grievance, might be permitted to make a formal protest before the first day of the operation of the new Act, and he allowed the benefit of that protest till, on further considera tion, they saw reason to withdraw it. There are things to be said for and again.t such a provision, but it would give no inconvenience, for there , will always be clergymen ready to perform the ceremony, and it might deprive some wrongheads, or blunderheads, of a very foolish opportunity of making a disturbance. THE SERPENTINE. What Sir Benjemin Hall has done with the ornamen tal water in St. James's-park be now proposes to do with that diluted sewer, the Serpentine. By its margin —on the exercising ground so appropriately named Rot ten-row, considering the stench which emanates from th e water—fashionable London takes its daily airings ; and sniffs the delicate aroma arising from the admixture of Bayswater sewage with the drainings of Kensall-green cemetery ; for "your water is a sad decayer of your whoreson dead body." In water thus polluted 200,000 persons annually bathe ; yet at its deepest part (for it varies in depth from one to forty fee.), Sir John Rennie found, in 1849, from ten to fifteen feet of inky, putrid mud, which be described as a " laboratory of epidemic miasma." Dr. Hassell also analysed its water, and found it to contain " much organic matter—vegetable and animal—dead, living, and in solution." The job will be an expensive one, but the advantage gained will more than compensate for the outlay. We trust that the suggestion first proposed in our columns—to fill the basin of the lake with water conveyed from the sea— will receive consideration. If the First Commissioner of Works succeed in carrying out his project, he will leave behind him a far more worthy memorial of his good works than any caricature in bronze would afford to posterity. If a monument were insisted on it might be appropriately inscribed with two lines from Shakspeare: "Men's eyil manners live in b rass : th e i r v i r t ues We write in water." 7-2'4e Lancet. RUSSIAN INTRIGUES WITH CHINA. We read the following paragraph in the Pekin Gazette of the 10th April, 1857 : " The Chinese Foreign-office have addressed his Imperial Majesty to the effect that officers specially appointed by them have carefully conducted certain Russians back to their own country." In a private letter, received on the 21st instant, from the North of China, it is mentioned casually that a Russian Imperial Commissioner had lately been at Pekin ; that he and his suite had a short time before gone home ; but that he would return to Peking in a few months. About 15 months back it wai rumoured amongst the Chinese that the Russian Government had lately concluded a treaty with the Emperor of China, by which the Russian merchants were per mitted to carry on trade at other mar's on the frontiers besides Kiahtka, namely, the cities of Bar koul, Uliasutae, Holin, and Kurun ; als o , th a t t h e Emperor of China had granted Russian merchants `permission to trade at the Five Ports ; and, later, it was rumoured that agents for Russian merchants had purchazed land, on which to build warehouses and offices, at Chusan and Shanghae.—./Vorth China Herald, May 30. TEE GREAT EASTERN.--On Thursday next Mr. H. Hope, chairman of the Great Eastern Steam Navigation Company, accompanied by Mr. •R. J. R. C am pb e ll, M.P., Mr. E. Betts, and Mr. P. W. Miles, directors ; Mr. Yates, secretary ; and Captain Harrison, will visit Liverpool, and proceed thence to Holyhead, for the pur . pose of making arrangemants for the first voyage of the monster steamship to Portland.—Liverpool SUPPLEMENT TO THE DISPATCH ,AND CHART OF CANTON RIVER r GRATIS,—The DISPATCH of Sunday next, August 9, will, in consequence of the mass of information arriving from India and China, be accompanied by a Supplement, Gratis, devoted to the events of the Mutiny in Bengal and to the gallant en counters in the Canton River. In order that these latter exploits may be fully understood a Chart of the Canton River will also be presented Gratis with each copy of the paper. On Sunday, the 231 of August, should the next India mail have arrived by that time, a coloured Map, 17 inches by 12, will he published, likewise Gratis, of India, part of the forthcom ing Atlas advertis d for regular commencement on October the 4th, and which Map will serve as a more thorough ave rage specimen of the work. It is hoped that this forestalling of intentions will prove a welcome to friends and subscribers, now so deeply interested in the momentous events taking place in the East. Orders received by every news agent in the kingdom. Office, 139, Fleet-street. The Dispatch, with Supplement and Chart, will be sent as directed for six stamps. GRATIS, TIIE BEST ATLAS EVER PUBLISHED, 011 and after Sunday, Out. 4, the Proprietors of the Dispatch will present every week gratis a Map a Chart, or the Plan of aPr ncipal Town,soas to urnish to aach subscriber the most comprehensive complete and generally useful Coloured Atlas hitherto pub lished. Size of the engravings, 17 inches by 12, and 17 by 25. In the course of no unreasonable time the p ssessor of the Despatch Atlas will be enabled to refer to more names and positions of places than any other publication contains. Many thousands of pounds have been devoted to tits cost of the Engravings, which will be taken from Original Drawings expressly prepared for the Series. The'Dispatch Atlas will be received with the number of the paper without further charge than the f ,rmer sd. per copy, or 6d. stamped. —Dispatch-office, 139, Fleet-street. I A DVE tTISEM EMT. SIGHT AND HEARING SPECTACLES POWERFUL TEEESCOPES OPERA, RACE, AND PERSPECTIVE GLASSES. —S. and B. Solomons, opticians, 39, Alb3marle• qtreet, Piccadilly. Observe—opposite the York Hotel W. By her Majesty's Royal Letters Patent f or va ' ua b !e and ex traordina 7 improvements in the most powerful and brilliant Telescopes, Camp, Race-course, Opera, and Perspective Glasses, to know the aistances. These Telescopes possess such extraordinary power that some, three and a-half inches, with an extra eye-piece will show distinctly Jupiter's moons, Saturn's ring, and the double stars ; with the same telescope can be seen a person's countenance three-and-a-half miles distant and an object from 16 to 20 miles. For the waist coat-pocket, and are of larger, and all sizes, with increasing powers acesrdin zly. The Royal Exhibition, 1851. A valu able, newly-invented, very Small, powerful, Waistcoat-pocket Glass, the size of a walnut, by which a person can be seen and known one and a-half mile distant They answer every pur pose on the Race-course and at the Opera-houses. Country scenery and ships are clearly seen at 12 to 14 miles. They are invaluable for shooting, deer-stalking, yachting, to sportsmen, gentlemen, gamekeepers, and tourists. Opera, Camp, Perspective, and Race-C3urso Glasses, with wonderful powers.