The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1870-05-24 00:00:00

Imperial Vartiamnu.

HOUSE OF LORDS.

M•SDAT.—LORI fTILATIIIOII3I Intr•dtleed • i'4ll for appmprfiste
Ins • portion of the rates Is boroughs for the support r 4
swung tchools. Ile explained that tootles object be had In
• we ass to render education counix!bury.
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F. II Al lux did not oppose the first reading of the bill,
hut pointed out that it waa undesirable to proceed with the
13101.11 re further than that stage until the bill of Mr. Foc.L.
miiimed of. The bill was then read a fins time.
A b.ll to relieve churchwardens In vn the parmant of certain
charge* formerly levied upon church-rates was read a first
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Tt we. • The Innis. read • wenn." Urn*, after • rather
long debate, the Bishop of Winchester's Beneeetr•Uon Bill
The yet of the bill Wan dn sassy altogether ritb the lamer of
se.pleatratlng • Ilrlng for the payment of rreditora. It being
urged that the eirlowinent an. not gine for the benefit of tie
lleonlhent. but fm the advantage of the partabienera The
loUnonstured by the Earl of Harrouby on the lame
ea. aluthlraem
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The second reading of the hill for I. vb•io,
marriage with detewed • ife's sister ws• moved by 1...n1
Boughton. •Ini combatted the objections to the memoirs
loinded ither upon nortil or scriptural grounds which had
by.tt urged agairot it. The Duke of Marlborough wool et.'
rmacialment that the 1411 he read that tray on months. ..1
urged the peer. not to legall.e niarriagy which. in bi• .14^in
•ere opts ...ft° the law of God. A similar line .4 •nzomer•
intrWINYI by. the Illohop .4 Ely and Ion! I...eden. wf
both oppowed the measure. binding ,tore the
Le,itiral law was repudiated by the Vol .4 Elude:le,. and
the th`b"ll of Ripon cited the authority of ente .11thtent.
fliiiner in favour fd the protseitlon. The
hatlngdeciared against the nne.fire, loni Wc.intiel
• ith an amusing air of mock folcmniti lel-tory] the 14. hope on
their too confident vaumptlon of int.ninility in interpreting
Scripture, sad entreated them to approach the ta.k in a more
hutuhle ephit, with ditlidence and m•dodr. lie then di•played
lh.le "en exegetical accomplishments, irritating • lnowlyige
toe Hebrew Bible me welt 'he f:reck Todament. The text In
Leviticus cited funtinst the marriage of • • ife....Ortet •In4ied.
mid, only to am:A a marriage in the lifetime of and in rivalry
-faith the wile ; the ..ther meaning ,adencled foe would have
been • prohibition of poly gsmy. to is hieh Solomon and Meld
certainly did not T....4er themselves hound, the latter es •
researd receivinz sours wive. In a lump. The Bishop of
4..ngb •areadieally expensed the acknforledgnment.
himself and 14sihreti hr Lord Megbury'• homily, and Ym-
gratillated Mill .1 hit freedom from ihow rentralnt•
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humility- mat modesty he was an analog. to Impose on others.
•The NAT .4 Argyll and the Lord Chancellor pronounced
agaited the Idio. the latter declaring that If it pa•mti the .leas•
de.... .4 England would then commence. Earl
thought the hill necesoary, and expedient. Lord
Ilofight.s. hoeing replied, the !Imre d i% ided,when the minders
wen l're the .cond reeding, 7:1; against, 77 ; majority 4.
The hill oniony...fitly hot.
The Heuer (metropolis) Bill wan mall a
tina. _