The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-18 00:00:00

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to give household suffrage pure and simple ho had
the approval of the eahhiet
Mr. Dryer regarded the difficulties spoken of
as mere chimeras.

Mr. HENLEY vindicated the government from the
charge of inconsistency.
Mr. T. CHAMBERS did not believe the measure
would pass this session if it were mixed up with
the compound question. He looked upon this bill
as incomparably the most liberal bill that had
been proposed, and as a liberal he should support
it, and vote with the government on every
division.

Mr. B. Ossolorz advised the liberal members to
depend on the Chancellor of the Sxchequer, who,
he said, was the greatest radical in the house, and
who, he believed, would not only settle the reform
question, but that of the Irish church with the
liberal members sitting behind him.
After some further discussion, principally as to
the order of proceeding,

Lord CRANECORNE said the Chancellor of the
Exchequer had announced this evening a change of
startling magnitude—a change that involved the
certain admission, instead of the doubtful
admission, of some 500,000 persona to the
franchise. It was an entire negation of all the
principles by which his party had been actuated.
A change so important should not be discussed
without more time for consideration, and ho
therefore, moved that the chairman report pro-
gress.
The Cuxxviticoa of the EXCHEQUER assented to
the motion, which was then carried, and the house
11 resumed.

The Hypothec Amendment Bill passed through
c =mace.
The house also went into committee on the
West India Bishops and Clergy Bill, but Mr.
Russell Gurney objected to the bill, and after
some discussion, it was agreed to report progress.
Mr. WHALLSY moved the second reading of the
Railway Construction Facilities Act (1864) Amend-
ment Bill ; but Mr. Lasissit moved the rejection
of the bill, and the second reading was negatived
without a division.

The house adjourned at twenty minutes to 1
o'clock.

tats Intentwart.

HOUSE OF LORDS.-MAY 17.
APPEALS.

(Present—the Lord Cbanoellor, Lord Cranworth, Lord West-
bury, and Lord Colonsay.)
CAM P BELL P. CAMPBELL.

This was an appeal from the decision of the Court of
Session in Scotland with respect to the right of the parties
to the estates of the late Marquis of Breadalbane. The
appellant Charles William Campbell, claiming to be
sixth Earl of Breadalbane, was an officer in the 2nd Bengal
Cavalry, and the respondent, likewise claiming to be Earl
of Breadalbane. was John Alexander Gavin Campbell, of
Glenfalloch. The parties were first cousins, and claimed
as nearest descendants of their great grandfather, who
was great uncle to the first earl. This gentleman was
Mr. William Campbell, of Glenfalloch. The descent of
the appellant was through Mr. William Campbell's sixth
son, John, while that of the respondent was through his
second son, James. While the respondent did not ques-
tion the descent of Charles William Campbell through the
sixth son, it was alleged against his (the respondent's)
claim that his father, the son of James, was illegitimate.
The Attorney-General continued haopening statement
to-day, and after dealing minutely with the documentary
evidence upon the subject of the pedigree, submitted that
the first question to be considered was whet constituted
marriage, and the second, what were the means or modes of
the feat. These were the broad propositions of
peeving
swhich he should contend, although they seemed to
have been disputed in cases in the court below. He
thought he should be able to furnish complete proof that,
notwithstanding some ambiguity in the language, by the
laws of Sootier ol marriage was a contract there as it was
in every other country, and there must have been an inter-
change of consent, constituting the relation of husband
and wife. It was not possible that such a relationship
could grow up unconsciously between a man and woman;
there must have been time and place at which an
interchange of mutual consent occurred before the
relationship of husband and wife could exist. There
was no such thing known in Scotland as a marriage
where this interchange of mutual consent at some definite
time was wanting. In every case it might not be possible
to prove the time or place ; but there was no theory of
marriage recognised in Scotland other than that, and
everything else was matter of proof. With regard to the
question of proof, direct *video.» might be given as to
whether the marriage was regular or irregular by witnesses
who saw the contract entered into and identified the par-
ties. Or there might be cohabitation with habit and re-
pute. In this ease there wax proof of cohabitation. In
the court below a distinction was made, which he failed
to perceive, as to cohabitation with habit and repute being
a mode of contracting marriage. Cohabitation with habit
and repute was but a medium of proof which, taken with
other circumstances, might enable the court to infer that
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there wee some definite time end place of interchanged
consent when cohabitation would legally commence.
The Attorney-General had not 000cluded when their
lordships rose.
Mr. Anderson, Q.C., and Mr. Moncreiff were on the same
side ; Sir R. Palmer, Mr. Mellish, and the Solicitor-Gene-
ral for Scotland appeared for the respondent.