—lnvaluable preserving Spectacle Lenses of the 4reatest transparent power. The great advantage derived from this invention is, that vision impaired becomes pre served and strengthened, azd very age'i persons are enabled to employ their sight at the most minute occupation—can see with thole lenses of a ranch loss magnify ing power —and they do not require the frequent changes to the dan gerous effects of further powerful assistance. Persons can be suited at the mos+ remote part of the world by send in/ one of the glasses out of their spectac'es in a letter, and stating the dist.nce from the eye they can read small print with it, and those who have not made use of spectacles by sta' ing their age, Deafness.—ls4w Di , co very.—The Organic Vibrator, an ex . raordi r arily powerful, s call, newly-invent •d instrument for deafness, entirely different from all oth rs, surpassi anything of the kind that has been, or probably can, be produced. Being of the same colour as the skin, is not perceptible. It enables deaf persons to hear distinctly at church and at public assemblies ; the unpleasant sensation of singing noises in the ears is entirely remov d, and it affords all the assistance that possibly could bo desired.-39, Al' a marle.street-piecalilly.—Opposito the York Hotel, W. FREIGHT OF SPECIE. Sir G. B. PECH ELL obtained an order for a return in detail of the manner in which the several sums were expended under the vote of last session, in Civii Service estiirate for 12,6341., t defray the charge for freight of specie to the various Commissariat stations abroad, for which service the sum of 10,0601. is proposed for thd years 18578. HYDE PARK. Mr. LAURIE asked the First Commissioner of Works whether it was intended to erect any edifice in Hyde park in commemoration of the Great Exhibition ; and, if no site had yet been adopted for Richard Cceur de Lion, whether there was any objection to allow it to surmount the Marble Arch ? • Sir B HALL said that no edifice in Commemoration of the Great Exhibition would be erected at the putlic . expense, but a subscription for that purpose had been set on foot by Alderman Challis. He was not aware of any objection* to placing the statue of Richard Cceur de Lion on the Marble Arch. HAMPTON COURT. Colonel NORTH asked the First Commissioner of Warks whether any payments, annual or otherwise, were required from those occupying apartments at Hampton court Palace, and if so, what was the amount of such payments I Sir B. HALL said that occupants of the palace paid the rates of the parish, amounting to about 500/ , and also gave something to the chaplain and houskeeper. Mr. LAURIE asked the Secretary to the Treasury if the Government could be induced to adopt the Bay at Barnstaple as a harbour of refuge, so necessary for the west coast, there being no harbour less distant than 140 miles from the Bristol Channel ; and whether he would permit evidence to be given before the committee now sitting on harbours of refuge, of which he was chairman? Mr. WILSON said that there would be no objection to the taking of evidence. The committee would report in a few days. PARLIAMENTARY OATHS COMMITTEE. On the motion of Lord J. RUSSELL, The house then proceeded to the nomination of the members of this committee. The list proposed by Lord J. RUSSELL was as sented to, the names of Sir F. Tbesiger and Sir F. Kelly being omitted at their own desire. Power was given to the committee to send for persons, papers, and records ; nine to be a quorum. PUBLIC BUSINESS. Mr. WILSON gave notice that the civil service esti mates would be taken to-morrow (this day). DIVORCE BILL. On the motion for going into committee on this bill, Mr. S. WARREN moved an amendthent, that the house go . into committee on the bill that day three months. He complained of the breathless haste with which this bill, involving a principle so momentous, was urged through that house at a late period of the session, when the energies of its members were exhausted. He remarked that the Commissioners, upon whose report the bill proceeded, were not unanimous, and that that report contradicted the statement of the Attorney- General, that the bill made no material alteration in our marriage law, which he maintained, relying upon various authorities, regarded the marriage tie as indissoluble. He traced the origin of the " barbarous adage " of legie. lative divorces—which sinned, he said, against the spirit of our jurisprudence and proved the rule of the common law—to reasons of private convenience. The more the Mr. GHEE raANI moved a new clause relative to people scrutinised the measure and read the debates con the burial of paupers, which was agreed to. fleeted with it, the more they were alarmed, and he Mr. COX moved the following new clauses :-1. That was informed that 16,000 women had petitioned the it shall and may be lawful for the vestry of any pariah Queen direct against the provisions of the bill. If in which any burial ground closed by order in council the bill should pass into law, it would be necessary may be situate, and which does not belong to such to alt-r the marriage ceremony, for it would be im parish, by resolution of the vestry at a meeting called for I possible that that ceremony which bad the bloom of that purpose, to purchase such burial ground, and from or;ginal Eden on it could be retained in connection the time of such purchase such burial ground shall be- with the dissolubility of marriage (hear, hear), from its long to such parish, and be subject to all the conditions henceforth assuming a totally different character affecting the burial grounds of the parish in which the (Hear, hear). lie called upon the noble Isrd not to same is situate. 