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were withdrawn, to consent to. the appointment of a
committee next session. •
The bill was ultimately prewied to a division, and
rejected by a majority of IL-1(W,
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SCIENTIAW AND LlT*Wit AVAt
The liouse having gpme ~43141.„cangnittope on
this bill,
Mt. BOUVERIE objected to the corOptilsory powers
given under the bill to levy rate fa *eon the in-
habitants of towns, as well is to the Unnaunities from
local taxation which it was proposed fo.qonfer on
buildings whose character and purpose were not such
as to entitle them to the exemption. He tnoved, with
the view of defeating the measure, that, tikit4hairruan
should report progress.
Mr. Hutt, Mr. E. C. Egerton, Mr. Strult, and Mr.
Ewart supported the bill.
Lord Lovainei Mr. Henley, Mr. 'Massey, Mr.
Atherton, and Mr. Macgregor opposed it ; and Mr.
Bouverie, seeing the sense of the committee against
him, would not press his amendment for reporting
progress.
The amendment was accordingly withdrawn, and
clause 1 agreed to. /of I in
On clause 2,
Mr. BOUVERIE repeated his objections to the
clause.
Mr. Bass' w moved that tho chairman repoit
progress.
The committee divided, and rejected the motion
by a majority of 92-117 to 25.
The consideration of clause 2 was resumed, bat
a quarter to six o'clock arrived before any decision
was come to, when, according to the standing
order of the house, no further proceedings could be
taken. ,17
The house resumed, when the bill was ordered to
be committed on Thursday pro forma, with a view to
the introduction of amendments.

The Registration of Leases (Scotland) Bill went
through committee.
The Procedure before Justices (Scotland) Bill and
the Turnpike Acts Continuance Bill passed through
committee.
The Distillation from Rice Bill and the Oxford
College Estates Bill were read a third time and
passed.

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HOUSE OF LORDS--Tneasere. -titian
SEE OF GLOUCESTER AND BRISTOL. `' lit
The Earl of HARROWBT, in reply to Lord Redeedale,
said the Government were not prepared to alter the
existing arrangement with respect to the see of
Gloucester anßtistol.
REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOLS RILL.
Lord RAYESSWoRTH moved she third iiseading of
the bill.
The Bishop of OLFORD, on the question that the
bill do peas, moved the addition of a clause, leaving
it to the discretion of the magistrates whether the
juvenile offender should be committed to prison for
fourteen days before being sent -to a reformatory
school. flo(191 1
The motion was carried, on a division, by Mb
against 17, and the bill, so amended, passed. -,,,i i
0 DIVORCE AND MATRIMONIAL CAUsEs BILL.
On the report of amendments to this bill,
' The Bishop of OXFORD moved the omission. of
clause 19 of the bill, which gives a right of divorce
to a husband upon the adultery of his wife, and to
a wife where the husband has been guilty f inces-
tuous adultery, bigamy, adultery with cruelty, or
adultery with desertion, without reasonable excuse,
for four years or npeards. He contended that the
bill, as it stood, would give to the comparatively
wealthy the power of putting away their wires, but
would practically deny it to the great mass of the
people. The deep foundations of family life, too,
especially among the poor. would be injured and an-
settled by the general license and laxity of morals to
which, ht his apprehension, it would inevitably lead ;
and be sippealed to their lordships whether they were
prepared to sanction a change so pregnant with
future evils.
The Lotto Onxxert.con opposed the motion on the
ground that it would -destroy the very foundation
upon which the bill was introduced. If there were
scriptherd authority •permitting a husband to put
irway his wife for adultery, the convemeof the post-
• fni would hold geed, and it would not be iinlairful
or a Wife to put away her husband.
Lord•REDE4DXLE titeught if the house sanctioned
the facilities of divorce contemplated by ihs bill. they
*odd not Strip there. They were about to make
divorce possible by a legal prooess, and if they did so
they would have to find for the lower classes a
ihtisper trammed' thee that, popeyed. He should
support the motion. • k.94-'1411.).1 ('3 bbl ik I
Lord Cxxerilerni said that'she ,noble lard ( ltedes-
tale) hod abeaye nutintained that marriage wass by
the Divine' la",•indissottible; but with all respect
for the (*meth, he (Lord Campbell) considered mar-
riage a Civil eontraet on which Parliament bad an
undoubted right to legislate;- lac *epee that the
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U its presentjqwerfeet scd objectionable state.
The Bishop of St, Daud's, the Bishop of Salisbury,
Lord Dunganuon, and Lord Desalt supported the
motion.,
Lord or'
The
bill and
that
ae .
familiar,
arrangP

that,
intention
wife who
in cull-

person,
atone
with ►
bear
might itageonsly
The IsticEarLon
always -duced into
lordshil hut he kne%
bad been , bicanse it
that it clogged parties with
themselves, and did not plevent
The motion of the Bishop of Orford, on a divison,
was negatived by 43 against 10.
On the motion of the Bishop of OXFORD a proviso
was added to clause 24, making it unlawful for a
husband or wife found guilty of adultery to inter-
marry with any woman or man with whom the adul-
tery was proved to have been committed.
A motion of Lord DENMAN for modifying clause 16
of the bill was negatived without a division, and the
bill wag ordered to be read a third time on a future
day.
The Cambridge University Bill was read a second
time.