Tut Tarcoaa' SmlKL—The public declaration
made by the President of the Operatives' Association, at
the meeting in Trafalgar-square on Wednesday evening
last, that the men on skike were willing at once to resume
work on receiving a pledge from the Masters' Association
that they would meet the men's committee, and mutually
frame a time log, or that they were willing to refer the
whole matter in dispute to the arbitration of any gentle-
man of well-known public character, has not only excited
much public attention, but has had its effect upon the
members of the Masten' Association, many of whom, es-
pedally amongst the smaller firms, are anxious thus to
meet the men, and bring the affair to an amicable settle-
ment. The principal opponents to this course are to be
found amongst the large employers, who say it is not now
the question of a time log so much as whether the union of
the men should not he broken up, and all their efforts
are being directed to that object. It is folly ex-
pected, however, by the men, that next week the great
majority of the smaller firms will give way, to prevent
their trade being permanently divertedto those shops which
have not been " struck." The funds are coming in this
week in support of the strike to a greater extent than
heretofore, the majority of the country trades having sent
up their first instalment, and the subscription-sheets sent
round the London workshops proving very productive.
As • tiepin the dividend to be received by the men
this day be larger than any that has yet been paid
during the strike, and the committee express their full
belief, from the promises of support they are daily re-
ceiving from all quarters, and especially from several of
the large amalgamated trades, that, should the strike un-
fortunately last two or three weeks longer the dividend
will be still larger.

RAILWAY AND MHZ& BILLS 8111,0113 PARLIA-
*sm.— Yesterday, in the House of Lords committees,
the following business was transacted :—ln Lord Rados-
dale's committee the subjoined bills were passed with
amendments—The Ross and Monmouth Railway ; Middle
Level Drainage ; Heywood Improvement ; Poole Roads -
Orkney Roads ; North London Railway ; Mold Gas and
Water; Dewsbury, Batley, and Heekmondvrike Water;
Aylesbury Market ; Ayr Water ; Waterloo and Whitehall
Railway (Extension of Time, Sic.); Hampton Court United
Gas ; and the Peterborough Water. The Waterloo and
Whitehall Railway (Abandonment, de.) Bill was ordered
not to be proceeded with. In Room C their lord-
ships ordered the Eton Gas Bill to be re-
ported, and adjourned the Southport Water the
Metropolitan Railway North Metropolitan Railway,
Sheffield Water (Amendment) and Sheffield Water (New
Works) Bills. In Room D, the Isle of Wight Railway
Bill was referred to the chairman of committees; and
their lordships adjourned the Welland River Outran,
Witham Drainage, Fulham Railway, Dundee New Goa,
and Dundee Gas Bills to Monday. In the Painted
Chamber, the opposition was withdrawn to tho Cale-
donian Railway (Forfarshire Works, de.) and the North
British Railway (Abandonment, do.) Bills; and the Cale-
donian Railway and Forth and Clyde Navigation Compa-
nies, the Great Eastern Railway (Steamboats), Great
Eastern Railway and the Birkenhead Improvement
Commissioners ills
ls were adjourned. In the stand-
ing order committee, the Great Western Railway)te
Bill passed through, and was ordered to be reported.
Mr. Palgrave in the House of Lords declared the standing
orders of the Stockport Corporation Water Bill to have
been complied with, and postponed the Surrey and Sussex
Junction Railway BilL In the House of Commons com-
mittees ; in Group 7 the preambles were declared to have
been proved in the cases of the London and North Western
Railway (New Works, Re.), and the North Staffordshire
Railway Bills. The Midland and Glasgow and South
Western Railway Companies Bill was proceeded with and
adjourned- In Group E the re-committed Widnes Gas,
Water, and Improvement Bill was passed and ordered to
be nmorted. The preamble of the Belfast Borough Bill
was declared not to have been proved in Group K. Mr.
Palpates, one of the examiners, declared the standing
orders to have been complied with in the ease of the un-
opposed petition of the Metropolis Subways Bill. '
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In s supplement to the London Gazette of last
evening an order in council smears, containing some ad-
ditional regulations In reference to the talang of cattle Ito
and from the Cattle-market at Islington. This mune has
been taken in consequence of the re-appearance of the
cattle douse.