2. That all the clauses and provisions force on this measure, which would have tse effect, as contained in the " Lands Clauses Consolidation Act," it were, of bringing bigtnay home to every door, and for the purchasing and taking of lands ; and also all the adultery being made easy. (Hear, hea-.) pr ivisions of the Burial Acts, for the borrowing of money, i Mr. BAINES said the principle of the bill had been shall respectively be deemed and taken to be incorper. affirmed more than once on this very bill by a majority ated in this Act with respect to such burial grounds. of more than two to one, and yet the hon. and learned Agreed to. gentleman who had just sat down had raised a third Mr. MASSEY, in the absence of Mr. Puller, moved discussion on tee princ pie of the bill. Why should they the insertion of the following clause which he thought enter into a third discussion ? The subject had been was a moderate form of getting rid of the differences that exhausted, and he (Mr. Baines) trusted there would be at present existed in this respect :—" It shalt not be ne- no further delay interposed to their going into corn. ceseary to erect or maintain any sort iif wall or fence mittee on the bill. He could not help thinking that between the consecrated and the unconsecrated portions there was an intention on the part of some honourable of any burial ground provided under the hereinbefere gentlemen to defeat this bill by delay. The Govern recited acts and this act, or any of them : Provided al- ment, however, would firmly resist any such attempt, ways, that in the case of any burial ground where there and would consider it their duty to do all they could to shall be no such wall or fence, it shall be the duty of the obtain the passing of this bill, and to make it as perfect Burial Board having the care of such burial ground to a bill for the purpose as possible. The honourable and place, and from time to time to repair and renew, much learned gentleman had addressed himself to what be con boundary marks of stone or iron as may be sufficient to sidered the fact, that marriage was indissoluble according show the boundaries of such consecrated and unconsc- to the law. Th a t was not a fact, and Lord Campbell crated portions respectively." had in the House of Lords declared that for the last Mr. GLADSTONE, in the absence of Sir W. Heath- 200 years marriage had been dissoluble by law, and this cote, moved a clause to the effect that, in the event of a bill was simply to make that law general which was at bishop refusing to consecrate a burial ground fsr the in- present only partial. terment of mem b ers o f th e Ch urc h o f England, it shoold Mr. STEUART seconded and supported Mr. War be lawful for the burial board to appeal from such refusal ren's amendment. He urged the serious consequences to the archbishop of the province, who should decide the of forcing the conscience% of the clergy in this matter, matter in dispute. On the bishop not consecrating th e warn ing the house of the example furnished by the ground witki n one mon th a ft er rece i v i ng an or d er from, Scotch elrrey in a question of consc i ence. the archbishop to do en, it should be lawful for the arch- Mr. GILPIN considered the question as to the dis bleb° which P to licence th) burial ground for interment, solubill•y of marriage to be settled. He supported the as lawf u l a b'' , ll make the use of the burial gr o und Bill, but was not anxious w ith re f erence to re asright hon. if it hail been consecrate d . Th e marr i age , and should vot e aga i ns t th e provision that gentleman referred to what he had said would compel clergymen against their conscience to en a former Bishop of St. • . occasion relative to the conduct of the solemnize a marriage between divorced pa-ties. David's in reference to the consecration of Mr. HOPE strongly opposed the Bill, which, in his be Swansea Burhit', En'ueneldt'above the l e• remarking that the Bishop opinion, would shake the foundations of public more. a en° right to set Mr. MASSEY referred t a . lity. th z 4, lv . hat he stated on a Mr. WINGFIELD said, he bad been told that there former occesion relativ e to of the Burial Bard dispute, which arose in had been no decision upon the question whether clergy. rouisirg to provide consequence men cordl be compelled to marry divorced parties. convojaLce of the incumbent to and . f ' p . n o it t e h n e ce p . res T e; l l , t , rorn the burial- The marriage service authorized the clergyman to exer. ground. ll*2 regretted , to say,.that up c c l i e se are a d discretion. This doubt, he thought, should be time the Bishop bad shown no Signs of rig . to the conveyatiee of too Mr. COLLINS uP. opposed the Bill, as a measure re )ermissive. He agreed clergy was entirely I . to th e pre. pugnant to the general feeling of the country. To the posed clause, as being likely to satislaetotily settle the opinion of Lord Campbell, that marriage by the law of qieetion. England wensie d was . di . ssoluble, he opposed that of Lord Mr. DILLWYN defended himself from the remarks Bishop of St. David's in a letter li t y ate, in its very teeth. • BuTT observed that many of the objections matte aga.ne ' . t him by the Bi against the Bill would be better reserved for the published in the nwes in answer to statements . in refer- urged 1 Committee, obliged " erica to the consecration of this burial-ground he ma 1 question the a He, however, joined in discussingthe in the house o n a f or mer oc cesion, He wasi havingto 1 principle of the Bill, which he supported. teeon the morality, he invited acomparison between adopt that course in consequence of the Tnzes ne refused to insert hie reply to the bishop's letter. , morality of Italy, where marriage indissoluble, d the I and that of Seottand, where • was still contended tnat the bishop was not justified in i Mr. GLADSTONE . divorce was allowed, course he bed adopted. said, he considered the decision Mr. B. HOPE censidered tho law strong enough to 1 of the house one which, however he lamented it, he c°3 ' 13 " .1 a bishop to do his duty. He deprecated dia• was bound to respect ; he therefore confined himself ' paraging remarks being made in that house relative to ! to certain explanations, Personal, and in ref-re nce to a prolate who was 'o universally respected. historical facts in question betweenthe i t Mr. HA DFIELD h ope d the