The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-26 00:00:00

IMPERIAL P.

HOUSE OF OOMMONS.—WIDREIMAT. AO= SS.
The Selman took the chair at 11 o'siseite
PRIVATE BUSINESS.
The followiag bills were standeri. sad Wiwi lobo reed
third tier : —East Who Ribmap, Medias lielliweq,New-
Corporstios, etosrbrii. Obbi Imperameat,
TROOPS IN THE COLOIFIEL
Mr. ADDERLEY asked whether arberephild been seat
out is the retrains of the North Assure esierse to raise
a force of her Majesty's eaterul boss so la those solo.
ales for active service, sad whether seal twos bad bra
designated as a trellis legion?
Sir O GREY mud that instrustler bed hese Nat some
time ago artitoristag the goventon aseept sears of err.
vies; but the fora so raised lad esseflily aist bra
driveled a for*a bane.
J U KORB BILL (IRELAND).
Is ewer to Mt. Dowry,
XL KEOGH stated that the Jams Bill (bread) would
los_peresided with oa the tay fro which it was gyrated.
.01•• unopposed ntsece were ordered.
PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS , BILL.
Oa the evanderatise of this bill, as waded,
Mr. SWART said that the best sears* would be to have
the bill recommitted. He would therefore we that the
Speaker do leave the chair.
The hoar barfly; goes fate reasittes, some asestedments
were i. 'rostrata, ass the (artier imaaideratioa of the bill
was sppoisted for Monday.
MARRIAGE LAW AMENDMENT BILL.
Oa the 111,11..0 lon the mooed nadirg of this bill,
Mr. WALPOLE as mod that it should be told a sewed
tire Worm as troths. He reseeded the bore that the
bill had hen eq. rod is the other house by a very large
sajority, wad bad only been earned is that hoer by •
small me)otic,. The reasste would materially injure—
marshy, religiously, sad eseially—the domestic laterite
of the country, It was an entirely new law er mum which
they r re shout to lute Aar, rarest from soy that had
hitherto pretreated is this country. Prom the mama dates,
the prohibitioes relating to merrier had bra
the e alway bse s the
same ; hear it wee inersheat en those percales ae
to show WM great rows for it. It was true that 90 year
ego • Mange had been made I. the mods ia which wan
within the prohibited degrees were so he treed.
Sees to that time smith marriages were simply voidable
during the lifetime or the ;waves; since 1835 rose mar.
Tiers had been made ipso forgo void and sail to all labiate
and purpos.s. Now It was reposed to legalise magriages
with deassed wires' sisters or rem; bat all ease mar-
riages within re prehibited Agrees wars left ostoweited.
No thought that theme of VIM WIMMMI, berm r lord
Lyedrust's rt. wee a rat visa room ; but thot
applied the same rule to marriages whir re law ef this
cratry lied always applied to thew. sanely, that those
which were illegal shouldremain abed still. (Hear, hear.)
It was thriller reasheet ea Or oohed*, it Grape the
law to she MM Mingo 'Mete figa moo tw
makiag the
ta
riser, sad
soy rso that it wee lismallidaL He de-
e
nied that there woes perils dental be the Sr.
The beer eaglet sot to stank' the darer of a few is-
termed parrs fir the voice of the palls Was it called
*sr by Sestioad or Inlar ? No such Org. Wirers,
bore the sessittee bad declared that tbe rear was
oestrar M the baler of the people. The ease was the
ease is loglood. The great body of the orgy were op-
=se the temp ; sad the last tier the serer* woo
bad dr hear me Ins theca 11,011 versa of Begird
rereeldised the Qum Willi a fillwes "MIR
would be se wehrealy deselasstal a tide demo& hog*
ars. (Rear, bars) Frain that Begird, Imbue. sad
fleetleed roe oil oppose& is such a rear. he Ilemsdal
why the beer should he wiped to rake a dirge whir
would be ratnry to the whir rem of tbo kw
frees the earliest pearl Anse Mears attentively
te the whole of the ingested, la favour of the
teaser, he hued they raged trainees rase
two beide ; Ist, that the 'radii restriera was SIR
sedge retrial urea astral ma MEOW tarty; sad
seeeadly, thet a widowed buena woo prorated Inc.
glair I. his room bully the hoot Mr roe scald be
applied SO ft doer of their sersr. With shrews to
the religious ret of the friers he dried that the restralat
was ea rhos is torero ewe • aad as to the social Grea-
ser while wiebraieg Chet the was the best pashas
of the childish be toss very reefs he would set ten her
Ste a rd stepretber. Meer, hear.) The right hoe.
redeems Mrs ushered to the edieeted test (Lev. sviii.,
92), sad eressied that the Wiener draws hoes the per-
mission thee gt.. was fall /toes ; for If a tar were prohi-
bited Iron learrreg two sisters daring tbe lifetime of the
lest, might it sot be argued that he was at liberty to have as
luny cites as he those who were sot sisters (" Hoar,
bear," sad laughter.) It was impossible to resist this in-
fers,; aad therm who took the permissive view of
that passer were bound to bring ha a bill next
smite to legalise bigamy. (Hear) He aosteaded that,
both by the law of Ged sad the law of mature, the very
terms of the marriage ratter were sulkiest to trfe.filt
such engagements as this bill would whoa. Of 13 eases
of prohitw ion ill Scripture, sere wits relatioas by mai Hags
sad six only by Wed ; beam dimity was put ow the same
hustieg as consanguinity. (Neer.) If • ma could sot
marry his own sister, he ought aot to marry his wife's sister,
Ia Leviticus it was 'irately said that if two brothers
married the ram women, " it was as abominable thing."
Could there be any difrareses in the ere of two siren
marrying one man? He ember& that he wield see no
differ. re ; oar the otistrary, it seemed of reessity to follow
that in the eves of worse the proposed law rust be no
lees abomieshle. But it.. if the ease were not
pat so blab, all must at least admit that may was and
good seen felt doubt upon the subject of these marriages.
If there were doubt upon so grave a matter, Wu he sub-
mitted that so step ought to be takes for in such • ease the
safest wares—Mat ismilitiag the least ahaege—was the
wisest and the bee% So such for the religious view of the
grestar ; he would neat take the ease I. is axial esprit. It
bad bra said that many MOM respestable and irreproachable
puma were sow is the painful prides of Sinai; re-
booted invalid atarrisees, and that therefore the law ought
Mhe altered. He did or dry the fact that such mar-
riages had bra eantrared ; he woeld admit that
W isiesinioe had bees able, after diligent isquiries,
reale( over a keg period of yeas, to Sad 1,660 cases in
whirl rimer bad serried the sisters of their dreamt
wives. Bet was that any reason why the law should be
altered Could not any bus. meatier pert out many other
Wastes in which the law was daily beetles? He had
um heard in any other MIS bat this of • proposition for
as attention of the law traded epos its violation. (Hear
bees.) Net only however did be May that thezepossi
alteratina nwould the law put a Mop to raid obi&
mow eared; be asserted„ atessear Shot it well torch
evils we mew estate'. This wee a queslies mob moo
Shales the female thus the male sex ; sad hamss, V rabilloa
M this her& of the matter, be would rim s awn
shim perpidet which hod beta wriar ern the emblem by
• lay ire detiorib. d herself as" es loglitherusea. a wife,
owl a aleldwr." The writer la this porphist paired at
met dieilleali the aliseatire, the disande. rare to. of
dismode esaldere and happlaese whir would result bees
this bill If It brew law. The shear would berme the
rival nth* wife, sad that (tigrish* whisk now err ed.
without fear as without danger, herrem the hothead sad
lie wife's si.ter, would he brought to a rid. Thee the
'Wire* of the decried wife word ter the be• slt of the
pre sad actuation of the mister. This wee of the nor eon.