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HOUSE OF COMMONS—THURSDAY.
POOR LAW AMENDMENT (NO. 2) BILL.
At the morning sitting, on the second reading of
this bill

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Sir G. PEcnerxmoved to defer the second reading
for three months. He objected particularly to that
part of the bill which repealed the 22nd of Geo. 111.,
and that portion of the Poor Law Act which autho-
rised single parishes to become incorporated under
the Gilbert Act.
Lord GALWAY seconded the amendment, having
serious objections to the bill, especially to the doing
away with the Gilbert unions.
Mr. BOCVERIE sdefended the bill. If the house
would assent to the second reading he promised to
strike out everything in it. except what related to the
relief of the poor in extra-parochial places.
The sitting was suspended before any determina-
tion was carried out.
Ammlimil,v-nq (33 01331 Y() iteesa
In the:evening I • ~ • • • , . t •
Lord P.itAtensitu In reply to Mr. Baillie, said that
1
the Government un eistood that Mr. Dallas had ful
powers to discuss with them. the questions connected
with the affairs of Centre/ America, and thentdore hr
I
had powers which Mr. Buchanan bad nowt
. .
oettrater. erll telt. • '-'''J . " 1
' Mr. PEET., in reply to L'oicniel Dunne; sittik that
4
re would be considerable objection to the pnbli-
oh Airthi correspondence alluded' to in a letter
w' ttin by 'Galena Beatsoti,' and`-e_-
o>{. i* in the Vines
IVednetidey list: . ~.,1 Vol 1.,..04 r • -.I: : 3,
• ' • •.ittp_l_,9..Dli) 91i) l'
91'13 lo_ ~lli BEBAST°k?L,fVE )(95' ,Lit panne,
stated LW4 Pautensxas, pn„.rtgAy tai.„ 'WI panne,
W 1...
stated that the value of * propertya_' Is 4 *dins-
topol. wits so exceetlingli,;amall Oats 4 „t 4,4
the Welles, Ile °Jar° 0 each °Meer TAW 4,-J.,,
more than 2s. 6d., and of each man 61. ~.. ROA that
wee therigere tiot,inteudnd po,
„make a dietribution.
THE ARRIVAL OF THE OIJARIM.
SlCatatis.Woon, in, reply t. Nr,,Freach, said
the third battalion of the Fusilier Guards had that
evening been telegraphed otl•Spithead., With regard
to the British troops, the. right hon. gentleman was
understood to say that., with, the exeeptien of such in
were emplo3ed in taking up the railroad.med. remov-
ing stores, they had all left the Crimea, ~.„..
Lord PALMERSTON, in reply to Sir d.. y. Medley,
arid the intemnediate rouse through London ,bad not,
he believed, yet been deternaieekpg., IL oultitoubt-
ful whether the Guards would march from Vauxhall
Station or Waterloo. Ample notice of the day would
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be given. ' •‘•• .
BliftetT CwateiRVICHRR.
Mr.. .so xi 'hi Atf Mi , .' Thotiely
M Wn , add . the
vote for building' es Would Itoi lie
until nest year. ' ' 4" 9° ; ^ Il
rtevewee ' Oh- 'lt'd- *lfl' myna CAMPAYY.. • II
Mr. V. Slant, in toly- to' MY. OtWaY, with referrnei
to the gift of NU to the Inundation Fund. and
whether the subscriptions of the Bast. India Com-
pany,.er *l* sums *vended by Weal ii pilaf
.bsr.gq barell,:: Ll 4 ii a

)rd orjopoxixogt slpported the bill.
hr W.of Mimic vas inclined to support the
and rejeot the amendment, but be apprehended
facilities for obtaining divercs among the middle
lower clasSes, to sloth, divorce was not now
liar, might tend to convenient arid collusive
ngements for separeion bet Ween 'man and wife,
:11 would be i itself a serious evil..' He observed
the nislinp ,gpxford had giiin notice of his
ation top) mm proviso, roviso, prohibiting a husband or
whoWbeen '
guilty of adultery, and divorced
driselumine, erorn contracting marriage with the
on with wboin'the adultery was ennmitted. He
ight such a clams() essentially necessary,
the view to prevent" Colluslen, ann he wished to
from the Lord Chancellor whether or not it
ht be advantageously incorporated in the bill.
he LORD Cnencrarion said such a clause had
Lys been intreduced into divorce bills before their
ship's house; hut he knew of no bill in which it
been retained, biotin:se it was universally felt
it clogged the parties with restrictions painful to

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entertainments, were limitec by any flied regulation,
and were subject to the contol of Parliament, said
the 500/. must, of course, stbstantially be charged
upon the revenues of India. No estimate or vote on
account of it or of the entortainments given were
submitted to Parliament.