clause wouli pass, b e- General and himself. Atorney cause it would put an end to the unseemly disputes that The amendment was negatived, and the Louse went had taken place relatiie to the consecration of burial into committee on theßill. grounds. it was high'-time that the clergy should be , The name of the court was altered from "the Court retniudeil that they could not receive the pay of the of Marriage and Divorce" to "the C our t o f Divorce state without they did the bidding of th e state. If th ey and Matr i mon i a l C a uses ;" and the proviso in the six ,h UNION OF TIE PRINCIPALITIES. (From the Daily News.) The crisis in Turkish and Danubian politics, which we have long foreseen and foret• V, has oc curred. We have repeatedly said that the obstinacy of the British Ambassador in himself supporting, and making Reschid Pacba support, those func tionaries who were determined to put down the cause of the Union in the Principalities, not by fair means, but by the most gross violence and tyranny, would lead to the nullification of the i Treaty of Pari., by giving France cause for backing ou t o f it. Had the Union been fairly and honestly opposed, France could have recurred t o no such extreme measure. It is the continual boast of the antago nists of the Union, that the Moldavians are averse to it. Why not, then, have left to the Moldavians the free expression of thei r op i n i ons ? I nstead of this, Prince Vogorides was made ruler of the coun try, for the sake of using every violance and trick in order to carry the anti-unionist vote. The proofs of his having done so are too patent t o b e d en i e d. By supporting Vogorides in th ese prac ti ces, L or d Redcliffe has put it in the power of the French am bassador to charge the Potts with a breach of the conditions of the Treaty of Paris. And the French ambassador is unfortunately right. M. Thouvenel accordingly threatens to withdraw from Constanti nople, which means neither more nor le s than a threat to withdraw altogether from the Treaty of Par!s. The Sultan could not of course abide by such an alternative, which would deprive him for the pre sent and the future of the support of that army which so mainly contributed to the capture of Sebastopol, and to the destruction of Russian power in the Black Sea. Lord Redcliffe has been for the last month pushing the Porte to this extremity. He has been combating the Union of the Principa lities per fas et nefas ; and he has been doing this under the plea that he wanted to strengthen the Porte. We long ago pointed out that no strength which Turkey could derive from preventing the Linton of the Principalities—supp os i ng that pos sible—was at all comparable to the -danger of alienating France from the Sultan. This lat ter result has, however, been recklessly braved and provoked by Lord Redcliffe and Rescbid Pacha, until at the ultimate threat of France to withdraw, the ground fails beneath both, the Sultan perceives his danger, and the Grand Vizier, who lias been acting under English advice, is overthrown, and is compelled to leave the place to his rival. The whole of this business is as disgraceful as it is untoward to the British Government. Our Mi nisters, in their support of Vogorides were illiberal, irop ,, litie, and insincere. It is all very well to twit the Emperor of the French with being such a stick ler for freedom of election in Moldavia, and with setting the letter of it at nought at home. But surely England ought not to screen its own dupli— city under that of a despotic powei, compelled by the folic course upon which it has entered to dire and extreme expedients. The words of Lord Cla rendon, and the promis-s of the Treaty, were that the Principalities shibuld be fairly consulted. If it was imprudent to consult them,. the promise should not have been made ; but if made, it ought to have b: en honestly kept, especially by such a country as England. Here in the West, we may understand and perhaps excuse the falsification of elections, but people in the East are simple. And when they see England promising a boon one day, and then striving to cheat the Danubian out of it the next, they cannot but settle down into the be lief that England is that base and Machiavelic country which continentals have so long taken the pains to depict us. We do all this wrong, we commit all this illibe rality, we break with all that is patriotic , and Christian and enlightened in the Levant—for what purpose ? To strengthen the hands of the Porte, and to wield influence through the Turkish Divan. And what is the very first result of our efforts, but to overthrow our own friends, destroy our own in fluence in the Divan, and hand over all influence and authority in Turkey to our inveterate enemies. Policy so shortsighted is scarcely to be conceived. The dominant idol with Lord Redcliffe and Lord Palmerston has been not really to strengthen the Turkish empire, but to concentrate all power at Constantinople —as if that were strength. The true strength of the empire would be to attach the out lying provinces to the Government—not sacrifice them thereto, and thereby render them disaffected and weak. Gratify the fair demands of the Principa lities, and they will be bulwarks for the defence of Turkey. Disappoint, trick, despoil, and discontent them, and you have provinces which, like Lom bardy in Austrian possession, require an army to keep them. And for what purpose do we labour to concen trate all power at Constantinople ? On what does power there depend ? On a corrupt Minister, or a capricious concubine. If England lords it one day in the Bosphoru., France is sure to do so the next, and Russia, we may be sure, will haveits turn. No one can be sure for twenty-four hours of the colour or policy of a Turkish Government. It was most important at the present moment, in the face of an Indian mutiny, and with the probable resuscita tion of the Persian war, to keep a Turkish Minister in power who was the friend of England. Instead •f keeping this in view, we stir heaven and earth against the Union of Moldavia and Wallachia—as if that were a question of either- vital or secondary importance. Yet to it have been sacrificed the vizierate of Reschid and the influence of our Am bassador. Never, surely, was there so complete an exemplification of the sacrifice of the grande poli tique