esquenee whoa it was seasidered that tliTe bill wool/ dNt
elf slaws of the ossiumaity. Re kaew that it
led bees said that the pressat law was tyres-
aisal, sad that it reseed upss the poor nee
who could aet go is the smatiaspat to sem. Bat were
these marriages esagbt foe by the poorer Glasse.? He would
Bite the Agents of the treaniseloa la reply to this queetioa.
Oat of the invalid marriages which they foiled tad been
seatracted, 1M bed bees is the higher make. 1,4001. the
middle, aad 60 is the lower elmem. (Bear. beer.) Thus
the how would see orbs were 1b pewees faMeeM.d in this
bill, sad that they were eel of dr poorer dimie. (Hear.
hear.) He waned the Urn pier t eardeoreare of
Masi soy other class see that vieladas off Or kw would
lead to Its alteration, sad espeelaUy he did se elm be be-
lieved that the eonsecreesese of that altetsidea would be
mods m the rely &demotes for it would shriek 15... (Hear.)
The right boa. (mamma madsdad y .sass that the
essand roadie( el tee bill be pastrami Mil diet day six
laestbs.

TY;ATTORNIIT GENERAL said that the speech to
which he had jest beamed with great aillenties bad eot
attend the deep emeriellen mina be Mt AM the law es it
sew steed wee • her& end transited one. The argument
seed in imappert of that law wee se • Ismaili Wad. It was
said that the proposed elterstio• would lead to
gnat social evils ; bet Were M 1111~ to that
posed be was mat by • pere argemeat which,
If anceessfel, disposed of the whole matter. It was said that
the question was alreed_y settled by ea antheeity from which
there was so appeal. To this plat be wield therefore first
address himself. The is lanhiss te which the
atm of thi• bill seemed to Ma Melly to fail
upper
est their pendia, sod le =he oily te the cue of
=wisp with a sibs rimer dealsr the mite's life. This
was the ocestradica shish was base eat by the hairpin-
Intim pat epos the perms" by the Hebrews thesimilyss.
But it we said we were &bp ender the Christian
sad to the Now Tislnsseat sad the dowries*
hauled spas it we aught to leek. New, be nut call the
slissdes et the hones to the any elierester of tbe
Obibliss nun*, mad esposidly Is no lest that great we.
dismiss was gives te obentity, sad ON sociesd sawing=
soda esV be mods sada dlsputedisa, sad thin =optimum'
of
M aIC This Is a awns 'Must would ends= why
ass dillimities were Innis aim& noes surrieess. Bet
they wens always permitted by the It lass catkins 'March
seder dispensed's. Now that dumb sever gess rtipasse-
dew to marry where the smardege wee isesetssue; dist was
deeply against the seripteral law. had teasing to ge►
testaat countries he food that these marries= won Pin
mitt= is all deems but our ewe. Now whoa be he'd that
the religious pert of the tend= was, to may the lust edit,
▪ ileastbal. be would ef this bill whet
debt bad they to far Min slows uses thus
she did ant hold the we ses they ? had Mee the
velem her saminedad wYi this quanta did set support
She to whisk hid bow built ups these in dis
ollbsre=the arguissais is the sodal port of the
wino hued apes se hos et all, bat ware
is nary Wag which it
is ether bed
lbws Se be die ease. sum said that this bill would had
Se isest eshoppismss, sad osia
Nst es AsaWoad, both le ele dellakilli
la ben ratio Mo V ail

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