The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1858-07-06 00:00:00

WEDNESDAY.

In the House yesterlay .the adjourned debate on
going Into committee upon the Marriage Law Amend.
moot Bill was resumed by
Mr. LTGON, who moved to defer the oommittee for
three months. The Bill, he said, differed In many itn•
portent particulars from the Bills of 1840 and 1855; it
opened large questions, and had hitherto received very
little discussion, and, considering the lateness of the
session, he thought it would be better to postpone legis•
lation upon the subject.
After a short conversation, upon a division, the
amendment was negatived by 99 to 58, and the House
went into committee upon the Bill, the clauses of which
were agreed to after a warm discussion, occupying
nearly the whole of the sitting.
Mr. DELDNIS moved the seoond reading of the Protec•
tion of Female Children Bill, sent from the House of
Lords, where, he said, it had received the sanction of
the Lord ChiefJustioe.
The Bill wu read • second time.

(7N moved the ;;;.- a reading of the Members'
Freedom from Arrest Bill, urging that the routine for
the pzivilege had °eased, and that ita retention was un-
necessary.
Mr. &mynas opposed the Bill. Hr. Hunt, he said,
had misconceived the nature of this privilege, which
was not the personal privilege of members, but the
privilege of constituencies and of the House itself. He
moved to defer the eecond reading for three months.
This amendment wee supported by Mr. CRIUFURD
and Mr. H. Beil/LBLEY.
. . .

Upon a division the amendment was negatived by 129
to 75, and the Bill was to id a seoond time.
The other orders having been gone through, and the
House adjourned at 6 o'clock.

THURSDAY.

At the morning sitting the—Fit:Mae went into Com-
mittee upon the remaining clauses of the Universities
(Scotland) Bill, and was engaged in the consideration of
them during the sitting.
In the evening, the ROMse having resolved itself into
a Committee upon the Government of In lie (No. 3)
Bill, beginning with the seventh dense, establishing the
Coonoil of India. _ . . .

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Mr. GLADNIIINIC moved that the Ilnit members be
named in the Bill, on the groan I that it would add to
the morel weight of the Council, without diminishing
the responsibility of the Minister.
The amendment was negatived.
Mr. V. SMITH proposed to omit from the Bth clause
the words empowering the Conrt of Directors to elect
the seven elected members of the Council from among
persons 'having been theretofore Directors," as well
as from pennons then being Directors.
This amendment was negstived upon a division by
148 to 71, . . . .

..
Sir J. GRAHAM moved to add to the words so retained
the words, "not being nominees of the Crown."
Lord STANLEY objected, and the amendment was
negatived.
The same fate attended a motion by Mr. GLADSTONE,
that the number of elected member* be ten instead of
seven, after a long 11i401111.11011. which traveUed into ex-
traneous matters, especially the question whether the
members of the Council should be interdicted from en-
gaging in other oocupations.
Tim 9th ODIUM,. WlllOll directs the mode in which
vacancies in the Council shall be filled up, Lord A. V.
Tumefy moved to amend by providing that alternate
vacancies, instead of boi; filled up by the Council,
should be supplied by election among the persona and by
the constituencies proposed In the Bill (No. 2) brought
In by the preftent Government.
The amendment WRY negatived.
Mr. Giasusom moved to amend the 11th clause, en.
acting that every member of Council shall hold hie °Moe
"during good 'behaviour," by substituting "for live
years, and to be re.eligible."
Lord PALMERSTON thought it better that the limit
of service should be ten years, and that the nembers
should not be reellgible or capable of being re-ap-
pointed.
The Committee divided upon the question that the
words " good behaviour' stand part of the (gauss, which
MU affirmed by 154 to 118.
The 12th ohm', disqualifying members from sitting
In Parki&M.OS, was diaotuowi at great length it was
carried, upon a division, by 240 to 121.
The CMAIIMAN was then ordered to report pro.
gnus.
Leave was given to introdnee certain Bills, and the
House adjourned at a quarter put 1 o'clock.