to the petite. THE DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUSES BILL. At this season (Fr o mof fh h y e e i: a a l b r a i e m : a p t o eir s ar i ea s ) . h i n b c da l perishable articles, c e ea s n , nda i s f Such and is the Matrimo nial present kept rather too long, are apt to become not only stale, but actually offensive. Div S e u r c e exceedinglyrrt..hGeleVarren took it up la3t nf p ai h gc a ltii s to e c: o aas f en t sa h e sew eßoppositi onialil.ve mtmo joy of the treatment their cause received at the hands of the ingenious novelist. This gentleman, like Mr. Melins, starts with demanding a who'e Session and the restoration of his youthful powers for the proper examination of this bill. He has, nevertheless, had time and strength enough to arrive at some conclu-ions. Marriage, he says, is indissoluble. This, he says, is the law of Eng land. Our hundreds of Div orce A cts have be e n cc a barbarous usage," imported into this country, we presume, wi 11 that other barbarous system, Constitutional Government. Notwithstanding the "wage," which M r . W arren admits, these Divorce Acts have been nati ona l s i ns, an d c a on le v a e s n e betrayal ienceo f a comparati ve l y f ew r i ch pers :ns. of truth an d re li g i on to the Mr. Warren takes his stand on the New Tes'ament. To a corrupted age, six generations deep in foul national sins, be proclaims that he is a consistent Christian, and that be recognises no moral prin ciple which is not founded on the Gospel. Mr. Warren' declares himself not only a moralist and a Christian, but a divine and a scholar. As he will do nothing that he does not find in the New Tes tament, he very properly devotes himself to the study and undentanding of that volume. The re sult of his piety and single-mindedness, his Darning and diligence, is that marriage is indissoluble ; that laws profess;ng to absolve it are inoperat've and sacrilegious ; that Queen Victoria, the Lord, and the Commons, about half-a-dozen times a year perfoim a blasphemous and sacrilegious farce, pre tending to disunite those who must ever be one, contrary to the law ai England, in the face of the Bible, in contempt of the Almighty, and in dis regard of Mr. Samuel Warren. Ve would not, however, do an injustice even to Mr. Samuel Warren. He does not place such ab solute confidence in his own knowledge of the law, his own scholarship, his own moral sense and theo logical acumen, but that he is ready to appeal to "the Teachers of our Church." The learned and subtle Doctors of the Anglican Communion to whom this title is given are the nine thousand clergy who, by means of railways and the penny post, by circulars and central agitations, by much use of horseflesh and shoeleather, and no doubt at a great cost of other animal substances in this very hot weather, have been induced to sign a Declara tion composed by some ingenious politician for the express purpose of mystifying and committing them out of their depth. Mr. Warren quotes the document in, extenso to prove th it these nine thousand Teachers of the Church all hold marriage to be indissoluble, and appe ils to us whether it is possible to fight against such a cloud of authorities. It so happens, h ow ever, that the rev eren d S ecre t ar y o f th e Declaration, the man employed by it s f ram ers to push it about , rec e ive signatures, explain it, and mediate between the higher and lower intelligences em ployed upon it, has written to us most indignantly repu diatin g the Airr• Warren very construction put upon it by • $ the , very doctri ne f or which he cites the nin e thousand. This gentleman says that the " Dec l a ration " does not declare marr i a Mr. Warr en mas t se ttle that matter b etween them, for " Wh o s h a ll d ec ide when doct ors disa g ree 1" We confess ourse l ves um : ble to fathom mpy po of a docum en t w hi c h we be: m uch of a piece with y tical demonst ra ti on , and ver • • -.Titles to Dr. Phil the opinion w hi c h M r . W arren as, .tight to be the litnore--viz., that "he thou g ht it the l roguery a ieve to be si principle of the law that marriage was in- t for our If this m eans anyt hi ng a t a ll, it means tha. worldly convenience we ought, to declare ttiAl, , to be MhTEOPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. A special meeting of the Booed was le lcl yester day in the Conned Ceamber, Guildhall, t o eeceive and c insider the report of Capt in D. Gallon, R E. Mr. James Simpson, C.E., and Mr. T. E. B'ack well, C.E., on the plan of mein drainage submitted to Sir Benjamin Hall by the Board on the 22d of December last. Mr. Thwaites was in the chair. The report which consists of 45 folio pages of printed matter, was read in, extenso by Mr. Woil rych, a sistel by Mr. 133 z klgette, and it occupied the se gentlemen nearly three hours in reading it. Mr. CARPMAEL wished to propose a motion on the subject of the report. The case stood thus , The Metropolitan Board had submitted a plan to Sir B. Hall as First Commissioner of her Majesty's Worke The Board therefore could not take up any new scheme until their own plan had been de cided upon by the Government. It was important to bear in mind that the report which had been reed did not purport to contain any plan which had received the approval of Sir Benjamin Hal. It was merely the suggestion of the three referees, and, for aught he knew, Sir Benjamin Hall might ignore their plan in the same manner as he had ignored the plan of that Board. It had taken a long time to read the report, but practically the changes proposed might b 3 expressed in a few minutes. It was not proposed by the referees to interfere with the plan adopted by the Board in re gerd to the upper level sewer on the north, nor with regard to the low level sewer on the south side of the Thames. The first alteration suggested was an extension of the plan proposed by the Board. It was said that the Board did not melt . ° a sufficient provision for rai n -f a ll, or g i ve a .eliffi ctent supply of water to the inhabitants to enable the extra quantity of sewage to be carried away. They also said teat that the engineer of the Board did not make provision for so large an area as might be provided for simply by gravitation. But by the plan of Mr. Bezalgette it appeared that he had arrived at what he believed t a be the maximum area that could be dealt with by gravitation only. The referees disagreed fioei the propriety of having an outfall at B* ; and proposed iu place of that to carry oil the sewage by two open reservoirs or canals, which together were to be 76 feet in width and about 37 miles in length. These canals were to be uncovered, ex ,- ept when they came to any town or bridge. They also proposed to dilute the sewage by pumping water out of the Thames into these open reservoirs from Plumpateed on the one side, and Barking on the other, and thus cause it to flow on in a continued stream to Sea Reich and the Creak, whence it would be poured into the river, and there be mixed with such a quantity of water as to render it inoffensive to any one. The country at large, and the metropolis in particular, ought to know thet while the one great purpose in all the works of the Board wat ti cover up the whole sewage drains, the plan sug gested by the gentlemen to whom the question had been referred by the First Coratnissioner was that the sewage should be carried nearly 20 miles on each side of the river in ()pm concentrated streams. The hon. member then moved the fol lowing resolution : " That, in acknowledging the receipt of Sir Benjamin Hall's communication of the 31st of July, he be requested to furnish this Board with such plans and sections as may have been prepa• el by Captain Calton and triessrs. Simp son and Blackwell, to explain the recommendations, and that he be informed that this Board, having on the 22d of December last submitted to him plans for the intercep tion of the metropolitan sewage through covered sewers at an estimated cost of 2,836,600/, regard with great• appre hension any proposition to exceed the sum of 5,437,2331., of which it appears a sum of 3,141,300/. is proposed to be expanded in the'formation of two open sewage canals and works connected therewith, amounting together to 76 feet in width and about 37 miles in leogth, it; being the duty of this Board to cover all existing open sewers, and not to create further nuisances." The motion having been seconded, Mr. TURNER move as an amendmen " That the receipt of the report be acknowledged, and that it be requested that the plans and sections therein referred to be forwarded to the Board." Mr. DENNIS was sorry that Mr. Carpmael should have so prematurely pronounced an opinion on the report of the three eminent men to whim the plan of the board had been referred by the Fatal; Com missioner. He hoped the board would wait, and have the whole details before them previous to their pronouncing an opinion on a subject of such magnitude. Mr. Deputy HARRISON disapproved both the original motion and the amendment. Sir B. Hall had sent them a report, and bad stated that cer tain plans were • being prepared, and would be ready in a few days. Surely it was not necessary for the board to pass a resolution calling upon Sir .Benjamin Hall to send those plans_ He would, no doubt, afford the bard every information that was furnished to him by trio Engineers to whom he had referred the plan submitted to him by the board. Mr BIDGOOD observed that, for aught they knew, plan B* might yet come back from Sir B. Hall ap proved ; the board ought therefore to take care not to put themselves in a false position by asking Sir B. Hall for additional plan s . At a ll events h e hoped` the Board would not do anything to lead the public to think that there existed any hostility between the board and the First Commissioner of her Majesty's Works. The object of all was a thorough drainage of London. Plan B* was at present before Sir B. Hall, and until the board had received an answer from him—yes or no—to that plan the board ought not to take any other step. Mr. H. L. TAYLOR said that, notwithstanding the great respectle entertained for his friend Mr. Carpmael, he thought that on this occasion he had been somewhat premature. If his friend had had listened to him this discussion would have been avoided. His friend possessed the advantage of having seen the report, but it was hardly fair to the other members of the board who had only just heard it read to bring forward a proposition binding them to the expression of an opinion in regard to a docu ment which they had had no opportunity to con sider. He did not wish to prejudge the report, though he had no doubt it could be well pulled to pieces. It was his firm belief that Sir B. Hall had, in the course he had pursued, exceeded his duty. He ought and must deal with the plan B*. He had no right to hang up teat plan and let loose on the world a plan of his own to see how the Times toek it up. He had no right ti do that. Sir B. Hall was a public - servant, receiving public money, and had a public duty to perform, and he had to discharge himself from plan B* before en tering upon any other plan. (Heir, hear.) He would give the right hon. baronet time enough ; they had no right to push him into a corner ; but, though suspending all judgment on plan B*, the moment his own engineers presented their report he hastened to gat it into the Observer, his own paper, and thereby furnished food for the Times, and thus a condensation of the report got before the world. He did not wish, however, to be im portunate with the right hon. baronet. Let him have time to send to that board all he considered necessary to illustrate the important subject on which they had to decide. Unanimity on this subject was most desirable ; he therefore hoped that his friend Mr. Carpmael and also Mr. Turner would withdraw both the original motion and the amendment, in order that they might adopt a pro. position for promoting and circulating the report, to be taken into consideration on a future day. Mr. DOULTON saw no difficulty in adopting the resolution of Mr. Carpmael. The proposed plan was, in effect, to have an open ditch on each side of the river Thanies for 20 miles • and no discus sion of details could elucida . e the plan more clearly than that simple statement. It was a plan c trary not only t the spirit but to the very letter of the Act of Parliament, which said teat all sews re with which the board had to deal should be covered over. Having that act before them, they ought at once to express a decided opinion against any plan which proposed the construction of open sewers. Every day, however, convinced him of the neces sity of something being done, but it must not be that which was embodied in this plan, for, how ever excellent the men might be who proposed it, it was a plan which, if adopted, would perpetuate an intolerable nuisauce. Mr. OFFOR was of opinion that the Board ought rot to come .to any decision until they had the whole of the maps and sections before them. Mr. Rows condemned the adoption of open sewers, and hoped the Board would unanimously oppose the proposition. "Mr. NICHOLAS thought nothing would be gained by hurrying on the question, and that they should wait until the whole plans were before them. Mr. D'IFFANGER opposed both the motion and the amendment. He regarded the report as the answer of Sr B. Hall to plan B*. (" No ! no !") There appeared to him to be two objections to the plan of the referees—first, that of having open sewers ; and, secondly, that of dealing with areas beyond the jurisdiction of the Board. It was pro posed to them to sanction the expenditure of six millions of money, which, of course, meant ten millions before the thing was done. Now, he would assume that proposition to be Sir B. Hall's answer to the plan they_ had proposed, and he would sug gest OM they should reply to Sir B. Hall, and say to him,—" If we agree with this report, are you prepared to bring in a bill to give us power t o deal with an area beyond our jurisdiction, and to expend a sum of money to an amount feel we ought not to expend." (Hear, hear.) , Mr. C A RPAIAEL, in reply, said that he was anxious to relieve the Board from the imputat'on of delay, which had been unjustly cast upon them by Sir B. Hall. At the same time he was not de eirous to prais his proposition unreasonably, and he would therefore leave it with the Board to dis poe of 'Ai m titan as t hey pleased. The m0t . 0.1 was filially v‘ithdra.wn. Mr. Deputy HARRISON then moved : - -- • -- • "That the receipt of the sport of the engineers, Capt. D. Galtoo, and Messrs. Simpson and Blackwell be ac knowledged, and on the maps and appenlices mentioned in that report being completed, the whole be printed, an copies thereof be sent t o each member of the Board, and that the chairman be requested thereupon to call a meet ing of the members of the Board to consider the plan, and report on a day not earlier than seven days after the dis tribution of such copies." .. - After Fettle discussion the motion was adoptod, and the Board adjourned. TIIE INDIA MAILS via MARSEILLES. The Climber of Commerce of Marseilles has ad dressed Vie following letter to Mr. Gregon, Presi dent of the Eist India Association " Sir,—The Chamber of Commerce of Marseilles wag naturally much annoyed at the complaints in the Eng' lieh newspapers of the alleged dday in the transmission of the India mail via Marseilles. If we are to believe an article in the Times, when the mail reaches our port, instead of being immediately forwarded, it is kept until the next usual mail train starts, which causes a loss of nearly a day. _ c' Toe of the Post-office whom we questioned respecting this complaint, gave us the fallowing explace tbn, which we lose no time in forwarding, and which we hope will be satisfactory. " The director has thought it necessary to give, first, a table ef the ordinary mail trains (express.) " Thus, two trains leave Marseilles daily for Paris in connectiol with the Northern Railway, which takes the mails to England. ‘.`, Their hours are as follows: ` Xarseilles Departure... 10 0 a.m. 10 30 P. " Paris j Arrival ...... 6 0 a.m. 6 0 P•nt j - Departure... 8 0 a.m. 730 p.m. " Calais I Arrival ...... 331 p.m. 3 0 a.m. ) Departure acc or di ng t o date. " D0ver.......... Arrival 730 p.m. ... 5 0 a.m." London A rr i va l 11 0 p.m. 9 0 9 . 111. "Of these two mails, the first is delivered in Loi,don as: 6 a.m. A. difference of 12 hours in the country (clans les provinces) means from the date of arrival a difference of four hours in the delivery. " The same may be said for those 1 icalities which re ceive two mails daily. It even happens—and it has con tinually happened at Marseilles —that two mails arriving at an interval of 10 hours have been delivered together. " The hour of departure of the regular mail trains be' ing well known, organised beforehand with a view to speed and prompt thlivery, it is clear that whenever the India mail arrives in time to catch the ordinary rea'l ex9ress it is the quickest conveyance. When the steamer arrives at an hour when the mails cannot take advantage of the ma 1 train, steps are taken to accelerate their transmission, whenever it can be so managed as-to pro cure an earlier delivery. " The morning mail reaches Landon in 37 hours, and. arrives there at night. If the steamer reaches Marseilles after 10 a.m., and before the departure of the ordinary train which leaves at 12 40, a special train is sent to catch the mail train. This has always betn done. But if the steamer arrives at 2 p.m., the mail is kept till 10 r.tn. for the 10 30 train. In fact, it woul I be impossible for a special train leaving four or five hours after the ordinary express to catch it in good time, and the mails would have to wait at Ca'ais just as long as they would remain at Marseilles, as a the boat would have left. Supposing the mails were conveyed by special train to Calais, by special steamer from Calais to Dover, by special train from Dover to London, they would not reach their de: stination—premisin g that the telegraph had ordered all the line to be kept clear—before 4.30 or 5 a.m. It is true it would be in time for the first London delivery. For the short space of two hours, and by extraordinary mean., the mail delayej, four hours at its departure from Marseilles might be procured the benefit of a three hours' earlier delivery in London. But should the regal be six hours at Marseilles, no advantage whatever woula, be acquired by emp l oy i ng special trains and spec i e " steamers. The mails would only reach London one hour before the ordinary evening mail. "The organisation of special trains is, moreover, en difficult, owing to the complicated traffic upon the three lines f rrilwf y upon which the mails have to be con: veyed, that unforeseen deTaya which may be experience d by a special train must be taken into account. " By sending a special train in time to catch, if pose i. ble, the ordinary morning express, the French Poet-offic e does all that can be reasonably expected of it, and when it allows the mails which corns by the steamers after noon to remain at Marseilles till 10 p.m. it only ma kes a difference of three hours in the time of arrival at their destination ; and, if it d oes so, it is because the time al : the day at which that delay takes place may be oonei' dared as unimportant. But. it even strives to obviate this delay as we have shown for it emplays special train° whenever there is a chance of success. • "If this explanation is exact as regards the morning • mail, might not the same measures be taken for the snaihl by the steamers thatarrive after 10 p m. t "To this questicn the director of the Post-office plies that within the limit of from three to four hours, with special trains and special steamers, an attempt might be made to catch or follow close the ordinary mail train; but he adds, that the opportunity has not once presented ittelf in the five years that an English, steamer has arrived bet peen the bou rn o f m i dnight an d 2 a.m. The usual entrance takes place at daybreak. Where, moreover, would be the advantage of a special train ? There ar e more diffi culties attached to sending special trains by night than in the day time ; i t i s more difficult to keep the line clear; dthys are more inevit• able, " Such are the involuntary causes which prevent tt more speedy transmission of the Indian mails. " We have made you acquainted with the observa tions of the director of the Post-office, with complet e frankness ; we need not add that we are quite willing to hear yours, and that we will at once adopt any mea sures you may think advisable to accelerate the trans' mission of the mails. It is our sincere wish to give you every assistance in our power, so that the transmission of the India mails through France may leave nothing to be desired. "In this communication behold only a proof of the desire we entertain to assure relations which must tend to the mutual advantage of our respective bauntries. " We are, "S. BERTAN, "The Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce' ",Ifareeilleß, June 27." Country Markets. LIVERPOOL—AIm 4. The few millers and dealeri at our Corn Exchange this morning were doing only a moderate retail business, an d prices were no t actually lower than on Tuesday 108 " White Indian corn, from scarcity, sold ,at 45s 6d to 46 0 per 4801b3, which is is to is 6d per quarter improvement; mixed and yellow corn sold at 38s 9d to 393 per 480110. AUG. 4. We had a fair show HULL— of farmers' wheat to-day, not muc h business done, and the market mint be quoted is to 2s de cline. Foreign neglected. There have been larger arrlvale of barley during the week, and 'we quote a decline of 180 2s per qr., at which good grindinz• qualities meet fair de' mancl. Fine malting sorts meet fair sale, but none offer ing. Oats, bean s , an d peas unaltered. Linseed: little pus' sing and without change. Cakes quiet ; few of the mih s are working; transactions limited, and we do not reduce last quotations more than 2s 6d per ton. Wheat, English red, 60s to 62s ; white 63s to 655; oats} 28s to 30s ; barley, 40s to 46s ' • Indian corn, 40 s ; 'inset); cakes, Hull, 10112 a 6d t o 101 15s ; ditto, foreign, Si to 9 , 15s; rape cakes, 61 ss. to 61 7s 6d; guano, FL to 131. 103 bones, 117 s 6d.; flour, 30s to 325; tares, 30s to 40a. LEEDS —AuG. 4. We are fairly supplied with wheat to-day, which sell° slowly at a deoline of is per qr. from last Friday's r ates. A. few Samples of new, to be delivered during the wePki sell from 61s ko 70s. Other articles nominal. Average prices of grain—Wheat, 61s 6d ; 381 61; oats, 31s '—d ; rye, --s. 01. beans, 46s 6td ; peas , 41 s 013 C 0 lIRS E OF BXCH AN GPI —YESTERDAY. i m5terdam............ 11 17 iGibraltar ...... •••• ••• ,—„ 85 Ditto, three months .. 11 194 Leghorn ! .. •••• •• • • '..• .2' Rotterdam —.•.... .• 11 194 Genoa ..... ...•••• •• •• 25 "" Antwerp .•.• •• •• •• .• •• 25 37% Milan •.—•••••• •• •• - Brussels .. —••.. .. .... 25 375 2 Venice........ •• —-- Barnburgh •• •• •• •• •••• 13 Bs{ Naples •• •• ..•• .. 429 Altona •• ••••••.• .• •• • • r ..•••••••• 128 _alermo ..,.• Parts.. •• ,•-• .• ~• • •••••• 25 25 messina •p ••• 12854 Ditto,three months .25 6214 rust)°, .. Marseilles ••••.•••••• •• 25 65 Oporto .• •• •• •• •• •• —•• 52% Bourdeaux •• .. .. —.• ~. .. Rio Janeiro — Frankfort-oa• ~ i eine •• .. 119% Buenos Ayres Berlin ................ • • New York,6o days' sight Yienra .......... • • .... 10 82 Philadelphia . — Er1e5te........ • • •• 1G 32 PRICER OP BULLION, FEB OZ: Petersburg ............ 36% For e i gn G o l d i n Bars ..£ 0 0 0 Madrid ••.•••.• • •• •• • • 49 Portugal Gold Coin •• 0 0 0 C loiz •.••••••• • • •• •,, • • 49% Me x i can D o ll ars •• •• 0 0 Barcelona •• •• •• •• • • New D011ar5...... 0 0 ,„, Seville."... —••—.. .. Silver t ri bars ...... 0 5 I,ti B I R T,:11 S. OF A SON. On the 21 inst., at 29, Nottingham-place, the wife of 0. Mortimer Bowdon, Esq.—twins. On the 30th July, at Woolwich, tho wife of Colonel Francklyn, C.B. OF A DAVGIITER.I On the 4th inst., at Upper B roo k- s t ree t , G rosveno r square, the wife of Charles Penraddoeke, Esq., of ComP' ton-park, Wilts. On the 3d inst., at 13, Hinde-street, Manchester-square , the wife of William Chubb, Esq., of Gray's-inn. 11 A It R lE.D. On the 4th inst., at St. James's, Piccadilly, Henry. Lee Steero, Esq., second son of Lee Steere, Esq., of Jayeg; Surrey, to lbeth M a ry, e ld est daughter of Lord ' an Lady Charles Fitzroy. On the 4th inst., at Ovingdean, near Brighton Richard B. Postans, solicit cr , o f tray ' s-inn, and Suffolk Villa, Maiden-lane, Highgate, to Jane Kearsley, only child of George K. .Davison, Esq. DIED. - - On the 3d inst., Thomas Edward Savage, Esq., Evesham Villa, Lower Norwood, Surrey; On the 3d inst., James Shoomack, Esq., of Teddingtov , , aged 69. - On the 3d inst., Mary, the wife of Horatio Dain, of Parlia - ient-street,Westminster, and Crouch-hill,SaY s 7. „Ti On the 3d inst., Henry Karslake, Esq., of 4, Regal" - street, aged 72. On the 2d inst., Evan Hamilton Baillie, Esq., of 80? Glocester-place, Portman-square, aged 67. Oa the 6th May, at New-town, near Sydney, N.S:" T ".. Abrm. Lyons, Esq., formerly of Salvador House, BishoP s gate-street, aged 73. 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